crash68_sep_1989 by Marco Martinelli

No.68 SEPTEMBER 1989

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S i r C L A I R SPECTRUM GAMES FIRST!

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jammed pack with games and Pokes to keep you going until... next issue! And on tlhe subject of Power Tapes, a heeeeugge thank you to everyone who has been sending in their own programs for inclusion on the tape. If we haven't contacted you about yotur submission — hold on! It takes a lot of time to play through all the arcade adventure, strategy, shoot-'em-up and adventure games which have flooded the Power Tape Dept. And DON'T STOP sending your programs in, we'll reward you with unbelievable riches (well, reasonably unbelievable...), details on page six. Look out for the first selection from the Power Tape Dept next issue, until then — enjoy!!

LIVE CIRCUIT Another loony adventure romp with Jetman, Lloyd's Forum ano all the news from the happening world of the Speccy!

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PREVIEWS

Coming very soon, to a stockist near you Altered Beast, Chase HQ. The Untouchables, Stridor and Pictionaryl

NICKO'S TIPS The rad lad takes tea with a confused dung beetle and discusses the merits of having a Rick Dangerous map!!

TUSKER COMPO A fun-packed them^park day and loadsagames with System 3 s Tusker!

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ROCKMAN Mastertronic

eel Rockman — an underevolved little Troglodyte who likes a good gobble! (Fnar!) And he likes nothing more than gobbling mushrooms, and lots of them. The mushrooms proliferate throughout the network of caves that Rockman lives in — a pretty idyllic lifestyle, all things considered, except for the smiling faces. Though of a jolly grimace, these vaguely intelligent spritettes spell death for Trog if they touch him. After all. smiling faces have to eat too, and they don't like mushrooms, so Troglodytes have to do as munchies for the faces. No death-o-zap laser gun for

THRILLS OH TAPE Where to find your thrill power!

Rocky, because living in the Stone Age all that has been invented is the hammer. Bashing any of the rocks with his mallet causes them to instantly crumble or fall to the ground, depending on what is beneath. If Troglodyte eats all the Mushrooms on one screen, he's instantly transported onto the next screen where another feast of mushrooms is laid before him, which he just has to eat. With spritely vigour he can run along, and drop off, the ledges of rocks that make up the majority of the maze. Also part of the cave interior are the vertical red zoom tubes, which allow him to scamper up an down between levels. Though some people like to take time over their lunch, Rockman doesn't, and actually needs to consume all the mushrooms on screen within a time limit. Rockman features 20 levels,

and after completing five you're given a password. So, when you begin a new game, you input the password and skip the five levels. Five lives are given to Rockman to stuff himself silly, one being lost for every ill encounter with a cave nasty.

ROCK AND (CONT) ROL Rockman is controlled by the user-defined keys or Kempston, Cursor or Sinclair joysticks. And to get you started, here are four clues to the four four-letter passwords. If you can solve the clue, you'll know the passwords! 1. A gemstone with black and white bands 2. A Hindu or Sikh religious leader 3. A Herb with grey/green leaves and purple, white or blue flowers, could also be a wise old man 4. A slender, sharp, curved nail on an animal's toe

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SUPERSLEUTH SCEPTRE OF BAGDAD POKEMANIA Check the inlay for loading instructions. Should your tape provefaulty return to whence it camel (i.e. CRASH TAPE C U N I C (68),SPOOL LTD. First Avenue, Deeslde Industrial Park. Clwyd. CHS 2NY) A healthy Power Tape will wing its way back to youll

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REWARD If you've written a game you think is dead gcood, why not share the experience with the Speccy world? Setnd it along to us on cassette 0)r disk with a letter explaining) the game, and if it passes th<e reviewers' test, we'll put it on the Power Tape, so thousands can enjoy it. Not only that, we'll give you lots of money! Send your creations to:

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PO Box 10, Ludlow, Shropshire SYS 1DB Give us 28 days, and we'll tell you what we think of it!!! More power to your programming! (Please note: the phrase lots of money' means what we term as lots of money, not your idea of lots of money — i.e. not about ten squillion pounds in used notes please).

GRUMPY GUMPHREY

mean and moody manager. In between shooting mad, rampant ducks on the ground floor, Grumps has to make tea for his ungrateful boss and cope with a whole host of minor and major emergencies in the store. Each task has to be completed within a time limit — gametime is relentlessly ticked off by a digital display at the foot of the screen. Failure to complete a task in time, results in a summons from the manager. Once summoned, Grumpy has to make his way to the Manager's Office within half an hour to receive a warning letter. If he fails to arrive in time,

he gets the boot. The store is crowded with shoppers {and the odd toy soldier), who mill around, manically getting in Grumpy's way as he tries to complete his tasks. If any of the characters other than the harmless hippy bump into him, Grumpy is pushed about and may be knocked off his feet — in which case he sits down.White he is sitting down, Grumpy gets closer to his next warning letter. A bar at the bottom of the screen indicates how close Grumpy is to his next warning — as it gets shorter another missive gets closer. Four letters, and he's

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re you free, Mr Gumphrey?' I'm free!! Welcome to Mole Bros Department Store, a store of huge proportions, and in which Grumpy Gumphrey: SuperSlejth works.

Poor old Grumpy Gumphrey is definitely the department store's dogsbody. Apart from the fact that he is supposed to be guarding the shop's stock from marauding thieves (he is the Store Detective after all), Grumpy is also set a whole variety of tasks by the

out of a job. A horizontal message area at the bottom of the screen displays the latest order from on high and is used to remind Grumpy of the next task he needs to complete in order to survive the day. There's a variety of objects scattered throughout the store which can be used to help Grumpy in his chores. To pick up an object, Grumpy has to be moved up to it and the pick up key pressed, whereupon the object is transferred to his podtet — an area at the bottom right of the screen. Once an object has been picked up it can be dropped, used or knocked out of Grumpy's hands by jostling shoppers. And for all budding Sleuths out there, here are some tips to get you started: You can get the tea cup in the canteen by collecting the box and putting it in front of the table where the tea is. Then walk forward (ie: up) onto the box to pick the tea up. If you find the scateboard, Grumpy can use it to get around the store faster.

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urse fate1 Blast the man who framed you with a murder you never committed! And above all may hell swallow Vran Verusbe! and Delphia (although, that's your job ..)! If they didn't send their armies into the lands of Ket, killing and plundering, you wouldn't be on this mission Mind you, the executioner would have got you. Undertaking this mission to kill the Priest King Vran and his High Priestess Delphia is the only hope of life the Lords of Ket have offered, so you volunteered They don't entirely trust you though, do they Why else attach an assassin bug with poison fangs on your neck? Yes. little Edgar is going to make sure you repiain the hero. He's been quite helpful too, full of information on all you've met and more Exhausted, you've made it to the tar side of the Mountains ot

Ket. You re weighed down by all you've collected on the way a suit of armour, sword, and a magical ring Passing the final guardian, that huge Zombie would have been impossible without them, and the wand of course. But that's gone Just as you were making that last dash towards the chink of daylight and freedom, the Zombie snatched it. and rolled a huge boulder into the tunnel behind you No way back.

TEMPLE OF VRAN Your mission now is to reach the Temple. Once there you wilt hopefully succeed in destroying its evil occupants You've been told the Temple is found somewhere to the east, although probably not on a direct route Again, many items you come across on your travels should be of help Better not waste any, or bitter regrets will follow But then, you know that already

When entering commands use a Verb/Noun combination. You'll be told if your command is not understood, or if you're trying something impossible. Here are a few sample commands: Get sword, prepare sword, throw cane, climb down, go east. Additional special commands: Inventory: Lists objects you have with you and shows your prepared weapon. Stat: shows your current condition. Score: how well are you doing? Beep: turns off the Speccy keyboard beep. Help: May be useful. Look: redescribes your present location. Quit: ends the game. Commands may be abbreviated: Inv: Inventory, N: North, U: Up, etc.. Your statistics measure your current condition: Prowess, Energy and Luck. These are used in combat. You'll be told your statistics at the beginning of the adventure, and they may be checked at any time using Stat. The higher the better...

SAVING AND LOADING You may save your present position at any time to continus later. Enter SAVE, type in a filename and start record. Press a key and the game will save n two short parts. To LOAD a previously saved position, LOAD the main program, type LOAD (enter), then play your data tape. You'll be told when loading is complete, and off you go from where you were!

PLAYING THE TRILOGY AS A WHOLE Although you can play each part separately, there is the added thrill of solving the quest as a whole. Complete part one, then simply insert the next tape into your player and press play. The computer will preserve your current condition to take with you into this next part. HINTS Don't leave anything useful in a different time zone — you may not be able to return! Draw a map as you go.

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DELIGHTFUL TURKISH TIPS This should get you approximitely one quarter through the game Nick will print further tips in later issues. Won't you Nick? First of all. take the FLUTE ind leave the HANKY in the startirg room, then keep going left untl you reach the Air Bagdad platform. Jump onto this to fly across the river. Then go to tfe tower, enter, walk to the pile o rope to go up. Go right and junp up to the bird which ends up ii a nest. Leave the FLUTE, pick up the WINGS and jump up acrois the nest until you are on top of a balcony. Keep on walking and allow the bee's nest to fall. The

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h, those Arabian Nights, eh? Genies, flying carpets, silly pointy slippers and other Turkish delights; you'll find them all in this amazing cartoon arcade adventure from Atlantis. Sultan Caliph is having a spot of bother. On the first day of each year he must wave the Sceptre of Bagdad' at the local peasants to remind them he's the boss, and anyone who disagrees gets their head lopped off. However, this year the Caliph has woken early, feeling decidedly strange. After a quick bodily perusal he discovers that he has shrunk to tiny proportions. Desperately, he climbs from his bed and cfambers up to the Magic Lamp sitting upon his dressing table, and consults the Genie. Genie tells Caliph that he's the victim of a spell, cast by a wicked wizard. The Caliph's home has now been turned into a puzzlesome palace of shark infested rivers, burning deserts and seemingly impenetrable barriers. The Sceptre is at the far end of the palace, and if it is not reached within the ordained time the Caliph's reign will come to a premature end. The corpulent ruler can move left and right, jump upwards and

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pass through doors and other entrances. Objects found en route are collected by simply walking over them. Only two objects can be carried at once, the last acquired being displayed at the bottom of the screen. An inventory of items carried is accessed by pressing the space bar. Sections of the palace and its grounds can only be crossed if the Caliph is in possession of certain objects — the coconut is needed to cross the desert, but the sting and pearl are first required to get the coconut! If all of this wasn't bad enough, the poor Caliph finds that his palace has been infested by

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vicious creatures and monsters. Should these beasts touch him, the podgy ruler's life force is diminished until he eventually loses one of his three lives. A reincarnation potion is hidden in the palace, saving the player's position when drunk. This position can then be returned to by selecting the Old Game" option on the main menu, CALIPH'S CONTROLS Keyboard controls are definable; you need left, right, up, down, and a select key. If you're happier waggling a stick of Bagdad then you'll need a Kempston. Cursor, or Sinclair.

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bee does not harm you. You should now have a MINERS HAT AND SEVERAL WINGS. Take the WINGS across the river and go left until you get to a statue of an archer. Jump up the steps until the statue flies off. Return over the river to pick up the KEYS and leave the WINGS there. Take the MINERS HAT to the room with the BEACHBALLS and KEYS. Jump up the stairs and turni right. When you're inside, wallk right and keep on going right ito get rid of the nagging lady amd to open the wardrobe. Slide dowvn the banister, jump on the tabke and grab the ALI-BABA BOOIK. Go back up the stairs and graab the FIRE RING, leaving eitheir the HAT or the KEYS. Don't dropi the BOOK. Go left, press the key used for going through doors,, slide down the banister agaim, go left to Air Bagdad, fly to the otther side, go where the statue usesd to be and jump to the top.

