A NEWSFIELD PUBLICATION
No. 44 DECEMBER 1988
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STRIKE A LIGHT' A CASSETTE! IT MUST BE CHRISTMAS AND NO MISTAKE!
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BOMBUZAL THECUTESTPUZZLEGAMEAROUND NEBULUS
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THE WO R D Glad tidings of greatjoy for you and all Commodorekind
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MORE CAMBE AND WISE CHRISTMAS SPECIALS
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RE-RELEASE R O U N D U P
Old games at stocking-filler prices.
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S B O M B T H E
ZZAP! H A R D W A R I N G
Info on the add-onsthat Santa might be dropping down the chimneys of all the good little girls and boys
THE C A SU A L O BSERVER' S G UIDE TO Z Z AP/ VVERS Know as much about ZZAPI 's team of oddballs as they do themselves. A very short feature.
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Paully gets a magic telescope for Christmas and he and Gordy look back to the halcyon days of Issue 19_
BUDGET Rub the cream off your mince pies and take a gander at all this cheap gear.
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Paul Claus his way to the top of the bumper Christmas selection of maps, tips and POKES.
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Lloyd gets Santa load of Christmas mail.
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THE SCO RELO RD RO AST S HIS CHEST NUT S and brings you the highest scores
The where, where, where and where of all the playing tips ever printed in ZZAPI
around.
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We pay homage to the best and worst that six years of 64 software has to offer.
C L A S S I C CO IVIP T E R CO CK-UPS
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Mel Croucher reminds us that computers are 'Humbug!'
2 0 AL L - T IIVIE W O N D E R S • N • B L U N D E R S
THE CHUCK VO M I T CHRISTMAS SH O W
Who needs Perry Como and Val Doonican when you have a totally obnoxious troll to bring warmth to your fireside (by burning the rest of the house down)?
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WALKER'S WA Y
Martin 'Axe-Man' Walker remembers The
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CHRISTMAS COMPILOFAX
True Meaning of JSR $001F.
Bumper bundles of software to make the Christmas season go with a strange 'NYINKY NYINKY WEEE000P' sound
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A SPECIAL K I N D A CHAL L ENG E
RESULTS
ZZAPI turn their noses up at the Season of Goodwill and take on the reviewers of CRASH and THE GAMES MACHINE in a fight to the death (well, near enough as makes no difference).
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T E R Q U I Z The Bob Monkhouse of the software world, our very own Ken D Fish, presents a quiz to sort the tuna from the sprats. .6
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OUR CHRISTMAS OF D E A D G O O D GAMES Basically, it's the charts.
PREVIEWS •• T r i p - .
What you should save your Christmas money for.
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COMPETITIONS WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES
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Thalamus give away the original ARMALYTE artwork and loads of other stuff!
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KING KONIX KOMPETITION Klassy joysticks going to 20 klever kontestants.
102 BET T ER D E A D T H A N A LO SER Design an alien and win a copy of Electra's BETTER DEAD THAN ALIEN!
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ENTER THE BLOODBOWL Think logically and you could be in line for some RPG miniatures from Games Work-
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BOMBUZAL
Imageworks bring bomb-busting banana belly-laughs to your Bommodore e r modore
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NEBULUS Gold medal-winning Amiga conversion of the column climbing platformer.
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RO CKET R A N G ER
Save the world from Nazi domination in this sizzling Amiga Cinemaware game.
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CYBERNOID
Pull a Christmas cracker for the Amiga conversion of the 64 fab 'n t rif f shoot 'em up.
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I M P O S S I B L E M I S S I O N II
At last the classic platfor mer reaches the Amiga and proves just as addictive as it was on the 54.
Gremlin offer ten people a year's supply of Chewits (dentist bills not included).
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READY ASSAULTED CO MP Have a day out at an army assault course courtesy of Encore.
MERRY MAR222 TECH C H R I S T M A S C O M P If you can design a stocking which tops all others, you could take delivery of loads of Martech goodies.
Betelleiel L o e w e . s t riv it a immt a s t r O M laribirs 5 I 5 Iawl F Vlemoval 3 E Om d i t 'o r s : E v a n s Lloyd •paper bag Mangram Editorial assistant: l,rrolonne Vlcorm•;ContributMg Writers:. Mel Croucher, Jason Gold, Philip pa living. Martin Walker Pictography: Gano c i a 1 i Pound, Micnael Parkinson PRODUCTION VIZ Kim nov4 lAdlow, Shropshire SR Ng 1 6 1 4 515112/3 Art Director: Markle 'Dative' Kendrick Assisteet Ad A n d e r Wayne ' egs' Allen G o o r o n liongoilogorit sii?te • Digit Gn me s Prediction almoner: Jonathan 'Rob" Menai' Offload Director; Rogoi Ke-anDroop Advertisement Director Roger Bennett Moist soment M o w n Neil Dyson***whammed Issistants: Anwew i Smales, Sarah Daemon e g aAsobitant t i Jack o [krMoms n it 0584 46030514 515211AL OMB CONNKinsey SWISCRIPITONS Denise Roberts POBox 10, 1odiove, Shropshire, SYEt tDiSiypeset by the Tortoise Shell Pries nHLudl F tonsw h e r Ulm,s orthinnon by ond by CNN§ Web Offset Newton,: Trading Estele, Caddie Cornima 01271 i s Sont Studies. a Wave n tRoad Liorioion Ai Printed inCEngi JA1 r s ORING. Talesto0 Raga, Wes! Drayton, Middieser M e m od' M I S The i Edna'st decielon Is o MalIn allrmartin reining'toadiudicabonandwhileTouotterprimate good lark Weir/Ina thorntobe minable, somethingunthwarbhappemownacame tnathashamofferedasa nth* lEbowl i tshipped) ha om 1Rea m btheeright r tostubotehea o rwhoa of compatible t h wow e N E I P C C G r o u p wefemme K I ecarrui s pinToidence escoanbewtonlinei vintoblrtgard ttamup,m wino cawdrop Asian elduna aIlme ittI l.POOm10 address!,Noportonwhohas r lyog Mt competi W Dild h tionsIlioness a wise written m toyounotingINN phihantwon b aprateandItdoesn' y • no ratter ,Patzmaculaomaybe acrxucect C o s any prelaborielte, a t c h Now monk to Envois vita works toreithertheenitild orany at thecomponentottering ra n , mayentertineCe ow contortions. w i r x in *tole watioal the larMan cosmic/ the capyrmal- Wawa We cannot u o s Yn nn! b1 w 6 I tO f striped alid'eZal a n - p v io Awage rrrorra*.sa4ea t u e d, a r' t § i t i n ; s e t ndsae r tea k t r s a e n thepefoe s o o o•a 4 n0 r a l tM e lni n 5s o t n i m i4 l c 7t L t JULY - DEC 1967 '- a I r s W am i dt t ie n n g IMO E L M z a r e owp n on n t i w b O .l Uttgort I t ile i t I t hh o l o g r a l hah3 IMP a N. . fiaRWO sn f e a a C p • • • • 0 0 l , n K L i 4 0 v i D g g a p l u c C O V E R D E S I G N Liuutroande or elietil FRET A NE WS FI E LD P UBLI CATI O N t h e tm ' a mF a at el n . m, t e p 1 4 4 u b l i s h e C a t a i r 9 r d w a r D Pd n l ai I e t s r w esw s il t 77AP! Christmas Special1988 c or s W i I e Ln a P a tmg C * e sO s l t nN a RIud e p r a Vy a u c r w n • . ee g r da M a i n1 u v l J s tsi d e
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FIND THE FISH Christmas has come early this year advertising won't be so hot next month so this is THE RIG ONE for 1988. We hope you like it (cue diabolical laughter). Meanwhile, put your big fleshy fins together, if you will, for the last of the additions to our staff No less a celebrity than the famous Ken D. Fish has agreed to make occasional contributions to these greasy and stain-smudged pages. 'Just who is Ken the Fish?' I hear you ask. Well, if you turn to pages 176 or 191, you'll find out soon enough. He's going to become something of a regular on the Results page, and he may take on one or two other projects if the workload gets too heavy for the rest of us. Other news this month is that we've been moved right to the top of ZZAP! Towers. We can now see perfectly over rows of ancient ludlovian houses to the fields and cows beyond. In fact, on a clear day from my window I can just about see the bridge under which Chuck Vomit lives. At the same time pigs are flying over the man in the moon and sprinkling him with faery dust. If you look at the Hopper Copper review on page 48, you may notice that the Overall rating has been missed out. Due GAMES REVIEWED 1043 "WO L F AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS BATTLE ISLAND BOMBUZAL (GM) BUBBLE GHOST CAPTAIN BLOOD CAULDRON CAULDRON CHEAPSKATE COMBAT LYNX COMMANDO CORRUPTION CRASH GARRETT (Amigo) CYBERNOID (Amiga)(S) DRILLER (Amigo)
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FIFTH GEAR FIGHTER PILOT FINAL ASSAULT FISH (Amiga) (51 ELISION (Arrago) THEGAMES- SUMMER EDITION GHOSTS 'N' GOBLINS HOPPERCOPPER IMPOSSIBLEMISSION II (Amiga) (5) iNGR1O'SBACK (Amiga) (S) JOEBLADE LEADERIOARD LIGHTFORCE MAJOR MOTION (Amiga)
A This is a photo of (delete where approphete): 1) An imbecile who shouldn't have been let in 3 2: God A Fi sh lovers everywhere will sympathise with K en as he tries to fle e the g ra sp o f a n u n d e rwa t e r a ssa ssin
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• OVERALL 30' • Budding policemen (and ) everyone else) steer clear. • Illionsommommolomul That's better. Anyway, that's just /0 about it1 for this moon cycle. Keep your eyes peeled for those 7 Sizzlers and 2 Gold Medals we've had a brilliant time reviewing this month, I can tell
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A Yes, readers, here he is The one, the only, the office photogr aphictype man, Caaaaameron Pound. Give U5 a smile next time, will you
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Gordon Houghton MENACE (Amiga ) MOTORBIKE MADNESS (Amiga) NATO ASSAULT NEBULUS (Amigo) (GM ) OVERLANDER PANZER STRIKE PEPSI M AD M I X CHALLENGE PETER BEARDSLEY'S INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL POOL OF RADIANCE POWERPLAY POWER PYRAMIDS PRO SKATEBOARD SIMULATOR PRO Ski SIMULATOR PSI-OR010 PULSE WARRIOR PURPLE HEART THE RACE AGAINST TIME REVENGE 2 (Amiga ) ROCKET RANGER (Amiga ) (S) THE SACRED ARMOUR OF ANTIRIAD SAVAGE SCORPION SHOCKWAY PADER SLAYER (SM ) STAR GOOSE (Amiga )
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A Yes, It's one of those pictures again. In their own small-funded way, the ZZAPlteam attempt to wish you all a Merry Christmas. If only it wasn't November.
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CO W'R I L ) BIG BRONX BILLY BAG OF FUN Right, listen 'ere you lot. This is the very first news piece in this festive month, s o y o u ' d b e t t e r p a y attention, OK? Here goes: Those extremely nice people at The Big Apple - a tab 'n' triff new company who we told you about, 000h, AGES ago now - have got this lii o l' cute character called Bronx Billy. Clear so far? Good. The brill thing about him is that, when you join his gang ('The Bronx Billy Club') you get your very own membership pack, including a c a r d a n d membership no., the opportunity of saving tokens for gifts 'n' goodies from a catalogue, a badge and free entry to newsletter comps. Loads more •ndescribably wo n d e rf u l things a wa it wh ic h a r e t o o wonderful t o b e adequately described by mere staff writers and editors.
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M U N C H I N G LOTS OF PEOPLE AND N O T MINDING
This is more like it! Mu c h more fun be ing a nasty 'orrible Che w i ts mons te r, w a nde r i ng a r ound e a ti ng innoc e nt citizens. By the way, in case you're Interested at this the re ! poi nt, the r e s a Chewits c omp on pa ge 163, so Me a nwhile , ba c k i n th e city me na c e d by bi g te e th and gre a t smelly liza rd-fe e t, is the ga me based on this ma ligne d c r e a tu r e : T h e M u n c h e r f r o m G r e m l i n Graphics. He 's a pr e tty heartless beast, te a ri ng dow n towns and terrorising tiny tots, but at the heart of it all he's very m uc h a mis unde rs tood mons te r. I me a n, i f you're fa v ourite food was humans a nd y our fa v ourite pastime was demolishing skyscraper, w ha t w oul d y ou do?Come on, wha t? I'm sorry, but it just had to be said. All Friends of Innoc e nt Ra mpa ging Mons te rs (FIRM) should check out the ga me this very m onth!
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You might think tha t the screenshot accompanying this piece is a bit tasty - and you'd be right: it was very tasty. But tha t's beside the poi nt - i f you've already read the Amiga previews, you may k now tha t Iron Lord from LIN Soft stars you as an ex-Crusader come home to find his home la nd ravaged a lot. Y ou must the n prove your bi rthri ght through a rm-wre s tling, archery a nd s wordplay in a w orl d whose a ttitude s are a bout as medieval as dw a rf-fondl i ng. We 'l l tell y ou s ome thing, though the preview version tha t we saw look e d a bi t good_
GUNNING DOWN LOTS OF PEOPLE AND NOT MINDING
is a very sick way of behaving so w h y convert t h is kin d o f behaviour to a computer? Oh well, one of the great mysteries in this nasty old world of ours. If you're into the simulation of that kind of thing, two games from Actionware (sounds like a make of leather gear . ) will be just the ticket and fi t the bill
nicely. P O W involves gunning down lots of peopleand not minding and Capone is, well, more or less the same thing. And that's all there is to it - so you're expecting something fine and dandy and hunky dory with lots of candy and a wonderful story, forget it.
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O U R TYPE OF AFTERBURNER Yes, it's witty title time again (we ll, w e thought it was witty, a nd if you di dn't y ou can just go a nd stick your head down the toile t I) as we introduce those tw o mega coin-op c onv e rs i ons f r o m E l e c tr i c D r e a m s a n d Activision: R-Type a nd Afte rburne r. Hoor a h!
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2 1 diskes. in the land of : 1 1•••••1 4Meanwhile,j back 3rairat.. supersonic e t m a c hi nts , e•• Afterburner (frrrom Activision) ,7 x2iit, places you in the COCKpit (sorry about V that typing error) of a quite fast plane. Zooming along over loads of. different landscapes (a ll i n glorious 3 D) you're objective is toMw e l l . , , fly around and blow seven shades of fairy dust out of ' is r ." Te 7 t quite fast planes. All in all, the other . arcade machine was, well, quite fast. - the conversion live up to rt? Will acquisition of a remote probe that's Can o 4 .4 1 1 Captain Cheese Save The World from really hard and really useful. Prices? e w you'll pay L9,99 Well, on ye olde the evil Dr Deep-pan? Why are you 1 casset on ye newe asking e tes and £4.99 l us wa it for the full review' * r n ALTERNATIVE PAT : t s Further to the wowee that , z Alternative o o m ' are the (in their own words)'lio. house in the c n w 1 software s(eh?) comes openemarket' word of one of their Christmas releases the evencuddly postie with the large and curiously s ha pe d nos e , accompanied by his nor et bianc feline accoutrement_ In other words, one of Go'don's favourite TV heroes is about to hit, your monitors with the force of something hitting your monitor with 9reatforce. Will it be a pat oh -newsasand when': the b a c k ?
Let's get this right, shall we. I don't want to findrnyself explaining Againk Again again What do you mean't you're tuntused - we haven't even started yet. Look, to make it easier we'll go from t h e beginning again. A9ain Again is a new full-price label, sister to the Alternative Software budget range. It kicks off for the first time (and not again at all because Again
Ayain haven't released anon, ng yet though they probably will again) with a game based on everyone's favhuritefamily of Vampires. You've guessed it T h e Munster& Eddie, Granpa, i nnly d arcadegame Herman are about to star in the which deals with the goings-on in a totally normal, sane and absolutely healthy family. A n d the - pri E 9 9 9 (64, £24.99 Amiga. tha t's i t r e a l l y . O h y e a h ,
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GREAT STEAMING BARBARIANS! Well, it just goes to show, doesn't it news has just reached us that the Gold Medal winning Barbarian went straight in at number one in the Gallup and Microdealer charts. Didn't we tell you it was good? Anyway, further to this info is the brilliant news that the game is to be
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converted to the Amiga a version of which ,s already underway. Drool over those graphics! Hack and slay those monsters!Pay lots of money to Gordon and not care! Watch this very magazine f o r a review s00000n! ( c u e barbarian-like laughter),
Two bouncy new 6 4 promotion packs are going to be available this Christmas - but then, if you've got a M already, you won't want to know that, will you? OK then, smarty pants, wander off and make a cup of coffee whilst we tell prospective owners what they want to know. The Hollywood Pack (1149) will
feature te n Ocean and Domark games from the big and Atte screens, w h i l s t t h e Fa m i l y Entertainment Pact (cringe!) boasts more of a musical t ilt - and it's also
50 more expensive at 1199. Will the 64 survive for another year or will it be a big flop? The buying public will decide
THALAMUS ON THE AMIGA! Us lot down here have come 'tea' t e flabbergastingly a m a z i n g conclusion tha t Thalamus have produced some excellent garres Absolutely, yes siree. no doubt aboir it they certainly have But, and this is a big BUT (see), none of them have been available on 15-bit before. Now, as an extralpecial treat (and just in time for Christmas as well)
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And nasty things they are, too - we steep on tnem all the time, never m i l a, tri,s liberal wishy-washy putt leg the bugs out of the window, dear. Anyway, those e v e r •so- cuddly cuties at Telecomsoft (again) are about to release the Amiga version (to you, sft, I24 99,1 of a bug-bashing, artio•grinding, b e e t le -cra ckin g game w hid,, from the versions we've seen, looks a little bit brill. So does WeitdDreams -which we saw at the PCShow - but that's another story, for which we have no screenshot. Sony, but that% life, isn't it?
OFT WARE 11 " A CI R C U S Whoopee' Thneto tic eak your piggy
banks, raid the bottom o f your stocking, beg, steal o r b o rro w beca usethe cirr ushas come to town_ And there won't tie a smelly cage, death-defying trapeze artist or tigertrainer in sight Look, we didn't mean a proper circus with a big top, a man in a peculiar hat and all the rest of that stuff, what we meant was a shabcalled Software Circus. It's just opened in Oxford Street in London, see, and Is going to sell vast amounts of leisure and business software. Not that the boss, Steve Markham is content to stop f t it e I n fact, he wants to set up a whole string of shops all round the country within the next few years. Didn't knowthat, did you?. , , somebody throttle the smart alec at the back.
WIDE UNDERPANTS Yesfolks, it's time for the superhero underpants joke again. So who's the lucky guy this time - Superman. Captain A me rica , Sp id e rma n , Ca tarn Marve!? it's the man wit h t h e mi l e sidekick and the swishy silk p e himself - none other th B a t m a n , a dude who gets re y for action so fast that he only has time to wear his underpants has to defend himself is a Batarang outside his keks. Ho ho. DC Comic's and a magic b e l t . Will the famous crime-fighter returns in a baddies win through? Will Batman die? Will Robin come to the rescue totally new Batman game f ro m Ocean. and save the world with his magic This time it consists of a main core sidekick's ut!lity belt? These and program from which a series of other crucial c i stions w i l l b e stonin are loaded separately. Those a n s w e r e d o r • • •' ell, when the game comes It'll cost you everso nasty guys, Joker and Penguin are determinddto wipe our hip and t h o u g h . f 9.95 a n t 14.99 on the 64 frocdy hero off the face of Gotham a n d £24.95 o n the Amiga. Holy City's underworld and all Batman b a lo n e y,
HIGH FLYING JAPES Let's get the price out of the way first: fl it . % cassette, £19.95 disk. What are we talking about? Why, Stanley, I thought you'd never ask! Digital integration, purrrveyors of such p rrristin e p rrro d u cts a s
Tomahawk, are about to release yer average combat sim based on the F16 fighter. Called (guess what?) F16 Combat Pilot, it will feature loadsa scrambling, desperate dogfights and tank busting. Fab, eh?
WIN TICKETS FOR THE ALTON TOWERS CHRISTMAS SHOW!! (W0000H!) Tha t very nice man, Mr Leslie B under from Audiogenic. (' he's a v e ry nic e m a n ') ( ' a v e ry v e ry nic e m a n ') is offe ri ng thre e free pairs o f tickets to the Alton Towers Christmas show to you lucky lucky ZZAP! readers. What do you have to do? Well, it's like this. Flip back to page 101 of last issue's ZZAPI and you'll see the Hefter Skelter review for the Amiga. A fab game if ever there was such a thing. Anyway, w h a t Audiogenic want you to do is to design a 1Hefter Skelter screen, using most 1of the game elements - and the
best three screen desi9ns reward their bijou artist-ettes with these ace tickets. Get them in quickly to the usual address, because the show closes on 23rd of December - and if you miss that, you'll be missing out on such exciting things as a trip to Santa and his Elves. Oh well
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KING OF THE WILD E R Billed as 'the i t i v e science fantasy', T e l e f e s Am i ga Frontier sets you ' a space opera in the classic tradition of Asimov and Heinlein, colossal in its breadth and scale'. Hold on - I think it's about time we stopped quoting directly from their brochure, don't you? That's better, Anyway, it's one of those 'entire solar system' (cops!) games, where pirate craft roam the void between planets, moons and space stations and where you've got to carve out your own destiny in the usual manner fie blast, maim or trade). I t's yer usual seething, bustling universe and universeslike that don't come cheap: E24.99 and available in Decembs • k
Coining soon to a monitor (that'sthe screen, not the lizard) near you is the Amiga version of Puffy's Saga from Ubi Soft. It's hailed as an arcade style strategy ga me w i t h addictive gameplay a n d t w o irresistable characters: Puffy (a boy-blob) and Putlyn (a girl-blob). Trapped in a Gauntlet-style world y o u fa c e numerous enemies in an attempt to escape, includingft duster of really big dragons with pointy teeth. The demo we sawwas quite cute but . well y o u ' l l just have to wait for Our review. As predicted by our resident pa pe r straw himself (PG), Palace w i l l b e releasing t h e Am i ga v e rs ion o f the i r S hoot 'Em U p Cons truc tion Ki t pre tty da m n soon. So soon, i n fa c t, th a t we 'v e even ma na ge d to steal I mean, borrow , some screenshots for you. For a ny one w h o c a n't te ll th e diffe re nc e be tw e e n the m and a pterodactyl called He rma n, they're pictures of two diffe re nt editors. One lets you design your sprite a nd the othe r allows you to join a series of sprite frames to9 e the r for a ni ma ti on in y our game. Is this hot s tuff or is this hot s tuff? Er o t h e r de v e l opme nts a t Palace s urround a certain C o s m i c w - i th loads 'n' loadsaoptions (urghl). Appa re ntly to ge t a ny whe re a s a ga ngs te r i n t h e 2 1 s t c e ntur y a n d Pira te — a arch criminal orga nis a tion, The Council, convince the tha t you're d e a d any good, you have to pre tty good at w ha t you you have a go on a lots of simulators c odo.mAspa result l to build up your skill. The one pictured on this page is c na ast the e Disasterolds d ki now and is supposed to build up your s hooting accuracy. Hm m s o r o f g m
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The second game in this bijou preview-ette s Artura, a cool and froody game which catapults you back in time t o a world where chivalry is THE code of conduct. You are Artura, son of Pendragon, and you've got to rescue Nimue from the clutches o f y o u r half-sister, Morgause. Yep, we're talking fifthcentury Anglo-Franco Arthurian legend. here. Standing in the way of your q u e st a r e su ch frie n d ly creatures a s giant rats, spiders, soldiers and ghouls - so you'd better take along your plastic reinforced deodorised kecks
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Z Z A P ! M E G ATA P E Hello, mum, OK. that's the introductions over with. now down to business. This months cassette features (as if you didn't know already) ThunderNado and Mad Mit. That's it: probably one of the most popular arcade game conversions this year and a free playable demo of the Pepsi game itself on the other side, That's it may. Load it up and check it out.
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FIVE FIST FULLS 0 S varied and as a r r eare a ever hours before a crucial lund-raising T h e most realistic football game ever produced for UAs collection of unique game to save the ground from grasping y o u r computer. play in °lull-scale eleven-a-side Psporting events os you property developers. time isrunning out f o o t b a l l game complete with sliding tackles, ey you got o or player-manager Roy Race MUSI r likely to lind.Vlave E dodging escaping d r e a d e d referee with his red card. good enough e to be o 'cot ehis s team-mates, cue t h r o danger, w the nerve to attempt ombushes and boobyirops in order to W i t h all these features to watch out for will you .she; R i playn the s , the 'devil dive' ; the strength most Important game of his c to 'smash stoles.; the accurat caCBM o r n e r s , r e b41128 e r % E 9h . 9a9 cassette v e E l 4 . 9 9 disk Engla nd' s top striker in Gary Linekerts Hot Shot. S to shoot the 'cross bow' are gwAMSIRAD l a*, E 4 . 9 9 (14, C A M 64/126 1E9 .99 cassette E I 4..99 disk ho aE9a t.99 com ancl unbelievably%) P finaliyph kI i t c k s trium ' 0'4 u nerdane r w a t i AMIGA E 1 9 . 9 9 disk IB M PC E I 9 . 9 9 osik O ,t assault course' .Up to i our a k e s con compete in di ft o o u l R pioyers outrageous challongel sm a t c h I at hn e S ds h o o t side 100tb°11 team have been k i d fl ° 9 "
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alien r a c e s w e r e mo n i t o r i n g earth's c o mp u t e r g a m e s a n d wished t o inv ade and t ak e ov er before t h e g a me s h a d l e a r n t enough t o r e p e l a n y at t ac k s . Before Morlok had any chance to get any further explanations from him, Darwin hurriedly left, leaving Morlok to ponder the relevance of their discussion.
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When I saw this on the ST. I didn't think that it would wor k at all on the 8-bit machines, but I must admit to bei ng rather surprised at how well it has actually travelled across. It's not quite up to the standard of the 16-bi t version, but you can't really expect it to be, can you? There is a fair amount of data pulled from disk, so I can see tape users feeling fairly crippled by this. I did find some bits qui te boring, however , and got qui te frustrated when one alien kept saying 'GO PLANET - FREE BRAI N SPIRIT'. What the hell is that supposed to mean? It coul d be a str ange Fr ench to English translation, I suppose, but it's hardly helpful. Despite the fact that the programmers have made quite a good conversion, the game still isn't that great. A s earing pain c ut t hrough h i s brain as he changed from an initial computer c reat ion t o a s uperintelligent being. At that moment he recognised that he had become his own game character. He had
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Noticing an attack pattern on his scanner, he used the hyperspace to escape. Howev er, this caused 30 clones of himself to be created and scattered over the galaxy. The creation of these clones s apped vital fluids from Bloods body Guess what ? Thes e clones must be f o u n d . . .
You take the part of Blood after he has found 25 clones: five more have to be reached before he dies. You mus t search the galaxy and talk t o t he inhabitants of various planets to find clues to the whereabouts o f t he remaining clones. Some aliens may be helpful, some may be hostile, but you should be able to discover which is which by use of a set of icons which may be used t o interpret mos t alien languages. But c hoos e y our words carefully, o r t he s earc h f o r t he clones may bec ome i m m a t e rial!
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I realty fancy a Galaxy (- Ed)
Four days after. Morlok had an idea. He would program an exact simulation of the situation in order to try and discover a solution t o the problem. After weeks of c oding and data testing, the program was ready to be run. Suddenly, as Morlok tentatively typed in t he c ommand, h e v anished. Moment s later he found himself sitting i n a p a d d e d c o mma n d chair, wrapped up like a mummy. I suppose it's the concept o f t hi s that gr abs m e but I t hi nk i t ' s pretty good! O f course y ou c a n' t ha v e t h e speed of the 16-bit machi neseither vector graphically or in terms of di sk-access- but this has certainly managed to capture t he fl a v our o f i t s b i g brother ver si ons. T h e l a n guage pr obl ems don't bother me much - just look on it as an alien e nv i r onm e nt w h e r e translation is never per fect (it also adds a puzzle-solving element) a n d y ou' r e i n t o t h e atmosphere of the game. But be careful, Captain Blood is an acquired t a s t e - a n d I ' d definitely r ecommend you try the cassette ver si on be f or e you buy, because I don't hol d out much hope for the l oadi ng system.
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PRESENTATION 68% A novel communication system, but a poor loading method
GRAPHICS 70%
The 3D sections are nippy enough and the ship interior is quite nice, but it does look a bit drab.
SOUND 31% Poor effects arid an abysmal JM Jane working on the title screen.
HookAsurry52%
Ifs really hard to get into.
LASTABILITY 79% If you manage to get into ii. it will take you a while to search out all the clones.
OVERALL 77% Not a bad game at all, considering, but it could have been better.
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BOMBUZAL Imageworks, £9.99 cassette, E12.99 disk •Superb 'n' cute puzzling action in Crowther's latest game
( Yeah? Like who, Mart? - Ea). I Oh, yes indeedy I do. But they kdon't live on platforms and they ndon't c a r r y b o mb s , S o . . well. .. I don't know why I said o in the first place. Oh, yes I do! that w Bombuzal Is round. Well roundish. But he lives on platforms and a carries bombs. He also sets them f That's his lob you see, setting off. off bombs_ L e t m e e xp la in e further. w Bombuzal lives in a strange land r another dimension A land of in platforms and bombs. The inhabito ants o f this strange dimension u n d p e o p l e
would b e much happier if their lives weren't plagued by bombs going off left, right and centre, so someone must get rid of them all. There is only one person up to the lob • Y O U game you play the part of o h . ,never mind. W e l l , y o u s e e , i n t h e
The pesky bombs come in three
sizes: small, medium and large (what a surprise) each with its own explosion area. Various amounts of these bombs a re scattered
A Oh, the problems of being a cutesy fur-ball In a 30 puzzle environment - you've always got to be careful where you tread next
haven't played a really good puzzle game since Tetris, so
I was looking forward to something appearing q u ite soon. Power P y r a mi d s ( r e v i e w e d elsewhere i n t he s e pa ge s )
failed to fi t the b ill but Bombuzal certainly has! it's great! The graphics are very neat and have an incredible 'cute' quality to them wi thout confusi ng the puz z l es at all. The levels start out qui te easy but soon get really difficult, wi th some unbelievably de v i ous b o m b patterns. One of the signs that this is a good puzzle game is when you hear peopl e shout 'Aw, that's not fair o h hang on A H ! I see!' then
quickly start a new game with their new knowledge of bomb disposal. I'd say that Bombuzal A Kyoto o
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W Is! O l d T o n e Cr owther has c o m e u p tr umps a ga i n h with o n e o f t he cutest a nd a most pl ayabl e puz z l e games ton the 64. The presentation is a excellent with a choice of a 2D 'or n 3D perspective and a code wor o d system so you don't have to star t fr om level one after r dying on level 119 out of 120. iThe bomb structures are very g well t hought o u t a nd tr i cky with it, making you try time and i again until you've got it right. n To be honest. I can't see many a people t hr ow i ng t he i r j oysl ticks dow n a nd sayi ng 'stuff that'. I rather think that they'll i be d sayi ng 'wel l , i f that di dn't work, m a y be thi s A f t e r e the somewhat average Fernana Mus t Die, Tony Cr o wt h e r dez and Davi d Bi shop have gi ven t us a real gem. Well done lads! h i s
A The 30 version raawwww. isn't he cute? around small clusters of platforms which are now deserted because of the hazardous conditions the bombs create. To clear a sector. all the bombs on the platforms must be blown up. wi thout you going up with them or falling off the platforms This may sound easy enough but you've got t o remember to take into account bom b chai n reactions, col l apsi ng pl atfor ms and icy fleOrS. Certain bombs can only be detonated by making very Clever use of chain reactions and the occasional tracks In the floor which allow you to move a bomb into a better position. Different platforms have different features and tiles (see Tiles box) flow they're positioned dictates the strategy required
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direction D I S 0P 1I moved e ttovTe o TILE - bombs en these cab be MN . 0 „ A s 3tocexplode or ne a in the r e tiz e s , M us t be IN printed NE TE LEon point P OR the T levet - transports you los specifi c ER -ds form paHtte- etooc t S WITC e s t a change in the P lateh to oo /nine nt Gets clestroyed on de tone ttng a bomb Or es ty eo su wo hf ef ni ippee! Yoohoo! Weyhey! Yeeha! I'm just doing a celebrattn ory jig ar ound the office because Bombuzal has got to be oa my favourite game of the month. Iurmean, it's rare enough to find a puzzle game in the first place, caWhen you get hold of one as absor bi ng and cleverly desi gnedhnas this - well, you've just got d to celebrate. Ther e are so many edifferent features that (unless do you've got an attenti on span of munder two milliseconds) it's
totally impossible to get bored. The puzzles get incredibly devious the further you go and as you've got two sets of dimensions in which to play, if you over do make it through to the end of the game in 2D, you can start all over again in 3. Using the password system, you just keep on playing from the point at which you left off. If you're thinking of treating yourself to a really unusual game over Christmas, get Bombuzal - it's cute, cuddl y and absolutely brill!
PRESENTATION 96% Good intro, useful options and tidy layout. Code word system, two different perspectives, loads of neat touches. Get the message?
GRAPHICS 79% Cute, but not brilliant. They do portray the action nicely, though.
SOUND 71% An adequate tune and some decent spot effects. The speech is a tad rough, NA really adds to the atmosphere.
HOOKAMMY 97% The first levels are just simple enough to grab you instantly
LASTABILITY 98% Loadsascreens mean that you'll be kept playing for just ages.
OVERALL 9 7% The cutest puzzle game on the 64 and it's really addictive as well!
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PURPLE HEART CHI_ £9.95 cassette, £14.95 disk buddy. Cobra, hav e been S through a l o t t oget her . tThey've experienced every foreign war in the last 15 years, but now r they've been sent on their toughi est mis s ion yet. Their orders: t o k make their way through enemy tere ritory wit h one thought in mind elimination r of all enemy personnel. a n d h I 'm r e a l l y s u r i prised. Th i s ma y be t he best CAL s game s i n c e Ta u a Ceti. U n f o r t u lnately that's no gr eat complie ment in itself, but, no, honestly, this a isn't too bad at all. In fact i t s q u i t e a r e a s o n a b l e lk an r Warriors c lone - wit hout quit e m muc h action, but wit h a f ew so y extra bit s . Th e t wo play er Option a d d s t o t h e f un, b u t does s u f f e r f r o m s t r a n g e screen res t ric t ions , p r e v e n t ing the play ers f rom being t oo far apart . Purple Heart is wort h a look but it would have been bet t er at a budget price.
Purple H e a r t i s mu r d e r o u s action for one or two players, each taking control of Striker or Cobra and t heir itchy t rigger fi ngers as they stalk t he scrolling warzones. A f r i e n d l y Quart ermas t er h a s already passed through and dropped weapons for the boys to use rapid fi re mac hine guns , p u mp action double-barrelled shot guns, flame t hrowers and rocket laun-
I don' t really s hare Paul's mild ent hus ias m f or this product, but I have to agr ee that it isn't down to CRL's standar ds o f l ate. The Commando-esque action is reasonably good fun for a while and the extra weapons are handy, but they di dn't allow me to exercise my destructive ur ges to their fullest. Why can't you blow up the j eeps wi th the r ocket launcher, or even bur n the foliage wi th the flame thr ower ? The gr aphi cs and sound ar e reasonable, but I'd have to have had a lobotomy to spend El 0 on Purple Heart when I could get !kw Warriors on compilation for a couple of quid more.
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•'•ESENTATION 68% Impressive cinematic opening credits and introductory sequence, but you have to sit through a multiload to see it. Two player Option is OK
GRAPHICS 60% A little rough in places but they ScIfVe their purpose well enough
SOUND 59%
Reasonable effects and soundtrack
HOOKABILITY 68% Simple-minded blasting is easy to grasp
LASINIILITY 63% Only six levels but it'll take a lot of playing to get through them.
OVERALL 58% A t it h mm, one or two teensy tad-ettes ' wort h of Commando ov ertone here
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FINAL ASSAULT Epyx/infogrames, £9.99 cassette. £14.99 disk vidual w h o t hink s t h a t roc k 111 f you're the kind of ignorant indic limbing is walking up the stairs to a sweet shop in Brighton, you're in f o r a bit o f a surprise, Final Assault has you going on training sessions a n d c hoos ing c ours es before you've had a chance to say 'a quarter of smarties' please, missus.
Whichever of the two totally different surfaces (ice or rock) you're on, it helps if you've packed your rucksack - bec aus e i f y ou' r e stranded on a roc k face wit hout your t hermos y ou . well. , y ou won't be able to have any tea and if you don't get any tea you die of thirst and tall off, Nasty, that,
Aargh! Talk about tedious! Only a few minutes into trying to fathom the mysteries of Final Assault I was beginning t o f all as leep. St anding o n s ame roc k ledge for half an hour with no sign of as much activity as you'd find in a goldfish bowl (Oil - Ken) is not my idea of fun at all. Even in the training section you make such slow progress that any initial interest quickly turns into a manic desire to switch off your monitor and go and do something a lot less bor i ng instead. Biting your nails for example. Maybe rock climbing fanaticsdoubts. mi ght find a bit mor e to admire but I have my doubts. Serious
ON 75% Three possible courses. trainin option and slightly awkward ic
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GRAPHICS 49% Mostly functional with few details.
SOUND 55% Tuneful title theme, basic in. game effects.
Hoommarry40% Unhelpful instructions and overt difficult training option don't encourage play.
LASTABILITY 37% Might be rewarding persevere . I f y obut u ifs doubtful that anyone will last that long. r e a l l y
OVERALL 41%
A competent, but very tedious. version of a sport that doesn't really work as a aim.
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THE PEPSI CHALLENGE MAD MIX GAME US Gold, £7.99 cassette, £11.99 disk turn him red and allow him to kill monsters, a n d magic tiles whic h turn him int o a big fat editor. No, no' I mean hippo (phew). Then he can walk down one-way paths the wrong w a y a n d s p l a t ghos t s . Gates can only be passed one way in any state and gun lanes allow Mad Mix to blast enemies off the grid.
mad? Who gives a CanaW dian monk seal? Not us hthat's for sure! Well, whoever he is, ohe's round and runs around mazes eating dots and avoiding ghos t s i which are trying to kill him (no wonsder he's mad!). M Sometimes he finds things that iare useful, like power dots whic h x ? I'm all for a bit of W nostalgia e v e r y h now and then, but y it's o n l y w o r t h i getting nostal gi c s about somethi ng t h a t c a p h tures t he r i ght atmospher e. e Now I don't mind PacMan at all, in fact I used to play it a lot in the arcades, but Mad Mix is a poor r ehash o f t he Pacman theme a nd doe s n' t c a pt ur e any of the atmospher e of the original game. i t tries t o add excitement with a few new features, but i t's still not ther e. The gr aphi cs ar e smal l a nd blocky, the sound is weak and the gamepiay is bor i ng. What more can I say?
PRESENTATION 31% Frustrating delays and very little to create any atmosphere.
GRAPHICS 35% Piddly sprites and dull backgrounds don't help. either.
SOUND 41% A grating tune and several pinging effects.
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Ever since Tai to rejuvenated Breakout and turned it into Arkanoid, game designers have been trying all sorts of things to jazz up old games. Topo Soft have tried to do the same in Mad Mix. I liked Pacman when I first played it ages ago a n d I still think that it's a better game than Mad Mix. It's not too bad I suppose, but it's not exactly state of the art either. The maze graphics are drab and boringly coloured, the sprites are flat and characterless and the sound is dire. Try it out for yourself on the cover mount cassette.
It's easy to play
LASTAIIILITY 41% but you'll stop playing a couple of levels later
OVERALL 48% A poor attempt at rejuvenating a much-k)ved idea_
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Pandora, £8.95 cassette London when his intake of 0 ne portwet hadand or. windy . , well, night gone in over the top a bit, Phileas Fogg, made a bet. To the horror of the fellow-members o f h i s Re f o r m Club, he promised to travel round the wodd i n a o d a y s - a n d wagered E20,000 to back up the
Aaaaaaaarrght MrIgOO9999ggh Hilitilyaaaaa! (Will y o u s t o p doing that, Kati! Ed Hmm, well that feels a lot better. I 've j ust ha d a ver y unpleasant tussle with one of the most annoying multiloads I have ever come across. If we hadn't given the Pi l char d O f The Month award already, I 'd be giving it straight to the guy who deci ded t o w a s t e o n e whole side of tape on an animated fil m sequence. Ni c e one! If you're still awake by the time the first level loads, congratulations! Don' t g e t t o o excited, though: it's only about six scr eens l ong a n d t he n you're on to the mul ti l oad again. If you see this l ooki ng innocent on your local dealer's shelf, don't trust it - not one inch.
wee, guys and gals, i can put my hand on my belly and s a y absol utel y honestl y, wi thout t he ti ni est shadow of a doubt, that this is one game I'll never play agai n and nobody l except maybe a war mongering r hi nocer os wi th a machi ne gun) can make me. Why? Well, it sports one of the most irritatingly l ong-wi nded muttiloads of all time - and that's just for starters. The graphics are bl otchy - or do I mean bl ocky? - well, i t doesn't matter because they'r e bot h - and t he gamepl ay itself i s about a s rewarding as counti ng the grains in a bag-full of PG's personal itching powder I f you want to do yourself a favour, give this a miss. •Ahal Passepartout! We've crossed the international dateline'
bet. Goodby e Ref orm Club, hello bankruptcy. Well, ma y b e n o t bank rupt c y . Luckily f o r t hem, Fo g g and his sidekick, Passepartout, have you to guide t hem o n t heir journey. With a capable guy like you at their side, they can bribe, gamble, fight and build human pyramids on their way to success. Funny old life, innit?
Icon-selection system and filmstyle opening sequence can't compensate for an unbelievably boring multiload.
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THE RACE AGAINST TIME Code Masters, £4.99 cassette block of white pixels in a computer energetic a s leading t h e game, but you k now what I mean y global c h a r i t y f u n r u n , - don't you? o Sport A i d ' 88, wo u l d leav e y ou Anyway, Omar's personal race feeling a brt • . . w e l l . , • k n a c u starts out in the El Nlowheli relief kered t o s ay t he least. B u t no, ' c amp in Sudan. He' s only got a Omar Knalit a, t h e legendary certain amount of time to raise a d Sudanese athlete is preparing t o flag and light a flame in each of six t run again. Well, he' s not really, (six?) c ont inent s . N o w O ma r ' s he's h just the name that's given to a pretty fit but he can't walk on water i Vn Ne w York, New York — er • yeah, sit like a Speccy screen, though, don't you think? k s o m e t h i n g a s
- so to get from place to place, he uses a a plane (well OK, an icon on a global map).
* THE RACE ACAINST TINT A Phewl I t was begi nni ng to look as if Code Masters wer en't going to get the 64 version of their Sport Aid 'Ell game out befor e the end of the year. Woul dn't have been very topical that S p o r t Ai d '88 in '89. Which brings me to a str ange and wondr ous mystery. Why have they spent so long developing this when the Spectrum version, whi ch was released early in the summer, l ooks exactly the same? Well, not quite exactly the same t h e control method is a lot messier and the screens flip so slowly that you've time to get out of the way of a herd of rampaging rhinos in between. For get about this really dud game c ont r i but e to the cause instead.
uwiyelmoyea playing this when it came out for Spectrum l o a d s of puzzles, attractive gr aphi cs and, to top it all, a really good cause. E r . . . coul dn't really say the same about the 84 version, though. In fact, I don't think I actually saw what you could call a 64 version 'cos you'd find about as many differences between the two formats as you would between two absolutely identical
turkeys with two identical chet's hats on each leg. Not only that
- Peter Gabriel's Games Without Frontiers soundtrack is even less musical than Matt's rendition of White Christmas after a hail of ale down the pub a n d it doesn't even play thr oughout the game. If you're keen to buy this because of Sport Aid, give five quid away instead. You won't be missing out.
POWER PYRAMIDS Grandstam, £9.95 cassette, £14.95 disk the giant liz ards we r e M still k ings o f t he Earth, a planet T-Py ge h a d already the bec n ome highly civilised. One particularly int elligent indiv idual y invented a s t range construction a which immediat ely t o o k o f f o n e planets all over the galaxy. These constructions o were the pyramids. n Eventually, Eart h c aught on t o the s trend, and the ancient Egy ptians with their strange interstellar a communications (pray ers ) s o o n purchased g pyramids of their own. Ino the early days of pyramid transportation, t wo hyperspace jugger, nauts were needed t o t rans port w pyramids to their new homes: the one h f or t he constructions t hem. selves and one f or t he immens e e power generat ors t o k e e p t h e n pyramids active. The T- P y g e a n s dis c ov ered, however, that by deactivating the pyramids' power, they could make a huge saving in delivery costs. Therefore, every pyramid delivery man must activate all the levels in the constructions before the customer receives the goods. This is done by way of a remot e control ball-shaped robot, which must run over fl oors and switches t o activate them whilst missing walls and
delivery men, who has just arrived on planet Earth and must set about setting up several pyramids, f rom
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Frankly, I d o n ' t really know what to say about this game. Oh, yes I d o . . . i t's basically bad. There. That'll do for a start. I di dn't mi nd it at first: you thi nk you'll be able to get the hang of it and start stringing a few solutions together but t he ga m e i sn't wor th it. Everything a bout i t i s di sappointing, f r o m t h e b o r i n g loader t o t he scr atty ' G a Over' sequence. The playa ity is virtually non-existent due to the dreadful control method which fr equentl y s e nds y ou careering i nto obstacl es a nd walls alike. Give me a puzzle game to pl ay for a coupl e of hours a n d I ' m pl e a s e d a s punch, but make sure it's not this puzzle game, or I'll probably p u n c h s om e one . C o m par ed to the brilliance of Bornbuzal, this is an extremely dull substitute.
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Usually, I really like puzzle games, but I tend to draw 04•4•• the line at ones which are as badly pr esented and unplayable as this. The spheroid is virtually uncontrollable, making each game an annoying and frustrating experience. The graphics are hardly state of the art either, and the sound consists of a few rather meagr e tunes. It just isn't enough. Wi th a puzzle game, presentation is very important, for controls and on-screen appearance: both are sub-standar d i n Power Pyramids, I t the gr aphi cs and gener al appear ance are a bit off-key then I'd rather have a playable game than absolutely nothing, butthis gets very close. If you like puzzle games then avoid Power Pyramids, as the only puzzle involved is why they decided to release it. It's the worst CA puzzle game I've ever played.
As usual the population of the world has left a lot of rubbish lying about. Bit of luck that - picking up an objec t i n o n e plac e s hould prove helpf ul for progress later on. The Race Against Time was produced expressly for Sport Aid and all profits from its sales will go to support the charity's campaign to help children in need all ov er the world, OK?
PRESENTATION 45% Apart from a nett tale screen, nothing outstanding.
GRAPHICS 28% Great by the Spectrum's standards but abysmal for the 64.
SOUND50% rimy title version of Games Without Frontiers. In-game sound confined to footsteps ter , yeah).
HOOKABILITY 49% Well, you might as well see what this malarkey's all about.
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PRESENTATION20D/0 Dull opening screen, disastrous alntrol method and not enough options. Very weak,
GRAPHICS 31% Bland, blocky and poorly animated throughout.
SOUND43% The occasional ditty fails (miserably) to add any atmosphere at all
HOOKABILITY 12% The frustrating control met hod instantly puts you off. . .
LASTABILIFY 12% and it doesn't get any better
OVERALL 18% An original idea p r o b a b l y because nobody has had such a brain relapse before.
SAVAGE Firebird, £9.99 cassette, £12.99 disk thing, but handsome Mr SavL age is n't s o sure. His affecotions have got him locked in emovtional t urmoil, not t o ment ion a ecastle dungeon. His sweetheart is being held prisoner somewhere by , the castle's owner, and not being table to stand the separation or the hterrible mic rowav ed dinners t he egaoler s erv es u p . Sav age h a s decided to mak e his bid for freeydom. s He mak es off in search of the aexit. In an attempt to keep up the yappearance of a place of pain and ,torture, the dungeon has been kitted out with nasty energy-draining idenizens w h i c h S a v a g e c a n s destroy with magic axes or whatt h e g r e a t e s t
the dungeon ex it s wit h light ning bolts. Once out, it 's t ime to load the next level, in whic h our hapless barbarian legs it t hrough Deat h Valley, an area inhabited by animated skulls and ghosts. You get a 3 D Pers pec t -O-Vis ion barbarian's eye view of the proceedings as Savage dodges large monoliths which a p p r o a c h a t f right ening speed. Run int o anything on this level and it's one life down the cess pit. After all this running about and risking of life and limb, Say feels a bit cheesed off when he gets to the end of Death Valley and finds out his girlfriend is locked in the same castle he's just escaped from.
, T h i s 313 section s a really last mover and i f y o u I cr i nged when c I asawn the Pr obe Software name on the pr ess release d a accompanyi n c e ng Savage, thi nki ng of some of their previous blunders. However, after t o playing for a while I was surprised to find that this is t h e really quite a good trio of games. The first part has b ng o a some fairly addi cti ve shooti a nd dodgi ng acti on a nd some t rather nice graphics to boot (one of the guardians looks just like y is a smi o dge too difficult, and after Gordy). The second secti on several untimely deaths I wonder u ed why Savage didn't just run a little slower if dodgi ng monoliths m i was such a problem. The last stage looks like one for maze g freaks h only, but falling weights and spiky traps keep you on your toes. If you're after a bit of action, t try Savage - t here's s omet hing here for everyone. j u s t ever other weapons he can trod. Not want ing to face the ghosts m It he manages to make it across and the skulls again, he returns by a pits of flame and booby traps. Savanother route only to find his entrk age reaches t he dungeon Guarance t o t he castle bloc k ed. Hi s e dians, mighty beasts which guard only hope of res c uing her is t o I send his eagle int o t he castle t o V Get savage!! Er . . m aybe t destroy the last of the demons with venomous spit, then pick up their l e Special powers. Savage's extraorh dinary ps y c hic rapport wit h h i s ? )
Does t h i s m e a n Probe Software's days of dross are over? The y c e r tainly s e e m t o have tur ned over a new leaf, bec aus e Savage is really rather good. Ther e's qui te a bi t of gamepl ay variety, fr om Rastan-type running and bas hing t o Space Harrier style 3D dodging, t o a scrolling maz e wi th extra bits. The gr aphi cs in all are really nice, but the music is even be t t e r - t h e i n- ga m e tunes ar en't had but the title piece is really high energy stuff with l oads of sampl ed instruments a n d voi ces. N o t t h e greatest ga m e i n t he wor l d, but certainly wor th a look.
fact he's just a shy old Romeo in animal skins.
PRESENTATION 60% Joystickikeyboard options and passwords allow you to start play at any level.
GRAPHICS 71% Large, colourful and smooth,
SOUND 88% Excellent sample-packed soundtracks and some goott effects.
HIXIKAINLITY 73%
Good looks and sounds draw you into the game immediately. S ing e though. c o Certainly plenty of game for your n money. d eagle a l l o ws h i m t o g u i d e i t through t h e s c rolling ma z e o f s passages wh i c h wi l l ev ent ually e Long-term playability and fine lead to the girl of his dreams. appearances make this a very c Seel He may seem like a callous, interesting product, mus c le-bound har d ma n b u t i n t i o n ZZAP! Christmas Special 1988 25 i s l
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At t his point , w a s going t o s ing y ou my pers onal remix of I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles but half an hour of c ombined s c reaming f rom ME. PG and GH during my p r a c t i c e s e s s i o n h a s p e r s u a d e d m e t h a t perhaps I'd better not. Anyway, I won' t be - blowing bubbles for ever, t hat is - bec aus e this v ers ion of Bubble Ghost and I didn' t quit e hit it off. I wo u l d n ' t hav e mi n d e d t he bas ic graphics or the fingemai l s-down-the-bl ackboar d sound, if the gameplay had been just as brilliant as it was on the Amiga - but it's not. The c ont rols are far too jerk y and the ghos t is just a tad t oo hard to mov e. You can still get quit e a bit of fun out of manoeuv ring y our c ut ey ghos t ie, t hough (I really like t he animat ion when he fails to c omplet e a screen) j u s t not as muc h fun as you might have been led to ex s pec t re (groan!).
you c an select t he lengt h of t he M o v i n g quic k ly along, y o u c a n game i n real-hones t -t o-good- t h e n ent er a o n e o r t wo play er ness-time, from five to 20 minutes. l e a g u e c ompet it ion, a n d s elec t 1 which t e a ms p l a y i n t h e t w o groups. After t hat , it ' s f oot ball, i n t he ne reoinn or me c omput er rootnaii game nas many br ought for th some stars, such as Tracksuit Manager, Emlyn Hughes ' International Soccer and Mic ropros e's f ort hc oming Mic ro Soccer. You' ll not ic e I didn't l i st thi s ga m e a m ong t hos e other s, a nd there's a simple reason for that - it's abysmal. Even the age-ol d International Soccer had more realis m t han PBIF and there are so many flaws in the game that it is no fun to play. You thought the graphics in EHIS were chunky? They have nothing on this game. Not Only ar e the players expanded sprites, the pr ogr ammer s have put a bl ack outl i ne ar ound thei r limbs to give that extra dog-foody look. The sound is equally poor j u s t a choice between nobody's favourite football cr owd songs or nothing. I can't imagine even the most desper ate football fan either buyi ng or enjoying such a low quality game of their favourite sport.
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PRESENTATION 75% Two-player option plus chance to practice screens.
GRAPHICS 68% Cutely animated main sprite floats around against atmospheric but not very detailed backdrops.
SOUND 37% Totally unghostly (jolly) title tune and grating in-game effects — luckily you can turn them off.
HooKABErry61%
Scenario appeals instantly but the control method is a bit tricky to master .
LASTABILITY 57%
• a n d it doesn't get much easier —especially when the screens get harder.
you now? No-one listened A to y o u o n To mo r r o w' s hWorld, when you were giving those ,riveting, but s omehow unconvincing, demonstrations on the effects J that aerosol CFCs were having on uthe Eart h's oz one layer. I f only dwe'd listened, we wouldn't be in ithe mes s we ' r e i n now. Barren lit t le v eget at ion a n d t h e tsoils, human race banished t o isolated hunderground cities. H Transport between cities is only apossible for those daring enough n n go 1 1 . w S CO RE 010 0 8 0 0 R O A E Y h 111 e 0 r 11 e 11§ a 011 r 111 e
OVERALL 62% A pretty good 64 conversion — could have been better, though.
standard scrolling grandstand format. Throw-ins, goal kicks, extra time, but no Stanley-knife-wielding, racist or c oin-t hrowing fans. Ah, the wonders of the c omput er age, eh?
PRESENTATION 39% Notate screen at all. Lots of tournamentoptions, but they don't make the game any more playable
GRAPHICS 36% Deformed chunky sprites shamble upend down the pitch, wondering what they should be doing next.
SOUND40% Consists solely at standard football crowd classics
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to enlist the help of (jarring chord) The Overianders, a small race of hardy indiv iduals w h o l i v e f o r speed. They build and rebuild their pre-holocaust automobiles, fitting improvements a n d c annibalis ed parts wh i c h wi l l inc reas e t hei r speed a n d resistance t o at t ac k from s ome of the many gangs of surface-dwelling outcasts. These gangs mak e life hell f or the Ov erlander b y bloc k ing t he road wit h barriers, placing snipers at the roadside, trying to destroy cars by knocking them off the road
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or driving explosive-laden mot orbikes int o them. Clev er Overlanders equip their automobiles with heavy artillery to clear the road of such maladepts. At t he beginning of each level the player (who plays the part of an Overlander — which part we won't be divulging) is given the option of taking t wo missions: an easy but low-paying one for the Federation of Law-Abiding Cit iz ens o r a difficult but well-paid run f or the Crime Lords . I t 's c us t omary f or Overlanders to be paid 50a/0 of the salary u p f ront , a n d wi t h t his money you can equip the car with extra weaponry and sufficient fuel to complete the journey.
PRESENTATION 65% Sluggish controls with fuel a weapons selections which as friendly as they could be.
GRAPHICS 58%
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t irghl T h i s i s wheelie poor! The c ont rols are sluggish s o y ou hav e hardly a n y c hanc e t o av oid s o me of t he later h a z a r d s o n l e v e l o n e , such as t he roads ide mac hine gun n e s t s o r barriers . T h e graphic s , t h o u g h reas onably well-defi ned, don' t c reat e any k ind o f ov erwhelming f eeling of ex hilarat ion to thrill or excite you. D r i v i n g m y o n s c r e e n mot or a t 1 8 0 m p h dis t inc t ly reminded m e o f b e i n g a learner d r i v e r , c r u i s i n g t h e streets a t 30. Shoot ing a n d ev ading any t hing i s mo r e a mat t er o f l u c k t h a n s k i l l bec aus e t hings d o n ' t appear on t he horiz on — t he fi rs t you see o f t h e m i s w h e n t h e y mat erialis e in t he middle dis t anc e giving you prec ious little t ime t o get out of t he way . I f y ou're s t ill des perat e f o r t he Road Blasters ex perienc e y ou might as well keep on pus hing the ten pees i nto the ar cade mac hine. Th i s is n' t g o i n g t o ans wer your prayers.
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SOUND 71% Palatable soundtrack but no soot effects.
HOOKAillury 27%
HOOKABIIM 47%
Hopemssfy flawed gameplay andawful appearance make it hopelessly unaddictive.
The lack of a convincing road display makes gameptay difficult and barely exciting.
LAsmusrif21% Utter uselessness condemns the game to doorstopdom almost immediately.
OVERALL 23% One of the worst football games around at the moment.
LASTABILITY 40% Very slow progress leads to intense feelings of frustration.
OVERALL 46% A poor 30 motor shoot 'em up, not much better than the conversion it mimics.
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Ninia, t h e Fl a me a n d i l l i hat havegot the in Hitman, the Tommo c ommon. Silly names? Green clothes? Well. they all appear in this game of hard men. Y o u ' v e g o t t o c h o o s e whether y o u wa n t t o join t heir ranks, because if you're to live up to y our nic k name of t he Okapi, you'll have to complete a tortuous assault course in record time. Each consists of a vicious array of obs t ac les inc luding monk ey bars, barrels and walls t o c limb, fire pit s t o leap over, wat er and cement troughs to s wim or wade •'I 1 1 V L 1: I
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PRESENTATION 73% Blimey, this game is a real paint I don't just mean it's irritatingly bor i ng (though i t is), but i t's actually physically painful. You have to wiggle the joystick almost non-stop for ages, and while you're spraining your wrist doi ng that, the music is giving you a headache. It was lucky the dull graphics and boring action forced me to leave the joystick after one game, or I mi ght have been wounde4 a c t i N o t r ecommended. through, arid target ranges. some of which even shoot back. Lots ot fast ioystick wiggling is essential. for there's a person on the bottom half of the screen wh o is jus t as
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GRAPHICS 42% Soldier sprites are reasonably well animated but slow, and everything comes in very dull colours.
SOUND 28% You're l ucky I 'm able t o type this review a f t e r t he bashing my right arm's taken from this game. And was it worth it? No, n o t really. Y ou have n o chance of beati ng t he c om puter opponent unless you'r e some ki nd o f muscl e-bound freak - b e c a u s e y o u ' r e expected to waggl e the joystick almost constantly for several m i nut e s . A n d i f t h e exhausti on doe s n' t ki l l y ou, you'll pr obabl y di e o f bor e dom. Take it away, someone.
An ancient curse.animminent eclipse, giantpyramids. secretpanels.
,•andmysteriousmummies, all in glorious FREE SCAPE Solid 3D. 11aSct hidden shrine, poisonSun. darts,TOTAL pressureECLIPSE pads.treasure chests, trip wires under theburning is the BIGGEST and GREATEST FREESCAPE experience yet!
An awful rendition of Colonel Bogey. headache, for the inducement of.
HIXIKABILITY 33% Nice presentation lures you into the game, whic h is soon uncovered as tedious and exhausting.
LASTABILITY 26% The action is irrevocably boring. and even the course designer can't change that.
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Novagen, E9.95 cassette, E1.1.95 disk you on the way to the alien A Neutron B e a m Weapons f Base. Your 'surprise' attack f rom the u sea wasn't, basically, and only you es c aped deat h o r c apt ure. n You were the only one to grab a n raft and infl ate it wit h your Swiss y Army fcotpump in time. t Being a heroic but s t upid s oldier. h you resolve t o take out t he Neutron Beam Weapon o n y our iown, and save your captured budn g h What's t h i s ? a Novagen pr oducp ing a n a nc i e nt p looking C o m mando v a r i a nt ? e So what if there are 350 memn ory-resident s c r e e ns ful l o f e obstacles? T h e y a l m os t a l l dlook t h e s a m e ! T h e bl a nd t graphics and sound stir no real ofeelings of exci tement i n m y joystick hand, that's for sure, and this just woul dn't be the sort of game that I'd be playing for weeks on end in 1988. Or even 1 9 8 7 f o r t ha t matter ! Come on Novagen, stick to the 30 greats we ail love you for!
tanks, las er emplac ement s a n d certain deat h c a n h a mp e r y our enthusiasm for the fight. After paddling t hrough s hark infested custard, sorry, waters you land on t he island t o hunt down eight p i e c e s o f Bailey B r i d g e which wi l l h e l p y o u r e a c h t h e weapons base. Extra weaponry stars give you double shots, rear shots, unstoppabullets or a shield.
PRESENTATION 60% Free ifland map. Last level rested option.
GRAPHICS 40% Flickering sprites wander about a poor attempt at forced perspective landscape.
SOUND 49% Very average sound effects and unremarkable title tune.
A Th is is far from the Novagen classics of yesteryear, isn't it, Brian?
HOOKABILny 55% This certainly isn't the sort of game I was expecting from Novagen. a nd i t certainly pr oves t ha t they shoul d have stuck to producing the 3D blockbusters they know best. The cassette inlay boasts that the game is a 'graphics extravaganza', when the sprites and backdr ops look like they've come thr ough a time warp from 1985. The music and sound effects are equally unimpressive. The game Is lust an unexciting Commanoo variant and even the extra weapons don't add anythi ng to the thrill of destruction. At ten quid I would think seriously before buying it, even if it does have Paul Woakes' name stamped on i t
'The look of a souped-up Commando game provides some attraction.
LASTABIUTY 41% Overall shoddy appearance and unexciting action give the game a very short-term appeal.
OVERALL 41°/0 Certainly not up to the standards we've come to expect from Novagen,
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11111103 III1pression5 or i whi ar e that it bear s some semblance of decency, but ii only takes two games to pr ov e t he compl ete opposi te. Why onl y t w o games? Well, that is how many attempts it took Maff and myself to reach the very end of the last of the 32 stages. OK, so ther e wer e two of us playing together but you know m y r ecor d i n the Chal l enge — t o say I 'm not t he best gamesplayer in the ZZAP! offices is a bit of an under statement, so how come I r eached the end of this second go? Even playing solo I got well past the halfway stage! The levels are just so short that the progress report which appears at the end of each stage Is on screen for almost as long as the action. Anyone who considers themselves an even slightly har dened shoot 'em up veteran Should be able to wipe the floor with this, so unless you're a v e young player with a lot of money, I should leave it well alone, ry
SUMMER EDITION
Epyx/LIS Gold, £9.99 cassette, £14.99 disk your Lucozade. guys, 'cos if H you want to enter this comopetition y ou really have to be fit. pAnd I don't mean doing a one-lege y o u I r e m e m be r t h e ' good o l d da y s . v You coul d buy a br own s a u c e e sandwi ch p l u s b chips and a mug of tea and still eget change fr om a fiver, you ecould get a Mars bar for about n19p ( ho, ho) a nd a ny E py x game that arrived hot off the d press was bound to be good. rThe Games series used to be iamong the best you could get nfor your Commodor e, but with kWinter E d i t i o n t h e y r e a l t y started t o go downhi l l (and I idon't m e a n o n skis). I f anynthing, Summer Edition is ev en gworse t h a n t ha t . S o m e o f graphics (especially the hur dles) suffer from a bad attack of the blobs, and hardly any of the events events require that much skill. Unl ess you'r e the sort of masochi st who enj oys wasting loadsa money (and we don't want the likes of you pervies in this magazine anyway), forget thi s a nd sti ck t o t he original Summer Games.
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Down at Epyx (or is it across at Epyx? — my geography was never very good), they must really be getti ng desper ate trying to think of more sports to simulate. Tr oubl e is, ther e doesn't seem to be all that much left which realty lends itself to the sort of tr eatment that made the earlier Games series so good. Half the sports (especially the asymetric bar s) r equi r e so little pl ayer input, that getting thr ough the event is just like watching a demo —the other half is so compl i cated you just can't be bother ed to play. If you're after a really new and original summer games sim, go for Tynesoft's Summer Olympiad Instead. Up a bit, down a bit, left a bit - hang on. haven't we seen this caption somewhere before?
ged jog round the I V every Saturday night when Blind Date isn't on either. When I say fit, I mean ultra, mega, mas s iv e-mus c le, s u p e r body-builder fit, And even if you're that e r l i t , y ou probably won't be fit enough to win all the eight c ont es t s (arc hery , v e l o d rome c y c ling, div ing, h a mme r throw, hurdles, pole vault, g y mnastics rings and asymetric bars) your hopef ul ( a n d rav in• ma d ) nation has dec ided t o enter you for. AS you arrive, y ou size up the competition..There might be up to eight human opponents settling in
Lost I K E s• rC L P % t can always s hoot the s y mbol to a turn it into one of six fancy secret weapons, which range fromt ultrat bulrapid fire to three-way mega lets. Who needs the atomic bomb? m E Not us, that's for sure.
PRESENTATION 59% one or two player team options available, but what happened to the rolls and smart bombs mentioned in the instructions?
GRAPHICS 43% Chunky spntes, repetitive backdrops and anomalous (er, what?) parallax scrolling.
SOUND54% Some good Ogles but gun FX sound more like lasers.
HOOKABILITY 47% Very easy to get into because you know exactly what to expect from this type of game.
LASTABILITty 20% Hardly any challenge and not much variation, so you'll probably only play it five or six times before it's left to gather dust
OVERALL 30% Technically poor and far too easy to be stimulating for more than half an hour . to the village, or just one megamean computer one. Depending on the state of y our mus c le y ou can opt to go into practice or throw all steroids t o the winds and g o straight for the events. Suppose you fall foul of the local stomach bug, wh a t d o y ou d o then? Well, you c ould always cut your losses and just go for one or two sports. Wit h all t he mus c le you've accumulated, y o u s urely must be capable of that.
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SUPER DRAGON SLAYER Code Masters, E4.99 cassette can't it? Don't you just wish L that S o m e t h i n g e x c i t i n g d would h a p p e n ev ery n o w a n d then? That ' s wh a t o u r princ ely e hero i n S u p e r Dragon Sla ye r c thinks. L i g g i n g a r o u n d i n t h e a palace all day wit h not hing to do n can g e t inc redibly t e d i o u s a t tbimes . . . h o hum. Wait ! What 's that? A cry for help from a damsel e in distress? (princes have an ear b for this kind of thing) This is it! Oft o THE RESCUE! TO r In Super Dragon Slayer, yo u take the part of a brave knight who i goes off to save a fair maiden and n defeat a dragon. You mus t battle gyour way through a land of hazards ous l a n d s c a p e s a n d fi e r c e omonsters intent on your destruction. Occasionally, on shooting a m nasty, an icon may appear to help eyou on your quest with temporary tshields, extra energy or a spell. i • • • • • . • • • m e s ••••••• ,
Spells give you additional magic powers (you're also a magician as well as a prince, see) enabling you to b l a s t mons t ers , c l e a r t h e screen, t u r n int o a f rog f o r a n almighty h i g h leap, o r fl y l i k e Superman, d e p e n d i n g o n y o u r magic status. To progress t o the next ma g i c lev el (and t h e nex t piece of scenery) you have to battle to the end of the landscape and defeat a bunch of fiercer monsters, otherwise it's off to the big adventure land in the sky!
sequence plus multi-player option and practice events.
GRAPHICS 70% Vary from excellently defined effects to primitive and blotchy sontes_ SOUND 6 7 % Medley of tuneful and slightly less tuneful melodies, Nothing that !Bally grabs you by the earlobe though
HOOKABILITY 65% There's enough curiosity value to take you through each of the events at least once
uksmatrry44% , but in the end, there's just not you . playing. e n A disappointing release from one o of the most successful u originators of the strategic ggames' sim, h c h a l
OVERALL 49%
My initial reaction to this game was 'So w h a t ? Another G r e e n Beret cl one. B i g deal!' but when I r eached the and of level one, I di scover ed that there was mor e to it than meets the eye. The graphics in the first scene aren't too great, but they i mpr ove t he fur ther you go, and the sound coul d have be e n a l ot better , b u t when it comes to the cr unch, this is qui te playable. I t does take a while t o gr ow on you, but if you persevere you could get to like it. The only problem Is the price. If it had been the normal Code Ma s t e r s E l .99 instead of its five qui d ticket, it woul d ha v e be e n gr eat, but there's nothing really to justify the extra cost. For this reason, Super D r a g o n S l a y e r j u s t misses the boat.
A S ui ng dragon slaying tun and big bouncy pieces in Code Masters' eponyrnous eponyrne-thing
Code M a s t e r s ads f o r t h e 'super ' E 4 . 9 9 games u s u a l l y boast of wonder ful extr a featur es whi ch a r e deserving of a higher price tag. Super Dr a g o n Slay er' s e x t r a features consi st of a choi ce between novice or expert difficulty levels. W00000! How can I contai n my exci tement? The game i t s e l f i s n' t t o o b a d , though, if you can get over the average gr aphi cs and tedi ous sound, that is. The extra features someti mes c om e a s a surprise a n d y ou of t e n fi nd yourself having another game to see what comes next. However I'm still trying to work out why they've gi ven i t a hi gher price. I t woul d have m a de a great little budget game, but as a mor e costly pr oduct, it's not s o gr e a t . S o , C o d e Masters, wor k out your mar keting str ategy a little m or e carefully (I RONY WARNI NG!) and you might make it big.
PRESENTATION49% Not much glossy wrapping and the controls are fiddly at times.
GRAPHICS 61% Occasionally bland and blocky, but quite good on the whole.
SOUND 38% An unimpressive tune and subStandard effects
HOOKABILITY 53% A mite tedious to begin with
LASTABILITY 71% . b u t it stands a chance of growing on you.
OVERALL 67')/0 Not a bad game at all. It would have been even better at a proper budget once.
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toEeee say • then? wereildays. You couldboya Mars13ar for thruppence, watch tsfootie torten shilling and guzzlea sack o ' fish in 'chips for under hatta crown. Much nearer to the present, h o games la- Novernber of 1 w e v in e rIssue , Gthink A M E S now of what said cast a glancey over what Pagilly and Gordo have 9 t8 6h, en o lthey e s s then, . Z IZ ZA PfZB A u I CPKyEI D o i v a n n a WORLD l aGAMES d fi s n d og u t S 4 to .n ...' • D [VI A Ua R Tv j u s t e LLEYKATs o _ SAANX1ON T p swa.b isimy 9 1 1 wh a , e h a A t t y ".. R r WORLD GAMES wr e o N Gold/Epp f),.. US u n , D .1 11• d ' fourthsrelease in the Gamea A Epyx •• series was rewarded with a h e o ; 98% and a deserved Gold Medal f raving and ecstatic wailing I much was the Towers. a heard throughout p R Paul t h e offi c e s porttma n p l pronounced it th e new E Sumner sports simulation of the decade' a u and Gary P raved about the s edetail and ' numerous 'meticulous' humorous touches and profusely t ejaculated this is the most enjoyo game I've ever had the pleaable sure of playing.' Jazza summed it allfup with this is the definition of OH state i of the art. ! A •••••••••••••• v w a s e a s ily t h e m o s t This accomplished e a n d pol i s he d F rfi rs O rt t a i l l . t h WO ,
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lins and murdered joysticks, Wend Games' varied events, stunningly presented both graphically and aurally, should make y ou see things differently. PG
R O 9 (Gordon) Al l t h e percentages 1 should go down by two or three points - it's hardly aged atC all and O M P U T E R
received by all in ZZAP! G a -'cool' Penn called i t 'the best arcade adventure I've played yet'. /Ricky-babes Eddy urged 'it's a brilliant game which shouldn't be missed* and Jazza 'shades' Rig 7a nail raved about its 'fantastic atmosphere' a n d 's tunni ng' graphics.
it's one of the most enjoyable games I've played this month!
(Paul) Absolutely. Memories of the cassette multiload make me think that maybe the presentation percentage was a little excessive, but otherwise the game's nlEmy merits easily justify such uninhibited marks
This i s t h e m os t enjoyable implementation of an interactive comic stnp I've played, with fantastic graphics and simple, but satisfying, puzzles. Now that it's available on a budget label, there's no excuse to miss it. GM The thing that impressed me most about Dan Dare was that the programmers had kept a superb cartoon-strip look to the whole game - a licence that hadn't lost track of its roots for once! As arcade adventures go. the game still manages to beat many of its type, and is worth every penny of its budget price. PG (Gordon) All the marks are fine apart from sound (down another 10%) and value (irrelevant now that it's available at a fifth of the price). Overall, I think it would just scrape a Sizzler now. (Paul) Put the value rating up by to about 95% and the rest down by about 5% each and I'd be happy with the marks. I'm not sure it would get Sizzkw status now, but It's still a pretty good arcade adventure.
Sanxion marked the Commodore debut both for Stavms FasoulaS and Thalamus, the unique dual display and fast action gameplay bringing up the goose pimples on our trio of reviewers. RE thought it 'a dream to both watch and play'. JR enthused over the 'stunning graphics' and 'well-cool music and GP simply thought it 'really neat' • O h well, some people can't go °Tr all the time. Personally, I preferred Stavros' second game, Delta, which I think was underrated in ZZAPI. Though irs got great graphics and sound, the simple gameplay wouldn't
Sanxion came out just before extra weaponry really caught on, so its simplistic action dates the gameplay. Still, the amount of technical polish on the game makes it shine even now, and gameplay is very addictive. PG (Gordon) All the marks deserve to go down by 1 0 the , graphics and sound, both of which are only a couple of marks Y 0 high. o r Visually it's gorgeous, too and s oit's, still very playable. a p a r t(Paul) I'd go along with that — falongside r o s ome of the newer shoot 'em ups Sanxion does stand m proud these days, but not that proud.
I enjoyed playing this for quite sorne time, but eventually the slightly laborious question-andanswer sequences and inevitable repetition o f questions asked made it less attractive. I much prefer Arcana's Powerplay, which better adapted this format to the 64, making it a game I still enjoy. GH 4 li g g' Co. a p 1 am t . ,' 1 ISt o u r..1 I I " ,, 1
Being a bit of an impoverished Triv buff. I was keen to try out this cheaper alternative to the real thing, and was suitably impressed The game uses a question and answer system which both eliminates th e ambiguous answer problem that dogs computer quiz games, a nd keeps the board
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Andrew Braybrook's successor to the Sizzler-rated Undium jus t failed to scrape a similar award. Both Paul Sumner and Jana Rignail praised it to the skies, using phrases such as 'really pretty', 'absolutely superb' a n d ' immensely addictive'. Gazza Penn, however, grumbled a bout the 'very slow' pace and pronounced it 'too tedious tcrbe worthwhile'. Brilliant graphics and presentation failed to rescue this game from collecting dust after only a couple of months. It's brilliant to pick up and p l a y occasionally, b u t because of an unspotted 'bug' (you can just race down the right hand side once you've cleared obstacles), it doesn't hold lasting interest. GH
A m All marks should g o e(Gordon) down b y 10-20%, apart from 'graphics, which was about right. sI'd give it about 80% overall. s(Paul) I think this was as good an oadaptation of the board game as cpossible, but I have to agree that it score less highly now. iwould About 8 5 a( lY o eo v e r la l l . e m e nAlleykat was quite a letdown after tBraybrook's former greats, and it .didn't really stand up to concentrated play. Of course, the presentation and graphics are superbly implemented but something lacking from the gameplay didn't have me hooked for very long. PG (Gordon) Presentation, graphics and hcokability are fine. I think the sound was a little underrated, but the other marks should come down by 10-15%i each. (Paul) Yes, tha t sounds about right, but I'd also take down the testability by about 20%. I'm afraid it just didn't have enough of the Braybrook secret ingredient to make as appealing as his former two games.
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I you're probably well qualified f for this fabbo comp arranged by the mad dogs of the software y industry who call themselves Thalamus, o u If you didn't know the answer. I' we'd better fill you in. g Armalyte is the Gold Medal o winning space shoot 'em up that not t only knocks the socks off the others, but also puts them t through a service wash and h hangs them out to dry a afterwards. Everything about the game t is just so unfeasibly HARD that q one press of the fire button and audacity. u it'll kick your teeth in for your eAnyway, Thalamus decided to letsa few astute ZZAPi readers in ont the action by giving away the original artwork for the Armalyte i cover and ad, as painted by our very o own Vunder Artiste, Ohi Frey, n That's for the first prize winner five runners up will each r —some receive real-life laser i blasting fun in the form of a Lazar1 Tagg gun and sensor set. As if that I wasn't h enough, the winners will all receive a copy of Armalyte to t torture their trigger fingers with, , on top of that, everyone And who enters will get a voucher which entitles them to a quid off any Thalamus game ordered direct from the company! Now here's what you have to do. On the entry form on this very page, you should see a grid of squares just becoging to be filled in. But what to fill 'em in with is the question. Well, no, actually. these are the questions. Just work out the Thalamus-related answers and plug 'em in to the relevant line. As a further clue, we've put in a relevant word to provide some of the missing letters,
; 1. Boys Without Brains game starring a Synthettc Life Form. 2. Author of Hunter's Moon - and ZZAP! Diarist 1extraordinaire. cerebral 3. Part ofcortex. your brain which sends sensory impulses to your 4. First release for Thalamus. 5. Famed Finnish fellow they call the Helsinki Hex Hero. competition. 6. Exeter programmers responsible for the subject of this 7. Triangular prequel to Armalyte. 8. Dextrous rolling controlling.
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BUDGET TEST PRO SKI SIMULATOR Code Masters, E1.99 cassette cents u n d ma k e mi t d e r T 'Bend z e k neeez ' a s y o u 'take to the slopes in this game of fun on the piste. m e You and a competitor (computer t o b Another r Simulator? W e l l , e I'm not goi ng t o a complain k because t h i s oOne's realty quite good, though uI'll admit it's an acquired taste. tThe s k i e r gr aphi cs, t hough small, ar e finely detailed, and z the sl ope gr aphi cs ar e really eattractively dr a w n w i t h ni c e s enery a nd a good shadi ng !i y s Clearly depi cti ng the direction ltofe the slopes. The sound is less m limpressive and in the game it's w yrestricted t o s n o w y s w i s h hnoises. T h e ope ni ng s ounde tracks a r e n' t t o o b a d , b u t ik they're t he s or t o f scr atchy c s•l ectr o-bop that you've probah -bly he a r d o n a l m os t ever y s other C o d e Ma s t e r s ga m e . u Still, good effort, good effort! c c e e d s Players, £1.99 cassette i n Blade, has returned t o his S home city after finishing his uarmy duties, but Is not happy to find p that it isn't safe for people to walk the streets any more. Even in e their own homes the citizens live in rfear. J oe decides that s omet hing must be done and sets off to put an m end to the villains reign. You t ak e t he part of Joe. and e g a I enj oyed playing h the or i gi nal J o e a e B l a d e qui te a bi t r slo a n d to thi s day I haven't q u i t e d compl eted i t , s o w h e n t h e m sequel arrived, I expected to aplay a g o o d , c ha l l e ngi ng ngame. However , after reading ,the instructions, I sat down to Jmy second game and promptly compl eted the mission, as I 'vs omanaged t o d o ever y t i m e esince. Now this to me doesn't make f or a chal l engi ng a nd addictive game. On the other hand t he gr aphi cs ar e okay, and the musi c is qui te good, but anyone with a bit of spare time could watch a demo with neat sound and g r • hics and be two quid Oen
or h u ma n c ont rolled) s t art t h e game at the top of a snowy slope, depicted in a sort of isometric 3D, the object of the game being to get to t he bot t om of t he run in limit time. Easy. h u h ? Well, i t wo u l d b e except for the fact that, to qualify for the next run, you have to get to the bot t om of the slope and do it by skiing through a series of gates. The joystick or keyboard rotates your ski-er left and right, and the
GRAPHICS 72%
Small, sometimes indistinct, Skier sprites, but nice piste graphics.
SOUND 58%
Familiar electro-bop tunes and swishy skiing noises.
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LASTABILITY 60% • and even when you've got the knack some of the time limits make it a bit frustrating.
OVERALL 73%
An unusual and mildly compelling adaptation of the sport. A Another simulator? Leave it out. darling S t i l l , it ain't hall good
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Aaaagh! This is so frustrating! The skiers are quite difficult to control because they sometimes get into positions w he r e y ou c a n't s e e whi ch di r ecti on they're going. Also, there are times when you have to really thrash away at the poles to get anywhere, and for no appar ent reason. Oh, and whenever you crash, you nearly always end up pointing in the wr ong direction - just like Code Master s' BMX Simulator! Maddeni ng! I di d eventually get the hang of the game, but even then I found the time limit on the second run too tight. Only buy it if you've a good supply of tranquilizers in the house • tire button pushes him f orward or, on a slope, makes him crouch for PRESENTATION 67% extra speed. Oh, a n d wa t c h o u t f o r t h e Scores on the one and two yeti simultaneous player options and the good screen layout.
must walk the streets taking out the punks by kicking them in them head. As well as duf fi ng u p t he
thugs, you must rescue 16 citizens by solving a series of sub-games, which involve y ou rearranging a sequence of numbers. If you can manage to complete your mis s ion, t hen y o u c an b e proclaimed a s u i t a b l y h a r d maaaaaan,
PRESENTATION 69% High score table and neat layout, but no options
GRAPHICS 78%
Tough-man cartoon graphics and generally pleasing, if a little repetitive. backdrops.
SOUND 76%
Decent enough tunes but no sound effects at all You start off playing this by thinking, 'this is a bit of all r i ght'; but w he n your go ge t s t o a bout fi ve minutes l ong, you begi n t o wonder what's goi ng on W h a t have they done to one of my favourite budget heroes? Waaah! It's all very much the same as Joe Blade, except the baddi es are in casual gear and prison walls have been replaced by city walls. This woul dn't be so bad, but the game's far too easy - and that's not really on - not even at this price. V J oe Blade is b-ack!!!1 Er. but the game's not up to much
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Easy enough to get i n t o for a while arid f u n
LASTARILITY 15%
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OVERALL 38% Fun for a very short while
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Players E1.99 cassette ing i n a n d wa t c h i n g M Blue Pet er. H e h a s n ' t jgot enough bottle tops to make an inter-galactic space racer, so he's o ' k e The Am i ga v e r y sion m a d e m e d laugh a l ot s o I o was l ooki ng for e ward t o a r eal l y ous time. I wasn't di saps led ei ther s u r p r i s e d n king stickmen. graphically ' crippled buddha s a n d w h a t t looks l i ke a n unde r gr ound Ely of mutati ng m ol e s l ly funny. The n I r eal i sed i wasn't supposed to be a k y s how but a deadl y e s (well, sor t of) game. well, what can I say? I s want t o pl ay f or ver y t long - there's little chance of a rig your punchi ng movey and n o t m uc h m or e vation to pr ogr ess. I f I 'd El 19 for this, even taking consideration t h e sting soundtr ack, I 'd be upset. I 'd much r ather it on a half of cider, a se s a ndw i c h a n d a hnut.
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turned his attentions to the streets. The streets are full of ferociously violent bloodt hirs t y hoods - but that doesn't bot her our Mickey he's a man, not a mouse. Armed only with his fists, he's determined to make his way to the east of town where he can work off any aggression he's still got left (a lot by the looks of it) on the notorious rival gang leader. the 'Curl'. Er a n d that's it. Well, what sort of a plot did you expect?
PRESENTATION 57% Neff loading screen but rutty scroiling tables,
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HICS 30% standard backdrops kindly a home for some belowllit t Sprites that no one else seems to want
SOUND 90% Psychedelic trite track can be mixed and scratched by pressing selected keys.
HOOKABILITY 22%
It's hard to believe that the same team who br ought you Great &arta Sisters could bring you this. U you're looking for a game wi th oodl es of playability and some halfway decent graphics, this definitely isn't it - not unl ess y ou cal l tur ni p-headed hoods a nd gangmen in green jogging suits state-of-the-ar t thugs. The control method is especially designed to give you as little manoeuvrability as possi bl e - i t's a bi t like trying to swi m the English channel i n a r adi ati on sui t or wal ki ng wi th a r ubber band tied r ound your legs. Painful? Yes. Original? No.
Not one to grab you by the neck
LASTASILITY 20% You might play it once, but you won't want to play it again.
OVERALL 30% Not one to show off to the gang - but you may s o m e pleasure out of the
SCORPION Rack-It, E2.99 cassette by movi ng al ong a networ k of pipelines, av oidin' mo wn ' obs t acles a n d s hoot in layers. • a l l Not only that, it's also pickin' t h u pe t he bombs and onc e it's collected them all up on one layer bit justo mov mes bright on down to the
things goi ng d o w n a t W your t h e l i t r i o r o i l erefinery?' l Well Lula Mae, we' v e just got ourselves a fine new anti-terrorist ldevice. Daddy sure woulda been .proud of me. Yep, it ' s c alled a hScorpion battle mac hine. We ' r e oputtin' it t hrough s o me might y tough tests right now. It's tryin' to w stop a simulated refinery sabotage d r 9 1 y';4 1 J n o r m R1 T . H : I 0 2 ! H o w a r e
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Pacman i s l i v p - r oof that a lect ' e m doesn't ha v e be f a nc y t o fun. Scor pi on i sn't fancy because of a really awkw. control method, i t's not even that much fun. Basically, you just c a n' t m ov e a r ound t he screen fast e nough t o k e e p away from the skimming blobs and jelly cubes wriggling hot on your trail. I f you do get it right, ther e's nothi ng t o l ook forward to - just another boring ne t w or k o f j oi nt s a n d pipes. And, as Har ol d Wi l son will tel l y ou a ny da y of t he week, once you've seen one pipe you've seen them all.
A few scrolli title screen an that's it.
50% on the well,
GRAPHICS 65% Glossy pipe effects and some neat parallax scroHing.
SOUND 50%
Funky title music and squirty sound effects.
Hoommunr56% Just enough to get you into the first level. umnualury39% Not enough variety to keep you playing for long.
OVERALL 56*/0
One of those games you bring out on a rainy day -and then put away again.
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BUDGET TEST While P a ul r aved a bout thi s game, ther e I w a s struggling on a small screen area packed with obstacles hamper i ng pr ogr ess because you have t o drive ve-e-e-r -r -r y sl o-o-wl y be t w e e n them. I 'l l admit that I did enjoy the Dukes of Hazzard style river leaping, and the extra equi pment certainly adds to the fun. The graphics and sound are very nice too, and if you can get used to the contr ol method (which is qui te easy after a bit of practice) there's a good bit of fun to be had from Fifth Gear.
Your progres s i n t he rac e is viewed f rom above, and the joystick controls steering and acceleration in forward and reverse gears. You start the game wit h $10,000 to us e f or buying extra weapons and equipment, fuel and repairs at shops a n d garages on t he way. When, o r it, y ou fi nis h t he rac e prize money is awarded, allowing you t o t u r n y o u r c a r i n t o a n unstoppable race machine.
a p r e t t y point les s s p o r t ? E Well, m o t o r r a c e s d o n ' t vc ome muc h more pointless t han ethis one - just drive to the end of a rcourse, t u r n a r o u n d a n d d r i v e back. But, (and this but is about as tbig as that of the fat Houghton) this his an illegal, no holds barred race othrough country which will test the umettle of the drivers and the metal in their chassis. g h t m o t o r r a c i n g w a s
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Al though this game l ook s l i ke Spy Hunter, It has more of the appeal o f St eer A n d Go (anyone r emember that?), but with blasting too! Leapi ng over r i ver s, t or c hi ng c a r s , trucks, trees, helicopters and even trains is enor mous fun. It demands quite a bit of skill too, because the number of obstacles in the small play area prevents you from driving too fast until you've mastered the control method and know what to expect fr om the r oad ahead. All t h a t onl y t a k e s a f e w games, though, and after that I was r eal l y hooked. I n fact, i t would be al most tr ue t o say that this game drove me to distraction (who says Tar buck's old hat?).
,1 Wel l -Paul liked I t-but then, he always was a sucker for overhead vertically scrolling Spy Hunter variants
Smart high score tables and menus. Control takes some getling used to.
GRAPHICS 74% Nicely designed cars and scenery which all moves very oothly . D 70% Appropriate jingles and funky title track.
HOOKABILITY 75% Some setbacks to immediate enjoyment, but once you know what to expect from the game it's good fun.
LASTA1HLITY 79% Takes lots of practice just to finish the first race.
OVERALL 78%
PS1-DROID Zeppelin Games, £2.99 cassette ing t o your service schedule L because t his lit t le droid i s eabout t o hit big. The large c argo tcraft. Dregnaught Ni n e , i s o n 'course for earth - and unless you manage to collect all the pieces of s the puis ebomb y ou stupidly los t hon transportation to the ship, earth o p e y Well - I ' m n o t o goi ng to say that u this i s t he m os t ' original game the v world h a s e v e r epr oduced ( I ' d b e l y i n g , bwoul dn't I?) but I have to admit it's qui t e g o o d f un whi l e I t elasts. The gr aphi cs ar e slick eand t h e bounc i ng c ont r ol nmethod isn't accompani ed by kthe s a m e sor t of fr ustr ati on been known to spoil so ethat's many games. The bonus level ecertainly hel ps t o br eak t he p whol e thi ng up and the envi r- onment i s l ar ge e nough t o keep you expl or i ng for some time. Questi on is, woul d you want to keep playing that long. Haven't we seen all this some-
Hmmm, I thought, when I looked at the packaging. When I started playing I thought 'hmmm' again. OK, so it's not very pr ofound but what do you expect me to say when there's hardly anything unusual about the game? Psi-Droid is a competent shot and collect 'em up pretty much in the style of 1-Xera released a few months back. I t's all pr etty well pr esented but ther e's just nothi ng to Inspire you to get any further into the game. If bland and repetitive gamepl ay is all you want from your budget game, go Out and get this at once. Everyone else woul d do well to waste a few gr ey cells thinking about it first.
(including you) has had it. Aaah! For reasons best known only to your programmers , y o u hav en't got ordinary wheels - instead you bounce about on the ship's inner platforms like a rubber ball. Pods and energy power packs improve your equipment and at intervals you c an improv e y our power by entering a bonus game - a sort of variation on Spac e Invaders (you shoot descending poles instead of Ships) . Your mainstay weapon is a laser gun. So use it.
A Hi, Xera! What do you mean, your name's not Xera? Oh, it's Psi! Sorry
PRESENTATKIN 54% Generally slick, but nothing to write home about.
GRAPHICS 61% Smart silver piping and neat disappearing floors.
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reaches of space, trouble is S brewing. Alien hordes are oarming themselves and blas t ing anything t hat approac hes t heir m station. It's up to you to put a stop e to them_ Af t er all, y o u a r e t h e w Slayer, the vigilante of the spacehwavs A Y ou move in the strangest social circles, you know e To stop the aliens f rom carrying items that may cause the aliens to of eac h s ec t ion s t ands a guard r shout. ' No! Do n ' t t o u c h t hat ! droid, which lakes a severe blaston in their nasty habits, you must e fight your way to the centre of their That's A A R G H ! ' jus t bef ore ing before it relents and allows you • system, destroying everything that they are blown t o bits when y ou to pass on to the next stage. i gets in y our way. If you fi nd that pick up the smart bomb. At the end And if you think that's all there is n continued blas t ing a t a n objec t to it, you're in for a nasty surprise fails to kill it, then may we advise - 'cos these aliens are tough! t you to avoid it instead_ If you get h fed up of your on board laser, then e why not pick up one of the aliens' fir st w e had Salamander, then Katales (shhh! not f systems and us e those instead? Eit laser death, alien scumbags! allowed to mention that!) and now we've got Slayer Such items include extra-fast lasa - the best budget r i ght-to-l eft scroller thi s year! ers, up and down guns and circling r Al though i t doesn't match the hi gh standar ds of drones. Als o along t he way are those full-price giants, I t s a gr eat pocket money game o n e that you'll pick up next year and play again. It reminds o me most of that other Hewson shoot 'em up, Zynaps in desi gn f and as such it's extremely playable. The collision and play - but where Zynaps was a bit too hard and frustrating, f detection is qui te gener ous on the l andscape, so the bal ance of difficulty and progress here is just right. Well wonf --i i i that when things get tight, you don't always have to the dosh, I'd say (if I was a gorblimey Cockney and not a four-legworry about bei ng pixel perfect. The gamepl ay is 1 ged Dutchman in a penguin suit). where T Slayer comes into its own, though: being armed with a full array of rotating add-ons and multi-directional missiles is a great h i (Right on, brother). The only fault I found with it was the feeling! PRESENTATION 60% s excessive toughness of killing the first end-of-l evel alien - but Two-player Option, neat screen the irest of the game more than makes up for this. Miss Slayer at layout and that's about it - who I al ways thought yours peril! needs anything else with that shoot 'em up gameplay this good? a games o f t h i s GRAPHICS 80% c w type w e r e t h e Very well designed alien landsole pr oper ty of t scapes and some brilliant vlIP A. 1 e 1 4 „ , 0 • the full price mar ket I never u I- * snakes-even if they aren'torigthought I 'd s e e a ga m e l i ke Ina]. a 1I • 1 1 1 Slayer a t t h i s pr i c e . T h e SOUND 75% l graphics ar e suitably metallic ' A decent intro tune and some l looking a nd sui t the bl asti ng 411 action quite well I particularly impressive in-game effects y liked the snakey thing and the unusual for a budget game. q pi ck-up i cons. The s ound I s HOOKASILITY 90% u pretty much up to the standard Instantly addictive once you've i of a t e n qui d ga m e a nd the begun to pick up all those • presentation is - well, i t's all weapons. t right. Wha t really makes this LASTABILITY 78% e follow i n t h e f oot s t e ps o f The first level is a tough one to s games like Armalyte (though it crack, but once you do, there's i never qui te reaches the same P no stopping you having more frenetic s t a nda r ds ) i s t h e m goes. gameplay: l ots of blasting and i dodgi ng p u t t oge t he r br i l l liantly. Don't miss it, because A brilliant budget version of the a it's one of the budget shoot best of recent full-price shoot A It'sr good 'n' tough and you've gotta be rough to get o r 'em ups of the year. 'em ups. some stuff (crap captions Inc) t o T ZZAP! Christmas Special 1988 4 5 h a l
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in space, what wit h zeroA gravity t o i l e t s a n d a l l , sthere's always some alien life form ior ot her want ing t o inv ade y our orbiting energy collection station. f Today it's y our turn t o repel t he l alien boarders, but not having any i weapons on board, you've had to f some extra shielding on an old put Hull-Crawler and use it to bounc e e rinear energy puls es i n t o t h e w enemy spacecraft, a Single pulses are t oo weak f or s n ' t If you were just to lift t h i s o f f t h e h s of t ware s h e l f a and l o o k a t t h e r s c reens hot s o n d pac k aging, y ou'd probably the te hink t h i s wa s a St ar Forc estyle s hoot ' e m up. The s urn prise is i t s quite an addictive o puzzle game, with a fair wodge ofu enj oyment - and frustration - gguarant eed. It took a' while to fillh i n f or t he inadequac ies of the ins t ruc t ions , b u t a f t e r a f ew minut es play I soon got the hang o f t he g a me a n d af t er that I was loath to leave it. Well wor th a look.
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My initial bemusement with this game almost had me writing a condemni ng review, but it Only took a short time at the joystick to make me realise that Pulse Warrior i sn't a ba d little ga m e a t all. The graphics are good, the music and sound effects are good and the gameplay is v e r y good. A space setting like this for a puzzle game is pretty unusual and that in itself makes the game a bit more interesting to play. My Only worry is that there isn't an awful lot of variation in the game beyond the differing deck plans. Still, price you can't really go wr ong with this little number c h eatc kthe it out.
PRESENTATK04 50% Options only extend to joystick or keyboard control and Instructions could be clearer.
GRAPHICS 71% Smart bas-relief station decks.
SOUND 73% Good electro-rock soundtrack with a few spacey sound effects.
HOOKAIIILITY 78% Once you've worked out what you're supposed 10 be doing play becomes quite compulsive.
LASTABILITY 73% Lots of deck plans, but no major gameplay variations.
OVERALL 78% A novel and compelling puzzle game.
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mean b a d d l e s r u n n i n g C amok d o w n i n G r o o v e oTown - a n d s o me pret t y t hic k r policemen as well, by the looks of ' T h e Well, I r e c k o n r they've defini tel y e • b e e n r unni ng out of i deas down at a Prune S of t w a r e r headquarters: I m e a n , a e policeman on an astro hopper! They s m us t r eal l y have be e n scraping o the barrel when they came up with that. Not that I'm m averse to totally silly scenarios e (the mor e the merrier, I say) r it usually helps if there's a but game t o match. I must have e spent t e n m i nut e s hoppi ng a ar ound s c our i ng t h e l a ndl scape, ge t t i ng i nt o Gr oove, l before a ny t hi ng r e m ot e l y exciting happened. The mesy sages a t t he bot t om o f t he screen may suggest deep and meaningful t hi ngs t o l i t t l e green men from Mar s but they certainly didn't help me. If you see this lurking i nnocentl y on a shelf, ask i t politely to hop off.
• ot IttwiErtE ??velv • 'Elio, 'ello, looks like we've got a bit of a turkey here - and not one you'll be 'carving up on your di nner table ei ther . Whatever y ou do, don' t a s k y our k of this for your stocking Grandma to get you a copy
PRESENTATION 51% Cute front end animation and option to switch the sound off.
GRAPHICS 57%
Samey multecoloured street scenes, nicely animated sprites.
SOUND 61%
Bouncy (!) Starsky and Hutchstyle music which is best switched off.
HOOKABILITY 45%
because y ou sur e w on' t be pl ayi ng i t f or l ong. There's nothi ng wrong with the presentation as such but when it comes to manoeuvring your hopper and jumping on the baddias - watching the needles fall off the Christmas tree would probably bring you about the same amount of fun. Unl ess it's the onl y alternative to bei gagged, bound and thr own out of the wi ndow, give this oneng a miss. things. Four armed and dangerous criminals hav e s t olen t he ent ire fleet of police cars and the only PC left on the beat is you. You really have been caught on the hop this time - the only remaining f orm of transport av ailable t o y o u i s a child's a s t r o hopper. C o o l o r what? Well OK, so may be it's not the latest in street accessories but it does c o me i n pret t y us ef ul f o r squashing villains. As you bound about t he streets minding everybody else's business you'll fi nd a message a t t h e b o t t o m o f t he screen giv ing t he location of the nearest c rime. Ho p along there. Cassidy, and you could be well on your way t o getting more point s than you ever dreamed of
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moment, is a skateboard. You may look like a nerd most of the time, but when you gel on that groovy piece of wood you start to look like a nerd with some power. Anyway, your spots can't be that bad because the leader of the local 'boar di ng' gang has offered to give you a membership test. All you have to do is cope with fireballs, rolling spheres and headheight bars_ Got that? So hit the streets?
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S C O PRESENTATION 57% i Smart loading screen and detailed info panel but lthat's about GRAPHICS 64% l t Interesting scrolling angle, clear and detailed sprites. E
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PRO SKATEBOARD SIMULATOR Code Masters, £1.99 cassette sending pedestrians r unA ning for cover and learning fall the words in Or Evans Di cti oThis game and Pro Ski Simulator certainly represent tnary o f Totally Radical Slang, a mar ked i mpr ovement over some of t he other final l y a pr ofessi onal eyou're skateboarder. ropey Si mul ator ti tl es. B o t h s e c t i ons o f P r o r Your lob requires you to leap Skateboard Si mul ator a r e v e r y w e l l pr e s e nt e d yand skate around scrolling 3 D graphically but I'm a little dubious about the game's lastability. It's really difficult to beat the second levers time limit. eskateboard parks, collecting lots and if the parks after that are even more demanding, then either aof (lags which a r e maki ng t he I'm missing somethi ng or they have to be nigh on impossible. place generally untidy. Time, of rcourse, is of the essence, and if syou don't clear up the flags pretty course and start again. If you do finisn, play progresses odamn quick, you have to go right to a v ert ic ally -s c rolling c r o s s fback to the begi nni ng o f t he s Another simulator? Leave it out, darling S t i l l , this ain't had bad k As C o d e a Master s' t Simulators g o , i this has to be one n of the best For a start it has GEORDIES OK writg ten in the highscore table! The a OUTOF TN game is really well pr esented b otherwise, with loads of player o options a n d e v e n a hi dde n game (though I coul dn't actuu ally get it to wor k). The mai n t game is just as good, with two , very pl ayabl e secti ons, t h e first o f w h i c h r e s e m bl e s Atari's 7 2 0 . Pl ay i s a l i ttl e difficult on the later levels, but P r of e s s iona l I di dn' t fi nd t h e enj oyment wearing off for qui te a while. Well worth two quid.
country race, in which you have to skate a r o u n d t r e e s , b e t we e n buildings and over bridges. Again. you have a set space of t ime to skate the course and collect pairs of flags arranged as gates. Beat this and it's on to the next of the seven levels.
PRESENTATION 86% Lots of options to change number of players, lives, joysticks and the ability to restart on the last level reached.
GRAPHICS 75% Both sections feature good sprites and backdrops and smooth scrolling
SOUND 71% Funky tunes play throughout.
HOOKABILITY 79% Excellent presentation makes the action easy to get into
LASTABILITY 70% Seven levels, but high difficulty level makes any progress beyond the second rather frustrating_
OVERALL 79% One of Code Masters ' best Simulators yet, but probably more suited to the more accomplished games-player.
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After the r ecent release of this budget bi nar y bon- bon I w a s flooded wi th letters from eager tipsters hopi ng to nab the fr ee software w i t h thei r sol uti ons. Well, sor r y guys, no softwar e, but if it's any consolation, her e are your names - Marc Holland of Eastbourne, St ev en Lons dale o f Sheffield. M a t t h e w U p t o n o f Elmley Castle and Julian Neale of Sutton. Ri ght, n o w her e's t he solution - and try to resist the temptati on to use it if you think It'll spoil your enj oyment of the game! Start of f by unwear i ng a nd dr oppi ng b o t h t h e c l oa k o f invisibility and the shield in the same pl ace. N o w g o t o t h e bridge a nd t a k e t he Mctabl et food fr om Sar ah t o s t op y ou running out of ener gy. Get the film fr om Gor don (what, Hi m?) then go to the Recreation Room and give the film and the camera to Kl i nk, commandi ng hi m t o help. H e w i l l t h e n t a k e a photogr aph of you, whi ch you should then take to Der by IV in the T r a n s p u t e r R o o m . Command hi m t o hel p and he will dr op a blank ID card. That's not much good on its ow n s o find S3E3 a nd take the pot of glue from him. You'll then have an acci dent which should result In the photo becomi ng stuck to the blank ID, making it a valid ID. Now wear that. Your next task is to get the gas mask a n d t h e a dv e r t f r o m Sharon. For this you will need to take t he chocol ate hear t fr om Derby IV and give it to her. Oh, you c a n al so command her to help a nd ge t a ver y val uabl e clue. Go back to the shield and the cloak and drop the gas mask with them. Now dr op the adver t in fr ont of the airlock and use It to jump up and get the starmap and the pewter tankar d, both of whi ch you shoul d give to Gor don or he won't be able to fly the ship. Now send the ship to Starbase 1 and on arrival, command Gor don to help a n d h e w i l l fi x t h e transporter (i f he i s t oo ti r ed, command him to sleep and then wait a while and command him to help again). Taking t he adver t wi th you, beam d o w n t o t h e pl a ne t 's surface at l ocati on X1 , Y2, Z3. Give the glue to Hector and keep moving right until you get to the end, then use the adver t to get the boots. Beam back up to the ship (X0. YO, ZO) and dr op the boots with the cloak, the shield and the gas mask, refuel the ship (it's a good idea to try this at every planet), then fly to Monopol e. When you arrive, wear the cl oak a nd the gas mask and beam down to Xl, Y8, Z4. Go towar ds the right and pick up the first piece of the sundial. Now fi nd Hooper and take the magic talisman and the piece of
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sundial from him and beam back up ( t he s a m e co-or di nates a s before). Unwear the mask a nd cl oak and dr op them where they were before, then wear the talisman. Dr op the pieces of the sundial in a he a p a nd fl y t o Retr eat, where y ou shoul d onc e agai n wear t h e c l oa k , b o o t s a n d gasmask and beam down to X8, Y4, Z1 Fi nd the barrier, check you a r e wear i ng t he tal i sman and cast the 'Remove Barriers' spell. The last piece of sundial is
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with Mur phy and once you have it, dr op the talisman and beam back t o t h e s hi p. D r o p t h e sundial fr agment with the others and then unwear everything you don't need. Cast the 'Li ghtni ng Bolt' s pe l l a t t h e pi e c e s o f sundial to fuse them together , forming the Gol den Sundi al of Alpha. Take the sundial and fly to Outpost. Wear the boots, cloak and gas mask a n d b e a m d o w n t o location X8, Y9, Z6 and move to the r i ght. Whe n y ou he a r t he
voice make sur e you have the sundial - O N N O ACCO UNT SHOULD YOU BE WEARI NG IT! Keep movi ng until you find the Guardians of Tyme who will give you a message. Beam back to the ship and fly to the black hole at Gangr ol e. Mov e t o t he far right of the ship and you shoul d find a br oken time machine has appeared. F i x i t b y c a s t i ng 'Li ghtni ng Bol t' at it make sure you ar e at the bl ack hol e and launch t h e t i m e m a c hi ne t o finish the game P h e w !
