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hot news on the comics front again.
Philip Morton reports.
Swamp Thing saga continues W i t h a new volume

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every couple of months, Titan Books' ambitious
reprinting of the complete Alan Moore Swamp Thing
stories has reached volume four.
This particular one is my favourite so far, mainly
because of the sheer variety of story and art it offers.

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From the whimsical " Pog" (a tribute to the late Walt
Kelly and his syndicated comic strip Pogo), via the
almost erotic 'Rite of Spring'to the
just-plain-horrorfying'NukefacePapers', it is, as

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again!) of the book that Bryan Talbot had been itching
to
t tell this story since he completed volume one in 1982.
What makes the wait worthwhile is that not only has the
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comic-reading public caught up with him, but so has his
s technique. The last couple of years spent churning
own
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out
sharpened
b both his drawing and his drawing and his
storytelling.
v "Mature readers" (see C +VG, March 88)
should
i seek out a copy. (Valkyrie Press, £4.95)
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through this sentence this far, highly recommended. adornment to any bookshelf, etc, etc. Nor is Giraud's
Nice introduction by Neil Gaiman, too. (Titan Books, m
technique in question. But I'm no longer convinced, as I
C6.50). was
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The return of Luther Arkwright f o r real, this time..."Is appeared,
h that now is the time for Moebius to take the
the world finally ready for Luther Arkwright?" I asked, world
e by storm. And why?
rather foolishly last October. The world may have s I suppose it all comes down to this: in his ideals, in the
been, but this time Arkwright himself wasn't ready. The childlike innocence of some of his characters, and in the
promised volume two of Bryan Talbot's Adventures of h
sheer e r c os mic ity of his stories, he comes across as
Luther Arkwright didn't materialise. e
no more than a glorified - and sometimes self-glorified
In fact, the delay in publication has probably helped e- old hippy, and as anyone with an ounce of cool will
drum up a larger readership for the new book, as - tell
r you, the next hippy revival isn't due until 1990 at the
meanwhile - four issues of the beautifully packaged earliest.
i
comic-book serialising the first volume hove appeared. I'm being churlish, of course. Moebius 5 is a fine
n
And now that book two is with us, I have to say it's addition to the series, containing as it does the further
been worth the wait. Inside the bizarre and beautiful t
adventures of Stel and Atan from volume one, and
cover you'll find the now obligatory introduction by e
especially now that Titan in the UK are co-publishing
Alan Moore, exquisitely detailed rendering (the nwith Epic in the US. This arrangement brings down the
world's first pebble-dashed comic-book?), the most sprice of a copy by about a pound, to E5.95.
intense death/rebirth sequence I've seen (and at my age i In any case, if you've bought the other four, this one is
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programming, you may find that each one of which consists of
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Magnetron, the new title from M a g n e t r o n has a peculiar the repair drold KLP-2, bless his
the Graftgold team of Andrew hi s t or y . It's a follow-up to Steve little metal socks, whose job is to
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original 2-0 Pacman game. All fingerpainting, but perhaps it's
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N Pacman, is back, and he's as
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Do you believe a game where Inky and Clyde, the power pills,
a choice of two speeds, leaping
S211, HEROBOTIX your task is to help a lost fairy
home to Fairyland? Me neither,
and the fruit to collect.
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over obstacles, collecting fruit,

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horizontally-scrolling game chase him. Find a pill and you
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body of Magnet ron consists of
mov ing around the ramps,
causeways, slopes and planes of
droi Juggle the blocks before you're blown fa bits.
the space platforms, gunning target, and you'll mov e into a Speeding up a steep ramp
down enemy droids and kind of sliding•block puzzle game carrying a heavy charge proves
searching for the reactors. To whic h. you have to complete increasingly difficult. You'll also
pep it up, t hough, there are against an un-neniingly fi nd positively- and negatively-
several sub-plots whic h involve fast-running timer. Fail, and charged plates in the fl oor whic h
even more challenging tests of you'll be blown to bits. will push you in unexpected
skill and timing. If you grapple a superior droid directions - lik e off the edge of
For instance, y ou can attempt successfully, you'll obtain more ramps. If you can manage to
to upgrade the power and advanced weapons - these destroy all the droids and power
weaponry of your droid by include flying frisbees, mortars, down all the reactors on one
h++, grappling wit h and taking over boomerangs, and the dreaded level, the lights go off and you
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and log on to obtain inf ormat ion you move into another sub-game Magnet ron is an enormous
about the level you're on. This in whic h you must balance the challenge and should provide
will give you the position of the negatively-charged inhibitors many hours - no, many. MA NY
reactors, and the type and and the positively-charged fuel hours of involving gameplay. But
strength of the droids. Then rods in the core. This isn't at all it must be said that if you have
choose a likely droid - t hey 're diffi cult if you can count: the already played Paradroid and
number coded according to clever bit is that the charges you Quazarron, you might fi nd it all a
power - and centre the joystick, carry away wit h you will effect little familiar.
pushing the fi re button until the your subsequent mov ement in P. GRAPHICS 7
SOUND 7
display tell you that you are in the platform's magnetic field - pLAYASILITY 9
"grapole mode" P a m vour hence the name of the game.

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Pacman makes his way through fairyland. A G e t the fruit and watch out for the elf.
ghosts, catching them yourself gets you int o the bonus level, f rom the fairy queen loo-arl, and interesting. You may want it if
and wat c hing their eyes fly off t o where you can collect extra fruit these will speed your journey you were a fan of the coin-op,
be reincarnated. Wat c h Out, for bonus points. At later stages homeward. but otherwise I think it will leave
though, f or the ghosts driving you must negotiate sliding While the music, effects and you pretty unmoved.
cars and bombing you f rom platforms, fl ying clouds and gameplay are pretty good IN. GRAPHICS
aeroplanes. t umbling logs. reproductions of the coin-op 6
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steamy night in New York
this is just the tip of the
iceberg on your chilling
quest to confront "MR. BIG".
A spectacular arcade style
brawl with many hoodlams and
hellhounds to encounter -
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instead the newest in a series of
Gauntlet clones released by
Electronic Arts.
Demon Stalker's gameplay is
not all that unlike the original
Gauntlet and offers the player or
players, the same furious and
long-lasting playability of play A Raising the ghost of Gauntlet.
without the bugs. Although it all sounds rather play, especially when it's being
This version has either you, or unbelievable and difficult to played by two of you. The graphics
you and a partner, battling your imagine without actually seeing and sound effects are of a
way through a 100 level dungeon the disc, but is really a game moderate and above average definitely dim iy something wrong
against the usual cast of monsters, quality, although the scrolling somewhere,
protection devide to try to prevent
generators, ghosts, uncanny all you potential racketeers' out leaves alot more to be desired, I've I am most certainly not trying to
creates and mice (MICE! Ed) Oh, there! never seen a game jerk so much in delude you, the game is good and
my mistake, I mean rats • c u t e The game itself is highly all my life. I'm not sure what that's that! Demon Stalkers is one
little while ones too! All this adds addictive and extremely fun to technique their using, but their of the very few good clones
around, and at least deserves your

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▪ P LAY ABI LI TY 8

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up to an enjoyable and sometimes

rather frustrating game.
Being killed rather quickly isn't
all that uncommon quite as you will
discover. To try to help you last
that little bit longer is a selection of
food, scrolls, weapons, amulets,
g
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magical bells, chests full of
additional objects and of course,
the essential keys which will all
prove to be highly contributory aid
to your quest.
The screen is displayed in the
usual way with the playing area to
the top of the screen, and the
players health, score, attributes
and items collected towards the
bottom.

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destroy all monsters.
To enter each level you must
progress past the oncoming
entities and successfully reach a
stairway which will take you to
each lower level. The deeper into
the dungeon you go, the more
difficult the game becomes, Also
to travel to the lowest levels you
must first give a password. This
comes in the form of something
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procedure, but three small circular
pieces of card Joined in such a way
that when the first word on the
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 Let's go into some of the
instructions just to give you an idea
of what I mean: You can exit any
level by the holes indicated on the
screen, and also by the direction
indicated on the cross like display
at top left. However this may
change while you are playing a
board. If the tracking mode is on
you have to land on a target block
I indicated by a ring) to release the
blocks in your track before you can
land on them again. There are
various types of seeker, wit h
varying degrees of dangerousness,
and it's type determines just when
it will appear on the board, and
how easy it will be to kill.
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Billed as "t he board game of the

future", Sophistry is like nothing
so much as a more sophisticated
and intellectual variant on that old
favourite, Marble Madness,
It also has to be said that it is a
much slower game too, the idea
not being a crash bang chase
around the screen, but a steady
collection of keys and points,
which you can trade for keys. Get
enough of these and you'll be able
to reach your objective, the 21st
level, though what if anything you
find there is anybody's guess. Yep,
I'm afraid the slow gameplay and
monochrome graphics meant that may have to use UPPERS to get and interesting. It is the complete many extras you add.
my interest flagged long before the Out of it, it is best to use them as opposite of a game like Arkanoid Sophistry isn't a real stinker like
hallowed twenty. That's not to say early as possible." where the basic gameplay is very plenty of games we see, but nor
that yours will though — it just WHAAAT? It is not as if in the playable anyway and all the does it hold enough to make it very
depends upon your taste in games. context of the game it gets arty additional bits and pieces just serve good. Write in and tell me I'm
The advertising Nun isn't so far easier, to add spice. Here the original wrong it you like, but I don't think
off, as it does in fact bear more I'm afraid what this appears to game is really too dull to make it on many of you will.
resemblance to something you'd me to be is a very simple collecting it's own, and the added extras only
GRAPHICS 6
play with a square of cardboard idea with a great number of extra, serve to complicate and frustrate. - SOUND 5
and little plastic counters than and not especially logical, rules A Ford Granada will never be as 1 6
anything you'll find down the local added to make it more challenging good as a Jaguar, no matter how p. 6
1 PLAYABILITY
arcade.
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straightforward, but there are also
some odities; where the lillypads
disappear as you go past them, or 1 o • i „ , "
where you have a time limit to
cross the board, for instance.
There are also things called seekers
that you have to be avoid, and —
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unlike most frogs — you can't
swim, so plopping in the water is
definitely not to be recommended_ S
One of the more off-putting
aspects of Sophistry is that despite
the relative simplicity of most of
the bame play, there are actually
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quite a lot of rules to be learnt. It is
like chess in fact if you have
someone to teach you who knows
it well there should be no problem,
but try and learn the blessed thing
from the instructions, and you'll be
here 'til kingdom come. Quite
possibly there are a whole load of
tactics waiting to be discovered
that will make it a challenge for the
best strategy games players
amongst us, but then I was never
very good at chess either.,
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a ball mult iplier whic h seems to
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bouncing spheres. My favourite
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a sort of s hadow f ollowing you
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Just when you t hought you were

safe f rom Gauntlet clones. Ah
well, that's software.
Gothic is the usual guff, evil
wizard, tyrannical rule, evil
minions roaming the castle. You
play the hero who must rescue
the good wizard - who' s rather
gone to pieces all over the place.
Finding the Wiz 's bits and
putting him back together will
reurn light and enlight enment to
all and sundry.
The player takes the part of big strength replenishes your ability also allows you to select the more magic strength they
butch Olaf or tricky little Olga to use magic, quivers replenish weapons and magic items. use. The effect when they hit is
who has more magic but less your arrow stocks and fl ames There are three weapons: y Plenty of ideas.
brawn. replenish y our stock of arrows, light ning bolts and
In the best traditions of these firestorms. fireballs. Arrows simply fi re in
things, y ou get a plan view of By pressing the "s pac e" bar, the direction you are facing.
corridors and chambers. There you bring up the status screen. Depending on the monster,
are four mov ement directions This is a neat way of keeping the copping a f ew of these will soon
and flick scrolling. There are main action screen clear of all the have it pushing up the daisies.
various objects to be picked up usual clutter showing you whic h Lightning bolts use a little magic
whic h fall int o t wo main things you have collected and strength and keep bouncing
categories: pot ions and items. shows the five ratings affected around till they fi nd their targets.
The items are food whic h by the collection of the items I Fireballs are impressive. On the
replenishes life energy, gold can just mentioned. It also shows status screen, you can vary their
be converted into food, magic progress t hrough the game and strength - t he more powerful,

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entertaining extras, It has to be
said, t hough, that unless you've
mastered Arkanold, you may
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strenuous; it's deliberately
designed to make you tear your
hair out, and will certainly take
many hours of concentration to
complete_

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I. VALUE 9
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V N o t original but fun are the armour•piercing balls
whic h shoot through anything,
and the fireball whic h creates an V Entertaining extras.
enormous explosion. 1 1 9 0 •0 . 4 6 1 ••••••• •

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any screens you can avoid them
on subsequent plays. Inevitably, r-: i
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the alien on the last level, where
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new high in originality, but it's
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walls and torch bracken, fine except that some creatures
,
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which can be picked up. Once Doppleganger makes you look
picked up, they can be selected like a creature - t rouble is some
and have various strange effects_ creatures dislike other creatures
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explanatory; Chameleon makes
as much as they dislike you.
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up to Gauntletclones
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PLAYABILITY 7
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amongst you - and there are
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Chernobyl, the simulation of a

4 nuclear power plant, but I mus t

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that real life disasters were
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as subjects for c omput er games,
would the shelves soon be lined
VI games based on
ungerford, King's cross,
Zebrugge T h e very ease wit h
which any of these could be
transferred into perfectly reason or logic you begin to ask
playable adventures rather made forget in a hurry. You may play it
what if this was for real, just only once, but it offers a taste of
me think so. what if in some way this was all a horrifi c responsibility that it is authenticity, and shows some of
Now, hav ing played connected up to a power station
Chernobyl, I'm not so sure. It is humbling and probably healthy the potential of simulations for
somewhere. If you've ever seen for us all to experience at some - and I hate to use the word, it is
unlikely to be a best seller, and so the fi lm Wa r Games you'll k now time or other. Simple graphics so offputting educational
might knock on the head any what I mean_ and, by any other standards,
embryonic "real life disaster'' purposes.
Whatever happens f rom then slow gameplay notwithstanding.
simulations in the pipeline. This on, whet her you save the day or e- GRAPHICS 5
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is in any way a bad game - in 0- VALUE 6
experience you are unlikely to opportunism by its very PLAYABILI TV 7
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possible at what it does • - but V The hear is on — con you stand it?
simply that I think mos t of you
will fi nd it pretty dull. It is a very
serious simulation of a very
serious part of our lives, and
whatever your politics it is
arguable that it is an import ant
responsibility that we should all
have a taste of. It is not a video
game in the same way that Out
Run or Rasten are video games.
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miles of a nuclear generator I
don't feel particularly qualifi ed to
comment, but the game feels
right, it feels authentic. CND has
apparently endorsed it as being
as accurate as they come, and
they should know, I guess. It
certainly shares wit h real life • R E TORN L I HE
disasters the long period of
wait ing f ollowed by moment s of
sheer, desperate panic. Not hing
happens very fast, and you are
going to need a considerable
amount of patience to fi nd your
way around the complexities of
your power station, not to
ment ion work ing your way
through the dry, text-book like,
but gruesomely fascinating
manual that comes wit h it. If you
don't fancy the responsibility of
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P In Rimrunner's case it's the
PStyle merchants Palace pack hero, a bug-eyed insect-like
Lanother knockout punch wit h creature, and his reptillian biped
mount k nown as a Runner. Bot h use up a tremendous amount of
Itheir latest offering, Rimrunner. energy and the generators
Perhaps not as complex as these creatures are different and
E conceived not wit hout humour. require constant supervision and
previous offerings such as recharging.
RCauldron a n d II arid The Sacred Your job is to protect the The job to protect these
PArmour of Antiriad, Rimrunner Insectoid colonies against generators, situated at the edge
Adoes, howev er, have the constant attack f rom their
of the colonies, has fallen to an
Limmediate playability of the enemies the Arachnoids. The elite body of Insectoid warriors
Amagnifi cent Barbarian. Insectoids have built large force k now as the Rimrunners. Their
C So let's head out beyond the shields to keep out the job is to patrol around the
Efarthest reaches of the galaxy Arachnoids. But these shields
generators on their rather cute
S Runners, battle against the
O Arac hnoids and recharge the
F generators.
T Rimrunners face all sorts of
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creatures, fl y ing rock and
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1 up the five generators per level
3 7 5 and progress through to the next
one. There are nine levels in all.
1
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problems of the aliend attacks,
0 the generators run down at
slightly different rates and to
0 succeed you have to work out
the best sequence to visit them.
The sequence becomes more
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progress into the game.
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whic h you must complete the
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right now. I wouldn't have version or coin-op, y o u i still find ••••
believed it. I k ari Warriors on the yourself wit h a fun game.
Commodore 6411 can hear you lkari Warriors is a horizontally , •
all gasping. scrolling shoot 'em up in the a .

