Classic Ads: Centipede

Centipede is a vertically-oriented shoot ‘em up arcade game produced by Atari in 1981. The game was designed by Ed Logg along with Dona Bailey, one of the few female game programmers in the industry at this time. The player moves the character about the bottom area of the screen with a trackball and fires laser shots at a centipede advancing from the top of the screen down through a field of mushrooms. [Wiki]

Classic Ads: Rampage

Rampage is a 1986 arcade game by Bally Midway. Up to three simultaneous players control monsters George (a King Kong-like gorilla), Lizzie (a Godzilla-like dinosaur/lizard), or Ralph (a giant arctic wolf), created from mutated humans who are trying to survive against onslaughts of military forces. Each round is completed when a particular city is completely reduced to rubble. [Wiki]

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Double Dragon Advertisement (1988)

“You’ll Never Have To Stand In Line To Play Double Dragon Again.”

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Classic Ads: Spy Hunter

Spy Hunter is a 1983 arcade game designed by George Gomez and developed and released by Bally Midway. It is an vertical scrolling action/driving game with the player in the role of a spy driving an armed sportscar. The object of the game is to travel the freeway destroying as many enemy vehicles as possible while protecting civilian vehicles. The game uses top-down perspective. [Wiki]