Atari VCS UK ephemera

I am a big fan of ephemera, those collectable items that weren't made to be collectable. Yesterday in a bunch of newly acquired VCS manuals (direct from a loft) I found some advertisments that had been torn from a catalogue. Some prices had been scribbled on the pages, and it was nice to spend an hour or so scanning them and piecing together the story behind them.

I could speculate that the owner had bought their VCS light sixer (also in the loft) probably in 1982 and a son or daughter had made some notes on the torn pages.

It's interesting to see the release of ET, (rushed out in time for Xmas 82) and then later catalogue pages showing it's swift reductions in price, eventually to 6.99. The VCS had also been reduced to 49.99 as well, including a free Pac Man cartridge. The bottom had evidently dropped out of the VCS market, with newer machines now available and the retailer wanted their stock gone.