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An evil force ol monster machines has risen lo conquer Ihe Galaxy One bv one Ihe peaceful races of ihe Galaxy have been attacked and enslaved by the Cyborg Monsters, No race has the strength to slant! attains! the power of the Cyborg One lone rebel rises from within the ranks of the mechamsed monsters. Part dragon, part machine, tl < vb.iri' Warrior fights back ar.nnst the tyrant masters The Galaxy has a Hero. Hope returns to the hearts erf the people at )IH< rise of the* armoured champion they call "Sf DRAGON' THE S A L E S C U R V E SO L O M B A R D R O A D L O N D O N SW11 3SU

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Gal moving and grooving with Tecttncian Ted (Hewwn)l Virus (Sifvertwd)! Egghead 2

(Powertape)! Stnjnken (Powertape)1 ST

Dragon demo (Storm) I and a game busting dote of Ptrtemarva1

TURTLES MEGA COMPOt Cowabunga. dudes! We've got Turtle Power and a huge stack of brilliant prizes to give away I LAe. awesome I

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KINKY BOOTS! Forget your Christmas stocking — pull on your kinky boots 'cos w o ' v o g o t a c o r k o r of a Christmas for you a n d the festivities start right here! T h e P o w e r t a p e is a r e a l c r a c k e r this month, there's a t o n of p r i z e s u p f o r g r a b s in the P a n t o Compos a n d t h e T u r t l e m e g a c o m p o is fabuloso! Ami don't miss out on NARC, Ocean's l a t e s t g a m e , I t ' s o n e of t h e best snoot-'em-ups w e ' v e ever seen! All this is e x c l u s i v e t o C R A S H s o , if you w a n t the best, stick with us a n d just w a i t until you see what w e ' v e lined up f o r y o u in the New

THRILLS ON TAPE

Where to find the action! SIDE A TECHNICIAN TED VIRUS ST. DRAGON DEMO •

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CRASHTIONNAIRE Join the CRASH board of directors and shape the future Of CRASH (and win a few pines to boot!)

PREVIEW Look outl They're comin' at yal A host of games action hoping for chart success soon'

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REVIEWS The firs! instalment of games skung into the shape lor Christmas! Smashes this month are

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Here's one of Hewson's most successful games — Technician Ted. This • legendary platform game won awesome ratings when first reviewed! It is, indeed, a scintillating Smash! It's a mega game to get you swinging for Christmasl!

LIVE CIRCUIT Jetmen s h a w g two-page trouble with the Teenage Mutant Headbanger Budgies! Plus. Lloyd digs deep m the maiibag, the CRASH newshounds go bartung up the right tree, mere's the entry form tor the Panto Compos and this month's prize winners'

Shopping by meil tor the hotted games and accessories around'

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factory, and a lift room allows access to other floors; although holes in the floors and ceilings also link between screens. There are no lives as such but a long purple energy bar slowly recedes across the screen each time you lose a life, tt happens a lot because there's a horde of patrolling enemies around! Lose all your energy and you get the boot from your boss!

TECHNICAL CONTROLS

Ted's controlled using either a joystick or keys. Joystick junkies will need a Kempston, Sinclair, or Protek interface, and for keyboard players the controls are: 0 , 0 , 5 or 6/left. W,P,7 or 8/right, any key on the bottom row, 9 or O/jump, A,S,D,F, or G/pause and BREAK/quit.

• He's b a c k in a n a w e s o m e a r c a d e a d v e n t u r e by Jonathan Cauldwell!!

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It's ten months since the first Egghead game • appeared on the Powertape label, and due to overwhelming popular demand, programmer Jonathan Cauldwell has brought the little fella back to life in a smashing game that's bigger, better and harder than the original — and that's no yoke! Haw! Haw!

• Blasting an infected world in 3 D f r o m S i l v e r b l r d Sitverbird is back in business! Yes, the budget software house, once • owned by British Tetecom, has found a new home with a company called Tudor Enterprises, and they're resurrecting the label with a host of games coming soon. To celebrate the phoenixlike actions of the label here's a smashing game from Silverbird's back catalogue, originally released in 1988. Let's play Vlrusi

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• Jonathan Caudwtlll The mastermind behind Egghead! release your chums! The castle is patrolled by a myriad of the scientist's potty inventions that went wrong — don't touch any of them or you'll lose a life! Lives are also lost if Egghead falls too far — eggs are delicate y'know! Egghead 2 is great fun. and rf you'd like to write to Jonathan you v can find his address at the end of the scrolling message at the top of the options screen.

