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be the other way around. The change has 

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anyone noticing. C-1-VO's message lo gainers who 

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ol the decent releases will still be coming out for 

your Speccy, U. or Amstrad. C-1-116 is not going 

to abandon Its eight bit owning Mends. We have 

made a number DI changes to deal with this 

changing situation. Ail reviews now carry an 

Update at the end of the review wIifl the very 

latest information about the version for your 

computer. All games are launched for a variety of 

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you fancy a hand or two with a mysterious ell-powerful elle - 

and want to look an idiot at the same time, look Out for the 

game at the end of the month on Si and AMIGA at £19.99 and 

E24.99 respectively, and all 0-bit formats, 

CPI. he s been busy la te ly, putting 

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HEROES OF THE LANCE marks the first computer 

action game that re-creates the epic battle between 

good and evil on the world of Krynn. 

Controlling eight Companions, each with different 

specialised attributes and skills, guide these brave 

adventurers deep into the treacherous ruins of the 

temple XaK Tsaroth to retrieve the precious Disks of 

Mishakal. 

As you descend into the Abyss, the Companions must 

defeat the hordes of monstrous Draconian" in handto-hand 

combat, deal with powerful magic and 

survive the onslaught of attacks from giant spiders, 

skeletal undead and countless other terrors. 

But your final obstacle makes these monstrosities 

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Located on the northern shore of the Moonsea in the 

Forgotten Realms, the fabled city of Milan had been 

oven-un by monsters led by a mysterious leader. Your 

quest: discover the identity of this evil force 

Pool of Radiance adheres faithfully to the legendary 

Advanced Dungeons & Dragonsrm fantasy role playing 

systems. No detail is missed including 6 player 

characters; computer controlled non-player characters; 

the Adventurers' Journal packed with history, maps 

and clues and the Translation Wheel that converts 

Elvish and Dwarvish writing to English. The gameplay 

is exhilarating and the graphics state of the art portrait 

displays, 3D perspective, tactical combat display and 

personalised weapons seections compile to form the 

ultimate breakthrough in fantasy role-playing 

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Firebird has re ce ntly signe d up Probe Softwe re , a uthors of many of US Gold', 

arcade conve rsions. TN ' nest tide of U .k coNa bora tion is to be Sa va ge .. 

three-part. multiloa d game tha t's se t for. Christma s Tolosa * . 

In the first pa rt of the game, the Sa va ge runs through the horizonlohy scrolling 

le ve ls of a ca stle . a voiding the mara uding ca stle inha bita nts and kilning gia nt 

guardlons e n route . in tra ntor fa shion. Meet come s • Spa ce Ha rrie r type 3 0 

se ctions whe re the he ro is guided through a ha za rdous te rra in of obsta cle s, 

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computer, and to ce le bra te the occa sion we ha ve 20 copie s of 

the game lo give a wa y. You ca n chose from Spe ctrum cossa tte 

(E9.95), C84 ca sse tte and disk (El 2.955E14.95) Amstra d Cassette 

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computer bode! 

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London to attend the World M onopoly Cha mpionships held at the 

Park Lane Hotel on the 17 Octobe r and meet the world cha mpion. 

He may even get to piny him! All we a sk you to do le a nswe r these 

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Citadel Miniatures plan to launch a range of 25 mm 

lead Star Wars figures. Their series features all the 

favourite Star Wars heroes and villians, including 

Darth %fader, Princess Leila, and a host of 

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development of theta-bit market. Though they will 

still be competing for customers. they will be 

working together on joint-ventures to. erm, well, 

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trash the kids want, and they 

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the ma rve lously na me d H e ll 

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be a vast probed t closely 

loilowing the "definitive' 

version of the late as told by Sir 

Thomas history. Released at the 

start of September it £14.95 5-bit, 

E19.95 for t versions, it le said to be 

"the best game to dale" from the 

specialist adventure house. 

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hand, is slightly more bated in the modern 

world, with horrible heroMe Ingrid 

Bottomlow re turning home, only to find 

unscrupulous yuppie prope rly 

developers planning to steameoll the 

place. Can she defeat (hem? Find 

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torn between Twinkle goe s N king - 

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featuring, a mongst othe r "de lights': a sub game 

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Dp. REVIEWER: I S MATT MEM. 

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SRemember 

Ocean's 

T original Daley Thompson 

game? I certainly don't: It 

Cwas 1back 

in the days when 

9 we . still printed listings and 

9a fresh-faced 5 Julian 

, Rignall had just become 

C+VG arcade champion. 

Pudding basin haircuts 

hod never had it so good 

hero, no more ludicrous 

bugs that meant with five 

friends bashing away at 

different buttons on your 

computer you could get 

enough energy to run a 

three second 100 metres! In 

1988 all the high scores for 

the various events have 

been worked out with the 

aid of Daley's own log 

book, meaning that with a 

perfect performance in 

every event it should still be 

Impossible to beat the 9000 

points top Decathaletes 

strive for 

There are similarities. 

A Amv, ud troMing room: little guy does his comic routine 

Yes, o lot of water's 

passed under the bridge 

since 1984. and Daley's 

pre-eminence as on 

othelete has grown in 

almost direct propoortion 

with Joz's !Darnel. Now 

Olympic year has rolled 

around again, and with 

Daley still the great black 

hope of British track and 

field Ocean has presented 

us with a new attempt to 

represent the ten gruelling 

Decathlon events on your 

home computer, 

So is it any good? Well, 

yes it is: there is certainly no 

comparison with the old 

game. No more 

pink-skinned sprites with 

straight hair 

masquerading as our 

however. The basic 

structure of the game is the 

same, as you work your 

way through 100 metres, 

long jump, shot putt and 

the rest towards a gold 

medal position, The whole 

button-bashing syndrome 

that wrecked so many 

Spectrums in the early '805 

is back too, though this 

time the punishment is 

transferred to your joystick 

Echoing the recent 

resurgence in the arcades 

of finger-strength over skill. 

Olympic Challenge sees 

almost a return to the 

heady days of Hypersports 

and Track and Field 

One of the really nice 

things about the game is 

the attention to detail. As 

DALEY T 

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you lake part In the field 

events on the Commodore, 

the crowd in the 

background does the 

Mexican Wave, Not only 

that, but other contestants 

do press ups and train. 

while a pack of runners 

jogs around the outside 

track. 

On the Speccy the 

training room scenes 

feature a little bod in the 

background who wanders 

around in a comic routine 

trying to pick up various 

weights, on the 64 Doley 

looks out the screen at us 

a Daley strarns to NI the bott:e on the Spectrum 

and sweats. There is no 

need for these - they ore 

totally un-necessary to the 

game but they are a nice 

touch. 

The system of play is this. 

To begin with we see Daley 

In the weights room, 

striving to achieve overall 

fitness. Though the 

Spectrum sprites are still 

only monochrome in these 

scenes they are of a fair 

size, and at least bear a 

reasonable resemblance 

to our hero. The idea here is 

to waggle your joystick 

bock and forth at such 

._ectowzo4-1? r 

We're left in no doubt as to what sort al hurdling shoes Daley wears

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HALLENGE 

speed as to fill up each of 

three bottles of a well 

known fizzy glucose drink 

within a time limit, and so 

be in the ideal state of 

body for the two days' 

events. It you suceed you 

now hove some reserves of 

energy to draw on when 

the going gets rough. 

This over with, it is straight 

into the events, and there is 

more than enough frantic 

jiggling of the joystick here 

to keep even the most 

hardened basher with a 

smile on his face. 

First up on the load (Day 

A Discus on the 64_ note runners on the bockground 

a A successful you!?, but the pole's a bit bendy 

1) is the hundred metres. 

ten seconds or so of frantic 

Joystick action which only 

pales into significance 

next to the 400 metres and 

the (oh my God)1500 

metres in the second load. 

Not a lot more to be said 

about the running events 

really. The motion is quite 

nice, the backgrounds are 

nice and detailed and (on 

the 64) moving, and your 

lower arms take a lot of 

punishment_ One thing 

especially vital here is to 

make sure you chose the 

correct pair of Adidas 

training shoes from your 

menu for each event, or 

you'll really be making 

unnecessary work for 

yourself. There's no easy 

way to do this I'm afraid: on 

the versions I played. 

finding out which shoes to 

use is a case of trial and 

error. The packaging may 

make this clear_ 

Adidas also get 

mentioned on the posters 

that surround the stadium, 

though there are fewer of 

those than there ore on, 

say. Peter Beardsley's 

Football. See what you can 

A ST screen: looking good 

get if you cough up the 

dosh, Lucozade? 

Next up is the Long Jump 

- pretty tricky in that you 

have to jiggle the stick to 

build up your power, 

release the fire button to 

get the jump, and then 

control the angle of the 

iump with your joystick to 

get a good length to it. 

The three throwing 

events - Shot Putt, Discus 

and Javelin - are quite 

close to each other, each 

one relying on the build up 

of power - very difficult, on 

my first attempt at 

waggling my stick that fast I 

got roughly nowhere - 

before the vital angle 

selection and the release. 

The hurdles make on 

interesting variant to the 

running events, and then it 

is on to the high jump and 

pole vault. Possibly the 

trickiest of the lot, the skill is 

in timing the jump to the 

last possible moment, 

especially hard in the vault 

since you must guess the 

length of the stick in front of 

you. 

If you've done well you 

get to go on the winner's 

podium, something you 

well deserve: after all that 

wrist action building up 

power you'd be as tired as 

Daley himself_ 

All in all, a very good 

looking game that 

recreates both the man 

and his sport well. My only 

real reservation would be 

that the manic joystick use 

could become somewhat 

painful after a while. 

Definitely one to pick up 

if you're into compilation 

sports simulations though I 

don't think it's special 

enough to earn the Golden 

Joystick its illustrious 

predecessor did. We've 

just seen too much of this 

sort of thing since then. 

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▪ MACHINES: CBM 641128, 

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P• REVIEWER: GARY WHMA. 

As if shoot 'em-up buffs 

didn't already have 

enough to be getting on 

with alter the last release 

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into diamonds by pushing 

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walls will change a mine 

into four diamonds should 

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There are hosts of 

features such as teleports, 

brick smashers, surprise 

bonuses and extra 

weapons. 

You're in for a treat with 

Netherworld. It's just what 

you have come to expect 

from Hewson, with 

gorgeous animation on 

your ship and well-defined 

and animated noshes. 

All in all. Netherworld is a 

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10- REVIEWER: JULIAN 

RIGNALL. 

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extra lasting appeal, and 

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Sego's brilliant motorcycle 

racing racing coin-op has 

arrived. Its certainly been 

a long time coming, but 

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has definitely been worth 

it. 

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mis 

passed on the expert 

track. 

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edge over Buggy Boy, 

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makes Outrun look 

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pathetic. The 

feeling of speed and 

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I don't know how they've 

done it, but they have. 

Melbourne House has 

managed to faithfully 

convert one of my oil time 

favourite Amigo games to 

one of the most feeble 

computers around today 

Barbarian is lust so wicked 

it makes Eugene Lacey 

look poor in comparison 

Barbarian is just the 

slickest. bestest speccy 

arcade adventure ever, 

and that even rules out my 

old favourite, Firelora 

You are Hegor, the 

rootin', toolin'. slashin• 

bashin'. dinosaur-slaying 

Barbarian, who also claims 

to be the toughest son of a 

chicken ever, and you've 

been sent to take care of 

an evil wizard, who's done 

something bad I suppose 

and (yawn). I guess he's 

hiding somewhere down a 

dungeon with lots of levels 

and nasties. Oh, why 

should I carry on. you 

-heard 

it all before 

ve anyway 

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before long you find 

yourself in a nice little lielc 

near the entrance to the 

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void of any nasties and 

traps and things. now is 0 

good time to hone your 

lighting skills. To perfect 

these, you have to get used 

to the icons at the bottom 

of the screen. Look at any 

convenient screen shot 

that happens to be near 

this review, and I'll talk you 

through the icons, left to 

right. 

First, you've got a group 

of four arrows pointing in 

the four normal directions 

These ore the commands 

to make Hegor walk left or 

right, and climb up and 

down ladders or steps. 

Next to that, you've got 

what looks like a VC. This 

means stop all actions, oh 

please, oh for god's sake 

stop, no don't go there 

you'll die, etc Next to tho 

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umbrella, which makes 

you somersault - usetul for 

getting over collapsing 

bridges Then you have the 

icon that looks like the 

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video. This makes you run 

in the direction you're 

facing. Next to that, there's 

a picture of a sword. This 

means use the item you 

have in your hand. Then 

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of a sword, which means. 

curiously enough. do a 

backward somersault. 

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trick. Then you've got the 

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jape. As well as traps, there 

are lots of different types of 

nasties, just waiting to eat 

you, or put their head up 

your bum - whichever is 

more painful. 

Just like the Yellow 

Pages. not all the things in 

the game ore nasty. There 

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well, like blocked drains. 

broken windows and extra 

weapons. You can find a 

bow and a very limited 

amount of arrows in place 

on the map, and these are 

used to kill baddies at long 

range, as there are some 

that you just can't get to. 

Also a shield lies hidden 

somewhere, and it's with 

this that you kill the Wizard. 

but I'm not telling you how 

The graphics hove come 

down very nicely, and do 

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resemblance to the 

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of echoes 

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See what mean? 48K 

sound, however, is just a 

matter of bleep, blip and 

blop. but this doesn't 

detract from the game too 

much. 

Controls ore for better 

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upldown on the stick 

cycling through the icons. a 

leftright manually moving 

the man on the screen, 

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Fernandez Must Die is, 

apart from being a very 

bad title for a game, a mix 

of Ikari Warriors and Into 

The Eagles Nest. It's also 

brilliant. It boots &ail in the 

goolies and turns the Eagle 

into a budgie, so to speak, 

leaving you with a 

two-player trek through lots 

of scrolling screens of 

action-packed 

battleground, with a bit of 

building exploration 

thrown In. 

The Fernandez in 

questions is in fact an evil 

dictator who has set up 

eight bases, the purpose of 

each to defend one of the 8 

strips of land he has taken 

over. He has captured all 

of the allied soldiers and 

the gold and hidden them 

inside the buildings that 

join the eight strips. Your 

mission is to seek and 

destroy these bases, whilst 

recovering the 202 caches 

of gold and the 182 POW's. 

Sounds like quite a job. 

Luckily you don't have to 

do it alone. 

The game is arranged as 

a huge map, broken up 

into eight vertical strips, 

each several screens long 

and joined by rooms with 

closed doors that you have 

to blast your way into. You 

and a friend race 

headlong up and down 

the vertically scrolling 

areas, searching for the 

huge L-shaped buildings, 

the bases, and avoiding 

everything the enemy can 

throw at you, and believe 

me, that's quite a lot. 

Firstly, you've got your 

definative enemy soldiers. 

These run on from the top or 

the bottom of the screen 

and to chase you in and 

around the buildings, firing 

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Graphics are great, with 

a very simple but effective 

colour system. Some very 

nice backdrops and 

extensive amounts of detail 

(such as the way when you 

grenade something, you 

make a nice hole in the 

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The enemy plane either 

drops more soldiers, 

medical supplies with 

which you can boost your 

flagging energy or bombs, 

which churn up the 

ground, killing anything 

they touch, including you. 

Then you've got the tanks, 

Three times your sprite. 

these hunter-killers mill 

about, firing huge shells in 

your direction. 

Doing the same job as 

the tank in Ikon, the jeep 

lets you get around at 

around three times the 

normal speed. 

Unfortunately, only one 

hit from a cannon, or two 

mines is all that's needed 

to turn your nimble little 

land rover into a heap of 

twisted metal. One nice 

point here is that, rather 

than have two jeeps 

running around at once, 

both people con get in the 

same jeep, with the person 

who entered first doing the 

driving. What a cute idea. 

When you enter one of 

the side rooms, by way of 

blasting a hole in the door, 

the game goes into mode 

Eagles Nest. Using a plan 

view of the area you ore in, 

you can see the POW's, 

shacked up in little cages 

embedded in the walls, 

and the caches of gold 

laying around on the floor, 

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Bishop, no less) have really 

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Not one to boast or drop 

names or anything but I 

have actually been to 

Disneyland - the origino 

California based one 

and have spent 

considerable time in deep 

conversation with Mickey 

Mouse about his new 

computer game_ 

So when I tell you that 

Disneyland is the most fun 

you can have on this 

planet I am talking from 

personal experience - not 

spouting from a travel 

brochure, 

Because Disneyland is so 

mega-brill Mickey and I 

thought you would like the 

chance to mosey round for 

yourself. You can too, 

should you be one of two 

lucky winners to and the 

top prize in the Gremlin/ 

C+ VG Disneyland 

Competition. 

Before I tell you about 

that though - let me 

• 

describe the game. The 

Magic Kingdom Is in 

mortal peril. One of those 

evil so and so's that seem to 

cause so much hassle in 

computer games has 

made off with Merlin's 

Magic wand, broken it into 

lour pieces, and hidden 

CINIE 

towers of the castle. Mickey 

must defeat all of these 

nasties to restore the wand 

and save Disneyland. 

Each tower is made up of 

several circular platforms 

linked by wooden ladders. 

There is only one direction 

to travel - upwards. But 

A Mickey searches the moze in this ST version sub 

them - throughout the 

Disney gome. Castle. 

Your enemy is the Evil 

Mickey must defeat the 

ghoulish guardians in 

each tower to proceed. 

Ogre King who has posted 

his monsters and a wicked 

witch in each of the four 

Armed with a water pistol 

with a limited supply of 

water our hero must be 

accurate in his aim if he is 

to succeed. If the liquid 

connects with a target it 

will turn into a bonus. Many 

of these are little blue 

bottles of water to restore 

Mickey's water pistol level. 

Other bonuses to be 

picked up ore 'keys' which 

enable Mickey to get 

through the heavy wooden 

doors into the sub games - 

where certain items are 

located that he will need in 

the quest. 

A birds head is another 

useful item to acquire as it 

will enable Mickey to 

survive, should he fall off 

one of the platforms. Glue 

sticks monsters to the spot, 

lightning bolts make 

Mickey move faster. A 

'Repulsiveness' power-up 

makes Mickey so 

disgusting that not even 

the Ogre Kings ghouls 

want to have anything to 

do with him, bombs blow 

up anything nasty on 

screen at the moment 

when they ore picked up 

and shields protect our 

heroes water supply. 

