There is a whole database of this stuff:
<a href="https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/</a><p>I used to work on what was basically a giant on the wall digital picture frame and this was a major source of test images.<p>Edit: it's unfortunate the recent update to the UI of arcade flyer db made it incredibly annoying to use.
Most these ads are for operators, not gamers, that's why they all talk about earnings. (I still don't know where you would have seen them though..) I think I did see an ad for an arcade game targeted to gamers encouraging them to annoy their arcade to get one but I forgot what it was..<p>also some of these look like mega drive box art?
Almost directly across from the bus station under Elden Square in Newcastle upon Tyne was an arcade. Horseshoe shaped. Stamp shops, Numismatists, crafty stuff. And one shop that was 3 sections.<p>You walked in and it was rows of boxes full of LPs. Roger Dean style art was everywhere. The right section was posters and merch IIRC. But the left section was where I'd be after bunking off school every chance I could. More than a dozen arcade games crammed into a very small room.<p>The aroma of patchouli oil...<p>Defender. Night Driver. Gorf. Stargate. I remember those the most as that was where my 10p's went.<p>Years later, the Amstrad CPC6128 was mine. Z80 coding with MAXAM and Protext ROMS. Heaps of games.<p>But I do not recall a single advert. None. Amstrad Action probably had them, but it was the cover tapes and what was on them, along with reviews, that got me spending.
I was expecting cringey ads, and was not disappointed.<p>But then, the Gran Trak 10 ad...<p>Some say he has 50,000 photographs of his own camera, and that 60 years ago this week, he too became a Queen.<p>All we know is he's called the Stig!!
in the 80s I had a color brochure/catalog for console games with insanely beautiful ..airbrushed? color cover illustrations. The contents were pages with a grid of coverart+blurb.
I do not recall WHICH console it was for. It might have been some atari, but I suspect not. I have no doubt the actual games would have looked like atari2600,but that didnt matter, for me drooling and fantasizing for hours on end, on those illustrations.
I don't know if this excellent cover art style was intrinsic to the platform (think apple), or just for this particular brochure.
The art style was very color vibrant,a la neon and wizard-of-oz technicolor.