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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS
CARMEN SANDIEGO?
Broderbund
17 Paul Dr.
San Rafael CA 94903
This is a really good educational game.
You are a famous detective, ana one
of the villains of V.I.L.E. has stolen a
famous treasure. With the help of the
onscreen clues and your trusty World
Almanac and Book Of Facts (included)
you track the culprit around the world.
Besides teaching you how to use
reference books, WITWICS will lead
you to all kinds of interesting
information about the countries you
visit, like currency, flags, and
population, and you'll hardly oe aware
that you've been taught. The graphics
and gameplay are nice, too. -MB
Dr. Ruth's Game of Good Sex
Avalon Hill
4517 Harford Road
Baltimore, MD 21214
Now, Fresh from the Donahue show!...
that dynamic little sex celebrity (who
can't possibly have time for sex her self)
has brought her one-person crusade for
elevated sexual awareness to the
computing community (the last
frontier?). There are some very explicit
multiple-choice questions in a fairly
standard quiz format allowing up to
four players to test their knowledge of
sexual facts (you may be surprised at
some of the things you didn t know!)
Very educational, with lots of good
information. Not for prudes or 6th
grade boys! -BD
PORTAL
Activision
PO Box 7287
Mountain View CA 94043
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You've gone on a space mission and
return to a deserted Earth! You
discover a computer terminal linked
into the barely-Functioning worldwide
database. With the help of an artificial
intelligence, you try to piece together
what happened to the people of Earth.
This is an engrossing, fascinating, and
somewhat disturbing program. It s like
a murder mystery, an expedition, and
having amnesia all rolled into one. The
graphics are minimal but good, the text
is excellent, and the icon-and-joystick
interface is well done. Portal takes up
5 sides of 3 disks. -MB
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ALTER EGO
Activision
2350 Bayshore Frontage Rd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
I really like this unusual and innovative
'game' which, tho not billed as such, is
some of the most broadly therapeutic
and consciousness-raising software
available. Alter Ego is also very
entertaining. Describe yourself (male
and female versions are available) to
the computer, then dive into your
hypothetical life at any age level from
infant to codger and play out your
fantasies, try on new personalities, find
out what you'd do if... The box
suggests parental discretion, but I would
recommend this wholesome software to
anyone old enough to read.-BD
LEATHER GODDESSES OF
PHOBOS
Infocom
125 Cambridge Park Dr.
Cambridge MA 02140
This sexy spoof of 1930's science
fiction pulp novels is fun to play,
though Infocom has produced more
challenging standard-level text
adventures. In this one you must
defeat the evil Leather Goddesses, who
are bent on sexually enslaving the
citizens of Earth. There are a lot of
giggles in this one, and you'll run into
some real pulp-novel characters and
cliffhanger situations along the way.
You won't be offended by Leather
Goddesses: it has 3 naughtiness levels,
and even LEWD is pretty tame. (But
watch the scratch'n'sniff smells!) -MB
ROBOT RASCALS
Electronic Arta/Ozark Softscape
1820 Gateway Dr.
San Mateo CA 94404
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This is a cute game for two to four
players that combines a card game and
a computer game, which makes it to
our knowledge the first "family"
computer game (in the same sense as a
family board game). The computer part
of Rascals is a nice remote-controlledrobot
scavenger hunt. The music, sound
effects, and graphics are very good,
and the robots are well-animated and
endearing. The cards have the same
feel as UNO, with lots of card
swapping. If you've been looking for a
computer game the whole family can
play, this one deserves a look. -MB
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