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"Wow! Thundercats is brilliant. The
graphics can't be faulted: The screen is
extremely colourful and the animation
topnotch. Great stuff, I bet the T.V. series
aint as good as the game.*'

Rating: Crash Smash 91% * Crash.

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"The game grabs you
rom the moment you

load it up. Brilliant

graphics and superb

action make

Thundercats a real
vinner. "

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It you'll just load it up, we think
you'll agree that in Buggy Boy Elite
have definitely done the business."

Commodore User.

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manages to give a real
feeling of thrill and exhilaration,'
but Buggy Boy manages it! The
graphics are absolutely superb - I've never seen
such a smooth realistic 3D effect, and the 'feel' of the control
method is tremendous, " ZZ AP-64 .
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62 FIVE STAR + KONAMI COMPETITION

I 66 NEBULUS PLAYERS GUIDE

71 ST/AMIGA SUPPLEMENT

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73 ST PREVIEWS

82 POSTER

I 88 CARRIER COMMAND PREVIEW

92 AMIGA PREVIEW

94 SUN OVER MELBOURNE

96 OUT RUN COMPETITION

101 ADVENTURE ZONE

1 103 ADVENTURE REVIEWS

111 HELPUNE
1 112 THE FIEND

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1117 COMIX

■ 119 BIG SCREEN

j 122 FRAME UP!

I126THUNDERCATS

134 MEAN MACHINES

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8 NEWS

1 6 REVIEWS: GAMES OF THE MONTH:
BANKGKOK KNIGHTS AND
OCTAPOUS,

C+VG HITS: RAMPAGE, DRILLER,
BOBSLEIGH, BLOCK BUSTER AND
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and reviews from Uw ifujfri maUilini

living Lighten**,* TV wtth#Tto*o or
torn at a—ml AM thkt plut rcvtcwi
of hot garnet lUtr lartgfcofe Knights,
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number OfWt QQme Htsji C hnitrTKli?

Outrun, ntortdeftuli fiug^ySoyor
720 degree*? All these or* in wiih
a chance.

But watch out for tome of Ihe
•xciivntcompibtion pocb abovf.
They represent excellent value for
money and one of these might jus*
rag be it to the top.

Rnf up there s Solid Cold from
US Gold out on CIM 64,
Spectrum, Spectrum t 3 r Amstrod

The (We game* included orv the
smash coin -op e emersion
Goufltftt, me ftght sim arcade
shoot em up Ace of Aces, the goH
dank leadwrboordp Winter
vO"iw am minivuiLMi

Oceon s offering is Live Ammo
w rlh Army Movtj, Romeo, Green
Beret TopGtm and 7h* Great
f tcope Use Mognicivftt 7 - Heod
OerHeefc Cobra, Short Gfturt
Frookw Goes to Hctfvwood,
A^ono^Wabdfond TheGreaf
ftcope -and finoBy Game Sel
a nd Match, fen sport* gomes.

■ This is me Spectrum version of
Super Hong^ Oh from Electric
Dreams. It should be on me
sh anres of your toe al software store
•wen os you reod mis - but tune
and C * VG deadlines woit far no
man ond wn jvfl couldn't squeeze it
ml© Cvr regular mw pages fhti
my. Howffw this version of the
arcade epic B limply briHonl * ond

iin't just o copy of Enduro Racer
with different graphics. Wolch out
far a Ml review next issue

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■ Ai ImH ri Garfi«»d, tfw bug
owoitod computer cartoon cqpor

of your tov ouo t e cot, from The
Frige

Scovev TTevci/

■1 Ere we go , ere *• go, en we
go wUH o mega- too comp
featuring Gremlin's super soccer
boord gome Gary bn mkmr*
Footballer ol ihe Twf W(vfl go*
two of Gaxxdi brHI board games
to GIVE away, AI you tsove to do

to wm om of mese emoting
games is lei ut just how many
nn-rfh Crfwy ^ ^efcer fenced during
rh«bftWoHdCyfL

Put your answer on o postcond
ond rush H off to Computer ond
Video Gomes, Con? Un*k«r

tomp*rnSon, Pnory Court, 30-32
Farnngdon lone, London EC 1 ft
3AU . Closing date is Jonyc ry 1 Gth,
normal C + VG rule* a ppry, ond in e
Ed says anyorw who doesn't um a
postcard »o send ihw «ntn«s ^ifl on
wi bfl kktcd into touch I

Thfl gome, collod Gmf 1% fat
Hoiiy Deoi wos du» ouf around

I fi# game p*oy mvoJ'rts hoipmg
Ganwd to fpstua nci MkWM
Adam who has boon captured
and held prisoner in the City
Pound

Me 1 * got to find and trade
various things to help him in hit
quest ond keep his strength up by
eating me ngnf food-.

■ This 1 1 Crazy Con; - the gome
whkh cs about to bum rubber on
the Amigo, It's from me French
company Trhji ojk) irwtial reports
wy ft is excelenf. At this very
moment Crazy Cors h getting the
C^VG rood test.

m Roboc op the bionk cop movie
now smashing bo* oflke records
in America, is due for n ltaie in
Britain eodv in the New Year, But
dont expect *o see me Ocean
gome based on the film before
October nejd yeor. The game's
release will coincide with the film
coming out on video.

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■ Bnj newi ii mo? Gomson P me
G ounriet done for rh« Amiga
from Rainbow Afftw me German
softwofe «rt up wrll be relecned in
meUKonmeGa!lobdJtigo«rK3
io be me hofleft Amiga game
currentry on ofter — see how rt teen
Go! hot vgned up Ro^nbow Arts
for me UK ond the first releases
over here wfll be B^ad Carm. a sort

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■ Light up your fife by grabbing
hold of a Block Lamp This (Me
gem from Rainbird s* coming icon
mr the Atari St. Block Lamp b a
gnipfriooiy splendid gome,
featuring Jolly lack rh* Jester,
destined to become a computer
cult character! Greeted by the Star
Trek people, Graham Everett and
54m CaK plut tW Gr*y r Bloc*
Lamp could just be th* cutest game
vet for the ST, BnNrant ^i i matron,
big characters, wonderful speCKil
FX matt* Thii, game cm* to watch
out for after Chnstmo*

The plot goes a bet I ike this. In
order fo win the hand of me Fovdy
Princes* of Allegoric JoBy iocfc hat
to embark on o que** far me Stock
Lamp; which a guarded by o
aeoaTy oYogofL Along the way he
has to serve puxzles and Bght off
'cwrible orc^ wicked wi*ches, evil
eagle* and a whole hot* of mean
monsters Bfeff Lump won i cost
you o King'* ransom either,
Rombtfd is selling if far £1 9.95.

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of Combot School with eois r and
iifti. a realty anginal shoot 'em
Up...

■ This is the Spectrum version of
Salamander - Konami'i classic
shoot 'em up which will be
reviewed next issue* It features
nea* graphics fat* ocnon and sotqf

SALAMANDER

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has fina Iry q oi iri together following
the disappointing JoJ fiVeak and
Jock oJ c o n ¥ ersio ns, You re going
lo enjoy Safamondbff

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■ Prepare yovneitf for a shark
attack! Firebird'* Frying Sha rk
opcode conrersiorr, b obourfo
cause a stir among shoot ' em-up
addicts. The progromnwfi Ml us
tnaiolIlhepkyyoMrtyolthe
o r code origmo I it i nctuded in the
computer version - oftoebng
planes, tonks and other nasties
appear in exactly the same
wKjuerKftj, so if you've played
TdhVi original you've go* a head

start.

For the rest of you, Shark will
present quite o chdlenge.
Graphics ore good, afmough Hie
64 version loob a bit chunky - but
the garnets hombry addictive.

Our pics show the n iffy Spectrum
version created by the GraftgoW
team. Flying Shark wilt be avertable
brtheCa4 (CS95 tape, El 2.95
disc ) r Spectrum {£ 7.95 V Amstrod
(£8 .95 tape/. £14.95 disc), Atari
ST SI 9.95).

■ Here's a game far the yuppies
among you. rff caKed Test Drive,
H comes from Electronic Arts and rf
features on our huge 1 98 8
calendar FREE with mis pulse
popunaSngrsiuel

Yau con sip behind the wheel of
the world 1 * most fl*ori< car»-
inckidina the Ferrari TesJorusso,
Lamborghini Countach or a
Porsche - you know, me fend of
cars software company basses gel
to dnve al the lime. You drive the
different auto* over special roods
dodging other traffic and the
highway patrol,

CtxP TAa:

■ i mats oftay, Mid Mr
rsoMghtoa "What is?* laid Mr
MetcahVThiiAndy Copp mug
from n4irrar*ott/ said Mr
Bought on, "Now you can make me
a Cup of tea' f'm no mug/ said Mr
Metcotfe, 'make your own HI tea,*

Reg Srnythe, CJ Jerry Pom? Send
your answer, on a postcard only
please, to Compute and Video
Games, Andy Copp Camp, Priory
Couri f 30-32 Fan-ingdon Lone p
London KTR3AU

And so began another peaceful
day in the C + VG offices But r
fhaVib to Mirrortorf . who ant
bringing out a new game based on
the famous Dotty Mirror cartoon
character Andy Capp, who con
offer ten C+ VG readers the
chance to drink their favourite
beverage out of an en elusive Andy
Copp mug! Ail you have la dais
III w ihe name of the creator of
Mr Coop. Was it A) L 5. Lowtfl 1)

■ Rack Itl No, this an '1 i
trendy form of abuse - rfs me
noma of the successful budget
label creased by top UK software
house Hewsae.

To celeWe me success of me
label tack ill wants to grve one
tacky C t VG reader a ipecial
Later Tog se+l And al you hove la
da to daim mr* wondef -prae *i
answer a few

Cloeing date a January 1 oth
• Here or* me quesnani:
1 . n*ame me players wtto nave won
the most men t and women s
Wimb*edon Chonipionihtpk
J Who won the VVimWedon
Criomoioriihip in 1987?
3, Name the first block tennis star to
win o Wim Wedon Champion ihi p.

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► Officially licensed from the greatest
motorcycle racing game, the thrills are so
real we considered making a helmet
compulsory.

► Four skill levels.

► Four music tracks.

► Push your turbo charged racing machine
into 18 progressive stages racing across
Asia, Africa, America and Europe.

;(ni.m Amiga taM».ff)

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Copyright 1986 Sega Enterprises Inc. (USA) All rights reserved
Electric Dreams Software Authorised User

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■ Tynesoft hm bunched on
amazing competition to coincide
with the release of their Wint*r
Olympic! game. If you buy the
gome, which h available on the
Spectrum, Commodore 64,
Amstrod, C 1 6, Atari ST, Amigo,
BBC, IBM and Amstrod !o nam*

but o f ew, you could win o hoWay
Inp lo Calgary In Can-do lo watch
ihe 1 98fl Winter Olympics*

'mosct/urs &«prfM

Whot hove dinosaurs go! Id do
with computer game*? Ab-SO-M*-
ly nothing! But here at C ■* VG we
like *hem ond we KNOW thai you
like them, to why not we iHoufht
to oorseives give a lew of these
prehistoric creatures owcry, tbanki
to lnwkta. fiui don't worry you
wont hove lo find ipcxi lor a 40 ft
monster in your bedroom. We've
goi three ptotfic dinotaur sets to
grve away . Each set consists of 1 2
incredibly detailed dinosaurs - big
ones and little ones — PIUS o
fascinating full colour dinosaur
world poileri Alt you have to do rt
put a name lo the dinosaurs we've

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GOforlT/

• Go! ihe US Gold owned label
hat vgned o E2 imUran licensing
deai with Copom to market 1
coin -op conversions in Europe
over me next 1 6 month*,

This it in addition lo the three
Capcom title* 5(dearms< Speed
Rambler ond B ionic
Commandos whi ch should be
released soon

The first four hllet lo be released
as port of Ihe 1 game deol will be
Street Fighter, 1 943, f dbw-up to
1 947. flock Tigers and Tiger
Rood.

Tiger Rood should be out in the
arcades soon. If s o bnlfiont hock r
stash and bosh quest with brilliant
graphics.

The remaining tide* ore still
under development, according to
George Na kayama, president of
Copcom USA.

Capcom's best known corn -opt
Qames lo be converted to
computer ore Ghost* n 1 " Gooblinj
and Commando,

Goi wtll be responsible for all
the 6-bi* ond 1 6-bif games
although the C BM 64 code w»fl be
tuppJied by Copcom from
America.

pictured on mis page. Then firl in
me coupon and return rt raptdfy to
Computer and Video Gonrn Dig-
Up Dinosaur Competition, Priory
Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane.
London EC1 R 3AU Closing dene is
January } 6th, normal C I VG rules
apply and Ihe chief cave man's
decision is final.

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■ Why is Martin Walker doing
silly Ihings with this disc? Who
kjiowsl But we DO know that he s
got o spiffing new gome ready to
hit the streets, your sideboard Or
me floor - delete where
applicable. Martin is the brains
behind the Rupert gamev Back to
the Future and several other
offerings. But Hunts r r t Moon will
be his first game on the Thalamus
label. Hunter'* Moon puts you in
conirol of the good ship Hunter
whose destination is a small but
very important moon.

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your chance* in our
competition then you
con purchase one of
these oce sett direct
from Irvicto Just send
a cheque or posia I
order for £20, mode
payable to Invicto
Rashes Lid, and send H
to Invida Plastics ltd.
Oadby, Leicester.

After itrcymg lo near lo a black
hole, the Hunter gets warped lo on
unknown section of the gala xy,
inhabited by strange alien species
who e*tsl in hrvfl-hke constructions
in space.

This strange community is ruled
over by the Stare ells who control
their population of workers and
soldierv

The workers who cannot be
killed, 'qrow' the structures' by

scurrying around and replacing
damaged areas of th* structure
whilst you pkry the gome.

To escape the system ond
a ttem p t the return journey, the
pioyer must blast his way through
the alien structures As the hive is
destroyed so me workers continue
to rebuild it. And negotiating each
level requires a subtle blend nf
dexterity, precision timing 0J>d
psychopathic Masting,

Eoch level hold* up lo four
Storcells, oil of which must be
destroyed before the next level it
entered. The Sforcell* also hold
navigational data which is vital if
the journey home is lo be o
successful one.

Hunter' s Moon should be
avgi la'ble now on the Commodore
64/1 2B P E9.°9 on tope, £12.99
an due

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■ Is this a first? The Darling
brothers - rapidly approach mg
Richard Branson standards in
their search far publicity - will be
signing copies of their newest
gomes at London's HMV Store, in
Oxford Street on January 7fk Font
of the Code Masters will be able
to chat with David and Richard
obout their games from 5 30 pm.

Rip it u^i

■ Horror fans pre benng well
catered for nght now whol with
Wetewokes, Axk the Kipper,
Oracute and to on - ond here's
another one to chec k out,
Phantom of the Opera is out now
on the new Crysys label for me
Spectrum 48/1 28 (£7.95) ond t 3
(£°.?5J r tfs on of cade adventure
based on the ongind book by
Gaston Lerour

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been on Earth before.

It came for the thrill
of the hunt

It picked the wrong
person to hunt YOU!

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► REVIEWER PAUL

Bangkok Knights - the only
game thai gives you the chance
to become a Thai boy. Okay,
that's l he first bad joke ou t of
the way Now lit get to grip*
with this new combat classif-
f mm System 3.

The t&$t M/i/4, International
Karats 2 and now this, The
System 3 guys are certainly on
a roll delivering knock-out
games, t^et pack more than en
average punch, kick, butt and
fjop.
" is time we're off lo old

- Thai lend now - for a no
d* barred e^perpuue of the
Thais' national s

mixture of boxing omJWTale

lethal mix if ever there was on e!

And itluusl superb. The word

big" «fcot describe the

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tflLVlEWEft TIM

The classic Commodore shoot
'em -ups are UHdhrn and
Sanxton - but now I here's a
new contender for the title,
Gclapofts Quite simply it's
awesome. Brilliant graphics,
sounds like YOU wont believe
andsddictivegameplayihal
shakes the C - VG scale.
The whole thing has been put

«'jy Jukka Tapammafci,
prog rammer
ngs - jui
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Fasoul^
squee^l
thai you [hoi

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arc. 1 3e quality -- monsters,
:nV|^5arin the platform
of the game, w
ut before we oe! on I
tads lei a take a lo£ a
ol.

Byt r >s87. the Galactic

Imperiuna^fc an

ever. O^M one it had
swal i. ^veil up atl solar systems
■ races. The dreaded

fleets of ihe Impenum were
feared all over the Ga laxy, an$
with good reason
armed battle cruise
enough to blow up a whol
plans* No one was strong ^
enough to resisl Ihe power of
t he I mperium.

Emept *or a small defiant
pii« ■ h had eight m

n <>w#fn%cj ties rising about fl

i++nui >rface: ihe planet of
Qetapoln

Its secret weapon was one of
enormous mental power in the

y of the planet, the most
valiant enemy span warrior
became a bumbling idiot and
even ihe most sophisticated

geftcebraa
contra Laws of Robotics*

mhadn !

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silly smooth and the music - by
Rob Hubbard - is wonderful.

Why not be clever this
Chrtsimas -ind have a knees-up,
high-kicking, punch-drunk
Chnstmas box.

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Prepare yourself for a monster
mesM Or should that be smash 1

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5T reefs I must admit to being
among those people who said
'Nan, it can never be donel"
Wall it"s eat my word*, hat, or
whatever else comes to hand
time AqiivF&ton has produced a
vary acceptable version of trie
game - complete with ihrw
player opt ion

basic idea is VERY
simple, You com rot one of three
monsters - Little, a Godzilla
type reptile, the Wolf Man and a
King KongGontia rv md

then you go on the rampage
smashing buildings, crushing
Tanks, knocking helicopters out
of i he shy and generally haw
g Cim«i

The best way to play is with
two or three friends - that way

liscoverihe ti
competitive spin I of ihe game 1
Ifs almost as much fun kicking
and punching your monster
mated as rt ii destroying
buildings and mashing tai

Eating people isn't wrong in
Rampagp - your monster will
d to snatch a per son bur ,
from time to time. These people
9pptw at tnc windows ofthe
apartment blocks and
Skyscrapers you're attempting
to demolish. Just grab ihcm
and munch ihem for some extra
energy Yummy I

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kick and crush your way
Through - the background
graphics give you an idea
where you are bui (he b<
you damage look much the
same wherever you are„

Controls ere vie joystick and
keyboard - and I found the stick
somewhat unresponsive at
times. When I wanted to smash
son couldn't get my

monster to do what I wanted.

The graphics and animation
am pretty pood copies of the
co i n -op o n 9 1 ■ down to

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monsters' faces. They look out
of the screen and mo
com' you. Glad lean 1 !

make them i

Sound effects are nifty too -
sort of digitised sounding
np& and grunts,
original this There is an

intro tune copied from the com
op

Each player can choose which
monster he want* to be - SO
you could gel three I
running around, if you w*j
tune is my favourite as you
might have guessed,

The only thing I'm not quite
the game's
testability. It's fun to play fi
while but whether you'll want to
batter your way through all 85
*s another que*'! 1

Overall, R&mp&ge is a fun
game - if you're a fan of the
coin op then you won't be
disappointed by the 64 version
at least 1 Well let you know
about the other versions when
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Kan 9 mi had a really nice arcade
coin op with Jackal. It must
have seemed a great idea to
convert to the home computer
A sure fire hit So what
happened?

Okay, we know thai any coin-
op's graphics and sound suffer
a little in the transition tothfl
home micro, but this is
ridiculous J&ckat on the
Spectrum is in a sorry old stale.
And the Amstrad isn't much
barter.

