“You make strategic offensive and defensive moves, then try to bust your opponent’s balls”

Megomuseum uploads an ad from 1975 for Ball Buster, a game for all the family. “For adults, it’s exciting,” intones the gravelly-voiced announcer. [via RetroThing]

1. [royaltrux]

   For a moment there I thought you were referring to the McCain campaign…

2. [Anonymous]

   Also appears on the UNKLE album “Psyence Fiction”

3. [chus3r]

   Finally the video sampled in the old U.N.K.L.E track. Sweet post!

4. [Joel Johnson]

   Frightening! You know what the worst part is: how the screwball “Entertainer” track cuts out from time to time. For some reason that just makes it all the more creepy.

5. [Anonymous]

   Whos, is that george carlin? I can’t tell, I’ve listened to it a few times… and he sounds too old, but he sounds like george carlin… hrmmm…

6. [xzzy]

   In a similar vein:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfOQ3O4kD3I

   I love it when words change meanings and commercials from 30 years ago become hilarious.

7. [A New Challenger]

   I swear I found this ad through BoingBoing some time in the last year or so.

   [url=http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/08/commercial-for-1970s.html]Yes, here it is.[/url] Worthy of a repost, though.

8. [semiotix]

   I love it when words change meanings and commercials from 30 years ago become hilarious.

   Yeah, but is that really what’s going on here? I can’t prove it with a movie quote or anything, but didn’t “ballbuster” mean exactly the same thing in 1975? And if so, how did this ever get on TV?

9. [entropy]

   “I love it when words change meanings and commercials from 30 years ago become hilarious.”

   i think the wink at the end let you know the words meant the same then as they do now.

10. [slida]

    That was awesome.