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Classic Console TV Ads

Posted by chrisd on from the intellivision-sees-all dept.

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."

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  1. Here's some more retro ads by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For Commodore Computers - where they compare the Vic 20 to the 2600 and the C64 to the Apple 2, IBM and Radio Shack computers,

    Commodore Billboard

    1. Re:Here's some more retro ads by invenustus · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Oh my Lord. How many ways can you say this ad is dated? It seems like it's from another planet.

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  2. Re:classic is relative by swb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow, you're young. Classic for me is definitely the Atari 2600, Intellivision. I can even remember playing the Fairchild system (which I think was hardcoded with only a few pong-type games).

    I also remember making lineprinter banners of Snoopy, Neil Armstrong's Moon photo, playing "Civil", a civil war stimulator on an HP3000 timesharing system, and hand-typing program listings from "Creative Computing" into my Apple ][.

    An I'm only 35!

  3. Re:classic is relative by JabberWokky · · Score: 3, Interesting
    hand-typing program listings from "Creative Computing" into my Apple ][.

    Dave Ahl! Creator of Hunt the Wumpus, publisher of Creative Computing and printer of that damn Nuclear Reactor simulator for the PET in every single BASIC computer listings book. (And I can connect with those memories - I spent time with a Nybble magazine and my Apple ][ as well).

    Whatever happened to him? A google search doesn't turn him up. Also who was the guy (Landstrom, Langford?) who did the insane postscript coding - raw programs in postscript to generate fractals and the like. He advocated selfpublishing, and I have one of his books in storage somewhere.

    Heh. I'll stop now - this story is already flooded with "Remember..." posts. Good to see there are some other people out there on Slashdot from the dawn of the PC (back before that meant "IBM PC"), and who remember timesharing systems.

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  4. Those nutty commercials by drwiii · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here's the soundtracks to a few old 80s commercials I found on videotape. There are some video game commercials in there, but the most "unique" one by far is the one for Mister T Cereal.