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Big Kids Playing Atari and Smoking Cigarettes, Circa 1980
Published October 8, 2012 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Atari 1 CommentSpace Mountain Commercial (1977)
Published October 7, 2012 Commercials , Disneyland , Tomorrowland Leave a Comment
According to the source, AdamConlea, this was taken from “an old video tape of 1977 prime-time TV (KNXT in Los Angeles).” It’s pretty sweet how the passengers get on the rocket car and plunge screaming into space until they’re swallowed by a nebula and disappear forever.
Best ride ever.
Toy Aisle Zen (1980)
Published October 5, 2012 Electronic Handhelds , Toy Stores/Toy Aisles/Toy Departments Leave a Comment
December 19, 1980. (John J. Sunderland/Denver Post)
The lads are ogling Tomy’s Atomic Arcade Pinball. See a demo below via Classic Game Room.
(Image source: Big Ole Photos)
And You Shall Know the Atari 400 by the Awkwardness of Its Keyboard
Published October 4, 2012 Atari , Personal Computers Leave a Comment
June 18, 1980. (Don Casper/Chicago Tribune)
“Listen up, geezers. Forget about buying this thing to help us with our homework. We don’t do homework. We’ll never do homework. Homework is totally lame. We just want to play games. Oh, and learn how to gamble.”
(Image source: Tribune Photo Archives)
Video Game Cabinet Art: Phoenix (1980)
Published October 3, 2012 Arcade Cabinets/Coin-Ops , Video Games Leave a Comment
(Image sources, from top to bottom: www.gameongrafix.com, www.centuri.net, www.gameongrafix.com, KLOV forums, www.centuri.net)
D&D Cover Art: The Lost City (1982)
Published October 2, 2012 D&D , D&D Art , D&D Modules , Jim Holloway Leave a Comment
Front cover art is by Jim Holloway. Back cover art is by H. Joseph Quinn.
You’ll find some interior art at A Paladin in Citadel, and you can read a review of the module itself (a classic, by all accounts) at Grognardia.
View the whole module here. Download it at dndclassics.com.
Original Presto Magix Display Case
Published September 28, 2012 Presto Magix/Dry Transfers 3 Comments
Yes, you remember. A few years ago I bought The Empire Strikes Back set and opened one. The transfers didn’t work, but that beautiful, distinctive scent was completely intact.
Anyway, Plaid Stallions bought this son of a gun, and it’s for sale. Email brick@plaidstallions.com if interested.
“Oh Tom, Lois and Ed will be here in 5 minutes, and I still have to take out the pot roast!”
Bad Trailers for Good Movies: Rocky (1976)
Published September 24, 2012 '70s Movies/TV , Movie Trailers Leave a CommentMy friend J. sent this to me because I didn’t believe trailers used to be this bad. Now I believe. Could the narrator sound any smarmier? “He’s the man who could be loved by only one woman, because somehow she gets beneath the pain.” Really? And all that dialogue in the beginning about Stallone (not Rocky, but Stallone) being sensitive and sexy?
I must find more of these…
(Video source: devjit11111111)
Computer Labs in the ’80s
Published September 22, 2012 Computer Labs , Personal Computers Leave a Comment
Both of these shots are from a Marquette University photo gallery.
The first one is circa 1984 and shows a journalism student working on an acid rain story. (Remember playing let’s-scream-as-if-the-rain-were-burning-our-skin-off on the playground?)
The second one shows the computer lab in 1988 with some original-line Macs. Dig that carpet.
2 Warps to Neptune 