eighties & nineties forever

all sorts of content from my two favorite decades

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Diet Pepsi Variety Club Telethon commercial [1991]

Starring Ray Charles; aired in the Buffalo, NY market.

(absolutely insane that this gets an automatic 'mature content' label lmao)

Source [YT: arwuns]

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J. Riggings, Tri-County Mall, Cincinnati, OH [1980s]

Source: Stores of the Year/5 by Martin M. Pegler [1989]

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Apple Macintosh Power Mac G3 commercial [1998]

Source [YT: arwuns]

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Omni Superstore, Orland Park, IL [1980s]

Source: Market, Supermarket & Hypermarket Design by Martin M. Pegler [1990]

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Volkswagen New Beetle commercial [1999]

Track ID: Stereolab - "Parsec"

Source [YT: arwuns]

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Hagiwara, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan [1980s]

Source: Seven Designers for Shops [1986]

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2000 Ford Focus commercial [1999]

Source [YT: arwuns]

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Macy's, Solano Mall, Fairfield, CA [1980s]

This mall has had a few different names over the years. Now it's called the Solano Town Center, but it used to be called the Westfield Solano, the Solano Mall, or just the Fairfield Mall because of the city it's located in. The Macy's is still there.

Source: The Best of Store Designs 2 [1987]

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Game Genie for Super NES commercial [1993]

Game Genie was a revelatory invention that basically hacked into a videogame and enabled modifications in order to make the gameplay easier. You could change a game's settings to make a character jump higher or give them more lives, etc. You could also unlock unfinished and hidden levels that weren't meant to be accessed, but were stored on the cartridge anyway. Game Genie started being issued for the NES by the Galoob toy company in the US and Camerica in Canada. Nintendo hated it and launched a lawsuit against it, but it failed, and that then enabled Game Genie to be used for other consoles too, like Sega Genesis as well as different handheld systems. You attached it to the cartridge, inserted it into the system, entered relevant codes that pertained to the game that you obtained from a codebook, and then the Genie worked its magic to make the changes to 'enhance' your gameplay. A pretty amazing piece of tech.

Source [YT: alexandriavideoarchive]

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Mizani Uomo, San Francisco, CA [1990s]

Source: Stores of the Year 10 [1997]

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Nickelodeon Father's Day bumper [1993]

Source [YT: GrowinupinSincity81]

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Nickelodeon Father's Day bumper [1993]

Source [YT: GrowinupinSincity81]

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Nickelodeon bumper/promo [1987]

Source [YT: GrowinupinSincity81]

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Bloomingdales, New York, NY [1980s]

China area of the Table Top department on the sixth floor of the flagship store.

Source: The Best of Store Designs 2 [1987]

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"Rugrats Rap" music video [1994]

Nickelodeon said themselves on numerous occasions that this song was performed by kid rap duo Kris Kross, but that doesn't actually appear to be true, and there's no confirmation as to who actually performed it??? 🤷

The music video was included in multiple Nickelodeon home video releases, debuting in 1994 on a Rugrats VHS, and played on the network during commercial breaks for a long time too. This capture is from 1999.

Weird that Angelica doesn't get mentioned in any of the roll calls in the song at all 🤔.

Source [YT: Sandlot1992]

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Macy's, Union Square, San Francisco, CA [1990s]

Source: Stores & Retail Spaces 3 [2001]

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Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball commercial [1991]

The first ever basketball game for Super Nintendo was really quite a strange one, having taken place in the future for some inexplicable reason, and within an environment in which there were no fouls and the use of weapons was permitted too. Bill Laimbeer and his 80s/90s Pistons squad had a bad reputation for playing rough, so the premise here is that Bill got his own league and fired all the refs and invented his own brand of basketball. A widely panned game, but you really gotta love the absurdity of this stuff. When it used to cost less to make a videogame, you could get away with making things that were this silly.

Source [YT: GrowinupinSincity81]