Computer + Video Games - Commodore Is Awesome

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claiming that their
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word was to be
'innovation'.
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of this claim that the
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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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pelcucci
• 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
/ OGeJA • „,
• 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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• CRL is determined • to
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keep death ON the road
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with the release of Road
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Warrior next month. M
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The game plan sounds P a
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bit like Death Wish on .
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wheels. You play the M port of
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a knight of the highway l on a
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mission to clean the punks,
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thugs and other undesirables
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who infest your part of the
world. There ore various
weapons to collect en route.
This screen shot is from the
Commodore 64_
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• Okay, it's apology time. In
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
1by
the man behind
Barbarian — the
1Ultimate
Warrior Steve
1Brown,
is now set for a mid-
March release by Palace
Software. m
o It's a shoot 'em up set
against
n
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. .,
Meanwhile, Steve and his
team ore working on
Barbarian