It's fun to look back at the generations that came before us and see what predictions they made for the distant future. Looking back now we see that our fathers and grandfathers predicted that we would be colonizing the moon, television would be in 3D, and most importantly, we would have flying cars. Where are our flying cars? This advertisement for Renovation (the makers of Gaiares) makes some predictions, too ... and wouldn't you know it, their predictions came true!

In this advertisement we go 40 years into the future (well, 25 years for us, but this advert is from 1991) and spy on a middle aged man who is getting in some much needed me time. After 40 years Dan, the balding gamer in the picture, finally has a TV that will allow him to play all of his favorite games at once. But it didn't take Sony, Zenith, and all the other TV manufacturers 40 years to develop that TV ... it actually came out just a few years after this commercial was featured in GamePro.

These days widescreen TVs are quickly becoming the standard and just about every one of them features some sort of picture-in-picture option. Renovation predicted a technology that would actually become reality, long before they said it would. But there's still one problem, neither technology nor Renovation have come out with a way to play more than one game at the same time. Dan may have a giant TV (with a bunch of picture-in-picture boxes), but he's still sporting two hands. Figure that one out you scientists!

FROM: How I Met Your Bad Advertising