PC Accelerator Fails To Predict The Future
Poking around on Kevin Gifford's magazine history website Magweasel, we noticed a bunch of cover scans from PC Accelerator, and one in particular caught our eye.
Yep, the cover is for 'Quake II killers', from the first ever September 1998 issue of the mag, and the contenders are Daikatana (uh, not so much!), Duke4ever (well, maybe, but more of a Quake V contender!), and Klingon Honor Guard, which I didn't even recall actually existed. Still, it's actually a fun cover, and isn't the babe-heavy stylings of the mag's later run.
If you want to check out some of the other covers from one of the edgier titles in U.S. game mag history, you can search for 'pcxl' in the search box - the likely most ridiculous one is this cover, for '69 hot new games', with an unimpressed, semi-undressed significant other.
Comments
Wow...this is news?.....I don't think I even need to go into more detail...just wow.
Posted by: BGSS | July 24, 2006 12:36 AM
cool, that klingon game got 8/10 review scores, and ive never even heard of it.
(never heard of that mag either)
Posted by: ghs | July 24, 2006 3:08 AM
Klingon Honour Guard was actually a very solid, quick original FPS... well worth taking a look at.
Ian
Posted by: Omroth | July 24, 2006 5:41 AM
Ah, I miss PCXL, the last gasp of the gaming magazine generation in my opinion. It wasn't just out of date (or demo builds) previews or reviews and ads. It acutally tried to have Maxim-like content in a gaming mag.
Posted by: Stryck9 | July 24, 2006 9:17 AM
that august `99 issue was the only one i managed to get ahold of. this magazine was sooo damn good. i can`t believe they stopped making it.
Posted by: steve | July 30, 2006 6:19 AM