I was walking through a new curiosity shop in Seattle last weekend (who knew taxidermy was in such high demand?) and ran across a box of comics for 50 cents each. None of the titles looked any good, to be honest, but I picked up a few and started flipping.
And then I got slapped in the face by what I saw. The ads! I used to simply LOVE ads (hear that, adblockers?). I would scour them, study them, memorize them... and dream about the products I saw. Well, when they were video games I did, anyway.
Here's one of my favorites that I found: which I eventually owned (and still own) on the C64. I had no idea at the time what the slang for "Montezuma's Revenge" even meant, nor would I have cared. I crushed this game endlessly on my breadbox C64, and still love this game today.
Here's to good advertising (from 1984).