It’s true – reading computer magazines from the 90s, you do get the impression reviewers had a weird prejudice against shareware. Sometimes it’s more than an impression, and they outright say shareware isn’t worth reviewing.
It’s telling how many of people’s most fondly remembered DOS games are actually shareware.
(DOS Game club members excluded of course, with our encyclopedic and recent memory of the era!)
Good find though, pix! I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a contemporary review of Wolfenstein 3D
