A NEWSFIELD PUBLICATION No.72 JANUARY 1990 MAGAZINE AND CASSETTE £1.95 VC mm q SWIM SINCLAIR S GAMES COMPATIBLE Only one man could free , i \ FIRST! the world from Lucifer's \ \ \ evil Dragons... /TV W \.... v ^ n i) * We preview CAPCOM/US Gold's long awaited hack and slash epic! ! i WHERE'S MY TAPE?! % - FABBO SPECTRUM pEBSONAgrfl SPUT DlfflCB^S l £4000 OF GREAT SP6CIM; GAMES FROM US GOLD Wnt|5 A FAB TV AND CD 1 mot* JUSTERTROVr PLAYER FROM \ DOMARK! T> STRff^ 8i The DIZZY Fantasy World|ibf CodeMasters' Oliver Twlbs Your chance to vote fot^the BETTER ASK THE NEWSAGENT... CRASH Reader Aw PLAYING TIPS GALORE IN \ NtCK ROBERTS' NEW YEAR CHEAT BONANZA! 3D driving trnm yeti Take the wheel of your turbo- charged Porsche as you and your partner go in pursuit of dangerous criminals all driving an evil array of souped-up roadsters. Need to catch up in a hurry? Well, just one press of your Turbo _ Button will leave your eyes in the back of your head! ^gS^^^^^k along the roughest of dirt tracks and through busy tunnels - if you can hold the line! The low life can /II Af F U f\ run, but they can't hide ...VnlUb llAf+ TAITO aimbw ATARI ST AMIGA Ocean Software Limited 6 Central Streel Manchester M2 5NS Te LAlmi iiiim imuiiuuiuiiii fe\\\\\\\#; <r> » HL.SIH1' CXJZLL^litii liznto IIUIMKI "llJ* "-"ft™™ 1 i phone; 061 8326633 Tetex: 669977 OCEANS C Fax: 061 834 0650 5 ACTION PACKED GAMES, 1 ACTION PACKED COMPILATION M M IMPOSSIBLE A combination of heart-stopping action and AVAILABLE ON:- MISSION ir" breathtaking athleticism that will leave CBM 64/128 Cassette. CALIFORNIA GAMES'3 you wondering ... SPECTRUM 48/128K.+2 STREET SPORTS A Cassette. BASKETBALL'" M IS IT REAL ... AMSTRAD CPC 4X4 OFF-ROAD M OR IS IT EPYX? Cassette Disk, RACING" M THE GAMES M WINTER EDITIofl LL-ACTION GAME • fry <-+f ; U.S. Gold Ltd. OnkU 2.3 Holford Way. Hokfotd, birniinjtbjun B6 7AX. Tel: 021 623 3368. 72 ACTION ALL THE WAY! CONTENTS This month's dose of Power Tape action is enough to take you throuih the Christmas holidays and right into next year! Five smashing game GAME THRILLS Five power packed ItirtIT games to get the on one cassette, including the brilliant Split Personalities and the New Year of \o a good start1 We've got second Dizzy game created for CRASH! Add to that two exclusive Spirt Personates, Action Biker. Dizzy II Special CRASH Edition Wmier interviews and you've got the best way to start the new decade! Woride'iand. Stars & Sir^-es and another dose of Pcfcemama' 15 fawielfauth SAM ART A World News Scoop interview with Bo Jangeborg1 Ttie man who's creat.ng a brilliant art package for the SAM Coupe 17 HARD DRIVIW COMPO Rarm to poll out of the pitslop — your chance to win a tel'y and a CD player11 19 1989 READER'S AWARDS Your vote counts' Choose who you would select to win one of the labbo CRASH awards lor being luff n bMi in 1989' 22 LIVE CIRCUIT Uoyd s bit m the m-odie (except it's rtoi qu'te the middlei Atth setters Jetrnan comics compo winners and all the happening stuff on the Speccy this month1 33 DIZZY! Ho w does an egg with arms and legs become a software superstar' CRASH had a natter with Dizzy s makers The Olrver Twins' Except one was ill 39 NICKO'S TIPS Seven pages ol tips, tatics ooVesand maps to help you cheat your way through the lop games m ihe holidays' THRILLS ON TAPE REVIEWS Find your Power Games! More games go flooding mio the snaps 1 1 and we *e checked em out Hard Own SIDE As Ghostbusiers II! Galaxy Force' Stunt Car SPLIT PERSONALITIES Racer' Samt and Greavste' Footballer Of The Year II! The Nmja Warriors1 WINTER WONDERLAND STARS & STRIPES SPLIT MoonwaJker' Bobo" Sporting Triangles' 56 SIDE B: BUDGET BONANZA DIZZY II Heaps of software go ng cheap' Nick ACTION BIKER Roberts gets down and grooves wrt* the POKEMANIA £299 spinners' 62 Load games In 48K mode, check the PREVIEWS Inlay (or additional loading Black Tlger — tt'Sfinally happening' Plus Instructions. Should your tape be news of thrills coming your way on tne faulty, send It In Its box to: Speccy' CRASH TAPE CLINIC (72), CRASH Domark's first ever side- Yes. Maggie s in it and so Is 64 TOWERS, PO Box 20, Ludlow, splitting CRASH Smash!! Ronnie: 'Am I? Gosh, Nancy, Shropshire SY61DB. it's hard work being the BYEEEE! A working Power Tape will be Split Personalities, It's the President. What? I'm not? Tooaie ptp' Oh before you go. do you game that's full of famous fancy w nmng heaps of games' Good' US dispatched. Please allow 28 days for George who, Nance? Bush? faces, and now you have it Go'd is offemig £4 000 worth of Speccy delivery. Well, a Bush In the Whitehouste playmates' and... 