How quaint.

It's funny to see an ad for a video game system that basically has to explain what it is, but that's just how it was in the dark ages of 1978.

I didn't get my Atari 2600 until a few years after this ad; I was only 4, after all. And yes, we had a black-and-white TV (in my parents' room). Do they even make those anymore?

And while technically true, claiming over 1,300 variations is a bit misleading, don't you think? It's not like all those different levels were completely different games.

Admittedly, the Pong version of Combat was my favorite because no matter where my brother positioned his tank, I'd always ricochet a shot and nail him. How many people played the invisible version of Combat? Yeah, that's what I thought.

I'll buy that for a dollar...

A while back I hit a thrift store with my dad, and I came across not one, but two copies of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band original movie soundtrack.

Hot diggety, I'm sure you're saying to yourself.

I still have some love for that movie despite it being horrible on par with Xanadu. And of course, I love that movie, too. I have no shame. Plus, I had the soundtrack (to both, actually), and I listened to it a lot.

I bought the better looking of the two albums (along with some other records -- they were a buck a piece), and when I looked inside, I found both records in their original sleeves, as well as the super-mega-radical poster.

Gaze upon my poster ye mighty and despair:


W00t!

Man, if I wasn't already married, I'm sure that poster would make all the women swoon for me. Well, that and the male pattern baldness.

Add to this my swanky Atari cartridge holder, purchased the same day:



Not bad for a day's work.