Crash67_Aug_1989 by Marco Martinelli

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No.67 AUGUST 1989

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Where's my MEGA G A M E POWER cassette? Has someone nicked my m o n t h ' s fix of great games?!! Better a s k m y friendly newsagent!

SUPER KOOL GAMES FOR YOUR SPECTRUM! F T E X C L U S I V E PLAYABLE DEMO

Maze Mania• Hewson's brill + barmy arcade romp!

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THE ARCADE COMPILATION OF THE YEAR Featuring: RASTAN

CRASH - "Rastan is slick and compelling YOUR S inclair you miss rtt"

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COMPUTER 4 VIDEO GAMES-'Simple Smooth Very addictivc AwmnM ZZAP- A superb arcade conversion and a great shoot em up. This is one for the ZAPPERS; collect-on * ^

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COMMODORE USER As conversions go this st.ll takes some beating - literally and metaphorically YOUR SINCLAIR - The graphics are so slick you reality feel you re pari of an action movie rather thun iust playing a game ARKANOID ZZAP 6a - , thoroughly recommend Arnold* - tor the simple teas*, that » *

REVENGE OF D O H AMTlX - Excellent - can't 11 A future number one YOUR SINCLAIR - Immensely impiwsive and chronically addictive. A Classic BUBBLE BOBBLE AMSTRAD ACTION - "Its a cracker De».n-tely a game I should keep coming _

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Its reputation for being the mcut bloodthirsty computer game ever, means that . its phenomenal success will undoubtedly continue. * - Sinclair User

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CONTENTS GAME THRILLS Games to make you gt wtbbly a! the edoes1 Melabols. Nontprraqjto js, wrt one ot The Kct Trilogy, U ; ' male Wanor a Mare Mana demo and Polit'^ana

SUMMER THRILLS! The summer just got hotter! This issue of CRASH Is bursting with the latest and greatest stuff around on the Speccy scene, we've got all the games we could lay our hands on and the third action packed Power Tape! Unfortunately, being summer, the software world has caught 'summer-slumpitis', the deadly Illness which results in hardly any games coming out. Only seven — seven!! — games up for review, hopefully the situation should improve next month. But apart from the games there's the Magnum Light Gun which should tickle your fancy and a host of extras, Including the chance to win an exclusive Indiana Jones jacket, in this summer bonanza edition of the magazine that brings the action right Into your own home!!

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will restore you to your natural self, find the wizard who will cure your heart, weakened by this transformation, and then destroy the How much of a softy are you? We don't m e a n 'blg-g[rls-bk>use' Kremins - all straightforward really... klnda softy. But do you g o all The destruction of these despisquidgy round the edges at the THRILLS O N TAPE cable beings can only be brought sight of small, cute furry creaWhere to find your thrill power! on by a nuclear explosion — so tures? Good! You'll just love find nuclear fuel pods, take them Metabolls! And even If you SIDE A: to the reactor room and run/Tly like aren't much of a softy you'll METABOUS hell. Doesn't sound very Green to love Metabolis anyway — it's a NONTERRAQUEOUS us! cartographer's delight! (Well, M A Z E MANIA demo The game area consists of a there are 150 screens which highly complex maze, about 150 need serious mapping. S o u n d s SIDE B: .screens large. As you fly around more like a nightmare...). MOUNTAINS O F KET the maze you meet a variety of difULTIMATE W A R R I O R he story has it that the ferent creatures most of whom are POKEMANIA invading Kremins have pretty harmless. Some, like the starfish will kill on contact. If you transformed the Check the loading instructions on have an encounter with a Kremin human race into a varithe inlay. your energy will be sapped, so it's ety of little creatures. Should your tape prove faulty, best to stay out of reach: that calls don't despair; send the complete And true enough, this here story is for some agility. Beware of the package to: C R A S H TAPE CLIN- fact: You've actually been turned many traps, like the one-ton weight into a man- brained bird by these IC (67), S P O O L LTD, First which will flatten, but not kill you. evil aliens ( - better than a birdAvenue, Deeside Industrial Your heart is a constant source of brained man...). Now it's your duty Park, Clwyd, CHS 2NY. trouble, and you will die unless you (Duty? You're furious!) to destroy A healthy these evil beings. You're obviously can keep yourself topped up with Mega Power Tape will wing its angina pills. As your energy is not going to get far as a twee bird, way back to you. sapped by the evil invaders a picso you must find the potion which

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ture of a little bird gradually turns into a skeleton as you weaken. To reverse the trend you must find food and grow fat again. A little red heart will begin to flash when the strain is becoming too much (aw!) — hurry and find some more pijjs before it's too late! Who said this was fun? Look on it as a challenge and don't dlespair, it's not all bad news, you do have a weapon — a boomerang — if you can find it!

Turbo or Hyper-loads which loaded stuff in really quickly. Unfortunately if your Speccy cassette player wasn't aligned properly the game continually crashed during loading. Sob. Just to increase the challenge Metabolis has one of those loads. So, perservere. If it doesn't load first time twiddle your cassette heads to lind the best setting. Good Luck!

HAVE Y O U META T H E CONTROLS? A bird in the hand is worth two joysicks. To be precise Kempston and Sinclair sticks. Alternatively the keyboard controls are Q/W left/right, Olor up and K to fire. Okay? WARNING!!!! If you have had your Speccy lor ages you'll remember nasty things called

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NONTERRAQUEOUS

After much argument and con* sulfation with Lloyd Mangram's Long Wcrd Dictionary we haven't discovered what the title o ! this game means, but we've settled on a pronunciation, and that'a 'Non-tear-ackyou-us. Got that?

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defined above) decide to to build a robot of their own (type: spherical, guided, thick) and send it into the labyrinth (type: 1004 rooms, 42 levels, another cartographer's nightmare) in order destroy the computer within. You (type: human, CRASH reader, smart) have to guide the robot past all sorts of lethal obstacles (types: photon thrusters, floaters, rapid repeat slasers, force fields, rooms of corrosive gas, bombs, rockets, more bombs, etc) in order to reach the chamber that houses the computer. To complete the mission successfully will require a great deal more than just a good trigger finger. Many of the obstacles demand adventure-like solutions, so it's thinking positron- protectivedome time again. As your robot moves from screen to screen it comes across some weird and wonderful shapes dashing all over the set. These little chaps are harmless (update: mostly harmless), they can be destroyed with laser fire, but collision with them, or indeed with any other object, will damage your psyche level (dictionary: for Psyche read Energy).You can recharge the energy level by plugging into psychers. Keep a look out for objects that will help with the various problems, some you will be able to pick up and carry, bombs, fuel pods and the like. Larger objects may have a more immediate use, but some objects may have undesirable effects when picked up. Below the playing area indicators give the score, psyche, number of bombs carried and the level that you are currently on, The authors have had the presence of mind to give an indication of the gamecompleted percentage to provide good players a means of describing to others just how clever they are (and get beaten up in the process)..

THE KET TRILOGY PART ONE

Dear oh dear oh dear! Some 'other' magazines Just can't stand the pace can they? They've brought you adventure games on their covers, but their offerings were damp squibs (le. a firework which has been piddled on). Now CRASH, knowing our readers are well tooled-up In the brain department, thought long and hard on how to bring you the pinnacle of adventuring. And we've come up with a winner! incentive's all-time great Ket Trilogy!! s you may have guessed there are three parts to Ket. one more challenging than the other. So col led parts two and three on the next two issues of CRASH! Each can be played individually, but enjoy them as a series for maximum thrill power.

KET HISTORY

The lands of Ket have long been split into feuding groups and have never known peace. Recently, vicious attacks have come from beyond the range of mountains in the east — the Mountains of Ket. Worried about the state ol the land, the Lords of Ket have joined together in an attempt to put a slop to these attacks. Two people are the evil force behind the raids: Priest/King Vran Verusbel, leader of the cult of the Mad Monks, and their high priestJLKEYS ess Delphia, the most beautiful mGan ' rv w e droid I'sas easy to woman in existence. It is thought with k byisthe lords that the death ol both I? °ysrt Vran and Delphia would cause the wrth tho Kompaton, Interface raids to stop. A courageous volunft/Sinclair or Cursor joysticks. And teer is needed... tne Keys are KEY STICK ACTION ;r up move up YOU, T H E hankfully * clown down Nonterraqueous is ADVENTURER 'eft move left only half as difficult to p Framed with a murder, you have right move right describe as it is to probeen sentenced to a grisly death shoot nounce. There is a and are languishing in jail. It's the planet (type: cold and forbidding) eve of the execution, when you are that is ruled by a computer (type: suddenly bundled off to face the schizophrenic, paranoid). It is pop- N O N T E R M I N A T I N G Lords of Ket! You guessed! They MASTERTRONiC ulated by a people (type: supgive you a do or die choice — and pressed for too long,eg This is the second of a continuing you choose to do! Destroying Vran CRASHIess), the unfriendly comsaga of monthly game brillness and Delphia is your ultimate task, puter is located in a mountain from those nice people at and not an easy one, you are (type: big, cold and as yet unpene- Mastertronic. What is coming your warned: both are cunning and trated). The population (type: way next month? Wait and (ret! devious...

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have entered the Mountains in he past, never to be seen again. Not doubting your loyalty fonne moment, but to make absolute? sure you really do stick to your mission, a magic assassin bug called Edgar is placed on your neck. His orders are to sink his poisonous fangs into you at th< slightest sign of you doing a bnk.

