Enter your name and email below, then click the "Yes! Give me my report" button to get the free report.
Portal ’80s Commercial
CHECK OUT the other RETRO COMMERCIAL we discovered HERE! gamervision.com Recently I was sorting through some of my old VHSs, looking for recordings of the first few minutes of Spice Channel movies, (you know, before the feed would get all scrambled) when I stumbled upon a caché of ’80s cartoons I must have taped one Saturday morning as a kid. Immediately, I put my pants back on and began to revisit my childhood (except for the pants part). Lo and behold, there were all my old friends: Garfield and Friends, Spiderman and his Amazing Friends, Gobots… Though, truth be told, I wasn’t nearly as interested in the cartoons as I was in the commercials that bookended them. Yeah, we’ve all been to RetroJunk.com, but some of these ads really tore open the floodgates of my memory. Like most of you, I’m a hardcore gamer, but I prefer my games aged twenty years or more. So when I saw two of the all-time rarest commercials for two of my all-time favorite games, I quickly took my pants back off, captured the footage to INTERNET, and posted ‘em here. Many of you probably don’t remember text adventure games, let alone the fact that Valve remade one of Sierra’s more obscure interactive fiction titles, Portal, some two decades later as the first-person puzzler everyone knows and loves. And how many of our readers were owners of the Magnavox Odyssey², let alone Electronic Arts’ genre pioneering Left 4 Dead? Valve would also remake this game a quarter of a century later, but not before …
Digg
Reddit
del.icio.us
StumbleUpon
Facebook
TwitThis
Mixx
September 3, 2010
4:59 am #comment-1
@artem2922 how could you think this is real?
September 3, 2010
11:36 am #comment-2
Huge success!
September 3, 2010
12:10 pm #comment-3
Sneaky Valve! They didnt create any shit, they just remake it!
September 3, 2010
1:48 pm #comment-4
LOL. i hear a 16 bit version of Still Alive in the background.
September 3, 2010
2:43 pm #comment-5
lol, the funny thing is that there actually WAS a portal interactive novel in ’86, and it WAS for the Macintosh!
but that was a novel about an astronaut that came back to a ruined earth by Brad Fregger
September 3, 2010
3:21 pm #comment-6
is that a novint falcon i spy with my litttle eye?
September 3, 2010
4:10 pm #comment-7
Totally fake, backwards hats weren’t invented until 2003
September 3, 2010
4:40 pm #comment-8
@bombadecasa Yeah how do they make hats with the brims facing different directions? I want to get one but arent they like expensive?
September 3, 2010
4:42 pm #comment-9
@BoundReality yup – they used a “novint falcon” as gladis
September 3, 2010
5:36 pm #comment-10
I want a mini GLaDOS now D;
September 3, 2010
6:53 pm #comment-11
@yuriythebest GLaDOS
September 3, 2010
9:04 pm #comment-12
@Secretservicedentist they use portals
September 3, 2010
9:17 pm #comment-13
is that a reference for Steam for Mac?
September 3, 2010
9:22 pm #comment-14
Also… I WOULD BUY YO THOSE FLOPPIES, EVEN IF THEY ARE EMPTY!
September 3, 2010
10:19 pm #comment-15
@bombadecasa
Invented? Backwards hats are just hats backwards, and the fad started somewhere in the early 90′s.
September 3, 2010
11:25 pm #comment-16
@Berniebud It was a joke… sorry if that one went over your head.
September 3, 2010
11:56 pm #comment-17
novint glaDOS?
September 4, 2010
4:16 am #comment-18
haha lmao! Nice one.
September 4, 2010
4:33 am #comment-19
eeh it could have been better. u should made the commercial a bit more staticy and add some retro sound effects. and that retro background music
September 4, 2010
8:51 am #comment-20
@Kisame657 and use low-pass filter for sound.
September 4, 2010
10:34 am #comment-21
That glados is just a Novint Falcon.
September 4, 2010
10:35 am #comment-22
@ninjapiratefromspace no kidding, that was my first thought when i saw glados.
September 4, 2010
12:00 pm #comment-23
Okay, Freaking BRILLIANT!!!
September 4, 2010
1:58 pm #comment-24
@Berniebud But since VALVe is ahead of their time they decided to be cool and use the idea in the 80s
September 4, 2010
9:20 pm #comment-25
no flippin way