Computer Gaming World Issue 35

Features:

• C.E.S. Report (CGW reports what they saw, heard, and dealt with during the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas)
  
• Gunship (M. Evan Brooks reviews this helicopter battle sim and finds it to be among the best)
  
• Scorpion's Tale: Gemstone Healer (The ever-helpful Scorpia's tips for this sequel to Gemstone Warrior)
  
• Fifty Mission Crush: A 50 Mission Recall (Leroy W. "Ted" Newby offers his opinions as an actual B-24 bombardier on this B-24 sim)
  
• M+A+X-imum Concentration: Modeling the Future Using Space M+A+X (Johnny L. Wilson's review of this space station simulator)
  
• Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy (Scorpia reviews the second game in Simon & Schuster's Star Trek series)
  
• Starflight (Mark Bausman's lengthy reviews for this Star Trek-style strategy/sim, complete with upside-down hints)
  
• Designer Profile: Doug Crockford (Frank Boosman interviews the Lucasfilm game designer famous for Galahad and the Holy Grail)
  
• Blue Powder, Grey Smoke (Jay Selover reviews this freshman entry Civil War sim from publisher Garde' Games of Distinction)
  

Departments:

• From the Editor...
  
• Taking a Peek:
  • Killed Until Dead (Apple/C64/C128)
    
  • Aliens (C64/C128)
    
  • Championship Baseball (Apple II/C64/C128/IBM)
    
  • Titanic: The Recovery Mission (C64/C128)
    
  • Arcade Poker (IBM)
    
  • 221B Baker Street (Apple/C64/C128)
    
  • The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight (C64/C128)
    
  • Make Your Own Murder Party (Apple/IBM)
    
  • MRCA Mach 2 Combat Flight Simulator (Atari 800)
    
  • Time Bandit (Atari ST)
    
  • Fist - The Legend Continues (C64/C128)
    
  • Indiana Jones in Revenge of the Ancients (Apple/IBM/Mac)
    
  • Parallax (C64/C128)
    
  • S.D.I. (Atari ST)
    
  • Uchi Mata (Atari ST)
    
  • Hallucinations (IBM)
    
  • King's Quest III - To Heir Is Human (Amiga/Atari ST/IBM)
    
  • Space Quest - The Sarien Encounter (Amiga/Atari ST/IBM)
    
  • Wrath of Denethenor (Apple/C64/C128)
    
  • Ace - Air Combat Emulator (C64/C128)
    
  • Kung-Fu - The Way of the Exploding Fist (C64/C128)
    
  • Major League Manager (IBM)
    
  • Strike Force: Cobra (C64/C128)
    
  • Z-Pilot (C64/C128)
    

  [*]Sports Scoreboard (It's World Games, Championship Baseball, Beach Blanket Volleyball, and Equestrian Showjumper in Rick Teverbaugh's column)

  [*]Micro-Reviews:

  • Patton vs. Rommel (Mac)
    
  • Strategic Conquest Plus (Mac)
    

  [*]Reader Input Device

  [*]Game Ratings

Notable Stuff:

• The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
  
• According to this month's "From the Editor...", this is the start of each issue taking on a specific theme. This issue, it's "Computers In Flight".
  
• The Aliens game previewed in "Taking a Peek" is based on the James Cameron film.
  
• Editors to the 221B Baker Street preview, please. "...there are 30 more [cases] on a separate case disk, available separately." *facepalm*
  
• Interesting though it may sound, Hallucinations isn't a game about insanity, merely a screen pattern generator with extremely wonky graphics. The editor spices up the preview with a Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home-related joke about the programmers having "had too much LDS".
  
• That's a pretty, erm, revealing ad for Defender of the Crown on page 15, don't you think?
  
• On page 35, the page number is printed upside down. Why? See the letter column for issue #37.