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Madballs ad, 1985 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by BilSabab@lemmy.world to c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I think they even made a Saturday morning cartoon about these things.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You're close:

The toyline expanded into a franchise with a comic book series, two direct-to-video animated cartoons, and a video game for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64.

[–] goomba@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago

I looked into it more, and it looks like theres also a more recent YouTube channel with a lot of videos (animated and live action) from about 8-9 years ago.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did the Spectrum and Amstrad have much of a presence in the US, or was the game made for the UK market?

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I mean I can say that on MobyGames every listed review (keeping in mind this is user-generated content and could be biased) is from a UK magazine, that they only have the UK box art, and that the listed releases are all from the UK. I'd err on "UK-exclusive" given that circumstantial evidence.

[–] Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't know how to switch accounts and fucked up my wife's entire persona she was building by commenting under her account. Instead of deleting the comments when I realised my mistake, I instead just switched accounts and left those comments there for her to find when she woke up. I claim to have planned to go back to delete them, but instead I was just gonna completely forget about them.

I am so smart 🤓

[–] OS2Warp@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

And a movie.