This month I would like to cover the topic of not using your ATARI VCS cartridges. No matter how often you use your programmable video game, at least some of the several dozen cartridges you probably own must reside somewhere. Leaving them on the living room floor usually causes either many arguments with whomever cleans up the house, or results in a few broken cartridges (or both!).

To this end there exists cartridge holders of many sorts to store and protect your valuable games from dust, direct heat, moisture, or nuclear bombardment. Four different storage units are available that I know of.

The first of which is ATARI's model number ORG-300 "Game Library" that holds 8 cartridges plus instructions. This stores the games vertically and has a button to eject the cartridge which you desire. Then there is the "VIDEOSTAK" cartridge organizer (model number VS- 2, available from A-L-S Inc. in Torrance, CA 90504). These units are stackable and hold 8 cartridges horizontally. I find the VIDEOSTAK to be the easiest to use and adapt to the amount of room you have. Third is the "Cassette 'n Game" File storage system from Innovative Concepts, Inc. (2284 Ringwood Ave., San Jose, CA 95131). This unit resembles the tinted plastic diskette-type containers on the market, and offers the classiest method of preserving your precious cartridges.

The fourth storage unit holds up to 12 ATARI game cartridges in a vinyl notebook style covering. This is manufactured by ATARI, but harder to come by it seems than their Game Storage Library.

So does all this mean that your computer cartridges are left out in the cold? No, although the variety of storage methods are greater for the VCS game carts, the VIDEOSTAK organizers have small ridges in slots to hold and position your computer cartridges.

Also, one late news flash... a version of PACMAN(tm) for the VCS should hit the market sometime in early 1982! Several new games have also been announced which we will cover in a later issue.