'80s Computer Adverts Were... Certainly Something

[@Griffwad1983]

I have had a truly awful 2024.... But this man have kept a smile on my face and an outlet to relax and enjoy some of the time I have .... Thank you RTS.... ❤

[@Tubeite]

Hope you have a better 2025 and at least what remains of 2024.

[@WurlyBurger]

Omg i near shit when i couldnt find your channel, welcome back bro

[@jamiepeter3567]

YOU'RE BAAAAACKKKKK!!!!! thank fuck, the sacrifices worked

[@KingSidJames]

My first born went in the pot, but damn it was worth it!

[@SelfIndulgentGamer]

So, what happened?????

[@scorchio89]

Great to see you back, dude. Delighted you got things fixed with YT

[@preferredimage]

9:00 "Please rush me my portable walrus polishing kit! Four super brushes for cleaning even the trickiest of sea-bound mammals! Yes, I am over 18, although my IQ isn't."

[@NikTreekle]

Alright smeghead.

[@scottythedog1782]

red dwarf fan i see

[@hawkeyepearce1066]

This can't end here! This must auger an entire series of 80's adverts worthy of (dubious) awards!

[@TKMRacer28]

I’m in Paris with my fiancée. She can check out the Blackpool tower while I watch this. Thank you!

[@truthwillout1980]

Good luck with your marriage!!! lol

[@TKMRacer28]

@ 😂😂😂

[@benmmedia9534]

The tower has been there for years, this video is new!

[@truthwillout1980]

@@benmmedia9534 3 years old isn't new is it?

[@benmmedia9534]

@ newer than the tower, though

[@RetroGamebloke]

Corrine Russel got me here. Adverts work.

[@_Huffy]

9:00 to buy Magic Worm you have to tick a box next to Magic Word and then send them your money. Good luck with that! Glad to have you back, I started having cold sweats when I thought I'd left my Breaking Bad Influence binge too late 😰

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yaaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!! You're back! 😃

[@delta51979]

Really glad you’re back!

[@KingSidJames]

Tony harts O face! Never thought I would live to see the day!

[@InTheRedCornerBFC]

Glad to see the channel back . Keep up the good work pal

[@hybridplc]

You're BACK! :D

[@garypinholster1962]

Found you from a news article. Glad to see you're back mate. Anyone that fights KZbin's seemingly arbitrary rules enforcement is a friend of mine.

[@ocrovastru]

Glad the channel is back mate!

[@TheGreatSteve]

I've never been more disconnected from advertising than in the current day.

[@HappyCodingZX]

welcome back sir, glad to see it all got sorted out.

[@rrwholloway]

The past truly is a foreign land

[@myleft9397]

Came here after hearing what KZbin did to you from cntrl alt rees. Liked. Subscribed.

[@Infamousuk]

Weird that I was watching the original video of this not a few weeks ago thinking .. why has this not been watched by more people? .. and now lots of people are seeing it! Justice!! Justice for the oche and Larry

[@Danbotology]

I used to read my Granddad's Spectrum magazines over and over as a kid. Some of these illustrations and ads really brought back some great memories! Thanks for sharing and providing the amusing observations!

[@MangoPango1973]

As an Amstrad CPC veteran (Rafaelle Cecco ruined my youth, I played Cybernoid I & II every night for some years in school!) I'm glad to have you back online! Never stop broadcasting, Retro is the Best!

[@frishnit]

For all of the wonders modern technology brings us, I miss the days when all it took to be a graphic designer was owining a packet of felt-tip pens.

[@mattffolliott-powell5105]

Pure comedy gold - I laughed so hard, I nearly coughed up a lung!

[@Momentvm]

It's good to have you back, Rosie!

[@daedelous7094]

Came here after seeing the Vixen girl in the thumbnail, that advert to little me felt like it was something I should NEVER let my parents know was in there.

[@MrFunsocks]

Well done for getting your channel back! I hope KZbin have learned something about their appeals process (but I very much doubt it) Three cheers for you, though! 🥳👾

[@HisNameWasCrazy]

33:03 unless I'm mistaken "fuzzy wuzzies" is another example of classic British xenophobia and that's a spear the grimacing fella is holding rather than a magic wand - oh dear, Mr Humpty... Great content as usual 👍

[@YouTubeMrP]

The ‘Certainly Something’ series continues!!! Yes!!!

[@zx85]

Welcome back!🎉

[@MT-cd7cs]

Loving there’s a bit of Op Ivy in there.. what a mix RTS+Oakland punk rock.. the dream!

