Rock On!
Posted: 07/24/2007
So I was listening to Pandora Internet radio while I worked, as I occasionally do, and an ad filled in around the user interface. Normally these wrap-around banners are for something like Smirnoff Twist or the Baconator from Wendy’s.
I like bacon as much as the next guy, but it’s cruel to wrap a heavily photoshopped image of a hot juicy burger dripping with bacon around the Pandora’s now playing album section.
Luckily, this new advert was different. It was for Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80’s. Not only was it fairly attractive, it was not tempting me with virtual bacon, and it turned out to be quite useful. It politely offered the option of adding one of three shared 80’s radio stations: Rock, Punk, or New Wave.
These new pre-fab Pandora stations slot in right next to your own personal stations (you know, the ones that you have meticulously groomed for days-on-end with a litany of thumbs up or down). Who woulda thunk: cool looking video game ads, now bearing gifts! RedOctane’s marketing department has done their polygonal rock stars proud. This is some Pandora on Pandora action I can get behind.
Now for people to stop writing GH erotic fan fiction.