gghead's mates have been captured by a mad scientist and locked away in his hazard-filled castle! It's Egghead to (he rescue as he breaks into the fortress and attempts to save their lives! . The objective on each level is to run round the screens collecting all the keys in sight. It's not easy, some appear impossible to reach. However, making clever use of the platforms, stairs, other objects and careful positioning, Egghead can get every key. When all the keys are collected find the prison cell and

he country's been invaded by waves of hostile alien spaceships. Instead of attacking military installations they're polluting the landscape with a red virus which kills all lifeforms. Determined to counter this devastating threat, a brave pilot takes to his Hoverplane, a futuristic flying machine equipped with the latest technology: long-range scanner; laser cannon; and a limited supply of smart bombs (used to destroy any aliens on the screen). The long-range scanner — top left corner — shows the enemy ships' positions in relation to the Hoverplane. Gauges above the main playing area display the amount of fuel remaining and the plane's altitude. Extra fuel can be obtained by landing at home base. The Hoverplane is controlled by thrusting the engines and rotating the craft. At high altitudes, the fuel supply is automatically cut off and the plane drops rapidly towards the ground. You move, helicopter-style, by dipping the plane's nose and thrusting. During play, a map of the land can be displayed, showing polluted areas in red. All enemy ships in the attack wave must be destroyed before the whole map turns red. Each wave contains many different aliens but all with the same object of destroying the Hoverplane. An extra Hoverplane and smart bomb are awarded every 5000 points.

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• Smashing one level playable demo from Storm! lt was last month's cover game! It was a Smash review! Did you enter the * compo?l Now play the game!! It's Saint Dragon, the new blaster from Storm, and you have the whole of the first level to play! Load It up and away you go!

ou control the dragonship as it flys through space and battles with the mecanoid monsters. Blast everything that comes in sight and collect any power-up pops you can find. Remember to use the huge tail to your best advantage: it you wrap it around the head it'll protect you from enemy fire!

CONTROLS Keys are Q/up, A/down, O/left, P/right and SPACE/fire. Sinclair joystick works too!

SHURIKEN * • Super a r c a d e a d v e n t u r e by M a t t W i l k i n s o n a n d Tony Vick!

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Small Craft Warning. Climb aboard an authentically detailed river patrol boat (PBR) and get a lst-person perspective from 4 battle stations.

The fastest, most agile arsenal ever to turn 29 knots up a jungle river.

Uncoil twin M60 machine guns and grenade launchers on renegade Viet Cong, Panamanian rehcls and the murderous Colombian drug cartel.

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They're all on theriver.Wiiring. Polygon-fill animation and bit-map graphics immerse you in the steamy reality of 3 sweltering combat zones. Twenty missions lie ahead, in countries where the mortar fire is as thick as mosquitoes.

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River combat, where an enemy ambush lurks around any bend, u p any canyon or by any bridge.

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deal went badly wrong when your rival dealers, The Space Pirates, framed you up and got you arrested by the Federation for Intergalactic Law — FILE.

ou were thrown in jail to serve a life sentence. Two years later FILE discovered the Space Pirates had moved their HQ to another planet but left their files and documents (that would prove their guilt as ruthless arms merchants) on a heavily guarded security planet. FILE needed someone to recover these files and you were given two options: stay in prison and rot: or go on this suicidal mission! You opted to accept the mission and penetrate all the deadly defences on the planet and recover the documents. You set out m your one-seater craft and land in the jungleTravel through four levels of action is the order of the day: the Jungle. the temple, inside the fortress and deep Inside the fortress Travel from left to right • Tony Vide, Mr six-hour stint on the skoteboordl

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across 100 screens of action, destroying large objects with your missile and smaller opponents with your gun. From the third level onwards teleporters take you from one point on the screen to the other teleporter on the same screen. To activate a teleporter get inside and kneel down. You can teleport a maximum of five times.

CAN I CONTROL IT? Shuriken! Haw! Haw (geddit?!!)! Keys are Q/up, A/down, O/right, l/left, P/fire gun, and SPACE/fire missiles. A joystick option is available, details on screen.

WHO THE HELL DO MATT & TONY THINK THEY ARE?!! Matt Wilkinson and Tony Vick come from Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands and together form the programming team Xptosive Developments Both are doing a

• Matt Wilkinson, a few minutes after Shuriken was completed!

