Leaf through an early edition of Nintendo Power or Electronic Gaming Monthly, and you’ll find your fair share of out-dated imagery. Here are 21 examples:
Gansito and Mario – together at last
Shades? Check. Popped collar? Check. Sega Vision magazine? Check.
These controllers are out of this world…
The Three Stooges article was riveting.
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Remember the days when you couldn’t just look up game help online?
Stan Lee is the man (lee).
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Not really game-related, but from an editorial of an early gaming mag.
An original article about 1983′s Videodrome, starring James Spader and Debbie Harry.
Madden wants you to go head-to-head with Gorf.
At one point, people still needed to be persuaded that they needed a computer.
Yes, we all make the mistake of playing with our joystick too much from time to time.
A 900 number kids are actually allowed to dial.
A screen grab from the NES game Hoops.
Yes, this image is bragging about the amazing innovation of up-and-down hyraulics!
You’re in control.
This and images below from the 1990 Nintendo Product Catalog
Most of these were found courtesy of Retromags – a site that has a vast library of complete video game magazines available for download. See more of the Nintendo Catalog images here.
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I had one of those NES beanbags, wish I still had it. Also as far as up-and-down hydraulics go there used to be one shaped as a piece of pizza at the mall by me. It takes a certain kind of kid to choose a slice of pizza to ride when there is a slick motorcycle and harrier copter by its side.
I did love my Radio Shack Tandy whatchamacallit. QBasic FTW!
Love the Videodrome article. I had a copy of it I ripped off the TV onto a VHS tape back in the day. I suppose that’s a bit of an interesting parallel…
BTW it’s James Woods, not James Spader.
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Has anyone read the descriptions on the nintendo magazine ads?
Just…just pointing that out, guys.
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james WOODS was in videodrome