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Act-83Catalog THE ACTIVISION® Designed by Carol Shaw. Your mission is ADVENTURE to destroy enemy bridges, ships, aircraft and fuel depots along a heavily fart1· fied inland waterway. And 1t won't be The moment you insert an Now available pretly, because you'll be coming in low, through a narrowing valley, and Activision®video game into your the enemy will be throwing everything it hos at you. You 'll really hove to earn Atari® 2600™Video Computer your wings with River ROid!"' System™or your Sears Tele -Games® Video Arcade~ you will embark on adventure that will leave other home video games far behind. You will experience a world that totally encompasses your mind and senses. A world of incredibly involving Sports games, Strategy games and Action games. Designed by Larry Miller. Monstrous spiders ore determmed to turn your peaceful orchard into a war zone. They spring into ad1on, laying eggs thot Now available qu1<kly turn into fearsome fighters Your remote control bug blaster zaps them into bug heaven, if they don't get you first . Vibrant groph1<s, spooky sounds, and enough challenge to "bug" the Aton;" 2600™ and Video Computer System TM ore lrodemorks of Atari, Inc. most dedicated video game player Tele-Gomes ond Video Arcade"" are trademarks of Seo~ . Roebuck and Co NEW FOR USE WITH THE ATARl"2600 SYSTEM '" Designed by Steve Cortwright. Get Designed by Matthew Hubbard, your sea legs, because 1h11 new sub­ Dolphin™ is ready lo ride the wove. marine adventure game hos 1ust been Make way for the first game lo use launched Your divers hove l1nolly sound effects lo le! you know of off­ located the greatest sunken treasure Coming in screen hazards and escape routes Iha! Coming in ore looming ahead. You 're being on the ocean floor. but gelling bock February 1983 April 1983 chased by a hungry sea monster. As the to the mother ship could get a hllle sun moves across the horizon, you tricky Your men hove been spelled by mus! make your way through schools a fleet of pirate scavengers and 11 they of sea horses and try lo catch the power don'! get 'em, the killer sharks might of the magic seagull. Being chased by a seo monster hos never been this exciting before. Designed by Mike Lorenzen, with three Designed by Garry Kitchen lo floor you. oinks and a growl Three portly porkers Start with one greedy burglm Next, ore worried about their houses No. put him in "Burglar·Heaven ;· m this they're no! going condo. but the wolf is case, a large, metropolitan deportment al !he door and he's blowing like crazy Coming in store. He starts swiping things , of course. Coming in First , there's a house of straw. then one March 1983 April 1983 Bui wail, you're the blue clod, perplexed of wood, and then one of brick. They're policeman with a bowler hot 0SS1gned oil v1ct1ms of the wolf's ins:red1bly bod lo slop him. From floor lo floor, up and breath Unless, of course, the home­ down escalators and elevators, the owmng omkers con repair the damage stumbling, bumbling, fumbling, chose is foster than the wolf con cause 11 Home remodeling hos at lost, become a boll on. For people who love video games, 3 this is exactly the right deportment ACTION GAMES ACTION GAMES Designed by Bob Whitehead. A devil­ Designed by David Crone. Seek out the ishly dangerous air race! In your effort lost treasures of an ancient civilization to break the speed record, you'll bank hidden deep within the forbidding around pylons, dodge tree tops and jungle. Swing through trees, jump over zoom through passing clouds. Look out! 1983 Arcade Awards: bottomless pits and journey through Hot air balloons dead ahead! Sky Best Video Game underground passageways, avoiding Jinks™ hos all the chills and spills of on Adventure. the perils of the jungle-crocodiles and old lime air roce. Just remember: There's cobras, scorpions and quicksand. All no speed limit in the sky! to find the treasure-in Pitfall!™ Designed by Steve Cortwright. This Designed by Alan Miller You 're 1n the game is a space nightmare! Imagine, cockpit of on mlergoloctlC spacecraft fighting off multiple waves of the Your mission: Defend your storboses strongest objects ever lo defy the lows ogo1nst attacking enemy storfighters. 