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HINTS N' TIPS Edgar says 'Don't just kill everything r Once inside the mountains, leave valuables in a safe place for a massive score, h is useful to draw a map! You may find magical items. These may be worn, help you in combat, assist in solving problems or be of no use at all. THE VILLAGE OF KET Wanting to see you safely on your way. we've given you this wonderfully drawn (ta Mel) map of the village of Ket. The paths show the route to the entrance to the mountains, where the adventure begins proper. But you're going to have to complete several tasks before the quests which lace you in the mountains... This map will help, but you still need to chart the village for yourself to get you started.

When entering commands, us* the verb/noun combination. Yoj will be told if your command is not understood, or you try doing simething impossible. Here are a far sample oommands... Get Swod, Drop Sword. Go North. Say Hillo. Count Coins, Say Hello... You have additional special comMOUNTAINS OF KET mands: Inventory - lists the obects Your mission in this adventure is to you have. Stat - shows your satus reach the far side of the mountains and condition. Score - how wel alive! However, you first have to you are doing, Beep - turns of the locate the secret entrance at the Speccy keyboard beep, Help base of the Mountains of Ket. This, could be useful, Look - redescibes current surroundings; Save/Lead, you are told, lies within a short horse ride to the east of a smalt vil- and Quit. lage. Your task is then to successMost commands can be shcrtfully negotiate a route through the ened: North N. South S. Up U strange mountains. Beware: many Down D, etc.

HARDWARE SHOP Harcfcvir*'? Wall, thara's no spoccyi hara. but you will hod a lamp, potion and an u a — wwy uaatuf r « choppng big log* into limraod. R'i • shop, so y o u l n#ed monay to buy, and occasionally ofciacUcanbaaotdbacktothe shoekaapar

NEAR THE CAVE ENTRANCE For some pacuhar r a a w a |Ok«i saiatman hat laft a tattawtrd hara. usaful tor doguisas

POSH HOUSE In Kat cartographers ara tha only paopia who maka anough monay

SHEER C U F F FACE Thara'i no way up. but iNi'a ra a pair ol d e a hata Ogtas lika pl«ying a gama ol die*..

C R O P FIELD Whaal, whaM avarywhara, but no! •rough to maka Into • bowl ot serummy Whaatw-popa (haw haw!) Though you may f « d a chain Kara.

P L O U G H E D FIELD Lttten caraluHy tot k w i » mut-, taring a word: l i the password y o u l naad l a w on in tha mountain*.

STABLE And Whai W a s In sMbtas? Horsasl* But this is an aipansiva horsa.

WOODS Traaa, laavas, twigs and ona big hafty. dry. tog.

BASIC H O U S E * A slmpia housa with a smpls paasant living in ft. Though taka pity on tha poor chap, don't W him — you shouldn't kin anyone unM you'ra salaly (?T) insada tha mountains.

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t's 2050 (What? Like, ten to nine? —Ed). Get out! No, the year is 2050 AD. Earth's governments have been toppled and the only ruling power is a huge central computer. This would be line and dandy if it wasn't for the fact that, due to a bit of ram-wobble (A Historian writes: Ram-wobble • first discovered in ZX81s, wobbling of the rampack makes the computer crash), the central computer has gone completely barmy! The planet is plunged into chaos!

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The only thing for it is to call in the Ultimate Warrior, to seek and destroy the computer before it does any more damage. You are that Ultimate Warrior! Oh dear. Armed with your trusty Photon Blaster, a helicopter drops you into the central city where the computer resides. But watch out for the photon-firing droids (also driven crackers by the computer) and the moving acid holes which kill instantly. The computer has additionally set up heaps of traps to try to destroy you. With only five precious lives, can you destroy the computer before it destroys you? (Why certainly Stanley!)

ULTIMATE CONTROLS

You control Ultimate Warrior with either joystick (Kempston and Sinclair interfaces) or with keys, which are: 5/cursor left: rotate left, 8/cursor right: rotate right, 7/cursor up: walk forward, 6/down cursor: fire photon, 0/delete key: Jump. Steven Howlett, author of Ultimate Warrior, also runs a company called Airline who produce a monthly cassette magazine called Spectrum User and run a mail order service for original games and utilities — see their ad in this issue. Currently Steven is bashing away at his Spectrum writing his next game for CRASH. It's the sequel to the smashing budget game Snookered, a snooker simulation (surprise!), and it's called Snookered II (double surprise!!). Stay tuned to C R A S H and you'll it have in a few months. Yummy!

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Mean creatures, who happen to quite like the colour of the slabs, glide around the tunnels bashing Flippo whenever possible, and so depleting his energy. When all the energy of Flippo's three lives has been used up, off he pops to the He's a barmpot! A toon! And great loopy-bin in the sky. completely crackers to boot! Bonus treasure chests lie in the He's Fllppo the nutty rotund star maze, and usually have benifidat of Hewson's new g a m e Maze effects on Ftippo — such as Mania!! Say hello to the viewers, increasing the score or giving him Fllppo: 'Yibble, yibble, hello, the power to kill the meanies. gibber, yo! snuffle, going, Unfortunately ihere are holes in badoooing!' the maze, and unless Flippo leaps over them he plummets into deep ull of amazing tricks and tomfoolery' is our Flippo! space. Awl So, there you are. We reckon He leaps! He runs! He Maze Mania is going to be a kicks paving slabs over! smash hit when il's released in The buffoon! August (£9.99 cassette) and can't And thanks to wonderful, wonderful Hewson you can experience wait to play the full thing. Flippo, you're as mad as a kiwi fruit! his antics exclusively in C R A S H with this wizzo playable demo of the entire first level!!! Flippo travels the depths of the POKEMANIA Tubular Bells maze, and as he has b e e n at scampers he kicks the white paving slabs over, so they turn blue or purple. The wag!

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It's black, looks mean, is made of plastic and plugs into your Spectrum. It promises a new kind of fun and isn't cheap. It's the new Sinclair Magnum lightgun, and MIKE DUNN is the man with his finger on the trigger.

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t's a long time (more than five years!) since someone last had a go at producing a light gun for the Spectrum. The Stack Light Ritle, ookie is probably the best of the six as it was called, was a bit of a failure; games. The concept is ridiculously there was next to no software support simple; shoot the targets when they spin for it, and at thirty quid, it was very round. The arrows at the top move you expensive (this was at a time when most onto the next screen when you shoot games cost four to five pounds). Both them, and occasionally a '10' target pops the Nintendo and Sega console systems up, which can be blasted for more bulhave recently popularised the hand- held lets. Each level has a number of targets gun game, and evidently Sinclair have to shoot before you can progress furdecided the time is right for the Speccy ther this goes up with each level. The to get its own light gun, the Sinclair scenery is attractive, but the main probMagnum. lem is the activity on screen — it flashes The suitably futuristic looking gun plugs white with every shot. Apart from makinto the 'Keypad/Aux' hole in the back of ing it more difficult to see what's hapthe machine. Most of these guns (and pening, Nick moans it gives him a also light pens) work on the same princi- headache and sore eyes (that's because ple; the gun senses the television scan he's so rubbish, but it's a point, I supbeam which renews the picture fifty pose). Very addictive and enjoyable. times a second; by locating the position Overall 90% of the beam, the computer can determine where the gun Is pointing. The gun is available in three Sinclair packs; with the new Action Pack (made up of a +2 or a +3, one of those appalling joysticks which you're much better off leaving in the box. the light gun and six fun gun games), or you can get just the gun and games for £29.95. If your local shop doesn't stock the gun *n' games pack, check with Virgirt/Mastertronic lor availability. But enough of this teccy stuff — what about the games?!

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ROBOT ATTACK his must be a contender for the worst T game on the tape. You have to destroy fifty robots before they make a

big mega monster. Different coloured robots arrive on the screen, and every time you hit one, it changes colour, until it becomes purple. One more shot and it blows up. Robot Attack is deathly boring, the graphics are naff, and although it doesn't appear to suffer from the flashy screen disease, it's not worth playing. Overall 35%

BULLSEYE just said that Robot Attack Having might be the worst game on the

tape, I must eat my words, because Bullseye simply defies belief! The graphics arereasonableenough, but the sound is terrible; the game's much more fun without It! Naturally, the game is based around the TV quiz, the object of which Is to throw darts at special boards and answer some trivia questions. You use the gun to tire the darts, which is quite good fun; you aim the gun steadily at the bullseye and wonder whether it's going to hit the board at all. The darts are very inaccurate, the question answering method is awful, with keyboard

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his is a basic version of the old Missile Command type game. Things fall out of the sky, and you have to shoot them before they land on your cities, blowing them up in the process. This game could have beenrealtygood, but it's ruined by the fact that it's impossible to shoot accurately. The gun has a 'scatter1 effect, vtfiich basically means it fires anywhere except where it's being aimed at! Graphically okay, but generally disappointing, realty. Ovirtll 56%

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OPERATION WOLF T h e arcade machine was great, the Spectrum conversion was pretty good, but I'm afraid it just doesnt work with the light gun at all. This version of the Ocean game replaces the joystick control with the light gun, so, theoretically, it should be ewn more like the arcade, but unfortunately, the flashing screen ruins it. The gun calibration sequence, peculiar to this game, also doesn't appear to work very well: the firing remains a bit inaccurate, no matter how careful you are. Still, it's a variation on a very good theme, so it isn't that bad. Overtll 65%

The light gun is a good idea. 8ut without good games to go with it, it'll remain a gimmick to be dumped in the cellar. Either enough people splash out the thirty pounds tor it to encourage software houses to produce decent entertainment suited to it, or Sinclair must invest In producing better games for it themselves. At the moment, Rookie is the only one which makes the grade, the rest are worth trying, but otherwise the Sinclair Magnum isn't all that magnum.

