 May 17, 2016 - 8:59am | Did you see it? https://archive.org/details/star_frontiers_commercial-1983 Finding this made my day. I remember seeing it way back in the day (11th grade). You can't argue with the invincibly ignorant. - William F. Buckley |
 May 17, 2016 - 11:23am | No, I never saw the TV commercial. I picked up the game because of the ads in Dragon magazine. Good find. Joe Cabadas |
May 17, 2016 - 11:31am | There was a radio commercial as well, but I haven't found that yet. You can't argue with the invincibly ignorant. - William F. Buckley |
May 17, 2016 - 11:32am | Oops, double post. You can't argue with the invincibly ignorant. - William F. Buckley |
 May 18, 2016 - 9:43am | Very cool find! I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 May 18, 2016 - 7:57pm | I never saw that as a kid that I remember. I think that was a vrusk speaking through a polyvox. The hands looked vruskish. -iggy |
 May 19, 2016 - 10:52am | Too low to the ground to be a vrusk. I think the commercial was taking advantage of the E.T.-movie-mania of the time. |
May 19, 2016 - 11:47am | Too low to the ground to be a vrusk. I think the commercial was taking advantage of the E.T.-movie-mania of the time.
TSR would never take advantage of the popularity of a movie! [Cough! Dramune Run] Yeah it sounded a little like ET. My impression was it reminded me of a dralasite. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
May 19, 2016 - 11:56am | I think it was just meant to be a generic alien. It's likely the commercial's immediate producers had never played or even read the rules. |
 May 21, 2016 - 1:10am | I never saw that as a kid that I remember. I think that was a vrusk speaking through a polyvox. The hands looked vruskish. That commercial was pretty much a reprise of the ad that ran in comic books which actually did depict a vrusk (although the TV spot featured the Alpha Dawn printings instead of the original purple box from the comic ad)...I happen to have that ad archived on my SF site (albeit not a hi-res pic): http://starfrontiers.20m.com/ads.html |