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back in the January 1987 issue of mould - only better.
C +VG that we first reviewed IK This is your mission, men.
on the Ams t rad. Eagerly we General Alexander Bonn, t op
await ed further conversions of dog of US Forces in Central
 nice idea of the high score table.
The Insectoid cocks his gun and
blasts the letters of the alphabet.
It's very cute.
Rimrunner was designed by
Barbarian wizard Steve Brown
and programmed by Binary
vision and the end result is a nifty
little game.
Palace very rarely disappoint
whole game feels a little amount of runners left. with their games and Rimrunner
Minteresque. The Runner can take a few hits carries on the fine tradition.
The display at the top of the but will eventually be a gonner. Meanwhile I'm looking forward
screen shows the positions of He'll collapse on the floor, turn to Barbarian IL. The Dungeon of
the shield generators and your to bones and fade away. But Drax.
positions (The shield generator don't despair too much.
marker changes from green to The Insectold, if hit, falls off
red when it's running out of his mount, rubs his head and b. GRAPHI CS
juice): bonus and time indicator; gets back into the saddle as fast 10. S O UND
score; the stammina of the as possible. P- V ALUE
Insectoid and Runner and the PLAYABI LI TY
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a bank of revolutionaries. He is blow up, bridges to cross, rivers
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headquarters to add insult to encampments to destfcw. Along
injury. the way there's extra air mo,
You and your buddy - this can grenades and tank fuel to collec
be a two player game pi c k up a For an idea of the scale of the
May Day message and rush to game check out the map we
the rescue. But your plane printed beck in January 87. This
cr ashl ands could be mission impossible.
distance
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Alone
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enemy. There seems to be a • again. The trouble is, I can't find
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with. Yes, for the first time for awards, it was basically a
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A few years back an insane tune
that went something like this:
'Dum, dee durn. - dee dum, dee
dum, dee dum would send scores
of Pink Panther fans rushing for
the TV set and the best armchair in
the front room.
The theme tune would ring in
your head for the rest of the
weekend. It's one of those jingles
that just gets inside your brain and
won't go away.
The plots were always totally
daft - featuring the bungling
Inspector Clouseau and the plots that made the show. fallen on hard times due to living that his boss has a serious sleep
Panther in an ever more ridiculous Either way, Gremlin and Magic the high life without any income. walking habit. This makes the job
series of disasters. Bytes will be hoping that the He is forced to take a job as a butler of relieving him of his valuables all
The farcial storylines didn't launch of the computer game will in a millionaire's mansion. Just the the more difficult as, if you are not
make any difference to the show's bring hordes of Panther fans out of thing for our light fingered hero. careful, he is likely to bump into
,,popularity. What people tuned in the woodwork with fivers in their "I'll be able to nick all the valuables something, wake himself up, and
for was to see that wacky pink hands. and set my self up in an island catch you red handed - or pink
panther and his marvellous car. it The plot of the game is very paradise" thinks the rinky dink handed even.
was the characters rather than the much in the tradition of the TV Panther. There Is a way around this
V Rich pickings in the bedroom, show. The gentleman panther has What he hasn't reckoned on is though. You can gently guide your
boss around obstacles or keep him
a wn walking up and down in straight
lines where he will come to no
harm.
The instructions actually
suggest that you guide him around
the house with you. I found this
extremely hard to do because
turning him in tight corners and
guiding him upstairs is very tricky,-
Before the Panther gets 4
anywhere
4 near a mansion, he mutt
go1to the Butler's Agency. They
will ask him if he has a top hat fit for
the job and if he doesn't he'll be
dispatched to the shop to buy one.
This part of the game is
decidedly tedious. It would have
been better if you could just start
off in the mansion and get straight
on with the business of nicking all
the valuables.
It is particularly annoying to
have to go through this rigmarole
every time the old codger bumps
into something.
To avoid this happening the
Panther does have a number of
items at his disposal that he can
use to guide his boss. There is a
board that can be used to make
him jump over awkward obstacles,
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something. t h e music sound track featured the
The clever way to playPanther is famous 'dum, dee dum' piece. This
to place these items around the was sadly missing from the ST
mansion as quickly as possible. version that I tested.
But you really will have to be clever C
On the plus side, Magic Bytes
to do this as selecting them and made an excellent job of the two Dozens of TV Progs, films,
activating the objects involves a characters themselves. The Pink and cartoon characters hove
number of joystick/key pressing Panther's characteristic sloping
manoeuvres. As in a complex beat walk has been nicely reproduced
been turned into computer
'em up game - it 'ain't easy. - and Clouseau is also convincing games now. We at C+ VG
A money bag fills up like an egg think that the Pink Panther's
right down to his hunched back
timer every time the Panther nicks and shabby raincoat. arrival on the scene is a little
something. When the money bag Magic Bytes is a German special and ought to be
is completely full you can tackle company relatively new to the UK marked by a mega comp°.
the next mansion. There are four scene. Some garners may In association with Gremlin,
mansions in total before the Pink remember them for the excellent we ore pleased to be able to
Panther can get to the island of his Western Games with its
dreams. Items nicked are also offer thirty top quality Pink
astonishing graphics. Panther sweat-shirts.
displayed in points to the right of Their new association with
the money bag. - Winning is easy. All we
There are a couple of serious 'introduce
G a degree of extra wont you to do is answer
him change directions, and a design faults that let the Pink playability into their games. Pink these simple questions about
number of inflatables. These r
Panther game down, The first and Panther would certainly have the Panther.
blow-up people iStoo sniggering worst of these is the 'start new e
benefited from that. A game for
at the back there) - in the shape of game sequence. There is about a m ardent Pink Panther fans only.
a burglar to act as a decoy and 40 second wait between losing one l
another blow up Panther that can (1) The Pink Panther grew
challenge in the mansion and ile GRAPHICS
be posted by walls to give the old starting your next. 7 out of on early association
fellow a shove in the right direction Gripe number two is with the
n SOUND 6 with the inspector Clouseau
if he looks like crashing into music. In an earlier Amiga demo hIP" VALUE films. Was the original Pink
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blame here in that it fails to make it
clear lust what you are meant to do
with everything, and you are
unlikely to stick around long
enough to find out
To your right there is a panel
with various displays, but the one
you really have to keep an eye on is
your energy level, indicated
suitably by a sword. I say suitably,
as this is really a sword over your
head, since your reserves drop at
an alarming rate. Really, you have
to eat something every two
minutes or less, which gets to be a
real pain quite rapidly. What this
also tends to mean is that the game
is biased towards the pursuers,
enough to make the whole thing a
bit of a farce.
A A land ripe for exploration I can't pretend I spent very long
playing this, the whole thing was
2 just too frustrating. It's come to
thing. the split screen effect that
allows you to see what both something when the most
characters are doing makes the praiseworthy thing about a game is
sprites rather tiny, but this is its music, which in this case is
compounded by the fact that the atmospheric and not at all bad.
animation and scrolling is 1. GRAPHICS 6
unforgivably jerky and limited. The SOUND 6
ts- VALUE
chap getting to play the escapee IP. PLAYABILITY 4
gets to slash vaguely at his
captors, and collect gold and other
less identifiable items when they
collapse as skeletons at his feet.

MACHINES: A MS TRA D/ often, or the hapless poor person

SPECTRUM,' C64: he turns loose as quarry.
P. SUPPLIER. GREMLIN. Should you have got the plum
4 job as a hunter, you get to place
, VERSION TESTED: A MS TRA D. your grizzly allies at suitable
IP- REVIEWER: MA TT BIELBY.
- strategic locations around the
PThey alway s say t hat the fi lm is n't place, which has to rate as the
Ras good as the book, Well, now highlight of the game. If you drew
Imeet the game that isn't as good as the short straw, you can chose
Cthe book either. B l o o d Valley whether you want to be a
EYep,
, the very same Blood Valley as meathead barbarian, a wily thief,
the Duelmaster fantasy adventure or a distincly dodgy looking priest.
:
book, only without the playability. Each have a series of tasks that
1 In its favour it has the fact that it
they have to perform - k ill the evil
9is a real two player game - t he Kritos Bloodheart, steal the Golden
:greatest fun you're going to get is Idol etc - as well as getting Out of
9chatting to your mate how bad it is. the valley in one piece, of course.
9 The idea itself isn't such a bad So tar. So good. It is only onc e
,one: You can play either nasty the perfectly successful
tyrannous landowner type the establishing screens are dealt with
Archveult, whose idea of fun is to that the severe limitations of the
hunt down the odd slave every so game become apparent. For one

V He ro or Villain - it's your choice,

A Facing foes.

A Don't rely on the instruction book.

INTERCITYI25. AR l a Road Sports.Some I25's are
difficult to ride because their engines pro-
ducetoo little power in some parts of the rev
range,and too much in others.TheKawasaki,
however,delivers power effortlessly, from
lowdown right up to maximumspeed.As
Performance Bikes magazine wrote when
comparing all the 125'5 "The Kawasaki is
in a different class performance-wise. No
matter what gear you're in, just twist the
throttle and it alwaysresponds, better than
anyother 125".
With its superbly sweetengine, the
AR125 is as nippy between towns as it
isaround town. ButKawasaki per-
formance is muchmore thanspeed.
It is the ideal balance between
handling, braking, economy and
power.SuperBikesummed it up as
a"perfect learner two-stroke
handles brilliantly... brakes
stop the bike on a sixpence
unconditionally recommended':
KMX125:Country Sports. The
KMXis developed directly from Kawasaki's
racing moto-crossers.Sowhen you plough
across the fields, you're riding a real
thoroughbred.

OUTER LIMITSI25. When a crowd of first-timers tested

all the new 125's, including riding them
around a PartOne Driving TestCourse.they
voted the KMXtop of the lot.
Dirt Bike Rider magazine rated
the KMX "the trickest 125 on street
or trail': Which i s fair comment since
the KMX is as brilliant on-road as i t is
off-road.
TheKawasaki Launch Pad Package.
If you buy anynew learner-legal Kawasaki,
maintain it correctly, and return it in good
condition in a year, you'll get your money
back(less taxes) against the cost of your
nextnew Kawasaki.To qualify, you have to
agree to take proper training. And, if you
do. you'll get special discountvouchers
onsafe riding gear like gloves, boots
andjacket.
If you would like a brochure
and the name of aKawasakiLaunch
Paddealer near you. send your
name,age.and address,to Dept151,
Kawasaki Motors UK Ltd, 748 Deal
Avenue,Slough,Berkshire,SL14117.

WHO CAN CATCH A

KAWASAKI?
C+VG sound effects, When fuel dumps
are going up, enemy fighters are
screaming in, you're dodging
ground fire while plastering
everything that doesn't move -
and as much of the moving stuff
as possible - t he aural
impression is that W4'/ / 1 has
broken Out. Rip roaring
explosions mount a top each
other to f orm an ear splitting
cacophany of noise. The effect
wraps the players up in the heat
of the moment and carries them
ilong on a wave of excitement.
But it's not all like that. There
are quieter, more reflective
moments, like when a letter
wit hin a tile wafts gently down
the screen_ It's necessary to
ignore the rest of the
proceedings in order to
guarantee picking up what could
turn into rapid fire, power shots,
limited time invulnerability, or,
A A game fit for heroes. strangely, s omet hing whic h
stops the scrolling temporarily.
The latter enables you to erase

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into its own when on the control

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level when total destruction is
the order of the day.
Were you one of the people
who could never get beyond the
second or third major nasty in
Xenon? Sidewinder caters for all
skill levels from the incompetent
to those who can play in their
sleep. There are five diffi culty
levels in total, and you decide
ow MACHI NE: AMI G A. to the control level you can easily the best out and Out whic h to play on.
Pk. SUPPLIER: MASTERTRONIC. savour the full screen scrolling annihilation experience on the
Pk• P R I C E The question is, do you have
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f 9 VERSION
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P. REVIEWER: MARK LUCKHAM. Yep, there's none of this partial Besides the obligatory swarms experience than Xenon, a game
screen scrolling idiocy here. On of fl ying scum - whic h can get that will, incredibly, only set you
Roadwars, Xenon, Aaarght and Sidewinder not only does the thick and irksome at times -
back a measly tenner, arid one
Sidewinder. All are products of whole screen move smoothly there's an almost unlimited
that combines first rate graphics
Mastertronic's Arcadia c oin•op down, there is also some lateral number of ground based targets and enormous excitement
machines turned home movement, just like in Fly ing to wallop. Some of t hem shoot
Shark. IP GRAPHICS a
computer games. The concept back, but not if you're quick. I . SOUND 9
of developing titles on an Amiga So we're talking nil points for Whic h leads to one of ta- VALUE 9
board based c oin-up system and originality here, but as this is Sidewinder's better features, the it• PLAYABILITY 9
then downgrading t hem for y The boom spoilsdoom.
home computers, has work ed to

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varying degrees so far.
Sidewinder stays true to the
arcade tradition of mindless
blasting!
It's like this you see: the war
has reached a stalemate, giant
fleets of opposing spaceships
face each others, neither able to
win a decisive battle. Suddenly ,
from out of the alien ranks
wobbles a ship the size of planet.
The Star Killer has arrived. This
impressive piece of Lego makes
its money by diving into the heart
of a system's sun, creating a
supernova and making a right
mess of the surrounding real
estate.
Bad news for the good guys,
but wait, a sole fi ghter can
penetrate the docking system
and enter through a waste water
vent. Free to run amok inside,
this brave, heroic idiot can blast
his way through the various
levels, until, fi nally, t he control
level is reached and wasted.
So you've heard it all before,
the important point to note is
that the action takes place over
various levels, each of whic h has
appropriate scenery and targets.
Starting wit h water distribution
and leading through residential,
fl ight deck, c ommand and finally
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MACHINES: SPECTRUM 82and I wo Jima. Only this time games wit h lots of sound effects
•• SUPPLIER: DESTINY. the island is the gateway to and screens flashing, and aren't
PRICE: T8.95. worried about the quality of the
REVIEWER: PAUL BOUGHTON. Japan, Okinawa, captured by
United States Marines and Army graphics. Any one else will fi nd it
Okinawa has already appeared forces in April 1945. The player t oo simple-minded to give much
as part of a games c ompilat ion takes the American side against enjoyment. And any serious
from PSS, Confl ic t s 2, so putting the computer, using a joystick t o wargamer who has met the
it out by itself, even at so low a select simple options for his earlier, related games would
price, is a bit of a mystery. troops to land, mov e and fire never buy it anyway.
GRAPHICS 4
This is the same "amphibious against a virtually static enemy. PSS now put Out such a wide 2
REALISM
forces invade an is land" f ormat Like its cousin, Ok inawais for range of vvargames, inc luding PLAYABILITY 3
as the nearly identical Falklands young children who like simple games whic h are a lot better than 0- VALUE 3

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SUPPLIER: DESTINY.
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what and where to get offl
PRICE: E8 95
•• REVIEWER. PAUL BOUGHTON. 416 Wat c h out for the ones that
zig-zag f rom side to side. They
Survive the ride or zoom t o your fire heat-seeking missiles. But
doom. We' re talking Teladon you can knock these Out wit h
here, a terribly tasty teaser f rom your lazer beam. The other type
new boys Destiny. of alien craft lurking around is
Starting our on your space one shaped like a spinning top.
bike you z oom off down a These mov e at high speed in
tunnel, ult imat ely hoping to straight lines. ' lour only tactic is
penetrate the lower levels. But to dodge these demons.
this ain't no tunnel of love. The zig-zagging craft can also
Those pesky pains in their space generate lazer beam fences
crafts have hate in their hearts. bet ween them and boulders.
As you race down the tunnel Destroy the craft and the beam
you must avoid the edges and vanishes.
the boulders that litter your path. There are also gates to be
So steer clear and stay sharp_ negotiated and this is where you
Don't forget to grab any keys, need keys.
lazers, to replenish supplies, and Exits to lower levels are
drive t hrough oxygen bubbles to t hrough holes. But these can be
top air supplies. very diffi cult to enter. I kept
And you'll need those lazers to z ooming straight past.

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V r u n n e l to the lower levels_

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Speed is the vital factor to This is basically a maze

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master f or success in the problem, wit h the bad guys
tunnels. Go too fast and you can zapping at you as you try to solve
get into trouble wit hout being it. Complet e this and it's onto
-400.016- able to react quick enough. Too another tunnel and so forth.

4
slowly and you just bump into
things.
Hopefully once t hrough the
Teladon is one of the first
releases Destiny and a good start
it is. Let's hope the standard
hole you're down to a lower keeps up.