[@FixerUK]

@35:21 You brought back teenage flashbacks of Sabrina rising from that pool. I only watched it for the inflatable pool life savers.🤪 Honestly!

[@cygil1]

Precisely. The REAL version of "Boys, Boys, Boys" is the most heterosexual song ever recorded.

[@axonandon]

Welcome back, mate

[@PlayingGilly]

This was a laugh. Really enjoyed the riffing.

[@faenethlorhalien]

YES. This is the kind of content I die for.

[@KC_Runz]

I was literally in stiches!!! 😂 great job once again!! 🤝🏼

[@okami242]

Artificial Intelligence is going to be the end of everything! Good to have you back 🎉

[@benmmedia9534]

Honey wake up, a new RoseTintedSpectrum video just dropped

[@CJJC]

KZbin reminded me that I hadn’t subscribed. Thanks, KZbin!

[@Metal_Maxine]

19:26 Reminds me of the budget car racing game where you "steered" by rolling a little plastic wheel along the number row.

[@gwishart]

23:47 Bizarrely, there was (and maybe still is in some parts of the UK) a school subject called "reasoning" which was assessed as part of the 11-Plus exams at the end of primary school. Generations of kids have failed to get into grammar school because they couldn't answer questions like: "Butterfly is to caterpillar as frog is to___" or "Which of the following words are the closest synonyms: shout, chat, talk, speak, gossip, yell, whisper."

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

That explains it then! It just seemed like such a generalised term. "Hello, my name is Jonathan and I have a masters in cold, hard facts"

[@newsbender]

Was that second one a real question? Closest synonyms to what? How many words do I get to choose? I would have lost my shit at a vague, nonsensical question like that 😂

[@gwishart]

@@newsbender They're both real questions, but there'd usually be a more detailed explanation of what kind of answer they wanted at the start of each section, eg "circle the three words that best answer each question". Some of the questions were pretty vague and nonsensical, and the mark schemes could be very strict about only accepting the 'correct' answer, even if there were other equally valid answers.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

@@gwishart Shout and yell, talk and speak. All the others, besides those two pairings, require additional modifiers or limitations to mean the exact same thing as another word. This kind of lesson was great for building up abstract thinking, and thinking beyond exact instructions. It's not a good thing we decided it was too complicated and difficult to do it right.

[@tarnetskygge]

The more modern name for this would be Cognition, or a Cognitive Ability Test. It's meant to be like a captcha test to prove you're human and not just a robot who can memorize exam answers.

[@jamespoole76]

That joystick that attaches to the keyboard was a terrible idea 😂 the Casio watch was quite cool though. Loved the 80s artwork.

[@PresidentHotdog]

The fully mashed Bez badge made me spit coffee.

[@GoreGazzim]

09:00 they are selling the game "Magic worm" and the little "please rush me" form has it spelled "magic word" 😂

[@sporkulon]

I had one of those programmable joystick interfaces. It was actually pretty cool. There was a plugboard that let you connect the joystick functions to a specific key. Plus it let you use the second fire button if your joystick happened to have one. It wasn't just a crappy thing that bolted onto the keyboard.

[@AcornElectron]

The last one was phenomenal

[@YellaChickenOG]

The drawing on the left of the language connoisseur ad at 26:27, was that an 80's premonition of that meme where Pedro Pascal is grinning maniacally at Nick Cage?

[@Esteban_LeGrafx]

Splendid video. ALSO: The SAT exam in the U.S. featured analogies such as “Butterfly is to caterpillar as ____” and I could have REALLY BENEFITTED from the Speccy software course on REASONING.

[@simontoseland4152]

This really made me laugh, you must do another one

[@keef-baker]

Welcome back

[@vinnycochrane5139]

This doesn’t pertain to this video, but I must thank you for using the Woof! theme in a couple of previous ones. After weeks of agony wondering what the hell the music was, I awoke this morning thinking “DOG.” An hour later I had tracked it down, and started watching old episodes of it, wrecking my ability to do anything worthwhile. My writing career is in tatters. Vinny x

[@blakecasimir]

It's only cringe to the easily offended. The rest of us bask in the 80s glory.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I think if anyone was going to be offended by any of these, they'd likely need to wring their knickers out every few hours.

[@stuartpenwarden253]

​@@RoseTintedSpectrumI'm on the double toooooppppp and I'll win the leg. 180 storey love song, I've got the most you can get.

