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' V r J v V X Vs N \ 'j >- J n ( 1 MEGA EXCLUSIVE! • j I felr J £ >JJ; iiuiii ® • >tv i • POWER PREVIEW SPECIAL! es of game thrills to come! ££ ! T|RICK DANGEROUS 2! GOLDEN LOTUS TURBO ESPRIT! ... 4JM S , ORE! • FPP- ' Reviewed: TIME MACHINE! What? SHADOW WARRIORS! No great CRASH cassette?! Ask your newsagent for it MONTY PYTHON! nicely! BRILL EMLYN'S ARCADE QUIZ! GAMES Plus loads more! f WIN! A VIDEO! PLAY! A 4X4 JEEP! PLUS Pokemania! LOADSAGAMES! 9 }j <; - is;-yyiEJ njjifi HI $ fig 1*1 p „•m monitoring all add up to make this the easiest and the most soccer game ever devised tor the home computer TAKE ON THE WORLD! Grand Prix Circuit Ac cq4 ,-j^rand Prix Circuit isthis tmf«rrni*fs l grating simu- lation thal^k&syou loan exclusive wf jrtrfbf pnwer, passion - ; SSI and performance You'll race lor Uk- world- ^ renowned foam-i of McLaren, Ferrari, and William1, on th<- great <-sl Grand l-t ix courses. Slither through the curves of glamorous Monaco Blast down the straighlaways of Germany. Snart through Iti-.- tunnels of .hi! \ >r, Iit if. Hr r 1|1 11Hu,n M Jm. « l | '•-II in* 1 I,Mm rn i irt". '.i.'hI ci r » I *»•» 1 — i V% » l Japan:Compete against a diverse * Is corps of international rivals wh( i seek th'' • vtme pri/e the title of World Drivir^tChampion. Uninhibited speed Unchained exhilaration Id can only be found on The Grand Prix Circuit. Available ftorr: all good retailers For further information write to: Accolade Europe Ltd.. Unil 14. 50 Liombatd Road, London SW11 Yp - \rrni \ nr^ // • rVVJLULTAUL Hit' twsl in I'lilti rt.iiiiiiii-iil software * SPECTRUM/AMSTRAD CASSETTE-£9-99 DISK-£16991 CRASH \ O CONTENTS UP AND UP! GAME THRILLS Have you had a brill Four great gamos to got September &zz)mg! summer? Or have you thrills Dynanrwe Dan (M»iwso»t)' Uina Alac been flaked out with the (Atlantis)? Monster Munch (PSH)! Solans heat?! Well, CRASH never (Powertapef). and Oonl forget another flakes out: it's back in action helping of tips on tape witti Pokemama' for another month with the hottest (or maybe coolest) S'ATJAZTNG selection of game thrills around! CRASH is so cool it's What's been happening on the SAM Coupe THRILLS ON Check (he inlay lor loading front? Al you need lo know e here) becoming ever more instructions. popular: welcome to over TAPE Should your tape prove faulty 6,000 new monthly send it, in its box, to: WIN A VIDEO reoders!! Yes CRASH'S sales Where lo find your brill £H*ney1 Wn a video recorder of your very NEWSF1ELD, CRASH TAPE figures have shot up once thrllts• l CUNIC (80), LUDLOW, own. pfcts some tapes to stcv m it and loads again! The total number of of copies of Ocean•tabby Shadow WarrorsM SHROPSHIRE SY8 1JW copies sold is nearly SIDE A 62,000!! Cowabunga! So a DYNAMITE DAN A working tape will wing its way LUNA ATAC LIVE CIRCUIT hearty big thank you for • back to you! ^ Back on the track this month with Lloyd your support, and to prove Mangram's Forum! Jetman' Compo Winners! how grateful we are there SIDE B Comix! And ail the latest happening news on are a few special thrills MONSTER MUNCH me Speccy front" planned over the next few SOLARIS months!! POKEMANIA PREVIEW SPECIAL Sot sc*itilahng pages of power packed previews as CRASH lakes you into the future of gammg on the Speccy'! Plus dont forget on page ROBOCOP 2! DYNAMITE • From Mlrrorsoft, the most colourful arcade platform • >•." »v* • .7" Back on the beat with b>g metal feet, it's the game around!! game that's gonna wipe the board this Christmas! CRASH takes an earty took at Dynamite Dan Is simply the Ocean's RoboCop 2fl most whizzy platform game • you're ever likely to play!! $55 ***** DJ NICKO'S TIPS Created In 1985 Dynamite Dan has already been awarded TWO CRASH Pokes, tips and maps galore. OJ Khcko's here » ' ! to get you that elusive high score!! Smashes (once In Issue 18 when H scored 94% and again In issue 61 H^ ~ 4 when It scored 92%)! Now, thanks P REVIEWS to Mirrorsoft you can play It for free! *fr> t There's lots of aden on the Speccy — butis It's the game they've called the ^ r any of it worm paying tor?! Check the reviews most playable game on the j — me definitive guide 10 what's hot and what's not on the Speccy'! Speccy 11 v, S;, = he action takes place inside a BACKPAGE Tvast mansion, inhabited by many You've survived 49 pages of thr« power — strange creatures. Dan's girlfriend has can you cope with the almost legendary been locked in a massive safe inside Backpage? It's you chance to win an amazing the house. The only way to free her is 4x4 remote controlled truck and heaps of by collecting eight sticks of games thanks to CodeMastera" Plus, next dynamite to blow the safe door open. SCORE: cicicici month's action! So hop off your airship and get EftJERCV HI: CKUKi searching! CRASH SEPTEMBBER • 5 thrills The 48-screen mansion contains sheer play ability will keep you glued to many bizarre features, such as the sreen for hours! Don't hang tightropes, teleports and even around — load it up and play it now! trampolines to add extra spring to Dan's jumps. Contact with nasties or IT'S DYNAMITE... long falls reduce Dan's energy, but it ...as long as you know the controls! can be topped up by eating the food Use a joystick or choose the redefine which is scattered around the house. keys option if you want to use the Also don't forget to pick up the keyboard. See the opening screen for weapon, if you can find it! details. Dynamite Dan is a great game: its screen under AC). And what's more, for you to discover (haw, haw). you're up against the clock — there's When all nine barrels have been only a limited time to escape. If you collected and the password is run out of time (TM), death is complete, the main computer in the instantaneous. emergency shuttle launch chamber Every different coloured barrel can be accessed. Solve the password contains one of the ingredients anagram to gain entry to the shuttle needed to make the fuel for the and return to Earth. Phew! emergency shuttle. You need three barrels of each colour to concoct the READY FOR THE ATAC7I fuel. Each of the computer terminals You will be if you learn the controls! will, if the right decision is made, give Use a joystick plugged Into a you one of the six letters that make up Kempston interface or use the the master computer access code. To keyboard controls, which are: Q/left, select a letter use the Q and W keys W/right, P/activate. The P key also and use the P key to transfer a letter allows you to travel up when standing to the master computer. Get it wrong on a striped booster or teleport to and your power supply is deleted another room when over a flashing SCORE: CC't t further! There is a way to work out the port. correct letter in each case, but this is MONSTER • Arcade action in Atlantis' • It** another crazy addictive platform gamelf muncPsychaedellc Hedgehohg Software game!! Everyone loves a platform game and here's one that's Nuts! Psychaedeiic • not only a lot of fun but Hedgehog's games are needs thinking about. Have you got • pretty crazy — and the the brains and agility to master loopiest bit of all is the plot — and Luna Atac? You're a space hero, Monster Munch's storyline is no but sadly a bit of a useless one. exception! You're a monster called While trying to land on 8 space Monster employed by a rather Station you missed the tending mean witch — but what the hell, area, hit the wall and wrecked your she pays your wages! ship! Now you're stuck with only a glimmer of hope: an emergency our boss. Witch Warty Nose shuttle could get you back to Earth, YAnd Flapping Robes, is one of but you haven't got the fuel or the the Muggers Octett and as such access code to set the launch must entertain her peers for luncheon. controls on the master computer. Filigree The Fancy Foo Foo is But they can Ibe found... coming to tea and Warty Nose And Flapping Robes has to lay on a royal ove aroiund the rooms of the feast (not literally, because that s a bit space station searching for the messy!). fuel barrels amd computer That's where you come in — you're terminals, buti beware of the many the mutant minion who has to get the booby-traps land by robots which grub! At the beginning of each game patrol the station. Contact with either Witch Warty informs you what she a booby-trap ax one of the robots wants to serve and commands you to esults in loss of power (shown on find the ingredients. So, enter the 4121 CRAS5 H SEPTEMBER SPECTRUM & COMMODORE REPAIRS & _ SPECTRUM 48Ks REPAIRED FOR £22.00 • HOUR HOUR = IJS 2111 fillillli III I WW •ill SKORG 000000750pysK0e ••••••I FOR AN EXPRESS REPAIR FOR YOUR COMPUTER colourful countryside, collecting one her party. Mrs Beaton, eat your heart SPECTRUM 48K £22.00 ingredient at a time. There's an out! SPECTRUM 128Ks £25.00 ingredient in each of the 30 levels — so keep travelling to the right. CONTROLS CBM 64 £35.00 OUR PRICES The landscape may look pretty Do the monster mash using keyboard attractive but evil creatures hide in the controls, which are definable, or use a INCLUSIVE OF OVERHAUL scenery and, if they feel like it. attack joystick — all the options and full you. There's a hidden time limit, so control instructions are on the opening REPLACEMENT PARTS VAT don't hang around too long, and keep screen. + INSURED POST BACK TO YOU a close eye on your energy bar — let Psychaedelic Hedgehog it sink to zero and you're out! Potions Software is a software house to boost your energy, ammo and currently operating on a mail order score are collected from the red and basis. Details on its games are on the HARDWARE BARGAINS purple cauldrons . However, some loading screen and you can contact NEW AMIGA FLIGHT OF FANTASY cauldrons contain a poison which PHS by writing to: 55 Stanley Street, drains your energy. Collect all the Ramsbottom, Bury BLO 9JG. PACK £379.00 ingredients and Witch Warty can have AMIGA BAT PACK £379.00 CBM 64C LIGHT PACKS £139.00 • Shoot '«m up In tho stars from Thoo Develegas KEYBOARD MEMBRANES *The Speccy is everywhere) It is y'know, for Instance 48K+ 6.00 this groovy space blaster 48K £4.50 v!$A was created by a chap called Theo W, WM 'M Oevelegas who lives in Greece! So, It looks like this is CRASH'S very first Euro-Powertape! What's Solaris all about? Read on... TELEPHONE HOTLINE Space: the final frontier... It looked empty enough, except for a few billion stars, but as an Earth BENTLEYS COMPUTER exploration ship sets out to discover new riches from far worlds the pilot SALES AND REPAIRS, DEPT discovers a sinister galaxy! You are CRASH 251 NEWCASTLE STREET that pilot (oh dear). Entering this never-seen-before galaxy, fleets of BURSLEM STOKE ON TRENT alien craft head towards your ship. ST6 3QW TEL: 0782 810485 i Tuning into the space radio you can hear no sounds of welcome, just the noise of their laser cannon warming up. It looks like war! POKEMANIA MADNESS!! Fly through the vertically scrolling All you cheating villains had galaxy doing battle with the endless better check out Graham Turbo fleets of alien warships and the Mason's bundle of game- inrius missiles they hurt at youl Eeekl Um, bending POKEs on the and... Erm, well that's about it really! Powertape. Find out what's on How long can you survive the alien offer in DJ Nicko's Playing Tips attackers?! further on! CONTROLS Save the universe using a joystick, options on menu screen, or selecting keyboard controls, which are: Q/up, A/down. P/right, O/left, SPACE/Fire. SHOCK HORROR! WOW! If you think you've written a completely brill game and OVER 60 want to share it with the Speccy world, send it to us SMASHING on cassette or disk with a GAMES! letter explaining the game. If it passes the reviewers' Since we launched our covermounted test we'll put it on the Powertspe cassette 16 months ago Power Tape for thousands CRASH has brought you an astounding 63 to enjoy! It could be your brilliant games! Blimey! Thanks to all first step into the software those nice software houses CRASH could publishing world!!! be the biggest publisher of Speccy Check out the coupon on games In Britain! Well, we're not stopping now! There are piles of new and page 19! It must accompany exciting thrills lined up lor you — so join all entries! the incrowd and stick with CRASH! The revolutionary new fpecial Offe h UNIVERSAL ENERGISER BY UNITEC SYSTEMS Only available while stocks last Play Arcade PCBs on your home monitor! PC ENGINE HARDWARE SEGA MEGADRIVE Super Grafix Pal Also supplied complete with interfaces to HARDWARE line Battle Ace) £299.00 Sega Megadrive Pal £179.00 operate your Nintendo - Sega Megadrive PC Core Grafx Scart Sega Megadrive Scart £179.00 - Sega Master and all home computers. (incRType) £199.00 (Megadrives include free Read the rave reviews in Issue 32 "The PC Engine Pal Alex Kid) (incRType) £179.00 Games Machine" and latest issue "ZfcRO" CD Rom & Interface Unit SEGA MEGADRIVE magazine. (inc Wonderboy III) £299.00 SOFTWARE Ghouls & Ghosts (USA) £35.99 Order now to reserve your panel from the P C. ENGINE SOFTWARE Super Hang On (USA) £35.99 first delivery. RType £26.95 Rambolll (USA) £35.99 Afterburner II £35.99 Pre-production price Wonderboy £24.95 Tales of the New Zealand Story £35.99 only £135.00 Monster Path £24.95 Zoom £32.99 includes VAT & Postage Wonderboy III (CD) £35.95 LIMITED STOCKS ARCADE JOYSTICK ON SOME StarCursor £29.00 SPECIAL OFFERS You may never need to buy ORDER NOW TO another - this genuine arcade joystick, adapted for A VOID DISAPOINTMENT home computers, has a ALL ITEMS ARE CONVERTED FOR U.K. USE AND GUARANTEED BY three year warranty! WESTERN LEISURE Obdeb fiow wkite ttockt Uft! Order by Access/Visa - Tel: 0436-72615 By Post with cheque or postal order I tfi.. 8 Street,h&tmM&l 9M8A§; §&tl§ng_ JliililLJ i "i » ii i n •.Urn 1^1^1,1,1 I.I 11 ir- -ir;i3ppj;i. 11, I, rr, ITg The Sam Coupe Computer Pocks Export 1 orders On Offer . please add • M • £10 for 'Hll SAM here. This is your SAM'S COUPt PACK ONE extra chance to catch up with the SAM COUP£ latest and hottest computer The computer, the power pack, handling THE COMPLETE SAM around — the SAM Coup6! the manuals, the tapes and charges COUP* PACK OWE You can now buy your SAM Flash!