Electronic Games advertisements from 1981-1985

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News

102 KB  3 news : Milton Bradley drops Vectrex, Mattel Exits Electronics, Donkey Kong whips King Kong.

Farewell 
page 1

55 KB Farewell to the Vectrex.

"The King of Stand-Alones Has Abdicated, But Vectrex is Still Wowing Gamers"

Farewell
page 2

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Farewell
page 3

85 KB

ESB

91 KB "Empire Strikes Back - New from Atari Coin Games"

CBM Adventures

80 KB "Commodore Software - The Best Adventure In Town"

Competition Pro

77 KB Howcome all joystick advertisement are funny. Just look at the expression on that girl's face... "Now your best score is just the beginning!"

Tac 2

89 KB "TAC stands for Totally Accurate Controller."

Trak-Ball

83 KB "Moving in circles can turn your scores around". Atari 2600 and 5200 Trak-Ball advertisement.

Spectravideo Compumate for the Atari 2600

147 KB "Play programmer, play composer, or even play Picasso!"
Vectrex Graphic Computer System 141 KB "The high performance machine." Introducing the 3-D Imager and light pen. "All Vectrex cartridges  are ready to challenge you and transport you to the stars...and beyond!"
Cardapter for VIC-20 172 KB "Play Atari cartridge games on your VIC-20" and "Explore a new galaxy of entertainment pleasure with your VIC-20 computer" 
Colecovision 69 KB A really cool Colecovision advertisement. The Colecovision scans are probably from an UK magazine (was missing cover)
Colecovision page 1 158 KB "You can't beat the system". Especially when Colecovision has "Min. cartridge power 16K"
Colecovision page 2 149 KB Explains the games, controllers and expansion modules.
Burgertime 120 KB "To beat our new home video game, you've got to move your buns"
Imagic 142 KB "Imagic gives Mattel's Intellivision a hard time!"
The Player's Strategy Guide 139 KB "Become a video game wizard!"  Included are the high-scoring secrets of ace arcader "Video Frank" Tetro.
CVC Gameline 138 KB Advertisement of the CVC Gameline cartridge that allowed you to download games via phoneline onto your Atari 2600. Did this thing really work? 
Page 1 80 KB Vector Graphics. A three page article about vector graphics featuring Vectrex and more.
Page 2 69 KB
Page 3 90 KB
CBM games 79 KB This time Commodore Software is "The Best Game in Town"
ROJ 113 KB Return of the Jedi Arcade - "Now you can play the movie"
Atarisoft 92 KB "All the hits your computer is missing" - Atarisoft has the answer.
Amigaboard 86 KB Before they made a heck of a computer, they made some weird controllers, like this for example - The Joyboard.
Amigajoy 95 KB And this. "Higher scores! (Need we say more?)" Amiga - Dedicated to the science of fun!
Star Wars 82 KB New from Atari Coin Games. "Darth Vader beware!"
Infocom 76 KB "I was a teenage zombie!" A hilarious advertisement for Infocom text adventures.
PitfaII 34 KB Pitfall II ad for Commodore 64.
Pacwatch 67 KB "Telling time has never been so much fun"
Marble Madness 78 KB Marble Madness - New from Atari Coin Games.

Whole bunches of thanks to Kalle Ahonen