Remember those ads for video games that appeared in magazines and the back of comic books? Well, here is a collection of them for you to check out! Some are funny and some are quite clever. So take a visual walk down memory lane and see game ads that didn't need sex and violence in them to sell games!
(via Tomorrow's Heroes)
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| Activision Bravo Ad for their Atari 2600 games |
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| Parker Bros. Amidar Ad for the Atari 2600 |
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| Amiga Joyboard video game ad for the Atari 2600 |
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| Atari 5200 Astro Chase Ad |
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| Bally Astrocade Video game system ad |
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| Bally Astrocade Ad |
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| Atari 2600 is #1 Ad |
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| Atari 5200 Supersystem Ad |
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| Atari Jungle Hunt and Kangaroo Safari Contest |
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| Atari Club Ad |
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| Atari 2600 Battlezone Ad |
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| BC's Quest For Tires Ad for the Colecovision |
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| Activision Beamrider Ad for the Mattel Intellivision |
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| Data Age Bermuda Triangle Ad for the Atari 2600 |
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| Sega's Buck Rogers, Planet of Zoom Game Ad |
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| Mattel Bump 'n' Jump Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision |
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| Mattel Bump 'n' Jump Video Game Ad #2 for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision |
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| Mattel Burgertime Video Game Ad |
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| Cardapter Ad for the Atari 2600 and Commodore Vic 20 |
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| CBS Atari 5200 Ad |
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| Atari Centipede Video Game Ad |
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| Spectrevision China Syndrome Video Game Ad |
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| Activision Chopper Command Video Game Ad |
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| Coleco Atari 2600 Games Ad |
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| Colecovision Super Action Controller Ad |
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| Sega's Congo Bongo Video Game Ad |
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| 20th Century Fox's Crypts of Chaos Video Game Ad |
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| Activision Decathlon Video Game Ad |
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| Atari DigDug Video Game Ad |
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| Imagic Dragonfire Video Game Ad |
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| Activision Enduro Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 |
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| Activision Enduro Pace Car Video Game Ad #2 for the Atari 2600 |
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| Atari 2600 Escape from the Mindmaster video game for the Starpath Supercharger |
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| Imagic Fire Fighter Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 |
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| Activision Freeway Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 |
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| Parker Bros. Frogger Video Game Ad Atari 2600 and Intellivision |
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| Parker Bros. Frogger II ThreeDeep Video Game Ad |
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| Activision Frostbite Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 |
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| Atari Galaxian Video Game Ad/ for the Atari 2600 |
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| Nintendo Game & Watch Ad |
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| Game-Mate 2 Wireless Joystick Ad |
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| G.A.M.E.S. Video Game Club Ad |
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| Odyssey 2 The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt Video Game Ad |
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| The Heist game from Micro Fun ad |
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| Sewer Sam and Blockade Runner from Interphase ad |
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| Tigervision Jawbreaker video game ad |
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| Star Wars Jedi Arena video game ad from Parker Bros for Atari 2600 |
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| Jungle Hunt video game ad from Atari |
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| Kaboom Video Game Ad |
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| Kangaroo video game ad from Atari |
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| Magnavox Odyssey 2 K.C. Munchkin video game ad |
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| Magnavox Odyssey 2 Killer Bees video game ad |
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| Mattel Kool-Aid Man video game ad for Atari 2600 and Intellivision |
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| Mattel Lock 'N' Chase video game ad |
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| M.A.D. video game ad from US games for the Atari 2600 |
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| Mario Bros video game ad from Atari |
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| Mattel Masters of the Universe video game ad |
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| Activision Megamania video game ad for the Atari 2600 |
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| Atari 2600 Moonsweeper video game ad from Imagic |
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| CBS Electronics Mountain King Video Game Ad |
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| Ms. Pac-man game for Atari 2600 ad |
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| Mattel Nightstalker game ad |
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| Atari 2600 Phaser Patrol Starpath Supercharger Video Game Ad |
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| Phoenix game for the Atari 2600 ad |
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| Activision Pitfall Video Game Ad for Atari 2600 |
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| Pitfall II game for the Atari 2600 from Activision ad |
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| Pitstop game for the Colecovision ad |
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| Atari Pole Position game ad |
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| Atari 2600 Pooyan Video Game Ad from Konami and Datasoft |
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| Probe 2000 Power Lords video game for the Odyssey 2 |
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| Atari 2600 Prostick II Joystick Ad from Newport Controls |
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| Atari Realsports ad |
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| Sammy Lightfoot Video Game Ad from Sierra On-Line |
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| Seaquest game from Activision ad |
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| Solar Storm game from Imagic for Atari 2600 ad |
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| Space Cavern From Apollo Video Game Ad |
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| Space Shuttle game from Activision for the Atari 2600 ad |
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| Spectrevideo Compumate for the Atari 2600 ad |
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| Atari 2600 Spectrevision Video Game Ad Games Pictured - Gangster Alley, Planet Patrol Crossfire, China Syndrome and Tape Worm |
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| Stampede Video Game Ad |
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| Star Trek game from Sega for the Atari 2600 ad |
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| Atari 2600 Starpath Supercharge Ad |
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| Atari 2600 Tapeworm Game Ad from Spectravision |
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| Tennis Video Game Ad |
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| Atari 2600 Tigervisioin Game Ad with Jawbreaker and King Kong games shown |
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| Attack of the Timelord for Odyssey 2 ad |
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| Atari 2600 and 5200 Trak-ball Ad |
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| Magnavox Odyssey 2 Turtles Video Game Ad |
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| Tutankham game for the Intellivision ad |
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| Vanguard game for the Atari 2600 ad |
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| GCE Vectrex Video Game System, 3-D Imager and Light Pen Ad |
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| GCE Vectrex Video Game System Ad |
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| Odyssey 2 Wizard of Odyssey ad |
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| Wizard Video Games Ad for Atari 2600 Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Flesh Gordon carts |
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| Xonox Double Ender Carts for the Atari 2600 Ad |
(via Tomorrow's Heroes)
Loved the old video games ads it looks so different from games these days
ReplyDeleteThese games look so different from now
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