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It's the gameshow to end them all.
Forget Leslie Crowther and The
Price Is Right, this is big time. The
biggest social class in the world is
the TV addict - mindless vegetables
with an insatiable desire for game
shows, couch potatoes with an increasing
lust for ever more extreme
television. Violence is the name of
the game and the masses just love it.
In the ratings war that ensues, TV
companies come up with ever more
shocking themes for their shows.
When the biggest TV corporation
throws caution to the wind and
comes up with Smash TV, the war is
over and the audience is won. Smash
TV is a smash. The TV show sees
either one or two competitors in a
fight for their lives, with cash and
goodie prizes for the victorious. All
the losers get is dead. And forgotten.
Probably the shoot lem
up of the Nineties,
Smash TV caused real
waves when it turned up
In the arcades. Smart
graphics, great sound
and oodles of violence
brought the Robotron
legend to a whole new
411111ep I S generation. This conversion
was eagerly awaited and there as
tension in the air when we plugged in the
cart - and discovered it was near enough
arcade perfect! The game relies on one
thing - speed - and this version has more
of that than most people can cope withl
The sheer number of baddies on screen
will have you filling your pants with mortal
dread as they head towards you, guns
blazing. Gameplay is really simple. but it
works a treat: lust blast everything and
stay alive! Graphically the game is excellent:
nice backdrops. brilliant animation
and colourful sprites all round while the
end of level baddies are huge and very
Impressive. Music is racy and driving, but
the sound deserves some sort of medal.
Sampled explosions shake your monitor
and there's speech ahoy as the game show
host gives his commentary. Along with
Mario and Super Ghouls and Ghosts, this
is an essential purchase for Super Nintendo
owners.
FRANK O'CONNOR
LOVELY, MARVELLOUS,
SMASHIN1•1•• "
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Smash TV is nothing like the game shows we know and loathe
Oh no. There's no throwing darts, no general knowledge and no
word puzzles. This is death and violence from start to finish.
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L I Into a maze of arenas and the game show host throws everything
he has at them. Thugs armed with clubs, mutants with ma-
A chine guns and electrified robots are just a few of the psychotic
1 r t killers that await our heroes. AR they have to do is shoot the
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be won
Cash
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prizes, holidays,
the boys
can survive long enough to enjoy them. Help comes along
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every now and then in the form of extra weapons which hot up
'MT i the carnage for a short period of time. If you get far enough,
n you'll meet some ol the show's larger celebrities and could
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