Has anyone ever come across one of these?

[CPUWIZ]

[Zwackery]

Looks like something for the GRANDparents. The picture already looks eerily close to a Hoveround.

 

But I have never seen one.

 

Where was the ad published?

[CPUWIZ]

The back pages of Electronic Games magazine (early 80's).

[Keatah]

Probably still have mine in the second basement.

[R.O.T.S]

Looks like some sort of medieval sex toy

[riffraff]

Exotic hard wood sounds like the only way to go.

Edited December 12, 2013 by riffraff

[+FujiSkunk]

Probably still have mine in the second basement.

 

Right next to your copy of Apple II Pole Position, I bet.

[Keatah]

Probably.

[Lentzquest]

It's so funny how you have to plant your feet down on it, instead of them making a sufficiently wide base from the get-go. That kind of defeats it's entire purpose.

[bennybingo]

It looks like it is missing an add-on component:

 

 

 

[Serious]

I have seen it in magazines, but never anywhere else.

 

I was just recently thinking about how none of the video game furniture-type items from back then seem to be around anymore. I used to have a cart that was made to hold the Atari on top, and games underneath. My guess is that items like this ended up in places where no one knew what they were for, and ended up getting junked.

 

I can't imagine what a Salvation Army staff member would have made of that stick-stand when they received it.

 

[Keatah]

I always thought it was very phallic.

[Big Player]

I remember seeing the ad in Electronic Games magazine but that is all I have ever seen or known about it.

 

I put the mailing address listed into Google maps. It is for a house in LA. From the looks of the stand, it could be put together by someone with woodworking skills. I know my cousin, who used to be a carpenter, could build one.

 

So this was probably just a guy working out of his garage, building the stands to order. I do wonder how many orders he got. Just think of the rarity of it.