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Classic Console TV Ads
superpenguin writes "Here is a site with some TV ads for classic computers/games systems like the Atari and Intellivision, as well as games for those systems. Find out whether Atari basketball or Intellivision basketball plays more like real basketball. Some real gems here. These ads are in Real Media format."
Classic for me, born 4/17/79 is quite different than classic for someone else. I find NES and Sega Master system to be the Classics (although atari was first) simply becuase the games made the video game industry what it is today. In my opinion, they were more influential than atari, and far more ground breaking than PS2 or Gamcube. (I consider Xbox a pc with less functionality) So, call me what you will I guess, but in my opinion, classic starts with NES.
What's incredible about these ads is that they have that "retro futuristic" theme. Watching them now, you still feel like you are witnessing something from the future. Plus, bonus Phil Hartman.
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It is funny to me. So many people comment that they were too young to remember these ads. I was born in 1969 (an old fart I guess) so I remember most of them. The day has come when I am retro (old school).
I learned BASIC on a Trash80. I had an Atari 2600 and later the Atari 800 computer and played Star Raiders thinking it was the bomb and remembering how it stayed in the top ten for Computer games sales forever. I played games that came on tape drives start the load and go to dinner and a movie (sorta like I do when I start a mozilla compile now).
My first PC was a 386SX (for SUX) and I remember when I first got online at my local BBS at 2400 baud thinking it was lightening fast.
I remember working of the Mac SEs in the education labs. So much good GUI sense in such a little package. A fully functional GUI OS on diskspace half of what some PDAs have now.
Jeez, I remember loading linux for the first time and I thought it was enough to have a quick machine with a Unix-like OS. I did not even care about the fancy desktops and GUI eyecandy.
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