Back in the good ol' days of Atari, there wasn't a lot of story you could cram into a few kilobytes. To counter this, Atari teamed up with DC to distribute mini-comics along with Atari 2600 games. One was a long-running series of comics about a group of extraterrestrial super heros called Atari Force; Swordquest, a line distributed with Waterworld, Earthworld and Fireworld, Centipede and Yar's Revenge.

It's great trashy, marginally game related reading for a lazy Friday morning. The Yar's Revenge one has particularly striking, minimalist art to it. Centipede, on the other hand, is just plain creepy, about a small ugly elf child who likes to play with gigantic, nightmarish insects. Florian Eckhardt

Atari Comic Books [Atari Age]

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