'There is NO alternative'! Is worth three in a basket. MJ EL?' ^UHel^tdU C'mon Teddy, time for bed. a little variety to the game, cracks Mum de dee'. appear in some of the buffers. Blocks that are moved onto a ight, as we were cracked section of buffer bounce saying... now you off. returning to their start point. have it and all you Some of the cracks remain in the | have to do is work same part of the buffer IZ Ragainst a time limit throughout a level, while others he and assemble caricatures of the hop around the place during play. famous from tittle blocks. Little sliding doors in the top, All you have to do? Well not left and bottom buffers open and quite. Starting with Ronald close, tf a piece is shoved Reagan, ten cartoons of famous towards an open door it faces have 10 be pieced together. disappears from the playing area At the start of each level the main and joins the queue of pieces playing area is empty — a zone behind the flashing arrow. enclosed with blue buffers. A Every so often, objects pulsating square cursor is under associated with the character Incentive's fab 'n' instructions you can enter are your control and sits under a being assembled are dragged freezing Gold Medallion varied; here are a few examples. flashing arrow at the top left of into play. These can lead to graphic adventure! Go North n Take Snowshoes n the screen. The image that has bonus scores if you do the right How very seasonal: Now you Give the Icicfe to the Shopkeeper been split appears in a small thing with them — shoving the hav« this smashing Gold n Put the ruby in the box. close it window in the status area on the American Flag against the Medallion adventure you don't then go east. right, the bar display that Russian flag earns a bonus of have to go outside to get cold Some commands can be monitors the time you have 1,500 points on the Ronnie — get deep frozen In the abbreviated: N for North. INV for remaining is refreshed, and play Reagan screen. comfort of your own home) I inventory. EXAM for examine and commences. Bombs are bad news — they Brrr! And why is It so cold? so on. You can enter multiple The cursor, used to shift blocks explode five seconds after they 'Cos you're In the snowy commands separated by And. around the playing area, can be are brought into play and have to Himalayas, that's why!! Then, a comma or a full stop. moved in four directions. Place be shoved against a tap (bonus hy are you stuck The word It will be interpreted as the cursor over the block you of 5,000 points) or whisked out of in the the last noun entered. want to pick up and press fire. an open doorway before they Pressing fire grabs the block. detonate. Failure to dispose of a HINTS: Keep warm, don't be too Holding fire and then moving the bomb results in an explosion and generous, examine things, make cursor whizzes the selected the loss of a life. WHimalayas? Well, a map of your travels. To get out block off in the chosen direction. The number of points awarded it all began one of the crevasse go U, you can't A moving block continues to for completing a level depends day in your throw the rope, so just climb it. travel in a straight line until on the amount of time remaining office,..(cue wishy-washy flash another block or the blue buffer is when the final piece ts slotted back sound FX): You're an DON'T FORGET THE SPECIAL hit, when it comes to rest. into place. Running out of time anthropologist and desperately GRAPHIC ADVENTURE To bring on new blocks place results in the toss of a life — but want to get your name in the CREATOR OFFER1 SEE INSIDE the cursor under the flashing providing all three lives haven't history books, but so far you're a THE POWERTAPE INLAY!! arrow and press fire to seize the been lost, the blocks stay in complete failure. Aw! Shame. hidden block and move right to place when you die. An extra life Then, suddenly, your telex fetch it into view While the cursor is awarded for reaching 100,000 machine buzzes into life and CRASH TALENT is over a piece in the mam play points and extra time can be won spits out a message from your TOKEN! area, a square on the status on later screens by sliding a chum Sergio Kirov, currently in Tibet, which informs you he has panel picture turns white, diamond into another gem.