Intel Pentium commercial narrated by LeVar Burton (1994)

Intel shows us what it's like inside the computer monitor of a boy doing his "homework" with the astronomy/ planetarium program Red Shift. As soon as Dad walks away though, the program quickly jumps to Wing Commander III. Jumping between Red Shift and Wing Commander III that quickly in DOS was pure fantasy... In fact, I had to reboot the computer with nothing else loaded in order to even run WCIII.

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• dos
• 1990s
• 1994

[ZombieDawg]

It does look like Red Shift is running in Windows 3, but Wing Commander was DOS only... I remember needing to boot into a special mode in order to play it.

[Rusty0918B]

I actually had Redshift myself (got it for my birthday in 1994).

[ZombieDawg]

@davejoshmom1 I purchased a Pentium MMX 233 (66MHz FSB) the DAY before the Pentium IIs were announced... I got a good deal from the computer hardware store I was working at, so I thought at the time.

[statefairshows]

LaVar Burton scares me for some reason

[Joelseph5845]

thats lavar burton doing the narration (geordi from star trek tng)

[JoshuatheKodiak]

Its a prophecy for Alt Tab.

[oceankhayne]

eh, you never know, if it was a few years later maybe he was using the program manager as a shell with win95