, Hold on to your , the new EPYX EPYX games take the is here. game player farther than he's ever been The computer games market is explod­ before. Combining action and strategy with ing and EPYX is right in the middle of it. the most saleable themes. With innova· That's because our games fill a huge gap in tions in graphics, including 3·D. Even a line the market - the gap between pure action of educational games that makes learning games and pure strategy games. fun. And with hot licensed arcade titles avail­ EPYX combines the best of both. For able for the very first time in the home exciting games that challenge both the mind computer market. and the reflexes. Games the home com­ Plus our award-winning classics like puter owner is ready and waiting for. , Crush, Crumble and We call them "Strategy games for the Chomp, and ... Along with action -~ame player': .. a marketing strategy other hot sellers like ]urnpman. that's nght on the money. And were putting it into action with the TO right products, new packaging, a~gressive STOP TRAffiC START SALES. advertisin~, and plenty of promotIOn and merchandIsing support to drive the action your way. STRATEGY fOR PUYER.

Weve done some very intensive research to find out what works best in a package. And the new EPYX packaging will have it all. You'll see a new, eye-stopping graphic approach that instantly tells customers more of what the game realIstically is all about And our new "Thinker with Joystick" symbol wil1 instantly identify the EPYX line and give it a consistent, family look. In addition, every EPYX game will cany We have promotion plans in place to help coding symbols to let your customers know you move our games as quickly as you can the degree of action versus strategy. A first ring the cash register. Plus publicity and in the mdustry. game reviews in key consumer magazines that'l1 have consumers asking for EPYX games by name. And co-op programs to help retailers tailor advertising to their store and market EPYX PUTSITALL I With the right products, a dynamic new strategy, eye-stopping packaging, and aggressive advertIsing, merchandising and I>romotion that's bound to get results, EPYX provides new sales and profit oppor­ tunities for you. So make EPYX your key computer games supplier. It's a strategy that's where the action is. Instead of spending our media dollars against a mass market, we're targeting our message directly to the game player and • personal coml?uter owner, in order to deliver CQMPtlTEH SOFTWARE the most effiCIency and the highest impact. The result is a massive media blitz that FOR THE hits all the right home computer and elec­ tronic games magazines. And supports all key products - both new and current - with title-specific, full-color advertisements, consistent with the new EPYX identity. Computer Game of the Month "Dealel'!lC(lpe ~ May '83 According to computer gamers, the Popular fast-paced racing action more screens, the better. jumpman PillS the strategy 01 the pits-an has 300lthem. Pills 8 speeds and 5 industry first. skill levels! It has gotten rave reviews At break·neck speeds you steer and is/ast becoming a staple. your race car around the track. But Only Jumpman's quick reflexes, that's only half the challenge. You unparalleled speed and seven lives must also plan your race strategy can save the Jupiter Command carefully. because the faster you go, Center from the fiendish ALIENA­ the more fu el and tires you' ll bum TORS who have infiltrated the up. And th e more pitstops you center and planted bombs throughout its 30 levels. The mission is to make, the more time you will lose. Should you stay on the track or head diffuse the bombs and save the Command Center. You must leap girders, for the pits? Once in the pits, it's also a race against the clock -to gas climb ropes and scale ladders to reach the bombs. Watch out! Enemy up, change tires and get back in the race fast. It's the first auto race bullets, robots and birdmen are bent on your destruction! How many game where winning is "th e pits~' levels can you scale? How long canJumpman One or two players hold out? One to 4 players ,. '" All the populan'ty 0/ jumpman now The added elements ofstrategy and ifl cartn'dge/onn with allnewscreells 3-D graphics make this thelirst real and the same exciting action, third generation space battle game. The devilish ALIENATORS are Alien invaders are preparing a back! And they have overrun the full· scale invasion of Earth, and your Jupiter Command Substation. In Lunar Outposts are all that stand this cartridge format sequel to the between the invasion force and ulti · best·selling Jumpman, players must mate defeat. You must decide leap through 12 all new screens where to set up your defenses and featuring electrocution traps, which attackers will be your fi rst moving walls, hell stones. and dangers much too bizarre to be beli~ved, targets. The wrong strategy could be your downfall and could lead to How many screens can you master? the destruction of the planet Earth. Using the radar scan, you must Twelve different screens, 8 speeds. determine which outposts to man first and how much ammunition you One to four players will need to be successful. With exciting 3·D graphics, you're right in the action. One player Two players comPete simultaneously, Olle controls the kllight, the other Cl Tntdemark of Ann the monsters ill this unique action· Of McCarfey packedl role·fJlayillg game with Based on the best·sellillg sci-fi joystick control. adve1llure book series by A nil The Sorcerer's castle is loaded McCaffery-over ten mil/ion books with treasure beyond the dreams of sold. Now a great new adventure avarice. But before you can enter game licensed exclusively to EPYX. the castle, you've got to earn the This one's really hot. (How could right to do so by doing battle with riding a dragon be anything but?) rival fortune·hunters. Once inside the castle, only a good sword arm Do battle with the fiery threads and a wizard's spells protect you from your opponent's monsters and the threatening the planet Pern oWhen sorcerer's bag of tricks. they land on the planet, the desola· One or two players tion they cause is awesome and.fotal. As a Dragonrider, you must stop the threads, using the dragon's fiery breath and your own abilities to manueverquickly. Success in battle allows you to return home to regroup for the next attack. Failure produces an outdoor barbecue with you as the entree. One to live players

