Mattel opens 1982 with Star Strike, an action game paying homage to the famous Star Wars trench run by requiring players to destroy a space station before it blows up the Earth. A strong start to a solid year for the Intellivision platform Special thanks to ACriticalHit for designing the thumbnail...

   We conclude August 1982 with three games, only one of which definitively came out in August. First, we have US Games’ latest: the educational shooter Word Zapper and the strange digital hide and seek title Sneak ’n Peek. And rounding things off, we have Men-A-Vision’s Air Raid, which is arbitrarily...

   A wee bit of catch-up this video, as at least two of these three games appear to have actually started trickling out to stores in July Nevertheless, we have the debut of Tiger Electronics’ video game imprint, Tigervision, with a conversion of On-Line Systems’ Apple II shooter Threshold and King...

   Around 1968-1969, a physics professor at Dartmouth University created a game that wound up having a powerful influence on early computer gaming: POTSHOT, the original artillery game. This program has been lost to the ages and was largely forgotten, but thanks to a newly digitized short film from...

   In August of 1982, a newcomer to the home gaming market made its debut with four games and a required hardware expansion to run them. The Supercharger brought a lot of technical strength to the VCS, taking the form of a plug-in cartridge with 6 kilobytes of RAM built in and an audio cable that...

   Mattel closed out 1981 with three more cartridges for a total of six that year. Beyond the sports titles and the original Astrosmash, the company also published three games that are best described as clones of existing arcade games, but all with a real Intellivision twist. Special thanks to...

   In a stacked year, Activision’s Pitfall stands out as one of the most popular and among the most well-designed titles to debut. Reaching stores at the very end of August (and most advertising its availability Sept. 1, admittedly), Pitfall set a new high for what an adventure game could be on a...

   It’s August of 1982, and Parker Brothers has dropped its own bombshell in a month of massive hits: the VCS home conversion of the wildly successful arcade game Frogger. Another example of a game that didn’t really miss a step between the arcade and the home, Frogger became Parker’s best-selling...

   Atari’s final arcade conversion to the VCS for 1982 has appeared, with a remarkably faithful rendition of Stern Electronics’ hit game Berzerk. From the murky origins of the arcade original to the hacks and homebrews of the past 30 years, the seminal humanoid vs. robot experience is here If you...

   Coleco debuts on the programmable scene, publishing its Atari VCS rendition of Donkey Kong at the tail end of July. Donkey Kong, of course, was the smash hit coin-op game that put Nintendo on the map, and Coleco securing the home console rights was a coup that allowed them to successfully launch...

   July 1982 marked the first time a competing hardware company published games on an opposing console, something that would wind up becoming fairly commonplace over the next couple years. Mattel’s four July releases for the VCS: Super Challenge Football, Super Challenge Baseball, Astroblast and Space...

   Fast forward 10 months after the last Intellivision releases of 1980, and we have a tranche of new releases just in time for the holiday shopping season of 1981. These all also represent the first in-house productions from Mattel Electronics for the Intellivision, and they’re all solid, and...

   Imagic returns with a pair of games that continue to bolster the company’s reputation as a home to players who enjoy intense action and great visuals. Dennis Koble’s Atlantis quickly gained a reputation for being practically an arcade-quality experience, while Rob Fulop’s Cosmic Ark has a...

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   July 1982 saw the introduction of a couple new VCS publishers. These include Spectravision, later known as Spectravideo, which debuted with Planet Patrol and Gangster Alley, a horizontal shooter and a shooting gallery-style game, respectively. Spectravision has a very uneven track record of VCS...