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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?