Computer Gaming World Issue 75

Special Wargame Issue

Features:

• Dynamix and the Red Baron: Russell Sipe previews the forthcoming World War I flight combat simulator.
• Storm Across Europe: M. Evan Brooks sets out to conquer a continent.
• Hits and Misses for Strategy Gamers: With so many options to choose from, someone had to cull the wheat from the chaff, and M. Evan Brooks was just the guy to do it. This issue, he's looking at war games set in the pre-20th century era.
• Their Finest Hour Strategies and Tips: Struggling to win air superiority with the Germans? Roger White has a handy pre-flight briefing to give you some help.
• A New William Tell Overture: Electronic Zoo's attempting an action/adventure trick shot, and Allen Greenberg is on hand to report on the outcome.
• Nuclear War for Fun and Profit: New World Computing drops the bomb on Chuck Moss.
• Imperial Stratagems: Having difficulty building your empire in Empire? Have no fear, Glenn Kenny's got your back!
• Electronic Arts' Projectyle: Alan Emich and Chris Lombardi coach from the sidelines to improve your Tri-Ball teams.
• Search for the King Hints: Scorpia dishes up a tantalizing tureen of tips for this Accolade-made adventure starring Les Manley.
• CGW's Free-For-All Page: Want some free swag? Head on over and see if you've got what it takes to win in this latest feature.

Departments:

• Taking a Peek: Your one-stop shop for previews of upcoming titles, such as...
  • Jack Nicklaus' Unlimited Golf & Course Design
  • Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
  • Flood
  • Imperium
  • PGA Tour
  • Treasure Trap
  • The Plague
  • TKO Pro Boxing
  • Future Classics Collection
  • Operation Com*Bat
  • Questmaster
  • The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter
  • Anarchy
  • The Punisher
  • Hoyle's Book of Games Volume II, Solitaire
  • Flight of the Intruder
  • Harpoon Scenario Editor
  • Edward O. Thorpe's Real Blackjack
• The Rumor Bag: The Enigmatic "Mr. Smith" gives up the gaming gossip about stuff that may or may not come to pass.
• Letters From Paradise: The monthly mail bag column.
• Scorpion's View: RPG reviewer Scorpia picks up her 20-sider to review AD&D: Secret of the Silver Blades.
• Over There: Europe has their own exciting gaming market, which CGW is all too happy to report on.
• Game Ratings: CGW's top 100 games, as rated by the readers.
• Hall of Fame: The best of the best, as decided by the readers via the...
• Reader Input Device: Have your say about the games and the magazine with this handy-dandy mail-in!
• Editorial: CGW takes issue with the recent utterance of an industry-respected game designer, who lamented there were no new puzzles to offer gamers since Scott Adams basically invented all of them in his early text adventure series.

Ads (in order of appearance):

• Starflight 2
• Drakkhen
• Dragon Wars
• Space Combat
• Double Dribble
• Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan Anniversary Special
• Sorcerian
• Future Classics Collection (Blockalanche / Diet Riot / Diskman / Lost 'n' Maze / Tankbattle)
• Spot: The Computer Game
• Manta Software and Computers mail order
• J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan
• Koei simulations (Bandit Kings of Ancient China / Romance of the Three Kingdoms / Nobunaga's Ambition / Genghis Khan)
• Renegade Legion: Interceptor
• Viking Software mail order
• The Next Empire play-by-mail game
• Brown-Wagh mail order
• Earthrise
• Harpoon
• Ad Lib Music Card sound card
• Miniatures of War for Supremacy
• Micro Games mail order
• Microprose games (Railroad Tycoon / Silent Service II / F-19 Stealth Fighter / M1 Tank Platoon / F-15 Strike Eagle II / Sword of the Samural / Red Storm Rising)
• MicroPlay games (Sharkey's 3D Pool / Weird Dreams)
• Second Front
• Cape Cod Connection mail order
• Sirius Command play-by-mail game
• MicroPlay simulations (Midwinter / UMS II: Nations At War / Command H.Q.)
• Paragon Software games (Space 1899 / MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy)
• Harlem Globetrotters
• Paper Mayhem magazine
• Grand Alliance play-by-mail game
• Sound Master sound enhancement board
• Action Stations!
• Chips & Bits mail order
• Earthwood play-by-mail game
• Blue Valley games (The Magic MIrror / Merlin / I Ching / The Magic Mountain)
• Portinium play-by-mail game
• Decision at Gettysburg
• Lance Haffner games (3 In 1 Football / Full Count Baseball)
• B.A.T.: Bureau of Astral Troubleshooters
• Unreal (1990)
• Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire special edition
• Strike Force Navigator add-on for M1 Tank Platoon
• Bethesda Softworks hockey games (Wayne Gretzky Hockey II / Hockey League Simulator)
• Countdown
• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: DragonStrike
• SimCity
• Wing Commander

Notable Stuff:

• The Psalms 9:1-2 reference appears on the masthead.
• The CGW Hall of Fame grows, as Microprose's F-19 Stealth Fighter is added to the list of all-time classic titles (and thus barred from being ranked in the future).
• I always forget how ubiquitous the play-by-mail game scene was, even in the early and mid-90s, before the rise of the internet all but killed off the idea.
• Board game designer Richard Burg once postulated his "3-N rule" of war games, which stated that only games which included NATO, Nukes, or Nazis were potential candidates for commercial success. Naturally, someone out there decided to make a game called just that to put this hypothesis to the ultimate test.
• Eye of the Beholder is the first computer game designed using the then-new 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules.