Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pallas!wally
From: wally@pallas.UUCP (Wally Hartshorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Ads
Summary: What about those two commercials they put together when the A500 and
	 A2000 first came out?  Why didn't they ever run those?
Message-ID: <211@pallas.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 89 06:19:56 GMT
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that concentrated 100% on the machines and the software that ran on them -- 
no voice-overs, no actors, nothing, just a montage of whizbang graphics and 
fabulous sound, building to a climax, and followed by a fade-to-black with 
the words "Only Amiga makes it possible".  Those were *EXTREMELY* effective 
commercials that just grabbed the viewer's attention, held it in an iron 
grip throughout the ad, and then shoved him/her out the door to buy the 
machine.  They received standing ovations at the developers' conference, I 
am told, but Commodore never ran them.  Why not?  Even today, I think they 
would be excellent ads -- all of the production cost is already paid for, 
all they need to do is pay for the air time.  Or, better yet, update the 
images with the more modern stuff, which could be done *VERY* cheaply (no 
need to pay celebs) and run the revamped programs.  At the very least they 
should show the things at Comdex, rather than showing some singer trying to 
make a song out of their ad slogan.
 
Oh well, at least they're showing something!
 
Wally (uunet!pallas!wally)