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disaster. Jailbreak r in the dire
game stakes.

The graphics are naff and the
sound - apart from an annoy tng
little lune which plays over the
con u o Is se I ect i o n - \% non
existent.

Once again this game is
about rescuing prisoners
captured by the enemy. The
rescue plan es code named
Jackal and involves you
rescuing the POW and dropping
them off at various locations to
be rescued by helicopter You
control, what is supposed to be
a jeep, It looks more like a box
to me. It's mounted with a
machine gun which appears to
lire spasmodically. Grenades,
missies - short and long range
- and st&rburst missiles can be
picked up after certain huls
have been a Hacked and the
occupant picked up

And that's it

I just hope the other versions
turn out better than this
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the quiz front with Blockbusters
on the if new TV Games label.
All that's missing from the
game are the fabuious prizes
that are given away on
television.

I must admit I had my doubts
about this- and the Other games
in the series- The Krypton
Factor* Treasure Hunt
Countdown and Buifseye But if
the others are as good as
Blockbuster than they all
should be worth checking out.

BLOCK

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The game raUhfully follows
the format of the programme.
Even presenter Bob Holness
has been digitised and nods
enthusiastically if you get an
answer right, shakes his head it
you were wrong

The playing area is a hexagon
matrix. Player One must form a
chain of linked hexagon from,
say, left to nght; while player
two tries to Imk top to bottom.
Each player selects letters
which are in the hexagons.

For example, 4 V question
might be : "What V is s raptorial
bird with a naked head and
nock ?" The first player to bit
their button gets to answer, Get
it wrong and your opponent has
a chance. (The answer is
Vulture). The person who gels
the answer when captures the
hexagon.

The computer decides who
presses their button first, so it's
all fair and square. There's no
cheating.

You play the best of three
games and the winner gets to
go for the Gold Run. in which
you are given 45 seconds to
answer enough questions to
cross the board.

There are various skill levels
and enough questions to stop
the game Decerning repetitious.

If you like the programme and
qui? games in general, you'll
find ihis one of the best,

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Incentive. Curious word that. It
means something inciting or
encouraging to action,
especially to increase output
And that's just what Incentive' s
new and latest game Drtfter
does.

Ft raises the blood pressure
and gets the adrenalin coursing
through your body. Qrrtfer's
astounding 3D solid vector
graphics and amazing realism
are brought together in this
truly original space arcade
adventure. This is the best
game Incentive has produced
for a long time - and I
mean a long, Jong
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wherever you see fit. The other
is a Reconnaissance Jet which
you can use to scour the moon
before venturing out in your in
the Excavation Probe. U"s a !ol
faster I

Each vehicle is equipped with
a high intensity, high frequency
quadruple dual action lasers,
shields and high amounts of
energy reserves. While on your
travels you wrll encounter
various planetary defence
systems which include laser
beacons and scanners.

The laser beacons are
positioned througfYauT the
moon. If you are delected
within range of a laser beacon
you will be attacked Laser
beacons fire highly damaging
lasers - and they never rrnss<
Scanners are different, these
are liny ships which orbit the
moon and attack: from above

Whatever transport you are
using, your lasers, shield, light
and motion are all dependent
on Rubicon crystals. Time and
use will gradually decrease
your stores of energy , this is
shown by a horizontal bar
graph, with length proportional
to your existing supplies of
she i Ids and energy.

Extra Rubicon crystals can be
located within small shed like
buildings, scattered about on
the moon s surface, and can be
consumed via the lasers

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visual aspects with a sense of
high adventure.

Due to the advanced
compression techniques used
Dnlter has over 20,000 billion
screens which are brought
together, via the unique re-
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Your overall mission is to
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of your moons surface, by
positioning a drilling rig over
suspected gas pockets in each
of the sectors. Big job)

You have two forms of
transport under your control
An Excavation Probe which you
use to place the drilling rigs

nut I awed defence
systems and also for operating
switches and levers, and for
solving puzzles. These have to
be used correctly in order io
achieve access to other
buildings and sectors.

There is a dark and light side
of the moon, and both have
hazards and dangers which
hinder your every move- The
dark side is a lot more
hazardous than the light, so it is
wise to solve the Eight side first.

Movement is controlled via
the joystick and keyboard. The
joystick is used to move your
current form of transport in all
of the usual eight directions.

For the Excavation Probe
only, there are a few eictra,
keyboard controls, with which

several windows,
each showing
the user a different piece of
information. The main window
shows the vifcw from the cockpit

of your current vehicle, this is
where all the action is.

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anytime during the game, an
information screen will appear
in the main window. This show*
you which sector you are on,
how much gas was found and
tapped, total amount of safe
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option.

Qrttfor is definitely one of the
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have hit the streets for ages
Them is nothing i can say to
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of software even if I tried! Dftttef
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Such as astounding visual-
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Drifter is packaged with a 30
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The battle of the US giants is on - and the
battlefield is your local skateboard park. Electronic
Arts and US Gold have both released skateboard
games. US Gold have the conversion of the
brilliant Atari arcade game Z2fP white EA have an
original multi-load game called Skate or Die, Will
72<f or Store or Die win out on the ramps.

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that Uketeciry-

dodgmg muscle men, cyclists
and odd f oik pi lot my those one
Wheeled I'bikethingii

You have a limited time io
reach each park before the killer
bee* appear Killer bees? Yup,
those insects are the scourge of

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buy a licket and the bees, are
after you the doormen at the
park entrances, aren't at all

tympalltei

So, (ike your murti always
tells you, be careful with yi
cash, It's not so much good
buying ||4 that Hash skateboard
gear when you can't afford a
ticket to ihe park lift?

Bui when you have got
enough pennies for both here's

down on what the extra
equipment will do for you

Shoes lei you jump higher,
knee-pads help you lecover
from a fall more quickly, a new
board males , or on the

streets and a new helmet helps
you become more adventurous
on the rumps. Thesr- items can
be purchased from any of the
skate shops dotted around
Skate CH

Control of the board it fa
easy - easier than Skafe or Die,
that's for sure. But it doesn't

. ou much of a feel of being

I've only seen the Speecy and
Am flr ad versions so far - the
Amstrad has the edge on
graphics,, but there's hardly any
sound on either version. The
C64 demo I saw wasn't playable.

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ke I. Me coin op.
72£Tis? -nd

[you play the pan of a likely lad
[arming to become the king of
the si reels. You have to earn
more radical

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be* get you, it's the end

Of the road

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Stag as of t he g am e wh en
you've sr -but if

you v* nor, got t j*h to

on a board - much too stable for
a start!

The park sequences are again
fairly straightforward - and

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same thing I reckon that you
might find the appeal gf the
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1 reckon that it you're a
skateboarder and not a cum op
p I pyer - there MUST be a few of

ground - you 're going to
Und the Stole or Ore is a more
accurate representation of your
spc

Graphics, sound and
animation are excels
although the whole thing is let

you'll gc' ,E glimpse of

Rodney, the agi ng punk owner
of the shop - what a Hate to be

Then <la out on the streets
where- you choose which event
you want to compete m by
simply skating down the street
with the mi me of tfo$ event
spravpainted on

There ire five events thai you
can skate individually, o
sequence With "Compete Air
But you have to have two

:ks to "Compete
agamst a buddy If you do
hive ii buddy, there' s always
Lev player

• Freestyle Ramp There's a
hundred feet of wood and steel.
i into a wide and smooth
img for
so m e you t o pop some

incredible moves You start on

eft platform, aching to
boogie Move the controller
forward or back to choose
entry position

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ten passes Thf ough the ramp.

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or both ends. As you make a
pass, click the button m t>
pump /ones to increase your
speed and to select a particular

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the controller enher into t

e in the ramp, move, the
controller rapidly inn

rion to build speed - but
you can take a breather while
you're in the air if you want.
Vou get a maximum of five
passes on the tight side where
the height marker it. Of course,
you don't have to wait alt I
passes. To actually go far it and
record the attempt, click the
button jf the highwat point of
your |.uri

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time and collect bonuses along
the way, Skate under, through,
on top of, over; and along any
numl- lies*. Pick

your own style of control
thi» one, Regular I

cans, mesh trash cans, bust a
few bottles, crash flower pots
and, hey, why not each other i
You fight time and your buddy
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Lester) U .treat

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reception pn
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There are eight [raining
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• ASSAULT COURSE By
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horizontal ladder; jump onto
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aft possible to complete this
course You are up against the
clock,

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large! a appear at random
throughout this event and you

must move your cursor and
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withm the allotted time. You
have a minimum number of
targets to hit

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build up end maintain your
maximum running speed whilst
avoiding the various obstacles
such as rocks and mines, as you
try and negotiate the terrain

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emplacements you had in Ihe
fust tiring range, this event
presents you with a chance to
practice your skills with a hand
held machine gun. Robot tanks
descend at random from the top
of the screen and you mi i
knock-out as many as possible
in the allotted frme

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the computer, while in the two
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Of these, your cursor will freeze

the nexi batch of targets

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inductor ana must use alt your
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defeat him.

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■nay welf have bc«n
wondering what the co-authors
of Eli ie have been doing m
between counting up
lovely lolly Well one of the duo.
David Braben, has spent ihp
months developing the I
^ver game for Acorn's new

the
Archimedes.

iiled j&ifgA, it is a mixture
of urease and strategy f oiled

an absolute hum -dinger of
a game that will probably **??l as

v Archimedes systems as
Star Rtiufars did Atart 400s back
in 1361
You are the pilot of a 2arcft

terstosave
your planet from infestation by
a deadly red virus being
sprayed over the countryside by
waves of marauding aliens.
Thega j three

dimensional, sculptured
landscape, complete wiih hills.
lakes, trees, and other

in elevation
actually changes am your plane
rltilude.
jhf control is valine
Archie's ihre* buttoned mo*
Actual I y manoeuvring the plane
ndis based
•antral
mouse position . The direction
ancf yourm

;e away rrorn this contra!
position, determines (he
compass direction' the plane
will face, and its decimation
(angle of dip! to the ground

By com bf rung these control
wtth the thrust button (left hand
mL the plane c£n be
.vn at any spaed, at a i
angie, in any direction . . qn
a handful f

you press t he thrust
button,, a beautiful plume of
mat i s out the back of

your plane, end if left hanging

pace like i tti«
dimensional wake Alien ships
each have their own plumes,.
f « is the power of the
Archimedes, thai
smoothness of the animation of
each individual matter panicle
doesn't even flicker when the
processor is called upon to
handle a number of planes
concurrently

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The arcade elements of rj
game involve you in midair
«kir log fights with

various brands ol alien,, some
innoccuous, others h:ghly
dangerous, although you wo
evendet J of

oppont you've

mastered th.

Alien D Line sco v
tettas: Seeders, Drones,
Mutants I mutated rones),
Bombers. Pests, and f
Each haver ihe

ngs
Some, like Pests and Figh-
concentrate on blowing you

'T her v such
as Seeders, fly around spraying
the landscape with 1 1
always on the lookout f o

tble place to land so they
can contaminate yet
the countryside.

To combat the >Uf

plane is equipped with short
and long range scar
las* "tfd

=oly of smart bomb and
homing mis^

il you succeed in knocking off
the first set of A !>•
wave appears in their place, and
soon. Luckrly, in between each
wave the land Is i A

bonus is awarded for each
sector of ground left
u neon laminated- at the end of a
wave, and hf

itegic element of the game.

In order too
you must wipe out the enemy
as clinically as possible. This
cannot be achieved by merely
flying abound aimlessly.

ling unlucky
enough to cross your par
although, am with all the best
arcade/st ra teg y games, Z
be played quite

eve).
No, the way to impress all
your trie' g $n

medes hasn't done thai
already 'L iStoar

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of alien does whet For
exan^ 1on"t spread

the virus, so leave t hern lor the
moment and concentrate on

the ones- spray i no the
count rysfcde red 1 Each type of
alien appears as a differ •
coloured blip on the scanner, so
you should get used to

gnising what's going on
around you
Ziirch prompts on e to reel off

nfl of superlatives. In the
ijr aphics and animation
depsrtn> .id end

shoulders above ell its rivals.

ister the pig- like
controls, the game is enormous
fun. but alas, never was so

d by so few. A«
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owrn m abte to sample

vihts of Zarch early next
year, this l inv

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Picture the $ceno. A figure sits
before a flickering screen in a
darkened room in Olde London
Town. Through the window a
full moon can be glimpsed
behind scudding douds. The
wind moans fitfully

Suddenly, a transformation
comes over the figure His eyes
gleam like a cat from a lace that
looks unnaturally hairy. He
throws his head back and
howls,

Remember. The Bride af
Frankenstein? Well Werewofves
of London ts also from the same
peopSe, Viz Design. And given a
straight choice between the iwo
garner. I prefer FrMnk&nstefn.
With Wer&wofves I found there
just a little too much wandering
around with r apparently; nol a
lotto do

Vou play the part of a poor
old chap afflicted with

LONDON

I yean th ropy, a socially
unacceptable condition which
means you transform into a
werewoll when the moon
comes out and subjects you to
an uncontrollable bloodlust.
This curse was pui en your
family in the dim and distant
past by an 'arrogant family of
Sloan ey types" Okay^yahlThe
only way to rid yourself of Ihe
curse is to kill and kill and kill -
especially Sloanes. Vou
recognise these because of Ihe
cruetfix which appears when
they are near.

The action ranges through
the streets of London, over the
rooftops, into the sewers and
the underground train network
There are objects to find and
called For example a torch is
very handy to take down into
the sewers or train tunnels
Otherwise you spend a lot of
lime blundering around a dark
Screen,

You kill simply by lumping on
people and savaging them. But
you don't have things all your
own way. The police are out to
catch you- If you get hit by any

silver bullets you loose blood.
This ts seen gruesome ly
dripping away from what
appears to be a plastic plasma
battle under the playing area
Vou replace your life juice from
the bodies of your victims.

If the pel ice catch you they
put you in a cell where you
must remain until you
transform back into human
form Vou can of course try to
escape. Take a look at the cell
floor with the manhole cover If
you"ve picked up the righi
object to move it

The reverse of the cassette
will include the Werewolf Rap -
Silver Bullet Mix for you to
enjoy while playing the game.

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To describe this in simple
terms, it's a son of cross
between Ghosts V Goblins,
and Wonder Boy, in knickersl

Now recent ly, Ocean/Imagine
have produced some damn
good games, such as Wfibxtf,
Step fight Army Moves, and
Head Oyer Heels, so I was quite
looking forward to them
releasing this. Unfortunately, il

was rather a let down Please
don't get me wrong, it's rat hat a
good game, but for some
reason, if* just nol as playable
as I was expecting.

For once in a computer game,
you play the role of a woman,
Athena, who has been
transported to a strange Fand
Now being a rather brave
princess, you travel for many
days, avoiding innumerable
nasties, to reach the Dark
Overlord, who brought her
Ihe re in the first place, to try and
splatter his in lest in as to the four
corner$ of the galaxy

The graphics are above

average for the Commodore 64,
as is the sound, but the nasties
come so thick and fasl, ifs
rather unplayable. You tend to
find yourself being bombarded
by nine or ten baddies at onqe r
and to choose a Lancashire
saying, "you don't have a cat in
helte chance M of surviving.
Perhaps if Imagine had spent a
little more time making the
game playable, it would have

received a better review.

One nice poi nt , is t he way you
can continue from where you
last died for three games, but
then you must start again. It
could have been one of the best
of n H s genre, but as it stands, it h s
just very good.

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you id compete for j coveted
old medal You can't enter the

iympics unless you've done
well rn the World Championship
season - proving your racing
skills

The game is menu driven -
with attractive info windows
setting gut the different options
of presenting relevant
information.

Control of The bob requires a
delicate touch on the joystick -
violent reactions resulting in 3
bruising, battering crash!
Concentration is essential,
You may think n looks easy
after watching the built in demo
-but it ami I

Practice makes perfect
though - and you get a genuine
sense of achievement after
completing a run - what ever
time you cover the distance in.

The graphics and sound on
bath versions I've looked at are
basic but very effective - you
get a real sense of the speed
and danger as you career down
the claustrophobic ice lined
track, racing around slick ice

I've never been near a bob -
and I reckon this game is about
as dose as I ever want to get '
Bur DCs usual attention to
detaidp nice presentation and
excellent packaging make
Bobsleigh a real Christmas gold
medal winner! Here's a *W*
hints and tips on gameplay

A fast push start is very
important and will have a large
influence on the finish time. The
push stan depends on how fast
you can rock the ioystitfc up and

down, and also on your
computer level of fitness

(f your fitness level is given as
poor or average it would be a
good idea to spend some cash
to improve your fitness rating,
otherwise however hard you
rock the joystick up and down
Yoy wilt never be able to
achieve the best possible push
start.

Smooth driving produces fast
limes, so gentle steering
adjustments on the |oyst»ck will
produce faster times than wild
excessive steering,

Try to find the natural lines

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WeVe been bob, bob, bobbing
along at C * VG since Dl's last est
game arrived in the office. The
programmers; famed for their
aircraft and bike racing
simulations, hove taken a step
into the unknown and produced
a truly excellent and original
game based on this thrilling and
dangerous sport.

It puts you in charge ot a
bobsleigh team out to corn pete
m the Winter Olympics. You
tram your team, organise the
finances, set up the bobsleigh
and, finally, take pah m races
down awesome ice- tracks all
around the world

You can practice or race on
individual runs or compete in a
whole championship seas
You begin each season with a
certain amount of sponsorship
cash - you win more if you do
well in com pet i Hon Bui you're
more than likely to end up
crashing, damaging your bob
arid fnrcmg a cash Outlay on
repairs

You spend your cash on
training your team, getting
them into shapn or purchasing
a new customised team
uniform -or even buying a new
bobsleigh. YnuTI need to buy
new bobs in order to progress
through the skill levels.

Each level requires a
different type ot bob
-ultimately an
Olympic standard
bob to enable

walls, bumping around corners,
speeding under bridges and
enduring gut wrenching high-
speed crashes!

Two members of the British
Bobsleigh team, Ntick Phipps-
who once beat Daley
Thompson in the decathlon -
and Alan Cearns. at present in
training for the 88 Winter
Olympics^ helped oul with the
design of the simulation - and it
shows.

through the corners which
require the least amount of
corrective steering.
Avoid hitting the side waits

brtMusr trus slows the hub
down. The bob is most likely to
crash when coming out of a
corner late and hitting the side
wall hard.

Wrong runners on your sleigh
wilF reduce the grip on the jce.
This means you will have to
hold over the joystick longer to

achieve the
same control

If the air
temperature is very
cold leg -B degrees) the ice
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The brake is only to be used
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Use of the brake during the run
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Computer games are not all zip
and zap. Wargames, which on the
face of it could be thought of as
very violent, are often the very
opposite. They require careful
thought, planning and the ability to
think ahead. C + VG's Steve Badsey
takes a look at the latest games to
declare war on your computer.

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This is the long aw^Eed
Commodore version al Annate of
Rome . The game remains as
good as ever, probably the besJ
strategy game on the market al
Ihe moment

Trie single player tries to
establish himself on a map of the
anient world a Roman Empire,
deploying troops and
commarrders in variable-length
moves of about 20 years. The
game has no end and no
objective, excepl survival (the real
Roman Empire lasted more than
1 500 years). Lake the real
Romans, the player wrtl find that
he has to conquer the wortd just to
stop ihe wdMd from conquering
him.

If the game remains as good as
ever , it is hard to see what the
converters nave done with the
Commodore's extra ?6K of
memory

The playing map is actually
smaller than on the Speclrum

version, and bn wack-and-white
instead of colour The updale
tables are also smaller and the
figures harder id read The sound
effects have gone, and so have a
number ol touches like the
"antique scroll which gave the
Spectrum version sis chamr

Whai you do gel is increased
reliability The Spectrum version is
very prone to bugs and to
impossibly large armies springing
up from nowhere (the lault of the
machine s random number
generator according to PSS.
which is rather like blaming your

icois}.