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To assist the retailer and customers, all of our games will be coded on the package to indicate the degree of emphasis on "Action"versus"Strategy"versus" Leaming:' The coding key is explained here: rM Computer Game of the Year APSHA.:" OF ~Game Manufacturers Assoc:' SKU/ Softsel Top \0 Litl '83 The great (lward-wiwlillg advell­ The standard by whtch otheradven­ ture go me - now in carln'dge jom! II: ture games are judged. A wllg-time with added-actioll, joystick control. ... best-seller and award winner. and euer-popular Temple ofApslzai Popular sequels will keep yourclts· strategy. 8 different screens wilh SO tamers com ing back for more. chambers per screen! The chance to peIionn heroic It's easy for players to lose their deeds awaits you in the award­ way-and their sense of time-in winning Temple of Apshai. Unlike the dark labyrinth of rooms and other adventure games, your char­ twisted caverns which lead to the acter in the game grows stronger. fabled Temple of Apshai. Glorious treasures abound, scattered more intelligent, and better equipped as you gain more experience. throughout the Gateway's many levels. Unfortunately, some very nasty This makes you better able to contend with the four different levels, monsters also live there. Is your strategy to survive by avoiding the over 200 chambers, priceless treasures, and 20 different monsters all monsters or will you move through the maze seeking out treasurers and looking for their next meal. Slay the monsters and killing monsters to build your score? Luck, strength and dexterity escape with great wealth to Ii ve and fight another day. are your assigned characteristics. One player One player OFAPSHAI Fi rst in a series of expansion dungeons for the Temple of Apshai. '" Compl ete with animated graphics, four levels, and more than 150 chambers. Not to men tion giant tomatoes and killer chickens. Tme 10 life /JOlice ac/iOI1 pIllS strategy One player ami plmm;ng are combined ill this new II igh-resolutioll gra phies aelillll ­ OFRA strategy game. Add to the challenge of Upper Reaches and Temple of Apshai with Inside the First National Bank. ajoumey to the deserts of ancient Egypt. Four new levels, lOO additional the robbers have taken hostages. chambers. Plus nasty creatures like the cobra, the jackel and the As the leader of the country's best mummy. make your journey all the more treacherous. SWAT team, it's your job to rescue One player them and stop the robbers. Since the crooks aren't likely to give up, the only alternative is to go in after them. And that's when the planning 1M Science Fiction Computer and 'Strategy begin. It's your decision whether to survey the building ~STAR G am~ of t h~ YeaT carefully and position your men in strategic locations to foil the escape "Electronic Garnes" plan, or to take a chance and charge right in for a Quick rescue attempt. This award-winning space game Can you rescue the hostages and capture the has received praise /01' its high robbers in time? degree 0/ strategy combined with One player colorful graphics and continllous movement. In Star Wanior, you're faced with the unenviable but exciting task of freeing an entire planet. At your U"ique 3-D graphics. characters disposal are a variety of weapons that disappear and reappear and and even the ability to fly. All of real time competition for up to 4 which you use to dispose of stann troopers. robots and the deadly Mauler. players make this game a first ;11 its Choose from ]9 different game options and five levels categoly. of skill . The setting is a 3-D power grid One player laid out in the Silicon Valley of outer space. You are one of four Silicon Four Joystick Rating Waniors bent on the destruction of ~RICOCHfT ' " "Electronic Fun" April '83 your enemies and on your own Plenty of positioning strategy to survival. To triumph you must dodge, disappear, and reappear at a ~ sco... a.. different grid position and return fire with stunning accu racy. Your battle please the most avid billiard player, -• --• • • ---- • • • • --• -• plan and strategy will dictate whether you win • • • • • • • • and a unique/arm of action has or lose. • • • • • \• - cOlltn'buted to this game's continued --• I • • • • • - success. One to fOllr players ,." I • t • • • • I ,. • I • • • • I• "z The fonnat of a billiards game I • • • • • • I combined with keen strategy " • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • requirements make this game an _a_• _____ . __ • •• 'CII - O .. 0 award winner in the strategy game .~ ...... - category. Compete against an opponent or the computer and score points by launching projectilesand banking them off your opponent's obstacles. One or two players