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Berlimey! The man from Atlantis, he say 'Yes'!!' No, he doesn't at all. He says 'Glub, glub, hello little fishy, bless my barnacles, if It Isn't a berilliant underwater kinda compo! Starring me, Jacques Cousteau as Patrick Duffy, the sub-aqua superhero with faithful chum, Flipper the porpoise...' (SNIP! You're getting all the underwater characters confused! Get on with the compo —Ed) Right. Atlantis is not as lost as some of you may think, because it Is alive and well and can be found at 28 Station Road, Londonl! And the Men From Atlantis are The Shaw Brothers, the smashing software authors who have brought you fab budget titles (still only £1.99 from all good software emporiums — Blatant Hype Ed) such as Kosmos, GunFighter, SuperKId, AquaSquad, and so many more! In fact, check out Sceptre of Bagdad on your CRASH cassette this month to see how good Atlantis games are! And this is the Wordsquare from Atlantis, a new kind of hero! Hidden in the square are 12 words, as listed In the box. They may run In any direction but always in a straight line. Find all 12 and you're well on your way to winning one of the 30 Atlantis bumper packs we have on offer. The pack comprises seven games: Kosmos, GunFighter, AquaSquad, Heartbroken, Tank Command, Cerius and Superkld. Once you've found all 12 words, cut out the coupon and send it to: THE COMPO FROM ATLANTIS COMPO, CRASH, PO Box 10, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 1DB. Entries to arrive here by September 20, and follow the compo rules or you'll end up being the Prat From Atlantis at the bottom of the nearest duck pond. W O R D S TO FIND

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News • Views | Jetman | Forum | Winners | With Lloyd Mangram Ugh. Summer is all very well, as long as I'm left in peace in the garden. But sadly one has to take a trip into Ludlow for the shopping and sifting through the month's mail bag. Why sadly? Well, it is tourist time in Ludlow. OAPs, Birmingham bus tours and Americans arrive by the coach load, creating havoc in the streets. Actually, did you know that Ludlow is considered the fifth most important place to visit in England by the American guide books? That's as maybe, but here's the first most important place to visit in CRASH — Live Circuit!

OUTLAWED DONGLE Dear Lloyd, After seeing Romantic Robot's recent ads for the Mult if ace add-on, which is to be banned under the new copyright act, I wonder if this is really fair. I have used my Multiface 3 on my Plus 3 to transfer tape software onto disk, and it's a very valuable utility. But it appears Romantic Robot have had to stop selling it because it can be used to aid pirates To my knowledge any software I back-up using the Multiface cannot be used on another Spectrum — you have to have the Multiface for it to work. Will I really be breaking the law next time I use my Multiface to back-up software? Adrian Hunt, Worcester. The answer, under the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which came into force on August 1, is a most definite YES. You now have absolutely no legal right to copy/back-up a piece of software in any (orm. Though, t suspect, you wouldn't end up in court over taking what is really just a sensible move. In the case of the Multiface, It's against the law to advertise them as copying devices — though it seems it's alright saying it is a back-up utility. The Act doesn't really make it clear enough, and as yet there are no previous cases to act as pointers. We'll have to wait and see. Obviously this is going to be a topic that takes over the forum soon — so get your opinions in as quickly as possible if you want to see your views In print. LM

NO PLAYS LIKE HOME Dear Lloyd, I have often wondered how much games playing and computer use the CRASH team do at home. Could you please find out if they have Spectrums at home and buy games to play on them like the rest of us. or do they just play the review copies all the time? David Waters. Middlesborough

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A i v e & i r i c u C t To tell the truth David, after a hard day's slog over a hot Speccy, most of the rabble don't want to see a computer again until the morning. But, tucked away at home the team do have their own faves and they are: Nicko has a Speccy and a Vic 20 and is saving up for an Amiga, Mike stays faithful with just a Speccy, Richard has an Amstrad PCW 8256 and occasionally a Spectrum (though it usually ends up back at the Towers when the office ones die), he's also rumoured to have an Amstrad CPC, though he says he gave it away. Oli doesn't own a speccy at the moment, though he wants one to play adventures on, but does have a small Apple Macintosh (just to show everyone else up). I have a Hermes and a cat, but they're not computers. LM

GONE?! Dear Lloyd, Like the new look, but whatever happened to the personal ratings at the bottom of each reviewer's comment? I think this was important, because then you knew precisely what each reviewer thought. I hope you will put them in from now on. Simon Dibbs, Warwick

OF SOFTWARE MUST BE Don't forget the Letter of the Month wins £40 of softwarel I haven't awarded a prize for a while because there hasn't been one worth it. So let's hear it from YOU! We want your opinions an any Speccy subject, especially the new Copyright law. Send your missives to L L O Y D MANGRAM'S FORUM, C R A S H , PO Box 10, L u d l o w S h r o p s h i r e SYS 1 D B . And sorry, but I can't answer any requests personally — I've got enough to do as it isl! Okay, they back! How's that for supply and demand? LM

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IT'S CHRISTMAS, BUSTING AGAI HURRAH!! Golly gee, so it is! The snow falling on the roof tops, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Mr Robin Redbreast doing is head in trying to crack the ice on the bird bath and Hewson about to release a Christmas compilation — The Christmas Collection. Gosh, it seems only last month Hewson released its summer compilation, Heatwave! (It was — E d ) . Anyway, The Christmas Collection, available October, £12.99 cass and £17.99 disk, features six smashing games: Uridium, Light force, Cybernoid II, Eliminator, Exolon and Hydrofool. Anyone for sherry and mince pies?

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Actlvision have snapped up the rights to Ghostbusters II, the sequel to one of the most popular films of the decade. The film opened on 16 June In the States and grossed S10 million on its first day! Mind you, the original Ghostbusters game did jolly well Itself, and has sold over 2 million copiesl!! Force Field, the programmers who wrote Time Scanner, are working on the Ghostbusters II game which is planned to have four different arcade scenarios. Activlsion are pitching this as one of their smash hits for Christmas alongside Power

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ipeee! The launch of the new 'megaSpectrum' will be upon us soon • yup, MGT's SAM COUPE is nearly up and running. From now on we'll be taking a look at the final developments of the new machine. Next month we'll ne taking a trip to MGT to peruse the Coupe's capabilities, but for now here's what the beast will be offering:

* The Sam Coupe has four modes ol operation. Mode One is normal Spectrum mode, so it'll do everything a Speccy does, but a hell of a lot faster! Mode Two is an advanced Spectrum mode and does away with any attribute clash on games loaded in Mode Three is an 80 column text mode, very useful for wofd processing and the like. And the fourth mode ts where the Sam really comes into its own: 64 colour mode, 256 x 192 resolution, and all 64 colours can be on-screen at once, as long as there are only 16 colours in one horizontal line.

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* To make full use of Sam's graphic capabilities Bo Jangeborg, creator of the Fairlight duo of games, has written a graphics utility especially for Sam. * Music to blow your brains! SIX channel sound, in stereo, eight octaves with 256 tones per octave, Using full envelope and amp control, Sam can play some decent music! * Apparently, it will be very easy to convert new Speccy games to run on Sam using the Programmer's Development System written specially for Sam! * Mel Croucher is writing the quick-start user manual, and cartoon artist Robm 'Mercy' Evans is livening it up with humourous scrawls!!! * The custom chip is back from Japan and ready for duplication!!! * The Sam isn't finished yet. We'll brtng you the full report — properly — when it is Unlike some other Spec mags You can contact MGT on the special Sam Coupe Hotline on 0792 791 275, or for wntten details write to: MGT. Lakeside, Pheontx Way, Swansea SA7 9EH.

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ACHUMFORYOUR DISKDRIVE - THE PLUS 3 DISKMATE!! Just because MGT are busy constructing Sam. it doesn't mean they're going to rest on their proverbial laurels. No sir! For here s another spectacular utility from the Welsh wizards - the +3 Distotwft*. it's a piece of utility software running in + 3 basic and adds a myriad (well, seven) useful commands to the disk driver. There's BFORMAT which is a formatting routine giving an 80 track, double-sided double-density disk with 760K of space; DRVUSR a small routine to change the user area and drive default mode; CATALL sends a complete catalogue to the screen or printer; H E A D L O A D E R allows the modification of file types; H E A D C O P Y reads a cassette based program's header and informs you if it can be transfered to disk - if it can it lobs the program onto disk, BOOT forces the +3 into a reset within a program, and READER is a disk header reader which copes with any file tvpe. It sounds jolly useful to us and comes on a disk costing £19.99 from MGT direct.

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THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR THUNDER KNIGHT!!

and enemies such as g n o m e s (?!), d i n o s a u r s , skeletons, ghosts and an assortment of mystical creatures. 'Fast action and ultimate gameplay m a k e

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u n p r e c e d e n t e d creation In t h e h i s t o r y of c o m p u t e r g a m e s ' ( h e m h e m ) , it s a y s o n this piece of Titus paper. Do w e believe them? Do we h e l l . B u t t h e p r o o f o f t h e soc a l l e d p u d d i n g I s in t h e eating, eh viewers?

Titus, w h o brought y o u the e x c e l l e n t Crazy Cars II, h a v e just a n n o u n c e d a n e w arcade combat g a m e called Knight Force. Playing a mean looking, sword wielding , hero — The K n i g h t of T h u n d e r — y o u r q u e s t Is t o e n t e r t h e t i m e w a r p (it's j u s t a j u m p t o t h e left, a n d a s t e p t o t h e rl-i-i— ight a n d past the pond...) and battle t h r o u g h five different time zones, including prehistoric, m e d i e v a l a n d present day.

SUPER D R A G O N SLAYER: H e l l o , S u p e s h e r e . Look, a w f u l l y sorry a b o u t t h i s , b u t It l o o k s l i k e I ' v e only j u s t been released, although the reviewing blighters featured m e in i s s u e 6 5 . I ' m f r o m C o d e M a s t e r s Plus, c o m e on t w o cassettes, and cost £ 7 . 9 9 ! Pity I ' m only w o r t h 5 7 % really.

Knight Force f e a t u r e s 2 5 l e v e l s in a l l , w i t h 'graphically outstanding' b a c k d r o p s of the periods,

IT'S THAT BLIMMIN' FORCE AGAIN!!

DON'T MYTH OUT ON OFFICIAL SECRETS!!! There's a fab new adventure doing the 'rounds' at the moment: it's called Myth, written by Paul Findley of Magnetic Scrolls.lt's reviewed this issue and is a...find out for yourselves! But you can't buy it, nope. It's free!! As long as you join Official Secrets that is. Official Secrets is a smashing and jolly useful adventure club run by Tony Rainbird who started Rainbird Software years ago. Club membership costs £22, and for that you get Confidential, a regular 32 page magazine which mainly deals with adventures, but also covers simulations and role playing games. Plus a copy of Myth on +3 disk (if

you don't own a +3 you receive the Supreme Challenge compilation), and a copy of Gnome Ranger from Level 9 (if you have il already, you receive Captain Blood). And you get access to ihe Official Secrets Helpline, where they can solve any adventure problem. And (gosh! what A lot!!!) there's free membership to Spccial Reserve (normally £5). another club, which offers members games at very cheap priccs!! Official Secrets has nearly 3,1 >00 members already and is looking for more. Write to Official Secrets. PO Box 847, Harlow. CM21 9PT for details. A wonderful service and no mistake!!!

r T T T T IT'S A L I G H T G U N FROM CHEETAH!!

It most certainly i s and any moment now Domark an? releasing The Star VViirs Trilogy. It's a three game compilation featuring the coin-op conversions of Star Wars, Tlw Empire Strikes Back a n d Return Of The feai

from the Atari arcade machines. The trilogy is Domark's first ever compilation and it retails for £14.99 on cassette and £19.99 on disk. Commenting on the pack, Domark's Marketing Foxtress Clare Edgelev Gerrrowl, snurfffulem, rooooawwr...'. Bui then, she was doing her Chewbacca impression at the time.

