Special "Orbs ft Stuff" lssuc Not sold in Hoboken Superhero League of Hoboken rom the incorrigibly twisted he plants to make the Jersey City what Meretzky will do with the idea. mind of madcap Steve Meretzky; Marketplace uninhabitable. A com­ Instead of facing Dragons and Super Hero League of Hoboken puter named Matilda lisFs several Wizards in combat, you'll fight F missions Albino marks his first foray into the realm of role-playing. This hybrid combines thatimust Winos, elements of the animated adventure be fulfilled Lawyers system used in such games as in various and Tricky Meretzky's Sorcerer's University with parts of Dick RPG-style combat sequences, which America's mutants. In also makes it a first for Legend north east­ one battle, Entertainment. ern sector. a lawyer Taking place 200 years in the After you issued an future, Hoboken is set in a world finish all injunction populated by mutants. Radiation, the level against toxic waste and a plethora of 0.]. one mis­ Tropical Simpson jokes have plunged the s10ns, a Oil Man­ world in a new Dark Age, and it's up new set of who retali­ to you to save America. As the harder ones miiiiliiltiil~;;;: ated by Crimson Tape, you lead the Hoboken are posted. 1ssumg a chapter of the Super Hero League - The slick "point and quest" inter­ stream of saliva at the lawyer. The and appropriately so, for your prima­ face of previous Legend games is even lawyer's dying words were: "I think ry superpower is the ability to Create slicker in this incarnation. When you this is actionable." Organizational Charts. click on certain items in the picture As always, it is Meretzky's bizarre Choosing party members such as window, new verbs appear in the list sense of humor that makes this game The Iron that always contains actions such as stand out. The premise is a parody of "take" and "look at" that are used to comic book superheroes. He also Adventure/Role­ Tummy Type solve adventure game puzzles. You takes this opportunity to satirize role- playing hybrid (Able to Eat Spicy move between interior locations by IBM System Food clicking on a compass. Outdoors, the Continued on page 5 (Required 386/20+, hard Without party is represented by a glowing orb disk, 2 MB RAM, DOS 5+, Distress) on an aerial-view map that uses coor­ Microsoft-compatible and dinates as in most RPGs. Contents mouse, VGA) Madam Combat is easy: the monsters are Supports Music: Ad Lib, Pepperoni displayed in a picture window; much Roland MT-32/LAPC with (who can as in a Wizardry, and you click icons Adventure Road ........ ....... 2 MPU-40 I compatible inter­ See Inside depicting weapons or superpowers System Shock .. .. ............. .3 face, Sound Blaster Pizza for each party member. Tropical Oil Man, for instance, might use his Robinson's Requiem ........ .4 Sound effects Sound Boxes), you power to Increase Foe's Cholesterol, Blaster embark on Return to Ringworld .. ........ 6 a series of while Captain Excitement, who looks Shadow of the Comet ...... 7 Planned ports missions to a lot like The Flash, can Put Animals IBM CD restore civi- to Sleep. Obviously, you'll run across The Psychotron ....... ......... 9 lization. The puzzles designed with these super­ Walkthru: Dark Sun 2 ..... 10 Evil Villain, Dr. Entropy, is at the bot­ powers in mind. Part of the fun is in • Keys to the Kingdoms ..... 12 tom of many of the crises you must the anticipation, wondering exactly resolve, such as the Limburger Bomb Swap Shop ....... ... ... .... ... 15 by Shay Addams dvenruRe load We're back! Vale Lost Dear QuestBusters: I am very, very stuck in Magic Now that the industry is actually ship­ Four days after announcing its release, Candle 2 and have not been able to ping adventure games in plentiful sup­ Origin cancelled The Lost Vale add-in get in touch with Mindcraft about a disk for Ultima 8 and the new Ultima ply again, QB is returning to a more clue book. Where can I find them timely schedule. Look for the-next 8 CD that would have included Lost now? Or a clue book to this game? issue this time next month. The CD Vale. The reasoning? They prefer to Eldon Leonard Central column has become a victim focus manpower on Ultima 9 for of fast-changing times. Since almost Christmas 1995. Mindcraft slipped out of existence everything is shipping on CD first (if earlier this year (Ali Atabek, who cre­ not CD-only!) these days, it made lit­ Zorked again! ated the Magic Candle series, is now tle sense to keep the column. Zork is back! Activision's The Zork a producer at Interplay, where he is Since the summer, we have also Anthology is a CD for IBMand Mac, designing the AD & D games for teamed up with Infotainment World with the