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If you were a kid in the 80′s, the chances are you spent a large chunk of your childhood in the local video game arcade.
Before personal computers and gaming had taken off, a trip to the local mall to play dozens of arcade machines was the perfect way to spend a Saturday night. But with banks and banks of machines all vying for your hard earn money from your paper round, which did you chose?
Like any form of advertising, it’s all down to selling the idea to you. The likes of Konami, Sega, Atari would create giant posters and flyers to entice you try out their latest games, promising all manner of out of this world experiences.
Before personal computers and gaming had taken off, a trip to the local mall to play dozens of arcade machines was the perfect way to spend a Saturday night. But with banks and banks of machines all vying for your hard earn money from your paper round, which did you chose?
Like any form of advertising, it’s all down to selling the idea to you. The likes of Konami, Sega, Atari would create giant posters and flyers to entice you try out their latest games, promising all manner of out of this world experiences.
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