441;40 1
level. If you're unlucky you could
fi nd yourself zipping up an
aircute to the level you've just
P. GRAPHICS
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 mot her is coming to stay and the
living room of the cave has to be
painted_ Darn! Out wit h the paint
pot, splosh, splosh, splosh -
Fred's got to finish before Wilma
gets back f rom the Bedrock
Women' s Institute.
So for the first stage of the
game you have to move Fred
around the cave, fi lling up f rom
the paint pot m shifting the ladder
to reach t he top of the wall, and
picking up baby Pebbles who
escapes f rom his pen and
scribbles graffi ti on the painted
sections. Here's a hint; paint the
t op half of the wall first, so that
Pebbles' vandalism to the lower
half is easier to deal wit h.
If you finish in lime, it's off to 46
the game in the old boneshaker, A Yobba-dobbo-doo! It's '
Fred and Barney steer the car r
building site.
along the rocky road t o the u nFred
t i mand
e Barney
i n compete to
Superbowl, jumping up to avoid leap B e todthe r top
o cof the
k .building,
boulders, Hit one, and you'll lose collecting protective clothing on
valuable time as Fred has to jack the way, Falling girders and
up the car, c hange the wheel bolts, gusts of wind and other
then jump back in. building workers threaten to
The poorest section of the topple you f rom your precarious
game is the bowling t ournament perches on the girders.
itself. You set the curve and So what we have here is
speed of the shot, and hit the fire basically four variations of old
favourites - Paint er, Mo o n
Buggy, Bowls and
platforms-and-ladders -
tb. MACHI NES, SPECTRUM/
AMS TRAD;C5 M6 4 . cobbled together into one game,
AMIGA. The graphics and sound are
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SUPPLIER G RANDS LAM
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I. PRICE: 18,95 ISPECTRUM/I
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PI. REVIEWER. CHRIS JENKINS.
I t s "Yabba-dabba-dool" t ime
again. Fred and Barney are back
in the second c omput er button to time it correctly; but on good, and the cuteness quotient
adventure of The Ffintstones, the display of the pins on the
and this one is even better than very high. I particularly liked
right hand side of the screen is Fred's paintbrush - it 's a
the first game, whic h, as you'll poorly animated, In fact, when
remember, appeared on ASP squirrel whic h scampers away
the ball hits all you see is a every time he picks up Pebbles to
under the title "Yabba-dabba- K A M ! , then some of the pins
d o o r (helpful historical notel. return him to his pen_
disappear. Compare the I don't think that cuteness is
All the features of the cartoon excellent animations In 10th
are there; t he catchy music, t he enough to sell a game at £19.96,
Frame, a proper bowling game. but this is a polished and
cute animations, even some of If Fred wins the match - professional product whic h
the sampled sounds. The plot s Barney is the automatic deserves to be seen.
pretty familiar too; Fred and
opponent - y ou get through to
Barney want to go to the the last section, where Pebbles, I. 8
Bedrock Bowling escaped f rom the cave, has to be , SOUND 8
lb- VALUE 6
Championship, but Wilma's rescued f rom a dangerous G PLAVABILITY 8
Barney bowls a beauty - S r version, R
Av Dodge the boulders to reach the Superbowl - Spectrum version.
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CBM 64 all new this mont h, it
looks as if the c ombat game isn't •
mu raj
played out as everyone seemed
to assume.

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Warrior is perhaps the most
interesting, because it's the first
combat game to successfully
incorporate elements of arcade
adventure. It's also the first to
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star a bunny rabbit,
Samurai Warrior is based on
the comic character Llsagi
Yojimbo. You won' t find his
adventures in the Beano; as
far as I remember, t he comic is
by a Japanese American and is
available only through comix Noriyuki f rom the evil Lord Hikiji. mode, because some of the
specialists. If the game catches So muc h for the spring roll — on characters are peaceful and will
on, t hough, may be the comic to the c hop suey. help you wit h clues if you s how
will too.
ow MACHI NE : CBM 64. Samurai Warrior takes place the proper respect by bowing to
o. SUPPLIER: FIREBIRD. It's the seventeenth century in against a scrolling background of them.
IP- PRICE: £9.95. good old Japan, and the land is forests and pathways. The Offend them by approaching
II. REVIEWER. CHRIS JENKINS. torn by the petty squabbles of characters are cleverly animated wit h your sword drawn, and you
rival shoguns. Usagi Yojimbo is a in a cartoon style, and the risk a nasty fi ght and the loss of
What wit h Amiga Barbarian, ronin, a wandering warrior, Karma points.
Amstrad Shanghai Karate and s worn to rescue his friend Lord fi ghting sequences are smoothly
done and require considerable Complement ed by great
skill to master, oriental music and s ome skilful
✓ Funny Bunny pocks a punch.
Your battling bunny operates graphics, Samurai Warrior is a
in t wo modes, Peaceful and very confusing game; confusing,
Fighting, according to whether in the sense that it's the game
or not his sword is drawn. Thus, that Fist 2 s hould have been, but
wit h t wo modes each wit h wasn't.
sixteen actions, c ont rol of the It's clever, f unny and
character is pretty complex. In challenging all at once, and
peaceful mode you can jump, breathes new life into the martial
turn, walk , hand over money, arts genre as well as appealing to
draw your sword, bow and so lovers of more complex arcade
on; once you have drawn your adventures.
sword, you can run, jump,
charge, swipe, cut, parry, and,
0- GRAPHICS 7
once your opponent is sliced into P' SO UND 7
sushi, sheathe your sword again. o. VALUE 9
It's important to be in the right PLAYABILfrY 9

P. MACHI NE ; AMS TRAD. defend the sacred scrolls of the

II. SUPPLIER: PLAYERS.
P. PRICE: E1.99. Changchun Karate Academy
P. REVIEWER: CHRIS JENKINS. f rom the evil Wang Chen and his
army.
This isn't the best martial arts The battle takes place against
combat game on the Amstrad, it f our impressive landscapes; the
isn't even the second best. But battlements of a fortress, a
it's probably the cheapest, so it s magic forest, a haunted cave and
wort h a look if your appetite for fi nally the Dragon Temple,
chop'n'kick games hasn't been where you can hand the scrolls
eroded by Ex ploding Fist, Yie-Ar over to your old friend Derek
Kung Fu, Kung-Fu f rom Slough lwell, that's what it
Master, Barbarian and so on and says here),
so on On each level you have to
As usual, it's you against the defeat four opponents. You have
hordes of screaming fanatics as the usual assortment of
you take the role of Lo Yin (a offensive and defensive moves,
Scottish midget?), s worn to including a flying kick, low
• Fro m Slough to Shanghai — just for kicks, sweep, various punches, and a their belts and headbands, whic h
useful high jump whic h takes are blue and white, so it's easy to
you over your enemy's head and lose track of whic h character is
clear over to the other side of the yours in a clinch. The animations
screen. This is pretty important, don't have enough frames to
because if you are forced off the make them smooth, so, f or
side of the screen you will fall to instance, if you try a high kick
your death. You can practice you suddenly fi nd yourself
fi ghting in t wo player mode, moving straight f rom a standing
though as far as I can see this start into a flying leap. It's this
only gives you one level to play sort of lack of thoroughness
on. In one player mode, the whic h keeps Shanghai Karate
subsequent levels are loaded fi rmly in the realms of "OK
f rom tape. budget game" rather than "right
Whilst the backgrounds are little cracker".
very nice, and there are some
good sound effects and flashes
and bangs, t he characters aren't
• GRAPHICS 6
particularly well designed or 11.• SOUND 6
animated. For a start, bot h look P- VALUE 6
the same except for the colour of P- PLAYABILITY 6
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11.- REVIEWER: CHRIS JENKINS.

Just when you t hought it was

safe to go back into the dawn of
prehistory C h o p ! Slash! Hack!
Its Barbarian - t he bloodiest
and noisiest combat game in the
world, now out on the singing, dancing Amiga. Everyone must glade, an icy waste, a fi ghting
s.. Ffeds. have seen at least one version of pit, and the wizard's lair. The
this fantasy s wordfi ght ing epic, sprites are admirably fast and
whic h topped the charts in both smoothly animated, but the let
eight-bit and Atari ST versions down is that they have barely
last year. No w the inexplicably more colour or detail than those
delayed Amiga version is here, of the eight-bit versions of the
and although it may not make game. It doesn't spoil your
full use of the Amiga's graphics enjoy ment of the game, but it
potential, it's certainly one of the gives you the impression that it's
most enjoyable games ever for been a bit rushed.
the machine. As usual wit h this style of
Your task is to defeat a series game, y ou have sixteen
of hard-bitten barbarian offensive and defensive moves,
warriors, t hen their evil sorceror selected wit h the joystick and fire
master. Do this and you win the button. Because you are armed
hand (and probably all the more wit h a sword, some of these
interesting bits) of the beauty moves are spectacular; the
represented on the packaging by spinning -
Maria Whittaker. overhead
web chop and the headbutt
The t wo warriors face each for instance. Each time a blow
other across a series of o f
lands, a splash of blood and a cry
beautifully detailed d e a t
of pain informs you of the fact.
backgrounds, including a forest h
At the side of the screen, the
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P. SUPPLIER: GREMLIN. survives the paucity of thought food. The Earth Lords, who ever
N. PRICE: E9.99 (AMSTRAD AND and manages to provide playable they may be, call a meeting and
SPECTRUM)/E1.99 (SPECTRUM).. but unmemorable thrash out a plan of action to
E19.99 (ATARI SI). entertainment. ease the crisis, resulting in the
to. VERSION TESTED AM S TRAD. So for those of you who like a
11. REVIEWER: PAUL BOUGHTON. Northstar Project.
good plot wit h original ideas and They decide to construct a
A good f ew seconds of intense twists had better skip the next vast space station capable of
thought must have gone into the paragraph or so and just read holding thousands of people.
game plot of Northstar. It's about the game play. And there, in the quietness of
about as threadbare as the office For the rest of you, here goes space, they would grow foods
carpet. It does not twinkle. It In the year 2499 the Earth is high in nutritional value very
does not shine. Get my drift? over-populated and facing efficiently. And very quickly.
v r h e NeEtune's prong is a neat weapon.

A Hu n t i n g the alien invaders.

oarian and flourishes his sword, the
grotesque mutant, the gorgeous
sound samples. All that's
missing is music, but who cares?
Unless you have a weak
stomach, you should tie on your
loin-cloth, sharpen your sword,
and dash out to the nearest
bazaar for a copy of Barbarian
right away.

GRAPHICS a
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injured party's life force ebbs, couple, you can often get with PLAYABILITY 10
and his serpent rears its head in an early head chop. Later on,
V Num be r one on the • ore score.
pain. your best bet is to keep rolling
The sound effects are forward to knock your opponent
absolutely stunning; sampled over, pin him in a corner, then
chops, the clang of steel, grunts alternate rolls and chops until
of pain, and, if you ever sever he's a puddle of gore. The wizard
your opponents head in a is another proposition entirely;
shower of gore, the squish and he throws magic fire and you
thump of the bouncing bonce. must leap and duck to avoid it
You'll kill yourself laughing as and give him the chop.
the giggling mutant slave kicks In two plyer mode, each round
the severed head off screen and has a time limit, and the game
drags off the corpse. Other continues until one warrior is
samples include snatches of finished off. Wi th two
dialogue — ''Prepare to die!" — reasonably skilled (or hopeless)
"aw, c'monl " which are players, this can go on for ages!
probably the best samples I've There's a nicely-detailed
heard, high-score table, but this is the
In one-player mode, you must kind of game you play for fun
fight warrior after warrior until rather than to rack up points. It's
you get through to the wizard. the little things that make
Tactics change as the opponents Barbarian so great: the way the
become more skilled; the first victor kicks the loser's corpse

Things went well until one day aliens and reactivate the sound and quite playable. But
there was no answer from life-support systems. then so are hundreds of other
Northstar. And that's where you So it's off on a bash 'n' thrash games.
come in. You're sent on a through the levels, collecting However, this is probably the
mission to find out what's going oxygen and weapons. I quite like best game I've seen on the
on. Well, I bet you've guessed the weapon you start off with. Amstrad this month.
already. Alien hoards have It's a robotic arm rather like an
over-run Northstar. The people extendable Neptune's trident.
have all disappeared and Other weapons you can collect
life-support systems are not —five in all — include smart
bombs. P. GRAPHICS
functioning. B. REALI SM 7
Your mission, surprise, Northstar is nicely P LAY ABI LM 7
surprise, is to destroy all the programmed, colourful with nice 10- VALUE 7

V H u n t out extra weapons.

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Alien Syndrome is one of the

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space travellers wit h the rather
mundane names of Rick and
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Mary. You would have thought 1
Sega could have dreamt up
something slightly more exotic. 1
mean Rick and Mary . Its like
something you'd see taped
above the windscreen of a

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battered old Escort.
The game pitches the dynamic
duo against a nasty bunch of
aliens who have imprisoned
several hostages on a massive
fl oating prison fortress.
The games playes in the
Gauntlet style. It scrolls in all
directions and you see an
overhead view of the action as
your players explore the space
A Crammed with action.
A
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ship searching for hostages and I t7 ! t
extra weapons. N;• • • • • ;• • • • ' ,• • • • : 1 •••• ••••,•
Just as in Gauntlet the game is
at its best in t wo player mode -
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meaning that you have to talk to ,
each other to decide whic h
I M M O 1 I I ID 1 olmaon
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direction you want to go in.
Unlike Gauntlet there is no
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need t o squabble about the - w • wi t -i .tt. 61-)+.w1 - -c
• Just as in the coin-op there are
direction selected as several '
, L — seven ; levels in the 64 version. It
maps are available on the walls ,
will take a mean games player to
f or you t o plan your route. A I
best the final level - wi t h its
.
The hostages look sort of cute r . huge alien f ollowing you around
and helpless - wav ing their arms .
the scrolling terrain.
around to try and attract your 4
Should you manage to get the
attention. They don't need t o better of this alien (already •
really - as you have to having rescued t he hostages/
collect t hem all otherwise
then you will be t reat ed to a
you c annot proceed to A Question marks mean bonus points, picture of all the grateful
the next level.
marks. The question marks are are not quite as good as others. hostages wav ing at you in
On the walls of the
bonus points and the letters Take a tip f rom me and avoid the appreciation of your heroes.
prison are
represent weapons. If you are 'FB gun. My fellow games tester That is really all there is to
various letters
going to have any real chance of suggested that I would be better Alien Syndrome. It is a frenetic
and question rush and blast style game. Just a
completing a level you will have of hitting the aliens wit h my
to bag a powerf ul laser or fl ame handbag thar, using the old 'FB' little bit of strategy in the way
thrower. Certain of the weapons on them. you tackle each level.
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called a Tacophy and resides at
0 0, the end of the fi fth level. Anot her
z1 - r I D O c i l l . I iielim huge alien that has to be
1 11 1:.% C e l t : le 04...vi
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" • • - c skull on a mass of slime and the
Asophy - a reptillian alien that
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speed.
A Frenetic game -play. -i
g . e
You have to have a good f ew
cr lives left when you approach
o % . these big aliens. It also helps to
-i tackle them as a team - wit h
o - t wo lasers trained on them giving
,• them hell.
l . As you progress through the
A - 4 - , O - levels the layout of the ship
p - . Q ; t ‘ becomes more complex - wi t h
narrow bridges, swamps,
e t,. electric lakes, and gates that
r l y : need to be blasted to rescue the
o, hostages. All the time the aliens
e 0 01 are swarming around you -
% constant firing is a necessity as
- e O you walk.
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available on the Sega system and
l was favourably review in Mean
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A Find the hostages. back,
7
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Ace will be publishing the
home versions of the game for
4 the 64, Spectrum, Amstrad, and
ST. This review has been mainly
K based on the 64 version.
e Yes the seven levels of game
play are based on a multi-load
r principle but - Ac e can be
- forgiven for this. As Ace boss
Tim Langdell puts it: "Ev en on
t the coin-op itself the game is
If youd o n ' t rescue all the
hostages and scarper before the
time runs out the whole ship will
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basically seven different levels.
The load system will be smooth
and won' t interfere wit h game
play . "
•
blow. A most impressive blow it By anyone's standards this
is too - fi lling the whole screen t has to be judged a very
with exploding orange fireballs. competent conversion, In my
One of the best features of the
e
opinion, Ace has done a better
arcade version was the screams i job than Sega managed
- especially f rom Mary. g themselves when they converted
The 64 has impressive sound It for the Sega games consul.
effects wit h a good t humping A Competent conversion of coln-op. As much as possible has been
laser sound and believeable Alien Syndrome is at its best Your companion is most c rammed into the game - right
explosions - alas no screams as a t wo player game. The team helpful when you exit a level. f rom the title screen onwards, If
though. work aspects and opportunities There is an unpleasant surprise Ace can maintain this standard in
Ace is promising that the 16 bit it provides for races to grab the wait ing for you at the end of their conversions then garners
versions of the game will have good weapons and to see who each level - in the shape of one are in for a treat. Ac e game.
near identical sound effects to can rescue most hostages adds vast, ugly alien who is
the coin-op. greatly t o the basic design. determined to stop you - 1 8
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the mov ement any sense of energy-draining "s mart bomb'
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hasn't come up wit h any classics
realism.
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yet. Herobot ix . isn't going to
change things — it 's a
the guardians as you mov e f rom
screen to screen. This isn't too , the; idea that
familiar, you'll get
competent but unexciting challenging, so to mak e things Herobotix doesn't do much to
arcade adventure wit h all the more complex you have to fi nd make the adrenalin fl ow. It
usual attention to backgrounds switches, stand on them, and flip would be different if the action
and sound effects, but not much then t o deactivate the electronic took place at a breakneck pace,
in the way of innovative barriers whic h block off parts of but it's all rather relaxing and
game play the complex. more likely to make you want to
Forget the plot — it 's the usual You will also fi nd c omput er put your feet up and take a n4p.
fl uff about space pirates, terminals whic h can activate t wo Not muc h incentive to buy,
captured laboratories and, helpful functions: a map unless you are the sort who
would you believe it, a "Z-Ray s howing the area around your enjoys slogging through a
Particle Generator". Your task as current position, and a freeze complex game merely for the
an heroic droid is to move facility whic h will turn off the pleasure of fi nishing it, and
around the lab, searching out the conveyor belts for a short time. doesn't expect too much
These belts operate in one excitement along the way.
5x,parts of the weapon, t apping
into the master computer then direction only, and so block your
making your escape on a rescue access to some areas; at one
shuttle. stage a circle of belts will let you I• GRAPHICS 5
The corridors, machinery end into the centre of the screen, but 5
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we put In the picture J.M. Wood, of
Wednesbury, West Midlands (Atari ST);
PowerGraphix, of Holland (Amiga); Ian
Chandler, Northolt, Middx, (Amstrad); Alan
Sheriff, South Godstone, Surrey (Atari ST); and
Martin Stevenson, of Worsley, near
Manchester (Spectrum). If you want to try your
hand at computer art, send the results to
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3AU. And please don't forget to tell us which
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Split second timing and
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enhances the fi re power of the game. If you get destroyed, you there after, There are countless
the Slap Fighter is moved over ship_ 1 ' B o mb " gives the ship the
one of these, a box at the bottom 4 lose any special powers you have screens 11 was n't going to count
ability to fire bombs. "las er" fires accumulated up to then.
of the screen moves to highlight , 1 them anywayl of blasting — all
a beam out the front, "Ho mi n g The backdrops are very very muc h the same. There are
a new power whic h has become g"
Missiles" are very effective; just
available to the player. There are
P colourful although occassionally even some indestructible nasties
hit the fire but t on and missiles it meant that alien shots were every t went y sections or so..
eight of these. "S p e e d " homei in on all nasties on t he lost against the backdrop. The
increases the speed of the fighter There are plenty of better
screen.
t "S h i e l d " protects the fi ghter itself is well drawn, shoot-em-ups on the ST.
—t here are five levels of speed. ship f rom a number of hits. although the shadow
"Shot " makes the ship revert to t So how does it all hang underneath flickered in a rather
normal fi ring. "S i d e " allows the 4. GRAPHICS 7
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together in practice? Not terribly distracting fashion. lw SOUND 5
craft to fire sideways. " Wi n g " well I'm afraid. Basically, despite Extra lives are awarded at PLAYABILITY
can be selected three times and the i five supplied, its a one life 50,000 points and each 70,000 VALUE
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1-MACHI NE . CBM I
colour sprites, mind you. If you are hit a number of times manoeuvrable sprites, better
1- SUPPLIER: CRL. MHaving done that, you lurch in the front or rear you will lose graphic design and some more
1
I' ' REVIEWER: CHRIS JENKINS. into P the game. At the top left of your weapons. All you can do exciting weapons features, it
the roadway appears your then is speed along, avoiding would have made an excellent
P Sometimes you see a game, and r
speedometer, at the top right obstacles and looking for new budget title. In the absence of
R any of these, Road Warrior is the
it makes you think "Thes e guys
Ireally k now what they're doing.
your i remaining lives, bot t om left weapons whic h mysteriously
your score and bot t om right your appear on the road in f ront of most baffl ingly disappointing
C This is stylish, up-t o-t he-minut e, fuel i and the number of bikers you. You can also pick up full-price game I've seen for
E imaginitive, enjoyable and you i have to ice to complete the speed-up weapons, but some of months. The fact that you get a
:challenging". Other times, you level. free poster wit h it is little
7The bikers and cars come from theThe objects are booby-trapped.
C see a game and you think "Thes e sprites f or the extra consolation.
guys
9 must be a f ew sandwiches behind
P you — and, on later weapons are so badly designed 4. GRAPHICS 3
short of a picnic. This is levels, ahead of you too. If you that you c an't tell what they're 0. SOUND 5
1 1 into a biker, y ou lose fuel, supposed t o be, and some of the IP. VALUE 3
5primitive, boring derivative and crash
PLAYABILITY 4
old-fashioned". Guess whic h and 7 if you crash into a parked car
.category Road Warrior falls into. or a boulder you lose a life. v A void the cars to survive.
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.the arcade dinosaur Spy Hunter, you i hold down the fi re button to
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with large, unident ifi able sprites tradek points for fuel.
and unimaginitive gameplay,
5
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horror that is Road Warrior. P
It is the tenth anniversary of
the Death Race; each year since A
1990, crazy bikers have gone on r
a rampage of destruction_
You have four cars to choose i
from — God k nows why, they all •
appear to perf orm in muc h the
same way. You can also select
the colour of the car — s ingle
 in return f or presenting a very
small radar return. It is not
"inv is ible" to radar, just very
hard to see! This allows it to
penetrate deep into enemy
airspace on phot ographic ,
bombing or air-superiority
missions.
You are offered f our theatres
of war: Libya, the Gulf, the
Nort h Cape and Central Europe,
and three levels of conflict: cold
war, in whic h you are most likely
to fl y photographic missions,
limited war, in whic h you may
have to shoot, and conventional
war in whic h anything goes.
Enemy response can also be
adjusted_
There is quite a difference
bet ween penetrating Libyan
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P. SUPPLIER: MICROPROBE. mission against green and
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in the middle of World War

