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Source: Computer Play – Issue Number 3 – October 1988

Though it seem relatively obscure today, Computer Play was once the only competition out there for Computer Gaming World. The October 1988 issue includes:

Departments

• Editor’s Page – Thoughts about software piracy.
• Letters – Our readers talk back.
• Hints & Tips – Help with your favorite games.
• Company Addresses – Software game manufacturers.
• Scorecard – How we review games.
• Marketplace – Display and classified advertising.
• Coming Attractions – Next issue’s features.
• Advertiser Index – Reader service information.

Columns

• Industry News & Views – What’s new in the biz.
• Channel Three – Nintendo and Sega news.
• Snapshots – Brief looks at new (and old) games.
• MacGames – Have fun with your Mac.

Reviews

• Unite China – Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
• Beautiful Music – Jam Session helps you create.
• Fencing Lessons – The challenge of Death Sword.
• Terrorist Attacks – Skim the waves on Pegasus.
• Rule the Skies – Hellcat Ace provides excitement.
• Sports Special – Enter the world of sports games in a special section: John Elway’s Quarterback, Super Sunday, TV Football, Pro/NFL Challenge, GFL Football, GBA Basketball, Sporting News Baseball, Pete Rose Pennant Fever, Computerized Card Collecting, Hardball, RBI Baseball, Leader Board Golf, sports game listing.

…and more!

Source: Computer Gaming World – Issue Number 102 – January 1993

Computer Gaming World really was the best computer games magazine. It was sad when it evolved into the short-lived Games for Windows. The January 1993 issue includes the following:

Features

• Ultra Bots Exclusive Coverage – Johnny Wilson Proves That War Is What you Mech of It
• A King’s Quest VI(th) Sense? – Chuck Miller Gets Under the Scalp of Missing Heirs
• Carusoe-ing For A Bruising – Giligan has Nothing on Dynamix’ Johnny Castaway – A Note in the Bottle from Alan Emrich & Johnny Wilson
• Accolade’s Summer Challenge Leaps For The Gold – Reviewer Gordon Goble Checks for (Foot) Faults
• Sierra’s Clueless Gobliiins – Chriiis Lombardiii Buys Them A Vowel
• The Quest For Glory Series Takes a 3rd Turn – Players May Not Mind A Couple of Lumps of Cole in Their Stockings As Dug by Jeff James
• Bela Lugosi Lives On In Plan 9 From Outer Space – By Alien Abductee, Charles Ardai
• Is Jack Nicklaus Golf Driving You Bunkers? – Mark Willet Guides Course Designers Through the Rough
• A Composer’s Symposium on Sound Support – Donald Griffin Explores What’s in the Cards & Gives Sound Observations
• Surveying the Realms – Virgin Games Sallies Into Strategy Gaming By Jeff “The Conquering Commentator” James
• Heimdall – The Party Viking? – Ragnarok n’ Roll With Allen “Bjorn To Be Wild” Greenberg
• Evan B(r)ooks A Flight on Air Bucks – A Solvent Review for Soldiers in the Fare Wars
• The High & Dry Way to Fly – Stealthy Strategies for Happier Landings in Air Bucks by Jennifer Schlickbernd
• Learning From The Prophecy of the Shadow – SSI Reaches Out For New Role-Playing Converts By Jeff “Voice In The Wilderness” James
• How Do You Spell Excitement? N-H-L-P-A Hockey! – Electronic Arts Shoots and Scores on the SEGA As Glossed Over by Zamboni Drivers Chris Lombardi & Alan Emrich
• A Different Slant on Wayne Gretzky 3 – Gordon Goble “Checks” Out Bethesda’s Latest
• The Deciding Point is a Spear of Destiny – Back To the Bunker on Another Wolfenstein 3-D Mission Bryan Walker Takes a Careful, Reviewer’s aim
• Making One’s Mark in Darklands – Fighting For One’s Reputation part II of Sam Baker’s Strategy Guide
• Charles Ardai Takes a Spring Break – Legend’s Spellcasting: 301 Works Its Magic Through Another Naughty, Sophomoric Rump (Er,…Romp)
• Phone Stone – GEnie’s Gemstone III Gets Reappraised By the Pawnbroker of Panache, Johnny Wilson
• The Consumers Strike Back! – CGW’s Annual Top Ad Contest is Launched And Will be Decided by Our Readers

Computer Wargaming World

• Red Baron Mission Builder in the Crosshairs – Becoming the Ringmaster of the Flying Circus A Review of Dynamix’s Toolkit by Doug “Flying” Fick
• Naval Miniatures on a Microcomputer? – SSI’s Great Naval Battles in the North Atlantic Sails With Nautical Nuance by Johnny “Range Finder” Wilson
• “I’ll Meet You At Midway” – A Rip Roaring Replay of A Carriers at War Scenario By Michael “Nimitz” Peck and Carlos “Yamamoto” Gomez
• B-17 – On Target? – Reviewing MicroProse UK’s Flying Fortress Simulator Flak Fired by William Shefski
• Having Conquered Kingdoms At Your Feet – Alan Emrich Previews the Latest Offering from QQP And Sees Magic in the Strategy Gamer’s Future
• Advanced Squad Leader Meets IBM – A Game Assistance Program lends Support to a Wargaming Classic By Richard “10-6” Savage
• Gunship 2000 Over Islands and Ice – A Helicopter Gunship Flight Simulator Supplement Reviewed by Bryan Walker
• Reviewing the Fronts in Theatre of War – Tim Carter Witnesses A Strategy Gaming Spectacle
• Talons & Claws in Operation Fighting Tiger – Spectrum Holobyte Gives a Boost to Falcon 3.0 An In-flight Review by Tom “Crash” Basham
• Garage-Built F-16? – Mike Weksler Straps into Homemade Cockpits for Flight Simulators

Departments

• Scorpia’s View: Clouds of Xeen
• Over There: European Software Report
• Scorpia’s Tale: The Summoning
• Best of the Rest (Shareware)
• CGW Stock Watch: Sierra
• Company Profile: QQP
• Conversions Received
• Letters from Paradise
• The Rumor Bag (Artis Fartis)
• Computer Wargaming World Editorial: Roger Keating Interview
• Taking a Peek
• CGW Poll: Top 100 Games
• What’s Hot!
• CGW Hall of Fame
• Editorial – Software Returns

…and more!