Coverdisk Archive – PC Review

Posted on October 13th, 2016

I don’t remember too much about PC Review and indeed can’t find anything on it past 1992 (archive.org/details/pcreviewmagazine) which was before I started to read it. From what I remember it disappeared mid decade. I think it failed to find its identity (and audience); in the early to mid 90s the newsagents where awash with PC magazines and the market was reaching saturation.

Although looking at the disk listing for February 1994 (Doom!) the volume is called “WPCG_COV1”; WPCG being shorthand for “What PC Games”. This was a short lived magazine that appeared around the same time. I’m guessing that was a failed attempt at a re-brand or sister magazine with better circulation.

Don’t forget to check out the other magazine coverdisk archives.

PC Review – 1993

Issue: September 1993 (Disk A)

Archive: PCR_September1993_DiskA.zip

Directory Listing: PCR_September1993_DiskA_Listing.txt

Contents:

The Lost Vikings

Issue: November 1993 (Disk B)

Archive: PCR_November1993_DiskB.zip

Directory Listing: PCR_November1993_DiskB_Listing.txt

Contents:

Ancients: Deathwatch

PC Review – 1994

Issue: February 1994 (Disk A)

Archive: PCR_February1994_DiskA.zip

Directory Listing: PCR_February1994_DiskA_Listing.txt

Contents:

DOOM! (running a 386SX 25 with 2MB RAM – I had to wait almost a year to get a 2Mb upgrade for Christmas before I could play. When I did play I had to reduce the screen the size of a postage stamp… brilliant!