2600 commercials for download?

[Mindfield]

There is a guy in Denmark that has a web site and he is selling a cd with 50 Atari commercials on it in Jpeg format, for about $10.00 U.S and I was thinking of buying one to see if its any good, I will let you know if it works out.

 

   

 

That's www.tvspil.dk, which I mentioned above. All of the videos on the CD he sells are also streamed on his site. I'm in the process of downloading them. :-) (Lots I don't have, some are better quality there than what I have)

[King Atari]

Dude, thanks for the 7800 commercials. I especially like the more games one, there are games that were never released advertised, like GATO. My old one was the revised version.

 

Would you be able to perhaps put up those Mario & ET commercials, if you have them? And maybe some 5200 ones?

 

The Mario and E.T. Christmas ads are linked above, but here's an extra:

 

E.T.: The Shed (3.9mb MPG)

 

I had to remove the 7800 ads to get enough server space to post this. (I'm using my ISP webspace for this. One of these days I'll get around to setting my own server back up)

 

I know, but those are quicktime, I need WMP. But, thanks for the E.T. Commercial, I've had that on KazzaLite as "More Sources Needed" for almost a week now. Pretty cool, looks like they took more time on the commercials than the game. Anyways, if you happen to have the Mario or E.T. Christmas commercials and you could send them to me via email, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Mindfield]

No, sorry, only have 'em as MOV files. I haven't been able to find them in any other format. They could be converted to MPG though -- been a while since I had to do that, though, and I'm not entirely sure how I went about it. (I think it involved Adobe Premiere)

[Mendon]

I thought it was interesting, also that, the "Only One Atari: Pac Man" commercial used the Pac Man Fever song in it.

 

Mendon

[atari_wizard]

haven't noticed that yet. thanx for pointing that out. i should be getting some commercials soon, so i will check it out then.

[Cap5750]

Yep....it was you.

 

I also remember Albert saying we could create an archive here if we got permission from the author. I e-mailed the guy at Activision and never got a response though.

 

Cap

 

I was gonna say that some guy named Mindfield flooded the newsgroups with a bunch of ads around a year ago or so. I believe I have them all still. I don't remember what format they were all in, but I believe the majority were divx or mpeg which would play in WMP just fine.

 

Cap

 

That would have been me. :-) I think I only ever did that the once, but I think I managed to post the entire gig-plus I had at the time (over a period of a few days I think due to my server's limitations.)

 

Course I've since switched providers, and their Usenet support falls just short of "What do you mean binaries?"

[King Atari]

No, sorry, only have 'em as MOV files.  I haven't been able to find them in any other format.  They could be converted to MPG though -- been a while since I had to do that, though, and I'm not entirely sure how I went about it.  (I think it involved Adobe Premiere)

 

No problem, and I can't thank you enough for the ads you've posted. Good stuff, for sure. I think the ET Christmas spot has been floating around Kazza, but haven't seen it for awhile.

[atari_wizard]

really? i can never find crap on kazaa or imesh.

[King Atari]

I always put in "atari", set on a only video search. Sometimes you get lucky with the commercials, many times not.

[Cap5750]

Just sent this to Atari privately, but then decided to go ahead and post it here.

 

As I said, I believe I got all of these from Minefield's post in August of 2002. Might be nice if we could pursue something to get them all (from everyone) in one nice place.

 

I also have the commericials from the Anthology CD, but as I indicated before could not get Activision to respond to my e-mail for permission to post them.

 

Oh yeah...aside from the fact, that there's some non-atari commercials in this list, there's also the humor_pong there. I'm too lazy to clean it up I guess.

 

Cap

 

