Atari VCS Ad (January 1979)

Entry posted by Random Terrain May 28, 2017

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This Atari 2600 VCS ad was in the January 1979 issue of Playboy.

Don't watch TV tonight. Play it!

THE ATARI VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM

We're the games you play on your own TV set. We're the Atari Video Computer System. (Remember "Pong"? Well, that was just the beginning.)

Atari is now a sophisticated, computerized programmable unit that hooks up to your television in a matter of seconds.

Atari features a greater selection (20 different Game Program cartridges, over 1300 game variations and options—and with many more to come!). We're sport games. We're mind games. We educate. We entertain. We can be played by one player (against the computer), two players, three or four.

We're the system that's especially designed to change colors to protect and safeguard your TV tube from any damage. We offer crisper colors (when played, of course, on a color TV). We pride ourselves in truer-to-life sound effects, which play through your own TV's sound system.

We're Atari. And if someone in your family hasn't asked for us yet, get ready. They're going to.

[boxes shown in the ad are listed below.]

Air-Sea Battle
Basic Math
Basketball
Black Jack
Brain Games
Breakout
Codebreaker
Combat
Flag Capture
Hangman
Home Run
Hunt & Score
Indy 500
Outlaw
Slot Racers
Space War
Star Ship
Street Racer
Surround
Video Olympics

20 cartridges now available. 1300 game variations.