dykesr Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Okay i really want to know about this Promo in 1982. http://archives.atarimuseum.com/archives/m...alds_atari.html I would really want to buy some of those game pieces, and did any of you play this back in the 80's and did any of you win. RD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMika Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I had a ton of those game pieces at my parents house. It was my favorite promotion at McDonalds. I wanted the Centipede arcade game soooooo bad. Unfortunately I didn't win anything significant. It's really cool to see the game pieces again. I am sure I still have them somewhere. I kept them in one of those sticker binders with my puffy Hulk stickers an Empire Strikes Back alphabet stickers. Yes, I was a loser. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Player Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I played that game back then. I won some free burgers. Of course I really wanted to win the arcade games or the Atari computer. I already had a VCS. Speaking of which, it's funny how I've finally gotten used to calling it a 2600. It was always a VCS to me back then. Of course the greatest McDonald's promotion of all time was the 1984 Olympics contest. You won free food based on how well the USA did in the event on the scratch off card. A gold medal got you a free burger, silver got you fries and for bronze you got a drink. Thanks to Jimmy Carter's boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the Soviets boycotted the LA Olympics in 1984. So the USA ending up winning all sorts of events they had no business winning, such as Greco-Roman Wresting (I wrestled in high school and I still don't understand what the hell is going on in this event.) McDonalds had printed up tons of cards with these types of events. I got so damn much free food, I ended up throwing out a ton of winning tickets. Those were great times when you were 14, got no allowance and the closed McDonalds was less than a mile away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Slocum Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I used to go to my dad's work and use a laser to see through the pieces and know which one's to scratch off to win. -paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 My aunt won a 2600 in that contest back in the day. I think all we won was food. Best Mc Donalds contest ever though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 (edited) I have two of them, but I'm not going to sell them. You can see them on this page: http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-me...ou-deserve.html They are as close to life-size as I could get them. I'm glad you posted that Atari Museum link. I've been to the site before, but I don't remember ever seeing that page. I'll put that link on my web site. Edited May 9, 2007 by Random Terrain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Holy crap! :o I had completely forgotten about this until I saw those scratch-off cards! Just when I thought all of the old memories had already been unearthed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 dykesr, I couldn't find a way to add that link to my page without messing things up too much, so I put it here under August 1982: http://www.randomterrain.com/a2m/history1982.html Thanks again for posting that link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniperCCJVQ Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I used to go to my dad's work and use a laser to see through the pieces and know which one's to scratch off to win. -paul Hehe! I never heard about that tactic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Sigma Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Painful memory for me for two reasons. 1) I never won ANYTHING!!! on these. Not even free food! I'd always get one of those freaking "ZAP" spaces on the 2nd or 3rd try. 2) That being said, I didn't save ANY of the game pieces. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Damn, I saw the title and was thinking that McDonalds was doing some type of NEW promotion with Atari! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Player Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 No, McDonald's new promotion is a free Super Size Me DVD with purchase of ten Big Macs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Man, I really want to see that commercial! But the link is broken... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 No, McDonald's new promotion is a free Super Size Me DVD with purchase of ten Big Macs. LOL, I still need to go see that, it's playing at the theater I saw (and waited in a long line for--at 10:30pm on Tuesday!) Fahrenheit 9/11 last night. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I had a chance of winning a bid on ebay for a mint shape McDonalds Atari 2600 contest store display, but I got out bid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dykesr Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 oh many i would have bid so much for that McDonalds display i would have gone bankrupt trying to get it. It is really wierd i am so facinated with this promo i have never been so excited aobut somehting . RD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxglove9 Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Damn, I saw the title and was thinking that McDonalds was doing some type of NEW promotion with Atari! I was thinking the same thing. But about those scratch-ems. I don't remember those at all. But I do remember the other scratch cards like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, NES, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooterb23 Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 You could also hold these up to a very bright light, and see through the silver spots. I remember this quite well, I won a lot of food. Never won any games though This contest could very well explain why I'm so overweight today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebue Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Of course the greatest McDonald's promotion of all time was the 1984 Olympics contest. You won free food based on how well the USA did in the event on the scratch off card. A gold medal got you a free burger, silver got you fries and for bronze you got a drink. Thanks to Jimmy Carter's boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the Soviets boycotted the LA Olympics in 1984. So the USA ending up winning all sorts of events they had no business winning, such as Greco-Roman Wresting (I wrestled in high school and I still don't understand what the hell is going on in this event.) McDonalds had printed up tons of cards with these types of events. I got so damn much free food, I ended up throwing out a ton of winning tickets. Those were great times when you were 14, got no allowance and the closed McDonalds was less than a mile away. That same thing happened on the Simpsons. Quite funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Man, I really want to see that commercial! But the link is broken... Refresh the page, the link is fixed.... Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Man, I really want to see that commercial! But the link is broken... Refresh the page, the link is fixed.... Cool! Thanks for getting it back in working order so quickly. I love Atari related commercials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dykesr Posted July 2, 2004 Author Share Posted July 2, 2004 So does anybody still have any of the prizes that they won from this contest minus the food of course. RD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 So does anybody still have any of the prizes that they won from this contest minus the food of course. RD I never won anything cool, but I did know someone who did. At the time, I lived in Franklin County near Roanoke, Virginia and a Farmer that my cousin worked for (and I worked for once or twice) won an Atari 2600. The guy was semi-rich and didn't really need it because he could go out and buy 20 of them if he wanted to, but that's the way things always seem to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogueleader Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 So does anybody still have any of the prizes that they won from this contest minus the food of course. RD I never won anything cool, but I did know someone who did. At the time, I lived in Franklin County near Roanoke, Virginia and a Farmer that my cousin worked for (and I worked for once or twice) won an Atari 2600. The guy was semi-rich and didn't really need it because he could go out and buy 20 of them if he wanted to, but that's the way things always seem to go. Cool I live in Roanoke, VA. Are you still in the area? I had a friend win a years worth of happy meals on the disney trivia promtoion. (but he was like 18 and didn't have any kids) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogueleader Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 What kind of lazer? How does that work? Burger King is doing that new Spidey Sense game where you have to pick the right one could be usefull information! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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