Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 210

udlovldeo Here are the absolute, absolute latest computer games By Steven Kosek rTT I nn was just two weeks ago that we ran our annual games roundup df in these pages, but real-time clock that ticks away onscreen as you race to complete your assignment Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum. Activision, $39.95 for the Commodore 64128; $49.95 for the IBM PC and Apple II. This fantasy role-playing adventure has long been available for the Apple II, but it's news all over again for Commodore 64 and IBM PC owners. The game lets you create a party of six adventurers and lead them into a three-dimensional landscape' where they'll cross oceans, climb mountains, explore dungeons and fight the gruesome inhabitants of Varn. In all, there are 50 areas to explore, with more than 13,000 locations.

An elaborate combat system includes 94 magic spells for use against the more than 200 monsters youll encounter in your quest for glory. somehow that event has had little effect on the flood of new computer games into my office. They just keep right on coming. So in the spirit of the holidays, here's yet another look at the absolute latest in electronic enter- tainment: Trust and Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot Mindscape, Apple Macintosh (512K. RAM required), $49.95.

This extremely engaging game created by Chris Crawford, author of the highly acclaimed Balance of Power, is one of the few computer games of recent vintage that I'd be willing to call innovative. It is a simulation of the society on Kira, the moon of a distant plan- et, where seven species live in a on a mission to stop the evil scientist Sludge Vohaul. If you fail, hordes of genetically engineered door-to-door salesman will descend on your planet and they won't take no for an answer. Demon Stalkers. Electronic Arts, $29.95, Commodore 64128.

This arcade adventure can be played by one person, but it also lets two players cooperate to explore more than 100 levels of dungeon mazes. Each level of the dungeon has different goals and different obstacles, which grow more complex and difficult as you make your way to the bottom. Search for magic scrolls, treasure chests, amulets and food. Destroy all ghosts, mages, rats and dervishes. When you reach the final level, you must battle Calvrak in a special arcade sequence.

The program also includes a construction set for creating your own dungeon levels. Have a question about home computing? Address it to Steven Kosek in care of Friday Audio-Video Section, The Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave, Chicago, I1L 60611, or contact him on CompuServe Questions of broadest general interest will be considered for future columns. rw mi a. um Daphne.

If you manage that feat, you can try your hand at Escape from Singe's Castle, in which you seek your fortune in gold and attempt to slay the Lizard King. Seventeen action scenes require you to swing on ropes over a fiery chasm, battle supernatural forces, dodge boulders and balls of ice, survive a swirling whirlpool and perform other feats of joystick magic. 'Border Zone. Infocom, $34.95 for Commodore 64128; $39.95 for Apple II, IBM PC and Macintosh. Written by Marc Blanc, the pioneer of text adventures who created Zork and Deadline, this interactive novel is divided into three "chapters." In each, you take the role of one of three main characters who become intertwined in an assassination plot: an American businessman, a CIA operative and a KGB agent Tension is heightened by a i i STOP IN FOR YOUR CiFT WITH THSS AO colony cut off from its mother world.

Lacking a common language, they must communicate in a telepathic language represented onscreen by various icons. Your role is to negotiate, gossip and collude with six other contenders for the role of Spiritual Shepherd. Dragon's Lair. Electronic Arts, $24.95, Commodore 64128. The original videodisc arcade game is now available in an adaptation that contains two adventures on a double-sided disk.

You play the hero, Dirk the Daring, in both. The first adventure, Dragon's Lair, calls for you to duel a fire-breathing dragon and rescue the kidnaped Princess SALE ENDS 122487 Eager 400 Day ANNIVERSARY nrv Wv IrLUvli FSE1 CO SKK Weerrwig Bran nrtelt tttmaa CPIH Space Quest II: Vohaul's Re venge. Sierra, $49.95, IBM PC. Chapter II ot sierra comic space opera features some of the best animated graphics to come out of this company. If you've got an Enhanced Display Adap ter (to A) or video graphics array (VGA) in your IBM PC or PS2, your screen will really shine as you take Roger Wilco AHTFTT PARK IMIRICft Three-week Introduce on to Computers can.

7-0 p.m. Mondaya, beginning Jan. 11; (60. Computer dase tar children ages 7-12. pm Mondays, bagnrtna Jan.

11: $80. OM W. Staama Banlatt. b7-S68. COMWIIM DISCOVERY CENTER: Introduction to tha IBM PC and Ctonea.

tm aaaaion cans, 0-9 p.m. Tuaadays, bagmnmg Tuaaday, Jan. 5, Fab. 64 p.m. Mondays, beginning Dac.

21: 6-0 p.m. Thmdaya, beginning Jan. 21, Fab. 16: (74. mtro-ducnon to Lotus 1-2-3, two aanlon data, 6-0 p.m.