original all-text Zork 1, 2 release in late 1995). We are currer..t­ Books, which is publishing The Book and 3, Beyond Zork and Zork Zero. ly looking for complete solutions to of Clues 2. (See page 8 for details.) We It also includes the original all-text the first two Magic Candle quests so were unable to offer our usual early Planetfall. Even better, the anthology we can make them available to advance orders this time, as several is free if you purchase Return to Zork QuestBusters members. We'll go other publishers have been attempting by December 31, 1994. ahead and send you the clues we to do similar books and we did not have on hand, which may help you want to give away the contents by Psygnosis get through the quest. Meanwhile, publishing them in QB (which they all Discworld, from England, is coming anyone with a solution to Magic read -- where else do you think they in November. Based on a British sci­ Candle II or III (or has enough notes get their ideas?) ence fiction series, it features the voice to write a walkthrough, should write of Monty Python's Eric Idle. to QB right away.@. New World Computing On a recent trip to New World, we Any day now got a look at some imminent releases Under a Killing Moon will arrive in - all for PC CD. Looking sharp in stores by early November. Access says Editor: Shay Addams SVGA, Heroes of Might & Magic is advance orders have already been set for November. It combines strategy Managing Editor: Dora McCormick shipped. Role-playing games to watch Editorial Consultant: Edgar Schrock elements from King's Bounty with for are SSI's Menzoberranzan and News Editor: Wes Craven characters from Might & Magic. Domark's Lords of Midnight. Contributing Editors: Fred J. Philipp, Hammer of the Gods could be the Death Gate is set for November. Clancy Shaffer, Paul Shaffer, Al Giovetti, first successful adventure based on Legend Entertainment's next game, Russ Ceccola, Bernie Yee, Ken St. Norse mythology. Look for the Mac Mission Critical, should show up in Andre, Brian Smith, Bruce Wiley, Duffy, CD M & M: World of Xeen soon. early 1995. Ishar 3, from Silmarils, is This Reviewer NWC has a couple of non-adven­ a multi-character RPG looks better QuestBusters, ye official journal of the tures worth considering as Christmas than plays better than Requiem. QuestBusters Guild, is published monthly draws near. Zephyr, the hover tank by The Devil Made Me Do It, Inc. Annual CD game, will support up to six pilots Interactive Gaming dues: $19 ($6 extra for Adventure and should be out any day. Jon Van Chuck Miller, of Enchanted Realms, Express). Canada/Mexico: $26. Caneghem was also enthusiastic about is now producing a digital-based Overseas: $36. QuestBusters. The Multimedia Celebrity Poker, having QuestBusters Guild, Adventure Road, biweekly computer game magazine The Book of Clues, Clue Books Express just directed a shoot for it with Joe called Interactive Gaming. It covers Piscopo, Morgan Fairchild and and Keys to the Kingdoms are trade­ PC, PC CD, 3DO and CD-i and be marks of Eldritch LTD. TM is a trademark Jonathan Frakes. And Iron Cross, a available online as well as on disk. of Shay Addams. Contents Copyright novel real-time WW2 game, just For info, write to 1302 Stoney Run 1994 Eldritch, LTD. Copying without shipped. Trail, Broadway Hgts OH 44147. express permission is prohibited and punishable by jamming Mr. Potatohead Continued on page 8 into your computer's ZIF socket. 2 QuestDusters ............. .. ..... .. ... ~E'JIEVV BYBTEM BHDCK t's been a while since I've played a Doom is horribly addicting. System things, run amok. Turns out that captivating RPG, and a longer Shock, however, answers all I wished your employer was engaged in a con­ Iwhile since I've played an engross­ for in Doom. Created by Looking spiracy cover-up and used you to try ing sci-fi RPG. But Christmas came in Glass Productions, the same folks and gain control of SHODAN to pro­ September when I received System who brought you the 30 extravagan­ tect him from the authorities. Shock, and both my wishes were real­ zas Ultima Underworld I & II, SHODAN had other ideas (as power­ ized. System Shock goes Doom one - or ful Als are wont to have) and decided And more - better. A true 30 game to destroy earth, by fire or plague. System (unlike Time for the hacker anti-hero to Shock is Wolfenstein make good. certainly and many The corridors of the space station timely, with others that are fabulously rendered - red car­ the Doom­ only simu­ pets and chandeliers for the executive mama late 30 in levels, corrugated steel, blinking shaking top 20), lights and narrow crawlspaces for the 10 lists and System engineering sections.