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Questbusters: Dog t _ue~e!~e!;!~ters™ ;j Vol. VII, # 9 September, 1990 $2.50 Adventures topped simulations in 1989, says SPA According to the Software QuestBuster Videogames on mailing the final issue in the Publishers Association report existing sub. Our data base on recreational software (bet­ of the Year! the way out? sorts labels out by first class ter known as "computer Paul Shaffer, who contributed Latest reports from Japan in­ and third class, and if we up­ games"), adventure and role­ the most walkthroughs for the dicate Nintendo is selling half dated them months ahead of playing games emerged as the upcoming Quest for Clues III, as many games there as last time, the last few issues of largest category. has attained the exalted status year, with most sales going to your sub would be sent first Adventurers bought 31. 7% "QuestB uster of the Year'' for the USA. Since Japan is about class-when that shouldn't of all games sold in the USA 1990. He also verified quite a a year ahead of us in electron­ kick in till the first issue of last year. Simulations ran a few other solutions. The book ic entertainment, it looks like the renewal (is this making close second, with 29.3%. should be on the shelves by the videogame craze has any sense?). To avoid confu­ The other categories: action/ January. peaked and the end is near. sion (ha!), we'll now update arcade with 21.9%, sports the expiration date on all tackling 9.79%, and family such renewals upon receipt, entertainment, with 7.39. EA and Sega Emily Littela then change them from third Simulations were most Electronic Arts' Software for strikes again to first class at the appropri­ popular overseas, capturing Life policy has been extended ate time. (Or just include an 40% of that market, with ac _. to Sega., so anyone who owns Recently we announced an extra 50!t for each issue left tion/arcade games coming in an EA game that's converted upcoming EA conversion of in your sub and start getting at 36%. (There's no way to for the Sega can downgrade to the game Helm of Shadow. it first class right away.) determine how the Iraq em­ a Sega version for half-price. No such game exists. It's ac­ First class subscribers: bargo will affect computer tually Hound of Shadow that check your mailing label be­ game sales, since the SPA was converted for ST and fore tossing the envelope, didn't reveal sales figures for New quests and MS DOS. since that's the only way to ·the Mideast or individual na­ conversions In a related rumor, we hear find out when your sub ex­ tions: However, we do hear the authors of Hound of Shad­ pires. It's late summer, and the ow are teaming with Acco­ that "Hitler simulators" are adventure game market is Instead of raising rates for particularly popular in Iraq.) lade designers to do a joint se­ drier than the desert outside first class subs to cover next In this great nation, Com­ quel called Les Manley: in year's postal rate hikes, the back door. All recent arri­ Search for the Hound Dog of modore remains the second vals are reviewed in this is­ we're considering doing most popular format for Shadow. away with the envelopes and sue, but Dragon/or~ was just games, representing 19% of imported by Cinemaware as keeping the price at $24. Let all sales. MSDOS is still the part of its Spotlight line, with Psychic editor? us know what you think ... biggie, with 58%. Apple is Amiga, ST and MSDOS due Somebody get Time/Life And finally, special number three, with 8.6% of by now. Books on the phone! Precise­ thanks and a tip of the QB the domestic market. Where in Time is Carmen ly as the editor of QB predict­ helm to James Hamm for his Sandiego? and Dragons of ed barely a month ago, this is­ recent five-year renewal. Elvira on disk Flame, the action-arcade sue shipped about a week Accolade announced a deal quest set in Krynn, arrived in behind our normal schedule. Inventory August for C-64. We also got Things should be back on with Horror Soft in Britain to Sierras publish Elvira, Mistress of an Amiga Fool's Errand. De­ track any minute now, so look '.fa{[ Line-up ..... 2 the Dark here early next year. spite rumors published in an­ for the October issue the first 'Megairave([er 1.. .......... 3 other gaming magazine week of that month-a week Starring that sultry horror Interview:~ .9lta6e((,.5 show show, Elvira will be (what? there's another one?), or two sooner if you subscribe completely icon-driven, com­ Infocom has no plans to con­ via "Adventure Express." Secret ofSilver 'Bfutfe.s .. 