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11 NEWS 

Team 17 reveals its Streetfighter 2 

beater (geddit?) and Dr Who 

makes it onto Amiga - Just two of 

the red hot stories this month! 

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The place where YOU get to air 

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21 WORK IN 

PROGRESS 

Your chance to get the first peaks 

behind the security shields guarding 

the big games coming your 

way in the next few months. This 

time around we have the second 

part of our massive ELITE 2 exclusive 

and massive three-page features 

on FLASHBACK, Delphine's 

Another World follow-up, and THE 

SECOND SAMURAI, Vivid Image's 

stunning-looking sequel! 

In the second instalment of our E Work In 

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THE MOST INCREDIBLE 3D R ICS EVER 

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He's back and he s bad! (He's also 

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101 QUESTIONNAIRE 

Yet another chance for you to air 

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104 PREVIEWS 

Gary Whitta gazes into his crystal 

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COMPO 3 6 

With a little luck, you could be the 

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almost), thanks to Core Design 

and their undying generosity. To 

celebrate the launch of Premiere, 

they're giving away ten copies of 

the game! Oh, and there's a Panasonic 

video palmcorder worth 900 

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107 GAMES INDEX 

Everything you ever wanted to 

know about the games released 

over the last eight months but were 

afraid to ask. 

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LOADING YOUR DISKS 

To be honest, you'd have to be a bit of a gonzo if you can't figure this out for yourselves 

by now. But you'd be surprised how many Amiga owners used to own STs not 

so long ago, and whose brains have never fully recovered from the experience (like 

Dave), So it is for the benefit of those poor tortured souls that we provide this easy 

to follow guide... 

(I) Select the disk you wish to have a one 

slot it in the correct manner into your Amiga's internal drive. 

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a full lowdown on Delphine's riproaring 

follow-up to Another World 

in development, whizz along to our 

exclusive Work In Progress starting 

on page 30. But oh, how inadequate 

static screenshots can be! Flashback's 

a game that's all about animation, 

and you won't get much 

of an idea of that from the WIP 

disk 

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pictures. Where you will get it from 

is our top rolling demo, which plays 

out the game's entire introduction 

sequence in full (unfortunately bar 

the sound - that bit just wasn't ready 

in time). 

You don't need any instructions. 

Just sit back, switch oft the lights 

and prepare to be amazed! 

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miss it, it's the one with the tatty logo on it 

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desired item will now load and run automatically. 

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There, that didn't hurt did it? Now 

use it to select a team from the 20 

available in the fourth division by 

cycling through the arrow icons and 

clicking on ACCEPT when the one 

you want is displayed. Congratulations, 

you're the new manager! 

From here it's onto the main 

screen, where the real thrust of the 

game takes place. On the left is your 

diary (one day to a page) and on the 

right are the control icons. Refer to 

the icon panel for an explanation of 

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COVERDISKS 

We've said it before and we'll say it again. Our coverdisks are the 

absolute BUSINESS! We don't care who knows it. And having looked 

at them in all their gleaming excellentness on the front of the mag, 

you're probably inclined to agree with us. Right? And if you don't by 

now, you will once you've loaded them up and your Amiga has nearly 

exploded with glee at having the privilege of running such fine 

quality software. We can't wait any longer. Let's go! 

TINY SKINEEKS 

First there were Lemmings. Then, the 

Troddlers. And now there is a new 

breed of sickly-cute fluffy game characters 

- yes, they're the Tiny Skweeks. 

These little bundles of mischief will 

be weed ling their way onto your 

Amiga courtesy of Loriciels this 

Autumn, but in the meantime, why 

PHYSIO 

not cut your teeth on our TEN (count 

'em) exclusive, playable and totally 

complete levels? 

THE GAME 

Tiny Skweeks is a puzzle game where 

the object is to get each of the 

Skweeks (the furry creatures) on the 

screen Onto the lighted pads of the 

corresponding colour. It sounds easy, 

but of course it isn't, Although you 

can control the Skweeks directly, 

they're not very bright creatures and 

can only walk in straight lines, stopping 

only when they bump into a 

wall or some other immovable 

object_ 

Visit your physiotherapist and you can have him report player fitness 

and prioritise which players should get his attention first, To do so, simply 

click on a player's name - a red cross appears to indicate that a physio 

session has been allocated, and the number next to it tells how many 

more days it will be before that player's fitness is raised by 1%. 

managerial and start making decisions, 

all you have to do is select the 

relevant icon and, holding the mouse 

button down, drag it into the square 

slot next to the diary entry you 

desire. You can do up to five things 

in a single day. If you don't want to 

do anything, simply leave the slot 

blank. 

That's your schedule set up for the 

day. Now, click on the single arrow 

icon in the top left-hand corner of 

the diary to advance, one at a time, 

through the various appointments. 

As you come to each one, a separate 

screen appears where, depending on 

what's happening, you can take 

action of some kind or just view 

information for reference purposes. 

When you reach the end of a day, 

your diary automatically flicks over 

to the next. You can set your sched- 

ule and preview upcoming matches 

up to 15 days in advance by clicking 

on the double-arrow icons at the 

bottom of the diary, 

THE AIMING SITS 

For the purposes of the demo, certain 

icons have been disabled and 

are only available in the full game. 

You can't, for example, select Team 

Talk, Trainer, Scout or Supporter's 

Club, 

PLAYING MATCHES 

When the time for the Match of the 

Day comes around (fixtures are set 

automatically into your diary), the 

score is calculated and the result, 

along will all others from that day, 

shown. In the full game you'll be 

able to see arcade-style match high 

-lights. 

The trick is to find a path that will 

lead each Skweek onto its coloured 

light with the minimum of fuss. 

Although a Skweek might be standing 

right next to its destination, you 

might have to send him in a convoluted 

path all around the screen to 

get him there as a Skweek will walk 

right over a light unless there's 

something to stop him when he gets 

there. 

SELECT TEAM 

On more complicated screens, it 

becomes necessary to constantly 

swap between Skweeks, moving 

them in the way of each other to 

provide obstacles and stopping 

points. 

CONTROLS 

Use FIRE to click through the title 

sequence. When the control screen 

appears, use keys Fl-Ftt to change 

control mode (joystick, mouse or 

keyboard), redefine the key controls, 

swap between music and SFX and 

enter level codes. When it's all set up 

hunky-dory, hit SPACE to begin. 

The player controls a squareshaped 

cursor that moves around 

the screen in four directions. To 

select a Skweek, move the cursor 

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From hero, you pick your team for forthcoming matches. Click on any of 

the names in the squad roster to display information about that player. 

using the right mouse button you can cycle through Info. Goalkeeper, 

Defender, Midfielder. Attacker and Substitute. To actually select (or de- 

select) a player for the team. the pointer must be set to the appropriate skill. Your team 

can have a maximum of five in attack, midfield or defence up to a total of 13 includ- 

ing a goalie and two subs. You can't select players less than 80% fit. 

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This section has been partly disabled for the purposes of this demo. You 

can't actually trade players, but you can use this to select a new trainer. 

physio and scout from those available. 

SPORTS PAGES 

Come here to keep up to date on match reports. upcoming fixtures, 

fer news and good old fashioned gossip. You never know what you mi 

aj discover._ The paper is updated after every match. 

FIXTURE LIST 

Shows you the order of all upcoming home and away matches - the next 

match is highlighted. Remember that the club only earns money from 

home games. 

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Tthe Ateams B in the league, are faring. At the end of the season the top three 

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CASHFLOIN 

Click here to get up to date with the club's finances. The club's sponsor 

provides a fixed sum of cash per season - after that it's up to 

you to balance the books. Fail and you could end up out on your ear.

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over him and hit FIRE - you now have 

direct control over that Skweek. 

Remember, you can't change a 

Skweek's direction or stop him while 

he's walking. You have to wait until 

he hits an object and stops himself. 

SPECIAL THINGS 

The first level is easy-peasy and 

intended to get you into the swing 

of things. But from then on, extra 

features are added that make things 

NEBULA 

The first of our top-quality PD threepack 

this month is a high-velocity 

arcade blaster that should be familiar 

to anyone who's ever played classics 

like Battlezone or Encounter. 

Taking control of a super-fast landspeeder, 

your mission is to free the 

once-peaceful moon of Uropa from 

the clutches of the evil Kapones. 

They've set up nine energy rigs 

around the moon which are sapping 

the satellite's natural resources. Only 

you can foil their plans by planting 

AERs (Anti-Energy Rig bombs) by the 

offending structures, then detonating 

them to blow them up. 

Of course, the Kapones have a 

whole army of land-based assault 

vehicles to protect the energy rigs, 

and you'll have to do battle with 

these if you're to get anywhere. Blast 

away at them with your lasers to 

knock them out, being careful to 

avoid their own fire, which saps your 

ship's shields. If you wait around on 

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trickier - or easier, depending on how 

clever you are. The screens become 

populated with blockers, pushers, 

arrow-shaped direction-changers 

and other secret thingies, all of 

which have an effect over your 

Skweeks when they pass over them 

Remember that each level has a time 

limit, and extra time is available by 

running a Skweek over the alarm 

clocks that appear on screen every 

now and then. 

the title screen for a bit, you'll get a 

full rundown of all the enemies in 

the game 

PLAYING THE GAME 

Your GBV (that's the thing you're flying 

around in) is a nippy little beggar, 

and comes equipped with radar, 

shields, lasers and a cloaking device. 

The radar in the centre of the display 

shows all enemies in range - simply 

speed towards them and pump them 

full of laser fire. Don't worry if they 

don't blow up straight away most 

enemies need a lot of hits to kill. 

Once an enemy has been destroyed, 

pull away from it quickly, as the 

debris from the explosion can be 

damaging if it hits your own ship. 

To destroy energy rigs, locate one 

using your map and speed towards 

it using the compass as your direction 

finder. When you've got one. 

get right up close to it and drop an 

AER. Then pull away and detonate 

the device - it doesn't have to be 

close. So long as one piece of the farreaching 

debris from the explosion 

hits the rig, it will be destroyed. 

DON'T waste any bombs, as you only 

have the exact amount needed to 

complete the mission. 

As enemy hits and collisions sap 

your shields, seek out and collect 

Chromolite crystals (littered around 

the landscape) to replenish them. If 

things get really bad, you can always 

engage your cloaking device, which 

renders you invisible to enemy ships 

and gives you a rest from incoming 

fire - but there's only enough energy 

to keep the cloak on for a short time. 

KEY CONTROLS 

M Toggles game map on and oft 

B Drops an AER bomb. 

D Detonates the AER bomb 

C Toggles cloaking device on and 

off. 

P Pauses the game. 

K Activates keyboard controls 

J Activates joystick controls. 

Q Quits back to The One menu_ 

F10 

Resets game. 

HELP 

Displays game information. 

PREMIERE 

Hey, there's no business like show 

business! And probably that's why 

Core Design have produced a game 

on it because it's definitely a platform 

experience like no other. Core's 

latest slice of arcade fun would normally 

cost you E30.99 in the shops, 

but with our preview disk you can 

get a playable taster of its smartness 

absolutely heel For more information 

about the game, flip to the 

awesome four-page review starting 

on page 40 and don't forget there's 

a smashing Core compo to win a 

1900 Video Palmcorder on page 36! 

This demo consists of a speciallyconstructed 

section of the first 

Western level, where the player's 

objective is to work his way through 

the landscape, battle the baddies, 

collect as many pickups and possible 

and reach the door at the far 

end. 

GAMEPLAY 

Couldn't be simpler. really. All control 

is via the joystick. Once you've 

hit FIRE to start, Clutch (that's you) 

is controlled thus - LEFT and RIGHT 

makes him walk in those directions, 

DOWN causes him to duck and UP 

makes him jump. Hit FIRE to lob a 

stick of dynamite. 

In addition, Clutch can flip 

between the background and fore- 

disk 

ground 'lanes' in certain parts of the 

level - this allows him to avoid or 

confront enemies and gain access to 

stairs, lifts and doorways. To toggle 

between lanes, pull DOWN and hit 

FIRE simultaneously- 

Pick up Oscars and other awards 

to collect points, and always use the 

switches that are set into the wall 

when you find them - just stand in 

front of them and hit FIRE. 

BAD GUYS 

Most of the enemies in this demo can 

be killed with one hit of dynamite, 

although some take more - be careful. 

Each time you take a hit from a 

baddy, one of your six energy points 

is removed - lose all six and its adios 

amigo. You've only got a limited supply 

of dynamite, so use it wisely and 

always collected extra bundles when 

you find them around the game area.

In War, two players battle for galactic 

domination in a superb mix of 

Risk-style boardgame strategy. 

resource management and spacebased 

arcade action. It's entirely 

icon-controlled and, though it looks 

a little overwhelming at first, is great 

fun once you've got into it. Don't let 

the fact that it's written in 

AMOS put you off either. 

Actually, you can play one 

player against the computer 

but from our own play-testing 

experiences in The One 

offices, you really need to 

grab a mate to get the most 

out of the game. 

Unfortunately, the instructions 

are far too long-winded 

and complex for us to document 

fully here. But, as luck 

would have it, the game 

Yes, it's Frogger! And not just any 

old Frogger. We reckon it's the best 

Amiga version of the classic arcade 

game yet. You must know what to 

do - guide your hapless frog from 

the dangerous highway at the bottom 

of the screen to his home at the 

top, 

To complete a level, you've got to 

get frogs safely into all the little leafy 

alcoves across the top of the screen. 

Your amphibious pal can hop in all 

four directions, but is instantly killed 

If he is hit by a vehicle or falls into 

the water. He'll also come a cropper 

if he's attacked by the rampant 

chicken that appears on the riverbank 

in the centre of the screen after 

Level One or leaps into an alcove 

occupied by the big-bad frog-eating 

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comes complete with all its own onscreen 

instructions. The option to 

read them appears before the main 

game loads. DON'T skip them and go 

straight into the game, because you 

won't last five minutes. Give them a 

proper readthrough, and you'll reap 

the benefits. Let battle commence! 

spider. Oh, and if the logs or turtles 

carrying you scroll off the side of the 

screen. 

As the levels progress the cars get 

faster, special bonuses appear (leap 

on the flies to swallow them up, but 

don't mistake the spider for one) 

and.- oh, it just gets more and more 

fun. And don't forget the time limit! 

You know what to do! Go to it! 

COVERDISKS 

Oh dear, your disk won't work. Well, first try disconnecting all your 

peripherals (2nd disk drive, printer, etc) if you have any and loading 

the disks again. If there's still no joy then never fear, a working replacement 

can be yours in a jiffy. Simply pop the offending disk into some 

sturdy packaging along with an SAE to the value of 28p and send to: 

The One Coverdisk Returns, 

PC Wise, 

Unit 3, Merthyr Industrial Park, 

Merthyr Tydfil, 

Mid Glamorgan, 

CF48 4DR, 

If you've got any other technical problems. you can call the PC Wise 

Helpline on (0443) 693233 between 10:30am and 12:30 pm weekdays. 

TA MUCHLY! 

NEBULA and CROAK are PD games that were supplied by Fortiss PD, 

PO Box 2, Earl Shilton, Leicester LE9 SW. WAR is a Shareware game 

supplied by 17 Bit Software, 218 Market Street, Wakefield WF1 1DH. 

And of course, thanks to Core Design, US Gold, Zeppelin Games and 

Loriciels for their fantastic demos! 

The game DragonTiles featured in the July 

edition was programmed and designed by 

Mr Steve Smith and is Shareware. To register 

with him send a f 5 cheque or postal 

order to the following address: 

Mr S. J. Smith, 

33 Cross Street, 

Oakfield, 

Ryde, 

Isle of Wight. 

If you also send a blank disk and an SAE, you'll 

also get a registered user disk which contains 

a new version of DragonTiles (lots of extra features), 

another of his games and the modified 

DragonTiles source code. 

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effort to check the coverdisks for 

all known viruses, we can accept 

no responsibility for possible dam- 

age caused by viruses which may 

have escaped our attention. 

2. The One and its retailers are not 

liable for any unnotified changes 

to the contents of the coverdisks 

which may occur.

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Team 17 have 

exclusively to The One. The software 

house behind the arcade classics 

Alien Breed and Project-X has lust 

commissioned an ambitious Street- 

fighter 2-style beat-'erri-up called 

Body Blows. It's expected to appear 

after Team 17's other two games currently 

in development. Assassin and 

Superfrog, which are due in the 

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beat-'em-up after its debut game Full 

Contact, is being put together by a 

new development team headed up by 

programmer Junior McMillan. There's 

no storyline, of course • the idea is 

simply to cause as much GBH to your 

opponents as possible and progress 

through the rankings_ In combat, 

there'll be up to three players on 

screen at any time (any mix of human 

and computer fighters) from a cast of 

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the characters (bottom row, second from right) will be a flesh-covered 

android like the Terminator. Cor.._ 

(Right) Team 17's 

Overdrive is already 

looking like it could be 

the game to top the 

plan-view racing genre. 

iust look at those supersmart 

graphics! 

(Below left) Like the 

influential Streetfighter, 

Body Wows will take the 

player around the world 

in his quest for violence - 

here a scraps taking 

place in a Russian air 

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their own look, moves and fighting 

styles. Players can choose from an 

armoury of twenty martial arts 

moves and 'special effects'. 

It is. of course, expected to be 

extremely violent. "The idea is to create 

an arcade-quality beat-'em-up on 

the Amiga with fast, well-animated 

characters and excellent gameplay," 

says Team 17. Here at The One we 

have our fingers well and truly 

crossed, what with there being hardly 

any decent beat-'em-ups available 

on the Amiga. If Body 

Blows is up to the standard 

of previous Team 17 

releases we should be in 

for a treat, but we'll have 

to wait until Jan/Feb next 

year to find out. 

Meanwhile, the motorracing 

game first revealed 

by us back in June as OHP 

Racing has now been retitled 

as Overdrive and 

these are the first screenshots. 

The new title is in 

reference to the game's 

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bird's-eye perspective, similar to that 

used by the likes of Super Cars and 

Spy Hunter. Created by the Assassin 

team of Dave Broadhurst and Haydn 

Dalton, it's expected to arrive next 

March. "We're aiming for a superplayable, 

definitive version of the 

genre," say the lads. Vr0000000m! 

(Below) Oh we do like to be beside 

the seaside... Overdrive aims to take 

the player through all kinds of landscape, 

from the urban streets above 

to the sandy beaches shown here.

or weeks of speculation throught 

the games industry, Comodore 

has finally confirmed that 

re's another brand new Amiga 

mes machine in the pipeline. 

There's been talk over the last 

nth or so about a so-called A800, 

32-bit Amiga with super-fast 

30 processor, but Commodore 

denying that any such machine 

ists. Firm details about the new 

iga's specifications are thin on 

ground, but it's expected to be 

tched somewhere between the 

, compact A600 (which has 

pparently been selling like hot 

kes since its recent launch) and 

bigger, high-end A1500. 

"The Amiga is not a product, it is 

technology and we do have plans 

improve the technology," coin- 

mented Commodore's Manag 

ing Director Kelly Sumner in a rece 

issue of industry journal Compu 

teif Trade Weekly. "There will not, how-I, 

ever, be a product called the A8004 

I guarantee that. Over the ne 

twelve months there will be a ne 

Amiga and it will be a focus, mas 

market machine rather than 

end. That is not to say that the A60d 

is short term. It will be around foi 

quite some time. In fact, the A600 

will still be the biggest selling Amigli 

in 1993, but it will be close." 

It's only speculation at Hui 

moment, but it's looking as thoug 

the new mystery machine will ha 

some kind of superior technical sp 

- if only because it's difficult t 

imagine what else a new Ami 

could be. We'll keep you posted. 

ternative Software has p u p the righ to two B B C ' s toped 

TV shows, Doctor Who and (wait for it) 'Alto 'Alto. Both Amiga games 

e being put together as we speak and are scheduled to arrive in time 

r Christmas on the company's new £14.99 Admiral label. 

The game that's likely to attract most interest is, of course, Dr Who, 

hich has been timed to coincide with the show's 30th Anniversary next 

ar. Fans of the timelord have always been a bit short-changed in the 

ame department, having to put up with second-rate platform 

mes and the like - but Alternative is confidently predicting that 

s game, called Datek Attack, will be the best thing since that 

ally good episode where Torn Baker asked Davros if he wanted 

Jelly baby. 

The game's set in London in the year 2254, when the evil 

Daleks have taken over the planet Earth and enslaved its population 

(a bit like the film with Peter Cushing, eh?). Their plan is to 

destroy the planet's ozone layer - Alternative is claiming that 

4111 !environmental issues will play a major part in the story. Hmmm. 

Anyway, you get to be Sylvester McCoy, running around the 

futuristic city in an arcade-adventure type thing, battling the 

Daleks and their Robomen. Obviously not wanting to incur the 

wrath of hundreds of fanatical Doctor devotees, Alternative is 

'making sure the game stays faithful to the show, but is also bunging 

in a few new ideas of its own - the Daleks can now fly using hoverpads, 

for instance. Hopefully the special effect that accompanies this will 

be more convincing than the crappy one the BBC uses when the Daleks 

• have to float up stairs. 

On a much lighter note, there's 'Alto 'Alio, the game of the 'popular' 

'. ucy wartime comedy. There's not a great deal of information available 

on this one yet, other than it's a comic-strip arcade adventure based 

• around a 'crazy chase' to find the fallen Madonna with the big boobies 

... : (ho-ho), All your 'favourite' characters are in there, including the bloke 

who can't pronounce his vowels properly and the funny Nazis. 

We understand that the spirit of the show has been retained, so expect 

. lots of trousers falling down, suspender belts snapping and all sorts of 

• other racy French frolics - although we're promised it won't be that 

• naughty. In Alternative's own words, "It's aimed very much at the family 

market." We can't wait. Can you? 

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After earning their wings with the likes of M1G-29 and, erm... MiG 29 

SuperFulcrum• Domark are branching out with a new flight combat simulation 

based around the American AV-8B Harrier Jump Jet, It's currently 

being coded by Simis, the 3D afficionados behind the MiG games, 

who've been beavering away on it for the last year. Apparently the team 

worked on the real Harrier's airborne software during their time at British 

Aerospace, so if nothing else it should have some semblance of technical 

accuracy. 

So what's the USP then? (That's Unique Selling Point to the unitiated.) 

Well, Domark claims that Harrier Assault (for that is its name) is a move 

away from conventional flight-sim ideology, because it mixes the 3D 

action with a proper strategic element where the player, as Commander 

of a Rapid Response Force, sets objectives for his troops on different 

missions, then flies support in the Harrier to help them do their job_ 

There's also a special training section. where new pilots can prove their 

worth in a number of different testing aircraft, before trying the perilous 

controls of the famed VTOL jet. 

WO be interesting to see how Domark's game, out in October. stands 

up against the Harrier simulation that, as we speak, is being written by 

Vektor Graf ix for Microprose and due out not long after. That' game has 

yet to be shown publicly but it's promising a lot. Could we be in for a 

one-on-one Harrier dogfight between the two games in the Amiga skies 

commencing this October? We think so, so its tin hats all round and singsongs 

in the Anderson shelter for us_ 

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two Harrier games (Domarh's one is pictured above) and Digital Integration's 

Tornado (see Previews) all on the way and looking dreamy. The question is, 

will any of the simple-minded lot at The One be able to get their heads 

round a spate of games that have controls more complicated than up-do 

le ft-right-fire ? (proba bly not • Ed).

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,,Anco has announced that the 

long-awaited Kick Off 3 is to be 

the company's last Amiga product. 

After enjoying massive success 

with the console versions of 

K02. boss Anil Gupta has decided 

to plough all future efforts into 

more Sega and Nintendo work. 

There are still no more details to 

be had on Kick Off 3, nor on the 

equally long-awaited Player Manager 

2, as no-one was available for 

comment at the time of going to 

press. Both games are still due 

before the end of the year but 

beyond that, your guess really is 

as good as ours 

...With the lucrative Christmas 

season getting closer every day, 

Ocean is revving up for what 

could be its biggest festive season 

ever. This month it took the 

wraps off its 199213 Amiga lineup 

- and it's a bulging bag o'fun 

if ever we saw one. The games 

you can expect to see appearing 

between now and the new year 

include an isometric-3D arcade 

adventure called Universal Monsters, 

the official licence of the 

forthcoming movie Cool World, 

a new Golf game which, we're 

told, blows everything else 

away, WWF Wrestiemania 2 

(woo!), The Addams Family 2 

(actually the tie-in to the film's 

spin-off cartoon series) and 

Maxis' Sim Earth and a futuristic 

arcade battler called Robosport. 

It's going to be a long winter... 

...Staying with Ocean, we've just 

heard that the company's 

supposed Lethal Weapon 3 licence 

(revealed two months ago) is in 

fact a generic Lethal Weapon 

game, encompassing scenes from 

all three movies. Apparently it was 

decided that there wasn't enough 

material in the third film alone to 

make a whole game, so instead 

they bundled the best bits of the 

trilogy together and... Hey presto. 

It's out for Christmas... 

...Remember we told you a 

while ago that Team 17 were 

hoping to get Vic Reeves and 

Bob Mortimer to provide the 

sampled speech for their forthcoming 

cutesy platformer 

Superfrog? Well, the top comic 

duo unfortunately turned down 

the offer, so the hunt is now on 

for someone else to do the voices 

of Spud and Dudley... 

WE'RE PUTTY' 

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We know vve've already previewed it, 

but we thought we'd sneak in one 

last mention of System 3's forthcoming 

Silly Putty before we review it 

next month. Why? Because it's looking 

jolly smart, that's why. 

There's little to add to the preview 

information we ladled on a couple of 

months ago, but we can tell you that 

the guys and gals over at System 3 

are on the verge of exploding Scanners-style 

with excitement over this 

one - one spokesman confidently predicted 

that the wacky arcade funfest 

could become a phenomenon of 

almost Lemmings-like proportions. 

Well, of course, you've heard all that 

before and so have we - and though 

we like what we see so far, we will of 

course be reserving our official judgement 

until next month. In the meantime, 

you'll just have to feast your 

eyes and wait patiently like everyone 

else... 

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I. not really. The One's editorial team has moved through a phase of evolution and upheaval (or something), 

• w your favourite Amiga games magazine is being created by an even more streamlined, razor-sharp team of gal 

ing commandos. 

So what's happened. then? Well, snivelling turncoat Editor Jim Douglas has left to head up the launch of EMAI 

super new official Nintendo magazine, so you'll not be reading any more of his acid wit. (Hooray! - The entire rea 

ership). What this means is that big boy Dave Upchurch is your flamboyant new Editor, and even bigger boy Gary Wh 

ta his toadying Deputy. We've got a new Staff Writer too, but we can't say much at the moment because it's very hu5 

hush and all that. But fear not, all shall be revealed next month. 

Apart from that, nothing's changed. We'll continue to do good things (like getting those big stories first) and avc 

doing bad things (like ending every other sentence with some peurile and over-indulgent quote from Wayne's Won 

in our on-going mission to provide you with the best Amiga games magazine that money can buy. What a gre 

bunch of guys we are.

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You've got to hand it to the lads at 

Codemasters - they certainly know 

how to identify trends in the market 

and go after them. After watching 

the recent success of football games 

like Sensible Soccer and pinball 

games like the smart Pinball Dreams, 

(Left) Two of the footy-inspired 

tables available in Codemasters' 

forthcoming Soccer Pinball. No 

doubt the Codies will be cleaning up 

with soccer and pintable fans alike. 

Stay tune d to the Budge t se ction for 

a full review real soon_ 

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they could have come up with just 

another clone of either type of 

game. But no! These boys have to 

go one better! So they've put both 

genres together and come up 

with.., wait for it... Soccer Pinball! 

Yes, we know, we didn't believe 

it at first either. But it's true, and 

here are the pictures to prove it. 

Basically, it's just a computer pinball 

game of the type we've seen 

plenty of times before, but all the 

tables have a footballing theme 

that's presented not just by the 

graphics, but in the gameplay too. 

ARMOUR-GEDDON 

SICK OF THIS... 

Here's a piccy of the new one from Psygnosis, Armour-Geddon II. It is, of 

course, the sequel to Armour-Geddon (Doh! - Patronised readers) and is 

due out in October at 125.99. Due to the notoriously vague nature of Psyggy 

press releases, there's not really a great deal to tell you, apart from the 

fact that the boys up in Liverpool almost making themselves sick with 

excitement over the claim that this i5 MUCH BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL 

(no surprises there). If it is it will be well smart, as the original was a right 

cracking corker of a 3D shoot-'em-up. We await a finished version with 

bated breath. 

"Never!" we hear you cry. No, it's 

true, honest. Use those flippers to 

boot the ball about the 'pitch', 

knocking players over as you go! 

Brilliant! The idea is to score three 

goals and progress to the next 

table, etc, etc. 

Full marks for originality and derring-do 

- we'll see if the game 

itself's up to scratch next issue. It's 

due out within the next month or so 

at the ever-so reasonable price of 

£7.99. 

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...Back in sequel city, it's been 

revealed that Domark is following 

up the success of its Rugby World 

Cup game with an all-new game 

based on the top sport. It's currently 

known as Rugby 2, would you 

believe.„ 

-And still with Domark. flightsim 

fans will no doubt be over- 

joyed to hear that the company is 

releasing a 'Head-to-Head' double 

pack comprising their own MiG- 

29 Superfukrum and 

MicroProse's F-19 Stealth Fighter. 

It costs £39.99 and is due out 

round about now... 

...Mindscape sources have revealed 

that, not content with converting 

Wing Commander to the Amiga, 

they'll now be doing Wing Commander 

2: Vengeance of the Kilrathi 

as well! It's currently listed on the 

company's internal release schedules 

for April next year. Better start 

saving up now... 

We've had an overwhelming response to the on-going Waggie-O-Mania 

competition we set on last month's Letters page. Unfortunately the 

standard of entries has been pretty weak, with most efforts being easily 

toppable by us here in the office using only one hand! However, 

there have been a few outstanding achievements, the best of which 

being that sent in by Mr C. Baker of Coulsedon in Surrey. His score of 

330047 is one that even we found hard to beat, so he could well be 

on his way to picking up £150 worth of Amiga software. The competition's 

staying open for one more month, so you've got 28 days to 

beat C.B.'s effort. So get waggling, and remember that we MUST have 

a photograph of your screen to prove you actually did the deed. The 

address is: WAGGLE-0-MANIA, The One, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon 

Lane, London ECirli 3AU. The clock's already ticking... 