The water pistol will not 

dispatch all of the monsters 

so Mickey sometimes has

ilifill 64 

to press the space bar to 

wield his mallet. 

The graphics are superb 

In oil versions of Mickey - 

full of detail and extremely 

well animated. One of the 

best bits IS when Mickey 

swings his mallet at an 

Ogre - causing it to 

mutate into two tiny Ogres 

who scurry around the 

tower and are difficult to 

finish off. 

When Mickey gets to the 

top of the fourth tower the 

Ogre King knows that he is 

going to hove to fight it Out 

with the super rodent in 

in person. 

To destroy the ugly, webwinged, 

huge-jawed nasty 

- Mickey must score 

fifteen direct hits with his 

water pistol. Only three 

attempts ore allowed per 

go and should he fail its 

right back to the foot of the 

first tower. 

Things are more difficult 

than this for ST and Amiga 

owners as they have to 

A Mickey heads for the water in this 64 screen. 

defeat a wicked witch at 

the top of each individual 

tower before going on to 

meet the Ogre King. 

Whichever version you 

play one piece of the 

stolen wand is to be found 

at the top of each tower - 

and Mickey must have the 

wand complete before he 

faces the Ogre King. 

At first glance Mickey looks 

like a game for children. 

This impression is created 

by the pretty graphics and 

the character of Mickey 

himself - who is seen as a 

kids hero. When you get 

down to trying to solve the 

game though, you soon 

realise that there is nothing 

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arcade skills, persistance, 

and patience. 

The sub games provide 

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the main business of saving 

the Magic Kingdom from 

the Ogre. Mickey reaches 

these through the back 

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magical items as he travels 

and lobbing his trusty 

mallet at the monsters_ 

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moving platform which he 

must bash holes in so that 

he can puncture the giant 

bubbles emanating from a 

leaky pipe. Ghouls fly 

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to deplete our hero's 

energy as he struggles 

against the giant bubbles. 

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be switched off in the right 

order to proceed. In the 

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monsters are causing 

havoc by pulling the corks 

out of the leaking pipe. 

Mickey must get post the 

force field and take his 

mallet to the giant monster 

who is orchestrating the 

mischievous work of his 

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Activision's first release on 

its new sub-label, Destiny. 

sees you in command of a 

strange robot•like being by 

the name of Supertronic, 

whose job it is to secure a 

huge prison spaceship 

which has recently 

malfunctioned, thus letting 

all the prisoners escape. 

The Supertronic is a weird 

shaped device, 

resembling a flying 

metallic Melon. The 

Supertronic glides around 

the scrolling prison ship 

landscape with the intent 

of stealing all the the exit 

hatches to stop as many 

prisoners as possible from 

escaping_ 

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trionsmutate into any of four 

different control modes: 

Hillbar Mode :In this 

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systems in order to protect 

itself from attack and 

collision. The problem with 

Hibar Mode is that as this 

mode uses up zero power, 

you have no control over 

the Supertronic at all, so 

you are forced to drift 

around helplessly until you 

choose another mode. 

Solar Mode : By hitting 

the S key you are 

transformed into Solar 

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replenish your ships 

energy supplies by sucking 

in the energy from the solar 

pannels that are scattered 

around the ship. As Solar 

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time consuming process. 

it's possible to get another 

one of your five 

Supertronics into action 

while the other one 

re-energises. 

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would sugest, this one is the 

most fun! Killar Mode 

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onboard weapons system. 

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available allow you to 

transfer power from one 

Supertronic to another, 

and use two Supertronics 

together to help each 

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and traps. 

Diamond sounds from 

this review like a pretty 

deep and absorbing 

game, but it isn't. It doesn't 

really break any barriers 

as far as Speccy games 

are concerned, and the 

gameplay is too diluted to 

offer any long term 

challenge, which is a 

shame as the game's 

graphics and sound aren't 

half bad, with some nifty 

scrolling routines and 

excellent use of colour. 

There's also a free cassette 

single featuring 

up-and-coming band The 

Company She Keeps but I 

can't comment on this as I 

haven't been able to listen 

to it (Julian won't let me 

borrow his Walkman). 

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too bad as Spectrum 

games go, quite involving 

the first couple of goes, but 

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The ; Ultimo series of the 

1 

most successful sagas in 

the • history of computer 

gaming. 4 All five tales are 

based 7 around the 

mysterious 5 "Lord British 

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who . is the firm but 

benevolent ruler of the 

, mythical land called 

Brittonic. 

British tries to keep his 

kingdom free, but behind 

every corner lurks an evil 

usurper who is only too 

willing to take over British's 

throne. 

It all started with Ultimo I, 

when the evil Wizard 

Mondain tried to slowly 

subvert the Lords of the 

land against British. Ultimo 

challenged to conquer 

evil and lead the nation 

into a period of golden 

prosperity, whilst in Ultimo 

1i/the evil hoards had once 

again reformed, and you 

had to go in search of the 

elusive Exodus to quell 

them. (Pt/mon/saw you put 

the world to rights for British 

once again. 

So when you feel the 

tingling feeling of 

teleportation happening 

you know that Lord British 

needs you. And this time in 

Ulf/ma V. he needs you 

more than ever!! 

When you arrive in 

BritIonia, your long time 

friend and adventurer lobo, 

quickly informs you that 

Lord British is missing!! 

However, before he can 

explain in further detail, 

three dark, malevolent evil 

beings turn up and shoot 

lobo with a magical arrow, 

which all but kills him. 

Releasing that you are in 

Trustiss your t 

questions until a safer time. Hastily you 

let and Loeb that lie at 1 

mos, .01Pf the fvery e edorksess t , about you 

amine. Three shapes begin to rioter' 

gloom. b "Sbodokstordsr hisses Shoran 

teeth. Quickly, he draws his sword and 

aptil the barely discernible shapes. 

mortal danger, you quickly A The Shadowlords materialise from the mists, 

You stare as the 

light beyiss to diminish 

mid family mink out. 

Something fans softly 

*pito the bed. Readlimy 

out, you turps ON the 

bght at your bedside. 

There, lying before you, 

is am amulet. You hesitantly reach for it. Gripping it tightly 

im_yoor band, your finger automatically traces over the 

familiar etching On its surface. I 

-from 

Britannia! It has to be! It could be Nothing else. 

Waft F i n a l l y ! 

I A The Amulet of Britannia_ 

s i g n 

make your retreat into the 

night. 

Making haste you reach 

Shamino's house, another 

old adventurer friend of 

yours, where you manage 

to get lob o patched up. It is 

here that you learn that 

British has been lost, 

presumed dead, on an 

expedition to explore the 

newly discovered 

underworld. lord 

Blackthorn, British's trusted 

and respected friend, has 

assumed control. 

Tyranny grips the land. 

The people of Brittania are 

oppressed and 

downtrodden. You realise 

that you and your two 

companions have to do 

something about it. But 

what?? 

This is the major problem 

you are pitted with in 

Wilma V. but there are 

many, many others. The 

game itself is well 

structured. Your group is

• 

depicted in the game as 

an individual person, who 

wanders about from town 

to towwn. If you get into a 

combat situation you are 

quickly whipped off the 

screen and replaced by a 

contains your party plus 

the opponents you are to 

fight. You then have three 

options. reatreat, fight or 

die. 

The combat system is 

somewhat put in the shade 

however by the realistic, 

living world that surrounds 

you. The game is all about 

exploring and putting little 

pieces of information 

together, so that you get 

the whole picture. As you 

travel the world you will 

come across towns. 

settlements and individual 

huts. Depending on the 

time of day, the people in 

the towns will react 

differently. If you approach 

shop keepers as dinner 

time or closing time, they 

will rudely tell you to come 

back when they ore open. 

What makes the game 

for me is the role playing 

angle. You see, in Lfitima V 

you can talk to near 

enough every character 

you meet, and this alone 

means over a couple of 

thousand people!! All have 

something to say and their 

conversation can range 

from the release of Ultimo's 

next product to where you 

can find a holy shrine. 

Some characters, like 

yourself, can cast magic 

spells. A wise player only 

casts well known spells in 

battle or dire 

consequences may occur. 

Spells range from the 

useful "Negate Poison", to 

the very useful "Great 

Flame", in which a great 

ball of fire smashes into the 

victim, doing immense 

damage. 

There is a great deal of 

humour in the game. I met 

a magician who was 

looking for a talking horse. 

and would reward me if I 

found it, a demon who had 

renounced evil and was 

working for the forces of 

good, another magician 

who had turned himself 

into a mouse via a magicol 

accident and a farmer, 

plus several other people, 

who were in the mysterious 

"resistance", but would 

only let me in if I knew the 

password. Oh, there was 

also the farmer who was 

bored with his lot and 

wanted to be a fantasy role 

playing author!! He gave 

me all kinds of information 

on Origin's next product. 

Turning to the negative 

aspects of the game for a 

moment, I wasn't too 

impressed with the 

graphics. Both your party 

and the monsters look like 

matchstick men who have 

been on a four week Arnie 

Swartzenegger body 

building course, and the 

colours of the countryside 

were pretty lurid. 

Furthermore, the sound is 

nothing more than a series 

of bleeps and clicks. 

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stick by which all computer 

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games are judged, would 

slaughter this game in that 

respect. However, in return. 

Uttima Vwould leave 

Dungeonmoster standing 

when it comes to interaction 

with characters, combat 

tactics and strategy. The 

game is also nicely 

packaged and it contains 

the usual Origin freebies. 

This time you get the 

obligatory tea towellmap 

plus a large coin that is 

supposed to be the codex 

of Ultima wisdom. I only 

wish it was!! 

Uttima Vis a marathon of 

a game. One of the best 

computer RPG's I have 

played.

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memory then SSG would 

do better to scrap them 

M O N T E Z U M A is altogether. a problem letting of computer the 

player rely on the printed 

maps that they supply with 

the game. This would 

produce something like on 

adventure game, with the 

player in his "command 

post" receiving reports on 

the baffle from outside. 

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mechanism used in Halls of 

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versions a with their fast, 

colourful l vector graphics 

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looks d complicated, it's 

basically a shoot 'em up, 

with the player comOleting 

a series of objectives in a 

strict order. Games never 

vary_ The sequel, on the 

other hand, looks 

complicated. And is. It's 

more like Paul 0/poke's 

classic Mercenary than 

anything else. However, it 

has much more depth. 

Much, much more 

The biggest change is 

the graphics. The vectors 

have been replaced by 

technicoior filled-3D 

graphics which move 

smoothly and very quickly. 

The 3D effect is truly 

outstanding - if you think 

Interceptor looks 

impressive, wait until you 

see these! The sheer variety 

of shapes, the Pac-Worm 

and Pulsing Pyramids, ore 

amazing, the fluid 

animation and movement, 

and the feeling of depth Is 

absolutely incredible, and 

sets new standards for 

others to aspire to. 

Not only are the visuals 

impressive, sound hos 

been used exceptionally 

well. Each craft and piece 

of machinery makes its 

own distinctive noise, 

which gets louder and 

softer as the player 

approaches and moves 

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are eclipsed by the Amiga 

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absolutely incredible. 

There's also a brilliant 

Amiga soundtrack, which 

also works on Atari SU with 

a double-sided drive. 

One thing that mustn't go 

unmentioned is the fact 

that the disk Is specially 

formatted to work on either 

on ST or Amiga - you can 

stick the same disk in both 

machines! There are few 

noticable differences 

between the two, apart 

from the Amiga's superior 

sound effects and the fact 

that it moves just a little 

more smoothly. 

The plot follows on from 

Starglider. The Egron forces 

that the player baffled in 

the AGAV two years ago 

have become even more 

powerful. They've 

conquered and occupied 

the resource-enriched 

Solice System, and are 

currently consolidating 

their position and building 

mighty war vehicles in 

readiness to conquer the 

galaxy. 

They must be stopped at 

all costs. 

As Jaysan, hero of 

Star gilder, it's the player's 

task to pilot a small state-ofthe-art 

Icarus craft behind 

enemy lines and single 

handedly bring the entire 

Egron military machine to 

its knees, thus saving the 

galaxy. Now this might 

sound a tall order, but 

using cunning and stealth 

rather than gung-ho 

suicide tactics, it is just 

possible that the Egron 

forces could be thwarted... 

The odds sound a little 

more favourable when the 

Icarus is examined. 

Originally designed as a 

Police patrolcraft. Its 

equipped with a Plasma 

Drive power unit and 

Stardrive (designed on the 

planet Cosworth), a 

250-round gas-plasma 

laser and has a Valium 

Dynamics energy 

absorption hull protected 

by Hi-Lev sheild. Although 

the shield is the best of its 

type, it's diminished when 

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the Icarus sustains hits, 

collides with other craft or 

buildings or flies too near 

the sun. Fortunately it's 

possible to replenish shield 

energy in a variety of ways. 

A very useful feature is 

the five-channel 

expansion bus, which 

allows up to five 

enhancement modules to 

be bolted onto the Icarus. 

These include Time-Warp 

Cuboids, Fire and Flee 

Missiles. Bouncing Bombs 

and a Neutron Bomb, 

Finally, the Icarus has a 

large cargo deck which 

holds three items, 

Including reserve 

enhancement modules. 

Items may be brought 

aboard using the tractor 

beam, which envelopes a 

selected object so that it 

can be examined, and 

drawn into the cargo bay if 

necessary. 

The Sauce System 

consists of five planets, 

some of which are orbited 

by moons, and a 

hazardous asteroid belt. 

Now, incredible though it 

may seem, the entire 

system, asteroids and all. 

has been programmed 

into the game so that a 

player may take off from 

one planet, cross the 

spaceways and land on 

another planet or moon. 

Each planet revolves, so 

that there are days and 

nights - you can actually 

see the sun rise and set. The 

shadows and colour of the 

sky changes as the sun 

moves across the sky, until 

night falls. On some 

planets there's even 

thunder and lightning! 

Every planet has its own 

distinctive environment. 

Dante, a small red planet 

nearest the sun is inhabited 

by a small Ergon task force 

and a very strange 

collection of animals, 

grossly mutated into strage 

forms by the intense 

radiation_ It's on 

undesirable place to land, 

scattered with volcanoes 

and gas eruptions. 

Vista is a blue planet, 

second nearest the sun, 

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The grey planet of 

Apogee is next. Here the 

Ergons hove their base, so 

military and Industrial 

presence are very high. 

Apogee has two moons, 

Enos and Castron, both of 

which are Ergondominated. 

Millway is a huge. red 

planet which cannot be 

approached too closely 

due to the very high 

atmosphere pressure. 

However, there is a 

high-altitude presence of 

both Egron military forces 

and strange creatures, 

including a robot duck! 

Millway has seven moons, 

Broadway, Apex Esprit. 

Questa. Westmere, 

Synapse and Wacktunk, all 

heavily industrialised. 

Finally there's Aldos. 

another planet heavily 

populated by the Egrons, 

and apparently the 

construction sight of a 

huge space station, which 

will be the flagship of the 

Egron invasion fleet. Aldos' 

moon, Q-Beta. has itself a 

small, yellow moon, 

although radio telescopes 

can get no reading of its 

presence. A mystery that 

should no doubt be 

investigated? 

Travelling from planet to 

planet is made possible 

with the Stardrive, which 

kicks in at the press of a key 

and speeds up the Icarus 

by a factor of eight. 

Fortunately the planets are 

quite close together, so a 

Journey never takes more 

than a couple of minutes - 

anyway, there are always 

pirate space ships to 

watch out tor. as well as 

asteroids. When the 

destination is reached, the 

drive is switched oft and 

the ship goes into 

planettall, where it can 

either be guided 

downwards through the 

atmosphere to the surface. 

or flown back up into 

space again. 

The mission actually 

starts on the surface of 

Apogee, right in the thick 

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it things! Stompers walk 

about, ground and flying 

craft zoom around, and all 

manner of strange, alien 

buildings ore scattered 

across the chequered 

plain. After a few minutes 

exploration, what looks like 

a large red crater can be 

found. Flying the ship 

slowly over the lip reveals a 

tunnel, down which the 

Icarus may be flown - yes. 

some planets also have 

huge underground 

chambers to explore! 

The tunnel winds its way 

down into the planet, with 

other passages branching 

off in different directions. 

This subterranean system 

is quite extensive and is the 

key to the game. When the 

Ergons invaded, the 

original peaceful 

inhabitants of the Solice 

System fled below ground. 

Finding them is of 

paramount importance. 

since it's only with their 

help that the Ergon threat 

can be neutralised. Any 

interaction with the 

underground people is 

displayed via on-screen 

text messages. Prompts 

and questions are 

answered by typing yes or 

no. 

Once contact has been 

made, the mission really 

begins. I'm not going to tell 

you what exactly you have 

to do (it would spoil half the 

fun) but completing the 

mission involves 

collecting, amongst other 

things. a crate of sweets, a 

flat diamond, on asteroid 

and a Professor who's 

currently leading a 

research team on 

Broadway. 

Its certainly a tough task, 

and fortunately the 

programmers have 

included a loadisave 

game option - without it 

the mission would be 

virtually impossible. 

One of the many 

appealing factors of 

Star glider II is that it can be 

played either as an 

adventure (as it should be 

played) or as a shoot 'em 

up like its forerunner (in that 

respect I found it far more 

varied and enjoyable than 

Star glider ever was). 

The presentation is 

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During a game, the 

viewpoint can be altered 

In a variety of ways so the 

proceedings can be 

viewed from inside or 

outside the Icarus. There 

are also options to look in 

all directions, which is 

useful just in case 

something tries to sneak up 

from behind. 

If you get bored with 

playing, there's the 

'painting with Rolf' option 

which allows the user to 

look atoll the objects in the 

game, cycle through their 

animations, rotate them in 

any way at a variety of 

speeds and even paint 

with them! 

Starglider 11 is an 

incredible program that 

pushes computer gaming 

to new heights. I can quite 

honestly say that I've never 

been so entralled and 

addicted by any other 

game - the urge to 

explore is incredible. I've 

already spent many, many 

hours travelling the 

spaceways instead of 

sleeping and I'm sure that 

the weeks ahead will see 

much burning of the 

midnight oil! 

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Spectrum version is being 

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Argonaut Software was set up by Jez San 

while he was programming Starglider. 

Since then it has grown steadily, and now 

employs eight full-time programmers. 

