Computer Gaming World Issue 42 (Dec 1987)
0Computer Gaming World Issue 42
Dec 1987
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Special Football Issue
Features:
Scorpion's Tale: Plundered Hearts (Scorpia takes us to the Spanish Main to drop hints for solving Plundered Hearts, Infocom's newest interactive fiction offering)
The Electronic Gridiron (Wyatt Lee gives a critical, in-depth look at a variety of American Football games):
GFL Championship Football
4th & Inches
Gridiron
Football
Head Coach
Mac Pro Football
Super Bowl Sunday
3-in-1 Football
Instant Replay
Computer Quarterback
NFL Challenge
Pro Challenge
[*]Computer Gaming World Meets DragonCon '87 (CGW presents their Game of the Year awards in Atlanta, Georgia):
Adventure Game of the Year: Starflight by Electronic Arts
Action Game of the Year: Gunship by Microprose
Special Award for Artistic Achievement in a Computer Game: Defender of the Crown by Master Designer Cinemaware
Strategy Game of the Year: Gettysburg by SSI
Belated 1986 CGW Game of the Year: Ultima IV by Lord British
Game of the Year: Earl Weaver Baseball by Electronic Arts
[*]Project: Stealth Fighter (M. Evan Brooks reviews Microprose's latest flight simulator featuring America's newest technological achievement)
[*]Beyond Zork (Scorpia reviews the long-awaited conclusion to Infocom's Zork series)
[*]Secret Agents, Man! (PolarWare has its eyes set on the Carmen Sandiego market with its The Spy's Adventures Around the World series. David M. Wilson reviews the first two games)
[*]Victory At Sea: A Common-Sense Approach to SSI's Warship (Having trouble staying afloat? Joseph McMaster has a few hints that can give you the edge necessary to avoid a trip to Davy Jones' Locker)
[*]Battles In Normandy (SSI delivers a new WWII Western Front combat sim, so Bob Proctor puts it through its paces)
[*]Fire Power (Developer Microillusions has a new series of one-on-one, modem-play games in the works. Roy Wagner reviews the first, a game of tank-based combat)
Departments:
Editorial (Where did all the system-specific columns go? Why the new logo? Why the price increase? What tools do you use to lay out your magazine? Russell Sipe answers all these questions and more in a single one-page editorial)
Taking a Peek:
Thunderchopper (Apple/C64)
Postcards (Apple/IBM/C64/Apple IIGS/Mac)
Wings of Fury (Apple II)
Vegas Craps (Apple II/C64/Atari ST/Amiga/Apple IIGS/IBM)
Vegas Gambler (Apple II/C64/Atari ST/Amiga/Apple IIGS/IBM)
Inside Trader (IBM)
Shirley Muldowney's Top Fuel Challenge (C64)
Bismark - The North Sea Chase (C64)
Dark Lord (Apple/C64)
Force 7 (C64)
Tomahawk (Atari/C64)
Street Sports Basketball (Apple/C64/IBM)
Heartland (C64)
Jewels Of Darkness (Atari/C64/Amiga/Atari ST/IBM)
Silicon Dreams (Apple/Atari/C64/Amiga/Atari ST/IBM)
Solar Star (Atari)
Plutos (Amiga)
Terrorpods (Atari/Amiga)
3D Helicopter Simulator (IBM)
Thexder (IBM)
Connect (IBM)
Halls of Montezuma (Apple/C64)
[*]Reader Input Device
[*]Game Ratings
Notable Stuff:
The reference to Psalm 9:1-2 appears on the masthead.
CGW changes their interior typesetting from traditional Times New Roman to the Korinna typeface starting with this issue.
CGW issues a rare retraction, correcting a price listed in last month's Christmas Buyers Guide for Mindscape's gift assortments. They are $24.95 per assortment, not $39.95 as CGW listed.
World champion drag racer Shirley Muldowney is one of the earliest female celebrities to have a video game named after her, with Shirley Muldowney's Top Fuel Challenge on the Commodore 64.
XOR Corporation's NFL Challenge cost $99.95 when released, the equivalent of nearly $210 in 2014 dollars. And you thought $60 was harsh for a new Madden game... :)
Eleven of the top twenty strategy games according to CGW readers (including the top 4 titles) are made by SSI. Wow!
Music By:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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