ISSUE: 4Content
Features:
- A Beginner's Guide to Strategy and Tactics in Eastern Front: Bob Proctor explains the ins and outs of Chris Crawford's acclaimed war simulation.
- Time Zone: An Interview With Roberta Williams: The designer speaks about On-Line System's largest project to date.
- Some Scenes From the 7th West Coast Computer Faire: Photos snapped of many industry veterans.
- Long Distance Gaming: Games Via The Source and Compuserve: Deirdre Maloy breaks down the advantages and disadvantages of online gaming via BBS.
- The Greatest Baseball Team of All Time -- Tournament Results: Three readers and CGW themselves share the results of pitting the best against the best.
- Writing For Computer Gaming World: So you want to be a gaming journalist...?
Departments:
- Letters: Readers are a talkative bunch, aren't they...?
- Hobby and Industry News: They keep making new software to satiate the masses
- Initial Comments: The games we've got waiting in the wings for write-ups
- Atari Arcade: John J. Anderson's new column focuses on all things Atari.
- The Silicon Cerebrum: Bruce Webster discusses AI theory with regards to computer wargaming.
- Reader Input Device #2: Rate some more games, rate some more articles.
Reviews:
- Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Apple II)
- Voyager I: Sabotage of the Robot Ship (Apple, Atari, PET, TRS-80)
- Jabbertalky (Apple II/TRS-80)
- Olympic Decathlon (Apple II/TRS-80)
- Lunar Lander (TRS-80)
- Swashbuckler (Apple II)
Ads (in order of appearance):
- Computer Baseball
- Bytes & Pieces mail order
- Electronic Systems Furniture Company
- Apventure to Atlantis
- SSI war games (The Battle of Shiloh / Tigers in the Snow)
- The Space Gamer magazine
- SoftSide magazine
- Hayes Micromodem II modem
- Fascination Software mail order
- Tech-3 software
- Flights Opps Screen Layout Worksheet paper
- TG Products mail order
- Microcomputer Games software
Notable Stuff:
- The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
- CGW is now on The Source. Contact them at TCL920. Prefer the telephone? Just dial (714)-776-4979.
- Back issues now available for cover price ($2.75) plus a buck shipping.
- A host of negative feedback concerning puzzle solutions results in CGW continuing to publish tips in their reviews and articles, but slip-coded (B=A, C=B, etc...) so readers can't accidentally spoil a game for themselves.
- There's a five-way tie from last issue's contest to identify/correct the map for Castle Wolfenstein. Stephen S. Depetris, Richard A. Hixson, Michael Oda, Tom Rassmann, and Lee Stafford all win. Fine work, gentlemen. The OSS appreciates your service.
- Roberta Williams admits to a minor mistake involving the rhea bird in Time Zone. The L.A. Zoo had one on display in their Australian section; the rhea is native to South America.
- Time Zone shipped on six double-sided floppy disks and features over 1,300 rooms at a time when most games shipped on 1-2 disks and included somewhere between 50-100 rooms.
- Four baseball simulations, four different winners. Who would have suspected?
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