Wadnaadays, bayfcMisiy. Wednssday, Fab. 6-0 pm Mondays, beginning Jan. 4. 16: Fab.

15; $74. Two aaaaion WordPerfect otasa. 6-0 p.m. Wadnaadays, begmnmo Dec. 23, Jan.

fl; 6-0 m. Tuaadays, beginning Jan. 10, Fab. 16; 6-0 pm Tnursdaya, beginning Fab. $60.

Ons aaaaion anrooucoon S3 tvws cana, uao. Jan. 27; Fab. 17; (64. Two aaaaion Inwimadaiia Lotua class, 6-0 p.m.

Thursdays, beginning Jan. 7: 6-0 pm Mondays, beginning Feb. $11 $104. 401 8. LaSaaan.

348-6120. MIDWEST COajPUTER AND CONtUW. KR EUCTRONICS SHOW: Sunday: Pheasant Run Resort Hwy. 64, 9 fnaaa waat of M. Hwy.

50 St. Chertes $4 MOWAIHE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: Taaxuiriffiunif aliona tor Via IBM PC dees, m. Sunday; 10900 a 60th Paioa IMa. $30. 371-22ia MUSEUM OP SCIENCE AND MOUSTRV! The av taracttva Imaga," prograrns tor ohadran and adults uamo state-of-Oia art oornpular tactmology and grapNce, 0:30 a.m.-4 m.

Monday-Frldey, 930 3 a.m. pm Saturday, Sunday: 671 Sreet and Laka 8hora Orwa. Free. Through Feb. 10.

684- 1 1414. NOWTHERSI EJJHCTS COMPUFER OOCEfrYl Apple H. MackMoah. IBM PCCompattDM and Amiga Computer Inter groups open maaaiig. 10 a.m.

Saturday; Chheaan Ubany Academy, SOS W. Euclid Artngton Heights. 382-6360. ROOSEVELT UMVERSTTY: kioducaon to Psrsonal Computers, one aaaaimi dase, 8 im4 m. Friday, Jan.

$175; eight week cans, pm Mondays, beginning Jan. p.m. Tuaadays, beginning Jen. am Wedneedeye. beginning Jan.

6: a.m. or pm Thuredays, begmrtrig Jan. pm Fridays, beginning Jan. a.m. Saturdays, beginning Jan.

0: two week dase, 0 a.m.-4 pm. Tuaadays. beginning Jan. tour weak dees, 1-4 p.m Wadnaadays, beginning Jan. 17: $195.

Introduction to dBaaa HI, eight weak cans, p.m. Wednesdays, beginning Jan. 6: $105: two weak dasa, 0 a.m-4 pm. Tuaadays, beginning Jan. 10: $105.

Computer Learning Canter, Albert A. Robtne Campus, 2121 S. GoaDbert Artogton Heights. 4374316 TANDY BUSaess USERS GROUP: Open meeting. 6 pm.

Wednesday; OM Warsaw, Harlem and Lawrence Avanuaa. Butfet-dleeuealon package, $15; legmiieun naceeeary. 285-4337. sand noSoaa of aaaajMaMsaatad avants la Cum pular Newa ki oare of Friday Audkt-VVJaa Sae-San, The Chicago Tttjune, 4)6 HL Mkragan At, CMoaga, K. 00611.

TVVCR OAK CABINET $9995 Reg $160 05 SPEC ECIAL PURCHASE a Aooomodataa up to most 27" talavlalona. a Adjustable VCR pull-out ahdl. Tempered thick giaea doors oover VCR 5 tapeatorege. a Easy aeeembly. QLENV1EW DOWNERS QROVE 380 WAUKEQAN R0.

900 OQDEN AVE. 729-4490 984-2200 Mort. a Fri. 0:304:30 Sal, 0-5. Sun.

124 DOWNTOWN CHICAGO 421-1138 Mon Otru Sat 8 to 4:30 "Choose from one ol Chicago areas Largest Selection of Electronic Furniture" M0KCAY5 TIL 9 THROUGH CHRISTMAS Smsi0Z MANTEL limned jf Authentic Black Form cuckoo CLOCK OuaWy Wm Unman OAK LAWN 6344 w. 95th Street 430-7020 Stop in to see QUARTZ jyZrrS. WALL (7. NWhl Silencer and -L3? Quantities ih 1502 N. DAYS SAMI AS CASH a- CIHS AVAILADLB Chicagoland's Number 1 Clock Sales CHICAGO'S ORIGINAL 17ZLL5 STEHHT CHISASO 75MSC0 and Service HEIGHTS PALATINE 1616 N.

Rand Road 359-5805 17, CLARENDON HILLS 431 Ogden Avenue 986-9210 QLENDALE 166 W. Army Iran noeo 351-6444 one of Chicagoland's largest collections of Music Boxes. KtJJJJ.