Computer Gaming World Issue 21

Features:

• Lode Runner Contest Results (Who won? We break it down right here!)
  
• Carriers At War: A Review (Bill Nichols explains what he likes and dislikes in this new naval war sim)
  
• War in Russia: Replay of Case Blue, Part II (Kirk [Russia] Robinson and Jay [Germany] Selover conclude their head-to-head battle in the Eastern Front)
  
• Kampfgruppe: Tactical Armor in WWII Russia (Mark Bausman rolls his tanks through this WW2 Eastern Front sim)
  
• Robot Simulations: Robot Odyssey I and Chipwits (Gregg Williams has high praise for these two edutainment titles)
  
• IBM Goes To War (Russell Sipe explores combat with The Ancient Art of War and Gato)
  
• The World of the Playtester (Tom Cheche has some stories he'd like to tell you about what it's really like being a playtester, and it's not all fun and games)
  

Departments:

• Taking a Peek:
  • By Fire & Sword (IBM PC/PCjr)
    
  • Incunabula (IBM PC/PCjr)
    
  • Legionnaire (C64/Apple/Atari)
    
  • Pro Manager (IBM PC/PCjr)
    
  • Black Belt (Apple/C64)
    
  • The Battle of Chickamauga (Atari)
    
  • Bank President (IBM PC)
    
  • Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Atari/Apple/C64)
    
  • On-Field Football (C64)
    
  • Battle of the Atlantic (Apple II)
    
  • Computer Ambush (Apple/Atari)
    

  [*]From The Editor: Stop the Presses (Just as the issue is about to go to print, IBM announces they're discontinuing the PCjr)

  [*]Letters (Yup, letters!)

  [*]Strategically Speaking (Reader-submitted tips for the following games):

  • Reforger '88
    
  • Fifth Eskadra
    
  • Sundog 2.0
    
  • Lordlings of Yore
    
  • Fighter Command
    
  • Objective: Kursk
    

  [*]Commodore Key (What's Commodore doing for users with its new 128? Roy Wagner has the scoop!)

  [*]Dispatches (Why do we 'play', anyway? Dan Bunten looks at the psychology behind computer entertainment)

  [*]Come Cast A Spell With Me (Roe Adams offers tips for would-be adventure writers and the puzzles they might design)

  [*]Silicon Cerebrum (Bruce Webster returns after a one-year hiatus to explain how computers learn)

  [*]Atari Playfield (David Stone's head-over-heels in love with the Atari ST)

  [*]Name of the Game (When stalking the wild 'concept', Jon Freeman points out where most publishers are going wrong)

  [*]Scorpion's Tale (Another day, another crime as Scorpia offers hints for exonerating yourself in Infocom's Suspect)

  [*]Reader Input Device

  [*]Game Ratings

Notable Stuff:

• The banner in the upper-left corner of the cover now reads, "For the owners of Apple - Atari - C-64 - IBM"
  
• The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
  
• Jon Freeman is back! Feel his sting, publishers! Feel it!
  
• Shay Addams, creator of the venerable QuestBusters newsletter, gets a letter in this issue's column correcting some misconceptions about the original Colossal Cave Adventure's development.
  
• Roe Adams documents one of the most absurd puzzles in adventure gaming history (the change machine puzzle from Yaquinto's Timeship) in his column this issue, giving it a right proper lambasting as an example of completely illogical design by a programmer who simply wanted to create a "difficult" puzzle.