Atari_Bill Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 (edited) I know not nearly as rare as so many of the incredible items in the thread, but I was happy to just acquire this. Promotional postcard for Robot Tank. Wish I had the actual poster to go with it! edit: looks like this one was already covered back on page 3. Still glad to get it! Edited December 10, 2021 by Atari_Bill 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAre Posted October 9, 2022 Author Share Posted October 9, 2022 Here's the Greatest American Hero t-shirt from Activision's StarMaster Challenge high-score contest. Only 1,200 of these shirts were made, awarded to the top 200 scorers in each of six age groups. And here we have Todd Rogers showing off his shirt at the 1983 Summer CES in Chicago, alongside the lovely Barbi Benton. Rogers stated that he was ranked 4th out of 40,000 contest entries. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machine Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 (edited) I found this on ETSY. Some people might not be aware that Activision released a Ghostbuster 2 game on the VCS. Edited October 10, 2022 by Machine 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAre Posted October 10, 2022 Author Share Posted October 10, 2022 On 10/18/2020 at 4:17 PM, Rom Hunter said: Does somebody have more information about (the rules of) this contest? Or the mentioned StarMaster jacket? Here's the poster: Notice the piece of Skylab attached to the front. Does someone have a better quality picture of that poster and piece? Would love to know more about this. It was not produced by Activision, that's for sure. Rom, earlier in this thread, you asked if anyone had any information on the rules of the StarMaster Space Shuttle Challenge contest. I was communicating with another AtariAge member, CVGA, and he was able to find some information about the contest online. It's from a Todd Rogers interview by Michael Thomasson found on the Good Deal Games website: http://www.gooddealgames.com/interviews/int_Todd_Rogers.html Thanks to CVGA for finding the interview. Here are the details: MT> Aerospace and videogames collide! How did you acquire a remnant of NASA's Skylab space station? TR> Activision was promoting another one of its famous contests; in this particular contest, you had to play Starmaster, then send in your score to qualify for what rank you made. I qualified on that contest to win a piece of NASA's SkyLab and a poster.The only down side of this contest was when the people that were running the contest, "Blair Co. of Nebraska", came out to my house, I had to play on their Atari gaming system with their Atari joysticks. Not that I was playing on anything other than standard Atari joysticks, but theirs were not broken in like mine. They were very stiff, and their Atari console was a newer one - one that I had never used before; they had a 4-switch back-side difficulty Atari. Mine was the original HEAVY 6'r, with all switches in front. This caused a BIG problem, so I thought for a moment, and then I had my game plan. I will play the game initially letting it start off as usual, not leading on to what I had in mind. So after I started the game, I would let it play by itself and do nothing. Just let the game end, and that is what I did. The Representative from the Blair Co. asked why I did that. I told him that I refused to play under their conditions, when there was absolutely NOTHING wrong or modified with my Atari console. I already have a piece of Skylab, so what more can there be to make me continue? This is why I didn't take first place in that contest; I was thoroughly disgusted. This also was one of two separate Starmaster contests that Activision had run. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe keil Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 My brother in law was one of the top two scorers for the contest and I went to California with him and my sister. I got the Tshit, mug and later was aimed a poster and a piece of Skylab. Sold it on ebay about 2 years ago. The jacket never came. But I meet some cool people including the cast of the Greatest American Hero 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 On 10/9/2022 at 1:33 AM, JayAre said: Here's the Greatest American Hero t-shirt from Activision's StarMaster Challenge high-score contest. Only 1,200 of these shirts were made, awarded to the top 200 scorers in each of six age groups. And here we have Todd Rogers showing off his shirt at the 1983 Summer CES in Chicago, alongside the lovely Barbi Benton. Rogers stated that he was ranked 4th out of 40,000 contest entries. Omg, that’s simply amazing! I didn’t know they had a tie in with that show. I’ve always thought that should have been released as a game back in the day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAre Posted October 11, 2022 Author Share Posted October 11, 2022 4 hours ago, Atari_Bill said: Omg, that’s simply amazing! I didn’t know they had a tie in with that show. I’ve always thought that should have been released as a game back in the day. Yeah, pretty interesting. The contest was detailed in this Special Edition of the Activisions newsletter. I wonder if the grand prize was actually awarded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 5 hours ago, JayAre said: Yeah, pretty interesting. The contest was detailed in this Special Edition of the Activisions newsletter. I wonder if the grand prize was actually awarded. That’s right! I have a copy of that but forgot all about it. I thought it seemed familiar for some reason. I’ll have to dig it out and read a little about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 15 hours ago, JayAre said: Rom, earlier in this thread, you asked if anyone had any information on the rules of the StarMaster Space Shuttle Challenge contest. I was communicating with another AtariAge member, CVGA, and he was able to find some information about the contest online. It's from a Todd Rogers interview by Michael Thomasson found on the Good Deal Games website: http://www.gooddealgames.com/interviews/int_Todd_Rogers.html Thanks to CVGA for finding the interview. Here are the details: MT> Aerospace and videogames collide! How did you acquire a remnant of NASA's Skylab space station? TR> Activision was promoting another one of its famous contests; in this particular contest, you had to play Starmaster, then send in your score to qualify for what rank you made. I qualified on that contest to win a piece of NASA's SkyLab and a poster.The only down side of this contest was when the people that were running the contest, "Blair Co. of Nebraska", came out to my house, I had to play on their Atari gaming system with their Atari joysticks. Not that I was playing on anything other than standard Atari joysticks, but theirs were not broken in like mine. They were very stiff, and their Atari console was a newer one - one that I had never used before; they had a 4-switch back-side difficulty Atari. Mine was the original HEAVY 6'r, with all switches in front. This caused a BIG problem, so I thought for a moment, and then I had my game plan. I will play the game initially letting it start off as usual, not leading on to what I had in mind. So after I started the game, I would let it play by itself and do nothing. Just let the game end, and that is what I did. The Representative from the Blair Co. asked why I did that. I told him that I refused to play under their conditions, when there was absolutely NOTHING wrong or modified with my Atari console. I already have a piece of Skylab, so what more can there be to make me continue? This is why I didn't take first place in that contest; I was thoroughly disgusted. This also was one of two separate Starmaster contests that Activision had run. Many thanks for the info, JayAre! Still a bit confused about why they called it the StarMaster Space Shuttle challenge, since it had nothing to do with the Space Shuttle or Space Shuttle game. The NASA Skylab poster with the tank re-entry debris attached to it was not released by Activision themselves. BTW: is there anyone who owns that StarMaster jacket? Was it ever released? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAre Posted December 20, 2022 Author Share Posted December 20, 2022 Here we have a crystal paperweight from Tiffany & Co. It's etched with the Activision logo and says "THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE"; it's dated 1983. I'm guessing Activision gave this to its employees as a gift or some kind of reward. In the second picture, the Tiffany logo can be seen at the top of the crystal. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogerpoco Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 10 minutes ago, JayAre said: Here we have a crystal paperweight from Tiffany & Co. It's etched with the Activision logo and says "THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE"; it's dated 1983. I'm guessing Activision gave this to its employees as a gift or some kind of reward. In the second picture, the Tiffany logo can be seen at the top of the crystal. Holy Crap, I will give you ten million dollars for that, if I can pay you on Tuesday... 🤣 That's pretty sweet, for sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 On 8/18/2020 at 7:24 PM, cvga said: I thought this thread was over but I found a couple of things that I thought people might like to see. Here's my collection of Activisions newsletters... Volume #3 Volume #4 I remember seeing these at my local game store (Video Hut in Seattle). I distinctly recall knowing that Chopper Command, Starmaster and Pitfall! would be coming out, and fully bought into the hype. Love going through this thread and seeing all of this stuff - most of it for the first time. Thanks to everyone posting in it! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 1 hour ago, JayAre said: Here we have a crystal paperweight from Tiffany & Co. It's etched with the Activision logo and says "THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE"; it's dated 1983. I'm guessing Activision gave this to its employees as a gift or some kind of reward. In the second picture, the Tiffany logo can be seen at the top of the crystal. Amazing! That’s an Activision treasure! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 That crystal is spectacular! An incredible find!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 On 12/20/2022 at 1:36 PM, JayAre said: Here we have a crystal paperweight from Tiffany & Co. It's etched with the Activision logo and says "THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE"; it's dated 1983. I'm guessing Activision gave this to its employees as a gift or some kind of reward. It may be some kind of long-service award. My former employer gave them for every five years of service; for 15 years I received a crystal statute of a polar bear. This paperweight looks really great, even without the connection to Activision. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.bill Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 On 12/20/2022 at 9:36 AM, JayAre said: Here we have a crystal paperweight from Tiffany & Co. It's etched with the Activision logo and says "THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE"; it's dated 1983. I'm guessing Activision gave this to its employees as a gift or some kind of reward. In the second picture, the Tiffany logo can be seen at the top of the crystal. It had been up on ebay for forever(more than a year). I was tempted to buy it, but if you searched it you could find it for sale on other sites off ebay. I dont know if all those other sites are still up and were just scams. You could also find the same crystal not engraved. I picked up a few items not activision related, but are atari rare.. I got this pen from chis crawford off here. My buddy had the case for it, so they are reunited picked up this centipede watch and tin. Also got them back together. I am looking for breakout watch and 2005 asteroids watch. these were all design team only items I think I posted the other rush items I have (maruqee, hats and a bag), added the jacket These area 51 items might have both been amoa, but the barrel might have been team only 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.bill Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 added a few more items this time some activision and some atari. with a little luck I hope to add more atari soon added some buttons and a centipede coin 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Brand New Official - Not vintage (got a couple crazy ones, nobody will probably ever see, for another time). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeatari1 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 On 2/5/2023 at 1:43 AM, mr.bill said: added a few more items this time some activision and some atari. with a little luck I hope to add more atari soon added some buttons and a centipede coin That Centipede coin is KILLER! I need to find one of them for my collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.bill Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 13 hours ago, joeatari1 said: That Centipede coin is KILLER! I need to find one of them for my collection. Call me crazy, but I think there would be a market for arcade coins like that or better.. I contacted new wave toys and suggested it to them I even sent some examples. I think a challenge coin size or maybe also make them into keychains would sell... I would think some creative type who might love a specific game might want to do the design one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.bill Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 13 hours ago, CPUWIZ said: Brand New Official - Not vintage (got a couple crazy ones, nobody will probably ever see, for another time). there are a ton of new items that are really cool. I am working on adding about a dozen vintage atari shirts and hopefully a pile of other atari memorabilia. I did get a few more items recently. I guess the blizzard stein is activision adjacent.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 😎 Custom made for Activision, internal tech division only, so extremely rare. My best friend is in charge over there and he jumped through hoops to get the rainbow on there! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machine Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 That Grand Prix needs to be turned into a metal you wear around your neck. Badass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.bill Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 21 hours ago, CPUWIZ said: 😎 Custom made for Activision, internal tech division only, so extremely rare. My best friend is in charge over there and he jumped through hoops to get the rainbow on there! very cool. I am just not sure what it is. does it keep specialty tools in it as well as keys? I assume the illumination is your lighting. Nice detail on the stripes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 Company is run by veterans, didn't want to advertise, unless asked for details. ✌️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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