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BEYOND FIREFLY MEGA-MUZIK Inspired by Firefly's above named music hack, Mellow-Man of Hippotech has sent In this adapted listing with some more code numbers cones. to get the tunes of your choice s h a k i n g First type in the BASIC program and save it to tape or disk for t hos e s p e a k e r future use. Now LOAD in one 01 the games listed bel ow then reset the computer and LOAD the hack pr ogr am back in and RUN i t When pr ompted type i n the X a nd Y val ues whi ch correspond to your game, pressing RETURN after each, then settle back and relax as your favourite music floods forth from the computer. You can even speed it up or slow it down by typing in POKE 56501, (any number between 0 and 255) while the music is playing.
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1, 9,76,49, .1 5 , 234,0.32.4.226 120 32.69,3,69.3.96,189 31 4 DATA 1 c i f / 12,1 20 DATA .4 GAME 4. 0 12 THING ON A,2SPRING , USAGI YOJIMBO 11 6 9 8, ISANXION (LOADING MUSIC) ,1 8 , 11 4 1 62 0 , 93 . 1 .6 9 , 51 8 . 51 4 1 , 1 3 3 , 1 , 1 o f Vic t oria i n Paul Woodhouse start. Now, when the computer 6 t ha t t he t i p Australia f ound asks y ou t o enter your name, printed for thi9s ga m e i n t he type Parker Ray and enter your October issue didn't work on his , account number as 4444. Now version of the 7game and s o he watch in awe as the computer suggests the f ollowing met hod 5 tells you that you have $920,000 for amassing loadsamoney with to spend on as many tr aps as . norralorra e f f or t . L o a d t h e you like and then send out for a 1 game, let the theme tune pl ay realty big pizza afterwards (am I through and si4ng al ong i f you right Gor do? You're right, Paul 1 like, then when the dog star ts Gordo.) howling, press .the fire button to 1 8 1 2 2 0 . 1
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, lAriolasoftl 4 A c a nny c he a t m ode f or thi s 1 o f n a f f Cr ow t he r dom piece came to me from Solihull's own Stewart A Mc Comble. LOAD in t he game and press fire on the score screen. The cr edi t scr een will thenL appear and you should now press t he F3 key t o call up a game which allows you to Lmenu, change six game factors with a pr od of the right CIRSR key. Hi t E N RYGAR GGold) (US A cerE tai n Fred Flintstone of the Delta For ce has a qui ck POKE for US Gold' s r ubbi s h a r c a d e O Load the game and conversion. reset the computer so that you can tF y p e POKE 9551, 165 (RETURN) for unl i mi ted lives, a nd POKE 4050, 77 (RETURN) a n d POKET4 0 5 5 . 7 7 ( RE TURN) t o arrest t he timer. Whe n you've finished H fl exi ng y our fi nger s, ent er S Y S 2 3 2 5 (RETURN) t o restart the action. E KETTLE G O (Alligata) B John • O h N o No t Y o u Again' Clarke, o u r 4 t h & I n c h e s challenger O of some months ago, has dei gned to write in with this weird tip for this weird Crowther game.TLi ke many of hi s other games, K e t t l e h a s a s e c r e t weirdness S m o d e w hi c h i s activated thus. When the game loads, m o v e y o u r s e l e c t i on pointer ov e r t he w o r d RATT whic h i s jus t beneat h KETTLE. Now p r e s s fi r e a n d , appropriately e n o u g h , y o u r pointer becomes a r a t (that's one t). Oh, the fun and frolics you can have with your rat, but once you've fini shed, tr y positioning it over one of the letters in the wor d KETTLE a n d pr e s s fi r e again. Now watch the sparks fly! Well, very small sparks, maybe.
HAWKEYE (Thalamus) Here's a qui ck and easy cheat mode for thi s tab Gol d Medal winning bl a s t f r om t he Boy s Wi thout Br a i ns . T h e c h e a t comes from Erik Baeten of Vent° in Hol l and, a n d onl y entai l s LOAD ing the game up as normal and t y p i n g t h e w o r d 1/ ALSSPELER' on the openi ng screen. The Thalamus logos will flash indicating that infinite lives are now yours.
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CHAMPIONSHIP SPRINT (Electric Dreams' AAWWW! W h a t a n a w w w f ul game t his is . Paul and Andrew Nettleton obv i ous l y l i k e d i t though, as they've desi gned a few cour ses of thei r own a nd sent in the alphabetic codes for six of them. And they are tasdstkssshbssshksssi aabdthenciligaakciaa bfbfakonofagggrakiki bc dc f gaiggic pk c c c i tadtbtgbniggggagkiko beetargglfggglikikia
BAZOOKA BILL (Ricochet) This i s a pr etty awful variation on the Green Beret theme that woul dn't wish on anyone, but for those lucky few who are able to laugh at adversity, here is a mad 'n' wacky tip fr om a per son of Scottish per suasi on w ho goes by the name of Derek Mckenzie. According to Derek, all you have to do is l eave the auto-fir e on your j oysti ck swi tched on f or 50 % mor e heal th and a l onger game. Thos e o f y ou w i t hout auto-fir e joysticks should therefore count yourself lucky.
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is replaced by the scoreboard, look at the bottom of the screen and you should find an instruction that lets you have up to nine Freds, simply by pressing the Fl key. Yabba dabba doo, as they say.
PANDORA (Firebird) R O'Neill of sunny Romford was rummaging through the code of Firebird's futuristic arcade adventure and came up with the following hacks to liven the game up. LOAD the game, reset and enter whichever of these POK Es takes your fancy. stuff t o i ts soundtrack. J us t LOAD the game, reset the computer a n d t y p e P O K E 54296,15:SYS 49152 (RETURN), then it's time to (WOO! YEAH!) get on down! (as they say).
MANIAC MANSION Rucastilm) This has to rate as one of Lucastilm's greatest games — it's brilliant It's just a pity you need a disk drive to enjoy it. Now for those of you who gave up the quest to save Sandy's brain, Neil Graham has sent in a map and some tips to give you just cause to dig out the game and show Dr Fred and Nurse Edna just who's head frankfurter (well, almost!) 1. First off, select Dave, Michael and Bernard. 2. leave Dave by the mail box to the left of the mansion and take Michael and Bernard into the house. To open the front door, get the key from under the doormat and use it to unlock the door. & Now take Michael to the library and push the loose panel under Chuck the plant. This will reveal a cassette. Pick it up and proceed to the kitchen. 4. In the kitchen get the flashlight. Now go to the larder and get the fruit drinks and the bottle of developer. This will smash, but don't worry about that y e t . 5. Now go up the stairs and into the Art Room where you should see some waxed fruit and some paint remover. Pick these up and proceed up the next flight of stairs where you should meet the tentacle. Give the waxed fruit and the fruit drink to the tentacle to get past rt. Now go up the stairs and enter Fred's bedroom. Reading the wanted poster should get you a useful telephone number which you should make a note of. Go up the ladder to the tentacle's room. Take the record and the yellow key. a. Now go to the Gymnasium. Use the Hunk-O-Matic machine to make you stronger. Now go through into the Bathroom and get the sponge. 7. Next go into the Portrait Room and use the paint remover on the blotch of paint. This reveals another door. 8. Now take Michael back outside the mansion and get him to pick up the bushes to the left of the marision. This reveals a grating. After working out on the Hunk-O-Matic you will be strong enough to pull this and reveal a secret passage under the mansion. IL Around this time the doorbell will ring and a package will be delivered. Quickly change control to Dave, pick up the package and run into the kitchen before Ed arrives. 10. When Ed goes, get Dave to open the package and you will pick up some stamps. Now get Dave to take the package up to Ed's room and give Ed the package. Ed will now ask you to find his plans. Change back to Michael. 11. Moving Michael along the passage you will come across a puddle of developer. Pick this up using the sponge and go back outside the house. To the right of the mansion you will now see some undeveloped film. Pick this up and go to the Dark Room. Once there, put the developer in the sponge into the developing tray and develop the film. 12. Pick up the developed prints and read them and you'll see they are Ed's plans, so take them to him. 13. Now take Michael to the Music Ream and put the cassette into the recorder and the tentacle's record on the Victrola. Turn on the cassette recorder then the Victrola. Wait until the vase smashes before t r : o ftof the the Lounge. Victrola and recorder and getting the cassette Now proceed 14. Once in the Lounge open the cabinet door and play the cassette
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in the cassette player. The chandelier will smash and you can now get the key. 15. The next part requires quickish reactions. Position Bernard in Ed's Room and Michael outside Edna's Room. Take Michael into Edna's Room and she will come in and throw him in the dungeons, Whilst she is away you must quickly swap control to Bernard, take him into Edna's room and get the small key off the night stand before Edna returns and locks Bernard up as well. 16. If both Michael and Bernard do get locked in the Dungeon, don't despair—this provides a useful opportunity for the two characters to swap some items. Make Bernard give Michael the small key and get Michael to hand over the flashlight and the yellow key. 17. Use the old rusty key to get out of the Dungeon and you should find yourself in the Reactor Room. Get Bernard to pick up the silver key and then take him to the Gymnasium for a go on the Hunk-0Matic. After pumping up Bernard's strength, take him to the larder and unlock the locked door with the silver key. Proceed through the door and you should be beside a swimming pool. Position Bernard at the top of the swimming pool ladder and switch control back to Michael. 18. Take Michael to the passage under the house (via the grating) and get him to open the water valve. Quickly change control back to Bernard and you will see the pool has been drained of water. Take Bernard down the ladder into the pool. Pick up the radio and the glowing key. Quickly leave the pool and change control back to Michael to close the water valve. 19. Go back to Bernard and get him to open the radio and inside he should find some batteries. Put the batteries into the flashlight. Now go through the gate and into a garage. Open the garage door and go inside. Pick up the water faucet handle and open the trunk of the Edsel with the yellow key. Take the tools from the trunk and go to the lounge. 20. Use the tools to take apart the old-fashioned radio andfemove the radio tube. Take this and put it in the radio tube socket next to the radio in Fred's room. The radio is now fixed and you can use it to call the Space Police when you finally get the lab door open (their number is on the Wanted poster), 21. Now take Bernard to the Bathroom and fix the water faucet handle to the water faucet. Turn the faucet on and the shower will come on causing the mummy in the bath to move and reveal Edna's 'phone number. 22. Now send Michael outside the door with no handle and place Dave at the foot of the main stairs. Get Dave to push the gargoyle to the right of the stairs and the door will open allowing Michael to enter. Send Michael to the circuit breakers in the Reactor Room and take Bernard to the Wires Room. Get Bernard to switch on the flashlight and then switch control back to Michael. Now get Michael to turn off the circuit breakers and change back to Bernard. Bernard must fix the wires with the tools before you switch control to Michael who has to switch the circuit breakers back on before the purple tentacle arrives. 23. Now take Michael to the Dungeon and open the top and bottom padlocks on the outer door to the Sekra Lab with the glowing key. 24. Take Bernard to the Library and get him to fix the phone with the tools. You can now use the phone to call Edna11you want to. And that's all the help you're getting f o r the m om e nt
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I've seen neither hide nor hair of this game, s o unfor tunatel y I can't give a critical appraisal as to its musical merits, however, if you ge t o f f o n t h e ga m e ' s melodic strains, you mi ght like to try LOADing i t up, r esetti ng the computer and entering SYS 16427 to start the music (with a very chic line in the border).
Another t e r r i fi c M a t t G r a y melody easily accessed by the f amiliar LOAD-res et proc edure. After the reset, type SYS 3603: POKE 54296, 15, t o g e t t h o s e notes floodi ng from the speaker with a tasteful raster bar on the screen to boot! Thanks again to Denmar k's answer t o Ri char d Clayderman, M Svendsen.
HE-MAN (Gremlin) Has anyone seen the film - talk about the w oode nt ops g o t o Greyskulle - Dolph's acting ability is on a pa r w i t h a s hop dummy! Some of the di al ogue was pretty di abol i cal tool ! O h well, perhaps Masters of the Universe II will be better. I f you've got the ga m e , a n d w oul dn' t mind playing with unlimited lives end all ei ght chor ds, j ust l oad the game, r eset t he computer and type POKE 6266.173:POKE 2346,8:SYS 2064 (RETURN) and exactly that will happen.
STORM BRINGER (MAD) According t o r e gul a r t i ps t e r Robert T r o u g h t o n , t h i s entertaining ar cade adventur e is graced wi th a hi dden cheat mode only accessible by a petite POKE - this one in fact. POKE 6348,1 - Now start the game. If you pull down S Y on the joystick you s hould find you can mov e t o any r oom S by mov ing i n a n y o f t h e f o u r 6 directions or if you want to stay where you are, just press the fi re 6 button. If y ou need t o get a 0 certain part of a room, s ay t he 7left side, move to the left side of ( room you are in and activate the the R cheat. Dead easy! E T U R N ) .
COMBAT SCHOOL (Ocean) Here's N a t h a n M a g u i r e o f Stockpor t wi th a tip for all you f rus t rat ed j o y s t i c k wa g g l e r s . Af t er c omplet ing the t hird fi ring range. reset the c ount er to zero. If t he ins t ruc t or beat s y ou, o r you d i e o n t h e mis s ion, wh e n pr ompted to rewind, just rewind to z e r o a n d p r e s s play . Th i s loads t he ins t ruc t or fi ght again and saves hav ing to go t hrough the school.
RADIUS (Players) Paddy o f T r a m Southampton says s t art t he g a me , pres s C), use joyst!ck to enter MEANTEAM and you ge t infinite lives. Why can't everything be that easy!
KENTILLA (Mastertronic) Yeah! One of my favourite Rob Hubbard p i e c e s a n d i t ' s available to discerning SID fans with t h e m i ni m um o f effor t, thanks t o S e a n a n d Adr i a n Meads. LOAD up your copy of the game, r eset I t a nd enter SYS 53236 to play the main theme.
ICE PALACE ROLLAROUND (Creative Sparks) (Mastertronic) We r evi ewed thi s way back i n Issue 2 - have any of you got a copy? I f you have, l oad i t and reset the computer. Enter POKE 12755,173:POKE 13416,173:SYS 3200 (RETURN) a n d t h e g a me restarts with unlimited energy.
I quite like this game - it's a neat sort o f Spindizzy cl one. I f you want to play with unlimited lives, jus t l o a d t h e g a me , res et t h e computer a n d e n t e r P O K E 43523,44:SYS 19000 (RETURN). It's that simple.
DOOMDARK'S REVENGE (Beyond) This rather good s t rat egy / adv ent ure game has been around for ages, but if it still has you s t umped you might be able to mak e use of thi s handy utility sent i n ages a go by Jeff Davis of Peter bor ough. Basically, the pr ogr am al l ows you t o recruit Shareth t he Hear tsteal er and l ook thr ough her eyes t o see where she is. You can then de-recruit to allow her to move her forces at night. First type in the listing, but don't bother typing the br ackets in lines 130 and 150-160 - I onl y put those in to highlight the numbers.
2 REM DOOMDAPIK POKES BY JEFF DAVIS 4 REM ON ANY CHARACTER VIEW SCREEN 5 REM PRESS 'Z' TO RECRUIT SHARETH 6 REM PRESS 'X' TO DE-RECRUIT HER IDEFORF NIGHT, 10 LET I =0 20 FOR X=679 TO 746 30 READ D: POKE X,D: LET + 1 3 : NEXT X 40 IF T< >7 7 2 6 THEN PRINT "ER R OR IN
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Now RUN the program and get a blank tape or disk ready. Now type: POKE 43,167: POKE 44,2: POKE 45,235: POKE 46,2: CLR: SAVE "DO O MCHE A T" (RETURN) Or, if us ing a disk, POKE 43,167: POKE 44,2: POKE 45,235: POKE 46.2: CLR: SAVE "DOOMCHEAT", 8 (RETURN) This SAVES out the machine code. Now switch the 64 off and on and load Doomdark's Revenge as usual, then reset the c omput er when it's loaded. Now load in the cheat with LOAD "DOOMCHEAT". 1, 1 or .8,1 If using a disk. Now type in the following POKEs POKE 2048,162: POKE 2049,255: POKE 2050,154: POKE 2051.32: POKE 2052.128: POKE 2053.9 (RETURN) POKE 26944,76: POKE 26945,167: POKE 26946,2 (RETURN) SYS 2048 (RETURN) starts the game. Now, when on any character's view screen, press 'Z' then the select k e y (I NST DEL) a n d y o u s houl d fi n d c harac t er 4 i s Shareth. Remember that, when you've finished you must return her to computer contr ol or she won't move, so on any view screen, pr ess 'X' and she is back under control of the 64. If you want such useful facilities for Mor ki n, change the br acketed 4s in the listing to 'Is and repeat the saving process, only using a dif f erent fi lename.
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Well, that's it for another month I'm afraid. This month's lucky, lucky, 000h-so-lucky contributors are Tipster of the Month, Neil Graham of Liverpool for his Maniac Mansion maps and tips, and Cartographer of the Month, William Callaghan of Tipton who sent In the ilawkeye map. No doubt they'll both have a happy Christmas after their E30 software vouchers pop through the letterbox. If you reckon you have something, be it a map, POKE or cheat mode, that's worth some free software, send it to this address PO'S TI P S , Z Z A P ! TOWE RS , P O B O X 1 0 , LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE, SYS lOS - and who knows, if your contribution Is sizeable orofblock-bustoring receiving end a E30 voucher. enough you could be on the Now, if you don't mind, I'll just wish you a merry Christmas and' slope off to Ma indulge a little of the Christmush shpirit P o s h , that bottle, l i . . . in Urp. loc
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Ah, the s e a s on of good c he e r ! I lov e Christmas — puddings , pie s , a big tr e e , jolly men in big r e d s uits , s n o w m e n , tins e l, pressies a nd m or e tur k e y t ha n y ou c a n s tuff into ten of thos e m e g a - e n o r m o u s fr e nc h sticks fr om Ga t e wa y wit h ple nty of mayonnaise. Yum ! It's still only N ov e m be r but Idecided to c r a c k ope n a bottle of QC a ny wa y just to c e le br a te ! H ic ! Oops , pa r don m e ! I' d sing you a s ong but pa s t e x pe r ie nc e ha s taught m e tha t I' d pr oba bly be tte r not. Anyway, c r a c k ope n a c a n of C ok e , ge t out the Quality Str e e ts a nd na b y our fa v our ite seat by the fire —a v e r ita ble feast of fa bulous Yuletide festivity a wa it s ( w h a t d' y ou mean there's no s n o w a r ound?)
THE SPACE CHICKEN WRITES BACK Yo Lloyd! When I b ro u g h t the S e p t e mb e r ZZA Pl. I re a lly felt a s - like. strange, so I ju st h a d t o p u t ch icke n p e n t o p a p e r a n d scribble a fe w lines. Even th o u g h I 'm o n ly a Sp a ce Ch icken, I could've done b e tte r than Ma rk Wa lke r of A u ssie la n d in making K a mo v. I 'd se t t le f o r a p la ya b le 1 st le ve l, O K ? No !won't b o th e r but the ro u tin e s are re a d y so only a bit of assembling a n d in p u t, a n d K a m o v 2 is re a d y! G e t in touch ED! A n yro a d , M r Tip s G la n ce y is ta b - d ' ya k n o w his fan clu b a d d re ss? G o rd o n is b rill a n d M a l l lo o ks KOOL! Co u ld I h a ve an a u t o g ra p h e d p h o t o p le a se (wit h Lloyd and Kati!)? N o w t o my mo a n s: 1. !h a ve just read and c o mp a re d ZZAP! no 8 ,3 8 and 41. No8 wa s brill, a real 'art. No 38 wa s ra th e r tame, wh ile 41 wa s n e a rly as g o o d a s n o 8 a 9 a in - ke e p th e rise ! 2. Please mo re zany h u mo u r - I lo ve it! Be mo re G A ME S MA CHINE Y p le a se , wit h in t e rvie ws (ie. S e n siso f t , John Twid d y, To n y Cro wt h e r, A n it a S in cla ir, Do u g Adams o r o th e rs) a n d fe a tu re s! 3. Please, p le a se mo re A mig a co ve ra g e - I'm 64 o n ly but I love re a d in g 'b o u t A mig a . L o t s o f o u r co n t a ct s a n d mates are A mig a g u ys! 4_ I hated P re d a to r. 5. Bring b a ck G a ry L id d o n . if o n ly f o r an in t e rvie w! A f t e r a few mo n t h s, p le a se in t e rvie w o ld re v ie we rs to se e where they sta n d ! 6. I 'm only a sp a ce ch icke n , so p le a se d o n 't e xp e ct t o o much of me, but mo re d e mo co ve ra g e please, a n d I'd love to see d e mo re v ie ws (like g ra p h ics, so u n d , interest va lu e , t e ch n ica l a n d o ve ra ll)!! 7. Ya mixe d u p th e I n fi lt ra t o r and Ta u Ce t i p o in ts in th e Se p te mb e r ZZA P B A CK , d id n ' t ya l B. I really found my me a n in g s in the Gu in e a P ig 's le tte r (a relative o f me!) a n d I wa n n a sa y th a n x. 9. Please no d ra win g c o m p s - we sp a ce ch icke n s h a ve a p h ysica l d ra wb a c k ! 10My 3 fave p e rso n a g e s in g a me s ma k in g : 1) S e n sib le Software (Ch ris and Jo h n , not M a r t y . . o h so rry!).'a v you got th e ir f a n clu b a d d re ss? 2) S t a vvy Fa so u la s; 3) Martin Wa lke r Bubblers: Ge o ff Cra mmo n d and A n d re w B ra yb ro o k and also my ma t e s, G e o f f re y 0 Wa llro se t it t y, a n d Manfred d o o b le x Flyp a p e r!
111 a g re e wit h Ma t t th a t Mu s i c is imp o rt a n t (Mil) b u t h is fa ve s, w h o o r wh a t is it? I lo ve P o g u e s, U2 , D u m d u m B o ys a n d th e B a rry L e it ch -re n d it io n o f the Ch icke n So n g ! 1 2 .Co u ld you p le a se co n ta ct me , B a n a n a ' y7 aA d dP re ss! h a s ,1 3 B 7mye ! g o t S p a ce Ch icke n , Tro n d h e im, N o r w a y Well, m y little ch icka d e e , wh a t a lot of q u e stio n s! He re are the a n swe rs. 1. E r w e will keep the rise ('ere, no, mis s u s an all that a n ' e ve ryfi n ') if you ke e p y o u r fl i e s . . , u p 2. D o yo u re a lly th in k T G M are za n y? !? Oh we ll . . H o w ' s th is f o r zany: De re k. 3. Y e s , w e will. A re t h e y n o w? W0 0 0 0 0 0 h ! 4. T h e g a me o r the fi lm? ! like d the fi lm b u t not the game, myse lf . 5. G a r y L icid o n wo u ld n ' t fi t t h ro u g h th e d o o r e v e n th o u g h we ' v e wid e n e d it to a c c o mmo d a t e Go rd o n . No, b u t se rio u sly f o l k s " ! We are t h in kin g o f d o in g s o me t ime in th e d ist a n t fu tu re a p o t t e d fe a tu re s o me t h in g like Wh e re are they n o w? on the o ld re vie wers, e d it o rs, d o g s b o d ie s a n d t h a t . . . M a y b e 6. W e sh a ll se e - b u t sp a ce is limit e d , y o u kn o w, a s a n y n o n -p a n -d ime n s io n a l life form will te ll you. 7. F l y i n g fi sh e a t h o rse -h a ir p ie s B a co n ro lls a n d th e n it d ie s 8. S o , s a y 't h a n , e then. 9. S o rry , M r C h i c k e n - d r a w i n g c o mp s are here to s t a y ju s t lo o k at Ke n D Fish 's Re su lt s Pa g e ! (wh a d d ya me a n , w h o ' s K e n th e Fish ? Tu rn to p a g e 1 7 6 o r 191 a n d fi n d out!) 10Er e r O K then, w e ' l l p a ss o n th e me ssa g e t h ro u g h th is me g a o rg a n o f ours. 11.Dr Evans sa ys, ru b on mo re ra w fi sh a n d yo u ma y be c u re d - h o we ve r, it d id n ' t wo rk f o r h im. 12.1-le ca n 't b e ca u se we h a ve n 't. 1 a B ye e e e e e e l LM
DOZZAP! GET BRIBED TO GIVE GOODREVIEWS? Dear Lloyd
I'd like to bring up a few points. Firstly, ZZAPI has biased reviewers. All games like Last Ninja II, Impossible Mission end Hunters Moon got good reviews: companies like US Gold, System 3, and Thalamus probably pay you to give their games a good review. US Gold are the least guilty, because some of their games get a bad re vie w 19%, )(emus. Tag -Breakthru le, Teem Wrestling 25%, Now for a D r prediction: Armalyte will get e a or 93%, just you wait and 92% see. m Point two, why has everyone W a writing started in with facts r r bananas? Frankly. I think about hardly i o anyone gives a toss. Here is my final question. Please, r 4 please, please, please could you 9 %the solution to the elderly 'print game, Finders Keepers. I play it occasionally when I'm bored, but I can't get the hairy dog or get past the cat. Please can you
help. P Ratje, Newport, Isle of Wight P030 1CK) Don't you think that if we really reviewed games according to the sort of criteria you've mentioned somebody would have found us out by now? Hunter's Moon and impossible Mission II
got good reviews because they were damn good games. Dream Warrior andTag Team Wrestling
didn't because they weren't. Are you going to suggest that Image Works' paid us to give Bombuzal a Gold Medal? or Palace for Barbarlan 2 ?If reviewers really did get paid every time they gave a good mar*, I'd stop being Lloyd Mangram and turn into Paul Glancey. His clothes wouldn't fit but I'd be a I t better off. O h - and by the way, you're wrong about Arrnalyte. It got 97%. LPA PS Bananas! Wink. wink, know warm mean guy?
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THE MOST BORING LETTER WE'VE EVER RECEIVED Or is it the most interesting . . ? and do we care either way? De a r Lloyd After reading all those letters every month and seeing that crap to tell.software each time, I de c ide d to write. I've got a lot CO NV E RS I O NS People ofte n say tha t the s e are too little original ga me s . But why s hould progra mme rs a nd s oftwa re houses put so muc h time a nd s we a t in creating original ga me s ? Is there a possiblity of ma k ing progra ms without similarities from a ny othe r existing ga me nowa da y s ? I think, these days, (almost) everyone wants to have an a rc a de ga me on his own c ompute r. The sad thing is that it usually turns out to being a great dis a ppointme nt (look at mos t ga me s of US Gold a nd Activision). This has everything to do with the progra mme rs a nd not, as they would say, the limited me mory of the 64. The last thing I w a nt to ask a bout this is why S upe r Ha ng On isn't released yet in the UK. He re in Holla nd it's already half a year on sale. The only reason I can think of, why you don't have it yet, is tha t it's a horrible ba d ga me . CLO NE S I'm gla d tha t the s e versions are a round, be c a us e it ha ppe ns too often that great games are being converted too badly. Whe n a clone is better, you have the feeling you a in't missing anything. I think that s oftwa re houses must ta k e a lesson out of this a nd put more e ffort in their conversions a nd not thre a te n with lawsuits. This only proves (a little) they're afraid that a clone might be better. S ome time s I think tha t s oftwa re houses don't care anything for their customers, only to bring in mone y with a nothe r popular, but lousy a nd rus he d conversion. G RAP HI CS Why do software houses seldom use graphics like those in Ta rge t Re ne ga de and othe r quality graphics like Bob S te v e ns on's a nd Dok k 's . It ma k e s a ga me a whole lot attractive a nd it's a little more work. MULTI LO ADS Howe v e r big an a rc a de ga me ever might be, it's always possible to make an at least reasonable conversion, if you use muttiloads. Who cares if a progra m needs 100 loads and 5 disks? But the n y ou have to wait too long 'the y ' proba bly say, Well, why don't they use s pe e dloa de rs like the G a me s series from Epy x ? T AP E S A N D DI S KS I want to know why, in heaven's name, are games on disk more expensive than tapes? A good quality disk costs as muc h as a c ompute r tape. The price of disk ga me s is the cause, why do you think there are so many more tape users? Even if people have a drive (they usually own a da ta c ode r too) they buy games on ta pe because it's muc h cheaper. All the pe ople I know owning a 64 (1 3 0 ) do have a disk drive. The reason why s ome people don't buy a drive is just be c a us e the ga me s on disk are so expensive. S o why not ma k e the disks as 'c he a p' as the ta pe s ? You'll see there'll be more disk ga me s sold. TI P S A N D P O KE S Sorry to say, but I hate your tips pages. They're always for ta pe users. Everybody nowa da y s knows how to reset his c ompute r, so why not just 're s e t your c ompute r pok e xxxx,xx for inf. lives and SYS xxxx to restart' so ta pe and disk users are both ha ppy . Think a bout it whe n y ou put your tips in your Christmas issue. I also wa nt to say some of your ma ps are totally useless. Like the ma p of Ra s ta n a nd Flying Shark, y ou only have one possible wa y to proceed. Ma ps like Barbarian ha nd Vindic a tor are useful.
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RE V I E WS I'm not going to say how gre a t y our reviews are but s ome thing totally different. Every month I read 3 ma gs (ZZAPI, C u a nd C84VG). By re a ding 3 reviews for 1 ga m e , I see which a s pe c ts you don't see and othe r ma gs do (a nd vice versa). For example, ta k e the reviews for Dark S ide and Hayvkeye ZZAP !: Ha w k e y e 9 6 % Dark Side 9 0 % C&V G: Ha w k e y e 4 CU: Da rk Side 8
Why such a big difference? I s ome time s find y ou a little pa the tic in your reviews. Whe n a ga me is good but the s ound isn't, y ou give it a high rate with the poor excuse tha t it's a tmos phe re . OK. some music is a tmos phe re but mos t ain't. L AS T C H A P T E R
Why haven't there been no good racing games these last
fe w years? Doe s it ba c k off progra mme rs to ma k e s mooth 3 D arcade-like scrolling and use large graphics? There are large graphics in S pa c e Harrier and I believe mos t progra mme rs are qualified to ma k e s mooth scrolling. S o wha t's the proble m? (answer: ba d programmers). I hope Oc e a n/Ima gine will license We c Le Ma ns , a nd let Da v e Collier do the job, be c a us e he 's the only progra mme r whos e progra ms are all good. For the graphics I would ta k e Bob Stevenson. Anothe r thing a bout Oc e a n. I think the y 're one of the best s oftwa re houses but whe n I saw a pre v ie w of Ope ra tion Wolf, I c hok e d. The graphics are ugly a nd chunky a nd I hope will be c ha nge d for the finished
version.
One last thing. Sinc e Rob Hubba r d left we 'v e never heard from him again. I thought he was working for EA? Ca n y ou tell m e more ? Well this is it. It w oul dn't be a ba d idea to put s ome
points of me to some software houses, don't you think? Le o L a n d m a te r Hol l a nd.
1) Zzzzzzzz o h , y ou'v e finished. Well, Le o, n o w y ou'v e got all that off your chest, how a bout getting us all a ba c on sandwich. Ta. 2) Right! I'm back from the toilet. Ha s the bullshit machine be e n work ing properly. Y e s ? OK, carry on. But seriously folks (cue jingle), the re are one or two points here which other people can pick up on. First, the bits we can answer: Your comparison of the two reviews of games between ourselves a nd rival magazines was unfair, in tha t it omitte d c ompa ris on with CU, w h o a wa rde d Ha wk e y e 8 out of 10, a nd TGM, w h o gave it 8 0 %. Besides, this is s ome thing of an irrelevant point, s inc e reviews are very muc h a subjective process — wha t we think de s e rv e d a Gold Me da l di dn't a ppe a l to othe r mags as muc h: this is simply opinion. The be s t wa y to judge our reviews, a s we 'v e always said in ZZAP I, is to look a t the c omme nts more than the marks a wa rde d a n d if possible, try out the ga me yourself be fore you buy. You'll be ple a s e d to k now tha t Oc e a n are pla nning to convert We c Le Ma ns — in fact, it's going to be on ne x t month's cover cassette! How 's tha t for a coincidence! Your judge me nt ofOpe ra tion Wolf is a bit unjust, since a preview version is just tha t — it's far from finished. As far as listings go, w e do try to print reset POKEs as muc h as possible — but we can only print wha t pe ople s e nd in; besides, there are more than enough people out there who don't k now how to reset the computer, or don't have a reset cartridge/switch. Rob Hubba rd: the last word we heard was tha t he was still working for EA in the USA. The rest is ope n to discussion, re a de rs ! LM
A WHIN WRITES II Dear Lloyd. I saw this game in my local computer shop. It was called Big and Bouncy and it looked quite good. so I went in and bought it When I got home I tried to load it but it wouldn't fit in my tape deck. I called my mum up to see if she could get it to fit. When I showed her she called me a pervert and whacked me round the back of my head. I couldn't believe it until I realised that it was a porno mag!
Stewart Campion, Stevenage, Herts.
P.S. If you send me all of the games that you have received
over the past 3 months I will send PG my copy of Big and Bouncy. When we first got our Amiga, Maff accidentally tried to put Paul into the disk drive. it was only through the intervention of Gordo who noticed that his trousers were the wrong colour brown - that we managed to save the drive. Phew! Luckily we all saw the funny side.
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Dear Lloyd, I have written to compliment you on an excellent mag. I'm glad Thingy and Rockford were voted back. The thing I found on the cover last month was only fit for the bin. I hope next month's is better. 'cos that was a pile of Slt *T. I hope it's a better tape next month. Shane Treacy Co. Cork Ireland, PS Bananas do live in trees.
Our humble and grovelling explanation about that cassette appeared in The Word last month, for anyone who missed it - hopefully, you'll have been a little more pleased with the playable demos of Cybernoid 2 and Hawkeye, and indeed this month's cassette. We're glad you're glad that Thingy and
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THEZZAP! TEST:AREYOUTOTALLY OUTOFTOUCHWITH REALITY? Dear Lloyd In the last few months in various 64 magazines, I've noticed piracy has been getting a lot of stick, and in nearly every letter people have said if piracy were to stop, the prices of games would go down. Who says it will go down? How do you know when piracy stops, most pirates won't sell their copies? Most just swap, but if they stopped copying games and bought games how would they know, apart from the old bank balance getting bigger? The reason most people copy games is because of the rubbish which is being released, and a lot of it is RUB-
BISH. When a game is released we don't know whether it's a good or not. Even if the game is brill, le, Giana Sisters, I didn't have to fork Out 10 quid for it. 'cos someone sent it to me for the price of a lst Class stamp. Anyway, piracy will never stop, that's a fact. Anybody that disagrees are totally out of touch with reality. Pt Rate ' I S O ' (my crew), London Well, Mr Rate, if I could come down from my purple cloud on the planet Dumbly Fruzz-gob, I'd reply_ LM
RAVIN'MAD Dear Lloyd. I, or rather a friend of mine, oh but I may as well be honest and say straight out that it is me , . . but I could have a friend like it, but no it is me. Suffer from indecision? Probably. I have lost two or three or maybe even five paper rounds in the past day or days. Please tell me what to do about it. No, no don't. John Smlth or Bobby Robson, Peterborough.
PS. The two names above are purely fictional and in no way THE Bobby Robson orTHEJohn Smith. Tell your friend to go to your nearest newsagent and say decisively in a very loud voice Mine's a Guinness. On second thoughts , . n o , no don't. Well, you could try it, I suppose . . LAI
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ANICELETTER Dear Lloyd, I'm just writing to say how wonderful ZZAPI is, (not that I need to tell you). I have only just brought a Commodore 64. so I've never really looked at computer magazines. but I decided to compare a couple: your ZZAPi and THE GAMES MACHINE Although THE GAMES MACHINE is not strictly for the Commodore 64 it did not in my opinion. it did not (I say again) compare with MAP!
SOFTPRICES Dear Lloyd, It is self-evident that many Amiga owners will be forced to don eye-patches and wooden legs in the aim of a cost, and riskfree collection. The manufacturers can only blame themselves - no doubt, however, they will not. Surely the answer to this problem is to reduce the cost of Amiga games to the customary 64 level of £9.95. Then Amiga owners would assuredly buy original software en masse. After all, it would be a most arduous task to find an Amiga game to match the best of its 8-bit predecessor- so why should we pay more? One other solution to this imbroglio is of course to provide a competent reviewing service, and, undeniably, Amiga magazines do exist. Most, however, deal largely with topics extraneous to a games player, and none provide the quality of a MA P ! review, in its elimination of bias with multiple reviwers, comprehensive marking, clear separation of description and opinion, etc. Looking through my first copy in a year, however, ZZA review were worse than most; no P!' s o l d a t t e
ZZAPI has everything from hints, tips (PG's), to news and reviews. There's only on_s_problern , one thing wrong with ZZAPI and that is it comes out monthly and not weekly, but never mind it's b rilL ., well done, chaps! Ian Baker, Bognor Regis, P022 &LW Well done Ian. Gordon says heW slip you that fiver later on. LM
marks or price quote, and a comment amounting to more than a few lines per game. The Amiga is, after all, doomed to replace the 84 and many ZZAPI readers, such as myself, have bought this machine and are in need of an excellent games service. Why not then, as a magazine that reviews Commodore Software (quoting from every ZZAP! front cover) provide such a service for our fraternity? William J Church, Sheringham, Norfolk Again, unless you're one of those incredibly discerning people who always read the Rrap before anything else in the magazine, you W probably have noticed that this month marks the beginning of regular, indepth Amiga reviews with all the extras that you mentioned_ Of course, nobody here (myself excluded) is absolutely perfect, so all comments, criticisms and passionately unbridled praise are welcome (especially the latter). However, I think it's a little naive to assume that if Amiga software prices are reduced the pirating of those games will also cease. LM
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is that software shops should check or demonstrate the games they are offering, It would be time-consuming but the customers would be much happier. Stephen Clarke. Sidcup, Kent DA15 80T Erm • Stevie-babes, can task you a question? Why on earth did you go to the extraordinary length of buying another computer and a disk drive? I mean, couldn't you just have bought a disk drive to go with your existing 64? Or when you say 'a totally new computer do you mean another make of computer and not a 64 at all? What do you mean, Steve? Where are you? What's the world coming to? What are we doing here? How can we stop the nuclear arms race? Why doesn't somebody do something real? What does it all mean? Aaaaarghl Hid! LM
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ROCKFORD AND THINGY ARE BACK!! Aaaarghl Nobody knows what happened to I MA Liar's dog. Maybe somebody out there does LM E r , , , that was a hint,
Dear Lloyd I was cleaning out my cupboard the other day, throwing away all my old school work, when I came across a cartoon I did about three years ago. I thought it was too good to throw away so I've sent it to you lot. Robin Ashdown, West Wickham, Kent BR4 90F PS Talking of cartoons, I think you should bring back the Terminal Man plus the good old Thingy, Mr Nose and that other guy, um, whatsisname oh yeah, Rockford. Well, we thought it was too good to throw away too. Well, OK we didn't think it was too good to throw away - but we ll put it in anyway. If anybody else has any good cartoons for the Rrap pages about anything at all (but particularly about computer topics), send them in - there's a £20 software voucher for the best one! (Cot, aren't we averse generous?) Anyway, Robin Ashdown, from West Wickham in Kent, come on d o wn , . . I mean, here it is • • LM
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KNOWLEDGESO DANGEROUS, IT COULD PRECIPITATE THEENDOFLIFE ASWEKNOW IT Dear Lloyd I am writing to say that when a software house advertise a new game, they advertise it with Commodore Amiga and Atari ST
screen shots. Why do they do this? If you're a thick s*it like me, you get very confused, So please ask them to use Commodore 64 screen shots Tim Johnson, Lincolnshire LN12 2AD OK Calling all software houses: use Commodore 64 screen shots. Tim is a thick s**t and doesn't understand Gordo is like mincledly stupid (too much fat on the brain) and would also request 64 screenshots in ads. How's that? I expect they'll ignore us - they always do (mumble mumble) LM
BANANASARE TOTALLYSTUPID Dear Lloyd In ZZAPI Rrap the section on bananas, Issue 42, was totally stupid and had nothing to do with games, computers or ZZAP! itself. I feel the Rrap section should be about either constructive criticism or something to do with the computer world, This is my first ever letter to ZZAP! I hope you will print it, take the criticism and note my ideas. Barry Latcham, Crook, County Durham Actually, computers have an awful lot in common with bananas. Neither bananas or microchips contain any fat at all - i f you ate a computer you'd be taking in at least 100 calories Oust like a banana and if you put a computer on the floor you c ould easily slip on it. Corn •
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'Poo(' clee4 puters look rather nice when arranged in fruit bowls, and are yellow (if you paint them): the important bit of a computer is on the inside -ju st like a banana; and you could probably skin a banana with a screwdriver Ah, feel a song coming on: Dee, mise deo • Daylight cum and me wan go whoam: Mise de, mise de, misede (we have to interrupt this transmission of Housewives' Choice. Unfortunately. our solo singer, Mr Lloyd Mangram, is rolling around on the floor with a chicken leg up his nose telling jokes about fish.) UV!
A RATHER DIFFERENT ZZAP! LOGO Dear Lloyd. I was doodling during a boring Irish class, and came up with different ZZAP! logo. Whatthis do rather you think? Da v id Randall, Dublin 18 Think? Me ? Never. Pass us another mince pie. !Waif (hie ) . . . I ' d better hand over to Gordo before I fall over L M ( G o r d o - it's nice. Dave, real nice.)
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Dear Lloyd, Matthew Evans couldn't have come from Flint, because haven't seen him and I've lived here most of my life, so there. Carl Higham, Rint, Clwyd Don't worn/Carl. I've called your mother and an ambulance s on its way. LM
JUICY PARTS Dear Lloyd, Th is is th e ju icy p a rt. Th a t id io t ca lle d G Da vid so n f ro m Wo lv e rh a mp t o n d e se rve s a se rio u s sp a n kin g . If p e o p le a re n 't a llo we d to c o mp la in in ZZA P I , th e n yo u ca n scra t ch th a t p a rt o f the ma g a n d th e re will b e n o te llin g wh e re it'll end. T 0 R, A n tw e r p A ma zin g t I wa s sa yin g e xa ctly the sa me thing to my good , ju s t the o t h e r day. S h e we n t b rig h t re d afriend, n d sh B o ua trb e da ra Out: ' H o w d a re yo u ca ll me ju icy! Ju st yo u sa y th a t a g a in !' too,Well, OK . We th in k h e d e se rve s a se rio u s sp a n kin g , LM
Woo! We ll, tha t' s the e nd of a not he r C hr is tm a s s pe c ia l — a t le a s t as fa r as I'm c onc e r ne d. Of c our s e I' m t he Only pe r s on in the offi c e that has fi nis he d — everyone else is still s logging ha r d ov e r the last of the fe a tur e s , tips a nd r e v ie ws . B a iting reviewers is a really inte r e s ting s por t. All you have to do is wa v e gr e a t big ba gs of doughnut s unde r the ir nos e s a nd s ing ' J ingle B e lls ' in a very loud v oic e d o w n the ir ears. Y ou ge t brilliant s pe c ia l e ffe c ts . Ever y t im e Gor don m ov e s , the light bulbs be gin t o fl icker, t he fl oor be gins to s ha k e a nd e v e r y one e ls e div e s for c ov e r j u s t like fi r e wor k s . We ll, I' m off to all thos e C hr is tm a s parties — I can just see those huge br a nc he s of m is tle toe , the silly hats, the punc h, t he c r a c k e r s , the c o n g a s , . . j u s t hope I don' t m a k e a fool of myself, lik e last y e a r with t ha t bottle of QC a t the ZZA P! Er o n s e c ond t hought s , ne v e r m ind. A ny wa y , the n e w y e a r is a t im e for ne w be ginnings , r e fr e s hing . . e r r e fr e s hm e nts a nd lots of ins pir e d thought. Se nd e v e r y s ingle one of the m to: L L O Y D M A N GR A M , ZZA P I RRAP, PO B OX 1 0 , L U D L O W , S H R O P S H I R E , S Y S 1 0 B . OK ?
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, tra la la la la O h , me, and need 60 square meals a day over the festive season, why not buy some of these old games. Goodness knows, they're cheap enough and some of them are even quite good. Here's Uncle Paull) , t o t e l l GHOSTS 'N' y o u GOBLINS a l l Encore, £2.99 a b o u Butler's sprites and backdrops C Butlerconversion at his best!ofAthe t hris fabulous are pretty classy and very spooky Capc om coin-op of the arcade game. t h e up in which a reminiscent platform/shoot 'em Mark Cooksey supplied the heroic knight legs it across Zombie suitably spooky ' Wo 0 0 0 0 ' m . country, through ghost-infested soundtracks which helps the forests, around ice caverns and atmosphere alon9. However. it is H e l over pits of fl ame to save his the gameplay which really makes sweetheart Extra this a winner, being both really lweapons of oprincess. differing prot ert ies frustrating yet incredibly addictive. are to add some variety U available n A real steal at the price! the blasting fun. OVERALL 9 4 c l 1 e % P a u l l WIZARD'S y . LAIR
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p takes the form of a a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up with a bit of platform action. Climb l on your broomstick and direct a your friendly neighbourhood witch c around the scrolling landscape, e blasting the minions of the evil ' Pumpking with magic spells, Coloured keys are scattered s throughout the landscape which s open the entrances to e underground chambers full of c o 90n Z Z A PC h ri st m as Special d e v
Bubble Bus, El .99 0 oh, cripes. dunno whythis. they wanted to re-release Maybe rt's because it was awarded a Sizzler in Issue 7 of ZZAP!, but I mean, that's three years ago for Ron's sake! The game itself is very much like Ultimate's old maze games. in that play consists of wandering from one room to another in a vast maze. You can hurl axes at itinerant nasties. but they appear in such abundance and there is
platforms and bouncing beasts. At the far end of the chambers there are the essential ingredients of the spell which will make the Pumpking pack up his vegetable protection racket and move elsewhere. Graphically, sonically and garneplaywise, this is an excellent blend of the two game types, but I would gripe that it's a bit too hard. Well worth £1.99, though.
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often so little space on the screen to manoeuvre that they are almost impossible to hit before they hit you. The object of the game is to find all the pieces of a golden lion totem, but with gameplay so uninteresting, graphics so weak and sound so ghastly you'll be lucky to find the first segment before you're forced to switch off
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Silverbird, £1.99 W O W ' P alac e's sequel t o their other bewitching game concentrates on platform action. After having taken the Pti mpking's crown, and building a castle for herself, power has gone to the witch's head and she's turned all nasty-like. As a reformed pumpkin it's up to you to bounce your way around the platform-packed castle and hunt out the five ingredients of a spell which will
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Stiverbird, £1.99 A for warriors. Tal has been chosen to free his race from the s alien tyrants who drove t hem t underground many years ago. I t s o up to him to enter the mountain p stronghold and pick up the pieces of s an old armoured radiation suit, which will give him protection and t the u essential powers of flight which will help him in his quest. d Also on Tars shopping list is an e n t a t t h e s c h o o l -
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with the mansion's floors and staircases, and has installed a system of platforms and cat-walks patrolled by outlandish monstrosities. Should Dan hit one of the prof's peons he loses energy which can only be replaced by collecting the food which is lying around. All in all it's not a bad little game, though graphics and sound are a bit dated now. Platforming fans should lap it up.
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banish the witch to an alternative shopping mall. As before, the game's graphics and sound are very good indeed but play is hampered by a very tncky bouncy control method, which makes accurate jumping up stairs or around ghosts nigh on impossible. If you can tolerate the frustration this isn't bad for the money.
skill level make this a good simulation, but good simulations aren't usually very action-packed The combat is hardly exciting, requiring you to spend ages sneaking up behind your foe and then riddling his bum with bullets If he gets away first time, you're not likely to see him again before the end of the game. As I said, it's a good simulation, and as such is one for simulation buffs only.
Alb explosive charge which would further his cause no end if he can plant it in the alien reactor room. The game is played as a flickscreen platform game and very good it is too (though a little bit hard). Sound is up to the usual Palace standard, but the graphics are quite superb, having been drawn by a professional comic artist. Buy it!
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POWERPLAY Players, E1.99 and the loser's character is taken down a level. Losing too many challenges results in that character being removed from the board and when all your characters are gone, you're out of the game. This is one of the best games of its type around, and c oming as it does with several question files and a question file compiler, it must be one of the best value for money.
A difference. Up to four people tplay, each having a team of four rcharacters from Greek mythology. and answer multiple choice triv i questions. As you accumulate v correct answers, you can 'mutate' iyour characters into more a powerful ones and attempt to destroy your opponents' q characters by moving up to them u and 'challenging'. i The first of the t wo to answer a z single question wins the challenge g a m e w i t h a
O SREH O C K WAY RIDER 0 Rack-it, E2.99 2 I5 T he future is a paranoid place where violence is rife. At least 4 you don't need to move your legs when 0 you're outside though, because the Council have just laid a0 system of moving pavements which 1 convey citizens through t own quickly and easily. However, 6 pavements are favourite the haunts 1 of muggers and other vagabonds so anyone who rides 1 has to be prepared bra fight. them M E N 0 2
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the battlefield. As a shoot 'em up, Commando is OK. but as a conversion of the arcade game it lacks a certain something fi v e levels of the original actually. The sprites flicker appallingly when there's a lot going on on-screen and even the music has to slow down. Three quid is probably just enough to pay for this.
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'War Your objective in the game is to complete a circuit of various city districts, beating off the attentions of said miscreants with your fists and any debris you can pick up, such as bricks and spheres. As you might have gathered, it's a bit weird, but such an unusual form of digital violence makes for quite an entertaining game. Worth a look.
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Colonies scenano. Even so, it's got the essential shoot 'em up ingredients - pace, good graphics, a thumping soundtrack (written by none other than Rob Hubbard), and loads and loads of aliens to blast.
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through it once, there's not a lot of incentive to c ome back to it. Another example of 'Not Brilliant, But At The Price S e e what I mean?
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action f rom behind a helicopter sprite. Also, instead of giving a constant view straight ahead of the Lynx, the program allows you to turn through ninety degrees before the view suddenly flips round. Quite why the programmers did things this way eludes me. It certainly doesn't add much to the slow and unexciting action. Not really recommended.
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VON It accurate driving, putting arid pitching is all down to club selection, power of swing and strength of hook or lade Power and shot type are set by hitting the fire button at judicious moments to halt moving force gauges. If you haven't got any of the series already, then why not? This is a perfect opportunity to get your hands on a classic sports simulation.
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fi nding the corresponding control boxes on the maze walls and blasting them with your chain guns. Airwolf is three years old now but still manages to be pretty playable, though the graphics and sound certainly look their age. Still, there are plenty of worse games going around at the same price.
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Well, it's that time of year again. When Maff's parents dread him reading any sort of press or watching TV, because sooner or later he's bound to turn around and say, 'Cor, mum! Look at that! I wouldn't mind one of those for Christmas,' only for his mum and dad to find out that the price is E69.95 (ex-VAT and batteries not included). So I think we'd better apologise in advance for this feature, which may give some people ideas to what they want to nag for first. In these pages are just afew of the plug-ins, add-ons, extensions and arousal devices available for the Commodore 64 and Amiga machines, all revealed by our very own Dr Evans. So, guys and gals, sharpen up your biros and repeat after us 'Dear Santa . .
MISCELLANEOUS CNET M O D E M Z Z A P ! 1 2 MONTH (COMPUNET) S U B S C R I P T I O N f you're a regular reader of ZZAPI then you can't have failed to notice that the odd Compunet feature has graced our pagesfrom time to time. If you'd like totake a meander through the 'net foryourself, then you'd better get hold of a CNET modem, Foriust L39.95 you can log on and enterof world of art, music and generalscrolly demos by names you may(or may not) recognise; such as
Bob Stevenson, Dokh, IG, Tony Crowther. Ash and Dave and many, many more. Well, okay it's not lust E39,95, you have to pay a little bit to use the net each time. The basic charge is i12 a quarter and a penny for every minute on the 'net, Alternatively, you can choose to pay £25 a quarter and not be charged for using the 'net at off-peak times. But you still have to take the 'phone bill into account!
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which can be switched on and off at the flick of a switch. The whole thing is safely fused and has a reset switch too. As the ad says, Only L16.99. '
ot any EPROMS that need w i l l with this rough and tough plastic mounting? (0o-er! Thets b o x , It even has a built in reset switch. enough of that!) Well now you A snip at £8.99. can plug in and remove EPROMS at
THINGS THAT PLUG IN THE BACK AND PUT THINGS ON DISK ACTION REPLAY M K IV (DATEL) more than just put back-ups p onto disk Also included are asuch tricks as a sprite killer, printer tdump, screen saver and a turbo uses the superfast Warp 25 ewhich loader. All this is available for L29.99 lpost free! Cor, ' For those who would like all these sfunctions and also have the ability to s y s t e m a c t u a l l y d o e s looking like somethingout of p an HG Wells story, Trilogic's eproduct does prove to be a useful sdevice. Not only does it allow you to make disk backups of programs, it palso allows you at the flick of a switch rto use a monitor to enter code tdirectly into the program, enabling eyou to cheat at games (0oh! The very tthought.. Trilogic also claim that their turbo system loads even faster h than Warp 25. Gosh! All for just e 125.99 post free. c a r t r is cartridge is an extension i of the Freeze Frame series. d Like their other backup g cartndges, Freeze Machine contains e two save systems; the standard save ithat doesn't require the cartridge to load and the Lazer save that has a t faster turbo, but needs to be loaded s via the cartridge. Extra functions e include a built-in reset switch and a l fast disk formatter. The cartridge is f available from Evesham at £2895. with an extra extra utility disk update priced at/7.95, allowing you to disksave even more programs, „
hack into programs and mess around in machine code, then maybe the Mk IV Professional is for you. It has all the features of the standard Mk IV cartridge, with the addition of an extended monitor, RAM save and other useful tools. The cost of this mega cartridge is £34.99. A bit more expensive, but some may think it's worth it.
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C64 RESET CARTRIDGE (DATEL) the necessary dexterity with a paper clip to reset their A pmachine and doesn't know one end ,of a soldering iron from the other (that could be painful actually, m couldn't it? Ow!). For just £5.99 you uget an expansion port reset switch sset in a sturdy plastic case. The days tof flying shards of exploded 64 are fover! Maybe. o r a n
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/129.95 including a free copy of the GEOS system disk or £149.95 with GEOS and Freeze Machine. Well we've got one and it doesn't go wrong very often. Only poking i t goes wrong all the time! 0oh, aren't I just a kidder! It never goes wrong! Ha ha ha ha ha! Koff'
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C64 BLUE CHIP DRIVE z 2 (DATEL) more compatibility than any other drive driveon that theclaims market' theycan't all be more compatible!). Stillityou're on the lookout for a tidy
standard external drive for A the Commodore Amiga. , Modelled in the standard Evesham sshmline form, the drive is completely t compatible with all A500 or A1000 machines with 880K capacity_ Avery hgood quality drive at the meagre eprice 0E89.95. An absolute must for nfans of Cinemawarelype double-disk aprograms or users of Photon Paint, I hate disk-swapping. I mean I really, m ereally hate disk swapping. I really. really, really... (We get the picture— sEd). u g g e s t atels Amiga-compatible s drives are among the most , attractive available, sitting tvery pretty by the Amiga_ The hunformatted capacity of one meg i and the ability to chain drives stogether make this a very desirable little number, but priced at £99.99 i s a
little drive that won't dent your pocket too heavily, then you could do worse then this for E139.99. Hold on, that is a bit on the dear side
(ten pounds more than Evesham's) it's worth thinking before spending. Another point of interest—why have they decided to charge more than twice the price of a single drive for a twin drive? Beats me (as the masochist said to the marriage counsellor!).
THINGS THAT THE GRAPHICS PHILIPS C M 8 8 3 3 COLOUR MONITOR (EVESHAM APPEAR ON PHILLIPS C M 8 8 5 2 COLOUR M O N I TO R (EVESHAM MICROS) his is the same as the one mentioned above, but it is capable of displaying at a
little more. E299 to be exact. (Well, 1higher resolution „ and it costs a that saved a bit of. writing!)
MICROS) the Amiga, featuring a good quality full-colour, mediumA ,res display, green screen option, vstereo sound and switchable inputs. allowing you to switch between, for eexample, computer or video input. rAlso incorporated is a mini stereo y h i g
headphone socket, so that you can listen to your games in private. We run our Amiga in the office on one of these monitors and we've found them rather good, especially at the price of E279. Not bad for such a high quality picture.
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COMMODORE 1 0 8 4 COLOUR COMPETITION PRO 5 0 0 0 MONITOR (ANY COMPUTER ( E U R O M A X / D Y N A M I C S ) HARDWARE SHOP) colour, medium-resolution C monitor works with both the o and Amiga. depending on the 64 connections used. But don't panic, all m the necessary leads for both m machines are included. The monitor o itself is of a remarkably high d o r e ' s o f f i c i a l n e w f u l l -
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JOY BOARD (EUROMAX) the Euromax Joy Board is, in A our, opinion the best Vavailable table-top joystick The stick i movement is loose and comfortable t and allows you to react quickly to the on-screen action. The auto-fire's hreally good too and the rate is o u g h i t l o o k s s l i g h t l y o d d , have already seen this stick s ome ofin you will probably lurking software stores. If you had then you wouldn't forget it, seeingas it looks like a hand grenade' The stick itself is mounted on top, near the pin, while the fire button is the grenade clip, A trendy enough idea to make a grenade-shaped stick
adiustable. Not content with making areally good joystick, Euromax have bunged on a pair of paddles, for use in programs that need an analogue input. The Joy Board is available from our own mail order and you can have one for your very own for just 119.95!
become quite a classic in its T time, being used In many a garner's home, The 5000 is still an h iexcellent joystick, having a marvellous feel suitable for most (if snot all) types of games, The price b currently stands at /14.95, and the lstick can be found on sale all over the aplace, including branches of Boots cand Argos. But if that's not enough ... k a n d r e d s t i c he 5000 Clear has all the k great feel and strength of the n standard 5000, but with a a trendy clear case, so that you cansee s workings. Cool, eh? And for just the one quid extra. Speaking of extra
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COMPETITION PRO EXTRA (EUROMAX/ DYNAMICS) the 5000 and a clear case, but it has the addition of an T hauto-fire andslow motion movement, ifor squeezing through tight corners (yuk!Sounds disgusting!). To youguy, s£16.49. s t i c k a l s joystick companies, are o C renowned for their 'pistol h gnp' h type joysticks. and the MACH I ae is another one of the type. The stick sitself e is nothing to shout about, being the tt standard upright, top-firebutton, autofire sort, but it is quite cheap at h just a £10.95. Check it out. eh f. eo en le o o ff -
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T E R M I N ATO R (SUPER SOFT) to give a hardlook, but the stick itself is very uncomfortable to operate. The stick is too small, the button gives very little feedback and it starts to feel heavy after a while. Still, if you feel you must have one then they cost £10.95 'from good dealers everywhere, folks!•
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samples Live effects such as echo, delay and reverb Realtime 40-note sequencer, remembers last 40-notes played MIDI compatible on channel 0 The Datel sampler has as good quality and more options than any other 64 sampler. Despite the numerous functions, its a doddie to use and at 149.99 it's a must. Also, if you want to turn it into a 3-channel available from Datel at just /9.99, Blimey! drum machine, a piece of software is
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or lower the tone of the input An echo chamber which can give a delay of between 80 milliseconds and 2 seconds The sample quality is remarkably good for a machine at the price and if used with care, the samples can sound quite effective in a recording The sequencer isn't too great, being only one track and non-tunable, not to mention the fact that it seems to lose time every now and then. The echo can be extremely effective if set right and Matf has often used it to expand sounds in his recordings The SFX Sampler, when all is said and done, gets some of the best quality samples you could expect from the 64 and at the price of around £60 it's worth searching out.
A M I G A AUDIO DIGITISER (TRILOGIC) sampler market comes in the T form of their low-price Amiga rdigitiser. Housed in a case about the isize of a TV modulator and supplied input leads, the digitiser is lwith designed to work with most available ocommercial software, such as g i c ' s f o r a y i n t o t h e
Audiomaster, Prosound and Perfect Sound. The digitiser is just the thing for Amiga owners (with the relevant software) who want to dabble with sampled sound at a relatively low price and the price is £ 2 4 . 9 9 (wow).
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events, adjustable beat and tempo and a built in mixer The sampler itself is superb and the software looks like an on screen mixing desk with sliders, buttons, windows and LED displays. The price of the sampler and software is .E69,99, Even now Maff is searching for his cheque-book,
SOME USEFUL CONTACTS FOR THESE BITS ' N ' PIECES COMPUNET, Unit 26 Sherdon Business Centre, Wadsworth Road, Perrivale, Middx, UB6 7JB LOAD IT, 35 Stretton Road, Shirty, Solihull, W Mids, B90 2RX DATEL ELECTRONICS LTD., Fenton Industrial Estate, Govan Road. Fenton, Stoke On Trent. Tel: 0782 744707
EUROMAX ELECTRONICS LTD., Bessingby Industrial Estate, Bridlington, N Humbs, Y016 4S.J. Tel: 0262 601006/602541 KONIX, Unit 35, Rassau Industrial Estate, Ebbw Vale, Gwent NP3 550. Tel: 0495 35010 DYNAMICS MARKETING LTD., Coin House, New Coin Street, Royton. Oldham, Lancs, 0L2 62. Tel: 061 626 7222
TRILOGIC, Unit 1, 253 New Works Road. Bradford, BD12 OOP. Tel: 0274 691115 CHEETAH MARKETING LTD., Norbury House, Norbury Road, EVESHAMMICROS LTD.. 63 Bridge Fa irwater, Cardiff. CF5 3AS. Tel: 0222 Street, Evesham, Worcs, WR11 4SF, 555525 Tel: 0386 765500
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AMIGA PRO SAMPLER STUDIO (DATEL) is of a very polished standard. Contained in the p usual brown Datel box and with some a
Full hi-res sample editing with zoom function for accurate edits Realtime level and frequency displays Saves in IFF format, a standard used by many software packages 30 'Fairligrht' type sample display Sequencer software includes 2 and 3 note chords over 5 octaves, 4 track sequencer with up to 9999
very attractive software, the sampler looks very impressive. This is what you get for your money: Adjustable tngger/sample rate
this looks very similar to the A SFX sampler. Supplied with ,the module is a full-size, five octave nkeyboard which plugs into the side of the module. The software included o gives you a bundle of FM sounds, a tset of rhythms and some demo htunes. e The sounds are excellent, rsounding like a machine from a much m o d u out, 1-thru interface suitable l for most MIDI finkups (unless o r eyou've got about half a million quids h i f s o i r s t a h f e u C l 6 l 4 s , t a n d a r d 1 i n ,
higher price range. Maff uses one to record from and says the sounds are Well good': Particular favourites are Strings, Synth 1, Synth 3, Cosmic Wow, Alien and Raindrops. However the last three are only available on the disk version, Aw! When last seen around, the system was going for about E60 last time anyone here heard. Get hold of one if you can!
M I D I M A S T E R (DATEL) worth of rack-mount gear) A good bargain for Amiga-owning MIDI users at £34.99.
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Just who are those multi-faceted multitasking maniacs murmuring monthly moronicisms? What is Paul's favourite fish—and why? What was Maff's most embarrassing moment? What kind of operation did Kati suffer to look like that? And is Gordon reallyfaalf you, seeker of universal knowledge, scan the next four pages, you will discover truths therein enclosed that verily shall shake the earth's nether regions a lot.
Gordon i l u m p fi sh'Hou ghton TV
Any sports programme 'except for horse racing The Good Life 'I literally split my sides and have to go to the hospital' Bullseye 'Jim Bowen is a genius' Soaps 'of any kind' The Storyteller 'was superb' Postman Pat 'and his black-and-white cat'
FILMS
n a m e ; G or don Leslie Houghton b o r n : 15-11-65 (Monday) h e i g h t : 5 ' 7 " and a bit extra (with my platforms on) w e i g h t : 8,000,000st. No—only kidding: it's really 83st 41b.
GAMES 1. The Sentinel: 'It's got the best atmosphere of any game I've ever played' 2. Spindizzy: 'Simply brilliant' 3. Dropzone: 'Shoot 'em ups don't come more addictive than this' 4. Hunter's Moon: 'It's almost the perfect concept for a game, and is the definitive alternative shoot 'em up' S. Dungeon Master (ST): 'Big and bouncy'
MUSIC Rush: 'The first group l ever really liked' Phillip Glass: 'good furniture music and — it just goes on and on' The Smiths (and Morrissey): 'the only music I know that makes me feel depressed and elated at the same time' The Cocteau Twins: 'ditto'
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1. Koyaanisciatsi: 'it's like an old trout: big and smelly, but with plenty of maggots' 2. Manhattan: 'I like Woody Allen a lot' 3. Alien: 'a brill 'n' fab atmosphere' 4. Apocalypse Now: 'hip and cool (man)' S. The Meaning of Life: ' er .
FOOD
vomit behind fridges, urine stains, Terry Scott, crusty scabs, old fish, getting up in the morning, luncheonmeat, onions, contagious diseases.'
BOOKS Stephen King 'is good' James Herbert 'is good' Roald Dahl 'is r o d ' Frank Herbert is good' M a n cartoons 'are amazing'
AMBITIONS 'To bE a enjun driiVur Iiik mi dad' 'To grow up (ie, to be taller)' 'To bear children and eat more fruit' 'To drop plastic fish from a very tall building'
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT
'Pizzas are fab, and so is cheese fondue. I'd probably swim t'Channel wi"ands tied up and grett big weights on t'f0000t for some chocolate.'
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FAVOURITE PERSON
'Unemployed, happy, dead, free, a man called Dennis, a eliphunt, older, a teapot.'
'If it was a toss up between Jim Bowen, Tarby and Morrissey, I'd have to go for John Noakes.'
FA V O U R ITE FRUIT
FAVOURITE COMEDIAN
Bananas: 'they're so real without being pretentious; ironic without being cynical; so yellow and curved a n d great dancers, too.'
W H A T I W O U L D BE IF I W A S N ' T A REVIEWER
Steve Wright: 'he's hatstand'
F A V O U R I T E FISH SEVERE DISLIKES 'Insects, soft Hula Hoops, dead sheep with bloated stomachs, smelly socks,
'Undoubtedly, the trout. Brilliantly designed and executed —and they'll last you a lifetime. Especially good with chips.'
• 44 Kati 'cuckoo' Hamza 2. Kiss Of The Spiderwoman: 'ouch' 3. The Dark Crystal: 'the Muppets make good' 4. Some Like It Hot: 'brill'
n a m e : Katharina Samara Gamal Hamza b o r n : 26-04-65 (honest) h e i g h t : a bit taller than Gordon (measured with a extra long ruler) w e i g h t : n o t a lot
GAMES 1. Tetris: 'more addictive than a game of darts' 2, slinxter 'best adventure ever - yet' 3. Jack Attack: 'cute and cuddly j u s t like me' 4. Dropzone: 'beat them pods down into the ground' S.Buggy Boy: 'a lot cooler than your average racing game - and froody too'
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TheSinging Detective: 'for some teason Mary Whitehouse didn't like it' i King Rollo: 'I like his dog' s Blind Date "cos it's really tacky' - 1 0 Little House on the Prairie 'so corny I S always cry' i Anything with Miss Marple in it: 'she'st meant to be so clever, it's unreal' Network 7: 'Blue Peter for grown-ups' o , e FILMS 6 1 1 6 v 1. The Draughtsman's Contract: 'reallye pretentious - I don't understand W what it's on about' r i g h t
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FOOD 'Spaghetti, all kinds of pasta, nothing with meat in it, peaches, apples, cheesecake, strawberries, fudge cake, I t candy floss and Mississippi Mud Pie'
FAVOURITE t b PERSON k 'Judith Chalmers... n o i- sactually my m t e 1 — p m o a. f t 4 4 0 1
Charlie and the Chocolate factory and Asterix books - Obelix is brill. In fact, isn't he our editor at the moment ?
AMBITIONS 'To 90 for a whole weekend without getting a spot, to find a decent flat, to wash my car, to eat spaghetti without 1 . 1 1 1 1 getting it all over my shirt, to become rich and famous, go to New York and spend lots of money'
M'ONST EMBARRASSING M O M ENT 'Unmentionable'
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SEVERE DISLIKES 'Bastards, racists, chauvinists, lukewarm milk, mould, smelly toilets, nuclear power, meat, worms, slugs, flying and Margaret Thatcher' . 4 , 4
BOOKS Fat books by Iris Murdoch and Margaret Drabble - books to eat crisps to Anything set in Africa, India or somewhere hot. Winnie-the-Pooh,
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F AVOURIT E FRUIT Peach: 'you can only eat it with friends: they don't mind if the juice running down your face makes you look like a pillock'
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l• Dungeon Master (on the ST): 'totally captivating and the implementation of every single feature is just perfect' 2. 16-bit Elite: 'the blend of arcadeand strategy action is flawless. !thinks°, anyway' 3. Starglider 2 (on the Amiga): 'the game I always wanted to design (almost)'
4. Wizball: '16-bit conversions of this brilliantly original and addictive game don't come close to the playability of the 64 version' S. Road Blasters (In the arcades): 'brilliant - I once played it for four hours on a wet day in Whitley Bay'
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Delta: 'all the tunes are fabulous' Bionic Commando: 'technically excellent and very catchy' Wizball: 'again, all the tunes are brilliant, but the high score entry music is particularly funky' Miami Vice title tune: 'beautifully ethereal (can I say that?)' The whole Bookends album by Simon & Garfunkel: 'it appeals to my naive
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romantic ideals (ahem)' Just about anything by Jean Michel Jarre: 'all his music is very evocative and relaxing' Bach: 'I don't know what it is about Bach. I just find his music appealing (especially Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - can you dig it?)' SKY: 'Toccata, Hotta, Carrilon, Skylark, Fool on the Hill, A Girl in Winter, Westway and The Great Balloon Race are all very soothing' First Gymnopedie by Erik Satie: 'possible the most restful piece of music ever' Suzanne Vega: 'very poetic' Tracy Chapman: 'her powerful voice is perfect for such potent lyrics'
BOOKS IkN 'The \ 1 Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K LeGuin - the only fantasy novels (apart . - those by J.R.R. Tolkien) which from have able to hold my attention 0 9 been . long enough for me to finish them. Any 1 1 1 .Adams ' • book - very clever and Douglas very witty. Without Allen I envy him his imagination and -totally- off-the-wall sense of humour' F e a t h e r s b y A W M oB I oT I dO N S y 'To be a train driver or an astronaut (Or both). To be able to eat a whole 9" ham and mushroom pizza'
TV Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry and Droopy cartoons: 'anything can happen in cartoons so there are no restrictions on • imagination or sense of humour, The above are totally anarchic and brilliantly funny' MASH 'very human humoyr'
F I L M S Sa lr ' The Star Wars trilogy: 'exhilarating' 1. 2. An 11 1y. Woody Allen film: 'incredibly silly, but very funny' 3. Marx Brothers film: 'all - 4 ' Any hilarious' - 'Roxanne: 1 1 1 1 1 ''Steve Martin isa brilliant 4. comedian' S. Dragnet: 'Dan Ayckroyd is quite brilliant as Joe Friday'
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FOOD 'Bacon sandwiches with a mug of tea (brown sauce optional) - the perfect meal. McCoy's crisps (beef flavour) can I have boxful please, KP? Turkish Delight - I just wish Fry's would make the bars a bit bigger'
FAVOURITE PERSON
'Too many to list'
W H A T I W O U L D BE IF I W A S N ' T A REVIEWER 'A lot better off psychologically'
F A VO U R I T E FRUIT 'Banana - even the word is gorgeous (and apparently they're full of potassium: tops on my list of favourite chemical elements)' R)1N-%I(.040.1kA
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SEVERE DISLIKES 'Lager Lads, Beer Boys and Loud Crowds, sizeist comments, faggots and graby, nuts of any kind and fish. Being barely able to hear the person on the other end of an important telephone call, That's My Dog and Love Me, Love Me not i t ' s debatable which of these quiz games is the more thoroughly banal'
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Cabaret Voltaire: 'electronics, tapes and film as an art form. Music will never 'Adrian Sherwood - the greatest be the same again.' producer this side of that side (eh?). Th Front 242: 'make Public Enemy look l i k e , man responsible for a lot of my a bunch of girls. The best band around favourite records.' at the moment.' I Start Counting: 'probably the best band on Mute Records and one of the FAVOURITE best electronic bands ever.' COMEDIAN Son of Sam: 'very strong and sometimes sinister music.' Robin Williams: 'He's just the funniest Depeche Mode: 'they just keep getti ng person on the face of this planet' better and better.' 1 S E V E1R E D I S L I K E S 1 'Stock, Aitken and Waterman - create 1 such awful records that they should be shot Maggie Thatcher A t illa the Hun in drag Banal comedy shows- Terry and June and that sort of thing Snakes - yeeeeerghl Horrible, horrible Fields of the Nephilim: 'guitar music at things! its best. The •Nephs conjour up strange images of cowboys and demons.' Win: 'the music from the McEwans BOOKS Lager advert with the people rolling boulders around is You've Got The Stephen King: 'a bit horrible but still Power, one of their tracks.' really good' Skinny Puppy: 'music in the same Clive Barker: 'Just goes to show that mould as Front 242, but leaning even though Stephen King doesn't live towards the more vicious side.' in England, Britons can do it as well' HP Lovecraft: 'rather disturbing, with monsters so horrible you just couldn't TV put them on film' BKliban: 'humour doesn't come more Red Dwarf 'the sense of humour is so hatstand' simple, it's brilliant - really funny stuff' Miami Vice 'just the atmosphere gives it the edge over other Cop-soaps A M B I T I O NASi * ol p Auf Wiedersehen Pet 'doesn't everyone?' o and i own my own 'To get a record deal Cartoons 'I'm just a big kid really' recording studio - but at the moment I can't even afford a decent ,n t h ! '
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FILMS 1.. Blade Runner: 'visuals, sound, music and dialogue go togetherto make a truly awesome experience' 2. Robocop: 'an Action Man film without the Rambo 'meathead' factor' 4. Shoot 'em up Construction Kit: 'lets 'horror as it should be made' my imagination run wild(ish) 1 ,3. The (John Carpenter version): where's the Amiga version?' 4. Paris,Thing Texas: 'Harry Dean Stanton S.StarRay (Amiga): 'STARRAY can do no wrong!' GOI . . w e l l , you had to be there. S. Hellraiser: 'Didn't the Cenobites look just evir?'
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT
'Waking up one morning with a hangover and being told by my friends what I'd done the night before. I prayed that they were lying!' A s
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G A ME M U S I C StarRay: 'powerhouse music with plenty of guts. Really good.' Parallax: some of the bass chords sound really passionate, and the first time I heard it the hair on the back of my neckstood on end!' Delta (in game music): 'very dreamy reminds me of the risky business :soundtrack' Ball: 'It's actually a note-for-note rip off of two Cabaret Voltaire tracks' Fusion: 'a bit like early Human League'
FOOD 'Chilli con came - with loads of hot toast V W ! Curry - any sort except prawns (eeeergh!) Bacon Butties - with brown sauce. Just the thing to keep you going through the day' Wimpy Half-Pounders j u s t big enough (hurl hurl) Scotch Eggs - really nice things and they go great with chips'
W H A T I W O U L D BE IF I W A S N ' T A REVIEWER 'Unableto actas mental as I do and get away with it (not to mention get paid for MY
FAVO URITE FRUIT 'Cheryies-i could eat them bythe ton'
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"1gs are a reSetler's bane - but tor those of you without those Our fcNounte. Hold clown a few random keys or type in a name lay lite red knobs. theyll do fine and dandy, mister, For on the highscore table and you can complete the game, no ;e of you with a swo4len mega-cartndge or two, or even a messing. Simple as that Look - what more do you want? Get nble h o m e - m a d . - , e7 , -. , w A n k h M31, T31 i Antiriad M20 - r s im ( s e e t Apollo 16 L41 P a u l ' s h 4th & Inches T38 A q u a n a u t sprite collisionsI4 r r e o c t 180' 129 A r a b i a n N i g h t s remove nasties L7 i h Arcade Classics L33 720 t i p e 1942 infi nite lives L21, 131, T31 0 A r c a n a infi nite lives L31, more energy, s n time, L19 1943 i n infi nite lives L41 i n e lives 115 and A r c o f Y e s o d infi nite fi1985 more lives L17, L18, L31 I s s 131, T12 x ni A r k a n o i d more liveswL25 u e te Ark Pandora M17,i T15 4 t 1 Arm ageddon M an l musicL41 iAce 1 Arm y Moves Part l 11127,117 Ace II 131 m Asterix and the yMagic 7 tion B i k e r more lives L9 and 131, Ac e2 C a u l d r o n infi nite lives 115 o L20, L28 , A t h e n a M34, infiniteuenergy L35 Action Force L35 Attack of the Mutant Camels t Agent X2 T35 infinite lives C2 and 131,?infinite ships L26 i Airvvolf M3, T3 ATV Simulator music141 cAliens M24, M26, infinite ammunition Au f Wiedersehen M onty kandstamina L31, 126 infinite lives 131, more lives 141, sound eAlle y k a t L22, L29, 121 effects 131, 127, T28, C43, 143 tAnar c hy L33, L37 Ba c k t o R e a l i t y infinite lives L24, 131 Auto Duel 131 sAn c ip it a l infi nite lives L4, L26 and L31, and L33 A u t o m a n i a infi nite lives L13 infinite cippies 126, T4 Back to the Future T20 a A v e n g e r M23, infinite energy 125, T22 Ball Blasta L43 nAndy Capp M37, T37 d ZZAP! Christmas Special1988 1 1 1 m o
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Barbarian - Psygnosis (43 Bard's Tale M41, T41 Barry McGuigan's Boxing ill B a t a l y x infi nite lives 131, invincibility and more time L16
Battle Through Time indestructible ship L40
Beach Head C2, T9 Beyond the Forbidden Forest
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Beyond The Ice Palace 143 B i g M a c more lives L14 and L31
Bionic Commando M41, infinite
lives and time L42, C43 B la c k H a w k infi nite livesl31, L37, T4 B la c k L a m p infi nite lives and energy 139 Bla c k T h u n d e r invincibility L12 B l a c k w y c h e infi nite energy L10, infinite energy L42
C a v e r n s o f E r i b a n infinite lives L31 C a v e r n s o f Silla c h infinite lives131, stops sprite collision detection L13 C e n t u r i o n s infi nite energy 140 and L42
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B l u e M a x infi nite lives 131, more fuel and bombs L24 B M X 122
BMX Kids L41 B M X R a c e r s infi nite lives 131, easier access through obstacles 112 B M X S i m u l a t o r infinite lives L31, 122, 124, 137
Bobby Bearing M26, L24 B o m b J ac k infi nite lives 131, 116, 130, T14, 120 B o m b J ac k II more lives 126 and L31, infinite energy L25, L31 B o m b o infi nite lives L18, T18
Bonecruncher 142 B o o t y C2, C4
Bored of the Rings T19 B o u l d e r d a s h remove nasties L9, L7, 16 B o u l d e r d a s h 4 infi nite lives 142 B o u n d e r mi 1, M13, C12
Bounty Bob Strikes Back T4, C6, 119 Brainstorm L42 B r a v e s t a r r infi nite time L38 B r e a k t h r u infi nite lives L31, more cars 123, music L24, 122, 123, music L41 B r i a n B l o o d a x e infi nite lives L9 and 131, more energy 19 B ru ce L ee M42, infinite lives L15,C1, T1 B u b b l e B o b b l e infi nite credits L34, 133 Bu c k R o g e r s infinite lives 112 and L31 B u g B l a s t e r infi nite lives L19 and L31 B u g g y B o y infi nite time L35 and L36
infinite lives 131, infinite supply of Gobots L33
Chameleon 124 Championship Wrestling 124 C h i l l e r infinite lives 131, infinite energy, 19, L17 C h i m e r a M13, sound effects 114,113 C h i n a M i n e r more lives L6 and L31, cut out sprite collisions L5, 12, C2 C h o l o L26, 128
Chubby Gristle 143 C h u c k l e E g g more lives L17 and L31 C h u c k l e E g g II infi nite lives 131, remove sprites L26, 130
Circus Circus 14
C l e a n U p S e r v i c e infinite lives 141 C o b r a infi nite lives 123 C o d e H u n t e r infinite lives 141
Combat School musicL41 C o m i c B a k e r y infi nite lives 131 C o m m a n d o infinite livesLl land L31, music 141, turbocharged infantryman 142
Confuzion 17 Con-Quest T25, T27 CO SMi
Cosmic Causeway infinitetimeL35
and L37 C o s m o n a u t infinite lives L33 C r a z y C o m e t s infinite lives 141, more lives L14 and L31, music LIS, infinite spaceships 136, T10 C ra z y K o n g a , Ti
Crystal Castles T22 Curse of Sherwood M28, infinite lives 131
Cybernoid M38, T39 C y b e r t r o n infi nite lives 131
Cyborg T28 Camelot Warriors M23, infinite
lives L23 and L31 C a t a b a l l infi nite lives and infinite time L33 C a u l d r o n immunity to nasties L18, 17 C a u l d r o n II M16, more pumpkins 116, 118, T18 C a v e l On infi nite lives L31
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Cyl u in fi n i Daley Thompson's t e Decathlon C2, 14 l Dambusters L18, T18 D i a n D a r e M20, M37, T20 v e s
Dan D a r e 2 infi nite lives and energy 142 D andy infinite energy L25
Dante's Inferno M23 Dare Devil Dennis II infinite lives L3I, LI2 Dark S i d e M42, T42, L43
David's Mi dni ght Magic T2 Death Star Interceptor infinite lives L42
Deathwake T17 D e a t h w i s h III infi nite energy L31 Deep S t r ik e infinite ammo and bombs L40, infinite ammo and bombers L42
Defender Ti Defender of the Crown more
soldiers L35 and 137 D e fl e k t o r infinite energy L37 D e liv e r a n c e infi nite lives 131, infinite Bobs and lims L33 Delta infinite lives 141, infinite spaceships 131, sound effects L31, L26, L33, music 141, M43 D enar ius infi nite lives 131, L37 Dig D u g more lives 114
Donkey Kong L33 Doomdark's Revenge MI4, C33 Double, The T37 D r ac onus M41, infinite lives L4I, music L4I, C43, 143 D r a g o n ' s L a i r infinite lives L20, 118, L26
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Dragon's Lair II M24, musicL41
D r iller M36, M37, infinite shields and energy L37, 137, 139, music L41 D r o p z o n e infi nite lives L31, L5, 16, 15 Dr uid M21, infinite lives L31, remove meanies 122, 123, 121 D uet infinite energy and firepower L27 D y n a m i t e D a n M10, infinite lives L31
F a i r l i g h t infi nite lives L31, infinite energy L20, L24, 116, 122 F a lc o n P a t r o l infi nite lives 131, 116 F a lc o n P a t r o l II infi nite lives 131
Falcon - The Renegade Lord
infinite time 140 F e u d M26, start with all ingredients 131
Eagle Empire L17 Easyscript T4 Eddie Kidd's Jump Challenge T5 Eid o lo n , T h e M12, M14, infinite energy and time 132, L20, L22, 112, 114, T32 Elec tr ix infinite lives 13I Ele c t r a g lid e infi nite time L41 Elev at or A c t i o n infi nite lives L31 Elidon infi nite lives LIO and 131 Elite L7, 140,142, 16, 18
Empire Strikes Back infiniteshield
strength C42 En c o u n t e r invincibility 117 Endur o R a c e r infi nite time 141 Enfor c er infinite lives L31
Enigma Force T29 E n t o m b e d M6, C4, T5, 16 Equaliz er infinite lives 126 and L31, 127 Eq u in o x M19, M22, L18, 119 Erebus avoid sprite collision L40, L23
Escape from Singe's Castle infinite lives L24, T23, 124
Eureka L17 Everyone's a Wally M2, T7
Evil D e a d infi nite lives L31 Ex c aliba infi nite energy and lives 119 Ex olon infinite lives L31
Fight Night 111 F i n d e r s K e e p e r s infi nite lives L31, infinite energy L14, L15, 116, T6, 17
Firefly 142 F i r e l o r d M23, L25 F i re t ra c k infinite lives L27 and 131, infinite hatch fighters 141, T26 F i r e t r a p infi nite lives L37 F is t II M23, L22, T20 F la k more lives 131, invincibility 116, C6
Flash Gordon L23, T22 Flight Night T11
F l y i n g S h a r k M41, infinite bombs L35 F o rce O n e more lives 131
Four Great Games 2 infinite lives L40
Fourth Protocol T5, 17, 115, 116 Frak 14 Frank Bruno's Boxing 19 Frankie goes to Hollywood 17 F r a n t i c F r e d d i e infi nite lives L17 F r e a k F a c t o r y infi nite lives L31, energy LI9 F r e d d y H a r d e s t infinite lives L34, 133 F r o s t B y t e infi nite lives L27 and L31 F u n g u s T20, 121 F u t u r e K n i g h t M24, M25, C24, T26, music L41
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Give my Regards to Broadstreet 13 G l i d e r R i d e r M21, infinite energy, time and bombs 125 G o d s a n d H e r o e s infi nite lives L31
Gogo the Ghost 14 Goonies C23 Graham Gooch's Test Cricket
15, 18, C13 G r e a t Es c a p e L27, 128, T41
Great Giana Sisters M42, C42 G r e e n B e r e t infinite lives 141, more lives 117 and L18, L22, C19 G r e y f e l l infi nite energy and lives L31
Gribbly's Day Out make
Blabgorian disappear L17, stop sprite collision 141, T8, T31
Grog's Revenge L18 Gryphon Lia G r y z o r infi nite lancers L42
Guardian L13, T1 G u n s h i p 126, T28
Gunstar 129
G u t z infi nite energy, infinite lives L41 G y r o s c o p e infi nite lives 116 and L31
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Happiest Days of your Life
infinite energy L20
Hardball T22
H a u n t e d H o u s e infi nite lives 131 H a v o c stop missiles and bombs L7 H e a d o v e r H e e ls M29, infinite lives 131 and L32, infinite speed and donuts L37, 129 H e a r t l a n d M27, infinite energy and time L24
He Man T h e Movie morelivesl31
and 140 H e n r y ' s H o u s e infinite lives L16 and 131 H e r c u l e s infi nite lives L31, monsters cease killing 17
Hero of the Golden Talisman M32, stops sprite collision detection L14 H e r o b o t i x M41, avoid sprite detection L38, 139 H i g h N o o n more lives L31
Hollywood Poker 141 Galaxibirds 119 G a m e O v e r M31, infinite lives L31 G a r fi e l d M36, infinite food and awakeness L40,137, music L41 G a u n t l e t infi nite energy L29, L23, T23, infinite energy L41
Gauntlet: Deeper Dungeons infinite energy L29
Gerry the Germ T33 Ghettoblaster T17 G h o s t b u s t e r s infi nite lives 131, infinite cash C42, 110, Ti, 14, T il
Ghost Chaser 19 Ghosts inl Goblins morelivesL17, 118 and L31,119, L21 G i l l i g a n ' s G o l d infi nite lives 131, infinite time L14 114 Z Z A P ! Christmas Special 1988
H o o d o o V o o d o o infi nite lives119
Hoppinl Mad L43 H o v e r B o v v e r infinite lives 131, L7 H u m a n R a c e infi nite lives 119, 118, T19, music L41 H u n c h b a c k infinite lives L12 and 131 H u n c h b a c k II more lives 117 H u n t e r P a t r o l infinite lives L31, music 116 H u n t e r ' s M o o n infi nite lives 137, T37, 143
Hybrid 133 Hyper Blob T34 H y p e r c i r c u i t more lives L11 and 131, L12
Hypersports T6, T7 H y s t e r i a infi nite energy 135
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Ikari Warriors L40, 139
I m h o t e p infi nite lives L9 and 131 I mp lo s io n infi nite lives 142
Impossible Mission stop sprite
collision detection L17 and 140, Ti, 12, T31
mposible Mission II reducesprite
collision detection L41, L43
ndiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom rs nfiltrator M41, 121 nfodroid M22 nside Outing M38, T41 nternational Basketball L29 nternational Karate L16, L18, L33,115, music L41 K+ 133, music L41
nternational Soccer Ti nto the Eagle's Nest M26, infinite
ammoand keys 141 l0 infinite lives 138, invulnerability 139 I r i d i s A l p h a infi nite lives L20 and 131, L22,T19, T23 Iron H o r s e infi nite lives L41
Jack the Nipper M20, uo Jack the Nipper II infinite nippers L35 Jail Br e a k infi nite lives L31 and 141, musicL41 Jeep C o m m a n d infi nite lives L31, removeobstacles L24 Jet Boy s infi nite lives L40 Jet Set W i l l y infi nite lives L30, L13, 1.14•L18
Joe Blade m33, L33 Jouste L31 Judge D r e d d more energy and f . r e p Kage music L41 oKane L19, C13 w Karnov 141 eKat Trap L29 rKentilla music L41 LKettle music L41 2Killer W a t t infi nite lives 131 4Knight Games L41
Knightmare m37 Knight Rider 120
Kn u c k le b u s t e r s infi nite lives L24, infinite time 125 Ko k o t o n i W i l f more lives L7, L6 Kong more lives 115 and L31 Kor onis R if t invincibility132, L19, T13 Kr ak out infinite lives L25 and L31, more bats L26,music 141 KLIng F u M a s t e r more lives L14 and L31,remove nasti es L13
Labyrinth T23
L a s e r Z o n e infi nite lasers L26 L a s t M i s s i o n infi nite lives and smart bombs 142, L33 L a s t N i l * M29, infinite lives L30, L31, L32, 129 L a s t V 8 infi nite lives 1.31, more time, fuel, shields, skills L23, L15
Law of the West T17
L a z y J o n e s infi nite lives 124 and L31
Legend of Kage 123 Legend of The Knuckerhole infinite lives 131
Legend of Sinbad 121
L e v i a t h a n infi nite lives L29 L i g h t F o r c e infi nite lives L23 and L31, L24, music L41
Little Computer People Discovery Kit 113, 126 L i v i n g D a y l i g h t s infi nite lives 131
Livingstone infinite lives137 Loadagame 120 Loco L6 Lords of Mi dni ght mi
M a c h improved ship 137
Mad Nurse 126 Made in France II 127 M a g M a x infi nite lives 129
Mam a Llama T3
M a n i c M i n e r infi nite lives C2 and L31 '111111PIF C h r is t m a s Special 1988 1 1 5
M a r a u d e r no collision detection C Marble Madness T20, T21, T29 Mario Bros 127 42
Mask II T42 Master of Magic 131, T23 Masters of the Universe infinite
Adams L37 M a t r i x infi nite lives126, C2
M ega Apoc aly ps e infinite lives L33 Megaga lactic Llamas infinite
llamas L26
011i a n d L is s a infi nite power 131
011ie's Follies 115,117
011o Pa c k infi nite lives L29
One Man and his Droid 113, L16,
T12, music 141
Orpheus in the Underworl d infinite lives L24 and 131
Out of this World music141 O u t R u n more time135 and L36, infinite time and stop collisions 141
M e r c e n a r y M16, M18, T11, 113, T15, 117, T18, T22
Merm ai d Madness infinite lives 131, infinite energy 119 Metr O Cr O SS infi nite lives 131, 129 M i a m i V i c e M19, infinite energy, avoids sprite collision 128, L19 M i c r o b a l l infi nite balls L34
Microrhythm 1.25, L32
M i k i e T25 M i s s i o n A D infi nite lives L20
Miner 2049er T4 Molecule Man 126 M o n t y M o l e eliminate sprites L7
Pac L a n d M42, infinite Pacs138. invulnerability L39, T43 Pac M a n more lives 115 and 131, 123 P a n t h e r infi nite lives 127 and 131 P a p e r b o y infinite lives 123 and 126, T22 P a r a d r o i d invincibility L15, extra speed L26, L12, 119 P a r a l l a x infi nite lives L31, L19, 120, T20 Pa r k P a t r o l infi nite lives 131, L24, 124
Penetrator 16 Phantom of the Asteroid
M o n ty on the Run infinite Montys
invincibility 117
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Pitfall II M30, T1
M o o n B u g g y infinite livesI31, stop sprite collision detection 113
P l a t o o n M37, 141 P o d infi nite lives 126 and 131,127 P o l a r P i e r r e infi nite lives 142 P o l e P o s i t i o n infi nite time L40 Po s t e r P a s t e r more lives 115 and 131 Psi W a r r i o r energy L19, T3, T10
Moon Cresta More Adventures of Big Mac the Mad Mai ntenance M an more lives L21 - - ' M o t o r M a n i a infinite livesC2 and L31 M O W S infi nite lives 140
Psycastria T22
Mounti e Mick's Death Ride
Pyjamarama infinite livesL9
infinite lives L33
P s y c h o S o l d i e r infinite Athenas L35
Mugsy's Revenge T15 Multi Hints 134 Murder of the Nile L31 Murder on the Mississippi ni M u t a n t M o n t y infinite livesL16 and L31 M u t a n t s infi nite lives L25 and (31, music 141
Mystery of the Nile infinite lives
1 3 1 , 1 Nebulus C34 4 N e m e s i s infi nite lives L26, L31 and L41, 126 1
Nemesis the Warlock M30, infinite ammunition L30, L29, 130
NethenNorld C42, 143 New York City removesobstacles125 Night Racer L43 Ninia 124 Ni no Ham ster 135 Nodes of Yesod M7, L10, L31 Nomad 19) Nonterraqueous infinite psyche and bombs 132
N o r t h St a r M41, infinite spacemen L39
Nosferatu M24, T26
O i n k ! M31, infinite rubbishmen 131, 130 116 Z Z A P1 Christmas Special 1988
Quake Minus One 112,114 Q u a r t e t infi nite energy 141, L31 Q u e d e x infi nite time 135, infinite energy L41, T33, 136 Q u i n t i c W a r r i o r infinite lives L17
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Raid on Bungeling Bay Ti Raid over Moscow C2, C Raise the Titanic T31 . Rana Rama M28 7, T i
R a m b o music, voices 131, 111, L20, C18, T10, T11, 113 monsters R a m p La g a m p a r t s infi nite damage/energy 141 R e Rasputin 118 iR a n sfit a nn M41, infinite lives and energy L41, 135 i t e Rebounder M33,133 l i v R e d L e d infi nite time L33 e s R e d M a x infi nite lives L21 and 131 L 4 Renegade T37 1 , • i n fi n i
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Revenge of the M Camels infi nite camels L26, C2 utant
Ricochet music L37 and L42, C43 R im ru n n er infinite energy L39 Risk music L35
River Raid Ti Road Blasters C43 Road R u n n e r infinite lives L42 Road W a r s infi nite lives L42
Robin of the Wood M19, infinite livesl13 and L20 and L31, T10
Rock 'n Rocket R o g e r M6, more lives1_11and 1 L31,L10 W r Rockford infinite lives and time, L37 eRocky s t Horror Show L31 stop strength draining away L42 lRogue e Rogue T r o o p e r infi nite energy and T ammunition 129 1Roland's Rat Race C4 3Rollaround M39, C43
S o l o m o n ' s K e y infinite lives and time 133 •
Speed King L23 S p e l l b o u n d L16, T16, T19, T23
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Secret o f K a n d a r infinite lives L37 Sentinel more protons L16 Sentinel, T h e infinite energy 123 and 131,L24, L25, 126, 129, 143 Shadovvf ire M4, infinite time L23 and 131,T4, 16, T8
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spaceshipsL30 Shao-Lin's R o a d infinite lives L33, invincibility 141, L26 Sheep in S p a c e infinite lives and sheepL26, L7 Sh o ckw ay R i d e r 126, music L41 Short C ircu it infinite lives L30
Side Arms M43 Sidewalk 137 Sigma 7 infinite lives 142
Silent Service C21, T21 Skate or Die 138 Sk ater oc k extra lives T29 Skooldaz e L26, 115, 121 Skyjet more lives L15 and 131,113 Slamball more lives L19 and 131 Slap F ig h t infinite lives L30, T43 Snokie invincibility L14
Space Doubt L29
Sp a c e H a r r i e r infinite lives L31, 123, L24, 125, T24, 133
Rolling T h u n d e r infinite lives L38
Sab o t ag e invulnerability L39 Sab o t eu r M17, infinite lives L31, infinite time 142, C16 Sabre W u l f M8, infinite sabremen 131, L37 Samur ai W a r r i o r 139 more energy SanXiOn infinite lives L20 and L31, 121, musicL41 Saracen infinite lives L34 Sc ar abaeus more energy, time, L19 Scooby D o o infinite lives L31, hinders ghosts L23 Scout infinite turbo wheelchairs L38 Sc umbalI M37, infinite lives 138
So n o f B l a g g e r remove nasties IA, C4 S o r c e r y infinite lives I31, T3, T4
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Strike Force Cobra infinite energy L25, T23
Strike Force Harrier T28 Stunt Bike C2 Su i ci d e Ex p re s s indestructability
Summer Games C2, T20 Summer Games II 18 Summer Olympiad T43 S u n b u r s t infinite lives 137
Super Cycle C41 Super Huey T4, T25 Super Huey 11125 S u p e r m a n infinite lives 131 S u p e r Pi p e l i n e II infinite lives 119
Super Robin Hood M43 S w a m p Fe v e r infinite lives L41,133
Sydney Affai r 127 ZZAP! Christmas Specia11988 1 1 7
V e n g e a n c e infinite spaceships 135
1 T " ai P a n M34, infinite cash L36 T a n i u m infinite lives 139, infinite .speedships L38 • a p p e r infinite lives L15 T Target Renegade 138 '
Venom strikes back infinite Matt Trakkers L39
Vera Cruz 125 V i d e o M e a n i e s infinite lives L31
V i ew to A Kill T6 V o i d R u n n e r infinite lives L27 and 131
T a r z a n M24, music 141 T a s k m a s t e r infinite lives 131
Task III 143 T a u C e t i 117, C18, 119 T e r m i n a t o r infinite lives 131 T e r r a C o g n i t a infinite lives 1.29 and L31, L23, T24
Terra Cresta L23 T e r r a m e x M41, T37
They stole a Million musicL41 Thing bounces back 139 Thing on a Spring T6 T h r u s t M17, infinite lives L19, 131 and L38, more speed L37, infinite energy and time 138
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Wanted! M o n ty Mole T17
W a r 119 W a r h a w k infinite lives L31, infinite energy L19, sprite co!lision detection Q0
Warrior M3 Way of the Exploding Fist scream speed L16
Welcome to the Pleasure Dome 17 W e s t B a n k infinite lives 131,127, music 141
Where's my Bones? 117 W h i r l y n u r d infinite lives L12 and L31
Who Dares Wins I and II more
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lives and weapons L13, L9 W h o D a r e s W i n s infinite lives 131
Tiger Mission music141 Tim Love's Cricket Ls Time Tunnel T14, T15 Tir Na Nog M2 Titanic 117
W i l l o w Pa t t e r n infinite lives L16and 131, deal with arms on bridge L15
T o a d F o rc e infinite chemicals and power L41, 131
To Hell and Back M43 Tornado Low Level infinite time
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Trans-Atlantic Balloon Challenge 140 T r a n t o r infinite energy 135 T r a p C18, 119 T r a p d o o r infinite lives L31, infinite time L23, T21, T31
Whoops 17 William Wobbler 18 Wi nter Games 113
W i z 133 W i z a r d r y invincibility 131,19, 19, T12 W i z a r d ' s L air infinite lives L31, hinder nasties L9, 115
Wizball 128
W o n d e r b o y infinite lives L29,L31and L41, more wonderboys L28
X-15 Alpha Mission infinite fuel L37 and L4 Xelt iO US infinite lives 123 X o r M41,141
Trap Music L41 Trashman 16 T r a z infinite bats L39
Trollie Wally u T u b e , T h e infinite lives L40 T u r b o Es p ri t infinite cars L42
Twin Kingdom Valley infinite energy L34
Yak's Progress 126 Y o g i B e a r M33, infinite lives, time, energy 139, Yogis L35 Y o u n g O n e s 112, L16, T11
Yie-Ar Kung Fu L18, 114
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U n d e r w u r l d e M9, M10, infinite lives L9and L31 Llp in ' D o w n infinite lives131, remove nasty cars 118, L26 U r i d i u m infinite lives L33, invincibility 16,114
ZaXX011 Ti, T2 Z en ji infinite lives L37 Z ig Z a g infinite lives L37
Uridium Plus L29
Zaga Mission L39
Zodiac 131
Z o id s L22, T20 Z O rr0 119,121
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Award for the demo-with-themost-bits-in this month must go to tr'rBe b y the Orion Programming group (it must also bethemost egotistical, as there's a large ORION logo on almost every wreenl) Various pans include a scrolling landscape hacked from . kis of colour-bar effects. Can't 1 vdBreakout, 1988 Holies-style r t h e n s e r i A-11 i• d , o p t i c a l i l
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demo which contains a game— although it's not exactly state-ofthe-an as far as these things go. Theexcellent music is provided by Chris Hulsbeck and overall the demo is up to Huddy b Greeny's usual standards. An interesting area to visit if you think you may have missed a 'classic' demo in the past (It's almost impossible to see every upload on the 'net I is Hotspot run by —METNET— and Drat (P1124). Apart from news of the very latest uploads on the 'net at NETREV. there's also a number of sub-directories for old art. musk and demos at 199065 which is also worth looking through. Ash Er Dave's latest creation tdemo-ette they call it) is Logo Show at A + D I This opens with a large Ash & Dave logo with a saoller at itw bottom, and then it's into the main part of the demo. This has lots of software house logos fading on and off, with some Maniacs of Noise music which I t hink is based on the theme tune f rom the film Dune. And very good
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ALIENS WIN THE OLYMPICS! Amazing ARMALYTE scoops world's top awards
'VW( /ETTLE FOR LESS when you can get ze bestr' That's the official comment on Thalamus's brand new bouncing blaster *analytic - and it comes from Dr Manfred V Flypaper, pestdent of Computer Research Associates plc. Awesome Arrtruii fi! has won award after award and Looks like being Britain's biggest WINNER at the Seoul olympleS, even though it wasn't entered for a single event!
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ChoCooperskimNYfrom SON IN A SHOCK statement last night top Thalamus sources revealed that game-players now have the right to bare woo - with a super sexy Thalamus T-shirtt But there is a hush-hush si:cret behi nd the tr endy Thalamuswear - they are made from GREEN ALIEN SKIN. Cranky Thalamus boss Paul Cooper denied it. 'I deny this,' GREEN But The Thahintas Star taid Cooper crankily. h a s planted (shurely doheo But The Thalamus Star has v e r e d • Ed) a bottle of bleach , PROOF t h e label says 1 0 ) % i n a cleaning warehouse near Caruhal Cotton', which means t h e Thalamus office, green alien skin in Cooper's A n d that proves that Cooper cunning code h a s been BLEACHING the green skin so it looks white! Bleach party T H E STARSAYS: Will these evil Crazy Cooper claimed that the a l i e n s stop at nothing? Look out f•shiris are WHITE and not f o r a special Tshirt offer soon!
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A six-minute investigation by The Thalamus Star has uncovered a shocking series of bribes in high places. Documents obtained by our sleuth team show that anyone - including GOVCrnment ministers and senior Vatican officials - who sends Thalamus a cheque or postal order for just 19.99 can receive a cassette copy of Ilawkeye or Armalyte! And the disk copy is a mere L12.99! The bribes are apparently made payable to Thalamus Lid and sent to Thalamus at 1 Saturn House, Calleva Park. Aldermaston. Berkshire RG7 40W!
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curky Commodore 64128 and have Oven i t their highest A l i e n s in 'drome accolades! But aliens who atiCillpted t o invade the crowd and DISGUISE ZZAP! voted Armalyte a themselves as copies of ArmaGold Medal with 97% (pages lyte were thwarted by pluc k y 24)' PC Show scattily guard Bill A Co mmo d o r e U s e r 'Reg' Prescott. spokeshack said lork s -o-lordy Brave B ill battled f o r W O ibisgame is so brill well give it AND A HALF MiniliCS with the aSuper Star'! tare y ou share aliens after he discovered they ahoutsh thsis? E d ) were unable to wear their idenAnd Computer Gamesweek tificaliEln badges. 'Cor blimey poen a Fab award and a super said a weary but proud soarawas 93•%. Bill. 'it's more than my job's 1 worth letting them creatures in Passion screams wilout their badges inmt?' And it's not only the experts Instead, they turned up at a alio are raving - yes, YOU the Commodore reception at Lonpublic have been screaming don's posh Hippodrome nightpassionately for Armalyie after club and arc now OFFICIAL theEXCLuSivE showing of the
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De4i1 F• Every month Dr Manfred V Flypaper answers readers' problem's. This month's star question comes from Thelma O'Wapping Dear Dr l• , Last Christmas got drunk at the office party and. shall we say. bought an Amiga. I regret it now, but it seems to turn my boyfriend on and he always wants to, well, you know, play Thalamus games on it. It has got to the point where he is pestering me to 'load it' for him three times a day. I keep on telling him I haven't got any Thalamus games for the Amiga but he just won't listen and I am afraid there is something wrong with him. Is this normal"' What can I do'.! It'z your lucky day, Thelma! Very zoon Thalamus will releale ze Armalyte and Ilawkeye onze Amiga, and Ley have tour new titles onzeway: Xettodrome. ElamA D V
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Whatmakes a game good or bad—is it the playability or the polish? the big cassette box with fancy packaging orthe free poster, comic" tacky badge? And why are fish so stupid? (' Oi!'—Ken) Well, there's no room to raise these questions here: listed onthese two pages is what the ZZ AP team consider tobethe 20 all-time wonders and blunders. No re-reviews, no frills —just a chart. You'll agree with many, we're sure and we're equally certain you'll disagree with just as many. I f you've got a particular pet hate or favourite not listed below, write into the Rrap, and we may publish an alternative chart. Just maybe
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Phwoar! This reviewing business was supposed to be fun. Nice, quiet evenings relaxing in front of a roasting spit typing in the odd letter while one hell of fat, juicy billy-goat roasts over a blazing fire. I lopped off the biggest Yule log any of you pus-bags has ever seen, baked a whole trough-full of stinking hedgehog pies, mulled a bit of lizard wine and got ready for the annual Christmas Chuck Vomit do. Normally Uncle Ripperbile comes with my Aunty Danglesnort and a barrel of fermented slime. My brother Burp makes the journey down from Glasgow — he always brings a few gristly titbits from his er e n c o u n t e r s along the way. We sit around the fire and sing songs — 'How sweet to be a psychopath', 'Billygoats, billygoats, drown them now a nd other such family favourites. I was really getting into the mood whe n shivering Gordo plops through the letter box and tells me I've got a special to write. Not billygoat tandoori and chips either but a whopping great extra adventure section. Bang goes my Christmas do (and Gordon's head against the fire). Shucks —I was really looking forward to Ripperbile's annual uncorking of the slime. Now I'll have to wait for Aunty Snotnose's New Year billygoat bash. Bah! Still, with no-one else to share it, there's all the more Yuletide feasting for me
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prepared earlier. Enter city hall and a clerk gives you a commission. Complete it and you can return to claim your just reward, use the money to pay for extra training and raise your character level, before setting off again. Though the screen display is very reminiscent of The Bard's Tale series, gameplay itself is conducted in a slightly different way. Using the joystick, you toggle between a whole range of different menus - you can use objects, trade possessions with other characters, parley with enemies, buy, sell, pool your money, cast spells and learn
magic. Not only that, you can also view your progress from several angles, including an aerial view. The graphic displays of the streets actually look like streets with different doorways for specific buildings and various concentrations of ivy coming down the walls. In combat mode, the screen switches to a full graphic display. You choose the moves your players make or just let the computer do all the work for you. We're definitely talking long-winded here. Making laborious moves for each character, then watching and waiting for every single member of the enemy party to
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It doesn't matter so much the first few times you play, but after a while it does get fairly tedious (not so bad if you use your SAVE GAME option a lot). When there aren't any arcade skills involved I can't see the point of having an arcade-style display. You do get to see your warriors firing arrows and hacking orcs in m i n i but the long run !don't really - in it's think worth it. a There's n i m a tan i oincredibly n huge, ginormous, large, pork-bellied environment to explore. Get your mapping instruments ready because this game is BIG. There isn't all that much to do puzzle-wise - fighting, hacking, slicing and chopping is about all there is to it but on the whole it's excellently presented and great fun to play. I'm not sure about the lastability, though - bashing orcs is one of my favourite hobbies but it does get a bit repetitive after a while, especially if you're waiting around a lotforthe program to access disk. The Bard's Tale Illis
still my favourite 64 RPG (the puzzles are what make it last) Pool Of Radiance is just a tad
too one-sided to match it. Still- if blood is all you want from a role-playing adventure and you don't care how you get it, then rush out to the shops pretty damn pronto and buy this right now. On the other hand, if, like me, you've got more of a head for puzzles, think about it slowly and carefully first
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athlete's foot) but it's apparently on this epic piece of footage (dig my Hollywoodspeak) that Crash Garrett the computer game is based, For those of you not in the know, Crash runs an air-taxi business for those dirt-rich people who made their money in the movie business. On this occasion he's been
commissioned to take the lovely Cynthia Sleeze on a trip to the town of Lone Pine. Crash is a pretty cool guy - so situations that would turn lesser heroes into a mound of steaming jelly leave him cold as an ice-cube. However, growing evidence that a certain Dr Thom's hospital is a front for subversive Nazi activities is just
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about serious enough to send the tiniest shiver down his spine. When a mechaniccomes for him with an iron bar and he's asked to strangle Cynthia with his bare hands, it really is brown trousers time. 'Will Crash die?' you ask, 'Is this the end?'. Well.. n o t necessarily, because by some incredible stroke of luck, Crash has a permanent dialogue with a voice inside his head and guess who that voice belongs to. Screaming Lord Sutch. No, sorry. You. The action unfolds in atmospheric cinematic style with speech bubbles, sound effects and limited animation at crucial moments in the plot Crash speaks to his internal voice in chronically slurred, digitised speech - nowhere near as musical as a gnome's dying grunts. When he lets you get aword in edgeways (and believe me, this guy Crash loves to talk) a typed in command moves the action along by itself in a certain way. This is definitely I interactive fiction rather than full-blown adventure because Crash (not the most intelligent movie-star ever) takes over for periods at a time, completely ignoring his inner voice. While he's not speaking to you, he could be crashing his plane, chatting up a dame or falling off the nearest cliff - and you can't do a thing to stop him. Serves him right. The parser, if you can call it that, isn't up to all that much. Complex commands are recognised occasionally but most of the time Crash (the original dimwit) decides he can't do what you've just asked. Conveniently (wink, wink), he's got a reputation for being very obstinate. Not that any of this matters all that much in the end. It's worth playing just to watch all the biff and bash effects-just like the mega brilliant Batman TV series (my favourite). A fey' extra sound effects wouldhave ( , been nice, but even without them the tongue-in-cheek, corny MGM-style cinematics are great. So what if the gameplay isn't all that Complex - unless you're a deathly serious bastard who wouldn't recognises a sense of humour in a prickly boiler suit even ifhe sat on one, it's still worth giving this one a try.
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AOMITIAR* 'The trouble is that when a game is being developed we don't work with the pictures; the design is largely coordinated by artists told about the story. They'regiven descriptions of the rooms so that they make sense, but the illustrations can neveritt completely accurate, Theremay be a standard lamp in the picture that isn't in the description. Try and look at it or do something with it and you draw a blank. Our graphics are illustrations really: they're broadly correct but they aren't too literal.
SCR° Ever since he made a mess of filching his first copy of The Pawn from the local computer shop (you should have heard the stories about big green men and UFOs), Chuck Vomit has been a heap big fan of Magnetic Scrolls. He likes them so much that he overcame his naturally shy and retiring nature, ironed his favourite crocodile tie and hijacked the nearest London train. Relying purely on the powers of his massive nose he stomped his way (the usual trail of death and mayhem in his wake) to exactly the right office block. This is the story of what he found ncle Ripperbile always said I had a brilliant sense of smell. Boy, was he right! It's not just brilliant, it's sponditiously flabbergastingly fabulous, excellent beyond belief. I'd only been sniffing ten minutes (bit distracting, those whiffs of doner kebab) when found them. Just south of the river between London Bridge and Borough station lie the offices of Magnetic Scrolls. Lollop down a grimy side alley (hmmm, dig those slimy smells), pass by a hearty-looking London pub (very tasty regulars), travel up in a rickety, rattling lift and you're there. Pretty low profile for a company that has won practically every adventure accolade going include the Game of the Year awards for both Fish! and The Guild of Thieves!
gap in the market (no, please don't hit me again, Chuck); nobody had got into 16-bit machines so we took the chance. What they came up with was The Pawn. Set in the mythical land of Kerovnia, it was bunged in a classy blue box by Rainbird and converted to run on a wide range of 16 and 8-bit formats— from PC to Amstrad CPC. Contrary to common belief, this programming lark isn't just swanning around in white Ferraris and wearing designer shirts. Nope, it's a lot of hard slog and sweat. For a start, each game takes about a year to develop.
out on a huge microvax 1 3 IIlinked primary carried to awork seriesis of terminals. A couple of programmers work from home (too scared to meet me, eh?) on comparatively fast Apricot Zens —but the microvax system provides more than enough opportunity to experiment About 80% of a game is written by two people—one specialising in the text and the other in coding—but as their work overlaps neither is a complete specialist. About two months before a game is due to be released, work starts on the individual versions. A specific format is assigned to each programmer. Meanwhile, a
everso successful $ company actually start? I hung o Ken Gordon and Anita Sinclair out of the window until h they spoke. o'When the QL came out, that w looked like an opportunity for d writing new, interesting games. When the ST came along with its i added graphics the move was d easy because they're both t 16,000 machines. There was a h 130 Z Z A P ! Christmas Special 1988 i s s
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small army of play-testers and bug-spotters (gi'sa job, Anita) is called into action. ver the years they've been clever enough to develop a whole range of in-house adventure utilities. What do they think of some of the finished systems available on the market now? 'A lot of really good ideas get strangled because a system isn't capable of expressing them. One of the most complex utilities available at the moment lets you have up to 500 flags andSOO counters—you couldn't express one of our games in those terms. Without that extra flexibility, I could see it being very difficult to write a half-reasonable game using one of the advent urewriting systems. The ones I've seen, even by people I've expected to do quite well, have been marginal. Why are you looking at me like that Chuck y o u haven't written any have you Lucky for him that I haven't Otherwise we wouldn't be moving quite so swiftly into the graphics v text debate. 'Graphics take a long time to do and they involve a lot of people so they really have to add something to a game to be worthwhile. Originally, we considered line drawings but we then decided to go for bit pictures. There's fewer of them, but generallythey'reof a higher quality.
the future of sound in adventures? W h 'On the Amiga versions of out games you can opt for spokee a descriptions and enjoy a bit of tmusic. Unfortunately, sound is dreally heavy on memory. oCertainly with the Amiga's stereo capabilities you could t have binaural creeping h footsteps. It would be a bit eunsubtle, though, having totes ythe user that he has to wear his theadphones because he maybe hin for a surprise!' It was nice to see that theter i was almost always in complete nagreement with me. I'm all in kfavour of violence, and aMagnetic Scrolls insist that they bdon't support a particularly pacifist stance. The fact that you ocan't die in Jinxterwas uintroduced primarily as a tgimmick. 'You can die in Corruptionand Fish! but our games do tend to suggest that force doesn't get you anywhere very fast. Attack the old man in The Guild of Thieves or the guru in The Pam and you're dead. Blood andgut don't usually have that muchto add to a game. It may be justified in a film setting where you're making an artistic point, but I don't think you're making that kind of point in a computer game. More often than not blood and gore is introducedas a marketing ploy. If you really want to shock people then there are other ways of doing it.' are more in the business 111 reckon Magnetic Scrolls of shocking by contrast. Corruption was a pretty drask t departure from the fantasy world of Kerovnia and Fistilisar even more drastic departure b from that. We won't know for 1 some time what next year hoids in store —for the moment, plans are firmly under wraps. As for 1 what could possibly follow Fish! —cod knows.
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shouldn't humans find it too? The land of Britannia has passed through three turbulent episodes of warfare and destruction - now is the time for peace_ If you're expecting spectacular Amiga graphics, don't. Apart from some pretty neat introductory illustrations they're almost exactly like the 64 version (first released back in 1986). You move around on a full-screen map which shows enemies, cities, castles and towns. You can talk to people, make use of objects, mix the correct ingredients to cast magic spells, fi ght enemies buy, haggle and sell. Forests, mountains and plains are inhabited by some fairly nasty monsters: bats, dragons, gremlins, orcs, skeletons, zorns and or - oh yeah, and trolls. Some joke that! Real trolls would tear any puny adventurer, enlightened up to his armpits or not, covered in armour or billy-goat jelly (either will do) with their bare hands - with their bare thumbnails, even. These pathetic little ponces are definitely not the real object
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and I advise you to beat into a pulp any that you see. Grrr , The more monsters you belt. the greater your experience rating, but the more people you speak to the greater your chance of achieving the Avatar_ The potential for conversation is definitely what
makes this game so good. You can speak to almost anyone on an incredible list of subjects-it really feels like you're having a chat because what Nigel the wizard, or a child playing in the street, mentions actually determines what you can talk about next. Not only that, you
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where. Unlike other role-playing games where you have to spend ages hacking and slaying to get your experience points you feel in the thick of things right from the start. If you thought role-playing games were nothing but an excuse for a good fight and a load of plunder, think again. Ultima IV isn't just brawny-it's got a brain as well (a lot like me, really). And if that isn't enough to tempt you, just think about the excellent presentation (two booklets, an ankh and a top-quality teatowel . , er I mean cloth map). Thought about it? Right - go out an buy it NOW!
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Magnetic SavilstRainbird, Amiga £24.95 hought you were the sole goldfish in the bowl, didn't you' Cod, what a prawn! You didn't anchovy think that Mis sion HQ would let an inte'enational information shark like you spend his well-earned rest mackerelling about in any old plaice. And you were looking forward to dace and dace of inactivity, tool Some bream! Well Rear Admiral Sir Playfair Panchax has his rays (views, moron) When a tadty plastk castle plops Into your bowl, you know you're in for a bass-ically active time Oh well, you were starting to get a bit chubby, anyway. Perhaps you'd just better talk to Panchax -eel sort something trout
Anyone who didn't laugh at those fishy puns can come and discuss the fine details later. Meanwhile it turns out this is no ordinary crisis. In fact it's pretty damn serious. An interdimensional gang of anarchists - the Seven Deadly Fins - have warped themselves to a planet inhabited entirely by fish Well, fish people to be exact. Er yeah a p p a r e n t l y they hase perfectly human torsos and thoroughly fishy legs - tails, i mean. Weird! (those concerned about the mental health of the programme.., should apply direct to M i n e tic Scrolls). The fins are a dead nasty lot - they're planning to sabotage well-laid pins to build a device designed to irrigate Aquaria, a planet in danger of drying out. You need to recover the stolen parts of this secret device
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before it's too late. Not for nothing are we 1 1 3 c a lorganisation l e d the greatest i in the.espionage .. er. well, in the near vicinity. Care fully research into warping (a painful far m of molecular travel, more painful than being tricked out of your lunch by a billy-goat in red pyjamas) has made it possible for you, agent extranrdinaire 10, to travel to four differ Pm key locations. Al you (the pniI asite) passthrough each of the INJIAS (th• taston.? is only accessible if you'vess ved the first three)you rmina transferred into the body ot a lying thing (the host) from the pproprtate dimension . - . no wonder it hurts! As you're still an inexpen- . enced warper, you need a 'slightly gentle start s e the fir t h ree seenorlos. accom partied by some nielt-in-themouth graphics, aren't all that • h adifficult v e to do avoid a r e a ( to is compleigll you junky with a tender -become angry (and boy, does he get angry!), weedle your icy t o an extremely loud- * way past mouthed record baron,,ond avoid the infainous Finsifirlirle
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off a log noises an break down the e interface but ppens you Just thrown back into the olderand a wiser fish. don't have any arms, ,o don't start trying to t tnything back with you into.. thebowl i t doesn't work Backamong the pondweed youjust muster your resources andget ready to try again.. Bythe time you make it to pip 4, the going starts to get -a ; '10400 Imall , g h As Or Roach, an r j fl e tie mill south iNi-UT•vergFokii 1 1 toMI 1 stanctiKt1K e me) you ,Atte. The forts t continues f a— if/ft-take a paddle to Padlington . - c r i a r se n d stativ 1‘ ' , l P i t a w i l i f W o n ' t on'tforget epublo l arly uncle Ripped:Hie lives iny a toreSt ma : ; t I n o catch him wandering around i s it at ti own t tne closto or lust bu%in the daylight c f : a t tYourselfSOMPnem, and nifty u es Trouble is. the Fins are E t s your trail unless you r o t h e where you become a candidate • *th o•it them and manage to for entry into the next tin of r get m all situations designed to o catfood - and you won't ieavoid 1 break down your pr Kious any holidays there even the e toorterfaceyoumightertdtapeut- c sub-games h 'btennt) a fate worse than %Isar fot you to get your teeth testance into. There's always some kind cJoga tin with a team of ski-1 X keRt "ardatessatbekul mashed -e n o u g iqhdttasionally the reasoning is )aalto a pot of anchos pa s te . pretty (ge ddi t ;l Ma top Intel -wafp spy with o u warped b fs7 The parser is up to Magnetic l% more letters to your name tha g -Scrolls usual high standards. ln n ). Ju ), no puzzle is too hard for Most variations of a command oare recognised and there are hat's lucky because thit4 rp a oldfish bowl that h as' gloads of abbreviations L for p • ir f • • 1 4 . I to ; t e o than thea%erage number i.LOOK, X for EXAMINE and so i Act Ira* the y e t i t s 7 1 ;loos turf: . 7 3 the tie. o on You can even summon up a ked twists Just when you t. . lt c list of pronouns available at you're geth ig some I s l o s h v t e Jin x o pletely finless? I like my fish with their tims on Io much_ Who cares anyway when a cn almost you type in er, ananything s 26/2? tgets appropriately fishy n t h response? o ' a It's t getting a bit boring l really. Every Magnetic Scrolls c d o u adventure gets praised to the a skies, wins a thousand (or e s t n thereabouts) awards and gets n ' i an incredibly high mark in all r tthe magazines You'd think o e they could produce a dud once m n m aIna while just for variety's sake e (what do you mean, you can't e timagine that - just use your v m tbrain will you?) Well, so far e b haven't, so Fish is lust ethey n going to have to get another e rrave review. Altogether, it's i r t ick, subtle and sparkles with f baquatic hurnour What ( rmore could your e had ' idot k s ' s aer (Co fly infallibl t ' ra rnteedill ly-goa t eower inow, d IAnotal d o -n e 4 • w e
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including your wife, David's secretary and the staff of the local hospital are trying to make you look as if you're the guilty party in an insider dealing case. Sound familiar? In that case, you probably read old Harley's review of the Amiga version back in the September Issue. At the Personal Computer Awards, a couple of months ago, it was voted Game of the Year. Anita Sinclair must be
getting a bit bored with winning all these awards —she picked up Game of the Year (for Guild Of Thieves) at the British MicroComputing Awards in 1987 as well. In many ways, the structure of Corruption is a far more original game than Guild Of Thieves. There's the setting for a start, but even more unusual than that is the way the game is played. Time is all important. It's not so much a matter of
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t a u • d fi r • • s k W / A r t . 1 i c o v e kis dila thoosktfilte. Ma s i esteeti iron the smith thr oe. Oil r t root?, I h i u sisttleitirs aid seplis drifted is tree the hitch,* to the meth. s l,teaPal p.pted agr i l %nth a bis smile ud liked, a p i n d0I k e / e a t p a 0sitem • i O tH?doer om t)le HI M• he v i t t a pi a. news sutured•m h o n *M i)d w tA u b :,re s a P e v a A tt transportation scroll it. She's got her territorial e faulty was designed to make sure she te uniform out of storage, sawn d off the end of a sub-machine stayedll awayfor ever (and good s riddance). Trouble is, Ingrid gun and gathered together a it came back. u few grenades (it doesn't make o her look any better — what she r This ratime, one or two people are actually glad to see her. really needs is a shave) and m fNothing e& to do with absence now she's ready for action. making a l the heart grow fonder: Miss Bottomlow% campaign gnomes c is conducted in three parts. e aren't into all that sentimental claptrap! Nape, First off, she has to get as many e t to do with the fact it's more people as possible to sign a t that Jasper Quickbuck has petition. Easier said than done, taken p over as Little Moaning's but somehow she manages it e most hated gnome. He's Not that it puts Jasper off planning a to raze the village to making a quick buck —he just the ground and put a great big gets out his steamroller (plus t enormous yuppy homes troll cronies) and tries to l development in its place. What flatten her farm. Once she's i Boo! Hiss! a meany! stopped that, all Ingrid has to Well,t Ingrid won't stand for do is infiltrate Quickbuck's i n s i r
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making your way around a set of different locations as being in the right place at exactly the right time. You play against a 24hr dock which advances one minute for every turn. As time passes, David's plot thickens: unless you interfere, everything just goes on according to plan. All this makes the adventure one hard nut to crack. As you make your way through the office building, visit the park (be careful crossing the road) or just take a walk to the chemist's you might come across nothing at all. Try at another time of day and you might find a mega-hint. For Chuck 'Sherlock ' Vomit, fi tting the pieces of a dead confusing puzzle together didn't pose much of a problem but for punier (and younger) adventurers the whole thing might prove a tiny bittoo hard. It's certainly tough trying to makesense of anything at first. The main thing is to look out for yourself and trust no-one. Don't be fooled into thinking anyone is your friend. They're not. Though the graphics aren't quite as nifty as those in The Pawn or The Guild Of Thieves,
manor as a maid and come back with enough evidence to put rabbit-features away for good. Easy? Well, in the tradition of Knight Orc and Gnome
Ranger, the first part is a lot easier than the other two. It's more of a beginner's section really which shouldn't take all that long to solve. Unless you've been spending the last three years hibernating under arock somewhere in Siberia, you won't be surprised to find that interaction is definitely the key to the whole adventure. Ingrid can converse
they aren't half bad and still amongst the most impressive you'll find on the 64. I reckon it's all to do with the subject matter. When you've only got so many pixels, it must be a lot easier to create fairy-tale fields and castles than detailed London streets - and I'll belt anyone who disagrees.
with everybody she meets and needs to enlist the help of plenty of other characters to succeed. Not only that, Flopsy, her favourite dog (judging from Ingrid's size, I reckon Flopsy must be a chihuahua) is always ready to help. Oh yeah, the trolls. Ingrid isn't very nice to them at all. In fact, Ingrid's machine gun would look very nice next to the billygoat trophies on my wall. Think about it, Ingrid. Think about it a lot. Trolls apart, I found this a lot more fun to play than Gnome Ranger. There isn't so much
As you'd expect, the parser is very comprehensive and there are plenty of extras too. You can do all sorts of things with the graphics (turn them off, switch them back on, shove them up the screen, view them only the first time you enter a location and so on) and mess about with the location texts
redundant landscape, the puzzles seem to have more structure, and there's always something going on. Little Moaning is full of gnomes leading ordinary lives: fishing, shopping, surveying, playing darts, buying concrete humans for their gardens -you name it, they do it! You can really enjoy wandering around the landscape instead of just wishing that the next puzzle would turn up. The hand-drawn, hi-res graphics aren't quite as impressive as you might expect but they are colourful,
to your heart's content. Interaction is limited to asking or telling other characters about something, and though you can ask most people about anything under the sun, you'll only get a useful reply if you pick the right topic. Insider dealing is a bit of a specialised subject and isn't guaranteed to be everyone's cup of tea. It will probably interest a whole bunch of business people who don't normally play adventures and put off a lot of adventurers who like their games to follow a more traditional style. I reckon Harvey Harlequin was a bit harsh when he gave the Amiga version 81%. Corruption may not have mass appeal but that doesn't prevent it from being a top quality, highly original adventure product. Don't buy it straight away - give it a try first. If you like what you see, you're in for a whale of a time ATMOSPHERE PUZZLE FACTOR INTERACTION LASTABILITY OVERALL
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atmospheric and very quick to redraw. There certainly isn't as much disk-accessing as you'd get with Magnetic Scrolls In addition to a copy of Ingrid's Gnettlefield Journal (part 2) and a full-colour portrait of the gnome herself, 119.95 buys you a typical Level 9 parser which accepts complex sentences and has plenty of useful abbreviations plus options to SAVE or RAMSAVE. Using the mouse, you can manoeuver the graphics up or down the screen, and to save laborious moving about, you can GO or RUN TO all of Little Moaning's locations. Personally, I was a bit disappointed with Level 9's first interactive adventure, Knight Orc - there were loads of different characters and locations but in the end most of them turned out to be irrelevant. Gnome Ranger was a definite improvement on that, and Ingrid's Back is even better. The interaction really is worth it this time. I just hope, for Ingrid's sake, that I never meet her front .
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at any one time). Don't give any jewels to Sam (he's too weak for all t h is magic) a n d hand the remaining je we ls t o Strider before he exits Bree. When you meet the riders say the words that you've learnt. As you speak your jewel disappeats - and so does one of the riders Phew! t h z y ' re dead. Well, they a re , b u t d o n ' t g e t too excited because t h e re 's still another lot to the east. Keep on moving eastwards u n t i l you meet Strider on the stone bridge. Get the three remaining jewels from h im (o n e each f o r you, Merry and Pippin) and get ready to move east again to meet the second set of riders. Just before you go make sure that all your backpacks are open (you can't reopen them in Part 2 for some reason) and keep o n ordering Strider to go east until he does. Sure you've g o t everything? Off you go east, then, and get rid of those riders just like you did before. Finished? Rig h t then, you've completed Part 1. Hurrah! Oh yeah, Part 2. Guess, what? You'll just have to wa it till next month
and go NE. At the asylum, insert the security card and untie the drain t o fi n d the small curious key. SEABASE DELTA: Want to make the chicken la y an egg? Then chew t h e g u m a n d b l o w a bubble, Fill yo u r pen wit h in k from th e octopus. To get some wood t o lever the cannon, fi re the missile at the mast.
to the door. Say please, To fly or Fa lkor, type GET FALKOR. VALKYRIE 1 7 : P a w n y o u r necklace to pay the hotel bill. To get rid of the butcher, give him the box. SPIDERMAN: A ll gems must be stored with Madame Web. PUSH UP in t h e shaft t o enter the penthouse.
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Riders. You should n o w b e in possession o f se ve n je we ls. Remember th a t each p a rty o f riders is made up of three men. Each jewel kills one rider, so you can only deal with two groups of men. There's a party of riders to the extreme east of the road, so time your approach to make sure
PERUSE THE CLUES I'd send a potted lizard delicacy t o everyone who sent in their tips this month, but I can see from the look on y our fa c e t h a t y o u wouldn't like it. Thanks to everyone w h o helped — maybe we can pull a Yuletide cracker sometime WOLFMAN: The key is under the lid. To get the book, insert, push and then remove the key. To find the flask go NW. then S from the weed. Fill i t a t the stream. (M Harvey) THE LEGEND OF APACHE GOLD: To scare a wa y t h e crocodile, SHOW HANDBAG. T o ma k e smoke signals THROW DIRT ON
FIRE. Chop off the branch at the top of the tree, collect it from the pool and use it t o paddle the canoe_ You can get the manure if you've got the sack. Spread the manure to get your hands on the fern. THE BIG SLEAZE: Examine th e wall o f th e Gents f o r another address. At 21st Street, push the obelisk and use your crowbar to open t h e g rille . O n l y e n t e r Central Park between 5 am and 6 pm. THE BOGGIT: To avoid dying of hunger ask Gandalf t o f o llo w you and go to Srnel rond's house. When Gandalf arrives Smelrond will g ive you lunch. Take th e lunch a n d e a t i t wh e n yo u r stomach starts to rumble. To pass the spider's web, p u ll th e web
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NEVERENDING STORY: Be polite
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invitation i s b y t h e d a g g e r behind the socialist's wallpaper. You can buy a ticket fro m the river boat from the travel agent. THE PAWN: There's a coin in the settee in the climbable tree (ooh look, I ' m a p o e t!) Ma ke sure you're we a rin g t h e h a rd h a t before you use the lift. Give the rice to the alchemists
the thermos and use to the bottle to carry explosives. Use the drill to make a hole in the safe. Use the sma ll b i t fi rst , th e n the medium one. WIZ BIZ: Insert the token in the slot in the gargoyle. Drink the can of lager to progress. Give the earrings to the water demon.
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the coat of arms to enter Castle Grayskull. Ignore the cuboid and the crack. Throw the moleculator at the Rockbinder and be kind to his head. STARCROSS: Go to the nest in the zoo and throw the tape deck at it to get the red rod. Insert the yellow r o d i n t o t h e re p a ir machine t o lig h t t h e ye llo w corridor. To g e t th e p in k ro d , wear your suit and go through the yellow airlock and out to the yellow dock. Tie your safety line to the hook and the suit. Go W: the pink rod is in the dead body's hand. PRICE OF MAGIK: To make the boat friendly GET CROSS. Throw the salt to kill the slug! and CAST FIX to kill Wight. CAST MAD on yourself and g ive the ashes to pass through the glowing gate. TERRORMOLINOS: To ge t hol d
of Doreen, CALL DOREEN.
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llama's flower and give it to the nymph. At the location just west of the waterfall, give the shove! to the nymph, tell her to go east and dig. THE FANTASTI C FOUR: HOLD
BREATH b e f o re Th in g goes under th e t a r FEEL GROUND, SMASH M A C H I N E , ENTER MACHINE. Your torch will now burn the tar. RED MOON: Wear your wellies to pass the thin red line. Examine the oyster and play the dulcimer to entertain Bostog. Wear gloves to g e t t h e swo rd a n d EAT MUSHROOM t o enter the tiny door. Give Kelf a bottle of water Wear the braces to carry more. Obis opens t h e sarcophagus 011abin reduces the mummy to dust. Rub out the red line in the red room so you don't have to cross it.
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Looks like nobody's been paying any attention to my warnings. Vet another clever contact, Geff Gillan, has asked to be taken off the list because of the inconsiderate behaviour of most of the people requesting help. Now look, unless you want every single bone in your body crushed to a pulp, lust remember that it's not good manners to accidentally onpurpose forget about an SAE, ask for full solutions orring people up in the middle of the night. Didn't your mother ever tell you that a polite troll is a happy troll? Heroes of Karn, Bored of the Rings, Gremlins, Voodoo Castle, Zim Zola Bim, Mugsy's Revenge, Tropical Adv ent ure, Dracula, Holy Grail, The Pawn, Ret urn t o Oz, Masters of the Universe, Robin of Sherwood, Fourt h Protocol, Price of Magik . Christophe Brassart, 67 rue de l'Abbe Lem ire, 59200 TOURCOING, France. Tower of Despair, Dracula, Adventureland, Zim Zala Castle of Terror, Time Tunnel, Eureka John Paterson, 8 Bracadale Road, 8aillieston, Glasgow G69 Tel: 041 771 7729 Mordons Quest, Spiderman, Hacker Nigel 'Nemesis' Richardson Tel: 01 360 8325 The Golden Baton, Worm in Paradise, Hobbit , Fourt h Protocol (Pt 3 only). Andrew Blackman, 133 Ashen Drive, Dartford, Kent DA1 3LY. Tel: 0322 76887 5.30-8.30pm Dungeon Adventure, Lord of the Rings, Quest f or the Holy Grail, Hampstead, Lords of Time, Inca Curse, Espionage Island, Planet of Death David Lemon, 14 Nor ton Place, Dunfermline, Fife KY11 4RH Tel: 0383 728353 after 6pm Mon-Fr i Leather Goddesses of Phobos, lork III. Terrormolinos, Never Ending Story, Heroes of Ka rn, Mission 1, Gremlins, Robin of Sherwood Ron McKenzie, 3 Silverstream, Freystrop, Haverfordwest, Dv f ed Adventureland, SubSunk, 5 Heroes of Kam, Empire of Karn, A Munroe Manor, Hacker, Classic 6Adventure, All early I nf oc om 1 Jinxter, Guild Of Thieves, 2Plundered Hearts, Dracula, Hitchhiker's Guide, S Mindshadow, Tracer Sanction, N Wishbringer, Trinity, The Pawn. Chris Fleming, 235 Meol a Road, PtChev, Auckland, N Zealand. Tel: 867074 Voodoo Castle, Heroes of Kern,
Pirate Adv ent ure, Ten Little Indians, Hobbit , Lost City, Gremlins, Wiz ard of Akyrz, Quest f or the Holy Grail, Zim Sala birri. Island Adventure, Castle Dracula. Paul Flanagan, 6 Corry, Belleek, Co Fermanagh, N Ireland. Tel: 036565 594 The Hobbit , Erik t he Viking, Castle of Terror, Eureka, Voodoo Castle, The Count, Heroes of Karn, Empire of Karn, Zork I, Zork III, Exodus, Ult ima III, The Boggit, Lords of Time, Never ending story, The Hulk, Temple of Terror, Ult ima IV, Seabase Delta, Kentilla, Valkyrie 17, Sherlock, The f ourt h prot oc ol, The Helm, Wiz ard of Akyrz, Perseus and Andromeda, Lord of the rings (part 1), Emerald Isle, Quest f or t he Holy Grail, Hacker, Colossal Cave. Steven Kelly, 4 South View, Whins Lane, Simonstone, Burnley, Lancs B812 7QU. Tel: 0282 74765 (between 6pm and 10 pm) The Hobbit . Seabase Delta, Kentilla, Zzzz, Spytrek, Robo City, I maginat ion, Demon Knight , Kobyashi Naru, Tower of Despair, Time Tunnel, Citadel of Chaos, Eureka, Sorceror of Clay morgue Castle, The Quest For The Holy Grail, Rigel's Revenge, See-ka of Assiah (part one), Foot ball Frenzy, Velnor's Lair Paul Hardy. 33 Fir Tree drive, Wales, Sheffield S31 8LZ. Hitchhiker's Guide, Zork I, Zork II, Planetfall, Leat her Goddesses, Cutthroats, Infi del, St at ionf all Dave Rogers, 15 Elm Terrace, Westfield, Radstock, Bath, Avon BA3 3XP. Amaz on, Borrowed Time, Castle of Terror, Castle Adv ent ure, Comput er Adv ent ure, Dracula part 1, Grand Larceny, Haunt ed House, Himalay an Adv ent ure, Labyrinth, Mad Mummy , Minds hadow, Murder on the Wat erf ront , Never ending story. Ninja, Raka-tua Volcano, Scroll of Ak hbar, Seabase Delta, Silver Mount ain, Subsunk, The Boggit , The Dallas quest, The Hobbit , Ult ima IV, Voodoo Castle, Zork I,,
Zork II, Zork III, Z227, Mar i o Moeller, 38 Greenvale Drive, Greenvale, 3047, Vic. Australia. Ult ima IV, The Bard's Tale, Voodoo Castle, Phantasie I, Never Ending Story, Dracula, The Prince of Magic, Borrowed Time, The Pawn, Seabase Delta, Deadline, Zork Ill, Wis hbringer. Derek Wong, 42 logram Road, Thor nton Heath, Surrey, CR4 8EB. Hitchhiker's Guide, The Hobbit , Lord of the Rings, The Shadows of Mordor. Guild of Thieves, Jinxter. Warren Lee Melia, 1 Thornhill Avenue, Rishton, Blackburn, Lancs, BB1 4EZ. Jack The Ripper, Dracula, Kayleth, Mi ndshadow, Never Ending story. Derek Scott, 42 South Parade, Leven, Nor th Humberside HU17 SL.J. Starcross, Suspended, Suspect, Leather Goddesses, Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Deadline, Planetfall, Infi del, Cutthroats, Ballyhoo, Lurk ing Horror, Seastalker, Bureaucracy, Trinity, Moonmis t , Holly wood Hijinx, Hitchhiker's Guide, Wis hbringer, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker, Enchanter, The Pawn, Ult ima I, Ult ima III, Ult ima IV, Sherlock, Gremlins, The Hulk, Terrormolinos , The Fourt h Protocol, The Hobbit Billy Kavanagh, 49 Drake Hall, Westhoughton, Bolton, BLS 2RA. Never Ending Story, Zzzz, Quest f or the Holy Grail. Tony Kinnear, 49 Wa i n wr i g h t Avenue, Hutton, Br entwood, Essex, CM13 2SZ. Bally Hoo, Bored of the Rings, Borrowed Time, Deadline, Emerald Isle, Enchanter, Eureka (German, Art hurian, Roman), Gremlins, Hitchhiker's Guide to t he Galaxy, The Hobbit , Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Mind Shadow, Munroe Manor, Moonmis t , Pirate Adv ent ure, Planetfall, Planet of Death, Knight Orc Pt 1, Seastalker. Ship of Doom, Spell Breaker, Spiderman, Starcross, Stationfall, Tass Times, Lurk ing Horror, Tracer Sanction, Valkyrie 17, Very big cave adventure, Wis hbringer, Wo r m in Paradise, Zork I, Zork II, Zork III. Ian Gay, 18 Earsdon Close, Westdenton, Newcastle upon Tyne, NES 2RL. SMASHED, Dracula, Frankenstein, Kentilla, Quest For The Holy Grail, Gnome Ranger I, II, Eureka II, IV, Zim Sala Bim, Cricket Crazy Scott West, 10 Chamock Dale Rd, Gleadless, Sheffield, S12 3HP. The Hobbit , Seastalker, Trinity, Leather Goddesses, Beurocracy, Hitchhiker's Guide, Stationfall• Carl Kuttelwascher, 6 Robin Hill Drive, Camberley, Surrey. GU15 1EG
Enchanter, Zork I, II, Ill, Stationfall, Plundered Hearts, The Pawn, Shadowgat e, Wis hbringer. Julian Loveday, 23 Herbert Road, Emerson Park, Hornchurch, Essex, RM11 Heroes Of Karn, Empire of Karn, Dracula, Seabase Delta, Spiderman, Hulk, Zizz, Quest for the Holy Grail, Lord of the Rings. Price of Magik , The Pawn, Twin Kingdom Valley. A Ridge, 4 Corwallis Avenue, Clifton, Bristol, 858 4PP Twi Hobbit , Hitchhiker's Guide, n Ret urn To Eden, Terrormolinos , K Dallas Quest, linx t er, Deja Vu, i Shadowgat e, The Three Muskateers, n Pludered Hearts, Steven Coomber. 6 Maysfield g Close, Portishead, Bristol. B520 d 9RL. Tel: 0272 844218 (6-9pm) o m The V Boggit , Hulk, Kayleth, Kobyashe Naru, Sherlock. a William Stephenson, 10 l Inchcolm Terrace, South l Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland EH30 9NA e y Corruption, Tass Times in , Tonetown, King's Quest T Simon Ball, l A Castle Flats, South h Street, Ashby-de-laZouch, Leicestershire, 1E6 58Q. e Tel: 0530 415103 (5-10pm) Zzzz, Kentilla, Seabase Delta, Token of Ghall, Pirate Adv ent ure, Voodoo Castle, Spacy Odyssey, Buckaroo Banzal, Redhawk, Kwah, Colossal Adv ent ure, Dungeon Adv ent ure, Impossible Mission, Adv ent ureland, Lord of the Rings, Labyrinth, The Count, Rebel Planet, Sea of Blood, The Bard's Tale I and II, Jack the Ripper, Legacy of the Ancients, Frankenstein, Book Of The Dead, Temple Of Terror, Nev erending Story, Deja Vu, Masters Of The Universe, Fourt h Protocol Paul Shields, 35 Threshelford, Basildon, Essex, 5516 SUB. Zork II, Gnome Ranger, Knight Orc (part one). Steve Parker, 13 Elizabeth Road. Seaton, East Devon, EX12 2D5. Zork1,11and III, Hit c hhik ers Guide To The Galaxy, Knight Orc, Dragon World, Ult ima 3, Infi del, Starcross, Seastalker, Cutthroats. Richard Verity, I Beack Road, Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand, Tel: New Zealand (0524) 88660. Zork I, II and III, Suspended, Starcross, Deadline, Gruds in Space, Hulk, Spiderman, Asylum, Dallas Quest. Mischa Schweitzer, Assumburg 9, 1121 EA Landsmeer, Holland. Knight Orc, Minds hadow, Bastow Manor, Dracula, Nev erending Story Jamie Gooding, 29 Ross Street, . Surrey Hills, Victoria 3127, Australia.
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out of the window, scraping a nail along your neighbouess ork or throwing your penknife at the nearest cen a tgo ? and seek medical advice immediately- peo .ke you shouldn't be allowed on the streets. Er n o , but seriously, ha ha, if you sometimes feel likWEI i t .4 ' atthe bottom of your Auntie Edna's pot (and she edteabag 'nles-20,cups a day) don't despair. There are harmless ways of working off all that excess aggression. And no - that doesn!r.-maatt pl g dominoes or askin y o u r u te-atthe boar O r a game of darts. W about here is RPG - Bloodbow1 to leases is the Vdefinitivkly violent American football game Played by manu ountains on monstrously hard surfaces, nevera match go pby without the ritualistic drawing of blood The greater thy ; • nce of mutilation, the bigger the crowds-and the bigger , - e croWds the bigger the money. Day in an . a y out the o ammoth forms of mutilated morons sl u g n u t on the n e , o f T h e G a m e s W o r k Astrogranite pitch, t h e r t h g t h e s Bloodweiser trophy or will it goto the entra i I -hungry butchers name, he's not playing that positipp himseltiat Paul G la h were to mention a Lineman (not t h at ,* Wibuld, he of The Gouged Eye? , . oReadyto sell your grandmother into siefiary to get hold of it? too scared) he definitely would : W ep l l , hold your knuckledusters, because you might just win ' The top 20 prize winners get a blister pack of koodOo distributor and retailer of Fantavelobpy Games, have agreed s miniatures in addition to their copy of the gaiwartmdal to give away a copy of this gruelling gape to 20 people clever menough to p e y ' v e got a 13 o'fbra in to match their runners UD get a blister pack each. Cot!! Just write yo14 o .00-- - - b r a w r v : h 4 answers on the back of a postcard and send them to: - - - ( \ s All you have to do is read the piece of text The Big Match, and ' t fi t ire out which of the four players (One-Eye, BLOOD AND GUTS COMP, Bumble, Iri i $ 4 9 r Harrimerbrow) pla ysi n which of the r ZZAP I TOWERS, PO BOX 1 ._ following o ;s $ r*. Thretwer, Blocker, Lineman, Catcher. And LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE, SYS e i b e c a u s e we're feeling generous wy'll give you a hint. If a t player actually mentions the position of an opponent by And no cheating, or we'll Chuck Vomit at y e 0 Z Z A P ! Christmas Special 1988
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Art. Go o d condition. £ 3 4 0 o n o Te l: 0661 23283. CBM 128. 1541 d isk dove, Freeze Machine, Image SyStem, Easy Script, over 270 disk and tape. Wo ke Ioystick, ea for C4 rO or m swa c o po with Amiga Te l: Wokingharn (07341 771190 after 5pm daily.
C B . C2N, ove r BO games Imany recent titles). Total minimum value E800 Seeing for only C3 0 0 be fore Xma s. T e l L e e d s 0 5 3 684024 a f t e r 6 p m (De monstra tions o n 2 re q u e st).
C M '- with over E350 worth a softwa re including Barbarian, Gunship.1K+ and more' C2N • deck, 4)141! Cleaning tut, Excel+ disk drive (still boxed) a nd other accessories E200 ono. Will sell compute r a nd Exce l • se pa ra te ly C a ll i01)578 5461.
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CLASSIFIEDS WANTED Wanted. ca sse tte ve rsion of, Sca ra ba e us ard • T h e Sa cre d Armour 0 1 Antiria d'. C y Bates, t 9 2 A Pe ckha m Rye , Ea st Dulwich, London SE22 9 0 A. TorTormolinos for CBM 6 4 . 1130's o f la te st ales to choose from in exchange. Te l: Go a l on 0723 375095, Wanted C8/064 keyboard tworking) will swop ForCBM64 games or casDi or cash + games.1 am / a lio se lling ga me s. Ple a se writ e t o Anthony Brooks, 66 St Johns Road, Sla ve ley NT.Chesterfield, Dertoyshate 343 3 0 W. Rolle PI / Torsi Ar e yo u he a vily in t o C 6 4 9PGS7 Wrote to me and swap ve ws and bps. (keratin M e te rs live s c a l C o n t a ct St e ve Jackson. 1 0 Fairway Road, Bursken. StOkeon-Trent, Staffordshire 578 711, England Good re lia ble Amiga owe/lots wanted from allaround the worlo, a ll letters will definitely haat replies. Write to 0 , P, Whittingham, 5 4 Beaconsall la ne . Heaketh Bank. Preston PRA 6RR, No Lame, s please
FOR SALE ca me 4 c. two tape de cks. One Load II, E350 worth a games. two joysticks. Clutch Sa le . Phone Michael (Widnes) 051 424 8518 Se ll for MOO ono. Hurry, quick sale needed
C64 software tor sa le worth C800 + W ia sell Die lo t t o r £ 1 0 0 , m a n y la te st t it le s i.e Beardslarys Footba ll, T ra cksu it M e n a g e B , iDOC Commando. Stealth Fighter etc Details from Mr. R. Yip, 507A Warwick Road. Solihull, West Mick(9 9 1 1 AP.
C130164. da te se lle manuals. two Cluockshot it Turbo joysticks. E650 worth of original games moluding Out Run, I K +. platoon, Buggy Boy, 720, a lso M usic M a ke r and keyboard Gre a t value E2 0 0 after 4.30pm. 0 1 , C o, C n 2tN dalasette• 5 8 a ngina s including CM Last I ka ri Wa rriors, Platoon, Pastan, a c Santa, t Manual G r M usic Maker, four joysticks, designer pencil, two programme books - Bargain a t a E100h Tel: 01 502 2807 a m ( 0 r ga me s lo r sa le All ongina 9C64 compute 2 cassettes Price s between 25p and 15, many 3 ) new lilie s Bu g g y Boy E4, Platoon E4.50 and 6loads more, around 35 a rra Tel: Matt on 0263 1824441 e lle r 6 6 5 CI:4M 64/120 original full once games E5.00 8each, 19 games including Buggy Boy, Road 3Blasters. Outrun. Ikari Warriors, Konarus Colaction. Pa c-La nd. Ga rb e d . Thuntie rca ls. Paperboy, Gauntlet, World Games. California Games a nd lots lots more T eiephone 0536 13626.
Commodore 64. Commodore tapedeck, plus E300 worth of oroginal games, including some recent title s. A l in good condition end with original boxes On ly E150. Te l:(011 673 0269 after Earn (Monday to Thursday).
Commodore 6 4 , Excellerator - d isk drive , E400 software Inc, SEUCK. Salamander, Be baron 2, e tc. 2 joysticks. C2N, Geo% disk holder, Freeze Machine, 3 0 disks, 1 2 ZZAPS, worth E1350 Qu ick sale E400 ono. Phone Ian (04962)4953.
084 games, IK-o ea.00, Elite Collection £8.00, Platoon E5.00, 6 Pa k V01111E5 00, We Are the Champions E5.00. Send lot complete list and excellent condition. Anthony Brooks, 6 6 St. Johns Road, Staveley, Chesterfield, De rbyshore 343 3 0 W
Wra ck, Te chnology Muth-Modem for CBM 64 o r 128, auto dia l multi-speed, boxed a s new, cost £125. accept C85 DVM T a t 061 792 0725 lifter eprn.
C64, MPS901 printer, paper, ink, 2 datasetles, Back•up board, Ouickshol 2 Turbo, M usic Maker ke yboa rd ove rla y. he e d e a gra re nli demagnetising cassettes. dustoovers, loadee , b o o ks ma gs and much more . %IOC games, T e l : Nottingham 892043_
For Sa le 0 6 4 . Enhancer 2000. disk-dove . 2 cassette decks. Freeze Machine, Ouickdisc + joystick, over E250 worth 01 software, e xce llent condition worth E500, will se ll for £320 Phone a r o 581557 ask for Nick
C04, Exce le ta tor d isk drive with 3 0 bla nk disks. C2N. Joystick, freeze machine. 25 mags and E500 worth of software as new, including many famous tales. Will see C400. Phone 0902 894310 and ask for Marc.
Commodore 6 4 . dataselle, 2 Oulockshot it joysticks. Fre e ze Fra me (M kI llb ) . lo t s Of magazines, and ove r E450 worth of original games including Predator, Bubble Bobbie All in excellent condition, BAR GN N E195. R irg 01-597 3284.
CEIPM34, 2C2N, defeselle, dish drive GM % freeze machine, joystick, Citizen printer, 171 games worth E900 (onginals) with program• ming books a rid software. Tota l value ove r C1300 will se ll for between E550 and £800 Telephone 762786
Commodore 64C only 1 8 months old, 1541 disc Owe . Expert cartridge. £700 original software.ware,C2N, da ta se re , 2 Joysticks, N EO S mouse, 9 0 % Gold Medals. Sizzlers £300 ono. 0277 657645.
Make your own demos Complete with hires picture, music and scrolling message, easy to use. Only E5.00 (Inc PP). Send to Neil Higgins. 109 Edward Street, Denton, Manchester m34 3EIS (004 disk only)
C M 128, Tape deck, over 60 games all original inc. Platoon, ka li 1Namors, two loysticks. manuals a nd crags vgc All for £1 50 Phone Alan after 5pm on 061 339 3767.
Cella M . dalasette, joystick, Ightpert. freeze *erne, 158 games 51 sizzlers, 17 gold medals, 38 maga. uliktoes, CNET demos, basic progs, 3manuals, worth E1250 se ll E4 5 0 Ph o n e David:Bedford 10234) 54034 between 6pcn and 7pm
C661122, dalaselle, Excalerator + disk M y* , 3 joystOcks. ove r E400 of software i n c l Bionic Ilian Warriors, Out Run, All u d i n Commando. g boxed with manuals 6 months old. Bargain at E450 one. Telt 0474 82 3185 after 5pm
le wd my best regards to all CM users, I have the newest mutt on disk, send tat/cask to Alpha One, 100 Lancaster Gate Fla t No,9, Loudon Vi2Enoland. All Over the workt
For th e 0 4 beginner. 0 6 4 . 2 C2Ns, backup device, M usic M a ke r. Ouickshot I V joystick arid over E200 of games, worth over £500, will see tor E200 Telephone Brentwood. Esse x i02771 280712 Ple a se telephone after 7pm.
