Winter: The Winter 1994-95 cover was very different from the rest, with a stark and ominous scene of a cemetery.
A freshly dug grave says "HACK TIC," in honor of the Dutch hacker zine that had just announced its final issue.
Other publications from editor Emmanuel Goldstein's past also appear with tombstones, including "REVELATIONS" (the name of an underground publication he and others started in high school), "KAL" with the rest not visible (for Kaleidoscope, the name of the official high school newspaper that Revelations had been created in opposition to), "STATESMAN" (the name of the official college newspaper at the State University of New York at Stony Brook), and "PRESS" (for the Stony Brook Press, an alternative paper that was formed at Stony Brook.
In the distance, a tombstone reads "BEN" (a nod to a popular zine of the time called Ben Is Dead).
There is also, of course, a tombstone with a question mark on it. (A bit of super trivia: a cover of the Revelations publication once had a very similar cover, also with a question mark tombstone.)
In the distance is what appears to be the Washington Monument, but it's actually a very similar structure known as the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The cows are a reference to the high-quality beef that the country was known for. (Argentina had just been the site of an historic hacker conference.)
Finally, we see another 2600 hot air balloon, this one naming our brand new Internet site: 2600.com.
We honestly don't know why people are jumping out of the balloon. The mini-cover is comprised of instructions for merchants to authorize an American Express credit card, complete with a toll-free number to call and what to do if they're suspicious of the customer.