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- The Net PC Games Top 100 Edition 6 - Week 6 - February 8, 1993
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- TW LW NW Title Developer/Publisher(s) ID Points
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- 1 ( 1) 6 Civilization MicroProse [1002] 175
- 2 ( 2) 6 Ultima Underworld Origin/Mindscape [1009] 109
- 3 ( 3) 6 Wolfenstein 3D Id/Apogee [1013] 87
- 4 ( 4) 6 Ultima 7 (+ Forge of Virtue) Origin/Mindscape [1001] 59
- 5 ( 5) 6 Wing Commander 2 (+ Sp. Oper.) Origin/Mindscape [1007] 59
- 6 ( 6) 6 Links 386 Pro (+ courses) Access/US Gold [1006] 42
- 7 ( 11)^ 5 Crusaders o.t. Dark Savant Sir-tech/US Gold [1104] 50
- 8 ( 7) 6 Wing Commander 1 (+ Secret M.) Origin/Mindscape [1026] 38
- 9 ( 16)* 5 Star Control 2 Accolade [1116] 66
- 10 ( 8) 6 Ind. Jones: Fate of Atlantis LucasArts/US Gold [1003] 32
- 11 ( 10) 6 Falcon 3.0 (+ operations)Spectrum Holobyte/MicroProse [1005] 32
- 12 ( 9) 6 Monkey Island 2 LucasArts/US Gold [1014] 21
- 13 ( 12) 6 King's Quest 6 Sierra [1015] 30
- 14 ( 31)* 3 Ultima Underworld 2 Origin/Electronic Arts [1127] 82
- 15 ( 13) 6 A-train (+ constr. set) Maxis/Spectrum Holobyte/Ocean [1004] 16
- 16 ( 14) 6 Out of this World (Anoth. W.)Delph./Interplay/US Gold [1012] 17
- 17 ( 18)^ 6 Harpoon (+ disks) Three-Sixty/Electronic Arts [1058] 34
- 18 ( 15) 6 Darklands MicroProse [1008] 16
- 19 ( 28)* 4 Railroad Tycoon MicroProse [1121] 57
- 20 ( 25)^ 5 Dune 2 Westwood/Virgin [1110] 44
- 21 ( 17) 6 Aces of the Pacific (+ miss.) Dynamix/Sierra [1010] 10
- 22 ( 19) 6 Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Electronic Arts/Interplay [1017] 10
- 23 ( 36)* 4 World Circuit/F1 Grand Prix MicroProse [1123] 58
- 24 ( 20) 6 Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes Electronic Arts [1016] 6
- 25 ( 33)* 5 Comanche: Maximum Overkill Novalogic [1101] 47
- 26 ( 21) 6 Gateway Legend/Accolade [1022] 2
- 27 ( 23) 6 Gods Renegade/Konami [1023] 2
- 28 ( 27) 6 Monkey Island 1 LucasArts/US Gold [1027] 18
- 29 ( 32)^ 6 Eye of the Beholder 2 SSI/US Gold [1067] 23
- 30 ( 22) 6 Hardball 3 Accolade [1011] 0
- 31 ( 26) 6 Laura Bow 2 Sierra [1019] 1
- 32 ( 24) 6 Quest for Glory 3 Sierra [1018] 2
- 33 ( 29) 6 Dungeon Master Psygnosis [1024] 6
- 34 ( 30) 6 Legend of Kyrandia Westwood/Virgin [1025] 10
- 35 ( 42)^ 6 Red Baron (+ missions) Dynamix/Sierra [1070] 25
- 36 ( 44)^ 6 SimCity Maxis/Ocean [1079] 32
- 37 ( 34) 6 Darkseed Cyberdreams/Mirage/Merit [1032] 5
- 38 ( 53)* 3 The Incredible Machine Dynamix/Sierra [1128] 45
- 39 ( 35) 6 Push-over Ocean [1030] 7
- 40 ( 39) 6 Chessmaster 3000 (+ windows) Mindscape [1029] 7
- 41 ( 37) 6 Crisis in the Kremlin Electr. Arts/Spectrum Holobyte [1021] 1
- 42 ( 51)^ 4 Conquered Kingdoms QQP [1122] 26
- 43 ( 41) 6 Powermonger Electronic Arts [1036] 6
- 44 ( 40) 6 Gobliiins Coktel V./Digital I./Sierra [1034] 3
- 45 ( 43) 6 Police Quest 3 Sierra [1039] 4
- 46 ( 38) 6 B-17 Flying Fortress MicroProse [1020] 0
- 47 ( 59)^ 5 Alone in the Dark Infogrames [1105] 23
- 48 ( 48) 6 Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 Infocom/Activision [1045] 10
- 49 ( 45) 6 Secret Weapons o.t. Luftwaffe LucasArts/US Gold [1035] 3
- 50 ( 47) 6 Leisure Suit Larry 5 Sierra [1042] 7
- 51 ( 46) 6 PGA Tour Golf Electronic Arts [1038] 7
- 52 ( 67)^ 3 Commander Keen 4, 5, 6 Id/Apogee [1129] 32
- 53 ( 64)^ 3 VGA Planets Tim Wisseman [1131] 27
- 54 ( 61)^ 5 F-15 Strike Eagle 3 MicroProse [1103] 22
- 55 ( 50) 6 Gunship 2000 (+ missions) MicroProse [1047] 11
- 56 ( 54) 6 Eye of the Beholder 1 SSI/US Gold [1093] 13
- 57 ( 58)^ 6 Dune Cryo/Virgin [1075] 14
- 58 ( 69)^ 6 Lemmings (+ More Lemmings) Psygnosis [1095] 29
- 59 ( 55) 6 King's Quest 5 Sierra [1061] 5
- 60 ( 72)^ 3 The Humans US Gold [1112] 22
- 61 ( 57) 6 Siege Mindcraft/Electronic Arts [1063] 9
- 62 ( 56) 6 Space Quest 4 Sierra [1041] 4