The Commodore version runs
smoothly and lar more quickly.

with a subroutine to safeguard
against such random large
armies But - nothing ts perfect -

this time there is a problem in
saving the game, which with a
game SO long 15 an essential
feature,

PSS have a really excellent
game mAnnats ol Home II lhey
look a bil more trouble with it they
could have a worfei-beaier

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This is the Specif u in version of
Gunstoipr the best flight/combat
simulator available on the
m&rfcet today, based on the
American- built Apache combat
helicopter now corning into
$vrvi%Q with the US Army.
Microprose has now produced
Spectrum versions of most of
thekr bestsellers. But Gunship
has so much m it thai the
question was always whether
they could fit il all into a
Spectrum's memory and
graphics.

I'm afraid thai the short
answer is no, The scenarios
have all boon kepi, bur the solid

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The Strategic Studies Group of
Australia, responsible tof games
like earners At War and Eu rope
Ablaze . now has a sole UK
importer in Strategic Software
Pkisof Middlesex, which should
make Iheu gam^s more easity
available

Battles in Normandy is an
Operational Corps level game ol
eight scenarios covenng the major
batttes of Ihe campaign before the
breakout: Ihe American airdrop at
Carantan. Hie cruet*] landings al

Omahah. Utah and Sword
beaches, the American dnve on
Cherbourg, and the three British

attempts lo take Caen in the
Vilters-Socage, Epsom and
Goodwood oflenswes.

There is also, as normal wiih
SSG games, atfeswjn routine
enabling players to develop their
own scenanos

If all this sounds like a
development of the earlier SSG
Corps-level game&att/efrortf .
then that s because that is exactly
what it ts Scenarios developed on
Battfatronl will run on Baffles m
Normandy and vice versa.

SSG provide, as a rule,
expensive but high -quality games
BaW&s In Normandy is well below
Iheir normal slandard.

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landscape view and mulu-
coloured map have been
replaced by wire-frame hills and
trees, and the cockpit lay qui is
far harder to read than in other
versions-

The problem is thai Gunshtp
■s in fact so good It is such a
realistic and complex simulator
that 1 1 needs split -second
responses from the player. |ust
like flying a real combat
helicopter while trying to
engage an enemy. This version,
with its iuiiy graphics and t nek
controls, jusl isn't up to h.

The good news fo r S peel f u m
128 owners is that if they send
ihe game back to Micrgprose
they will provide a single-
cassette version, instead of the
three sides of tope.

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In this game of the Eastern Front
in World War Two Ine single,
player takes l he A*is iorces {the
Germans and their allies} aoamsi
The computer as the Russians on
a map thai covers the whole
Eastern Front from Finland to the
Cnmea £ achieved by having East
at the lop ol the map so thai i he
Germans attack upwards).

The playing mechanism couW
hardly be more simple m the
order phase, each Corps is
selected by joystick and moved
with up to live direehonal changes,
then m the movement phase they
ail attempt lo move together.

The computer calculates how
far such a unit could aci uatiy move
over thai type ol ground in those
weather conditions.

if an enemy is m (he given path
it is attacked, and units which are
attacked loo heavily lose strength,
retreat, or are wiped out

There are no rules lor
formations higher than a Corps.
out each musi keep within
reasonable drslanoe of an Army
Group headquarters or run into
supply problems Putting
movement and combai together
like this speeds the game up
considerably, and creates Ihe
realistic problem ol avoiding traffic
Jams Even at two moves to a
month it is possible io pf ay a
yearlong scenario in an evening.

The game reflects the only

chance the Germans had ol
winning on the Eastern Front, a
quick victory before the Soviets
could build up overwhelming
forces, and before Ihe dreaded
Russian winter oouk) take effect.

On the campaign scenano,
which covers the entire war. the
Russians will surrender only if
every city on Ihe screen (Moscow.
Stalingrad, Leningrad and
everything west of them) are
captured Since this is just about
impossible, there are also four
one-year scenarios lor 0^ch year
from 1941 , with their own victory
conditions.

The player has to concentriie
on two essentials: keeping his
cnjciaJ Panzer lorces well forward,
but in supply and not so heavily
engaged that they become

useless, and judging when to call
off an offensive and prepare
defensive positions lor the winter

T he end of the game , by ihe
surrendering ol either sw3e, can
sometimes be triggered by
accident, which is annoying

The game is meant to save
directly onto the playing diSfc. a
good idea out wilh the review copy
if didn't work, But these are minor
grumbles at what is a good
computer wargame with an
excel lent playing mechanism.

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flussaa combines features Of two
earlier SSG games, Europe
Abb** m&BattiQfoont
Untortunaiely , Ihey are some of
the worst features of each game.
LikeSatftes in Normandy ihis
game uses the basic three
divisions to a Corps organisation
of Batttefrottt , renamed as three
Coras to an Army Group, and
there are three training scenarios
Army Group North a dnve on
Leningrad in 1941 , Army Group
South s dnve on Stalingrad m
1942, and Army Group Centre $

offensrveat Kursk in 1943

Something ol SSG & view of ihe
campaign comes out in the fad
that all three were German

lariures

The main game on ihe disk,
however, is one of grand strategy
starting with the German invasion

in 194 1 . Each Army Group (or
Russian Frontal Command)
revises its moves and objectives
once a week. But once every four
weeks the higher command may
allocate resources, priorities and
strategy The computer can Lake
as many rotes as required, The
problem is thai, much as for
Europe Ablaze, the player who
opts lor high command has to sit
through 15 minutes of the
computer bieeping to itself If the
playef takes one or more Army
Groups as welt, it becomes 30
mmutes As the graphics are very
poor ones used on SaftieftunMhis
is 30 minutes Of total confusion
and boredom

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Check out our outrageous Out Run
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Thai crash! People used to
do it deliberately just to
experience the shaking the
hydraulic cabinet gave yon'
Tti* car flips over and over -
but just I ike the A-Team
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the violence of the accident

It's all Sega'e fault They
are the company who
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an unsuspecting world.
Arcade 1 addicts walked into
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discovered a huge new
hydraulic machine sitting
conspicuously in the middle
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bucket seat, took hold of the

ring wheel and screeched
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were hooked. It would take a
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cash to keep them off this
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The basic idea i&wi
i pie. You drive a flash
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move onto the next level, and
you have to deal with aome
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other US automobile^.

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the incredible hydraulic
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The driver and hi
blonde girlfriend ar
clear, ready to pick
i hemaelves up and climb
back in the car.

The blonde is a bit of a
hack neat driver - she wugs
bar finger at you accusingly
if you skid or spin off the
road, Ahh, shaddup you
atupid broad!

What also makes Qui Run
pretty neat is that there's
more than one route to the

sh of this Cannon ball
Run - no even if you play it a
lot you won't get bored.
Bored? With Out R un? Are
you kidding?!

It's the game that
everyone on C * Y< \ wants in
their bedroom Bui- because
even Garry William* doesn't
earn enough folding green
stuff to buy one - we're all
going to have to make do
■vi i h the computer version
from US Gold. And here we
take a look at the di Afore n r
versions of the game
currently coming wur way!

Out Run - The
Small Screen
Versions

Commodore 64

Huge graphics, fast scrolling
and brilliant sound* make
this version of the coin -op
classic a good bet for the
number one slot thla
Christmas. You can choose
between two different music
gou ndt racks before you start
to play. But, aa of a couple of
weeks ago, it look* aa if
won't be seeing the forks in
the road you come across in
the arcade version. But you
will see the bill* and the
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being brought to you by
Probe k the team who did such
a brilliant job on Knduro
Rarer from Act l vision And
Enduro w&$ another Sega
coin- op hit which biased the
trail for Out Run in the
Arcades, The graphic
capabilities of the Speccy
limit the programmers - but
u you can see, the detail
they've managed to cram in
is pretty amazing If alia and
dips in this version too,

Amstrad

Possibly the mast colourful
version of the lot, the Amwter
Out Run is the only ver

we haven't yet seen up and
running- so apart from
these screens we can't tell
you much about it ■ apart
from the fact that the Probe
team are working on this
version as we 1 1 as the
Sw-dnimtfan-i-

Sega Master
System

This is the vcriion from Sega
for their own games console.
It ha> all the graphics, the
different routes, the music,
the crashes and Hmooth p fast
scrolling. Somewhat spoiled
by chunky sprites and
fl i c k e ry gra phi ca at eertain
points of the game -but still
a damn good gattufr for all
that-

The tar in Bega/a Out Run is baited on the Ferrari
Testarossa - but jn real life you couldn't get a convertible
version even if you wanted one. The Testarossa would set
you back a breath-taking £80*000 and in one of the fas I
legal street cars you can buy with a top speed of over ISO
mph En fact it can reach over 60 mph in first pear It gets
its name from the red rocker covers on the engine - a great
Ferrari tradition. It has a five speed gearbox, five spoke
a! by wheels and the fantastic Ferrari red paint job T
Testarossa is regarded, by those who can afford it, as THE
perfect supercar - better than a Porsche or Lamborghini
Can 1 have one for Christmas, please Santa?

The Arcade
Machine

This is the mega -machine

that started it all. What
more can you say? Except try
and win one in our exclusive
coin-op competition!
• Out Run witi he available
in December far thr
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Hundreds have been sold to
date and If last year Is anything
to go by a fast minute rush is
on the cards

For those of you who do not
know what to expect at a
P B M, convention, read on
This years convention takes
place on 20th February 1988 a!
The Forchester Centre.
Queensway, London W2.
which Is a straight 300 yard
walk left From Royal Oak
underground station

The 22 P.B.M. companies In
the UK are attending and a
few of the companies that have
already confirmed thai they
will be attending are: Sloth
Enter^Hsci, Mitre Garnet,
Spellbinder Gimii, Legend
Incorporated* D.M.C Games >
Jidc Game » and The
Laboratory

There are many others, bul I
cannot list them all There will
be a large number of amateur
P B M companies attending.
This is your chance to talk to
the games masters and owners
of the companies and pur your
questions and queries to them
direct. Find out about games
that you wanted to join but
were not sure about, meet
friends and enemies, and chat
to (he players of every game.

This is a golden opportunity
to find out first hand what is
going on in the P. B M scene as
well as pick up a few freebies
You can also And out all about
theB PB M A players
association and join on the
spot

The organisers also realise
thai most players of P B M are
closely linked or involved with
Fantasy Role Playing, so they
have organised a large F.R.P.
display as weli. There will be
Ifve toleptaying. run by the
Labyrinth? Club, where you
can actually participate in
dungeon adventures or watch
demonstration adventurers, a
F.R.F. stall where you can
stock up on all the latest games
as well as buy miniature
figures, paints and other
accessories, an AD + D open

Bttfy, bttsy. busy, that it the only way to
describe the F-B.M. scene at the moment] Ye* t
it's all go, with lots of special offers for all you
P.B.M'ers out there, so let's get on with
keeping yotf ttp to date with the newt and
views from the ever changing world of P.B.M,
Remember though, that if you apply for more
than one offer you must send the relevant
amounts of S.SA.Es required or yott will only
receive the first offer you ask for!

competition with prizes, war
game demonstrations F bring
and buy auctions, quizzes and
competitions and computer
games to play

C t VG will also be running a
computet games competition.

There will be a licensed bar,
plus mini -cafe and I will be on
stage running things, giving
away all manner of prizes, you
have the recipe for a great day's
entertainment.

The doors open at 10 30a m
and close at 5p.m. and tickets
on ihe door cosl £2.00
However, C ■ VG readers can

get a 25% discount If they write
In and buy their tickets In
advance -

All you have to do is cut out
my picture on this page and
send It lo me care of C * VC
wtlh a cheque or P/O for £ 1 50
made payable to the
B P B MA. and a s.s.a.e. and
you will receive your ticket
post haste!

An advance ticket entitles
you to priority entrance to the
conference so there will be no
hanging about in a queue
waiting to get In.
• Talking about the B.P.MJL,

ihelr booklet "Gufdr ft? FJUU",
which covers every aspect of
P.B.M. Including playing hints
and tips plus advice is still
available. They have given
away hundreds of FREE copies
to date, so there are only the
odd hundred or so left.
Therefore if you would like to
gel your hands on a FR£E copy
of the guide, just send a s.s.a.e.
to me at the mag and 1 will pass
on your request.

• The C I VG game It's a
Crime has really hotted up. As
1 write, week 14 has just come
into operation and the most
notorious gang is the Crazy
Diamonds with a score of 440
points. They smashed their
way Into the number one spot
by managing la make a
massive notoriety Increase of
98 in one turn Crucial
lawbreafcing guys'

They must have done some
well bad crimes to obtain all
that notoriety at once In fact
they won the biggest notoriety
increase for week 1 4 and were
awarded eight free tunas by
KJ.C. Well done The
Diamonds

However, they have not got
things all their own way.
Satusftst, the previous
leaders of the table are dose
behind in third place, with 413
points and The Loup* of
Green Petty have moved up to
second place with a total of
427. Other gangs previously
mentioned in this column who
are still in the running are The
Sons Of Batman In thirteenth
place with a score of 342 and
The Enforcer*, In nineteenth
place with 3 23

By the way. can anyone tell
me what happened to the
ColbomJ tci who were
previously number one 7 l can
not And a trace of them
anywhere!

If YOUR gang has done
anything of note thai you think
C + VG readers should know,
drop me a line and I will
publish your comments and
spread your rep\\

# For those of you Crime
players that own either a 48k/
123k/ZX Spectrum playing the
game has just become more
easier Andrew Rote has

l>B\Y BY MAIL

Invented a trim* turf mapper
which enables you to build up
a turf map. which can be stared
on tup* Vou can Jay out Y&" 1 "
gangs turf on a map which is
divided Into fifteen by sixteen
blocks. Six blocks are shown
on the screen at any one time,
each displaying, block nu
controlling gang, gang no..,
building types and
percentages, total block
Income plus the all Important
defence level.

Furthermore, you can update
your map by amending the
details and W even prints out
the turf map on a compatible
computer.

If you arc inierested H then
drop me a line at the mag, with
a cheque for £2 , made payable
to Andrew Roic and I will pass
them on

• It Is still possible for you to
participate In the C f VC
version of its A Crime. All you
have to do Is drop me a line,
with your name and address
and I will forward your details
on the K J.C for Inclusion in
the game.

On a final crime note, 1
would advise you that the boss
levels are not to far away and a
good player will already be in a
position to assume the mantle
of a boss Full details of the
boss requirements were
published last Issue, so you
should know them by now!

• There are many Fanzines
covering F B.M and 1 know for
a fact that a lot of you out (here
like reading about the different
P.B.Ms available on the
market and finding out more
about them. Well, I have been
sent a couple of P B M
Fanzines which are well worth
a look.

The first one Is called P.B.M.
Pile and lis debut Issue Is
dedicated soleh/ to It's A
Cifmt, It cover* such topics as
the analysis of orders and
actions. Boss level plus hints
tips and advice. The editor
draws from the real
experiences that he and others
have encountered during the
various games that they have
played, then moulds these
encounters Into solid advice

The magazine Is created on a
Gestecner printer and is 90%
typed and 10% hand written
The actual printing is OK. but
the quality varies from page to
page. Also the spelling leaves a

lot to be desired

However, If you are looking
for a little Light reading on
Crim€ ( then look no further.

New Crime players will find
It an essential buy as It gives so
much away. I particularly liked
the cartoon, ,r Joe Pro", which Is
a series about the adventures
and mishaps of a lone pro In
Crime. If you are interested,
please send a cheque/postal
order for 70p Into the mag plus
a A4 sized 5 s a e All
payments lo be made payable
to Plultp Rankin please.

The next Famine up ts
P B M Send. The Issue I
received is number rwo and it
covers a diverse rang e of
games It concentrates on the
less well known P.B M.s, such
as Aiklmora and Gfinrfar, but
also has short pieces on more
famous games like Saturnalia
The reviews are brief, but to
the point and tike the fanzine
mentioned above, the editor
draws on his actual
experiences in the relevant
games.

It is well produced on A4
photocopied paper and the
printing Is of a high standard
overall It is aimed at the new
player and It promises to be
produced on a Memotech by
next Issue.

Furthermore. It promises to
-ilso contain a billboard where
players arc free io make
general announcements in
forthcoming editions

There are quite a few free
offers, plus reduced start up
prices and is well worth buying
for these alone

An Interesting read and well
worth the 5Qp John Woods Is
asking for it. Again Inie rested
parties should send Lhe
relevant cheques. P/O's and
s.s.a.es to me and I will pass
them on

# Finally this month 1 will
answer one question that
seems lo keep on cropping up
time and time again The
question is TWhy don't you
cover amateur PBM names In
your column?"

The reason for this Is simple
Whilst amateur P B M s are
great fun to play and
sometimes are more value for
money that some so called
professional games, they are
otify run on a part time basis

TTils can lead to some games
achieving cult status and the

word gets around the P.B.M
grapevine that certain games
are fantastic to play as they arc
very cheap and full of Intricate
detail.

Of course loads of people
apply to play sending cheques,
P/O s and the Uke as they warn
to gel in fast and the game has
got a sudden Influx of players
which can number up to L DO
new players

Whilst the more reasonable
amateur games would send the
cheques back , saying that your
application is on a waiting list
for players to drop out so you
can take their place, others
would cash your cheques etc
and try and cope

The person running the
game soon finds out that
working part time and trying to
run a big P.B.M. Is usually
impossible, so the game
disappears and 90% of the
time your money goes with It

Therefore 1 would not like to
send your money off to a
company that couldn't
eventually cope with the
chance that they might lose It.
For example over the Last few
months Spellbinder games has
given the readers some very
special offer and they received
over &00 letters in response.

Being a professional
company they took it in their
snide and dealt with the
requests with no problems
what so ever. However an
amateur company Just couldn't
cope with the demand.

However, I realise thai a lot
of readers oul there want to
play, cheap amateur games
and arv willing to take a
gamble with your money So If
you are interested In playing
amateur games, write in and let
me know, as I am considering
creating an encyclopaedia of
amateur P. B.Ms, which will
give you lull details of the
game, the price, the address
and any other relevant details

I will charge a nominal price
for sending it out and getting it
together So if you are
interested r drop me a Line at
the mag and if there is
sufficient demand I will get
things moving

• Next month is the birthday
of the column and I will be
re reviewing every game
covered \ n all 1 2 issues and
giving away I oads of ba rgal ns ,
Of course, anyone who sends a

birthday card will get priority
treatment!

Some readers have written
In to say that they haven't
received their start up. rule
books and three free turns from
Spellbinder Garnet yet and
other offers thai they seni away
for. Well, dont fr«t + because I
have the answer

The good old P lost a
Large parcel that was sent lo me
from C + VG to my home
address* Three weeks later,
they found It again! On behalf
of the P.O. I apologise for the
inconvenience, but as this was
only one parcel tost out of
about 50 we will let them off
• Are there any P.B.M.ers out
there who fimcy playing P B.M s
from across the Atlantic with
our cousins in the USA? Have
you ever fancied trying playing
postal games abroad, but have
been frightened off by the
rlgmorole and the cash
worries?

Well. 1 am now playing three
US PBMs namely. Warp
Porte* Empire from Enterprise
Gimt i Syitcmi a scl-fl
computer moderate game,
Duel Mailers, a computerised
game of gladllortal learn
combai and The Hypoborian
Wan, which Is a PBM game
licenced by lhe estate of I.E.
Howard and Is set In the period
Inhabited by Conan. Both Duel
Masters and Hypoborian Wars
are run by Reality Simula! Ion*
Inc and all three look very
good Indeed.

