{"id":24653,"date":"2020-04-06T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=24653"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:44:05","slug":"vcs-owners-club-bulletin-september-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/04\/06\/vcs-owners-club-bulletin-september-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"VCS Owners Club Bulletin (September 1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2Fownersclub%2Fownersclub_22&amp;twg_show=ownersclub_22_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ownersclub_22_01-720x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2Fownersclub%2Fownersclub_22&amp;twg_show=ownersclub_22_01.jpg\">VCS Owners Club Bulletin &#8211; September 1982<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ebay\/Atari2600.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/megalextoria.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/vcs-owners-club-bulletin-september-1982.html<\/p>\n<p>While the Atari 2600 (A.K.A. VCS &#8211; Video Computer System) was not the very first console, it is the one most responsible for popularizing home video games. While no doubt most popular in the U.S., it was a worldwide phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>This is the September 1982 issue of VCS Owners Club Bulletin. This was the official Atari publication for the VCS in the U.K. It consisted of only a few pages and typically included new game release information (Demons to Diamonds is once such new release mentioned in this issue and it&#8217;s on the cover too) and at least one article (in this case, one on the regional Pac-Man Competition in the U.K.) and a few other items like high scores and tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: VCS Owners Club Bulletin &#8211; September 1982 https:\/\/megalextoria.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/vcs-owners-club-bulletin-september-1982.html While the Atari 2600 (A.K.A. VCS &#8211; Video Computer System) was not the very first console, it is the one most responsible for popularizing home video games. While no doubt most popular in the U.S., it was a worldwide phenomena. This is the September 1982 issue of VCS Owners Club Bulletin. This was the official Atari publication for the VCS in the U.K. It consisted of only a few pages and typically included new game release information (Demons to Diamonds is once such new release mentioned in this issue and it&#8217;s on the cover too) and at least one article (in this case, one on the regional Pac-Man Competition in the U.K.) and a few other items like high scores and tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,16],"tags":[225,228,2524,1877],"class_list":["post-24653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atari-2600","category-retro-games","tag-atari","tag-atari-2600","tag-retrogaming","tag-vcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24653","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=24653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}