Electronic Games Issue 1 (Winter 1981)

Advertisements:

• Atari 2600 Video Computer System
• Crush, Crumble & Chomp (Computers)
• Bridge Challenger (Standalone)
• Tennis (Atari 2600)
• Mattel Intellivision
• Video magazine
• Scott Adams’ Adventure Games (Computers)
• “Gamer-Pak” T-Shirts
• Quest for the Rings (Odyssey²)
• Computer Mail Order
• Video Buyer’s Guide
• Electronic Games Magazine
• Kaboom! (Atari 2600)

Inside Gaming:

• Freeway (Atari 2600)

Electronic Games Hotline:

• Atari Confirms Adventure Easter Egg
• McDonald’s Atari Contest
• Asteroids (Atari 2600)
• Red Baron (Arcade)
• Atari World Championships
• Production Logjams at Mattel
• New Intellivision Games: Astrosmash, Space Armada, Bowling and Boxing
• Mattel Licenses Dungeons & Dragons
• Steve Cartwright Hired at Activision; Designs Stampede (Atari 2600)
• “Activision Club” Mailing List
• Activision Patches
• RAM Kits Available for Atari and Tandy Computers
• Cosmos Put on the Shelf
• Odyssey² to debut UFO and Conquest of the World
• Odyssey² Merchandise Available
• Odyssey Considers Producing Magazine
• Computer Day Camp
• Atari Game Club
• U.S. Army Battlezone (Arcade)
• IBM Personal Computers
• Centipede (Arcade) Debuts Smaller Trackball Controller

Q&A:

• Do Videogames Damage Television Sets?
• Docking in Star Raiders (Atari 400/800)
• Loading Games from Cassette
• Computer Languages

Strategy Session:

• Space Invaders (Atari 2600)
• Breakout (Atari 2600)
• Super Breakout (Atari 400/800)

Can Asteroids Conquer Space Invaders?:

• Asteroids (Atari 2600)
• Space Invaders (Atari 2600)

What’s Next for Electronic Games?:

• Remote-Controlled Atari VCS
• Ice Hockey (Atari 2600)
• Stampede (Atari 2600)
• UFO (Odyssey²)
• Monkeyshines (Odyssey²)
• Quest for the Rings (Odyssey²)
• Conquest of the World (Odyssey²)
• Bowling (Intellivision)
• Boxing (Intellivision)
• Astrosmash (Intellivision)
• Dungeons & Dragons (Mattel boardgame)
• Dallas (Mattel boardgame)

Player’s Guide to Programmable Videogames:

• 1980 Arcade Awards
• 1981 Arcade Awards
• Atari
• Activision
• Le Stick
• Zircon Channel F
• Odyssey²
• Mattel Intellivision
• Bally Professional Arcade

Programmable Parade:

• Quest for the Rings (Odyssey²)
• Missile Command (Atari 2600)
• Kaboom! (Atari 2600)
• Auto Racing (Intellivision)
• UFO (Odyssey²)
• Tennis (Atari 2600)
• Air-Sea Battle (Atari 2600)
• Breakout (Atari 2600)
• Boxing (Atari 2600)
• Alien Invaders-Plus! (Odyssey²)
• Space Battle (Intellivision)
• Video Whizball (Channel F)

Computer Playland:

• Star Raiders (Atari 400/800)
• Bowling (Atari 400/800)
• House of Usher (Atari 400/800, Apple II, Pet, TRS-80)
• Beneath the Pyramid (Atari 400/800, Apple II, Pet, TRS-80)
• Sands of Mars (Atari 400/800, Apple II, Pet, TRS-80)
• Nominoes Jigsaw (Atari 400/800, TRS-80)
• Space Chase (Atari 400/800)
• War at Sea (Atari 400/800)
• Alien Rain (Apple II)
• Asteroid Field (Apple II)
• Mystery Fun House (Atari 400/800, Apple II, Sorceror, TRS-80)
• Empire of the Over-Mind (Apple II, Atari 800, Pet, TRS-80)
• Dino Wars (TRS-80)
• Lords of Karma (Apple II, ATari 800, Pet, TRS-80)
• Gorgon (Apple II)
• Horseracing (Atari 400/800)
• Space Trader (TRS-80)
• Lunar Lander (Atari 400/800, TRS-80)

Insert Coin Here:

• Pleiades (Arcade)
• Space Odyssey (Arcade)
• Venture (Arcade)
• Warlords (Arcade)

Stand Alone Scene:

• Dark Tower (Standalone)
• Bank Shot (Standalone)
• Alien Attack (Standalone)
• Bowlatronic (Standalone)
• Wildfire (Standalone)

Own Your Own Arcade:

Touchdown!:

• Football (Atari 2600)
• NFL Football (Intellivision)
• Football (Odyssey²)
• Football (Coleco Total Control 4)
• Football (TRS-80)
• Mattel World Championship Football (Standalone)
• Computer Quarterback (Computers)
• Hi-Res Football (Computers)

Attack of the Chess Robots:

• Robot Adversary
• Chess Challenger
• Champion Sensory Chess Challenger
• Voice Sensory Chess Challenger
• Chess Challenger 7
• Voice Chess Challenger
• Decorator Challenger
• System 5
• Chess Traveler
• Intelligent Chess
• Executive Chess
• Morphy (Great Game Machine)
• Borcheck (Great Game Machine)
• Odin (Great Game Machine)
• Las Vegas (Great Game Machine)
• Kriegspiel (Great Game Machine)
• Gruenfield Openings (Great Game Machine)
• Morphy Chess
• Diplomat
• Sargon 2.5 Chess Program & Auto Response Board
• Novag Micro Chess
• Novag Super Sensor IV
• Novag Savant
• Electronic Chess

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