What an ingenious way to have advertised 2600 games

[JayAre]

As most of you know, Xonox was owned by K-Tel, which were the good folks that brought you the Veg-O-Matic, the Miracle Brush and compilation albums.  Here's a record sleeve from one of those albums, featuring a Xonox ad.  Pretty cool.

 

[high voltage]

Wow, so cool. K-Tel was huge, my parents always purchased the albums.

[Shawn]

The 2 K-Tel games had ads here in Canada. Maybe even in a comic book or TV Guide? K-Tel sold more here in NTSC format than anywhere else that I'm aware of. That is why Condor Attack and Spider Maze are easier to find in Canada VS the USA. The term "easier" being relative as they are still very rare.

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2 hours ago, JayAre said:

As most of you know, Xonox was owned by K-Tel

I actually didn't know that 🙂

[JayAre]

1 hour ago, high voltage said:

Wow, so cool. K-Tel was huge, my parents always purchased the albums.

Those compilation albums were actually pretty good.  Growing up, I had a Heavy Metal one from K-Tel.  Although I always found it funny that they put "Dancing in the Street" by Van Halen on there.  Not exactly heavy metal.

 

52 minutes ago, Shawn said:

The 2 K-Tel games had ads here in Canada. Maybe even in a comic book or TV Guide? K-Tel sold more here in NTSC format than anywhere else that I'm aware of. That is why Condor Attack and Spider Maze are easier to find in Canada VS the USA. The term "easier" being relative as they are still very rare.

Shawn, thanks for the interesting info.  Good to know.

Edited September 28, 2020 by JayAre