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that one day I will take my place It lacked both the game play and
among the stellar champions of the voice synthesis the arcade
Atari and Atari compatible games game featured. Wizard of Wor Here is a quick guide to the World
throughout the world. I am now looked the same as the 2600 ver- Wide Web URL’s referenced in this
anxious to start on some other sion. Surely the 5200 can do a issue.
games that I could not master in better version of Wizard of Wor
my youth, like Adventure and River than the 2600! They looked almost AdventureVision.com
www.adventurevision.com
Raid. I will report on my growth identical.
and progress, both as a human be- Other disastrous conversions: Amazon.com
ing and as a future Atari 2600 Sega's Congo Bongo and Buck www.amazon.com
champion. Rogers both lack some boards Atari Gaming Headquarters:
As for Mrs. Goldberg, hear this: from the arcade classics. www.atarihq.com
“I’m coming for you bitch! I’m There were some splendid third
gonna tear your heart out with a party titles as well. Fox's Blue Print Bira Bira Homepage
spoon, you old hag. No hard feel- and Parker Brothers’ Mr. Do's Cas- www.infinet.com/~rbatina/other/birabira.
html
ings, right?” tle were well done. After their other
disastrous attempts these stood Blue Sky Rangers—Intellivision Lives
out. CD
Some mediocre titles included www.intellivisionlives.com

Atari's Defender, Pole Position and Classic Gamer Magazine Online
Qix; fun to play but far from their www.classicgamer.com
arcade counterparts. Surprisingly
Special Thanks for Making Atari left out the voice synthesis in Dave’s Videogame Classics
http://davesclassics.warzone.com/
This Issue Possible… their conversion of Pole Position Digital Press
even though the 5200 was capable
of it. www.digitpress.com
Bill and Carol Cavanaugh, John While the term "State of the Art"
and Jean Thomas, Ty Cavanaugh, is generally regarded as marketing Ebay
Shawn Cavanaugh, Cindy Cava- hype (much like Sega’s “Blast www.ebay.com/

naugh, Philip and Annabelle Tho- Processing”) it was the proper Hasbro-Interactive/Atari
mas, David and Judy Shapiro, Eric phrase when marketing the Atari www.hasbro -interactive.com
and Lory Nagel, Chip and Ann 5200. The Atari 5200 definitely set www.atari.com
Pieper, Alex Bilstein, Don Thomas, the standard for all future “State of The History of Home Videogames Home-
Ryan Allshouse, Terri Ann Mini- the Art” systems. page
chiello, Jayson Hill, Leonard Her- http://videogames.org/
man, Frank Traut, Lee Seitz, Pat-
rick Wong, Jason Walker, Chris Hozer Videogames
www.angelfire.com/ma/hozervideo
Lion, Keita Iida, Darryl Guenther,
Sean Kelly, Kyle Snyder, Mike I.C. When
Genova, Damien Quicksilver, and www.icwhen.com
Boo Boo the cat. OMC Games
www.omcgames.com

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