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| This week the votes from 157 people have been used to compile this chart. |
| Send your votes to appelo@dutiag.twi.tudelft.nl and you'll get the next |
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The Net PC Games Top 100 Edition 39 - Week 39 - September 27, 1993
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TW LW NW Title Developer/Publisher(s) Cat ID Points
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1 ( 1) 39 Civilization MicroProse ST [1002] 647
2 ( 2) 30 X-Wing (+Imperial Pursuit) LucasArts/US Gold AC [1169] 510
3 ( 3) 39 Falcon 3.0 (+add-ons) Spectrum Holob./MicroProse SI [1005] 335
4 ( 4) 36 VGA Planets {S} Tim Wisseman ST [1131] 277
5 ( 5) 38 Dune 2: Building of a Dynasty Westwood/Virgin ST [1110] 255
6 ( 6) 12 Syndicate Bullfrog/Electronic Arts AC [1271] 252
7 ( 7) 39 Wolfenstein 3D (+hacked add-ons) {S} Id/Apogee AC [1013] 247
8 ( 8) 37 Railroad Tycoon MicroProse ST [1121] 172
9 ( 10)^ 12 Betrayal at Krondor Dynamix/Sierra RP [1275] 172
10 ( 15)^ 13 Day of the Tentacle LucasArts/US Gold AD [1268] 200
11 ( 16)^ 8 Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos Westwood/Virgin RP [1305] 203
12 ( 9) 36 Ultima Underworld 2 LookingGlass/Origin/E. Arts RP [1127] 123
13 ( 11) 26 Ultima 7 Part 2 (+Silver Seed) Origin/El. Arts RP [1195] 140
14 ( 12) 37 World Circuit (+F1 Grand Prix) MicroProse SP [1123] 129
15 ( 14) 7 Warlords 2 SSG ST [1284] 139
16 ( 13) 38 Star Control 2: Ur-Quan Masters Accolade ST [1116] 107
17 ( 17) 39 Links 386 Pro (+add-ons) Access/US Gold SP [1006] 96
18 ( 20)^ 36 The Incredible Machine (+add-on) Dynamix/Sierra PU [1128] 114
19 ( 18) 39 Ultima Underworld Blue Sky/Origin/Mindscape RP [1009] 96
20 ( 19) 38 Alone in the Dark Infogrames/I-Motion AD [1105] 100
21 ( 22)^ 27 Nethack 3.1 {F} DevTeam RP [1186] 107
22 ( 21) 22 Strike Commander (+speech) Origin/Electronic Arts SI [1218] 65
23 ( 27)^ 39 Ultima 7 (+Forge of Virtue) Origin/Mindscape RP [1001] 103
24 ( 25)^ 37 V for Victory (+scenario's) Three-Sixty/El. Arts ST [1114] 75
25 ( 28)^ 14 Space Hulk Electronic Arts AC [1267] 83
26 ( 23) 39 Ind. Jones: Fate of Atlantis LucasArts/US Gold AD [1003] 51
27 ( 32)^ 38 Crusaders o.t. Dark Savant Sir-Tech/US Gold RP [1104] 88
28 ( 24) 20 Prince of Persia 2 Broderbund/Electronic Arts AC [1232] 40
29 ( 29) 39 Aces of the Pacific (+add-ons) Dynamix/Sierra SI [1010] 65
30 ( 26) 19 Flashback Delphine/US Gold/SSI AC [1236] 44
31 ( 33)^ 20 7th Guest {C} Trilobyte/Virgin PU [1230] 71
32 ( 31) 29 Empire Deluxe New World ST [1177] 47
33 ( 34)^ 39 Monkey Island 2 LucasArts/US Gold AD [1014] 59
34 ( 30) 39 Darklands MicroProse RP [1008] 35
35 ( 37)^ 10 The Lost Vikings Interplay AC [1280] 71
36 ( 38)^ 18 Spaceward Ho! New World/US Gold ST [1154] 68
37 ( 35) 14 SVGA Air Warrior Kesmai/Konami/GEnie SI [1251] 48
38 ( 36) 39 Harpoon (+add-ons) Three-Sixty/Electronic Arts ST [1058] 49
39 ( 39) 29 Command HQ MicroProse ST [1166] 45
40 ( 43)^ 12 Tornado Digital Integr./Spectrum H. SI [1273] 63
41 ( 41) 36 The Lost Admiral QQP ST [1126] 45
42 ( 45)^ 39 SimCity Maxis/Ocean ST [1079] 59
43 ( 46)^ 12 Pirates! Gold MicroProse ST [1272] 43