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DORKS Dear Lloyd, Ignore the dortas that reckon C R A S H has got worse. Although I've only boughit a few over the years, in my opinion, issues 65 and 66 were miuch better than the others. The g a n e s were amazing

— my favorite was Micronaut One. Half of the stuff in the 'old' C R A S H I didn't read, it -was so boring! If C R A S H carries on how it is, I'll get it every month. Dave Litchfield, Peterborough. Ah, the converted! LM

LOADS A LARFS Dear Lloyd, I thought you might be interested in a couple of my home-grown limericks: There was an old nut from Dundee, Who went out and bought and ST. When he played on his games, He burst into flames, I think he should've bought a plus 3!l OR... There was a young grl from Margate, Who went fishing with large pieces of bait, When she caught very little, She came home in a fiddle, And played on her Speccy 128III Robin Haynes, Chorleywood, Bucks. There once wis a chap, name of Robin, W h o tad a nice donkey named Dobbli, But Dobbin did die, So Roblnbefriended a fly, Which Is s bit of a stupid idea when you cone to think about iL LM

CRASHBACK Dear Uoyd, Monday, a warn sunny day at the train station win nothing to do I walk into the newsagents and look at the shelves.What's this? CRASH with far free games and a level of a spse game (That's Sanxion —LM; This was how I got back into omputer games, i dusted down tie old Speccy, rewired the tape ecorder and thumped life iro the TV. After playing the ganes twenty times over I looked irmy drawer for any

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other good g a m e s to play. I came across Fred. I reailly enjoyed this game, the graphics were fun, the sound was neat, and as for addictivness — I just can't stop playing it!! So, I was wondering if you had the old ratings for it. was it a C R A S H Smash?!! Keep up the good work and THANKS!! Stephen Goodwlln, Holborn, London. W e l c o m e back t o the Speccy fold, S t e p h e n — keep getting C R A S H and y o u r software collection will growr and grow. A s for Fred, origins lly published by Qulcksllva, It w a s reviewed In Issue three a n d the ratings were: Use Of Computer 85%, Graphics 9 0 % , Payability 87%, Getting Started 8 8 % , Addictive Qualities 7 0 % , Value For Money 8 0 % a n d Overall 83%. LM

BIG GIRL'S BLOUSE Dear Lloyd, As winners of the Powerplay Design a Joystick competition we went to the factory and then to Alton Towers. What a fantastic day out it wast The people at Powerplay could not have been nicer, and it was most interesting to be able to make our own joysticks. Alton Towers was great, but we must tell you that CRASHman Mark Caswell bottled out of going on the Corkscrew. He kept mentioning something about G force and that he was only there as an observer. So no matter what he says, you know the truth. Thanks to all at C R A S H for making our trip possible. Peter a n d Nicholas Young, Delph Saddleworth, Lanes. I think Mark Is a sensible fellow. You wouldn't catch me defying Corkscrew G-forcea. LM

PASSING SHOT: It's the tennis sensation that's sweeping the nation!

Image W o r k s have just signed a deal to convert Sega's arcade tennis g a m e Passing Shot onto the Speccy. The conversion Is being done by Teque, who converted Blasterolds rather well. Say Image Works: 'Passing Shot successfully conveys the impression of playing Grand Slam season with doubles or singles championships taking place across the globe covering both clay and grass courts. A n d we promise nol make a total hash of it.' Good for them. Passing Shot will be published in September (£8.99 cass, £12.99 disk). Rackets at the ready!

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THE GIRLIE MGT DISK DRIVE Who are these two young foxtresses? W e don't know, but the disk drive pictured between them is the new Lifetime drive from MGT. It's a unique solution for the user of more than one computer. Gadzooks! Do you know what that means? Yes! By setting switches and changing cable, the Lifetime drive can be quickly and easily reconfigured to work with a wide range of computers, including Speccy, PC, Amiga, ST, QL, and BBC. The Lifetime drive is available from M G T (Lakeside, Phoenix Way, Swansea S A 7 9 E H ) and costs £129.95 - and comes without girlies.

1% thou itttli things that mike ill IN dititrtnci. I have never met Pamella Bordes, and if I have it has always been in the company of plastic surgeons, close friends or Sun reporters. Norman Payne, Southampton Naughty Norman In Southampton Sun shocker with stunning Pam! Phroooowar! Ahem. LM What's wrong with your pound sign in the classifieds? Colin MacDonald, Dundee Nothing! See: #%, er, %1, um, \ s h ^ #. HELP! LM Why does S r U " r always slag you off in their magazine? They don't have much to be proud about!!! Martin Humprles, Reading Now, I'm not the bitching sort but... (SNIP! Removed for libellous reasons —Ed) LM My mother is a tortoise freak, are there any tortoise games out on the market for the Speccy? Robin Haynes, Bucks. Rumours have it that MouldCasters are due to release Advanced Tortoise Simulator later this year. LM

Got s o m e t h i n g to s a y ? S e n d your m i s s i v e s to L L O Y D M A N G R A M , L I V E CIRCUIT, C R A S H , P O Box 10, Ludlow, Shropshire SY81DB.

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Music making programs on the Spectrum have never been fan-

tastic. From the simulated three channel sound of programs like Wham: The Music Box to home made tunes using the BEEP command. Welt, now here's a new piece of music making software for all you budding Jason Donovans to create masterpieces on, and it's called Music Maestro. The program offers advanced editing facilities, with notes being heard as they are entered, and the different lengths of notes being selected at the touch of a button. You also get tunes as demonstrations, and there is a sound-to-light option to give you your own light show! The cost of this amazing software break through? Only £9.95 on cassette and £12.95 o n + 3 disk. Unfortunately it is only available by mail order. Well what are you waiting for? You could soon be on Top Of The Pops! Music Maestro from Torchraven Ltd, King House, 60/64 Matthias Road, London N16 8QD. Tel: 01 923 1744.

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'...Excuse me miss?* 'Waddya mean, miss?!' EXT. sorry. I fud I cold. Ay bought this 'ere computer gcmme not twenty minutes ago from this very boutique...' '...Yeah?' Well, it's dead.' 'Dead?' 'Dead. Demaysed. It's passed on.' 'Naaa, it's pining. For the fjords.' 'Paynm* for ihe fjords? What kaynd of u l is that?' Preuy strange talk if you ask us. Mind you. Virgin Games' latest licence is rather out of the ordinary, too. Monty Python, thai si*—man (or five—man and ooe—woman if you consider Terry Jones) team is abouttobe transformed into a load of old digits. Will wc get to see the infamous Parrot Sketch, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink Say No More by Messn (from left to right) Cleese, Gilliam. Jones, Chipman, Palm and Idle on our Spectrum screens before Christmas? Probably not, but there's always the TV re—run to keep you occupied until then. 'I never wanted to be a computer game, you know. I wanted to be a LUMBERJACK!* 'En, 'xcuse me, but that's irrelevant, isn't k?'

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10 — 10! — TRONIC T-SHIRTS MUST BE WON!!!: Yes, C R A S H has 10 — 1 0 ! — t-shirts to give a w a y ! To w i n one, just tell u s the name of three strips from 2 0 0 0 AD. Entries to T - S H I R T C O M P O , C R A S H , PO Box 10, Ludlow, Shropshire S Y 8 1 D B . A n s w e r s by 24 August please

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Awe p h o n e J o n on (0789) 2 0 4 4 5 8 . T h e kjt for £ 1 6 0 ) S p e c t r u m > 3 , only 5 m o n t h s okJ, over 7 0 g a m e s on ctsk A r c a d e Muscle, S u p r e m e Challenge, Live A m m o . Afterburner. W e Are T h e C h a m p i o n s , C o l lected w o r k s , joystick, + 3 leads. Only £ 1 5 0 . P h o n e A n d y 0 6 0 2 5 0 5 146 For s a l e Disciple a n d 3 . 5 " dual desk d n v e drive, both for £ 1 8 0 or disk drive or <*sk drive for £ 1 3 0 w i d Discipie for £ 5 0 . C r a s h issues 1 1 - 6 5 for £ 4 0 P h o n e (0384) 2 7 4 0 1 7 a n d ask for M i k e S p e c t r u m 4 8 K . Interface 2. g a m e s , printer with s p a r e rolls o l p a p e r , t a p e recorder, joystick, all for £ 1 0 0 ono, Tel 0 5 3 0 7 1 6 5 2 Crash mega for sale Issues 2 5 - 5 0 . Will sell indivtduo r o s o n e tot. P h o n e (0452) 5 0 4 4 2 7 after 6 p m a n d for f * c k .

L o o k t Very c h e a p software, must sell as n e e d money. All g a m e s (originals) under £ 2 . 3 0 . R e c e n t a n d Old classic g a m e s , also C r a s h b a c k n u m b e r s 6 9 p each. C Taylor. 1 2 S i Paula R o a d , W a l t o n H i g h w a y , W i s bech. Cambs. PE14 7ON. S p e c t r u m 1 2 8 K + 2 for sale. C o m e s with A M X m o u s e . A M X interface. Interfaces 1 a n d 2 . mtcrodrtv*,

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Titus were offering 50 copies of that fab driving game Crazy Cars II in issue 65's phone-in compo. Winners are: J M McGhee, POWERPLAY DREAM Norwich NR12 8PF; Michael Sugrve, Harrow HA1 4 S X ; JOYSTICK Lawrence Pycock, Maidstone A huge amount of entries flooded in for the design-a-joystick compo. ME17 4 Q B ; T h o m a s Irving, Norwich NR14 7NF; Stacey The winners have already had their day out with PowerPlay at the Coleman, Coventry CVS 9NR; joystick factory and an afternoon at Simon Austin, Essex (G7 6EZ; Andrew Smith, Colwyn Bay Alton Towers, pkxies next issue. LL29 7EL; Kevin Dewsbury, The good news is that PowerPlay Leicester LE8 9 N X ; J a m e s will be releasing three new joysticks (based on standard models) Llghtfoot, Richmond T W 1 0 6 A P ; as a result of the compo. and you'll Jeffrey McGeachle, Gainsborough DN21 1 X M ; be able to buy them through Matthew Samples, Ossett WF5 Aggie's mail order emporium very ORU; Michael Harvey, Edinburgh soon. Additionally, the PowerPlay engineers and designers are look- EH6 4NJ; Alex Taylor, Dorcester DT1 2BM; Richard Bailey, ing at the possibilty of turning some of the more 'strange* joystick Newton-Le-Wlllows WA12 ODR; designs into reality. We'll keep you Matthew Atkinson, Saltash PL12 informed! 4PG; Craig Marr, Sheffield S5 8RP; Scott O'Neil, Blackpool Winner of the day out was Peter FY1 4QS; Dwlght Josht, Young, OL3 5 E G who took along Russell Smith, Sheffield. The five Kettering NN16 8TY; Gary runners-up who will receive a crys- Ramsden, Bolton B L 3 1 J U ; Michael Lee, Harlow C M 2 0 3LD; tal joystick are Pete Cassldy, PA16 9 E D ; Chris Timmlns, MK43 Dominic Tootell, Blackburn BB6 7HU; Peter Barr, Manchester 7PE: E a m o n Congerton, M K 6

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'LASAGNE AHOY! SKI ANIMAL! Jumping the last ski ramp sends On the slopes of the Italian alps Garfield hurls his fat carcass down the Garfield hurtling through the roof of an Italian Lasagne factory! The feline's slalom course — and with his weight favorite place. Eat as much Lasagne as there's no stopping him! Avoid the tree possible and you're onto a winner. stumps and other hazardous objects After scoffing your fill it must be time and he'll be okay! For bonus points tor dessert! jump the ski ramps and snatch food from the spectators' hampers! Trouble isn't far behind... Zoooom! Here's comes Odie, the World's dumb- THE CHOCCY FACTORY Inside the Swiss choccy factory lies the est dog, haphazardly sliding down the fabled Chicken Who Lays The Choccy course on a dustbin lid, also trying to Eggs. With his own intentions at heart nab food! Get it before he does or Garfield has to direct the flow of the you'll spoil Garfield's dream and wake chocolate pipes to reach the Chicken. him up. Once the choccy is flooding into the chicken all Garfield has to do is lie underneath, open his mouth and wait for the laying to begin! Munch, munch! (Sounds a wee bit disgusting to us...). ICE SKATING Calamity strikes as the chicken flies the coop and heads off across the nearest frozen pond. Luckily he's left chocolate chicken footprints on the ice. Garfield, equipped with skates, gives chase around the pond, with barriers of snow turning it into a maze. Follow all the prints and you've found the chicken! Hurrah!

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GARFIELD: WINTER'S TAIL Lock up your lasagne!!! The fat cat is back, and this time Garfield is the Ski Animal!!!! Garfield has fallen asleep in front of Jon's ice box (after scoffing all the food inside) and is heavily involved in a midsupper night's dream. In deep cat-nap he dreams of the alps of Northern Italy, which naturally,

reminds him of Lasagne! And on the other side of the alps is Switzerland and all the yummy choccxies. Not only that, but the ginger nut has spotted the Chicken that lays the Choccy Egg! The loon! There's four dif ferent games all packed into one hairy adventure and they go like this... (but not necessarily in this order!)

Good news for fantasy fans, fabulous fantasy author Joe Dover's latest novel, Lone Wolf: The Mirror Of Death, is soon to be available on the Speccy from Audiogenic! And not only is Joe Oever a great writer, but he also knows how to invent lots of strange place names like Kazan-Gor, a towering fortress, wherein lies Dhazag-Oud, the mirror of death! Bizarre isn't it?! The action for this combat game is set in Kazan-Gor's labyrinthian tower and you, sword in hand, as Lone Wolf. The quest about to begin is the search for the Lorestone, a Kai gem of power which is currently hidden in Kazan-Gor. Lone Wolf must find it, because he is the last Kai Master, and his destiny decrees he must avenge the deaths of the Kai Lords, his ancestors..etc, etc fantasy, blah, ancient lore. etc. But. the tower is guarded by a fearful adversary! You!!! Eh? Yes — it's all this Mirror Of Death's doing. You see,

when you enter the Tower in search of the Lorestone, the Mirror Of Death creates it's own defender — a complete mirror image of you! And the image has one purpose — to defeat its originator! Audiogenic are promising a superb action packed arcade game. Playing Lone Wolf, you're armed with a sword and four chosen Kai skills. Battle your way up the tower to the stronghold of Dezan Groez, fighting fire-spitting gargoyles, jumping death pits, and defeat the Mirror's warrior! It all sounds terribly exciting, and the graphics look rather swell and, basically, we just can't wait to play it for real!! Lone Wolf — The Mirror Of Death is released any time now and costs £9.95 on cassette and £14.95 on disk. The book from which the game is taken is out in Beaver Books (£2.50, paperback), and is a jolly good read!

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Remember WonderBo/t That fine game of yesteryear starring a nappyclad youngster bounding and leaping through Wonderland? Course you do! And, after being potty trained, he's back! Wonderboy has reached that stage where he's getting interested' in girlies. And as luck would have it. a gorgeous damsel has been captured and held prisoner in Mosterland!! Woo! Realising he's in with a good chance of a snog if she's rescued, he trots after her into Monsterland where all manner of beasties lurk. A ferocious fire-breathing dragon is the main problem, and Wonderbo/s

ultimate aim is to bop him off. But before that there's plenty of platform leaping action to contend with as Wonderboy searches the land, battling with snakes, vampire bats, jellyfish, mudmen and other vile creatures as he goes. And. just like the arcade game, everything's displayed in superb cartoon graphics. Super Wonderboy features 11 levels, ten different weapons, and heaps of treasure to collect; including winged booties for flying, and shields and armour for protection. All this and more from Activision, programmed by Rob Hylands of Images Design, in September for £9.99.

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GAZZA'S SUPER SOCCER

Wooooar!!! It's Gazza!!!! Yaaaa! The footy sensation of this year's season is coming back soon in top form with a super new soccer simulator from the newty formed Empire group. The Gazza in question is Tottenham Hotspur/England mid-fielder Paul Gascoigne, and he's currently helping out with the initial design of the game, to appear on the Speccy this winter. Empire promise Gaz/a's Super Soccer will be the most realistic footy game

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around. It features an 11 man team playing in hectic Sunday, League or International matches. Control of the ball sounds good to — you can bend it round the goalie (ouch!), squeeze it between the legs of an opposing player (double ouch!), or head it into the corner of the goal, amongst many other movements. With 40-50 frames of animation making up each player and super smooth scrolling it could be a winner!

Ooooh! Dragon Spirit will really bring lobbing missiles in your direction. out the beast in you! While sounding Though you have lethal ground and like some tacky aftershave, it's really air attack capabilities it's just not another coin-op conversion appearing enough to survive the barrage of soon courtesy of Tengen! Yippeee! And attackers. But help is at hand in the it looks like being a mean, lean fireform of dragon eggs which give you an breathing machine! extra head, and increase your fireHaving been transformed into a blue breathing furnace to make you almost dragon your job is to fly over a mythiunstoppable! Watch out for the nine cal prehistoric land searching for mega-monsters which guard the exits Zawell, an ugly serpent demon. The of each level — they're tough, but you landscape scrolls vertically downwards have the Dragon Sprit (an exquisite as Zawells' band of dragons and beasts new parfum pour I'homme from Yves fly at you head-on, breathing fire and Saint Tengen)!

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TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY... Very late Mr Bond, but not quite late enough! Here's another screen shot from Licence To Kill, Domark's adaptation of the new Bond film starring Timothy Dalton, We were hoping for a finished copy for this issue, but the

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deadline arrived and went, and programming was still going on. So remember, if youVe seen a Speccy review of Bond in another mag they're fibbing 'cos it isn't finshed yet! Full review of Licence To Kill next issue.

power of your car by adding extra weaponry and go- faster stripes! If the Speccy version is up to the standard of

Blimey! Tengen, Domark's coin-op label, is pumping out conversions like nobody's business! And here's another brill offering — it's APB. the crazy American cops 'n' robbers game. Jump in your patrol car and, as Officer Bob, hurtle up and down the streets giving chase to the APB criminal of the day. It could be Sid Sniper, Freddy Freak (Such ordinary names don't you think?) or the entire heavy mob!! As welt as high speed criminal chases there's all the normal duty stufl to contend with, like nabbing litter-louts, drunks and hitchhikers. But donl muck up your shiny new patrol car or there' be hell to pay when the Captain gets to you! To help you out, the Do-nut (sic) Stand provides extra time (Strange, I thought they provided do-nuts! -Ed), and the Speed Shop bumps up the

r BLOODWYCH: Hello everyone! I'm Castle Bloodwych, a dark and dingy fortress with lots of 'spook' goings on Inside me! All tha action and adventure that I experience Is soon to be related on your Speccy courtesy of Image Works. A two-player g a m * no less! Lots of fantasy, lots of rola-play and heaps of killing. Just my cup of tea. Byeee!

Also appearing next issue is Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade from US Gold. Indy missed this issue's deadline by just two days!!!! Arrrgh!!! Never mind, here's three more screens for u to feast your eyes on, and we'll ve a full and proper review next month.

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Answers on a postcard, or a sealed envelope, to: GIMME THAT INDIANA JONES JACKET COMPO, CRASH TOWERS. PO Box 10. Ludtow, Shropshire SY81DB. Entries to arrive at the lowers by August 24 and normal compo rules apply. Hey, Dad

PLAYING AND HE'S GOT 'EM TAPED! Oh, I can't be doing with this heat! Ludlow has never been so hot, it's probably something to do with this o z o n e layer thingy, so stop using C F C s everyone. I wouldn't mind all the sunny weather, but I don't get a tan, I just go all red and blotchy, but that's lite I suppose (no I w o n ' t do any Esther Rantzen Jokes). If you aren't keen o n the sun then you c a n stay indoors and read this month's corruscatlng tips. I've got s o m e juicy P O K E s on the cover cassette all ready to run, mouth watering tips on Navy Moves and Times Of Lore, plus a succulent m a p of Dizzy — The Crash Edition and fun, fun, fun! i'm still scouring the local rags for the perfect car, but It's almost impossible to find one in m y price range (about £10!). So if any of you know where I can get a Porsche 944 for a couple of quid, let me k n o w ! Never mind, I wouldn't have any time to drive it anyway, what with all these reviews, tips and college!

TIMES OF LORE Fantastic, a complete solution to this enchanting game. Perhaps Sklppy and me can complete it now, and stop pulling our hair out (you should see Skippy bald, ha!). The life saver behind this masterpiece Is Andy Gledhill of Kings Lynn, and I'm going to give him £40 of software for his efforts. Before you start, it's important not to kill any of the town and village people, as this makes it impossible to complete your quest. You begin upstairs in the inn at Eralan. Go downstairs and talk to the prior, who tells you about the Fortelling Stones. Answer yes to his question, then talk to everybody in the inn for more information. Leaving the inn, follow the path to the right and turn north into the Dark Forest. Follow the path, killing anything that gets in your way. Pick up any objects dropped by the ores and the archers. Uses of objects are as follows: Red Scroll kills enemy in immediate vicinity, Blue Scroll paralyses enemy in vicinity, Green and Blue Potions restore your stamina. On the path you will come to a hut. Look around here for the woodsman. Talk to him, and he,II lell you the way to the ores' camp where the stones are. Follow the

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path until you come to the pond. Go north from here and follow the winding path through the woods to the ores' camp in a clearing. Kill the ore in the middle of the camp and pick up the stones. Now go back the way you came to the inn at Eralan. Give the prior the stones, he'll thankfully tell you to visit the Regent. Enter the castle at Eralan to see the Regent Darial, and agree to recover the Tablet Of Truth from Ganestor. Go south to Lankwell first. Buy the magic axe from the serf, this will allow you to kill from a distance, saving a lot of stamina. Now go east across the desert to Ganestor. If you ask questions around the town, you'll find out the location of a secret tunnel into the castle there. Visit the inn and go downstairs behind the bar. enter the room with the small red square on the wall. Walk into the square to reveal the stairs to the castle. Climb to the next floor, avoiding all the guards, and find the room in the centre. Kill the guard from a distance with the axe, then go left into another room, where you'll find the Tablet Of Truth. Pick the tablet up, and it will speak; ask it about the High King, and it will tell you the King was killed by an assassin, who can be found in

Lankwell. Leave the tablet and return to the secret tunnel. Now go back to the inn at Lankwell. Find the thug and ask him about the assassin, you'll discover he's called the Black Asp. Go to the house furthest west, and the serf there will tell you where to find the assassin. Go south from Lankwel! across the bridge to the Black Asp's house. Ask him about the High King, and he' II tell you Darial the Regent hired him to kill him. He'll give you a confession to take to the Steward Heidric at Ganestor. Go to Ganestor, into the castle again via the tunnel and up to the top floor avoiding all the guards to find the steward. Give him the confession and he'll tell you of a spy in Ganestor and ask you to find him. Go outside and wait by the castle doors until nightfall. A guard should appear and walk into the castle, follow him. When questioned the guard will reveal himself to be the spy. Kill him and pick up the note, take the note to Heidric the steward as proof of the spy's deathA Now the steward will tell you his son was kidnapped in Hampton. Go to Hampton and talk to the Duke to find the kidnappers. Find the castle east of Hampton, kill the kidnappers and release the steward's son. Here you'll also find the Green Scroll which can transport you anywhere in the kingdom. The steward's son wilt tell you to visit the Archmage across a bridge north of the Enchanted Forest. The Archmage wants you to kill the Liche in the desert before he tells you how to get the medallion. So go to the inn directly south of the Enchanted Forest and speak to the Stargazer, who reveals that

to kill a Liche you must use holy water from Friar Kaine. Travil to Rhyder and buy some from tie friar, then go to the middle of the desert and find the ruins. In the ruins a secret door hat leads underground. Here you have to operate a set of floor pressure pads to open doors in the complex. Trial and error should eventually lead you to the Liche. Use the holy water to <ill the Liche and pick up the RED potion. Now return to the Archmage. He tells you that you that the evil clerics at the Temple 01 Angor have got the medallion, and to get into Angor you'll need the Charm from the volcano. To get the Charm, go to the volcano where you find another underground complex. Operate another set of pressure pads and you should find the Charm. Go to the Temple Of Ango' and use the Charm to open the door. Go to the top floor and the room with the single bed. Go to the bed and pick up the Flask. Now find the abbot and kill him using the flask before he drains away all your stamina. Pick up the medallion, and you have completed the game! General Tips Stay at inns at regular intervals to replenish your stamina. Other objects of use are: Magic Boots from a serf in Treela, which allow you to run instead of walk, and a Magic Ring found if you kilt the giant east of Rhyder. This ring will allow you to become invisible for a short period of time, which is useful to avoid the guards in the castle of Ganestor.

STORMLORD

At last! I hear you all cry. It's the last level of the solution to Hewson's fantastic game, Stormlord. Well, you certainly can't say I've spoilt the game for you. I got you through the first two levels, so you should have completed It yourself by now. In that case I won't print the last bit. No, only joking, here It Is.

Level 3 Go left through knights and get key. Go right through knights and use spring board (press right to avoid the fly trap). Go right and open door. Get fairy. Drop down

and go right through knights. Get shoes. Go left through knights. Go up and use spring board. Go left and jump over high wall. Swap shoes for key in mid aiir. Open chamber door and get fairy. Use spring board. Collapse chamber root by standing on it. Get fairy. Go right through flies and open chamber door. Get: fairy. Go left and get shoes. G o right and jump up into high cihamber. Get fairy. Use spring board. Get fairy. Use spring board. G e t honey pot. Go right through dragons. Divert swarm and get final fairy.

CHEAT NAVY MOVES I'm surcthe Navy does move now and agsn, and Nicholas Shute certainly did when he was compiling thes» tips lor the new Dynamic game to hit, no sorry, gently t$> (no violence in this mag) ycjr Spectrum. Parti Mines; nake sure the rear end of your dinjhy lands just in front of the mim you're jumping. Jet Skies: keep firing to the front to rid yojrself of frontal attacks, when ore comes from behind quickly swivel your gun round. After junping some mines, keep shooting to the front as they try to jump yoi. Sharks: most of the sharks come from thefront, so always keep firing forwards. Make sure you do not touci a shark! Humans: Keep firing to the front and dodje their harpoons when they appoach from the rear. If they attack from the top, move yourself jown, and vice versa. Octopuses: Keep your hand on fire until roth missiles (top and bottom of your craft) fire up, then let them rip. Do this approximately six times.

Sea Monster: Get as far as you can to the right and beam up the missies. Learn the patterns of the sea monster. You can't dive here. Submarine: Enter at the far right of the submarine, where the flat part is. Part 2 (Access Code: 63723) R, d, r (shoot 2nd Machine Official), I, u. wait tor official, u, r, r, r, d, d. r, u. through door, d, on computer type: "EMERGE" and "STOP MOTORS" using the first official code, I, u, I, I, go through first door on right, u, I, through door, u, r. r, r, d, through door, r, through door, r, through door, d, r, through door. I, through first door on left, r, u, through door, r. d, d, I, I, I, I. on computer type: "OPEN DOOR" with machine official code, I, set bomb, r, r, r, r, r, u, u, r, send message (type on computer: "TRANSMIT" with transmission official code and "OABERBYAMD", an anagram of bomb ready), I, I, u, u, u, FREEDOM! Now you will find something interesting!

