OC&GS Volume II, Issue #5

August 1998

(Content Last Updated on May 2002)

Page 1 - Cover
Page 1 - Editorial
Page 2 - Okay, Spit It Out: What Exactly Is It About Old Games Vs. New, Anyway?
Page 3-4 - Making Worlds: The Artistic Science of Game Design
Page 5-7 - The Complete 2600 Easter Egg Archive
Page 7 - Tron: Confessions of a Young Obsessive
Page 8 - The Atari 5200 and ColecoVision: Whose Vision Was It, Anyway?
Page 9 - An Introduction to Classic Atari Magazines
Page 10 - Little-Known Products
Page 11-13 - Winning
Page 14-15 - Perspectives and Counter-Perspectives On Gaming
Page 16 - From the Mouth of Babes
Page 16 - Mystique and the Wise Toddler
Page 17-20 - The OC&GS Review Panel: Later 2600 Games

These original articles are presented with numerous updates, pictures and corrections. This is the recommended format to read them. For a glimpse back into the nineties when the newsletter was distributed on paper, the original version of the OC&GS newsletter can be viewed as a PDF document, here: