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Cover of the August 1984 issue of Antic Antic was one of the two major Atari 8-bit magazines in the U.S. (the other being ANALOG). Antic ...

For a lot of you, arcades might just seem like something that old people like me talk about but there was a time when they were just one ...

Cover of the July 1984 issue of ANALOG Computing ANALOG was one of the most popular Atari 8-bit computer magazines in the U.S. It was pub...

Cover of the February 1985 issue of Compute Compute! was a great magazine for those with home computer in the 1980s, at least if you had ...

Cover of the January 1982 issue of Compute! Compute!, at least in its earlier days, exclusively covered computers based on the 6502 CPU. ...

Space Cavern is one of a multitude of ho-hum games for the Atari 2600. Released in 1982 by Apollo, it was released into a glut of similar...

It seem that in the 1980s everyone thought that talking computers were the wave of the future. Voice synthesizers were available for just...

The whole turn a video game system into a computer or turn a computer into a video game system failed every time it was tried. It was tri...

Haunted House is perhaps the very first example of the survival horror genre. It was released by Atari for the Atari 2600 in 1982 and whi...

Game Player's magazine started life as separately published strategy guides for Nintendo and Sega games. After a little while it evolved ...

GamePro was never one of my favorites but no doubt one of the top two most popular video games magazines in the late 1980s to late 1990s....

ANALOG Computing was the longest lasting magazine dedicated to the Atari 8-bit line of computers and the last major one to cease publicat...

ANALOG Computing was probably the most popular Atari 8-bit magazine, at least in the U.S. This is a very late issue as 1989 was the last ...

K-Power was a fairly short-lived computer magazine published by Scholastic that was targeted towards kids and teens. It was really a fair...

While VideoGames & Computer Entertainment and Electronic Gaming Monthly were my favorite video games magazines from the late 1980s th...

If there was a home computer available in the U.S. (and there were a lot of them) then Compute! covered it at some point. The July 1984 i...

The Atari Connection was the Atari computer division's official magazine. It was published quarterly from 1981 through 1984. The Winter 1...

K-Power was a short-lived magazine by Scholastic oriented towards kids and teens but it had a lot of good content. The March 1984 issue i...

ANALOG Computing was the most popular Atari 8-bit magazine in the U.S. This issue is from 1989, the last year it was published. The March...

Electronic Game Player was a very short lived video games magazine form the late 1980s. While this particular magazine didn't last very l...

ANALOG computing was probably the best magazine for Atari 8-bit computers. It also sometimes included ST-Log as an insert which covered t...

Antic was one of the two major Atari 8-bit magazines in the U.S. It also covered the Atari ST once it was introduced. The December 1986 i...

Family Computing was an early, family oriented computer magazine. Many magazines of the time were oriented towards more technical users. ...

K-Power was a magazine oriented towards teens published in 1984. Only eight standalone issues were published until it merged with Family ...

Home Computer Magazine started life dedicated to the TI-99/4A. That computer was only briefly popular so they attempted to adapt by cover...

Atarian was a very short lived magazine associated with Atari's fan club. Only three issues were published and it's not hard to see why g...

Cover of the April 1988 issue of ST-Log ST-Log was one of a couple of Atari ST magazines available in the U.S. I don't think the Atari ST...

Photo by PCMag The Atari 2600 is known for having very simple games, but nonetheless, they are classics. Pitfall, a shoddy port of Pacma...

Dragon Spirit is an arcade game that was developed by Namco in 1987 and manufactured and released by Atari Games in North America. It was...

This 1988 ad is for the initial computer ports of Gauntlet and Paperboy which were done by Mindscape. Gauntlet started life as an arcade ...