Logos of videogame consoles from then and now

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/14/logos-of-videogame-consoles-fr.html

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[hecep]

[redfood]

I’m feeling pedantic - these are mostly logotypes (although some show both the logo and a the logotype).

And I’m pretty sure this was the logo (and logotype) on my beloved 2600:

[nixiebunny]

Shouldn’t there be about a hundred Rs in circles on that page?

[anon61833566]

I’ve had so many of these over the decades. The 3DO is hands down my favorite and had the majority of my favorite console games.

[Simon_Clift]

Bit of an Ozymandias moment, that was.

Leaves me hopeful that, like the mighty Atari 5200 and Mattel Intellivision, Facebook and Twitter might fade into distant memory some day.

[buddybradley]

Um, it wasn’t actually called Atari 2600 before 1982 so this couldn’t have been its logo in 1977…

[jandrese]

I remember mine calling itself the ATARI VCS.

[Pensketch]

Really? Mine only beeped at best.

ETA although I do remember taking mine apart and realizing it could be put in a case significantly smaller than what it was in, so I did that.

[Stripes]

@jandrese

I remember mine calling itself the ATARI VCS

Same. I think “VCS” was “Video Console System”, but I don’t know if that was claimed at the time, or invented later to fit the letters.

[coherent_light]

Atari Video Computer System or Atari VCS per wikipedia. I seem to recall ephemera like manuals which spelled it out, too.

[Stripes]

@coherent_light

Atari Video Computer System

Ah! That makes more sense. I probably misremembered it.