{"id":23168,"date":"2019-08-05T10:27:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=23168"},"modified":"2019-08-12T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:16:45","slug":"video-games-january-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/08\/05\/video-games-january-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Games (January 1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"attachment wp-att-23169\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=23169\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23169\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Video-Games-Magazine_Jan.83_Page_01-773x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"773\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FVideo_Games%2Fvg_1983-01&amp;twg_show=Video+Games+Magazine_Jan.83_Page_01.jpg\">Video Games &#8211; January 1983<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Video Games is one of a number of short-lived video games magazines from the early 1980s. The video gaming magazine industry was born right around the time of the video game crash so many didn&#8217;t survive those early days. The January 1983 issue includes:<\/p>\n<p>Features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Video Games Interview: Bill Grubb &amp; Dennis Koble<\/b> &#8211; They left Atari to start up their own video game company in 1981. Two years later, Imagic is challenging Activision for the TV-game software crown. A candid conversation with two of the founders.<\/li>\n<li><b>Zen and the Art of Donkey Kong<\/b> &#8211; While the Chinese were worshiping dogs in 1982, we went nuts over a &#8220;stupid monkey&#8221; from Japan. Mark Jacobson has a few thoughts on the Donkey Kong phenomenon.<\/li>\n<li><b>Confessions of a Pinball Junkie<\/b> &#8211; Roger C. Sharpe has seen the enemy and it is video. The author of Pinball! yearns for the good old days when a flipper was a flipper, a bumper was a bumper, and every ball had a life of its own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Special Section<\/p>\n<ul><b>Video Games&#8217; Holiday Gift Guide<\/b> &#8211; &#8216;Tis time to take out hte old checklist and do your Christmas shipping. Have a few video gamers on your list? Don&#8217;t leave the house until you see the stocking stuffers we&#8217;ve assembled.<\/ul>\n<p>Departments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hyperspace<\/b> &#8211; A few words of hype from the editor.<\/li>\n<li><b>Double Speak<\/b> &#8211; Some words of advice from our readers.<\/li>\n<li><b>Blips<\/b> &#8211; Analyzing Tron, Larry Kaplan calls it quits, coin-op ads on the tube, Custer&#8217;s Revenge, the Who takes on video, Rawson Stovall makes his move, Firebug gets hosed, free games at Beefsteak Charlie&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li><b>Book Beat<\/b> &#8211; Phil Wisewell&#8217;s bark is as mean as his bite in &#8220;Rating the Latest Video Games Books.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><b>Soft Spot<\/b> &#8211; Does Ken Uston ever sleep? Nooooooo! He&#8217;s too busy writing about video games. Some of his favorites &#8211; and least favorites &#8211; are the subject of this article. From Ken Uston&#8217;s Home Video &#8217;83.<\/li>\n<li><b>Coin-Op Shop<\/b> &#8211; Hey, buddy can you spare a quarter? John Holmstrom knows the feeling after prowling the arcades for new, improved games. Have you ever heard of Q*bert? He has.<\/li>\n<li><b>Score!<\/b> &#8211; New department! Results of the first interstate video game face-off, the Astrosmash Shootoff and the world&#8217;s &#8220;largest&#8221; Pac-Man contest. Plus, some of the latest greatest scores.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hard Sell<\/b> &#8211; ColecoVision and Vectrex are as good as home game systems come. Reviews by Mike &#8220;How to Beat the Video Games&#8221; Blanchet and Perry &#8220;Stand Alone&#8221; Greenberg.<\/li>\n<li><b>Bull&#8217;s-Eye<\/b> &#8211; David Leibowitz returns with more words-to-the-wise from a Wall Streeter&#8217;s point-of-view. Topic: computers.<\/li>\n<li><b>Comic Relief<\/b> &#8211; Last time we heard, the bugs were ready to hook themselves a live one. Take Two: &#8220;The Zydroid legion.&#8221; By Matt Howarth and Lou Stathis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Video Games &#8211; January 1983 Video Games is one of a number of short-lived video games magazines from the early 1980s. The video gaming magazine industry was born right around the time of the video game crash so many didn&#8217;t survive those early days. The January 1983 issue includes: Features Video Games Interview: Bill Grubb &amp; Dennis Koble &#8211; They left Atari to start up their own video game company in 1981. Two years later, Imagic is challenging Activision for the TV-game software crown. A candid conversation with two of the founders. Zen and the Art of Donkey Kong &#8211; While the Chinese were worshiping dogs in 1982, we went nuts over a &#8220;stupid monkey&#8221; from Japan. Mark Jacobson has a few thoughts on the Donkey Kong phenomenon. Confessions of a Pinball Junkie &#8211; Roger C. Sharpe has seen the enemy and it is video. The author of Pinball! yearns for the good old days when a flipper was a flipper, a bumper was a bumper, and every ball had a life of its own. Special Section Video Games&#8217; Holiday Gift Guide &#8211; &#8216;Tis time to take out hte old checklist and do your Christmas shipping. Have a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[225,228,231,460,2524,1878],"class_list":["post-23168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro-games","tag-atari","tag-atari-2600","tag-atari-5200","tag-colecovision","tag-retrogaming","tag-vectrex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}