ATARIPITBULL Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 I love to collect ads for games made for the 2600 and today I found a good one. I was at a comic book store looking over old comics for Atari ads and I was starting to think I had them all when I found one on the back of an Issue of Iron Man #185, which shows a bathroom stall with graffiti all over it, but the graffiti is all about Parker bros games like Super Cobra, Frogge, Popeye and all the rest of there games and at the top of the door it says (For a vid time call 1-900-720-1234) and at the bottom of the page it says; Call our new video hotline. Get the word on Parker Brother's latest games @ 50 cents per call. I never knew that Parker Bros had a hotline and wonder if any of the other companys had such a thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Game Players used to have a hotline. They published Game Player Magazine, though, not games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranthulfr Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 Yeah, I just called the hotline and apparently they don't have any Atari 2600 games in development right now... bummer. But seriously, that was a pretty good ad. I've seen it before... but I want to say it was on the back cover of an old Spider-Man comic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranthulfr Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 Honestly though, it seems like the call should have been toll-free. I mean, weren't people basically calling to hear an ad for their games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupcakus Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 You obviously forget the 1-900 revolution of the mid 80's... EVERYTHING was 1-900... "Call and talk to Robocop $0.99 a minute!", "Call and hear a joke!", "Talk to New kids on the block!" And lets not forget Nintendo making their games so rediculously difficult to find stuff, that you had to either subscribe to Nintendo Power, or call their 1-900 number :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggger2 Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 The back cover of the light gray 1983 Parker Brothers Video Games catalog shows a picture of a phone and joystick. Below this picture is "1-800-VIDKIDS" and "Call us. We speak video." Apparently Parker Brothers was willing to pay for phone calls from people that had already purchased one of their games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Rescue Group Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 Last Saturday I went to a flea market and this really old guy was there with a big box full of old comic books. So I dove into it hoping to find some old Atari advertisements. Luckily I did as the comics were mostly from 1983 and 1984. He wanted $1 each for them (I wondered why because this guy won't live long enough to sell them all considering the shape they were in and the shape he looked like he was in--I figured he should best take what he could get for them in a hurry!) so I decided to go for books that had decent back covers with 2600 ads and i didn't want to burn the whole day. I found the Parker Brothers ad mentioned above and that is a good one! Here's a list of the other ads I ended up bringing home. Some were from the inside front, inside back, or back covers and others were printed on the comic page paper: Solar Fox, Popeye (2 pg), Kool-Aid Man, Star Wars return of the Jedi/Death Star Battle, G.I. Joe Cobra Strike, ads with coupons to get the Kool-Aid Man game, BurgerTime, Activision Decathlon, Montezuma's Revenge, Super Cobra, Q*Bert, Spiderman, M Network for its games, Battlezone, Bump'n'Jump, Mario Bros., Frogger II, a 2-page Atarisoft ad for games for other systems, Star Wars the Arcade Game, a 1 page Atarisoft ad, ads for the Columbia Video Game Club, James Bond 007, Tutankham, Masters of the Universe Adventures of He-Man, Parker Brothers ads for Frogger & Q*Bert for different systems, Riddle of the Sphinx, Moon Patrol, Joust, Reactor, and a M Netwok ad for both the Tron Deadly Discs and Adventures of Tron. There were also a few ads for Intellivision games and one for Power Lords for the Odyssey and CV. Also an ad to buy Pac-Man watches, and one to win free Atari 2600 games and consoles (and an Atari arcade machine) from the Revell model company. I discovered identical ads for the same month of issue for different comics from Marvel. I'll look for that old guy again this weekend. Hopefully he survived the week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krytol Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 I collected comics from 1982-1992 and still have the entire collection (about 2000 books). I just moved and have been digging through them. All those ads you guys have mentioned are there; it's great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 I sold my comic books and baseball cards two years ago to make a down payment on my condo and pay off the last of my student loans. They were just sitting in my parent's attic collecting dust anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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