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The remarkable thing about Three!
Microprose is that their fl ight Unlike some other Microprose
simulators, already the best on simulators, this aircraft has to be
the market, get better every landed safely. This is, I am told,
time. The F-19 "St ealt h'', whic h made even harder than the real
will c ome into service wit h the thing by the wire-f rame
US Air Force in about 1990, is so graphics. Fort unat ely when
secret that very little is k nown practising you can set the
about it. Mic ropros e have used program to accept less than
information that has already perfect landings! Perhaps the

tea
been published to produce this best feature is the ability to save
simulator. a successful pilot and go to
The Stealth fi ghter is not a another mission when you've
wonder-plane. It is a small recovered.
one-man subsonic jet whic h can tx GRAPHICS 8
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character has finally been Pick up your trilby and trusty
trapped in this comic all- bullwhip and don the mantle
action extravaganza that of the legendary Indiana
recreates those nailbiting Jones! Prepare yourself for
chases and the fast moving your most dangerous
excitement. Overcome all adventure yet. You will call
the dirty tricks Wile (Coyote on all your reserves of
can throw at you with ease, courage, strength and skill
agility and grace and a to storm the evil Temple of
haughty 'Beep Beep', Doom and rescue the
otherwise it's sorry, imprisoned children
goodnight and and the magical
'Burp Burp'! stones of San kara.

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METRO CRO SS potholes, a barrage of obstades that
Are you the one inIm
a million who can hinder your progress and no go areas
think in microseconds not minutes? that bring you to a standstill make
If so Metrocross is for you. A this race against time increasingly
chequered floor riddled with impossible.
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 ••• SUPPLIER: will put up with them, for lady will impart advice on It has a very different
ACTI VI SI ON/ I NFOCOM. what follows is, to my mind, all sorts of deadly screen layout. A window at
.• MACHI NES: IBM PC; ATARI a whole lot more weaponry. the top normally carries
ST; AMI GA C-128.
Interesting than a mere Down at the Rusty the text description of the
B. PRICE: M A I (C128),
£24. 99 (IBM, ST, AMI GA). role-playing game. Lantern, not a mile from current location, and to the
in- REVIEWER: KEITH. Charged with recovering where a sailor sits painting right of this is a block map,
the fabled Coconut of a picture of bygone days,
With three worthy showing locations in the
Quendor, you set Out there be bandits.
predecessors sharing its vicinity that have already
empty-handed, save for a Something very strange is been visited, and all
name, Beyond Zork should sole zorkmid. being plotted around the obvious exits,
be a roaring success. But it blazing fire, and the locals How addictive is the
is on entirely different
game from any one of are not at all keen on your game to play? I found it to
those famous three, written presence. One false move. be one of those rare games
and vou could find a that I Just kept on and on
not by Lebling and Blank,
but by Brian Moriarty, who
brought us Wishbringer
and Trinity.
Beyond Zork combines
many of the features of
role-playing type
adventures, with the

playing, completely
ignoring the deadline for
this review until the
eleventh hour! After a few
'dodgy' titles from Infocom
recently, it is nice to see
them back on course, with
what is bound to be
orthodox text adventure in among their top selling
You may journey to titles. Or will it? Being
a way that eliminates nearby Miznia, take a ride
many of the features of the written in Interactive
on a skyway gondola and Fiction Plus, it requires a
former that I find tedious. A witness at first hand the
role-playing game tends to machine with at least 128k
Inc redibly dangerous dagger towards you. of memory - tough luck,
consist of a series of rather Jungle. Perhaps a visit to And there be monsters.
drab dungeon-like C-64 ownersl
the Magick Shoppe would Apart from the inevitable
locations inhabited by
fierce monsters, and much
of the game revolves
not be out of place, for the
little old woman who runs
it, has a wealth of
gwes, you will find rat-ants,
crocodiles, a
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around doing battle with Information about all host of other nasties, it- VALUE 9
them, rather than solving things magick. Strange, including the Incredibly
problems heightened by could swear I've seen her resistant cruel puppet, who
descriptive text. before, somewhere can annoy you to death
In Bey ond Zork, before On the other hand, you with a mere twist of his
play can commence, a might take a trip in the body. When you come up
character must be set up, other direction, to the against a monster, you are
choosing from a list of such famous resort of drawn into battle with it, by
attributes, and Only time Accardi-by-sea. There is first wielding a weapon,
will tell whether there is a another specialist shop and then attacking with it.
'correct' balance of these here, where another Beyond Zork is not only a
for success. Meanwhile, knowledgeable little old different kind of odventure.
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The
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been
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closed without
reason, and the
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great detective deduces walks around examining
E the Crown Jewels have
that
:been stolen before even the tombs, that the player
begins to forget he is
£
his important visitor from playing a complex
N.M. Government Informs
1 detective adventure.
him.
9 Sherlock's task is to Written by on author nev,
find
. the jewels before 9 to Infocom. Bob Bates.
o'clock
9 on Monday, for the there are plenty of those
Coronation festivities. much-loved refer backs to
9
Today Is Friday, June 17th. previous games. Watson's
(1887. according to your
pill bottle is padded out
C
copy of the Thames. with cotton balls, whilst
6 The Only clue left behind there is a crowd of Nannies
4by the thief is a sheet of surging through
)paper on which has been Kensington Gardens with
written a number of verses. their prams.
,
Not missing a trick, Holmes Sherlock is now the third
EIs certain that the thief
2knows the way that he Infocom game to come
with built-in Invisiclues,
4thinks, and has and, hard as I tried, I found
.deliberately laid a trail for them impossible to resist on
9him to follow. He therfore a couple of occasions.
9suggests that you, Watson, Again, they give away
should decide what to do, Ideas on where you must
In order to tool the thief.
go, even before you start
It is not long past Sam as dipping into the answers.
you step out into Baker And once in HINT mode,
Street, the thick London fog the list of questions
swirling around you, and presented virtually
the great detective • compels the player to
following. After reading the hove a look at a few, rather
cryptic verses carefully, a than the particular hint he
quick look at the map of required.
London supplied with the I played Sherlock on a
package, gives you a few C-64, and bless Infocom for
ideas, and it seems
supporting the machine -
wherever you are headed they have even added
you have a fair walk ahead windows, as seen in Trinity,
- so perhaps a cab ...? which display signs and
HAIL CAB is an expression suchlike superimposed
that comes to mind, but it is over the screen text. But on
not the correct one. Not
the 64 things are deadly
only that. King's Cross slow! There is no doubt that
Road is NOT your it you are a frequent player
destination, and, of infocom or Magnetic
thankfully, the game does Scrolls adventures, you
not understand the word should be seriously
CABBY - although the thinking of a 16-bit
cabby does say WHERE TO machine If you haven't
GLIV'NOR. However, it displayed on the screer, Leatherheod happened already got one The
seems cab drivers in the and time marches on, purely by coincidence. difference is like making a
nineteenth century were move by move. The Mitchell, it seems, hadn't
even realised there was complicated journey by a
not very well up on standard Infocom parser series of buses, compared
London's geography, for and input system are such a place when he with having a car at your
they seem to take you to infinitely more user-friendly routed his train there.
disposal.
anywhere but the place than that of Sherlock's Crown Jewels is Sherlock has all the
you want to go. Mind you, predecessor, with its something out of on puzzles and text that go to
you don't have to pay! tortuous SAY TO LESTRADE American Tourist's dream, make a moderately
Comparisons with that "WHY ARE YOU SO DAMN and an educational event difficult Infocom adventure
well-hyped disaster of STUPID" form of speech. for the English. The sights of
of the expected standard.
clever programming, the But perhaps the most London are all there as you The trouble is, it is all made
Melbourne House Sherlock outstanding difference move around, with plenty frustratingly easy by the
of some years back, are, of between the two games, is of text to back things up presence of those
course, inevitable. the research that has gone when Watson decides to Invisiclues!
Thankfully, Infocom's Into Crown Jewels. Phillip hove a closer look at a
VOCABULARY 9
Sherlock is not played in Mitchell's Sherlock was set monument or two. The P. ATMOSPHERE O A 10
real time, although the In a laughably Imaginary Interior of Westminster
time and day ore London. where the train to Abbey comes to'llfe irt such A II-.-VALUE
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person. Things suddenly
fall into plac e when,
through the window, you
see a gr oup of villagers
ar ound the dead body of a
girl, who has had her throat
r ipped out. You shudder as
you realis e that you were
responsible. You
determine, once having
escaped from this place (if
you c an) to try to fi nd a
cure for the terrible blow
nature has dealt you, in
making you Waltman.
Your journey takes you
far away, and along the
way you must find ways to
resist your urge to kill - or
the game ends In your own
wretched death. At one
stage, you play the part of
a girl, Nadia, who
befriends Waltman, and
before long, the pair fall in
love. O nc e Wollmon's
bestial habits have been
controlled, the game can
continue. Soon, however,
Nadia is k idnapped, and
Wollmon's task bec omes
twofold: to rescue the one
he loves so tenderly, and to
fi nd a cure for his own
c ondition. The game
itself is certainly worth
play ing, and the many
111 people who have enjoy ed
MiSPECTRUMfAMSTRAD
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C REVIEWER: KEITH. worked up over this, and
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There's a lot of nonsense CRL's earlier Jack The
Ibeing put around by the Ripper.
Npundits, about CRL's line in VOCABULARY 6
Ehorror adventures. It seems P. ATMOSPHERE 9
to be all part of a crusade P. PERSONAL 8
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In c omputer games - but

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Oadventures in the some
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Mthe KILL variety, and the
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Many classic novels All you hove to do is send in a
Ocontain their share of sex werewolf Ioke.
Rand v iolenc e, but it is the Send your lake to Wolf man
Eway in which it occurs, and Competition, Computer + Video
how it is presented, that Games, Priory Court, 3042
makes one book a classic,
and the next, mere porn.
Violence, horror, and sex In
on adventure, must be
token within the context of
great deal of sensitivity,
and involves the play er in
solving problems with the
aim of enabling the
central c harac ter to
not bec aus e I am shocked
by them. I just don't think
they add any thing to the
game. They tend to be
rather samey - bloc k y
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the overall story, and the overcome his little pictures forming
words in whic h it is unc ontrollable desire to rip rather splodgy dead faces Name
presented. Yet already people apar t from time to with crimson mouths, Age
one national monthly has time, when he assumes the The adventure, Address
strongly ur ged retailers to form of a wolf. beautifully written by Rod
refuse to stock CRL's latest, To be true, there are the Pike comes in three parts.