Can you topple C Ba ke rs ma ssive score of 3 3 0 0 4 7 ? Fra nkly we doubt it, 

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Recommended... 

Time to put away all the preening 

and posing and get right down to it. 

Just what are the best games to be 

released over the last couple of 

months? Well, if you ask us... 

CRAZY CARS III (Titus) 

If you've got any bad memories of 

the first two Crazy Cars games then 

this should eradicate them once and 

for all. If you imagine The Cannonball 

Run (racing across America pursued 

by the cops) on the Amiga then you 

should get some idea of what Crazy 

Cars Ill is all about. Blisteringly fast, 

incredibly responsive and unbelievably 

playable, CC3 is up there with 

Lotus and Jaguar. 

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1 SENSIBLE SOCCER (Renegade) 

2 MONKEY ISLAND 2 (US Gold) 

3 FIRE & ICE (Renegade) 

4 LURE OF THE TEMPTRESS (Vir 

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On for the nostalgia fans. DIGeneration 

is nothing special to look at (its 

all done, in simplistic isometric-3D) or 

listen to (a few bleeps and burbles) 

but to play it's something else entirely. 

As a heroic courier exploring a scientific 

lab overrun with weird 

mutants, it's your job to solve the 

puzzles in every room and rescue the 

trapped technicians, Quite simply the 

most fun we've had in a long time. 

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HOI (Hollyware) 

What the...! Where did this spring 

from? Out of the blue hops this little 

fella, Hoil As you can probably 

tell, it's a colourful, scrolly platform 

20 PACIFIC ISLANDS (Empire) 

21 0/GENERATION (Mindscape) 

22 MEGAFORTRESS (Mindscape) 

23 OH NO! MORE LEMMINGS (Psygnosis) 

5 THE GAMES ESPANA 92 (Ocean) 24 MEGA LO MANIA/THE FIRST SAMU 

6 CIVILIZATION (Microprose) RAI (Ubisoft) 

7 DYNABLASTER (Ubisoft) 25 LEGEND (Mindscape) 

8 ISHAR LEGEND OF FORTRESS 26 MEGATRAVELLER 2 (Empire) 

(Silmarils) 

27 EYE OF THE BEHOLDER 2 (US Gold) 

9 PROJECT-X (Team 17) 

28 THE ADDAMS FAMILY (Ocean) 

10 EPIC (Ocean) 

29 F-15 STRIKE EAGLE II (Microprose) 

11 PINBALL DREAMS (21st Centu- 30 ALIEN BREED (Team 17) 

ry) 

31 THE MANAGER (US Gold) 

12 DUNE (Virgin) 

32 DARK QUEEN OF KRYNN (US Gold) 

13 FORMULA ONE GRAND PRIX 33 SPACE CRUSADE (Gremlin) 

(Microprose) 

34 ROBOCOP 3 (Ocean) 

14 FLOOR 13 (Virgin) 

35 CASTLES (Interplay) 

15CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER 36 DOJO DAN (Europress) 

(Domark) 

37 THE BITMAP BROTHERS VOLUME 

16 HOOK (Ocean) 

1 (Renegade) 

17 PGA TOUR GOLF + (Electronic 38 MYTH (System 3) 

Arts) 

39 PARASOL STARS (Ocean) 

18 STRIKER (Rage) 

19 JAGUAR XJ220 (Core Design) 

40 RAINBOW COLLECTION (Ocean) 

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game set over five HUGE levels, 

packed full of endlessly-inventive surprises 

and beasties. It does have the 

odd rough edge but playability-wise 

it's a big soppy dream, and it's one 

we think you'd do well to share. 

9 0 % 

LURE OF THE TEMPTRESS 

(Virgin) 

Another addition to the graphic 

adventure genre lorded over by the 

likes of Lucasfilm and Sierra. But this 

one has a big difference - it's Made In 

Britain! And you can tell, because it's 

BUDGET TOP 20 

1 PANZA KICK BOXING (Kixx) 

2 MAGIC LAND DIZZY (Code Mas 

ters) 

3 TURRICAN 2 (Kixx) 

4 BUBBLE BOBBLE (The Hit Squad) 

5 FALCON (Digital Integration) 

6 PANG (The Hit Squad) 

7 MANCHESTER UNITED (GBH) 

8 JAIVIES POND (GBH) 

9 SUPER OFF-ROAD (Kixx) 

10 F/A-18 INTERCEPTOR (Star Performers) 

11 IK+ (The Hit Squad) 

12 RICK DANGEROUS (Kixx 

13 NORTH AND SOUTH (Digital Integration) 

14 PRO TENNIS TOUR (Hit Squad) 

15 SUPER HANG-ON (Hit Squad) 

16 BATTLE CHESS (Star Performers 

17 THE NEW ZEALAND STORY (The Hit 

Squad) 

18 RAINBOW ISLAND (The Hit Squad) 

19 ITALIA 90 (Tronix) 

20 WORLD CLASS LEADERBOARD 

(Kixx) 

as big as any of the US games but 

comes on just four disks. Ah, the 

relief. Although not as exuberant and 

weirdly humourous as Monkey Island 

2, Lure is still a first-rate stab at the 

genre and bodes well for the future. 

9 OcYo 

MONKEY ISLAND 2 (US Gold) 

Sheer bloody brilliance. Basically 

more of what you got in the first 

Monkey Island only bigger, better 

and funnier. The graphics are 

exquisite and the animations frequently 

hilarious. Coming on 11 

disks, swapping is an obvious problem 

but it's not as bad as you might 

think due to some nifty coding. Quibbles 

aside, the best graphic adventure 

on the Amiga. We can't wait for 

Indy IV._ 

9 4 % 

THIS TIME LAST YEAR 

1 FULL CONTACT (Team 17) 

2 F-15 STRIKE EAGLE II (Microprose) 

3 MANCHESTER UNITED EUROPE 

(Krisalis) 

4 LOMBARD RAC RALLY (The Hit 

Squad) 

5 THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND 

(US Gold) 

6 XENON 2 (Mirror Image) 

7 PGA TOUR GOLF (Electronic Arts) 

B FANTASY WORLD DIZZY (Code 

Masters) 

9 EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (US Gold) 

10 NORTH AND SOUTH (Action 16) 

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LETTERS 

The poor old pasty nearly collapsed under the weight of letters 

we received this month. And what was the subject of 

99.99% of them? Why, the good old 'Is SensiSoccer better 

than Kick Off 2?' debate, of course. The general consensus 

seems to be in favour of K02. Other than that, software piracy 

continues to be a bone of contention amongst many of you 

and - at last! - the Secret of Monkey Island is revealed. At 

least, we think it is... 

If you have any views you want to air then write to us at; 

Letters, THE ONE, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London 

EC1R 3AU. If you're a bit flash then you can also FAX us on: 

071-972-6710. 

CAN DINO DELIVER? 

Dear The One, 

I am an avid Dino Dini fan and I can't 

get enough of Kick Off 2. I have purchased 

every single title he has 

released and think they're the best 

things I've ever spent money on. 

(And just for the record, Kick Off 2 

thrashes the pants off SensiSoccerl) 

Whilst reading The One a couple of 

months ago, I learned that Dino was 

soon to be releasing Kick Off 3. This 

was brilliant news and I started licking 

my lips and saving my pocket 

money in anticipation of that magical 

day when I would see the game 

sitting on the software shelf begging 

me to buy it. 

BUT, the thing that's worrying me 

is that I can't see how Mr Dini can 

improve on Kick Off 2! So what I am 

asking is "What is Dino going to 

include in Kick Off 3 to make it better 

than its older brother?" As far as I 

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can see, he's on a lost cause, as Kick 

Off 2 was the absolute perfect footy 

game and there was only one small 

thing wrong with it - often your players 

perform a sliding tackle when you 

don't want them to and this I find 

bloody annoying! 

Steven Statham, 

Nottingham. 

Believe you me, we're as interested 

to find Out what Mr Dini's up to with 

Kick Off 3 as you are. All we know so 

far is that's due for a late Autumn 

release around October/November. 

Suffice to say, as soon as we know 

anything more so will you. 

MORE MONKEY 

BUSINESS... 

Monkey Island or, for that matter, 

any other island because it's all one 

big fairground ride. LeChuck is your 

brother Chuckle and he is after you 

because your parents sent him to get 

you. Weird? Yes, and a little bit disappointing 

because I can't see any 

way they can make a Monkey Island 

3 unless they bring it into the 'real' 

world. 

Er,.. Yes Of course 

HEY, HEY, YOU'RE THE 

MONKEESI 

Ben Archer, 

Bradwell, 

Near Great Yarmouth, 

PIRATES AHOY! 

Dear The One, 

I don't want to sound like an old 

grandad but here I go. Yes, it's piracy 

- why do they do it? The people 

who crack games obviously know 

what they're doing so why don't they 

use their knowledge to do something 

creative like writing games? If they 

did I'm pretty sure that they would 

feel well ripped off if some one who 

liked the game pirated it instead of 

buying it. So, all you crackers out 

there, take my advice and do something 

creative for a change. You 

never know, you might even make 

some cash out of it! 

Simon Alton, 

Shifnal, 

Shropshire. 

Dear The One, 

I have figured out what the Secret of This is something we've been saying 

Monkey Island is. It is that there is no for a long time, There's little doubt 

Dear The One, 

After reading David Abbott's letter last issue I was left 

thinking "Just what is the secret of Monkey Island?" 

After many hours spent considering this vital question 

I happened to glance at your Reviews Introduction 

page. A distant memory from my childhood stirred in 

my brain. Something looked vaguely familiar... 

Suddenly it struck me! (And the cover fell off the 

magazine.) Yes, your secret is out! Come on now, it's 

no good shuffling about and looking guilty - you've 

been rumbled. The composition of your photos and 

the zany expressions on your faces... Need I say more? 

Very well, if you're not going to admit it then I'll 

have to tell everyone. You've been watching the hit 

60s TV show 'The Monkees', haven't you? Your photos 

bear more than a coincidental similarity to the intro to 

this piece of televisual history. What!? You're still denying 

it? Okay, turn to page 36. Yes, that's right. You 

mention a certain Dave Jones. Wasn't he The Monkees 

drummer? 

I'm afraid you're no match for my deductive abilities. 

Evening all! 

Bah! And we would've got away with it too if it hadn't 

been for you pesky kids... 

that these pirates know their Amiga 

'stuff', but their talents are sadly misdirected. 

It's sheer laziness, we sus• 

pect. It is, after all, far easier to rip 

somebody else's stuff off rather than 

create anything of your own. Sad, 

really. 

CONFESSIONS OF A 

PIRATE 

Dear The One, 

When I was nine my friends were all 

into computer games. So, after much 

pleading, my Dad bought me an 

A500. I had great fun completing 

New Zealand Story and Batman but 

then I became bored with the games 

I had and began looking for some 

new ones. 

Then one day a friend came 

around with about seven games, all 

full-price. With a disk duplication utility 

I went through them all, copying 

the games. It was only later that I 

found out it was illegal to do this but 

I told myself that it didn't matter and 

you don't hear of anyone getting 

caught, do you? 

So I went on copying. It was easy. 

I found regular contacts at school 

who would swap copied games with 

me so over a couple of years I built 

up quite a collection of games. I 

could expect to get around six games 

a month but the really sad fact is that 

I was still bored with the games I got. 

They would only last about three 

days before they were consigned to 

the back af my two bulging disk 

boxes. 

Then one day I received a copy of 

Another World, my all-time favourite 

game. Imagine my supreme frustration 

when the pirated game crashed 

crashed just after you'd been 

launched from the arena. Frustrated, 

I stormed off to Boots and actually 

bought it. I was amazed how much I 

still enjoyed it even after completing 

it three times over. Then I went and 

bought Kick Off 2 (the expanded version) 

and enjoyed it as much as 

Another World. 

As I'd bought these games I felt no 

guilt because I wasn't depriving Anco 

and Delphine of their dosh for producing 

such brilliant games. I then 

realised that I had about 11000worth 

of stolen software in my possession, 

so I decided to re-format 

them each night before I went to bed 

and I'm almost finished. 

I now feel much better with myself 

I can tell you. I now have three new 

games bought from the shop down 

the road and they're all excellent - 

Project-X, Jaguar XJ220 and 

Wolfchild. Now my disk boxes are 

only filled with blank disks_ I wrote 

this letter as a confession and as a 

warning to all pirates; as a confession 

because I am truly and deeply sorry 

for what I have done and as a warn-

a 

ing to casual pirates who are cheating 

themselves out of great games by 

not buying them. 

Name and address withheld. 

A tragic tale indeed. Not only is software 

piracy illegal, immoral and 

depriving software companies of the 

revenue to develop new Amiga 

games, its also ruins your enjoyment 

of the games_ Good software takes 

time to enjoy - you don't get any- 

. thing out unless you put something 

in - and if you've got a stack of twenty 

new (copied) games to try out 

chances are you'll be so keen to move 

onto the next title that the one 

you've just loaded up will only get a 

cursory 'once over before it's consigned 

to the 'seen it, done it' pile. 

Piracy not only shortchanges the softcos, 

it also shortchanges the pirate. 

TIPS SLIPS 

Dear The One, 

In your last Letters page there was a 

letter called Radio Ga-Ga which dealt 

with the problem of tips and complete 

solutions coming out before 

anyone's had a chance to even purchase 

the game, So what do you in 

the very same issue? Well, exactly the 

same thing. 

I'm talking about Monkey Island 2, 

of course, which has only been out 

for a few months yet there it is - a 

complete solution. How are people 

supposed to enjoy a game if they 

complete it in a couple of hours? It 

takes the whole fun out of the game 

and, let's face it, that's what it's all 

about. I feel that tips and complete 

solutions should only be used as a 

last resort. 

I know what you're thinking - just 

don't look at the solution. Well, I can 

tell you it's just too tempting not to. 

Say you're stuck on Monkey Island 2. 

The first thing you do is take a peek 

at a solution rather than try to sort 

out the problem for yourself, which 

is far more rewarding. 

I suggest you wait a bit longer 

before printing your solutions, so 

that people can get the most out of 

their games, especially when Monkey 

Island 2 costs over f 35, 

Andrew Smith, 

Farnham, 

Surrey. 

Judging just when and how to print 

tips, especially complete solutions, is 

always tricky. On the one hand you 

don't want to be too early or, as you 

say, a lot of people's fun will be 

spoiled while on the other hand you 

don't want to be too late or people 

will have given up on the game 

you're tipping and forgotten all 

about it. We like to think that we got 

it about right with Monkey Island 2. 

For one thing the solution is spread 

out over three months 

(the second part is in this 

issue) so that players have 

plenty of time to make 

their own progress before - 

the next instalment appears. 

Also, by presenting the solution 

like a 'story book', anyone stuck can 

scan the page for a picture that 

relates to their predicament and just 

read the corresponding caption and 

no more. Hopefully, this will be 

enough to help the player on their 

way. And don't forget that, at the 

end of the day, no-one's forcing you 

to read the solution. If you can't 

resist the temptation, well... 

A CLASSIC 

UNDERACHIEVER 

Dear The One, 

Me being a classic underachiever I 

thought it would be an idea to store 

information on a disk rather than my 

brain. So, I started to flick through 

Commodore's manual 'Using The 

Amiga Workbench 2.04'. Then, to my 

delight. I found a chapter on 'Storing 

Information On A Disk'. So I loaded 

my Workbench and to my great 

disappointment I found that by carefully 

following the manual step-bystep 

I managed to scrub my Workbench 

disk clean - and me with no 

back-up either (stupid me). You are 

probably wondering what the point 

of this letter is. Well, tell you in 

nice big letters - WHY ON EARTH 

CAN'T COMMODORE MAKE THEIR 

BLOOMIN' MANUALS EASIER TO 

UNDERSTAND? I asked my dad, who 

is normally a whizz at following 

Instructions, to take a look but he 

didn't even know what half the 

words meant! Please could you send 

me some software to take my raging 

mind off COMMODORE MANUALS! 

Steven Hay, 

Newtin Mearns. 

Glasgow. 

This sounds like the sort of letter 

Sergeant Software used to get when 

he was on his tour of duty with The 

One. We sympathise with your manual 

problems - they tend not to be 

the best written things in the world 

if you're a computer novice. In fact, 

we were so overcome with pity for 

you that we were going to despatch 

some software to you but how do we 

know that you're not going to do 

something foolish with any disks we 

send you and end up erasing them as 

well? Sorry, we think we'll keep 'em 

here where they're safe... 

LOVE LETTER 

Dear The One, 

I would like to take this chance to 

LETTERS 

...AND YOU COULD 

LEAVE YOUR FRONT 

DOOR OPEN... 

Dear The One. 

Is it me or am I correct in thinking that more and more games are clones 

of other games, which in turn are clones of others? We've had numerous 

'God' Sims and with the Olympics starting there will no doubt be 

hundred of 'Track and Field' rip-offs. Can't games designers think of any 

original concepta any more? 

When I had my C64 in its hey-day, there were loads of original games 

out. Who can forget Bounty Bob or Star Paws, for example? (Who hell 

they? 'Ed.) I still own my C64 and still play on it. It's a joy to look back 

and replay the old games. 

Many people keep going on about the point-W.-click system used in 

today's adventure games. But can you remember Spellbound and its 

brilliant 'Windowmation' technique? Some credit must go to the guys 

who developed this. The list goes on and on. I could talk all day about 

the likes of Kickstart and Seaside Special. (Remember that?) 

What I'm trying to say is that I don't want the Amiga to go down 

that eternal hell-hole of clones and unoriginal game designs that plagues 

the Speccy and C64 in its last days. 

I (and no doubt many others) would love it if old 8-bit games were 

given a new lease of life on the Amiga and spiced up with better graphics 

and sound. Now that would be great! 

Brendan Phoenix, 

Crumpsall, Manchester. 

Hang on! One moment you're pleading for original games and the next 

you say you want to see old games converted onto the Amiga! Actually, 

we won't chastise you too much because all of us at The One office 

have a special plate in our hearts for some of the old 8-bit hits, which 

is why we're well chuffed to be the printing Andrew Braybrooles diary 

about the creation of Uridium 2 on the Amiga. If Only others would follow 

his lead and revive some more ancient classics. Games we'd personally 

like to see resuscitated include Impossible Mission, Dropzone 

and just about any Ultimate title, such as Knightlore, Underwuride or 

Sabre Wulf. 

As to your complaint about the lack of original Amiga games, we 

think you're being a little blinkered. What about games like Pushover, 

Shadowlands, Civilization and Dune, to name but four titles that have 

appeared in the last few months? All are original game concepts. Sure 

there are lots of rehashed ideas doing the rounds, but as long as they're 

clone in a slightly fresher way or better than what's gone before there's 

nothing inherently wrong in that. Look at The Addams Family, for example. 

There's nothing particularly original about it but as it's all been 

done so well who cares? 

give a special mention to Graftgold. 

Andrew Braybrook and the rest of 

the team have time after time produced 

some of the best games to 

ever come out on the Amiga and that 

makes us Amiga owners proud to 

possess such a fine machine, 

It was great to read through the 

start of the Uridium 2 Diary - it was a 

brilliant game on the C64 and I'm 

sure I won't be disappointed with it 

on Amiga. 

I would like to ask one question, 

though: Does Andrew have any 

future plans to convert Morpheus to 

the Amiga? It was a great game on 

the C64 and I'm sure it would convert 

well, 

Also, thanks for the player's guide 

to Fire & Ice. Hopefully now I'll be 

able to find more of those hidden levels 

and rooms! 

Steve Allan, 

Brighton. 

Aaah, how sweet! It's always nice to 

know that some of you out there do 

appreciate the creative, hard-working 

talents behind today's top games. As 

for Morpheus on the Amiga... Well, 

who knows what'll happen. At the 

moment Andrew's got his hands 

more than full enough with Uridium 

2 (by the way, glad you're enjoying 

the diary) but after that it's anybody's 

guess as to what he'll do 

next. I wouldn't hold your 

breath though...

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FRONT' ERS 

not talking about Elite 2. 

B Although I could be because it 

lis. 

But anyway. no, the prime source 

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my sweatiness is the unusually blis- 

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as I step off the train. Fortu- 

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for its release via Japanese giants Konami 

at Christmas. The inordinately 

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official, when asked about the 

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release date, to reply: "It will definitely 

be s coming out at Christmas, Just 

don't h ask me which one." 

o Fortunately, it's at last looking as 

though t Elite 2, despite its monumental 

. scale and the amount of work 

still A to be done, will hit its completion 

date n and all will be right with the 

world. d For a start, a proper name for 

the n game has at last been decided - 

it's o to be called High Frontier, with 

Elite , 2 (or perhaps "The Sequel to 

Elite") appearing as a prominent sub- 

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title. 

' 

But, as anyone involved with soft- 

m 

ware development will tell you, it 

doesn't do any good to get complacent, 

particularly during a project's 

later stages. so Braben is currently 

battening down the hatches to make 

sure that everything he still needs to 

do is done on time. 

If you read last month's first part, a long way to go before they're work- 

you'll know that that's still quite a lot. ing properly. 

Although the game's play environ- Seeing it a month later, there seems 

ment - a working model of our home to be a lot more actual 'game' in there 

galaxy, precise to the finest detail now - when docking at a space sta- 

from the distances between solar systion, you can visit various departtems 

to the orbits and surface details ments, trade in goods, upgrade and 

of each individual planet and moon - repair your ship and visit the bulletin 

is more or less complete, the complex board to check up on situations vacant 

mechanics that Braben must imple- and wanted (basically a greatly 

ment in order to make the program enhanced version of the original 

function as a playable game still have game's missions). 

As David Braben continues to hammer away at the sequel to his 

blockbusting space opera Elite, Gary VVhitta popped back up to 

Cambridge on the Network Southeast for the second, more 

detailed and, of course, utterly EXCLUSIVE look at how the biggest 

game of the decade is coming together. Returning with a tape cas- 

sette full of quotes and a disk packed with some of the juiciest 

screenshots in the Western Hemisphere, he is, as they say, well 

pleased with himself... 

But although the front end may be 

looking smart, the only element that's 

actually working is the goods trading 

- and Braben's well pleased with it. 

Rather than having to transport goods 

from place to place to make a profit, 

the player can make money simply by 

staying docked and watching market 

prices fluctuate. The prices of 

goods go up and down as other 

traders in the station buy and sell, so 

it's a little like playing the stockmar- 

Nzg. 

ket - buy low, then sell high to make 

the profit. 

High Frontier's more complex elements, 

like interacting with computer-controlled 

characters and giving 

these members of the supporting cast 

artificial 'life', are the next items on 

Braben's agenda. Creating characters 

that seem to have lives of their own 

is no easy task and though 

Braben acknowledges that he's 

quietly bullish that he can

0 e 

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doesn't a r e 

to my Pr ious 

3D stuff - 

very much more 

sophisticated." 

achieve his extravagant aims. "Obviously 

it's quite a difficult thing to do, 

but I'm confident it will work," he 

says. 

In a typical situation, for example, 

an advertisement on the bulletin 

board offers a reward for information 

about a missing person who you 

may have seen hiding out in another 

system. But passing on that information 

could result in you becoming 

a target for assassination as it's 

revealed that the party after said 

missing person are Mafia-style baddies 

who don't want any witnesses 

to their villainous dealings. In another, 

an anonymous character offers a 

huge amount of cash for passage to 

another planet with "no questions 

asked". That last statement. plus the 

dosh involved, is enough to suggest 

that taking the job could end up with 

you being pursued by the galactic 

Navy, the police or even worse. 

So how does it all work? "Well, 

there are lots of individual characters 

that the computer constantly keeps 

tracks of and it will generate new 

ones to replace those that have been 

killed," explains David. "There will 

continuously be new ones added, just 

to keep the game changing. So 

although there will be a large body 

of characters that you will deal with, 

you will always see some people disappear 

and new ones arriving:' 

As to how many of these supporting 

players there will actually be. 

David is unsure. "It's a non-specific 

amount of the moment, mainly 

because of the memory they take, but 

it's likely to be somewhere in the 

region of a thousand. It's quite a lot." 

It would have to be, with David planning 

to have every single ship in the 

game piloted by a real character - 

there are no "drone" ships that are 

sible far-reaching repercussions 

h time you shoot one down in 

(Above) The planet Earth in all its 

greeny-blue glory, as seen in High 

Frontier. Wherever possible, Braben 

has modelled surface detail on the 

real thing, so in this shot you ca 

nclearly see the familiar shapes of 

Europe, Great Britain and Africa. 

Major cities are marked Out to help 

players find their destinations more 

easily. 

(Below) One of High Frontier's more 

sophisticated spaceships, the Hawk. 

Like all the rest, its assembled from a 

library of individual components • 

note the landing gear and pilot in the 

cockpit. Though capable of space 

travel, these more "plane-like" ships 

would be more commonly seen flying 

over planet surfaces. 

combat. "The thing that is a bit of a 

variable between now and when the 

game is completed is just how much 

of that is implemented," he explains. 

Technically, Braben is confident 

that what he's doing with Elite 2's 30 

graphics is going to, not to put too 

fine a point on it. blow a lot of people 

away. When asked how his work 

here stands up against his previous 

3D projects and contemporary vector-based 

games, he says simply, "It 

ri 

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just doesn't compare - it's very much 

more sophisticated. The whole thing's 

very hierarchical, so you can add bits 

on bits with no problem at all. Just 

on the speed side it's much much 

quicker - much quicker than the Virus 

routines for instance The original Elite 

had a very different set of restrictions, 

like the memory was really tight. We 

had to get the whole game into 22kl" 

For the purposes of development, 

David is working from an Amiga 2000 

High Frontier's rather 

impressive level of surface 

detail may be a little too much 

for the humble Amiga at times. 

so speed-hungry players will be 

able to simplify the graphics. 

So a typical shot of a city in 

high detail like this... 

...becomes this on the lowest 

settings. Frivolous details, like 

building lights and ad 

hoardings are removed, and 

only the major structures 

remain, The result is less interesting, 

but a hell of a lot 

smoother, 

with a built-in accelerator card that 

boosts the machine's 68000 processor 

to the speed of a 68030 - this 

allows him to play around with the 

3D world at fifty frames a second, the 

smoothest update possible. Even with 

the 'rocket card' disconnected, the 

game runs at an impressive rate of 

knots, but if anything it will be detail 

more than speed that is set to stun 

the end user - as the screenshots here 

testify. Braben's "different approach"

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produced a level of detail that's way 

beyond any of today's 3D offerings. 

Ships, space stations and other structures 

are designed using a specialised 

construction kit program - individual 

working components, such as 

engines, cockpits, wings, undercarriages 

and weapons are defined sep• 

arately, then bolted together to produce 

literally hundreds of different 

ship types. 

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(Left) As you venture further out 

into the galaxy, planets have less 

friendly names. Forget about 

Venus. Jupiter and Pluto - you're 

looking at Wolf 3595a. From this 

distance the orbiting moon looks 

bigger than the planet, which 

means that Wolf itself is some dis- 

tance away. Gas planets like this 

one were to have Bespin-style 

floatinf cities beneath the 

atmosphere that would allow 

traders to "land". Now, as the project 

reaches its later stages, it 

looks as though ambitious 

features like this simply won't 

have time to be included, 

The same 'kit car' system that's 

used to design ships is also used to 

allow pilots to customise them in the 

game. When weapons and other shipboard 

systems are bought, they 

appear not just in the equipment 

inventory, but can be seen physically 

attached to the hull, A ship like the 

Cobra Mkill that the player starts 

Out in is, in its standard form, a single 

3D polygonal shape but, as new 

gear is bought, the 3D program snaps 

(Lett) Flying high over a typical city in High Frontier. Each population 

centre is created using a specialised design algorithm to 

recreate the look of a real city. The big, close-together skyscrapers 

form the central industrial area, then the buildings get smaller 

and more widely spaced as you come out, breaking down into 

suburban housing districts, parks lakes and mountains in the 

outer regions. For the sheer hell of it, Braben has programmed 

the clock in this citys local church to keep the correct time. 

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lAbove) A scene from one of the games thousands of space stations 

- this is the bulletin board, where goods and services are 

advertised. The face of the characters on the left change as you 

move from station to station - created by artist Paul Mitchell, 

they're made up of hundreds of photofit-style sets of eyes, 

noses, mouths and hairstyles that are pieced together to create 

the millions of different faces the game requires. 

(Left) As well as the system and star maps, a complete view of 

the games entire playing area is available • it measures roughly 

100,000 light years from side to side. As the player zooms in 

and out of the map, the image is 'cleaned up' by the program 

to give the nicest picture of the Milky Way possible. At this distance, 

only the largest features, like the Major Arc and Pegasus 

arm can be seen. Zooming in closer will reveal systems and, 

closer still, individual planets and moons_ 

on the relevant shapes. Players will be 

able to use the system to their advantage, 

as it's easy to see instantly how 

well equipped other ships are and 

thus avoid any suicidal confrontations 

with heavily-armed fighters. 

Most of the 3D code that handles 

all this stuff • including the layout of 

cities, fighter combat tactics and 

everything else - is pretty much functional 

at this stage, but with the completion 

date now only a few months 

away, David is having to become more 

realistic about what more he can and 

can't do. Some of his more ambitious 

plans, such as creating floating 'cloud 

cities' (as seen in The Empire Strikes 

Back) to enable contact with gas planets 

with no solid surface, may not 

make it into the final game. 

The time for adding radical new 

game elements is pretty much over - 

David's now got to concentrate his 

time on screwing down existing elements 

and putting together the rest 

that will make the game play properly. 

"I'm trying to get what's in there 

now to be nice and consistent, and to 

work well It's very important, for 

example, that the interaction with 

other characters works." 

"It depends how you defi ne 

playable," he continues. "It's technically 

playable now, in the sense that 

you can buy and sell things and 

improve your ship. From now until 

the end of the project it will become 

more and more playable." When 

asked if it's easier to design a game 

like High Frontier, which is completely 

open and 'free-range' with its gameplay 

and objectives than a more conventional 

mission-based affair like 

Epic, David bristles a bit. "No, it's not, 

it's an absolute nightmare," he says 

authoritatively. "You have to program 

the game completely generally. A lot 

of games are like railway lines, with 

just a few junctions. But this is very 

generel and has to cater for the player 

doing absolutely anything. With 

more rigidly-defined games you know 

the player can only do certain things 

and there isn't a lot of scope because 

the game says where they are and 

aren't allowed to go." 

