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Arcade Alley Index a Critical Look at Video Cartridge Games & Programs Arcade Alley index A Critical Look At Video Cartridge Games & Programs Summer 1979 Atari VCS Video Olympics, Surround, Home Run, Basketball, Breakout, Air- Sea Battle January 1980 Odyssey2 Speedway, Spin-Out, Crypto-logic, Baseball, Cosmic Conflict April 1980 Faster Than A Bullet: Atari’s Super Game VCS Superman, Bowling, Miniature Golf, Video Chess May 1980 Nerves, Strategy and Guile: The Magnavox Arsenal Odyssey2 Football, Computer Golf, Thunderball, War of Nerves July 1980 The Head of the Class: Mattel’s Intellivision Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack and Armor Battle August 1980 Armchair Athletes: Sports, Mattel-Style Major League Baseball, NFL Football, NBA Basketball September 1980 From the Mailbag: Time Out for Questions October 1980 War in Space: Three New Games Fight It Out VCS Space Invaders, O2 Invaders from Hyperspace, Intellivision Space Battle December 1980 A New Era Begins: Activision Exploits Atari’s Success VCS Boxing, Dragster, Checkers, Fishing Derby January 1981 Atari’s “Adventure”: A Game of Heroic Proportions VCS Adventure, Night Driver February 1981 Sport Fan’s Delight: Skiing, Volleyball, Hockey VCS Skiing, O2 Volleyball, Intellivision Hockey May 1981 ‘I Want to be Alone’: Solo Video Games O2 Blockout/Breakdown, Electronic Table Soccer, and VCS Dodge ‘Em June 1981 Lure of the Labyrinth: Exploring Maze Games VCS Slot Racers, Maze Craze, and O2 Take the Money and Run July 1981 Most Complex is Not Always Best: Simple Games for the Atari System VCS Championship Soccer, Tennis, Laser Blast August 1981 Computer Cartridges: Beyond BASIC with the Atari 400 Atari 8-bit Super Breakout, Space Invaders, Video Easel September 1981 Atari’s ‘Star Raiders’ Scores a Direct Hit Atari 8-bit Star Raiders October 1981 Three New Games: A Space Odyssey O2 UFO, Alien Invaders-Plus, Out of this World November 1981 A Sports Trio from Mattel Intellivision Auto Racing, Skiing, PGA Golf December 1981 ‘Quest for the Rings’ and ‘Asteroids’: Holiday Classics O2 Quest for the Rings, VCS Asteroids January 1982 The Third Annual Arcade Awards February 1982 Zircon Resurrects Channel F Channel F Slot Machine, Video Whizball, Galactic Space Wars/Lunar Lander March 1982 Mixed Reviews for Intellivision Intellivision PBA Bowling, Astrosmash, Triple Action April 1982 Ropin’, Ridin’, and Skatin’ with Activision VCS Stampede, Ice Hockey May 1982 Astrovision’s Rising Star Astro Arcade Bally Pin, Galactic Invasion June 1982 Pacman: Was It Worth the Wait? VCS Pac-Man, Super Breakout July 1982 Cosmic Swarm, Space Jockey Debut VCS Cosmic Swarm, Space Jockey August 1982 The Imagic Show VCS Demon Attack, Trick Shot September 1982 Star Wars and Space Caverns VCS Space Cavern, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back October 1982 The First Portable Video Game System Vectrex system, Clean Sweep, Mine Storm, Hyperchase, Scramble, Star Trek: The Game November 1982 Beyond Science Fiction – A New Breed of Games VCS Frogger, Towering Inferno, Lost Luggage December 1982 ColecoVision – The New State of the Art Colecovision Donkey Kong, Cosmic Avenger, Venture January 1983 Smurf & Ladybug from Colecovision Colecovision Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle, Lady Bug February 1983 The Fourth Annual Arcade Awards March 1983 The Best Computer Games April 1983 Zaxxon, Turbo, and Two for Apple II Colecovision Zaxxon, Turbo, and Apple II Aztec, Repton May 1983 Zapping for Truth and Justice VCS Vanguard, VCS Commando Raid, Ram It. Atari 8-bit Baja Buggies, Astro Chase October 1983 From Pinball to Purgatory at Electronic Arts Apple II Hard Hat Mack, Axis Assassin. Atari 8-bit Archon, Pinball Construction Set November 1983 Wintertime Winners 5200 Space Dungeon, Qix, Kangaroo. Apple II Lode Runner December 1983 Super Gifts for Gamers VCS Decathlon, Tutankham. Apple II Stellar 7. Atari 8-bit Murder on the Zinderneuf January 1984 The Arcade Awards, Part 1 February 1984 The 1984 Arcade Awards, Part II March 1984 We Still Want Action Atari 8-bit Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Megamania, Mr. Robot and his Robot Factory. Commodore 64 Juice! Apple II Centipede April 1984 Video Games Live! Colecovision Miner 2049er, Q*bert. 5200 Joust, Super Cobra May 1984 Keystrokes to Adventure Atari 8-bit Gateway to Apshai, Return of Heracles. Apple II Crypt of Medea June 1984 Computer Diversions Reviewed Apple II One on One. Atari 8-bit Silicon Warrior - missing rest of pages July 1984 Games with Character VCS H.E.R.O. Colecovision Sammy Lightfoot. Atari 8-bit Bruce Lee August 1984 State of the Games .
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