1983 Arcade Awards: of gravity. Celestial dice, spinning bow­ 1983 Arcade Awards: Galactic charts pinpoint enemy targets Most Humorous ties, furious flying widgets and even Certificate of Merit Meteor showers slow your attack. And Home/ Arcade Game. hostile hamburgers. And they drop (Video Game of the enemy particle cannons con quickly send round after round of deadly disinle­ Year.) you to your starbose for repairs. grolors. You'd better hope you and your Computer readouts reveal energy levels, courage ore wide awake when you ship damage and more. Stormoster™ ploy MegoMonio™ is one of the most sophisticated space 5 games available. 6 ACTION GAMES ACTION GAMES Designed by Bob Wh1teheod You're Designed by Dov1d Crone. You see, flying escort for o truck convoy of there's this chicken And he deodes he medical supplies Suddenly, enemy wants to cross the road Fom1l1or story, aircraft show up on your long-range right? Except, th11 lime the rood is 1983 Arcade Awards: scanner. You whip your chopper around, Honorable Mention, a freewoy, and it's rush hour! Your task Best Action Video blonketing the sky with loser rockets. 1982 Arcade Alley 11 to guide the poor chicken to the Game. The enemy responds with mulh-worheod Awards: Mast other side of the lreewoy. Get the m11siles. Chopper Commend™ could Innovative Game. picture? And if you get the game, you'll be the most demanding video bottle agree there's never been anything like ever conceived! Freewoy _• Designed by Lorry Ko pion. It looks very Designed by Bob Wh1teheod Ready for simple. You hove three buckets of woter a little round up? With Stampede" The cute little guy up on the wall hos you'll hove to ride fast and rope even o whole bunch of bombs He tosses the foster Those little dog1es seem to be 1982 Arcade Alley bombs, and you catch them Like we everywhere, and they're oil worth Award Winner, Best said, "Very simple" PS. Before you know points But, be careful I Your ol' horse 11 , bombs ore lolling at a rote of 13 per Audio and Visual con get a little edgy, espeoolly when second! Is the hond reoHy quicker thon Effects. you take your eyes off the trod Heod the eye? Try Koboom!™ and find out out West for hours of fun w ith Certified One Stampede' ' Million Seller. 8 ACTION GAMES SPORTS CHALLENGES Designed by Steve Cortwright Fasten Designed by David Crone. A relaxing your seatbelts! This flight is going afternoon at the ol' fishing hole? Not to be very rough and lots of fun . It's quite. The boy's full of beautiful sunfish Barnstorming™ A brilliant achievement l olright, and all you hove to do is lond in realistic video game graphics. Fly a 19B1 Arcade Alley 'em foster than your opponent. But biplane through barns, over windmills, Award Winner, Best there's 1ust one small hitch. Watch out and through flocks of geese Here's l Audio and Visual for that shark! His voracious appetite where state-of-the-art game design Effects. makes Fishing Derby• a constant meets seat-of-the-pants ov1ot1on. challenge. Designed by David Crone. 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 computer or a Commander of a fleet of intergalactic friend. It's fast and furious action that's Honorable Mention, spacecraft, you come upon some very 19B1 Arcade Alley sure to leave you exhausted. But, be 19B2 Arcade Alley unfriendly alien types Get them before Award Winner, Best careful! Don't get pinned to the ropes. Awards: Best Science they get you and you're awarded Competitive Game. Knock-outs are port of the action, too' Fiction Game. points. Brilliant colors and startling Honorable Mention: sound effects make Loser Blast on Certified One Million Best Sports Game oll-t1me space video classic. Seller. l 19B1. 10 SPORTS CHALLENGES SPORTS CHALLENGES Designed by Alan Miller Never wait for Designed by Alan Miller. Face off! Fight a court again Tenn11 offers all the for the puck Skate down ice post the challenge and exotement of tenn11 defender for o slop-shot! Then, hurry right on your own TV Charging players bock on defense as your opponent's Honorable Mention, con rush the net, lay bock and ploy 1983 Arcade Awards: goalie makes o remarkable sove ond 1981 Arcade Alley the baseline, or room the court. It's Best Sports Video o long pass to his forward. Here's fon­ Awards: Best Head-to­ tenn11 od1on so remarkably real, the Game. tostlC heod-to-head competition right Head, Best Sports, boll's even got o shadow' Loads of fun ot your fingertips. So real, it'll knock Most Innovative for all game fans you off your skates! Game. 17' Designed by Bob Whitehead Challenge Designed by David Cro ne. Watch the yourself to o wide variety of high-speed countdown, shift geors, pop the clu tch downhill or slalom runs Trees and and burn rubber! 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