Would go back to these days in a Heartbeat, no Facebook or Instagram and everyone had respect for each other
@jager8962 жыл бұрын
I agree 💯 did you know that the Bible speaks about no respect for anyone the book of Timothy second C3v1 says that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here and that there will be no natural affection not open to any agreement when ever I read this I think it is just like reading the newspaper it also speaks about greed in days gone by children were satisfied with whatever they got now as soon as Christmas is over people putting their gifts on line for sale Eileen
@jwb52z92 жыл бұрын
The "disrespect" was just easier to hide.
@candjim2 жыл бұрын
So true..
@richhughes74502 жыл бұрын
And children had a childhood. Not forced to grow up to quickly and not forced to become tech zombies.
@richardevans70352 жыл бұрын
@@richhughes7450 bang on mate
@MudSluggerBP3 жыл бұрын
Speak and Spell dissing Americans for nearly 40 years 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@RetroSteveUK3 жыл бұрын
Colourful language, right? 😁
@kanekeyanah99082 жыл бұрын
He spelled it in the American way at least
@AtheistOrphan2 жыл бұрын
@@kanekeyanah9908 - But the machine soon corrected him!
@FixerUK2 жыл бұрын
And also the title of the debut album of the greatest band ever (in my opinion).
@MrAndroidData2 жыл бұрын
@@kanekeyanah9908 "spelt"
@ShaneJoshua1980 Жыл бұрын
I loved being a child in the 80s, cartoons and TV shows were ace, toys were brilliant and the sweets were awesome! That whole Toymation era (were cartoon were essentially 30min toy ads which had you sitting there saying "I want that.") Being a teenager in the 90s was alright with the rise of videogames but the 80s always will hold a place in my heart.
@Utv1874B62 жыл бұрын
OMG the memories with family and friends as a child. I honestly believe the toys we had back in this awesome era lasted longer then the rubbish that they make today. Great video fella 😀👍🏼
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
I think you may be right. I remember my toys as a kid being favourites for many years.
@andrewbriggs6083 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for these memories, amazing how simple life was in my childhood. I agree, i would go back to these days in a heartbeat.
@chandlerbingbong2 жыл бұрын
Some of them battery games were really expensive. No wonder my parents bought me Connect 4 and Buckaroo 🤣
@bagpuss1212 жыл бұрын
Speak & Spell Every American Should Own One .
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
We'll, COLOR me impressed! Or is it colour? 😉
@johnny58052 жыл бұрын
Speak & Spell was released in 1978 at 39.95. That's 203 UKP in 2022 !! That gives you an idea how expensive these electronic toys were !
@paulgallacher53842 жыл бұрын
I love the little dig about American spelling being wrong in the speak and spell advert.
@TheBlaert2 жыл бұрын
If you were lucky enough to get one of the electronic games on Christmas morning you can be sure the batteries were forgotten about
@darranwigg3722 Жыл бұрын
My friend had Jaws game in the 70s, those water games I remember were more fun than you would think they would be.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Yes, I had Jaws and one of those water games. Both really good.
@candythomson844 Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the water games
@FixerUK2 жыл бұрын
From a time where the delivery of the autumn and winter Christmas catalogue was one the the most eagerly anticipated events of the year and also the book you'd read again and again and again and ag....................
@tambias2 жыл бұрын
The music for that Hornby advert at the end would make top charts nowadays!
@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes2 жыл бұрын
in 1979 i was in hospital for a eye operation. I was 5 years old. There was a nurse that would play Guess who with me.
@mr.y.mysterious.video12 жыл бұрын
The prices on these, a fortune. Kids have it so good these days
@c1v1lwar243 жыл бұрын
“Ladies with a sketch-o-graph you can make embroidery patterns..” 😂
@chriso84852 жыл бұрын
And nobody was offended
@Moonstone1153 жыл бұрын
Ahhh the good old days 💕thanks for cheering me up!
@joebryant57222 жыл бұрын
I can't believe this reminded me of stuff I had, that I forgot I had!!!!