As Braben continues, he explains 

that it's not enough just to define a 

gigantic detailed play area like High 

Frontier's and launch the player 

into it to do his own thing. "If 

you don't think about what the

player's likely to get up to and put in 

interesting things for him to do, 

they'd get bored silly. It'd be a case 

of 'Ooh, very pretty but where's the 

game?' Even though the original Elite 

wasn't particularly enormous, it was 

compelling because you always wanted 

to get the next bit for your ship 

or reach a million credits or whatever. 

People want things to do. they 

want to be able to chase somebody 

across the galaxy or whatever. If you 

don't put that sort of thing in, all it 

is is a graphic demo." 

And so time goes on. David's anxious 

to actually get back to doing 

all the stuff he's been chatting about 

for the last hour or so and if I don't 

get the next train back I'll not be 

home in time for The Bill. So that's 

that settled, and that's your lot until 

next month's final instalment. If you 

want to stay and look at the pictures 

a bit longer, fine, but don't get too 

excited - you'll make yourself sick. 

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(Above) David's made docking a 

much easier excercise than the 

painful procedure in the original 

Elite - the ship in view here is even 

docking upside down. Note the helpful 

landing lights. 

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the astronomically-accurate core system 

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that we are. we've gone One better and are offering you the once- 

in-a-lifetime opportunity to have one of the planet, moons or space 

stations in the forthcoming Elite 2 named after you! 

With a game as huge as Elite 2, there are plenty of stellar bodies 

just aching to be named - and tour lucky winners will be christen- 

ing one each! Just think - your name in lights, suspended in space 

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To win, all you have to do is answer this stupidly simple question: 

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The rules are: You can christen the planet, moon or station with 

any name you like, just so long as it's no more than 19 characters 

long (including spaces and punctuation) and it MUST NOT BE RUDE! 

Got that? Other than that it's up to you - if you want to be boring 

you can just have your name or you can go for something a bit 

more interesting. You could maybe call a planet WAYNE'S WORLD 

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WORK I N P R O G R E S S 

(Below) Vivid 

Image's Mev 

Dinc has a cosy 

chat about royalties 

with a 

Mirrorsott 

employee earlier 

this year. 

PROJECT: The Second Samurai 

PUBLISHER: To Be Decided 

DEVELOPER: Vivid Image Design - 

Mev Dins (Design) 

Raffaele Gesso (Programming, design) 

Teoman Irmak (Graphics) 

INITIATED: Autumn 1991 

RELEASE: December 1992 

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deserve to. Others are destined 

S ome for greatness games fail but because fail due they to 

nothing more than good old-fashioned 

rotten bad luck - and there can 

be no doubt that Vivid Image 

Design's The First Samurai falls 

squarely into the latter category. Noone 

would dispute that it's one of the 

classiest arcade adventures in recent 

times - and it might well have been 

one of the most successful too, had 

a certain portly newspaper magnate 

not taken an unexpected nose-dive 

off his luxury yacht earlier this year. 

Cap'n Bob's untimely demise led 

to the collapse of The First Samurai 

publisher Mirrorsoft shortly after and 

sadly the game was only on the software 

shelves for a single week, Since 

then it's eked out a reasonable living 

as half of a UbiSoft double-pack with 

fellow Mirrorsoft casualty Mega-lo- 

Mania, but for the team that spent 

nearly two years creating the awardwinning 

arcade opus, it's scant recompense. 

"Even if you ignore the financial 

aspect, it was very, very disappointing 

for us," comments Vivid Image 

Design's director Mev Dinc. 

"After all the coverage and 

After the critical triumph - and undeserved 

commercial disaster - that was The First Samurai, 

creators Vivid Image Design are bouncing back with 

a sequel that they hope will earn them the success 

they missed the first time round. Gary Whitta 

braved the perils of an underground journey to 

North Narrow to investigate... 

response the game received, it was 

very sad not to see it on the shelves. 

The product literally died." 

Mov admits that it's partly the feeling 

of being short-changed with The 

First Samurai that has led to VID producing 

a sequel - the first they've 

ever done. "That's definitely got 

something to do with it. Hopefully 

it'll make up for the disappointment 

of the first one, I think we would 

have done a sequel anyway, but 

maybe not quite so soon." Mev goes 

further still, suggesting that The Second 

Samurai, despite the obvious 

title reference, isn't really a sequel at 

all. "The main character looks and 

controls pretty much the same but 

the rest of the game is completely 

different, The only real similarity is 

the name. We're still trying to use the 

good elements of the first game but 

from the outset we were determined 

that this one wouldn't be just the 

same game with new graphics, as so 

many sequels seem to be these 

days." 

As all game developers do when 

thinking about a follow-up, the boys 

at VID have spent a lot of time 

reflecting on the first game and trying 

to pin-point areas where it can be

Meanies killed in The Second Samurai can earn you more than just points. 

When these flying fish are killed they explode, dripping water on the floor 

that causes plants to grow. You can climb up them to reach higher platforms. 

improved, "Mainly, there's just one 

thing about The First Samurai that we 

were slightly disappointed with and 

that's the overall size of the game_ 

Maybe it was too big, each level was 

too long,'' says Mev, "Now we feel 

its important that the player is able 

to make progress as quickly as possible 

to keep the interest going, so 

though The Second Samurai will 

overall be just as big as the first game 

it will be broken down into more, 

smaller stages." 

op) The dcl l e r w a y 

first stage,. J n the 

Oround rota e plan 

the way. 

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y's heads can be a useful mode of 

ensport in The Second Samurai, parularty 

across dangerous terrain 

is flame-covered area. The idea is 

at the game's, other characters w' 

much more involved than last ti 

und. 

eft bottom) The glowing sphere 

rely visible by the grandfather 

ck is a portal that leads to o 

game's many secret rooms. 

p along to collect a few bon 

ins or play a quick sub-game, 

hen you've had enough, pop 

the main action. 

As Mev explains, however, the reasons 

behind this new approach are 

only partly to do with rectifying the 

original game's faults. With The First 

Samurai soon to appear on the Super 

NES, VID are conscious that their 

sequel must be. if anything, even 

more 'console-friendly', i.e. it has to 

be the sort of game that's well suited 

to the Sega and Nintendo 

machines if it is ever to make it onto 

any of those formats at a later time. 

Hence the smaller levels - console 


Just look at that speed blur! The first level at Ihe Second Samurai is pretty 

surreal stuff - note the giant pencil stubs. The telescopic arm thingy can be 

jumped on and used for transport. 

games are notorious for consisting 

more of bite-size stages than the 

sprawling levels that Amiga owners 

have become used to over the years. 

"In effect were designing this game 

for the Super NES on the Amiga." 

says Mev, "which is good for the 

Amiga, because hopefully you'll end 

up with a pure console game on the 

Amiga." 

"It's almost impossible to originate 

a product purely for consoles, 

because it's so expensive." he continues. 

"I think a lot of publishers are 

using the Amiga as a testing ground, 

doing their games on that machine 

first to see the reaction from the public 

before they take the plunge with 

the consoles." Mel/ reckons that VID 

is taking this ideology one step further 

by actually designing the game 

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she's a Qui.' 

for consoles from the word go, and 

hopes ifs something that Amiga 

garners will welcome_ "I believe that 

most home computer games in the 

UK concentrate too much on the visu- 

al aspect and not enough on gameplay 

_ We're trying to break away 

from that and create something closer 

to the idea of console games, 

where the fun element is always the 

most important part." 

The Second Samurai follows on 

directly from where The First left off, 

Having chased the evil Demon across 

time from feudal Japan to the far 

future and vanquished him there, our 

hero realises that the Demon, though 

slain, is still very much alive. Now, to 

finish the job, the samurai has to pursue 

his foe back through the ages to 

his oriental homeland - the only place 

ial prepares for battle against one of the game's numer- 

,- guardians - a big. bad Queen beet How do we know 

he's wearing a crown, of course! 

(Below) Bonus coins aplenty, but collecting them is tricky as they're 

protected by fire. Slicing up that flying fish might help.,.


he can be killed for good. 

For the purposes of the sequel. 

graphic artist Teoman Irmak has 

redesigned the main Samurai character 

- he now stands a good 253/4 

taller and comes kitted Out in a 

snazz 

y control and the abilities of the char- 

nacter e remain much the same, con- 

w sisting of the familiar array of speed- 

gblur r sword slashes, but now he's got 

e 

more 

e 

freedom to use his weapon in 

the air. 

n 

As part of VID's attempts to make 

a 

The Second Samurai more console- 

n 

esque. the style of the actual play 

d 

area has been radically rethought. 

r 

Whereas the first game put heavy 

e 

emphasis on exploration (to the point 

d where players could get lost in the 

olandscape), 

here the environment has 

ubeen 

put together in a much friendli- 

ter 

manner There's less vertical 

fscrolling 

and the general way for- 

iward, 

that leads the player to the bad 

tguy 

at the end of each stage, is much 

. more rigidly defined, so even if you 

Tdo 

stray off the beaten track, it won't 

h 

be too hard to get your bearings 

e 

again. Those who like to explore will 

still be able to but as Mev puts it: "If 

people go exploring it will be 

because they want to, not because 

they have to." To encourage the 

more intrepid player, the levels have 

been designed to hold a multitude of 

secret rooms, chambers and pick-ups. 

The game's cerebral aspect is now 

a lot simpler, too. Puzzles are more 

localised, so while there's still some 

object manipulation to be done, 

things don't have to be carried 

halfway across a level; if something's 

blocking your way, vvhatever's needed 

to get you past it is sure to be 

nearby. Indeed, the concept of interacting 

with background items has 

been very much played up so as well 

us lugging objects around, the player 

can now ride on the backs of some 

enemies and even use them to help 

him solve puzzles. 

It's not clear how many different 

levels and stages there will be in the 

final game, or where they will be set, 

but t se first level - the only one that's 

actually working at the moment - 

takes place in a surreal 'twilight zone', 

including such oddities as giant pencil 

stabs, flying fish and bouncing 

statues. The levels are created initially 

by programmer Raf Cecco, who lays 

Out t le whole thing like a blueprint 

In the bees 

domain on the 

first level, the 

backdrops take on 

a honeycomb texture, 

complete 

with the golden 

sludge dripping 

from some of the 

orifices. 

Mmm,mmm. So 

far, only the level 

one graphics have 

been drawn, so 

what the rest of 

the game will look 

like is a mystery to 

all but Teoman 

Irmak at the 

moment, You'll 

just have to wait 

and see_ 

using VID's powerful level-map editor, 

and then it's down to Teoman to 

provide the graphic atmosphere. 

building smart backgrounds around 

the bare bones that Raf has created 

It's this aspect that accounts for most 

of the work still to be done. The 

game mechanics are up and running. 

and the first few stages are fully 

playable. The task now is to design 

the rest, which includes not just the 

level layouts but also the graphical 

concepts for the rest of the levels. 

So there's still plenty of work to 

be done but given that the game has 

come this far it seems surprising that 

this is the first time it's been seen 

publicly since it was started late last 

year. Mev explains why: "We've 

always taken our time with our products. 

We don't show them to the 

press until we're happy with what 

we are doing. That's always been our 

policy, but especially so with The Second 

Samurai. We obviously want to 

make sure the game is going in the 

right direction, but we're also taking 

our time with the placement of the 

product with a publisher. After what 

happened with Mirrorsoft, we have 

to make sure that doesn't happen 

again." That's why, even with the 

game nine months into development 

and Vivid Image Design hoping for 

a release at Christmas. no publisher 

has yet been approached with the 

game so where it'll eventually end up 

is still anybody's guess. But one 

thing's for sure it will definitely not 

be a company run by a tubby Czech 

with his own private yacht... 

(Lett and right) 

Two of the 

games secret 

rooms. On the 

left a treasure 

chamber packed 

with coins and, 

on the right, an 

Asteroidsinspiredsubgam. 

where the 

player smashed 

statues with his 

sword. 

DOUBLE IMPACT! 

As it turns out, The Second 

Samurai is a bit of an apt 

title because the game has 

actually got one - a second 

samurai, that is. AHD are planning 

a simultaneous twoplayer 

mode that, if all goes 

well, will work both as a cooperative 

and competitive 

game element. "Hopefully it 

will create a lot of competition," 

says Mee. "The two 

players can work together as 

well as against one another - 

its going to be very funny. 

The samurais will work to 

destroy a big boss together, 

but at the same time will 

always be rushing 

forward to get the bonuses 

before their partner." 

Mev is keen, however, 

to limit the competitive 

side of things so that it 

doesn't actually escalate 

to the point of the two 

samurais trying to kill 

each other. "The samurai 

is so powerful, it would 

take very little for them to 

kill one another, so what 

we're probably going to 

do is-allow the players to 

stun each other for just a 

second or two, so they 

can rush and get the icon 

or whatever first."

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PROJECT: Flashback 

PUBLISHER: US Gold 

DEVELOPER: Delphine Software - 

Paul Cuisset, Philippe Chaste', Benet 

Aron, Frederic Savoir, Thierry Goerthner 

(Programming) 

Denis Mercier, Christian Robert, Thierry 

Perreau, Fabrice Visserot, Patrick Daher, 

Thierry Levastre (Graphics) 

Fabrice Visserot, Jean Baudelot (Music 

and sound effects) 

INITIATED: October 1991 

RELEASE: November 1992 

Having stunned an unsuspecting public with the amazing Another 

World, Delphine Software have been strangely quiet. Just what 

are they cooking up over there in France? In a rather feeble 

excuse to stock up on some Duty Free pop, David Upchurch went 

on a day trip to 'Gay Paris' to find out. And - Doh-la-lal 

wonders he brought back to show you... 

Another World? Ah, all of you - 

H ands just as up I suspected. those of you Now, who hands liked 

up those of you who thought it was 

too easy? Ah, all of you - just as I suspected. 

Even the most jaded games player 

would have to admit that Another 

World was something of a classic, Its 

unique blend of Prince of Persia-ish 

platform action and breathtaking 

animated interludes earned it a place 

in computer games history as one of 

the most revolutionary and groundbreaking 

pieces of software ever. But 

it was easy, wasn't it? Will Flashback 

manage to be a 

longer-lasting snack? "If there are 

Like Another World, 

Flashback's hero is 

your everyday normal 

guy thrown into a 

bizarrely alien environment. 

The game opens 

with the hero, Conrad 

B. Hart, awaking in a 

strangely exotic jungle 

suffering from 

severe amnesia. 

limits at 

all they are 

those of our 

imagination, not 

the Amiga!" 

Just precisely where he is or how he 

came to be there is a mystery. As the 

game progresses Conrad has 'flashbacks' 

(hence the game's title) as his 

memory starts returning, allowing 

the player to gradually piece together 

Conrad's whole sorry story. We 

don't want to spoil your fun by giving 

too much away but suffice to say 

it's all centres around an alien plot to 

dominate the Earth. 

This use of 'flashbacks' to slowly 

reveal the game's plot is a very cinematic 

concept. As Paul Cuisset, the 

project's lead programmer and former 

coder of Operation Stealth, 

freely admits: "Movies 

Paul Cuisset, 

Flashback's lead 

programmer 

any have greatly infl uenced 

every stage of 

Flashback's creation, 

its look and sound and 

the scenario." In fact, 

until very recently the 

game was actually 

going to be called Cinemail. 

The game is 

packed with references 

to famous science-fiction 

fi lms;

movie buffs will have a field day 

spotting the influence of films such 

as They Live!, Total Recall, Alien and 

Terminator 2, amongst many others. 

First impressions of Flashback 

would seem to indicate that it's some 

sort of pseudo-sequel to Another 

World. But, graphic similarities aside, 

Flashback and Another World are 

substantially different games. Paul is 

keen to stress that although there's 

Jots of exhilarating running, jumping, 

swinging and fighting to be enjoyed 

as in Another World. there's also 

plenty for the more serious-minded 

gamer to get his or her teeth into - 

Flashback has as much in common 

with Paul's earlier Operation Stealth 

DELVING IN L P H I N E 

Delphine Softwa s established in 

1988. An offshoot e French music• 

publishers Delphine- handle major 

stars from around the globe, including 

Richard Clayderman (swoon!) - the 

Paris-based coding geniuses burst on 

the games scene with Future Wa 

rcritically-acclaimed graphic adve 

which pioneered Delphine's Cine 

'click-n-point' games system, 

As a follow-up to Future Wars, 

released Operation Stealth and Cruise for a Cor 

peach of which expanded and built on the version- 

Cinematique which had gone before. 

However, it was the release of Another World I 

years which really showed the world the way t 

Delphine saw the future of games, with the intro. 

duction of a remarkable animation technique which 

used polygons rather than sprites or bitmapped 

graphics. Not only did this system allow smoother 

animation, the memory-efficient polygons also 

meant that more space could be devoted to atmospheric 

music, sound effects and deeper gamepla • 

(and anyone who's played Guy Spy will know h 

important that is). 

as Another World, since the player is 

able to communicate with the people 

he meets and pick up and use the 

various alien artifacts he comes 

across. 

"It's true to say that the actions 

that the player has to perform are 

frequently 'moving' actions - running, 

jumping, picking up objects, 

etc." admits Paul, "but Flashback is 

also a genuine adventure and there 

are plenty of other tasks to be completed. 

There are traps and security 

cameras to be avoided and infrared 

detectors which operate doors that 

have to activated so that you can 

progress through the game. Flashback 

has many similarities to an 


"The beauty of the 

Cinematique system 

is that it allows you 

to create freely 

without being constrained 

by your 

programming 

skills." 

Paul Cuisset, Flashback's lead 

programmer 

adventure or a role-playing game 

because of its great depth of gameplay. 

However, the animations and 

the player's ease-of-control over 

Conrad make it feel more like an 

action game." 

Paul recognises that Another 

World was perhaps a little too easy 

and he's keen to give Flashback's 

players greater 'Value For Money'. 

"Flashback takes considerably longer 

to complete than Another World," he 

claims, ''It's not because the action 

sequences are particularly tougher 

but because of the game's many 

involved adventure/puzzle aspects." 

His claims would appear to be true: 

one of US Gold's game testers, who 

finished Another World in just five 

hours, confided to me that he's been 

playing Flashback for nearly fifty 

hours and hasn't even reached the 

halfway point yet! 

In action, Conrad resembles a certain 

Prince from Persia. His athletic 

range of moves is impressive to say 

the least: Conrad can walk, run, 

jump, climb, roll, skid, duck, hang, 

throw, pick up - you name it. It all 

looks amazingly realistic. Paul is surprisingly 

tight lipped when it comes 

to explaining how these superb animations 

were achieved: "The game's 

characters were animated using 

Rotoscoping, our Top Secret programming 

methods and our amazingly 

talented artists!" is all he'll say 

on the matter. Of you want to know 

more about Rotoscoping, refer to the 

"Let's Go 'Scoping Now" box.) 

One of the Flashback program-

WORK I N P 

mers' most impressive 

feats is how they've managed 

to store all of Conrad's 

animation frames in 

memory and still have 

enough left over for the 

game itself. The secret lies 

in the fact that all the 

bitmapped graphics are 

stored in memory in a 

highly-compressed format 

that uses a fraction of the 

space uncompressed 

graphics do_ "All the 

sprites use a unique highspeed 

decompression routine to get 

them from memory and onto the 

screen as quickly as possible," 

explains Paul. 

As in Another World there are 

many animated interludes and cutaways. 

"The animated sequences are 

all created from polygon graphics," 

explains Paul. The advantage of this 

memory-efficient, polygon-based system 

is that some very complex animations 

from unusual camera angles 

can be achieved at a fraction of the 

memory 'traditional' bitmapped animations 

would use. 

"There are far more of these animated 

sequences than there were in 

Another World," boasts Paul_ In fact, 

in this respect the Amiga version 

should b e superior to the 

Megadrive's, which is being programmed 

almost simultaneously: 

"Because Amiga disks can store much 

more than a cartridge." explains Paul, 

"we're able to add loads more animations, 

the Amiga Flashback has at 

least fifty such sequences!" 

Much of the game's success lies in 

the versatility of Cinematique. the 

graphics adventure system which 

Delphine pioneered with Future Wars 

way back in 1988. Since then, it's 

been refined and altered by each new 

game the company's produced, most 

radically by the introduction of the 

polygon-based animation routines 

seen in Cruise for a Corpse and 

Another World. "The beauty of the 

Cinematique system." states Paul, Is 

that it allows you to create freely 

without being constrained by your 

programming skills. That said, strictly 

speaking the graphics system in 

Flashback isn't actually Cinematique 

at all, it's a new system that's been 

specially designed for Flashback 

which is much more orientated 

towards doing animation." 

When Paul's asked whether he and 

his team have reached the limits of 

what can be achieved by Cinematique 

on the Amiga his answer is 

quite emphatic: "Not at all - the 

Amiga can still be pushed a lot further. 

The Amiga has a few faults but 

it's still a good machine. If there are 

any limits at all they are those of our 

imagination, not the computer!" 

So what of Cinematique's 

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It seems that everybody's doing it 

nowadays. Teque London, DMA 

Design and now Del phine Software 

they're all at it, you know, What 

do you mean what am I on about? 

I'm talking about Rotoscoping, of 

course, you dirty-minded devil! 

Rotoscoping is a process that 

was pioneered by cartoon animators 

(Walt Disney, amongst them) 

way back at the beginning of the 

century to achieve more realisticlooking 

animation. Basically an 

actor or actress is filmed performing 

the action the animator wants 

to reproduce. The animator then 

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DELPHINE SOUND OFF! 

It's no surprise, given Delphine Software's musical parentage, to learn that 

they consider music and sound effects to be an important facet of their 

games. To help them create they have a massive recording studio at their 

disposal, containing just about every hi-tech gadget known and capable of 

recording sound in 32 channels, However. using the studio's facilities to 

,make computer music is a bit like using a sledgehammer to crush a peas. 

"Unfortunately," sighs Paul, "we can't make as much use of the studio as 

we'd like to because computer sound chips a,re comparatively weak in terms 

of what they can handle musically." 

future? Will it ever evolve to the 

stage where it'll allow us to play true 

'interactive movies'? Paul is cautiously 

optimistic; "Bit by bit we're 

getting closer to that ideal - but 

there's still a long way to go. If you 

wanted to create truly interactive cinema 

you'd have to work in a proper 

3D environment (such as Virtual Reality) 

with accurate and subtle camera 

angles that correctly simulated the 

player's view. At the moment the 

technology just doesn't exist to do 

it, but we're getting there!" 

uses the film as a template for his 

drawings. 

It's only recently that computer 

graphics artists have picked up on 

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nique. Jordan Mechner is arguably 

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TH 

GAMES CHALLENGE 

Eve body's Ku Fu Fighti 

And so it begins. After a month of rest in which 

to practice and steel himself for combat, the 

time has come for The One's very own games 

champion Gary Whifta to defend his crown 

against the first in a long line of worthy reader 

challengers. 

The Game: I K + . 

The Challenger: Grant Harrison. 

The Rules: T w o men enter the Challenge 

'Chamber. One man leaves. 

Let battle commence... 

Well, a lot of you certainly 

S o, seemed Whitta's to think a soft so touch - the is chal- he? 

lenges have been flooding in! Anyone 

who can hold a joystick, from 

Dorset to Dusseldorf, has offered to 

publicly humiliate Whitta in front of 

his 'fans'. But at the end of the day 

it was Grant Harrison. a plucky 

young lad from Balham in South 

London, who was chosen to face the 

mammoth might of Whitta. His 

boast was simple but effective: "Give 

me a decent joystick and half a 

chance, and I'll give Whitta a kicking 

so hard his mother'll feel it." 

As it turned out, it was a confrontation 

that no-one would 

ever forget... 

THE CHALLENGER 

year-old Grant Harrison. 

.gx • An Amiga owner for 

_ t h r e e years, he's a dab 

hand at Speedball 2, 

C " In Mega-lo-Mania, the red corner... Hudson 16- 

Hawk, Lotus 2 and Jimmy White's 

Whirlwind Snooker. But he chose IK + 

as his challenge game, having made 

it to black belt level a mere week 

after buying it on budget earlier this 

year. Unfortunately what he didn't 

know is that Whitta has been an IK + 

black belt since 1989 - but then he's 

not played it in nearly two years. A 

case of youthful enthusiasm versus 

jaded experience if ever there was 

one. 

CHA ENGE! 

M O S 4 0 0 

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THE CHALLENGE GAME: IK+ 

Four years after its release, Archer Maclean's IK+ is still indisputably the 

best beat-'em-up on the Amiga ever, A sequel to his earlier 8-bit classic 

International Karate, the game pits three fighters against each other in 

a martial arts free-for-all tournament where the idea is simply to stay 

alive until the end of each bout and progress through the belt rankings. 

Moves available in the high-speed fumpin' action include a lethal 

array of kicks, punches and, our favourite, a skull-cracking headbutt. 

Though the full-prire version has since been discontinued, it's still available 

on Hit Squad at the bargain budget price of £7.99. If you don't 

have a copy, buy it now. We said NOW! 

TO THE CHALLENGE 

CHAMBER! 

After the initial face-off and weighin 

(the balance on the scales when 

Whitta stepped up was too embarrassing 

to print - "I had a big 

lunch," he protested feebly), it was 

down to business. 

IK+ is played over in 30-second 

bouts of increasing difficulty 

between three fighters - two human, 

one computer-controlled. The first 

fighter to reach six points (accumulated 

by landing kicks and punches 

on opponents) is declared the winner. 

For the purposes of this challenge, 

the object is to stay alive until 

either Whitta or Harrison is knocked 

out • the survivor then wins. To pre- 

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vent any fluke results, the winner 

shall be declared by a 'best out of 

three' competition. 

ROUND ONE 

The flip of a coin determined that 

Whitta would wear the white jimjams 

and Grant would wear the red. 

A brief flurry of pre-match trumpeting 

from Whitta seemed to indicate 

that he felt he had the psychological 

advantage - but any confidence he 

may have had was quickly shattered 

when, just four seconds into the first 

bout, Grant expertly floored him 

with a perfectly-timed front kick. 

As Whitta lay crumpled and 

dazed. Grant went on to make short 

work of the blue-clad computer 

fighter. But the fat Dep Ed, now fully 

recovered, stormed back in with a 

forward somersault quickly followed 

by a lethal face punch. Grant went 

down, giving Whitta his much-needed 

first point and bringing the score 

to 3-1. 

Over-confident Whitta then tried 

to take on the computer player, but 

a mistimed block let in a high kick to 

the jaw that won the computer two 

points and left the champion with 

no option but to lay on the ground 

as the last few seconds ran down. A

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IT'S A DIRTY JOB... 

But somebody's got to do it. The first challenger may have been slain by 

the mighty Whitta, but that's not to say you will! So come on. this is your 

chance for glory. Write to us at: WHITTA HAS DEFINITELY GOT HIS COM- 

ING. The One, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AU. Tell 

us what game you choose for your challenge, as well as your name, age, 

address and, if applicable, phone number. Selected challengers will get to 

visit The One's offices, meet the team, challenge Whitta (of course) and, 

If successful, walk away with literally armfuls of free software. So get moving! 

Every day you don't write in is another day we have to put up with 

Whitta*s intolerable boasting... 

GAMES CHALLENGE 

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dreadful defeat in the first round for 

Whitta, it looked as though the 

young challenger could well be on his 

way to victory! 

ROUND TWO 

Obviously enraged by his bitter 

first-round pasting. Whitta was taking 

no prisoners. Grant bit the dust 

in the first few seconds, victim of a 

lightning-fast low kick, and the 

computer player quickly followed. 

As the binary fighter tried a 

footsweep. Whitta somersaulted 

over him and reverse kicked him as 

he got back up. Four points already 

in the bag! 

Then the computer came back, 

swiftly bringing down Grant with a 

headbutt, and things looked bad. 

Whitta needed only one more strike 

to win the round and level the score 

• and he did just that, backing the 

defensive Grant into the corner and 

crippling him with an unblockable 

crouch punch. One-all with one 

round to go! 

FINAL ROUND 

Both players knew what was at stake 

as they entered the third and final 

round - it was the difference between 

the sweet smell of victory or the 

repugnant whiff of defeat. Not surprisingly, 

both combatants decided 

to gang up on the computer first, 

flooring the blue boy for one point 

each then turning on each other. As 

they squared off for what would be 

the last time, there was a kind of 

grudging respect between the two 

titans - and then, in what seemed like 

slow motion, the final confrontation 

took place. 

Whitta broke the deadlock, moving 

in with a mid kick only to have it 

blocked by Grant and countered with 

a face punch, which was blocked in 

return. Grants flying kick failed to 

connect, but Whitta didn't waste the 

opportunity to hit home with a 

reverse high kick as his opponent 

landed. Three points to one in favour 

of Whitta. 

By this time the computer player 

was back in the fray. Preoccupied 

with his challenger, Whitta failed to 

notice and was taken down by the 

blue man's mid kick into the lumbar 

region. As Grant got up, the computer 

made short work of him too, 

catching him with a low kick to the 

shin. But then, against all odds. Whitta 

recovered and miraculously picked 

up the winning two points with an 

astonishing flying kick to the back of 

the computer's neck. Whitta is the 

victor! 

THE RESULT 

It was a close one, but Gary Whitta 

lived to fight another day, sneaking 

through 1-3, 6-0, 6-1, The plucky 

young challenger was, of course, dismayed 

but Whitta was listening to 

no excuses, preferring instead to 

strut around the office proclaiming 

his brilliance. The smug git. 

(Below) What happens when a challenger 

takes on Whitta and fails. 

Don't worry folks, we got his parent's 

permission before decapitating him.

C O M P E T I T I O N 

And, in an all-too-typical fit of out- "I don't care how much it costs!" 

One, you know. Ask anyone rageous generosity, Core Design have he bellowed in a gruff yet friendly 

I n t that visits the office and decided to toast the game's way. "Our games are the best and I 

e they'll tell you to never bring up the 

lsubject o of old 50s science-fiction 

vmovies e or Dave'll bore you to death. 

tJim 

Willis has seen Eisenstein's Bat- 

htleship 

Potemkin 48 times. And as for 

e asking Gaz about the works of Ing- 

mmar 

Bergman, forget it! 

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And those gorgeous geezers at 

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Core Design obviously share our passion 

for the silver screen, 'cos they've 

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just gone and produced a top plat- 

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form game all based around the 

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whacky world of showbiz - Premiere! 

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looks beautiful (the graphics are by 

t the bloke wot did Heimdall, you 

Tknow), 

it sounds fantastic (dig that 

hEgyptian 

ditty!) and it plays like a 

edream. 

inevitable and well-deserved success 

by holding a super-special compo 

open to all The One's ever-lovin' readers 

Isn't that nice of them? 

