Playboy's Guide to Rating the Video Games

the long version

This is a video game review and retail price guie book, covering 4 different game systems. It has a 16 page insert, with photographs of each system, and examples of screenshots from various games, the images are in gray scale screenshots, and these insert pages are not numbered, and do not count in the books page numbers. The systems covered are; Astrocade, Atari Video Computer System {aka Atari 2600}, Mattel Electronics Intellivision, Colecovision. It also reviews 12 arcade games. Each game and system are reviewed, given a rating between 1-5 stars, for various features, and a overall rating is used at the end of the review. There are also tips and strategies on how to play the games. The book originaly sold for $2.95. Throughout the book it uses the VCS {Video Computer System} to refer to the various game systems, even though the Atari Video Computer System, usually uses that name, and those initials.