Gamester's Guide to Arcade Video Games

By Paul Kordestani

Subjects: Q*bert, Galaxian, Pac-Man Plus, Robotron 2084, Galaga, Tron, Ms. Pac-Man, Phoenix, Tempest, Defender, Stargate, Popeye, Games, Videogames, Hobbies, Front Line, Passtimes, Pleiades, Centipede, Battlezone, Jungle Hunt, Asteroids Deluxe, Pac-Man, Arcade games, Qix, Red Alert, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders Deluxe, Arcade, Missile Command, Super Pac-Man, Berzerk, Donkey Kong Junior, Space Duel, Make Trax, Dig Dug, Joust, Video games, Space Invaders, Moon Patrol, Star Castle, Frogger, Space Fury, Red Baron, Burger Time, Puzzles, Zaxxon, Scramble, Strategy

Description: This book is a tips, hints, review, and strategy guide to forty-one arcade games. The first few chapters tell what a video game is their cabinets and looks their controls. It then tells of the advantages and disadvantages of games, types of games, and how players can limit the amount of money they spend on them. There is a look at video game etiquette and Arcadia "any place with a video machine. There is an illustration of each games screen (many games have more then one screen illustration), and control panel. According to the books "Introduction" it is "the result of 17 months of research", and was the beginning of the organization of 'Gamester' a game player's club and support group, that was to published a bi-monthly magazine, the book's author is also the companies founder.