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money. (Also available on Disc formats). A superb collection of
Action Games producing hours of captivating entertainment.
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opportunity, a get your copy now!
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You are in control of a World Wet I fighter Your fob is to protect and
goide a flight of four bombers to take out an emery fuel theme onel
other side ol the warehouse You may have to wee soma computer
barracks You may then land arid refuel before heading out once
terminals p to unlock doors (not at skill level 1 thoughl Go down
sewers On your 'pourney you should try to find a hidden time-bomb
amin. Keep your carmen pointer vertical or you will me foto hum
arid ca rry it no the anderground computer centre. Um two e mi-
flak and also run out of Mel Sheet down all pieces EXCEPT ter your
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after a few seconds. Bomb anything you like. II yea can stay on
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14 STREET SCENE
20 THE BITMAP BROTHERS
66 BOSCONIAN POSTER
69 THE BIG SCREEN
72 NEXT MONTH
76 WIN EYE GOODIES
78 BOSCONIAN COMPETITION
RESULTS
81 SHUK AND DOODE
90 ARCADE ACTION
94 FANTASY ROLE PLAYING
102 PLAYMASTERS
116 GOLDEN JOYSTICKS
120 THE MEAN MACHINES
126 MAILBAG
128 COMIX
130 HOT GOSSIP
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18 GAME OF THE MONTH IS
XENON. REVIEWS
INCLUDING BLACK LAMP,
SPY VS SPY, CAPTAIN
BLOOD, MACH 3,
PLATOON,TRAZ AND LOTS
MORE.
110 ADVENTURE NEWS
112 ADVENTURE REVIEWS
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Editor Seamus St John, Staff Writer Matt Bielby Editorial
Assistant Lesley Walker, Art Editor Craig Kennedy, Designer
Andrea Walker. Adventure Keith Campbell and The Fiend,
Fantasy Role Playing Wayne, Arcades Clare Edgeley. Hot
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Gossip Tony Takoushi, Game Reviewers Dave Bishop. Ian
Machin, Sammantha Murphy. Lee Paddon. Steve Badsey,
Brian Webber. Richard Hewison, Marketing Manager Clive
Pembridge, Advertisement Manager Garry Williams, Sales
Executive Sian Jones, Advertisement Production Lora Clark.
Publisher Terry Pratt, Cover Illustration Simon Roberts.
Editorial and Advertisement Offices Priory Court. 30-32
Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AD. Tel. 01-251 6222.
An EMAP publication
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You ore holding a piece of computer game
history. The launch of Xenon for the ST and
Amigo heralds the arrival of coin-op quality
games to play at home. All the sounds,
explosions and speed of those games housed in
vast cabinets are now beginning to be captured
on 2i ' disks. Read all about it and marvel at the
screen shots, If you haven't got the dash for a
16124 mega machine, don't despair. We've got
stocks for the Spectrum, 64, Amiga, ST, and
games consoles. tifterbumor hits the shops on
the Sega System, Platoon is mapped and hinted,
and Thunder•blode raises gasps of
ostonishement at the recent Amusement Trade
Exhibition.
MI this plus a chance to win a remote
controlled plane, a 19 Survival Kit, Eye goodies
and Shuk and Doode cause havoc on the London
undergrond,
Due to rising costs we regret that we hove to
raise the price by 10p — our first increase for
over a year.
We are sorry for this but if you compare us to
our rivals we think you will agree that we are
still much better value.
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• Get any eyeful of this
pixel-pulsating temptress out
to lure you into buying
Return to Atlantis, a
new graphic adventure out
in March from Electronic
Arts.
As an agent for The
Foundation you have 14
missions to complete in your
search for the legendary city
of Atlantis. Each mission is a
coin-op ma . s. For most
people it's just a dream. But
sometimes that dream comes
true with a little help
from C+ VG.
Thousands of you entered
our competition to win
Marco's Bosconian coin.
op, provided by
Mastertronic who are
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game in itself, taking the
player to waters of exotic
international locales, from
the Baltic to the Caribbean
to the South Pacific.
The flying ship, Viceroy,
contains an impressive
assortment of hi-tech tools to
help in the completion of the
missions, including a rather
emotional robot RUF
(Remote Underwater Friend)
and ART, a shipboard
computer_
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home
m printed the Bosconian game
scenario and asked you to
come up with on illustration
to fit \ the story.
• Fancy reading a comic on
your computer? Well that's
Infocom.
Each of the Infoco mix
will, it is claimed, provide
four to five hours
entertainment. There is no
game play as such but the
player — or rather, reader
— will be able to choose
their own path through the
labyrinth of inter-twinning
storylines and see the plot
from various character
viewpoints.
The first three releases —
which will be handled in this
cost E24.95 on the Amiga. country by Activision — will
be Lane Mastodon vs
The Blubberman, a
spoof on 1930's science
In our November issue we
C +VG Art Editor Craig
Kennedy was quickly
submerged in envelopes,
packages and parcels as the
MIL "MIL Sot •-•10.bod•m•MI
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fiction; Gamma Force in
Pit of a Thousand
Screams, a superhero tale
featuring three aliens; and
Zorkquest: Assault on
Egreth Castle; a fantasy
adventure about a group of
travellers who are
was et
tough choke but Craig
eventually picked Toby
Glover, of Child's Hill,
London, as winner. And
believe it or not this was
Toby's first try at entering
any art competition.
C + VG's Lesly Walker
and Mandy Hamilton-
Jones, from Mastertronic,
delivered the machine to
Toby's home. Imagine taking
that on the busl
Mandy said of Toby's
artwork: "It was terrific.
was very impressed.••
Toby is pictured with
Mandy and his winning
entry. For a better look at
the artwork turn to the
centre pages of this month's
issue where we've used it as
flirter. a p o u
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manipulated by on evil
magician.
The price of Infocomics,
which will be released on
Commodore 64/128 and
IBM, has yet to be
announced.
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lo Gremlin's game based on
the fighting fantasy books of
so the same name, is now set
for release on all formats on
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14. That meons it
should be in the shops now.
Our picture is from the Atari
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Cascade's 19—Boot
Camp on sale before Easter
because of programming
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The Fighting Machine,
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the blast-off date
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disrupters are just a few and of mega the attack missiles
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ch party last month at
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DLondon
claiming that their
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word was to be
'innovation'.
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It was slightly surprising in
oview
of this claim that the
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BBC computers in the
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the lightning wizardry of the
lazer bouncers. Bolt•on bits
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cannons, battering
rams and generators.
It will be out on Spectrum
48/128K (E7.95), Amstrad
CPC and Commodore
64/128K E9.95 and E14.95.
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• Carrier Command will
now not appear until the end
of February at the earliest
due to what the Roinbird
describes as a
"programming hitch",
despite an advertisement in
last month's C+ VG claiming
that the game was
"available now
Company spokesperson
Clare Edgeley told C+
Skirmish.
Go-Dax expect their
Gauntlet and Joust
clones to vie with each other
for the number one slot in
the BBC Charts.
Making much more of a
legitimate claim for
innovation is on interesting
but so far unnamed game
that links computers together
n on arcade/strategy
"We have written to all of
the people who sent off for
the game explaining the
reasons for the delay and
stating that we would not
cash any cheques until the
game had been
dispatched.
- Customers are being given
the option to receive their
cheques back and send off
for the game at a later date.
LESS fi n
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• Ocean is cutting the
number of new titles it will
release this year to around
24 — that's nearly a third
down on 1987.
But more resources will be
devoted to each game,
Ocean boss David Ward
announced at a recent press
launch for Platoon.
He also announced Ocean
will be launching o new label
this year called Special
FL Its first release will be a
game called Firefly.
Meanwhile new up and
coming Ocean releases
include Target Renegade
ond Robocop, the game
based on the smash film.
combat challenge.
Set on an island, the game
will allow up to sixteen
players each playing on his
own computer to battle for
supremacy of the terrain.
Alliances can be built and
broken. The players, who
drive around the scrolling
landscape in takes, can also
lay mines, shell opponents,
and colonise the producer
'dumps' that are the keys to
controlling large areas.
The network game is being
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weapons to collect en route.
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last month's review of
Outrun we printed a
picture which implied the
gome had a split-screen
facility. Well, as the many
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coded by two Cambridge
University hackers who are
developing the game initiall
on the BBC Model B. It is
expected to also appear on
the ST, Amiga and
Archimedes.
The details of its networking
mechanism hove n
yet been confirmed but it is
believed to be based on a
simple 'jack' that can be
purchased in high street
electrical stores. More news
soon.
thousands of you who have
bought the game know, it
doesn't. By the time the
picture was spotted it was
too late to do anything
about it.
Sorry to all concerned.
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Rimrunner, designed
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Barbarian — the
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Warrior Steve
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is now set for a mid-
March release by Palace
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against
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a multi-plane
scrolling landscape where
you o control an insectoid
warrior ol on perimeter patrol.
His mission is to protect
against l an invasion from
deadly m Arachnoids.
The Commodore 64,
Amstrad ii and ST versions
will t-be
out first with
Spectrum following soon
Riy" RuAs Lokie,
afterwards. .,
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team ore working on
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SEGA Mega Cartridges give you screen after screen of
realistic, eye-opening graphics, exciting adventures and hour
after hour of enthralling gamesplay.
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Take on the
challenge of
t h i s realistic
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simulator
and survive
in the skies.
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enemy aircraft
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avoiding ground to
air missiles; timing
take off and landing
from your aircraft I
carrier: an absolute -
must for your
collection.
AVAILABLE MARCH
The tamed arcade hit ZAX \ OS can
now tw enjoyed in the privacy a )our
11MTIR in 3-D scope. F.v ade ckAtractive
toward to dmiroy the elletrq -
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pace of this
breathtaking
Racing Car
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Your comrades hale been traPPed bY o
enemy troopsur mission t take
an armoured, yo bug* in to rescue them
}ail action narked shootin,g bone
requiring a skilful eye and a steady
hand. Requires light phases%
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Fly 0er the harriers, caveat around
the corner, • in a highly competitive
race against the dos-li.
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speeding over the
world's famous
roads in this Racing
Car Adventure.
Realistic effects as
lane changes, uphill
and downhill
— terrain, sudden
curves and many
more exciting effects.
AVAILABLE NOW
Scram shot tante te m amide ta•chae.
This eliciting strategic space righting
comrades game rrquire from an Wien you io rescue your
requires kon% Orsa a
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Available from leading stores of Woolworths, John Menzies, Toys R Us, Kids Store, Toy and Hobby, Harrods,
Selfridges, W .H. Smith, Virgin and your local computer dealers.
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If you want to know what's going to
be hot Stateside this sprin9 then the
Winter Consumer Electronics Show
held In Las Vegas is the place to visit.
C+ VO's jet-lagged deputy editor Paul
Boughton reports from the neon
nightmare of the entertainment
capital of the world.
Forget the Atari ST and junk
the Amigo — the video
game consoles are hotter
than hell in the US of A right
now. At the Winter
Consumer Electronics
Show in Las Vegas it was
Nintendo and Sega
grabbing all the attention.
Most of the other software
houses preferred hotel suites
to display their new games
to the trade.
In America, unlike Britain,
it's Nintendo who are
leaders of the pack, with an
estimated 5,5 million
machines sold, followed by
Atari, Sega and Intelevision.
But within the next few
months Nintendo is gearing
up for on assault on Sego's
UK crown.
A Pout "Bruiser" Boughton gets
what he deserves!
So here are the games
heading your way soon.
Heading the list is Mike
Tyson's Punch-Out. You
take on various boxers in a
series of challenge matches
before taking on Iron Mike,
undisputed heavyweight
champion of the world.
Other UK launches are
The Adventure of Link,
Kid Icarus, Metroid and
The Legend of Zelda (in
Nintendo's adventure series)
and in the sports series, Pad
Racer — on Out Run
lookalike Pro-
Wrestling, Slalom and
Volleyball.
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lined up an impressive range
of third party games makers
who ore preparing product
for the Nintendo. So make a
note to look out for Double
Dragon, the arcade classic
from Tradwest, Capcom's
Gun Smoke, 1942,
1943 Commando,
Ghost'n'Goblins,
Trojan and Bionic and
Commandos
Legendary-Rings,
Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom.
And the hits keep coming
— SNK's Alpha Mission,
Athena, lkari Warriors
I and II: LIN's The
Karate Kid and Jaws.
Acclaim, who pat out
Epyx's Winter Games on
the Nintendo, will soon
release Rambo, based on
the Stallone film.
Sega plans to release
around 40 titles in the US,
the hottest of which will
probably be After Burner.
(see Tony Takoushi's
exclusive review).
Generally the 16-bit software
on display was
disappointing, to say the
least. There was nothing
which took your breath
away — with one exception.
That was Rocket Ranger
from Cinemaware, to be
released in this country this
spring by Mirrorsoft.
Cinemaware is well known
for its brilliant graphics —
remember Defender of
the Crown, King of
Chicago and Sinbad —
but has been a little suspect
on game play.
The signs are that with
Rocket Ranger
everything has come right.
The game has the feel of
Indiana Jones meets Flash
Gordon, packed with action,
thrills, spills and romance.
It's a tale of time trove',
evil Nazis, mind control
machines, a jet-propelled
rocket suit and the beautiful
active daughter of a brilliant
scientist.
A Rocket Ranger.
Cinemawore also has what
must be one of the oddest
games out — The Three
Stooges, based on the
ancient American clowns.
Curly, Larry and Mo. the
game, described as a tribute
to the Stooges, involves the
clowns trying to raise money
to stop an orphanage
closing. The graphics are
brill, as usual, but the whole
concept seems a little odd.
First there was Major Bill
Steeley of Micropros*,
now meet "Colonel Jack
-Rosenow. He's the ex-USAF
pilot to provide the strategy
and flight techniques action
behind Action Soft's
helicopter flight simulation
Thunderchopper. The
simulation — 3D graphics by
Sub-Logic — allows you to
learn simple landing
techniques or fly the most
dangerous combat missions.
Electronic Arts goodies
include Interceptor, which
gives the player the choice
.of two fighter planes, the
F-18 Hornet and F-16
Falcon, and the choice of six
combat missions.
New US releases also
include Ferrari Formula
One, The Bard's Tale II
and 111: The Destiny
Knight and Thief of Fate
and Return to Atlantis,
a graphic adventure with 14
undersea missions.
Aracadia's coin-up
Anarghl is out on Amigo
Stateside from EA and
should be heading this way
soon from Melbourne
House. It takes over where
Rampage leaves off.
Meanwhile Epyx is to
market three US Gold titles
in America — Street Cat,
Metrocross and the
mysterious Dive Bomber
which has yet to see the light
of day in Britain.
Dive Bomber puts you in
the seat of a World War
Two torpedo bomber based
on the aircraft carrier, Ark
Royal, with a search and
destroy mission for U-Boots,
E-Boats, aircraft and the
battleship Bismark.
A Three Stooges.
Meanwhile Epyx will
release The Games:
Winter Edition to tie in
with this year's Winter
Olympics. Sports include
skating, ski-ing and five
other events.
Other new Epyx releases
coming are 4X4 Off Road
Racing, a sort of Out Run
over dirt tracks, with the
facility to construct your own
car.
And the long-awaited
follow up to Impossible
Mission is on its way. The
originally named
Impossible Mission II
puts you in a high-tech office
run by an evil tyrant. It's
packed with codes, puzzles,
guards, mined hallways and
bombs. It looks a winner.

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New in March is The Corporation
from Activision, a yuppie space
adventure where earning a
positive credit rating and gaining
promotion are just as important
as blowing away your rivals. The
set up is that familiar old future
where big firms have taken over
from countries, and two rival
superpower corporations fight it
out.
You play the commander of a
robot team mining an obscure
asteroid for the rare and valuable
"Minorthian Crystal". It's not as
easy as all that though, as a rival
team from the enemy corporation
is also after the same precious
stuff, and will stop at nothing to
get it! Just to add to your worries,
they've stacked the deck against
you by having the very asteroid
you are sitting on rushing
towards certain doom.
The game is packed with rocket
launchers, meteor showers and
You won't believe your eyes but
this is the Commodore 64 version
of ikari Warriors. Gasp! Now that
you've recovered from the shock,
prepare yourself for another one.
Elite are actually going to release
it!
Not bad when you consider the
Amstrad version came out way
back in January '87. Remember
C+ VG's brilliant map? Well the
game follows the same format.
It's you against the world on a
mission to rescue prisoners-ofwar,
battling it out with the
enemy, blasting away with tanks,
mortars and the like. The game is
being "tweaked" at the moment
but initial play testing suggests it
will be a goodie.
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device.
With upward mobility the name
of the game these days, it would
seem a good time to release an
adventure where salary counts as
much as firepower, though only
time will tell as to whether the
financial aspects add another
dimension to the adventure, or
get in the way of it.
Remember, it's not just your
life it's your career that's at
risk!
Calling all comrades. This is
Karnov, Electric Dreams'
conversion of the Data East coinop.
In it you play a fire-breathing
Russian searching for the lost
treasure of Babylon.
These shots are from the
Spectrum version and the signs
are that ED has done a good job
on capturing the look of the coinop
but it's too early for a verdict
on playability.
The game spans over nine
levels in which Karnov faces
dragons, deadly ostriches and
killer biscuits! Game play
Involves running, jumping,
climbing and flying. Karnov on
the Spectrum, Commodore 64 and
Amstrad is set for release at the
end of March.
Okay, it's time to put the cards on
the table. This is Card Sharks, the
Accolade game coming from
Electronic Arts. You get a choice
of games to play, including
blackjack and poker. These shots
are from the Commodore 64. EA
will start dealing the game to you
In March.
The Shoot 'Em Up Construction
set got the Palace off-shoot label
Outlaw off to a flying start. It was
a quality product. Their next
offering is Troll, an arcade
shoot-'em-up set in a weird world
of mirrored images.