What a nice day it is for going down to your local supermarket and shouting, Cheat Mode Motel is the best thing since sliced bread', then buying a packet of dried peas! Well, that's only if you're a great fan of the Mode, as we like to call it. Oh, and watch out for ihe silliness... F O R G O T T E N WORLDS

the stairs (these are getting silly): Jeremy Gadd) RAMBO 3 On level one walk to the far lefi of the screen (so you are just on the screen), then walk up towards the wall. If you do it right you should be able to walk through it! 'Garage; Richard Peel)

Towards the end of level one are a set of barriers. Shoot them a few times, then go into the top one. If you do this and then travel on to the end of level god, you will find that he does not shoot anything at you. (In the phone box: Steve Towley)

R A M B O 3 (again!) When you are about to load the first level, hold down the keys 'QWERT, then load in the first level, When playing the game hold down 'QWERT' again, and you'll be able to load in levels 2 and 3. (Single room (boring!): Slick)

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Type in BRING ON THE GIRLS' on the control selection screen. The game will pause a while. Press a number from 1 to 4 for the level you want to go to. (On

If your power is low then kick the dogs, they will give you more to carry on and give those stalkers what for. (At reception: Mark Llndsey)

KOBRAHSOFT SPECTRUM UTILITIES S P 5 T A P E T O +3 D I S C U T I L I T Y !New! Transfer tapes to +3 disc. Many

MULTIFACE MATTERS I can't remember the last time I printed some of those delicacies we call Multiface POKEs. So here is a small selection from David Foskett of Luton. I know many of you haven't got the foggiest idea how to put these into your computer. I have had tales of you typing them in, then resetting and loading the game (no laughs please). What you do, is get yourself a Mu Itiface or similar Spectrum add- on and follow the instructioins to enter a POKE included with the contraption. Easy. WEC Le IMans 26085,0: 26087,0 (Time) Thunderlblade 36517,0 (Lives) Operatiom Wolf 128K 40840,0 (Lives), 0(756,183 (Grenades) Double Dragon part 1 37693,0 (Lives) part 2 37f815,0 (Lives) part 3a 317813,0 (Lives) part 3b 317794,0 (Lives) part 4 37f824.0 (Lives) part 5a 317818,0 (Lives)

part 5b 37979,0 (Lives) Vindicator part 1 33448,0: 34064,0 (Lives) part 2 34139,0: 34203.0 (Lives), 38631,0 (Rockets) part 3 35055,0 (Time),34364,0 (Lives) Cybemoid 2 48K 26896,0 (Immunity), Cybernoid 2 128K 36060,0 (Lives), 30548,0 (Ammo) R-Type 37374.0 (Lives) Return Of The Jedl 52140.0 (Lives) Alien Syndrome 47503,0 (Lives) Guerrilla War 128K 40872,0 (Lives) Rex part 1 40057,0 (Lives), 38745,0 (Bombs), 39396,0 (Shields) Rex part 2 40303,0 (Lives), 38721,0 (Bombs). 39170,0 (Shields) Draconus 64215,0 (Lives), 62866,0 (Flames) Mad Mix 40296,0 (Lives) Game Over 2 part 1 54216,0 (Lives), part 2 57606.0 (Lives) Garfield 33595,0 (No Hunger)

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Mora answers lo your requests for tips and POKEs on older games thl« month. I've had James Roberts (no relation!) on the phono asking lor a POKE on one of his favourite games, Cookie, that ancient but still playable classic from Ultimate. So here It is, along with a small cheat to help those stuck on the recently rereleased Winter Games. Here is what to type in for infinite lives...

10 CLEAR 24319: LOAD ""SCREENS: LOAD ""CODE: POKE 28695.62: POKE 28696,5: POKE 28697,0: POKE 28698.0: LOAD ""CODE: LOAD ""CODE: LOAD ""CODE: PRINT USR 23424 And here's the little cheat on Winter Games: On the biathlon section, instead of smashing your keyboard up by quickly pressing left and right, just hold down the right key and you should zoom up the hills.

RUN THE GAUNTLET For those of you who haven't mastered all the vehicles In this brilliant game, here are Philip Ray's explanations of the good and bad points ol some of them. Don't forget, you can also sneak through between the Islands at the tops of most water courses, this saves time. Speedboat — The fastest water vehicle. If you hit a boat/islandrtlag you'll spin away heavily. As it's a thin vehicle, it's possible to sneak by the side of other boats. Jet-skl — This is a very manoeuvrable vehicle, but the explosions make it spin away. Try to keep clear of the other jet-skis, as there isn't much space to overtake.

Inflatable — This is a bit like the speedboat but not as fast. If you are hit by an explosion, keep pressing down the accelerate button, you should carry on going in the same direction. Hover Craft — This is very slightly sluggish, and it moves fastest on the diagonals. Try to anticipate when corners are coming up, and turn the craft before you get there. That way, the drift on the hover craft will steer you around the corner. Buggy — Not as fast as the Meteor (78 mph), but easier to handle. As with all road vehicles, if you don't go over a jump straight on you'll spin off and probably have to attempt the jump again.

TASKFORCE Who still thinks this game looks like Cybernold 2 then? You've got to admit there Is a likeness! Well here are some tips on this enjoyable budget release from Matthew Yeates of Worthing. ENEMIES

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Who ya goln ta call? Nlcko! Welt that's how the song should go, If you ask me. I haven't printed anything on the ghostbusting game yet, that's probably because I get so sick of The Real Ghostbusters at home, with my brother almost fainting If you even mention the word ghost! Anyway, here are some tips on each level from Lawrence Pycock of Coxheath In Kent. Level 1 • Take the left way, it's easier. • When lots of nasties appear in front of you, turn around and go back so they are out of screen. Now go back to where they were, and they will have disappeared! • The best thing to do with the end of level ghoul is fire at him before he comes into range. He will then walk into the beam. When he starts firing at you, move backwards and repeat the process until he's destroyed. • Don't use the two player option as the game becomes harder.

Level 3 • Kill all the worms. One of them holds slimer, and you need him to help kill the bats. • With the end of level baddie, make sure his eye is going diagonally, then fire at him loads, and bingol • From the beginning take the first three bridges on the left, then swap over and take the two on

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the right. If the end of level baddie is getting too vicious, go down the ladder on the left, and back up to calm him down. Level 5 • Take the left hand route. • Most of the mummies are in their coffins, so watch out. • If you come to an area with loads of baddies, do the trick explained on level 1. • You can't shoot the baddies in the lake. • Position yourself out of range of the claws and take them out one at a time. • The eye thingies (technical term) hatch into midget birds. Level 7 • Move quickly to a position where you can get all the spooks. • Mind the blaster things in the walls. • Move slowly when not blasting ghosties. • That's all lolks!

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TREASURE ISLAND DIZZY MAP (not again!) Oops, a mistake w a s made way back in Issue 62 on the map of this super game. As you can see from the bit of map below, o n e coin w a s missing. There were 29 printed o n the map, and unfortunately you need 30

to complete the g a m e (whoops!). So, marked below is w h e r e to go to find this extra hidden coin. Thanks to Ross Kobak of Fife In Scotland tor pointing it out.

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1: N O N E 2: EMPIRE 3: PREDATORY 4: RUMINATE 5: R Y E G R A S S 6: VACUUM 7: VAMPIRE

Level 8: R A G O U T Level 9: GRAIN Level 10: AASVOGEL Level 11: BLIZZARD Level 12: CLOCHE Level 13: COLANDER Level 14: ECTOPLASM Level 15: E C O L O G Y Level 16: F E R O C I O U S Level 17: FETLOCK Level 18: G O O S E B E R R Y Level 19: GRAVITATE Level 20: UPANDAWAY

Oh, glory be. What have we here? Is It the end of anoiother Playing Tips section? Well If It is, it must be time to say g goodbye until the next lap. Thank you for tuning in, m y children.n, and don't forget that If you have written a letter on a piece of p paper and put my name on the top, pop it in an envelope and se»end it to this little address... Nick 'red and blotchy' Roberts, Pla'laying Tips, PO BOX 10, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 1DB. Tarah!

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ee-ha! Ride 'em cowboy! Yes siree, alt the thrills and spills of a wild west rodeo moseys on into town courtesy of Buffalo Bill himself. Six events, play them individually or as a series — the choice is yours, out to test your ability to be a root in' tootin' son of the west. Try your hand at knife throwing and see your beautiful assistant spiked on the rotating board (whoops!). Pointing the sights at the place you want the knife to land (careful now...), but don't forgel that the board turns. If you miss the horse in the paddock laughs at you! Next comes trick shooting lime to get your pistol out and have a shot at the baddie targets as they rise and fall from the ground. But it's no good getting trigger happy with these targets, you might just shoot the teddy bear out of the hands ot an innocent little girl who just happens to be

strolling by! Calf-roping is another wild west favourite; ride your horse to the side of the calf and simply lasso it with the rope. But it's easier said than done, and many a CRASH writer has ended up in the dirt! Bronco rilling is really funny to watch but not so amusing when it's you being thrown off a bucking horse! Steer wrestling is the next event, and this seems impossible; jumping from a galloping horse and clinging to a rampaging steer for dear life cannot be classed under •fun'! The last stage — the grand finale — i s a good stage coach rescue. The hero rides up against a speeding coach, jumps onto its side, climbs up and beats an indian in a fist fight to rescue the fair maiden. This is all good wild west lun and I am totally addicted. The graphics are excellent, with colourful detailed back

drops, well drawn animated sprites and action just bursting out of every event. There is a good dose of country style tunes and plenty of hoof-trotting effects. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Rodeo Show is a fantastic game whether you play it on your own or with a group of friends. NICK Avery playable, addictive and often funny series ol six great games. PRESENTATION |M|llf P y<»> bought it was safe to forget the I V I I I V C sports simulation... Well, it's not really a sports sim I suppose, if only because the idea behind this multiple event challenge is so original. It's great; the events are as difficult as any other multi-eventer (there's three skill levels as well!). The graphics are fine, the sound's very atmospheric on the 128, and the gameplay is wildly addictive. All lopped off with marvellous presentation — it's great! Just w h e n

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VIEWS

austerlitz

es, it's a whole new concept in computer gaming! Breakout, oops sorTy no it's not that it all. Well perhaps Just a tad then. The boring little bat at the bottom of the screen has been replaced with a square. There's eight-way scrolling and little icons thai do various naughty things to the sqaure (sounds fun so far!). Surprisingly, you have to knock a metal ball around the map and hope that it knocks away all the breakable blocks in the landscape. If it does you've completed that level. That may seem a bit easy, but the nasties come in on later levels. There are many nasty Icons including teleporter* which transport you from one side of the landscape to the other, contact blocks which build themselves into walls when you pass them and the nasty

