Computer Gaming World Issue 8

Features:

• Test Pilot (Short fiction by John Vornholt)
  
• The Learning Game (Bob Proctor looks at the world of educational software)
  
• The Atari Arena (Allen Doum examines four new games for the Atari 400/800: Protector II, Claim Jumper, Picnic Paranoia, and Tax Dodge)
  
• Real World Gaming (Dan Bunten discusses the development of simulation games)
  
• Route 80: The Road to TRS-80 Gaming (Dick McGrath reviews eight different TRS-80 games: Time Runner, Apple Panic, Mad Mines, Black Hole, Babel Terror, Demon Seed, Jovian, and Cyborg)
  
• The Silicon Cerebrum (Bruce Webster talks about simple techniques for helping programs 'learn')
  
• Microcomputer Mathemagic (Dr. Michael W. Ecker delivers a program listing for the logical math game 'Fifty')
  
• Reader Input Device #6 (And overview of R.I.D. #5)
  
• Index of Volumes 1 & 2 (Where did that article appear? Use this handy index to the first two volumes of CGW and find out!)
  

Departments:

• Inside the Industry (Dana Lombardi invites you to cast your vote for best computer game of 1982)
  
• Letters (Everybody's got an opinion these days)
  
• Taking A Peek (Micro-looks at goodies CGW has received at the offices):
  

Reviews:

• Stratos (TRS-80/Atari 400/800)
  
• Seadragon (Apple)
  
• Lovers or Strangers (Apple)
  
• Mike Caro's Video Poker (Apple II)
  
• Millionaire (Apple II/IBM PC/Osborne)
  
• Choplifter (Atari)
  
• Bank Street Writer (Apple)
  
• A.E. (Apple II)
  
• Aztec (Apple II)
  
• The Elementary Apple (Book)
  
• Tubeway (Apple II)
  
• Vortex (not listed)
  
• Cribbage Solitaire (Apple II)
  
• Prisoner 2 (not listed)
  
• Empire I - World Builders (not listed)
  
• Empire II - Interstellar Sharks (not listed)
  
• Rescue at Rigel (VIC-20)
  
• Sword of Fargoal (VIC-20)
  
• Super Tax Man 2 (Apple II)
  
• Bulldog Pinball (Atari 400/800)
  
• GRAPPLE (Apple)
  
• Spider Raid (Apple)
  
• Zargs (Apple)
  
• Wordtrix (IBM PC)
  
• Ice Demons (Apple II)
  
• Night Falls (Apple II)
  
• Jawbreaker (Apple II)
  
• Golf Challenge (Atari 400/800)
  
• Lunar Leeper (Apple II)
  
• Pest Patrol (Apple II)
  
• Bandits (Atari 400/800)
  
• The Blade of Blackpoole (Apple II)
  
• Free Fall (Apple II)
  
• Wayout (Atari)
  
• Repton (Atari 400/800/Apple II)
  
• Galactic Attack (Apple II)
  
• Rune Fight (Apple II)
  
• Pillbox (Apple II)
  
• Micro Mother Goose (Apple II)
  
• Bomb Alley (Apple II)
  
• Evolution (Apple)
  
• Crisis Mountain (Apple II)
  
• Bolo (Apple II)
  
• The Survival Kit for Apple Computer Games (Book)
  
• Thrax Lair (Atari)
  
• The Predictor (Apple II)
  
• Serpentine (Apple II)
  
• Cosmic Balance (Apple II/Atari 400/800)
  
• S.E.U.I.S. (Apple II)
  
• Armor Assault (Atari 400/800)
  
• The Arcade Machine (Apple II)
  
• Flockland Island Crisis (Apple II/DOS)
  
• Night Mission (Apple II)
  
• Probe One: The Transmitter (Atari 400/800)
  
• Atari Games and Recreations (Book)
  
• Valley of the Kings (Atari 400/800)
  

Notable Stuff:

• The Psalm 9:1-2 reference appears on the masthead.
  
• Subscription prices have gone up slightly to $12.50 per year in the US, $16.50 per year in Canada, and $26.50 per year anywhere else in the world.
  
• Robert Woodhead of Sir-Tech Software has a letter printed in this issue. Cool!
  
• The Star Maze Contest from last issue looks like it has one winner, but the second and third place prizes remain unclaimed...