{"id":25636,"date":"2020-09-29T18:15:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=25636"},"modified":"2020-10-09T17:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T21:22:28","slug":"computer-video-games-january-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/29\/computer-video-games-january-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer &#038; Video Games (January 1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FCVG%2FIssue003&amp;twg_show=CVG00300001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25637\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CVG00300001-745x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FCVG%2FIssue003&amp;twg_show=CVG00300001.jpg\">Computer &amp; Video Games &#8211; Issue Number 3 &#8211; January 1982<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Computer &amp; Video Games (CVG for short) was one of the U.K.&#8217;s longest running video and computer games magazines. The print magazine was published from 1981 to 2004 with a website carrying on until 2015. The January 1982 issue includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mailbag<\/b> &#8211; Problems, praise, comments and criticism<\/li>\n<li><b>Four Octagons Puzzle<\/b> &#8211; We present our program to solve the free puzzle &#8211; how does your match up against it?<\/li>\n<li><b>Games News<\/b> &#8211; What could you be playing in 1982? We catalog the latest computer games packages<\/li>\n<li><b>Chess<\/b> &#8211; Some classic computerized blunders, Max Bramer proves that computers are only human after all<\/li>\n<li><b>Bridge<\/b> &#8211; Alan Hiron deals out some history on computerized bridge<\/li>\n<li><b>Arcade Action<\/b> &#8211; Reports on the arcade game tipped as a winner for &#8217;82<\/li>\n<li><b>Speed Race<\/b> &#8211; Grand Prix thrills on TI-99\/4A<\/li>\n<li><b>Changing Hearts<\/b> &#8211; A marvelous pattern puzzle on the Atari to test your logic<\/li>\n<li><b>Tank Battle<\/b> &#8211; The Sharp screen becomes a battle field as tank commanders stalk one-another<\/li>\n<li><b>Treasure Hunt<\/b> &#8211; Danger lurks in the deepest recesses of your Apple<\/li>\n<li><b>Dragon Druggin&#8217;<\/b> &#8211; It&#8217;s wizardry against dragon&#8217;s breath as fantasy finds its way onto your PET<\/li>\n<li><b>Life<\/b> &#8211; A classic computer game. Put Life in your Atom<\/li>\n<li><b>Entrapment<\/b> &#8211; Can you think on the move and box in your opponent before he traps you. For the quick-witted on the Tandy<\/li>\n<li><b>Three 1K Wonders<\/b> &#8211; Mole, Swag and Android Attack, three reasons to unwrap that Christmas Sinclair.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Bugs<\/b> &#8211; A mangled micro&#8230; a recurring threat to Santa&#8230; who can be to blame?<\/li>\n<li><b>Adventure<\/b> &#8211; Will you dare the Deathmare? Keith Campbell did and he may never be the same again.<\/li>\n<li><b>Brainware<\/b> &#8211; Ian Pedder&#8217;s first Mind routines puzzle had the beating of most of you &#8211; now try his January brainteaser<\/li>\n<li><b>Kit Korner<\/b> &#8211; Keith Mott peels the skin off a Tangerine<\/li>\n<li><b>What&#8217;s in Store<\/b> &#8211; Counting off the shopping days left to Christmas 1982 yet? Well the toy industry is. We reveal some of its plans<\/li>\n<li><b>Practical Programming<\/b> &#8211; Ted Ball is on the trail of the Bugs<\/li>\n<li><b>Softporn<\/b> &#8211; We uncover the seamier side of computers. Elspeth Joiner tries one of the new generation of pornographic games<\/li>\n<li><b>Video Screen<\/b> &#8211; Best sellers &#8211; we look at the cartridges which lead the market. This issue, Intellivision&#8217;s Soccer<\/li>\n<li><b>Sounds<\/b> &#8211; David Annal investigates a &#8220;microchip orchestra&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><b>Graphics<\/b> &#8211; Garry Marshall&#8217;s invader is up and running. Now shoot it<\/li>\n<li><b>Down to BASIC<\/b> &#8211; Moira Norrie looks at loops and graphics<\/li>\n<li><b>Reviews<\/b> &#8211; Follow in Daley Thompson&#8217;s Decathlon footsteps<\/li>\n<li><b>Software Glossary<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Hardcore<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Computer &amp; Video Games &#8211; Issue Number 3 &#8211; January 1982 Computer &amp; Video Games (CVG for short) was one of the U.K.&#8217;s longest running video and computer games magazines. The print magazine was published from 1981 to 2004 with a website carrying on until 2015. The January 1982 issue includes: Mailbag &#8211; Problems, praise, comments and criticism Four Octagons Puzzle &#8211; We present our program to solve the free puzzle &#8211; how does your match up against it? Games News &#8211; What could you be playing in 1982? We catalog the latest computer games packages Chess &#8211; Some classic computerized blunders, Max Bramer proves that computers are only human after all Bridge &#8211; Alan Hiron deals out some history on computerized bridge Arcade Action &#8211; Reports on the arcade game tipped as a winner for &#8217;82 Speed Race &#8211; Grand Prix thrills on TI-99\/4A Changing Hearts &#8211; A marvelous pattern puzzle on the Atari to test your logic Tank Battle &#8211; The Sharp screen becomes a battle field as tank commanders stalk one-another Treasure Hunt &#8211; Danger lurks in the deepest recesses of your Apple Dragon Druggin&#8217; &#8211; It&#8217;s wizardry against dragon&#8217;s breath as fantasy finds its way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[2362,2524],"class_list":["post-25636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-retro-games","tag-retrocomputing","tag-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25636","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=25636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}