> Those are terrible ads. Based on sales numbers, those ads were brilliant. They worked. C64s were up against intense competition and managed to carve into a g

> Those are terrible ads. Based on sales numbers, those ads were brilliant. They worked. C64s were up against intense competition and managed to carve into a great niche: the high end of the low end. > executives at Commodore pushed ad after ad with spreadsheet bar charts That is because making graphs, prior to the home computer, required a magic marker and a ruler. > Even the one game ad didnt show actual screenshots, just box art with another fake spreadsheet graph. Our computer supports high resolution 16 color graphics - just look at those 8 color text mode bars! The box art matched what was on the store shelves.