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TREKCORE > GAMING > PLATFORMS > Commodore Vic-20
See which games were on this platform. Scroll down to see William Shatner's connection. To learn more about the Commodore VIC-20, visit the following links:
https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=252 If any of these links are dead, please let us know!
In 1982, William Shatner (Captain Kirk) was employed as a spokesman for the Commodore VIC-20. His ad campaign, both in print and on television, was designed to promote the VIC-20 as the perfect balance between the more expensive home computers of the time and video game-only consoles like the Atari 2600/VCS. Obvious links were made to Mr. Shatner's Star Trek/sci-fi past, however, and from what I've read, the ad campaign was discontinued due to the public's perception of the VIC-20 as being a "sci-fi toy". Below are three scans of print ads archived from the 'net along with a vidcap of an actual 30-second TV commercial (MPEG, 3.85MB):
Video courtesy of Retro Junk. A WMV version of
the above commercial can be found on their page
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