wammamm^ EWSFIELD PUBLICATION No.88 MAY 1991 MAGAZINE AND CASSETTE £1.85 SINCLAIR SPECTRUM GAMES NO-MR SPfC . X \ EXCLUSIVE Denton " %^ Designs' 'I slime-busting - smash! [ V WRECKERS . from Audiogenic . ^ On your thrill packed POWERTAPE i k this month... f" WHATTA GOB! \ • TOUR DE FORCE ThunderJaws preview Complete game! and brill poster inside!! \ \ • DARK STAR SCOOP! Dizzy's back in Is Complete game! PANIC DIZZY! ' j • HEROQUEST Fully playable demo! PREDATOR 2! ^ SCOOBY DOO & SCRAPPY DOO! • BUTCH HARD GUY SEYMOUR GOES TO HOLLYWOOD! Complete game! OAMEf. SUPER MONACO GP!~ • COUNTDOWH TO IpOKES SKULL & CROSSBONES! THE DEATH anda 3D CONSTRUCTION KIT! MYSTICAL! Complete game! DEMO! SQUASH! SLIGHTLY MAGIC! • POKEMANIA more I CHAMPIONSHIP RUN! AND MORE! Pokes on tape! action wiivi, wito'WmNfk •THAN I SUPER TRENDY SNEAKERS! ^ A RADIO CONTROLLED TOYOTA EVER!! CELICACAR! ^ AND GAMES, GAMES. GAMES!!! 9"770954t866 NflRC The arcatfe action inish. Infiltrate the criminal yourfnJssion is to seek out and destroy the ting pin of the MR BIG CORPORATION- [ H you get that far. You'l have to outwtt his enormous army of body guards... gangs of charisma bypass patients in trench coats, the buHet drain with the buHd of a rhinoceros and the breath of a dung beetle, packs of vicious canine yappies, the psychotic clown with an evil sense of humour - you'U die, but not laughing! Then there's the gas guzzling cadMac jock - a cool specimen, elbow tM* c&rpn vm your potwiei... hanging on the door rail, a serious looking piece in his hand prsuft game to Ht the micro screen. you're and ready to blow you away as he rols down main street The extra features wH leave you gasping for extended you nu leaving you coughing lead. It's not aB bad!... You've got a weather changes, bodyguard squads, grenade chopper to back you up, a mean, shiny street machine, some taftM* Mors, gun-choppers... just play It!... we dart heavy metal hardware and some pretty neat moves. And what you to stop! about the king pin... did I say he was Big? No, he's MR BIG! AVAILA OR YOUR: SPECTRUM • AMSTRAD • AMIGA , ATARI ST I ' e EVEN IN THE FUTURE OF A ^ENFORCEMENT, THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM RECALL )R IMPROVEMENT. dreams of another fife on Mars, future Is a rough place Detroit Is a to RekaO incorporated, a bankrupt cfty...torn apart by the decadent travel servfcaspacMbkiB to * forces of the Old Man and his corrupt implanting fantasies Into the minds of those [corporation. If you want to die - then who desire to turn their dreams Into walk the streets, If you want to live - then iwity. THE EGO TWP OF A LIFETIME pray for the return of Robocop! experience the horror as your dreams turn into hideous Robocop 2 has Justice In mind... a kind of Justice tfebtmares. Suddenly your every move Is monitored by would-be only he can deliver! Take on Detroit's evil waste. You discover the surreal truth - mastermind and his mega-corporation in some of tou're not you - you're me. the most action-packed scenes ever devised for fou must travel to Mars to discover your true identity - your maximum entertainment value. Detroit Is falling idsskm Is now a journey of non-stop action, strange mutants, apart it's time to put it all back together! juristic vehicles and a starting array of weaponry afl HE'S BACK... TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT Mptured In superbly executed graphics and a game play that k 7 — ; ampHments the success of the year's top movie. • • . 1990 CAROLCO PICTURES INC. ROBOCOP TM & 1990 ORION PICTURES CORP ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SOFTWARE ACTION OCEAN SOFTWARE LTD, 6 CENTRAL STREET, MANCHESTER, M2 5NS. TEL: 061 832 6633. FAX: 061 834 0650 V I I • vast there ye lily-livered swabs! It's time to prove your manhood in a bloodthirsty battle to the death with the Evil Sorcerer and his henchmen. Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail through strange and exotic lands with your old shipmates Red Dog and One Eye. Shipmates they may be, but trusl them not... tempers soon flare in head to head clashes over the spoils of your piracy. Skull & Crossboncs is the most blood-curdling arcade game on the market - not for the faint-hearted! Blood flows, ra/or-sharp cutlasses hack through the flesh of hideous opponents, arms and legs arc ... AAARGI I... it's just disgusting) There's treasure, jewels, gold and lusty wenches to be captured and ghastly creatures to be slabbed. It's a rough and dirty job - and we all want to do it! MORE SAVAGE THAN BARBARIAN ... MORE BLOODY THAN PRINCE OF PERSIA. MORE LAUGHS Tl IAN ... NEW PRINT SI