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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!dutiws!dutiag!appelo From: appelo@dutiag.tudelft.nl (C.J. Appelo) Subject: *** NET PC GAMES TOP 100 * EDITION 1 *** (repost) Message-ID: <appelo.726331462@dutiag> Sender: news@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (Dutiws News Administration) Organization: Delft University of Technology Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:44:22 GMT Lines: 286 ============================================================================== The Net PC Games Top 100 Edition 1 - Week 1 - January 4, 1993 ============================================================================== 1 ( -) 1 Ultima 7 (+ Forge of virtue) Origin/Mindscape [1001] 2 ( -) 1 Civilization MicroProse [1002] 3 ( -) 1 Ind. Jones: Fate of Atlantis LucasArts/US Gold [1003] 4 ( -) 1 A-train Maxis/Spectrum Holobyte/Ocean [1004] 5 ( -) 1 Falcon 3.0 (+ operations) Spectrum Holobyte/MicroProse [1005] 6 ( -) 1 Links 386 pro Access/US Gold [1006] 7 ( -) 1 Wing commander 2 (+ Sp. Oper.) Origin/Mindscape [1007] 8 ( -) 1 Darklands MicroProse [1008] 9 ( -) 1 Ultima underworld Origin/Mindscape [1009] 10 ( -) 1 Aces of the Pacific Dynamix/Sierra [1010] 11 ( -) 1 Hardball 3 Accolade [1011] 12 ( -) 1 Out of this world Delphine/Interplay/US Gold [1012] 13 ( -) 1 Wolfenstein 3D ID/Apogee [1013] 14 ( -) 1 Monkey Island 2 LucasArts/US Gold [1014] 15 ( -) 1 King's quest 6 Sierra [1015] 16 ( -) 1 Lost files of Sherlock Holmes Electronic Arts [1016] 17 ( -) 1 Star trek: 25th anniversary Electronic Arts/Interplay [1017] 18 ( -) 1 Quest for glory 3 Sierra [1018] 19 ( -) 1 Laura Bow 2 Sierra [1019] 20 ( -) 1 B-17 flying fortress MicroProse [1020] 21 ( -) 1 Crisis in the Kremlin Electr. Arts/Spectrum Holobyte [1021] 22 ( -) 1 Gateway Legend/Accolade [1022] 23 ( -) 1 Gods Renegade/Konami [1023] 24 ( -) 1 Dungeon master Psygnosis [1024] 25 ( -) 1 Legend of Kyrandia Westwood/Virgin [1025] 26 ( -) 1 Wing commander 1 (+ Secret m.) Origin/Mindscape [1026] 27 ( -) 1 Monkey Island 1 LucasArts/US Gold [1027] 28 ( -) 1 F-117A stealth fighter MicroProse [1028] 29 ( -) 1 Chessmaster 3000 Mindscape [1029] 30 ( -) 1 Push-over Ocean [1030] 31 ( -) 1 Martian memorandum SSI/US Gold [1031] 32 ( -) 1 Darkseed Cyberdreams/Mirage/Merit [1032] 33 ( -) 1 Prophecy of the shadow SSI/US Gold [1033] 34 ( -) 1 Gobliiins Coktel V./Digital I./Sierra [1034] 35 ( -) 1 Secret weapons o.t. luftwaffe LucasArts/US Gold [1035] 36 ( -) 1 Powermonger Electronic Arts [1036] 37 ( -) 1 Sherlock Holmes cons. detect. ICOM/Mindscape [1037] 38 ( -) 1 PGA tour golf Electronic Arts [1038] 39 ( -) 1 Police quest 3 Sierra [1039] 40 ( -) 1 Jack Nicklaus golf Accolade [1040] 41 ( -) 1 Space quest 4 Sierra [1041] 42 ( -) 1 Leisure suit Larry 5 Sierra [1042] 43 ( -) 1 Heimdall Core Design/Virgin [1043] 44 ( -) 1 Lord of the rings 2 Interplay/Electr. Arts [1044] 45 ( -) 1 Leather goddesses of Phobos 2 Infocom/Activision [1045] 46 ( -) 1 Lure of the temptress Revolution/Virgin [1046] 47 ( -) 1 Gunship 2000 (+ missions) MicroProse [1047] 48 ( -) 1 Heart of China Dynamix/Sierra [1048] 49 ( -) 1 Mantis X5700 experim. fighter Paragon/MicroProse [1049] 50 ( -) 1 Dark queen of Krynn SSI/US Gold [1050] 51 ( -) 1 Nova 9 Dynamix/Sierra [1051] 52 ( -) 1 Hook Ocean [1052] 53 ( -) 1 Jimmy White's whirlw. snooker Virgin [1053] 54 ( -) 1 Epic Ocean [1054] 55 ( -) 1 Conquest of the longbow Sierra [1055] 56 ( -) 1 Grand prix unlimited Accolade [1056] 57 ( -) 1 Battle isle Ubi [1057] 58 ( -) 1 Harpoon Three-Sixty/Electronic Arts [1058] 59 ( -) 1 Cruise for a corpse Delphine/US Gold [1059] 60 ( -) 1 Birds of prey Electronic Arts [1060] 61 ( -) 1 King's quest 5 Sierra [1061] 62 ( -) 1 Heroes of the 357th Electronic Arts [1062] 63 ( -) 1 Siege Mindcraft/Electronic Arts [1063] 64 ( -) 1 Willy beamish Dynamix/Sierra [1064] 65 ( -) 1 NFL Konami [1065] 66 ( -) 1 Eternam Infogrames [1066] 67 ( -) 1 Eye of the beholder 2 SSI/US Gold [1067] 68 ( -) 1 Global conquest MicroProse [1068] 69 ( -) 1 Elvira 2 Horrorsoft/Accolade [1069] 70 ( -) 1 Red baron Dynamix/Sierra [1070] 71 ( -) 1 Hong Kong mahjong pro Electronic Arts [1071] 72 ( -) 1 Eco quest: Search for Cetus Accolade [1072] 73 ( -) 1 Realms Virgin [1073] 74 ( -) 1 Loom LucasArts/US Gold [1074] 75 ( -) 1 Dune Cryo/Virgin [1075] 76 ( -) 1 International sports challenge Empire [1076] 77 ( -) 1 KGB Cryo/Virgin [1077] 78 ( -) 1 Utopia Gremlin [1078] 79 ( -) 1 SimCity