{"id":153,"date":"2006-07-03T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2006-07-28T18:53:10","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T23:53:10","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-atari-club-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/153\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-atari-club-awesome","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span>  &#8220;The Atari Club.  Awesome!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atariclub_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atariclub_small.jpg\" alt=\"Atariclub Form\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">This form\/envelope combo was included in numerous Atari 2600 game boxes in the early 1980s.  If you sent Atari one whole dollar, you&#8217;d supposedly get a year&#8217;s subscription to &#8220;AtariAge&#8221; magazine, as well as &#8220;club benefits and privileges available nowhere else.&#8221;  Sounds like a  great deal to me (you pay them $1, and they get permission to send you pure marketing propaganda!).  But seriously, if I could subscribe to this today, I definitely would.  Then again, one 1982 dollar is roughly equivalent to, say, twenty 2006 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Ok, so I exaggerated a bit on the inflation thing.<\/p>\n<p>Did anybody out there ever send this form in and become a member?  Free free to share your memories and let us know how you exercised your Exclusive Atari Privileges.  Bonus points for flashing your membership card!<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image in a blog post, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This form\/envelope combo was included in numerous Atari 2600 game boxes in the early 1980s. If you sent Atari one whole dollar, you&#8217;d supposedly get a year&#8217;s subscription to &#8220;AtariAge&#8221; magazine, as well as &#8220;club benefits and privileges available nowhere else.&#8221; Sounds like a great deal to me (you pay them $1, and they get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}