illLY 1990 - ISSUE 14
e ALL THE LATEST NEWS FOR THE PC ENGINE MEGA DRIVE, AND OTHER CONSOLES.
e HARDWARE NEWS OFFICIAL MEGADRIVE LAUNCHED IN EUROPE MORE ON THE COMM. UNIT /.-., -_-r ....-!_.:,/- _ ' ., . ,:, ' THE ULTIMATE l.. ,,,,.. f ,; ·11 _-; SHOOT'EM UP : i SUPER STAR SOLDIER? _-;E THUNDERFORCE Ill? : ~ ..., / .~,,-: ·.··.: ....-;:, NEC'S CD-ROM - WHAT'S AVAILABLE AND WHAT DO THE
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.... AND BEST OF ALL NO / FOOTBALL, WORLD CUP FOOTBALL,FOOTBALL, 'LOOK BEHIND YOU SHILTON! FOOTBALL, THAT'S A DIVE REF! l FOOTBALL, AND FOOTBALL.!!!! • CONSOLB MA 'ZINE : Editorial/ Hardware news [[)ITODIAL HARDWAHBNBWS , Latest news on the official Sega Megadrlve Is, they won't be that much of a difference from the grey Imported ones. Hija doodsl 1 H Is expected, they wlll be Ike the differences between the Japanese Megadrlve and American Genesis, so It would Uke Damocles, It's laie coming, but here's the July be possibleto use officlal cartridges on your Megadrlve by Issue of C.M. It's also baking hot outside and I'm cooped slight alterations to the machine Itself or carts. The up In my room typing this out - even with the windows machine has been offlclally launched In Europe, but wlll wide open, I feel like a Bemard Matthews' Turkey RoasL not be released in the UK until September at CES show at Anyway, I've at last got my •20-Card• for my Amiga - Earl's Court. According to 'ACE', the machine will retail for Yeepll Does the arnlga fly or what? WeU, more like 'What' £189,99 and come with Altered Beast, and games will as the thing hardly works with games, but atlease it range between £29.99 and £39.99, with the power base speeds Pagestrearn up. If any techle buffs out there who adaptor (8-bit converter) for £39.99. It's expected that, a knows a way to switch between the 68000 chip and the minimum of two games a month will be released. So, all In 68020 board, please give me a belll Can't wait to get the all; In my and everyone else's opinion, It's seem a better MacIntosh Emulator, even If the screen a bit Iffy, It should deal to buy a GREY Imported megadrtve than the official be worthIt. Anyway, I must Introduce a few new guys who onesl For example, If you look at PC Engine Suppliers' ad wlll be helping me put the 'zine together. First, there's vert, you can pick up a PAL Megadrive with lWO games Marc Foord from Mlddx. whose an avid Megadrive fan, for £185 Inc. P+P Ill Unfortunately, the launch of the official and will be reviewing future MD games. Another MD PC Engine seems unlikely, due to 'poor' sales of the onwer, Is Jeremy Young from Bristol, whose also fairly TG-16 In the US. 8000011 to NECII Commodore will also mean with a joystick. And Ricki Kenny who's an engine be releasing their console the 'CUB' In September, a C64 freak, and a wiz on the Apple Mac. as you can see from cartridge machine, and word Is, another mystery machine his review of Download In this Issue - he's also putting will be launched too -very possibly one from Amstrad? together the eds. So, welcomell Oh yeah, any extra donations wDI be accepted ... but none of those new Sp'sll ENGINECOMMUNICATION MODEM More lnfonnatlon on the Communication modem add-on ... Onn. for the Engine (see last Issue), Is that, it will be possible to contact a software library and play a game you want, CREDITS through the device H you want to try a game out, can't af BditOI' /Art Editor - ford to buy It, or whatever. Extremely handy, If you live OonLce some distance away from a console supplier. This sure Staff W ritcnJRcmr:,n:n- would solve problems ff It was avallable here Ill Talking of Justin SauBdcn, Tai Ono, Marc Foord.Ricki Keony. Jeremy Y. which, the first games that have been programmed on the Games A: News Sapplii:n - unit is a version of 'snake', 2 player Tron light cydes game Taoyoahi Yamaahiki(Japan), PC Engine Suppliea. Andy of AJ Compaten. Svpcrviaioo mectronica, •••phla various maguioea .... (C) and Battle Shipsll All look extremely basic, but what can Moothly PC Bngioe. (C) Beep! Mepdrive. (C) Muubtm PC Engine. you expect. These are probably the stuff the Japanese can (C) PC Bngioe Pan, Mepdrive Pan. (C) New Ccmpuk:r&pea ..... expected when NEC put up a free bulletin board for the PC Photocapyio.g- Engine in the autumn. enm-u. Stationary(N-xtinghall\) ANDYOUIII GAMEGE.AR SOFTWARE? A couple of months a go, we mentioned and showed pic To subscribe to C.M - each issue will cost £1 - this will tures of Saga's portable machine, the Game Gear, but cover cost of the Fanzine, envelope and first class stamp. what games can you expect for the machine. First up, as As soonas the latest Issue is finished, it will be sent to you most wot•ld have seen Is Super Monaco GP ... yep I I faster than a Ferrari after someone his plugged his Lynx in doesn't look anything like It, more like PQ.le P~sition. but to the cfgarette lighter socket. You can send any amount that's what It's called. I suppose Sega havel'T't produced of money - £2.00 for the next two issues, or £5.00 for the many racing games that would flt the game . The game next five ... and so on. have 16 different circuits, and have options to practice and If you want to get each Issue as they become avail actually race In a grand prlx.For cute games, one of the able, you can stiOsend a large S.A.E. plus 70p for the fan first, Is PENGO, and It will be one title that will appear for zine. NOTE:If sending cash, namely coins, please wrap the game-gear. If you never seen this game before, then them up and tape to a piece of card. I can not be held you are too ruddy young for your own good, and Involves responsible for coins going missing In the post by them you controlling a fat penguin who must crush all the crea ripping the envelope. A number of people are doing this, tures by sliding Ice blocks around. Sega's puzzle game and when I get letter, find the envelope rtpped, and no Columns wHIalso be converted for the machine and should money Inside! be a real hit, as there's nothing better than a puzzle game Please make ancheques/P.O.'s payable to 'Onn Lee'. on a hand-held machine .•.. the gameboy have Tetris plus numerous others, Lynx has Klax, and when the Turbo Ex"' To contact C.M. send letters, etc. to : pt'ess hits town, it'll have also quite a few too Including Klax, Sokoban, Beball, etc.. Versions of Space Harrier II, Orm Lee (C.M.) Super Shinobl are expected to be converted too, and very 125 ArnoldRoad possibly saga's best race game, Outrun. Segaalso plan to Bestwood Estate convert G-LOC for the machine, but judging Super Monaco Nottingham GP, It could tum out to be totally dlfferentll Apart from NG55HR Sega, third party producers, namely NCS wlll also be writ Tel: 0602-606442 (not before12 noon as I'll be in bedll) Ing games for the machine, and their first wlll be a boring old war game - surely It'll be rather dlfflcult to see all that Japanese text?
Tlda -- ia IO big. dull I had to leave • amber of dlillp Olll, IO uved for lhe aeu iuN ..• -ly rniewa of MD Hmrlcaa. B-SWAT. Engine Raacaa n. ---So. get 1be next iaue .... II 2- CONSOLE MA 'ZINE : Sort ware News - --·· ~ ~ four way clagonal. Clnemaware's TV Sports Football. JLWf!:~c:::u,i;;;,cicQl,L->,~~~-- Fans of Capcom's Strider wlll be More from NCS will be an arcade glad to hear, the game will be con action game featuring a girl with a Just when you think that the Megadrlve verted to the Megadrlve by Sega, and sword for the MD In a similar style of wll die becauseof the lack of software wlll be on &neg Cart - meaning more game to Telenet's Valls II on the En - for It, along comes a string of titles doshll Do you think Sega are copying gine. Look's brilliant - no release dates planned for the machine. They must NEC Avenue? However, the game Is again. What about 30 polygon games have readmy last IssueII not expected to appear until October, like all those available for the 16-blt Augustwill be the month for Ras although It's looking extremely good. computers? Well, from NCS, will be Jan II - Talto's coin-op slash and hack So you have time to save up for It. Star Cruiser - a game which has al game. Screen shots of the game look Talking of Avenue, their best game to ready appeared on the Sharp X68000 superbalthough colours are a bit bland date Is Super Darius for the Engine, machine. The game looks to be a cross - I'm sure those Japs only have and MD owners will be able to go fish between Start Glider II and Elite, as Megadrivesconnected through their TV Ing too soon as Talto are to convert - you are put In the pilot seat of your aerial sockets and not RGB. If you not the original, but the sequel Darius ship, where you can fly from planet to have an engine and megadrlve, then I II or Salgal. This, as you know, Is the planet, fly down and skim the surface, can't say which looks better - both are two screen coin-op version with new shoot down enemy crafts, so a few brilliant... although the MD version has end of level bosses. Unfortunately, no wheeling and dealing, repairs, and of more chance of a two player option, release dates, or screen shots, but course, with a game of this sort - save unlike the Engine's single player. Talto are quite a reliable company so your position too - meaning the The strangest and most surprising It's should be longl Unlike Avenuell cartridge wlll have a battery backed release 'was' Saga's Columns ... which More from Sega, wlll be an up screen ram - meaning bumping up the price. If Is already available as you read this - arcade adventure In the same line as Fantasy Star cost around sixty pounds, out on 30th June on a tiny 1 meg Time Soldiers, commando etc .. Like then you can expect Star Cruiser to Cartridge. Columns Is similar lo T etris - lime Soldiers, you move up screen at cost the same. Game looks very Im or H you've played Colouris, Is like that. tacked by all manner of people and pressive. NCS has another arcade . If you haven't played Colouris, here's creatures, through the usual greenery puzzle adventure ... the title I haven't a I what Columns Is about. Like Tetris, with bridges, buildings etc. and must clue - but you control a little fellow on a there's a long cylinder In the middle of find the 'EXlr to the next level. The maze of tiles viewed from above. As far the screen, but Instead of different game will have a two player option as I can gather, the game requires you shaped blocks falling down, you get a and out some time in September. to jump on the tiles to change their vertical row of three coloured crystals. Also planned for September will colours like Q-Bert or Flip Flop ... but of eg. from top to bottom - Red, Green be a Konaml puzzle game called Jun course, you're hampered by all manner and Blue. You can move the row of cyion. The game Is really a version of of nasties and traps. crystals left and right as In Tetrls and Blodla In 30 Isometric view. See Another surprise Saga shoot'em cycle the colours. So Red, green, blue Blodlarevlewfor engine several Issues up In the works, will be Toa Plan's becomes blue, red, green, then green, a go for game play. other up-screen 1942 like blaster. This blue red. You must manouvre the crys All you waiting for lnsector-X will one Is more like a cross between tals so you can get three of the same have to wait until September, and Flying Shark and Tatsujln, as you con colours horizontally, vertically or dia what about Atomic Robo Kid? Put trol a bl-plane with some Impressive gonally, where they will disappear, and back again to October. They must devastating weapons. But, after Hur any crystals on them will be dropped have seen the Engine version and rlcaln (Fighting Hawk or what ever It's down - thus you can produce multi needed more time to better It... we called) Is there a need for another? chain reactions just like Klax. Like ar hopell The, what looks like the follow up cade Tetris and Klax, you can play a July will see Batman, and it looks to Heavy Unit - Air Busters from single game, two player, match play, well smart ... and should be a sure fire Kaneko, wm also be Immortalised on to etc. hit, like Super Shlnobi. Also for a _July the Megadrlve. The main difference Michael Jackon's Moon Walker will release will be Cyberball - Amencan fror,1 Heavy Unit Is thatt thq.gam~•s be out sometime in August, and It's as Football in the 21st Century. Having duak play, and Impressive fast scroll wierd as the Movie... ermm ... correction, played the game on the Amiga, I have ing, so fast it sends you boz-eyed, and Video. Any of you who have played the to say It's good, but not as good as you stay as a ship. Shooting selected coin-op version, will be fairly dissap nasties and lettered Icons will be left pointed to hear, It's not a direct conver behind giving you either Power ups, sion, but instead, viewed from side on - side pods, shields, homing missiles, In my opinion, another Sega mlstakell rear fire, and a rotating firing satellite. Anyway,the plot's the same Jacko is Good game, but not a great dif after Mr. Big, and can jump, attack and ference ... level four being Incredibly dif use magic. The M.W. looks like a ficult on the coin-op. lncidentaJly, if you Super Shlnobi type game, but really are wondering about Kaneko - they wacko as Jacko moonwalks, struts his seem to be a big Japanese company stuff, and when magic Is used ... dances 1 ' who write for other companies - DJ Boy In formation with the baddies - when r for Sega, Air Busters for Namco, and over - they drop dead (this even In Super Star Soldler for Hudson Soft. cludes dogsll), etc .. However, like the op-coin, the music Is there as you'd ex pect Including his hit songs Smooth Criminal, Beat ltl, Thriller, Billie Jean and BAD. Another August release on 31st will see Hellfire from NCS, Toaplan's coin-op shoot'em up. Can't say much about this - horizontal blaster against numerous and some extra big aliens, and the ability to fire four direction - for- .., u.nwt 'OHi SAVEIE u.11i1AN• • wards, backwards, Up and down, and .., MOONWAU
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CONSOLE MA 'ZINE ~ .$Wil rot,F)I~ to stay between them. With a lot of a picture of a girl who will give you a by HodaooSoft:-4meg Card dodging In and out, It's fairly easy to password, so you can start here at a PC Bugioe - Reviewedby Onn Lee kill ... especially with fun power. Infect, later date. As you'd expect, the higher S.S.S. is 'quite' easy with full fire the level, the more difficult the puzz.les As you know this Is the sequel to power, but when you have sod all, you get with content use of moving lifts to GunHed (I think, anyway), by the looks can alomst forget It - as the game Is add more problems - carting tiles up of it, It's very similar. But can S.S.S. Im rock hard. and down. prove on the old formular? Later stage have you flying over a As well as the normal game, The Nao-Caesar Is the new model desert like in Dragon Spirit, across a there's also a game where you have to fighter, improving Caesar, which saved flaming planet, fighting against a giant match up titles according to the com the earth from it's crisis four years a go. scorpion with a rather nasty sting at puter's requests, eg. get two in a row, Neo-Caesar Is equipped with much the end of his tall, attacked by super three In a row, 4 tile box, etc .. more destructive weapons than long millipedes and gradius like However, this is too difficult to achieve Caesar. It's mission Is to defend the snakes, fly through crystal space , and in my opinion and with tiles constantly peace of mankind against the invasion battle a super large robot. falling In to the maze, lt gets nigh Im of Mother Brain. All In all, Super Star Soldier Is one possible - that's also timed tool On Inserting the game card, you hell of a game, but it's not as good as The graphics are above average are shown mono pictures of Caesar's GunHed, although it seems a lot and varied from level to level although last battles, and then the title screen. tougher at first. I have to admit, I have some titles are hard to tell from others Pressing Select will let you choose a yet to complete It, but got close - quickly. Sound is jolly and fit well with Normal game or 2mln/5mlns games reaching the 8th and last Boss ship the game. As mentioned before, It's ex and Scores. Hit run for a nof!Tlal game, which Is super difficult. The main tremely addictive and mind boggling. and you'll see your ship rfp up screen trouble Is, your weaponary Isn't that One of those games that you sit up for just llke the original Gunhed ... where powerful, and once you've died, you all night and say ·r11go to bed after I've the scrolling back drop will slow down don't stand much of a chance. Also, suss this one our for however many to a steady rate. Select will change should you die after stage one, It's times. The only gripe I have about the your speed, and button II fires your straight back to the beginning of the game Is that, tiles have a tendancy to guns. However, no bombs are avail level In most accountsll I do recom not move when you want them to - able to you, as button I revolve your mend S.S.S. even If it doesn't have which Is extremely frustrating as the side option shields, ff you collect them. that awesome feeling of power as in timer ticks down and you're waiting for As you start - several formations of GunHed, as it's extremely playable. the lift to return I enemy craft swirl down on you. The On difficulty, I rate it about the same first batch are easy to hit. but the next as GunHed, although once equipped Graphics - 85% are right buggers as they are hard to hit with full weapons, It's a little easier Sound - 85% and throw out a shower of bullets. But especially the bosses. Playability - 85% help Is a hand In the form of colourful V.F.M. - 75% ships, which once shot.will drtft down a Graphics - 93% coloured Icon. Red will give you stan- Sound -85% Overall - 80% • dard bullets like the original weapon on Playability - 90% GunHed, Yellow will give you short V.F.M. -85% range but powerful flame thrower, Blue - weak space harrier II like rings, and Overall -90% Green -Tatsujin-like streaking lasers. ~ r;(61jjfjli5X5) The more you collect, the more power Well~ after the lack of compos in the pass issues, here one for all engine ful they become. However - they don't mt§§We get as powerful as GunHed ! don't owners out there (or other console . by Taito - 2.meg users for that matter) - thanx to PC think, and once you reach maximum PC Engine - Reviewed by Onn Lee power, collecting the same Icon will ac ENGINE SUPPLIES fa.the pfiie tivate your super bomb ... very handy I There are puzzle games and there are games, we have two games for you to Additional weapons are limited to just puzzle games - and latest one from win - 1. Hudson's alternative Maniac two, the 'O' side shields, and 'M' Talto Is a real corker - certainly the Pro Wrestling, and 2. Victor's big red Homing missiles. Like GunHed, things most addictive and infuriating game robot game Veigues. So how do you start getting harder as you go on, with slnceTetris. win either of these? All you have to do laser firing robots, missile silos, gun The game has 100 levels, with is answer the following questions, the enplacements, etc. All the graphics are four puzzles per level. The object of answers of which start with a letter first class with metallic structure and the game Is real simple and requires from the word WRESTLING'. wonderful animated colourful sprites, you to clear all the title (coins, objects) accompanied by a real foot tapping from the up right maze. The layout of 1. Engine's answer to Wimbledon. tune and good sound effects, but alas each maze and the objects in it are al 2. The shoot'em up that made the no speech - I suppose you can shout It ways the same, and to rid the tiles Engine, converted by Hudson. out yourself - •RtNG LASERU-, "TAT you must move them next to each 3. A MD game ... subtitled Cyber Police SUJIN LASERU-, •£$1{& CRAPPY other, so they dissappear. You can 4. Saga's 30 shoot'em up through FLAME THROWERtt•. Reach halfway only move a tile horizontally left or Fantasy Zone. of stage one and you'll be enclosed In right, or push them off the edge so 5. The Cd-Rom masters of Valis fame a ring of spheres which spins and they fall down. This is hard enough, 6. Victor's Rip-off Rastan Saga. throws In a bubble, stay alive and get a but when It comes to getting rid of odd 7. The original R-Type Producers number of shots In, and lt11blow up, so number of tiles, you must try to move 8. More from the above company - you can continue to the end where them, so that 3 dissappear together - a their fourth game for the engine. you'll meet the big boss mothershlp. dlfflcult task, as once two of the same 9. Namco's improved version of an Anyone who has played Gradius Ill will tile are next to each other, they both aging shoot'em up, where the US see where they have nicked this one disappear. Also, you have to watch the version had to change the year on from. This mother can only be shot In timer, as each puzzle must be com the title. the center, but sends out dual bars pleted In a set time limit, so speed of down the screen with bouncing lasers mind and of the hand is required. between them, so It's not a good Idea After four puzzles, you are shown ,o '«z,::, •·--- robots. You will do-blfitl&in van ·}.... .· ::. ·:.: ·.·.: . :/,'.,.'-N<:~<:>~.{-,,">:•.: .}/'. s of weapon locations such ·.~~: ov~rif•,_ - ,., __- " ain and the -• -- \veijpon. 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Sound Test Mode @E.)l.:3gcJ}ffi W?C:Jr CJIAJ!X STAGE SELECT : 3 When the words are moving about on the screen, press 'DOWN' 4 times. When the screen stops moving, and you get a triangle indicator, press UP, Left, Down, Right Play the Computer then Run. 4 SAMPLEPLAYDATAMODE : G)8 B Q(-0_ 8 -08 As before, when the woros are moving about on the screen, press 'I" then 'II'. When the words stop and you get Play a friend (foe?) a triangle indicator press 'II', 'II', 'I' and RUN. 5 If you tum into 'Windzort' (the guy who can fly) and fly high, you'll find lots of -1 ups-. 0 0@0CD86) 9 Play 2 against the computer The stage 2 boss is easy if you fight him kneeling down. 6
Switch on, and press Run to get a stable title screen. Then press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, 2 people against one person 'II', 'I', then Run. Then you'll get' TURBO SHOT ACTIVE'
~)1(b)N B ~19 "? 9(! CPfC(NC: • When it's Gam~er, and you hear the music, press 2 people against 2 the select button 10 times. You'll get 10 credits. 8 I~ ft'-t~ff __;(~)0 ~I(-'\ On the stage 1 boss, use the brownwalls as a shield ,_..., \.:.SJ~ - - \..:,.,'-- and get him. Japan vs Italy finals ( you control Japan II)
9 JP)j:(eyj;) WX<:~~@'ji@O));,~ 9C C:NaJNC \nc\den\a\\'I - \\ an..,one nas \\\\s c;\ame, no"" about do\nc;\ ~(i) 0 (t=Y}~,8(~r~J a te'f\ew o\ \he c;\ame\or us'l ... Onn Italy vs Brazil, finals On the title screen, press the select button 16 times then press run to reveal a stage select mode. 10 C%®(m_Q. Gif±') On the title screen press ' I' + Run - 'II' + Run, rapadily. See the ending sequence
During Hatt time, change the channels and the newsreporter ~)9C c;pcarNc; and the weather forecaster turn in to an alligator or wear Enter the password 'MICKY' to start on the 250th nothing but a Biikini. Stay on the TV bit for long enough, and stage. the referee appear, gives you some lip, and switches off the TVIIII
,;\£\'ij(,t~~~B ,e CNatNC: One way to score an easy goal if you can dribble pass On the area 1 Boss, go to the lower left comer as it's a players is to send the goal keeper with the ball to score. safety spot. Then just fire at it's tall When he reaches the box, the opponent's keeper won't tackle you, so you can just run In to the goal and kick it in. Area 2 boss, bit br1owthe middle, on the right a bit.
L 13 I CONSOLE MA 'ZINE t\p'}\ SOFIWARE BEYIBWS· ....mara. ta.c.h s1fslm'>M by Victor Musical Ind. - PC Engine The following tips/cheats were sent in by Mr . W.Pang of Surrey. Reviewed by Onn Lee
Latest game from Victor is Veigues - an arcade adventure PRO WRF$TI,ING- pc fNOIN!7 shoot'em up which features a large red robot. The game is viewed side on, and scrolls right to left. Like most games, For slow motion, press Select then keep pressing button I. Veigues must travel through each level, get to the end and blow up a nasty mechanical drone. As you move from left To activate secret move, grab opponent then press both to right, an assortment of futuristic ships, hovercrafts, flying buttons and push a certain direction depending the position missiles, etc. attack your robot. and what player. Veigues however have a number of armourments at his disposal. Attached to his right arm is a super mean After completing title, watch finishing and wait for instructions machine gun, his _left arm has a power blaster, and breast on the bottom to appear for second title . If is press right plate - a concealed directional but weak machine gun . With once, left 5 times, down twice and up once with button I all this weaponary, you'd expect life to be easy, but pressed all the time. Veigues is let down by it's control method and size. Your red 'bot is so large, you just get bombarded by the enemy. To watch wrestling, select 1 P v 2P. then press button II and Although you can move/face left/right and jump, there isn't Up, then press button I. enough overall control making the game less playable as your robot is too clumsy. Velgues however has a shield - which can take around 50 shots before parts drop off 11?1 TATSlJNOCOFIGHTER - PC EHOIHE First his head goes, then his anns and lastly he blows upl Reaching end of a level and the scrolling stops and a In the game, collect "P" to extend energy and when you die, drone appears which hover In the air throwing out bullets you will still have the same amount as when you died. and lasers, and require a large number of shots to destroy - difficult as dodging the flak takes some doing. Complete a level, and points are added up, additional weapons NEWZEALAND STORY - PC ENGINE gained and extra power given like In Psycho Chaser which There is a warp on 1-1. While on the kiwi screen, goto top you can add to certain parts of your 'bot. Graphics are real ace, with big colourful and detail left platform and jump and shoot until warp appears. It sprites, not to mention the backdrops, but this is one game . should take you to 1-4. When warped to 1-4, get out of water and go to far left, jump up to the top and shoot the wall. This that size is at It's disadvantage. Sound is good as you'd expect from a music company, especially the title theme, warp should take you to 2-4. but on the playability stakes, I found Veigues rather frustrating to play because of the awkward controls. It's one of those games that if you closed your eyes, hold . ORDVNE- PC ENGINE down the fire button, and kept jumping, you'll probably To get a higher score, on level 5 nastie, make sure you have have more success .... well, probably not, but close! stock-bomber and position yourself middle-left and shoot the However, Veigues in not that bad, it's possible to dodge eggs. To continue on the same spot you died, press button I most of the bullets and shoot down most of the bad guys, and run before the player dissappear off the screen. but it so tough, it just not worth the bother, and after a few goes, It's not a game "I'd" want to play again in a hurry. VAKSA- PCEHOIIE Definitely a "try before you buy game• - some of you might like it?I Select continue on option and enter "AKISH - INOSAN" for invincibility. Graphics - 85% .... Sound - 80% GUNHED- pc ENGINE Playability - 65% V.F.M. -65% You can play area O by going in to sound test, play sound 77, then press Run and reset then run again. And press Overall _ 70% Select and Run (I thinkl?)
Thanks Mr. Pang for the above tips. • The following tips are from an American mag, Video Games and Computer Entertainment for the Genesis . I don't know if it worts for the Megadrive version. I
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I'm not going to sale with Japanese converter and over tell you what It is as that would spoil it. The continue mode: To continue, hold £500 worth of games, including all the I haven't got a highscore as my mate's down 'I' then press Run. ~· mario bros. - 1,2 and the Japanese 3, batteries ran out before I could note itl and the Japanese Contra & Wonderboy. I want £200 or very near • And from Richard Gibbs - Chips Golden Axe (Engine - CD) offer. All In excellent condition. Willing Challenge on the Lynx:- to exchange for Sega Megadrive and On stage 2, on the big trees, get the few games. Also, I have the games Enter M.A.N.D. on the password Dwarf to do a backwards rolling attack, Yaksa, City Hunter, Genpetomaden, screen et the beginning of the game to go on top of the trees (positioning and Digital Champ to swop for others. and you will enter the Mendlebrot 30 may be a bit tricky). 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Kemp who ha& &tarted a niffy fanzine Invincible mode: On the stage select called the 'Arcade Pier' which deal& mode, hold 'I' then press Run. WIii swop both Altered Beast and with an auortment of video game& To see the ending: On the stage select Drunken Master for GunHed or Splatter from con&ole&. computer&. arcade mode, hold 'I', 'II' Select, then press House. Replies to Chris Norris on 061 coin-op&, and other &turr . The 20 Run. 740 0607. page 'zine i& jammed packed with Item& with a number of 'Viz' type To get 4 screens at once: On the title, PC Engine games to sell/swap: funnie& thrown in. But. not only i& It hold down 'II', then reset (select run). Vigilante, PC Kid, PowerDrlft, Knight one hell of a 'zlne (not a& good a& For a faster game on the title, hold 'I', Rider, P47, Bloody Wolf, Ninja C.M. ofcour&e .. hahaha11) all proceed& 'II', then reset (select Run) the game. Warriors, Cyber Cross, Blue Brink, go lo CANCrn OESEAOCH . which l& Digital Champ. 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I If you are the ones, or know the I m_o~e trouble come ~n th~ for_m, of On Sting Ray, stick to the top of the• following please get in touch: • NinJas on poles and Jumping mnJas screen, so your 'Giant Cutter' is cutting I ' that throw deadly stars at you, plus in !o the ceiling, then Bomb It's weakj Cheque name: MS.A.J.COCKBAINE. difficult b!okes with bip hats and cloaks points. . Co-operative Bank P.LC., 84/86 West that require several htts to down. Once I Street Sheffield. S1 3SX. you reach the end of stage one, you'll Dodge Ball (Engine) · ' have to deal with rows of jumping . . . . ! Cheque name: Mr. D.J.WAPLINGTON ninjas and lastly the giant boss with To choose th?,t1me hm1t: 0~ the t1tle1 National Westminster Bank PLC. three heads and pairs of arms, that scr~en, press I as the following : • Hyson Green Branch, 105 Radford drop explosions .... although he's fairly 14 times _3:30 I Road, Hyson Green, Nottingham. NG7 easy to kill. Later levels includes 15 times 3:00 j SOY. climbing a rock face packed to the 16 times 2:30 , teeth with bomb throwing ninjas and 17 times 2:00 I PLEASE REMEMBER TO write your magic clouds, cross bridge and forest 18 times 1:30 j address and quote User number with firey rocks falling from the skies, 19 times 1:00 , clearly! Thanks . walk through a cave with the ceiling 20 or more :30 ._ ------.....moving down on you, etc ... Graphics - are absolutely brilliant For a 'No time limit': On tluftitle screen OOFIWARB RIMBW and identical to the coin-op, and (this is getting a bit ridiculous!) press animation is real smooth . Select the 'I', 'I', 'I', 'II', 'I', 'II', 'I', 'I', 'II', Unfortunately , like Mr.Hali, when there 'I'. t;:;llOQJ£\&r> lOt-~llV are a lot on the screen, things really by Irern - PC Engine - 4meg Card start to slow down and flicker violently, If you press right or left rapidly before Reviewed by Onn Lee especially end of stage boss the whistle goes off, the boss of the destructions. Sound is great again with other side gets hit. lrem haven't produced many games wicked atmospheric music, although for the Engine but what they have they are rather short, and effective Drop Rock Horror (Engine) done are very impressive and sound effects. As for playability - Ninja accurate to thier coin-op counterpart - Spirit Is terrific, it's face, furious, On the title screen, hold 'II' then press Vigilante and Mr. Heli were ace. Their exciting and addictive, although I Run. lastest offering is Ninja Spirit - a super found the Engine Mode a bit easy. duper arcade adventure. One thing that's missing from the If you haven't seen the game conversion is there's no time limit, so Be Bau (Engine) before - here's the plot. Your brother you can hang around amassing a giant (?) was walking across the plains score which is a real mistake. The On Area 4, you get a green character minding his own buisness when game also has an infinite continue with a yellow beak looking something suddenly magical sparks appear and option which is another silly thing to like a platypuss. If you leave him, he swirl from the heavens killing him. put on to such a game. Apart from the will get on to a ball and start dancing. If Only one person has such magic, and few annoyances, Ninja Spirit is a must you leave him for about a minute, he you set off to take revenge of the if you are a fan of arcade adventures gets tired and goes (dies) to heaven. death of your kin. in the same line as Shinobi but a lot Ninja Spirit is viewed from the more playable. If you are a fan of the Special bonus: If you finish the stage side, and Is a multi-directional push coin-op, this is certainty the _best quickly without killing any enemies you scroller game. Your hero can walk version available II - · - · will get a special bonus. left/right, jump low and high and has access to 4 weapons by pressing Graphics - 90% On-the-spot continue: In the 2 player SELECT. At your disposal is a sword, Sound - 90% mode, if one gets out, hold down 'I' throwing stars, bombs and whip. A Playability - 90% and press run. nice touch (and essential) is that, you V.F.M. - 85% can fire in all 8 directions . Before you To get to the 500th areal? On the start the game, you are presented with Overall - 90% password input : an option screen where you can select number of players, engine or arcade sn2s1 mode, and sound room. The difference between the two modes and a '1 o· should appear under the A are, on engine, you can sustain 5 hits of Ball. You get to go on the 50th per life before you lose a man, making stage, on the 10th timell things fair1y easy ... and arcade - get hit To join in a 1 player game, hold 'I' and once and you're a gonna. Once you press Run to join in with your partner. get going, moving left to right in a temple, sword wielding ninjas walks towards you from both sides, and a a SJ>latterHouse (Engine) hunchback character with a spear lurks beneath the floot boards. Dealing Achieve high score on the-ever with these lot isn't much of a problem, contlnuing stage. and sooner or later, a different colour ninja appears. Killhim, and he'll leave On the 7th stage - the Final Boss, kill a coloured icon behind. Four coloured him and die with him, (on the last icons are present in the game - Red attack, get hit by the boulder) and you will Increase weapon power, Blue will should get 100, 000. add a ninja that follows you around CONSOLE MA'ZINB Cl>-:&oH- Whot', la Store so that programming CDs wouldn't be of the work on these coin-op conver 1'nnalad by Tai Oao such a hassle. If they designed a bet sions. But I'm sure we11 think of some ter one for the same price, then I think thing .... The folowilg Is an extract from an Interview we should be ab~le to produce much with the same bloke we had in the Decem- better games. HudsonSoft 41 ber Issue, he's a representative of NEC Rep: This year we intend to put more ~ HE Ltd. and I goes Ike this: 5io NIHonI eser Soft (Ieleoet) of an effort in to CDs. We have already - Sir, how has the CD-Rom sales been late- Rep: I think that one of the main started on J.B.Harold Murder cases, I ly? strong points of our software is that we Michibachi school/RPG, Far East of -Wei, up to now, 250,000 sets have been sold, and I think last year (1989-90) was the add high quality animations and pic Eden II, Cobra II, Wanderers from Y's, most successful year yet tures to soup the game up. I know that and Monblt, and we hope to release all - Well, although there are much better CD It's possible to do this on the Hu-Card of them before the year's over. Rom systems around, they're not very but It's very expensive. That's why we lnterv: With so much In the pipeline, popular, I mean I heard the sales figure was work on CDs. well... let me rephase that. Don't you something like 30, 000 was it? I suppose lnterv.: Do you have any release dates think all that's a bit over ambitious? the CD-Rom for the engine is a success for your games? · Rep: I agree. You are familiar with the overall? Rep: Well actually, beginning with CD's capacity aren't you? Well, com - Absolutely! Yes, 250, 000 is quite a num Death bringer/RPG for May, we intend pared with HuCard, the amount of work ber. Just as the designers had expected. Suocessl Absolutely! to release one game per month right that goes in to CD projects are tremen - What is this success due to? up until December, making six games dous. Normally, with a HuCard, you - Well, it's advanced, reasonably priced, but In total. only need 3-4 designers where as with before I go in to all that, I just ~ant to men- lnterv: One game a month? Cds, this figure goes up to 30-40, 1 o tion a couple of points. - Rep: Yes, In June, It will be Elfeine's times the original amount. Music - well, First of all, the PC Engine was NOT Maze/RPG, and In July It will be Valis you can record straight on, and we the first games console designed to be Ill, After that there Is a shoot'wm up usuallly have to co-operate with compatl>le witha CD-Rom system (No kid and a mah jong game of total different musicians, but this is not too much of a ding) Hahaha. But as said, CO!s mean a lot Roughly 5 years a go, when I was genre. Due to the fact that there's only problem. I working on a PC/games console project, I 64 kbytes of ram In the Interface unit, It of work. had realised that some sort of CO system presents a lot of bother for our lnterv: I see. Do you intend to release was necessary but I wasni successful. The programmers. We have to make ad any other games apart from the ones advantages of a CD-high quality sound, justments in our programsat 64kbytes already mentioned? high capacity storage and the relatively intervals, and you can see this weak Rep: I'm not sure. But I think some of cheapness, certainly looked Impressive ness clearly in some games, say Red the games mentioned are of a new back then. When NEC perfected a CD Alert. At the beginning, you get some genre, a genre created by Hudson player for computers :J':lcouldn't find a animated sequences, but you get a Soft. We'd classify our past projects • suitable console for It.· then (about 3-4 load every 1 O seconds or so .... such as No-Ri-KO and the Wonderboy " years a go), he had the choice between an 1txpensive but advance PC or a Famicom dictionary and questions as Digital NECAvenue Comics. 1 (Family computer, the Japaneseversion of the Nintendo console avaBablehere). Then, lnterv: Digital Comics? when I came across the PC Engine. it was Rep: ..... at the moment we have Rep: Sort of. It's a bit different from the the perfect choice, suitable CPU, and all Rainbow Islands, Space Fantasy other games with a bit of dialogue type that. Zone, Daisenphoo (1942 type game), animation and digitised pictures, as if Horror Story and Hell f Ire In the you were watching telly. lntuvlu,s wltb oll of rhtz >toior pipeline for the engine, of which lnterv: I see. I'm sure you'll get tons of CI>::&omSoftwortt Housu Daisenphoo, Horror Story and Hell fire firms cribbing that Idea. I should that are to be released on both Hu-Card that we'll get many more new genre as • VictorMusical Industries and CD. time goes by. • · Interviewer : What kind of CD-Rom tit Inter: Can you tell us why NEC Ave. les are you workingon at the moment? produce most of thier games on both • Trio of addedpoints • Rep. at Victor - We're working very HuCard and CO? i. Victor musical industries have made hard on something called 'Magical Rep: Well, in the beginning, we had a sort of quarterly magazine on CD and 'saurus Tour' which is a data base with two main objectives. One of them was it's called 'Ultra Box'. This includes a over 200 different species of dinosaurs, to enlarge the very small collection of data base of all of the PC Engine the CO-Rom Magazine 'Ultra Box' Cd games and the other was to make games, information on pop stars and which Is basically a magazine on CD use of the high quality sound and high fashion and also some simple games with all the latest stuff from Pop Music, capacity available on CDs. We'd like and sampled music, all on one CD. and games, to fashion etc .• , and the to push the CD's capabilities to the ii. There's something called the A.L.N. 'Jack Nicholaus World Golf Tour'. On limit, and to make them extrodinary, which stands for 'Active Life Network' Jack Nick., you get 162 holes situated like on Side Arms Special, you get two and it's like computer dating when all around the world, with realistic 30 games In one, and on Super Darius, some ugly mutt goes and gets one of graphics. We Intend to expand the you get more Boss characters than the these CDs, he/she can choose who CD-Rom collection of games with coin-op. But as more and more com they like, call them up and get a date. 'smash hit' software. panies are beginning to work with On pressing the run button, it loads up lnterv. : Do you have any plans to con CD's I think we will produce less CO and you get a digitised picture together vert 'Dungeon Master' which Is current games In the future. with features like weight, height, per ly a hit on the PCs? lnterv: On to a different subject, don't sonality, dislikes and likes, etc. Rep. - Unfortunately, there Is not you think you're running out of iii. NEC are getting so many complaints enough RAM, and Back-up RAM material to convert? I mean most of and mumbles from software houses (S-RAM) and we think that It Is Imposs the Big Coln-ops are already licensed that. a new Improved Interface may be ible to convert. The actual PC Engine by many firms. considered to Increase the RAM (cur and CD-Rom player would be alright, I Rep: Quite .. so, you're right. We are rently 64kbl which currently a little on mean they have a lot of potential, but running out of material. the small s ze. They could do this by this Is all let down by the weakness of lnterv: looks like a bleak future for you adding memory In the system card, the InterfaceUnit. In my opinion, I think eh? and increasing it by 4 times. NEC should have designed a new one Rep: at the moment we do about 90% 18