Gallery: Amazing '80s Ads From Omni, the Mag That Defined Geekdom
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From 1978-1995, no magazine looked to the future as excitedly as *Omni*. (Expand the gallery to fullscreen for the best experience.)
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Your parents were on to the Columbia House scam, but if you were lucky, they'd let you join the Science Fiction Book Club.
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VIC-20: The Commodore 64's cheaper cousin, and the author's first ever gaming device. (*Radar Rat Race* 4eva!)
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Before *Red Sonja*, before we even knew Wilt Chamberlain could act, there was the original *Conan*.
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"Astrocade Gives You More!" Because next-gen experiences like *Checkmate* and *Scribbling* would never become obsolete. LOL *Scribbling*.
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*Cosmos* fans: bet you didn't know Big Oil was behind the greatest science miniseries of all time!
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Fun fact: the Walkman was created for webisodes about Rick Moranis' character from *Ghostbusters*. No, seriously, it's true.
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"And with so much personal information being stored in computers...it's been of continuing concern to us at IBM."
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Atari 2600 and its murderer's row of gaming titles. Shame you treated these like crap, you non-investment-minded ingrates.
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One man, five douchey getups. Though we'll give him credit for skiing with a cassette machine around his neck.
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The French translates to "don't worry, in a few years you and your D&D buddies will run the tech world."
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Believe it or not, there was a time when film marketers knew what the word "restraint" meant.
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Between this and football, Mattel's handheld electronics game was on point. (Sorry, Nintendo Game & Watch.)
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Oh, tiny keyboards. We all had you, yet none of us became musicians. What's that about?
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