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JAPAN has a word for the 

BASEBALL It's the most 

realistic baseball game 

outside of a ballpark! 

H I T Sari, 41, folk th,V L 

DUCK HUNT There's a cluck in the air! You've only 

got three shots to bag this duck. And il you miss. 

e••en your dog laughs at you in this fast-action 

Zapper Gun game. 

For the first time in the UK direct from Japan comes Nintendo, the home 

entertainment system with genuine arcade-quality graphics. Nintendo make 

2 out of 3 of all the world's coin-op arcade machines. so they know what 

they're doing. And already. in Japan 9I7 million homes have a Nintendo home 

entertainment system. 

Now you can enjoy the amazing 52 colour 3-D graphics of Nintendo. 

(On most home computers, you've been lucky to get 15 colours until nowl) 

Nintendo's superb graphics give the games a convincing true 3-D feel with 

actual shadows which add depth to the characters, 

Already there are 27 Nintendo Game Paks available in the UK and more 

are being added to the software library all the time. But there's even more to 

Nintendo than the best games you've ever seen... 

Nintendo Entertainment System 

For the first time home entertainment enters a new dimension. 

HOGAN'S ALLEY Use your 

Zapper light gun to shoot 

the gangsters. 

OYROMItlf You've got to keep R.0.85 gyroscope 

spinning to help a mad scientist de-activate the 

dynamite in his laboratory in order to play this 

action-packed game! 

CLU CLIO LAND 

The evil Sea Urchin 

has hidden the 

gold in an 

underground 

mystery maze. 

GOLF Choose your clubs. Control your swings. 

Select the angle of every shot. Its Nintendo GOLF and 

there's not a video golf game on par with it anywhere! 

Because when you own a Nintendo entertainment system you also get a buddy 

to play with, a Robotic Operating Buddy to be.exact (or R.0,13, to his friends). 

He's your partner. Seat him next to you, send him signals from your tv screen 

and together you can tackle the enemy. 

The Zapper Gun 

Never before has there been a video gun of this calibre. The astonishing 

light sensitive Zapper Gun lets you shoot moving targets with pinpoint accuracy 

from up to 16 feet! If you think you're a sharp shooter the Zapper Gun will test 

your skill to the full. 

Nintendo or Super Nintendo, the choice Is yours. 

Which set do you want? NINTENDO's superb high-quality action costs 

09.00* for control deck, mains transformer, two hand controls, and one free 

Super Mario Bros Game Pak, DELUX NINTENDO costs f159.99* for the amazing 

Zapper Gun. ROB, and two free games, Gyromite and Duck Hunt.

Where iiiican 

Nintendo is available from the stockists featured. If you have any questions or have 

difficulty obtaining the product, write to HiTech Electronic Services Ltd., 

Unit 2B,200 Rickmansworth Road, Watford WD1 7-IS. Or 'phone: 09232 41811- 

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See Nintendo demonstrated at Harrods, or at Selfridges computer 

department, Oxford Street, August 3rd - Bth, and Hamleys of Regent 

Street, London, August 10th - 15th. 

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• Zoundst A 3D vector graphic 

orcade adventure from Martechl 

Catch 23 puts you on the spot as 

a futuristic mercenary out to steal 

plans for a revolutionary orbital 

interceptor code-named the CK 23 

Able to take off the land like any 

conventional aircraft, the CK 23 

con he in wait in orbit ready to 

blast bock into the atmosphere at 

frightening speed, to intercept and 

destroy enemy missile and laser 

weaponry. The CK 23 test 

development site is the most secret 

and heavily guarded military 

complex on earth. Situated on a 

lonely and now deserted island, it 

is guarded by armed patrols, tanks, 

electric fencing and surveillance 

cameras_ The island is also criss- 

s jet-setting editor got yet 

azing freebie last 

month nks to the truly wonderful 

people at Mastertro nit. He 

beat off the rest of the C +VG 

minions who attempted to get to 

their sports car race. Mastertronic 

ere sponsoring one of the cars 

king part in this gruelling event — 

a Tiga-Volvo driven by Slim 

Borgudd, Tryggve Gronvall and 

British pilot Andrew Ratcliffe. 

• Thanks to the untried Volvo engine, 

car unfortunately didn't qualify 

r the race — but another Tiga 

rried the Mastertronic stickers 

oughout the race — well, until 

El 

crossed by a shuttle network which 

used to allow rapid transport for 

the now departed civilian 

workforce. It is your mission to 

explore the island and find the 

heart of the development complex 

Once there you must steal the 

design of the CK 23 and then seta 

time delay mine in the nuclear 

reactor. The action takes place on 

a moonless night, hence you hove 

been provided with a military 

image enhancer. Using advanced 

3D vector graphics, with full 

collision detection, the player sees 

on accurate representation of his 

world as he moves within it. 

Catch 23 will sell for E8.95 on 

cassette, with the 64C disk retailing 

for El 2_95 and the Arnstrad disk, 

El 3.95, 

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Con you, ever ever have 

allmenee 

enough of games? Well, the Epyx 

sol" 

folks can't, that's for sure_ They've 

got Summer Games, Winter 

.1 Games, and who-knows-what- 

••••• else Games, Where con they turn 

fling on 

Sunday anyway. The race ran from 

four clock on Saturday to four on 

Sunday afternoon — with the cars 

racing through the night. British 

fans were hoping for a Jaguar win 

— but the three Brihsh cars 

suffered a few mishaps and only 

one finished — in fifth place. 

Winner was British driver Derek 

Bell in o Porsche_ The Mostertronic 

car was cheered on by on intrepid 

bunch of software people from the 

budget company plus a couple of 

magazine writers. 

And you can help support them 

by wearing on exclusive 

C+VG/Mastertronlc Le Mans Competition 

Name 

Address 

T-shirt size: S/M/I Machine owned' 

The driver who has scored the most Le Mans victories is' 

to now to excite the players? 

Where can they find on entire 

spectrum of unusual activities? 

Where else, but the zany, goofboll 

world of California, says 

Marshal M. Rosenthal. 

Here's California Games! 

'Having lived in California for 

over 10 years, I can tell you the 

MastertrallPream Le Mans 

I-shirt We've got FIVE special le 

Mans t-shirts to give oway to the 

first five people who send us a 

postcard telling us the name of the 

fomous racing driver who has 

scored more victories at Le Mans 

than anyone else The winners will 

also get a copy of Formula One 

Stimulator— so don't forget to tell 

us what machine you own. Addre 

your entries to Computer and 

Video GOMOS, Mostertronic Le 

Mans Competition. Priory Court, 

30.32 Forringdon Lane, London 

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citizens there do some wacky 

things. You'd expect the sports to 

be a bit weird as well. Too true, but 

then, that's port of the charm. 

*California Games takes 

place in a number of locations 

throughout the Golden State — 

Hollywood, Berkeley. 

'Try surfing against a gnarly 

wove as the spray stings your eyes, 

or taking on the champs in a 

flying-disk tournament — we used 

to just call them Frisbees_ 

'Then there's rollerskating, 

footbug, even BMX bike racing. 

"The half-pipe skateboard 

competition is a real hoot. 

"Up to eight players can 

participate, and the joystick is used 

to do everything but put in your 

name, So invite a bunch of friends 

over, put on your shodes, cover-up 

with suntan oil and hit the waves_ 

Just be careful you don't bump 

your head on your 641" 

• Here's a sneak preview of two 

new, hot games coming from 

Micropose. Project: Stealth 

Fighter put you in the cockpit of 

the top-secret "radar invisible" 

American jet fighter. Unlike a 

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Cessna, this baby comes complete 

with a full armament of weapons 

for air and ground attack. But your 

biggest weapon is the stealth 

capability. 

On-board instrumentation 

includes a comprehensive "headsup" 

display, two CRT computer 

screens, enemy jamming devices, 

and tons more. All with joystick/ 

keyboard commands and a 3D 

perspective view first pioneered in 

the highly successful Gunship. 

The many scenarios included 

(each with various levels of 

difficulty) range from surveillance 

mission, to hot and heavy combat. 

Airborne Ranger, is more 

arcade-oriented, and success will 

often depend on quick reflexes 

and accurate shooting eye. 

Project Stealth Fighter will 

initially be available for the 

Commodore 64/128, os will 

Airborne Ranger,

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• Imagine being at the wheel of a 

0E350,000,000 

racing machine — 

a Formula One Ferrari. This 

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mechanical beauty eats 

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the track like on enraged 

POCMOrt gone berserk. Ferrari 

1Formula 

One from Electronic 

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The balloon is 59 metre 

with a volume of 230,000 

feet (65,000m 

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is as big as a London bust 

) The material the balloon's top half 

is mode from is o new invention. 

bottom 

Additionally they are going to be 

oin aluminium f pressurised capsule 

t(with hreclining e seats) to enable 

them to reach giddy heights of 

oround 27,000 feet if the weather 

ollaw 

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elp heat the air. 

So that you don't feel left out of 

this great adventure, you can now 

participate when you ploy. 

Imns-AtIonhc Balloon 

Challenge: The Game is a splitscreen 

arcade game. You play a 

mascot Eagle and con be either on 

the side of Richard and Per, or 

aiding a rival balloonist who bas 

challenged them to o race_ 

The balloons occupy their own 

half of the screen and your job is to 

in boss 

Branson, who 

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1: for crossing the Atlantic by boot, is 

; set to undertake another death- 

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T Atlantic_ Accompanying his 

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exploits will be a Virgin game 

Trans-Atlantic Balloon 

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ver mode, Virgin 

Flyer, and they will fly at 

m feet from the Sugarloaf 

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i to Europe. 

The biggest surmise for expert 

balloonists is that it is hot air filled 

and not gas. Normally the amount 

of propane needed to heat such a 

gigantic volume of air would be so 

heavy to carry the balloon would 

not be able to get off the ground. 

itelloon is 

eliminate aircraft jeopordising the 

journey by dropping ;view and 

missiles on the balloon and 

decreasing its altitude_ You must 

correct the altitude with the burners 

and also keep it on course. 

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• The rights to muscleman 

t Arnold Schwarznegger's 

o new film Predator have been 

pilot enrolled in the top training 

school of the Galcorp Academy 

for Skimmer Pilots. You will team to 

b snapped up y Activision/ 

System 3 for release sometime in 

e November_ 

c In the film, which has just opened 

o in America and is reported to hove 

mtaken 

VI 2 million in its first three 

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days, Arnold ploys a mon on a 

mission to rescue hostages held 

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Want a greater challenge? Then 

brave the trials and tribulations of 

the 16-race 1986 Formula One 

Grand Prix season. 

There's a lot more to Fl racing 

than just sitting in the driver's seat. 

A wind tunnel is useful for testing 

the car's aerodynamics, and 

frequent test and practice sessions 

will help iron the carls problems 

A first-person perspective looms 

ahead. The course beckons, 

authentic down to scenery and 

weather conditions. Run the 

gauntlet of seven other cars, each 

of these to contenders possessing 

design your own space ship and 

participate in many classes — all so 

secret that they con only be 

revealed to qualified skimmer 

pilots. 

On graduation from the 

Academy you will take the 

spaceship you hove designed on 

20 missions, encountering aliens 

and practising the top secret theory 

learnt at the Academy. 

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sele cute furry robot cots and dogs 

created by Atari founder and all- 

msn round whizz -kidd Nolan 

Bushnell. Well, he's been at it 

o0 again. Our spy in the US tells us 

that Bushnell has unleashed Tech 

1Force 

on the wodd. These are a 

his own distinct personality and 

driving style. 

Ferrari Formula One really 

shows off what the Amiga can do, 

with an incredible array of graphic 

and sound effect. Once you buckle 

up, you won't wont to shut that 

engine off. 

whole bunch of remote controlled 

•vehicles 

armed with laser-guns. 

1 One player can challenge 

computer controlled opponents or 

'• two players can fight it out 

between them. You con fight in 

real-time or program the vehicles 

to make pre-determined strategic 

moves. The vehicles ore controlled 

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from computerised Command 

Bases which look like ZX81 

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• Academy, CRL's smash space 

001 game, has made the 

1.0 transformation to the Atari St, price 

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computers with an antenna stuck 

ant The laser beams disable the 

vehicles for a programmed length 

of time and up to 16 Tech-Force 

units con be contolled from on 

Command module. 

48/128 and Amstrad CPC 

cassette, all at E7_95_ Also on 

Amstrad CPC disc at El 2.95_ 

• Enter the Armageddon 

Man. And no, it isn't Mr Ronnie 

Raygun — but it does involve 

someone with his finger on the red 

button that will blow the world to 

bits, The Year is 2032 AD. There 

are now 16 nuclear superpower 

notions, each with the capacity to 

trigger the final destruction of 

mankind. Together they have 

formed a desperate alliance — the 

United Nuclear Nations and have 

financed and built on enormous 

network of spy and laser defence 

sotellites. Control of the network 

resides in an enormous and 

sophisticated satellite codenomed 

Olympus_ Control of Olympus is 

down to the Supreme Commander 

— The Armageddon Man, who 

holds the world in his hand_ 

As The Armageddon Mon you 

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My name is Bond. James Bond. 

Double 0 Seven. Licenced to 

Kill. And I'm going to scare The 

Living Daylights out of you. 

Well we all have dreams, 

don't we. Here I am sitting at the 

computer, dressed in white 

dinner jacket, bow tie and 

trousers with a crease you 

could cut yourself on. 

Dum diddy dum dum, dum 

dum dum diddy dum dum, da 

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Ah yes, the good old Bond 

music stirs the blood. Not like 

the awful A-Ha theme song to 

The Living Daylighrs movie on 

which the game is based. 

Talking, of the film, here's the 

plot. It adds a bit of colour to the 

game. 

James Bond has recently 

returned from Gibraltar on 

exercises to be sent on a new 

mission to Bratislava, 

masterminding the defection of 

KGB General Koskov. 

Despite an attempt on his life 

by beautiful Czech Cellist Kara, 

Koskov is eventually brought 

safely to London. 

Unfortunately Koskov is 

abducted by Necros, a ruthless 

killer. M, Bond's boss. 

suspecting the KGB, sends 

Bond to serve a term inatinon 

warrant on General Pushkin, 

who is known to be in Tangiers 

with a trade Delegation. 

Before doing this. Bond 

decides to return to Bratislava 

to try to get closer to Kara. He 

does this and discovers Kara is 

an innocent victim of the 

Russian General. He also learns 

of Koskov's involvement with 

International Arms Dealer Brad 

Whitaker. In true 007 style, Kara 

is rescued and taken to Vienna 

where she succumbs to the 

Bond charm. 

Together with Kara, Bond 

moves to Tangiers where he 

eventually confronts General 

Pushkin in his Hotel. They plan 

together to trap Koskov and 

Whitaker. 

Bond and Kara are taken 

prisoners by Koskov and flown 

to Russian occupied 

Afghanistan, but it is not long 

before Bond breaks free with 

Kara and Kamran Shah, the 

leader of a group of Afghjan 

freedom fighters. Together they 

find out what Koskov and 

Whitaker are up to — 

smuggling raw opium. 

It is obvious they must be 

stopped, so the support of 

Kamrsn's rebel group they 

overcome masses of Koskov's 

troops and allies in an attempt 

to prevent the Opium leaving 

the country. The final mopping 

up is at Whitaker's Tangiers 

villa. 

Before each level Bond can 

choose a weapon. This screen is 

sat in gadget wizard O's 

laboratory. The range of 

weapons varies from level to 

level, they include, gun, 

bazooka, kinfe etc. You have 

lust five seconds to select the

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weapon. Making the right 

choice will help you get through 

the level. Making the wrong one 

won't make it impossible, just a 

litte more difficult. 

The playing area is split into 

three sections. Foreground, 

mid-ground and back ground. 

Each scrolls left to right at a 

different speed. 

Bond himself can run, jump 

and roll. When shooting, a gun 

sight appears. This you can 

move around to target the 

villains and Bond's gun arm will 

automatically follow. Hitting the 

fire button activates Bond's 

trigger finger. 

The game levels are as 

follows. 

LEVEL ONE — GIBRALTAR: 

Bond begins his adventure with 

a test of the defences on the 

island of Gibraltar. He must 

match his wits against the skills 

of the SAS. 

LEVEL TWO— THE LENIN 

PEOPLE'S MUSIC 

CONSERVATORY: You must 

get the Russian defector Koskov 

away from his KGB guards 

without injuring any of the 

music lovers enjoying the show 

inside. Koskov will follow you 

but it is up to you to defend him 

from the snipers who appear all 

over the building. 

LEVEL THREE THE PIPELINE: 

Now you must smuggle Koskov 

past the pipe workers and send 

him on is way down the Trans- 

Siberian pipeline. 

Watch out for the Russian 

guards and the added danger of 

falling pipes. 

LEVEL FOUR — THE MANSION 

HOUSE: Once you have 

managed to rescue Koskov 

somebody wants him back? The 

ruthless killer Necros tries to 

snatch Jim back from the British 

Secret Service. 

LEVEL FIVE — THE 

FAIRGROUND: You have to 

meet your fellow agent but 

Necros, now even more 

desperate, has followed you 

and he has orders to kill? 

LEVEL SIX TANGIERS: Your 

mission to find the missing 

Koskov takes you to the 

rooftops of Tangiers where you 

must battle for your life. 

LEVEL SEVEN THE MILITARY 

COMPLEX: Trapped in the 

desert of Afghanistan in the 

middle of a Russian Air Base. 

No problem for 0071 

LEVEL EIGHT— WHITAKER'S 

HOUSE: You finally meet the 

Mastermind behind the 

dastardly ploy — Brad Whitaker 

the American Arms Dealer and 

military historian. He unleashes 

all the power of his arsenal 

against you. you must fight 

through to reach him. 

After the rather sorry effort 

which Domark released as A 

View to a Kill, they vowed that 

The Living Daylights must be 

good. 

Well it must be said that their 

latest Bond Outing is 

considerably better. But that 

wouldn't be too hard. When it 

comes down to it, this is really 

just a scrolling shoot-'em-up 

which could be fixed to any 

licence or name. That doesn't 

make it a bad game. It is in fact 

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Yet again Tony Crowther and co 

hit us with another 'Classic' 

game, or so the inlay card says. 

Mr Crowther has been author to 

a fair number of good games, 

but it seems he may have lot his 

touch 

Gobots is not what I'd call a 

Crowther classic. It lacks the 

pulling power, graphical quality 

and other Crowtherish features 

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great games. 

The Gobots are machines 

which can transform 

themselves into various types 

of vehicle at the drop of a hat. 

Each one has his/her (what sex 

is a robot?) own type of vehicle, 

be it plane, tank or scooter. 

Most of you probably know 

this already, because these 

character have their own 

cartoon series, which I must 

confess I haven't actually seen. 

The plot of his caper, entitled 

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master with an extra gift, the 

It was a tough test. Perhaps the 

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extremely tedious story short. 

the Gobots come to rescue their 

buddies. One gets captured and 

turned against his pals, and 

another discovers that he has 

the power to produce clones of 

himself. 

Using this new found and 

amazingly handy skill, Leader 

One comes up with a plan, 

which goes something like this: 

Step one: Drop a clone into the 

nearest base_ Step two: Watch 

it explode. Step three: if there 

are no humans around, repeat 

procedure — if there are, pick 

em up! 

This is where you actually, at 

last, enter the game. Using your 

joystick to manoeuvre a very 

wobbily Leader One, you must 

scoop up the Scooter clones 

and attempt to drop them into 

the nearest base. 

C+VG stand was under seige 

for most of the time, So I loaded 

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play and play and play. 

And judging from the 

reaction to Imagine's 

conversion of the Taito Coin-op. 

it's a winner. Comments ranged 

from "Wow" to "great" and 

"fantastic" to "get off its my 

go". I think they liked it. 

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shoot-'em-up, horizontal 

scrolling landscape. Aliens. Lots 

of them. Enough said? 

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stop you by crashing into you. 

Flying your Gobot around is 

really no easy task in itself, as 

the controls are far too 

sensitive, and I found myself 

constantly crashing into the 

planet. 

You may also land on the 

surface of the planet, and there 

you can dig large rocks which, if 

you are in the mood, can be 

thrown at oncoming traffic. 

It seems so strange that 

Ariola have released this, 

usually you get a thoroughbred 

from the great Ariolasoft 

stables, but this I'm afaid is just 

an old nag. 

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PLAYABILITY 7 

deposit a star. Pick it up by 

flying over it and it lights an 

icon at the bottom of the screen. 

hit the space bar and the slap 

Fighter gets that icon's ability. 

The more stars, the more icons. 

These give you more speed, side 

shots, wings and bombs. 

And that's it. Simple. Smooth. 

Very addictive, A winner. And if 

I find out who it was that karate 

chopped me when I wasn't 

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evil wizard Vadra 

controls A the ancient city of 

Irkon. D The inhabitants have 

been / imprisoned and you have 

been turned into a blob. Huge 

bottles have been constructed 

which ozze bubbles — which 

turn into strange mutant 

creatures, Hence the title Bubbler. 

But life's not all bad for you as 

a blob. You can move and spit 

lire globules at your foe. 

Around the city are magic 

corks, hidden under trapdoors. 

Find all these corks, to bung in 

the bubblers and Vadra's 

powers will be ended. 

The game is as far as I can 

judge - like Marble Madness 

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mission 

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galaxies of the Hercules Cluster. 

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ramps, causeways and 

platforms over which you must 

guide the blob. The starting 

point of the game is a platform 

with what appear to be two exit 

ramps, up which you must 

travel to exit the location. The 

trouble was that I just couldn't 

get any control over the blob. It 

it's not some intergalactic space 

disease but a force of alien 

mechanical beings who 

infiltrate the Orion. When the 

crew regains its wits after 

waking from its space sleep, 

they find the ship's systems 

have been terminated and the 

computers reprogrammed in an 

alien language. 

As the ship's energy drains 

away the crew must try and 

regain control of the Orion, 

To do this you have four 

robots under your control 

which must be used to explore 

the ship, access lifts to different 

levels. 

Each robot has its own 

identity. They are SLOG, ship's 

captain and pilot, PLOT, 

navigator, KNUT, engineer, and 

BODO, the crewman. KNUT, in 

fact, is locked in prison when 

the game starts and the others 

must free him. 

The computers are scattered 

throughout the ship. 

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which kept taking it off the 

platform and into the black void 

beneath. Losing lives as 

quick as I did meant Game Over 

coming up with tedious 

regularity. I did actually manage 

to get halfway up each ramp but 

just couldn't make it to the top. 

Very frustrating. 

Meanwhile a strange array of 

While not the most original 

idea, The Fifth Quadrant is very 

playable and should appeal to 

all those who like problem 

solving, three dimensional maze 

games. Nice graphics. 

creatures floated through the 

screen including crabs, mystery 

bubbles and various spinning 

objects. 

Bubbler looks nice, sounds 

intriguing and is certainly 

challenging 

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What ever the result of the 

election YOU can change it 

thanks to Virgin's Election!. 

Double dealing, scandals, slurs 

and back-stabbing all the fun 

of an election campaign without 

the party political broadcasts, 

There are around 40 

intelligent characters featured. 

From lowly minion to 

charismatic party leader, each 

varies in intelligence and 

personality attributes. Many of 

the others are just as ambitious 

as you and while you go about 

the business of rallying support, 

you must keep a careful eye on 

all the others. 

The total electorate is 

comprised of 200 votes, 40 

belong to the computercontrolled 

players and won by 

your interaction, the other 160 

votes are won by careful 

placement of manifestos. You 

need 101 to win! 