SO WHAT'S THE PRIZE 

THEN? 

Core asked us for some ideas as to 

what sort of prize they could offer 

you and we're ashamed to admit that 

we came up with some pretty tawdry 

and cheap suggestions. A boxed set 

of Herbie videos (including Herbie 

Goes To Monte Carlo, of course). An 

old issue of Premiere film magazine 

(because it's got the same name as 

the game) The original script for The 

expect our compo prizes to be the 

same, You lot are useless. Let me sort 

it out," 

And so he did. 

And we're glad he did 'cos this 

prize he came up with is just brilliant, 

You see, if you win this compo you'll 

receive a brand-spanking-new Panasonic 

NV-SS Palmcorder worth 1900! 

Smart or what 

7 good i n prize that we're all thinking of 

fleaving a c t the , company so that we'll be 

iallowed t ' to s enter ourselves. 

s The u NV-55 c is an amazing bit of kit 

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and boasts: 

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• Full VHS compatibility, 

• Lightweight (just 700g!) portability. 

Mind you, not that we have to tell Sound of Music, 

• A 12X zoom factor, so you can 

you all this - you can find out for "Enough!" shouted Core's supre- really get into the action. 

yourself by reading the massive mo Jeremy Smith. "How about a • A digital image stabiliser, so you 

review starting on page 40 and video camcorder?" 

can get a rock-steady picture even if 

playing the fantastic demo on "B-b-b-but they're so expensive!" you suffer from the shakes. 

this month's coverdisks! we cried. 

• A snapshot facility, permitting 

Mint Video 

order Werth 

f900! 

storage of up to 1080 still pictures on 

a 45-minute tape, with an accompanying 

recorded soundtrack if you 

want! 

• Loads of weird video trickery, 

such as mirroring the image down 

the middle or taking shots every few 

moments so that you can create a 

bizarre strobing effect. 

In short, the NV-55 is simply one 

of the best video palmcorders you 

can buy or, in your case, win! In addition, 

there are ten copies of the game 

to help cheer up the runners up who 

so very nearly made it to the First 

Prize. 

LENIME AT IT! 

Negotiations with a big-name movie 

company are currently underway to 

make a major multi-million dollar 

movie epic based around The One 

team. Bruce Willis is already signed 

up to play Douglas and apparently 

Woody Allen has shown some interest 

in portraying Whitta but there's

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one big, big problem holding it all 

back. 

You see, there's no script. So what 

we want you to do is thrash out a 

plot (or 'treatment', as they call it in 

the movie bizz) for the film so that 

scripting can start. The person who 

comes up with the best treatment 

will win the palmcorder. 

Before you get scribbling there are 

some things you should bear in mind: 

• The treatment should be no longer 

than 300 words. 

• The treatment should feature the 

whole The One team, including Jim 

Douglas, Dave Upchurch, Gaz Whitta 

and Jim Willis. 

• Other than that you're free to do 

whatever you want! 

When you've written your epic, fill 

Out the coupon below, attach it to 

your treatment and send it to: THE 

ONE: THE MOVIE, EMAP Images, 30- 

32 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 

3AU, 

Good luck and get writing! 

The One. The Movie 

COMPETITION 

Dear The One, 

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And it's all thanks 

to CORE DESIGN 

THE RULES 

This competition is not open to employees o f EMAP Images o r Core Design, 

their friends o r relatives. The com petition will close on September 21st and 

the winners will be notified shortly afterwards. The Editor's decision is final 

and n o correspondence w ill be entered in to . No alternative prizes will be 

given and, wh ile every care is taken, EMAP Images cannot be held responsible 

for entries lost o r damaged in the post. 

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44 Crazy Seasons (Idea) 

46 Sword of Honour (ELKO 

48 MegaTraveller 2 (Empire) 

SO Fascination (Digital Integration) 

68 Guy Spy (Empire) 

70 Castle of Dr Brain (Sierra) 

72 Treasures of the Savage Frontier (S.S.I./LIS Gold) 

74 Vikings (Krisalis) 

76 Espana: The Games '92 (Ocean) 

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All elements of our games are rated out of a possible 

maximum score of a hundred. But what do the scores actually 

mean? 

0-25 R u b b i s h . Offensively low quality. 

26-49 B e l o w average. Not acceptable by today's 

standards. 

50-60 A b o v e average. But still plenty of room for 

improvement. 

61-70 F a i r to good. Lots of nice points, but in no 

way perfect. 

70-80 P r e t t y smart. Above accepted standards. 

81-90 E x t r e m e l y good. Top notch impressiveness. 

90+ S i m p l y excellent. Breathtaking. 

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Obviously, at the end of the day, when all is said and done, 

the Overall figure is the best gauge as to whether the game is 

any good or not. While representative of the elements, it is 

not an average of the other scores. That's why it isn't called 

THE AVERAGE. 

File Stat 

CLOSED 

JIM DOUGLAS 

Tragedy. Jim went on a covert mission behind 

enemy lines and. strangely, never returned. He has 

been officially pronounced 'Missing in Action'. He 

will be missed. Except by Dave "I'm laughing" 

Upchurch, who's now the Editor. And Gary "Cut out 

the dead wood Whitta, who's now Deputy Editor. 

A bit suspicious, that... 

DAVID UPCHURCH 

Yet more tragedy. Ultimate power has gone straight 

to the big lads head and he's now taken to 

goosestepping around the office, slicking his fringe 

across his forehead and even growing what looks 

like a tiny moustache. He's already promising big 

changes, like free Porsches for senior staff, 

unlimited use of the canteen jaccuzzi and 55% pay 

rises all round. Oh, and he'll probably try to improve 

the mag as well. 

GARY WHITTA 

A small spark of light in a sea of blackness, our Gaz 

has been far more level-headed than Dave about his 

promotion. 'Success hasn't changed me at all,' 

smiled the decreasingly lardy Whits in a benevolent 

and slightly God-like manner. "I'm still the great, 

down-to-earth man of the people that I've always 

been. All hail to me." 

JIM WILLIS 

Well, what a surprise. Jim has been promoted to 

Head Of Design Obergruppenfuhrer, which means 

even more sitting around on his backside, smoking 

big fat cigars and leering at the female staff 

members (More!? Is that possible?). Thank 

goodness for Rob Carter. He's not afraid of a bit of 

hard work and so it is he who'll be taking over the 

design duties in full from next month. 

KHALID HOWLADAR & RICHARD AUSTIN 

With the editorial team cut down by a third we've 

had to call in the cavalry in the form of these two 

bionic games reviewing marines. They insisted on 

no pictures. They do the work for the honour of it, 

not the glory.

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ore Design's latest is in t 

nd Gary Whitta has a fro 

row seat. And why not. 

deep, deep trouble. After three 

their competitors, find the six allimportant 

film canisters and swipe 

F long and sleepless nights of cut- them back in time, maybe the end- 

iting 

together the latest blockbuster ing will be as sugary and nice and 

lfrom 

movie giants Core Pictures, he's totally vomit-inducing as one of Core 

m more than just a little put out Ito say Picture's own formula movies. 

ethe 

least) when, after a well-earned Maybe. 

dnap, 

he awakes to find that all six So off trots Clutch, sneaking onto 

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canisters of his work have been 

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swiped by a rival studio! When studio 

boss Buster Smith calls in to 

o 

remind Clutch that he needs the film 

r 

ready in time for this afternoon's pre- 

C 

miere, he knows that he's in big trou- 

lble. 

Unless... 

u One chance. If he can make it over 

the Grumbling Pictures backlot, 

where no less than six top movies are 

in production. To get back those vital 

silver tins, he'll have to explore the 

sets of each and every one, avoiding 

the malevolent stars (who for some 

reason have a serious grudge against 

intruders) and dangerous back- 

Premiere's backgrounds are slightly 

3-dimensional, with parts of the 

floor consisting of a background and 

foreground. Clutch can hop between 

the two. but the bad guys can't, so 

Its a handy way of giving them the 

slip. Apart from that, its use is limit- 

t 

to Grumbling Pictures, the scene- 

cstealing 

rival studio notorious for all 

h manner of nefarious activities against 

G 

grounds. Sounds contrived? Well of 

course it is, what do you expect? This 

is Hollywood. after all! 

ed to avoiding and accessing features 

like traps, ladders and 

platforms. 

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ON THE SET! 

Each of Premiere's levels takes place on the set and behind the scenes of on. of Grumbling Pictures' six movies 

lcurrently 

in production. There's a canister to be be gotten from each sound stage but only if you can make it all the 

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way through and complete the end-of-level sub-game. And there's no stuntman to double for y 

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WESTERN 

Grumbling Pictures is obviously trying 

to breathe life into this tired old 

genre with a new rootin'-tootin' production, 

set amid a rolling backdrop 

of stables. saloons and jailhouses. 

Star-shaped sheriffs stomp about, 

accompanied by big-breasted ladies, 

six-shooting cowboys and, of course. 

plenty of injuns. Clutch protects himwith 

sizzling bundles of 

namite that roll across the 

or and explode on impact. 

SLACK & WHITE 

Ah, the good old days. it's back to 

pre-Technicolour times for the second 

level, that takes Clutch through 

a variety of monochromatic scenes. 

starting off in an Egyptian temple 

complete with mummies and 'living' 

hieroglyphics. There's also a smattering 

of cats because, as us educated 

types know, the ancient 

Egpytians revered them as gods. Use 

those bags of flour (?) to ward off 

the bad guys as you progress. 

HOR 

It's 1t c 

tClutch i o n i n on the set of the lat- 

aest gory l l shocker. After a brief trek 

across a haunted graveyard, you've 

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got to 

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get through a spooky old 

e mansion, populated by monsters, 

wzombies, 

winged demons and the 

aubiquitous 

scuttling severed hands 

y 'bottles of holy water provide your 

only protection. in practice it's all 

wabout 

as scary as an episode of 

hCatchphrase, 

though. 

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He might be stuck behind a desk all 

day, but Clutch Gable is just as athletic 

as any of his adversaries. He can 

walk, jump, duck, climb stairs and 

ladders, punch and chuck a variety of 

weapons. H is e ne rgy come s in the 

form of a bar that's depleted each 

time he has a run-in with a baddy - 

lose the lot and it's back to the last 

restart point with one le ss life . 

- 

CARTOON • 

Its like Who Framed Roger Rabbit 

gone mad on this level! The animated 

antics hero are all set in a bizarre 

oversized house landscape, which Is 

patrolled by an assortment of characters 

odd enough to do Hanna- 

Barbera proud. Furry creatures, 

musical instruments, buzzing 

insects.- and look out for the oneton 

weights. However, unlike Wile E. 

Coyote, there's no shrugging off 

these vicious attacks...

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in hand, 

Clutch battles beyond 

the MOstars 

next. taking 

on VIthe 

cast of a low-budget 

sci-fi flick. As well as 

futuristic spacemen and starships 

to contend with, the alien 

landscape is covered with venomspitting 

aliens that look like The - 

Clangers and, what's more, is high- • 

ly volatile, erupting and spewing 

flames all over the shop. Nasty. 

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the film canisters! 

The swine! 

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his film to 

be ready in time 

for tonight. No 

problem. 

Now, where did 

he put those 

canisters.. 

AAARRRGG 

FANTASY 

For the final level, 

Clutch takes on the perilous 

sets of a surreal 

medieval, swashbuckling 

blockbuster. Take on odd 

knights on horseback and a veritable 

cornucopia of baddies so odd 

that if we told you what they 

were, you wouldn't believe us, so 

we wont even bother. You'll Just 

have to be good enough to get 

there and find out for yourself.

R E V I E W 

There's always plenty of old odds and ends left 

lying around on studio sets, and those at 

Grumbling Pictures are no exception. Scoop up 

those carelessly-discarded Academy Awards and 

SAFTAs (at least that's what they look like) for 

points, and typical movie-going foodstuffs like 

burgers and popcorn for extra energy. Most useful, 

though, are the clapperboards. Pick one of 

these up to activate a restart point there, so you 

don't get sent right back to the start of the level 

when you lose a life. 

THE BAD GUYS 

When you finally locate the canister of film at the end of a level, you've 

got to complete a special unique sub-game before you can be off with it 

and onto the next stage. Let us take a gander at a few of them, shall we? 

On the Western level Clutch comes 

face to fact with a gunslinging 

bulldog in a showdown played 

out to a smart rem ix of The 

Good, The Bad and the 

Ugly's theme musk. Big 

Butch's fingers twitch 

on his holster for a 

few seconds, 

when he goes f 

gun you've 

beat him to the 

by hitting th 

button before 

shoot. Draw too eddy 

or too late and you'll 

bite the dust. If you can 

plug Butch three times in 

succession, he goes down to 

good and it's onto the next le 

All the baddies in 

Premiere inflict the 

same amount of 

damage per hit. 

but some take 

more to kill than 

others. A single hit 

with whatever 

weapon you've got 

will take out most 

meanies, but some 

need to be to be 

hit twice before 

they'll roll over 

and die. Thankfully 

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the only way for Clutch to escape is to jump onto the giant 

tradmill and pedal like a hamster on steroids - the wheel 

controls the mechanism that slowly winches up the exit 

door. Only problem is, the devil himself likes to come along 

every few moments to prod Clutch with his pitchfork. To 

get rid of him, you have to jump off the treadmill, causing 

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romatic, consisting of a frantic train chase. 

Clutch standing on a runaway platform, the 

t is to keep the pursuing locomotive at bay 

onstantly hitting it with dynamite. As you roll 

you've got to jump over broken sections 

rack, duck under signal posts and collect 

ammo from trackside dumps.

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Entering doors on the 

set takes Clutch behind 

the scenes, to where 

extras hang out, props 

are stored • and handy 

objects and shortcuts 

are to be found. 

Sometimes going backstage 

is the only way to 

get round obstacles on 

the set, so it's worth 

exploring every door 

you come to. 

Proyres in Premiere involves as much vertical 

movement as horizontal, with many of the game's more 

interesting bits found high above the studio floor, sus. 

pended on precarious platforms and accessed by climbing 

ladders and stairways. You can't get hurt by falling 

too far from a height, but it is possible to drop through 

holes in the floor and plunge to your death beneath the 

game area. Aalieeeel 

You just can't be a platform game in the 90s unless you 

have some switches somewhere, so here they are. Set 

into the wall around the sets, they perform special functions 

when thrown - though not necessarily on that very 

screen. They do all sorts, like opening doors, removing 

obstacles and activating moving platforms, so flick 'em 

when you find 'em. 

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IF VERDICT 

Unlike The 8th Day's first creation Heimdall, 

R E V I E W 

Premiere's a game that doesn't take itself 

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variation y between levels to ensure there's 

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(Above and below) The game starts with a short intro illustrating how our 

pengoid scientists came to be in such a universe-destroying situation. As 

you can see, its not really the most inspiring of sequences. These two pen. 

goids are the characters you control during the game although they don't 

seam to have been given namoi So much for individuality. i 

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(Right) There are four seasons to play through during the game. 

You are given the option at the beginning whether you wish to 

start on Spring or Summer. The later ones only become available 

should you perform well enough to earn the privilege. 

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The time has come to save the 

Universe and only Khalid Howladar 

has the platform skills to pull it off 

your thinking - with a name like 

C razy that Seasons? it must be Yes crap. I know But wait! what 

Bear with me and you'll see that behind 

the poor title there's a reasonably 

playable piece of software screaming to 

get out. 

Now I've come across some corny 

plots in my life but get a load of this, 

Two scientists (who I assume are meant 

to be penguins) are putting the finishing 

touches to their time machine when 

KA-POW ! The capsules containing the 

(read slowly) Time Fluid have moved out 

of alignment, causing an explosion that 

scatters them across the globe. The pen- 

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guiniscientists must recover the Time 

Fluid capsules before the entire universe 

is sucked into a mega Time-Space Black 

Hole. 

Hmrnm Obviously a lot of thought 

went into that one. 

But you can forget the story (Hooray 

- The whole world), 'cos basically the 

game is a level-based platform affair 

where you Must shunt the Time Fluid 

capsules around the screen until they 

are lined up in the desired order which 

is shown at the bottom of the screen. If 

you are feeling a bit social a mate can 

get involved for simultaneous two-player 

fun. 

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(Above)Each season is preceded by a short little intro of its own which. I 

think although i'm not sure, are meant to be funny. Having watched the slow 

little animation I was left feeling quite numb and confused after trying desperately 

to understand the Italian sense of humour. 

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(Above) To kill the numerous meanies 

that mill *round you have to 

shove blocks onto or through them. 

The first strike simply stuns the 

baddies and they must be hit twice 

to destroy them. Once killed they 

leave an item of some sort which 

can be collected either for a point t 

bonus or some special power. 

(Right) Ah, Spring has sprung. The 

strip of icons on the score panel at 

the bottom of the screen show the 

order in which the Time Fluid capsules 

must be arranged to 

complete the level. These are • 

shoved by standing neat to them 

and hitting FIRE. If you make a mistake 

you can push it up against a 

wall or other object. Pressing FIRE 

, original position. 

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playability. The graphics and 

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easy to use and everything 

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fast (mind you, not that there's 

exactly a lot ever on-screen at 

any given time). It's quick and 

easy to get into but it soon 

begins to falter. You see, once 

gotten into, there isn't really 

much to keep you there. Yeah, 

okay, so the graphic style 

changes every ten levels or so 

from Spring to Summer (that's 

why it's called Crazy Seasons, 

you see clever, eh?) and so on 

but that's hardly going to keep 

you addicted, and shunting 

blocks around becomes a tad 

tedious after a while. 

Aesthetically, its nothing special 

and sound is the usual plethora 

L publisher: Idea 

of burbling noises and 

cutesy tunes. To be fair 

Crazy Seasons is mit a 

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Ninja-based beat-'em-ups are always 

popular (the Last Ninja series, 

Shadow Warriors or Shadow Dancer, 

anyone?) so a new entry to the genre 

has got to be something really special 

to stand out from the crowd. Sword 

of Honour has several points in its 

favour. The animation of the your 

character is quite smooth and he 

looks quite hard while doing his com- 

bat rolls, flying kicks and the usual 

plethora of karate moves. The back- 

drops, however, look a bit hazy and 

ill-defined and this can lead to annoy- 

ing deaths where you can't see the 

enemy missiles or traps. Sound is 

rather unimpressive, consisting main- 

ly of whistling wind and trickling 

river background effects overlaid 

with a few grunts and groans. The 

hand-to-hand combat, which makes 

up the meat of the game, is quite 

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enjoyable and you get some pretty 

good fights due to the instinctive 

selection of attacks. The computer 

character 'interaction', though limit- 

ed, adds a deeper dimension to the 

game which helps prolong interest as 

you try to find a use for the objects in 

the game. Overall. Sword of Honour 

isn't a half-bad game but doesn't 

really push the boundaries of the 

beat-'em-up genre any further either. 

Still, its a pleasant enough timewaster. 

This fearsome Samurai will do you some serious damage should he lay 

those fearsome swords upon your person. Its quite nifty the way he spins 

ing up to a fight you may be able to bribe your way past. Hmmm, he 

must be very hot inside all that armour - maybe you've got scurwthing 

to cool him down... 

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s being a beat-'em-up, casts you in the 

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his master's honour. 

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Land of the Rising Sun as he delves into 

D.M.L's chop-socky extravaganza 

screen world is generally a matter of 

chopping up various enemy ninjas and 

bushido warriors who are out to stop 

you in your tracks. 

There's also an element of arcade 

adventuring. Various objects are dotted 

about and these are used to 'interact' 

(after a fashion) with some of the characters 

you meet, i.e. give a person something 

they want and they'll either let you 

pass or give you something useful to use 

elsewhere. Some objects you can actually 

use for yourself, such as healthrestoring 

food or a few one-shot 

shuriken death stars (especially useful as 

they allow you to take enemies from a 

distance). 

Various buildings 

can be entered by 

pushing UP or 

DOWN on the joystick 

when outside 

the entrance. The 

monk you 

encounter here 

inside an ancient 

monastery proves 

quite uncommunicative. 

However, 

maybe a little 

something from 

your inventory will 

loosen his still 

tongue and let you 

progress a little further? 

Here's a tricky situation. That poisoned arrow means instant death should it 

strike you. Due to the animation the process of leaping is actually quite a 

slow one, so a good sense of timing is essential to jump over it successfully. 

The bar along the top of the screen allows you to use, give and drop any 

objects you come across. The icons along the bottom allow you to control 

your Ninia using a mouse; needless to say that doesn't work very well at all.

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The intro sequence takes the form of a home video which shot while on holiday 

on Rhylanor, Your severely bespectacled guide is showing you the 

Ancient relics when suddenly the ground starts shaking. As the site slowly 

awakens toxic green slime oozes out of the corroded structure. As you leave 

you notice two shadowy figures fleeing the structure. Who could they be? 

Why were they there? What is their significance? Tune in next week to find 

out. 

Khalid Howladar leads his squad of 

interplanetary adventurers in a mission to 

save the planet Rhylanor- Gosh! 

Traveller 2 is the sequel to 

the first MegaTraveller. 

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the disk as each item appears on-screen. Also present are the skills and 

attributes of the characters such as hit points. career and that oh-so-important 

money. This can either be pooled or shared out amongst various party 

members as one sees fit, 

J.ODurne 514 Rawlings 

This is one place you'll be seeing quite often. Here you can either book passage 

on a liner (which uses pre-set passage routes) or charter a ship (useful 

for travelling to interdicted worlds). If you possess your own ship (it does 

happen you know!), this too is boarded here, and the crew automatically 

take the stations for which they are best suited. For example, someone with 

a high Pilot skill would be on the bridge, another with a high Turret skill 

would man the guns and so on. 

Fights involve selecting a target then choosing one of the relevant combat 

options • Attack, Flee, React (if someone shoots you, shoot back without the 

need for targeting) and Reserve (which sends the weaker characters into 

cover when the action starts). This makes for very limited player involvement 

which basically leaves the computer to do everything after the initial set 

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THE VERDICT, 

Although you shouldn't judge a 

book by its cover, it has to be said 

that MegaTraveller 2 doesn't make 

much of a first impression. The 

game's graphics are very poor; the 

cityscapes are uninspired and the 

poorly-defined icons make it 

extremely difficult to determine 

which building is which. Worse, 

every city on each planet looks 

almost exactly the same. Not only 

is this very boring, it also serious- 

ly hinders any impression of 

exploration or progression - surely 

vital elements in any good RPG? 

Matters aren't helped by the 

tedious movement system that 

makes a big fuss about letting you 

go anywhere and the unexciting 

combat system leaves you feeling 

strangely detached and apathetic 

about the whole thing. Worst of 

all, however, is the incredibly 

tedious disk accessing, even on a 

dual-drive system. It seems that 

you can't do anything without the 

computer spinning the disk. A 

good example is at customs, a 

rather pointless affair where you 

try and sneak contraband such as 

guns onto planets. First the game 

loads the officer's jaw animation 

(poor at best) and,then it accesses 

the disk some more and for what? Just so that his face 

can twitch!! Would it have been so difficult to make 

these distressing features switched off-able, thus let- 

ting the RPGer concentrate on the actual game? 

Probably, but that's good old-fashioned 

thoughtlessness for you. I'm ustrally a great RPG fan - 

both on tabletop and computer - but I'm afraid any 

initial interest I felt just got slowly ground away. It's 

a pity because the MegaTraveller universe is a varied 

and Interesting one and the plot had a lot of 

potential. it's just a pity it wasn't realised. 

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s an RPG it's severely underdevel- 

ped. The game is very linear in 

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Being French the game ngraphics 

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standard; the objects are - dearly drawn and backgrounds 

are detailed so you can see objects present easily. The 

music is competently done - - - 

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This is where you start your wild adventures. On the bed is the dead passenger's 

briefcase, within you must find the vial and then hide It somewhere 

else! I mean, it would be foolish to carry it around wouldn't it? 

So whore would be a good place? That fridge looks handy and that jug of 

water convenient. Any ideas? 

envy them. They've the food, 

T he the French, wine, eh? the You've women, got the to 

seedy software. That's right, seedy 

software is a small but important 

part of French culture. Don't ask me 

Here are a couple to 

interact with. Your 

friend has some useful 

information 

although she 

doesn't know it and 

there are some 

extremely useful 

objects around if 

you're sharp enough 

to find them. 

Remember, objects 

can be used on other 

objects. 

why - I'm no population psychologist 

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by Coktel Vision's latest release. After 

all, it IS billed as the 'role-playing 

game to be enjoyed when the kids 

have gone to bed" 

The game is different 

from most RPG's in 

that the central character 

is a women 

(although I very much 

doubt they did it in 

the name of sexual 

equality). You see, you 

play an airline pilot 

called Doralice May, a 

femme fatale out to 

have a good time. 

However, on a flight 

from Paris to Miami 

one of your passengers 

keels over and 

dies but not before he 

implores you to take a vial from within 

his briefcase and deliver it to Jeffery 

Miller, President of Quantum 

Unlimited Labs. 

Within the vial is an amazingly 

powerful cerebral chemical that will 

revolutionise neuro-p.ychiatry as we 

know it. Should it fall into the wrong 

hands, however, its potential for 

harm is immense. Needless to say, 

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let's face it, you couldn't do much worse• 

Sack the man, that's 

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For optimum results, make your boys 

train four times a week and always 

employ team training (as opposed to 

individual player training) as often 

as possible. Select your training 

method carefully as each programme 

will have different effects 

on your players' skills Circuit training's 

good for stamina, outdoor 

game helps overall skills/set piece 

practice, and indoor game improves 

passing, 

However, you shouldn't let yourself 

get carried away. For one thing, 

avoid prolonged use of any one 

method, as this can have a detri• 

mental effect on players' moral and 

may also lead to injury • not a good 

thing to happen to a footy team. 

During June you may give your 

players the break they deserve - 

after all, everyone needs a holiday 

now and then_ Missing training for 

just one month will not harm your 

players' skill levels but you must 

resume training promptly in July. 

No-one said being a top footy boy 

was going to be easy on either you 

or them! 

TRANSFERS 

No, not those little coloured designs 

you lick and stick on your arm - 

we're talking about the buying, selling 

and loaning of top players here. 

If you're going to loan a player, it 

makes sense to find out how good 

the player is beforehand, as even a 

player from a higher division may 

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suitable, loan him_ 

When putting your own players 

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them too high or you may scare off 

other clubs. Examine a player's value 

from the contracts and use a similar 

amount. 

Time takes its toll on everyone, 

even football players_ It's a harsh 

necessity but, as you climb the 

leagues, think about getting rid of 

as many your old players as you can. 

This will enable you to replace them 

with new blood with skills to match 

their opponents. Remember, one 

good player is more valuable than 

two average ones. 

How does a team win a football 

match? Ely scoring goals, of course. 

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plus keeper, and you'll find that this 

will solve half your problems 

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the transfer list a bit like a slockmar 

ket and play it to your best advan 

tage. It is possible to make money by 

giving a full contract to a trainee 

(only select the very best) and then 

putting him on the transfer market 

ready to be snapped up at a profit 

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When picking out your team, play 

players out of position if necessary, 

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fill the gap. Naturally, the all-important 

goalkeeper should be excepted 

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Watch as many of your own 

matches as you can, as the result will 

be more of a realistic reflection of 

• y o u r teams selections and players' 

skills. It's also good fun! 

Choose your words carefully when 

it comes to team talk. While, on the 

one hand, you don't want to upset 

the gaggle of prima donnas under 

your command, on the other, they 

have to be told firmly and fairly 

what's what from time to time. As a 

general rule use the responses 

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Remember to check your players' 

contracts and re-negotiate with val- 

ued players regularly. You must try 

to avoid a player out of contract 

choosing to walk out on your club 

(typically just when you need him 

most!) as you will not receive full 

value for him in compensation. 

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you should try and make realistic 

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continues under 

the sea and through 

the rain forest. 

Andrew Braybrook 

gives you hints on 

how to survive... 

UNDERWATER 

WORLD 

The puppies travelling by boat 

across the sea, our intrepid hero 

dons scuba gear for a quick exploration 

of the murky aquatic depths. 

First, just spend a couple of 

moments getting used to walking 

underwater - Cool Coyote reacts 

more sluggishly to your joystick 

commands and you must take this 

into account when exploring. 

Most of the creatures that lurk in 

the depths are, of course, fish. These 

come in various shapes and sizes, but 

they all have a couple of of things in 

common: they're all pretty weird and 

they're not particularly friendly. 

Being underwater, any frozen fish 

wilt iust drift to a stop. If it drifts into 

a wall of solid rock it'll shatter. 

As a general rule, the ugly fish 

tend to lurk near the surface, the 

propeller fish live deeper down and 

the torpedo fish tend to group 

together in caves. Crabs and squid 

you can find just about anywhere. 

THE WAY 

THROUGH, - 

DEEP BREATH 

From the starting point head off to 

the right and follow the rock face 

down to the seabed. A quick visit 

into the cave to the left will make 

our hero a few doubloons richer. It's 

at this point that you can have a 

play with a clam. Mastery of the 

clams is a real must for later on so 

pay attention now lightly stepping 

on a clam causes it to slam shut; to 

get it to bounce you upwards you 

need to jump down on it then jump 

up as late as possible just as the clam 

springs open. 

Take care to get all the fish 

before descending into the caverns 

or it's 'clam time' to get back to the 

surface again. At some point you'll 

have to hurl our hero down one of 

the holes to the right of the area. 

The left hole is the deepest, but 

probably the safest, as the right hole 

emerges in a cave containing a propeller 

fish and a crab in. You can 

reach this cave by clamming your 

way back up from the deep shaft_ A 

bone-us also awaits here. Tread 

carefully as the crabs are sometimes 

difficult to spot. From the bottom of 

the deep shaft you can go left 

behind the rock formations, but 

keep firing as other fish could also 

be behind there. Grab all the sunken 

treasures and take the exit. 

A LIFE ON THE 

OCEAN WAVE 

Here you have a choice of obtaining 

iJATIC 

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DIVER 

Hits to freeze: 2. 

Points: 150. 

CRAB 


Points: 200. 

PROPELLER FISH 

Hits to freeze: I. 

Points: 200. 

UGLY FISH 


Points: NO. 

SQUID 


Points: 250. 

TORPEDO FISH 


Points: 500 

GIANT EEL 


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the creatures you can find, or by 

locating the secret exit which takes 

you to another land where all the 

remaining key parts are just begging 

to be taken. In this secret area, as 

well as an exit back to A LIFE ON THE 

OCEAN WAVE, there's also a second 

secret exit to TUNNEL OUT. 

