Atari VCS Ad (December 1980)

Entry posted by Random Terrain May 28, 2017

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This Atari 2600 VCS ad was in the December 1980 issue of Playboy.

No other video game stacks up to Atari.

You can’t top Atari for fun.

In fact, the Atari Video Computer System is so much fun you'll want to play it all the time. And you can because Atari has more game cartridges to play than anybody else.

Right now you can choose from forty different Atari Game Program cartridges.

There are fast action games like Dodge 'Em and Circus Atari. Thinking games like Video Chess and Backgammon. You can play real life sports with Football and Basketball. And you can learn words and math from Hangman and Fun With Numbers.

Our most exciting game yet comes straight from the arcades, Space Invaders. Only Atari has it.

And more are coming. You'll never outgrow the Atari Video Computer System.

Instead, it grows on you.

[boxes shown in the ad are listed below. Notice that Star Ship wasn't included]

3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
A Game of Concentration (used to be called Hunt & Score)
Adventure
Air-Sea Battle
Backgammon
Basic Programming
Basketball
Black Jack
Bowling
Brain Games
Breakout
Canyon Bomber
Casino
Championship Soccer
Circus Atari
Codebreaker
Combat
Dodge 'Em
Flag Capture
Football
Fun With Numbers (used to be called Basic Math)
Golf
Hangman
Home Run
Human Cannonball
Indy 500
Maze Craze
Miniature Golf
Night Driver
Outlaw
Sky Diver
Slot Racers
Space Invaders
Space War
Street Racer
Superman
Surround
Video Checkers
Video Chess
Video Olympics