· Simulated Sc r~ n '" Comllu lt'r G arne '" & oIlhe Year Nominee • MGame ManufactuTt:nI ASMIC :' A well-established, IOllg·time best­ A "MmlOpoly-type"game with the seller which brings the ever·popular same polelltiallo become a classic. movie monster theme 10 a home Combiues on-the-screen actioll with computer game. a color/ul game board/or sltstoilled Choose one of six monsters, or game play by up to eight players. build your own, and use your mono Starting with 4 parcels of land ster to destroy one of four unsus· and over $1 million. you search for pecti ng cities. The cities aren't the ever-elusive gusher. Obstacles total ly defenseless, however. They like government regulations. well callan their 1x>lice. na tional guard, fires. and hunicanes complicate and even a mad scientist, complete with helicopter. to save humanity matters, but the fun of increased land holdings. striking it rich. and from the relentless threat. even unloading worthless parcels on the uninitiated, more make up Olle player (or the setbacks. Complete with 4-oolor game board. One to eight players. /...:c AT RIGEL'· SWORD Of fARGOAL'" A cJwllengillg outerspnce rescue with established or player established Th e uniqueness 0/ ('I1(!r-cluUlKhlj( limp lim ils account lor /lIe !>o/m ­ dungeons sets Ih is hot sel/illg adven­ lan',y of 'h;s . ture game apart from the olhen;. Ten human hostages must be Level by level. you'll find you r rescued and beamed aboard the search for the wondrous Sword waiting escape vessel. But the ship more difficult and treacherous. The will only remain in orbit for 60 onl y thing you can be sure of is minutes-or less. dependi ng on the surpri se. and not all of which are time you set. Anned with powergull . pleasant ones. Animated graphics. blaster, and lasers, you must free all hostages before your allolted time is up. Hostages will be continuall y moved by their captors as you four levels. and dozens of monsters. chambers and treasures. attempt to make yOUf way through the maze of corridors, chambers and One player teleportals leading to them. 01le pltl),er '" ,. Th e high degree 0/ strategy ill this space adventure game nwkes it All 0/ the award-wimling qualities extremely popula r a mong the o/Templeo/Ap shai made even advanced ga mers. more challenging. Another tntly In this invol ving sci-fi outer space classic advelilure game series. war game. you find yourself in a This sequel to the Temple of series of duels with the computer. Apshai offers more command Scenarios range from one-an-one options, more traps. more monsters starship com bat to full -scale inter­ and other more difficult obstacles war. Three levels of diffi- to overcome. You must rescue the culty and 10 fully tested scenarios, to build your own. wanior maiden and break the spell make this game even more challenging. that binds her, while fighting your way through four levels of difficulty, One player nine speeds and more than 240 chambers. Olle player DANGER IN DINDISTI Fi rst expansion module for Hellfi re Wanior. The object of this game is to overcome four powerlul enemies. rerover magical treasures. and slay the dozens of monsters in the more than 100 caverns. chambers and catacombs. One player THEKEYSOF • Funher adventures and dangers for the . In this second expansion module. you must find four magical keys and a friendly un icorn. while fending off the demon Kronus/ ,. and his minions. One player