Computer Programming course, and they've been males for seven years! Matt does the coding using a +2A with Plus D disk drive, an Amstrad DMP 3160 printer and a Zeus Assembler package. Tony's in charge of graphics, with help from Matt, and uses a +2 with Plus D disk drive, an Amstrad DMP 2000 printer and Art Studio software. Shuriken was programmed in the

It you think you've wriitten a completely brill gamie and want to share it witih the Speccy world, send it: to us on cassette or disk wvith a letter explaining the (game. If it passes the r e v i e w e r s ' test w e ' l l put it o m the Power Tape for thouisands to enjoy! It could be) your first step into the sofftware publishing world!!! Check out the coiupon on page 23! It must accompany all entries!

Monsters, aliens and superherues Pick up a GX4000console and vou II really have your hands full Imagine all the characters from your favourite computer games suddenly invading your T.V It's like having your own private arcade All you have to do Is plug In and you're off. The graphics alone are out of this world, with a palette of 4096 colours and stereo sound.

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* In Splinter's absence, Leonardo is the Turtles' leader, he's a real 'take charge' kinda guy. * He's a clever, fast thinker and an excellent strategist. * He's a perfectionist, but sometimes he tries too hard and gets embarrased if he, or any other Turtle, fails. * Though Splinter has taught him i?s honourable to fail if one tries his best, Leonardo can't accept his own shortcomings!

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party animal! lickname: Mikey |e: IS eight: 10 stone lOlbs A'r Weapon: Paired Nunchuku Colour Orange

* He's the most fun-laving of all the Turtles! * He has a gentle but mischievous nature and is always playing practical iokes on his chums! * He lows comic books and science fiction! * He's the real pizza addict and loves going to the movies — his rave films are E.T. and Critters! * He reckons the other Turtles are too serious, but spends most of his time larking about with Raphael! * He doesn't always train as hard as he

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* He's the most agreeable and self-contained (man!) Turllee! * He's a bit of a boffin and would rather be tinkering with an object than fighting! * He rebels ogainst the idea of fighting! * Though he gets on well witth everyone, Ctonatello wouldl rather have lunch alone!

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• GAZZA! Rivalling the Turtles in the popularity stakes is madcap soccer star Paul 'Gazza' Goscoigne and he's back on the Speccy soon with a new all-oction footy game called Gazza1 from Empire It's not an update of Empire's Gazza's Super Soccer from lost Christmas but a brand new production that promises to take playability into a new league! Pockea with arcade action, the pitch is viewed from overhead and scrolls left to right as you take control of Gazzo belting up and down the pitch at a blisteringiy fast rote. Don't worry if you reckon you're not up to Gazza's standard — Gazza! has

nine skill levels (from Sunday league to International) to pick from, ana your mate can join in the oction using the two-player option. Other game features include an overlaid miniscanner of the pitch showing the players' positions, variable strength shots, corners, free kicks, tackjing, penalties, throw-ins, goal kicks and more! The programming team. Active Minds, have taken o good look ot all the other footy games out there and reckon Gazza! is going to beat the lot! With a simple control method and very fast action, it could be a World Cup winner — find out the results next month!

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• EXTERMINATOR In the next Audiogenic release you ploy o rough tough guy who thinks nothing of boshing the liviitg daylights out of bugs and other assorted creepy crawlies {SCREAM!!! all the office girls). There are seven houses [levels) that need your experience to rid them of the pesky intruders, and so that your pals can share the scare a two player option is included Each of you controls one of

the exterminator's hands as he shoots, grabs and pounds the opposition into submission. The playing screen is viewed in a vertical fashion with you looking up the screen at the opposite wall There ore five rooms per nouse (kitchen, basement, bedroom, garage and attic), and you move from room to room by destroying all the opposition It's o stronge game and no mistake T o

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• LINE OF FIRE A massive hi! in the arcades and now bursting onto your home computer, it's Sega s Line Of Fire out from US Gold soon Your mission is to sneak into the high security camp belonging to a group of Middle Eastern terrorists and snatch their new weapon — the Ropier high velocity rapid fire machine gun This is not going to be easy, but getting ba< back out or and returning the qun gun to base will verge

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on the impossible! You take control of a high speed powerboat, a jeep, an aircraft and a helicopter, all portrayed in realistic 3D graphics, the many scenarios you have to battle through include a canyon, jungle, desert and the white water rapids, clutching the all important Ropier gun to blast the enemies away.

smoking remains afterwards There are 28 levels (though some of them have severol exits), and plenty of denizens who object to your presence Robo starts the game with a standard blaster for defence, but when he shoots the metal birds, gems are often left behind. Collect these for power-ups that include three- way and five-way lasers, missiles, the ability to fly and speed ups Expect Atomic Robo Kid on your screens in the new year.