This game incorporates 

simulations of human 

personalities, The computercontrolled 

characters' 

personality attributes are: 

intelligence, loyalty, emotions, 

aggression, changeability, 

ambition and gullibility. 

Characters' intelligence 

increases throughout the game. 

Feelings of loyalty are 

simulated too, characters do 

change their allegiance and you 

can win them over if you try 

often enough and hard enough. 

Loyalty has an interesting 

side-effect in that characters 

feel a certain loyalty for other 

charcters of their 'kind'. 

Extremists have a degree of 

loyalty for other characters of 

their 'kind', Extremists have a 

degree of loyalty for one 

another regardless of which 

party they follow. 

Emotions are portrayed by 

how friendly a character is. 

The aggression factor 

measures the likelihood of the 

character to enter into slurring 

matches with others. 

Changeability reflects each 

character's likelihood of 

changing political allegiance 

and contributes to their loyalty 

rating. 

Initial ambition varies 

depending on the status of the 

characters, it can be fuelled by 

your actions and those of other 

characters. The more ambitious 

a character becomes, the bigger 

threat they are to you if they are 

not on your side. 

Slurrability indicates the 

effectiveness of any smear 

attack you may bestow on the 

opposition. 

As Party Leader credibility is 

of the essence, you must keep it 

high, if it reaches zero, the 

game is up 

The Quoon doesn't compete 

for followers and will not stoop 

to slurring under any 

circumstances. Likewise she 

does not respond well to these 

tactics. 

Tokens take immediate affect, 

Sincerity and Hope increase 

your Credibility, which is your 

life-blood. 

Objects include Gossip, Scam 

and Untruths which increase 

your unseen "slurring power". 

When you have decided 

slurring is the only way to 

proceed make sure you are 

armed! 

The Peerage, Rosette, 

Knighthood and Shares don't 

affect you but when given to 

your supporters it will increase 

their ambition, and their ability 

to carry Out your orders. 

You will find Manifestos 

(marked "lkifl which you must 

take to your party H.Q. to adopt 

party colours, then drop them in 

any of the 16 special named 

locations in the game, this will 

immediately gain you 10 votes. 

Options you can access via 

the joystick controlled menu 

include: 

Take: This option is automatic 

from the beginning of play but 

you may need to reselect after 

using another option, or after 

certain approaches by other 

characters. You can lift tokens 

or objects this way, but you can 

only carry four objects any time, 

Drop: You may deposit 

Manifestos in special locations 

or merely drop objets you no 

longer require to make room for 

new ones. Only four objects can 

be placed on the screen at any 

time. Also be careful not to 

place two manifestos on a 

special location at any time or 

you will lose one! 

Give: You can choose to give 

incentives or objects to a 

character. You can control how 

much you give, remember you 

can increase supporters' 

ambitions and make them more 

able to give orders on your 

behalf, but you don't want to 

increase the ambitions of a 

supporter of any other party! 

Computer-controlled people 

will sometimes be quite 

generous when canvassing for 

you, so keep a pocket empty for 

contributions! 

Ask: Simple questioning can 

help you find out about a 

character, perhaps they may 

indicate how they intend to 

vote, Alternatively they may not 

wish to discuss anything with 

you. 

Slur: You may persuade a 

person to slur another on your 

behalf. You must first select 

who you wish to order, then 

once they have agreed to 

comply you must select the 

person you wish to receive the 

slurring. This may or may not 

work for a number of reasons. 

The loyalty of the character you 

have ordered towards you is 

important. They will be meeting 

others all the time who are 

bribing and canvassing just like 

you. Each order has a built-in 

boredom rating but luckily 

slurring is the most interesting 

order you can give. Very 

intelligent supporters will 

automatically collect Scam or 

Gossip or some such 'weapon" 

to aid their slur campaign, but 

with a less intelligent person 

you may have to give them 

such an object. 

Canvas: Sena your supporters 

Out to rally support for you in 

this way. You must select a 

supporter to give the order to 

and then indicate who the 

recipient is to be. You can 

delegate a lot of political legwork 

this way. An "undecided" 

voterwill be much easier to 

persuade than someone 

committed to another party. 

You could try sending several 

people to canvass such a 

character. When other 

characters canvass you they 

may be willing to give you 

objects they are carrying so 

keep a spare pocket. 

You can force a character to 

actually resign by reducing their 

credibility to zero, but this could 

happen to you too! Any 

valuables carried by the 

happless candidate will be 

deposited as far as possible on 

the screen they resigned (look 

for a banana!) on, or elsewhere 

on the map. 

When you select slur and 

person you are attacking, the 

screen border will turn yellow 

for the duration of the attack. 

Get as close as possible and 

follow them so you are 

continually making contact but 

keep a close eye on your 

credibility rating! 

If you wish to cease you can 

either run away (but will lose 

some face in the form of your 

future slur rating) or press FIRE 

which allows you to concede. 

Doing so will cause you to lose 

your valuables, but at least 

you'll have some credibility at 

the end of the day! 

Computer-controlled 

characters can also concede 

and will relinquish their 

valuables if the slurrer has 

enough empty pockets, 

Each character is different. 

Some will never become your 

followers despite defeat, others 

will do so grudgingly and 

others would rather resign than 

give in! 

You can save the game at any 

time and reload it later, A good 

feature this as Election is a 

game that will take quite a while 

to complete. 

The characters in the game 

are thinly disguised cartoon 

representations of the real 

people in politics and the 

media. You'll recognise them 

when you see them.' 

Election, is a lot more fun 

than watching a party political 

broadcast and despite being 

topical will probably outlast 

your average arcade adventure. 

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Oh N dear, oh dear, oh dear_ 

That's E about all I feel like saying 

about this offering from 

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Activision. I'low to take a good 

coin-op . and ruin it would be a 

Sgood 

summing up of this 

Pconversion 

of Sege's multi- 

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arcade game. 

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machines on our stand at the 

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ing hrfnmm, what's thisi 

give it a chance. Get 

gh the first level and you 

ght just find yourself getting 

hookectby this cute little game. 

I must admit, here at C4- VG, 

we'd all beerfthoroughly 

spciled by playing Super Mario 

others on the Nintendo 

ames Systems— and Wonder 

Boy is in the same mould. So 

when you go back to a similar 

style game on the 64 you 

approach it with different 

feelings.. 

Wonder Boy starts off on a 

, hazardous journey, his 

te Mission to rescue his 

friend Tina, kidnapped by 

the evil King. King lives in a 

way place, across seven 

herous territories. Each 

Itory is made up of four 

lands, each land consists of four 

a 

r When you have reached the 

end e of each territory you will 

a 

have to defeat a mad Ogre to 

progress to the next level, 

s On your way, jump over 

. various obstacles including 

boulders and bonfires and kill 

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away from the machine, In fact 

it was tough enough to get the 

C +VG team away from the 

machine. 

No-one will be rushing to play 

the Spectrum version of the 

game. The best thing I can say 

is that I hope the 64 and 

Amstrad versions are better. 

Quartet was Sega's bid to 

catch up with Atari in the multi. 

player game stakes which 

began with Gauntlet, 

Of course, you can't hope to 

get four players gathered 

round a Spectrum — but you 

can get two. Even with a friend 

playing along with you it's hard 

to capture any of the excitment 

generated by the arcade 

machine, 

Your Quartet team member is 

tiny, just one colour character, 

but fairly well animated to give 

it its due. The backgrounds are 

multi-coloured but boring, and 

the nestles are often hard to 

board o T a Y 

protect you for a while. 

Do not forget to boost your 

strength and collect bonus 

points by eating exotic fruit or 

junk food. 

At the top left of the screen 

the number of lives remaining 

is shown. Just beneath this 

there is a box which will display 

,the stone axe when imu have 

picked it up. 

Immediately to the right of • 

the box are three icons 

representing the first three 

• lands; upon 4; omplating a land. 

the icon for that land will light 

up. - 

When the last of the three 

icons is lit, they will scroll off 

revealing a new land to be 

completed. 

Mid-way at the top of the 

screen your score and the 

highest score achieved are 

shown. Under this is your 

Vitality Meter which may be 

topped up by collecting objects 

or finishing a land 

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pick out against them. 

It's also pretty easy to defeat 

the enemies and collect the 

keys which take you through 

the exit doors and on to further 

levels in the game. I got up to 

level eight in the first sitting. 

The only reason I got no 

,IBER• 

• You must get to the end of a 

land before this reads zero. Any 

vitality you have left at the end 

of a land will be converted into 

a bonus score. 

You'll find useful objects 

inside eggs — like the stone axe 

or a fairy II) who will protect 

you for a while before flying off. 

You lose items when you've 

killed—and if you die arid lose 

the axe you might as well forget 

about continuing. It's a vital bit 

further was mat I found myself 

stuck behind a series of 

awkward barriers after picking 

up a jet-pack. 

The jet-pack stops you being 

able to crawl —so there I stayed 

until time run-out. I almost 

didn't go back for another crack 

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There's a frog who needs a 

good hammering before he 

gets out of your way near the 

end. This makes the game 

frustrating — it's no challenge if 

you lose a life early on and 

KNOW you just can't get any

at the game. 

It's also difficult to tell just 

what the objects which you 

collect actually do for you — 

apart from the "shield" which 

makes you flash a bit to indicate 

that you are invulnerable for a 

while. 

It doesn't seem to make much 

difference which character you 

chose to play. Edgar, Mary. Lee 

and Joe seem to have identical 

powers and look the same on 

screen as well. 

Quartet on the Spectrum 

could just win the prize for the 

worst coin-op conversion so far 

this year. It definitely wins the 

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er whatever you do. 

So look before you leap and 

go slowly. eating ALL the food 

you can find. your vitality 

shrinks rapidly — effectively 

giving a time limit for each 

territory. 

prize for the naffest cassette 

artwork. 

And the price/ £10? No way 

Jose. These days I reckon 

Mastertronic would think twice 

about putting a game of this 

quality out at budget prices. 

To be fair, we haven't seen 

the 64 or Amstrad versions. If 

they are any better we'll let you 

know. 

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excellent Enduro Racer we were 

expecting great things. 

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picked up. 

The way the rockets are 

launched off his back is really 

impressive and the resulting 

explosions are some of the best 

I've seen on the Spectrum. 

The spaceman has to duck, 

dodge, jump and blast his way 

through the aliens. 

The plot outline is fairlv 

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Hey, there's something wrong 

here! This game isn't a coin-op 

conversion. It doesn't feature 

characters from a TV cartoon. It 

doesn't feature characters to do 

with a new film. Some mistake 

surely?! 

Tell you what though, it is a 

cracking mixture 

of action and 

strategy and features some of 

the most stunning 3D I've ever 

seen on the Spectrum. 

Peter Cooke can be relied 

upon to produce original and 

challenging games and he's 

done it again with Micronaut 

One— set inside a massive 

Biocomputer riddled with 

enough pests to keep Rentokill 

in business for at least a couple 

of light years. 

Play the game and you 

become a member of the Guild 

of Equalisers, formed to protect 

the asteroid based 

biocomputers from infestation. 

As with all systems, the 

biocornputer has predators, the 

Scrim, a mutated descendent of 

the fruit fly, Drosophilia. 

The Scrim live in the Tunnels, 

feeding on free energy and 

thriving on the warm and damp 

enviornment. As part of their 

work Guild must keep the 

tunnels clear of Scrim eggs and 

webs, 

The Scrim has a three stage 

life-cycle in the tunnels, Eggs 

are laid by adult Scrim. They are 

very strong and usually 

impervious to the Guild's 

weapons 

The eggs grow very quickly in 

the energy rich tunnels and 

continue to feed until they 

split and form the fully 

adult Jellyfly. 

Jellyflyers are 

fast moving and will 

search for a section of 

tunnel to build an energy web 

and lay their eggs to begin one 

lifecycle all over again, 

The objective of the game is 

to rid the tunnels of any Scrim 

while maintaining the energy, 

When all the Scrim have been 

eliminated in a tunnel complex 

the Guild will transfer you to a 

more unstable and heavily 

infested area. 

To begin life as a Guild 

member, move the arrow to the 

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and press fire. The screen will 

clear and a new set of options 

will appear, the game menu, 

You'll see View, Map, E.T.U,, 

info, Pad, and Misc, options at 

the top of the screen. 

Select the View option, The 

top of the screen, the 

viewscreen, will show you view 

of the tunnels. Now left, right, 

up and down will move you 

Ship about through the tunnels 

and fire will fire the ships 

weapons. In addition the keys 

and W allow you to move up 

and down in the tunnel to avoid 

obstacles. 

Below the viewscreen are the 

ship's instruments, A small 

rectangular window, the 

scanner shows the tunnel 

section that you are in, the 

direction that you are facing, 

the time and 

whether 

your 

weapons are 

targetted. 

Below the scanner are three 

bars. The first shows the ship's 

speed, the second ths ship's 

energy level and the third is a 

message window for 

information about the 

Biocomputer. 

The next menu is Map. This 

shows a map of the tunnels 

Which wraps round the screen 

and can be scrolled from left to 

right. 

Your position is marked by a 

X and you can also set a marker 

to any section simply by 

pointing at it and pressing fire. 

These markers are used by 

the ships Navigational Locking 

System lNavlock on the map 

menu bars to calculate a route 

for your ships to anywhere in 

the tunnels, 

The ETAT menu shows the 

energy levels of the four Energy 

Transfer Units in the tunnel 

complex. 

The Info menu simply gives 

an overview of the biocomputer 

and provides a valuable 

identification chart for the 

differing life stages of the 

Scrim. 

There are several extra 

options available on the main 

menu. 

Of course you can always 

work out your own routes to the 

ETU's if you reckon you know 

better than your on-board 

computer. 

The scrolling is amazingly 

fast for the Spectrum — you can 

make things move VERY 

rapidly. And then there's the 

terrific sense of being enclosed 

by the tunnel walls All very 

atmospheric. 

Micronaut is Pete Cooke's 

best yet. And the blurb contains 

the best excuse why there's no 

real sound effects in a Spectrum 

game I reckon I've ever read. 

What is it? Well Pete says that 

because the tunnels are kept in 

a semi-vacuum condition you 

wouldn't be able to hear much. 

Nice excuse — great game. 

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to putting that ace arcade game 

Hang-On onto computer. Max 

Torque is a pretty 

straightforward bike racing 

game— but it's fast and lots of 

fun. 

And you don't have to go 

through all that boring multiload 

business that Super Cycle 

— the US Gold game— put you 

through. 

You race across varying types 

of track with different colourful 

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Hey guys, I'm begining to suffer 

an advanced case of firebutton 

fingerl This month it seems that 

that the shoot-'em-up is striking 

back. But then, has it ever really 

been away. Hades Nebula, Mag 

Max and now Plastmatron — 

all action packed blasters, all 

released this month, and all for 

the 64. 

the clock. There are six sections 

of track to complete— finish a 

section and you'll get a points 

bonus — as in Enduro Raced 

Hang-On, 

Fail and the game shows you 

the complete track with an 

indication of just how close you 

were to the finish line again 

like the arcade machine. 

Other riders aren't very 

friendly. They try to bump you 

off the track. You can pull 

spectacular wheelies off the 

start line and on the track but 

always remember to get your 

bike into the right gear 

otherwise you'll end up 

struggling along and failing to 

finish. 

Watch the top left hand side 

of the screen for arrows which 

indicates what sort of corner 

you're about the encounter — a 

sharp left or long right for 

example. But don't take you're 

eyes of the track for too long or 

you might find yourself running 

out of road, or being hit by an 

I'm about to overdose on 

shattered alien spaceships. 

Normal service will be resumed 

as soon as possible.. 

Meanwhile back at the game, 

you find yourself piloting a 

Plasmatron starfighter on a spy 

mission. Your task is to check 

out alien lifeforms on a 

deserted empire colony. 

They said it was going to be a 

piece of cake this mission. They 

said nothing violent would 

happen. They were telling big 

porkie pies! 

These aliens are hoslite 

"Hoslite"? Well that's what it 

says in the blurb — maybe 

we've had an onboard 

computer malfunction here 

captain — maybe they mean 

hostile. Either that or it's an 

alien word for something worse 

than hostile. 

Which could be closer to the 

truth than you think 'cos these 

aliens come at you thick and 

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background. Lots of different 

aliens and lots of different 

scrolling 3D style backgrounds. 

The good news is that your 

Plasmatron is protected by a 

shield. The bad news is that it 

gets damaged by collisions with 

enemy craft and laser fire. 

Effectively you only get one 

life— which is a bit annoying 

really. You think you're doing 

well and then suddenly warning 

bleepers go off and your trusty 

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opponent. 

The bike is tricky to control. 

Small joystick movements are 

required here— if you are too 

heavy handed you II end up 

taking a tumble. 

Line yourself up and lean into 

the corners with one jab on the 

stick, pull out and head down 

the straight with another. Any 

more and you'll be weaving 

over the road. 

Once on the bike animation is 

excellent. The rider's head 

moves in time with movement 

of the bike and little puffs of tyrt 

smoke come from the "tyres" 

and "Hang On" — all to spur 

you on to greater speeds. 

Programmer Martin Webb 

has put together an excellently 

presented and fun to play race 

game. Great graphics, good 

sound, good game. 

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Piasmatrun disinterg rates 

around you. 

Keep an eye on your shield 

level by checking out the 

"powermeters" situated at the 

bottom centre of the screen. 

Here you'll also see your 

damage-o-meter, distance to 

end of level plus laser 

temperature read-out. 

Learn the movements of the 

aliens, stay in the centre of the 

screen to allow yourself more 

room to move and if your shield 

gets too low find a safe place — 

try the top left hand side of the 

screen — to take a rest and 

allow your shield to rebuild 

itself. 

Beware of the aliens that take 

more than one hit to finish off. 

There's some nice intro music 

— ripped oft from The Planets 

— but you have to make do with 

sound effects while you play. 

The worst thing about 

Plasmatron is the irritatingly 

long computer controlled takeoff 

sequence at the start of each 

game. Nice the first couple of 

times, but boring once you're 

:tching to get blasting. 

Plasmatron is a good looking, 

fairly addictive blaster, It won't 

knock you back on your heels 

when you first load it up— but 

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Fancy changing the destiny of a 

whole planet? Not an offer that 

comes your way every day, is 

it? But Meg Max gives you the 

chance to save a world from the 

evil Mechanoids, Haven't we 

just had an election to do much 

the same thing? Enough of this 

biting social satire— on with 

the review. 

Meg Max, if you remember, 

was advertised ages ago, but 

like many a game failed to 

appear on schedule. But now 

this conversion of the 

Nitchibutsu (Bless youl) coin-op 

is here and raring to take you on 

a zap-packed adventure. 

The game is set on a once 

civilised planet which has been 

destroyed by the awesomely 

nasty Mechanoids. They are the 

sort of people who like ripping 

the tops off flowers as they walk 

past your front garden. 

Which is what happened on 

the planet where the Mag Max 

project was being carried out. 

Meg Max, an advanced robot 

with more deadly gizmos than a 

food processor, was created by 

the Sci-Corps who, when 

threatened by the Mechanoids, 

buried bits of Max all around 

the planet. They left the main bit 

in a secret bunker. 

The Mechanoids went about 

spitting horrible laser death 

joyfully unaware of Meg Max 

sitting waiting to pounce. 

And this is where you come 

in. You control the mighty robot 

and direct his attack on the 

mean old Mechanoids. Guide 

him across the surface of the 

planet, and through 

underground passages. 

searching for his long-lost spare 

parts. 

You begin by flying the main 

bit of Max over the 3D1 

perspective surface of the 

planet — full of animated 

hazards, pillboxes and flying 

mechanoids. 

Your best bet is to grab the 

body section you see waiting by 

a crater and then dive 

underground to familiarise 

yourself with the controls and 

idea of the game. 

The underground sections 

are pretty straightforward, 

horizontally scrolling shoot- 

'em-up. But watch out for the 

homing missiles fired by the 

various types of aliens you 

encounter. 

Collect more parts of Mag 

Max— you'll find them 

scattered around at pretty 

regular intervals— then find a 

hatch which leads back to the 

surface and have a crack at the 

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Out there and blast away at 

everything in sight' You'll love 

Firetrack. 

Yes, it's another zipping 

through space/guns blazing/ 

tally-ho shoot-'em-up, with the 

usual feeble plot to justify the 

mayhem. It seems you're a 

22nd century space pilot caught 

up in the pirate wars, and your 

job is to destroy the colonies of 

the 'Pirate Industrials'. You've 

also got to find a mysterious 

White Light before the baddies 

do. 

In other words, you go Out 

there and blast everything in 

sight. 

I gasped at the game 

instructions, which at first 

reading seemed very 

complicated. The playing tips 

were enough to frighten me off 

But you actually get to grips 

with the action very quickly. 

You view your ship from above 

and the ground scrolls down 

the screen below you. The trick 

is to negotiate your way round 

the hectic airspace, with your 

finger firmly on the firing 

button. 

You can use keyboard or 

joystick, but whichever you 

choose your trigger finger will 

suffer. Fortunately you can give 

it a rest by using the auto fire 

facility. 

Firetrack may be nothing 

new, but it's an excellent 

variation on a tried and trusted 

theme. The game was created 

by Orlando, so it's no surprise 

that the graphics are smooth, 

fast and colourful. There are 

plenty of different scenarios to 

add interest. 

And watch out, it's addictive. 

Your nerves will be in tatters 

after a few games. If you like 

you action fast and furious, with 

a dash of variety, add Firetrack 

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Chill out, man. It's those MAD 

spies again, turning the arctic 

into a snow go area for 

espionage. 

If my memory serves me well 

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Once again its the white spy 

versus the black spy in a 

mission to be tho first into outer 

space. 

Therace is on for each spy to 

collect a spacehelmet, 

navigation c uranium cube 

and the ''m carrier" before 

entering t e t for blast off. 

As befotii the .et move 

around they brave blizzard, 

bears, penguins, can indulge in 

snowball fights, deadly icicles 

etc. 

Each spy can lay traps for the 

other • such as sawing holes in 

the ice, making ice-patchesand 

even blowing your opponent 

up. Running along the bottom 

of each screen is the 

"trapulator" which displays the 

items eacy spy has managed to 

collect. The screen display on 

my instruction sheet included 

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As climbing•around-the-screen 

type games go, this is tolerable. 

Particularly if you don't like 

spending a lot of money. 

It's familiar stuff. You control 

Dave the Dungaroid in his 

attempt to escape from prison 

in which there seems to be just 

one prisoner (him) and a host of 

aliens. 

So off you go, clambering 

around 20 screens, jumping 

between platforms, using lifts 

and so on. The action is not very 

fast, it's more a question of 

planning your route and good 

timing, rather than lightning 

reflexes. The main innovation 

seems to be the fact that you 

can fall as far as you like 

without killing yourself. 

The graphics are a bit crude 

and blockish, but colourful and 

lively with busy screens. 

There's a jolly tune, too, and a 

table. 

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game that scored a hit in other 

versions. And it's good stuff, a 

combination of Repton-like 

maze and fast arcade action. 

You control Blob, the 

Biologically Operated Being, 

whatever that means. His 

dauting task is to rebuild an 

unstable planet from within, to 

stop it exploding and 

destroying the universe. 

This is the thin excuse for a 

lively adventure in which you 

explore a vast maze 1500 

screens, says the blurb), 

meeting a host of objects and 

aliens. You can move left and 

right, fire at nasties, pick things 

up, and lay bridging platforms. 

The only use I could find for this 

latter feature was to propel Blob 

upwards. You can define your 

own keys, and there is a joystick 

option. 

Features include anti-gravity 

lifts, pyramids, secret passages, 

teleports, lunar undergrowth 

and a lot of other things I either 

didn't encounter, or failed to 

recognise. This is one of those 

games which you have to play 

for a long time to find out 

what's going on, what you're 

supposed to be doing, and what 

all the weird and wonderful 

objects are. 

The graphics are pretty good, 

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Now if you'll excuse me, I 

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rough edges in the playability 

dept., the idea of moving 

elements around the screen to 

alter the movement of the 

modules, works well. Combine 

this with a siiiipe. but effective, 

tutorial and ali manner of 

nasties, each with It's own, 

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The basic idea is simple. You 

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Zynaps is the work of Dominic 

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(Iridium — the game nobody 

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Speccy. The job he did was 

nothing short of brilliant. 

And so to Zynaps. Well, it 

looks good, plays well but it 

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nasty. 

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sound by none other than the 

WE Music team. The credits 

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You fly a Mark One Scorpion 

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for delicate control in tight 

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Weapons available are 

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only in graphic presentation. 

Paranoid Software, the people 

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The fuel scoop— provides 

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understand, however, that this 

does not happen on all the 

levels. 

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Its the middle of the night, outside an electrical 

storm is raging and you're- all alone in castle 

Frankenstein. Your task is to revive Frankie. the 

monster who wants you at the top of the tower while 

you hunt around for the vital organs that will make 

his life complete. You need to find a pair of lungs, a 

pair of kidneys, a liver, a heart and of course a brain 

if you want to make a man of him. 

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mean machine. 

Like most race games you can 

select a practice mode before 

getting down to real race action. 

Tracks which can be selected 

are Brands Hatch, Silverstone, 

Snetterton, Oulton Park and the 

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three main formats with most of 

the games common to each. 

This is what you get: Spectrum 

and Amstrad — Great Gurianos, 

Airwolf Two and 30C_ 

Commodore 64— Great 

Gurianos, Airwolf Two and 

Cata ball. 

Great Gurianos is the old 

Taito coin op game and for me 

it's the best of the bunch, Hack 

and slash with nice big cartoon 

graphics. 

I'm much too young to 

remember Elite's original 

Airwolf game based on the 

adventures of TV helicopter 

pilot Stringfellow Hawke twhat 

a dumb name). 30C is a 3D 

arcade adventure set 

underwater in which a diver 

must reconstruct a submarine 

while fighting off deep sea 

nasties. Catchall is a bit odd. 

You control four bounding 

balls, which move in a wave-like 

motion, against a series of 

backdrops in an effort to collect 

ballons, Strange but playable. 

Great Gurianos gets my top 

vote but when you add three 

other good playable games. 

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space ship and told to land on 

each section of the Matrix 

planetary network, overcome 

the security devices and rescue 

hostages. There are a 

seemingly infinite number of 

matrix prisons on which to land 

and a limited amount of time — 

99 minutes — before the 

hostages are executed. 

You're first given the 

opportunity to select a matrix 

level by scanning a cursor 

across a star map on yor space 

ship's veiwer. Pressing fire 

when you are over one of these 

level takes you down to a 

landing sight to which you'll 

return with your hostages or if 

you want to get back to your 

ship for any other reason, such 

as your energy's running low. 

Nimrod is lightly armed when 

he enters a complex but he'll 

need to find other weaponry, 

such as the Lazatron, Megabolt 

and Megatron if he's to deal 

with the monsters and traps the 

Cratons have left for intruders. 

The guards are the most 

obvious of his worries and, if 

his firepower is low, it's best to 

be out of any situation which 

involves them. 

The ground is laden with 

energy distruptors, spikey 

mines, floor pad operated 

doors, black ice, rebound and 

energy loss squares. Rebound 

squares are particularly 

dangerous if arranged in a 

semi-square. Once you're in its 1 

arms it takes a lot of force to 

break free of the magnetic push 

and pull. As for the black ice, I'm 

not sure whether you fall 

through into the depths of the 

prison or into a black hole. 

Cratons are unusual captors; 

they've included elements in 

their prisons which'll help 

potential rescuers. You can leap 

up onto walls stepping on blue 

arrow squares and read your 

position off a map displayed 

when you step on a square 

marked 100— or Loo. I'm again 

not sure. There are also crates, 

labelled like alphabet bricks, 

scattered around which you can 

push onto the floor pads for the 

pressure activated doors. 

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wall tops of the prison, Each 

level is split into several large 

sections with black space in 

between. If you fall into the 

space it drains your energy and 

you lose the only life you've 

got. 

The Final Matrix is a 

combination of game concepts 

put to good use. It's Knight/ore, 

Nexor, Terror of the Deep, and 

Star Raiders rolled into one and 

even Nimrod looks similar to 

the robot in Martianolds. The 

3D display is similar to 

Ultimate, but it's slightly off 

perspective and scrolls slowly 

both on the Sepctrum and 

Amstrad versions. 

It's still an action packed and 

frustrating game despite the 

technical criticism, although I 

still can't work out why the 

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Grand Prix is a motor racing 

game that lets you design your 

own race circuits, although you 

also have 18 pre-defined race 

tracks— including Brands 

Hatch and Monaco. 

It reminded me of Atari's Pole 

Position, since the layout of the 

screen as seen by the driver is 

very similar. But with Grand 

Prix you get a lot more extras. 

You've got the choice of 

playing against a mate or the 

computer. The computer, I 

might say, has taken good care 

to give itself the advantage of a 

faster car, which of course 

never crashes. So you've got to 

be good to keep up. 

One neat touch is the way 

each driver has his or her own 

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which adds to the realism. 

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fast, and watch out for the 

humpback bridges— if you're 

too fast you'll blow up. The 

'radar' at the bottom of the 

screen tells you where you are 

and warns you about bends and 

bridges. 

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are all good, with smooth 

animation. All in all, Grand Prix 

is a good bet for all those 

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£1.99. Gauntlet-clone. 

Dead or Alive. Alternative. 

Spectrum. £1.99. Wild West shootfem-fup. 

Comes with free game. 

Gwyn. Mastertronic. C16/Plus 4. 

£1.99 Space rescue. 

Red Arrows. Alternative. CBM 64. 

El .99. Flight simulation. 

Thurst. Firebird. C 16/Plus 4. 

E1.99. Excellent space action. 

Ocean Racer. Alternative. 

Spectrum. £1.99. Yacht race 

game. 

Indoor Soccer. Amstrad. £1.99. 

Football simulation. 

Wolfan. Spectrum. £1.99. 3D 

arcade adventure. 

Destruct°. Bulldog. Amstrad. 

£1.99. Jet and ship shoot-fern-up. 

Bump Set Strike. Mastertronic. 

Amstrad. £1.99. 3D volleyball. 

Power Down. Mastertronic. Atari. 

£1.99. Space maze exploration. 

Championship Baseball. 

Gamestar. 

Storm bringer. Mastertronic. 

Spectrum 128/Plus 2. £2.99. 

Excellent conclusion to Magic 

Knight saga. 

Throne of Fire. Melbourne House. 

Amstrad. A Mike Singleton 

tactical adventure. 

Galletron. Amstrad/Spectrum. 

£1.99. Space arcade adventure. 

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Mutants. Ocean. Spectrum. 

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Head Over Heels. Ocean. CBM 64. 

E8.95. C-VG Hit on Amstrad. 

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Amstrad. Space platform game. 

Killer Ring. Reaktor. 5 Amstrad. 

£4.99. Excellent action. 

Snap Dragon. Bubble Bus. CBM 

64. E8.95. Kung E Fu punch-up. 

SAS Strike Force. Mikro-Gen. 

Spectrum. Combat. 

Spaced Out. Firebird. 4 Amstrad. 

£1.99. Space action and strategy. 

Denarius. Firebird. CBM 64. 

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Aztec Challenge, Top Ten. Atari 

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Rubicon. Bug-Byte. 4 Spectrum. 

Maze exporation. 

Force One. Firebird. CBM 64. 

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brooding and reluctant hero 

through the six dimensions 

of chronology and space to 

the bizarre world at the End 

Of Time. Here, the 

inhabitants dwell in bloodsucking 

cities which draw in 

power from the rest of the 

Universe, enabling them to 

create illusions at will. Elric 

is soon made to feel 

welcome, but the vapors 

produced for him do not 

always have the happiest 

results.• 

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superbly by brilliant artwork 

by Rodney Matthews whose 

atmospheric floating landscapes 

with their aweinspiring 

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text perfectly. This unique 

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ation in fact. This issue we look at a sculptor who creates 

k book, and a new IAD style TV show, 

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Matthews' work on posters 

and record sleeves. Ile's 

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albums in the past. Eiric at 

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Forget The Price is Right and 

Buliseye — here's a game show 

for the computer generation. And it 

doesn't involve a wrinkly old hasbeen 

or an audience from the local 

looney bin! Called Knightmare the 

show starts on ITV from September 

7th. The eight-part series, blends 

the computer game with TV 

special effects. Knightmare 

involves competitors in a quest 

with a set of perils and puzzles, 

backed by a professional cast of 

monsters, wizards, warriors and 

other "supernatural" apparitions. 

The action takes place in a multichambered 

electronic dungeon, 

ranging in appearance trom 

conventional rooms to huge 

underground caverns. The effect is 

created by use of sophisticated 

colour separation overlay, already 

successfully employed for 

television drama but never before 

attempted in a non-rehearsable 

game show. 

Game designer Tim Child chose 

the technique in preference to 

conventional set design or even 

the use of a real dungeon, both of

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which were "too restrictive" 

He explains: "A true roleplaying 

adventure game should 

never play the same twice. A lot of 

adventure games are based on 

mapping and solving a dungeon or 

some other sort of maze. 

"This just wasn't good enough 

for a IV series. Once a good team 

worked out the correct route, 

they'd have cracked most of the 

problem and, worse still, so 

would the viewers. 

"Competitors won't escape from 

the Knightmare dungeon that 

easily. For a start it's irrational — 

It keeps shifting and changing. 

And the perils and puzzles change 

with it." 

Each quest is undertaken by a 

team of four contestants. One is 

the Adventurer who goes into the 

dungeon effectively blindfolded by 

a Helmet of Justice. 

The other three stay behind in 

an ante-chamber to give advice 

and directions to the Adventurer. 

The aim is to progress as far as 

possible through the dungeon. If a 

team successfully completes a 

programme it returns to compete 

on a "higher level" next lime. 

The host or Dungeon Master 

— is Treguare, played by actor 

Hugo Myatt. He also stays in the 

ante-chamber but can manifest 

himself in the dungeon as the 

game progresses. 

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the instructions from 

London. I'd opened the 

parcel containing map, 

compass and emergency 

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at least I thought I had. 

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resembling the set for Dark 

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shells and trolls surrounded 

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tips and pokes. Could it be that it's that dreaded 

time of the year when exams are looming or could 

it be that you are still drooling over my poster. 

Then again it could be that you are just too darn 

lazy. Well, whatever the excuse, I am not happy! Do 

you think I enjoy getting loads of letters saying 

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can pay you for info. Send them to me — Melissa 

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Martin Ouakley of Norfolk read 

the plea from Matthew Wood 

of York for help with Dracula 

and sent in this method. 

Once you have boarded 

Dracula's coach the problem 

of getting past it without freezing 

is very hard. but with help 

from his friend Kristen Reed, 

Martin discovered this. Upon 

inputting the Litt seat he found 

that it was hinged and it swung 

upward, to reveal a small 

hatch set in the floor. Remove 

the cross that the old woman 

gave you and then type Insert 

Cross. There is a click and you 

return the cross to the safety 

of your shirt. Then you input 

Open Door and it swings up. 

When you examine, it will reveal 

some very useful blankets. 

When you reach the castle 

go west then south before you 

look around. This will reveal 

an ancient stone staircase. Go 

up and then examine the 

frame which reveals a carved 

bat. Simply enter touch mouth 

and a bell jangles and the door 

opens. Dracula takes you inside 

and you awake in your 

room. Examine table to reveal 

a small pewter tray — take the 

tray north and then pick up the 

cloth. Polishing tray enables 

you to shave and survive the 

day. 

Dracula will have dinner 

with you and you must then 

return to your room. Never go 

south into the labyrinth as you 

will become a rats lunch. Just 

keep returning to your room 

until you dream about these 

three girls. This is a nightmare. 

although they will kill 

you if they can. Go south and 

take bottle and then take 

cross. Smash bottle over girl's 

head, this should leave you 

with a razor sharp glass shard. 

Wave cross and the women 

vanish. Next day go into the 

living room and cut cord. Then 

go to the entrance to the tunnels. 

Go S. S and take lamp 

then go N, N. E to return to the 

entrance just go N and then E 

to to return to your room. 

When inside go N and open 

door. Enter the wardrobe and 

lift rail. Go back outside and 

move wardrobe to reveal a 

secret passage. Warning! Unless 

you have the lamp you 

cannot enter a secret passage. 

Warning! Unless you 

have the lamp you cannot 

enter the passage. Go D,D, D, 

until you emerge into a dusty 

room, go east to be on a 

windowless alcove. Wear the 

cross and then tie cord. Drop 

all objects apart from the cross 

and then wait_ You will see 

Dracula climb down the wall 

— it is now safe. Go down to 

get into his room. Look around 

then open trapdoor before 

going down. Warning! Speed 

is of vital importance in this 

final section. You will now be 

in desecrated church where 

you will see fifty boxes of 

ALIENS 

Someone who has been very 

quite over the last couple of 

months is Kenneth Henry. But. 

he has decided to come Out of 

early retirement to bring you 

help with Aliens. 

It will become apparent that 

moving manually from room to 

room blasting Alien warriors 

and bio-mechanical growth is 

not the beat way to start the 

game and get anywhere. First 

of all it is wasteful on the 

ammunition to clear every 

stretch of growth every time it 

appears as you only have 48 

shots (on the Amstrad it's 52) 

It is also wasteful on character's 

energy to have to rotate 

round to every door, and it is 

too easy to get lost. So to get 

to the Armoury at least, use 

the auto-direction system. 

Clearing Growth: You've 

just read that it is wasteful to 

clear large stretches of 

growth. but the problem is if 

earth. Open box and then 

examine box to reveal the 

sleeping count! Drop cross in 

box to slow him down and 

then go south three times as 

quickly as possible. With luck 

you will escape the castle and 

get Onto part three_ 

you don't the growth will 

spread to the Queen's chamber 

— wall to wall. Kenneth 

recommends this short term 

solution — clear out half the 

patch of growth each time. It's 

also best when you uncover 

doors behind growth, to clear 

the growth Iwo spaces either 

side to keep the door clear for 

a bit. And remenber, when 

auto-directing, characters 

cannot be stopped moving 

through doors by the growth. 

When you can't afford the 

ammunition to uncover door. 

auto-direct them through it. 

Playing Strategies when 

playing the game this way — 

you pay almost exclusively using 

the auto-direction process 

(AD) It involves a regular tour 

of the armoury, the control 

room and the generating 

room, then back to the 

armoury (if you want to get to 

continued on page 50

the Queen's chamber then fol- 

while stalking the Queen as 

low the armoury-control room you can easily switch to some- 

route, then On the final move 

one else to kill her. There is 

for the control room, g o always safety in numbers. 

straight ahead. East) using 

Fighting in the Dark — all is 

this route will make sure bot 

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rooms which provide light are 

A few things you should forget n•-• 

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Armoury whenn the ammo 

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doors and firing wildly. You will 

Killing Aliens — The Warrio 

r also have to use the AD to get 

— it usually walks around the anywhere. And don't shoot 

room for about ten seconds, door locks — as you can see 

Until it rushes at you. You 

the outline of the 6 dots, very 

want to find and kill it before it helpful in the dark. More often 

rushes you with either one 

than not you can spot the 

shot to the head or two to the outline on an alien warrior 

body. To save on ammo use against the white freatures of 

head shots. But, to make sure the wall, Try to notice other 

you never get acid in front of a 

things, like the flashing at the 

door use a body shot so the edges of the camera window 

Alien is nowhere near the door as an alien warrior dis- 

when you kill it. If a warrior 

appears, or when the scrolling 

rushes toward you without you slows down as a warrior 

shooting first, use body shots appears. Growth is a problem, 

again to make sure its dead. as it is pitch black. You are 

Don't get scared and fire 

allowed to fire a couple of 

several shots across the war- 

'spotlight' shots before a warriors 

body which will probably rior rushes you and this also 

miss anyway. If you want to 

helps you spot facehuggers. 

make sure a warrior is dead. 

Keep him in view until it leaps 

use three shots. 

— then blast it. 

Facehuggers — These 

Finally if the old spot light 

crawl along the ground for trick does not work, find the 

about five seconds before nearest door and GET OUT. 

leaping out at you. It Only Then re-enter the room and try 

takes one shot to kill. If you again. You might as well get 

are lucky enough to see it 

to, and stay near the armoury 

crawling shoot it quickly. If it as you cannot bring back the 

jumps at you, aim carefully lighting once it fails. 

and fire twice. 

Auto-Direction Codes: 

When you came across a 

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facehugger, blow it away and 

clear some growth in that 

room, then go forward one 

room and clear some of that 

growth. Remember to rotate 

all the way around the room as 

eggs do not give off a bleep. 

Queen's Chamber — try to 

et a least four people with 

ood ammo rates. Good tacics 

if someone gets captured 

More for the MSX this month 

and this time it is from Richard 

Williams of South Yorkshire. 

First up is Oh NO! — keep 

moving. The sides prove to be 

very useful, but don't go 

through the side while ghosts 

have entered on the opposite 

side. This could lead to instant 

death. 

Hoppe, — cross the road 

carefully. Follow the traffic in 

the first lane and then quickly 

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dash across the second lane 

avoiding the fast cars. When 

on s the logs be careful of stepping 

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Beware of Sid the Snake 

on Elevel 

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Jack the Nipper — when 

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the screen before they attack 

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collect all the keys, but don't 

get the hammer, stake or 

cross until you have opened 

all the doors and shutters. Be 

careful of falling rocks. 

Hyper Rally — when you go 

through stage 1 try not to just 

achieve the qualifying rank but 

get as close as possible to the 

next qualifying rank. You then 

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have less cars to pass enabling 

you to get closer to the 

next qualifying rank. 

For giving you all this info. 

Richard wants some help with 

the following. Finders Keepers 

— how do you pass the 'puss 

with no boots • and escape 

Castle Spriteland? 

Knight Tyme — how do you 

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ARKANOID 

These tips for Arkanoid come 

from Daniel Osborne of N. 

Humberside. Play the doubles 

game when player two gets an 

extra life at 20,000 virtually 

everything he hits gives an 

extra life, until 87 are 

awarded. 

The 'P capsule can't be 

seen — unless, when you get 

a pink 'B 

. screen. But, if the screen 

you're y o u on is easy or you are 

cnearly a finished it, don't exit! 

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Bounce around for a few 

seconds. 

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Don't pick up anymore 

capsules until you get 

the i t P. Also the exit will close 

whenever 

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you pick up a capsule 

h including a 1 

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Laser also seems a bit of a 

. rarity in the 64. To get this do 

the following. Get a divide (D) 

capsule. the ball will split into 

three balls. Lose two balls and 

keep the other one bouncing. 

ARMY MOVES 

A plea for help arrived on my 

desk from Neil Whittley of 

Wolverhampton who is having 

a lot of problems with Army 

Moves on the Amstrad. So, if 

you have any pokes or hints to 

help him, drop a letter to me. 

Mr D Kong of Southampton is 

a recent convert to C+VG. 

Having seen other readers 

pleas for help, he decided to 

see if anyone can help him — 

before he gives his Spectrum 

a free flying lesson out of the 

window, His problem concerns 

Green Bert — he needs 

a poke for infinite lives. As you 

can see from his photo — he 

is in the process of giving his 

Spectrum that flying lesson. 

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Here's Marten Mabey of 

Southampton and his faithful 

mutt. His quick tip is for Fist 

on the Commodore. When 

near the water fountain, if you 

do a backward somersault followed 

by a foward somersault, 

you get infinite lives!! 

FIRETRACK 

Reuben Harris has some 

quickies for the BBC. 

Firetrack — holding shiftlock, 

fO, 19 and Copy, while 

pressing space to start, then 

escape, space will start you on 

the second last level with about 

60 lives — do you have 

enough fingers to hold those 

all down Reuben? 

• CHOLO GUIDE 

Before attempting to complete 

Chola Martin Dudman and 

Stephen Robertson suggest 

that you read the manual and 

you are in complete control of 

Hacker. First you have to take 

Hacker back into the computer 

building and go to the computer. 

(use the maps to help you 

find your way around). Once 

you have found the computer, 

logon by moving into it then 

select READ and read the file 

RADARPRG. This program 

gives you radar for spotting 

buildings and other robots. 

Disconnect yourself from the 

computer and get back outside. 

Once outside go east to the 

Bridge (two). Once there, 

stop. Return to the menu and 

select RIZZO the RAT. Bring 

him to the bridge and start to 

go across. Move across to the 

far left hand side of the bridge 

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you. Do not stop! Keep going 

forward and move to alternate 

side of the bribge, dodging the 

guards and their shots until 

your damage gets dangerously 

high. If youre lucky you will 

be able to get the RAT across 

the bridge in one go. If not, 

return to the menu and select 

Hacker. Move Hacker across 

the bridge as you did with Rat, 

but when the first shot hits 

you, return to the menu and 

select Rat. 

If Rat has crossed the 

bridge you can go straight to 

(four) to get Leadie. If not, you 

will have to wait for the Rat to 

repair itself before prosceeding 

across the bridge. Once 

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When they appear go to the 

menu. Select Hacker again, 

and the guards will have been 

reset, allowing you to move a 

little bit more across the 

bridge. 

If Hacker gets badly damaged 

you will have to wait for 

him to repair himself before 

proceeding across the bridge, 

so while you are waiting, use 

Rat to go and get Leadie from 

the building at (four). 

When you have found him, 

paralyse him, move into him 

and enter his password 

(underneath the maps). Select 

Leadie from the menu and 

take him outside. By this time 

Hacker will have been repaired 

enough to make a bit 

more of the journey across the 

bridge_ 

Once you get Hacker 

across the bridge go South to 

(three) and find the computer 

in the Science Centre. When 

you find the computer move 

into it, as before — but, as 

soon as you access this computer 

it will display the message 

"ship control 

gives - you control of Queen the 

Ship, . T anchored h i s off the coast. 

Do not disconnect yet. Read 

the file hack 1 then disconnect 

and leave the building. Go to 

(four) and use the computer in 

there to read Hack 2. Disconnect 

and go outside. Give the 

programs Hack 1. Hack 2 and 

Radar to Leadie. 

When you have done all 

this, select Leadie once more 

and cross back over the 

bridge. Take him southwest 

(five) to the dockside. Then 

select Queen the Ship and sail 

her north to the dockside. You 

should be able to see another 

ship and a jetty. Sail slowly, 

close to the left hand side of 

the Jetty and dock the ship. 

When this is done correctly, 

you will get the message 

"docked"s which means 

you can now board the ship 

using the teleport, Select 

Leadie and board the ship by 

using the teleport_ Select 

Leadie and board the ship by 

moving him onto the teleport. 

Once on board select Queen 

the Ship, reverse her out of 

the dock and go southeast to 

the island, Sail round to the 

South Eastern corner to the 

dock. Dock and select Leadie 

to disembark. Go to (6) and 

enter the central computer 

building. Find Koke, paralyse 

him then give him the three 

programs. 

