Yes Virginia there actually used to be print adverts for the Amiga in the US!

[B00tDisk]

Behold!

http://digitize.textfiles.com/items/1986-amiga-create/

[Gulliver]

Thanks! Interesting find.

[prowler]

Wow. That was actually a well done ad.

I wonder which magazine it was advertised in.

[B00tDisk]

Wow. That was actually a well done ad.

I wonder which magazine it was advertised in.

I seem to recall having seen it in either Newsweek or US News & World Reports at the optometrist's back in 1990 or thereabouts.

[quarkx]

I found an old Playboy last week with a 2 page spread on the Amiga 1000. December 1985 pages 12, 13. Has the sepa tone with the kids in the classroom , Stating "You have always had a lot of competition.Now you can Have an unfair Advantage." I am gona scan it up on my blog one of these days.

The question begs to be asked "why would Commodore put an ad with school kids, in a magazine like Playboy?"

[meega]

The question begs to be asked "why would Commodore put an ad with school kids, in a magazine like Playboy?"

Advertising to the parents, you know, the ones who actually have the money...

[Karlos]

Behold!

http://digitize.textfiles.com/items/1986-amiga-create/

Is there a copyright held on those images? I think they'd make a nice gallery addition

[prowler]

I seem to recall having seen it in either Newsweek or US News & World Reports at the optometrist's back in 1990 or thereabouts.

Thinking back to the misty past, the only thing Commodore Australia tended to advertise in was local Amiga magazines. Sure, you want your existing customer base to upgrade/expand their systems but you are not really going to increase the existing user base all that much unless you go out and get new blood from new areas.

[Hell Labs]

Those ads look good, but they completely forgot the important thing: SHOW OFF THE GUI!

[quarkx]

Advertising to the parents, you know, the ones who actually have the money...

Parents read Playboy?

[save2600]

Behold!

http://digitize.textfiles.com/items/1986-amiga-create/

Thanks for posting B00tDisk! I've seen those before, but not so clear and well scanned. I love the atmosphere of these ads. Great companion pieces to our collections.

[meega]

Parents read Playboy?

You would prefer it if they read Razzle?

[Sandman]

Cool.... I have a couple of those brochures that I picked up way back at my local amiga store, put them in page protectors and I still have them some where in my collection..... along with all the Amiga spec sheets that I picked up....

[B00tDisk]

Those ads look good, but they completely forgot the important thing: SHOW OFF THE GUI!

Dude.  Orange, black, blue and white.  The GUI looked like it was in CGA at the time.  One could comment that the Apple GUI of that era - being as it was in B/W (heck it may have even been 1 bit, unsure) - was equally ugly but you can at least say that the "choice" of colors on the Mac had a certain minimalistic functional elegance.  The default GUI colors on the A500 were eye-searingly bad.  Showing it in the ads would've made people laugh, not contemplate purchase.

Of course you could make the argument that it could be tweaked (and it could; I used mine in a pre 2.04 "greyscale"), but if C= had done that how many people who may have bought based on advertising would've gotten the machine home and, upon seeing the horror of 1.3's color choice, assumed it was "broken"?

[Beast96GT]

I remember those ads... I remember thinking they were pretty good at the time...

Especially considering the first Amiga commercial I ever saw was on late night MTV (back when they played music, girls) and it was just a mish-mash of clips from games like Dragon's Lair, a Boing ball bouncing around, and some weird voice saying "Amiiiiiiga!" in the background.  I had no idea what it was at the time, but remembered thinking it was a terrible and confusing ad.

=Beast