Wired Video Gallery: Best Vintage Tech Commercials

From Wired magazine: Selling computers and videogames used to be much more difficult. Back when it was considered impressive to be able to display both blue and light blue, actual screenshots tended to congregate at the intersection of boring and repulsive. That's why a generation was raised thinking that the main purpose of a home computer was to store recipes. These ads take a slightly more elaborate approach to selling geek materials to the geeky, bringing in anything from transvestitism to Shatner -- although, sadly, not a transvestite Shatner. Article and videos here.