Select Koke from the menu 

and find the computer. Read 

the file Atmostxt and disconnect 

from the computer. 

Leave the building go back to 

the ship and teleport on to it. 

Select Queen, reverse out and 

head back to (five). Dock, then 

disembark Koke and go North 

East to (seven). 

Take over Aviatia the Plane 

in the usual way and load 

Koke onto Aviatia by moving 

into it again, select Aviatia and 

take off_ Fly to (eight). Fly 

through the gates and crash it 

into the pyramid shaped building 

in the middle and you 

should get the message The 

End or. Is It?" 

HEAD OVER Iles 

Head over Heels, that's what 

Matthew Clark of Bristol is for 

Oceans game for the Commodore 

and Amstrad. 

Head's Adventures— in the 

first room where Head starts 

off, a vital method of climbing 

ladders has to be learned 

jump onto the first rung. Leap 

Out to the right and immediately 

glide left Onto the next rung. 

Continue this method until you 

reach the rabbit at the top. 

Jump onto the teleport in the 

top left corner. Jump again to 

operate it and you're away to 

the next area. 

Go through the lower door 

and fall down a floor. Take the 

lower exit again then go left. 

Jump from stone to stone until 

you reach the switch. The 

robot will be turned off and 

some blocks become solid. 

Get the pile of doughnuts and 

then exit. 

In this corridor, leap over — 

what Matthew refers to as 

electric toasters. They will kill 

you on touch. Go through the 

door. Go down again and you 

should come to a room with a 

deadly robot, a spring and a 

reincarnated fish. 

Avoiding the robot, go right. 

Here is the hooter needed to 

fire the doughnuts. Jump onto 

the double stage at the top. 

Leap right, to the second double 

platform_ Keep you 'jump' 

button/key pressed_ Press the 

'down' key (or joystick down) 

when you land. When you hit 

the middle stage. again keep 

'jump' pressed, but this time 

press right on landing. You 

should now have the hooter. 

Jump back to the previous 

stage, and then to the door. 

You could try the weapon on 

the robot. Get onto the spring 

and leap towards the fish. 

Your game position is now 

saved, 

Exit up, left, left (jump over 

craters). Then go left again. 

Leap over the barrier — it 

prevents you meeting Heels. 

Exit left. 

Jump onto the middle 

blocks and keep jumping left 

as the blocks disappear. Jump 

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into the exit and go left again. 

Jump into the part of the wall 

second from the left_ It will 

vanish. Avoid the 'heli-bee' 

and get the rabbit and doughnuts. 

Exit right, then up, then up 

again. Go left, you may have 

to shoot some of the large 

robots to do so. Beware, the 

drum like objects — they kill 

on contact_ 

The next room is quite 

large. Go to the left, not 

touching the crates or the 

spinning helebee. Go through 

the exit_ 

Jump onto the stool and 

then onto the platform_ Push 

the three objects off the end. 

The conveyor belt will push 

them forward and onto the 

ground in a pile. Get down 

yourself and manoeuvre the 

pile to about one square in 

front of the entrance — jump 

into, then onto the blocks and 

through the exit, 

Do not take the next right 

exit as it only leads back to the 

other screens. Instead take 

the upper exit. 

Jump right — to the long 

line of platforms (the floor is 

deadly). Stop at the fifth block 

and jump onto the platform in 

the middle of the screen. 

Jump to the next block and 

keep your 'jump' key down as 

the block dematerialises 

Jump back in the middle 

block, after getting the fish. 

and then to the upper entrance. 

Go through it and down a 

floor. Exit right and wait for 

Heels. 

Heels Adventures — in his 

first screen, go to the bottom 

of it and jump onto the teleport_ 

Press 'jump' again to 

operate it. 

Push the spring up against 

the wall below the exit, jump 

onto it and then spring into the 

exit to leave. Jump onto the 

stool, go up a floor and jump 

onto the rollers. Jump into the 

exit when the rollers push you 

by it. Ignore the fish in the next 

room and just take the right 

exit. 

Hot off Paul's lips comes this tip for that superb game from 

System 3 — The Last Ninfa. We've had a lot of phone calls 

asking how to finish the first level. You will need to find the 

potion which puts the dragon to sleep. Don't forget to check 

behind the rocks!!

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covering the Tunisian campaign 

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confront this unknown warrior. Advance 

and be recognised, he ordered. The rest, 

as they say, is history. 

asked to meet R. T. Smith. He 

clearly knew too much about 

history, and about wargaming, to 

be just one of the 

mathematically brilliant writers 

in their teens who provide the 

bulk of computer games. 

So who was I going to meet? 

Was he perhaps an elderly civil 

servant with a lifelong interest 

in military history who had taken 

to computers late in life? Or did 

those initials hide a beautiful 

young lady with a rare interest 

in warfare? Perhaps I would 

simply be confronted with the 

sort of person who knew 

everything about everything, and 

in his spare time wrote games 

like Vuican for fun. 

As it happened, I needn't have 

worried. Bob Smith turned out to 

be a polite, impeccably 

mannered 23-year-old living 

quietly in a Surrey village. 

Bob learned about computers 

first at school, with the old 

mainframe language Fortran 

using punched cards to input the 

data. He taught himself BASIC 

while still at school, and his 

parents bought him a Spectrum 

for Christmas. 

Meanwhile, he got interested 

in wargaming in the Ancient 

period, using the almost 

universal Wargames Research 

Group rules. 

Yes in answer to my 

question he read campaign 

histories before writing his 

wargame programs, but more 

important was that early 

knowledge of conventional 

figure wargaming. Having grown 

up with wargames and 

computers, he 

knows if his 

program "feels 

right" in recreating history. 

Bob's first game was written 

while he was still at school, and 

vanished more or less without 

trace. Called Confrontation, it 

was a twentieth century, 

battalion tactical level game 

which allowed the player to 

design his own scenario before 

playing. 

He wrote it for the Spectrum 

only and approached Lothlorien, 

who published it in their 

Warmaster series. He wrote a 

conversion for the BBC while at 

Birmingham University reading 

physics, and decided to become 

a full-time programmer. 

So began an attempt to write 

a two-player expanded version 

of Confrontattion which was 

intended to be an arcade-style 

game. But, between the 

wargaming and reading A 

Bridge Too Far something 

happened, and the result was 

the solo game Arnhem, finished 

in 1984. Bob wasn't happy with 

Lothlorien by now, and so 

offered the game first to PSS, 

and then to CCS who accepted 

it. Arnhem proved a major 

popular success, reaching 

number 10 in the W.H. Smith best 

sellers, and remains one of my 

own favourite games. 

The five-scenario Arnhem 

was one of the best games of its 

year, and Bob was given an 

Amstrad to write a conversion 

for it. He agreed 

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driven from the western desert 

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holding in Africa. 

In a remarkable campaign 

between November 1942 and 

May 1943 British, American and 

French forces inflicted on the 

Axis its first major defeat in the 

west by destroying the 

Panzerarmee Afrika and opening 

the way for the invasion of 

southern Europe. What makes 

this campaign, operation Vulcan, 

exciting is the constant arrival 

of fresh forces on both sides, 

producing wild swings in the 

balance of strength, with the 

Germans trying to hold Onto 

Tunis and the Allies to break 

through to the coast, 

R. T. Smith's game features 

four short scenarios (the 128K 

version includes a further 

scenario and some "what if'?" 

variants) including the initial 

"race for Tunis" after the Allied 

landings in north Africa, in 

which the campaign could have 

been ended in a month; and, 

most interesting of all, the battle 

of kasserine Pass, the first 

encounter of the war between 

the Americans and the Germans. 

If anything, his morale and 

fighting power ratings are overgenerous 

to the Americans, but 

stopping the German drive is, on 

either the one-player or twoplayer 

option, difficult enough. 

The whole Tunisian campaign 

takes anything up to eight hours 

to play against the computer, or 

16 against a human opponent, 

but there is a simple save-totape 

mechanism and the actual 

game plays quite quickly 

. The heart of the game is the 

order system. This allows the 

player to input a broad objective 

order to the divisions under his 

command, receive some 

information as to their strength, 

and then allow them to carry out 

the order over a long period 

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need only be accessed if the 

player wishes to give them 

specific orders. An additional 

refinement on previous R. T. 

Smith games is the use of hidden 

movement, plus the use of a very 

simple system of providing air 

power for reconnaissance and 

ground attack the chief value 

of which is to demonstrate just 

how poofair suport was for both 

sides in the campaign. 

Some program re-writing has 

also allowed for an extremely 

large campaign map of Tunisia 

to be included in the display, 

with perhaps a sixth of the full 

map visible on the screen at any 

one time. Manoeuvring a single 

tank regiment around so much 

empty space, unable to locate 

the enemy, can easily make the 

most aggressive table-top player 

very cautious indeed. 

This is the best of the three 

wargame programs written by R. 

T. Smith, and probably the last 

for a while. Although the 

computer is — unlike that of 

Desert Rats — a worthy 

opponent. I find it works better 

as a two-player game, and 

should satisfy even the most 

critical of wargamers. 

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PSS has now produced a 

Spectrum version of its 

Wargamers Series Battle of 

Britain game. It should be said at 

once that it isn't very good, and 

certainly not the best Battle of 

Britain game on the market. 

Many of the Wargamers Series 

work on the same basic program 

routine — the "enemy" forces 

approach from one corner of the 

map moving towards the other, 

the player (there is no twoplayer 

option) responds by 

cycling through options and 

moving forces rapidly with a 

joystick, and at the moment of 

contact the game goes into an 

arcade sequence. It works for 

some types of battle — it works 

very well for Bismarck— but it 

doesn't work at all for air 

combat over south-east England 

in 1940. The German forces 

attack anywhere from the Wash 

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to Lands End, but the Fighter 

Command which opposes them 

has, unaccountably, lost 10 Grnup 

and so has no fighters stationed 

west of Portsmouth. 

Interceptions are far too easy 

to make, and so in order to make 

the game harder two very 

unrealistic features have been 

introduced. The first is that after 

one interception a squadron is 

considered "out of ammunition" 

and must land to replenish, the 

second is that airbases and 

sector stations are arbitarily put 

Out of action by being 

"fogbound" at all hours of the 

day, although this fog can clear 

again in an hour. 

The arcade sequence gives 

the view from a Spitfire cockpit 

in attacking enemy formations. 

This game is one more proof, 

I'm afraid, that you can't take a 

good computer program land it 

is good, make no mistake) and 

turn it into every battle there 

ever was, 

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This is one more from the PSS 

Wargamers Series, which now 

includes a very wide range of 

games, some good, some not so 

good. 

There are already enough 

World War Three games on the 

market, all set two years in the 

future and some showing their 

age as the future becomes the 

past. 

Battlefield Germany, covering 

a familiar scenario of a Warsaw 

Pact assault across the Inner 

German Border in 1989, would 

have to have been really 

spectacular to have made an 

impression. 

In fact, I find the game 

completely unplayable. That 

isn't an exaggeration, I can't find 

a way of playing it. On either one 

or two player option you are 

presented with a main screen 

showing the immediate battle 

area, with top right a smaller 

screen showing the whole of 

Germany and the overall 

strategic picture. 

Unfortunately this screen is so 

small that there is no way of 

matching it to the battle screen 

and working out what is 

happening. 

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having half a dozen units all 

called nothing hut "Sixth Shock 

Army", and having the Western 

Strategic Direction treated as a 

lighting unit, not a headquarters. 

So I abandoned the Warsaw 

Pact forces and opted instead 

for NATO against the computer. 

After all, the game was only six 

moves long so it shouldn't be a 

problem. I selected the options 

and waited. The computer began 

to move Warsaw Pact forces 

across the battle screen, at 

times bleeping to itself 

excitedly. 

Occasionally it would ask me 

which unit I wanted to defend 

with and then ignore my 

instructions by attacking 

another. It kept on, switching 

from one map to another, playing 

the game by itself and 

occasionally tolerating my 

interference. For 37 minutes. It 

then asked me if I wanted to 

make my first move. By that time. 

no thank you, I did not 

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Zulu War, for the Spectrum only, 

is a single-player tactical level 

game against the computer. 

This is itself a pity. The real 

Zulu War of 1879, like all the 

19-century colonial wars, was a 

struggle between a small 

regular force with little local 

knowledge and manoeuvrability, 

but devastating firepower, that 

could virtually guarantee a win 

a major set-piece battle, and a 

large number of highly mobile 

native forces, with less 

firepower but far greater handto-hand 

fighting ability, that 

could inflict a major defeat on 

any unprepared or divided force. 

A far more interesting game 

could be made of the Zulu War 

by a two-player strategic 

program, with plenty of scope 

for hidden movement. 

This game offers two 

scenarios - the final battle of 

Ulundi, in which the power of 

he Zulu was broken, and a 

hypothetical battle against the 

British second column, which 

was never seriously attacked, 

taking place at Umlalazi. 

That the game needs a 

fictitious battle shows just how 

difficult the writers found 

selecting a battle in which the 

Zulu have a chance. 

In the real battles the British 

stood shoulder-to-shoulder 

behind temporary defences of 

carts and mealie-bags. With 

their new longer-range breechloading 

Martini-Henry rifles they 

were able to devastate the Zulu 

rushes before they ever closed 

to contact. Only at lsandhlwana, 

where the British were 

surprised with half their forces 

elsewhere, deployed with too 

wide a gap between units, and 

failed to keep up the ammunition 

supply, did the Zulu break 

through to contact. 

At Ulundi. with many Zulu 

already dead from the earlier 

battles, the British deliberately 

chose not to fight from behind 

defences, but formed a hollow 

square of infantry with cavalry 

inside it, and blasted any Zulu 

coming near before unleashing 

the cavalry for a final charge. 

I tried these tactics in the 

game's Ulundi scenario and was 

massacred. The game allows the 

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forces as square blocks, at first 

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advance apparently at random, 

but in such a way that they 

maintain a broad general 

direction towards the enemy. 

So, this is probably the wrong 

game to play for the Zulu War, 

and even as a representation of 

Zulu War tactics it isn't good. 

But the game mechanism is a 

wonderful one for showing a 

disciplined army, used to 

fighting in formation, against an 

irregular force of higher 

mobility. 

CCS have here the basis of a 

really excellent series of games 

set in the ancient period, with 

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Britons or Alexander the Great 

against the Persians. The ability 

of the irregular force to create 

gaps in the regular lines and 

infiltrate through them is offset 

by the higher regular firepower 

and stability with heavy losses. 

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The handful of German 

battleships and battle-cruisers 

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pinned in their harbours in 

Germany were, throughout the 

Second World War, of immense 

concern to the British Admiralty. 

If any one of them could have 

broken through the British air 

and sea defences between the 

Channel and Greenland it could, 

being resupplied by submarine, 

have briefly devastated the 

shipping routes across the 

Atlantic on which British 

survival depended. 

So close was the British 

watch on the exits into the 

Atlantic that this was never very 

likely, but the closest the 

Germans came was the attempt 

of the Bismarck, with the battlecruiser 

Print Eugen, in May 1941 

The PSS game offers the 

player either side against the 

computer, and a choice of 

difficult levels. 

Its main screen is the 

strategic map from Sweden to 

Greenland and from northern 

France to the Atlantic ocean, 

showing the air cover and 

patrols provided by both sides, 

The main skill for either side is 

guessing when and how the 

Bismarck will attempt to break 

out. 

The Bismarck's best chance 

is at night in bad weather. 

On encountering an enemy 

ship the player can opt for the 

combat screen. This is an 

improvement on the usual 

arcade screen offered by the 

PSS Wargamers Series, 

The main skill in the battle 

screen is manoeuvring the ship 

and estimating the range to the 

enemy target. 

This is a historically good 

applicaton of the "hunt the 

enemy" program which features 

in a number of PSS Wargamers 

Series games. My one criticism 

is that, although a joystick 

option is offered, it is so 

sluggish as to be virtually 

unusable, and often causes the 

program to crash. This makes 

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Yankee is a grand tactical game 

for one player set in the 

American Civil War and offering 

two options— the player may 

either take the Union side at 

Gettysburg or the Confederates' 

at Chickamauga. 

This is the fourth game 

produced on essentially the 

same system by Ken Wright, 

who has previously used it for 

his Waterloo, Austerliu and 

Napoleon at War. Overall, 

Yankee is the best of these four 

games. Sadly, it is still not very 

good. 

The thinking behind the 

games • playing program is in 

itself a sensible one. The author 

argues that an Army commander 

should have little direct control 

over formations below him in 

19th-century warfare. 

Instead he issues generalised 

directions to his Corps 

commanders. The computer 

makes these commanders 

"intelligent" so that they will 

query their orders, offer 

suggestions which from a better 

viewpoint they consider more 

likely to succeed, and can even 

be given full control of their 

forces when in the presence of 

the enemy, to act as they think 

fit. 

All this sounds maniellous. 

Unfortunately, the program is in 

no respect powerful or 

sophisticated enough to make 

this system work. In a single 

testing game I saw the following 

all happen: a Corps ordered to 

attack an enemy of its own 

strength send forward a single 

division (a third of its strength) 

to be massacred while the rest 

just shuffled around; a Corps 

commander ordered to hold 

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and when this was granted 

attacked with half his force 

while the rest moved sideways; 

a Corps ordered to attack query 

its orders and say that instead it 

wanted to attack (?!), and a 

Corps ordered to advance northeast 

promptly set off south-west. 

The combat mechanism also 

remains very crude — units 

simply hack chunks off each 

other in units of 500 men, with no 

attempt to advance, retreat or 

respond to what is happening to 

them. 

The very large random factors 

which made the earlier games 

so confused have been reduced, 

making it at least possible to 

judge an attack properly. But the 

combat mechanism still favours 

the attack very much over the 

defence, particularly as, if 

attacked, the computer opponent 

tends to draw into a defensive 

huddle which is easily 

outflanked or by-passed. 

All this makes Gettysburgh 

particularly • at the hardest of the 

three levels of difficulty offered, 

virtually unwinnable, and 

Chickamauga virtually 

unlosable. 

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From the Americans of SSI 

comes the most famous battle of 

the American Civil War, the 

complex and bloody three-day 

encounter in which the 

Confederacy lost its best chance 

to win the war quickly and 

impose peace on the Union, 

The game provides a scrolling 

map of the battlefield, with 

player options to take either side 

against the computer or another 

opponent, three levels of 

difficulty (of which the 

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indeedl hidden movement, a v e r y slow moving, game 

time-limit on issuing orders, 

changes in the balance of 

forces, the rate of arrival of 

forces for either side, the 

ammunition available to either 

side, and options to play any of 

the three days or the whole 

battle. 

Such variety gives a 

handicapping system so that, at 

its most simple, this game could 

be played by just about anyone, 

and at its most difficult it 

presents a real challenge to the 

expert. 

Both command-and-control 

and responses to combat have 

been very well thought out in 

this game. The presence of a 

good leader lor a bad one) could 

affect a unit's behaviour and 

fighting power very much 

indeed, and the advanced game 

encourages the player to move 

commanders of higher 

formations around, adding their 

leadership to whichever 

regiment needs it most. 

The authors understand that 

fear and fatigue are more or less 

interchangeable, and prolonged 

exposure to fire quickly runs up 

"fatigue points" which will 

cause a unit to break. 

My main criticism of the game 

is that it takes so long and plays 

so slowly at least as slowly 

as a board game. 

The program acknowledges 

this by flashing up cheerful 

messages to "wait a moment" 

and "the screen will be blank for 

a few minutes". 

With the two player option 

you play more or less in real 

time, with an hour of game time 

providing an hour of battle. 

Saving to a disk is therefore 

almost essential unless you 

have a lot of time and patience. 

These are, however, only 

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The earlier SSI game Combat 

Leader gave the player 

command of a company of 

infantry with tank support in a 

fast-moving real time game. 

Battalion Commander is the 

next level up. 

The game is real-time, which 

means that the player must look 

everywhere at once and respond 

to a series of messages all 

asking for help. 

There are four basic 

scenarios the "meeting 

engagement" of equal forces. 

and the "defence" game, in 

which your battalion will be 

attacked by about double its 

number of enemy, are 

straightforward. 

But in the "attack" and 

"pursuit" options the player 

commands one battalion on the 

western side of the map while 

the computer runs a second 

battalion moving in parallel with 

him. 

The duties of a battalion 

commander in combat are not, in 

modern war, very different from 

those of a company commander. 

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Commander is rather more 

limited than Combat Leader and 

less good in terms of playability, 

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the night and it was agreed 

that r we will all do it again 

soon. O Next time, it will be 

arranged so that I can inform 

all n C-i- VG PBMers out there 

I spent well over C20.00 — 

London prices remember! 

By the way. I should 

mention that the It's a Crime 

offer made in the May edition 

of C 4 VG is still open. If you 

and e we can turn it into a mega fancy taking part in a special 

meet! Keep your eye glued to 

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exclusively for C VG readers 

with the C VG PBM trophy 

as the prize then write into me, 

enclosing the logo, and you 

will get a free set up in the 

game plus two free turns and 

a rulebook. 

• I have received a letter from 

the person who runs Muskets 

and Mules telling me that the 

four playtesting positions I 

offered in the April issue never 

existed!! In a lengthy letter I 

was told that "we got our 

wires crossed". To say the 

least, I was upset and angry. 

Most, if not all, of the many 

reviewing positions I obtain 

are done on a "word of 

mouth" basis over the 

telephone. 

There is a lot of trust and 

goodwill attached to these 

promises and to date I have 

never got my "wires crossed" 

with any other company. 

Of course, the next thing I 

received were letters from the 

winners asking me what has 

happened to their playtest_ I 

would like to personally 

apologise to them and can 

assure them that they will 

shortly be given a reviewing 

position in another, and in my 

view better PBM. 

I do not wish to get involved 

in a war of words over what 

happened. but needless to 

say I will never review another 

Historical Engineering 

product again in any capacity 

anywhere. I'll leave you to 

draw your own conclusions as 

to why, 

• How would you like to work 

full time for one of the UK's 

leading PBM companies? 

Mitre Games has written to 

say that they are moving into 

much larger office premises 

and expanding their business. 

They require up and coming 

GMs to moderate some of 

their games, both old and 

new. 

They have not sent me any 

details about what type of 

person they require, but 

enthusiasm, eagerness and a 

willingness to learn are 

essential. Also they would 

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probably like you to have 

some PBM or FRP experience 

and moving to London would 

be a must. 

Interested? Then drop me a 

line, enclosing full details, age, 

and experience and I will pass 

it on to the people at Mitre. 

I would also like to thank 

Mitre for the tremendous help 

and assistance they have 

given me. They have supplied 

me with copies of all their 

excellent games and I will be 

reviewing them shortly. 

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Further into Fantasy 

Although I have given this 

game a mini-review in the 

April, a large part of the mail I 

receive starts off: "Can you 

tell me more about Further 

Into Fantasy as it sounds such 

an interesting game? 

As I always bow down to 

what the reader wants, here is 

a full review of what I consider 

to be an excellent game. 

F.I.F. was launched late in 

1986 by The Laboratory as a 

new concept in PBM. They 

had looked at and played quite 

a few fantasy PBMs and didn't 

like what they say — so they 

decided to create a game the 

likes of which no-one had ever 

seen before. 

When I received F.I.F. start 

up kit the first thing that 

grabbed my attention was the 

rule book. It is superbly printed 

on quality paper and contains 

a lot of classy artwork. It oozes 

style. 

I can honestly say the 

contents are even better than 

the quality of the presentation. 

It was all there_ Easy to read 

rules, clear examples of how 

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tips and much much more. 

