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Activision's 1984 Catalogue Did Not Feature Call of Duty

By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001

Before the internet, before people even really cottoned onto the idea of games magazines, publishers had to sell things the old-fashioned yono all app way: with TV ads and catalogues. Most catalogues were simple affairs, yono all app all all yono rummy bright lights, screenshots and slogans, but sometimes publishers went a little left field. Like Activision did in 1984 when it basically commissioned an illustrated children’s story.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; y1 games latest cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); With its fancy prose and Yellow Submarine-esque imagery, it’s certainly a novel approach to selling video games. all yono rummy And hey, judging by the catalogue’s strength – featuring all-time classics like Pitfall and Ghostbusters – maybe they y1 games latest just figured the games would sell themselves, so the creative types could go nuts. Catalog – Activision [AtariAge, via Retroist]

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