Retro Magazine of Atari Videogames
Atari Age
MAY/JUNE 1982 VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1
Celebrity Corner / Page 2 From the Editor/Page 3 Atari International/ Page 5 Atari News / Page 6 Maze Craze / Page 6 New Cartridges/Page 6 Beware... Haunted House! / Page 10 The Clubhouse Store / Page 12 Atari Age Contest / Page 14 Game-Grams/Page 15 Cartridge Checklist/Page 15 Screen Scramble Puzzle / Page 16
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Atan excitement has already spread to over 40 countries worldwide, and keeps growing every day Here are just a few recent happenings in the Atari International family
World ASTEROIDS
They came from Australia and Belgium, Canada and England, France, Holland, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, Spain, West Germany, and the U.S. They gath- ered in Washington, D.C., with a single goal-to destroy more Asteroids than anyone else
The event was the final battle of the Atari International Asteroids Tourna- ment, and the winning score was daz- zling. Playing Asteroids set on Game 6, skill level A. Andy Breyer (15) of Chicago scored 142,910 points in two games to win first place and a $5,000 scholarship Second place winner was Gary Wong (18) of San Francisco. Third place went to Dirk Mueller (22) of West Germany.
Puerto Rico-Atari Territory A small figure who rolled by as people strolled by created quite a commotion at shopping malls in Puerto Rico re-
Atari International
From Abu Dhabi to Venezuela, The World Plays Atari Games!
cently The Atari Robot spoke to star- tled passers-by, inviting them to pick up the joystick and play the home video game he was holding in his tray. The game showed up on the robot's built- in TV monitor. Everywhere he went, enthusiastic crowds surrounded the remote-controlled Atari ambassador.
In a week-long battle for galactic su- premacy, over 1,500 video game enthu- siasts blasted away at scores of threatening Space Invaders in the first South African Atan Tournament. Com- petitors paid 30 each to participate in the qualifying rounds. Total entry fees were then matched by the local Atari distributor and contributed to charity
Overall winner was Martin Jacklin (16), who came up with a 41,986-point game playing Game 1, skill level A. He defeated the second-place finisher by over 1,500 points.