I felt like I was being guided 

through the rulebook by an old 

friend. The rules really want to 

make you play the game. 

Also contained in my startup 

package was a newsletter 

aptly called What 

's which Stirring once again is high 

quality stuff. It is packed full of 

articles on F.I.F. and other 

game related subjects. It also 

has indepth articles on the 

history and religions of the 

planet which make interesting 

reading. 

What makes the game 

interesting for me is not only 

fact that it is a single character 

fantasy PBM. But also that the 

character you play is YOU. 

In ELF. my character looks 

exactly like me. The fun is that 

you can play yourself, but you 

have special abilities and call 

yourself by a different name. 

F.I.F. is a synthesis of 

reality and fantasy, your 

character is a mixture of your 

actual and possible attributes. 

By creating your character via 

the rules you can create 

someone who is exactly like 

you or someone who is built 

like Conan. 

Initially you are told that 

there is another dimension 

where the planet Dorm exists. 

All kinds of weird and 

wonderful things happen there 

and you feel an unnatural urge 

to explore it. 

You know the transition to 

the alternative dimension 

happens at midnight, so you 

make your preparations and 

head off for the secluded 

forest where it all happens. 

Standing in the forest as 

midnight arrives you know the 

time is right. Then all you feel 

is ultimate pain and you are 

sent spinning off on your way. 

You cannot deny your destiny. 

Suddenly you appear 

before a giant, who is standing 

next to a large fire pit. Several 

metal rods are stuck in the 

flames. The giant pins you to 

the floor, rips open your shirt 

and brands your chest with 

one of the rods from the fire. 

Quite naturally, you pass Out! 

When you awake you could 

be anywhere on the planet 

Dorm, you know not where. 

You also have the letter 'T• 

branded on your chest. How 

do you survive? It is up to you. 

You can become one of 

three classes of people: 

Priest, Sage or Warrior. Each 

class has their own 

advantages and 

disadvantages. 

A warrior is not just a fighter. 

A warrior is a physical being 

who strives to make their body 

grow in all respects: to 

become strong and agile, fast 

and cunning. In this game it is 

nice to see that warriors' wits 

have to be as sharp as their 

swords. 

Warriors can specialise 

later on in their career, 

becoming assassins, trackers 

or guerilla fighters if they wish. 

Sages study ancient tombs, 

arcane rituals and ancient 

knowledge. They spend a lot 

of time in research for good 

reason, A sage when trained 

has infinite knowledge and 

access to power which other 

people will never know. 

Special powerful magics are 

drawn to a sage and they may 

tap into them to the full. 

For someone to actually 

play a sage in this game they 

must be prepared to put in a 

great amount of their own time 

for actual research. I can 

vouch for this as my character 

in this game IS a sage and I 

once had to write a full essay 

to satisfy the G.M. about a 

certain task. It was hard work. 

In time a sage may become 

great enough to specialise in 

either Demonology, Healing, 

Life, Necromancy or Sorcery 

to name just a few. 

On the other hand a priest is 

not just the simple puppet of a 

diety. Priests may gain 

godliness later on in their 

career if they behave piously 

enough. 

A priest's power relates 

directly to the god that the 

priest chooses. Many things 

are taboo. Customs of Gods 

must be observed, tidy days 

respected, people must be 

converted. In return a priest 

may be granted awesome 

powers. 

The path of a priest is a 

lonely one that holds great 

reverence. A priest will never 

go wanting for food or shelter 

and his word will often carry 

great influence. 

Character creation 

The system for creating your

character is simple. You have 

a pool of 15 points from which 

to determine your 

characteristics. You may 

allocate points to any 

characteristic apart from 

acquired magic. 

There are thirteen basic 

characteristics to choose from 

ranging from Accuracy to 

Survival Instinct. There is no 

upper limit and you can spend 

your points as you like. 

You then have to allocate 

your character various skills. 

There are 13 skills you can 

choose from Athleticism to 

Technology. Once you have 

done this, your character is 

created. 

Magic 

Your character starts off with 

two spells that are instantly 

useable — Sword Fire and 

Insight, which both come in 

handy, 

Sword Fire, when cast on 

any bladed weapon, causes it 

to be shrouded in magical fire. 

This increases the 

effectiveness of the weapon. 

Insight is a powerful 

incantation which allows your 

diety to increase your 

knowledge and thus you can 

answer complex and intricate 

questions. Used in the right 

way this spell is very powerful 

indeed. 

Whatever class of character 

you choose to belong to, you 

MUST keep a spellbook. 

Every spell you discover will 

have a unique set of details 

that must be recorded. 

Spells come in grades and 

durations. A grade one spell 

means that you must wait one 

unit of magical potential 

before you can use it and a 

duration of one means that it 

will last for about ten minutes. 

Wayne's Verdict 

This is an ideal game for a 

person who has never played 

a fantasy PBM before. It is 

simple, yet interesting. 

However, I have played PBMs 

for nearly five years and I 

really enjoy it. so it goes to 

prove it can be pleasing for 

experienced PBMers as well, 

It caters for everyone from 

players who like to hack and 

slay to players who like 

complex problems. 

All of the four GMs 

responses are excellent, in a 

no-nonsense straight talking 

style. No dreary reports on the 

weather. waffle about the 

terrain are found in this game. 

It is an all action, get up and 

go game, with action coming 

thick and fast. 

The style of the game is to 

my taste as well. A discover-itas-you-go-along 

type game 

with plenty of previously 

prepared fact sheets on 

hundreds of subjects, from the 

history of the planet to priests 

abilities. There are also large 

and small scale maps plus 

"wanted" posters. 

The company plans to 

release a series of fighting 

type fantasy books. You play 

your character and send the 

books back to see how you 

got on. 

Later in the year they are 

going to issue a series of 

scenarios, so that you and 

your friends who play the 

game in the same area can 

play the board game based on 

the PBM! 

I can also divulge a secret 

which to date no-one has 

known. Yes, this is a genuine 

C+VG exclusive! Every two or 

three months. The 

Laboratory are going to invite 

certain players to the 

Laboratory and actually play 

face to face with or against the 

other players who are in the 

same position as each other in 

Yes, it doesn't matter if you 

are in the top ten or not, YOU 

could be asked to spend a 

weekend at The Laboratory 

playing your favourite PBM 

character if you are in the 

right place at the right time! 

Wayne's Wonder Otter 

Start up in The Laboratory 

usually costs E5.00. However, 

C+VG readers who write into 

me enclosing the logo above 

will be entitled to: 

• 50% reduction. Start-up 

will cost you just E2.50. 

• THREE FREE turns, worth 

up to 16.00. 

• FREE initial newsletters. 

PLUS: The first ten people 

who The Laboratory pull out of 

the hat get their MONEY 

BACK and get ALL of the 

above TOTALLY FREE. 

If you have already started 

playing ELF and think you 

have missed out, don't worry. 

If you write into me as above, 

you can have a second 

character started up tor free 

and two free rounds as well. 

What more do you need to 

be encouraged to start playing 

PBM? Get involved! 

Further turns in ELF, are a 

reasonable 11.50 for normal 

turns or a competitive 12.00 

for an ultra turn, which is much 

more descriptive. Please 

make all cheques/P.Os 

payable to The Laboratory. 

Letters 

• I have had lots of mail 

enquiring about a magazine 

called Flagship and other 

PBM magazines in general. A 

lot of people have heard about 

them, but don't know what 

they are or how to get them, 

To set the record straight, 

Flagship is a professional 

magazine that dedicates itself 

solely to P8M. It covers all 

aspects of PBM, reviews of 

PBM games, new and old, and 

news of what's happening on 

the PBM scene. It has a 

tremendous scope and 

contains lots of useful info. 

It's only available by 

subscriptions and costs 17.00 

per four issues. 

The magazine is issued four 

times a year in accordance 

with the seasons. It is a world- 

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are interested, please contact: 

Flagship, PO Box 1 

Aldridge. 2. Walsall. West 

Midlands. WS9 OTJ. 

All cheques and PO's 

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the magazine. 

First Post on the other 

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fanzine which is run off on a 

Micro Computer and a 

photocopier. It is a bi-monthly. 

non-profit making magazine 

and carries reviews on the 

most popular PBM's both 

amateur and professional. 

I found it a very good read 

and despite the quality of the 

printing it has many interesting 

articles, covering at least four 

of the games you have read 

about in this column in the 

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and it is available from: KG. 

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gr ever popular 

hi adventure pages get a 

s whole new look. Why? 

Because we want to 

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continue bringing you 

sthe 

BEST adventure 

in the budget class, typically 

but not necessarily Quilled or 

GACked, will have condensed 

reviews, and a single 

Quick Guide rating. These will 

be neither played nor reviewed 

in such depth as be- 

Adventure Writer sys- 

/• tern, which enables the 

user to write an adventure 

without the need to know a 

programming language, will 

be gradually released for a 

wide range of machines. 

Your life is as tedious as 

ever. Your assignment of today 

travel to a nearby space 

station and pick up a supply 

of trivial forms. What a bore! 

That is until you find out that 

your companion for the jour- 

snews, 

reviews and 

ucomment 

around. 

eOther 

magazines may 

, 

try to copy C - VG but 

no-one comes near! 

C 

What are we going to 

+ do to the adventure 

Vsection? 

Read on ... 

G 

' slimmed down to one 

Itit 

s page, to concentrate 

c on the important task of help- 

T ing h YOU through the difficult 

e parts of your current game! 

H The adventure forum, pre- 

e viously l included in the Hel- 

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aline, 

l 

where your ideas and 

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mine 

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are aired, now appears 

on the last page of the 

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adventure section, and It will 

h carry a sting in the tall! 

a Shh — you-know-who! will 

s be coming up with some 

b more vitriolic comments on 

e the very worst in adventure 

e games, the nastiest habits of 

n people who play them, and 

the lack of taste and corrpution 

amongst adventure reviewers! 

We will be retaining a regular 

main feature, be it on 

in-depth preview of the latest 

and greatest game, an interview 

with an interesting 

adventure personality, or a 

complete solution to a game 

you've been dying to solve 

for years! 

Perhaps the main difference 

in the layout, will be the 

review pages. The bigger 

adventures, those with an 

outstanding plot, great technical 

merit, or maybe just a 

huge amount of hype, will be 

covered in greater depth 

than before. And we won't be 

pulling any punches — if we 

don't like 'ern, as always, we'll 

say so! 

fore. What we will bring you is 

the essential details of the 

games, and a rating based 

on a quick impression combined 

with price. This means 

that we will be able, In future, 

to cover more titles in the 

same space, and hopefully, 

not hcve to omit any published 

adventure completely. 

Hope you like the new look! 

Write and let us know whether 

you do or you don't. It's you, 

the adventure reader, who 

counts and YOUR views are 

Important to us! 

Keith Campbell 

After nearly ten years 

selling sohYare, 

Molimerx based in Sussex, 

is closing down. In the 

heyday of early home cornputers, 

the name Mailmen( 

was a byword to owners of 

Tandy machines, Having the 

sole right to distribute Adventure 

International products, 

Molimerx introduced many 

computer enthusiasts to Scott 

Adams' adventures. 

As well as importing programs, 

Molimerx had a number 

of its own authors — 

people who had written 

programs and submitted 

them for publication. Among 

these were Brian Howarth, 

whose famous Mysterious 

Adventures were given a 

start in life by Molimerx, and 

none other than Keith Campbell, 

author of three Basic 

adventures 

Terry Pratt. founder editor 

of V G , approached 

Molimerx during the planning 

stage of the first Issue seeking 

potential writers on 

adventure games. II was thus 

through them that Cl-VG's 

adventure column came to 

be written by KC and still Is to 

this day. (We can't get rid of 

him! Ed) 

Already available for the ney is the mischievous playful 

Spectrum, Commodore 64 Floyd! 

and Amstrad CPC versions From the moment you and 

are planned for release Floyd arrive at the same 

"around Christmas" Beta test- space station, you realise 

ing is being carried out by St that this is not a routine mis- 

Bride's, whose Jack The Ripsion. The place is deserted, 

per is likely to be the first save for an ostrich, an Arctu- 

commercially available rian ballon creatre and a 

adventure using PAW. brain robot named Plato. The 

Commodore and Amstrad captain's log describes a 

versions of Ripper, may pre- breakdown of machinery and 

ceed the arrival of PAW itself, finally even Floyd begins 

since a pre-production ver- acting oddly 

sion will be used, circumvent- Station fall is Meretzky's 

ing delays whilst manuals sixth interactive fiction re- 

and packaging are prolease. As well as Leather 

duced. 

Goddesses his previous suc- 

Meanwhile, Amstrad PCW cesses include Hitchikers 

owners should find PAW avail- Guide to le Galaxy', and 

able for them at the present Monello/I,' for which he re- 

time, a CPM version which ceived for Best Computer 

used word-processing for text Software Designer. The prog- 

files. Further plans for PAW ram will be available in late- 

Included Amiga, Atari, ST, and June for a wide variety of 

IBM machines, for which com- computers Including Apple 

pilers will be provided. series and Macintosh XL/XE 

arid ST series, Commodore 

Popular Computing 64/128 and Amiga, Amdstrad 

Weekly has dropped 

CPC and PCW series, IBM PC 

Tony Bridge's popular 

Adventure Corner. After five 

series and MS-DOS compatibles. 

The suggested retail 

years. Recognised as one of 

price is £24.99 for all other 

the country's experts on 

systems. 

adventure games. Tony will 

hopefully be joining C 4-VG's osaic Publishing's 

review team — making this plans for a Yes Minister 

magazines coverage of ' adventure, shelved 

adventure unrivalled by any some eighteen months ago, 

other publication. 

will come to fruition after all 

Now retired Yes Prime Minis- 

Steve Meretzky, author 

of the smash hit, Leather ter, the game, based on the 

Godesses of Phobos,' popular TV comedy, and 

has got back together with 

programmed by ODE, is due 

Floyd, the robot character to appear later this year. 

popularised in Planeffall, Budget specialists The 

now making a come back in Power House has re- 

the sequel — Stationtall. 

leased an interesting 

In Stationfall you are en- looking two cassette packlisted 

in the Stellar Patrol. Your age on the Spectrum for 

heroics in Planeflall earned those who fancy having a go 

your a promotion from Ensign at writing adventures. It con- 

Seventh Class to Lieutenant tains on Adventure Builder 

First Class o n the paper- System and Artworx graphics.

adventurers have appeared with increasing 

O frequency. KEITH CAMPBELL calls in on The 

vAdventurer's 

Club to find out what they are 

eall 

about. 

International Adventure Club. 

"People sent off £5 to the IAC 

and heard nothing more," 

said Henry. 'This set us back a 

bit.1 can't really blame 

people for treating us with 

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suspicion." 

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crack. What is he to do then? 

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Consulting with other 

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e for they don't come a dozen 

s to the street — let alone 

a another player who has 

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played and completed the 

particular game in hand. 

d Within 12 months of the birth 

out of playing the game. 

HENRY MUELLER first 

discovered an interest in 

adventure when he started to 

read the adventure column 

in Computer , Video 

Games. 

He read the articles and 

reviews, decided to give 

adventure a try, and like 

many before him, got totally 

hooked. 

Henry was, at that time, a 

businessman importing 

coconuts from Sri Lanka. But 

he thought to himself what 

better than to combine 

business with pleasure and to 

go into the adventure 

business? More future than 

coconuts! 

Henry decided he'd like to 

provide something more 

than just a fanzine_ He wanted 

to offer a really 

comprehensive and 

professional service to 

adventure players, with a 

club atmosphere. 

The Adventurer's Club was 

born in February,1985, as a 

limited company. 

Adventure author Pete 

Austin agreed to become 

honorary president, and 

membership began growing 

at a healthy pace, with ACL's 

attendance at smaller 

exhibitions, like Microfairs 

and Commodore Shows, and 

help from Level 9, who sent 

out the club's advertising 

leaflet with every Level 9 

game. But soon near disaster 

was to strike. 

Suddenly last summer, 

everything stopped at ACL 

The phone went dead, letters 

went unanswered. and the 

monthly Dossier mailed to 

members, failed to appear. 

Rumour was rife, but no 

answers were forthcoming. 

Had Henry done a runner with 

the subscription money, the 

bulk of which had just been 

paid in, What was 

happening? Where was 

Henry Mueller? 

The story involves Henry's 

financial backer, who, in a 

remarkable turnaround, with 

scant regard for the 

members' interests, decided 

c of the world's first dedicated The cash was needed to to withdraw his support. 

l adventure column in 

u Computer , Video Games, 

letters storied to trickle in 

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from people who were stuck 

s in adventures and had no- 

f one else to turn to. 

o As the amount of mail 

acquire the computers 

necessary to cover a suitable 

range of games, and to 

attract members to the new 

club. 

Henry scanned the 

Helpline columns of the 

Henry was instructed to 

close the operation down. 

Technically being merely on 

employee, he had no 

executive control over the 

company. 

He offered to buy the club 

r increased, we decided there 

was a need for an Adventure 

Helpline — a service offered 

by the magazine to help 

adventurers by way of clues 

in print and direct replies by 

mail. 

popular computer 

magazines and sent 

mailshots to anyone whose 

address he could spat. 

The Adventurer's Club also 

wanted to operate a phonein 

Helpline at various times 

outright, but his backer wasn't 

interested — he just wanted it 

closed down. 

So Henry used delaying 

tactics, procrastinating about 

sending out the closing 

letters to members. 

It was hardly surprsing that during the week. as part of its Eventually he managed to 

before very long, enthusiasts' service. So another vital get his way, bought out the 

clubs started appearing, held piece of equipment for the shares, and took over 

together with a newsletter or club was an answerphone properly. 

fanzine containing detailed machine. 

The ACL produces a 

maps, solutions together with 

general gossip and letters. 

These were the specialist 

forums for the dedicated 

New recruits were coming, 

through a modest amount of 

advertising, but a particularly 

difficulty at that time was an 

monthly 26 page Members 

Dossier containing reviews, 

hints and tips, and members' 

letters. 

player who makes a hobby organisation called the I put it to Henry that many 

fanzines tend to concentrate 

on the obscure, home grown 

adventures. Henry agrees, 

and thinks this is a mistake. 

Henry is thinking of making 

the Dossier bi-monthly 

throughout the year. 

As well as the Dossier and 

excellent mail order service, 

pleas for help from 

adventurers are answered 

both by phone, and by mail. 

Henry reckons on a 95% 

success rote in answering the 

problems immediately, with a 

further 2.5% coming from 

members as a result of pleas 

printed in the Dossier. 

Before I left I visited the 

nerve centre of ACL Here 

everything is reassuring well 

ordered. Racks of files 

contain adventure solutions 

and mops for quick 

reference surprisingly 

Henry finds information 

retrieval quicker from paper 

files than from a computer! 

Our own C—VG Adventure 

Club hoped to make more 

special offers available, but 

this requires a full-time run 

direct mailing operation to 

be successful. 

That is why we at C+ VG 

have decided to hand over 

our membership to ACL. We 

found we didn't have the time 

to provide the 

comprehensive facilities we 

know our readers deserve 

The C+VG Adventure Club 

membership year has now 

expired, and our closing 

Newsletters, we offer a 

special introductory offer to 

ACI as a parting gift. 

We also unhesitatingly 

recommend non-members 

who desire the contact that a 

club offers, to join the 

Adventurer's Club Ltd. You'll 

be in good hands. 

If you are interested in 

joining the Adventure's Club, 

then write to them at 63c 

Menelik Road, London NW2 

3RH, or phone 01-7941261and 

request a membership 

application form. The annual 

subscription is E11.95. C VG 

Adventure Club members 

should watch out for the 

special introductory offer in 

the final newsletter.

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LWorthing a feel sure he is a 

pthick). i 'Why haven't there 

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knowing what's going on! 

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Phil wants to know how to 

get out of the city. Any hints 

on what to do with the 

blacksmith, and a list of things 

more useful than a pig would 

be most welcome, he adds. 

After some time playing 

that 'great classic' Zork 3, 

Frank Stevenson of Hafrsfjord 

in Norway got stuck. Naturally, 

he turned to the clues section 

of C +VG — but he couldn't 

make any sense out of the 

reference to spheres in the 

January issues. Ooops! That is 

because we got our knickers 

in a twist Hank — it was really 

a clue for that other great 

classic, Zork 21 

If you look up to the roof of 

a nearby castle, you might 

Spot David Monk, of 

Woodford Bridge. He's stuck 

there! Playing See Ka Of 

Assaih. David asks: "Now 

what?" Try Tony Taylor's 

advice for the really 

desperate in Cheat's Corner 

— that's probably what! 

Matthew Lee, meanwhile, Is 

stuck in the public library. All 

those books in front of him, 

and he can't decide which to 

borrow. Perhaps "Do-ityourself 

Manhole Cover 

Opening" if it's not already 

out, for Matthew is unable to 

carry out this simple 

operation. "Cracker has got 

the gaily, but what else is 

there to do now?" he asks. 

"How do you enter Grigor's 

lair without being killed, and 

how do you get past the den 

near the stumps," asks 

Graham Neilson of Old 

Trafford, who is currently 

playing Souls of Dorkon. 

Graham also wants to know 

how to pass the Gargoyle 

Fountain inside the dark 

tower, in Tower of Despair. 

Stuart Booth of Aberdeen is 

playing Rick Hanson. Every 

time he enters the missile 

room, General Garanb 

lunges for a button on his 

console. How can he be 

stopped? 

Wording is often difficult 

even in a very high calibre 

game such as Kayleth, 

described almost 

unanimously by every C -VG 

reader who has mentioned it 

as 'brilliant'. It seems to be 

wording that has caught out 

Kayleth playing Stephen 

Bamforfh, who lives in 

Hamilton. "Can you tell me 

the exact wording to drop the 

silver rod, the pyramid, and 

the cube into the silver 

socle," he asks. "And how do 

you plant the compost?" 

We are here to help you! 

Paul Coppins rises early each 

morning and solves an 

Infocom adventure. 

To cope with northern 

dialects, we have Steve 

Donoghue, chief translator of 

letters written in Geordie. Add 

to them Matthew Woodley 

who said Eureka and really 

meant it; the elusive duo 

Daniel Gilbert and Adrian 

Bott, and you'll see we've got 

a first rate team lined up to 

come back to you with an 

answer. And just to ensure it 

doesn't run too smoothly. 

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Netherlands; Stephen 

Barn forth, Ilkeston, and our 

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picture, below which is 

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Impressed with the excellent 

graphics and colour, 

accompanied by music and 

sound effects, 

You call up the various 

characters, get them to 

speak and, by getting the 

correct sequence, progress 

Into the adventure, 

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con be a little confusing, 

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PASSENGERS 

continue • When this first 

search is over, you do not 

use the graphics section 

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Now this isn't too clear. 

Perhaps something went 

missing in the translation. 

Keith found this very 

annoying, 

As a non-adventure 

player, Paul found the game 

much more enjoyable. 

"Instead of the seemingly 

Impossible problem solving 

which ore the centre of most 

adventures, Passengers on 

the Wind Involves you in just 

getting the right sequence of 

commands.* 

Keith's summing up: 'I 

consider myself to be very 

experienced in the 

operation of computer 

programs, especially games 

software, but this one had 

me beat. Eventually I turned 

to the complete solution 

provided for reviewers, but 

how it was to be 

implemented remained a 

complete mystery," 

Paul's verdict: Passengers 

may not be the traditional 

type of adventure we're 

used to but at least Its 

something new and a 

pointer to what could 

happen In the future. 