44 ( 44) 36 Commander Keen 4, 5, 6 {S} Id/Apogee AC [1129] 32
45 ( 40) 9 Multi-Player Civilization hacked ST [1292] 15
46 ( 48)^ 28 Minesweeper {W} Microsoft ST [1184] 45
47 ( 42) 7 Bio Menace {S} Apogee AC [1309] 21
48 ( 52)^ 16 Might & Magic: Darkside of Xeen New World/US Gold RP [1252] 48
49 ( 47) 23 Monster Bash {S} Apogee AC [1213] 28
50 ( 50) 21 Eye of the Beholder 3 SSI/US Gold RP [1225] 29
51 ( 49) 39 Lemmings (+More Lemmings/Xmas) Psygnosis PU [1095] 23
52 ( 53)^ 39 Dungeon Master Psygnosis RP [1024] 35
53 ( 56)^ 9 Howitzer {S} Randall Spangler ST [1286] 40
54 ( 51) 19 Solitaire for Windows {W} Microsoft ST [1214] 21
55 ( 55) 20 FR Unlimited Adventures (+user add-ons) SSI RP [1219] 28
56 ( 58)^ 38 Comanche: Maximum Overkill NovaLogic/US Gold SI [1101] 32
57 ( 57) 37 Conquered Kingdoms QQP ST [1122] 24
58 ( 54) 10 Scorched Earth {S} Wendell Hicken AC [1277] 15
59 ( 60)^ 37 Might & Magic: Clouds of Xeen New World/US Gold RP [1102] 28
60 ( 63)^ 12 Carriers At War (+Constr. Kit) SSG/Electr. Arts ST [1260] 35
61 ( 64)^ 39 Wing Commander 1 (+Secret M.) Origin/Mindscape AC [1026] 36
62 ( 65)^ 23 Lemmings 2: The Tribes DMA/Psygnosis PU [1207] 37
63 ( 59) 5 Stronghold Stormfront/SSI ST [1307] 19
64 ( 61) 35 Spear of Destiny Id/FormGen/Psygnosis AC [1124] 21
65 ( 70)^ 39 King's Quest 6 Sierra AD [1015] 40
66 ( 66) 31 Eric the Unready Legend/Accolade AD [1151] 29
67 ( 62) 17 The Legacy: Realm of Terror MicroProse RP [1242] 19
68 ( 69)^ 10 Angband {F} Robert Alan Koeneke RP [1255] 35
69 ( 67) 38 F-15 Strike Eagle 3 MicroProse SI [1103] 23
70 ( 73)^ 7 Pinball Dreams 21st Century/Spidersoft AC [1303] 27
71 ( 72)^ 8 Minerva {F} Jouni Miettunen ST [1301] 24
72 ( 74)^ 4 Gateway 2: Homeworld Legend/Accolade AD [1313] 28
73 ( 84)^ 30 Space Quest 5: Next Mutation Dynamix/Sierra AD [1173] 44
74 ( 68) 13 Realms of Arkania: Blade of D. Sir-Tech/US Gold RP [1270] 13
75 ( 76)^ 39 Out of this World Delphine/Interp./US Gold AC [1012] 29
76 ( 71) 11 Railroad Tycoon Deluxe MicroProse ST [1276] 8
77 ( 75) 31 Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure {S} Apogee AC [1162] 13
78 ( 87)^ 17 MS Flight Simulator 4.0 Microsoft SI [1233] 32
79 ( 83)^ 3 Sensible Soccer Sensible/Renegade SP [1316] 25
80 ( 78) 10 Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic SSI/US Gold ST [1262] 15
81 ( 79) 39 Wing Commander 2 (+Sp. Op. 1+2) Origin/Mindscape AC [1007] 16
82 ( 77) 35 Battles of Destiny QQP ST [1132] 11
83 ( 81) 5 Umoria {F} Robert Alan Koeneke RP [1293] 16
84 ( 82) 21 Core Wars Intern. Core Wars Society ST [1227] 13
85 ( 85) 39 Perfect General (+add-ons) QQP/UbiSoft ST [1098] 17
86 ( 80) 4 Clash of Steel SSI ST [1295] 8
87 ( 86) 34 Warlords SSG ST [1135] 16
88 ( -)^ 1 MS Flight Simulator 5.0 Microsoft SI [1334] 73
89 ( 93)^ 39 Eye of the Beholder 1 SSI/US Gold RP [1093] 24
90 ( 89) 15 Sword of Aragon SSI RP [1249] 19
91 ( 92)^ 18 Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist Sierra AD [1237] 19
92 ( 88) 39 Eye of the Beholder 2 SSI/US Gold RP [1067] 12
93 ( 94)^ 3 Unnkulian Underworld {S} Adventions AD [1299] 19
94 ( 99)^ 2 Eight Ball Deluxe Amtex AC [1318] 24