Julian Rignall talks to Jez about present 

and future projects. 

Starglider Ills certainly an 

amazing 16-bit product, 

but how will the other 

versions fare? Jez San has 

a reassuring answer: 

"We've been searching 

hard for people good 

enough to do the 8-bit 

versions. Our first choice 

were people with 

graphic systems already 

in existence like 

Realtime, but they're very 

busy and there was a bit 

of a problem fi nding out 

which version they 

wanted to do and which 

ones we wanted to do. In 

the end we found some 

good Commodore 64 

programmers and 

they're going to be 

working with us. We're 

going to supply our 

routines and lots of help, 

and they're going to be 

programming the 6502. 

That'll probably include 

the Apple as well but we 

don't know yet. We're still 

looking for Spectrum 

programmers, but we 

expect to find some very 

soon indeed. 

The problem is that 

everyone in our 

company is a 16-bit 

programmer_ No-one 

wanted to go back to 

8-bit again, so we had to 

find new blood. Once 

you've programmed 

16-bit you don't want to 

do 8-bit again. It stifles 

your creativity. We're 

doing the IBM PC version, 

which we call 16-bit, but 

some people would 

argue it is 8-bit. 

The PC version is being 

developed on an 

Amstrad, and is slightly 

slower than the Atari ST, 

but looks worse because 

CGA is graphically 

inferior. We hope to 

speed it up a bit, and also 

make sure it's compatible 

with all other graphics 

systems like BGA 

and Tandy. It requires a 

lot of work to support all 

the different IBMs_ An IBM 

PC is the very lowest one 

- it'll look awful on it but I 

can't do anything about 

that. We might use vector 

graphics if it detects a 

very slow machine, but it 

will be solid where we 

can." 

What about the other 

machines? "The 

Spectrum version will 

suffer the most in terms of 

graphical quality, but it'll 

still retain much of the 

gameplay. It doesn't 

really matter what it looks 

like - it'll most probably 

be wire frame - it's the 

gameplay that really 

counts. On all versions 

we'll be retaining as 

much of the original 

gameplay as possible." 

Argonaut has two other 

projects under 

development at the 

moment, the first of which 

is Hawk, which will be 

appearing on the 

Electronic Arts label in the 

next few months. Jez 

explains: "It's a combat 

flight simulator based on 

Stealth technology - you 

know, F19 and 82 and all 

that kind of thing. 

Graphically it's very 

complex and the flight 

dynamics are very like a 

real simulator, but you 

don't waste your time 

talking to airports and 

landing and things like 

that. 

"It's based ten years 

Into the future and 

assumes that there are a 

lot of Stealth Fighters 

around, so you're 

actually attacking 

Stealth Fighters. We've 

programmed in all 

known Stealth Fighters 

plus we're going to invent 

a few of our own. There 

will be conventional 

planes as well, like Flo. 

F18 and Phantoms. 

"We aren't going to go 

the Microprose route with 

a World War III scenario: 

it's going to be more 'take 

it as it comes'. It'll be 

different every time and 

we're going to town on 

the computer- controlled 

enemy - they'll fly 100% 

realisticaly. You'll be 

able to follow them in 

turns and loops and 

things like that." 

Interceptor is the 

current combat simulator 

yardstick. so how does it 

compare with Hawk? Jez 

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supposed to fly around 

and chase it - you only 

get a brief glimpse of it up 

big. In Hawk you'll be 

dogfi ghting all the time 

There's a lot more in it too 

- we've got fractal 

mountain terrains in some 

parts of the game and in 

other parts there's flat 

land with lots of buildings. 

"We've included a lot of 

ground combat: there's 

landing on different 

runways and airports and 

things like that. Mid-air 

refuelling of course. We 

wanted to do the flight 

simulator to beat them 

all, and we put enough 

people in the company 

with different talents to 

make an all round 

product - it's a really full 

combat simulation: very 

graphical and very fast,' 

The second project is a 

coin-op conversion of a 

Sega game that derives 

its name from a device in 

an aircraft jet engine that 

ignites extra fuel, which 

at the moment has to current crop of 

remain nameless. Jez conversions: Outrun is 

reveals more of the pathetic. 

mystery game: 'We got " S o m e coin-op games 

excited by a particular c a n be reasonably well, 

coin-op. It's not going to especially the Pacmans 

take us long to do it - we and the Gauntlets where 

already have a sprite n o t very much is 

engine that can enlarge happening but its fun. 

and decrease, flip in the But Outrun, where there's 

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shame, it's a really good 

shoot 'em up - very hard, 

and far more Immediate 

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version. I really liked 

Marble Madness, it was a 

favourite for years. I also 

liked / Robot. 

I Robot has a shape 

pointing option. Did the 

'Painting with Rolf' option 

on Starglider come from 

there? Jez acknowledges 

that he did enjoy playing 

with the drawing option, 

but explains: "Paint with 

Rolf was a bug. We've 

always got a shape 

editor in our games, and 

one day it didn't clear the 

screen and we thought, 

that's great! So when we 

finished the game we put 

in some options, and the 

end result is great - 

everyone loves it. It's 

fascinating to doodle 

with walkers". 

And indeed it is. With 

that, Jez had to rush off to 

the duplicators to check 

that they were managing 

to copy Starglider 

correctly.

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difference between these 

and earlier versions are the 

colourful graphics plus the 

speed and quality of the 

3D update. The 

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the sprites ore nicely 

it Space Harrier - disappointing. 

drawn, although still quite 

jerky at times. 

As with its predecessors, 

however, the game suffers 

from one major flaw: since 

the action is viewed from 

behind the main character 

he successfully blocks any 

fire heading directly for 

him_ This frequently leads 

to the loss of a life simply 

because oncoming 

missiles are completely 

hidden from view. 

Ultimately, Space Harrier 

is disappointing. Without 

the novelty of being thrown 

around in the hydraulic 

seat, the game is reduced 

to a fairly average shoot 

'em up which, at worst, can 

be extremely frustrating. 

Having said that, this is the 

definitive Space Harrier, 

and the one to go for if 

you're a fan of the coin-op. 

The Amiga version should 

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Computer Industry sources spoke of alarm and disquiet today as US Gold - Europe's 

forerunners in home entertainment software - announced plans for a September release 

that marks a milestone in the development of the home computer industry. Titled "HISTORY 

IN THE MAKING", it chronicles the early giant successes of this exciting industry and is 

regarded by many experts to be the fmest single collection of computer games ever produced 

a real must for computer enthusiasts and a true collector's item to he treasured 

for years to come, 

In just four short years 

home computer entertainment 

has grown into a 

furious and exciting 

industry not only bringing 

much pleasure and 

enjoyment to many 

youngsters throughout 

Great Britain and Europe, 

but creating a whole 

industry that has made 

enormous strides forward 

in technology and the 

standards of entertainment. 

No company has done 

more to advance the cause 

than US Gold. Deriving its 

name from the early 

activities of importing 

software from America 

and adapting it for the 

home market, US Gold has 

constantly led from the 

front, outstripping competitors 

in satisfying the 

demands of an increasingly 

discerning public. US Gold 

now stands firmly at the 

head of a very stable and 

vital industry leaving 

behind it many memorable 

and outstanding achievements. 

Now the company has 

announced plans to create 

another shockwave - it's 

taking those early 

masterpieces from its own 

outstanding success and 

bringing them together in 

one collection - 15 true 

classics in all. A spokesman 

for U-S Gold is not 

surprised at the market's 

reaction when he 

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commented to our 

reporters: "US Gold is the 

entertainment software 

industry in the UK and now 

Europe. 

"In short, the collection 

will appeal to everyone - 

It's not Just a compilation 

of games but a true 

chronicle of the development 

of this fantastic 

industry of ours." 

It's hardly surprising our 

competitors are unhappy. 

From the very early days 

we were the innovators and 

we therefore developed 

some real innovative 

games - games that can be 

called classics of their time

MONDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 

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No one has achieved so 

much and no one is able to 

command such outstanding 

software, Now a mature 

market is in residence, we 

decided that the time was 

right to make a bold 

statement about how 

significant and impressive 

computer software is. we 

therefore collected 

together these classics - 

collected from only our 

first three years - and are 

to publish them in one 

historic pack. Many of 

today's enthusiasts may 

have been too young to 

have played the originals - 

it's obviously a real treat 

for them and many of the 

older players will treasure 

the value that such a 

collection offers. In short, 

the collection will appeal to 

everyone - it's not just a 

compilation of games but a 

true chronicle of the 

development of this 

fantastic industry of ours." 

BEACH HEAD... the 

leader of the pack, US 

Gold's 1st quarter of a 

million seller. BRUCE 

LEE... the first famous 

face to join US Gold 

SPYHUNTER... Bally 

Midway's armoured car 

classic became a home 

computer cult. RAID... 

Impressive yet 

controversial. Raid hit the 

headlines in the national 

press. GOONIES... 

Spielberg film translated 

into the first simultaneous 

two player interactive 

arcade game. 

SUPERCYCLE... the 

Epyx spectactular on two 

wheels. Fast and furious - 

an all-time racing classic. 

WORLD GAMES... 

NEWS 

around the world with 8 

incredible, and unusual 

events by Epyx. EXPRESS 

RAIDER... a rootin% 

tootin', arcade action - the 

Easter hit of that year. 

INFILTRATOR... arcade. 

strategy simulation - all 

ingredients that 

culminated into a 

European No. 1. BEACH 

HEAD tough action 

sequel, another monster 

chartbuster by Access. 

GAUNTLET... the biggest 

selling computer game 

1986/87. over 300.000 sold 

"HISTORY IN THE MAKING" 

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- the 1st great arcade 

conversion. ROAD 

RUNNER... the summer 

No. I of that year - 

cartoon, coin-op capers 

from Atari Games. 

I M P O S S I B L E 

MI S S I O N . . . the 

benchmark test for all 

subsequent platform 

games, still regarded by 

many as one of the greatest 

computer games of all 

time. KUNG FU 

MASTER... a Gallup No. 

I - Data East - often 

imitated, never emulated. 

LEADERBOARD... "This 

is the sports simulation of 

the year -if not the decade", 

Zzap 64. 

Besides its possession as 

a collection piece the 

package is considered by 

many to offer unheard of 

value for money and an 

opportunity not to be 

missed. Many computer 

enthusiasts await eagerly 

the mid-September release 

and comments such as 

"I've started saving 

now...", "I wasn't into 

computers when the early 

releaseg 

- looking forward to playing 

c a m 

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them now...", "I've only 

heard of such games as 

Beach Head, now's my 

chance to see what I've 

missed..." are common 

amongst the players that 

we've talked to. 

"But the real winners are 

the buying public - it's 

fantastic value." 

Perhaps one of the most 

informative comments was 

made by an industry 

insider: "US Gold seem to 

have done it again. Whilst 

we're all happily 

constructing compilations 

from any product we can 

find and offering them to 

the public as value-formoney 

packs, US Gold 

have put together the finest 

collection of classic games 

ever assembled and the 

support material and giveaways 

will be just as 

good and up to their usual 

amazing standard. Quite 

simply, I think we're all 

stunned once again, but the 

real winners are the buying 

public - it's fantastic 

value." 

Where will US Gold go 

from here - well no one 

knows, all we can really say 

is that if they keep going 

on making history like this 

then they can only keep 

going on from success to 

success and all computer 

owners will be pleased for 

that to continue.

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•• To Hell and Back is the best 

VCRL 

game we've seen in a 

while. Yes, I know that's not 

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saying much, but after the 

Rgobble 

of turkeys they 

Shave 

recently foisted upon 

Ian 

unsuspecting software 

Omarket, 

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Egamemaking. 

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Cdecadent 

in programmer 

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4heaven. 

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been allowed to just 

. wander in and filch the Ten 

Commandments, but the 

angel sent down to the 

'other place' to retrieve 

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REVIEWER: JULIAN 

RIGNALL. 

I'm all for original and 

innovative ideas - if the 

end result Is an enjoyable 

and playable game. 

Hotshot is certainly 

original, but unfortunately 

ifs far from playable. 

As Garry Williams. 

VG's lardy lump of an 

ad manager, says after 

lunch: "Let me axpand 

further." 

The game is very simple: 

it's a one-on-one battle 

between either two human 

players, or a human and 

computer player, set 

across five different levels. 

The objective is simple: 

beat the opponent. 

Before a game begins, 

TO HELL AN 

them is definitely on the 

porky side: he'd give 

Chubby Grist/e 

a for his money! 

wHe a does d d lhowever e come 

equipped with a 

handy-dandy boomerang 

halo with which to zap your 

attackers and supposedly 

'transform them into angels 

and send them to heaven' 

though what the vicious 

currs have quite done to 

deserve such generous 

treatment I'm sure I don't 

know. 

The various levels scroll 

smoothly and are dotted 

with platforms and lava 

pits a la Ghost and 

Goblins, though it must be 

said that where you 

actually can stand and 

where it looks as if you 

should be able to stand 

aren't always that close. 

Critters ranging from 

your bog standard 

ghosties that just queue up 

each player enters his 

name and is assigned a 

character by the 

computer. Personally I'd 

prefer to choose my own 

character, rather than be 

given one randomly. 

The characters vary in 

shape and size, from 

roughly human shape to 

A Nice wolf, shame about the spacesuit. 

to be knocked down 

through to immensely 

annoying jumping rodent 

things all too eager to 

knock you off your perch 

litter the caverns, making 

movement a bit, well, 

'hellish'. Hitting any of 

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eight lives, but also saps 

your energy. 

Luckily bibles appear to 

build up your energy, and 

after bouncing through a 

_ _ 

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game, as there's a large 

group of blocks at the top 

of the screen. The bottom at 

the screen is split into two 

halves, representing each 

character's playing area. 

A ball of antimatter is shot 

into the playing area, and 

the characters attempt to 

catch it and shoot it at the 

blocks, which earns points. 

This sounds pretty 

straightforward but there 

are two catches. Firstly, the 

players are only allowed to 

catch the ball using their 

'gravitation guns' - long 

sticks. If the ball touches 

any other part of the 

character's body, he 

dissolves and points are 

given to the opposing 

player. Secondly, each 

character exerts a strange 

gravity force, which 

causes the ball to follow 

parabolic curves, making 

it very difficult to actually 

catch the ball. - 

The screen is played over 

a given period of time. 

When the clock runs down.

BACK 

level with angel-like ease, 

Bertram, for such is his 

name, gets to recover one 

of the Commandments. 

Last of all you face the 

devil himself, protected by 

wolves, snakes and other 

nosties, to rescue your horn 

- whatever that may be - 

which has also gone 

missing. Though the sprites 

are all quite blocky and 

dull and hardly animated 

at all, the general feel of 

the game isn't too bad with 

the backdrops 

A Chubby ad-manager ends up in Hell where he belongs' 

occasionally looking 

reasonably pretty and 

suitably sombre. There is 

generally no problem with 

the flat-ground moments in 

the game, where the tubby 

one's halo proves fairly 

devastating weapon, but 

the main difficulty in the 

game comes in the 

jumping moments, when 

the rodent things 

mentioned earlier - 

apparently meant to be 

gophers! - knock you off 

with monotonous 

regularity. i 

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theme tune 

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accompanying the 

-proceedings. - - and quite a 

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allowing you to get futher 

into it than you would at 2 

first imagine, but despite 

1 — 

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)oth players go forward 

)ne at a time to tackle a 

)inball-style bonus screen. 

he character stands at the 

)ottom of the screen and 

he ball ricochets around 

computer opponent is also 

very tough to beat, and 

frustration sets in very 

quickly. 

Now, all this would be 

alright if the game was 

two-player mode - and 

frustration soon gives way 

to boredom. Even if you do 

stick with it, there's only five 

levels of very similar 

action. 

he screen. The objective is 

o score as many points as 

)ossible by shooting the 

)ins in the centre of the 

creen. When the time limit 

sxpires, or the character 

gets hit by the ball, the 

)onus screen ends. 

If the player has scored 

more than 4,000 points, he 

moves onto the next level. 

lot, the game ends. 

Subsequent levels play 

very similarly, but involve 

such things as drowning 

your opponent by hitting 

enough bricks to raise the 

water level in his area, and 

doing a similar sort of thing 

with a black hole. 

One of the game's big 

faults is the control 

method. Catching the ball 

is incredibly difficult due to 

worth persevering with, but 

unfortunately it isn't. The 

gameplay just isn't 

exciting - even in 

The graphics are very 

poor indeed, and look as 

though they've been 

copied directly from the 

the fiddly control method 

and weird gravity. The A This'll never make the next Olympics. 

very blocky and very old 

looking thing in the Moon 

Lander mould. Imagine 

guiding your Olds 

spaceship through some 

tunnels while squinting 

your eyes and you've got it. 

Still, whatever its 

shortcomings. which are 

hardly surpising 

considering its age, it's a 

nice idea to present a 

freebie like this and it 

certainly helps to make To 

Hell and Back look good. 

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generally lacklustre copy current to bring To Hell 

of an already much a n d Back to any other 

Imitated game. f o r m a t s , which is in line 

On the B-side, if you will, with much of their recent 

CRL has presented us with releases. If they did, they 

a game totally w o u l d certainly have to 

unmentioned on c h a r g e less than the full 

packaging cassette or price they are flogging 

press release: it is Moon t h e Commodore at to 

Crystals, Andy Jarvis' first make It anything like a 

game ever. A very simple. "good buy". 

Spectrum version. 

To be perfectly honest, I 

don't think Hotshotwould 

make the grade even as a 

budget game. At ten 

pounds it's vastly 

overpriced. Avoid it at all 

costs. 

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unsurprisingly identical to 

the Commodore, and 

should be available 

around now - if you're 

Interested. 

116-bil versions have 

improved graphics, but 

unfortunately the basic 

gameplay is the same as 

the 8-bit versions - so 

they're not really worth 

waiting for. 

