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Act-82Catalog THE ACTIVISION@ ADVENTURE Put an Activision !!> video game into your Atari !!> Video Computer System™or your Sears Tele-Games!!> Video Arcade~ and expect an experience incredibly involving for your mind and senses. Sports games. Strategy games. Action games. And more. All so amazingly realistic, you'll truly believe -we put you in the game. cUV1s10M. Atari• ond Video Computer System™ ore registered trademarks of Atari, Inc. Tele-Gomes* and V1deo Arcade™ ore trademarks of Seors, Roebuck and Co ACTION GAMES Designed by Steve Cartwright. This Designed by Alan Miller. You 're in game is a space nightmare! Imagine, the cockpit of a mighty intergalactic if you can, fighting off multiple waves spacecraft. Your mission : Defend your of the strangest objects ever to defy starbases against attacking enemy Available, the laws al gravity. And there's no starfighters. Galactic charts pinpoint September 1982 rest. Celestial dice, spinning bow-ties, enemy torgets. Meteor showers slow furious flying widgets and even hostile your attack. And enemy particle hamburgers. If it's not one " thing;· cannons can quickly send you limping it's another. And they can drop round home to your orbiting starbase for after round of deadly disintegrators. repairs. Computer reodauts reveal You 'd better hope you ond your energy levels, ship damage and more. courage are wide owoke when you Without a doubt, Starmaster™ by play MegaMonia™ by Activision ~ Activision is one of the most thrilling video game experiences of the yearl 1111111 ifl 'I 'I r - ""' Designed by Dovid Crane. Seek Designed by Bob Whitehead. You're out the lost treasures of an Ancient flying escort far a truck convoy of Civilization hidden deep within the for· medical supplies. Suddenly, enemy bidding jungle. Swing through trees, aircraft show up on your long-range Ava II able, jump over bottomless pits and journey scanner. Quickly, you whip your September 1982 through underground passageways, chopper around 180°. blanketing avoiding the perils of the jungle­ the sky with laser rockets. The enemy crocadiles and cobras, scorpions and maneuvers brilliantly and responds quicksand. All to find the gold-in with multi-warhead missiles. Chopper Pitfall!™ by Activision ~ Command™ by Activision® could easily be the most demanding video battle ever conceived! 2 3 ACTION GAMES ACTION GAMES Designed by Lorry Kaplan. It looks Designed by Bob Whitehead. Ready very simple. You hove three buckets of for a little round-up? With Stampede™ water. The cute little guy up on the by Activision ,• you'll hove to ride wall hos a whole bunch of bombs. He fast and rope even foster. Those little dogies seem to be everywhere, and 1982 Arcade Alley tosses the bombs, and you catch them . they're all worth points. But, be Award Winner, 8est Like we SOid , "Very simple'.' P.S. Before coreful! Your ol ' horse con get a little Audia and Visual you know it, bombs ore foiling at a edgy, especially when you take your Effects. rote of 13 per second! Is the hand really quicker than the eye? Try eyes off the tra il. Head out West Kaboom!™ by Activision$ and find out. for hours of fun with Stampede! Designed by David Crone. You see, Designed by Steve Cortwright. Fasten theres this chicken . And he decides he your seatbelts! This flight is going to be wants to cross the rood. Familiar very rough and lots of fun. It's story, right? Except, this time the rood Barnstorming™ by Activision$ Abril­ is a freewoy, and it's rush hou r! Your liant achievement in realistic video Honarable Mention, game graphics by Activisions newest 1982 Arcade Alley task is to guide the poor chicken to the other side of the freewoy. Get the designer, Steve Cortwright. Fly a Awards: Most biplane through barns, over windmills, Innovative Game. picture? And if you get the game, you 'll agree there's never been any­ and through flocks of geese. Heres thing like Freewoy™ by Activision ~ where state-of-the-art game design meets seat-of-the-pants aviation. 