Designed and programmed by
Denton Designs, Troll is set in the
netherworld of Narc. You are on
your own against hordes of
fiendish goblins whose only
pleasure in life is to send you
crashing through one of their

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holes into another dimension.
You must fight off the goblins
and use your own supply of
escape-holes to jump through the
floor to new locations in the
search for the means of your
escape. At the same time keep an
eye on the great wheel of fortune
and watch out for the goblins
above longing to drop a deathhole
over an unwary Troll.
Troll will be available in the
early spring for the Commodore
64, Spectrum and Amstrad.
New software house destiny, headed by Francis
tee, the ex Beyond and Starlight chief, releases
its first titles this month, relation and Yeti,
both on the Spectrum.
Teladon, written by Nick Eatock. author of
Greyfell and Sorderon's Shadow, is a shoot 'em
up with survival as the main aim.
Yeti, is arcade adventure in the snow covered
mountains in the Himalayas, in a quest for the
mythical snow beast.
The price of both games is E8,95.
Remember Prohibition from
Infogrames, the gangster shoot
'em up released last year? Well
the French company has
rehashed that basic idea —
moving a gunsight around to pick
off bad guys hiding in and around
buildings and come up with
Lee Enfield. This game is the first
of what promises to be a series
about this "Time Troubleshooter"
Lee, who apparently has time
travel down to a fine art, zips off
to the 22nd Century, to rescue his
old pal Bill, who is being held by
someone or something known as
the Yellow Shadow. Quick
Welcome to Frighlmare, where
bad dreams come true and a
good night's sleep is unheard of.
This is the dead zone where all
fears, terrors and phobias are
real. So close your eyes and enter
Cascade's world of uneasy sleep.
There are four dream worlds to
explore, each more terrifying than
the last, and you've got eight and
a half hours before you wake up
again. That's if you survive.
For you will face skulls,
spiders, hooded figures, ghosts,
bats and grasping hands,
serpents, zombies and even
Satan. But you can collect
weapons to fight back — such as
holy water, a watch to slow the
evil creatures of the night down, a
crucifix and revolver. You score
by shooting monsters, and
picking up chalices.
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if you got rained on at the sea
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is the first game to be launched
as a home game and a coin-op
simultaneously. I must admit I
was a little wnrried about this.
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Jus imagine it- you are
blasting away trying to get onto
the next level (not easy in this
game, believe mel when you
decide you have had enough.
Right, that's it, and you pop
down to the pub. No sooner are
you through the door when you
clock a new coin-op bleeping
away there's literally no
escape from Xenon.
The coin-op will appear under
Mastertronic's Arcadia label
and the ST and Amiga versions
can be found in Melbourne
House boxes- now also part of
the Mastenronic empire.
What characterises Xenon as
a home game is the blurb on the
box. It tells you why you have to
kill 'em as opposed to the coinop
which simply tells you what
button3 to tx.c to ...:331c thc
insect-like aliens.
The action starts when
Captain Xod (Digitised pic of
programmer - Eric Mathews)
comes up on the
communications screen and
informs you that you are
entering 'Sector One'. Xod's in
trouble y'see -the Xenites are
about to finish him so it's down
to you to race through the
sixteen levels of the game and
save his bacon. •
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There is a lot more to the plot
than that - the entire history of
the universe in fact, told in the
most over the top sci-fi
language you've ever heard.
There's loads of garbage about
how the universe is going to
collapse in on itself and 'Spatial
Hobo Networks' - highbrow
stuff.
Xenon is a hybrid shoot-'emup.
Vertically scrolling and
incorporating elements from
Slap Fight, Terra Cresta and
Xevious. Your small, nippy
space fighter can transform at
the shake of the stick into a
ground attack craft - or fly low
over the city scape taking out
the enemy. Flight is best - you
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nasties at a safe enough
distance to stop you weakening
your craft. You can't stay
airborne constantly as certain of
the nasties crawl along the
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planet surface and cannot be
destroyed from above. There
are also certain obstacles that
need to be cleared.
Some games start off easily
and then toughen up after the
second level or so. None of this
shilly shaliying around in
Xenon.
You are right in the heat of
the action from the very start. A
third of the way through the
level you are confronted by a
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hits to destroy.
huge, beetle-like alien that is
easily five times the size of your
ship.
Several direct hits have to be
registered before an orange ball
develops in the centre of the
monster, pulsates, and finally
blows allowing you to pass.
The ground based domes are
lethal - constantly opening and
closing - spitting out energy
sapping balls.
Building your ship is crucial -
and fun! Pick up the letters to
add wing litters, a rotating
guardian ship, side lazers,
diagonal lazers, super flame
throwers. If you collect them all
your ship becomes one moving
dispenser of mega death.
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The game has an annoying
way of levelling the odds once
you get to the giant alien at the
end of levels. It strips you of
your extra weapons - leaving
just the wing lazers.
There is nothing particularly
original about Xenon, It's just
the way that it is done that
makes it special and sets it
apart. You get the impression
when you are playing it that the
designers plotted every single
ground installation and alien
flight path with cunning smiles
on their faces - probably
chuckling amongst themselves
and saying: 'The bastards will
never do this."
It's tough - you'll see. One of
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those games that is never
meant to be completed. If you
clock this you've really got
something to crow about. I
think Melbourne House should
get badges printed and send
them out to the people who
manage it.
Xenon is an interesting point
of comparison between the ST
and Amiga. Both versions are
brilliant- but the Amiga is
better. It's faster and the music
just wipes the floor with the ST.
Constantly changing and
reacting to the joystick and
featuring sampled guitar riffs
and tremendous explosions.
Melbourne are promising
Spectrum and 64 versions of
the game - but I wouldn't buy
until you see the C+VG review.
I am not entirely sure the
design of the game is strong
enough for it to hold up on
those machines,
It's difficult for me to tell you
how good Xenon is. All the
cliches are too well worn. You
know what I mean, statements
like "it's worth buying an ST
just to play this' - that kind of
crap, All I will say is that in five
years of reviewing computer
games this is the best shoot-
'em-up I've played.
This is arcade entertainment
to play at home and no bull.
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BROTHERS!
Computer gaming has seen individual programmers
hyping themselves as stars before — from zany
hippies to child geniuses who are waiting until their
seventeenth birthday to step into the shiny new
Porsche, paid for out of last year's royalties.
There have been some instances of groups hyping
themselves. The Bitmap Brothers are one such case.
Ask them why they called themselves the Bitmaps
and you are likely to get a variety of answers. "It
came out of that Beastie Boys song — you know the
one that mentions the word brothers, well our name
has the word brothers in it too."
Or: "We were going to call ourselves the Big
Mac Brothers but we thought we might get done by
MacDonalds if we did". Even less likely as Steve is
a veggie.
The truth, if they haven't forgotten it, is probably
nearer to this: Someone came up with the idea
because it was linked to the way they programmed
— they all hated it but it stuck and now they have
come round to thinking that it is a pretty
unforgettable. name and so well worth hanging on
to. They are now fiercely Bitmap's to the man_ Here
are their profiles:
• STEVE KELLY
School: Left at sixteen to become a storeman at
Currys.
Born: In Manchester and now living in London
still speaks Mancunian, though.
Vices: Smoking, nocturnal programming and the
consequent afternoon rising, turning the phone off,
slot mochines.
Best TV prog: The Prisoner.
Worst TV prog: All soap.
Best computer prog: Missile Command (coinop)
and Elite.
Worst computer prog: You forget the really
bad ones — which is probably just as well.
Most embarrassing experience: Having to
explain to an ambulance man how I walked into a
scaffolding pole.
Best film: Paris, Texas.
Should software pirates be locked up?: The
people who do it for gain, on a vast scale,
definitely should be.
Is 8-bit software dead!: Not for a good while.
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Age: 31.
Born: Southend-on-Sea, educated at Be'fairs
School, Leigh-on-Sea.
Faye food: Red meat and pork sausages from my
local butcher with plenty of sawdust in.
Faye drink: Newouay Steam Bitter.
Faye music: The Beastie Boys, Pink Floyd.
Faye female performer: Stevie Nicks.
Worst female performer: Madonna
Should software pirates be locked up?: No
— they should be hung, drown and quartered.
Rive computer game: Virus on the Amiga — if
there were no pirates there would be no virus.
Faye TV commercial: Thank Crunchy It's Friday
and the Telecom one where that kid phones his
aunty after failing all his exams.
Should Michelle have had an abortion!:
No.
Are the Amiga and ST the future of
computer gaming: No — not in the long term,
that's the transputer and whizz chips. In the short
term they ore certainly far superior to any of the
8-bit machines.
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Born: Truro, Cornwall.
Age: 25.
Education: BA — Fine Arts, Chelsea School of
Art.
Fave artist: Richard Serra — the man who
sculptured the huge metal girders at the recently
built Broad Street Complex in London.
Faye music: New Order, the NoIons.
Faye game: Invadaload by Richard Aplin.
Should hackers be prosecuted?: No. They
should be funded.
What about software pirates?: I would force
them to drink St Christopher non-alcoholic lager for
the rest of their days.
Fave TV prog: Bulls Eye.
Are there too many soap operas on TV?:
No — bring back Howards Way.
Which soap star would you most like to
spend an evening in the pub with: Jack
Rolfe - Howaras' Way.
Fave chocolate bar: Toffee Crisp.
Worst TV commercial: Cadbury's Flake.
Faye take away: Chicken Tikka Masshala.
Are computer game advertisements
unnecessarily violent and sexist? Yes.
Why don't girls play computer games?:
Because the games are too boring.
Faye car: Triumph Vitesse Convertible. Address
Melbourne House is marking the
launch of their mega 16 bit shoot 'em
up with a chance to win a remote
controlled aircraft as a first prize.
We'll put you in touch with your
nearest club so that you can learn
how to fly it — and then take to the
skies. Ten runners-up will receive a
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B.MACHINES SPECTRUM, CAM 64
ATARI ST
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11. VERSION TESTED ATARI ST
▪ REVIEWER: EUGENE LACEY
New York based First Star
software has the dubious claim
to fame of having coded the
best and worst computer game
versions of popular comic
heroes.
Fortunately we are not
discussing their appalling
Superman ef fort here but the
excellent conversion of Mad
Comics Spy Vs Spy strip.
Although not offering any
bells and whistles or
improvements to sound and
graphics, all the essentials of
the game play are here in this
ST version.
Just as in the comic itself,
the game follows the slapstick
versions Of two bungling spies
- who, in this case, have to
escape from an embassy with
the top secret plans safely
tucked away in your briefcase.
Two players can race against
each other to find the plans
setting traps for each other or
simply battling it out with the
Sword if you should happen into
the same room of the huge
building.
The game is at its best as a
two player challenge - in fact
it still remains one of the best
two player games ever, despite
being a bit long in the tooth
now.
The real fun in Spy is
watching your opponent falling
for one of your devious booby
traps. The Trapulator is a box to
the left of the play windows
with all the traps represented
by icons. There are bombs.
V Searching the rooms for gadgets,
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springs, a bucket of water,
strings and guns. Certain of the
traps have to be treated with
care - like the cannon shaped
bomb with the characteristic
smouldering fuse. This one has
an annoying habit of blowing
in your face.
Fortunately there are
remedies for the traps hidden in
the embassy, and you can pick
these up and carry them from
room to room which is useful
if there is a room you suspect
may have something useful in it
but you cannot search it
because of the trap.
The neat thing about Spy is
that as well as being a race
against the other spy, it is also
a race against time. A digital
clock ticks away above the
Trapulator. When the clock
ticks down to zero your escape
plane will take off from the
abandoned airfield with or
without you. And remember
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plans, your passport, a key and
some money.
The conclusion to Spy and
meet,
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the way in which the whole
arcade adventure is planned is a
credit to the game designers.
There is a real sense of
entertainment and pride when
you view the end game
sequence having completed the
challenge for the first time. You
see your spy climbing aboard
the plane, watch it edge gently
down the runway, and then
ease into the air and away off
the screen. Possibly one of the
best end game sequences ever
- and well worth persevering
with the game to see it.
There were three games
altogether in the Spy series. It
has not yet been decided if they
will all be converted to the ST
and Amiga. Episodes two and
three were not that different to
the first.
However, the original Spy
game is well worth considering
- even if the price is a bit
steep at just under E25. There
are still not that many decent
two player games for the ST -
so the addition of one of the
best is certainly welcome.
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Atari I11
Games surprised a number
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Super E Sprint It seemed to offer
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stick are required to right the
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hurtling down the strait and
speeding away from bends.
Each race is at least four laps
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generated.
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wheel towards the track of your over the conventional 30 race
nhnina on an opening screen. games. You can always keep
The real fun of Super Sprint is the other cars in your sights and
in the business of lapping. This plan what part of the road you
'V Eugene is about to pick up a power boosting wrench.
empty chests to which all the
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more difficult. A chopper
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blasting any racer that happens
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your car and speed through -
driving 'blind until your car
appears at the other side. There
are also oil slicks, and gates
that open and close offering a
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or super traction.
The program is at its best as
two or even three players game.
In three player mode two people
can race with joysticks with
another on keyboard. This
creates a great forum for jibes
about each player's
performance.
Super Sprint is such a simple
game that the quality of ST
graphics don't make it a
much better game than
any other version. Sure, it does
klok better — but the game
never really majored on graphics
anyway.
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welcome this competent
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prospectors. Most of them are
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fast buck.
All corruption on the planet
seems to point to one person,
Tex Hex. Now Hex's boss, a
particularly nasty individual by
the name of Stampede, has
kidnapped the ancient Indian
Sharnen, believing the old sage
to possess magic powers
capable of bringing back to life
the bones of all the broncasaurs
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must find the locations of
certain key places on the planet
which contain the clues that will
eventually lead you to
Stampede's hideout.
You have nine days in which
to complete your task.
The game starts in Fort
Kerium, where the first thing
you must do is shoot your way
to your saddle rocket. This is an
arcade of the side-view, left/
right scrolling variety, in which
you can run along the streets of
the town or hop over the
rooftops. Either way, there's
plenty of opportunity to kill and
maim with a good variety of
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saddle is also your only means
of getting to other parts of the
planet, There's a mine, where
you'll find a green gem which
can be exchanged for cash back
in the town. The cash buys you
information in the local bar and
so on.
The arcade side of Bravestarr
has been well programmed,
offering fast joystick response,
reasonable scrolling, and a
whole host of big, colourful
creatures to zap. The problem is
that defeating Stampede is just
not enough of a challenge.
Outside the town, there are
only four places to visit, and the
game massages you into the
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right way of solving the game
simply by offering no
alternatives when you enter the
wrong buildings at the wrong
time.
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series of enjoyable sideways
scrolling arcade sequences,
strung together by a thin plot,
providing little or no long-term
challenge. From the time I first
loaded the game, it was all over
in well under an hour— Shamen
was rescued, New Texas was
once again a safe place to visit,
and another game had bitten
the dust. Come on Gol we
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but concerns the misfortunes of
another unfortunate French girl
- Gwendolene who is being
held prisoner by the mutant
sorceror Sfax.
Step up one hunky young
space cadet and zoom off to
beyond the '•portals of space"
where you can knock to
confront the evil one.
Fifi 's "get ready" message
may remind you of Space
Harner and certainly the whole
solid 3D feel of the graphics
together with their bright
colours bring the Sega game to
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wrong.
I mean listen to what the old
duffer had to say about the
biathlon: "It•s like using a
sledge hammer for an hour or
so and then trying to throw a
rnInd.
When you finally confront
Sfax at the beginning of the
second level the similarities to
Space Harrier appear to be
more than iust coincidental. Hit
face appears in front of your
ship ducking arid diving to avoid
missiles. His mug shot is also
shown in the information panel
at the top of the action screen.
Everytime he sustains a hit he
grimaces until his face turns
Into a dying, skeletal, holloweyed
mess.
Another similarity to Space
Harrier is the way in which your
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dart in the bull's eye.
- Computer biathlon in Winter
Olympiad '88 qualifies for no
such glowing descriptions. At
least it didn't when I played it
on my ST. It's just tedious.
Yes, I know the screen shots
look stunning. The graphics ar
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-game
play is practically nonexistent.
Biathlon is supposed
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to take place over a long trek
You only ski through a couple
of scrolling screens before
You get to the firing range
then the graphics repeat
themselves three times until the
finishing post comes up.
Not all of the events are the-.
bad though. In fact some of
them are quite good, like the
Ski Jump, for example.
At the end of the ski ramp
you press fire to launch your
skier into the air. The animatioi
,is quite effective as the skier
flies through the air with his
skis dangling at the ends of h
,legs as you struggle to balanci
him up for the landing. If you
land the skier Successfully, he
glides to a halt at the bottom of
the hill where are
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ship skims the surface. It is ;J
case of hurtling forward
blasting like crazy and dodging
whatever nasties you cannot
waste
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fighters sent into to stop you.
The ship's flight is very
impressive i f a little difficult
to control. It sweeps into the air
at great speed and at a very
steep as if a gust of wind is
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rushing up under its wings and successfully fly througn. ,i le of
forcing it like a power-glider into the black portals.
the air. This gives the effect of A s you can see from the
the ship swaying all over the screen shots above the graphics
screen at great speed — and it i n Mach 3 are exceptional and
will take a good practice to t h e y lose nothing in the
master aerial combat — novices animation either. But the real
are advised to stay on the s t r e n g t h of Mach 3 is the sound
surface. e f f e c t s and digitised speech.
Bonus points can be earned T h e explosions and sound of
by flying through the goal posts missiles being launched are
that appear in rows of four at convincing — especially at
regular intervals. m a x i m u m volume, Fifi's
To progress to a new level repertoire is also fun. She says
and have another blast at Sfax ''Game Over" as if she were
himself you will need to i n v i t i n g you in for a cup of
crowd are held back by a rope
fence just like the real thing
Another fairly good event is
the Bob Sled. It includes quite
good 30 effects as the sleek
bob hurtles through the ice
tunnels. The Bob is launched by
waggling the joystick. Pressing
lire makes the riders jump into
the bob and away they go —
now it's down to you to Wee:
as best as you can, using the
fire button to slow the bob
down for the bends.
Winter Olympiad wouldn't be
complete without the slalom
Tynesoft have not left out
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iiused s for every flag you hit o•
avoid, Again the fire button
centres
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the skier and can alsr
be vused
for adding speed as
you e approach the final push
towards-the n finishing line
The Downhill ski-irg event is
quite t imaginative as it features
two T views of the slope. The
main i picture shows you skier
negotiating
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bottom right of the screen there
is also e a goggles-eye view of
the ptrees
and ground rushing
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A lot of effort has gone into
Winter Olympiad '88. It comes
on two disks and has stacks Cl
option, You are also treated to
an opening ceremony and can
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coffee, and announces the higl
score table with an "Oh Boy"
squealed an octave higher.
There is a question mark in
my mind about the lastabilility
of Mach 3 which, considering
the C20 price tag, should be
treated seriously.
I played the game for several
hours without destroying Sfax
but I did get the impression that
it would not take me that long
if I really put my mind to it. A
very strong shoot-'em-up
without doubt — but I for one
would feel a lot happier buying
it without such a hefty price
tag.
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Despite all this. I cannot
recommend the game. The
pretty graphics do not
compensate from a basic lack
of gameplay. If you are
seriously in the market for a
winter sports game for your ST
then I would suggest you cried.
out Epy)CLIS Gold's Winter
Games,
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I.- REVIEWER; DAVID BISHOP
Ocean is not renown for its
thought provoking software but
their latest 1 6•bit release, ECO,
may well have you
contemplating life, the universe
and the price of ST software.
Designed and programmed by
Liverpool based Demon
Designs. ECO places you on the
bottom rung of the evolutionary
ladder, with one single aim
survival_
To begin with, the program
randomly generates a world.
complete with climate and
population a kind of
speeded up software version of
'the dawn of time'!
As a lowly and insignificant
baby insect, you are thrown
into this world, in search of
food and a mate.
The world is seen in 3D,
initially from behind your insect,
which is shown in beautifully
animated vectorgraphics, as is
the case with all other trees and
animals in the game. As you
move your insect, so new
creatures come into view: some
are walking, others gallop,
squirm, or hop, and still others
have perfected the art of flight.
To mate, you need to find
and approach another member
of your own species. If there's
one thing more frustrating than
being eaten just before you
manage to mate, it's seeing
your potential partner getting
squashed by some giant
dinosaur who wasn't looking
where he was going.
Successfully mating brings up
the 'gene design' screen, where
you can unlock, and move, one
of your genes to create
(hopefully) a more advanced
species. Every time you mate,
you can unlock another gene,
giving you still more possibilities
for evolution.
Each gene affects different
aspects of your make-up, but
many interact with each other
to bring about very complex
changes in the species. As you
slide genes into new
configurations, the new
creature these changes would
produce, is shown in windows
giving you three different views
- front, side, and plan.
Genes affect such things as
the number and size of limbs,
the occurrence of wings, body
size, whether the new creature
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will walk upright or on all fours,
and numerous other
evolutionary factors. The trick
is to work Out which are the
more important genes and how
they interact.
Each time you succeed in
moving up the evolutionary
scale, there are more species
that you can kill and eat
(including all the species that
you have just evolved throughl,
and fewer animals that are a
direct threat to your existence.
However, this doesn't mean
that you can develop into a
horselike quadruped, or a
humanlike biped, and not worry
about being knocked off. Far
from it, because the
concentration of creatures,
above you on the evolutionary
scale, will always increase
enough to keep you on your
toes • or hoofs or claws!
Failure to feed and mate
before the timer, in the form of
a skull sinking into the flames,
runs out will result in your
species becoming extinct. The
same fate awaits you if you are
squashed or eaten by a superior
species.
Although it may not appeal to
hardened arcade freaks, ECO is
a beautifully conceived and
implemented piece of software,
that is not only fun to play, but
could also be used to illustrate
Darvvin's theories of evolution
in the biology classroom. Full
marks to Denton and Ocean.
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Satellite pictures have
confirmed that the enemy's CK
23 orbital interceptor is now
operational.
Able to stay in geo-stationary
orbit over any location, the CK
23 can swoop down into the
atmosphere and destroy our
missiles and aircraft with
unstoppable speed and
accuracy. In short, it is the
enemy's most feared and
potent weapon.
The CK 23 development site
is the most heavily guarded,
and secret, military complex on
Earth. You have just been
dropped into the site by
parachute.
Once you have landed, you
can move freely about the
complex using the joystick, or
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using the shuttle system — a
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Buildings, shuttle stops, trees
and mines are all seen in
vectorgraphic display,
reminiscent of Mercenary.
Most buildings cannot be
entered — those that can are
distinguished by the presence
of a door. Sounds logical!
Once inside, you may find
extra ammunition or battery
packs to help you combat the
tanks and guards that seem to
be everywhere. Other buildings
are 'safe' houses where you
can load and save your current
position.
Seventeen houses in the
complex belonged to a
resistance network of
scientists, each of whom were
linked by computer. Although
the scientists have long since
disappeared, their computer are
still on-line. The problem is how
to get into the system.
To help work out the
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you'll need to construct a fairly
detailed map of the complex.
Apart from the scientists'
houses, there are some 40
shuttle routes to work Out and
use, not to mention countless
booby-trapped buildings to
memorise and avoid.
Catch 23's mixture of
strategy and arcade, not to
mention some pretty nifty
sampled speech, should appeal
to a wide spectrum of garners.
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There's a touch of the phoenix
about Argus and its associated
labels these days. Since the
management buy-out, they've
put out the excellent Hunt for
Red October and now
Terramex.
For my money Red
Oct oberis by far the
supenor game.
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Terramex, however pretty it
may look on the ST and Amiga,
is perhaps a little run of the mill
in the orignality stakes. But it
will re-enforce revival
prospects.
What we have here is an
humorous arcade adventure
involving the search for an
elusive scientist who has the
power to save the world from
an untimely date with a meteor.
The scientist, Dr Albert
Eyestrain, had predicted this
disaster but was greeted with
scorn. In a huff, Eyestrain
disappeared.
You play the part of one of the
five explorers who must find
the missing doctor. The game is
in two parts, the first of which
centres on the search for the
Eyestrain, and the second
finding the parts of the
Positronic Asteroid Deflector.
The five explorers, each of a
different nationality, Wilbur
Fortisque-Smithe, British, Herr
Wolfgang Schmuck, German,
Wu Pony, Japanese (sounds
more like a Chinaman, don't
think?), Big
John Caine,
American, Henri Beaucoup,
French,
The many objects and useful
items which are scattered
around the playing area can be
used to great effect by all of the
explorers_ But there are certain
items which will be of particular
use to various nationalities.
For example, Wu Pang, the
Japanese guy, will
find the
camera and flashgun helpful. I
think you can use it for stunning
rock-snakes. And Wilbur
Fortisque-Smithe could find the
cricket ball helpful. What more
useful item for an Englishman,
eh?
The graphics on the 16-bit
machines are excellent, There
are also nice touches to the
game play. For example, if your
character is asked to carry Out a
dangerous jump he shakes his
head. But stick with it and he'll
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eventually jump.
You'll soon pick up various
dos and don'ts. Do use a brolly
before jumping off anything.
Don't forget to use a brolly
before jumping off
anything
and the vacuum cleaner allows
you to fly up in to the clouds. Do
beware of the snakes that lurk
behind rocks.
Your explorer is accompanied
by native bearers who carry all
the objects and items found.
The Spectrum version is also
very playable but and I
suppose this is a bit unfair to
compare Spectrum versions
with the ST and Amiga — suffers
in comparison.
Not the most original game
but let's hope it's a portent of
good games to come from
ArgusiOuicksilva.
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you want to get the most from
this massive adventure.
It all started when a downon-his-luck
games
programmer named Bob
Morlock, bumped into Charles
Darwin in the street. Later,
over a drink, they get talking
about aliens. It turns out that
aliens have been here all the
time i n computer games.
As Darwin put it: "They're
here, Pac-people are
reproducing in millions. They
actually exist".
Blood is much more than an
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and stategy elements to make
It interesting and playable.
For anyone who missed the
preview, you play the part of
Captain Blood who is zooming
around the galaxy franticly
searching for five clones of
himself.
There are a mere 32.000
planets, each with uniquely
some planets, and they play a
key role in helping you find
the clones,
But before you can 'talk' to
any of the 16 types of alien
that hang out around the
galaxy, you must first
hyperspace to a planet you
suspect is inhabited, and then
rocket down to the planet's
Captain Blood is much more
than an adventure,
surface. This is where your
arcade skills come in useful
— most planets are protected
by automatic laser defence
systems that need only a few
seconds to lock into your
signal and blast you into
oblivion.
The trick is to skim as close
to the ground as possible,
using mountains and hills to
shield you from the defence
system's locking scanner.
Unfortunately mountains have
a frustrating habit of being
painful to fly through so you
end up dodging and weaving
inbetween mountains trying to
hug the contours of the land
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geological feature common to
all the planets in the game.
Talking to aliens is made
easy using UPCOM (Universal
Protocol Communication). It
consists of 128 icons which
can be strung together to
make quite complex
sentences. The concept,
design and execution of
UPCOM is brilliantly
imaginative and, in many
ways, far more flexible than
any parser could ever be
By meeting aliens,
befriending them, and often
by doing them favours, you
will gradually be able to piece
together all the snippets of
information you discover, until
you know where to look for
one or more of your clones.
Although things can be a
little hit or miss until you find
your first alien, this shouldn't
discourage you from
persevering if you like your
games big and meaty. If you
don't mind spending some
considerable time zooming all
over the galaxy before you
find even your first clone, arid
fancy graphical treat, check
out Captain Blood.
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a hole in one or make a
putt under par. The other
window is an overview map of
the current hole and a simple
score board.
There are four 9 hole courses
on offer: Deluxe, Classic,
Traditional or Challenge. The
best for graphics and gameplay
is the Classic course, where you
have to putt your way past
swinging elephant trunks,
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windmill sails, airplane
propellers, a castle, the space
shuttle and a cannon which will
fire your ball into the hole for
you! The other courses use
various walls and different
terrain on the putting green to
divert the ball. Graduation
arrows help to indicate the
slope of the terrain on each
hole. Whilst it adds some
accuracy to the game, it does
make the graphics look very
basic.
The continuing success of
golf games is a mystery to me. I
mean how many people do you
know who regularly head for
the golf course on a Saturday
morning. It's not exactly the
kind of activity you associate
with your average computer
games player,
can't help feeling that with
Mini Putt the golf boom has
gone as far as it is going to.
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said the same thing when the
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if you spot a successful idea
copy it. True, Mini Putt does
have a fair amount of originality
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eighteen holes, bunkers, lakes,
trees and what have you but
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approach that worked. Do they
attempt to emulate their
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national media. No way -they
just cynically launch a add the
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there would be little to fault.
However, the graphics on the
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after just a few plays the holes
become ridiculously easy.
Mini-Putt is fun to begin with.
but the overall challenge soon
fades and the multi-load (on the
tape version) soon becomes a
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yearning for the 30 displays and
more professional golf games.
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games by the disappointment
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cheapen such a good and
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game Platoon is an extremely
well thought out and
challenging arcade adventure
style game. Thankfully it is not
merely an excuse for video
gook bashing - as it might so
easily have been.
When you examine the whole
package- the poster, audio
copy of the film's theme tune
"Tracks of My Tears and the
way in which the game has
been done you have to
acknowledge that the subject
matter has been treated
extremely sensitively,
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you have to search the huts to
find items you will need in the
next section. Again you have to
to control. For example, two at
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of the screen and along one
side. There's even a screen
where two bats are positioned
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Cong. Go easy on the ammo
though as this is limited.
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sequence you will find yourself
back in the Jungle. This time
your objective is simply to
escape from there before it is
blown sky high. This is also a
race against the clock - with a
two minute limit as well as a
test of finding your way out.
The final conflict pitches you
against the shell shocked
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proved too much for him and he
has turned on his own men -
bombarding them with a
constant barrage of grenades
and gun fire. Five grenades
must score direct hits in order
to eliminate Barnes and win the
game.
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appeared to be one of the most
difficult films to turn into a
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control of the bat continually
swap. So you've got to keep a
close eye on the game.
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control changes and the bats
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changes. Control can change
and the swap the next instance.
The construction set could be
the main selling point of Traz,
especially if you've bought any
other versions of this style of
game. I constructed some
pretty strange screens. I
thought they were brilliant
designs and hugely playable.
Others thought different. But
that's life.
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from tropical trees to advens
for Ace 2 and the nice part is
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where the Holy Shroud, one of the
world's great religious relics, Is kept
under close guard by the soldiers of
Yellow Shadow, Lee's sworn enemy.
Lee has been instructed to find this relic
before Yellow Shadow destroys it.
He will need a lot of courage and skill to
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and hidden passages as specially trained
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his way.
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'So, there I was, captain of a
German submarine in the first
week of World War Two,
hunting for British merchant
ships in the English Channel.
After two days' patrol a lookout
reported smoke to the north.
"My binoculars showed only
clear blue sea, so I followed his
directions. We pursued for an
hour with the lookout getting
more excited. Suddenly there
was an almighty crash as we
went aground,
"I checked the map, and we
had just sailed 50 miles inland
from Brighton. The lookout still
reported the convoy,
presumably sailing down the
main runway at Gatwick airport.
I took another look through the
binoculars. Nothing but ocean. I
must get them fixed."
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games on the market, Subbattle
Simulator promises the most. In
charge of a World War Two
submarine, the player must
master the problems of
manoeuvre and torpedo attack.
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There is a training scenario, a
set of special missions
including picking up aircrew at
sea and landing agents on
enemy islands, and a "wartime
command" scenario in which if
you survive your first patrol you
move on to a better submarine
and continue your career
throughout the war. There are
four levels of difficulty, and a
selection of either American
submarines in the Pacific or
German in the North Sea and
Atlantic. Your submarine can be
attacked from the air, and you
must recognise which aircraft
are hostile, The earlier subs
really do have worse handling
and poorer torpedoes than the
later models.
It sounds too good to be true.
It is. Apart from showing the
ocean when you are sailing on
dry land - or even worse,
almost on top of an enemy ship
the program is almost
unplayable.
Course is set on a dial with a
joystick, and is accurate only to
about five degrees. Precision
navigation, one of the main
skills of a submarine, is
impossible.
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Submarine work alternates
between long days of
patrolling, hours of stalking a
convoy, and minutes of very
precise manoeuvring to attack
or escape_ For a game some
form of time compression and a
way of "zooming" in and out of
larger scale maps is essential.
The method chosen by
Subbattle Simulator makes the
game almost impossible. Time
compression is reasonable up
to one Irealtimel second equals
30 seconds, but then it jumps to
ten minutes, and to four hours,
reverting each time to the
smallest scale map. This means
that you either have to run 12
day-long patrols in the ten
minute mode, or speed up and
risk that a degree or two out in
your navigation, multiplied by
eight hours' sailing, will put you
in Tokyo harbour in two
seconds. Even worse, once you
have sighted a convoy the
computer, not you, calls "battle
stations" and locks you in
tactical mode, with 30 seconds
as the fastest speed. The basic
submarine tactic of stalking a
convoy all day to attack at night
is not possible.
Subbattle Simulator is
potentially a very good game. If
it did what it is supposed to do it
would be highly realistic and
very playable indeed. But it
needs a lot more playtesting
and debugging. I look forward
to a second, improved version.
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finishing line within the given time
(which changes according to the
difficulty of each course) will lose
and forfeit the race. The remaining
player is permitted to proceed
through the remaining courses,
until he/she fails to complete the
course within the given time,
Controlling your bike or buggy is
achieved by using either the
keyboard or the joystick.
If you successfully complete any
course within the given time limit
you are awarded a score bonus
which rapidly clocks-up your
score.
The graphics for ATV are feeble
and weak and the sound is no
better, Playability is almost
non-existent because of very poor
joystick and keyboard responses.
I don't know whether Code
Masters intended ATV to have
been a rival to Mastertronic's
Kikstart, or maybe it's just a slight
coincidence that it turned out to
look and sound almost like it. Well
anyway, one thing that I have
learnt from reviewing this game
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At first glance, your new universe may seem
quite friendly, at least very few of its inhabiunts
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comfortable, the longer you're there, the more
hostile they become.
You see, you've got to destroy the orbitals
surrounding the central nucleus and surprise
surprise, orbitals hate being shot at. So they
release a fearful array of semi intelligent 'morphs'
in retaliation. The longer you take to wipe them
out, the smarter they get. They even have the
audacity to gain immunity to your weapons.
Not fair I hear you say, but this time you've
overlooked the brilliant team of research
scientists headed by Professor Braybroolt
himself, who can be commissioned to build more
powerful weapons and systems for your exclusive
use. You could become invincible, with an
awesome battle cruiser filling over half the screen,
AND YOU'LL NEED IT
With 50 successive levels, an outstanding
variety of visual effects, four layered parallax
movements in any direction and some whacky
sounds by Steve Turner, Morpheus will show you
what your hardware can really do.
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Zeppelin Games is one of a
brace of new companies
determined to give Mastertronic
and Code Masters a run for
their money in the fiercely
competitive budget games
business.
Their first offering for the 64
is a tough shoot 'ern up called
Zybex and it has to be judged
as a pretty good game by
anyone's standards.
Owing an obvious debt to
games like Gryzor, here we
have a horizontally scrolling
shoot 'em up — progressively
difficult and with the facility to
build up your jet-pack-man
fighter.
