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Announcing Inside Games Update
What’s this IGU icon, you ask yourself, as you open the Inside Mac Games magazine subscription disk? Something new, something crazy, something unique, something absurd? What in blazes IS IT?

What IGU is . . .well, it’s something special, ’cause you’re a subscriber to the leading Macintosh game publication, Inside Mac Games. IGU is Inside Games Update and it’s a member of the IMG Publications family. The associate publisher is none other than Tuncer Deniz, the publisher and editor of Inside Mac Games.

Inside Games Update is a game newsletter published at lease twice monthly by the team that brought THE ROLE OF COMPUTERS column to DRAGON™ magazine each month for eight years. It’s fresh, bright, and multiplatform in scope. It’s meant to be printed out at your desktop by any word processor that can open Microsoft Word™ files. It features late-breaking game news, new product stuff, First Impression game reviews, and thought-provoking commentary and readers’ letters. It also packs in game hints and tips as well as a look at some of the classics that built the electronic entertainment industry.

Yep, Inside Mac Games subscribers will continue to find most of the IGU issues included on their disk as a value-added feature--more bang for your buck.

IGU is also available as a stand-alone, electronically or print delivered newsletter, for $55 per year for at least 40 issues. Subscribe and ensure a copy of each issue!! For Inside Mac Games subscribers, a special price of $45.00 is in effect until January 15, 1994. ! Save ten bucks! After that, the price reverts to $55 per year.

To subscribe, write your check to THE WORD WARRIORS and mail to 521 Czerny Street, Tracy, CA  95376. Specify whether you wish a printed version mailed first class to your address, or what online service you’d prefer for electronic delivery of the publication files.

IGU will also appear within the Inside Games forum on Apple’s new eWorld online service that will be announced at Macworld San Francisco.

 IGU is committed to your game enjoyment--if you want a technical synopsis of game software and hardware, want to read more about coding than gaming, you’d be better off with another publication. If it’s fun you’re after, you’ll find it within IGU! —Pattie Lesser

Q and A
I’d like to take this time to address some recent subscription problems, and answer some commonly asked questions. Here are some of the more popular questions we get:

Q: What happens if my disk never shows up to my house? When should I expect it?

A: In general, you should receive the current issue by the 15th of that month’s issue. For example, expect the February issue before the 15th of February. If you don’t get it, give us a call, e-mail us, or write to us, and we’ll send you another copy (this happens occasionally when our wonderful postal system loses a disk or two).

Q: When can I expect my subscription to start?

A: PLEASE allow 4-6 weeks for your first issue. We get calls every day from subscribers who had sent in their subscription a few days before and wondered why they haven’t gotten their first issue a few days after subscribing. Like all magazines, we make ONE mailing per month.

Q: A few months back you asked subscribers to send back their floppy disk mailers to save on waste and to re-use them. Does this mean we should send the disks back too?

A: No, keep the disks, they are yours! We’ve been surprised by some people who have returned all their disks for re-use. Just send your disk mailers, not the disks. And thanks!

Q: I’d like to order back issues, but I’m not a subscriber. Can I still get them?

A: No, you must be a subscriber. Just one of the many perks of being a card-carrying subscriber.

Q: What’s the difference between the FREE PREVIEW edition you upload to AOL, CIS, the Internet, and bbs’s, and the SUBSCRIPTION DISK edition?

A: The Free Preview version is just that — free. We upload it everywhere so people can SAMPLE Inside Mac Games. However, you should know that the Free Preview version is about half the size of our Subscription Disk and contains less reviews, less screen shots — much, much less of everything. So if you’ve been downloading it now every month (you know who you are), spend the $28 and please subscribe. You really don’t know what you’re missing.

I hope this has answered some of the questions you might have had about IMG. As we go into our second year, I want take this opportunity to thank everyone who has subscribed to IMG and kept us going. For those who haven’t subscribed — shame on you! 

In the coming year we expect good things to come, like the PowerPC, even more Mac games than 1993, the IMG CD-ROM (coming in February), and new electronic magazines — even from us! Until then, happy gaming. - Tuncer Deniz 

MACnificent 7.1 CD-ROM available from IMG
MACnificent 7.1 Education & Games • 2nd Edition Macintosh CD-ROM is now available directly from Inside Mac Games. Ideal for both home and school use, this comprehensive collection of the latest version of over 7,000 educational, game, and children’s files has been gathered by the National Home & School Macintosh User Group for authors worldwide. The programs have been carefully tested for compatibility on several different Mac CPUs and Systems, including System 7. The programs are described, rated, categorized, and cross-referenced. The “Librarian” program containing this information allows the user to navigate among the many programs with ease and efficiency and even launch them!

MACnificent 7.1 is available directly from IMG for the low price of $39, plus $3 shipping and handling. Subscribers and non-subscribers can fill out the subscription form and mark Macnificent 7.1 CD-ROM or call (708) 486-0636 with your VISA/MC to place your order. Subscribers can fill out the Back Issues order form found in the IMG Extras folder included with the magazine.

IMG’s New FAX number
Just in case you didn’t catch the message in the Mailbox section, we’ve got a new FAX number. Please fax your subscriptions, letters, hints & tips, and other correspondence to 312/850-0430.

Contest Winners!
In last month’s Hints & Tips contest, Michael Eilers of Tucson, Arizona, won a free copy of F/A-18 Hornet by sending in his hints and tips.

In our game poll contest, Sonya Chang of Sylvania, Ohio, won a free copy of F/A-18 Hornet. Congratulations! All prizes compliments of Graphic Simulations.

How To Enter This Month’s Contests.
This month you can win a free copy of the MacEnjoy joystick adapter by sending in your IMG Game Poll and/or by sending a hint or tip, we will enter your name in a drawing for a free copy of MacEnjoy joystick adapter. See this month’s “IMG Game Poll” and “Hints, Tips, & Tricks” and the bottom of this page for addresses and information. Prizes compliments of Applied Technologies.

Special Thanks
As always, the editors of IMG would like to thank all of our writers, as well as Craig Fryar, Steven Lundin, Rod Whitten, Bob Nordling, Mark Rubin, Trey Smith, Jeff Morgan, Ian Klimon, Rustle Laidman, Mark Wall, Mark Adams, Alexander Seropian, Jason Jones, the Lessers and all of you who have given us your continued support.
 
A special thanks to Aladdin Systems for allowing us to use the StuffIt Installer.

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