{"id":527,"date":"2008-12-15T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2008-12-15T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T17:03:39","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-2600-newspaper-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/527\/retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-2600-newspaper-ad","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Atari 2600 Newspaper Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/2600_newspaper_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/2600_newspaper_small.jpg\" alt=\"Atari 2600 Advertisement in Newspaper - 1981\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Click to see the 2600 ad in context.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day: a vintage video game ad from a newspaper.  The subject in this case is the Atari 2600, and it appears in a &#8220;Howard BRANDiscount&#8221; advertisement from 1981.  It&#8217;s especially amusing to see the Atari 2600 marketed in this particular context, peddled among such diverse items as spray paint, pocket t-shirts, picture frames, and disposable diapers (click on the image above to see what I mean).<\/p>\n<p>Remember my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/494\" target=\"_blank\">grandmother&#8217;s cedar chest<\/a> I talked about in September?  Well, this is from the same chest, from a set of newspapers that my grandmother saved.  I scanned many things from those papers, so you&#8217;ll probably be seeing more examples of vintage newsprint ads in the future.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From The Oak Ridger &#8212;  Wednesday, January 21st, 1981 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What do you think this ad says about the state of the video game industry in 1981?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to see the 2600 ad in context. Now here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day: a vintage video game ad from a newspaper. The subject in this case is the Atari 2600, and it appears in a &#8220;Howard BRANDiscount&#8221; advertisement from 1981. It&#8217;s especially amusing to see the Atari 2600 marketed in this particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","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=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}