Take a trip down memory lane with the following video. The trip begins with some of the first Atari 2600 television advertisements and continues with almost 20 years of video game commercials. This great compilation of ads reminds us of our gaming past with legends like Mickey Mantle selling on demand intellivision, and Phil Hartman playing a wide range of characters for Philips CD-i. There is even a young Tobey Maguire cutting class to play the huge Atari Lynx in the boys room.

Some great early ads demonstrate families playing video games together, while classic GameBoy ads remind adults that your never to old to play games. The video comes to a end with Jaguar & Sega’s crass advertisements during the 90’s that I remember liking at the time, actually were really pretty awful.

Take a trip down memory lane with the Angry Video Game Nerd as he covers the Intellivision and Colecovision, two consoles I grew up playing as a kid and still own today. With great peripherals like the Voice Modulator (shown in the video) and Steering Wheel (not shown - but Dukes of Hazard, Bump & Jump, and Destructor were a few of my favorite driving games) these two systems were quite similar in design and Atari’s biggest competitors in the early 80’s.

Check out the following two part “DoubleVision” retrospective.

DoubleVison Part 1

DoubleVision Part 2