Centipede Conquered at First ATARI
World Championships Tournament
There was
lots of action, lots
of excitement,
and
lots of
good
game
playing at the ATARI
$50,000.00 World Champion-
The Tournament took
place on October 29, 30, 31
and November 1 in Chicago.
ships.
It
was held
down the
at the Expocenter, just
street from the Con-
rad Hilton Hotel where the
was running simultane-
AMOA
The Expocenter was
crowded with ATARI video game
ously.
players
their
who had come
skill in
video
the
first
to test
international
game championship
ever
held.
Centipede
one
of the latest
blockbusters from ATARI, was
the game selected as the “offi-
cial
Tournament game" and
proved a
real
it
challenge to the
players, who had gathered from
all parts of the country for the
competition.
Included among the
petitors
was Matthew
com-
Labor-
teaux, more commonly know
as “Albert” on the popular
television series “Little House
on the Prairie”. He placed
10th in the Open Singles com-
petition, and also won one of
the ATARI Specialty events.
The winners of the Open Sin-
gles tournament were Eric Gin-
ner of Mountain View. Califor-
nia, coming in first with a total
Sam
Mehta,
placing second with 45,541
points, and Jon Weeks of Lon-
donderry, New Hampshire, third
place winner with 41 ,900 points.
of 52,431 points,
he had been
practicing for the Tournament at
his local arcade “for at least
one hour a day" and even
more on weekends.
Ok-Soo Han of Northridge,
California was the winner of the
Women's Singles. Ok-Soo
scored 53,220 points in order to
Eric said that
i\
Eric Ginner
conquers Centipede.
take the first place prize. Sec-
ond place went to Julie Wine-
coff from Charlotte, North Caro-
with 36,613 points, and
Faith Sloan of Chicago took
place with 34.372 points.
lina.
third
Frank Ballouz, Vice President
of Marketing, commented: “The
ATARI World Championships
Tournament succeeded in ac-
complishing a couple of differ-
ent goals. ATARI designed the
to help recognize
Tournament
the players. We wanted to give
players a real challenge, a high
ATARI
SsISI
WELCOMES
A
bustling crowd gathers at the entrance
Championships for video games.
to the ATARI World
Eric Ginner
and Sam Mehta,
Open Singles
event.
first
and second place winners
in