Atari 2600 - Imagic and Activision games sold in blister packs in the mid-nineties

[Lost Monkey]

The Intellivision bagged games thread jogged this memory...

 

Circa 1994/1995, K-Mart, in Canada, was selling Activision releases (which included Imagic titles) in blister packs. I don't have any photos, but I did purchase Cosmic Commuter at the time.  All that was included was the cartridge and a low quality manual.  They were new.  I recall there being several titles I already owned, but distinctly remember Demon Attack and Commando.

 

Anyone else remember these?  I did a search of the forum, but didn't come up with anything.

 

 

Edited April 18, 2022 by Lost Monkey

[delmero]

Good evening:

I do have those games, but I didn't know they were sold in blister packaging. 

I began buying the games used as an adult. 

Edited April 18, 2022 by delmero
Clarity

[Rom Hunter]

9 hours ago, Lost Monkey said:

The Intellivision bagged games thread jogged this memory...

 

Circa 1994/1995, K-Mart, in Canada, was selling Activision releases (which included Imagic titles) in blister packs. I don't have any photos, but I did purchase Cosmic Commuter at the time.  All that was included was the cartridge and a low quality manual.  They were new.  I recall there being several titles I already owned, but distinctly remember Demon Attack and Commando.

 

Anyone else remember these?  I did a search of the forum, but didn't come up with anything.

 

 

Interesting.

Never seen them sold like that.

[Atari_Bill]

Never seen any packaged like this.  I could believe it though. Toward the end, they were dumping product anyway they could do it cheaply. 

[4ever2600]

None in the states that I've ever seen...

[Jason_Atari]

HES over here in Australia sold Activision and Imagic games back in the day like that although they are not common. I do remember seeing them at Kmart with the Instructions on the back cardboard. (Pics from Atari Boxed)

Edited April 20, 2022 by Jason_Atari
Crediting Atari Boxed for the pictures

[GrizzLee]

On 4/18/2022 at 1:39 PM, Lost Monkey said:

The Intellivision bagged games thread jogged this memory...

 

Circa 1994/1995, K-Mart, in Canada, was selling Activision releases (which included Imagic titles) in blister packs. I don't have any photos, but I did purchase Cosmic Commuter at the time.  All that was included was the cartridge and a low quality manual.  They were new.  I recall there being several titles I already owned, but distinctly remember Demon Attack and Commando.

 

Anyone else remember these?  I did a search of the forum, but didn't come up with anything.

 

 

I have some. Never been opened. Maybe take some pics tonight.

Of the top of my head I believe I have Fire Fighter and Riddle of the Sphinx for sure.

 

I think they also sold Imagic titles for the Colecovision this way. I could be wrong. I'll check.

 

It's been years since I looked at that stuff. ?

[jhd]

I remember seeing NES, Genesis, and possibly also SNES games being sold like this, but nothing for the Atari 2600. I am fairly certain that these were used titles, but they were sold through major retailers like Sears. They were available for a few years in the mid-1990s.

 

By this point in time, 2600 titles were completely gone from the retail landscape; even the dusty old remaindered stock of a few years prior had been dumped. They were even getting slightly less common at yard sales and thrift shops. 

 

That said, I did not shop at K-Mart as there were no stores remotely close to where I lived at the time, so that establishment may still have had some 2600 stock.  

[T.A.P.]

My dad bought a super-cheap looking copy of Time Pilot for the Colecovision in a blister pack in the 90s. Had the crummiest looking label I ever saw.

[Brainworm]

This rings a bell for me. In maybe 1993 I bought a copy of Super Breakout! that was packaged this way. This was at a local Big Lots (which is a merchandise liquidator) and so who knows how far it traveled to get there.

[GrizzLee]

Ok, just sifted through my chit..

 

As mentioned. Here is pics of the blister packs I have for the 2600. I thought I had some for the colecovision as well. But can't locate those..  or maybe I traded or opened them years ago.