Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome

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C OMMODORE 64 owners
may remember enjoying
Battle Valley from Hewson.
The programming team,
known as Creative Thought,
did. In fact they enjoyed the
game so much they wrote
their own version for the
Amiga.
Hewson, being suitably
impressed, sorted out some
whizzo music and bought
the program from them.
The plot is simple:
winning is not. The world is
almost devoid of missiles
and people can live in peace
— except that a gang of
terrorists has made off with
the last two missiles and is
threatening to unleash them
on world capitals.
The missiles are hidden
behind well-defended bases
in the desert of Battle Valley
and can be captured using a
tank. Unfortunately the tank
can't cross bridges which
have been blown up by the
Battle Valley from Hewson
features three levels of
wonderful parallax scrolling
Photon Paint you will know
that HAM leads to slow
sprites and furry edges.
Imageworks has cracked
the problem to produce
DDT, named after the CP/M
utility Dynamic Debugging
Tool. The result is an amazingly
colourful game with
some incredibly detailed
objects.
Hewson backs private enterprise
terrorists.
You need to repair the
crossings and take out defences
using a helicopter gunship.
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You'll need the resolve of Maggie and the skill of Fatima
to kill the snarl of Castle Warriors's big red dragon.
Parisian poison
F OLLOWING the success
of Bin Challenge, Parisbased
Delphine Software's
second UK release is to be
Castle Warrior, a six level
arcade-style action game.
You take the role of Prince
Edred the Brave, heir
apparent to the throne of
Pacilla. Your father, Edelred
the Good, has been poisoned
by the evil wizard Zandor
(the Nothing).
Rather than rushing to the
treasury to count all the
money you'll be coming
into, you decide a better
course of action is to go off
on a quest to force the anti-
you can use the tank to mop
up the last resistance and
capture the base.
At either ends of the beautiful.
smooth scrolling land-
dote from the evil wizard.
To reach him and gain the
potion you will have to battle
through subterranean caverns
fi lled with deadly
monsters, spear the massive
red dragon Olisos, paddle a
canoe along an underground
stream dodging rocks and
falling stalactites, defeat the
huge demon jibba, and
dodge Zandor's spells.
In the final level you will
have to dodge more mighty
dragons as you fl y high
above the clouds on your
victorious journey home.
Sounds lethal. Out "real
soon now" at E24.99.
scapes are the missile silos.
Can you make it that far and
save the world? It'll cost you
E19.99 to find out. Release
date August.