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Defender. Yet to be seen, the titles are: Super Trans—Am, Bronx St Cop, Harrier Attack (a working title, expect something like Mig-29), Billy The Kid (a wild west It's just like the number 63 bus—you wait shoot out game), Jungle Warfare (again a working title, looks a bit like Green Seref), years, and then three turn up at the same and Advanced Pinball Simulator. time! Or rather, two — and we're talking Top engineers at Cheetah have been about Light Guns (which have no working on the design and hardware for a resemblence to buses really). year, with special attention paid to the After Sinclair's efforts to bring a new finer details like weighL trigger balance age of gaming to our itchy trigger fingers and precision accuracy to make the gun's with the Magnum, Cheetah (peripherial 'feel* just right. producer of old) hit back with the Next month we'll be bringing you the Defender, a another new light gun, which full details, with news of the six should be released In September retailing around £25, £5 cheaper than the Magnum. CodeMasters games plus a smashing competition, where you can win FIFTY • Cheetah are producing the hardware side of the Defender, which is planned to 50! — Defender light gun packs from Cheetah. If you want to get more have a more realistic gun look to it than information, contact Cheetah on 0222 the futuristically shaped Magnum, and 555525 or at Norbury House. Norbury CodeMasters have the Job of producing Road, Fairwater. Cardiff CF5 3AS. six quality games exclusively lor the

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Aive&Oiccat Hundreds of games for sale from SOp upwards Lots of new titles like The Minsters. The Running Man, The National Also POKE tape wrt h over 70 POKES on eech tape Send SAE to Colm. Nine Green Ave Nethertiekl. Notts. NG4 212.

WANTED W a n M d M p t n h l y New Wheels John" and another game which is by CRL fl t CM got tr>o name), m which you manage a Formica One racing team Will pay loadsa cash or swap (or new decent games (ptural) Can Adam on 041 686623 Manual for I28K Spectrum. Also copy o! Spectrum 128K Guile by Ian Smctav. Contact Joe Davie*. 34 Wndteston Drive. Middlesbrough. Cleveland TS3 OBQ Tel. No: |0642| 313295

Spectrum • 2 computer with Kempston joystick and interface. Sinclair joystick, Multitace 128. C1000 original software Sell for C170 ono Te! (0703) 899 039 and ask for Greg Spectrum games lor sale, alt 75p or less, alt m good condrtion, including Road Blasters. Vindicator, Gauntlet, Metrocross. Send a SAE to - Lee What mough, 247Victoria Avo, Princes Ave. Hull HU5 3EB Appro*. 60 games for Spectrin 48/128K, plus tape recorder Worth appro*. £150, accept £60. tel. David Patience on 051 327 6983 Buyer to collect. Speccy games for sale £3 each R-Type. LED Storm etc. £50 for 19 games Contact Paul Willoughby. 82 Blenheim Park Road. South Croydon. Surrey CR2 68F l et. No 01 6603196.

FOR SALE Spectrum 48K • Excel tent condition Indudos Turbo Ram interlace, three joysticks, C300 worth of games, 30 mags. CI 60. Phone Ipswich 0473 682250 alter 4 00pm Super sexy Spectrum, tug < 3 (Oo-er). with modem to seduce macho mainframes. around 30 games ncluded loo to keep ti •amused'1 All m1 virgin'condition lor t i e s W. Summereii. 48 Clevedon Road. Tredworth, Gloucester GL1 4RN Over 1400 Spectrim Multitace POKES Send targe SAE and £2 to S.A. Clark. 210 Park Road, Sitlingbourne, Kent MEtO 1EP • 3 education game* on disk. 26 games for all ages AN (or only £10 rci d<3k Don't just play, learn as welt. Mr B R Pelt. 4 Tudor Way. Wellingborough. Northarils Spectrum 128-2 £550 ot software, joystick, excellent condition, boxed as new. software includes Operation Wolf, Rastan Afterburner, Arcade Muscle. Bards Tale etc. Sell for £250 a no. Phone Chm on 0387 68819 anytime. Spectrum • 2 m excellent condition, with mouse. Alphacom Printer. 2 joysticks, dust cover, magazines and hundreds of games such as: Out Run. Starglider. Cytoemoid and 720' Worth C800. will sell for £250 ono If Interested, phone (01)445 3703. Ask for Roger. Spectrum 128K Philips tape recorder, multifunction joytooard. large case of games including R-Type, Operation Wolf £90 Tel (0548)550450 Spectrum - 2 boxed, excellent condition, about £500 worth of software. Kempston interface, joysticks Total set worth about £670 Asking just £200 ono Phone Adam on 01 521 4284 aftet 4pm for details Demo if wanted

Spec mate. 48K Spectrum, GAC. Outrun, 10 games. Ouckshot II, interface, double deck Worth £300 Sen tor £150. No offers, spirt Specmate fro £50. Write to Gary. 20 Kevin Gardens. Omagh. Co. Tyrone, N Ireland BT78 1QS

Spectrum +3 128K nearly new. Manual, joysticks. Mull if ace • 3, Spectrum Interface MK2. cover, 100's of games on disk and tape. Also assorted computer magazines. Crash, Your Sinclair etc. Worth £500* only £279 ono. 87 Perth Avenue, Hayes. Middlesex U84 9LW Phone 01 841 7911 Spectrum Plus 3 with disk games • leads £79.00. Currah Speech £6.00. Spectrum and C84 games Irom SOp Alphacom thermal printer £20.00.48K (rubber key) Spectrum £19.00. Commodore 16 + 4 computer < games £3000 Send to - Mr T Worratt, 328 The Mattings, Penwortham, Preston PR1 9FD. Software for sale! - All original and m excellent condition For details and prices wme to Peter Mc Agister, 25 Cam Gardens, Gtengorm»ey. Co. Antnm BT36 BYE Spectrum 128K • 2, two joysticks. £320 of software All boxed and in good condition £230 ono. Kempston E ' pnnter interface £25. VTXSOOO modem £25 One 46K with 20 games and speech synth £70 ono. Tel. 0854 82315 Spectrum <2, Muftiface 128 and Lifeguard, over £250 worth of software. £30 worih of magazines. A» boxed and in good condition. Worth over £500, will sell for £300. Phone 0324 714207 after 6pm

Spectrum 128K - 3 , Multilace 3, Kempston, tape clock. 3 joysticks. £300 i disk games including Afterburner. Operation Wolf and £250 * tape games including Double Dragon. Last Ninja it, plus more. Please phone after 6pm, (0242) 520034 Ask tor Ronrue

Spectrum magazines, some original software. ZX81, 16K RAM, ZX Spectrum, imerface 2 Also Video Gen*. One Aunos for sale Send a i9p stamp for full details and prices S J. Austin, a Greenwood Avenue. Chmnor, Oxon OX9 4HN

2 Spectrum computers 48K and 128K, tape recorder. word processor, joystick, over £500 worth of games mc. Artist 2 All good order. Tel: 0202 743439

Loads or new games inc. Robocop. Op. Wolf. Bias teroids and In Crowd. From £ 1 to £4. For a list write to A. Fleming, 25 Arnpnor Place, AHoway, Ayr. AyrShve KA7 4PT

Speccy >3, Multiface 3, joystick * interface, cassette lead, software and utilities Worth £520. se» £300 ono Write to: Hossein Ghodse. 42 Atwyne Road. London SW19 7AE or telephone 01 947 1400 after 5pm 128K • 2 Spectrum joysticks, books, magazines end games worth over £500 AH good condition Will set for £300 ono Phone Woking 21315 for details. 128K - 2 Spectrum, over £800's of games including WEC Le Mans. Xenon. Sanxion, 40 magazines, tape recorder, |Oyst«ck VGC Sen for £295 or swopTor Alan ST or Amiga Phone Mark on Ashford 10233) 627168 £1 apiece, we now have over 50 urveleased items of 80%+ standard software, all types, Price includes postage and packing' Send SAE for tie® list/order form to AJphasoh UK, 5 Watson Close, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Spectrum 49K, data corder. joystick plus interface. Time* 2040 thermal printer. AT * V copying interlace Crash back issue* from No 5 to No 51. odd ones and Multilace One hardware backup interface. Telemissing. Whole lot to go m one batch Open to offers text adaptor. Micro Speech unit, hundreds of games, Tel Bradford 0274 574187, ask for Brian t £250 ono Notts area Tel 0636 812125

35 WORDS FOR ONLY C2.50!

Spectrum 128 - 2. 6 months ok), with joysticks, Kempston interface. £300 worth software including several boxed set compilations. Batman. Blasteroids. Thunder Blade, 1943. DNA Wamor, Cyberncud etc .. and music machine package Win accept £250 ono Phone Sheffield (0742) 690557 after 7pm. Spectrum games tor sale - Hundreds of games Irom old up 10 the very newest rangingfrom£0.50 to £2.50. For list send SAE to Jon Quail. 21 Sdverthom Drive. Longdean Park, Heme) Hempstead. Herts. HP388USpectrum 48K • Cheetah 125+ joystick. Games Ace joystick t/F. Artist II and Genius mouse system, over 60 games £160 the lot Phone B'ham (021) 474 2183 and ask for Rotnn.

CRASH READER CLASSIFEDS Send to C R A S H R E A D E R C L A S S I F I E D , PO Box 10, Ludlow, Shropshire SYS 1DB Name. Address

" T A G . " Britain's fastest growing and best fanzine s now a tape mag' All the usual features Issue 3 - up 10 date, reviews, previews. POKES, news, films. PBMs. arcades, competitions, music, programming. + more! Only60p -» sJamptV. Vity.TAG.. 11 Widow Gr. Bare. Morecambe. Lanes. Issue 4 - August"

MISCELLANEOUS Money!! Do you want lots ot it? If so. send a SAE to Clive Arthur, 5 Leigh St, Bursiem, Stoke on Trent, Staffs ST6 I BE Programmers! Quality loading screens done Send rough description of wanted picture, cheque (£25) payable to S Smith, and your address to S Smith, 3 me Firs. Roysion. Barnsley. South Yorkshire S71 4LY. Pro's Charge £200«! Develop a super memory, memorise whole books, manuals, articles, newspapers, beam foregn languages. Pass exams easily, Your memory has unirmted power, team how to use it Free details. D. Walton. 155 Wash Une. W Midlands B25 8PX. " An absolute Ingenious game featuring tense strategy action. It has to be played to be believed one not to be missed". - V. Vrtys opmion o> "GRAND PRIX RIDERS " - as seen in Motor Cyde News' £2 99 V Vrty. 11 Willow Gr. Bare. Morecambe Lanes Coming soon: (Aug ISlhj "SPY DROID" - Vinsotl s third release Rescue your pilot In ttvs compulsively addictive, 30 scenario game, Featuring moving and cfrsappeanng platforms' Aliens! Black holes' Killer bubbles'! + more' Only £2.50: V. Vrty, 11 WiBow Grove, Bare. Morocambe, Lanes. Another greal homegrown budget Smash' "Right, left, uppercut - Oh' And he's down - A knockout! Can you fighl your way to the top with K .O.?" Fmd out by sending only £1 99 to: V Vrty, 11 WHlow Gr, Bare. Morecambe, Lanes. Got 8,5/10 or Oracle1 Strategy, simulation, action, fun" "THIEF IN THE NIGHT" Adventure game lor the Spectrum 48K Can you "acqi*re" the legendary Sunnyvale Chance' Send en SSAE together with £1 to Matthew West, 12 Hillcrest Road. Thornton, Bradlord, West Yortis BD13 3PO Would you like a Porsche? This is not a dream You can earn big money with your micro Send SAE for frea details You won't be disappointed! A. Beards, 22 Seaconsview Road, ttase, Swansea SA8 7HJ Look) Over 1300 Multiface POKEs m alphabetical order. Send SAE and cheque or postal orders tor £2.50 to R. Bryant. 38 Pye Street. Fanngdon, Oxon SN7 7AS

USER GROUPS Utilities, programming help, graphics, info, practical homegrown software tor the serious Spectrum user and more! Monthly on Disciple/-D, Opus, microdrive. cassette £2 Your first issue of "OUTLET!". Ron Cavers. 605 Loughborough Rood, Brstall. Leicester