95 ( 97)^ 15 Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space Interplay/El. Arts ST [1240] 21
96 (100)^ 2 DCGames {S} DC Software RP [1302] 24
97 ( 91) 29 Prince of Persia Broderbund AC [1172] 11
98 ( 90) 32 Populous 2 (+add-on) Bullfrog/Electronic Arts ST [1149] 8
99 ( 98) 16 Cobra Mission Megatech AD [1222] 16
100 ( -)^ 1 SimFarm Maxis ST [1331] 37
Dropped Out:
( 95) 16 Tristan: Solid State Pinball Amtex AC [1247]
( 96) 10 One-Nil {S} New Era/Wizard SP [1274]
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The Net PC Games Tip 20 Edition 39 - Week 39 - September 27, 1993
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TW LW NW Title Developer/Publisher(s) Cat ID Points
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1 ( 1) 5 APBA Baseball Miller SP [1319] 13
2 ( 2) 4 Wing Commander Academy Origin/Electronic Arts AC [1320] 9
3 ( 3) 5 Take a Break Pinball {W} Dynamix/Sierra AC [1317] 13
4 ( 4) 6 Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom Silmarils/Daze RP [1315] 13
5 ( 5) 4 Modem Wars Electronic Arts ST [1321] 13
6 ( 7) 2 Front Page Sports: Football Pro Dynamix/Sierra SP [1330] 21
7 ( 17) 2 Street Fighter 2 Capcom/Electronic Arts SP [1332] 36
8 ( 8) 7 Gary Grigsby's War in Russia SSI ST [1312] 7
9 ( 9) 3 Air Traffic Controller Mallard SI [1326] 8
10 ( 10) 2 Fields of Glory: The Road to Waterloo MicroProse ST [1290] 17
11 ( 13) 3 Castles 2: Siege and Conquest Interplay ST [1327] 19
12 ( 12) 4 Protostar: War on the Frontier Tsunami/Accolade ST [1322] 0
13 ( -) 1 Body Blow Team 17 SP [1335] 13
14 ( -) 1 Bloodstone: An Epic Dwarven Tale Mindcraft RP [1336] 13
15 ( -) 1 Privateer Origin/Electronic Arts AC [1337] 13
16 ( 16) 3 Sherlock Holmes Cons. Det. 3 {C} ICOM AD [1328] 0
17 ( -) 1 Mad Dog McCree American Laser AC [1338] 8
18 ( 19) 3 Jutland Software Sorcery SI [1329] 0
19 ( -) 1 John Madden Football 2 Electronic Arts SP [1339] 3
20 ( 20) 2 Beauty and the Beast Disney/Infogrames AD [1333] 0
This week I got a message from Colin McLaughlan from Electronic Arts, about
the Net PC Games Top 100:
> From: Electronic Arts <ea@cix.compulink.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Top_100
>
> Thanks for sending me the weekly chart. It is much appreciated by both
> our development staff and marketing department. We use it to gauge the
> type of games that people are interested in. [...] My name is Colin
> McLaughlan and I am the main user of this account. [...] What do I do to
> vote and should I really be allowed as I am working for a software
> publisher ? Once again thank-you for your work,
>
> ColinM@EA
I thought using this mail from EA would be a perfect way to promote the
Top 100 among the Internet community, so I sent mail to Colin and got this
answer:
> Dear Jojo,
> thanks for your reply. Yes you can use my comment in the next issue. EA
> takes its users seriously. We always want comments, be it praise or
> critisism. Then we know if we are doing something good or bad. If a
> certain type of game is riding high we want to know why. And if our
> games aren't then why not. Email is one of the best ways as the people
> involved end to have more of a passion about things.
