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** If you think these are bad, you probably haven't seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 the first Macintosh ad], portraying themselves as a heroically hot [[Action Girl]], their opponents as a totalitarian state ''specifically'' modeled after [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]], and their opponent's customers as a bunch of hypnotized drones whom Apple is here to "save." Yeah.

* The way Pepsi ads portrayed Coke in the '80s and '90s.

** Sega ''was'' this trope back in the days. More than half their ads were just bashing their rival company (usually Nintendo) in 'creative' ways. We all know the 'Genesis does what Nintendon't' one, which chastised the NES for being 8 bits lower than the Genesis. When the SNES came out, they found the only thing they could say was better about the Genesis was its slightly lower price, so they included a kid screaming at this 'higher price' in fear. Even though they were only about $50 (one game) apart?

** Don't forget ... the Genesis's DMA controller had '''[[Blatant Lies|BLAST PROCESSING]]'''.

** There was also the [[Game Gear]] versus the [[Game Boy]]. Fans didn't bite.

* MCI ran some really nasty anti-AT&T ads in the early '80s.

* ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' parodied the rivalry between car rental companies Avis and Hertz in [[The Seventies]] with a "war" of insulting ads between the two. The punchline was that the companies have actually staged the rivalry to monopolize people's attention, and having done so they proceed to merge and move on to crushing all the smaller car rental companies. In [[The Eighties]], they recycled the premise and punchline to poke fun at the Coke-Pepsi rivalry.