Fill In ihe form below and enclose with your C2.S0 payment, cheque or postal order made payable to NSWSFIELO LIMITED. Photocopies of the form * r * acceptable. CRASH Reader Classified section ie not open to trad* or commercial advertisers, but Famines may use It. Heeding* are: WANTEO, FOR SALE. USER GROUPS, PENPALS, FANZINES and EVENTS DIARY (lor ciub'uter groups). The maximum wordaga is 35. Small ads will be printed In the first avail*bl* issue. The editor reserves the right to refuse *ds which do not comply with normal decent practice, or which could be Interpreted as encouraging software piracy

adverts accepted. Also Shaw brothers info'. Contact:- G.D Shaw. 25 Redwood Avenue. Royston. Bamsley, S Yorks. S71 4JP

FANZINES Free software with new-kx* tape KILLEftBYTE, out now Reviews, tips. etc. plus great programmes like Character Set Generator and Disassembler Contact Killerbyte, B Station Road. Kirby Muxtoe, Leiceslcr LE9 9EJ. State 4B/128K. Pnce £2 00, Great compo with software to be won' ZXTRA - Exchange fanzine. Swap, buy and sell software, hardware, records etc Only 75p for next issue Includes your list of items. Homegrown software

Professional PBM Soccer League Fully computer moderated, includes League and Cop games. Internationals, reserve teams. transfers, stock market and more Start up pack £4, subsequent turns £1.30 par fortnight Write to Gnmsdate Games, 12 Aspen way, Crirvgletord, Norwich NR4 6UA Attention +3 users! Use your dak drive from 48K BASIC with a cheap, reliable menu-driven utility. Only £3.00» Write to R E. Stuckey. 45 Cam Green, Ourslev. Gkw GLtt SHL PACIFICS: PRISONER OF WAH is only £399 Can you escape from P.O W. camp? Buy now. HORSE PREDICTOR « £15 99. Amazing accwacy (also POOLS £15 99) Pacific Software. 83 Stuart Road. Watt on, Liverpool L4 SOT •NEW* Vinson's 4th release "BLOCK WAR 3000AD " - A futuristic strategy war game: Up to 5 players (I C P U ) , excel lent colourful yaphics, different ctiiy every time' special missions, raids, battles, bombing. lootmg. - more"Only £2.99'V.Vity, 11 WiOowGr. B,sie. Morecambe, Lanes. SAE for details! Programmers required.

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S P E C T R U M +3 P O W E R PACK £39 9 5 S P E C T R U M 48K M E M B R A N E £9.95 K E M P S T O N J O Y S T I C K I N T E R F A C E E 9 95 •2/+3 JOYSTICK ADAPTOR £4 95 D U S T C O V E R [state machine)

SPECTRUM PLUS 2 COMPUTER (inc games + joystick) £119.95

SPECTRUM PLUS 3 COMPUTER (tnc games + joystick) £169.95

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TUSKER Africs! Vast, mysterious, savage and unexplored: a continent that has lured exploers and adventurers since time immenorial with its promise of lost treasires and riches. Join Richard Eddy as he sips the jungle juice and sets out with Tusker, the hero of System 3's sprawling epic, n search of the Tusker was never an explorer, but his fable* Elephants' father was — a man who went into Graveyard • unmapped territories of Africa charting

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a r o u n d In a deadly arc. wiping out any opposition thai comes near. But when the going gets tough, Stnder goes a leaping and bounding through the scenery, hopping buildings, climbing walls to safety. Stridor's mission takes him off to the icy wastes of Siberia a n d d o w n to the southern lowlands, w h e r e jungle tnbes are ready for combat with poisoned darts to hurl at him. T h e final sequence is back m Moscow where Strider c o m e s u p against the G r a n d Master of the Red Army, a real tough mutha if ever there was one! T h e arcade version utilises Capcom's latest coin-op system to bring all the glonous graphics, animation a n d gameplay to life, tf US Gold can transfer that ail down to a Speccy. they'll be well away a n d have a sure fire hit! Get hold of Stnder m October, but don't show your Russian fnends...

Thtsts-4/fered Beast, another Sega g a m e A d i v i s i o n are converting onto the Speccy! If you've played the arcade version, you'll k n o w it's the g a m e featuring the world s silliest speech synthesis. At the start you hear a C o m m a n d from O n High, unfortunately it sounds like Elmer Fudd a s he says 'Wise f w o m y a w gwave'll! A n d w h y should y o u rise from your grave ? Well, you play a dead gladiator (it gets better .) brought back to life to rescue your daughter from an evil sorcerer. The quest starts in your graveyard, and the opponents are other dead creatures the sorcerer has brought to life to defend him. By picking up power-pills from albino wolves you can transform .nto a multi-powered werewolf (hence the title A/feredBeasf...). Smashing combat action takes y o u through five different landscapes with zombies, winged d e m o n s a n d assorted grave guardians to defeat. As you can see from the screen shots Altered Beast is packed with colour and looks like being as brilliant as Activision's corky coin-op of yesteryear, Kamovl Stay tuned and expect t o see Altered Beast (£9.99 c a s s £ 1 4 . 9 9 disk) in a couple of months.

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PLAYING We're all going on a summer holiday. Well, to tell the truth, I've just come back off mine, and a mighty fine one It was too. Where do you think a writer on a top Spectrum magazine would go on his hols? Florida, South of France, L.A.? Actually it was a week in Great Yarmouth! I spent most of the time touching up my tan and stuffing 10ps. into arcade machines! I could only afford to take a week off, beca use I had to get back to the office and write this month's instalment of tipping madness. There is part one of my very own Rick Dangerous map, solutions to Thuraderbirds. tips on Captain Blood and Crazy Cars II, plus much much more. This month's £40 of software winner Is Jonathan Mellor from Keyworth in Nottingham for his speed in completing Thunderbirds, well done Jon, a software voucher's on It's way to you. Well, what are you waiting for, get at them tips!

THOSE PRECIOUS POKES ON TAPE G o on. have a n extra big helping of P o k e m a n i a ! Y u p , t h e n e w action packed Pokemania p r o g r a m is h e r e a n d it's b i g g e r than ever before. There are n o less than 24 P O K E s for you to drool over, a n d a b o n u s p r o g r a m all f r o m G r a h a m ' T U R B O ' M a s o n . T h e e x t r a p r o g r a m is a s o u n d t o light utility t h a t w i l l g i v e a f a n t a s t i c light s h o w if y o u p l a y o n e o f y o u r f a v o u r i t e t a p e s i n t o y o u r Speiccy. S o m e of t h e P O K E s o n the cassette you may recognise from last m o n t h , w e p u t t h e m o n a g a i n just in c a s e y o u m i s s e d t h e m last t i m e . H e r e is t h e full list... Fast Food Xybots Netherworld Titanic Robot Messiah Jaws High Steel The Real Ghostbusters Spitting Image Xenon

TURBONESS (SOUND TO LIGHT PROGRAM) To s e l e c t t h e P O K E y o u w a n t f r o m the m e n u u s e the k e y Q to scroll t h e list u p a n d A t o s c r o l l it d o w n . O n c e you've found the one you want press E N T E R , easy!

PACLAND POKES

CRASH SMASH COOLECTION VOL. 1

It's not very often I get a +3 disk POKE fall onto my coffee stained desk. In fact the last time It happened was In the Christmas issuel A n t h o n y J o h n s o n of London has changed that though by sending In this POKE for Pacland on disk. O n into +3 basic a n d type... 25 POKE 35141,0 35 M E R G E "DISK": RUN Run the program with your Pacland d i s k in a n d y o u s h o u l d h a v e infinite P a c m e n l

Compilation tips, hey? Sure are, and they have come from P a u l M c C l e n a g h a n of Solihull. These are of course for that ultra brill and trlff compilation with the CRASH logo on the front. Only three of the games are covered here. If you have any more tips for the other games then send them in.

Spy Hunter

O n t h e h e l i c o p t e r bit. if y o u d o n ' t h a v e a missile wait until t h e h e l i c o p t e r is a b o v e y o u t h e n

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Photco by Tim Roberts (that' s why I'm out ot focus and | without feet! — Nick)

Monte Carlo Casino Titan Subway Vigilante Rick Dangerous Super Trux Captain Fizz Silkworm A Silkworm B Super Scramble Zybex SAS Combat Simulator Turbo Boat Simulator Mad Mix Titanic

Corl It's the game on the cover of July's issue. This little tippet has come from James McGrath of Parkhall, Clydebank and isn't exactly for the game. If you notice on the main menu there is a little tree icon in the bottom right hand corner. Well, select this and put in these values for a very interesting tree indeed! Tree Size: 15

Number Ot Brandies: 15 Branch Spread: 350 Angle Shrinkage: 0% Size Shrinkage: 0% Tree Depth: 16 Random Angles: NO Random Length: NO Keep the stem and flower colours that same for the best effect, as otherwise they will just clash ail over the screen.

s w e r v e left, r i g h t , left, e t c . H o p e f u l l y all t h e b o m b s t h e h e l i c o p t e r d r o p s will m i s s t h e car, a n d y o u will b e a b l e t o c a r r y o n u p the road. 720 1. If y o u w a n t t o g e t l o t s o f p o i n t s for j u m p s / t r i c k s e t c , b u y a n e w board. T h e most points are given if y o u j u m p a n d k e e p y o u r f i n g e r o n t h e left o r r i g h t b u t t o n Y o u should get 7 0 0 points. 2. P a d s a n d helmet help y o u w h e n y o u get k n o c k e d over. You will get u p quicker. 3. S h o e s m a k e y o u kick faster. 4. O n t h e r a m p , hold d o w n kick w h e n g o i n g u p a n d d o w n . It should m a k e you g o faster a n d get y o u a nice shiny gold medal!

Bionlc Commando

1. T o kill t h e b a d g u y w i t h a b i g gun, shoot him then push him back with your arm. Keep doing t h i s u n t i l h e is d e a d . 2. Don't t o u c h t h e b e e hives. D e a d l y killer b e e s c o m e o u t if y o u do. a n d y o u don't really w a n t to be stung now do you? 3 . Kill t h e b i r d s w h e n t h e y a r e o n the trees. 4 . T o g e t rid of t h e c a g e s s h o o t t h e m about seven times.

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enemy island will be (resource, factory or defence). If it is factory, load the Walrus with a resource package. If it is resource, load the Walrus with a factory package. If it is defence, took for an island you own and is nearby and put tthe opposite of what the island is onto the walrus. To lake over the main eneimy island, do the same as takin<g over a defence, resource or factotry. Once you have taken the main island, you will have to take <all the other enemy islands left

CARRIER COMMAND I don't know about being put in command of a carrier, t wouldn't like to be put in command of a rowing boat! Rowan Smith of Market Harborough isn't worried though, because he's sent in these tips tor the game. If you want to destroy the enemy carrier, these are the islands the enemy takes over first... POSITION OF START

FIRST ISLAND ENEMY CARRIER TAKES OVER

Outcrop Fulcrum Vattland Taksaven

Fulcrum Vattland Thermopylone Outcrop

You will have to wait a while for the enemy carrier to appear, so put the stock pile on this island. While you wait you are able to coliect more fuel, weapons, Manta, Walrus, virus bombs and assembler packages. When the enemy carrier does appear, load one Manta with three rockets and a laser. When you are close enough, fire all the rockets and the laser at the carrier. You can keep firing until you are about to crash, then pull out. Keep on doing this until the enemy carrier is destroyed. You know when the enemy carrier is about to be destroyed, because it will start to move and turn around. The best way to take over an island is... 1 Wait tor the carrier to arrive. 2. Launch drones (it is best to put drones up front). 3. Launch Manta with three rockets and a laser 4 Move ship forward. 5. Take control of Manta. and take out the rocket launcher which should be firing al you now (if you

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don't like what this island is making destroy the control centre too, it looks tike a house). 6. Call Manta back, 7. Turn ship around so the Walrus departure area is facing the island. 8. Launch Walrus with virus bomb if control centre is there. Or assembler package if control centre has been destroyed. 9. Fire virus bomb into the slit at the back of the control centre, or drop the assembler package m an area where there is a lot of space {you must be in front of the slit to take over the island). Once the virus bomb or assembler package has been used, check the map to see if the island has turned blue. Move the stock pile to this island. The Walrus should be going back to the carrier. You should be able to collect more fuel. After every 2nd island move the stock pile to that island and wait to coliect more fuel 10. Call the Walrus back, recall drones and collect more fuel if there is any there. 11 Move on to the next island. Do not take over the defence islands, as they are a waste of time, except for the start island which is always a defence island. Destroy the control centre here, then look to see what the next

Main Tips 1. When going to the mam command centre, have a roujgh idea of which islands you waint to take over (best to take out resource and factory islands)) You do not need to take over eve&ry island, because it will give thie enemy more time to make thneir new carrier. Once the controW centre has been taken over, t the enemy islands stop making ttthings 2. Use the time lapse whern waiting for the weapons and I fuel to come to the stock pile isiannd, and when going from island tito island to speed the ship up.