4 5 ACTION GAMES SPORTS CHALLENGES Desig ned by David Crane. Presenting Designed by Bob Whitehead. At the a space shoot-out the likes of which sound of the bell, come out swinging. you 've never seen or heard before. As Go toe to toe with the Activision' Commander al a fleet of intergalactic computer or a friend. It~ last and Honorable Mention, spacecraft, you come u pen some l Honorable Mention, furious action that's sure to leave you 1982 Arcade Alley very unfriendly alien types. Get them 1981 Arcade Alley exhausted. But, be careful! Don't get Awards: Best Science before they get you and you 're Awards: Best Head-to­ pinned to the ropes. Knock-outs ore Fiction Game. awarded paints. Brilliant colors and Head, Best Sports, part of the action, too! startling sound effects make Laser Most Innovative Blast™ an all-time space video classic. Game. SPORTS CHALLENGES 1 15 I a Designed by David Crane. A relaxing Designed by Alan Miller. Never wait afternoon at the ol ' fishing hole? l for a court again. Tennis by Activision"' Not quite. The bay~ full of beautiful offers all the challenge and excite­ sunfish alright, and all you have to ment of ten nis right on your own TV. 1981 Arcade Alley do is land 'em faster than your 1982 Arcade Alley Charging players can rush the net, lay Award Winner, Best opponent. But there's just one small Award Winner, Best back ond play the baseline, or roam Audio and Visual hitch. Watch out for that shark! His Competitive Game. the court. It~ tennis action so remark­ Effects. voracious appetite makes Fishing Honorable Mention: ably real, the ball's even got a shadow! Derby • by Activision ' a constant Best Sports Game Loads of fun for all game fans. challenge. 1982. 6 7 SPORTS CHALLENGES SPORn CHALLENGES Designed by Bob Whiteheod. Chol­ Designed by David Crone. Watch lenge yourself to a wide variety of the countdown, shift geors, pop the high-speed downhill or slalom runs. clutch and burn rubber! You con rev Trees and moguls rush by as you ~ your eng ine, but be careful not to race through the courses. Designed for 1981 Arcade Alley blow it. True-to-life sound effects and everyone from novice to pro. Why, Award Winner, Best gruelling competition bring oil the even if you hate snow, you 'II love Solltalre Game. action of the drogstrip right into your the fun of Skiing by Activision® living room! Designed by Alan Miller. Face off! Designed by Dovid Crone. You 've Fight for the puck. Skate down ice post I\, always hod o secret fontosy about the defender for a slop-shot. Then , driving in the big race? Well, here's hurry bock on defense as your your very own Grand Prix!M You 'll opponent's goolie makes a remark- steer a course around other drivers, able save and o long pass to his ease by oil slicks, zoom across bridges, forward. Here's fantastic heod-to-heod with time your foremost enemy. Plus competition right at your fingertips. all the sound ond fury of the reol thing. So reol, it'll knock you off your skates! Gentlemen, start your eng ines. B 9 STRATEGY GAMES JOIN THE ACTIVISION TEAMS r _,... _ , The Few. The Proud. The Activision ~ All-Stars. Monr Activision games recognize high-scoring players with specie •.::r••• ••I!! insignia. Consult the venous game instruction booklets for details ••fllkK• 7 • on how to become a member of one of these elite organizations. 76 =-• o• •Ao.::r10• ...., .1(42: __r Designed by Lorry Kaplan. Presenting the ultimate solitaire bridge game! Bridge by Activision • deals hundreds of millions of hands at random and provides a computer partner who bids by the rules. After you've established a contract, the computer ploys as your opponents. It~ a great way to sharpen your skills. Never be without o bridge game again. It's heaven! ACTMSIOH SKJTEAM Designed by Alan Miller. Remember good ol' checkers? Well, Checkers ~- - 11 •' Activision-style is a whole new chal­ . ... I - lenge. There ore three different skill - A<'!Mb levels to choose from. Worm up with ·:·:~:-:·:·:·:·:·:·:·: novice, and then, when you 're feeling WORLD CLASS !JRAGSTER CUil brave, tackle the tougher levels. Your computer opponent plots the results of each of his available moves and then picks the one that~ toughest on you. You'll find the Activision® computer a more-than-worthy opponent. 10 11 Alan Miiier. The Bob Whitehead. Larry Kaplan. creator of Tennis, After award-winners Lorry's Kaboom!™ Checkers, and Ice Boxing and Skiing hos become on oll­ Hockey, by Activision® by Activision, Bob time fovorite, and hos done it again. come bock with was one of lost year's StorMoster™ is sure Stampede™ Now, biggest hits. Also the to become the most he's token to the air designer of Bridge incredible video with Chopper by Activision ~ game experience of Command™ the year. Steve Cartwright. David Crane. The newest member His first two games, of the Activision Drogster® and Fishing Design team. Steves Derby,® were smash Barnstorming™ was hits. Then David out­ truly a breakthrough did himself with in graphics and Loser Blast )"M design. His newest Freewoy™ and gome,MegoMonio)"M Grand Prix:™ Now, is guaranteed to David journeys keep you wide through the jungle awoke. for his lotest adven­ ture, Pitfall!™ by Activision.® 12 .
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