ISSUE: 26Content
Features:
- Conflict in Viet Nam (M. Evan Brooks condenses and delivers his notes on his two-month stint as a playtester)
- Inside Ultima IV (Lord British sits down for a royal interview by the CGW staff about his life, history, and the design of Quest of the Avatar)
- The Halley Project: A Mission in Our Solar System (Gregg Williams tools around the stars in this space simulator)
- Silent Service (Sid Meier's own design notes about his simulation of submarine warfare in World War II)
- Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative (Scorpia reviews this new, different and exciting take on a Star Trek game)
Departments:
- Taking a Peek:
- Fight Night (C64/Apple)
- The Dam Busters (C64/IBM)
- Hacker (C64/Apple/Atari)
- Falcon Patrol II (C64)
- Sorcery (C64)
- Under Fire (Extended Capability Disk 1) (Apple)
- Cubic Tic Tac Toe (C64/C128/Apple/IBM)
- Ernie's Big Splash (C64/C128)
- Grover's Animal Adventures (C64/C128)
- Richard Scarry's Best Electronic Word Book Ever (C64/C128/Apple)
- The Goonies (Apple)
- Zorro (Apple)
- Autoduel (Apple)
- Europe Ablaze (C64/C128/Apple)
- Battle of Antietam (C64/Apple)
- U.S.A.A.F. (C64/Apple/Atari)
[*]Scoprion's Tale (Spellbreaker, the third part of Infocom's "Enchanter" trilogy, is the subject of Scorpia's column this month)
[*]Strategically Speaking (Reader-submitted tips for the following games):
- Crusade in Europe
- Dreadnoughts
- Fighter Command
[*]Atari Playfield (Gregg Williams reviews the next two games from Lucasfilm, Koronis Rift and The Eidolon)
[*]Amiga Preferences (Roy Wagner's new column explains why the Amiga is the ultimate gaming computer)
[*]Commodore Key (Roy Wagner's other column reviews Flexidraw, Lode Runner's Rescue, and Little Computer People)
[*]The Learning Game (Bob Proctor reviews The Story Tree, an adventure design software)
[*]Over There! (Leslie B. Bunder introduces US readers to the state of gaming in the UK with this new column)
[*]Reader Input Device
[*]Game Ratings
Notable Stuff:
- Subscription prices have changed, and are now $19.95 for 9 issues in the US, $26.95 in Canada, and $45.95 everywhere else in the world.
- The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
-
Conflict in Vietnam is referred to as "Conflict in Viet Nam" in the table of contents for some reason. It's referred to by its correct name everywhere else.
- Russell Sipe has a small editorial pop-up on the problem of light pollution in the article for The Halley Project.
-
Little Computer People is the spiritual precursor to The Sims.
Features:
- Conflict in Viet Nam (M. Evan Brooks condenses and delivers his notes on his two-month stint as a playtester)
- Inside Ultima IV (Lord British sits down for a royal interview by the CGW staff about his life, history, and the design of Quest of the Avatar)
- The Halley Project: A Mission in Our Solar System (Gregg Williams tools around the stars in this space simulator)
- Silent Service (Sid Meier's own design notes about his simulation of submarine warfare in World War II)
- Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative (Scorpia reviews this new, different and exciting take on a Star Trek game)
Departments:
- Taking a Peek:
- Fight Night (C64/Apple)
- The Dam Busters (C64/IBM)
- Hacker (C64/Apple/Atari)
- Falcon Patrol II (C64)
- Sorcery (C64)
- Under Fire (Extended Capability Disk 1) (Apple)
- Cubic Tic Tac Toe (C64/C128/Apple/IBM)
- Ernie's Big Splash (C64/C128)
- Grover's Animal Adventures (C64/C128)
- Richard Scarry's Best Electronic Word Book Ever (C64/C128/Apple)
- The Goonies (Apple)
- Zorro (Apple)
- Autoduel (Apple)
- Europe Ablaze (C64/C128/Apple)
- Battle of Antietam (C64/Apple)
- U.S.A.A.F. (C64/Apple/Atari)
[*]Scoprion's Tale (Spellbreaker, the third part of Infocom's "Enchanter" trilogy, is the subject of Scorpia's column this month)
[*]Strategically Speaking (Reader-submitted tips for the following games):
- Crusade in Europe
- Dreadnoughts
- Fighter Command
[*]Atari Playfield (Gregg Williams reviews the next two games from Lucasfilm, Koronis Rift and The Eidolon)
[*]Amiga Preferences (Roy Wagner's new column explains why the Amiga is the ultimate gaming computer)
[*]Commodore Key (Roy Wagner's other column reviews Flexidraw, Lode Runner's Rescue, and Little Computer People)
[*]The Learning Game (Bob Proctor reviews The Story Tree, an adventure design software)
[*]Over There! (Leslie B. Bunder introduces US readers to the state of gaming in the UK with this new column)
[*]Reader Input Device
[*]Game Ratings
- Fight Night (C64/Apple)
Notable Stuff:
- Subscription prices have changed, and are now $19.95 for 9 issues in the US, $26.95 in Canada, and $45.95 everywhere else in the world.
- The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
-
Conflict in Vietnam is referred to as "Conflict in Viet Nam" in the table of contents for some reason. It's referred to by its correct name everywhere else.
- Russell Sipe has a small editorial pop-up on the problem of light pollution in the article for The Halley Project.
-
Little Computer People is the spiritual precursor to The Sims.
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