If any of you out there, be II
British or overseas players,
who play games that are run
outside your home country and
experience problems. I will be
interested to know what bugs
you lhe most, as well as what
strange and Interesting
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in December- it probably the most original
game concept of the year, Its simple - that
doesn't mean easy- and very addictive.
Programmer John Phillips has written this
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I ebuliiS >S 3 unique game in
which the character you
Iranfool-Pogo-histo
dimb and ultimately destroy a
series of mysterious towers
which rise from the sea on m

Fogo works lor Destructor Inc.
a demolition company given the
job at destroying [he towers.

These lowers are covered with
ledges, lifts and tunnels. Some of
these ledges dlsolve when you
step onto them , plunging Po§0
into the sea r others are slippery
and will semi him shooti ng along
Pogo's progress is further
hindered by (lashing blocks mi
bouncing baits and tee ring eyes
What makes the game so ►

1:THE TOWER OF EYES
Once you have arrived on the
tower go through the tunnel to
your fight To get pasi the Eye
watt until il begins to move
upward then walk underneath and
jump on to the lift, When a
spinning alien appears go up on
the litt , through the tunnel and up
the netf M

Walk right and go up to shoot
the flashing blocks. Shoot the

bouncing ball without getting too
dose.

Now walk up the staircase
avoiding the next Eye. Don't slop
as you II slip backwards Go
through the tunnel, and shoot the
next ball immediate fy Once
you've gone up the next lift you II
find an Eye and a moving ball
below you Wait tin the ball is
bouncing away from you then
drop down and shoot it when it

returns

Once you V* past the Eye. wtf k
to the end and tali through several
dissolving ledges to get to the
neat lift

At the top of the lift jump right
over a dissolving ledge and go
through the tunnel When you
reach the last tunnel wait lor the
spinning alien to appear before
walking to the finish door.
2: REALM Of ROBOTS

When you reach the first robot go
up the lift next to it and wait unfit
it moves down before jumping
gvei. The Mart few robots are
fairly straightforward lo pass The
Fourth one requires good timing
to jump over. Alternatively you
can wail on the ledge next to it
and a spinning alien will come
along and knock you down a

special is thai when Pogo climbs
the tower rotates, The 3D
scrolling has to be seen to be

Rjghl, over to John Ptiitlips for
his taps

General Hints and Tips
• The key to completing a tower
is to team the most efficient route
10 me finish . For the first few

is s iratghtforward
However' the later lowers give
several choices, some of which
lead to dead ends Make a map

• Make a note ol where the
dissolving ledges are Some need
to be avoided by jumping over
them. Others have to be fallen
through to get anywhere,

• Oncol Ihe main hazards are

the spanning ^^aliens which
fly across the screen. These can
easily be avoided by careiul use of
the tunnels If one appears when
you near a tunnel entrance, wait
until the alien Is fairly close to you
then walk into the tunnel By the
time you come out the other side
you should have avoided it The
spanning aliens usually appear

when ttwrs aren't many other
aliens around so you should tie
able to predict their appearance
• Shoot all of the bouncing balls
and flashing blocks as you'll get
an extra bonus for each on
completion of a tower You also
get technique bonuses 1 1 you
don't get knocked oft ledges

level. You can then walk und*f +
the robot.

So up the Irft and straight
through the next tunnel. Go up
the next bit ftul this time avoid the
tunnel as there's nothing on the
other side. The final lift is under a
dissolving ledge.
3 TOAP OF TRICKS
This may seem impossible at first

sight as you can 'I go anywhere
walking through the tunnel and
using the first lift Try moving to
the right and then wamng

Further up there s a lift blocked
by several flashing blocks. Go left
around me tower to remove these
but look out for the alien further
up before using the lift, To
negotiate the series of tunnels
wart until the alien is coming
towards you

4: SLIPPERY SLIDE
Once you've gone up the first i.tt,
shoot the flashing block to your
right before moving left. To
remove the flashing blocks
further up you'll have to go
through several tunnels
5; BROKEN PATH
Go right up the first Wt and pnce
past the bouncing hall shoot the
flashing block to your left before
dropping down to the next lilt.

When you reach two lifts under
dissolving blocks drop on to the
first lilt (but don't use it)

Shoot the flashing blocks and
drop right on to the staircase. Go
up again and jump over to the
second lift When you vs used
this continue left until you're
between two aliens Shoot the
flashing block then Jump to the
right of the aliens . Drop down to
the right on to the next lift

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CAPTAIN E>L^?P

We arc all laid to seeing Averts
Mi of elkhes like 'stretches the ST
to the tamtf wkJ claims such as
'the ben graphics yet seen on a
corrptrf*^ -. (n most cases sueh
daims prove to be ittUe more man
marfcetins hype, and tiro* days
people Hike less notice of bold
statements fcn adverts or on the
package, and quite rightfy so.

However, if you see any
superlatives used in conjunction
with a new ST and Amrga release
entitled Capi atn Blood they may
well be true.

Stood ts the creation of fXdicr
ioucfionofEfelnformat^qtM,
publishers of Crafton (Gti Dexter),
Doomsday Blues, and a brace of
other titles over the past three
yean.

It All started when a down-on-
hts-lutk games programmer named
Boo Moriock, bumped fcnto Charles
Darwin in the street Later, over a
drink, they set talking about aliens.

Captain Blood looked out on
what Appeared to be tn*
Andromeda system The inside of
the Ark was l qyht^jv done up by
the progr 3fn r exacts m Moriock
had coded rt

Just then Blood noticed a large
number of menacing looking Mips
heading towards the centre of the
radar display. . le ftraight for the
Ark, Honfc, The AhYsB*o-
Const tousness cotnputer
confirmed thqtow* °*
attacked by a pack of fifth
generation rnwfc' ft^tm.

There was or* one Wag to do,
set the het* oue of there, and
Just « the An\ plunged tato gjfc
hyperspacc, it was rocked M|
fjgwtffc a*ptos:,on

Lighi years away 4 the Art floated
around serenely while Honk
assessed the damage It turned out
that, Ape to the explosion, the
muippleicer had failed during bV
me creation and

:ry of a female Oohql
creature spends its
foaming the
, Mfcough nobody Is quite
sure*

Anyway, this part* uiar Oooa
was ofriously in some distress
because A was sending out an SOS

system, which automatic airy
highlights for use, those that it
senses will be understood by the
being you're talking to Thts also
ataws for a qurcfc assessment of
what type of creature you're
dealing with
Just as on Earth, there was

It turns out that al lensjwvc been
here eH the time . -computer
^ames. *s Darwin put rfc "They're
here ?&: people a|e reproducing
m millions, They aofciairy exm*

Bin

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up and,
It v. as then
proa/ame

being to saw

Ytfhile Moriocltj
absorb the
revtJatfton,
never to be
thatMoriock
new mastered^ elf
woukf create g jyp

e from the alien;
- Plater te had ere
the Aft* a vessel with an cm-board
computer called Bio-
Cortsci^iincss The Ark was
i under Bob MOnc
uier c autfe - Cflpt.
tf s mis&on was to fight evil
ved unrvtrse
-lna% the day came ro enter the
1 -si'--, mentOus instruct icn RUN
T hen Bob Modoc k dMnoeare d

subsequent.:

exact ctorten
Blood

The worst news, though . was
that the cJonbg process tnggcred
a gradual degeneration Ni in*
original Blood His only hope was
to travel the ga laxy m search of all
the clones in order to recover f
vrtalltfef1u»d

In the meantime Honfc was busy
create a number of bomc
supports designed to back up
Mood's faring 'life system One
alter the other, h*s vital tofts would
toe replaced oy attifitiat organs

*9<ood smuggled < ourageousJy
ajjainsl a fonhidaWe force
summons g him to become a
whoty^thefic befcrrg, a robot*

During the ne* i£OG yean Stood
managed to find #1 but rive of ha
clones Some time ago r>ow H Ms
task was helped enormously by

upon it So the Unf ortunate

. duly t^e ported into the
Fn^tornim (it w« roftstdden to
tetcporl creatures abroad
thy were imiiiii^i >■<>

It 'wasouri r>g Honk's Initial
cxam»ntion of the now frozen
Qqtzz that tx made hfo «i
important disOqwry It tumed out
that, with a tinv ut of geneucai
ts nkenng. Honk c ouid aiter the
Oonor't € 351 and produce a whole
new ftntratAon q| Oonqt bio*

rnKsile*

The baby Qorms c oukj then be
trained to land -*« planets and go
on vLicide mi* >n$ for BhxnJ, who
would be able ;o see through
theif eyes and control them
remotely from the safety & his
padded armchair in *u ArK. which
i tse 1 r was far too bulcy to land
anywhere , somuchfer
Moriock's prograrnmingl

©Lihngthieniuingce
Wocxiwflsa^etovisjtcountJcss
pianets, using the Oontx He rhet
many aliens, some fhendK some
drstprvcuy hostile Blood was able
tocr*nmunicatewitha<iif»ese
otens ui*hg UKOh UrHvenaJ
Protocol. ComniLinrtiatron JPCOM
was concemd by Hor*; to
overcome the difficulties Of
corrversrhg with people - and
things! - who used different
Ienwga9e$.

Hon* s m&erwoui
icons to signify wc
aN there are tftS iconfvl

afways some creature that needed
a favour, perhaps some
Information or even a kft to a
ihSJtarsYitem

Of course, when there are
s to be founds you never do
sorr^ thing for nothrng, and Wood
trfped favours for information
which, he hoped, would lead him
to yet more of hts elusive clones
he is se eking

makJim Copt&n {Hood 4 on
adtrenfa* e r arcade, and strategy
^ime all tound mto one massive
universe. Those parts that are
al ready playable are simply
awesome

QnarecCf ' 'npio France to see
how rjtfpn^tct w« progressing., I
was taUfcn on a whistle-stop tour
of one of the jane's many
jilaxies We saw countless planets,
each wjgi Hi own distinctive land-
maises, tias, and mountains,
woven tnto a fractal generated
tapestry of colour

WT^nyou^dowfi -^toa
planet you are prese/i^ed with a
first person view of mountains,,
cenyoro and hWs - it'sas smooth
as any commercial firjhtsJmulator

Alter pla^ng Captain Blood for
tour noun \ was left tetany
drained^ just me the teeing
Set afKr seeing a realty movlf .3 or

lhiscoutcK?<thetMii> tofinajs^
persuade yytf to splash exit on in
Am.gn If you already tW€ one
don't >ei Copt An Stood pass

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• 1987 has definitely been the
year 16 tut machines cam* of age,
although sadly th e same cannot be
said of all 16 bi! pr ogrammen*.
There arc still too many weak
conversion* of average eight bst
games dropping onto my desk
The success fortes this year have
mostly been about companies
brave enough to forego the
financial security of having an eight
bit version m the bag first

EnftlthStfnMfe'iOSaH
AudSc*genkVrripacr Microdeali
Go*drunne/ H PsygnosiV
Terratpods, Minorsoft'sDercncleT
o/fhe Crown, Tyiwsoft'tPfutos,,
Infogrammci ' JOT, Elr ctronk Art s
Deluxe series, and Ralnbirds
Star^f^er are all programs that are
only available on, or were first
released tor, 16 bit machines

The eneefctfusffis new* *or fre 51
and Amiga owner, is that not only
are more publishers entering the
1 6 bit arena, but a greatly
increased percentage of their
forthcoming releases are 16 bit
only projects.

This is good news for
programmers wno can finalty let
their creative hair down and show
us what tfw 1 re reaKy capable of tt
rs great news for Atari and
Commodore who are , after all,
reliant to a greaser or lesser
degree, on third party software
support to scW their machines

But most of all, it is excellent
news for the buying public who,
dunng the coming twelve months,
are likery to be treated to a steady
flow of high quality games that
stretch the ST and Amiga to the
I knit.

• For anyone who hasn't yet
decided what they're going to gfre
their ST or Amrga for Christmas, pin
back your wallets and come with
us on a journey through 16
bftJand Whether its Xmas presses
you're after, or ways to spend all
that lovely Christmas lolly, st)Ck
with us for the definitive run-down
on the latest (and some of the
hate) ST and Amiga goodies

• First stop rs Act hWon, one of
the first companies to produce 1 6
bit same s The Amencan games
giant are due to release a number
of tiOes over the coming months
Most notable amongst these are
KnfghtnMn {ST), based on the TV
program of the same name,
Enduro Racer (ST), Rampage [ST),
andThexdor (ST/Am), designed
by Game Art! in Japan where rt ft
reputed to have sold m txte*sof
SOO.OOQ copies

• Watch out atso tor i new
Irrfbcom title called lorder lone
yet another adventure fr om
Actlvtsion's prolific sister company,
this time set in fast Germany on
the Berlin W*« at Checkpoint
Charlie- *. heavy s&jM

• Addictive Garnet is releasing
The lye (ST), based on the board

pro/Id

game of the same name, and
should m^e the ST version of
football Manager ready soon

• Budget merchant Anco is
chipping in with three Arnica
stocking filters aH pneed £9 95
They are The Final Irip, Vader .
both vertKfl^ shooters, and Of-
Fruit, a cross between
Bouteterttonh andD?s 0u$. Anco
has also re lease d their tint Gold
Range game enbrJed Sky fighter,
yet another vertical shoot emup,
thktimefar£1*95.

• Fans of Arcana i excellent tnvia
board game Power May will be
pleased to hear of its imminent
arrival for the ST and Arnica The
Bristol based company is also
releasing a three part space
shooter celled Mart Coos
sometime eany in the new year.

o*d Synapse C64 game, Fort
Apocarypse Unfortunately
Spaceport is far less playable than

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its four year-o4d predecessor

• Cascade will soon be launching
ST conversions of its two most
recent garner ActS end
Implosion while Codemasters has
promised BMX, Pool, and Grand
Pn x Simulators on both formats
before the end of the year.

• C.D,S, has released ennwtstor^

• By now Argus Preis^ submarine
simulation, The Hunt for ted
October (ST- Anu Should be on
the streets eased on Tom Clancy's
novel of the same name, the game
casts you as flit commander of
Russia's most advanced mrssa^
submarine, Red October, which is
heading for the US to detect your
m won h to reticle jvcjys with the
American navy ^ although the
Russians have other ideas'

• Argus is also releasing T ertoawji
(ST) and Pfdand [ST Am), throu#t
their subuouary Oifkkilrva

" Ucenjedfrom the Nance*' Atari
coin-op, PacJand is a cartoon stifle
s#t on Pac's home island
resolves to help a lost
he/ way home to
Alfeether now p
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• Putne? based Arlotasoftis
entenng the 1 ft oit stage via the
back door with a couple of
German imports from Micro
Partner, botft priced £19,99.
MHsloa Elevator ( ST Am t is an
upbeat version of the eight bit hrt,
while Spaceport is a np-ofl of the

..' ftrian ctough'* Football
Fo rtune* [ ST/Am), the board and
computer game sports simulation
that supposedly put* Footbatt
M&rj*$tt in the-ihade
• Meanwhile DonurSc are gearing
themselves op for the release of
Star Wan iST/Am}, based on

• the mighty Electronic Arts ts
putting the final touches to two
new 16 bit titles Ferrari Formula
One (Am) isaoetarleddnvtng
simulation That allows you, not
only to race a Ferrari FV86 around
16 of the world's yeatest tratla^
but also to monitor and control
tyres, ujsotnsion, wjng settings,
turbo boost, even the chipf, used
mi the engine management wtem

Although nit yet ftnfcshed,
Fe rrari looks lite being an accurdle
and graphically very impressive
arcade emulation, suitable for
budding Monselts everywhere.

everybody s fawe com-op. The
preview version looks pretty good,
and plays and sounds )ust tike the
cxijiMi, even down to the
sampled speech,
• Ton k Tiles is yet another
Breakout clone, this time
programmed m France and
released over here by fhe Edge
Wes features arguably the best
graphks and animation of all such
clones so far

EA's second new release is Test
Drt*t ISWAffl) This Accolade
production puts you behind the
wnce! oHrve of the wood's fastest
and nasr^est road cars, from a
Porsche 91 1 turbo to a Ferran
Testa* ossa Each car's dashboard to
tovin^ry reproduced in exact
detail, and the programmers claim
to have reproduced the handling
of each car as well

As withferrart formula One* Ihi*
gam* is graphicaRy superb,
although the road gets fairly
m^TKrtonous after a white Thrs rs a
game for freaks who went to see
how far they can push some of the
worid s greatest cars, not tor those
iooking for another Me Position.

Good news eJso for Amiga
Artists £A has brought the price of
Deluxe Paint 1 down to a very
reasonable £49 95 Upgrading
ttxmDP&ntl toWaArTt U will only
cost you £B99S

• EJKc has four 1 6 bit titles on the
tops, including the cLassJc Space
Hvrtcr tST) which is already at
playable demo stage and looking
good lattkships 1ST Am), iuggy
lay (ST) should be available soon,
and you can expect Thundercati
early neict year Watch out for full
reviews of some of Elite's games in
neat months ST and Amiga speoat

• ^I^Hte on from the success
Qttn«iritfft ST same O-Aall {now
4JSO available /or the Amiga),
fngflih Software ha^ re leased an
Amiga version of Uieir ei^t bit hit,
U*f*than Ester control,
Chanced graphrcs and sound
effects, togethc* «imai ■ \ ■
dn^ beat in Uie tockgnCHjnd
make this easiy the best veision
yet of English * diagonal wroHe r

After the dtsdopoirtin^ Golden
Pttfi and the Jarce surrounding
che launch, or otherwise, of star

T r*k f fmrbw d is m re Qd of a
/h>bit hrb to;e cstflbfeft some
form or crecHpiJrty. ^rtwatery ?o<
mem:Fir**?ird own the right* to
t ootory the be^ t same dtfQfl,
Sentinel which has now bfen
^Utilised for tt-ie ST: Anyone **ho
ha* not ptayed UhiJIferOoeyi't £
know what tr^f^pfisins

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Rytog Shark, together wMfi new
*ta, Mack Lamp a? *1 §*dc*Hse
wh#t r> It being prosr^mned by
Steve lefc of Goldiunner raffle.
• After the ratrw disappointing
10 Galax, n ti to be ho£ed thdt
Gremlins Porthcorrimptf releases
wW be more impressive .in the

D*fle*rtor and Night Raider
described by Gremlin a* "the
ultimate flight simulator/shoot "em-
upfl

• Infogramntes and Its aster
company Ere trtforwiattfjiMj ha^e
been steadily bunding up a
catalogue of 1 6 bit titles over the
post year One of their first
releases was Grafton and Xunk
(sometimes known as Get
Ddrtef ), and now Grafton II -
Crystal Angel is almost ready for
release.

