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The Player's Strategy Guide to Atari VCS Home Video Games

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This is a review, tips, hints and strategy guide for the games released on the Atari Video Computer System (VCS). The first section of the book is a listing of all 57 commercially available games for the VCS (at the time the book was published), each entry is broken up into six parts; 'Type of Game', 'Number of Players,' 'Solitaire Suitability,' 'Head to Head Suitability,' 'Complexity,' and a review 'Description.' The second section of the book has the tips and strategy for 25 games, each of these games is represented with at least one black and white illustration. The last section of the book is a look at the future of Atari and the companies that were making games for the VCS. The book ends with a 'Glossary', of terms and words used in the book. The individual authors are listed on the title page, with only 'From the Editors of Electronic Games,' mentioned on the cover. The book was originally published in the USA, as ISBN: 0440170583 and cost $2.95, it was later published in the U.K. ISBN: 0140066020 for £1.50, and $4.95 for Australia.

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English
Pages
223

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Cover of: The Player's Strategy Guide to Atari VCS Home Video Games
The Player's Strategy Guide to Atari VCS Home Video Games
June 1982, Dell Publishing Company
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Player's Strategy Guide to Atari VCS Home Video Games
The Player's Strategy Guide to Atari VCS Home Video Games
1982, Penguin Books
Paperback in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction. 11
Buyer's Catalog of Atari VCS-Compatible Games. 15
Adventure. 19
Air-Sea Battle. 19
Asteroids. 20
Backgammon. 20
Barnstorming. 21
Basketball. 21
Bowling. 22
Boxing. 22
Brain Games. 23
Breakout. 23
Bridge. 24
Casino. 24
Championship Soccer. 25
Checkers. 25
Circus Atari. 26
Codebreaker. 26
Combat. 27
Concentration. 27
Dodge 'Em. 28
Dragster. 29
Fishing Derby. 30
Football. 31
Freeway. 32
Golf. 32
Grand Prix. 33
Hangman. 33
Home Run. 34
Human Cannonball. 34
Ice Hockey. 35
Indy 500. 36
Kaboom. 37
Laser Blast. 38
Maze Craze. 39
Missile Command. 40
Night Driver. 41
Othello. 42
Outlaw. 42
Pac-Man. 43
Skeet Shoot. 44
Skiing. 44
Sky Diver. 45
Slot Racers. 45
Spacechase. 46
Space Invaders. 47
Space War. 47
Stampede. 48
Street Racer. 49
Super-Breakout. 50
Superman. 51
Surround. 52
Tennis. 53
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe. 54
Video Checkers. 54
Video Chess. 55
Video Olympics. 55
Video Pinball. 56
Warlords. 57
Player's Strategy Guides. 59
Air-Sea Battle. 61
Asteroids. 68
Barnstorming. 76
Basketball. 81
Boxing. 86
Breakout. 92
Championship Soccer. 98
Circus Atari. 106
Dodge 'Em. 112
Fishing Derby. 118
Home Run. 125
Ice Hockey. 130
Kaboom. 137
Laser Blast. 142
Missile Command. 148
Night Driver. 155
Pac-Man. 160
Spacechase. 167
Space Invaders. 174
Stampede. 181
Super-Breakout. 186
Superman. 192
Surround. 199
Tennis. 203
Video Olympics. 209
Things to Come. 217
Video Gamer's Glossary. 221

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
223
Dimensions
17.5 x 11 x 1.5 centimeters

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Open Library
OL7518031M
ISBN 10
0440170583
ISBN 13
9780440170587
OCLC/WorldCat
8579506
Library Thing
463379
Goodreads
1079535

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