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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: GadgetMaster on May 17, 2009, 05:27:17 PM
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I thought i'd start a thread that would test two of the features of Amiga.org Beta.
1) Thread embedded polls
2) Embedded videos.
Vote away. :)
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Yey! I won!
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Yey! I won!
LOL. not quite. :D
Let's wait for more votes first.
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I think it really depends also on your location. In Canada (home of Commodore) other than all the C64 ads, you didn't see any on TV (except the very rare, odd one for the A500) piped in from the US, IF you were lucky to have cable. There was nothing for anything else, No CDTV, No CD32, No A600, 1200, nothing.
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http://digg.com/pc_games/Did_this_Commodore_advert_suck_or_was_it_creative
The Digg feature is nice too.
That's three birds with one stone. :D
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I think it really depends also on your location. In Canada (home of Commodore) other than all the C64 ads, you didn't see any on TV (except the very rare, odd one for the A500) piped in from the US, IF you were lucky to have cable. There was nothing for anything else, No CDTV, No CD32, No A600, 1200, nothing.
You are right. I think Commodore got all their marketing wrong.
But it's all so distant now.
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I'm actually surprised to see that the machine was ever advertised :-o
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Lame ad.
Jay was right, just put a PC next to an Amiga, run a demo, case closed.
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the ad made me laugh - so it was a success, I think
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Of course it sucked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uh1Q_D_XU)
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Of course it sucked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uh1Q_D_XU)
OMG !! :eek::eek::eek:
I think I'm scarred for life. :confused:
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Of course it sucked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uh1Q_D_XU)
I'm scared to turn out the light and go to bed now.
He won't come here, will he?
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He's going to tell you a nice bedtime story about how he started with his VIC20 and the reasons why you should not use any other computer than the mil spec A2000
gnegnegne
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/me sets up rigged shotguns behind front door...
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Concept was great, execution was crap.
It was a very bad, over 40's adult interpretation of what a kid might like in a home computer and also appease their parents. Had they just asked a few kids / youths for input it would have been better. (Ask your demographic market for creative input? Surely that could never work!) UK Amiga marketing always sucked, all TV commercials, all magazine articles. Word of mouth, coupled with shop displays in John Menzies, WHSmiths & Tandy are what sold the Amiga.
US Amiga adverts were even worse.
I wonder if in 20 years we will look back at say... the Nintendo Wii/DS marketing (which IMO is fecking awesome!) and think it was crap?
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OMG !! :eek::eek::eek:
I think I'm scarred for life. :confused:
Yea blood dripped out of my ears, and I fear those wounds won't heal for quite some time :lol:
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It couldn't have been *that* bad. After all, Commodore UK stayed solvent while the rest of the company collapsed (this was a UK ad, right?).
I feel like it might have had some success in the 8-year-old kid market.
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Of course it sucked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uh1Q_D_XU)
Hahaha! Brilliant! Doomy! Wow! :D
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On the first sight it seems to be a good commercial. On the second sight: no! It is the same mistake as C= did with those A500 commercials some years before. You see a teenager and a cool homecomputer. But that were already the customers of Amiga. You want new customers, you want grown-up people buying an Amiga? Don't make a commercial showing the Amiga as a toy!
And even that was wrong! What kind of teenager is the target of that commercial? Boys between 10 and 15! No girls, no older people who want to use that computer. Compare it to Nintendo commercials! The exact opposite of stupid commercials in that time did Acorn for the Archimedes. They showed how many educative titles are available for the Archimedes. And who bought an Acorn? Schools. Would a teenager buy a computer used at schools? Of course not. It's not cool.
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It was interesting the first 10 seconds, but at the end it was just anticlimax.
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It was interesting the first 10 seconds, but at the end it was just anticlimax.
Bet that's what you say that to all the girls :p
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Lame! :)
Advert FAIL...
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Lame! :)
Advert FAIL...
Do I detect a fellow affictionado of failblog.org ?
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Do I detect a fellow affictionado of failblog.org ?
LoL
Does that deserve an album or social group of it's own I wonder.:D
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LoL
Does that deserve an album or social group of it's own I wonder.:D
Meh, don't forget weebls-stuff, cheezeburger et al...
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That was a pretty bad ad...... I agree with Matt.
Is fail.
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Don't forget to take time frame into context with this TV ad. What did most TV ads look like for computers at the time.
For the target audience of the A500, gamers at the time this would have looked pretty good.
I'm not sure that the overall premise was that good - it would have been better if the roboguy turned out to be part of the game and was taken out from behind by the player.
Like the kid was controlling the defenders from his A500 but hey, it's not really the quality but quantity of advertising that killed Amiga.
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it would have been better if the roboguy turned out to be part of the game and was taken out from behind by the player.
I can't disengage my double entendre implant...
*rofl*