Pokes, ape and hints for your CEISA64. Booklet contains over 120 pokes including a ll the Latestgames. Send E2.50 to: Howard Look. 26 Cricketers Road, Ariesey, Bedfordshire SG15 fse
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WE W *So LE ApPer I- L -L. I. 6!4 , 1541 d isk drive , M PS8 0 3 Esca la te Commodore printer, AM X moue°, C2 N cassette de ck. 2 - original etc Delta, Skate or Doe etc and * a ir all VIA box. joysticks. 2 paddles, 2 powe r pa cks, E900 to r Phone Ala n 951 3 3 9 3761 a lte r 5orn• El SO. latest games p lu s £251] m a c software, a g R u e .V1 d i s ZZAPI, Christmas Special 1988 1 4 1 O k d o U v e , R f
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ce de , C2N, 2 Joysticks. mOuse, E500 worth latest title s original including I Q, Rampage, Thunder Ca ts, e tc, M usic M a ke r. 8 0 rnags worth over MOO. se ll £400. Phone (021) 772 2403 after 4pm We st Midlands).
Commodore e dc, excellent condition. Load It. datasette C2N dalesette, 3 joysticks, E250 games, Ne m MOUSE., '0 ' LOVel Maths. intro to BASIC. 1 0 0 s magazines Yo u rs f o r E2 9 9 Phone Crewe (0270) 589789 tor delaiis, a sk for Stefan
C64, 1541 d isc drive, ove r E1.000 worth of games. M usic M aker. mags, plus Sega with six games still boxed. vgc worth Over £1,450, selling f o r E4 5 0 .0 0 . C a l Ste ve o n 104931 857878, cee use rs. Over 8 0 origna i games tor sa le plus ma chine co d e aSsembler. t h e Expe rt beck-inn ca rtrid g e ( ( 3 0 n e w ) o ve r 4 0 magazines end fe ve rsl prograMMiNI books, Al f o r £ 7 0 °u ric, R ing Andre w o n (0444) 455210 064, d isk drive , mode m Quick Da ta drive , joysticks, books, m a ns, comple te I nputs, Civet N ova s. 30 disks plus holder, 5 0 games tape/disk, Expe rt ca rt p lu s disks. le a rn M., code a n d Ba sic pa cks BBC Ba sic, Phone John (0346) 27231 offers. C128, Oceanic II N disc dawn MA8801 pinntsr Exp e rt 1 2 4 ge ne s, so m e d isk ba se d, books, £600 ono. Tel. 051 424 9804 5 3 0 m 9.00pm Monday - Friday
CEIM 6 4 0 , Exce l disk drive, disk box, blank disks. only 8 more hs old, 80 games worth over £650. All worth over E1000, will se ll tor £399 Prone Jason 1 0 5 Fri. 4 1 1 a 0 6 3 7 6 0 0 - 7 . 0 0 p m M o n -
COM 6 4 . d isk d rive . ta pe d e cs, printe r modem, ta p e s. d isks, books, ma ga zine s. . back-up cartridge. ultilrives, e tc £350 Phone Kevin (06741 72169 Commodore 128 1541 d isk drive ca sse tte recorder. toysbok, plus £301) games Ba rga in
at E3513.Reasonable otters may be accepted. Tel Stafford 46920 after eipm
Wnte t o Deemer Kne•II, Am Onolzbech 25, 8800 Ansbach, Germany
Commodore 64, d e vise e . 2 ioyslicks and E450 of original software, a ll top titles, Skate or Doe. Drille r e tc. dust cove r. Reset switch. lots of twigs. worth E700 For quick sale only £185 von. Phone (01332)240474
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Commodore 8 4 stimline ca se , 1 5 4 1 d isk drive. 40 disks, cassette player. over 100 cassette a nd disk games, N EOS mouse. Se iko wnst temenal E200 for quick sale. Tel. Stiffing 107E16174152 after 5pm,
Steven O'Brie n, 2 9 Merlin Wa y. Sheffield S5 5S-S, England wants to swap all kitest disk or tape stuff, games, de mos a nd Wa de s Te l: (0742) 443473. I promise to answer all letters. Write soon ple a se '
M e ga / C M , I 'm 19, looking tor pe_ncials ad over the would, for the latest games. demos, inertias, se nd list I will reply to a ll' Be st software guaranteed! Greg Zahris, 286 Unismors Crescent, Toronto. O n t a rio . C n a ledviaa. 3_ Chime r Ores,. Melba Act hena Kova M a Jlia wa nts t o swa p th e la te st 2615, Austra games, 4 1 tips,. pokes 9 for the CEA from all over the world.
WE L. CBM 6 4 . 0 2 N da ta se tte . d u st co ve r QuiCksocil 1 , 2 0 origina l ga me s, Fre e ze Machine, Ba ck-up canntige, manual se le ction of mag Ulnas C150. Also have Ouickdisk El 0, Alter Ego £12, Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer £10. Telephone John on 0777 703147,
064-Freak se e ks disk users worldwide. wro are interested in swopping M e latest games, demos, utilities. etc. All letters to - Paddy, 36 Hillside Ave , We mble y. M iddlesex, London HA9 60Y, England. Send nownt
would like to swa p CBM 64 software with everybody in the whole world (tape). Send your fiat or tape (latest stuff) to R.Smit, Beerlustweg, 2 8 7335.1D, Apeldoorn, Holland iaiways repty).
35 WORDS FOR ONLY £2.50! Thousands 01 CommOdote computer owners across the world read ZZAP! every month. The Reeder Classifieds are your low-cost opportuorty to reach them with a small ad, whether you want to buy, sell, swap or advise, And WS simple - a one-oil cost for up to 35 words tor E2.50_ Just fill in the ft:fin below ,
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SWAPLINE 064 d le k M o re l Gareth Ha ll. PO box 4 1 8 . Wcodndge, Queensland, Australia would like to swap games, demos, hints etc. Send me a disk o t your lists now. All enquiries will be answered
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ZZAP1 READER CLASSIFIEDS Send to ZZAPI READER CLASSIFIEDS, PO Sox 10, Ludlow, Shropshire SYS 1 DS Ad d •••••••••.• •••• . . 1-• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • re s s Postcode . . . . . . — — Tick .Cle ve llie d heeding: . Di-lantern J e o r S a l e [ . [— Eve n t s Diary o M m ce lla n e o u s . S e / sp lin e Method . of payment p C h e q u e L p o st a l Order C r o n . P a l s — Write your here, one word per box, and include name, address and patina ° U advelisarnent s number if you want them printed. e r G r o u p s D F a n z i n e s
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Hit I 'm Critic; I want to swap 84 stuff on cast. Send fists to me Ame rica ns and Europeans please, I ge t a ll the latest. H it Smitly se nd' C.Baker, 1 0 2 Whitehorse Road, Browniglis. weisail, wS8 ?PG England.
064 U se r wishe s t o swa p la te st games, demos and utilities on disk. &a id kst or disks to Chad Matthiesoo, 14 Tweeds We ll Kitweil. Birmingham B32 4.113. I promise to reply to all letters
154 D isc U se r Robe rt Ste insby, 1 7 Sco tt Grove, Ha rtle pool, Cle ve la nd, T S2 5 4 N 1 . would like to hear from you to swa p demos, games e tc. Se nd list o r disks. I promise to reply to all tatters. C64 disk andlor Amiga users"! All the latest S. the greatest. Send lists, letters of disks and 11 return like wise . Everyone gets a reply. 171.1k, 13 Clarkendon Road, L o n d o n El l. Ceti wants yout Contact Kelvin Al, 7086 Gateway D rive . M ississa uga , Onta rio, L4 T 2 T5 Canada Send - a t letters/disks get a 100% , F odesittlist r reply! Later! s w a p p iUser 84 n wants to Swap games and demo's On tape or disk to people an over the world. Latest g stuff only Ple a se contact Jackal, 25 Kingsley tAye, Kersal, Sallatcl 7. Manchester as soon as h possible e l Ca a liforni• Amiga looking tot world wide pen pats to swap hints, e tc. Interests in graphics, t games, videos. new ideas and cool programs, e age. Write to: M ike Wood, PO Box 496, any Livermore. C a iii s tt owrre a , "At t e n t io n ' Looking for new sluff to feed 9i 4 C434? 5 5 So 7 -do D i s k only, 100% answer your ,0t 4 9 8 , U S h A t h e b e
M a te y D a wso n . 'Che nton', N e w Street, Uttleborough, La ncs. 01.15 8 HW would like and English speaking Japanese penpal (must live in Japan' or would le e to contact anyone who is going to Japan in the near U w e
USER GROUPS Commodore U w e wanted tor the Essex Micro Club starting soon. Al areas of computing are covered. For further information write to: P. Downey, Fairbanks, School Lana, Great Leptis. Chelmsford, Essex CM3 1 N I Are there any User Groups in Glasgow area, that meet to discuss aS computer into If you're in one or know of any please contact Martin McGoldrick, 3 2 Que e n Eliza be th Square, C16914th Floor, Glasgow G5 OR','
FANZINES M a rtin's Commodore C lu b . E2 for years membership, four three monthly fanzines games, programming and hardware hos Full details io fanzine, write and send cheque to Mr. lain Martin, 8 Eriskay Road, loverness. Tat 0483 231384.
Cott tollowinglt Tha is what we have and e e L- e M e a n i e . , T h e Adve nture , T rs y Magazine. Twenty solutions per issue, these a re full solutions not tentsn Seed chequesrPO's for E3 .2 0 to G . Kirkham, 23 Hope Street, Ashton u Lyne 0 L6 9SN, Gemini! 0 6 4 sOltwa re re vie w magazine Christmas Spe cia l out December eth, tree cassette conta ining e ight pla ya ble game demos! 7 2 pa ge s El , .00 payable to S. Johnson, Flat 2, 16 Can. Field Gardens, London NW6 3JX, so f t w a r e e x c h a n g e c l u b !
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C O M P I L O FA X The Compilations Roundup to end all Compilations Roundups (until the next one) Having to hunt around for some classic game because you couldn't afford the dosh until it had disappeared from the shelves? Maybe you've only just bought a 64 and are wondering what you ye been missing? No? Well, never mind, read this anyway—a frank, pulls-no punches appraisal of five compilations of golden and mouldy oldies which are available at your software store at this very moment. 0 • aul, wheel sem in . .
GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE US Gold/El:opt, E14.99 cassette, E17.99 disk
Contents: SUMMER GAMES — The first Epyx sports simulation, comprising eight events: 100m Dash and 4x 400m Relay, Relay and 100m Freestyle Swimming, Diving. Pole Vault. Gymnastics and Skeet Shooting. All are very playable and none rely on exhausting joystickwaggling. SUMMER GAMES 2 — The second collection of eight sports which exhibited even more variety and graphical excellence than the first one. The events covered in this package are the Triple Jump, Rowing, Javelin, Show Jumping, High Jump, Fencing, Canoeing, and
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WI snowy games, including Figure Skating, NT Speed Skating, Free Skating. Hot Dog (a sort E of stunt ski-ing), Ski Jump, Bobsled and R Biathlon. Muc h more playable than Epyx's more recent The Games Wint er Edition. G A OVERALL 81% M E pricey but worthwhile compilation of some A beautifully presented and very playable S conversions of the subject sports. Gold, Silver — Bronze comes recommended even if you have A of the three games in your software one s collection already. e t o f s e U S Gold, E14.99 cassette, 0 7 .9 9 disk v e n Contents: s LEADER BOARD — The original Gold Medalu winning edition of Roger and Bruce Carvees 3D golf game, apparently played on four i courses of 18 island holes. t LEADER BOARD TOURNAMENT—An extra a four courses for the original version of Leader Board, b LEADER BOARD EXECUTIVE EDITION—An l even better, upgraded version of the game y which features extra obstacles such as trees, bunkers and wat er hazards.
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OVERALL 83% A very good package which should appeal to golfers and non-golfers alike, but would have been better at a lower price, perhaps in a less fancy box without the free course and club guides and the score sheets.
HISTORY IN THE MAKING US Gold, £24.99 cassette, £27.95 disk Contents: BEACH HEAD - US Gold's first 64 hit now seems a rather dated collection of naval arcade games. Reasonable dodge and blast tun for a while, though. BRUCE LEE - Excellent platform game with minimal beat 'em up undertones provides hours of treasure hunting fun. SPY HUNTER - Fun conversion of Sega's old road-blasting coin-op. RAI D-Anot her Access game, first released to much controversy because of its original title, Raid Over Moscow. Consists of various forms of arcade shooting and dodging action, all very playable and addictive. THE GOONIES L i c e n s e of the Spielberg movie turns out to be a 'pretty decent platform puzzle game with the unusual addition of the ability to control two characters to beat each screen. Not many levels, though.
SUPER CYCLE - First-rate Hang On lookalike
by Epyx Plenty of bike-racing thrills if you can stand the cassette multiload_ WORLD GAMES - Eight superbly-presented sports from around the world, produc ed by Epyx when they were at their zenith. EXPRESS RAI DER - A conversion of a Data East coin-op which puts you in the boots of a fist-fightin' train robber in the Wild West. Reasonably good fun, though the graphics lack definition. INFILTRATOR - The combination of flight simulation and arcade adventure is competently produc ed but proves too frustrating to be totally addictive. BEACH HEAD 2-The Carver Brothers s equel to their first 64 success, which made many improvements over the original with more variation in the shoot 'em up gameplay and
some excellent digitised speech, GAUNTLET - Very successful conversion of the multi-player arcade adventure coin-op. Not without its bugs, but quite playable nonetheless. ROAD RUNNER -Anot her arcade conversion which is reasonable fun, but the tape version features a tong-winded multiload.
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sonically and playabilitywise, this is one of the best platform games of all time. KUNG Ft/ MASTER - A mediocre coin-op
SUMMERTIME SPECIALS US Gold, £12.99 cassette only Contents: SOLOMON'S KEY - Graphically unambitious but very playable conversion of the Tec mo platform-puzzle coin-op. BRAVESTARR - Based on the toys of the same name, this contains elements of platform, scrolling shoot 'ern up and adventure games, all of which are terminally weak. CAPTAIN A ME RI CA - Technically competent but insufferably confusing game which wastes a potentially exciting superhero license. TRANTOR - Very tedious arcade adventure which doesn't live up to its nice presentation.
WORLD CLASS LEADERBOARD- Probably the best version of the standard-setting
Access golf simulation. Four courses each of eighteen holes surrounded by trees and sand traps should keep even the most discerning armchair Jack Nicklaus ecstatically happy. RYGAR - Astoundingly poor rendition of the arcade barbarian adventure, with utterly awful graphics and minimal playability.
OVERALL 48% Obviously a dumping ground for US Gold's Christmas '87 turkeys, with World Class
Leaderboard and Solomon's Key being the
compilation's only redeeming features. At the price, it's hardly worth considering even if you haven't either of these two_
FRANK BRUNO'S BIG BOX Elite, £12.99 cassette, £14.99 disk Contents: Frank Bruno's Boxing-This adaptation of the arcade game Punch Our pits Frank against five opponents from around the world_ Reasonably good all round. y'knaw'ameen, 'Arry? Commando -Chris Butler's conversion of the Capcom arcade game suffers from ropey sprite control and lack of levels, but excellent Rob Hubbard music and a modic um of playability make it a game worth playing. At least a few times.
Ghosts 'n' Goblins - Meanwhile, Chris Butler's conversion of THIS Capc om arcade game is excellent, sporting very good graphics, haunting music and great shoot 'em up gameplay_ Scooby Do * - Characters from the cartoon series take part in a graphically and sonically unambitious spooky beat 'ern up which isn't very engrossing. Batty - Decent Arkanoid variant programmed
by one of Paul's friends. Corl Bat t les hips - Unastounding conversion of the popular pen and paper game. A i r wo l l - This mazebound whirlybird shoot 'em up looks its age but still proves frustratingly addictive. B o mb Jack - Pretty poor rendition of the arcade platform game with weak sound and graphics to further hamper the unendearing gameplay. Sabot eur - Limited arcade adventure with oriental beat 'em up overtones. 1942 - Pretty poor version of the coin-op.
OVERALL: 75°/0 A trifle expensive, but should keep undiscerning garners happy for quite a while. The package is let down by its lack of any really outstanding content - oh, and its very silly name.
conversion, offering reasonable gameplay without many graphic and sonic adornments.
LEADER BOARD - As on the Leader Board Par Four compilation.
OVERALL 81% A great compilation bearing a host of excellent games, but at the price, who's going to buy it? Most Commodore owners are likely to have at least some of the games already, and most of those their software collection lacks are available on their own at a budget price_
Contents: THE WAY OF THE EXPLODING FIST - The first really good beat 'em up on a home computer, which plays very well indeed until you discover the one move that beats all the Opponents. BRUCE LEE A s on History in the Making KUNG FU MASTER - As on History in the Maklng WAY OF THE TIGER - A trio of weak beat 'em ups made more inaccessible by a tortuous multiload. SAMURAI TRI LOGY - Extensive options don't make this any more playable than a bucket of wallpaper paste. AVENGER - The sequel to Way of the Tiger
Contents: Ghos t bus t ers - Good music and the odd bit of digitised speech help draw your attention away from repetitive gameplay. Enioyable for a while, though. LA SWAT - Stroll the streets of the City of Angels and mow down anyone who gets in your way. Unsophisticated blasting fun. Kane - Four stages of target shooting and horse riding japes jollied along by some nice graphics and sampled sound effects. Ninja Mas t er- Poor attempt at a beat 'em up. low in the addiction and graphics stakes. Ras put in - Weird, but interesting platform game which portrays the action in a 3D layout_ 0111 & Lissa - Cute and mildly entertaining platformer set in a haunted castle. Ri c o c h e t - Excellent addition to the Breakout genre of games, with the usual array„.of bolt•on extras, a screen designer and, for once, a sense of humour. Zoly x - Simple but fnghteningly addictive reworking of the ancient line-drawing coin-op, Qix.
Way of the Exploding Fist - as on Karate
Champ. Dan Dare -Brilliant arcade adventure has Dan up to his usual world-saving, Treen-bashing antics. Captures the feel of the seminal (oo-erl) cartoon strip very well indeed.
Formula One Simulator - Nice Rob Hubbard music. but the o u t is hardly exhilirating. Brian Jack's Supers t ar Challenge - Early of-thecockpit r a c i n g a c t i Jolly, £12.95 cassette, E16.95 o Beau n
which was more of a Gauntlet game with Oriental fighting than an out-and-out beat 'em up. Playable all the same, though, UCHI MATA - This is unusual insofar as it's based on Judo rather than Karate. The control met hod takes some getting used to. but once mastered it's rewarding.
OVERALL: 61% Hardly the selection of top-notch beat 'em ups you might have expected for this price, but Karate Ace does have its high points in the collective forms of Avenger, Bruc e Lee and Uc hi Mate. It's a pity Gremlin couldn't have got either International Karate or maybe even I K+ to put s ome real life into the package.
attempt at an armchair athletics game which leaves quite a bit to be desired these days. Tau Ceti - Utterly captivating 30 planet exploration-cum-shoot 'em up. ',Ball - A fast paced vertically-scrolling blast with lots of extra waapons, sampled sounds and a funky Hubbard soundtrack (which Maff says is a re-working of a Cabaret Voltaire song. But then he would, wouldn't he?) Perk Patrol - Novel and compelling collect rem up in which a park ranger (male or female) has to clear the park and its lake of litter while avoiding the attentions of the indigenous fauna (animals to you). Thrus t - Terrific re-working of the arcade game Gravitar. Negotiate increasingly convoluted alien caverns, shoot reactors and steal Klystron pods, all while battling against gun emplacements and the laws of Newtonian physics.
Harvey Headbanger - Endearing puzzler.
FA Cup Foot ball - Unspectacular - not even rec ommended for looty fans. Agent X2 - Obscure and unattractive arcade action whic h comes lowly recommended. WarCars - Reasonably addictive racing blast.
OVERALL: 88% OK, SQ they're all budget games anyway, but a lot of the inmates on Chart Busters are real gems and most of the rest aren't bad at all. In the value for money stakes, Beau Jolly seem to have come up trumps again (to mix a couple of metaphors).
SUPREME CHALLENGE disk
Contents: Elit e- Profound, enjoyable and lasting space/ trading game: an all-time 64 classic with an atmosphere all its own. The Sentinel - Mot her 64 classic, vying for the position of greatest game of all time with a handful of others. Reclaim 10.000 worlds from the all-powerful Sent inel. . Tet rie -Bniliantly simple and addictive puzzle game originally programmed in the USSR. Ac e - Compelling combat simulation with great graphics and accurate flight sim elements. St arglider - Slightly jerky but still playable space shoot 'em up, as you defend Novenia from the invading Egrons.
OVERALL: 95% The 64 version of Starglider wasn't quite as impressive as on the other 8-bits, but the supreme quality of the rest more than make up for it Quite simply, one of the best compilations money can buy.
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CLASH OF THE ;r SKALLEH3E ' 1 ; Having crushed the parping peanut Glancey into a , pathetic pulp last month, I was preparing a bionic team of challengers for a really decisive fiasco this . month. C Unfortunately, the pimply champion I had nurtured . : on a diet of TCP and Toilet Duck died convulsively the 3 night before the main event. Unable to find anyone to replace the whingeing squirt I was forced to resort to N last ditch tactics —an inter-magazine affair. One look 1 at the physique of the haggard challengers from 1 CRASH and TGM and my beating circuits sank. How . could this cringeing bunch of misshapen morons ever 0 hope to defeat hump-bellied Houghton or the greasy Welshman, Maff? 1 1 kINC-siollie411110101041111111dst111111111CAMILA . 1_• . 1 1 1
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three losers play each other in a round-robin contest. Blubbermountain Houghton starts to slobber a complaint but a forcibly administered dose of Domestos swiftly shuts him up. He staggers from the room in pursuit of the contents of his stomach and misses his opportunity to have first go. ZZAP! team 0 - Scorelord 1 Hur Hurl
I newly serviced telescopic arm, abut my fingers get caught t inadvertently in the circuits of TGM's Nintendo and in the t resulting confusion, mentally edecrepit Mall takes his place in the mfoul-mouthed scrap, as the ptemperature nses, he begins to his chosen game. Menace. t play His confident look as he leers at t me from behind the Amiga. osuggests that he thinks he's nalready woe. My electric synapses ago into overdrive as I dream up a plan to put him of t Having pinned bthirty Richard Eddy and the Mbespectacled Robin Candy up aagainst the wall. I impart my l masterplan • • • Moment s later, the gormless t trendies, clad in skin-tight lycm wunderpants, rush into the room i bearing porn poms, towels, and t motorhorns. Their raucous rendition of a cheerleader's song h is music to my ears but heralds mdeath for the wimp from Flint. A y roar from the next room - Robin Hogg has amassed a particularly massive score on Thunderblade
(that Persil pep-me-up I gave him obviously worked) - distracts the lousy Celtic leek into another mistake. He misses vital booster cannon and is left to face the final mother-alien with nothing but a pea-shooter weapon to his name. M his ten minutes come to an end he's clocked up 119,740_ congratulate myself on the ingenuity of my tactics and sit back to watch the ensuing competitors wipe the floor with the moronically backward Malt A stiff dram of lenor helps me to sail through the castrating contortions of the walking zombie Phil and the flamboyant but totally vacuous Robin Candy. The man with the weight problem lumbers up to be the second player of the Psyclapse game. We make temporary repairs to the holes his footprints have scored in the fl oorboards and watch the beads
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ten minutes to devour the foulsmelling bird - in the meantime, Robin Hogg, also Welsh, though not so greesy, has pipped Miffs score. He finally comes out top wtth 126,390 - I retire to my ship and crack open a vintage bottle of Jeyes to celebrate. Na me : Robin Hogg Ma ga zine . TGM Age: 20 Weight: I can't afford the 10p for the weighing machine. Height: pass Favourite ga me s :
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Hobbies: mending my car, archery, winning the reviewers challenge, aviation, Predator the movie, Selina Scott. Chos e n ga m e , Atron 5000. of perspiration on his brow. Encumbered by his usual excess of cellulite, the elephantine being slowly begins to amass a reasonably high score. I scribble a note, tie it around Phil's neck and ask him to fetch. Moments later he returns with a stufied roast chicken. The slobber running down Houghton's chin signals his flagging concentration. Driven by the needs of his adipose tissue, he shouts out 'Give me that there chicken' and promptly loses his remaining shield. Roly-poly's final score of 102,490 is respectable but not good enough to win. It takes Gordon approximately
Na me : Matthew Evans Ma ga zine , ZZAPI Age : 12 Weight: light Height: look at the reviewers' profile, will you.
Favourite ga me s : Withal'. Starglider 2.
Hobbies: synth music, falling down on Saturday nights (wink, wink)
MENACE Amiga Menace sounds a bit like tennis but its got an M at the front (Christmas cracker facts no: 165). Hit. Er... It's also a very impressive shoot 'em (see this month's review) up with extremely impressive designer graphics. And you know what all shoot 'em ups are about, don't you? Go on, give me an answer, or Father Christmas won't bring you any gingerbread. Yeah, yeah, stop stuffing your mouth with mince pies R i g h t ! Aliens. Very good. This particular variety of little green man has taken over the artificial planet Draconia and is using it as a base for piracy and all sorts of other unmentionably nasty things. Unless you wipe the villains off the face of Draconia and destroy the planet into the bargain as well, you won't get any Christmas pressies. And you don't want that, do you? measly 11.800 and once the chair has been replaced. Man, who's looking pleasingly depressed. notches up no more than 10,900 points.
istant shouts from the buildings below awake me from pleasant dreams of blood. In my absence podgy Nick Roberts, the man with the iron waist, has clocked up an unbeatable score on Cyberno4d - 67.752. Jerking temporarily into action, Phil puts up an unbelievable spurt and almost matches Nick, before subsiding into a vapid stupor again. My joints begin to loosen as I observe Robin Candy being punished severely for his bigheadedness. Cheerleading obviously didn't agree with him his highest score is hardly worth mentioning: a miserable 6.440. As Houghton breaks the hot-Seat my spirits are low. give myself a brisk rub down with a pad of brill° and feel myself cool down. Houghton manages nothing more than a
I myself before I realise that the same ritual slaughter is being h enacted In Thunderbiade. As he awipes his face and slicks back his rhair with the excess grease, the weedy weishman doesn't even d l y h a Spectrum v e The federation is under attack! And guess who the first person they think of is? Is it Batman?The Pink Panther? Yoda t Luke Skywalker? Sue Lawley? No, actually. it's you. i Phew! What a relief, eh?Thought you were going to get left mout didn't you? Well, you're going to wish you had because e you're just one mercenary with just one one or two Cybemoid t spaceships to your name. If you blast the pirates to kingdom come andmanage to avoid the planet's defence systems you o might just make it home in time for tea. Unless you're called c Nick Roberts it's more than likely that you won't. o The Spectrum version of this graphically excellent shoot 'em was developed by Raf Cecco and given all sorts of praise n up from the CRASH team when it first came Out. And for once, g they got it right. r a t u l a t e
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tHUNDERBIADE Sega You'd be hard-pressed to find a more popular coin-op than Thundertilade in the arcades. The Sega console conversion puts you straight in the hot seat of a Blue Thunder style combat helicopter charged with the dangerous mission of wiping out waves of enemy choppers and tanks. Equipped with a standard missile launcher and an almost endless supply of bombs you fly your waythrough sections of alternating 2D and 3D landscapes. Of course the bit that everybody's raving about is the 3D part. Copters hurtle towards you firing explosive fireballs and doing their level best to run you into the ground. Unless you work out the perspective pretty damn quick your state-of-theart helicopter is going to turn into one of those not-very-stateof-the-art cube shapes on a city scrap heap. Not only that, the enemy will have taken over the world an d you won't be able to do a thing about it. Aaahl What a shame!
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One of Gordo's favourite games and an entry in the ZZAPI top 20 all-time charts Hunter's Moon is one of those really excellent games that never got the recognition it deserved. A brilliant combination of shoot 'em up and strategy, it deals with the plight of the starship Hunter as it attempts to blast its way through the cellular hives of an alien system and find its way back home. The ship's aim is to collect a series of flashing cells hidden within the depths of several star systems. Collect them all and you move on to the next. Fail or explode and you have to start all over again. The Hunter's progress is distinguished by some really unusual sound effects. As the ship moves around it seems to be murmuring encouragement to itself a n d I bet you've never heard of a spaceship that talks? make it beyond the second level and comes last with 116.000. The resident mound of Blackbumian blubber fares only a little better, His score of 124,000 rates as nothing to Robin Hogg's winning 817.000. I am beginning to enjoy myself now and send out for some tat toilet blocks. A feel assured that victory is in the bag. The flagging s performances of the tpsychologically crippled ZZAPI hteam are unlikely to amount to emuch. At this point Evans attempts anunderhand tactic. As he moves ytowards the monitor he shakes his bhead, as if depressed. and sprays e Oily Flint creature Evens and the g scatterbasiried Hamm creature i attempt to join minds end create n a itighscore. Their plan tells H u n t e r ' s M o o n I
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chair in imitation of a vehicle moving at high speed along the track. As he exclaims this is almost as fun as playing on an arcade machine', he loses track of his whereabouts and crashes straight into the nearest wall. Robin the Hogg permits himself a manic cackle and eats a daffodil to celebrate. Moments later' I take a sip of Fairy Liquid in anticipation of Maff's similar defeat by PhiL I persuade Robin Candy and Nick to shake the sleepy sheep-lover every time he shows signs of falling asleep but even this drastic treatment is insufficiently vigorous to help him put on more than a mediocre show. He lets out a piercing snore and drops to the ground lust as Matt looks within sight of defeat. To my horror the slimy Scouser manages to use exactly the same tactics to exactly the same effect with the Candy man. I attempt to distract him by shouting out 'watch out The Liver Bird, Bread and The Brothers McGregor but to no avail. Candy crumbles and only cheers up when I offer to reward his efforts with another pair of lyere underpants. I still have hopes for the furious clash of the welshmen. As predicted, another injection of anabolic steroids does the trick. Moving tester than any man on earth, the TOM leek comes out substantialty more successful and moves on with a decisive individual lead Meanwhile, the tat man has
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out the victor in one match. As the final scores are added I reach for the Vortex and feel my circuits humming to an ominous sense of doom.
I and alter them to what they ashould have been but the effects of t the Vortex haven't worn oft and I grasp hold of dough-belly t A The greasy Evans (inhaling a sense-enhancing drug) and the Instead, Taking advantage of my e tem por ar y lack of coor dination, sheep-loving Phil Ki V e r t t l e it out in a joust of A t m . * , fatty slips the results to Evans who m HOW THEY GO IRO C* 1 NI CK 11013114 RO S I N PHIL PAAFF SCORED reads them out Robin Hogg is the p HO L O O KTO N ROBERTS CANON HOGG NANG EVANS overall winner. I offer him a 1 0 2 4 9 0 ostsxcE 1 (3 7 .9 4 0 t i " iNAO 24 A J3 .3 0 C1 t Matchday ff. As Gordon I 4 t • I PP traineeship as Scorelord CVSERN010 I .8 0 0 0 7 .7 iprepares to take on Phil I resort to 6440 3 .•7 . t c hman and the honour d 3 . I 157 wat , 0 7 3 THUNIDERBIADE 75123 . 0 0 0 $ ' 7 4 .0 0 0 lplan B. I throw a canister of nerve S0 1I N A M 33.csoo o I ri ./3 0 0 overwhelms him to the point of gas into the room and wait. tears - he's forced to leave the 3 HUNTER'S M OON 4 8 ,2 7 5 m I 200 O A f r, c to o 0_000 t Strangely the effect of this is to 0 room. The Scorelord's honour rs • o g l I L c.> i F 7 WO N 1, ATRON 5000 WO N;' ywak e Phil from his usual slumber WO N 3 o WO N 7 WO N I l. L OS saved. Lost W CO N W e * 2 MATCHDAY N LOS hwhile slowing down the reflexes of L O ST 3 n There is the small mailer of the woN WO N • I O S T I l1. WO N P _• oZZAP!'s mealy-mouthed $c team competition. Due to some mammot h to practically zilch. Phil watch the outcome with nothing $ r. (who s already been beaten once unprecedented lack of p e 1 leaps into action shouting' ere we but a glass of Me l liquid in my I by Candy) by one goal. Phil's still concentration on the part of the ego, 'ere we go, 'ere we go' and a hand. T on a winning spree and Welshman opposition, the disgustingly ugiy 'beat them Blackburn b c i s ' at s l To my horror the walking butter Hogg - my chosen champion ZZAPI team made it to the top. I the top of his voice. The final score: mountain manages to shake off n slips into second place. My hopes t depart with a supply of extra the effects of the nerve gas by of a wipeout are receding. Roberts oPhil 6-Gordon O. Cursing my lack strong h Vortex to waft until this of foresight at having packed only s ome supreme effort of flabby will performs terribly and Candy nauseous season of human wone canister of gas. I have no e and beats both Nick (clash of the manages a fairly creditable festivity is over. I return in the new choice but to settle down and r r Newsfi eld puddings) and Matt performance but Evans still comes year and will be avenged. e e sV Tension begins to mount Mrs Tension - as the delirious and pained y The ZZAP! team wreak revenge on eachsother -using Ken the Fish expressions on Robin Hogg's face and Fat Ma ns greasy chops as a weapon! t betray u o l n t s
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THE FTNAL RESULTS INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION 1st ROBIN HOGG Joint 2nd GORDON HOUGHTON, NICK ROBERTS 4th MAFF EVANS 5th ROBIN CANDY 6th PHIL KING
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ALIEN SYNDROM E (Ace ) 221610 13 Emmen. Stratford, LorKkin El5 134,330 Mike Thomas, Caerphey, M id Guam 111,100 Mettrew Upton, Emley Caste, Wore%
&R I C AN = II - REVENGE OE DOH 0 254./60 Robert Pascoe. T a m . Cornwall 1 247.550 Bmt Crossley, Leeds, W Yorks 1 174,170 J Cripps, Peterborough, Cambs 1 BARBARIAN (Pe le e Beftwanst 4 452,200 Marbn Kelsey. Dore, Sheffield 1 334500 Knss, Northolt, Middx 1 298,600 M a t WccallsOn, Fe llta tn, % d i l a 1 BATTLE VALLEY (Rack-It) f l1.986,700 Marc Spence, Leeds, W Yorks 1,11149003 Darren Brookes, Long Eaton, Notts e1,931.350 Richrod Leadbetter. Ytha m, Essex ) BEAT IT pawnertnanicl 1113,510 Dean James. W Bromwich, W M ids 792,665 Alan Smith. Peckham, London 778,535 Stead Scattergood Decade. Clwyd SONIC COM M ANDO (Go) ,120,420 James Kent Wa re , H e lls 1,091.790 Paul Evetion, Buxion, Oerbys 1.069.950 Babak Fakhamzadell, Delft,
N) ... .. , 1I 1 • •-1 r li • !! i d I * 1 / Merlin 24,883,449 God Keaveney. Huddersfield. W % 19201,100 M a lin Lear Yorks . 1 Adam Ruckwoon. Halesowen, W 13,783.472 la u d cie rst ie l d. $ W Thra 32160.112 Man, Crossemarte. Stockport. Cheshire 1 11,296,318 Gad Kaawiney. Huddersfielid, W Yorks 1 Martin Lear, Huddersliad,W Yorks 4,202.401 Ouesice 1 9,817,642 God Keaveney, Huddersfield. W Y orke
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OUT RUN (118 Gold) 92,128,800 Mark Crossithwate, Stockport, Cheshire 87.720,608 Jukan Hare, Hampton, Middx 63246590 Merlin Lear, Huddersfield, W Ycwks
PAC-LAND lOta cksitva l 614,990 Jake E. West Bromwich. Weal ta ns 384,950 John Donnelly, Southampton. Hampshire 230.410 Alan Chung. Tara/stock, Devoe
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GREAT GIANA SISTERS(GoiReinbew Arts) 74,754 Matthew Phypers, Sunnyhie Derby 74,172 Babak Fakhameadeh. Dein. Holland 69,175 Andrew Stephenson, Wakefield. W Yorks
PROHIBITION (ktfogremes) $30,260 Robert Fas,coe, Truro, Cornwall 528,260 Stuart Wannop, Accrington. Lance $22,155 Sebastian Stephen. Victoria, Australia
GRYZOR (Ocean) 2.802,200 Richard Lunn, Leeds, W Yorks 1,253,300 Johan Japmastew, Ettingshan Park, Wolvernamplon 692.700 David Pocock. SCoydon, Santry
PROJECT STEALTH FIGHTER (M icroprose) 64,500 JK Hugget. Huddersfield. W Yorks 22,790 Jonathwi Parkes, Woodford Green, Essex 1,170 Robert Fullerton. Haverahaw. Lance
GUNSHIP (Milensprese) 327.570 Paul Keeter, Cape, Germany 315,130 °te rm Archer, M t Evelyn, Australia 302.390 Paul Griffiths. Llandudno, N Wales H AWKEYE (Thatairnue) 2.090,600 Zap Trashy, Efilicham, Devon 1.772.900 Gabriel Leung, Dollis the London NMI° ,cpso.too Kemal Ali, Worcs Park. Surrey HUNTER'S M OON (Thalamus) 618,450 Lee Laurenson, Lerwick, Shetland 472.150 Zauzui Benison, So n in - Ash lie ld , Notts 227,375 Matthew Lipton. e rnle y Castle. WOMS, S4AP11 WARRIORS (Elite) 381.700 Ne ll Head Siourbrodge. W 356.100 Nick Frete. Doncaster, S Yolks 338.900 Daniel °cry, Harrow, M od& IM POSSIBLE MISSION It (US Geld) 104,000 Lee Smart Southampton. Hamper/we 102.800 Phillip Graven, Whotthaven, Cumoret 92,800 Damn Burke. Romlord, Esse x
CHJEDEX (Thalamus) 1010 Cra g Archer, Victoria, Austrafia 999 Steve Pratt, Leighton Buzzard, Beds 999 Anthony IMelorangr, Runcorn Cheshire RE-ROUNDER (Giverein Gra phics) 11,250.073 Craig Kneen, Keyworth, Notts 2,470,584 Marc Hodge, Selby, N Yorks 2047,832 Robert Wilson, Okna m, La ms
ROAD BLASTERS (US Geld) 1,114,090 Mark Taylor. Ban)'. SGla rn 1,084,680 Neil White. Cre'iWirwly, Edinburgh 1,020,900 Daniel Lockey, Bishop Auckland, Co Diallarn ROOD RUNNER (US Geld) 3.009,456 R A Alesswe, Rotterdam Holla nd 1,022,100 Jason Faulkner. Conesmore.Letcs 786.5130 Glenn Black, Gaest3orough, Lines ROLLING THUNDER (US Gold) 749,410 kian Pritchard, Powys, Wales 730.520 Kelvin Clegg, Hayle, Cornwall 324.640 Tobias Olatsson, Ockwo, Sweden S A LA M A N D E R ( fi nagling)
INTERNATIONAL KARATE + M yste m 31 4E14,100 Daniel C a ro l. New Malden, Surrey 473,103 Terry Boudram, Cole/elate. London 441,000 Stephen Cwgill. Upminster, Essex KI (Reineent0 1,200.170 Jeremy Deader, Adelaide, S Australia 461.860 M a lt Camping. Norwich. Norfolk 393.140 Sir Hans, Ackmaar. Holland M EGA APOCALYPSE (narelech) 211730 Pelee Clarke, Hartlepool, Cleveland 197,203 Liam Oy5ter/4 Narrrogion Square. London NW1 187,940 Mark Brew, Wokinghtim, Ba rks AMORPHISM (Reinbird) 1,321,485 Richard Pembridge, %AMIN, 1,21I M
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NEBUUJS (Hewison) 2e1.240 Matthew Moriarty, Hurst Greer, E Sussex 154.400 Michael Garnett Hatfield, Harts 151,885 Daniel Carroll, New Malden, Surrey
PLATOON (Ocean) 1,162,100 ite m Dysrant. Harrington Square, London NW1 1,010,850 Jeremy Webb, Blandlord, Dorset 1,004,600 Michael &t e e . Exeter. Devon
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SLAP FIGHT (Imagine) 1303.425 Vulva Harvey, Penh, Australia 800,950 Shawn Sutton, Southampton, Hants 588.000 Matthew Viveash. Cheviot. Oxon SPORE (Altalitertrente) 969.100 Nevi While, Cralgentinny, Edinburgh 955,460 Terry Redfern, •I irton, 947.875 Matthew Cundy, T a v i S = i o n STAR PAWS (Software Pe olliks 847,226 Matthew Smith, Warrington, 111 Cr/Brave ) 541,592 K Daniels. Norman, Moddx 624.5670 Woodhouse, Ba rrowia l4 ume ss, Cumbria TARGET RENEGADE gmegima 438.700 Bret Crossley. Leeds, W Votes 426,700 Neel Mauding. While ha wl. Cumbria 340.900 Daniel C a rta . New Malden, Surrey
Turms nommen 75.906 Stuart Scattergood. Deaside, Clwyd 40,455 Joan Irtiolson. Hølita , W Yotits 26,820 Michael Boneke. Lucenginausen, Germany THING BOUNCES BAC K (Gremlin Graphics) 3.709,925 Alan Wescombe. Swindon, Wilts 2,053,532 William Callaghan. Tipton. W Mids 1,877,555 Casey Gallacher. THUNDERCATS (BAH 2.6441600 Stever/ Alexander, Cullybackey. Ballymena 2.566.92.2 Marlin Leer Huckierstietct w ybois 1.450,700 Mairnew Small, Won 'Nino. Cheshire TOY BIZARRE (Activie lon) 545,850 Been Helen. Pa p s. Finland 329,550 Anil Khedun, Tottenham. London 275.720 Michael Sharpe Pelaborough, Cambs TRAZ (Cascade) 274.775 Simon Pile ana RichardMIBCCE111, Yation, Bnstol I 76 470 John Glynn Newcastle. Sta lls 80.000 Steve Lee Ge intord, Surrey URIDIUM + (Howson) 5750E6 Tim Goldee. No Fiu.Od Abode 478,025 Ne a le Lewis, Port Talbot, S Wales 335.350 Wessel Joubert, Barlast, RSA ZENJI (Flirteird) 66,250 Mark Crosaltiwarte. Stockport Cheshire 40,225 Mika Oillings. Portsmouth, Hants 33,150 Owen Gorman, Cos Hebbyney, Co Monaghan ZOLYX (Reveled) 605.681 Edward Yu, Rayeas Pant, London 524,3113 Rot3 Houskry, Thamesmead, London 377,413 tal Glaser. Cheacee, Cheshire M I C K (Zappeen) 445,150 God Keaveney. Huddersfield, W Yorks 398,950 Stave Lae, Guideed, Surrey 397,950 Marne Slye r/ ide s. London, SW15 ZYNAPS (Hemmen) 398,850 Steve Lae, Guildford, Surrey 272,900 Neil %a loe Torquay. Devon 248.500 Torten Bennett, Fnwerrantki, Australia
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anythi ng costs. Ma na ge m e nt pol i tel y asks its c us t om e r s to l eave the stor e a nd go hom e , but the a ngr y c r ow d r efuses — after all, t he y 'v e be e n que ue i ng for hour s a nd they ai n't got any f ood for the week-end_ After a m ode s t riot, the pol i ce ar e cal l ed to evi ct hungr y, angr y customer s. The cause of the br e a k dow n is a myster y, but m a y have s om e t hi ng to do wi th a 'fai l safe fool pr oof uni t' bui l t i nto the system.
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DATELINE: Paris, France, 1961 • • I • • • • • • • • S • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • t • • An IBM-650 is installed at the Pans a and 2) the boffins are using a proga Observatory, which used to be the ram based on the Solar System, • stables of the King's mistress. It is a to be used to predict the orbits of • artificial satellites, based on previa • ous orbits. The system works perI fectly except for two minor details: • 1) the satellites orbit Earth once • every 90 minutes - unfortunately • the I BM-650 still uses obsolete • • punch-card data and takes two • hours to predict the next orbit • • a a a • a • • •t • • 11 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• •• •• Th e p r o d u c e r s of a s t a g e c o m p u t e r p r o g r a mme r s are •• p l a y p r o u d l y ins t all t he lat es t c a l l e d in, a n d all is d e c l a r e d •• • • c o mp u t e r - c o n t r o l l e d well. Du r i n g t he s e c o n d • l i g h t i n g a n d s c e n e r y gear. p e r f o r ma n c e , t he r ev ol v i ng • O n t he fi rs t night t he l i g h t i n g s t a g e h o l d s t he ent ire c as t • rig d e c i d e s t o c h a n g e n i g h t • int o d a y a n d p u t on a • •s p o n t a n e o u s p s y c h e d e l i c •s t r o b e s h o w, s o t he • • • • • • •
wherein the Earth is recognised by the computer as a single point in space based on the centre of the planet. The net result of this is that when each prediction is printed out half an hour later than the actual event, the satellite is shown as two hundred miles from the centre of the planet, which puts it way inside the Earth.
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alone control its visit to Mars and Its moons, which is a bit of a pity as it is the most expensive single
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DATELINE: Washington DC, USA, D ecemb er 1986
hostage and refuses to release them. The play's title? Les Miserebles!
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DATELINE: Unknown, USA, 1962 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • t 0 • • At toclay's meeting of the • Research and Development • Executive of the IBM corporation, • a new concept is offered. IBM turn • down the option of investing in and • • • • • • • • • • • t . 9• • •1 1 • • • • • • • • • • • •, • • • • • • • • •• • • • • The • • Pioneer deep-spacecraft car• •• ries the first interstellar message • •4 1 into • space engraved on the 4 1 • 4 famous 1• 'F.-Plaque'. The world's • • • advanced computers guide • • most • Out of the Solar System on • • Pioneer • • • Its• way to make contact with • and the F-Plaque carries 0• aliens, 1 diagrams of our Sun and its plan1 1 0 6 • •
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DATELINE: Mission Control, NASA, USA, 1972
entative Jean Miller reports that 'morning break comes 15 minutes after the start of the working day, and nobody told the computer about having to go to the bathroom, so we have to find someone to pretend to be us when we take a leak, otherwise the machine rings an alarm bell thinking we've been abducted!'
DATELINE: Washington, USA, 1957
The Pentagon commissions the •• • • • • latest spy system to •• • computerised • • • intercept •• • • and • • translate Russian documents, •• • • • so they can keep ahead • in the Cold War. The cost is astronomic. • As the financial c om• mitments increase, the US Air • Force budget is taken over, and
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• • • • • • • • • • • I • 6 • . 1 1 1 Teak Force Comput er is The 0 installed to help the US war effort at 0a cost of three billion dollars. • • Bombs • and chemical weapons are • • dropped on non existent targets, •• plastic bullets are fired into trees •• and radio controlled mines blow •• up•• large areas of empty ground • • •• • • • • •• • • • • • •• • •• • • •• • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • •• Th•e• L o n d o n B o r o u g h of B r•e• n t • e x p e r i e n c e s s o me u n•••wa n t e d Ch r i s t ma s c h e e r w h••e n it s A c t o n of fi c e' s •• s alary p r o g r a m f or • b e r is run t h r o u g h an N o••v e m • I B •M 3 0 / 8 3 a l o n g wi t h t he •• D e• c e m b e r p r o g r a m a n d e v •e r y o n e get s p a i d t wic e.
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DATELINE: Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 1966
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DATELINE: Jonestown, USA, November 1979
• •1 • • The• president of the USA relies on • WIMEX (the Worldwide Com• puterised Command and Control • System) to warn him of an enemy • attack • at any time in any place. After • it broke down in 1976 over one• billion dollars has been spent • by •the Pentagon to make it 'foolproof'. Members of a bizarre cult • at the • People's Temple in Jones• town decide to commit mass • • • • • • • •
suicide, one of the people slain is Representative Leo Ryan, a vital cog in the WIMEX machine. For more than one hour the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the USA are unable to make contact with their emergency crisis team, and when they are reconnected WIMEX assumes that they are intruders and denies them access to one another.
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after the computer electronically targets t h e enemy' with chemical sensors, The Vietcong succeed in reprogramming the data gathering machines seeded throughout the jungle by a very simple method. They piss on them.
DATELINE: London, England, D ecemb er 1984
Fo u r t h o u s a n d c o u n c i l wo r k e r s are d e l i g h t e d t o r ec ei v e t his u n e x p e c t e d
• • • • • • • • • •• • • • • •f •i t The•• automated safety check program• fails at the Fairchild Semiconductor plant. Trichloroethene from • • the silicon c hip manufacturing • process leaks into the local water • supply, resulting in death. abor• • • • • • • •
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s e a s o n a l b o n u s . Th e c oc k u p is only d i s c o v e r e d af t er all t h e mo n e y has b e e n c leared t h r o u g h t he bank s , wh e n the a u t h o r i t i e s polit ely as k for t heir mo n e y bac k . As it is I llegal t o d e b i t a c us t omer' s a c c o u n t wi t h o u t t heir p e r mi s s i o n , 255'0 o f c ounc il e mp l o y e e s t ell t hei r loc al a u t h o r i t y t o get s t uf f ed. Net los s : £ 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 .
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cancer and heart born babies. Fifteen million dollars is spent on a new protection system, which also fails. Today the Fairchild Semiconductor factory stands empty.
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GHOSTS'N'GOBLINS(Elite) Hands up all of you that thought this was a really great game on the 64. One , t w o n o , d's no good I just can't see you from here. But if I could, I've no doubt there would be a verttabie sea of hands waving up and down the country. Well the good news for all you Amiga owners is i t ' s being converted to the 16-bit machines! Yaao way! No need for you to feel left out Just 'cos the M version is now on budget. The bad news is that you'll have to wait until the new year to see It for yourself. That's all I can tell you for the moment as my crystal ball is beginning to cloud over. More news 'as and when.' (Cori Good phrase that inntl? Well Journo0
FRIGHTNIGHT(Microdeal) I really liked the film Fright Night so I hope that the home computer version lives up to the strength of the film. You play the part of vampire Jerry D a n r everyone who ventures into the house before 6am, otherwise the pesky kids from next door will come and poke a lump of iwood d g e ,into w o (owl). The programming is by Steve Bak yourhheart m u s t (making a change from shoot 'em ups) with graphics by Pete Lyon. • v Aacopy m of p Fright i r Night i s will e set you back E19.95. Coming ' soon to a cinema near you e r , no. That's not right '
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PAPERBOY(Elite) Stop me vitals! Another Elite game for preview, and another arcade conversion to boot! This time Ts Paperboy, another game that wasn't implemented too well on the good or 64. Still, here we have the opportunity to give Elite another chance, as they convert the game to the Amiga. Some of you may have seen a demo of the game at this years PC show and those that didn't w e l l I have it on good authority u m weeeeellii a v e r a g e authority O K from Paul and Gordon that the game looks 'really good'. My crystal ball's not tuned into the right frequency for this, so u m t h a t ' s all I can say
IRONLORD(UB!Soft) 'Inne ye gOOde olde oldenne dayes. wnenne Knignres were bolde and Damseires were • PHWOAR! But seriously folkes, sorry - folks, in This game from French sothAeare house U81 Soft, you ore transported back to medieval tymes, no tirnes, limes (I must stop this!), where you play the port of a prince, recently travel returned from the crusades to find ?hot your father has been deposed and succeeded by your ruthless uncle. You must The JandS proving your birthright by means of cunning strcrtegy and tough game should b e of available October by15th. the timeswordsmanship. you read this, asThe th e re4,,-date is set
SUPERMAN(Tynesoft) SPACEHARRIER(Elite) •
Remember the sniggering and disbelief that abounded when a 64 version of Space Harrier was announced? Well I certainly do and It turned out that the scepticism was justified. Weil. now Elite are converting the program to a machine that has some semblance of the power needed to accommodate this 3D extravaganza. As you c an see from the screenshots t h e graphics are very clear and colourful and the gameplay oh dear, the crystal Is clouding again. Never mind, the game is set for 'Autumn release', so look out for It,
No more need you risk life and limb by jumping off fences and wardrobes with a coat fastened around your neck going 'do do cloacae - 000fr as you can now ploy at being Superman safely sat in front of your Amiga thanks to Tynesoft. In the game, Superman stars in an adventure spreading to the reaches of outer space. Quite a distance I trust you'll agree! And the price of being endowed with Superpowers? £24.95 to be exact. By the way the game should be available by the time you read This, Must dash now, as the INXS tape has got to the good bit. Altogether now: 'This is what you need, this is who/you need!' Owl Wool Hey! Yehl
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Incentive, 124.95 disk Spac e-line continuum to the L et ' s j u sft u jtuump e distant r e ac w hros e ns tthh e beauty of Earth is just a memory.
