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23 Retro Video Game Ads That Were More Exciting Than the Actual Game

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Let's not sugarcoat it - the graphics in the early days of gaming were, um… minimal. If you were playing on an Atari, ColecoVision, or Magnavox Odyssey, your character was basically five pixels and two colors, and that was on a good day. You'd be told, "See that blinking line? That's you. You're a brave intergalactic explorer." And you'd nod and go, "Yeah. Totally."So what do you do when your game looks like abstract cave art? You get marketing …
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Home broke the news in on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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