@gripplehound2 жыл бұрын
I loved ‘Guess Who’. I have a vivid memory of eating cheese on toast with brown sauce on it and getting a blob of brown sauce on the box lid that stained it 😂
2 жыл бұрын
This brings back so man memories. Thanks Steve. I loved growing up in 70's UK. You also have the best name in the world, too 😋
@vikwitch21852 жыл бұрын
Never heard of the sketch a graph...but i want one!!
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
I remember those .. dirt cheap even then too, looking at that price. I never had one, but did play with one at school.
@imansfield2 жыл бұрын
I so wanted Speak and Spell because of E.T, but my parents in their wisdom got me the maths one instead. I was horrified! 37 years later I still hold a slight grudge!! 😂
@zetametallic2 жыл бұрын
I wanted both of them. My friend (even now) had them and when I went to her house we'd have one each. I got the Little Professor instead😒
@fraserkatie2 жыл бұрын
I feel your pain! I had the maths one it was awful!
@jenniedarling37102 жыл бұрын
I had really hated "little professor" wanted to rip that silly twitchy moustache off his face.
@susandodds8482 Жыл бұрын
I had the speak and spell.... ended up with a degree in.... Maths!
@taraelizabethdensley9475 Жыл бұрын
I didn't know there was a maths one, i did have the little professor though
@stephenjerome41352 жыл бұрын
An awesome collection of adverts there, takes me back to my childhood. I had that perfection game when I was a kid. Scared me to death though when the timer ran out, every time. You concentrate on putting the shapes in the right holes and you'd forget about the timer and then BANG! Made me jump out my skin. I remember most of these games but I don't think I've ever seen the sketch a graph. Though I do remember I had something a bit similar called the spirograph. This was where you could draw on paper various patterns by using different sized plastic discs that had little holes in and a toothed edge. You put the disc inside the main flat plastic circle and went round and round like a cog. They were great fun. The speak and spell was an interesting thing to say the least. I can remember those words 'spell colour' very well. I can only imagine the number of times the Americans heard those dreaded words 'that's wrong'. I assume those things were produced in America.
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
We had Perfection in our house & I had the same jump scare experience, although eventually I got to know where all the pieces went by muscle memory & the game was no fun anymore. It was fun though, when a stall at my school's fete were using Perfection as a game challenge to win sweets. I played & won about five times before they banned me! 🤣
@garrywitcomb23342 жыл бұрын
Brilliant !!! Some of these games are still current in my house !! Great bit of film,of far better times,sadly missed. Thanks for posting mate 😆😆👍👍👍👍👍👍
@RcNerd2 жыл бұрын
So glad I was born in the 70s..
@matthewbeard23002 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking me back to my childhood.
@StevenSmith-mk5fg Жыл бұрын
I was just a kid back in the 80's so I didn't really notice it like I do now with regards to just how expensive everything was back then. Take the speak spell toy in the first clip for example. rrp of £39.99. That would be the equivalent of about £150 today. The board games too. £16 back then would have been around £60 in today's money. I can only guess that moving the manufacturing to China/Asia is wat as brought down the cost of everything and that if it was to come back to the West, the prices would go back to being like they were in the 80's/90's.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Yeah, and maybe mass production has streamlined in some ways too.
@martindunstan8043 Жыл бұрын
Yeah but,Freddos were 5p, can of coke 17p so swings and roundabouts 🤣✌️
@timothymorris4571 Жыл бұрын
I remember getting the 'Jaws' game from a jumble sale, early 1980s. It was great fun.
@vanenmar74912 жыл бұрын
A lot of those toys seem more expensive than I remember hahah
@Foebane724 ай бұрын
I had all three of those Texas Instruments toys back then, they were great!
@uknowmyname0072 жыл бұрын
The prices for some of these were so expensive. Even by today's standards. They would be a fortune in today's money.
@danielthorp87178 ай бұрын
In my collection, i have a collection of items from the late 70s and 80s, all in working order. Picked from 2nd hand shops and car boot sales. One of the items being the early eighties item in the box Spirograph.
