jhd Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 The Vid Kid's Book of Home Video Games (1984) was recently added to archive.org. It was purportedly written by an eleven year-old. This book includes mini-reviews of many 2600, 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, and Vectrex games. Interestingly, it includes a very brief "review" of Donald Duck's Speedboat (p. 38). Was this game reviewed anywhere else? I wonder how the author obtained an otherwise unreleased game (or if the "review" was entirely based on a marketing description, and he never actually played the game.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Antic did an interview with him. I don't recall him mentioning anything about 2600 games, but he did have a column in newspapers so it's not improbable that Atari let him have a review cartridge for an unreleased game. https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-327-rawson-stovall-the-vid-kid-newspaper-column It does seem a little light on details though, you indeed could write that from just reading the catalog description. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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