Computer Gaming World (January 1993)

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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!