Funny, the same issue of CGW from which I cribbed that ad also has an actual ad for Full Throttle:
Cormac
1903
I find it hard to believe it would have been perceived as a techically ambitious game that needed that extra OOMPF from some new hardware to run?
I assumed the use of the term was coincidental in the hardware ad.
Meanwhile, from the annals of ‘companies that should rethink their name’:
rhamorim
1905
Well, considering the use of STI is preferred over STD these days, it’s not such a bad name now as it once was. ;)
Nesrie
1906
I could be out of touch but that sure doesn’t look like an ad targeted at 20 year olds, Maybe this kind of… plain advertising is common for the genre though.
There’s more to the ad than that; it’s a joystick in a wastebasket or something. It was the ‘STD’ that caught my eye…
RichVR
1909
Photo caption:
My god! What is grandma doing with the…
TimJames
1910
Has this been posted multiple times, or was the guy in glasses featured in multiple computer ads in the 90s? He looks so familiar.
Not sure – certainly possible it’s an accidental repeat.
RichVR
1913
family guy vomit scene.gif
Nesrie
1914
Terrible, awful commercial but… umm, online multiplayer? Online MP for these old games is pretty awesome.
schurem
1915
And that’s when they found out granny was padding her pension doing truly hideous things to animals, men and women clad in tiny and oddly placed strips of leather.
So just to be clear, I definitely do not hate Victor Borge.
Kind of a funny ad anyway. 1978 Byte Magazine issue.
Chunky, delicious ROM chips.
