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From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disgusted...
Summary: Amiga advertising too
Keywords: New Amiga ad?
Message-ID: <1305@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 90 05:56:08 GMT
References: <47612@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver
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In article <47612@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Amiga Man) writes:
>Tonight, I saw something I just couldn't believe.  Open up this month's (July)
>Amiga World to page 17.  There is an ad for GEnie.  Taking up 1/2 of the page
>is an APPLE!!!  I don't understand why AW would put this in an Amiga book.

Yeah, I thought this was a particularly well-executed goof... 

But on the subject of advertising - I've been seeing what appears to be a new
series of Amiga ads on TV lately.  It starts with pieces of the "Stevie" ads
shown last year (doesn't C= know they're infringing on the name of an editor?)
but continues with "That was the soft sell - this is the hard sell.  For a 
limited time..." and goes on to describe a "$250" (?) freebie package being
sold with Amigas now including the A520 adapter, Textcraft +, Carmen SanDiego,
and Tetris (the latter actually seems a good idea, considering the Nintendo
Gameboy ads!).  Not really the best (the Video package has ProVideo, DPaint III
and Sculpt 4D - a much better package, but they're not advertising IT...), but
it's nice to see the Amiga on TV again.  

I've seen it two nights in a row on the local ABC affiliate during or just 
before the MASH rerun which is on around 11:PM.  I barely saw any of them 
during the so-called media blitz last year... all on FOX.

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