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- From: iceman@camelot.bradley.edu (Christopher Ice)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Another Amiga Sighted On TV!
- Message-ID: <iceman.721243210@camelot>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 17:20:10 GMT
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- In <1992Nov7.224745.480@cc.gatech.edu> kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov6.194905.20134@fcom.cc.utah.edu> dave@news.ccutah.edu (dave martin) writes:
- >>huebner@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Huebner) writes:
- >>: Speaking of Amiga sightings in T.V. ads, has anyone else noticed that
- >>: the geeky kid in the Encyclopedia Brittanica ads has an A2000 on his
- >>: desk? Or maybe someone already pointed that out? Or maybe I'm wasting
- >>: bandwidth on trivialities. And so it goes...
- >>:
- >>: R Huebner rhuebner@expert.cc.purdue.edu
- >>:
- >>In some of the ads he has a 2000, in others he has some sort of pc-clone.
- >>
- >>dave@csulx.weber.edu (ignore the header address, its probably wrong)
- >>
-
- >Yet another Amiga sighting --- I watched StepFather III last night.
- >The main kid character used an Amiga 500 extensively throughout the
- >movie. You could even see the Amiga logo on it at one point.
- >It's a shame such bad graphics were all that were shown---they
- >looked like they were from a C-64!.
-
- Well, it appears that Nickelodeon makes extensive use of a 3000 and GVP's
- IVS24. There is a show where kids play in a kind of "virtual reality"
- nintendo game, where they are genlocked over a moving nintendo game screen. I
- saw it as a small blurb in the credits. I wonder how else the MTV/Nickelodeon
- network is using Amigas??
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