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Classic Gamer Magazine It’s Beginning to Look a lease is an up-
Hosts Online “Atari 2600 Lot Like a Classic dated
“Paperboy” and
Cartridge Showdown” Christmas! “Rampage 2” for
the Nintendo 64, as
Would you like a say in which In case you haven’t well as the recently re-
Atari 2600 cartridge is crowned the looked at the latest leased “Gauntlet Leg-
greatest of all time? Does Enduro game releases, ends.”
drive laps around Pole Position? you may be Atari’s impressive
Can Joust knock off Defender? surprised by updates include
Will Centipede trample Frogger? what’s out there. Pong, Q*Bert, and
The decision is yours in the Atari Videogame com- Missile Com-
2600 Cartridge Showdown, hosted panies are releasing a mand for the
online by Classic Gamer Magazine. slew of classic up- PC and PSX,
Throughout the coming weeks, dates for the Play- and Centipede
guests are invited to visit www. Station, N64, Dream- for the Dreamcast.
classicgamer.com to vote for their cast, and Game Boy There’s also Nerf Arena Blast,
favorites. Game contenders will be Color. under the Atari moniker. Addition-
rotated every few days, so visit Namco has just released ally, Atari has plans to release an
early and vote often! “Namco Museum 64” for the updated version of Combat some-
Winners from each round will Nintendo 64. This compilation in- time in 2000.
proceed to further rounds in an at- cludes Galaga, Dig Dug, Ms. Pac- Activision’s gifts to classic gam-
tempt to defend their titles. The Man, Galaxian, Pac-Man, and Pole ers include a Space Invaders up-
battle will eventually be won when Position. date for the PC, Game Boy Color,
the final two games go head-to- Midway’s Christmas offerings PlayStation, and N64.
head and a “Greatest Atari 2600 include “Arcade Party Pak,” which So, rejoice this holiday season
Cartridge” winner will be features Rampage, KLAX, Toobin’, by flashing back to the 80s with
crowned. 720 Degrees, Super Sprint, and these great offerings. ‘Tis the sea-
Go to: Smash TV. Another Midway re- son to be classic!
www.classicgamer.com

$100,000 Prize Promised to First Video Game Player to
Solve Pac-Man’s Mysterious “Split Screen”

An American hot sauce manu- mous Sauce will give $10,000
facturer has offered a $100,000 re- prizes to the first players to score
ward to the first Pac-Man player over 1 million points on any of eight
who can solve the mysterious different games following Twin Gal-
“split-screen” that ends every- axies’ official rules. The games are:
body’s game at the 256th board. Ms. Pac-Man, Carnival, Berzerk,
An additional $95,000 is set Donkey Kong, Frogger, Rally-X,
aside for players who, before Janu- Hypersports, and Tutankham.
ary 1, 2000, can break decades-old
high scores on fifteen other classic www.twingalaxies.com
video games. Rickey’s World Fa-

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