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Joke
Waltman - befor e their Inev itable CRL digitis ed Awaking, after a heavy
editorial staff has even pictures, and whilst I would sleep, you are perplex ed
seen the game! have preferred to see the when you discover your
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International terrorists fac ing is dis play ed as a s4p
are suspected to be narrow strip across the
behind the threat to centre of the screen, and - 1 itrrarrairry rrie
spread a mystery virus, can be rotated. As it ,• • t e:
c ode named PF13, a moves, av ailable il 4 )1e'r ) c t I t t ••,-• •
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and infl uenza. abov e eac h feature of the A Play it again ? 1
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eye, Is to fi nd out who's 1 character continues, so
behind it, loc ate the the options av ailable
source, and defuse the
1 c hange, until, usually, your
bomb that is set to release u ac quaintanc e terminates
the discussion.
the virus. But before you
can do this, you must have r As well as being able to
the key of the hideout, and choose between play ing a
i male or female role, you
a diagr am to dis able the
timing mechanism. And i can choose to control the
then there's your partner game either by arrow keys
and brother, Joe. He's i or joystick. I would
rec ommend that
been k idnapped, and a 4
phone c all warns that you keyboard input is used
won't see him again, aliv e, te a r rather, since mov ing the
n e t e c t • VP V a t - gat I et Hul l l • D a t option selection highlight
unless you take your
people off the case. 4 prior to selecting, is much
: 1 . more ac c urate with an
There are plenty of .
suspects, among them FBI arrow key. With the joystick,
A Hanging on the telephone it is too easy to overshoot.
long you will c ome across As well as play ing solo, the
the PF13 hideout - but it game provides for up to
takes more than mere four players to partic ipate,
s earc hing to get in. eac h c ontrolling his or her
own 'tec.
Talking to other
characters c an be helpful. The pac k age includes a
After selecting TALK, the card for k eeping track of
disk starts whirring, and a suspects, whic h it
recommends is
large digitis ed mug-shot
appears on the screen. photoc opied for
Below It are four courses of c ontinued use. Strange.
ac tion to choose from. then, that the game is
These tend to guide your protec ted by information
actions a little, but don't be within 'The little Black
fooled by them. They make Book' that is required
the game look dec eptiv ely during play. Well, while
easy, which it is not - ev en photoc opy ing the card,
when you have chosen the why well?!
not c opy the book as
easiest of the three
A Here's looking or you kid. Turn the colour down
diffi culty levels.
Agent Mike Kruger, picture, and the relevant If you are c hatting to the and the sound up, to enjoy
Ambassador Bahajian, detail is shown below. Thus barmaid, for example, you 'a mystery in blac k and
and nurse Diane Hunter, you may be v iewing the white'. Here is a
may perhaps have a
and the various Bull & Bear Bar, with a c ompletely novel game
c hoic e of buffering her up, system, with a mixture of
c ombinations that c an go c hoic e to ENTER, a asking her about PF13,
to mak e up the full solution monument that is possible buy ing a drink, or s miling cartoon style graphics and
to the mystery, number to SEARCH, and a path at her. Often, a s imple digitis ed pictures, plus
over 2000. So eac h time down which you can WALK. ac tion like a smile, will some c atc hy music, that
you play you get a Each mov ement arid produc e more results than has taken over a year to
different game. selection is ac c ompanied something more defi nite. reach the UK. What a
After some preliminaries by a few musical notes, shame! I wonder why!
While you are chatting, do
c hec k ing out the world which when strung watch the picture on the
news, and satisfying the together, go to mak e up a screen, it reacts in an
program that you hav e the c atc hy and addic tiv e lit• VOCABULARY WA
unc annily lifelike way to P. ATMOSPHERE
whole pac k age, you start tune. By mov ing around your approac hes . As the •• PERSONAL 7
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quite
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play able, for 'play ' doesn't you meet up with
seem to be quite the word. someone.
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it IS a bit w e l l have to befriend people,
different. I play ed Sapiens and this can be done by
on the ST, and its facilities giv ing them things.
and mode of play varies However, what might seem
c ons iderably between of great v alue to you, may
different mac hine versions. well be worthless to
Nice view b u t what about playabilityf
closer bac k ground, and is
the mode used for all the
action. There is also a MAP
option, whic h opens up a
relief mop window below
the main picture. The
mouse c an be used to
zoom in and out of the
map.
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bac k ground, whic h is not
too bad, but it is
rec ommended that if you
have a MIDI system, you
attac h it, to save the
workload on the ST, and
thus speed things up.
Play, as in game play,
did not make itself
apparent. If there is a
'winning' strategy, or if
there are real problems to
be solved, I c ouldn't tell.
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Infrequently, and the
ac tion taken hos no
Immediately effect on
A Friend or foe progress. It is more a walk
About 100,000 years ago, members of other tribes. through, c haffi ng to
right, with a list of sayings, people, mak ing a weapon
there was Torgan. His tribe There is that much an inventory, or a menu
or two, feeding your face,
was fi nding food scenery, it is c laimed there (food type) respectively, for
increasingly scarce, and are over three million the actions mentioned. and hav ing a kip. It can go
different locations on forever!
its children, constantly Again, the hand is used to
1. VOCABULARY 6
hungry, were bec oming *obtained by dev eloping select the object. ATMOSPHERE 6
diseased. Hognor, the alogrithms of fractal vision The lists within the lw PERSONAL 4
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c omplete solutions problems - and answers! - you c an see that I'm going Hugh Walker, Guildford;
and tips to the He'aline, so to me at the Adventure to be an ac tiv e member, Jonathan Marshall, Ealing;
it was with gr eat regret that Helpline, and Paul and your prize isn't wasted and Aran Johnson, Leeds.
I was unable to help him Coppins (yes, that on me!"
out on a few clues for adventure know-all is still A c harac ter c alled Attiou All pup 'a6pssew
Venom. He has found the about!) and I will try our Gavrok has jsut p o i l a d i o o o Ina
milkberry, but c an't work level best to help you outi rediscovered the delights ,
out what to do next, So of adventuring. For many d
what did he do? He got moons, Adv entur eland lay 1 lisrupN
smashed, and now he month, Cella Taylor in Gavrok's drawer, until at e u t Ot J a w w o u t m o u s
c an't get the medic al key f wins one year's free approx imately 2pm earth 1
from the Colonel, and he osubscription to the time, Gav rok fished it out 4
can't get the pearls from rAdventurer's Club Ltd. She and resumed adv enturing. - 1
Hotlips. Gavrok still thinks that Scott stuasaid w e6peu V Awout aqi
Out in the c old is Peter hfollows on from Mark Kerr,
of Newcastle, who was Adams is the best swoual omt
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Burns of Swansea. Trapped eawar ded last month's adventure author there is. PlalA ' g o1 t s tuouolod
in a cavern in part two of r prize_ There c ould be On And he agrees with The l D p uNo ' s Do 0 J S S O i0
Frankenstein, he has the hACL subscription c oming Fiend! "The Fiend is right," o autta 3 011; lo in b
ice pick, but he dies of c old
- how c an he thaw out? eYOUR way, if you write an thought Gavrok when he o 1 0110
interesting or helpful letter, returned home to base l
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get nowhere. you are alr eady an ACI GAC, l :BOBBOH
Paul Hardy of Sheffi eld is member, you are still asked what you e
having diffi culty settling his eligible, and your thought about The m dig o ioni noA
bills! He doesn't know how members hip will Fiend Gregory Quin fond tsnr •Iouoitopai S i Jou
to write a c heque! Perhaps automatic ally be of Portadown. N.I. has some p
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repairing his c ar - or, you win. rhe Fiend can be a right e u t u o t n d u i 1 3 J 0 m-o mt AJ I
rather, trying to, but with We at C + VG are very pain, and sometimes he :NVINATOM
liftle success. All this is in aware that our overseas has good things to soy. But I
Football Frenzy, readers are often left out of must admit that I agree •Aeuow OJOUJ Jot ' la m a eut
Where is the c omputer the running for with Lee Hodgson of The 01 S i D u i u m o o s O I O Lid I le S
tape, in Kwah competitions, as the Essential Myth when he Aeisal
Jonathan
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Ealing. A s imple enough more than one month after space to the small •Isitualos
question, but here is one the closing dates, in some companies. I myself have ei-11 at senoi6 eut
with a differenc e from G. D. countries. In the Adventure been a great tan of this 'ougoal
Lacey of Birmingham: "Do Zone, things are different! 'independent' stuff for a to teu6ow eut moRli
you know any one who has THE ACL subscription is an long time, and in fac t most ;NAKVHCI111
bought any Atari ST ongoing prize. There is no of my adv enture c ollec tion
• sortware at E20,125 a time? closing date, and overseas is made up of this. •wit t u s lo ws
I think they are really readers hav e been well "I personally think that a o J O I A DI A u o v o ; wiu 4 S u a q ;
overpriced, and think represented amongst the lot ot the major mags like 'pot s e u l L4I M J oiA DJ N ) t o o t o i
people will just pirate winners. yours tend to spend more NOMBYCI do m o s
them." Do they? Do you? In August, Mar c o time and space on the 'Big
Cella Taylor offers help Andr eoll from Turin won Boys' of the industry then ippeiq eut Lung
to Mik e Rowe, who was the award. In O c tober it you do on the people who :d31Xpiir
recently hav ing problems was the turn al Kostas work from their front rooms
with Shard of Spring "Mik e Pollizos from Athens, and using adv enture writing 1 1 0 m tJ Ous
itk probably doesn't know all Dec ember saw Mar c o utilities." J 9 4 0 )iLIC:40Cloi a u t a d p o s a
the spell," she wrote. "O ne Balvers of Kaatsheuvel in Interesting point, Greg, puo 'euoq ab o p aqt eAle
part is found in the Rebel Holland rec eiv ing his first but I tend to disagree. 30N3A3t1 s m o l a
Hideout in the mountains. Dossier. "Thanks to you, my Firstly, 'little boys' tend to
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accident, and then have to risen again, and I'll eventually, if they are a g l i a l u e o p a p a e u SI p 1 0 0
find four secret doors. The immediately make good enough, Secondly, :10440N3A
other part is in Tower 7 on c ontac t with the Adventure our duty to readers is firstly
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Welcome to another feast of fantasy. Wayne
here again, your guide to the magical world of
role-playing games. And have I got some
goodies for you this month, including the
latest offerings from TSR and Standard
Games, a look at live role-playing and your
letters.

definitions of the Vikings and

their adversaries, the Anglo
Saxons. You not only get info
on their lifestyles, tactics and
attitudes but you get a
breakdown of their warrior
0'S UP P LI E R: S TANDARD SUPPLI ER: T.S.R. I NC
GAMES. (sorry') and depict a shoreline, types, from the Viking
which includes bays full of Beserker to the Saxon Huscarl• IP PRI CE: L11.95
11 11• REVI EWER: WAYNE_
1 1. REVI EWER: WAYNE. shingle, outlook posts and It is obvious that a lot of
10 T.S.R. has tried to distance
seaside buildings. One map is time and effort has gone into
- COMPLEXI TY: NOVI CE TO creating and marketing this themselves from the
EXPERI ENCED GAMER. totally set aside for those many
P publication of Scenarios over
R the last few years and with the
I release of "Forbidden
C Realms", they have finally
E
severed all their old ties and
: gone off in a new, exciting
direction. However, it has not
f been easy.
I Over the years which T.S.R.
L has traded, it has released a
S mixed bag of scenarios
O covering everything from basic
. D D to Conan The
Barbarian, Some of them were
great and some of them were
awful, but they all had one
thing in common - there was a
complete adventure ready, and
at hand. The enthusiastic G.M.
would pop in their local hobby
shop, have a good mooch
round and spend a few pounds
on an entertaining looking
scenario. Then they would take
it home, read it thoroughly so
they knew it backwards, and
then play it with their R.P.G.
group, only to find that some
of the time, for an unexplained
reason, it went down like a beef
sandwich at a vegetarian
supper! The reasons for this
were many but more
often than not the main
problem was that the scenario
Over the years Standard sea battles you will no doubt product. Beginners will find it did not fit in with the overall
Games has built up its well want to play. The playing highly enjoyable and the more existing campaign. T.S.R. has
respected and deserved pieces are colourful and each experienced games out there obviously thought about this
reputation by releasing high one has an individual title. will be able to enjoy the problem in great depth and
quality, easy to play and They show the four stages of swiftness and speed of the decided to tackle it form a new
entertaining board games for health your characters can be game, as the longest this game angle. They have come up with
the beginner. By releasing in, namely; healthy, wounded, will take to play in one session the solution in the form of a
Viking Raiders, I feel that the stunned or dead. The counters if just over an hour. "Campaign Set" and 1 am
company will only add to it. also represent various classes If you and your friends (the pleased to report that the
The game has quality of characters; mounted nobles, game is designed for two solution works!
stamped all over it. For your beserkers, peasants, archers, as people but more can play if Realms contains everything
money you receive two large. well as animals like pigs and required) ever fancied getting you need as a G.M. to run a
high quality, full colour goats! involved in the ferocious war high quality A D D or D D
playing pieces, a well moulded However, the one item that between the Vikings and the campaign. For a start there is
ten-sided die, six highly caught my eye was the Anglo Saxons. then this is the the 96 page "D.M.'s
detailed large ship counters, a rulebook. It explains in perfect chance to do it at a Sourcebook Of The Realms"
r straight forward english the price you can afford!! which covers such areas as -
and II* V ALUE 9 setting up campaigns, running
u a counter tray. historical background on PLAYABI LI TY 8
which the game was based, adventures, introducing
l The mapsusual
Standard's
are up to
standard giving highly detailed
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are quite good!), creating a
(including three different
alphabets!), currency details,
campaign for new players and gods, special regions of
one-off special encounters. interest, details of the races

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There is also a large chapter they are likely to meet,
dedicated to selected N.P.Cs of descriptions of mages' sigils
the Realms and what a chapter and w e l l the list is nearly
it is. There is approximately 75 endless.
N.P.Cs of a wide ranging There are also four superbly
variety, who are described in drawn and printed maps which
such a depth that the are huge!! Two of them
information even covers their combine to give you an Last month I explained The Labyrinth's combat system and

4
nicknames and dates of birth. overview of the Realms, whilst how it works. In response to this. I have received quite a bit of
Add all this to a load of recent the other two give you an mail asking me to explain the use of armour class in their
news and rumours in the enlarged view of the initial system and what this entails. So here are the answers to all the
realms plus a couple of campaign area from the sword enquiries that were made.
backgrounds for some coast to the inner sea. The main reason for wearing armour is because it reduces
design-it-yourself adventures Designers Ed Greenwood and the damage your character takes when it is hit by
and you can see that you are in Jeff Grub must have built this nasties/monsters. The armour class (see below) is subtracted

4
from the striking weapons damage when the referee tallies up
your position in the "Time Out" phase. Therefore the higher
the Armour Class, the better the defense!!
All blows will do at least one point of damage though,
regardless of what type of armour your character wears, as this
represents the brusing damage a character receives in combat.
Below is a table of types of armour that is available and the

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respective armour class rating it carries.
Therefore you can see that if your character is hit with a
sword that does a damage of six hits per blow and you are
wearing Hard Leather Armour of armour class two, then your
character will only take four hit damage per blow.
A first level character starts with no armour, but if it
progresses and manages to earn enough money to buy some,

6
there are a few things the intrepid adventurer should bare in
mind!! First of all, the first three classes of armour (ACI to
AC3) are not actually worn by the character, it is just assumed
that you do so. However, armour that is Ac4 and above, HAS
TO BE WORN!! This is called "Physical representation", and
it basically means that you have o actually wear the armour
you obtain. As you can imagine, mastercrafted armour
requires totally genuine (and often very expensive in real

v
terms) physical representation and you have to sacrifice your
speed and agility for your ability to absorb punishment.
Furthermore a new suit of ordinary armour is considered to be
for a great read, let alone a project our of a labour of love. worn out after ten adventures. Mastercrafted armour has 20
great campaign. No detail, no matter how such uses before wearing out, but it should be noted that if
Whilst you are reading your small, has been overlooked. mastercrafted Physical rep is not worn for some reason, it
D.M. sourcebook. the players And this is where my only suffers two uses per adventure.
are going to sit around criticism lay. The actual Armour class can also be raised by the use of certain magic

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twiddling their thumbs right? volume of knowledge is items, spells, miracles and even by certain natural skills that
Wrong! You can give them the overpowering. enhance or duplicate physical armour class.
% page "Cyclopedia of the Apart from this minor gripe, That's all for this month I hope to have some reports from a
realms" to get tore into. This is I can wholeheartedly different type of adventure and some pictures, too!!
abook that mostly contains recommend this product. It is
general and known an essential purchase if you
information that the players ARMO UR TYPE ARMO UR CLASS
can have access to. It is rich in play D + D or AD + D and even • Soft Leather Armour
if you don't you will find it

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rumours, gossip, classy easily adaptable to any other • Hard Leather Armour 2
descriptions and knowledge system that you may play. • Studded Leather Armour 3
common to the players' 4
characters. Amongst its • Chainmail
PLAVABI LI TY 8 5
contents are details of the It- V ALUE 9 • Mastercrafted Chainmail on Plate Armour
yearly calendar, the various By- ROLEPLAVI NG 8 • Mastercrafted Plate 6
7
languages spoken in the realm lb- PRESENTATI ON 10 • Mastercrafted plate over mastercrafted chain
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to Harrison Ford. an alien that

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mountains of mail you send in. going and if so how can
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b• TALI S MAN TI MESCAPE: to see you keep up the good Holland.
I liked the original game

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This is the fourth expansion set from G.Ves other offshoots all published here. This means ago. The reasons given fo r the
G.W. has issued for its best mixing together in a substantial that some lucky person will closure weren't overtly dear,
have their letter deemed letter but I would think that it folded

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selling boardgame Talisman proportion o f G.W.'s games. It
and it is also their worst!! is clear t hat the designer, Frank of the month and will win the because o f poor circulation.
For those of you who are not Bourque, didn't exactly tax the best F.R.P. products reviewed For she record, both Fantasy
familiar with the original old grey matter when he in the column. The other letters Chronicals and The
game. Talisman is a role designed this product, as it has will receive all the rest, so you Adventurer, have also folded
playing boardgame of sorts, all been done many times know what to do; Get fo r mainly the same reasons,
which is good fun to play. I before. Given a little spare writing...! leaving no independantF . R.P.

