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Followup Friday: 1981 Atari Ad

Sep 29, 2017 ·

No cartoon interpretations here, just a gorgeous rainbow stack of Atari game boxes in a beautifully designed print ad from 1981.  And an odd claim that Space Invaders “launched the space age game category”. Do they think Pong takes place on Earth?

1980s, design, news atari

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  1. Ross says

    September 29, 2017 at 1:12 pm

    Wasn’t Pong just a table-tennis simulator?

    • david says

      October 01, 2017 at 6:36 pm

      But on what planet? The ball doesn’t move that slowly on Earth! *applies tin foil hat*

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