The storyline isn't going to
win any prizes for sci fi
originality. It concerns two
rebels, Rinser and Ceaselana,
who have been sentence to
relentlessly travel the universe
blasting aliens and discovering
new worlds.
To release the unfortunate
space twins from this tedium
you will have to remove the
'death rings' from their necks.
To do this you have to
penetrate the defences of
several planetary systems and
retrieve a Zybex crystal form
each one. At the end the final
level is all the all powerful
Zybex crystal — cop this one
arid Bob's your uncle, Rinser
and Cassalana are off down the
pub without a care in the world.
The best thing about Zybex is
the two player facility. You and
a friend can take on the aliens
together. The possibilities for
strategy here are limitless. It is
reminiscent of Gauntlet in that
you can shout to each other to
take the lead, watch out above,
below or behind. It's team work
against the aliens — which
makes a welcome change from
the solitary business of wasting
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'em by all by your sell.
Zybex employs the fairly
standard technique of flying
through various icons to pick
the extra weapons, Extra
weapons to be picked
up are
those familiar rotating weapons
— in this case they are called
'Orbiting Defence Pods'. There
are also the '8
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looking more like out of scale
triangles than anything else.
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up this. There is one
excellent
alien near the
beginning of the first
level - a splendidly colourful
rampant worm. As is traditional,
this monster must be destroyed
a segment at a time.
Plumbing the depths of this
game will reward the player
with other weird and wonderful
aliens and monsters. There are
the character-kaleidoscopic
formations of aliens that do a
little dance in front of you and
then zoom of screen in a neat
line hardly giving you a chance
to blast them.
The backgrounds through
which all this blasting takes
place is also of a reasonable
standard. There are pyramids
and rocky craters, diamond
landscapes, and even a city
skyline made up of huge green
phallic-like buildings.
Another bonus mark for
Zybex is the speed at which
you can restart the game after
you have been killed. It really is
instant — a couple of quick
fires on the joystick button and
you are back onto the action.
This is a thumping good start
from Zeppelin. I will be
checking their next couple of
releases to see if they can
maintain the standard,
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didn't make it as the Formula
One World champion last
season. But Nigel Mansell's
Grand Prix is certainly a winner
It's a game you've certainly
got to work at to get the most
from it. The programmers have
done their utmost to make this
game as accurate as possible.
Try and remember that you're
in the cockpit of a Canon
Williams Honda Formula One
mean machine and these babies
need careful handling. Get them
too hot and bothered and then
they breakdown on you. Treat
them right and you're in a
dream machine.
I made this mistake at first.
ignoring the controls and just
driving. You soon learn to pay a
little more attention to the
cockpit controls.
The cockpit display is rather
overwhelming. There's a lot to
monitor. I found it a little
confusing at first. While
Studying the controls, I
sometimes forgot to steer.
Bang! Keep your eyes on the
track.
So here's a rundown of the
cockpit controls:
Rev Counter - This shows
the speed of the engine but not
how fast the car is moving on
the track. If the revs are too
low the engine labours and
power could be lost, too high
and there is a danger of the
engine overheating.
Fuel - This is a pretty
obvious gauge.
Oil Temperature -If the oil
temperature in the sump gets
too much then there could be
mechanical problems.
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which should be enough to
Complete a race of 190 miles),
fuel consumption, range on fuel
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finish and a radio link with the
pits.
There are 16 race tracks for
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become world champ.
Apparently, the circuits are
accurate. So you can rev up
around the world from Brazil to
Japan and Monaco to Detroit.
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comes to racing but this sim
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fast lane.
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Heroes don't come more heroic
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the levels, find all the
Supertreens, sabotage their
control boxes to activate the
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Ventilation ducts- used to
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Force field - these seal off
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ability to do hedgehog
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a ball. This protects it against
most hazards.
One major problem can be the
other Battlesphere that hangs
around. If this is controlled by
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the hands of another player, it
can either be a help, knocking
out threatening balls, Or a real
pain in the posterior, barging
you off the road.
Converting this game onto
the spectrum has meant that a
lot of the frills have gone. The
multicolour graphics have
become monochrome and the
odd beep is no substitute for
digitised sound.
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happens, stripped of its gloss
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nothing special at all. Once
you've got the hang of the first
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through half a dozen levels
before anything new comes
along.
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simulation package promises so
much. But, for me, the promise,
is not delivered.
For the very reasonable sum
Deosions — to ploy or not to ploy.
KRYPTON Alc
the TV show itself. It doesn't
really lend itself to the home
micro and the resulting game I
found very slow to play. Almost
tediously slow.
The game's individual parts
are all taken from the show and
each has to be loaded
separately which again means
there's a lot of sitting around
doing nothing. All are played
against the clock.
Up to four people play, each
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containing the standard game,
the expert game, extra courses
based on coastlines arid extra
courses based on docks,
making 24 circuits in all. Not
only that. There's also a colour
poster and a Code Masters
sticker.
All this is flawed by the fact
that the game is not good. In
fact, it's boring.
selecting the character they
want to be from the eight
supplied, although you can
change character details if you
want.
The first section is mental
agility. Here a series of numbers
is flashed onto the screen. Each
player most arrange the
numbers in their head in correct
ascending numerical order and
re-enter them into the
computer. This is real brain -
then.
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The courses are viewed from
above. There are four ietbikes in
each race and up to two people
can play. You race against the
clock, completing two circuits
in the time, and must steer
between the numbered buoys in
the correct sequence. If you
qualify you go onto the next
course. In all there are five
courses to be beaten in each
championship.
A The standard course.
buster only for memory men
and women.
Next is the observation
round. A story and related
picture are shown. The story
scrolls along the bottom of the
screen. This is shown twice
only certain changes are made
to the picture and story which
you have to spot. This section
was so boring that I nearly
nodded off several times.
The response round promised
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listen to the Spectrum version
several times before I could
make out what it was. The
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better.
The letbikes themselves
appear as little more than small
arrow shaped creations with a
stream of what seems like
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some action at last, or that's
what I hoped. Some hope!
What you have to do is move a
cycling machine from one side
of the screen to the other, The
keys you hit must be hit at
different rates. The second part
of this section tests colour
sense. Al this stage the colour
temporarily gave up on my TV
so I decided to skip this section.
I didn't think my life would be a
lot poorer without it.
The physical ability section is
the Krypton Factor assault
course. You are presented with
a view of the course from
above and the characters are
controlled with four keys, each
representing strength, stamina,
arm power and leg power. You
must tap the appropriate key at
the right moment. The action I
hoped for to liven up the game
turned Out to be pretty tame
V Sits and pieces — th puzzle section.
Stuff.
The intelligence section sees
you trying to re-assemble a
puzzle, and the general
knowledge part is fairly
obvious. In fact, this last
section was the most enioyable
bit for me. It's a pity I had to
plough through the other bits to
get to it.
I can't fault the Krypton
Factor and say it's not a faithful
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bubbles coming from the back, islands, moored boats, g a i n i n g some control over the
So it's down to an actual disappearing under walk ways, bike. Things became a little
race, On the Spectrum version I missing the buoys and b e t t e r but I still appeared to be
first elected to use the e v e n t u a l l y being run over by my Out of control most of the time.
keyboard. "Get ready,
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ready. Tension didn't mount. A few more attempts failed t h e same lack of effect.
fThen e we l were l o off. w t o see any significant T h e sound effects on the
c The o computer•controlled m p e t bikes improvement in my race A m s t r a d was a series of bings
rocketed i t o away. r s Well, . perhaps technique Or desire to continue and bongs, the significance of
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The programme isn't really a
suitable subject for a computer
game. It's too much of a mishmash
of tests, skills,
intelligence and strength to
form a comprehensive game,
For faithful TV fans only. By
the way, marks for graphics
and sound are almost
meaningless and are not the
essential part of the game,
I'm sure jetnike racing is
probably one of the most
exciting water sports, Jetbike
Simulator is not one of the
most exciting of computer
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Drink, drugs, decadence.., who'd review
films for C+ VG? Ward R Street would, as he
finds that February's the month for filth and
thrills.
It's a good thing that this is a
leap year because February's
so packed with quality
pictures, you'll need that
extra day to take them all in!
There's a couple of comedy
thrillers plus enough sex,
drugs and sleaze to keep
Mary Whitehouse in
hysterics. So whichever wild
side you prefer, prepare to
take a walk.
Contrary to its exciting
image, ninety percent of
police work is dull routine.
There's the paperwork,
mundane detection and
worst of all, the protracted
boredom of a Stakeout (15).
Perhaps it's hardly
surprising that Seattle
detectives Chris Lecce, Bill
Reimers and their colleagues
all act a bit crazy.
This particular stakeout
seems particularly pointless
as the escaped convict isn't
really expected to show up at
his ex-girlfriend Maria's
house and if he does, Chris
and Bill aren't supposed to
arrest him because the FBI
want to the glamour of
recapturing him for
themselves.
Still, the job does have its
perks, like the constant
practical jokes that the cops
play on each other. And then
there's Maria. Like a couple
of Peeping Toms, Chris and
Bill spy on every activity of
her life - and they're
authorised to do it.
They're not authorised to
get more closely involved
though, but when Chris
crosses the street to place a
bug in her phone, his
interest becomes decidedly
un-professional. He falls in
love! After that it's a
question of how he can carry
on his romance without
letting her know that he's a
cop or his fellow cops
knowing that he's keeping
her under extremely close
surveillance.
With Richard Dreyfuss as
Chris and Emilio Estevez as
Bill, there are plenty of
laughs as the situation gets
ever more complex, but when
jail-breaking boyfriend Stick
finally makes a surprise
arrival in Seattle, it doesn't
short-change you on the
action. Stake this one out at
your local cinema soon!
The only thing more
boring than a stakeout is
babysitting. Right! Wrong! A
Night on the Town (PG) is
a night to remember.
Christine is the unfortunate
seventeen year-old stuck
with young Brad and his kid
sister Sara when her
boyfriend unexpectedly
cancels a date.
She expects a quiet
evening in front of the TV
but what she gets is a
journey into dark,
dangerous, downtown
Chicago which brings her
and the kids into contact
with menacing mobsters, a
one-handed pick-up driver
and even the Mighty Thor!
tagging along for the ride is
Brad's buddy Daryl, a
precocious brat who seems to
think that he's God's gift to
women before he even starts
shaving!
Meanwhile the reason for
this deadly quest, Chris's
friend Brenda, is stuck in the
bus station, surrounded by
winos and weirdos who won't
let her use the phone because
they claim it's their home.
Move over the yuppie
nightmare movie - this is a
teenage terror plc as every
crazy situation only gets
V Stakeout: Spot the red herring.
crazier.
Like a kitten with a ball of
string, A Night on the Town
just tangles its threads until
it looks like Chris will never
unravel the plot. But it's
every good baby-sitter's duty
to get their charges back
before their parents arrive
home. Cancel all babysitting
appointments to find
out if she succeeds.
Now for a little test. A
young woman, stranded in a
mansion in the middle of
nowhere, with a couple of
middle aged men who seem
to be several snowflakes
short of a blizzard, prepares
for bed. She carefully locks
the door, but on the wall
opposite is a full-length
mirror. What happens next?
if you've ever watched one of
those old dark house moves
on television, you'll know.
exactly what to expect, Dead
of Winter (18) is the same
story, sort of brought up to
date. The house creaks and
things go bump in the night
while the wind howls
through the holes in the plot.
You know that you're in
for an artificial couple of
hours when Mary
Steenburgen plays three
roles. Thankfully she only
has to concentrate on one for
most of the time. As Katie
McGovern she's chosen to
take over a part in a movie
because she's a look-alike for
its missing star. Meanwhile
the film producer's assistant,
Roddy McDowall, is a look
alike for Antony Perkins in
Psycho!
Even this isn't enough to
make her turn back though,
so she arrives at the snowbound
house only to find that
V Night on the Town:
there's no evidence of a film
being made - but there's
every sign that the author of
Dead of Winter has seen far
too many melodramatic old
movies. Still, it's too late to
escape and it only remains to
see if she survives and what
her third role is,
As directed by Arthur
Penn. who made Bonnie and
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Clyde, the film undoubtedly
looks good and has a certain
flair, but unless you're really
attracted to the sort of plot
which comes on like a
trainee Sleuth, then you're
likely to groan as loudly as
the house.
Now it's on with the
rubber gloves as we sample
some sleaze, Stateside-style.
Barfly (18) begins with two
guys hammering the hell out
of each other in a back-alley,
and it took me a minute to
realise that one of them is
Mickey Rourke. His lip is
split, his jaw juts like a cro-
V Bar fly: Faye swots Mickey.
magnon man and his beard
is to designer stubble what
Woolworth is to high
fashion.
Rourke is Henry Chinaski,
all-out alcoholic and errand
boy in a Los Angeles bar,
inhabited by freaks, misfits
and the odd extra from a
zombie movie _ at least
they look brain dead! But
Henry, when he's sobre
enough, is also a writer and
Tully, the upper-class editor
ola literary magazine wants
more than just his poetry!
Henry's involved with
Wanda Wilcox though.
Despite her faded beauty
she's as crazy as the rest of
them, particulalry when
she's got a bottle between
her lips - which is most of
the time. She and Henry are
a pair made in alcoholic
heaven, and anyone who
tries to come between them
has to go through hell.
Sound depressing? Well,
it's not. Forget Cheers - this
is bar-life with real beers
and black humour chasers.
Author Charles Bukowski
knows that pain and good
humour sit side by side on
skid-row,and he drains every
last drop of laughter from
the bottle labelled 'despair'.
Brilliant performances too
from Rourke, who can do no
wrong, and Faye Dunaway
as Wanda_
Not that the British are
far behind when it comes to
squalor. Withnail and 1(15)
seem to have spent the
sixties so far out of their
skulls on drink and drugs
that they've not done the
washing up for the whole
decade.
Even The Young Ones
would have felt moved to
Mita
tidy this tip.
It was twenty years ago
today (or thereabouts) that
writeridirector Bruce
Robinson was living in
Camden Town with another
struggling actor, while a ragbag
assortment of freaky
friends passed through their
flat. His memoir of that era
is quite simply hysterical.
When the horrors of
London - and that pile of
greasy dishes- finally get
too much, Withnail and the
otherwise anonymous T
borrow a cottage in the West
country from Withnail's
flamboyantly gay uncle.
Too late they find that the
natives are far from friendly
but that the predatory uncle,
who arrives unexpectedly in
the middle of the night, isparticularly
towards T!
The performances of the
sweetly innocent Paul
McGann and manic Richard
E Grant, who can even find
consolation in a bottle of
lighter fluid, are brilliant.
Like Barfly, it's not an allout
action film, but. it is
hysterically funny. Funny
enough to become my film of
the month, in fact.
But decadence and drugs
know no class barriers, and
even Withnail would be
hard put to match the
aristocracy at play in Africa
during the 1940s. Who cares
if there's a war - in Kenya's
Happy Valley the toffs are
up to White Mischief (1S).
Based on a true story, this
is the story ofJo,sslyn Hay,
the 22nd Earl of Erroll, for
whom every night was party
night and every young
woman fair fame. That
includes Diana, the
attractive young wife ofSir
'Jock' Delives Broughton, a
man whose face seems to
have been pressed out of raw
pastry.
Eventually the attractions
V White Mischief: Naughty but
of his bulging wallet are
outweighed by the
unattractiveness of his
bulging belly and she runs
off with Erroll. But these
being British citizens, lips
remain stiff at all times -
until Erroll's is permanently
chilled by a bullet in the
brain.
The real fun in White
Mischief is watching
middle-aged aristos acting
worse than a Club 18-30
mob. It sets the scene nicely
for the trial of Broughton
and keeps you guessing - did
he do it? I'm not telling.
You'll have to see it for
yourself and you can rest
assured, there are no Out of
Africa pretty pictures of
flamingos to bore you in this
one!
Drugs scar the surface of
contemporary Dublin's fair
city too, where The Courier
(15) is likely to be carrying a
packet of crack to the local
dealer, who is using ordinary
motorcycle messengers to
run his deadly dope around
town.
Messenger Mark is drawn
into the plot when his best.
friend Danny dies after
taking poisoned smack. With
Danny's sister, Colette, wellplayed
by ex-Pogue Cait
O'Riordan, he sets out to
take his revenge on gang
boss Val, superbly portrayed
by one of Ireland's finest
actors, Gabriel Byrne.
This is a first film from a
tiny Irish independent
company, made on a
miniscule budget. It
manages to avoid all the
obvious cliches, and if a few
aspects of the plot are less
than satisfactory, it still has
a freshness and a sense of
being close to the street-level
missing from most
Hollywood epics.
An example of moviemaking-by-numbers
is Teen
Wolf Too (PG), a sort of
• sequel to the surprise hit of
last year. I say sort of
because Michael J. Fox has
moved on to better things, to
he replaced by a looksvaguely-similar,
Jason
Bateman, in the film teen
Wolfs cousin and in real life
the producer's son!
Apart from that it's
virtually a re-run of the
original, with boxing
replacing basketball, and the
addition of the everwonderful
John Astin
(Gomez from The Addams
Family) as the ambitious
college head.
The make up and effects
are atrocious and when the
script runs out of ideas the
director throws in a totally
unnecessary, and badly
executed musical number,
that looks as if he's
auditioning to direct promos
in future.
And finally, remember
Bellman and True. I've
raved about this superb
British thriller twice now -
and each time it's had its
release put back_ Well, now
it's scheduled for April, so
let's hope it doesn't
disappear in mysterious
circumstances again!