,
have had some very enjoyable time. I could have designed this magazine on the market.
games of Talisman in the past expansion kit and I have no • What role playing system is
and these have included games doubts that you the reader, best suited to beginners, in • Wayne, who in you opinion
which have used the earlier could do. is the best painter and overall
respect o f both players and
expansion kits. However, with The Talisman's one G.Ms, that has plenty of scope modeller o f both plastic and
this latest release you are left redeeming feature is the board, for everyone? I think metail figures?
Phil Warton, Glasgow

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Dungeons + Dragons and
Advanced Dungeons and I had roger my thinking cap on
Dragons are a bit limited fo r for this one, Phil, and it took
my linking, fro m what I have
seen o f them. me quite a while to work it our.
However, with my hand on my
Wayne Yeadon, Bradford heart, I must answer this

4
question in two parts; It is
A D + D limited!! To be quite
really a question o f size!!
frank, Wayne, most people Without a doubt, the best
know who have got involved in painter and overall modeller o f
F.R.P. started o f f with the
35min figures in my mind is a
basic D+ D game. I t is easy to Dutchman call Francois
play, quick and enjoyable, but Verlinden, who runs his own

,
as you state, after a while it company. he can turn his hand
does get very limited. Mo st from Napolaonic figures to
people then start with Russian tanks in the blink o f an
Advanced D+ V. which is
eye and still produce life like
almost a different game models. I f I could have a
altoghter. but its roots lie quarter o f his skill I would be a
fi rmly in D D . I must admit happy man. Turning to 25mm
that A D + D does get a bit models, Games Workshop's
limited around about tenth or
John Blanche is very good and
& t e n t h level, because the our own Ma rk Dulson isn't far
wondering if G.W. has run out I intensely dislike flimsy jigsaw
of ideas. boards and G.W. has issued games gets a bit unbalanced, behind him.
The reasons for this is that and also with the long term use
this game with a solid one piece
when you actually look at what o f the combat system. • I love the F.R.P. and
masterpiece. It is an unusual
the box contains, you find that shape, well illustrated, nicely However, i f you play the game P.B.M. columns and they are
there is very little original designed and sturdy. Take a correctly you should take at the first thinking I turn to in
material. Most o f the deserved bow, board artist least a couple o f years to get to the magazine. Can't you
characters have been copied John Blanche, and take a the aforementioned levels and
expand the column for a few
from G.W''s other games, prominent note future G.W. the combat system can be more pages, surely the Ed
whilst a few fi lm favourites board designers. In fact, whilst appreciated for its speed. As won't mind?
have been added in for am on about the positive side far as other limitations are
Steve Parkinson, Liverpool.
'Variety'. These have then of the product, and I won't be concerned, A D + D is limited
been combined with a few for long, I cannot fail to only by your imagination. I f
gimics that have been seen mention that the artwork is you still seek other less limited I 'm afraid the Ed does mind
before in various comics and to superb throughout. The other games try any version o f Steve and fie must bear in mind
and behold we are supposed to two artists, Peter Knifton (with Runequest or Warhammer that we are a computer
arrive at a Talisman. sci-fi add John Blanche) who drew the Fantasy rules. They will sort magazine first and foremost.
on. For example, take the same board artwork and Gary you out!! However, don't get me wrong,
space armour, a space marine Chalk, who did the cards, have I agree with you, a few more
and an Astropath fro m done themselves credit.
Warhammer 40.000, various • Y o u 've decided to make the F.R.P. pages would be a good
IP V ALUE 6 F.R.P. column monthly!! t h in e ! However, you and the
armourment gimmics from PLAYABI LI TV rest o f the F.R.Pers and
Rogue Trooper, the Chainsat4 ROLEPLAVI NG 5 Great. that's just what I
wanted. Could you answer a P.B.Mers will have to con Vince
Wa rrio r from the game of the IP- PRESENTATI ON 7
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PWARDN, official publication of T.S.R. there.
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When the third British P.B.M•
convention was over, and I was Hi! Wayne here. There's a lot to get through this there is no more to pay for your
turn as there are no hidden
having a well deserved couple month, including the much awaited report on the extras.
of pints with a huge group o f 3rd British P.B .M. Convention, a preview of And what an offer it is I have
players in a nearby tavern for you. Standard are going to
afterwards, the most common Standard Game's Dark Blades, plus your chance to run a special game for C+ VG
comment was: " Gre a t win a Magnificent gold plated dragon valued at over readers which will be limited to
convention wasn't it ? " To f1,000. 100 players. Start-up in this
which I automatically Simulation: I Gaineplan (Sloth colour box with tremendous game costs the usual £5.00.
answered " Y e s! " . But, when I Enterprises). 2 Soccer artwork on the lid. I have never BUT the first 25 players pulled
actually had a chance to Supremos. 3 Kickabout seen the likes of that before in out o f the hat get the boxed
ponder the question in depth, I (Spellbinder Games). the P,B.M. world. When you start-up set for free and the
asked myself: " Wa s it, that Best New game: 1 Pangea open the lid you are in four £5.00 they send in will be given
good?" (An vil Games). 2 Knights of another surprise. You get a as credit fo r future rounds.
The convention opened with Avalon (Jade Games). 3 Epic large map, again in fu ll colour, So you have a one in four
hundreds o f people pouring in (Rhann Games). Best G•M: 1 which is a sheer joy to own. It chance of winning.
and the P.B.M. stalls being Neil Packer (Sloth would make a great addition to Furthermore, Standard are
busy from the word go. The Enterprises). 2 Dave Cooksey a bedroom wall as a poster and putting up the gold dragon,
hall was packed with people, (D.M.C. Games). 3 Sean if you put your mind to it you pictured on the contents page,
ranging in age from eight to 80, Dillon (An vil Games). Russ could even use it as a basis for as a prize to the eventual
the majority staying right to Mellor (A n vil Games). your F, K R campaign!! winner. This dragon is the
the very end to watch the Best Science Fiction Game: There is also a 24 page biggest on the market and
P.B.M. results. By checking I Starglobe (Timepattern rulebook, printed on top measures 12 inches from nose
the ticket stubs I calculated Games). 2 Spiral A rm quality paper. It is easy to to tail and the same again in
close to 1,500 people turned up (Spellbinder Games). 3 Vorcon ready with straight forward wingspan. It has been sent
which was about a 25 per cent Wars (Voreon Games). rules. away to be professionally
increase on last year. Best Tribal Game: 1 Tribes of The game itself is a computer dipped in 28 carat gold and it is
I met loads of people at the Crane (Mitre Games). 2 Wo rld moderated fantasy game, valued at over LI ,000!
convention, to whom I where you can play one of four Finally, Standard Games are
couldn't really give as much characters. A warrior, a trader offering a completely free
time as I would have liked or either the evil ogers Or the game of Da rk Blades to the
because I was really busy. valiant humans. person that comes up with the
Most o f the major P.B.M. The basis behind Da rk most original name for the
companies were there, Blades is role-playing..' dragon. That means you could
including Mitre Games, Sloth wargaming/tradin / or play for a whole game for
Enterprises, Spellbinder nothing. Entries are to be sent
Games, Jade Games and to me with Dragon on the top
although K.J.C. didn't have a right hand side of the envelope.
stand, they sent representatives European players should
who were only to eaget to chat note I will be reserving a
to people. A ll the stands were specific number of places for
unbelievably busy and it came them, so they won't miss out.
as no surprise that most Of Vengeance (Vengames). 3 However, due to postage and
companies had their best day Midgard (Mitre Games). packing your start up package
ever at a P.B.M. convention. Best P,B.M. Coverage: I will cost £7.00 and further
Labyrinthe, who were Flagship. 2 C + VO. 3. Crash. turns will cost £1.50. A ll
running regular, free, min i Best Company: I Sloth cheques and P.O.'s should be
dungeon adventures in a Enterprises. 2 Anvil Games. 3 made payable to Standard
catacombs of small rooms K.J.0 Games. Games and sent to me at
behind the main stage. Other The prestigious Player of the C + VG.
events that you might have got Year award went to Alan anything else you'd like to do.
involved with were the open Crump. He won the first game The reason behind me saying
A D + D competition, or a of It's A Crime and he is the this is because Dark Blades is a
computerised game of major player in Midgard. brand new concept in P.B.M.
American football, get which Standard calls " a living
involved in a great wargame S TA NDA RD GAMES adventure".
called Battle O f The l u l j i or OFFER had words with one of the
just sit and drink in the bar Once in a while, a P.B.M. designers, Dave Norton, at the
talking to people. game comes to light that you P.B.M. convention Apo told
Highlight o f the convention instantly know is going to be me that the game is based on a
was the prestigious P.B.M. massive. Standard Game's real-time concept.
awards. Fo r the record, the Dark Blades is one of those For example, if for some
awards were run as follows: games. It has quality stamped strange reason no-one in the
Best Role-Playing game: 1 all over it. game sent in a game turn all the
Saturnalia (Sloth Enterprises). The first thing to catch your Non-Playing Characters would
2 A e's (Legend Inc). 3 Pangea eye is way the game is interact with themselves.
(An vil Games). Best Sports presented. It comes in a full Each turn costs E1.25 and

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THE M A L MATRIX THING BOUNCES BACK BASIL THE GREAT MOUSE CONVOY RAIDER SAMURAI TRILOGY RE•BOUNDER
Brave Pillead. sent on a Aquick hand and dogged DEFECTIVE The free world is in peril, the Irl an age in which honour was Armed to the teeth, c hi l l "
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Money doesn't just talk - it advertising breaks! And
talks dirty according to watch out. for an uncredited
Oliver Stone, the man who newcomer as another
showed us 'Nam in Platoon. presenter. His name's Jack
Now he turns to the k illing Nicholson and he should go
fields of Wall Street (15), far!
where the battle-cry of But the real acting
reptilian anti-hero Gordon honours go to Holly (Raising
Gekko is, "Greed is good." Ariz ona) Hunter, whose
This is a dog eat performance as the
everything world and only single-minded Jane
the fi t survive till lunchtime. resembles nothing so much
when they dine on the weak. as a terrier holding onto a
Wily young broker Bud Fox This is the month of the Yuppie. C&VG's very stick. " I t must be wonderful
doesn't intend to make to he right, all the time," her
anyone fat. except himself, own Downwardly-Mobile Reviewer, Ward R angry boss sarcastically
so using all his cunning he Street, shares the stocks as the Young Urban snarls at, her. "No it's not,"
persuades Gekko that he's Professionals get pilloried. she replies, without a hint of
the guy to manage his irony, " it's terrible.
millions. Humourless
It's the start of a twisted
friendship, as Gekko aire'r single-mindedness is a
recognises the ruthlessness
that made him rich in Fox,
s standard yuppie trait., as is
orderliness - whic h means
that kids are out until
and Fox learns that all's fair somebody learns how to
in love and war when your make them leak-proof!
first love is money. You Unluckily the patter of tiny
don't get rich by playing fair. feet, and the piddle of a tiny
Dishonesty means dollars! bladder, can't always be
There's another side to the planned for and the stork -
story. Fox comes from a or at. least. a deserted mother
working-class family. His - turns a trio of carefree
father is an engineer with a bachelors into Three Men
second-division airline, who and a Baby (PG),
has never really Peter is an architect,
communicated with his Michael a successful
high-fl ying son, Gekko cartoonist and Jack the actor
becomes a substitute father A W a l l Street.
who moves from woman to
to Bud, but when he tries to who'll probably go on woman lik e he was being
take over the airline, tough t paid a dollar a dame. They
moral questions are thrown dead,
a Tom is her reporter, live in a plush New York
into sharp focus. neurotic
l and paranoid but a apartment. and nothing
Forget that this is a fi lm consumate professional. interrupts their lifestyle
dealing with high-finance - kThen there's Aaron, the
until one day Mary is
the trading of stocks, the i
air-head presenter who dumped on the doorstep -
buying of third-world debts succeeds
n in being less than a and continues to dump all
and a hundred other pretty face. over their designer pad!
g Director James L Brooks
transactions too complex for Jack is out of the country
mere mortals like you and f •••••

A Broadcast News. at the time, making a movie

me. You'll understand

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o in Morroco, leaving his two
enough to recognise the American news networks.
r It's often extremely funny, buddies to cope with the
goods and bad guys - a n d
goodies and baddies is what
w as the two men compete for rigours of surrogate
a woman who's already fatherhood. But their
it's really all about.. e

4 married to her work! But problems don't stop with

Michael Douglas has e what sort of food you need
moved from Fatal this romantic comedy also for a six-month old kid, A
k takes some swipes at
Attraction to Romancing the
Stone with a superb
s television news and the way friend of Jack's has arranged
performance as Gekko, a it manipulates, and at times to use the guys' apartment
even fabricates, events to for a drugs drop, without
Meanwhile Charlie Sheen f t
goes through three stages as create a more entertaining
t h Unluckily the package of
Fox, from ambition to story. smack arrives on the same
success and then disillusion. e William Hurt. is wonderful e
r day as the baby and gets
And hats off to his real-life as Aaron, the talking head iforgotten in the confusion,
father, Martin Sheen, as his s 11 with ambitions to be a real
r
When the dealers turn up to
on-screen, blue-collar dad, hA Three Men and a Baby. — reporter, while Albert. collect it, Michael presumes
has Brooks is hilarious as k
Gordon Gekko gets his e made a wildly insecure Tom, especially
they
n mean Mary and hands
picture in the papers, but entertaining story out of her over instead, much to
there are better ways of 'these three people and their when he gets an attack of o
t
being part of theBroadcast s
hopes and fears as they work the nervous sweats on-air w
News (15). Jane, Tom and out of the Washington and has to be dried out with h This is all silly stuff but the
Aaron are all involved with bureau of one of the playing
le of Tom (Magnum)
a hair-drier during the Selleck, demonstrating a
getting the headlines into e
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hitherto unseen capacity for
the homes of Mr and Mrs d
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comedy, and Steve
America, g
Guttenberg, fi nally free
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She's a pocket. sized from
e the Police Academy,
producer: a bundle of energy d
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s.
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fly-by-night father, more capturing the glory of the
barren mid-Western
than makes up for the
occasional lapse into landscapes, terrify ing in
sentimentality. Gurgle with their emptiness. A slow,
laughter at these childish sad, haunting fi lm to
goings on. savour.
There are more problems No such praise for The
with children in Flowers in Believers (18), a story of
the Attic (15), Cathy, Chris, black magic and bizarre cults
Carrie and Cory's mother from respected director
has a rather drastic way of John Schlesinger, who
dealing with her brood - she should have known better.
locks them high above their Martin Sheen, so good in
grandparents' house as she Wall Street, is also mixed up
t ries to persuade her dying in this mess - I can only
father to include her in his think somebody threatened
will. to put a curse on him if he
Corrine's not content with didn't appear.
keeping her kids out of' her He plays a police
parents hair by psychologist who moves to
imprisonment - she decided New York only to fi nd that
to poison them as well. Will the Big Apple is rotten with
witchcraft. His small son alst_
t
will happens to be the perfect
h mom inherit the family size for a human sacrifice.
millions
e and dispose of her
offspring into the bargin? The story plods along with a
p This is a prime cut of splattering of nasty effects,
schlock-Gothic. In one but. even worse is the
l
sequence Chris tries to climb underlying racism that
u makes almost every black a
down the outside of the
c primitive, eye-rolling
mansion. Not only do the believer in voodoo. Put a hex
ksearchlights snap on; not
on this one and avoid at all
y
only do they loose the dogs; costs.
knot, only does the butler blast Almost as bad is Death
away
i with his shotgun
hut also there's a swirling Wish 4 (18), It's only
dmist. and flashes of lighting redeeming feature is that
s• and his rope breaks! YOU don't actually expect
much from a sequel to a
e [though melodrama like sequel to a sequel to an
sthis went. out of style in the
forties. But there's original which was pretty
cobviously a market for awful in the first place. The
ahokum. The original book fi lm doesn't disappoint!
f Charles Bronson increases
phas sold over fi ve-million A Flowers , his acting range by smiling,
ecopies and the fi lm made $5 but apart from that it's par
million in its fi rst three days Christmas Hancock learns for the course. Not content
oin the States. As far as I'm that she has a new
rconcerned, this movie is just with blowing away bad-guys
boyfriend. Tortured by a on the streets, he now takes
like its alliterative family, sense of failure, he tries hard
though - it's all at 'C'. to win her back and she can't on LA's drugs underworld.
I prefer movies like A Promis ed Land. If you want some real
quite shake off her feelings thrills you'll do far better
Promised Land (15), where for him. So the scene is set, and I lancock and Mary's with Bellman and True (15).
nothing much may happen, but it takes a third friend, problems. Danny's fears I've praised t
hut it happens just. like real Danny, to light the fuse, grow as he nears the home
life. You can believe in these fih nally
i s it's about to get the
Kiefer Sutherland played that he deserted one night release it deserves. It's
four teenagers adrift in mean characters in Stand by long ago, while Meg shows b e f o r
modern America, the arguably the best British
Me and The Lost Boys, but herself to be increasingly e
thrillers of recent years,
'promised land' which turns this is a total change of pace stable. You feel it in your made
a n all the d more credible
out to be built upon lies. as he play a loser, a geek who bones that something
It's an America you don't by its recognisable locations.
fled the town two years terrible will happen - the Hiller, brilliantly played
often see in movies - the before to bum around in question is what?
America of small towns, by Bernard Hill, is a
Arizona. Now he's coming Sutherland's isn't the only computer expert who is
inhabited mainly by home, complete with great. performance here.
middle-aged and elderly forced into helping a group
pink-haired, punkish Bev, Meg Ryan as Bev matches of criminals crack the
people, without any who is married in an him step for step. She's sexy, security systems at a busy
opportunities for the young. alcoholic quickie ceremony, crazy and dangerous. Jason
It's staunchly middle-class airport bank. He's not a bad
after knowing her for only Gedriek and Tracy Pollan as man - just weak, drowning
and confi ning as a three days. their respectable
straight-jacket for The fi lm intercuts in booze and self-pity.
counterparts shouldn't be From Hiller's initial
basket-hall star Hancock, between their journey overlooked either. And the
who fl unks out of going to towards the frozen north, attempts to decode the data
fi lm looks beautiful, tape, through the bungled
college and becomes a
policeman. raid, to the flight, and
His high school girlfriend, explosive climax on a
Mary, does broaden her windswept East Anglian
horizons however, and beach, the fi lm is rivetting,
when she returns for •

