Gumballs are the worst. They get pressed into the ground and you can’t rake them. They seem to be one of Nature’s most useless byproducts. Things that hurt to walk on, don’t biodegrade, and fall from trees by the thousands. Critters don’t eat them either.
RichVR
1592
Ads for ‘serious’ software are often worse. Softalk ads got a lot of mileage out of the ‘generic businessman’ trope. They always wore vests in those days. Do businessmen still wear vests? I only ever wore one at my wedding, but I’m not a businessman.
They really like the printer.
meeper
1597
I have to admit that I was very disappointed to grow up, become a ‘businessman’ and not have to wear a vest. I feel like the '80s culture I grew up with prepared me for a lie!
This may be the creepiest Santa I’ve seen.
RichVR
1599
Don’t you dare stare wistfully at my new computer. You’re where you belong, lady.
My favorite part of that ad is that “List Handler” appears to be some sort of giant cartridge.
The lighting on Santa’s face makes him look downright evil!
You guys are missing the whole Vest angle. Businessmen all wear three piece suits. If you take off the jacket in the office, that’s the equivalent of rolling up your sleeves to get he serious work done. That’s why you just see them in a vest: they aren’t dressing UP, they are dressing DOWN!
Not only that, but that ad captures the real lustful stare with which any hobbyist’s eyes caress his computer’s keyboard. Brilliant.
JMR
1604
I think that’s his mom and he’s doing homework. You guys are going to have to wait almost 40 years before incest themed porn takes off.
We weren’t taught what the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at my school: I guess America was really ahead of the rest of the world.
That model’s not really selling me on the hat.
Only slightly less creepy than that Santa.
(Incidentally, $5 in 1988 was apparently worth about $10.35 in today’s dollars.)
For some reason after seeing that ad, I have a Joe Esposito soundtrack playing through my head.
That is a dope-ass mullet on that nationally-ranked flight sim veteran, but the Scharmers of the EF2000 era was well within his short hair phase. He hadn’t even begun to write the nationally-ranked Follies protoblog.
And so ballsy of Ocean to compare EF2000 to a sim already 4 years old by that point.
Although EF2000 was pure sim porn.
