Table Top Electronic Arcade Games Ad from 1983
I posted an old magazine article about the portable arcade games of the eighties earlier this year (posted here), and today I want to again take a peek at these tabletop systems. This November 9, 1983 Spokesman-Review newspaper includes a great K-Mart ad featuring Q Bert, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong, Jr. machines, with Q Bert the most expensive of the bunch.
Does anyone out there collect these old machines?
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I still have my Pac-Man one! The terminals have a bit of corrosion, so I’m not sure it still works. More of a display piece now.
@googum – I’ve got one of the Zaxxon machines. It worked eight years ago or so, not sure if it does today.