Computer + Video Games - Commodore Is Awesome

• You can't keep a good classic
down ...and classics don't come
much better than Donkey
Kong. Here's Oceans Amstrad
version of one of the first platform
and ladders game to hit the
arcades. It should be out in
December on the Spectrum
(C7.95), Amstrad and C64 (C8.95)
• You've heard of "splatter'
movies — now here's a "splatter"
computer game. Blood n' Guts
is described by American
Action as "an ancient barbarian
decathlon with all the violence and
brutality you've ever dreamed
about in a computer game." Have
you ever dreamed about a violent
computer game? I haven't. Still
here's a pretty picture of the game
which should be out soon on the
64 at regular prices £9.95 tape/
E 1 4.95 disc.
• The long-awaited Atari 7800
video games machine had the
wraps taken off it at the Atari
Christmas Show held at the New
Horticultural Hall, Westminster,
London, recently. There are high
hopes that it could revitalise the
video game market_
The 7800 plays all 2600
cartridges and should sell for
around £70 with games selling for
between El 0 and E 1 5.
Titles due ore One-on-One,
Skylok Touchdown, Football
Choplifter, Summer and Winter
Gomes, Impossible Mission, Super
3
Huey and Rescue on Fractolus The
show was organised by Database
Exhibitions.
Altogether more than 100
stands were loaded with new
products from the leading Atari
suppliers.
Big names include Software
Express, CDS, Twillstar, Microdeal
and Advanced Systems Techniques
as well as Atari.
The First Atari Show last March
attracted 15,000 visitors.
The next Atari Show — again
organised by Database will be
held at the Novatel in
Hammersmith from February 26 to
28.
• Here's the game all Fairlight
fans have been waiting for. Yup, it's
Fairlight II from the
programmer with the funny name
— Bo Jangeborg. Imagine
Fairlight doubled in size with o
wider variety of graphics and
you've got this sequel in one. It
comes in two parts ond Th• Edge
soy its tougher than the original.
Watch out for the mysterious
female who wanders around this
new arcade adventure. She's
important. Out now on the
Spectrum.
• How does the possibility of
winning up to E50,000 grab you?
That's the sort of money being
talked obout a new name in the
software world, Vonsoft.
The money will go to the first
person to answer a simple question
about the gameplay of its first
release, The Great &LENA.
Challenge, a graphic odventure
on the Amstrad, spectrum and
Commodore.
The prize will be made up of
El 0,000 plus, for every unit of the
game Vonsoffs sells, the company
will odd 50p to that total. lf, as
Vonsoft rather confidently predicts.
the game sells around 80,000, it
could take the prize to £50,000
.Vonsoft director Trevor
Downie says the offer is genuine.
The game, which will be
released on the 31st January, will
be sold via mail order and cost
E4.95 on tape and £7.95 on disk.
• Many of you sharp-eyed
programmers hove noticed a error
in our November listing,
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counter and made my way to
umber five for a much
d Ten-Pin Bowling session.
e only things missing in the
Access sports sim' are the
oes and the personal
ng balls. As you will probably
eve realised this month's offering
is a Ten-Pin Bowling game. 10th
Frame, from Access software in
a USA.
The Access team have really
med a reputation for quality
ri simulations and this in NO
xception to the rule.
It runs on the Commodore 64
ons will
Harriers Last Bath by Roy
Turner. It does not affect the
running of the game and concerns
the duplication of line 4057. The
text should be removed and
replaced by: Let E$–"He has the
quiet manner of a gentleman but
his clothes hove seen better days.
Very serious and deliberate in
speech and actions,": Return
It's also own up time. We forgot
to soy it was a Spectrum listing.
Sorry all you Amstrad and
Commodore owners.
Meanwhile, calling Ian David
Hogg, of Ulverston, Cumbno. Roy
Turner received your order of the
tape but you forgot to include your
full address. Please get in touch
with him.
• The Annals of Rome is a PSS
strotegy game based on the rise
and fall of the Roman Empire.
Starting in the year 273 BC, the
date by which the Roman Republic
hod gained control of Italy, your
follow for the Speccy and Amstrad.
As yet no firm release date has
been set for the UK.
On loading you ore given a
VERY tasty hi-res picture of a
bowling ball ond pin ond then led
into the game with options to
choose.
The first option is League or
Open bowling. This allows either
individual play or team efforts of
up to eight players a side. You then
enter your name and choose a skill
level (Kids/Amateur/Pro) and the
number of games (1-5)-
On with the gamel,You ore
presented with a near bird's eye
view of the player facing the
bowling alley stretching up the
screen the pins are put into place
automatically.
By pressing the loystick up you
con then flip control to a cursor to
show any rolling bias in the
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