[ Retro Scan of the Week ] New World Computing Stationery
September 9th, 2013 by Benj Edwards
Earth kebab
What you see here is a page from a New World Computing notepad that shipped with either Might and Magic III or Planet’s Edge, both of which my brother bought back in the day.
NWC made some great games, and I always thought they had the best logo of any game developer at the time. Of all their titles, Might and Magic II got the most love in our household.
(I’ve enhanced the contrast of this image a bit so you can see the logo detail, which is quite subtle otherwise. It also brings out vintage stains and a stray pencil mark.)
This notepad served as a nice sorta-“feelie” pack-in, one that my brother actually used quite often for notes.
Discussion Topic of the Week: What’s your favorite New World Computing game?
September 9th, 2013 at 10:16 am
Definitely Heroes of Might & Magic III… One of my all-time favorite games, so much so that when Mac OS X lost the capability to run OS 9 apps, I bought a G4 Cube specifically to run OS 9 for HoMM III.
September 10th, 2013 at 8:18 am
“stationery”
Love this column, though it’s all newer than the computers of my youth!
September 10th, 2013 at 3:37 pm
Might and Magic II for the Genesis.
September 10th, 2013 at 6:48 pm
Thanks for the typo check, Tom. In my defense, this notepaper is indeed still in the same place I left it last week.
September 10th, 2013 at 7:03 pm
Thanks for the correction, Benj. I figured as a professional writer you’d like it pointed out. You can tell I’m an old geezer because spelling mistakes drive me nuts (especially my own) and I called your blog a “column.”
September 15th, 2013 at 6:38 pm
Mirror Universe Uhura better not find out they’ve used her Empire’s logo, or there will be hell to pay; that woman is wicked.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mirror+universe+terran+empire&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch
September 24th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
My fave NWC game from (gag) “back in the day” is
Nuclear War!
It’s a goofily snazzy-cool (digital) redux of the Nuclear War card game, “a fast-paced comical card game for 2-6 players.”
It depicts “Ronnie Raygun” and much of the rest of the early 80’s geopolitical crew bent on world destruction.
Gameplay, sequence of play mirrors the card game nicely and it allows a solitaire player like myself to go at it alone.
Originally I had it on a (5 1/4″) disc for C64 and subsequently a copy for my Amiga 500. I recently (4 years ago) found a freeware DOS copy that runs in DOSbox.
Recommended!