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The Original Cow Clicker
On CompuServe
August 14, 2011
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Yes, I know it's probably just a reference to checking stock prices (a bull market), but I choose to interpret the cow as a reference to the promised "adventure games" or perhaps even "fantastic space games."

If you can read the text, you'll also note that "videotex service" CompuServe offered a multichannel CB simulator.

(thanks to Mark Sample for this find)

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Looks authentic, based on the print advertisements for games with similar graphics and gameplay from that period. Though, whoever drew that cow and that JohnCarter-LukeSkywalker-BuckRogers Captain Ersatz loved muscles so much I'm surprised the camera isn't bulging.

Elijah Meeks on August 14, 2011 4:31 PM

Wow, it never even occurred to me that the bull probably refers to the stock market. I was thinking maybe it was a reference to some game about a half-minotaur/half-ghostly-white-mist beast. Seriously.

I also love the "multi-channel CB emulator." Is this what chat rooms were originally called? If so, breaker-breaker, this Rubber Ducky wants to sign up!

By the way - this ad came from December 1984 issue of RUN magazine. Like many other computer magazines of the era, it's a goldmine of perceptions and aspirations about early home computing.

Mark Sample on August 15, 2011 12:41 PM
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