IOP! CJet it now - but don't, please don't show your grandmother. • >991 lEN&tNlrv Ui^lliKiiXRl " Atjii Gaim Corp Artwork ApacVjgng 'Wl Donutfc Sfil»are Ud PubbvwdMf SoRvdif LU fr—i Houu TEIMGEIM tt-57U0) Ao.nl London SW1J tPH T«t 06> It0317* ProgununMt>r Wj<K>ngCnln Av.nUOv in A.i»y,. Al ST KIM PC 3 5 AJS CtnanOOiur W Sjwctium. Amv1r,w The Name in Coin- Op Conversions Am^j Scmfltflot- Wf DMARK CRASH O ROCK ON! Here we go again for another thrill-packed thrills ride on the rollercoaster of CONTENTS Speccy software. Quantity may be a bit down but GAME THRILLS quality certainly isn't: Two Tour Ov force (Gremlin)! Dork Star (Design Design)* HwoQooil demo (Gromlm)i Butch exceptional Speccy Hard Guy (PBD)< Countdown to the Death (Powertape)' And (he one and only original products made it into the Pokemania'l office this month — check out the wonders of COMPO Domark's 3D Construction Win some realty expensive and really, really Kit and we welcome trendy sneakers thanks lo Kixx' Thanks, Km* Denton Designs, one of the Speccy's hottest develop- it ment teams, back into THRILLS ON SAM PAGE Some new games (hurrah)' More news on action with their great TAPE new equpment from SAM Co (gadzooks!) action adventure Wreckers. Where to find the action! and all the other shift happening on the • Coupe front! Then there's the action on the Powertape with a SIDE A brilliant mix of game styles LIVE CIRCUIT with everything from Tour de Force lt'« your host with the most — Lloyd Mangram Dark Star and his side-kick 6nor the mouse with 4 action to adventure. Plus, barrage of letters, news and Jetman (who's you've got a collectors' HeroQuest demo not getting on very well with some ol Enor's • distant relatives) edition of OAMES-X, the latest British games mag. Should you tape prove faulty, And fust wait until you SIDE B send it in its box to: hear about next month's Butch Hard Guy NEWSFIELD, CRASH TAPE fabby issue — whixx over Countdown to the Death CLINIC MAY (88), Ludlow. to the backpage for more Pokemania Shropshire SYS 1JW. details. All in all, CStASH Is Check the inlay for loading A healthy Powertape will a birrova first class ticket instructions. wing its way back to you! on the groovy train, wouldn't you say viewers?! finish the race on a bike rather than a stretcher you'll have to take on drinks by directing the bike through the bottles, glasses arid casks that stand on the Tarmac A countdown at the bottom of the screen shows how you re doing for bene, and hurry up because now you've drunk all that |uice you re bursting for a wee" CONTROLS Slam (wed, don 1 slam. iust gently put') a joy- POWER PREVIEW Meal Seymour — Code Masters' Latest star stick into a Kempston or Sinclair interface He's a M like Dizzy onty a bit cuter (if thai s Alternatively, use the keys, which are; 1 CJ'up possible ,1 A.Z/down. H J K/teft (brake). Unght (acceler- ate) ENTER SPACE B N M /|ump and kick. P/pause. FIRE & UP/kick up. FIRE & POWER PREVIEW DOWNAtick down and FIRE 4 RlGHT/|ump Get set for a magical mystery tour front tnfogrames and (heir latest game Mysfrcaf O ITEMS TO COLLECT e Pedal power from Gremlin! trate on speed avoid the obstacles and aban- RUSSIA • Vodka and bread POSTER don the few moral scruples thai you have by AMERICA • Burger and Coke 1 On Fray m CytKtfiharV nightmare What's It Here's a game that takes you for the taking other riders off with some choice ISRAEL • Sheep's eyes and goats milk aU about? Turn the page and you'V discover. ride of your llfel Jump onto your losthng F FIANCE • Snails croissants and wme • racing bike and head across the But bike racing Is hoi and thirsty work To JAPAN • Rice and Saki MORE PREVIEWS continents of the world) Bum In the air, ThunderJaims — It's Domark's latest head down, you pedal over a variety of Is that fat Sumo geezer going to nobble your Tengen game and it's here along with Sports courses, competing against the clock and Action Rugby and a couple of other games ten other competitors. chances in Tour De Force? coming to your Speccy soon* ul this cycling extravaganza ts not Just a DJ NICKO'S TIPS • simple matter of athletic prowess and sad- Beat the toughest games around wrth another dle soreness — the course is full of obstruc- cotocttonon io f tips, tricks and tactics from DJ tions and unsportsmanlike people who want Nickol you and your bike up-ended and temporanly out of the race, which tsn'i very nice REVIEWS From the road's surface pop barriers and We bought a ticket to Corkerdom and obtrusive posts; colled snakes strike, squat returned with a few Smashing games: 30 sumo wrestlers block the highway(i) and Construction KM.