— the art program! All for Coup6 straight from CRASH £179.95 — a guarantee of reliable SAM COUPl CRASH ORDER FORM and efficient service. Three Please send me: different SAM Coup6 SAM'S COUPE PACK TWO • PACK ONEi SAM Coupe £179.95 computer packs are on offer, SAM COUPE • PACK TWO: SAM Coupe with one disk drive £249.95 from the basic pack right up WITH ONE DISK DRIVE • PACK THREE: SAM Coupe with two disk drives £329.95 to a SAM Coup6 complete The computer, the disk drive, the • COUP* disk drive £89.95 with two disk drives! And power pack, the manuals, the • 256K memory pack £39.95 remember — you can play tapes and Flashl— the art • Communications interface £29.95 your favorite Speccy games program I All for • External drive interface £29.95 on the SAM Coup6, so £249.95 Q SCART monitor cable £9.95 there's no need to miss out Q MIDI cable £4.95 on all the latest action. And • 2 metre Network cable £4.95 soon you'll be seeing special SAM'S COUPE PACK • Advanced Technical Manual £15.95 SAM Coup6 games — taking THREE All prices are inclusive of VAT and P&P. advantage of all the great SAM COUPE new facilities the SAM has to I ENCLOSE A CHEQUE/POSTAL ORDER FOR THE TOTAL AMOUNT:!:. offer! Join the gang — and WITH TWO DISK DRIVES get a taste of the latest in The computer, two disk drives, the power pack, the manuals, the I WOULD LIKE TO MY BY VISA/ACCESS computing with the SAM Flashl Coup6! tapes and — the art program! All (or £329.95 CREDIT CARD NUMBER | EXPIRY DATE. SIGNATURE NAME COUPE DISK DRIVE SCART MONITOR CABLE £89.95 £9.95 ADDRESS 256K MEMORY PACK MIDI CABLE £39.95 £4.95 .POSTCODE. COMMUNICATIONS 2 METRE NETWORK CABLE INTERFACE £4.95 PHONE NUMBER. £29.95 ADVANCED TECHNICAL EXTERNAL DRIVE MANUAL Make cheques and postal orders payable to NEWSFIEID Ltd. Send d this INTERFACE £15.95 form lo: NEWSFIEID, SAM COUPf OFFER, CRASH, LUDLOW, £29.95 SHROPSHIRE SYS 1JW. Allow 28 days for delivery. Enquiries: 058484 y l_875851 . We'll kick o« Hie SAM suggested at an industry confererce Covp6 page with a that a new SAM product was being worked on but Alan Miles is sayiig letter, which leads us little: That S is not supposed to Into all the news en intentionally imply anything, though Ceup6 action... we would like to create new procuds in the future.' Dear lloyd, CRASH will be keeping its I was informed (hat o new ROM proverbial ear to the ground. Update pock was to be sent out. So I rong the company on the Hotline where I was told that MGT was is ASSEMBLY LINE receivership — the company hos run out of money. Calling all programming lboffins ! SC- To make things worse I found out Assembler Version 1.1 is now that my parents had bought me a disk available for the Coupi. Designed to drive to go with the Coupe. So I tried help you create machine code to use it and most of the programs on k page withprograms , SC-Assembler boasts ihree the system disk didn't work. The impressive features: it does not uie proa rams were littered with error the SAM ROM so it is compatible with messages and commands that didn't future upgrades, it has a complex work. editor which makes altering and I realised that perhaps it was listing source easy ond additionally, a because my SAM contained the old program, when assembled and ROM and the system disk used a compressed, takes up half as much all things coupe...spac e in memory than usual, if you're DOS update and not 2.0. But with MGT in receivership there was not mochine code minded you can get much chance of getting hold of the details of SC-Assembler from: Steve's ROM update package. I am lost. Software, 7 Narrow Close, Histon, James Knapman, Gosport, Hants. Cambridge CB4 4XX. James' letter is just one of the many Swansea SA2 ORG, though this information as it happens! The NEW EDITIONS we have received over the last few address is likely to change very number to ring is 0898 299380 A call to the SAM Coupe Hotline is months from Coupe owners who soon. For the moment the company A new SAM Coupe software service more expensive than a normal phone simply don't know where to turn. can only deal with written enquiries, has been bunched by a small call (38p per minute peak times, 25p This month CRASH has very good a phone number is expected to be company called Zenith Graphics. It's per minute all other times) so make news for anyone in that situation.... announced soon. called Edition One ond ifs a disk or sure you ask permission of the person cassette packed with software for the who pays the 'phone bill before you SAM Coupe. It costs £7 and features INSTANT HELP! dial. Alan Miles and Bruce Gordon, ex- three SAM games, utilities, graphic directors of MGT pic, are bock in Each and every week you can find demos ond 16 Flash! screens. You business with a new company called out the state of play with the Coupe can discover more from Jonathan SAM Computers Lid, or 5AM Co for with a new phone-in news service. WHAT'S THAT S? Longford, Zenith Graphics, 42 short. Miles and Gordon have The SAM Coupe Hotline, which was Aldbourn e Way, Kings Norton, You spotted something yet? Hummm, financed the new company with their launched in August, offers hints, tips Birmingham B38 9UP. take another look at tne name for own money, proving their dedication and news and is updated every week. Miles and Gordon's new company. to continue providing support for the All the information comes from SAM SAM Computers Ltd. Yeah, SAM Coupe. SAM Computers Ltd will Computers Ltd bosses Alan Miles and Computers. Could this indicate that a offer a rescue service for anyone who Bruce Gordon so you can be new product could be coming from is experiencing problems with their guaranteed access to the latest WINNER?! the recently formed company? It was Coupe. Alan Miles explained that the company has three main aims: A letter from Adrian Siddall froim Stratford, London plopped onto the • To provide a full upgrade service. SAM desk this month. Adrian says he A new SAM Coupe upgrade pack is claims the honour of being the first to be produced featuring the new person to complete the SAM Coupe's ROM chip, a new Spectrum emulator, one and only game Defenders or the new DOS and a bunch of useful Earth. He finished it on Thursda y June utilities created by technical expert Dr 29 at 11.40 with a high score of Andy Wright. Accompanied by ** ; % 188,200 — does this moke himi first? simple instructions for fitting the new A » • V If you know different drop us ai line ROM chip, the SAM Upgrade pack with your score, the finishing costs £12. - % * • ^ ^ 15 n y w message, the date ond time youj • To create and control the completed the game (with a sigined publishing of new Coupe software. declaration from an honest bodl) to SAM Computers Ltd is working the usual address and we'll try tto closely witn software house MEnigml a discover the person who completed Variations to produce a range of new the first Coupe game first! I software whicn includes a compilation of family games called Mindgames Don't forget, we want to hear (from further games in the pipeline include you! Sena your letters queries,, tips an adventure and a snoot-'em-up. - 9- S „ + ? V / ' "M P » • • _ w m „ * * < * y * and opinions to NEWSFIELD, • To honour the warranty. The SAM liOYD'S SAM FORUM, CRASH), Coupe comes with a full one-year LUDLOW, Shropshire SY8 1JW/. warranty. SAM Computers lid will be taking over this warranty offering repairs for any machines which break down within tne warranty period. SAM Computers Lid is currently Mere en the werid of based at 7 Clevedon Court, Uplands, SAM next Issve! 4121 5CRAS H SEPTEMBER 1990 ST PRODUCT GUIDE PERIPHERALS & ACCESSORIES THE UK's No 1 SOFTWARE & BOOKS GUIDE TO THE FLOPPY DISK DRIVES ATARI AND «)N R ITS TKI r It you are interested in buying an Atari ST (or if you already own one), then you will not want to miss the FREE Atari ST Product Guide from Silica Shop. 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The recent blast of blazing weather prompts the, slightly changed, phrase Mad dogs and CRASH employees go out in the midday sun'. Since CRASH moved to a new HQ on the banks of the River Teme, lunchtimes have become a free for all on the water's edge. The worst perpetrator is Aunt Aggie, long forgotten Mail Order queen (aka Carol Kinsey) whose idea of a birrovalaff' is to encourage the sport of paddling. Then, when her victims are knee deep, she begins to kick, splash, and throw cups of water over them. I, naturally, have no intention of getting my feet wet and watch the proceedings from the window. Now you know why I work from home most of the time! Enough of our goings on, what have you lot been up to? A bulging mail bag to contend with and a Letter of the Month from Neil Sutherland who's wants more from his Speccy than just Space Invaders! SMOPtMi-V THE JMiCCrV/WE/V! FCML, THE SALOON P&KONWW HERO, ExdcurjONUl HAS J * ZjtTHAUAWR£8C(AJDwe> ROCKALM*\m ttSCCVSfiV FUN TO LEARN ruHYTVt FOML, Dear Lloyd 'PPESfN Tj I've written to you to say 'well done' for reviewing an educational game {Hooray for Henrietta, CRASH 78). I've noticed that there are hardly any S. educational games on the market. My sister did spot Fun School 2 which is an excellent bunch of programs. So, a message to programmers. How about some more of these games please! MAN INI >| III I II "I BP WnuBN 0N6 OFFUS ~ r rwH/TASOUr] Neil Crittenden, Sutherland RW1' nut Fuxwi 'HAS iQr&OFser 7ne 7YJ. A PIN 15 THE. ULVMtmWtAPW - iWTF>*?\ HAD HIS KX4JN^l^rfm^Ft^i \ St W£LL FNEVER FTIND TINA rPMj Ewav rAioSiOrna J J A few years back CRASH ran a AIL FTHtS rmcKf riwte. ' \ regular three-page educational imsourlwmm feature called CRASH Course. However, it was stopped as many readers felt it ate up too much space. Scetlander, producers of Hooray for Henrietta, were keen that Kt CRASH reviewed Hooray and we were impressed. I've received many letters like yours stating readers' pleasure on Vi seeing such a game reviewed. So, from now on, CRASH will be reviewing the best of km rtVfVL WD 5 fca entertaining educational games. StNTTDFEIWOURneMSWrn Look out for Fun School 3 very A rj>£AL, FXHAXB soon. Maybe that's one of the faw'nup&i titles you can buy with your £40 MMME CA FPU software voucher — you've just \Ofi ru. FTOOZ I won Letter Of The Month! mm \PrW LM \ V / GO AWAY! Dear Lloyd Is this the dumbest letter you have ever received? FVtfc! FRcrrrBi RWD' rrtu Anthony Hobbs, Truro. Fomw ms<. fif idcwt m'HOUCAN\ FTAXB 'EM A FPTN BACK I'M TUHMfi&KL WST S7KK(w+—*.J wt No, your previous letter was aotN' Be a hj& ccx, VtS STUFF r/.. worse! LM p /' MIKIE'S LOAD Dear Lloyd I have a +2A computer and I bought Ko/iamj Coin-op Hits. The OH, AUH&HT' problem js I can never get Mikie I'LL &VE YOU ' to load. When it runs the hearts h come up on screen but when I UXJA* press Enter the screen goes MAT& UHTH 8AL0ONMGN DONYJMCKB 14 • CRASH SEPTEMBER 1 blank. Please can you give me you bought it. If it is indeed some advice. faulty the shop should offer you QUATTRO Rodney Wilson, Luton. a replacement. However. Mikie is such an old title that you may ACTIOH LIVE In any cases where software find it's incompatible with the • CodeMasters appear to be CIRCUIT doesn't load you should return it +2A. taking a leaf from CRASH'S book immediately to the place where LM and are producing a cassette bulging with four great games! The Quattro series. ou1 now, already has three packs available: Ouattro Power, Quattro Sports and Ouattro Adventure, something for all tastes in computer games. The four games included in each package are all from the CodeMasters stable and include HELP!! some of the best games they've ever produced! Ouattro Power has More pleas of help! from readers anyone have a solution? Can you Moto X. Twin Turbo V8. Pro who are stuck. If we can't help! ! tell me if the Give Drive interface is Powerboat and ATV Simulator a maybe YOU know the answer. compatible with the Timex 2040 mixture of excellent and some more Write in if you have any Thermal printer?' Paul also asks mediocre games, but there's bound solutions. What is the difference between the to be something you like. Nick HATCHIHG David Tout from Ipswich is new +2 and the +2A?" Well, Paul, the reckons it's worth an overall score BATCH to the Speccy and loves the +2A's circuit board is taken from Of 78%. Next up is Ouattro • Also on the cards for an Autumn cassette, but Is a bit stuck on one the +3 design (which means Adventure, wherein lie some of the release is Gremlins 2 - The New point... There is more than one some older games may not be best CodeMasters games ever. Just Batch from Elite. Billy, his girlfriend game on one side of the tape. compatible) and the +2 circuit look at this line up: Dizzy. Vampire, Kate and the everso cute Gizmo Could you tell me how to get the board is that of the original Ghost Hunters and Super Robin the Mogwai are back in this ail new next game on the same side?" 128K+. Hood: an ideal purchase for any adventure. An evil scientist has built Simplel When the first game has Finally, Robert Davies from arcade adventure fan which gets an a huge skyscraper where he loaded stop the tape immediately. Cardigan asks Are there any overall score of 80% from Nick. conducts genetic experiments on Then, when you want to play the software packages for my Spectrum Finally, Ouattro Sports is one for cute little creatures. Billy and Kate next game, just perform the usual that you can use with a mouse. The all you sporty types out there. In this work in this building and the fun loading procedure and start the only software I have for it is the feast of fun we have four really starts when Billy finds his little tape again, this should help you. AMX Art I had with it. I read in the simulators: Grand Prix Simulator, pal Gizmo in the genetic labs. I Ideally, if you're using a cassette manual that software would be Pro Ski Simulator, Pro Snooker won't reveal the whole plot but deck with a built-in counter, note released soon, but in total failure I Simulator and BMX Simulator. Gizmo is splashed by water and the down the number for the point haven't succeeded in finding any. I Providing challenge for any sports Gremlins are on the loose again. where every program starts. have a Spectrum +2 (cassette)' simulation fans Ouattro Sports is And remember if your Speccy great value for money. And the Paul Maggs from Bristol needs Do you know of any mouse breaks down you know who to score on the door, Nick? 70%! some helpl with his printer, does driven software? Let us know. blame! WHAT EXACTLY IS 'PLAY BY MAIL'? 'Play by Mail' is a method of playing a whole variety FED-UP PLAYING WITH YOURSELF? of Computer Moderated Games through the post (although you may telephone, tax or OX your turns THEN READ ON... to us at no extra cost). You do not need to own a computer to participate in P B.M as our central Do you think you could conquer the world, are you a potential computer does all the work Captain Kirk or even Mastermind material? Now you can FIND 'Play by Mail'« a rapidly-growing hobby catering for OUT! Enter the exciting world of Play by Mail, send NOW for a all ages and interests We have people from all walks of life playing our games. Where else but 'Play by FREE Start-Up in any of our games. Mail'could you pit your wits against people at school/ college/university, taxi drivers, company directors - in short, all manner of people Only 'Play by Mail' CRISIS! is a fast-paced wargame for twenty players set on Earth in the offers you the thrill of playing against all these near future. You send your troops out to invade the countries of the world people, many of whom live outside the U.K The game format is very straightforward: while your factories produce the income required to fund your • Read the rules for the game you have selected. campaigns, and your nuclear missiles obliterate vast tracts of enemy land! • Work out your orders. TURNS PROCESSED FORTNIGHTLY £1.50/turn • Complete a Turn Card. • Post the Turn Card to us. Your turn will be processed by our computers and STAR CLUSTER is a game of interstellar conquest for fifteen players. Each you will receive a printout showing the result of your actions (3-10 pages depending on the game and the race seeks ultimate control of the cluster, but first they must explore and stage it is at). This process continues until a player, or conquer it. Could you lead your race to stellar domination? group of players win the game. TURNS PROCESSED FORTNIGHTLY £1.50/turn Write or 'phone now for further details including information on all the games we run. TRIVIA is a postal trivia league for one hundred players. You answer a I-""-require" — " selection of twenty 'trivia' questions and set two of your own for the other I • CRISIS! START-UP players to answer. Each league conta ins ten divisions of ten players, could | • STAR CLUSTER AND FIRST you gain promotion to the top of the first division? | • TRIVIA TWO TURNS TURNS PROCESSED UPON RECEIPT £1.50/turn FREE!! | NAME Games by Mail | ADDRESS__^_ 5 TOWN LANE, LITTLE NESTON, S. WIRRAL, L64 4DE I For quality Play by Mail Games TEL: 051-336 1412 FAX: 051-336 8156 Games by Mail , Town Lane, Uttle Neston, S. Wirral, L64 4DE. J CRASH SEPTEMBEER • 15 deactivated. Meanwhile, efforts to create a RoboCop 2 are floundering in expensive failures, and city councillors are demanding a new image for the cyborgs: RoboCops must be nice! While Detroit teeters on the brin< of bankruptcy, and political shenanigans rage on to privatise il, RoboCop suffers humiliation after humiliation due to reprogramming, until he finally comes to his own It's movie time! Yes, both self, finds Cain and meets offerings this month are RoboCop 2 for a sensational based on block-busting showdown. releases to come. Mark Again based on a film script, this Caswell reports... is a much more coherent effort, although the drawing could be better. I think I'd rather wait for the TOTAL RECALL movie I DC Comics, film tie-in, £1.60 More comics action next Based on the script for the issue! Arnie Schwarzenegger movie Total Recall, this comic is RAD HOUSE about ordinary guy Doug Quald who after continual dreams of Mars wants to move there but finds his Dear Lloyd wife not keen on the idea. Quaid I think the game Software House visits Rekall Incorporated, who on the CRASH 78 cassette was specialise in selling implanted rad and I wish you would have memories of holidays never actually web of defection, termination and more games like that in future. had. double-dealing get Quaid/Hauser to R0B0C0P 2 How come you always have The dream trip doesn't work out. Mars where events come to a Marvel, £3.60 (import) games on the tape that I've got and Doug finds he isn't Doug at all, volcanic climax. but never any pokes for games but a secret agent name of Hauser The pint sounds and is confusing, Officer Murphy is back on the that I've got?! who worked for Mars Intelligence. A and even a read of the comic won't streets of Old Detroit and up James Milner-Walker. Petersfield sort everything out. This is a case against the mastermind behind the GU31 4 MP. where a film script does not seem most addictive drug ever created. to have translated well into the The designer drug is Nuke, the Software House, the comic format; the actual movie's criminal genius Cain. And with the management style game, pace will no doubt hide various police force on strike, he and his received a good reaction from holes in the plot — reading the cult have a field day. Only many readers and we shall look comic is like looking through sieve. RoboCop is determined to face at putting other games of this Get it if you want to spoil the fun of Cain and tracks him down in his lair style on the Powertape. How's the real thing... but is caught and brutally that for service! FAVE LM RAVES! TURTLES TAKE SPECCY! • Cowabunga dudes! The heroes in a half shell are taking the country by storm and Mirrorsoft have have beaten off some of the other top software houses to grab the licence Keep sending your entries in for for Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. the new Fave Raves section, as The story should be known to all launched last month — here's the (unless you've been on the moon first Fave Rave list from Paul for the last six months), but in brieif Tempest from Morley, Leeds. Are four turtles fell into a sewer and these games in your top five? Let landed in some radioactive slime us know!! that changed them into (da da dath 1. NEW ZEALAND STORY daaaa!) Teenage Mutant Hero Brilliant, cute shoot- em-up with Turtles! Now they're human size excellent graphics! and have learned the ways of the 2. ROBOCOP Ninjitsu warrior from a rat called Easy shoot- ertvup. but a good Splinter and given the names of game. Italian painters Mlchalangelo. 3. RAINBCW ISLANDS Raphael. 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I tried second-hand, I expect you don't , umpteen attempts to get it back, have a valid warranty. It looks but this was in vain. I eventually like a job for a specialist repair gave up on it and thought, oh shop. In cases like these Video V , well. I suppose I'll have to play Vault or Bentley Computers are > OOHTY&* TUNC , my games minus the sound. recommended, their \ WO TOKtu TW If Then, about a month or so ago, advertisements can usually be f ^IG-HWVtvflM-* p the sound returned, but only for found in these pages. one evening, then it shut down LM IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! The Fair that tries to please all carous^U computer enthusiasts - everytime. Saturdoy September 1st IOam-5 pm. . So*1 A The New Holl of the Royal Horticultural Society /T Greycoat & Elverton Street I * CARTOON Westminster • London l/^CORNER TUBES: I Victoria Pimlico St James Park IT'S THE CORNER Admission £3.00 IADVENTUREI WHERE JAPERY STANDS: ABOUNDS! 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With a reputed cost Quickpy Top Star should be in gold, buit only costs its weight in of 75 million dollars Total Recall is available by the time you read this paperclips;!' says the blurb and the most expensive motion picture priced £24.95. here's a piiccie of some scales, a of all time Ocean have snatched couple of IMegablasters, paperclips the rights to this surefire FANZINE FRENZY and some gold to prove the point. blockbuster where big Arnold Commenti ng on the price drop Schwarzenegger is an ordinary Ashvin Patet, of suppliers guy with dreams of Mars who finds Dear Lloyd Spectra video, said 'The that he doesn't exist (Erm... Blimey! I've got two problems: Megablaster truly represents mega- -Ed). He's a spy with a wiped 1.1 am writing a fanzine and I value for money'. Ho ho. memory, and has to return to the need games to review. Should I red planet to find out why his write to software houses lor memory was blanked. NAKED games? Titus aren't to be left out of the STICK 2. 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His new and it's a battle against the clock to video or o comment on Nicko's movement, oir and artillery phases, platform action adventure takes Rick send the planet Barf on a crash weight, but the next CCS strategy bridge construction and demolition, from Earth into the planet Barf course with the sun' That's not oil, he game Battle Of J he Bulge is a one or weainer ond supply restrictions through five levels of traps, puzzles also has to disable the alien ships two player game simulating the epic Members of that nardy breed which and action with the goal of stopping heading for Earth and find a craft to Alliea/German struggle on 16th Dec enjoys strategy games can look the alien invasion o f Earth! Cri pes! take him to safety! 194d when three German armies forward to another game swelling the Beginning in Hyde Park London Creators of the original Core attacked a weak section of the Allied ranks any time now Rick leaps aboard an alien spaceship Design, are back on the cose and line in the Ardennes Combatants can Full review next issue. (a normal occurence in the West promise a game with a lot more command either side in a game End), hot wires il and heads for Barf Features than the original. The levels On Barf the action takes Rick through are more varied with horizontal and the ice kingdom of Freezia the forests vertical scrolling sections, there are 123 of Vegetoblia and to the mud mines hordes of different aliens to thwart .^b^i'AJt,. •Ml ..• . ^ 12 J JI-- 1 i m m .. _ P,! || m I I . J,* 1 '5 irlh F. ** ALLIES TURN ** Date :Dec 16th am the r : Fog §m § * * O r & « C-DOPP jt x 24 CRASH SEPTEIMBER ond the backdrops are more played through Rick Dangerous II is impressive Also, the player can swinging into a shop near you in access any of the first four levels from October on the MicroStyle label And the beginning of the game to guess what? It's even more addictive practicc, but to play level five and man the original! (late nights, ahoy!)! complete the game all levels must be Gallery (an identification game), Database with built in quiz Logo (a A/phaoef and Farm (a decision graphics language), Treasure Search making gome). For the Five to Sevens imap reading) ond 5enfences to is Collect (a sum building game). improve sentence construction All Electricity, Time, Journey (map three packs of Fun School 3 will be in reading) Toyshop {a money game), the shops at the end of September and Funtext Finally, ihe Over Sevens retailing for CI 2.99 on cassette ond get Planetary Matns (a mathematical £16.99 on disk shoot-em-up), Worasearch, s<: h ®8 ppe art )ata bas Fun 15c orev 'IOU vmmmx^ C c •c •c C" «... L> CIC It WOTKS ! re ir icn nei lal Cu C< in MEAN METAL ^. MUTHA! i 1 • Rougher, tougher and better than ever 1 • before, the future of law enforcement is back on the beat this autumn in RoboCop 2. The mean, metal mutha takes to the movie m m screen in October, and Ocean is following up "aM with a game that's destined to be a smash hit!! Richard Eddy grabbed the world exclusive preview! 13 ROBOCOP TWO [ > JJ 1 J i' •J r mPI }04 Wl v- ^; t IFLLLi •• •• •• FULL ER •••••••• •• •• •MMHBHM ••••I5DD •r r--1 Robocap tlw game is (lie Iwst selling Roboprogtammtn Andrew Dcaktn i ff1 ^ A computer game ol oil lime it was who \ currently bcavering away • r r J&fmL : iIm* longest running number one and bashing owl binary bits to bring the •I M jrirtim y rudely Iwo years artor release is sltll most eagerly awuited ciame to We m the Speccy charts at number ten 6asea on the film ffoix>Cop 2 the How do yoo top a game like that? action brings us double trouble in the ThatS the problem for shape ol a brand new model ol r.r J1 - T> 3-4 ft f r J>: ix :i|f i mt I PULL •• •• •• it RoboCop built bv the OCP from the original movie, Anne Lewis Corporation Looking like a hybrid of and they re both back on the streets ED209 and RoboCop, RoboCop Mk 2 of Old Detroit The futuristic FULL •• •:5l is an improved machine which does metropolis is in a worse state than ••i an ••••0DBD not possess any emotional humanity. ever before the human cops are on as the original does — resulting in strike, resulting in the city being Mk 2 being eosily manipulateaby th plunged into cnaos as Nuke a criminal element within OCP designer drug, takes over giving the RoboCop is joined by his partner drug barons control of society The 26 CRASH SEPTEIMBER world exclusive power preview I*-*1 • ui irvi i m n mi 1:11 v 11:111 • iv* RoboCop and ci (com ol loyul offi< ors, w.ih the ultimate oojti live oi tracking (Jowii tin- biggest drug baron Cain and destroying the now RoboCop ROBOACTION Seven levels of arcade action tire picked into Roboi'op 2, and it s essentiolly a shoot em up IhiI like the film, (here orr loads ol new ideas and aspects involved An tin- movie's director Irvin Kershner said in a recent interview with FEAR magazine tit w Man versus machine is a time honoured rnytli but it's unusual to find it in the some character Hence within the game two levels ore m IT; dedicated to a mind game where RoboCop tries to find his own and • •• .• •. . his wife s identity Programming started in June ond the mo|only of the gameplay was originally taken from the senpt and extra touches, to capture the feeling of the movie were added offer Andrew and graphic artist Ivan Horn had seen the film And what have ihey come up with? Well, it goes something like this 2 > Level one begins in a sludge factory with gcimeplay like the original as you control RoboCop slaikmg the plotforms ond walkw of the factory blasting enemies to smithereens The one big difference over the original is that you can move I heely around the map of the building | in RoboCop you hod to follow a planned route The objective is lo search through ihe building to find the entrance to the Nuke factory 'MISBill level two is the first of the puzzle games where you help RolxjCop find nis own identity Bock to bullet pumping thrills with level three in a shooting cjallery to improve RoboCoj) s aim and reactions ROBOFACTS essential for level four Set inside the * Roboprog rammer Andrew Tokuguwa Brewery t's another is well-heeled in turning out the section of locate and destroy battle for Ocean. Previously he's wor past the armed gut irds to locate and Athena, Combat School, Open destroy the Nuke drug stoie Wolf (Christmas number one, Rambo 3, Renegade More mental metal agility in level J and Operation Thunderbolt*. live, the second puzzle element as RoboCop tries to discover his wife's * Roboartist Ivan Horn and Ai identity After passing through usually work os o team, he curn another trial in (lie shooting gallery working on all the detailed grc^ the seventh, and final, level is set in for RoboCop 2 Robomusic on1 the Civic Centrum a building micros comes from Matthew C constructed by OCR The place is at Ocean's music studio. crawling with deadly Roboguards * RoboCop spent 32 weeks matching RoboCop in strength it's o number one slot in the ail-fon lough path to the final showdown software hit parade! And then against RolxiCop's ultimate enemy on to spend another 51 — 5111 RoboCop 2 there isn't room for weeks in the full price chart!I two RoboCops in Old Detroit1 And * The total number of Ro that's it — so far The RoboCop 2 gomes sold is not known, proiect Still continues at Ocean say it i many hundreds of Robocop's dunking metal feet hit the worldwide!1 Jl beat on your streets in November and * Ocean reckon it's oil pretty exi CRASH will be following the progress stuff! X, j over the ne*t couple of months. Is this gome going to be the number one at •It Christmas? You bet your can of baby food I rJ k 27 CRASH SEPTEIMBER coming soon MYSTIC BATTLES OCEAN OF • GOLDEN AXE TERROR In days of old when Knights were carcasses of some very nosty bold and Speccys wercn'l invented, creatures. heroes haa names like Axe Battler, Golden Axe is a multi-level beat Tyris Flare and Gillius Thunderhcad em up where our hero must use • . f ^^^ And in that age in a magical his/her own fighting style ond • ^v ^, IT % £1 IIS kingdom lived an evil lord called magical powers to defeat the forces Death Adder (no relation to Edmund of evil Axe carries a huge Blockadder) noted for his vicious broadsword, Tyris also carries a ways sword and Gilfius wields o double r- .v.v. If^^^ 1 hiY l irM > 1 t I J TT ifO jum m • » * • w w jg • - - - - V : ? ** g. . | » " " »' ii t 731 0 It : v S *•<• - «• „ • c ..*",.* P ,'. r "-' • »jj f "J VV * I*./" ff f - <* ii « ** - -1 V • NIGHTBREED K Ever heord of Clive Barker^ He's an lands of Alberta, Canada Eventually M author, director and generally forqo Men, Midian became a legend M H ** considered to be o bit of a Top Dog in as far as the human race was the spooky world of horror movies concerned Then Boone appears on His latest film, called Nig/ifbreed is the scene Convinced, by his about to become a game from Ocean psychiatrist Dr Decker, that he has really soon you may remember we committed a series of murders Boone reported on the filming of the movie seeks refuge in Midian. Bitten by a 'JLJIJIL ¥ - in June last year The action is set in mutant, Boone becomes one of the i * the necropolis of Midian Created Nightbreed Hot on his trail is Dr hundreds of centuries ago it was a Decker, girlfriend lori a cop refuge for mutants and outcasts from obsessed with his capture and a killer The power of the Kingdom is bloded war axe Each character is the human race, located in the prairie committed to his destruction maintained by tin? Golden Axe, a capable of a wide range of fighting magical weapon which Death Adder moves, including a groin crunching has pinched! Evil creatures and kick a vicious headswipe and o mythical beasts invade the Kingdom mighty lift and powerful throw that wreaking havoc Enter not one, but looks ridiculous when Gillius lifts a three likely candidates, Axe Battler giant' Golden Axe is one of the most the Barbarian, Tyris Flare ihe Amazon playable and thrilling combat games AUE ond Giltius Thunderheod the Dwarf in the arcodes and has been a nit on All have lost loved ones to this vile the Sega console let's hope the lord, so all are after revenge Choose Speccy is in for a treat when Virgin COUI one of the terrible threesome and Gomes release it this autumn prepare to feed the crows with the \ . * V .... z j^-j't4t ^ "1. i hit ntt« ttti 1 G ro aciin 1 ^ •v ^ \ 28 CRASH SEPTEIMBER READY TO REV .V •> MNMMMMMMMWMI Now humonity has discovered they'll kill anvthinng humans, other Midion's location it's intent on its mutants, each other. Now unleashed destruction So for once, it's us by Mask the psychotic aller-ego of humans who are the xenophobic Dr Decker, the Beserkers are on the baddies and Boone ond the rest of rampage Each screen is patrolled by the Nighlbreed who are the hopeful at least one opposing force, and as heroes the player travels down into the Ocean have turned the film into an deeper and more sinister labyrinths of action combat gome with the player Midian the.forces ore bigger uglier controlling Boone Spread over three and tougher levels, beginning above Midian in a To begin with Boone fights the graveyard, the first |ob is to collect mutants in unormed combat but OS keys to occess the other two levels — you explore further into the huge Midian itself and the dungeons in the moppable playinq area weopons bowels of Midian No easy feat — sucn as guns and flamethrowers can the ploying area is huge (a side-on be collected so it becomes easier to bump off any attackers Watch out routes are dead ends You can walk though: Beserkers ore o cunning lot Boone through each screen and, if a and occasionally belt through tne route up or down the screen is scenery and whip the weapon available, there are pillars or doors straight from your hands! marking the turning point With the objective of destroying It's not only the humons you have to Mask and his followers, not forgetting battle with in the gome, also on the to rescue Lon in the process Ocean s attack are the Beserkers a Nightbrecd is pocked with action and particularly nasty bunch of mutants — will hit the streets in September two player name m which the 1 sides go at it hammer ond tongs until Alliance Of Free Stars is being onfy one fleet is left intact o* the less threatened by the Ur-Quan hierarchy violent Strategy mode where every o bunch of nasty alien types who move has to be carefully planned enjoy nothing more than making (and then blow the ponts off the everyone's life a complete misery enemy, hah!| Whichever mode you Each player chooses his/her side ar choose Star Control promises to be then decides to go for Melee mode violent fun all the way, and may the which is full blown war where both best life form win •LOTUS TURBO ESPRIT Under starter's orders by the your lonesome, you can play in one chequered flog is Gremlin s player mode — whatever the cose 7ESU forthcoming race em up called Lotus you have to be in the first ten across Esprit Turbo Challenge Promising to the finish line to be able to compete be an extremely fast and smooth on the next circuit Start revving your racing game, Challenge features two engines 'cos Lotus Esprit Turbo Turbos racing ogoinst each other on a Challenge is on its way this autumn D ® split-screen view with up to 20 other computer controlled opponents to beat! 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An extra bonus this issue has come from a happy little hacker: he's sent in a few POKEs for all +3 owners out there who bought the lightgun package. Enjoy this feast of fun... Ooo arr, it be the old Cheeky TREASURE ISLAND Cheets again with some really Press pause and then unpauseto loveeriy stuff for you to 'av a look get to the beginning of the next at... level. (John Fothergill) IMPOSSAMOLE When you get a high score type in RAINBOW ISLANDS the following... If you collect the coloured diarmnds OUCHOUCH • to stop you dying in in this order red. orange, yeiiov. water green, blue, indigo and violet. V/hen HEINZ - gives your weapons power you get to the guardian of the island up you're on a trap door will appea. go COMMANDO - you never need down it and there will be a roorr> reload again with loads of long lasting potiore in LUMBAJAK - don't worry about it. your energy now (Jonathon Howells) (Robert Mattin) 5. If a fire occurs in the area, merely adjacent to it for them tc bulldoze the surrounding debris to lake effect. stop the fire spreading. 17. Remember.. .high taxes 6. Don't build an airport until you discourage industry. are well into the game. 18. Don't start worrying about what 7. Set the tax leve! at about 5%. the people think of you until they 8. Build about three commercial start moving out. There is never an areas for every four residential election. ones. 9. Build a lot of roads connecting the three types of area. 10. Build a railway network all the way around the industrial zones. POKEMANIA 11. Check everything has adequate power. If you start getting blackouts, More poking fun with Graham SIM CITY on 0582 83 2653. then build another power station 'TURBINE' Mason. He's been 1. First put a port and a power and check the powertines have not slaving away at a hot Spectrum station right next to each other on been damaged for weeks (well perhaps for an Here are a few pointers for that hour!) to bring you this delicious highly addictive new game. Sim the coast. This will save on 12. Nuclear power stations cause electricity cables. less pollution than coat. selection of tantalising POKEs. City. I loved building all the Take a look at what he's got... roads, houses, etc. The only 2. Then put lots of industrial areas 13. Build about one police and one fire station for every eight blocks, Bomb Fusion trouble was that no people would adjoining the port. Turrican live there! Fussy so and sos! Nick 3. On an isiand, cover it almost 14. If the people demand something GIVE IT TO THEM! Ruff N Ready Pirte from Flamstead nr St. exclusively with residential areas. Deja Vu - The Remix Albans Is the man to thank for Then surround them with parkland. 15. Don't worry about heavy traffic if Assassin this. He would also like to plug Put a police and fire station at the you're low on cash. If you have an his mate's bulletin board so... top. Build a stadium near the top. abundant supply of the folding stuff Not so many this issue because tough. Oh, alright then. For all 4. Build the main residential area then build lots of roads. many of the games we get in the you modem buffs it's catted the opposite side of the screen to 16. Remember that the power office for review are on disk, and Resolve Comms and can be the industrial areas so that there is cables/railways/roads do not have old Turbo has only got a tape reached by anyone with a modem not much pollution. to be leading into a block, but player. More POKElng fun amd excitement next issue. OFTWARE CITY Unit 4, B.D.C, 21 Temple Street, Wolverhampton WV2 4AN Tel: 0902 25304 fFT^ca"us °n: 24 H°ur credu Card H°t|ine m2 26304 mi SPECTRUM GAMES t PLAYER SU>ERlEttUE .289 PNBALLSN 2JB -Are 4 SOCCER SIM 298 PCMRPLAY ...IJB 'Of It* MASK ~-0.1t COMPILATIONS CWOfFRQAORAONG 2» postmanpw ,. |CRASH SEPTEMBER EUROPEAM ORDERS MASTER CARD EUROCARD AOC£PTE0| 90 LOAD "WCMAIN" CODE 25391 To use the POKEs just type In the 100 LOAD "WS2" CODE 16384 THE HUNT FOR listing in +3 basic, save it to a 105 POKE 40896,0: REM NO blank disk in case you want to ENEMY FIRE use It again, then put in the 110 RANDOMIZE USR 34712 original game disk and type In 120 LOAD "WC"+STRE (A-16) RUN. The game should then load CODE 30000 up as normal but with the POKE 130 POKE 28003,A installed. 140 LET X=USR 28000 150 RETURN ROBOT ATTACK This is quite an old game as I readings, the trawler is refered to as 10 REM ROBOT ATTACK (C) BULLSEYE REremember, buDt I've jus OCTOBEt heard that 'A'. A hash should now appeaRr ANDY RYALS AND CRASH 10 REM BULLSEYE (C) ANDY it's to be re-released to coincide alongside. Select the fire icon. 20 CLEAR 24999 RYALS AND CRASH with the film 'The Hunt For Red 2. After you've sunk the trawler drop 30 LOAD "PAGER.COD'CODE 20 LOAD "SCODE "SCREENC October'. So here are some tips to a depth of about 50 metres and 40 LOAD "SPRITES "CODE 30 LOAD "GCODE "CODE for you if you've bought it, from select a heading of 200 degrees at 50 POKE 37957,X: REM X=NO. OF 40 POKE 45787.0: REM !NFY out old friend Nick Pine again (no full speed. If a torpedo is launched DROIDS TIME plugs this time!). at you, drop some decoys, change 60 RANDOMIZE USR 32768 50 LET A=USR 39402 1. As soon as you start the game, direction and depth about five 60 LOAD "QCODE "CODE select the little two box' icon by the times. Then launch one back. OPERATION WOLF 70 LET A=USR 39400 side of the message window. A set 3. Anything stationary under the 10 REM OPERATION WOLF (C) of readings for a Russian trawler surface is a sonar mine. ANDY RYALS AND CRASH MISSILE GROUND ZERO should now appear. Raise the 4. If the target knows you're there 20 LOAD 10 REM MISSILE GROUND ZERO attack periscope and point it on a and you have a torpedo in the "NOCAHACE.NED "CODE 28672: (C) ANDY RYALS AND CRASH heading of roughly 240 degrees water, help the torpedo find the LET X=USR 28672 20 CLEAR 32767 (until you see the trawler). Now target by continuously 'pinging' it on 30 LOAD 'WPAGE'CODE 28000 30 LOAD "S1 CODE'CODE press the fire button on the active sonar. 40 LET A=0+16: GOSUB 1000 40 LOAD "S2CODE "CODE 50 LET A-1 + 16: GOSUB 1000 50 POKE 39860.0: REM NO 60 LET A=3+16: GOSUB 1000 ALIENS ADIDAS CHAMPIONSHIP 70 LET A=4+16: GOSUB 1000 60 POKE 43386.X: REM X-AMMO 80 LET A-6+16: GOSUB 1000 70 INK USR 38496 K0BRAHS0FT SPECTRUM AND SAM COUPE UTILITIES FOOTBALLove's got the world in motion... the ref has a tendency to Ldish out Yeh! Love the song. The game yellow cards, and red ones too! CT2 SAM ADVANCED TAPE UTILITY:- NEW) Makes your essential tap* backups of your wasn't too bad either, as football 3. Keep the ball moving, pass the Spectrum AND Sam lap«i. Handles normal speed Sam tapas and normal speed Pulsed. Countdown and Mull if small block Spectrum (apes Makes a RELIABLY LOADING backup ol he games go. Here is a saucy ball low and it will be easier for your above Spectrum tapes to reload EASILY Into Sam Ideal for Sam without a disc drive. Price:- selection of tips from Dan Button team mates to control. C9.95 on T*p«. of sunny Ludlow. 4. When you give away a penalty, CD2 TAPE TO SAM DISC TRANSFER UTILITY:- NEW! Transfer the VAST MAJORITY ofyour 1. From kick off make sure the ball dive around the centre of the goal, Spectrum tapes to Sam drlva. Changes Sam into a Spectrum - gives SUPERB Speccy tape control is low and kick ball full the computer normally places it compalability ALL types of programs can now be transferred to Sam disc • Fast Loaders.Puked. power down the pitch. The here. Countdown. Multl Block, most of the very latest programs- VERY EASY to use. COT HAS B£;N APPROVED AS A SAM UTILITY BY MGT • MAKERS OF SAMI Price:- C10.9S on DISC. opposing defender will kick the ball 5. The 5-3-2 formation is normally back up the pitch. If the defender the best for beginners. SP6 TAPE O DISC UTILITY:- NEW Transfer tapes to .3 disc. NOW transfers the LATEST has kicked the ball low and you're Pulsing. Countdown and Multl Block programs. FREE superb DISC CATALOGUER. Now hsnllea 6. When under pressure in the goal FULL128K PROGRAMS. INCLUDES SP6 COMPANION which shows how to trsnsltr many ganes. still running in the same direction as mouth, concentrate on control of the Supplied on DISC all- C14.95. when you kicked, kick it low and keeper. hard again. If you're outside the 7. Don't slide tackle in your own SP« COMPANION VOL 2t> TRANSFERS FOR OVER 100 GAMES. Needs SP6:- C4.95 opponent's box then the ball should area as the keeper may dive also. DMS O DISC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM:- NEW Now you can organise ALL your disc Mei go towards goal. The keeper should 8. For an easy to beat opponent to Has INDEX and easy to usa DOS routines. Gives file list on disc and PRINT OUT. Large dsiatsse; miss it and you should score! Do FAST search tor Individual files. Menu programs for your discs (or easy program selection lasy gain confidence and skill, play Karl to um:- C12.95 on Disc. this from all the kick offs you have Chandler, Mickey Mouse could beat and you should win the game. him! D.I.C.E-:- NEW Version 2.1 *3 disc utility. Modify and read saclors, Back up discs; FULL DIRaclory; Recover erased rites; Lock out faulty riles; NEW Prim Option; Easy lo usa. 'An 2. Be careful when slide tackling as excellent package". CRASH October 68;- £12.95 on disc. SPECTRUM MACHINE CODE COURSE:- FULL course from beginner to advanced level. Applies to ALL Spectrums. Suitable for all Free Disassembler AND Editor Assembler:- C2030 DB2 +3 DISC BACKUP UTILITY:- NEW Backup *3 PROTECTED discs to DISC or TAPE bsy to usa: Handles Multi-Loads and now even more discs:- CI4.95 on Disc PLUS 3 DIARY AND FILING SYSTEM:- NEW A complete diary/not* pad filing system database for the +3, with LARGE database and diary to 2009, fast search retrieve snc blorhythms tor 4 people:- CI 2.93 on Disc ALSO AVAILABLE:- SD5 TAPE TO MA); SOS TAPE TO OPUS OftlVE; MT1 ,M/D TOOLKIT; SCe TAPE UTILITY; SW1 TAPE TO WAFADftlVE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE - BUY WITH CONFIDENCE Sand cheque P to:- "KOBRAHSOFT". DEPT CR. Pleasant View " Hulme Lane. Hulme, Longm, Stoke-on-Trenl. Staffs. ST3 SBH (Overseas - Europe add CI P&P PER ITEM, others C2) Sand ;AE (9* x 5~) lor detailed Catalogue - mark envelope ENQUIRY For more Information please phone:- 076 130 5244 Access. If you were one of the lucky keep yourself going on those Visa welcome - pleas* phone above number. people who bought a Spectrum tough games. Andy Ryais has (24 Hour. 7 Day Service lor FAST Mail Order) VISA +3 with the lightgun pack then been hacking away at his disks this is exactly what you need to to bring you these listings to type CRASH SEPTEMBER! 35 4121 5CRAS H SEPTEMBER sam coupe Here are the very, very first tips 2. Collect all the guns you can as ever on the Sam Coup6! As there the more you collect the faster you is only one game that has come fire. out on the Sam there are no 3. Collect all the energy you can in prizes for guessing what they're the form of shields and crate like about. Luke Bidden and Ian boxes. Western have compiled tips on 4. Ming. Mongor and Octon will take Defenders Of The Earth. an awful lot of killing so be patient 1. Get someone else to push the '1' and dodge the blue bullets for • • AKir 1 soSSORS button to get help in the game and success. f. v t • H PATT4 to fire against Octon, Mongor and 5. Jump off the edge of screens as Ming. This leaves the other player you lose lots of energy if there are free to control the character and bad guys walking onto the screen or If BO avoid the bullets. on the other side. ) £ S whistle uPCN 6CAMKTT IN T£ACH6^ hit © HAMMERFISPromises, promises. They're into Hammerfist and destroyT the never kept are they? I told you I box at the end of the screen. Go would print more of the solution into sheet 11 on the bottom levet. N RU86CR, to Hammerflst last month and 1 Destroy the guards and droids while RtNGrOiv forgot all about It. Never mind blowing the boxes up. When alt the KJT6 UP Lacy because It's here now. Daniel boxes have been blown up shoot Leach is of course the man to the droids and guards until the SSB mee thank for this. message shows up. Above the door Sheet 9 is an electricity bolt device. To get rid of it, fire up so the bolt hits the < Don't worry if you were tow on a- anything at the end of the last load, ceiling and rebounds into it. When it your energy goes to near maximum goes face the door and headbutt and you get 40 of each Piston and the transport panel, it will slide up 7 Rf JJJ U W- Hammemst, and you can go through the door. V Fall down and shoot the top box, Sheet 12 then the bottom box. Keep shooting Hit the door twice and go into the FtfOCx down and advancing to get rid of sea. Move right into Sheet 13. If any the droid and push the train off the fish or scuba divers are in the way screen. There is a power point but just hit them. J don't use this yet. Once the train Sheet 13 • — has been pushed off the screen First, if you're short on energy, top it e move off yourself. up at the flashing mass at the end Sheets 10 and 11 of the wire. Shoot the rock in the As soon as you get on this screen middle of the screen by shooting; shoot the train, let the train come right a number of times. When it is towards you, shoot it. let it come gone, top up your lasers by towards you. shoot it. etc. until it shooting or hitting the cannisters E£> SL blows up. Take the energy and turn before they hit the ground. When into Metalisis. While kicking the ready go on to Sheet 14. To Balloon men, jump onto the white box and Sheet 14 then onto the top platform. Kill the Turn to Metalisis and hic-hac to the guards and headbutt the VDUs. Still rock at the end of the screen. on the top, go into sheet 11. Destroy this by transforming into Headbutt the VDUs and kilt some Hammerfist and shooting up so it men, get back onto sheet 10. Fall rebounds and hits the top of the -CHfitSTlAV MORRIS- down to the floor. If you're short on rock. When it blows up get into laser bolts go back onto sheet 9 Sheet 15. If anything gets In youir and keep killing the droid and taking way don't be afraid to shoot it. If you the icons. Go back to sheet 10, turn run out of laser bolts go to Sheet! 13 CRASH SEPTEMBER • 37 and fill up. Sheet 22 Sheet 15 Turn into Metalisis and immediately Turn into Metalisis and jump next to jump onto the white platform. the barrier. Turn to Hammerfist and Headbutt the white flashing square blast it by shooting right. When it's on this platform and a chunk of the been destroyed return to Sheet 13 wall will disappear revealing a door. to stock up on laser bolts then go Kill the guards and pet dinosaurs on to Sheet 16. until the SSB message comes up Sheet 16 (sometimes not necessary). Then First, jump onto the platform and exit through the door. Do not shoot the claw (shoot right), then headbutt the other white flashing shoot down to get the next claw. square, it drains your energy. feX RflTto) Shoot right to get the mouth, then Sheet 23 and 24 when that's gone stand underneath Select Metalisis and go on the lift, it the tentacle and shoot up (watch will take you up to Sheet 24. At the it!). Move underneath the eye and top of the lift's journey kill the shoot up to destroy it and finish off guards as many times as necessary the monster. END OF LOAD. te give you time to headbutt the Thanks and all that stuff go to Kefth Darlington of Newton Abbot in Devon Sheet 17 screen. Change to Hammerfist and lor this wicked piccy ol the porky boy himself! Keep sending in those Nicko Turn into Hammerfist and position take the lift down, destroy the Pics and well print the best ones) yourself so that you shoot up, the knight's head to give you both laser boll rebounds onto the very energy then take the next lift all the the door is a power point. Refuel at Shoot at his eyes until you get the top of the blockage. Do the same way down to the bottom of Sheet this if necessary. Destroy the two SSB message. Turn into Metalisis for the next wedge of rock then fire 23. Kill the guards until no more other flashing squares by shooting and jump from about the middle of right to get rid of the last bit. Hic-hac come and headbutt the screen. Get up. Once the second has the topmost platform onto the desk Metalisis onto the ledge and move on the lift and shoot right to blow disappeared a chunk of the upper and then into the explosion where onto Sheet 18. the bricks away. Stay on the lift and level disappears with it. Turn into the Master was, that should all be Sheet 18 change to Metalisis and duck. Let Metalisis and jump onto the white one move, a high hic-hac. Face into Shoot the marsh mallow in the eyes the lift go all the way up if you're rectangle. Move over to the right the screen and headbutt to by shooting right and jump onto the ducking then the electricity cannot edge of the rectangle and hie-hac to separate Hammerfist and Metalisis platform. Shoot left to kill the other hurt you. Turn into Hammerfist and the small platform at the left edge of and you will have completed the marshmallow and jump onto that shoot the electricity in the other lift the screen. Turn around and game. platform. Shoot right to destroy the shaft straight away. One shot transform into Hammerfist. Shoot General Tips last one and jump onto that should do it. Go into the other lift up to destroy the flashing wotsit & Don't be afraid to use Metalisis platform, headbutt the transparent shaft and do the same. Go into the underneath the gun (it will rebound for fighting, it saves on lasers and panel and walk through the door. other lift shaft and repeat it again (it and hit the floor on the other side of piston fist. takes more shots progressively). the gap). Fire right several times to & When you start to flash it means Sheet 19 Now go into the furthest shaft on get rid of the rest of the gun. Fall the security system has been Kill the women until no more the right and let it take you ail the down and jump onto the other breached. appear, then jump onto the platform way up. END OF LOAD. platform by getting to the left hand W To judge your jumps properly try next to the door. Walk to the left Sheet 25 side of the white rectangle and high to place Metalisis where her hands edge of this platform and high hio/' Shoot down four times to blow open hic-hacking to it. Destroy the guards will touch the end of the platform. hac to the platform in mid air. The the door. Keep shooting the tank to get time to headbutt the VDU. This will get you as far as possible. lightshade like object is a power and advancing upon it, trying to get Walk right to Sheet 30. & When shooting barriers or socket. Headbutt to use it. Turn into it off screen. When it is near the end Sheet 30 monsters out of the way and you Hammerfist and fire right to get rid of the screen change to Metalisis Destroy the first VDU then jump think it's taking up too many shots of the overhanging rock. Transform and kick it off and advance etc. onto the first platform. The flashing then try bouncing the bolts off the into Metatisis and jump to the other When it is off the screen hic-hac out squares do not do anything so jump ceiling or hitting another part of the side. If you fall down the gap in the to Sheet 26 to the right. onto the next platform. Headbutt the object. floor you go to Sheet 18! Sheet 26 second VDU and keep kilting # When the Master is active, letting Sheet 20 Change into Hammerfist and shoot guards and droids until you gel the skull icons blow up takes his energy Don't move off the small platform. right repeatedly to blow the SSB message then go to the top away. When his energy is at its First shoot the ant's end several installation away. When this is done platform. Once on the top platform lowest icons become normal. times. When it blows up move off go to Sheet 27 to the right. Do not stand to the right of the rectangle & Icons - E=Extra energy, the platform and onto the floor. worry about the little creature at foot that looks tike a door and headbutt B=Energy for both characters, Position yourselt so that when you level, shooting it wastes too much the wall to reveal a hidden door. Go L-Extra laser bolts, P=Points. shoot up the shot rebounds and hits time. through it to Sheet 31. the top of the ant's end. Keep doing Sheet 27 and 28 Sheet 31 this until the ant has lost all of its Shoot up at the flashing squares Destroy guards, droids and the large white body. Jump onto the and destroy the boxes while killing flashing squares at the top unfil the ledge where the ant was and shoot the guards, then go into Sheet 28. SSB message flashes up. When it And that's it for this month! Nick right, into its head, it will disappear In Sheet 28 destroy the flashing does come up move over to the end Pirie gets £40 of software for his leaving the path clear. Before going screen by headbutting it and shoot of the railing and headbutt the wall tips on Sim City and The Hunt into Sheet 21, go back to Sheet 18 up at the flashing squares to kill to open another hidden door. Go for Red October. Lets see all via the gap in the floor in Sheet 19 them. Turn into Metalisis and through to Sheet 32. your tips, maps and cheats sent to top up on energy and laser bolts. destroy guards until the SSB Sheet 32 in to the following address. It It's best to use Metalisis here. message pops up. Then, as Destroy the base of both columns, doesn't matter If you think When topped up go to Sheet 21. Metalisis. go right to the right hand stand underneath one and keep they're rubbish, there's probably Sheet 21 end of the screen and a lift should firing up until the column is fully someone somewhere who will This is quite hard and can take a take you up to the next level. On the destroyed. Destroy the other want what you have to offer, and long time. Basically, destroy the top top level, jump over the missing column similariy. Select Metalisis, anyway, It's good fuel for the boulder by rebounding up up-shot portions of platform into Sheet 27. headbutt both VDUs and jump onto office fire (only joking!). You then go to the nexl boulder etc. If Jump over the gaps and go to the one of the desks and then onto one never know, they might be worth you run out of energy, or the master iron grille, headbutt and go through of the platforms to either side of the a few quid. Send them to: becomes active go either to Sheet to Sheet 29. master. Turn to Hammerfist and NEWSFIELD, NICK ROBERTS, 20 or Sheet 18. The bricks at the Sheet 29 keep firing at the master to get rid of PLAYING TIPS. CRASH, end of this chamber are not a the electricity guarding his head, LUDLOW. SHROPSHIRE, SY8 Destroy guards on the lower level 1JW. barrier and you can walk through until no more appear. 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ADD-ON AVAILABLE drum sounds are already provided No other product can offer so FOR THE SPECTRUM for yon, but yon can easily produce Use a full slse MIDI keyboard to much Id one unit • It'* the ¥ TOTAL SOLUTION!! more of your own. play the Muaic Machine. StNC 5 trV ivi H WS* yipy This time travel lark has been popular tor a long I1IOIV time, Marty and Doc Brown In Back To The Future and Doctor Who managed to travel through time and space with ease, so why not Prof Potts? The first level is difficult enough, but when you move to other time zones and discover that your actions in previous levels may affect later developments it's straight jackets ahoy timet But the game is very good Indeed, so your Speccy isn't in too much danger of being smashed to pieces. All the sprites are big with lots of animation and potts (ho, ho) of colour. Time Machine is one of the best arcade/strategy games around. i 90% It's not very pretty but it with tive screens in each. serves its purpose, or rather When everything is okay the it did until a bunch ot map is green, when trouble terrorists tried to blow it up. brews Ihe affected block ! I Fortunately they didn't turns red. when this happens leg it to the relevant screen pronto. With live zones lo patrol the Prof 's legs soon get Itred. bul lear not: lour travel pods allow Pro! Potts lo zip around righting wrongs EilSHi, and generally making sure that mankind's future is safe. Besides natural obstacles, 1 Ihe occupants ol each time $?'/ . zone try lo kill you Ail you have for protection is a controller device, it stuns attackers and Ihus allows you Activision to escape And escape you • C9.99 • must it you are lo return home! mlessor Potts is your m Programmed by Haft archetypal mad 'Cybernoid' Cecco. Time scientist: a tall, Machine is the bees knees awkward, gangly man (and other pans perhaps) ol Pwho has a shock ol untidy — - - arcade adventures. The hair and wears a lab coat. He puzzle element is pitched at also owns a lime machine lust the right level (mildly frustrating), so sit and think succeed, liul unlortunalely aboul a problem don J jus) the bomb hit a vital hurl yourself out the nearest accelerator crystal and threw window Graphically it's a the Pro! inlo the past. winner too, with sound |ust With five time /ones lo as good with a title tune and O 1234 travel through the ultimate spot etlecls. In short, it you aim is to traverse the ages wanl an ace arcade puzzle and return lo present day (ie. game look no turlher than ten million years in Ihe this. future} and get to the lime MARK 91% machine before Ihe terrorists do (confused yet?) To complete each time zone Ihe Prof has lo perlorm a special RATING lask Intone one one of Ihe problems is to protect man's ancestors from the elements by rounding them up. keeping them in a cave and 91% '-•j-z-x*: lighting a fire How else are Ihey lo survive the Ice Age?! 90% Remember though, your actions in one time zone can 80% affect Ihe lulure of Ihe human race — evolution is in your 89% hands 90%" On the stalus panel is a block made up of 25 rectangles — representing a map otthe live lime zones 1 EA 42 CRASH SEPTEIMBER _l i The Hit Squad thingies and even more evil. At • C2.99 • re-release the end ol each level you reach a big nasty to be destroyed. Far away, in a long lost One thing Nemesis had when it Westwood, the main character, galaxy is the planet first came out that all the seems to be invisible — move Nemesis, a peaceful others didn't was the chance to him over a background aid his world that never did any increase your weaponry. By graphics assume the same one any harm, a world ol Volvo collecting pods the aliens SPAGHETTI colours. This obviously a/oids drivers. Now it's under attack leave behind you can go up the colour clash but doesn't help from its old enemies. A nasty scale at the bottom of the payability. The only sound is race from sub-space star screen and when you come to the odd purting' when you fire cluster Bacterion. The only a weapon you like you select it a bullet. A tune would have way to save the planet is to use to add to your ship - amazing. been nice — you'll just have to stick the latest Depeche Mode the prototype hyperspace This is not a bad shoot-'em- fighter, the Warp Rattler, single on to keep your ears up but has not stood the test of SIMULATOR happy! piloted by you. You must duel time very well. II may look to the death with the evil terrible compared to today's Zeppelin Games and collecting the rewards. But A tun game when you get the Bacterions and save Nemesis. etlorts but il you're short on • £2.99 • beware: innocent people are hang ol the controls: the action Nemesis is very 48KI cash and after a bit of blasting out there as well as rootln' is last and furious, but you Compared to some ot today s fun, you could do worse. eeeha! Step into the lootin' criminals and killing may get led up ol being blown shoot-em-ups it looks like a NICK world of the wild west: Ihem costs you money! outta dat dere county (to be piece of home grown software. the world ol ring The game is a little too said with a wild west accent)! The sound is the first thing that dinging, cow hustling, slow: the screen scrolls along NICK Yand bucket spitting! It's all at a snail's pace, but the action hits you: the squeaky tune is hilarious and the etlects are here in Spaghetti Western is all fast moving! Graphics are not much better. The format is RATING Simulator. You control a sparse at first but as you get RATING classic shoot-'em-up. You bounty hunter, tracking down further in you discover well encounter a couple of waves of criminals on the Wanted signs, drawn houses, criminals and aliens then enter the cavern to making a living the odd dame to avoid shooting people in the back shooting. It's a pity Clint |68% battle it out against walking •I SUPER STOCK CAR Mastertronic Plus the same old courses youi can • C2.99 • access the course desigming demons there's also a Robin section You can now ma ke each course dead easy s EMLYN HUGHES Collecting cash on the way wooden limbered houses, allows you to enter the next trees and olde shoppes where level and Iruit gives you a you can purchase items to help bonus. To help you stay one you in your quest. Oown on the ARCADE QUIZ step ahead of the Lose Bar there are friendly tiles, these Audiogenic other end. include clock stoppers which • C9.99/C14.99 The questions are multiple freeze the movement of the VAMPIRE choice and otter six themed screen for a short while and ased on trivia categories: Pop and Rock. bonus game tiles that allow Atlantis • £2.99 • machines in the pubs. Sport, Entertainment. Arts you to enter a special round ------Emtyn Hughes Arcade and literature. People and played against the clock. hat only one left? Qui/ objective is to Places and General Emlyn Hughes Arcade Quiz Yup, all the nasty Bcorrectly answer as many Knowledge Three answers has been awaited for quite a vampires of the world have been questions as possible and are ottered — guess right long time {it was previewed destroyed except (or one. who collect a lot ot dash Moving and you move to the next in issue 73). and I'm afraid insists on terrorising the trom left to right across a square, a wrong answer I'm disappointed. Movement inhabitants of Whitley Bay. scrolling maze of coloured moves the Lose bar closer to of your cursor is sluggish: There's only one way to do him tl.kAMJ id. tiles you win a round by ' you (it it catches up with you very often I found I had to in: drive a stake through his reaching the Win bar at the 1 it's end of game). bash the relevant control key heart with a silver hammer. 1(1(11)* several times to gain any Your job is to find these items non C'CC'CU Q|P|| A DflThis could have been such a good quiz response Graphically the and do the dirty deed. H i t * «'%« niwllHIlUgame if it wasn't for one incredibly game is good: at least the Whitley Bay Is a lovely little irritating element — the control keys are so unresponsive! It's Emlyn sprite is recognisable. seaside town, made up ol difficult to select a question tile, difficult to move your cursor But at the end of the day to the right answer... it really spoils it. Emlyn Hughes Arcade Quiz The cash and fruit bonuses are a fairly novel feature, and suffers the usual problem of working out how to grab the bonuses, cash and fruit whilst computer quiz games — keeping one step ahead of the Lose Bar is fun. Having so repetition of questions. much going for it, it's a shame Emlyn Hughes Arcade Quiz is MARK 70°b let down by just one (but major) fault. 64% CHMY RATING EQUAL RIGHTS A good looking qvii gome: The Hit Squad | well presented bvt let dowi by I • £2.99 • re-release slow control response FOR CHEAP This should keep all PRESENTATION aspiring Gazzas glued SOFTWARE! to their screens — it's GRAPHICS LiLSJ an all action soccer 1 simulation! A very playable TTW^FFISHKS? SOUND match featuring variable PLAYABIUTY strength volleys, lobs, budget softwor. the* wj/CRASH* no ^ backheels and ground shots £2.99 jpinnwt in. A. wrt^f d drioiU on th. ADDICTIVITY with special moves like 6udfl* knanio. Proving mow|ha ovefal| jumping headers, barging and aan»>, wo'ro «r« you II Nmrt 1h» wayi * 5n the odd foul thrown in tor good lor. box TU measure. th« ovoroll Kors bo* moon» »rt awt-p mirocUs of lochnology, * • ^^^ 68% The are plenty of options to U|f*|/ Twin World has all Ihe best bits ot arcade HlwW adventure games we've seen before. But does Ihis mean that it's the best yet? No way! The first thing that rv puis you off are Ihe graphics. They're all nicely drawn and detailed bul are, sadly, monochrome. I know I moan about this on almost every game (I hate it!), but Ihis is one ol the worst I've seen for ages. The programmer's choice ol colour doesn't help: red on a black backround is a terrible strain on | the eyes! Gameplay isn't loo bad: you wander around going through skulls and shooting al anything that moves with the three m weapon options you've gol. Twin World is lun for a short time but if your eyesight doesn t go first, boredom may soon set in. 67% example there's a section fun all the way! Not to be outdone thai hurry. Maldur has sent his where you have to land the NICK easily Ulopa Cariken, a minions out lo find Ihe pieces rocket on the planets, achieved young hero, set out to find ol the amulet by docking the rocket on a the pieces of Ihe amulet and Graphically Twin World is base at the bottom of the destroy the evil of Maldur. 23 very pretty, but as both the screen. It may be old hat but RATING 1 it's still great fun. horizontally scrolling levels background and moving of demon-packed action sprites are the same colour Superkid In Space is one you just have to have: intergalactic stand between our lad and it's often dillicull to spot the death of Maldur. attackers before they strike Equipped wilh three that fatal blow. Also. Ihe different types of weapons, graphical style can hide sea front you will also find a with animated characters take Ulopa through the important elements in the pirate ship with a vicious crew. doing all the moving around. perilous scenery defeating game — I reached one spot Small, colourful sprites There are tunes and sound and died several times make up the town's scenery effects too, to give that enemy agents as he meets finishing touch. them — but be careful: before I realised there was a The Last Vampire Is tun to ammo lor each weapon is bridge I had to cross (tool! play, but the amount of pirates, limited, although extra plus —Ed). Despite that, Twin seagulls and killer bats out to additional magic powers can World is a pleasant collect- get you makes it really difficult Ubi Soft be collected along the way. em-up lhat should prove to get anywhere. This is • C9.99/C14.99 • lllopa's adventure takes enjoyable lor arcade another excellent arcade him, by entering magical adventure fans, though adventure from Atlantis. All ong ago when the doors, into the depths ol the interest may not be sustained their releases have a similar people ofa peaceful earth and further, where it all lor loo long style, but with the varying and prosperous land, gets mighty dangerous! But MARK 78% story lines and gameptay called the Gaspards. they re all great value tor Lwere ruled by an old family money. endowed with magical NICK powers, called the Carikens. everything was line and dandy. Did it stay that way? RATING Not on your nelly! An evil wizard called Mafdur, along wilh his demonic hordes, swept across the land and m decimated it so quickly lhat the Carikens had no time lo use their magical amulet to choose trom to customise your the ultimate challenge... the protect the land. Maldur game. You can select the team Match Day league. grabbed the amulet and names, colours and formations Graphics are nice and big so smashed it into 23 pieces, as well as choosing to play in you can see what's going on, scattering it across the but the trouble Is the speed the countryside. game is played at: it's terribly slow, probably due to the number ol large sprites moving RATING at the same time. Still, it doesn't spoil the game when you're used to it and it's great tun trashing your opponents. Match Day //is one of Ihe best football games around tor 72% the Spectrum and an old favourite. 73% NICK <64% 73% RATING 70% ternx—JmLJ mmim m MA 45 CRASH SEPTEIMBER VIEWS collect 16 tins of Spam before progressing onto the next level. Creatures and oddities from the show, like the dead parrots, Eric the half bee, the minister for silly walks and the Spanish tnqufstion, are in Gumby's path and touching one drains his energy. Gameplay is varied throughout the tour levels — all offering something different. On the first level Gumby is a fish swimming around in the sewers shooting cheese to reveal Spam, and there's a bit of puzzling involved too: shooting fish down pipes occasionally makes Spam pop out another pipe. Level two and Gumby hops into a surreal landscape and gets on with a lot ot platform action, while avoiding exploding fingernails and the Virgin Games like. It's all very silly really, • C9.99/C14.99 • and it just gets worse (or Monty Python's better, depending on how you ong before the Turtles look at it). The last two levels hit the scene the cult involve Gumby being a bird thing was a nutty TV in the sky and then being show called Monty normal Gumby In a factory of LPython's Flying Circus. Some sorts. people thought It was I found Monty Python's brilliant and some thought It Flying Circus to be a was unmitigated tosh. But disappointment. I've been a nobody who watched It could big fan of the TV series and ever forget the six nutters the spin-off films for years, who created such classic but Ihe simplistic search and sketches as The Spanish collect content of the game is Inquisition (which is always ultimately tiresome. On the unexpected), The plus side the game is Lumberjack Song, How To graphically very pretty, the Identity Trees from Quite A Terry Gilliam-esque Long Way Away and a backdrops fit in nicely with personal favourite, The the weird and whacky Spam Song. But John Cleese characters. Playable in the and the team are nowhere to short term Monty Python's be seen In Virgin's game — Flying Circus is a game that the star is Mr DP Gumby, the will eventually find its way to dim witted cartoon character the back of the software who has literally lost his shelf. mind! MARK 74% Y'see his brain has splif into four parts and each has done a runner, which dashes 11 lhe l0 awal,ed Mon( M IP If * "9 y Python s Flying Gumby's hopes of becoming IllOW Circus, complete with dead parrots. Spam and a a chartered accountant. Until RATING variety of mad characters. I was expecting much more trom the rogue grey matler can be the game of one of the best comedy shows ever What the oc a difficult recaptured, that is. on computer programmers have done is lake the cartoon style from the The comedy starts the Monty shows and make a shoo! 'em up game out of II. You minute the game has loaded walk and swim around the levels shooting characters from — the protection system is Monty Python sketches and collecting tins ot Spam. called a Cheeselock The characters are just what you'd expect from Monty (referring to an awful Python, mad parking signs(l) and a host of weird creatures protection system of years from Terry Gilliam's animations. If ail this isn't weird enough ago called Lenslock). You for you then try getting through the Cheeselock protection have to identify two types ot system at the beginning of the 3ame and adapting to having cheese before Gumby can your score going down from 99999999 instead of up! While start his four level quest. graphically very good the constant shooting gameptay is not Armed with an unlimited enough to keep you interested for long. Sad. supply of explosive fish, the 76% aim on each level is to 46 • CRASH SEPTEMBER - - 1 Uk* tW Pi mi 44JUU1 TIME OO 17 SLAP FIGHT The Hit Squad the same throughout. • £2.99 • re-release Sounds are few and when you do hear something it isn't I era s an old shoot- worth the wait, just a couple ol | mM 'em-up that uses the puny effects when you fire or build up on your get shot and no tune on the I weaponry' method of title screen. p ay. Shoot the oncoming alien A very run of the mill shoot- swarms and collect the bonus 'em-up: the gameplay has stars that appear after an been copied so many times in enemy ship has been other games you wonder why destroyed — these supply such they keep producing theml glorious things as lasers, Thumbs down. shields and a side shot! NICK Dynamite Designs punches your head inl Slap Fighfz real problem is • £2.99 • However, It does have afew too much detail in the redeeming features: the wiy background — Intricate and he boxing game that is the game flips to an aerial the same colour as the fighter utterly realistic! Well, view of the ring and waits lor t o DOUH itself — which makes playing RATING) that's what the inlay the knocked out player to »el he 0 3»D ii • i unenjoyable as you can't see says. It claims you can up is good, as Is the section what's going on. A bit of watch the cuts and bruises where you work out to get rid Zeppelin Games animation would have helped • OVERW Q appear on your opponent's face of some of your damage. • £2.99 • but each sprite stays exactly as you punch away at him: Unfortunately the infuriating truth is. if you did that you'd way the main game is played ut) Hut! It's American Men d up knocked out on the Is enough to put me off. Football time. So get .. rfl floor! Realistic, but definitely not out all your helmets, i' shoulder pads and Hboots, and don't lorget to stuff a rolled-up pair of socks down your pants! Fantastic American Football^uite a modest name really) is really good. It has all the options and moves of the real game with the added attraction ol not getting your skull smashed in. Choose from 26 different teams in the NFL and play through a 16 week session of games to eventually win the ultimate in American Football prizes, touching down at the Superbowl! The game allows you to do all the different moves including punt, lieldgoal, blitz and rush, with a graphical selection of directions when it comes to passing. aley Thompson's Graphics are hardly fantastic Super Test includes all but do their job well. The small the favourite sporting players are well animated and events to try your hand D(or joystick) at. Featuring whilst they clash with the pitch it doesn't spoil the game. The pistol shooting, cycling, spring only sound you get out of the board diving, giant slalom, computer is a hiss when the rowing, penalties, ski jump crowd cheers and the odd and even a tug-o'-war, there's effect when a player kicks the bound to be something to tickle ball, but no tune on the title your fancy. screen. Graphically, it's good, with All fans of the sport will plenty of neat animation and probably love this and get lots of colour; it's also superbly hours ol enjoyment. A good presented. With controls simulation of a fast and frantic changing from event to event, sport. a thorough reading of the NICK instructions is a must to get anywhere. My personal favourite event is therowing — except I always thought oars were for RATING splashing people in other boats with, not rowing! Brilliant! « WA NICK CRASH SEPTEMBERI in the six roughtest, toughest neighbourhoods ot New York City. As the next strongest fighter it's up to you to thwart the demon's evil actions and eliminate his stormtroopers. As soon as you begin, Ihugs wearing Friday The 13th fright masks are all to keen to knock seven bells out of you. But you don't wear Ocean those espadrillas for show — fruit machine simulator 1 • E9.99/E14.99 • The Shadow Warriors are an a range of combat moves a delay between you pressing elite troop of fighters skilled are at your disposal including Code Masters a key on the keyboard and the rom the Tecmo coin-op in the ancient martial art of The Phoenix Backllip, • £2.99 • computer registering it. This Shadow Warriors Ninjitsu. But the greatest Tightrope Technique and The makes it very difficult when it bursts forth in an all Shadow Warrior's powers Flying Neck Throw. ring a fruit machine comes to the repeat function or kicking, all punching have been possessed by a Objects fitter the piayiing gambling, whatever you press into your home! The Fmartial aris extravaganza! demon, and is causing havoc area and by flinging youir It goes on to Ihe next icon! differences between assailants at them they this and Fruit Machine Graphics are bright and explode and reveal handy Simulator are the added cheerful but each screen looks SCORt H\~SC0Kt B too cluttered. You simply can't OOOOQ ooooo objects. These include extra features to the program {it you can find them). This game tell what the hell is going on lives, a sword, extra entergy gives you just about every hall the time, it all happens so and icons lo freeze timet. feature found on today's top fast. Yes. your old mate tiime is machines, plus some of the old Fruit Machine Simulator 2 against you as you rush to favourites that keep you has nothing much more to offer complete a section ot each coming back for more. than it's predecessor: if you level, and hurry is Ihe mame The added attraction of this bought the first don't bother, if of the game: time is shoirl [ upv: ' i 11 , i i, K . over a real machine is that you you didn't then it may be worlh indeed. never get into trouble for a look in. ? fell I •ii i i I /fri VK At Ihe end of level once a spending ail your cash! This NICK fat Sumo wrestler has too be •Hi v looks exactly the same as the 'I i.iiLLy defeated before continuiing first Fruit Machine Simulator, t VU4 m m on your quest for truth, can't remember exactly what 1 RATING 1 tttt rjj justice and Ihe chance Mo kick features that has on it so r a few heads in. perhaps they've just added one / There seem to be fewv or two. The big joke about the B^rilm** .JISmL game is that there seems to be colourful Speccy gamess L around these days, but)you SCOWE tU-SCORE didn't have to go Ihislanrto tM\ OO 1 oo oo too compensate, guys. The t glare from the screen has to bbe seen to be believed, sunn specs ahoy! The main Mastertronic Plus isn't bad with objects getting character is well drawn i and • £2.99 • bigger as they move down the screen. Colour is (wait for it) animated, but everything is It | IH I i «•>• I • • I so garishly coloured. Ahfter Oapable of 0-680 in 5.6 glorious monochrome with a i t I I Ml| Ill l III! Sly Spy-Secret Agent an nd seconds and with a different colour for each level, • * M I • » * » I * • Midnight Resistance, maximum speed of and just for tuck there's the : 1346 mph, the Foourd compulsory end of level big Shadow Warriors is. to i me. a racing machine is real monster to be destroyed. bit of a let down. Unlikee Nick mean! This revolutionary You can increase you m $ € 5 Si 5 I'm tired of these Ninja i style transportation system has weaponry by collecting the games and it would tak&e everything you could wish tor pods that arrive when an alien 9W • > $ something pretty speciaial to (except the kitchen sink!), but swarm is destroyed, but then lire my interest. . you've driven it into the alien this style ot play has been PL „ gd&ik^wmti MARK < 70% part of town. These aliens are used over and over again. The a mite jealous ol your new simplistic gameplay and lack purchase and will do anything of variety will soon have you ||k||P|f Yeah. Ninja games, doncha just love em?! to ruin it. You must now tight reaching for the off switch. illOI\ Shadow Warriors is no exception with level after RATING off the swarms of alien beings NICK level of scrolling nlnja fun. One thing that does make this and dodge their fire if you're spree stand out from the crowd is the excellent use ol colour. going to make it home in time It's been cleverly programmed so there's no clash, even for teat RATING though the screen is packed full ol all Ihe colours on the T-Bird is a 3-D style shoot- Speccy! The game itself holds no surprises. There's nothing 7 70% 'em-up. Aliens and objects on we haven't seen before. Alt you have to do is kill the baddies the ground fty towards you at [on the level and progress through to meet the Mr Big whom 7 73% great speed. The 3-D effect you must splat to go on. Elements of the game are frustrating, E1 6 67% especially in combat: you have lo get your punch in first or the baddy will start hitting you and there is no way to slop him. 7 70% except dying ol course. The game does improve a little when you start collecting weapons to batter your enemies with As a 771%" conversion ot the arcade machine. 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