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Eye was a huge selling board game at
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Atari XLIXE E9.95 tape, £12.95 disk
Atad ST £24.99
Commodore 64 E9.95 tape, E14.95 disk
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Mostertronic win a Bosconian coin-op competition in November,
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The 50 runners up get a copy of the computer conversion. They ore:
Giles Crickman, Thorpe, Surrey; Jamie Denney, Colchester, Essex;
Stephen Hendead, Wigan, Lancs; Kelvin Nosh, East Horn, London;
David Patterson, Welwyn Gorden City, Hens; Rene von der Woude,
The Netherlands; Jonathan Ray, South Shields, Tyne & Wear; Simon
Watts, Wokinghom, Bedcs; Craig Richardson, NewcasHe-upon-Tyne;
Martin Povey, Chester; Steven R Clomp, Hants; Geoffrey Taylor,
Heston, Middlesex; Matthew Wood, Gillingham, Kent; Antoine
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Agnelo Jude Vaz, Hounslow, Middlesex; Menno Everaarts, Holland;
Gareth Hector, Paisley, Renfrewshire; Jason Raitue, Torquay, Devon;
Jouni Karhu, Finland; Deniz Ahmet, Peckham, London; Craig Elliott,
Doncaster, S Yorkshire; Philip Grant, Greenock, Renfrewshire; Stephen
Rushbrook, Tollesbury, Essex; Christopher Slinn, Alderney, Channel
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N-N-N-N-Now listen he f e l l in for a n-n-n-nilly
N-N-N-N-Nineteen competition, the Cascade game
based on the anti-Vietnam war single of the same
name.
First prize is a visit !or you and a pal to Combat
Zone, the fun battle game Involving paint guns. The
Zone is based near Brentwood in Essex and you will
get E30 towards travelling expenses.
And that's not all The winner also gets one pair of
combat-style pocket binoculars (see picture), a copy of
the bit single and a framed Nineteen poster, signed by
the artist and game programmer.
The next three runners-up will get a pair of
binoculars (see other picture), the record and signed
poster.
So what do you have to do? It's simple, just answer
the following questions and send your answer to
N-N-N-N-Nineteen Competition, Computer +Video
Games, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane. London
EC1R 3AU. The closing date is March 16th.
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game makers display their mega
products. C-t-VG E arcade ace Clare
Edgeley samples M the delights of
Thunder Blade, P Ninict Warriors
and the rest.
MIL
It seems only yesterday that I was
reporting on all the new gornes at
last January's Amusement Trade
Exhibition — ATE — and now it's
come round again. The depression
the coin-op industry was going
through in 1 985 seems well and
truly over and a host of new games
are waiting for the trigger happy in
1 988. The show was slightly
disappointing — there weren't
mosses of new innovative games
around, rather a lot of good
quality shoot 'em ups and punch
'em ups, all of which we've seen
before in one shape or another.
Anyway, to kick off, I'll start with
the biggies — dedicated games.
which come in specially designed
cabinets. These ore always good
games, generally cost more to plc,
than your average blaster, but are
addictive too.
O THUNDER
BLADE
Sega hod a strong presence at
the show and was launching
one game which hod
everyone talking — Thunder
Blade. This is a helicopter
simulation with several innovative
features. It's instantl
y The cabinet is shaped
like a mini-chopper,
recognis
able.
resting on skis with a high bucket
seat arid the screen somewhere
down at feet level. You can almost
imagine yourself patrolling
the skies, looking out
of your perspex
bubble as the ground
rushes beneath your feet.
The quality of graphics
and gameploy are superb.
The control column
occurately simulates all the
moves of a fast moving
helicopter — pull back
and to one side and you'll
rise while slipping to the
left or right. Push forwards
and you II go into a
screaming nosedive.
Missile and cannon
buttons ore mounted on.
the joystick ond on
your left is the speed control
gear with notches to allow
you to stop dead and hover,
fly at quarter, hall, threequarters
and full speed.
Ifs vital to get thehang
of changing Our speeds
because you re going to
stay airborne.
The game storts with a demo run
through a high rise building area —
skyscrapers whizz post your
blades, tanks on the ground fire
rockets in an attempt to slop your
headlong fligH and enemy
choppers launch into the attack. All
too soon, the demo tun turns into
the game proper though I must say
it makes a pleasant change to hove
a practise run first
Swinging your chopper from
side to side causes the cabinet to
move accordingly — it's great. The
game perspective changes all the
Ism° throughout this fast moving
me. Al the start you can bong
r chopper down to ground
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level skimming just above the rood
or, alternatively, rise to several
thousand feet and bomb from
above. Whatever your height, the
view from your cockpit window —
or on the screen at your feet —
changes to take into of:count the
different views. Very clever.
The first level is fairly simple,
sped the only reason I
get as far as I did was
was playing for free'
so rd have been shovelling
the machine like there
ITOW.
a50174d've soiled
round the tanks and cho
find yourself flying over e
with a huge aircraft corner as to
Bomb all the aircraft on its deck,
put out of action oil mounted
cannons — no easy task as there
ore mosses of them and they con
swing in a full circle to sight on you.
On the second level the
perspective changes to a bird's eye
view of a steep sided canyon. The
risk of taking your chopper down
to ground level is all too real —
you're more likely to end up
splattered against the walls of the
cliff.
There ore lots more scenes and
levels in this brilliant game_ What's
more, it should be in most arcades
fairly soon and because it is driven
mechanically and not through
electronics the price of the beast is
much lower. Hopefully it'll be
pretty void read.
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• NINA
WARRIORS
Toito's Ninia Warrion is the
newest martial arts simulation and
is played on the some style cabinet
as their previous game, Darius. It's
a huge stond up cabinet with three
screens joined together to provide
one very long playing area.
works very well and has the
advantage that you con see what's
corninn up long before you
get to it.
The storyline differs slightly from
Sego's Shona& in so far as you
don't have to rescue hostages.
However, you must kill the soldiers
of an evil dictator who's
threatening to turn the state of El
Cobol
- either one or two players— has
been called in to n'cl the land of the
ins dictator and so restore it to
ide democratic rule.
o Your fire opponents are soldiers
uin combat t gear ond it's a simple
matter to put them out of action.
. You don't even need to kick them
Tas
they run quite happily into the
hsmall
dagger you're holding.
Watch e out for gun toting wit:lien
though, you'll have to crouch
Nunder
or jump over their bullets.
iEith
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the bullets to get dose enough to
stab them or throw a few shuriken.
iru
You only have a limited number of
a n these so don't chuck them away.
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Monster aliens soon appear
which take several hits to kill, these
oare
deadly and will cause you to
rblow
a few fuses if they catch up
with you. The first time this
whappened
I couldn't believe my
aeyes.
After all, whoever's heard of
a r robot ninjo.
Guard dogs are another hazard
and d these tend to attack in
They w are fairly easy to kill, though I
wasn't
h
sure about the wimper each
dog gives as you put it down.
i Ninia Minion is fun to play and
\the l extra long screen is a bonus,
the graphics ore great and the
garee's e a challenge. But I feel that
Sheila& d is o more challenging
qam4 u is Vigitonte.
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• FINAL LAP
Namco's Final Lop is another
brilliant new innovation in which
you can link-up eight racing can
together so that they can 'race
round the Suzuka Grant
racecourse in the same race.
You're probably more likely to see
two cars linked together as I should
imagine the cost of buying eight of
these machines, and the spoce
needed to accommodate them,
would be enormous_
The challenge when playing with
only two people
, strangers, w h o is fantastic. The two
machines ore *iced side by side.
You a rand e your opponent start the
race t ethe rsome U time and then the
fun begins_ The cars slide
backwards and forwards on
runners to simulate bursts of speed
and whoever is in the lead at a
given moment. Yelline to your
Cal
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'overtaking' hen.
quickly, your oppo
you as you crash
too fast. Using
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track - and building up your speed
again. By this time your opponent
is bway
ahead, though with careful,
if e fast, driving it's possible to make
up
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lost ground fairly quickly. And
as long as one of you beats the
lime i for that lap, you'll both be
awarded m extended time to
continue with the race. I believe
there e ore about three laps to the
race g and whoever gels there first
wins.i e could be wrong, though - in
the excitement I loss count.
t The background graphics are
pretty t bask- They ere not as
detteled i cts in Out Run - they're just
not necessary. Afterall, the
excitement n is in the challenge of
the g race and not in the scenery_
The
b
main playing window takes up
most of the screen and a narrow
band a at the top of the screen is
divided c into three stroollerwindows.
The outside two show sections of
the k tack and oct rather Wee wing
mirrors, o but Ws the middle section
which
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is roost important. This th
the layout of the track, its chicanes
and t straights and tells you where
you o ore in relation to your
opponent.
tFinal
Lap is a first class
h it's tremendously
and e I'd love to play it r e
than two cars ore T e r .
Ws a definite must u l d be
racing drivers_ Full
Narnco for a petitive
game.
• TWI OBRA
Twin C a vertically scrolling
shoot 'em t h you in control of
a chopper ying over enemy
territoryislasting everything that
movillsough this is basically
e scenario as Thundercacie,
obra's got a more gutsy feel
a game, making it for more of
chollenge.
Tanks and the like must be blown
up, enemy planes knocked out of
the skies and bullets must be
dodged. It's a bit like Flying Shark
in that aspect. Collecting an 'S'
symbol increases your firepower, a
'B' odds one bomb to your supply
and you can earn extra lives, more
points and a selection of four new
weapons by collecting symbols.
The cabinet I played the game
on was a hi-tech sit down job
which was very comfortable,
especially as the screen is
set at an angle to you
and not flat as in
more traditional table
top games found in
pubs. Fast moving with
pretty graphics, Twin
Cobra is a one or two
player game which is
bags more fun than
Thunciercade.
games are still big
d at the ATE three new
ode their debut.
enobi, the martial arts sim
Sega, reminded me vaguely
f Atari's Rolling Thunder in its
dean colourful graphics and large
well defined spntes. You play the
hero Musashi, o master of Ninjutsu
Your object is to rescue hostages
who are tied up at points
throughout the game and to fight
the big boss at the end of each
level. None of the martial arts
games differ greatly in their plot.
Shenobi, however, features a
bonus level after each stage.
You're given a limited supply of
Shuriken (cloodly stars) which,
when thrown, kill the enemy
outright. These ore best saved for
situations which can't be dealt with
by one-to-one combat_ The enemy
comes at you with fists and guns.
Jumping to higher levels
is vital to avoid or ambush
the enemy. Run over the
hostages to tree them and you'll
earn yourself extra weapons_ The
more hostages saved the better
your weapons. A magic ninjo spell
con be cast once on each stage
and this results in your character
turning into the NirliC equivalent of
a smart bomb. It's hilarious though
highly effective. Your figure
remains standing still, while
replicas of your character shoot
out from the body and whiz round
the screen, cannoning off the
buddies like ping pong bolls. When
the spell is complete, you'll have a
bunch of dead on your hands. That
includes any hostoges if they
happen to be still tied up.
The bonus level is to prove your
skill at throwing Shuriken and
reminded me of
playing Discs of
iron. The screen
holds three platforms with one very
close to you and the other two
further away. The enemy appear on
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furthest platform or ledge and
jump from platform to platform to
get at you. You mint throw the
Shuriken oi those fast moving
figures and put them out of action
before they get too close. It's hard
work and they need careful aim,
but if you clear the screen you'll get
the extra lives,
A mop at the beginning of each
level shows how for you've
travelled and by the look of things,
it will take you a fair amount of
time to clear the three or four
stages on each of the five missions
assigned to you.
Fast moving and very
challenging, Shenobi is well worth
playing. I particularly liked it for the
controls which weren't too
complex. A straightforward kick
and punch game with bogs of
action.
• HEAVYWEIGHT
CHAMP
Heavyweight Chomp from Sega is
a boxing simulation that resembles
Punch Out!! in that you are seen as
a semi-transparent figure with your
bock to the screen fighting a very
solid opponent. However, where
the controls are concerned,
Heavyweight Champ is in a
category of its own. For instead of
punch buttons, you hove two levers
sticking out from the side of the
machine which must be swung and
punched inwards to simulate your
player's hooks and jabs.
This must be the most exhausting
game I've ever played. By the time
Id got my first knock out, my orms
were so tired I couldn't even have
bopped a featherweight on the
nose let alone another bout with a
heavyweight.
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Swinging the monitor from side
to side allows defence and blocks
while punching and turning the
levers lets you go in tor the attack.
• BLASTEROIDS
Atari's Blosteroids came as o bit of
a surprise. Firstly, because ifs so
playable and secondly because ifs
a 3D, highly coloured and
enhanced version of their 1979
classic, Asteroids. Still reloining the
old movement patterns and basic
gameplay, Blasterods has been
given a brand new image. It's
brilliant, and will revive all the old
skills.
There ore lots of new features,
the main ones allowing you to pick
up bonuses like extra firepower,
energy and shields which are
obtained by shooting the enemy
and picking up whatever they
drop.
Energy crystals can be found by
shoohng red asteroids. These
explode into a zillion fragments
leaving behind the crystals. Picking
them up can be a problem as they
float through the space scope.
Once you've got the hang of your
turn and thrust controls, the job
should be much easier. Blasting
some objects gives you a magnet
which attracts all cD
,
area to your ship. This is a real
bonus when playing with o partner
stols as you'll come i n out o winner while
this hship ecomes
to a virtual standstill
All the bonuses ore disguised
ond youll need to learn whkh
ships, stars or rocks are concealing
energy boosters, tanks of fuel or
even the ripstar. This latter object
acts like a smart bomb and
explodes with a cathenne wheel
effect, shattering everything in
range.
There are 16 sectors to a
galaxy., each carrying a new space
scene and accompanied by
various noshes_ The worst aliens I
came across were space lobsters
which clutch your ship with deathly
claws. The only way to get rid of
these monsters is far your partner
to blast them off you
The sectors are quickly cleared
arid a transporter window soon
appears to suck you into its vortex.
The first person into this window
gets extra points and is allowed to
choose the next sector.
You can change the size of your
ship to large, medium or small to
help get through different sectors.
Large means you lack the speed to
fly quickly out of dodgy situations,
but at least if you're hit, your ship
doesn't lose so much power. Small
size works the opposite way round,
but as you can change quickly at
the press of a button, you should
be able to combat most situations.
Blasteraids is being heralded by
Atari as a 'Blast from the Post'. It's
brilliant and, like listening to on old
record, it'll awaken lots of
memories.
• VIGILANTE
Vigilante is vets, fast. punchy and
similar to Double Dragon in style.
You play the hero who's got to
save Madonna (I) from a bunch of
skinhoods who're holding her
captive. The streets are kill of thugs,
law and order are words of the
post and single handed you must
kick the thugs where it hurts.
Weapons like Nurtchakus can
be found en route and will be
needed to fight knife wielding
delinquents. This is a game which
takes you through the meanest
streets in the town, the type of
place where cors ore found
dumped in the gutters, where
everybody carries a gun or uses o
knife. The scenery is depicted in
minute detail and sets the scene
brilliantly.
The boddies wear different
uniforms, and the colour of their
clothes will tell you how to
approach them. Some will need to
be hit severnItimes before they
topple, others will fait at the
slightest hint of resistance. At the
end of each level you'll meet a
monster thug — don't you always —
and he must be hit again and
ogoin before he dies. It's a help at
this point if you've picked up on
extra weapon.
And so this hard hitting game
continues, level after level, The fifth
stage is fantastic as it's played on
the girders of a bridge high above
ground level. The skins and thugs
scrombte up the struts of the bridge
to cut you off , ond the only way to
save yourself is to punch them off
balance and throw them into the
void. Gaps in the girders don't help
matters, especially when it comes
to fighting the monster at the end
of the level. If he gets close enough
he'll pick you up by the scruff of the
neck and pound you to pulp
before hut fog you to the ground,
it's a long drop, though if you've
got _your wits about you, you can
grab onto the side of the girder
and hoist yourself back up for
more punishment. I thought that
was a really nice touch.
Vigilante is great — fans of
Double Dragon will love it.
• THUNDERCADE
Thundercode from Taito i a
vertically scrolling shoot 'em up
and is not particularly brilliant. The
only thing really different about
this one, as you travel up the
screen blasting away at tanks,
enemy outposts and soldiers is that
you're riding a motorbike.
The graphics are tiny and a bit
flickery. The aim of the game is to
collect extra weapons and a side
car with mounted cannon for your
bike. The further yoe travel up the
screen, the harder the going with
more enemy, tanks and guns. Not
a game that's going to shake the
world. Tito' s Twin Cobra is much
mc re likely to stick in your memory.

PLAY BY MAIL
The big news this month must
be that Legend Incorporated
Ltd. the company that runs
AE's, has ceased to be a full
time professional company.
Due to the vast success the
company has achieved in its
short lifetime, both the
founding gamesmasters have
been offered positions in
other areas of employment.
so they have decided to run
the land of AE's solely on a
part time basis and this means
taking on only a total of
between thirty to fifty players
between them.
Of course this is going to
come as a ereat shock to the
many players that are not
going to be allowed to play
any longer, as in some circles
it was rated as one of, if not
the, best Fantasy Role
Playing 1
3In
fact one of their G.M.s
.13.M, Jon Tode, won the Best G.M.
award at the 1987 P.B.M.
i n
conference, an honour not
easily
t h
won. The question on
everybody's e
lips is: "What do
U the ex-players . do now?
K At . present Legend are
inviting other P.B.M.
companies of a similar nature
to put flyers into their
cessation package (at a price!)
that will notify the
unfortunate players that
Legend has rejected, what
other fantasy P.B.M. games
are available on the market at
present. The choice is quite a
wide One, so I won't go into
it. All 1 can say is pick one
that you think may suit you
and look back in previous
C+ VG copies to see if I have
reviewed it.
I would like to take this
opportunity to wish both
gamesmasters. Jon Tode and
Bob Moss all the best in there
future employment, as
although we had our
differences of opinion, they
were undoubtedly 101q
dedicated to the game, which
is the reason behind why they
did not sell it. Quite simply,
they did not wish to see their
labour of love in another
company's hands.
