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Video Games: A Winner's Guide to the 12th Hottest Coin-Op Games!

This is a hints, tips, strategies, and review guide to 12 arcade video games. It describes the theme, and story of each games, tells how to play it, then gives beginner, and advance strategies for playing the games. There is a illustrated image representing the screen of each game, in the image the various on screen objects are labeled. After the games section, there is a short description of various home consoles. It describes the two classes of systems at the time. Standard: Atari Video Computer System {Atari VCS, VCS, Atari 2600}, and the Magnavox Odyssey2. Senior: Intellivision, ColecoVisio, Astro Professional Arcade {Bally Astrocade}, and Atari Super-Game {Atari 5200}. The book is small sized and able to fit into a persons hand or pocket, the author mentions the magazine "Electronic Games", a magazine she helped found about a year earlier. It is possible that theses reviews, and tips, are from articles she wrote for the magazine. The book does not show a ISBN, but it is "Dell Purse Book" No. 9280, and has the barcode of 0715720499707, and originally sold for 60 cents.

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English
Pages
64

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Table of Contents

The Coin-Op Videogames. 2
Asteroids Deluxe. 7
Berzerk. 12
Centipede. 16
Defender. 20
Donkey Kong. 25
Frogger. 29
Galaxian. 33
Pac-Man. 37
Scramble. 42
Space Invaders. 47
Tempest. 52
Wizard of Wor. 56
The Home Videogame Systems. 61

Edition Notes

Dell Purse Book 9280

Contributors

Illustrator
John A. Lind

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
64
Dimensions
13.5 x 9 x 0.3 centimeters

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OL26462864M

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