Vintage 7800 ad for Target (1989)

[DracIsBack]

http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=rb8PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4IwDAAAAIBAJ&dq=atari%207800&pg=2330%2C2039777

 

 

[Madaracs]

http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=rb8PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4IwDAAAAIBAJ&dq=atari%207800&pg=2330%2C2039777

 

That's cool.

 

I love news.google and books.google for that stuff. Thanks for the link!

[DracIsBack]

Yeah - I love Google News now! I used to go and look at microfilm in the library but this makes looking at old articles that much cooler!

 

Here's another full page ad showing an Atari promo crossing the three systems.

 

While the Tramiels get blasted for 'not advertising', I think people often forget that they did a fair bit of retail advertising (none of these flyers are free and all of them hit a large audience) in lieu of magazine and television ads.

 

http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=ifcaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i0cEAAAAIBAJ&dq=atari%20xe&pg=5189%2C3118493

[Almost Rice]

I do not remember much advertising except on TV.

[Chuck D. Head]

Dang it, you'd think they would have mentioned 2600 compatibility. That's probably why I bought a Jr. at the time, I sure would have ponied up the difference for a 7800 if I had known back then. Morgan

[DracIsBack]

Here's another:

 

 

http://

[DracIsBack]

And - from the first video game mag I ever bought ...

 

[Madaracs]

Does anyone else hear the announcer's voice in their head when they read these?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytcKOcre4yQ

[RJ]

Wasnt Ed Semrad a co-founder of EGM?

[eightbit]

I remember that Atari Safari article! I remember loving the Double Dragon screenshot

[littleman jack]

Thanks for the link.

I didn't realize that Target has been around that long.

I must have been spaced out. I lived near there in the 1980s.

I don't ever remember seeing a 7800 either until much later.

However, I do remember checking out the 5200s at Toys R Us.

[Madaracs]

Thanks for the link.

I didn't realize that Target has been around that long.

 

Target has been around since 1962. I was born and raised in Minneapolis (The first Target was in Roseville, MN) so to me there has never been a time they didn't exist! One of my first paying jobs was working for Target.

Edited September 20, 2010 by Madaracs

[Innovative Leisure]

Cool! It looks like Target used a 1984 Warner photo for the ad.