Ad

[Bill Lange]

Ad From April 28th Issue Of TIME Magazine

[Albert]

Cool ad, thanks for taking the time to scan and post it so those of us who don't read Time Magazine could see it. Those 2600 joysticks will be a symbol of videogaming forever.

 

..Al

[Paul Slocum]

Those are my joysticks! (My friends work in advertising.) I think there's another one with one of my Wico bats.

 

-Paul

[CPUWIZ]

Those are my joysticks!  (My friends work in advertising.)  I think there's another one with one of my Wico bats.

 

-Paul

 

So was it you who chewed on that joystick then ?

 

[moycon]

Its says "be new" on one of those joysticks...Is that their advertising campain and are those letters really on there or is it just a later added graphic.

[Paul Slocum]

Its says "be new" on one of those joysticks...Is that their advertising campain and are those letters really on there or is it just a later added graphic.

 

That's Photoshop. And you'd think they would have Photoshopped the chew marks too! I was trying to give them ones with good orange paint and I guess I didn't notice that one was a little chewed.

 

-Paul

[black dog]

This ad is also in the latest issue of People magazine.

[Paul Slocum]

I talked to my friends today. There's another magazine ad with the Wico sticks and a similar TV ad on the way with my Atari joysticks.

 

-Paul

[Godzilla]

so, did EVERYONE chew on those rubber atari sticks??

[+-^CrossBow^-]

You mean..like this:

 

 

 

 

Sorry it has been awhile since I put her up there...and I thought it was the perfect time to all bow down and give remembrance...heheh

 

[SS]

so, did EVERYONE chew on those rubber atari sticks??

 

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16116

[gulag picture radio]

I want to see the behind-the-scene photos of the joysticks sitting in their director's chairs having makeup put on them... or perhaps being meticulously restored by ILM... or a behind-the-scenes exposee on Entertainment Tonight showing that these prop joysticks are actually five feet tall ("real joysticks just don't look real enough on film...")

 

[slapdash]

This ad is also in the latest issue of People magazine.

 

Can someone verify what issue specifically?

[Godzilla]

its also in the new entertainment weekly double issue summer movie special

[black dog]

The issue of People has Madonna on the cover.

[CPUWIZ]

I want to see the behind-the-scene photos of the joysticks sitting in their director's chairs having makeup put on them... or perhaps being meticulously restored by ILM... or a behind-the-scenes exposee on Entertainment Tonight showing that these prop joysticks are actually five feet tall ("real joysticks just don't look real enough on film...")

 

 

Hmm, Joysticks without makeup ?

[gulag picture radio]

I saw another ad, but lack a scanner to share it. Stodgy old Pottery Barn has decided to reach out to the teen market with the cleverly named "Pottery Barn Teen" catalog. Of course being 31, I got it in the mail. Basically, it's stuff that's nearly as cool as furniture from Ikea, but at quintuple the price.

 

Most of the catalog shots are of blisteringly happy teens playing Xbox and hanging out in their stylish bedrooms. One however shows a guy with an old 70's TV painted silver dumped on the floor. He's using it to play one of those 10-in-1 Atari joysticks.

 

There are just too many layers to the retro/modern/hipness level of this picture, so I think that I'll have a lie down.