Ford - Cars With a Future. Seemingly endless 2 minute commercial that displays Ford's entire range. Included are such classics as the white Escort XR3i driven by a blonde, shifty looking car thieves with perms and that well remembered 'Supercar', the Ford Sierra Cosworth. They don't make 'em like they used to, and you'll be glad of that after watching this.
Amstrad home studio/hi-fi. An awesome rap on this boasting its mixing credentials. The only part I remember was the exploding hi-fi but in reverse! How did they do that?
I took this from a jumbo for about a minute. You see London from about Waterloo - you can see the London Eye - to about Fulham. I zoom in on Notting Hill.
Made you want to be american when it was on - it has all the 1980s staples bar the moody blue lighting. Still, it has spouse abuse, CHiPs style sunnies and a saxophone. Oh, and big hair.
An Apple Macintosh ad I found from the mid-1980s. Its pretty unremarkable stuff but I suppose it pushed the 1980's vision of success quite well. Do well, have a cigar.
The Appliance of Science. This is still pretty cool. A UFO turns into a delivery truck and there's no computer jiggery-pokery. Real-life transformers action!
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