Games Review Vol 2 Issue 8 May 1990

Another rummage in that box of old magazines in the spare room has yielded this May 1990 issue of Games Review.  As the title implies, it reviewed games, predominantly role playing games, as they were the big thing at the time, but also war games and early video games.  As an independent publication, it could cover all publishers' products, rather than being tied to one particular games publisher.  So in this issue, for instance, we get articles on new scenarios for TSR's Advanced Dundeons and Dragons and Chaosiun's Call of Cthulu and Stormbringer, for instance, while the war gaming items included reviews f a new module for Avalon Hill's Advanced Squad Leader and an over view of GDW's 'Europa' system of modular board war games which aimed to provide an operational level simulation covering the whole of World War Two.  There are also reviews of several science fiction board games, (which were also popular in the nineties) including O.G.R.E from Steve Jackson Games.

So far, this is the only issue of Games Review that I've turned up - but there are several more, larger boxes (crates, really) of stuff lurking under the base boards of the model railway.  While most of these are used for storing old issues of model railway magazines, there are three more, to which I currently have only limited access due to the arrangement of the base board's support legs, the nearest of which seems to mainly contain old issues of Interzone, a UK science fiction magazine I once subscribed to, plus a number of old comics and film magazines.  It is unclear exactly what is in the other ywo boxes, other than that they appear to be yet more magazines of some description - I'm afraid that it has been so long since I looked at any of them, I honestly don't recall their contents.Hopefully, as I continue my clear out of the spare room and start expanding the model railway, I'll get better access to them and see if they contain anything interesting.