Maxis/Ocean [1079] 80 ( -) 1 SimAnt Maxis/Ocean [1080] 81 ( -) 1 Laser squad Krisalis [1081] 82 ( -) 1 Air bucks Impressions [1082] 83 ( -) 1 Special forces MicroProse [1083] 84 ( -) 1 Shadowlands Domark [1084] 85 ( -) 1 David Leadbetter's golf MicroProse [1085] 86 ( -) 1 Fascination Coktel Vision/Digital Integr. [1086] 87 ( -) 1 Mike Ditka's ultimate football Accolade [1087] 88 ( -) 1 Les Manley: Lost in L.A. Accolade [1088] 89 ( -) 1 Planet's edge New World/US Gold [1089] 90 ( -) 1 Legend Mindscape [1090] 91 ( -) 1 SimEarth Maxis/Ocean [1091] 92 ( -) 1 Obitus Psygnosis [1092] 93 ( -) 1 Eye of the beholder 1 SSI/US Gold [1093] 94 ( -) 1 Treasures o.t. savage frontier SSI/US Gold [1094] 95 ( -) 1 Lemmings (+ More lemmings) Psygnosis [1095] 96 ( -) 1 F-15 strike eagle 2 Microprose [1096] 97 ( -) 1 Free D.C. US Gold [1097] 98 ( -) 1 Perfect general (+ scenario's) Ubi [1098] 99 ( -) 1 D/Generation Mindscape [1099] 100 ( -) 1 Global effect Electronic Arts [1100] THE EDITOR... Hi everyone. Welcome to the first edition of the Net PC Games Top 100. We hope you enjoy reading this brand new publication on popular PC games. This chart will be published weekly and all PC game players may participate in the compilation process for the following editions. With your votes you can get your favourite games climb up the chart to the top. See the information below to read all about it. As you can read below, every new chart will be compiled using the one of the previous week, while adding votes of game players to achieve movement in the chart. This means that the initial chart in this edition had to be compiled using a different method, as there was no previous chart to start with. So, we used reviews and ratings from many American, British, German and Dutch magazines to compile this first chart. Of course, this will not necessarily produce a chart that reflects the game players' opinion. However, this is not a serious problem, since games that are positioned too high or too low, will automatically be corrected by the votes that you all will be sending to us, starting this week. You will notice that many of the newest games are not present in this first Top 100. Some of the hottest ones are waiting in the Tip 20 for you to vote for them. Another 80 new games are on our list and we don't even have room for them in the charts. Read the Top 100 and Tip 20 carefully and vote for all your favourite games. It will make them move up the chart, maybe to number one eventually. You may also vote for games that are not in the chart yet, which will give them a bigger chance to enter the Tip 20. Since many of the new games have not entered the Top 100 yet, we can expect an exciting battle in the next few weeks. Many strong games will be competing for the little space available. Don't forget to keep up with the latest developments in the chart every week and keep sending us your votes. Have fun, Jurgen. ============================================================================== The Net PC Games Tip 20 Edition 1 - Week 1 - January 4, 1993 ============================================================================== 1 ( -) 1 Comanche: Maximum overkill Novalogic [1101] 2 ( -) 1 Might & magic: Clouds of Xeen New World/US Gold [1102] 3 ( -) 1 F-15 strike eagle 3 MicroProse [1103] 4 ( -) 1 Crusaders o.t. dark savant Sir-tech/US Gold [1104] 5 ( -) 1 Alone in the dark Infogrames [1105] 6 ( -) 1 AV-8B harrier assault Domark [1106] 7 ( -) 1 Gobliins 2 Coktel V./Digital I./Sierra [1107] 8 ( -) 1 Spellcasting 301 Legend/Accolade [1108] 9 ( -) 1 Scenario: Theatre of war Three-sixty/Electronic Arts [1109] 10 ( -) 1 Dune 2 Westwood/Virgin [1110] 11 ( -) 1 Curse of Enchantia Core Design [1111] 12 ( -) 1 Humans US Gold [1112] 13 ( -) 1 Terminator 2029 Bethesda [1113] 14 ( -) 1 V for victory Three-sixty/Electronic Arts [1114] 15 ( -) 1 Rex Nebular MicroProse [1115] 16 ( -) 1 Star control 2 Accolade [1116] 17 ( -) 1 The summoning SSI/US Gold [1117] 18 ( -) 1 Legends of valour SSI/US Gold [1118] 19 ( -) 1 A.T.A.C. MicroProse [1119] 20 ( -) 1 Amazon Access/US Gold [1120] THE CHART... The Net PC Games Top 100 is a weekly chart for PC games, compiled from votes that are sent by e-mail. Every game player in the world, having an e-mail account, is allowed to send his or her votes. The chart is published every week on Usenet in the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games newsgroup. Whenever possible, the chart is sent