"din g computer indoazine JAN 89 El.20 S$7.20 Dm6.50 350pta HFL 6.75 COMPUTER +Video GAMES THUNDERBLADE THE WHOPPER CHOPPER O: C C+VG GAME OF THE MONTH WIN A THUNDERBLADE COIN-OP THE 16-BIT SEA UNVEILED LAND OF THE RISING CONSOLE C+VG REPORUS FROM JAPAN ON THE NINTENDO AD PC ENGINE DEVIEWED: RAMBO III, GUERILLA WAR, \"FALCON NEUROMANCER, EXPLODING FIST + FREEL TWO BRILLIANE POSTERS, "


"BERTAN TIME 1616TO IGIETO Shell TINE 11 ? LIFEB310  SPEED 34 CORE 34 1730 Af STED 55 SPEED 255 NLOP WEC Le Mans is not a game -IMAGINE SOFTWARE 6 CENTRAL STREET MANCHESTER M2 5NS TEL: 061-8320633. TELEX 667799 OCEANS G. FAX:01 834 C650 "


"FEEL THE POWER! WEC LE MANS 24 WEC LEMANS WEC Le Mans is the 24-hour world endurance championship. All other races pale in comparison. No other race challenges a driver physically or emotionally, as WEC Le Mans 24. The racer must push himself and his car far beyond limits required by any other race. He must use his sixth sense as he becomes one with a machine which is perilously insensitive to human frailties. Shell  DUNID e it is the ultimate driving experience AMSTRAD SPECTRUM ATARI ST AMIGA lhe name Plhe game COMMODORE SPECTRUM ATARI ST AMIGA "


"onents 13'6 HEIGHT 17*8 WIDTH 90928910 ILL 20W Intro HEIGHT 7400LBS ENGINE DIESEL 12 TUCHARGER NEAPONS 20 GUINE Merry Christmas folks! Don't forget to put your free C+ VG poster on your bedroom wall It'll remind you of us all year! Thunderblade LASERCANON A Thunderblade Speccd Arcade Action checks 3D Enforce. P.124. Continuing our series on the big coin-ops for Christmas, we take US Gold's Thunderblade to bits and give you the definitive review on both 8 and 16-bit formats. Thunderblade Comp 29 In yet another C + VG mega comp, we give you the chance to win yourself an amazing THUNDERBLADE COIN-OP. Now, where are you going to put it? Reviews For a full guide to all the reviews go to page 21 Rambo III, Robocop, Neuromancer and Zak McKracken are amonst the highlights, so get turning those pages! Award R. Strelt sees the Xmas blockbusters. P.116. Free Poster 78 A Compilation City we review the contati The winner of our Search For a Fantasy Artist comp provides a superb pull-out freebie to stick on your wall. Playmasters JR dips into his bulging mail sack and once again: POKEs, hints and tips abound and there's also fabulous, massive mega-map of Mr Heli for you to stick on your wall. Mailbag 84 Another mix bag of moans, groans, smiles and testimonials is YOUR letter the T-shirt winner? Comp Results Go green with envy as we show pics of C+ VG prizewinners in Disneyland and enjoying a chauffeur driven ride to school in a Fe 3 A Robocop Game of the Month. P.42 "


"AGM aesyo $51 More reviews of computer RPGs, adventures, games and role-playing board games than you've games than you've ever helpful Helpline Compilation City 00250000 Essential reading for those who've after a bargain. Julian Rignall rounds up all available compilations and provides a definitive guide. 119 09E10latest Nintendo reviews. P.142. TITILS Big Screen Ward R Street finds out Who Framed Roger Rabbit (but won't tell), and doesn't beat about the bush with Willow. GoldenJoystick Awards Vote for your favourite games of the year in C+VG's 6th annual reader's awards. And you could win a T-shirt to boot! ArcadeAction Ghouls 'n' Ghosts, the sequel to Ghosts 'n' Goblins gets reviewed, and we also take a look at Mr Do, Kuri Kito and 3D Enforce. There's also Britain's Arcade Highscore table... P.21. eccy and ST rev Life is slowly changing Ribareth. The scattered Farms are disappearing and the populus has begun to SEE the refuge af walled cities and the protection of castles. Only the hardy still abide in isolation or small hamlets ood has become scarce, craft and OMMERCE are less common. Trade routes ou le along the rivers and by sea, Travel to the interior is uncertain and often angerous. There is still sta trade with inds to the south and north, but dealings with the homelands have ended. Mean Machines 132 A Times of Lore. AGM Smash P.104. Bigger and better than ever, with a Metroid map and tips, all the latest console news and reviews of Top Gun, Castlevania, Great Golf, Great Basketball and Shanghai. Land Of The Rising Console 146 KARATE compilations. Nick Kelly reports exclusively from Tokyo on the new consoles about to hit our shores from Nintendo, Sega and NEC makers of the PC Engine. If you want to know what's going on, Kelly has the answers. Next Month Hey man! What's happening? OutToLunch Minson ruminates on mince pies, computer games and anything else that enters his head. 153 -23.5 -230 -22.50 What is this giri doing with this Ferrari? P.84. -22.00 EDITOR: Eugene Lacey. DEPUTY EDITOR: Julian Rignall. ART EDITOR: Andrea Walker. STAFF WRITER: Matt Bielby. ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER: Garry Williams. SALES EXECUTIVE: Johanna Cooke. COPY CONTROL: Lora Clark. PUBLISHER: Terry Pratt. Subscription Enquiries to: EMAP Frontline, 1 Lincoln Court, Lincoln Road, Peterborough, PE1 2RP. TEL: 0733 555161. FAX: 0733 62788. EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES: Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AU. TEL: 01-251 6222. FAX: 01-608 2696 ABC HITCHAFE | Falcon-king sim.-P.58. 108,892 (Jan-June 1988). A What are these C+VG stalf up to? P.154. "


"Arcade style split-screen boxing game. Large animated graphics, realistic firstperson perspective and great overhead view. Land a punch and your opponent shows the damage everything from a black eye to a split lip! Defensive and attacking strategies, one or two player capability, TKO . ore choices and control than any other team basketball game. Superb graphics, 3D animation. three-on-three team play and full court action. Individual talents and strengths for each player, and a host of plays and shots for you. Design your own plays with the exclusive Playmaker feature. Software 1988 Accolade, Inc. All rights reserved. Commodore 64/128 is a registered trademark of Commodore Business Machines, Inc. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines, Inc. All screenshots taken from C64, except Rack Em (IBM PC compatible "


"The most realistic computer tennis game ever. Full tennis court 3D view. great graphics and three levels of difficulty. Choice of grass, clay or hard court surface. Complete array of top-spin. slice, smash, lob. volley, forehand and backhand strokes. SERVE AND THE ULTIMATE SPORTING ACCOLADE! ou don't just play the games in the Accolade Sports Series ... you live them. Using graphic 3D animation techniques, our software designers have created the most stimulating sports simulations around. C64 cassette .95 FOLDE C64 disk .95 IBM PC compatibles .95 pool and snooker simulation following real match rules. Animated 3D views including superb overhead view for aiming. Choose the object ball pocket, aim and shot power. Customise the game to your own house rules. Design your own trick shots and save the best to memory. Licensed by Electronic Arts ELECTRONIC ARTS Telephone 0753 49442 Home Computer Software Langley Business Centre Berks SL3 SYN 11-49 Station Road, Langley "


"ax Fashion Victim Touched on briefly in our Paris show reportlast issue, Crazy Cars from French software house Titus is well worth a second look. You race a very nice Ferrari F. 40 sprite across four American States ostensively in pursuit of corrupt policemen running a stolen car racket, though it smacks to us of just a lousy excuse to drive at 200mph! You can plan your route from on screen maps, though the shortest tend to have the highest level of police presence both honest John good-guy bobbies, and the nasty, Shivelling corrupt variety Your Ferrari is equipped with a rather unlikely sounding radar device which is able to tell a police road block from a tree at half a mile 50 you may be forced to make a slight detour down one of the 3D junctions. The whole thing plays fast and fun, and will be available on Amiga ( 99) ST (.99) and Amstrad CPC (.99 cass/.99 disk) at the end of November die already). with Spectrum in January (.99) and C64 in Feb (.99) product is to prove who lack of saap is a near Christ It must be difficult to look cool when you're covered in wires and speakers and things, but Startel seem to reckon their new Body Rap product is all the rage with hip and trendy American street kids Just goes to prove what we at C+VG have always said about the conspicuous American lack of style. But seriously folks ... Body Rap is a neat little gizmo, if guaranteed to cause a few boxed ears over Christmas. Having sprogs running around wired for sound like this is bound to fray a few parental tempers. What happens is that you hit the various sound pads clipped or strapped to your body with other bits of your anatomy, with each giving a different synthesised sound: bass drum, snare, cymbal etc. With practice it is claimed that you can create quite complex rhythms the greater your skills as a contortionist, the better. Or, like us here at C+VG, you can just create an awful racket in \"tune\" with your favourite tracks. Cost is .99 in red, white or turquoise, but we have four to give away to lucky punters. The questions are as simple as you are likely to look should you dare wear the thing. 009 THE «LET ME HAVE A WIRY THING TO STICK ALL OVER MY BODY\" COMPO Name.... Address......... 1) Name the famous female rap group named after condements. 2) Complete this rap in not more than four lines: \"C + VG is a stonking good read, Send off to C+VG, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3AU. Don't delay, send today! "


"harts ATARI ST TOP TEN Infogrames Elite Firebird Expect to Soo Tom Rainbow Ants through US Gold 15 Spherical, a Gauntlet clone. As player you look down on over 100 levels as you guide your wizard character through ordes of nostiesYou guide o sphere home salely through Menace Payelapse 4 STOS Game Creator mandarin 5 ) 1943 US Gold magical abies and powers along the way. Like Gauntlet There is a two player option that should make things 6 Star Glider 2 Rainbird Crazy Triad Tried though sadly not the four player device that is so many man-hours here ar 8 Night Raider Gremlin Graphies C+VG playing Gauntlet2 a few months back Ultimate evil here takes the form of a dragon 1o DE whuipped we are promised: Eliminator Hewson Fars // Daley Thompson's Olymp. Chall. doesn't answer the important Hostepes goes traight a number one with Monoce 1943Tried and Eliminator a new entries. The combined to be market share now stands at 10% \"Sphere meant to be products. I will be lor C64. SI. Amiga and IBM compas alongside sister produce the Game, a space balle spectacular      1 Last Ninja 2 System 3 2 Joe Blade 2 players Bomb Jack Encore Footballer of the year Kixx Eliminator Commando Encore Football Manager 2 Addictive NEMEN Int. Rugby sim Code Masters 8 D.T'son's Olymp. Chall. Ocean 91 Gountler Kixx Newest 16 bit release from games outhor John Phillips who you may remember from Nebulus is The Eliminator, a Hewson release. A space racing game for ST and Amigo, it features 3D graphics and great dollops of action 10 Air Wolf Encore Last Ninja 2 retains the top spot though not for much longer it would seen. The Amstrad version certainly lost around this month. Armolyte is looking good as future tip for the top in 64 terms at least RETURN TO U AMIGA TOP FIVE Rocket Ranger Mirrorsoft 2 Battle Chess Electronic Arts Interceptor Electronic Arts Technocope from Gremlin is a combination car race/shoot 'em up scheduled for the very tail end of '88. These Spectrum screen shots show both the high tech sports car driving sequences, and the foot-bound sequences where you must try and stalk and capture your felon. The game will be available in Spectrum, C64, Amstrad, Amiga, ST and Amstrad PC versions, released in the post Christmas blockbuster dead zone. Menace Psyclapse Star Glider 2 Rainbird d owell and d e The thirty quid Rocket place to number one, while Ste06982e "


"GET SAVAGE IT'S AMAZING WHAT A REAL COMPUTER GAME CAN DO. Amstrad screen shots Spectrum cassette .99 Commodore 64 cassette .99, disc .99 Amstrad cassette .99, disc .99 FREBRO For mail order please send your order and remittance (cheques payable to British Telecom plc or direct debit from Access/Visa card by stating card number and expiry date) to: The Marketing Department, Telecomsoft, First Floor, 64-76 New Oxford Street, London WCIA 1PS. Telecomsoft, First Floor, 64-76 New Oxford St, London WCIA 1PS. Firebird and Firebird Logo are trademarks of British Telecommunications PLC A LEGEND IN GAMES SOFTWARE "


"Paperback Dredd. THE DARK JUDGES Magazine For those that balk at paying out a fiver for a collection of old 2000 A.D. strips, Titan books have introduced a second line of reprints reflecting comics as they used to be: cheap and throwaway. At least that was the idea pocket sized collections of famous incidents from Mega-city history, and to compliment them a parallel line of Bat-classics and all for pocket money prices. Thing is, paperback books are no longer all that cheap these weigh in at .95 a throw so the idea may be a bit of a non-starter, unless they're for people ashamed to be seen reading comics in public places. Still, they do make trendy little volumes. Judge Dredd vs the Dark Judges features some lovely Brian Bolland artwork, and both the Otto Sump and Fatties books feature some of the most grotesquely hilarious characters in comics. The caped crusader camp classics are even better though early tales of Batman fighting the Joker, the Penguin and other such crazies. We love 'em to death, and they've nice covers too a pleasant little way to blow three quid. BAT MAN The Penguin Fax is getting all globetrotting these days. After jet setting to Paris for the show last ith, we were back in the City of Lights just recently to check out the French equivalent of our own Golden Joysticks awards Top froggie mog TILT organise some of the best recognised awards on that side of the channel, and it is interesting to see just how strongly British software houses feature Paula Byrne, the head of Telecomsoft whose labels Firebird and Rainbird showed especially strongly, was there at the presentation ceremony She told Fax: \"We are very happy and proud to be so well received in France if you will forgive Fax for occasionally mistranslating the names of some of the categories, we'll have a closer look at the finders, keepers, losers weepers Best graphics: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) Best animation: Virus (Firebird) Best strategy: Tetris (Mirrorsoft). Atmospheric soundtrack: Dungeon Master (FTL). Best shoot 'em up: Star Ray (Logotron). Arcade adaptation: Operation Wolf (Ocean), Buggy Boy (Elite). Sports simulation: Porsche Turbo Cup (Loriciels). Arcado action game: Barbarian 2 (Palace). Original action game: Carrier Command (Rainbird). Tetris (Mirrorsoft). Action game: Nebulus (Hewson). Best educational: Rody et Mastico (Lankhor). Best adventure in English language: Corruption (Rainbird) Best adventure in French language: L'arche du Capitaine Blood (Ere). Best hope for the future: Thunderblade (US Gold/Sega). Best flight sim: F18 (E.A). Best utility: Gamme Cyber (Antic). Now check out the scoring form for our very own mega-onwards, the Golden Joysticks, on page 120. CATIOT Cont S eard and Rainbow Bungle Following on from our \"German Bytes\" item in Fax last month, we have received this communication from Marc Ullrech, managing director of German software house Rainbow Arts. It makes clear the situation regarding their games Katakis and Giana Sisters 2, which we got, erm, sadly garbled. He begins: \"Rainbow Arts will not release Giana 2 in any country because we are not satisfied with the quality of this product. We are not going to publish a title similar to Giana 1 or 2, and we have stopped shipping Giana 1 to avoid possible damages if a third party should take legal action. Secondly, Katakis will not be sold with the exception of Germany. A new game calle Denaris will be released throughout Europe licensed by US Gold in January. The game was basically designed with the Katakis knowhow, but with changed graphics, sound and game plot.\" aircraft available for launch HIRIA R RANTIR TIRES "


"CHALLENGING + ADDICTIVE! IT'S YOUR ON REYES 'ST version looks identical to the arcade version ...; -C & VG November '88 ''An absolute must for Spectrum-blasting fanatics ... -C & VG November '88 E M ail order: Activision, Blake House, Manor Farm Estate, Manor Farm Road, Reading, Berkshire. Consumer Enquiries/Technical Support: 0703 229694 "


"EXCELLENT SHOOT 'EM UP! dation NLY DEFENCE Available on Commodore 64/128 cassette (.99) and disk (.99), Spectrum (.99), Amstrad cassette (.99) and disk (.99), Atari ST (.99) and on Amiga (.99). R-TYPET ELECTRIC DREAMS  1987 IREM CORPORATION SOFTWARE LICENSED TO ELECTRIC DREAMS EN TY novci Commodore 64 screen shots shown Spectrum screen shots shown "


"ALI Want With the holly hanging up above the mantiepiece and snow lying thick and creamy all around, it's time for C + VG to come over all seasonal and start wishing for its Christmas pressies. Now you lot may well have asked for Op Wolf or Afterburner or whichever of the big coin-op conversions most took your fancy. But here at C+VG the boys and girls are slightly more ambitious than that, and have been asking for some stuff that even the most spritely and nimble of Santas would have trouble getting down the old chimney. Especially the girls! You should have seen some of the rude stuff they wrote before a shocked Fax had to put a red line through it all! Here then is what we want most in all the world (if you are shocked at the lack of computer games, it's because we've already got them all...!) KJO one another JAZ som JAZ 1 A Harley Davidson motobike. I'd like a blue FXE 1200 please.. 2 Every Walt Disney animated film and short on video. I love 'em 3 Quantel Paintbox. I'd save a lot of trees if I could doodle with light.. 1 A massive house with a huge garden and all the money in the world I'm not greedy! 2 Patrick Swayze If I have to share him with Andrea I want the bottom half! 3 Andrea's desk because it's the furthest away from Garry's. Sorry Lora, I asked first! 4 Sarah Greene's job because she works with Philip Schofield and I think he's lovely. 5 A black convertible VW Beetle the most mega brilliant car in the world. 6 A shield around my desk to protect me from Lora's earrings when she turns around to talk to me. 7 Garry Williams to voluntarily buy a round (and stop volunteering others to buy rounds!) 8 A milky bar river at the bottom of my huge garden (?? Ed). 9 To be able to make myself a cup of tea without Julian Rignall shoving his teddy bear cup under my nose. 10 To never have to work again so I can spend less time with Garry, and more with Patrick Swayze. 4 Every arcade machine designed by Eugene Jarvis Sinistar Defender, Joust, Robotron 2084, Stargate, Star Rider and his new one which he's just finishing. 5 A Chimpanzee. They're amazingly funny, and I'm sure it could sell ads better than Garry Williams. 6 Brighton Pier. It's one of the best arcades in Britain... 7 An airline season ticket to America. I wouldn't mind a ticket to the Disney MGM studios either! 8 A video camera. Brilliant fun!! Especially when combined with the Quantel 9 A Rediffusion tank combat simulator. A snip at a mere ,000,000 10 A better and cheaper train service from Brighton to London. The one at the moment is unbelievably crap. GARRYonete Jamie Lee Curtis 2 An everlasting, automatically refilling bottle of Tennants Super Lager. 3 A spare set of kidneys. 4 Arsenal to win the treble every season. Tottenham Hotspur to wind up in the Alliance Premiere League A labotomy So I can work in the Editorial Department (Anyone who has met Garry will know he's already had this present! Ed). Julian Rignall to have a slow lingering death for writing nasty things about me! (Yeah? Then I'll haunt you JR). Eugene Lacey to buy a round. 9 The Neighbours set to be nuked! 10 The Editorial Department to write nice things about all the good people who advertise! Jamie Lee she'd never go for Gary! A Joz's furry friend ad manager material if ever we saw it! "


"for Christmas is... EUGENE 1 Linda Lusardi to join the C+VG review team. 2 Space Harrier to play on our PC Engine 3 Super Mario Bros Il for the Nintendo 4 A leather jacket to make me look hard. 5 A stonking great turkey with all the trimmings. 6 A really good Bread' Christmas special. Another showing of the Snowman so I can video it this time. 8 Bristol City to knock the stuffing out of Rovers in the Boxing Day derby. 9 Stacks of choccies, selection boxes, and Terry's chocolates oranges. 10 The Queen to deliver her speech in rap. A The am dress up warm for winter (2). A Tom Hanks LORA or noe 1 A luxury flat. Who doesn't want a luxury flat? 2 Lots and lots of lovely dosh. Who doesn't want loads of dosh? boce nece MATT 1 Datsun 240Z it's a sportscar Datsun made in the '70s and it's truly wonderful looks like a shorter, squatter E-type. 3 A wicked pair of earrings the bigger the better. 4 A desk not-so-near to Garry Williams anyone want to swap? 5 Tom Hanks but don't tell my boyfriend. 6 A camera so I can take loads of piccies of my car!! 7 Any Brat Pack videos Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day off ... 8 A decent Sandich Man one who doesn't use bread with birdseed in! 9 The Wicked Willie Game. 10 A pair of purple flares with flowers all over them (man!) PS. No slippers, nighties, knickers or soap sets please! ANDREA y 2 Esther C+VG's receptionist. She keeps promising herself to me but never delivers ... 3 PC Engine How could you possibly work within a hundred miles of the computer games industry and not want one? 4 A working washing machine easily the most important addition to any flat. Beats TV, central heating, even a bed hands down. 5 Dress sense I've always envied those people that have it. Unfortunately working at C + VG Lora is the only one, so it's unlikely to rub off, is it? 6 A decent pub to open within three minutes walk of my house there are no decent pubs near my house. 7 A \"Maine Coon\" They're a special breed of domestic cat that's about the size of a border collie, and I'd use it to puzzle the neighbours. And no, I'm not sure how to spell it. 8 Julian Rignall to get all his hair cut off It's horrible (It's called style JR) 9 A cat boat they're shallow water sailing barges they use in New England, and I want to live on one. 10 A washing machine that works on a cat boat I could only live on a cat boat if they invented a washing machine that would fit on it. 1 An Art assistant to do all the crappy jobs, like the filing. 2 Patrick Swayze because he is the hunkiest person on this earth, or in any other galaxy 3 Some decent looking blokes working on this mag. 4 Loads of dosh even more than Lora. 5 A car and driving lessons. 6 A new chair with no glue on it. 7 A new hi-fi system with everything on it. 8 Matt to acquire some dress sense it's pitiful 9 Garry to have his vocal cords removed in the most painful way possible. 10 A holiday I haven't had one in ages, so if anyone wants to take me away all offers will be considered, the more expensive the better A Datsun Z the bestest sports car in all the world (etc). "