6 bine puzzle-solving with real­ vert Circuit's Edge for the 'Baa 'Bfood. ................... 8 time hand-to-hand combat Amiga or anything else. Renewal blues and feature over 800 loca­ Cliaracter 'Editors: If tions. Elvira was a hit in Eng­ Later this year you renewed recently but it '.friend or J'oe? .........9 land, according to ZER 0 hasn't been reflected on the Cinemaware may have a fu­ 'Eartlirise ....................10 Magazine (but Accolade's mailing label, it's probably turistic spy thriller for press release didn't mention because you changed from a 'Wa!KJliru: MSDOS. Infocom's only third class to first class sub­ what Less than 'Zero Maga­ '.Future 'Wars ....... 11 zine had to say about it). Christmas computer game scription a few months before MSDOS, Amiga and ST ver­ will be Battletech II, designed your expiration date. 'l(.f.ys to ye 1(Jngtfoms .. 13 and programmed by West­ sions are planned. Until now we've been up­ SwapSfwp & 'Duffy ... 15 wood for MSDOS. dating these renewals after Letters Cinema graphics from Sierra to the When the Sierra JetCopter buzzed the and animation, Dynamix videotaped real Editor house a few times before landing amid actors, then digitized the tapes and the cacti out back, I realized Kirk "Mad spliced them into the game. You'll see Dear QuestBusters: Dog" Greene was at the controls. I hadn't lots of .them, too ("probably a plethora," I dare you to read this letter. First, I nev­ seen him since the fall of Saigon, where according to Greene) during your quest to er played a computer game before Ulti­ he'd earned his nickname in a ... well solv~ a. m~er and do in the druggies. ma V , but figured it out in three months that's a story best saved for Soldi.er ~f Similar videotaped scenes bring Heart with no help. Then I finished Ultima VI Fo~tu.ne, or ma~be The Best of Stag .i After of China to life as you sleaze your way in four weeks. So I fail to see the value obligmgly helpmg me replace the shin­ through Hong Kong and Europe to rescue of your providing clues in QB. And why gles blown o~f the roof by the chopper, he should I order Quest for Clues for full re­ hel~ me nail down exactly what Sierra tail price and pay shipping charges, has m store for quest-ioning minds like when I can get it from ORIGIN without yours and mine this autumn. ~hipping charges? Since I get a coupon Working versions of every game in m the books f<;>r three free issues, why Sierra's fall line-up were conveniently s~ould I send 1:ll i;noney for a subscrip­ stored on a CD-ROM unit, which Mad tion? Get realistic. I know this letter Dog guarded like the boxes of CIA files will be read by a secretary and tossed in he'd tossed into the army helicopter on the trash without ever reaching the Big the last flight from the US Embassy back Boss' Desk, but that's the way the cook­ in Saigon. He booted up the portable ie crumbles, right? So there! clone, clobbered it a few times to make it Armando Rodriquez recognize the CD-ROM drive, and pro­ ceeded with the show. I yam what I Graham. Letters beginning "I dare you to ... " are A tumbler of Waterfill and Frazier in the funniest mail we get, so we always h.and, I leaned back, expecting to see ba­ the ki~napped daughter of a wealthy Amencan investor. In China you play read them first. Everyone else isn't quite sically more of the same animated adven­ the Master Adventurer you are-most tures Sierra's been doing for years. Sure, Jake Masters and travel from Kathmandu to Paris in the 1?30s. Unlike Dragon, this people say they find the clues very use­ I knew they were introducing 256-color ful. ORIGIN publishes the books, so support for VGA, but was unprepared for one lets you switch between what are called "meanwhile" viewpoints of the they can afford to pick up the shipping. such radical changes in the graphics. And you can always find games cheaper I got my first glimpse in a pair of ad­ three major characters. An onscreen map shows the different a~ Babbages, etc., since they get volume venture~ from Dynamix. (After licensing places you can visit around the land­ discounts when ordering from distribu­ Dyn'.1111tx technology last year, Sierra tors. But Vfe do extend rour sub and give president Ken Williams liked it so much scapes in each of the Dynamix games (somewhat as in the M anhunter series you mappmg paper, so it evens out.
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