Not sold in stores Tl-IE WiNTER CES of ouR discoNTENT uckily I made it through another Broderbund CES in Vegas and, unlike our In a bold move, Activision plans to Fans of Prince ofPersta will be happy L hapless editor last year, didn't revive the Zork series with Return to to know that Prince ofPersta II is on get banished from the city for the Zork. It is a graphic adventure that the way. This sequel far surpasses the next six months. The only gambling I takes place in the Great Underground original game in scope and detail. It did was a few slots, but I was amazed Empire and encompasses all the features indoor and outdoor levels, a how long a roll of quarters can last locations from past Zorkl. All the more liberal timer, new moves like sometimes, and how quickly that characters in Return to Zork are crouch and crawl, fully animated same roll can digitized, and it in­ cinematic screens and a more chal­ disappear a few cludes a lot of video lenging and deeper plot. minutes later. (they took over 20 I've arranged hours of footage, much Capstone the list of compa­ of which will make it nies alphabetically into the CD version). The same design team that brought us and followed them Activision employed 7be Dark Half is now working on a with the awards. professional actors and Wayne's World adventure in which There were not too actresses and made a the object is to save the cable access many true adven­ major production out of show from bankruptcy by holding a tures to see in Las Sir-Tech's Realms ofArkania Return to Zork. The telethon. Wayne's World has a Vegas-lots of hybrids, interface pops up over the simple interface, lots of rooms and the action games and a full-screen graphics; each command is incomparable juvenile humor that few videogame conversions. CD-ROM intelligently animated so you don't Wayne's World fans expect. is alive and well, and adventures are have to remember icons and their quickly crossing that line because functions. To top it off, the game will /COM hard disks can't support such big come in a hexagon-shaped box. ICOM is the company that brought us games anymore. Shadowgate, 1be Uninvited and Deja ASCII Vu I and II. They recently released an Access Spellcraft will be one of the first updated Sbadowgate for Windows Access had no new games to show, games to take advantage of the and are about to release Beyond and only a little bit of news. Amazon mouse for the Super NES system. It Continued on page 6 will be out on CD soon, and the next retains all of the PC version's fun Tex Murphy game will come out on and features. Domtnusis ASCII's CD - before the disk-based version is next adventure/strategy title. It has released. Like Amazon, it will employ many adventure elements, such as Contents the cliff- hanger, chapter-based spells, traps, combat and monsters, approach. but is at heart a strategy game in Adventure Road ........... 2 which you must protect your realm Amazon ..................... 3 Accolade from invading monsters with your Nothing new in the way of adventure own legions of monsters. Real-time, Spelljammer ................ 4 here either. But Accolade is now animated combats, monster flexibility Shadowlands .............. 5 distributing Tsunami's products, and a large game world make this CES Party Report .......... 8 Rtngworld and Blue Force, which are title a hard one for any gamers to described on page seven. pass up. Paladin 2 .................... 9 Walkthru: Rex Nebular l 0 Eric is ready details) was set to ship- by now. Dear QuestBusters: The beta they sent looked even Exactly what is the QuestBusters The latest quest from Legend more impressive than Spellcraft. Guild and how do I join? Entertainment, Erle the Unready, (It will require at least a 386SX Saddam Hussein is on the shelves. Bob Bates' and VGA.) Farther out to sea, satire of adventure gaming is sure Tsunami's ProtoStar: War on the to give even Steve Meretzky's This is one of the most common Frontier is an outer space adven­ wacked out sense of humor a run questions we get from new ture planned for this summer. for its money. members. Until now the answer has been: "When your solution Ultimo Underworld II Still the Book oF Swords for a quest has been officially By now we should have received accepted by the GuildMaster." No This sequel features eight worlds, and shipped all advance orders, more. By recent decree of ye each with its own dungeon, rather so write if yours hasn't arrived. Official DecreeMaster, all mem­ than one dungeon as in the For some obscure reason, Origin bers are now