CRUCIAL SINCLAIR SPECTRUM ACTION! A— ZX SPECTRUM ABANDON SHIP! IT'S ZEPPELIN'S EXCLUSIVE Demo and Review * •w 100% • f « COLOUR! 'IP 100% A J? * SPECTRUM! * #v b Jfr * 100% • JUP BRILLIANCE1. • v kJ* V in . N > On your CRASH k / H if * - • V Powertape! -T^* 1 J ^ I A TWO COMPLETE GAMES! p, % -- ' • I iVik (T* BOUNCES EXCLUSIVE! ^ Denton Designs niln P SPY V SPY 3 SB Software Business REVIEW^. a. • . > W An Exclusive Demo — \ / f ' TITANIC BLINKY PLUS Jf Zeppelin WWF, ROD-LAND, SPACE fa' V ' PLUS CRUSADE, LOONEY TUNES, // DOUBLE DRAGON III, / t • N POKE ZONE % Playing Tips on cassette BIG NOSE, CISCO HEAT, ^ ' V , ?}/ i/Tr j PITFIGHTER Tjf /1 / ' Eek! Where's me ' j- A>\r I'll J f i''' % fab cassette?! INSIDE! FINAL PART OF * / ^ Ask your newsagent! A FAB 1992 CALENDAR M * / I POSTER TO COLLECT**,, * . a V / Y ' . y ' X- f 'V* ~ ^ - ^LiOGMe^T LiiVd 'a j cAPacowiidl All MGHI j fit ,l $ All filGHIS Pf'Jjr/f OCEAN SOFTWARE LIMITED • 6 CENTRA' TELEPHONE; 061 832 6*33 3 o MA1+ tt I ° < m i i n FS ^^^CifTnj r'lT/ili^ > ® K 1 • j • ^^ (SrrrD>3 ^^ / i\i i \ v.. o. 1 _ - -lift . • /V Vi .vr f«tl . -J I'l 'IKMni'rlirllNil Here you go, all — the second part of our fantastlco double sided poster-calendar, brought to you courtesy of the wonderfully mega-brill talents of Oliver Frey (autographs by appointment only). Unless you're a complete drongo, you'll have saved the other half of the poster from last month's Issue. Now ail you do Is rip H out, cut off the EjidiiDj'lrj^bji little white bits at the edges, get out the sticky tape, stick em together and slap it on the wall. Easy, huh? 'Christmas time, mistletoe and whine (whoops sorry, wine), children singing Christian rhyme' and all thai load of soporific seasonal Cliff Richard garbage'. Thank God it's all over, I say. Yes folks, Chrimbles has come and gone, 1992 Is rapidly approaching and soon we'll all be Euro-peeps, spending ECUs and yabbering away in bltnkln' froggy-speak {no offence Intended to our French readers — much). Corky s really looking forward to It, though. He keeps coming into the office with frilly skirts on, doing the Can-Can on the desks and saying ooh la-la' a lot (at least he did until Nlcko bashed him with a large lump hammer, now he just says 'oooch' a lot). One good thing about this European lark, I'm reliably Informed by a very top nobby Euro-prat that the price of booze is gonna plummet In our beloved country when we become one with ail them foreigners. Anyway, beck to CRASH. As you can see, we've got the mega Bounces and (he last Spy Va Spy Instalment on the cover tape, as well as the return of Pokemania (now known as Poke Zone 'cos some other BAST 'art-inched our original title). We've got sJI the other regulars — previews, reviews, tips etc — a new technical page and much more besides. Dive In and see! And since It's a new year and 'cos we love you so much etc etc, we've got a FULL COLOUR Issue this month! And what's more, we're gonna try and keep it that way —100% colour, 100% Speccy, 100% brilliant!! See y'sil next month ••m M^^B i^BBI Coming to you live from CRASH Towers are: Editor Lucy Whiplash Hickman Deputy Edilor Nick One Drink And He s Anybody's' Roberts | Production Editor Warren Monster Munch Lapworth Staff Writer Mark Whip Me Caswell Adventures Ian Pot Noodle Osborne Art & Design Mark Nol tonight I've got a headache Kendrick, Charlie Chastity Chubb Systems Manager Ian Soft-top Chubb Screenshots Michael Fatso Parkinson Publisher Roger Sir Kean Advertisement Manager Sheila Vera Duckworth Jarvis Advertisement Sales Executive George Dougal Keenan Advertisement Production Jo Little Bum Lewis Production Jackie It's not my job Morris Reprographics Rob Go n Wash Millichamp Managing Director Jonalhan Call Me In A Restaurant' Rignall Circulation ^mm^m Manager David Sir Chris Wren Accounts Sheila Pin-up Adams Subscriptions David Jingle Bells' Bingle Produced using Apple Macintosh II computers running Quark XPress and Adobe Illustrator 3.0 Printing BPCC Business Magazines lAfc^l (Carlisle) Ltd Distribution COMAG, Tavistock Road. West Drayton, Middlesex. iT A r This month's cover: Titanic Blinky Bubble Dizzy. Cover design by Oliver Frey. Powertape inlay by Mark Kendrick. ^ - f p fdf I * ^ • M¥ ~ r , J •«< TS ,V FJEGULAFS k 10 HAPPENINGS It's Steg the slug, the cute (?!) new character from Code Masters! Plus a new games price range from Hi-Tec (hurrah!). CRASH Corner and much more! 12 WIN A VIDEO RECORDER! Fab video cassette recorder to be won — courtesy of Code Masters — and your chance to make loads of dosh cartooning for CRASH! 