marlboro atari lynx

[tonyvortex]

While going through my copy of the encyclopedia of game machines i found something on the marlboro lynx.The system also came with an exclusive marlboro game and bag.I had never heard of it so i did a google search and found a post on atariage from months back.It seemed as if noone there had seen it before as well.Around the time of the post someone in germany was selling it,heres a picture taken from that auction:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/tonyvortex/marl.jpg
i was wondering if anyone on here actually knew more about it than it being some sort of giveaway or if someone actually owns one.

[DonMarco]

The word "abenteuer (http://www.woxikon.com/wort/Abenteuer.php)" leads me to think you should also ask a large German video games board. Or a Lynx/retro one.

[Kamisama]

Yes, "Abenteuer" is german and simply means "Adventure". I personally haven't ever seen this one tho.

[k8track]

Does it have a place to hold your cigarette?

[Nicola]

I don't know why, but I love crappy limited editions.

[Captain Wrong]

The game was called "Cowboy Killers". It was, like many games of the time, based on the Doom engine. Instead of bullets, you'd shoot Marlboro reds into John Wayne look-a-likes.

[Pantechnicon]

I've got the ROM for the game. It was called "Marlboro Go!" It's a motocross racer with gameplay similar to Excitebike. I was under the impression that it was never actually released, and if it was it's a pretty rough final release. There is music but very little in the way of in-game sound. When you crash or go off track you simply get transported back to the last checkpoint without even seeing the crash itself. And as far as I remember there's only one track.

Game was programmed in 1993 by a company called Digital Image. Based on the names of the developers it appears to be a wholly German production. The American anti-tobacco lobby was in full swing by this time so I can't imagine RJ Reynolds would have gotten away with a giveaway like this in the States.

[theshizzle3000]

The game was called "Cowboy Killers". It was, like many games of the time, based on the Doom engine. Instead of bullets, you'd shoot Marlboro reds into John Wayne look-a-likes.

I love how its called cowboy killers and the cigarettes are killing the actual Marlboro man. Talk about irony.

[qbertandernie]

actually, Marlboro had a bunch of stuff they gave away under the 'Marlboro Adventure Team' banner. i remember lighters, t shirts, radios, rafts, bottle openers...all kinds of stuff. thats what the 'marlboro miles' on the sides of the packs were for. im sure theres a catalog scan somewhere. my parents used to be avid smokers when i was younger, and my mom was a fan of ordering free stuff. thats why i remember it :) i wasnt into games much at that time, however, so i have no recollection of a lynx. there were huge ad campaigns for the miles and the catalogs were everywhere, and a lot of stuff was back ordered when we ordered it. it was popular stuff in this part of the country, id see the shirts from the catalog frequently.

[RJ]

I'm gonna paint my Lynx II red...

[Carey85]

Heh, Marlboro Miles died down around here about 10 years ago, yet I still see rednecks walking around in 15 year old Marlboro reversible jackets... Also, I'd pay damn good money to play a game that allowed you to use cigarettes as weapons, stubbing them out in people's eyes and other good stuff...

[tonyvortex]

actually, Marlboro had a bunch of stuff they gave away under the 'Marlboro Adventure Team' banner. i remember lighters, t shirts, radios, rafts, bottle openers...all kinds of stuff. thats what the 'marlboro miles' on the sides of the packs were for. im sure theres a catalog scan somewhere. my parents used to be avid smokers when i was younger, and my mom was a fan of ordering free stuff. thats why i remember it :) i wasnt into games much at that time, however, so i have no recollection of a lynx. there were huge ad campaigns for the miles and the catalogs were everywhere, and a lot of stuff was back ordered when we ordered it. it was popular stuff in this part of the country, id see the shirts from the catalog frequently.
you have just reminded me of a garage sale i went to when i was in high school.the man had what looked like a large size pyramid of camels he was reselling.he told me he only bought them for the camel points.there must have been a good two hundred packs he was selling.

[Pantechnicon]

actually, Marlboro had a bunch of stuff they gave away under the 'Marlboro Adventure Team' banner. i remember lighters, t shirts, radios, rafts, bottle openers...all kinds of stuff...

Sorry to indulge in some nostalgia as this is all OT: When my mother and stepdad first got together circa 1982 he was working as a local sales rep for RJ Reynolds. As a perk he always got a hold of tons of pro-tobacco promotional items and gave this stuff to me and my brother: Transistor radios that looked like cigarette packs, pool cues, Rubiks Cubes with Marlboro Man pictures on the faces, baseball jerseys with the Camel logo, etc. All sorts of cool ("Kool"?) stuff. In fact the bookshelf I used in my bedroom for six years was a 6-foot tall carton case with the plexiglass doors and advertising removed from it.

Ironically, my stepfather has never smoked so much as a single drag in his life. I never developed an interest in the habit either despite being comfortably surrounded by the propaganda for years. My brother on the other hand did start smoking when he was 14 (but has long since given it up) so I can't say that there's not some truth to the concerns of tobacco advertising seemingly aimed at young people.

Dad left RJR long before the Lynx showed up, but I'm certain he could have got me one if I asked.