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Whirligig the game is set 

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starfighter N pilot whose 

mission E is to fly around a 

strange S surreal universe 

(known as Whirligig) in 

order : to collect five perfect 

solids A that are drifting 

about T in the void. Although 

there A are only five solids to 

find, each one could be in your ship's supplies. What 

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(called I 'Eigenspaces'), so forgot. Your ship, a Meson 

obviously some serious Class Fighter, is equipped 

searching is going to have with some rather useful 

to be done. Relax though weapons, namely missiles 

- you don't actually hove and chaff. Missiles ore 

to go to all of them. That used to destroy the nosties 

would take until eternity. that appear in the game 

You view your ship from (more on that later) and 

outside as it flies about the since they are 

Whirligig on its quest for heat-seekers, they lock on 

solids (or should I say to their target with 

'pitches and rolls all over frightening accuracy and 

the place on it's quest for hardly ever miss. However, 

solids' as the mouse control should you be so trigger 

is infuriatingly difficult to happy as to fire a missile 

use). 

with no enemies on screen, 

As your ship makes its you're in for a fright as 

way across the star they lock onto YOUI In 

A Weird game with great music. 

systems, it will inexorably 

encounter the many 

objects, both friendly and 

hostile, thot feature in the 

game. Depots are 

some of the most useful, 

and are used to replenish 

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addition, chaff pods are 

defensive drones used to 

destroy enemies, or any 

missiles they may have 

fired at you. 

Anyway, the depots I 

mentioned earlier float 

around in space and can 

be used to re-chaff and 

re-arm, depending on 

what kind of depot Ills. 

Refueling depots are 

slightly more important, as 

if you run out of fuel, you're 

dead! 

Travelling from one 

Eigenspace to another is 

achieved by travelling 

through Stargates, strange 

swirly rings that need some 

practice to get through 

safely. Each Stargate will 

only transport you to one 

other Eigenspace, and that 

destination is indicated on 

the region map on view at 

the beginning of every 

level. By travelling from 

sector to sector in this 

manner, you will 

eventually stumble across 

one of the five 'perfect' in 

the game, each one 

housing one of the solids 

you're alter. When you do 

find a solid, you can use its 

ottractor field to put it in 

tow (offer dealing with the 

nasty that accompanies 

each one) and by 

dragging it back through a 

stargate you can capture 

it. Capture all five and 

• you've won the game. 

As far as I can see, 

Whirligig is very similar to 

Virus insofar as the pig of a 

control mode will have you 

tearing your hair out for a 

while, but once you've got 

the hang of it, you'll find an 

absorbing game there. 

With on alleged 4 billion 

levels and over 100 billion 

nasties you could be at it 

for quite a while. The game 

posesses some lovely 3D 

filled in graphics. both well 

animated and defined, 

but not as impressive as its 

stablemates, Carrier 

Command and Virus. 

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Road Blasters blends 

together the two most 

popular features of video 

:jaming ever invented - 

driving fast and shooting 

things. 

Just think of the dozens of 

shooting and driving 

games that have been 

launched over the years. 

They ore far too numerous 

to list here. 

What is strange is that it 

took until 1987 for some 

bright spark at Atari 

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together and come up with 

the hybrid 'racer-shooter' 

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missed by US Gold who 

wielded their mighty 

cheque book to snap up 

the rights to the home 

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Set sometime In the 

future where the 

motorways have become 

a death dealing 

nightmare. If you thought 

the M25 was hairy then 

forget it. With mines, lay 

bye mounted machine 

gun installations, mad 

bikers, and other crazed 

roadsters, Road Blasters is 

a game where only the 

tough will survive. 

The secret of Road 

Blasters is to make a 

successful rendezvous with 

the passing jet tighter that 

hovers above the road and 

drops extra weapons to 

soup up your vehicle. 

Catching these weapons 

is not easy - you have to 

line your car up with the 

plane whilst keeping an 

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weapons can be caught. 

There is a turbo charger 

that you use to accelerate 

at great speed enabling 

you to reach the end of the 

level more quickly. A bit of 

a mixed blessing this 

though as it makes steering 

more tricky and increases 

the chances of collisions 

with other vehicles or 

coming oft the road. 

My favourite weapon is 

the machine gun - which 

can be operated by 

pulling back on the 

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joystick. This wastes the 

enemy like nobody's 

business - and does so to 

a splendid, loud 'n quick, 

machine gun sound_ 

Sound effects are 

generally excellent In this 

64 rendition of Road 

Blasters - especially the 

explosions when you take 

out one of the pill boxes. 

They are hard to hit and 

one of your most deadly 

hazards so the loud 

resounding boom when 

you take one out is 

particularly satisfying. 

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A Prince would love the purple 

sky in the Speccy version. 

If the other cars don't get 

you then running out of fuel 

most definitely will unless 

you are careful to pick up 

the green and red fuel 

balls that ore scattered 

around the rood at various 

points. 

The basic aim of Rood 

Blasters is simply to drive 

and survive, and get as for 

as you can. There ore fifty 

levels in total - though you 

don't hove to start at the 

first every time as there is 

an option to start further in 

the game if you so wish. 

The road leads through a 

series of countries with 

alternating checkpoints 

and rally points. The 

checkpoints are midway 

goals to aim for with the 

promise of extra fuel. Rally 

points ore similar to the 

finish lines in ordinary 

races - q chequered 

section of road denoting 

the end of a lev•- 

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A control dash at the foot 

of the screen shows your 

fuel level, speed, warns of 

incoming mines and 

displays your multiplier 

status. The multiplier works 

by counting the number of 

yellow cars and bikers you 

blast. 

The aim Is to hit as many 

as possible without MISSinCI 

- this will give you a 

maximum multiplier of 

your score at the end of the 

level. 

Road Blasters is very 

much a high score game. 

One to boast about once 

you get your performance 

at the top of the pile. 

The 84 version reviewed 

here was coded by the 

same team that produced 

the Commodore version of 

Out Run - father and son 

team Amazing 

Productions. So Just how 

amazing is Road Blasters? 

The first thing you notice 

is the graphics and it has to 

A Hug rh, entre lane fat ash free ride 

be said these are for from 

amazing. 

The back drops range 

from futuristic city scopes 

to the unbiquitous desert. 

Al) three resembled an 

early attempt at 

landscaping on the Atari 

VCS - rather the 

Commodore 64. 

The cars and planes ore 

also pretty basic - lacking 

in detail and moving very 

blockily towards you as the 

road scrolls. 

The colours are very stark 

- completely lacking in 

shading which makes it 

difficult to take seriously. 

By for the major fault with 

the game however is its 

lock of speed. The car just 

doesn't create a sensation 

of speed. Only when you 

pick up the turbo charger 

does it move convincingly. 

From a standing start you 

have to reach about 60 

mph before you can 

discern that the car Is 

moving at all. 

Steering also leaves a 

Road Blasters car armed with missile launcher 

little to be desired. On 

some of the early levels the 

road actually moves for 

you. You simply stay in the 

centre of the road. don't 

touch your Joystick at all, 

and you end up at the end 

of the level. All you have to 

do is blast the odd car that 

gets in your way. 

Of course there is no 

point whatever in doing 

this as you won't amass any 

significant number of 

points. But that is not the 

point - you shouldn't be 

able to get away with it. 

The coin-op certainly won't 

let you. 

Graphics and animation 

gripes aside - the basic 

addictive element of Road 

Blasters is still here in this 

conversion. The strength of 

the original Atari game 

design shines through - 

and I did find the game 

very difficult to put down. 

However, you can't help 

wishing that US Gold had 

entrusted the conversion of 

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better prograri ng team 

The truth is that both Out 

Run and now Road Blasters 

hove to be ranked as fairly 

average conversions. 

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The evil and powerful 

Inter-galactic liberation 

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anything and everything, is shown, allowing the oncoming hazards, so you 

and pass the checkpoint at player to choose the next end up sitting In the middle 

the end before the IM's fuel area of play. 

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Looking at the screen button like crazy and 

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over blue and green cones Forget is graphically Since this tactic allows you 

that are scattered stunning. Sadly, this isn't to go all the way through to 

thoughout the level. the case, since all impact the end, the game's 

Every step of the way is Is lost when the game is in appeal is very short-lived 

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they came. This is the cue There are also mines and 

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thousands of little nasties 

gallavanting about the 

screen! 

As if that isn't enough, 

each level carries a 

painfully short time limit 

(typically about 20 

seconds each) and it this 

runs out before you 

complete the screen, you 

lose a life and the screen 

resets, putting back all the 

nasties. Fortunately 

power-up capsules 

appear from time to time 

offering extra lives and 

powers if you collect them. 

around the screen 

helplessly. After a while, I 

KELTER 

picked up the control 

method and was soon 

gaining passwords to the 

later screens. 

Helfer Skelter is a very 

jolly game indeed. 

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at their joystickmice for a 

long time, but you'd better 

buy a hairnet 'cos by the 

time you get to the later 

screens, you'll want to pull 

most of it out! 

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but remember, as the time 

limit is so short, the nasties 

always have priority. 

The control of the ball is 

weird to say the least, "Just 

imagine you're slapping 

the ball with your hand", 

the man said, stifling a 

giggle, as I bounced 

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Battlezone 

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This ancient first-person 

perspective vector 

graphic tank game first 

appeared in the arcades 

back in 1980. Its a very 

straightforward combat 

game in which the player 

guides a tank across an 

enemy battlefield. Other 

tanks appear one at a 

time, its whereabouts 

shown on the radar at the 

top of the screen, and 

proceeds to track down 

the player; it's kill or be 

killed. As the game 

progresses, fast super tanks 

appear, along with 

homing missiles which 

zig-zag across the playing 

area in an attempt to crash 

into the tank. 

Although Battlezone is a 

very faithful conversion of 

the original, its plodding, 

rather repetitive gameplay 

looks primitive by today's 

standards. I can't see it 

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Breakout 

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Arkanold Addiclaballana 

Impact have all 

contributed towards the 

revival of the bat and bail 

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The Software division of Atari Corporation has 

been very quiet over the last few years, with 

very little in the way of new releases for either 

their 8 or 16-bit machines. However, this month 

sees a break in that silence, with no less than 

ten new titles for ST. Some may sound familiar; 

others not-so-familiar. Julian Pignall sorts out 

the wheat from the chaff 

A Bottlezone — coin-op classic for the ST. 

A Moon Patrol; a blast frorn the 

formula. Now that revival is 

complete with the 

re-release of Super 

Breakout, the Grandaddy 

of them all. 

Unfortunately it lacks the 

sophistication of the newer 

titles, and only has four 

different screens. The 

Asteroids 

Deluxe 

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The sequel to Asteroids (not 

to be mixed up with the 

more recent &asteroids), 

Asteroids Deluxe, was 

never a big arcade hit. 

Nevertheless, Atari has 

decided to give it a new 

lease of life, eight years 

since it first appeared. 

The game involves 

entering on asteroid field 

and blasting rocks, which 

break down twice under 

fire before finally 

vapourising. On later 

levels, Alien Robot Drones 

drift into the playing area. 

These split up into 

individual ships when hit, 

which home in on the 

player. Laser firing saucers 

also enter the fray, making 

life even more difficult. 

past I found it difficult to get 

absence of extra weapons enthusiastic about this 

and features is also an offering due to the sluggish 

annoying point, and it control methodit is fun for 

takes very little time, for the 0 while, but personally I'd 

action to become w a i t for Mirrorsoft's 

repetitive and tiresome. conversion of Blaster°ids - 

Either avoid it. or give which sould have a lot 

one of the new breed a shot. more depth than this. 

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Joust 

E14.99 

Designed by Eugene Jarvis 

back in 1982, Joust is a cult 

classic. One or two players 

fly Ostriches (!) against the 

evil buzzard lords, 

attempting to dismount 

them with their lances, 

whereupon they turn into 

eggs which can be 

collected for extra points. 

However, wait too long 

before collecting an egg 

and it hatches into a faster 

moving enemy! 

All the features of the 

original arcade game 

have faithfully been 

reproduced in this 

conversion, and both the 

graphics and sound are 

spot-on. 

Not everyone will enjoy 

Joust - many find the 

inertial control method 

difficult to master - but it 

you enjoy a challange 

and are into weird games. 

this one's a must. 

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X011' 

E19.99 

Xor appeared on the BBC 

last year, and was 

converted onto the 

Commodore 64 by 

A Pedestrian 

Logotron, causing hardly a 

ripple on the 64 scene. 

Atari's conversion is very 

similar and retains all the 

good and bad points of the 

original. 

It's a puzzle game with 

Boulderdash overtones 

where the player guides 

two heroes through a maze 

in the minimum amount 

of steps. The onus is on 

puzzle solving, rather than 

on whizzing through the 

maze and avoiding the 

enemy, so the game play 

does tend towards the 

pedestrian. Still, puzzle 

fans should enjoy the 

action - and the fifteen big 

mazes means that there is 

plenty to keep you going. 

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fan when the arcade 

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looked at this conversion 

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buggy L across a right to lett 

scrolling landscape, 

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frenetic on later levels, with 

landmines, tanks and 

flying saucers making life 

very difficult. 

Although it's fun. Moon 

Patrol is dated and offers 

little more than a few hours 

entertainment. 

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The youngest of Atari's new 

releases - a mere four 

years old - casts the 

player in the role of Bentley 

Bear on his quest to collect 

jewels. These are scattered 

across a series of 3D forced 

perspective mazes of 

ladders, ramps and 

elevators. 

Each screen is Inhabited 

by a variety of creatures 

which maraud around and 

are fatal to touch - 

although there is a magic 

hat which gives temporary 

invincibility. 

Although this conversion 

is a little rough around the 

edges, it has all the 

features and gameplay of 

the original, and is 

therefore highly 

enEoyable. Whether or not 

it's worth EIS entirely 

depends on how much you 

liked the arcade game. 

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Crackid 

E14.99 

This game's origins are a 

mystery, but one thing's for 

sure - it's great tun to play 

It's the player's job to 

defend five nests from 

marauding birds by 

shooting them down with a 

crosshair. If a bird is 

carrying an egg when it is 

shot, the egg falls and can 

be caught using the 

crosshair and returned to 

the nest. Later screens are 

set in a sewer and 

underwater, and there's 

also a bonus screen where 

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eggs are thrown at a 

rooster. 

Cracked is by no means 

outstanding, but is 

nevertheless a simple, funfilled 

reaction game that'll 

appeal to a wide range of 

ST garners young and old 

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Noon base 

E19.99 

The supercomputer 

controlling earths 

defences has gone 

haywire. The only way it 

can be fixed is by mining 

special raw materials from 

the Moon. The only way this 

can be done is for one 

person to fly a solo mission 

to the moon and bring it 

back to earth_ 

Very much Grovitorinspired, 

Moon Base is a 

difficult but playable 

game with plenty of scope 

for long term play. It's a bit 

pricey, though. 

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plane, which has the best 

specification of them all! 

When each player has 

chosen a plane, the 

amount of fuel, bullets and 

missiles is set. The missile 

lock threshold (when the 

forgetting system actually 

locks onto an enemy 

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The first title on the 

lmageworks label 

(formerly Mirrorsoft) 

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one-on-one split screen, 

vector graphic flight 

combat simulator. 

Programmed in the US by 

Maxis. it gives one or two 

players the chance to take 

on the Worlds hottest 

fighter planes and fly them 

in battle against a variety 

of enemy craft. 

At the start 

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wealth of options confront 

the player. One of the most 

important is the choice of 

players: two players may A The p ones ly close 

fly head-to-head, and of the playing area (pilots 

there's also a choice of a have to keep within its 

computer opponent or confines) and G-force 

demo mode. The 

tolerance may also be 

computer opponent has adjusted. 

four levels of difficulty, from During play the screen is 

easy to ACE. 

split vertically into two 

Next, a jet is chosen. halves, representing each 

There's a wide variety of players' viewpoint. 

craft, including a MIG Beneath each players' 

Flogger, F-14, F-16 and F-18 screen is an information 

- the programmers have panel showing all flight 

also included a paper statistics. The controls have 

been deliberately 

simplified to allow players 

to concentrate on combat. 

Both players start in the air, 

facing one another, and 

simply dogfight until one is 

destroyed by being shot 

down, flying out of the 

playing area, flying too 

high, or running out of fuel. 

a, Twisting and turning in bottle. 

Missiles or bullets are 

launched using the fire 

button, and thrust is 

Increased or decreased 

using the keyboard. 

Points ore scored 

whenever the enemy 

plane is destroyed, and the 

objective is to simply 

outscore your opponent. 

Although Sky Chose has 

an impressive front end, 

the game itself is very 

simplistic, and plays 

similarly to Ocean's failed 

Top Gun Licence: it pales 

in comparison with 

Cascade's Ace II. There's 

little difference between 

the planes, and the 

gameplay is very 

repetitive. 

A very major flaw is the 

computer opponent - it's 

pathetic. The easy level is a 

pushover a n d so is Ace! 

Its tactics never vary, and it 

soon becomes very 

predictable. 

The potential for a 

brilliant 16-bit combat 

simulator is there, but 

unfortunately Sky Chose 

hasn't realised it. 

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available shortly, and will 

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this month's digital pictures. 

Featured this month are Dave Watterson from 

Oldham, Gary Marshallof Swanwick, purveyor 

of Amstrad pictures of Indiana Jones and Steel 

Madness, Paul Blakemore from Rainham, 

another Amstrad artist, Sigblorn Vagenes of 

4270 Akrehamn, Norway who drew Watchmen, 

Forearm Thru Head and Gizmo on the Amigo 

(great, aren't they), Karl Munchheitner from 

Barged. in West Germany, Ian Edwards of 

Bream, who drew Balls on the Atari ST, and 

finally the mysterious, yet prolific, JaSIA from 

London SE19 whose Uncle Sam, Jeckle and Hyde 

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When you hear of a new 

game from Thalamus 

coded by a bunch of 

Swedish hackers known 

collectively as the Boys 

Without Brains you can't 

help but be interested. 

Unfortunately this soon 

starts to wain when you 

discover that the game in 

question is no more or less 

than a scrolling platform 

number involving a great 

deal of blasting and 

picking things up. 

Called Hawkeye, the 

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puzzles and challenges 

invented by the designers 

are cleverly put together 

others are difficult to play 

because things just don't 

work out the way they were 

intended. Hawkeye 

belongs to the latter 

category. 

The method of jumping 

illustrates this point in 

Hawkeye. The character 

does not respond well to 

the joystick when he 

attempts to leap chasms 

and from platform to 

platform. This is extremely 

frustrating - interrupting 

the game play not through 

any lack of skill on the part 

of the player but through 

the inadequacy of the 

programming. 

