Computer Gaming World Issue 53

Features:

• Have Sword Will Travel: Omnitrend's "Paladin" Reviewed (Jasper Sylvester takes a righteous look at this fantasy combat sim)
  
• Scorpion's Tale: Magical Mystery Tour (Scorpia gives hints for Wizard Wars)
  
• CGW's Second Annual Christmas Buying Guide (Gift ideas for all the nice gamers on your list. Received something not on this list under your tree? Maybe you were naughty.)
  
• Game of the Year Awards (We brought you the winners last issue, now see who the competition was why the CGW editors made the choices they did.)
  
• Longing For Shandola: Interstel's "First Expedition" (Dennis Owens finds First Expedition ripe for opportunities to fix a bunch of problems, assuming there's ever a "Second Expedition")
  
• Diving Into Red Storm Rising (M. Evan Brooks relishes the opportunity to jump back into the submarine for a review and tactics session of the latest Tom Clancy licensed game)
  
• IBM is My Co-Pilot: Lucasfilm's "Battlehawks 1942" (Russell Sipe takes to the skies to face aces both American and Japanese in this World War II sim of aerial combat)
  
• A WWII Pilot Talks About Midway and Battlehawks 1942 (CGW interviews Dick Best, commander of Bombing Squadron 6 during the Battle of Midway, and Noah Falstein, co-designer [with Larry Holland] of the game)
  
• Winter Thunderland: Scorpia Looks at "Demon's Winter" (The barb-tailed one reviews the sequel to Shard of Spring)
  
• Fantastic Voyages II: The Whirlwind Tour Inside the Entertainment Industry Continues (The second part of CGW's visit to the giants of the game development world includes inside looks at Mediagenic and Epyx)
  
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Departments:

• Taking a Peek:
  • Fast Break (C64/128)
    
  • Jet Boys (C64/128)
    
  • Steel Thunder (C64/128)
    
  • Control Tower (IBM)
    
  • Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic (IBM/Tandy)
    
  • Sex Vixens From Space (IBM/Amiga)
    
  • Pete Rose Pennant Fever (IBM/Tandy)
    
  • Take Down (C64/128)
    
  • Battle Chess (Amiga)
    
  • Battlehawks 1942 (IBM)
    
  • Barbarian (C64/128)
    
  • John Elway's Quarterback (C64/128/IBM)
    
  • Captain Blood (C64/128)
    
  • Space Harrier (C64/128/Atari 520 ST/Amiga)
    
  • Out Run (C64/128/Atari 520 ST/Amiga)
    
  • Wizard Wars (IBM)
    
  • Manhunter: New York (IBM)
    
  • Typhoon of Steel (Apple II/C64/128)
    

  [*]Inside the Industry:

  • Marvel Super Heroes Discovered Inside Home Computers
    
  • Ad Lib Music Synthesizer Card Gains Support
    
  • Software Toolworks Acquires Intellicreations
    
  • Formation Flying Simulators to Soar
    
  • Origin Plots New Corporate Strategy
    
  • Jack Nicklaus Eagles Accolade License
    

  [*]Video Gaming World (Bill Kunkel, Joyce Worley, and Arnie Katz offer their opinions on the best console gaming buys of the season):

  • Space Harrier (SMS)
    
  • Monopoly (SMS)
    
  • Great Volleyball (SMS)
    
  • Out Run (SMS)
    
  • Rocky (SMS)
    
  • 3-D Missile Defense (SMS)
    
  • R.C. Pro-Am (NES)
    
  • Raid On Bungeling Bay (NES)
    
  • Pro Wrestling (NES)
    
  • Arkanoid (NES)
    
  • Side Pocket (NES)
    
  • Jaws (NES)
    
  • The Legend of Zelda (NES)
    
  • Hogan's Alley (NES)
    

  [*]Reader Input Device

  [*]CGW Hall of Fame:

  • Kampfgruppe
    
  • Gettysburg
    
  • M.U.L.E.
    
  • Mech Brigade
    
  • Chessmaster 2000
    
  • War in Russia
    
  • Ultima IV
    
  • Wizardry
    
  • Starflight
    
  • Gunship
    
  • Ultima III
    
  • Might & Magic
    
  • The Bard's Tale
    

  [*]Game Ratings

Notable Stuff:

• The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
  
• Taking a Peek gets full-colour screenshots now! Excellent!
  
• Yes, they really made a game called Sex Vixens From Space. No, it isn't very good.
  
• No new games added to the Hall of Fame this issue.