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place a n d a d v e r t is e -
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ment i n t h is s ec tion i t c ondit ion. Wort h ov er E700. E500 wort h of software, Ono, Telephone: (0233) 26800,
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drive. Joystick, Games, only 2 01-550 0059. versatile synth. Call Mat t hew software. Selling f or E150.
mont hs old, box ed and after 5.30pm. Tel: (0532) Phone Craig Copland. 0705
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We promised you hints and tips and pokes
galore and this is where we start to deliver, with
a couple of pages jam pa c k e d with the damn
things. Expect more in the months to come as
Playmasters really starts to take oft We aim not
only to feature the best maps you'll find
anywhere, but back that up with a tip section
that's second to none. As always, I'd welcome
with open arms any lonely pokes looking for a
home, so why not get them bashed out —
legibly please! — a nd into that post box?
XENON aliens as this will maximise thos e defending the air inc lude:
You saw the cover, you your fi repower, then shoot b a s e d domes, whic h it is Ammo - gives you an
read the glowing review, the "Launchers" to stop b e s t to simply dodge. The extra 25 shots.
now learn how to play the them s pewing out more. S e n t i n e l c an only be shot Key - allows you to open
game, curtesy of the Also be aware of the small w h e n it's mouth is open, a loc k ed door.
Bitmap Brothers. aliens at the side, and take b u t you hav e to get them in Food r e p l e n i s h e s your
them out to reduc e the f a s t , as it's not open long. energy.
SECTOR I amount of bullets in the air. Keep mov ing and blas ting Uniform - allows you to
At first shoot all the domes, The "Spac e Invaders" i n the manic last part. if walk through soldiers etc.
and be sure to pic k up all wove is easy to destroy - p o s s i b l e spraying the without losing any energy.
the ''r ate" cells or your ship just keep shooting - but w h o l e area with missiles. Hostage - y ou must free
will be too slow. Use the make sure you do because six before mak ing your way
early stages to pick up they reveal a max imum SECTOR 4 Out:
"balls " and master fuel cell. "Pumps " that Get every wave, even it it Bomb - when you pass
diagonal shooting, but c ome out of the side are means crashing into the over an explosive the
av oid "winos ". Kill the almost indestructible, so first two. Mak e tak ing out screen slips into priming
Sentinel by shooting at it your timing will need the bunkers and the mode, rev ealing a five
until the dome opens and working on, and watch "Brains" a priority, and get letter dis play which you
— — — t h e wave of aliens that must re-arrange into
c ome from the bac k just alphabetic al order before
before the first Sentinel, as the timer begins to tick
I this gives an extra fuel c ell. away. Use left, right and
I remember all the way fire, first ar r anging the
1through to k eep mov ing panel so that A and C are
I and bewar e of bac k war d in their correct positions
firing lasers. Otehrwise this and then mov ing B, D and E
' is like a tougher version of to c omplete the sequence
I Sector Two. as fast as possible.
• If you were careful with
JOE BLADE your ammo early on you
While you're mak ing your should hav e enough shots
way around the Joe Blade left to get out safely before
maze, look ing for bombs to the whole plac e blows.
prime and hostages to ZYBEX
rescue, y ou'd be well
advised to k eep these hints One of the most important
and tips in mind. things to do in Zybex is to
• Try and jump over as learn your weapons and to
many soldiers as possible know when eac h Is most
— i n the early stages of the effective. In most situations
flashes, then aim at its your bac k - onc e you are — — — —
centre. It should flash faster past something you are not
as it nears death. necessary sale! GE111111111111 11111111111•1
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If you hav e the following To get at the sentinel you I
balls then you c an align hove to shoot out all the
them by mov ing the ship in rotating shields, and then ,
a tight circle, thus giv ing hit its power dome a
twice the fi repower. number of times.
Remember to keep mov ing
at all times to av oid the
In the second half you Andlikb a n fl a h , Ani
must get as many following I
missiles, and to kill as many balls as possible, or you I
aliens as you c an in the won't finish. Get the first •
second half, as they reveal one by going for the three
some very useful cells. big aliens with long lasers. I M M O OINESPOSIO 111101111111110 SD
When the narrow gap IMO OD
SECTOR 2 appears towards the end IMMO 1 1 1 0 INNIIINP OD
Take out the first wave of of the sector you need to
shoot very fast in wide
bursts to get all the aliens,
and the useful things that I
lie behind them, inc luding the wall and the orbit will
a super zapper you need g athe m ammunition
e as you willyou needc anall be most useful, but when
to c lear the next bit.
get later on. fac ed with, for instance, an
SECTOR 3 • Hav ing c lear ed the top asteroid or a fi reball storm
Similar to Sector One, but area, pr oc eed towards the you would do well to use
take it slowly or y ou'll trees, mak ing sure you pick your worst weapon - the
up any objects you fi nd on Rail - so that it you get hit
ac tiv ate too many aliens. these two levels. They
You need to shoot them all you don't lose any thing
to get past, ex c ept for
 in, but then you'll be free to that the most important
modify the game as muc h thing in the early parts of
as you like. the game is to destroy as
POKE 43607,200. When many of the dangers as
you press SPACE with this possible, but you shouldn't
poke in, the pr ogam will waste time trying to wipe
stop and let you mess out every last one. If you
about with it how you want. take all c ollec ted objects
POKE 43384,0-99: Gives to ground level, it saves a
you any number of lives. lot of time.
POKE 43394, 0-4: 4 gives When you are in the
mega fi repower. Magic maze, you will fi nd
more v aluable. When POKE 43410. erm: " E r , " i s that new routes can be
panic and hit the brake or a multiple of 5, plus l opened up by standing in
confronted by a mother accelerator. certain places, so you
i11
e etc.
. 6 up, to 46.
The turbo boost is heavy to fi nd out what that does You'll hav e
ship get yourself k illed should try walk ing to the
straight off and then you on fuel so be careful how ends of the corridors to fi nd
yourself!
can use your few moments you use it. Dave out. However, it is a waste
of inv ulnerability to run recommends puffi ng on Start the game again
the boost on three or four at with RANDOMIZE US R 43350. of time to walk long
right up to the motherships distances carrying
heads using your wall the start of the race.
weapon. Below is a list of Hopefully this should take HINTS nothing. Finally, here are
the various levels of the you into the lead or at least • There are two types of some anagrams which
near the front of the fi eld. may be of use, though you
game in order of diffi culty. dis appear ing blocks that are going to have to work
Do a few easy ones and Once there, save fuel by go when timer reaches 70 out just what they mean
then a hard one, a few turning the boost down to and 50 seconds yourself. Scare Greta,
easy ones, etc: Diabalos, one. This should leav e respectively. So if you are Crater fi lled way, Other
Baeus, Necros, Rictus. enough gas in the tank to under a bloc k on 71 or 51
Titan, Antares, Procyon, gloss, Budget lock, Tread
put the boost up full for a you ought not to be. fragg, Moddog lassin, Part
Skoraus, Beros, Centaurus, fi nal c harge towards the • Never knock out falling
Encelodus. c hequered fl ag. live magic bars, Spidi tried
blocks from abov e or science. The mirren gang.
One of the secrets of
NIGEL MANSELL motor rac ing is getting
So you thought Nigel your rac ing line right.
Mansell's Grand Prix, To do this you must get to
Martech's speed rac e know the circuit well
simulation, was pretty and antic ipate the curves.
accurate? Well it's even Drivers always try to c lip
more realistic than you the ins ide edge of the
think. Ac c or ding to Dove curve, almos t driving in a
Looker, one of the straight line round the
programmers, there's even bend. Get this skill right w4 1 (1 i t MP
= = = = a
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Shuk and Doode, Dave was braking and gear AL
prepared to spill the beans c hanging. Driving wide MPli C U E L M t / P k : _ E M I N , _ . , .
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weave the car from side to likely to go into a spin. .
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rides, Arctic noronio,
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I fi nd, and try not to waste Cobra lemon whar, Glow
'bombs - both will be vitalL ride braid, Drug dads
later on. L pigeon. Trapped halah.
• Av oid the plac es wherel Well. that's it with
aliens materialise, or one i
Playmasters for this ish. Join
might do it on you! u us next time for more of the
DIZZY L same, plus the long
The Oliver twins have i awaited debut of the Bitter
released these hints and A Ends feature, whic h should
tips for their cartoon i fi nally surface in June!
adventure Dizzy from I
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start, if you have problemsA
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the " V" shape where the
side to side. There's always I. BALL 2 (SPECTRUM turfs join.
a few drops of fuel left in
the tank and this motion VERSION) When attempting to
often gets them used. But it master the magic
Unfortunately you are mushrooms you should
only works onc e in a race. going to hav e to be able to avoid bounc ing too high
Racing at high speeds get your hands on a
means that it can be easy by holding the jump key as
Multifac e or similar unit to Dizzy leaves the
to go into a spin. Don't get the first of these pokes mushroom. Remember-
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bonus level. Aliens whiz onto the VULCAN
1 . supply and t i s m onth's Arcade dance floor from both sides of the
VENTURE
Acti on has r e v i e w s o f t w o of th e b est screen and the music starts. It's
5 your chance to blast them out of In 1985 there was Nemesis; in
h - G a l a g a ' 8 8 and Vulcan V enture. step and oblivion while they flit 1986 there was Salamander;
I f y o u ' r e l o o k i n g f o r m o r e d o w n to and jig around the screen in time and in 1988 Konami brings you
o e a r t h acti on, K a g e k i a g a m e wi th to the music. They don't fire at the third of this great trio —
you, but IF you are laughing half Vulcan Venture.
o m o r e th a n e n o u g h punch . . . ki ck! I I think almost every arcade
t l addict has ployed the first two
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GALAGA '88 is hit, you can still soldier on with
the other until that too dies. and, to be honest, Vulcan Venture
won't seem too much at change
There's also the addition of a
A trip down memory lane is to be monster alien at the end of each from those two arcade hits.
M found at the helm of Gafoga '88 Most of the game features in
ievel, and before starting the
i l which, as for as I could see, is a cattle a small picture of this this fast horizontally scrolling
technicolour version of the shoot-em-up have been
l k deceptively timid monster is borrowed from Nemesis and
original Galogo first releosed in shown to whet your appetitite.
1981 Salamander with only a few
s At around that time several Actuolly Go/ago '88 is quite a original additions. There ore new
difficult shoot 'em up and killing
a similar games were released, the alien takes a while with some weopons like a shield photon
bomb and rockets which shoot
namely GOIOXiOn5 and Gyrus, oil nifty dodging and firing involved.
r Filled with swooping formations It's certainly no walk over. both up and down. A selector
of aliens which would hong in Arid, of course, there's the old grid at the beginning of the game
e clusters at the top of the screen gives you o choice of four
Space Invaders element in the
a before launching to attack your different clusters of weapons and
ship at the bottom. the option to start off with lasers
l Well this highly original
formula is still hanging around in
w Galaga '88 though there ore one It
a or two noticeable additions. The as hard as I was you won't be
Firstis the speed. The able to fire at them either.
y multi-coloured aliens swoop However, the more you hit the
around the screen at frightening more points you get.
s speeds, far Foster than your ship At the height of blasting the
•
at the bottom can move. The
i guts Out of the aliens you get the
second is a dual ship facility chance to double your firepower
n which lets you choose, at the •
by adding another one of your
beginning of each gorrie whether a ships. presuming you've still got
g to use one ship or stick two one spare, to the one on screen.
o together for multi-fire_This is all This hoppens when you shoot a
very well, but as you have only certain breed of alien.
o three ships, you con use them up At the beginning of the game,
pretty quickly. However, on dual the backdrop is of -
d firepower when one of your ships "P t the
4 s pdistance
a c e and hundreds of
multi-coloured specks of space
s t a t i stages
o n bring you
dust. Loser
game. The aliens initially swoop iclosernto the space ship so that it
1
onto the screen in two sets, one dwarfs the screen. Hyp-erspacing
1 from each side, then gather at the to new levels is also a new
0 top dropping a whole assortment Feature, As soon as you've killed
1 of bombs and bullets on you while all the aliens an one level, your
moving down the screen. Those ship streaks to the next, the space
•. on the bottom row peel off to
0 dust blurring as you speed post
, p ' • , • attack direct — not in ones and Asteroid levels appear later on or swirling pulse rays.
H twos but whole bunches of them. and the screen is filled with huge Some of the graphics, like the
. i Your life expectancy is pretty swirling rocks. Blasi these to long clawed arms which sweep
I short at times as the bullets rain smithereens to create a clear path the area in a semi-circle, have
s down, However. I did notice that
. through them. Then Onto to aliens been token straight from
% you can hide in the corner of the which take a number of hits to kill. Salamander, but there ore a lot
1 screen where the bullets can't
I After every direct hit they swell,

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0 of fabulous new graphics which
N touch you. The only drawback to until they are so large they burst. will take your breath away. The
0 the cowardly behaviour is that at There's on awful lot going on playing area is much larger and,
• some point you have to come out and G a i n ° '88is still a stiff apart from flying straight ahead,
P and face the music. shoot 'em up. Though the game's the screen pans vertically giving
a And in Galaga '88, music is the outdated, it's still fun. you a much larger fighting area.
operative word. Hove you ever Here's a high score to beat. The game starts off like
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seenclumps of aliens dancing the Colin Fuidge of Surbiton scored, Nemesis with strings of aliens
t waltz, tango or rumba? Well, if in about five minutes, 95,070 swooping in to attack. Just
you ploy this you will, and it had points. That's pretty good for 30 position your ship in the right spot
etebA a group of us creased up. pence. So why not write in to and they should fly stroight into
• The game is divided into stages Arcade Action with your your stream of bullets. Shoot the
and dimensions and after every mega-score? orange aliens and they'll leave