@iainbonnar8864 Жыл бұрын
Stock car smash up ,I loved that
@duffymoony Жыл бұрын
Subbuteo, bestest game, then, now or ever. Stands the test of time, none of the rest do.
@yomilemondragon17213 жыл бұрын
Speak & Spell: Spell "Colour" Kid: **spells it the American way** Speak & Spell: WRONG Shade thrown XD
@mistofoles2 жыл бұрын
I was gonna say that.....Speak and Spell was also available in America ( Remember how the kids converted it into a transmitter in "ET" ? ) - So did they alter it in the UK ?
@AtheistOrphan2 жыл бұрын
@@mistofoles - Yes, as exemplified by this video: Kept the yank accent but changed the spelling to the Queen’s English.
@Emma_N2 жыл бұрын
I've been transported to my childhood.. Thank you Steve
@wetleyrocks30922 жыл бұрын
I had Stock Car Smash-Up, a very bullet-proof toy!
@Essexmark42 жыл бұрын
Fantastic collection of memories, I’ve still got my subbuteo set, we had the best games back in the day I feel sorry for kids now days,
@HeyLaserLips2 жыл бұрын
Man, I used to have about 5-6 of those Ideal Water Games, I loved them, but by the time I was into them in the late 80s, I think the branding was Tomy. Also, I'll always remember our doctors surgery having one of those Perfection games with about 1/2 the pieces missing. xD
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
We had a local toy shop called Zodiac. I remember getting one of the water games from there. Probably late 70s.
@develynseether4426 Жыл бұрын
I had the first VTech it was both Texas in one and more, man I loved that thing.
@RockyScorcese2 жыл бұрын
Geez- toys were expensive back in the day!
@ScratchySlide2 жыл бұрын
I remember most of these. Whatever happened to Action GT...? I love how they used to tell you the price!!
@Leon-lt5gv2 ай бұрын
Computer battleship was brilliant ' going on a power trip ' sinking carriers ' quality 😁
@TheHoldenmcgroin2 жыл бұрын
PURPLE PEOPLE EATER!!!! So many have told me I was making that thing up. lmao!!!
@noelht12 жыл бұрын
Ace video. Legit my entire childhood right there
@squidge1252 жыл бұрын
Just look how many of these have versions or rip-offs still in sale today- says everything!
@sallyhodson73662 жыл бұрын
Omg all these ads take me back
@myleslawler68662 жыл бұрын
Does anyone remember the last day at school before the summer holidays when you could bring in one of these from home?
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, always loved those end of term bring your toys in days. Magic!
@myleslawler68662 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK :)
@joannedixon-jackson73482 жыл бұрын
I had one of those Big Badge Factory things when I was little! :D
@one2nd12 жыл бұрын
That was an amazing collection of adverts
@mistofoles2 жыл бұрын
I used to have that Little Professor ! If you got a calculation wrong, it said "EEEEEEEE !" , the implication being he was laughing at you !
@Chaotic_Witch616 Жыл бұрын
Who remembers Boris the spider. I've been trying to find it to show my family what I used to play with.
@keithwaites99912 жыл бұрын
I see in the TV ad for the 'Connect' game the boy beats the girl. That wouldn't happen now. Girl beats boy every time
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
As it should be. 😉
@antenant92942 жыл бұрын
I remembered about half these toys maybe, but not the other half. However, what was crazy- a few of these adverts just created such a strong association with the time, that I "felt" the same way that I did when buying other toys completely- not in this video. That is mad.
@davidjones64702 жыл бұрын
Remember most of these 😌 Great vid sir 👍 really enjoy watching them
@5implesimon2 жыл бұрын
Amazing compilation thanks very much
@Emily-vs9ju2 жыл бұрын
I’d play with Perfection now if I could!! Loved that game.
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Used to scare the bejeebus out of us as kids.
@sunflower77662 жыл бұрын
My son has that game. I bought it him as I had it when I was a kid. Still good fun.
@adamcatlinmusic43212 жыл бұрын
Is anyone else going straight to eBay after watching these videos?