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MOTEL to do is type G, A and D to earn Cor, this weather is sweltering yourself infinite everything once isn't It? The only good thing again. about it is the amount of (In the paddling pool. T U R B O ) tourists it attracts to this humble motel! We don't half get through some Ice for all those cold drinks though. I suppose Feweet This is a bit new like, we could try sticking s o m e of innit? Multiface POKEs that these cool cheats in instead, activate cheats in games, well, on but I suppose you prefer yours this game you should POKE straight! 65520,0 to get it. (Helping herself to the drinks (oi!): W e n d y Jameson) W h e n you've been killed, push the C key and you should be back whene you left off. but with full Another of those rare multiface lives. (Causing bedlam (ha.ha!): POKEd cheats, this time you G r e i g Thomson) should POKE 65535,0

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On thie scrolling message type SYMIBOL SHIFT and C, then type 7265*49 for invincibility and infinite everything, (On the lawn: Chris Tenniant)

Tank Command

Koismos Skwitbble, skwibble! Oh. sorry this games has really got to me. Play the gjame and press D O W N to get the nmenu, then type SYMBOL SHIFT" and K to get infinite everyything. (Sipp)ing iced tea(l): Neil Lowe)

Su/perkid Da. dda, daaa! No that wasn't me goingg mad. that was my Superkid impreession. On this game type in Q , D sand F on the title page to get the porize of infinite everything. (On tithe deckchair: Graham Masoonj

POKE 65535,0 once again on this Atlantis game to activate the marvellous mechanical multiface cheat. (Reading CRASH: P. E. Tshopboys (is that Greek?))

Trantor Here are all the codes for this Probe game... K E M P S T O N , JOYSTICK, S P E C T R U M , SOFTWARE, KEYBOARD, C O M P U T E R , CASSETTE, SINCLAIR, GRAPHICS, HARDWARE. TERMINAL. PRINTERS. C O N T R O L S . W A R G A M E S , W A R R I O R S and MEGAGAME. (Stormtrooping: Ashley Price)

Chicago 30s

When the game has loaded, push the pause key (H), then press numbers 1 to 9 in order. You Here a s one for all you hard nuts should now have everlasting lives out thhere (like me — Skippy), (Attacking people with violin ahemm. not exactly! What you have cases: Gary Henderson)

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It s that groovy game with the Jean-Michel Jarre music in It, Innit? I haven't printed any real tips 01 this game yet because I've been saving them up. These are all from that Paul McClenaghan bloke again. Good on you Paul. General Hints and Tips • Icons that are blue (ie the dictionary) cannot be used. • To find the whereabouts of other aliens say. "CODE INFORMATION HELP". • Only disintegrate Numbers. Nothing is gained by kilting other aliens. • Teleport aliens onto a deserted planet to get more information. • When Blood's hand starts to shake, absorb a Number as soon as possible.

the planet Bow Bow - not very helpfulll). Their father, Maxon, is useful. Find him and ask him for the Sinox code. CROOLIS ULVES - These are very warlike and will often double cross you. If they ask your name do not say Oroolis Vareau, because they hate them. CROOLIS VAREUX - These are absolutely useless. Trust them as far as you can throw them! They hate Croolis Ulves. BUGGOL - He is very intelligent and can give you lots of information. He will tell you to vote for Morlock. He hates Yukas. MIGRAX - This one is also very intelligent. He wants to travel, meet Ondoyante and go to the planet Mind. TRAUMA ONDOYANTE - This one hates Blood (no, not the red

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CRAZY CARS Broom, brrom, wurble, acachooooie! Sorry about that, the ca rs around Ludlow are simply nuts, bit like those Crazy Cars I n this game (groan). Jason Smallwood doesn't have any trouble with the cars around Leeds though, tor It is he who's brouglht you these tips. 1. Wfhen in high gear and you need tio slow down quickly, engagie low gear. This means you don't nieed to concentrate on brakin<g while trying to avoid sometlhing. It'll reduce your speed to 163imph. 2. W/hen the police are in front of you,, stay to one side of the road, tthen when you catch up with the poll ice car swing over to the opposiite side of the road. This will stop thie police blocking your way. 3. If you crash, you may find a police car has caught up with you. If he is; too near for you to accelerate to a high speed you may b»e arrested. To avoid this,

gather speed and go off the road accelerating. Keep as close to the road as possible and get back on it as soon as you have passed the car. 4. Try not to crash near an exit, this may result in your car being placed on the road after the exit, or it may be placed on the wrong road altogether. 5. If you crash near an exit and have been placed on the wrong road, try to get on the road you want by going across the fields. If it is too far your car will explode! 6. Frequently pause the game and study the map. 7. Always keep an eye out for turn off prompts to ensure you are not going to miss your turn off. and so you know you are travelling in the right direction. 8. Usually police will patrol turn offs, but instead of overtaking them and missing your exit, slow down because the police car will not take the exit.

stuff, silly!), and that's all the information here (oh... right). ROBHEADS • These will give you information if you find a geneticist who will help them. Not very intelligent. TORKA ONDAYANTE - This is Trauma's sister. She wants you to find her friend Tubular Brain. She also wants to reproduce with you (WHAT! Come on this is a respectable magazine). ANTENNA - These are really, really stupid and not much help at all. TUBULAR BRAIN - These speak mostly in numbers. Wait until the preset time before you can get anything from them. Then get straight to the point. SINOX - He's very clever indeed. He will talk if given a code and can be very helpful. KINGPAK - Kingpaks only understand a few words and are usuaily very dumb. They only want to race you. usually to Ondoya. As soon as you have the co-ordinates, break off the conversation and hyperspace there and back. NUMBERS - Get as much information as possible from this one. The disintegrate the planet. They will the teleport.

STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS ..STOP PRESS 9. If you crash on a turn off the road you are entering may have a police car waiting for you. Use tip two again. 10. Do not start the game or a stage unless you know where your destination is, where to turn off and what route to take. 11. Use your rev counter when changing gear and accelerating. It's necessary when accelerating in a tip 3 situation, and it will help you accelerate quicker. 12. To slow off and amaze everybody with a 360c spin, speed up over 163mph, the faster the better, then drop into low gear, turn and break hard. Here are some of the best routes to take... (R=right. L=Left. 999=highway number) Montrose-Denver = 50/L285/R70 Denver-Cortez = 70/R25/R160 Cortez-Phoenix = 160/666/R40/189 Phoenix-Las Cruces = 89/R10 Las Cruces-Springer = 10/R25

GEMINI WING That hot new shoot-'em-up from Vlrgln/Mastertronic has got passwords for each level, and CRASH Is the first magazine to bring them to you. Now we don't want to spoil your enjoyment of the game so try to find the passwords yourself first. Level 1: THESTART Level 2: EYEPLANT Level 3: WHATWALL Level 4. GOODNITE Level 5: SKULLDUG Level 6: BIGMOUTH Level 7: CREEPISH Level 8: FINALFXS The game only has seven levels because the password to Level Eight is the end-of-game animated message (wooo!).

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Sub Crash Alan • select aqualung and radiation pills. Gordon - select can of shark re pel I ant and American Express card. Raise submarine and shut down reactor. Select Gordon, drop can of shark repellant. select Alan, use radiation pills, I, I, u, u, walk to captain, you will be given a blue code card, d, d, r, r, use lever, r. use lever, r, use lever, r, down hatch, use lever, r. use lever, r, stand by nearest console to door on lift, select Alan. I, d, use lever, I, use lever, I. use lever, I, down hatch hidden behind pink iron bar,

MULTIFACE MICROPROSE SOCCER MAYHEM Here is a selection of Multtface POKEs for your Spectrum to devour. The first are for Storm lord, the game that makes Navy Moves look like a stroll In the park, or so Lyndon Sharp says anyway. The Rebel Squad one Is from Nik Hill who says "HI" to his girlfriend Vlk (ooer!). STORMLORD... Infinte lives = 56877,0+34640.0 No clock = 58105,0 Every fairy tear is a life = 32657,0+32658,48 Redefine lives (where N is no.) = 32664, N+34657, N+58606, N

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u, r. go past big machine, you should see wire following you, use drill on iron bar wall, r. r, stand on left side of miners in cart, select Brains, r, u, u, u, r, stand on lift, u, u, u, u, u, r, r, u, up any ladder, u, u. make sure you are carrying the lamp, as it is a dark room, I, I, d, drop detonator, u. r, r. d, d. d. get wire, up any ladder, u, u, I, I, d, drop lamp, get detonator, left until you touch the boulders with dynamite in them, r, I, I, d, I, I, congratulations... blah, blah! Now you must guide Brains all the way back to the Mole, r, r. u. r, r. drop any object and pick up tamp for dark room, u, r, r, d. d, d. d, I, I, stand on lift, d, d, d, d. d, I. d, d, d. r. r, d. d, I, Congrats! Password for next mission is RECOVERY.

you are now underwater, you move very slowly, use lever, don't use the middle lever in any room until totd!, I, use lever, I, fire torpedo if you want to by using the lever, it does nothing though, r, r, use lever, r, use lever, r, use middle lever, I, use middle lever, I, use middle lever, the water now should be alt drained off. r, r, down hatch, use lever, r, use lever, r, use lever, r, I, I, I, walk onto hole in floor, you should now be on the sea bed, r, make sure you are carrying can of shark repellant, r, r. get yellow code card, I, I, I, walk to green plant and you will be bounced into the submarine, use lever, I, use lever, I, use middle lever, r. use middle lever, r, use middle lever, u, the submarine should now be submerged sea. t, I, drop aqualung, get red code card, u. r. r, r, r, r, r, r, r. d, r, r, now both characters should be in the same room, so move Alan to the same console as Gordon which is the blue one, then select either character and press enter, which is the use key;x if you are both standing in the right place you will turn off the reactor. Try and have both of your characters mapping over each other, as the system is a dual key card system. After doing this you will have to return to Thunderbird 4. So Alan and Gordon will take the same route back, which is, I, I, u, 1,1,1,1.1, u. r, Congratulations! Password for the next mission is ALOYSIUS. More to come (hopefully!)...

GHOSTS A N D GOBLINS... To put your character into TURBO BOOST (!) = 36083,0 REBEL SQUAD... Number of credits = 46840,(0-255)

Over "ere, son, on me head! It's a few tips for the 11 and 6 a side games of Mi crop rose Soccer (I wonder who that's by). The master footballer behind this Is Ian Rush, no sorry it's Stephen George from Sutton Coldfleld. 6-A-SIDE • The goalies can come out and score! • Hit the ball against the barriers, hopefully it will go over your head to one of your other players. n Go up to the other goalie, then turn back, go around him and score easily.