Set on a stra n ge new pi a ne t .
you will visit temples, houses,
cottages,, and underground
caverrre, as well as roam around
lush, plan! covered, gardens, Thrs is
one of those isometric arcade
adventures where almost
jverythins moves or does
something useful or dangerous
Grafton II is for more playable than
te pretfe c cssor, with many more
more puz zta s r and no

pieftSpuf Watch out for a lull
W^iew of this and news of another
(grammes release Onh Gtrett
in next month's C < VG-

• ArjKrtne* Fr each £ ampany,
Lorldfk, ate rjflipin^ Sapieni
1 S T 'i, a beaut [fylAw nte d
^aphicai adNt*^< which,

a c cord^fl the Press release
*h*s mor* man three million
different sttes, obtained by
devtfopinq algorithms of fractal
vision m Perspective* A nice
f cautfe with thij game is the ability

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motorbike game,, and Bob Winner
(ST), a combat orientated arcade
adventure set a^atnst digitised
backgrounds of Pans, London and
New York

One of the mo** prolific English
companies in the 1 6 brt market is
Mlcrodeal who plan to launch a
handful of new titles either s*de of
Christmas. *Aost notable amongst

show, Nwarjtn promised the
game, in its final form, would be
released not long after Hopefulry,
b^y the time you read this, you will
have had a chance to sampJe the
delight* of thrs superrasi, though
mindless arcade blast,
• U.S. Gold has released a slick
looking submarine simulator called
Blue War, m wttfcctt you get the
chance to captain a U3° sub and
its 3S crew. Vour rTHssion is to seek
out and destroy as rnarry enemy
shipsandsubsasyoucan The
game features many ^aphicalry

these arc Insanity Hun I Am}, a Ml
screen vertical snoot em up with
plenty of flashing colours, great
graphic design and lots of things of
various sizes to blast at and kill, in
February mic rode a l ptan to launch
a coretfuction set which 0am
players to build their own Ansarofy
Sun game.

Other seasonal offerings from
Mttrodeal Include FH^ht Nl^ht, a
horror game H licenced from

Columbia Pictures, and urfikti,
we're told, rs best played In Che
dark, tf ypu don't fancy a spot Of
gore, try toaihemecki- its a
CommdrtdO style arcade shoot
' em-up wfth sujL'f rb sampled

excellent screens, fuir of
instruments, diats, and a host of
icon driven controls.

The ST version of the very
additive SotoAons Key should
be available by December, but
early next year US. Gold h really
brkung out the big gum with
Gauntlet If ( ST- Am j and Outrun
(ST/Am) r both expected before
Easter Other trttes to look out for
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Cflptflin America,. Wizard Won,
Handball, Impossible Mission II,
and California Garnet reputed to
be Epyx's best selling game of all
time

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swelling ranks of 16 bitter? a*c
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owners for many months Now
XO« 15 ava daole for the C64 And
Mart ST

The game comets of tS graded
maies, each more cunrtng than

the lost By c ompieiang each of the
ftrti fourteen mazes, you wiH get
fourteen tetters- that form on
anagram fiut ail w not as it seem*
as these letters are alio coded,
thus perhaps A =E of C - H. It is
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that the code Is revealed,, swing
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thteldfc; that can be moved under
certain condluons, dictated by the
other elements m the maze

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part of the maz e f and you often
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that they can work in harmony to
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problem*.

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every masfe of XOft you find. ThJk
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logical deduc tl on as you Pffl^I
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mazes include ouclo^
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Ktanarama on a 8 bit system,
perhaps you remember the
amazing, yellow ar>d blue
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ptaasetf to n^aF that
marked its entry into
arena with an excellent
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space thingy, you hove been given
the day off . . tomorrow. Today^
however, you ve got some
cleaning up to do it seems that
someone, somewhere wants the
old space highway! re -opened
and rnuggjns has got the job

Sack m the old days highways
weren't the serene, safe plates of

today. No, then the routes were
booby- trapped and armed with
laser turrets, not to mention black
holes, magnetic zones and

negative gamma particles.

To lave space, highways used to
be bu»lt using me pipe principle
So, instead of an the lanes being
laved out flat like an ordinary road,

pU^ejvIix

they were wrapped round onto
the inside of a tube.

As you Advance along eacl^
htgfrway, the computer display
dMde* each approaching section
of road into tile -like vectof-
graphic sections, wfrfch represent
the possible uaiectones open to
you Miss these tiles Arxi you "Jl end
up m that great bathroom In tne
Jkyl

AJthough there are some tiles,
such as energy givinf f e d ones,
that are actually worth steering
over, most arc to be avoided at au
costs. Take purplcTOes, to
example, these friendry anu-matief
zones wiH end yOut,Me m a flurry
of sparVs. no questions asked

Then ttwe are Green tfta which
cause you to lose cfcrr&o* foe a few

precious seconds, while blue tiles
tfrain your energy.
Later stretches of highway

contain tiJes that spin round the

insMrir of The tut* lUCik Urrnn$ is

neQufred to get past these
obstacles, of course, even if you

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either clockwise or cnti-ckxkwrse,
there will be many other times
when you can only turn in one
direction to Stay alrvej so
perfecting a route through each
level is essential.

If you dke F you can use Phoenix's
replay mode, toorteotrsy of an
in-flight video recorder

Although some people nave

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blasted to smithereens by a laser
turret, or fall into one of the many
black holes cunningly placed Just
where you don t want them

So the object of the game « to
steer the Phoenl* arountfthc
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to the nght o71^| ^yakeep
on the Ules

Although some tmW you wW be
aoJ« to thwart danger by turning

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thing of the past; this style of
presentation can sbR work when
used property, and Phoenix is a
perfect cumplc of a simple,
though well thought out and
neatly presented vector graphics
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filled graphics to make it fun to
play.

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there will some tiles stifi with two
6its of track, otf eft with one, and
fcL^ome will harvt be* tfapellfd over
^ Diamond twice and wH! thus be \ttfri "

Games has been guilty in the past
of releasing sub-siandard product
such as their abysma^jchess
program Ch€ckm&t*//r

Thts time they have come up
with an ongrnal and enjoyable
little game that win appeaf 16 many
of the puzzlers amongst you

Diablo is based on the old
mosaic puzzle, which consists of a
matrix of jumbled up tiles, each
with a portion of a pattern or
picture The pattern can be
restored by sJkjtng the i
vertjcaiy or hpneoniBliy: .

«nO*aoiath"ematrottsi
of 1 1-0 ulev each i
pieces erf track. Ati
game, a ball appears t
the screct\ and starts rcdiu
:he oracle f

Each ume the ball * oils from one
tile tome next, the track on the
trte * has just left disappears

So, as the game pro^fessejp*-

The aim of the game is to gude

the ball over every piece of track;
thus cleaning e very tile on the
screen. The problem rs that not
every piece of track Inks to
another piece on an adjacent tile

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and, for the first part of each level,
,r you must also stop the ball from
rolling off the edge of the screen,

To do this you can manipulate
tiies r just as in the anginal pu z t\t t
by hiding them into the 'trleless*
square on the screen,

wTienjpu can see there is a
1on$ stfffch of "joined up" track
ahead, you can make the ball roil
faster to save time, although it fas aH
too fasy to suddenly discover the
batfna* got nowhere to go with
little o< no time to do anything
about it

With plenty of screens, and a
random track generator thrown in
for good measure, DSablo should
keep £T owners arouse d for long
enough to jus*f the £1 « « price
tag. But at £19 95 #fe Amiga
version is riot stitfi gp&d value It's
d lesson companies are going to
to le am if the Ami^l Is r ea liy
-going to take off as it thould do
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So Often me compute r version of a
board games leaves you with the
dt^rj/Kt pn^pres$Jon that me
on ginal was far more fun anyway,
so why did they bother. On*
notable exception to mis rule was
Tnvj#t ftifsurr, which is now
ava liable on the ST.

Although the success of the
computer game has obviously
beta In part, due to the tmaiing
popularity of me onginat board
game , the wefl thought out
implementation and cute screen
presentation together with the
addition of music 4nd picture.
questions have definitely helped
givt DoiriflfH a well deserved rut

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overpriced, but a
kit all the same So
ask, docs that haWlS
AmJ3a tennis game 1 WeU on* of
the most popular cartflp§|^ft
me inteHevpsion ten** was tffc^
term game, a graphically p*easini
and surprisingly prfayabfe little
number *

At me risk of upsetongriAi? me
known universe^, \ still" reckon tfral
no tennis game s&nc%
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effort which is
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four is the colour of the court a^^
changes^? clay or contrary
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service lff*e, anlfyour pte^er i$
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range, ^ou^nfss tne button
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Bubbles are definitely in at the
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Firebird j excellent Bu&wt &ob&€

than infograrrimes cnip »> with

flubote Ghost

Luckily the two games t\&v€ very
little tn common except that they
both ^ve the word "bubtrte 1 »n
their titjc and ire both fun to pUr

In fact Bobbie Ghost features
one ghost, namely you r and one
bubble The bubble In question is
your soul, which ha* unfortunately
been separated from your body, rf
you can call it that Your soul is so
light and fragile mat it hat taken on
the appearance of a bubble and,
as bubbles ^o, it win burst when
prodded, or even touched, by
anything sharp.

The scene s a giant odd castle.
decked out with the latest m
surrealist hi^-tech equipment
bristling with sharp e c^e s U n lake
your soul, you can move through
any of the objects in the castle's
rooms without danger The onry
way you can be reunited with your
soul t$ to blow the bubble out of
Ehe castle, by gmdtng it past ail the
nasty bits in each of the marry
rooms,

Each room is seen from the side,
the graphics being simple but
effective For this type of game. The
rooms ore variously decked out
with futurist* looking heads,
pointed lances that go in and out
of the walls, and crystals (sharped-
edge of course) that pulsate.
growing and then shrinking,
inviting you to try and pass them
before they grow again,

Many g# U?* hazards c^n ^
removed by cunningly blowing in

the nght place Take fans, for
example- These have an annoying
tendency of blowing your bubble
off course, invanably into
something pointed A quick puff
on a fans power pack wHi take the
wind out of its sails for good,
allowing you to pass safely

Other 'blowable' harzards
include trumpets and candles,
Whe reve r you find a trumpet,
there's ft fair chance that the
contains a seemingly impassai
object or hazzard &y blown
your own trumpet' the chaj
ere that you can remove
the haxxard leaving
exit the room.

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What you dlo fes move the ghost
round the room with your mouse,
using the left and ng N buttons to
rotate it cither clockwise or anti-
clockwise Being a ghost, you are
impervious to an the shmp edges
which are so riamagj rig to the
bubble, so you can move freely,
passing through objects and
haxxards in true ghostlike fashion

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poution tire ghost alongside it and
press the shift button. The bubbfe
wWi then be blown away from the
ghost. Thus, if you want to blow
the bubble up, you must posi u on
the ghost below it, pointing
upwards before Wowing

The jelly *like animation of the
bubble , as it floats across the
screen is superb r and when it pops
it actually looks like a bursting
bubble. The ghost character is
equally impressive, especially
immedtatery following the loss of ^
bubble when it frowns and i
hands on its hJps accusingly,
say "you careless waJly!'

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good but not stunning, I
sound effects ere <
average for the ST
along the bottom \

shows your score, lives remaining,
room number, and high score

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with women For whaler r reason.
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prude ntty selecting beginner"
fr ofri die options at the bottom of
the screen

The drawtsridfe drops, letting
you enter the castle antechamber
From here door* lead off in tour
directions and stairs lead upwards

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rooms before you get a crack at
pwKnigjit

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and keyboard, and can be
pnrusins to begin with. But
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prisoners will shake their heads,
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because a ten ton weight w*W
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whip you. Even then you still have
to contend with rats, guards and
vultures as you dims and jump
your way to the exit at the top of

the screen. AAd this is just one
room'

The graphics arc excellent yet
sum piay second fiddle to the
amazing sound effects, f at ail
possrble, you should ptav this
game weanng headphones or with
your Anuria hooked up to your
stereo, it's worth shelling out for
the extra cables

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Golds last arcade conversion as
with level one, you could be
forgiven for believing you were
playing a Commodore 64 same
rather than an ST game,

Shame, as the Spectrum and
Amstrad versions were pretty
good looking 1

At the end of the tunnel lies The
Tempfe Of Doom, and level three
Here Indy must find the tost

Ankara stone, wrncn has been

hidden in rront or Kali, the lour
armed goddess of death Having
retrieved the stone r it's back to
the mine; caverns and a repeat of
level one
lndv must recover three stones
fore escaping across the
herous rope bridge

th«» a conversion
■hi arcade game , Paraxon
Software has done little more than
produce in acceptable rather
p thana deurejbic piece of software.
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CARRE&-

This is advanced war, 9 lit Century style. The
danger to human life is kept to a minimum as
remote controlled, planes, ships and tanks
battle for victory. This is the world of Carrier
Command from Rainbird* David Bishop kept a
safe distance from the war zone and filed this
report,

The tifM i$ tat 91 st Century
The place is an archipelago of
M islands somewhere in me
Pacific ocean. The mission ts to
overthrow the enemy few tes tfusl
ore, even as you read this,
mounting numerous attacks on the
few islands you stiM control,

Because of the danger to human
life, warfare in the 2 1 st Century hat
become a very much more refined
and remote affair, One
consequence is that almost all
naval, aerial, and land bated
engagements now tnvorve remote
controlled planes and tanks Long
gone are the days when there
were real people inside That
would be far too dangerous Wars
there stiM are, but at least the/re
safe wars 1

T N s is me world of Carrier
Command. A spectacular new
game created by Realtime
Software (of $in&nk* I and if and
SttffOM tame ), base d on an idea by
Clare * Arcade Action' Edgeiey. CC
is a mixture of arcade and strategy,
neatrv ble nded into a i ast moving
game of quick reflexes, both
mental and physical

Although the original concept
w« not their own, It was left to
Realtime to take the initial outline
*nQ develop a fully fledged game
Irom a coiecuqn of ideas.
Realtime s Ian Oliver tmcJte-

firebird fa*ed the original spec to
us at the end of February At that
time, the game existed on two and
a half sides of A4. Since then, the

design has developed in parallel
with sfie programming we Ve
already got f J J.000 lines of code
which makes rt one of, if not the
targes* 68000 gam* program to
date*

At the start of the game, both
slides rwc the same forces
consisting of four jet ftgfrteri p
amphibious tanks, and drones,
and an aircraft carrier t ACC ) fitted
with the latest in laser turret
technology.

All (ftis deadly hardware tends
to get mto a myriad erf tricky
situations such as being blown out
Of the sky, Or sunk without li aC*
Luckily you're sitting smug, wei |
fairly smug anyway, m your central
control room secreted deep in the
heart of your ACC Here you are
immune from attack, irtwtf
course your ACC is sunk, wen I amy
said f airty smug 1 ^ ?

your ACC k most vulnerable to
attack by surface to surface
missiles, launched either by the
enemy's tanks, or by istano based
missile installations luckily you
start me game wtth four drones,
whose only rwton hartrfmnctj ts
to get destroyer* by missies that
would otherwise hff^ hit the ACC
To thrs end, you can manipulate
your drones so that they arc
between you and the most likely
direction from which an attack wM

occur. There are a number of
preset drone configurations you
can cafl up, or you can place each
one individually around the ACC

Each pwc e of your arsenal Is
Pitted with an orvboard camera, so
you can caN up a plane , for
example, and My it « if you were
actually stttfrg m the c odsprt
Once that plant is on course or tn
a holding manoeuvre, rou can
leave ft and can coil up another
plane or tank elsewhere on the
map

Both plane* and tanks start their
life iosJdc the ACC Tanfci«wst out
of OH Me* tferrf »Mfr planes
tad fretn tfte ACC hanger onto the
internal lift which brings them up
onto deck ready for take oft. The
vwwtasKle the hanger will show
anyuniaunched for newly bum)
planes waiting patiently to be
taken into battic

Due to the communications
sate I hie s m use, Hie effective
remote control range of planes
and tanks >s a mere 15 hflometf**
radkis from your ACC fly out of
range and you ~n start hearing
italic, Unless you turn back, you
risk losing a plane for ever, which is
seve/ery uncool

Although you can send each of
your rour planes off in different
direction), there will be times
when you want them all to go to

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the same place at the same time.
fry enter ing far ma^on mode, you
tan 'slave' one Of more of your
places to a master, whK h you fly.
Until released, thc^iave plane* will
Hthatttw
Mlg ssthey
fct shot down, te runout of fuel
Both planes, tanks, ar>d the ACC
can be arrTicci with various
different weapon* for long and

The AtC also boasts a turret
mounted, short range laser
cannon of awesome power This b
used to take out aenal targets,
stuped enou^i to fty too close, The
laser cannon can also be used to
pick off shore targets, but only
when the ACC r* close enough to
an inland to be a target itself,
unksi of course, you have already
destroyed mat island's missile

short range warfare Tanks are launchers.

fined with a front mounted hrgnm. Planes can be equipped with

pOwerAqw t *nge chemical laser Neither a low power/snort range

that needs recharging every 40
v*aofi Fank? can also be equipped
writi shod range w^e-guided
missiles They are afcso ifCHir onry
means of Uamoorting both virus
□ocnbs, of wftlen more later, and
autd>cenirol centre buildings,
usee} to replace adesfroyed
conudt centre on an island

Because your ACC ii so vital to
the cause, a* well as being
Incredibly expensive, it is ** ell
protected wUi dual anb-missiie
systems hrit the riAa%M
tflectronic Counter Measure 3 ,
which sends up a cloud of rnetaic
panicles ae signed to confuse the
rarja* fuktoncf t>-stern* of any
meonting mis.s\ile Secondly, the
ACC is' equipped w*feh antj-rfitssjJc
missile* that are autornaticafry
launched at any approaching
danger v ^\

laser tused for strafing ground
tmts). or the tat&w to drop
TOrttovon tisane target albeit
s tf th Hrnited pavload capacity.
Planes can a iso be fitted with
medium range heat seeking
missile^ useful against other
aircraft

kiflddroorfa plane cm carry a
tong range communication pod,
which wiH allow it to fly beyond
the normal rang* of 15 Momctres
from the ACC, M| giving it more
autonomy to 4AMhe the enemy
funjieralkld. \

And when you took at the
magnitude of the map
wonder fl rang range pgfl had tor
be developed The 64 tfands &e
Spread over a vast soubre JW gnej
Each of the 54 smaller squares in
the grid it the equivalent to S00
kilometres across The entire mad

would take about two hours to fly
across, and a lot longer to sail

With a playing area of th*s sue, it
soon becomes apparent that this
■sn'l just a straight arcade 3ame
■where you zap over a ti tchy map
shooting at things willy n illy -
although this one approach 1 ! Death
and destruction there rs 4 but this is
more your designer carnage that
something out of Rambo VII
#w Of the 64 islands, some are in
the hands of the enemy (shown as
J s>n the map!, some «r^ under
ur control (blue), but the

majonty start the game as neutral
(green } , Controlling an island has
two distinct benefits. Firstly, H
means there's one less m the
hands of the enemy and therefore
one less to capture, and secondly
it can be used for the production
of resources

On green, unaligned Islands, you
can Install a defence program;
which win set about creating a
Building Control Centre which co-
ordinates the production of
resource generating installations
on the island. Such tabulations
include oil wetts, for the
production erf fuel resources, and
mines, for the production of
mineral resources for spat* parts
etc Not ail tstands will be capable
of producing alt types of
resources Some, for example, will
only be capable of supporting oil
mines,

Unless you are either very quick
or very lucky, taking an enemy
isiand wiU involve the damage or

destruction of some, if not all, of
That Island's installations Until
damaged or hitherto unbuilt (in
the case of newly taken neutral
islands J isJand installation* are fully

: t ionai f no resources wH be
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improving and my aim is to have a
p«k at the arcade scene for
Am^a owners.

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that supply Amiga arcade product
m the UK at present, Electronic
ArtsyActlvisk*vUS GotcVPsYgno*^
MinroRoftHainbifclTyneioft and
the joint effbrts of Melbourne
House and Mastertronic.

I am covering four main
categories, shoot em up arcade
advertture/sport simulations and
mJiceManeoLis

In the shoot em up catagofy
there is no shortage of smooth
scrolling blaster*, indeed that is
the problem, there are too many.
You are faced with the choice of
Gofd&iimer, Typhoon, Phrtos,
Xenon and Chatfe/iser AJI have
superb graphics and good
dtgftised sound and the aim is the
same, kill the aliens and keep
moving'

The pick of the bunch are
Pkitos, GoWryrinerand (coming
soon) Xenon. These are all what
you would term in the state -of-
the-art bracket, wtth tfw pick of
the graphics and gameplay
options.

