SDL Sopwith

Below is part of an article by Bob Liddil published in 1988 in “Pico: The Magazine of Portable Computing”. It is a review of The SSB Portable Passtime [sic] Package that was distributed by The Programmer’s Guild. Sopwith was one of the games included in the package.

The article has been partially reconstructed from snippets on Google Books; in particular the screenshots are not original, but the text is accurate:

The same magazine also ran an ad for the same package, describing Sopwith as containing “violent missions of meaningless destruction”, where the player must destroy “quaint Bavarian villages” (?) including “schools and water towers” (????):

The following year Bob published another article in Portable 100 magazine about the same package. But wait! A quick search reveals that Bob Liddil was himself the founder of The Programmer’s Guild! Certainly an interesting coincidence, no doubt about that.