Amiga «Celebrity» CommercialLook at all these celebrities! Buzz from NASA, the Pointer Sisters, etc. In this commercial a teenager's parents becoming annoyed because everybody keeps coming over to use his computer. When other computers had maybe 16 colors at max, the Amiga was suddenly released in 1985 with 4096 colors, stereo sound, plug-and-play, and something even more unheard of: it was built from the ground-up to multitask, meaning it could run more than one program at once ... all the essentials for multimedia. Even with its GUI (Graphical User Interface), all this was still accomplished with less than 100 k: about 1/10th a megabyte. Apple's Mac was still black and white, cost more, and could only do one thing at a time. But, Apple advertised; Commodore didn't. Commodore computers, who currently owned the Amiga, hardly ever advertised except in its own magazines. The CEO said, «We don't need advertising; if people want it, they'll buy it.» Commodore put all their money into their computer development, while Apple and IBM/Microsoft instead put their money into their advertising. Commodore went bankrupt in 1993. Since most of the public didn't know much about computers back then, advertising proved to be the most important part of making computers. Many people – even hardcore Amiga fans – have never even seen an Amiga television advertisement ... yes, they did exist! James Alan Patterson captured these MTV commercials from an old videotape. Dimension: 240 x 180 Type: AVI Cinepak View size: original | enlarged |