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game in the fterendc^style called
Space Ranker but see Hot Gossip
for an assessment.

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the Amiga at present i$Star$rdcr
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The Amiga games scene has been developing at
a furious rate In recent months. The Amiga is THE
machine in terms of tech spec but to a large
degree ft had been ignored by UK software
houses. But the recent price drop to £499 and
the expanding UK and US markets mean more
product is coming through. Tony Takoushi tells
it as it is, i *t*

for ail Amiga owncn. ft hes very
fast 3-D action n-pi a gooo
measure of strategy 10 fetep yog
thinking. 5 U/$ti<jer ft is du£ in 1988
but this is using s^|kfe

Tynesoft h$sU winner on their*
hands with Mouiet&p This H a
stupidly simplejp^orm game bgt
the presentation and music are ■
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leaping around ecstatically

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software heroes

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up your character: Presentation is
excellent and ait the control* are
easily accessible through the
mouse Trm 15 more for the
traditionalists among, you. The
latest offering from Micro Illusions
H Rf*powcftm*u0*rts tank battle
gprhe fchas great digitised sound
#xi»flqpiryta the arcade
adventure cnoufd but more erf this
next month* "^%
The arcade adventure to draw
cfnent i* Derefxier of
Cinemaware product

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my mind currently rejjit lints
staffe-at-the art ki Amiga AA
presentation \t Is desenbed a*
watching* film unfold and to all
intern and purpose si » You have
to battle yahoos resKxa of the UK
to rescue the missus and bui ka up

your wealth and strength. Superb
and a must for all you ram of the
style. Mirrorsoft also has Stnb^d,
and SDi from Cme maware

There are not that marry sport
simulations around for the Amiga,
you basically hsm to choose
between ActivK4on, Psygnosis and
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Arm* which ts a decathlon clone

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from Audiogenic is a real goody
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fr> clone but watch for the
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comers. City Defence is a brilliant
version or Mts&te Cornrnand ( if only
they had jazzed up the cities a
bit" j, Martde Madhess is a k?ve ly
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about the constant dhst toads)
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The buy-out of Melbourne House by budget
specialists Mastertronic has put new life into the
pioneering software house, A new range of
games - with the emphasis on 1 6-bit - is about
to hit the streets, Tony Takoushr investigates.

Earlier this year, when I heard
Melbourne House was ^eH irng -ocit
it was with a twinge of sadness,
because this company had helped
poneer some of the finest
software to hit horn* micro* in its
time.

in Tact there must be very few of
you that were not touched by
some of the classics,, Way of the
f xptodirig F t$i Hobbtt, Lord or me
Rings and Pcnet/stor

Weil hold onto your hats, the
company is back with a whole
new direction and a tot of old
aims'

Mastertronic bought the label
end has now geared *t up a* a top
end 1 6*brt company, this isn't to
say there will not be any 8-btt
games but the emphasis is on The
new 1 6-bit machines

f roc* a day out to visit them
and have a little peek at the new
software lined up for release in the
corrnnj month*. They are catering
for the Amiga, the ST and the IBM
and four of the most popular 8 bit
machine* CM d Spectmm, Amstrad
and Alan)

Group Marketing Manager,

MEi-EtfLRNt

reservation because the logical . i
question to ask is can a two\
megabyte game on a BOSS board
with eatra processing power
strapped pn r be converted to a
little J ol B-fcwt micro?

I posed this question and Hit
answer g^ven was that all the
essential qualctie s would be
chosen from the $ame and these-
would moke up the conversion,
MH would rather go Tor eighiclose^

jrKorpof atmg nwt of the key
'ctAtms from the arcade origins
QeeTlf^ey are no match for the
Original but they do use the
capabilities of the S-btt machine*
well.

The Amhga 500 verS4on (£1 9 95)
is due for imminent release and
the 9 -bit versions (C64 £8 95, Spec
£7.95) are well underway but as
yet have no firm release date

Rockfirb Is a classic and MH is

screen? of the ori-gmaJ game raftjer .Aeteasmg it aOfeflufl format*, i

shoot t n> up on the ST and Amrga
i love this one - u is realty playable
and has superb graphics. There is
always room for state -O^tne-art
games and nght now this is the
best scrolling shoot 'envup on the
market bar none The Amiga
version rs being vamped up to use
the extra power of the machine
{are you listening software
houses') In fact MH insisted on it
and just reinforces their attitude to
quality software.

The last game I looked at was
Metropolis This is an IBM game and
realty out of my experience as the
number of games seen on the IBM
can be counted on my right hand
It was very well presented and
uses speech liberally, the game
being m the arcade adventure
mould.

n win be released acres* an
formats except the Atari 8*bit-

Melbourne House was started
up m 1 977 by an Australian
husband and wile team There
have been around 300 software
titles released to date with 200
book titles ranging from technical
manual to starter guides to Home

Rachel Davies, laid out therms of
the new company by declaring
that Melbourne House now aims
to be a premier 16-bit label on the
market with just a few conversions
to a -bit iff ttie quality and theme
can be accurately emulated, The
company will also be striving for a
balance of original and mrfnstream
( arcade "!) product, thte^
pleasmg as all too often

than produce 16 poor imitations
Weft it seems to make Swse

ITie first game to see light of day
on the 16 and B bit machines is
toad U/ars a novel shoot r em up
written by members of the old
(and brill 1 ) Taskset team it has
been converted to the C64 and
Spectrum The aim of the game is
ej tr avefc along en enc losed road with
T" energy barriers on either side of

companies lose sigh* of me /Sit -^r-y&u while racking up points and
that we all need a br eTrt^of 4fSh / collecting additional weapons
air every so often! /* ^fhere is a two player option that

tffffe

An interesting aspect
company is the fact that it is laktng
games from its coin-op division
and putting them on 8 and 1 6- bit
machines. I say thrs with a little

makes for some sneaky moves if
you fee I mc lined.

I was really surprised that the
8-brt conversiOfi^were excellent,
very good prcsentatron and

must admit that the ST an& the
Amiga v¥hpofts were very poor
The Specfurh and CM are good
while the Allww jsOK but wf M
not se t the world oh Tire .

An axcluwc 8 -feit game is Pulse
Wsmor (Co 4 and Speccy) ft is a
novel interpretation of the
Adcano*d theme Vou have to bat
sparks around the screen ano^
avoid and destroy obsiacj^rfong
the way #■-

Sfreef Hass/e rs a fun offering V
with your character head-butting,
kicking and assaulting everything In -
sight (granmes and all), it plays
well and is run Again it is available
On the CM and Spectrum

Xenon is a smooth scrolling

programming

The most successful utles to
emerge from the company were
The H€}bbtt f Lord OffheRtnp, W&y
of the £jtpfodin3 fist, Melbourne
Craw, Aiuysy and Fcnctotor warty
of the above li^es set the standard
>n their field at'thjxjme or release
and even today tfcif pe degree cart
^be appreciated.

The company was 50KJ to
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^r PC and i ompatihles ,i i id
The Guild of Thieves from
Magnetic Scrolls is out on the
Amstrad bl2B. Both
adventure* are released bv
Ha in bird arid will cost £1 9.95.

Readers who have been
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tailed our first review of a ZXtil
adventure. II was called
^berscift Adventure, and was
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VET ANOTHER version of the
origin *il C "olossal Cave
adventure* A bersof t, all hough I
didn't know it at the lime,
comprised one lohn Jones-
Sleele.

|ohn went on lo program the
very successful Mordon's
Quest; published by Melbourne
Hnuse, before joining level 9 as
j pri?grammcr. His name is
written onlo the credits of
Knight Ore and Gnome Ranger.
John has now decried from
level 9, and hope* ^ Km to be
producing nevs Abersoft
adventures for one of Britain's
leading software publishers.
This makes the long-awaited
sequel to Mordon more likely,
and he and Peter Mori and,
Gordon's t o- author, are
working on the idea of
producing a 1 b-bit version of
the game, enhanced by some
fills local ions, accessed bv that
infuriatinglv locked soulh door
on the landing I

Watch for further
development nest month'
^£ I here is no doubt about
W the popularity ot the Atari
*w ST amongst adventure
players, Henry Mueller, who
rum the Adventurer's Club
Lid., reports that out of 100
members joining in the past
few weeks, no less lhan B 3
were ST owners.

"I knew the ST was popular,
but I was absolutely staggered
Al this figure/' says an amazed
Henrv.
J Ingrid Bottomley , the
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make a t omehac k in the spring,
in Gnome Ranger II, Pete
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Welcome to the Adventure Zone! Anything
can happen within the next few pages - and
probably will as Keith Combed, C^ VG r s
master of the mystic arts, brings your news,
reviews and helpful hints from the wacky
world of adventuring. So please don't adjust
your magazine - reality will be resumed as
soon as possible . . .

has chosen to be published by
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Time and Magik, Lord Of
Time. Red Moon and Price Of
Magik trilogy, ready for release
some time ago as far as Level ^
were concerned, has been
delayed hv Rain bird, and iv
t urrenlly I he untv Level 1 title
definitely scheduled for
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legend. . .

Looking back a few years,
and playing the
adventures of today: you
would say that adventures have
come a king way - well,
wouldn't yoyf

Not m*. argues Simon
Davidson of Sheffield. ''They
are still a> rigid and repetitive a*
the first 'cave' adventure,
mainly because the core of the
modern game works in exactly
ihe same way/* By repetition,
Simon means that i i you enter
the same command twice, you
get the same response twice.
"Each action occurs in the
'now' time frame, with no
reference lo past events."

Simon accepts thai
nowadays games are often
much bigger, with interactive
characters, ranckrmly moving
oh |et K and multiword input
I M tot ally superfluous, " he
ilaimsL Bui behind that
you've got the same system
operating**

Simon thinks thai I'm loo
easily satisfied w ilb an Intot inn
game, and too willing to get
carried away and say an
adventure is Ihe 'best ever',
suggesting 1h at t might be on
the payroll of Magnetic Scrolls,
"It seems you are in their J Hype
& Publicity" department. That
interview in April Hh was just
two pages of ego boost f o r Ms
Sinclair, whose obvious aims in
life are to show that a mere
woman can beat men in a
man's world/*

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most of us here, that's Paul
C oppins, Matthew Woodley,
Steve Donoghue, and yours
truly, wish you a very Merry
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Season's Creeling*, too, to
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1 9EE promises to be another
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'adventures pending"
shelves tn the Penthouse.
Reviews of some of these
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Village of Lost SouJs.
This BBC adventure,
originally reviewed bv
|im Douglas in December
19B5, has been suhstantiallv
enhanced, and is now
released by Robic o«
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Amstrad and Atari XUXE+
A clutch of Double Gold
adventures has been
released by Incentive
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and rtaSerref Of life, for
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come Jhe Alien and
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The Bard's Tale by Electronic
Arts on the Atari ST;
Defender of the Crown on
the Commodore M and
Rain bird's the Pawn lte*l
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The galaxy has outlawed the
growing of poppies except
on designated space farms,
lo overcome the problem
with opiaiedru^s

But alien bandits plan to
raid one of the farms, so

|ohn Pride - that's you -
Pride Of The Federation and
your mate facko, have been
planted on one of the farms,
to thwart any attempt at a
hijack.

You wake up a her a
drinking bout with Jatko,
and find 1 hat while you were
sleeping it off . an afien force
has laken over the station, . .

This is a three part
adventure, with a plot that
offers a lot of scope- My
expectations were raised by
the quality and presentation
of review noies, and I
particularly noted the advice

open to i under

(he l

Act, had i hey noi voluntarily

submitted the game for

appraisal

probably true- in
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suiubfe for children

Here Is a very rem Jf kable
adventure in more ways

one. [
unlrt mi two

Licit ie reputation is

more in the realm
humoor lo look at them,
wouldn't think butter

her hand \\w
<nan selling

to examine all objects, both
moveable and immovable.

1 have rarely been so
disappointed, especially in
view ol the potential of the
plot. It all started when I
tried to read a notice over a
door; " I can I do that'* was
the reply. So I tried
" Examine notice'.

By the time I had
examined the dooi , the
spiders near It, and I he d rend
past it, and got the same
reply, t began to get
frustrated.

This increased as more and
more notices appeared
throughout the firs I dozen
or so locations, The only
lime I got a different reply
to EXAMINE was for
"Examine south door*. That
time I moved south! 'Nuff
said!

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A couple of drab advent ufe s
make up one of the

serie -i in the

Double Cold series from

n adveni
of Ihepu//

pass by unnoticed

ptayer happens to be

ht object at-

ThepELETt key seem
have been replaced by the

Brides" School, did perhaps
help wiih the aimotphi

-iriHk rhr- rst

i ommer dally ava liable
eniure written using
Gils na/

Adveniure Writer - the
suet 1 the limit 11 S

pabttitiesaremo
■mpres- vou will se*

arrmnei im up, you

could say thai here is
ShcHoi k without bu

The comparison w

Mr
•i in London in about ihe
wme period. Couple thai
with reaMimeplav
that other developments i
happening "behind the
scenes" as time Ticks by, and

>i will begin 10 get if

Multiple word inpul is
accepted, and indeed,
necessary from time totlffl

Linguist), 1 1 > r example
betwe* irvt-d

Tffe SECRET

cui>< miking

correction of typing
chore,
Collet ting the

ig them

to a -ford to d vti id

traction ul 1 your tribe
makes- up ihe unlikely plot .

On ite.

Secret OfLtfch
pirter, almost unpteyab
due to a di sast ro us

llonol badegro
ind foreground -at

some of the lew Mo

amount of fiddling with the

«.»n< readable.
Both adventures have
drab graphics, in a repetitive
and overlarge border. Ugh!

table, and the occasional

fdhlc* - the * rumpled paper,

and the small piece of paper

The ploi ** somewhat
linear, with side branches at
frequent ii leading ru

the player sar r he

murder (end or game] but
the puzzles ro enable the
dead-end branches to be
bypassed are quite c lei
and give satisfaction in

ving. The further one gets
to cadi of the three par?
so the rams

command becomes more
and more useful, producing
.i highly playable adventure
in place of what would . prior
tOM have b i

completely unac ceptal
Altogether Mound /aefc

unpleasant to f

Brides' be*
date ftte text description!
bng and almosph*

b to think of the

amount of development
effort by programmers
thai went into d
bug-riddeti Sherlock,

\ Spectrum
game, compared
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results achieved

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time by non-
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available
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Two games on one tape
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In Crown Of Ramhotep .
your friend Bill has been
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the fabulous crown, but
been unable to bring it out.

In mounting a new
expedition to gel ii r he seeks
your help.

You start in a hotel room
in a village on Ihe Nile,
penniless, but with your own
car. There's things to do
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As The Prospector, you
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perhaps \\ c oniamed no oil .
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Queensland, got so strung
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Protocol, 1 hat he rang the
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*From what 1 toufd gather
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SHINING LIGHT, or maybe
AURORA/ says John. Did he
mention Iraffk, |nhn^

Adventures do have the
reputation of gel ting people
into a state, and this monih
sees an extra lot of highly
strung adventurers - strung
up from the ceiling in a net H
in Rigels Revenge! Who can
land this prize faith safely?

Further Rigeflian problems
come from Bob Dougherty
of Lancaster, How does \hv
stun -gun work, and how can
you open the utility
cupboard in the Dominator
Tank Tasks Bob-
Neil Ashmore reveals how
10 get the gold watch from
the rabbit, in Custard's
Quest, in response to Peter
Wall's earlier plea <see clues
section). But this brings him
io his own problem - the evil

Sreen door, outside which
e is stuck! Try throwing the
bomb at it, Neil. Not got it
yet? Then give some
treasure to the dragon!

Tm desperately trying to
succeed in Uninvited on the
Amiga, " says Miah Amor of
Warrnamboot, in Auslralia,
Miah is having difficulty
eetting outside, opening I he
li^ht in the bathroom and
doors in the halfway.
Unfortunately, my own
problems with Uninvited
were even greater - the
review disk completely
(ailed to load -if yours did,
and you know the answer,
please help!

There are collectors of all
sorts of unusual things, and
there's no reason why
adventure memorabilia
wouldn't be among them.
So here's a ptea with a
difference, Infocom
enthusiast Kostas Pollizot <>i
Athens, is desperately
looking for the original
packaging for Starcrass and
Suspended. Nowadays, of

course, all Infocom games
come in a standard square
box - but in H^iys of ynrr, the
shape and size of the
package was one of those
surprises that delighted
a d ve ntu re rs wh en t hey
bought one of the games. If
anyone has these packaging
(games not required) and
would like to sell or
otherwise dispose of them,
write to Kostas a(EK
Benizelou 17, Zografou
15772, Athens p Greece.

Now here's some news for
Graham Neilson, who has
been trying to get into
Grtgor's Lair in SouJs of
Darkon. You can't!
According to Bill Moore of
Market Drayton, that is. Bill
has been frying for si*
months and failed, so
there'd better not be an
answer, he say*! Stand
outside the den, and iry
moving N r N, (need map) £
(use bell), and E , he
suggests. Meanwhile, Bill
has managed to turn Kraytor
into a glass statue, but it
doesn't seem to bother him
in the least, *He invariable
kills me a few turns later! *
says Bill, * Is this a bugr

"Please sing the praises of
Rod Pike for me in your
column ! * writes Hugh
Fletcher, "This is one of the
best games I have played
which has atmosphere and
feeling -a rare commodity
these days." Done, Hugh -
and watch out for the next
game from Rod - Wolf Man r
due "ere soon.

I f I said Spytrek syndrome
would you knowwhal I
mean? David Picking, of
Upminster coined the
phrase, and I knew exactly
what he meant it gues into
adventure lore alone with
such other gems as Scott
Adams' kitchen cabinet!

David uses Spytrek
syndrome to describe his
problem in C-M Winter
Wonderland. When he was
stuck for some cash, 1
suggested he SELL the egg
to the professor, rather than
just give it away. He was sure
SELL was a verb he would
have thought ol originally,
but he gave it a try, and it
didn't work. According io

helpline

Incentive's official solution,
it should.

In sending whole pages of
tips rn reply to readers*
problems, Hugh Walker
i mils difficulty with Castle
Blatkstar. "Jt is a very
complex game, and it is
aimost impossible to answer
non-specific questions
without selling oui a full
solution! " For example, to
kill the dragon without
blocking the opposite exit,
says Hugh, you must have

the knife and the vial, and
enter the room irom the
Warm Room, to the west.

Sin Cheng l.iu having
done all sorts of immoral
things, all to no avail, to
Thorblast, in Leather
Goddesses of Photos, has
come up with the ultimate
solution for Steve Meretsky,

Mr should h<* nailed to a
scratch W sniff card, and
have a pair of 3D glasses
stuck up his Hill/
Clues this month tome from:
Pauline Garnetl, Andover;
Neil Ashmore, Stockport;
lonathan Marshall, Ealing; V
Barker, Stockton; Mike
Thomas, Caerphilly and
rii,tnvrrorn Hugh Walker,
Guildford.

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iimurtg us ordinary mortals and
£u in search ot adventure* Or
rather adventure games, Was
he pleased with the state of play?
Read on to find out in the latest
missive from Folly.