Anyway, by the time, this
Busy, busy, busy, that is the only way to
describe the P.B.M. scene at the moment! Yes,
It's all go. with lots of special offers for all you
P.B.M'ers out there, so let's get on with
keeping you up to date with the news and
views from the ever changing world of P.B.M.
Remember though, that if you apply for more
than one offer you must send the relevant
amounts of S.S.A.E's required or you will only
receive the first offer you ask forl
column has hit the streets, the
Third P.B.M. convention will
be well and truly over. In the
next issue, I will be bringing
you a full report on what
happened, who won the
awards and any other events
of' importance. There should
also be a few piccies to give
you an idea of what you
missed. I would be only too
glad to hear the comments
and criticism on the event
from any C+ VG readers who
attended. We can only
improve future conventions
by feed back, so please get
writing. I really would like to
know what you thought of it.
To tempt you to put pen to
paper, I will line up free start
ups in various games for the
most interesting 20 or so
letters,
Speaking of the convention.
The G.Ms from Time Pattern
games, the company that runs
that great purist sci fi
P.B,M., Starglobe, informed
me that they are laying down
the law to certain players.
Apparently within the game
an insidious tactic is
appearing with increasing
rapidity, which spoils the
whole concept behind it.
What happens is that a few
players ring other players up
out of the blue at home and
spread wild and threatening
rumours. The tactic is
designed to frighten you out
o I the game and so leave your
possessions available for
collection by other players. If
this cheating tactic happens to
you, you would do best to
ignore everything that is said
and report it to the G.Ms in
your next turn. The people at
Starglobe have instructed me
to tell all Starglobe players
that you should NEVER.
EVER give out your ship or
account number to other
players for any reason at all!!
Moving on to the C+ VG
game of Ws A Crime, the
curse of Wayne has struck
again!! As I write not only
have the gangs mentioned in
the Feb issue of C + VG slid
down the table quite
dramatically, but we have
new leaders in the Notoriety
table for the umpteenth time?
At numero uno position at
the moment are the Meathead
Brigade, with 687 points.
closely followed by The
Axemen, with 656 and The
Street Freaks with 644.
Other notables are The
Street Angels, who are fifth
with 630 points, Satansfist,
who slip down to tenth with
601 points and the Lumps of
Green Putty who nosedive
down the table with only 494
points. The Fighting Falcons
obtains the most notoriety in
a week, with a tremendous
law braking 109 points, whilst
the Toughest are the Iron
Angels, the wealthiest are The
Merchant Bankers (well
named that man!!) and the
gang with the highest income
is The Lonely Emingonrants.
•There is a new P.B.M.
orientated based Fanzine out
called Totally Zane. It is
produced and edited by Mrs
Linda Little and is well worth
a read. Issue 0 contains a
couple of short stories — one
by that famous author
Andrew Prentice — a P.B.M.
which all purchasers of the
mag can play for free and is
loosely based on certain well
known political figures,
F.R,P, coverage, a serious
discussion page that is very
interesting indeed and a
regular P.B.M. feature

amongst other things.
Issue I is the better of the
two in my opinion and
contains a Saturnalia review
by yours truly, as well as hot
tips on the same game from
an ex Sat G.M., another
excellent Andrew Prentice
story (how does she afford to
get him to write for her
Fanzine?), mini reviews of
four other P.B.Ms plus
poetry, more stories, F.R.P.
coverage and a lot, lot more.
Each copy of Totally Zane
costs just 75p plus a A4
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Epic and Eclipse
Competition
Results
There are too man) winners
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be able to print a list of the
winners. However, if you
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CRISIS
Crisis was created by an
American called Rick Darn.
Apparently he was fed up
with all the complex and
technical global warfare
games about, so not being
able to find a simple one to
play, he decided to invent his
own. Mystery and Adventure
Games snapped up the British
rights to it and have been
running it for just under two
years.
Crisis is a computerised
world domination P.B.M.
which consists of twelve
people per game. You play
the leader of one of the
leading countries on 2Ist
century Earth and by the use
of Inter Continental Balistic
Missiles (ICMBs), factories
and diplomacy you attempt to
become the most dominanant
world power.
You'll find that 2Ist
century Earth has been
divided in to many countries,
some of which do not really
exist today, and they are
considered adjacent to each
other if they are connected to
each other on the game map
by a dotted line.
You start off with 33 tax
revenues, 30 factories, 5 forts
and a population of 200 and
with this little lot you are
expected to achieve world
domination. The game is
winnable and you achieve this
as follows: Either you are the
last player country to be left
alive after the demise of all
the other player countries of
you and ALL the players in
an alliance declare a tie in the
same round. However, not
only can you win the game.
but you can be eliminated as
well. Elimination is achieved
by having your home country
conquered or, alternatively,
having all your population
wiped out.
Playing the game
The game has a strict 10 to 12
day fixed deadline turn
around. Each turn you receive
a decision sheet. On this sheet
you write your orders and
send them back to the G.M.
The orders you have to
choose from are:
Send Spies
This enables you to send
profesional secret service
agents to spy on foreign
countries. You may send up
to three spies to three
different countries and you
are informed of what each
country contains as well as
the names of the other
countries that the infiltrated
country may well be at war
with.
Divisional
Movement
Divisions are conventional
ground forces that are used to
attack adjacent countries or
defend against their attacks.
A division may only move
one country per turn. Each
turn a player may give one
and only one divisional
movement order to the
divisions in his own country
and the countries which his
home country controls.
Basically, a division in a given
country can receive only one
movement order per turn.
Launch I.C.B.M.
This is self-explanatory really,
you launch a missile at
another country which, if
successful, destroys One
population and one factory in
a target country.
Factories
A factory produces money!!
As we know, money is the
key weapon to winning this
game, so they are vitally
important. If your population
is destroyed than all your
factories are automatically
destroyed as well.
Forts
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Forts cost 5 TRs to build and
may be built in any country a
player controls. Forts give a
combat bonus to defending
divisions only, which can be
quite substantial. It really
depends on how many
divisions are in that country,
the more divisions the greater
the bonus.
Non Player
Countries
These are countries that are
not controlled by any of the
twelve players, but by the
computer. You may wish to

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PLAY BY MAIL
! note that these countries build
forces each turn just as a
player's country does, but
they tend to create divisions
in preference to missiles.
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N.P.C.s will only attack if
provoked and have been
known to eliminate player
characters from the game!!
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However, these countries
never build forts.
Restriction Of
Orders
To balance the game out,
there are certain restrictions
placed on the orders that you
can issue. For example:
You may only write a
maximum of ten divisional
movements and only nine
LC.B.M. orders per turn.
Each country you control
may make only one divisional
movement per turn.
You may not move more
divisions out of a country
than the number that started
there.
Hints and Tips
If you intend playing this
game here are a few things
you should know:
Cover your world map with
the clear cellophane that is
used to cover books in
Libraries. Then buy some
chinagraph pencils and use
them to mark of where your
troops have moved, what
areas you controls etc. The
great thing about these is that
they can be wiped off with a
damp cloth.
You should expand your
area of control rapidly, taking
over your N.P.C. neighbours
swiftly and clinically.
Write to every other player
country as soon as possible.
Establish a basis of
negotiations with a peace
pact, then when it suits you,
stab your weakest ally in the
back. Be mean!!
Most games last around
thirty turns and people start
getting knocked out on
average around turn five or
six, so be extra alert when
this period arrives.
Use the newsheet to create
lots of scandal and rumour.
Worry your opponents' allies,
spread lots of propaganda
and incite chaos. It is to your
advantage. Your spies should
be able to provide you with a
good source of information to
use as you please.
Wayne's Verdict
Crisis is a very, very easy
game to play. It is ideal for a
P.B.Mer who has thought of
moving from the fantasy
games to strategic/tactical
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is only 13 pages long and
written in straightforward,
simple English. I found the
rules easily understandable
and a joy to read.
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are well thought out, clear
and precise in detail. There is
great scope for diplomacy
within the game and
contacting other players is a
must. I find that this part of
the game may well attract the
more experienced players, as
although they will whin
through the turnsheet with
ease, the diplomatic side
needs to be handled with
great care.
The rumour/newsheet that
is issued every turn is full of
info. However it is up to you
to sort out the truth from the
lies. It is an entertaining read.
The game has been created
in order for the player to get
a very fast turn around period
and, to draw a comparison, it
is somewhat similar to the
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On the negative side
however, I found the
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very basic, with the oni!?
artwork being on the
rulebook's cover. The
artwork itself is not that
amazing, but I must admit to
being quite amused by the
C.N.D. symbol on the back
cover.
The G.M. informs me that
the original basic A4 map
that is in my possession has
recently been enlarged to A3
size and redrawn for clarity.
This is a blessing because I
found the old map somewhat
limited. Furthermore, the
price of t 1.25 per turn was a
bit pricey, but I have checked
this out with the company
directors and negotiation is
where Wayne comes to the
fore!!
Wayne's
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Yes, once again I have
punished my body via the
terrible °Neal of physically
dragging the G.M.s of Crisis
down the pub and quaffing
many, many pints of lager, so
that I, Wayne the benevolent,
can get you the loyal readers
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Furthermore, I have
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game after their free rounds
have expired, the people at
Mystery and Adventure
Games promised me that they
will drop the price of their
turns buy anything UP TO a
maximum of Sop, so the
future price of the turns is in
your hands. I believe that
most of the people who take
up this offer will stay with the
game anyway, as it is worth
playing. Enjoy!
Finally, I would remind
you that I am here to sort
your P.B.M. problems out at
all times. If you have any sort
of P.B.M. problem
whatsoever, just drop me a
line with an s.s.a.e. and I will
do my best to sort it out. See
va in thirty!!

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Pretty nearly every
early BBC micro owner
will have heard of
Philosopher's Quest. It
was the first adventure
written for the computer,
and heralded a series of
adventures published by
Acornsoft, most of which
were written by Peter
Kil!worth.
Unlike most successful
adventures, these were
never converted to other
formats. But now,
Topologika announce the
release of Philosphorls
Quest, and an extended
Countdown To Doom,
both by Peter Killwodh,
plus Acheton, and
Kingdom Of Hamil. On
disk only, versions
available are: Amstrad
CPC (i9.95); Amstrad PCW
£14.95; IBM PC £17.50. The
BBC version is available on
disk (40/80) at £9.95.
Return To Doom, a
follow up to Countdown
written by Peter Killworth, is
planned for release early
in 1988.
v
e
will be pleased to hear
that sequels are on the
way, watch C+ VG for
exclusive details and
competition!
The first adventure
from Fergus McNail's
Abstract Concepts,
Mindlighter, is due to be
released by Activision
during March. Based on a
novel by Anna Popkess,
the game will feature the
new Abstract
Concepts/Delta 4
adventure system, with
heavy emphasis on
character interaction,
r
'Do you like the new
Infocoms games Border
Zone and Beyond Zork? I
play Beyond Zork on an
Atari ST — it's fantastic! I
found two bugs: when you
go in the cellar, CLOSE the
door and go up, you get
the closed door "thrown in
your face". Stephan
Engthart,
West Germany
Keith's reply: Thanks for
the advance warning!
Neither of the 1
11Z
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adventures are out oon
1any
format in the UK at
the time of writing.
Despite assurances from
Infocom that releases
would be simultaneous
worldwide.
l
Waite of Borehom Wood
for a game like Guild of
v
the very first issue. Anyone
who has stayed with it that
long surely deserves an
answer to his problems!
Who can tell Paul how to
open the sliding door in
the reception area in The
Big Sleaze, and who
knows how to answer the
Rigellian Guards, in
Rigel's Revenge?
Valkyrie 17 seems to be
making a comeback!
After months of silence,
suddenly two mentions in
this month's mail! To help
you with the endgame,
look in the clues section.
Paul Hardy wrote to say
he had become a 'Clever
Contact' in Zzapl Wow!!
The very thought is
enough to blow the mind,
is it not? The rest of Paul's
letter was full of Venom!
He cannot get past Horg,
hasn't found a use for the
berries, and is having
trouble with the snakes
Does the river have to be
crossed, and how? Where
Is the idol? What use is the
thong? What should one
do in Tirlon's room'? How
are the stone watchers
passed? Other than that.
Paul's doing fine!
Who, other than Richard
Hands of Lichfield, has
heard of Mogul's Great
Adventure Pack? Or Four
Gates To Freedom by
Phoenix? Not me I'm
afraid! These are
adventures for the Vic 20
(there are still some
around???) and Richard is
trying to siphon gasoline in
the first, and to complete
the second.
Who can help Andrew
Baranowski get post the
Doberman in Dodgy
Geezers?
And finally a hint from
a good wossname,
normean?
Each month I award one
year's free subscription for
The Adventurers Club Ltd,
worth £12, to the most
deserving Helpline
correspondent. This
month's award goes to
Gregory Quinn, of
Portadown, Northern
Ireland.
Gregory has been
writing regularly for over
two years now, so
regularly that I have
learned to read his writing!
(Just joking, Greg! Ever
thought of getting a
printer ? ) Gregory is a
dedicated adventure
player. who has solved
many games, ranging
from humble cassette
adventures to megaadventures
on disk. And
he has sent many solutions
in, to help other readers.
You too could win a
subscription! But even if
you don't, you'll certainly
get a reply, if you write! So
if YOU are having any
difficulties with an
adventure, can help
someone else who's stuck,
then write to me, Keith
Campbell, at Adventure
Heipline, Computer +
Video Games, Priory
Court, 30/32 Farringdon
Lane, London EC1R 3AU.
the same stable as
S' rAdventure
Probe. is
ASoothsayer.
Edited by
nSandra
Sharkey, and
ocosting t il per issue (UK),
helpline
h with rates for Europe and
the rest of the world, it
e r
concentrates on complete
f solutions, often including
amaps.
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in on adventure
114
zstraighfforward
list of
review? Christopher
commands
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By way of example of h thinks there should be
nthe
contents, issue No. 2 a more t screen shots, even if
e included solutions to: d they show text only. For
f Bugsby Part 2, Castle o example, says Christopher,
r Thade, Star Wreck, Level y
o9's
Colossal Adventure, Thieves, a text shot would
Dragon's Tooth, Karyssia,
o be more important in the
mThe
Lost Crystal, The u long run in helping to
Mural, Rigel's Revenge, l decide whether to buy the
Top Secret, Zork 2 and o game. Any comments?
Valkyrie 17.
o And in that game, who
can help him see in the
k
recently been
dark after he has passed
l i t released by Electronic f over the hot coals?
BArts a for the Atari ST at o Paul Richardson has
rd£24.95.
Fans of this game r been reading the C+VG
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but there's no hidden
clues in the game, so
don't waste time, get your
entries in now. You stand
a chance to win all
Magnetic Scrolls' games
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Many home-grown mail-order-only adventures
have dropped through our letter box since the
Quill, the Graphic Adventure Creator and the
Professional Adventure Writer were released.
This month Keith Campbell takes a look at
three such adventures, and finds out about the
people behind the games.
BENENTH FOLLY
AUTHOR PROFILE
The Faringdon
Fiend
Born of an insatiable desire to
complete The Sorceror of
Clayrnorgue Castle, The Fiend
first rose from his murky cave in
the village of Faringdon in
Oxfordshire, to plague the
C+VG Adventure mailbag with
insults and invective during
1985, when he discovered his
first kitchen cabinet.
Contrary to popular belief,
The Fiend still remains
anonymous even to us here at
C -1- VG. He doesn't tolerate
adventure fools gladly, he eats
them, as readers of his regular
ego-trip column will know. But
do they realise that the
cheque for this series of
diatribes has to be made
payable to The Fiend - and
gets cashed?!
AUTHOR PROFILE
Sandra Sharkey
The Hobbit is the game which
got Sandra Sharkey hooked on
adventure. But since those
days, Sandra has launched a
monthly Adventure fanzine,
Adventure Probe, and kept it
going for nearly two years.
Adventure Probe came
about through Sandra's
dissatisfaction with other
fanzines at the time, which
concentrated far too much for
her liking, on solutions, and
not enough on reviews and
articles of a more general
nature.
Probe, which costs El per
SUPPLIER: THE FIEND
0 MACHINES: SPECTRUM
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0 PRICE: £3.99 (MAIL ORDER)
0 AVAILABLE FROM: THE
FIENDERY, ELM ROAD,
FARINGDON, OXFORDSHIRE
0 REVIEWER: KEITH
The Folly stands atop Folly Hill
in the village of Faringdon in
Oxfordshire. The rock
beneath, legend has it, is
riddled with caves, and therein
dwells - The Fiend!
Many an adventure author
and writer lives in fear of the
self-styled Groper and Public
Nuisance, bane of the local
populace, and bete-noire of
C + VG. Buried deep beneath
The Folly, in his time off from
his demanding occupation of
nuisancing and groping, The
Fiend has been painstakingly
working on his Master Plan -
the enslavement of all
adventurer players in the land.
issue, currently has about 200
subscribers, gleaned mainly
through mentions in adventure
columns in a number of
national monthlies.
SUPPULR: SHARKSOFT
MACHINES: AMSTRAD CPC
0 PRICE: CASSETTE £1.99; DISK
£4.25. (MAIL ORDER)
AVAILABLE FROM: ADVENTURE
PROBE, 78 MERTON ROAD,
HIGHFIELD, WIGAN, WH3 MT.
0 REVIEWER: KEITH
What exactly a 5hymer is, I'm
not sure. According to my
dictionary it is something
unmentionable between a
Shylock and a shyster. So you'll
get no clue as to what the
Beneath Folly is the result, an
adventure game so awesome
in its concept as to make the
faint-hearted quake as it loads.
Here you will find not a feeble
quest, but fiendish problems
so diabolical, as to weary the
strongest of minds.
Finding yourself standing in a
pentagram in a cave of solid
rock, your objective is to
outwit and escape The Fiend.
An obvious door in the east
wall proves nothing more than
the simplest of traps, The
pentagram itself may well
destroy you should you try to
step outside of it.