16 PREVIEWS Four great pages of previews giving you a sneak look at the good, the bad and the bloomin' ugly (Corky, perhaps? —Ed) in the Spectrum game world. 23 LUCY'S LETTERS The most gorgeous. Intelligent and wonderful creature In the world gives you the benefit of its brilliant mind (no Lucy, you're doing the letters, not me! -Nick)! 20 SAM PAGE Nicko grabs the latest SAM Coupe news by the throat and drags it screaming onto this page! 34 POSTER Abandon ship! It's Titanic Blinky (though how a ghost can drown is a bit of a mystery)! m 39 HI-FIRE HORRORS n ffj Your evil Editor gets her own back for all the stick she's had to put up with jZC and puts CRASH and other Europress staff through agony! 45 DJ NICKO'S PLAYING TIPS The world s greatest tipster gives you a host of tricks and cheats to guide you through the toughest Speccy game! tliliJiii llJilk^ D • BOUNCES full game from Denton Design 66 BACKPAGE • SPY Vs SPY III full game from The Software Business! It s BackPage giving you a sneaky look at the thrills to come in the next • TITANIC BMNKY exclusive playable demo! issue! • POKE ZONE cheats on tape! Check the inlay for loading instructions. Should your * anothw stack «t hrn^ Powertape prove faulty, send that time you try to score as many it to: ABLEX AUDIO VIOEO points as possible by pitching the LTD, CRASH #95 Bounces ball through the slots in the POWERTAPE, HARCOURT, ceiling of your opponent's half. HALESFIELD 14. TELFORD. Each Bounces player wears roller SHROPSHIRE TF7 4QR. A boots fitted with friction toe-caps, healthy Powertape will wing personalised body armour and its way to you. Please allow helmets. Both carry the deadly 28 days for delivery (though Bounces snatcher — part weapon, we'll try to be quicker). part bail scoop. And finally, just to make things difficult, each player Is attached to his back wall by plas-ftex flex wire tow him backwards wire. Up: Makes the player jump and allows the plas-flex to tug him back fast! Down: Makes the player squat or Control options duck. It also engages the friction toe- Left/right: Moves the Bounces player caps. In a squat the player can hold towards his opponent or lets the ptas- his position indefinitely m Fancy decking yourself in in-flghting, with its bloody Your Bounces player retains possession as long as you keep your linger armour, tieing yourself to a knockdowns and slug-outs. on the fire butlon. Release the button and the Bounces bail accelerates • wall with a piece of Yes folks, now you too can play away from the player. industrial strength elastic and one of the most violent ball games chucking a ball at a similarly since Gridiron football was Invented. Indisposed friend? No? Well there's Battles no need for you to read these Press the (ire button and swing the player's arm forward to connect with Instructions, then... FEATURING: his opponent. Sir Ashley Trueblood • Welcome to the future! Here Deadly In combat, chivalrous to the there's no war, politics or defeated! Scoring goals unemployment — everyone's a Sponsor; Knight-Techni-Corp You score points each time you pilch the ball through one of the goal slots proud employee of one of the Eco- History: Has suffered no in your opponent's half. The slot nearest to the ball dispenser (at centre zone corporations. We're all knockdowns or slug-outs in two court) scores low, the slot ciosesl to the opponent's back wall scores genetically perfect, work hard and years ol Bounces play with the high. You score an own goal if you pitch the ball through the slot in your enjoy the fun, fun, fun of the KNIGHTS own half. Bounces arena. Our corporation-sponsored warrior clones are a mean bunch of VERSUS! Attacks You gain points each time you batter your opponent to the ground (a muthas. They're given roller boots Erik the Red knockdown) or strike him with the ball (a slug-out). If your player's (with Frictoe caps), personalised He plays dirty to win! body armour and helmets. Then a Sponsor: Viking-Synthi-Corp stamina falls to zero the game is forfeit to your opponent. Bounces ball snatcher is stuck in History: Undefeated world champion their right hand and they're flung into with the VIKINGS the arena. CONTROLS Bounces is compatible with Fuller. Kempston. Sinclair and Protek The object Is to pitch the Bounces joysticks. Keys: 1 Advance, 2Retreat. 3 Squat.duck. 4 Jump,stand up.