11-A-SIDE • Try to get a good kick off, make your way up to the edge of the box and kick. The banana shot will guide it in. • Start with Oman and work your way up, instead of starting with a hard team • Come in from the side with a sliding tackle, this way you should gain possession of the ball if the opposition has control of it. • Go to banana power and press fire until it comes up with '+11*. This should do nicely Practise on two minute games and build up your skills.

Once again we have reached the end of the line, and it's time to wave goodbye until next month. But if you think you can't stand being away from my tips (oo-er!) for that long, don't forget the POKEs on cassette, and that faberoony Hotline number with all the latest gossip on the tipping front, see page 50. Send all your excellent work to... Nick sticky' Roberts, Playing Tips, CRASH, PO BOX 10, LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE, SY8 1DB.

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Elephant Jokes here we go! W h a t ' s the difference b e t w e e n a n elephant a n d a 43 disk drive? What do you get if y o u cross an elephant with a m o u s e ? W h a t did the giraffe say to the elephant? W e could g o on, like the o n e about the elephant and the three 'ladies of the night", but — heck! — they're so a w f u l a n d not worth getting into, we'll spare y o u the yawns. But here's something y o u really will want to get into, a n d w h a t ' s more, for tree! Chessington T h e m e Park is an extension of the brilliant C h e s s i n g t o n Zoo. Chockers with thrill p a c k e d power rides it's a great day out. A n d w e h a v e three sets of family tickets f r o m S y s t e m 3 to give away, along with m a n y more prizes in this Tusker c o m p o . Put yourself in the role of Tusker o n his d e a t h - d e f y i n g a d v e n t u r e throughout Africa. In order to p r o g r e s s in your quest to find the legendary Elephants' Graveyard, y o u must have a basic k n o w l e d g e of the vast continent you're exploring, a n d the potential d a n g e r s confronting you a s your journey unfolds. Well, read on for a part of the Tusker story f r o m S y s t e m 3: It w o u l d be informative and even educational if the silly writer hadn't left out all the important words! Fill in the g a p s with the correct a n s w e r s (l.e prove what clever clogs you are), a n d y o u could win o n e of the f a b b o Tusker prizes o n offer. And they are... T h r e e first prize w i n n e r s e a c h receive tickets for t h e m and their family to have a day out at C h e s s i n g t o n T h e m e Park, courtesy of S y s t e m 3. Plus they all get Tusker games a n d posters. For the next ten runners-up there are Tusker games and posters to give away. S e n d your seven a n s w e r s to DID Y O U H E A R T H E O N E A B O U T T H E ELEPHANT AND THE C R A S H C O M P O ? , C R A S H T O W E R S , PO Box 10, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 1DB. Entries t o arrive here by 20 September, or we'll have your tusks for garters!

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explorers discovered the land, creating navigational maps for the likes of Tusker to use in later years. The chief explorer was, we presume, Dr n Q T T T T T I I t > "Your painstaking task in search of the Elephants' Graveyard has taken you right across Africa. In doing so you have reached its highest point at Mount Of T I n If ) 1 m and crossed the largest and potentially L dangerous river the r p n as it winds its way up through Egypt. "Hacking your way deeper and deeper into the jungle, you come across previously unexplored territories and species of • Dinosaur presumed extinct. The Brontosaurus is still thriving on the same old diet of green • D J X O X O Q "Your dream finally becomes a reality when you eventually stumble across your goal, the Elephants' Graveyard. On sifting through the thousands of remains and eyeing the old and weary adults that have made their long and final journey, the three main differences between the African and Indian elephant are glaringly obvious: their immense UCOQ, the legnth of ivory JDQf J ], and the size of their huge flapping r m n

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he Tengen arcade original of this was fantastic, so I was expecting something really naff in conversion, because usually, the more polished the arcade game, the less playable the conversion. But not so! This is the business! \l\ The town which you police has more than its fair share of drug dealers, litter louts, damsels In distress and hookers. As Officer Bob, you

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have to deal with the problem! At the beginning of each day, the Police Commissioner Issues you with the day's tasks, which naturally become harder as you become more proficient. The first day simply involves training by aiming your siren at traffic cones, but as the week wears on, the quota of arrests which you have to make increases. Instead of losing lives, you collect demerit points. Every

time you crash, fall to pick up an arrest subject or make any other major misdemeanour, you clock one of these, up to a limit at which the game ends. The baddies fall into two categories; the normal, runof-the-mill baddies, like litterbugs, hitchers, dopers and honkers (that isn't Richard after a night at the Indian, by the way). These can be arrested by blasting your siren (represented by

the cross-hairs in front of your car) at them, or in the case of hitchers and poor ladies whose cars have broken down (called Helps,

coz that's what they shout) just by picking them up (or running 'em over!). Alternatively, after the third

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Venice, in level three he has to rescue his dad's diary from the hands of the nasty Nazis, and on four he goes for the big one, the Holy Grail. It's action pscked fun all the way. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is full of digitised pictures from the film with great music. All the sprites and backgrounds are really big to give the ultimate In realism, and it works quite

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a, da,i, da, daaa, da, da, daaal! Nope, it doesn't reallyy work does it? Oh well, this is> the computer version of tthat brrrilliant box

office hit, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. This block buster of a film took S150,000,000 In the first ten days (that's nothing, I got that

Nick really seems to like this, but I'm afraid I don't have the same enthusiasm; granted, It's got large atnd realistically animated graphics, and It's quite fun for a wVhiie, but after a couple of hours, It begins to wane. I haven't s«een the film, so maybe that accounts for i t Colour could haves been used a bit more effectively; the mono upper part of theiscreen is unstimufating, and the changing Ink colour as yyou get deeper doesn't work. The packaging is slick, and 11 suppose the game is appealing if you're into the film, but I'nm afraid I'm not a great fan of this sort of arcade adventure.. 70%

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for last issue's revlewsSklppy). The game tries to follow the film's plot but falls, the date for level one is set wrong. In the film nicking the Cross Of Coronado happens in Utah 1912, when indy is a young boy. In the game Indy is grown up and there's no sign of his boy scout's uniform. Indy has to collect different objects on four game levels. Level one holds the Cross Of Coronado, two a shield entombed under the library In

| J | / % I S Eilo, 'ello, 'ello! What's going on her« then? n I W I V Well officer, It's that brilliant arcade game All Points Bulletin on the Spectrum, and what a fantastic conversion it la too. All the thrills and spills of the arcade machine are Included, along with the animation sequences and jokes that made the original such a hit. The road layout, shops, buildings and cars are all detailed but monochrome, and the cartoony sections where Officer Bob gets praised or fired are great fun. Just to add that extra obstacle there's a railway line running right across the road with some lunatic train drivers! All the brilliant graphics, the sound track and effects will keep you coming back for more. A.P.B. is set to become a classic, you'll kick yourself If you miss It!

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level, you can try and go for the major criminals, who drive distinctive cars; you can't 'siren' these; they have to be pushed off the road. Then It's a mad dash back to the station to question your prisoner; waggle the joystick to beat up the suspect (!?), but make sure you force a confession before the commissioner gets in! A.P.B. is an excellent conversion. It's fast and addictive, the scrolling is very quick, and the inbetween sequences are amusing and colourful. This is arguably one of the best Spectrum

well. Playing the game the first couple of times is really enjoyable, but the trouble Is that once you've completed a level, it's pretty boring to go through ft all again next time you play. That aside, this Is'nt a mere arcade adventure: level one keeps you on your toes by making you collect new torches to light your way. If you don t collect them, the screen darkens gradually, and you lose a life. With so many large sprites on screen at once the game has trouble with speed, but this doesn't spoil things

arcade conversions I've seen. A must buy!

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APB is the best of the Tengen coin-ops and the besl conversion so far! PRESENTATION

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lippo, a small round creature who could easily pass as an orange In a crowd, Is the star of the brill new game from Hewson, Maze Mania. As you might have guessed from the screen, the basic Idea Is that of Pacman, but before you start moaning, Maze Mania has got something different to offer. Instead of gobbling up dots Flippo uses his sizeten boots to flip over paving slabs. Some slabs have a mind of their own and flip back, though another boot from Flippo usually does the trick. The game is split into 16 levels of maze, each with a different theme. Level one Is

much. I recommend this to anyone, brill.

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A fun and enjoyable arcade romp, with smart graphics

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made up of tubular bells, two is a vegetable garden, three well, find out for yourselves! Life would be easy (or little Flippo if it weren't for the nasty aliens gliding around the mazes who aren't too keen on the citrus fruit vandalism. They bash poor Fllppo at every opportunity. Another thing to avoid is a trip out to space. Black holes abound in the maze, and these need to be jumped. Luckily there are floating Icons to help our hero, giving extra points or power to jump on the aliens and kill them. The Idea of Maze Mania may be a simple one, but It Is totally addictive. Lightning reflexes are a must to get out of the tricky situations and jump the black holes. The graphics are neat, with plenty of colour In every maze (especially the garish vegetable patch level!), in fact so abundant It can be very hard on the old eyes after a while, but the jolly tunes and effects will take your mind off this. Designmaker have done an excellent job on Maze Mania. Get It for a simple but addictive arcade romp.

Hewson/ Designmaker | £9.99 KJ| | | £ C This is a fairly basic maze game, 1 must say. • V I I I V E The graphics are good and the presentation Is slick, but the essential idea is...weil a bit old, really! That said, Hewson have managed to make the best of a tired theme; all the payability imaginable in a maze game has been squeezed into this, which isn't an Immense amount, but It'll do. Graphics are realty appealing, and I think that makes the game a lot more enjoyable. 72 %

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ootball crazy, football mad! Have you ever fancied yourself as a football manager? If you have, you'll have probably bought games like this millions of times already. But those kind people at Challenge Software seem to think you need a new football managing program for your collection. So what has Treble Champions got to offer that all the others haven't? See for yourself: four divisions of twenty teams, a non-league division, league tables, fitness training, coaching, midweek matches and the option to start In any division you fancy. Here Is a detailed look at some of the more interesting features-

transfer. A number of options can be customised to your liking to give you more help in managing your team. You can choose to have auto results which changes the program so that it quickly goes through all the results; you can select any border colour; after ten matches you can save out the game to avoid battling up the league again, and there's the option to get a print out of anything, so you can easily refer back to your progress. Despite all this, with endless football management games on the Spectrum market, I don't really see why Challenge Software thought we needed another. If you think this is for you, get It but we've seen it before and a lot better. NICK 3 5 %

Ralnbird/Argonaut Software | C14.99/E17.!

ommander Herman Kruud Is at it again. He never knows when to give up does he? After his Ergon flagship was destroyed in the original Stargllder, he got a bit miffed and is now back to get revenge. This time he's taking no chances and has brought along a big space and land fleet to help him, plus he has a beam

projector which is aimed at your home planet of Novenia. Your mission is to sneak into the Ergon's planet of Apogee unarmed and destroy the beam projector before it is fully constructed. If you succeed the evil forces of Ergon in the galaxy will be set back by many years, but If you fail your home will be destroyed and the Ergons will march on and destroy every

m i l l f C I h a v e to admit to a bit of addlctivtty about 1 * 1 1 V \ C football management games, or at least, six or seven years ago. What I'd like to know is how the bloke who wrote this persuaded anyone to market it. Once the first bit has loaded (it's a multt load folks!) you watt tor hours for It to get on with the rest; it puts up that old please wait' sign while It initialises the variables and things. I don't think I've seen anything like this since 19841 There are NO special features to recommend It; It doesn't even have the endorsement of a popular footballing star (as If that made any difference). 33 % To make things more realistic the program only gives you a set number of hours a week for team management. This forces you to choose carefully what you do with your players. Keeping an eye on the team's financial situation is also an essential. Interest on the team's dosh is due once a week, and if your current account is overdrawn the directors will nominate players to be sold, by cancelling their contracts to make them available for

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other planet and solai system to create universal domination. You have been issied with a brand new patrol crtft for this mission, the ICAFUS (Interplanetary Combat and Reconnaissance Universal Scout). Stargllder 2, as with most other Rainbird releases, comes with a novella that will probably take you a week to read before you start the game (and this only contains the story linel). The packaging also contains a play guide and key list: all necessary reading before you start. The graphics, of course, are vector style, simila r to Empire Strikes Back and Starstrike, but Starglitter 2 has something that the other games didn't have.... You can zoom around on a pi a met to your heart's content, biut If you get fed up just poimt your self up and accelerate. You soon break out of the p)lanet's gravitational pull and woom into space and off to amother world. A word of warnlmg though, go too near thee sun and Icarus melts, and tthat's not a very pretty sight! There is an excellent: tune and plenty of effects to > add to the atmosphere the 3-D) creates. Starglider 2 Is tan essential purchase If yoou are a fan of this type of flighht simulation.