There IS a way out, of
course, and to help you find it,
a full solution comes with the
game. Ha ha ha ha ha! I had a
copy, too! What sort of
solution would you expect
from a Fiend? Even with its
help, it took me three or four
hours before I was out of that
cave, only to find myself facing
a very wide crack that seemed
to bar any further progress!
And at every attempt to
cross it I was greeted with a
barrage of fiendish abuse.
"Imbecile!" "Idiot!"
To get anywhere, it is
essential to EXAMINE
everything possible, and,
above all, to read what you
see very carefully. It is all too
easy to think you understand
game is all about from the title.
A quick look at the intro
informs you that you play the
part of Shirley Combes,
Sherlock Holmes' private
secretary. Sherlock is away on
a case, when you get a
telephone call. There have
been riots by nursery school
children on the Isle of Nursree,
because all the rhymes are
wrong. They must be put right
to bring peace back to the
schools.
Forget the Sherlock
background (why do so many
adventure publishers go to
such great lengths to build an
impressive background that
has nothing to do with the real
plot?) and take it from me that
what is written on the screen,
without truly understanding it.
This is a graphic adventure
written using The GAC. The
graphics are simple, but only
the simple-minded would
ignore them or dismiss them.
Presented in a flexible
plastic cassette case, the inlay
pictures the menacing
silhouette of The Fiend, the
tower of The Folly standing out
behind him against a moonlit
sky. On the reverse side of the
tape, comes Fiend Music.
DON'T play it through your
computer cassette player, or
you will be disappointed! Put
it on a proper stereo system
with a bit of oomph in it, turn
THE CASE OF THE MIXED up sHylw•1
,
the game is based on nursery
rhymes.
In Shymer you will meet such
characters as Lucy Locket, Kitty
Fisher, Tom Tom, and Mary
Mary. To score
points you have to
make the nursery
rhymes come true.
For example, you'll
come across
Humpty Dumpty
sitting on a wall,
boasting how he
can fall off and
bounce back
again in one
piece.
Personally, the
plot is not my cup
of tea, but if you

the volume up, and THINK
FIEND while you try to outwit
that most feared resident of
Faringdon — Beneath the Folly!!
VOCABULARY
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like the idea, then you should
enjoy the game, for it's compe-
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well.
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RONNIE GOES TO
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AUTHOR PROFILE
Michael White
hooked on adventures
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of Velnor's Lair, obtained
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mail order years ago from
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Brewster's software
company.
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But what got him
into writing adventures was
what e he still regards as his
favourite l adventure — Level 9's
Adventure W Quest.
h Some four years ago Michael
formed i 8th Day Software, now
with some 11 titles behind it.
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the e adventuring public with get rid of the rotten eggs
some g of the very first Quilled thrown when he ventured
adventures, o in a series called onto the balcony!) Ronnie
Games t Without Frontiers. retrieves his toy submarine,
All 8th Day adventures are puts On your surgical truss
sold by mail order from his (enables him to carry more
home. His most recent before objects!) and heads
Ronnie Goes To Hollywood, downstairs for the press
was HRH, with which he conference in the foyer.
attempted to 'go commercial' Unperturbed by the
and market the game through explosion upstairs that blows
distributors. "It was the the top floor of the White
salesman in me, I suppose," House away, he reads his
said Michael.
speech, and leaves to get on
with the job of running the
USA. What's your next move,
Ron?
0 SUPPLIER:8TH DAY SOFTWARE
0 SUPPLIER: ITH DAY SOFTWARE
0 MACHINES: ALL SPECTRUMS
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SOFTWARE, 18 FLAXHILL,
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0 REVIEWER: MTH
You are lying in bed under
thick covers in the master
bedroom of The White House.
The blankets are crocheted
with tiny motifs showing tanks
and aeroplanes ...-
Getting up, Ronnie notices
that there is a limpet mine
attached to his bed better
get out of here in a hurry! But
where are his trousers?
Dressing has its hazards,
since the trousers turn out to
be down the corridor in
Nancy's powder room — a
naked security guard in a
wardrobe hands them over.
Stopping briefly to bath (must
Ronnie Goes To Hollywood
is an adventure in which you,
as Ronnie, act very much along
the lines of your Spitting
Image. The opening sequence
N•w• Nonni•?
is a little confusing to play,
since only when Ronnie is fully
dressed will Nancy present
you with the speech. This
involves having a bath after
you have been out onto the
balcony with your trousers.
This is a graphics adventure,
although there are only
relatively few pictures. in
addition to the pictures, a
novel presentation system is
used to operate the White
House computer terminal.
Overall, here is a highly
amusing adventure, well worth
the £3.99 mail order asking
price.
VOCABULARY 7
0 ATMOSPHERE a
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months). The second finalist to win his way through
is Chris Green of Kent with his graffiti wall — all
72x8 feet of it. Anyone living in the Bexleyheath
area has probably noticed this one already. The
third and last finalist is Stephen Bain of Clacton on
Sea — pretty impressive entry this one, and hand
delivered to the offices.
So, what happens now? Well, Martin Maynard of
Top Ten Software has the unenviable task of
choosing the overall winner — who wins a trip to
New York!
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1Time is running out for
you to cast your votes for
the 1987 Computer &
Video Games Golden
Joystick Awards.
The awards are now in
their fifth year now —
and are beyond question
the best established and
most widely respected
computer awards in the
world. There simply is
nothing that comes near
in America, or the rest of
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What makes Joysticks
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reviewers influence — no
arbitrary panel of judges
— it's just the games you
vote for and nothing else
that will decide the
winners.
This year the awards will be
presented at the Kensington
Roof Gardens in London.
Celebrity presenter will be Chris
Tarrant — former Tis Was host,
general loony, and now
presenter of Capital Radio's
wacky morning radio show.
Everyone who is anyone in the
games business will be at the
awards. And so might you. One
lucky voter and a friend will be
Age
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presentation. You will meet The
C+ VG team, have your
photograph token with Chris
Tarrant, enjoy the slop up meal
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travelling to Joysticks. It is a
day out of a lifetime.
There ore also 10 runner up
prizes of ex-review software. So
Don't Delay, Vote Today.
C+ VG's Golden Joystick
Awards is celebrating its fifth
anniversary. For those of you
still playing with He-Man,
here is a complete history of the
games business top awards
ceremony.

The Computer + Video Games Golden Joystick
Awards celebrate their Fifth Anniversary this year.
Eugene Lacey looks back at five years of awards
and offers you a chance to attend the event of the
year in the computer gaming calendar.
1984: The awards were
Knightlore. Best Original
presented by Dave Lee Travis at Game — Elite - by Acornsoft.
Moretons Club in London's Best Adventure Game -
Berkeley Square. Software
Caymorgue Castle by
House of the Year — Ultimate Adventure International, Best
Game of the Year — Jet Pac
Arcade Style Game — Daley
by Ultimate. Best Arcade Style Thompson's Dcathlon - by
Game — Manic Miner by bug Ocean_ Best Strategy Game -
Byte, Best Strategy Game - Lords of Midnight - by
The Hobbit - Melbourne Beyond.
House. Best Original Game - 1986 sow Joysticks take on a
Ah Diddums - Imagine. nautical flavour as software
1985 heralded the beginning bosses and programmers
of the Jo°Is era. The Tube's very boarded the Elizabethan for a
own Mr Holland was to go on cruise on the Thames. Game of
congratulating the winners for the Year — Way of the
the next three years.
Exploding Fist - by
Software House of the Year Melbourne House. Softwa
was, once again Ultimate. House of the Y
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double for Ultimate with —
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A All smiles as Melbourne's Exploding Fist
deans up in.'86
Computer People. Best
Adventure Game, Red Moon
by Level 9. Best Strategy Game
- Theatre Europe by PSS,
Best Arcade Style Game -
Commando by Elite.
Programmer of the Year Steve
Crow.
1987 5-Ow Joysticks return to
dry land with the event switching
to Cadogan Hall at the Duke of
Yorks Barracks, London. US
Gold picked up Game of the
Year for Gauntlet. Software
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Programmer of the Year -
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Pl3Wil by Rainbird/Magnetic
Scrolls. Strategy Game of the
Year Vietnam by U.S. Gold,
Arcade Game of the Year
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software they deserve!
This month Tony Takoushi takes a look at the
hot new releases on the Sega and Nintendo
and brings you an exclusive review of the
incredible coin-op conversion of Afterburner.
• COMMANDO in sight the enemy soldiers
attack from all sides, they filter
As I promised you last month, i n from the sides, they can be
here is a review of Commando hiding in trenches, be lodged in
on the Nintendo system. The g u n towers high above you,
game packaging says it is a c o m e streaming out of
1 Megabyte cartridge, well I barracks, zoom in on
have played it all the way motorbikes or lorries.
through (a little over seven T h e r e are bullets flying all
hours on and off!) and I am o v e r the place and you HAVE
certain it is not a megabyte, it T O keep moving to stay alive
should read one megabit ( m y kind of game ...), bullets
(128K) as the graphics and disappear after travelling a set
sound are good BUT they are range, so no trailing bullets to
not THAT GOOD. f o l l o w you all the way up the
Commando closely follows screen.
its arcade master with similar T h e terrain is pretty much the
screens, play and thumb s a m e with simple colour
wrenching action. There are chonges as you progress
1 6 sections to conquer, split through the levels. There are
into four sections (with four trees, rivers, bridges — these
messages to be read) each c o n be real dodgy to
with four sub-sections, There is negotiate, so do not be
a two-player option and a nervous — and boulders to
continue to let you carry on n a m e a few. Hostages give
play where you were killed. It extra points and can be found
hos a full attract mode that either above or below ground.
demonstrates the play and a T o get below you have to lob a
neat title screen. f e w grenades around to
Your character, Super Joe, expose ladders you have to
has two basic weapons — a clamber down, once down
rifle (button A) and a limited there ore all sorts of goodies
supply of grenades (button B) just begging to be picked up,
but you can pick up extra b u t watch out for sentries and o
grenades along the way. The sneaky snake.
game starts with you being I f you are feeling brave you
flown into enemy territory by a con earn Colonel's Stripes for
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Transbot is a version of the classic Defender
by Williams. You play on a left to right
scrolling backdrop and have to shoot aliens,
which attack in various inertial patterns. The
scenario has you baffling through a city to
finally reach an underground fortress
where THE BIG ONE happens and you get
to fight it out with Elgramzon.
There are two gauges that need to be
watched, a power gauge which decreases
every time you ore hit by on alien (you lose
a life if it hits zero) and on arm gauge which
counts down every time you fire. You can
arm your ship from a choice of six weapons
by first shooting an arms van that trundles in
every so often on the bottom of the screen.
If you then catch the pod as it leaves you
con choose a weapon from the display. The
six weapons are Normal/Beam/Sword/
Cannon/Diffuse Beam and Two-way fire.
Graphics are pin-sharp and there are
some twisty/tumy attack patterns hidden
away in the higher levels.
0 GRAPHICS 7
0 SOUND 6
0 RATABILITY 6
0 OVERALL 7
• WORLD GRAND PRIX
Along with Hong On, this is the business
when it comes to racing games. There is
plenty of challenge with 12 courses to
choose from, three difficulty levels and an
edit mode that allows you to design your
own tracks,
Presentation is similar to Pole Position,
with dangers that include rood signs and
other drivers. Superb detail on the cars and
backdrops makes it a joy to watch.
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The other motorbike offering
this month is the other arcade
classic Hang On. This is
absolute dynamite. As a
conversion it is sil
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You have three gears and
switch -smooth between them by using
the up and down on the pad —
this con be frustratingly dodgy
to start with as you can change
gear while taking bends
unintentionally. There are five
stages to cover: circuit, seaside,
monument valley, city night
and circuit again. Each stage is
four kilometres long and has to
be completed in the time
specified.
If you hit any road signs or
racers, you lose a life.
Any spore time is carried
forward to the next stage and
you score for bikers passed.
This is a must for anybody
into racing games. Check it out.
GRAPHICS 7
SOUND 7
PLAYABIUTY 8
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of the arcade game in the true
sense of the word. It is not a
true on-the-bike view, instead
Sego has opted for a
diagonally scrolling ZOYJCOn
type approach. Initially I was
disappointed after seeing the
conversion of Enduro Racer. I
figured they could at least
come close on play and
presentation.
Enduro Racer iso ten stage
game with five basic scenes
(country track/ruins/red desert/
marshland and mountain
roads), which are repeated
with a shorter time span to
make up the ten — 60 secs first
time round with 50 secs on
tracks 6-10.
You con enhance your bike
by passing as many cars and
bikes as you can along the
course, these are totted up at
the end of each stage and you
ore placed in the tune up
screen. Here you can choose
from accelerator, handling,
tyres, engine, suspension and
items which decreases your
damage rating.
The ploy is fast and
challenging and the only real
problem, and it is a biggy, is
that your ability to turn left and
right is very sluggish. There is
the ability to pick up better
hondlina nff the tune up screen
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• Afterburner is due out for
the Sego and new barriers are
set to be broken as it should be
a four MEGABIT CARTRIDGE
(that is 500,000 bytes to you!)
Graphically it should be pretty
amazing (see the preview plc
of the Sego cart below).
• Fantasy Zone 2 is a two
megabit cart for the Sego and
should be heading in your
direction next month. Other
Sego gems include Kung Fu,
Zillion 2, SDI and Rescue
Mission, these are scheduled
for release in early 1988
• 5.0.1.
• You have played the arcade
game, bought the Sega
cartridge, listened to the
album, tape or compact disc,
tinkered with the plastic to
AND NOW you con watch
THE VIDEO!! Yes folks you can
now buy videos of your
favourite arcade games, the
first titles covered ore After
Burner, Hong On, Super Hang
On and Enduro Racer (see pic).
• Next month I'll be reviewing
Zaxxen 3-D is due for release
quite soon and I hove seen a
prototype version. You hod
better start polishing those 3-D
glasses as this game rates as
the best 3-D game to date.
I have also got finished
Fantasy Zone 2 (two megabit)
and Kung Fu Kid (one megabit)
carts, reviews to follow soon.
The other prototype carts to
arrive in the UK are Zillion 2,
SDI, Combat and Rescue and
Alien Syndrome.
• 3D Zoxx.
My word you lot are keeping
me busy!
My postman is about to go
on strike because of the
amount of mail you ore
sending me (keep sending it, I
never really liked him
anyway!!) there seems to be a
heavy bias at the moment to
Sega, and despite little
coverage in recent months it
will change! I have had a few
problems getting carts for it but
that has been sorted.
The most popular cart at the
moment seems to be Outrun (I
do not blame you, IT IS HOT),
the top score of over 45 million
is going to take some beating.
Mike Donnelly is confused as
la which system to go for, sorry
Mike it really is a case of horses
for courses, there is not a clear
cut favourite especially as the
new Nintendo stuff is about to
start entering the UK.
Special thanks must go to
Robin for sending me some
JUICY tips, not forgetting the
Wonderboy himself Glenn
Black and MY Kung Fu Master
George Wade.
If you should be having
problems finding Sego carts
then pay your local Woolies/
Smiths/Menzies/Toys R Us/
and Virgin stores a visit.
OK! now for the tips and
there are some real beauts this
month.
SPACE HARRIER - there is o
secret screen hidden in the
sound test port of the game
(see the manual for entry) first
select the UR-7-4-3-7-4-8-1
and this puts you in the secret
screen.
You can also get unlimited
lives on Space Harrier by
pressing xxxxxxxxioac on the
game over screen.
QUARTET — to access the
sound test press pause four
times and press player 1 on the
second player pod while the
title screen comes up (on
power up). You can select
sound through pad 1. To get
wide beam at game start press
the pause button 14 times and
then press *1 on the control
pod on the title screen.
CHOPLIFTER — On the title
screen press up/down/left/
right and press *1 on the
control pad, repeat the process
for the next screen.
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Something wonderful is happening in computer
games. The home versions are appearing.
Suddenly everyone is talking about Sega and
Nintendo and it is not surprising with such top
notch games as Afterburner appearing
This is it.
This is the big one.
Sego's Afterburner is here
for the Sega Master System
and it is driving me MAD!
Do not, I repeat, do not read
the following review or your
life will not be worth living if
your local shop has sold out of
this game, Afterburner is
absolutely brilliant. Sego has
caught the essence, THE
SHEER GUTS, of the arcade
version in a megabit cartridge.
Afterburner, as you probably
know, is the latest mindblowing
arcade flight simulator
to emerge from those
Japanese arcade masters
Sega. You have to take your
enemy fighter through 1 8
battle scenes and land on an
aircraft carrier on completion
of the mission.
The prototype cartridge I
reviewed has a full title screen
with the logo in big letters
shifting off the screen to show
a couple of pics of a fighter in
mid air and a technician giving
the OK for launch. You are
then treated to o full demo of
level one.
On pressing the fire button,
the launch sequence is shown.
The game places your fighter
on the deck of an aircraft
carrier then it slowly
accelerates upwards into the
sky as a voice commands you
to 'Get Ready', as the ship falls
away under you.
The screen changes to a sea
scenario and you ore shown
the stage number (1 -18), lives
left and score. Control is fairly
simple with up/down/left/right
and diagonals. The key to
good Afterbuming is knowing
when to pull up to avoid
missiles, and how to use the
360 degree roll.
You have two weapons to
take out enemy— machine gun
and missiles. Machine gun is
unlimited in supply but missiles
are limited and you can top up
your supply at various points
throughout the game. To fire
the machine gun, you simply
press button two, missiles hove
to lock-on to a target in their
display zone on screen before
launch can occur — timing is
vital.
To complete a level you
have to survive a set time
period, and making it darn
near impossible ore the enemy
fighters which stream in from
all around the screen.
