Cardboard box
Atari
Category
Ephemera
Date
1978
Materials
Cardboard
Measurements
20 x 140 x 190 mm
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672721.12.2
Summary
The original cardboard box packaging for a Basketball video game cartridge for an Atari home video games console. The box is predominantly orange and has a colour image of basketball players at the bottom on the front, above which is printed 'BASKETBALL' in white. On the rear of the box there is printed information about the game in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. An Atari logo is printed in the front bottom left corner of the box with the games number (CX2624) printed at the bottom right. These pieces of information are also printed on the sides of the box.
Provenance
Original cardboard box for a video game cartridge manufactured by Atari Inc. in 1978
Makers and roles
Atari , publisher