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1983 - Activision Spider Fighter

1983 - Activision Spider Fighter
Spiders! Spiders! Jumping, flying, multiplying, spiders!
(helpful cartoon depictions to show that you are not playing just random assemblies of colorful blocky pixels)

1984 - Apple IIc

1984 - Apple IIc

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1993 - Apple Mac Networking

1993 - Apple Mac Networking
This commercial sells...a networking port?

1995 - Oliver Stone for Apple Macintosh

1995 - Oliver Stone for Apple Macintosh
The poster boy for "Think Different."
Insert joke here about how Stone's Mac mouse only moves the cursor back and to the left.

 
1995 - Sega Saturn

1995 - Sega Saturn
Owwww, this commercial looks a little bit painful. But who wouldn't let his ear be squeezed half off if it'll get you THREE - FREE - GAMES! (Virtual Fighter, Clockwork Knight, and Worldwide Soccer.)

1990 - Nintendo Game Boy

1990 - Nintendo Game Boy
A commercial for the new Nintendo Game Boy. Hmph. Enough time has passed for this ad to almost literally make it look like the Game Boy is indeed your father's game system.

 
1983 - Activision - River Raid

1983 - Activision
River Raid

1982 - Colecovision Expansion Module for Atari 2600

1982 - Colecovision Expansion
Module for Atari 2600

Coleco's Colecovision adapter that would let you play Atari games on their game system. Starring men who, if you look at them, are the essence of what an 80's Yuppie was supposed to look like.

 
1998 - Apple iMac

1998 - Jeff Goldblum for Apple iMac
I know somebody who still uses her iMac. As underpowered as they may be, it still keeps on ticking, I'll give it that.

2000 - Peer Logic

2000 - Peer Logic
This commercial is number one is a series I shall now begin, called "Who do they think they're selling their product to, and why should this commercial make anyone want to buy it?" First up, PeerLogic.

 
1995 - Sega Virtua Cop

1995 - Sega Virtua Cop
For the Sega Saturn system, the home version of the arcade game of the same name.

1996 - Nintendo Game Boy Pocket

1996 - Nintendo Game Boy Pocket
As videogame system commercials go, this one is quite nice. It doesn't smash you over the head with how x-treeeeeme it wants to be, the imagery is surreal but not obnoxious, and I like the choice of music. Everybody must get small!

 
1985 - Commodore 128

1985 - Commodore 128

1983 - Commodore VIC-20

1983 - Commodore VIC-20

 
1987 - Talking Whiz Kid

1987 - Talking Whiz Kid
You can see here what kids had to get by with before computers became so cheap parents decided to hand down their old ones to their offspring when buying a new one. I like the phrase "computer-like" used, it makes me think of "cheese food" in that looks-like-but-isn't sense.

1985 - Tomy Omnibot

1985 - Tomy Omnibot
You have to wonder, you just have to wonder, what kind of person's dystopian vision of the future (as seen in 1985) not only has robots, but HOMELESS robots sleeping in the subway.

 
1995 - NFL Game Day - NHL Face Off

1995 - NFL Game Day - NHL Face Off
I haven't been able to find confirmation, but given the association of Kyle Cooper with Sony's Playstation, I'm going to lay the design of this commercial for NHL Faceoff and NFL Game Day right at the doorstep of the man who designed the most edgy of title sequences for Se7en.

1998 - Iomega Zip

1998 - Iomega Zip
Nostalgia for the days when one hundred megabytes of storage space really was all the space a person could need.

 
1998 - Seagate

1998 - Seagate
Matt Besser of Upright Citizens Brigade gets major face time in this ad for Seagate hard drives. His elusive blind date looks rather like Sela Ward to me, and one of the women he thinks might be his intended somewhat resembles Jenna Fischer (Pam of the US version of The Office), but I've no confirmation of that.



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