- 63 ( 66)^ 6 Conquest of the Longbow Sierra [1055] 17
- 64 ( 49) 6 F-117A Stealth Fighter MicroProse [1028] 0
- 65 ( 68)^ 4 V for Victory Three-sixty/Electronic Arts [1114] 14
- 66 ( 52) 6 Martian Memorandum SSI/US Gold [1031] 0
- 67 ( 60) 6 Lure of the Temptress Revolution/Virgin [1046] 4
- 68 ( 77)^ 4 Gobliins 2 Coktel V./Digital I./Sierra [1107] 17
- 69 ( 73)^ 4 Might & Magic: Clouds of Xeen New World/US Gold [1102] 11
- 70 ( 63) 6 Sherlock Holmes Cons. Detect. ICOM/Mindscape [1037] 3
- 71 ( 70) 6 Global Conquest MicroProse [1068] 8
- 72 ( 80)^ 3 The Lost Admiral QQP [1126] 13
- 73 ( 97)* 2 Car and Driver Electronic Arts [1137] 25
- 74 ( 89)^ 2 Spear of Destiny Id [1124] 18
- 75 ( 62) 6 Dark Queen of Krynn SSI/US Gold [1050] 3
- 76 ( 75) 6 Perfect General (+ scenario's) QQP/Ubi [1098] 10
- 77 ( 71) 6 Lord of the Rings 2 Interplay/Electr. Arts [1044] 2
- 78 ( 78) 4 Spellcasting 301 Legend/Accolade [1108] 5
- 79 ( 82)^ 3 The Summoning SSI/US Gold [1117] 8
- 80 ( 87)^ 2 Battles of Destiny QQP [1132] 12
- 81 ( 65) 6 Prophecy of the Shadow SSI/US Gold [1033] 1
- 82 ( 79) 6 Willy Beamish Dynamix/Sierra [1064] 4
- 83 ( 76) 6 Battle Isle Ubi [1057] 3
- 84 ( 92)^ 2 Stunt Island Infogrames/Disney [1130] 10
- 85 ( 84) 6 Grand Prix Unlimited Accolade [1056] 7
- 86 ( 88)^ 6 Air Bucks Impressions [1082] 5
- 87 ( -)^ 1 Warlords SSG [1135] 13
- 88 ( 91)^ 6 SimAnt Maxis/Ocean [1080] 4
- 89 ( 74) 6 Nova 9 Dynamix/Sierra [1051] 0
- 90 ( 83) 6 Eternam Infogrames [1066] 1
- 91 (100)^ 2 Terminator 2029 Bethesda [1113] 5
- 92 ( 93)^ 2 Front Page Sports: Football Dynamix/Sierra [1133] 7
- 93 ( 98)^ 3 Curse of Enchantia Core Design [1111] 3
- 94 ( 94) 6 SimEarth (+ windows) Maxis/Ocean [1091] 4
- 95 ( -)^ 1 Conflict: Korea SSI [1136] 7
- 96 ( -)^ 1 Rex Nebular MicroProse [1115] 2
- 97 ( -)^ 1 Pirates MicroProse [1140] 8
- 98 ( 81) 6 Heimdall Core Design/Virgin [1043] 0
- 99 ( -)^ 1 Empire: Wargame of the Century Interstel [1142] 10
- 100 ( 86) 6 Heart of China Dynamix/Sierra [1048] 0
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- Dropped out:
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- ( 85) 5 Jack Nicklaus Golf Accolade [1040]
- ( 90) 5 Mantis X5700 Experim. Fighter Paragon/MicroProse [1049]
- ( 95) 5 Loom LucasArts/US Gold [1074]
- ( 96) 5 Hook Ocean [1052]
- ( 99) 5 Jimmy White's Whirlw. Snooker Virgin [1053]
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- The Net PC Games Tip 20 Edition 6 - Week 6 - February 8, 1993
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- TW LW NW Title Developer/Publisher(s) ID
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- 1 ( 8) 3 SimLife Maxis/Mindscape [1138]
- 2 ( 12) 2 Covert Action MicroProse [1143]
- 3 ( 9) 3 Jill of the Jungle Epic [1139]
- 4 ( 11) 3 Catacombs Abyss Softdisk [1141]
- 5 ( 7) 4 Quest for Glory 1 Sierra [1134]
- 6 ( 14) 2 Task Force 1942 MicroProse [1145]
- 7 ( 13) 2 Carrier Strike SSI [1144]
- 8 ( 15) 2 Harrier Jump Jet MicroProse [1146]
- 9 ( 16) 2 Caesar Impressions [1147]
- 10 ( 18) 2 Populous 2 (+ disk) Bullfrog/Electronic Arts [1149]
- 11 ( 17) 2 The Ancient Art of War at Sea MicroProse [1148]
- 12 ( 19) 2 Waxworks Accolade [1150]
- 13 ( 20) 2 Eric the Unready Legend/Accolade [1151]
- 14 ( -) 1 Police Quest 1 Sierra [1152]
- 15 ( -) 1 Ultima 6 Origin/Mindscape [1153]
- 16 ( -) 1 Spaceward Ho! New World/US Gold [1154]
- 17 ( -) 1 Populous 1 (+ disk) Bullfrog/Electronic Arts [1155]
- 18 ( -) 1 Champions of Krynn SSI/US Gold [1156]
- 19 ( -) 1 Magic Candle 3 Mindcraft [1157]
- 20 ( -) 1 Inca Coktel V./Digital I./Sierra [1158]
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- As promised, I have a few statistics for you this week. You can see
- that, in the Top 100, a new column has been added to the right of the
- list. It contains for each game the number of points the game got from