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"Interplay, Break-away In a startling move that shocked the nation to its foundations, Interplay have split from their mother company Electronic Arts US to become a software company in their own right. The company, originally a programming team with all their work marketed by EA, have now deigned themselves worthy enough of their own slice of the market. Interplay, the team responsible for the Bard's Tale series, Wasteland and more recently Battlechess, will still continue to be distributed by EA over here. Brian Fargo, producer, designer, and general man-at-the-top, slammed any rumours that the team were to be releasing a Wasteland 2 or Bard's Tale 4. \"We are now in competition with EA. Wasteland and BT are EA products. If we were to bring out sequels, then we're just giving games to our rivals.\" This isn't exactly a new idea Sensible Software did it with Micro Soccer for example but it's nowhere near standard industry practice: these demo screens belong to a game as yet without a publisher. Martin Walker, the man behind the cult classic Hunter's Moon, is the designer of Citadel, this near finished shoot 'em up. Behind the walls and floors of these oppresive corridors \"I tried to get the feel of Blade Runner,\" he says lurk both new weapons and deadly traps. The plan is to have the game ready for early in the New Year, with a publisher sorted by about Christmas \"so that I can buy big nut cutlets with the advance!\" (JR's note: He's a vegetarian). However, we do have two new products coming out in early 89. One is being programmed by the same team that did BT, and the other is being done by the same guys that did Wasteland. Titles are to be announced, and I'm not telling anything just yet, but they are looking quite good. Of course, as soon as we know, we'll let you know. You can check out Interplay's latest spiffo wheeze, Neuromancer, by flicking over to page 74. Latex Laff's I NOW DECLARE THIS BOOK OPEN A snippet of news arriving just a little too late to be included in the Mean Machines section is that there's soon to be a Nintendo version of PacMan. Yes indeed the conversion will be totally faithful to the original 1982 mega hit, right down to the simplistic graphics and sound. So anyone fancying a nostalgic dot-gobbling binge will soon be able to Wikka-wikka-wikka until their heart's content The Original Pac's Back If Santa spits in your Christmas stocking, don't worry it's probably just the Spilling Image Giant Komic Book, a bumper volume packed full of jolly japes and wheezes with your favourite characters from the world of comedy It's laughter all the way with The Crazy Psychedelic World of Frank Bough, Dr Owen (He's All Alowen) and No Head Robson of the English soccer squad. You too can thrill to Judge Deaf and learn how to make yourself look like Ronald Reagon. There's even a couple of sneaky adverts for Spit T-Shirts and slippers Holy Merchandising Ploy, Batman! At .95 the only thing that's missing is the rubbery smell of the original though perfectionists could try reading it with a pair of Marigold gloves on their pinkies! PACMANTA HI-SCORE 61 00000000 SCORE B0008008 FRUIT "


"DORA T adio Rimes NEWEAR D : A CHRISTMAS ABC 9.00pm EXPLODING FIST + 9.00am SAVAGE First out of the stocking this Christmas has to be SAVAGE. An epic of gargantuan proportions in three mind blowing action packed levels. Savage features graphics so stunning they'll put your Christmas tree lights to shame! Spectrum cassette .99 Commodore 64 cassette .99, disc .99 Amstrad cassette .99, disc .99 Amstrad screen shot When the snow starts a-falling and the wind starts a-howling there's nothing better to warm up those frost bitten fingers than the blistering heat of EXPLODING FIST +. If you're feeling guilty after stuffing your face with all that Christmas turkey, here's your chance to get back into shape -or get kicked into the middle of the New Year! Spectrum cassette .99 Commodore 64 cassette .99, disc .99 Commodore 64 screen shot BORIH ING NOMI BEFIIM 11.00am ELITE Intergalactic action hits the 16-bit screen with a bangas the all time classic ELITE explodes into solid 3D splendour. Be warned, this game is so addictive you'll be up all night... and Santa won't leave any goodies if you don't get to bed on time! Atari ST $24.95 Amiga $24.95 Atari ST screen shot 3.00pm DYNAMIC DUO Going underground takes on a new meaning as you battle through pitch black tunnels and passageways in search of wealth beyond your wildest imagination. But beware of lurking monsters with no sense of tradition, it's duck not turkey on their Christmas menu. Spectrum cassette .99 Commodore 64 cassette .99, disc .99 Amstrad cassette .99, disc $14.99 FAXAJUA ZO Ant Amstrad screen shot 6.00pm BLAZING BARRELS HANDLE WITH FIREBIRD Christmas just wouldn't be the same without a rip roarin' Western. So Firebird are proud to present, fresh from their famous ICOM studios, BLAZING BARRELS, featuring the all star cast of ... Bammo THE MEXICAN BANDITO TNT Tom THE REALLY BAD GUY You, alias Black Jake THE BOUNTY HUNTER Atari ST $19.99 Amiga $19.99 Atari ST screen shot ALGONO GAMES SOFTWARE Sequel to the blockbuster WAY OF THE EXPLODING FIST! Christmas Viewing FREBRE For mail order please send your order and remittance (cheques payable to British Telecom plc or direct debit from Access/Visa card by stating number and expiry date) to: The Marketing Department, Telecomsoft, First Floor, 64-76 New Oxford Street, London WCIA 1PS. Telecomsoft, First Floor, 64-76 New Oxford St, London WCIA 1PS. Firebird and Firebird Logo are trademarks of British Telecommunications PLC A LEGEND IN GAMES SOFTWARE "


"harts Continental Cock-Up SPECTRUM TOPTEN Last Ninja 2 System 3 Bomb Jack Encore Joe Blade 2 Players Ad. Pinball Sim Code Masters 5 Ace 3D arcade game Continental Circus was originally called the much more obvious \"Continental Circuit by originators Taito. However, Fax (the magazine section) con now reveal that Fax (the telephone message machine) was responsible for the blunder. Taito's European people received a garbled message about the new arcade product from Japan, and immediately had the machine cabinets and promotional material run up featuring the new, wrong name they had received: a name that seemingly has no possible association with motor racing! P'tional Rugby Sim Code Mister Footballer of the Year Kixx Football Manager 2 Addictive Pro S'board Sim Code Masters Commando Encore 10 Chrysalis Cracks Supreme Chall. Beau Jolly Last Ninjo, the only full-pricer, stays of the top, while Rugby is a new entry and Skateboard a re-entry.     1 Last Ninja 2 Systems 2 Armalyte Thalamus Prison, shown here, is a 16-bit adventure very much along the lines of Obliterator the story of a convict on a penal planet trying to put together an escape ship. It is the first product from a new outfit called Chrysalis, formed by two guys ex of Teque, developers of such titles as Terrormex and Pac-Mania. The player must search for clues to the missing parts of the ship, while fighting off hostile mutant lifeforms. Prison doesn't sound immensely original, but it could well be a good start: ST and Amiga owners must wait for the New Year to see. Joe Blade 2 Players Bomb Jack Encore Barbarian 2 Palace Inter. Rugby Sim. Code Masters Taito Coin-Ops Ocean Commande Encore Dino Riders Ace of Aces Kixx 10 Pro S'board Sim. Code M'sters Mery positions stay the same, Armalyte er at number two and looks set to of their perth. A healthy ose knock System of full price and budget meor Christmas AMSTRAD TOP TEN About a trillion, billion years ago, a handful of aliens fled to this planet, chased thereby another lot intent on doing nasty things to them. Quickly and for reasons best known to themselves, they equipped the native lifeforms they found there dinosaurs to you and me with guns and armour and stuff and went beating the stuffing out of each other. Yep, convoluted scenarios are no longer the exclusive preserve of computer games! Dino Riders are apparently the latest craze in the Transformers/Zoids./Go Bots ballpark: a collection of fully articulated plastic reptiles in full battle dress. Coming in at between .99 and .99 there's one to empty the most bulging wallet even that belonging to one Mr Garry Williams, C +VG's capacious ad manager. It's a good job then that we have a nice assortment of the things to give away as late Christmas pressies, isn't it? And not only that, but we've twenty (TWENTY!) videos featuring the toys to offload too: twenty-five minute cartoon adventures yet to be soon on British TV. Lots of good booty to be won, therefore, and we'll keep picking winners till we've got rid of it all. There should be about thirty of you. All we need to know is: Joe Blade 2 Players Last Ninja 2 System 3 Kik Start 2 Mostertrenie DINO RIDERS ENTRY FORM Bomb Jack Encore Supreme Chall. Beau Jelly Air Wolf Encore 1) The Loch Ness Monster is claimed to be a dinosaur, but which sort? Iguanandon Plesiosaur Wodgosaur BMX Ninja Alternative 8 Battleships Encore 2) The Flintstones pet is called ... Super Stuntman Code Masters Dino Rex Toby 3) Who starred in the prehistoric epic \"One million years B.C.\" Was it... 10l Gauntlet Kixx Only one full price non-compilation around, Last Ninja 2 in a thort stocked full ofreceleases, re-entries and re-entering r eleases is all bit sed Maria Whittaker Lora Clark Raquel Welch Name.. Address... "


"C MICROPROSE WHAT'S THE SCORE? It's fun, fast, exciting and addictive. MicroProse Soccer keeps you on your toes, however often you play. Challenge the computer or a friend, competing in the World Cup, International Challenge or the indoor league. An overhead perspective of the pitch makes it easy to play good graphics and sound effects make every match seem real. Fully animated players can perform a whole variety of movements, including overhead and banana kicks. There are 29 different teams and a unique action-replay facility. W hat's the score with MicroProse Soccer? It's a winner. Pick up the best football kit. Now available for Commodore 64/128 Disk .95, Cassette .95, IBM PC + Compatibles .95. Coming soon for Atari St, Amiga, Spectrum and Amstrad. MICROPROSE SIMULATION SOFTWARE MicroProse, 2 Market Place, Tetbury, Glos, GL88DA. Tel: 0666 54326 "


"REVIEWS GAME OF THE MONTH LA ROBOCOP ESO FE9NET 1:26 a 70 ( od SS226 m ! Turn to page 42 to find out exactly why Ocean's game-of-the-film gets C+VG's most prestigious award. C+VG HITS! ZAK MCKRAKEN The first fruit of the new Lucasfilm/US Gold association is an absolute corker! FALCON ST 58 Mirrorsoft's brilliant filled 3D flight simulator roars in for a Hit! review. NEUROMANCER 74 Take a step into the future with this thrilling Cyberpunk arcade adventure. THE BEST OF MATES Battlechess and Colossus X come head to head. Both are awarded Hits, but which one comes out on top? hunder Radio OTHERS SOONTOO100000 THUNDERBLADE RAMBO III RAC RALLY GUERILLA WAR FLYING SHARK TOTAL ECLIPSE FIST+ ROY OF THE ROVERS TRIVIAL PURSUIT II Puo EUGENE LACEY The voice of experience. The CIARAN BRENNAN JULIAN RIGNALL TONY DILLON C+VG Ed has been around longer Another ex-ZZAPI Editor, and more Or Jaz, as he likes to be called Or the Dildoid, as he does like to than a ZX80 and certainly knows recently the former Dep Ed of Your Ex-ZZAPI Editor, he owns just about be called. He's a self-confessed EX LLAPI Editor, no Owns just about his stuff. He's partial to shoot 'em Sinclair, Ciaran comes to C+VG every computer and console sex thimble and loves playing ups, but doesn't say no to the odd as the voice of reason. No bull going and is a total arcade computer games when he's not arcade adventure, Brennan tells you how it is. addict listening to heavy metal. FAVE GAMES: Top Gun, Zak FAVE GAMES: Falcon ST. Chase HQ. FAVE GAMES: Robocop. FAVE GAMES: Times of Lore. McKracken, Joan of Arc. Hybris. Legendary Axe, Vindicators Robocop, Falcon ST. "


"THUNDE Peviews waggling the long joystick shoot'em up. Although this give me the stand-up sounds odd, it's actually version any day! quite simple to explain. The The game itself casts the helicopter can fly player into the role of a forwards, effectively SCORE 00039156 megalomaniacal pilot scrolling the landscape MACHINES: who's decided to take on a downwards and is also SPECIAM/C64/ST AMIGA. mighty enemy army able to move up and US GOLD PRICE: SPEC .99, CASS, single-handedly. Before down, \"into\" and \"out\" of C64/AMS .99, CASS ST anyone can stop him he's the screen that's where .99, AMIGA .99. up and away in his the 3D comes in. VERSION TESTED: ST/SPEC. fully-armed Apache The city is comprised of REVIEWER: JULIAN helicopter and heading surprise, surprise RIGNALL towards the nearest war skyscrapers, and the US Gold clinched the 1986 zone... helicopter is guided Christmas number one slot There are four levels of around or over these: with Gauntlet, and a year action, each with three hitting a building results in distinct sub-sections. The the chopper crashing to later did the double with Out Run. This year they're first is set in the city and is a the ground in a twisted and hoping to make it a treble vertically scrolling 3D flaming mess of metal and with Thunderblade but JR's chopper rains death on the enemy. Blast the enemy carrier. they'll have to fight every inch of the way if they're going to beat Operation Wolf and Afterburner to the yuletide top slot. Thunderblade, Sega's impressive helicopter shoot 'em up, appeared in SEORE FI FE35481 THEO 025 OTETET the arcades earlier this DISTEN year and followed hot on the heels of Afterburner. As with most Sega arcade games there are different models: a stand-up version for pubs and small arcades, and a deluxe sit-on version: a mechanical monster that spins the player as he moves left and right. Although this was a novel idea (and cheap the entire machine is fully mechanical and not hydraulic), it doesn't give as impressive and thrilling a ride as Afterburner. And to be honest, I always felt like a wally perched a-top the machine Spectrum version excellent game play, better than ST. a loss of one of five lives. missiles automatically Tanks patrol the ground, destroying any tank or and fire white missiles at ground target that gets in the chopper as it flies the way. Scoae613100 HT00100000 overhead. Nifty At the top right of the maneouvring is required to screen is a distance meter, dodge these deadly items, which ticks down as the especially as the collision chopper progresses. When detection tends to favour the meter is diminished, the the enemy a missile that next level loads in this looks like it's going to just case the second city miss the helicopter is often section. This is displayed in judged as a hit, which is a first person 3D, rather like mite annoying Afterburner. Buildings As the chopper flies whizz by as the chopper forward, it fires bullets and wends its way through this L0959a unter Klara NO "


"ERBLADE enemy forces. The ST incarnation of Thunderblade has all the features of the arcade game, looks and plays almost identically, but The tanks blast you in the canyon. 06250000 SCORE 00077160 00250000 again in evidence, and its depletion brings the player to the last of level one's sub-games. This is another vertically scrolling section, but this time with no 3D. The chopper flies low over a giant ship that's simply bristling with gun emplacements. These have to be taken out very quickly if they're left they fire volleys of missiles at the helicopter and make life very difficult. There are also targets on the ship which can be blasted for bonus points. When the ship's bow is ASI USAM1 09D suffers from a few minor flaws and one big one. The major flaw is with the game itself; let me explain. When manufacturers design a video game, they do so ORE 100131683_HIS O2S0000 with one primary thought in their mind to make the game earn as much money as possible. Sometimes this is done by making the game difficult, or by limiting the levels after all, arcade owners don't want gamers playing their games all day for 20p! Unfortunately Thunderblade falls into the limited levels category. and has only four levels, each with three short sub-sections. And really it doesn't matter how good the conversion is, there still isn't enough to keep a games player addicted for a long period of time. Looking at the ST conversion, US Gold's a STAGE development house Tiertex The skyscraper scene swivel that chopper through the gaps. have managed to squeeze concrete canyon. Tanks reached a points bonus is skyscrapers. Tanks appear in all the original arcade make an appearance awarded for the number of and helicopters also enter features, but the result is a again, and fire white targets destroyed during the fray to add an extra sluggish and jerky game. missiles. This time they're the level and the time degree of difficulty. The The helicopter is slow to easier to dodge the taken to complete it the second sub game is a respond to joystick collision detection is more fast the time the bigger the forest, with the chopper movements and the game generous although bonus and play switches flying low over the trees speeds up and slows down they're sometimes to the next level. attempting to take out depending on how much obscured by the large This, as with the other two tanks and planes, and the is going on something explosions of tanks as they levels is fundamentally is fundamentally third section is a desert, third section is a desert. haven't seen for quite a go up. similar to the first level, with The third and fourth while. Shooting ground Planes and enemy the sub-games falling into levels take place over the targets is very tricky. helicopters fly across the the same 3D/scroll, formast. ocean and a refinery The arcade game was screen and are blasted out First is a canyon run, with respectively, and each quick to respond, and the of the way: contact is fatal.the sides of a steep valley gets progressively harder. Two Joysticks on the The damage meter is taking the place of with increasing numbers of Continued on page 25 "


"ENTER THE Hour Opponerits in your battle for supremacy are -Fur em of Evil. This arthrowing \" whose skills are manifold and dangerous Hiro out to spoil your daycare Acrobatic Women Warriors-and vicious Guard Dog Al the end of each level you must overcome the linja Master in order to progress some examples of these superhuman villains are: Arire-breathing A Fal Manx an Armour Clac Gianland the Green Land Gruesome Giant Minja who has a clisconcerting habit of suddenly multiplying into an army! SCORES HLSCORE: DOGPOPODOODCOCAPOEena  SPECTRUM AMSTRAD coMMODORE $9.95 .953 000dador ATARIST CASSETTE DISIO 00000ODOD AMIGA the name of the same IMAGINE SOFTWARE 6 CENTRAL STREET. MANCHESTER M25NS TE061-8826633 TELEX: 667799 OCEANS G FAX 061 834 0650 "


"Neviens THUNDERBLADE addictive and enjoyable, and the game has more lasting appeal than the SCORE 00088960 HI 00250000 16-bit version. Definitely DIST recommended. ST GRAPHICS 82% SOUND 79% VALUE 62% PLAYABILITY 67% OVERALL 66% SPECTRUM GRAPHICS 83% SOUND 81% VALUE 78% PLAYABILITY Thunderblade \"only four levels\". 87% machine meant that you OVERALL 82% Watch out. arcade game and fancy could move in and out of the sound of it, I strongly the screen quickly. On the recommend you try it out UPDATE... computer the chopper is before parting with your The Amiga version is so sluggish, by the time it money. looking similar to the ST, actually responds to the The Spectrum version is but is a lot smoother and joystick the tank has very good. It's the sound is far better. trundled past. This lack of monochromatic, and SCORE 00087310 Amstrad will be a more precision also provides consequently dodging colourful rendition of the problems during the 3D missiles is tricky because Spectrum version, and it is sections: you can see an you can't see them, but the hoped that it'll be just as obstacle coming up, but gameplay is slightly better smooth and playable. the chopper just doesn't and more challenging Chris Butler, author of move out of the way in time than the ST, and the Space Harrier and Ghosts even though you're movement and response is 'n' Goblins has converted tugging the joystick like much quicker! Generally Thunderblade to C64, and crazy. found the gameplay it's looking promising, if a The loading time Thunderblade US Gold pushing for their third Xmas smash. little blocky. between sub-games is long, and disrupts the flow of play, and there's an annoying end-of-game wait while a sampled soundtrack plays and the first level reloads. SCORE 00006130 HI= 00250000 On the positive side, the game is very colourful, with some gorgeous graphics and convincing 3D if you ignore the jerky update. Sound is quite good with some harsh effects, but the sampled titled music is atmospheric, if a little scratchy Thunderblade will definitely appeal to those who love the arcade original, but I don't think it offers enough challenge and variety I practically finished the game in an afternoon. If you haven't played the EDER-190TR 25 340650 "


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"FIVE FIST-FULLS OF all game.cole eockles on the ROY OF THE ROVERS NEWSFLASH! Four of the Melchester Rovers fiveaside football team have been kidnapped... hours before a crucial fund-raising game to save their ground from grasping property developers. Time is running out and player-manager Roy Race MUST rescue his team-mates, dodging danger, escaping ambushes and boobytraps in order to play the most important game of his career! CBM 64/128 .99 cassette .99 disk AMSTRAD .99 cassette .99 disk SPECTRUM .99 cassette .99 disk GARY LINEKER'S HOT SHOT The most realistic football game ever produced for your computer. Play in a full-scale eleven-o-side football game complete with sliding tackles, throw ins, corners, goal kicks, fouls and even the dreaded referee with his red card. With all these features to watch out for will you have what it takes to match the shooting skills of England's top striker in Gary Lineker's Hot Shot. CBM 64/128 .99 cassette .99 disk AMSTRAD .99 cassette .99 dick SPECTRUM .99_cassette .99 dok ATARI ST .99 disk AMIGA .99 disk IBM PC .99 de SUPERSPORTS As varied and as bizarre a collection of unique sporting events as you are ever likely to find. Have you got a good enough eye to be a 'crack shot; the nerve to attempt the 'devil dive'; the strength to 'smash slates'; the accuracy to shoot the 'cross bow'; and finally (and unbelievably!) triumph over an 'underwaters assault course'. Up to four players can compete in this outrageous challenge! to'smoot the believderwater CFLEETWAY PUBLICATIONS Gary Linekers Hoi-Shot! SPERSI ROY Rover 333 Screenshots from various formats. Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd., Alphe House, "