• Swirling, swerving, Afterburner - take your breath away,
kg' id
You con lock these suckers in
your sights and blow 'em away
with some really cool moves
RUT it does take time to master
the key moves.
There are different fighters
and patterns of attack, some
come at you launching homing
missiles which ore hard to
shake off, others come in from
the !eft and right. There is also
a fighter which almost
somersaults at you while firing
and quickly flying up off the
top of the screen.
You lose one of your three
AFTER1
• A night bomber is in your sights - and Takoushi lets him have it
Ik.000•10
No-
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lives if you're hit by a fighter or
its missiles_ The destruction
scene for death by missile is
impressive. It's an exact copy
of the arcade scene where you
plummet down towards the
ground with a plume of smoke
piling out behind before hitting
the ground with an explosion.
The terrain below you varies
between sea, forest, arctic
tundra and desert.
You can make your fighter
do a 360 degree roll with the
whole screen rolling around
you — it is a mind-blowing
• Afterburner one cartridge to give Sego a much needed boost.
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horizon tilt. It is like picking up
your brain and rolling it thru
360 degrees_
I did find a rather large hole
in the play as you could play
through levels one to twelve
simply by holding the joystick in
any of the four diagonals and
missiles and fighters simply
missed you. I assume this will
not be possible in the finished
version!
If you survive the first three
scenes you get to refuel your
fighter and load up with more
missiles, This can be a tricky
manoeuvre as you have to
position the fuel cable from a
tanker plane into your missile
sight and then trigger it. You
also get a hit count and points
summary every three stages, so
the more fighters you take out
the higher your points tally.
At the end of stage six you
get to battle a huge bock-fire
bomber which lobs missiles at
your plane. You have to dodge
and weave away while trying
to take it out_ If you succeed,
you ore given a landing
sequence where a tanker
refuels the fighter and you
zoom off back into the sky
again_
It is very fast to play and
may, at first, prove a little
confusing because of its speed.
The graphics are generally
sharp and smooth although I
must say I was surprised with
the general standard as it is a
• Head to head- as Takoushi yetis "eat photon death"
000 #000
•
500,000 byte cartridge and I
did expect a lot more of the
graphics.
The trouble with producing
home versions of such
graphically stunning arcade
games is that it's almost
impossible to reproduce on
exact copy of the orcade
machine. In many respects
comparisons are worthless.
Nevertheless Sego has done
an excellent job on
Afterburner, it is the first in a
new generation of console
games.
Afterburner couldn't have hit
at a better time for Sega. With
Nintendo blowing their
company trumpet about
having shifted millions more
systems than Sega — the quick
conversion of what is definitely
the coin-op of the moment is
bound to give Sega a boost.
Nintendo are so boastful
about their dominance right
now that they staged a mock
boxing match at a lavish press
do in Los Vegas recently Kid
Nintendo versus the Sego
Cissy. No prizes for guessing
who won — but our guess is
that Afterburner represents a
fair old punch back by Sega.
Don't miss it!
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N. SOUND 7
PlAYABILIrt 9
OVERALL 9
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•Please, please, please,
please, please, please.
please, please could you
NOT put competitions on
a page that has got
something good on the
back (e.g.) reviews
advertisements & others.
This is because I HATE
cutting out competitions
like that. I do not want to
cut the worlds best
computer magazine up to
shreads. Why don't you
put them on a pull-out
page or something?
Spiros Spyrou
London, N9
A DISAPPEARING
ART!
•Whatever happened to
Frame UP. I really liked
that section and hod sent
In several tapes with my
own work. Is it lost forever
or will you be bringing
this section back? It's one
of the main bits of C+VG
where readers can get
really involved.
John Constable,
Suffolk
Editor's reply: Frame Up
is being rested for a
while. But don't worry
you'll be able to join the
frame game again in the
near future.
FRAMED UP
•oK. C+ VG what have
you done with it? No
Frame Up in last month's
issue? What's going on?
I was really upset not to
see it there. It is my
favourite port of the
magazine and the first
page I turn to when my
new issue arrives.
I hope this is not the end
for Frame Up, as this is the
only page in the
magazine where readers
can try their hand a
producing stunning
artwork on the computer. I
am a keen computer
artist myself and have
always thought about
sending a frame into
C+ VG. I have several
ranging from Marilyn
Monroe to sports cars that
are easily as good as
some of the pictures
published in the past.
I feel strongly that
beginners should have
somewhere to show their
efforts. After all, some of
the amazing screen shots
that are now being
published are produced
by people who had to
start somewhere. Anyway,
don't you think C +VG is
going to get really boring
if it is just packed full of
page after page of
reviews? I don't know
what other readers think
but I want more than just
a buyers guide from my
magazine.
Pete Jones,
Birmingham.
Editor's reply: Relax
Peter, Frame Up is just
taking a month off. It'll
be back in April, and
that's a promise.
SEGA SOCCER
SENSATIONS
•1 am writing to tell you
about my favourite soccer
game. I used to be
hooked on International
Soccer which I played on
the Commodore.
My friend Mike and I
used to play it all the
time, he is a West Ham fan
and thus always got beat
(Probably because West
Ham tans know nothing
about football).
I bought a SEGA system
at Christmas and have
found o totally brill'
soccer game. It's called
World Soccer. You boys
don't seem to have found
out about it yeti
If the soccer gets too
boring (If you are playing
a CPR fan) you play
penalties which is good
fun. Also if the game ends
in a draw, due to Hoddle
missing an open goal. it
goes to a penalty shoot
out.
The only problem is that
the game has world sides.
It would be much more
tun to see Arsenal 5 —
Tottenham 0 (a fairly
average result for the
Gunners), than seeing
England beating Japan.
So come on you guys.
get wise, let all the
football fans know about
this game it's the best
thing on the SEGA since
Space Harrier and Rocky.
David Adams
Highbury, London.
IT'S NOT A
CRIME!
•i would like to register
my disagreement with
Caroline Forrest who
wrote into C+VG last
month to complain about
it's A Crime.
I have not played It's A
Crime. I will say that
straight away but neither
has Caroline Forrest
judging from her letter.
What I disagree with is
the statement: "The fact
that this is fantasy rather
than reality does not
make it potentially any
less dangerous."
What absolute
nonsense. "No difference
between fantasy and
reality." It is my opinion
that the inability to make
this distinction is what is
truly dangerous. I have
played many fantasy
games ranging from
dungeon and dragon
type of games to
Napoleonic war games. I
tail to see how this is
going to turn me into
some sort of homicidal
maniac.
There is in tact a strong
opinion that by providing
inclined towards antisocial
behaviour.
Steve Earl
Bradley.
CONSOLE WARS
•Atter a lot of dithering
about whether to trade in
my Spectrum for a Sego
or Nintendo, I finally
made up my mind at
Christmas. Nintendo got
my cash but it was a
close thing. What do you
think will happen with the
video consoles this year
and did I make the right
choice?
John Simmonds,
Wormley,
Herts.
Editor's reply: We think
the Mean Machines will
be really big this year.
Sega probably have the
best games out at the
moment but expect
Nintendo to come out
fighting with some big
titles, including Mike
Tyson's Punch-Out this
spring. Whatever
machine you buy will
provide you with good
entertainment. And as
you've picked the
Nintendo make sure you
get Super Mario Brothers.
It's brill.
WHAT A FREAK!
•1 am a 16-year-old
computer enthusiast. I
talk, sleep. live and
breath computers. I have
no interest in anything
unless it involves a micro
chip.
On average I spend at
least five hours every
evening glued to the
computer monitor playing
the latest games. Outrun
is my current lave
although I must admit I
was dissapointed with it.
My mum and dad think
It's a unhealthy way for a
young lad to spend all his
spare time playing games
and my friends call me a
a form of escape or f r e a k because I don't go
relaxation that this type of out, date girls, go to the
hobby makes you less pictures or Indulge in

socially unacceptable
behaviour in bus shelters
or telephone kiosks.
I think I'm all right and
completely normal. What
do you lot at C+VG think?
Please don't print my
name or address in case
my friends or family
happen to read It.
Anonymous,
Somewhere in the United
Kingdom.
Editor's reply: Well
Johnny Williams, of 432,
The Lane, Lower Pudsey,
the vote goes against
you. We all think you're
a bit of a treak and a
complete waste of
space. Keep buying the
mag, though.
GREAT GOLDEN
JOYSTICK FIX!
•So. it's that time of the
year again! What am I
talking about? The
Golden Joysticks Awards.
Hal More like the great
Golden Joystick Fix!! Have
any other readers noticed
that year offer year the
some companies appear
in the roil of honour. Are
the companies that pay
you the most — or is It to
make sure you get their
adverts for the next year?
you say it's us, the
readers, who decide who
wins, well if that's the case
how come you don't have
any readers representing
the magazine at the
"prestigious" ceremony?
Another thing — you
have not changed the
categories in all the
year's that you've been
running it. Shouldn't you
take into account the 16
bit market. What about
consoles? You could even
have a category for 'best
overall category'. Why
don't you ask us round
about autumn and we
could give you a few
suggestions.
One final point. Do you
think that we really
believe that you judge
each and every entry
form?
Simon Gall,
Worthing.
Editors reply: Point one,
the awards are not fixed.
All your votes count. You
make some good points
about new categories
and we'll be thinking
about those for next
year. We do, in fact, add
up ail the votes — twice
to make sure everything
is correct.
HIGH SCORE
PORKIES
•i just want to say that
the Arcade Action
supplement on the front
cover of last month's issue
was totally brilliant.
I couldn't believe some
of those high scores
though. I myself am a
pretty mean Alien
Syndrome player —
having spent easily
E10-E20 on the game over
the last few weeks. Its got
so that I have to take a
different bus home on the
way back from my
Saturday job — or I arrive
home penniless. Getting
back to those scores
though — just how did
'EGG' of Portsmouth clock
up 775,500 on Allen
Syndrome. That's a good
200.000 better than my
best score — and I am the
best player I know in our
local arcade. My high
score has never been
wiped to my knowledge_
If EGG really does exist
and really has clocked
up this mega-score I'd
love to know how he did
It,
How about sending in
some tips, EGG? It would
be helping out a fellow
Alien Syndrome nut.
George Kanopolus
Crystal Rooms
London.
PS. Any news on an Alien
Syndrome for the 64 yet?
Editor's reply: Good and
bad news George. yes
Allen Syndrome will be
appearing later this year
on the Edge label but I
am afraid we have been
unable to contact the
mysterious EGG. Your
letter is our last hope.
YUK AND POOH
•Alright C+ VG, you've
gone too far this time. First
of all you knock sexy,
beautiful, intelligent
Melissa on the head
without so much as a bye
or leave.
As if that was not enough
— and just as I am getting
used to life without
Melissa what confronts me
in the February issue of
C+ VG — but the ugliest
slimy pair of deformed
aliens ever dreamt of. I
mean they have
absolutely no endearing
features. Shuk looks like
some sort of geriatric
Elephant Man from planet
Godknowswot and as for
Doode — well — car lights
with a punk hair style.
I could have put up with
the ugliness of the pair if it
had at least have been a
good story. So for ail we
are told is that Shuk and
Doode are somehow
spirited into the world by
some idiot casting a spell
by mistake one night In a
flat in Finch ley. If either of
the authors had ever
been to Finchley they
would know that about
the most exciting thing
that ever happens there is
the changing of the traffic
lights. OK. the bit where
they fall onto a VW Golf
and crush it was OK —
especially when Shuk
pinned the car badge
trendily on his chest. But
how comes they crushed
the motor, What are they
made of? Lead.
Sorry C+ VG — this strip
is not for me, Shuk and
Doode or Yuk and Pooh, I
know what I think.
John Peters,
Finchley, London.
Editor's reply: I'd make
sure your windows and
doors are locked at
nights if I were you,
John.
CRAPPY
COUPONS
Si am writing to complain
about the layout of your
magazine dated Feb* 88.
Specifi cally about the two
competitions, one on
page 89, the other on
page 90.
How were we readers
supposed to enter both
competitions, when after
cutting out the coupon on
page 89, you would have
left yourself with only half
a coupon on page 90.
Fortunately I noticed that
this would occur, before I
started cutting.
I then decided to just
write the necessary details
needed for the Pirate
competition on a postcard,
thus enabling me to
use the coupon on page
90.
But to till In this coupon
it appears that we oil
need to own a white
Inked biro, because of the
intelligently coloured
background for the page.
This same sort of problem
also occurs during your
many featurestadicles,
when on a red
background you place
orange or green lettering,
making it difficult to read.
Well anyway, keep up
the good mag, (apart
from the layout), it's great
value for a El, as the
specialist magazine for
my computer has upped
its price to E1.25 but still
only averages around 63
pages per issue, on that
topic how about more
reviews for Electron/BBC
games.
Paul Shand
Consett
Co. Durham
Editor's reply: Er, it was
an intelligence test. You
passed, Paul. Well done.
CARTOON
CHAOS
•Hurrah, the bugs are
dead atlas?! Even
Melissa's gone,
kidnapped by Shuk and
Doode, the exciting new
charactes in C-o-VG. Mind
you, I pity them stuck with
that old bag. The tired old
hasbeen will probably
bore them to death
talking about nothing but
pokes, etc. Maybe they
are forcing her to have a
well needed face litt
The new strip is brilliant,
At last an eighties cartoon
strip from a new artist who
can draw, and write a
decent story.
Garry Bottomly
rottenham
P.S. I think Spurs are
brilliant
Editor's reply: Who are
Spurs?

How "mature" are you? "For mature
readers" is a label seen more and more
often nowadays on American comicbooks.
It's a reaction by the comic
publishers to a fear that some of their
stronger material (sex, violence, bad
language and other sure-fire sales
gimmicks) will come under the scrutiny
of the self-appointed moral crusaders
miming rampage in America today.
Some comic companies, it seems,
have panicked at the idea of their
comics being censored, and so have
tried to introduce their own system of
advisory "ratings". Hence "for mature
readers", the comic-book equivalent of
an X-certificate (though you're not
likely to see it on the X-Men!).
Not everybody in the comics business
is quite so convinced about the need for
a ratings system to stop adult material
getting into childish hands. For
instance, when DC announced that its
books would carry advisory ratings,
four of the best-known names in comics
replied that in that case they wouldn't
be doing any more new work for DC.
The four were Frank Miller, Alan
Moore, Howard Chaykin (see last
month's C+VG) and Mary Wolfman;
DC subsequently backed down.
It's a stupid argument, of course.
Everyone's got their own standards as
to what's acceptable and what isn't.
And you might well ask, who are they to
tell me what I can and can't read?
Red herring or not, though, it's a
reminder that you're never too old for
comics— or, put it another way, there's
more to comics than just superheroes.
As I've said before in this column,
comics is a medium where you can tell
any kind of story for any kind of
audience. That fact is gradually sinking
in - with both publishers and the
reading public.
Not that there's anything wrong with
the ideas of superheroes— and there's
some wonderful work being done there
right now. But there's also some
genuinely "mature" ("for mature
readers", remember?) non-superhero
storytelling going on.
For instance, you'll find "adult"
themes and artistic sophistication in
these:
• Love & Rockets (book one, f.5.95,
published by Titan Books; book two out
soon). I must immediately declare a
prejudice: I think this book is a
masterpiece. It's the work of Jaime
Hernandez who, along with brothers
Gilbert and Mario, produces a
128
wonderful comic magazine called Love
& Rockets, from which the stories in
this volume are reprinted.
It's described by the publishers as
"The hilarious adventures of Maggie,
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the perils of post-punk romance. Dark
glasses, cars, dieting, lady wrestling,
mechanics, sex, rockets, heartaches,
rock and roll and happiness in the
nuclear age."
If you're still reading after that, and
haven't yet dashed out to procure a
copy, let me add that Jaime Hernandez
masterfully blends earthily realistic
dialogue with economic but irresistable
drawings to create a cast of characters
you can't help but care about — Maggie
and Hopey in particular. As you
progress through the book you find
yourself sharing their mundane day-today
concerns while feeling slightly
disorientated by some of the
background details — the existence of
dinosaurs in their world, for instance,
and Maggie's expertise as, of all things,
a rocket engineer.
Reading this back, I suspect that I've
failed to convey the flavour of Love &
Rockets in the slightest. So you'll just
have to accept my recommendation:
buy this book or be seriously
unfulfilled.
• Heartbreak Soup (Titan Books,
1 L.5.95). In a way, this is a companion
volume to Love & Rockets — it's
reprinted from the same magazine and
is entirely the work of another
Hernandez brother, Gilbert. (The two
books are attractively designed by Rian
Hughes to look like a uniform edition.)
Gilbert's work sits neatly alongside
Jaime's, but on closer examination it is
a more complex blend. The ubiquitous
Alan Moore remarks in the
introduction that the influences of both
Japanese and European comics are
visible here. And the subject matter is
far more relentlessly "normal" than
Jaime's semi-fantasy world. It might
seem strange to speak of life in an
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"normal" (unless that happens to be
where you live, otcourse), but that's
the effect of Gilbert's technique. By
writing, as it were, in a dull monotone
he makes us accept his funny-looking
cartoony characters as absolutely real.

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to shock. Yes, C I-VG's very
own Mr T— Tony Takoushi —
is back to rant and rave
about computer games. Love
or hate him, lust read him.
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and unless you are
familiar with the
Nemesis games you
will find this hard
going.
It is a very polished
game with a full
attract mode giving
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piccies and jazzy
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each playing
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what takes this game these out by shooting
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there is always a
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needed every minute your way through a
or so. The terrain and mass of bullet spitting
aliens attack every boulders into a cavern
which way and you are which in turn leads to a
constantly reassessing misty blue bottle-neck
your movements. tunnel.
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Once thtough here
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sabre like blades to
contend with. These
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bottom of the screen,
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you have to position
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A Salamander is a fast furious blast 'em.
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scroll with snake like
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patterns of aliens
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sided planet with wide
beam lasers firing up
at you.
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