>
> ColinM
I like to show these messages to the voters for the Top 100 so they know
that their votes are being taken seriously by the software publishers.
Other people on the net might be convinced to join in and start voting
for the Top 100 right away. (Ask me for the details about how to do this.)
Just for the record, EA is not the first company that appears to read the
Top 100. Up till now I got mail from: SSI (Matt), Interplay (Chris),
Origin (Chuck), Microprose (Quentin), Accolade (Tomi), Maxis (Peter),
LookingGlass (Marc LeBlanc), Apogee (Joe Siegler), Id (Romero), Access,
New World (Steve Shannon) and Microsoft (Glenn). There are more companies
that get the Top 100, but they haven't replied yet.
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Top 50: The Games Most Voted For September 1993
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TM LM Title Developer/Publisher(s) Cat ID Points
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1 ( 1) Civilization MicroProse ST [1002] 856
2 ( 2) X-Wing (+Imperial Pursuit) LucasArts/US Gold AC [1169] 557
3 ( 3) Falcon 3.0 (+add-ons) Spectrum Holob./MicroProse SI [1005] 476
4 ( 4) VGA Planets {S} Tim Wisseman ST [1131] 433
5 ( 5) Dune 2: Building of a Dynasty Westwood/Virgin ST [1110] 381
6 ( 7) Syndicate Bullfrog/Electronic Arts AC [1271] 277
7 ( 8) Railroad Tycoon MicroProse ST [1121] 244
8 (12) Wolfenstein 3D (+hacked add-ons) {S} Id/Apogee AC [1013] 237
9 ( 9) World Circuit (+F1 Grand Prix) MicroProse SP [1123] 193
10 (22) Day of the Tentacle LucasArts/US Gold AD [1268] 189
11 (15) Star Control 2: Ur-Quan Masters Accolade ST [1116] 184
12 (42) Warlords 2 SSG ST [1284] 178
13 (11) Betrayal at Krondor Dynamix/Sierra RP [1275] 174
14 (16) The Incredible Machine (+add-on) Dynamix/Sierra PU [1128] 160
15 (10) Ultima Underworld 2 LookingGlass/Origin/E. Arts RP [1127] 156
16 (13) Links 386 Pro (+add-ons) Access/US Gold SP [1006] 155
17 (17) Nethack 3.1 {freeware} DevTeam RP [1186] 152
18 (20) Alone in the Dark Infogrames/I-Motion AD [1105] 141
19 (27) Ultima 7 Part 2 (+Silver Seed) Origin/El. Arts RP [1195] 134
20 (14) Ultima Underworld Blue Sky/Origin/Mindscape RP [1009] 125
21 (34) Space Hulk Electronic Arts AC [1267] 110
22 ( -) Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos Westwood/Virgin RP [1305] 109
23 ( -) The Lost Vikings Interplay AC [1280] 104
24 ( 6) Strike Commander (+speech) Origin/Electronic Arts SI [1218] 101
25 (25) Ind. Jones: Fate of Atlantis LucasArts/US Gold AD [1003] 98
26 (32) Monkey Island 2 LucasArts/US Gold AD [1014] 82
27 (18) Empire Deluxe New World ST [1177] 81
28 ( -) V for Victory (+scenario's) Three-Sixty/El. Arts ST [1114] 81
29 (26) Flashback Delphine/US Gold/SSI AC [1236] 79
30 (23) Aces of the Pacific (+add-ons) Dynamix/Sierra SI [1010] 78
31 (48) Multi-Player Civilization hacked ST [1292] 78
32 (33) Command HQ MicroProse ST [1166] 71
33 (35) Ultima 7 (+Forge of Virtue) Origin/Mindscape RP [1001] 71
34 (37) The Lost Admiral QQP ST [1126] 71
35 (30) Crusaders o.t. Dark Savant Sir-Tech/US Gold RP [1104] 70
36 (19) Spaceward Ho! New World/US Gold ST [1154] 69
37 (28) Prince of Persia 2 Broderbund/Electronic Arts AC [1232] 68
38 (21) Darklands MicroProse RP [1008] 65
39 (24) Harpoon (+add-ons) Three-Sixty/Electronic Arts ST [1058] 61
40 (31) SVGA Air Warrior Kesmai/Konami/GEnie SI [1251] 60
41 (36) 7th Guest Trilobyte/Virgin PU [1230] 60