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picked up for extra weapons. The
and you'll hove to thread a path
through them. This is really tricky. KAGEKI this stage as the referee picks up
the unconscious fighter and tosses
pace is fast though the game The dragon heads close in for the him into the hole. Now for the
starts off slower than its kill, and if you don't move down Oueensbury rules don't apply in
the makeshift boxing ring of next one. i l l t f
predecessors. Soon the grid at for enough you're likely to get The secontillithter is a bit
Taito's Kogeki, where the
opponents punch the hell out of tougher to put out, but at least he
i -. I 14. fights with just his fists. It's more a
each other using every dirty trick
p 3 3ES matter of tactics and a punchy
they can think of.
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Watched by a bond of thugs in
4 e l, 'to I • 7.• IN * a r the background, beating their you're ta beat him_ You con
E t -A s g chests in a pathetic show of increase your energy grid by
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• 1 4 waiting fighters and you're likely
I f' r ' shifty bunch ore your opponents.
+ 4 The boxing ring is a courtyard of to lose energy as things ore
a
' some sort complete with a thrown at them, loony case, the
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covered drain hole in the middle. fighting area's too small to keep
1
And so the fight starts. The first Out of anyone's way for long.
• The third of the five opponents
thug circles you in the ring and the
punches fly. Press left and right is a real toughie and you stand no
buttons for left and right punches chance of getting in a clean punch
as he wields a ball and chain
and try to dodge thithooks and
111171:1°11 jabs coming at you.; It's fairly which flicks Out and catches you
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hard work, but you should be on the chin whenever you get in
p • - *
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quickly. The ref comes on, counts my shortest before being dumped
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trapped and frazzled. As soon as to three and if your opponent can hole_ I still haven't worked Out
you're through this hazard you'll get u• * fi g h t continues. Each
.
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1 1 1i come out on the other side to meet how to get the better of this
hooligan though I gave it a
--• a beautiful flaming phoenix which
must be defeoted to continue on damned good try. Presumably
to the next level. The bird is fighters four and five have even
dirtier tricks up their sleeves.
massive as it flaps its wings and
raises its talons to attack. The fights ore viewed slightly
from above giving all the players
Spitting great fireballs at you on u n n a t u r a l
and sending needles of blue -
huge heads ond torsos and tiny
flames which thickly cover the skinny
s t u n tlegs.
e at. Not a pleasant bunch
d The
a r m and ore difricult to dodge, too look sound effects ore
you hove to shoot this monstrous lquite
o o k and the groans and
good
bird of prey's head a number of w i of t pain
h coming from a
times until it's blown clean off its moons
stricken opponent are quite
body. reolistic.
And then you're on to the next On the whole, this isn't the most
level, flying through a dark and addictive boxing game I've ever
brooding nightmare scenario played and isn't a game I'd came
with a background of lattice work bout is based on the best of three back to for another bout.
and untold hazards such as thick
matches before you can 90
scaley arms clawing through through to the next round.
space to grab you Salamander There are other things to worry
again_ The playing area is about in each match, primarily
greatly increased and you'll be the molotov cocktails thrown in by
flying as much up and down as a bored audience to liven things
left to right, Attacking aliens up. If you see one of these
come in thick and fast and extra
coming, duck or you'll lose badly
the bottom of the screen begins to weapons are a great bonus. The
end of the level is heralded with a needed energy points. Energy
flash and you con select Speed bars for both fighters lie at the
Up, Missiles, Double, Laser and fight against a gigantic eyeballl bottom of the screen and you can
Multiple, depending on which is Heavy lids close rapidly to tell at a glance how you are
floshing. protect the iris and pupil and doing. When you're out for the
Huge spinning balls of fire massive claws swing across count, groaning and writhing on
appear, filling the screen and throwing huge missiles at you
the ground, your opponent gets a
letting off jets of flame. Long trails Asteroid fields; levels filled brief rest and his energy points
flick out with dragon-like heads of with huge blocks of ice, swirling creep up slightly. The same
snaking towards you and can backgrounds of highly coloured happens for you when he's Out
only be put Out of action by a space dust, cannons mounted on and can be quite an advantage in
direct hit on the hood. The loser is both the roof of caverns and the the closing stages of a bout.
much the best weapon for this ground, zillions of aliens zipping At last your first opponent hits
situation as it kills the beasts with to ottock at high speeds and the the floor and stays put. The ref
one blast. Though the pulse rays skill and speed needed to pick the counts him Out and for a short
hit a larger area, their firepower right weapons at the night-time while you can rest on your laurels
isn't as concentrated and more all combine to make Vulcan knowing that at least you've
shots ore needed_ Venture as sure a winner as beaten one of the thugs. The use
Soots more fire balls appear Nemesis and Salamander_ of the drain becomes apparent at
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Double Dragon, Kung Fu Kid,
Teddy Boy and Fantasy Zone. How
do they rate? Read on.
• DOUBLE You have three lives, a
timer and an energy guoge to
• SEGA
DRAGON watch. You con move left to REVIEWS
right to get through a mission KungFL) Kid is the first offering this month.
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ball these days with their screen will not scroll on until kick 'em up and follows standard form
range of arcade games and you hove defeated the with you out to get revenge for the killing
we should be seeing them on enemies on that screen, when of your Kung Fu master. The baddie in
the eight-bit machines quite you hove done this a thumbs question is called Mondonda who lives in
soon. In Japan they have not upappears and you can
wasted any time in converting continue on.
to the Nintendo, the latest Mission one has you on the
conversion is Double Dragon. streets taking on the whipping
Thescene is (yawn) nothing sisters, and Ken Livingstone
new, on evil bod has Chinese lookalikes (honest1).
kidnapped the missus and you This leads to an exit and you
have to get to his hideout to thenenter mission two with
rescue her. There are three muchof the same, more
options at game skirl one/two enemies, walls to climb and
player or two player in a or bat wielding opposition.
two player in a head to head Mission three starts off in a
beat 'em up, in this option you forest (very mice graphics)
canchoose the characters which leads to caverns and
from o list of six (Billy/Will/ eventually to a cliff face
Rowper/Kinda/Chin and peppered with ledges you

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Abobo). This is Fun and you have to get around. Mission
canwork off the days four is THE BIG ONE. Here
aggression by beating up you have mode it to the Fantasy Zone— a beaut game.
your favourite game hideout and everything gets LionCastle.
character. thrown at you, to get to your Toconfront him you have to complete
There ore four missions to other half you have to beat all sevenrounds. The action takes place
work through, eachmission the previous enemies in against a smooth scrolling backdrop (left,
having a variety of scenes. consecutive order without a right, up and down depending on the
Youcan leap, kick, punch and break (I made it to the big round) with lots of lethal enemies flinging
evenrun away boss but he just pipped me at themselves at you.
outsmart the Chinese the post!) Youcan walk left and right, leap high
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w h e nThey come in a (and I mean HIGH), kick and throw
All in all Double Dragon
tvariety
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n from Chinese hassome very tasty graphics talisman. The talisman is a special
sisters
g trying to whip you to and has got a good solid feel weapon that knocks out all enemies in the
death, flunky musclemen who to it (although it does flicker in direction thrown. These can be
ttoweroover replenished along the way (they appear
you, barrel and placest) sound does tend to
knife throwing long-haired grate on a bit but is bearable. in mid-air and you have to leap up and
70's revivalists floirs and all Definitely one of the better grab them). There are also special
(or they could be Chinesel) to conversions for the Nintendo talismans which boost your power and
baseball wielding. that will hopefully not be too these con be picked up in level two.
If you manage to knock Youstart with three lives and a life is last
long in getting to the shops
over a thug with a weapon he over here. when your energy meter hits zero. The
will drop it and you can pick it ordinary enemies decrease your energy
up and use it. oncontact with you and on reaching the
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defeat a biggy opponent
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uncanny knack of having a death at you. The only
brute of anenemy at the end weapons available initially There has been no official
of each level). If you beat him There was a mix up lost
are bullets and bombs but announcement yet BUT an month at the printers and
a bonus is awarded based on these can be upgraded by inside source at Nintendo the tip for unlimited lives
time and energy left. collecting coins. You can
There are some nice touches Japan tell sine that they have should have read, to get at
collect coins by shooting a NEW 16-bit console least six restarts you have

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with jumping off walls and aliens and then buying better waiting in the wings, if I con to press Wuldidilirl
pillars, the ability to change armaments for your ship from Itricliuidiu when on the
getmemits on a piccy you will
direction in mid-air and doing The Shop. You canchoose be the first to see it. Game Over screen.
painful looking squats (rather from three types, Speed (Big •There is a new FM Sound Also on Space Harrier
him than mei). The graphics Wings, Jet, Turbo, Rocket),
ore colourful and detailed Unit for the Sego which really you can change your little
Weapon (loser, 7-way shot, boosts the sonics, so after man into a spaceship by
and the tune keeps the action Wide Beam)Bombs (Twin,
zipping along. swooning on the latest getting into the sound test
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Welcome to the Fantasy arcade game. tosome REALLY GROOVY manual) and choosing the
Zone! I remember seeing this Youconchoose your team TUNESIll following tunes
game in the Crystal Rooms in From eight nations
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beaut of a game. bottle ship and fire and up
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penalty kick options (this is a 20 seconds when the
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their console. This allows you weapon select.
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—— effort on your thumb. Both the number of players will
rapid fire and FM Sound unit appear, then a blank
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and the US, due to demand seconds then quickly tap
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dotes for the UK. Action Fighter- There ore
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World Soccer. Japanese. features on and two and
finally DOKIPEN gives you
Basically it is a shoot 'em up do not let their size put you all the weapons your heart
with VERY unusual colourful offl The cord games are all desires!
backdrops and aliens. Your juicy little numbers (barring Alex Kidd- to continue a
character is called Opa Opa Fld Fighter. YUK). Teddy game wait for game over
and he has to defeat the Boyis an abstract offering of to come up and hold the
invading aliens, there are shoot-it-if-it-moves and collect
eight planets to clear and to up position while pressing
it before your time runs Out. Phantasy Star. button **2 eight times (you
get from one planet to The scenario could not be • Ronald McDonald is must have at least 400
another you hove to destroy simpler Teddy Boy has to famous the world over, and dollars for this to work).
that biggy alien at the end of destroy the aliens wandering Teddy Boy- on the title
around various mazes, When you
the wave. can now munchyour
burger while waggling your screen move the pad
Your ship canmove left or they are shot they turn into
right against a strange balls which he collectc by stick playing the latest game upidowrvietPright and a
for the Nintendo, Mr new screen will appear.
tutti-frutti-yummy-yummy- touching them. McDonald and his Then press up, then down
Teddy Fantasy World
adventures.... nine times and then press
Kung Double
Boy Zone Soccer Fu kid Dragon • W e do not hove a **1 on the control pad, you
monopoly on converting_ films can
11-GRAPHICS 6 9 8 8 8 then choose from
Is- SOUND 6 9 7 8 7 rounds 1-50.
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lo• OVERALL 7 9 9 8 8 is Predator. It has some tasty toStay tuned the best is yet
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by allocating one of your avoid, the rood twists and
console with a 16-bit processor, dozens credits. turns like a snake spitting
of rich, vibrant colours, six channel You then enter the game, venom and you still have to
sound, a dedicated sprite handler that the clock counts down and ease through those bends!
allows huge animated characters to you are waved into the race. At the end of level one a girl
Across the top of the screen greets you with a message,
move smoothly around the screen and there is a gouge showing your you then see a map and your
to top it off it also fits in THE PALM OF speed and revs, a gearbox car moves down one section
YOUR HAND. Its called the PC Engine, with four gears, your start where you can repair any
Tony Takoushi reports. position and how far you ore damage to the car. Any time

The PC Engine is no
fantasy.it's from the
Japanese electronics giant
NEC. The console was
launched in Japan in late
1987 and to date it has
shipped around 500,000
consoles toot) How can I
convey the totally
mindblowing graphics, sound
and action this console gives?
I have used all the
superlatives in the past and
yet none of them begin to be
THE PC
units, selling for around E100 adequate when you come up
with games costing E20-E25. against THE MOST
It currently has 10 games POWERFUL CONSOLE IN
available for it and Namco is THE WORLD, even the
due to start producing titles Amiga would be VERY hard
for it pushed to emulate the sprite from your goal, a timer and
The games come in card handling and speed of this five symbols showing the state
format (like the Sega cards machine; I feel at best it could of your tyres, brakes etc.
but slightly thicker) and I hove equal it but not really surpass You accelerate into second
yet to find out the cards ROM it. gear (the engine rev sound
size (at the very least and tyre screech hod me
128/256K). The console is NO W THE GAMES! clinging to my chair!) and you
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over an inch high!
I have three games for it, a
I love car racing games and it
is no exaggeration to say that
I no longer hanker after an
see the hill rise up in front of
you and you just slide up and
over; there is a bike to your
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Victory Run, an arcade is the finest car racing game in then you see the lorry.
adventure called the world for a home micro. This mother is big (no
Necromancer and a Kung Fu On pressing the start button flicker) detailed and smooth!
combat game that is titled in you are faced with a name As you get closer the sprite
Japanese which I cannot entry table and you can then changes to give you a side
translate! allocate 20 units of credit on/perspective view and you
I feel like pulling my hair among tyres, gearbox, have to take your finger off
out in frustration; forget engine, suspension and the accelerator or you will gc
Nintendo and Sega, they are brakes. These items can be flying over the brow of the hi
not even a spit in the ocean in damaged during the game ahead of you with a speed
terms of power and game and when you finish one of the drop from 230 to 160 MPH.
play (you know I love those eight sections of the course Arid so it goes to night-time
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section. Section two gets you to fly into the air (and lose horizon rolls up and down changes on every newscene
heavier, more cars, morning, speed) and you have to be VERY smoothly. At the end of each
noon and night driving-watch careful overtaking as sneaky I was getting a little fed up
out for those skid patches! jeeps just love to dive in front subsectionyoumost destroy a
with Kung Fugames until the big enemy to get to the next
Section three has you in the of you. PCEngine came along! level; there are some weird
desert and now tactics come Section four is on a normal Throw absolutely every
in, you cannot drive in fourth ones, including a head-
track, section five has you kung fu game you own out of butting Yul Brynner, a
gear (not enough grip) and back in the desert (this is a the window, this is not a
you slide every which-way, pirouetting Japanese girl who
toughy), section six is a bluey 'version' of kung fu, this IS an cries when you knock her out!,

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Your character is just a little inpink or blue and some real
over six (count 'em) inches dumbdumbs who are just
high and he moves against a begging to be kicked.
smoothly scrolling backdrop Ihave reached level 12, the
(left to right). He has to work final one, and what a shock I
his way through various got! just before you face the
scenes to face the BigBoss. big boss THE BIGGEST
He can jump and kick, SPRITE I HAVE EVER SEEN,
punch high and low and duck. a detailed boulder taking up
There are four scenes each a third of the screen rolls in
with three subsections making and you have to kick/punch it
) • t 4 12stages in all. Every new
coloured desert, sectionseven scene there is a bonus round
off, it really takes your breath
away. There has never been
has you back on a normal where you twirl your a sprite so big, on screen for
; E . track with Space Harrier like Nunchaku and hove tosmash solong, so detailed, so solid
metallic bars rolling overhead a huge urn (either a 10,000 or in the history of home
2 ? (oh gorgeous!!!), and that is 20,000 bonus) and you go to computers and consoles
as for as I hove got (I have the next level. Before I forget, the music, it
been playing these games Youstart with three lives issomething out of Enter the
virtually non-stop in the and on energy gauge, if it hits
couple of weeks I have hod Dragon, honestly I am NOT
zero you lose a life, you can exaggerating, it is like taking
them). top up your energy bonuses in part in a film, it feels like there
If you should crash, the car various enemies. issomebody sitting next to
flips up and over, everything The enemies you encounter you playing the tunes live, I
stays as you see it on the ore mean; there are grey know it sounds over the top
screen, nothing shakes or clothedmonks who try to ram BUT IT IS TRUE!
flickers, real Outrun fans will you (all characters in the NEC has no plans to
appreciate this. The music, game are at least 6 inches release the console in the UK
engine and spot soundeffects high!) or red-clothedmonks at present because they have
make the sound on Outrun (these need three hits to be beenswamped by the
pale, and that is no mean destroyed), there are arrows demand in Japan. They do
feat! There are trees, to be leaped over or intend to release over here
billboards, lamps and rocks punched, fireballs ,tumbling and the US as soon as they
which fly post you on the side rocks, dart type fans, spears, cancater for the demand.
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A Sasquatch. b Bigquatch. C Usborne, which includes fascinating
Megasquatch. information a b o u t monsters of folklore
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more power ups and bonus
get do pizza in do oven and Loud a n d p ro u d a n d r e a d y to than to go for the time score, If
switcha on do Amiga, progo, shock. Y es, C + V G's v e r y o wn you are killed mid-wave you
prago, formaggio (which M r T - T o n y Takoushi - is b ack lose all bonus and powerups
and have to start in that wove
roughly translates to thank to r a n t an d r a v e a b o u t again (not always at the
you, thank you, cheese!).
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discovered the extent of my h im, just r e a d h im . The backdrops vary from
use of Italian, I will tell you conlump over or on the there are also fruit and time countryside in land one to
about the game! Gianni inhabitants of the land. If they bonuses to be had. underground in two,
Sisters is a game for the touch you it means instant The lands have some nifty countryside in three, and red
Amiga from Rainbow Arts in death (even the death scene is dangers and indeed some brickwork caverns in the
Germany. It will be released the same!). You have to reach newelements no seen in SMB fourt. There are dozens of
on all major formats in the UK the end of a scene before the There are crumbling levels to work through and
by US Gold. clock hits zero or you lose a platforms, bridges, crevices, some really bad combinations
It is lifted from the water pits, towering pillars to workout on the higher
arcade/console classic Super life and the customary walking levels. There is good backing
Marios Brothers from direction
YO in mid-air by across the top of the screen music andsome really upbeat
Nintendo, which is probably pressing the stick up, this can (yeahl). rock tempos to bounce along to.
the oil time classic ladders u a bit iffy in places as the There is no lock of danger Having been totally
be
and ramp game. I do not c
joystick is sometimes sluggish with demons and eyed bugs addicted to the original SMB
really like seeingsuch a ifayou ore in a tight spot. (which you can squash) it is no mean feat to say that I
blatant rip-off of another Along the way you can pick lobsters (looks familiar), found Gianni Sisters almostas
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j by headbutting blocks
ups have to be leapt over (good kind of open playobility,
hove done it justice!
You are one of the Gianni u platforms.
and timing needed) and a jingle type tunes, cortoony
Sisters and have to travel mIf you pick up a rolling porticularly vicious brute at graphics and simple addictive
through various lands to find fireball you get on afro the end of the fourth stage feel as its master.
p Well done Rainbow Arts,
your sister. The scenes closely hairstyle which allows you to which has to be lumped over.
follow SMB with similar play, a
butt ordinary blocks, you con You are awarded a bonus you have produced a classic
you walk against a left to n
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right scrolling backdrop and shoot
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A great fol l ow c V Gianni Sisters is o compulsive and addictive game.
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houses, the crazy hyped up industry had a lot of for a long time are the awards guaranteed to have a
programmer profiles, adverts growing up to do and fast. given at industry dinners and marketing bod pick up the
andPR launches of the early Now the market is dominated the like. This industry would award for having placed the
eighties. by the big publishers who NOT EXIST without ads and got it into various
IT WAS VERY EXCITING hove vastresources which ore programmers and yet outside retail chains. But where is the
AND GREAT FUN TO BE A chonneled into adverts, of ONE solitary award recognition of the
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