Jerry Pournelle reviewed my 4X game Anacreon back in 1989:
He basically complained about all the bugs and usability problems with it for 90% of the review. But then:
"The game of the month is clearly Anacreon; despite its problems, it's playable and the flavor is good, much like Beam Piper's old Space Viking series. Also, the author is busily fixing bugs even as I write this. (I called him a few minutes ago and read him what I've said.)"
I remember Anacreon! I used to play that, and another Turbo Pascal game called BEGIN that was a sort of port of the Star Fleet Battles board game on my first PC clone that I got in the early 1990s aftet leaving the 8-bit world.
I have this stored locally, of course.
And re-bought one physical issue from 1981,
that defined computer interaction and programming
as we know it today. Say my name... :-)
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
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He basically complained about all the bugs and usability problems with it for 90% of the review. But then:
"The game of the month is clearly Anacreon; despite its problems, it's playable and the flavor is good, much like Beam Piper's old Space Viking series. Also, the author is busily fixing bugs even as I write this. (I called him a few minutes ago and read him what I've said.)"
Those were simpler days.
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Consumer/Archive-B...
Also on the Internet Archive (274 points, 2018, 111 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683184