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Seven Cities of Gold a - - Vol. 4 No. 3 June 1984 Features SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD 9 The View from a Playtester Sandra Carlisle UNIVERSE 14 Dual Views Fitzsimmons & Battles MIG ALLEY ACE 17 Review David Patton QUESTRON 18 Review James McPherson TO MARKET, TO MARKET... 21 Two Games from Blue Chip Johnny Wilson BROADSIDES 24 A Replay Jay Selover CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER 28 Review Stewart MacKames Departments TAKING A PEEK 6 Screen Photos & Brief Comments INSIDE THE INDUSTRY 12 Participate in Our Survey SCORPION'S TALE 13 Enchanter Tips INDUSTRY NEWS 16 What's Going On? COMMODORE KEY 19 For the C-64 Gamer TELEGAMING 20 Exploring On-line Gaming ATARI PLAYFIELD 23 For the Atari Gamer THE LEARNING GAME 26 Shopping Guide for Children's Games MICRO-REVIEWS 30 (Under Southern Skies, Movie Maker, Bruce Lee, Chivalry, The Alpine Encounter, Planetmaster) READER INPUT DEVICE 46 You Rate the Games GAME RATINGS 47 Over 100 Games Rated Avalon Hill Game Co. outs (if you are in the field). 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Airsim-3 $35.00. allows the user to fly a high perfor- Continued on page 42 Seven Cities of Gold by Sandra Carlisle NAME: Seven Cities of Gold TYPE: Strategy SYSTEM: Atari (C-64 coming) FORMAT: Disk AUTHOR: Ozark Softscape #PLAYERS: One PRICE: $40 PUBLISHER: Electronic Arts Menlo Park, CA The following article comes from a playtester of SEVEN We pause to look around. Excitedly, the word is passed CITIES OF GOLD. She combines a good overview of the to me that the natives have mentioned a gold mine located game with insights to the game from Dan Bunten of Ozark to the east of the village. Encouraged, we force march Softscape. Due, in part, to the length of this article, Dail through the swamp and find the mine. Gathering all the Bunten's regular column, DISPATCHES, will not appear in gold we can carry, I again turn toward the ships. this issue. After loading the gold and getting more goods, the ex- pedition returns to the village. Now that I know my way The month is March. The year 1492. I am triumphantly around, I head directly for the chief. This time he is greedy, standing before the Royal Palace. This time I have finally and will not trade until given four more gifts. I trade for convinced the King of Spain to finance my expedition. The the rest of the village's gold and leave. Since this is a small two thousand in gold has been used to purchase four ships, island with only the one village, I decide to set sail again. a full complement of sailors, 100 soldiers, food for 52 Sailing north around the island I locate more land to the weeks, and 300 lots of goods for trading. northwest. Heading that way, the lookout spots a native I pass the Outfitters Shop, but decide that for my first village, but I decide to continue sailing west off the coast. trip I had better go with my present equipment. Next, I Is this another island, or is it a continent? I see two more see my flag ship—an impressive three-master. With a push villages, then the coastline suddenly dips to the south and of the joystick button I leave Spain and head west into the eventually back to the east .... another island. There is yet unknown. Anxiously, the weeks pass by, with still no land one more island to the south of this one. A very small one sign of land. Suddenly, the long awaited cry is heard from with no villages. the crow's nest. Land Ho! There it is .... China! It is now July. I stop to check my maps and to take a bear- I eagerly give the command to anchor off the lush coast. ing. It shows me to be at latitude 20 degrees north, and With my men carrying as much food and goods as possi- in the middle of an island group. Somehow it looks ble, I lead them ashore. A fanfare sounds as I receive credit familiar. (I check an atlas and recognize Cuba, Jamaica, and for discovering the New World. (Well, perhaps this isn't Hispaniola. Ah ha, now I know where I am!) China after all.) Avoiding the swamps, the expedition After sailing back to where the two villages were located locates a native village. They are not hostile but curious, close together on Cuba, I disembark and head for the chief. and in their excitement crowd too close. One of my men, But, wait....these natives are hostile. I quickly drop a gift. out of fear, hurts one of the natives. To placate them, I of- Bought off, they eventually settle down. Now I can look fer a gift which they quickly take. I ask to trade, but am for the chief. Finding him, I try to amaze him, but only informed that I must speak to their chief. Carefully mov- manage to drive the others away. I trade for all of the gold ing through the village, the chief is finally located.
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