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This book calls "Vortex Media Arts" the developer of BARIS.Google Books says it's in 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, but no preview and no indication of page number.
There seems to be something about Strategic Visions in this book (though they call it "Creative Vision"). Byte called it the Game of the Month sometime in 1993 (volume 18, one of the issues numbered 9-13). Seems like a short review here (I have no clue whether this is a book or a bound volume of periodicals): Luk, Ivan Golden, David M. There might be what's roughly a book review of the Companion here: Tobias, Russell R., ed. : External link in |conferenceurl= ( help) Unknown parameter |conferenceurl= ignored ( |conference-url= suggested) ( help) Though this seems like a lock for an article saying the AI is ridiculously difficult, he says at the end that you can play multiplayer if the game gets "too easy". He also commented that the game AI gets its funding with "no strings attached"- implying that the computer's funding doesn't depending prestige like a human player. A reviewer for The Age remarked that the game would be impossible without the nitty-gritty details on the game's mechanics specified in the manual. A superb strategy game, and a fascinating guide to the real space race". RACE INTO SPACE GUIDE PC
PC Gamer UK gave BARIS a 90/100, with the comments, "Atmospheric, entertaining and informative, with excellent footage - although the full-screen visuals do take some getting used to.Greensboro, North Carolina: Small System Services.
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(25 best 1993 computer hardware and software products)".
BARIS is listed in the "Other finalists" in the "Strategy" section of the "Compute Choice Awards" for 1993 ( Bixby, Robert (December 1993). 
However, I'd take this with a grain of salt a similar article in the same issue that mentions BARIS is just a buyer's guide.
BARIS was listed in the "Top 10 Strategy Games" in COMPUTE! the list wasn't numbered as far as I can tell, but it's at the 7th line from the top. about the critical reception of the game, followed by an attribution (hopefully in a citation template) for easy inclusion into the article when there's enough. Basically I think below should go a bulleted list of facts, sentences, etc. Well, I don't have quite enough info for a fully-fledged "Reception" section yet, but I'm gonna aggregate stuff here, and I hope others will assist until there is enough. M endaliv/ 2¢/ Δ's/ 17:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC) Reply Having just read parts of the BARIS Companion, pages 344-347, I feel extremely confident that the floppy release didn't come until early 1993, and that the CD-ROM release wasn't until sometime in 1994. Unfortunately, the CD-ROM's README wasn't nearly as helpful, nor does there appear to have been a press release announcing it. It might be a simple mistake (other websites have dates ranging from 1992 to 1995), the year that development finished and Strategic Visions sent the completed game to Interplay, or maybe an early projected release date seen in video game publications (I know Computer Gaming World had BARIS on the cover of its December 1992 issue).ġ994 is less certain for the CD-ROM release, but it's based on the article in COMPUTE! and the information on Amazon. I'm not sure where the 1992 release year came from. However, to corroborate this date, there's also an Interplay press release dated Apannouncing the game's release. 
The README shipped with the original floppy version (1.0) has Maas a dateline. I've changed the release dates in the article to correspond to what I've found in reliable sources.
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