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Starglider 2 Is big, like really Big. But then, so is space. Yes, with a bit of the known universe at your disposal, It's Starglldtng time again. It surprised me how different Stargllder2 is from the original — which was, essentially, a decent blaster. This sequel requires both some nitty trigger work and lateral thinking to solve the puzzles. Presentation Is high, and the graphics are effective on planets and In space. Not a game to just pick up and play, but definitely one to tackle, persevere and enjoy. 85%

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Tengen Domark/Consult | C9.99/C14.99

magine 1942 with the planes replaced by dragons and other such mythical creatures, and you've got Dragon Spirit In a nutshell;. The gorgeous and mightily bedable Princess Alicia has been kidnapped by the evil demon Zawell. Being one of the multitude of chappies wanting to get to know her a little better, you get yourself

changed into a dragon, and set off after her. Heading off along the vertically scrolling backdrops of prehistoric lands, waves of Zawelt's evil creatures come In for the attack. Starting off with simple fire power, you can accumulate loads more by bombing eggs and collecting the power icons which fly down the

screen. Icons provide extra heads, (thereby Increasing the number ot flames shot at any one time) and bigger flames which can make you pretty Invincible. Once all his prehistoric

minions are killed, the moment comes for you to take on the evil demon Zawell. A challenge Indeed! Dragon Spirit is very difficult. Like a lot of other games of this type, the

M I ^ I f Dragon Spirit'* conversion to the Spectrum has * * I W ( \ worked really well. The game has kept all It's slick presentation, graphic elegance, and still has brilliant sound. The only trouble is that It's really hard to play. You may think you're the expert at shoot em up games, but you haven't seen this yet! The Idea of playing a dragon that can collect extra heads, powers and a whole host of other Interesting things lÂŤ brilliant and the presentation simply puts other games to shame. Of course the concept of having a main character, be It a space ship or dragon, scrolling over a detailed landscape shooting things isn't new, but you can't seem to get enough of It! If you think you're up to a challenge then Dragon Spirit maybe lor you. 73%

monochrome screen display makes it hard to see wtat's being shot at you, and consquently, there's a lot of unexplained deaths. Still, If you can adjust the telly so that you can almost set what s happening, then it's quite fun. A more important negative though, Is the problem that vertical scrolling shoot 'em ups have been around for far too long as It is, and something more than a change of sprites is needed to revitalise the genre.

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emini Wing Is probably the first computer game to go healthy. We all know It is better to eat organically, but is it better to shoot 'em up organically too? You man a small ship that has to fly over seven levels of organic excitement with a mission to kill Mutant Alien Scum, who try their best to smash into your ship (ouch!). Being the hard person that you are, you could probably kill all the alien enemies with a single laser gun (or a secret store of rubber bands like

Skippy has... ping, ouch!), but the Gemini Wing ship Is capable of much more than that. You can collect gunballs from the aliens you liquidise to give the Wing extra fire power. These gunballs do all sorts of extremely catastrophic things to the poor aliens, like blasting a three way fire ball, an alien seeking missile, a spiralling circle of destruction, and the dreaded windscreen wiper of death, the subject of many nightmares on planets far, far

away. They also give extra lives and points. Alt this plot sounds so exciting I think my Spectrum is going to explode (puftl). The only trouble with Gemini Wing Is that you can't see It (Eh?!). The organic backgrounds are detailed, the aliens are detailed and the ship is... well not so detailed, but put them all together coloured with the same monochrome and you simply don't know what's going on half the time! Though there are colour highlights on the explosion effects. Different mega weapons are a good idea (even If It's been done before), especially the windscreen wiper of death, but there's a lack of payability. Decent sound effects and tune do a good job to rescue the game, but it's not enough. Gemini Wing holds nothing new, so check it out only If you are a shoot 'em up lover, or disappointment may be yours.

ornwall isn't all sun, sea and sticks of rock y'know. Well, it certainly isn't in the village of Poleam where this itext/graphic adventure takes place. Pack your bags as you, Marcus Thornton, take a trip into an Intriguing game of Cornish mystery and the supernatural. Poleam Is essentially an interactive ghost story, and the written text is excellent —

convincing and occasionally disturbing. The manua sets out no objectives for the adventure, It just explains the events leading to Marcus's arrival at Poleam. His wife died In a plane crash aid, after seeing a vision of her in church, his trip to the village is realty to recover fron the shock. However, as Marcus settles In, strange arid Inexplicable

NICK 65%

Decent blaster, with a good theme, but doesn't work well so welt on the Speccy JkM l l / F Not another! Vertical scrolling shoot-'em-ups 1 * 1 1 l \ f c » are all well and good... at least, they used to be. This isn't. The tune on the title screen is pretty good, but that doesn't really make it worth the asking price. The graphics are too small, and the colouring Is awful; yet another example of 'invisible emeny syndrome'. It's just another shoot em up, and as such there's no real reason to buy I t If Gemini Wing was more original, and the colour plan thought out slightly better It would be great — but these two flaws really knock It down. 61 %

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t's not easy being an ogre. Not in this Arcadia coinop conversion, anyway. Come to think of it, It ain't that dandy being a dragon either! These are the two monsters that have been chosen to battle against each other in The Search for Roc's Eggs.

The eggs are hidden In the towns and cities of the sland of Darance, but there Isa snag. To find the eggs )Ou must smash and bash through the houses anc statues of each place y»u search. You can destroy the buildings In two ways: hitting them has a quick crumbling effect but setting fire tc them

one of the best Spectrum things occur. He hears adventures for ages. sobbing, but there's no-one Polearn will not be there; there's an accident at nationally released and the mine-shaft for which distributed until other there is no logical versions are complete. explanation; and then the However, If you want to be mysterious fisherman... one of the first to play Before he realises it the Polearn, the game Is available village is In uproar, and he's direct from Sheol Software the only one to sort it out. themselves at Central Works, Nothing is obvious in the Peartree Lane, Dudley, West game, it just happens — like Midlands BY2 OQU. real life. You are lead Into its Unfortunately, it's a 128k events very subtly, not game only, and the version knowing what horrors await reviewed here is for 128, plus you until you realise you 2. A two-part plus 3 diskhave turned Psychic based version Is under Detective! development, and It's best to Written using PAW write to Sheol for full details. (Professional Adventure RICHARD Writer, Gilsoft), the attention to detail and the program's Great interactive ghost parser is excellent, the graphics fairly simple but story which is incredibly atmospheric. And, Intriguing and addictive surprisingly for a PAW game, PRESENTATION you are offered a high level of 85% interaction between Marcus GRAPHICS 71% and other villagers. Poleam is a good SOUND n/a traditional ghost-story PLAYABIUTY 94% adventures, and should not be confused with CRL's many ADDtCTTVUY 92% gothic horror schlockers. It's fascinating, beautifully constructed and must rank as

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> Magnetic Scrolls | FREE! (If you're a member of Official Secrets)

he ancient gods are having a bit of a problem: Something called Christianity. Hordes of people are leaving their temples to worship this newfangled Jesus bloke instead. Desperate to win back public support, chief god Zeus decides to give all fellow gods a task each, something to impress the little people. Guess who gets to show off first? Yep, you, Poseidon, the god of the sea, who can't swim (ha, ha, neither can Skippy — Nick)

(at least i fit in the piggln' swimming pool, matey — Skip). You're whisked offto the gates of the Underworld armed with the usual adventuring tack: trident, shield, tunic and skirt (I), plus the obligatory note explaining the task facing you: Basically, Just to nick the Helmet of Invisibility from Hades. Push over, eh? Actually, It turns out to be a bit more difficult than that The problems are solvable,

but far from easy. You netd a devious mind to work some out. It's a text only game, and the It strikes an excellent balance between atmosphere and amusement. Author Paul Flndley keeps enough seise of being there' to make the game lastable, as well as plenty of humour to makt it enjoyable. Myth Is destined to be a classic. It's funny, cunning and addictive. Being free to members of Official Secrtts, I suppose, theoretically, it las to be worth more than 10)% for value! The only thing m wary about is the size; It's proclaimed as a miniadventure', although I've been playing It for three days solid, and there's no sign of an end. Still, along with Fish, this is the most enjoyablt adventure I've played. I suggest all adventuring fans sign up with Official Secrets pretty quickly! MIKE

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KJ| I I f p How's about this for a dire game? The I " I I V C storyline is fantastic; 'the monsters are on the loose... to cause chaos... to inflict terrible destruction!'. Honestly, It's not exactly original, Is It? It wouldn't be so tad If Aaargh! brought some terrific new feature to the games playing world, but It doesn't. At budget price, It might just make the grade with average addictivity. The awful graphics and a nigh-total lack of playablllty make this a thorough w n t e of money. 29 %

with your bad breath is also a good idea. You can pick up objects from the demolished houses to help you grow stonger. Hamburgers increase your strength, and bolts of

lightning increase your fire power. This could all be very easy if It weren't for those pesky people who aren't keen on you re-landscaping their towns, The Inhabitants do their best to stop you by knocking down your energy with large catapults and cannons. To top this, once you've

captured an egg, the other monster fights you for it Win and you keep It, and once five are collected, you're off to the volcano for the big one, a golden egg to complete the game. It all sounds jolly good fun, but sadly Aaargh/ is badly programmed. Playing It Is like stepping backwards in time

to the early Spectrum days. The main sprites are small and uninteresting, and the people are about four pixels high! Nice in real life, but on the fighting section I just laughed my socks off! (poooo!). The larger sprites for each monster are made by (wait for it) expanding the original small sprites! The multi-load just makes the situation worse. Avoid. NICK 3 1 %

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• Ocean/Choice Software £ 8 . 9 9 / 2 1 2 . 9 9

ome people will do anything to get a decent meal, and walruses from down under are certainly among them. Take Walty the Blue Walrus: he's out for lunch and looking for afters as well. Passing by the zoo he spies 21 kuddly, kute kiwis. Realising they're on the menu, the sickeningly cute

his is rather topical, seeing as I only managed to see the film last nightt And a jolly enjoyable flick it was too, probably the best Bond yet, I think. And this has absolutely no connection with the fact that Talisa Soto (drooooot!) Is In it Oh no, we don't fancy her at all! The plot is simple (that's not new for a Bond film!): evil

Kiwis decide on a plan of action —leg it!!! But alas, Walfy scoops them up and takes them back to his frozen apartment far away. Awl Now this would be the end of story if one kiwi, Tiki, hadn't escaped from Wally's clutches. A kiwi isn't too hot when it comes to unarmed combat, but as everyone

drugs baron Sanchez kidnaps Bond's mate Felix on his wedding night and does him in. Bond gets all stroppy about this, and goes after Sanchez, much to the annoyance of M, who revokes his Licence to Kill. What follows is predictable enough: two fast and furious hours of Bond gunning for Sanchez. As usual with film tie-Ins, a

