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Vidiot Issue 5

ISSUE: 5Content

PRIMARY SYSTEMS COVERAGE

  • Atari 2600 - VCS - Starpath Supercharger
  • Atari 5200
  • Atari 400
  • Atari 800
  • Colecovision
  • Intellivision - Intellivision II
  • Microvision
  • Astrocade
  • Commodore 64
  • Commodore VIC-20
  • Panasonic JR-200
  • TI 99/4A
  • Timex Sinclair
  • TRS-80
  • arcade
  • stand-alones
  • handhelds

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(The following based on content page excerpts with bullet lists and (notes) added for clarity.)

FEATURES

Dan Aykroyd Is A Vid-Kid
(one page; photo w/caption - actor Dan Aykroyd posing with a Space Duel arcade cabinet.)

The (New!) Old Ballgame
Foul Balls by Bill Knight (four pages; handheld, cartridge, and arcade baseball games; not shown unless noted)

  • BB-10 Baseball Game (handheld; by Casio)
  • Baseball 2 (handheld; shown; by Entex)
  • Head To Head (handheld; by Coleco)
  • Pulsonic Baseball I (handheld; by Mego)
  • Mattel Baseball (handheld; shown; by Mattel)
  • World Championship Baseball (handheld; shown; by Mattel)
  • Digital Diamond (by HH Games)
  • Blockbuster Baseball (Microvision)
  • Home Run (VCS)
  • Major League Baseball (Int)
  • RealSports Baseball (VCS)
  • Super Challenge Baseball (VCS)
  • Tornado Baseball (Astrocade)
  • Contact Baseball (Col)
  • Deluxe Short Stop (arcade)
  • Double Play (arcade)
  • Deluxe World Series (arcade)

What's Hot At Epcot
Disney's Videogames For The Future by Mike Howell (two pages; Epcot's CommuniCore exhibit; 'games' discussed:)

  • Get Set Jet
  • The Stars And Stripes Forever
  • Compute-A-Coaster

The Orchestra In The Arcade
Turn Down The Change Machine by P. Gregory Springer (three pages; discussing the music clips, sound effects, and digitized voices of video games)

Vid-Kid Of The Month: Todd Rundgren
(one page; photo w/caption - musician Todd Rundgren posing with a Super Cobra arcade cabinet.)

Vidiot's Guide To Videomagazines
Read 'Em And Weep by M.T. Boxx (four pages; video game magazine reviews)

  • Electronic Games
  • Blip
  • Videogaming Illustrated
  • Joystik
  • Electronic Fun with Computers and Games
  • Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games
  • Video Games

Arcade Action: The Top 10 Arcade Games
by P. Gregory Springer (three pages; Top 10 arcade games; game overviews and strategies; includes screenshot and cabinet photo unless noted:)

  • Pole Position (screenshot only)
  • Popeye (screenshot only)
  • Millipede
  • Q*Bert
  • Joust
  • Time Pilot
  • Mr. Do
  • Front Line
  • Ms. Pac-Man
  • Baby Pac-Man

Arcade Action Closeup: Bump 'N' Jump
by P. Gregory Springer (two pages; game strategies; includes screenshots and arcade cabinet photo)

Vidiot's Pull-Out Cover Poster
(two page spread)

You Can See It, But You Can't Hang It On The Wall
Video Art by Rob Patterson (five pages; video art)

Beach Blanket Video
(three pages; 'Beach Blanket Video: That's the Name of the Game!'; staged photos; beach goers playing handheld and stand-alone video games)

Watching Everything There Ever Was
Now Museum, Now You Don't! by Drew Wheeler (four pages; the Museum of Broadcasting)

The Art Of Monty Python
Silly Days & Twisted Nights by Toby Goldstein (four pages; Eric Idle interview commentary)

Rock Vidiocy
Roll Away The Stones by Dave Dimartino (three pages; the Rolling Stones, the Who; music video reviews)

Places We'd Like To Play Videogames
(one page; photos, unusual areas to play video games)

Duran Duran
(one page; photo w/caption - Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes and Simon LeBon posing with a Gravitar arcade cabinet)

DEPARTMENTS

Upfront (approx. one page; editorial by Dave DiMartino; call for reader feedback, magazine's broad definition and coverage of 'video'; not listed in ToC)

Vidiot Mail (approx. two pages; reader mail)

Vidiot News (three pages; news stories)

  • Video, Spaghetti Linked! (1st annual American Video Awards results)
  • Sex Banned? (attempts to ban or limit "obscene" cable TV programming)
  • Love Hurts (gas station attendant fired for playing video game on the job)
  • Play Telephone! (Atari-Tel modem / computer R&D)
  • Vertical Scan, Man (FCC approves teletext TV experiments)
  • I, Ping-Pong Ball (Saker-One arcade game)
  • Secret Agent Man (video game designer agents)
  • Illegitimate Shortcakes? (Strawberry Shortcake video game; b&w photo, SS creators Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman)
  • Cable Cuts (cable services lose stations over copyright fees)
  • Videogamers Endangered (one quarter of video game arcades expected to shutter in 1986)

Hardware/Software
by Richard Robinson (four pages; not shown unless noted; b&w photos if shown; electronics coverage including:)

  • Atari 2600 (shown)
  • Atari 5200
  • Colecovision (Coleco 2400)
  • Coleco Expansion Module 1 (Coleco 2405; play Atari 2600 games on Colecovision)
  • Coleco Expansion Module 2 (shown; streering wheel with foot pedal; Coleco 2413)
  • Vectrex (shown; Vectrex HP-3000)
  • Intellivision II (Intellivision 5872)
  • Intellivoice (Mattel 3330; Intellivision add-on)
  • Discwasher Pointmaster Pro (controller)
  • Wico Commando Control (controller)
  • Atari 400
  • Atari 800
  • Commodore Vic-20 (shown)
  • Commodore 64
  • Panasonic JR-200
  • Texas Instruments TI 99/4A (shown)
  • Timex Sinclair 1000 (shown)
  • Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100

Eye/Hand: What's New In Video?
Space Fury, Starpath Supercharger, Oink, G.I. Joe Cobra Strike, Super Zaxxon, Time Pilot, How To Beat Home Video Games Vol. 1-3 and more! (six pages; reviews, each with color photo unless noted)

  • Ms. Pac-Man (VCS)
  • Space Panic (Col)
  • Space Fury (Col)
  • Starpath Supercharger ('Supercharge Now!' section; Atari 2600 add-on system (shown); games discussed (none shown))
    • Communist Mutants From Outer Space
    • Killer Satellites
    • Fireball
    • Escape From The Mindmaster
    • Dragonstomper
    • Suicide Mission
    • Phaser Patrol
  • Oink!
  • Donkey Kong Jr. (Col)
  • G.I Joe Cobra Strike (VCS; b&w photo)
  • Strawberry Shortcake Musical Match-Ups (VCS; b&w photo)
  • Reactor (VCS; b&w photo)
  • Super Zaxxon (arcade; b&w photo)
  • Time Pilot (arcade; b&w photo)
  • How To Beat Home Video Games Vol. 1-3 ('The Ultimate Tip!' section; videotape reviews (none shown))
    • Volume I: The Best Games
    • Volume II: The Hot New Games
    • Volume III: Arcade Quality For The Home

Captain Vidiot: Questions & Answers (approx. two pages; Q&A)

Cover Illustration & Pull-Out Poster by Gary Ciccarelli



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    Title: Vidiot Issue 5
    Month: August/September
    Year: 1983
    Country: United States
    Language: English
    Votes: 0

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