Your hero is armed with 

A Huge rhino must be wasted at end of level. 

the two winking hawks at four different types of gun 

the right and left of the - selected by depressing 

information panel at the t h e fire button and moving 

top of the play screen. t h e joystick to the left. As far 

When one of the hawks a s I could tell it makes little 

winks this tells you the difference which one you 

direction in which you must select as, apart from sound 

run to locate one of the four and graphics, they are all 

pieces of a puzzle that you pretty similar. 

need to enable you to get A s well as the four pieces 

onto the next level, o f the puzzle there are also 

These glowing pieces of other glowing squares to 

the puzzle are dotted b e picked up offering extra 

around the platforms and energy and fire power. 

provide a modicum of T h e nasties are a widely 

interest above and m i x e d bunch. The first ones 

beyond the otherwise y o u come across are a 

tedious business of p a i r of wimpy looking 

running, leaping and bouncing ducks. They do 

shooting. i m p r o v e though with 

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to play because the formation and a mean 

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level one. But its not the 

nasties that make it difficult 

- it's negotiating the 

platforms as you try to get 

to the next level. 

Should you succeed in 

this, your energy is 

replenished in an 

animated sequence whilst 

the next level loads. 

This is all very well. It 

Delta, Sonxion, and 

Quedex. 

I am sure Stavros will be 

chuffed to learn he has a 

computer hero named 

after him - when he thaws 

out that is. He probably 

wouldn't be quite so 

pleased though were he 

aware of the appalling 

lack of originality that the 

game demonstrates. 

A Hawkeye - as original as the Grumbleweeds 

looks great and sounds Admitedly the graphics. 

good too but the trouble is sound and presentation 

you have seen it all before. are excellent - well up to 

It is as about as original as 

the Grumbleweeds. 

the high standards that we 

have come to expect from 

The muscle-bound hero 

of this little escapade 

this Crash and bapp 

owned software house. Its 

bears an uncanny 

just that in the playability 

resemblance to just about stakes it leaves me 

every other muscle-bound 

hero featured in countless 

completely cold - just like 

Stavros. 

scrolling, shooting 

adventures over the last 

Rumours emanating 

from Thalamus tell of a hot 

couple of years. I do like his 

name though - Stavros or 

new game from Martin 

Walker - author of Hunters 

'Stavvy' to his mates. I am 

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news of this one. 

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called Stavros who was last O 

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knackers off on the UHawkeye 

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Russian-Finnish border 

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A Spectrum 

wearing a uniform of the version will be available 

Swedish army. 

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ST and Amiga 

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Stavros Fasoulas author of later in the year.

Fancy a holiday aborad? 

Then you could follow Eddie 

Murphy, who's Coming to 

America (15). Eddie is 

prince Akeem, leading a life 

of luxury deep in the African 

jungle. But custom dictates 

that Akeem's Princess will 

be chosen for him, which 

isn't his idea of true love, so 

he takes off for the US of A 

in search of a real woman, 

accompanied by his best 

friend Semmi (Arsenio Hall). 

Akeem and Semmi's 

'undercover' arrival is 

hardly successful - not too 

many inhabitants of New 

York wear gold chains and 

furs - but the local down 

and outs help our two 

innocents abroad by 

relieving them of their 

luxury luggage. To fully 

escape the good life, the 

Africans take jobs as 

cleaners at a burger joint, 

which is where Akeem finds 

his true love but can he 

win her away from her sharp 

business man boyfriend? 

Murphy seemed to walk 

through his last two films - 

the carbon-copy Beverly 

Hills Cop 2 and concert film 

Raw - but Coming to 

America shows that Murphy 

really can act. He actually 

plays four characters - and I 

guarantee there's one you 

won't get until the final 

credits! Arsenio Hall 

provides excellent, support 

The firm hand behind all 

this is director John Landis. 

Films such as The Blues 

Brothers and Trading Places 

demonstrated his talent and 

he turns this modern fairy 

story into a clever comedy 

with some superb gags. 

If you prefer a holiday in 

the countryside you might 

choose the sort of small town 

where Adam and Barbara 

live in a beautiful 

wooden-built house. It's an 

idyllic existence until Adam 

swerves their car to avoid a 

dog and crashes into the 

river! At first nothing seems 

to have changed for the 

sweet young couple. Then 

they try to leave their house 

and discover that the rolling 

green hills have become a 

hostile desert inhabited by 

vicious sand-worms. Adam 

and Barbara are dead! 

The laws concerning the 

afterlife mean that they 

can't leave their old abode, 

but as relatively 

inexperienced ghosts 

they're not able to scare off 

the New York yuppies who 

buy the place and 

Summer - sea, sand, sun! But there's no tan 

for film fan Ward R Street as he checks out 

the new releases. 

A 

Top - the spooks sit down to dinner in Beetlefuice. 

Above - Chip and Annabel, show the audience how 

to shag. 

immediately turn it into a 

shrine to trendy 

tastelessness! Which is why 

they call it Beetlejuice (15), 

the bio-exorcist! 

Their afterlife counsellor 

does warn them against 

relying on 'the ghost with 

the most' but what are a 

couple of novice spooks 

supposed to do when even 

pulling out their eyes and 

placing them in their mouths 

doesn't scare off the 

invaders. Betelgeuse (to give 

him his proper name) has a 

A 

reputation for being truly 

disgusting - but like the 

New Yorkers, he also has a 

tendency to stick around. 

Beetletuice is probably 

the most original comedy of 

the year and the people 

primarily responsible are 

director Tim Burton and star 

Michael Keaton. Burton, 

who brought us the odd-ball 

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 

and is slated to direct the 

new Batman movie, has 

created a genuinely bizarre 

vision of the afterlife, while 

Keaton, who I've previously 

loathed, is both hysterically 

funny and chillingly evil 

spluttering away as the 

disgusting spirit. Make sure 

you haunt a cinema when 

it's showing! 

For a supposedly more 

serious view of the other

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of the light' because those 

things that go bump in the 

night want to make it 

Poltergeist 111 (18), Carol 

Ann nil! Actually they now 

go bump in a high rise luxury 

apartment block because the 

blonde child has taken a 

holiday to live with aunt. and 

uncle Patricia and Bruce. 

Unluckily she brought the 

ghostly preacher Kane with 

her and he keeps appearing 

out of nowhere like he's 

been watching too many of 

the Elm Street movies! The 

way to the other side is 

through reflections - bad 

news when the architect has 

filled the building with floor 

to ceiling mirror! 

Carol Ann demonstrates 

her psychic powers much to 

the dismay of doubting 

A Poltergeist 11,1 - moves nobody. 

psychologist Dr Seaton, who 

drawls his lines like he's 

tanked on valium while Tom 

Skerrit and Nancy Allen are 

the girl's long suffering 

relations. Zelda Rubenstein 

reprises her role as the 

ditTillMtiVe medium 

Tangiria, rushing to Carol 

Ann's rescue when she's 

kidnapped by Kane. 

But an exorcist should 

have been called in earlier. 

Compared with the wit and 

originality of the original, 

this is shoddy stuff. One 

character gets left. on the 

other side (preparation for a 

sequel?) and nobody seems 

to care. By far the best thing 

about the film is the effects 

work, in which reflections 

suddenly gain a life of their 

own. These are truly 

spectacular and almost make 

up for the cliched story - 

but not quite. 

I mentioned Vice Versa 

(PG) last month, but here's a 

reminder to catch it if you 

can. It contains more 

supernatural shenanigans as 

yuppie father (he even has 

an electric revolving 

tie-rack!) and son swap 

places thanks to an ancient 

Eastern skull! Cue multiple 

confusions as young Charlie 

has to handle his dad's board 

meetings while Marshall 

learns that school days 

aren't necessarily the best of 

your life! 

The film stars Judge 

Reinhold, who was good in 

Beverly Hills Cop, arid 

brilliant youngster, Fred 

Savage. They're both so 

good they'll really convince 

1 Boy and dad 

swap roles in 

Vice Verso. 

A 

More Murphy in 

Coming to Americo, 

you that. they have swapped 

bodies. A delightfully fresh 

script from Dick Clement 

and Ian La Frenais, the 

British writers of Auf 

Wiedersehen Pet, make this 

a magical gem. 

If you want a beach 

holiday this year you really 

ought to Shag (15)! No - 

stop giggling you dirty 

minded lot because the Shag 

is a dance which was all the 

rage in 1963. I suppose it's a 

natural progression from 

Dirty Dancing! 

But Shag is ten times 

better than Filthy Foxtrot. 

Instead of the bland 

romance it's got a story like a 

female American Graffiti as 

four American girls take off 

for a weekend together at 

Myrtle Beach before the 

glamorous Carson marries 

the exceedingly dull and 

respectable Harley. 

Shag stands out because it 

recreates the carefree feel of 

a sixties summer with cars 

cruising up and down the 

strip, a beauty contest, a 

visit by a third rate 

pretender to Elvis' crown. 

You've gotta believe that. 

girls just want to have fun as 

the quartet meet the local 

boys, hold the wildest party 

since Animal House, and 

enter the Shag contest. 

The performances are 

brilliant, and if all this talk of 

love and dancing sounds too 

'female' then you should be 

warned that Carson is 

played by ultra-cute Phoebe 

Cates (of Bright Lights Big 

City fame), while ambitious 

Melaina (Bridget Fonda) fills 

out a stars and stripes bikini 

very nicely, thank you! 

Being greedy I fell in love 

with all four girls. Shag is a 

wonderfully fresh, funny, 

lively film and I make it my 

movie of the month. 

If you refuse to believe 

Ward and insist that 

Shagging is too soppy, 

there's choreography of 

another kind in Bloodsport 

(18), a return of the 

venerable martial art of 

Ho-Kum! If we're going to 

have aseventies revival, as 

everyone keeps telling me, 

the return of the kick flick 

could be one of the better 

aspects. 

The reason they call 1 he 

Kumite by such a sanguinary 

name is that in this 

full-contact, free-style 

contest held in semi-secrecy 

in Hong Kong every five 

years, the claret regularly 

gets spilled. 

Our hero is clean cut 

American Frank Dux 

(pronounced 'Dooks' - 

nobody says 'Hello, ducks' 

to him) who has a face which 

is as emotive as an Action 

Man doll and a kick of steel. 

He's in training for Military 

Intelligence 

but takes time off to enter 

the contest in memory of the 

Japanese martial arts 

teacher who taught him the 

tricks of the ninja. 

There are sub-plots about 

a couple of defence agents 

who want Frank to return to 

the States and a female 

reporter who wants to write 

about the contest, but the 

real interest is the fighting. I 

couldn't help thnking that 

seeing Dux use his 

spectacular techniques in a. 

military mission may be 

more interesting but I 

suppose they're saving that 

for a sequel. For the time 

being the fighting of 

Jean-Claude Van Damme 

and many other martial arts 

masters will provide hours 

of schlock-suey kung-fuey 

for all you beat-'em-up fans! 

There's a battle for life in 

Hawks but neither Timothy 

(007) Dalton nor Anthony 

Edwards has a chance of 

winning. Their fight. is 

against cancer! Edwards is 

an American footballer 

stranded in Britain with the 

fatal disease which has 

robbed him of his strength. 

But just as he's about to 

drown in self-pity, 

irreverent Dalton throws 

him a life belt. Both men will 

get a respite before they die, 

and rather than hang around 

in hospital Dalton suggests 

they steal an ambulance and 

live it up in Amsterdam. 

Death - real death, 

compared with the sanitised 

'Bang - ugh!' of films - is 

an uncomfortable subject, 

and this portrait of two men 

refusing to surrender to 

illness could have been 

gripping, blackly humorous 

and extremely moving. 

Unluckily the script fails 

tocreate real sympathy and 

the direction is so coarse 

that the result is 

depressingly like 

Confessions of a Terminal 

Patient.

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a huge city featuring the actually complete the 

obligatory castles, g a m e , the idea is to gain 

dungeons and e x p e r i e i n c e points (from 

catacombs. s u r v i v i n g battles), quality 

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adventuring party of six Adventurers' Guild, and 

characters_ On the left of fi ght your way through the 

the screen appears either castle until you defeat the 

the view around you, or the tyrant Mangar 

characters you meet; on 

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the difference in a battle; 

simply type in the 

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(given in the handbook) 

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where there's darkness, 

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asunder, render your party 

invulnerable, reveal 

magic doors, and so on. 

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good by breaking into 

song at the right moment; 

some songs stimulate 

warriors to greater feats of 

battle, others frighten the 

enemy, some heal 

wounds. 

You can break out of 

most combats if your party 

begins to take too much 

damage, but if you win you 

will usually gain 

experience points and 

treasure. Since you can 

face up to 99 opponents in 

each battle (usually small 

ones such as rats, you'll be 

relieved to hear), the 

greatest skill in the game 

consists of knowing when 

discretion is the better part 

of valour_ 

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charm has been lost along 

with the excellent graphics 

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versions. The Bard's Tale 

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computers. Once again, 

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necessary T to make backup 

copies H of the two double 

sided disks on which the 

game is recorded. The task 

is simplified through the 

use of a built-in formatter 

and copier. 

You can choose to be 

accompanied by a band 

of characters already 

created on disk for you, or 

to build up your own set, 

assigning each a race, 

sex, and character 

attributes of strength, 

dexterity, intelligence, 

constitution, and luck. 

Building a character 

requires some thought, for 

those of poor calibre will 

be a handicap to the party 

when it sets out. For 

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mage will be pretty useless 

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of what the party can see in 

the direction in which they 

are facing; to the right of 

this is the narative. 

The map is based on a grid 

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his or her weapons and 

attributes. They may 

attack, defend, hide, cast 

a spell, or merely strum a 

tune. As the fight 

progresses, a smoothly 

scrolling commentary 

appears in the narative 

window. Should a bold 

adventurer get killed, 

there's always the chance 

of a miracle down at the 

local shrine, where a 

reincarnation may be 

purchased if you have 

enough readies. 

Thme are many other 

features and subleties of 

play. 

Bord's Tale/ills a big and 

complex game. It should 

not fail to enthrall 

two paces south of the 

refugee camp of Skara 

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It pays to map the grid, 

for there is little chance of 

using the pictures to 

recognise where the party 

is. However, at the 

extremities of the 

Wasteland area, there is a 

roll-over to the opposite 

side of the map, making 

mapping extremely 

confusing, unless'?' is used 

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Tired of slogging away 

over a hot computer. 

playing adventures that 

weary the brain? Here's 

something a bit different, 

but if your under 18, then 

turn the page! 

A Larry visits several locotions in his quest 

In the some format as 

sierra's 'Quest' seines. this 

Is an animated graphical 

adventure that requires 

the use of a mouse, joystick 

or cursor keyes, to move 

Larry around, plus text 

commands to play the 

adventure. But unlike 

Space Quest and the 

others, this Is one for 

adults only. So if your over 

18 (and can prove it!) why 

not have a night out on the 

town, and join Larry Latter 

in search of fun and frolics? 

Getting into the game is 

not easy, and probably just 

as well, for whilst no tour 

letter words appear on the 

screen (unless you happen 

to type them in yourself) the 

Leisure Suit Larri 

game is less subte than a 

church full of Goddesses. 

There is a stringent age 

test, by the way of live 

questions - difficult even 

for adults if their not 

you'll never make it! That 

guy with the joystick Is 

trying his best to get you 

there! 

No. Larry, don't tread on 

that drunk, your pointy 

American. Two wrong shoes will do him a 

answers will take you right mischief! Just head for the 

back to the desktop. Did cubicle, and answer the 

you know what or with calls of nature. Jeez. Larry, 

whom former congressman that was quick! Did 

Wilbur Mills went for a dip something just die in there? 

in the tidal basin? No. I can't bear it, let's gel 

thought not - nor did b a c k to the bar. 

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And repeated attempts to 

get the answers right are 

not easy, for the questions 

come randomly from what 

seems to be a very large 

repertoire! 

Once through the test, 

though, the game is sheer 

entertainment - If you like 

that sort of thing! There's 

catchy theme music on 

and off throughout the 

game, and plenty of sound 

effects. 

Let's start off with a drink, 

Larry. Beer? And another? 

And another? Jeez, Larry, 

your breath smells like the 

insides of a motorman's 

gloves! Where's the gents? 

Follow me, and do try to 

walk straight, Larry, or 

Lorry. 

But you aren't just out on 

the booze, are you? No, 

you're alter something 

other than that, and I just 

guessed what! Perhaps 

you'll get it behind the 

padded door? 

So. being quick with a 

cob to ovoid a dog that 

prefers his leg to a lam post, 

Lorry is soon walking 

through the automatic 

sliding glass doors of the 

•4.%ktii I till 

..or or : • : 

A Playing for funds in the COSin0. 

"Hey, dorki There's toilet imposing casino, his 

paper stuck to your shoe!" breath smelling like the 

Who said that? Surely not floor sweepings from a 

the lady sitting at the bor? rendering plant. Now he's 

Go on, scrape 

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it off, then, going to hove a real

and the Lounge Lizards 

gamble on the Blackjack 

tables. 

Read the house rules first, 

Larry! Minimum bet is $2. 

maximum $20, and the 

house limits total winnings 

to $250. It's not easy to 

reach that limit, but to be 

sure you have enough 

cash for all the temptations 

that might lie ahead, let's 

go for it! Wow - $150 

already! Wait for it, Larry, 

the guy with the joystick is 

American ones? Hmm ...I 

preferred the ones I heard 

in Lefty's bar. I'd heard 'em 

all before, mind! Dancing 

girls? OK, I'll wait, Larry, but 

they'd beter be better than 

this stand up comic. OK, 

bet you're itching to spend 

your hard won cash, now. 

No! Don't go upstairs and 

disturb all those people 

trying to get a good night's 

sleep in their hotel 

bedrooms! What's that - a 

Just for a precaution or 

three. perhaps you should 

visit the drug store next? Oh 

Larry, I can't take you 

anywhere, can I? I told you 

to look over your shoulder 

to check there was no-one 

around, before you asked 

the assistant. Striped, 

ribbed, rough, and 

spearmint flavoured? How 

embarrassing! Now for 

goodness sake be careful 

what you say on that 

can't solve all the 

problems (yes - there's 

quite a few, there really isl1 

you probably won't mind 

at all, for it's such fun_ 

Leisure Suit Larry is 

presented with superbly 

animated graphics - by 

far the best yet from Sierra. 

