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Contents

Editor
Arnie Katz

Executive Editor
Bill Kunkel

Senior Editor
Joyce Worley

Technical Director
Henry B. Cohen

Strategy Editor
Frank Tetro Jr

West Coast Editor
Les Paul Robley

Associate Editors
Bill Heineman
David Lustig

Contributing Editors
C. Ross Chamberlain
Steve Davidson
Leigh Goldstein
Tom Hirschfeld
Charlene Komar
Will Richardson
Roger Sharpe
Captain Sticky
Rick Teverbaugh

Editorial Assistant
Lisa Honden

Art Director
Ben Harvey

Graphic Consultants
Creative Concepts

Los Angeles
National Advertising Director

Jim Bender
6215 Rustling Oaks Drive
Agoura, CA 91301
(213) 873-3416

New York
Advertising Manager

Ann Martino
235 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003
(212) 777-0800

Chicago
Advertising Representative

Milton Gerber
2607 North Prindle
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
(312) 398-3032

Coordinator
Kathleen Carter

Publisher
Jay Rosenfield

Co-Publisher
Arnie Katz

Editorial Director
Bruce Apar

Executive Advertising Director
Bruce Mishkin

Production Manager
Laurie Ann Devereaux

Circulation Director
William D. Smith

Illustrators
Brez
Frank Emmi
Arron Epstein
David Febland
Arthur George
Beirne Lowry
Neil McPheeters

Cover Illustration
Mark & Stephanie Gerber

Feature 
COLECOVISION: NEXT STEP IN VIDEOGAMES?
Coleco promised its “third wave” system would play like a dream and look like a coin-op. Can it cash this check?
 
GIFT GUIDE FOR GAMERS
EG’s second annual review of sure-fire presents for game-lovers.
YOU CAN BECOME A GAME DESIGNER
Here’s how you can plan now for a career designing electronic games!
PROGRAMMABLE PARADE
The best—and worst—of new video games, including a new look at ColecoVision carts.
Special Section 
PLAYERS GUIDE TO PROGRAMMABLE VIDEOGAME SYSTEMS
EG’s magazine-within-a-magazine presents a comprehensive probe of the eight major systems.
INSIDE GAMING
Fernando Herrera proves nice guys can sometimes finish first.
INSERT COIN HERE
Putting the new coin-ops to the test.
ARCADE AMERICA
Our tour of the nation’s fun palaces continues.
COMPUTER GAMING
Our critics weigh the merits of the newest microcomputer game software.
STRATEGY SESSION
Learn how to get “The Force” on your side in Parker Brothers’ The Empire Strike Back.
PASSPORT TO ADVENTURE
If you haven't tried to solve the mystery of Deadline, start warming up your computer!
TEST LAB
Beamscope makes big pictures out of little ones.
THE ULTIMATE GAMING GIFT
Nothing can outshine this system in a suitcase.
COIN-OP CLASSROOM
Shooting your way through Robotron.
Q&A
PINBALL PALACE
Find out if coin-op flipper games will boom in 1983.

ELECTRONIC GAMES (ISSN 0730-6687) is published monthly by Reese Publishing Company, Inc., 235 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003. Application to mail at second-class postage rates pending at NY, NY and additional mailing office. © 1982 by Reese Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved. © under Universal, International and Pan American Copyright conventions. Reproduction of the editorial or pictorial content in any manner is prohibited. Single copy price, $2.95. Subscription rates : one year (12 issues) $28; two years (24 issues) $48; Canada, one year $32; fore ign, Air Mail only, one year $64. Address subscription orders and correspondence to ELECTRONIC GAMES, P.O. Box 1128, Dover, NJ 07801. Change of address takes 60 days to process; send old address label, new address and zip code. All material listed in this magazine is subject to manufacturer's change without notice, and publisher assumes no responsibility for such changes. Membership in the Audit Bureau of Circulations Applied For. Printed in the U.S.A.

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