10,943,716 7up_pac-man.mpg

1,685,504 Atari - Home Pong - Come Home, Doreen (May 10 1976).avi

1,788,928 Atari - Super Pong - I Wanted It (Nov. 21 1976).avi

11,499,152 Atari - Tempest 2000 PC.mpg

5,987,092 Atari - Warner Prism Ad.mov

931,840 Atari 2600 & 5200 - Dig Dug.avi

978,018 Atari 2600 & 5200 - Mario Bros. (QT3).mov

1,071,104 Atari 2600 - 20th Century Fox - Turmoil.avi

934,721 Atari 2600 - Activision - Chopper Command (QT3).mov

981,648 Atari 2600 - Activision - Don't Miss Pitfall (QT3).mov

973,644 Atari 2600 - Activision - Megamania (QT3).mov

805,108 Atari 2600 - Activision - Phil Hartman - Ice Hockey (QT3).mov

929,374 Atari 2600 - Billy Martin - Realsports Baseball (QT3).mov

560,445 Atari 2600 - Data Age - Journey Escape.ram

994,035 Atari 2600 - Dear Atari Anonymous (QT3).mov

3,901,324 Atari 2600 - E.T. - The Shed (TV Version) [bD].mpg

1,910,367 Atari 2600 - E.T. Christmas (QT3).mov

3,083,318 Atari 2600 - Have You Played Atari Today.mov

991,719 Atari 2600 - Imagic - Atlantis (QT3).mov

986,054 Atari 2600 - Imagic - Demon Attack (QT3).mov

2,387,456 Atari 2600 - M-Network - Cure for the Video Blues.avi

991,986 Atari 2600 - Ms. Pac Man (QT3).mov

992,256 Atari 2600 - No Hit Records.avi

977,878 Atari 2600 - Only Atari (QT3).mov

12,140,544 Atari 2600 - Pole Position (90 Second Spot) (High Quality DiVX 4).avi

4,130,816 Atari 2600 - Pole Position (90 Second Spot).avi

1,074,688 Atari 2600 - Some Assembly Required.avi

956,416 Atari 2600 - Star Raiders & Berzerk.avi

837,632 Atari 2600 - Star Raiders.avi

21,215,796 Atari 2600 - The Fly (High Quality).mpg

3,280,384 Atari 2600 - The Fly.avi

1,857,024 Atari 2600 - The Fun is Back.avi

6,521,144 Atari 2600 - The Night Before Christmas.mpg

1,008,379 Atari 2600 - Vanguard - Who Destroys the Gond (QT3).mov

2,968,825 Atari 2600 - Yar's Revenge.mov

3,021,654 Atari 400 - Language Tutor & Missile Command.mov

3,127,805 Atari 400 - Market Analysis.mov

2,313,216 Atari 5200 - 2600 Adapter (Large).avi

8,132,608 Atari 5200 - Centipede (1984) (MTV Spot) (Alternate High Quality Mono DiVX 4).avi

9,900,244 Atari 5200 - Centipede (1984) (MTV Spot) (High Quality Stereo).mpg

8,054,784 Atari 5200 - Club Centipede (MTV Spot) (High Quality DiVX 4).avi

2,914,816 Atari 5200 - Club Centipede (MTV Spot).avi

1,781,760 Atari 5200 - Coming Soon 1 (Large).avi

1,826,304 Atari 5200 - Coming Soon 2 (Large).avi

18,444,708 Atari 5200 - Joust (1983) (MTV Spot) (High Quality DiVX 4).avi

1,807,360 Atari 5200 - Lock Up the Deal (Large).avi

1,564,672 Atari 5200 - Not On Colecovision (Large).avi

1,981,440 Atari 5200 - Pause Button (Large).avi

2,007,040 Atari 5200 - Show Him Pac Man (Large).avi

1,346,048 Atari 5200 - The New Supersystem (Large).avi

1,491,640 Atari 7800 - Laboratory.avi

960,515 Atari 7800 - More Games (QT3).mov

1,494,016 Atari 7800 - More Games.avi

5,454,428 Atari Jaguar - Alien vs. Predator.mpg

5,656,616 Atari Jaguar - Bill Clinton.mpg

5,624,080 Atari Jaguar - Blow Up Doll.mpg

3,378,681 Atari Jaguar - Evolution.mov

1,331,200 Atari Jaguar - First Commercial - Get Bit by Jaguar (Nov. 6 1993) (Small).avi