THE CAVE OF 

GOOD FORTUNE 

Follow the normal routine - find 

those key parts. The warp will take 

you to a secret world full of treasure 

and key parts! 

TUNNEL OUT 

This land's name suggests the location's 

exit but doesn't hint at the 

large eel that guards it. If you have 

a suitable special weapon, such as 

multi-fire or sonic bark, and a few 

spare snowbombs then find the eel 

as soon as possible and deal with it. 

Duck under or jump over the fishbones 

that it spits out. These can also 

be shot Out - the sonic bark or snowbombs 

being best for this. 

You'll have to take the tunnel 

opposite the exit to get back to the 

surface if you've missed any fish up 

there. Beware the shoals of torpedo 

fish that live deeper down - they're 

fast and take two shots to freeze. 

Use the turtles near the surface to 

reach higher areas and locate all 

eight of the ugly fish. 

JUNGLE JAPERY 

The quest continues amidst 

Amazonian flora and fauna. Here is 

a world of constant danger with 

enemies are all around, each desperately 

trying to stop Cool Coyote 

from completing his mission. 

THE WAY 

THROUGH... 

RAIN FOREST RAMPAGE 

There's only one way to go and 

that's forwards. Take things slowly, 

don't alert any more Incas to your 

presence than you need to. The first 

obstacle you'll come across is a Venus 

Fly-Trap - you must jump high over 

this. They're slow to react, so just 

C 

keep moving. Wait until any fires 

caused by spear-throwing Incas have 

died down before venturing forth 

over the next Fly-Trap. 

Keep an eye out for charging big 

cats and get ready to jump to avoid 

them. The field of Fly-Traps is the 

next big obstacle you'll encounter; 

stand on the Incan Idol's right hand 

to trigger its movement, then jump 

on one or other of the hands contin- 

uously to avoid the snapping jaws. 

As you near the level's end, watch 

the volcano in the distance: if it 

awakens, burning rocks will fall to 

the ground a-plenty. You can try to 

dodge them, run away or duck 

under the block below the exit and 

use it to shield you. 

THE MECHANICAL 

WONDER 

Here you are faced with a choice: 

either head off to the right with 

reckless abandon or leap into the 

hole in the ground, leaving the 

puppy behind (at least temporarily). 

Heading down gives you the 

chance of gaining two bonus lives by 

way of one puppy rescued and a 

JUNGLE JAPERY'S MAPS 

bone-us. Let the puppy lead the way 

from platform to platform, taking 

out most of the nasties on the way. 

Once past the chameleon you can 

either leave by touching the gold 

heart or venture upwards for more 

goodies, but be careful that you 

don't blast the bamboo bridge. Grab 

the bone-us at the top left and make 

a lunge for the gold heart - you'll 

end up back in the jungle. 

Any bonus weapon collected from 

the cave will shortly come in very 

handy, but don't be too wild with 

your fire - the bridge can't take much 

knocking. Watch what the puppy is 

up to as if the bridge goes completely 

it won't be able to make the jump. 

Now the coyote faces his biggest 

challenge yet - the Inca flying 

machine. Don't touch it - it's hot - 

and beware it's flame-throwing 

mouth and the Inca with a blow-pipe 

crouching in the tail section. First 

destroy the head and tail sections - 

snowbombs or a sonic bark will help 

soften it up - then concentrate fire 

on the body. Incas will leap Out and 

attack, but you can let the puppy 

deal with them. 

RAIN FOREST 

RASCALS 

PARROT 


Points: 250. 

CAT 

Hits to freeze:1. 

Points: 500. 

CATERPILLAR 


Points: 750. 

INCAS 

Hiding types:- 

Hits to freeze:1. 

Points: 400. 

Walker types:- 


Points: 500. 

CHAMELEON 

Hits to freeze; 5. 

Points: 500. 

INCA FLYING MACHINE 

Tail:- 

Hits to destroy: 20. 

Points: 5,000. 

Head:- 

Hits to destroy: 25. 

Points: 10,000. 

Body:arl 

Hits to 

freeze: 30. 

Points: 

25,000. 

Just two 'official' levels and one not-so-secret to explore, but 

you'll find them the toughest challenges you've yet 

encountered by a long, long chalk. 

RAIN FOREST RAMPAGE 

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LeChuck continues to wreak his terrible revenge in the second part 

of this complete solution to the Lucasfilm masterpiece! 

PART TWO 

.THE FOUR MAP PIECES 

At sea at last, there's a task to perform before you start treasure hunting. 

Next to the cabin doorway is an empty bag of Parrot Chow - grab it and go 

inside the boat. Ask to look at the map and set sail for... 

Make your way over to the fisherman on the jetty. Give him a good oldfashioned 

slanging match and he'll offer you a fishing competition. Leave 

the island for.. 

...Run after it right up until it gets blown to the cliff-top then head back 

to the mansion, Go upstairs to Elaine's room and nab the oar. Make 

your second escape attempt picking up the guard dog as you leave. 

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vicit will get off to a miserable start as a Burly Guard 

will catch you and dump you in jail. To escape first check Out beneath the 

less-than•chatty prisoner next door. Working as a bribe, the leg bone will 

persuade the dog 

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to fetch you the cell key. On leaving 'borrow the two 

envelopes from the shelf and open them to reveal all your possessions and 

mattress in your cell - you'll find a stick. Use it to get a leg bone from the 

a certain Mr Gorilla's. Head for... 

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Amble round to the side of the house and create a nuisance of yourself by banging 

the dusttnns. When the cook gives chase, head for the front of the mansion and 

then keep going round in order to lose the cook, Having done a complete circle. 

enter through the back door and take a fish from the basket. Leave both the room 

and the mansion, destination

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...The library. Open the top of the lighthouse and take the lens, then 

engage the librarian in conversation until you are the proud owner of a 

temporary library card. The card catalogue should aid you into making the 

following book choices: Book of He* found under Recipes, Great 

Shipwrecks - listed under Disasters and finally any other of your choice. Leg 

it over to... 

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stuck in it and walk up your makeshift stairway. Oh dear. That wasn't very 

clever, was it? Never mind • enjoy the trip. pick up the bits of oar and go back 

to town. 

...The first alley on the wharf. Watch the gambling then follow the lucky 

winner to the nest alley. Watch his routine and then, when he's left, knock 

on the door. Pay attention to the number of fingers the doorman holds up 

the first time (ignore the second lot) and give this as the password. Repeat 

this three times and you'll be rewarded with the Wheel of Fortune's lucky 

number. Return to the alley, place your bet and select the invitation to 

Governor Marley's Mardi Gras Party as your prize. 

„The mansion. Join in 

with the party-goers 

and try to escape 

with the map piece 

you can take off the 

wall. This attempt 

will fail but as a 

result of it you'll 

meet op with Elaine 

Marley. your es-love. 

Slip into your best 

smooth-talking mode 

until she throws the 

map piece away in a 

fit of passion. Now, 

panic... 

Pay a visit to the Booty Boutique and purchase the rusty saw, a 

ships horn and the sign on the wall. Us. the Parrot Chow bag on the 

hook that was holding the sign so that you can buy the mirror, 

Return to..,

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...Scabb Island. A visit to the Woodsmith should sort out 

the problem with the broken oar, after which you can 

call in on Wally and offer the lens to him to replace the 

monocle. Go to the Men of Low-Moral Fiber" and saw 

off the the first mans wooden leg - after which you 

need to beat a hasty retreat. On returning to the 

Woodsmith's abode, you discover that by pure coincidence 

he is absent. Take the opportunity to 'borrow' 

the hammer and nails. Go to the... 

—Mott Island. in a classic example of extreme sneakiness cover your face 

on the 'Wanted' poster with Kates leaflet. Head out of town and watch 

Kate get arrested. before returning back to town immediately and making 

a bee-line for the jail. Tait, the Vanilla envelope and extract the Near•Grog 

from it. Release Kate and go to... 

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Spitmaster . leaves, rearrange the flags and us. the straw in conjunction with the 

green concoction • which has the amazing property of being a spit-thickener. A 

few Herculean gobs will win you a plaque, which you can then sell to the 

Boutique Keeper for the not-to•be-spitted-at sum of 6000 Gold Pieces. Head for.- 

...Bloody Lip Bar and buy 

two drinks (a Yellow Beard's 

Baby and a Blue Whale) with 

the aid of your library card 

You should also get a free 

straw. Try your hand at the 

art of cocktail making by 

mixing the two together to 

form a green 'drink'. Grab 

the monkey after using the 

banana on the metronome. 

Another sea crossing will 

take you to... 

...The cliff edge. A spot of fishing with the pole should nab the piece of map 

off the ledge then follow the bird to the Big Tree. Use the plank along with 

your reinforced oar to reach the treehouse. Go into the biggest and use the 

dog on the pile of maps in order to gain your first piece of map. Now make 

your way to the highest treehouse where there is a telescope for the taking. 

...Governor Phatt's mansion. Fool the guard by telling him there's a fire in 

the kitchen and make haste up the stairs to the bedroom. Utilise the worth- 

less book you (legitimately) borrowed from the library with the one on the 

Governor's stomach and to-and-behold, you have a book of Famous Pirate 

Quotations. Go to... 

...Scabb isle. Use Stan's key to get the ashes from the crypt in 

the cemetery. Look up Rapp Scallion's quote in the book of 

Pirate Quotations and search for the coffin with the quote that 

matches. Open this coffin and take some of the ashes. Visit the 

Voodoo Lady. try to nab some Ash-2-Life from her shelves then 

hand over the ashes and the book on voodoo recipes when 

requested. Return to the cemetery and put the Ash-2-Life potion 

on the remainder of Rapp's ashes. Go to...

KEY SLAND 2 

...Phaft island. Give the fish to the fisherman in exchange for his fishing 

pole who said Guybrush never made any fair deals?!?) before sailing to... 

Bad c in the village, find out the shipwreck's coordinates by looking in the Great 

Shipwredis book. Charter Kate's boat and go to the coordinates mentioned on 

the map, Dive underwater to find the boat, take the monkey head from its 

prow and then strike for the surface using the anchor. Travel back to... 

...The waterfall. Walk to the top of the waterfall along the path where 

you'll find a pump. Use the monkey on it and walk back along the path, 

where you will suddenly find a larspa gaping hole. Walk down it, through 

the strange tunnel until you emerge into daylight again and see a... 

—lam Scallion's Weenie shack. Turn off the gas 

using the key you have been given. Now, return 

to Rap and resurrect him to get the final map 

piece. Bring all the pieces to Wally and do the 

errand he asks you to do. On returning you 

realise that he has been kidnapped by LeChuck. 

-.Booty island. Collect a leaflet from Kate, then go to Stan's Coffin Shop. 

remember him'- and ask to see a coffin. Stan jumps inside one, so slam the 

lid shut and nail it down. Steal the Crypt Key and collect your complimentary 

handkerchief off Stan while you're at it. Go to... 

...Booty island. Pay another visit to the boutique and exchange the monkey 

head for the second map piece. Go sea-faring eosin, this time to._ 

...Cottage. After trying to murder the pirate inhabitant you will have to settle 

for a drinking competition instead. Pour your grog onto the pot plant 

and fill your mug with near grog. As soon as the other pirate is 

-out 

of it, take the empty mug, place the mirror in the empty frame and 

completely 

open the shutters then adjourn outside. us; the telescope on the statue 

before returning inside and pushing the loose brick cunningly revealed to 

you. Down in the basement, take the third map piece and leave by the hole. 

Another sea trip is due, this time to... 

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Tune in to the third and final 

part to see the climactic showdown between 

Guybrush and LeChuck. Be there, pirate! 

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the tree. Climb it and when you 

reach about halfway up an energy 

bar will appear down the right-hand 

side of the screen. This is to indicate 

the energy of the big bird. Climb to 

the top left and attack the bird by 

jumping on its head. But beware - 

jumping on the wing will result in 

the loss of a heart! 

Once you have killed the bird you 

will receive an extra heart which 

means you can now be hit three 

times before you die You will also 

be given a code - make a note of this 

so you can enter it to restart from 

this point You will not be given 

those extra lives you spent so long 

collecting earlier though - you will 

have to recollect them. 

THE FREEZER 

Return to the stairs and enter the 

top right room - this takes you to 

the kitchen. Go to your left until you 

reach a door with the Addams 'A' 

symbol above it. Striking this block 

with your head gives you a clue, as 

all the 'A blocks do. 

Keep going left, grabbing the 

Super Gomez 'G' as you go. Upon 

entering the next section you are 

confronted by a bouncing snowman 

- time your jump so that you land on 

its head when its at the bottom of 

its jump. Carefully make your way 

right, collecting coins on the way. 

When you reach the next section 

the first thing to do is get across two 

pits with birds above them. Bounce 

off the birds to make the jumps, 

then proceed to the right collecting 

coins. When you reach the next section 

you will meet the rolling snowmen. 

Collect as many as possible 

without getting hit and proceed to 

the right until the end - you will 

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simply walk through the wall before 

the first heart. Exit the secret part 

the same way you entered it then 

proceed to the right. 

Go through the next section collecting 

hearts and coins where you 

will see another 'A' symbol above 

the door. Don't enter this door yet, 

instead run towards the right wall 

and just before you reach it duck 

down_ You will slide under the wall 

into a section containing hearts and 

coins. Collect them all and drop 

through the bottom of the room to 

come Out above the door. 

ICE, ICE BABY!! 

Enter the doorway and you will be 

confronted by a big snowman. You 

can only hurt him when he is in the 

snowman form. If you attempt to 

lump on him in snowball form you 

lose a heart. Wait until he is a snowman 

then bounce on his head once, 

then run to the left. Dodge the 

snowball he throws. He will then roll 

towards you. Dodge the icicles that 

drop when he hits the wall. He will 

then roll towards you again. Jump 

over him and as he regains his snowman 

form jump on his head again. 

Repeat this until he is destroyed - 

you will then gain another heart 

and entry code. 

On defeating the snowman the 

right hand side of the screen will 

become an exit - go through it. You 

TO THE BIG TREE 

will then be at the door where you 

entered the freezer. Continue to the 

right and exit the kitchen. You will 

be back at the stairway. 

THE 

CONSERVATORY 

Enter the bottom right room which 

is the conservatory. Proceed to the 

right, until you come across some 

red plant pots. Stand on the bottom 

right pot and pull down. You 

then 4 enter a secret room containing 

coins, Will a heart and a speed-14i 

Collect them, drop through out of 

the room and go .right. You wilr 

come to another pair of shoes and 

a platform to your left. You will now 

enter another secret room with 

three rows of four coins. It will look 

like you cannot reach the upper two

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that blocks appear under your feet. 

Collect all coins and exit the room at 

the top right-hand corner. 

Go right and try to ecollect 

all of 

the coins. You will then reach a platform 

with a coin, a heart and an 

on/off switch. You get 4to 

the platform 

by jumping on and bouncing 

off a bird. Collect the coins and turn 

the switch to off_ Go ; right and go 

through the first door you come to. 

Go right until you come to a pit 

full of purple birds 'with 

a hole 

underneath. Drop through the hole, 

collect the coins and go back left 

until you come to a ' switch underneath 

a platform. To get to this 

switch you must fall down the righthand 

side of the platform 1 onto the 

spikes but as you reach them a platform 

will appear. Now walk left 

through the wall and hit the switch. ‘ 

Walk a little to the right until Gomez 

is hidden from view, and then jump 

up. Carry on to your left until you 

come to a door on a platform , above. 

Go through it. 

There is a switch above your head 

- do not hit this but bounce off the 

rabbit in front of you to make this 

jump. Go right collecting all the pickups. 

There will be some coins that 

look out of reach. Below the bottom 

coins there is a hidden block. Hit the 

next switch and carry on to your 

right until you reach the next switch 

- hit this also. At the end of the level 

there are ropes - you must jump 

from rope to rope without hitting 

the spikes above and below you. 

Enter the door to the far right. 

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MASTERING THE 

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The room you now enter is a small 

maze. You must hit the first switch 

which is located in the top right corner. 

Drop down and go left and you 

will find a heart and a switch. Collect 

the heart and hit the switch, drop 

through to the right and go left, 

drop down again and collect the 

coins, hit the switch, jump back up 

and go right. Fall down the righthand 

side and go right. 

You are now in a small section 

which contains several extra lives but 

getting them is not easy. First you 

must kill the creature in front of you 

then ignore the switch on the right 

hand side and hit the block that is 

two blocks to the left of the switch - 

it will disappear. Repeat this until you 

can get onto the platform above the 

switch. Stand above the switch and 

jump up. You will begin to reveal hidden 

blocks above - there are four. 

Return to the platform you just 

dropped from and at the end of this 

is antither hidden block. Jump to the 

platform Ntou have just created and 

make your way to the top, removing 

blocks on the left hand wall. There 

you will see a moving platform. Go 

on this and jump up filling blocks in 

above you. Duck when you see the 

switch above - hit this and a platform 

will appear below you. Jump up 

onto the switch and jump again and 

a block will appear above you. Get 

onto this block and jump left and 

drop down to the left. Collect your 

extra lives and drop to the very bottom 

and exit this room. Remember 

to hit the switch at the bottom right 

to open the door - go right and exit. 

NEXT MONTH: Part Two, of course! Doh!

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Forget playing about 

with trains - Sid's lat- 

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the Future of 

Mankind! A weighty 

responsibility, 

indeed, which is why 

you should find these 

copious tips a boon! 

START 

BUILDING! 

First off, it has to be said that there's 

no right or wrong way of playing 

Civilization - it's all down to the individual 

player. The most enjoyable 

level to play on is Warlord Level with 

four competing civilisations. Pick 

your tribe wisely as each leader has 

different tendencies, e.g. Genghis 

Khan (Mongols) can be expected to 

be very aggressive at the expense of 

the development of his own cities 

but Mao Tse-Tung (Chinese) is generally 

concerned with building a 

strong civilisation and doesn't seek 

to expand aggressively. The leader 

biographies can be found in the 

manual pages 112-115. 

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always an advantage to have the 

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begins, • the worse you can expect 

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your starting position to be Several 

advances may mean that enemy 

civilisations are starting nearby, that 

you are distant from rivers or grasslands 

or that you are on a small continent. 

Starting with a few or no 

advances indicates that either your 

economic position is good or enemies 

are distant, or both. 

To speed play, turn off the Palace 

and Animations options from the 

game menu. To go even faster, turn 

off the option to watch enemy 

movements. 

UNIT FACTORS 

The earliest units you acquire should 

be selected for defensive, offensive 

and mobility factors Your first two 

militia or other military units should 

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be used to defend your city but use 

more mobile units to open up the 

frontiers of your civilisation. Fortify 

the units on the city because these 

units can only be destroyed one at 

a time. If you fortify them elsewhere 

then even with two or more units to 

a square a single enemy unit could 

destroy them all in one move. 

Whenever a unit becomes old 

through new technologies always 

replace it for a more capable unit. 

It's pointless paying for and feeding 

an older unit when more capable 

ones are available. For example, 

replace the Cavalry unit for a Knight 

unit when they become available. 

Across the World there are minor 

tribes. Moving onto them can uncover 

wealth, wisdom, friendly tribes or 

angry barbarians. Because of the barbarians 

you should only move onto 

these squares with a military unit 

with a high defensive factor. 

A way to avoid this if exploring 

along the coast is:- As long as the 

tribe is in clear terrain, land adjacent 

to the tribe with a unit that has two 

movement points. On the following 

turn, move your unit into the tribe's 

square. If a horde of barbarians is 

uncovered, immediately move the 

unit back onto the ship before the 

barbarians get a chance to attack. 

When the technology arises you 

will be able to set sail, first of all in 

Trirernes, These ships are not deep 

water vessels and can be lost at sea 

very easily so it's a good idea to 

keep them near to the coast. 

However, if you get the opportunity 

to get to the nearest unexplored 

land mass, do so but try not to stay 

in deep water for too long. On the 

ships you are exploring with, you 

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should carry other units, namely a 

Diplomat, Settler and a strong military 

unit. With all these units you 

gin cope with any the problems that 

arise - barbarians (military unit), 

other civilisations (diplomat) or 

empty continents (settlers). 

PLAY THE 

GAME! 

You can play Civilisation defensively 

or offensively but will usually end up 

doing both. Start off by building up 

your defences and technologies and 

making peace treaties with other 

civilisations (do this so you can put all 

your energies into new technologies 

and building more military units). 

Keep a Diplomat or two in enemy 

territory even while at peace. If one 

of the enemy's cities goes into disorder, 

your Diplomat can run in and 

cause a revolt. If you can afford to 

subvert the city, the revolt doesn't 

break any peace you may have 

established. In addition, you get 

control of the city's units, some cash 

and possibly a civilisation advance. 

This strategy is only viable if you 

have a sizable treasury and strong 

economy. 

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To destroy an unwanted city, especially 

one that you have captured 

and that is hard to defend, take the 

following steps:- Create as many 

entertainers/taxmen/scientists as you 

can in the city, thus reducing food 

productton and thereby starving the 

population. When the city gets to a 

population of one, build a Settler

a 

unit and the city will be destroyed. 

If a city has nothing better to 

build, have it build Caravans. They 

can be moved to another city, 

change their home city and then be 

used to establish a trade route to the 

new city. They can also be stockpiled 

for later use in the speedy construction 

of a newly discovered Wonder. 

WAR! HUH! 

When a neighbouring civilisation 

becomes a threat or a problem you 

will need to open hostilities. Before 

you do this, however, you should get 

an idea of the enemy's technology 

level. To do this, you'll need to estal}lish 

an embassy in an enemy city (use 

a diplomat for this) If the enemy is 

more technologically advanced than 

you, you might consider postponing 

your aggression until you are more 

evenly matched. You can catch up 

with the enemy in one of five ways: 

1) Concentrate on research, building 

libraries and universities and devoting 

a larger proportion of your revenue 

to scientific research. 

(2) Exchange technologies with 

friendly civilisations (preferably not 

with the one you are about to go 

into war with). 

(3) Build the Great Library Wonder; 

any time two other civilisations 

obtain the same advance, it becomes 

yours as well. 

(4) Steal the technology by the way 

of a diplomat. 

(5) Spread some of your units around 

inside their territory The proximity 

of your units may compel them to 

switch from a Republican government 

to a Monarchy, slowing down 

their research. 

If you wish to capture a city, don't 

move into it if its population is only 

one. Sit outside and wait for it to 

grow to two before entering. A 

defended city, not containing City 

Walls, must be three or higher for it 

to survive being captured because 

the destruction of each defending 

unit also destroys one point of population. 

When you are at 

war don't be afraid 

to take a breather 

during a long campaign. 

You can go 

too far, exhausting your 

resources and your peoples 

willingness to fight. 

From time to time your 

enemies will offer to 

make peace with you. If 

need be, accept the 

treaty and use the time 

to rebuild your combat 

forces, replenish your 

treasury and increase the 

public's moral and support for 

your undertaking. During the 

respite from war place ships on 

sentry outside enemy harbours, 

post troops along land borders and 

fortify units around enemy cities. 

Have diplomats ready to undertake 

spy and sabotage missions as soon as 

hostilities are resumed. 

Later on in the game you will be 

faced by the nuclear dilemma, either 

because your use of nuclear weapons 

will lose you points in the game or 

that an enemy, after threatening 

you, says "Our words are backed up 

by nuclear weapons!". This should 

be carefully and warily heeded. 

Though an enemy is unlikely to use 

nuclear weapons, it's a good idea to 

build an SDI over your capital or 

other important cities. Use of nuclear 

weapons hastens the world 

toward global warming and polar 

melting. If you use nuclear weapons 

you should have plenty of settler 

units in readiness to clean up the 

mess Nuclear warheads are best 

used as deterrents, never as tools. 

ALMOST 

THERE.- 

If nearing the end of the game and 

you are not being threatened, get 

cities building nothing of use to produce 

SDI Defence improvements. 

Once finished these can be immediately 

sold for 200 coins. If several cities 

are doing this, you can use this income 

to completely fund your civilisation. 

Toward the end of a game in 

whirl, you are doing very well, you 

may be able to dramatically 

•ncrease your Luxury and/or 

Science Rates. If 

you can fund your 

civilisation a s 

mentioned above 

or if you have a 

treasury try cutting 

your Tax Rate 

to 0%. If you then 

raise your Luxury 

Rate, many of 

your cities will celebrate 

We Love 

The King Days, 

thus adding a new 

population point 

each turn. Increased science rates 

will generate faster discoveries of 

future technology. Both new populations 

and future technologies 

increase your civilisation score. 

PAYS TO BE A 

WINNER 

There are two ways to win in 

Civilisation: either defeat all the 

other civilisations (this may not be 

possible as they may be as strong as 

you) or win the space race to Alpha 

Centauri. To win the the space race 

you must complete the Apollo 

SiTo 

Program Wonder. After this you will 

be able to build parts for your spaceship, 

i.e. SS STRUCTURE, SS MODULE 

and SS COMPONENT. 

Your goal is to build a spaceship 

that can hold as many colonists as 

possible, yet travel at a reasonable 

speed and with a reasonable probability 

of success. As construction proceeds 

keep an eye on its characteristics 

(POPULATION, SUPPORT, 

ENERGY, FUEL, FLIGHT TIME and 

PROB. OF 

-100% 

or above). 

SUCCE The more propulsion units your 

SS starship has, the faster it reaches 

aAlpha l Centauri. l The more colonists 

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to deliver Alpha 

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the more your starship's 

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mass. Try to install two propulsion 

units for every complete colonist 

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package - habitation, life support 

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and solar power modules - you 

intend to launch. 

While starship building, keep an eye on 

your capital!! Losing it brings your interstellar 

program to a very quick close. Also, 

watch the clock - you must reach Alpha 

Centauri before your reign expires. If 

other civilisations launch before you do, 

you should make a mad dash for their capital 

in hope of capturing it before their 

starship reaches its destination. Finally, 

don't launch unless your ETA at Alpha 

Centabri is less than 20 years. If it is 

more thamthat, add more fuel and 

propulsion units. 

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Huzzah! It's time to 

visit that section of 

the KillZone devoted 

to those cheats and 

hints just too damn 

small and cuddly to 

get into the mag anywhere 

else. PLUS Dr 

Upchurch opens up 

the Games Surgery 

once again and treats 

some deserving (and 

some not-so-deserv- 

ing) cases. 

EPIC (ocean) 

We printed fairly copious tips to this 

short but sweet space extravaganza 

a couple of months back but only a 

few of the passcodes. For those of 

you who want to know how to skip 

to your favourite level here's the full 

nine passwords: 

1- AURIGA 

2- CEPHEUS 

3- APUS 

4- MUSCA 

5- PYXIS 

6- CETUS 

7- FORNAX 

8- CAELUM 

9- CORVUS 

Incidentally, if you're finding the 

Epic Missions, given away on last 

month's coverdisk, a bit tricky then 

try this: Hold down the right SHIFT 

key and slowly type in NEM YDID 

EHT (followed by ENTER). If you've 

done it correctly you should hear a 

ping. Now tap C to instantly complete 

the mission. 

ORK (Psygnosis) 

Okay, so perhaps it's not the most 

exciting game that Psygnosis have 

ever released but one thing's for 

definite - it's one of their toughest. 

If you've bought it then you'll fully 

appreciate this little cheat: Enter a 

computer and press FIRE in each of 

the four corners of the screen. 

Then try hitting the following keys 

- A (to replenish your ammo). F (to 

top up your fuel), H (to got your 

health back) or ENTER on the keypad 

(to take off or land anywhere). 

Smart! 

PROJECT-X 

(Team 17) 

Yes! Yet another cheats-stroke-hint 

for Project-X, without a doubt the 

best Amiga blaster ever! 

So you can't get past the Level 2 

Guardian, yeah? Well, when the big 

boy first appears it'll dive at you and 

fly to the bottom-left corner of the 

screen. Quickly fly to the very topright 

corner of the screen and fire 

your lasers like they're going out of 

fashion. Now, relax and prepare for 

the Bonus Level. As Rig Daddy used 

to say, "Easy! Easy! Easy!" 

'._ALY SPY (Hit Squad) 

"Now, Mr Bond, prepare to die." 

"Not sho fasht, Blofeld." 

Oh, they're great those old James 

Bond films, aren't they? Where 

would ITV be on Bank Holidays without 

'em? If you fancy a bit of Bondlike 

action then you could do a lot 

worse than Sly Spy, just re-released 

on budget. However if you find the 

going hard then for infinite energy 

try typing in 007 as your code then 

SHAKEN NOT STIRRED (followed by 

ENTER) during play. 

WINE 

WFIESTLEMANIA 

(Ocean) 

Okay, okay, so it's not that good a 

game but you may get a giggle out 

of this little tippette. Start off by 

going into two-player practice 

mode. Get one player to clamber on 

top of the top-left turnbuckle and 

get the other player as near to the 

samecorner as possible. Now make 

the player on the turnbuckle drop 

and kick the other player. Your 

wrestler has now turned into a 

ghost! Watch in amazement as he 

walks through the ropes! Get him to 

pick up the chair and bring it into 

the ring. Tap ESCAPE and try competing 

for the belt. Wonder of wonders 

the chair is still in the ring and 

ready for using!

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Level 3 of the Catacombs where 

rve reached a room full of pressure 

pads that I just can't get past. rye 

put items on the pads in every 

combination and pattern I can 

think of but no luck. Am I doing 

something wrong? Please help - I'm 

going crazy! 

Yours desperately, 

Darren McCall, 

Romford. 

I think I know what you're 

talking about, Mr McCall. 

As you enter the room 

you should see a door 

opposite you and three 

row of three pads on the 

floor, yes? On the first 

row (right in front of you 

as you enter) put an item 

on the left pad and the 

right pad. On the next 

row put an item on the 

middle pad. On the last 

row (in front of the exit) put an 

item on all three pads. The door 

should now open. Does that help 

you? By the way, in the next series 

of chambers beware illusionary 

walls - there are hundreds of them! 

Dear Dr Upchurch, 

I really hope you can help me with 

this big problem! I can't complete 

any level of DRAGON'S LAIR and I 

was hoping that you could tell me 

how you do it. I would love to complete 

this great game. 

Best regards, 

Mr Bomber, 

Norway. 

Sadly, Mr 'Bomber', I lack the space, 

the time or indeed the inclination 

to print a full solution to this crim- 

\ GAMES SUMER' 

Doctor Upchurch: "The Surgery's particularly busy this month, Nurse." 

Nurse Ratched: "It certainly is, Doctor. News of your games-solving 

brilliance is spreading across the country like chronic nappy rash across a 

baby's backside. You're an inspiration to us all, Sir." 

