Vault 1541 launched nearly eight years ago on January 2, 2017. It began as a way to share video game ads scanned from my magazine collection. Over the years I wrote a quick, or sometimes lengthy, overview of each company responsible for the ads in each post. That included more than 230 companies, as well as separate posts for ads of hardware, retailers, and other game-related things that can be found in photo albums on Facebook and Google Photos. All of the working links can be found under the Game Ad Links tab and while there are links on each ads post, Facebook changed something that broke those links and I've only updated some of them. As you can see with a glance at the above tabs, the blog also has coverage of toys and a YouTube channel that I'm not too active on any longer. Surprisingly, I've made it to 500 posts! Not surprisingly, this 500th post is about video game ads... from Sega, of course! If you've read the blog even a little, you've likely noticed my love of Sega that began when I received a Sega Master System for Christmas in 1987.
There aren't a lot of ads below since I posted so many already. Most of these are from the comic books I've been scouring this year in search of ads that I wasn't able to get from my game magazines. One ad isn't actually for a game though. It's a contest advertisement for Marvel Comics' 1996 Generation X television movie that has a Virtua Fighter arcade cabinet as the grand prize, which is why the ad is from Sega. If you want to learn more about that movie, I scanned an article from TV Guide that you can find in this "X-Men on Television" post. Also, Happy Thanksgiving!
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