[@billybollockhead5628]

The "free" watch with the cassette 50 didnt work - well mine didnt.

[@FixerUK]

Shovels at the ready!

[@markbutl]

Love the end credits music!!

[@sydneymeanstreet]

"Guide Magic Wom on his journey to the secret cavern". I think I saw that on the back of one of my dad's videos back in the day.

[@jurgen_haan]

Welcome back from your suspension.

[@MentasmUK]

Not watched the video yet, but having just turned 49, boy I'm looking forward to this one! If I don't see Maria Whittaker and Wolf I'm gonna feel short-changed 😅

[@stumbling]

0:40 It's 80's Jabrils! :O

[@VenlyssPnorr]

Re: Codename Mat II - I think Zzap! actually used to have Hookability and Lastability categories that they scored games in when reviewing. 🤣

[@MichellePamelaLyons]

The orange covering up part of On The Oche is really reminding me of Stone Roses artwork (not just the album, but in general). It's the font and the black border that does it.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

The prospect of a dart themed album may well drag Ian Brown out of his live karaoke-tour.

[@trelard]

I owned Eureka! for the Commodore 64. It's a text adventure with graphics in multiple parts, each set in different eras of human history, from prehistoric to modern day (1980's). You had to complete each part and use clues from the game and from the manual, which had poems for each part of the game on one side of the of the open manual and a related picture on the other, both containing more clues. Wasn't a bad game overall.

[@Philliben1991]

I had International Karate. The only thing I remember about it was the artwork.

[@tolindaniel]

Believe me I'm not complaining at all, and this should be seen as a positive - but i was SO excited for a new video and then very sad when I realised I'd seen these before. I still watched it all again because shit's great.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Yeah, understandable - worth noting why I've done this though, the original videos only ever hit around 800 views, bumping up to 1.5 - 2k when Gamesmaster blew up. Since repackaging and rereleasing them like this, it's gotten more views in under 24 hours than the originals did in 3 years. It's essentially growing the channel and putting videos in front of a wider audience for very little effort while I concentrate on new videos. And it's absolutely mad that it seems to work as well as it does!

[@tolindaniel]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum oh I get it my dude, don't stop chasing the dream. This benefits everybody in the long run.

[@elyuw]

So funny! I miss all this stuff, once the suits took over everything just became safe and boring.

[@K.F-R]

Micronet was way more than a database, to be fair. It was a networked dial-up BBS, effectively a forerunner to the web.

[@sydneymeanstreet]

"Kwik Key Kard". Great work, knock off early lads.

[@kron520]

0:37 Adverts are still like this, except unironically.

[@jonathanclarke4529]

Lazy blaze

[@AIreadsmydiaries]

You should check out the lonely hearts section of your Sinclair 😮😮

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

Hm... I *KNOW* I've seen this footage before! 28:01 I DEFINITELY remember watching a couple of times over the years. Is Stuart RTS' Geoff Neil now??

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I've always thought of Stu as my little Salacious Crumb.

[@martinr3993]

Oh Em Gee - Eureka. By actual Ian Livingstone. I had to look this one up because I couldn’t remember anything about it other than the deep sense of disappointment it left me with at a point at which I should have known better than to expect more than one in five Spectrum releases to actually be any good. Better than that dragged up memory though is looking for it on KZbin, only finding one video and that video being played in silence by somebody who clearly has no idea what you’re supposed to do so does that kind of ‘try anything’ mode of gameplay and still never gets anywhere. A classic of the genre.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I know it's easy to take the p-ss, and fun, too, but as a bloke, when was the last time you saw an advert that meant something to you, or at least made you want to buy something?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

@@FatNorthernBigot I saw an advert for potatoes the other day and immediately had to eat a jacket potato.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum 😅 Well, now I want a jacket spud. The power of suggestion!

[@TheAwesomePandaLPs]

I do remember the original 3 parter of this one, I just want to point out that at 8:56 they managed to spell London wrong in the address 😆

[@GoreGazzim]

They also spelled the name of the game wrong too. "Magic worm" they spelled it "magic word" 😂

[@jasmith85]

From what I remember C64 wasn't much better. I was guessing the first one was for "101" the great old fashion darts game

[@lostferwords5650]

Great make it a regular thing

[@VerseChorusCurse]

26:22 That's Pedro Pascal, isn't it?

[@TheRealBigDan]

I had to check the comments as that was the first thing I thought when I saw that 😂

[@DVDfeverGames]

Nice one. KZbin really are bar-stewards for doing this.

