RE: Compute!'s Gazette (November 1984)
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Man, the type in programs that were featured back in the day bring back so many memories for me. I loved this aspect of magazines. I even bought magazines for computers that I didn't own or have access to because the programming stuff was so interesting to me.
I preferred the 'choose your own adventure' style games from the type in sections. I would type their version in then go back and edit it to make my own game. My plan was to save it to disk and come back later when I had forgotten the solutions (I had no friends that were into this genre). Sadly, I don't think I ever went back and tried any out.
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It's not too late! At least if you can find the disks hanging out in a closet somewhere, lol.
I always wanted to create a turn-base stats based game. Ideally it would be web based and multiplayer. Sort of like an old BBS door game. A wargame or perhaps RPG of some kind. Later in life I even started writing one that had to do with fleets of spaceships wandering the galaxy and battling each other. Never finished though. I still have it somewhere but I'm sure that I've forgotten what I was doing to the point I would probably have to start over.
I don't know that I ever bough magazines for computers I didn't own but I did enjoy looking at the stuff for other computers in magazines that covered multiple types. For instance, when a Commodore 64 was my main computer I still loved looking at the Amiga and PC coverage in Commodore Magazine.