An edition of Ken Uston's Home Video '83 (1982)

Ken Uston's Home Video '83

The 20 Best New Games and How to Beat Them... Plus 5 Great Classics!

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An edition of Ken Uston's Home Video '83 (1982)

Ken Uston's Home Video '83

The 20 Best New Games and How to Beat Them... Plus 5 Great Classics!

This is a review, hints, tips, and strategies guide to 25 video games. It also reviews the video game consoles that were available at the time, the Atari 5200, Atari VCS, {Atari Video Computer System, Atari 2600}, Colecovision, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Astrocade, Emerson Arcadia-2001, and Fairchild Channel F. There are illustrations representing screen views of the games, as well as illustrations of the systems and their controllers. Each game review is broken up into 6 sections. Evaluation and Basic Objective, Scenario, The Boards, Controls, Facts You Should Know, and Strategies. The next to last page gives a full page biography of Ken Uston, and his achievement, and the last page is a order form to get the "Ken Uston's Newsletter on Video Games", which was a subscription newsletter, that cost $9.95 for 1 year. This book was priced at $2.95, and was earlier proceeded by 3 other video game books. "Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating Home Video Games", "Mastering Pac-Man", and "Score! Beating the Top 16 Video Games". These earlier books were also released as a box set.

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English
Pages
212

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Ken Uston's Home Video '83: The 20 Best New Games and How to Beat Them... Plus 5 Great Classics!
1982, New American Library
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Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader. ix
1. Comparative Evaluation of Home Video Systems. 1
2. Comparative Evaluation of All Game Cartridges. 24
3. The 20 Best New Games. 42
B-17r Bomber. 42
Cosmic Avenger. 49
Donkey Kong. 58
Frogger. 66
Galaxian. 73
The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt. 78
Lady Bug. 83
Megamania. 92
Missile Command. 101
Pac-Man. 108
Pitfall!. 115
Planet Patrol. 123
Space Hawk. 129
Space Lnvaders. 135
Space Spartans. 142
Super Challenge Football. 150
Swordquest. 154
Threshold. 161
Venture. 168
Word Zapper. 172
4. The 5 Classic Games. 181
Asteroids. 181
Astrosmash (Also Astroblast). 187
Defenders. 193
Major League1r Baseball (Includes a Description of Super Challenge Baseball). 198
Space Battle (Includes a Description of Space Attack). 203

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, N.Y
Series
Ken Uston's Guide to...
Other Titles
Home Video '83
Copyright Date
1982

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
794.8/2
Library of Congress
GV1469.3 .U85 1982, GV1469.3.U85 1982

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xi, 212 p. :
Number of pages
212
Dimensions
18 x 10.7 x 1.8 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3212179M
ISBN 10
0451120108
LCCN
83119438
OCLC/WorldCat
9441980
Goodreads
2023940

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