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5 Fun Cartridges for the Bally Professional Arcade, By Astrovision This 6-page catalog contains these five cartridges: Biorhythm Galactic Invasion Grand Prix / Demolition Derby Music Maker I (Unreleased) Space Fortress |
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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.
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Astrocade: The Professional Arcade, Expandable Computer System Small promotional flyer advertising the games for the Astrocade. There are many color screenshots as well as pictures of ten upcoming releases (four of which never came out). There is quite a bit of information packed into these few pages. Astrocade: The Professional Arcade, Expandable Computer System (Color)(300dpi) |
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Introducing Fun & Brains. GQ magazine, November 1978, Page 67. Thanks to Allen Schweitzer for buying this ad off Ebay and lending it to me in May of 2021. Somewhat surprisingly, it turns out that this Bally Arcade ad, which is new to me, is from the November 1978 issue of GQ magazine. I wonder if Bally placed Bally Arcade ads in other mainstream magazines. This ad is touting the newly-released cartridge, Bally BASIC. I've scanned it and adjusted the yellowed colors in the ad. I also scanned the 2"x2" part of the ad that is the Bally Family so that I could include their happy faces here.
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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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Bally Videocade Cassettes This 4-page catalog contains these 13 cartridges: 280 Zzzap / Dodgem Astrology (Unreleased) Bally BASIC Blackjack / Poker / Acey-Duecey Checkers / Backgammon Drag Race / Desert Fox (Unreleased) Football Grand Prix / Demolition Derby Letter Match / Spell 'N Score / Crosswords Red Baron / Panzer Attack Space Race / Escape / Clowns (Unreleased, Partly) Speed Math / Bingo Math Tornado Baseball / Tennis / Handball / Hockey |
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Bally Videocade Cassettes (Alternate Version) This 3-page catalog contains these 13 cartridges: 280 Zzzap / Dodgem Amazin' Maze / Tic-Tac-Toe (Name Change) Bally BASIC Blackjack / Poker / Acey-Duecy Brickyard / Clowns Checkers / Backgammon Drag Race / Desert Fox (Unreleased) Football Letter Match / Spell 'N Score / Crosswords Red Baron / Panzer Attack Seawolf / Missile Speed Math / Bingo Math Tornado Baseball / Tennis / Hockey / Handball The 300 DPI is available here. |
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Expandable Computer with Today's Greatest Games Except for the first page, this catalog is identical to the "More Games. More Fun... more to Come!" catalog. That 4-page catalog features a white Bally Arcade, this catalog features a woodgrain Astrocade. This catalog features the "ZGRASS-32 Keyboard" and also contains these 20 cartridges: 280 Zzzap / Dodgem Amazin' Maze / Tic-Tac-Toe Astro Battle Bally BASIC Bally Pin Bingo Math / Speed Math Biorhythm Blackjack / Poker / Acey-Duecy Brickyard / Clowns Dog Patch Football Galactic Invasion Grand Prix / Demolition Derby Letter Match / Spell 'N Score / Crosswords Music Maker I (Unreleased) Red Baron / Panzer Attack Sea Wolf / Missile Space Fortress Star Battle Tornado Baseball / Tennis / Handball / Hockey |
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More Games. More Fun... more to Come! This 4-page catalog features the "ZGRASS-32 Keyboard" and also contains these 20 cartridges: 280 Zzzap / Dodgem Amazin' Maze / Tic-Tac-Toe Astro Battle Bally BASIC Bally Pin Bingo Math / Speed Math Biorhythm Blackjack / Poker / Acey-Duecy Brickyard / Clowns Dog Patch Football Galactic Invasion Grand Prix / Demolition Derby Letter Match / Spell 'N Score / Crosswords Music Maker I (Unreleased) Red Baron / Panzer Attack Sea Wolf / Missile Space Fortress Star Battle Tornado Baseball / Tennis / Handball / Hockey |
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More Games. More Fun. More to Come... This twenty-four page catalog from July 1981 features 21 games. All of them, except Music Maker I, were released. This 24-page catalog contains these 21 cartridges: 280 ZZZap / Dodgem Amazing Maze / Tic-Tac-Toe Astrobattle Bally BASIC (with built-in tape interface) Biorhythm Blackjack / Poker / Acey-Deucey Brickyard / Clowns Dog Patch Football Galactic Invasion Grand Prix / Demolition Derby Letter Match / Spell 'N Score / Crosswords Music Maker I (Unreleased) Pirate's Chase Red Baron / Panzer Attack Seawolf / Missile Space Fortress Speed Math / Bingo Math Star Battle Tornado Baseball / Tennis / Handball / Hockey |
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More Games. More Fun. More to Come... from the leader in video game technology. This 6-page catalog contains these nine cartridges: Coloring Book with Light Pen (Unreleased) Cosmic Raiders Munchie (Unreleased) Music Maker I (Unreleased) Pirate's Chase Quest for the Orb (Unreleased) Solar Conqueror Space Fortress The Wizard (Released as The Incredible Wizard) The same catalog also has a PDF version that has been laid flat as an 8 1/2 x 11 page (instead of being folded) is available here. |
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"Munchie" (Ad for Unreleased Game). By Astrocade, Inc. 1981. This is an ad for "Munchie," a "Pac-Man" clone that wasn't released by Astrocade, Inc. for the Bally Arcade/Astrocade videogame console. This ad is from page 3 of the BPA catalog with 9 games. The game was eventually released by the Astrocade community as "Muncher." "You are captive in a maze of crazy, creepy ghosts. It's a spooky situation, and you can do one of two things: munch or be munched! Score as many points as possible, gobbling up everything in your path-- including the ghosts with an appetite for YOU! Do your best to save your soul!" This quote is from the "Bally/Astrocade Game Cartridge and Hardware FAQ:" "Astrocade was forbidden to release this game by a court order (rumors claim that Astrocade spent a fortune in litigation with Atari, but to no avail!). The prototype, actually titled 'Pac Man,' turned up with Clyde Perkins and Phillip Harris in 1983. Phillip changed the title to Muncher, and sold two batch runs with a white label that reads, 'TEST PROGRAMME' (these were sold through the 'Arcadian' newsletter). Then another unknown source (Esoterica?) sold more 'Muncher' cartridges with a red label that says "DEMO".
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