11th March 2014, 8:00 PM
etoven, we're not really saying these commercials represent the pinnacle of consumer information. We're saying these commercials are so over the top insane that they become awesome.
The Nintendo Power commercial was as definitively 80's as it could possibly be. It was about being "awesome, tubular, radical". Sunglasses! The 90's were more about "attitude". Things were still being "cool" but rather than being in your face cool, the characters in 90's advertising were more like "yeah, I'm so awesome I don't even CARE that I'm awesome, and I don't care what you think either".
I think it's kinda funny that back in the 80's and 90's, color saturated everything to the point that not even TV static could be black and white, STATIC was in color!
Nowadays, coolness means being as black and white as possible. Pure black, pure white, slowly erasing all trace of tint whenever possible, to the point you want to slit your wrists just so you can see color.
The Nintendo Power commercial was as definitively 80's as it could possibly be. It was about being "awesome, tubular, radical". Sunglasses! The 90's were more about "attitude". Things were still being "cool" but rather than being in your face cool, the characters in 90's advertising were more like "yeah, I'm so awesome I don't even CARE that I'm awesome, and I don't care what you think either".
I think it's kinda funny that back in the 80's and 90's, color saturated everything to the point that not even TV static could be black and white, STATIC was in color!
Nowadays, coolness means being as black and white as possible. Pure black, pure white, slowly erasing all trace of tint whenever possible, to the point you want to slit your wrists just so you can see color.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)