Retro Gamer Girl
Gamer girls go way back, long before the time of Twitch e-girls pulling in thousands of views with their bikini hot tub streams and super aesthetic PC set-ups and neon-lit backdrops. While they’ve moved on to other games, they’ve been whooping their parents at Pac-man and beating their brothers at Breakout since the 8-bit Atari days.
The Atari commercial was successful, showing that video games could be a family activity for everyone, not just kids. Audiences were amused by the actress in this commercial who seemed to be overselling the console with her exaggerated facial expressions, which seemed more suited to a game of Pitfall or Space Invaders than Pac-Man.