Originally published at: This 1980s TV spot for GE cassette players is like an epic fantasy sci-fi flick | Boing Boing
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Wild boys (wild boys) never lose it
Wild boys (wild boys) never chose this way
Wild boys (wild boys) never close your eyes
Wild boys always shine
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The suits at GE must have already been truly desperate to green-light that ad.
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I like that the premise of the ad is that we can envision all sorts of advanced tech in the future, but we’ll still have cassette tapes.
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I was told there would be cassette tapes, where are they?
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As a child of the 80s, I am disappointed we are not living in this future.
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We still do!
(Though I just tried to fire up my old boom box and only the radio works - the mechanical components are borked… 
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They were melted by your jetpack and run over by the monorail.
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Where my genie pants at?
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Just wait, they’ll be back.
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Wait, is this the new Dune?
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The power of analog audio!
As a child of the 80’s I have to say: The 80’s were incredibly cheesy. Far better than the 70’s though.
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But at least the cars were awesome.
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I thought I heard strains of “Shine on You Crazy Diamond pt.6” in the background of that commercial. Cool.
I miss these days. People were really excited about new technology coming out. Playing your own music anywhere you went was, in my opinion, really revolutionary.
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It’s amusing to me they felt they needed to try that hard to appear so advanced and cool. There was no way in a million years I was going to burn my hard earned allowance on a GE boombox.
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They’ve been coming back! Figure it’s an extension of the nostalgia factor that’s (at least partially) behind the vinyl resurgence. You can’t buy a new tape deck that isn’t garbage, though.
Makes me want to crank some tapes, further proof that advertising works.
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