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Computer Game Review Issue 1

ISSUE: 1Content

Features:

  • Nintendo Unveils the Super NES at CES!
  • First Person: CGR Interviews Ezra Sidran, designer of Universal Military Simulator II

Departments:

  • C> Initialize (Letter From the Editor): Welcome to the premiere issue of CGR!
  • In The Works: Late-breaking news from the industry!
  • Strategist (Tips and Strategies for Current Hot PC Titles):
    • Martian Dreams
    • Knights of the Sky
    • Universal Military Simulator II
    • RoboSport
    • Castles
    • Phantasy Star 3: Generations of Doom (GEN)
  • Coming Soon: What you can expect to see in the next issue:
    • Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
    • Available Light
    • Vengeance of Excalubur
    • Midwinter II
    • Ultima VII exclusive

Reviews:

  • Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (95 / 93 / 87 - Overall: 92)
  • Falcon 3.0 (91 / 92 / 91 - Overall: 91)
  • Castles (69 / 85 / 93 - Overall: 82)
  • Battle Command (67 / 76 / 74 - Overall: 71)
  • Vaxine (74 / 47 / 74 - Overall: 68)

International Previews:

  • Gods
  • Hill Street Blues
  • Chuck Rock
  • The Killing Cloud
  • Hunter
  • Alcatraz
  • Last Ninja 3

Previews:

  • SimAnt
  • Chuck Yeager's Air Combat Simulator
  • Earl Weaver Baseball II
  • The Terminator
  • Navy SEALs
  • F-117A Nighthawk

Ads (in order of appearance):

  • Electronic Arts sports titles: Earl Weaver Baseball II / MLBPA Player Stats & Manager Profiles / Commissioners Disk
  • Castles
  • Ocean titles: Battle Command / Lost Patrol / F29 Retaliator
  • Team Yankee
  • Thrustmaster joysticks
  • Full Metal Planet
  • Gunship 2000
  • Paragon software: MegaTraveller 2: Quest For the Ancients / Twilight: 2000
  • Electronic Gaming Weekly 1-900 number
  • Chips & Bits mail order ad
  • Computer Game Review & 16-Bit Entertainment subscription
  • Mega Play subscription
  • Super Gaming subscription
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly subscription
  • Interstel games: Armada 2525 / Utah Beach: The Battle for Cherbourg
  • Chuck Yeager's Air Combat Simulator

Notable Stuff:

  • The first issue of what would be Sendai Publications' longest-running magazine devoted to computer gaming coverage.
  • Mega Play, Super Gaming, and Electronic Gaming Monthly were all published by Sendai, which is why you see subscription ads for those publications in the pages of a computer mag.
  • Games reviews are graded on a scale of 100 points by multiple reviewers, averaged to give the overall score.
  • Why publisher Steve Harris thought it was wise to include console coverage in a PC-focused magazine is unclear. It doesn't take long for that stuff to fall by the wayside as CGR grows to focus exclusively on computer games.
  • That ad for Chuck Yeager's Air Combat Simulator really shows the gender disparity which was presumed to exist in gaming at the time. This "weak sister" would have been happy to put her skills as a joystick jockey up against Yeager's in 1991. :)
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    Title: Computer Game Review Issue 1
    Month: August
    Year: 1991
    Publisher: Sendai Publishing
    Editor: Mike Riley
    Pages: 52
    Price: $3.50 US / $4.50 CAN / £2.50 UK
    Country: United States
    Language: English
    Votes: 0

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