Computer Gaming World Issue 49

Features:

• Scorpion's Tale: Jinxter (Scorpia reviews and provides hints for this adventure game from Magnetic Scrolls)
  
• As Welcome As An Insurance Salesman: Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge (Roger Wilco's back, and Douglas Seacat's ready to tell you all about it)
  
• Reflections on a "Pool of Radiance" (This is where it all started: the first AD&D-licensed computer game from SSI. Johnny L. Wilson gets the scoop with an alpha-stage preview)
  
• Red Storm Rising: An Interview With Tom Clancy (Russell Sipe and Johnny Wilson sit down to chat with techno-thriller author Tom Clancy and Microprose developer Sid Meier to talk about creating the computer version of Clancy's best-selling novel)
  
• Hard Copy! (Prior to the internet, people used books to help them get the most out of their computers. CGW's editors review a big stack of them):
  • 40 Great Flight Simulator Adventures - Charles Gulick
    
  • 40 More Great Flight Simulator Adventures - Charles Gulick
    
  • Basic Computer Adventures - David Ahl
    
  • Flight Simulator Co-Pilot - Charles Gulick
    
  • Runway U.S.A. - Charles Gulick
    
  • Quest For Clues - Shay Addams, ed.
    
  • Keys to Solving Computer Adventure Games - M. K. Simon
    
  • Keys to Solving Computer Adventure Games II - M. K. Simon
    
  • JET: 82 Challenging New Adventures - Dave Prochnow
    

  [*]Beyond Beyond Zork: The Infocomics Approach to Computer Fiction (Charles Ardai looks at Infocom's non-game line of digital comic books)

  [*]Lord British Kisses and Tells All (Just when you thought it couldn't get any cooler after the Clancy interview, we get Richard "Lord British" Garriott himself submitting three pages of history and back-story on the hows and whys of his game designs)

  [*]Stompin' On the Savoy: Activision's "Rampage" of Destruction (Midway's mega-hit of giant monsters stomping cities gets released on the IBM before every other system. James V. Trunzo's there with all the news to report for this review)

  [*]Quest Test (Ten questions designed by Lynn Bethards to test your knowledge of adventure games. How will you fare: Adventurer Plenipotentiary or Ogre Bait?)

  [*]Decisive Battles of the Civil War, Vol. I: Bull Run to Chancellorsville (A tag-team review from Regan Carey and Mike Salata

  [*]Beyond Dark Castle: Evaluation and Hints (Alan Roberts has some helpful tips for Prince Duncan's return to the Black Knight's stronghold)

  [*]The Creation of a Universe (William G.M. Leslie shares the reasons behind the design decisions he's made with regards to Universe 3)

  [*]Sneak preview: Romance of the Three Kingdoms (William "Biff" Kritzen introduces this popular Japanese economic and battle sim to Western audiences)

  [*]Fire Brigade: A 16-bit Eastern Front Game (Allyn Vannoy was tapped to check out this game for the US Dept. of Defense and evaluate it as a potential tool for their use. CGW got to publish his review of a nearly-complete beta version)

  [*]Video Gaming World (Two pages of news and reviews concerning the world of console gaming including):

  • Intellivision SuperPro System
    
  • Beeshu's Zinger joystick series
    
  • Wizards & Warriors (NES)
    
  • Zaxxon 3-D (SMS)
    
  • Side Pocket (NES)
    

  [*]CD-I/DVI: Who's In Bed With Whom? (No, it's not porn. Bob Jacob and David Riordan look at the competing technologies of Compact Disc Interactive and Digital Video Interactive in an effort to determine which one will eventually win the home entertainment war.)

Departments:

• Taking a Peek:
  • AAARGH (Amiga)
    
  • Roadwars (Amiga/C64/128)
    
  • Rockford: The Arcade Game (Atari ST/C64/128)
    
  • See the U.S.A. (Apple)
    
  • Death Sword (Apple/Atari ST/C64/128/IBM)
    
  • 4 x 4 Off-Road Racing (C64/128/IBM)
    
  • Street Sports Soccer (Apple/C64/128/IBM)
    
  • Prime Time (Atari ST/IBM)
    
  • Murder on the Atlantic (Amiga/Apple/Atari ST/C64/128/IBM)
    
  • Vampire's Empire (Amiga)
    
  • Zoyon Patrol (Apple II)
    
  • M-P-S NFL Pro Football (IBM)
    

  [*]Inside the Industry (Tons of news about how games are tearing up the sales charts, and what to expect at the CES in Chicago, Illinois)

  [*]Reader Input Device

  [*]CGW Hall of Fame

  [*]100 Games Rated

Notable Stuff:

• The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
  
• Scorpia, why in the name of everything holy and righteous are you spoiling the ending to Jinxter in your review?!
  
• Tom Clancy's interview is an awesome read, well worth the price of the magazine, especially in light of Clancy's death in 2013.
  
• Back when Ardai wrote his piece on Infocomics, he laments the price of a Flash comic book as being seventy-five cents...ah, the good old days.
  
• Um, Lynn, you might want to double-check your answers on that Quest Test. The solution to #6 is not 'Hegwen' but 'Henwen'.
  
• William Leslie's name is largely unknown these days, and Universe 3 was the final game he developed, but what a swan song!
  
• History shows neither CD-I nor DVI wins the interactive entertainment war, though Phillips actually brings their unit to market, so there is that...