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Sega coin-op! If you reckon you could be a cop or the future in a crime-ndden city you wanna try battling with the low-lifes of Cybercity1 Succeed in two dangerous missions os a regular cop and you've earned your E-S.W.A.T. bodge and weapon-packed armour Back on the horizontally-scrolling streets you have

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UNDERNEATH THIS COMPUTER IS AN ARCADE FIGHTING TO GET OUT.

Underneath the respectable exterior of the new Amstrad Plus range of computers, lurks a monster. And a few robots. And stacks of superheroes. In fact, a whole arcade full of games just waiting to be played.* Because even though the 6128 Plus and 464 Plus are both serious computers (with free 'BASIC' programming language) they're both ready for fun whenever you are. Whether you choose the advanced, disk driven 6128 Plus or the cassette drive 464 Plus, you'll love the superb graphics palette, the stereo sound and your own paddle for total playing control. Both computers also take instant loading ROM cartridges, so you get instant access to lop rated games from the best software houses in Europe. And they're both compatible with hundreds ofCPC titles on disk and cassette. You'll also get straight into the great high speed car game 'Burnin Rubber' because it comes free with your computer. Both models come complete with a choice of stereo monochrome or stereo colour monitor and a full sized keyboard. So if your Amstrad starts acting like an arcade, don't worry. Just plav along.

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• THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER Grandslam is finally to release The Hunt For Red October oame, which was originally ptanneafor the summer. Based on the film (and now video), The Hunt For Red October which fells of a Soviet submarine captain, played by Sean Connery, and his efforts to cross the Atlantic and defect to the west in the advanced submarine Red October The Russian Navy give chase and the US wonders if the surge of Russians across the Atlantic constitutes on attock! The gome features arcade oction and strategic gameplav and you can discovered it the CRASH team made it to the west in next month's review!

G.A.M.E.S. seem te.be going Initial C.R.A.Z.Y. — have you noticed? Have a nice X.W.A. and don't miss the first previews ffor 1 9 9 1 in your January blast off C.R.A.S.H.!

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Each of the Fred disks includes demos, screens, hints and tips on the latest games and letters from users. The best of the disks is Fred 3. This includes an hilarious 'Pythonesque' demo from Zenith Graphics where a head grows feet and jumps off o conveyor belt to have various adventures. Brilliant. The regular review section on the disk is easy to use and even includes screen shots of some of the games. You con wizz through the menus looking for the piece you want with the simple forward screen, back screen controls. Fred is on non-profit making disk magazine and ifs out in the first week of every month from,.. Colin MacDonald, 4 0 Roundyhill, Monifieth, Dundee, DD5 3RZ for only

The Fred disk magazine is one of the most professionoU've seen. High quality presentation coupled with an easy to use menu system and informative writing makes it really enjoyable. Currently on issue five, there hos been a marked improvement from disk to disk. Colin MocDonald, the Freditor along with the various ortists and demo writers has changed Fred from having just o basic text menu on issue one to full colour menu screens and excellent drawings on the latest disk.

The first thing to hit you when you load up SAM Disk is the excellent presentation. Each of the menu screens has a really good headline drawn by Steven Picasso' Pick, the editor. Its just a pity the loading system isn t as enjoyable: each time it loads up the main menu section it asks for the drive number to be inputed, this gets annoying. Issue one or SAM Disk isn't exactly packed full of material, most of the sections are just pleas for people to

* Get a copy of SAM Supplement and you too could be playing this interesting game from the author of Mind Games I — you lucky people! send in stuff for inclusion on a future disk, — understandable enough. The Flash! pictures on the disk include mock up loading screens for Midniqht Resistance, Rainbow Islands ond Head Over Heels, they're all pretty good. Other features of SAM Disk 1 are lists of SAM compatible Spectrum games, an adventure gome and basic demos.

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SAM Supplement includes some great screens and utilities, they're ius' presented in a boring borir way. All the text pages are just plain old block on white with tiny writing thafs heil to reod. Another annoyonce is the animated curtain opening sequence that greets you when you lood jp. It's just about bearable the first tims but when you've to re-load over ard over again, you'd better have somehing hord to bite! At the heart of the disk ore some excellent utilities and screenshors.1 Issue one includes a disk utility. It copies, hides and erases files. The programs on He disk would be a great help to buddhg programmers too, they include such things as a program varioble li.ter ana sound effects for use in yotr own games. SAM Supplement is aimed a (he programmer more than the gereral SAM user. Don't expect fun presentation and ioily tunes betouse you just won't find them. It's aviiloble from... SAM Supplement, B.D. Mumford, 57 St. Saviours Roaj, West Croydon, Surrey, CRO 2J€ for £1.50 per bi-monthly issue or !x issues (or £8.00. Members of lie Spectrum Discovery club can g<l it free if ihtfy send a disk.

