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The Atari Quest

The Atari Quest by Chris Bieniek, published in the January 1996 issue of Ultimate Gamer. Each page is a JPG of about 50k. If you want good quality, buy the original!

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Yet-Unclassified Cool Things

• APF Imagination Machine
• Picture of many cartridges
  Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, XEGS
  Odyssey2, Intellivision, C64, ColecoVision
  PCjr, TI 99/4A, NES
  SMS, VIC-20
  Notice how similar the Intellivision and C64 carts look. This has confused many a collector!
• Picture of handheld games
  Football, Frogger, and Turtles

Funny Stuff

• The World According to Q*Bert by Dan Gutman
• Shoot Your Own Men! [And Other Weird Ways to Play] by Dan Gutman
• An ad for videogames, circa 1983 (GIF file)
• Off-Machine Exercises by Tom Hirschfeld
• Q&A: Five things you always wanted to know about video games by The Game Doctor
• Barbie and Ken play Intellivision (JPG file courtesy of Matt Brady)

Computer-Related Texts and Pictures

• Which Computer Plays Games Best? by Martin Bass
• 40 Games for PCjr
• Picture of an IBM PCjr
• Picture of a Commodore 64
• Picture of a Commodore VIC-20
• Picture of a Timex-Sinclair 1000
• Picture of a Tandy Color Computer 3
• Picture of a TI 99/4A

Strategy Guides

• Pitfall II Extra Level Map 179k JPG scan of a map I drew of the extra level in the Adventurer's Edition of Pitfall II.
• Skin Your Friends At M.U.L.E.
• Beat it: Ms. Pac-Man (2600) by Robert Guerra
• Beat it: Pole Position (arcade) by Robert Guerra
• Beat it: Popeye (arcade) by Robert Guerra
• The Ms. Pac-Man Mystery: How three guys from Montana invented the ultimate strategy by Paul Stokstad
• The actual Ms. Pac-Man Guide mentioned in The Ms. Pac-Man Mystery

Miscellaneous

• Sound in Video Games by Josh Martin
• The Empire's Computer Games: Lucasfilm and Atari Join Forces
• 30 Secrets of Atari by Steve Bloom
• Atari 2600 Emulator FAQ v1.4 by Dennis Brown (this is very outdated but contains some nice information about the Activision 2600 emulator)

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