[game_preservation] Original DOOM reviews

[Dan Pinchbeck]

Cheers for the Groups heads-up - that's really useful.

Thanks

Dan

On 2 Mar 2011, at 02:26, Henry Lowood wrote:


> Dan,

>

> It's worth running searches on Google Books (for magazine reviews)  

> and archived Google Groups (search doom review and limit to 1994, I  

> found a bunch of links to reviews or comments on reviews by doing  

> that).  I found a couple in Google Books by running the search -  

> Doom review 1994.  If you have access to electronic indexes that  

> cover print magazines generally, that would be another place to  

> look.   I don't know which commercial indexes you have at your  

> industry, or I would recommend one.

>

> Of course, it's not all necessarily useful information, like this  

> snip from one post from alt.games.doom (28 March 1994):

>

> I just read a review of Doom in some gaming magazine (I can't  

> remember which

> one, but it's the one where they have three reviewers for each game  

> and they

> score by percentage).  While it got good reviews overall, two of the  

> reviewers

> seemed to say that they liked Wolfenstein 3-D better!!!  I don't  

> have the

> review with me, but I think one of them didn't like the automap  

> (?!!!) and

> felt that Wolf 3-D had more atmosphere or suspense.

>

> That should get you right to it!

>

> Henry

>

> On 3/1/2011 1:27 AM, Dan Pinchbeck wrote:

>>

>> Cheers Rowan, will have a hunt around there

>>

>> Dan

>>

>>

>> Dr Dan Pinchbeck

>>

>> thechineseroom

>> University of Portsmouth, UK

>> www.thechineseroom.co.uk

>> www.keep-project.eu

>>

>> >>> Rowan Kaiser 28/02/11 7:26 PM >>>

>> You might be able to find some here: http://www.gnomeslair.com/2007/11/gaming-magazines-of-pre-internet-era.html

>>

>> I believe newsgroup archives are accessible, though I've never gone  

>> that far myself, and could have citations or transcribed reviews.

>>

>>

>> Rowan

>>

>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Dan Pinchbeck <dan.pinchbeck at port.ac.uk 

>> > wrote:

>> Hey all,

>>

>> I'm on the hunt for any reviews and press of the original 1993 DOOM  

>> when it hit - anyone got anything lurking around any old magazines  

>> out there?

>>

>> Thanks

>>

>> Dan

>>

>>

>> Dr Dan Pinchbeck

>> Reader in Computer Games

>> University of Portsmouth, UK

>>

>> www.thechineseroom.co.uk

>>

>>

>>

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