ISSUE: 47Content
Features:
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Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Creator - CGR interviews the team at Amazing Media, the mad developers tasked with bringing this Tim Curry-led graphical adventure to life. It's alive! It's alive!! Includes a short interview with Curry himself.
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The Forest for the Trees - Does beta-testing software sound like a dream come true? CGR editor sits down with Rich Heimlich, president of Top Star, and David Costa, Product Testing Supervisor for Electronic Arts, to shatter those dreams.
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Star Trek At A Glance: Michael & Denise Okuda and Debbie Mirek Give Trekkers What They Want - The forthcoming Star Trek Omnipedia aims to compile everything you wanted to know, and everything you never knew you wanted to know, about the biggest science fiction property on the planet. Also features interviews with Doug Drexler, scenic artist on Deep Space 9, and Denise Okuda, the Video Coordinator for Deep Space Nine and Voyager .
Departments:
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Initialize: Welcome to the Atomic Age - There's a new website coming online, and it's Nuke.com. Are you ready to get NUKEd?
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Postage Due - The letters page.
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CGR News:
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Games For Windows 95: Whether You Like It or Not
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What's Wrong With This Picture? - General Media International has formed a new technology think tank.
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The Sporting Life - Interplay has created a new software division, called VR Sports.
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Berkeley Says "You Don't Know Jack!" - Berkeley Systems is entering the gaming arena with a new hilarious trivia game.
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Reading Along - There's a new trend in publishing tie-in novels for gaming's biggest brands, including Wing Commander and King's Quest.
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Acclaimed By Peers - A slew of titles were honored at the recent Game Developer's Conference
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Oops... We Goofed - Last issue, CGR mis-identified the publisher of Virtua Chess. It's published by Titus, not Interplay. Also, the recently-profiled Titus game 'Metal Combat' is now known as F. Tank.
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The Spirit of the Age... - Soon, you'll be able to buy issues of Will Eisner's The Spirit on CD-ROM!
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Three-Sixty Does a 180 - The Harpoon II developers want to reassure everyone that they aren't dead.
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Holistic Design's Merchant Prince Updated - Merchant Prince is getting an update, like the headline says.
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Deal Me In: Mayfair Brings SimCity to New Markets - Mayfair Games is converting the popular PC game to the collectible card game market.
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The Ghost in the Machine - Ted Chapman breaks down the difference between a Class A and a Class B digital device.
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Add-Ons & Info - Steven Greenlee spills the tea on some upcoming products:
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Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Interactive
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Ted Williams: The Legend's Own Story
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The Grammys
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Her Heritage
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Antarctica
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Car and Driver '95 Buyers Guide on CD-ROM
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Puzzle Power
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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1995
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Child Support - Steven Greenlee wades into the weeds of edutainment:
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The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain
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Fisher-Price ABC's Featuring the Jungle Jukebox
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The Book of Shadowboxes
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Jigsaw-It!
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Science Sleuths
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The Animals 2.0
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Secrets of the Pyramids
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Strategy:
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Discworld
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Game Over: A Master of Magic on Two Planes - The ending of Master of Magic is spoiled, in case you couldn't finish it yourself.
Previews:
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Magic: The Gathering
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Zoop
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Wetlands
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Synnergist
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Prisoner of Ice
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Slipstream 5000
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War Patrol
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Battleground: Ardennes
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ESPN National Hockey Night
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Dr. Drago's Madcap Chase
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Reviews:
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Jagged Alliance (86%)
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Shanghai: Great Moments (85%)
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Maabus (65%)
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Alien Virus (70%)
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Tank Commander (76%)
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Pizza Tycoon (77%)
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Lost Eden (89%)
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Iron Assault (78%)
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Bioforge (81%)
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Bolo (82%)
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The Pure Wargame - Death From Above: Vol. 1 (71%)
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Ravenloft: Stone Prophet (80%)
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Brett Hull Hockey '95 (76%)
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SuperKarts (86%)
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ECO East Africa (77%)
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Jungle Strike (85%)
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Clockwerx (86%)
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Hardware reviews:
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GameNet w/Marathon bundle (89%)
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J-688 Speakers (90%)
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PCAmp Audio System (91%)
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SB-8 Subwoofer & Satellite Speaker System (71%)
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XL Action Controller (87%)
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Ads (in order of appearance):
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Gravis Phoenix and Gravis Firebird controllers
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USS Ticonderoga
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Slam City with Scottie Pippen
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Full Throttle
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Dungeon Master II
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NASCAR Racing / NASCAR Racing Track Pack
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The Hive
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Rise of the Triad: Dark War
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Under a Killing Moon
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Chaos Engine, The
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Avalon Hill games: Flight Commander 2 / Operation Crusader / Stalingrad / 5th Fleet Scenario Module I
