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Zaxxon stage and then<br />
another trying to get out of the<br />
hangar! The champion is sweating<br />
hard now, with only two<br />
planes left and very little time<br />
before the missiles impact on<br />
New York. The seconds tick<br />
away and the Big Apple is rocked<br />
to the Core by a massive<br />
explosion. The champion is<br />
rocked by the 50,000 lost points<br />
leaving him on 3,500 and in<br />
deep trouble. I can hardly contain<br />
my glee! !<br />
# Clarke meanwhile is tackling<br />
the next stage on his first<br />
launch site. These are the five<br />
missile-launching silos on<br />
screen: the main one when<br />
blown up will destroy the missiles<br />
in flight. The silos, at the<br />
top of the screen, have slits in<br />
them through which to shoot<br />
and the players usually eliminate<br />
the four minor silos and<br />
then continually blast a fighter<br />
plane which appears at the left<br />
hand edge of the screen to build<br />
up the score. With 20-30<br />
seconds left to impact of the<br />
missiles they go for the main<br />
silo slit and destroy the whole<br />
launch site.<br />
# Clarke successfully takes out<br />
the silos and blasts many a<br />
fighter plane and then eliminates<br />
the launch site, taking his<br />
score to 49,700. He's now well<br />
ahead but has no idea of the<br />
trouble the champion is in (except<br />
for the odd expletive). I fear<br />
he is still feeling the pressure.<br />
# The champ, who still has all<br />
three sites to take out only two<br />
planes left! He only launches<br />
one in response to a new missile<br />
strike but crashes - he has<br />
only 13,100 on the score! Only<br />
chortle quietly.<br />
one plane left!! I<br />
Rignall sweats. It's now or never<br />
as he emerges from the hangar<br />
and heads for the site.<br />
Dodging, weaving and blasting,<br />
the blood pounding through his<br />
temples, he makes his progress.<br />
He's still alive. My heart sinks.<br />
SICKNESS! He makes it to the<br />
silos and with an enormous,<br />
nauseating sigh of relief reclaims<br />
a buffer of four new<br />
planes.<br />
# Unaware of this drama, the<br />
challenger makes his own mistakes<br />
on the second launch site<br />
and crashes one plane in the<br />
hangar. His score suffers a<br />
further dent as accidentally he<br />
gets his first plane through to<br />
the silos and misses out on<br />
three valuable point scoring<br />
runs. WALLY! Oh why did I<br />
select this incompetent?! A<br />
score of 80,000 still looks good<br />
at this stage though. I not<br />
without hope.<br />
# Clarke is well ahead of Rignall<br />
CHALLENGE<br />
and tackles the next stage, the<br />
KREMLIN, as the champ begins<br />
his third launch site attack. The<br />
approach to the Kremlin is the<br />
same as the one to the launch<br />
sites and once there, the Kremlin<br />
appears on screen. It is<br />
guarded on either side by<br />
guards on high walls and a tank<br />
in front of it. You are equipped<br />
with a single shot bazooka and<br />
have to take out all eight soldiers<br />
and the tank (who reappear<br />
after a time). You also have<br />
to shoot five doors at the front<br />
of the building, one of which<br />
hides the reactor room.<br />
# The challenger loses one life<br />
on the approach and as he takes<br />
out the guards, tank, doors and<br />
Kremlin towers he loses<br />
another three to their rifle fire.<br />
The screen finally falls quiet and<br />
in the hush he moves into the<br />
reactor room.<br />
• The challenger dispatches<br />
both robots with consummate<br />
ease and collects a hefty bonus<br />
as his remaining pilots escape<br />
the exploding reactor. With an<br />
impressive score of 231,900 he<br />
sits back and waits for the<br />
champion to finish.<br />
# Rignall, now totally wrapped<br />
up in the action, crashes the<br />
standard four planes on the<br />
runup to his third launch site.<br />
With repeated shooting of the<br />
plane at the silos he achieves<br />
151,000 as the site blows up.<br />
# With his ships total restored<br />
to nine the evil, cunning champ<br />
goes for broke on the approach<br />
to Moscow. Although unaware<br />
of the challenger's final score<br />
he risks everything on building<br />
up enough points with repeated<br />
runs at the approach. He<br />
crashes plane after plane as his<br />
score counter rattles away. My<br />
heart pounds. Surely he's risking<br />
too much. But no, disaster!<br />
He successfully takes his ninth<br />
and last pilot to the Kremlin.<br />
# Here death comes quickly<br />
with a bullet through the chest<br />
but Rignall's gamble has paid<br />
off. A score of 259,400, his personal<br />
highest, had secured vic-<br />
My only hope was that he<br />
tory! !<br />
had paid a high price in nerves<br />
and stamina.<br />
THE<br />
DEATH-BLOW:<br />
Bruce Lee<br />
The deciding game is filled with<br />
tension, both players fearing<br />
the others' ability. Rignall, I fear,<br />
is an old hand at this game, but<br />
Clarke has pushed him close so<br />
far and could produce an upset.<br />
# The game has you in the role<br />
of Bruce Lee, martial arts master,<br />
who must penetrate the<br />
14 <strong>ZZAP</strong>! <strong>64</strong> <strong>June</strong> <strong>1985</strong>
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