Three Atari Video Computer Systems Must Be Won!

Here's a nice competition advert which featured in a March or April edition of the comic 2000AD, and which offered the chance to win one of three Atari VCS2600 (sometimes known as "Woody") game consoles, with a Space Invaders cartridge thrown in. 

Although not the first - that honour went to the Fairchild Channel F, followed by the Magnavox Odyssey - the Atari VCS2600 was by far the most popular of the early general-purpose video game machines, selling around 30 million units between its launch in 1977 and its discontinuation in 1992[source: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8094237/atari-2600-video-computer-system-games-console]. 

In 1981 there were still very few truly "home" computers around. The UK had the monochrome and lo-res Sinclair ZX80 and the ZX81, whilst Atari's own better 400 and 800 models - with colour - were also around, but were expensive. 

Meanwhile, the colourful and relatively cheap Commodore VIC-20 wasn't launched until September, so a video game console - even one that was already four years old - would have been a much more sensible choice to base a competition on.

The prize bundle was worth an advertised £130 (the console plus one cartridge) - which is about [[130|1981]] in [[now]] money.

