VGBounceHouse

While I wait for my last scan to get added here I'm off to work on the next one! Since I already had the scan done I wanted to knock this one out before going back to 1982.

Howdy! I'm Chris Rowley from Maryland, USA. I'm 50 and have been a gamer since 1974. While "gamer" has rightfully become associated with videogaming that year was actually my introduction to two different kinds of gaming: coin-ops and tabletop role-playing. For the former I stumbled across Pong in a local drugstore out shopping with Mom who eventually surrendered to my begging to give me a quarter which led to my quick defeat. For the latter my godfather's son was into minature wargaming and gave me some stuff he picked up at a fan convention he wasn't interested in: the original three-booklet Dungeons & Dragons (and its precursor Chainmail). I hunted stores for more coin-ops, got home Pong, was introduced to computer videogames on the TRS-80 Model I Level II at school in 1979 where I applied my D&D love to my first coded game, played friends' 2600s while holding out for Intellivision, started playing and developing on PC in 1984, Amiga in 1986, and have collected most consoles released since the NES. I have published computer and gaming-focused magazines (including giving away hundreds of copies of YAAM at COMDEX in 1989, my Amiga magazine with the most editorial pages ever published for the system) and run a number of gaming websites. My current project is a different kind of videogame media preservation, Videogame Pavilion, that seeks to offer a web view of classic magazines while taking advantage of the technology to cross-index all mentioned games and systems: http://vgpavilion.com My collection of videogame magazines is more than 1,300 issues and I am grateful to this site and community for welcoming me and allowing me to contribute to its mission. I own all current consoles (PS4, Xbox One, Wii U) and a gaming PC. My online handle is "clubside" everywhere including the various networks associated with those systems. I love sandbox games, platformers and shooters of varying stripes. I have done a couple of interviews with industry people in the past and am hoping to leverage my archival work into more to help cement some of the videogaming history that is spread thin around the web or nonexistent.

New issue is ready was hoping one of you guys could do the same magic again! It's Video Games issue 18, March 1984: http://vgpavilion.com/mags/1984/03/vg/Video-Games-Issue-018-Mar-1984.cbr I'm going to do a little database work before I start on the next issue.