To watch Larry dancing in 

the disco, to see a close-up 

of his partner's face, or 

even merely to go for a ride 

In a cab. is like watching a 

a, The most emborros5,ng things happen when you'Ye had one too many. 

phone f u l l y animated cartoon 

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me now, Larry? The Disco? lengthy automated 

Disco dancing Is s e q u e n c e . where you may 

energenic, Larry! Sure discover what happens 

you'll be up to it, when you when a dead adventurer 

get the chance to get types RESTORE! 

down to it? OK then, but Coupled with catchy 

leave Fawn alone, she music and plenty of sound 

looks like a nice girl! Just effects, Leisure Suit Larry is 

have a dance with her and on adventure that really 

Hey! Mind that ceiling will transport you into a 

for heaven's sake! And world of fantasy. Wink. 

Jeez Larry, anyone ever tell wink! Nudge, nudge! 

you your breath smells? 

Here we leave Larry, !— 

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proud and upstanding, to I 11,, VOCABULARY 7 

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The Fiend 

Oh, how The Fiend suffers in 

the name of 

Adventuredom_ Oh the 

sacrifices that I have had 

to make on YOUR behalf, 

my faithful followers. I only 

hope that you appreciate 

my anguish, having to sit 

here night after night, 

forcing myself to complete 

Leather Goddesses Of 

Phobos, and try to seduce 

all manner of women, in 

the guise of leisure Suit 

Larry, however distasteful 

the task. 

All of which set the Fiend 

thinking about naughty 

bits in general. Having 

done that I thought about 

naughty bits in adventure 

games in particular. Are 

they really necessary? Do 

they improve a game, or 

degrade it? Are they 

ethical? 

Naughty games have 

been with us since day 

one I seem to remember 

classified ads for games 

that arrived in plain brown 

paper, and contained 

'adventures of dubious 

intent, set in Soho. Not that 

the Fiend lowered himself 

to play any, How could you 

even think of it? But with 

Leather the genre 

suddenly became 

respectable and above 

board. After all, it is 

professionally produced 

and packaged, and does 

contain three levels of 

naughtiness, so you don't 

have to be offended or 

corrupted, do you? Yet the 

prompts in the game keep 

steering you to the 

naughtier levels, unless 

you possess a will of iron, 

like the Fiend. And boys will 

News 

•Where have all the 

adventures gone? After a 

flurry of hot titles in the 

early part of the summer, it 

now seems everyone has 

gone to sleep until the 

autumn! 

Cool 

k Mortyille Manor - French game of the year. Reyiewed rtext 

month. 

be boys. This one really around to discover what 

raises the ethical question may be hidden, and 

of profits over morality, without the key, you will not 

But how about fi n d . With one exception. 

non-naughty games? You Beware you rude-bit 

know, the ones with the programmers, that the 

hidden bits. Ship of Doom word SCREAM, which is 

had its android, and The innocent enough in itself. 

Pawn its princess. Arduous has on several occasions 

though it may be, the Fiend been misinterpreted by the 

sot and replayed these bits parser, and an 

recently. Purely out of inappropriate response 

scientific curiosity, you angrily received! 

understand. S p e a k i n g of keys, I can 

There can be no doubt, verify that Maid Marion's 

because I am about to say chastity belt is NOT 

so, that these bits ARE removable. This should be 

acceptable, if done in the fairly obvious, as otherwise 

best possible taste, and s h e would be 'Woman 

with humour. For those Marion', wouldn't she? And 

untainted souls playing rumours of strange goings 

the games will not even o n in the Hobbit. featuring 

know what they missed, goblins and elves, are 

and those less innocent ill-founded. 

(most of you lot) would not A h . woe is me. Back to 

be shocked or corrupted Phobos I must go, as 

by the response. In this despite completing the 

manner, adventure games game, somewhere, 

differ from books and films, somehow, I lost a few 

where what is written is points. I obviously left some 

openly displayed for all to stone unturned, or 

see. In adventure games something undone, 

you have to go digging perhaps. Hmm. now where 

did I leave that yak? 

We've had Legend of the 

Sword and Corruption from 

Rainbird, Shadowgate 

and the ST release of 

Uninvited from Mindscape, 

The ST Adventure Creator 

from Incentive, MicroMud 

from Virgin. Wolfman from 

CRL, and Mindfighter from 

Activision. 

There should be another 

Infocom title or two 

trickling through soon. 

Level 9's Lancelot seems 

likely to be the next 

"biggy" likely to come 

along, but when is still riot 

clear. And around the 

same time, or perhaps a bit 

later, we should be seeing 

Fish, the next adventure 

from Magnetic Scrolls. 

Thank heavens for Larry, 

that lovable randy little 

fellow from Sierra On-Line. 

Larry's been around a few 

months - in fact, the first I 

heard of him was from 

Christian Mortensen, 

adventure columnist and 

deputy editor of the Danish 

magazine COMputer, 

back in the new year. But 

mysteriously, Activision, 

has been keeping a very 

low profile over it, Could 

be that they're worried 

about a Whitehouse 

backlash. But the evil Is in 

the mind of the player! 

A friend suddenly reminded 

me, when he 

announced he had a 

pirate copy for his IBM. 

"There's pirate copies all 

over the place - the lads 

at my son's office have all 

got one, and they've 

wrapped up the game, 

too!" He announced. So I 

rang Mediagenic, and 

begged for the review 

copy that hadn't been 

forthcoming earlier in the 

year As an adult 

adventure, it's a winner! 

MORE GNOMES 

• After Lancelot, Level 9's 

next release through 

Mandarin Software, will 

be Gnome Ranger?!. 

Level 9 is determined to 

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year's PC Show, and Pete 

Austin suspects that 

Mandarin will hold 

Lancelot until that time, 

However, if Lancelot 

appears earlier, 

everybody's favourite 

gnome will be making her 

second appearance in 

September, 

And guess what comes 

next? Why, Gnome Ranger 

of course, but not until 

next year! Perhaps the 

Austins will be producing a 

few Rocky's next

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Adventure 

Heialine, C +VG, 

Priory Court, 30-32 

This month the talk is of 

Shadowgate, an 

adventure that is rapidly 

becoming a hit He'ohne. 

Shadowgate and his 

friend are playing it in 

Brighton, and hove come 

to a grinding halt. Here's a 

few things that are 

bothering them. Are the 

Hobgoblins red herrings? 

Can you open the globe in 

the study? How do you get 

up to the archway without 

breaking the ledge? Not a 

lot to ask, is it? 

Similar pleas come from 

Allen and Mark Errington, 

of Durham. Can the 

dragon be killed or 

passed? Is there anything 

to do in the armoury? And 

finally, where is the key for 

the third door from the 

banqueting hall - not the 

ones that lead to the 

observatory or the hell 

hound? 

Meanwhile, general 

clues for Uninvited, stable 

mate of Shodowgote, are 

Invited, for a number of 

readers. 

And back to earth with 

what is rapidly becoming 

lues'ialsuow 

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Help this month came from: 

Colin Barrow, Irvine; 

Mandy Flower, Bath; 

Marco Andreoli, Turin; 

Jade Skirbekk, Kolsas, 

Norway; Allen and Mark 

Erringion. Durham; 

Stephan Wiestner, Therwil, 

Switzerland; Andrew 

Beth nell, Wonsan; Martyn 

Amos, Newcastle Upon 

Tyne; Dick Light. Hitchin; 

Mandy Flower, Bath; Paul 

Hardy, Sheffield; and Mike 

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dodgy questions there, 

from Dodgy Geezer 

Andrew Baranowski, of 

Bradford. 

Who remembers on 

adventure called 

Smugglers Cave? Back in 

the dim and distant past it 

appeared in spectoral 

form, and later, 

apparently, on an 

Amstrad. This is where 

Damon Hawkins of 

Mooroobool in 

Queensland caught up 

with it. But it finally caught 

up with him when it placed 

a pirate in front of him, 

beard quivering with rage. 

and refusing to Damon 

pass. And that elevator 

also has Damon baffled - 

how on earth do you 

operate it? 

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Bethel!, who is continally 

being gulped by the 

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that you can complete a buy. Mike works in the 

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solve one of the major J o h n Menzies in Cardiff 

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out of puzzles to solve in reports that the only 

Lurking Horror! 'Adventure adventure they stock is 

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coming out of the F r e n z y . " When he 

woodwork,' says Andrew. questioned his superior 

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David Hesketh went into they sell, when they don't 

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outside, and couldn't go sound of it. 

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again - advice urgently princess, and how do you 

needed, please! g e t past Kronos? 

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The fantasy section starts here!! Lots has been 

happening on the FRP scene lately, with Games 

Workshop issuing a mountain of accessories 

and Standard Games releasing the definitive 

guide to roleplaying for the total beginner. Add to 

this the chance to play a superhero of your choice 

and you have what's covered in this month's 

FRP section. 

Dragonroar 

IP. SUPPLIER: STANDARD 

GAMES. 

IP. COMPLEXITY: 

BEGINNERS. 

Is. PRICE: £12.95. 

Getting into Fantasy Role 

Playing is no easy thing. There 

are a large number of games 

and accessories available to the 

first time buyer plus a whole 

new language of gaming terms 

to be learned. Add to this 

complex rules, as well as a 

definite lack of explanatory 

supportive material, and it is 

easy to see why some people 

never get involved in the hobby 

in the first place! 

With the release of 

Dragonroar, Standard Games 

has gone a long way to solving 

many of the novice's problems. 

They have come up with a 

product which is simple to 

play, easy to learn and very 

enjoyable. 

The first thing to do is to 

listen to side A of the enclosed 

cassette. This explains what 

role playing is all about. how 

you play the game and 

generally answers all those 

nagging questions that you 

have been dying to know the 

answers to. 

Now turn to the rule book to 

see how the gaming system 

works. The cassette talks you 

through character creation, 

movement and combat 

refering you back to the 

rulebook at various times to 

explain examples. Once you 

have a basic grasp of the rules, 

you are then advised to read 

the rulebook two or three times 

to make certain that you know 

them. You can draw a 

comparison between the 

rulebook and a telephone 

directory; you don't have to 

know it off by heart, but you 

do have to know where to look. 

Once this is done you have 

two options. You can play the 

game with a group of other 

players or play on your own. If 

you choose to play with others 

you have to elect two other 

people, one being the 

"Paternoster", the other being 

the "Arbiter". 

The Paternoster is the key to 

the whole affair. The person 

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who takes this position plays 

the part of a referee. They must 

set the scene for the adventure. 

be familiar with the rules and 

try to think of the possible 

eventualities that may arise in 

the game. They make it 

possible for the other players to 

play the game. 

The Arbiter is someone 

elected by the players as a 

policy maker. They must take 

into account what the party 

intend, a n d into' the 

Paternoster of the group's 

actions. The party should 

decide things on the 

democratic basis of one player 

one vote. The arbiter then 

takes everything the group says 

into account and makes the 

decision, if necessary. 

As a single ployer,you have 

an entertaining threat in front 

of you. On side B of the 

cassette is a solo adventure! All 

you have to do is lay out the 

enclosed floor plans in order 

and once again the cassette will 

talk you through. However, 

this time it is done as an 

adventure w h s ,ecial sound 

AmmilLilVtASy 

effects. Basically, you play the 

part of a pre-determined 

character called Tolmar, who 

has a magical family heirloom 

stolen from him by a man 

called Zanto. It is your quest to 

retrieve it and it is no easy task. 

You have to decend into into 

his deadly domain, where you 

meet horrible hobgoblins, 

ravinous rats and terrible 

traps, each of which has their 

own individual sound effect. 

At certain times 11.t. narrator ü 

ithe story tells you to flip over 

the floor plans and you find 

yourself in another room, with 

a unique encounter for you to 

attempt to conquoer. 

Most encounters involve 

fighting of one description or 

another, and it was nice to find 

a combat system ihai is quite 

detailed, yet simple to 

opperate. 

The same goes for the magic 

system. At certain times, with 

certain weapons, combat can 

be quite lethal, but it only 

serves to add to the realism of 

the game. • • • 

AU in all this is the corn bloc 

package for the absolute 

novice, it introduces you to, 

and includes, six different 

shaped dice, ranging from a 

four sided die to a twelve sider 

and explains how to use them. 

Also included is a full colour 

dungeon floor plan, mapping 

paper, tokens to represent both 

the monsters and characters, 

quick reference play sheets plus 

a couple of pre-planned 

adventures. 

The i s very well 

recorded and includes 

everything from interesting 

sound effects to a nifty piece of 

music, which bides your time 

whilst you get everything 

together. 

So, if you are contemplating 

entering the fantastic world of 

Fantasy Role Playing. 

Dragonroar is definitely the 

game for 

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Champions 

to work out what kind 

of superhero you would like to 

be and once you have the basic 

idea you then flesh it out with 

skills and powers. 

Skills are the abilities that 

characters have learned in their 

L 

eChampions 

is the 

superpowered world where the 

full colour fantasies of comic 

books become real. 

Here superheroes and super 

villians do battle for the destiny 

of the human race. 

Here, armed with just the 

rulebook, a few dice, a couple 

of pencils and the odd metal 

figure. anyone can become a 

superhero. 

To start off you have to 

create you own character. 

This is fairly easy and the rules 

guide you through this process, 

refering you to many examples 

on the way. Basically, you have 

You get WO to start off with. 

But these are not nearly 

enough, There is a reason for 

this however and a very good 

one it is to ! You can obtain tters 

more Power Points, if you 

agree to have the same 

ammount of points in 

Character Disadvantages. 

If you are a comic buff, you 

will no doubt know that all 

heroes have weaknesses as well 

as strengths; both are necessary 

to an interesting, well rounded 

character. They also give the 

GM interesting ideas for 

adventures, giving them a wide 

scope for that all important 

'Cringe Factor'. 

My friends I have been reading 

your FRP column with 

interest, and have decided to 

take the plunge and get 

involved. However, we are not 

sure what to buy! There are 

loads of games available, but 

we want one which is sword 

and scorcery based and simple 

to play. What do you 

recommend. 

Gary Horesham, 

Blackpool. 

Disadvantages range from 

anything from Beserk, which 

means that your character 

can't distinguish between 

friends and foe in combat, to 

Dragonroar which is revealed 

this month. is well worth a 

look. TSR's *Dungeons And 

Dragons'. (basic set) is the 

Unusual looks, which can game which people usually 

past experience and may range 

from acrobatics to stealth. 

Powers separate the 

superheroes from ordinary 

people. Powers are the ability 

to fly or fire energy bolts. 

There are many powers to 

choose from and you can get 

yourself in a right state 

considering the permatations 

and combinations for your 

hero. To help you decide, the 

powers have been grouped into 

four catagories, namely; 

Offensive; Defensive; 

Movement and Others. 

You pay for both skills and 

range from startling, to start with, but y ou can always 

downright hideous. 

try GW 

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Games Workshop has been 

very busy recently' issuing a 

veritable mountain of gaming 

accessories. 

It's biggest, and I mean this 

literally, recent release must be 

he Nlighty I•ortrek,N. Standing 

at over six inches high and over 

two feet square the fortress is a 

formidable structure. It has 

been made specifically to cater 

for your miniature figures 

(25mm) and you can use it for 

whatever historical period you 

desire. 

It is made of reinforced, high 

density polystyrene and 

designed in such a manner so 

that you can assemble it in 

what ever fashion you desire 

without the aid of glue. This 

means that you can rebuild it 

over and over again, to suit 

your specific gaming needs. 

The fortress comes in a 

realistic textured stone grey 

colour, but you can enhance it 

if you wish with the aid of 

water-based paints. It contains 

four square towers, four wall 

sections, and two wall sections 

with gateways. 

In addition you get a large 

selection of plastic doors, 

ladders, trapdoors, gates and 

flagpoles, which are all 

decorated in an imitation wood 

finish. 

It sells for around E20.00, 

which is a bit steep, but there is 

no other fortress on the 

market. Furthermore, OW are 

selling them as fast as they are 

making them, so if anyone is 

interested in buying one it 

could be a wise move to contact 

them direct. 

GW has also issued a couple 

of products to accompany its 

Warhanuner 40,000space role 

playing game. The new space 

marines come in blister packs 

and sell at 0.50. You get three 

metal marines to a pack plus 

various accessories such as 

standards, weapons and other 

offensive devices. 

There are six new variations 

of model and their poses differ 

from model to model. Most of 

them are in action stances, with 

such weapons as bolt throwers, 

chain swords and other hand 

held weapons. A must for any 

serious li"arhammer 40,1)00 

player. 

Talking of "musts" the 

Rhino is a deadly fighting 

machine from the battlefields 

of Warhammer 40,000, which 

any dedicated player will miss 

at their peril. 

The Rhino is the mode of 

transport used by space 

marines. It is a frightening 

version of a modern day 

armoured fighting vehicle and 

is a very nasty piece of work, 

bristling with offensive 

armoury. 

For around [10 0 you get three 

rhinos, which are all moulded 

in top quality plastic. The 

models are highly detailed and 

come complete with 

multi-option body sections, 

A Skiirn La'Ana — for 

experienced players only. 

optional hatches, smoke 

launchers, spiked ram 

attachments, hand rails and 

lighting equipment. You have 

many different options as to 

how you construct them. 

Some modelling skill is 

essential as the Rhino's must be 

constructed using modelling 

glue. However, full assembly 

instructions are included along 

with painting instructions and 

a sheet of full colour transfers. 

Standard Games has also 

had its nose to the grindstone. 

The company recently released 

two accessories to accompany 

their Dragonroar range (see 

this month's review). 

Zhevezh Gauntlet will test 

the skills of even the toughest 

players. Based around the 

town of Tutub, the adventurers 

have many options for 

excitement and action. 

Included in the package is a 

booklet fully detailing the 

various non-player characters, 

more dungeon floor plans and 

new counters. There is also a 

new adventure cassette, which 

is for solo play. 

The Ballad Of Skiirn La'ana 

is another Dragonroar 

adventure, which leans more 

towards stretching the old grey 

matter than actual hack and 

slay. However, adsenturers 

will need to keep their swords 

handy as there are some 

formidable new monsters, 

namely the Khlamin, which is a 

rock monster that flies!! Also 

the viscious War hedgehogs are 

on the loose 

i4tttt. 

