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Re: Mag reviews?!?

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From: leyx... John M Ley
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 12:55
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On Thu, 20 Jan 1994 20:55:31 GMT, Russ Doucet wrote:

>In article <2hm6p8...@uwm.edu> ji...@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jimbo) writes:
>>>Is it me, or is DOOM totaly shut out of all the popular game review mags?
>>>
>
>>I don't know much about magazine publication, but be aware that they
>>have to go to press weeks before you get them.  Add in time for reviewing,
>>writing, submitting, editing, and layout.
>>
>>I suggest waiting another month for the next issues before passing judgement.
>
>
>That is true, but there was a press release version of doom somwhere around
>two months ago.  It was a version with no sound, and only three levels.
>But the boards were nearly as released, the game engine worked fine, 
>and they included a full range of cheat keys, screen capture keys, etc
>for reporters/reviewers to use for their articles.  There is no excuse
>for not generating at least SOMETHING from this -- I mean this game is
>revolutionary after all, you'd think the magazines would be just
>clamouring for any little bit of coverage that they could come up with.


I do recall seeing some stuff in a couple of mags a month or two ago.  One 
was Computer Gaming World, the other I'm not so sure.  I DID see these 
articles prior to DOOM's release, though.
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