Hades Nebula ad for Commodore, Spectrum and Atari ST in the style of black and white comic panels

Killed Until Dead ad for Commodore, Spectrum and Amstrad, showing a shotgun, noose, poison bottle, knife, drugs and a pistol on top of a grey surface, with some screenshots from the game beneath and a small image of a detective holding a magnifying glass in the bottom right corner

The Tube ad for Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, showing a blue rectangular spacecraft firing lasers in space above the curve of a green, heavily cratered planet or moon

Thing Bounces Back ad for C64, Amstrad, Spectrum and MSX, featuring a picture of the green frog-like-headed and footed, spring bodied thing on a spring, which is the character you control, with various anotations pointing to it's various body parts and explaining what features they have

And some more from the same issue....

#OldVideoGameAds

#C64 #ZXSpectrum #Amstrad #AtariST #MSX #retrogaming

Kinetik ad for c64, Spectrum and Amstrad computers...showing two tower like structures with rounded edges, above a vast forest. A spherical ufo flyus over the top of the structures and at the back of the picture a rier can be seen with a curved pipe-style bridge crossing it as more forest stretches beyond.

Metrocross ad for Spectrum, Commodore, Atari ST and Amstrad computers, in which the image is tilted slightly to the left and showing a man in a red armoured suit, skating towards the camera along a blue and white tiled corridor with metal walls, with his right hand stretched out toward the camera. Some of the tiles are lifted, making them into small ramps, and a big red block has just been avoided by the skater to his left...

Oink! ad for the Commodore, Spectrum and Amstrad computers, showing Uncle Pigg, editor of Oink! comic and indeed, a pig, siting in his office chair playing a game on a computer that seems to feature the comic's superhero Rubbishman. There are screenshots at the bottom of the ad showing three mini-games....Pete's Pimple, which seems to be an arkanoid style game, Rubbish Man, which has you looking at the hero from a top down perspective as he navigates some corridors, and Tom Thug, another top down game where you flick between screens in Tom's Thug-Mobile

R.I.S.K. ad for the Commodore, which sees two one-seater plane-type spaceshipsfiring lasers at another red ship in the foreground which is a close up view of a helmeted and visored man sitting in said craft holding the steering wheel, as he trys to dodge the incoming laser fire

Have some more #OldVideoGameAds from C&VG, dated June 1987.

The games are Kinetik, Metrocross, Oink! and R.I.S.K.

#C64 #ZXSpectrum #Amstrad #AtariST #retrogaming

Barbarian - The Ultimate Warrior Stifflip and Co.

Jack the Nipper II - Jack in Coconut Capers

Star Games II - Including Highway Encounter, The Eidolon, Ballblazer, Avenger, Trailblazer, Knight Games

Tank (From SNK and Ocean)

Have some more #OldVideoGameAds

#retrogaming #ZXSpectrum

Ad for Moon Strike showing the surface of the moon with a battle bertween a spaceship and some rather odd enemies that seem to include old tv sets, rubber ducks, pizzas with faces and the Mona Lisa

Ad for Sidewize which shows a red and yellow suited astronaut fighting something that looks like a giant grey shrimp on a metallic spaceship-interior-like background

Trantor ad featuring the 80s Hair Band styled hero fighting off a slithering grey baddie with an oddly shaped flamethrower on an alien planet

An ad for the Tube, which sees a spaceship flying into a massive metal tube in space. An explosion can be seen seeming to come from further down the tube, exploding outwards

Have some more #OldVideoGameAds ...this time from an old issue of Crash from around 1987!

Moon Strike,
Sidewize,
Trantor,
and The Tube!

#ZXSpectrum #Retrogaming

Ad showing games from Lyversoft. Thunderhawk (ZX Spectrum) Voyager (Vic 20) Liberator (ZX Spectrum) Picture Puzzle (Dragon 32) Riddle of the Sphinx (Vic 20) Android Invaders (Dragon 32) Bird of Prey (Vic 20) Hopping Mad (Vic 20) Lunar Rescue (?)

