From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video,alt.games.lynx
Subject: Re: Electronic Games
Date: 31 Aug 1992 19:25:34 -0700
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In article <BtvADn.LxI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan) writes:
>I picked up _Electronic games_ today, and overall I found it disappointing.
>The paper is about the only thing slicker about it.  My first thought
>upon flipping through it was that it looked like a poor man's _VG&CE_.

  You make it sound like VG&CE is a bad thing.  B-)

>The content is much the same, with almost a one-to-one correspondence
>between _VG&CE_ columns and _EG_ columns, including the feature article
>on a certain type of games (science fiction, in this case).  I always
>thought that was _VG&CE_'s worst feature, by the way.

  Agreed. On the other hand, if Worley et al are serious about targeting this
title to a more "adult" audience (bravo!), they're bound to take "serious"
letters more seriously (bad pun, I know). Maybe if enough people write in and
tell them that they're tired of those "game genre of the month" columns, they
will _finally_ get rid of the darn thing.

  (On the other hand, writing in to Gamepro and EGM often seems like shouting
against a sonic boom...)

>I had hoped _EG_ would be like _VG&CE_ with _EGM_'s timeliness.  It's
>hard to judge the lead time by the first issue, but I don't think the
>quality is as high as _VG&CE_ in many ways.  As I said, this is their
>very first issue, and I haven't read it through yet.  If the writing
>is good, and if they work on improving it, I think _EG_ could turn
>out to be a great magazine.

  I'll give it a few months, it's only fair.

>What I really like is their philosophy of providing a magazine for
>adults who are into video games.  Video gaming is a fun hobby, and
>I'm sick of it being treated as "kid stuff" by most of the magazine
>industry.

  That's the biggest thing I look forward to this title. It has the promise of
giving me another INTELLIGENT video-gaming magazine to read (in addition to
the cerebral-but-dry VG&CE). Who knows? Maybe EGM and Gamepro will shape up as
a result...Naah!

>I would also recommend that people check out _VG&CE_.  They haven't 
>rolled over and died since Katz, Kunkel, and Worley left, and they
>seem to be changing the content of their magazine to focus more on 
>video games -- in the past one of their major flaws was treating 
>video games as inferior to computer games and deserving of 
>less coverage.

  I never got that impression. I also agree that reviewing video games and
computer titles in the same magazine is a good idea -- considering how many
titles are getting ported from the latter to the former, I dunno why the
eight-year-old brats keep whining about mixing the two genres...

                                                --R.J.
                                                B-)

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