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I'l 'IKMni'rlirllNil Here you go, all — the second part of our fantastlco double sided poster-calendar, brought to you courtesy of the wonderfully mega-brill talents of Oliver Frey (autographs by appointment only). Unless you're a complete drongo, you'll have saved the other half of the poster from last month's Issue. Now ail you do Is rip H out, cut off the EjidiiDj'lrj^bji little white bits at the edges, get out the sticky tape, stick em together and slap it on the wall. Easy, huh? 'Christmas time, mistletoe and whine (whoops sorry, wine), children singing Christian rhyme' and all thai load of soporific seasonal Cliff Richard garbage'. Thank God it's all over, I say. Yes folks, Chrimbles has come and gone, 1992 Is rapidly approaching and soon we'll all be Euro-peeps, spending ECUs and yabbering away in bltnkln' froggy-speak {no offence Intended to our French readers — much). Corky s really looking forward to It, though. He keeps coming into the office with frilly skirts on, doing the Can-Can on the desks and saying ooh la-la' a lot (at least he did until Nlcko bashed him with a large lump hammer, now he just says 'oooch' a lot). One good thing about this European lark, I'm reliably Informed by a very top nobby Euro-prat that the price of booze is gonna plummet In our beloved country when we become one with ail them foreigners. Anyway, beck to CRASH. As you can see, we've got the mega Bounces and (he last Spy Va Spy Instalment on the cover tape, as well as the return of Pokemania (now known as Poke Zone 'cos some other BAST 'art-inched our original title). We've got sJI the other regulars — previews, reviews, tips etc — a new technical page and much more besides. Dive In and see! And since It's a new year and 'cos we love you so much etc etc, we've got a FULL COLOUR Issue this month! And what's more, we're gonna try and keep it that way —100% colour, 100% Speccy, 100% brilliant!! See y'sil next month
••m M^^B i^BBI Coming to you live from CRASH Towers are: Editor Lucy Whiplash Hickman Deputy Edilor Nick One Drink And He s Anybody's' Roberts | Production Editor Warren Monster Munch Lapworth Staff Writer Mark Whip Me Caswell Adventures Ian Pot Noodle Osborne Art & Design Mark Nol tonight I've got a headache Kendrick, Charlie Chastity Chubb Systems Manager Ian Soft-top Chubb Screenshots Michael Fatso Parkinson Publisher Roger Sir Kean Advertisement Manager Sheila Vera Duckworth Jarvis Advertisement Sales Executive George Dougal Keenan Advertisement Production Jo Little Bum Lewis Production Jackie It's not my job Morris Reprographics Rob Go n Wash Millichamp Managing Director Jonalhan Call Me In A Restaurant' Rignall Circulation ^mm^m Manager David Sir Chris Wren Accounts Sheila Pin-up Adams Subscriptions David Jingle Bells' Bingle Produced using Apple Macintosh II computers running Quark XPress and Adobe Illustrator 3.0 Printing BPCC Business Magazines lAfc^l (Carlisle) Ltd Distribution COMAG, Tavistock Road. West Drayton, Middlesex.
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10 HAPPENINGS It's Steg the slug, the cute (?!) new character from Code Masters! Plus a new games price range from Hi-Tec (hurrah!). CRASH Corner and much more!
12 WIN A VIDEO RECORDER! Fab video cassette recorder to be won — courtesy of Code Masters — and your chance to make loads of dosh cartooning for CRASH!
16 PREVIEWS Four great pages of previews giving you a sneak look at the good, the bad and the bloomin' ugly (Corky, perhaps? —Ed) in the Spectrum game world.
23 LUCY'S LETTERS The most gorgeous. Intelligent and wonderful creature In the world gives you the benefit of its brilliant mind (no Lucy, you're doing the letters, not me! -Nick)!
20 SAM PAGE Nicko grabs the latest SAM Coupe news by the throat and drags it screaming onto this page!
34 POSTER Abandon ship! It's Titanic Blinky (though how a ghost can drown is a bit of a mystery)! m 39 HI-FIRE HORRORS n ffj Your evil Editor gets her own back for all the stick she's had to put up with jZC and puts CRASH and other Europress staff through agony!
45 DJ NICKO'S PLAYING TIPS The world s greatest tipster gives you a host of tricks and cheats to guide you through the toughest Speccy game! tliliJiii llJilk^ D • BOUNCES full game from Denton Design 66 BACKPAGE • SPY Vs SPY III full game from The Software Business! It s BackPage giving you a sneaky look at the thrills to come in the next • TITANIC BMNKY exclusive playable demo! issue! • POKE ZONE cheats on tape! Check the inlay for loading instructions. Should your * anothw stack «t hrn^ Powertape prove faulty, send that time you try to score as many it to: ABLEX AUDIO VIOEO points as possible by pitching the LTD, CRASH #95 Bounces ball through the slots in the POWERTAPE, HARCOURT, ceiling of your opponent's half. HALESFIELD 14. TELFORD. Each Bounces player wears roller SHROPSHIRE TF7 4QR. A boots fitted with friction toe-caps, healthy Powertape will wing personalised body armour and its way to you. Please allow helmets. Both carry the deadly 28 days for delivery (though Bounces snatcher — part weapon, we'll try to be quicker). part bail scoop. And finally, just to make things difficult, each player Is attached to his back wall by plas-ftex flex wire tow him backwards wire. Up: Makes the player jump and allows the plas-flex to tug him back fast! Down: Makes the player squat or Control options duck. It also engages the friction toe- Left/right: Moves the Bounces player caps. In a squat the player can hold towards his opponent or lets the ptas- his position indefinitely
m Fancy decking yourself in in-flghting, with its bloody Your Bounces player retains possession as long as you keep your linger armour, tieing yourself to a knockdowns and slug-outs. on the fire butlon. Release the button and the Bounces bail accelerates • wall with a piece of Yes folks, now you too can play away from the player. industrial strength elastic and one of the most violent ball games chucking a ball at a similarly since Gridiron football was Invented. Indisposed friend? No? Well there's Battles no need for you to read these Press the (ire button and swing the player's arm forward to connect with Instructions, then... FEATURING: his opponent. Sir Ashley Trueblood • Welcome to the future! Here Deadly In combat, chivalrous to the there's no war, politics or defeated! Scoring goals unemployment — everyone's a Sponsor; Knight-Techni-Corp You score points each time you pilch the ball through one of the goal slots proud employee of one of the Eco- History: Has suffered no in your opponent's half. The slot nearest to the ball dispenser (at centre zone corporations. We're all knockdowns or slug-outs in two court) scores low, the slot ciosesl to the opponent's back wall scores genetically perfect, work hard and years ol Bounces play with the high. You score an own goal if you pitch the ball through the slot in your enjoy the fun, fun, fun of the KNIGHTS own half. Bounces arena. Our corporation-sponsored warrior clones are a mean bunch of VERSUS! Attacks You gain points each time you batter your opponent to the ground (a muthas. They're given roller boots Erik the Red knockdown) or strike him with the ball (a slug-out). If your player's (with Frictoe caps), personalised He plays dirty to win! body armour and helmets. Then a Sponsor: Viking-Synthi-Corp stamina falls to zero the game is forfeit to your opponent. Bounces ball snatcher is stuck in History: Undefeated world champion their right hand and they're flung into with the VIKINGS the arena. CONTROLS Bounces is compatible with Fuller. Kempston. Sinclair and Protek The object Is to pitch the Bounces joysticks. Keys: 1 Advance, 2Retreat. 3 Squat.duck. 4 Jump,stand up. ball (low-grav slugdomlum sphere) GAMEPLAY 511 re. Control your player's arm by using keys 1-4 while holding down 5. through the goal slots. But the crowd A Bounces bout lasts just three Releasing S fires the ball. goes wild when the ptayers go for the minutes (90 seconds each way). In USING THE TRAPULATOR only move your own dynamite once It's set. Use the plunger to detonate The Trapuiator allows you to store TNT by remote control. However, and use various items and toois each spy may only use the plunger useful for completing the mission. that matches his colour. Underneath each player's screen are To use your plunger: a number of Icons. These represent 1. Find your plunger and store It In the items needed In your mission. your Trapulator. Above the icons are indicators that 2. Find and bury sticks of TNT. tell you whether you have at least 3. Watch the movements of your one of that Item. If you find an object, opponent. If he gets near the TNT pick It up by standing over it and you've buried, access the Trapulator, pressing fire. Pressing fire again select the plunger and set It off at the stores it In your Trapulator. right time. This handy little gadget Is complete And now, the end Is near, with a computer-generated mapping tahtahte-tah... CRASH system and a few Items for building COMBAT NATURAL HAZARDS • presents the third and final nasty little traps for your opponent In the previous Spy Vs Spy games, There are a number of hazards at the game (sniff!) based on Mad (what a sadistic bast you are). Your combat was with swords. However, arctic. These are: magazine's fiercest rivals, the black opposite number has his own as you're in the ardlc, the quickest Blizzard: This hits with full force and white spies. Play agalnsl the Trapulator with which to drop some way to lower your opponent's body when the clock reaches zero. As the computer or get a friend to play the nasty little messages. temperature, speeding his demise, is blizzard gets closer, it becomes more black spy as you chuck snowballs, with a good, old fashioned snowball difficult to move around. cut holes in Ice and detonate fight. The spies may throw snowballs Thin Ice: Shown as dark patches In explosives In this appropriately OPTIONS AND BASIC only when both spies are In the same the snow. Unwary spies can fall In wintery game. PLAY quadrant. this. Get out by moving In tight To throw snowballs you must: circles. • Your mission Is to locata and When the game's loaded, you're 1. Stand In snow (nof Ice). Orownlng: Spies can't swim so don't launch a subterranean intergalactlc presented with a number of options. 2. Face the direction you wish to stay in the water too long. rocket before this year's worst arctic These are: number of players (one or throw the snowball and ensure Deep snow: Some areas have deeper blizzard hits. To launch the rocket, two), difficulty level (press Q), you're not standing over any objects. than normal snow. If you don't use collect the following: rocket entry computer player intelligence (press 3. Hold fire down and move in the snow shoes in these areas your body punch card, guidance gyroscope and X) and rocket launch site revealed or direction of the throw. temperature drops rapidly. uranium fuel capsule. Unless you're hidden until the end (press Z). 4. Repeat step 3 if you wish to throw Hanging Icicles: While not normally carrying the launch briefcase, you Press C when you've made your another. dangerous, these may be booby- can only carry one Item at a time. selections. trapped by the other spy. Your opponent has the same mission Picture the screen as a three (what a surprise!). dimensional area where you go left BOOBY TRAPS To aid you, you have the alHn- and right or in and out of the screen. Select any of these traps If you have MAP one, multi-purpose Arctic Trapulator. Move your figure by pushing the them in your inventory: saw, ice pick, Except when both spies are on the joystick left and right. When the hammer, dynamite and water bucket. same screen or you're in snowball figure reaches the extreme left or To place a trap, simply press fire mode, you can read your map. right, the screen scrolls. Move the twice, use up and down to select the Shown on the map are: figure in and out of the screen by trap, then press fire again to hold the 1. A flashing area showing you're moving the joystick up or down. trap. Position your spy where you current location. PLAYER \ PLAYER 2 Along the background and wish to place the trap, hold down fire 2. Quadrants containing white K Move Left N foreground areas are gaps. These are and push up. The trap disappears. squares show the location of the L Move Right M passageways through which you find Once set, either spy may set a trap three required objects and/or the A Move backup P other parts of the arctic. off. launch briefcase. Z Move forwar&down L Pressing fire while In range of any Hole-in-the-ice trick: By selecting the C Access Trapulator B object lifts IL Items may be hidden by saw, your spy cuts a hole in the Ice. Pick up/drop object snow mounds and found only if Both spies must then avoid that spot. LOSING THE GAME Select/activate booby trap you're lucky. If you're not, your Booby-trapped iclcies: Use the Ice Keep a careful eye on the BREAK Return to option screen opponent has placed a booby trap pick to chip away at a hanging icicle. temperature of your spy. If the level there, blowing you to smithereens... It will fall on the next player to go of the mercury reaches the bottom of underneath it the thermometer, your spy freezes to Ice water bucket: death. Raise your body temperature Spilling water on the by either avoiding the items that Ice causes slippery lower your temperature — such as spots that get in snowballs and walking in deep snow your opponent's way — or stand by a fire, found In Igloos. (and make him slip on his ar—). Dynamite plunger: ENDGAME Use this to blow your The game ends when either your spy opponent up. Sticks dies or he leaves the arctic In the of TNT are limited escape rocket You can only enter but useable by any the rocket H you have all three items spy. Bury TNT in the and the launch briefcase. To enter snow but remember the rocket, simply walk up to the where you buried it entrance. If any of the items are because you can missing, you're persuaded to go and only move your own find them! Hackensack, with New York being agent of SPECTRE (Society for the turned Into an enormous bath Prevention of Ectoptasmic Crime, sponge (curiously, no one noticed). Teleklnetlc misuse and Reality Paris refused to capitulate until the Endangerment), is Immediately put Eiffel Tower was turned into a toast on the case. Armed only with an rack and two-piece condiment set. ectoptasmic gun and a case full of The Tower of London wasn't spared: disguises, the courageous spook is the ravens were transformed into parachuted onto the deck of ostriches, which rather surprised the Hacken sack's base ship, the newly beefeaters — but not halt as much as raised SS Titanic... it surprised the ravens!! Move Blinky quickly through the Conventional forces useless various decks on the Titanic, against psychic energy, the world collecting objects that help him stop governments looked to a new breed Hackensack In his tracks. But of hero, and so Bllnky, spooky star beware! Intricate traps and minions Spookarama (Arizona)! Bingo Hall In Milton Keynes (open sap Bllnky's energy If they Famous landmarks and most weekday nights from 7.30 get their hands on him. even whole cities are onwards) craves world domination. Welcome aboard... transforming into unusual objects! To this end, he's kidnapped the uttra- There's something very odd going famous paranormal scientist on, and you can begin the Professor Frobisher Goonhilly, CONTROLS Investigation in this very demo. Stick forcing him to work on a weapon of Keep the spook happy with a sheet of you're head and whisper awesome destructive power. a Sinclair joystick or the Woo! Woooolf, cos Bllnky's back! In past psychic research, the following keys: Q/]ump, professor perfected a means of Oleft, P right. UHre. • Arthur J Hackensack, power-mad storing the negative energy oil billionaire, Texan landowner, produced In haunted buildings, chairman of several major film hoping this would supply a non- pollutant form ol power. Now, using studios and proprietor of the Rltz All you amateur the strange matter- programmers out there in warping properties of J, .J j i ii 11 Speccyiand could see your negative psyche, -rrrr game on a future Powertape (and Goonhltty's super earn a bit of dosh), If you send us a 11 »n~n weapon changes the tape or disk of your hard work. We'd ; jm » J ( J I i i Isle of Wight Into a appreciate a letter explaining the gamepiay, 'cos large custard slice as a i ®J~rrrn we ain't telepathic. If your game passes the CRASH reviewer test It may demonstration of ins; to appear on the tape! The address Is: EUROPRESS IMPACT LTD, CRASH Hackensack's evil POWERTAPE GAMES. 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"No matter what appears In the next six months. Lemmings will rank as the most original entertainment concept ot 1991". OMNI MAGAZINE - USA. with Speccy software hitting the shelves You've all seen that sickening Prudential advert where an obnoxious little for Just £5.99, brat whines I wanna be a slug'. Well now he can be with Sleg, a wacky featuring all your new cartoon puzzle arcade game from the King of the lave cartoon Cutseys -- Code Masters. (That kid should ve become a ^^^ characters such as Prudential rep — they're all pretty slimey —Ed.) uSMlN The Jetsons. Daffy Despite being an IT (ie. asexual), Sleg the slug has Duck and Bugs overcome the problems of biological v Bunny. The firm plan impossibilities and spawned loadsa little ^^^ At long last! A software to release at least one such game a Stegs, Tyungunz (think about it, f/^AI H company has come to it's month — and hope other you'll see the joke in a minute senses and Got Real when In publishers will follow their lead. —Ed), which are all the comes to game prices. So get Hi-Tech boss. David Palmer, had spitting image of their out your cheesy grins and read a bit of blah-de-blah about the new dad mum — slimey. slippery but cute. (A cute slug? Unreal! —Ed.) on... series: 'Our aim is to lead the The main aim of the game is to keep as many baby crawlers alive as Budget specialists Hi-Tec are market in the quality of possible and this means feeding em. Lots. These kids are real hungry so launching a new middle-priced games value for money stakes, you slither through a series of spooky caverns gathering maggots and other label — The Premier Series — establishing our new price point culinary delights'. Steg slithers left and right along platforms, climbs walls, walks across ceilings and even jumps and blows bubbles. To collect food for Tyungunz. Steg Iraps bugs by enveloping them in a bubble which floats up then gives chase, controlling the bubble by blowing it in the right direction, until it reaches Tyungunz cosy nest But watch out for the hazards along the way such as bubble-bursting spikes and fires. Once you've satisfied the appetites in one nest, you move onto the next more difficult cavern and another bunch of starving brats. There are puzzles a-plenty in Steg—bellows can help or hinder our hero In the fight to direct the bubbles. Trampolines are uselul — sending Sleg bouncing into the air and handy for getting bubbles up narrow vertical shafts. Wotcha matey-peeps! It's the Lucy Hickman t Editor And this slime-ball transforms into RoboSteg when you've collected end of the year and you're certain objects — Nitrous Oxide probably stuffed with turkey 'n' mm, fave game, that's a sg^M^ Injection Kit (speed-up), ACME stuff (you fat basts!) — even tricky one. There was this wflpiW Strap-On Bionic Legs (easier Wozza can't hide behind a lamp Hone stonkln' game of strip ® movement and higher jumps) and 0*. post anymore, whereas Nicko's poker... Oh, sorry! We're talking Rocket Back-Pack (limited Dying). computer games. Righi, got you. It having major probs just getting jfl . ^^^Em Beware of the rockets, though, has to be... Lemmings. I (eel a through the door (and it's a 0 HE their jets can burst the bubbles. definite empathy with the little •^j^^^BM^^MBffr This game sounds bizarre. double door)l critters. Jumping off a huge cliff mean, how can you make a It s time to take a nostalgic seems like a damn good idea when slug seem cute? But if anyone can do it. look back over the last year, a you've worked with this lot! Code Masters can — who would have thought you could make an egg into chapter of your life that's now Fave record has gotta be 'I'm Too an adorable cult figure? Keep your eyes peeled for Steg over the next closed forever — and realise Sexy' from Right Said Fred, basically couple of months. what a pig's ear you've made of 'cos I am (ask anyone In the office — it. Here's a quick rundown of the ignore the red-hot poker I'm holding CRASH team's fave games, near their bottoms). MOTORIN' MANSELL take the hair-raising exploits of 'our records and best SNOG As for best kiss (snog Is Rev those engines, Formula One Nige' and transform them into the such a vulgar word), since I'm (phwoarl)of 1991... fans, 'cos racing ace Nigel Manseil. cream of racing games. from Wales, I must tell you the British answer to brumming The precise details of the about this amazing brilliance. Is set to star in a sparkling Nigel Mansell game are experience I had with this new Speccy game and this time his being kept under wraps but hunky sheep... On second gearbox won't blow up. Hopefully. we're reliably informed the thoughts, perhaps I won't... Veteran racing game creators, main man will be seen from Gremlin, are laughing all over their the cockpit of his now- faces, having bagged the exclusive legendary red mean Nick Roberts • Deputy rights to use the darling of the race machine. Oh, and It'll Editor track in a game. In the past they've probably be about Grand come up with such gems as Lotus Prix racing. The finished es, Lucy, I agree. That game of Esprit Turbo Challenge and Toyota product will hit the streets strip poker was a right lafl. Cetlca GT Rally, and now promise to around autumn. wasn't tt?T As lor computer k will give the same quality as a lull-pricer k remains to be seen. 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(this is what we Premier want to hear —Ed): Series as In the mid-1980s, the high the full price lor a volume, high earner lor all our Speccy game was customers.' £5.95. Volumes (numbers sold) consumer. Why bother were tremendous, most publishers paying £10 or £25 for making very good profits. something they can get on budget Then the big licence became label in a short time at money they Then he got down to the nitty-gritty the in thing and prices Increased can afford? to £10 and above. 'One asks why not just lower Nowadays the ma|ority of the retail price point of full price so-calted lull price game games to a level which would give titles tail to make ihe first acceptable hurdle, sometimes having volume life cycle life cycles of only a few ratio?' Why Indeed. weeks before the It's nice to see a f^M overstocks are sold off software company ^^^ cheaply and hands are actually taking the plunge soiled In a deal with a and trying to stop the ridiculous "Budget Software rip-off of 'full price' games which Publisher'. has gone on far too iong. This IPoor standards of software, isn't to say there aren't some very the use of a licence to cover good full-pricers but games are inferior software, long term mostly for the kids and saving policies of sell-offs and cheap £10-£25 in pocket money can take compilations have led to a cynical one hell of a long time. attitude on the part of the Whether Hi-Tec's new series LJ games... what are they? We usually Mark Caswell • Tea definitely out (sniff, Amiga review software from the inlay (this is, Maker & General sniff). Oh well, (the what?!!— of course, totally untrue and Ntck will perhaps I can catch Ed) — the sound be hanged by the neck at dawn —Ed), Whipping Boy Lucy under the effects are amazing. rm only kidding. One of the games I ames, hmmm, that's a mistletoe (if I drug Hmm, not exactly a corking year enjoyed most was this month's Rod toughy. I guess it has to be a her first). (You'd for the music biz, definitely not Land. All that dashing about bonking Gtoss up between the brilliant bloody well have tot —Ed.) poptastic. But being as I like a small bunnies (madam). Perhaps Atorcand last month's mega Smash good bop (I think he means dance that's why I like the Pet Shop Boys so TV. Both are ultra-violent, with plenty —Ed), I suppose it's 'Last Train To much! of mutilation for closet psychos tike Warren Lapworth t Trancentrai' by The KLF {All My fave record of the year is a me. I can't stand these namby-pamby Production Editor aboard, all aboard, whoah! Woo difficult one. The best musical games where you have to save woo!). experience' I had was the Pet Shop slckeningly cute little fairies and oo, 1991, what a year, eh? Best snog? Ooo, so, so many! Boys 'Performance' concert In bunny rabbits (bleurgh!). Full of interesting and (With the same person, of course, Birmingham. Absolutely brilliant. My fave song of the year is also a Cexciting stuff (well, falrty I'm not that sort of boy!) Probably What was the last question? Oh difficult choice. Most of the stuff In full). Erm, unfortunately, for me. the best was after my arty 'other yeah. That's a real loughy. Mentioning the charts was complete and utter the 'interesting and exciting' half had finished drawing a no names, there was this party, see. crap. But as a tribute to Freddie things were rarely computer picture of me, one evening. What and these two girls looked a bit fed up. Mercury, I'll have to say it's I'm games. But of the few I've played, was I wearing In this pic? Er... just We danced a bit, like you do, Going Slightly Mad' by Queen ( cos my fave game, Speccy-wise, was think of a certain then suddenly we were in I'm totally bonkers). Smash TV. Yeah, I've gotta agree short, balding the comer and the rest Is And as lor best snog... My with Mark, because although magician's best left unsaid! 1 just wish t « station in life means the girlies Robotron and its successors are catchphrase and I'd had my video camera Ignore me (aah, bring out the simplistic, they're great fun. My you'll get the with me at the time! violins —Ed), so tonsil tennis is fave version is Uamatron on the idea! • II*
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• Aaah! It's a bundle of the wizard who hasn't quite passed hands and the goofy grin. yes. it's CRASH team to go on a world cuteriess all squelched his magic test, and CJ's Elephant (trumpet fanfare) Seymoui Goes ro cruise They f/iouy/if about it then • together in a cracking Antics, where the young hetferlump Hollywood decided it was a silly idea cartoony compilation from the all- packs his trunk and trundles back to (miserable basts —Ed) so they're time masters of sickly-sweet the jungle — via France. Egypt. doing a trift n' brill CRASH compo characters — Code Masters. England and other off-route OH! HAVE WE GOT A instead! (Yippee!) All the old favourites are boxed countries (buy that elephant a VIDEO? Up for grabs as first prize is a together to form Code Masters compass!}. brand new video cassette recorder Cartoon Collection. There's the In Spike in Transylvania, a swash- To celebrate his debut. Code Masters so you can watch all your original Dizzy game, where our eggy buckling, horn-helmeted, Skol- thought about paying for the entire favourite programmes and no one ero somersaults around the mystical quaffing Viking puts on his brave ^^^^^^^^^ can make you kingdoms seeking ingredients for a head to rescue his mates in Oracula ^ v _ turn it off 'cos magic potion to wipe out the evil country. Mf it's your video! wizard. Zaks. thus saving the And finally, making his first •4 ^ HA!
Yolkfolk and becoming a hero etc. appearance on a compilation pack, Jen |UCky There's Slightly Magic, starring it's the blob with the wibbly-wobbly runners up land 'emselves a super-duper Dizzy clock (but El don t look at it for too long — si it makes you rtmmm feel seasick). To be in with a chance of scooping the jackpot, all you have to do Is create a cartoon featuring Seymour causing his usual havoc at the movies. The only condition is that it must be shown in a four-frame format and Seymour must be the same shape as the Illustration on this page. Hi matey-peeps. Here's my Seymour cartoon. Dream up your own storyline, make it funny, make it zany — do what you want, but preferably your cartoon will be In colour.. Isn't it great? Not only will the winner get the new VCR but they could get the chance to do a Seymour Goes to Hollywood cartoon for CRASH every month (and earn themselves a great wad of dosh In the processl). So let your Angers Name do the walking and start scribbling, NOW! Address. Send your entries to GOOFY BLOB CARTOON COMPO, CRASH, EUROPRESS IMPACT, LUDLOW. SHROPSHIRE SY8 1JW. Entries must be in by January 20. Late ones will be neatly filed in that great filing cabinet at the local dump. Our decision is final 'cos we're fascist bullyboys (and Postcode. girls) — any arguers will be drowned In a vat of particularly nasty green Age. gunge. So therel A REAL MINI- Here's a RACER WINT 33cc FUN BIKE ON: 0839- 654334
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COME DANCING!! Each contestant has a personal strength bar which repeated blows knock rapidly floorwards (along with yourself)- The usual wrestling type moves are available — outside the ring these would pull the perpetrator up on an assault charge. But here you can cheerfully punch, kick, strangle and generally mutilate the opposition, * * although when not engaging Mr Perfect (or in these activities, grappling Is the whoever) spouts order of the day (4 la Come Dancing}. Bags of ouch! Rucks off agony! verbal dlanhoea to In this situation, violently thrashing which your character has three the joystick raises the level of a Loadsa pain! Yes, the big boys possible answers. 'waggle-o-meter' that appears are in town and it's gonna hurt. When the shouting's out the way, especially for the occasion. the violence starts. Each round lasts Each fighter has their own special The likes off 'Ultimate Wamor', 'Mr up to five minutes and the aim is to move, with strange names such as Perfect', 'Million Dollar Man* and off course pin your opponent to the canvas lor Gorilla Press, Perfect Plax, Drop 'Hulk Hogan' are out for blood, so we a count ol three. Sounds easy, but Headlock, Power Slam and Camel kitted CORKY 'BONECRUSHER' CASWELL out in sexy shorts and shoved him screaming into the ring. (The plaster casts comes off next week.)
• "Will you marry me Mr Hogan?" "Only if you go down on one knee!"
• Get up you weakling, there's no time for sleeping in this job! /i Yes folks, it's broken bashing before you get your hands yR? bones and multiple on the coveted WWF belt: Mr rH lacerations ahoy as large Perfect, The Warlord. Million Dollar I hairy men rampage around the ring Man, The Mountie and finally trying to kill one another. The Sergeant Slaughter (sound like just 'Wrestlemania Belt' Is up tor grabs, the sort of fellas you'd take home to so alone or with a mate, let's go tor meet your mum —£d). it! First up Is the pretentiously Choose one Of the three named Mr Perfect (wot's Nicko doln' characters — Hulk Hogan, The ere? —Ed). Before you crack skulls, Ultimate Warrior or British Bulldog there's a great slanging match — then enter the ring to kick some between combatants where you • No, no. I'm not coming in the ring until you put butt. Five rock ard opponents need chuck as much abuse as possible. that nasty flat away
™ii HULK HOGAN Weight: 303lbs Bom: Venice Beach, California Birth sign: Leo Trademark move: Pile Driver Known for: Unfaltering courage and strength in the face of adversity Fave quote: 'Whatcha gonna do when the largest arms in the world and Hulkmania run wild on you?'
BRITISH BULLDOG Weight: 275lbs • There's no mistaking who produced this game, but there's no Born: Leeds, England kippers in this Ocean
Thick Person: My dog has no nose. Moron: How does It smell? Thick Person: Terrible! (boom boom)
H you ever see t bunny hassle? Not on your blinkin' Whose nose Is very runny nelly, squire. Don't think It's funny It's particularly Cos It'snotl (titter titter) Inconvenient when they whip a prehistoric caveman away from his Q. What do you do when your nouvelle cuisine dinosaur dinner nose goes on strike? and plonk him slap bang In 20th A. Pick-It I (gales of hysterical Century America — especially when laughter) the sum total of his vocabulary is Ugh!1 That's all folks!!! (Phew! What But this Is what's happened to a relief! -Prod Ed)
n » | MmM mind boggles!). It's Barry Manilow!! The play area's a huge scrollarama map packed with I —•— • Actually, it's not. mm T lU-i*m * platforms and ladders. Find your way It's a spanking through the maze of ledges, fending r off attackers by chucking rocks at new Tarzan-like n them and collecting keys to unlock hero from Code ' §g| cages and free the animals. Masters, but this There's stacks of buckets of water I: i to pick up as well — thirsty work, this guy sure has one 1: :'rm :f: I rescuing business, y'know — but hell of a conk. r H i watch you don't sup a bucket of beer by mistake otherwise Big Nose get's Probably why the ""ed as a newt, falls into a drunken game's called Big stupor and can't move for a while. Nose, I should E Big Nose's American Adventure, with Its bursts of colour and large think. LUCY cartoon-like sprites, looks • The latest character to emerge from the Cod* Matters stable., HICKMAN looks set to be another \ Funny things, time tunnels, poor old Big Nose in a brand new cutsey (If rather ugly) well slinky in a < S ain't they? (What! You've Speccy game, and he's not even triumph for Code leopard skin so •f 1 never been In one? Sorry, I dressed for the occasion! In fact, Masters when It's she got to do the keep forgetting most of you are mere he looks a teeny-weeny bit out ol released In the mortals.) They appear from nowhere, place In his leopard skin leotard very near preview (nothing suck a few things up, slosh 'em thlngy, animal teeth necklace, future, price to do with the size around and totally screw up the Jesus sandals, a pony tall and a £3.99. entire balance of life, the universe ruddy great club I of her hooter, and everything! And do they ever Needless to say, he's not a honest —Nick)... apologise for causing so much happy chappy, particularly since all his animal chums got transported eCT. forward in time with him and the dopey dog warden got a bit confused and locked 'em up In cages all over the city (plank).
CHUCK ROCKS! It's up to you as Big Nose to go to their rescue. You start off with a huge supply of rocks which ol' Big Nose somehow manages to store down • Bouncing around on th« top of sky scrapers ain't much fun. Unless the front of his there are tpts of big macs up there! skimpy clothing (the r * ' j
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Suddenly, an 1—— explosion Hps a • it'It's ththe annuaannuall meeting of the let's kill lots ol aliens club! hole tn the very fabric ol space, a dark and evil chasm plating that can withstand colossal impact and Hi that disappears as quickly as it arrives. is virtually invulnerable to the effects ol most But it leaves one reminder: a huge ship weapons. clad in black Ice. A forgotten starship You've control over four Space Marines and a lhat's floated in the Eye 01 Terror' — a Marine Commander, ail decked oul in Term i nator a rmour. The lirst thing to do upon loading is write out your Last Will and Testament. The second is to select your weapons. • Lett hand down a bit, mind that pedestrian! Storm Bolters are the main I'm sorry but you've failed your test Mr Alien! armameni carried by Mankind's having a bad Terminator Marines, while Heavy Flamers kick out huge day. Nothing too drastic sheets ol lire. Power Swords, like the TV breaking a simple edge weapon down or the sausages surrounded by powerlul energy fields, are carried by being overcooked at !L, 27 Sergeants and Captains. tea-time. Nah, it's just a vfsr Mft.M.lZi!J I" | Assault Cannons are basically molorised multi-barrelled bunch of aliens ripping • Ere lads. Isn't that the famous one out ol Robocop over there? guns, capable ol tiring their way into our solar hundreds of shells a second. system, intent on wiping huge area ol warp space — lor thousands of Finally. Power Gloves trash most armour and years. ship bulkheads (very handy). out the world. No Chaos is a pure evil force inhabiting the Eye problem! We just sent 01 Terror and constantly threatening mankind. SLICE 'N' DICE MARK CASWELL up The worst example ol this universal nastlness are the Genestealers — huge, tour-armed Each game sends your guys off on different there to sort 'em out... nightmare creatures who live only to conquer missions, but they all have the same aim — other races. And you've three guesses as to kicking the poo out ol the aliens. Don't expect ^A^ In this lollow up to HeroQuesI who's on Ihe derelict ship (commonly known as the Genestealers to sil and twiddle their many y^ (awarded a wopping 93% in Issue 87), a Space Hulk). Yes, the Genestealers are here thumbs while you whup their asses, though. The you're on the edge of a soiar system. and we're in trouble. computer moves them around the ship, setting Behind is the warm glow of a bright yellow sun, them into attack positions, ready to rip the surrounded by planets locked In the Newtonian Marines to shreds il they move within striking dance of orbit. Ahead is a star filled void. THE TERMINATORS distance. Bul the Space Marines are here to save the day. As with HeroOuesl. you and the computer Trained in modern warfare and equipped with take it in turns to move the characters around state-of-the-art firepower, these warriors exist the ship, dice being thrown' to decide the only to serve the Imperium and its leader, the amount ol moves allowed per lum. There are Emperor, plenty ot corridors and rooms to search, and The Marines are split Into Chapters', each lots of treasures lo collect. But very often all one a separate fighting force. You command you find is a Genestealer or a mighty one such brave band who enter the spaceship Dreadnought robot at your back (brown trousers and eradicate the Genestealers. Easy peasy you lime, methinks). might think, but who in their right mind would The ultimate aim Is to escape trom the ship want to mess with a creature that possesses alive and accept the Imperial honours bestowed more teeth than the entire Osmond family? on the bravest heroes. So if you want to pose Fear not, the Marines are well protected by around in Terminator armour and carry a big Tactical Dreadnought (commonly known as gun, watch out for Space Crusade very soon • Where the hell have they put the baked Terminator) armour. This is a tough exo- indeed. The price to you. guv. will be £10.99 beans? I wish they wouldn't keep moving them skeleton constructed Irom heavy gauge plasteel cassette, C15.99 disk. kicking off points. In addition to an array of obvious weapons (like bike chains and guns), there's a whole stack of vicious arms to buy al the Weapons Shop or pick up along the way, so get yourself well kitled out with nunchukas, grenades, missiles, knuckledusters and swords and look out for the energy boosters _ a a _ in r* and extra "ves' Double Dragon III, Storm HANDSTAND Oh goody goody! ANKUEFUP!?! Another Speccy game about girly wimps being You can use your well-earned wad of I cash to buy extra tricks such as the snatched by nasty Locking Head Squeeze (sounds basts, forcing their painful), a Handstand Ankleflip I (sounds very painful), or the One- mates to put their Armed Headbutt (sounds heroic heads on and Impossible), to name but a few contortionist moves. rescue her. LUCY Th&e are Indispensable to HICKMAN dons her best of Bill 'n' Jim as they face I girl's blouse and checks more opponents than ever before. out the hot action in As you defeat each enemy, I Double Dragon III. you pinch their particular skill, whether it's nlnjas in Japan or ± After miraculously coming back to life bowmen In Egypt. Your enemy then In the second part of the Dragon joins your team cos you're so rock Y saga, Marion has been kidnapped ard and brill. again (oh to be wanted, eh? —Ed). So it's up Dragon fans who found the last two to her long-suffering bit of stuff, Billy Lee, and games a bit of a doddle are sure to find I his big bruwer, Jimmy, to rescue her from a Double Dragon ///more of a challenge fate worse than death etc etc etc. 'cos Storm have slapped in loads more tough bits to conquer as well as more I detailed and varied backdrops. In the original Double Dragon and Its There are even plans to make the sequel, the daring duo had to wipe out a wide streetflghtlng series into a range of scum, notably the evil Black Warriors movie! Go to It, guys and gals, who snaffled and killed Marion (fortunately the wipe them out! guys got hold of some rejuvenating potion and I brought her back to life, then wiped out the Warriors and generally saved the world). Double Dragon III brings just as much nail- I biting excitement and a whole new bunch of I baddies. "SOOTH!" With the help of a cosmic type of felta — I Hlruko the Soothsayer — control Billy or rope In a friend for two-player action in five perilous missions across the US of A, China, Japan, I Italy and Egypt to find the sacred Rosetta Stones, which you offer to Marion's captors to secure her safe release. I Each mission involves 14 street battles where you tangle with the toughest warriors of the lands before facing the world's strongest enemy (but we're not saying who that Is — It's I a surprise). Keep your eyes on the timer and energy meters — both decrease at an alarming rate if you're hit. I There's a ruck of handy objects lying around to use to your advantage: crates or dustbins to jump off or, if you get really angry, I pick them up and chuck 'em at the enemies (is this the new Michael Jackson video?). Even • Just popping down town to pick up tho latest Abba album! packed with colourful animation and as well as trying his hand at art, maths toe-tapping sound which reward you and word games. When he's not belly- for correct choices. The difficulty level flopping from a diving board, Freddie increases as you progress and there's hits the streets on his skateboard with scope for Mum and Dad to be dragged six wacky games covering sequences, In. too. Hitting the streets any day maths, word sorting and a typing tutor now, First Class will set you back to speed up computer literacy. £10.99 on cassette or £15.99 on disk. Sammy the Spy replaces Robbie The latest offering from Euro press the Robot (he got left out in the rain rJ-Z jJ/Ul ('ere, that name rings a bell —Ed) is one night so he's being de-rusted — the magical world of Fun School 4 Ed) and zips around the world Hokey kokey you lot put on Baby Bootee, Sid Slipper, Sneaker the where Teddy and Freddie the Frog are (undercover, of course), casing the your crazy heads and walk Crook etc — help you with shapes, back with a new pal — Sammy the Spy joint with geography, history, maths * with this way — we're going to colours, numbers, simple addition and —to make learning a bit of a laff (again!) and general knowledge see the Shoe People {and no, there computers. (probably). problems. aren't any kinky boots among them!). There are six tasks. You join Kitted out in his trendy Reeboks Out now, Fun School 4 will sting We're talking really weird here. This is Trampy — the battered but jolly old and baseball cap, Teddy's turning your piggy bank for £12.99 cassette, definitely one tor the young 'uns — boot — on a trip to see his mates Japanese as he gives karaoke a whirl £16.99 disk. loadsa cutesy characters which all where the aim's to match objects, happen to be forms of footwear. And colours, shapes, words etc, then (moan, groan, grumble) they're gonna watch Charlie the Clown on his big I I help you learn. day at the Little Big Top where you In Gremlin's First Class, all the sort out events and sequences. stars of the award-winning TV cartoon, Turn detective tor the day and solve The Shoe People—PC Bool Trampy, the Great Alphabet Robbery, put on your winter togs and go to the park with Wellington, help the % 1 w 1 Sergeant Major Sort It Out' (sort what out we don't know—the 1 i mind boggles), and mtir/t finally colouring fun 'j with Margot's Magic •It Colouring Book. jt Each activity's I *M]
UM singing the old Elton John and according to the press release song, please). With a bit of skill issued by our ex-Editor Richard and a lot of luck, you'll hoof the Eddy, It's an 'action packed crazy ball Into the back of the net coln-op'. And who are we to argue (without a load of 16-stone players with him? Find out |usl how good trying to hug you). It is when It's released soon, Soccer Pinball Is very colourful. priced £3.99 cassette.
There'll soon be no need There've been a good few to run around muddy pinbatl sims on the Spoccy over 0 football pitches on a the years — Macadam Bumper, Saturday afternoon, or indeed for Advanced Pinball Simulator and crowds to chant "you're gonna Time Scanner, to name but three get your ""lng head kicked in" — but this is the first with a footy from the terraces. Why? Because theme. Code Masters are about to release When the game's loaded you're Soccer Pintail, a game that's faced with a 'pinball table' apparently a mixture of soccer complete with flippers (but no and pinball skills (strangely sea-lions). Using these a football enough). is flicked up the 'pitch' towards Pinball tables are well froodle the goal lurking at the top of the pieces of kit. I love the flashing screen. lights, weird sound effects and As with all pinball games, there even the cursing as you win a are a multitude of bonus points to three-ball bonus (for non-plnball be racked up. These are in the tans, this means three balls shape of footy players, so practice coming at you i those scything tackles and • Soccer and pinball. What a weird combination. A bit like <9390(3 wah!). become a pinball wizard (and no 20 the SAM page
It may have changed from Coup6 to 512K but the SAM's still a brain-boggling box of tricks. As usual, it's NICK ROBERTS who looks inside... Telford, Shropshire TF3 2EL. There's lots of SAM news around this month — software seems to be literally pouring through ALL THE FUN ihe letterbox of SAM Co HO In OF THE FAIR Swansea. (Makes a change, It's usually just smoke from the big The All Formats Bruce Gordon bonfire! The police Computer Fair and Are brigade thought the whole of at The Horticultural Swansea was on Are when Bruce >yHUllHl« — i Halls In London, decided to burn all the SAM December 14, saw polystyrene boxes! Sorry Bruce, It I' 1 io
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Howdy doody, Speccy fans! Welcome to speck of the CRASH know-all page, where dirt to get on ft and it'll crease all lifetime of the computer. Spectrum expert Samm H Garson gives your fave games, rendering them Next month I'll show how to useless — one kaput tape deck. rewire your +2 to accept an external you the ins and outs of all those niggly Righty-ho, if you've followed my tape deck, doing away with the one little probs you come across with your Instructions carefully and you treat inside. This'll be a real boon to your inbuilt tape deck right (try those owners who have loading pet computer (face it, a pirtiana's calling it sir and bringing it a cup of problems. Also, I'll give you the sometimes less hassle). Whether it's tea in the morning) it should last the inside story on what an azimuth about hardware or software, sizzling setting really is. Se ya next month. Samm can answer any question posed (probably). So send in those letters, peeps — your questions answered, your problems solved, your armpits washed (well, perhaps not). Take it away, • Attention +3 and +2A owners! Did you know there's a factory test built Samm... Into your Spectrums? (Even if we did, I'm sure you're gonna tell us about H, Samm, so get on with It —Ed.) This was designed by Amstrad to test One ol the biggest or DIY store. (If you can't, rope in an that everything's ship-shape Inside the computer before it leaves the problems facing a +2 or +2A adult to give you a hand.) factory. • owner is the tape deck on Now follow these simple To access this little gem, follow the destructions (whoops, i mean their machine — or rather the lack ot instructions: instructions) below. But +3 owners BEWAREt Make sure you have a blank it. And the biggest problem tor disk In your drive before you start otherwise It's wipe-out time! Speccy owners In general is the 11 Remove any tapes from your Press the reset key on the left-hand side of the machine. At the same latest blockbuster game (or CRASH cassette deck and leave the flap time, press down and hold the BREAK key. You should now be in a self Powertape) refusing to load. open. test menu (ie coloured bars on the screen). Press and hold down keys Q, The main reason a tape won't load 2 • Looking through the cover, press A, 2, P, L and M A menu will appear in the middle ol the screen, so just is because the cassette deck's read play. In the middle of the tape deck is follow the instructions your computer gives you. head is dirty. Every time you play a the head. Okay, so far so good. Right, +3 and +2A users, go from the main menu tape on your Speccy deck, oxide Is 3 • Dip the cotton wool bud in the into 128 BASIC and type In COPY RANDOMIZE, then press enter. As you splattered onto the head and alcohol or meths so the tip Is just do so, put both your hands on the keyboard at the same time. Your chatty mechanism. This causes a build up about wet. computer displays a message of greeting (who said machines can't talk)! of oxide, distorting the 4 • Very carefully signal the deck is trying stroke the tip over the • Owners of the noble 128Ks may not be aware of extra key functions that pick up. imagine trying front surface of the were built in when Sinclair (bless his cotton socks) was developing a to listen to a record with head — don't press too keypad as an add-on — which never actually materialised. To use these, the speakers facing the hard or you'll force the go Into 128K mode and BASIC. The useable keys are only available when wall! Well that's what head out of alignment. you're editing a BASIC line or lines of text. Here's a rundown of what keys your Spectrum is up 51 Repeat the process to press and what they do: against trying to load with a fresh bud. the tape. Sym Shift, I X. Goto end ot text Cap shift, Sym shift, W X. Delete to end of text The only option is to Okay, that's the head Cap shift, Sym shift, E X, Deletes line clean the tape heads. done, but the small Cap shift, Sym shift, T X* Goto top of line Now some of you will black wheel on the Cap shift, Sym shift, K X. Delete text up to the cursor say: 'But I already do right-hand side (the Cap shift, Sym shift, H X* Goto start of line that with my head r. pinch wheel) of the Cap shift, Sym shift, M X* Goto end of line cleaning cassette'. Stop • A dogger head (which rotates Right There! These tapes when you press play) I Lastly, for all Speccy owners who're ted up with that boring message are absolutely no good for tape can also cause problems. (Program; etc) when loading your iatest masterpiece, walk tills way. To get decks. They contain very fine This wheel drags the tape at a rid of all the waffie and simply leave the program name, type In the particles of sandpaper which file the constant speed past the tape head. following, putting your own name and start number in. tape head, wearing a small surface Yukky deposits settle on this which off it each time. Rasping is certainly can throw the tape speed off course. SAVE CHRS 22+CHRS 1+CHRS 0+"NAME— +CHRS 6 LINE 1 NOT the answer. So get a clean bud, place It on the far right-hand side of the wheel and gently press on the wet cotton wool The program name may be a maximum of six letters instead of the usual The answer bud. ten. When you reload the saved game the program prompt disappears and is replaced with the program name only. Amazing, eh? (Yes Samm. give The solution is simple. All you need Even If you've only had your tape yourself a medal or something —Ed). Is a bottle of surgical alcohol or deck a few weeks you can bet your The 1 and the 0 correspond to whichever line you want the name to methylated spirits and a tew cotton bottom dollar this wheel is covered print on, so by altering the values you can place the name anywhere on wool buds. You can buy either of in oxide gunge by now. It may seem the screen. these items from your local chemist insignificant but all it takes Is a small A ATARI ST 520ST-E DISCOVERY XI RA PACK HARDWARE; 5UX S20ST E * MOUSE C3»« ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE: FINAL FIGHT - Arcade Qamr C3SM SIM CITY • Lib Sun «»-•» a LIVES Aunt Qm» t1»ttS ROBOT MONSTERS Aread* «0.«
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Once you get past the age of 18, Christmas takes on a whole new meaning. A lot of you probably bound out of bed at some ungodly hour on Christmas morning waking up everybody else in the house so you can dive into your stockings. No consideration for drunkards like me (and the rest of the CRASH crew). You ought to 7z try waking up at 6am with mouth that feels as if somebody's left their feet in them pneumatic drill in your bonce and a MB tumble drier in your tummy! You'll learn! Anyway, we've had a great LS Pile letters in this month so read on and enjoy. Keep 'em coming to: CRASH, Europress Impact, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 1JW. And don't forget the £40 Coupe Clammering software voucher for the Letter of the Month! Thank God you're back' It's a tag thank you to Express * p*£CRW back on the shelves, looking as good as .t d.d betaie I ve oought CRASH lor vears and my Spectrum «as so upset when .t heard it had gone might like? Please help me before I go Spectrum +2A for £1511! V Why doesnrihe Coupe get moie than one page' Its anmM computer to. NUTS! But the BASIC commands are not a spedawn own,, who wants something a bit better. Nick Roberts ought lo Wayne Brown, Cumbria the same. I tried to type in SAVE s^a little support lor the Coupe alter SAM Co gave him a tob when •GONE" but it wouldn't work. Please CRASH went busl So much software is being made on the Coupe, so now Basically, Wayne, your bruwer sounds like a total Space Turkey and tell me how the hell you save to about extra pages memory. Duncan Marsden. Wellingboro. Northants a bit of a brat. If he's smaller than you why don't you Just punch his Justin Cherriman, High Wycombe, Ot course we re back, Duncan, you can. keep a wonderous thing I ke lights out and gag him so you can Bucks CRASH down lor long, y know - and we re better than ever. As for your play your own games as much as Sorry to have to tell you, Justin, but SAM comments. Nick's giving SAM Co all the support they need - he you like? However, blood's thicker it sounds very much like your bought them a bra yesterday' SAM-wise this issue is.. news page than water and It sounds as If you're Spectrum Is KAPUT - and you've another on compo results and a hall-pagc review. I. s ^hly hkriy that quite fond of him, so I'd suggest Rod been conned1. The BASIC we'll devote more pages to SAM in Ihe luture so watch this space. Land. It's got a bit ol everything and commands are the same for every It's so frustrating he'll probably flip Spectrum so it should save with the his lid so the men in white coats will usual commands. I don't know who come and take him away. Either way, plays two games - Magidand Dizzy you bought this Speccy off but I'd Bruwer Bower you'll be left In peace. Perfect! and Thomas the Tank Engine and I just take it back pretty damn sharpish Ed can't take it anymore. Ifs driving me Please hetp me! My flamin' brother is and get a refund. Buying a Speccy MAD I He wont try any other games, always hogging the Speccy so when I lor that ridiculously low price,it's a either, I've shown him Rainbow Islands. try to have a go he sobs to Mum about Computer Con clnche there's something wrong Double Dragon and Slightly Magic etc with It, so just be more careful in how he never gets his games on, then I Normally a Spectrum +2A costs around but he's not interested. future! get it in the ear about hew we should £100. it was a shock that one day Can you recommend any good have equal computer time. Ed platform, adventure or beat-'em-ups he when I went down town I saw a This wouldn't be so bad but he only • luverly pic Gary Mart of got over the shock Iran t o my mate's Sheffield - Your NUTS!!! houseto tel l him. He's a Zzaper and had German Gaming already discovered the sad news. That was a few weeks ago. Suddenly. I Don't make me cry! I was shocked had a surprise off my mom when she when I saw the headline 'Crash gave me a copy of CRASH 94.ir$back Crashed in another magazine Could it and better than everl The mag looks and be true that the best Speccy mag reads brilfiantl More colourful and funnier around was no more, leaving the good than any copy ol CRASH before. old Speccy orphaned? Do you really Whatever you lot dk) please keep it up want to leave the most successful and tony up with No 95! I promise I wont computer of the entire UK? Even in buy /Sever again! Germany our SPC (Spectrum Profi Club) Martin L Pie, Basildon, Essex has 137 members and is sti growing! PPS Why don't you start doing some Forget those boring 16-bit machines coverage of Amiga games for us people where the games are badly programmed thinking of upgrading our kit? and overcrowded with bugs. Most of those so called 'games' are more a graphics Wed Martin, It took atot t o stop Mck and music demo than a real game and combg round and smashing you face become boring after a few minutes. 8um in but since I'm a pacifist (ha ha) I your £30 dosh and have the same restrained him this time. But If I catch LCV®lTO TV amount of fun or buy 15 Speccy games youreeding that , er-hum, stuff again, tor the same money, which will take years you're In deep, deep twouble! (And well PERSCiWffi to play I know—our spies are everywhere!) Glad And if you think your Speccy isn't fast you like the new mag—we aim to enough then have a look at self-made please and all that garbage. Astor you r on forever... tmbo-Speccys which are running at triple last comment, I'm going to ignore It with Hippy Happenings RJ Milllchamp, next to the terrapin speed or buy a mathematical co- the contempt it deserves! I'm writing to express my excitement at memorial. Alma Cogan processorfor 140D M (approximately £47) the great epic of a poster in the last issue. PS Oh, by the way, the rest of the and calculate faster than any Amiga Wasn't it superb? I don't think I've ever magazine is quite adequate. computer. The Speccy is good enough for Amazing Grace seen anything so aesthetically pleasing in most appications so why buy a new I was so excited when! saw CRASH! back my insignificant We. In fact, when I first That (just In case you're thick as a computer and waste money? on the shelves. I gave the lady behind the saw it, I couldn't believe my eyes, so I brick and hadn't guessed) was Come back, CRASH—ail is forgiven! counter my precious pennies and raced went out and bought another copy, just to Europress Impact's very own film Don't let the Speccy user and CRASH hometo rea d the best computer mag of a) double check — and then another one planner, Rob. He was having a right subscribers like me down. time and play the wetl wicked games on after that Eventually, three-quarters of a royal whirige the other day 'cos he's Christof Odenthal, Aalen, Germany the cover tape, imagine my miion copies later, I was convinced. been at CRASH tor more than four disappointment when I cameto loa d the The quality ol the film planning was years and he's never had a mention In Don't worry, we're beck and here to games onlyto fin d none of them would quite astounding and I liked the way the the mag. So I told him to send In a stay. It's nice to hear from some of our work! I tried severaltimes, bu t nothing picture was lovingly placed off centre. I letter and we'd think about printing It. other European readers and It goes to would happen! suggest that you sell it to the Tate Gallery Right Robbo — you owe me one. Rob show that the views on the price and After a cup of Bovril, I tried agam. as a remarkable piece of 20th century art Is tall with long hair and though he quality of 16-bit games are worldwide. I Accidentally, I managedto leav e the EAR and the celebrated film planner. Mr RJ wears a kaftan and says 'Wow, man' haven't heard of a turbo-Speccy plug out of its socket on my tape recorder. Miffchamp, placed on a pedestal, by the a lot, he's not a hippy — honest. before, though wouldn't It make Youl never in a million years believe what side of this phenomenal sight I could go Kd playing shoot-'em-ups mind-blowing if I heard next! Three verses of The Old everything was running at three times Rugged Cross', as sung by Dana, and a normal speed! selection ol bfoticalreadings b y Bobby Skoda Stories Kd Davro. Please can you explain this? Does my I m from Czechoslovakia. I can't say I'm a regular CRASH reader 'cos I can Spectrum need a service? only get it occasionally (aah. shame —Ed) but 1 think its great' Ttaiterous Tidings R Johnson, Brighton, Sussex I've seen quite a few letters from unhappy +2A owners crying because Dear Juicy Lucy their games refuse to work. I own a +2A and I'd like to solve the +2A'+3 Wol happened? I went into my local No, I doubt If your Spectrum needs a problem once and for aH. I know a lew tricks that can help so read carefully. newsie to get my usual reserved issue of service — I fuve a funny feeling that I! a game doesn t work in Loader Mode' or in 48K mode, select +3 BASIC my favourite organ onlyto find tha i it you're pulling our Pilsner. But honestly, and type in SPECTRUM Then type in LOAD ** and load the trouble game. hadnl arrived. So I waited and waited reeders, last month we really did have About 99% ol the time this should work, although a few games are immune. and waited and waited (etc...) and I got a tape sent back with what seemed to And that's not an the *2A/+3 can do1 Press reset and hold down the so ted up that I bought a copy of VS. be Songs Of Praise on It — bizarre! BREAK key. Coloured slnpes should appear. Press A, E and U at once and (Please donl send round Nick to beat me After tearing a strip off the duplicators the screen will go dark. Now when you play some music on your tape up, I was desperate to get my Speccy and everybody else I could think of, the recorder, you can have a light and sound show (sod of). Pressing V and B ftxl) only to find that you had disappeared whole matter still remains a mystery. logether while the stripes are up gets you back to BASIC. off the shelves for good! I was horrified Perhaps it was an act of God!! 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Get as far to one side as you that Operation Wolf-style runaround. can without sustaining damage. As the —Ed). Why do we do it to ourselves? enemy tanker nears you, pull out and 1 A Shoot as many of the buildings (Because your a pratt —Ed) swerve to the other side of the road. Hold as you can as they block your shots down the up key and you'l overtake the at attacking/hiding enemies. tanker. 2 A Shoot the enemy in the bottom... Use the tank (rather than the cab) to no, hang on, that's not right. Ah, 007 SPECIAL! away 008 Nick Roberts. smash Into your opponent's cab. He will shoot the enemies at the bottom of sustain damage and you won't Ignore the screen as the bullets they fir® The name's Bond, James Bond, what the intay says about Sanchez often trap you In a comer. licensed to go to bed with lots of LICENCE TO having stinger missiles, In the game he 3 A Don't forget you can shoot the pretty girts and introduce this tips hasn't enemy bullets. special on all the fab games I've KILL The congratulations message 4 A Try to pick up the bonuses appeared in. i got my old mate Nick reads... ha, you can find out for yourselfl straight away. The extra 200,300 and to delve into the back Issues of Level 11 Section 1 400 points are very useful if you want CRASH to come up with these Helicopter ground defences more lives. helpful hints for anyone who's Shoot all the accessible bunkers. H THE LIVING 5 A Collect special weapons straight bought the new James Bond you're flying fast and low, stick to the away as their rapid ftre removes Collection from Domark or has any of road — don't cross the fence. Even DAYLIGHTS buildings faster, giving you more the games on re release. So take it when you're flying high you can still breathing space. a Unbv TELEVISION 0 1980 Grundy International Distribution BV Licermcd by BBC Enterprises Ltd. \ a On « hot lUlltuv SWtel iluj tbrrr'i ootWag IWtUf lh«n tUpplac a It- bar*er> no the Karhlr and (h«lltntln* votir rrtmlt and Srl*hhnun t» • H li l» I* It li I U*tillwertprt rui e. Naiuialh tirniw rhncMei their fatuurltr trhkio llcnr) (be pirdnwr rkfel til. «'iJ[wd up graucutlrr ami inrchaflkail) miortrd i twrirnr tennt* around IB a nipp) go-kan. Uf coon, life III lt» Uifi rated nap U never thai Wk/ •tmplr. Mn Ma»«H a™ l appn» r of uith aalio •ad *1U «np an) nnhick) . untnUat with her dnudrd mOing pin. 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(Dee-dee dah-dah, dee-dee You'll be rewarded with another two dalbdah, dee—) a When you start, it there s a marsh rat near and there s something grenades. Ahem! These are the games blocking your line of fire, move the targel so it's where you think the rat 7 A Never stay In corners for too POKEd, PEEKed and generally will go. Then press the U key for opportunity fire. long, the soldiers have a habit ol messed around with by A Hacker, * If you want lo use the cheat where you get a man to the bottom of the zeroing in on you. relative of that politician bloke in screen, keep C pressed down until the targel gets to the bottom right- 8 A Don't waste grenades on Yes, Prime Minister (y'know, the one hand corner then press U. buildings unless you realty need to. If who used to live next door to Felicity a When a pholon soldier gets killed, get another man lo pick up the you opt to shoot in small bursts at Kendal). photon gun and laser packs. every building rather than K Keep at least one man with a photon soldier, in case he gets killed. concentrating on one building at a Super Space Invaders time, a grenade may finish the job a Seymour (48K/128K) Weapons information lot quicker. Hudson Hawk The laser packs recharge the weapons carried by the Rebels, which 9 A Try not to get killed when the Sky High Stuntman are as lollows: end of level guardians appear Chewy Chase Laser pack 1 — MK-3000 gun otherwise your FOE meter will drop CJ In The USA Laser pack 2 — Laser Pistol Laser pack 3 — Photon • m m m The weapons carried by the aliens are recharged by Ihe packs ol six bullets lound in the store room. When you take a weapon trom an alien it should have at least 200 shots left in it. II you take a weapon trom a store room drop all other objects and pick up three sets ol six bullets. I' Here s a lis) ol weapons, who they re carried by, how many action points they use and how good ihey Weapon Carried by Action points Rating Acid Spitter Queen 3 ACE Terminator Soldiers 5 Excellent MK-3000 Rebels Hall total OK Laser Pistol Rebels 6-7 OK Light Sabre Rebels 4 OK lis.. . JS Teeth Marsh rats 7 OK Bow Soldiers Half total Poor Trident Soldiers 5 Poor Tentacles Swampers 2 Very poor • II you put the cheat in you only need to kill off Ihe marsh rats and sometimes some soldiers who won't go inside. • Don't kill Ihe swampers unless you have to because it wastes ammo and action points. • II you don i insert the cheat always make sure you can I be shol at. • Take the photon men across the bottom of Ihe screen — il's safer. • When you get inside Ihe lortress. kill all the soldiers and babies first belore killing the Oueen. • Don't leave any men where the ship will land as they'll be killed. • Leave two men at Ihe start lo wait lor the alien soldiers to appear. They appear on turn 12. • More ol your men arrive on turn I playing tips 49 bucket near the hermit s house. on ledge in hole spade made. CLOUD S SILVER LINE Obtained by BOLT CUTTERS Down hole spade jumping on top ol the hermit s made. Drop at pile of chains down house. Drop in pot at start. mineshaft and left. 3-IN-1 OIL In the secret caves. Drop WIG Found near to where you use it on the winch to let down the the bolt cutters. Drop this in the drawbridge. cauldron. BIRDSEED In the mineshafl. Carry If anyone starts singing that I hem: DRY ICE Crystal cliffs. Freeze lake. it and it kills all birds you louch bloomin' song by Mr Vic Reeves I II GREASE GUN In the room left of PROTECTION AMULET Past Irozen (odd...). go crazy! Ever since we got the the first. Drop this next to ihe cart lake. Kill the fireballs which the new Dizzy compilation pack into in the mine shaft and il will move CROWBAR Open trapdoor under wizard Zaks is going to throw at the office everyone has burst into aside to let you in. spider at bottom of cliffs. you. song whenever the game s GRAVEYARD KEY Down Ihe EMERALD Top of crystal cliffs. INSECTICIDE Graveyard. Kills off mentioned! It's driving me round mineshaft. Drop next to the Drop on gravestone with hole any spiders thai (ouch you. the bend! graveyard gateway. underneath. DUX FEATHER Next to drawbridge. Drop it in Ihe But what better way 1o celebrate PLASTIC RAINCOAT In Ihe haunted CLOVE OF GARLIC Down where cauldron. the new Dizzy pack than to map chimney. Carry il when walking into trapdoor s opened by crowbar. and tip the game that started it all droplets and it destroys them. Carry It to kill the bats. TROLL BREW Inside castle. Drop off? The original Dizzy is now GHOST HUNTER LASER Diamond FLAMING TORCH Room right of the this in Ihe cauldron, too. available on ihe Cartoon Collection mine (wot no Sade?). Carry it and start. Drop next to the cauldron to EMPTY BOTTLE On ihe screen pack from Codies and was even on fall onto ghost in haunted chimney. light it. with Ihe haunted forest message a CRASH Powertape a lew issues MINER'S HARD HAT Room right of SPADE Al the top ol the tali tree. in it. Drop this in the cauldron. back. haunted chimney. Destroys Drop in the middle of the screen FULL BOTTLE You gel this if you stalactites. with the hollow sound. light the cauldron and put in the MUSHROOM TROWEL In the hole wig, feather, silver line and brew. Here are hints on where each PURSE OF GOLD Room right and spade made. Drop on mushroom Drop next to Zaks in the castle. object Is lound and what to do with down from the chimney Drop on ft 50 playing tips Tai-Chi Tortoise Scene 5 The only way to reach the Kaburas are facing the other way. otherwise you may not survive your Santa's Xmas Capers top platform is by hitching a ride on Jump down into the free area and sub-dimensional jump. one of the balloons, but wait until zap all baddies from behind both of the sharks have come down (madam). You should be able to Scene 20 More bees here, folks, so ROD LAND first. And remember the baddies can collect Ave letters here. don't bother with the bonus game, climb onto balloons as well. just leg it out of there, pronto. Scene 10 These Spuds are of the Scene 6 You more dangerous variety, mainly Whales The eye of the whale is the may find 'cause they multiply! The more you only weak spot so you may need to yoursell kill the more they reproduce but you build a ladder to get some hits in. chased up a can keep the population down by Baby whales don't climb ladders so ladder just as avoiding bonus weapons. you're fairly safe. Whales take 20 another baddy hits to destroy. Is on his way Crocodiles The safest place Is down. DON'T ground level. Don't bother climbing Scene 21 Lobsters only attack from PANIC. Just up to the crocs, they come to you. short range but don't give a lot of build a short When they do, be prepared to give warning, so when one's nearby ladder beside em a taste of the old magic wand, assume It's going to attack and build the long one but watch your back with the baby a ladder. and climb to crocs, they're very fast. Having a spot of bower wiv your the top. Walt for the baddy to pass The last two crocs double their Scene 22 As soon as one ol the squirrels and bunnies, are we? Well and step over. attack rate. Being squashed on both starfish throws its boomerang at you here are tips on each of the levels In sides by rampaging crocs isn't the the only escape Is up or down. this fantastic game from The Sales Scene 7 Nessles home in on you, but most desirable turn of events, so kill Curve. Don't go using them until only If you're on the same level. If all the crocs on one side first to Scene 28 Balls with spikes on. you've had a good bash at the game you build a ladder and climb up just avoid this predicament. They're very deadly indeed so keep yourself, though, will you? one rung, the Nessies wander their movements In mind when around aimlessly (a bit like Mark — Scene 11 This is your first encounter planning an escape route. Scene 1 Spuds on the first two levels Ed). with the Polymorls. These creatures are relatively harmless. Be careful are very rude because they attack by Elephants Only the Japanese could not to kill any until you've collected Scene 8 This screen Is easier than sticking their tongues out at you. thing of such things as an elephant alt the flowers. E-X-T-R-A letters are you think. Climb up the two small Like the Nessies they can only see on a trapeze. When kicking the poo far more valuable. platforms in the middle and build a you when you're on the same level, out of these pachydermal pests ladder up to the top platform, but so when you see one preparing to •void the platforms — mainly Scene 2 To avoid having to kill the don't climb It. Jump down to the attack just build a ladder and run up because they're dangerous places Spuds, practice dodging them. When small platform at the bottom and It. Bunnies are In general harmless, to sit when several tons of you're chased by a Spud and there's wait until all three of the Corncobs but If they find a carrot they whizz psychopathic elephant are trying to no ladder nearby, |ust build one have climbed down. Now It's safe to around the screen at warp speeds. crush you. When he plummets (simple, eh?) and climb two thirds of climb to the top. from the sky he sits still for a the way up. Walt for the enemy to Pick up the flowers here and walk Scene 15 Insect attack! The bees are second or two, which gives you pass by before lumping off to one to the left side of the platform. Build the only baddies that can fly, making time to move out of the way. When side. a ladder down, now lower yoursell them very tricky to dodge or capture. he lands, whBck the elephant over down until you're dangling off the Also their sting is deadly. the bonce with yer wand. He takes Scene 3 Never mind the Corncobs, end, next to the side platform. 30 hits to kill. they're only good for bonus letters. From this position you can safely Scene 16 Keep an eye on the square But keep a watchful eye on the zap the Corncob and sling him off blobs: when one's below you it's Scene 31 Before you use one of the sharks, because you only get a brief the platform. Collect the flowers and very likely to attack. Apart from that portals, check the destinations — warning before they blow a deadly repeat the procedure on the right- they're as thick as a brick. most of them are guarded by bubble at you. Also beware of the hand side. The baddies now turn spiked balls. As before, kill the last baddte 'cause In true Space Into the red Kaburas. Scene 17 This Is the first level that Spuds but don't pick up their Invaders style he kicks into psycho And here comes the tricky bit, contains portals. When using one be goodies. mode and whizzes across the how to land on the floor without sure the destination Is clear, screen. losing a life. Climb down onto the lowest platform and wait until all the The technicoloured dreamcoat of a playing tips prize this issue goes to John Doe of Milton Keynes for the E YOUR III Rod Land tips. A nice sh.ny £40 VOICE ^ mm software voucher is on it's way to TO you now, John. 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I bet you thought we'd forgotten (forgotten what? —Ed). Well, you games), while ten ronners-up would bag a spiffing game. After the hassle of were wrongl (Take no notice of our scatty editor — she'd forget her head If It our involuntary holiday a couple of months back, we thought all the entries wasn't welded on with an oxy-acetylene torch.) Jump in your time machines had gone walkles. Fortunately, we were wrong. and go back to Issue 92 (alternatively, go to your bedroom and drag It out of We've managed to dig them all up from where they'd hidden themselves at your prized collection). the bottom of the garden and, quite honestly, they're brilliant. We had a hell of We promised that the designer of the best SAM Coup* cartoon would land a job trying to choose between them but we finally managed to pick the themselves a fabbo spanking new SAM computer (or £200 worth of goodly winner and ten smashing runners-up. So, without any further ado, her goes: WINNER: Brian Eyre, of HI j I'M SAN , WtTW JM* V*IMJ*v , rou* Limerick, AMH KJ wcuwnwj, Ireland tHtHHti. irrao sov*>. Well done! There'll be a stonking SAM computer winging Its way over to you, ASAPIRUNNERS-UP Gatnett Marriott, Sheffield; Ben Clews, Meiton Mowbray, Leics; Grant 0 Pimm, Huddersfield; Philip Byrne, Co Dublin, Ireland; Nicot McKenna, East Kilbride, Glasgow; Steven Heaney, Tyne & Wear; Mark Corrin, Ormskirk, Lanes; Robert Challis, Linton, Cambridge; Richard Scrase, Bristol; and Philip Banton, Workington, Cumbria. SB AARQHJ ir*oM»ofHww rteyi-cucuM TMooa. wiyiNQS#*vc4Ht r- OC6 t-A|>y! CArt . H fitou ZOO COM* SACXl you cww1>cm ~ rHiuQ.rt.J~l/ SCweAMj) N OHM a^T^TVi MJT1 TTiH**j~ HIUJO INRU. ROBOT FftuowQ wow MOXO you ufctroccHt t-ook w ny fcitrsAiAPl \ Aren't they great? Watch out for (KureNfe! oof») more next month. And don't forget, if you've got snazzy drawings, photos or cartoons and would like to see them in print, wing em over to us at CRASH, EUROPRESS IMPACT, LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE SY8 1JW. D Storm • £11.99 There are fairies at the bottom of our garden, cute wittle fluffy .ones with tiny noses and glittery wands. And they're coming to get me. (Quick, fetch the men in white coats before Nick gets any more gooey —Ed). The dainty folk have even got their own computer game, where NICK ROBERTS discovered them. * \ 41 a 8IUCN BV THE ELDER - • Oh dur. It looks like Father Christmas had a few too many this Yuietlde fairy (oik do), but into strange Huffy fiends. They no longer have control captured at the top of the Maboots rods of Sheesanamo and their over their actions and have Tower (not an AA recommended special shoes, the daring duo set off kidnapped the beloved mom ol Tarn hotel, by any stretch ot the to save the day. and Rit. the heroes of the hour. Imagination) and Tam and Rit are her This parent in peril now lies only hope. So armed with the magic SQUASHING SQUIRRELS! Bashing cutesy characters on the head with a big rod is what's called for in Rod Land. You wouldn't think these fairy folk had It in them but they're incredibly violent when they get their backs up! •v ft» w m\} • That's kind of you, love. I could • The snap-happy 'gators are out to get you. Betting get your bopping get tuppence for this down the stick out market MISSILE K A standard weapon, when launched a missile travels horizontally until It hits a baddy or the side of the screen. SUPER K The second standard weapon. Bounces until it hits the edge or kills a baddy. BOMB K That's more like it! This sets off a large explosion killing any nearby baddy. HYPER K When activated. Hyper creates two shock waves that kill all • I wonder what happens if 1 touch these two bare wires together? baddies on either side. Make sure all baddies are within range (or maximum bonus points. REVEL K Splits into lour individual bouncy balls that butchers baddies on contact. Can only be found on selected levels. ICE K Produces a spray of deadly ice crystals. FLAME K Our tavourite. When picked up this gives you a flame thrower for a limited time. couldn't get the hang ol bashing the recommended to everyone. It may be creatures around the screen. But I sickeningly cute but It's also soon mastered the controls and after fantastically playable — I just can't get defeating the first big boss there was enough! no stopping me! Rod Land Is highly • Ere! That nasty little blighter's poking his tongue out at me! I reckon the Rod Land programmer trapeze or killer whale and Its babies was on drugs or something when he come out of hiding tor a battle. These Invented this. On the journey through fairies may be dainty Bnd sweet, but the Ma boots tower you meet animals they're hellish strong—I mean, could like sharks, squirrels and rabbits, but you swing a shark from side to side also a variety of very strange until its head caves In? baddies: killer spuds and corncobs, Rod Land Is excellently presented and rude-looking blobs called with lots of colourful graphics and Potymorfs try to getcha with their groovy tunes before you start playing. terrible tongues. In-game graphics are well drawn and Wiping out these weird creatures animated but are in black and white with just a rod to protect yoursetl monochrome! They could have ain't no picnic but it can be done. Bop squeezed some sort of colour into the I them on the head, pick them up and game, even if it was only for the main • Look* like they're having i repeatedly bash them on the floor. characters. These minor moans whale ol a time! Har, hart Luv'ly. haven't stopped me playing the game, Collecting flowers gives extra though — I'm totally hooked! points and picking up the last one When I started playing I was stuck turns all the nasties into Katoura', sort on the first few levels; I just ol like red turnips! Killing these makes them drop a letter of the word EXTRA. Collecting them all gains Tam urrah! At last, a game where the •••p ^^^^ or Rit an extra life! Hheroines aren t girly wimps' Tam n ^^^^^^ , Rlt are beautiful, smart and rock arc/! fl ji^i^ii'iVfMTi WICKED WEAPONS Okay, so they re fairies, but nobody s perfect. Basically, this Is one hell of a game. II looks great, plays well, sounds good and drives you GRAPHICS Bashing a baddy makes them drop insane I even gave up my lunchtime gallon ol lager to play this so it musf special weapons to help the quest be good. The way the femme latale fairies pick up anything from These range from the usual boring sharks lo corncobs and whales to elephants and throw them missiles and bombs to things like ice, around until they snuff it made me laugh my head oil, PLAYABILITY flame and 'revel' that bounces four Although monochrome, (he sprites are nicely drawn and balls around the screen killing good animation sets them off a treat. This game s a treat for AuLiizsyjiss everything they touch. ; all platform freaks and beat-'em-up tans. Viva la rock-'ard f At the end of each level a big boss baddy like the terrifying elephant on a I ~ review scenery, another few jtffys are tost. The SFPD's reputation s at stake here, don't let the guys down. Look on the bright side, at least you can't be stopped for speeding! BOOK HIM, DANNO, How'd cass MURDER ONE you like to leap into a turbo-charged of competition lines up on the Mirrorsoft should be arrested for police car and bomb up the road, killing starting grid, revving their engines as trying to convince Innocent Speccy they wait tor the chequered flag. To owners to shell out their pocket innocent bystanders and trees alike? avoid confusion, the jolly money for Cisco Heat at full price. Now you can, with Image Works' latest programmer chappies have made I've seen better racing games on your car a flashy red colour budget labels — Chase HQ, for offering, Cisco Heat MARK 'SLEDGE example. It's not that the game's HAMMER' CASWELL grabbed a crap, by any means — the graphics .44 Magnum and shades to drive TRUST ME, I KNOW WHAT are detailed, even though they're I'M DOING mainly monochrome — but the (a bullet-riddled car at suicidal market (this little piggy goes to As with most racing games market, ha ha —Ed) is full of racing nowadays, the car has manual gears, games and anything new has to have so leave the car in low until you something special to stand out from • Three, two, one end put the pedal to the metal. (You're the red one by the way) • Screeech! These cop cars don't A Not content with screeching go very well sideways, do they? around the streets the crowd. throughout the year, Sadly, Cisco Heat is stuck preparations for the annual somewhere in the mediocre pile. If policemen's race are underway. It'd been released a couple of years Certain sections of San Francisco ago the story could have been are cordoned off, ready for police different, but before you consider departments from all over the US to purchasing It now, take my advice ~ do battle. You play the SFPD's most try before you buy. suicidal bobby, who races against other like-minded maniacs for the honour of your department. The first section of the race starts on Golden Gate Bridge and ends Bating several tyre-screeching blocks away on Fisherman's Wharf. Plenty Cisco Heat is okay ui lor as it goes. Trouble is, it doesn't go very for. • Oh my God! Some nutter's gone ne type ol game the Spectrum's never been short of Is racers. There and stuck a bus In the road! 53% are car. truck, motorbike, jet-ski and even push-bike racing games ^zsxntuiuii reach 10Omph or so, then wop it into available — all of them a lot better than Cisco Heap. There s some sort ot GRAPHICS game in there, but simplistic graphics and terrible colour clash hide II. The high. action s supposed to take place in San Francisco, lamed lor its hills. The Though the roads are closed, the ones In the game aren'l smoothly curved, they joll up and down Sunday drivers are out in lorce, not ^^^^^ at drastic angles and when driving up one it's Impossible to lell that they damage your car if you what s on the other side. You usually end up smashing Into ihe smack Into them. Something much back of another car. often losing yourself the race. There are worse happens — you lose precious much better racing games available on rerelease. check them race seconds. Similarly, if you hit the out and save yoursell a lot of dosh! traffic that crosses the road at certain points or pile into the Whooo, it's _ a ghostie! After the success of Blinky's Scary School, our paranormal prankster pal's back to spook us once more. MARK i CASWELL throws a sheet over his and trips over 'cos he forgot to cut oo! Scary stuff, this, lots of ghostly goings on wilh Ihe Number One eyeholes (what a twit —Ed)... Ospook. Alter popping all the naslies in his Scary School, the little apparition is back with a new adventure set on the spooky SS Titanic. This game s not as immediately appealing as Scary School but once you suss out whal s going on you find yourself hooked. The artist lor the Blinky games has put lots ot colour into the graphics and doesn t worry about clash, but this doesn't spoil the action at all. The many levels are going to keep me playing for a long time: from collecting notes and creating a tune to swimming around underneath the Titanic, it's loads ot fun. I loved the original game to death and the sequel is just as enjoyable. "sb » n - fe. Tiz • The ghost with the moat Is back, and this time he's got a gun! Arthur J Hackensack's a Endangerment), is immediately put yff?' very nasty, power-mad on the case. •* billionaire who craves world domination. To this end he's kidnapped the good Professor WHO YA GONNA CALL? ,LtmtaJ I : Froblsher Goonhiliy and forced him Armed only with an ectoplasmic gun LVt^: . > to build a negative psyche machine. and a case full of disguises, the Using its strange matter-warping courageous spook is parachuted properties, Hackensack has changed onto the deck of Hackensack's base • Down at the bottom ot the deep blue tea. Catching fishes for me tee! the Isle of Wight into a large custard ship, the newly raised SS Titanic. As slice (as you do —Ed)! old sheet-head leaps from platform Titanic, and the aim's to collect being a scary ghost, Blinky's a City after city has been turned Into to platform he's attacked by a wide musical notes and take them to the cuddly little critter, but some of the weird and amusing shapes to range of fearsome creatures. Each whistle on the boiler funnel. This creatures wouldn't look out of place demonstrate Hackensack's evil hit knocks down Blinky's energy bar gives you access to the bridge and in Stephen King's worst nightmare. Intent. With conventional forces so shoot first and ask questions diving gear used to take a short swim So move over Dizzy, Titanic Blinky useless against psychic energy, the later. It Blinky loses all his lives It's in the Atlantic Ocean. is on your tall and gunning for your World Government's looked to a new Game Over, but could someone crown. Go out and buy this game, breed of hero, and so Slinky, spooky please tell me how on earth you kilt a now — It's well worth the measly star agent of SPECTRE (Society for ghost? (Give him plenty of exorcise? DIZZY AND BLINKY asking price. the Prevention of Ectoplasmic Crime, -Ed.) CLASH! Telekinetic misuse and Reality The first scene's on board the Will Blinky become as popular as Dizzy (cue chorus of 'Dizzy, my head ; J ; i J j Is spinning...'}? If there's a third game and it's as good as this, I'd say Bating a resounding YES. Puzzle fans as Spooky fun whh everyone's nn^iinnnnnH > i nn well as platform junkies will love Titanic Blinky — It's fun, fun, lun all favourite ectopiasmlc entity. the way. The puzzles are thankfully fairly 85% J simple to solve; even a thlcko like me (your words, Caswell —Ed) managed GRAPHICS to get a fair way into the game on my 77% first couple ol attempts. JlLA^A- t: £1 ^m l I |J| Graphically, Titanic Blinky's little PLAYABILITY J-^/J short ot brilliant. The sprites are all "RLIV^ 188QD big and bold with bucketfulls ol | ADuiziyjiss 83% colour splashed around. There's the , 1 odd bit of colour clash but this 1 * i \ \ - • n m • Put the reflectors in the right place and you can become a piece of cake! doesn't affect the payability. Despite ^ ff 0 i U ^J^ijj review *i i—* M«4her$ 0 —» £ Anyone remember 99 cass the old ads for Corona pop? WAAGH! SHARKS! W" DIZ2X am Vknow, the one with the fat Okay, okay, I'll come clean, it Isn't 'orange bubble ordering the others even that simple: various aquatic predators lurk in the underwater • Is he fresh or Is he hard bolted? about (in a manner not unlike Top caverns Dlz finds himself in, and Let's drop Dizzy In tha water and they're not about to offer him a jelly Cat), "Every bubble's passed its fizzical" find out, shall we? baby. Electric eels, whales, sharks, etc etc? WARREN LAPWORTH gets among similar fragile spheres for the latest day in the life of Dizzy. Oh, a life on the ocean wave! Treasure Island. How? Simple. Bursts X X Picture It: the sun, the sea, of oxygen leak from the sea bed, the salt sir, the waves forming bubbles which the stranded (bluergh!), the seagulls plopping on eggy-weg can hop onto and use as your heed. It's so relaxing... graceful (If somewhat unusual) But not tor Dizzy! Immediately prior underwater elevators. to Treasure Island Dizzy, nasty pirate Er, okay, It's not that simple: Dizzy Captain Blackheart (wooden leg, isn't the most sylph-like of ovoWs so eyepatch, parrot — the works) the bubbles soon pop under his captured the happy egg and forced weight. To continue his upward OIZZX him to walk the piank! Dizzy found progress, he must fall or jump onto .-rrrx? hlmsetf on the see bed, his air supply another bubble, as or before his rapldty running out Bnd no obvious current transport bursts. Alternatively, means of escape! What was he to do? he can hop onto ledges jutting out • Illta bird. Is it a plana (what, underwater?), no tfs Mr Potato head! Well that's where you come In, from rock walls before hitching a ride steering him to the surface and on a passing bubble. octopuses (octopi, if you're a snob) his fingers during the game Intro. The etc wander about, getting in the egg's graphics are pleasantly defined — way. even though Dizzy looks like a fat Should Dizzy come into contact chicken drumstick with arms — but with any of these creatures, a fraction eels, swortffish and so on are of his precious air supply is tost. surrounded by colour clash blocks. When it falls to zero, Dizzy drowns I've spent too long working my way and loses a life. toward the surface only to fall light His air supply also acts as a time down again, no bubbles to support limit, gradually used up as he me, and waiting on a crag watching attempts to escape from his watery my air supply trickle away, no prison. However, when bubbles burst bubbles appearing beneath me, to be under Dizzy's feet a fraction of Its air able to recommend Dizzy's latest is added to his supply. escapade. Toughened gamers wtth Oysters are scattered around the patience of several saints may various ledges and landing on one give it a try, but repeatedly bashing earns Dizzy the shiny new pearl inside your head against a brick wall Is it! When he reaches dry land, a pearl generally more productive. • Looks like fizzy Dizzy is mora interested in \ i he's been than where bonus is added to his score before he's going he's sent to the next level of bubble- NKK hopping fun. his is one of the games that was supposed to be part of the Dizzy's OH DEAR TExcellent Adventures collection but didn't quite make it in time. It Isn't Bating exactly brilliant; Dizzy looks nothing like the hero we know and love and I won't beat around the bush (madam) the gameplay is so frustrating 1 couldn I stand to play it for long. Jumping — this Is the worst Dizzy game ever. 77% Bubble Dizzy makes eating soup wtth from bubble lo bubble Is an almost impossible task. They don't last very GRAPHICS long before they pop and the creatures that inhabit the depths arc always a fork look easy. And It's not even a in your way. There s a nice animated sequence at the start ol the game case of becoming used to the game where the pirate makes Diz walk the plank, but it can't be and the skills It demands, because by-passed so you have to sit through it each time you play! progress is most often through luck The background graphics and nasties are great but it rather than judgement. should have been called Mr Potato Head not Dizzy! It takes Presentation's good, Dizzy a lot ot practice to gel pasl the first few levels but it you spiralling to the sea bed In the title think you have enough patience, try it out. screen then hanging onto the gangplank as Blackheart stomps on review tis a funny old game, Isn't Pit- It? I mean, what sort of fighting Operson would want to Jump In a ring and have the living daylights has got beaten out of them? Oh well, It takes to be all sorts. Despite being highly illegal and the most oh-so painful, pit-fighting draws violent huge crowds end many young hopefuls (mugs!) who want the Pit* game ever. You have to be Fighter crown. Alone or with a well 'avtl, a sado-masochist or a suicidal maniac to partner, you play one of three chaps, all newcomers to this particular even think about entering. Being brave and macho contact sport but tough as old boots. (tee-hee —Ed), MARK CASWELL 'volunteered' to get The choices are Ty, an ex-kick in the pit with a bunch of psychos. Seconds away, boxer, Kalo, a karate expert, or Buzz, an ex-pro wrestler. round one! (Ding!) y ou have got to be |oklng! This Isn't a computer game, it's the poor reception you get during a thunderstorm! On loading, there's a display of badly digitised animation and pathetic expanded text accompanied by a tune which drives you potty. I battled through the control selection and started a game only to be stunned In dlsbeilell Each sprite seems to have been defined really small and blown up to fill the screen. Perhaps this was done to compete with the likes of Final Fight — falling, of course. The graphic artist has used some colour in the graphics... pity tt leaks out of the fighters and into the background, really! Come on, Domaric, what are you playing at? There are much better beat-em-ups available tor a couple of quid, down the market. I know the Spectrum doesn't have the graphic capabilities of 1&bit machines but Its games don't have to be this bad. If I'd paid £10 for this pile ol rubbish I'd be well cheesed off. Keep away! deck 'em WHAT'S THE GAME LIKE, • Lots of video digitised graphics hard. There's THEN? on the title scaan. a finite KICK 'EM IN THE number of Unfortunately, it's a pile of doggy KNEECAPS kicks and doos. I'd hoped games like STUN punches Runner and Hydra were a glitch In Once the characters are selected, available plus Domark's marketing plan. But sadly, you're put against the toughest pit- a unique Pit-Fighter Is, ironically, the pits! fighters around, Including the move for The graphics are horrendous. The Ultimate Warrior, the current each sprites seem to have been expanded champion. Your task is 'simply' to character. from half an Inch to around four eliminate all contenders. Once a inches in height, resulting in a biobby Your battle starts with the combatant's mess lumbering around the screen pleasantly named Executioner, Each energy bar like a pregnant hippo. Combined with competitor has an energy bar • You put your left lag In, your left lag out, In, out, in, out hits zero very {erky scrolling, this makes a very depleted by hits; move last and (SNIP! That's enough of that thankyou - Ed) they're out of disappointing game, which is a the contest (and shame cause Pit-Fighter in the probably dead). If, by arcades Is very spiffy Indeed. any remote chance, you win a bout, your score is totted up, according to how well (and how Bating aggressively) you lought. A basic 'fight Ok 4m., purse' Is awarded to to lb« oca coin-op? If s baew the victor, then KO poorty cMwftid/ tf ct'i wKtvf! and brutality bonuses awarded, H warranted. Every third bout is a grudge match, where you battle either a computer- controlled clone or a male. Yes, the pit's a tough place to be, but • Excuse me mate, but I think your head Just exploded. Look It's spread all over those you're no big girl's paopla In the background blouse... are you? review of obstacles and contenders (1-4). Of course, contact with any obstacles knocks down the old energy bar, but there are collectable goodies scattered around to replenish flagging spirits. O. J J I can't say Neighbours, the game, particularly Impressed me. I've watched the TV show a couple of 'J-J JbIs G'day cobbers, it's time to The game's set in everyone's about on his beloved skateboard times but didn't recognise any ot the throw a couple ot steaks on favourite street on a very hot day. against four of his pals (who gives a character sprites In the game. It's the the barbie and crack open a Several ot the more adventurous Castlemaine XXXX?). type of terribly simple game where tinnie 'cos Neighbours the computer characters decide to hold a friendly These are Chariene Ramsey, Henry you |ust rush round avoiding game is here (the first person to sing race so you stand in the trainers of Ramsey, Mike Young (who all haven't obstacles (wake me up when It's my the Neighbours tune will be nursing a Scott Robinson (who hasn't been in been in the programme for ages) and turn, someone). fat Eip). the programme for ages) and trundle Matt Robinson, each racing In a In short, Neighbours wouldn't be different vehicle. Chartene's In a go- great value tor money even on a kart, Henry's on a tractor-lawn mower, budget label; at full price It's a rip-off. Mike's on a skateboard and Mali's borrowed Mike's motorbike. Not all of Ramsey Street's inhabitants are in favour of the race, including Mrs Mangel (who hasn't...), Todd Landers, Bouncer the dog, Bating Harold Bishop (moany old git) and even Skippy the kangaroo and his mates, who've escaped from the local zoo. There are eight Individual races set over four locations, two in each location: Ramsey Street, Lassiter's Complex, Erinsborough High and Anson's Comer. You first choose • ArrgW Look out, It's Kylte in her go-kart. Looks like her driving skills between a normal and fast •re just as good as her singing skills! skateboard then specify the number And finally, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade follows In the footsteps of Harrison Ford's fedora-hatted hero. Indy has to explore four levels, collecting artefacts from each. But in his way are an array of Nazi on their minds so Armakuni had troops who, like Indy, are after the better find a weapon pretty damn legendary Holy Grail. pronto! The Superheroes package is quite The Spy Who Loved Me is based a pleasant surprise, the only dud on the James Bond movie of the being Indiana Jones and the Last same name. 007 and Anya Amasova Crusade. The rest of the titles are all (also known as Agent Triple X) are very playable and individually would investigating arch-baddy Karl still be worthy of full price status. Stromberg. Two nuclear submarines Unless you already own some of the have been nicked — all Sternberg's games in this pack, you could do far doing, of course — and it's up to worse than buy Superheroes. Bond to prove H. As always, Q comes up with a range of gadgets to help out, including machine guns, missile launchers, smoke guns and the good old submarine car. Strider 2 is more swashbuckling Bating fun as our springy-legged pal sets oul on an important mission to the 82% • Gosh, It's The Spy Who Loved Me, but then everyone loves me really planet Magneta. He has to save the dent they? world leader, but this isn't some old GRAPHICS J 'JK The follow up to the Heroes modern day America, our hero, fogie in a bath chair, it's a very 79% compilation is finally here! Armakunl, thrown forward In time by attractive woman (hurrah! —Ed). So 1 XjUillt OSuperheroes (how his arch-nemesis, Shogun Kunitokl. with plasma sword and a couple of PLAY ABILITY J J % original!) includes four games: Last Now Armakunl, the last of the ninja, new weapons in hand (gyro laser Nlnla 2, The Spy Who Loved Me, must battle his way through and matter converter, to be precise), 85% Stridor II and Indiana Jones and the downtown Manhattan tor the final Strider sets out to fight for truth, Last Crusade. showdown with Kunitokl. But justice and a luscious damsel in Last Ninja Stakes place in Kunitoki's henchmen have murder distress. > Utit »o<*. J-..V.. ! ,.».. oo • good laugh! The great thing This Is a damn good version, the goes forwards instead of sliding all (• winMfcfnrj tr l '^/ X - -j about Hard Drivings coin-op's three dimensional over the road. This little feature once you've smashed landscapes excellently recreated. The doesn't make the game much easier • Select a track and away you gol Just like a the car Into a pulp you Mg advantage the Spectrum version — It just saves your sanity! giant car racing jukebox! get an action replay has over other formats is that by Hard Drivln' Is one of the best One ol the most realistic from above so you can see exactly holding down the space bar the arcade conversions I've ever played. arcade machines ever to take where you went wrong — or have a steering wheel's locked and the car If you're a fan ol car racing games or your dosh became an addicted to the coin-op, give this a amazing home computer game back whirl — you won't be disappointed. In January 1990 and earned Itself a CRASH Smash with 92%. Now this mega game is on reretease from The Hit Squad! There are two action-packed courses to choose from, the speed Rating track and the stunt track. Choose the 84% former then zoom around to the check point In the shortest time possible. GRAPHICS The stunt track's a different kettle of o • «<>• < fish altogether: open bridges, banking 4 ' - Z -X" V± fUCL STICK r 82% curves, steep hills and loop-the-loops ffm Wv <>1' -*> l are all lurking on the course. The 7- * KraflH * 1 it1* R? PLAYABILITY speeds you take obstacles at are •cat T&i 1 tv/j restricted, too — go too fast over the Q C JSBSfc, '(>' CO Au^iziyjisi •^AA^85%J 1 bridge and you won't touch the other side. • Who's that maniac in the truck? Someone should tall him ha's only got two wheals! Altered Beast takes us back to a time when • nasty mythological creatures roamed the Earth and the only mighty heroes around were six-loot under. A good example Is the heroic-type corpse resurrected by Zeus (the head going honcho of the Greek gods) to rescue to give Athena up without a fight, bul his daughter, Athena, from the not to worry cause our zombie lad The game's a multi-level affair with a definite case ol pass the sick bag, clutches of Nelf, Lord of the (when alive) won honours in monster most ot the attacking creatures please Vicar', but the real problem Is Underworld (cue evil laughter). mangling and wrote a best-selling looking like extras from a George the scrolling — it rarely keeps up But ol course, Ned, despite having novel titled '100 Places To Stick A Romero flick. In normal mode, the with your movements so when you a stupid name, Is pretty sharp in the Very Sharp Sword' (I've read that player sprite could probably go a advance it often takes a few seconds smarty-pants department. He Isn't one, so watch it —Ed). couple of rounds with the likes ol for the screen to catch up. Mike Tyson. But once In a while Overall, Altered Beast is a slightly glowing 'spirit balls' (ahem!) appear. above average beat-'em-up that may Collecting one means our hero can just appeal to lans of the coln-op. leap buildings In a single bound, catch bullets in his teeth etc (well not quite, but you know what I mean). Grabbing a second ball (madam), the character transforms Into a strange were-beast with awesome powers Rating (able to push tall buildings over, throw unfeasibly large objects 65% around etc). When first reviewed way back In GRAPHICS Issue 71, Altered Beast didn't receive 68% a particularly warm greeting. And ^iijly now, two years later, the story's just PLAYABILITY the same. Don't get me wrong, the •jf/J game isn't dire, but the programmer | ^jLiiziyjiSi 63% • Saturday night on the town in Tanbury Walls. A bit rough isnt H should have been shot a birth. punters? They've all had a bit too much down the Cellar Bar. The colour scheme Is horrendous, rZJr^B Hands up who watches kids' TV? If you BWttCitffi flEwy do you'll know Doc Croc and his pals, those crazy characters of the sewers. We sent NICK ROBERTS down a manhole for the day to discover if he really is Round The Bend. '^H (We certainly didn't need to send him away for that! —Ed.) • It's bouncing Benny Hill in one of the hilarious sketches from his hit TV show. Where's the scantily clad women Benny? invented by artist Lou Brush. Retrieve MORE NUTS THAN A the press fragments and comic pages TOPIC! with the help of Jemima Wellington- Green and Vaudeville Vince Vermin Round The Bend shouldn't be a full (isn t this bizane?). price game. It looks and plays like a They begin in Doc Croc's office, all budget release, making you wonder the team assembled and raring lo go. whether there was a mix up at They venture into the sewers to Zeppelin. The TV characters are well rescue the pieces of comic, avoiding drawn and animated but the colour's • Who's that geezer with the massive conk? t bet he can smell a mouldy deadly bats, cans and ninja teddies — a bit drab, most ot the game in cheese at three miles! y know, the usual things you find monochrome. Jumping through the ^^ Doc, Doc, what ^mmmamtm^ down sewers! Collision sewers dodging the enemies soon Bwilh any nasties sends gets boring, too. the weirdo heroes But you won't complete Round straight back to the The Bend in a hurry. There are lots office in disgrace. of pieces of the press to collect and the comic pages break up the monotony of the sewer sections. C0MIC CAPERS The strict lime limit ensures you it? (Oh God! He s gone off {SSSSSBSSSS^^. ^rdS II they find a comic can't sit back to admire the scenery, his head already! —Ed). v > page, enter it and though. Let me see... Oh yes. IM^i Va^y search for the Not bad, but I expect much more Doc Croc's the healer in ^fcc * £r punchline (we could in a full price game. this story, a crazy '^dflttM do with a tew ot those crocodile who runs a in the CRASH office comic company and •mhJ —Ed). Each character accidentally blows up the % These flipping designers are driving me Round The Bend! has unique comic new video printing press pages — some of Bating them well weird — which can trigger off their specialist skills. Nice graphics, shame about They include John Potato's the gameplay. ve watched the TV programme a couple of times, Newsround , Kenny McTickle and although I d no idea what was going on. Round The ^^f^^a his Magic Kilt' and The False Teelh Bend is very aptly named, it's a totally polty race through m 77% Versus Atomic Banana". Wacky or sewers filled with creatures Irom the worst anchovy pizza- 'j^fevj^Hk what! Fans of the TV series will GRAPHICS induced nightmare imaginable. The graphics are PtM^gl recognise the characters festering monochrome but Doc Croc and Co are readily identifiable. The main in these pages. 72% reason the game drove me round the bend Is the dratted meanies who take pixel-perfect liming and great patience to pass. I never managed lo The team's worst enemy is time. PLAYAB1UTY get more than seven or eight screens into the game because the darn If they can't find the comic pages opponents take Iheir job so seriously. This is a greal shame because on belore the deadline it's Game Over. firsl play Round The Bend shows potential, but nothing turns me oil a Flippin' deadlines, they're a right game faster than tough gameplay (girl's blouse —Ed). - killer, aren't they? (When have you ever stuck to em, Nicko? —Ed.) ' •*•) n fjP unyuiii iiSi'i^^LJ j j •i:<, i j.'j'j • Put on your hat with the pointy people moan there are too many 900 AO. (Unfortunately, there s not for two players only so you need to horns and play... puzzle games on the SAM. This may even a sniff of wanton maidens or find a partner. As a conversion ol the # You've tried tiling the roof be true, but who cares when they 're Skol-qualling, horn-helmeted, long- board game il does it's job. but it and bathroom, now it's time as addictive and professional as bearded. pillaging Scandanavians.) isn't graphically impressive. A lo slap on your scruffy this? At first glance, It's similar to both Impatience is a good purchase for overalls for Impatience, a new two- The Viking Game is an ancient chess and Draughts but once in play any SAM puzzle freak. It's nol as game pack for the SAM 512K (the board game from the Viking Empire, you soon notice the difference. It's playable as Revelation's Hexagonia new name for SAM Coupe, by the but I'm sure there s room lor both in way) which, surprisingly enough, your software collection. includes a tile game! I • MICK In the 3D-style Triltex, match together and eliminate tiles with similar patterns and colours. Cursor keys, joystick or mouse control the Bating pointer in 20 levels ol frustration. Five kinds of special lile appear 69% later in the game. Bombs blow away neighbouring liles. Flippers swop the GRAPHICS positions ol the four tiles around it, Mystery tiles only show their faces 72% when 50,000 is scored, Teleporters swop positions and Twirlers flip the PLAYAB1UTY tiles clockwise or anti-clockwise. 77% Triltex's presentation is great, with slick, well drawn graphics and music • Match the icons and win a prize. It's a luverly cuddly toy. Lets hope that begs to be turned up! Some Brucey doesn't pop his head around the corner. Hold onto your hats (and buggysare ^^ ^ stomachs), we're off to rugged and V the races for a nerve- well nippy. At M A racking bailie against the clock in First that cream of modern engineering, choose a a Formula One racing machine... character Irom •UjL no. hold on it's a sand buggy7\ the 12 ugly drivers on ofler, Power Drill was Aclivlsion's then prepare for the race ot lll" ^ J Hi Chrimbie race offering back in your life on five of the wildest ix .i^, M'U • Issue 71. Your vehicle isn't as courses around. There are 11 • Select your flash as a Porsche 959, a computer-controlled psychopaths character and snjfj ww\ % lamborghine. a Ferrari F40 or one waiting to ram you oil Ihe road, so track and away of Ihe new hall a million quid don't imagine it's just the course you go Jaguars (ah. shame!), bul sand that'll cause problems. Completing Ihe k stage in at least HlF^ third place Is your main priority, as 11 ensures a position r-S^S^X. ^ "1 1 ^ - "t ^ in the grid lor the next race, bul getting a bronze trophy isn't as easy as it sounds (the gold un is even tougher to grab). Graphically the game's good, but the programmers could have 70% animated the buggy's tyres — it looks silly speeding around with GRAPHICS static wheels. Also the similarity 75% between levels becomes tedious (poke me in the ribs when the race PLAYAB1UTY is finished). Overall. Power Drift is a game 69% worthy ol purchase at budgel • That's a bit of a steep hill. Better get out and push, I think price, but don'l expeel foo much. • AtAIVK review wrong with Super Space Invaders. The aliens thoughtfully move around the screen for you to wipe out with your laser gun. Simple. The problem is everyone got bored with the idea a long time ago (everyone in our oflice. anyway). Gameplay could ve been speedier, too. If you leel you can stay awake long enough, you may find Super Space Invaders quite playable but I can t see any lasting Domark, £9.99 cass, £14.99 disk"appeal . Just when you thought it was safe to buy another computer game, the original critters from outer • space are back! Space Invaders is here again to drive you nuts and destroy every joystick in sight. NICK ROBERTS gets out his best trigger finger and shows them what he's made of... > Arrgh! Attack of the little purple (tying things MARK ere s a real blast Irom the past! I remember when the first Space Invaders machine appeared in my local arcade, now Domark bring Super Space Invaders, basically the original program with a few extra bells and whistles. Don't get me wrong, I'm not denouncing the game. I enjoyed the nostalgia of frantically wrenching the joystick around, valiantly trying to avoid bullets. One thing lacking from this version are the barriers cowardly players (like me) hide behind. Instead there are shields that deplete as the • More shoot-'em- up action with those little aliens trom Mars xenophobic alien hordes hurl myriad bullets at your bonce. For my money, half the fun ol the original game was the angst felt as the barriers What's the greatest shoot- Nishikado had a yen (geddit?) to slowly dissolved under enemy fire. Super Space Invaders looks em-up of all time? Forget create a game to blast everything else good: the sprites are neatly drawn and the backdrops glittery graphics and into obscurity. The first person to use picturesque. In short, even though Invaders is as old as the** atmospheric sound etlects, Space the microprocessor to give enemies proverbial hills, it's still dam playable. Invaders is the original and best. I intelligence, he came up with Space mean, what could be more Monster, later renamed Space entertaining (and satisfying) than Invaders, a smash hit across the The extra weapons are essential to blowing up wave afler wave of the globe. wipe out the waves ot speedy aliens. same alien, only for the little b stards And now, 13 years later, the game s Pick up the icons which fall when a Rafting to reform and come at you again! resurlaced with a tew Super certain alien is hit to get a Fire Back in the mists of time (we re add-ons Flower. Destroy Beam', Hyper Laser talking pre-ZX81 here!), a Mr Toshihiro or Buster Beam. Some last for onty a few seconds so put your skates on! PICK UP A POWER- Every few levels you get a bonus OJTY.I.O UP! Cattle Mutilation round! Nasty alien 75% types want to cownap your herd and take them to the big steak house in GRAPHICS : j J With basic gameplay well over a decade old. the programmers the sky. You can't be killed in the 71% 006000 had to improve on the original bonus level but can earn lots of concept. They've added bonus points by zapping aliens and PLAYABILITY Fifrt detailed backdrops lor the saving cows. aliens to move around on, stacks of weaponry and FORM A QUEUE! • Blue moon, you saw me standing alone. strange, constantly changing Invader formations. La, la de—daaa! Technically there's nothing at all Overall review Meep meep! L _ The cartoon . •„ A* | I exploits of the Road Runner and RoadRun^ KU r his hapless tormentor, Wile E # Coyote, are fast, hilarious and above all, • Co violent. MARK CASWELL orders a -Tee t £3.9 few ACME booby traps, straps on his rocket-powered roller skates and hits Mach speeds in his * pursuit of the feathered fiend... IIVH •0. - —^ * #s 7: * .^-htM0 W * IHS. -' oy --fc — i-j- r - •5ai EJCE i: g3l • The cunninglyeous disguisedeous Roadeous Runnereous. (That's him at the bottom of the screen) Deserted, that Is. except for fur- second pari offers very little lace and the very nippy challenge it you peck enough seed contraptions he uses lo catch you. and avoid the obstacles. > You can't catch me ol' Coyote ' cause I can go "Meep meep!" The more energy you enter this part Both the bird and Ihe coyote are with, the better your chances ol instantly recognisable, but I'm Don't you just love — "^j escaping. afraid I must have a moan: the 'em? The supersonic Set in the road are a backdrops are colourful but Ihey bird and the coyote variety of obstacles that often hide the monochrome who newer gives up. There are slow you down if you're characters. Many's the time I lost plenty ot thrills n' spills, and who not careful, and Wile E sight ot the Road Runner — and it can torget the classic scene where Jl V soon appears on a rocket. wasn't because ot the speed he Wiie E fails several hundred leet Basically it's a question was moving! and kicks up a small cloud of dust of pumping up your Much tike the cartoons, my as he hits the ground? Fans of the energy to survive, or favourite part's at the end ot the cartoon will be pleased that Hi-Tec ft^ alternatively having second section, where the coyote have pixilated the Looney Tunes enough patience. plummets off a cliff to his doom, (th-th-that s all folks!) duo. Personally I found little to but that's not reason enough for You play Road Runner, who's • What is Wile E Coyote doing sitting on a keep me playing for long. me to recommend this licence. chased over eight levels by one of VAX? the most accident prone characters part ot the game is timed; if you in cartoondom (I reckon the holder pack in enough carbohydrates, you COYOTE CHAOS of this dubious honour Is Tom the move onto the second part. The first section's a simple case ol cat. Jerry s counterpart). The first Here RR s allowed to show his dodge and peck'. This is easy at sees Rfl picking up as much bird paces as he zooms along a first, but later it becomes @$!'#c < seed as his greedy turn will hold deserted and dusty road. impossible. The (bird seed equals energy). But out Coyote Is a nice try — but lor your blood is THAT coyote, in a no cigar. range of death-dealing machines. 72% GRAPHICS Along with Wile E s kamikaze 64% attacks, a range of unfriendly creatures try to send you to birdie PLAYABILITY heaven. In the status panel there's m an energy bar which depletes on 55% contact with the creatures or nasty \A f objects Mr Coyote lobs, so a lot of e/o ducking and diving is needed. This Overall «4 l \/ V •• • mm r j'J] Get tanked up next issue cause we ve got... Battle Valley Have a bash with this double-barrelled tank and helicopter shoot-'em-up. w These two stars of many a game join forces in a perfect mixture of arcade action and strategy. Send your tanks on ahead to blow up the enemy mines and destroy the rocket launchers then send out a chopper to polish off the rest! Non-stop arcade action free in next month's CRASH! 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