£ I iiuud atop Ihe ho My I he
^mjf olhei day looking down
^^^ upon no domain and
amusing nit *elf by observing
the stuti yings aod bustling ol
>uu mortals when 9H idle
question popped into my
ira^t vianium, jusi how mini
advenfuit - game* havt I bought
for old i-9 1 thi ul in i eceot timet]
Andmoit lulhe point,
perhaps, just how many iww
adveulure games \ui\v beeo
available i

Us Fiend* an- nothing if noi
dynamic , j nd k'd pi n ^ i-i.ii tli
upon I hi 1 vti > install I I **et oul
to in\ estimate

Iht eLiv wais beautiful, with
dark glowering t louds pouring
forth and redut ing iht- daylight
lo a mere glhmilel . >u I Ml
l i juinIh ul i implii^K lo slink
abroad before I be hour of
sunset, fot ome I hoiioun d
the nearest I at gi- town with m>
present e, and sought nut bolh
Boo Is and Smith* in order to
tount the n umbel of adventure
games upon iheii shelves.

Met hough I (his would be a
fair iudkatuj, as the twain
dominate the High Mitel in
sof twar t k i ins And to be

ICillh ni4gJ*aOJf OOU*, I w < j u Id

tundetcend lo count the

i ui e 14 games ii well,

despite the tail thai ihest atL
u*uall> *av beneath my notice.

I lit results ul this I leiidish
survey ate it follow*,
Adventure game* lot the
Spt itruni ui Bm4i zero, roi
the h4 r zero. Adventure games
tor tbe Spet Irum in Smiths,
/vru f lor I he h4 zero,

I I does nut Like j i m nd lI-%

I hi n\ * n li I as mine to t igure oul
lh.it the sum lota I ul firm's lor
bolh machines in Ihegiarih ol
I he High Skt ft re I ailing was
zero. And before anybody
shouts f mil the Fiend would
point out l hat be counted tfwn
all Iwke. and promptly look
himself oh tu another large
town to repeat the Ntfvey, in
um the fireiwa* sub jet I to

hfi£#.

Mime statistical fluke, And Ihe
results were idenlitat! No
adventure game here, cither.

Where w a> Rigrt'y ftvu-rtgel
Where were JJrac u/j and
trjnkcnsteiiif Where was Trie
Fa no, Cuifduf fhwivss
StjtkmtjtL and Lurking Horror f
While was Knight (Jrt r Situ on
Dream*, and ftw*k Of

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Oh it's .ill righl for all you
swanking about wilh your ItV
bil machines, you hjve Ihe
world of advenlure at your
feel. Bui what about us A bil
owners^

The Fiend would offer the
follow inp; questions lor vnur
confide rali on, my faithful

followers, bul mind you don't
break hmih rhuiK inside your
feeble brains. Is Ihe fact that
the software houses can charge
more lhan i2U per game for
the new- machines seducinj;
Iheni away from Ihe older
mat hilies, where iS.4> in
ton side red expensive? Or is it
lack of new software 1 hat is
causing the upsurgentc- ui Ihe
cottage industry CAC names
thai seem lo be proliferating?

Whatever answer you decide
upon, I will tell you this. If a
mega-Ramc came along
tomorrow, Ihen the buyers of
the said High SI reel stores
would insist that it was
packaged in a tkiu hie -sized
cassetle bov It was very
apparent that b**th operate a
full-price- big-box, budget -
game-HnalhhM^ polit \ I mean
those biig hoses realK m.ike ttu-
Raines U.K.ik worth L I r don't
theWBAH!

This makes ihe r iertd very
■in^rv r for he lo.tlhes and hales
big boxen. They are a total
waste of sp.ii e. It's not sci bad
lor me, for I can always find
another cave to store things in,
but ihe average house* soon I ills
up H lo no porp^rw. This rms
come as a shoe k to ihe said
buyers, l>ul (hese l>uxes Like up
TWICE ihe storage spate nf tht 1
I i tile ones, and are very
inconvenient, But I suppose
I ha I vet again lama lone angry
von v si reaming in the
wilderness, Vou lot probably
like large btwv It \ pnihabb
the pretty to lours (hat attract
you. Double BAH!

So I conclude this month's
st roll by thumbing my large
hairy nose in the general
direction of the stores' buyers,
and lo all you who Ihink that
big hoves are a pretty neat
idea!

A F iendish PS: How do you
like my new photographs
Rather flattering, don't you
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^»me ro on for ever So who have been
triumphing over Ihe bad ru ys for longest. If it
Superman? Or Batman? Think again and read on *
for comic e*per1 Phillip Morion's lowdnwn on
Doc Savage and The Shadow. * -

Who's the oldest ht*ro in comii |1
Irn not diking about who's had
the most birthdays - I mean which
char at icr has been around longer than all
the rest J

Surprisingly, it's NOT Superman or
Balrnart. Superman, it's true, is The grand-
daddy of com it book heroes, making his
first flight {or. al least, bounding over his
first tall building} in Action Comics
number 1, May 19,18.

Thai means, incidentally, thai there's a
50th anniversary in the offing waic h this
space,

Batman tirsl swooped into public view
the following year, 1939. And Ihoseother
I wd heavyweights of the super- hero
world, Spicier-Man and The Hulk, ,ire a
comparatively young 25-ish,

So who was it I hat lirst appeared pre-
19J8anri is slill going slrong. After all.
comic -books themselves only date from
the mid lolateJOs,

In fact there are (wo heroes currently
doing big business who've been around
[on and off) since before comic -books.
Their names? The Shadow and Doc
Savage.

Both date from the early 30s (The
Shadow; T931; Doc Savage: 1933), when
I hey starred in two of the In np,e si- running
"pulp" series.

Pulps were monthly lext story

magazines wiih few illusiratinns. They
wrrr so railed because of the low-quality
paper on which they were primed. Fach
was ihe equivalent in length of a
paperback novel.

And cnincidentatly (Of perhaps nnl?)
I hey' re both Marring tn new deluxe*
format series from DC Comics - series
which look like becoming cult favourites.

Who knows what evil lurks m i be hearts
of men? The Shadow k m *w s . Hid en us .
unearthly laughter rings out . Suddenly,
from the darkness ihere appears a
terrifying figure, dressed all in black h a
slouch hat puHed down tow, masking his
lac t\ a bla/ing pislol in eac h hand Spitting
leaden dealhl

Armed with the aforesaid pistols, the
power to cloud mens mmds and an
implacable dedicalion to wiping oul
. rime, The Shadow was one of I he most
mysterious and compelling characters ever
created Small wonder, then, that he soon
made ihe transition to films and comic-
books - he was already starring in THE
great radio adventure serial of .til lime.

Distinguished for its poor qualirv was
the 1%4 at tempi by Archie Comics to
rejuvenate The Shadow's appeal by
presenting him as a < osiumed super-hern.

Things looked up considerably in 197 V,
with the announcement thai DC Comits
would be publishing the adventures of
The Shadow. Most exciting news was thai
the artist would he Marvel tavourite |tm
Steranko- P , er, make that Rerni WriRhlson
(see lavi rnonlh J s C + VG} r - , er r make thai
AlexToib h the master of lighi and shade,

All three produced promotional artwork
thenlell the projeil 50 when ihe i omit
itself finally appeared, ihe aaiisl was Mike
Kakfta.

His scratchy, intricate style kept rhe
comic firmly rooted in ihe 30s (and.
mc identally, produced one of my favourite
comic covers evert.

But even better things were 1o follow.
Shortly after a mysierious announcement *

Tii a l Marvel would soon he publishing Tho
Shadow, ii was i onfirmori thai DC" would
be bringing him hack m I9fin written
and Hr )\\n lot matnre r.- ■aders h\
Howard Ch ay kin . fresh (mm creating his
magnum opus, American Flapg.

ChaykiJl't winning formula of WK§
violence and sjrdnnrc humour made hts
four-issue limited series fl salctf success

Mctimvhtfp hzrkrn f hr' *' J s
Somewhere across town from Fhe
Shadow's seedy world of small time crooks
.1 n H h i g- 1 i me WQtild be WOf M dnmi na to r s ,
in a tall, proud skyscraper, ive find Or
Vu w ind his Amarmjs-Ftve!

*Doc~ was (lark Savage ]r, a Min of
ftron/e somfttrrm fk m ribed as a

iupemwr" And remernher. this is fully
five ye irs before ihe advent oi f lark Kem\
also known a *■ Supprman

Dot was the very last word m physical
a n d m enl a I f itnes % . a gi I ity and shee r
perfection . Wealthy framed, resourceful
and above all a man of principle, he
mi rounded himself wiih a band of helpers
i of whom was an expert in his own
field - and yet, no match for Hoc lavage.

Doc's com ic-brx-k ■ areer sirang**ly
parallels Tho Shadow's indeed, he made
his first comic appea ranee in The Wtarfow
comic number 1 Despite lac k lustre stories
,im| ,ir( lie lasied ■ 1 1 1 r i E 1*WJ.

In t'Jhfc, wiih hiv. I'Kiu pulp Mones
being reprinted by Banlam *o great
ac claim (perhaps because of the superb
cover paintings by lames Kama), Doc
ventured into comics again , published by
Cold Key. Jack Sparling t disappointing
artwork ensured il was no I a stu COS. Then,
in 1972, Marvel Comics got hold of Doc.

Affer some indecision over wheiher the
series was sel in the <(k or ihr 7ik it
seitled down wih a beautifully authentic
*0s feel. . . and was c an< * lied after only
right issire^ 1 -.

fven another anempT hv Ma^el, In
niaga/rne-si^ehfack-ind -white mimar
supported hy a big-budget movie starring
former Tar/an Ron fly (great fun <- see it if
you rani, coukln l get hevond M*V#fl tssues-

All of which hongs us lo VW DC now
have ihe righls to Hoc S-nv*ge, and are
i urrenliy lesling ihe market with a four-
ssMie limited series -pw ihev did with The
Shadow.

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season's celluloid goodies!

Pectorals, biceps deltoids
triceps - this month the
biggest thing in the movie*
)s muscle. The gloves are on
us Dolph Ht-Man 1 Lundgren
takes on Arnold 'Predator
Schwarzenegger The two
don't actually meet - that
would be too much for one
small cinema siTtn-n - hut
they've both got new films
OQt, com pet ing for your
attention.

Ri^. blond Dolph gets in
play a plastic toy in Masters
of the Universe (PGl
That's not a comment on his
acting - this in the first time
I It -Man has appeared in the
flesh. Dolph copes well with
the muscle-rippling action
and the moody poses - its
only when he has lines that
the seams show.

Still, not to worry because
this isn't Shakespeare, even
if they have enrolled noted
tht'spiau Frank Langella to
slap on the face mask and
play Skdetor, It's more of a
swords and sorcery panto an
good battles evil on Eternia
and Earth,

01 h skull face and his
sidekick* Evil-Lyn (guess
what- she's no goodie! have
captured Creyskull Castle
and imprisoned its resident
Sorceress. Afler some
scrapping. He- Man and his
band of loyal troops,
including bearded dwarf
inventor, Gwildor, are forced
to bail out with the aid of a
Cosmic Key. . . and end up in
Smalltown, USA!

It'll action all the way as
i wo teenagers gel drawn into
the adventure. But it's hard
to hide when youVe Dolph 'a
slace and pretty soon Skeletor
is hot on his trail. Their
shoot out in the high street is
the worst gang warfare the
Chief of Police ha* ever
witnessed!

None of it's played too
seriously and it * as noisy
and explosively exciting as
fans of the original could
wish. Give this one the
Charles Atlas Seal of
Approval!

Meanwhile big Amie's out
in the South American
jungle with a crack squad of
troops, rescuing yet more
hostages. What he doesn't
re.ih*e is that the hunt»-r>

but what about aliens? The
Predator has dropped in from
another planet and it doesn't
wear a red coat or blow a
horn. Instead it seeks its
prey with infra red sensors
and flays the skin from its
victims! Marine issue

Mome of the Month award. . .
but only if you're over IB-

Which raises a strange
irony, Both Masters and
Predator are about to
become computer games,
from Gremlin and Acta vision
respectively, and they've
both gol lots of potential. But
while everyone will be able
to we He- Man, yowl I have
to be a veritable wri nkly to
pick up playing- tips from
Predator!

Bigfoot is a hi £ guy
possessing a much gentler
nature, despite the fact
that's he's played by the
same, seven* foot actor as the
alien, Kevin Peter Hall.
When an sill American
family stun htm with their
tar :is they drive bock from a
camping holiday* they take
him bome and call him
Harry. And that's where the

A Predator: But we thought yov w«r« rhe alteti. Amie.

A Bigfpo! Or is iF ci Henderson?

are about to become the
hunted as thev encounter a
real life Predator (I HI

At first we're in Rambo
country, with choppers and
shooting a* Dutch and his
boys wipe out a guerilla
encampment. But as they're
forced into increasingly
inhospitable jungle, they
stay just one step behind us
in realising that there's
something strange on their
trail

It's been said that man is
the only animal to hunt lor
pleasure. r r animal, maybe.

machine guns don't count for
much against this sort of
enemy, as soldier after
soldier discovers.

This is classic horror,
slowly tightening the screws,
keeping you on the edge of
your seat for the next
appearance of the alien. Ai
first it uses an incredible
cloaking device, which keeps
it hidden, hut you slowly see
more and more, and when it
finally removes its mask. , ,
ARRRGH.ilsno
disappointment!

Arnie proves that he's a
better actor than Dolph and
everything considered
Predator hunts down mv

fun really starts for Bigfoot
and the Hendersons (PGJ-

One of two Christmas
offerings from Steven
Spielberg's Amblin
Enterta i n m<? nt , i t s sort of
y-ET i Instead of a cute
little alien as house-guest,
the Hendersons get a fully
fledged monster which
smashes walls and smells
bad! But Harry is also
concerned about George
Henderson's hunting
trophies, and gives the
animal heads a decent
burial Yes, this is an
ecologically sound
sasqualch!

Somehow nobody can bear

I'

to say goodbye to their big
friend - until he goes
missing in central Seattle
and every gun- freak is out to
pot him, including Lafleur, a
crazy hunter who has been
tracking Bigfoot for years!
Suddenly its a race to rescue
the creature and return him
to the safety of the forest P

Bigfoot's an amiable tl 1 m .
with some very funny
sequences tind the mnnster
1 1 1 : j k t ■ up js supt j rb. If, after
one hour and fifty one
minutes of incessant
niceiirss, I wished that
Harry had torn somebody \n
head off, it's because Vm a
nasty old cynic!

share a drink by positioning
the sub in his throat and
extendi tig a flask.

What he can't do is live
without oxygen, so they have
to avoid the enemy agents
and return Tuck to fiillsize
^After all," he tells Jack,
"You wouldn't I ike to spend
the rest of your life with u
little skeleton floating
around inside you* would
you?"

While the scripts big on
idea*, it could have done
with so mi* subtle
miniaturisation itself. The
frantic set- piece* art- mure
numbing than exciting.
Martin Short, from Three

and wise, old aliens become
intergalactic rabbis. Wimpy
Rick Moranis plays Dark
Helmet and John Candy is
Barf, a flatulent wookie.

Every joke is driven to
collapse and then some -
whether it's funny or not.
Too many of them were weak
to begin with. The result l>
like a particularly poor Mad
magazine movie spoof, but it
seems to go on forever. Best
send this to a distant galaxy
- and forget about it!

So let's turn from the
ridiculous to the sublime,
John Huston, who died
earlier this year, was one of
the worlds great directors,

▼ The Dead: A joyeeioy.

A, Inner&poc*: Getting the needle

lnnerepace <PG> is the

other Amblin offering, and
it's a less satisfactory affair!
Not that there's anything
wrong with taking the plot of
sixties, sci-fi t rash -classic.
Fantastic Voyage, and
reworking it for the
sophisticated eighties- ifc'a
just that it doesn't hold
together and is half an hour
too long.

Hypochondriac Jack
Putter, a supermarket
check-out clerk, is about to
sail away on a cruise to
relax. However, a break in ill
a research lab leads to him
being injected with a
miniaturised sub and
suddenly hc + s got Lieutenant
Tuck Pendleton cruising
around inside him, which
means there's very little
relaxation for the next two
hours.

Technology has moved
apace since the sixties and
Tuck enn tune in on what
Jack is seeing and hearing
by inserting probes into the
relevant nerves - yuk! He
can even talk to his host and

4 Spocebdli; Great Mel, buf where/* Kim?

Amigos, is a comically
wimpish Jack; Dennis Qua id
is great as party-guy. Tuck.
But it's all rather
disappointing from Joe
[Gremlins \ Dam.-

SI ill. it/a better than Met
Brooks 1 Spaceballs <PG).
While Blowing Saddles way
brilliantly vulgar at the
expense of the western and
High Anxiety put the hitch
back into Hitchcock, this is
an incredibly weak satire on
Star Wars.

Every space opera cliche
gets chewed up and spat out.
Space princesses become
Jewish American princesses
with nagging robot maid*.

with films like The Maltese
Falcon. Moby Die* and The
Man Who Would Be King.
Ironically his last film was
The Dead (PG).

Rased on the short story by
James Joyce, it tells of a
party in snowy Dublin, soon
after Christmas, when
memories of a long-dead
lover suddenly return.
There's no shooting, no car
chaser jus* .i hrillisinl
evocation of the start of this
century and the haunting
melancholy of the original.
Don't miss u if you're
studying Joyce at school - or
if you want to see the last
work of a true artist.

WARD'S XMAS
VIDEO SACK

As this is the season for
giving, here a a round-up of
recent video goodies to stick
on your Christmas list or
hire as an alternative to the
Sound of Music,

First choice from the
library has to be tb*> all-
talking, all-singing, all-
dancing, all -man -eating:
mean green mother from
outer space that inhabits the
Little Shop of Horrors.
One of the top films of the
year it matches hysterical
comedy with snappy sixties-
style tunes. Yummy!

Sticking with plant life,
budget label Channel 5 has
just released the Golden
Turkey nominee for the
Worst Vegetable Movie
Ever, Attack of the Killer
Tomatoes <£9.m Tack is
the right word as the reds
take on the world. Great
lyrics here too - K l know l K m
going to miss her/ A tomato
ate my sister/

Channel 5 has got more
Gerry Anderson episodes
featuring Thunderhints.
Stingray, Captain Scarlet
and Space 1999 (£7.99 each)
for all you puppet fans.
There's also the final part of
The Prisoner, Fall Out
{£9, 99). Now you too can try
to work out who the hell
Number One is!

Amazing Stories is a made
for TV fantasy which got ■
short cinema release here.
It's no ordinary TV show
though: with stories directed
by Spielberg, Bigfwt director
William Dear and Back to
t hf Future's Robert Zemeckis
it has to be worth hiring.

Star Trek fans should
beam down to the library for
The Voyage Home, the
fourth feature film which
returns the crew nf the
Enterprise to Earth, 1987.
1 1 - all totally ridiculous and
great fun. Another long-
lived series features Jason
Vorhees. m horror fans
should h ire Friday the 13th
Part V- A New
Beginning, to keep up to
date with novel ways to kill
tonagers!

Finally, more for your
stocking. The Video
Collection offers cartoon
adventures of The
ThunderCata-Ho, the
Movie l £9.99 1 and He- Man
before he took his body-
building course and got
fleshed out in The Secret of
the Sword t£&99>.

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Tony Takou* hi takes a look of the latest
Nintendo smashes, reports on all the hot news
and takes a look at your letters. All that and he
still finds time to update your highscores. Take

KUNG FU

This b a conv ersi on of the hit
co in -op called Kung JFu Master
from the Irem Corporation. It
really is o near perfect
conversion with oil the
gameplay and levels to work
through,

You take the port of Thomas
and have to rescue your
beloved Sylvia from the
dutches of Mr 3t The play
screens alternate from a right
to left scroll along a single
platform.

a Iff* by k»ing all your orvergy.
Al the end of a wave you
receive a scof« bomis
depending on the amount of
energy you have left and a
time bonus for time on the
dock.