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"Peviews it, but we at C+VG eventually found an all but invisible lever on the wall of one of the rooms, which suddenly makes the thing a whole lot safer. There is still a mine field to be negotitated outside, however, and you are likely to be badly short of energy by this point already. The electric door problem is certainly one that the real Rambo couldn't have worked out for himself. The next stage is not too different, taking place outside the buildings in the compound itself, but once you've blown that place MACHINES: SPEC, 64, AMSTRAD.  OCEAN PRICE: SPECTRUM .95, C64/AMSTRAD 9.95, DISK $14.95. VERSION TESTED: C64. REVIEWER: MATT BIELBY. SCORE: BB248 RAMBO 11 A Righteous Rambo rampages... RAMBO III sky high the action takes a different twist. Stealing a tank, you now see things from a Rambo point of view, aiming your weapon with the sight Operation Wolf style. Kill rate goes up here rather rapidly, to say the least! Film tie ins weights things towards the production of very acceptable but dull games the Toyota's of the industry. This is quite a major license, and an unembarassing game, but nobody will be talking about it in six months time. We'll have a Rambo IV then in any case. B ali LLLLLLLLLL SCORE: BR8168 RAMBO III A C+VG has another Sly dig. Shades of Eagle's Nest... You've got a bit of a problem of repetition when you commit yourself to producing games based on big film licenses which is what people like Ocean have done. All the suitable famous actor action computer games, which nine times out of ten means scrolling shoot 'em up. So here surprise, surprise we have a little squat Sly sprite (again) and a product that, if nothing else, is nowhere near as dire as awful movie. The first mission you undertake is a Gauntlet style arcade adventure, with screens flipping rather than scrolling. Seen from an odd not-quite-straight-down angle, John Rambo and peskie ruskies alike look like tiny little shambling male members rushing around the screen. You are trying to rescue your idiot colonel who has got himself captured in Afghanistan, but in the mean time you get to let free lots of rebel prisoners and shoot lots of folk. Plenty of useful stuff to collect for later on around this level like keys, rubber gloves, infa red goggles and so on as well as a rather tricky and frustrating problem: how to get past the one electrified door. Now the rubber gloves may have had something to do with 68% GRAPHICS 70% SOUND VALUE 65% PLAYABILITY 73% OVERALL 71% UPDATE... All versions play the same. The Spectrum version will be less colourful than the C64, and the Amstrad will be more attractive. 16-bit versions are up and coming in the New Year, with better graphics. SCORE: 68696 RAMBO 11 Year, with better PS "


"eviens Jo \"LOMBA RAL armchair racers to take the wheel of a Ford Sierra RS  MACHINES: STAMIGA/IBM Cosworth and enter the PC. rally without need of  SUPPLIER: MANDARIN. sponsors or a hefty PRICE: $24.95 ALL registration fee. VERSIONS. At the start an option VERSION TESTED: ST. REVIEWER: JULIAN screen is displayed, RIGNALL. allowing the player to enter a full rally, drive each The first RAC Rally was held of the five legs separately back in 1932, and since (each leg has three then the competition has consecutive stages), visit grown steadily to become the workshop, attend a TV one of the premier interview, practice racing, international rallies. It's a or watch a demo. tough and demanding Visiting the workshop race, and tests the drivers allows repairs and and cars to their limits. improvements to be made Mandarin's latest upon the car, from buying release is a simulation of new engines and installing the rally, and allows four wheel drive to honing 46 Get it into fourth! A Over the hill? the suspension and tuning enter the rally. the engine. The car is All these repairs cost broken down into four money, and the only way components: engine, money can be earned is wheels, bodywork and by either winning races or suspension. Each has a by attending a TV percentage representing interview. The latter is, in its current state of repair. As fact, a series of racing improvements are made, trivia questions: answer the percentage is correctly and a wad of increased (costing  for dosh is yours; wrong, and every percent it's into the race with no improvement). Naturally, improvements. There's a the better condition the limit of one TV interview car, the faster and more before each race. reliable it is let the When the required damage go unrepaired improvements have been and the chances are that made, the race begins the car will either break either a full rally, or a single down, or won't be fit to stage. The road is viewed 253 The end is nigh. "


"RD RAC LLY The car can take a certain amount of punishment (crashing into roadside obstacles causes it to stop, and minor damage is sustained), but crashing off the side of a mountain or repeated Course Menu STAGE 1 2 3 accidents causes MAP irrepairable damage, and FULL LOMBARD RAC RALLY the car is disqualified from the race. HRRROGATE TELFORD The player may race as TELFORD HARROGATE often as he likes, but must HARROGATE CARLISLE ensure a regular supply of money to keep the car in CARLISLE HARROGATE STAGE TYPE:MOUNT good repair, and also to HPRROGATE HARROGATE STAGE CONDITION:NORMAL buy equipment to gain advantage over the PRACTICE TARGET TIMES 1ST 4:28.8 opposition. USE WORKSHOP 2ND 4:34.e  Programmers Rad Rat  TERVEA 3RD 4:48.8 have incorporated quite a DEMO few novel features into this BEST TIMES simulation to make it START AGAIN different from the multitude of other computer race games on the market. The Options screen trivia option is both educational and fun, and having to keep an eye on your money and the condition of the car adds plenty of depth to the action. Racing itself is fast and thrilling, with the best controls I've encountered in any computer race game. The highly convincing car interior (every dial works) and the realistic driver work AVAILABLE B EXIT extremely well, and the AVAILABLE: CAR SPECIFICATION whole thing is enjoyable, thoroughly engrossing, ENGINE:STRUIDARO 2-0 and comes highly DRIVE: REAR WHEEL recommended. EXTRAS: O COSWORTH GRAPHICS 82% in 3D from a very unusual gear going up through feeling of exhilaration. viewpoint between the the gears is smooth and The rally takes place seats of the driver and realistic (you have to keep over five legs, each of co-driver. This means that an eye on the rev counter), which comprises three as well as seeing the road but the action of changing consecutive stages. To get SOUND 67% and all the dials on the down causes an excessive a placing, all three stages VALUE 73% dashboard, you can also loss of revs, and the car have to be completed see the co-driver's tends to slow right down within a specified time PLAYABILITY 88% clipboard, upon which is a This can be annoying, and limit. Cash prizes  OVERALL 83% course map and I'd also would have liked offered for first second and L stopwatch. The interior of an option to change from third places nothing for the car is nicely drawn and fourth to second. less. The stages vary from UPDATE... the driver is well animated The road is twisting and normal road conditions to when he changes gear hilly, and this is displayed mountain routes, and even Amiga and IBM PC yes, he does that! very convincingly with a through the night. Weather versions are available Control is smooth 3D update. conditions vary, making now. It's the usual story straightforward: left and Roadside obstacles and offroad tracks slippery, gameplay the same; the right steers, and forward other cars aren't and fog can even descend graphics and sound are and back accelerates and particularly well drawn (and if you haven't bought slightly better on the decelerates. Fire and but the overall effect is a good set of foglamps, Amiga, and worse on the forward or back changes realistic and gives a great your vision is impaired). PC. "


"00 1800 SCORE SCL eyles MENACE BA Ultimately, however the bottom line for a shoot 'em up is playability and Menace's is pitched perfectly. Menace is unlikely to win any awards for technical excellence or for the advancement of Sneaky snake shooting. science, but it is a playable and addictive destroy an unprotected the game description blast, with enough depth ship. Each of the six levels that's really necessary built in to make it last. leads to one of the it's a 'simple shoot the In the thick of it. demonic guardians aliens and collect the finish him off with a few icons type game with no carefully aimed blasts and real surprises. The options it's off to the next, tougher, available to modify the level. game to each individual's Using this wonder of taste include the choice of modern science, your ship two game types: Novice has the ability to collect and Expert. The only space debris and convert difference between these it into add-ons for your is that the scenery must be ship's systems and avoided in expert mode. MACHINES: ATARI weapons. These add-ons Otherwise the usual STIAMIGA/C64. are collected by picking options appear: sound PRICES: STIAMIGA $19.95, up the space debris (well, onloff, effects on/off and a C64 $9.99 CASS, $12.99 DISK. icons actually) which choice of joystick or mouse SUPPLIER: PSYCLAPSE. VERSION TESTED: ST. appear when enemy control REVIEWER: CIARAN formations are destroyed. So if Menace is such an BRENNAN. These icons always appear ordinary game, why did! as 1,000 point bonuses, but enjoy it so much? I'm The planet Draconia is an shooting them repeatedly unnatural place. Created upgrades them in the believes that games over the centuries by six of following order: Cannon, released on the 16-bit the most evil despots in the Laser, Speed, Outrider, computers should be Galaxy, it has since been force Field and finally programmed to the ST used as a base for some of Shield Replenisher. highest possible GRAPHICS 63% the most infamous And that's just about all specifications. evil-doing in the universe. What's that? SOUND 61% Your bosses have finally VALUE decided that enough is 000000 ! PLAYABILITY 82% enough, but instead of sending in a massive battle OVERALL 73% fleet to finish the place off, they've opted instead to send you in on a solo mission either they're UPDATE.. pretty short of resources, or they're looking for a good The Amiga version, which way to get rid of you. was the first available, is Draconia itself is actually not as playable composed of six left to right as its ST counterpart, so it scrolling levels, housing up may be a good idea to 'try to 60 different alien types. before you buy'. The only Contact with these aliens other version planned is depletes your shields, and for the C64 but as usual, no shields means no prizes we'll keep you informed of any further as even the slightest DESIGN contact is enough to developments. 78% OMA "


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"EROB 5 66826 minum DE ! requisitioned by OCP for use in their Robocop project. The result is MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64/ST/AMIGA. Robocop, an unstoppable SUPPLIER: OCEAN. and emotionless PRICE: SPEC 58.95 CASS, cybernetic law enforcer AMS/C64 .95 CASS, ST that's half man, half $19.95, AMIGA $24.95. machine and, to coin a VERSION TESTED: SPEC. REVIEWER: JULIAN phrase, all cop. RIGNALL. At first all goes well, but when Robocop Robocop is undoubtedly malfunctions and begins the hottest video release to remember Murphy's this Christmas, and Ocean memories, he embarks on are hoping to cash in on its a mission to track down phenominal success with and destroy the gang their computer adaptation members who shot him. of the blockbusting film. And this is where the game The scene is Detroit, starts. some time into the future. There are nine levels in Crime is rife, and the all, each one recreating a police force, now scene in the film. Because privatised and owned by there are so many levels, TIME the omnipotent OCP the game is multiload, Corporation, is pushed to although Spectrum +3 their limits. Body armour owners have the luxury of Put down your weapons! and full-face visors are the whole game loading in around. They return fire, extra ammunition dotted mandatory, and a one go. which reduces Robocop's around the landscape. policeman's life is cheap. The first scene is a energy meter if he sustains There are also extra When the central horizontally scrolling shoot hits. If his bar is diminished weapons which can be character, Murphy, is 'em up with Robocop entirely one of his three picked up and used gunned down in a walking along a street lives is lost. against the enemy my particularly grisly incident, taking pot-shots at the Ammunition is limited, favourite is the his body declared hordes of armed hooligans rounds remaining shown mega-bazooka which clinically dead is who are marauding numerically at the bottom blows away dozens of A precision shot, just like the film. of the screen, but there's villains! When Robocop has walked far enough, he turns into a side alley and the second level begins, which is seen through the eyes of Robocop in first person 3D. At the end of the alley is a thug who has to be apprehended but he's using a woman to shield himself. By using Robocop's crosshair sights, End of level one. 6  99956 GERE DE 7. See GET !! "


"HULLE perfectly when Robocop is first More shooting next, this powered up and the time with vertically multiload is swift and scrolling sections as painless. Robocop climbs the steps This is definitely the best of a warehouse. Next film tie-in to date, and is an comes a confrontation with utterly superb game in its Dick Jones, the evil Senior own right don't miss it. President of OCP, and his robotic killing machine ED-209. More shooting follows as Robocop escapes from OCP Tower, iSPECTRUM followed by even more blasting in a junkyard. The GRAPHICS 93% game reaches its climax SOUND 89% with the final showdown between Dick Jones and 88% Robocop who will win? PLAYABILITY 94% Robocop is one of my OVERALL 95% favourite films, and Ocean's tie-in captures its --atmosphere perfectly 1 don't think they could have UPDATE... done a better job. The fabulous graphics Being an intelligent sort of certainly help, and there's company, Ocean have even digitised speech from used the same game the film, although it's a bit design on all formats. scratchy. The gameplay is consequently, all tough, but it's very versions play the same addictive, and there's and differ only in plenty of variety, with graphical presentation. straightforward shooting, a The 16-bit versions are the reflex test and a puzzle most impressive of all, game to test the player and will feature more The game is also brilliantly speech than the 8-bit. presented, with an Definitely a game to introductory sequence look out for on any straight from the filmcomputer. od 1682 mm J! a Watch out for the chainsaw wielder. the player has to shoot the limit. It's quite tricky, as all thug several times as he the bits look very similar, moves left and right. and failure results in loss of Shooting the woman a life. Just to make things reduces Robocop's energy more difficult, there's a bar severely. I particularly pool of faces, and the enjoyed this sequence, as computer chooses one if requires split-second randomly. It's a neat idea, reflexes and timing to get and breaks up the blasting in that crucial shot the Halt, or I fire. graphics and feel are also superb. Next is another scrolling shoot out, with motorcyclists entering the fray, followed by a photofit session. Here the player has to match the picture of a felon with identical photofit components: eyes, ears, hair, nose and mouth, within a 30 second time WEATH 8996mm Da !95 Da 696 mm "


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"egame of your life? elcome strongers to the fantasy world of Fist, the ultimate game of heroic adventure. Within a vast dark labyrinth you must pit your wits against the hideous legions of the undead. Here hidden riches of great worth will reward the skilled and daring, swift death the faint of heart. Fist is a stunningly realistic adventure challenge crafted by genius game-master Steve Jackson and the computer wizardry of Computerdial Limited. Discover an entirely new concept of fantasy gaming, an awesomely different world that awaits beyond your telephone. Dial Fist and you unlock a living, breathing terror stalked world of medieval fantasy. You are a warrior within this thrillingly realistic adventure, that you control every step of the way simply by using the numbers on your telephone; while a trusted guide offers action advice and the corresponding numbers that determine your moves. True skills are needed to best creatures of cruel cunning, as corpses slither, zombies screech, fireballs sizzle and vampires hiss. A boundless sound adventure But beware, the evil empire does not easily give up such riches. And although many brave adventurers have entered this doom laden labyrinth, few have returned to tell. The gauntlet is cast down, take up the blade and dare to dial the adventure of your life. HINTS ON PLAY Use Fist's limbo option to store your character for up to four weeks. Simply dial 9 at any time during the adventure. Your limbo code allows you to stop and start your game of your leisure without having to begin again. You will return to where you left off the next time you call. Limbo saves you time and money! Keep a pencil and paper ready to draw up a map of the dungeon and keep track of your choices. Dial o to repeat messages that bursts to life within your reeling imagination. As broadsword in hand you hack your way through hellish screaming hoards towards a fortune in real gold pieces. Or at very least the glory of a gruesomely good Fist tee shirt. and dial 9 to hear your character status report. (Inventory, provisions, stamina and option to store your character in limbo.) Send for your free adventurer's pack today for the background and rules to the game, a membership form for the adventurer's guild, information on how to get a tone dialler (helps speed up the adventure if you have a rotary/pulse phone, and news of the latest FIST developments. Send an A4 sized s.a.e. 10: Fist, Co. Computerdial Limited, 7 Leapale Road, Guildford, Surrey GUI4JU. Steve Jackson 0898.800.876 FIST presents Fantasy Interactive Scenarios by Telephone Calls charged at 25p per minute cheap and 38p per minute peak and standard. "


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"elle NS 000600 MACHINES: ST/AMIGA/SPECTRUM/ C64/AMSTRAD. SUPPLIER: IMAGINE. PRICES: SPEC $8.95, C64/AMS .95, AMIGA $24.95, ST $19.95. VERSION TESTED: AMSTRAD. REVIEWER: CIARAN BRENNAN. Having scored a couple of hits with Ikari Warriors and its follow-up, Victory Road, SNK's next outing into the arcades was Guerilla War, another one or two-player scrolling fighting game. Although it may not have scored highly for originality, the coin-op was colourful and, most importantly, really playable. This was one of my favourite coin-ops this year, so the news that the conversion was in Imagine's capable hands pleased me no end. But what a surprise I was in AMSTRAD GRAPHICS 44% SOUND 37% VALUE 22% PLAYABILITY 32% OVERALL 23% A Tanks 'n' rocks 'n' guns 'n' things. for ... Set on a tropical island, don't know if there's with it. Even the inclusion of IC64 the obiect is to guide a anyone ahead until too a rotate' mode of play guerilla (or two) through late... aaaargh! Second (which is supposed to GRAPHICS 52% town and jungle in an effort life gone. imitate the swivel heads of SOUND 37% to free the paradise from Back to the start again the original's joysticks) the cruel oppression of an and a few minutes later I'm doesn't help matters as this VALUE 17% evil dictator. Mercenaries actually in a tank and is, if anything, even worse PLAYABILITY 19% appear at every corner, steaming off through the Than standard ser-up. OVERALL 17% armed to the teeth and jungle. What's this It's been a long long time determined to put a stop to approaching? It's only a since an Imagine product L-----your progress. foot soldier with a gun no has disappointed me to Along the way there are problem... BOOOM! Third this degree. A perfectly a number of hostages to be and final life up the spout. playable and entertaining UPDATE freed and extra weapons How can that happen? Mycoin-op has been chewed to collect, including flame tank has been destroyed up and spat out as a Spectrum is just as throwers, bazookas and after approximately 1.5 flickering and stuttering ghastly as the other even tanks! These are pico-seconds by a foot mess. If you really want a versions, but apparently collected by walking soldier! game of this type then the 16-bit versions are across them, and last for 50 And Guerilla Warcarried check out Victory Road... pretty good. This we'll shots or until you bite the on and on like this for just as it can only be better. have to see... dust whichever comes long as I tried to get to grips Imagine's most disappointing recent product. soonest. However, rescuing a hostage renews your ammunition (or fuel if you're driving) and adds a meaty 1,000 points to your collection. So with all of this in mind, I stepped off into the unknown to try to beat the dictator. And this is where the problems started. Firstly the graphics are so indistinct that it took a couple of seconds before ! knew which way the character was facing and you can't hang around for a couple of seconds in a game like this ... uuuuurgh! One life lost. The next character appears and it's off towards the enemy at last. The trouble is that the play area is so small that you "


"Tough shoot 'em up. Teviews and jerky at some stages. Not that this makes the game any easier to play the basic game design makes sure you're not going to clock Shark in a few sittings. On quite a few occasions my plane disappeared below the level of the screen and I was killed. That seemed very unfair as how could I be expected to dodge the flak if I couldn't even see my plane? Still that's a small point really and a design fault that was also in the coin-op original. Presumably the conversion team went for a www MACHINES: ATARI ST, SPECTRUM, C64, AMSTRAD, ST 24.95, SPECTRUM .95, C64 $8.95, $12.95 DISK, AMSTRAD $8.95, $14.95 DISK.  SUPPLIER: FIREBIRD. REVIEWER: CIARAN BRENNAN Power-ups are vital. FLYING SHARK Flying Shark caused quite the back of your head and over the screen so you warts and all' conversion. a stir when it was launched a good memory to have to track it carefully So to buy or not to buy? a couple of years backremember their attack blasting any other enemy If you were crazy about the which now seems a bit patterns if you are going to tanks or planes that may coin-op then definitely yes. strange when you consider get anywhere in Flying be around it. This is a more than that all you are really Shark. There is one generous competent conversion. talking about is a vertically the first impression of the saving grace though If, however, you are just scrolling shoot 'em up game is \"blimey this is you are given three super looking for a good albeit a particularly good tough.\" Unlike some other weapons at the beginning scrolling shoot 'em up for one. vertically scrolling blasters of the game represented your ST then I would You are at the controls of on the ST Flying Shark is by three flame icons at the consider Xenon by a World War I bi-plane incredibly mean with its bottom right of the screen. Melbourne House instead. flying low over an ever power ups. Tap space bar and four It has the edge in changing terrain. When you finally flaming balls appear playability and graphics. As you fly up-screen the manage to blast a whole spinning around your enemy scroll down squadron of red planes a plane killing anything ST towards you attacking power up will appear that moves. These are from the sky as well as the but it is no simple matter of useful for blowing up the GRAPHICS 75% ground. You need eyes in flying into it. It wanders all armoured fortresses with SOUND 70% Flying Shark bi plane mayhem their hidden tanks. VALUE 50% Extra super weapons can PLAYABILITY be picked up by collecting 258EEE 70% the letter 'B' power-ups that OVERALL 75% appear every so often. The over head graphics UPDATE are very pretty and similar to the arcade original. Spectrum and C64 Lush jungle forests with versions of Flying Shark tanks appearing from appeared last year and clearings and gun boats in were widely acclaimed. rows of three in a bright They are now available blue ocean. There is no on a number of question mark about the compilations (See graphics in this conversion. Compilation City guide to The doubts that I have the best Xmas game are with the speed with packs). An Amiga version which the game plays it will appear sometime in does appear a bit slow the New Year. "


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"ONS TOTAL ECLIPSE neviens room designs. For programmer has liquid passing through example, in one room managed to put a lot of your body or you dry up. there's a staircase, a code in a little space. The There is water hidden symbol on the wall, a miracle of compaction. around the pyramid, but pedestal with a chair on it You start standing next to there's only a finite supply, and a few blocks scattered a bi-plane near a large so you can't keep going about. All this takes up p yramid, somewhere in back to the same old tried quite a bit of RAM, but the Egypt. If you take a look and tested water trough. into the sky, you see most of The puzzles are well TEREZAOBAL SOLLISTA the sun. The reason you thought out, and mainly don't see all of it is because take the form of locked there's an eclipse about to doors and magically take place. In two hours locked doors. The locked time in fact. The reason you doors have to be opened are there is because some with ankhs, which are cleverdick cast a curse on found lying around, the pyramid. The curse is \"If hanging on walls, under anything should block the objects etc. The magically sun and stop the light locked doors are opened reaching the top of the by shooting two identical pyramid, the blockage will hieroglyphics, which are be destroyed.\" Should the normally in two completely moon explode, then of different rooms at either course it takes the Earth end of the pyramid. with it. You have to get to Mummies take the place A Face to face with a face. the top of the pyramid and of the laser guns in the two MACHINES: SPEC, AMS, previous games, springing C64. 330eLOUTO up from the floor when you SUPPLIER: INCENTIVE. PRICE: SPECIAMS/C64 step on a pressure pad or .95 CASS. jumping out of coffins, as  VERSION TESTED: AMS. mummies tend to do. What REVIEWER: TONY DILLON. you do with them is up to Incentive are still moving you to work out. forward as far as 3D games The Amstrad version is are concerned. They got quite fast and smooth, and all the shape generating colour is used to good maths correct first time, effect. One clue to getting round with Driller, but the anywhere on the game is main problem with all the that opposite walls are versions was that they were always the same colour. If slower that they should they're not, maybe there's have been. Dark Side was something you're missing a little better as far as TOTAL ECLIPSETA out on? speed was concerned, but it was still a little bland. Total Eclipse is a step AMSTRAD forward in the right direction. GRAPHICS 83% It features quite fast SOUND 63% gameplay, a lot of intricate VALUE 73% puzzles and some complex Puzzles all the way. Enter the pyramidi ! PLAYABILITY 87% OVERALL 76% CUDO destroy the curse before it's L. too late. BERBEISASTEREOBIES Before you can start your UPDATE... quest, there are a few things you should take note Total Eclipse is going to be of. Firstly, you must always roughly the same game watch the time. A on all formats. The only wristwatch in the corner difference is that the counts away the seconds, Spectrum version is and you're going to need monochromatic (and a everyone. Secondly is your little faster than the heartrate. Take too much Amstrad version), and the damage and it speeds up Commodore version is dramatically. Take a rest slightly more colourful, before going any further. but very s-l-o-W. The final thing to take note Still, those who like the of is your water level. In the other Freescape titles will hot climate you have to more than likely revel in keep a constant supply of this. "


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"Having a good bank. MACHINE: STIAMIGA/PC/MACINTOSH. SUPPLIER: MIRRORSOFT. PRICE: ST $24.99, AMIGA .99, PC EGA $34.99, PC EGA/MAC $44.95. VERSION TESTED: ST. REVIEWER: TONY DILLON. don't dip groundward or flight, three is for some real lose too much speed or man's flying. Then click on what have you. Armament to continue, Falcon is a simulation of The F-16 can carry a the F-16 and first made an variety of different appearance on the IBM PC weapons, ranging from the a while back. It was common Sidewinder heralded as revolutionary. AIM-9J AA-missile to the not incredibly realistic and so-common AIM-9L obtainable by both Sidewinder, which has a arcadesters and pilots much more powerful heat alike. Then came Falcon tracking system and isn't AT, which makes full use of eadily fooled by flares. It the AT's advanced can also carry a small graphics and speed. variety of bombs. To load Falcon ST is even better. the plane, click on the up Before taking off you first arrow beneath the picture enter your name into the of the weapon. The pilot's roster and select a groundsman then either rank. There are five ranks to tells you that it's been People say there's no advancement in the software industry. I remember, not so long In the air tonight. Das Swooping low to attack a convoy.. C+VG HIT! ago, when Psion Flight choose from, all of which Simulator was the ultimate have a dramatic effect on in realism. Then came the the difficulty level. For unbelievable Flight example, 1st Leutenant Simulator // from Sublogic, gives you an infinite supply which features the great of all weapons and makes scenery disks which the plane indestructable enable you to fly almost you can't be shot down, anywhere on the globe, and should you complete with accidentally smash into recognisable scenery and the ground, you just realistic flying times. Then bounce off, and Colonel came FA-18 Interceptor, a (realistic flying reactions true 16-bit action sim. It and destruction ratios). features fast smooth There are 12 missions, graphics and stacks of each with different playability. A lot of fanatics objectives, maps and complained because it smatterings of the was too simplistic in it's opposition. You can also approach it was just a set the maximum number matter of point the plane in of MiGs the right direction and the (Mikoyan/Guryevich-21 computer works out all the Soviet fighter plane) flap and speed attacking you. None adjustments to ensure you ensures a relatively safe "


"C+VO fitted, or if not, why not. convoy of trucks that move out \"Caution\" when you're Once you'r ready, it's onto constantly between two doing something you're the airstrip you go. points on the map. not supposed to like fly One of the things that There are a wealth of with your afterburners full makes Falcon special is its views to choose from, some on with your landing gear very fast (just spot that MIG are amazingly useful, extended and things like fly past), smooth and others are just attractive. \"pull up\" when you're uncannily realistic You can look around the about to hit the ground. graphics. The feeling of realistically detailed distance is quite amazing. cockpit in all four helped by the clever use of directions, as well as look shadows and incredibleup, above the control detail. The telegraph poles panel to give you an GRAPHICS 94% that line the roads, for uncluttered view of the sky example, just look like ahead. There's an external 82% SOUND sticks from a distance, but view option, which is my VALUE 83% close up they are proper favourite, and you can I PLAYABILITY 92% poles, complete with rotate about the plane i through 360°. shadows and wires. I OVERALL 93% particularly like the The aircraft's design and L-28.5 LaDB E 2881 A Falcon the best simulator to date. manouvreability is UPDATE... apparently spot-on. The cockpit is perfect, right The Amiga version will down to the yoke and feature the same throttle under the pilot's left graphics, with maybe a and right hands. The little colour enemy is blessed with enhancement. It must artificial intelligence, and have improved sound, follow the same kind of which seems to be the aircraft manoeuvres as case as always, and will real Soviet pilots use. feature all the aspects of Obviously in 1st Lieutenant the ST version, including mode, it's going to be a the option to link up to an little unreal, but in Colonel ST, PC or another Amiga mode, only the best can and have the ol' dogfight. keep her up in the air, yet There are plans to alone fight up there. release expansion disks There are a wealth of which will contain new options, from basic stuff like scenery, new missions, as whether to display scenery well as up-to-date dots or not, and whether to information on new have bitchin' Betty the planes and battle computer voice that calls strategies. "


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"Battle Chess Colossus X. program whose main selling  MACHINES: IBM PC MACHINES: ST AMIGA. point is its animated gameplay. AMIGA.  SUPPLIER: CDS. Battle Chess is graphically SUPPLIER: PRICE: .95 BOTH stunning, with a 3D board and INTERPLAY/ELECTRONIC VERSIONS. characters that would have ARTS. VERSION TESTED: ST. most players drooling out of PRICE: .95 BOTH their mouths. The characters VERSIONS. are nice when motionless, but VERSION TESTED: AMIGA. when they begin to move things really get going. Pawns THE BEST OF MATES? march in typically military The arrival of two new chess programs in the office fashion, Knights strut in a can only mean one thing ... it's time for resident manner befitting their rank, Bishops glide solemnly and chess bore Ciaran Brennan to pick up the pieces reverently while the Queen and let rip. vampishly wiggles her curvaceous hips enticingly as she patrols the board. However it's only when two pieces meet in combat that sparks begin to fly. Knights dismember each other, Bishops get vicious and the Queen lets rip with a little black magic. This element is so engrossing that I found myself sacrificing Pawns unnecessarily just to see another fight. Colossus may not have any Batu BEST OF MATES Battle Chess. THE CONTENDERS box, the better the game! This At the White end... Colossus simple rule applies equally to Chess X, the latest in the tried chess programs manuals, as the amount of information and tested Colossus series from contained is usually a good CDS. Written for the ST and pointer to the depth of the Amiga by Martin Bryant (the man responsible for the 8-bit program. In this case Colossus wins Colossus games), version X hands down. Despite the fact includes a number of that the two manuals are enhancements over its roughly the same size, the predecessors, including infinite Battle Chess book is entirely playing levels and a program taken up by a beginner's guide that 'learns' from its opponent's to Chess and a list of historic moves. games. Colossus' manual on And at the Black end the other hand has 34 pages Interplay's Battle Chess, a chess dedicated to an in-depth listing program for the Amiga and PC and explanation of the compatibles with the addition program's features. of one notable feature ... live action. That's right, when two O n-screen, the presentation pieces meet in combat, it's is very similar across both drawn swords and severed programs, with each accessing limbs to the fore in an orgy of features via a series of animated violence. . pull-down menus. The Battle So how do they compare? Chess system comes out Will the flashy presentation and slightly in front this time as its entertainment value of the animated menus are entirely young pretender see off the self-explanatory, whereas tried and trusted gameplay of Colossus' more complex the old favourite? The pieces instructions often require a are set up, the clocks are reference to the manual. reset ... let the battle begin. ROUND TWO: ROUND ONE: GRAPHICS AND PRESENTATION SOUND It's an old war-gamers adage Although these features would that the best way to compare usually be considered cosmetic two board games was to weigh in a chess program, in this case the boxes the heavier the we're dealing with one Copyright 19 WHEN A Battle Chess title screen. of this excitement built in, but its graphics are nevertheless superb. There's a choice of four piece sets (ranging from Traditional through Oriental to Space Age), so everyone should find a favourite. The board and pieces are sharp and distinct, and a unique 'rotate and tile' feature allows the player to view the proceedings from any angle. ROUND THREE: THE GAME By far the best way to compare two chess games is to play them "


"again each other, so this is gimmick, and like all gimmicks program. The sharper display planned for late next year. exactly what I did, Colossus its novelty does eventually and the learn as it plays the price for this version is a played White and took an early wear off. After a while I found feature made it the more yet undecided. advantage, but Battle Chess that I was spending more time user-friendly of the two and has fought well from behind and at studing the 2D board (which been the most played chess COMPARITIVE one stage looked as though it incidentally is better than its program in my flat of late. One could actually cause an upset. Colossus counterpart) and only things for certain, 16-bit chess A couple of surprising sacrifices referring to the 3D display to players no longer have any and a devastating end game watch a fight sequence. You've read the piece, now cause for complaint with however, and Colossus trapped Despite its traditional software of this standard play the game. Thanks to a the Black King behind its own unique C+VG tie-up, we're exterior, Colossus Chess X available. delighted to be able to offer you Pawns to take the honours. proved to be a better all-round a chance to win a fabulous achines were allowed up to one minute to consider hand-painted chess set, each move, and more often COLOSSUS X CHESS courtesy of CDS Software and there are also 10 copies of than not the entire time allocation was utilised. Battle Electronic Arts' Battle chess up Chess appeared to play a strong for grabs for the runners-up! attacking game, attempting to Normally available from win by gaining the upper hand Harrods at a cost of over , through a series of this beautiful chess set comes piece-swapping moves. complete with wooden board Colossus on the other hand and metal pieces in one of two played a more devious game, configurations: American Civil executing a few moves that had War or Alice In Wonderland. me scratching my head and All you have to do to win this obviously having the same wonderful collector's item is to effect on Battle Chess. study the picture above and What makes Colossus decide how White can execute a checkmate in two moves. Jot Your move? the answer down in normal chess notation and send it to: A ST Colossus Chess. Check This Mate! C&VG, UPDATE... Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London ECIR 3AU. The The PC version of Battle Chess and the Amiga version that your entry is in before clock is running, so make sure of Colossus are currently January 10th. under development and should be available early in 1989. There are no plans for an ST Battle Chess, but a PC version of Colossus is ttle ChESS UP BC 91% 82% IGRAPHICS ISOUND PLAYABILITY 1 VALUE OVERALL CCX 88% 77% 84% 80% 91% 78% 80% 84% 1988 --------onlari Teresina Viewer CDS Features Play Position unique among chess programs is its ability to include its opponents moves in its 'book', and recall them for use in later games. This means that in theory its game should constantly improve in parallel . with the player's and therefore provide a constant challenge. THE VERDICT To be fair it must be said that both titles are very strong. Both would provide a challenge to an average chess player, and neither has any glaring bugs or defects. Battle Chess however is a game built around a d e f g h "


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"peviens NEURON C+VG HIT! detective work. A small cheeking a cop, so always information, and it's in this part of the work involves leave money in the bank so state that you transcend physically travelling that the regular $500 can from basic modem around the streets and be removed in the form of a hacking into a real and talking to people, talking fine. Two: before you start, frightening world. All the your way into and out of you have to pay the various computer systems,  MACHINES: C64. restricted areas, barman at the bar where from now on known as SUPPLIER: ELECTRONIC occasionally getting you've been sleeping in bases, are represented as ARTS PRICE: $16.95. arrested and trundling into the dish of the day. mathematical shapes, VERSION TESTED: C64. areas where you're not synthi-spaghetti. Three and it's these you have to REVIEWER: TONY DILLON. supposed to go. This is only cyberspace compatible try and get into. Some are a very small part of it. decks cost in the region of protected, and some are Neuromancer is the A lot of the work boils $20,000 upwards you heavily protected. By second release from the down to talking to people don't have access to that what? new independent software that you never meet, over kind of money to start with, By ICE intruder house, Interplay, following modem links. The whole so you have to (a) get a countermeasure on from Baffle Chess game revolves having translation of as electronics. What do you The normal way to open expensive, more capable a review is to tell you which machinery (decks, as pigeonhole the game they're known) and having Yes falls into. Neuromancer advanced software. The doesn't fall into any, much most important things to in the same way that Times get are these: a Of Lore doesn't cyberspace compatible In Neuromancer, which deck and Comlink 6.0 or incidentally, is a later. cyberpunk adventure, you first thing is the deck are a novice cyberspace how do you get one? Well, cowboy, with nothing but a to start with you have six VXB deck and a copy of dollars on your credit chip Comlink 1.0. Before I start a form of credit card, confusing you all with except that you actually credit chips, chip implants, carry the currency on it). Permanent SHile Hhere This is have been Rom constructs and weird You can download money renved. His nanetag computerised journeys onto your chip by using the through the mind. I'd better PAX terminals dotted explain how it all works. around (more later) as You are given the task of you begin with S2000 in the Sell your body discovering what is bank. There are two happening to all the many things for free as important things to Cyberspace Cowboys that remember here. possible and (b) get as are all being killed or just One: you can always get much money as possible. vanishing. This is done arrested for the most You can get money by quite easily with just a bit of unlikely thing, like selling bits of your body. but you only get cheap Loolio Neuromancer a nightmare future. plastic replacements that wear out quickly. Is it worth it? The other thing! mentioned was the Comlink 6.0. Comlink is an item of softwarez (yes that is how you spell it) and you can't run your deck without softwarez. You begin with a very low standard deck and Comlink 1.0. Version 1.0 can only connect to the most simple and basic of systems, so an upgrade is SEILB3 definitely worth sniffing out. Version 6.0 is ideally what you want, because then you can go into cyberspace. Cyberspace is a TIDN10 non-existent world projected from your deck ola into your mind. What it is is three dimensional A Future fun and frolics. "


"MANGER use to get past the ICE? The One thing that made me same thing the whales did. chuckle was an advert You use an ICE-breaker. An from Interplay for Bard's Icebreaker is another type Tale 714 and Wasteland 4. of softwarez, and there are You can leave messages lots of different types. as well, and there's quite a Now the technical Snazzy little earner that aspects. The PAX system is makes you $10,000 without a system not unlike teletext. doing anything if you go It provides free access to a the right way about it, but banking system, a daily I'm not telling you where. newspaper and a The modem system bulleting board, with consists of finding a which you can pick up jacking-in plug and some pretty hot hints and connecting the Job offers. As well as the appropriate software. Then odd snatch of humour. you have to enter a game I've ever played it's just very, very good. It takes a little while to fully understand exactly what s going on and what exactly your brain and give you you're doing, but it's worth skills you never thought you it in the end. Another could get, like cryptology goodie from Interplay and hardware repair even Coptalk, which gives you the skill of being able to talk like a cop. Night City We in between all this jacking on and talking to others, you have a lot of 1RM ANIMALS HIDNAP UFO jeep says, \"He Here JUS walking about to do. This is 1 ERIS HI    all viewed side on, with ener OF Donut World your man roaming around in a full 3D environment. At the bottom of the screen is a block of eight icons. These control things like Cident OCCUrred. ley! He con 1101 your sint in Out Horld. Ttansterhean. ThanlisFrient artiste. Stiin cane by. but he didn't want to interrupt your RLD DUBIO EF eating donuts and caffeine at a table by the toor. He gives Du an Ugly LOO Hhen Hamsterhead? C+VG HIT! 11'S The Lantot! A Hunting down a deck connection code to link up your inventory, the to a base. If you have a manipulation of items and high enough level of the disk access. It also software, you link up and contains the conversation have to enter a password. icon, which, when clicked The right passwords can o n, gives you a list of get you through to higher possible and suitable levels of access, giving you phrases you can say to a greater amount of things present company either to to do. For example, on start or continue a level one access at the conversation. One of my Cheapo Hotel, you can favourites is 'Finn. Did you review or pay your bill. On know that your head looks level two, you can review, like it was designed in a pay or alter your bill. wind-tunnel? Handy if you haven't got The graphics are pretty any money and need good, and the animation some caviar. All this of the main character as jacking on costs money, in he walks from left to right much the same way asa and vice versa is greatmodem, so you have to just see the way he struts. keep an eye on your Sound is great; lots of money. The really high little spot effects and a access calls to the really fairly decent tune take all distant companies don't the auditory section of the half make your money main game, but the drop. loading music is fab. All There are other subtleties digitised, it features a track to the game, as well. Things by none other than Devo. like skill chips, which can I'm not going to say that be directly implanted onto Neuromancer is the best st or you here beside ass table. This 5 Lan Sopiti 1. PSS Steel Floor. C64 GRAPHICS 73% SOUND 87% PLAYABILITY 96% LASTABILITY 93% OVERALL 90% UPDATE.. There are plans to convert Neuromancer to all formats ST, Amiga, PC, Spectrum and Amstrad but when they'll actually DUT W appear is another matter entirely, There's certainly plenty of potential to produce some incredible 16-bit visions let's hope EA don't take too long! "


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"asters Merry Christmas folks! Welcome to this small, but festive tips section. As per usual there's a pile of POKEs, tips, cheats and hints plenty to keep you occupied over the Christmas hols. Speaking of which, why not use your spare time to knock up some tips on the games you get for Christmas. There's a big bundle on software for the sender of the month's best tips Kingsley Hyam was the winner this month. Send in your stuff to Playmasters, C + VG, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AU. See you anon. WIKIMENNINEN 7 riiA The Vindicator codes are revealed. i-h Gold) OH NO (Firebird) VINDICATOR (Imagine) David Pocock was recently Stuck for codes? Fear not, for chatting to the Sensible Mark Corrin is here with the Software team, and they Spectrum ones. Whether or revealed that if you press both not they work on other shift keys when the title versions is a mystery you'll screen changes to the have to try them out for highscore table, you'll start a yourselves ... new game at the level where LEVEL TWO: VALSALVA you died on the previous MANOEUVRE game. LEVEL THREE: NINJA SCOOTER EUSTACHIAN TUBES SIMULATOR (Firebird) C64 RESET POKES Purchasers of this crappy C64 All these lovely reset POKES budget game might be able to come from Andy and Gary TE squeeze a few more minutes Brown of Blackpool, Lancs. play with this tip from Scott To enter them, simply load the Mayers of Lowestoft, Suffolk. game, reset the computer, Just go to the rop right of the enter the POKE, press the screen and keep on jumping RETURN key and then type in and you'll go through all 16 the SYS number and press levels with ease. return again for infinite lives. PSYCHO PIGS UXB (US the demo on or off, F restores CHUBBY GRISTLE It's so-o-easy! all the fuel, B disables the POKE 3613, 173 SYS 2994 VIRUS (Firebird). Spectrum owners might find graphics, N turns the cheat off GAUNTLET (Kixx) Start a game and hold down and C disables the graphics this tip from James Donlon of enter (on the keypad), and POKE 49004, 96 SYS 32768 update making a horrid sicky HOPPIN' MAD London amusing. Load the while keeping it depressed mess at the bottom of the game don't put in an POKE 24447, 165 SYS 20480 press P and then O. When screen. Cheers to Kingsley LAST MISSION interface and select you thrust a third bar appears. Hyams for that fun-packed Kempston Joystick on the title Now, when you press L you POKE 7927, 12 SYS 14848 goodie bag. MEGA APOCALYPSE screen. Watch what get an extra missile, D turns MENACE (Psyclapse) happens... POKE 32417, 173 SYS 22562 At any time type LIGHT FORCE XR3ITURBONUTTERBASTPOKE 11547,5 SYS 6713 ARD LIVING DAYLIGHTS to gain a compliment of POKE 4390, 173 SYS 4352 weapons, and you can go to BACK TO REALITY any level by pressing the POKE 20109, 173 SYS 16384 relevant key on the keypad. A STARFOX certain Mr Hyams of Benfleet, POKE 35156, 165 SYS 32768 Essex, discovered that. WEST BANK POKE 12713, 165 SYS 4100 MARBLE MADNESS (Electronic Arts) OUTRUN (SEGA) On the Amiga version of this reasonable conversion leave B. Everett of Leicester knows the marble stationary at the how to access the sound test beginning of level one for a just press surprise. left/right/down/up on the tune TO HELL AND BACK select screen. Now select POKE 32371, 173, SYS tune as normal and you can 30464 pull down and press a button for the best Outrunners. SCOOBY DOO POKE 7450, 96 SYS 2560 Cheat To Hell and Back. 00:1 QUIT FIRE * CONTINUE PAUSED 81 WYMYYNYANYNYMYWANYMI "


