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Magazine ads for 1980s video games
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Title:
Magazine ads for 1980s video games
NFSA ID
1731734, 1731730, 1731735, 1731737
Courtesy
Melbourne House and Beam Software
Beam Software and Melbourne House developed and published many of Australia’s most iconic early video games.
Pulled from the pages of international computer game magazines, such as the UK publication ZZAP!64, these advertisements show the reach and popularity of Australian games like The Hobbit (1982) and The Way of the Exploding Fist (1985).
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.