I remember seeing these single pages in various Christmas catalogs in the early 1980s and dreaming…. Hard to believe that the device that would take America by storm would only last a handful of years.
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3 thoughts on “The Atari 2600 Page of the 1980 JCPenney Christmas Catalog”
Very nice…
Where is the “Add to Cart” button?
Technically, this should be titled, “The Atari Video Computer System Page…” because the 2600 system, though similar, was not around at this early point. Just saying.