We even had the misfortune of owning a copy of the rightfully-maligned E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial game.

One game that we didn’t have, though, was Yars’ Revenge, whose TV spot makes it look like the most-exciting game ever:

In fact, the box art and TV spots always made the games seem more-exciting than they actually were:

The Verge has a great article on Atari’s box art and I highly-recommend Tim Lapetino’s Art of Atari, a copy of which was gifted to me by my brother a couple of years ago.

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