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What lifestyle gaming pics looked like in the 70s

Time warp to the retro ages and peruse some old-school imagery

Words: Matt Cundy, GamesRadar UK
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Ah, the good old days when TVs had wheels.

The kid's made a common lifestyle-model blunder of overselling the product. It's tele-pong, spark, not quantum mechanics.

With all the Pong people were playing back in the 70s it's a wonder there was any time left over to invent disco.

This is either the best or worst. We can't decide.

Learn from a master kids - this is how you get close to a woman.

The 'special' love between a brother and sister isn't strictly a lifestyle. In fact, we're pretty sure it's a criminal offence in most countries.

Lifestyle families can play games without ever looking at what they're doing.

A NES precursor to Wii Fit and the current exergaming fad. Spare towell under the TV essential. Stupid pantomime family not included.

March 20, 2009

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oryandymackie  - 8 months 11 days ago 
Yeah, I remember wondering why the "Wii" family looked so happy. I just thought they must be zillions of miles above Earth in a golden dreamland castle with the only remaining Wii left on the planet while the rest of us mortals had a horrible motion sensing remote that required you to twist various major organs
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Awesomeitude1523  - 8 months 11 days ago 
and once again, thanks to oryandymackie, my quest to get a first while on the other side of the globe from gamesradar fails, this time by a measly 80 seconds.

Anyway, great article guys, and I lol'ed at the quadrapong picture
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schmeidenkamp  - 8 months 11 days ago 
great article.
The pic of the 2 people playing while having a drink and a smoke is pure awesome. foreplay and gaming indeed. i would love it if my girl would share a drink and a cig while playing some games, holy crap.
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Unoriginal  - 8 months 11 days ago 
The guy on the second Fairchild channel F picture is creepy as hell.
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zymn  - 8 months 11 days ago 
the last NES pic looks like the kittle boy is grabbin his mom tits.

i suppose they didn't wean their kids very early in the 70s.
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Montag  - 8 months 11 days ago 
I remember looking like that!!

Anyway I remember having my first woody (Hehe) atari. Weirdly my whole family did sit round it grinning like loons. Either the magic of games or we were inbred freaks with too small a genetic pool!

reCaptcha: Coats $3 Million
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revrock  - 8 months 11 days ago 
Great Article! You guys constantly deliver the goods.
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iKOemos  - 8 months 11 days ago 
That channel F guy is staring straight in to my soul.
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Pocotron  - 8 months 11 days ago 
haha reCaptcha was school ladies lol

just wanted to throw that out theres
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Hobojedi  - 8 months 11 days ago 
Wow! There's a lot of funny captions in this article.
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gatornation1254  - 8 months 11 days ago 
the channel f scared me
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VnT  - 8 months 11 days ago 
Wisdom I gleaned from this article: No matter what decade, asian girls are hot.
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bloodfangz3  - 8 months 11 days ago 
lmao channel f that guy looks like he's been playing football..
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Spybreak8  - 8 months 11 days ago 
Gotta love marketing and games. Nice find guys. I wonder what this and using Cooliris would look like, lol 70s game ads board.
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somerandomchap  - 8 months 11 days ago 
gaming ads should refelct real life, like when you are playing live with a mic and you have your loved one or someone close to you yelling at you to do stuff, and you responding with obsenities, while your good old team mates hear everyword
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italianboye23  - 8 months 11 days ago 
hey a really good web site for games and stuff is pixelsandgrids.com it is awsome!
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deathrebellion  - 8 months 11 days ago 
@ zymn yup he is
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jimsondanet  - 8 months 10 days ago 
Videomaster: when a couple of body snatchers adopted some children of the corn.
gaming ads should reflect the joyfull glee of experimenting with ragdoll physics while on a sunday drive through central park.
"hey mum watch this!"
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gamerdude77  - 8 months 10 days ago 
WTF he IS grabbing his moms tits in the last NES one!
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reyalejandro13  - 8 months 10 days ago 
If they had one for 360, it would be (from the don't actually show the game, just people playing it persepctive) 2-4 people, most likely guys, yelling obscenities at the screen while horrified parents are in the background.

If it were PS3, it would be the same pick, but the people would look bored, and they would be saying "when does FF13 come out?" Or they would be saying "why are we playing PS3 when all our friends have 360's?"
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