ISSUE: 20Content
Features:
- RobotWar Tournament (The 4th annual RobotWar tournament is here! Get your entries posted!)
- War in Russia: Replay of Case Blue, Part I (CGW editors Kirk [Russia] Robinson and Jay [Germany] Selover go head-to-head in the Case Blue scenario of SSI's War in Russia)
- Come Cast A Spell With Me (Roe Adams' new adventure gaming column looks at the trend of the professional writer-turned-game-designer with Michael Crichton's Amazon and Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
- A Software Agent Looks At the Industry (Bob Jacobs sees things different from your average reader or developer, and what he sees on the horizon are opportunities galore!)
- Breakthrough in the Ardennes: Designer Notes (Chuck Kroegel explains why things work as they do in this reenactment of the Battle of the Bulge)
- Gulf Strike: A Review (Mark Bausman gives his thoughts on this modern-day war sim)
- Cosmic Balance Contest Results (A narrative-style recounting of the battles faced by the winning ship)
Departments:
- Taking a Peek:
- Ram! (IBM)
- Berserker Raids (Atari/Apple/C64/IBM)
- Wings out of Shadow (IBM/Apple)
- Telechess (Apple II)
- Squire (Apple/MS-DOS)
- The Ancient Art of War (IBM PC/XT/PCjr)
- Karateka (C64/Apple)
- The Serpent's Star (Apple/Atari/C64)
- Welcome Aboard: A Muppet Cruise to Computer Literacy (Apple/C64)
- Whistler's Brother (C64/Atari)
- Video Stock Market (Apple)
-
Sorcerers and Soldiers (Book)
-
Golden Flutes and Great Escapes (Book)
- Timeship (Apple)
- Adventure Construction Set (C64)
- La Triviata (Apple II)
- Rescue Raiders (Apple)
- Field of Fire (Atari/C64)
- Gemstone Warrior (Apple/C64)
- Carriers At War (Apple II/C64)
- Mindwheel (Apple/Atari/C64/IBM)
- Caveman (C64)
[*]Editorial: The Editor Muses (Russell Sipe explains how CGW weathered the great computer game magazine storm of 1984 and what's coming for the future)
[*]Strategically Speaking (Reader-submitted gaming tips for the following games):
- Sieg In Afrika
- Germany 1985
- War in Russia
- Fighter Command
- Cosmic Balance
[*]Tele-Gaming (Patricia Fitzgibbons explores what the new online system Delphi has to offer for users who get in on the ground floor)
[*]Scorpion's Tale (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy got you twisting your towel in knots? Scorpia's here to help.)
[*]The Learning Game (Bob Proctor's 'Year in Review' for educational software, 1984 edition)
[*]Atari Playfield (Spelunker and Realms of Impossibility have David Stone raving)
[*]Micro-Reviews:
- Competition Karate (C64/Apple)
- Clear For Action (Notes from playtester Floyd Mathews)
- 3 in 1 Football (Apple)
- Relax! (C64/Atari/IBM PC/PCjr/Apple)
- How About A Nice Game of Chess? (C64/Apple/Atari)
[*]Reader Input Device
[*]Game Ratings
[*]1984 Index
Notable Stuff:
- The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
- First issue of CGW with a subscription/service card insert.
- No Jon Freeman column this issue? B-but how will I know what to hate this month?!
- According to Russell Sipe, at the start of 1984 there were over seven hundred different computer magazine titles being printed in the US, a ten-fold increase in the five years since CGW began printing.
- Kirk and Jay's back-and-forth for War in Russia makes for great reading, similar to the battle reports published in Games Workshop's White Dwarf magazine.
- A subscription to Delphi starts at $49.95 for the sign-up fee; users pay an additional $6 per hour during off-peak times, and a whopping $16 per hour for prime time access. Zoiks!
-
Relax! is a $99 - $139 (depending on your system) software/hardware combo that helps you to unwind after a long day at work. Alternately, you could just soak in the tub, read, or do one of the myriad other activities people chose before computers were a thing...
- This issue seems much more ad-heavy than the preceding ones.
