Computer Gaming World Issue 10

Features:

• Close Assault: Review and Analysis (Bob Proctor's review of this strategy title)
• Adventure Game Contest (Solving the crossword will require deep knowledge of adventure games, but there's a free subscription to CGW in it for the winners)
• Computer Ambush: Review and Analysis (David Long examines this World War II infantry combat sim)
• Pinball Construction Set (John Besnard tells you how awesome building your own pinball table can be)
• When Superpowers Collide: Chapter 1 - The Battle for Central Germany (Germany 1985 reviewed by Major Mike Chamberlain)
• Galactic Attack!: Sir-tech's Space Combat Game (Dick Richards shows how much fun planet-hopping can be)
• Tele-Gaming (Patrica Fitzgibbons explores the world of gaming-by-modem)
• The Name of the Game (Jon Freeman takes umbrage with companies who exist solely to rip off existing game styles for their own profit)
• The Computer Baseball Leagues (Stanley Greenlaw compares SSI's Computer Baseball and Avalon Hill's Major League Baseball)
• Chess 7.0: Review and Analysis (Can Odesta Chess 7.0 stand out from the competition in Floyd Matthews' mind?)

Departments:

• Inside the Industry (Dana Lombardy tracks the longest-selling computer games of the year)
• Hobby and Industry News (What's coming soon, and what's gone by the wayside)
• Taking A Peek (Quick looks at what's arrived in the CGW offices):
  • Double Trouble (Apple II)
  • A.E. (Atari/Apple)
  • Sky Blazer (Atari)
  • The Missing Ring (Apple II)
  • Spectre (Apple II)
  • Wizplus (Apple II)
  • New World (Apple/TRS-80)
  • Jumpman (Atari/C64)
  • Illustrated Computer Dictionary (Book)
  • Bellhop (Apple)
  • Championship Golf (Apple)
  • Suspended (Multi)
  • Miner 2049er (Apple)
  • Crime Wave (Apple)
  • Thunderbombs (Apple)
  • IFR Flight Simulator (Apple)
  • The Dark Crystal (Apple)
  • Police Artist (Apple)

  [*]The Silicon Cerebrum (Part 2 of Bruce Webster's Map Weighting article, continued from issue

  [*]Atari Arena (Three action/arcade Atari games sit on Allen Doum's desk):

  • Survivor (Atari 400/800)
  • Astro Chase (Atari 400/800)
  • Wayout (Atari/Apple)

  [*]The Learning Game (Bob Proctor's in love with the logic-teaching Rocky's Boots for the Apple II)

  [*]Microcomputer Mathemagic (Dr. Michael W. Eckert serves up a series of number-guessing games)

  [*]Route 80 (Dick McGrath reviews Telengard from Avalon Hill)

  [*]Micro-Reviews

  • Twerps (Atari/Apple)
  • Aztec (Apple)
  • Sherwood Forest (Apple II)
  • Computer Facts in Five (Apple II/Atari/IBM PC)
  • The Alien (Apple II)
  • Nautilus (Atari 400/800)
  • Necromancer (Atari 400/800)
  • Old Ironsides (Apple II)
  • The Blade of Blackpool (Apple II)

  [*]Reader Input Device #8

Notable Stuff:

• The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
• According to Hobby and Industry News, Electronic Arts' first releases are right around the corner, and include Archon, M.U.L.E., Pinball Construction Set, and Murder on the Zinderneuf.
• 'Tele-Gaming' and 'The Name of the Game', two new regular columns, make their debut this issue.
• Jon Freeman walks a fine line with his column this issue, complaining that people who make clones of popular games are essentially thieves, while people who make games in a similar style to popular games are doing nothing wrong. Clone Pac-Man, and you're an asshole. Make a game similar to Pac-Man, however, and you're golden. 
• Oops! Wayout is apparently for the 'Arari', according to the Atari Arena column.
• Rocky's Boots was a whopping $75 ($176 in 2014 dollars) when first released!
• Barry Schlossberg of Louisville, KY has won second place in the Star Maze contest. Still looking for a third-place winner though...