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Been there! 🤣
@PhilPurcellPT2 жыл бұрын
The rough conversion of these prices to todays money is 285% based on when I played with Little Professor. No wonder I had crappy toys as a kid, some of these are really expensive.
@RetroPlus2 жыл бұрын
I love that subtle dig on American English in that first clip
@darranwigg3722 Жыл бұрын
Demon driver, I forgot about that game, brillant game, if only we had rechargable batteries back then.
@speedbird7372 жыл бұрын
Used to hate the 'batteries not included' notification lol - I had computer battles ships - such a fab game! and Simon, Merlin, Subbuteo etc!
@gamingtonight15262 жыл бұрын
Subbuteo 1,000s of games with me and my friends, the arguments, the shouting. It was like being at a real match!
@dominichazell7862 Жыл бұрын
£45 for the micro electronics game??!!! Wow!!!
@TheFreshSpam2 жыл бұрын
Loved the Hornby Advert big time
@candjim2 жыл бұрын
The Hurican Higgins Cue Ball game was brilliant because it also came with a bottle of vodka and a few lines of cocaine.
@martinclark66102 жыл бұрын
I think my ambition is to own everything in these ads, I've just bought Merlin, but worry it may be awful
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
I was tempted by a Merlin on eBay, but changed my mind when I saw a KZbin review of one. I never had one originally, so there's no real nostalgia for me, other than the adverts for it that I remember seeing at the time.
@willdatsun2 жыл бұрын
youtube should have an option to watch all old videos in a wooden telly.
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Yess! Optional frames! You should suggest it to them! 😆
@johnwatson48012 жыл бұрын
Excellent compilation @RetroSteveUK. Just subscribed after looking at your past videos 👍
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Cheers! 👍
@simonstroud25552 жыл бұрын
Looking at that Hornby ad at the end I think I discovered where they got the idea for the toy train sequence in The Wrong Trousers (Wallace and Gromit)
@LFOVCF2 жыл бұрын
35 quid for a speech synthesised toy, that's amazing, even then!
@S7EVE_P2 жыл бұрын
Simpler times. We seemed to have more time - remember many afternoons in playing connect4 not all this rushing about like today.
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
I gotta say, I'm definitely a fan of finding that work/life balance, taking down time, and not rushing around like a headless chicken.
@nathancox62492 жыл бұрын
Some of these toys games were really expensive for their time
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I always remember certain toys and games were hopelessly out of reach because of the prices.
@kins7492 жыл бұрын
Great memories, had some of those games
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Jaws, Connect 4, the water games, Battleship, & Perfection for me. Wanted a few of the others, but you can't have everything can you? 😆
@justinebourke94492 жыл бұрын
You will never see a girl loose and a boy win these day.
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
As it should be! 🤣😉
@dan80312 жыл бұрын
Simpler, more fun times.
@AtheistOrphan2 жыл бұрын
Still got my Palitoy Blip game! (‘No TV set needed’)
@lucaschapman21883 жыл бұрын
Speak and spell.my cousins just used it to spell out swear words Lol!
@loushared6602 Жыл бұрын
I loved my Little Professor, I think that’s why I’m good at mental arithmetic today. Does anyone remember Bond tests at school (circa 1980s)
@jasontaylor55802 жыл бұрын
Some of the electronic games weren't cheap at the time!
@garethbramley12 жыл бұрын
Not heard of any of these except the last two.😁 No sign of Bernard Cribbins - bring on the 70s!
@xxnoxx-xp5bl2 жыл бұрын
I miss my Split Second game, it was so simple, but it was still fun.
@anthonyjohnson86722 жыл бұрын
killing myself laughing looking back at my childhood memories
@kerry17542 жыл бұрын
I now times move on etc, but I think the beauty of these toys is in their unsophistication and the fact that they involve children playing together.
@markszczepanski52932 жыл бұрын
Demon driver I had one of those 😍
@MrAndroidData2 жыл бұрын
some of these were not electronic, just pop up mechanical games, but was fun to watch
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, slightly ambiguous title. Electronic games ... and toys.