Features:
- RobotWar Tournament (The 4th annual RobotWar tournament is here! Get your entries posted!)
- War in Russia: Replay of Case Blue, Part I (CGW editors Kirk [Russia] Robinson and Jay [Germany] Selover go head-to-head in the Case Blue scenario of SSI's War in Russia)
- Come Cast A Spell With Me (Roe Adams' new adventure gaming column looks at the trend of the professional writer-turned-game-designer with Michael Crichton's Amazon and Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
- A Software Agent Looks At the Industry (Bob Jacobs sees things different from your average reader or developer, and what he sees on the horizon are opportunities galore!)
- Breakthrough in the Ardennes: Designer Notes (Chuck Kroegel explains why things work as they do in this reenactment of the Battle of the Bulge)
- Gulf Strike: A Review (Mark Bausman gives his thoughts on this modern-day war sim)
- Cosmic Balance Contest Results (A narrative-style recounting of the battles faced by the winning ship)
Departments:
- Taking a Peek:
- Ram! (IBM)
- Berserker Raids (Atari/Apple/C64/IBM)
- Wings out of Shadow (IBM/Apple)
- Telechess (Apple II)
- Squire (Apple/MS-DOS)
- The Ancient Art of War (IBM PC/XT/PCjr)
- Karateka (C64/Apple)
- The Serpent's Star (Apple/Atari/C64)
- Welcome Aboard: A Muppet Cruise to Computer Literacy (Apple/C64)
- Whistler's Brother (C64/Atari)
- Video Stock Market (Apple)
-
Sorcerers and Soldiers (Book)
-
Golden Flutes and Great Escapes (Book)
- Timeship (Apple)
- Adventure Construction Set (C64)
- La Triviata (Apple II)
- Rescue Raiders (Apple)
- Field of Fire (Atari/C64)
- Gemstone Warrior (Apple/C64)
- Carriers At War (Apple II/C64)
- Mindwheel (Apple/Atari/C64/IBM)
- Caveman (C64)
[*]Editorial: The Editor Muses (Russell Sipe explains how CGW weathered the great computer game magazine storm of 1984 and what's coming for the future)
[*]Strategically Speaking (Reader-submitted gaming tips for the following games):
- Sieg In Afrika
- Germany 1985
- War in Russia
- Fighter Command
- Cosmic Balance
[*]Tele-Gaming (Patricia Fitzgibbons explores what the new online system Delphi has to offer for users who get in on the ground floor)
[*]Scorpion's Tale (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy got you twisting your towel in knots? Scorpia's here to help.)
[*]The Learning Game (Bob Proctor's 'Year in Review' for educational software, 1984 edition)
[*]Atari Playfield (Spelunker and Realms of Impossibility have David Stone raving)
[*]Micro-Reviews:
- Competition Karate (C64/Apple)
- Clear For Action (Notes from playtester Floyd Mathews)
- 3 in 1 Football (Apple)
- Relax! (C64/Atari/IBM PC/PCjr/Apple)
- How About A Nice Game of Chess? (C64/Apple/Atari)
[*]Reader Input Device
[*]Game Ratings
[*]1984 Index
- Ram! (IBM)
Notable Stuff:
- The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
- First issue of CGW with a subscription/service card insert.
- No Jon Freeman column this issue? B-but how will I know what to hate this month?!
- According to Russell Sipe, at the start of 1984 there were over seven hundred different computer magazine titles being printed in the US, a ten-fold increase in the five years since CGW began printing.
- Kirk and Jay's back-and-forth for War in Russia makes for great reading, similar to the battle reports published in Games Workshop's White Dwarf magazine.
- A subscription to Delphi starts at $49.95 for the sign-up fee; users pay an additional $6 per hour during off-peak times, and a whopping $16 per hour for prime time access. Zoiks!
-
Relax! is a $99 - $139 (depending on your system) software/hardware combo that helps you to unwind after a long day at work. Alternately, you could just soak in the tub, read, or do one of the myriad other activities people chose before computers were a thing...
- This issue seems much more ad-heavy than the preceding ones.
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