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Ataricade is home
to 18 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 Liberator,
Night Driver, Sprint 2, Kangaroo, Pole Position (I),
Crystal Castles, TX-1, Dig Dug, Space Lords, Thunder
Jaws, and Skydiver.
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.
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There are 2 versions of
Asteroids Deluxe posters: one with the high score table
(shown) and one without.
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This is a
rare P-o-P version of the Firefox poster. |
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This rarer
version of the Centipede poster depicts a
nude girl, who actually worked in the Human Resources department at
Atari in the early 1980's. |
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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 obtained from
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. |
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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). |
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