Confidential Magazine #10 April/May 1990

In this month’s issue…

The subject on the editor’s mind was, perhaps unexpectedly for an adventure gaming mag, taxation as he had a good rant about how much money from each game the club sold went to the HMRC.

• Games making the news this month included several horror games (“Elvira”, [“Demon’s Tomb - The Awakening”][4403], [“Mystery of the Mummy”][4404]), the next title from The Bitmaps in the form of [“Cadaver”][4405], and some new games from Origin.
• Official Secrets had managed to snaffle a load of copies of Infocom’s back catalogue which was a good excuse to take an indepth look at the legendary developer.
• A round up of recent war/strategy games.
• The second installment in a beginner’s guide to adventure gaming.
• [“Ultima VI”][4406] was about to be released and there was a look back at the previous games in the series.
• In addition to that, an interview with Lord British.
• With doubts being cast on the continuing commercial viability of the adventure game market, there was a round up of active adventure focussed software houses.
• This month’s featured Play By Mail was “Arcania” from Marlin Games.

[4403]: [4404]: http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=1947 [4405]: http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=212 [4406]: http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=1250