42 (41) Minesweeper Microsoft ST [1184] 60
43 ( -) Howitzer {S} Randall Spangler ST [1286] 60
44 ( -) SimCity Maxis/Ocean ST [1079] 58
45 (43) Pirates! Gold MicroProse ST [1272] 56
46 (44) Solitaire for Windows Microsoft ST [1214] 56
47 (47) Monster Bash {S} Apogee AC [1213] 56
48 ( -) Bio Menace {S} Apogee AC [1309] 55
49 (39) Commander Keen 4, 5, 6 {S} Id/Apogee AC [1129] 54
50 (50) Dungeon Master Psygnosis RP [1024] 52
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Top 20: The Games Most Talked About September 1993
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TM LM Title Developer/Publisher(s) Cat ID Points
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1 ( 1) X-Wing (+Imperial Pursuit) LucasArts/US Gold AC [1169] 294
2 ( 5) Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos Westwood/Virgin RP [1305] 287
3 ( 4) Civilization MicroProse ST [1002] 246
4 ( 7) Ultima 7 Part 2 (+Silver Seed) Origin/El. Arts RP [1195] 188
5 (14) Ultima Underworld 2 LookingGlass/Origin/E. Arts RP [1127] 159
6 (11) Syndicate Bullfrog/Electronic Arts AC [1271] 156
7 (15) Wolfenstein 3D (+hacked add-ons) {S} Id/Apogee AC [1013] 150
8 ( 2) Betrayal at Krondor Dynamix/Sierra RP [1275] 139
9 ( -) V for Victory (+scenario's) Three-Sixty/El. Arts ST [1114] 138
10 ( 8) Ultima 7 (+Forge of Virtue) Origin/Mindscape RP [1001] 119
11 ( -) Warlords 2 SSG ST [1284] 111
12 ( 3) Doom Id AC [9500] 109
13 (17) 7th Guest Trilobyte/Virgin PU [1230] 89
14 ( 6) Falcon 3.0 (+add-ons) Spectrum Holob./MicroProse SI [1005] 80
15 ( 9) Dune 2: Building of a Dynasty Westwood/Virgin ST [1110] 79
16 (12) Prince of Persia 2 Broderbund/Electronic Arts AC [1232] 76
17 (16) Crusaders o.t. Dark Savant Sir-Tech/US Gold RP [1104] 73
18 ( -) Might & Magic: Darkside of Xeen New World/US Gold RP [1252] 71
19 (18) Ultima Underworld Blue Sky/Origin/Mindscape RP [1009] 70
20 ( -) Day of the Tentacle LucasArts/US Gold AD [1268] 69
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| The Net PC Games Top 100 is compiled using votes sent by many people from |
| all over the world. The latest chart is published every Monday on Usenet |
| in the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce newsgroup. Ask for the document. |
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| TW : This Week | (c) 1993 all rights reserved Jojo Productions |
| LW : Last Week | With many thanks to the Weena 41 a |
| NW : Number of Weeks | Delft University of Technology 3013 CD Rotterdam NL |
| - : New Entry | for providing me with the Tel: +31 10 4114510 |
| ^ : Climbing | necessary facilities. appelo@dutiag.twi.tudelft.nl |
| * : Bullet |-----------------------------------------------------|
| AC : Action | The games in the chart are not sorted by the points |
| AD : Adventure | mentioned in the last column. These points indicate |
| PU : Puzzle | how well the games are doing. Many points gives the |
| RP : Role-Playing | right to climb in the chart. Few makes the games go |
| SI : Simulation | down. This system makes the chart stable. |
| SP : Sports |-----------------------------------------------------|
| ST : Strategy | You can also find this chart in: |
| {S}: Shareware | Game Bytes (USA) |
| {F}: Freeware | Software Gids (NL) |
| {C}: CD-ROM Only | PC Format (UK) |
| {W}: Windows Only | and soon Generation (USA) |
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