90's Commercials Vol. 458

[@yusakug]

Super Mario All Stars was perfect for someone like me who had graduated to 16 Bit, and never got to own the original 8-Bit Mario 3 back in the day.

[@shenloken2]

I like they also did the same for the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy: even though I will always prefer the 8-Bit NES versions.

[@joemoorman9103]

Super Mario All Stars is one of my favorite games to this day. So much great platforming fun.

[@Silvergun_Raven]

I remember renting the SNES version and didn't it have issues that weren't in the NES originals?@@shenloken2

[@Silvergun_Raven]

When I see that this block of commercials were almost 30 years to the day, it really blows my mind at how fast time flies; it only feels like it was yesterday when I was watching SNICK on the weekends.

[@deku812]

The way this channel present these commercials with specific date they were recorded attached to them is invaluable for historians and people being nostalgic. It presents the commercials in context of when they were shown on TV, sometimes with bumpers of the TV shows it's aired in included, with no ambiguity or errors. So many commercial compilations on youtube are all over the place, sometimes 10+ years apart like a mixing a late 70s commercial mixed in with an early 90s commercial a video called 1980s commercials. This however is great. Thank you.

[@Silvergun_Raven]

I completely agree! This channel has been my only go-to for commercials from the 70's-90's since 2012 (when I first came across it).

[@SmashAdams216]

My brother worked for Funcoland, I loved that place.

[@Aaron_Scissorhands]

Omfg....I haven't heard that name or even thought about that store for over 25 years! We used to buy and sell our NES and SNES games there. If I remember correctly, when they bought games from us, the employees were allowed to offer you a price rather than there being a set price they would pay you. I vaguely remember one girl who worked there that would offer us something ridiculous like $0.50 a game. Then there was another guy who would offer us very fair prices, like $5+ per game, depending on what it was, the condition of the game, etc.

[@Silvergun_Raven]

Funcoland was one of my favorite places to buy video games during that time. I remember walking in and grabbing their "newspaper" showing the list of games and how much they were. I still have my copy for Secret of Mana that I bought for only $45 back in 1999 and Wild Guns (cart only) for $5. You look at those prices now and it's ludicrous!

[@mmonarchs714]

I remember taking my little brother because you had to be 18 to trade your games. Good times!

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Froot Loops- The voice of the Milton Mole character in this commercial reminds me of the voice of Mr Woodchuck, Dave Courier’s ventriloquist dummy in the sitcom, “Full House”. Gushers- The looks on the kids’ faces after eating the Gushers are pure nightmare fuel. Little Caesars- A round of pure nightmare fuel in this commercial with the creepy looking puppets, especially the teacher character.

[@yusakug]

The voice was Frank Welker, one of the living legends of voice acting.

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

@@yusakug Interesting to know. :)

[@coreylineberry8557]

13:31 Ah, yes. The world's first inverted coaster, an innovation that still holds up. You can probably find a Batman at your local Six Flags... They're at pretty much every Six Flags park.

[@Lumaga]

My wife threw away my old Eastpak backpack. It was still in terrific shape, and they were made very well. That thing would have outlived me. Yes I'm still sore about it.

[@JosephASobora]

My sister still has "Super Mario All-Stars" on the SNES! 8-bit Mario games to 16-bit glory!

[@Fribee83]

It's so weird, watching the Partridge Family in '93 felt like this ancient show as a kid but it was only a 20 year gap. It'd be like watching Nick now and seeing a promo for Arrested Development.

[@yusakug]

Too bad we never got a Meteor Man and Blankman crossover movie.

[@shenloken2]

So many early 90’s commercials with kids wearing their baseball caps backwards. Growing up in that era I knew no one who actually did that. It would’ve made you look like you fell for that corporate perception of what “cool” was.

[@darklordzagato]

The corporate perception of what we were like in the 90s was always so dumb and condescending. I don't see how they really expected to sell anything while basically calling their target audience a bunch of whiny dirtbag kids.

[@Silvergun_Raven]

Nobody in my town wore hats backwards either. I always thought it was a "west coast" thing, but I have friends out there who say that wasn't a fad there either haha!

