BLiP: The Video Games Magazine (February 1983)

_{The cover of the February 1983 issue of BLiP}

BLiP was a video games magazine published by Marvel in 1983. It had a comic book form factor and typically included a video game based comic strip among various articles about gaming. Not really a bad idea for the time but they were a little too late. Had Marvel come up with this a couple of year earlier, it probably would have had a longer run. As it was, 1983 was a bad year for the video game industry and BLiP only lasted 8 issues.

The premiere issue (pictured above) was published in February 1983 and includes:

• Video Games of the Stars - Mostly child stars and their favorite games but Bruce Boxleitner is also here because of his roll in Tron. On the cover is Matthew Laborteaux who was most famous at the time for his role on Little House on the Prairie. Not sure there was a lot of crossover in terms of fans of that show and video game players though...


• BLiP Tips I - Hints and tips for the Atari 2600 version of Missile Command.


• BLiP Tips II - Hints and tips for the arcade version of Centipede.


• Hall of Fame - An article about Walt Day, director of the Twin Galaxies Official International Scoreboard.




_{The table of contents for the February 1983 issue of BLiP}


• Video Jokes - Featuring games we will never see like Pudding Defender and Boob Tube as well as various bad puns.


• Player's Choice - Videgaming news, this month featuring Pitfall for the Atari 2600, Emerson's Arcadia-2001, and the new Dig Dug arcade game.


• News BLiPs - Brief news stories including news about new computer chips, the dangers of gaming and using games for training.


• Game Design - Introduction to a contest to design your own game.

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