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Exploration
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Apache: The Combat Helicopter Simulation
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Mech Warrior 2
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PowerHouse
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Xplora 1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World
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Mortal Kombat II for PC
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Command & Conquer
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Maabus
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Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge
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Blood Bowl
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Grandmaster Championship Chess
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SimTower
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X-Com: Terror From the Deep
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GEnie online service
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Heroes of Might and Magic
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FX Fighter
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World of Aden: Thunderscape
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Magball
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Daedalus Encounter, The
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Diamond multimedia kits
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HardBall 4
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Logitech WingMan Extreme joystick
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Spacetech Spaceball Avenger controller
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Jazz Speakers PC multimedia speakers
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CH Products: Virtual Pilot Pro / Pro Pedals / Flightstick Pro / Trackball Pro
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Necrobius
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Harpoon II Deluxe
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Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE 32 sound card
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Brain Dead 13
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Solid State Pinball: Crystal Caliburn
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Alone in the Dark 3
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Falcon Mach V gaming PCs
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Civil War, The
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Jagged Alliance
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Street Fighter II Turbo for PC
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Sid Meier's CIVNET
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity
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Gemini Games mail order
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Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye
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Space Sirens 2: Megababes From Ajia
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Mission Control adult software mail order
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go Digital interactive magazine
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Virtua Chess
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Knights of Xentar
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Casino: Tournament of Champions
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Lemmings Chronicles, The
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Pizza Tycoon
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Lost Admiral II: The Admiral's Revenge
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Perfect General II
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Brian's Games mail order
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Secrets of Magic with Dikki Ellis
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Mission Control mail order
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Deadline
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Nuke.com website
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Navy Strike: Task Force Command
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Jewels of the Oracle
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Gamer's Gold mail order
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Entombed
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Seymore Butts Interactive II: In Pursuit of Pleasure
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InterAct game controllers: PC Optix / PC Commander / PC Propad
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Orion Conspiracy, The
Notable Stuff:
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The ad for Under a Killing Moon that stretches across pages 20-21 is one of the only triangle-shaped ads I've ever seen.
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If you weren't around to remember it, the kerfuffle over Microsoft trying to convince a bunch of hardcore DOS users that Windows 95 was the gaming platform of the future was very, very real. For a while, this resulted in some game developers releasing two versions of their products, with one meant for use under a Windows 95 environment and the other for MS-DOS (iD Software did this for Quake). It really wasn't until the creation of the DirectX unified instruction set that the shift to Windows as a gaming platform began, and even then there wasn't widespread implementation until DirectX 5.0 rolled out in 1997. Tomb Raider, for instance, shipped in 1996 as a DOS-only application, but Tomb Raider II, which released the following year, was a Win95 application.
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In Star Wars: Dark Forces, it takes 14 direct punches to kill Jabba's Kell Dragon.
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There are apparently 2,500 different video sequences in Johnny Mnemonic, the PC game based on the film.
Features:
- Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Creator - CGR interviews the team at Amazing Media, the mad developers tasked with bringing this Tim Curry-led graphical adventure to life. It's alive! It's alive!! Includes a short interview with Curry himself.
- The Forest for the Trees - Does beta-testing software sound like a dream come true? CGR editor sits down with Rich Heimlich, president of Top Star, and David Costa, Product Testing Supervisor for Electronic Arts, to shatter those dreams.
- Star Trek At A Glance: Michael & Denise Okuda and Debbie Mirek Give Trekkers What They Want - The forthcoming Star Trek Omnipedia aims to compile everything you wanted to know, and everything you never knew you wanted to know, about the biggest science fiction property on the planet. Also features interviews with Doug Drexler, scenic artist on Deep Space 9, and Denise Okuda, the Video Coordinator for Deep Space Nine and Voyager .
Departments:
- Initialize: Welcome to the Atomic Age - There's a new website coming online, and it's Nuke.com. Are you ready to get NUKEd?
- Postage Due - The letters page.
-
CGR News:
- Games For Windows 95: Whether You Like It or Not
- What's Wrong With This Picture? - General Media International has formed a new technology think tank.
- The Sporting Life - Interplay has created a new software division, called VR Sports.
- Berkeley Says "You Don't Know Jack!" - Berkeley Systems is entering the gaming arena with a new hilarious trivia game.
- Reading Along - There's a new trend in publishing tie-in novels for gaming's biggest brands, including Wing Commander and King's Quest.
- Acclaimed By Peers - A slew of titles were honored at the recent Game Developer's Conference
- Oops... We Goofed - Last issue, CGR mis-identified the publisher of Virtua Chess. It's published by Titus, not Interplay. Also, the recently-profiled Titus game 'Metal Combat' is now known as F. Tank.
- The Spirit of the Age... - Soon, you'll be able to buy issues of Will Eisner's The Spirit on CD-ROM!
- Three-Sixty Does a 180 - The Harpoon II developers want to reassure everyone that they aren't dead.
- Holistic Design's Merchant Prince Updated - Merchant Prince is getting an update, like the headline says.
- Deal Me In: Mayfair Brings SimCity to New Markets - Mayfair Games is converting the popular PC game to the collectible card game market.
- The Ghost in the Machine - Ted Chapman breaks down the difference between a Class A and a Class B digital device.