[@yusakug]

Rob Schneider considers Surf Ninjas one of the worst films he’s appeared in, and compares it to an actor taking a role in porn early in their career. Considering some of the films he’s been in, that’s saying something. Honestly, I would rather watch Surf Ninjas over Rob’s Deuce Bigalow sequel.

[@coreylineberry8557]

Hard to believe they got Leslie Nielsen in for it.

[@darklordzagato]

The video game is pretty terrible too. It has some of the most unresponsive controls i've ever seen.

[@coreylineberry8557]

That early CG in the Gushers ad.... Woof. It does not age well.

[@DanZero77]

There's Lawanda Page in the Meteor Man ad at 14:25! As a huge fan of Sanford & Son she's hard to miss!

[@yusakug]

15:35 - I bet Pepe Le Pew knows how Bosko felt back then.

[@Tigercat919]

This video triggered more memories in me than most other ones here. I remember watching this stuff on Saturday nights in Evansville. My dad particularly liked Ren and Stimpy. Then again, that was most parents' favorite.

[@Storyograph]

Is that John Michael Higgins drinking a coffee with Mario at 4:20? Edit: Wait! Is that James Rebhorn right before him at the blackboard at 4:18?

[@WilfredCthulu]

lol this was before cartoon network really aired their own programming so all they had to offer for six flags was Looney tunes. Then a commercial comes on of Nick going like "Hey we got Looney tunes." Surprised they even bothered to allude to bosko yikes. Shoutouts to tan m&m's.

[@WWJD85]

I miss tan m&m's

[@Silvergun_Raven]

I remember always seeing a commercial advertising Cartoon Network, but it wasn't available in my area unless I had a dish, but it finally was local in the Summer of 1999, when I started watching Dexter's Laboratory, Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, and Toonami (which, opened the anime gate for me).

[@wesleyrussell8386]

14:14 looks like meteor man is giving me the finger lol

[@blackmesacake5361]

Another fantastic upload

[@DHAdArchivez]

One year later after CN’s birth and Six Flags does this Sweet!

[@Tigercat919]

Leslie Nielsen was in Surf Ninjas? I totally forgot about that point.

[@WWJD85]

Surf Ninjas was a downgrade for Rob Schneider after appereing in Home Alone 2. I admit I enjoyed Super Mario All Stars a lot more than Super Mario World. What's the difference between Looney Tunes on Nick and the Bug and Tweety show on the ABC? DId ABC have sole rights to Tweety Bird cartoons?

[@goodtarjones]

Did anyone else see the boom mic in that McDonald’s scavenger hunt commercial? Check it out while they’re sitting on the steps

[@80sCommercialVault]

Boom mics were not something they were concerned with when producing commercials that would air on TV back then as long as they were outside of the "safe area" seen on most viewfinders. CRT TV's back then had overscan which cut off 5-10% of the picture on all sides en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan What you're looking at there was well outside of the safe area and you never would have seen it on a CRT.

[@knf4451]

​@@80sCommercialVault VERY interesting! That fun fact kinda reminds me of some wide-screen versions of Grease that show off-camera action that I didn't notice in the original cut due to aspect ratio differences, is that kinda what you're talking about?

[@80sCommercialVault]

Not really, the 4x3 aspect ratio of TV's back then matched what was being shot on 35mm film, but the nature of Tube TV's meant that anything displayed on it would have the edges of the picture cut off. This was something that people shooting for TV were aware of and camera viewfinders have marked "safe areas" that would let the operator know what was in or out of frame. The issue is that when these recordings are captured and shown on modern displays without overscan, things like boom mics and other stuff that would not have been seen on an old CRT are now visible. IMO things like this aren't really "bloopers" as nobody watching it back then could even see it.

[@rabiroden]

I LOVE video scavenger hunt

[@TTrigg]

Super Mario All-Stars-should release this version for the Switch as well Eastpak Backpacks-now i dont want to see the ad w/ the female's point of view.. The Partridge Family-guy @ 7:16 sure was showing interest in Laurie The Meteor Man-liked the Marvel miniseries..in one issue he teamed up with Spider-Man

[@80sCommercialVault]

Super Mario All Stars has been available to play via Switch online since 2020.

[@killercutecouture]

Man…they really don’t make ‘em like they use to.