30 Years, 30 Ads.
In honor of the 30-somethingish anniversary of the Atari 2600 (well, in a couple months) we’ve decided to gather all our favorite old ads together in one convenient place. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll beat yourself unconscious with a brick trying to knock all the stupid jingles out of your head. No, it’s not timely, but this crap is timeless.
This feature is dedicated to the memory of those people who share a birthday with the system and have been tragically struck down by the sudden feeling of being very, very old.
Despite what you might initially think, this ad is not some kind of oddity. If anything it’s most frequent type of Atari advertisement we’ll encounter here. Over the course of half a decade we’ll repeatedly revisit the theme of Atari turning normal families into screaming goddamn dingdongs.