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selection of the better action scenes make a multi-stage arcade game. In this case, we've got three scenes subdivided Into Individual parts. In part one ot the first scene you must blast Sanchez's jeep from your helicopter. Then It's out of the chopper, and foot slogging, dodging your way through the scenery shooting baddies as you go. To top off load-one, Bond is lowered by rope from the helicopter, and has to get a

lasers, fireballs, evert steal a spaceship and wreak havoc aplenty. Wally's minions aren't the only trouble around though. Spikes can do more than ruffle Tiki's feathers, running out of oxygen when scuba diving isn't nice, and neither Is getting a prod from a horned devil for time wasting. Even the level itself can be a maze, but if he follows the arrows Tiki should reach one of 20 mates. Alternatively, there are warps to find and jump into — who knows where Tiki will go? Even with all that firepow-

er, Tiki's really In it deep when he meets up with the Guardians of each region at the end of every fourth level. Frozen whales and a megaoctopus are just two of the delightful souls wanting to

meet Tiki, along with Wally himself, waiting in his balloon on the final ice cool level. Make sure you pack your winter woollies, Tlkill Sure enough, Ocean have come up with another sure-

• • • v w i w B m m i'llllli®®®®®®® BMBMB'BMBM®'®®®®] I J I P I f This cute game has the appealing characters R • W l \ and catchy jingles of Bubble Bobble, with the platform and general looks of something like Super Mario Bros. A recipe for total addlctiveness, I think. All the sprites are excellent with great animation, and the different ways Tiki Kiwi can get about (balloon, under water snorkle, etc) add even more payability. There are a variety of mean creatures to be avoided, like malicious rabbits and blood sucking bats, plus different weapons to collect. The New Zealand Story is an arcade conversion masterpiece, get out there and give Wally Walrus one from me! 91 %

fire hit. The conversion of New Zealand Story is topnotch, with accurate character graphics, plenty of sound and masses of addictive payability. There's only one snag, and that's the multiload wich is a tad awkward on the cassette version _ so if you have a plus 3, you're recommended to buy the disk version. But, whatever you do, don't be put off by the multi-load. Once you're into the game, you'll forget all about it as you're swamped in the cutest, addictive game around! RICHARD 9 0 % Super conversion of a very appealing, playable and addictive coin-op

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tow rope onto the tail ol Sanchez's plane. Scene two happens at sea, with some vertically scrolling swlm-'n'-shoot-'em-up ictlon. Uke the movie, the final stage is where the tanker trucks go hurtling along the mountain road in the escape frotr the drug factory, Bond doing his best to stop them. It's all jolly good clean fun (say no to the evils ot d'ugs, kids!). The graphics are good, and there's plenty of variation, though the g<me is a bit tough. It 's good to see someone not making a complete mess of a fairy good licence for a change! Licence to Continue, D«mark. MIKE 7 9 %

Good adaption of the 11m, playable when you're ised to the difficulty levii

U I f t I f This block busting James Bond game should n i v l l be renamed Licence To Make The Player Jolly Mad! It's well put together, and all the graphics and sound are what we have come to expect from Domark, but It's just too hard for the likes of me. I could Just about manage to get through the first bit, but was then confronted with a tiny stick man to represent me and miles of gun blasting enemies to wade through! The later levels are really good, with James swimming after speed boats (woool), and a dare devil truck race. There's great payability to be had In Licence To Kill, but you're going to have to be a pretty hot gamesplayer to get at It (Is Nicko admitting his falllngs?-Ed.). 80%

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budgetA veritable mixed-bag of budget offerings this month, and who better to deal with them than our resident mixed-bags Nlcko, Richard and Mike (who Is In a grumpy mood as usual and hates every game he plays).

and Captain Blood Is that Blood has decent graphics, and this hasn't. An excuse for the bad graphics could be that the game was originally released In 1986, and they were very jerky, but with a good fractal technique' back In Issue 33. By today's standards the layout of the game is very

WULFPACK Blue Ribbon • £2.99

PRO POWER BOAT SIMULATOR CodeMasters •

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I the masters of code (or so they say). This time they try their hands at power boats, with huge outboard motors, racing at high speed. You can pretend to be James Bond and Jump over roads, dodge deadly mines and blow up other boaters (even though 007 has nothing to do with the gamel). This is all really good fun and packed full of addictive qualities. Between each action packed level of obstacle course, bonus levels where you have to steer your boat through as many gates as possible allow you to collect points, very hairy on later levels! You would think that this is where the difficulty of the game ends, well I'm afraid not! Those fun seeking programmers have made

things even harder by adding a night level! It's really the same as other levels, but the landscape is blacked out except for the Immediate area around the boat (aaargh! I'm going to crash!). All the sprites and backgrounds are excellently done In true CodeMasters style, and sound Is of a similar standard. There are two boats to choose from for even more variety, and they animate really well. The only annoying thing is the lack of a password type facility. The trouble with games like this is once having worked out how to complete the early levels, it's boring having to restart, but there you go. 1 recommend this to every true arcade gamester - truly exhilarating!

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RESCUE ON FRACTALUS Mastertronic Plus • £2.99 (rerelease)

he Jaggies are evil and have taken over the planet of Fractalus to use as a stronghold. A fleet of highly trained Space Pilots were sent out to try and stop the Jaggie evil but failed, and now some of them are stuck on the planet. What can they do to get out of this terrible predicament? Your rescue mission is their only hope.

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You're severely hampered by the sophisticated and highly dangerous Jaggie defence system out to zap the ship you are flying in: some real hassle! You sit, looking through the cockpit of the ship, and have to steer over the planet to find the captured pilots in a very Captain Blood type style. The only difference between this

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mdget game inlays rarely 'go to great lengths to explain their games, but Wulfpack is very poor. Use your skill to ascertain the location of the U-boat', it says. How?! Are we expected to interface robocop-style into the computer to find out where the sub is? Or do we just guess? Wulfpack is set In a WW2 scenario; essential supplies from America aren't getting through to Europe, because the container ship convoys are being wiped out by the Nazi U-boats. You take command of a naval destroyer to stop themt Each time a container convoy gets to port, you get closer to the required total; each time a U-

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boat manages to destroy a convoy, that total increases. Get close enough to a U boat, and the depth charge screen comes up; guess how deep the U-boat Is and fire a charge accordingly. When you run out of charges, you must return to port for more. When the convoys eventually succeed in getting the supplies through, you go on to the Allied invasion of occupied Europe on D-Day to aid the naval bombardment and beach landings. If that sounds boring, it Is. Wultpack Is very dull; little skill is Involved in the first part, and hence, it gets very annoying when things go wrong for no particular reason. Another very poor offering.

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ello Trivial Pursuit* And not necessarily welcome back, either. This offering from Blue Ribbon is very similar to Trivial Pursuit, but without the polish or playablllty. You get four question headings: Sport, Science, History and Geography, and Art and Entertainment A maximum of four players move around the board answering a preset number of questions on each subject. The number is determined by the skill level (1 to 4), and each player's current status shows in their comer of the board.

Hl-Q's potential appeal is a bit difficult to pin down. The questions are too difficult to make it a late night too-drunkto-dance game; what self respecting party animal Is going to know what sport uses the term Atchilli (the answer's Jal-Alal)! The screen display is too colourful and generally unattractive. If you're set on collecting trivia games, go ahead and buy this one, on your head be it

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CANYON WARtlOR Mastertronic • £2)9

hat makes a sbot 'em up a definite commercial success1 There must be some reasoi for the sheer number of medocre ones on the market tese days! Canyon Warric is nothing special, althiugh It does have one nice innovation. Gameplay is aboutas predictable as posslte; fly up the vertically scrolling landscape shooting tie aliens and picking up the exra weapons, and blast tie fat

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TURF-FORM £2.99

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basic, and this may put off many of you. Sound effects are sparse, only tiny beeps for shooting effects. Unless you want to take a trip back in time to play a game considered not suited to the Spectrum, steer well clear of this.

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f you're one for the horses this latest little program from the Bluebird stables (and we mean little, it only takes up about 15K of memory!) could be for you. Turf-Form asks you a number of questions and gives you a choice of race tracks, having answered them, It'll tell you whether

your chosen horse will win the race or not. Magic! Well not quite, the program looks at the horse's past history, fitness and the conditions of the track, and makes a guess. The program will predict form for both Rat and National Hunt races on UK racecourses. All the information you need to teed Into the program can be found In almost any of the

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SYNTAX popular dally papers, and the final ingredient to winning is a betting shop nearby. A speed rating is calculated for each horse, and if It's higher than the one for the course you'll be told you have a winner. Note that Turf-Form Is not a game: It can only be used to piredict a win at the betting shop, and then It might be wrong (betting's bad for your wallet anyway).

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yntaxl Where did they get that name from! Earth is once again in great peril. Rebel forces, for twenty years bent on popping the earth, have now taken over the planet Syntax. Their plan is to use the planet's molten core to fuel a new weapon, a computer controlled sub-atomic disintegrator (oh no, not one of those!). Banging away building this weapon brings them to the notice of earth authorities, and now volunteers are needed to go and stop the rebel plan... Stupidly you volunteer to go on this suicide mission, and now you're stuck with it You must go to the planet and find the ten crystals which will save earth from certain doom. What Syntax bolts down to is one of those scrolly, over detailed background shoot em ups: totally confusing, especially when it is all In monochrome. The game Is put together really badly and full of stupid programming mistakes. You might get some enjoyment out of this If you are a glutton for punishment, otherwise look elsewhere.

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45%

The nice bit is the map editor which allows you to play around with the first three levels. This feature is particularly handy when Nick goes out to make the coffee; we remove all the nasties and get a fab and generally characteristic high score, then put all the alien gun turrets we can fit onto the first level so Nick can't play It (as If he could play It anyway!). Ho ho. Anyway, that's about the most appealing thing about Canyon Warrior. The rest of it is the proverbial old hat.

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h dear, oh dear. I want everyone to understand, I'm not giving this game a bad review because it's unoriginal and ancient (only because you can't play It). No, only because it's rubbish (No, It's addictive and frustratingiy enjoyable!). Bad enough that Pacman maze games died over five years ago {Planet 10 takes over from the equally fun Pac Land and PacMania, It's like

extermination business. It Isn't all driving at high speeds through the city and crying 'Who ya gonna call?' you know! You take on the role of an exterminator In Spooked, but on this mission the ghosts are out to get their own back. It all starts when you get a weird phone call: the bloke on the other end asks you to go to 225 Pine Road (sounds harmless enough). When you get there you ffnd that It's smack In the middle of a site of many killings (gasp!), but not wanting to be called a chicken you go In anyway. It's a trick: the ghosts phoned you up and are now ready to exterminate you! The game idea Is to collect bugs, like beetles and flys, to swap for various spells. Use these spells to kill ghosts and get out of the house. If you

run out of time a hangman board builds up, and once you have collected the right spells you have to play a game against the spooky old man.

Spooked is unbelievable fun. The programmers have done a great job with silky smooth animation, plenty of colour and sound, and excellent ghosts and backgrounds. They've even thought of the inexperienced player and included a scaredness rating which makes the game easier the more scared you get! One moan is the viclousness of the skeletons and ghosts: it can get very annoying when they repeatedly knock you over. The hangman game may seem simple, but here's betting you've never played it like this before! Buy Spooked today.

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the next logical step really), this one isn't even playable (actually, it becomes very playable when mastered). Basically, It's a 3-D version of move around the maze eating the pills and avoiding the monsters. The forward view graphic is attractive enough (smooth and good

are equally useless; the monster map Is much too short ranging (Only if you're paranoid; you can see the monsters in plenty of time to take evasive action and head oft down another corridor), and the maze map Is ridiculously small (okay, so It's small, but the maze display is fine, and though it doesn't indicate monsters, you can see yourself perfectly clearly). Mastertronic have tried to take a long-since dead game format and resurrect It. Unfortunately, they've only managed to cremate it Unplayable and boring. perspective), especially the bold and bright monsters, but (Ignore him — We played It isn't possible to play a good Planet 10 for ages. It is slightly difficult but It only game of Pacman when you can only see what's in front of takes some practice to learn the best route and you're well you (Wrong! You can do a away. Throughly enjoyable back flip and instantly see and highly addictive!!) what's behind you). The other two dislays, the 26% (79%) monsters and the maze maps Overall

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