@leeannmansfield52548 ай бұрын
Loved the badge makeong kit.i never asked for it,so i didnt get it.There was a whole catalogue of toys. I loved what i got. Never cared about what i didnt get.
@RetroSteveUK8 ай бұрын
I'd love a badge making kit now, if I'm honest.
@reccerat44463 жыл бұрын
I remember desperately wanted the “harrier jump jet” game where you launched it of a carrier, flew up a wire and you flew it back. I got it one Christmas, it was complete rubbish! Never forgot the let down!
@RetroSteveUK3 жыл бұрын
I don't remember that one, but I guess I wasn't missing much by the sound of it! I do remember wanting a mechanical aeroplane game where you'd change the height of the plane as it spun round on an arm attached to a spindle in the middle.
@reccerat44463 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK hi, no you missed nothing mate! On the advert it had me dreaming of being a fighter jet pilot, in reality an elastic band “launched” a plane up a bit of string, it turned around and fell back down! My first of many letdowns in life, although I did end up flying helicopters for the British Army so got close to “Top Gun” status! Cheers.
@fightersweep2 жыл бұрын
That was Airfix "Flight Deck" followed by "Super Flight Deck". I really wanted one too, but heard through the playground grapevine that it was a bit of a let down. The little aircraft included was a Royal Navy Phantom.
@animaltvi95152 жыл бұрын
The one I had was a phantom . And it took you longer to untangle the wire than it did to play it. .
@AtheistOrphan2 жыл бұрын
The 80’s ‘electronic’ Hornby ad is a bit pants compared with the classic Bernard Cribbins ‘Look! I’m Hornby size again!’
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Yes, definitely. Hopefully I'll be able to fish those out at some point.
@ThermionicValve2 жыл бұрын
I had TCR racing set, I looked inside the cars to see how it changed lanes. The motor turns a cog which turns one of the rear wheels. If it turns the right rear wheel, the car moves to the left. If you flip the switch on the hand set, the polarity will change and the motor spins in the opposite direction and turns the rear left wheel, then the car turns right. To stop the car leaving the track, all of the tracks has barriers on both sides and the whole length. The cars are rubbing along the sides of the tracks so it can move in a forward direction.
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Genuinely, that's fascinating!
@bensonmeier98082 жыл бұрын
I like the Hornby Train Sets ad. The green engine reminds me of Henry from Thomas the Tank Engine.
@jwb52z92 жыл бұрын
Here's a quasi-interesting tidbit for everyone outside the US watching this video. Texas Instruments had to make a different label for most of the rest of the world than it did for the US because Americans don't say "Maths".
@MrIrrepressible2 жыл бұрын
Haha I just saw mr pop by ideal in a toy shop today and had to buy it
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
I had a similar experience with Action Canyon a few years ago. It was only a tenner, boxed.
@Metalwaterwood2 жыл бұрын
Still have my speak & spell and Speak & Math...both still work!!
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Built to last!
@Gambit7712 жыл бұрын
Perhaps try typing in 'maths' to your speak and spell. 😉
@danielnewton58672 жыл бұрын
I remember these TV add from my childhood.
@davidpollard40512 жыл бұрын
That guy with the deep, bass American voice must have made a shed load off TV voice over commercials...see also Denim fragrances, Solvite wallpaper paste and Brentford Nylons.
@leeannmansfield52548 ай бұрын
Battleship we never played this. I was too young to understand it.
@Mindsmog Жыл бұрын
so many memories
@matthewhendy57852 жыл бұрын
I had at least half of these toys as a kid in the 70s.
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Jaws was always a great favourite in our household. We played with that for years.
@matthewhendy57852 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK I remember that- it had an elastic band in to snap the jaws shut.
@ssss-df5qz2 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine giving a kid these days something like this @1:27 >_
@RetroSteveUK2 жыл бұрын
Most would just laugh, but it depends on the kid. I'm surprised sometimes at how engrossed some kids can get when playing on old, primitive games.