dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) (08/17/88)
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Subject: Some top-rated games
Buying computer games can sometimes be a gamble. /Computer Gaming World/
magazine surveys its readers every month and publishes a list of the top 100
or so games. Ratings are on a 1 to 9 scale, 9 being perfect.
Below are the "creme de la creme", the very top of the heap, according to
the readers' ratings in the June issue (by using a 2-month old issue I hope
to reduce the wrath of CGW's editors at my unauthorized plagiarism). I've
tried to categorize them a bit and I've included the lowest prices that I
could find in my usual Phoenix area software haunts and the lowest prices
that I found in mail-order advertisements.
STORE MAIL
RATING PRICE PRICE TITLE -- PUBLISHER
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Commodore 64 adventure games:
7.80 $40 $34 Ultima IV -- Origin
7.69 na $24 Wizardry I -- Sir-Tech
7.55 na $23 Ultima III -- Origin
7.53 $30 $28 Might and Magic -- New World
7.49 $26 $26 Bard's Tale I -- Electronic Arts
Commodore 64 battle strategy games:
7.66 na $36 Kampfgruppe -- SSI
7.66 na $34 Gettysburg -- SSI
Commodore 64 action simulations:
7.60 $28 $23 Pirates! -- MicroProse
7.57 $24 $20 Gunship -- MicroProse
7.50* $20 $21 Strike Fleet -- Electronic Arts
7.42 $28 $23 Project: Stealth Fighter -- MicroProse
Commodore 64 single/multi-player animated economic simulation (say what?):
7.44 $10 $10 M.U.L.E. -- Electronic Arts
Not available for the Commodore 64 as far as I know:
7.81* Dungeon Master -- FTL (Atari ST)
7.77 Empire -- Interstel (Atari ST and IBM PC)
7.63 Starflight -- Electronic Arts (IBM PC)
7.47 Earl Weaver Baseball -- Electronic Arts (Amiga and IBM PC)
*these two rankings are based on a single rating period; all other ratings
are the cumulative results of at least 4 rating periods.
You'll notice that no arcade joystick-jerker games appear in this listing;
this is probably just an artifact of CGW's reader demographics (we're
talking serious game-players here).
There are also no C-64 sports simulations on the list; my guess is that
the the really good sports simulations are being written for the IBM PC
because that's where their big market is.
Now in further contrition for my plagiarism, I include CGW's subscription
information:
Computer Gaming World 1 year (12 issues) -- $29.50 U.S.
P.O. Box 4566 2 years $55.50
Anaheim, CA 92803-9886 3 years $79.50
Add $7 per year for Canada/foreign surface mail.
1 year foreign air mail $62.00 U.S.
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Doug Pardee {ames,hplabs,sun,amdahl,allegra}!oliveb!edge!doug
Edge Computer Corp., Scottsdale, AZ uunet!ism780c!edge!doug
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