Retronauts Micro 87: The History of Video Game Ads Part I

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Whether you like it or not, advertising is everywhere, and it's always been everywhere--which is why the jingle for some now-nonexistent product has likely obliterated some important memory in your brain. And video games, being a product that's sold for money, have never been a stranger to advertising. On this first part of a two-part series, join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, Matthew Jay, and Henry Gilbert as the crew explores the earliest days of video game ads, as well as the many baffling celebrity endorsements of the time. Mr. Intellivision would approve!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to a very special intro to a very special episode of Retrinauts
0:10.0	who is here with me today.
0:12.0	Henry Gilbert, hi.
0:13.0	I'm Ajay.
0:14.0	And these guys are on the content you're about here.
0:15.8	So what happened is folks, I am part of a concurrent weekly podcast and I'm also planning
0:21.3	a trip to Japan and I also have some freelancing on top of that and I'm trying to have friends
0:25.3	on top of that as well.
0:26.8	And because of all these things that are happening at once.
0:28.4	That's a very good idea.
0:29.4	I should be attacked online and docs possibly but because of all the things that are happening
0:34.2	in my life right now, I didn't have time to record a micro this week.
0:36.9	So what I'm going to be doing is I'm chopping an episode in half just like King Solomon
0:41.7	threatened to do to that baby in that book that people like.
0:44.4	You remember King Solomon Walt?
0:46.4	Yes, exactly.
0:47.4	King Solomon, you're a wimp.
0:48.9	I'm cutting this baby in half.
0:50.2	So what's going to happen is this month you're going to hear the first half of that episode.
0:54.6	It's all about the history of video game ads.
0:57.0	And the great part is the two halves can stand on their own as you know what they're presenting.
1:01.7	So we're going to go up until the 80s with this episode and the next episode will be the
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