The last vestiges of humanity left their dy ing world t o colonise the planet Evath, where their governing bodies inv ok ed a drac onian judicial s y s t em wh i c h produc ed the Keters. Though s ounding l i k e s o me thing you would combat with nasal spray, t he Ketars were criminals banished from Evath to Mara!, one of its t wo moons. In their struggle to survive. the Ketars began mining for gas, but not having any mining e x p e n e n c e , t h e i r e f f o r t s resulted in t he destabilisation of gas pockets whic h began leaking their explosive contents up to the moon's s urf ac e. Realis ing t h e
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Well, I 'd disagree with Paul and Kati on this one, since I f e l t t ha t a l ot more coul d have been made of the Amiga conversion. W i t h g a m e s l i k e Starglider 2 ar ound, fast moving 3 0 j ust i sn't e nough t o guar antee a n i nstant Sizzler for m e . Ca l l m e mi ser abl e ("trou're miserable!'), but I felt that t h e l andscapes s houl d have ha d mor e detail and the gameplay c oul d ha v e b e e n tweaked a b i t t o pr oduc e more, l ong- t a s t i ng puz z l e s . Still. I 'm just griping because this i sn't the brilliant atmospheric exper i ence the 64 version was (for a start, there was no mus ic on Our copy) l o v e r s of the original should definitely check it out. What t he Ketars didn't realise was that t heir mis guided mining had left Mitral in imminent danger of ex ploding as t he pres s ure of escaping gas built up. Of course, this would spell disaster for Evath and anyone living on rt -k er-boom! When t h e E v a t h aut horit ies realised the threat they sent one man t o Mit rel t o position drilling platforms ov er t he gas poc k et s and burn of f the gas harmlessly. It's up to you to pilot a probe vehicle around Mi t r ar s 1 8 s ec t ors using what ev er res ourc es a n d clues y ou c an fi nd in t he Ket ar structures t o locate and vent the gas pockets, while simultaneously avoiding or destroying the moon's automatic defence systems.
Al though I was happy to hail the arrival of the original 64 v ers ion of Driller as t he bes t 3D ex perienc e since Mercenary, the speed problem always put me off playing the game as much as I would have liked to. Now her e's the Ami ga version, wi th no such problem - and I just can't stop playing it! I t's just so well pr esented, and al though there are a load of keyboar d controls, you hardly need bother learning them all because the comfor tabl e icon control system takes care of just about everything you need. The level of detail the programmers have gone into is remarkable - right down to a little VU meter on the control panel and the three switch self-destruct mechanism for aborting the game. My Only compl ai nt is that there's no super b soundtr ack as there was on the 64 version. Apar t from this, I can't see any reason why you shoul dn't invest £25 in this. V Incentive's Freescape - lots faster than a crippled pig
Your 3D view of the proceedings is f rom behind the controls of the probe, t h e c abin o f whic h c an move t o adopt a wide variety of viewing angles . T h e p r o b e I s equipped wi t h an energy shield which abs orbs h i t s f r o m las er defences or collisions with obstacles. This and the probe's energy
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Supplies are restocked by shooting py ramidal Rubic on crystals which can be found in abandoned store rooms. Cod If your shield or energy runs out the mission comes to an end and you are awarded a score based on any items shot and the accuracy of your drilling.
Anyone who disliked the 6 4 version because of Its lack of speed should defini tel y take a look at the Amiga Driller. The amount of possible viewing a ngl e s i s al l t h e mor e amazing because of the complexity a n d var i ety i n t h e graphics - they may look a bit plain f r o m t h e s oreens hot s , but they take on a life of their own when moving. I loved the way y ou c oul d j ust wander about and explore t he r e ' s an incredible feeling of being on a different w or l d t h e next games in the series should be even better! Until then, ignore our gr ouchbag editor and add Driller to your collection.
PRESENTATION 95% Pleasantly packaged witha map model and a 32 page noveHal manual. Icon or keyboard control system is very easy to use.
GRAPHICS 89%
Fast and smooth filled-in vector graphic representations of Mitral's architecture.
SOUND 49% Good sound effects, but sorely misses the 64 version's superb music.
HOOKABILITY 90% A J u s t get moving will you - there are dangerous pools of gas down there, you know
imminent d a n g e r , t h e K e t a r s decided to secretly evacuate to an uncolonised c ont inent o n Evath, leaving t heir aut omat ic def enc e Systems active.
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LAsTommung90% Will have you scratching your head for some time to come.
OVERALL 89% A superbly presented and totally captivating 30 experience.
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t)1„. aaargh! There's a great big enormous green thing coming down the street - it's got horrible scales and the most disgusting feet you've ever seen (talk about corns!) Ohno! A tiny blond woman has got between its toes. She's screaming. She's tryingto save herself. Some bloke's trying to saveher with a fishing rod. He's almost hookedher b u t no, the overgrown lizard hassmashed him Into the nearest high-rise ledge.Eeeek! it's coming this way! Quick, I've gottaget away - help, there's a big greeny ohno, it's got me in Its arms, I can see the crustedblood in its fingernails, it's trying to putme in its mouth, it's gonna eat me, it's gonnaeat me, IT'SGONNA EAaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgghh!
COBBLE,GOBBLE, CHEW, C-C-CRUNCH B E L C H Isthis sort of way you really want to end? Churningabout in the gutsof some overgrown chihuahua?No memorial service or party for yourfriends? Well, have we got the competition for you. What'sthe only thing capable of stopping a monsterin its tracks? (No, not a sub-machine gun - the bullets just bounce oft) Come on, giveusthe answer, we haven't got all day, you know R i g h t ! A Chewit. If you had one of those,whatever else might go wrong in your life,you'd never get eaten. Oooh and what a surprise,those nice guys and gals at Gremlin haveoffered to give a year's supply of Chewits (that'sone packet a day for 365 days) to 10 peopleclever enough to do a little job for us. Why?They're just nice guys and gals, that's all.WellOK, they're nice guys and gals and theywent you to know all about their up and coming,bonecrunchingly horrible monster game,Muncher. No prizes for guessing what it'sall about (we don't give our prizes away for nothinghere, you know). Just march through alltheJapanesetownsand cities you can find, stompon everyone and walk over all the buildings.More fun than putting a fire cracker inyourGreat Aunt's Christmas pie. Ohyeah, that little job. We'd like to ask you onesimple question. lithe MP! team were a bag of pick in mix tweets,whichsweetwouldeach ofthembe and shy? Writedown the wittiest, funniest, most seasonallyamusing reply you can think of and sendit oft pretty pronto (le, before Maff's birthdayon 12 December) (Sod off, Maff - Ed) to: $411
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WALKER'S iVV A By Martin Walker This month: Thrill to the full time return of program coding. Gasp as the Citadel begins to bristle with new developments. Whistle in amazement at the addition of go faster stripes. Wonder why there is so much waffle in the intros
rather strange, since firing down a long corridor produced the effect of them all disappearing into another dimension at maximum range, Today the routine was revised to allow each to travel as far as the edges of the screen window - the only slight disadvantage of this method is that unless any bullet hits something there may be a tiny pause after loosing a full volley before the next bullet becomes available to fire again. This can
of the screen. Choosing which has occupied much thought. When playing the game the eye finds it easier to glance down quickly to take in information - I suspect that this is why subtitles always appear at the bottom of the screen. However, if you are playing a venically scrolling game the eye is always on the watch for 'baddies• arriving from the top of the screen. Also, just like reading a book, when first presented with the screen, the brain is conditioned Cu find it easier to react to a 'titk' area at the top. After debating both options for some time, the top won, although it will probably prove more difficult to achieve a clean 'split' when 8 sprites appear under it!
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Saturday I l t h September Having decided where the information istogo. I suppose I ought to decide exactly what will be displayed. The current score is fairly obvious, but again there is a big controversy about the addition (or not) of Player 2 score and/or High score. Personally I rarely play with 2 players (perhaps I ought to rephrase that!), and anybody playing a one player game will find the second score completely redundant, so the high score seems more important overall. especially asa ' I 'or '2' can appear next to the score to indicate the current player. The other vital information needed in Citadel will he special equipment currently available for use, and the means of selecting it in the thick of the action. Suffice it to say that my screen editor saw a lot of action today.
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Wednesday 8th September Here we are on the first day of the latest diary, and already the player bullet firing routines arc in a s !said at the end of last month. things arc beginning to move quickly, especially now that all my music/six commissions have been completed for the time being. At long last there is more colour on screen as the bullets have separately mapped colour information.
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produce. if taken to extremes, the classic superfast firing in tight situations - but dodge 'cm while waiting for bullets so beloved of Delta fans everywhere; only if used very cleverly can it be turned into a strategy and not a grumble.
Friday lOth September Somewhere on screen the score and needed ingame information must be displayed, and the lime has come todecide once and for all where this is going to be, as many already existing routines may need to be modified slightly. I'm not using 'sprites in the border' tricks this time for various reasons, so it means losing several lines of characters either at the top or bottom
A tricky little routine to produce the screen splits was perfected today. Since an interrupt routine from the sprite multiplexor may strike anywhere down the screen, depending on the current position of the sprites, the screen splits will be produced using an NMI (dreaded by all backup cartridges, and tricky for me since I'm using my trusty Expert asa development aid!) A 'Non-Maskable Interrupt' is normally also generated when you tap the RESTORE keyFor my purposes, this is ideal because it overrides any other interrupt, ensuring that the screen splits always occur at the correct position, whatever the other interrupts arc doing. Once the routine was in and working. Lialso allowed me to have different colours for the information bar at the top of the screen (and hopefully an end to the ZZAPt art department printing my screenshots upside down!)
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M o n d a y 26t h Se p t e mb e r s parrEoFF proved to be a more typical routine - less than a ntweak. h o SPRITEON u r needs more thought before into frenzied action at the keyboard. tleaping o Since there will be up to 256 objects in a level, w r i t whenev er the screen scrolls in a particular edirection , any new objects that should appear aat any s edge s must be found and plotted from a emassive m btable of X and Y values. The main problem wit h this son of routine is that unless l e you are careful it will still be searching through athe table long after the object is supposed to nhave appeared on screen - shortcuts must be dfound In mi n i mi w processor time.
T ues day 27th Se p t e m b e r Tuesday I 4 t h Sep t em b er Aday of preparation For the PCW show, which ishall be visiting t omorrow, plus some tidying opol routines to optimise their speed. The use of screen border colour changesat I he start and Finish of interrupt routines is a very useful development aid, s howing exactly how muc h nme is taken by each 'JSR', and helps to pinpoint bottlenecks and problem areas. I suppose that they are the equivalent of the 'go. faster stripes' so beloved of the car fraternity!
Wednesday 15th Sep t em b er So this is what 7.30am feels like! Yawn. Stagger_ Sip coffee. At least I 'm going by train so I an catch up on sleep later. Wit h my trusty joystick packed (just in case) it's off to Earls Court to see what everybody else has been doing. Well, what a day! Many thanks to all of you whohelped to make this my most entertaining PCW show so far. The prize for most interesting diary comment has to go to the reader who likes the bits in brackets best (this is just for you. and all bracket lovers everywhere!) More and more companies seem to be setting up 'satellite' stands in nearby hotels. This certainly gives more variety to the day, but does tend to use up rather a lot of stand browsing time - at least the Mediagenic bash gave me a chance to take a ride in a chauffeurdriven limousine! And no, I shall not be procuring one if I ever get rich and famous. My trusty joystick did come in handy when I managed to try out a demo of the official RType on the 64. Later on, back at the show itself, the purchase of an ST joystick extender kad meant that I can now also plug it int o the ST without performing any more upsidedown contortions (hooray!) As the sun began to set. I found myself peering once again t hrough a British Rail window, wending my weary way home again. All in all, a very rewarding day. Apologies to all those readers who asked for me in vain at the Newsfield stand on later days - next year I must go for several ret urn visits.
play my copy of Haic iey e - Iroui those nice guys wit h deficiencies in the cerebral department).
Mo n d ay I 9 t h Sep t em b er Over the last few days the main structure of Citadel has been mapped out ready for the BIG routines. Since I need the real feeling of exploration. all of the things the player will meet on his/her travels must be positioned in adv anc e-and this means storing the locations and status of up to 256 objects for each level! The reason for the ultra-compacted city generation system now becomes more apparent. The function of an apparently useless object in the city may become obvious after another vital piece of equipment has been found or activated, so retracing your steps must show everything in its 'last visited' state (how many games have you played that just regenerate every meanie every time you re-enter a room? Bang goesany feeling of a real env ironment ! ) Also, an activated city defence may be used to set ambushes in a particular area for pursuing meanies - some of them may be indestructible using your own available weapons, and remembering the location of the switch that activates a force field may prove crucial! Learning to use the cities OW n defence systems to your advantage will get you muc h f urt her Into the game.
Wednesday 21st Sep t emb er Mov ement of sprites is going to be on a predefi ned patrol basis. This will allow them to be designed in groups whic h will protect the more import ant installations. Just like in real life, there will he comparatively empty corridors followed by vital areas whic h will be very tricky to negotiate, wit h ' loadsasprites°. I did toy wit h the idea of invisible 'tramlines' allowing sprites to move freely about the cities and home in on the player, but if I were them I'd prefer to have safety in numberst
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1 schizophrenic, and ended up as two routines one h running every frame on the interrupt and the other in mainline (any time remaining i when the interrupts have fi nished!). Every s piece of coding for Citadel iscomplicated by my insistence n on scrolling in 8 directions. In a e w r o u t i n e t u r n e d o u t t o b e r a t h e r vertically scrollinggamt. for instance, you only need to check how far the background has progressed to know when to 'launch' the next wave of aliens. Citadel checks each edge around the screen, depending on whic h direction the player is moving, to determine whet her an object should appear or disappear.
My brain hurts! There really is a lot of work to complete before my mult iplex ed sprites can react to their environment. First rout ine to be completed moves all sprites in 'sync' wit h the
Well, the routines are now completely written. and debugging starts t omorrow. The trick of writ ing major routines seems to be to mull over different ways of producing the same effect. Although the principles of SPRITEON were Fairly simple. most games have so little
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Mo n d ay 3rd O ctober Main job of the day is to slightly revise the design for the trapdoor opening graphics-my I little spheroid all but disappeared when he appeared in the game over the pure black gaping chasm of an open trap, Whoops! Taking advantage of the opportunity, various other small improvements were made to the city graphics. Incidentally, according to my dictionary. Citadel does not use has-relief graphics, sine these are defined as 'low relief i n which figures project less than one half of their true proportions from the background'. The classic proponent of the 'embossed slab' look on the 64 must be Andrew Braybrook (and his creations have a beautifully clean sunlit lookthere's crawling for youll, but I'm going fora more 'solid' look, more in keeping with my original need for a dark, oppressive feel to the cities (the first diary instalment described Ibis as the Blade Runner look-perhaps this should now be updated to Cyberpunk!). And with that thought I had better prepare the screen shot file for this instalment, hopefully now printed nearby (the logo should he at the top!)
Friday 30t h Sep t em b er Well, all the debugging is now complete, and the traps appear and disappear at the screen edges as you move around the city - it's really starting to come to life. As I expected, there are difficulties where the sprites disappear at the top of the screen, since at the moment they can either move 'over' the score bar (eg. Morpheus) or suddenly 'blink' out before they get to it (Hades Nebula).
Sat urday 1st O ctober A day of refinement (on the program, not my lifestyle!). After designing a new sound effect for the city itself to add more atmosphere, and a neater bullet character, it seemed about time to write the sprite animation routine so my in habitantscan stretch their legs (or wave their antennae as the case may be!). Again it is the fastest routine which counts, and one which also anticipates ways to save memory in the
animation movement tables. When finished and installed into the game itself, another useful by-product was revealed - since objects can appear anywhere and then start animating, all of the onscreen sprites tend to end up moving 'out of sync', adding even more life (and certainly a lot more colour) to the screen!
Sunday 2nd O ctober It's tulle to return to genetics - the city needs more varieties of inhabitants. Approaching the sprite design from a different point of view, I ended up producing a shaded sphere according to bask artistic principles. It looked a bit crude, simply because with only black, mid grey and white you simply cannot produce smooth colour fading. Then by designing features onto the surface of the sphere where the colour transitions occured, all of the 'glitches' disappeared, leaving me with a realistic metal sphere. I was well chuffed with the final result! A few more basic designs reared their ugly heads later (the designs were attractive but the
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Having be e n dr agged out of bed, P ogo stumble i nto his sub and chugs off to the towers. This is the point where you take the part of Pogo in the Amiga version of Nebuius_ To destroy the towers you must shut down the supporting field located at the top of the tower by climbing up via a series of platforms. Now the nasty Bouncing balls, fatal tells, curving walls and dirty smalls
W best c onv e r s i on I ' v e e seen from an 8-bit to an Amiga! None l of the gamepi ay be e n lost t h e tower s ar e j ust as l hard a n d this time ther e are , twice as many! I n fact, if you t thought t he 6 4 ver si on w a s tough, h just try mission 2 on the Amiga a a a a r g h ! I n fact, I'll i say it again in case you missed s the point -- aaaaaaaaarght! The i graphics ar e j ust about spot on, s even i f the r otati on does slow e v e r s o sl i ghtl y w h e n j there a r e qui t e a f e w bal l s u bounci ng ar ound, a n d e v e n s though t h e s ound F X a r e t sparse, they're still pretty neat. The a a c t i on gr a bs y ou r i ght from b the start and doesn't let go: not a game to pl ay when o you're trying to finish a mega u Christmas i s s ue . J u s t o n e more t hi ng: m i s s t hi s a n d t you're missing one of the most t original a nd addi cti ve games onhthe Amiga! e
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nngghhh! Hnnnnghh! Thi s i s dr i vi ng m e cr az y! Nebulus* frighteningly addictive pl atfor mi ng puzzles stopped work, not only in the ZZAP! office, but also in the nether regions of the Art department! I had expected some improvements over the 64 version, but a whole alternate set of towers was a bit of a surprise. John Phillips has really taken a lot of care over the game graphics which feature loads of lavish touches, such as the rippling waves and reflections In the water, and the ability to see thr ough the holes i n the towers. The tower desi gns ar e utterly heartless, allowing you to get really close to the top of the tower with only a f e w seconds left, thi nki ng 'I 'm goi ng t o make it! After 90 attempts at this tower , I 'm goi ng to make it!' And then you're stranded on an isolated platform with nowher e to go and one of those spi nni ng bas er, thi ngs - appear s and knocks you halfway down the tower. HNNNGGHH!!
N N II 1 1 9 4 •0 • 4 :-At I fiend that constructed the tower,s wanted t o mak e s ure t hat t hey were left well alone, so he rigged them with traps and guards, to try and make you fall oft into the water (glugl thus losing one of your three lives. If you do manage t o c omplet e the level (by reaching the top of the tower). Pogo is so pleased that he plays a little tune on his portable Casio k ey board - b u t h e ' s n o musician s o he hit s a c ouple of bum notes! Next Comes t h e b o n u s lev el which consists of a horizontally scrolling section in which you must catch fish be shooting bubbles at them and then collecting them for bonus point. Af t er that we hav e (gasp!) the next - harder - level! Da-DAAAAA! But if you're so hard that y ou c a n c omplet e a l l t h e towers easily then why not try MISSION TWO! (Oh, no! Not mission two! Anything but mis s ion t wo! ) Ha-ha-ha . .
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PRESENTATION 76% Two missions and a one or two player option, but not much else
GRAPHICS 90% Excellent touches throughout portrayed by brilliantly defined and animated sprites.
SOUND 80% Pleasant tunes and iaunty effects suit the action well.
HOOKABILITY 91% {he 'cute appeal causes instani addiction
LASTABILITY 95% Like Superglue in the underwear -- sticks you to the seat! HAHAHAHAHAI ((C)1988 Bad jokes Inc.)
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forces r u n rough-s hod ov er a l l opposition, but there is one man who may be able to put a stop to his land reclamation—the flier with a difference, t he one they c a l l . .. .Rocket Ranger (um, that's you, of course).
Rocky owes his power of flight to a bac k -mount ed roc k et pac k which runs on the mystery mineral Lunarium. a rare substance which yields enormous power if handled correctly but staggeringly dangerous if used for nefarious (whassat? —Ed) purposes,
Oh he flies through the air with the greatest of ease, wearing his goggles and bending his knees
n . reviously, the onl y Ci nemawar e game to really catch my imaginat ion was Def ender of the Crown, but Rocket Ranger knocks that game for six in every respect. The gr aphi cs are quite excellent and the atmospher e of the old black and white serials is captur ed perfectly in the l ow-tech r ocket man, the other characters and the scenery. Sound, too is used well, comprising sui tabl y mel odr amati c musi c a nd s om e r emar kabl y high quality speech in the conver sati on sequence. All these would keep my interest level hi gh on their Own (I 'm such a simple soul), but ther e is so much variety in the game that I could barely cope with real life at the same time. Beat 'em ups. 3D s hoot 'em ups and adventur i ng all i n the same package! Incredible. rrn a drooling wreck. Save every penny you can get your hands on and acquire Rocket Ranger. Burble
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The Nazis. a nefarious (Oyi Paull Stop using that word) bunch if ever there wa s one, a r e planrf rig to subjugate the tree peoples of the world b y d r o p p i n g Lunarium bombs on them with the effect of reducing t he 10 of all males Oy 30%! Led by the evil Colonel Leer. meister, SS scientists have somehow built a bas e o n t he moon where chain gangs of women mine the mineral. for a fleet of Lunariurn powered rockets to ferry it back to Earth. Working from your base at Fort Dix. USA. if s your job to prevent the Nazi Meisterplan by finding the five Nazi rocket factories, putting together your own rocket from stolen part s , a n d t h e n collecting enough Lunarium t o get t o the enemy mo o n b a s e a n d fi nally destroy it. First on leerrnetster's list of dirty deeds i s t he k idnap o f one of America's leading brains, Professor Barnstortf, to Increase the eftciency of the Lunarium mining process. I f s up to Rocket Ranger to rescue t he professor and his voluptuous daughter from the asap. ing Zeppelin before he can be put to work , and bef ore s he can be made int o a mindless zombie by the Nazis' brain washing machine (Just a light rinse, please). Using his radium gun, Rocky must s hoot down t he aerial torpedoes being fired at him from the airship's gondola and take Out the gunner, aiming carefully so that he
I chapter plays like Flash Gor' don and King of the Rocket Men. Im like little better than to sil in front o f t he tel l y o n a cold a winter's evening with a cup of s tea a n d a bi scui t watchi ng u Commander C o d y narrowly escapi ng fr om doom for the c third week running. Now I can k take pa r t i n t he adventures e myself thanks to Mirrorsoft. I r think i t's safe enough to say that f Rocket Ranger is by far the best Ci nemawar e release to o date. The graphics and sound r are i ncr edi bl y atmospher i c. a l i fel i ke characters, col. with l ourful backdr ops and stunning sampled speech. I could easily l lose myself in a game for hours t on end, that is if I didn't have to h write this review. I know, stuff e review, I'm off to play the the game o l d
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ret agent s s t at ioned around t he world. The spy of your choice can be mo v e d t o a n y c ount ry a n d ordered eit her t o infi lt rat e a n d report on enemy activities, or if a base or factory is discovered, they can b e t old t o organis e a resistance movement. Agents may c all f or y our help when attacking an installation, in which case, you have to fill up with Lunarium fuel and jet off to foreign parts, radium pistol at the ready. Shoot e n e my s nipers i n jungle temples, g u n d o w n a w h o l e squadron of Luftwaffe fi ghters or lust punch a guard's teeth out and you can grab parts f or your s hip and s l o w d o w n t h e Na z i w a r machine. With the rocket built and tanked up wit h Lunanum fuel, it's time to take off for the moon base. Here, Leermeister's army of female zombie s l a v e s a b s e i l d o w n t h e i r
space-ropes t a k i n g l a s e r p o t shots at Roc k y while he tries t o plug t hem wit h his radium pistol. Time, as always. Is of the essence, and any slack shooting results in our hero succumbing to the mindnumbing effect of t he Lunarium. sealing his fate and that of the free world Will he succeed? Tune in next week
B ebuff i n g I've a bitbeen of al ooki 30sng s erial forward to this since it was previewed many moons ago, and I'm happy to say that I'm not at all di sappoi nted. Presentation thr oughout i s s u p r e m e l y polished, wi th some excellent film-style g r a p h i c p i e c e s , probably the best exampl e of which is the shadow of Rocket Ranger falling on the map as progress between countries is plotted - really smart, and it all adds up to cr eate a r emar kable level of atmosphere! I was initially i mpr essed w i t h t h e game's use of sound j ust on the basi s o f t he 'i nci dental music' but when I eventually got into the conversation with the professor and his daughter I w a s sur pr i sed t o fi nd t he characters speaki ng t o m e ! And I don't mean speech bubbles or even crackling samples or sti l ted r obo-speech, b u t perfectly spoken words which make y o u f e e l y o u c oul d almost be ther e. The equally classy pr esentati on o f t h e action sequences make them all very playable and the variety thr oughout means you'll be playing f o r a l ong t i m e t o come. I f y ou c a n spar e t he cash you've got to try out what must be the best Cinemaware game to date!
PRESENTATION 97% Superb cinematic opening sequences and loads of beautifully executed set pieces add to the game enormously.
GRAPHICS 93% Highly polished and tremendously varied characters and scenery.
SOUND 92% Loads of 'incidental music' and superb use of speech.
HOOKABILITY 92% lots of variety in gameplay and a brilliant atmosphere have you hooked from the very start
LASTABlurt 94% A whole Amigatui of action tc keep you happy for ages.
OVERALL 94% A Thi ngs are realty hotting up down at the hi old Reichstag
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mt aforKNAdKER03WITHoicc4Ral i b a n g in the middle of • t h e winter holidays I s l u m p e d in front of t y o u r television set I w i t h your tongue i hanging out, -watching That's My Dog. •Aargh" you think. 'If only there !h was something more to life, than ethis. If only my days didn't keep rgoing round in circles. If only my etrousers weren't so short. If only could be doing something aIreally exciting, if only I was . , . if ronly I was on an . . . e r . . . I eknow, on an ARMY ASSAULT yCOURSE. Yeah! that 's it. If I went on an army assault course oeverything would be really wellurad, ace and froody. a No chance of that ever r happening though. Sigh" Suddenly the room starts espinning and there's a blinding , , purple flash. An enormously shuge blubber-bellied ape-like l creature nearer to Neanderthal man than homo sapiens flops ainto the room. p 'Hi!', he shouts. 'I'm Gordo. Ever thought there was something more to life than
That's My Dog? Wished that your days didn't keep going round in circles? Well, don't despair 'cos I have just the remedy. Courtesy of Encore, I'm offering you the chance to go on an Army Assault course.'
Before you've had a chance to say 'well, slap me down with a pike-perch' Gordo disappears in a powder puff - and a side of beef drops down from the sky. A message in green ink is written on the back: 'Those nice people at Encore, tbe guys who brought you such budget releases as Frank
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have gone ever so slightly er w e l l (read this to yourself in a whisper) mad. Yup, a couple of drams of the Christmas spirit and they're under the table in silly hats offering to treat five winners and a friend (that's 10 yes, TEN - YES. TEN!! - everso incredibly amazingly lucky people) to one entirely free and flabbergastingly exciting trip to an army assault course
somewhere in England (well, near Litchfield to be exact). Not only do you get to fall off walls, jog over skimpy rope bridges and dive head first into swamps, you also get an Elite mug, an Elite T-shirt and copies of the eight Encore titles (Including
Commando. Bomb Jack, Airwolf and Combat Lynx) pressed into your muddy hand at the end of the day. Weyhey! As if that isn't already more than enough, 10 runners up also receive a copy of each of Encore's eight bouncy games. All you have to do, is design some suitably seasonal packaging for any one of Encore's titles. Place this masterpiece of criminally Chnstmassy artwcuit into an envelope, along with your name and address, and send it to:
ASSAULT ENCORE COMP ZZAPI TOWERS, PO BOX 10 LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE, SYS 1DB They've got to arrive by December 12 (Maff's birthday, just in case you didn't know by now) (shut up. Maiff - Ed) or you won't win and your life will be just as Encore-free as it ever was. Now wouldn't that be a shame?
R E 5 L I L T 5 with Ken the Fish Did you know that us fish only have an 11-second memory? It's true. I mean, I could go on and on about how much I hate Maff, pigeons and processed fish food, and then the next minute I would have forgotten all about it! Anyway, welcome to this month's results page which is 0 n o w hosted by me, Ken D Fish-1 hope over the next few months you'll get to like me and my piscatorial habits. By the way, did you know that 0 fi s h only have an 11-second memory? It's an interesting fact, and not one that many people know— but there you are: education isn't what it used to be, for fish and non-fish-kind alike. On with results which are now hosted by me, Ken D. Fish —let's settle down by this tacky plastic castle and get to know each other, let's exchange fishy fluids and bubbles on our trek through the wonderful undersea world of winners
WHO STOLE THE G I M M E DAT DER FISH-LIKE PRESIDENT C A M E R A In announcing this competition, there was some un-fishlike behaviour from the ZZAP! team -they said it was a Microprose affair, when in fact the whole generous dace stew was organised by Cosmi• Oh well i f onlythey hada memory like mine. Anyway, the first five winners received a Sanyo personal stereo with three-band graphic-equaliser and a built in medium wave/FM radio, plus a 15 record token and a copy of The President is Missing. A big fin for: Helen Emes, East Herrington, SUNDERLAND; Stuart Martin, Broadstairs, KENT: C McHugh, Worthing, West Sussex; M House, Leatherhead; Adi Drumbie, Peckham, LONDON.
Cameras are extremely useful items for a growing fish, Why, I won't tell you - you'll just have to take my word for it. Anyway, the winner of this whale of a competition received a Nikon F-401 Autofocus SIR camera with built in flashgun, motorwind, superfast autofocus system and a 50mm f1.8AF lens:
Meanwhile five runners up weren't resting at the bottom of the pond: they each receive a copy of The President Is Missing.
Alan Johnstone, Sunbury on Thames, MIDDLESEX.
Neal Todd, Warminster, WILTS: Michael Downer, Benfleet, ESSEX; Mar ti ni Juhasz, Maidstone, KENT; W Tillotson, Bulford, Wilts; N Skipton, N YORKSHIRE.
10 pike-sized runners up received System 3 goodie bags (poster, badges, goldfish bowls, and the like):
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As for the 3rd prize winners — well, no nights of extasy gorging on plankton for them: instead, they received a Sony 3" BAN TV:
The next 5 were similarly treated, but this time to a black Cruiser joystick. We fish have no problems with colour like you earth-lubbers, y'know. Anyway, look up your name here, fisheaters:
Cal Ross & James Godfrey, Gwynedd, N.Wales.
Ian Roberts, SouthamptOnS032SD; Chris Sharpe, E. Sussex TN22 2BA: Christopher Ray, Gwent NP1 OAV; Neil Ambrose, Lana 816 STG; Simon Gowda, Swansea 5A4 1XX.
The next 5 Runners up were really left out when the ants' eggs were being sprinkled on the water tension. They each received a Cruiser Clear Joystick, which the ZZAP! team tell me is a particularly brilliant 'stick for the price — but then, what would they know — they haven't got gills!
This is where it got a bit silly. There were meant to be 10 winners of the final runners up prize of a Blue Cruiserjoystick each, but only 6 more of you entered. Oh dear. Can't pick up a pen and scribble something down? Oh well, crawl back into the slime . .
and now on BBC2, The Life of Shakespeare.' Starring. Lloyd Mangram a s William Shakespeare Mel Croucher.... as The Agent Paul G l a n c e y aKati s Hamza T h e a s The Girl and the voice of Maff Evans a s Yorick's Skull (by P o l i c e permission of V.C.G) m a n SHAKESPEARE: (picks up skull) Alas poor Yorick YORICK'S SKULL: Speak for Yourself (YORICK lines unheard by cast) SHAKESPEARE: I knew him when he used to e a t . . . (hooks to audience) I knew his sister better YORICK'S SKULL: A body. A body, my kingdom for . a body ...
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YORICK'S SKULL: OUCH! SHAKESPEARE: (picks up lute and sings)Oh wella since my baby hath left me, I've found a new place to dwell . . . blimey I'm bored (open new lager) 1 I haven't written anything for (looks at wristwatch) ten minutes.. (ENTER Shakespeare's AGENT AGENT: Hi ya Shakes my boy; written anything in the last ten minutes? SHAKESPEARE: No, I'm done for, washed up. AGENT: Don't take it to heart shakes. SHAKESPEARE: (looks at watch) Eleven minutes and w a i t n e v e r in the face of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. AGENT: (puzzled)What's that my boy? I didn't quite get the e r J(Gorgeous GIRL wearing tiny nightdress crosses room to bedroom) c'
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AGENT: (to audience) Anne Hathaway?? SHAKESPEARE: I've had an idea!! (moves to follow girl) AGENT: Shakes, it's eleven and a half minutes since you've written anything!! SHAKESPEARE: (stops) Erm i t was on a bridge at midnight, throwing snowballs at the moon, she said. (Loud knock on door. SHAKESPEARE opens it to find POLICEMAN holding YORICK'S SKULL.) POLICEMAN: 'ello YORICK'S SKULL: 'ello POLICEMAN: 'ello i s this your skull sir? SHAKESPEARE: No, this is m ine ... (hands to own head) AGENT: I like it, I like it - write it down, Shakes. POLICEMAN: Mind where you throw your rubbish sir. YORICK'S SKULL: RUBBISH!?! SHAKESPEARE: Thank you officer. (Policeman leavesdoor closed). Alas poor Yorick I knew him ( w a l k s to window)er w e l l ( t o s s e s skull out of window. Skull scream as before). AGENT: Ye s .. h e wasn't a bad act. SHAKESPEARE: N o . . . he was terrible.
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Personally i hate camels: nasty, smelly creatures - and really ugly, too. Not like us fish. If you can find a cleaner, more handsome creature in fresh or salt water than a fish, you can have a year's supply of processed fish food with my compliments - but don't bother looking, 'cos it's a hopeless search. In this competition, which has nothing to do with fish,
Grandslam were offering the winner two tickets to Egypt for two days of visiting the pyramids, walking like an Egyptian and wearing silly hats. The overall winner was from CRASH (so we won't soil these pages by naming him here), but there were 25 runners up, who each received a copy of the game, Power Pyramids (bad luck, guys):
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Fish don't play football much apart from a few famous exceptions (Kenny Salmonson, Billy The Fish, Ray of the Rovers, Peter Shoalton, Ruud Mullet, Diego Maratuna and lan St John Dory). Anyway, that's got nuffin' to do with this fabbo competition organised by Gremlin: thefirst six winners received the football kit of their choice plus 0 a pair of tickets for the next 6 England match at Wembley, and the first two winners received the above plus an autographed football.
Malcolm Colligan, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear; Matthew Harfitt, Hanham, BRISTOL; Chris Cooper, Maidstone, KENT; Matthew smith, Warrington, CHESHIRE; Cane, Marlow, BUCKS. Laurence Taylor, Tredegar, GWENT; Alexis
The top 50 6entries received a copy of the football fitness game (including winners)
Christopher Trouard, Upshire, WALTHAM ABBEY; S Lee, Guildford, SURREY; K Osborn, Sutton, SURREY; Cohn Donoghue, Cork, EIRE; Steven Fogwell, Darlington, Co: DURHAM; James Bunting, Bakewell, DERBYS; Simon Gregory, Birkenhead, MERSEYSIDE; Jamie Beer, Esher, SURREY; Jamie Slack, Killmarsh, Nr SHEFFIELD; Barry Whitelaw, Whitley Bay, TYNE and WEAR; Michael Birt, Swindon, WILTS; Gavin Fouistone, Killamarsh, Nr SHEFFIELD; Adrian Shaw, Killamarsh, Nr SHEFFIELD; Jonathon Gill, Marlow, BUCKS; Jonathan Flanagan, Eastbourne, EAST SUSSEX; A Fagon kir, Slough, BERKS; Nigel The second prize winner Underwood, Reading, Berks; David Squires, Swindon, WILTS; W Tillotson, Bulford, WILTS; Dean Thomas, Machyrilleth, POWYS; received their own waterAndrew Blackrnore, Broadlields, Exeter; Adrian Jones, Tavistock, weapon (if you sea what I DEVON; Manraj Khush, Hornchurch, Essex; Anthony Jolley, Edmonton mean - gloop, gloop), a set of N9, LONDON; Shaif Ahmed, Edgware, MIDDX; Mark Barrett, dog-tags, a Cascade T-Shirt and Cirencester, GIOIA; Richard Walker, Sedgley, WEST MIDLANDS; Niall a copy of the game. And he Murphy, Belfast, Co Antrim; Stuart Murphy, Chelmsford, ESSEX; J is . . Biddle, Leiston, SUFFOLK; Ketan Sedani, Luton, BEDS; David Brown, Waltham, SOUTH HUMBERSIDE; Nigel Sefton, Louth, LINCOLNSHIRE; Neil Pearce, Bishop's Stortford, HERTS; Steven Williams, Spenser Thomas McCreery, CUMBERNAULD, G67 4.IE Grove, LONDON; K Bovali, Tooting, LONDON; Andy Clark, Reading, BERKS; D I Roden, SELKIRK; Andrew Marriott, Stoke-on-Trent, STAFFS; Justin Robinson, Preston, LANCS; Paul Banoob, Darlington, The third prize winner in this • Co Durham; Seven Fogwell, Darlington, Co Durham; David Clark, comp for trout-ticklers Grimsby, 5 HUMBERSIDE; Julian Stokes, Sutton Coldfield, WEST MIDLANDS. 0 everywhere was the water
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Not forgetting the 25 Runnersup, each of whom received a copy of the game: Stephen Chester, East Sussex, BN25 48Z; Neil Cloke, Kent, IN23 2UH; Victoria Barnett, Southampton, 501 2QN; Paul Rees, Middlesbrough, 157 8SE; Richard Eaton, Plymouth, Devon; Richard McDougall, York Y06 3TA; A Stephens, Suffolk IP10 CILJZ; Jeffrey Huthwaite, Norwich, N M 6JE; Sam Trafford, Scarboro; N. Yorks; David Briscoe, Cheshire CW6 OEG; Craig Darrock, Shropshire IF7 5P.I; Bill Cole, Middlesex EN3 6QN; Andrew Conn, Bangor 8120 3R5; Mark • Oxford P H S S0X4 I H3PB; P OLee I CCrawley, S. Yorks 571 2AD; Michael Nicolson, Birmingham B18 SPL; J Upright, Beds LU6 ZAL; Karim Bouali, London S t e v e n s , Cheshire SKIS 1EL; Matthew Trickett, 5W17 EILD; Albert Ingham, Sheffield 518 SQS; R Simon, London E13 9JA; R D Bowe, Kent 1N14 5 HD7 4NN; Stephen Buggy, Co_ Cork, Ireland. 0 P e G a r
And that's about it, really. OK, sot haven't really told you about the internal mechanisms of the fish physiology, nor about piscine politics— but maybe there'll be more about those and other fishy topics in future editions of this, my results page. Meanwhile, if you have any problems about fishfood, plankton, dirty tanks, polluted water, gill trouble or about ZZAP! Competitions, send your queries to Ken the Fish, cio Viv VICKRESS, ZZAPI, PO BOX 10, LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE, SY8 108 and I'll try to set the record straight. See you next month. Gloop gioop!
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PANZERSTRIKE SS', E19.99 disk (64) his is _ wi t h o u t question, a game wh i c h i s unlik ely t o appeal t o players w h o do .1 n o t h a v e a milit ary .. fetish. Or, t o‘ l be f airer, any one wi t h a n i nat e r e s t i n t h e mec hanis ed w a r f a r e o f t h e Second Worldh War will fi nd t hat Panzer St rik a e c at ers f o r t h a t int eres t i n ar s c ient ifi c ally a n d his t oric ally exd ac t way . Play ers wh o pref er planning c ampaigns on a l a r g e r swc ale, a n d wh o s e imaginat ion ias k i n d l e d b y t h e idea o f r e a r r a n g i n g h i s t o r y wholes ale, a er e l i k e l y t o b e s t unned by t he huge quant it ies of technical det ail reproduc ed in this simulation_ It's a t y pic al SSI tactical-level game, only more so t han usual! In t h i s c a s e , t ac t ic al-lev el means t h a t t h e b a t t l e s t h a t Panzer S t r i k e r e c r e a t e s a r e f ought wi t h unit s repres ent ing s ingle tanks and small squads of men, o n a m a p s h o w i n g indiv idual buildings , craters and trees. Th e game progres s es i n t urns c ov ering o n e mi n u t e o f ' game t i m e ' , a n d a s t h e ma x i mu m number of t urns in a single bat t le is 60, none of t he enc ount ers las t s f or more t han an hour. Th e v ariet y of plac es and s i t u a t i o n s o f f e r e d i s admirable. T h e r e a r e t h r e e fronts o r ' t heat res ' av ailable east, w e s t a n d A f r i c a - e a c h oc c upy ing a d i s k s i d e , a n d giv ing t h e p l a y e r t h e opport unit y t o p l a y p r e s e t scenarios or customised games. An ex haus t iv e as s ort ment o f offensive vehicles appropriat e to the t i m e a n d t h e p l a c e i s prov ided; t he dozens of different tanks in t he game are listed wit h t heir v i t a l s t a t i s t i c s i n a s ubs t ant ial b o o k l e t s e p e r a t e f rom t h e m a i n i n s t r u c t i o n manual, The c omput er can play eit her Ax is or Allied, or bot h or neither, There is an opt ion to play wit h or wit hout t he ' l i mi t ed c ommand' rules, wh i c h s imulat e t h e f ac t t hat s ubs idiary u n i t s a r e n o t alway s i n r a d i o c ont ac t w i t h t heir h e a d q u a r t e r s a n d i n a pos it ion to receive orders. There is a s i m p l e h a n d i c a p l e v e l adjus t ment a n d a me s s a g e delay l engt h t o dec ide, bef ore
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play starts. The s c reen ma p is c lear-c ut and u n c l u t t e r e d , t h o u g h mimmEdistic. I t i s n o t I mmediat ely o b v i o u s f r o m i t s appearanc e t h a t t h e g a m e prov ides a n u n u s u a l l y l a r g e v ariet y o f t e r r a i n t y p e s , inc luding unex pec t ed t errit ory like w h e a t , o l i v e t r e e s a n d v eget at ion fi r e a mo n g s t t h e more c ommon forests and roads, whic h affect mov ement and may or may not prov ide cover. This is s ummaris ed c onc is ely i n t h e Briefi ng Manual, but t he player just has t o use his imaginat ion wh e n t ry ing to dec ide what onscreen graphic represents what type of vegetation. Clear ground is pat t erned in dots, t o mak e it easier t o s ee h o w ma n y grid squares it covers; this is a useful touch, as t he range of weapons is meas ured i n t hes e s quares and i s v it ally i mp o r t a n t wh e n dec iding on tactics. I nf ant ry unit s look like sealed envelopes ( I hav e a s us pic ion t hat c e r t a i n g a m e des igners c ons ider t h i s m y s t e n o u s s y mbolis m mo r e s ophis t ic at ed and serious than small drawings of s oldiers wi t h guns ) and t he tanks rat her lik e door handles. Vis ually it is all v ery functional and businesslike. The map can be v iewed at the normal tactical level, s howing a 20 by 10 s quare port ion of the play ing a r e a , o r a t s t rat egic level, wh i c h on mos t scenarios s hows t he wh o l e map is useful for get t ing an ov erall pic t ure of h o w the bat t le is progressing The gameplay is v ery simply arranged i n t o t w o phas es , orders and c ombat . Th e player spends as muc h t ime as he likes giv ing his unit s mov ement and fi ring o r d e r s , t h e n wa t c h e s passively a s t h e o r d e r s a r e c arried Out in the combat phase. An u n u s u a l f e a t u r e i n t h e aut omat ic running 'on of combat phases: u n l e s s t h e p l a y e r actively i n t e r v e n e s w i t h a keypress a t s ome point i n the combat, t h e c omput er wi l l run t hrough t he scenario's allot t ed number o f p h a s e s w i t h o u t int errupt ion. Orders are giv en v ia a menu, c rammed onto the bot t om of the screen and fully ex•plamed in one of t h e m a n u a l ' s n u me r o u s charts. The map can be explored wi t h a cursor, and the objective of the current scenario is always
available f o r ex aminat ion; t h e type of mis s ion affects wh a t the player gets victory point s for, so that b a t t l e s w h i c h e n d i n apparent def eat can ac t ually be judged q u i t e s uc c es s f ul i n t he circumstances. Units a r e e i t h e r v ehic les o r small s q u a d s o f inf ant ry , a n d they a r e a l l a r r a n g e d i n t o platoons. T h e u n i t s a r e identifi ed a l p h a n u me r i c a l l y i n the game, s o it is alway s c lear whic h of t hem belong t oget her and wh i c h o f t h e m s erv es as headquarters, t h e t o p o f t h e chain of c ommand; a l l unit s i n the same plat oon are ref erred to by t h e s a me l e t t e r , a n d t h e headquarters i s n u mb e r z ero. Ultimately, a l l u n i t s o n s c reen report t o unit AO. The c hain of command o n l y b e c o m e s important, howev er, wh e n t he player h a s c hos en t o operat e wit hin t h e c o n fi n e s o f t h e limited c ommand rules. Wit hout this option, all unit s are equally manipulable a n d t h e p l a t o o n system is merely a c onv enient way o f o r d e r i n g g r o u p mov ement Units h a v e t h e i r o w n menu. whic h replac es t he ma p me n u when t h e y a r e s e l e c t e d f o r attention. O n e o f t h e m o s t import ant o p t i o n s i s t h e 'weapons ' page, a s c reenf ul of inf ormat ion whic h giv es det ails about t h e guns a n d a r mo u r of
tanks, t he s t at e o f morale, t h e unit 's ma x i mu m s peed and t he number o f me n i n at t endanc e. Weapons are lov ingly des c ribed in t e r ms o f t h e i r ammunit ion, size o f s hell, s hell penet rat ion value, a c c u r a c y . m a x i m u m range and inf ant ry attack value. and t ank s near l y alway s hav e more t h a n o n e g u n i n t h e i r armoury . As far as I know, these statistics, a n d t h e dif f erenc es bet ween t he v arious models of tanks, are his t oric ally accurate; t he B r i e fi n g M a n u a l o f t e n inc ludes a s hort not e about any f eat ure o f int eres t a l o n g w i t h this a l p h a n u me r i c a l l y b l e a k profi le. A s I ' v e a l r e a d y s a i d , technofreaks w i l l d e l i g h t i n poring ov er all t his det ail. I t is reas onably e a s y f o r m o r e s imple-minded s t r a t e g i s t s t o gloss ov er it in search of a good game, b u t n o t w i t h o u t a s neak ing s e n s e o f m i s s i n g s omet hing. A f o r mi d a b l e selection o f orders can be giv en to units from t he unit order menu, t hough the basic opt ions are t he usual 'fi re' or ' m o v e ' . U n i t s w i l l aut omat ic ally t ak e pot -s hot s at any t hing t h a t c omes wi t h i n a specifi ed r a n g e , u p t o t h e ma x i mu m e x t e n t o f t h e i r weapons ' c apac it y , a n d t h e y calculate t heir o wn t arget . I t is pos s ible t o c h e c k o n w h a t enemy u n i t a f riendly u n i t has t arget t ed, but not to alt er it. The player's r o l e i n t h e a t t a c k i s merely t o a r r a n g e t h e m o s t s uit able f o r c e s i n a p o s i t i o n
appropriat e to the object, and to order t he unit s t o res t ric t t heir fire t o t h e des ired range. I t is possible t o s pec if y mo v e me n t exactly, s o wo r k i n g out wh i c h unit s wi l l attack wh a t is not too diffi cult. Wit h a mat hemat ic al mind it is also p o s s i b l e t o p r e d i c t t h e probable out c ome of the attack, for t he c omplex c ombat rules whic h a r e mo d i fi e d b y e v e r y conceivable f a c t o r - a r e f u l l y ex plained i n t h e ' f o r mu l a s ' section o f t h e r u l e b o o k . St udy ing t he f ormulas gives t he play er t h e b e s t c h a n c e o f at t ac k ing a n d d e f e n d i n g successfully, for he can work out the p r e c i s e a d v a n t a g e o f pos it ioning a certain kind of tank in s of t cover, or ordering a unit to mak e a 'c aut ious ' rat her t han a l u l l ' adv anc e in c ondit ions of poor visibility. The c ombat phase itself takes place i n t h r e e 'puls es ', wh i c h serve t o s ubdiv ide t he fi c t ional minut e a n d s ort o u t t he unit s whic h fire fi rst from those whic h are burdened by what the game my s t erious ly c a l l s a n 'adminis t rat iv e' d e l a y ( I t coniours u p v is ions o f of fi c ers fi lling i n f o r m s i n t r i p l i c a t e before a l l o wi n g t h e i r m e n t o fire). While t he c omput er makes its c alc ulat ions i t t r e a t s t h e play er t o a v irt uos o dis play of random numbers , lust to prove it has n't frozen. When a unit fires, the s c reen s c rolls t o it s t arget and the play er is inf ormed of the type o f fi r e - m o r t a r bombardment , rifl e fi re, o r t he classifi cation number of the tank gun inv olv ed • it s ac c urac y on this occasion, and, if t he t arget is hit , t h e res ult . Mo s t o f t he time, n o t h i n g h a p p e n s ; t h e accuracy rat ing of muc h of t he fi ring i s l o w . A t t a c k i n g armoured vehicles wi t h rifl e fi re is predic t ably pointless, for even if t h e t a n k i s h i t t h e bullet s merely bounc e off. When a t ank is s uc c es s f ully a t t a c k e d t h e
loc at ion o f t h e d a m a g e i s specifi ed, alt hough it is possible for a u n i t t o b e c o mp l e t e l y des t roy ed b y a luc k y fi rs t hit . I nf ant ry units suffer loss of men. One d e f e c t o f t h e c o mb a t phase i s t h e f a c t t h a t t h e at t ac k ing unit is not ident ifi ed Anot her is t h a t i t t ends t o be slow. There is an option to speed up or s l o w d o wn t he mes s age display, but this is not a practical s olut ion t o t h e p r o b l e m ; s peeding up t he displays to the point w h e r e t h e y b e c o m e unreadable, o r a t l e a s t unc omf ort able t o keep up wit h. is a b a d idea. I t i s t h e s heer number of messages whic h can cause t h e phas e t o drag, a n d mos t of these report on attacks whic h were unsuccessful. There is m u c h s o u n d a n d f u r y s ignif y ing n o t h i n g . I t i s a l s o rat her too easy to forget to press t he ' 0 ' k ey , a n d fi n d ones elf launc hed i n t o anot her c ombat phase wi t h o u t a paus e t o giv e orders or assess the situation. A f u l l 60-t urn game, t a k i n g adv ant age o f e v e r y o r d e r s phase, las t s for a very long t une and giv es t he play er the chance to g e t l o s t i n t h e d e t a i l e d delight s of s mall unit strategy. I would r e i t e r a t e t h a t t h i s i s c ert ainly a game whic h will only be f u l l y apprec iat ed b y t hos e wi t h a specifi c int eres t in tanks and t h e i r his t oric al u s e a n d construction, and t hough it does prov ide an acceptable s mall-unit battle-scale s t rat egy game, t he average wargamer is liable to be daunt ed b y t he s heer mas s of t ec hnologic al data. But it is hard to i m a g m e a m o r e c omprehens iv e s m a l l u n i t s imulat ion, a n d any one wh o is int eres t ed in t he s ubjec t wo u l d fi nd it a t horoughly wor t hwhi l e purchase.
PRESENTATION 85% The u s u a l substanti al S S I packaging, p r o f e s s i o n a l l y super b r ul ebooks a nd fai ntl y miff screen presentation.
GRAPHICS 61%
Func t ional a n d repres ent at ional, b u t l i t t l e care has been t ak en t o mak e t hem look attractive
RULES 91% Exhaustive, wi t h we l l - wr i t t e n and t horough des c npt ions o f t he g a m e p r o c e d u r e s a n d s eemingly endles s t a b l e s o f statistics.
AUTHENTICITY 95% Impeccable, a s f a r a s I ' m aware!
PLAYABILITY 72% The c omplex it y o f t h e rules hinders play abilit y s light ly • t his i s n o t a ' p i c k u p y o u r loystick and walk ' game,
OVERALL 78% Excellent f or t hos e w i t h a n interest i n s m a l l - u n i t mechanised warfare.
