Videogames: A Complete Guide
By: By Len Buckwalter
Publisher: Tempo Books; Tempo
Published: 1977
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 157
Other titles: Video Games: A Complete Guide; Videogames (On spine and title page)
Description: Added to this edition: Chapter 7 sections; "Dream Up More Games", "Crossover", "Topsy-Turvy", "High-Handedness", "Time Trials", "Shifty Game".

Missing from this edition but present in the trade paperbacks: 4 pictures. And a chapter on using the controls in new ways to play in new ways, the same games. "Chapter 10. Make Up Your Own Games", "Solo Mio", "Switch Hitter", "Left-right, Right-left", "Cross Purposes", "Dominant Hand", "Time Factor", "Penalty Box Hockey", "Dodge Ball", and "Constructing Your Own Playing Field".
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1. The New Playing Field
title: 9; label: Chapter 2. What Is a Videogame?
title: 17; label: The Game Console
title: 17; label: Boundaries
title: 20; label: Paddle
title: 23; label: Ball Speed
title: 26; label: Ball Angle
title: 28; label: Scoring
title: 31; label: Bleep-Zonk-Plink
title: 34; label: The B&P
title: 34; label: Chapter 3. Playing with Ball-and-Paddle
title: 35; label: Tennis
title: 36; label: Hockey
title: 38; label: Handball
title: 40; label: Squash
title: 40; label: Catch
title: 41; label: Chapter 4. How to Shop for a Videogame
title: 42; label: Number of Players
title: 43; label: Solo Play
title: 43; label: Control Movement
title: 46; label: Control Feel
title: 47; label: Playing Speed
title: 49; label: English
title: 49; label: Serve
title: 50; label: Handicap Control
title: 50; label: Scoring
title: 51; label: Remote Controls
title: 52; label: Repeating Patterns
title: 52; label: Color
title: 53; label: Time-Out
title: 55; label: Realism
title: 55; label: Other Shopping Tips
title: 56; label: Chapter 5. Hooking It to Your TV Set
title: 57; label: Switch Box
title: 60; label: Cable and Master Antennas
title: 62; label: The Game Cable
title: 62; label: Hooking to Several TV Sets
title: 62; label: A Source of Electricity
title: 64; label: Choosing a Channel
title: 66; label: Adjusting the TV Set
title: 66; label: Room Lighting
title: 68; label: Chapter 6. What to Do in Case of Trouble
title: 69; label: Warranties
title: 70; label: In the Store
title: 71; label: Read the Instructions?
title: 72; label: Heavenly Peace
title: 72; label: Hot Adaptors
title: 73; label: No Game Appears on Screen
title: 74; label: Blurry Game Picture
title: 75; label: Jittery Image
title: 76; label: Buzzing Sound in TV
title: 76; label: Slanting Lines
title: 77; label: Rolling Images
title: 78; label: Top or Bottom Cut Off
title: 79; label: Sides Cut Off
title: 83; label: Bars or Pictures Behind Image
title: 83; label: Chapter 7. Secrets of the Video Champs
title: 84; label: Ingenious Engineers
title: 84; label: Electronic Quirks
title: 85; label: Control Sensitivity
title: 86; label: Player Variations
title: 86; label: Psych Out
title: 87; label: Nervous Service
title: 87; label: Dirty Trick
title: 88; label: Repeating Gambit
title: 88; label: Dream Up More Games
title: 88; label: Crossover
title: 88; label: Topsy-Turvy
title: 89; label: High-Handedness
title: 89; label: Time Trials
title: 89; label: Shifty Game
title: 89; label: Chapter 8. Shoot-'em-ups and Road-Racers
title: 91; label: Target Games
title: 92; label: Battleground
title: 93; label: Road Racing
title: 95; label: Chapter 9. Games With Brains
title: 97; label: Channel F
title: 97; label: Video Vegas
title: 105; label: Studio II
title: 107; label: Bow ling
title: 108; label: The Home Computer
title: 108; label: Chapter 10. Consumer's Guide to Videogames
title: 111; label: TV Fun Game (Model 401)
title: 112; label: Pong (Model C-100)
title: 113; label: Super Pong (Model C-140)
title: 114; label: Super Pong Ten (Model C-180)
title: 115; label: Bag-A-Tel
title: 116; label: Telstar (Model 6040
title: 117; label: Telstar Classic
title: 118; label: Telstar Alpha
title: 119; label: Conic (Model TVG 101-4)
title: 120; label: Conic (Model TVG 102-4)
title: 121; label: Nose T' Nose (Model 1006)
title: 122; label: Four-Way Video Game (Model 1004)
title: 123; label: Tele-Pong (Model 3047)
title: 124; label: Face-Off Hockey/Soccer
title: 125; label: Channel F
title: 126; label: Fantasia 101
title: 128; label: Video Sport
title: 129; label: Colorgame
title: 130; label: Heathkit (Model GD-1999)
title: 132; label: Tournament 2000
title: 133; label: TV Sports 802
title: 134; label: Odyssey 300 (model 7500)
title: 136; label: Odyssey 400 (Model 7516)
title: 137; label: Odyssey 500 (Model 7520)
title: 138; label: Model 4305
title: 139; label: Odyssey 2000 (Model BH7510)
title: 140; label: Odyssey 3000 (Model BH7511)
title: 140; label: Odyssey 4000 (Model BH7530)
title: 141; label: Ricochet Challenger (Model MT3A)
title: 141; label: Ricochet Champion (Model MT2A)
title: 141; label: Ricochet (Model MT1A)
title: 142; label: TV Sports 77
title: 143; label: Adversary
title: 144; label: Quadtronics (Model Q376)
title: 145; label: Quadtronics (Model Q476)
title: 146; label: TV Scoreboard
title: 147; label: Studio II
title: 148; label: Gorilla Game (Model TG-101)
title: 150; label: Gorilla Game (Model TG-102)
title: 151; label: Tele-Match (Model 4400, 6600, 7700)
title: 152; label: Tournament (Model 101)
title: 153; label: Video Action IV "Indy 500"
title: 154; label: Video Sports (Model VSV-1)
title: 156; label: Superscore
title: 157