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Computer Entertainer issue 1-3

The third issue of Computer Entertainer is the last issue that the newsletter would be published as Video Take-Out . Intellivision's next game, Frog Bog , is expected to be available "any day", followed by an ambitious schedule of new releases. Next, Coleco enters the game arena with its ColecoVision console underway for the summer and a bevy of cartridges. Donkey Kong is to be packaged with the console, as well as sold separately for Atari VCS and Intellivision . The newsletter reports that sales of Activision's Grand Prix and Barnstorming are on fire before previewing Starmaster and Chopper Command , much to its acclaim. Meanwhile, Atari appears to have miscalculated its marketing approach by oversupplying retailers in the East Coast with thousands of Pac-Man cartridges, which the retailers would come to heavily discount, while west of the Mississippi, stock is nearly dried up. On page 2, the newsletter reviews and praises three new games from Imagic: Demon Attack , Star Voyager , and the pool game Trick Shot . Lastly, Atari, the licensee of Pac-Man , prevails in a copyright lawsuit against Philips for the latter's game, a clone called K.C. Munchkin! for Odyssey 2. On the bright

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