He also appeared in television commercials in the early 1980s, including a memorable campaign for Mattel’s Intellivision. In this campaign, Plimpton touted the superiority regarding the graphics and sounds of Intellivision video games over the Atari 2600.
Huh. Now here is one I don’t remember, where I get the basic context (Intellivision vs Atari), but don’t have a clue wrt George Plimpton.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=George+plimpton+intellevision
https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/george-plimpton-pitches-video-games-for-the-mattel-intellivision.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN6upYjul5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0KTjpaG3cg
“Y’all got any more of them pixels?”
That is the image in the article I linked. I will see if I can find anything else later.
Not quite the same ad, but close.
TIL!