Venture shirt

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Thought you guys may like this...

This is a vintage early 80s Venture promo shirt I got around 1990 -1991 by writing Exidy and asking if they had any old arcade game sales flyers as I collected them.

To my surprise, they sent me not only flyers for Targ, Spectar, Mousetrap, Crossbow, Victory, Alley Rally, and more... but they also sent me this shirt with a nice hand written note saying they found it in a storage closet and thought I would appreciate it.

I wore it a few times to high school, then washed it, and haven't worn it since.

This is the first time I have looked at it in years... unfortunately there are two small stains to the left of the Venture logo, not sure if these occurred on one of the few times I wore it, or if that happened while it was stored away.

Enjoy!

Kyle :cool:
 

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I also wrote Atari, Nintendo, Williams, Midway, and a few other companies and received generous flyer collections from them, but Exidy was the only company that sent me a shirt!

I need to find the handwritten letter and upload that as well.

Kyle :cool:
 
I've got a couple from my time at the pool hall. Pac-Man and Scramble I still have. I had a Berzerk one, but no idea what happened to it.
 
Venture game = awesome.
Venture t-shirt = just as awesome. (though I don't think they did Winky justice there - though neither does the game side art) :)

Venture_9.jpg


You need one of these too ->

winky_keychain.jpg
 
Yeah they probably had the promo shirt made up before the official art was done.

Should get that scanned in for a repro!
 
Cool story. I like the font they used on the shirt for "Venture"

Looks like Winky slayed a Centipede. I wonder if Exidy was attempting to sending Atari a message?
 
Can we reproduce these? They are awesome!!
Thought you guys may like this...

This is a vintage early 80s Venture promo shirt I got around 1990 -1991 by writing Exidy and asking if they had any old arcade game sales flyers as I collected them.

To my surprise, they sent me not only flyers for Targ, Spectar, Mousetrap, Crossbow, Victory, Alley Rally, and more... but they also sent me this shirt with a nice hand written note saying they found it in a storage closet and thought I would appreciate it.

I wore it a few times to high school, then washed it, and haven't worn it since.

This is the first time I have looked at it in years... unfortunately there are two small stains to the left of the Venture logo, not sure if these occurred on one of the few times I wore it, or if that happened while it was stored away.

Enjoy!

Kyle :cool:
 
Cool story. I like the font they used on the shirt for "Venture"

Looks like Winky slayed a Centipede. I wonder if Exidy was attempting to sending Atari a message?


I've read once that the Centipede on the shirt was indeed a dig at Atari's most popular release at the time. I believe the name "Skippy" next to the slain Centipede was a reference to an employee at Atari.

Does anybody know any former Exidy employees that may be able to confirm?
 
Oh man is that a shirt I'd love to have (being the current Venture World Record holder and all that :) ).

Seriously, is there any way this could be repro'd? I'd buy one in a second!

Jon
 
Cool shirt and nice story.
I'd wear something like that today no prob. Except I imagine that since it's vintage it wouldn't wash too well.
 
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