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DESPATCHES THERIGHT STUFF Dear Philippa, I have been an avid wargamer for many years now, hav ing been int roduc ed to this hobby after buy ing bot h J ohnny Reb and Spec ial Operations. Since these early basic programmes , like every ot her type of c omput er game, t he new releases have increased great ly in bot h qualit y and gameplay . Over the years, I have seen many good s t rat egy games, but t hey are quit e expensive and s omet imes only av ailable on disk format,
The ' Trans -At lant ic Simulat ions ' were a very good buy but, alt hough more were released, I only s aw t hree such games - even the n e w PSS Classics seem very f ew and far bet ween. My brot her (who is a 'Clev er Cont ac t ' in this magaz ine) has bought mos t of his adv ent ures because they were released as budget titles. The only s t rat egy budget games I have seen are Mas t ert ronic Invasion and D-Day. The latter, howev er, has not yet been released for the Commodore 64 As you can see t here are very f ew good strategy games at low prices, and many s of t ware c ompanies ignore t hem alt oget her. This ' prejudic e' t owards wargames is even s hown in some magaz ines (ex c luding ZZAP!) wh o do not believ e t hat t here are enough wargamers to make such a c olumn wort hwhile. All this seems quit e unfair, because wargames are just as popular as many ot her types of game. Okay, so what if ev ery t hing mov ing is not zapped wi t h i n a f ew seconds, dealing
wi t h milit ary problems like supplies, moral and reinf orc ement s exercises t he brain more t han wres t ling wi t h a joystick all day. Many arcade players jus t play to lieat a high score any way , and this spoils s ome of the enjoyment. The very s lownes s of many wargamers means just one game lasts days and as t here are us ually several dif f erent c ampaigns in t he game, long las t ing appeal is ensured. As a wargamer cousin of mine once stated, 'no t wo wargames
are ever the same Th i s is in fact true, as clever c omput eris ed Opponents will constantly c hange t heir tactics, meamng a play er will have to do so also. I believe t hat many people dare not at t empt to play wargames because they fear they are not made of the ' right stuff' a n d believ e the set c hallenge is too t ough to complete. If any of these people are reading this letter, I will give the f ollowing advice: 1, N e v e r criticise a game before you t ry it - you may be pleas ant ly s urpris ed 2. I f you enjoy one wargame, you will be hooked and try to fi nd anot her to play. 3 M a n y wargames have so many features t hat it takes years for all to be used and f ound out. 4. Un l i k e ot her games, wargames cannot be giv en cheats, pokes or ent ire solutions - as muc h is giv en to chance and the player's abilit y , only s t rat egy hints can be of f ered to help the wargamer.
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f e w tape wargames available for the Commodore, and even fewer good ones! A dis k drive is an es s ent ial purchase, but this is useless adv ic e to the impoverished_ The f ollowing let t er brings up the same point. PI
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of a good strategy game on cassette whic h is s imilar to Rebels t ar and how I can obtain it?
Dear Philippa, I have recently bought a C64. On my old Spectrum I had a number of s t rat egy games, my favourite being Rebels t ar Raiders. My problem is t hat I do not k now muc h about s t rat egy games on the C64. I read in Issue 40 of ZZAP! t hat Chaos w h i c h was one of my favourite games on the Speccy - is not av ailable on the C64. But t hen you said Sorceror Lord is a fantasy strategy game. Could you please tell me who Sorceror Lord is by, and h o w I can obt ain a cassette version of it? In closing, c ould you t ell me if Rebel sear Raiders is available for the C64. If not, could you ten me
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At last, a reader has some tips of his own for this column, Russell Varley has some ideas about how to follow Theat re Europe t hrough to a successful conclusion. It you take the side of NATO, the best strategy is to stand firm In your own territory. Take the risk of using the two available nuclear strikes to eliminate the most powerful northern units of the Soviet army, and alternate the NATO units constantly, to keep the war even. US units can be drafted in to help those in the nor th if losses up there are great. while the Italian units should be moved across the Alps to give assistance to the southern units, Otherwise, it's just a matter of
s it t ing tight for 30 days 'unt il the politiciana sort it out'. The best strategic weapon to use is the Assault Breaker. Chemical strikes should be avoided altogether and you should never exceed two nuclear attacks, or you risk pr ovoki ng 'Fireplan First Kiss'. When playing the USSR. amass your troops along the souther n German border and use the two nuclear strikes to eliminate the US divisions. 'Ms way is then open for a full-scale invasion of South Germany; when you have occupied the south, fan nor thwci ds to France and Belgium. This should ensure victory.
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Shoot ' e m u p s don't c o m e looking m u c h better than this right f r o m t h e superb openi ng gr aphi cs and bass gui tar chords, you know you're i n f or a bi t of cl assy blasting. Me na c e 's gr aphi cs and sounds are indeed superb, but it has to be saki that after several r uns thr ough the first few l evel s, t h e l a s e r - s how gamepl ay doesn't quite live up to the polish. Almost, but not quite. T h e pr obl em i s that, even o n Exper t l evel , w he n you're not allowed to touch the scenery, t h e fl e e t o f fi r e button-finger c a n m a k e mi ncemeat out of wave after wave of aliens with not a lot of practice. Fr om t he n o n i t 's easy to keep the ship stocked up wi th lasers, cannon shells and even shields. The fact that there are only six levels and the availability of a restart opti on mean t h a t you'l l s o o n s e e pretty much all of the game, and then you'll only be coming back t o t h e ga m e t o be a t previous hi gh scor es. That's fine by me, but if you'r e after vast tracts of space to explore, you may be disappointed.
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PRESENTATION 83% Excellent presentation graphics. t wo skill levels, a continue game feature and a good add-on selection system
GRAPHICS 90% Vanety of gorgeous visuals and terrific end of level beasts
SOUND 93% Terrific Utrefici rock soundtracks play throughout.
HOOKABILITY 90% Brilliant graphics and addictive blasting grab you from the moment you pick up the joystick.
LASTABILITY 69% Only six stages, which aren't too difficult even on the expert level. The game continue option doesn't leave much to the imagination.
OVERALL 79% Nicely done, but a bit easy.
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that lives on the edge y -ing for danger, excitement and In fact as much money o money. . l i In v -other words, you're as possible. u a mercenary, OK? a All is not well within the Federation r at the current time. Now under normal circumstances this would e not bother you In the slightest, but t when you discover that the Federation are offering a great sum of h money for a pilot to fly a special e mission, how can you refuse? i k Only alter agreeing to the mission, you discover the nature of the i n d o f p e r s o n
troubles and your involvement in the affair. Pirates have invaded several Federation depots stealing precious jewels and supplies, setting o f f a l l t h e automatic defence systems in the process. You must jet on to the depots and shut down the defence systems. destroying pirates and collecting treasure as you go. The de pots ' defences a r e extremely efficient a n d c ould knock the nuts off a fly at ten yards away. Also, they're not averse to removing pa rts o f mercenary pilots and will hurl all sorts of deiath at you. Luckily you have the power to fight back. You are flying Cybermold - t h e ultimate fighting machine! Readily a t your disposal you have lasers (standard guns). bombs (single-shot, c a n b e launched upwards o r dow nwards). mines (hang in the air and destroy pirates that touch them), bouncing bombs (a set of four
I agree with the original ZZAP! review o f the 6 4 Cybernold, H because it was just too difficult .to be playable. Now Howson t have released the Amiga version o and not only are the sound and s be tte r , t h e s gra phic gameplay h a s be e n m uc h a improved. It's actually possible y to complete! The sprites and are very colt background ourful, with some marvellous h o f shading, a n d t h e use amount of sprites on screen a gives a frenetic fe e l. T h e t sound's really good too, but I a little on the sparse side it's the d odd tune or two wouldn't go aside, i amiss.isGrumbling Cybemood an excellent 16-bit d conversion, greatly improving on n the 64 incarnation. Buy it today! Unless, of course you ' haven't got any money or the t shops are shut or they haven't got it in or ( g i v e over! - Ed).
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bombs that bounce off walls blasting everything they touch), seeker missiles (home on on the nearest Large target) and a shield (tor getting out of tricky situations). All these (with the exception of lasers) are limited, but can be replenished by picking up pods on the way. Watch out , t oo, f or t he extr a weapons such as circling drones and tai l guns, w hi c h c a n b e automatically retro-fitted to your ship by way of the everythingcompatible F W F ( Fe de r a t i on Weapon Frame). On reaching the first depot, you mime t h a t t h e pi r ates h a v e developed a 'shi el d a nd cl oak' device to protect them from the Federation Defence systems, so it's completely up to you to blast them away. Another effect of these devices is to cause the defence drenes to attack you, since you are the only possible target they can
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Aerghl Time for a bounce bomb, locate. You've got to destroy them before they destroy you. Shooting pi r ate shi ps causes them to drop their cargo of Jewels and precious items, ready for you to pock up. if you manage to pick up enough treasure and shut down the systems, you can letleport the treasure to Federation headquarters. The Feder ati on chi efs will
consider that they have regained enough to cut their losses and run, so you are given a credit bonus and a new ship to spare, ready to let off to the next depot. But be warned, this time the pirates will have al er ted thei r allies, a n d they're ready for lust about anything — even a rough, tough macho kinda guy like you
There's quite a nice highscore table, but not enough options.
GRAPHICS 94% Wonderful use ot colour and shading on sprites and backgrounds alike.
SOUND 71% Really good spot effects, but no music in the game itself.
HOOKABILITY 92% I didn't think it possible. but Hewson's Ami ga conversion of Cybetnoid Is even better than the 64! If ther e was anythi ng wr ong with the 8-bit versions it was the difficulty level, whi ch led t o many hour s of hai r -tear i ng frustration a nd moni tor s almost bei ng kicked in. This, however, is just right t h e tight spaces aren't quite as tight and the alien bullets are more easily avoided. That's not to say it's not tough a p a r t from the fact that there are almost twice as many screens, the aliens swarm onto the screen trying to kick seven shades of sunshine out of you right from the start. Hewson are keeping up their record of quality games with a couple of superb conversions this month if you can stump up the cash, buy both.
It's tough . b u t not that tough' Instantly playable.
LASTABILITY 95% Lots of screens and enough playability to keep you hooked for a long time (and that's saying something!)
OVERALL 93% A very high quality shoot 'em up which Is a great improvement over the 64 version.
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Logatron, E19.95 disk best, but mos t unemploy S able. o n e - l e g g e d s p a c e cfighter pilot this side of the Orion oNebula, has 9ot a job. All he has to do u is pilot his Star Goose fi ghter over t he eight vertically-scrolling ssurfaces of the planet Nom's supe rings, c ollec t ing six prec ious ply crystals as he goes. r G i t I settl ed dow n t with the joystick, , sure t h a t a n y game wi t h s uc h p an unl i kel y ti tl e r had to be good. Wr ong: Star oGoose is a pretty average vertibcally-scrolling bl ast. The r e 's avery little var i ati on dur i ng or beven between levels, the only real event being to enter the 3D l eye-collection sequence - a nd yeven t ha t j ust i sn't exci ti ng. tThe game is well cater ed for hgraphically, b u t t h e m us i c sounds just like an ST. A great e di sappoi ntment after Star Ray.
The Noms are not ones to leave their crystals unprotected, though. The Chief Nom has posted his best Nom warriors i n s t rat egic pos itions on the rings' surface, where they c an us e No m missiles and Nom Heav y -Light b l a s t e r s t o knock s ev en s hades o f Tipp-Ex out of Scouser-Gitt and his ilk unless he can do it to them first. To defl ect Nom projectiles, the Star Goos e c omes wit h a handy defl ector s hield wh i c h requires constant t opping u p as it takes hits. Energy, s hot s and missiles can b e replenis hed b y fl y i n g through tunnels on the ring's sur-
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PRESENTATION 77% Nice opening sequence and the expected options. Free poster
GRAPHICS 69% Crisp sprites and good hilly landscape representation but not a lot of variety. face a n d c ollec t ing large s t one eyes. Does n't life get weird now and then?
The package claims that Star Goose Is 'the first truly original vertical scroller i n year s' - but after the impressive openi ng sequence, I was shocked to find this was really nothing special at all. I found play really bland, not to mention difficult. My past experience wi th shoot 'em ups compel l ed me to get the Star Goose goi ng at a moder ate speed, but this only made crashing inevitable. In fact, your only real chance in the game is to fly at very low speeds, and this dr aws the levels out longer than my pati ence could stand.
g . MAD, E9.99 disk 4 0 there goes Roger, carefully C lining u p his bik e wit h t he V u e6 4 P e: The i dea for this t game i s r e a l l y 1 good - a sor t of e 3D Kik s t art b u t r/ m afr ai d t h e 4execution is Ivery P di sappoi ntu1ing. Most of the problems stem r from t h e c ont r ol m e t h o d , : vwhich uses forward and back on t he joystick t o accel er ate e1and decelerate - as if you were s:on the bike - but try to steer as If you wer e behi nd the hand:O ' lebars and you go in the wr ong hdirection. Wha t 's wor se, t he . program doesn't allow you to .a steer the bike up the screen at .M all, s o i f t he r opey steer i ng causes you to miss a r amp or a5 bridge y ou c a n't tur n r ound n 1and correct your mistake, and dyou're f or ced t o cr ash! Te n 0quid m i ght b e budge t pr i ce, tbut it's still enough to stop me 5r ecommendi ng this.
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usuallury 35% little graphical or gameplay
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OVERALL 37/0 A nicely presented but terminally dull ' e m up.
As the pleasant title tune began playing before the loading screen appeared, I thought that this would be qui te a well desi gned and i mpl emented game. Klutz city! Motorbike Madness just doesn't have what It takes to be entertaining. The graphics are bland, the i n-game sounds merely aver age and the controls w e l l , putting i t mildly, they'r e pathetic. The steering appear s to be twisted the wrong way and the bike seems to want to wander off on its own. Even at the Amiga budget price of a tenner, I'd rather
be wiping my nose on other people's sleeves than watching helplessly as the mai n sprite careers off into a river. The best advice I can give is Ignore This Game. bumps, hills, tyres, ladder bridges and VW Beetles, all of whic h are portrayed in glorious isometric30o-vision
NTADON 45% screen layout, but essenpractice option mentioned in instructions doesn't exist.
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PART TWO: 'Wait a minute! What's this doing here?' In these lists, all the items have something in common . . except one. Spot which is the odd one out in each list to score.
1. Nebulus (Hewson) 2. Barbarian (Psygnosis/Melbourne House) 3. Fairlight (The Edge) 4. Arc of Yesod (Thor) 5. Tir Na Nog (Gargoyle Games) 6. Blackwyche (Ultimate) 7. Crystal Castles (US Gold) 8. Gnome Ranger (Level 9) 9. infiltrator (US Gold) 10. Prostbyte (Mikrogen)
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Completely hatstand! You obviously mistook the ZZAP! cover logo for Rubber Manacles Monthly. Now get rid of those buckets of custard and treat your fish with more care. Take him for walks, feed him chocolate drops let him sleep by the fire and maybe he'll give you the odd massage in return. Oh, and read the odd back issue of ZZAP! for more cookery tips-no, sorry, no cookery, it's flying lessons I'm thinking of. Only joking! It's needlepoint. Hahaha! Well, you know it's all this computer game malarky. Read it and learn . . h o w to cook. N0000! Did you know that the goldfish only has a seven second memory? I did but I forgot until I told myself just now. About seven seconds ago to be precise. Now, what did I tell myself? When did I tell myself what I told myself? Who am I?
1 21 t o 7 0 : Have you got an Amstrad or what? Read the cover carefully. Zer-Ah-Per-Per . . o h you've got a Commodore. Well, what's wrong with you? Still playing Boogaboo the Flea and Moon Shuttle? Oh you are. Sorry. This is just not good enough you know. You've really got to do better. Now if you flick through the mag azin e.., not yet! COME BACK! You don't even know what you're looking for! Find the back issues bit, send off some money to the respective address, wait for the mags to arrive and learn-learn-learn. And when you've learnt try the quiz again. Oh, this was your fourth go. Never mind, go back to bed and hope that everything goes away. Particularly those Zebras. ZZAP! Christmas Special 1988 1 9 3
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_) 71 t o 1 2 0 : This is more like it! You can obviously hold your own in any conversation about Commodore computer games. That is if you take your Walkman headphones off for long enough to hear what anyone else is saying because your such a cool froody dude. Come to think of it, how did you manage to read this through your cool shades? You are the type of person who makes sure they're up with the rest of the crowd, but doesn't let the computer world possess them (Possessed? Me? Hehehehheeeheeehaahaaahaaaaal. Not really). You're probably busy out buying cool clothes or listening to cool music or . . . or . . . something else that cool froody dudes do. Take care, maaaan, and watch that haircut! a
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Oh, yes that would be perfect! I can hear the popping now! Ahem. Sorry. Never mind. I think this would be a good time to sign off. Byeeee!
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I remember writing i n the 64 rev iew of Impossible Mission II a bout t he gr e a t i mpr ovements t ha t ha d be e n m a de over the original, but nothi ng had b e e n d o n e w i t h e x t r a speech. N o w t he gar ne ha s been transported to the Amiga and t h e s pe e c h h a s b e e n improved no end. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that it's the best speech I ' v e h e a r d o n t h e Amiga. The Elvin introduction and the scream as Agent 4125 falls dow n a hol e ar e al most too good t o be tr ue and the musical n o t e o n enter i ng a room w e l l i t's just amaz ing! T h e gr aphi cs ar e really nice t oo, w i t h wel l de fi ne d backdr ops a nd spr i tes. The designers coul d have chosen some neater colours, though. Still, never mi nd a bout that, just play the game as soon as you c a n a nd you'l l b e c onv inc ed t hat Impossible Mission II is for you.
A S o what are you going to do now. Agent 4125? (Cue diabolical laughter)
Epyx, E24.99 disk behave missus)? These evil T hey all always do it don't they (hey villains seem to reappear after their original downfall to terrorise the whole of humanity — and who is the only person that can stop their evil ways for a second time? That's right! The person that stopped t he m i n t he fir st place! Well, it's happened again! The evil professor Elvin Atombender has escaped f r om pr i son a nd managed t o ar m himself with a deadly missile wi th whi ch he is threatening to destroy the World if they don't succumb to his wishes. War a rotter, eh? But (Cue dramatic music), Agent 4125 comes to the rescue! Agent 4125 prepares himself by donning his spy suit (white shirt. waistcoat a n d tr ouser s) a n d zooming off to Elvin's base, The base i tsel f consi sts o f e i ght towers, each with their own pair of lift shafts (oo-er ). whi ch al l ow access to both sides of most of the rooms in the complex.
To compl ete t he quest, y ou explore the eight towers, searching for access codes and music tapes which will allow you to enter the c e n t r a l t o w e r , E l v i n ' s hideyhole To leave a tower and enter another, a three digit access code must be found. This is made up of numbers found by searching various objects and pieces of fur-
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niture, BUT not all the numbers are correct, so you must use your pocket computer to find the correct set of numbers. W000hl Each correct number is hi ghlighted be the word 'correct' (obvious really) a nd the wor d • completed' appears when the whole code is displayed. Access to the central tower is gained by blowing
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M strange, but I always found Impossible Mission too difficult a to be enjoyable, often being sent r ound the bend trying to sort y puzzles out. Well, I 'm gl ad to say that I found Impossible the Mission II qui te a bit easier than the original and therefore a b more pl easant gami ng experience. Now Epyx have translated e the game across to my favourite machine, I'm pleased as Ias a s somethi ng that's qui te pl eased — al though (here comes the bad bit) there could have been a little bit more done ' with m the power of the machine. The graphics are very nice, but they're not brilliant; the sound effects are brilliant, but the tune a isn't. Anyhow, despite the lack of a Gold Medal, Impossible Misb sion II is still an ace and really playable game. • i t s t r a
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open t he safes t o fi nd pieces of music t ape. B y rec ording a n d splicing t o g e t h e r t h e relev ant pieces of music, an entrance to the final tower is opened. Also hidden in t he rooms may be items whic h are of use to the intrepid adv ent urer lik e yourself, such as lift resets, bombs , mines and robot freezes. O n t he ot her hand, there may be nothing there, so look wit h care. (Wool Poetry! Now, let ' s s ee a h e m I wandered lonely as a bucket )
A The lifts give you a moment's rest from the manic platforming and puzzle sotving - only a moment, mind, because the clock's ticking down all the time
t's the gameplay that mak es I this s t a n d o u t f r o m t h e c rowd - a n d t h a t ' s w h y i t deserves a Siz z ler. Howev er, that's not to say that the rest of It isn't up t o s c rat c h - as Paul says, t he s peec h is jus t about the best on the Amiga, and the graphics are well defi ned and brilliantly a n i m a t e d ( s h a m e about s o m e o f t h e c olours , though - I s omet imes t hought I was play ing on t he PC). The reason I pers onally don't think it des erv ed t h e G o l d Me d a l awarded t o t he 64 v ers ion is that i t lac k s a n y really o u t standing qualit ies - t he c onversion i s t o o lit eral. Th e r e could have been more speech, better s ound effects, t he t ape recordings c o u l d h a v e b e e n better B u t this is all griping about a g a me c onc ept whic h is, quite simply, brilliant. Buy it!
PRESENTATION 85% Generally very good, but let down by slow pointer system.
GRAPHICS M% Very good definition and animation, but poor use of Colour.
SOUND 79% Excellent speech and s ampled
effects, but dreadful music.
HOOKABILITT 96% Thoroughly playable right from the outset.
LASTABILITY 95% Plenty of scenery to search and the mission is tough enough to keep you occupied.
OVERALL 92% Not as much of an improvement
over the 64 classic as it could have been, but still a hell of a A These dragons guard the way to adjoining towers - but have you got all the codes to get past them, 4125?
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full rules o f Bas k et ball are only observed ins of ar a s successful shots score t wo points. So there
are no penalties for front-to-back passing or overly offensive dribbling (know what I mean, Gordy?). l etti sser
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control t he direction and actions of ohe of your team members while the computer keeps the rest of the field active. You c an mak e y our players pas s t he ball, t ac k le t he opposition or take jump or hook shots, or even slam dunks. Being a Street Sports game, the
team and take on the other C kids in the street at a threeon-three basketball match. With a h courtside v iew of t he action y ou o o s e After the excellent pr e-match presentation, whi ch y even extends t o havi ng a neat fli ppi ng (or is I t a o flipping neat?) coi n sequence I was all set for the u best game of computer basketball ever. But it didn't r appear. The fir st inkling of doubt appear ed when cthe players ran onto the court. They wer e all nicely dr awn and oeach character is easily recognisable - important when you consider that each pl ayer s game has different strengths and weakunesses. But the game's flaw is the player animation which has rhuge j umps between the sprite frames. This isn't just an aestht etic poi nt either, as it lessens the feeling of control you have, , resulting in a few moments of confusion. Once you learn to compensate for this, the game i sn't too bad, but that takes some pperseverance. i c k y o u r
Tynesoit., £19.95 disk over . . . L u c k y f or y ou A then t hat c ompet it ions only a just begun. Tynesoft are letting a you have a go at five different and a demanding Olympic events. This is no ordinary competition, g though. For a start you don't have h c ompet e in all t he events. Not to only that, you can decide from one l game t o t he nex t wh a t c ount ry T you're play ing f o r (no mes s ing h about wit h citizenship and visas e here). O First off you grab your rifle and try l your hand at Skeet shooting. When you've blasted all the clay y pigeons from the sky, you've just m enough time to get into your shorts trunks p for the triple jump, i Press o f t h e fi re but t on a n d c s a r e
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This is a really aggr avati ng game because it's so close to being good, but is ruined by dreadful sprite animation. The players are really well defined, and the pr ogr ammer s have i ncl uded such thoughtful touches as turning their heads to l ook towards the ball, but the four sprite frames are dr awn out to such an extent that they look like they're skating over the court. The enormous leaps between positions are so disorienting that it's difficult to work out what's going on, and the resultant loss of gameplay is quite off-putting. Definitely one to try before you buy.
C,, • k d L Though Ty ne s of t ha v e n't actual l y m a na ge d t o T include a full Olympic repertoire or even an Epyxstyle menu of events, I have to throw down my cask h and say that what there is of Newcastl e Br own Ale
yoe're in the fencing arena. Watch out for the American guy - he really knows how to lunge. Next you're on the diving board. Get turns in, or you'll be the one
Yeah! I r e a l l y enj oyed w a t c h ing the Olympics so I jumped at the chance o f bei ng able t o compete i n all those fantastic events. Gr eat! Y ou can be dead athletic and still not get out of your chair - just the way I like my sports. The presentation is pretty unusual too - I mean, how many times have you played a hurdles race viewing t he acti on fr om t he back? Intact, it's just this fresh angl e on most of the events whic h ma k e s S u mme r Oly mpiad so chal l engi ng to play. It doesn't wor k equal l y well for all t he spor ts - t he fenci ng seems to come out worst b u t when i t does, i t's gr eat. Per sonally, I l i ke the skeet (a l ot more difficuit than Epyx shooting events) and the diving best.
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of thi s is pretty, pr ett-y good. All five events are really unusually pr esented and not at the expense of playability either. You don't even have to r emember as many complicated joystick oper ati ons as has been known in other mega-games simulations: you know the sort of thing - all that rotate the joystick while pressing the button and pushing the Commodor e key to wi ggl e your bum at the audi ence sor t of stuff ( or . . . yeah, Paul, yeah - Ed). Anyway, if you're in the slightest bit sporty (or even if you're not, like me) you could do a lot worse than give this a whirl. V 2 , 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate - Cameroon! / • C /M ed
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PRESENTATION 80a/0 Very nicely presented, with a choice of four courts and ten team members
GRAPHICS 69% Nicely designed with some neat touches but jerky movement is detrimental to gameplay.
SOUND 42% Mildly groovy tune but in-game effects would have benefited from the inclusion of player shouts.
IKKHCABILITY 69% Excellent presentation means first Impressions are good but the game is confusing to play .LASTABILITY 73% If you can get used to the movement problems. the game is good fun, especially with two players
OVERALL 68% Not bad, but could have been so much better
with zero points. Hope you're not one of those guys wh o f eels sick after s wimming bec aus e y ou'v e hardly got time t o catch y our breath before you're out on the track. Finish the hurdles and y ou might just be in with a chance of a medal. There again, you might not. Racey intro, huh?
PRESENTATION 82% Attractive loading screens, opening ceremony and options to play (and replay) any number of the events with up to six competitors at any one time.
GRAPHICS 79% Well-defi ned sprites and unusual partially animated backdrops.
SOUND 53% Various catchy but fairly forgettable tunes
HOOKABILITY 76% Excellent graphics and easy-tograsp techniques (except for the triple jump) make this an immediately attractive buy .LASTABILITY 74% Even if you don't want to keep competing in all the events you should be playing your favourites for quite some time.
OVERALL 76% A fresh view on an established game style Tak e a look
Howson, £19.99 disk Mind you, when you joined y the Ruphs pac e t roopers o weren't led to expect the easy you umissions. Lots of money and adoring women - yes, but not the easy 'missions. B l o wi n g u p t hat alien v space station was about the noneasiest mis s ion s o far and if t he e rest h of your squad weren't sizzling heaps of charred meat they would a no doubt agree. d Remembering all your training in a 'Mak ing t he Bes t of a Bad J ob' (GCSE) you dec ide that, what the b Hell, y our whole platoon c ouldn't a blow u p t he s pac e station, b u t a you're r i l e d e n o u g h t o s inglea handedly blow up the central base you a noticed on that nearby planet earlier on. a First, t hough, y ou'v e got t o fl y d your Sc orpion fi ghter (well, actud you've stolen it) past the staally tion a def enc es , o u t t hrough a n asteroid fi eld a n d t owards t h e y enemy s t ronghold, p u t t i n g t h e . torch t o gun emplac ement s and enemy spacecraft as you go. It's o n l y o n c e y o u ' r e o u t amongst the enemy that you fi nd
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It's games like this that make you realise just how easy i t is to win a fist-fight with a starving grizzly bear. It has to be said, though, that Zynaps Isn't as difficult or as frustrating to play on the Amiga as it was on the 84, simply because it doesn't send you back to the start of the level every time you lose a life - if I had a penny for every bl ood vessel I burst playing that game I'd have enough to wedge the leg of my desk up straight. The high standard of graphics and sound you'd expect from Hewson are here but i t's noti ceabl e that ther e i sn't a l ot of variety in gr aphi cs during a level, and the mother shi ps wai ti ng at the end of this levels look definitely weedy compar ed to those in other games of this type. The blasting gamepl ay is better than most, though, and the constant onsl aught of alien craft doesn't allow your fire button a moment's r est Blasting fans should love it. out the ship you've stolen isn't well equipped f o r t h e i n c e s s a n t onslaught to come. It's just s0000 s l0000www and the laser only fires t wo shots at a time! Shoot a whole formation of aliens, t hough, a n d you can pic k up a fuel pod which can be turned into a handy piece of destructive hardware. Just like the Esso Tiger Tokens. the more you collect, the better the item you get. An indicator graphic shows what you can add on to the Scorpion by collecting one more fuel p o d and activating t he f uel scoop. Fas t er pulse lasers, extra thrusters, p l a s m a b o m b s f o r destroying ground targets, menually-targetted homing missiles and intelligent seeker rockets - all can be yours with no financial loss to yourself. What started of f a bad day is about to get better..
PRESENTATION 50% LA le or two player options, but not a lot else. alas.
GRAPHICS 82*/0 Pretty Pete Lyon sprites and backdrops, all well animated,
SOUND 80% G ood title Seteeil tune, but in-
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HOOKABILITY 74% Quite hard to get into Really.
LASTABILITY 79% Frustration element keeps you playing until you've mastered several levels
OVERALL 78% Aptl y bag of shoot •em up larks.
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JOHN CARPENtli tP R I N C E O F --D A R K N E S S II fYtour ' S chance to write the sequel! Massive E,2,000 of videos to win!
ROBERT R MCCAMMON A Stinger in the tale
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with people s hoot ing at you. As you pull into the back of a friendly looking truck a man in a suit gives in front of the TV set wishing you a message about an evil roadT that you could have a car like gang that is terrorising t he highhJames Bond's, when t he room Is ways, c omplet e wit h bullet -proof esuddenly lit by a weird light and cars, tyre slashers and missile totryour fairy Godmot her appears. ing helicopters. So - streak along Your wi s h i s my c ommand' , esays she and VOOM you're behind • the road in y our weapon-loaded vehicle, blas t ing t h e e n e my t o ythe wheel of a mega-hard sports smithereens before they claim all ocar, streaking down t he highway the highways of the world as their own. u But first - where did you put your a driving licence r e The Only good thi ng a bout thi s i s t he sampl ed , Starsky a nd Hutch styl e machi ne g u n a n d tyr e q screeching effects. Apart from that, it's more or less u Spy Hunter. No i n f ac t it's less t han Spy Hunter. The scrolling is jerky, the joystick contr ol is slow i and the extra weapons system is nigh on unusable because of its e reliance on using a series of keys to activate the weapons. When t the sl i ghtest di str acti on fr om t he scr een c a n r esul t i n your l demise in a ball of fire, thi s really i sn't good enough - and I y woul dn't r ecommend Major Motion unless you're desper ate for a game of this type. s i t t i n g
£ S p y Hunter on y our Arniga? Look again
PRESENTATION 4651a When I saw Major Motion on the ST, thought t h e Amiga v e r s i o n could o n l y g e t better. Wr ong. The gr aphi cs are 'ni cer ' a nd s om e of t he sound effects are OK but there Isn't much in the way of playability. The control feels a mite too sluggish, maki ng i t virtually i mpossi bl e t o k noc k t he enemy cars off the road - and who had the wonderful idea of using the keyboar d to fire the weapons? Give that man the 'Ner d o f t he Mont h Awar d'! With a bit of for ethought and planning, Maj or Moti on coul d have been quite good - instead it's left flounder i ng In a pool of unplayable mush.
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SOUND 51% A few suitable effects v e r y few, as a matter of fact!
HOOKAIIILITY 57% The difficulty puts you off at first
LASTABILITY 49% _- and it doesn't improve.
OVERALL 54% Could have been tons better.
lide wit h our cuddly hero. By way of defensive measures, the camel is blessed with the abilities to fly. spit bolts of energy in eight directions and drop camel bombs. If your beast survives to the end of a level you are given the opportunity t o p u r c h a s e a d d - o n weapons, such as extra shielding, energy or lives - or even homing, extra-large or yo-yo bullets. Cod
Mastertronic, £9.99 disk shielded, l a s e r - s p i t t i n g T death c a me l s a r e b a c k , hrecalled f rom their hibernation on e 9 0 You c a n't bl ame f Jeff f o r d o i n g e what h i s f a n s e expect of him, but t what a b o u t t h e hrest of the game-pl ayi ng pubi lic? Maki ng sprites out of telegphones a n d t oot hbr us he s went out with Jet Set Willy and hRevenge 2 is such a literal con, version that it even boasts 64 nstyle expando-spr i tes! T h e egameplay is quite staggeringly simplistic, and, what's worse, u It hardly varies at all during the tgame, even after buying extra rweapons. In fact the only varioations between levels are the nsprites a n d b a c k g r o u n d graphics, and even they repeat ifrom time to time. Very much a ugame for Minter groupies only. m
Irksome delays and a useless
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PRESENTATION 51% Typically Mintensh instructions make humorous reading. Pretty weak extra weapon system.
GRAPHICS 411c Weird selection of graphics, all 1 of which are O K /0
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the dark side of the moon to save the Earth from the Zzyax hordes. The bat t le takes plac e on t he
scrolling surface of Zzyax Prime, where the Zzyaxians. disguised as everyday household objects, rush onto the screen attempting to col-
With the exception of his more conventional works, lridis Alpha and Batalyx, I've never really got on well with any of Jeff's games. I admire his ability to produce what he wants, to please a certain audience, but Revenge 2 just doesn't appeal to me. It did on the 64, but the magic has gone when you're shelling out a ten ner . . . The gamepl ay in this is just so boring and there are no obvious tactics to use apart from holding down the fire button and moving the joystick in the general direction of the cr owds of hostiles. if you're not already a Minter fan, try before you buy.
Soothing title tune and standard zapping effects.
HOOKABILITY 39' Simplistic blasting is familiar 1 enough but the weird scenario and 4 graphos might bemuse LAST/Murry 37% Every level plays exactly the same.
OVERALL 38% Weirdness factor means Minter fans should lap this up, but others would do well to hold onto their money.
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Electronic Arts, £24.95 disk galactic travel is still not posT sible - s o d o n ' t g e t a n y hclever ideas about warping t he espace t ime c ont inuum or eat ing melange. OK? It's JUST NOT ON! y Man has managed to cope with ethe problems of s us pended aniamation enough to travel about the rgalaxy, but any further than t hat and t here are medic al problems iinvolved (shhh!) Even mos t small sships are fi tted wit h systems t o 2allow interstellar travel, right down 1to the tiny Trang class fighters. You. Captain Gherheart Bloowd 8 Ill, are t he pilot of one of t hes e 8fighters, k nown as the Player, and aare on your way home at the end of na reconnaisance mission when a dmessage c omes in on your autocorn. The computer wakes you up iwhen t h e mes s age i s received, nprinting up the text onto a screen: t e i • 1 P"The galaxy Is under thleat I S r ..., , a n d o n ly yo u m yo u r v e r y : - 6 small Trang class fi ghter can , •
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eL There are only two wor ds for this game: tab 'n tr i ffi The amount and variety of colour and the use made of it is super b - something whi ch the screenshots on this page don't fully show. The only thing that lets down the graphics is the scrolling, which is a little jerky - but the atmospher e gener ated by the punchy soundtrack and relentless waves of aliens is ace! The inertial control method is a bit awkward, too, at first - but once you've got the hang of it, just fly ar ound and blast the baddies to bits! It's such an unusual game that I'd fully r ecommend you check it out.
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1 The demo copy of Fusion ar r i ved a while a go, wi thout any fuss atria. In f a c t I di dn't know who t he hell it was until it l oaded. N o w w e have the finished game, I can safely say that El ectr oni c Ar t s ha v e a really good pr oduct on their hands. The gr aphi cs ar e brilliant, t h e spr i tes a r e nicely dr awn and coloured, scrolling over str ange and atmospheric backgr ounds. T h e s ound i s just a s brill (God, di d I really use that wor d? Barney! I must be t u r n i n g i n t o Gor don!), soundi ng a b i t l i k e ear l y Human League. At first, the game tends to be a little confusing, making you ask 'Where the hell am l?' but you soon get dr awn i nt o l ook i ng f or the switches a n d b o m b pi eces and t h e que s t i on becomes 'Have I really been playing that l ong?' Bul l fr og Pr oducti ons have certainly learned how to use t he Ami ga. I mean great music, b e a u t i f u l graphics t h e s e boys have got a future!
A C a n you make out what's going on? Confusioning isn't it?
The rest disappears in a stream of garbled c o d e . Y o u r c o mp u t e r manages t o locate t he source of the signal and automatically programs t h e c oordinat es i n t o y o u navi-computer. All is quiet when you reach the planet, s o y ou begin t o explore. Eventually you find a carving on a wall, prophes y ing t h e c o mi n g doom, along with the way to over• c ome the disastrous alien assault. You must search the planet In your Trang fighter and land assault craft in s earc h o f t h e b o m b p a r t s needed to blow up the alien base. Once all t h e piec es hav e been found y ou mus t return to the first layer and activate the bomb icon. Access t o s ome grid sections and ot her layers o f t he bas e is gained b y t r i p p i n g c e r t a i n
switches set into the ground, each switch activating its own function. Other i c o n s inc lude t h e b o mb parts themselves, extra ship functions (like shields or improved firepower) and a save game option. All this seems easy enough, until
the enemy detect y our presence and l a u n c h Ro t a t i n g P l a s m ° Spheres, Homing Missiles. Nitro. mice, UHOs (Unidentifi ed Hov ering Objects) and Ergonomic Eruptors at you. At this point you realise that it's not going to be as easy as you thought • , But then, nothing ever is, is it?
PRESENTATION 79% No real options and an unnecessarily confusing number system.
GRAPHICS 89% Wonderful sprites and scenery but bumpy scrolling_
SOUND 86% Few spot effects but a brilliant synth-pop type tune.
I must say for a start that Fusion l ooks absolutely wonderful! The colouring of both sprites and backdr ops is incredible and the shading is so good you could al most pi ck t he shi ps off the scr een. The scrolling coul d have been a little smoother , however, as it's a little bit bitty as it stands (or moves as it were never mind). The gamepl ay is still frenetic, though, hel ped in no small de gr e e by t he stem, futur i sti c soundtr ack t ha t pl ays thr oughout- Initially the swi tches seem t o be a bi t far apar t, requiring you to travel for miles in you slow-moving assault vehicle, but once you get used to the r outes the di stance doesn't seem as far and you become more involved in blasting aliens to care. Fusion is a good game, that's all ther e is to i t i t's not a brilliant game, just very good.
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HOOKABILITY 83% Initially difficult to wrap your
head around
LASTABILITy430% but devilishly addictive afterwards.
OVERALL 87% A high quality shoot 'em up and
an impressive debut from
Bullfrog Productions. Keep it up guys (and gals?)
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THE ZZAP! ALL SINGING, ALL DANCING, ALL SNOWING WINTER PREVIEWS EXTRAVAGANZA Spit in my eye, guy', what do we have coming down your old 1..0Ily Mae this munf? What's gonna be gracing the all-singing, all-dancing, all-groovy, snow-covered circuits of your whatsit 64 then? While you're getting your teeth round some o' them great big steaming enormous turkey sarnies, make yourselves ready, ladies and gents, boys and girls, to be introduced to our everso special, totally famous and absolutely amazing special guest. Give over eating them jellied eels for a sec, and let's have a big hand for chirpy Kati 'cuckoo' Hamza, the only person ever to laugh at one of her own jokes, and survive it.
thought 'hey man! I'm such a E cool and incredibly froody v dude, 1•In so irresistible, I'm so mega-hard. I'm so lab trill and e sponditiously I could star in a rmovie'? Yeah?brill, Well, take that l o o k e d i n t h e m i r r o r a Can the 64 version of Rocket Ranger n Amiga? d
doctored photo of James Dean off the mirror and PAY ATTENTION (I'm writing this for your benefit you know) because this is how it's done. You'll need t wo basic ingredients: a tube of spot cream (optional) and a copy of
a 'I s this where they sell those neat Aztec wail-hangings, honey?'
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'Weagh!', you might be thinking, 'I s aw that review on page 172 and) haven't got an Amiga, boohoo, want my mummy'. Well, if you are, slop it -these are the 64 previews, you know, and I'm just about to tell you that the 64 version is on its way. OK, guys, don't let them see me tell ya Yippee! Woo' Hurrah! Yeah, so you'll be able to put on your back-mounted rocket pack, zoom through the skies and save
nefarious and not really very nice world domination plan dreamed up in the bath (your Matey's a bottle of fun) by a certain Gordon Houghton. Sorry -jus t a little joke, Gordy, ha ha ha - I mean Adolf Hitler. of course. Er a n d that's it really. What do you mean, where's the rest? If you want to know more about the plot, go and have a look at the Amiga review, will y ou- we haven't got unlimited space round here you know.
the world from the wicked,
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Accolade Gordo went on a diet we'd C probably have quite a bit more space in here. If he went on o a mdiet and got in a bit of exercise, we'd be talking fl oorboards wort h e of extra fl oor space, I mean, like. t buckets full . . . rooms full. . . no. football-pitches-full of extra o space • . _ c o i l Er . . . y eah well. t anyway, speaking of exercise, h physical jerks. steroids and all i that, Accolade have a fistful of n releases all set to take you through your sporty paces (how's that for a k tenuous link)). a First out of Santa's bulging b goody bag comes Serve & Volley, o tennis sim sporting the newest in a strobe-o-strobe graphics. Da (Jae! u Well. OK, we mentioned it in Tile t Word last month, so you k now iabout it already - get off my back, t you? Now this is tennis with will s, t y le- none of your usual bashing the ball about the court wit h a i cricket bat like there's no ftomorrow. Nope, you guys have to
looked a bit er t r i c k y , to say the least but if you want to know what it s really like you'll just have to wait for the review. Oh yeah strobe-o-strobe. This, apparently, is a typeof animation which makes the serves and hits appear very realistic. So now you know. Ever fancied being really interesting? Well Rack 'Em gives you the chance to imagine yourself in the part of the not-very-boring-
A E r w e l l , this is the serve and arm i n a minute he'll volley. Wall, what did you expect - we're not all tennis experts here, you know!
time and select your strokes using action windows to place the ball correctly in your opponent s court. We had a sneak preview at the PC show and the unfi nished version
A Dow n at the basketball stadium things are really hotting up - Harlem Globetrotters here we comel
A Fam e, they said. Fortune, they said. Nobody mentioned letting ar ound looking stupid with my bum in the air!
man-called-Steve hims elf -or if you don't like orange hair, one of the other even-more-excitingmen called Jimmy, Alex, Fred and Ray, or if you don't like them (we get the picture, Kati - Ed). Anyway, you can play up to five games including bumper pool. straight pool, snooker and 9 ball. There's a fab 3D overhead view of the table and even (for real smartypants. this one) a generic game which lets you pick your own rules, move balls and change scores, 0o-er 1 So you've played basketball before have you? Hal well, you've never played a full court three-onthree basketball sim before because there hasn't been one. Accolade's Fast Break lets you bounce around on the court, slam dunking a plastic bladder into the basket against either the computer or someone who starts out being your friend but ends up being your mortal enemy. Ah sport - it always brings out the best in people. So what else have Accolade got up their sleeve, apart from a pretty hairy American arm? There's TKO
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A Clash sticks and twist ankles in Powerplay Hockey - wimps had better keep away
ROUND_ A Boy, those guys look tough - know what I mean, 'Arry
(Technical Knock Out, dummy) which (Christmas surprise time) is a boxing game - a split-screen boxing game. to be exact. Tasteful realism is clearly what they've aimed at here, As you beat your co-boxer to a gungy, messy, yucky pulp (well girlies don t like boxing, do they?), you get the added satisfaction of actually seeing the black eyes, swollen lips, bruised forehead and broken law. Yum, yum! Oh yeah, and the other game is Powerplay Hockey which is . . . , wa i t for it , • a hockey s i n with et p r e t t y hockey-ish features in a hockeyish sort of way. Yeah. Look, we preview writers don't know everything you know. What do you expect us to be, omnipot ent or something? • ••••
your name was Gronk? O OK, OK, apart from change KIt by deedpoll, pretend your name .was Cecil and eat people, what would you do if your name was W Gronk . _ or Clunk . . . o r hCrudla? Yessir, absolutely right a(give that man a microwave) tyou'd be bashing the bone marrow our of your competitors in w Electronic Arts' Cav eman oUgh, Lympics. Obvious really. uBack in the good old days when dinosaurs were called Dino and l your neighbours shouted d yabadabadoo a lot, this was the ysporting event of the year. Six o athletes stopped discovering fire and u trying to make square wheels. got d into their special stream-lined lion-skin shorts, tied up their o patented pair of Nunk's running r sandals and prepared to show t their mates just how Ligh.ly they were. The six embryonic, iron-age events deal with such civileSed and thoroughly enjoyable pursuits as clubbing (which involves er. _. . clubbing), dinovaulting (careful with the pole or you'll end up as the cause of a triceratops's
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indigestion), sabre tooth tiger racing (grrrr!), fire starting (get some Swan Vestas if you want to cheat), the dino race (aargh!) and mate tossing. This last absolutely sexist and entirely primeval sport has you hurling the cutey apple of your loving eye through the prehistoric sky (ooh look, a poem) and laughing a lot - o r maybe not. As long as you show the world (not much of it has evolved yet) that you've got loads more brawn than brain, you're on to a winner. In fact, show them that you can win every event in the book and you'll be the proud owner of an Ligh•Lympic medal and maybe even get an entry in the Caves of Fame. Pity you can't skin so much as a rat with a medal. Still, you'll probably make enough to keep you in ottersk ins for the rest of your fife, when you sign for all the advertising contracts, Ni well
tars. __ yeah, everybody T it's time to get really excited. ajump up and down and shout for rjoy at the top of your voice because, wait for, wait for it - I said await, stop skipping this and nlooking down the page- the circus tis coming to town. Gasp! Shock! Horror! Total amazement! a Tynesoft's Circus Games n should make it to your shops in t time for Christmas and when you a r a t a r a n t a n
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A Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Mope, it's ( a n s w e r s on a pos tc ard please - fi rst ten out of the bag win bugger all)
get your grubby, sweaty hands on it all your bodily juices will probably ruin the tape and you'll have to take it back. No, only joking (ho ho). when you get your nice, fragrant. Chnstmassy hands on it you'll be able to take part in such totally dangerous and thoroughly daring activities as trapeze flying and tiger training. Not much more info yet, but we'll let you know as and when (wink, wink, k now what I mean, guy?). The other Tynesoft game is almost as big a mystery. We know what colour it is, we even know what colour underpants the main character wears but we don't k now exactly what it's all about yet - because the programmers are keeping pretty mum. Who am I talking about? Well, I'll give you some clues: he's not a bird, he's not a plane and the colour of his underpants is red. Wrong, everyone who shouted out Maff Evans (the colour of his underpants is red but he is in fact a cleverly disguised World War II Messerschmidt plane, working for ZZAPI under cover), right everybody who called out Superman. As I've already said (and I'll say it again), the plot of this superhero extravaganza is being kept closely under wraps - which isn't something you could say about those underpants.
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get the picture. You don't w e l l never mind, j u s t have to try my jokes on somebody else then won't I m u m b l e , mumble, mu mb l e . . . Any way , Supertrux which is what we were talking about, if you remember, has you racing your truck against the clock and a whole hamperful of different courses in various parts of Europe. Following the disappointment of Overlander let's hope it's good.
A Drive the biggest machine on the road for a change - OK, now where's my Vorkie bar?
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certainly not least, out of L Santa's bag comes aDomark's Spitting Image. No chickens or deckchairs here -just s six t happy-go-lucky, average boynext-door sorta guys and gals who .are challenging each other for the b leadership of the world. Trouble is. there's going to be a war in seven u years and chances are that t someone's going to win. Not being o able to look into the future, nobody h knows who the ultimate winner will h e - yet. Your mission, should you b decide to accept it (and you'd o better - it's the future of the world h at stake, mate) is to destroy the o credibility of allthe leaders now, so h a single one of them can riot succeed. o m This involves a totally silly and thoroughly disrespectful romp o around the world singing songs s about Renault 4s, making V-signs and generally throwing buckets of t cold water over the ambitions of every leader that you see. Apparently, in the interests of anus-lovers everywhere, a few bums are thrown in as well. Can you wait? Hal well you'll just have to. In the meantime, keep on eating those mince pies, decimating dead turkeys, c ramming cranberry sauce into your gob and helping mummy (or daddy - we're an equal opportunities mag, you know) with the washing up. Actually, the next Issue will be out in the middle of December -s o you can forget everything we've said about Christmas in this one. Hur hut.
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FROM WH OM WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO RECEIVE A CHRISTMAS STOCKING? OK, OK, w ell apar t from Santa, The Great Pumpkin, Mickey Mouse, your Dad and Cliff Richard . . Right! Mar tech, of course. (Thought w e w er e never going to get there.) And w h a t are t hey going to do about it? Well, boys and girls, they' r e going to be extra specially nice and cute. Yep, Mar tech are going to tell ever y ZZAP! r eader a secret — w ell, four secrets really. So here goes: Pretty soon, w h en t he nights have got even longer and those nasty w int er chills really begin to set in, ever yone will w r ap up w ar m in muffl ers and w oolly socks and tr amp along to their local sof t w ar e shop. And on those legendar y (legendary?) 222 Z Z A P ! Christmas Special 1988
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secrets e r , w e mean products. W h a t are they? Well, there's Rex, an arcade adventur e which has you frolicking thr ough the caverns of an underground system as one thickskinned, piggy-eyed mercenary with no friends called Gordon. Sorry, Rex. A life-time of saving milk-bottle tops,
roaring arcade sim of a Supercobra helicopter destroyer fl ying battle missions day and night, plus Phantom Fighter a fast and furious seek and destroy combat game w it h graphics so pow erful that only the Amiga could cope w ith t hem — so w e' r e told. Can you wait? Well, we' re sorry, but you'll have to, OK? Hang on, hang on, w h at has the Christmas stocking got to do w ith all of this? Erm w h a t has the Christmas stocking got to do w ith all of this, Gordo? (A TEMPORARY PAUSE. MA N IC WHISPERING IN T HE B A C K G R O U N D . )
Oh yeah. Because Mar tech are the only people you really w ant to receive a Christmas stocking from, they're not only going to tell you four secrets, they' re going to give you a stocking as well. Woo! Inside the fi rst prize stocking there'll be at least a K odak 3000 disc camera, a bumper selection of games, books, T-shirts, boxer shorts, a pair of pyjamas(?) and some yummy, yummy chocs. 50 incredibly lucky runners up will get their sw eaty paws on a choccy stocking (that' s a stocking full of choccies, not a stocking made of chocolates — that w o u l d be stupid, w ouldn' t it?) and any previously released Mar t ech game except for Nigel Mansell' s G rand Prix (choose from M e g a Apocalypse, Slaine, Nemesis and many more). W h at do you have to do to get all this? Design us a pair of ZZAP! w oolly w int er socks, put your piccy in an envelope and send it to: MA R , TE C H A LOOK A T THIS C H R IS TMA S STO C K IN G CO MP, ZZA P! TO WER S, PO BOX 10, LU D LO W, SHRO PSHIRE, SY8 1DB egg boxes and double-sided stickytape has fi nally paid of f and he's managed to make himself (at very little cost) a w h o l e ar mour y of lasers, multiple spraying machine guns and Rex Smart Bombs. G ood job, really, 'cos he's got to send a pretty big t ow er crumbling dow n. Then there's Shoot Out, a wild west er s h o o t out, Hellfi re Attack, a
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THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE EDITOR. WE KNOW THAT YOU CAN HEAR US, READERS. THE NEXT ISSUE OF ZZAP! WILL BE LAUNCHED AT YOUR NEWSAGENTS ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8TH, CAUSING ANYONE WITHOUT £1.50 TO BE WRACKED BY INTOLERABLE SPASMS OF DESPAIR. DO NOT MISS OUT. WE, THE ZZAP! STAFF, HAVE SPOKEN! ZTAP! Christmas Special1988 2 2 5
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