Atari Age#AtariAge (website)

{{Short description|Magazine published by a subsidiary of Atari}}

{{about|the magazine published 1982–84|the website|AtariAge}}

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{{Infobox magazine

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|editor = Steve Morgenstern

|frequency = Bi-Monthly

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|category = Video game

|company = The Atari Club

|firstdate = May/{{start date and age|1982|6}}

|finaldate = March/April 1984

|finalnumber = 11

|country = United States

|based = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|language = English

|website =

|issn = 0731-5686

|}}

Atari Age was a magazine distributed to Atari Club members from 1982 until 1984. It was published by The Atari Club, a subsidiary of Atari, Inc..{{Citation|title=Atari Age Contents |journal=Atari Age |volume=2 |issue=5 |page=4 |date=March–April 1984 |url=http://www.atariage.com/magazines/magazine_page.html?MagazineID=11&CurrentPage=4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519183748/http://www.atariage.com/magazines/magazine_page.html?MagazineID=11&CurrentPage=4 |archive-date=2011-05-19 }} The magazine only covered Atari products and events, offering exclusive deals to its readers, and serving as an advertising and merchandise outlet for the company. Atari used the magazine to build brand loyalty, promoting Atari products in a non-objective manner.{{cite journal|last1=Voltz|first1=J.|title=The Electric Zoo: Video Game Paratext in American Arcades and Homes|journal=ProQuest Dissertations and Theses|date=January 2006}} The magazine was based in Philadelphia.{{cite web|title=Atari Age Volume 2 Number 2 (1983)|url=https://archive.org/stream/atariage-2-2/atariage_vol2num2_djvu.txt|work=Archive.org|access-date=16 February 2016}}