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Title: On ebaY - Consumer Guides' How to Win at Video Games books (1982 & 1983)
Post by: Vectoraster on July 09, 2003, 10:47:21 pm
These are two of the greatest books released during the video game craze of the 1980's.  Check them out at

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3945&item=3232703586 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3945&item=3232703586)

and

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3945&item=3232705173 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3945&item=3232705173)
Title: Re:On ebaY - Consumer Guides' How to Win at Video Games books (1982 & 1983)
Post by: TheTick on July 09, 2003, 11:20:03 pm
Is there an ebook version?  ;D
Title: Re:On ebaY - Consumer Guides' How to Win at Video Games books (1982 & 1983)
Post by: paigeoliver on July 10, 2003, 12:21:29 am
I ebayed my 1981 version of that book a while back, the one with a bunch of vector games, Pac-Man, Berzerk, and Galaxian. It fetched a pretty good price for a beat up old paperback. ($15 IIRC).
Title: Re:On ebaY - Consumer Guides' How to Win at Video Games books (1982 & 1983)
Post by: F|end on July 10, 2003, 06:20:32 am
I have a e-book that tells you how to win at pac-man and if you really wanna know, i don't care!  ;D
Title: Re:On ebaY - Consumer Guides' How to Win at Video Games books (1982 & 1983)
Post by: Silly Burrito on July 10, 2003, 11:07:22 pm
I actually have the 1982 version. It's funny that this is posted because we're cleaning out stuff for a garage sale and I found this book again. My wife asked me if that was going in the garage sale. I looked at it....and said no.

Of course, now it's outside in the garage for storage, but it's still a good book. It's interesting reading future predictions from a very old book (the Intellivision will rule all!)

And still, there's no home Qix version, is there????
Title: Re:On ebaY - Consumer Guides' How to Win at Video Games books (1982 & 1983)
Post by: Todd H on July 13, 2003, 05:52:55 pm
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And still, there's no home Qix version, is there????

Sure.  Atari made a home version for their Atari 5200 console.  Looked great, but played terribly because of the non-centering analog joysticks included with the 5200.  I believe it was also made available for the Atari 8-bit home computers as well.