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THE UNIVERSE'S BRING SPECTRUM MAO! V CD F • ; : This is a jolly nice cover, Isn't it Spec-chums? Mind you, it'd look lot nicer if you couldn't see all this wibble. I tell you what - why don't you ask the newsagent where your Beaut Box has disappeared to? Its got Turbulence, Bored Of The ?Pon\ 0, • It. Beaut, eh? (That's why it's • Ringcalled a Besot Box, y'see.) s Pai Pull up your shorts and hop onto court 1. l for Zeppelin's international Basketball 3 • Dash across to the ring for the Codies' a n Wrestling Superstars 5 d ,Fighter Ocean's and Dream Team - it's a spot of oo Supercompilation mania • The Bulgulators pay dlHI LLYABB a call on SAM The action doesn't let up es for a minute! We look back at 1992 and m 0 o PONENURL take a jolly peek at '93 • Our regulars r fill their allotted slots with such ease and J LAUNDRY PUBLISHING e genius Heck, it's a good issue. Hurrah! o 'flour Rumania* of Van n Ride on to page 50, brother AA".1 I IPI I 41, D• ildriN 11 LAIR IL 40,648 fM fir Art Editor Andy t ditorial Contributorse Steve erson. Craig Broadbent,r Dave Golder. Tim Kemp,J Simon Cooke r another edition of... Oh, hello! I Art Contributor oPhil McCardle G Cover Artwork Cohn JonesV Lemon was just practising my audition n speecho for Blue Peter. I've heard that Blue Arthur Lemon V aSenior Sales Petero presenters get a discount at Pets R Executive Jackiet Gartard d Production Co-ordinatorh Lisa Read kUs and I'd love a new carpet for my Production Technicians Chris e a penthouse deluxe suite— (Sorry readers, Stocker V Scanningn Simon Windsor, Linda'sv still feeling a bit dizzy after the Jon Moore, Simon Chittenden N festivee period and she needs a good biff Publisher Cohn Campbell fr 0 a onn the head now and then to bring her Promotions Manager Tamara Ward V "L s i Group Publisher Greg Ingham ft back down to earth. Thwack! Jonathan) h n Circulation Director Sue Hadley fif ...What am I doing here? Ah, it's you lot g Your Sinclair, Future Publishing. 30 Good! Well, Christmas. eh? What can I a Monmouth Street. Bath, BM 2BW, Tel say except, I hope it was as good for you -n 10225j 442244. Fax (0225) 445019 V as It was for me. The only thing wrong Managing Director Chris Anderson d with the whole period was that it went far Printers Riverside Press, GlIhngham. w too quickly. I didn't have the time, or the Kent If Back Issues Future Publishing e stomach capacity, to eat a quarter of the Ltd, Somenon. Somerset TM I 615 Ll 1 Tel 104581 74011 lif Future things my mum put in front of me! This c Publishing 1992. No part of this meant that I wasn't quite as dozy as other o magazine may be reproduced without members of my family, so I wiped the NEED or THEMIMS PART TIME REACELLENT the permission ol Alan Rickman It you m COMPLETE GAME! READER GAME! floor with the lot of them when we played ME_ manage to find him, send him along td,.. Ee the traditional Boxing Day round of Game A DEEPLY PHILOSOPHICAL 1the Shed!) V ISSN 0269 6983 fir YoLe= t Of Life. I had a spouse and two kids long 1 nciair exchanges arrows and twangs o PR_LIP N E lute strings with the forest folk of before the rest of them had got their first 0 Commodore Format, Amstrad Actio job! Yes, 1992 was good but 1993's going SAME GAME. SMART,Y X E Amiga Format, PCW Plus, PC L7 I t C to be tab - so sit back and enjoy the ishl M swers, Mega, Super Play, PC Plu TURN UP YOUR TREWSd L Lots of love, N Sega Power, Amiga Power. Amiga O C U Shopper, Classic CD, Needlecraft Linda? AND GO PA T S Cycling Plus. Photo Plus, Mountain L A I Biking UK Games Master, PC Format, U V ST Formal. Total' and Today I N E -Vegetanan. Hey nanny no T A S O COPS AND ROBBERS!D F I E 'Your guarantee of value' W T P 1 He's lean, he's mean, his tights are green and he's , D This magazne comes from Future riding through our glen! In CodeMasters• brand-new Publishing, a company founded tust six years ago, but which now seas more platformer, the most famously warmhearted thief in the world computer magazmes than any other 11has to rescue his gal from the depths of a heavily-guarded publisher m Bann. We offer. castle - with the YS team tottering behind every step of the Better advice. Our titles are packed with . way. Join Linda of Nottingham and her band of reasonably written- by the best in the business. merry men as they cross swords and swash buckles with . .7 Stronger reviews. We have a cast Robin Hood - Legend Quest. Yoicks and away! . editonal independence. - rnitt ••—womaanow% woni 1 Clearerg denim Ow designers highlight key eiernents by using charts. diagrams, ru summaryg boxes. annotated photos. etc e - - • Greaters relevance. At Future, editors • r operatet under three golden rules: • • Understand your readers reeds. o • Satisfy them. — •••• o• Never wear brown yet blue. , MM.,og n r o, More reader interaction. We draw strong.s - a — ) el the livelsest letters pages and the best r llto uge• readern bps. Buying one of our magazines is •••••,,_ 2—. r wed Joining a nattoneicle user group. — 'eae elo pumpkins. Purriptuns are right out. — dex r r;Batter p vague for money. More pages, r :- better cluakty magazines you can trust. E r l r Z OFF e a r i g s n Z u a u ure — E rWI t PrilL141 : l , r - t o r m EW nit YOURy SINCLAIR Feb 1993 — g f e r . a t u r e s . t MEI* REVIEWS 1 4 Robin Hood: Legend Quest 16 All-American Basketball 16 Wrestling Superstars 18 World Rugby PIPS NENE Linda firker • Al) lachard Todd oo Valor II JONES r I ES Sit HA ikod Why? No I on Outgo,. oihivicwig km& ▪ LEI I S 46 NIEGAPREVIEW chop AV how IA/ Mom Ahtoo E SI LL M SS Li E M UM SPEED ✓ BOSS V I te diSS Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix K I CKI I I G 42 REPLAY FEATURING: ir • • TOCKLE • •• • • I The Dream Team, Super Fighter, • • • • • ikel • Trivial Pursuit, Hudson Hawk, 17 I HILLS NE EGN1 1 1 1 " Ptpemania WIGS! I S ST THE REGULARS 1 Big, bold 'n brave cover 4 The VS Beaut Box gos, 9 Pssst 10 Charts 9 Meet the Shed Crew 12 That Was The Year That Was 19 Letters IN 22 Input Output 23 Tipshop Steve's Progra • Mg Vino ,Hocer• Whe Wait ha woes • be of • mon', 28 Adventures Launderette (with extra haA Hems you aver hoord any of Acme ottrias about spin cycle) himn and Dow) Nhvo7 Who opunr4 Special techy guest this month is d y Simon N Goodwin, a man with a big ° bag of washing and a game listing! u n 30 Program Pitstop s h 32 Steve's Programming o Launderette with Extra Spin Cycle d • 35 Ernie 0 36 Spec Tec Jr 4 4 38 Public House 1 40 SAM Centre e t Was The Year n 47 Beyond Belief Coupon Corner o t Was f 50 Crossword Clues/Back Issues The YS team glance over their F shoulders at 1992. They pick out 51 Killer Kolumn from Outer Space i the fantastic bits, the crap bits and 51 Next Month l y Ignore all the in-betweeny bits. 812 Lee Haziewood Poster r i n Who7O Jenattal Nish I AO Nod Pdtkitone ci Si Ow,S of Otsba lw • Wky7 ' SOCI AJWS hi rooVy know E IFEBRUP A Rif 2ND howR to horde o 'wont Ha won o monsignori twangs/rumO O YOUR SINCLAIR Feb 1993 MI M , , 40111 , , BULENCE can think of? Most probably last O month's Guardian 2 - all that pixel- perfectk movement, advanced strategy and a hugea number of keys to boot, If you've been Hoist I woaMst If you amid hello me? I was lust shoeing this sMit man wearing a black imam when all of withy the Speccy a while longer you might sudden I Mold mymd Marc Pretty strange, all? Oh well. .even vote for games like Lunar Jetman, Lode s WRunner or TLL (after Level Two), The pressing (and holding) fire you cause t M privilegedh few who've actually seen the Astroball to jump higher with each successive blessed thing would undoubtedly make a rI UR a a bounce. Tragically. to reverse the effect you JustBUL Ove case for Astroball, and in doing so they'd ENc n t have to let go of the fire button and let her ra earn themselves a pat on the back for the,E c ' naturally settle, which takes a mite longer o feeding us a neat link line into Turbulence. u s . But that's not alit Drum this vital fact into Turn to Page l Turbulence. y'sett is extremely difficult, It's n t your nervous system - to make the planet five to hear e also the sequel to Astrobalt Sort of. Actually, i h rotate you have to move the joystick in the the jolIV t to make things easier, let's say it is, opposite direction (Physics, eh?) Plus' The a e wise word s direction the planet's going on when Astroball n 23314 s of the g h hits it will influence the direction of rebound AUTOMATI h , a (II you imagine a game of Breakout, with the C MUSE! e r planet as the bat, that should help.) Phew r d .