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Playboy's Guide to Rating the Video Games

This is a video game review and retail price guie book, covering 4 different game systems. It has a 16 page insert, with photographs of each system, and examples of screenshots from various games, the images are in gray scale screenshots, and these insert pages are not numbered, and do not count in the books page numbers. The systems covered are; Astrocade, Atari Video Computer System {aka Atari 2600}, Mattel Electronics Intellivision, Colecovision. It also reviews 12 arcade games. Each game and system are reviewed, given a rating between 1-5 stars, for various features, and a overall rating is used at the end of the review. There are also tips and strategies on how to play the games. The book originaly sold for $2.95. Throughout the book it uses the VCS {Video Computer System} to refer to the various game systems, even though the Atari Video Computer System, usually uses that name, and those initials.

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Publisher
Playboy Paperbacks
Language
English
Pages
266

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Playboy's Guide to Rating the Video Games
1982, Playboy Paperbacks
Paperback in English

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Table of Contents

1. Some Guidelines for Evaluating Video Games. 1
2. Player Styles and Preferences. 19
3. Life-Styles. 26
4. Rating the Home Games. 32
What You Get When You Buy VCS. 33
Astrocade: The Professional Arcade. 35
Hardware Evaluation. 35
Software Evaluation. 39
Gunfight. 39
Checkmate. 41
Scribbling. 42
The Astrocade Game Catalog: Selected Games. 44
Astro Battle. 44
Astrocade Pinball. 46
Amazing Maze. 47
Black Jack/Poker/Acey-Deucey. 49
Brickyard. 52
Clowns. 54
Football. 55
Galactic Invasion. 59
Artillery Duel. 61
The Incredible Wizard. 65
Pirate's Chase. 69
Space Fortress. 72
Star Battle. 74
Baseball. 76
280 Zzzap/Dodgem. 78
The Atari Video Computer System. 79
Hardware Evaluation. 79
Software Evaluation. 84
Combat. 85
Adventure. 91
Air-Sea Battle. 95
Asteroids. 100
Basketball. 103
Berzerk. 105
Bowling. 108
Video Checkers. 110
Video Chess. 112
Hangman. 114
Haunted House. 116
Maze Craze. 119
Missile Command. 122
Pac-Man. 126
Space Invaders. 127
Yar's Revenge. 130
{Insert pages of grey scale photographs, screenshots}. 1-16
Backgammon. 135
Breakout. 139
Casino. 142
Night Driver. 144
Super Breakout. 146
Video Olympics. 149
Warlords. 151
Atari Keyboard-Controller Games. 154
Mattel Electronics Intellivision. 155
Hardware Evaluation. 155
Software Evaluation. 159
Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack. 159
The Intellivision Game Catalog: Selected Games. 163
Astrosmash. 163
PBA Bowling. 166
Major League Baseball. 171
Boxing. 175
The Electric Company: Math Fun. 180
NASL Soccer. 184
NBA Basketball. 188
NFL Football. 193
NHL Hockey. 197
Sea Battle; Sub Hunt. 199
U.S. Ski Team Skiing. 200
Snafu. 203
Tennis. 205
Utopia. 209
The Odyssey2: Home Video Game System. 213
Hardware Evaluation. 213
Software Evaluation. 216
Freedom Fighters. 218
Monkeyshines. 222
Take the Money and Run. 226
UFO. 230
Quest For the Rings/The Great Wall StreetFortune Hunt/Conquest of the World. 232
Colecovision: Video Game System. 234
Hardware Evaluation. 236
{Software Evaluation, no actual title section}. 240
Donkey Kong. 240
Cosmic Avenger. 242
Venture. 245
A few Helpful Tips on Buying A VCS System. 248
5. The Twelve Best Current Arcade Games. 250
Robotron 2084. 252
Ms. Pac-Man. 253
Turbo. 254
Tutankham. 254
Zaxxon. 255
Donkey Kong. 257
Galaga. 257
Tron. 258
A. The Light Racers. 258
B. The MCP Conex. 258
C. The Bug Grid. 259
D. The Tank Maze. 259
Dig Dug. 259
Defender. 260
Centipede. 260
Pac-Man. 261
6. Price Catalog {for VCS} Hardware and Software. 262
Asterocade: The Professional Arcade. 263
The Atari Video Computer System. 264
Mattel Electronics Intellivision. 264
Odyssey2: Home Video Game System. 265
Colecovision: Video Game System. 266

Edition Notes

Original price was $2.95

Published in
New York, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
794.8/2
Library of Congress
GV1469.3 .L68 1982

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
266 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
266
Dimensions
7 x 4 1/8 x 6/8 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3514637M
ISBN 10
0867212128
LCCN
82081906
OCLC/WorldCat
9013404
Goodreads
455253

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