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There have been big happenings in the PBM world 

this month. Mitre Games has gone bust, a co 

of other PBM companies have taken over 

products and Sloth Enterprises 

, giving away free ruleboo 

_and re-introducing the 

Ilhe PBM news of the month, if 

not the year, must be that 

doesn't cost and arm and a leg, 

so is well worth a try, even if 

Mitre Games, one of Europe's 

you just learn from experience. 

largest PBM's companies, has 

One thing you should bear in 

gone into volentary 

mind though is that our 

liquidation. 

oncept of discounts 

colonial cousins go in for 

So where does that leave the 

I C for bulk 

computer-moderated games in 

players who have a substantial 

ammount of money invested in 

t rchal 

a big, big way. Over there time 

is money and you will not find 

the company, in the form of 

l 

a company that deals in 

turn credits? Well, it all 

depends which Mitre PBM you 

" 

hand-moderated games. 

experience. So be prepared to 

played. 

fill in turn sheets with quite a 

Midgard Players: The receiver, who will be dividing Spellbinder Games also have few numbers, to achieve the 

European rights to Midgard up and allocating the money the rights to run the same desired results. 

have been sold off to a company that is avalable. 

you can play game. This means Two games run from the 

called Mid-Games, which is Turning now to happier the game with the company USA that I can recommend are 

based in the USA. It is run by news. The BPMA's Great you prefer. Sloth, however, the following: Warp Forces 

Bill Fawcett and Eric Ziemer, Northern PBM convention is have come across with a novel Empire is a sci-fi game of 

and they have agreed to honour well under way. 

idea on how to market the combat and exploration. 

all credit that UK players have It is taking place at 

game. 

You start off with a 

accumulated. Apart from the 

inconvienienee of playing the 

game across the Atlantic, Mid 

Sheffield Polytechnic on 

Saterday 15/10/88 between 10 

Basically, the rule book, 

start up and first two turns are 

planet under your control just 

as your population is venturing 

into space exploration. Where 

Games say that, economics 

you go from here is up to you. 

aside, they will continue to run 

The owner of 

the game in the same vein as 

Mitre, without any radical 

changes. If you wish to contact 

them their address is; Mid 

Games, PO Box 268050, 

Enterprise Games Systems, 

Steve Gray, is a very pleasant, 

reliable chap, who is only too 

willing to answer your initial 

enquiries. 

Chicago, Ill, 60626. 

However, before you bother 

Global Supremacy Jade Games 

him see if you like the game 

has snapped up the rights to 

first. Simply write to me with a 

this game and it should be up 

SSAE and I will arrange for a 

and running at this moment. 

leaflet to be sent to you. 

I ike Mid Ciames, they will 

Due/masters is a game of 

honour all credit that players 

have in their accounts. Unlike 

gladiatorial combat fought in 

an arena between two 

Mid Games, they believe that 

they can make a considerable A Warp forces Empire — U.S. PBM Invasion. 

characters, where you play the 

owner of a team of warriors 

improvement to the game and and 6pm. All the major PBM free, so all you C+ VG readers that number up to five. You 

t 

hmore 

realistic element into it. 

eAnyone 

interested in playing 

Supremacy should note that 

y 

new startup positions cost 

a0.00, 

with turn fees starting at 

r£2.40 

and rising depending on 

e the number of actions you 

sperform. 

It would appeal to 

tany 

readers interested in 

r 

contemporary wargaming. 

Please note that whilst these 

itwo 

companies will honour 

vyour 

credit in the form of 

iturns,they 

are not able to give 

ncash 

refunds on monies owed. 

g T 

appear t r that no one has shown/ 

very 

o i much interest in this 

game, 

i b 

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are 

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recourse I can advise to players 

twho 

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companies have been invited, who are interested in playing then write down how your 

along with certain Fantasy the game, drop me a SSAE at warriors are armed, what 

Role Playing organisations. C+ VG and I will arrange for armour they wear, and how 

Live role playing 

the start up package to be sent. they will fight, what style they 

(demonstrations and 

Sloth is looking for GM's, so will use, what tactics they will 

participation), computer 

adopt and what other warrior 

games and quizzes, - i t iharnpton and have good you want Co challenge. You 

competitions and a' bring and y handw iiing, some computer then get back a computer 

buy' auction have all been o skill u p l e of 0 Levels (or print-out of the flight that is 

arranged. 

u equi l l u s an active first divided into minutes and 

Tickets usually,Ast E2.00, 

but any C 1 

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details 

/0 writes to ; The BPMA, 2, a k to me and notify blow account of the descriptive 

Sloth. 

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rDavid e aCourt, d e 200 Lansdown n k 

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get them for f 1.50. 

w 

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Enterprises has 

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l America. Playing PBNI in the Is the top person in the game 

the rights to run the 

Australian Created PBM, 

i States is easy and enjoyable. and means yrou play for free. 

Spiral Arm II. The game is one v 

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door-to-door, and most of the forward an international reply 

of space empire creation and i games have long fixed coupon or cheque to C+ VG 

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deadlines, Money is paid in for $2.50 payablo - 

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FERRARI 

Jane Frewer from Broadstone R E S U L T S 

in Dorset was the "lucky" 

winner who gets to be driven 

around by Eugene Lacey for a 

day. The consolation prize is 

that it's in a Ferrari, so the day 

shouldn't be that bad. 

She impressed the judges by 

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9,000 word project on the 

famous sportscars, and that 

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see the rest of them! He gets a 

free day at Alton towers. 

TIT 

MR D.J ROBOT 

RADIO 

Io BROTHERS 

Darren Bilham from King's 

Lynn won the Bitmap remote 

Ncontrol model aeroplane 

which was first prize, with 

these correct answers. The 

Wright brothers were the 

famous flight pioneers, the 

assassinated US politicians 

were the Kennedys and the 

suit billionaires were Moss 

Bros. Runners up who win 

Xenon games are Cameron 

Hogg of Stoke on Trent, John 

Parchment of Clapham, 

London, Daniel Cregin from 

Newcastle, Jon Christian 

Hartley from Blackburn, 

Rafael Ssabater from Earl's 

Court, London, Alistair May 

from Moray in Scotland. 

Adam White from Leeds, 

Joseph Old from Padstow, 

Cornwall, Ranjadh Grewal 

from Northampton and S.P. 

Howells from Birmingham. 

Winner of the Mr D.J robot 

radio was Gareth Dew from A By Karl Hornell. 

Bridgwater in Somerset, who 

was the first out of the hat to 

And no, I'm not going to 

explain to you the last answer 

correctly tell us that the name 

of the robot in the film 

Forbidden Planet was 

"What is a bit-map?". We 

had all sorts of answers, but if 

you want to know you'll have 

"Robby". He should have to look it up! 

received his prize, ooh, ages 

ago. 

BITMAP 

BLACK LAMP 

COMPETITION 

April also ran a Black Lamp 

competition to win five metal 

model dragons. This was an • 

art compo with a very healthy 

number of entries, but the five 

winners were: Karl Hornell 

from Sweden, Morgan Eves 

from Norwich, Jokell Freyr 

Svanarsson (I hope I got that 

right!) from Iceland, Nicholas 

Young from Saddleworth in 

Lancs and Allan Batchelor 

from Tottenham, North 

London. 

Runners up who get Black 

Lamp games are Alan Wan, 

Lee Bullock, Luke Liller, 

Richard Knights. D. Smith, 

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Sheffield. 

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K 

Wednesbury in the west 

Hearn and Marko Svominen e Midlands who will soon be 

fron Finland, heroes all, v annoying family and 

i neighbours alike with his new 

TALLY HO 

n coin op. The winning rhyme? 

COMPETITION H "The engine revs 

u On new locations, 

June's Tally Ho/ Gee Bee Air t to rid the road 

Rally competition got a wholec 

Of vile creations 

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Burn the streets 

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f 

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m Maynard International last 

year sometime can be 

revealed. He is Chris Green 

from Bexleyheath in Kent, 

who pips Nick Adams and 

Steve Bain to the post with his 

epic wall painting, and gets to 

go to New York for his 

troubles. 

A By Morgan Eves. 

heap of silly and often 

downright unintelligible 

suggestions for the photo 

caption. These ranged from 

"Okay, which clever bastard 

nailed my scarf to the 

propellor?" (J. Round from 

Nottinghamshire) to, "Twist 

the other end and black 

pepper comes Out here," 

from P. Young of 

Huddersfield. Other flying 

Jacket winners are Matti 

Kennedy from Cornwall, 

Steve Cooper from Somerset 

PRISONER 

COMPETITION 

Back in February we asked 

the name of the Prisoner 

(Number six) and the previous 

series starred in by Patrick 

McGoohan (Danger Man). 

The winner of a set of videos 

of this classic series was 

Patrick McTeggart from 

County Fermanagh in 

Northern Ireland. 

EYE 

COMPETITION - 

The Eye competition was an 

artwork one for which we got a 

load of really good entries, but 

unfortunately only one 

winner. That winner, as 

chosen by the C-/- VG art 

department was Richard 

Jepson, age 10, from 

Rotherham in South 

Yorkshire. He gets an eye 

board game, a computer 

game and various goodies. 

Well done!

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TRIAD - A NEW FORCE IN THE 16 BIT MARKET PLACE

Fly all over the screen. 

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Keep moving all the time. 

4/Then all the mushrooms are in the air, only take a few out, then swoop across 

the ground and back up into the air. 

to stair tow MOO birth. time. When 

rocks are on the floor higher end b t 

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get you going, plus some hints and tips 

direct from Elite. 

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very close together, this needs very good, fast reactions, and it is 

very useful to go from loft to right all the time, using the 

auto-fire. 

Stage 5: This is a "Bonus Stage": all you do Is wait until a Hamster 

corn.. along and wait until you are on his back. Then control him over 

the screen, smashing into everything you see. 

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Welcome to Playmasters- Julian Rignall 

here with all the latest hints, tips and 

POKEs for your machines. Over the next few 

months I'll be reshaping and developing 

the Playm asters section to turn it into 

THE definitive 

tips section, 

with the 

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The best news this month is that I've got 

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Julian Rignall, Playmasters, C + VG, 

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London EC1R 3AD. You never know, you 

could well win yourself a bundle of 

software for your computer. By the way, 

when you write, don't forget to say which 

machine your tips are for. 

Coming up this month is a solution to 

the final level of Dungeon Master, a Space 

Harrier map and some superb tips for 

Gauntlet - get playing! 

NEMESIS 

This is an old tip, but might be 

useful for those who've just 

bought Ocean's Konami 

Collection. Load Nemesis, on 

the title screen press down 

the SHIFT LOCK key and 

press SPACE four times to 

cycle through all the player 

options and bring you back to 

player one. Start the game 

and you'll be invincible, 

allowing you to knock up a 

totally ridiculous highscore. 

BETTER DEAD 

THAN ALIEN 

If you've been playing this 

glorified Space Invaders 

game and haven't got very 

far, take heed of the advice 

sent in by Craig Allcock of 

Salford, Lancs. - he's sent in 

the access codes to all levels. 

1 Electra, 2 Syzygy, 3 

Drambuie, 4 Plug, 5 Soprano, 

6 Mayonnaise. 7 Faucet, 8 

Potato, 9 Woomera, 10 

Nacissus, 11 Debutante, 12 

Firkin, 13 Acoustic, 14 

Triptych, 15 Jabberwocky, 16 

Whimsical, 17 Cornucopia, 18 

Punjabi, 19 Tiddly Porn, 20 

Kewpie Doll, 21 Sepulchre, 22 

Euphemism, 23 Grammarian, 

24 Crossword, 25 Quarantine. 

DARK SIDE 

Here are some tips for 

budding explorers, sent in by 

Incentive themselves - nice 

people indeed! 

The first thing to do is 

disable three or four ECD's 

which slows down the timer - 

otherwise you'll find yourself 

running Out of time long 

before the mission is 

complete. 

If you're in need of fuel, 

make repeated contact with 

fuel rods in any store area to 

replenish supplies. If it's 

shield energy you require, 

make contact with the 

Pentagon-shaped power 

points. 

To enter the ovehead 

walkway, simply shoot the rod 

above the door repeatedly. It 

should spin, so keep on 

blasting until the door slides 

open. Blasting radar beacons 

prevents you from being 

thrown into jail. 

If you touch a telepod 

crystal, it is positioned in the 

centre console within the 

telepod. If you then enter the 

telepod, shoot the crystal and 

then leave the telepod, you'll 

find yourself in a new area. 

Apparently you can 'buy' 

your way out of confinement 

by lasering the slots in the 

pillars. Energy is expended, 

but you'll soon be free. 

CARRIER 

COMMAND 

No signs of the 8-bit versions 

yet, but apparently they're on 

the way. Still, 16-bit players 

should find the following tips 

very useful - they were 

compiled by Realtime, the 

programmers of the game, so 

they must be good! 

When you reach an enemy 

A Make sure you have the codes. 

island, get as close as you 

can without grounding and 

turn the carrier around by 

180°, so you can hit island 

installations using surface-tosurface 

missiles. 

Don't try to and destroy the 

Marauders one by one, as 

there can be up to 40 

stationed in a silo (known as a 

Batcave) at once. When a 

Marauder is launched, it's 

fully refuelled and armed with 

three seek-and-destroy 

missiles. Take Out the 

Balcave, and then hunt down 

and destroy the remaining 

Marauders - or just wait for 

them to run out of fuel. 

Remember that the 

Command centre on the 

island immediately starts to 

repair anything you've blown 

up. Marauders don't ever leave 

the vicinity of the island, so if 

you want to destroy a 

Batcave, fly around the island 

avoiding the Marauders until 

you're close enough to the 

Batcave, and take it out. 

Volcanic islands are always 

good sources of fuel - so 

always turn them into 

resource islands. 

Do you know that you can 

land a Manta on an enemy 

airfield to refuel? Just make 

sure you destroy all missile 

launchers before they do! 

105

Always have Virus bombs 

and ACCBs on high priority, 

as they're quite demanding 

on resources when being 

manuctactured. Always have 

the Automatic Repair 

Systems on high priority in the 

Damage Control Screen. 

Factory islands and the 

Base island produce limited 

resources_ 

Regularly move the 

Stockpile island so that it's in 

range of the group of islands 

you're currently running a 

campaign against. Place 

defence islands at key 

positions in the island 

network, so that it's more 

difficult for the enemy carrier 

to break down the network. 

Always repair Mantas and 

Walruses as soon as they 

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O the carrier. When you send 

A the caner to another island, 

D don't forget to recall all 

Walruses and Mantas to the 

carrier. While moving from 

one island to another, use the 

time to redesignate the 

settings on the Ste Priorities 

screen. 

Always keep you Mantas 

and Walruses fully armed. 

even when in the hangar, as 

106 

you'll be able to fit more 

supplies in the carrier's 

stores. 

Make use of the head-up 

radar on Mantas and 

Walruses to spot incoming 

missiles early. 

On reaching an enemy 

island, immediately launch a 

full complement of defence 

drones. 

Before you reach an enemy 

island, send Out a Manta as a 

reconnaissance scout to see 

what and where things are on 

the island. 

DUNGEON MASTER 

Calling all Dungeon Master 

freaks. If you're having 

trouble battling through the 

last level', Richard Corns of 

Kingswinford. Swindon has 

just what you're looking for - 

a complete solution. Read 

through it first to familiarise 

yourself with what you've got 

to do before entering the 

dungeon - the last thing you 

what to do is have to refer 

back to this during a battle! 

In dungeon eight (the one 

with the rats) there's a 

message which says When is 

rock not 'rook'. To the leftof 

this message you can walk 

through the wall to get to a 

passage which has an 

invisible teleporter. Locate 

the concealed entrance by 

walking down the wall s 

throwing objects. When an 

item disappears, you've 

found the entrance. Walk 

sideways and turn about. A 

giant rat appears but it can be 

dispatched using full-power 

fireballs. 

Later on in the dungeon 

there's a concealed button. 

Find and press it and you'll 

activate a Storm Ring which 

shoots lightning. At the end of 

the dungeon there's a Ra . 

Don't leave without it. 

In dungeon ten there's a 

corridor which goes round in a 

circle. To get past it walk 

around throwing objects at 

the wall. When an object 

disappears, turn around and 

walk back the way you came 

A took for the concealed button 

and you find yourself in a 

different location. Keep doing 

this to find your way out. 

When you've found a way Out, 

back around carefully and 

you'll find a door. Open it to 

find a sword called The Fury 

which can shoot fireballs. 

Near to the steps which 

lead down from this dungeon 

there's a door - it's vital that 

you enter. On the wall there's 

an eye. Take an object and 

click it on the eye to open a 

secret passageway. Enter 

and you're transported to the 

Ruby Key. This must be used 

in the Tomb of the Firestaff. 

In dungeon eleven there's a 

Pa Key and the Master key 

which is used to open the 

Firestaff door. Be careful 

here, as the dungeon is full of 

knights in chain mail which 

are very difficult to destroy. 

When you've got both keys, 

go down stairs. There's a 

Wizard here, but don't pursue 

him as he's far too powerful to 

beat at the moment. Don't 

open the skeleton hole here 

- if you opened one on level 

seven, you'll be transported 

all the way back there. 

Go to the Firestaff - you 

should be able to open all the 

doors with the Ruby Key - 

and open the door that says 

'Enter with Caution'. Search 

around and you should be 

able to find a button. Go down 

the passage that apears and 

carefully check the left hand 

side. There's another button 

there; press it and go back to 

the first button, and nearby 

you'll discover a door. Open it 

and enter. On one of the walls 

there's an altar with ash on it, 

beneath which is a key. 

There's also a button located 

in the room; press it to gel a 

Pa key and scrolls which tell 

you about the staff. Four 

doors can be opened with the 

ashkey, and behind each one 

is a magical item. 

Use the Ra key found in the 

altar room to open the door 

with the star-shaped keyhole. 

Explore behind the door and 

you'll find the Firestaff. (it's 

behind the black door which is 

opened with the Master key.) 

Go back to the level with the 

Wizard and you'll find a large 

room. Fall down any hole 

there and you'll find yourself 

in the dragon room. Under a 

pile of ash is a key. Pick it up, 

but be careful because if the 

dragon breathes fire, the 

entire party will be instantly 

frazzled. 

Behind the door in the 

dragon room is a power gem. 

To free it from the spell use 

ZO + KATH + RA + 

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produces a crystal with which • 

you can touch the gem. 

Go up the stairs to the room 

with the Wizard. Be extremely 

cautious here, as the room is 

packed with demons, and 

there's fire everywhere. 