[@251TheMechanizedSingfantry]

For some of the artwork, I couldn't help but think "it looks like it was created by AI"

[@random007nadir]

FYI Reasoning and knowlege are uni philosophy topics. Critical thinking and epistemology. Just thought I'd mention it.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I refuse to reason with anything or anyone, especially my cat.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Anyone who doesn't think 80's ads could possibly be cringe wasn't conscious for the 80's. Or has one hell of a nostalgia filter. Showing actual gameplay screens was optional. Actual design sense was optional. I haven't seen which ads you chose yet, but it's pretty obvious who else hasn't watched the video before commenting.

[@heyhonpuds]

How about remaking those early unlisted Dizzy videos then? Albumen.

[@T.E.S.S.]

26:30 guy on the left is clearly pedro pascal.

[@rob1969in]

I'm guilty of buying a couple of games from those piss poor ads,and believing the BS , I particularly remember a football game that came on a C60 tape with a felt tip made inlay ,about 9 quid it cost and it was awful, I didn't learn because i also remember a horse racing prediction game I also ordered,mug

[@uncoolben79]

AMSTRADS FTW

[@shoutingstone]

Dud anyone notice the order form for Magic Worm calls it Magic Word, which makes it sound even more boring

[@letterfella]

So glad your channel is back!! Stupid KZbin overlords!!

[@craigchampagne7797]

I feel like ive seen this before? Why does it say a few hours ago?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

@@craigchampagne7797 it's a release of 3 videos into 1 as an experiment to see if I can relaunch old videos to a newer audience... And, so far, this has gained more views than the original 3 year old videos it came from. The weird world of KZbin for you.

[@mr.a8315]

😂🍺🍺

[@MrBertie7]

WTF is a "high score price"? I was expecting some sort of comment on this when discussing Bonkers...

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

High score *prize. I presume it's another game where you could win £X if you sent in a completion code/high score.

[@benpeterjohnson7850]

Hang on, NO, NO, NO. 23 minutes in and neither of you questioned the statement, "imagine you've poisoned your pet fish"? What? Because that's such a healthy thing to encourage a child to do isn't it?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

@@benpeterjohnson7850 everyone's done it at least thrice

[@cptnkrenon]

Dat Mugsy, he was a real good fella, see? Back in da dirty thirties, ya get me? A real gangster's game, it was. Read it out loud like dat James Cagney, ya mook!

[@SmoMo_]

I’m imagine a bra, no but a bra, I meant new, it was autocorrected to bra. I imagine a bra ending, argh Not bra, a n e w ending to Wear Faces I don’t know why this is happening. It might be because I just had packet of Walkers and now my fingers are a bit greasy. What I’m trying to say is I’m imagine a new ending to War Games were at the end Ferris Beuler tells whopper to play Grid Master instead of TicTacTo And whopper does that, but only learns that “A draw is impossible” and launches all the nukes! Then after the credits, Annual L Jackson appears and says “Or is it?” THEEND *samual not annual

[@smacksalad]

This video has compulsive hookability.

[@Nosaveddataretro]

Have I seen this before? I'm 3 minutes in and have severe deja vu

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Haha, you most likely have! I'm currently knee deep into Geordie Racer, and I figured it'd be good to drag some series out of the archives, stitch them together and re-release them seeing as the audience potential is now bigger than it was when these were first released. Gives me more time to get working on new stuff!

[@Nosaveddataretro]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum what better way to spend a weekend! Geordie racer! Wonder what spuggy is up to now? So we have the full series of computer adverts from the 80s in one click? Amazing stuff keep up the good work.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Yep! These are a decent stop-gap while I work on the longer videos, because it seems everything I do now takes at least two weeks!

[@Gattancha]

Glad I'm not the only one - Thought I was going bonkers! 😳

[@Nosaveddataretro]

Have I got deja vu again? Glad to see you back mate

[@jonathanclarke4529]

Thumbing up before watching. I don’t thumb up any videos hardly so consider yourself lucky;) I am your target audience

[@montymole7114]

This is what happens when people who werent there at the time deiced to get an opinion for clicks because history and context doesnt matter. Debate me.

[@BumdanglerFartbiscuit]

And this comment is what happens when people who have never watched this channel decide to kick off about something that really doesn't matter. If "context" is so important to you, as you claim, then you will be well aware that our RoseTintedSpectrum is in his 40s and thus was most definitely "there at the time". "Debate me." Grow up, you absolute manchild.