"isters. WYMYMWX lay Masters V Bionic Commando POKES. DANGE 1200 PRIE SIDNIU Infinite time for Buggy Boy. W PPPPP LE SCORE Kun YSTARTK SORCERY + (Virgin) Another ST cheat, again from Kingsley Hyam. Type GAS MASK WHEELER WANTS CHEAT (include spaces) and the sorcerer becomes SPECTRUM MULTIFACE invincible. POKES SPY Vs SPY (Databyte) Whop in your Multiface and get POKÉing for some Wait by the door to the airport unlimited lives. Thanks to and booby trap all doors. Stephen Crawford at Co. When the other spy has got all Antrim, Ireland. the stuff, he'll get killed trying to get to the exit just go LAST NINJA II through the door which he POKE 29966, 255, POKE tried to get through pick up 40777,0 the stuff from by searching MARAUDER the furniture and escape. If he POKE 35160, 175: POKE does get through, just beat 35161, 50:POKE 35162, 95: the daylights out of his and POKE 35163, 250 ROADBLASTERS ' 111 hotfoot it to the exit. POKE 29261, 0:POKE 37100, 51 BUGGY BOY POKE 37966, 24 BIONIC COMMANDO POKE 34690,0 MISSION FROM GOD and NORTH CYBERNOID II (Hewson) after hitting the last D press 1 Andrew Sutton of Darfield, S. on the main keyboard. You'll Yorks found out that if you know that the cheat is select the define keys option operational because the 000 KR. and define the keys as Y, G, shield and energy levels drop R, O (in that order) you're to a fixed level. Press the K graced with unlimited lives. key to get ALL the weapons in Jolly good show! the game (including the STARGLIDER II (Rainbird) neutron bomb), and if you're Here's an absolutely brilliant running low of weapons, just tip from Gordon Keenan of press K to get them all back Glasgow. Load the game and again. By the way, pressing start. Press F for fixed sights the F2 key turns on some text and slow the ship to a halt. does anyone know what it (Amiga) press the means? BACKSPACE key to pause the game. (Atari ST) press the DELETE key to pause the game. Type WERE ON A OIDS (Mirrorsoft) Kingsley Hyams has come up with a neat listing. Just type it SUPER HANG-ON inusing BASIC, save it and (Activision) RUN it before putting the game On the ST version, enter your disk in. name as 207L on the highscore table and a line of 10' OIDS CHEAT dots will appear. Wait until the 20' BY KINGSLEY next screen appears and then 25 DIM 2% (770): press CTRL, ALT, Z and T CHEAT = VAPTR (a% (1) (that Z might be a 2 30 DEF SEG = 0 Kingsley Hyam's writing was 40 BLOAD \"a: START. a bit dodgy here I'm afriad). PRG\", cheat wait until the next screen and 50 POKE let go of T (I bet you let go of it cheat + &h260c:h357c:POKE before. Tsk tsk!) Now the cheat + h262,&h 302c cheat mode activates, allowing you to change the NEBULUS (Hewson) centrifugal force of the bike, According to Kingsley so you can whizz along Hyman, if you type without skidding! HÉLLIOAMJMP on the title BOMBUZAL (Imageworks) screen of the ST version of Kingsley Hyam's got the this game you can use the codes: RATT, ROSS, LISA, function keys to transport the GOLD, DAVE, OPAL, TREE. alien to different levels. Last Ninja gets a POKE.  "


"Our Spitting Image compo in which we asked you to caricature a C+ VG staffer drew a huge and hilarious response. Unfortunately the representations of the Editor were so good that we cannot show them to you here on the grounds that his handsome visage would drive C+ VG's female readers wild with desire. We can however show you these interpretations of Fatty Williams and birds nest haircut Rignall. Here are four of the best thanks to everyone who Rignall by Denise English thumbs up for the mop on his bonce. The winner Fatty Williams to a T. Rubber Revelations entered. You gave us a great laugh. Outright winner is Paul Edwards of 78 Moseley Drive, Leeds who now goes on to a challenge to win a Spitting Image puppet of his own. Runners up shown here will receive consolation Spitting Image goodies. Garry Jackson's Jazza love the joystick earing Peter Young's Fatty Williams v. good belly the judges thought, die PRESENTS JULIAN RIGNALL COMPUTER + VIDEO GAMES "


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"Ho | XMAS 22 0 often bought the mag without reading this part. AGM is good, but is still a minority subject. Playmasters is very good one of the best parts of the mag, and is in the interest of everyone. Arcade Action is brilliant everyone likes reading about the latest technology in games keep up the good work. Mean Machines is good, but unreliable it could do with some sorting out. Mailbag what can I say apart from gis a T-shirt Overall I have to say that C + VG is still the best mag around, and looks like staying that way for some time to come. 1 100D LITT LFI-1 0 Keith Lynch, Co. Dublin. 0 EDITOR'S REPLY: That's made us all feel better and we've taken note of your criticisms. Mean Machines is at this present time being sorted out by Jaz Rignall turn to page 132 to see what he's got, and the reviews are also going through a change. If anyone else has got some ideas drop us a line. MO-90 Dear C+VG Please calm down with the price rises. Mark Higgins, Airdrie. Hi There,  I've got that feeling. You know the one (not that Friday feeling) just one look at you and I know it's gonna beee... a lovely day... Yep, I've definitely got that feeling, so much so that I'm Letters: you write 'em and we going to let you know my print 'em. The best one wins feelings on the different its sender a stonking good sections in the mag. C+VG T-shirt. So, if you've Fax is perfect, brill, got to gripe, feel outraged, wonderful, great. Who doesn't have some ideas, complaints love it? Reviews aren't the best or comments, write in to part of the mag. It varies from Mailbag, C+ VG, Priory month to month from good to Court, 30-32 Farringdon bad. Big Screen is quite good, Lane, London EC1R 3AU. but not everyone is into films to such a high degree, and I have EDITOR'S REPLY: Whaaat? We're still one of the cheapest magazines around! Then Dear C+VG I'm the proud owner of a Sega. If you ask me they're the best. My friend has got a Nintendo and he says they are ace I think they're ****.1 like Mean Machines, but can Hey kind. To EDITOR "


"you make the section bigger always give fair comment. and why are there no Updates? Dear C+VG EDITOR'S REPLY: Indeed  I'm the owner of an Amstrad especially when you read the Thomas Scully, James Dodd, CPC and think that you're not text accompanying Dublin. giving enough info on the Goldmoon's picture. Well Grimsby, S. Humberside. Amstrad. spotted that man in fact, EDITOR'S REPLY: Yes, we'll I'm speaking for all Amstrad have a T-shirt for your pains. EDITOR'S REPLY: There always remain neutral, and owners when I say it's bloody aren't any updates in the only point out the best points awful how about a demo Dear C+VG, Mean Machines section of each machine we think tape for the CPC, or when you lown a Nintendo and I think because the game is never it's up to the reader to decide show a game how about giving it's great. But I would like to released on other formats. which machine is best suited us some Amstrad graphics. buy some American Nintendo What a nit! for him or herself. cartridges Operation Wolf Marcus Healy, and Robocop in particular. Dear C+VG, Dear C+VG, London. Could you give me an address . I think Tony Dillon is a wally of a shop that stocks Operation  Now and then I used to pick he goes over the top about Wolf and Robocop that would up a copy of C+ VG, but now everything. Why can't he just EDITOR'S REPLY: We didn't be prepared to send those buy it every month. What I calm down like a normal have an Amstrad demo games to me, want to know is, what is a PC person instead of raving over because Activision had no Engine. I have the impression everything, or slagging it off. plans to release it on the M. Longman, that it's like a Sega system. Amstrad when we organised Chingford, London. Please could you give me some Mike Murray, it. As I've already said, we details. review games as and when EDITOR'S REPLY: I'm afraid Berkhamstead, Herts. they come in if the that American (or Japanese) Amstrad version is in first, cartridges don't work with James Dobson, EDITOR'S REPLY: Erm... it'll get reviewed. If not, UK Nintendos, so don't go Highbridge, Somerset. well ... he's not THAT bad is another version takes the buying any foreign games. he? priority. Anyway, the update You can get your Nintendo at the end of a reviews always converted to run American EDITOR'S REPLY: The PC tells you exactly what's going software more details are Engine is a fantastic games on with other versions. available by sending an SAE console made by NEC. It's by Dear C+VG, to Telegames, Kilby Bridge, far the best machine around  Recently there's been a lot of Wigston, Leicester, LES 1TE. although at the moment mentions of Garry Williams the Dear C+VG, it's only available in Japan. Ad Manager being fat. What is I'm writing to you about the Some of the games available an Ad Manager and is he really Heroes of the Lance game for it are R-Type, Space that fat. By the way, the mag's which you reviewed in the Harrier, Wardner, Street fab. October edition of C+VG. Fighter and Dragon Spirit I believe that I've discovered and they're all arcade perfect. Keep an eye on the a mistake in the software Peter Eveans, Mean Machines column if which has actually been Birmingham printed in your magazine. you're interested. On page 27 of the mag is EDITOR'S REPLY: An Ad shown a screen picture Manager actually sells the depicting Riverwind with a Dear C+ VG, adverts that appear in the short piece of text describing  Last month I bought ZZAP! magazine. It's not a very him. A short excerpt from the text and to my horror they had the demanding job, and that's reads \"he had the temerity to nerve to compare the Amiga to why Garry is so huge fall in love with Riverwind\". the ST. It was really unfair and because he sits around the Having read the Dragonlance biased towards the Amiga, and office all day stuffing his face Chronicles, upon which the they didn't point out any of the with food. If anyone has any adventure is based, ST's good points. fat jokes, send them in to believe that Riverwind I hope that you won't do Mailbag the best one didn't fall in love with anything like this, because I printed wins a T-shirt and a himself, but instead fell in love regard you as a neutral bundle of software. Mark with Goldmoon, whose magazine and think that you your entries \"I've got a joke description and picture is for Garry\". given on page 26. Andrew Lawrence, ilminster, Somerset. . So* GAMES "


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"you'll find every thing you'll but that's all. need for a campaign in the \"Slaves\" sells for a pricey Chaos Wastes of The $14.99 and I can honestly say Warhammer world. For your that unless you own one of money, you get nearly 300 the variants of Warhammer illustrated pages, army lists and are totally hooked on it, for immortal and mortal it is not an essential purchase. forces, details of Chaos Talking about Warhammer, mutuations, new Chaos the definitive guide to weapons and spells, and a Warhammer Fantasy Battle is Chaos champion generation here. Called Warhammer Welcome to our biggest AGM yet. system. As you can see Chaos Armies, this hardback book is the order of the day. contains magic rules, Role playing games are booming True to form the book is bestiary, banner illustrations full of 'orrible little monsters and full army lists to satisfy and AGM is booming with them. In with loads of the needs of the most ardent this twelve page monster we death-chaos-spikey bits, who Warhammer fan. This book are ready to ruck. Needless to also sells for $14.99 (seems to review Times of Lore, Joan of Arc, say the artwork is be the 'In price for GW outstanding, as the book nowadays) and is available Chrono's Quest, Dark Future, plus brings together the artistic now all the latest news, adventures, talents of Tony Ackland, John Blance and Cary Chalk, who Full colour artwork on selected pag helpline, and play by mail. If it its a provides the colour plates. On the front of the book is thinking game AGM is the place a warning, which suggests to find it. that the contests should only be scanned by \"Mature Battletech Book Bonanza  More o The latest addition to the best Slaves of Chaos is another readers only Considering selling Battletech line is two hardback addition to the myself fairly mature, can player combat books. Each Warhammer series. It is in report that I didn t hind player pilots a 200 ton fact one half of two volumes anything offensive and can't walking Mech, which has that go to make up Realm of really see the reason for the immense fire power and Chaos, a complete warning. There are quite a amazing agility. They have to Warhammer supplement. few pictures depicting fight out a battle in which the When read together as a set various creatures in bondage player can use weapons. Battletech more books, where's the computer game? special attacks or, if the worst comes to the worst, fisticuffs!! The whole game is based in the 31st century, where warfare is common and SCIENCE FICTION COMBAT BOOK GAME heroes are made not born. SHD-2H SHADOW HAWK The men and women who control the Mech's are an elite band of warriors, and you as pilot have to select one of the six Mech's available for combat. The Mech's are: The Griffin, Shadow-Hawk, Wasp, Warhammer, Rifleman and Locust. All have their own advantages and dis-advantages, but as a rule of thumb you usually sacrifice speed for firepower. An initial playtest has revealed that the books are quick to play and provide hours or realistic fun. They are very handy for short breaks, such as a tedious bus or train journey, to make the time pass quickly. The combat system is simple, but accurate and they are all extremely well drawn. The books will shortly be released in the UK by an American company called NOVA Nova Game Designs and they sell for $2.75 each.  SSI are shortly to release \"Demons Winter, another role playing computer game. The reason behind this is that the AD + D computer game has sold over 110.000 units alone on the C64, making it the best ever selling computer game in the USA. The plot of the game is that Malifon, an evil god/demon was entombed in a volcano by the powers of good many years ago. Over his long period of capture Malifion has stored his power, in the form of magical energy, and has cast one devastating spell that has completely covered the planet in a deep crust of freezing snow, except the seas, which have been turned into blood. Of course, personkind is in "


"Book of Beasts THE HERO SYSTEM\"\" #23 Bestiary A Warhammer delayed. Eted pages A Realm of Chaos recommende Warhammer game 201 AD&D Warhammer fans who have been looking forward to playing the hit role playing game on their computer are in for a long wait. After announcing to an eager PC show that they had signed the licence to Warhammer Activision have yet to start work on the BY MICHAEL J. SUSKO JR. Head of development at HERO Activision Charles Cecil told AGM: \"I value that licence very highly\" but so far no development team has GAMES been assigned to the project. Role playing games traditionally take a longer time to design and program than arcade games. A The Bestiary design your Beasts On The Loose! own animals. Iron Crown Enterprises, the producers of such notable house. Everything from games as Fantasy hero, Dinosaurs to domestic dogs Champions (reviewed in a are catered for, and covered previous C + VG), Danger with indepth, detailed notes. Parisienne Knights is a International and justice If normal common-asexy 30's spy yarn from Incorporated, have recently garden animals are no good to Fergus McGovern's Abstract released the Hero system you, you could always Concepts. \"Bestiary\" borrow a few from the Featuring a unique Designed as a supplement selection of mythical and multi-tasking adventure for use with ANY game they movie monsters that are system where you have produce, the \"Bestiary\" can available. Still not satisfied? two games on the go at the easily be converted to any Then try the chapter which same time. FRP system with ease. The 56 helps you create your own page booklet details anything special animals, which have and everything you wish to never been in a campaign know about using animals in before!! FRP games. All in all the \"Bestiary\" is a la Animals are heavily great read any GM worth underplayed in most FRP their salt will find a use for campaigns and the What's more it only costs \"Bestiary\" does the best to $4.95 and I consider that a rectify this. The animals add real bargain. SET to the background detail of any campaign, and certain creatures can contribute a great deal if handled correctly. Animals pop up all over the place, be it in a lost valley down the Amazon or in the back yard of a Harlem ase her ame. that me mits git Duter that no any a panic, making it easier for the servants of Malifon to free him. The player has to stop this by leading a party of up to five characters which can be anything from humans to Dark Elves each of whom have varying physical abilities that effect their skills. There is the usual level advancement system, which means that any actions performed by the characters gain them experience points. When you have accumulated enough of these points your character goes up a level, allowing them to become better at combat, spell casting is well as making them harder to kill. Demon's Winter is expected to sell for $20.00. he ind pell red ned s in "


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"AGM NEGGER BUZZING SOUP Co IGHTS ATARI ST, AMIGA, .95 enough other useful objects, (ATARI ST VERSION REVIEWED). locate and reach the machine, REVIEWER: KEITH and get it working. CAMPBELL. Commands are issued entirely by mouse operated To cut a long story short, your icons, and these differ slightly father, now presumed dead, between the two versions of the invented a time machine which game. The ST version, as well is hidden in the basement of his as having eight compass points chateau. Having been mightily plus UP and DOWN, has icons Into the Time Machine and away you go. impressed by a journey to the for PICK UP, PUT DOWN, future of 1987, he had planned SHOW INVENTORY, restored by clicking on the objects, but there is no depth to a trip to 2125, and left the LIGHT ON/OFF, USE, SHOW INVENTORY icon. the EXAMINE command. program written to take the TURN, PUSH/PULL, and PICK UP and PUT DOWN are Perhaps most irritating of all machine there scattered SEARCH/EXAMINE, as well self explanatory click on the replies, is when you try to PICK UP, and after a WHERE USE something prompt, a click on the unsuccessfully, and get an appropriate object whisks it inane IT'S NOT into the inventory window. All INTERESTING. well and good, except that Once the time machine has there are not a lot of objects to been started, your travels be seen most are not actually begin. You would have shown in the picture. Thus, thought by now that adventure before you can exhaust the writers had got the message possible hiding places, as well that sudden death with no as opening every cupboard and warning can kill a game stone drawer in the building, and dead. There's plenty of that examining them, it is necessary here! Visit India and you will to SEARCH and click on every instantly be savaged by a area of every picture, to deadly tiger if you innocently ensure, for example, that you take a step in the 'wrong! don't miss a vital punched card direction. So it is essential to which happens to lying save your game position invisibly on a carpet. frequently if you are not going PUT DOWN has its quirks, to have to retrace your steps too. Objects that belong'in again and again. But there is a around four time zones, lestas utility items for saving the room take up their original snag here, too! You can only position when dropped, and make one save per disk the they be stolen by his assumed game, setting external drives, assassin, Richard. Dad's last are shown in the picture again, original save file gets and adjusting preference. request is a letter imploring you if, that is, they were visible in overwritten by subsequent Below the picture at the to visit the time zones to find the first place. However, ones, so to play effectively, you bottom of the screen, is a Richard, and avenge his death. window containing icons for oreign' objects simply will need to have at least half a disappear from view, and the So the game starts in the dozen formatted disks to hand. objects in the player's chateau, and your first task is whole picture must be searched The trouble with this game is inventory. Text messages to the again to discover where they to find the programs to travel that the limitations of the player overlay this window, fell. And that brings me to to each time zone, gather command system do not allow and the inventory can be another point — a bottle of for any subtlety and depth. Don't end up at the Taj Mahal. wine counts as TWO items, Once started, it has a certain bottle and wine! addictive quality, but I doubt -The system has a lot of that it will find much favour similarities to the Mindscape among those who enjoy a system used in Shadowgate and good, meaty, Infocom, Uninvited, but having said Scrolls, or Level 9 adventure. that, the command range is Chrono Quest is a big game, even more limited, and a lot coming on four disks for the less logical ST, and three for the Amiga, In Chrono Quest, the but even so, it's overpriced at pictures are quite attractive, nearly 30 quid. Oh, and I and in the main, full of nearly forgot to mention it's interest. Doors and drawers French. Despite trying hard, I visibly open, and there are a have never found a French few other bits of animation, adventure that is logical and but on the whole, the absorbing yet. animation is minimal. So are VOCABULARY 4 the text replies. There are COMPLEXITY 8 plenty of text descriptions of both useful and irrelevant PERSONAL VALUE ould ps on Y and Ground DU #ono "


"TAGM important for open combat as well as the amount of taxes you will collect and how the same provinces react to your overall control The main menu contains seven options, one of which is available to you at the beginning. The reason for this is that you have to once again be crowned king and this is achieved by freeing  SUPPLIER: U.S. GOLD. famine runs rife through your Orleans from seige by the English MACHINES: ATARI ST, remaining subjects, and disease and taking Reims. Only here can AMIGA (SOON) AND PC. has reached epidemic you be initiated. VERSION TESTED: ST. proportions. The two options available allow PRICE: .95. Around about early 1420 you to manoeuvre Joan's army to REVIEWER: WAYNE. France is all but ruled by the the provinces in question. English, and all they have to do is However, you will no doubt gain control of Orleans to become encounter the English forces and With the buying public's interest absolute rulers. However, you are it is here that you will first have in computerised FRP's pleased to note that a young your open field combat. increasing daily, it comes as no woman called Joan of Arc seems All the forces are detailed as surprise to find that software to have been chosen by St small matchstick people, which houses are now turning to history Michael to save you from the believe it or not really works, as it for inspiration. The past contains clutches of the dreaded English creates a great, combat-like a wealth of stories relating to folk and she believes that the only atmosphere. You control archers heroes, and this game tries to way to do this is to kick the enemy infantry, cavalry and bombards recreate the situation out of France. (simplistic cannons), and apply surrounding that most famous of When initially commencing tactics. It is true to say that the heroines: Joan of Arc. your campaign you are given a armies with the most forces In fact you play the part of poor map of France divided up into usually win, but you can use JOAN OFT Charles of France, who is only a regions, of four different colours. puppet king at best. The reason The blue areas are the provinces behind your unfortunate position you control, the orange belong to is that after 100 years of war the English, the brown are in the between the English and your control of the independent army (the French), Henry V princes and the sand coloured manages to inflict a massive areas belong to the traitorous defeat to your army on princes who have allied to the 25/10/1415, wiping them off the invaders. face of the earth. Also contained on this map is a Once this has happened your Fleur de Lis, which, when clicked former allies and friends the on, brings up the main menu, and princes either revolt and form another icon which serves a dual independent states, or even purpose. It tells you what the worse, become allies of the weather is going to be like in English. To add to your problems, certain provinces this is Scaling the castle walls. | * < | X < A Grand panoramic view of the battle. "


