Vintage UK Computer & Video Game Adverts (Vol.4)

[@gwheregwhizz]

I was one of the few people to have the 'pleasure' of playing The Young Ones at a friend's house in the mid 1980s. Its eventual fate was sellotape over the tabs and being recorded over with some of the album 'The Pursuit of Accidents' by Level 42, thus starting a love affair with slap bass.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I'd heard it was pretty bad, as were a lot of games back then.

[@El-Ritmo]

I've had that _Cyber Razor Cut_ advert (6:10) as a ring tone on my phone for years now - I genuinely think it's one of the best advert jingles ever.

[@AdmanMVR]

So many good adverts, so many good consoles! I loved the good old days of Sega V Nintendo arguments in school 😁

[@RetroSteveUK]

Sega was better.

[@El-Ritmo]

@@RetroSteveUK You're a man of taste 😉😁

[@cheezycatnip8352]

wow, a playlist of my console journey....wonderful as always. Thankyou! CC

[@ModTrash]

How have I never heard of The Young Ones video game? I'm gonna write to the 'People's Poet' about this!

[@RetroSteveUK]

You weren't missing much, from what I've heard. I need to crack this out in an emulator and give it a try.

[@Booth81]

That sounds like John Hurt’s voice in the Intellivision ad.

[@RetroGamesBoss]

Love this please make a volume 5, would like to see more spectrum and amiga

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@RetroGamesBoss There will be eventually, when enough material turns up.

[@El-Ritmo]

John Watson is the F1 driver featured in the Enduro ad (if it hadn't been for his surname on his helmet I don't think I would've placed him). I doubt his is a name many know nowadays, but he would've been pretty well-known at the time - he was third in the F1 championship the year before _Enduro_ came out - but there are so many much more well-known drivers in that year's F1, at least for me.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Maybe he was all they could afford?

[@El-Ritmo]

@@RetroSteveUK Possibly, but I think it's because he was the most successful UK driver in that championship, and would've been recognisable. But that championship also had the likes of Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell, who have certainly left more of a stamp on the public consciousness.

[@El-Ritmo]

I don't think I've ever heard of _The Young Ones_ game, but I do clearly remember having the (tangentially-related) game adaptation of Adrian Edmonson's _How to Be a Complete Bastard_ for my Amstrad, and feeling a little thrill that I probably shouldn't be playing it and that my parents wouldn't be happy 😄 (I remember little of the game, though, beyond putting cling film on the toilet, setting light to coats on the coat rack, "Monster Get Pissed Fast" lager and the term "Destructobas".)

[@RetroSteveUK]

I actually have the Book that the HTBACB game was based on. As it's out of print, I converted it to a PDF and you can download it here: app.box.com/s/3xfhp9ks9xbsgm0cm214s1012sybaah1

[@El-Ritmo]

@@RetroSteveUK Cheers, I'll check that out as I've never seen it.

[@Trigormike]

@@RetroSteveUK Thanks for the link. Wouldn't like to try printing that foreword nowadays! Used to have HTBACB, as well as the Young Ones book. Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine did loads of great books like that back in the day.

[@johnboyjohnson319]

I love the fact that Paul Rudd stars in the SNES add😂

[@newsbender]

Guy's such a dick. "It's science! So you shut up and wear your mask."

[@JamBar1873]

3:20 I thought I was the only person that had a Acorn Electron. My parents must have thought ‘Stanley Baxter, he will know about computers, let’s get that one’.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yes, my mate at middle school had one. It was, shall we say, lacking, and yes .. his parents bought it for him without consultation.

[@cst039]

I had one too. My first.

[@winstonchurchill6506]

Laser blast thought i was 15 again Are well cheers that man

[@steven-vn9ui]

5:25 - snarf snarf

[@RetroSteveUK]

Fnar Fnar!! 😏

[@RetroElijah1982]

👍🏽😎👍🏽🎮🕹️

[@jwb52z9]

Until seeing this video, I thought Wang computers were not real because I only ever heard the name on a sitcom in the 80s and so I thought it was a crude attempt at a sex joke

[@davidbrown7379]

04:20 The Young Ones computer game! I never came across that one. I remember the Sega and PlayStation ads. Did anyone ever play the joystick destroying Daley Thompson's Decathlon?

[@RetroSteveUK]

I played the covertape demo but never bought the game. Played it on keyboard because I realised it would have been bad for my cheap little joystick.

[@jwb52z9]

There was an Atari game called Decathlon in the US in the 80s. I wonder if it's the same one. I almost wore my palms raw playing it.