*The rainbow's color is different on some Atari 2600 games.
'''Technique:''' None. For the variant,; sprite-based animation for the variant.
'''Music/Sounds:''' None. On the variant, a brief brass-synth rock ensemble plays.
'''Availability:'''
*It is seenSeen on some Amiga games from the company, as well as on the bottom of the screen when an Activision game for Atari 2600 is inserted and running. It also reappears when the game ends. Both ''A Collection of Activision Classic Games'' on [[PlayStation]] and ''Activision Anthology'' on PlayStation 2 keep the logos intact on all games emulated on the discs.
*The variation is only seen on the PlayStation 2 version of ''Activision Anthology''. It doesn't appear on ''Activision Hits Remixed'' for PSP or ''Activision Anthology'' for iOS, as the former used the 5th logo instead and the latter did not use the variant. This logo also made surprise appearances on the PlayStation 2 game ''Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s'' and the Nintendo DS game ''Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades''.
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'''Logo:''' We see the Activision logo in white, butwithout the rainbow is gone.
'''Variants:''' There are a lot of variants of this logo.
*On ''Ghostbusters II'', the logo is {{color|blue}} with a thin {{color|red}} outline. "Presents" is seen below.
*On ''X-Kaliber 2097'', the logo is seen on a completely {{color|blue}} background.
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'''Logo:''' On a starry background, we see a white figure flipping in, from the top to near the center of the screen, revealing an outlined rectangle with the text "ACTIVISION" at the top, with a line below it, and "HOME COMPUTER SOFTWARE" at the bottom, and a Trademark symbol to the right of the rectangle. The logo shines, then fades away via turning black slowly.
* Starting in late 1986, the text "HOME COMPUTER SOFTWARE" is removed from the box.
'''Technique:''' TheSprite-based flipping and shining on the animated variantanimation.
'''Music/Sounds:''' None.
'''Music/Sounds Variants:'''
* On some games, like the PlayStation 2 version of ''Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions'' and ''Shrek: Smash & Crash Racing'', the sounds are higher -pitched.
* On ''Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven'' and its Xbox port ''Return From Darkness'', the sounds are heavily compressed.
* On ''007:'' ''Quantum of Solace'', we hear a timpani roll that slowly segues into the iconic James Bond theme.
* Starting in 2009 with ''Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2'', the whooshing sounds and the bang are different. However, some games, like ''Transformers: Devastation'' and ''Spyro: Reignited Trilogy'', retain the original sounds.
* On ''DJ Hero 2,'', we hear the whooshing sounds from the regular variant during the first five seconds, followed a synthesized whoosh when the logo halts, turntable sounds when the logo spins, and rewinding sounds when the logo reverts to the beginning. The whooshing sounds play again when the FreeStyle letters swirl, but we hear a different bang along with along with a male voice shouting "Uh!" when the logo zooms in quickly.
* On ''Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy'', Dr. Neo Cortex (voiced by Lex Lang) announces, "Activision presents...a smashing blast from the past!".
* On ''Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled'', the speech is the same, but announced by another narrator.
'''Availability:''' Current, and very common. It appeared on many games published by the company since ''Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro''. Notable examples of where you can find it on include ''X-Men: Mutant Academy 2'', ''X-Men: Next Dimension'', ''Pitfall: The Lost Expedition'', ''Shrek 2'', ''Shark Tale'', ''Madagascar'', the ''Spider-Man'' games from the aforementioned ''Enter Electro'' to ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'', the ''Call of Duty'' series prior to ''World at War,'' as well as many other games including the ''Tony Hawk'' series starting with ''Tony Hawk's Underground'', the ''True Crime'' series, ''X-Men Legends'' and its sequel, ''Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines'', ''Gun'', ''The Movies,'' ''Over the Hedge'', the first two ''Marvel Ultimate Alliance'' games, and ''Bee Movie Game'', among many others''.'' The HD version appears on later games for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and Wii among others starting with ''Call of Duty 2,'' as well as ''Singularity'', the ''007'' games from ''GoldenEye 007 (2010)'' to ''007 Legends'', the ''Skylanders'' series, ''Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse'', ''Deadpool'', and ''Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.'' This logo strangely does not appear on ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'' (the 2009 game). This logo is still used, despite being mostly replaced by its custom variants on newer titles (especially the ''Call of Duty'' ones), as it recently appeared on ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2,'' as well as ''Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.''
===7th Logo (''Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock'' variant) (September 24, 2010)===
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'''Logo:''' We see the Activision logo incarved the same style as the past logos standing ononto a molten rock, aswith lava flowsflowing through theit. rock and splatters all around.The Otherother logos appear in the same way.
'''Technique:''' The lava flowing through the molten rock and splattering belowCGI.
'''Music/Sounds:''' A rock-like tune along with sounds of lava bubbling and splattering.
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