5,212,212 Atari Jaguar - Gorilla Shag.mpg

4,550,392 Atari Jaguar - Jaguar CD.mpg

4,951,404 Atari Jaguar - Knife Thrower.mpg

5,426,540 Atari Jaguar - Marketing 101.mpg

5,540,416 Atari Jaguar - Stimulous Response (High Quality).mpg

1,062,912 Atari Lynx - Bathroom.avi

611,328 Atari Lynx - ComLynx.avi

720,896 Atari Lynx - Sound Quality.avi

446,464 Atari Lynx - Twice the Speed.avi

1,491,968 Atari PC - Centipede (30 Second Spot).avi

2,769,920 Atari PC - Centipede (60 Second Spot).avi

1,062,912 Atari PC - Centipede Exterminator.avi

668,672 Atari PC - Frogger (15 Second Spot).avi

1,866,752 Atari PC - Frogger (30 Second Spot).avi

1,180,672 Atari PC - Q-Bert (30 Second Spot).avi

1,832,960 Atari PC - The New Pong.avi

1,168,896 Atari PC - The Next Tetris.avi

828,416 Atari ST - 1040ST vs. Macintosh Plus.avi

913,408 Atari ST - Business is War.avi

863,744 Atari ST - Expensive Attachments.avi

1,415,680 Atari ST - Marketing Company.avi

832,000 Atari ST - Mega 2 ST vs. Macintosh SE.avi

1,196,544 Atari ST - Mr. Cool (Australia).avi

1,040,384 Atari ST - Power Without the Price.avi

940,313 Atari XE - 65XE Computer (QT3).mov

1,971,712 Atari XL - Alan Alda - Like a Kid.avi

962,048 Atari XL - Alan Alda - Stopwatch.avi

8,132,608 atari_centipede_dvix401.avi

8,054,784 atari_club_centipede_dvix401b.avi

18,782,208 atari_joust_dvix401b.avi

5,668,236 C64AskTheComputers.mpg

5,640,348 C64Australia1985.mpg

2,193,856 C64ElephantsShort.mpg

5,633,376 C64FamilyPackAustralia1983.mpg

2,240,336 C64FourAtariShort.mpg

2,179,912 C64GreenAppleShort.mpg

982,572 Coleco - Smurf - Too Exciting (QT3).mov

934,053 Coleco Adam - Schoolwork (QT3).mov

975,538 Colecovision - Arcade Experience (QT3).mov

973,939 Colecovision - Free Cabbage Patch Kid (QT3).mov

2,165,968 Commodore 64 - American Express (10 Second Spot).mpg

5,654,292 Commodore 64 - American Express (30 Second Spot).mpg

561,609 humor_pong.exe

1,862,103 Mattel - Burgertime.mov

1,001,267 Mattel Intellivision - $50 Rebate (QT3).mov

987,788 Mattel Intellivision - Comparisons (QT3).mov

996,557 Mattel Intellivision - Intellivoice (QT3).mov

2,338,816 mcdonalds_atari.avi

4,505,604 Sega - Sonic 3.mpeg

2,457,604 Sega - Sonic Mania Day.mpeg

2,330,628 Sega - Sonic Spinball.mpeg

2,179,912 Vic20CollegeShort.mpg

5,584,572 Vic20Controls.mpg

5,626,404 Vic20Goldfish.mpg

5,626,404 Vic20JobInterview.mpg

2,152,024 Vic20NeighbourhoodShort.mpg

5,640,348 Vic20PingPong.mpg

5,626,404 Vic20PingPong2.mpg

2,077,656 Vic20RealComputersShort.mpg

5,598,516 Vic20SomedayCollege.mpg

5,754,224 Vic20SomedayJob.mpg

[Cap5750]

Update: I've managed to convert a quicktime file to WMP 9. The filesize increased to almost 2.5 MB.

 

Cap

[atari_wizard]

Update: I've managed to convert a quicktime file to WMP 9. The filesize increased to almost 2.5 MB.

 

Cap

 

you have a bunch of commercials. i hope activision responds soon.

[Cap5750]

I bet there are others with way more.

 

As for Activision, I wouldn't hold my breath. I sent that note so long ago, I'd forgotten about it until I saw this thread the other day.

 

Cap

[Mindfield]

Yeah, that looks pretty much like what I posted -- though my entire collection is considerably larger than that. (It appears I didn't post most of the Sega stuff, nor any of the other company-specific ads or other platforms besides pre-NES)

 

I do recall posting all the Segata Sanshirou ads once way back when someone requested them on one of the newsgroups, though.

 

I'd set up my FTP server again but my upstream speed on my current ISP is pretty laughable (15k/sec) and I've taken to shutting my machine off at night the past few days because the weather here has been so unseasonably hot and humid that it's literally been causing my machine to overheat, seemingly in defiance of the four case fans (2 intake, 2 exhaust), one CPU fan and one VGA fan (an Iceberq no less) doing their best to keep things cool. I'm currently pointing a desk fan at the side of my open case 'til things cool down a bit here.

 

Maybe atari_wizard can share when he gets the CDs I sent him. :-)

[Max-T]

Sorry if someone has already posted this link, but I recently saw a couple of Atari commercial downloads at x-entertainment.com.

 

That site has a whole downloads section devoted to classic '80s commercials. But I recently saw an ad for "Cosmic Ark" on their site that I had never seen before.

 

Anyone who hasn't checked out x-entertainment.com and loves the '80s should do so. They have Transformers ads, Lazer-Tag ads, anything and everything you can remember from the '80s. It's awesome.

 

Happy hunting!