official members of original game. The picture is also changed the name of 1be Book of the QuestBusters Guild. If your 300/o bigger. Swords to the ludicrous title 1be dues are paid up, you're in the Manual ofSwords-withoot Guild. Magic Candle Ill palch consulting the QuestBusters What was once hailed as the Bugs in version 1.0 made it Guild. greatest group of questers on this impossible to complete the quest, Apparently someone at Origin planet will henceforth be known but a patch was sent to all thought the book was about how as the Society of People who Save registered questers. It's also to use swords, not a collection of the Game Before Opening the available on CompuServe and adventure game solutions. So to Chest. (Until we come up with GEnie as well as Mindcraft's BBS avoid confusion, we will continue something better.) (310-320-5196). to call it 1be Book ofSwords . If Designer Ali Atabek says you'd like to express your mal­ Magic Candle 4, due this summer, content with the unauthorized may be the last in the series. An name change, write to David all-new engine is in development Ladyman c/o Origin, 110 S. Wild Editor: Shay Addams for the next series, Realms of Basin #230, Austin TX 78746. Managing Editor: Dora McCormick Fate: Gryphon Masters ofHavlar, Editorial Consultant: Edgar Schrock for the end of the year. More new quests News Editor: Lloyd the Weatherman Capstone's LA Law: 1be Computer Contributing Editors: Russ Ceccola, In ye offing Game uses digitized graphics Al Giovetti, Bernie Yee, Fred Philipp, Sir-Tech's importing Realms of from the 1V series and poses Clancy Shaffer, Rich Heimlich, Arkania from Germany in April. eight cases for you to tackle as a Stephen King, Ken St. Andre, Brian And the clue book for Dark new lawyer on the team. Smith, Bruce Wiley, Duffy, This Reviewer Savant is nearly ready. (You know it's a tough quest when the Far out West QuestBusters, ye official journal of the developer has nightmares over Sierra's taking a Blazing Saddles QuestBusters Guild, Is published doing the clue book.) Sierra's next approach to their 1880's Old West monthly by Sometimes You Kill the major release will be Space Quest Ore, Sometimes the Ore Kills You, adventure Freddy Pharkus: V, probably by March. (But for Productions. Annual dues: $19 ($6 Frontier Pharmacist. Which those who can't wait, the solution extra for Adventure Express). figures, when you consider it's is already available in Peter and Canada/Mexico: $26. Overseas: $36. being written by Al Lowe. Look Contents Copyright 1993 Eldtritch, Jeremy Spear's 1be Space Quest for Freddy in April or May. LID. All Rights Reserved. Copying Companion. It also contains without express permission Is solutions for the first four games prohibited and punishable by Two in the series. kldress change Good Ole Boys In the White House. Also look for Betrayal at Some people are still writing to Krondor from Dynamix soon, and our old PO Box - the new Member: Tsunami's Ringworld: Revenge of address is PO Box 85143, Tucson South American the Patriarch (see page seven for AZ 85754. Explorers' Club Amazon: 6uardians of Eden ome of my clearest a pure animated quest. can't get any more hints. Your memories of growing up in I. Q. must be above 100 in order S the Forties are of anxiously Yeinferface to see the "Hero Ending." (Save awaiting the next installment of before you get a hint, then A horizontal bar on the bottom of restore the game and proceed.) the Saturday afternoon matinee the screen holds icons that control serials at the local move house Many of the sequences are actions such as look, take, talk (which cost a dime - God those very arcade-oriented and take and exit a location. Character were the days!) Usually consisting place in real-time. 1hese move movement is directed with the of twelve to fifteen chapters that very swiftly, so most people will arrow keys. This each ended with a cliffhanger that have to repeat movement is kept you coming back the next them quite a few often jerky, and week to see how the hero times to get you'll fre­ escaped, they were ludicrous in them right in the quently find retrospect. But to a kid in short time yourself playing Scranton, Pennsylvania, they allotted. Tedious trial and error provided many exciting moments. at first, they are with the arrow In Amazon: Guardians of eventually keys in an effort Eden, Access attempts to capture rewarding. to keep Jason this nostalgic mood. 1hey employ moving in the a fourteen-chapter sequence of direction you Hint events, throwing in plot twists, want him to go.