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The Games Consoles are finally getting the
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
helicopter (this is a real biggie killing on enemy Colonel in on
and takes up about a third of underground bunker
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the battle commences. You s o m e to a lieutenant.
hove to run up a vertically T h i s is a very fast game and
scrolling screen shooting and n o t for those with a delicate
bombing just about everything disposition.
• Capcom's Commando makes a successful move to the Nintendo.
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• TRANSBOT
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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