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Vatos, g where your quest really 

starts. 

Here you must find five 

dragon artifacts, before the 

evil Malbordus gets there. 

But first you must get in, and 

here Is a problem with a 

serpent guard, which 

exemplifies a limitation in the 

game's vocabulary, and 

poses one of those problems 

where the solution is not 

hinted at, has to be plucked 

out of the blue, and is most 

unlikely to be hit upon by the 

player, even though simple. 

It's such an unfair problem, 

that I will break a rule, and tell 

you outright that the answer is 

KICK SAND AT SERPENT, 

in the context, GUARD is the 

noun and SERPENT the 

adjective, yet only the 

adjective is recognised, and 

sand, although obviously 

present in a desert, Is not 

mentioned. 

A lock of alternative 

vocabulary is also apparent 

back at the boot and bridge 

— ENTER and GO are the 

respective command verbs, 

with no alternatives of BOARD 

and CROSS allowed. 

The guard problem would 

have been unforgiveable 

hod there been no BOM 

(back one move) and QSAVE 

facilities, as one false move 

causes Instant death. 

However, these rather 

unfair difficulties are 

somewhat mitigated by the 

fact that different 

approaches can be tried 

time and again using BOM, 

with very little effort. 

On into the city, and 

exploring the labyrinth of 

underground corridors, where 

you'll encounter a variety of 

monsters. 

The instant graphics that 

accompany each location 

ore quite effective here. 

portraying the creatures in a 

colourful fashion. 

The text, on the other hand, 

is somewhat locking, and not 

always logical, "Not a visible 

exit" Is a phrase all too often 

seen when, quite clearly, 

either there Is such an exit, or 

one con be seen! 

For example, ills entirely 

artificial to bar exits in this 

way in the middle of a 

(visible) desert, and in a 

chamber in which ''o ladder 

leads up", CLIMB LADDER 

moves you up, whilst U itseff Is 

not allowed. 

There are a mixture of 

problems in Temple Of Terror 

Some are easy, some are not 

so simple, whilst others 

require pot luck Many are of 

the hock and slash variety - 

simply finding methods of 

killing the nosties outright, 

whilst others require a little 

more thought and o bit of 

plotting. 

Altogether, this is not a bad 

adventure, but it lacks that 

subtlety and cryptic quality 

seen recently from Adventure 

Soft in Rebel Planet and 

Kayleth. 

Marred, but not ruined, by 

the sort of shortcomings 

reviewers have been 

complaining about for years. 

Temple is not up to the 

standard we've come to 

expect from those masters of 

adventure at Adventure Soft 

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dragon slaying on your part 

helps you make it to the 

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Reports from an earth 

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, If you go to this school. 

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A comic game by A. P 

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The Dramatic Loading Screen 

Stryker's Run was one of our most successful releases of 1986.1t stayed 

at the top of the BB Micro software charts for six weeks arid received 

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in every collection" enthused A & B Computing. 

Now CODENAME: DROID presents a new challenge for Commander 

John Stryker. He has been commissioned by the Allied Nations to 

undertake another perilous mission in their continuing struggle 

against the warmongering Volgans 

His task Is to locate and seize the Volgans' latest weapon: a new 

spacecraft (ooderiamed the Z11) which Is equipped with the 

revolutionary matteranti-matter warp drive facility. Stryker must land 

on the mysterious planet Volga, penetrate the Volga ne underground 

defence systems, find the spacecraft and requisition it. 

BBC Micro Cassette £9.95 Acorn Electron Cassette_ £9.95 

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As Stryker descends below the planetary surface he will \ 

pass through 4 different zones of Vol gan activity:- 

• The Surlace DelenCe — on array of steel girders, ropes and 

chains lies coldly between the crusted white rock wolls 

• The Ancient Shrine — a stone-walled temple bedecked with 

hideous gargoyles and rusting chandeliers 

• The Crews Quarters — the Volgons• relaxation area: tables and 

chairs are arranged invitingly amongst the essential ventilation 

pipes 

• The Missile Factory — clinical psuedornetoilic walls surround the 

missiles, bombs and computers of the evil Volgon race 

Your character in the game can jump run, kneel, crawl, 

climb up and down ropes, fire his laser blaster and drop 

mines. He can also fly for short distances using his let-pack, 

and access Information via his wrist terminal computer. 

Crawling under a crane 

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a world of sophisticated 

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This is the world where the 

agents of MASK — Mobile 

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space and time. 

The task of recovering 

them falls to Man — the only 

agent still at liberty. 

Together with the war 

damaged Thunderhawk, his 

own special transporter. Mati 

embarks upon a journey 

through space and time in 

search of his colleagues. 

After having located his 

own special mask, his route 

takes him through four 

dimensions of time as he 

scans the earth for the 

missing agents. 

VENOM has scarred the 

planet by creating huge 

space craters while landings 

and Matt can use these as 

entry points between earth 

and space. Once back on 

earth, danger awaits Matt — 

codename Hunter in the 

form of flying boulders, 

runaway trains and live 

volcanoes. 

Matt must navigate 

Thunderhawk through these 

perils, collecting items which 

may aid him in his quest and 

at all costs, avoiding the 

hostile VENOM patrol craft. 

These craft can be destroyed 

either by being shot or 

bombed, but bombing has 

the added danger of selfdestruction 

for Matt if he 

doesn't escape before it 

explodes! 

In the event that 

Thunderhawk incurs dangerlevel 

damage, a repair kit 

may be collected and used. 

Various weapons can be 

used by Matt — all will gain 

him points and the obvious 

advantage of defence, but he 

must remember throughout 

to be on the look-out for the 

security key pieces. 

Each key is made up of 

four pieces and once 

assembled the key will allow 

Matt access to a scanner. 

The activated scanner will 

point to where an agent is 

located, and tell Matt when 

he is near. Once he has found 

his agent, they must both

then examine the scattered 

MASKS until they find the 

agent's own missing one. 

Matt has to roam all the 

different time periods and 

collect the agents from each. 

Matt must travel around 

each of the different time 

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the agent and, to complicate 

matters further, he has a 

time limit set on him 

throughout the journey. If he 

fails to complete his mission, 

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damaged beyond repair, Matt 

will fail. if he succeeds, he 

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must compete in a final 

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VENOM. 

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The keys are small 

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Agents will be imprisoned 

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You will have to blast your 

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the game. As the bomb 

defuses, the dotted 

silhouette at the base of the 

screen will be reduced. 

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rescued, a status sheet, 

identical to that shown when 

eamining a mask, will 

appear. Take the agent back 

to the time entry point and 

then embark upon the search 

for the other agent on that 

level. 

Throughout the game there 

are various perils; different 

time levels house particular 

types of adversary. 

On Present Day you will 

have to deal with VENOM 

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trains, falling boulders to 

name but a few. Also. Floyd 

Malloy, the deadly VENOM 

agent, will be in constant 

pursuit throughout all levels. 

Thunderhawk will incur 

damage whilst transporting 

you through the various 

screens; a repair kit may be 

collected to reduce the 

damage. If this is not 

done, Matt will die. To add 

pressure, a time limit is also 

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w hat's movies this on — a monthly Ward Rbasis? 

Well, though it ain't easy to get me 

A Raising Arizona 

Ill tell you that Raising Arizona (15) is 

about a baby but I'm making it my film 

of the month, you'll pnihably think that 

Ward has finally flipped. Why would 

anybody want to watch a movie about 

a smal, pink, wind and wetness 

merchant? Read on! 

Baby Arizona, one of the Arizona 

quintuplets, is a special baby. Ile gets 

abducted by baby Raw and eternal 

loser, HI McDonnough — failed petty 

criminal, failed reformed citizen and. 

finally, failed father. It seems like the 

only way for 11.1. and his wife, Edwina. 

to have a family is to steal one, 

From this one wild seed a series of 

increasingly chaotic events grow. &min 

Baby Arizona is the centre of more 

action than a parent's worst 

nightmares. These involve two escaped 

minims, a sort of criminal Laurel and 

Hardy, who realise that there could be 

money in the infant; visiting friends 

with their hordes of unruly brats; and 

The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse. a:A% 

A Raising Arizona 

hilarity hunter who makes Mad May 

look sane! 

Raising Arizona starts funny and 

just gets more and more hilarious. 

Every twist in the plot adds further 

confusion, centred on Nicolas Cage as 

ILL sporting a hairdo that looks like 

he's caught in a storm — which he Ls, 

as the whole world gangs up on him. 

Director Joel Coen doesn't miss a 

Out of the previews theatre, they 

made me an offer I couldn't refuse. 

so here goes with this month's 

releases. 

trick. You want to know what a baby's 

eye %iew of the world is like? You get 

it Or how to rob a band of hillbillies 

who take your instructions just a little 

too literally Mow can we throw down 

our guns if you've told as not to 

move?'. It's one of the most inventive 

comedies of the year. 

Coen 

Wood . Simple, which I suspect most 

people 

s 

only got to see on video. This is 

set to get a well deserved general 

release. lasSee 

it and cry like a baby. 

t Tears of laughter, that is! 

fiWho 

was it who said that flying is 

just lfalling m and forgetting to hit the 

ground? Just hope that Erie. The by 

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lesson because he spends much of his 

time just hanging around.. , on 

window ledges, roofs and the like! 

When 14 year-old ?dilly moves into 

the house next door she befriends his 

strange. mute teenager who everybody 

believes to he autistic, Slowly a 

relationship develops between them, 

but it's not made any easier by the 

authorities, who think that Erie would 

be better off in an institution with a 

nice, tight straight-jacket to wear 

So is Eric batty just because he 

thinks he's a bird? Certainly there's 

nothing in this ultra ordinary smal 

town to suggest that it might be the 

scene of a miracle. There's overworked 

mum, trying to come to terms with 

computers at work 

; brother, bratty the Rambo of the sandpit 

generation; a colection of school 

blimbos u and t bullies and the odd 

lsympathetic o v ateacher. b 

l eBut 

there's also the same freak 

atmospheric conditions that produce 

pink skies in so many Spielberg films; 

the same soaring music that aims 

straight for the strings of the heart 

Yes. if Eric's surname had been 

Thomas they could have usd his initials 

for the film title. This is an attempt to 

mate the same sort of gentle, smaltown 

fantasy that. Spielberg has 

mastered - - more Peter Pan than 

Superman. 

But don't get me wrong. While it 

doesn't have his masterly touch and is 

rather too long, it contains enough 

that's amusing to raise some laughs. 

and the ending, when Eric's flying 

antics are put to the test is quite 

elevating. But pioneers of unmanned 

flight face risks, and a greater sense of 

danger could have made this really 

soar, 

In the Wizard of Oz, all the Tin Man 

wanted was a heart, The home 

improvements salesmen. nicknamed 

7In Men (15), could do with joining the 

queue. 

The year is 1963, the place 

Baltimore. and the car to own is the 

latest Cadilac. When Tilley colides 

with BB's Caddy as it leaves the 

garage, the scene is set for a war 

between the rival tin men. But despite 

a few car-wrecking slapstick antics at 

the start, it's really a comedy' of 

eharacters. 

Danny DeVito and Richard Divyluss; 

lake on two singularly unpleasant roles 

and give the performances of their 

lives, DeVito's Tilley is a slobbish 

failure who can't. face reality while 

Dreyfuss as DD is a calculating 

smoothie. a snake who thinks nothing 

of seducing Tilley's wife then phoning 

him to Crow about it.. But the tables 

are turned 'You can keep her,* his 

rival snarls. 

As well as the feud there's another 

story, the story of the salesmen — the 

double glazing pests of their day - 

who use every trick in the hook to flog 

the uOy aluminium sidings. They lie, 

cheat and even feign madness to make 

their commission, despite a 

government inquiry into their methods. 

And when they're not selling they sit 

around in diners, discussing crucial 

issues such as why there are no woman 

in Benanaza 

Director Barry Levinson knows just 

how to let a story slowly take shape, 

observing the eccentricities of this 

smal group of misfits so that 

eventualy you start to realise that 

even tin men have hearts. if you dig 

deep enough. 

You know you're in for a rough time 

when, less than three minutes into Evil 

Dead 081, nasty things start to 

happen — walls spurt blood, there's a 

talking, biting severed head, and a 

hero who's reduced to chainsawing off 

his own hand. By this stage I was 

almost sick with laughter. 

The plot! Don't ask! Director Sam 

continued on p. 98 

A Tin Men, starring Donny De Vito and Richard Dreyfuss

A E'.i/Deod 

ll Raimi just throws his cast together in 

the isolated cabin from the original 

movie and lets the special effects loose. 

Every horror cliche is here, from the 

something nasty in the cellar to the 

ancient document that will lift the 

curse — if any of the cast survives 

long enough. 

The audience may not last the 

whole movie either. I reckon that while 

fifty percent will be reduced to 

hyrsteris, the other half will head 

straight for the toilets and harritade 

themselves in until the assault of 

gruesome slapstick satire is over. 

Of course the protectors of our 

morals got all upset when its 

predecessor appeared on video, 

convinced that it would turn everyone 

who saw it into a mindless zombie. 

reckon the worst effects of Dead 

would be people who spouted dialogue 

as mindless as the script's! 

Despite a slight lull after the first 

frantic half hour, Evil Dead His a 

wacky, tacky. tasteless roler-coaster 

ride, totally lacking believable 

characters and common-sense, If 

you've got the stomach for it see it — 

it's bloody funny. 

A White of the Eye 

A White of the Eye 

1976 with a boyfriend, Mike_ Somehow 

this shadow from ten years ago still 

hangs over the relationship. 

There's something hypnotic about 

White oldie Eye It uncovers its 

horrors in a cold, distant, arty fashion, 

developing a strange power which 

draws you deeper and deeper until you 

finally emerge, feeling as if you've been 

dragged through the dirt 

I suspect that some critics will 

attack it as a sensationalist slasher 

movie, which it is not. Director Dunald 

Camel' has set out to make a serious 

study of psychosis and the horrors of 

serial killing, and in some ways he has 

succeeded. But the result is a cold and 

unpleasant experience. 

Ifs a relief to turn to A Great Wall 

(PG), which is unlikely to get a wide 

release, but turns out to be a minor 

gem. It tells the simple tale of 

Chinaman Lev and his family returning 

from San Francisco. where he earns a 

Living as an executive in a computer 

firm, to Peking to visit his sister. 

A similar East-West culture dash 

featured in Gung Ho which appeared 

earlier this year. But while that 

There's horror of quite another kind 

in White of the Eye (18.1. This is the 

sort of movie that can even reduce a 

cinema of hardened reviewers to a 

state of shocked silence_ 

Globe. Arizona is a dull desert town, 

surrounded by a bleak landscape of 

open-east mines. It's here that hi fi 

engineer, Paul White, lives with his 

wife, Joan. and kid, Daniele. But 

suddenly their peace is shattered when 

Paul becomes chief suspect in a murder 

investigation. 

Could Paul be guilty of these brutal 

and apparently motiveless mutilatioits7 

Even the police don't seem convinced. 

Slowly the film reveals more about him 

— he's having an affair with a 

married woman — meanwhile a series 

of flashbacks show how he met Joan as 

she was passing through the town in managed to be crude, unfunny arid 

V Evil Dead II - frighteningly funny? 

patronising to its Japanese characters, 

A Great Wall is a warm Experience 

which suggested that both worlds have 

something to learn from each other. 

It's a sort of oriental Local Hem. 

One of the most amazing things 

about the film is that it was actually 

shot in Peking, and for once you get a 

picture of how a communist Chinese 

family lives not just endless 

travelogue shots of bikes 

But most of the fun comes from the 

native Chinese reaction IP Western 

culture, In one hilarious scene Leo's 

teenage son tries to explain the concept 

of designer clothes to a Chinaman who 

remains convinced that his Yves Saint 

urent trousers are the colour of 

'mouldy beancurdl. If A Great Wall 

comes to your local art-house, go see it. 

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courtesy of US. Gold, Adventure soft, and 

two freelance programmers — Graham 

LiHey and Teoman Irmak. 

Rather than just do a straight review of a 

game that almost everyone has played in 

one form or another, we thought it would be 

interesting to go behind the scenes, and the 

screen, to see just how you go about 

converting an arcade mega-hit. So David 

Bishop, our resident ST maniac, enticed 

Graham and Teoman down from their native 

Birmingham to reveal all! 

Teoman, Gaurder was 

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although neither are 

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days r before they went the 

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Teoman 

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illustrator and, for many 

years, a designed the covers 

of m Practical Computing. 

before a turning his talents 

to n on-screen graphics 

design for Adventure Soft. 

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So how did this project 

start? 

Graham: "We were 

approached last 

September and asked if 

we'd be up for the job. At 

the time, Gremlin was still 

working on some of the 

8-bit versions so we had to 

go down to their offices to 

take a look at the coin-op." 

Teoman: "Graham had 

seen Gauntet before, but I 

had never even heard of 

the game. so I ended up 

taking about a hundred 

shots on that first evening. 

We took them home and 

sat around wondering how 

we could come up with a 

faithful conv 'on that had 

all the graphical 

atmospheric appearance 

and appeal of the original." 

What help did you get 

from the owners of the 

Gaunlet rights, Atari 

Games? 

Graham: "Very little 

actually. It wasn't as if they 

gave us source code or 

even maps to start with. It 

was more a case of, here's 

a machine, now go do the 

conversion! Eventually 

though, US. Gold managed 

to get printouts of each 

level, which we then coded 

back into our program." 

Did you spend alot of 

time playing the original 

arcade machine? 

Teornan: "Just 

before Christmas, we took 

delivery of the Coin-op that 

had been at Gremlin's 

office. They had finished 

their conversions by then. 

Graham spent most of the 

festive season 

underground, killing 

anything that moved!" 

Graham: "We both know 

the game pretty well now. 

Really, we had to become 

experts on every aspect of 

the game, because we 

wanted to make sure that, 

where possible, everything 

in ours mirrored the 

original. We've even kept 

in minor bugs from the 

arcade version." 

What bugs? 

Teoman: "Well, there are a 

number of places where 

generators overlap, as If 

they were stacked on top 

of each other, so ours do 

too Also, the heads of 

various characters are 

superimposed on 

generator when they get 

too close, so the same 

happens in the ST 

version." 

What changes did you 

have to make from the 

original? 

Teornast: "The coin-op 

uses thirty-two colours and 

we only had sixteen, five of 

which were used for the 

floors, and 11 for the walls 

and characters. Their 

sprites are all eight colour, 

but each 

one can be 

any eight colours 

while ours all have 

to be created from a 

single, unchanging palette. 

"So where, on the 

original, ghosts get less 

bright as you knock them 

down a level, In ours they 

stay the same colour. 

Wizards are another case 

in point. They are purple in 

the original, but we didn't 

have a purple so our 

wizards are blue. But I 

don't think that any of the 

compromises we had to 

make with the colours.

affect the game at all." 

Graham: "Another 

problem we had was that 

our screen size is slightly 

smaller than theirs, which 

created a few interesting 

situations with things like 

transporters. You can only 

transport to another 

transporter, visible on the 

screen. So, with a smaller 

screen, there would be 

times when an intended 

destination transporter 

was not in view. Gremlin 

had the same problem, and 

actually had to move 

certain transporters a little 

this way or that to get 

round it, so that's what we 

did." 

Teoman: "The only other 

differences are that we had 

to leave out the thief 

because there simply 

wasn't enough memory, 

even though all his 

graphics have been drawn 

and coded. for the same 

reason. Only two 

characters 

can play 

at once. 

We also decided 

to show the position of 

'sprung' traps so that 

players could learn their 

whereabouts, albeit after 

the event." 

"But, in every other 

respect, the games are 

identical, from the hit 

shield capacities of the 

different characters to the 

number of pixels each 

enemy moves, right down 

to the way the ghosts 

overlap when they get too 

close to each other!" 

What about the sound 

effects, were they 

sampled? 

Graham: "There are 222 

sound effects in the 

original. A large number, 

partly due to the fact that 

It's in stereo. We started 

with 45K of effects but 

this had to be trimmed 

down to 16 sampled 

effects occupying 20K, but 

we've kept all the 

important ones. 

"Because I wanted to 

use the identical sounds, I 

tinkered around inside the 

coin-op and found output 

which I linked directly to 

the ST. This proved to be a 

mistake because I ended 

up digitally sampling 

digitised sounds, so little 

chunks were lost. A better 

idea was to record the 

original sounds on tape, in 

analogue form, and 

then to 

digitially 

sample the 

sounds oft the 

tape. 

"The music at 

the start is 

sampled, all 

175k of it, but 

this gets thrown out, when 

the last bits of code are 

loaded in, because there 

simply isn't room. 

Incidentally, when the 

music plays, we're using 

10,000 interrupts per 

second!" 

Will ST Gaunlet be in a 

way affected by the Witter 

chip? 

Graham: "If the Witter 

had been standard in all 

Ataris, we would have 

written the program 

differently to take full 

advantage of it. As it is, 

we've written our own 

software Witting routines 

instead." 

It seems there's a very 

strong case for an 

'executive Gaunlet' for 

Atari ST owners with 1 

megabyte of memory, 

especially considering how 

many people have had their 

520s upgraded. 

Graham: "That's right, in 

fact, because we worked 

on 1040s, we can have 

three or four people 

playing at once. The 

program used to scan the 

numeric pad, which sould 

be used by a third player, 

but we had to 

suppress 

that for 

the 520." 

Teoman: "Basically, 

we've got all the bits to 

produce another version 

for up to four players, with 

many more sound effects, 

and the thief. We could 

probably also re-introduce 

the music in the treasure 

rooms." 

Will you be doing the 

'Deeper Dungeons' disk? 

Graham: "Yes, that should 

be available later in the 

year. There will probably 

also be an Amiga Gauniet 

before Christmas!" 

What are your all-time 

favourite games? 

Teoman: "Zork I which, 

for me, epitomises the 

Infocom approach where 

every last detail fits 

together." 

Graham: "Definitely Star 

Raiders for the 8-bit Atari 

range, it's the definitive 

game. Unfortunately the 

ST version is sadly lacking 

in the gameplay which 

makes the original so 

great." 

Apart from 

Deeper 

Dungeons 

disks, and 

the 

possibility of an 

Amiga version of 

Gaunlet, what other plans 

do you have for the 

future? 

Teoman: "We're working 

on a new arcade game, also 

for the ST, called Bushido 

which is Japanese for 'the 

way of war making'. It 

should be finished some 

time in the autumn and will 

again be published by 

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IP. TITLE: CRYSTAL CASTLES 

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Stargliders on Novenia, the 

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Plri. TITLE: XEVIOUS 

Ili- SUPPLIER: US GOLD 

It 

There , isn't much point in 

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So has the ST 

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Well, 

: 

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Then 9 there are those that, 

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t 

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Xevious 

Also, why discriminate 

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shooting, the other for 

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recreate the atmosphere, 

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colour, gameplay. and the 

gameplay etc, of the 

Although fun to play for a 

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while, Xevious is an 

original without being a atmosphere responsible altogether rather flat 

pixel perfect carbon copy. for the original Xevious 

Most conversions fall success. 

experience, lacking the 

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which sadly is very much 

qualities of the original 

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bullets that are insipid in 

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"OK" said the wizard, 

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turning you into a ball. And 

not just any ball no, a 

ball with a skin so thin that 

it will burst at the slightest 

contact with anything 

sharp "You try and imagine 

what he would have done if 

he'd been really angry. 

You begin contemplating 

your fate when the wizard 

starts off again witb_what 

you desperately hope is his 

finale • "and worst of all" 

he raves. "you have a slow 

puncture so you'll need to 

keep pumping yourself up. 