"A Superb graphics in this RPG/come war game. A Scrapping it out on the drawbridge. wargaming tactics to allow a smaller force to become victorious Once crowned, you can begin the game proper. The six other powers available to you are: Diplomacy, Espionage, Helping Hand, Royal Treasury, Royal Justice and Raising a Royal Army. The Royal Treasury option is the only other action apart from A Jousting to gain advantage. Starting a Campaign that does castle. This means avoiding However, for every good not deal with a game's arrows, while conducting combat aspect Joan has going for it, there characters. Here you are allowed with guards at the same time. is a bad one. For example the to collect two forms of taxes: a Once this is done your character game has many horrendous Health tax that can be has to scale one of three of three loading sequences and I spent collected once a year in ladders, avoiding the boulders half my time waiting for September and a Tithe, which and boiling oil that are thrown at something to happen or stop is a supplementary tax that can you. happening!! The arcade be levied at any time. The latter is Of course if the English army sequences are so simple that hated by the populace, and will attacks your castle, you have to even someone as pathetic at probably incite the province in play the part of defender, hurling arcade games as me could easily question to rebel and not pay any the boulders and tipping the oil off master them. Also, the fights on further taxes!! the ramparts so as to stop the the drawbridge are about as The other options involve you opposing forces taking control complex as a 10th rate Barbarian dealing with characters who are Also on your travels you meet conversion. either your allies, your enemies or various individual knights who Overall, Joan is a fairly neither. Each character has three challenge your guard. This entertaining tactical wargame, characteristics: diplomacy. means that you get involved in with both highs and lows. It's not strategy and leadership, all of mounted combat, with a selection got much to do with FRP, but which can range from very good of weapons in a fight to the death! should provide many hours of to non-existant. You must choose However, there is no detrimental play, even if half of them are the right person for the many jobs outcome if you lose. spent waiting for the game to load available. These range from Joan has a lot of things going or for the rest of your troops to assassination to conducting for it. It looks good, using storm the walls! peace negotiations. If you don't animated cartoon graphics GRAPHICS 81% send the right people, your imposed on digitised picture servants could be arrested and 56% backgrounds. Furthermore the SOUND imprisoned if the negotiations do diplomacy, tactics and strategy VALUE 68% badly. There are nearly 30 angles provide many thought ROLE PLAYING 38% characters to interact with and provoking challenges. this injects a great deal of fun into Economics also plays a big part TACTICS 82% the game. and is another facet to conquer. OVERALL 73% Once you have levied some taxes and have managed to raise an army, you can attack English controlled towns and garrisons. You do this by playing a two-part arcade game. First of all your character (which represents the whole army) has to cross a drawbridge and enter the AGMI "


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"JAGMI Helpline leaped into the trench to recover the helmet, only to be beaten to it by the Prince's horse, who picked that moment to be shot, and fell dead yes, you've guessed it right on top of the helmet! \"Now the fact that none of my magic works here ! could live with, but the fact that the program is also bugged at this point is downright frustrating. Yes, Infocom has included (intentionally I'm sure) a rather odd little glitch, whereby the program doesn't recognise the fact that a dead horse is lying on the very helmet that I've spent six months trying to locate. POINT LEVITATION AT HORSE You can't see any horse here. Here's someone who's hints for any useful or there aren't any. Still, I really in trouble! Mrs unusual commands? certaintly felt Lancelot was Aldridge of Hinckley, in Rumour has it, looking a bit rough at Leicestershire, is trying her according to R.G.B. edges... hardest to get the hang of Marshall, of Congleton, adventuring, but has yet to that I never review an. WHATEVER NEXT? AN complete one! Simply letadventure unless I first INFOCOM BUG! me know what she needs to have a complete solution. take from Part 2 to Part 3 of Who is putting this around, Andrew Bethell, of Pleck, Hunchback, and send a wonder? Were it true, you Walsall, has been playing few general tips on would be lucky to get more Beyond Zork for quite some Neverending Story! than a couple of time now. Having Patrick Halm of Gouda is adventure reviews a year! managed to solve the after a phone number for a R.G.B. (I shall call him crocodile problem just taxi, in Police Quest. Know 'Monitor') also feels that before reading Stefan any reliable ones? Level 9 and Magnetic Englhart's solution, he has Scrolls are cutting too Tim Laver of London Red dragon come across something Colney, is pestering many corners in the even more baffling a Islotham Garnath in a finishing stages of their real Infocom bug! Here's festering pit. He's got the games, to get them out what Andrew has to say BRIAN THE FIST Nightspear from the top of quickly. There's never a about it: EL CID Valarian's Tower, but every program written that \"I've travelled back in time he throws it, the attack doesn't have a bug of MARKUS time to the final battle is repelled. How can tim some sort The Trouble is, SIR GRADY finish Islotha off, in Bard's whilst it is possible to prove lost his helmet (his head Tale Ill? that there are bugs in a was in it at the time). Taking Where has Louis got to? program, it's quite only nano-seconds to Paul Phillips of impossible to prove that grieve for the fallen hero. I We have the answers. Wednesbury, is trying to Trouble in Bard's Tale. POINT LEVITATION AT contact him, but whenever STALLION he calls on Louis, he finds You can't see any stallion he is out. Paul can't get any The Gard's Tale here further than just chatting to EXAMINE TRENCH Rudy, in Play It Again Sam. It's blocked by a dead Tony Day of Bromley has stallion a lit brazier, a wand, and MOVE DEAD STALLION the ingredients, but he just You can't see any dead cannot mix any spells in Forn of: stallion here. King's Quest III. What has 4 Duorves. \"Yaaargh! I'll think I'll he got wrong? make a donation to the Mandroids and Battle Will your Infocom Appeal for Dying Droids are causing Garry Horses Who Aren't There!!\" Russell of Halton in Leeds Dwarves Thanks, Andrew, just quite a headache. He is Ehoracter None AC Hits Cond SpP+ CI forward the cash to these playing Necris Dome, and offices, and we'll use it for needs help to disable BRIAN THE FIST research to see if we can them. It also seems that kill off a bottle of White Garry is finding difficulty Horse which is DEFINITELY with the vocabulary in the there, in the pub game has anyone any next door ... OMAR liselote derita Hitor P> un? AnID WUWW TARSON decco 9 Y 100 "


"Letters Ti Bard's Tale SHADOWGATE PROBLEMS 1. Always include at least The Shadowgate saga one bard, one magician, continues! Allen and Mark and one conjuror in your Errington feel sure that the party. complete solution to the 2. Create another game lies in the collective magician and advance heads of C+VG's him to sorceror as soon as adventurers but not in possible. theirs alone! They assume 3. All non-magic users that the key to the snake should be equipped with statue over the bridge is bows and arrows. WOT NO WAR GAMES AGM has finally made me the wind. Trouble is, they 4. All magic users should Dear C+VG make up mind. As soon as I see haven't yet located the be equipped with lamps or I was most impressed with your a computer RPG that looks bridge! ''Is it the one used light wands. new AGM section. It is nice to good I am going to buy it and to get over the lava?\" they 5. If you have entered Level see a games mag devoting this give it a try. ask, also wanting to know 3 without a sorceror, fall much space to more advanced I would have a go on D+D the whereabouts of the key upon your sword it will games. only I tried it once on the board to the well room. be less painful. Arcade games are fine for game and didn't enjoy it very P. O'Donnell of Preston 6. If possible, make younger people but I have had much. writes in with a few of the detailed maps and then my computer for several years Anyway keep up the good answers, and begs some send them to Mark at Flat now (a trusty 64, thinking of work in AGM. Its so nice to see more: What is the silver 2-8 Dorothy Street, getting an Amiga) and now I something new and exciting in goblet for, and where can Strathpine 4500, enjoy something a lot more the computer games scene. he find the staff of ages? Queensland, Australia. challenging. Steve Earle, Meanwhile, Matthew Hill I have Gunship, several Warrington of Brighton is baffled by adventures, and recently Editor's reply: Thanks for the purchased AD&D which is kind words, Steve. I think superb. you are wrong about D&D Just one gripe about AGM though. For a start the SSI why no war games? I have computer rendition is based heard of some brilliant new war on AD&D, not D&D, so it is simulations being developed in much more advanced. It is an Thanks for the help this the United States. excellent introduction to month to: Allen and Mark Is AGM going to cover war role playing by computer. Errington, Durham; games or is it just adventures Mind you if you don't fancy it You are startled Matthew Hill, Brighton; and RPG'S? don't dispair AGM will be by a grim snarl. P.O'Donnell, Preston; Lelly Mark Smitten, stuffed with RPG's from now Before you, you and Cyril. Hull; and Redhill. on. see 1 Red dragon. Andrew Bethell, Walsall. Editor's reply: We certainly AGM IS BAD will be covering war games. Dear C+VG, Vill your We have recruited an expert What is going on? I have been stalwart band SHADOWGATE: in the field and he is working reading the adventure column choose to (F)ight on some reviews for the next for five years. It is my favourite or (Run? The wraithe can be issue right now. AGM's brief part of the magazine by far and destroyed by operating is to cover all thinking games I always turn to it first. Imagine the unusual torch on it. Kill as effectively as possible. my horror when I pick up the the chained up lady in the RISKY BUSINESS December issue to find it tower with silver arrow, Dear C+VG, merged in with blasted board before taking the Golden I have heard that there is going games. Thorn. to be a computer game of Risk. What have these board Blue hairs on your hands Is it possible to get someone games got to do with computer are just another way to die. to review it in AGM? games and why are they in 12i Ma Wear the gauntlet to get Sean Usher, C+VG? After all if I wanted to the flute. Belfast. read about this sort of thing! Editor's reply: Don't miss the would buy White Dwarf. JACK THE RIPPER: February issue. We not only But back to my main point. Alan Wilson's recent Get the French doll and take Risk to bits but will also Why the down grade in mention of the snake behead it. check out Espionage and adventure coverage? The AGM statue. Matthew would like anything else we can get our section may be bigger in total to hear from you Alan. His RIGEL'S REVENGE: hands on. but no more space was given to address is 32 Chalkland Introduce the bomb, and AGM IS BAD adventure than usual. Rise, Woodingdean, the guards leg it! Dear C+VG John Brightling. Brighton, E. Sussex BN2 6RH. Pull the bar, pull it hard. Wonderful, brilliant, fabulous Surrey. Between them, these four use the medikit, and bend well done C+VG AGM IS Editor's reply: I am sorry readers have come up it up, to escape from the just what the Doctor ordered. with a few clues. Check John, but the simple truth is Kitchen. And don't forget to I have been thinking of trying that there is less in C+VG them out in the clues remove the medikit before role playing games for ages. section, and in return, send leaving! about adventures because now being a keen your own, if you think you there are less adventures. adventurer. can help! LEATHER GODDESSES OF BARD'S TALE II MARK'S PHOBOS: WAY The answer to the riddle is a Mark Barnes of riddle! Strathpine, in Queensland, is a keen player of Bard's WOLFMAN: Tale II, and offers the Insert the key, pull it, and following tips on strategy to then remove it, to open the aid other players: cabinet. 1 01006 NMBA 2000BTEN a&am AGMI "


"AGM DARK FUTURE This allows you to find your game is hardly original. feet very easily. Halliwell has unashamedly My major complaint is borrowed from many that GW have decided to futuristic movies, call this game a \"3D especially the Mad Max Roleplaying Game,\" and series and almost all of the in all honesty it isn't. If we artwork confirms this. Also applied GW's 3D there is far too much roleplaying dependance on understanding to other death-chaos-chainsawGAME: DARK FUTURE. games then they would game design is excellent. spikey CREATED BY: RICHARD have to class Monopoly HALLIWELL. The box contains four bits for my liking. If you SUPPLIED BY: GAMES along side Dark Future. miniature clip together require a role playing WORKSHOP OK, you are supplied plastic cars with various game, which has PRICE: $19.99. with a great deal of character development,  COMPLEXITY: FAIRLY interchangeable weapons, four motor bikes, the rule book, and you can player interaction, forget background information in EXPERIENCED UPWARDS. logical progression and REVIEWER: WAYNE. a quick start rulesheet, a discover the personalities 100 page rulebook, 12 feet behind a few of the car Dark Future and buy the America 1995. The USA has of full colour track, a Middle Earth Role Playing undergone many countless number of drivers, what life in the city Systems instead. economic changes which hazard tokens, acetate is like and how deadly life have catered the spin circle and range ruler but you can't enhance a PLAYABILITY American way of life plus 3 six sided dice. COMPLEXITY drastically. Pollution has All the components are character as there are no DESIGN reduced the Great Lakes to top notch except for the rules to cover character PRESENTATION nothing more than shallow vehicles which I found akin development creation or character VALUE FOR MONEY 7 waterways, the once to a free gift that you would mighty Mississippi has Another gripe is that this expect to drop out of a been reduced to a trickle and Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming have become desert wastelands. If you are rich, then life is fine. You can live an almost trouble free life in a Policed Zone (PZ), behind electrified fences, and breakfast cereal packet! enjoy your wealth. On the plus side However, if you are poor however, GW have you have nothing to live designed the rulebook in for. Life is harsh at best and such a way that it can be the only natural course is taken apart and placed rebellion. into an A4 ring binder. Most of the rebels are Talking of rules, the affiliated to Motorized designer of the game, one Gangs, who inflict terror Richard Halliwell, the and fear on the scattered brains behind the communities along the Warhammer system, interstates. Each gang is a claims that the rules are TURE law unto itself and wars \"Comprehensive rather between gangs are than complex\". I can commonplace. agree with him here, as the The threat of these gangs rules are well written and grew so great that a law contain a lot of easy to was passed which paved understand examples. the way for a new breed of The aim of the game is to Law person: The dispose of your opponent. Sanctioned Operative This can be done in several (SO). ways, the destruction of SO's cruise the interstates your opponents car being in their heavily armed most likely. However, you Interceptor cars, with one can lose your opponent, purpose in mind, which is they are deemed to be too to seek and destroy. They far behind to catch you up. are either hired by the The combat system is authorities and paid a easy to master. The bounty to track down gang damage you can inflict to leaders and dispose of your opponents vehicle them, or employed by depends on the kind of communities to defend it weapon that you use. from predatory gangs. This You can start playing is the basis behind the Dark Future straight away, whole game, Outlawed as you are supplied with Motorized Gangs V's Tournament Rules, which Sanctioned Ops. 0 are a brief precis of the 0 0 The packaging and 0 main aspects of the game. A Good board game shame about its role playing calibre. KFUTURE ROLEPLATZ PARKEUTURE 0 "


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"Papapapapapapa TIMES Recene to Tales of Lor  MACHINES: C64, SPEC. an on-screen book. After the Lockin AMS, ST, AMIGA, PC. story you are shown three SUPPLIER: ORIGIN characters at a bar. A SYSTEMS INC. Barbarian, who uses only his PRICE: C64, SPEC, AMS CASSETTE, .95, DISC .95. valient and brave, though less thick skin as armour, a Knight  VERSION TESTED: C64. REVIEWER: TONY DILLON resilient to damage than the Barbarian, and a Valkyrie, fast A Times of Lore Origin's best yet. Every once in a while a game and skilful her life force is appears that is just so dazzling her most attractive feature. it makes the rest of the industry Select your character by sit up and pay attention. Times moving a pointer over its head, of Lore is such a game. Origin and you are presented with a has taken a huge step away faaaaaab portrait of them, from the selective tastes of the with a description of how they Ultima series into the mass got into it all in the first place. appeal market and by golly The game is viewed as an have they hit the mark. overhead four-way scroller, Times of Lore casts you in and, yes, I have to make the aspect of the game if you want to get anywhere. To start a The Lizards, the keepers of the old conversation with someone. ways, are in to reclusiUE face them and then press space contemplation. Their appearancES BECOME to get into the menu mode. More and more unusual as disorder Move a pointer at the bottom unfolds. The Archimagi, formerly the of the screen to the icon of the confidant of the High king, has been open mouth, and then press fire. You are then asked if you Unseen for many want to start a chit-chat, or ask years and its the person you're talking to a hough to live question. If you choose chitsecluded himself chat, the computer randomly Jithin a distant chooses a phrase for you to LOLJET in another say, and an appropriate answer from the person you're dimension. Il new speaking to. For example, you breed of dark select chit-chat with a serf. The priests, ascetic computer displays: You ask the but practical serf \"How's life treating devotees to their you?\" The serf replied «Not rituals, JOSE too bad. The 'Ask Question system works in a different cult resides in the way. As you talk to people, distant mountain some will give you important vals, have begun spreading their faith items of information. As they steadily throughout the hingdom. say it, it is acknowledged by a gong. When you select Ask A Through scene setting on screen Question, a keyword of what as to what to do. This is that person has just said, along the role of a solitary character, comparison: much like rectified pretty quickly. You with any other keywords you thrown into an upturned Gauntlet, except a lot larger. In begin the game in the top floor kingdom, recently abandoned fact, the first thing to really hit of a tavern, beside the bed Pint of the usual please. by its ruler due to feuds you is the size of the game. The you've just slept in. When you between his people and a race basic map, without going up or come downstairs, you meet a of barbarians in the south. The down any stairs, is 100 by 50 cleric who instantly gives you High King's son was left in screens in size. That's 5,000 your first sub-quest. command, but, as he is a screens on the basic playing One thing you may be useless so-and-so, the empire area. The entire game has wondering is, if the game is an has fallen into complete 13,000 screens, which you RPG, how do you do all the disarray. Your job is to mightn't think is pushing the RPG stuff? The game revolves get the kingdom back into limits, but you will when I tell around a set of icons at the shape. you that it's a single load game. bottom of the screen. These Before you are sent out into That's right, not a single bit of icons enable you to pick up. the world, you have to put a drive access at all! drop, use, examine and give character together. The entire when you begin (as seems to items that you may find. It also process of selecting a character be the case with all Origin enables the conversation The moment hall aliu is done by reading the pages of products) you don't have a clue aspect. Conversation is a vital must choost the Uni Fate. HERE slanulat courage beauliful, and a might. With the joyi Silect the character world in thy name illi "


"really well, as does the roof finish one quest then you're disappearing from the houses given another. I've been when you enter them. playing it solidly for a week The sound is highly and a half, and I'm only on the atmospheric. Martin Galway sixth quest. has really surpassed himself Ultima V is being praised as both on the tunes to the intro Origin's best ever product, but sequence, and on the realistic only if you're into RPG's. effects. TOL is Origin proving to the As you're playing, you're world that RPGs can have a going to get attacked quite a mass appeal and can be lot, and as you're attacked, obtainable, even by cassette you take damage, registered as users. One of the hottest a candle slowly burning down products this year. Take my to the right of the screen. There advice, steer clear of games like are a couple of ways to Afterburner and Thunderblade replenish your supply. You can this Christmas and get this one have a good night's sleep at an in your stocking. It'll have you inn, at which point you are playing long after the turkey's given the option of saving the gone to the cat. game or taking a potion. Potions are dropped by some  GRAPHICS monsters when killed, along SOUND with gold and food. Food is necessary, but doesn't actually PLAYABILITY 9 replenish anything. VALUE The game plays like a dream. OVERALL 97% Game play has wider appeal. OF LORE aaaa : At the age of thirteen your Epit Vittor DUI the dreadinl hogar Eras FOREVET a might have collected, appear in a list. You then select one of the keywords, and the person you're talking to will give you any information they may know on that particular subject. For example, I approached a serf, and asked him about any rumours that were circulating. He replied that Barton had seen someone sneaking around at night. The gong sounded and the word Sneaking was added to my list. I then asked the serf about Sneaking, and he said go and see Barton. I went to see Barton, questioned him, and sure enough he knew about Sneaking. Once he had told me, the word Sneaking was removed from my list, indicating that I had gathered all the information necessary on that topic. Combat in TOL is the main arcade element of the game. As in Gauntlet, you are armed with a basic axe, sword, or whatever, depending on which her Dil Srinuli adventure begins.. A Your hero. UPDATE character you have selected. The scrolling starts slowly and OTHER This is only a held weapon gets gradually faster as your unfortunately, which means character breaks into a sprint. FORMATS you have to get up close to the which is very nice, and the All other formats are planned nasties and hack them to bits, joystick response is fast and for release at the same time and rather than take them at a accurate. It's taxing, but at no should be in shops as you read distance. You can find other point in the game is there the this. They all feature the same weapons, though. aimlessness often associated playability and game size, even Graphics and sound are with the early Ultima the 48K Spectrum. A masterful amazing. Possibly some of the programs. No sooner do you piece of compaction indeed. best I've ever seen on the C64, and I hear the Spectrum graphics are even better. Very high-res sprites and a very clever use of colour make the still graphics look good, but it's the animation that's really hot. The top down view works vein utrich you Unusuall bear you a hlut ol unfailing AGM B rian of matchleSS Sith and button Tler sho shall live in this ENIMES OF LORE. "