Doctor Upchurch: "Yes, I suppose I am. But enough dawdling. Please send 

the first patient in, Nurse, and be quick about it." 

Ratched (Thinks) "Sigh! What a guy!" 

Ily unplayable game. However, I 

can provide you with a cheat that'll 

automatically play the whole game 

right up to the end scene before 

your very eyes - you should then be 

able to glean some hints as to what 

to do in your various predicaments 

by watching it. To access this cheat, 

start the game as normal and when 

Dirk has crossed over the bridge 

hold down the keys ESC, R, /, L, N 

and 7 all at the same time. The 

Amiga will now take over. 

Dear Doctor, 

Pleasy-weasy help me with the 

game HOOK. I'm totally stuck 

because I cannot get Jake drunk so 

that I can steal his trousers. Also, 

how do I get the magnet? Please 

help me. 

Yours extra faithfully, 

lee Stokes, 

MacDuff, 

Scotland. 

To get Jake drunk you have to give 

him three mugs of beer which you 

buy from the barkeeper and to do 

this you need good or gold. Go to 

the dentist and ask him to pull your 

teeth twice - each time you'll be 

rewarded with a gold tooth with 

which you can get two foaming 

jars. To get the third piece of beer. 

buying gold check the pockets of 

the jacket you steal from the 

clothes line. To get the magnet you 

have to find yet more cash • try 

looking in the pots on Hook's ship. 

Dear Doc, 

Could you please help me with my 

problem? I badly need a cheat for 

LAST NINJA 2. It would be great If 

you could help me regain my sanity. 

After all, you are a doc. 

Yours faithfully, 

Basil Al-Rawi, 

Co. Kildare, Ireland. 

I am a 'doc' but unfortunately I am 

not a miracle worker. According to 

my sources there are NO cheats for 

this aging Oriental action/adventure. 

You have my sincerest sympathies. 

Dear Doc Dave, 

I have only had THE SECRET OF 

MONKEY ISLAND two weeks. 

Could you please print the replies 

to the Svvordmaster's insults so 

that I can beat him 

Yours, 

Dave Shah, 

Streatham 

Young people are so impatient 

these days. I suspect it's the influence 

of that appalling MTV that 

young 'kids' seem to find so enjoyable. 

Anyway, Mr Shah, about your 

'problem'. I'm afraid I refuse to 

print all the insult replies so that 

you can sail through the game. 

Instead, let me offer you some 

advice about playing the game... 

Get some money and buy swordfighting 

lessons. If the tutor claims 

you aren't good enough insist that 

you are until he lets you in. Then, 

once your lessons are over, stand 

around and pick fights with any 

pirates who happen to pass by. 

Keep fighting until you've heard all 

the correct insult replies then try 

fighting the Svvordmaster. Good 

day, Mr Shah and remember: Hard 

work never hurt anyone. 

Dear Doctor Upchurch, 

I've just bought LURE OF THE 

TEMPTRESS. It looks like it'll be a 

great game. I say it looks like it will 

be because I've got a small problem 

- I can't escape from the cell 

right at the beginning! I've set fire 

to my bed and run out when the 

Skorl Guard comes in to inspect it. 

Trouble is, there doesn't seem to 

be any way out of the dungeon 

and the Guard keeps recapturing 

me. Please, please, please HELP! 

Regards, 

Michael Wilson, 

Chatter's. 

Oh dear, this is rather tragic. If 

you're having this much trouble so 

early on then Goodness knows how 

you'll cope with the rest of the 

game. Still, you should get good 

value for money from the game, at 

least! To stop the Guard recapturing 

you quickly lock the cell door 

behind you when you make your 

escape - he'll be held captive now. 

Now you have to find a way out of 

the dungeons. I don't want to give 

too much away, but basically you 

have to free Ratpouch and get him 

to push the loose bricks in one of 

the dungeon's rooms. The rest 

you'll just have to find out for yourself! 

THE SURGERY IS NOW 

CLOSED 

Bad breath? Fetid feet? 

Aromatic armpits? Ugh! Go 

away - Doctor Upchurch can't 

help you. However, if you're 

stuck on a game and need 

some medication BAD then he 

is most definitely the man to 

talk to. To make an appointment 

give full written details 

of your complaint and send 

them to: Or David Upchurch. 

Ltames Surgery. The One, 

Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon 

Lane, London ECM 3AU. Dr 

Upchurch regrets that he is 

unable to deal with problems 

over the phone because he's a 

grumpy old so-and-so at the 

best of times. 

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cannot power the deadly device - 

only the fabled Crystals of Armageddon 

are up to the lob. However, after 

Von Max's goons don't waste any 

time in trying to do away with 

Guy. As soon as he walks onto the 

Berlin subway platform in the first 

scene they open fire-, Not 

wanting to be outdone, Guy 

enthusiastically returns the 

compliment. A neat touch here is 

that the dead bodies don't disap- 

IJIISPY 

pear as is the case in many games; 

and the Crystals of Armageddon 

After the Dragon's Lair and Space Ace series, Readysoft has been 

strangely quiet. Now it's back, claiming to have a game with 

cartoon-quality graphics AND proper gameplay to boot! Shaken but 

not stirred, Richard Austin gets ready for some covert action... 

much research, the evil sausagemuncher 

has finally discovered the 

Crystals' hidden resting places and 

sent his henchmen to recover them. 

enter Guy Spy, the Secret Service's 

best agent, who's been called up to 

get the Crystals first and avert global 

catastrophe. The only thing Guy's 

got going for him is the fact that the 

Crystals are useless unless every single 

one has been collected, meaning 

if he can get to Just one of the crystals 

first... 

The makers of Guy Spy claim that 

the game "sets a new standard in 

adventure gaming excellence". 

Hmmm What it basically boils 

down to is a series of loosely-connected 

sub-games, each based 

around a particular game style. Guy's 

globe-trotting mission takes him 

through thirteen of these mini arcade 

sequences, including shoot-outs, 

beat-'em-ups, puzzle sections and the 

like. Off you go then._ 

One of Guys unwritten codes is that he cannot hit women. This proves to be 

a bit of a disadvantage as Olga. pictured here, has no qualms about giving 

Guy a hefty right-hander. The aim of the level is to outmanoeuvre Olga as 

quickly as possible so Guy can get out of the cabin and continue his chase 

after Von Max. Every time Guy gets hit he is forced back a step, though he 

can attempt to duck in order to avoid Olga's meaty palm. if Guy is continual- 

ly forced backwards, he'll be sent flying out of the cabin to his death. 

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Short, animated sequences such as 

these crop up throughout the game, 

They serve both as a brief introduction 

to the action and to connect all the 

levels together, thus furthering the 

plot and possibly giving you clues as 

to your mission. Fortunately, the manual 

contains a description of each 

scene in case you really don't have a 

clue what's going on.

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Interested to see how 

Guy's adventure shapes 

up during play? Then 

read on.... 

Guy receives a tip that Von Max is 

heading for the Berlin train station 

in order to make a break for 

Switzerland- Losing no time in getting 

to the station, he stops only 

to buy a ticket (I) before making 

his way down to the platform. 

Once there, Guy is surprised to find 

goons galore on the wrong side of 

the tracks, all trying to shorten his 

lifespan considerably. Here, he rolls 

madly across the floor in an 

attempt to avoid eating too much 

lead. The bullets leave their mark 

behind on the platform. 

Periodically, a train flashes across 

the screen, temporarily hiding Guy 

from the goons (and vice versa), 

giving everyone a chance to reposition 

themselves and gain the 

advantage, Unfortunately, none of 

the trains stop and give Guy the 

opportunity to make an early exit. 

Guy mercilessly wastes all the bad 

guys, conveniently resulting in the 

train that Guy needs arriving. Guy 

jumps on as the train heads into 

the mountains, impatient to 

continue his quest— 

The next destination on Guys 'World 

Tour' is Egypt. He runs into a large 

pyramid known to possess one of the 

fabled crystals, but unfortunately a 

maze prevents him from making easy 

progress. His task is made even more 

difficult by the many traps awaiting 

him, including spikes, doors that suddenly 

slam shut, holes in the ground 

that need to be jumped over in true 

Indiana Jones style, raging fires and 

creatures such as spiders and snakes. 

Guy's relief at getting out of the 

maze is short lived as he comes face 

to face with an Egyptian mummy 

intent on killing him. The battle 

involves not only brawn but also Clan- 

ni n g in trying to outmanoeuvre the 

mummy and get in a good position 

to slash the Hell out of him with your 

sword. Six levels down, only another 

seven to go... 

Chasing Von Max up a Swiss 

mountain, Guy finds that the gondola 

directly in front of him is filled with 

more gun-toting goons. A firefight 

between the two groups ensues, with 

Guy shooting out of the smashed 

windows, taking cover behind the 

wall to re loa d. Guy ha s to be quick to 

kill his e ne mie s, since the y ha ve the 

added advantage of possessing sticks 

of dynamite. If they manage to throw 

one of those in the cabin with Guy, 

then death is unavoidable. 

THE VEPriICT 

the big question is: Has Ready- 

ft finally produced gameplay to 

atch the quality of its cartoon 

aphics? And the answer is_ Well, 

, not really. If anything, first 

ppearances seem to indicate a back- 

ard step. The graphics, although in 

o way bad, don't seem as 

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mpressive as in previous Readysoft 

orts and, for some reason, the 

rtoon graphics just don't suit Guy 

py's slightly more 'serious' subject 

atter. Sound is nothing special, 

Ither. Admittedly, the gameplay 

AS been improved - it's much more 

teractive than the likes of Space 

ce - and the level structure permits 

varied mix of game styles. Almost 

verything in Guy Spy is similar to 

mething you've seen elsewhere, 

hich wouldn't be a particularly bad 

ing, but for the fact that they're all 

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stinctly average. You get the feeling that by trying to 

please everyone Readysoft have ended up pleasing no-one. 

The controls are sometimes finicky, often making matte 

overly difficult. A good example of this is the first level, 

where the already tricky task of aiming at the goons while 

avoiding enemy fire Is made unnece:sarily difficult by the 

juddering gunsight. This may be a realistic imitation of gun 

recoil, but it's still bloody annoying. This is all capped off by 

the poor manual, which contains elementary spelling and 

grammar mistakes, not to mention incorrect gamepiay 

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R E V I E W 

CAS1 

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David Upchurch dons 

his thinking cap and 

takes a cerebral journey 

into the Castle 

of Dr Brain 

Took all your GCSE's at the age 

S of 4, have a degree in Astro- 

o physics and are member of Mensa, 

yyeah? 

In that case, then. Sierra's lat- 

oest 

is probably a tad too easy for you 

u but for the rest of us mere mortals it 

tmay 

well prove a challenge. 

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Dr Brain is a famous but eccentric 

mad scientist who has the modest 

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aims of creating new inventions, sav- 

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ing the world and cleaning up his 

secret basement. However, for all his 

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genius he still needs an assistant. So. 

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responding to an ad in the local 

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paper, you decide to take up the 

'offer. 

To make sure he gets the best 

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e hallway. The door to the 

left requires a pass of 

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some sort to progress. At 

? the far end there's a 

strange console. To the 

right there's an open door 

- seems like the best place 

to explore first... 

assistant possible he has set a number 

of puzzles to be solved in the 

numerous rooms throughout his 

crazy castle. Complete all the rooms 

and you get the job. 

Sounds simple, right? Well, you're 

wrong because it's not at all. The 

puzzles come in all forms, from rela- 

%emit/ 

Ah, the computer room! The 

two massive terminals floating 

in the centre of the room 

are what's important here. 

That screen covered in the 

red writing gives obscure 

instructions on how to complete 

the puzzle on the adjacent 

screen. 

tively easy (on Novice level anyway) 

memory tests (Simon lives!) to logical 

brain-teasers to three-dimensional 

mazes. 

As I've already applied for the job 

why don't you all come along with 

me as I explore Dr Brain's Castle! Here 

we go... 

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It seems that the various 

components must be placed 

in the correct positions thus 

allowing the circuit to function. 

The clues to the order 

are are given on the adjacent 

terminal. Once completed 

this allows you to use the 

terminal on the right. 

(Below) A poor robot is trapped within 

the maze and it's your solemn duty 

to help it escape. However, it just 

stupidly trundles forward unless it 

bumps into a wall in which case it'll 

turn around. The only way to steer it 

is by activating/deactivating rotators 

on the floor. Green crosses are 

switches for the spiral teleporters 

which send you back to the start. 

Now this one here's a binary 

puzzle. The numbers in the 

left column must be 

represented in binary form 

by switching between one's 

and zero's. This can be done 

by trial and error as your 

current number is displayed 

In the right column.

:hity 

It 

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ry 

Hmmm... No way in. You haven't got a key and no-one's answering the doorbell 

although each time you press it a block in the arch lights up. A puzzle. 

perhaps? Pressing the block causes the sequence to repeat but with an extra 

colour. Sound familiar? Yep, it's like that old Simon game, and on completion 

you are rewarded with plaque and a hint coin 

You have entered a room filled with 

docks of all kinds. ',our gaze is dram to 

the four-button panel next to the cuckoo 

alalloglitiotamifit.„ 

Wa-hey-hey! Having 

completed these puzzles 

you are rewarded with a 

magnetic data pass which 

allows you into the robot 

maze room, where yet 

more brain-mangling 

conundrums await... 

How's this for a teaser? The elevator 

door at the far end will only open 

when you've punched in with your 

timecard. The timecards needed are 

no doubt in the drawer. However. 

the drawer won't open until the 

place is quiet. But the objects won't 

shut up until the correct sequence of 

buttons is entered on the remote 

control panel. And to top it all 

you've got a time limit! Phew! 

(Above) Once in the elevator you are 

told that you must navigate your 

way through a maze to the exit. 

Although in three-dimensions it is 

really quite easy (Novice level 

remember!) as there aren't that 

many dead ends. 

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To be honest I wasn't really expect- 

ing much from Castle of Dr Brain. The 

flash on the box reads "An adventure 

game to strain your brain" but its 

not really an adventure in usual 

sense, as there's no real chance to 

explore and the plot is inconsequen- 

tial. What there is, however, is a 

whole load of puzzles that come 

together surprisingly well and do 

actually make for an adventurish feel. 

The puzzles are widely varied in style 

and they're all surprisingly 

engrossing. Normally puzzle-type 

games suffer on the graphics front 

Not so Dr Brain; the backdrops been 

hand-painted and then digitised and 

this makes for some colourful and 

highly-attractive scenes. Being a 

Sierra game there's the inevitable 

disk accessing which can prove quite 

tedious at times; two drives are 

essential. That said the long wait 

between sections is often welcome, as it gives your grey 

matter a chance to cool down before it melts and dribbles 

slowly out of your ears. Dr Brain would make an ideal game 

for a younger player, as it's actually quite educational (yes, 

educational!) in play. Topics touched upon include chronolo- 

gy, astronomy, robotics (relax, you uon't need a engineering 

degree or anything), logic and maths. At last, all those of you 

who swindled your parents into buying an Amiga by saying 

"It'll help me at school!" have found the game to show off 

to them when they ask you how you're putting their hard- 

earned £399 to use. At the end of the day, Dr Brain will 

either appeal to you or it won't. I liked it 

Publisher: Sierra 

, sidetoper: in-house

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While S.S.I.'s Eye of the Beholder 

series appeals to a large audience 

and attracts those garners whose 

who have little or no RPG 

experience, the 'Gold Box' series of 

RPG's (of which this is one), howev- 

er, don't offer nothing to anyone 

who isn't a rabid DOW aficionado. 

The graphics are poor verging on the 

off-putting, with crude animation. 

sprites and 3D views, while the 

sound is probably best left 

unmentioned. Now, while I agree 

that these aesthetic factors are sec- 

ondary to good gameplay, easy con- 

trol system. absorbing plot, 

interesting characters, etc. etc, that 

is no reason to neglect them entirely. 

Used correctly, graphics and sound 

can increase a game's atmosphere 

ten-fold (the aforementioned 

Beholder games are proof enough of 

that) and atmosphere is one of the 

most important aspects of a decent 

RPG. Thing is, these games do sell 

and there's no doubt that Treasures 

will be snapped up by the same peo- 

ple who bought the last in the series 

and they'll be delighted with the 

chance to use their characters again 

(I know I would be) and continue the 

adventure. But the rest of us who 

are looking for something a bit more 

stimulating both visually and 

intellectually won't find it here. 

When travelling around the admittedly large fantasy world the view 

cuts from the pseudo-isometric one used in combat to this. As you 

can set graphics are in first-person 30 but they're very unimpressive. 

There's certainly precious little feeling that you're exploring an 

ancient city under the heel of the foul Zhentarim. 

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Khalid Howladar. Join him and U.S. Gold in 

searching for the myriad treasures of the 

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Gary Gygax created the Dungeons 

t' and Dragons universe, did he ever sus- 

s pect that it would eventually become 

tone 

of the biggest gaming phe- 

hnomenons 

of all time? I doubt it. Any- 

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effort has not been 

put into the other 

areas of the game, 

reinforcements and are heading back 

to their stronghold of Llorkh, The 

enslaved dwarves of Llorich desperately 

need help to mount a rebellion and 

guess who's sprung to mind? Vep, 

you've guessed it. And it's not Lassie, 

let's put it that way. 

S 5.1. (obviously not wishing to get 

stuck in a rut) has employed a wide 

range of styles to convey the wonders 

of the 080 world, ranging from the 

first-person view of Eye of the Beholder 

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cerer. Treasures of the Savage Frontier 

can best be described as the bastard 

offspring of both these games as it features 

watered-down elements from 

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each character has a limited number of hit points and a range of weapons 

and spells to do battle with_ Combat ends when one party is either dead or 

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So will Vikings: Fjords of Conquest 

(mmm, good name) make up for this 

lack of Norse nutters on the Amiga? 

Probably not, actually. It's a strategy 

game in which you and up to five 

other friends (either computer or 

human) seek to conquer the poor, 

beleaguered British Isles and become 

King. Having landed and constructed 

a base fortress you set your beady 

gaze upon the surrounding territo- 

There are eight different types of troops available in the game. Each possesses 

differing skills for use during battle. Archers have two attacks per turn 

compared to one for crossbowmen but they're not as accurate. Pikerrien are 

twice as effective in defensive situations as they are in OffetliSiVe ones and 

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fort the aggressor 

must first break 

through its walls. 

Catapults are needed 

for this along with 

missile troops to keep 

the defending missile 

troops occupied. If left 

alone. the enemy 

archers will constantly 

attack the catapults. 

slowly but surely 

reducing their effectiveness. 

As a wail is 

destroyed the percentage 

effectiveness of 

your troops should 

they storm the walls 

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ties. However, the other five lords are 

doing the same and it's inevitable 

that your mutual predatory aims will 

lead to eventual hostilities. 

Like a boardgame, the players take 

turns to act, with each 'go' split into 

several parts in which you can 

address the various aspects of warmongering: 

taxing or feeding your 

ever loyal subjects, building or 

improving fortifications, creating or 

beefing up existing armies and, of 

course, invading neighbouring territories 

with the aim of kicking the 

butts of all those who stand in the 

way of your own special brand of 

peace and justice. 

Most of your time will be spe nt 

on the ma p screen from which 

you control the a ction, so le t's 

take a look a t it sha ll we ? Each of 

your a rmy units has fifte e n da ys 

available for va rious a ctions, each of 

which has a time 'cost'. For example, 

camping costs one day, while force d 

march ga ins, da y. Crossing the ma p 

takes va rying a mounts of time 

depending on the na ture of the 

terrain. 

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of te rra in to cross a nd generally 

only uses up a fe w days, 

unless it be longs to one of your neighbours. 

in this case the y'll proba bly 

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1.Arrhy Orde rs - Used to give those a ll importa nt commands to your 

marauding horde s. 

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value, popula tion a nd othe r such tidbits. Howe ve r one thing it doe sn't te ll 

you is how ma ny • if a ny - opposing soldie rs the re a re . 

3. Ore production - Shows a mounts of va lua ble ore s produce d. 

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mine is constructe d this substa ntia lly 

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i.e . more ta x revenue. 

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similarity to other strategy games such 

as Carthage and Cinemaware's classics 

Defender of the Crown and Lords of 

the Rising Sun. However, these all 

managed to generate an absorbing 

, atmosphere by good use of graphic 

scenes and music. Vikings, 

unfortunately, lacks such aesthetic 

frills and sadly there's little feeling of 

actually being a Viking lord attempt- 

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David Upchurch, who is to an athletics track what a tramp is to 

personal hygiene, is probably the least qualified of The One's boys 

to review Ocean's new Olympics game. But his was the name first 

out of the hat so tough on him. Get sweaty, lardbutti 

(Right) ludo is one 

of the more complex 

sports on offer in 

Espana: The Games 

'92, with eight combat 

moves available. 

However, for an 

experienced gamer 

It's still pretty simple 

stuff and once 

you've got your athlete 

up to a reasonable 

fitness you 

should have little 

problem beating the 

opposition. 

Okay, how about Ocean's 

y ou Espana: want The value Games for '92 money? then? 

It'll let you compete in just about any 

event you care to name. All the track 

and field events are present in full 

(including things like the shot putt, the 

javelin, the high jump and so on), 

there's all manner of swimming and 

diving shenanigans and on top of that 

there's boxing, wrestling, judo and 

fencing fun to be had. All in all, there 

are over thirty individual events to 

compete in Wow! 

But there's more to the game than 

madly waggling a joystick to pedal 

your sprite around the screen faster 

than the computer can. You see, 

there's a simplistic 'team management 

section too, where you 

have pick out the athletes from your 

team best suited to compete in the various 

events and then train them up so 

that they're at peak fitness on the big 

day. 

But the question is: have Ocean 

opted for quantity at the expense of 

quality? You'd better read on to find 

out, hadn't you? 

(Right) The Reference Section is the 

game's most appealing element by a 

long chalk. Here you can read up on 

the history of the Olympic Games 

from ancient times to the modern 

day, find out who has won the van. 

ous events since the Games started 

and even get information on the stadia 

and courses (including maps and 

diagrams) that were used in this 

year's Barcelona Olympics. 

Comprehensive is not the word, 

(Left) This is your office. You'll pass 

through it a lot in the course of the 

game. From here you can access all 

the games important 'departments', 

including the medical room, the 

exercise room, the athletes' files, the 

Save/Load Game screen and, of 

course, the various sporting arenas. 

For fun you can try clicking on the 

objects littering the room to see 

what happens, i.e. click on the fan to 

start it whirring or on the pens to 

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of the whole team. Clicking 

on a portrait then brings up a 

screen like this, detailing the selected 

athlete's strengths and which 

events he or she is eligible to enter_ 

Let's stick with the luscious Kin and 

train her up... 

"pinto the medical room Here you 

ilLican get up to all sorts of scalpelrelated 

larks- You can even bring up 

Kiri's K-Rays Phwoar, look at that 

bone structure! But on to more serious 

matters... A click on the oscilloscope 

reveals that Kiri's Stamina 

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In the exercise room you can set 

the athlete training at anything 

from nothing to a maximum of 

three hours per day. The athlete will 

then work out at this rate every day 

until told by you to do otherwise. 

Best keep an eye on them as the 

days go by to make sure that you're 

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two weeks before the Games so that 

they're fit to compete. You can, if 

you wish, fast forward past the train- 

ing straight to the Games but your 

athlete will be so feeble that their 

chances of winning will be minimal. 

In training, there are only two things 

hours per day the athlete spends 

working out and the amount of prac- 

tice they do. Since the doctor in the 

medical room will quite happily tell 

you exactly what you have to do to 

get your athlete up to peak efficiency 

there isn't a lot of hard decision mak- 

ing Involved, and the ar:tual process 

of taking your athlete out for practice 

runs (or whatever) every day until the 

Games is tediotis to say the least. And 

though the number -)f events covered 

Is impressive, they're all fundamental- 

ly simplistic rhythmic 

joystick waggiers with 

little subtlety or lasting 

Interest. That the best 

acpect of the whole 

package is the Olympics 

database probably says 

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of the game as a whole 

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Howladar must return to the world of 

KaraftIOCtri to defeat the evil Maletoth 

once and for all. Will Psygnosis finally 

get the tricky mix of beat-iem-up action 

and brain-aching puzzles right this time? 

summer for block-buster 

E veryone sequels. knows We've that got Batman this is the 2, 

Lethal Weapon 3 and Alien 3 at the 

cinema and now we've got Beast 3 

on the Amiga Not content with one 

sequel, Psygnosis have taken a leaf 

out of Hollywood's book and decided 

to make the Beast series a trilogy. 

The lead character is no longer a 

monster (rumour has it he was 

charging too much to reprise his 

role) and is now fully human, this 

being his reward for defeating the 

evil Archmage Zelek in Beast 2. Has 

also looks not a little unlike Indiana 

Jones, so he did pretty well out of 

the deal. 

It appears our hero has turned his 

attention to the Beast Lord Maletoth. 

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He's had it his way for just far too 

long and the time has come to end 

his foul evil reign once and for all. 

Basically what this entails is advanc 

-ing your way across four scrolly levels 

filled with all of manner of esoteric 

puzzles and exotic beasties, all 

out to do you some serious damage. 

(Or are they...') 

Developers Reflections have listened 

to the critics of the first two 

games. While the first was criticised 

for its shallowness the second was 

berated for its obscure puzzles- This 

third instalment to the Beast series 

boasts a more 'player friendly' arcade 

adventure element to complement 

the rugged beat-'em-UP action. 

So, the question is: Will Psygnosis 

be third time lucky with Beast 37 

Let's find out, shall we? 

The guardians in this game are reall t h • r e d Mutha is 

found after a long hard trek at the en e Forest level. As you advance 

onto the screen the music increases in o , building up the tension. He 

then swoops down, wings flapping ominously. The larger monsters Hike 

this) invariably guard the end of the level or a useful object. 

,ne of the more unus 

al puzzles present in the gan 

and comes in two part 

Almost all of us have had a go 

on a sliding block puzzle at 

one time in our lives so this 

one should really prove no 

problem. However unlike suth 

games as Terminator 2 and 

Back To the Future 2 (more 

sequels!), the picture when 

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twisted people up 

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these— 'things'... are in 

he service of the Beast 

Lord and so guard the 

way onwards. Attempt 

to pass under the 

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their heads off and 

hurl them at you. But 

don't think its over yet 

They then grow back so 

they can do it again. 

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Progressing further we come 

across a bizarre aquarium infested 

with all manner of exotic fish 

Attempting to wade throw. 

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bons by the piranha-thingies. 

ther exploration yields a little co 

trol booth which allows you 1, 

control a movable fish tank with 

which you can - would you believe 

• move fish between tanks. But 

tor what purpose? (Clue: Remember 

the sliding-puzzle diagram...?) 

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This is the end-oflevel 

guardian on 

the Castle level. He 

swirogs his mace at 

varying heights so 

lightning reflexes 

are a must if you're 

to dodge his blows 

AND return fire 

with your shuriken. 

The shun ken have a 

limited range so 

don't think you can 

sit back and pound 

him from a 

distance. The re a re 

also hammers to 

collect but they are 

used to move 

objects around 

(each hit knocks 

the object along) 

and this feature is 

vital for solving the 

numerous 

problems. 

Past the headless monsters' bridge you come to a cliff face. As Yazz said 

"The only way is up!". Standing on the branches causes them to flex 

which then gives you that extra spring needed to get higher. On the top 

branch is a bird's nest; disturb this and the mother bird will feel threatened 

and attack. 

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The way forward is that ledge far to the left. 

Trying to leap from the edge of the platform 

leads to a horrible death on the spikes below. 

The switch causes the platform to swing to the 

left, but unfortunately the counterbalances pull 

It back to the to right. Use a heavy object of 

some kind to weigh it down, perhaps? 

Dropping into a pit, you find yourself trapped. The door to 

the right is sealed and one of the two switches is out of 

reach. Pulling the only one available opens the sluice gates 

allowing a deluge of water to pour through. Your character 

doesn't float and being a bit of a wimp can't swim and so 

drowns. The table, however, does float. Every object in the 

game, no matter how insignificant it may be, has a use. Even 

bits of scenery prove useful, and just because you've used it 

once doesn't mean you can't use it again. 

(Left and below) A problem (depending on how you looked at it) 

with Beast 2 was the fact that it was very open. It was just one 

large level and the puzzles could be attempted (though not 

solved) in any order. The average gamer found this difficult to 

handle and hence encountered problems. This time round the 

game is split into four themed levels, Caves. Forest (pi 

here). Castle and Temple. At certain locations during the level a 

ghostly Spectre appears telling you what you need to do to 

progress, be it twenty pieces of gold or a vial of red elixir.

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Gore is becoming a common feature in computer games 

nowadays. Not that I'm a bloodthirsty maniac or anything 

but a bit of excessive bloodspurting action always 

goes down well (Total Recall, anyone?). Within the 

Forest level you encounter a Pygmy village complete 

with huts, watchtower, campfire, girlscouts, etc. 

Needless to say they prefer strangers to be cooked 

before they get to know them better... 

Cascading spheres begin to fall once you 

arrive at the entrance to the Castle. It is 

quite nicely done: the shiny balls drop into 

the bucket from above, and being hinged, it 

then tips over and pours the balls onto any 

unwary adventurers (although if you do 

manage to miss this, you probably need 

your eyes checked). Obviously, then, that 

bucket must be destroyed! 

Here we have yet another example of Reflections' warped imaginations, 

The pulsating 'things (quite a useful word that) lie dormant, 

nestling within the branches. As you approach however, they slowly 

begin to expand and then explode, releasing masses of purple 

ooze (for want of a better word) in your general direction. 

Needless to say that should they come into contact with your character 

you suffer a serious energy level drain. 

R E V I E W 

THE VERDICT 

It's difficult to mix two genres and 

make the resulting game work, the tendency 

being for it to fall between two 

stools and hence not really appeal to 

fans of either game style. In Beast 

case I'm pleased to say (and I bet y 

saw this coming) that Psygnosis and 

Reflections can be justly proud of Beast 

3 - they've got the mix just right. 

