Computer Gaming World Issue 2

Features:

From the Editor (Russell Sipe sees the computer gaming world as a 'sleeping giant' prepared to awaken. He couldn't be more right.)
Hobby and Industry News (Books, software, hardware, there's more coming every day!)
Initial Comment (Titles received by the magazine to be reviewed at a later date)
Rewriting History on the Computer: Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig (Robert Billings takes five pages and explains how the battle changed when he fought it in Napoleon's Campaigns: 1813 & 1815 for the Apple II)
The Swordthrust Series: A Survey (Deirdre Maloy delves briefly into the five scenarios available for 1981's SwordThrust on the Apple II)
Galaxy: Designer's Notes (Tom Cleaver explains the development of his Galactic Empires and Avalon Hill's re-publication of it under the name Galaxy)
Castle Wolfenstein: The Way Out! -- Maybe! (Graham Masters, Jr. and Bob Boyd offer a tantalizing map of the popular Apple II game with a minor caveat: it might be wrong. First person to verify the map as correct, or submit corrections to fix it, wins a one-year subscription.)
Atari Arcade (John Anderson gives some quickie reviews of new Atari software)
The Greatest Baseball Team Of All Time Tournament (Part 2) (Stats for the last four teams and a revised deadline for results submissions)
A Computerized Crossword Puzzle (It's a crossword puzzle. About computer stuff. Answers in the back.)

Reviews:

Ads (in order of appearance):

SSI Apple games: Southern Command / Napoleon's Campaigns: 1813 & 1815
RobotWar (Apple II)
The Program Store mail order company
CE Software games: Swordthrust / Mission Escape! / Wall Street
Castle Wolfenstein (Apple II)
TG Products Select-A-Port game port expander (Apple II)
TG Products Apple II peripherals
Techyon software
Synergistic Software Apple games: Escape From Arcturus / Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure / The Planetary Guide
Timothy D. Finkas, Freelance Illustrator
Avalon Hill Microcomputer Games: Tanktics / Major League Baseball / Stocks and Bonds / Empire of the Overmind / Midway Campaign / Conflict 2500 / Lords of Karma / Computer Acquire / Nukewar / B-1 Nuclear Bomber / Planet Miners / North Atlantic Convoy Raider

Notable Stuff:

Nice nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey on the cover, isn't it?
The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
Want to subscribe to CGW? $11 US, $15 Canada, $19 anywhere else in the world.
Whoops! We forgot to mention Chris Crawford is employed by Atari last issue. Also, here's a list of all the Democratic candidates we left out of last issue's "Political Apple" column.
On-Line Systems (the precursor to Sierra) launched the multi-disk Time Zone graphical adventure, written and designed by Roberta Williams on the Apple II in January of 1982. The price? $99.95. Adjusted for inflation, this computer game would have cost $242 in 2014. And gamers balk at paying $50 for a new release today...
The review for Cartels & Cutthroat$ neglects to mention the system for which it's available.
Same with Zork, although it was (eventually) released for virtually every personal computer system known to man.
And Ultima. Seriously, guys and gals, we need to know what system you're reviewing on here, even if most reviews this issue are for the Apple II.
One Timothy D. Finkas has a small ad for his freelance illustration work. His style looks like it would fit right in with TSR's in their first edition AD&D books. Wonder what became of him? (Update: Mr. Finkas was the main art director for CGW, and passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2013 at the age of 54...)

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