{"id":16450,"date":"2017-05-04T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=16450"},"modified":"2017-05-11T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T22:26:04","slug":"g-a-m-e-s-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/04\/g-a-m-e-s-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"G.A.M.E.S. (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/160122492151\/gameraboy-games-video-game-store-van-nuys\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tumblr_on4nq1Jxry1s2wio8o1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>G.A.M.E.S. video game store, Van Nuys, CA, 1983 ad<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/160122492151\/gameraboy-games-video-game-store-van-nuys\">http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/160122492151\/gameraboy-games-video-game-store-van-nuys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an add for a mail-order video games company aptly named G.A.M.E.S. (though I&#8217;m not clear what that stands for) based in Van Nuys California. I&#8217;m not really familiar with them but this ad is from 1983 which was a few years before I started paying attention to magazines.<\/p>\n<p>This particular ad has a variety of interesting things for the Atari 2600, Atari 400\/800, Colecovision and Intellivision, the most interesting of which is probably the Starpath Supercharger. This was a device that allowed you to connect a standard audio cassette player to your Atari 2600 in order to load games specifically made for it. It also added 6k of memory which was a massive increase given the fact that the 2600 started with only 128 bytes (yes bytes, not kilobytes). Of course, data from a ROM cartridge could be swapped into RAM a lot faster than data from a cassette could.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkbucks.com\/referral\/504781\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/468_60link_bucks-2.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G.A.M.E.S. video game store, Van Nuys, CA, 1983 ad http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/160122492151\/gameraboy-games-video-game-store-van-nuys This is an add for a mail-order video games company aptly named G.A.M.E.S. (though I&#8217;m not clear what that stands for) based in Van Nuys California. I&#8217;m not really familiar with them but this ad is from 1983 which was a few years before I started paying attention to magazines. This particular ad has a variety of interesting things for the Atari 2600, Atari 400\/800, Colecovision and Intellivision, the most interesting of which is probably the Starpath Supercharger. This was a device that allowed you to connect a standard audio cassette player to your Atari 2600 in order to load games specifically made for it. It also added 6k of memory which was a massive increase given the fact that the 2600 started with only 128 bytes (yes bytes, not kilobytes). Of course, data from a ROM cartridge could be swapped into RAM a lot faster than data from a cassette could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,2597,1889],"class_list":["post-16450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro-games","tag-64","tag-g-a-m-e-s","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}