There's enough action and eye-popping 

gore to satisfy even the most jaded 

arcade-orientated gamester, and a 

sharp eye and a quick hand are needed 

if you're going to make it past some of 

e tougher nasties. However, brawn 

istone won't suffice and some of the 

puzzles are quite complex and difficult 

to fathom. Trial and error along with a 

bit of careful thought should see you 

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through and once you've completed a puzzle you'll be k 

yourself for not seeing the solution earlier. Apart from provid- 

ing a bit more satisfaction the problems add longevity to the 

game ensuring that you'll be playing it for quite a while. The 

graphics are of the usual high Psygnosis standard with some 

superbly animated and imaginatively dr_awn sprites. The colours 

chosen look good and contribute to the aesthetic feel of the 

themed levels. Sound is also impressive and serves to enhance 

the dense atmosphere still further. A nice touch is the way the 

music becomes more dramatic when reaching a particularly 

important point of the game, such as an end-of-level guardian. 

All these elements combine to produce a highly-playable game 

that should provide ideal entertainment for garners looking to 

exercise their minds as well as their joysticks. Highly recom 

-mended - this Beast is the best by far!


SOME CLASSIC 

FOOTY MOMENTS! 

Crikey! Twenty lucky readers will win a 

Match Of The Day video PLUS a copy of the 

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pop in one hand and the remote control in the other, 

flicking around the channels desperately trying to 

catch the highlights from the fourteen top matches 

which the TV companies, in their infinite wisdom, 

have decided to schedule at the same time. 

You know if you ask me, footy on the telly hasn't 

been the same since Aunty Beeb took good or Match 

Of The Day off the air. Every Saturday night that 

famous theme tune rang out - Dah-dah-dah-duuhdadah-dah-dah-duuuh 

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the week's top matches. Ah, memories. 

But now, thanks to Zeppelin Games, you can enjoy 

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those lovely zippy Zep boys are giving away a video 

of classic Match Of The Day moments PLUS (as if that 

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you've got to do now is win the compom 

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You, lucky devil that you are, have been chosen as 

The One's team manager. What you've got to do is 

decide who's going to play for us and where and 

why. The players can be any top character from the 

wacky world of games. 

Being a five-a-side game you have to pick five 

players (obviously): two to go in attack, two to go in 

defence and a keeper. Maybe you'd have LeChuck in 

goal because he'd scare 

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the net. Or how about 

putting Zool in attack 

because he's so nippy on 

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most amusing reasons why and thus decide who 

wins. Got that? Good - get thinking! 

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MATCWSTATS Your judgement will be put to the test 

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cheap° action! There's more than enough stuff to satisfy the pocket-conscious Amiga 

gamer this month, including a Rainbow Islands clone, a pair of fine re-releases, the 

latest elephantine release from those Masters of Code and, in what must be a new com- 

pilation record, no less than 30 sporting events packed into one bulging box from US 

Gold. So tarry no longer, stout yeoman! Venture forth into the budget wilderness. We'll 

be right behind you.— 

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Atlantis £7.99 

Clones of successful games are nothing 

new. In fact, they're incredibly common. 

So, who wants a blatant rip-off 

of Rainbow Islands? Well, that' what 

you've got with Erik. 

Erik is an uninspiring platform romp 

in which everything has been done 

before - only better. As in Rainbow 

Islands, Erik must make his way 

through four vertically scrolling worlds, 

killing numerous cute creatures and 

collecting the crystals they leave 

behind. The crystals award either 

points or cash, the latter to be spent 

in shops to upgrade your weapons. 

The panel showing score, hi-score, 

world number and so on is just like 

Rainbow Islands. and shooting certain 

parts of the 'air' results in extras 

appearing. Sound familiar? Also, you 

can collect bubbles that spell out the 

word 'BONUS', too- Oh yes, each world 

is split up into sub-levels (1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 

etc) and at the end of each world 

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about and the sound is equally unexciting. 

The gameplay's not too bad 

although it can be frustrating at times; 

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To tell the truth. I can't see any point 

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NARCO POLICE 

GBH £7.99 

Narco Police is probably best 

described as a cross between Operation 

Wolf and Dungeon Master. Well, 

Operation Wolf moving through 3D 

tunnels, at least. Set in 2003, the 

story tells of a world in which a fifth 

of the population are addicted to 

drugs and the drug barons are in control 

of everything. In desperation, the 

Narco Police, a crack drug-busting 

unit, have been set up in an effort to 

eliminate the drug market by destroying 

its nerve centre, a major processing 

laboratory just off the coast of 

Colombia. 

The mission is split into two distinct 

stages. The first involves sending your 

men onto the island, battling through 

access tunnels in order to reach the 

centre point of the island. In the second 

section, you must fight your way 

around the lab itself in order to plant 

the bombs necessary to blow up the 

complex. The task isn't easy, with 

armed guards, commandos, electronic 

systems, tanks and gun emplacements 

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' wboys, street gangs and even the And though its four levels are unlike- 

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here the relevant family member to seasoned platformers, there's 

s been trapped - each one is more than enough to justify-the out- 

, fended by the obligatory outsize lay. It's by no means a classic but it' 

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equipment have to be chosen and this 

plays a major part in the game, since 

ammunition, medical kits, transporters 

to contact reserve men and so 

on are all limited in supply. 

The graphics are reasonable - 

though the 3E) is a bit ropey in places 

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screens thrown in for good measure. 

The music at the beginning of the 

game is atmospheric, and the sound 

FX are impressive on the whole - the 

gunfire noise makes is worth a mention 

of its own. The gameplay is 

enjoyable, if a little difficult at first. All 

in all, this is is a fun game that is definitely 

worth checking Out if you are 

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The Hit Squad 

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'You're busted 

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hollers 

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have to put up with any more of its 

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without making too 

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shame, because it's actually a really 

good laugh, sporting some of the 

nicest high-res graphics I've seen, top 

blasting fun from start to finish and 

even a worthwhile message behind the 

scenario, i.e. winners don't use drugs, 

etc, etc. 

Ocean'; conversion, however, is a 

rather tawdry affair. In it, two narcotics 

cops Hit Man (I) and Max Force (II) get 

tooled up and take to the streets to 

bring down Mr Big and his powderpeddling 

enterprise. Forget search warrants 

and departmental procedure - 

here justice is delivered by blasting your 

way through twelve levels of horizontally-scrolling 

mayhem on the streets, 

in the subways and eventually the drug 

refineries themselves. Armed with a 

lethal machine gun/rocket launcher 

contraption, your aim is to take down

as many of the bad guys (easily recognisable 

by their long brown trenchcoats) 

and seize as much of the coke as 

possible 

Gameplay-wise, it's a little like a 

beat-'ern-up with guns - just blast 

away at everything in sight and keep 

on moving from left to right. Now all 

this is fine in theory, but in practice it's 

a lot more tricky and a hell of a lot less 

fun. The main problem is caused by the 

rabid alsatians that constantly attack 

you • they can only be shot by crouching 

down, and whenever one bites you 

it forces you to stand up, so when they 

attack in packs (as they most often do), 

it's almost impossible to defend yourself 

and you end up dying very quickly, 

very unfairly and very frustratingly_ 

When kitted out with some power-ups 

for your weapons, like the rapid autofire, 

you can put up a fight for a short 

time, but when they run out its back 

to throwing the joystick at the screen 

and storming off in a huff for the 

umpteenth time. 

It's a real shame because technically 

the game is fast, slick and actually 

quite impressive. It's one of those 

games that looks like it really could be 

a lot of fun, so it's all the more frustrating 

when you find that a collection 

of silly mistakes have made it little more 

than an exercise in aggravation. Fans 

of the coin-op would most definitely 

NOT be impressed, even at this price 

48% 

MEGA SPORTS 

US Gold £25.99 

''Aaailieeel PC attack!" Sorry to get 

over-excited so soon but can you 

blame me? Mega Sports comes supplied 

on no less than SEVEN disks along 

with a chunky manual Such a pile of 

plastic is something of a novelty for an 

Amiga compilation but the reason is 

simple: there are a total of five complete 

games included in the pack - 

Summer Games 1 and 2, Winter 

Games. The Games: Winter Edition and 

California Games. 

These games are a mixture of rereleased 

product and others getting 

their first airing. It will probably come 

as no great surprise that this package 

is devoted entirely to sporty pastimes 

and, with the exception of California 

Games (the sequel to which was 

reviewed last issue), nearly all the 

events take place in an Olympic Arena. 

What? You think this pack was 

released simply to cash in on the 

Barcelona Olympics? Surely not! Stop 

being so cynical! 

But enough of the waffle. All the 

games are presented in true Epyx style 

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16, 

Last month Andrew Braybrook, coder extraordinaire, described 

the laying of the the first binary foundation stones to his lat- 

est opus - Uridium 2, the long-awaited sequel to his classic 

Commodore 64 blaster. Having got his super-sexy, 32-colours, 

50-frames-per-second scrolling routine up and running, 

Andrew continues his saga here - and remember, it's only in 

The One! 

PART TWO - JUNE/JULY 

Uridium 2, in my mind's eye, has to 

start where the first Uridium left off. 

All the playability from the original 

C64 game has to be there - the speed, 

the dynamics. etc - but that must be 

the starting point, not the finish. I 

have to add to that. Certainly the 

graphics can be brought up to date 

but new features must be incorporated 

too, and overall the game must 

be much bigger. 

The old adage that a sequel has to 

be at least 237 times better than 

the original to be perceived as better 

at all is certainly true. I'll not pretend 

that this is going to be easy. In order 

to give me the best chance of mak- 

ing this game stand out, decisions 

must be made now as to the hardware 

requirements of this game. In 

order to get speed out of the Amiga 

I don't want to be limited by thoughts 

of how to make this run on other, less 

capable machines. Only the Amiga 

version matters. 

Also. I think I'm going to need 

more than 512K, so it may be a 1M1a- 

Only game. I know that many of you 

have upgraded your 512K machines 

with extra RAM - anyone who hasn't 

yet ought to seriously consider it as 

many more games will be corning out 

for the larger machines. After all, an 

extra 512K can be bought for around 

120 - less than the cost of one game! 

Monday June 22nd 

Today has been a day of optimisation 

and consolidation. Rather than developing 

any new code I wanted to speed 

up certain functions within Uridium 

2. For example, every time a bullet is 

fired, the fire routine asks our operating 

system for some memory to 

store the bullet's position, speed, etc, 

in, 

As with all operating systems, no 

matter how well written, this is a bit 

of a slow process. It's much better to 

have forty or fifty blocks of memory 

ready and waiting in a list so that 

when you want to fire a bullet it just 

says "NEXT!" rather than "Excuse me, 

Mr Operating System, but would you 

mind awfully sparing a little of your 

valuable time..." etc, etc. It may not 

seem much now but it could mean I 

can run a couple more objects around 

if I keep the code as lean as possible 

I've also put in the score printing 

routines using multi-tasking so that 

even if both players' scores need 

updating, the actual printing of the 

score is done whenever there's a 

spare moment rather than immediately, 

which could cause a crisis if the 

game is getting busy. This would 

manifest itself as a 'glitch' or shudder 

as the game failed to complete 

all the processing required within one 

fiftieth of a second. 

Uridium 2 is also the first ever 

game I've done with a simultaneous 

two-player option, so it's a bit of a 

tangle working out which score to 

update. One Manta ship leads while 

the other plays wing-man, but the 

lead Manta could be either Player One 

or Player Two, each with a separate 

score. The bullets fired by each must 

be tagged to say who fired them so 

that when an enemy ship is 

destroyed, it knows whose bullet did 

it 

Phillip Williams, the graphics 

artist, has just finished all 46 of 

the Manta's animation frames, 

in 16 colours only, on Cyber-

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paint 2. I now have to convert the 

graphics to IFF format and load them 

into DPaint so that I can convert 

them to 32 colours. Our palette at 

the moment consists of four colour 

series in six shades. Trying to get all 

32 colours Onto any one sprite will 

be difficult but at least we can get 

different combinations onto various 

objects. We have a green series, a 

blue series, some red/orange/yellow 

explosions and some garish purples, 

'Whatever happened to good old 

grey? I'll talk him into it somehow. 

Tuesday June 23rd 

No work on Uridium 2 today, it was 

a fiery, icy day. 

Wednesday June 24th 

One of the problems with the 

Amiga's 32-colour mode is that I've 

never done anything with that many 

colours before. And, although I've 

written the plot routines to run in 

16- or 32-colour mode ('cos I like to 

think ahead), we have no graphics 

for 32 colours and only one art package 

that can cope, i.e, one copy of 

DPaint. 

I drew a font in 16 colours using 

the ever faithful font book for Fire & 

Ice that never got used. This seemed 

like a good opportunity to add a few 

more colours to it using a procedure 

which goes something like this: 

(1) Load the ,NE0 format picture 

into CyberPaint on the 4 Mega ST. 

(2) Save the picture out as a .1 

file , which is nearly the same as a 

.NEO. 11 

(3) Move the sloppy disk to the PC 

and run a conversion utility to change 

the picture to DPaint-compatible IFF 

format. 

(4) Move the sloppy disk to the 

Amiga and load it into DPaint. 

Finally I get to play with real pixels! 

I added about another eight 

colours onto the font. Of course, 

everybody complains that they 

can't read it. I'm just putting the 

font in as a series of sprite images so 

that I don't have to write a new print 

routine. This should allow for a more 

dynamic title sequence. 

Thursday June 25th 

In order to cut down on the work 

done every fiftieth of a second I'll 

have to be careful not to move too 

much at once when printing text. 

Once a letter has stopped moving I 

can fix it in the background and then 

forget about it. 

The closest analogy I can think of 

is that if you have twenty police cars 

patrolling a town and you want to 

make it look like more, you drive 

them to specific locations, drop off 

your policemen, and get out the fullsize 

cardboard cut-out police car. You 

then drive the real car away to the 

next site. This gives the illusion of 

having more than twenty police cars. 

Of course, hot pursuit in the cardboard 

cut-out is not a good idea. In 

fact the idea is so far-fetched it could 

never happen in real life. 

Friday hone 26th 

Found out most of how to get a PAL 

Amiga 500Plus to think it's an NTSC 

machine. You can do it by doctoring 

the circuit board with a couple of 

well-placed wires and an optional 

switch. An easier way is to phone 

Tony Crowther, who will tell you to 

hit the register at WWI DC with... 

Well something. A bit of experimentation 

soon finds out at least one 

value that works. 

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(Above) Gosh, look at those explosions! 

These are what you'll see 

when the Manta crashes, to 

though you may be sulking, you'll 

have something nice to look at. 

(Above left) The big mothership, 

originally to be the craft that 

dropped off the Manta at the start 

of the level, may now be used as 

an end-of-level baddy. 

(Left) The new graphics have 

already mad. the world of 

difference to tilridium 2's physical 

appearance - its already looking 

like a polished game. Note the 

tank and Uridimine launcher in the 

centre of the screen, two nestles 

that are already functioning. 

I'm one of those people that likes 

to get each bit of code working perfectly 

before going on to the next bit, 

so if something goes wrong there's 

a good chance it was down to the 

code that I'm working on at the 

moment. Sometimes though you 

need a lot of code to test a new feature 

out. Let me elaborate... 

I've just finished the score printing 

routine which I need for debugging 

information (I just get it to print 

any number of interest rather than 

the score) but... In order to test that 

I need to be able to really score 

points, so... I need bullets to fire 

(which are done) and I need a target 

to shoot at. Rather than code all of 

• efOltIN e 

The old adage 

that a sequel has to 

be at least 237 times 

better than the 

original to be 

perceived as better 

at all is certainly 

true. 5 5 

the enemy ship formation routines I 

have set up my cursor to be an 

enemy bullet and an enemy ship, so 

I can shoot it for points or run into 

it to test the explosion routines. 

Monday June 2fOth 

Took delivery of some explosion 

graphics and a large mine, which I 

used as a Undimine, a device used to 

chase unwanted players away from 

the nice friendly alien motherships. 

Having three different sets of explosions 

means that we can make the 

explosions more varied, mixing 

frames, choosing random sets and 

seeding small explosions from big• 

ger ones.

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(Left and below) Andrew's recently 

added a hangar roof to the 

background graphics - the Manta 

can pass under the grille for a neat 

3D effect. The result's certainly 

impressive 

below, , in you can see the second ship 

tinside h e the hangar - but getting it 

to t wwork o has caused Andrew no end 

of - aggravation. Notice also the 

first p l aenemy y ships, which are 

attacking e r in firing to preset 

spatterns. 

Currently, this is all there 

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of the background to see - it's 

obasically t just a short toothed used 

to make sure everything's function- 

ing correctly. The proper 

background designs will be implemented 

at a later stage. 

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(Lift) The man himself when 

Andrew came down for the photo- 

shoot, he thought he'd squeeze in 

a quick plug by wearing a Fire & 

Ice T-shirt. unfortunately we decided 

to cut out the actual logo - if 

you want an ad in this mag. you'll 

have to pay like everyone else. So 

there. 

(Above) The Manta is hotly 

pursued by the games first set of 

flying meanies_ Note the craters in 

the background ships hull - in the 

final version there will be dozens 

of destructable surface features. 

Tuesday June 30th 

Put in the drop-off ship which Phillip 

has been working on. It's 96-pixels 

square and the player's ship or ships 

are launched from a rear hatch, ready 

for battle. The drop-off ship then runs 

for cover. It looks best in darkish, 

moody greys so I think I've finally 

talked him into getting the greys into 

the game. Nag, nag, nag. 

Wednesday July 1st 

The problem with wanting to just try 

things out is that you write the code 

quickly because you want to see 

results. Then you think of things that 

you can't do with what you've written 

so you have to rewrite it. A game 

with five different game modes and 

three different control methods per 

MINIEM10011110( 

player, able to detect possibly both 

devices while playing a demo game, 

amongst other things, becomes a 

right tangled mess. And it's watching 

for a change of those options as 

well. Coupled with the editor on the 

PC crashing at an important moment, 

all this made for a confusing day. And 

the game doesn't look any different 

apart from an animated high score 

display. 

Thursday July 2nd 

Put in an option select screen so I can 

see if the game is playing the same 

game as I think I've selected, with all 

the right control modes. it is. Wow! 

Spent the rest of the morning designing 

the data layouts for the enemy 

ship formations. All features from the 

original Uridium must be incorporated 

plus enough room to add extra 

features. By the end of the day I had 

two formations, one of three ships 

and one of five, created, moving, firing, 

being shot, and purging if too 

far away from the player(s). All that 

took at least a fortnight to write 

and debug in the original game. 

Wonder if the boss will give me 

the next two weeks off? 

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Got my new keyboard to play 

with No, not a Peavey DPM3SE plus 

super synthesizer but a 287,000-key 

PC keyboard, with sensible function 

keys down the side where you can 

get them SHIFTed or ALTed with one 

hand. What a good idea_ I'm sure our 

original PC XTs could do that five 

years ago, then some bright spark 

thought: "Let's move all the F-keys 

to the top where they're really awkward 

to get at!" Brilliant! 

Friday July 3rd 

Black Friday. Today the first hardware 

sprite graphics got drawn - the 

enemy ship bullets. But can I get this 

brute of a computer to display them? 

All I get is a strip of garbage down 

the screen, Those routines all worked 

in Fire & Ice. What is it that I don't 

understand about this? I'll have to 

take this slowly and just test one 

image at a time, I'm sure it's a hardware 

problem. I hate leaving problems 

to solve overnight, let alone 

over a weekend. My mind just works 

overtime and I get cross. 

Monday July 6th 

As I suspected - and I'd been planning 

the test to prove this all weekend 

- the sprites displayed get their 

size and position from the first two 

words of the display data. These are, 

in fact, nothing to do with size and 

position, which it was told about earlier. 

This all worked in Fire & Ice so 

why doesn't it work here? Well, I'm 

fed up with it. And what do I do with 

code that I'm fed up with? Throw it 

away and write something better. 

So, for the first time I now have a 

sprite multiplexor on the Amiga that 

allows me to re-use the three 15colour 

hardware sprites that aren't 

already busy. "Not much spectacular 

about that," I hear you say. But 

this routine has a contingency plan. 

Since the hardware sprites are being 

used for enemy bullets it would be 

a blow if some flickered, or worse, 

didn't get displayed at all, i.e. the 

Shot-By-Invisible-Bullet syndrome. 

What my routine does is use the 

hardware sprites as best it can and 

any that don't fit which would disappear 

are converted to normal blitter 

objects. I never thought I'd ever 

do something as ridiculous as that 

after all, it's a technique used by the 

AmigaDos graphics library. For an 

encore I've put in some background 

collision detection so that player bullets 

and the player ship stop when 

they hit walls or other tall objects. 

Tuesday July 7th 

Worked on our disk system to make 

it more AmigaDos friendly. Failed_ 

Went to see the great rock band 

Spinal Tap at the Albert Hall. 

Wednesday July Oth 

What a band! Great atmo- 

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sphere, had a marvellous time. Go, 

Nigel, Go! In the absence of our 

wayward graphics artist and going 

by the old saying "If a job's worth 

doing, it's worth doing yourself" I 

got Out the old DPaint disk and had 

a play with some spinning circles for 

a coming-out-of-Hyperspace effect. 

I thought I'd write an eight-line BASIC 

program to generate some co-ordinates 

using sines and cosines but 

could I get it to work? Fallback mode 

consisted of some paper, a pencil, a 

calculator, and a Braybrook-canround-a-negative-number-betterthan-a-grotty-BASIC-program 

frame 

of mind! 

Thursday July 0th 

Still no graphics artist. Apparently 

he's on holiday_ Looks like I'll have 

to do the graphics myself again 

today. I nearly shuffled all the colours 

in the palette and remapped all the 

graphics to that palette, just to get 

better shadow effects, then I thought 

better of it. The shadows cast in the 

game at the moment are fairly subtle. 

Had I gone ahead with the palette 

changes they'd have been about as 

subtle as Rambo catching butterflies. 

Friday July 10th 

I've been thinking about Monday's 

sprite multiplexor all week. The data 

to plot is stored in hardware sprite 

format, so if it gets overloaded it has 

to convert the data to Witter format 

and plot it the slow way. So just 

when it's busy it has to do even more 

work, This is not clever. Against that 

the data is nice and compact. If I 

store the data in Witter format, when 

it gets overloaded the data is all 

ready to plot, and when it's not busy 

it has time to unravel the data and 

convert it to hardware sprite format, 

which has to get copied to another 

place for display purposes. It's more 

efficient in my head - whether it is in 

the game is more difficult to tell. 

Monday July 13th 

Gary had us all staring at the screen 

watching for what he 

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graphic momentarily 

said changing wand a then s changing back 

aagain. 

This is, of course, impossible. 

Only he could see it, and despite 

many times saying "Look! It did it 

again!", nobody else spotted it. Time 

to get him certified. I reckon. 

The main changes today have 

been in darkening the colours in the 

palette and doing the shadows in 

black, This is by no means elegant of 

code, fleet of foot or pretty as a picture 

but it is more striking and is in 

to stay. 

Tuesday July 14th 

Something was stomping all over 

some important data tables in memory. 

It took only a few seconds to 

realise what was happening, but the 

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real question was "Why?" It's one of 

those esituations 

where any feature 

added k that afternoon could have 

caused t it, which was a blow because 

I'd only i added one new feature and 

that hadn't t been executed yet. Desperation 

i says that a line of code 

somewhere v has gone AWOL so 

restore o it from yesterday's backup 

and it'll L go away. It didn't! 

Just by luck on one test run the 

game lived a little longer, time 

enough for me to spot that the shadow 

plotter wasn't working and a 

blob appeared on the control panel 

in the shape of a shadow. 

My new feature required a change 

to an important data table that causes 

all routines to be re-assembled, 

and the shadow plotter was a new 

one that missed that process. But, 

although I now know why it was 

going wrong. I don't really know 

how. I suppose it doesn't matter, 'cos 

it's fixed now. 

The new feature was a system for 

fast targetting by homing missiles. 

Say you had a tin-can fetish and 

wanted to find all the different ones 

in Tesco's. Rather than search through 

all the aisles, it would be nice if there 

was a map by the door showing 

where the cans were. So Tesco's is 

the list of all objects in the game, the 

cans are enemy targets, and the 

fetishist is the homing missiles being 

launched. Easy, eh? 

The other major addition today is 

an animation for player bullets hitting 

walls, another use for the hard- 

(Left) A selection of the latest 

Manta sprites - it's possible the 

final ones will have less bright 

colour schemes. The frames in the 

bottom half of the screen show 

the ship turning into a 

Transformer-like robot • it's possible 

this feature will be included in 

the game for when the ship lands 

at the end of a level. 

ware sprite multi-plexor. And I've got 

it doing the Manta jet bursts as well, 

Glad I wrote that one. 

Wednesday July 15th 

Discovery of the day: "move.w 

ccr,c14" is not a real 68000 instruction 

at all, contrary to my reference 

book. It's only implemented on 

68010 CPUs or better. Getting hold 

of something as simple as the carry 

flag for later reference without suddenly 

destroying it becomes a major 

problem. All I Want to do is see if the 

player has tripped over a 10.000point 

boundary to award a bonus 

life. How difficult can it be? 

Put in a hangar roof for the player 

to fly under to give the game a 3D 

look. This led to problems • the homing 

mines must also go under the 

roof (easy) but not take short cuts 

through walls (tricky). The homing 

mines were not doing any background 

collision detection. Now, at 

least, you can give them the slip by 

hiding behind walls. 

Thursday July 16th 

Bad day for the interleaved plotter 

(the routine plotting most of the 

objects using the blitter)_ I found two 

cases where an object is partially off 

screen and the background doesn't 

get restored where it was, 

A kludge fix can isolate that case 

and compensate but the whole thing 

needs a rewrite. It's bad news 

because nearly all the other specialised 

plot routines are based on it. 

NEXT MONTH! 

Will Andrew manage to fix his plotting routine or will a kludge 

suffice? Hold on to your potatoes - you'll find out next issue!

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QUICK MONEY 

Public Domain (512K). 

Assassins Disk 23. 

No-so-far into the future, a new 

sport has been devised to keep the 

increasingly blood-thirsty TV viewing 

masses from channel hopping. 

It's hard. It's fast. It's deadly. Its 

Quick Money. In vast maze-like arenas, 

competitors compete one-onone 

for the ultimate prize - survival.., 

and a huge cash prize! 

Quick Money is a game for two 

players. The aim? Hunt down the 

other player and kill 'ern. Things are 

made more complex by the random 

appearance of semi-intelligent 

drones which mill about the metallic 

alleyways. And that's it, really. 

Ali. - _ _ _ _ _ 

Brilliantly simple, simply brilliant. 

The most appealing things about 

Quick Money is its slickness; the 

game screen is split horizontally 

We'vba 

d Assassins a compilation disks 

wsent hin othis 

month. Rather 

lthan e review all the games on 

weach edisk 

we've listed the 

ddisks g and their contents below 

and e given a single line 

comment o on each game unless 

they're f particularly good (or 

excruciatingly bad) in which 

case we've pulled them Out for 

a full review. Okay? 

Quick Money. See review elsewhere. 

Biplane 2 - See review elsewhere. 

Interferon - Playable Dr 

Mario/Tetris rip-off. 

Arcadia - Strictly average 

Arkanoid variant. 

Revenge of the Mutant Camels - 

Another Jeff Minter psychedelia 

explosion but not half as much 

fun as Llamatron. 

Nebula • Excellent 3D combat 

game (featured on this month's 

coverdisk), 

Croak • The best Frogger clone 

yet (featured on this month's 

coverdisk). 

Dux - Mildly amusing shooting 

gallery sim (also happens to be 

the secret bonus game in Gremlin's 

Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, 

trivia fans). 

3D Maze 

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a 

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middle, so that each player 

3 has a window on the action centred 

m around a their own ship. The 

speedy z e vertical scroll is as smooth 

. 

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E-Type - So-so updating of Asteroids 

with power ups and poor ship 

control (reviewed in the July issue 

of The One). 

Hernroids - Very bland and boring 

Asteroids clone. 

Copper - Another Arkanoid clone 

only marginally less interesting 

than Arcadia. 

Mr Brick - See review elsewhere. 

Mr Wobbly Leg versus the Invaders 

from Space - Space Invaders for 

the '90s... the 1890s, that is. 

ASSi 

Super Pacman - Attractive but notvery-playable 

Pacman 'tribute' 

(reviewed in the August issue of 

The One). 

Smash TV - Brilliant rip-off of the 

classic blaster marred by incredibly 

low difficulty quotient (reviewed 

in the May issue of The One). 

Ashido - A puzzle/boardgame, 

decent but drab. 

Bally 3 - A primitive-looking but 

playable version of Zolyx. 

Peg - Basically Towers of Hanoi. 

'Nuff said. 

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becomes dull a lot quicker than it 

ought to. A one-player option and 

some really aggressive computer 

drones wouldn't have been a bad 

idea, either. As it stands Quick 

Money is a good game that could've 

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been great if only the authors had 

spent a bit more time on it. 

BIPLANES 2 

Public Domain (512K)- 


On the title screen of Biplanes 2 the 

author reveals that the game was 

inspired by an old Intellivision cart. 

For those of you who don't remember, 

the Intellivision (along with the 

Atari VCS and the ColecoVision) was 

one of the primitive consoles that 

started the whole home computer 

entertainment biz way back at the 

dawn of the 80s. It's good to see 

that some of the young whippersnappers 

programming today still 

have respect for their roots. 

Anyway, Biplanes 2 (subtitled The 

Salmon-Pink Max) is a single-screen, 

side-viewed air combat game. The 

aim is simply to fly your little prop 

plane around the screen and get 

the other guy before he gets you. 

The big deal here is whereas the 

first Biplanes game was a twotplayer 

head-to-header only, this game 

has been radically improved by the 

addition of a player-versus-computer 

option. It's a prime example 

of quality Public Domain - bright, 

colourful, refreshingly shallow, 

immensely playable and great fun. 

You wouldn't pay E25.99 for it but, 

then again, you're not being asked 

to. Well worth making a part of 

your PD collection, 

MR BRICK 

Public Domain (512K). 


What a tragic little affair. If Miner 

Willy saw this he'd turn in his grave. 

It's only when you see a shoddy 

travesty of a platform game like this 

that you realise how good things 

like The Addams Family and Fire & 

Ice really are. 

The aim is to guide the Mario-ish 

Mr Brick around the platforms and 

ladders, over the water pits and deadly 

piles of gravel (!), in a quest to 

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recover all the magic coins before 

heading for the level exit. Sounds 

okay, you're thinking. 

But you haven't seen Mr Brick in 

action. If you looked up "Unplayable" 

in the dictionary it'd say "See under 

'Mr Brick 

— like a constipated snail, only coming 

. to life when he performs his strange- 

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you must be reading my mind! - 

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the pot up a bit there are various 

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to collect - the usual, in other 

words. 

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PD Z O N E 

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1 Jameson and the Central 

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which appeared in The One. 