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he Austerlitz conflict look place on December 21805 and is regarded as Napoleon's finest hour. In it the self-proclaimed emperor clashed head on with General Kutusov's combined forces of Austrian and Russian troops. The day ended well for Napoleon in real life, but things aren't the same in computer terms — with play on either the Russian or French side offered at three levels of difficulty, things donl all have to go Napoleon's way. Austerlitz bears similarity in operation to previous games CCS (such as Napoleon at War and Wellington. Played via the now standard multi-way

or amalgamate, providing more manouevrabilty or a more powerful force, depending on the situation. In play of course, Austerlitz is all loo familiar, although the challenge is a lot stronger than most of Ken Wright's previous games. The game is very generous with combatants (in keeping with the actual battle) and rarely does a turn go by without some form of mass batlle taking place. Wellington was relatively sedate compared with the very bloody Austertitzand it is in many ways (game tactics in particular) reminiscent in style to Napoleon at War. With so much more happening on the battlefield the basic challenge of 'kill 'em all' is more pronounced and the game is better. The command system, while easy to utilise, is still a little simple considering the real conflict and as such the game's flexibility is limited. A good recreation though of Napoleon's greatest conflict despite the lack ol improvement in its execution. R O B I N HOGG

Just Who b This Mysterious Robin Hogg Type Person?! A nation wants to know! Robin, or Little Hoggy as he's known in the Towers (and to a select few at US Gold), is one of these borL.er, intelligent types who can appreciate strategy and simulation software to its besl — that's why he reviews them. Robin has had two—two!—years of gruelling experience on TGM and now ZZAP, writing this kinda stuff. He recieves no fan mail. Aw. smooth scrolling warzone map, orders are handed down to individual infantry, artillery, cavalry and reserves who move in specified form (either Line, Column or Square). This is a realistic and standard method of movement (il a little dated) but much of the game is not that new in ideas; although the subject matter is more extensive than Wellington. A handy reorganization option allows units to disband

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Simple to use but a challenging and authentic wargame. PRESENTATION

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Here's i novel twist on on* ol our dear old friends, and a playable on* too! With hups of colour splashed around on the large scrolling maps, and not a bit of clash In sight, it makes the whole — and occasionally tricky — game all that much more fun. A lew reservations about the testability: Waifs control method and gameplay cannot really be mastered, remaining heavily a hit-and-miss situation a lot of the time.

cenity you must brave the System 3 1 body defence mechanisms C9.99/C14.99 inside the creature so that you may obliterate its susrifling your teeth with all the determination that made you the last hope for this bluey-green earth, you settle into your sleek stariighter to do battle for the last time against the scavengers and space mutant horrors floating high above the planet, poised on the final destruction of all civilization. All inhabitants of our planet are under a false sense of security thinking there's no threat to our very existence. How wrong they are. The loons! As the only hero remaining ol the once-glorious crack defence fighter pilot team, you take on the grotesque mutant creation set on destroying us. To crush this

taining organs, and once and for all put a stop this crazed hunger stampeding across the galaxy (ie a bit like like Nick -Ed) The game's split into parthorizontal and part-verlical scrolling. This adds some variety but doesn't make playing any easier. At the start your ship is armed with just the basic pulse canon, but icons can be shot or

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death icons which kill. The speed the bait rebounds around the play area gets quicker the longer it's allowed to bounce, till you turn into a mad person trying lo catch H {doesn't take much tor some people -Skip). I wouldn't exactly say that this is an original concept. It's more like loads of other games piled into one. The graphics are not that impressive either and the colour schemes get very garish. There's some payability to be had here, though, and you can have fun trying to catch the bait as is goes spinning off in the opposite direction.

If you're after a game that twists the breakout theme then Than is for you. NICK

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Wayhey! Domination! Fnar, fnar! No, get off MIKE Nfc ick, it's my turn now, your comment's finished . I don't know, eh? This sort of game has been done so many

times before! OK, so it's got pretty good graphics, but that doesn't make a game; there needs to be some element of gameptay in it, and I'm afraid that Dominator is such old hat that all the addidivness has worn off on other games lo which it bears such similarity. In its own right, it's a jolty good shoot-'em-up, and If you've spent the last five years locked away in a computerless environment, you might well find this excellent. I'm afraid I didn't though; how about an original idea next time, System 3, coz this one ain't gonna work! picked up along the way to give auto fire, lasers and even a cheat mode to help you deleat the aliens. What can I say about Dominator\\\i\ hasn't been said about every shoot- "emup on the market? The graphics in the game aren't bad but you'll have seen similar ones literally hundreds of times before. There's one thing 00/77//ij/ar has to offer that many other blasting games don't though, animated scenery plus loads ol colour, but lots of clash to go with it. Typical. Puny sound effects and an average tune accompanying the action don't jolty things along at atl. Dominator is one

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Then a mother is sent down from the skies to hatch the egg into a crawler. Luckily the builder can kilt the gremlins, mothers and crawlers with his trusty old spanner. High Steel \t a really simple idea but can be infuriatingty difficult to play. Just as a space is cleared to pul down a girder the stupid crane goes and puts another brick (here and stops you from placing the girder! S c r e e n 7/10 • C 9 . 9 9 / C 1 4 . 9 9 Arrgghh! The cartoony-style characters are brilliant and es, it's the game of the girder. When a row ol five are all animated well. It's a the job that everybody girders and bricks are in posi- pity the colour's limited to just blue and white, but you wants to do, building! tion you've completed the I used to play with my Lego first levels. The second level cant have everything can you? blocks for hours and now you requires two floors with To round off this very can do the same sort of thing strong foundation. (without losing that crucial This may seem easy to the arcade-style game there are ditties and sound FX to combit to hold the whole thing unsuspecting reader, but plement the non-stop action up) with High Steel from there are hindrances to bugperfectly. High S/ee/may get Screen 7. ger up your day's work. A crane drops building Gremlins, mothers, crawlers, so annoying that you want to throw the computer out of the materials, with lood occaispitters, banana skins and a window, but it's worth it for sionally, into the construction entire host of nasties have the arcade addidivness. plant, and from there you been brought to life to knock pick-up girders and bricks to you down, slip you up and NICK build floors of a skyscraper to generally knock you about. complete each level. All these enemies are cleverAn original game theme ly designed. For instance, the Firstly place a girder on a that will have you hooked! flat piece of ground and put a gremlins come along and drop eggs on the platform. brick on top by climbing up

MIKE

This game is sooooo frustrating! Each level is quite challenging (except the first one), so by 79% the time you're really getting on, any loss of life can result in the breakage of joydicks and things! The graphics are fairty poor; there's nothing special to make H attractive, and the sound's fairty simplistic, but there's something about the P 4 game design that makes it incredibly compulsive. You have i to 49% play it for a while to realty get to like it, but once hooked... The presentation is unremarkable, but High Steel definitely 59% has that intangible 'it' that makes playing enjoyable. 78%

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ing your path; then there are the (airly obvious Earth Invaders and Ping Pong. Gilbert is really good fun. I don't like the character (not that I ever watch Saturday morning children's pro-

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'm sure we're all well acquainted with the disgusting snotty slimy green (and I mean that literally) alien thingy from Get Fresh and Gilbert's Fridge. Yep, Gilbert's back, and this time it's your computer that gets covered in filthy green goo! The foul alien hero is getting his colleagues on planet Drill a bit annoyed. He can't stop tailing every one how wonderful he is, so when he gets offered a new contract to appear on Earth TV, tiis notso-friendly friends nick some essential bits ol his spaceship, The Millennium Dustbin, so as he won't ba able to get to Earth to sign the contract. Poor Gilbert No-

one will tell him where the bits art, and so he can't go back to Earth. He'll have to goona YTS...1 But — but! — there is one hope left. Scattered around homeworld Drill are five arcade machines. Play the games successfully, and the machines will give him i clue is to the location ol one ot the parts lor the Dustbin. Brain Drain is a memory game where you have to match tiles by remembering where you saw them; in Sprout Wan you shoot the little face lots of times without hitting any of the sprouts; Graed is I Tron variant where you collect numbered bags ot money in order without cross-

grammes, ahem), but Afain Again have made a good job olthis one. The tune on the 128K is excellent, and Oiough the five arcada machines are incredibly basic, when C3mbined with the rest ol the game, they make a nice diversion; it's quits fun jjst to hunt around Drill for a machine to play. Colour is overdone (turn down that contrast control matey!) but the Gilbert animation is quite funny, especially the snotting (who said that?)! The other computer versions of Gilbert were laughable; it's good to see that the Spectrum can still beat the competition! MIKE Disgusting creature, smart game!

U | p i # Yukky! Snotty little alien creatures on your corni l l U I V puter! Gilbert Escape From Drill is in a very similar style to games like Garfield — Big Fat Hairy Deal and Jack The Nipper. Drill, the aliens, and Gilbert himself, are all done in > cartoon graphics which adds to the appeal for youngsters, plus there's a jolly tune playing all the time (and It does get a bit annoying!). The game's playable for a while, but for hardened gamesters it won't last long. Younger games players familiar wilh the Gilbert character will love just exploring the city, so it might be worth buying lor them. Quite a fun little game.

