I was at our local Drive-In when during the intermission this fun little Atari Dig Dug Music Video popped up advertising a new game in the arcades. Though it did take almost a month for it to reach our neck of the woods. The next week when my father and I visited the Drive-In I made sure to bring my portable tape recorder to capture the groovy music. Hey, I was ten at the time. Now many years later I would find this actual trailer on its reel at the movie theater I worked at for so long, it was just hidden away in a filing cabinet along with an Intellivision commercial that I’ll post next week.
I have that film reel in my house under lock and key.
Watch the Atari Dig Dug “Music Video”
VicSage
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Searching through the alleys for useful knowledge in the city of Nostalgia. Huge cinema fanatic and sometimes carrier of the flame for the weirding ways of 80s gaming, toys, and television. When his wife lets him he is quite happy sitting in the corner eating buckets of beef jerky.
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Drive-Ins and arcade games… Those were the days.
Yes they were, RJ, yes they were.
I can clearly remember the smell of the concession stand as I played a game of Starhawk, waiting for the second feature to begin…then when this ad started I ran out of the building to see what it was. That second weekend like I stated I at the very least saw all of the commercial. :)