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CONTENTS This month's dose of Power Tape action is enough to take you throuih the Christmas holidays and right into next year! Five smashing game GAME THRILLS Five power packed ItirtIT games to get the on one cassette, including the brilliant Split Personalities and the New Year of \o a good start1 We've got second Dizzy game created for CRASH! Add to that two exclusive Spirt Personates, Action Biker. Dizzy II Special CRASH Edition Wmier interviews and you've got the best way to start the new decade! Woride'iand. Stars & Sir^-es and another dose of Pcfcemama' 15 fawielfauth SAM ART A World News Scoop interview with Bo Jangeborg1 Ttie man who's creat.ng a brilliant art package for the SAM Coupe 17 HARD DRIVIW COMPO Rarm to poll out of the pitslop — your chance to win a tel'y and a CD player11 19 1989 READER'S AWARDS Your vote counts' Choose who you would select to win one of the labbo CRASH awards lor being luff n bMi in 1989' 22 LIVE CIRCUIT Uoyd s bit m the m-odie (except it's rtoi qu'te the middlei Atth setters Jetrnan comics compo winners and all the happening stuff on the Speccy this month1 33 DIZZY! Ho w does an egg with arms and legs become a software superstar' CRASH had a natter with Dizzy s makers The Olrver Twins' Except one was ill 39 NICKO'S TIPS Seven pages ol tips, tatics ooVesand maps to help you cheat your way through the lop games m ihe holidays' THRILLS ON TAPE REVIEWS Find your Power Games! More games go flooding mio the snaps 1 1 and we *e checked em out Hard Own SIDE As Ghostbusiers II! Galaxy Force' Stunt Car SPLIT PERSONALITIES Racer' Samt and Greavste' Footballer Of The Year II! The Nmja Warriors1 WINTER WONDERLAND STARS & STRIPES SPLIT MoonwaJker' Bobo" Sporting Triangles'
56 SIDE B: BUDGET BONANZA DIZZY II Heaps of software go ng cheap' Nick ACTION BIKER Roberts gets down and grooves wrt* the POKEMANIA £299 spinners' 62 Load games In 48K mode, check the PREVIEWS Inlay (or additional loading Black Tlger — tt'Sfinally happening' Plus Instructions. Should your tape be news of thrills coming your way on tne faulty, send It In Its box to: Speccy' CRASH TAPE CLINIC (72), CRASH Domark's first ever side- Yes. Maggie s in it and so Is 64 TOWERS, PO Box 20, Ludlow, splitting CRASH Smash!! Ronnie: 'Am I? Gosh, Nancy, Shropshire SY61DB. it's hard work being the BYEEEE! A working Power Tape will be Split Personalities, It's the President. What? I'm not? Tooaie ptp' Oh before you go. do you game that's full of famous fancy w nmng heaps of games' Good' US dispatched. Please allow 28 days for George who, Nance? Bush? faces, and now you have it Go'd is offemig £4 000 worth of Speccy delivery. Well, a Bush In the Whitehouste playmates' and... 'There is NO alternative'! Is worth three in a basket. MJ EL?' ^UHel^tdU
C'mon Teddy, time for bed. a little variety to the game, cracks Mum de dee'. appear in some of the buffers. Blocks that are moved onto a ight, as we were cracked section of buffer bounce saying... now you off. returning to their start point. have it and all you Some of the cracks remain in the | have to do is work same part of the buffer IZ Ragainst a time limit throughout a level, while others he and assemble caricatures of the hop around the place during play. famous from tittle blocks. Little sliding doors in the top, All you have to do? Well not left and bottom buffers open and quite. Starting with Ronald close, tf a piece is shoved Reagan, ten cartoons of famous towards an open door it faces have 10 be pieced together. disappears from the playing area At the start of each level the main and joins the queue of pieces playing area is empty — a zone behind the flashing arrow. enclosed with blue buffers. A Every so often, objects pulsating square cursor is under associated with the character Incentive's fab 'n' instructions you can enter are your control and sits under a being assembled are dragged freezing Gold Medallion varied; here are a few examples. flashing arrow at the top left of into play. These can lead to graphic adventure! Go North n Take Snowshoes n the screen. The image that has bonus scores if you do the right How very seasonal: Now you Give the Icicfe to the Shopkeeper been split appears in a small thing with them — shoving the hav« this smashing Gold n Put the ruby in the box. close it window in the status area on the American Flag against the Medallion adventure you don't then go east. right, the bar display that Russian flag earns a bonus of have to go outside to get cold Some commands can be monitors the time you have 1,500 points on the Ronnie — get deep frozen In the abbreviated: N for North. INV for remaining is refreshed, and play Reagan screen. comfort of your own home) I inventory. EXAM for examine and commences. Bombs are bad news — they Brrr! And why is It so cold? so on. You can enter multiple The cursor, used to shift blocks explode five seconds after they 'Cos you're In the snowy commands separated by And. around the playing area, can be are brought into play and have to Himalayas, that's why!! Then, a comma or a full stop. moved in four directions. Place be shoved against a tap (bonus hy are you stuck The word It will be interpreted as the cursor over the block you of 5,000 points) or whisked out of in the the last noun entered. want to pick up and press fire. an open doorway before they Pressing fire grabs the block. detonate. Failure to dispose of a HINTS: Keep warm, don't be too Holding fire and then moving the bomb results in an explosion and generous, examine things, make cursor whizzes the selected the loss of a life. WHimalayas? Well, a map of your travels. To get out block off in the chosen direction. The number of points awarded it all began one of the crevasse go U, you can't A moving block continues to for completing a level depends day in your throw the rope, so just climb it. travel in a straight line until on the amount of time remaining office,..(cue wishy-washy flash another block or the blue buffer is when the final piece ts slotted back sound FX): You're an DON'T FORGET THE SPECIAL hit, when it comes to rest. into place. Running out of time anthropologist and desperately GRAPHIC ADVENTURE To bring on new blocks place results in the toss of a life — but want to get your name in the CREATOR OFFER1 SEE INSIDE the cursor under the flashing providing all three lives haven't history books, but so far you're a THE POWERTAPE INLAY!! arrow and press fire to seize the been lost, the blocks stay in complete failure. Aw! Shame. hidden block and move right to place when you die. An extra life Then, suddenly, your telex fetch it into view While the cursor is awarded for reaching 100,000 machine buzzes into life and CRASH TALENT is over a piece in the mam play points and extra time can be won spits out a message from your TOKEN! area, a square on the status on later screens by sliding a chum Sergio Kirov, currently in Tibet, which informs you he has panel picture turns white, diamond into another gem. E "AR°'»»ouv.„ discovered an undiscovered race r0 a ritten levealmg the correct location for a 9ame of humans!! (Bizarre isn't it?) So, you think Is that segment of the puzzle. PERSONAL CONTROLS off you fly to Lhasa airport, Tibet, completely „,ao why not Twenty pieces have to be Create those faces using the shar to meet him and join in the fame! « « with the Speccv shuffled into the right order to following keys O/left, P/right, On arriving at the airport Sergio make up each picture, and there Q/up. A/down, CAPSHIFT to isn't around, but the locals tell are only four spare block SPACE/fire. R and T/abort. you he's popped off to a place positions at the top of the H/pause. J/continue. Or use called Cessna. Luckily you're not playzone — so some careful joysticks with any of these only an anthropologist but a pilot juggling is called for. Just to add too! So, after hiring a dinky plane you head off towards Cessna. Ffzzzssi yourtlrststepin^.J1"8 But, calamity!, a snowstorm throws you off course and you spiral down through the nasty weather and crash land in the middle of nowhere! Cnpes' Thankfutly, all your bodily parts are fully intact. Phew. xrixssza sorry, but this is bettexr And that's where this adventure then you know we begins... love Andwh atsmorewe'll pa' WHAT NOW THEN? for itff Send your When Winter Wonderland has creations in now!! loaded you'll see your current predicament and you're asked what you want to do. 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All fights use an artificial intelligence with indepth commentary as 100 Boxers struggle to become Heavyweight champion of the world. THIS GAME HAS... 9 It's Mastertronic's biking also wakes up if he bumps irto 100 Boxers 20 fight Managers 2 ACTION BIKER all with individual abilities and ratings, scouts • Different governing bodies* Physio eTrainer e Area national and world arcade romp!! any vehicles such as police cars ranking displayed • Secretary • Filofax * letters and telephone calls • It's all and other bikers. Wake up and here with more. You've heard of sleep-walking the action's over. PLUS... — well, try this for size: sleep- The bike's fuel is limited, bul biking!! Yes! Clumsy Colin Is extra fuei can be collected by • Move around your office e Use your telephone e Answer mail • Sign out on his mean lean racing picking up the packets of KP agreements with boxers, promoters, governing bodies • Set up deals • Visit physio or pop into the training camp e Menage up to Five boxers at once machine creating havoc Skips which litter the streets or, in throughout Clumsytown In his a more normal fashion, visiting ALSO... search for goodies to help the garage. launch his mate Marti Into Decide upon fight tactics according to the strength and weaknesses of your Some of Colin s fhends try to boxers, what are their weaknesses' sorry - you'll have to find out. Work as a space! The buffoon! tempt him to stay (or tea and second dunng rounds Use sponge, flat iron, towel, water etc. Opponents use intelligence to decide upon their next round plans so beware. slow him down. Keep an eye on hether Marti the text window which keeps you BEWARE, i wants to be informed of Colin's happenings. If you're looking for something easy or a joystick waggling punch up - look elsewhere this is the fight game with reality hurled into outer Oh! Watch out for the oil slict.. GOLIATH GAMES specialises in ADVANCED - INVOLVED space we don't, (SLAM! Clunk! Whrrrrr Ztll). -ORIGINALSOFTWARE DQN'TFORGETIT Wknow, but Clumsy Cripes. Colin is determined to send him AVAILABLE ON... CBM 64 - 9.95/12.95 DISC skyward — when he finds him. BIKING CONTROLS SPECTRUM-9.95 To help Colin find his chum he You can control Colin with a AMSTRAO 9.95/12.95 DISC needs 50 objects located in the joystick using Kempston. Sirclair, AMIGA • ATARI ST-19.95 houses in town. There are 150 Fuller or Cursor interfaces (ise IBM-19.95 Indudrng V.A.T. Ptu» SOp post & packing ThtGiAKTS houses which Colin can enter, the fire button to enter/leave a PLEASE SEND CHEQUES/P.O.TO: but only 50 hide objects. Colin's house) or use these keys Aup, 1 SCIENCE PARK, ABERYSTWYTH, DYFED SY23 3AH alarm clock is set to go off at 8 Z/down, N/left, M/nght. o'clock and wake him up, Colin SPACE/fire. 10 • CRASH JANUARY
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You've been building up your Spectrum software collection for years. You want a computer with better sound, better graphics, more power - but you don't want to lose your software. The Coupe is the computer for you. Four screen modes with a choice from 128 colours, a six-channel stereo sound chip, 256K RAM (expandable to 512K) 4 - yet by actually slowing the Coupe down, we allow most of your 48K Spectrum software to run in the Coupe's level 1 mode.
Growth You never stand still with a computer. You're always learning, always growing, always wanting to do more. With the Coupe, your computer can grow with you. « i Memory can be expanded from 256K to 512K. One or two 1 MB disk drives o • can be added. There are output ports for almost everything we can think of, o and an expansion connector for things that other people develop later. And all • of it simply slots in - no screws, no soldering, no hardware expertise. * b> > * Graphics See the full range of 128 colours on an ordinary TV set. Or better still, use a video monitor for really high definition. Best of all, use a modern TV with SCART to get the quality of a monitor on an ordinary TV set. The Coupe has four graphics modes. Even at the lowest level - Spectrum emulation - you can change the colours in the the software to take full advantage of the palette. In modes 3 and 4, you can display up to 16 colours per line, a different colour for every pixel in a 256 x 192 pixel display; or have an 80-column 512 x 192 display for word processing and spreadsheets. And free with the Coupe comes FLASH!, a software package by ace Swedish programmer, Bo Jangeborg, designed to give you total control over these powerful graphics. & Music There won't be a better buy for all you aspiring electronic musicians. The Coupe features a full implementation of MIDI - MIDI In, Out and Through - with 16 channel capability, and MGT is promoting a full range of MIDI support software. Better still, the Coupe features an 8 octave, 6 channel stereo sound chip. For sensational sound effects, just plug in your headphones. Play it again SAM!
SAM . No, the computer's not called SAM, it's called the Coupt. This is SAM - he's the character who will guide you through the manual. A 72 key full-sized, full travel Keyboard, designed with a professional feel. The Coupe's slot-in disk drive The keys are "soft", allowing you to re-program and re-position them if you wish. On the right, there are 10 function keys, which double as a numeric keypad.
The basic model of the Coupe comes ready to work with software loaded from a standard cassette recorder. But you can also add one or two 1 MB 3-5" Disk Drives. These are ultra-slimline drives from Citizen in a special case which allows you simply to slot them in when you're ready.
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Namiv Address Postcode CRi THIS PAGE IS SAM:HIS ART'S IN THE RIGHT PLACE! SAM COUPE Along the top of the screen is a string of icons relating to BO DIDDLEY... COMPATIBLE!! brushes, lines, zooming, painting etc, and from each comes a pull down menu offering further options. For example, from the brush icon the menu allows you to select types of brush or even a What can you do with a SAM Coupe spray can. And there's full access to the palette of 128 colours when you've got it? Well, you can load allowing you to select 16 to use up a Speccy game. Erin... What If you on screen.' want to do something in mode 4, the 128 colour mode? Here's the answer: AND THERE'S MORE... FLASH! And what's Flash!? It's none 'Any revolutionary elements in other than Bo Jangeborg's amazing art Flash? Well, I don't know about revolutionary, but there are a package that comes in the SAM box!! A couple of good functions. One week away from completion Richard allows you to start in one mode of Here he is! The man himself; Bo Eddy pops the question: 'Whasis Flash the SAM and switch to another Jangeborg! A chap of mode without losing your picture Scandinavian origin, he's a bit stuff all about then, Bo?' and — the SAM just converts to owa Speccy legend, having listened... image to meet the mode's created four amazing products: requirements. The second The two stunning Fairfighf 30 element, that is impressive, is arcade adventures and both being able to load in any Atari ST versions of The Artist. Seen here disk with Neochrome or Degas creating another 'masterpiece'. Elite (two swank 16-bit art Erm, yeah — very good Bo. programs) pictures on it. The file just loads straight into Flash! (operating in mode four), and it's very good, excellent value there's the picture,' and on the graphics level it's There's also a simple easily comparable to the Atari ST animation routine which can be or Amiga — hardly any difference used. What you can do is to at all! create a series of six images, alt 'Am I pleased with Flash!? Oh in slightly different stages of yes, very pleased indeed. It's not animation and then program in a my ideal art package, because to sequence to flick' through all six. create that would take yearsl And The effect is animation, but it's besides, I have other work too! I only a tester; it can't be used may update it later and maybe a effectively for creating demos.' Flash! II will be released. I would he main idea behind just 64 colours available. But I And there's a font editor which like to do a SAM game — the ( Flash! was to create an suggested to Bruce Gordon that lets you amend the SAM font to possibilities of a dedicated SAM ideal art utility for the first 128 colours would make it a lot your own design. What do I game are enormous! Bui I've just T time user to be able to better and give more scope in the actually think of the SAM? Well, got so much work to do!'. Sigh explore the graphic capabilities of use of Flash! Effectively what he SAM. Additionally it has to be did was to cram more information able to be used as a professional on the chips then was ever package.' thought possible!' Flash! can be used in all four 'It has taken four months to graphics modes on the Sam, develop Flash!, I've been working Ugh indeed. What is this? It's that's the normal Spectrum on it since July using a prototype SAM's insides, or a PCB to you. mode, mode two is another SAM originally, which was just a Currently in production, 2,000 Speccy mode but without load of printed circuit boards SAMs a week are produced. As attnbute colour clash, mode three strapped together with wires the orders increase, production is an 80 colour hi-res mode, and hanging out alt over the place.' could be ramped up to a Hereford and little metal bits the really arty mode is four where 'A lot of Flash! has been based stunning 20,000 units • week! come from Alar Engineering of there are 128 colours available on a previous product of mine SAM begins life as a PCB from Cardiff. Each SAM is then on a resolution of 256 x 192. Did called The Artist II (spiffo art Kamcircuits of Wiltshire; his lovingly assembled and potty you know that I had a hand in the package —Art Ed). Flash! plastic bodywork comes from trained by Alan Miles personally. 128 colour mode? Oh yes! Mode operates using a combination of Plastic Injection Mouldings of (Rubbish! -Ed). four was originally going to have icons and pull-down windows. CRASH JANUARY !• 15 520ST™ ANOTHER ELECTRIFYING DEAL...
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Call 'em stars? BEST COIN-OP Untouchables. Superbly Hurmph! To give CONVERSION produced and really BEST SOUND you some ideas this playable, one of the Oli • New Zealand is how the CRASH years biggest surprises. Story was far too cute, team are BEST SOFTWARE HOUSE voting...(except I'm sticking with Corky, because he Thunderbolt! Oh. Hold was away on on. Silkworm was BEST ORIGINAL BEST ADVERTISEMENT polling dayl) excellent, the review GAME under-rated it. BEST GAME Nicko • Erm, ah, well. Oli • Carrier Command was a real achievement OVERALL God! New Zealand Story, I think. on the Speccy — the Oli • Operation Richard • No problem. sort of game they said | I Thunderbolt. Loads of Ghouls 'n' Ghosts. couldn't be done! violence!! Nicko • Purple Saturn ^™""^^Mmm Nicko • Batman! Oh BEST LICENSE Day. Colourful, groovy | ] god! Everyone's going to (not coin-op) graphics, heaps of MOST DISAPPOINTING PRODUCT say that!! payability. . Oli • The Untouchables Richard • Easy! The Richard • Ooo, that game I've been playing - magic! little platform game. for weeks and weeks! Nicko • Indy. Good Thingy. Oh. Urn. NAME Ghouls And Ghosts! game that. Dangerous. Yes! Rick ADDRESS. Yeah! Richard • The Dangerous. Really good. POSTCODE BEST S4 NEWCOMER Oli • MGT for the SAM Coupe, but that actual^ £ hasn't been released yet. Looks good thougi!! Nicko • Players Premier. A very good ol989>f( label with smashing games. Richard • The Sales Curve which produced Silkworm, Continental Circus. Gemini Wing and a lot more for Virgin. At excellent performance done exceedingly well. Ocean make a good ad. Again. But don't forget Nicko • Batman. Yes. I the smaller outfits. like Batman. Probably Domark, System 3 — didn't need advertising BEST SOUND CodeMasters have done though, did it? ADVENTURE Oli • Oh gawd! I can't very well this year with Richard • Difficult this Oli • Have I played an think of anything that has great games, and this one. But I think it goes to adventure this year? been brilliant. Erm... latest CD pack should be Electronic Arts for Erm.. Oh yeah. Polearn, CodeMasters' games a success story. Ferrari Formula One, the I liked that, very always have good Nicko • it's always one with Verrrroooom! MEfP> atmospheric. sound. Sorry. bloody Ocean isn't it?! right across it. Nicko • Anything by Erm. Ocean. Again. Nicko • Myth. Highly amusing. David Whittaker, cos Richard • Well, Ocean BEST BUDGET he's about the only one have had a very good Richard • That natty who does Speccy stuff!! year. But just to be GAME game from Sheol Oli • Operation Gunship Richard • The sound different my vote goes to Software. About a by the Oliver Twins, on Ghouls 'n' Ghosts Virgin, who have had a cornish town. Polearn\ superbly presented and was good, suiting the vast amount of good That really was very tough! gameplay. Nothing has stuff, they've really got it excellent. Nicko • Treasure Island been really outstanding together this year. Dizzy. Just very good this year. fun. MOST STRATEGY/RPG DISAPPOINTING Oli • Without a doubt THING' CCS's Wellington At Oli • The complete lack Waterloo (I painted the of games between June cover y'know) and October, there was Nicko • Erm. Dunno. hardly any product (Ten minutes later) Oh around. yeah! I know! Times Of Nicko • The Spectrum!! Lore Haw haw! No. Iron Lord. Richard • Yeah, Nicko's Hyped a lot: I expected a lot from that. Sadly, it right. Times Of Lore was >>| 53 Ms'l was not as brill as it was good, played that for cracked up to be. ages. Richard • Magnum Light Gun. It's not that it's really bad, it just didn't live up to my GRAPHICS •n Wmmwma«••£- expectations. JCl Crikey! Strong Oli • Obviously Op opinions or Thunderbolt, very WHAT?! {Erm, meticulously designed what? —Ed) Find graphics, and incredibly out who wins what fast! Richard • There have for what and Nicko • Purple Saturn been so many this year things like that in Day. It so so attractive! it's difficult to pick out a few issues time SOFTWARE ADVERTISEMENT Richard • Dawn Drake Oil • I don't have one one. Um... (has to think when we report (Ocean) has produced HOUSE particular favourite, for several eons) from the CRASH Readers' Awards heaps of graphics this Oil • I'm sure Ocean though Cabal is good. Gregory Loses His year, Batman certainly stands a chance of Clock by Don Priestly. A PollWinners Party!! Really, most of Bob (Sounds familiar...) gets my vote. winning, again: they've Wakelin's illustrations for graphical masterpiece! 20 • CRASH JANUARY M uaW/
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For the last time in the 1980s here's Live Circuit. And with the Christmas hols on it may encourage YOU to put pen to paper to write a letter on ail things Speccy. Remember, this is your forum to have your say. And there's a £40 software prize for worthy letters!
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Dear Lloyd, At last, the SAM Coupe has arrived, and not without a lot of excitement and debate. I've read stories of people selling their Amigas to move to the Coupe, and some complaints about the price of the new machine. Several people are moaning that the Coupe is too expensive when compared to the likes of the Atari ST, and it's true that 512K Coupe with disk drive costs about the same as the 520 STFM. What many people seem to forget is that owning a computer is comparable to owning a car — it's not really the initial cost of the machine which is expensive, but the petrol and insurance and in the case of computers, the cost of software. At present the cost of 16-bit software is in the £20 - £30 range, while 8-bit games are in the £8-£15 region (for full-price). It's a big difference. Secondly, a plea to software houses to support the Coupe. Now, I know most of the major 8- bit software houses {Ocean, US Gold. Activision etc) are likely to release several SAM titles, mostly along with the conversions on the Speccy and C64, But what about those software houses which predominantly cater for 16- bitters? Will they bother with the new machine? In short, will the games released for the SAM Coupe be simply flashy versions of 8-bit games with pretty graphics and nice sound, or will we see more advanced games? If the Coupe is to succeed it is vital that its advanced features are used properly by the software houses. They must not use the machine s Speccy compatibility as an excuse for not bothering to do anything more adventurous for the machine. Of course, more advanced games may have to be that bit more expensive than the run-of-the-mill stuff, but the extra would be money well spent. MGT have got everything right it seems, and the machine certainly deserves to succeed. I 22 • CRASH JANUARY hope the software houses are This is all a bit strong Isn't it? That's nothing. My cat can play Cruelty to Fluffy Things)! imaginative enough to treat the The only problem was that the Renegade better than I can. Robert Western, Penarth, Coupe with the respect it recording of the new script for LM Wales deserves, and not as just another the phone-in quiz was a little 8-bit machine'. Will we see late (script reader gone on How do you know fluffy things Damocles on the Coupe? holiday, I'm told). But, hopefully don't enjoy bashing each other (Pleease Novagen!). that shouldn't happen again. RSPCFT!!! about? Anyway, they're David Clark. Kllconquhar, Fife. LM Olibugs — after their original Dear Lloyd. creator, our (grovel) esteemed Already some software houses, I'm writing this letter for the sake Ed. including US Gold, have LOST OUTRUN of those little black flyffy things LM promised SAM Coupe games, wandering round CRASH every and MGT are confident that it's Do you have any world- Dear Lloyd month. I think you ought to be shattering opinions for 1990? very simple to convert a I am writing this to ask you first of more careful about their safety. Don't keep them to Spectrum game Into a special all what has happened to Outrun Last month (p.29) one fluffy thing yourselves: bore everyone SAM format making use of the Europa from US Gold. There was was being chased by another with else with em! Write to Lloyd sound and graphic capabilities. a preview in the May issue, but a chainsaw! And on page 73 Mangram.Live Circuit, Actually, your question about the game still hasn't appeared in another was being clobbered with CRASH, PO Box 10, Ludlow, SAM Coupe games being 'just' your review section. Usually the a snowball (poor devil). I'm sure Shropshire SYS 1DB, and souped up with flashy graphics game is reviewed the next issue, they don't appreciate this, so if hope the snow has not cut us and sound is quite amusing, indeed the preview stated that the you don't do anything about it I'll off from the rest of the because that's what a lot of game was due for release in report you to the RSPCFT (Royal universe. Atari ST and Amiga games are!! June, but the game seems to Society for the Protection of Whether predominantly 16-bit have vanished. Has it been software houses, or even the released, if so why didn't you majority of 8-bit producers, will review it. or is it still in production release games for the Coupe, and due on the streets in the near HI-FIRE! we can't say as yet; at the future. I hope you can help me as moment It's a situation of wait from the preview it looked like a Gotta high score? Wc wanl to and see'how large the sales of very good game, and as I have know about it! Yes! This is Hi the Coupe will be. Anyway, Outrun I would like to get the fire where you can announce here's hoping that software sequel. your galaclie domination to houses take note of your And a long time ago there used the entire Speccy universe. comments and apply them to to be a cartoon adventure called And what's more, we'll be any SAM Coupe games being Terminal Man which added to the pulling a name from the liat photo If possible, to: HI-FIRE, planned. And if they do, you'll variety of CRASH and made a each month and awarding a LIVE CIRCUIT. CRASH. PO be able to spend your £40 good read. I'm not asking for the high-scoring hero £40 of Box 10, Ludlow Shropshire software voucher on SAM same cartoon back, but it would software!! Yayyyy! So play SY8 1DB. And remember, Coupe games because you've be a good idea to come up with mean and get yourself a high there's £40 of software to b»e won Letter of the Month! something similar, but perhaps score and send It. with a won every monthit LM this time a bit more serious. Final question, can you suggest where Have you got your Sam 1 can get my hands on a good Coupe yet? If you have, write machine code editor and in and give us your thoughts assembler for the +3. on the machine — we're D A Alcock, Leicester waiting to hear from you! letters to: LLOYD As far as we know Out Run MANGRAM'S FORUM (SAM). LOADING Europa has been cancelled LIVE CIRCUIT, CRASH, PO following the announcement of BOX 10, LUDLOW. Turbo Out Run a couple of SHROPSHIRE SY8 1DB. months back, and by all accounts Turbo should be a BLUES? hell of a lot better. Terminal Man may make a return one SAME OLD 0890 day, when Oli hasn't got to do ^ * . five jobs at once. And as for a A- . +3 Assembler, try asking at • • • • - wr • X Dear Uoyd your local independent As I was reading issue 69 I turned software shop, they'll be able to the budget games section. to check with distributors. • • • ••." 'A There before me was the perfect LM game to buy, Operation Gunship. I went to my local computer stockest, but unfortunately they SUPERMUM didn't have it. A month later in issue 70 I turned to the last page, Relief on the way/, there was the perfect chance to Dear Lloyd win Operation Gunship. All you As a new starter (at no more crashed! had to do was ring a number and 25 years old) with my second answer three questions, easy. I hand 48K Speccy I thought tape loading. asked my parents very politely if I mysetf quite clever as I completed could use the phone, I then rang Arkanoid I and II. That was until Hi-Spec Load-it the number and waited for the my mother got Speccy hooked. questions. All I got was someone I'd been playing Zybex for about a talking about their visit to Ocean week and was nowhere near the software, THIS WAS LAST end, then she came along and on LOOK OUT MONTH S. I was utterly appalled, her second attempt went straight do you trick your readers into through to the end. Needless to NEW YEAR! ringing bogus numbers? say I haven't played Zybex since. John Harris, London Terry Young, Choppington. /Mills CRASH JANUARY !• 23 TAPE 1 1. TIME TRAX 2. THE BULGE 3. SHEER PANIC 4. GLASS 5. RUPERT AND THE ICE CASTLE 6 SOULS OF DARKON 7. DEFCOM 8. DR FRANKY AND THE MONSTER 9. ROAD TOAD TAPE 3 1. DARK EMPIRE 2. FANTASIA DIAMOND TAPE 4 3. HOCUS FOCUS 1. XENO 4. CORE 2. SNOOKER 5. PETER SHILTON'S 3. ARENA HANDBALL MARADONA 4. BLOOD 'N' GUTS 6. SPECTRON 5. ROBOTO 7. CORRIDORS OF GENON 6. OUETZALCOATL 8. HYPERBLASTER 7. SPACE COMMAND 9. 3D TANX 8. LIFELINE 9. JAWZ TAPE 5 1. MISSION OMEGA TAPE 6 2. SHOWJUMPING 1. RED SCORPION 3. TANTALUS 2. 3D SEIDDAB ATTACK 4. THE ISLAND 3. CAPTAIN KELLY 5. STARFIRE 4. ARCTURUS 6. ATLAS ASSIGNMENT 5. PYRAMANIA 7. NIFTY LIFTY 6. TWO GUN TURTLE 8. STAR WARRIOR 7. MISSILES DEFENCE 9. KNOT In 3D 8. 1994 9. BILLY BONG TAPE 7 1. SECTOR 90 TAPE 8 2. HEATHROW 1. NETHER EARTH 3. SODOV THE SORCERER 2. r £9.95 4. XADOM + £1.50 p&p 3. DOGSBODY 5. REALM OF THE UNDEAD 4. FLYER FOX 6. MUMMY MUMMY 5. OVERLORDS TAPE 9 7. PANZER ATTACK 1. NIGHTFLITE 2 6. THE LUDOIDS 8. ZOOT 7. TUTANKHAMUN 2. LEGIONS OF DEATH 9. GRID PATROL 8. MOON BUGGY 3. STRONTIUM DOG 9. S.O.S 4. STAR TRADER 5. MUSHROOM MANIA TAPE 10 6. 3D TUNNEL 1. FIRESTORM 7. BOMBER BOB 2. REDCOATS ^O8. THE CHESo S PLAYER 3. DRAUGHTS ESCAPE 4. CARPET CAPERS J 5. PLANET FALL *» 6. GRID RUNNER ~ -1 7. DRAGON BANE 8. TUBE CUBE 9. AGENT ORANGE aJ^U^.. STcODF - / -Que 0t8 A ccess O ***c,„ I I Ma" Or r . The; r i .? ders TO 6S I find Or a r ""-SSSSto ' ect ,ro fs. LONd oh N14 SAL£S ltd x> N Pa hb ° «*df °?OUgh
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The Sleeze Brothers We've banned him Epic Comics, 65p Monthly reading My Little El Ape and Deadbeat are the Sleeze Pony monthly, but Brothers, two ex-cons turned private eye The Big Apple is a city floating in the there's plenty of intergalactic void where the minority of nch other 'gerrooovy' inhabitants live in the 'civilised' sector, comix, as Mark whilst the other 99% live in conditions that would probably shock the most flea bitten Caswell discovers rat. It is here thai the Sleezes make their living, and not all the jobs they take on are fantastic Four above board. Sergeant Pigheadski, a two Bros bear more than a passing and detailed and lunny drawings make for Marvel, 70p Monthly headed minion of the law is out to catch resemblance to the Blues Brothers, nght compulsive reading — once you get into These guys swap their line up around them, although in the best traditions of a down to the pork pie hats and cool dude the style almost as much as The Avengers. Reed certain bungling French detective, his shades. The misadventures of these Mr Fantastic' Richards, Sue invisible Girt' plans don't always go right.Th e Sleeze lovable rogues with their strange humour More strip stuff next month!
Back To The Future il starring given better graphics, sonics Michael J Fox is pulling the and heaps more playability. THE CORK crowds at the movies, and by next summer the antics of After last month's news of REPORT Marty McFly in both Back To Virgin's Dan Dare III, we note The Future II and III will be that a second Judge Old Mark Corky' Caswell, ever pixelated by Mirrorsoft and Stoney Face' Dredd game is pushing the limits of journalism whisked onto your computer. under development, along with and our patience, pops down The game will cost less than a the Saga Of The Silver Surfer. the road to use the phone and brand new De Lorean we are Both games are due for release finds out what software treats assured, so keep your eyes early next year and whilst we are in store for next year... peeled for more info soon. all know about Dredd. The Eee, come on team, I know it, After Vendetta System 3 are Silver Surfer may not be too I know it. Yes, the squeaky- to go cutesy with Flimbo's familiar to most of you. He's an voiced footy fanatic is back Quest. Flimbo's girfie has been alien named Norirf Radd, who thanks (we think) to kidnapped by a horrid after being exiled from his Audiogenic: Emlyn Hughes' Professor, and is being held in home planet became herald to Arcade Quiz is almost here. a seven load platform world Galactus... blah, blah... comic Can you answer such trivial filled with nasty mutated waffie... blah..(Snip! —Ed) questions as 'Who was the creatures and tots of danger. The sequel to Carrier world's tallest man?', and Shadow Warrior is one of the Command is almost here, 'What was Judy Garland's real next arcade projects underway called Battle Command. name?'. If you're a clever clogs from Ocean and all about a Programmed, like the original, maybe you can. Find out early Ninja tired of kicking his fellow by Realtime, Ocean are in the new decade when the countrymen. Pastrami, hot releasing it early 90 on 16-bit: game appears, and no peeking dogs and the Statue of Liberty Let's hope it doesn't take as at the answer cards. (in that order) beckon — end long as its predecessor to Also on the way from result: punch-ups with all appear on the Speccy! Also Audiogenic and scheduled for manner of scum in the streets from Ocean will be Nightbreed. an early 90 release is Wreckers, of New York. Serves him right, based on the Clive Barker the story of a galactic he should have stayed at home. movie that made Ocean's lighthouse attendant's fight for Talking of punch-ups: Software Manager, Gary survival against nasty little System 3 have just announced Bracey, a star (or rather didi't alien creatures. Quite why the Easter release of Last Ninja —Ed). The movie which they've chosen your lighthouse II - The Special Remix (sounds contains more monsters than to attack isn't made clear, but a bit like Thalamus and any other film before' will expect a preview of both games Sanxion: the Spectrum remix). appear on the big screen at next month. Apparently the game has been Easter and so should the game. Cjftt tftmxcil ax mm'vh 26 • CRASH JANUARY serious s/ware available, with full take best otter around £150 All documentation. Phone Paul 0705 boxed, Phone Gareth on (0S37) 250459. 840641.
Spectrum tapes, games from Spectrum +3, Multiface 3, Epson 50p, good variety. Send SAE for FX 80 printer, 20+ disks, 60- list. Plus Astrology Electric games, Tasword +3, leads, all Ephemeris Amstrad PC1512 disk, manuals. Bargain at £350. Ring for instant birth charts 01 651 3778. progressions, offers over £50. Hyfield, 5 Hendra Barton, Truro, Spectrum 48K+, loads of games, Cornwall TR1 3TL. Genuine Wafadrive, sound sampler, reasons for selling above goods. cassette deck, manuals, leads WANTED Martin, 114 Anthony Drive, etc. Worth over £550, sell fa Norwich, Norfolk NR3 4ES or tel. Games for sale. Send a SAE to: £130. Phone Wanted: Mad Doctor. Willing to (0603) 406971. Barry Dunlop, Collierhall Farm, 01 644 1 647 and ask for Stephen. swap either Outrun. Infiltrator, Douglas Water, Lanark, Scotland. Trap Door or buy with cash. Spectrum +2, boxed, excellent Games like Matchday II and Dan Sinclair Speccy +2 worth £130 Telephone 632051 or write to 151 condition, £400 worth of software, Dare II for less than half price. will sell for £100. Plus games Broad Lane. South Wednesfield, Kempston interface, joysticks. worth £300 sell for £250. Please, W. Midlands,WV11 35B. Total set worth £690, asking just MGT Plus-D with 3.5" disk drive please, please call quick. £250 ono. Contact Mr D. £100. 3.5" disk drive £50. Over Combined price £330. Perfect People for tape fanzine work. Rimington, 27 Ramshead 100 48K Spectrum games £40 condition. Phone Glamis (030 Especially wanted: Tips Writer. Gardens. Seacroft, Leeds LS14 (games on cassette). 48k 784) 400. Ask for Chris. Adventure Writer, Cover Artist. 1BZ. Spectrum needs repair (new Thomas Vanner, 49 Antrim Road, keyboard template and Spectrum +3 for sale Excellent Lisburn, Co Antrim, Northern Speccy +3, Multiface. joystick, membrane) with joystick interface condition with tape lead, manual Ireland BT28 3EB. Phone (0846) disks, loadsa games inc. only £25. Phone Mark on (0273) and over £200 worth of games 671250. All applications Operation Wolf, Robocop, Elite 505265 Worth over £400, will sell for answered upon day of arrival. etc., leads, manuals, tape lead, £150. Phone Peter after 6pm on boxed. £190. Sega System, CRASH issues 1 - 63 including (0483) 34612. junction box, leads, joysticks, all freebies etc. All in good games inc. Outrun, boxed £65. condition. Won't split. Will take Lucky Dip! At least seven FOR SALE Tel: (0600) 3603 after 4pm. best reasonable offer, Contact Spectrum game cassettes for only Gareth on (0837) 840641 £10. Several batches available. 128 +2 software over E150 inc. Boxed, Spectrum +3. inc. First few will include one or more titles such as Platoon, Night manual, joystick, Multiface 3 (with Spectrum 128. Microdrive, Ram premium games. Cash with order Raider, Football Manager 1 + 2, through port), tape recorder, Turbo interface. Interface One, to Robin Triggs, 22 Sherwood Target Renegade, Conflicts 2 and leads. 70+ games £190. CP/M Multiface 128, data recorder, 2 Close, Bingley, West Yorkshire many more. £30 ono. Contact Plus, Mallard Basic and other joysticks, 80 original games. Will BD16 3EL. TOP 30 UIMMM MOVIE wmwauaus..... PLEASE MAKE CHEQUES AND TURB0S0FT POSTAL ORDERS PAYABLE TO (DEPT CRASH) TURBOSOFT. ORDERS OVER 41 SOUTH STREET £5 P8.P FREE. UNDER £5 LEIGHTON BUZZARD PLEASE ADD 50P PER ITEM BEDS LU7 8NT EUROPE ADO £1 P&P, OVERSEAS ADD £1 50 P&P MAIL ORDER ONL Y N B PLEASE STATE MAKE OF TEL 0525 377974 COMPUTER & CASS OR DISC COMPILATIONS SUTERSAVER PACK 1 SUPERSAVER PACK 1 link only! COMPUTER MTS VOL T DARK FORCE TOY BIZZARRE DALEY'S SUPtRTEST ONLY C3 M ONLY IS M HARDBALL NEVER ENDING STORY DARK SCEPTRE TARZAN DISC RUM PITFALL II HARDBALL MEGA APOCALYPSE, LAST NINJA N. BATMAN ZENJI INT MATCHDAY MAGNETRON. TRAZ. DAR*S«X. « TYPE ALL FOR ONLY Mp ALL FOR ONLY SSP MYSTERY OF THE NILE. NINJA HAMSTER. CATCH 73 FRTGHTMARF DRUID N DYNAMITE COIN OP HITS ONLY (« M C*SC (V »» ONLY (• M DISC f 11M MEGA HITS ONLY OS IN CROWD AF7E HBURNER OUTRUN. THUNOERBLAOE JOSTARSTRIKE. BLUE ONLY NO N LAST NINJA II ROAOEMSNRS THUNDER. WHEEllE, SON OL BARBARIAN. GRYZOR CHAT WEC Lt MANS SPY HUNTER BLAGGER. PYSTROM. FAIL CARS PREDATOR. KARNOV. tJOUBL E DRAGON BlONIC COMMANDOS GUY. AUTOMANLA, COMBAT SCHOOL. TABGFT BUGABOO, BODE ALLEY. RENEGADE PLATOON PENf TRATOFL
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SPECIALS CASSETTE SPECIALS CASSETTE • -»MSC OFFERS • It* SCOFFERS sort RSL MOUSE »» i s JO FOOI <•» ma N> RMSFOSOT. JS IS FOR EVERY f 10 SPENT GET ONE GAME FREE CHOOSE n n mmm -SS MUUFCLOWIH'J KMT1AU IS IS MTIMftOHTEtl MS CAPTAM SLOW . 1M IS FROM ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FOR YOUR FREE GAME STMMLSCII us UMUU j| 2S MEGA APOCALYPSE OEX TEMPEST HEARTLAND THE t AM ATTACH -ss HJSUP sea is CAM U>MO >s TRAIN SUPERSPRINT RALLBLAZER PITFALL II /( NJ1 MR ITMI I AS TMS of LOW . ss UCMOUMOURJUDWUFI - IS (S WEEMS AND THE SHE DEVILS EXPLORER MERMAIDS I OOUCITT WOTSALL IS IS wnmuis «s MADNESS DEATll OR GLOHY LOADS OF MIDNIGHT US WMAM MRXHI LAIRTM SS PRODIGY PULSATOR HARDBALL TWISTER HIGH NCW RELEASES ^IS CASA1 SS 1JS MuMifosMeocrosa FRONTIER HYPERRALL TOY BIZZARt SSMOMSnST ss • • . JS ALL THE ABOVE GAMES AVAILABLE AT fl 99 EACH LASER IOUAO its Mint mc is MINIS WAIT ss SATHAHTWSAW ITS imuncs MS OEWAC ILS CNAH «.«..- MS EDUCATIONAL W. ion BASIC us MS AJHSWTH SACK JUHKjt is HI son c Its HU HCH Mnrnuts PASCAL ntfNCHMIIWtllA*! LS WO WMilbW wrKTTt » IIS PJN SCHOOL 1 LMCKL 1 )H LASCORR IS MKSOMOSf seta« RMSCH00L7M —ta TAS WAST IS WW UAM ITWTS RN SCHOOL 11-* TS TUfWNT IS MMIMMMH IOOETVY EUROPE in TMW0SS ILS smuMs . LS ILS IIS CRASH JANUARY !• 27 Spectrum +2 for sale with music Atari VCR 2600 games computer machine (both boxed) and over plus 20+ games. Very good £250 worth of games and over condition. Only £40. Tel: 0737 £100 worth of mags. Worth £570; 557657. will sell for £275. Phone (0482) GAMES FREE urn 890237, ask for Martin after 6pm. Sinclair 128K, desk, chair, Interface 1 & 2, two m/drives. PRICE LIST Spectrum +3. Multiface 3. over Muttiface 128, two cassette £300 software including Batman recorders, games, books, cheats, The Movie, Carrier Command etc. twenty cartridges etc. £300. Ring Williams Computer Services Ltd. Also includes blank disks, disk Keith on 04023 71564 (Romford box and tape leads. All boxed and area). For all your Software requirements. in good condition. Worth £600, For a fast friendly service. sell for £170. Contact (01) 953 0225 after 5.30pm. Spectrum 48K, Teletext adaptor, We have available, a large range of games software Multiface One and a Tandy GAMES Sega Master system, lots of backup hardware, Timex printer, in all formats, for all the popular machines. software & light phaser, Sega data recorder, joystick + interface, control pad, full boxed rapid fire hundreds of games. Advertised We can supply software to suit your business needs BUSINESS unit. Worth £350, will sell for before but not sold due to time for P.C. and compatibles. £250. Excellent condition. Contact wasters. £250 ono. Southwell Charles (0491) 652020, Cholsey, near Nottingham. Tel: (0636) We supply a large range of consumables such as CONSUMABLES Oxfordshire QX10 9PA. 812125. Ask for Duncan. printer ribbons, cables, and blank discs and tapes. G. Mercuri. Chesterfield S40 We can supply all the popular Joysticks and JOYSTICKS 4EQ' I Interfaces to fit most popular machines. COMPO PE15 9SS; Richard Davis. Tyne/Wear NE38 OPE; Ian M We have available, a range of add-ons and disc WINNERS 1NX; DISC DRIVES drives to suit most machines. Male Sims Keni CT1 1YF; Dav.d JoHoy >"ii|n 4 on. Please phone us for latest prices on all items on #522 493554 (24 Hours) Or write Prizes ahoy! Did you enter a to us enclosing a 20 pence stamp for your free price list at:- 22 Cottentort Road, Welbum, Torn TUA DTU james Doddington Park, Lincoln, I.INCS, LN4 JRH. compo recently? No?! You fool! Please note: All cheques will be cleared immediately if cheque guarantee number You could have been a compo .I Q V^VT-, written on reverse. winner just like all these Edward Reed, Pembroke Dock people Take this lot for S72 4UL. Richard Karpa. Oxon WIL11 A MS COMPUTER SER VICES L TD example: these five have won a OX6 7DX; Simon Twomey, Please make all cheques and Postal Orders payable to copy of The Untouchables on Ipswich IP1 5JZ; Williams Computer Services Ltd. video and a copy of the game Essex RM11 2TH; Stephen from Ocean!! Haigh, Cornwall""" Stephen Leigh, Stockport SK5 Sendel. Shefti 8JF; Richard Roc Asson, Nr.Wigan WN5 7PW. Basingstoke RG26 6SZ. Michael Or how about the phone-in KOBRAHSOFT SPECTRUM UTILITIES AND SOFTWARE Neal, London N1 5TD. Stephen compo where you could have Lee. Edgware HA8 5DP; Steve won a copy of C Adams, Royston SG8 5DW Opera SP5 TAPE TO DISC UTILITY: INEWI Transfers tapes to +3 disc. Many examples. Now And these 15 runners-up transfers the very latest Pulsing and Countdown programs. FULL manual. FREE superb people have! DISC HEADER READER and DISASSEMBLER. Supplied on Disc at £12.95 have won a copy of the game: Merfyn. Ben Baker, Coventry CV7 7NX; 50 R, Peter Harkc D.I.C.E.INEWI Version 2 disc utility tor the +3 Modify and read sectors, back up disks; Robert Davies, Sutton Coldfietd EH32 OBS; Colin FULL directory: Recover erased files: Lock out faulty files: Erase/Rename files: Mnu 873 5LE; Stephen Watkins. driven; EASY TO USE An Excellent package' CRASH October 1988: £12.95 ON DISC Newcastle NES 1Sf Corwen LL21 9DH; James Scrivens. Surrey KT9 SD5 TADE TO M\D UTILITY; INEWI Transfer tapes to M/D. NOW transfers very Pritchard. Brignorth WV16 5EX; Michael Bible. Norwich NF latest Pulsing and Countdown programs. FULL manual and FREE dissasembler; Alex Miles, Colchester C03 3RB: Colin Macdonatd. Dur £7.99 on Tap® Colin Dingwall, Lochwinnoch 4RZ; Clare Jones. Ealir SW1 TAPE TO WAFA DRIVE UTILITY; Transfer PROTECTED tapes to Wafadrive. PA12 4AZ; David Hall. Reading 2SJ; Andrew Younge Handles Pulsing. MANUAL and FREE Disassembler: £7.99 On Tape; £9.95 on Cart. RG7 3HF: Vicky Hazeldine. 3YT; Robert Baik Barnsley S71 5QU; Ben Connolly. WA12 0DR: Micf SC6 ADVANCED TAPE UT)LITY;INEWI Now will back up most tapes. Handles last East Boldon NE36 0LT; Stephen loaders. LONG blocks, the VERY LATEST Pulsing and Countdown programs, FULL Salford M5 Multi-load programs £8.95 Haywood, Nottingham NG5 5JG; Birmingh* Simon Rackstraw, Washington Reader SPECTRUM MACHINE CODE COURSE; Full course from beginner to advanced NE38 9EL E J Chun, Galgate Whit level. Applies to ALL Spectrums. Suitable for alt. FREE disassembler AND Editor/Assembler: £20.00 LA2 ONO; Royston Bayliss, Andr Chaddesden DE2 4JN; Geraini 5DB, PLUS 3 DIARY AND FILING SYSTEM:!NEWI A complete diary/note pad filing Grant. Cardifl CF4 IDE. Darren KT12 11 system database for the +3, features LARGE database with diary to 2089, also fast Marktew, Kingswinford DY6 8JF. search and retrieval of data and biorhythms for 4 people. £12.95 on disc OEX; Pontefraci WF DB1 +3 DISC BACKUP UTILrTY: Backup +3 PROTECTED disc to DISC or TAPE. Easy Do you Stick It Up With Badtord, to use; Handles Multi-load programs £12.95 Disc Powerplay? You may have Daniel Nixon, Thomas Vanner, < ALSO AVAILABLE: SD5+ TAPE TO MvO, SOS TAPE TO OPUS DRIVE; SL4 won! The Winner who receives SPEEDLOADER; CODE INVESTIGATOR - phone for details. an Amstrad Satellite System 3EB; Robert But consisting of a dish and tuner HP9 1XW: Michael He MONEY BACK GUARANTEE - BUY WfTH CONFIDENCE is Keith Fryer, Warminster BA12 Edinburgh EH6 4NJ; Mark Send cheque/PO to "KOBRAHSOFT, DEPT CR, 'Pleasant View*. HulmeLane. Hulme. 8LY. Strange. Sussex TN33 9QE Long ton. Stoke-On-Trent. Staffs. ST3 5BH. (Overseas: Europe add! P+P PER ITEM, And 20 runners up who each Colin, Kent DA9 9JL others 2). Send SAE (9*x5*) for detailed catalogue • mark envelope "ENQUIRY" We now receive a Crystal Joystick are: You're obviously a buncht of stock entire range of Spectrum Commercial software with huge savings. Phillip Bewick. Carlisle CA5 3PG; thickos because we offered! 50 ^^^ Please send SAE or phone lor catalogue. Lee Tottersall, Bury BL8 2EB; prizes but only this lot coulld VISA For more information please phone: 078 130 5244 Scott Wilkinson, Notts NG17 7EL come up with the correct Access. Visa Welcome - please phone above number. Peter Welch. Essex CM8 2XR I. answers!! (24-hour, 7-days a week lor FAST Mail Order) Plimmer. Merseyside WA12 8SD; More lucky names next month — maybe you? 28 • CRASH JANUARY THIS DISK THIS DISK COSTS COULD COST £14.99 £2,000 It's against the law to pirate software. You can be fined £2,000 or go to prison for six months.
THIS CAMPAIGN IS ORGANISED BY Any information on piracy should be passed to The Federation Against Software Theft. PIRACY EUROPEAN LEISURE SOFTWARE Telephone 01-240 6756 PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION IS THEFT Aive&OtcuU Spectrum +2A, over £500 worth FANZINES more! Only £2.99!! *NEW* SPI- winner!! Send a SAE for details of games incl. Microprose Soccer, DROID - a compulsively addictive to: Quad (I), 17 Grove Rd North, Tracksuit Manager and more. "Marble-Madness" clone - Southsea, Portsmouth, Hants. With Cheetah joystick. All for just ENIGMA 4 out now! 300K of amazing graphics, colour + P05 1JJ. £350 ono. Phone (0582) 882295 100% m/code, news, review, sound! 30+ screens, 3 skill levels, after 6pm. Ask for Ian. screens, hacks and hints. hi-score table, joysticks, define MEGAPRIX: 30 teams, 65 Exclusive interview with Mike keys, aliens, lifts, holes, Killer drivers, 5 tyre and engine types, Spectrum 128K +2,10 months Gerrard. All for only £1.99 (£1.50 Bubbles + more! Overall: 80% 16 race real Grand Prix season. old, original box and manual, + blank C-90). For Spectrum C.C.C. Nov 89! Only £2.50!! Start Up 2 pounds. Turns 50p. joystick, lightpen and over £100 of 128/+2/+3. From 'Enigma' (Mail *VlNSOFTS XMAS 89 PACK* For more details send SAE to software. Reason for sale: Order). 15 Westfield Road, An ideal Xmas present for all Male Sims, 76 Mount Road, Upgrading to business computer. Inverurie, Aberdeen AB5 9YR. tastes; all 3 aforementioned Canterbury. Kent CT1 1YF. Phone (0202) 761163. games for only £6.50! Inc. P&P!! GAME BUSTERS. Over 26 A4 (Chq/PO/cash) - Months of fun! GRAND STRATEGY PBM. Light pen and 46 games for sale. sides containing 200+ pokes, We'll also giftwrap it at your Playtest free start and 75p per Light pen and compatible maps, cheats and solutions for request! Offer closes Jan 25th. turn. Computer moderated with software are only £10. And price only £2 + 50p P&P. Free Ocean Hurry! Payments to: V. Vity, 11 best graphics ever seen in a lists are available for the games, game for first 10 replies. Cheques Willow Gr., Bare, Morecambe, PBM. Ideal for beginners. Write (approx. price £1). If interested, or PO's to S. Clark, 25 South Lanes. U\4 6JJ. Please state Just PBM, PO Box 14, Blackpool, then please contact Kevin on Road, Saffron Walden, Essex Crash. PS: Rudolf The Red Nose Lanes. FY1 2PT. (0803) 62188. CB11 3DG. Kangaroo had a very shiny rhubarb! Dungeon of Death, the first ever PENPALS EVENTS DIARY adventure game guaranteed = Soccer PBM, match reports, playable, enjoyable & solvable, by USER GROUPS Closing down sale!!! All league and lots of cup anyone including YOU!!! Available Cairnpokes' pokes, maps, competitions. Cash and other for the 48/128K Spectrums. Send Utilities, programming help, solutions, adventure maps + prizes to be won. Turns weekly. £3.00 to Trevor, 529 Middlepark graphics, info, practical solutions and more - must go!!! For free Start Up write to Top Avenue, Mottingham, London homegrown software for serious Over 50% off everything!! For Teams, 61 Cadle Place. SE9 5QP. users on +3 disk, Disciple/+D, catalogue - 40p + SAE:- Portmead, Swansea SA5 5NE. Opus, microdrive, cassette. Cairnpoke, Glenfieid House, 246 Control Software's Speech "OUTLET!" (Monthly since 1987!) Comber Road, Lisburn, Co Antrim Fantasy Software has now four Synthesizer: make your Speccy Latest issue £2.50 to newcomers BT27 6X2. Must end soon!!! Free new games on release. For full talk. No more to buy, only £4.99. only! R. Cavers, 605 competition with catalogue!! details send a SAE to R. Buy now and enter the Control's Loughborough Road, Birstall, Johnson, 43 Russell Road, give-away. Win joysticks, Leicester. MISCELLANEOUS Gravesend, Kent DA12 2RT. software, light guns. Closing date 1 st December. Control Software, Do you need sprites, scrolling, Christmas Greetings from Compilation tape of high quality St Anthonys Church Hill, fast running programs? Then Vinsoft! KNOCKOUT - Boxing - programs for your Spectrum. Glanmire, Co Cork, Ireland. IPost learn machine code with ACTION Strategy + Simulation -12 Arcade and Adventure normally today! TAPES! Tape 1 for the complete opponents, speech, joystick, great sold separate, but as a special beginner includes demos for colourful graphics + more! Only launch offer to readers of Crash Control Software's great mad sprites and scrolling, and alt for £1.99!! GRAND PRIX RIDERS - only £6.99. Cheques payable to: give-away. If you buy Alien Block, just £3. Try it! Nick Lewis. 52 Kyle 100% fast response menu driven Philip Downey, Fairbanks, School just £3.00, and enter the free Crescent, Whitchurch. Cardiff strategy, realistic, save/load Lane. Great Leighs, Chelmsford, draw. Win light guns, softwaire, CF4 1SU. game, sponsors, bank, weather + Essex CM3 1NL. Quickshot 2 joysticks, and alll especially for Christmas. Closing Build your own arcade machine date 25/11/89. Control Software. 35 WORDS FOR ONLY £4.50! using your computer and St Anthonys Church Hill. m in the form below and enclose with your £4.50 payment, cheque or postal order television. Easy to build. Playing Gtanmire, Co Cork, Ireland. made payable to NEWSF1EL0 LIMITED Photocopies of the form are acceptable games will never be the same Hurry!!! CRASH Reader Cla*diked section la not open to trade or commercial advertisers, but Fanzine* may u»a it. Headings are: WANTED, FOR SALE, USER GROUPS, PENPALS, FANZINES and again! Send a SAE for free EVENTS DIARY (tor club/user groups). The maximum wordage is 35. Small ad* will be printed In information: Mr S.J. Howlett, 58 STAR TREK - The Computer the first available Issus, The editor reserves the right lo refuse *da which do not comply with normal decent practice, or which could be Interpreted as encouraging software piracy. Beacons View Road, Clase, Game. Take command of th«e Swansea SA6 7HU. Starship Enterprise in battles CRASH READER CLASSIFEDS against the Ktingons. Phaseirs, *PBM Spectacular* "Finally here" Photon Torpedos. Starbases. This Send to CRASH READER CLASSIFIED, PO Box 10, Ludlow, Shropshire SYS 1DB QUADREN is new, professional 1989 version has the lot! Onily and giving away 100's of prizes. £2.99: S.J. Howlett. 58 QUADREN is an adventure in the Beaconsview Road, Clase, making - and everyone's a Swansea SA6 7HU.
HAL OFFICE 47 Gravel H.il. Lud»ow, Shropshire SVfl 10S 0584) 075651:20 Editor: Olllver Frey Postcode tor: Richard Eddy SUff Writer. Mark Caswol Editorial Assistant /rv Vickrei, Photography: Please t>ck: Q Wanted • For Sale • Penpals • User Groups • Fanzines Michael Parkinson Contributor*: Nich Robert* Production Manager Jonathan Signal! Production • Events Diary • Miscellaneous Supervisor MaOww Ufindefi Reproflnphics: Rotwl Mlllicnamp, Tim Moms, Rot® (the Rov) Ha^ftoyi, Jenny Write your advertisement here, one word per box and include address and phone IV-ddara Design David Wssiom, Man Kendnck. Melvyn Fisher System* Operator: ion ChuMb Group number if you want them printed. Advertisement Manager: N*; Dyson Advertisement Salts Executives Caroline BiaJte. Cirisiwan Tes-.a Assistant: Jack* Morris ]056<) 874603 Group Promotions Executive: Richard Eddy Mall oritur: Carul Kwtsey Subscriptions: PO Bc< 20. Ludlow, Shropshire SYB IDS Desjgrwd and typsol on Apple Mawnfajh II computers running Quirk Xpress and Adobe illustrator B8. with systems support from Oigritai Print Repnxpaphics, VArral Business Centre, Metsoysrdc Colour ongnauon by Scan Stuowv Isfcryjwn Grc^i. London Nt. Printed in EnclaM by Carrie Web Oflsct. Newtown Trading Estate. Carlisle Cumtsoa CA2 77NR a member of ihc BPCC OstrtrJIIon by COMAG Tava>tt Rood. West Drayton, MWOiese* COMPETITION PULES ^ Ettar* ieowrt n £nal r afranw mWirt gtoiciwxaicr ai d *tile iw o»er prim in | good liter, setiawig Vimto be avalM, it soretmng urtcwara happw:- ilrs a pen* em >•» b«r oftsrw a* a prt» btng atpwl) *e Ihr iijjttto vufsUut t prttr-i of eompar*tt» **iue. W
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CodeMasters, PO Box 6. Southam, Warwickshire CV33 OSH Look out. Beverly Hills Here comes Axel Foley ! The hero ol "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Beverly Hills Cop II" is back in Beverly Hills • and this time he's working on a case that's a real stumper! He's going to stop ihe crime of the year unless an army ol trigger-happy gunmen stop him first 1 You'll roar down crowded city streets, race against lime 1o slop a daring rob bery stalk armed Killers, hunt lor clues to a bizarre crime, and fight for your Me again and again in this high-speed action adventure starring the fast-talk- ing. quick-shooting detective
AVAILABLE ON: ST £24.99 AMIGA £24.99 PC £24.99 CBM64 CASS C9.99 CBM64 DISK £14.99 AMSTRAD CASS £9.99 AMSTRAD DISK £14.99 SPECTRUM CASS £8.99 SPECTRUM DISK £14.99
Fynesoft Computer Software Ltd Addison Industrial Estate. Blaydon. Tyne & Wear NE21 4TE. U.K. Tel (091)414 4611 THE PHENOMENON THAT IS DIZZY!!
That ever potential omelette Dizzy is an eggstraordinary little fellow, isn't he? Created by the now 'famous' Oliver Twins he's won the heart of around a million games players, putting his popularity up among the Robocop stakes. Now the Twins have finished Dizzy's third epic, Richard Eddy begins to wonder whether the nation isn't going completely potty!
he Oliver Twins (Philip and noise of coughing, spluttering y'know!' Really? Oh yeah! happened?' Gosh! Pray, tell. Andrew) are renowned for and general illness comes from Y'know we had a game called Before Dizzy we were mairy being loud, enthusiastic and the background). Fast Food which was released producing action games, y'kiow quite pleasantly dotty, so Right then. Hello Philip. So, tell not long after Dizzy II, well that — all the simulator types. Aid T had a guest appearance' by then we did this game callei there's no point talking to them me. has the nation really gone unless you've psyched yourself Dizzy dotty? Oh yes! Dizzy and it really made the Robin Hood (fun platform ja«) up for it. Right. Here goes. Completely! Hundreds of game. It sold even more than the which was followed up by Qosf Hello? HELLO!' bawls an Oliver thousands of people are playing original Dizzy did. He's great!" Hunters. They were quite Twin down the CRASH blower. the Dizzy games. He's probably Good grief! Is there any way to different. The main charades in It's Philip! Hello!! Sorry, it's only the most popular character ever save the nation's sanity? 'Well, both games were men, but ye me!! You've only got one twin to created on computer. He's better it's a bit late now, isn't it? But, did were fed up of drawing and speak to!! Andrew's really ill!!' (a than any licensed character you know that Dizzy nearly never animating people, so i tried CRASH JANUARY !• 33 something else. I drew up this egg-shaped blob with arms and legs and thought: 'Dizzy ! And that's how he was born. 'We implemented Dizzy into Ghost Hunters with all his animation of running and jumping and showed it to Richard and David (Darling) at CodeMasters. But they weren't too happy with it. thought it wouldn't work, but said to come up with a game idea and then show them again. So we did. and they put it out as an DJ Nicko's experiment. And it sold like hot Crucial Guide cakes!! It was just sooo popular and was in the charts for ages. to the It was then that we realised Phenomenon we had given the younger group of games players something ideal That Is Dizzy!! — Dizzy was fun, graphically very good, entertaining, cheap and most importantly cute Both Treasure Island Dizzy and Fast DIZZY Food were then created with the same objectives in mind and it Hit The First worked. Hence the new 'The animation is excellent, CodeMasters label Cartoon the graphics are brilliant, with Time, created especially for fun colour complementing them games like Dizzy: it should be perfectly; sound is well used very popular!" with a good tune at the start How do you go about creating and spot FX an tunes in the a new Dizzy game? We do think game. I can t find ANYTHING about itt We don't just wake up nasty to say about Dizzy, it's one morning and write a new just so addictive and neat.' Dizzy We knock about ideas and 85% then spend a week putting together all our thoughts and research to create a new world; drawing roughs for the graphics, TREASURE ISLAND making maps and organising ail the puzzle elements. DIZZY Though saying all that, after deciding on a gameplan it doesn't Hit The Second take that long to actually program The graphics on the island the game. Dizzy III was written in are all cartoon-style with an 29 days in September!! We didn't impressive amount of colour rush it, but it was enjoyable to do. machines, as research Though, for the next game, and great detail. The Dizzy and I'm very pleased with the end obviously.' (Hem. hem). we're toying with the idea of a sprite Is the same as in the result.' Now Dizzy's in his new Superhero Dizzy: that might be original game with all its jumps Do you ever go back and play adventure, Fantasy World, what's on the cards next'. In the and cute little rolls. It's this the previous Dizzy games? No! It he going to be getting up to next? meantime you can expect to see cuteness coupled with the makes me feel guilty — playing We don't want to spoil the Dizzy making a few more guest playabillty that makes it so games is so much fun that I think excitement at the moment. It'll appearances!' addictive. The puzzles in the it isn't work, so I tend not to. probably be another year before Phew! This Dizzy milarky game are just at the right Anyway, after three days play- Dizzy returns again — he's in could drive you bonkers! Before difficulty level. I guarantee you testing a game non-stop, testing need of a holiday! No. but you know it you'll probably see will get hours of fun out of this every nook and cranny, there's seriously, bringing out another Dizzy badges, t-shirts, pillows, game, a must for everyone's not a lot left for me to discover, is adventure would dilute the effect mugs and books popping up all software collection.' there?! I will play arcade of Fantasy World — we want over the place!! 'Erm,' says 87% gamers to enjoy that for a while. Philip, 'funny you should say that because..,' ARRRGGGGHHH! Haylp! No! I can't stand it! I'm seeing Dizzys FANTASY WORLD before my eyes! Yibble! Yibble!! Where's me Dizzy hot water DIZZY bottle, nurse? Nurse!! Yibble!! Hit The Third (Straight jackets ahoy!! Ed) This Is just brilliant —the perfect cartoon caper and definitely the best Dizzy game yet. The puzzles are easy to start with and get HE'S progressively harder, but that makes the playabillty just EVERYWHERE right! Graphics are of a very high standard and.. Oh! Flip to DHNZXl. Dyx.ftw uozy CRONO page 56 and read the \ jia t ^ On screen Sound Editor can THE RAM MUSIC MACHINE IS PROBABLY THE MOST produce MIDI data Cram your own compositions. EXCITING MUSIC ADD-ON AVAILABLE FOR ANY COMPUTER. No other product can offer so ^ It * a fall sound sampling system ' The Music Machine can be used as W fully MIDI compatible. 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Stay on left at top speed, get thing in my house: brothers waking you up at 5.00am screaming ready to turn. He's been, Nick!', and more food than you could possibly eat 3. On first bend keep on left: (we have a jolly good attempt though!). But that's what approaching next bend drift to the Christmas is all about, isn't it? (Nick is, of course, making all right and accelerate under bridge. this up in an attempt to be seasonal. It is. in fact, November 24 4 Keep right, and when here in the CRASH office —Ed). approaching bend move to left A new year, a new decade and a brand new edition of action Accelerate up hill. DIP packed Playing Tips is here to brighten up your days ahead. 5. Slow down towards bottom of This month I've got a map of that energetic game The Running dip, steer left and accelerate up Man, a map for the great budget bash Postman Pat to go with hill. the tips already printed, and tips for Twin Turbo V8 and the 6 Stay at top speed, but watch Christmas scorchers Powerdrift and Continental Circus. The C40 for cars in the way. software prize is back in as well (I know I've forgotten to do it for 7. Top speed all of the way. a few months), so no more complaints please. 8. Slow down slightly at bend, Well there's not much more to say except Happy New Year. I'm move to middle of road and top off for another mug of hot black liquid (coffee, we think he speed over the crest. Watch it, means). you might land on another car. 9. Top speed until the finish HILL Tips... • Try to stick to one lane, don't <6 drive on dotted line • Don't drive too close to side of road. • Brake on tight bends, get ready to speed away. • When approaching a group of opponents, slow down. If one lane is free from cars get into it and overtake. If not wait until the DIP cars separate, find a gap and accelerate through. Use brakes and throttle to manoeuver through. • Speed while accelerating to change gear: 68-70mph. • Top speeds: low gear = 124mph. high gear = 252mph. • When accelerating don't move ba?k to original position until about five seconds later. The overtaken car might still be right behind and moving across may cause a hit BRIDGE POWERDRIFT Andrew Cooke of Llangollen has been buggying away at Powerdrift ever since it came out and has come up with these brill tips to help anyone out there who's stuck. 1, At the start change to high gear when your speed reads 120(ish). This prevents anyone coming up from behind. 2. If you run into the tyres by the side of uphill roads you bounce to the other side. This can be very START useful for passing cars or getting on the inside of a corner. CRASH JANUARY !• 39 A ij J r » I nan d £Z3l M 9 1 ' : •!I 1 n~ 3 if . 9 zzc © 1989 TAFT ENTERTAINMENT MOTION PICTURES/KEITH BARISH PRODUCTIONSS • A a 3. If a corner or sticky situation requires slowing down, don't brake: use engine (i.e. just take your finger off the accelerator whilst cornering.) 4. It doesn't matter which driver you pick. 5. Lapped cars (back markers) appear from lap three onwards. Any cars overtaken prior to lap three wiH advance your position. 6. If you gain on the car ahead slowly it's ranked higher than you. You zoom past back markers. BLASTEROIDS If you've already read the tips on Emlyn Hughes you will be familiar with this geezer... it's Jason Smailwood back again with some rib tickling tips for Blasteroids. 1. When going onto a new screen select the speeder and make sure nothing collides with the ship. 2. Take all the sectors in a certain order. 3. When facing Mukor use the warrior to fire and speeder to position yourself. 4. Docking ships may be good fun but can also be dangerous... very dangerous! 5. In two player mode, try to protect your friend. If you don't he'll probably use up all the credits. 6. When a sector has been cleared, transform into speeder and rush to the portal to receive a bonus and control of the map. 7. When an alien is dispensed of. collect the power up and get away before another alien comes after you. 8. Rip-stars are best used when Mukor's minions are chasing you. 9. One more tip, give those minions one from me! CONTINENTAL CIRCUS Cor, there's more car racing games around at the moment than I've had hot dinners, and release accelerate, then when through any packs of cars. off the track and a crash before the that's saying somethingl One green light comes on press it Course Tips the first check point can put you Be of the best has to be again. This sends you straight off Brazil: Don't use the 'flying start' out of the race. Get into the pits the Continental Circus, with Its the starting line at 100km/h. Then as you start off in last rank. You straight after the first check point. be special extras like rain on the just move into second gear and can't drop any further, so let three Drive flat out all the way and stick ber track and animated pit stops. zoom, zoom, zoom! cars pass you, ending up with to the middle. A good str« These tips for the game have 2. A* after course names in the four cars in front of you. Overtake performance here could get you Gei come In from Elton Bird of course tips* section below means them and you gain four places into the top 50. this Bracknell. Elton wins the £40 this tip can be used: You can get very quickly. It never rains in France: This course has to be the it re software prize for this month, rain to dry up on certain courses! Brazil (perhaps that's why they easiest of them all. If it rains don't pro and in answer to Elton's Make your car start to smoke by grow coffee beansl). A good race pit in, just carefully drive on. anc question: English Language is ramming up someone's rear here could put you into 65th Carefully doesn't mean slowly, can the most important, but any (pardon!). About 10 seconds position. you should drive as fast as dep GCSE is a step up on the before your smoke turns to fire America: Use the 'flying start' for possible and you should do it, no bes ladder. the rain should stop. You must every race from now on. This sweat. Aim to make it in the top hop General Tips then quickly enter the pits for course can be very dangerous, so 30 or 35. you 1. For a flying start' do the repairs: Great, because driving it pays to drive carefully. It may Monaco:* This one can be very Spa following: about half a second with a smoking engine is easier begin to rain on or just before the hard. If it starts to rain early in the eas after first red light comes on, than driving in the rain. first corner, so start driving on and race, don't go into the pits, the rath press accelerate. About half a 3. Always try to stick to the middle off the track to the right as the nearest one is so far away the find second after second red light of the road and weave your way second bend is likely to wipe you rain stops just past it. If you enter the 42 • CRASH JANUARY I MILLIONS OF MULTIFACERS Well, the exact number is more Ghosts n' Goblins the pits alt you do is lose ranking. As far as rain is concerned it is like 20! These have all come from POKE 36083,0 TB Be very careful when going into mainly on the plain. Sorry: you the same POKE perfect person, Ghosts n' Goblins the chicanes. The time limit may shouldn't see much of it, but if you Dan Drummond. The key for 2.POKE 46840.(0-255)... RB be running out just after the last do it's safer to pit in. these POKES 4S INF=infinite lives, Renegade III (1) bend, going into the home Mexico: This is very similar to TB=turbo boost, RB=rebel squad, POKE 38500,0 INF straight, but don't give up. Spain, so you shouldn't find it too T=time. Renegade III (2) Germany * The main problem with hard. I've only experienced rain POKE 39095,0 T this one is it's very changeable. If here once in all the times I've Thundercats Salamander it rains here, get into the pit played, so it must be pretty rare. POKE 31401,0 INF POKE 38498.0 INF pronto or you'll probably crash, With any luck I'll see you in Japan Storm lord SAS Combat and a crash here can be fatal. It for the final test! POKE 56877,0 INF POKE 33034,0 INF can be very hard or very easy Japan: Still here? Good, glad Exolon.. Street Gang depending on your driving: the you've made it this far. I've only POKE 42338,0 INF POKE 39254,0 INF best policy is to drive fast and finished this course once, and Crosswize Hellflre Attack hope for the best! If luck is on even then I was outside the top POKE 51617,0 INF POKE 50017.0 INF your side you will do it. three. When I did make it all I did Cerius Blgfoot Spain:* No problem'This is a fairly was to keep my foot on the floor POKE 65520.0 INF POKE 55189,0 INF easy course, but it does have a (well finger on the key) and Gunfighter Skateboard rather tight time limit. You may concentrate! What makes this one POKE 65535,0 INF POKE 22568,0 INF find yourself rolling just short of so hard is the time limit, blink and Tank Command Pacland (+3) the finish line, a bit like Monaco. you miss the whole race! POKE 65535,0 INF POKE 23541,0 INF CRASH JANUARY • 43 2. All ghosts can be fooled. FAST Pretend to go one way then double back another. They rarely FOOD turn around, so you can follow (Burp!) You know all that fast them safely. food isn't good for you: 3. Ghosts can t move over food or hamburgers, chips and goodies, so let the food be Yes Flashback returns this 9 Central Cavern chocolate donuts, that's Robin brought to you. month, flashy logo and all. And 19 Cold Room Candy's main diet and just look 4. On level 27: if you get trapped what better game to give tips 29 Menagerie at him! These tips will do you anywhere and the ghosts crowd on but the classic Manic Miner. 129 Abandoned Uranium Mines more good, they are from Chris around the door, your only hope This Is a cheat for all you 39 Eugene's Lair Sonta. of escape is to wait for the red people who could never get 1239 Willy Meets Kong Beast 1. Only bother eating the food sauce bottle to arrive at the door, past the third screen (it only 49 Wacky Amoebatrons (milkshakes, burgers, chickens, then rush out and eat it quickly. works on the Software Projects 149 Endorian Forest etc). The shield lets you munch 5. The surprise at the end is just version). 27 Attack of the Mutant up the ghosts, the purple medal that you can play the game again, To get to any of the 20 rooms at Telephones gives you invulnerability, the but this time upside down! the touch of a button follow these 2349 Bank purple bottle freezes all the 6. If you get stuck, think. There is instructions... 1249 Return of the Alien Kong ghosts and the red bottle gets rid always a strategical way out. 1 Load the game and press Beast of the ghosts altogether. ENTER to start as usual. 1259 Final Barrier 2. Now that the first screen has 1349 Sky Lab Landing Bay appeared enter TYPEWRITER: a 3469 Ore Refinery boot should appear in front of 259 Solar Power Generator miner Willy. 289 Vat You can now enter any of the 139 Processing Plant screens below by pressing the 159 Amoebatrons' Revenge correct combination of numbers 12379 The Sixteenth Cavern stated Every time you enter a 59 The Warehouse CHEAT new level your time will start as normal, however lives lost will not be replaced EMLYN HUGHES INTERNATIONAL SOCCER Dribble, dribble (damn crack in my mug!), pass, It's a goal! Yes, it's that saucy soccer game that's got something to do with Emlyn Hughes. These Division A quick spring clear} (welj it's when you press SHIFT and 1 you CHOORRB! One tips have come from Jason not actually spring yet, but you should go to the end of the level. Smallwood of Leeds. get the idea) and the motel is (Sarah Phillips) IT'S 1. When first playing get some back in business after all the practice in. Christmas parties and all night POKEMANIA! 2. After playing a while select drinking sessions (hicf). So NINJA practice, use back heels and get what cheats have we got for Seven pokes on tape to nelp you used to the kick directions. you this month? Take a look for MASSACRE Cheat your *ay through the latest 3. When fairly advanced, try yourself.] The codes for this game are batch of games, courtesy of playing without automatic keeper, SNOW, EASY. RACK, BLUE. have shots at yourself. Graham TURBO' Mason To SLAG. HULL, BEER and BARD 4. Gradually move up the levels. (Simon Sausage) control Pokemama you should 5. If you reach a level you can't press Q to scroll the list up. A to cope with, select edit team and INDIANA scroll it down and SPACE to make the opposing teams less 3D GRAND select the flashing Poke Heres skillful, often just lowering their JONES speed will do it. this month s seven deadly PRIX 6. Customising your own teams is AND THE hacks. great! Postman Pat is a wicked Press SYMBOL SHIFT + P, Z and striker. CAPSHIFT + 5 on the final Dragon Spirit LAST 7. Customising teams, then positions menu - you ll be Tusker saving them can prove great for rewarded with five extra levels' Cabal 48K CRUSADE (Stu and Daz) parties (good tips these). On the title page hold down 0, T Cabal 128K 8. Don't bother with substitutes, and D to go to level one Pressing Shark unless you like that sort of thing. SHIFT and 2 will now take you to SPHERICAL Rally Cross 9. Choosing players manually is lev/el two and pressing SHIFT 3 Code words are for player onie The Untouchables much better than getting will take you (wail for it) to level level 9: RADAGAST; level 19:; frustrated with the computer three! {Mr Nobody) YARMAK; level 39: ORCSLAYER; picking the wrong player. level 59: SKYFIRE; level 75: 10. On penalties try to angle the MIRGAL. 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These have been symbol four blocks down from monsters that kill off most kindly donated by Andrew the top left hand corner. Just players, so here is an Piatt of Stockport, and Tim plant a block there and you're STORY explanation on how to defeat Giles of Milton Keynes. whisked away to the next level. every one. Screen 30: This level is * Hf Screen 2: Race down, trap the difficult. Start by blocking the ball, then build a platform eyes on both sides, then fall Round 1 — The Ice Whale across to the exit. down on the right, onto the red -4 Stay back and keep jumping Screen 6: By now you need to key. If you fall onto the left, and firing (aim towards the have mastered the art of you're dead. Build the ladder lower half). Watch for any snow building your own ladder. The back up to the top right and flakes that fly out at a high best way to do this is to conjure climb across the platform to get angle from old Whale face and a block, jump on it. conjure the blue key. Then fall down dodge them. Eventually you'll another next to it, jump on onto the purple key and climb get him and it's off to World 2. that... and so on. Run left up the ladder you built immediately, fall on to the previously. Phew! hourglass, charge up into the Screen 33: Unbelievable. You alcove, and place a block right have to leap every single bit of Round 2 — The Rock Octopus nex to the ball. poison. If you touch one you The Octopus isn't difficult if you Sc.een 7: Another race against might as well quit. stay back and use the steps to time this. Don't bother to put a leap out of the way of the bats. block to the left of the ball since General Tips Just aim for the small nozzle in it always rolls right. Go up the * Always pause instantly on its front and keep firing, You left, there is only one ghost entering a new screen. can line up the nozzle from one here. * The first thing to look for is the of the higher steps if you're Screen 8: Be careful not to fall safety of the ball. If it is poised lucky, but the Octopus doesn't into any of the chambers at the on the brink of a precipice or stay still for very long. base of the screen, you won't just about to tumble into an be able to get out. inescapable trap, you'll have to Screen 10: A tough one this. act fast and trap it, making it Round 3 — Duruma What you must not do is fall to safe. For this monster just stay on the bottom of the screen. Leap * Also check that five billion the bottom and jump up across the top of the screen, ghosts aren't about to converge between salvos of rockets. get past the ball and race on you simultaneously. Don't leap too high but keep down, unblocking all the holes. * If you're good enough, you firing at the monster's middle Once at the bottom block all the can jump a gap of three blocks. and you should do it some gaps and you're home and dry. The Nasties damage. Screen 19: Lovely screen this Ghosts (aahh!). Don't bother to avoid These spectres dumbly move Round 4 The Pirate Ship all the bubbles, just sprint left and right and can be World 4 has no Guardian to across the top, get the red stopped completely by placing speak of but is another stage in potion, then race across to the a block at the point where they itself with a Pirate Ship to b>e next floor and fall down. Get turn round. found at the bottom with the the energy potion and build a Bubbles Kiwi deep within. The stage long platform. Simple eh? (No. Bubbles are a pain, virtually before it ends at a wall. Just not really — Nick). indestructable, they only give walk up to it and you're faced Screen 20: Very difficult at first, you a pixel space to travel with one hell of a tough level. the problem is how to key the underneath. key behind the dragon. The Eyes Round 5 — Wally Walrus answer is you don't. No sorry, Eyeballs are stupid. They just To defeat old Wally try to keep you kill it. Collect both torches, bounce up and down and can about an inch away from hirm build a short platform to its easily be trapped by placing a and lined up with the bottom head and just stand there block above or below them. edge of the balloon (where it letting the sparkler smash its Faces connects with Wally's head)). head in (subtle). Just pray you These ugly mugs defy all logic. You'll know where to stay b>y don't run out of energy first! They rotate around in dim watching the loop of the ballls Screen 24: The only real circles three times and then he fires. To kill Wally keep firing problem is getting up to the ball decide to change direction at the balloon. Watch out before it falls into the gap next illogically. it's best to trap them though, he often moves forvward to it. immediately, and be careful so be prepared to move barck, Screen 25: You must have a where you put the blocks. red potion here or you will Wizards never complete it. These guys materialise, shoot The end is nigh. Not the end of the world but something almost Screen 26: Forsake all weedy a fireball and then disappear. as catastrophic, the end of another Nick's Playing Tips. But ideas of self preservation and It's always best to pause for a don't go out and do all those things you always wanted but simply zoom up and trap the few moments at the start of a didn't have the guts to, just wait until next month when there; will ball. screen just to see if any of be another red hot issue of CRASH just waiting on the Screen 29: Don't worry about these boys appear in painful newsagent shelf for you. Meanwhile send all your tips, maps and this level it's so easy even places (ie. the block you are spare cash to... NICK Leftover Turkey' ROBERTS. PLAYING bitter—spot drinkers could standing on!). TIPS, CRASH, PO BOX 10, LUDLOW. SHROPSHIRE. SYS 1DBi. 46 • CRASH JANUARY "Look out for great new games in the Cartoon Time range from CodeMasters" SPECTRUM, AMSTRAD CPC, COMMODORE 64 I I 11 I ~ 1 (ikjf/^ r !\W/ ^ 1 ector'S I EDITION Continue the Adventures of ()Uir& Lissa in at "The Candlelight Adventure" —even better than the original Best Seller! 'A All Cartoon Time Games feature special Cartoon Characters, some you will already know, others like FRANKENSTEIN JNR. are new to the World of computer games. The Cartoon Time games are a Collector's Series, ch with its own unique number. Look out for the mmmttnni fTir~nrf—^ to o»»ney orlttt CodeMasters. PO Box 6. Southam Waru/irUhiro rv?W UIAI/ Oh wow. This is simply amazing. I first played the PI I w l\ arcade machine at the 1969 PC Show, and with its proper car controls (clutch, brake, accelerater and gears) It was the best driving simulation I had ever seen. Now it's come to the Spectrum (or SAM if you have a prosperous Chistmas!). Everyone must have dreamed of sitting in the little toy cars when you used to push them around tracks as a child. I know I did, and now I can live out my fantasy with Hard Drivin' The 3-D graphics are out of this world. Made up of monochrome shading and detailed backdrops, they zip around the screen so fast. The choice ol two styles of game is 8 good idea. You can zoom at speeds up to 140mph on the speed track, or perform loop the loops and jump ramps on the stunt track • brilliant. Just to add an exlra boost of addictivness there's the replay sequence that shows an aerial view of you (and all your mistakes). This is an instant hit with me and will keep me hooked for ages. Get a copy of Hard Drivin' - the ultimate driving experience. 92% the most graphically has to be tackled. Watch out on impressive of the two, because both tracks lor the speed apart from driving like a signs: drive any taster or maniac you must negotiate slower than they advise and three types of obstacle. you'll be witness to the These are the Bridge Jump, spectacular action replay of the Loop the Loop and if your your car rocketing off the track stomach is still in its proper and exploding in a sheet of place the Bend s sheer slope Dames. The first lap (whichever he original arcade version of Domark's TFormula 1 entry into the Chrimble scramble isn't so much a racing game as a racing simulator: an impressive beast, mainly because of the clutch gear set up that allows you to drive it like a real car. Obviously the Speccy isn't built like a car, but you do have the option to pick either manual or automatic gear mode just by moving the steering wheel left or rightt o choose. Two tracks await you: Stunt and Speed. As the name suggests, the speed track demands warp speed driving. But the Stunt track is probably ased on the movie of the Michael Jackson seeing Big. Scene one sees Michael same name. Moonwalker shooting stars and trying to on a film set being chased by is the story of young stop the antics of villain Mr his fans: a maze type affair viewed from above. Gauntlet style. To escape you must find seven parts of a rabbit suit and four special objects, whilst avoiding the fans. If they catch you, you lose one of your precious platinum disks (these act as lives and you start with twenty). There's a radar at screen bottom, not very detailed and not much help, just dots to tell you who is where. Level two is set in Michaelsville. There's no escaping your fans: Mr Big US Gold/Emerald • £9.99 cass, £14.99 tells them where you are. and disk the chase resumes. The 48 • CRASH JANUARY way you go) is against the used to: I found myself different answers and six clock, and il you beat the lap spinning off the track (with points for a correct answer if time you enter the second accompanying action replay) he gets it right first time. The phase of the game. so often, I considered applying more attempts made, the lower This is a straight one lap for a pilot s licence. Luckily the score. The Jigsaw Picture race around the Stunt track this is a computer game, and round is similar, with a pictoral against the Phantom Photon (a not the real thing, so you get clue gradually revealed to give computer controlled car), and endless goes with no damage Sporting the player a chance to answer you need to get a move on — and endless attempts at the written question correctly. cause this guy doesn't hang Hard Drivin' you'll definitely Again the six points Initilly around. If you manage to want! offered decrease with more survive the course (crashing MARK 92% tries. The final round is a finger on the buzzer job where the player with the quickest finger CDS • £9.99 cass, figures sitting behind desks gets to answer the question, £14.99 disk waiting to be 8sked tough though again you have to be sporting questions. Five of honest when asked il you e've had Every seven rounds are standard answered correctly. Second Counts, A question sessions, where each Sorry CDS but I have never WQuestion Of Sport. contestant in turn is asked to been a big fan of this trivia Mike Reid's Pop Quiz and throw a die. The resulting type game, and sadly Sporting Bob's Full House, and this is number is transferred to a Triangles does nothing to the latest TV quiz game. Based triangular board split into change this. The sporting on the Central TV sports quiz it coloured segments, and a questions are very tough, and I starts with the options screen cursor is moved round the feet most will only be where you pick how many board. Each colour answerable by the most players want to participate (up corresponds to a subject on fanatical sports fan: worse still, to three), the computer skill the board. When the question against the computer the game level (if you can't find a couple is asked you are offered an is a joke because you can of friends to rope into the answer' or give up' option. cheat to your heart's content in action'), decide the length of a The idea is to speak the most of the rounds. Quite a round and finally throw' a dice answer out loud and be honest nice touch is the contestants to decide order of play. when the computer asks you if being dressed in the clobber of You are then given twelve you answered the question their chosen sports, but the sporting categories and asked correctly or not. amusement this causes is very to choose one, after which a In the Hit For Six round the brief. studio set' appears with three player is offered seven MARK 45% means instant disqualification) A excellent conversion, fast Sporting Triangles wasn't exactly the most A mediocre convert Jon ol and beat the Phantom your 'n' thrilling and something NICK exciting game show on television and it doesn't a less than brilliant T\ score is entered on the high very different from the rest make the most fantastic game I've ever seen. If you are not a fan and for sport fanatics *ly. score table, — and your driving of sport playing this will probably send you to sleep. The pattern is taken up by the PRESENTATION 90% graphics are nice but quite sparse. Bnd colour has been used PRESENTATION FTl Phantom next time you race adequately. Unless you are playing with a friend who can stop him. GRAPHICS 91% you cheating, you're bound to win because the program asks GRAPHICS whether you got the question right or wrong! Sound is really > The arcade version was fast, SOUND 86% SOUND and on the Speccy we couldn't poor with an average tune when you first load up and hardly any H believe our eyes - this game PLAYABIUTY 89% effects through the game. About the only good thing is that all PLAYABIUTY moves at warp factor seven. the levels load up in one go (on my Spectrum +3 anyway). This ADOICTIVITY The graphics are all beautifully ADDtCTiVITY 90% saves having to multi-load over and over again. Sporting Z drawn and shaded. The OVERALL 92% Triangles is for the avid sports fan only, anyone else will soon OVERALL 50% controls take a bit of getting find it boring. 55 maze radar format is used of them and the bike turns into into four sections and you gets more than he bargained hat now. But the Club 30 and again, but this time you are on a sleek sports car (but only for must search for the orbs four tor when Michael turns into a the Arena are great fun and the a motorbike in search of 10 seconds), which must jump times (the fourth sees your huge robot and lays into all sagging game picks up. albeit glowing green orbs. Collect all a road block. The town splits bike traded in for a jet ski). and sundry with his laser too late to save the day. ' The third level sees Michael cannon. Apart from the hitmen, You know lm bad MARK 68% |J|C|f > I'm bad. Well in fact, at this in Club 30 and up to his neck a huge plasma cannon must be lllwli game I'm quite good! Moonwalker Is the latest in trouble. Mr Big's goons are destroyed before Mr Big's biggy' from U.S. Gold, they've even had It on the telly! The game outside and you guide Michael empire crashes around his Neatly packaged and luneful is fun to play too, which is quite a novelty for big licences. The from left to right across the ears. Mission accomplished. average to good games not Idea Is a little bit Pacmanish: you as Wacko run around the film club, dodging the gunmen who Whacko' turns into a BAD. set (I think that's what it's supposed to be) dodging fat people on appear at the windows. Along spaceship and blasts off into motor bikes and collecting parts of a rabbit suit. Once they have the way a tommy gun and the sunset. PRESENTATION m all been collected you jump onto your own bike and speed off to ammo can be collected to blow Graphically and sonically level two which is the same! Luckily levels three and four are out windows and kill villains (I the game is good, with some GRAPHICS 66S thought Mr Jackson was totally different. Fans of Wacko Jacko will be happy to hear that impressive renditions of songs SOUND 71% there are three of his hit songs playing in the game namely BAD, against violence). from the Bad' album. The main Speed Demon and Smooth Criminal. Fans of the Spectrum will The final showdown takes letdown are the first two levels: PLAYABIUTY 67% know that they wont sound anything like the originals! place in Mr Big's lair, an arena. I tried matchsticks, I tried ADOICTIVITY 64S Moonwalker is a fun game even it it does resemble Pacman a Kelly (one of Michaels friends) strong coffee but nothing lot. It's the terrible multi-load that spoils ft. If you think your tape has been kidnapped and is could keep me awake. OVERALL 70% recorder can stand the strain take a look at Moonwalker. 72% being used as bait. But Mr Big Overhead maze games are old CRASH JANUARY !• 49 Level one is a slice of prison life with BoBo in the canteen feeding fellow inmates as they appear. Equipped with a ladle and saucepan full of soup, he must make sure no plate is empty if he wants to avoid extreme nastiness! Next it's into the kitchen to peel potatoes. BoBo Is seated on a stool in front of an ever growing pile of spuds. As he picks one up a representation of H appears bottom righto f the screen to check It is peeled properly, if not it is thrown back. The level, ends when BoBo either peels ail the spuds in the pile, or he is buried by them. Level three coincides with warders' break time, and Activision/Softwa and as a brave pilot you must the inmates of Inzeeslammer re Studios • abort the evil empire s building take the opportunity to go over £9.99 cass only plans. the wall — with BoBo's help of The game starts with a course. As each inmate leaps he background story to representation of all five from a window our hero this game is basic: the planets. You can flip through pushes a trampoline under Tdiabolical Forth Empire each one and select which you them in an attempt to propel Is building huge fortresses on want to tackle. The Forth them over the wall until all the five planets In the Junos Empire have heard about your trying to escape but is always including BoBo escape. Level system. Once the jewel of the presence, and send everything Infogrames/Brian recaptured. Up to five people four has BoBo running along galaxy, Junos, Velteor, they have at you. Varied Beuken | £9.99 can play Stir Crazy, and the three electrical wires avoiding Malkland. Orthea and Ashutar spaceships, gun turrets and cass, £14.99 disk first decision is whether to play sparks and electrocution! have been reduced to ashes, even military robots vie for the each of the five levels Unfortunately the final level or 17 years BoBo has separately or all together. Then sees BoBo recaptured and been in a prison called enter the name of the players back in his cosy prison cell F Inzeeslammer. He keeps and prepare to go Stir Crazy. with five bunk mates. They snore loud enough to wake the dead, and BoBo creeps around UI ^ If Garnet from across the water (France to the the cell gently trying to poke • w 1% rest of you) hava ottan not baen too hot, and each offender into silence. He Stir Crazy featuring Bobo fall* Into thla category. Apparently must watch the chamberpot, if Bobo la a big cartoon atar in the land of garlic, anaila and It's kicked over too often the froga' lags: all I can aay la I hope thay never ahow it over noise wakes the sleepers hare. Varloua cartoon scenes have Bobo performing comic caper* to get a high score. Thaaa wizard Stir Crazy with its cartoon jape* Include riveting thlnga at peeling potatoaa and poking style graphics is fun to play for prisoner*. Not exactly hysterical. a while, but sadly there is The atrange thing about thl* game I* that even if you don't really very little to do, so do wall and complete a stage, you go on to the next anyway. tedium soon sets In. My Thl* take* away any aurprlaes the game might have had In favourite section is the spud atora. Downright daft! Stir Crazy featuring Bobo I* peeling, the look on BoBo's graphically vary good but haa hardly any payability. face as an unpeeled potato is Disappointing. 63% hurled back at him is a classic. Each section contains some fun, but the action Is limited, ultimately leading to boredom. he Ghostbusters' first Snore. battle was a tough and MARK 62% Activision/ Theroic one, and now, Foursfield I £9.99 four years later, Pete Venkman, cass only Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Comic capers do not a game L||f%|{ Flashy loaders and great presentation abound in make: adieu BoBo... Fl IW V\ Ghostbusters II from Activision. The whole front end of the game is amazing. While it's loading you get the theme tune, digitized pictures from the film along with text to tell the PRESENTATION 70% story that continues on from the original Ghostbusters (what a game that was!). That Is all very nice. The game Is another GRAPHICS 73% matter. The first level Is almost impossible to play without tearing all the hair out of your head. You swing from side to side on at SOUND 37% MNIXX SCOftE-( rope and just can't help hitting all the ghosts around you. If y nuclear charged particle beam animate the Statue Of Liberty helpers are sometimes picked Ghostbusters abseil Into the weapon, along with other and the attack on the swarm of up by the enraged spooks and gallery where a portrait of Vigo handy gizmos found on the ghosts begins. must be helped If possible. hangs. One 'Buster must ledges. When his successful The statue's torch produces The third and final rescue the baby, another must return to the surface it's balls of good ectoplasm which confrontation Is with Vigo, who dispose of Janosz Poha, a revealed that the slime is kill all demons in its path. A can only reanimate if his spirit painter zombified by Vigo, sensitive to emotion (aahl) — band of citizens trail behind to enters the body of a baby. The whilst the remaining duo heaps of good causes it pain. collect the ectoplasm that kid chosen is Oscar Barret, dispose of Vigo's ghost when It So in section two the Busters forms when a ghost is son of Oana Barret, the heroine appears. Can the Ghostbusters use positively charged slime to destroyed. But the witling of the first film. The save the day for a second time?. I enjoyed the original game but am disappointed wrth the follow up. with a mere three levels a bit steep at the price. While it is good graphically with the four intrepid sprites and assorted nasties neatly done, a bit more gamepriay Winston Zeddmor get back into action could have been action against a nasty dude provided. I hope the film is called Vigo who wants to enter better. the real world from his state of MARK 75% limbo to create havoc. Based on the movie plot the game starts with Ray being winched Stick, with good graphics and down a 120 meter deep air sound, but sadly playabUHy shaft to collect samples of doesn't match presentation. ectoplasmic goo which threatens New York. Natch the PRESENTATION $4-, ghosts and other ectoplasmic nasties ain't too chuffed at him GRAPHICS S3% swinging around their nice 76% > cosy shaft and attack. SOUND Hi Hands appear from the PAYABILITY 63% walls, disembodied heads spit goo at him and cable cutting ADDKmVTTY 65% Z ghosts saw away at his lifeline. 74% But he can zap them with his OVERALL o CRASH JANUARY !• 51 Armed with a pair of knlv® and a limited supply of throwing stars you must cefeat soldiers armed with knivet, SainGrandslam/Cort &e Greavsiof course If the answer is e guns and grenade launches, correct a goal Is scored. Bonus hunchbacked ground spicers, Design • £9.99 points can be collected with huge tanks and Nin|a cass, £14.99 disk you as goalie saving a hoofer swordladies, to name buti from the computer. After each few. Not being human you question (which supposedly metal hide can take a tot nore t's a funny old game: yep, represents a match), a league punishment than mere flesh the grinning Scot and the table informs you of your and bone would, but heaw Ibalding one who spouts progress. It's then onto the poundings will get you in 1>e amazingly unfunny next, and the next until a end. catchphrases like 'funny old winner is announced (which Is Levels conclude with a Dig game' are here with yet always you In one player fatty, and a handy tip is to save another footy trivia game. The mode). your shuriken for these guys, because they are tough. Finally |J|f*|{ Oh come on, you must be joking. Grandstam can't Bangler will be faced, and nivli have seriously made a game about two of the despite pleading for his most boring people In the world! Even if you're a big soccer fan, I miserable lite cut down. bet you couldn't stand them both nattering on and generally The game gets off to a good throwing insults at each other. The game is trivia style with some start with a creditable rendition graphics, animation and the odd tune thrown in to cheer it up a of the arcade title tune. The chap), build two bionic Ninjas sprites in The Ninja Warriors btt. I'm afraid it falls mlserabty. The digitised pictures of the two Virgin Games | gents are hardly recognisable (well perhaps if you squint and to dispose of Bangler once and are all very nicely detailed, but stand on one leg) and the animation and music is very basic. £9.99 cass, £14.99 for all. Dubbed The Ninja the game is incredibly tough. Not being a big fan of soccer In the first place (well not disk Warriors the robotic pals are Soldiers swarm around the watching it, playing tt perhaps) this game Just doesn't interest sent to dish out some rip, immortal murder machines and me. )f you are a big fan you may get some play out of it, t's 1993 and sinister mangle and maim fun. end the first few games very otherwise leave It alone. 35% dictator Sangler is in Alone, or with a buddy, you quickly. Many fans of the Icontrol of the city with control one of the immortal arcade machine will no doubt Idea is simple. Answer 42 What can one say? This even the armed forces and the murder machines on their six be put off by the high difficulty questions, and the player with game failed to spark any criminal underworld in his level horizontally scrolling level: definitely one tor VERY the highest points score wins semblance of interest in any of power. The citizenry, lead by a romp through the devastated tough joystick bashers only. the League Championship. us. The two grinning gits are guy called Marc (my sort of remains of a once proud city. MARK 71% Enter the number of players, my least favourite people at the the names and the difficulty best of times, but times must level (easy, medium or hard). be hard if they're sponsoring You're then faced with a this. Most mutti player games representation of a footy pitch, are at least semi decent when afluctuating ba r In the center played with friends — we had of the screen and digitised to nudge each other awake plccys of the daring duo in the when it was the nexl person's left comer. The Idea is to press turn. Do yourself a favour don't the fire button to choose a buy this. question type: Home (scoring 1 MARK 30% point), Away (2 points) and Derby (3 points). You then see a player Very basic soccer trivia with standing In front of a goal frills that don't help mouth. One of the terrible twosome appears to ask a question — sometimes you PRESENTATION 34% have the choice to play or pass, other times the question GRAPHICS 40% is a true or false. A timer on the SOUND 49% right of the screen ticks down whilst you scan through three PLAYAB1LTTY 32% possible answers (except in true or false). Then a press on ADDICT1VITY 31% Ninja Warriors is a brand new concept In the fire button sends the ball computer gaming, an idea that has never been winging its way to the goalie. OVERALL 33% NICK A good but tough used before In the history oi computers. Well, that was a lie, It is conversion of a none (too (as you might have guessed) a ninja beat em up game. I played original coin-op. the arcade original at the PC Show and, as beat 'em ups go, it HERE ARE THE LATEST KCfrULTS was quite good. The Spectrum version Is not a bad conversion PRESENTATION 74% but is a little on the slow side. The graphics keep up the quality of the coin-op, but the colour has been washed out of them to GRAPHICS 73% produce a nice shade of black on white!. Animation Is good SOUND though, and smooth. For all you sound freaks there are a tew 72% CRAHD&LAM LtfiCUt DXVI6IOH t digitised words at the beginning, a tune which I find very PLAYABIUTY 65% annoying and the odd effect while playing. P H L fTS MSB Ninja Warriors is a good arcade conversion, but then the ADOOWTY 62% original did not really have anything new to offer the punters. CRASH oi oo os oo oi 68% OVERALL 69% \ \v rv TO ALL AVAILABLE FOR: m J! ^ VLM TlJ m SPECTRUM j 1LM1J ] COMMODORE m ^ i - Lay AMSTRAD .11) £2.99 EACH u m jvMm and if you accept you are given Gremlin/Gary the terms of acceptance: either Priest • £9.99 score three goals in the next T> A cass, £14.99 disk game, or answer three trivia questions correctly. ootballer Of The Year Ills But this game is all about MicroStyle/Geoff finally here. The aim is scoring goals, so if your team so the track along with the be termed a wreck. Fquite simple, to become is playing, click on the boot Crammond & Pete huge V8 engine that powers Win or lose, I enjoyed the country's top striker. Not icon which takes to the match. Cooke • £9.99 your vehicle is visible through playing Stunt Car greatly — a an easy task: you need Goal cards are used to cass, £14.99 dfsk the windscreen. There are hair raising Speccy game. The dedication, patience and a increase your chances of eleven other racers all as keen Graphics are very sparse with copy of this game. Enter your scoring and you start the game ormula 1 motor racing as you to win the title of top the front of the car and the name and choose a skill level with ten (extra cost £600). Prior was a popular sport back racer, and like you they will track the only features, but at (1-9), pick a league team (or to the game you will be asked FIn the late 20th Century, stop at nothing to win. Your car over three hundred big ones name one in editor mode) and which cards you want to use but people are clamouring for is a speedy little devil capable you probably won't have time a national team, just in case (each one represents a more excitement and thus in of over three hundred turbo to see much of a background. you are picked for an different tactical skill). the 21st Century Stunt Car charged MPH. One slight niggle is that when international side. Give 'em hell, champ! This is racing is Introduced. And now Don't think you can race you prang the car it takes so the track is a large aerial around without risk: watch the damn long for the winch to get U|ft|# Oh great, just what I always wanted, yet another structure rather like an old time top of the screen — if you you back onto the track. That Wlwii football game. Gremlin seem to be very fond of roller coaster. Not for those of continually abuse the car large said though, Stunt Car is a this type. So what has Footballer Of The Year II got that none of faint heart. cracks appear. This is your great way to get the old the others had? Not a lot really. It's more trivia, but the big Choose single player or damage meter, and if you adrenalin pumping. excitement Is that this time you have to answer questions for multiplayer option, practise prang the car too much it will MARK 89% money. The more money you get the more famous you become. one of the eight tracks then Some of the graphics are quite good and colourful, and start the racing season. The musically there are some well written tunes and jingles. As In aim of this 3D game is simple, other games you will only like this if you are a big soccer fan and rise from the bottom of know ail the questions that the game throws at you. division four to the top of Footballer Of The Year II has nothing ultra special to offer, division one. There are two except perhaps new questions for the football boffins. A b it tracks in each division, Hump fourth division quality if you ask me. Sorry. 49% Back and Little Ramp in four, Big Ramp and Stepping Stones You are then offered seven the sort of game I like writh in three, Roller Coaster and icons • they are state of affairs plenty of chances to imake a High Jump in two and finally (ie how your team is doing), few bob. Footballer Of The Draw Bridge and Ski Jump in your career successes so far, Year II is a strategy footy game one. whether to load or save a rather than a punt the ball Practise is advised, but game, transfer cards, quit the around' type, and I quite when you feel confident game, double or nothing and enjoyed answering the Itrivia enough to tackle a race your play a match. Your team starts questions and manoeuwering car is winched up to the at the beginning of a brand around trying to transfeir to starting line and the race is on. new season and can play different teams: worthy of You are presented with a league matches, Gremlin Super consideration if you liked the driver's eye view of the course, Cup, UK Super Cup, European original. Super Cup and World Super MARK 76% Cup matches. You can also try Ul^lf What's the sudden attraction of 3-D car games? for transfer to another side, or niwIV This is the second I've had to review this month. A stomach churning ride: play Double or Nothing. You A reasonable soccer You've got to admit that they're pretty damn good fun though. fun, playable and a great start the game with £10,000 managemenVtrivia gaime — Stunt Car Racer is not as varied as Hard Drivin', but it's still original idea. and Double or Nothing is a for aficionados of the: sport addictive and boasts amazing graphics. The only trouble with good way to try and gain more. this game is that only having set courses to zoom along you feel PRESENTATION 85% Choose how much to gamble, PRESENTATION 68% • • quite restricted. Each course is made up of line graphics that all 111 then answer correctly a whizz by and twist and tum to give a great feeling of movement. GRAPHICS 05% question put to you. Do this GRAPHICS 60% t • The car takes some controlling to begin with, and you usually SOUNO 74% and you're asked whether you SOUNO 66% end up falling off the edge of the track. Before you start each wish to collect or gamble. You course you get an overall view of it to see exactly what you're up PLAYABIUTY 86% have three chances to gain PLAYABIUTY 58% against, which is a nice touch. money. ADDCTVITY 85* ADDICT1VTTY 56% Stunt Car Racer is a fun game which you can play tor hours A bid for transfer costs without getting fed up. Bring the nearest thing to being on a OVERALL 87% £5,000 for a transfer card. A OVERALL 63% rol ler coaster onto you r computer now. 84% 3 team comes up with an offer, 2. 54 • CRASH JANUARY Incredible graphics, realistic aircraft, heat seeking missiles, in-flight refuelling, Sidewinders & NUCLEAR WARHEADS! Real air to air combat with Helicopter Gunships, Tomcats, Hornets and Tornadoes. Air to ground combat with Tanks, Subs and Ground attack vehicles. Combat environment includes DESERT, TROPICAL & ARCTIC regions. Fast frantic 3D action - as fast as a real arcade game! Brilliant! Other titles available: Super Tank Simulator, Operation Gunship, Superttike Trans-Am. A veritable heap of offerings this monthl A Budget Bonanza! And here's DJ Nicko to take a spin through the games coming your away for less than a three quid! SPITFIRE Encore • £2.99 pper class accents, Uflying jackets and silly goggles at the ready, because it's time to jump into the cockpit oi one of the most advanced planes ever made, the Spitfire. You guessed it, you've got to fly round in one of them World War It bomber thingies and drop bombs on everyone you see. The game is written by Durell, well known for games like Harrier Attack and the coincidence, I don't think. give the'game more realism, can press the eject button and Spitfire isn't the least bit more recent Operation Durell are excellent at this There's a map that can be watch the little man bale out of original, but there is some Hormuz. To tell you the truth type of game and Spitfire Is called up If you haven't the the plane and crash into the payability in zooming about (well would I do anything packed full of fast action and foggiest where you are going, nearest tree! There's also an shooting lots of big ships, try it else?) Spitfire is the spitting detailed graphics. As well as if things get really hairy (and I A.G A key, but I haven't a clue out. image oi Operation Hormuz the usual up, down, left, right, don't mean you have a head-on what that does (answers on a graphically. Bit of a fire controls there are extras to collision with a gorilla), you postcard...). Overall 79% RAMPAGE constantly, knocking down II with new graphics. Yes folks, screen too which spoils the The Hit Squad | I £2.99 your energy level. it also happens to be effect. You collect extra power (rerelease) I love Rampage. The programmed by Dinamic who and weapons as you go along. graphics are nicely defined and did the Game Over games. If Sound Is there but not very t all started as a normal day colour isn't too bad. Bashing you played Game Over II you'll Impressive. The title tune is Iin the greasy fast food and crushing the buildings is see what I mean just by irritating and the effects wont restaurant. When George, the best bit though (you didn't looking at the screen shot. blow your mind. Lizzie and Ralph bit into their know I had an evil streak did The graphics may be similar Meganova is a cheap Big Muck hamburgers they you?). The game has its fair to other games, but they're alternative (no pun intended) to didn't realise what they were share of humour too: when you well defined, and the parallax full price shoot 'em ups but eating (well you never do). The run out of energy you turn scrolling in the background you won't be playing it tor company's Research Division back into a human and run off gives a really good effect. long. A decidedly average had accidentally shipped out screen In your birthday suit! Meganova is just a shoot 'em game. some experimental additives Rampage is packed full of up, and the sprites are quite and they had got into the Big addictiveness and payability. It sluggish at moving along the \ Overall 57% Mucks. Suddenly George, may have lost some of the Lizzie and Ralph bust out of appeal it had originally but at their clothes (oo-er!) and £2.99 it's a must for all exchanged them for coats of gamesplayers. fur. They became a gorilla, Overall 74% lizard and wolfman, all fifty foot high and looking for revenge. Up to three people can play in this tight for survival, You MEGANOVA - THE control the monsters and can WEAPON climb up buildings, smash Alternative Software • windows and eat the people £2.99 inside (well It beats fast food!). But watch out, because inside our quest is a tough one: some of the buildings are Yyou are Philipus Sunset against the computer or enter a nasty objects like toasters, TVs and happen to have borrowed' battle of the pedals with a and cacti which don't do your a sprocket system from the evil PRO MOUNTAIN BIKE mate, those steep mountains. stomach much good If you Drowhar Empire when they SIMULATOR The game is split into The obstacles include logs, gulp them down. Eventually weren't looking (who thinks up Alternative Software • different maps which can be deep holes, rocks, swamp land the buildings collapse, and you this stuff?). You now have to £2.99 selected at the start. Each one and ramps. Most of these can have to jump clear before you get the system back to your holds a host of exciting easily be taken on the bike, but get crushed in the rubble. base in tip top condition with s there anything left in the obstacles and challenging things like logs and deep) holes Destroy all the buildings the Drowhars out to get you. Iworld that hasn't had a mountains to climb on your need you to jump off and I carry between you and progress to You must fight against them In computer simulator made of It? multi-geared bike. There are a the bike through or over! The the next level. Easy fun,if it your space ship: only the most I thought not, but then along total of 18 gears to be selected. objective is of course to (get to weren't for the military who couragous can survive this come Alternative with this little 18th to use on the straights in the end of the map beforte your aren't keen on your challenge. offering... Pro Mountain Bike an attempt to break the land opponent, or in record tirme. handywork. They shoot at you Basically this is Game Over Simulator. You can play speed record and 1st to get up Graphically the game its very I 56 • CRASH JANUARY FANTASY WORLD DIZZY CodeMasters • £2.99 veryone's favourite Ecomputer game character has returned again with another action packed POSTMAN PAT adventure from CodeMasters. Alternative Software • Yes it's Dizzy the egg in £2.99 Fantasy World Dizzy (or Dizzy lit). Somehow Dizzy has om, pom, pom! Yes it's aquired himself a family of little Pfinally arrived - Postman yoikfolk, and they're all In the Pat from Alternative. Well, to game to help him along, except ajE tell you the truth, the game's one. Daisy, Dizzy's girlfriend been out in the shops for ages has gone and got herself (I've even printed tips on it), kidnapped In the fantasy world to greet you when you've time we play we get just a little but we only received a review of evil dragons, ferocious loaded the game up, and all the further. Definitely one for all copy the other day. So was it usual excellent Code Masters you mappers out there. worth the wait? alligators and magic spells r-JJI 1 J !| galore. She's kept in the cloud spit and polish. The Dizzy games have As you might expect the castle, and it's poor old Dizzy's » -1 - * * FiiwriftrM-fff-tf* All the puzzles in the game earned themselves quite a cult game is based around Pat's job to rescue the damsel. are set at just about the right following, and Dizzy III is set to adventures through the day in There are two ways of jumping alligator's noses (!) to complexity so anyone can play be another success. If you Greendale. You start off at the completing the game, as in rescue Daisy from the castle. and get enjoyment out of the don't get your copy today Post Office where Mrs Goggins Treasure Island Dizzy. First of All the cute sprites, colourful game without having to be an you'll never know the true (who thought these names all you can collect all the gold scenery and excellent sound absolute genious. In fact it's meaning of payability and up?) will tell what to do first. coins littered around or you add to the cartoon atmosphere worth buying just for the cute addict Ivness. Once you have your orders, off can use objects in the correct and are totally addictive. graphics! Richard and I just you go. Different tasks must be places and risk your lives There's even digitised speech can't stop playing it, as each Overall 94% completed, ultra-exciting things like rounding up sheep rolling. right arms with the Sounds easy doesn't it? It corresponding key. This is would be if the programmer great fun, tapping away and hadn't made the screen layouts going joiiy fast, when suddenly so infuriating to get around. the swimmer begins to choke There are bits of scenery and you find out that FIRE sticking out all over the place, makes him breathe! and moving past them without Skeet Shooting is next on DELIUERIES O SCDHE002550 banging your head is a skill. the menu (what did the poor The game is nicely detailed Skeet do then?). The controls for Peter Fogg to boring and coloured though, with for this are weird at first. You everyday chores of delivering Exolon style sprites and must use left to move the letters. There are about five movement in the main sights up (!) and right to move tasks in all, and after you've character. There are some along then fire at the target. completed really good music and effects Fast reactions are needed to them they start repeating through the game, better than pass this event. themselves. The game ends most so called full price The Long Horse is welcome when the timer gets down lo software! relief from the Skeet Shooting. zero. War Machine may not be All you have to do is jump on The game is set out in two original, but it provides a the springboard and different ways. First of all cheap challenge for any arcade somersault over the long there's the overall map of devastating. Sound wise adventure freak. Even if the horse. Timing is essential Greendale and the surrounding movement is annoying to because otherwise you will do countryside that you see from "Ft, • there's a tune and a brilliant little squeaking effect for the begin with this is worth taking yourself some terrible damage! an aerial view. You control wheels of each bike. a look at. Archery, Triple Jump and one Pat's post van in this bit and have to drive around from Pro Mountain Bike Simulator Overall 72% for the macho men (and colourful, and sprites and may not have to most women), Weight-Lifting, are place to place. Each of the backgrounds are as detailed as imaginative title ever, but the also in the line up. The houses, farms and fields are they can be on this scale. You game is good fun and well question is, will you have the well drawn and coloured, with do get some clash now and worth spending some time on. HYPER SPORTS energy to take them all on? obstacles like oil and mad people on bikes to avoid. When then but nothing too Overall 70% The Hit Squad • £2.99 The graphics were (rerelease) outstanding in 1985, but you you reach your destination the can hardly expect them to keep view switches to a cartoon WAR MACHINE lmost the original up with some of today's. scene just like on the telly well Players Premier • A waggle your joystick Colourless sprites of the almost)! £2.99 ifiMir until it chokes and dies' game, players leap and bound around Postman Pat caters tor dl Hyper Sports was a brill sports the screen with the more ages because Alternative lave h hum. The solar system simulation for it's time. colourful backgrounds included an easy and a hart Ois in deep peril once Originally released in 1985 by scrolling by. They're still pretty version. If you play the eas/ again. An evil Alien Syndicate Imagine, it includes six good though. version you don't have to has gone and taken control of wholesome events to get stuck Hyper Sports is a classic worry about hitting the mat the mining installation on the im^n into. Each one is controlled Spectrum game. If you didn't biker or oil slicks. A fun gane asteroid XR27B. Using this using just the left, right and fire get it first time round, this is a for a while, but once you'vt base they swarm across the all aliens you find, destroy all keys. chance you cannot miss. completed alt the tasks the entire system bringing a wave equipment and collect pieces Swimming comes first, and Definitely one for the novelty soon wears off. Wfat I of death and destruction. of a mega-weapon that will the budding athlete must collection. want to know is Where's Jess? You've been selected to go and allow you to zap the evil queen perform a racing dive into the reclaim the base. You must kill who started the whole bail poof and move the left and Overall 78% Overall 62% CRASH JANUARY • 57 THALAMUS MUTANT FORTRESS wasteland and Tescos on a Players Premier • Friday night, collecting £2.99 weapons, ammo, first aid kits and the odd tin of baked ell, Players have come beans. Wup with a few strange All the Players Premier storylines in their time, but I games have a high quality of think Mutant Fortress must graphics and sound, and take the crown. Catch a load of Mutant Fortress is of course no this... exception. There is a brill 128K m You are Brad, a post- tune, and all the backgrounds, apocalyptic truck driver who mutants and especially the big likes nothing more than truck itself have been trundling down the motorway excellently drawn. Only one with a Yorkie in one hand and a thing lets the game down: It's machine gun in the other! The far too difficult. Hike to think only thing you cared about in that I'm pretty good at this sort the world was your 18 wheel of shooty shooty game but I truck, and now the naughty can't even get onto the second mutants have gone and stolen section. it tor no apparent reason (ooo, Mutant Fortress will provide how naughty!). Of course your a challenge to even the best mission is to now reclaim your players out there, and at this 40 foot property and get home sort of price you can't go before tea time. To get the wrong, can you? Players truck back you must battle Premier have got themselves your way through zombie another winner. infested forests, parched Overall 81% SHARK Players Premier | o crowded American beaches or floating heads in this game (awww!): this is a different type of Shark. In fact it's an amazing prototype submersible (a submarine to us mere mortals!), and you're its pilot. The evil Snake Brothers are the source of your troubles as they've overrun the top secret base Atlantic 5. You must now free the base from these siimy very difficult to select the customers. weapons and kill some enemy The game is played in a to begin with. You usually end Cybernoid sort of way with the up in a right muddle. Some of i he greatest journey Shark moving around each the ways weapons explode and screen in turn, and weapons fire are excellent, even if most having to be selected then of the time they don't have the used against the enemy. All the slightest effect on the enemy! is about to begin... graphics are excellent. The A good tune on the title screen detailed sprites and good use and plenty of sound effects of colour make the game very add atmosphere to the endless attractive. Presentation is also shooting. Shark is a good, fun up to the usual Players game and will provide all shoot standard and very slick indeed. 'em up fans with a reasonable There are three levels, each challenge. played in a simitar way but with different objectives. I found it Overall 80% SPECTRUM, AMSTRAD CPC, COMMODORE 64 "CodeAAasters Best Selling Simulators - Incredible Arcade Action I The legend continues with Hie new Christmas lineup" SHIP The most SINISTER TOTALLY AWESOME COMBAT MACHINE IN EXISTENCE! Armed to the teeth you must blast everything in your gun-sights - aircraft carriers, fighter planes, patrol boats, warships, armoured tanks, choppers & heat seeking missiles! / "Operation Gunshi p is best described as slick... U the graphics are full of detail well worth a Crash Smash Other titles include: SuperTank Simulator, Mig-29 Soviet Fighter & SuperBike Trans-Am. THE CD GAMES PACh BMX SIMULATOR 2 SUPER STUNTMAN 3. FRUIT MACHINE 4. PRO SNOOKER SUPER ROBIN HOOD 6. 3D STAR FIGHTER 7 PINBALL SIM 8 INTER RUGBY SIM DEATH STALKER 10 BMX FREESTYLE 11. DIZZY SUPER G-MAN A TV SIM 14 GHOST HUNTERS 15 STREET FOOTBALL 16. JET BIKE SIM 17 SAS COMBAT 18. BIGFOOT 19. NINJA MASSACRE 20. FAST FOOD Z1 ARCADE FLIGHT SIM BMX SIMULATOR 2 23 THE HIT SQUAD TRANSMUTER 25. PRO SKATEBOARD 26. PRO SKI SIM 27 VAMPIRE 28 4 SOCCER SIM 29 TWIN TURBO V8 TREASURE ISLAND DIZZY Specifications correct at time of going to press NOW YOU CAN LOAD COMPUTER GAMES FROM YOUR COMPACT DISC PLAYER CodeMasters have developed their new CD Games Pack utilizing the latest CD technology to give you 30 top award winning games on one compact disc. Digitally recorded to make load errors a thing of the past, even with the games loading in as little as 20 seconds. All you need is a Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC and a normal music Compact Disc Player ADVANTAGES OF COMPACT DISC GAMES Instant Track/Game selection Mega fast loading as little as 20 seconds Maximum reliability, virtually no load errors - Digitally Mastered. Digitally Mixed, Digitally Recorded - DDD Massive storage capacity allows for many games on one compact disc i Easy to use. THE CODEMASTERS CD GAMES PACK INCLUDES: CD cable - to connect your CD player to your computer software - to allow ultra high speed loading Compact Disc - containing 30 excellent games. Full instructions - how to load and play the games. V V w # £19*95 SPECTRUM COMMODORE 64 7 AMSTRAD CPC THE ACTION STARTS HERE CodeMasters, PO Box 6, Southam, Warwickshire CV33 OSH What's coming to your Speccy in the New Year? Mark Caswell has been out and about to grab those elusive first pictures of forthcoming blockbusters... Kill the dragons in i mm* W HI sKsKstt»t»t»t i c \ v C Programming house Tiertex have earns him Zennys, a handy built up their forces over the last currency with which to buy couple of years and have grown armour and more powerful to 15 programmers, musicians weapons. and graphic artists crammed into The process of converting the a very nice office in South game started with screenshots Manchester. The company was being taken from the arcade started in 1987 by John Prince machine and dumped onto (the guy who programmed 16-Bit Tiertex's own in house Strider) and Donald Campbell and development packages. These they program almost exclusively run on Atari 1040 ST's, and for US Gold. Some of their best comprise of a Z80 work includes 720, Strider, editor/assembler and various Thunderblade and Indiana Jones sprite grabber programs that can And The Last Crusade, pregenerate masks and compress Right now they're putting the sprite data from Degas sheets finishing touches to a long- (and no I don't know what that awaited scorcher: Black Tiger is a means either). Object codes and six level hack 'n' slash game set graphics are then down-loaded to appear on a Speccy near you onto the Speccy via a parallel in February, and here's a sneak arrangement. preview A Capcom arcade It was then that the 128K music licence. th6 story concerns a trio was added: a mixture of arcade of very nasty fire breathing and original pieces composed by dragons descending on a happy m-house music maestro Mark and peaceful land, and Tait. It all looks and sounds great, completely decimating it. but we shall have to wait and see! Enter Black Tiger, a hero of More goodies are in the works: many talents and all of them Dynasty Wars (hopefully a deadly. He determines to kill preview on that one next month), these Guardians of Darkness. and an entirely original game The main part of the game called Tor which is a sort of cross takes place in dank caverns and between Strider and The dingy tombs, where armed with Transformers (the hero can an extendable mace (!!) and laser change into a huge robot). Plus knives Black Tiger does battle there's a football game quite 9* W* with merciless bats, axemen and simply called, guess what: skeletons. Killing the creatures Football! 62 • CRASH JANUARY Rainbow Arts bloody battle the Earth s They came from the outer regions governments banded together of Alpha Centauri, they built created project Deep Slar: You've heavily defended battle stations been chosen to pilot the ultimate deep below the oceans, and submarine in a desperate attempt waited for the chance to wipe out to rout the aliens. Good luck the human race. After a brief and you're going to need it. US DOWGold action stand betweeNn them an d Crackdown is all about two brave their final objective, the huge volunteers' mission to save the bomb Dr K plans to use to destroy world from megalomaniac nutter the world. Nail-biting stuff eh? Dr K. Sixteen levels of explosive Play it early 90 fWty OOOOOQOU !(-«•» e hfwi o ' i IkMj J • SNOOPY MEETS DARIUS + The Edge are set to follow their what happens when he can't find two imminent comic licences, it). Punisher and X-Men, with Snoopy On the other hand Darius + has — The Cool Computer Game and no plot: just go forth and kick Darius +. In Snoopy you play seven shades of purple out of the everyone's fave Beagle who alien hordes, but watch out for the wanders around solving clues that Fatty Glutton Fish. Expect a will lead him to Linus's lost review of both next month. ^cfiui^ blanket (and Peanuts fans know CRASH JANUARY !• 63 OLD GO MUM EY'RE GIVING AWAY 4000 WORTH OF GAMES!!! Fabulous or wot?! £4,000 BLACK TIGER: Still in GHOULS «N' GHOSTS: The worth of games! US Gold's development, and planned for a brilliant conversion of Capcom's Compo Dept have been February release. Black Tiger is spooky arcade adventure was a having a tipple too much of the conversion of the hacking and 92% CRASH Smash last issue, the Christmas spirit, eh? slashing corky Capcom coin-op! and it's so addictive we've even Check out the details in the But —hell! — who's missed an episode of Neighbours previews. to play it!! complaining? US Gold are TURBO OUT RUN: Looks MOONWALKER: Michael offering 50 — 50! — goody like being the fastest thing on four Jackson stars in the game of the bags, each packed with wheels! US Gold's sequel to their film, feel the rhythm of Club 30, eight games to start the biggest selling ever game Out become a huge silver robot and INDY — THE ACTION New Year with a bang! Run. from two years ago! 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