ZZAP!64 - Issue 2 - June 1985

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A Herbert f j ST EVER MULTI-ROLE ARCADE ADVENTURE Includes Hit Single on reverse “Everyone’s A Wally” performed by Mike Berry Spectrum 48K £9.95 Commodore 64 £9.95 Available shortly on Amstrad CPC 464 44 The Broadway, Bracknell, Berks. 0344 427317
CHALLENGE SCALPED! Rotten Rignall slays the Warwicks challenger Terrible news, games-players, terrible, woeful news. Despite my most careful efforts, my cunning, dastardly plans, the appalling Zzap upstart Julian Rignall is still Britain's 64 games-playing champion. I had hoped for different. I, the Scorelord, the greatest games authority in the universe, had hoped to have him overthrown. Ever since the first issue of the Zzap journal hit the streets, I had been scouring the sacks of mail delivered to my command module in search of a suitable challenger. In the person of Andrew Clarke, from Atherstone town in the planet of Warwickshire, I thought I had found him. Here was a joystick handler of class. Impressive high scores on Raid Over Moscow and Spy v Spy. The supplier of expert playing tips on both these games and also on Bruce Lee. Surely he could defeat the rancid Rignall. A brilliant idea occurred to me. Let us hold the challenge not on just one game, but on' three?! Surely, by choosing games young Clarke was proficient at, and two of which were, I knew, fairly unfamiliar to Rignall, I could ensure that the champion was disposed of. Alas, dear games-player, I can hardly bring myself to recount what followed. But tell it I must. Read it carefully. Absorb the details. And LEARN. Discover the champion's weaknesses, the chinks in his armour. He can, he MUST be beaten soon... THE FIRST BLOW: Raid Over Moscow This politically controversial, graphically exciting game from US Gold provides the first part of the contest. It features the American response to a Soviet nuclear strike against US cities - the idea is to try to take out the three launch sites followed by a nuclear reactor in the Kremlin. • As the players settle down two launches are made from sites on a map of the northern hemisphere and as the time to impact starts to tick down both players swing into action. They each have nine fighter craft in an orbiting space station and their first problem is to get FIVE planes out. They need five because in the next stage there are terrific opportunities for high scoring at the end of which you are awarded with up to four more planes. Thus the tactic is to deliberately crash three or (but this is risky) four planes at the end of high-scoring bombing runs and reclaim them all with the fifth. • This 18-year-oid is tough, fast, cunning and dangerous. But not enough. The evil Zzap champ got the better of him in a three-game thriller. Farewell Andrew Clarke. Rest in peace. • Both players successfully launch five craft and guide one to the first Soviet iaunch site on the map. The screen changes to a scrolling view a Zaxxon type landscape where missiles, tanks, buildings and installations are blasted while trying to avoid crashing into various obstacles. • Clarke successfully makes four attack runs, crashing three planes before moving onto the next stage. The champion, fresh from a rushed training course by Zzap Raid expert Gar y Penn, is taking more risks though and deliberately crashes four planes. Then - HA! - he accidentally crashes the fifth and has to return to the hangar for another, losing valuable time. My hopes rise dramatically! His excellent score of 50,100 masks the dire trouble that he is now in. • Things are going from bad to worse for Rignall as he crashes his sixth plane on the
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