Apr 14, 2006

The tasteful '80s

Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, Madonna and -shiver, oh, naive reader- Europe. All dressed up in flashy vynil and hanging around in discoteques, under the watchfull eyes of Reagan and Thathcer. Dystopic. On the other hand, the eighties were the golden era of mythical home computers. The 8bit home computers.

Commodore and Sinclair, strong market leaders, even advertised. On TV! With gusto (well, almost)! Take a peek and thank google video it exists, for jingles like "are you keeping up with Commodore, cause the Commodore is keeping up with you" would have been lost in oblivion.

ZX Spectrum commercial (via):


C64 commercial (via):

Related Gnome's Lair articles: Mario's complete gameography, Running old PC games, A nice Spectrum Hack (poke)

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8 comments:

  1. eggsellent find, still trying to figure out what spectrums "positive typing action" meant.

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  2. I have a group of urban planners working on the answers... I'll let you know dear Mr. Elderly.

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  3. Cool nice finds, "Are you keeping up with the commador cuz the commador is keeping up with you!"

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  4. ha ha! brilliant commodore ad! That Sinclair one requires too mush readin though. It wouldn't work in this age of neanderthal chavs and failing schools...

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  5. Glad you seem to've enjoyed yourselves dears...

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  6. I had all forgotten about Commodore...Talk about flashbacks... ;-)

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  8. Glad I could help you remeber 8bit wonders Tom...

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