houses among the pirates? What industry. a n d it is iust superb! occasionally got the can he mean I hear you cry? But many people (journalises?) It has a high-res title screen, a 1 /2 player W hen urge I to was slip a on lad my I It comes in two forms. Ripping have abused this service and option and the locility to continue where Gran's wooden leg, cover my eye off arcade designs. And using taken pre-release software and you left off On game over —Inn useful to with a patch and hop around hacked software (utilities and released in onto the hacker practice those high levels. mindlessly, shouting "Ooh, Arr, games) for release in the UK. network. Nemesis is very, very close to the arcade Jim lad!" This usually took place How many times have you This is wrong_ It is an abuse of original. You pilot a Defender type craft after watching Treasure <strong>Is</strong>land seen games that are coin-op privilege end position. through space destroying enemy bases and on TV. clones under another name? Software houses have finally picking up extra firepower and shields. Look at Punch Outi seen the light — why did it take Ws a horizontally scrolling game and 0cmm= P4; WWW1cm, Frank Bruno's Boxing them es) long? — and are your ship tracks around the screen f or Who Dares W beginning to number review pumping out bulets and picking up special "slestes•-• ° ins! Commando. copies they issue. pods. My last observation Commercial pirates are those Pods only matetiolise when you shoot is based on personal beastly, faceless people who are certain groups of aliens or red coloured experience. Two ripping off the genuine article to attackers. leading software make a quick profit. They are The special pods you pick up move a serl companies in the UK the REAL threat to the industry counter across the bottom of the screen e asked me to pass on and hopefully most of them will showing which weapon is twailable for • Nti Pirated copies of be caught and prosecuted_ addition to your craft. There ore six to 1 ts games to be mastered A new type of commercial choose from— speed-up/missileidouble- 1 • I l for sale. piracy has emerged recently. laser/option and mystery. 1 '1:1=3211Elloccmn s e k This was because Copies of games sent to To choose your weapon you simply press 1 • e, s 0 j i the copies supplied to European distributors have N or M on the keyboard when the cursor is • . e • • : • Today the us, has gone and them were still protected by the surfaced on the hacker • my acting l l days are over."Beeides companies that had written network. 30.511;70 • -• . 3 -. 1.4200 • • • I had eto stop, my Gran didn't them. Perhaps software • • h a v e a s leg to stand on But Then I bet most of you lot out houses should get ••••• • • • • • • piracy r still rears its ugly head in there indulge in illegal copying. their distribution ▪ s thessomputer • industry. - s% I can understand you do it but as • channels checked ePt , 1 a whole it can't be justified. before they cry wolf ' IIIP about piracy and the damaging OK. games are expensive and about piracyin the 'effects it is having on the games pocket money can only go so far. UK. . world. But just who ARE these You may not even think of it as It's a crazy, mixed A • . •IP f pirates? piracy. But it. IS. up world that seems to g • h e y fall into four categories You may be cheating the make less sense every I . • t 1 • • • 0.0 e ege — school kida, Hackers who do it industry now, but you end up day . . , L for fun, Commercial pirates who paying for it in the end. <strong>Games</strong> If YOU feel that 1=1 “if , • a • do it for money — and software will be less imaginative and piracy, in whatever • there won't be so many of them. form, can be justified or should over the chosen / box. t a Surprised that I rank software Buy an original and you set all be hammered, drop me a line at • The aliens and • gameplay include the likes e m the instructions and C + VG. I want to hear from of rolling balls, moving gun turrets, alien l u the guarantee of a YOU, bases, vokanoes spewing out boulders, . • - • a•PA,.. y s (generally!) reliable REMEMBER: The games homing bulets,Smart Pods. The end of a , 1 0 C 3 tape or disc. industry needs you wave is signified by the Mother Ship w e Hackers take On the tare occasion I Odom, belay a appearing, You have to destroy it to start e s software that is -de • home micro game for fun I Invariably the next kvel. h t available and dump it choose a Kasen cartridge on my MSX I only hove one criticism of this game. The a h ' to disk for ease of computer. scrolling is very jerky. But the game is so v e • 4 storage and access. That really is an accolade seeing that I've pod that you gatiokily absorbed and the • They do isel make e m got lust about every game possible jerky scrolling just doesn't matter ' money ourof it. They available to me at home. Not forgetting the rm sure the CM, Spedrum or butted h s do it, for fun and a six coin-opsi (Stop boestingi —Ect! versions wiil rge be as good as this version e e challenge. One of the latest °flesh, from Konanti is (— bar the scroNing). II you are the lucky a l These people are not 1==111=11==1 Nemesis, a faithful copy tithe arcade owner of kiSX machine buy this game. r v damaging the otiginal. It is a 128K ROM game iyes 1281K1 Ws what great gameplay is all about... ;•••••• d e 0 a s l . o I . • , • •1 •11 •••
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