From one of Electronic Arts' early 90s brochures - the EA Airforce!
I love seeing ads for Electronic Arts' short-lived Airforce branding for games such as Desert Strike, LHX, and F-22.
For those unacquainted, the Mega Drive/Sega Genesis had a surprising amount of flight simulation games ported or created for it. And Electronic Arts in its pre-evil years put out enough that they wanted a brand for it, ala EA Sports. They're one of my favourite things in the whole wide world for how much effort and heart they put into making flight sims work on a 3-button joypad console.
And so EA Airforce was born... and then pretty much vanished right away. But lasted long enough for ads so much like this of their time to appear!
I'm a big collector of mainly 80s-90s VG gaming magazines with a library of 500 or so of them. And some of my absolute favourites to go through are The One when it was still a multi-format magazine. And so, when I come across a review of one of my favourite point-and-click adventure games, it's a happy day.
The One wasn't especially thrilled with LOOM tho, awarding it only 80%. Their main critique? It's too easy and it feels more like a mildly interactive story than something you'll hammer away at the puzzles on for months.
I put up a first blog post in a series, as I look back at each Nintendo Power issue in order! For my own sanity I'm only committing to the first year for now, then we'll see how things go.