What really make* this gome
special is its playabtliry. Yog
can pul together some
devastating luck and punch
routines and the timing, even in
the beastliest of corners, can
be crucial. Graphics and found
ore solid enough, Ai with all

you miss, the dog siti up and laughs at you I
hove tried shooting him

There are bonus score* to be hod if you shoot
off-colour blue or red ducb pteying Qr*a (to full
vertical screens, which switch on the baD falling
or entering each section).

You start by launching the bat) with your
plunger and have to keep the bod in ptay os
long os possible end rock up those points. There
are loads of features and (Jay areas to aim for
whh block posts/slot fargeiv'tana lighh/hote
. v Lumpers/eggs and bingo tamps to hit
and take out in sequence.

An extra ball is awarded at 50,000 points
and your flipper* disappear ot 1 00,000 and
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Thomas can attack in a
variety of ways — crouch and
punch, flying kicks and *v*n
ordinary punches can be used.
Extra score can be obtained by
discovering which blows kill
wh*ch enemy.

You ore attacked by Chinese
codies - little green men who
just love to headbutt ya! - knife
throwing bung hi cads* spiders,
firebreathing dragons,
exploding balls [strange but
true), mauthi and snakes.

As you may have guessed
you are not attacked by oil of
the above at the soma time,
they are encountered as you
progress through the gome's
five levels. At the end of level
you are faced with real
inscrutable brute who is just
begging for a good kicking
The higher the level the harder
the brute.

You start with three Ifv es
(extra Iff e at 50,000) and lose

gomes of this ilkp the key lies in
its action and feel and here it

delivers,

DUCK HUNT

One of the extra
moneyspinners for Nintendo is
its Light Gun. There are a
variety of games for it and I will
be sampling two this month,
Duck Hunt and Wild Gumma
will be looking af the light gun
game next month GUMSHOE
Duck Hvnt is a s i m pfe littie
zapper with three pkry options,
one duel; two ducb and
Claysfioottng. One Duck is
simple,, you arc faced with o
leafy green posture and hove
to ihooi down a rather
energetic duck, The scene starts
with a real cutie dog bounding
into a bush and flushing out the
duck for you to pap your gun
al You have three shots ond
limited time before the duck

x : 20 : v>±>

There is also a bonus screen where Mario h
trying to save his gidfoend. To get to thij screen
you have to place the ball in a special si ot that
transports you to this stoge. To release her you
have to Itghf up a line from the Bingo card in the
middle of the playfield and a segment fall s from
her enclosure, when all the bit* are gone she
falls down the screen and poor Mario has to
captuie her in his orn

I really enjoyed playing this game - it J s fast,
tun ond despite Its simple presentation realty
hooks you in. The controller was made for a
game like this and you can time your flippers
very smoothly.

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This is a game in the
programme! bio serie* on<(
allows yw to design and play
your own frocks . F xcttebtke it a
motor-cross simulation across
five trades in which you must
qualify in the top three to 90
onto the ne*f course. To even
pkry course one you have to
qualify There of e a choice of
five quai rfying frocks. If you
master the lower ord ina ly
tracks you can skip them by
qual ify i ng On a higher trock

Your rider n very flexible in
movement, he can do
wheelies, guide his bike up and
over ridges and you con use
button B 0* o turbo
accelerator Of course there is
a hnode off, Hie mo*e you use

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SNIPPETS

• The Ibt of goodies for the
Nintendo seems endiess^ «
new hot item *s Bubbfc Bobble
Graphically it look* superb and
very dose to the ore ode
onginat.

• in case you or* wondering
what the disk format for the
Nintendo bob like here is a
peek It ts a gome colled
Topple Zip and comes on
several tibia. Mole thai a IrWie
toy comes with package (UK
companies take nrie

hirbo the foiter your engine
overheats Clever use oftyfbo
b essential to qualrfy There fi
an engine tern pe nature guage
just below the track so you can
see when you ore close to
overheating, tf you overheat,
you stop and hove to wait a
few seconds at the side of the
tract you olso lose time rf you
mistime your leaps over
obrfocles on the course and
foil on.

The obstacles on the course
include dirt ditches, lumps of
gross, other riders^ steep
pbtforms, and little hurdles you
Con wheelie over.

Graphically you will not be
bowled aver, sound cs OK and
yet again it scores in pbyabi lily
and depth, blind acceleration
gets you nowhere, you hove to
m 1 x it up with bi ke finesse and
toning. Definitely one of the
best co lis available for the
Nintendo, Go for W

The old deswei have not
been forgotten* 5 forbore,
Millipede and Joust ore new
offerings from Hal laboratories
on the Nintendo in Jape
Jousf looks particularly good —

1 have a few mserrahoru over
Stoi

Spelunk or? Well it mode it fo
the arcades and now there is a
fallow up ca lle d (wait for it)
Spehnker 2 (on the Nintendo).
The graphics took a little rffy
and it follows the old format of
cove searching.

• We have hod Zeros over
here on the 8-bit format b
has been released for the
Nintendo console in Japan, ft
looks quite nice and it should
be over here in the new year
when Nintendo re-negoHote*
its licences for the U K and

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LETTERS

Thanks for the letters, I have
been absolutely swamped by
your response!

Most of you seem to have
flipped over Super Marias Bras
(and went mofe info on new
charts. There is o hardcore of
dedicated Ikori Warrior players
who wont !o know when if ft be
released in the UK. All I know b
that it will be here in 1908. but
there is no date set.

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Vietnam war gams based on Hie highly successful film
released earlier (his year,

The idea Is that you leid your platoon ol men through the
Vietnamese jungle with the ultimate aim of finding and
killing a renegade brother in arms.

The six-part war thrillers release will coincide with that
of the video sometime in January.

You control five men in your platoon, each capable ill
taking five hits. The game starts off In the jungle which you
must eiplore. avoiding the enemy who leap out at you. The
aim Is to find the entrance to m underground tunnel. And
then into the dark, waterlogged tunnels to find secret
stores. The Vief-Cong leap from behind corners and emerge
menacingly from the water to attack.

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holed up in a bunker and blasting away with a mortar But to
gel to him H's hack Into the sniper-ridden, boohy-lrapped
jungle and finding your way through a maze of paths.

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lor release by
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fields, fantaticaJ
killers guerillas
and the like before
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final confrontation.
Initial signs
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coin-op thrills.

Howdy, partners, and get ready lor some German Wild
west tun. Sounds bizarre? Well wait till you see
Western Games* a wacky sporting spool Irom Magic
Bytes.
The events are:

• Ann wrestling: battle of biceps, as you struggle to
force your opponent's arm onto the table first.

• Shoot the beer: Take a steady aim and a fast draw to
shoot the froth oft Ihe beer

• Tobacco spitting: Chew on the baccy and spit Into the
pot at your opponents leel. Be careful not to hit him
though -you'll lose points,

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-then atl you have to do is copy her.

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pail over, and you'll have to start all over again!

• Eating the beans: Scoff down H many tins as you can
in the given time. Western Games is due for release for
Commodore, Amstrad, Atari ST and Amiga

Salamander from Konami on the Spectrum should be out at
the end of November hut so far all we ve seen on the game
li loading screen shot The game Is based on the great
coin-op in which you most overthrow the despotic
Salamander and his vast forces. The coin-op was brilliant but
time will tell if it cuts it on the Spectrum,

This is Basket Master due for release by Ocean any day now. lis
by the Spanish software house Dinamic and Is a one or two
player basketball simulation. It features stow motion, close-ups
and action replays everytime you score a basket. It will be
released on Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amsttad*

Cfemr and Smart are well known
cartoon characters on the continent
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on extremely playable shoot
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• Now you and everybody
else must know about Play
By Mait, well I think il s
about time that PBM should
not be taken Irghily as a two
page feature in C+ VC I
think that PBM should take
up a few more pages in

C+ VC and maybe go on to
be another sister magazine
toC+VGandCUasan
adventure magazine just like
White Dwarf* Surely PBM is a
growing hobby and should
1 1 v pan d o n to other new
magazines, don't you think
so too ! It is obvious that
most people would agree
with me so please do
something about this,
Wvnchin Ng,
London,

Editor's reply: What do the
re*! of our readers think ?

• Mrs! of all,

| congratulations. How have
you managed it? You ve
managed to keep the price
of your mag down to El but
youVe just about doubled it*
size while almost all the
others haw jacked their
price up to about £1,25 or
shrunk until they're (ust a
cover and a few pages.

Second ,, why don't
Micropore release more
Amstrad versions of their
flight sirnsf I'd like to
see Soto Fhght //and
Cunship so how about it,
guys?

Back to the magazine. I
loved the cover cassette
but the music sounds ^
nothing like the
Thunder cats'

tune. How about including a
demo of 720 s or Out Run on
a future cover cassette?

You're getting better at
the competitions now.
There's only one arty one in
this ish - keep it that way!
David Brown
North Walsham,
Norfolk,

Editors reply; Vour wish is
answered this ish David. GK,
s*j it's not a demo of the
game - but the 720 and Out
Run sound tracks are pretty
nifty Limi they*
• Okay, I've written this
letter enough times and this
time I want it published! I.
like Colin Campbell in your
November issue, used to
have a BBC r but I have
recently bought an Atari r >20
STFM. I agree with him on
the aspect that the price of
the ST games is ridiculous
but I feel that if you shop
around you can considerably
reduce the price of the

fames you want to buy, Also
feel that the size of the
games which you buy

balance* the price. When in
the BBC world you fork out
£1 S or so for a game which
is J admit; of a reasonable
size, but due to the memory
capacity of the Beeb not
even nearly upto the length
of a game sucn as Knight
Ore, which if you shop
around you can buy for £14
or less, Still, I do hope that
the price of games ooes fall
as my budget is running out
fast.

Also, another point
brought up in the Matthag
was t he idea of an essay
competition. In my opinion
that is a great idea, although
I can see one problem and
that would be the judging of
the essay. However, if you
ask for a * short story"
competition Ihis would
make the job a lot easier.
Think about it.
Mark Perry,

Hurkshtre.

Editor'* reply: The prke of
ST software is dropping
quickly - and you can expect
it to get cheaper. Paul is a
big fan of the short story
idea - watch out for one

SOOn!

# Until I read your Way By
Mai/ page in the May issue
of G+ VC I had never heard
of PBM but from that day I
have enjoyed every
minute of it.

p -p> fcfttingtfoH tern

Crime review ( I joined and
it's been a delight to use the
old grey matter in
something more taxing than
blasting aliens to bits.

\Ht*r turn 10 I am pleased
to be second in the notoriety
list but also with a much
larger gang than my nearest
rivals. So out went the
computer. I would just like
to (hank you once again for
introducing me to PBM and
maybe one day we will CfOH
swords in some game we are
playing.
Leslie Bunker

• on,
Editor's reply: You are one
of many new recruits to the
joys of PBM, Leslie. Clad you
enjoy it, How about trying
some other games i
• Well, here I am again,
with two grouses fgrice?)
this iime + (A brace of arte* ft*
I catalogue them as foUowfl
1 Who is the old bat
running ideas Central t
Where has Melissa gone? I
vwirn you now that I will be
there in horrible person to
wring the truth out of you if
no satisfactory answer is
forthcoming. Fiendish notice
is hereby given that 1 am
drumming up support for
the Bring back Melissa"
campaign, and we shall not
be denied!

2. Am I wrong? Did I J|
really note at a casual
glance 1 hat the
ST version of
"Indiana
Jones"

I have been housebound
I for the last nine years with
'agoraphobia <ano apart from

reading every book in my
local library and playing on

my Amstrad, I felt that I

1 needed something else.

So, after reading your It 's A

tfy runs in medium
resolution on a colour
itor? Is tt standard

practice, or should all games

run in all three modes? If
forking out over 20 quid we
deserve to know in advance
what equipment is needed.
Should this not be an
essential part of your
reviews? I rephrase that, it
MUST be an essential part of
your reviews!
3. Ves, I have thought of
another one. Despite Tony
Takoushrs article recently,
naughty bits are still
appearing irt C+VC.
\ No vem \ i % page 143) .

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Don't gel me wrong, for I
LIKE naughty bits, but \\ isn't
very consistent bit?
The f^ningdon fiend,
Oxon.

Editor's reply: There's
always someone ready to
pounce on an y small error
isn't ihcrr* And it\ uuially
VOU I Still Melissa, as you
know, has bwn spirited
away - Ihafs a clue, actually

- and can only be saved by
inn* cif hint* I ins .uui pokfs

- and no, thai'* nut j mil her
naughty bit!

9 W*? are two Danish dudes
who have read your until
recently abs fab mag for at
feast four years. We are
afraid that a few points of
complaint have sneaked into
our view of iL To use the
words of the otherwise
excellent Tony Takoushu
"We buy computer
magazines to read about
computers and games", not
to read about Heavy Metal,
Films, or Play By Mail. Flay By
Mail is about games, but
does it belong in C+ VCi Not
in our opinion !"

We have read the page a
couple of times and never
found it interesting. The
question stands: Does it
belong in a magazine about
computer and video eames?

Films is the one column of
these we enjoy reading, but
again does it belong in this
mag? If people want to read
about films why not buy a

The continuing battle
between f*ood and evil in
the universe, eeeer,
between Amiga and ST. Why
won't people realise thai
both of them are -excellent
machines?

The Amiga has a small
advantage on hardware
(Sound, well better sound,
belter graphics, and .1 blitter
fitted when sold) and the ST
has an equally small
advantage on software.

As Amiga owners we
would, of course, like to
encourage software houses
to produce primarily on the
Amiga instead of the ST, and
then convert it to ST. We
find it sad to see these
mostly pathetic ST
convefsions on the Amiga,

Reaching the end (phew
we hear the audience say I
we would like to thank you,
because you do have the
best games mag on rhe
market. Keep up the quality,
previews, reviews, news,
give Keith Campbell a raise,
and please try to control the
otherwise excellent Tony
Takoushi when he Iries to
comment on things he
knows nothing about -such
as breasts.

ToTall Jones, and —

/esse fazkson,
Denmark.

film mag? There are plenty
of them around.

Heavy Metal is something
we hate. It must be a limited
part of C+ VG's readers thai
ever listens io this kind of
music, so why include hi If
you really want a music
section in your mag why not
include funk, classic, jazz,
etc? We prefer breasts io
both films. Play By Mail, and
Heavy Metal!

Change of subjects * . .
Prices f moaning, moaning,
we know). We find it rather
stupid when you English
complain about games a I
£9.99 so let s take a Danish
piarnplr: Highs San it „ by
SubLogics, Retail prices/
England: £24.99, Denmark:
apr. £55*00+ Would you buy
a game at 55 quid? NO
WAY!

Changing subjects again.

*piy: I wouldn't
like to comment on Tony's
knowledge of breasts - I
might end up with a libel
case on my hands. However
- don't agree thai nothing
i>U < m if i 1 i iMTipu tf t\ he longs
in the mag- 106,1100 readers
prove otherwise.
# I have just bought the
December i£Sue of C + VG
and I am writing to you to
tell you how impressed I am
It is 1 he first time I have
bought the magazine, and I
should say t don't often buy
computer magazines*

Yours musi surely be the
most detailed, colourful,
informative P and reasonable
of al! the publications on this
subject. Well done, this is
one magazine I'M r&rtatnly
be purchasing every time it
appears in the future.
Adam Barah, Sheffield.
Editor's reply: Aww, gee,
gosh, Adam , , , You're
making me blush.

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Wales and hod just pulled up

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behind me decided that my
boot needed reshaping and
the front of his car woi jus! the
tool I leopt out and took a
look- "You loony! Just loot
what you hove done to my
corf

"Gosh I am awfully sorry,"
herepbed.

I nstoad of bung my cool. I
thought I would do the decent
thing, *Why don't you improve
your driving by playing Ted
Drive, the lotos! Amiga car
simulation?*

He replied; That's jolly
decent of you, old beoa I will
take your advice

I have got a sneaky feeling
that when hil insurance
company get the repair bill for
my cor (a touch over £7,000)
they will do more than insist he
pby a cor iirt

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months offering is another
Amiga GEM, Accolade has
produced yet another
masterpiece with a full blown

On boating the gome you
ore faced with o Porsche 911
Turbo filling up most of the
screen {beoutif uHy detailcd| H
the window slides down, the
driver winks of you and then his
heod i$ slommed bock into the
headrest as the car rolti off the
screen.

A little digitised speech leEls
you Itiof you ore about to pioy
Test Dfrve r and you get o nifty
little hi-res pitey of car keys.

Not being skimpy on cash
you con choose from, o 91 1
Porsche,, Lotus Turbo Esprit,
Lamborghini Countach, Chevy
Corvetle Or a plain little old
Ferrari Testorosso.

The screen ts split into two,
the top third ts a hi-rw piccy of
the Car and the bottom two-
thirds detail jus* about every

tech-spec you could want to
know about the car (prico,
Deceleration speeds, broking
distance, full engine
description, tyres and an
acceleration choii)

On choosing your cor you
go to the driving scene, the
difference means represented
by a different view out of the
driving seat (o different dash
layout and different
acceleration performance)

There are few guages to
watch | vpeedo, revs, oil] the
real emphasu is on the driving,
You olso get a rear view mirror
(useful to spot those darn
police sneaking up on you) and
o radar detector for speed
traps (almost standard issue
many in the US).

To move you hove to hit the
fire button to get the geor
screen up and slip a geor in,
then push the slick up to
accelerate. As you build up
speed you change jjeor until
you hit o speed you ore happy
with. There was only o
mountain scene on my version
of the game, although I hear
other scenery discs are
planned,

It looks as though Electronic
Arts will be distributing it in the
UK with o conversion to the
Commodore 64 to follow
If you want □ c lossy and
extremely playable car dnving
sim then THIS IS THE ONE

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Comrn adore, Spectrum and
Amrtrod dedicated magjaiines
witl go to fhe wall m various
way*.

Well if you t* ink about it I'm

nor really putting my hope! on ill*
chopping block, 14-bit machines
ARE HERE and dropping in price,
consoles art here {ond may even
drop in price) ond 8-bil Qwntn
will no! sland itili, ihey will
upgrade to 1 6- hit or consoles (it
not both!).

fhey do not have oi s ywher e
else to go.

Of court* the dedicated mags
don't hove ta fad* o way, fhey
can ft* pan 6 their horixoai and
take in the new machines, faul
then they or en ' I dedicated
(kinda obviouv huh?}. They can
move sideways end incorporate

arcade machines, 1 6 b«T and
comoiet oi well at covering the
fading 8-bit ntarflcet.

Take a look at the mark it at
present. Newifield looks ta be
mowing towards a decline, ft has
toil several KEY mem be r? of
staff recently \ editors of Zrop
and Tnu Gomes Mach
some would tay Zzop i
its di reel ion, and Crash touJd
well foJIow it, The main
competitor lo C *■ VG is meonl to
be Newsfteld's Thm Games

Machine, (if two leading lights,
Graeme Kidd and Gory Peon
have been tacked, and k
being laid as a bi-monm h/ moa

The ohSor qlternaiive io C VG
is sord to be (ram Furyre
Publ ishin g , and Hie brains
behind it rs Choi Andersafl
(eN*KG ond Ziop]

C t VG has been around front
day one, if has relafned rti
strong presence in the market
even when many others have
fallen, and t have worked lor
same of those opposing mags!
So it's quality and reader
following rote second lo none,

So why am I reviewing (no,
NOT flogging off) the moo
tcene?

Wei) I remember cawnfiotiortf
with certain people within
N ewf field and Future Publishing
where they said thai user
dedicated mogt will take Ovff
and mags like C I VG will jvti
fadeaway.

Well torry, guys, you were
way oirffa line, and as ihey say
i m iTotton it a most sincere form
al" flattery. .

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