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"Compil The festive season is a time exception, and there attempting to seduce a advice on which ones off One version of each com quality from format to for compilation at the end of Spectrum, one for the about which compilations me of peace, joy ... and compilations. This ye lethora of collections, assemblages and gir ater into parting with his pounds. Julian Rig the best value for money ... pilation has been judged, but since games mat, there's a full list of marks for all versi #this feature, presented as three 'league' ta rad and one for C64 owners, giving a cle are the best on which machines. one rom for end of this feature a full list of but since quuntation for the Amstrad and presente markede games often van s. This year is no hd gift packs an Rignall gives his ames often vary in All versions of the league' tables: one for s, giving a clear indica GIANTS SPORTS WORLD 88 MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. SUPPLIER: US GOLD. MACHINE: C64. PRICE: SPECIAMS/C64 .99 SUPPLIER: U.S. GOLD. CASS, C64 .99 DISK, SPEC .99 PRICE: .99 CASS, .99 DISK. DISK VERSION TESTED: C64. VERSION TESTED: C64. CALIFORNIA GAMES: Seven CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING: whacky events from the West Coast. Novel and compelling, but the multiload Superb stuff! is a pain. 720: Blocky, but competent 10th FRAME: Superb bowling game skateboarding arcade conversion. with lovely graphics and feel. GAUNTLET II: Good, but ageing HARDBALL: Great American sports conversion of the coin-op classic. game with good graphics. OUTRUN: A big seller, but very LEADERBOAR: Classic golf game average in all respects. that's been done to death. ROLLING THUNDER: Ghastly 4th & INCHES: Simply the best coin-op conversion. American football game available. A reasonable collection with one SNOOKER AND POOL: Alright if outstanding game, and one bummer. you like this sort of thing. OVERALL 78% GO FOR GOLD: Excellent six-event sports simulation. WATER POLO: Unusual, and it's STATE OF THE ART playable too! MACHINE: ST. A brilliant package; an absolute must SUPPLIER: OCEAN. for sports fans. PRICE: .99. VERSION TESTED: ST. OVERALL 91% BARBARIAN: Great hack 'n' slash fighting game. FISTS 'N' THROTTLES CRAZY CARS: So-so race game that lacks challenge. MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. ENDURO RACER: Poor conversion of SUPPLIER: ELITE. the Sega motocross arcade game. PRICE: .95. WIZBALL: Colourful and original VERSION TESTED: AMSTRAD. horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up. RAMPAGE: Great conversion, but IKARI WARRIORS: Ageing, but ultimately repetitive. extremely playable and addictive Fairly good value for money, with a shooting game. mixture of good and bad titles. BUGGY BOY: Excellent off-road race game. OVERALL 75%. THUNDERCATS: Colourful and FIVE TOP HITS FOR THE ATARI ST BES M) RUNN SAMI "


"lation addictive horizontally scrolling hack'em up. DRAGON'S LAIR: Mediocre multiload arcade game. ENDURO RACER: Another excellent off-road race game this time with bikes. A good all-round assemblage, with only one weak link. OVERALL 82% City GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. SUPPLIER: US GOLD. PRICE: .99. VERSION TESTED: SPEC SUMMER GAMES I: Fairly good eight-event simulation marred by long multiload. SUMMER GAMES II: Improvement over its predessor, but still suffers with long loading. WINTER GAMES: The pick of the bunch with seven good events; multiload's a pain. If you can stand the multiload, it's a reasonable package, but doesn't stand up to the likes of Game, Set and Match. OVERALL 63% ECODE DOME WAYS TO ACHIEVE SPORTING STORTALI TASTE OF AMERICA MACHINES: C64. SUPPLIER: US GOLD. PRICE: .99 CASS. VERSION TESTED: C64. SIDE ARMS: Laughably grotty parody of the horizontally scrolling arcade game. SOLOMON'S KEY: Very addictive and enjoyable puzzle game. WORLD CLASS LEADERBOARD: The best of the series if you can take any more. SUPERCYCLE: Easy, but exciting motorcycle racing game. Taste of America offers three nice bites, and and a side dish that'll make you throw up. OVERALL 73% COMMAND PERFORMANCE MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. SUPPLIER: US GOLD. PRICE: AMS/SPEC/C64 .99 CASS, C64 .99 DISK, SPEC .99 DISK, AMS .99 DISK. VERSION TESTED: C64. Thr FISTS 'N THROTTLES D RALBER DUOME MISSIN S ANTUT App INTEKA MASTURSTYLINTER PANIERUCE GOONIES LES RAID BEACH HEAD LEADERE RED LEEDER EORU C A ACCESS KARATE cve, C A MERCENARY: Classic vector graphic exploration game. HARDBALL: Great American sports game with good graphics. RMAGEDDON MAN: Very tepid and pedestrian war game. LEVIATHAN: Uncontrollable and unaddictive three-level Zaxxon clone. BOB SLEIGH: Hum-drum simulation Sear 18 LETTER GEVEN DE TE CONCE LEGE. TWENDED GREATEST TOT COLETNEGRETOSEADE GAMES SERE CLOSEOLTANCREDO "


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"Compilation kids. with some token strategy. SHACKLED: Utterly dire Gauntlet clone. TRANTOR: Very average and ACTION SET unchallenging shoot and explore game. CHOLO: Slow, but fairly compelling vector exploration game. SUPPLIER: GREMLIN GRAPHICS. XENO: Rubbish future sport simulation PRICE: .99. that plays like a brick. VERSION TESTED: ST. 10TH FRAME: Superb bowling game with lovely graphics and feel. DEFLEKTOR: A rather easy puzzle game, but fun nevertheless. A very mixed bag. Apart from NORTHSTAR: Colourful and fairly Mercenary, there's nothing really addictive shoot 'em up. outstanding, and Xeno and Shackled TRAILBLAZER: Average race game plumb the depths. variant with a few frills. OVERALL 67% 3D GALAX: A good exercise in 3D programming, but not much of a shoot 'em up. HISTORY IN THE MAKING MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: A game-of-the-film that should appeal to MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. SUPPLIER: US GOLD. Pretty good value, even though the PRICE: SPECIAMS/C64 .99 games themselves aren't particularly CASS, C64/AMS .99 DISK. brilliant. VERSION TESTED: C64. OVERALL 74% BEACHHEAD: Four-level combat game that has aged badly. BEACHHEAD I: Superb four-part GAME, SET AND MATCH II combat game with great graphics and MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. speech. SUPPLIER: OCEAN. BRUCE LEE: Classic arcade adventure PRICE: SPECIAMS/C64 .95 with a little kick and chop. CASS, .95 DISK. IMPOSSIBLE MISSION: Arguably VERSION TESTED: SPEC. the best-ever C64 game. KUNG-FU MASTER: Ageing arcade MATCH DAY II: The best football conversion that offers a bit of fun. simulation available on the Spectrum. GAUNTLET: Addictive conversion of SUPERBOWL: Average simulation the massive coin-op. GOONIES: Very droll puzzle/action that might appeal to fans of the sport. WINTER OLYMPIAD: Six-event game. Dire graphics. simulation, similar to the Games series. XPRESS AIDER: Pretty poor IAN BOTHAM'S TEST MATCH: An Kung-Fu Master game set on a train. unexciting and bland cricket simulation. LEADERBOARD: The ubiquitous golf BASKET MASTER: Fairly competent game pops up yet again. game with naff graphics. PY HUNTER: Enjoyable, but limited TRACK AND FIELD: Jolly waggling vertically scrolling blaster. conversion from a few years back. SUPERCYCLE: Great motorbike NICK FALDO'S GOLF: Good a racing game that's just a little too easy. couple of years ago, but now looking WORLD GAMES: Eight wierd events very dodgy. from around the world: ranks with SUPER HANG-ON: Super indeed; a California Games as the best of the motorbike race game par excellence. series. STEVE DAVIS SNOOKER: RAID OVER MOSCOW: Fun-packed Apparently the best of its kind. Who's shoot 'em up with very fascist overtones. arguing? ROAD RUNNER: Faithful conversion, CHAMPIONSHIP SPRINT: Super but wrecked by an arduous multiload. Sprint with a course designer: it's INFILTRATOR: Competent arcade alright. adventure. Some of the games are a bit ropey, but Very pricey, especially as most of the there's plenty of variety and the whole better games are already available on package should keep a sports fan budget, or other, cheaper compilations. happy for weeks. OVERALL 74% OVERALL 82% TAITO COIN-OP HITS MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. SUPPLIER: IMAGINE. PRICE: SPECIAMS/C64 .99 CASS. VERSION TESTED: SPEC. RASTAN: A great exploration game with a large map and plenty of enemies to hack. SLAP FIGHT: Tricky, but addictive vertically scrolling shoot 'em up. RENEGADE: Excellent conversion of the arcade beat 'em up. ARKANOID: Addictive Breakout variant. ARKANOID: REVENGE OF DOH: More of the same, and even more addictive. FLYING SHARK: Superb conversion of the arcade WW Il shoot 'em up. BUBBLE BOBBLE: A totally faithful conversion of the amazing platform arcade game. LEGEND OF KAGE: The arcade game wasn't brilliant; neither is this. All excellent games apart from Legend of Kage, and even that isn't too bad. A must for an avid arcade gamesplayer. OVERALL 94% KARATE ACE MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. SUPPLIER: GREMLIN GRAPHICS. PRICE: SPECIAMS/C64 .99 CASS, .99 DISK. VERSION TESTED: C64. WAY OF THE EXPLODING FIST: The grandad of computer beat'em ups is still fun, but badly flawed. WAY OF THE TIGER: Similar to Exploding Fist, but not as good. SAMURAI TRILOGY: Exploding Fist with swords, and it's rubbish of the very highest order. BUCE LEE: Ageing, but thoroughly enjoyable platform arcade adventure. KUNG-FU MASTER: Reasonable conversion of an old arcade game; still * addictive though. "


"Compilat]On R: Compelling arcade Atari's vertically scrolling fumpin' on offer VENoM STRIKEs BACK: More MASK antics in this rage ar CYBERNoin:Addictiv TRIAD:voLUME 1 good as it co challenging and compelling sUPPLIER: TRIAD. PRic: .99. vERsIoN TEsTED:AMIGA. and explore game improved graph ut about. None of the are particularly thrilling, even . work out quite STARGLIDER: Thrilling vector shoot | 'em up with plenty of depth.. of shooting action, but none of the a couple of years ago, beginning to look game! Ire outstanding. Still, hours of potential blasting in s BARBARIAN: Fairly good dCdde ddy Quite expensive, especially as the MACHINES: AMS/C64. 64 .99 CASS, C64  DISKAMS  DISK E: SPECIAMS/C64. REMLIN GRAPHICS. PRICE SPECIAMS/C64 .99 SUPREMECHALLENE sHACKLED:A Gauntlet clone of the vERsIN sp:C64 MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64 SUPPLIER: BEAUJOLLY RIC SPECIAMS/C641294 cAT: Awful attempt at an native' sports simulation. R TRAFFic coNtRoL: ontally scrolling shoot Low-grade four-level lassic space trading gam no Spectrum owner should be without. SENTINEL: Absolutely brilliant 3D arcade puzzlelstrategy game. ably addictiv Not so much a sim oring and dull shoot 'em up S: Unholdiegy as good combat simulator ou certainly will go crazy if you irly sTARGLIDER: Superb 3D vector 'em up with tons to do. good one-on-one con L41 Games, don' ERBOARD PAR 4 ER: US GOLD. Is GopHs sIoN TESTED:C64 SUPPLIER: US GOLD MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. sUPPLIER: GREMLIN GRAPHICS. PicsPECIAMS/C64 .99 CASS, .99 DISK.. VERSoNTESTED:C84. XEVious: Very tepid version of DERBOARD: The classic golf incredibly playable. LEADERBOARD foURNAMENT: More of the same, but tougher. LEADERBOARD EXECUTIVE EDITioN: Even more of the same, but tougher still! BioNic coMMAND0: Quite conversion, but marred by push-scrolling. "


"Compilation WORLD CLASS LEADERBOARD: Even more of the same, but this time IN-CROWD modelled on real golf courses. MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. If you're into golfing games, this SUPPLIER: OCEAN. collection is an absolute must. If not, PRICE: SPECIAMS/C64 .95 avoid it like the plague. CASS, .95 DISK. OVERALL 78% VERSION TESTED: C64. GRYZOR: Tough and addictive KONAMI ARCADE COLLECTION conversion of the arcade blast. COMBAT SCHOOL: Seven assorted MACHINES: SPECIAMS/C64. events and a combat mission brilliant SUPPLIER: IMAGINE. stuff! PRICE: SPECIAMS/C64 .99 CASS. LAST NINJA: Superb six-level arcade VERSION TESTED: C64. adventure with ace graphics. PLATOON: Atmospheric and highly MIKIE: Very camp four-level arcade playable four-part game-of-the-film. game; it's fun, though. PREDATOR: Enjoyable run 'n' blast JAILBREAK: Bileous mockery of the film tie-in. arcade original. Strictly for laughs. TARGET RENEGADE: Great graphics GREEN BERET: Very difficult, but and playability; puts Double Dragon to additive stab 'n' roast arcade game. shame. YIE AR KUNG-FU: Amusing beat 'em BARBARIAN: Gory, but very up, but it's getting a bit wrinkly. gratifying hack 'n' slash fighting game. SHAO-LIN'S ROAD: Inept KARNOV: Bileous arcade conversion platform/beat'em up. of the very lowest quality. NEMESIS: Enjoyable conversion of the horizontal blaster, although it's a little Apart from one cabbage, In-Crowd is a long in the tooth. marvellous compilation. Nearly all the HYPERSPORTS: One of the original games are multiload, and offer massive joystick wagglers, and it's still great fun. scope for long-term play. PING PONG: Playable table tennis game, with short-lived appeal. OVERALL 92% JACKAL: Grotting scrolling shoot' em up. ULTIMATE: THE COLLECTED WORKS All the games are old, but they're all good fun; even the bad ones are good MACHINE: SPEC. for a laugh! Cheap, too. SUPPLIER: US GOLD. OVERALL 80% PRICE: .99 CASS, .99 DISK. VERSION TESTED: SPEC. JETPAC: A landmark in Spectrum computing; simple, but addictive. KNIGHT LORE: The original 3D isometric forced perspective arcade adventure; brilliant. ALIEN 8: Another superb arcade adventure. SABRE WULF: Another mould breaker, still as fresh and addictive as ever. GUNFRIGHT: Enjoyable and highly original 3D gunfighting game. LUNAR JETMAN: Utterly superb scrolling shoot 'em up; a classic. NIGHTSHADE: Innovative scrolling forced perspective arcade adventure. ATIC ATAC: Yet another classic arcade adventure still incredibly engrossing. PSSST: Whacky and addictive arcade game. TRANS AM: Odd hybrid collect 'em up with cars. Good fun, though. COOKIE: Tough and frustrating, but very addictive arcade-style game. An utterly superb collection of class games. A slice of computing history that no Spectrum owner should pass by. OVERALL 98% 94% 98% OVERALL TABLE: C64 OVERALL TABLE: SPECTRUM TAITO COIN-OP HITS OVERALL TABLE: AMSTRAD 7 ULTIMATE: COLLECTED IN-CROWD 93% WORKS SPORTSWORLD 91% SUPREME CHALLENGE SUPREME CHALLENGE 95% SUPREME CHALLENGE 90% TAITO COIN-OP HITS 93% TAITO COIN-OP HITS 94% GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE 88% IN-CROWD 93% IN-CROWD 93% GAME, SET AND MATCH OI 87% TEN GREAT GAMES 87% TEN GREAT GAMES 89% TEN GREAT GAMES 86% FISTS 'N' THROTTLES 82% KONAMI ARCADE FISTS 'N' THROTTLES 83% GAME, SET AND MATCH II 81% COLLECTION 83% KONAMI ARCADE KONAMI ARCADE GAME, SET AND MATCH II 82% COLLECTION 80% COLLECTION 80% FISTS 'N' THROTTLES GIANTS 78% FLIGHT ACE 77% FLIGHT ACE 78% LEADERBOARD PAR 4 78% COMMAND LEADERBOARD PAR 3 HISTORY IN THE MAKING 74% PERFORMANCE 75% SPACE ACE 74% TASTE OF AMERICA 73% GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE 74% COMMAND SPACE ACE 70% GIANTS 72% PERFORMANCE 72% COMMAND SPACE ACE GIANTS 72% PERFORMANCE HISTORY IN THE MAKING 67% HISTORY IN THE MAKING 69% FLIGHT ACE 65% KARATE ACE 63% GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE 63% KARATE ACE 64% GO CRAZY 56% KARATE ACE 61% GO CRAZY 41% overall score table "


"Roger Rabbit is fab. BIGE It's that time of year again presents, pudding, crackers and big, family films. There are only two '18's around to satisfy the sleaze-seekers everyone else is going to see nice, wholesome movies. But even in a month when the 'PG's have been procreating like bunnies, there is just one question you have to ask Who Framed Roger Rabbit (PG)? This is the one you've been panting for and for once a film actually lives up heres up Here's the man who rabbits on about the LEE WA TUDIUS VEL to the hype. It's Christmas cinema releases \"Roger undoubtedly the movie of that!\" says Ward R. Street. the month, probably of the year and possibly the decade. Put simply, Roger is the rabbit who gets pulled out of the empty hat he's magic! Roger is a star. He's famous in 1940's Hollywood for being set on fire, run over and having refrigerators dropped on his head and none of it does him any harm because Roger is a Toon. Yes, you've heard of an actor being paper thin but in the case of Roger it's true! He lives in Toon town, a Silly Symphony suburb where cartoons rule. But even animations suffer from Tinsel Town problems like cheating wives, and Roger's no exception. Curvaceous Jessica Rabbit is having an affair, and when her love is murdered, Roger becomes number one suspect even though he insists he's innocent. Enter Eddie Valiant, a hard-drinking detective with a hatred of Toons. He's so far down on his luck he'd have to take the 'up' elevator to get mugged. A Well, who did frame Roger Rabbite Then the crazy, cartoon Rabbit succeeds as a Entertainment is serving character crashes into his detective thriller and a rabbit for Christmas dinner, life and much against his dazzling display of very George Lucas has to leap in better judgement, Valiant special effects. with an offering which, takes Roger's case, only to By the end of the film you while it's not turkey, is a discover the whole affair is too will accept that the bigger than he dreamed ... Toons are every bit as real as The Star Wars man wrote and that the deeply sinister the Bob Hoskins, brilliant as the story and executive Judge Doom, with his vat of long-suffering Eddie produced Willow (PG) and Valiant, Christopher Lloyd the reason for its diminutive erase a Toon is involved! as the black clad Doom, and stature is that it's hero When an animator let's not forget Roger himself stands just 3'4\". It must combines his art with real if ever a rabbit deserved have been a big day for small actors the result is usually a an Oscar, he's the one. Look actors when Lucas turned compromise, lacking the out for all the other cartoon his hand to magical fantasy wild, wackiness of pure stars in guest appearances because the Nelwyn race are cartoons but not able to too especially Donald and not noted for producing work as drama either. Daffy Duck playing a piano basket ball players. But Director Robert Zemeckis, of duet. Lucas is not a sizeist and his Back to the Future fame, Th-th-th-that's all, folk's! cast ranges from eight inch and animator Richard Well, not quite, but Roger's a tall brownies to six foot Williams have achieved the hard act to follow. Still, if heroes in this epic tale, as impossible though. Roger Spielberg's Amblin well as a sorceress who's A dramatic moment. 116 "


"which a mysterious client leaves in his safekeeping. It should be a simple chocolate sitting job, but when the client is murdered, Tim has to rely on street-smart Nick to salvage the situation. Diamond isn't the best made film around but it does feature a host of English actors in special appearances, including Jimmy (Oz) Nail, hilarious as a thuggish cop. Probably best suited to youngsters, it's still good to see British kids solving mysteries instead of American brats. For those who like their action harder boiled there's Blue Jean Cop (18) but what else would you expect transformed into a variety of from James Glickenhaus, animals. director of ultra-brutal, Willow's quest (didn't you vigilante saga, The just know there'd be a Exterminator? Regular quest?) concerns a baby readers will know that I who, it is said, will bring A Fighting fantasy Willow. about the downfall of the evil Queen. En route to Bavmorda's castle, Willow encounters a mixed bunch of helpers, the most important OO of whom is Madmartigan, a hyperactive one-time hero who eventually proves himself, falling in love with Bavmorda's warrior daughter in between. There are plenty of tricky effects, especially during the final battle, which almost strays into Star Wars territory, but somehow the whole doesn't add up to its parts. Despite looking wonderful there's a feeling that the film was created with American kids in mind and in the end the characters Hello little boy. What a sweetie? are less convincing than loathe gratuitous violence collects payoffs from corrupt detectives, thugs Toons. But it's not an except when it's done with criminals. When just such a with switch-blades and unenjoyable romp it could style, and Indigo Levis rogue undercover man is enjoys some of the most just have been so much Policeman is a case in point. shot by a drug dealer, wonderfully gross car chases better. The film is so sick, so nobody will believe that the seen in a long while and I actually preferred Just sleazy, so over the top and as junkie's plea of self defence. finds time to connect with Ask For Diamond (U), a its heart, so subversively Nobody, that is, except an ex-girlfriend between British movie made for a sum warped, it's something crusading lawyer Roland bouts of action. Slick, sick akin to the tube fare to special. Any director who Dalton, played by Peter and the perfect antidote to Camden Town, which is has to recreate New York's (RoboCop) Weller, who sets Christmas TV! where most of it is set. Based seedy Time Square in the out to prove the mitigating Patricia Charbonneau, on the book The Falcon's studio because the real thing circumstances, despite who plays Dalton's old Malteser, it's an underage isn't degenerate enough having the whole of the flame, turns up again in Call detective story taking place deserves your attention. police department against Me (18). the other offering around various London But why that weird title? him. of seasonal sleaze. She's just landmarks and featuring A fashion craze? No, because Our two-fisted attorney the sort of lady you'd like to some of the worst puns you a Blue Jean Cop is one who encounters crime bosses, find filling your Christmas could groan at. stockings, but she has a Tim Diamond is a teenage problem somebody's private eye whose business sending her filthy phone is even less successful than calls. Unfortunately she Eddie Valiant's. To add to thinks it's a joke by her wet, his problems he's left yuppie boyfriend and turns minding kid brother Nick up at a bar that the caller over Christmas. Tim's so suggests, where she stupid he can't even look witnesses the murder of a after a box of Maltesers transvestite in the toilets by BIG "


