This one is from about 1983, and sorry that the only video I could find was not the clearest reproduction of the commercial.
I was talking to friends a couple of weeks ago about the earliest video games that we had in the ’80’s. Of course, there was Pac Man. But I was surprised no one in the group had ever heard of BurgerTime, which I knew was from Japan. According to this site, it was named “Hamburger” here. The name was changed to BurgerTime for U.S. marketing.
The commercial is a classic from my teenage days, and everyone remembers the giant frankfurter at the end, going “WE’RE CLOSED NOW!” I’d forgotten the beginning, where the couple goes to the drive-up speaker box, and the order taker says, “help me!”
Man, the commercial seems so dated, but I know that game was a hit.
On a day that SuperMario Brothers celebrates a 25th anniversary (9/13/1985), it seems fitting that BurgerTime get some time as weil.
One of your possibly related posts is, “Satan.” Nice work wordpress!
Did you read this and just opt not to post it as a counter opinion piece like Fox News?
Don’t blame JET for Japan’s poor English
By DEBITO ARUDOU
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20100907ad.html