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User:BOZ/Dragon video game reviews

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This page documents all the video game reviews from Dragon magazine. I have added at least a small blurb to each of the articles listed below. Any titles in bold are stubs that I created to add the review.

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Contacts edit

  • BOZ (talk) 01:02, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

The Electric Eye edit

Dragon's early-80s computer column, The Electric Eye ran in most issues from Dragon #33-63 (1980-1982) and profiled aspects of computers including some video games. These are all issues that the column appeared in, although note that most of the time the column did not profile any video games:

Interim edit

The Electric Eye column ended abruptly, and I found only a small number of reviews in the early 1980s, not appearing as part of any regular column. There was apparently a long gap after that with a whole lot of nothing.

The Role of Computers edit

Dragon's "The Role of Computers" was the second of three computer related columns that I'm aware of. It started in 1986 in issue #110 and was quite a bit more in-depth than "The Electric Eye" on computer games and ran for much longer. The column ran in most issues up through 1993 in issue #196 with "The Lessers" as reviewers. "The Role of Computers" usually tackled more than one game per issue; since it ran for some 70-80 issues, I'd say that safely puts us into the realm of over a hundred games from 1986-1993!

1986 edit

1987 edit

It's worth noting that up through #124, the column was semi-monthly, but #126 states that the column begins going monthly (probably due to its popularity at the time). Starting with issue #128, the reviewers began giving the games ratings of 1-5 stars; #126 featured a table of ratings for many of the games the column had reviewed previously.

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Eye of the Monitor edit

The new column "Eye of the Monitor" began in the very next issue after "The Role of Computers"; reviewer Sandy Petersen wrote the column from #197-209, and after that the column was either by "Jay & Dee", Lester Smith (once), or any or all of the trio of Ken Rolston, Paul Murphy, and David "Zeb" Cook, and ran in that schizophrenic fashion sporadically from #211-223. Not sure what Dragon did after this column went kaput, but my guess is that they realized other magazines were doing a better job handling computer games, and decided just to just stick to pen and paper.

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Silicon Sorcery edit

Leftovers edit

Computer game reviews found outside of one of these three columns were few and far between, especially once "The Role of Computers" really got going. However, we do have at least one example:

  • 148 (Aug 89): Sniper! (not part of "The Role of Computers")
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