SINGLE TOOTH Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Here are a couple of scans I used without permission from http://www.wishbookweb.com/. There are some steamy scans posted here. Make sure you have your mommies permission. I never knew the 5200 trakball was $90!!! Was this Intellivision Synthesizer ever released? I never heard about it. Forgive the image linking, but i have no idea how to upload the pics to the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariman Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 it isn't that tough to put pictures in. All you have to do is upload an attachment (IE: the picture itself that you have saved on your hard drive), then click on the little button with the picture on it (just to the left of the button with the envelope and a plus sign on it). And then you can stop stealing bandwidth from some website! I suggest you do it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian R. Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Very cool. The old ads are always interesting to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuzaxeman Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 those are awesome. made me feel like a kid again. i used to save those sears catalogs.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian R. Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 those are awesome. made me feel like a kid again. i used to save those sears catalogs.... I just noticed that in the ad for the 5200, they tout prominently the amount of ram in the system. I remember ram being a selling point for computers back then, but not being a talking point for home video game consoles. I don't think there were "ram wars" like there was later to be the "bit wars." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 probably back then when bits didn't matter, i mean the intellevision was 16-bit, but nobody is saying it competed with the SNES or Genny. So i'm sure the gaming back then was measured by the amount of RAM before bits. At least thats my thought on the matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRetroGamer Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 I just noticed that in the ad for the 5200, they tout prominently the amount of ram in the system. I remember ram being a selling point for computers back then, but not being a talking point for home video game consoles. I don't think there were "ram wars" like there was later to be the "bit wars." That was the whole point, at that time, computers were the "next big thing" so if you could equate a game console to a computer in some way ("All the strength of a home computer built in"), you were a marketing genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Wow.. who knew MsPac looked like this back in the day! They had it hard back then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian R. Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Wow.. who knew MsPac looked like this back in the day! They had it hard back then At least in this ad they got the cart in right, and not backwards like in at least one of the 5200 catalogues I have, which I'm sure most have seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 (edited) Wow.. who knew MsPac looked like this back in the day! They had it hard back then Yeah but Dig Dug makes up for it...in it's original aspect ratio no less. Edited July 4, 2007 by PingvinBlueJeans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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