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Astrocade: The Professional Arcade.
More Games... More Fun... and More to Come...
Cartridge Catalog from Astrocade, Inc.
1982.
This is a 34-page, color catalog from 1982 of the cartridges available for the Bally Arcade/Astrocade game console, including ads for the unreleased cartridges: Bowling, Creative Crayon, Conan the Barbarian, Music Maker, and Soccer.
Here is some of the Ad Copy from the catalog:
ASTROCADE, THE PROFESSIONAL ARCADE, GIVES YOU MORE. MORE FEATURES... MORE EXCITEMENT... MORE CAPABILITY... AND MORE FUN... Make Astrocade the best all-around value in the videogame business! Exclusive features include a 10 memory video display calculator and three exciting built-in games-- Checkmate, Gunfight, and the highly acclaimed Scribbling.
256 color variations, 8-way pistol grip controllers, remote game selection, 4-player scoring and play capability, highest quality realism and fastest action of any home videogame, built-in cartridge storage bin, 3-octave music and sound effects synthesizer.
The library of Astrocade cartridges will continue to grow!
The twenty-eight games included in the catalog are:
Amazing Maze / Tic-Tac-Toe
Artillery Duel
Astro Battle
Astrocade Pinball
Biorhythm
Blackjack / Poker / Acey-Deucey
Bowling (Unreleased)
Brickyard / Clowns
Conan the Barbarian (Unreleased)
Cosmic Raiders
Creative Crayon (Unreleased)
Dog Patch
Football
Galactic Invasion
Grand Prix / Demolition Derby
Incredible Wizard, The
Letter Match / Spell 'N Score / Crosswords
Music Maker (Unreleased)
Pirate's Chase
Red Baron / Panzer Attack
Seawolf / Missile
Soccer (Unreleased)
Solar Conqueror
Space Fortress
Speed Match / Bingo Match
Star Battle
Tornado Baseball / Tennis / Handball / Hockey
ZZZap / Dodgem
This Astrocade catalog is archived in several formats. The default download is a 300-DPI, medium quality PDF. The previous default download was a 150-DPI, medium quality PDF, which is available here for archive purposes.
This is a my favorite cartridge catalog released by Astrocade, Inc.
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"Discover the Bally Promise of Endless Fun!" Catalog
Circa 1978/79
This four-page folded paper brochure/catalog/flyer measures about 7" x 3.5" and opens to approximately 14" x 7". This catalog features many screenshots, including four of them for two cartridges (four games) that were never released: "5003 - Checkers/Backgammon" and "3004 - Drag Race/Desert Fox."
The catalog is a nice piece of vintage salesmanship. It uses some of the original naming conventions for Bally's cartridges: cassettes and videocades:
"15 cassettes and 30 games deliver excitement only Bally can offer! All Bally Videocade Programs are, and will continue to be, designed with the same advanced thinking as the Bally Professional Arcade itself.
"This Videocade library already offers all Bally Professional Arcade owners fascinating sports, strategy and educational games. Future Videocade Cassettes will expand the unit’s applications and usefulness in many fields. And with Bally BASIC, charts, graphs, music and a wide range of additional video games can be programmed. These new Videocade Cassettes will be available from us on a continuing basis."
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