Of course, if you stay on a 

pump too long you'll 

burst!" 

The game starts in a 

beautifully designed 

square room with you, a 

flimsy ball, resting on a 

pump. A scroll bar along 

the bottom of the screen 

shows you pressure rising 

as the pump does its job. 

Jump off too soon and you 

run out of puff before 

making it to the next pump. 

Too late and you burst like 

a balloon, leaving you a 

limp heap on the floor. 

Having jumped off the 

pump, you can go off 

exploring through any of 

the four doors in the first 

pump room. Two things 

become obvious almost 

immediately. Firstly, a map 

will come in very handy. 

Secondly, the graphic 

design of the rooms is 

quite breathtaking! 

One lovely touch, that 

may not be appreciated by 

people with old TVs, can 

been seen in a group of 

locations to the west of the 

first pump room. When 

first entering this part of 

the castle, you could be 

forgiven for thinking the 

game had crashed. But 

look more carefully and 

you'll see that, in fact, 

you're outside and it's the 

dead of night. The view is 

similar to that of a dark 

night-club decorated with 

fluorescent paint. 

Dotted around the place 

are crosses, tins of beans, 

a Buddah, a statue of a 

dragon, a pumpkin and 

crates needed to clear 

other obstacles. Having 

spent hours playing the 

pre-production sample 

rushed, at great expense, 

to VG's offices, we still 

haven't found any objects 

to pick up but we're still in 

there trying! 

In most cases, getting 

from one room to the next 

is more a case of accurate 

joystick or mouse control, 

rather than the solution of 

) 

expecting another Batman 

or 

p 

Head over Heels, forget IF 

it. r Airball is not that deep. 117 /4 

oIt 

is, however, an 

impeccably 

b 

coded and 

highly playable game that 

sets l a high standard other 

companies e will have to 

beat. m 

With titles like this 

s 

appearing now, imagine 

the . treats we're in for 

when s programmers really 

get o to grips with the ST! 

After , all, the Spectrum had 

been 

i 

around three years 

before Knightlore stunned 

us f all. Airball has appeared 

a ylittle 

more than a year 

after o the launch of the ST. 

Airball is the first 

u 

isometric arcade 

adventure, ' written 

specially r for the ST, and 

has e hit written all over it! If 0 

this 011is 

the standard we can 

I 

expect of such games in 

the N future, then form a 

queue . . . behind me! 

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N. TITLE: OUTCA 

It. SUPPLIER: 

MASTERTRONIC 

0. PRICE: £9.99 

Mastertronic is yet another 

, recent entrant into the ST 

arena, firstly with Ninia, 

and now with Outcast, an 

air-to-air blast, rather like a 

futurisitc Skyfox (see Feb 

'87 issue). 

The action takes place in 

the Magellian Cluster 

which is under the control 

of a semi-mechanical 

insectoid race known as 

'The Mind'. The scenario 

and game instructions, 

although a little on the epic 

side, are neatly combined 

into a briefing document. 

The document explains 

that you have been sent a 

simulation disk which 

exactly recreates a 'Mind' 

offensive on three pyramid 

bases on the renegade 

Gyran's home planet. Your 

aim, as always, is to defend 

the bases by destroying 

each successive wave of 

the 'Mind's' offensive. 

The game begins with 

you flying over the surface 

of the planet, viewed 

through the top half of the 

screen which gives you a 

pilot's eye view of the 

proceedings. Cockpit 

displays flash information 

• on shields, energy, kill 

• percentage, heading, 

• altitude, and speed, as well 

as telling you how many 

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PRICE: £24.95 

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software, via US 

Gold, has released a 

further A four courses for 

use I with their very 

excellent R golf game, 

Leaderboard. E 

But, be 

warned, anybody looking 

for 

A 

an easy round can 

forget D it, because these 

are E real meanies. 

RTwo 

of the four courses 

l k like the Norfolk 

broards, B while the other 

two O have so many bunkers, 

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insectoids are remaining. 

In the centre of the 

cockpit is the map or 

scanner display which 

shows enemy activity in 

scanner mode, and the 

whole game arena in map 

mode. Map mode is also 

used to set hyperspace coordinates. 

In scanner mode, three 

of the four types of enemy, 

Seekers, Swarmers, and 

Seigers, are shown in 

different colours. At least 

you know what kind of 

alien is trying to kill you 

then. The fourth, and most 

deadly brand of insectoid, 

known as the stingers, 

don't show up on the 

scanner at all, and are 

monstrously tricky to 

destroy. 

The game itself involves 

you flying around the 

place, protecting your 

three bases, docking with 

them for repairs and extra 

energy when necessary, 

and generally blasting 

anything that moves. 

The screen handling gets 

a little slow when there's a 

lot happening at once, but 

apart from that, and 

considering the price, 

Outcast is a reasonably 

blast and well worth the 

money. 

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you could be forgiven for 

thinking you were having a 

quick round with a bunch of 

desert natives. 

Many of the holes have 

blind greens, often with 

the pin awkwardly placed, 

there are also many more 

trees than on the original 

courses. Several holes can 

only be parred with large 

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challenge. 1 

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play 1 on the Tournament 

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COMMODORE users all over the 

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10, Island Glades, Penang, Malaysia 

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PBM: CDo you fancy yourself doing a 

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COMPUTER games for sale. For C64, 

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Phone 01.883 5863 after six, ask for 

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SPECTRUM 48K+ data recorder. 

Kempston interface, Guickshot 

joystick and 23 original games, also 

mags. All boxed and excellent 

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46933. 

CBM O64 Freeze Frame for sale El 2. 

Also pen pars required who know 

micode and are willing to help 

Others to learn. Tel 0446 749104. 

RESET SWITCH for CBM64, Only 

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payable to S. T. Bainbridge, at 9 

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ANDREW, aged 12, seeks penpai, 

interested in sport and swopping 

software for the Spectrum 48K 

(200 • games) guaranteed reply, 

Contact: Andrew Dungey, 46 Green 

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I OWN EBBC Model-B and tape 

recorder, want swap with 

Commodore 128 or 64. and tape 

recorder. Contact Onkar Mahil, 6 

Maximfeldt Rd, Erith, Kent DAB 1Al-1. 

03224 49572. 

PRINT OUTS of programs on CBM54 

C1-50. Send tapes only to Gary Sims, 

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Northants NN14 21.10Pring 

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Parker, 5 Ainsdale Close, Penketh, 

Warrington. Cheshire WAS 2DN. 

COMMODORE 64 disk utility file 

protect, fast format file search, 

directory commands, etc, only E2.50 

inc p&p. R. Moody, Radar Sqn, RAF 

Gaton BFPO45. 

COMMODORE 128 plus joystick, 

datacorder and over E400 of games, 

all for £250, all boxed. Phone (0689) 

77580 after 4pm (Orpington area). 

AMIGA +64 user wants to exchange 

latest softare, over 4000 for C64, and 

200 on Amiga. D. Cannar, 4 

Alexandra Terrace, Bradford 8D2 

3EH, W Yorks, England, 

CBM64 owner wishes to swap 

software with users all over the 

world, disk only please. All letters 

answered. Send lists and disks to: ? 

CBM 1541 disck drive and over E250 

original software inc. Oulkdisc, Disc 

Disector, many Infocom games, 

Alter Ego, many more. Tel: 582 7928 

ask for Tony. 

FOR SALE ZX M'drive E35 ono. Ales 

Alphacom 32 printer, E20 °non. 

Interface included with mrdrivel All 

in good condition. Tel; 061 223 7857. 

ATARI XE130, XCl 1 Trakball. Slik 

Stik, twenty games including Moon 

Patrol, Pathfinder, Hero, Ballblazer, 

Thrust and others, cost E350. Sell 

£150 ono, Tel (01) 809 3057 after 6.30 

Pm. 

CBM64 and Amstrad CPC464 

software to swap, tape only, over 

500 titles Taner Tanriover Eski Ni 

Havaala Cad. Beyaz Saray AP NE 

50/6 Yesilkoy, Istanbul, Turkey. 

ACORN ELECTRON for sale: boxes, 

leads. mags, books, Acorn data 

recorder, software inc Elite + 

utilities, excellent condition, suit 

beginner, E100. Tel; 021704 2716 

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A pakcage of 30 disks with 

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best in music, graphics, games 

and utilities. for f65/DM190. 

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Contact: Amiga Users of Europe, 

, P.O. Box 2021, 4224 Huenxe 2, W 

Germany. 

C64 original games, will not split, 

Commando, Star Trek, Zorro, 

Archon III (import), and 47 others, 

worth E250+, bargain at 180 + p&p. 

Telephone Stephen after 4.40pm 

021-308 1196. 

THE SILVER GHOST crew wishes to 

contact similar crews worldwide for 

C64. No beginners please, disk only. 

Reply quickly for fast turnaround. 

Contact: Mike Birch, 181A Rutland 

Street, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 

8DG. Hi to Gamesbusters, Flitfun, 

CIA, SCS, TCS, Keyboard Warriors, 

Quadrant. 

AUSTRALIAN C64 user wants to 

swap software with people from all 

around the world (disk onlyl. Send 

your game lists now to Ross Piper, 

78 Rutland Avenue, Mt Eliza 3930, 

Victoria, Australia, write today or 

miss out. All letters answered. 

COMMODORE 64 software to swap. 

have over 1400 games, including 

the latest games. Please write to Ian 

B, 56 Leaf Road, Houghton Regis, 

Beds. LU5 5.JH. Luton 866481. 

FOR SALE A CBM64, datasette, disc 

drive, competition pro joystick, 

utilities and E10005 worth of 

software including the Pawn, 

Gauntlet, Starglider, Hitch-Hikers, 

and many more, in total worth 

£1400, will sell for E450. Tel 08494 

73847 after 9pm or 08494 62139 

before. 

SPECTRUM + with Interface two, all 

leads included, worth about E110, 

asking price £60. Contact Crayford 

51192, 4pm-9pm on weekdays and 

weekends. 

SPECTRUM GAMES_ Three original 

games on one exciting cassette, 

escape the 3D dungeons of hell, 

defeat the invading aliens, or help 

your king retrieve his gems, plus 

free bonus— an addictive rifle range 

simulation, All four on tape for an 

unbeatable £1.99, Conceputal 

Vision, One Middlefield Road, 

Rotherham 560 3J1-1. 

SALE Atari ST cards, XL software, 

Boulderdash II disk E6, The Goonies 

tape £5. and many more. Also 5 

1disck 

box. All prices ono. Tel: 021 

/4" 

355 2626, Jon 

COMMODORE 64 with 1541 disk 

drive, datasette and over E1000 

worth of software, sell for (430. Ring 

1040845) 782 after 4pm. 

TAKE THE hassle out of mai order 

shopping. Mail order services 

provides an extensive range of 

material, including books, comics, 

posters, cassettes, etc, etc for sale. 

Just send 30p for a list of what we 

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53 Rake Hill, Burntwood, Walsall, 

WS7 9DF. 

AMERICAN penpal wanted, disk 

only, all letters answered lgenuine 

letters only). Send list to Rosco, 4 

Richmond Avenue, Latchford, 

Warrington, WA4 1XA, England. 

ATARI 800XL, 1050 disk drive, 1010 

data recorder, over t1000 worth of 

games, manuals, all boxed, E350. 

Phone 10611428 5734 after 7pm, ask 

for Greg. 

COMMODORE 64 software to swap 

on disk with people all over the 

world, especially USA. Send lists to 

Ben, 8 Argosy House, Pepys Estate, 

Deptford, London SE8 30Z. All 

letters answered. 

AMIGA owner wishing to swap 

programs with people all over the 

world, Write to: T. A. Maley, 298 

Braidcraft Rd, Pollok Glasgow, G53 

5LT, Scotland. 

CBM64 2 joysticks, 4 computer 

games, data cassette + The Hornet 

remote control car, all for only E200. 

Phone St Albans 59S19• 

FOR SALE CBM54, 1541 disk drive, 

E240's worth original software, 

expert cartridge, datassetes, worth 

£95.0 new, sell E400 ono. Tel: 

Llandudno 75155 for details. 

ADVENTURE GAME for C64, Street 

Life, can you beat the street? For 

copy send PO for £1.50 to 83 

Cannock Rd, Heath Hayes, Cannock, 

Staff, 

COLECO VISION console with Turbo 

Drive module, super action 

controlles, three joystiks and twenty 

top games, still boxed, was E550, 

bargain 1250 ono. Leabrooks • 

606018. 

C8M64 contacts wanted from all 

over the world, to swap software, 

preferably on disks. Send lists to 

Cooperman 38 Gower Road, Sedley 

DY3 3PN. England. 

48K SPECTRUM boxed, 40 original 

tapes including Starstrike, Spy 

Hunter, Alien 8, Everyone's A Wally 

and Knight Lore. Also Kempston 

interface + joystick • several 

magazines wirth f450+, sell for E200 

ono, Call Gregor on Bourne End 

25566. 

VIRTUALLY brand new Amstrad 

CPC464, green monitor and extras, 

worth £500, sell for E400 ono, Stuart 

Bowers, 3 Emen Road, Cleator 

Moor, Cumbria CA25 SEA. 

ATARI 800XL 1050 disk drive, 1010 

data recorder and E100s worth of 

games including Hardball, 

International Karate, Mercenary I & 

Electra-Glide. Quick sale at £200. 

Tel: Marcus (042121) 3583, 

COMMODORE POKES, hints and 

cheats for your 64. To get those high 

scores, get our best-selling booklet, 

covering 70 chart-topping games. 

Unbeatable value at only E1 .50, post 

now, cheques/wrapped coins to 

Robert Burgess ICBM), 1 Middlefi eld 

Road, Rotherham, South Yorks, S60 

Written enquiries welcome. 

ORIGINAL Amstrad CPC464 games 

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Compilations and full priced game 

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N. nettleship, 83 Margate Drive, 

Grimesthorpe, Sheffield S4 8FG. For 

full list of games. 

C64 and Amiga software to swap. 

I've got all the new titles, disk only. 

No beginners please! Write to: ICS, 

20 Av De La Closiere. 1410 Waterloo, 

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Steph invasion! 

CMB 64 users wants to swap 

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Larusso, 22 Haydock Garth, 

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Humberside 

AMIGA FREAKS are searching 

international connections to swap 

top software. Latest titles available. 

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Wizworld, land of 

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osprites 

have sucked away all 

the colour from the 

landscape, turning it all drab 

and grey. 

For Wiz things have gone 

beyond the pale and so with 

his servant Catelite, he vows 

to lift the darkness and 

restore colour to the world. 

Witworld's landscapes were 

originally made up of three 

colours — red, green and 

blue. To restore these hues 

you must shoot colour 

bubbles. As the bubbles 

explode droplets of colour 

fall towards the ground. The 

cat must collect these before 

they hit the dirt. 

The droplets are stored in 

three cauldrons at the bottom 

of the screen. A fourth 

cauldron shows the target 

colour to be obtained. 

When certain aliens are 

zapped they deposit a green 

pearl. If Wizball passes over 

it enables him to access the 

icons at the top of the screen. 

The more pearls collected 

increases the choice of 

icons, which give Wizball 

extra powers and abilities. 

At the start of the game 

you will have access to the 

first three levels which must 

be completed before you can 

progress to the next section. 

These three levels will 

have aliens on and each has 

a different colour, red, green 

and blue. 

Up to four people can play 

Wizball using two joysticks 

and the keyboard. The 

permutations are: 

One player — controls both 

Wizball and Catelite. 

Two player — each takes 

alternate turns. 

Two player team — Wiz and 

Cat controlled separately, but 

playing together. 

Three player — one team 

versus one player on 

alternate goes. 

Four player —two teams on 

alternate goes. 

The seven icons become 

available depending how 

many green pearls are 

collected. The icons are: 

Thrust and Anti-Grav — 

thrust give more control over 

the Wizball, allowing more 

left and right movement. Anti- 

Gray stops Wizball's 

continual bouncing. 

Beam and Double — Supabeam 

weapon gives Wizball 

extra knockout capabilities 

and Double gives Wizball 

and Cat automatic two 

directional firepower. 

Catelite — gives Widiall a 

new cat. 

Blazers super firepower 

for both Wizball and Cat. But 

use sparingly. 

Wiz Spray and Cat Spray 

— the spray protects both 

Wizball and Cat. But they 

cannot use the spray at the 

same time. 

Smart Bomb kills every 

sprite in sight. 

Shields — limited 

protection for both the 

Mihail and Cat

Take it easy at first. 

Remember you cannot 

control the Wizball's 

movement in the air until you 

have selected the first icon. 

Practice getting different 

levels of spin on the Withal!. 

It is possible to get 12 

different spins on the ball, 

varying from slight to hard. 

The first icons to select 

are the two movement 

controls, otherwise you will 

find the rest of the game a 

little tricky. 

Also select the movement 

controls as your first two 

permanent weapons in the 

Wiziab. 

Remember Catelites are 

expendable. A cat has nine 

lives and is replacable when 

finally killed. Always 

sacrifice a cat life as 

opposed to the life of 

Wizball. 

The cat should be used to 

attack and the Wizball to 

navigate and keep out of 

trouble. If the Wuhan is 

hidden below the horizon, it 

becomes immune from 

enemy bullets. Use this 

aspect of the gameplay 

wisely, it is essential in later 

levels. 

As soon as is possible. 

select the Cat spray as he is 

the most effective aggressor. 

Defend the Wizball in the 

bonus screen by orbiting the 

cat around him and firing like 

crazy. 

Keep on collecting pearls 

on the bonus screen and 

select shields as often as is 

possible. 

Remember there are Iwo 

extra lives to be gained every 

bonus screen if you just keep 

your cool. 

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game by carefully collecting 

different colours for specific 

levels or you can shoot 

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coloured in, a bonus of 7000 

points awarded. 

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that it is much easier to 

collect a colour on a lower 

level number. Level one is 

easier than level four etc. If 

you complete level two and 

three first, using level one to 

collect the red droplets and 

then complete level one you 

will zap straight onto levels 

four, five and six. 

Avoid black, light blue and 

magenta droplets at all costs. 

If you pick up a black droplet 

try to get to the level with the 

fewest aliens left in the 

attack wave. When any 

attack wave is reduced to 

zero, your sight will be 

restored. 

Never get a magenta 

droplet follwed by a grey 

one. This will give you a very 

bad headache. 

Always go for the grey and 

white droplets, don't 

hesitate. Kill gramags to get 

there. 

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If there are only one or two 

aliens left in the attack wave, 

don't despair, scour the 

landscape until they appear 

.They are probably just 

frightened. 

The only upwards 

entrance from level two to 

three is on the extreme left of 

the level. Note the arrows in 

the landscape carefully. 

If you don't need a colour, 

go for it anyway. It could 

come in very handy later. 

Don't let the police scare 

you. Keep your cool. 

The rocks on the bonus 

screen cannot be killed, just 

parry. 

1 Thrust 

2 Anti Gray 

3 Beam 

4 Cat 

5 Wiz Spray 

6 Cat Spray 

1 Lazers 

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and others don't, use your 

own discretion. 

9 With this complete set up, 

carry on selecting shield 

again and again and again. 

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killer. 

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Last month, Electocom, coin-op 

distributor and manufacturer, held 

an opening day for its new 

premises in West London, and on 

show was a magnificent array of 

new games — some brilliant, 

others truly owful. 

My pick of the month went to 

Irem s R-Type, o Nemesis done 

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Bolt/antis, and a report on these 

three follows 

One product — you could 

hardly call it a gome — deserves a 

mention and that is Tatter's 

Midnight Landing. Housed in a 

massive simulator — about ten feet 

long by four feet wide — Midnight 

Landing is an impressive aircraft 

landing simulator. You've got a 

choice of eight cities and different 

planes, and of each you have to 

approach the runway and touch 

down safely. 

Although the hydroulics weren't 

in operation when I tried out the 

simulator, I imagine the ride would 

be doubly as impressive. You have 

to climb into the cockpit, shut the 

door, and then when you're 

enclosed in darkness, take control 

of the aircraft. Instructions are 

called out to you, telling you when 

to drop your speed or rower the 

nose of the plane and all the time 

the runway lights get clearer and 

clearer. You're flying on 

instruments as it's midnight and 

pitch black outside and this 

enhances the realism "Warning! 

Throttle down throttle down" 

came through the intercom as I 

overshot the runway and ploughed supporting earth, the rocks come 

into whatever lay beyond. A total tumbling down. 

failure! If you ore successful, the There ore nine game scenarios 

sound effects of the plane, a jumbo with five levels to each and the 

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in this case, coming into land are 

fantastic. A screen on the outside 

shows the whole world just how 

good or bad you are — a 

necessary extra as once the 

cockpit door is shut, nobody con 

see how you're doing inside. It's a 

fantastic mcKhine, but I don't know 

how well it'll take in the arcades. 

And it's not cheap either — a snip 

at around E 1 0,000. 

Rockford from Mostedronic's 

new coin-op label, Arcadia, was 

also on show and is little more 

than overage Based on the 

original game Rockford from First 

Star you take the part of a little 

character digging around for gems 

and other trophies The game has 

a strong puzzle element, in that 

you've got to work out how to gel 

the gems without getting squashed 

by rocks and boulders which hang 

precariously above you, and 

should you knock away the 

graphics, otOcts to collect and 

nasties change with each scenario. 

The graphics, objects to coiled and 

noshes change with each scenario. 

The graphics are nothing to write 

home about, and though the 

puzzles ore fun, Rockford is not a 

game I'd spend much time on. 

Sour° from Tecfri is another 

Defender clone, though this time 

you have to fly a croft through the 

ocean, firing at ships overhead, 

dodging depth charges ond the 

like from above and at the some 

time avoiding enemy fire from gun 

emplacements on the seabed. Your 

firebuttons allow you to shoal 

diagonally upwards and straight 

ahead, though if you wont to deal 

with the guns you hove to fly at 

ground level, taking core not to 

crash into the hilly terrain. 

Submarines, homing missiles, 

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caves full of stalagmites and 

stalactites are just some of the 

problems you'll encounter. The 

graphics ore 9ulet good, but the 

game itself isn to patch on R-Type 

or even Defender. 

Rescue Raider from Bally/ 

Midway is lust awful. You've got to 

Fly into enemy territory and rescue 

a bunch of hostages. Joystick 

control is unusual — you've got 

two joysticks, one controlling 

direction and the other controlling 

the gun on top of your mit Rotate 

the right joystick and the gun turret 

will rotate 360 degrees The 

graphics are walling, and ploy 

isn't much better. A rather 

confusing panel, divided into four, 

at the side of the screen, shows 

sections of the area you're flying 

through, where the hostages ore 

and so on.

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Fans of 1941 and 1942 will be 

pleased to hear of Copcom's latest 

release — predictably 19431 

A revamped version of 1942, 

1943 has you flying a single plane 

over the baffle-torn fields and 

oceans of hostile territory, taking 

on the full might of the enemy with 

absolutely no other support from 

your own side, You're on your 

own, and only by some nifty flying 

and firing will you come out on top, 

having blown to bits, squadrons on 

enemy fighters, fleets of battle 

cruisers and countless tanks and 

gun emplacements. 

