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Ataricade is home to 13 Atari coin-op video game posters. Atari only produced posters for specific coin-op video game titles (i.e. there was not a poster made for each game). Other coin-op video game posters that were in the collection at one point or that are known to exist are I, Robot, Firefox, Liberator, Night Driver, Sprint 2, Kangaroo, Missile Command, Pole Position, Crystal Castles, TX-1, Dig Dug, Space Lords, Thunder Jaws, Skydiver and a production side art version of Centipede.

Posters for Atari pinball machines (e.g. Airborne Avengers and Middle Earth) and Atari 2600 console titles, such as Yar's Revenge and Haunted House, were also produced. Popular titles such as Tempest, Asteroids, Warlords, and Centipede (and probably others) had posters produced as both a coin-op version and a 2600 version. The 2600 version posters were made in a "cut-out" unique shape style, while the coin-op versions all were produced traditionally rectangular.

 

 

SPACE DUEL

 
 
 

 

BATTLEZONE

 
 
 

 

RED BARON

 
 
 

 

WARLORDS

 
 
 

 

ASTEROIDS DELUXE

There are 2 versions of Asteroids Deluxe posters: one with the high score table (shown) and one without.

 
 
 

 

TEMPEST

 
 
 

 

GRAVITAR

 
 
 

 

CENTIPEDE

There are 2 versions of Centipede posters: one with a nude girl (shown) and one that depicts production Centipede side art.  An ex-Atari engineering employee told me that the girl in this poster worked in the Human Resources department at Atari in the early 1980's.

 
 
 

 

MILLIPEDE

 
 
 

 

MAJOR HAVOC

This poster is #1 of 7 that were made and it is signed by the artist from the graphics department who created it, Brian Ballisteri.  This artwork was for a Major Havoc sell sheet which didn't end up getting produced, so the graphics department produced 7 posters which were given to each member of the Major Havoc project team.  The person in the photo is one of the artists from the graphic team.  All this information was given to me by Major Havoc creator, Owen Rubin.  Owen also said that he was in a photo like this too but his picture didn't end up getting used.

 
 
 

 

STAR WARS

An original Star Wars poster like this one was scanned at some point and the file is on the internet, so it's been reproduced in many different sizes and on many different materials.  Some colors on the reproductions I've seen differ then those on the originals (e.g. blues on the original look more like purples on the repros).

 
 
 

 

POLE POSITION II

 

 

 

 

20TH ANNIVERSARY

 

 


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