Gaming Ads: Backfilling #18

In the October 27th blog update I noted that I was nearing the 500th post and I am but I was off on the numbers. I must have been looking at the total post count which includes some drafts. Therefore, this is actually post #498 and I'm going to spread out the ads across three posts for a Thanksgiving week celebration. This will be the smallest post with four games from the early '80s. One ad is for Mario Bros. but it's not from Nintendo, it's an Atari game for the 2600 and 5200. The second ad is for Riddle of the Sphinx from Imagic. This is actually the first and only ad I have thus far from Imagic so it will join the "Publisher Singles" albums and won't get its own blog post. I'll briefly mention it was founded by former Atari and Mattel employees in 1981 and closed in 1986. It released more than 20 games, many of which featured impressive graphics for the time. Lastly, from Parker Brothers are ads for Frogger II: ThreeDeep! and Super Cobra.