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Video games are more than a pastime for me. Starting with my first love, an Atari 2600, in the early 1980s, they've shaped the course of my life in fundamental ways.

Remember those ads for video games that appeared in magazines and the back of comic books? Well, here is a collection of them for you to check out! Some are funny and some are quite clever. So take a visual walk down memory lane and see game ads that didn't need sex and violence in them to sell games! Activision Bravo Ad for their Atari 2600 games Parker Bros. Amidar Ad for the Atari 2600 Amiga Joyboard video game ad for the Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Astro Chase Ad Bally Astrocade Video game system ad Bally Astrocade Ad Atari 2600 is #1 Ad Atari 5200 Supersystem Ad Atari Jungle Hunt and Kangaroo Safari Contest Atari Club Ad Atari 2600 Battlezone Ad BC's Quest For Tires Ad for the Colecovision Activision Beamrider Ad for the Mattel Intellivision Data Age Bermuda Triangle Ad for the Atari 2600 Sega's Buck Rogers, Planet of Zoom Game Ad Mattel Bump 'n' Jump Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision Mattel Bump 'n' Jump Video Game Ad #2 for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision Mattel Burgertime Video Game Ad Cardapter Ad for the Atari 2600 and Commodore Vic 20 CBS Atari 5200 Ad Atari Centipede Video Game Ad Spectrevision China Syndrome Video Game Ad Activision Chopper Command Video Game Ad Coleco Atari 2600 Games Ad Colecovision Super Action Controller Ad Sega's Congo Bongo Video Game Ad 20th Century Fox's Crypts of Chaos Video Game Ad Activision Decathlon Video Game Ad Atari DigDug Video Game Ad Imagic Dragonfire Video Game Ad Activision Enduro Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 Activision Enduro Pace Car Video Game Ad #2 for the Atari 2600 Atari 2600 Escape from the Mindmaster video game for the Starpath Supercharger Imagic Fire Fighter Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 Activision Freeway Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 Parker Bros. Frogger Video Game Ad Atari 2600 and Intellivision Parker Bros. Frogger II ThreeDeep Video Game Ad Activision Frostbite Video Game Ad for the Atari 2600 Atari Galaxian Video Game Ad/ for the Atari 2600 Nintendo Game & Watch Ad Game-Mate 2 Wireless Joystick Ad G.A.M.E.S. Video Game Club Ad Odyssey 2 The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt Video Game Ad The Heist game from Micro Fun ad Sewer Sam and Blockade Runner from Interphase ad Tigervision Jawbreaker video game ad Star Wars Jedi Arena video game ad from Parker Bros for Atari 2600 Jungle Hunt video game ad from Atari Kaboom Video Game Ad Kangaroo video game ad from Atari Magnavox Odyssey 2 K.C. Munchkin video game ad Magnavox Odyssey 2 Killer Bees video game ad Mattel Kool-Aid Man video game ad for Atari 2600 and Intellivision Mattel Lock 'N' Chase video game ad M.A.D. video game ad from US games for the Atari 2600 Mario Bros video game ad from Atari Mattel Masters of the Universe video game ad Activision Megamania video game ad for the Atari 2600 Atari 2600 Moonsweeper video game ad from Imagic CBS Electronics Mountain King Video Game Ad Ms. Pac-man game for Atari 2600 ad Mattel Nightstalker game ad Atari 2600 Phaser Patrol Starpath Supercharger Video Game Ad Phoenix game for the Atari 2600 ad Activision Pitfall Video Game Ad for Atari 2600 Pitfall II game for the Atari 2600 from Activision ad Pitstop game for the Colecovision ad Atari Pole Position game ad Atari 2600 Pooyan Video Game Ad from Konami and Datasoft Probe 2000 Power Lords video game for the Odyssey 2 Atari 2600 Prostick II Joystick Ad from Newport Controls Atari Realsports ad Sammy Lightfoot Video Game Ad from Sierra On-Line Seaquest game from Activision ad Solar Storm game from Imagic for Atari 2600 ad Space Cavern From Apollo Video Game Ad Space Shuttle game from Activision for the Atari 2600 ad Spectrevideo Compumate for the Atari 2600 ad Atari 2600 Spectrevision Video Game Ad Games Pictured - Gangster Alley, Planet Patrol Crossfire, China Syndrome and Tape Worm Stampede Video Game Ad Star Trek game from Sega for the Atari 2600 ad Atari 2600 Starpath Supercharge Ad Atari 2600 Tapeworm Game Ad from Spectravision Tennis Video Game Ad Atari 2600 Tigervisioin Game Ad with Jawbreaker and King Kong games shown Attack of the Timelord for Odyssey 2 ad Atari 2600 and 5200 Trak-ball Ad Magnavox Odyssey 2 Turtles Video Game Ad Tutankham game for the Intellivision ad Vanguard game for the Atari 2600 ad GCE Vectrex Video Game System, 3-D Imager and Light Pen Ad GCE Vectrex Video Game System Ad Odyssey 2 Wizard of Odyssey ad Wizard Video Games Ad for Atari 2600 Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Flesh Gordon carts Xonox Double Ender Carts for the Atari 2600 Ad (via Tomorrow's Heroes)

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You are Mario, and that big old gorilla, Donkey Kong, has run off with your girlfriend. It's up to you to struggle up those ladders and balance on those beams to rescue your lady fair. She's held captive at the very top. But Donkey Kong is not ready to give her up so easily. He's tossing barrels and fireballs at you at every turn. It's up to you to outmaneuver that wily ape. Good luck, your lady awaits! Product Details Name: Donkey Kong Platform: Atari 2600 Developer & Publisher: Coleco Official Release Date: 1982 Local Player(s): 1 Player Game Data Genre: Action > Platformer > 2D Country: USA Product ID: 2451

Frostbite looks somewhat unimpressive at first glance, but elements of Q*bert and Frogger come to mind just as you realize that Frostbite has many attributes that set it apart and make for an engaging and fun game.

These games and dolls were so far out that most of them are still sold today.

Fuel Entertainment will search an area of desert in New Mexico for copies of a failed Atari video game said to be buried there.

Following his article on Atari's genesis , game historian Fulton returns with an amazingly detailed piece on Atari's 'golden years', from the rise of the Atari 2600 through Asteroids and Battlezone .

Tron: Deadly Discs is a game released for the Intellivision, developed and published by Mattel Electronics in 1982. The initial game design was done by Don Daglow, with further design and programming by Steven Sents. It is the first of three Intellivision games based on the Disney motion picture Tron. Adaptations of this game have been developed and released for the Atari 2600 under the M Network banner, and for the Mattel Aquarius. Tron: Deadly Discs at Wikipedia Tron: Deadly Discs at GameFAQs

Tron: Deadly Discs is a game released for the Intellivision, developed and published by Mattel Electronics in 1982. The initial game design was done by Don Daglow, with further design and programming by Steven Sents. It is the first of three Intellivision games based on the Disney motion picture Tron. Adaptations of this game have been developed and released for the Atari 2600 under the M Network banner, and for the Mattel Aquarius. Tron: Deadly Discs at Wikipedia Tron: Deadly Discs at GameFAQs

A gallery of 15 fantastic Activision game covers for the Atari 2600.

“Come turn me on, get it on. Baby, I’m your joystick. Your joystick baby…””Joystick”, The Dazz Band, 1983 Leave it to The Dazz Band to make one of the most iconi…