- e-mail and News traffic. Interpreting these points requires some
- understanding of how the chart is compiled. You can see that the games
- that have the most points are not necessarily the ones at the top.
- Ultima Underworld 2 for example, got 82 points this week. This amount
- allowed the game make an enormous jump from 31 to 14. The games above
- have less points, so it can be expected that UW2 will penetrate deep
- into the top 10 next week. Especially when you consider that the
- support for this game has increased at a rate of 20 points every week.
- UW2 can easily hit the top 3 in several weeks, or even be a new number
- one. The support for Civilization and UW1 is dropping, so this
- shouldn't be too hard.
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- There is a difference between e-mail points and News points. You can
- see this when you look at Laura Bow 2 at number 31 and Quest for
- Glory 3 at number 32. QFG3 drops faster than LB2, even when LB2 has
- one point less and, logically, should be the one dropping faster. This
- is because LB2 got the points via e-mail and QFG3 got it from
- measuring the News traffic. The votes sent by e-mail have a much
- higher weight (in a 4 to 1 ratio), so LB2's points are worth more.
- Take this into account when studying the numbers.
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- Below you can find a table with figures concerning the number of
- voters. On the first row you can find the number of voters that were
- added to our database since the beginning. The second row shows the
- number of e-mail messages used in every week. This number increased
- the first four weeks, since votes are used for four weeks in a row.
- The third row shows for each week how many people sent us new votes.
- The last row shows the number of people who never voted before. When
- starting this chart we hoped to have around 100 voters after 4 weeks.
- It appears we have achieved this goal. It's great. We now hope that
- the number of messages with new votes per week keeps being 30 or more.
- You could help us with that by promoting the chart among friends and
- colleagues or just by pinning the chart on a strategic location in
- your building.
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- people ever voted 0 42 69 97 110 116
- votes used this week 0 42 69 97 110 104
- votes sent this week 0 42 39 46 33 31
- new voters 0 42 27 28 13 6
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- Finally, you can see below where all the messages with votes come
- from. You can count more than 15 different countries. The emphasis is
- on the USA, the Netherlands and Finland. So... Belgium, Taiwan, Russia
- and all the others: may we have your votes please?
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- .at 1 .gov 4
- .au 1 .net 2
- .be 1 .nl 12
- .bitnet 1 .nz 1
- .ca 4 .org 1
- .com 24 .pl 1
- .de 3 .se 1
- .dk 2 .sg 1
- .edu 27 .su 1
- .fi 8 .tw 2
- .fr 3 .uk 3
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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 newsgroup. A collection of all editions can |
- | be found on the risc.ua.edu ftp-site. Mail to appelo@dutiag.twi.tudelft |
- | and vote for your favourite games. More detailed information on how to |
- | vote can be found in the Top 100 document posted regularly. |
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- | TW : This Week | (c) 1992 all rights reserved Jojo Productions |
- | LW : Last Week | P.O. Box 3077 |
- | NW : Number of Weeks | With many thanks to the 2601 DB Delft |
- | - : New Entry | Delft University of Technology The Netherlands |
- | ^ : Climbing | for providing us with the Tel: +31 15 613510 |
- | * : Bullet | necessary facilities. appelo@dutiag.twi.tudelft |
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