Old Video Game Ads From the Late 1970s Through the 1980s

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!

Activision Bravo Ad for their Atari 2600 games

Parker Bros. Amidar Ad for the Atari 2600

Amiga Joyboard video game ad for the Atari 2600

Atari 5200 Astro Chase Ad

Bally Astrocade Video game system ad

Bally Astrocade Ad

Atari 2600 is #1 Ad

Atari 5200 Supersystem Ad

Atari Jungle Hunt and Kangaroo Safari Contest

Atari Club Ad

Atari 2600 Battlezone Ad

BC's Quest For Tires Ad for the Colecovision

Activision Beamrider Ad for the Mattel Intellivision

Data Age Bermuda Triangle Ad for the Atari 2600

Sega's Buck Rogers, Planet of Zoom Game Ad

Mattel Bump 'n' Jump Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision

Mattel Bump 'n' Jump Video Game Ad #2 for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision

Mattel Burgertime Video Game Ad

Cardapter Ad for the Atari 2600 and Commodore Vic 20

CBS Atari 5200 Ad

Atari Centipede Video Game Ad

Spectrevision China Syndrome Video Game Ad

Activision Chopper Command Video Game Ad

Coleco Atari 2600 Games Ad

Colecovision Super Action Controller Ad

Sega's Congo Bongo Video Game Ad

20th Century Fox's Crypts of Chaos Video Game Ad

Activision Decathlon Video Game Ad

Atari DigDug Video Game Ad

Imagic Dragonfire Video Game Ad

Activision Enduro Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600

Activision Enduro Pace Car Video Game Ad #2 for the Atari 2600

Atari 2600 Escape from the Mindmaster video game for the Starpath Supercharger

Imagic Fire Fighter Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600

Activision Freeway Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600

Parker Bros. Frogger Video Game Ad Atari 2600 and Intellivision

Parker Bros. Frogger II ThreeDeep Video Game Ad

Activision Frostbite Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600

Atari Galaxian Video Game Ad/ for the Atari 2600

Nintendo Game & Watch Ad

Game-Mate 2 Wireless Joystick Ad

G.A.M.E.S. Video Game Club Ad

Odyssey 2 The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt Video Game Ad

The Heist game from Micro Fun ad

Sewer Sam and Blockade Runner from Interphase ad

Tigervision Jawbreaker video game ad

Star Wars Jedi Arena video game ad from Parker Bros for Atari 2600

Jungle Hunt video game ad from Atari

Kaboom Video Game Ad

Kangaroo video game ad from Atari

Magnavox Odyssey 2 K.C. Munchkin video game ad

Magnavox Odyssey 2 Killer Bees video game ad

Mattel Kool-Aid Man video game ad for Atari 2600 and Intellivision

Mattel Lock 'N' Chase video game ad

M.A.D. video game ad from US games for the Atari 2600

Mario Bros video game ad from Atari

Mattel Masters of the Universe video game ad

Activision Megamania video game ad for the Atari 2600

Atari 2600 Moonsweeper video game ad from Imagic

CBS Electronics Mountain King Video Game Ad

Ms. Pac-man game for Atari 2600 ad

Mattel Nightstalker game ad

Atari 2600 Phaser Patrol Starpath Supercharger Video Game Ad

Phoenix game for the Atari 2600 ad

Activision Pitfall Video Game Ad for Atari 2600

Pitfall II game for the Atari 2600 from Activision ad

Pitstop game for the Colecovision ad

Atari Pole Position game ad

Atari 2600 Pooyan Video Game Ad from Konami and Datasoft

Probe 2000 Power Lords video game for the Odyssey 2

Atari 2600 Prostick II Joystick Ad from Newport Controls

Atari Realsports ad

Sammy Lightfoot Video Game Ad from Sierra On-Line

Seaquest game from Activision ad

Solar Storm game from Imagic for Atari 2600 ad

Space Cavern From Apollo Video Game Ad

Space Shuttle game from Activision for the Atari 2600 ad

Spectrevideo Compumate for the Atari 2600 ad

Atari 2600 Spectrevision Video Game Ad Games Pictured - Gangster Alley, Planet Patrol Crossfire, China Syndrome and Tape Worm

Stampede Video Game Ad

Star Trek game from Sega for the Atari 2600 ad

Atari 2600 Starpath Supercharge Ad

Atari 2600 Tapeworm Game Ad from Spectravision

Tennis Video Game Ad

Atari 2600 Tigervisioin Game Ad with Jawbreaker and King Kong games shown

Attack of the Timelord for Odyssey 2 ad

Atari 2600 and 5200 Trak-ball Ad

Magnavox Odyssey 2 Turtles Video Game Ad

Tutankham game for the Intellivision ad

Vanguard game for the Atari 2600 ad

GCE Vectrex Video Game System, 3-D Imager and Light Pen Ad

GCE Vectrex Video Game System Ad

Odyssey 2 Wizard of Odyssey ad

Wizard Video Games Ad for Atari 2600 Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Flesh Gordon carts

Xonox Double Ender Carts for the Atari 2600 Ad

(via Tomorrow's Heroes)