Destroy all the demons and 

then face the Wizard himself. 

Surround him with fluxcages.. 

and when you're sure that 

he's COMPLETELY 

surrounded, invoke a fuse, 

stand right next to him and 

use the fuse. If you've 

surrounded him correctly, he 

dies, and the quest is over.

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You remember that famous bit at 

the beginning of Star Wars? The 

one where the giant Imperial Star 

Destroyer roars into view from 

the top of the screen, and seems 

like it's going to keep coming on 

Forever. It was a magical piece of 

film-making, if perhaps 

cheapened by a thousand small 

screen showings. That's a fate 

that will never befall an IMAX 

film, not so much the cinema of 

the future as a cinema of the 

ideal, If George Lucas had used 

A Bradict 

the revolutionary giant-sized 

Canadian system — or, heaven 

help us, it's even more 

spectacular domed screen cousin 

OMNIMAX — there wouldn't 

have been a few gasps in every 

audience, there would have been 

heart attacks. Yes, it really is that 

good. 

As it is, everyone walking out 

of the auditorium is walking on 

air. Hardly surprising as they've 

just come out from under a 

screen at least ten times bigger 

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than anything they're used to 

seeing: a literal wall of image that 

engulfs their range of vislcan. The 

IMAX film frame is three times 

the size of the normal 70mm 

movie frame you might see 

protected onto screens at 

Leicester Square or big cinemas 

around the country Even when 

projected onto something seven 

stories tall, the sheer size of the 

film itself allows for an 

extraordinary sharpness of image 

that few could compete with. 

Coupled with the severely 

pitched seating that puts 

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closer to the screen than they 

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impression of being actually inside 

the action_ If it seems like I'm 

raving, it's because I am, 

The system is the brain child of 

three Canadian film-making 

friends who built their first 

"rolling loop .• projector in time 

to be the sertsatJon of the 1970 

Japan Exposttion in Osaka with 

their first film. Tiger Child, 

Since then 55 or so filrrts have 

been made, each one vying to be 

more spectacular than those 

before Most have been 

pseudo-documentaries devoted 

to subjects like flight, space 

exploration, natural history the 

Grand Canyon. All are around 40 

It's the nearest thing to being there. Matt 

Bielby reports on IMAX and Super X, 

simulations that really stimulate. 

minutes in length and pack them 

at the museums, planetariums 

and cultural centres that house 

most of the fifty odd screens. in 

the main telling you far less about 

any particular subject than your 

average Horizon programme. 

but letting you feel much more. 

Brighter, crisper, larger than 

anything you have seen before, a 

film like the space shuttle film 

• 'The Dream is Alive • affects the 

audience like a cross between a 

roller coaster and a religious 

experience Experiences like 

using the earth suspended blue 

and massive above you. forcing 

the eye to roam across the 

screen trying to take it all in 

cannot fail to move you. If 

someone hasn't already called 

IMAX the seventh wonder of the 

modern world, well, they should 

have 

Super X is a very different 

system. Unlike IMAX, it doesn't 

use a massive, awe inspiring 

Conrinued on page 1 i 2

screen for it's effect - indeed, 

the films it uses are shot on 

normal video tape and played on a 

screen not too much larger than 

one you could buy for your home 

- but adds the sensation of 

movement to the experience. 

Dubbed the Prokon, Super X's 

capsule is like a very simplified 

version of an aircraft flight 

simulator. Fourteen passengers 

sit in the dark watching the 

screen at the front - like IMAX 

the films are interchangable 

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The Olympics are here again and the 

arcade manufacturers haven't been slow 

to get their new sports games into the 

arcades. Clare Edgeley takes a look at 

Record Breakers as well as reviewing the 

cutest game we've seen in ages - The New 

Zealand Story. 

RECORD BREAKERS 

A miserable summer never stops 

the athletics, especially with the 

Olympics looming on the horizon 

And what better way to get into 

training than a quick trip down Iv 

your local arcade to play one of 

the several new sports 

simulations. 

Taito's Recardbreakers is the 

latest sports sim in the arcades 

and features ten linger numbing 

events ronging from running 

through' to polevaulting and 

gymnastics. 

Recordbrealres is a one/two 

player game with a vertically 

split screen As you race against 

your partner in the 100 metres, 

you can see him tearing ahead of 

you on your side of the screen, 

while down the middle is a birds' 

eye view of the track for a spot 

check on position and how much 

further you've got to go There 

are two qualifying rounds for 

each event and you must get 

through one of them This at least 

gives both competitors a sporting 

chance to enter the big race. 

The first event - 100 metres - 

is a doddle. As soon as the start 

pistol goes, thump the start button 

and start wiggling the joystick 

backwards ond forwards to build 

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They are thin and spindly and 

about two inches long 

With no advance warning of 

the humiliation to come I entered 

the weightlifting contest Two 

hefty body builders stand on the 

screen waiting for the start signal 

Punch the button and attack the 

A It 's difficult to get to ihe fintsh in the time limit, 

joystick again_ 

There was no way I could build 

up enough strength to qualify in 

this event until I noticed, at the 

A A perfect landing 

beginning of the contest the table 

of weights I was trying to lift. 

What a pillock Start off at 230kg 

and work your way up to 270kg_ 

It's a lot easier. Another tip is to 

watch the weightlifter's face. If it 

goes blue with the strain, stop the 

joystick and then try another 

burst of strength to around the 80 

mark and then hit the stop button 

, Next are the horizontal bars. 

This one's a lot easier, though 

timing is important. Hit the start 

button, waggle the joystick as 

your competitor swings round 

and round and round on the bar, 

then hit the stop button. With luck 

he should fly off at top speed, hit 

the mat and stand up With rotten 

luck he'll head for the ground at 

breakneck speed - head first 

Right_ On with this gruelling 

ordeal The Hurdles. Now this 

should be easy. Just hit the start 

button, waggle the joystick and 

remember to hit the button to 

jump your player over the 

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hurdles. Unfortunately it's not 

that easy. Crouched over that 

wretched joystick I skinned my 

knuckles trying to build up speed 

and concentrated so hard that I 

couldn't time the jumps. My 

character just ploughed through 

the lot. 

Freestyle swimming sounds 

simple, and it is if you remember 

to let your player breath! 

Alternatively you con try to 

drown him There's an oxygen 

meter in this event and you must 

keep an eye on this to tell you 

when to hit the beath button. And 

oil the time you're accumulating 

joystick blisters 

The shot putt is mostly a matter 

of timing the build up of strength 

and knowing when to release the 

putt, It's less of a strain than some 

of the other events, and at least 

the angle meter is some help, 

The some goes for the long 

horse - all pretty straight 

forward But wait for it - the 

hop, skip and jump should keep 

you on your toes. Use the start 

button for the run up, beat the hell 

Out of the joystick for speed and 

then use the button again for hop, 

skip and while you're jumping 

attack the joystick even harder to 

keep your character in the air 

. The last flagging event is the 

400m relay and takes real 

stamina_ It's fairly simple, just 

punch the button at the right 

moment to pass the baton and 

keep that joystick moving to 

qualify in 40 seconds. 

Recordbreakers could hove 

been an enjoyable contest, and 

should be. Unfortunately, it was 

spoilt by the miniscule and 

unwieldly joystick.

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THE NEW ZEALAND STORY 

"A daring kidnap. Young kiwis 

snatched by aging Walrus," 

scream the tabloids National 

outrage. People wring their 

hands and then do nothing. 

Unless that is you ore a kiwi. A 

bird of brain, but a helpless, 

flightless youngster who's ready 

to brave the boddies to free his 

motes. And so the cute and 

addictive New Zealand Story 

starts at the entrance to the zoo. 

Armed with a bow and unlimited 

supply of arrows you flutter into 

action, zapping a number of 

hungry foxes who hove just 

picked up your scent. 

Immediately obstacles 

become apparent as you look at 

the map and find you're at the 

furthest point from your goal. 

Arrows point upwards and to the 

A The arrows point you to the exit. 

right. Building blocks tower in 

your path and these you must 

hop over using the jump button 

Zap a few more foxes, pick up 

be the fruit they leave behind in 

their wake and move on, You 

soon reach the edge of the 

screen and realise that the only 

way out is upwards. 

Suddenly you're under on 

oirbourne attack. Buddies drift 

down from above, each riding 

what looks to be half o potato. 

Jump up and without hitting the 

potato, knock the baddie off his 

perch with a well placed arrow 

and take flight in his makeshift 

chariot. 

Now you con travel upwards 

for foster than if you had to rely 

on jumping from block to block. 

And its here that the action 

really starts. Portals appear in 

the brick wall, spilling out 

hedgehogs hanging onto 

balloons, armoured turtles and 

penguins riding rubber ducks. It 

seems the whole zoo is Out to 

stop you. Shoot these and avoid 

the balls ond other missiles they 

lob at you. 

If you hove the misfortune to 

be knocked off your perch, you'll 

foil to the bottom of the screen. In 

which case guide your character 

to land on the nearest block so 

that you con start the journey 

bock up on loot. As soon as a 

flying nasty oppears, shoot it 

and capture its balloon, duck, 

cot or whatever it happens to be 

riding and continue upwards. 

Bonus weapons can be picked 

up on route - old fashioned fuse 

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whenever you can. 

As you climb higher the going 

gets tougher. Bats appear from 

nowhere to drop cone shaped 

missiles on your head - difficult 

to dodge, especially if you ore 

trapped in a narrow tunnel 

between building blocks, Other 

hazards come in the shape of 

spikes attached to the ceilings of 

each level Hit one of these and 

your balloon will burst. Just as 

deadly are the ground spikes 

positioned between blocks when 

jumping from tower to tower 

Eventually you'll find your 

kiwi friend and will be nble to 

release him by touching his cage 

An exit opens up toting you to 

the next level and another 

trapped kiwi 

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fall into the trap of 

thinking this is a straight up and 

down platforms game There's a 

bit more to it. Handling the 

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one problem. Cradles, rubber 

ducks, potatoes and the like oil 

drift at different totes, so check 

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them before engaging battle 

with flying foxes and killer 

hedgehogs. 

Another living hazard is a 

smoll devil complete with 

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nasty little choracter comes 

haring over for a quick 

conversion job and takes a lot of 

killing One arrow is not enough 

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got a quick balloon and a hefty 

weapon Lasers are ideal in this 

case as they can be fired from a 

safe distance 

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boddies so that their transport 

falls to the nearest block. Then 

nudge the balloon or cradle to 

an accessible position so that if 

you get shot down. you've got a 

back•up in reserve 

later levels take you away 

From the back wall scenario of 

the zoo to different backgrounds 

including a brilliant underwater 

scene where your intrepid kiwi 

dons goggles and snorkel. You'll 

have to come up for air every so 

often and to kill the baddies, 

take off your snorkel and spit jets 

of water at them Great fun. 

There's bogs more to this 

fobulously playable little game, 

the further you get into it, the 

more you'll like it. It con be 

frustrating but it's never boring 

So save the kiwis and bag a 

nasty today 

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At lost Japan's best selling 

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The Legend of Zelda is a 

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packed full of dragons, 

imprisioned princesses, traps 

and pitfalls. 

Princess Zelda has been 

kidnapped and is being held 

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Guess what? It's down to you 

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'Wisdom Triforce' — hidden 

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There is an enormous 

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secret labyrinths to be located 

ond examined, not to mention 

the Overworld where you 

start your travels. 

There are dozens of things 

to collect like a sword, 

boomerang, bow and arrow, 

A Zelda has a unique position save feature_ 

A Japan's best selling games — now available 

Tony Takoushi has never seen anyt qg a, neither 

will you - Chan and Chan is the weirdest and 

whackiest game and the naughtiest game 

you are likely to see on a games console. 

Tony also taken a look at new shoot 'em 

up. Aleste, and a shooting game 

candle, 

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rings, letters, 

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keys and bombs 

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of them. 

You play by running 

around by slashing and 

called Rescue Mission as well as 

delivering his usual 

collection of tips and high 

scores. 

avoiding the nosties, as you 

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scrolls, there is a map to help 

you keep track of where you 

are and if you press the B 

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hoose your weapons.You 

an amass coins to buy 

,yeapons and coiled bombs 

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There are powerups and 

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well as a fair smattering of 

puzzles to be solved before 

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of the game. 

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Sega has set up a UK Club 

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details of the Sega Hotline 

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Super Racing. 

• I love a good driving thrash 

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Punch_out 

Nintendo ore pretty chuffed 

with their boxing game. Not 

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Mike Tyson endorsement.lt is 

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Ninendo so yours truly 

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console for a sparring match, 

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The ten opponents are 

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of password codes so that if 

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circuits you are promoted and 

given a password. This 

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your game finishes allowing 

you entry to the circuit you 

bowed out on. 

To win a bout you need a 

KO or a technical KO which is 

when you knock your 

opponent over three times or 

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playable. You hove to 

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movements whilst using some 

nifty footwork. 

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disappoint you,it is a truly 

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Wre§tiin gPro Wrestling is the 

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Champ. Beat him and you 

hove to defend your crown. 

There are over 20 throws 

and techniques to learn, each 

involving the joypod and 

combinations of firebuttons 

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•I often wonder about the 

mentality of people who feel 

obliged to be abusive about 

people they have probably 

never met. What do they get 

out of it? The cachet of having 

slagged off a famous name in 

the national press? The dubious 

pleasure of pointing out their 

abusive letters to friends and 

sniggering over their words in 

newsagents? 

Take David Giffog's letter 

about Wayne in the July issue 

of C + VG. This man has come 

to the conclusion that Wayne is 

a pervert purely on the 

impression he has of him from a 

picture in a magazine. And why 

not? Surely everyone knows 

that people who have long 

bleached hair are always 

perverts? Thank God the police 

are not so biased or there 

would be a lot of innocent 

people in our prisons, I imagine 

that David has short brown hair 

and wears smart, neat clothes 

(rather like Dr Cripin did.) 

I accept that looks are a 

matter of personal taste and 

David may not find Wayne 

attractive (perhaps he also 

prefers men with short brown 

hair!) but most people who 

reach a reasonable level of 

maturity are willing to accept 

that not all people's tastes are 

going to be exactly the same. 

David doesn't seem to have 

reached this level yet which 

leads me to suspect that he is 

either very young, or at least 

'young at heart'. 

Most people have no 

difficulties telling men from 

women, but if David is 

confused by people who have 

long hair, then perhaps he is 

looking at the wrong signs. 

Thre are a number of very good 

books for children on the 

differences between the male 

and female of the species and if 

he cares to read them, I'm sure 

he will be able to work out why 

the two genders are different. 

(Something a little more basic 

than the length of their hair, 

David!) 

As for intelligence, I hardly 

need to go into this do I? 

Wayne writes for a national 

magazine about a hobby that 

he enjoys and plays well. David 

writes a childish and abusive 

letter about people he has 

never met in order to gain 

attention. Which is the most 

intelligent? 

Most of the people who have 

met Wayne have found him 

friendly and easy-going, quite 

willing to put himself out for 

others, whether it is by talking 

to new PBMers on the phone 

and explaining why they are 

having problems with a certain 

game, or putting people up for 

the night at his place when they 

come down to London and 

then miss the last train home, 

but these are things you only 

learn about someone from 

knowing them. You cannot 

deduce what a person is like by 

looking at a picture of him in a 

magazine. 

Linda Little 

Redhill 

Editor's reply: Actually Linda, 

we at C + Vg tend to suspect 

that nice bloke though he is, 

Wayne is a bit of a pervert 

And congratulations for 

being our first T-shirt winner, 

for having the funniest 

letter on the page. 

• I've been a Computer and 

Video Games reader for some 

time. Way back in October 

1982 when I first bought it, it 

had detailed, trustworthy 

reviews, interesting articles and 

the shining glory was the 

Adventure Helpline, which 

was the best column in any mag 

anywhere and generally made 

me feel good about having a 

computer. Alas, today's C + Vg 

is only a shadow of the 

magazine it once was. 

Recently you introduced more 

general interest items into the 

magazine like the film and 

video review, the comic strip 

and review page, PBM etc. I 

applauded these at first, but I 

think now you should admit 

these 'experimental' articles 

haven't worked and get rid of 

them. The adventure Helpline 

has now all but disappeared, 

and there are less actual words 

per page of C + Vg than any 

other mag. 

At least this month things 

seem to be improving. The new 

charts, Winner stays on, better 

pokes and the letters page is 

getting more serious, but 

there's still virtually no 

Helpline. However, there is 

still a long way to go, and that is 

why I now read the excellent 

ACE instead of C + Vg. 

Gareth Williams 

Swansea 

Editor's reply: Keep watching C 

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you can be sure of is that like it 

or loath it, it never stays the 

same for long, 

•Whilst looking through your 

July issue I came across the 

reiview of Last Ninja 2, 

Observing the cool pictures 

which I think are the best I've 

seen on the 64 and Speccy, I 

came across the captions. The 

picture of the Ninja poking his 

staff at the boat said 'mad bikers 

are out to get you'. Then 

thinking how odd that was I 

saw a scond caption with the 

picture of a biker after the Ninja 

which said 'Why is that Ninja 

Perhaps we've been a touch 

mean in the past. As from 

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poking his staff at the boat?'. 

Does this earn me a game? 

John Fowler 

Broxboume, Hens 

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that was good, you should have 

seen the Dungeon 

Master/Winner Stays On mix 

up! And no, you can't have a 

game, 

•I think you've got a great mag 

going, but I've decided to 

warn you. Of what, I hear you 

cry? Well, let me get straight to 

the point. I have a fanzine that 

if put on the market would 

reduce your sales to pulp. It's 

called the Digitised Directory 

and it's been a great hit with my 

mates. As it won't be available 

in most newsagents for a 

couple of years (I'm only 

twelve!) you'd better start to 

work around the clock to 

improve you're mag. Let me 

give you a few tips that will go 

down well with the dregs of 

society: 

1) Although you're ratings 

are quite inventive, you should 

use percentages as for some 

reason they are more popular. 

2) Expand you're Mean 

Machines section, because 

nowadays the serious gainers 

don't find two meagre pages 

enough to make them 

interested. 

3) Bring in a new section 

every few months or so to keep 

people buying. 

I hope these points help you 

bring a little spice to the 

magazine. 

Alexander Debenham-Burton 

Essex 

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did bring in new sec 

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months! What about Fax, 

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