Atari Compugraph

Innovative leisure courtesy of the Arcade Museum. The reverse side explains the coolness for contemporary business operators; the arcade distributor it was addressed to appears to still be in business! Clearly, they bought ten of these babies and knew what to do with 'em. [Thanks, #8384!]

• [AllyPally]

  And a whole 30-day warranty on the monitor!

• [sigismund]

  Seems it works with trousers too !!

• [franko]

  wow – i bet that thing weighed a TON. it looks like arcade machines from the time, made of heavy pressboard. LOVE the typography. EDIT: i now see that it weighed 950 pounds. awesome!

• [ROSSINDETROIT]

  Eat your heart out, Instagram.

  • [Sigmund_Jung]

    Next Instagram filter: Compugraph Foto

• [Damian Barajas]

  I actually have one with my cousin from when we were about 4 years old! I don’t actually remember taking it but I always thought it was so cool. Man this bring back memories…

• [Robert]

  *sigh* Good ol’ ASCII. None of this (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ stuff.

• [pebird]

  Nice pants.

• [Kevin Hedley]

  I have one of these with my brother and I, we were amazed at the time how much detail there was!! ha!

• [Jason Redfern]

  http://ascii.dyne.org/ generates real time ascii rendered video on your *nix machine.  I had lots of fun with this one back in the day.
  http://krazydad.com/asciicam/ flash based for the *nix challenged.

• [Senor Schaffer]

  I had a puzzle of mah face on bright orange cardboard. 

• [Scott R]

  Anyone know how much it cost at the time?

• [donovan acree]

   It’s amazing to remember how impressed we were at the time.