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Twilight, Starflight, First Star I Time for Schnapps and
See Tonight... Bratwurst! panded computer coverage has
come from the demand of our read-
Classic Gamers, Dear CGM, ers, so keep your suggestions
I am a thirty-something, ex- Thanks for a great magazine! coming in. Also, we hope to ex-
military, turned full-time college stu- FINALLY! I waited a long time for a pand our arcade coverage in the
dent, who played a PC game called magazine like this to come out. I'm next issue.
Starflight back in the 80s. It was a already a subscriber and have a
wonderful game, and I have busted question and a comment:
numerous brain cells trying to find How about (in the future per- Honorable
the game again. Do you have any haps) reviewing the endless classic Mentions
suggestions or hints as to where I computer games? Games like Cas-
might find it? I would also like to tle Wolfenstein, Raid Over Mos- We were thumbing
find a game called Twilight 2000. cow, or Zork? Ahh...the memories. through a few of the
Being a dis- It just makes me want more “mainstream”
abled vet allows to dig out my old C64. videogaming magazines
a lot of time to And how about Arcade on the newsstands and were very
review other games? You guys pleased to find these kind words writ-
games, and can't pass those up. ten about us.
those two were I love everything
great! Any and about the magazine. It “Tips & Tricks Magazine” wrote:
all help in this just makes me feel '“As you can guess from the title,
matter will be great to read an all Classic Gamer Magazine doesn't nec-
greatly new review of a clas- essarily belong in our "Fanzine Patrol"
appreciated. Starflight sic game like Combat, column. At 52 pages, its size is
for example, in the last issue. The enough to distinguish CGM from the
-Ken via e-mail classic advertisements are a blast, eight-page Xeroxed 'zines that we
and the Atari cartridge showdown usually feature here - but the bigger
Ken, on the website is great. difference is that it's entirely in color.
I can't wait for the next issue. With retro-feature articles on games
We haven’t located the game Damn I wish it wouldn't take so like Donkey Kong, Publisher Chris
itself, but we do know of a website long! Hint, Hint! Cavanaugh admits to aiming for the
dedicated to PC games of the past. style and content of the original Elec-
Go to www.mobygames.com and -George Albanis, via e-mail tronic Games mag from the early '80s.
start your clicking. Here you will In some ways, CGM actually exceeds
find info on Starflight I and II, as George, that standard…”

well as information on a potential “Electronic Gaming Monthly” wrote:
Starflight III. First off, thanks for the kind
For Twilight: 2000 information, words. Secondly, next issue will be “Reading this issue of CGM was like
there is an Internet mailing list dedicated to the classic games of opening up a box of classic gaming
dedicated to this game. Send an adventure (including Adventure!). goodies you haven’t seen for
e-mail to: Majordomo@lists.MPGN. This will also give us the opportu- years . . . A few favorite articles in-
com with the phrase “subscribe twi- nity to roll out expanded coverage clude the look back on various ver-
light2000” in the body of the e-mail. of the classic computer games as sions of Donkey Kong, a guide to clas-
Hopefully that will get you well. Simply put, you can’t talk sic video game collecting and game
started. about the adventure gaming genre rarity . . . and an article
without talking about the Zork se- remembering the days
ries and Scott Adams. Around of ‘80s video maga-
here we’re suckers for Castle Wolf- zine “Electronic
enstein, too. Games.”

We’d like to note that the ex-
Thanks Tips &Tricks
and EGM!!
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