Smokeless Joe Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I was watching a video of the Atari 400 In-Store Demonstration Cartridge: And I couldn't take my eyes off the poster in the background. It's clearly a poster for the Atari 400, but where did it come from? I also couldn't identify the various programs shown on the poster. I see Space Invaders, Kingdom, 3D Tic Tac Toe and a couple Caverns of Mars, but what else is on there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Atari made them back in the day for atari computer dealers and Atari Service Centers. They pop up on eBay once in a while but go for a lot usually. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilaskey Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I think the plane one is conversational French. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Is there a JPG somewhere of this poster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Hi. That's me and my poster. I have the matching Atari 800 poster too. Got them both on ebay, they were expensive. The plane one is indeed conversational French. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Hi. That's me and my poster. I have the matching Atari 800 poster too. Got them both on ebay, they were expensive. The plane one is indeed conversational French. By chance, are the part numbers listed on the bottom of either poster? it would be nice to be able to search for those specific items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 The Atari 400 poster is C060065 and the Atari 800 poster is C060066. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 The two posters are listed on page 265 on this parts list document. Doc was to big so I am just posting the page. You can get the whole thing on Atarimania.com. Allan Pages from atari-engineering-information-system-item-master_list_page_65.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokeless Joe Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 Very cool. Thanks for the info! I would also like a jpg, or at least moderate to high quality photo of the whole thing. And one of the 800 poster, if it's not too inconvenient. Please? It looks like there are five columns and nine+ rows of pictures/text, with the two columns on the far right only seen at the end of the video, starting around 3:47. Going top-to-bottom and left to right, with the first two being the upper right hand "half rows", I'm seeing: ? - ? ? - text Space Invaders - ? - Video Easel - ? - ? text - Kingdom - Super Breakout - text - ? Blackjack - Conversational French - ? - ? - ? 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe - text - Basketball - SCRAM - text ? - Caverns of Mars - ? - ? - ? ? - ? - text - ? - Biorythym Caverns of Mars - Computer Chess - ? - ? - ? So yeah, there are a lot of those I don't/can't recognize. Anyone able to fill in the blanks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Savetz Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Here are a couple of hi-res versions that I'll leave up for a while: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2773071/Atari400poster.JPG https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2773071/Atari800poster.JPG I noticed that the posters have some little problems with the tiny copyright text at the bottom - I think it may have been inadvertently switched. The text at the bottom of the 400 poster references an item that is only shown on the 800 poster. You can't see that in the pix. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokeless Joe Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 Aw, sweet! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Kevin, Any chance of getting this cool posters reproduced (clearly marking them as repos of course) and making them available? Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 I suppose that might be possible. I guess that involves getting high-quality scans (tricky because the posters are large) then cleaning them up, then getting them to a poster printer. At the moment, that all seems like more work than I'm interested in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 After years of searching, I finally added this beautiful Caverns of Mars poster to my collection. I had it scanned at high-resolution, and uploaded it to internet archive. You could download the 300 DPI TIFF and print your own. https://archive.org/details/AtariCavernsOfMarsPoster 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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