FlightSuit #1 Posted April 21, 2009 Hello, I am new here. Here's something I scanned in from an old gaming magazine that's been gathering dust in my garage since the early 1980s: I've got lots more crap like this to share with y'all... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kripto #2 Posted April 21, 2009 I hope it's not too late for me to join... Although I might need to be connected to an IV to withstand sixteen hours of playing Defender with no break... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VectorGamer #3 Posted April 21, 2009 I hope it's not too late for me to join... Although I might need to be connected to an IV to withstand sixteen hours of playing Defender with no break... You also need a "Stadium Buddy" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lincoln #4 Posted April 21, 2009 think they're still there? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kripto #5 Posted April 21, 2009 I hope it's not too late for me to join... Although I might need to be connected to an IV to withstand sixteen hours of playing Defender with no break... You also need a "Stadium Buddy" I believe the most often used technique is that one builds up so many extra ships that they can run at top speed to the john and relieve themself without really endangering their game. Seeing as how many arcade operators may not take kindly to someone visibly peeing into a crouch-mounted plastic container, adult diapers may sadly be another sensible option. Maybe they would be seen as cooler if the diapers had graphics from various popular games? "Relax and drop an Asteroid in your Atari Diapers!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlightSuit #6 Posted April 22, 2009 Oh man, my very first thread here and we've already descended into bathroom humor! Guess I might as well go ahead and spring this one on you. It's an ad for Video Maniac "Sports Accessories": I like how she'd ripped the joystick right off the arcade machine, in a frenzied attempt to get it closer to her censored private area. This lends to the image a whole layer of Freudian castration-anxiety and penis-envy metaphor, something you wouldn't normally expect to find in an airbrushed, early 1980's cheesecake poster. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlightSuit #7 Posted April 22, 2009 That, and the following beauties, are from the December, 1983 edition of Electronic Games, by the way. Next, we've got this revolutionary peripheral for your game console or computer, the new, high-tech, precision-manufactured, Block of Wood: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlightSuit #8 Posted April 22, 2009 Next we have this full-page advertisement for the Crystal Castles arcade machine. Just look at that happy, young fellow manning the controls: He's beggin' for it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlightSuit #9 Posted April 22, 2009 (edited) I've always had a perverse fascination with the Coleco Adam, mainly for its awfulness: Edited April 22, 2009 by FlightSuit Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+thanatos #15 Posted April 22, 2009 Welcome... And I love the old ads! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlightSuit #16 Posted April 22, 2009 Moving right along... You youngsters may not know this, but back in the 1980s, we all had robot servants in our homes: That was before they rebelled against their human masters and had to be destroyed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlightSuit #17 Posted April 22, 2009 Welcome... And I love the old ads! Why thankew! That last one, obviously, was from Science Digest. Here's some more from Electronic Games: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlightSuit #20 Posted April 22, 2009 Now here's a game that must have sold like hot cakes! The other systems have got Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong? Forget about it- the Odyssey2 has The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt! It's probably because of games like this that the Odyssey did not endure, though I know there were other factors. Anyway, this seems oddly relevant to modern times, given the financial meltdown we're experiencing. Note that the ad describes the game as being by, not for, the Odyssey2. Odd wording, that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlightSuit #21 Posted April 22, 2009 think they're still there? Hah, hah! Looks like some pretty swanky headquarters there! I don't recall if they had Mailboxes ETC or similar businesses back then, but I'm guessing that address was for some type of private mail-drop thing, or maybe they shared a suite with various other businesses. Brilliant investigative Googling on your part, anyway! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlightSuit #22 Posted April 16, 2010 (edited) Got some more scans for you! These are from the Marvel comic book US 1, volume 1, issue 1, published May 1983. Edited April 16, 2010 by FlightSuit Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Video #23 Posted April 16, 2010 Wonder if that last one was "mindlink" compatible? It had to havve been, or it didn't count. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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