Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!lupin3 From: lupin3@ucscb.UCSC.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari's Marketing Approach Message-ID: <8712041258.AA27935@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 07:58:15 EST Article-I.D.: ucscb.8712041258.AA27935 Posted: Fri Dec 4 07:58:15 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 02:01:49 EST References: <6166@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp (UC Santa Cruz) Lines: 32 In article <6166@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> c60a-2ae@widow.berkley.edu (John Kawakami) writes: >Atari, > > I don't buy the excuse that you are advertising vid games because >you have lots of them and are not advertising computers because supply is >low. I say advertise to make the product known. [lines about Amiga advertising, Mac & IBM household words deleted] > Combat system stupidity Atari. ADVERTISE!!! Ah, but they ARE advertising the computers. The ratio of ST ads to video game machine ads I see is maybe 40%/60%; haven't you seen the commercial for the ST that compares it to the Mac Plus? (The screen is bigger, it's in color, it has MIDI built in, listen to the music in the background because it was done on an ST...) Not the greatest commercial in the world, but it gets the point across. At least it's better than "The 2600 from A-Tar-Ri!!" Me, and I thought DISCO was DEAD.... >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >| JoHn KaWaKaMi alias spectacle -O^O- alias c60a-2ae@widow.berkley.edu | >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -- .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . | _ _ _ _ |_| _ _ |_ -__ _ _ ARPA: lupin3@ucscb.ucsc.EDU L_ (_\( ( (_/ | |(_\_\ (_ || )(_)_\ UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!lupin3 larry / hastings _/ BITNET: lupin3@ucscb@ucscc.BITNET Best Punchline To A Non-Existant Joke: "No... the fish had US!!" Disclaimer: UCSC--where men are men, women are women, and opinions are opinions . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . ..