DM18 • 475 PTAS A NEWSFIELD PUBLICATION No.89 JUNE 1991 MAGAZINE AND TWO CASSETTES £2.99 SINCLAIR SPECTRUM GAMES CASSETT FEATURING T£N ^TE mm m ITEMS! • ASTROCLONE my. Complete game! S§ ON THE RUN Cbrnp/ete game!, \ m SKULL & / cros$bones PlayaBle demo!i lA • SOCCER CUP Complete • SEA BA V Complete 1 t ' -- • POKE ZFl lut£l\ \ x'sn \\ 7ull g >HAN thi 'ull g UIT I SI -ull g m dl "ull Q Fron ing role-playing game Gremlin bringsyou... COMPUTER AD\ 'ENTI DR] EINAWORLDOFMAGIC Scicen thot, Irom \miqj vfulon Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd., Available On: Carver house, 2-4 Carver Street, Amiga • Atari ST/STE • Sheffield SI 4l S Spectrum, Amstrad and Tel: «T42) 753423 C64 cassette & disk (PC VERSION AVAILABLE SUMMER 91) llcmOurtl 1990 \lllton Bnullo fltl 0 This is all rather a bit spaclal, Isn't it viewers? Two tapes packed with soma real corkers! thrills You'vo got your usual doso CONTENTS of mega-play action on tf»o Powertape and a vary GAME THRILLS special compilation put Five power -packed prat of game thn»* — more then ever before! On (he Powertape. together by Coda Masters Astnxione <He*son)l See Barnes (AflanliSi( featuring four of their top SJcut 1 CmtsbonM demo (Tengen)! On The Run (Desjgn Oe*tgn)l Soocsr Cup games! Okay, so It's all THRILLS ON OtMzmistof costing you an extra quid iPowertap*)! and Pertemanwl PHis (gasp') on TAPE your Codies tape Phantomas, Diizy. BMX — but ono maasly pound w Where to find the action! SunulMor end Fnnt Wacrtmo Simulator' for a Coda Masters Btaneyt calloctor's Itom? Can't bo Check the inlays for loading bad, can it? Indaed not tape^ohe • PREVIEWS (that's why wa're doing It instructions. We ve scoured (he length end breadth of the t to bung you early shots of Oonwvon. all again noxt month}. Tup, SIDE A Races. Dtt TracA Racer. Sfac* Lto anothar extra-special gland Ctmmaotiship Speatf Well, Astroclone Snould your Powertape •ctuaty the Post Office did all the (Mcftng compilation pack next tape prove faulty, send it in and canyktg (a btt tortoise-like. weren't you?). its box to: NEWSFIELD, transformation CRASH Is CRASH TAPE CLINIC MAY WIN A CONSOLE! going to taka at the start (88), Ludlow, Shropshire Lummo' A Sega Hatter System console of the summer holidays! SIDES rrwst be wonl So musl a copy of US Gold* On The Run SYS 1JW. Sega Gauntly And. don't forget, 20 copte* of Hold onto your hats and GaunOet on the Speccy' hold tight for tho ride of Should your Code Masters • lilt II your life!! Byeeeeee! rrrrr (rr •TSs^ tape prove faulty, send £*rr tr^ rrrr it in its box to: NEWSFIELD, rrrr CRASH CODE MASTERS •TAPE TWO. TAPE CLINIC MAY (88), ! frsl FFFF Ludlow, Shropshire FSS& " FF SIDE A SYS 1JW. p hantom,i s ajEjo Cj? E r rr A healthy Powertape or serrr^'i r~r r r Dtezy Code Masters tape will rrrr wing its way back to yout ! FFF» i- :Ff • Hew son hit the aliens! ' F^i^ator iErFF^C; "m9ch!^Shnulatoroveral l progress of the game. It You want something big? using the computer console (pass- shows the location and strength of You want something ing into space combat) and enter a your forces and the Seiddab forces LIVE CIRCUIT »'* Uoyd (and Enor) with * adventurous? You want stargate to reach the strategic around each star sector. Sectors another pot-pourri of poetal mtsuvto! Plus something that'll keep you 'occu- phase. Move the Clone over to the with your ship are coloured yellow, see the winning entry of our Jetman oompo In (hit month's strip1 And el) the news. Ht-Frers pied' for ages? Well, come for a console and you'll take off) the current sector is white and Seid- and Bug Bo* snorttes' Hurrah* meal at Ludlow's cuny house The stargate is shown as a yellow dab controlled sectors are green. In (loo paper shortage, ahoyl). How- diamond at the top of the main dis- each box there may be numbers. SAM PAGE ever, if you want all that and play, but it may be off-screen some- The top number, next to a space A sound sampler! A MIDl-type I something that gives you com- ship symbol, shows the number of A Nick Roberts Demo Osk< Gofly. an times. Fly your spacecraft forwards happening on the Coup* front this month, plete control of the galaxy, this is and upwards until the stargate your ships in that sector. The bot- isn't m itl One of Hewson's classics — appears and then fly over it. You're tom number, next to a skull, indi- Astroc/onel now in the.,. cates the amount of Seiddab forces DJ NICKO'S TIPS in that area. Don't let yourself be beaten to a pulp — tackte the toughest In games with more Bps, stroclone has three separate STRATEGIC PHASE irtefc* and tactics bom the DJ who actually Aparts: a shoot-'em-up The strategic map is the key to the You can move any number of ship* during the hasn't done • gig for about *n month* (the dot)) sequence, a strategic element and • Kill, malm, shoot! The attacking bit in Astroclone an adventure section. The idea of the game is to knock out all the Sei- OPEN THE BOXI Taka he money) No. open the box! Ye*, ddab bases (in the adventure sec- indeed open the box and discover a weaKh of tion) and shoot down Seiddab cruis- smash hit games now appearing in oompHabon form! ers en route to the bases {arcade section). The strategic element of the game lies in choosing the route REVIEWS Ooooo dear! Most of the game price* have you take to achieve the overall aim. gone up (thank*. Norman) so we're going to be * Me biit toughertour o—n ~th e marking So You begin the game in a nice mere Game*I wortwoftfht checkinch< g out this month safe location, the Astroclone ndude MERCS, Shadow Dancer end RBJ Z Assault Craft, in control of a Clone — you can get the 'feel' of Clone BACKPAGE control in comfort before you begin Good old almost legendary backpage, eh? Another month, another set of stupendous the game itself. frfr prize* up for grab*! Yippee1 Win a brWiant On the floor is a square energy remote-controlled All Terrain Vehicle and a year'* supply of Zeppelin and Impute* point. On the right-hand wall is an games! Cnpe*l oxygen cylinder and a triangular <4., I CURREHT SECTOR !• computer console. You take off CRASH JUN E • 3 strategic phase, except those In an SeOdsb occu- pied sector The message area gives promptthrillss to help you To move a ship, lock onto ft by moving the while highlighter over the sector and press the The ship can be moved any number of sectors of Clones and there a another ship in the sector p«ted by stargates Once moved into a sector with then the second ship comes mto use If not. you • It's Skull & Crossbone's One-eye. You can telt, he s Sexldab In R you can no longer move To end the return to the strategic phase To return to a ship ship's movement unlock the hghfcghl by pressing you must find a beam-up point Objects returned to onty has one eye (hence the namel) fire Before the strategic phase begins the Sett- a ship are available to every ship in the fleet dabs move and may launch more ship*. You can (handy, eh?) They're never tost unless a ship is block their movements by maintaining a majority of destroyed EXCLUSIVE PLAYABLE steps m each contested sector Each time you score 1,000 a new ship appears at OVERALL STRATEGY Sol. up to 25 new ship* may be awarded The location of seven of the star- bases changes every time the Ending the phase... game is played. Occupation of the •SKUL Domark's swashbucklinL & CROSSBONEg they're discovering plenty of troublSe You can and the phase on a sector with both SekJ- dab and your ships present by placing the while bases is vital because Seiddab sword-'em-up (Eh? —Ed) in the shape of evil opponents highlight over It and pressing fro Alternatively. you forces may be launched from each who'll hack our brave duo to pieces may wish to enter a sector with only your forces present enabling you to locate and enter a Sett- base they control. To gain the upper Avast there, me hearties! given the chance. Fight back with dab starbase To do this select the sector by high- hand you must destroy the Seiddab There be treasure in that the range of combat moves avail- lighting but do not move any sh^s. Press fire a second bme In either case you move into. defences in the Space Combat • there castle, I'll be bound! able. phase and destroy every base in So, splice the main sail (whatever Collectable items such as trea- SPACE COMBAT PHASE turn. that means) and prepare yourself sure chests, golden goblets, sacks The message screen displays the for a taste of pirate action in this of coins and other priceless yum- number of your ships and Seiddabs CONTROLS brilliant playable demo of Ten- ,.iies can be picked up by walking in the sector. You have up, down, Keys: A,S,D,F,G/up. Z.X.C/down, gen's whopping arcade combat over them.