Old Video Game Ads
Nintendo once made games for other people’s systems. Like the Atari 2600.

Nintendo once made games for other people’s systems. Like the Atari 2600.

TV ad for the Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, a 1976 pong-type game system.

“The number one video game!”

Not really an ad, but it’s all I could find for the RCA Studio II. The article text is just about readable with good eyes.
The Studio II is often called the worst game console ever released. It was supported by RCA for only a year before being withdrawn.

Not really an ad, but it’s all I could find for the RCA Studio II. The article text is just about readable with good eyes.

The Studio II is often called the worst game console ever released. It was supported by RCA for only a year before being withdrawn.

An ad for the Atari VCS, later renamed 2600.

An ad for the Atari VCS, later renamed 2600.

vgjunk:

Atari advert.

vgjunk:

Atari advert.

Pretty cool this one, apart from the creepy people surrounded by blackness at the top.
(Found at Retroist.com)

Pretty cool this one, apart from the creepy people surrounded by blackness at the top.

(Found at Retroist.com)

“The keyboard is the key to greater challenge”, apparently.
Wikipedia page for the Odyssey2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey%C2%B2

“The keyboard is the key to greater challenge”, apparently.

Wikipedia page for the Odyssey2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey%C2%B2

Nintendo’s first home consoles were a series of systems called ‘Nintendo Color TV Game’. This is an ad for the second in the series, the Color TV Game 15.

Lots more interesting Japanese video game commercials on TurboDuo’s YouTube channel.