0 1983 EI'YX INC .. SUNNYVALE. CA I.lFORNIA 1'" octllC! availability slIbJect In canctllallOll or chanJ/t" at an)' umt li t iSolr dl!i(: reU,m 01 EI'Y X. II• ':Y BALLY/ MIDWAY" by BALLY/ MIDWAY" The most populararcadegameofits The mostlamous arcade shoot-oul 01 kind. There have been copies but all time, the game thatgavemillians lwne Quite as good as the original. a chance to experience the thn'/l 0/ Seawoll. lheclassicfrom Midway. • • • • an old-fashioned gllnlight. This das­ All the excitement of the arcade .~ ---1 sic created by Midway is now an game brought home. You sink exclusive license 0/ EPYX for home everything from enemy PT boats to CfJrnputers. battleships to aircraft carriers. It's shoot-out time and you're Each ship moves at a different speed going to have to be faster than your and has a different point value,so opponent, or the computer. You you must decide which ships you want to go after. All the fun of the can move, dodge, hide behind a covered wagon or cactus, but whatever arcade classic but without all the Quarters. you do, don't waste time. Because your opponent is constantly shoot­ One or two players ing at you. So take your position, aim, and fire to get him before he gets you. One or two players SfJECTAR:: EXIOY- Millions 0/ arcade/ails could 110t be wrong. Theirquarters made this ':X!DY· first-ola-kind 011 over­ CIRCUS;; whelmhlg success. Now Ihis Exidy Oftell imitated bul 1Ieverduplicated, classic is licensed 10 EPYX/orhome Ihis a rcode game was one 0/ its kind. computers. This Exidy classic is brought Spectar is the arcade classic to the Iwme computer uuder license upon which some of tlxlay's most 10 EPYX successful arcade attractions are Score points by catching the based . You score points by clearing bouncing clown on your spring out a maze while avoiding or shooting Rammers, and the more you board and sending him high into the shoot, the more of the maze you clear. But watch ou t! The better you get, big lop to break the balloons_ The the tougher they get, and the game just keeps getting faster! With higher he goes, the more balloons arcade-quality graphics and sound. he breaks, and the more points you score. And youll know when One or two players you've cleared out a row of ballons because a little musical award plays when you do. One or two players

Of/en'ng all the realism 0/ an outerspace envirmlment, lhisgame was FIRE by EXIDY" an olX!twhelming arcade Sllccess. Through an exclusive license with Exidy, A hit arcade game because 0/ its realistic visuals and this classic is now available from EPYX for the home computer. sound, this classic by Exidy is now available/or the home computer As a Star Fire commander you control the speed and direction of your through an exclusive license to EPYX. ship. Determine the position of the enemy and maneuver y,o ur craft Destroy the enemy fleet before it reaches your home port. Locate into position. Let loose with a laser cannoR blast and destroy the enemy the enemy ships on your sonar screen, determine their range, then it's space ships before they destroy you and your base. Keep an eye on up periscope and torpedos away. Don't waste time, the enemy sub is your control panel for a constant update of fuel and time remaining. firing away, determined to send your fl eet to Davy Jones' locker. One player game. One or two player game.

WITH ART'" Ounlewes/ entry illto the fastest With more colors than its competi­ growing segme1lt 0/ computer so/t­ tors, the ease and convenience 0/ ware is easy to use with its handy joystick control6w pad needed), this keyboard overlay, and has the per­ game will be a win1ler in the fect blend of education alld fun. increasingly populareducatimwl A unique new way to learn and category. play mu sic on your video screen. This learning "game" transfers One mode allows you to compose the paJette and brush to the video songs and then play them back­ -• _ _ screen with amazing results. You with-the additional capability to add _~____ can choose from numerous brush or remove notes and change tempo or key. The second mode is a strokes,-coiors and shapes, plus special fill -in and magnifying options musical in which you control a drum major who has to touch to create works of art_ Great fun and creativity for the artist of any age. and play the displayed notes of your song before a small but ferocious One player mongrel catches up with him. It's creative, challenging/,,­ and makes learning music fun. One player

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