Had you this kind of Atari's offer in your country ?

[khryssun]

It was in 1983...

 

According the number of games you had bought you might receive from 1 to 3 games among a choice of more than 10 titles (first Atari games releases only).

 

We had to cut and send the screenshot that was at the back of each Atari games box as proof of purchase.

 

We had to give the list from the more wanted game to the less wanted one (in case of breaking off of stock).

 

If I'm not wrong they sent you :

 

1 game for 5 games bought

2 games for 8

3 games for 10

 

The only bad thing was to cut those beautiful boxes

 

I received my 3 games 2 monthes later :

- Superman

- Adventure

- Basketball

 

 

Had you this kind of Atari's offer in your country ?

What have you won ?

 

[ 09-07-2001: Message edited by: khryssun ]

[jahfish]

if it still would work, i'd buy 20 pacmans and let atari send me a few bmx airmaster ....

 

i found a listing (original atari sales for club mnembers) where they sold bmx airmaster 5$ cheaper than any other game .... for 9.99

 

crazy ... isn't it? now it rarely ends under 100$ when it's boxed ....

[Marco(2)]

I don't remember any such offer in Holland. I was member of both the Atari and Parker Brothers club, but they didn't offer carts. I do remember you could buy accessories from the PB club, like high-score pads and some metal storage thingie for carts (hey, now I think of it, I've never actually seen one of these in all those years...).

 

I do remember one special offer from one of the big toy stores chains ("Intertoys"). They offered a 2-pack of Yar's Revenge and Air-Sea Battle for Christmas 1984 (remember, The Crash didn't happen all that hard (and early) in Europe.

 

It was the cheapest offer for Atari games till that date. I still see them at fleamarkets, very recognizable because of the big red tape that held the boxes together, saying "special offer" or something like that.

 

Those games went on to become two of my favourite 2600 games, btw

 

Cheers,

 

Marco