As you can guess, the action's 

non-stop and very exciting. Extra 

weapons can be picked up by 

flying over POW symbols and the 

like. These give your plane a real 

boost and incude such goodies as 

a three-way shotgun, rapid fire 

gun, starfire, supershell — all of 

which hove the uses when blasting 

at targets on the ground and sea 

I thoroughly enjoyed 'playing 

1943 — darting through 

squadrons of fighters, dodging 

anti-aircraft fire, spending more 

time and bullets on larger enemy 

planes which have to be shot 

several times before they 

disappear in a ball of flame, then 

meeting battle cruisers head-on 

while at the lime looking over my 

shoulder for the planes creeping 

up horn behind. The cruisers lake 

some beating, huge ships with 

dozens of gun turrets flanking both 

port and starboard sides Each gun 

turret has io be bombed to render 

the ship harmless. Great fun. 

The graphics ore colourful, the 

background scenery constantly 

changes and the oction doesn I let 

up for a second. In fact, when it 

gels too much, and if you've 

collected the nght weapons, a flick 

of the second fire button causes 

sheets of fork lightning to spear the 

screen, taking out any enemy craft 

it happens to touch. Then there ore 

the energy bomb causing energy 

waves to flood the screen, 

destroying everything in sight 

1943 is a two player game, and 

instead of losing a life when you're 

shot, you lose energy — this give 

you for more time in the air than if 

you died the instant you were hit. A 

much better idea Also, of you do 

die, your replacement aircraft 

starts at the point you were killed 

— you're not forced back to the 

beginning of that section These 

small improvements make fora 

much better game, even though it's 

played in much the some way as its 

predecessors

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BATTLANTIS 

Konomi must be running out of 

ideas — Battlantls is Space 

Invaders hyped-up with a few 

other extras thrown in for good 

measure. 

In fact, Konami has come up with 

a nice, playable and, dare I say it, 

addictive game. OK, so Space 

Invaders is old hat, but the new 

touches add quality and some 

interesting graphics. 

You start off with rows of aliens 

jigging their way down the screen 

towards you_ You control a 

cloaked figure at the bottom of the 

screen running bock and forth, 

using the battlements as refuge 

spots — exactly the some as those 

in Space Invaders, Shoot 

through these and they'll 

eventually crumble — then you're 

out in the open. 

A cart pulling a yellow box with 

inscribed on its side trundles 

across the top of the screen at 

regular intervols, shoot this to 

release a fuedal banner which, 

when caught, gives you additional 

fire power like a cross bow, Much 

better than single bullets. All the 

time the ranks of evil looking 

warriors descend the screeen. Go 

for the ones at the bottom because 

if they reach your walled area, 

they'll hop over and kill you. Once 

a warrior has jumped the wall you 

might as well give up — there's no 

escape and as you can only shoot 

vertically, there's nothing you can 

do to shop him creeping up on 

you. 

Keep your eyes skinned for 

horned goblins. These run straight 

down the screen towards you wall 

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in for C +VG's UK Hall of Fame 

and we will be publishing an 

updated list soon. 

Manager Robert Brown has 

put up C+VO's high scores on 

Ole most popular games and 

*tow the local joystick hot shots 

ore going all out to beat them 

and have their name entered 

tin the UK Hall of Fame. 

F Ws a great idea and a pity 

1. Bubble Bobble 

2. 1942 

3. Salamander 

4. Wonder Boy 

5. Pacland 

6. Arkanoid 

8. Express Raiders 

9. Rygar 

10. Green Beret 

with the express intention of 

climbing over to kill you. If you 

don't manage to get them on their 

run down, wait until their hands 

appear on the top of the wall then 

when a head pops up, shoot or all 

you're worth. 

At the end of screen, once 

you've killed the descending rows 

of meanies, you'll have to kill a 

single, armed and very a ngrst 

goblin to get onto level two. This 

character chucks burning torches 

at you and needs a large number 

of direct hits before he succumbs. 

His shield deflects some of your 

shots and as he runs bock and forth 

across the screen he makes a 

difficult target. 

Batilantis is enjoyable if not 

original and is certainly worth a try. 

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• I cannot let this pass. I have to 

comment on the latest edition of 

C+VG. I refer, of course, to the 

inside back cover, and I really must 

complain! Don't you realise that 

young boys read your mag? Good 

heavens, having seen this advert 

they will all be going around 

thinking that women have a 

pointy bit on the right 

wobbly thing only! 

What happened to 

journalistic truth and 

integrity? Surely you 

should have revealed 

that the left wobbly 

thing has a pointy 

bit as well?! 

Yours 

anatomically 

The Fiend 

Oxford 

shire 

• 

Editor: 

Aaargh! It's 

the Farringdon 

Fiend. I have been 

giving this matter 

close attention 

and I have decided 

that in an effort to 

keep things 

balanced we 

should have a 

male pin up 

Odds on it will be 

a pit of ace ads 

man Carry "The 

Body" Williams. 

• May I tell you how shocked and 

disgusted I was at seeing the 

''advert" for Game Over lback 

page, July). Did you need to show 

what you did? I have always 

bought and enjoyed your games 

and have never felt any need for 

anything like that. So why? Is the 

game as bad as Friday the 13th, 

that it needs a publicity stunt as bad' 

as that? While people are striving to 

make women safer on the streets, 

its things like this that wipes it all 

out. Muggings, etc, are on the rise 

so things like this stir ideas in the 

idiots who do this. 

Tim, I know that you may need 

the money, but surely you could 

be more careful on what you print. 

If the game is so bad then why 

bother to put it on the market? 

Surely the safety of people is more 

important than a quick profit? It 

could also make a black mark on 

younger readers. I know that if you 

don't print this letter, that you don't 

care about the consumers' views. 

Please change the advert. 

Gareth Evans 11 , 

Watford 

Editor: We take your point, 

Gareth. But have you checked out 

your daily paper, any women's 

magazine or watched any 

television of late? Compared to 

that, the Ocean ad is really quite 

tame. 

• The other day there I was, a 

young man of twenty, picking up a 

copy of my favourite magazine. 

While I was waiting to pay, a boy 

of about nine in front of me, 

bought the very same magazine. I 

therefore ask you this question — 

do you think I am too old to read 

C+VG. Before answering bear in 

mind:— 

1. I've been reading since the 

first issue. 

2. The wrong answer might 

mean a diversion of funds into a 

more macho interest like a Cortina 

III with CT stripes and furry dice or 

even pushing back the lagers in the 

nearest Rose and Crown. 

Also, recently I bought a new 

Enterprise 64 for £40. Which I am 

very pleased with, but, I need a bit 

of advice on programming it. Do 

you know of a user dub that I 

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could contact? 

I don't suppose you have any 

Enterprise programs cluttering your 

office or being used as door stops 

that could find their way to a loyal 

— I've got every issue — reader 

like me, grovel, grovel! 

IV Wilson 

Somerset 

Editor: You're never too young or 

old for C VG. Hopefully we've 

enough to keep everybody' 

interested. But a Cortina Mk 

would definitely be too old for 

you. We would have spent the £40 

you lashed out on the Enterprise 

on lagers down at the Rose and 

Crown. We don't have any 

Enterprise stuff nowadays but if 

anybody can help M out with an 

address for a users club, let us 

know and we'll print the address. 

The editor is 673/4. 

• Hey! That's a heavy metal mag 

man! I've got a small question for 

you to put through your data 

banks. I, at the moment, own a 

Commodore 64 and I am thinking 

of selling it and all my software to 

buy and Atari ST, I was wondering 

if you could tell me whether the ST 

would be one of those computers 

that will become extinct in a year's 

time. Would I be better off getting 

an ST or keeping my Commodore? 

I would be grateful if you could 

answer this question. 

Simon Witstter. 

Cardiff 

Editor: All things eventually pass 

but we reckon the ST is here to 

stay for a long time. 

• Ello Mr Muscley. 

Just read July's issue and though 

it was great, then I came to Mailbag 

and there're two loonies, one 

saying that thrash metal is 

outdated. I wish he'd have written 

to Kerrang and told them, coz 

they'd probably sent a lynch mob 

round, 

I think an album review of any 

kind would be a welcome change 

for the better, I am as you might 

have guessed a metal freak but I do 

think it would be a good idea if you 

reviewed not just the best music in 

the world hut the poppy stuff as 

well, just to keep little girlies like 

Stuart and Ian quiet while they

k:roul over George Michael and 

Pimply Fred. Mind yous a dose of 

MariIlion and Magnum wouldna 

go a miss, keep up the good work. 

Please say hello to fellow 

Meta!heads Paul. Ricky, Kenny, 

Yvonne, Alison. Robin, Shiels and 

the Gilmours and Dez who all live 

in Kilmarnock, oh and Marcus 

from Barnsley for being a good 

mate, from Peter. 

Fish 

Barnsley. 

Editor: No we can't. 

• I am now the proud owner of a 

Sega games system. Tony T was 

right, it's pretty epic. I bought it 

here in Germany. M an 

introductory offer I also got Hang 

On and I bought Top Soccer. The 

graphics are superb. They make 

my 64's graphics look like the old 

TV tennis. There's also a good 

range of games available here. I 

compliment you on a superb mag, 

that arrives about two weeks 

before the beginning of each 

month, unlike Commodore User 

that's usually about Iwo weeks late. 

Anyone thinking of buying the 

Sega System it's well worth it. 

Although games are a bit pricey, 

for what you get it's excellent 

value, unlike some of the garbage 

some computer software houses 

turn out. 

A M Barnes 

BFPO 32 

Editor: Thanks for the kind words. 

Commodore Us 

Iwo e weeks late with everything — 

news, r is reviews, features. I'm sorry. 

t hat was a nasty thing to say. 

Commode u s u a User l l are our pals. Ho, 

ho, y ho. 

a• The b mission o begins — full beam 

umilitary t laser rifle, check. Combat 

knife, check. Body armour, check. 

OK Spillane we're ready 

.getting C+ VG is no joke in this 

part of England. 

The sweetie shop (newsagents to 

you) on the corner is lucky to get 

one copy of your magazine on its 

shelves each month. ok, we're 

on our way. Quick dash to the 

garage to get the military personnel 

carriers (bikes) and it's pedal full 

power down to the shop. Set up 

camp irs the 14th of the 

month, 24hrs to stocking the 

shelves time. Movements in the 

bushes _ it's a baby pushchair. 

Blow it away, Spillane. There's no 

going back now. Nothing will stop 

us from getting C+VG back to 

base. Now we wait. 

Time passes. 

Darkness falls and infra red 

vision is switched on. Good idea. 

Spillane. We'll sleep in shifts. Me 

first. 

Time passes. 

What! Where! Spillane! What do 

you mean you couldn't wake me 

up? Oh, I see the newsgaency man 

is here. 

Time passes. 

Spillane's active today. We'll 

ta•, ciVk now. It's 08.00 hour, 

Two hour to do. The paper boys, 

Spillane, we forgot the paper boys! 

You take the one with the big nose 

and I'll get the other. 

One hour left and the situation is 

hotting up, Spillane's getting edgy. 

He's humming the tune from 

Warhawk_ 

One hour later. 

He's late, Spillane, what o k 

maybe he's a she a car's 

pulling in to the back of the 

newsagent, One slender leg gets 

out. OK, Spillane, it was a she. 

Now Spillane, remember Ms 

Ravenflame, you're supposed to 

be dedicated to her. Now we'll 

move inside the shop. Here comes 

the newsagent. He's putting out the 

magazines. I was right, Spillane 

one copy, I'll get it, you get the 

money out. What no money, 

Spillane? Don't say you thought I 

had it. Right this is the last straw. 

Double shots ring out and Spillane 

falls dead to the floor. Whose fault 

was it? No one knew, no one 

cared. Any chance of sending 

round Big Red to stomp on the 

sweetie shop and maybe the Bug 

Hunters could clean up the mess. 

God, I hate that newsagent. 

PS. TT is slightly naff. This could 

he because he is BLUE. Surely he 

don't really look that way. 

Anon 

Editor: Well, Anon, are you feeling 

better after that? Get it all off your 

chest, did we? Wouldn't it be 

easier just to ask your newsagent 

to simply order you a copy of 

C +VG like most sensible folk do? 

There are two theories why Tony T 

is blue. The first is that he went 

that colour after some irate C+ VG 

reader tried to strangle him. The 

second is that he is nut human and 

originally came from a distant 

planet. The latter is probably true. 

• Upon reading the letters page in 

the July issue of your passable(1) 

rag, I was angry to see letters from 

two morons complaining about 

your Heavy Metal reviews. 

Contrary to what they may say, 

Metal is not outdated. It doesn't ge 

the coverage of all this "teenybop" 

rubbish such as Mel and Kim, but 

groups such as Metallica, Maiden, 

Anthrax and Slayer have 

originality, stuff like Jack Mix II 

scores at least zilch puntos. The 

only thing which chart dross really 

scores heavily on is the old 

Naffometer! 

Ignore those gormless iaffas and 

keep up your heavy metal reviews 

or else my old mate Eddie (of 

Maiden fame) will sort you lot out!! 

A final message to a fellow member 

of the T.L.F. "Battery" Powell. 

Treat me to a tinny for this. 

An Angry Metallica fan (A.G.) 

Norfolk 

PS Tony 1 

- Editor: Rumour has it that Tony T 

suck is an HM fan. Does that alter your 

s. 

• lo hewn with. I've an 

extremely short message for 

Stephen Wood, Duncan 

Roper and anyone else who 

can't stand Tony Takoushi, 

Leave the dude alone. He's 

damn good and he's earned his 

column. (Sorry to take the 

subject into another month of 

unimportant tittle-tattle, but some 

people will insist on having a 2K 

memory, won't they?) 

Richard 'Iceman" Monks 

South Humberside 

Editor: Sorry, that's all we've got 

room for. How much is Tony 

paying you? 

• My son recently spent his hard 

earned savings on Enduro Racer for 

our Amstrad 6128, having played 

the arcade version and seen the 

Spectrum version. 

The Spectrum version looked 

like it had decent colour and sound 

but we were looking forward to a 

version on the 6128, that would be 

at least as good as, say, Bomblack. 

1942 etc. 

What a let down! Enduro 

Racer is a typical example of 

the money grabbing 

software house cashing in 

and exploiting the kids 

who think and are 

entitled to expect, that 

they will get value for 

money. This game 

has the worst sound 

I have heard on 

the 6128. 

The screens 

remind me 

of old 

lolur 

id 

ow, 

Spectrum games 

with jerky graphics 

and blurred colours 

and the biker has 

all the speed of a 

lethargic snail! 

In short, if this 

is the best that the 

staff at Activision 

can do than I 

would strongly 

suggest that the 

management take 

opinion of him? c o n h n u e d on Poge 1 2 0 10 

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• I have a complaint, and the 

cause of this complaint has made 

me stop buying your publication. I 

hear you cry "What's the cause." 

I'll tell you — Ionathan Eggetton. 

This person has won a prize four 

times in your magazine. If you 

don't believe me I'll tell you they 

were — Uridium, Xevious, Zoids 

and Centurions. Who is this person 

- the Editor's son! 

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the likes of Ocean. Elite etc and 

spend some of their ill-gotten gains 

on decent programs. 

In future, in this house, 

Activision can poke their games 

right where it hurts! 

Ron 5tort 

Norfolk 

Editor: That's it, Ron, say what you 

mean. Why don't people demand 

to see the game running before 

they buy? It would save a lot of 

heartache later. And it would 

really hit Activision where it hurts 

— in the wallet. 

Martin Taylor 

Horn church 

Editor: Since you've stopped 

buying the mag, Martin, it's really 

pointless of me writing this reply, 

which you'll never read. Jonathan 

is an eatremely talented artist who 

enters lots of our competitions. If 

you entered lots of competitions. 

Martin, you'd probably win too. 

• The first point I would like to 

complain about is Rock On. It is 

utter trash! Secondly, in relation to 

Julian Tubbs' letter, I it)* the 

c:omic strips are verygood and 

should be given more room. 

Please restart the software chart 

as it will at least give us a rough 

idea of games popularity. What has 

happened to Melissa R? It seems 

that I.C. is shrinking. 

Gauntlet on the Spectrum is 

disasterous. Why did you give It 

such a good review. It would be a 

good idea to publish C + VG 

weekly. 

Stephen Mulcahy 

Ireland 

Editor: Hey, Wayne, this guy 

thinks Rock On is trash. No you 

can't stomp on him or hit him with 

your cardboard cut-out guitar. No 

taste, some people. Watch out for 

developments on the comic strip 

front, Stephen. IC is not shrinking 

120 

and a lot is happening with Melissa 

Rayenflame but I'm too much of a 

gentleman to tell you. 

• Mark Hula's letter prompted me 

to write. I agree that it is difficult to 

learn all you need to know about 

programming if you are on your 

own. And to get the people in-theknow 

to impart their knowledge 

can be even more difficult But if 

Mark wants to write games there is 

a solution. However it depends on 

what Mark wants. 

If he wants a nine to five type job 

in an office then if he approaches 

the software houses he may 

well be lucky. This does not suit 

everyone and many programmers 

like to work in their own homes 

and at their own pace. 

About a couple of years ago I 

came to the point that many 

programmers reach. I didn't know 

enough about machine code and 

could not put my ideas intro 

practice using basic. I decided to 

place an advert asking people who 

wanted to write games to contact 

me. Although the replies did not 

come thick and fast I did have 

enough and I met Guilo Zicchi, 

Since our meeting Guilo has 

Armourdillo on the market and I 

have Battle for the Cl 6 on the 

market. We are at present near 

completion of a game which has 

alredy been accepted by a 

company. 

The point that I am making is that 

Mark does not have to be accepted 

by a software house to write 

games. Many companies only deal 

with freelance programmers 

anyway, 

The idea is that you find people 

locally and build up a team_ The 

ideal number is about three. 

Between you, you need the 

following. 

1_ An ideas person. 

2. Two of you at least to be good 

programmers, 

3. One who can do music and 

sound effects. 

4. One who can do good graphics. 

If between you you have the 

skills then you stand a good chance 

of getting a game on the market. 

Also the fact that it is all your own 

work is very satisfying. Of course 

you will have to split the money 

three ways but money is not 

everything. Far better if you can 

write a smash hit when perhaps the 

in house teams cannot. 

Finally, I don't profess to be a 

great programmer or an authority 

on the best approach to selling and 

writing games. This is merely the 

way in which I have started what 

will hopefully be a lifetime of 

programming. I hope this may be 

of help to others. 

Ken Smith 

London. 

Editor: That says it all. 

• I think C+VG is great. I've been 

buying your mag for three years 

and never get bored with it, not like 

other computer mags. What really 

annoys me is the way they copy 

your ideas. You can bet your life 

that something in C +VG will turn 

up four weeks later in Sinclair User 

or Crash. 

Mark Wigh ton, 

Editor: They say imitation is the 

sincerest form of flattery, Mark. 

We try our best to stay Out in front 

of the rest. And with the plans 

we've got for C +VG, you ain't 

seen nothing yet. Our new battle 

cry is Forward into the Future. 

• les about time somebody 

complained about your letters 

page • _ so here goes!! 

Every month you seem to have a 

different character — I mean who 

the_ is this Conan the Librarian 

chap? Big Red was bad enough. 

C'mon do you thing your 

readers are absolute cretins? 

Why can't you have a decent 

letters page like Commodore User? 

(which in all other respects is an 

inferior mage to C +VG) They seem 

to get really good letters which 

stimulate interesting arguments 

about things that really matter — 

racism, sexism, politics etc. and 

the replies are witty and thought 

provoking. 

I am really into computer games 

— I buy at least two a month — but 

I'm also into important issues. So 

don't think that a pathetic reply 

from Conan or Big Red is going to 

impress me. 

Pull your socks up, C+VG. 

By the way I really like the ST 

and Amiga coverage you've been 

doing, but no one seems to 

Alifideog 

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advertise games for them. Any 

suggestions? 

Yours in hope that I won't get a 

crass reply from an inane lump of 

metal, or drunken lard! 

Graham Mackintosh 

Gwent 

Editor: Conan and Big red are pals 

of mine so watch you lip, buster. If 

anybody really is interested in the 

subjects you mention then they 

will write in. Sorry this reply is low 

on wit but you've no idea what a 

tough life I lead 

• I've just finished reading your 

Comix feature in the July issue. I 

really loved it. Let's have more. 

Comics aren't just for kids, you 

know. Every country except 

Britain's seems to have a thriving 

market for great adult comics. I've 

been collecting for a few years now 

and have got some real goodies. 

Have you seen any French comics? 

They really are something else. 

Who is this Philip Morton guy 

anyway and where have you been 

hiding him? 

lames Medcalte, 

Oxford. 

Editor: Glad you liked the Comix 

stuff, lames. Philip will be writing a 

regular column in C VG from 

now on. He has a massive 

collection of comics from all over 

the world and over the years has 

built an expert knowledge. We've 

had him locked in a basement for 

months now just waiting for the 

right moment to launch.him on 

our unsuspecting readers, 

• This will be my fourth letter to 

your magazine. I wrote the first 

time thinking that my letter would 

be printed, was it? NO! Why not! I 

will stay calm, . Now on we go. I 

wrote in my last letter on the lack of 

Atari reviews (8-bit). Review more 

Atari software! I own an Atari 

800XL and am proud to be an Atari 

owner, hut from the old 8-bit of 

today the shiny new 16-bit swoops 

in and has me hooked. I am of 

course talking about the Atari ST 

range and will soon be a proud 

owner of a 520 ST-FM. You did a 

pretty good Atari spectacular and 

was wondering if you will be doing 

another one in the future? 

Editor: Of course.

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Tony Takoushi has the biggest eyes, nose 

and mighty mouth in computer games. He 

sees all, hears all and he then shouts 

about it each month exclusively in 

your favourite computer mag. 

So read on for the man 

who shoots from the li 

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scene) and the Channel 

Four computer show 

which died an abrupt 

death. 

If you stop and think 

about it there must be 

the best part of a million 

home cumputers in the 

UK. 

WHO CATERS FOR 

HOME MICRO OWNERS? 

WHO SHOWS YOU THE 

LATEST SOFTWARE? 

WHO DISCUSSES THE 

LATEST TECHNOLOGY? 

WHO SHOWS YOU THE 

LATEST ARCADE GAMES? 

It is so PATHETIC — 

cover and osetamouritof 

energy which goes down with 

each alien attack oayou. The 

camel con walk actbfss the 

screen, leap into the air and sit 

whilst spewing out bullets and 

bombs. 

There is a phased ground 

scroll and a detailed multi- 

such iarge interest is 

being ignored to any 

real degree. 

This isn't me ranting 

(again) without proof, 

have been on the 

receiving end of phone 

calls from researchers 

at Thames (to name 

one) and PR companies 

who pick my brain on 

the market, machines 

and competitors. YET 

these are the people 

who are producing the 

TV shows and selling 

the products into the 

markets. Isn't it crazy? 

Cur backdrop. 

When the distance counter' 

hits zero you are then faced 

with a ten by ten map and a 

shopping list of armaments. 

The weapons alloble are 

4 Shield Factor onalbield ' r 

Factor two, Yo-Yo bullets (i like 

these, thm chase aliens around 

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The best chance to get 

an exciting and 

Informed show is to let 

the TV companies know 

YOU want to see a home 

micro show. So get your 

finger out and drop 

them a line TELLING 

them what you want to 

see. 

Do not lust sit there 

and think, 'Yes he has 

got a point' then swan 

off and forget all about 

it! Write to Channel 

Four/Thames or your 

local TV station and 

bring the point home. 

the screen to destroy them, that 

is my kinda bullet'!!), Reset 

energy to max and an extra 

bea sty life. These all cost 

credits and when you buy one 

its price is increased so buy 

wisely and do not waste 

credits. 

Some of the original attack 

waves areiqhere again (only 

better) anMsr ability to 

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You can only go into a wave 

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