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To: Burlitis who wrote (1154)	5/5/1998 4:08:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 1992

The June issue of PCGamer has the reviews index, I did a quick talley to see which companies produced the most titles which rated above an 85%...and which were producing an inordinate number if stinkers. I am sad to say my old favorite, Sir-Tech is really suffering lately, no less than three titles which rated lower than 35%, hope they do better. Anway, if I counted correctly... Electronic Arts/EA Sports--7 Activision-4 Lucas Arts, Microsoft, Interactive Magic-3 Ubi-Soft, SSI, Eidos, GTInteractive-2 And with one title at or above 85%: Avalon Hill, Westwood Studios, Mindscape, Oceans of America, Interplay, Graphic Simulations, Accolade, Blue Byte, Virgin, Jane's, Bungie, 3do, Origin, Microprose, and Sierra. I could have miscounted here and there, so hope I did not put anybody's fave gaming company in the wrong catagory... Activision narrowly missed having some more titles up above 85%: Netstorm 83% Nightmare Creatures 82% Heavy Gear 82% Blood Omen LofK 82% I should note that Dark Reign, ZGI, and QII all rated editors' choice awards, ERTS got 5 awards. All in all, if this is a useful way to rate these companies, (maybe it is not?..) I would say ATVI looks like a screamin buy...of course you have to decide whether or not you like the industry too. I'm having a bit too much fun trading biotech stocks for now, but atvi is definately on my buy-the-dips list, along with Netscape and a couple others.

To: Burlitis who wrote (1154)	5/5/1998 4:19:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1992

Oh, I should have also said that you wont see Battlezone in the index since the index is for the last year's worth of titles. The review for Battlezone is however also in the June issue, they gave it a 93%and an Editors' Choice. The June issue also has some BZ stuff in the hints section of the mag. Also, I considered titles above 85% to be "good", PCG calls 80-89% "Excellent", and 90-100% "Classic, recommended without reservation to anybody interested in PC gaming". Isn't it funny that only playing the demo of Battlezone has me pumped up enough to be doing these posts. Gad zooks, I gotta get me a damn gaming machine, playing demos on friends machines is soo lame. Mike's budget dream machine: Message 4310801