automatically to every voter. THE VOTES... When you send us your votes, you are allowed to spread a total of 20 points over several games. Different games may get a different amount of points, but not more than 5 points may be given to one game. As a result, at least 4 games should get points when all 20 points are used. (It is allowed, of course, to use less than 20 points.) THE MESSAGES... The chart is compiled automatically by a program that reads and processes e-mail messages. When sending your votes, be sure to have the word "votes" in the subject of your message. Only points may be given in messages having the subject "votes". Send comments and questions in different messages using different subjects. THE SYNTAX... The message holding the votes should have one game on every line. The first thing to appear on the line is the number of points, second the title of the game, third the publisher(s). The line has to be ended with the ID (a 4-digit number) of the game which can be found in the chart between brackets []. This ID is quite important, for it is the number used by the program that compiles the chart. Only for new games, that are not yet in the chart, the ID-number may be left out. THE EXAMPLE... Here's an example of a message: Subject: votes > 3 Ultima underworld Origin/Mindscape [1019] > 4 Wolfenstein 3D ID/Apogee [1013] > 5 Push-over Ocean [1030] > 5 Lure of the temptress Virgin [1046] > 2 An American tail Capstone > 1 Comanche: Maximum overkill Novalogic [1101] Be sure to have the ID-number in square brackets []. A character at the beginning of the line, like '>', is allowed. The easiest thing to do is to reply to the message containing the latest chart. Copy the chart and delete all lines, except the ones containing your favourite games. Delete the numbers that hold this weeks and last weeks position and the number of weeks, and put in your points instead. This way you don't have to worry about titles, publishers and ID-numbers. THE COMPILATION... For compiling the chart, the Top 100 from the previous week is used. The games get points corresponding to their position in this chart. Then all the points of the voters are added to achieve movement in the chart. When a game gets few or no points from voters, it will automatically drop in the new chart. So, it is not the case that the game that gets the most points will automatically be number one. Instead, it will be the game that does the best climb up the chart. This compilation system introduces a chart that is robust. Games can only reach the top when they get many points for several weeks in a row. The more usual "most points is highest position" system would cause very strange things to happen, when the number of voters is limited, like in this case. In our opinion, another advantage of the system adopted by us, is that it is more exciting. Voters can carefully watch the movements of their favourite games, and influence the movements by balancing their votes. More detailed information on the compilation process, concerning the scaling of votes and an exponential point system, will be given later. THE RESTRICTIONS... It is not allowed to give more than 20 points to the games or more than 5 points to one game. Extra points are automatically discarded by the program (at random). You may send us more than one message a week, but only the latest one will be used. (This can be useful when people change their mind.) Do not forget to mention the publisher when giving points to a game that is not already in the chart. There may be games around that even we have never heard of. THE REPETITIONS... We understand that your votes will not change much over the weeks and that it may be tiresome to send us a message every week. Therefore, we use everyone's votes for 4 weeks in a row. So, when your list of favourite games does not change, you only have to send a new message after 4 weeks. However, votes for games that are not in the chart yet, are used only once. The reason for this is the lack of an ID for these games. This may be changed in the future. New votes can be sent anytime. Your previous votes will be automatically discarded. THE DEADLINE... Every week, the deadline for the chart is on Friday, late in the afternoon (GMT). Messages that come in after the deadline are used for the next week. The new chart will be compiled and published on Monday. THE PUBLISHER... Jojo Productions P.O. Box 3077 2601 DB Delft The Netherlands correspondent: