"You make strategic offensive and defensive moves, then try to bust your opponent's balls"

Posted by Rob Beschizza, September 26, 2008 9:18 AM | permalink

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]

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#1 posted by royaltrux

, September 26, 2008 9:29 AM

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

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#2 posted by Anonymous , September 26, 2008 9:33 AM

Also appears on the UNKLE album "Psyence Fiction"

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#3 posted by chus3r , September 26, 2008 9:34 AM

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

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#4 posted by Joel Johnson

, September 26, 2008 9:43 AM

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.

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#5 posted by Anonymous , September 26, 2008 10:21 AM

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...

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#6 posted by xzzy , September 26, 2008 12:08 PM

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.

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#7 posted by A New Challenger

, September 26, 2008 2:38 PM

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.

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#8 posted by semiotix , September 26, 2008 10:22 PM

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?

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#9 posted by entropy , September 27, 2008 11:33 AM

"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.

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#10 posted by slida , September 28, 2008 8:28 AM

That was awesome. :)