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"surgery but there's no gross and gory black comedy here. This is a star vehicle for Dudley Moore so it stays pure and 'PG'. The result is probably the weakest of the genre, unless you happen to like Moore's clowning, and it's a relief to report that there are no more movies using this plot in the pipeline. If you need to like Moore to enjoy his film you'll have to love Michael Jackson to yet another crooked cop! Who'd live in New York? Going all out to create a sense of flash-trash, Call Me fails to combine its two strands. The woman becoming fascinated by her telephonic pornographer is interesting and the acting of Ms Charbonneay and her Noo York friends is excellent. But the thriller element is less satisfactory and its woman-in-peril melodrama becomes unwelcome as the film develops. It's not a wrong number but it is as frustrating as a crossed line. Back in the wholesome stakes there's Sunset (15) set in the days of silent cinema when cowboys were Cowboys and Tom Mix was the best. Only one of today's big names could whip up that old Mix magic but is amicable Bruce Willis big enough? I'm not convinced that he's quite superstar status yet, despite the rumoured $5 million he received for Die Hard, but he and James Garner make a good team in this clever detective thriller. Garner is Wyatt Earp, the legendary Wild West lawman, brought to Hollywood to act as advisor on Mix's latest picture. Mix and the Marshall hit it off so 'Ere's yer dinner. better than his last outing with Willis, the myopic Blind Date. As undemanding adventures go it's the right sort of picture to dispel Boxing Day gloom. It's also a lot better than Like Father Like Son (PG), the latest addition to the series of role-reversal films. Busy Dr Jack Hammond and his son swap places thanks to a magical serum and undergo all the culture-shock experiences of school/work that we've become accustomed to in films like Vice Versa and Big. The one saving grace for this one could have been if the son had to perform major sprint to Moonwalker (PG). It's a noisy mess, mixing old promos with a crummy plot about a drug dealer. Lots of special effects as Michael ego trips away to his heart's content and presumably takes it in from the teenage girls who screamed all the way through the preview. Everyone else should (moon-) walk the other way! Finally there's a low budget beauty which opened at the end of November. The Nature of the Beast (PG) is set on the Lancashire moors where a boy becomes obsessed with tales of a giant, sheep-killing creature roaming loose. Meanwhile in the town below another beast, that of unemployment, strikes. It's a bravely British film which is nowhere near as gloomy as it sounds. It's as funny and tragic as real life and deserves to be widely seen as an antidote to much of the Christmas mush above! A An' I said to 'im ... well that soon they're visiting a house of ill-repute together where they witness a murder! This really is the month for mysteries and pretty soon star and cowboy are out to solve the conspiracy of corrupt Hollywood heavies. It's a nice idea which is never fully developed by director/writer Blake Edwards, but at least it's "


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"GHOULS 'N' The weather changes too. At MR DO GHOSTS one point you have to battle Well, Capcom have come up forward against a Mr Do, Universal's much loved with another humdinger of a mini-hurricane complete with classic character of the arcades game. Ghouls 'n' Ghosts is first driving rain and still annihilate as resurrected by Electrcoin, cousin to Ghosts 'n' Goblins, the flying enemy! Luckily you Mr Do retains all of the uses the same style graphics, can shoot in all four directions, originals charm and the same main character and if I especially skywards. playability. Even though the remember correctly the same same As usual there are game I saw was a prototype on soppy storyline of a kidnapped end-of-level monsters which test, I had to queue for ages to love and a clumsy knight need some heavy fire power to have a quick stab at it. charging without thinking to finish off. The graphics are The theme of this 99-level the rescue. excellent, as is the jingle which game is fruit. Eat your way There are five levels of super runs runs throughout. At the end of round the maze chomping fast action leading you, each level, you're shown a map bananas to get extra speed and eventually, into the bowels of which charts your progress and then use that speed to outrun the enemy's castle. You start off lets you know what's coming in what I imagined to be the next. tactics. The enemy actually graveyard scene. In fact the Ghouls 'n' Ghosts has all the they're walking pears follow graphics have been tarted up a charm and playability of its you up the paths you've created bit and the gravestones are now predecessor. It's brilliant and and if you can get them all lined stocks in which are trapped should enjoy a great run in the up, one after the other, you grizzly skeletons. arcades. should be able to manoeuvre The ground beneath your Stop goblin and... feet soon start to churn as the skeleton army rises to do battle. Get touched by one of these and you've tossed aside, losing your armour into the bargain. A Mr Do does nicely. Let one touch you again and you'll end up a scraggly pile of The apples are the key to the bones game. Should an apple drop Up hill and down dale, and fall to the bottom of the through the village and onto screen, it breaks in half and the castle. Stone walls can be you're left with one less climbed to get out of trouble, potential weapon. Sometimes weapons picked up and the apples are buried deep and earthernware pots shot for extra you need to nudge them hard points. Beware the treasure several times to budge them. chests. These contain jokers A bonus Mr Do is earned by who appear and cast a spell collecting the letters EXTRA turning you into a duck, or an which are highlighted one by old and arthritic man. No help one at the top of the screen. at all when you need all the However, when a letter falls speed you can get. Grab the ghoulies. onto the screen it also releases lots of blue fuzzy monsters. an apple to fall and squash Beware, fast reactions are them flat. needed to deal with these. The reward? Lots of bonus Mr Do can be played in a points as well as an atomic pill. number of ways. But it is a The size of the pill depends on game of strategy. The more you how many monsters you play it, the more addictive it manage to squash. The larger it becomes and with practice is, the further it bounces you'll be able to work out how through the pathways knocking best to tackle each new screen. off yet more monsters. Don't expect to see it in the Monsters are generated in arcades until summer, but the centre of the screen. Here when it does arrive I can ice creams and milkshakes also guarantee there'll be hordes of appear, though you've got to be Mr Do addicts just itching to try! nippy to grab them before they out their skills on this new melt away. version "


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"Golden JOYSTICK AWARDS 88 It's that Golden Joystick time of year again. Voting is now open the Year, Game of the Year, Adventure of the Year, Arcade for Europe's most prestigious computer game awards. Golden Game of the Year, Strategy Game of the Year, Role Playing Joysticks is entering its sixth proud year. In the time we have Game of the Year, Programmer of the Year, Best Original been running the awards each year has seen a large growth in Game, Best Coin-op Conversion, Best Graphics (16 bit), the number of votes cast by you the C+VG readers. It's the Best Graphics (8 bit), Best Soundtrack (16 bit), Best reader poll that makes our awards the special ones. No Soundtrack (8 bit), Best Simulation. arbitrary panels, no reviewers sticking their noses in. The In addition there are four machine specific awards games that win our prices are the ones you vote for. Plain and sponsored by individual magaiznes. These are the C+VG simple. Console Game of the Year, the Commodore User Amiga This year we are expanding the awards by inviting our sister Game of the Year, the Sinclair User Spectrum Game of the magazines in the Emap group (our publishers) to extend the Year, and The One Atari ST Game of the Year. voting to their readers. Voting forms will also be appearing in Get your votes in now. We have ten C+VG 'Stonking Sinclair User, Commodore User and The One. Good Read' T Shirts to give away to ten lucky voters who The game categories are as follows: Software House of are drawn out of our mail bag. Vote now. Best Coin-op Conversion... Runner-Up.................. Software House of the Year........ Runner-Up....... Arcade Game of the Year........... Runner-Up............ Best Adventure Game......... Runner-Up.......................... Best Original Game..... Runner-Up.......... Best Graphics (8-bit).... Runner-Up....... Best Graphics (16-bit)...... Runner-Up... Best Soundtrack (8-bit).... Runner-Up... Best Soundtrack (16-bit)...... Runner-Up....... Programmer of the Year........ Runner-Up............... Best Role Playing Game.......... Runner-Up........ Strategy Game of the Year............ Runner-Up.......... Best Simulation... Runner-Up............. Game of the Year....... Runner-Up................ Best Console Game....... Runner-Up.............. Send your forms to: Golden Joysticks 1988, C + VG, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Road, London ECIR 3AU. Uoting Coupon "


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"OM Mean IME 0226 STAGE 01 DD Machines Castlevania MACHINE: NINTENDO. PRICE: .95. REVIEWER: JULIAN RIGNALL. Some evil count is terrorising the neighbourhood, and the only thing that can stop him having his wicked way with all the local girlies is you a Professor Van Helsing type. The action begins with the hero entering the count's castle: a grimmer and more forebording place you couldn't possibly imagine. The castle has many, many rooms, each of which is comprised of stairs, ladders Huge arcade adventure. defeated in a final showdown to complete the game but he's very tough and you need and platforms. As the hero by dying minions, or by to have the correct weapons progresses through the castle bashing parts of the castle to destroy him. the screen scrolls vertically walls and uncovering secret Although Castlevania and horizontally caches of goodies. doesn't look particularly depending on which way he's Collecting extra weapons is attractive the colours are a travelling. vital to the mission on later little muddy, and some of the The count's minions infest sprites lack definition it the castle, and attack the tougher and more plays extremely well. The intruder on sight, attemptinga ggressive. Useful stuff difficultly is nicely graded, to wear away his energy bar. includes axes, a dagger, fire letting you progress a little If the bar is depleted entirely, bombs, boomerangs and further with every game, and one of his three lives is lost morning stars. There are also there's also a continue option Fortunately the hero is armed items which increase for those who enjoy keeping with a whip which kills Firepower, restore health and at it. monsters with one well-aimed destroy every creature The castle is certainly large lash. Extra weapons can be on-screen. (how about sending me a picked up by collecting the On the final screen is the map?), and there are a icons dropped occasionally count himself, and he must be wealth of extra weapons to Down the stairs to find the dagger. experiment with. To be honest, I think that Castlevania is overpriced especially when compared with Sega's average price of around  but you do get plenty of game for your money, and it's both challenging and highly enjoyable. Recommended for those who enjoy a good arcade adventure. NINTENDO GRAPHICS 71% SOUND 79% VALUE 48% PLAYABILITY 88%  OVERALL 81% "


"Mean hanghai MACHINE: SEGA. PRICE: $22.95. REVIEWER: JULIAN RIGNALL Lachines Shangharisn't new on computers Activision released it a couple of years ago on various formats and now it's arrived on the Sega. It's based on the old oriental board game Mah Jongg. What a month! There's Metroid tips for There are 144 tiles arranged in a pyramid Nintendo owners, and reviews of Shanghai and the objective is to and Great Baseball on the Sega, and Top remove matching pairs from the pile. This is more Gun and Castlevania on the Nintendo, as difficult than it sounds well as news on new Nintendo and PC since it's only possible to remove them all in 72 Engine titles. Best of all is our exclusive consecutive moves. And removing the wrong tiles report from Japan four pages of the means that you're left in hottest news from the land of the situation where there are no matching pairs left. It rising console. sounds odd, but in practice it's quite straightforward. The rule that makes the The Sega interpretation What's that then? game difficult to complete of this strange game is is that tiles can only be viewed from above. A   removed by sliding them joycard-controlled cursor off the pile either to the left is used to highlight tiles, or right if there aren't any and fire either unhighlights other tiles blocking them them or removes them from IDENTIFY TILE in. There are four types of play. If the move is illegal a each tile, so selective beep sounds and the removal is necessary so player has to select new you don't end up blocking ng tiles. pairs in. There are three types of game: solitaire, Shanghai: not exactly exciting. go HELP ca ELSER TEKARST PUSHOT PHUZON E da Til PRADH30 1920 Nm WIRD tournament and is played by two challenge. Solitaire is participants, and the straightforward: just objective is to remove as remove all the files from the many tiles as possible. board. Tournament is a During play a drop-down multi-player game where menu can be accessed to the players take turns to identify a tile, back up a remove tiles from the move, request the board the player with computer to show all the most files at the end of moves available a help a game is declared the option in other words, peek winner. Finally, challenge at tiles underneath (which ochela LOL!). VIDERE TIL PERMOHERENO "


"is cheating) and change the background music (there are two awful tines complicated business too you are able to bring on and one which is a relief pitcher should your listenable). I found it difficult to get Dil current one be flagging (a excited about Shanghai. very wise move) and you MACHINE: SEGA. With your keypad and The presentation and PRICE: $22.95. can take part in a special buttons you can now bat, REVIEWER: MATT BIELBY. graphics are great, and home run contest field, pitch, run between the game itself is quite sub-game (to see how Channel Four hasn't bases and all the other therapeutic it certainly many boundary hits you makes a change from business of the game, with devoted quite as much CC make out of 20 perfect blasting aliens but in the time to baseball as it has the scene sometimes pitches in a row). Should American Football, so I end it all gets rather switching to the you make a homer the scoreboard, or to another crowd go wild, doing a sort guess a fair number of you tedious. I'm all for unusual infuriating longshot as the of Mexican wave. out there are as ignorant of adaptations of board computer player hits yet the rule intricacies as I am. games, but I'm afraid this Sound, graphics and Good job then that Sega's another perfect home run.animation are up to the one doesn't make a particularly thrilling or baseball game is playable Certainly for a beginner, it general high, clean would be wise to start of addictive computer enough to be fun on first standards of Sega games. with your fielders set to run game. loading whether you've there are really very few bothered to read the for a catch automatically. ways to fault it except to SEGA (skimpy) rule book or not. rather than having to worry say that the weaknesses of Great Baseball does its about controlling them the video game are the GRAPHICS 69% best to recreate the game too. same the weaknesses of There is a lot more SOUND 52% as well as possible. You the real thing. Baseball Pitch! VALUE can choose to play the 327 computer or a human 32% PLAYABILITY 47% opponent over several OVERALL 48% levels of difficulty, and can pick \"real\" league teams and to some extent modify their abilities. You can SEGA choose, for instance a SHANGWA pitcher, stamina levels and whether their speciality is to be slider, knuckleball or something equally unsavoury-sounding. Certainly no concessions are made to aid the understanding of us dumb Brits. 804 8 INRIKE Bik 8 The title screen. Is it a homer doesn't flow particularly well as a game in the same way that soccer does. There are too many stops and starts, and too much switching between playing pitcher, hitter and catcher for me, at any rate to get fully into the idea of playing the game. Instead it's more like taking a passive, distant role watching the little men on the field play the game. Still, if you're into baseball, you'll no doubt be very, very pleased with SEGA GRAPHICS 75% SOUND 69% VALUE 72% PLAYABILITY 64% OVERALL 76% "


"Mean Machines anything the gameplay is cannon and missile sight, improved as the designers artificial horizon to tell you have concentrated on flying the various angles and and fighting rather than directions you are flying, a reproducing all the dials and damage indicator and a buttons of the real thing. multi-purpose display at the There are four levels of centre of the controls. Most of play. Combat level one is for the time this display acts as a beginners fake to the sky radar but it also gives you and start mixing with the printed messages: warnings Migs. This will enable you to of enemy planes on your tail, get to grips with the flight height warnings if you are too controls and practice using high or too low when your cannon and heat seeking attempting to land or refuel. missiles. Landing on to your own Combat level two is a real carrier and refuelling are two battle challenge. Enemy Migs of the trickiest manoeuvres are taking off from the that you have to master. You Russian Carrier Minsk, and certainly have to master these submarines are tracking you if you want to succeed in the from just below the surface of four Top Gun missions. the ocean: your mission is One nice touch are the dodge the flak, down as screen that come up if you fail many Migs as you can reach to land properly your F14 the Minsk and sink her. is seen crashing into the sea Combat level three is an air yards from the carrier. battle over land. Your mission Another good thing about is to penetrate the enemy Top Gun is you can just pick it fortress. But before you can up and start to play. Getting do this you must first avoid Migs in your sights blasting guided missiles and them with you cannon or even out manoeuvre low-level locking missiles onto them. At attack choppers, before this level you can start Blast off!! 89: 2 RET OSS SPEED TWP T-i MACHINE: NINTENDO. have seen the film to enjoy this PRICE: .95. excellent flight game. REVIEWER: EUGENE Having played quite a few LACEY. flight sim games on home A Missile that mig Top Gun will really take your computer I was immediately breath away (well why go struck by the level of blasting the defences of the for an original intro when a sophistication that the fortress. clichéd one is staring you in designers have achieved With a huge stretch of the the face). using the four key pad buttons imagination level four takes It's based on the quna-ho that are available to them on you into space in an attempt flyer's film in which Tom the Nintendo key pad. to destroy the enemy Killer Cruise and his mates down This is very different to the Satellite their key weapon squadrons of Russkie Migs in home computer versions in their plan for world their F14's and Kelly McGillis which often use just about domination looks stunning, though every key on the computer to Plenty of cockpit slightly less than convincing implement all sorts of moves. information is available to as a fighter plane expert. There is no loss of you. There is an altimeter to Still you don't need to gameplay in fact if tell you your altitude, fuel meter, air speed indicator, enjoying the game seconds after you plug it in. An excellent flight game addition to the Nintendo library of games. NINTENDO GRAPHICS 82% SOUND 81% VALUE 55% 1 ! PLAYABILITY 86% OVERALL 82% 142 "


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"39 stig ND OF THE After numerous rumours and rumblings, it seems that 1988 will, after all, be remembered as the year there was a serious Japanese attempt to launch games consoles in Blighty. This Christmas both Sega and Nintendo will be competing for sales of their own home based systems in British shops. But still there's no sign of the much-vaunted PC Engine, and in Japan the market is already looking towards the second generation of games machines. The recent Amusement Machines Show in Tokyo provided a valuable opportunity for catching up on developments in the country where it's all happening (or most of it, at any rate Japan. Nick Kelly reports. doesn't seem to register, for some reason. Whereas in Japan everyone's totally at home with the idea of computers in their everyday lives anyway so they don't have any hang-ups about using high-tech equipment to provide them with their spare-time thrills. So just what is on offer to Japanese console owners? Well, up until a couple of months back, the answer would have been straightforward enough. Three 8-bit game systems dominated the market; Nintendo's Famicom, the Sega System and NEC's *** 3 to Fantazy Zone on the PC Engine. s GOLDOG SHO MB OLD WBADODO SHOT BOMB The average Westerner's conception of the land of the Rising Sun is of a nation of hard-working, technology mad folk, and, although like all racial stereotypes this image should be taken with a pinch of salt, there's a fair amount of truth to it. It's also an incredibly rich country, and Tokyo is undoubtedly the most expensive city in the world to visit. But another, perhaps less well-publicised fact about the Japanese is that they're video-game mad! Whereas your average game player in this country is almost ashamed to admit that he's a regular visitor to an amusement arcade, in Tokyo coin-op arcades are perfectly respectable places where everybody from schoolboys to lawyers go to partake of the blasting arts. The arcades themselves are far more comfortable and well-maintained than their British equivalents, with seating in front of all of the cabinets. You can even buy soundtracks of your favourite video games on CD in the bigger record shops! And perhaps it's this far less inhibited attitude to arcade blasting that has led to the popularity of the games console, as opposed to the home computer, in Japan. My theory is that British parents (who tend to do the lion's share of stumping-up when it comes to high-tech entertainment) tend to buy their offspring home computers as opposed to consoles because they fondly imagine that by buying their children computers they'll be contributing to their education whereas a games console is a just an expensive toy. The fact that with some honorable exceptions the home computers they buy are exclusively used for playing games 146 "


"AISING CONS Giraya: the PC Engine CD ROM game. 199_los 399 PC Engine. The company that claim the largest user base, and for whose machines the overwhelming majority of the games produced every year are intended is Nintendo. Their Family Computer System (Famicom for short) has sold something like 12 million units in Japan and there have been about 400 games produced for the system. Nintendo have been selling Famicom systems in Japan for some five years now, and about three years ago they also launched the system in the United States, and now have an impressive eleven million sales for their American system, the Nintendo Entertainment System. This Christmas, they'll be hoping to add Britain to their success stories. The major secret of their achievements is price-related: in Japan and America they sell their machines for lower prices than any of their major competitors, thereby generating a large initial user base, which in turn leads to a huge number of games being manufacted for Famicom/NES machines, which attracts still more console buyers who are impressed by the numerical superiority of the Nintendo software base as well as the low price. Ironically, however, this huge market BOLT 5 * 30* share, and correspondingly large software base may be ausing problems for Nintendo in Japan at least. Mr Gushi of Hudsonsoft, a major Japanese Software manufacturer, says that while Nintendo's massive user base represents something like 90% of the market in theory, many of these machines are mouldering away in the back of Japanese cupboards. \"We can say this because we know the sales of our own software. We used to sell 600,000 units easily for the Nintendo, but nowadays 300,000 is about the maximum we can do, no matter how much we invest in advertising and promotion.\" The problem, it seems, is a combination of the machine's own technical limitations and the huge amount of unoriginal, clone-type games which have been produced for V PC Engine baseball. it. g STRIKE \"Each new piece of software is fairly similar to something that's gone before. And it seems to me that the engineers at all the software houses have mastered the capabilities of the Famicom's technology and are using the system's technology to its full extent, so that even if they come up with a better idea, they still can't express that idea with the Famicom. That's certainly been our own engineers' experience.\" Even Nintendo themselves agree that their system, at least as far as the Japanese market is concerned, has run into problems of late. According to Howard Phillips of Nintendo, \"the software isn't as fresh and new as it could be, there's a lot of repetition and not a lot of new, original games. To some extent the engineers could be said to have exhausted the system. As against this, however, Phillips points to the huge growth in popularity of role playing games in Japan, as exemplified by the unprecedented success of the Dragon Quest series. This role playing monster, now in its third incarnation sold a whopping 3 million copies. "


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