We've been doing a lot of talking. We've been talking face-to-face with video experts from New York, Chicago, Austin, and San Jose. We've been making long-distance phone calls, lots of them, to video manufacturers and tournament champions. And we've been hitting the arcades —every day— playing the games and talking non-stop to owners and players and spectators.

There's a lot of information out there, folks. And you're holding the very best of that information right now in your hands...

The games reviewed:

• Asteroids
• Centipede
• Defender
• Donkey Kong
• Omega Race
• Pac-Man
• Phoneix
• Qix
• Tempest
• Vital Video Statistics
• Frogger
• Missile Command
• Ms. Pac-Man
• Turbo