{"id":23959,"date":"2019-11-19T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=23959"},"modified":"2022-01-24T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T21:51:40","slug":"tv-gamer-april-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/19\/tv-gamer-april-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Gamer (April 1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FTVGamer%2FIssue8404&amp;twg_show=TVGamer840400001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23960\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TVGamer840400001-742x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FTVGamer%2FIssue8404&amp;twg_show=TVGamer840400001.jpg\">TV Gamer &#8211; April 1984<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>TV Gamer was a U.K. based gaming magazine from the mid 1980s. I suppose it was a competitor to C&amp;VG but only for a relatively short time. TV Gamer was only published for about two years with the last couple of issues being incorporated in to Big K. The April 1984 issue includes:<\/p>\n<p>Cover Feature<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Space cockpit games<\/b> &#8211; Off this month into outer space, we take a look at the universe from the front viewport of your own craft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Depth Reviews<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Yar&#8217;s Revenge<\/b> &#8211; Follow the exploits of the world&#8217;s most lethal fly in his life-or-death struggle against the merciless Qotile and its deadly Swirl.<\/li>\n<li><b>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/b> &#8211; We give a map and game-plan for one of the most perplexing games ever produced for the VCS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Arcade Scene<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>New Coin-op Games<\/b> &#8211; Andy Harris has gone round to his local arcade armed with a barrel of tenpences to try out the latest, dazzling games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Systems<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Sinclair computers<\/b> &#8211; TV Gamer&#8217;s Darrin Williamson takes a look at four remarkable Sinclair computers and the incredible range of games software available for one of the, the ZX Spectrum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Competition<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Prize Quiz<\/b> &#8211; Here&#8217;s a chance to win Britain&#8217;s most popular home computer, the ZX Spectrum, with valuable peripherals and games software.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Special Feature<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Adventure Games<\/b> &#8211; Look at your computer again and say &#8220;there&#8217;s a whole new world in there&#8221;, because, as Mike Lewis explains, this could be your chance to hobnob with hobbits and wisecrack with wizards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interview<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Champs<\/b> &#8211; Karl Dallas has been talking to the Atari world champs, and they&#8217;re both British.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reviews<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The new games<\/b> &#8211; A fresh look at the latest carts and cassettes hot off the distributors&#8217; shelves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Games Governments Play<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Battlefield video<\/b> &#8211; This month Mike Roberts reveals the incredible electronic toys that the military can use to train soldiers while saving on weapons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Games are OK<\/b> &#8211; In answer to the games knockers here&#8217;s some hard evidence that video games are good for you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regulars<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Editorial<\/li>\n<li>News<\/li>\n<li>Late news<\/li>\n<li>Top 20 video games and top 10 arcades<\/li>\n<li>Top scores<\/li>\n<li>TV Gamer club<\/li>\n<li>Advertisers, What&#8217;s coming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: TV Gamer &#8211; April 1984 TV Gamer was a U.K. based gaming magazine from the mid 1980s. I suppose it was a competitor to C&amp;VG but only for a relatively short time. TV Gamer was only published for about two years with the last couple of issues being incorporated in to Big K. The April 1984 issue includes: Cover Feature Space cockpit games &#8211; Off this month into outer space, we take a look at the universe from the front viewport of your own craft. In Depth Reviews Yar&#8217;s Revenge &#8211; Follow the exploits of the world&#8217;s most lethal fly in his life-or-death struggle against the merciless Qotile and its deadly Swirl. Raiders of the Lost Ark &#8211; We give a map and game-plan for one of the most perplexing games ever produced for the VCS. The Arcade Scene New Coin-op Games &#8211; Andy Harris has gone round to his local arcade armed with a barrel of tenpences to try out the latest, dazzling games. Systems The Sinclair computers &#8211; TV Gamer&#8217;s Darrin Williamson takes a look at four remarkable Sinclair computers and the incredible range of games software available for one of the, the ZX Spectrum. Competition Prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[225,228,243,2362,2524,1593],"class_list":["post-23959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-retro-games","tag-atari","tag-atari-2600","tag-atari-vcs","tag-retrocomputing","tag-retrogaming","tag-spectrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}