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Computer Entertainer, vol. 2, no. 8 (November 1983)

Computer Entertainer editors. 1983. “Computer Entertainer, vol. 2, no. 8 (November 1983).” The Video Game Update, including Computer Entertainer, vol. 2, no. 8 (November 1983). The Video Game Update / Computer Entertainer.

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Computer Entertainer, Nov 1983
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The masthead reads "THE VIDEO GAME UPDATE INCLUDES Computer Entertainer", November 1983, volume 2, number 8. Pinned in stubs batch 35 for its review of MicroGraphic Image's Spelunker for Atari computers. Star ratings print as symbols the OCR garbles: read them on the page image.

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Spelunker began as a game for Atari computers from MicroGraphic Image. Computer Entertainer reviewed it in November 1983, under its Atari computers heading, as "a superb exploration game from MicroGraphicImage, Inc." on 48K disk. Reviewing the NES version in October 1987, the same newsletter called it an adaptation of a game done originally by Tim Martin and MicroGraphicImage for Atari computers, which it had reviewed almost four years before, "before the title was licensed to Broderbund".p. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers; read on the page imagep. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers, Spelunker; read on the page imagep. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers, Spelunker; read on the page imageMagazine
Computer Entertainer's November 1983 review of the MicroGraphic Image release gave it four stars of four for graphics and four for play, and recommended it for one player. It described the opening to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, an elevator that carries the Spelunker down the left of the screen, ropes, ladders, conveyor belts and an abandoned mining train, a cavern of thirty screens, and a battery-powered fan as the only defense against ghosts. It noted the resemblance to Bill Hogue's Miner 2049er but called Spelunker "an original", and warned that a nudge of the joystick while hanging on a rope or ladder easily cost a life.p. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers, Spelunkerp. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers, Spelunkerp. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers, Spelunkerp. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers, Spelunkerp. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers, Spelunker, An Originalp. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers, Spelunker, An Originalp. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers, Spelunker, An Originalp. 124 (image 12), Critically Speaking..Atari Computers, Spelunker; read on the page imageMagazine