THE CRITICS REPORT ========================· -- VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1 WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT ELECTRONIC ARTS AND ITS PRODUCTS HARD HAT MACK MURDER ON THE ARCHON IS A IS A WINNER ZINDERNEUF FASCINATING By the Editors of SOFfALK IT CAN GIVE YOU A MIX "If you put HARD HAT MACK DIFFERENT MYSTERY By David Grady, in the ring against all of the games TO SOLVE EACH COMPUTER UPDATE on the market, one at a time, it TIME YOU PLAY. would win most bouts in the open­ "Altogether, ARCHON is a fasci­ ing seconds of the first round. It's By Torn Pettit, nating mix. It begins with such that good." Independent Consultant and simple pleasures as galloping your Murder Mystery Addict unicorn across the arena as it fires "MURDER ON THE ZINDER­ deadly energy bolts from its horn ... NEUF is a super-sophisticated game but it leads to the sort of strategic OUTSTANDING of CLUE. There's nothing like it. thinking not usually found in games Other computer mysteries have with so attractive and busy a STATE OF THE only one solution. Not MURDER surface.'' ART GAME ON THE ZINDERNEUF. You can play one of eight famous PINBALL By Arnie Katz, ARCADE EXPRESS detecti'-'.e types, and you get a new "In many respects, this is the mystery to solve each time you CONSTRUCTION best game ever produced for the play." APPLE II. Certainly few other discs SET approach the sound and graphic THE BEST level the designers ABBOT and YOU ARE BOUND ALEXANDER have attained in their PROGRAM EVER first collaborative effort. HARD TO FALL HAT MACK is the blue collar hero FOR APPLE II of this three screen climbing game, FOR ARCHON By David Grady, and his tasks are far from simple. By John Anderson, COMPUTER UPDATE We rate it an outstanding, state-of­ CREATIVE COMPUTING " STEVE WOZNIAK (founder of the-art game." "This is the kind of game I have APPLE COMPUTER CORPORA­ been waiting to see ...you are bound TION) has called it the best program to fall for it. Imagine. A chess game ever written for the APPLE II. Or for in which you can cast spells." that matter, for any 8-bit machine." THE CRITICS REPORT BILL BUDGE, THE WORMS? GIVES M.U.L.E. IS A AUTHOR OF YOU DEEP SUPERLATIVE PINBALL SATISFACTION GAME CONSTRUCTION By John Anderson, By John Anderson, CREATIVE COMPUTING CREATIVE COMPUTING " .. .In execution of colorful, SET, IS THE "The graphics, sound and humor animated graphics, gives the player in this game are superlative, and CHARLIE CHAPLIN an intuitive feeling for hitherto un­ though the kids won't suspect it in seen mathematical relationships .. the least, they'll be learning the laws OF MICRO­ There is a deep satisfaction to be COMPUTING gleaned from WORMS? in seeing of economics as they play." By John Anderson, and hearing the harmonies of CREATIVE COMPUTING pattern." A HEART " PINBALL CONSTRUCTION WORMS? IS BOTH SET is a tour de force by BILL THRILLER BUDGE, who is quite arguably the ELEMENTAL AND By David Grady, Charlie Chaplin of microcomputing." SOPHISTICATED COMPUTER UPDATE By David Grady, "M.U.L.E., by DAN and BILL YOU'LL BE COMPUTER UPDATE BUNTEN, JIM RUSHING and "If you train an especially suc­ ALLEN WATSON, will thrill the HEARING ABOUT cessful worm, you can save it on hearts of all who enjoy MONOP­ ELECTRONIC your disc and bring it back later to OLY or RISK, not to mention the test it in conditions created by the kids who have never heard of those ARTS presence of different WORMS? ... games and would rather fantasize By Editors of SOFTALK again, both elemental and sophisti­ about colonizing a distant planet..." "ELECTRONIC ARTS. Get used cated .. ." to the name because you're going to be hearing of the company and see­ THE MOST NEW ing its products in the future. A lot." IMAGINATIVE DIMENSIONS TO ELECTRONIC AND FUN GAME A STRONG BASIC By Michael Moore, GAME CONCEPT ARTS MAY WELL Satisfied Customer, San Francisco "I've never written a company By the Editors of SOFTALK SET THE simply to praise a product but "A.XIS ASSASSIN is obviously having recently bought WORMS? patterned after the coin-op game STANDARD I must say that it is the most imag­ TEMPEST, which bred such APPLE By John Anderson, inative and fun game I've played ... versions as TUNNEL TERROR and CREATIVE COMPUTING it was instantly appealing, and I TUBEWAY. " Make note of that name. ELEC­ bought it on the spot." We're re­ This time, though, author JOHN TRONIC ARTS. It may well set the ceiving many similar, complimen­ FIELD has added things not found standard for sophisticated entertain­ tary letters from consumers all over in either game. Not even in TEM­ ment software in the 80's." the country. PEST ... the game is quite enjoyable." .