Cartoony ad showing some games and business software from Tamsoft for the Oric 48k. Defence Force, Ultima Zone, Rat Splat, Author, Oric Calc and Oric Cad

Various games on various systems from Lothlorien. Realm of the Undead (ZX Spectrum) Hyperblaster (ZX Spectrum) Spooky Mansion (Atmos/Oric) Digger (Atmos/Oric) Choc A Bloc Charlie (Commodore 64) Confrontation - Scenarios Volume One (ZX Spectrum) Special Operations (ZX Spectrum) Johnny Reb (Dragon/Tandy/Spectrum)

Various games for the Vic 20 from Enigma. Armadillo, Track Trials, The Game, Gunman, Gobbler, Pontoon/Three Card Brag, One Armed Bandit, Lupin, Towerman and Ski Run

Some properly Retro Video Game Ads from the pages of TV Gamer, dated September 1984

#OldVideoGameAds #retrogaming #ZXSpectrum #Vic20 #Dragon32 #Commodore64 #Oric

Heroes of Mana ad showing the heroes of the game standing with weapons drawn in front of various scenery and airships in the backgeound

Kane and Lynch Dead Men ad showing images of Kane and Lynch and some scenes from the game laid out in a double-gun motif

Mass Effect ad showing Shepherd looking up to the starry sky and seeing SOS messages and ‘signal lost’ points in the sky… its all a bit odd really

Haze ad showing a yellow armoured hero of the game with a fake tear in the ad showing a differentt scene of battle and his unhelmeted face within the tear

Some slightly newer #OldVideoGameAds this time around.... this lot are from 2007!

#retrogaming #GamersUnite

Advert for V, showing one of the ripped-fake-faced aliens in their proper reptilian form!

Chase HQ ad, with the definitely-not-influenced-by-miami-vice artwork

Advert for Ragnarok, showing a skull with a horned helmet and several screens from the game

Advert for Castle warrior showing a barely armoured warrior attacking a dragon with a spear

More #OldVideoGameAds ?

Okay then…

#retrogaming #ZXSpectrum #C64 #amstrad #AtariST #Amiga

Salamander ad, showing a giant space snake on a starry background

Dream Warrior ad, that is colourful if a bit confusing.. what I first thought was two big green hands with purple claws holding some screenshots instead seems to be two space snakes with teeth and the claws are spiky face protuberances

Desolator ad showing a spiky-gloved fist smashing through from the other side of an arched door

Gladiator ad, which is in the style of a comic book, showing a gladiator fighting and winning a battle to be rewarded by his freedom

Here’s some more #OldVideoGameAds

#retrogaming #zxspectrum #C64 #Amstrad #AtariST

Madballs ad

Enlightenment-Druid 2 ad

Werewolves of London ad

Road Wars ad

Here’s some more #OldVideoGameAds for you..

#retrogaming #GamersUnite #videogameads #ZXSpectrum #C64 #Amstrad #Commodore #Amiga #Atari #AtariST

Aliens Ate my Babysitter Ad, showing a kid with a blaster and a helmet standing in front of an alien cityscape with some planets in the horizon behind him and a one-eyes green alien in the distance, which another (or the same kid, as they look exactly the same) is firing a laser gun at…

Bethesda ad showing a huge Terminator skull with glowing red eyes as the entire ad

Might and Magic ad that shows a skeletal wizard standing in front of a green dragon which has kind of wrapped itself behind him with its front legs going between the wizards arms

Spaceward Ho ad showing a cowboy, who has lassoed a planet while riding a space rocket that looks like a shark

Have some more #OldVideogameAds ...

#retrogaming #videogameads #PC #DOSGaming

Catch 23 ad showing a futuristic soldier standing with a gun in front of a battle scene where soldiers, tanks and planes are all fighting. Oh and there’s a dog in the bottom right corner that looks a but pissed off too.

An ad for The Final Matrix A spaceship floating through space, which resembles R2-D2 if he got drunk, got resprayed black and green and toppled over on his front…

An ad for Pirates! Pirate ships on the sea

Defenders of the Crown ad On the left of the ad, an armoured knight is grabbing a scantily-clad maiden onto his horse as a hero on the right tries to smack him with a sword as he chases after him on his own horse. A castle can be seen in the background

Going to be randomly posting old posts from Twitter so I can ignore it fully…

First up, some of the #OldVideogameAds that I shared..

#retrogaming #ZXSpectrum #C64 #Amstrad #Amiga #pcgaming