Vintage UK Toys & Games Adverts (Vol.1)

Games & toy adverts from British TV, hand-picked for this compilation with cleaned-up audio & video.

Chapter Markers:
0:00 Speak & Spell
0:31 Connect 4
0:53 Water Games
1:06 Jaws
1:23 Eddie Kid's Stunt Bike
1:39 Demon Driver
1:54 Battleship
2:25 Microvision
2:45 Perfection
3:07 Electronic Cueball
3:21 Electronic Striker
3:37 Guess Who?
3:58 Merlin
4:19 Mr Pop!
4:39 Split Second
5:00 Sketch-a-Graph
5:30 The Generals
6:02 Purple People Eater
6:33 Stock Car Smash-up
6:49 Big Badge Factory
7:20 TCR Racing Set
7:32 Subbuteo
8:02 Hornby Train Sets

[ShaneJoshua]

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.

[richardevans]

Would go back to these days in a Heartbeat, no Facebook or Instagram and everyone had respect for each other

[andrewbriggs]

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.

[MudSluggerBP]

Speak and Spell dissing Americans for nearly 40 years 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[chandlerbingbong]

Some of them battery games were really expensive. No wonder my parents bought me Connect 4 and Buckaroo 🤣

[UtvB]

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 😀👍🏼

[paulgallacher]

I love the little dig about American spelling being wrong in the speak and spell advert.

[darranwigg]

My friend had Jaws game in the 70s, those water games I remember were more fun than you would think they would be.

[johnny]

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 !

[FixerUK]

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

[tambias]

The music for that Hornby advert at the end would make top charts nowadays!

[TheBlaert]

If you were lucky enough to get one of the electronic games on Christmas morning you can be sure the batteries were forgotten about

[bagpuss]

Speak & Spell Every American Should Own One .

[gripplehound]

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 😂

[BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes]

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.

[joebryant]

I can't believe this reminded me of stuff I had, that I forgot I had!!!!

[cvlwar]

“Ladies with a sketch-o-graph you can make embroidery patterns..” 😂

[Moonstone]

Ahhh the good old days 💕thanks for cheering me up!

[mr.y.mysterious.video]

The prices on these, a fortune. Kids have it so good these days

[timothymorris]

I remember getting the 'Jaws' game from a jumble sale, early 1980s. It was great fun.