[Atariforce]

Hi,

I have ripped all those Activision commercials from the Activision antology PS2 CD, and added them to my website a long time ago, try this link:

 

http://atariforce.free.fr/vid_uk.htm

 

Also, try those links, good surprises await :

 

http://retrogamer.merseyworld.com/videos/videos.htm

http://www.orphanvideogames.com/video_game...commercials.htm

http://www.majkel.mds.pl/html/reklama/indexUKG2.htm (search for 'Atari'; there is one rare Lynx commercial)

http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/video/video.htm (some vids about Atari during the Tramiel era)

http://www.cyberroach.com/ (lots of jaguar commercials, also 'The Fly', 'Centipede' and 'Pole Position' commercials)

[Mendon]

 

http://www.orphanvideogames.com/video_game...commercials.htm

 

Thanks for the links!! Found the one above very interesting as this was the first Odyssey2 game commercial I recall ever seeing. I remember some for the system but never any promoting a particular game.

 

Mendon

[atari_wizard]

great link. thanx!

[atari_wizard]

Yeah, that looks pretty much like what I posted -- though my entire collection is considerably larger than that.  (It appears I didn't post most of the Sega stuff, nor any of the other company-specific ads or other platforms besides pre-NES)

 

I do recall posting all the Segata Sanshirou ads once way back when someone requested them on one of the newsgroups, though.

 

I'd set up my FTP server again but my upstream speed on my current ISP is pretty laughable (15k/sec) and I've taken to shutting my machine off at night the past few days because the weather here has been so unseasonably hot and humid that it's literally been causing my machine to overheat, seemingly in defiance of the four case fans (2 intake, 2 exhaust), one CPU fan and one VGA fan (an Iceberq no less) doing their best to keep things cool.  I'm currently pointing a desk fan at the side of my open case 'til things cool down a bit here.

 

Maybe atari_wizard can share when he gets the CDs I sent him.  :-)

 

I'll see what i can do.

[King Atari]

Speaking of getting streaming videos onto your computer, how would you go about doing that? I swear, Super Hero Foods is the only place with the original Batman Diet Coke Commercial, and I'd really love to have it, it's probably my favorite commercial of all time, but it's for streaming only. I know it's realplayer, but at this point, I just want it to burn onto a CD (I'm doing 2 CDs, one WMP, one realplayer. I've got so many realplayer videos, including some great Letterman ones, that it would be impossible to find them in any other format). If anyone could help me out here, I'll gladly look through my "archives" (which consists of far more than just video games, there's figures and food, as well) for anything they may be looking for. Here's the link:

 

http://www.geocities.com/superherofood/Bat...anDietCoke.html

 

Please, I'm begging for help here. If I can't get it this way, I'll just have to bust out my ancient VHS copy with the commercial before the film, and point the Sony Mavica at it (which I did with the Batman Returns Diet Coke Commercial I found on an old tape. Yes, I do this kind of crap all of the time. Anyone interested in some Yakov Smirnoff ABC Fun Facts? ). Big thanks in advance.

[atari_wizard]

Speaking of getting streaming videos onto your computer, how would you go about doing that? I swear, Super Hero Foods is the only place with the original Batman Diet Coke Commercial, and I'd really love to have it, it's probably my favorite commercial of all time, but it's for streaming only. I know it's realplayer, but at this point, I just want it to burn onto a CD (I'm doing 2 CDs, one WMP, one realplayer. I've got so many realplayer videos, including some great Letterman ones, that it would be impossible to find them in any other format). If anyone could help me out here, I'll gladly look through my "archives" (which consists of far more than just video games, there's figures and food, as well) for anything they may be looking for. Here's the link:

 

http://www.geocities.com/superherofood/Bat...anDietCoke.html

 

Please, I'm begging for help here. If I can't get it this way, I'll just have to bust out my ancient VHS copy with the commercial before the film, and point the Sony Mavica at it (which I did with the Batman Returns Diet Coke Commercial I found on an old tape. Yes, I do this kind of crap all of the time. Anyone interested in some Yakov Smirnoff ABC Fun Facts? ). Big thanks in advance.

 

 

try downloading the WMR80. windows media recorder 80. you can record streamed vids onto your harddrive. the file will be .asf though. i guess it is better than nothing. good luck on it.

[King Atari]

Do you mean Windows Media Encoder? I don't see recorder, but I do see encoder.

[King Atari]

Oh geez, I found it, but they want me to pay for it, and that's out of the question (mainly because I have no spare money). Is there someone here who does have it, or some other way of grabbing the commercial?

[Mindfield]

Oh geez, I found it, but they want me to pay for it, and that's out of the question (mainly because I have no spare money). Is there someone here who does have it, or some other way of grabbing the commercial?

 

You can download the WMRecorder 9.1 demo. It allows you to record up to 2 minutes of video per session. (After 2 minutes you have to quit and reload the app)

 

A bit annoying but plenty good enough to rip streaming commercials.

[Mindfield]

Oh, by "2 minutes" I mean total record time across however many ads you can rip in that limit -- so about 4 30-second ads before you have to reload. It records in ASF format but the quality is pretty decent.