-
Add-Ons & Info - Steven Greenlee spills the tea on some upcoming products:
- Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Interactive
- Ted Williams: The Legend's Own Story
- The Grammys
- Her Heritage
- Antarctica
- Car and Driver '95 Buyers Guide on CD-ROM
- Puzzle Power
- Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1995
-
Child Support - Steven Greenlee wades into the weeds of edutainment:
- The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain
- Fisher-Price ABC's Featuring the Jungle Jukebox
- The Book of Shadowboxes
- Jigsaw-It!
- Science Sleuths
- The Animals 2.0
- Secrets of the Pyramids
-
Strategy:
- Discworld
- Game Over: A Master of Magic on Two Planes - The ending of Master of Magic is spoiled, in case you couldn't finish it yourself.
Previews:
- Magic: The Gathering
- Zoop
- Wetlands
- Synnergist
- Prisoner of Ice
- Slipstream 5000
- War Patrol
- Battleground: Ardennes
- ESPN National Hockey Night
- Dr. Drago's Madcap Chase
Reviews:
- Jagged Alliance (86%)
- Shanghai: Great Moments (85%)
- Maabus (65%)
- Alien Virus (70%)
- Tank Commander (76%)
- Pizza Tycoon (77%)
- Lost Eden (89%)
- Iron Assault (78%)
- Bioforge (81%)
- Bolo (82%)
- The Pure Wargame - Death From Above: Vol. 1 (71%)
- Ravenloft: Stone Prophet (80%)
- Brett Hull Hockey '95 (76%)
- SuperKarts (86%)
- ECO East Africa (77%)
- Jungle Strike (85%)
- Clockwerx (86%)
-
Hardware reviews:
- GameNet w/Marathon bundle (89%)
- J-688 Speakers (90%)
- PCAmp Audio System (91%)
- SB-8 Subwoofer & Satellite Speaker System (71%)
- XL Action Controller (87%)
Ads (in order of appearance):
- Gravis Phoenix and Gravis Firebird controllers
- USS Ticonderoga
- Slam City with Scottie Pippen
- Full Throttle
- Dungeon Master II
- NASCAR Racing / NASCAR Racing Track Pack
- The Hive
- Rise of the Triad: Dark War
- Under a Killing Moon
- Chaos Engine, The
- Avalon Hill games: Flight Commander 2 / Operation Crusader / Stalingrad / 5th Fleet Scenario Module I
- Exploration
- Apache: The Combat Helicopter Simulation
- Mech Warrior 2
- PowerHouse
- Xplora 1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World
- Mortal Kombat II for PC
- Command & Conquer
- Maabus
- Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge
- Blood Bowl
- Grandmaster Championship Chess
- SimTower
- X-Com: Terror From the Deep
- GEnie online service
- Heroes of Might and Magic
- FX Fighter
- World of Aden: Thunderscape
- Magball
- Daedalus Encounter, The
- Diamond multimedia kits
- HardBall 4
- Logitech WingMan Extreme joystick
- Spacetech Spaceball Avenger controller
- Jazz Speakers PC multimedia speakers
- CH Products: Virtual Pilot Pro / Pro Pedals / Flightstick Pro / Trackball Pro
- Necrobius
- Harpoon II Deluxe
- Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE 32 sound card
- Brain Dead 13
- Solid State Pinball: Crystal Caliburn
- Alone in the Dark 3
- Falcon Mach V gaming PCs
- Civil War, The
- Jagged Alliance
- Street Fighter II Turbo for PC
- Sid Meier's CIVNET
- Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity
- Gemini Games mail order
- Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye
- Space Sirens 2: Megababes From Ajia
- Mission Control adult software mail order
- go Digital interactive magazine
- Virtua Chess
- Knights of Xentar
- Casino: Tournament of Champions
- Lemmings Chronicles, The
- Pizza Tycoon
- Lost Admiral II: The Admiral's Revenge
- Perfect General II
- Brian's Games mail order
- Secrets of Magic with Dikki Ellis
- Mission Control mail order
- Deadline
- Nuke.com website
- Navy Strike: Task Force Command
- Jewels of the Oracle
- Gamer's Gold mail order
- Entombed
- Seymore Butts Interactive II: In Pursuit of Pleasure
- InterAct game controllers: PC Optix / PC Commander / PC Propad
- Orion Conspiracy, The
Notable Stuff:
- The ad for Under a Killing Moon that stretches across pages 20-21 is one of the only triangle-shaped ads I've ever seen.
- If you weren't around to remember it, the kerfuffle over Microsoft trying to convince a bunch of hardcore DOS users that Windows 95 was the gaming platform of the future was very, very real. For a while, this resulted in some game developers releasing two versions of their products, with one meant for use under a Windows 95 environment and the other for MS-DOS (iD Software did this for Quake). It really wasn't until the creation of the DirectX unified instruction set that the shift to Windows as a gaming platform began, and even then there wasn't widespread implementation until DirectX 5.0 rolled out in 1997. Tomb Raider, for instance, shipped in 1996 as a DOS-only application, but Tomb Raider II, which released the following year, was a Win95 application.
- In Star Wars: Dark Forces, it takes 14 direct punches to kill Jabba's Kell Dragon.
- There are apparently 2,500 different video sequences in Johnny Mnemonic, the PC game based on the film.
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