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turing seven events: Figure Seating, Free Seating, Speed Skating, Hot Dog Aerials, Ski Jump, Biathlon and Bobsled. Very slick presentation and gameplay throughout each

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scopic arms you swing Irom pinacleto pinacle, pulling your way to the exit at the top of each level, and then onto the next. Endless lun, with

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addictive with great deptth to keep your interest sustained. SPY HUNTER. This is rmy smart graphics and excellent favorite game ever on thie sound and a veritable mounSpeccy! Continuous adrenalin tain of payability. pumping action in car amd 7.Skateboarding action boat chases up and dowm at its very best! Take your colourful landscapes. 'board into the brilliantly Incredibly simple to playr, but drawn park and its four sepathe fun just doesn't stop as rate stunt courses to become the roads get busier, bridges start collapsing, and the^ enemy cars and boats geet more devious! Brilliant!!! It's silly to rate this paick, because it's obviously a CRASH Smash — else w/hy would those games be the champion. Fabulous robots and collecting codes to there?! Miss this compilation payability, and enough to let you into the main comput- and you're as useless ast a whoopee cushion in a baskedkeep you playing for months! er to stop the bomb explodbean factory! ing. An all-time great from WINTER GAMES. A compendium of winter sports tea- US software house Epyx, very RICHA1RD event and definitely the best ol the 'Games' series on the Speccy IMPOSSIBLE MISSION It The original was naff but this is the bee's knees in actionpacked espionage. Run through Elvin Atombender's maze-like tower, destroying

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HARDBALL Klxx •

ardball is simply a brilliant H baseball simulation for one or two players. If you don't

It's a rollercoaster of budget fun and mayhem!! And Nick Roberts and Richard Eddy are in the front seats!! Woooo!

know how baseball plays, well, tough. It's too long to go into all the rules here. Basically, you have a pitcher (who throws the ball), a batter (who hits the ball as far as possible) and an umpire (who makes descisions you probably won't agree with!). Whether you're batting or pitching, you determine your stroke from a menu of options at the top of the screen, and

SCOOBYDOO £1.99 •

Encore (rerelease)

cooby Doo is the perfect S example of highly defined payability with a devious mix

of addictibility; the sort of game you'll play and play. Programmed by Gargoyle Games, sadly no longer working on things Spectrum, in 1986, Scooby Doo is still as much fun to play today as it was then. You control Scooby. running on hind legs, through a huge haunted mansion wherein his chums are being held captive by evil scientists. Scooby's job is to run through each mazelike level, bopping ghosts and other assorted ghoulies to release Velma, Shaggy (gnuk!), Fred and Daphne. When they're safe, Scooby progresses even further to kill

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off the scientists on the higher levels of the mansion. Scattered throughout the mansion are the 'oh desirable' Scooby Snacks; when eaten, they bump up Scooby's number ol lives by one. Scooby Doo received a CRASH Smash when it was originally reviewed, and we've enjoyed it so much it deserves another!

Overall

91%

SUPERKID £1.99 •

his is the latest game by The Shaw Brothers, the programming team who brought you such delights as Tank Command, Gunfighter, Cerius, Heartbroken and Kosmos (ooo, the skwibbty game!). And being in the same graphical style as these, Superkid is bound to be a hit with budget fans too. New York 2089AD is no change from today: The streets are littered with the dead bodies of innocent citizens and thugs as the street gangs conduct open warfare. What is needed is an old fashioned superhero to save the day (and do a bit of street sweeping to clear up the gungy mess!). Meanwhile in Professor Ian Stein's (ha!) lab, a potion allowing humans to fly has just been created. Mistaking it for a bottle of lemonade, the prof's nephew, Tom Essex, swigs it down and turns into... Superkid. With his new super-

The Hit Squad • £2.99 (rerelease)

metres. While on the B side you compete in 110 metres hurdles, discus, pole-vault, javelin and finally the killer event 1500 metres. The cause of so many joystick deaths (due to the fast 'n' furious stick waggling needed

throughout all ten events), looks a tad crude on the graphics front by today's standards, but still retains the payability factor which made it such a hit!

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h, the Grand-daddy of all sports games enters into the arena once again. Endorsed by Olympic champion Daley Thompson, who went on to endorse Supertest and Olympic Challenge, it features ten events (naturally enough), which are split into two days of gruelling sportsmanship. Day one, on the A side, has the 100 metres, long jump, shotput, high jump and the 400

£2.99 (rerelease)

74%

powers Tom goes around the 3 areas of each city, beating up the baddies, guiding grannies back to the rest home and saving girlies from the tops of buildings. Being such a hard nut, all Superkid has to do to kill a villain is run into him with his fist. Once all the areas are cleared, he must return to battle with the remaining gang members, but this time they are tougher, and it's night time! Superkid is a fun little game with nicely coloured graphics and jolly sound. The programmers have catered for alt tastes with the option of choosing monochrome in different colours too. The trouble is that you soon tire of just rescuing the girls and guiding the grannies. Fun for a while at the price.

Overall

73%

the ball flies off accordingly. If it flies far enough the batter dashes around the bases of the field to score as many runs as possible. The team with the most runs wins. The presentation of Hardball is wonderful, and graphics are neat throughout (especially oh the pitching scene). Though a little tricky to begin with, Hardball is worth perservering with as it's a decent and realistic simulation.

Overall

80%

MONTE CARLO CASINO

CodeMastersB £2.99

ver fancied being a millionE aire, like that Skippy bloke, with fast cars, fast girls and

pots of dough? Well, now you can (until you turn the computer off, anyway) with this new game from the masters of budget, CodeMasters. You are issued with £10,000 and told to gamble to your heart's delight in the Monte Carlo Casino. With five well known games packed in, there should be something to your taste. You can chop and change from one game to another, keeping the amount of cash you have lost or won on the previous game (ooo, just like real life!). There's Five Card Draw Poker, Roulette, Blackjack, Jackpot Machine and Craps (I beg your pardon, this is a respectable magazine!).

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BUDGEr Two are card based, one uses dice, one a spinning wheel and the last a good old fruit machine. A favourite is the fruit machine, probably because it's the easiest to win loads of cash on! Graphics are in the CodeMasters neat and colourful style now. All the people around the tables shuffling cards and looking worried about their life savings are drawn in Rock Star Ate My Hamster style. There's plenty of colour to be enjoyed, plus lots of jingles, tunes and sound effects. If you are addicted to gambling, but can't afford this expensive hobby, get Monte Carlo Casino, it's cheaper in the long run!

Overall

84%

RAMBO

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or, we remember this from many a play, and it's still pretty hot, even though not really up to the standards of some of today's software. It's set in the Vietnamese jungle, and Rambo is on a mission to photograph the plight of American prisoners of war. But having found them, will his conscience let him walk away? Silly question! Armed with just a knife and bombs to begin with, he decides to rescue Colonal Trautman and hi-jack a helicopter to free his buddies. Rambo roams through one main landscape killing enemies and rescuing his mates, first on foot, then in an army chopper. Slightly outdated by today's standards are the graphics — mainly black, with prison camps, helicopters and little men all recognisable and coloured, but with clash problems. The sound Ocean packed into this game takes you back in time: a brilliant tune (for a 48K machine anyway) on the title screen and plenty of gun effects to keep your ears buzzing as you play. Rambo— First Blood Part Two, to give it it's full name, Js fun, and in our opinion beats the new Rambo 3 for payability. At this price you should buiy it.

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e's wicked, he's evil, he's Jack The Nipper! This is the first of the series, the second being Coconut Capers, and one of the better full price games on the Spectrum in 1986. It hasn't lost any payability in the time, and for people who haven't played it. the puzzles will bring hours of fun. Jack is a naughty little boy who likes nothing better than to pop around the corner to the local police station and cause a riot by shooting his pea shooter at the policemen and tooting his hom at the station cat. The object of the game ts to be as naughty as possible (shouldn't be hard for most of you!). Various objects can be picked up around the town and have drastic effects when dropped in certain places or thrown at something. A naughtyometer, along the boltom of the screen, measures how bad Jack has been. Reach

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y the power of Greyskull. I have the power! So Heman says, but can we take his word for it? He must fight nasty people and collect eight chords in five game sections. Chords are found in the streets, others can only be obtained by splattering Skeletons hit men. He-Man has brought along two of his pals to help him in his mission, Teela and Gwildor. He-Man may be the master of the universe but he definitely isn't master of the computer game. This is bad with a capi-

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tal B and another of those boring Gauntfet variants which cropped up so much in the past. He-Man is a tiny character, mostly mid- screen, and a not very impressive one at that. The graphics do slightly improve on some levels, but not enough to make you shout it from the roof tops! The tune doesn't resemble the cartoon series at all. The tasks and plot being exactly the same each load, does not help the lastability factor.

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As I remember, it was the lirst racer to use the hill technique, and the jumps have never been repeated successfully since. Rev that bike and take it through all the levels, over £2.99 • The Hit Squad dusty mountain tracks, tarmac (rerelease) courses and desert trails. You have to complete each track his one's ancient, but it's within the set time limit to still a contender for the best Spectrum race game ever. progress on to the next level.

ENDURO RACER

100%.and the game is complete. All sprites in Jack The Nipper are cartoon-style, so the game is just like walking into your favourite comic. The main play area is monochrome of varying hues on each screen, plus the bonus of posters, lights, etc. around the town in glorious technicolour! The way the game has been put together is excellent, with your nappy- rash counter going up whenever you touch a goody goody, and one of the little Jacks at the bottom of the screen being spanked when the rash is on full. Jack The Nipper is a fantastic game, and even on rerelease deserves a Smash rating.

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Enduro Racer isn't the easiest of biking games, I still find it difficult to get past the third level (but that says more about my game playing skill, I suspect!). Gameplay retains a big challenge throughout — and still looks and plays well after all these years, which can't be bad! Great fun, graphically impressive and varied, well worth buying, especially on budget.

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