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is available from any Central 

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withdrawn from our library. 1111 

for all its monochromatic limitations 

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appeared on Amiga. A pretty 

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PART ONE - 

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2, Which sex are you? 

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Upchurch, your 

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Female 

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CD player 

I 1 [ I 1Mb RAM expansion 

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Amiga? 

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CD-ROM drive 

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Monitor 

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Fl High-street chainstore 

A3000 A m i g a CDTV 

Independent retailer 

Mail order 

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you own or intend to buy in the next six months? 14. Which, if any, of the following computers/ 

consoles do you own? 

Own / Intend to buy 

H Atari ST 

IBM PC 

Arcade adventures 

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RPGs 

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One's coverdisks? 

magazine is split up? 

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One (1= rubbish; 10=-excellent): 

[_1 

Very good r i Good 

Okay r i Poor n Rubbish 

Cover 

Boot Sector 

News 

Letters 

Work In Progresses 

The Games Challenge 

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PD Zone 

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LEGACYLEGACY OF SORACEN 

HERO QUEST 2 (Gremlin) 

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went to a Motorhead concert 

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return to the sword-n'-sorcery world of Hero Quest, 

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an existing last thing that anybody'd expect. 

board game - In Motorhead the game, the player take5 on the role of Lemmy out of 

the only similar- Motorhead, whose mission is to re-assemble the other members of the band 

ity is the Hero so that they can play a gig at the end of the game. There's one waiting at 

Quest game the end of each scrolling beat-'em-up level - but getting to them won't be 

engine, which easy. Each stage is based on a different musical styre, including Nashville, 

Gremlin hopes Rave and Karaoke (1), with baddies tailored to suit the theme. So in the Rave 

will form the level, for instance, you have spaced-out dancers floating up to you and try- 

basis not just for ing to bite you. 

Legacy of Sora- Fortunately you can fight back by picking up bottles of whisky and cans 

cen but for a of lager, which bestow you with super bad breath (yes, this is all true, hon- 

whole series of est) as well as a special smart bomb in the form of a gorgeous dolly bird 

12S 

Dk 

isometric-3D 

RPGs to come 

over the next 

couple of years 

who comes on and stuns 

all the baddies into submission. 

We kid you not... 

There's also a selection 

, 

That engine, as 

of bizarre bonus levels, 

including a 'smash the 

you might expeLt, has ",! been considerably revamped for this new outing, 

which will see the player leading his adventurous party (selected from eight 

standard RPG types) 11 through a number of scenarios (there should be around 

a dozen of them) created by an ex-Games Workshop RPG designer. 

The lack of any constrictions 4 

imposed by board game conversion has 

allowed Soracen's programmers to be much more ambitious in their 

approach to the game. Not only have the graphics been given a noticeable 

facelift, but the gameplay and control systems have been radically rethought 

too, hopefully producing 

a system that's as flexible 

as advanced role-players 

need it to be, but simple 4 j i * 

enough for first-time 

players to get their heads I 

round. That sounds like T i r 

just the sort of thing the ) C 1 

genre could do with to . 0 

us. Come November, ) 

we'll see if the finished • g i 

product lives up to the rIn 

vc orotv D e x 

team's bold claims, .11 

1 

, 

hotel bedroom' scene 

without which no rock-n'roll 

game would be complete, 

but it's unlikely that 

the game will feature any 

of Motorhead's marvellous 

melodies. To make up 

for it, negotiations are 

underway to bundle a 

'greatest hits' cassette 

with the game, which 

should make for a pretty 

smart package. Oh, and 

the name's not yet set in 

stone either. One possible 

alternative title that's been 

put forward by Virgin is... 

Wait for it... lemmyings. 

We can hardly wait for 

November to roll around_ 

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Stemember Andrew Braybrook's 

Paradroid 50? That's the game 

where the player controls a 

small robot battling lots of bigger, 

tougher robots after they attack a 

group of innocent humans. Well. in 

Psygnosis* latest, Cytron, the player 

controls a small robot battling lots of 

bigger, tougher robots after they 

attack a group of innocent humans. 

. 'Talk about things that make you go 

"Hmmm..." 

Of course, it could be that any similarity 

between this game and Graftgold's 

classic is purely coincidental, 

and being the benevolent souls that 

we are, we're always willing to give 

the benefit of the doubt. The storyline 

goes that a gang of evil mechanoids 

have attacked and taken over an 

underground scientific complex for 

the purpose of stealing its priceless 

i materials. Sent in to deal with the bad guys and rescue the scientists is you, 

a state-of-the-art Cytron robot capable of splitting into two independent 

halves. This neat twist allows for a 'unique' dual control method whereby 

1 the player takes charge of both sections of the Cytron as they perform 

lr separate tasks. 

Presented from a plan-view perspective (hold on, isn't that a bit like...), 

Cytron is supposedly another of those thinking man's shoot-'em-ups. Apart 

from the 'split personality' element, the game features a wide range of 

OUTLANDER 

(Mindscape) 

every time some software chap trots out 

W yet another post-Apocalyptic game sce- 

e nario. "Society ha5 been obliterated.., small pockets 

c of civilisation remain.., you are the last hope 

for a humanity..." Zuzzz. It's not just that it's boring, 

n it's that it's so depressing. Outlander's as 

guilty ' as the rest of this, but at least it's got a better 

t excuse than most, as it's a hybrid product of 

Mindscape's h 

Mad Max licence, which the company's 

e had for ages but has yet to bear fruit. 

l One quick look at the game synopsis and it's 

not p difficult to see why Outlander was originally 

called Road Warrior (the name that Mad Max goes 

b 

by in the States). It's an action game split into two 

u 

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and a sideways-scrolling beat-'em-up. Between 

them, the two elements feature enough violence 

and destruction to keep the most psychotic headbanger 

happy, as the player (a government mercenary) 

ventures into the 'Outland' (a giant penal 

colony harbouring the world's most dangerous 

criminals after a biological disaster wipes Out half 

the planet's population) to rescue a kidnapped scientist, 

bolt-on weaponry, an interactive environment (you know, with switches 

and pressure pads and things) and console-style bonus tokens that do 

snazzy things like grant invincibility, freeze enemy robots and home in 

on the hostage scientists, 

"Cytron beats the opposition.., by half," blurts the emphatic press 

bumph. Well, if it's half as good as the game it seems to bear some striking 

similarities to, it should be a corker. Priced at £25.99, the game's out 

in October and with any luck will be reviewed next nth. 

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In true Mad Max style, the player gets to have 

point-blank battles with other cars while racing 

along the sun-scorched desert highways, and on 

foot kick seven shades out of the prison's criminals 

in the interspersed scrolling levels. It sounds 

like a cross between Max and Escape from New 

York to us, which of course is no bad thing_ Our 

appetite has certainly been whet - look out 

for the finished game in November.

PREVIEWS 

(Digital Integration) 

he flight simulation is one of those genres 

where, no matter how many games there 

are, there always seems to be room for just 

e more At least it'll always be that way so long 

companies like airborne stalwarts Digital inteation 

are around. The company that effectively 

ve birth to the genre in the early BOs with Fight- 

Pilot on the Spectrum are still trying to push that envelope. S time 

ith a simulation of the British multi-role aircraft that did so well kicking 

ass in the Gulf war. 

As you might expect from DI., Tornado's not the sort of game you pick 

p and learn to fly in five minutes flat, As ever, the emphasis has been 

laced on technical accuracy and, above all, detail. At its highest level, the 

me's variable landscape detail is reputedly the most "visually dense" 

t seen, including realistic fields, waterways, roads and rail lines, forests, 

e 

kouds. 

The aircraft itself has been recreated with the help of real Torna- 

eo 

aircrew, and comes with two cockpit views - the front seat for the pilot, 

s d the rear for the navigations/weapons man. 

a The game is mission-based, taking a pilot through a combat career that 

n gins with spending flight time in a simulated simulator (should be inter- 

d ting), through training and then a 'live' campaign comprising twenty mis- 

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k game, but since you make your own with it and the first one was 

W f ell such alright, a big success the game's amongst up. 3D the Construction gaming public, Kit we 2 isn't think exactly it's only a 

fair o that this should get some airtime, even if strictly-speaking it's an application 

r program. 

tOf 

course, no-one's really going to be fooled by Domark's claim that with 

3DK2 h you can 'create your own Virtual Reality', but you can knock up some 

very e jolly 3D adventure games using the Freescape techniques pioneered by 

Incentive for games like Castle Master. What users will be getting is pretty 

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much more of 

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with a host of 

interesting 

new features, 

including a 

Clip Art disk 

filled w i t h 

hundreds of 

ready-made 

3D objects, a 

sound effects 

editor, where 

SFX can be created 

and fid- 

sions that range f 

seek-and-destroy bombing 

runs to fighter/troop 

escorts and dogfighting 

with enemy planes and' 

helicopters. 

When D.I.'s F-16 Combat 

Pilot was released a 

couple of years ago, it 

was acclaimed as the 

best thing since Falcon. 

With the company claiming 

that this baby knocks 

its last effort into a cocked hat, we could be in for something very special 

come the end of September. 

died with, and a computerised video recorder that allows you to record and 

playback your 3D worlds. 

Talking of videos, the product once again comes packaged with a video 

cassette that provides new users with a guided tour of the program's features, 

along with top world-creating hints. It's not exactly our cup of tea, but 

judging by the popularity of the first one, there are plenty of punters who 

will only be too eager to snap up this more enhanced version. Who knows? 

One of you grubby lot could be the next David Braben..

, 

GAMES I N D E X 

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dismay that our Games Index was an even more indispensable guide than his 

1 1 1 1 e heard recently that Thompson the cat committed suicide after discovering to his 

Local Directory. While this does, of course, sadden us greatly (he was such a cute 

thing, so full of life and vigour), we feel at the same time a strange sense of satisfaction 

and achievement. We've always known that our Games Index is far and away the most 

authoritative guide to Amiga software released over the last year, but it's always nice to 

have these little morsels of confirmation. 

Of course, we couldn't possibly round up EVERY game released for your machine over 

the last twelve months - not without causing serious damage to the Brazilian rainforests 

every month - but what we CAN do is give you concise and informative low-downs on the 

vast majority, including all the big names, prominent releases and a few gems you might 

have missed. Not content with a smelly five-star rating, we give you full marks for Graphics, 

Sound, Playability, Lastability and Overall, as well as a summary comment AND, in 

case you yearn more information, the issue of The One in which you'll find the game 

reviewed and (if applicable) tipped. How long can we keep this up, you ask? The truth is 

we don't know, but we're going to have a lot of fun finding out! 

THE COMPETITION 

This thing gets more and more popular every month. It must be something to do with the 

recession, with so many people frantically scrabbling for a few free games. Maybe we 

should just cut the crap and bring back Sergeant Software. But anyway, here we are 

again, bringing you the opportunity to walk away with a large amount of top Amiga software, 

and all for just answering a few simple questions based on this month's Index. Off 

we go then... 

(1) Which recent game is "simple and excellent" and has a "good variety of puzzles"? 

(2) What is the highest-scoring game in the Index? 

(3) How many games do Virgin have in the Index? 

Get your answers on a postcard to us at: Games Index Compo 5, The One, Priory Court, 

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ulsiieri i Inlp .ins Melt 

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ail nem N I :Nan eis Ill I ill Ilk II Nils WWII. 

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l 

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coitus Mr I sie clam Irio EIN 

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ovum MINI, lii Ellin lid isesit liii lioller n sill is 111101.11m im 

nine lulls dpi I iii. 111111IS iffil II. 

Ilm Men lim UMW rill 0 INV ill Ii 11111 limn a win 

IWO iS liii II. N M a urn Ii sari Heir 33111111 111/11111111 Ile NA 

silillin ill iiihsul II IN 18111 el WWII, EMI IN NE Mel Iresirallul Ii Nil. 

IS III lione a lair Milli II trill lit jruiuchuu I leceil pau roo IIIrI Irltip 

sin lin wrt Mill Ii ut ilnualli N lines it pu limn trii 

am II Ile Mils. Suer Wing a minis win Ilitst 

luilit rani illsliniou. Sr lalir in 11119111 ii 1111141111311111311111411 

limn SIll. eilirslip in il II Iliol iauaieueuiinn Eon flail mu iiutiiis 

Ille lilt lir slid is Ilion Is fill 11111131111 

Tic Nil aliruil m11111141. emr. 1111111 iii Nein Ilion WU H. Merl 

INA Illitim ilali111111 111:111111811111 au rano 

slis III kin ha Wirt 11 in In 

lale Sirlpiii ItialP111 lien lam Sol. INN ow: ing 

Ma al In Imam ilit :Malmo 10111.111111 iii min lies li lall 

Hull I Hilo Illin II Wirlsti. Sum Si SOS u ICE trill clier. NMI1 

line ill ism Ile 14111 limn MO 011 lin twilit ilal I enol lact. III: 

II Nrials Milt In Mar li In lin Nil lit Oslo. Morin 

II III. III Oil Oils III i INI ilimr. 

is Is Sons liii SON inel. 11111 urilciiar Illist rn N husiltea.. 1.1.1 Ills 

li liii ill lii INS I I s mo Win Ili lig' IL INK Nu HI I 

lint in mite 

II in 1111111 nal ION a ollii in 111111 psi I le MEI ito ciao InotrIc 

iris Ile in ill In dell IN MINES lit WIN 11111 

neer 111111) 

1 in EMI ill I Ile Sic cum Ills 11111 lei. 111 i siprsuli ilalir1111111 set IW 

Ilm saint lull: WI III ilatilill siplIslicalei ill li's miler11111 limit ill 

cm:11111i sirmiliii. learnt 11 he a 111. lii ill. 

IliniSlIe Ilisi mi riu a illir II :glare 11151 I cuilili IN ticisilli 1111111 

irlhhls ilmilirt. III Weil plies ill INNS 1131114 I riScie III cilliret III 

milicint II: isi Imola. IS lon II I SIlk NI nitt, 

um Wow i 11111 II ip ill I torte loom" lilt Ii lurluluuIl has 

mini tie air oil 11 or No moil ail licrIlli his are Willi Ii. NO IN 

lin all mil Ill Wu. III lilt ill III lentils urn. Mr culla 

to NM IN pill lin Ill lii iller 1111111 lit int III lim III No. 

plitimi allies IOW till ow t i l l ile Iloilo 11 pluo WOOL 

II iclulli 515 len 11111111 li MI Ile III Ill lii nn its Oil 

IsiiIrm LI II WIN Iii puullsI. INN I slap 1s5511411 hflPIiluli ou tom Iwo 1111 

11111111 mei I n t ill la' ill Ill Sue limolui 

pileillil 11111119 hr ciplinillil IN. 

Mr IN Mir Ill lie WIN oil 11 liriltel lir NON 1111 Sill rt NI uNIN 

oul rtilaill IMO:111W Will Ow 111; c i i i i lasin inn 

lean. as It's inal. Fl 11111111111 rain Illti III 11E1 Iris lilt 

Pill Ill pill nil 5111110ln 31111 111115.113 all len n11111110 

SE:iii II lull 11111 plattr's 0111 nilir ham III 1131 ilei sal 5111111 iglitl. 

Win 11 tut re111111111111 

INNI loci lin a multi ainlime 111111 tm. Islir Is ate 11111111 lOuis tills 

Iuutne ini111111 non. hEN 1111 Inillo nil till twilit tin ilillalt i trill, 

lit 101 NIEL

MIME COO 

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JIM 1910E1 

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MYTH 

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PACIFIC ISLANDS 

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1ORICIEL 512K JOU 92 

NRISALIS IMO MAY 91 

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Malan 5121 MARCH 91 

SIERRA 1910 OCT 91 

MICROPIOSE 512K DEC 91 

PSY6POSIS 512H 1101 91 

OS CAPE 5121I JUNE 92 

SIERRA 1118 MARCH 92 

GRANDSIAM IMO AUG 91 

GREM 1 5121 OCT 91 

1166111 GAMES IMB JULY 92 

OS GOLD 5I1K MARCH 12 

ITS GOID 1 JULY 92 16 OCT 02 

OTICROPROSE 190H11 5121I Jill 92 

MINTISCAPE 512K J1192 

SYSTEM 3 IMO APRIL 92 

PSY6110SIS 5121 JUNE 92 

EMPIRE 5121 MAY 92 

90 02 86 

18 42 68 

90 02 92 

8 

1 

04 

68 


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05 ON 00 11 

10 10 

56 /I 

56 50 65 

61 04 

1 00 80 16 80 

81 81 92 09 91 

63 70 04 60 65 

93 90 69 90 90 

89 01 86 08 1/ 

92 93 94 93 93 

00 50 

65 14 

69 05 91 07 90 

89 06 08 88 90 

65 62 15 1 15 

1 

94 /6 19 85 94 

91 91 

02 83 00 12 

92 93 93 93 

19 64 

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THE VERDICT 

LINE 2 lintt all On Jill 1011111MME ill IOW 111-11r11 rin :nni 

lie iron Si ir ini •nni. OHMiruuiiiin UI mint II lull nine 

Innin omit on ne 

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KIN. Iii leri IP riser oil elm 1; In Oill lull III I1CI1I1II "tains 

larlikeilorlit IMO au Inn il 11111111 

facelleil• Inn :1111111 lour In Iln Iii 2. .11111 linti ti :111111% IOW IN 

mu. iiiLitwin sitinleill IllIa iii lirs11101 tar 1111 III 11111111 il na 

III plinr 111113 

a MIL IN NMI i f Oil INsI 1unIu Use IS inn 

'UMW eon' len 111N 11111111111rIN Knit 1111110 pins ilual III Iliel 

11m11111111 inn lot!. WNW In all au I 1111111 

sumo num 111110011 plli aiuiier Min irtili 

Sill I r11 NEI MN 111111N1 INN 11111111 etinlaill EMU 11111ininlir 1111111 

II 111 lure 13 r111111 ilal hi sill lair Ills Snot 

Pule nu bill 11111 NCR liul is 111111111N III Ni en ONO UI lili pur 

lin Me li 1111 r i l e Nu. Ill I: ppialli a III cireiril 

lir oursIi lie II glim 

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lilt IS naie II !le Ill IliMri pion Ill Moe lert110 Suihilli 1111111 pier the 

1111 lilt lii ill Mil iesirill ill illisplem: 

fuellell Oiling till Inn calorie' Vile ninny el rally loren1011111 

relMel a1111%.1111te ulllru nil NI 1111111111 a nin al. IBM tun 111111. 

lin II alNtilent ellen 

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1/111111111111 I nine 11 Olt IN Invert Iris lull •inlyi 11111 piir IPI :1111. 

Bo villa al Minion 11211t 111111111mil IItole 

IS in Is 1111111111a N 10 M II1111111111111111m, III II It loin III ore it 

a lime Urn '11111 

, ri heir IMINce$1.111N11 I II let 

ofruleu 

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inose: r apirl Ito a NO t o 31 olim 111111 III IIUPNII1III. Intin 0 

lmit i ill sni plam 

inn esis i 1111111 Ille P10511111 MIMS plit1 

s 1Nri i11111111S Ile moil I till illtle111111111 01 IIIIMIIOMI 111 

tIlalmr 11111 i 111111 l allips Ill NM Ili ill loll till Imu I huM iPICIOr ell Ile 

l 

ice m i t t Sall 1111111e lol arcift PM: 

icri l NI i P111:1 r pile /Inert CIlia piellini moll. IS 11113 ir len MOM 

min r Plitt. i Imirwilis 11111 rill milt Ilrlial flealre, siert Clarinet: 11 

Oft Min iti Innen Ileitis II pier it11113,111, ruin 

i 

n nil IN 0111 Ihlapolul pun 111 IN IS 1551101111 r0117 In PU Isi 

Ins 

I 

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inn 1 IN 11111111111111111111 II 11:111111ef iron Ill lu ilh III 1111. 

t 

lin 1 111113111 1 111111111 MM. 1111111111e IINICI Oil 110 Isirioll 111111 

Is Muir a slipli 001011. laoll navel IIMI1III Ills 1113111 11Sf 111 

sillillilen: 

1 1 

1 

11111 lilt lir illmim! IN Ill IIIN 1011 iicrIIrls lill 11 

111 aml sills Cil 111111111111 F Mel i limillu l aN i :Ill f Oulu is poi incs olli IN twilit 

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mil Mullin 

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lot 11111 NMI Mulls, 

lin 1 otri Ill illrnnii II i nee 11111 111111111mi NM/no II 

Ill Iiin manila III II pit re ban II lull 1111rIler. Ire': nil imic 

real hlleNhrill 1101111*111111311n 11111110151p. 

III lilt 111:1 en 1i:11111111111 IN 111 NKr HMI Cilium null non li It 

aiNa• lit11111111111C; II ill 1151 111111111 n11111: INI MIN ni ril II 111 

111111:1111111 mull Mellott 

IOW pkul ti II NI IN Pinion ulalO. P :11111111111 rinitr lilt 15?111111 

latimull: loran mulles Salim on Innis MON Ill amine II Slit 

3311f1111 Ill 111111111111 

10131111111111 111111011111 Inlet Ill lim 111111 lINt nem III 111111 

lie loll Meiling lull all Oleo icrit 51111 ipe 1111111 IN11111 

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GAME 

NAME 

MASK STIRS 

NOW DREAMS 

PITTIOHTER 

PLAN 9 

WOOS 2 

PROJECT-1 

PSY010 

PUSHOVER 

RACE 011111111 

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RED BARON 

RED 10111 

RISKY WOODS 

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ROOOCOP 3 

SHISIBIE SOCCER 

SHADOW SORCERDIT 

SHADOWIAKOS 

SPACE ACE II 

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1 

DOMARI 

6REMLIK 

REC 1801C ARTS 

TEAM 11 

LORICIELS 

OCEA1 

DOMARK 

16 1 

OVIAMIN 

PSY0HOSIS 

ELECIROHIC ARTS 

MILLEDIUM 

OCEAl 

?II MAY 

RENEVALIE 

US 601D 

0MARK 

READYSDEI 

5121 

5121I 

1M0 

1011 

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5121I 

513 

5121 

5121 

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5121 

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APRIL 92 

1100 91 

MAY 92 

DEC 11 

MAY 92 

MAY 92 

J IE 92 

APRIL 92 

JAI 92 

FEB 02 

AUD 92 

JULY 92 

DEC 91 

DEC 91 

FEB 92 

JOIE 92 

DEC 91 

MARCH 9? 

JAH 9? 

us-1 THE 

JIM 92 

MAY 92 

AUG 92 

Mg 92 

11 90 80 80 02 

90 91 90 80 89 

83 19 03 18 62 

14 05 04 0 19 

0 

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90 90 90 88 90 

62 55 64 58 60 

05 82 83 19 83 

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Ilsi II Mir lal li Itp1111 il nilalislulairs. it bet le lal 

a iin eNiliill nominee in int 11111 lel/ lin II ge IWItteti 

lilts ill ila INS inlell Iris rine' lanais li cum raviolis lir. 

I rills Nils int 1111 tie (11111 MI II Is multi Iris Ma ail OM NI Nil 

sl Stilling' Urn: li Ills ctitiri;IN II uiieririuii 

1 ir. 

1lit 

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, cumin III rlii 11111111 It ftV ilitilinII It will. In Ire IEIISI 51 

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1 1lirrihli 

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111e 

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1spie 

sing. 131 les mill" 11 11 awe ii tie lulu 11 e i r 

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111111111 

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1 

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1lin 

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priparlish II Intl ill iSt IN nit till irailla iii. Uris a lei*. 

1 

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1 

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leri Sul II s 311011111SM 

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iINS 

i lur IN Ille illirlingli. bitit illirs"Irlulli Win tIM mhIl 1111 

hilauhirl is iti lit 111 slin IS int list leit II II Istal mill lilt 111:1 slarl 

l 

eller lil lei:1111u Is i plaille ill 113111 

a 

i 

icaniiei,Milirlii ii 111 irii taiiii el urISlir 111 Milli 111111 li lilt lilt 

0111111 SNOW lilt n1111 is itlii 111111 N 11,11101 Nall 11011 itiri M. Slig 

l 

iel iirispiuiln liii Ills el lint littallillt irwrisuiii lir 1111111 

l 

1 sri iii 111P lor Ii ille iulIiUlhi. Ill leit 1icrllc13 1113111 iIIuullllIIIU1II lic 

nen all 111111111N int l e i nen lir IL II IN 

Shut IF Nil SNI Willi lin 111 Is lit lilt lit 111_ 

III wall lit 111111111014 p5113511 lilt lillt ovIt Ill liii ill Win rillict 

lri II Insult 11111011r Mu Sulk tour' limas al 1131111 

11111131 Irislr1111111101 

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Int It mins" C111 ilia elm Sul I: clui is MIN IN mot li 11411111 

1111 lin laic 1111111111al mini 11 i 1111511 Ill lit ien introit" lull 1111: 

111 Ii larcult Sal intrINItm 1131111 tints III al 1 W1111111111 

r 11111011 11111 lalli ler ken 1151 lit till pigs!' livirtlitin 11 lie Slim cis lil 11 

Iruin bpoi I Ill, S ill 1i mill, I i ne 11 lit les 11111 mm1111111013 atalilel 

I1111111 t lilt it iliespiert 

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ig 

l i flirt o a i1 Sing 11 IstiNIN urn" III inn 111111111 lall fin 

a 

Win 

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teller till Willir tot liri 11 ININst NI lit 1111113111mile Mt 

nMunn 

r I Ing I lilt n Plat III 111411111113111 11 Innis Ihn OIl li lit 

a31113 

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i1 

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: 1lilt 

111111in t 1/1011! II Ile Ma illi lan el lielr I I I cm bill bill lit 

1Itri 

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1 Ill ills II oill Fill IiIlI5 Nies shill 11 Ill!. III 1111111111 it IN 

i/Maim 

inIte 131 hit 3111113111111 aim /win nit SION rilp 

l iFill pralssult iiiin "Ill ilinitrIc ;lull III lit nit 11111. 

l lilt Itmo's Int ail halt 11 Hun ir ham Ice INN intli III 1 mown". 

isiernINI 

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all 10 111111 IN 1/11, WS 11 IN 11141 lit Min_

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SPACE 

SPACE 00E31 10 

SPECIAL FORCES 

SPOILS OF WAR 

SIARUSH 

STEEL EMPIRE 

STRIKER 

SUPER SP. INVADERS 

SUPER SKI 1 

SUPER If IRIS 

TIP OFF 

TITUS THE HA 

10 SPORTS OASEITATI 

1MAIII 

1160001 

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WIRY HAMM 

IDLITECHILO 

WWF WHESTIEMADIA 

Lama 

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OCEAN 5121I APRIL 92 

SIERRA 10 MAY 92 

1110 

512N 

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JULY 92 n 

EMPIRE 5126 MARCH 92 

RA6E 10 JULY 92 016 92 

0MARK 5121I NO H 91 

MICIOIOS 51R FM 92 

MICREIPROSE IMO AUG 92 

A NCO 5I2K EO 92 

TITUS 5121 APRIL 92 JUN 92 

MIDOSCAPE IMO 1 JULY 92 

0 10SCAPE IMO J 1E 02 

LAIHHOli 5121 APRIL 92 

61EMEIN 5121I MARCH 02 

SIERRA 10 MARCH 92 

CORE DES161 5126 JAD 92 MAY 92 

OCEAN 512K JAH 02 

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MEI MEI 

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0 

52 11 25 44 40 

00 19 00 02 01 

11 


45 82 40 

56 60 64 11 59 

69 10 15 01 /5 

02 70 80 16 81 

00 /5 10 /2 13 

17 60 15 65 61 

18 66 88 88 62 

75 55 40 50 

06 09 04 00 87 

04 06 09 06 88 

83 71 71 95 1 

1 

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05 00 00 06 82 

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nuel II lie Mir pillar lel Nell Mt 1111 MrsIII P11Wu 

II :Inlet' al allitirh Pesti ilaitIN. lithilii 1 rcht 

ihrin Itrlfl riin lip spiny Mil inns elle 11 unlink 

len lit MI IrillIlIlIll ilit II lit int Ills Ilmertiliffillilcill Min 

nuns 1 

1IIIl 

ill 9111 sill mri 114111 scr111111 ill ine II114 31 NI. 

0'11 I rah eilirliiirt 11111119e VIM pir Mau Perri 1 'MINI NMI 

11mp iminit all/Mins all lie lilia's cancel bit lei uarI irlc M suI siol 

h 

ft 11111e 

M 

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U11111 

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r 

lislric1111/ 

i 

lilt' Intl 3IriItU Iril Ili sinus. 

sanal 

MINI liat lir "Irish". Usti ii iI lihrill111 illithal el llhhSitrIiI ill 

iIOIPIPIPI 

III mills. Spills 11 lit II sipili lir IN illriullt patent' 

IP Clcli IN 'mho orli 

s 

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i 

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IIwII al mil al. IN. 

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II 

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i 

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n 

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rilreiu, 1 III Kill. III rallir Om II tinily NI Intl 

1 

rifler INI MOM II 311 Mali! ann. NI larnin all II III Mill Pohl MIN 

pill 

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lin. 0 Hill 

p 

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I riet ir 11111 Pupil* Pill I liii int 11111rIel U 1111111in 'Wynn 

leill r iririp Nuns. 

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t 

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sinin. n Nu. Ilhllilidi Ih 1 hIIPIIIIIP dililfIll lille II MIMI iii 111111 pill lit 

1110 i III 11111 II llIf II 01. 

nlir 

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t 

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1 Ill I1FIUHI allitiltIlitn tilt II rin liii n it mill. 

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1 10 t in IIIhe Nth N We I NI ltihiflhul i l il t lit whit 

miller . IN iMonis n 111111 i il m Iron IN IF 1111 ruler NKr 001 Nellie' ill rihlil. 

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NI III Mil Mugu. NI in 1111 Intl 

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io liar. 11011111111111. 01011 Milan dill hum Ii Null ill a lirl 

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Ii Illtruln N 111111111U II 1/111111311. 11110111 

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Ill slier Still 1111001111 let's 111111 Itisl 11111 INII 

Pupil; IP i t s IN ill Milli PIll i up Nri 

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trite lilt III lipressin 1111111 nOr III Ill In sal ir IN rim lir In! IN 

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We were sitting around the office the other day (as you do), pondering on life's little ironies. You know, 

those twists of fate that make you either smile or cry. 

Like the fact that because we're the hard-working geezers who actually produce the magazine, we can't 

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• THE CHAOS ENGINE. At last! Probably the most eagerly-awaited game of this (or any other) year finally 

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