Next month, the low d>wn on SAM Coup* public domain software, that's II my memory expansion a r r i v e s In time! Send dl your letters, disks and tapes to this addross... N e w s l i e l d , SAM P a g e , CRASH, Ludlow, S h r o p * l r e , S Y 8 1JW.

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You can tell everyone's gearing up for Christmas because there are Easter Eggs in the local supermarket and you can get Soaraway Spanish Summer Savers for 1991' in the holiday shop. The festive spirit, eh? Well, from me to you, a very Merry Christmas. I know I'll be back with you before the holidays, but I'll be wittering about 1991 then. So what has the CRASH team got lined up for Christmas? Well, the Christmas party is on the horizon and we'll be drinking your health because it's you lot, the readers, which made 1990 one of CRASH'S most successful years: 12,000 more monthly readers than 1989!) Worth celebrating!! We'll be back next month, everyone but me with a stinking hangover, with more Speccy thrills. In the meantime get your letters to me at: NEWSFIELD, LLOYD M A N G R A M S FORUM, CRASH, LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE SY8 1JW. The best letter wins the writer £40 of software!

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Dear Lloyd I can't hold back much longer as I am starting to get very worried at the tremendoiB increase in the cost of full priced games. It used to be normal to pay £5.99 for a game, then it went up to £6.99, then £7.99. and then £8.99. Now it stands at £999 (£10.99 games are appearing more and more —LM), with disk games. £14.99. This is a rise oi £4.00 over 3 or 4 years. Surely, i: doesn't cost a software house nearly £10 to produce a game from start to finish, and why the gap of £5 between disk and tape? I also notice a large decline in the amount of Speccy games in the high street. Though the amount of budget re-releases coming out is increasing all the time and it's a great way of saving money iand all are great value. Some of the budgets are better than the full priced games. Finally the ccover games are great. I mean, {four complete games plus a nnag, all for £1.85! It's well wicked' CRASH is in a league of its ov/vn as other mags can't even get tone good game on their covers! Malcolm Dunknp. Langholm DG13 0AW Of course Specccy games have become more (expensive over the years. You i wouldn't expect people involveed in producing software to be; happy working today for the ssame wages they were getting fifive years ago? Even budget ggames have risen in cost over thne years from a 99p/£1.99 pricee point to £2.99 today, and a loot of publishers are considering a r new £3.99 price point. Do remeember: it's not the software housees who are making £10 forar every game — distributors annd retailers take a hefty cut of theie price too! You're right about buadget software. The quality of <f original games has improved t. tremendously over the years s and with superb re-releases aroround, buying budget softwarare is a great way to build up yoiour software collection. As is is buying CRASH every month! V Why not subscribe? At o only £18 for 12

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Dear Mr Mangram I am not at all happy with the stuff being put out for Spectrum computers. It's samey and frequently boring. We can't help the graphics, and of course there is only so much you can cram into the humble Spectrum program,

| games which cater for us older but it seems to me there's a lack of inspiration running throughout folk. It's my fear that the likes of the Speccy will be less and less most new games. catered for as programmers flex I also feel — speaking as an their talents on the challenge of adult — that there's too much bigger machines. accent on the occult and on Pat Reeve, Petersfield, Hants. violence. I would like to see more really good puzzle-type games — those that are around do not The Spectrum market is very seem to have enough variation, much a youth one now, which is every level being pretty much the j why there are many more same as what went before. games licensed from coin-ops and hit movies; though at least I would like to see real-life with film licenses you are situations such as you deal with I getting an original game design. m Elite, and I would like to see

The software publishers reckon the older gamer, who was playing Elite five years ago it earning a wage now and therefore can afford the £40016bit machines where simulations and strategy games abound. Though puzzle games are in vogue at the moment and Ocean's trio of Plotting, Puzznic and Pang are well worth checking out. LM WHO'S

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Dear Lloyd My friend and I asked 10 people in our class at school what the a favourite games publisher was. Seven said Ocean New Zealand Story is my favourite game, and two other people in my class think so too. The problem is. on the Amiga there are secret passages and I can't find any on the Speccy version and the time demon gets me for staying too long in one place. Beth Waters, Laughton E.Sussex Ocean always has been a popular publisher — but is that everyone's view? We'll be asking all of you that next month as we print the voting form for the 1990 CRASH Readers Awards! As for secret passages in New Zealand Story, DJ Nicko reckons there are some, and you should check out the tips from issues 70,71 and 72. LM

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Dear Lloyd I've just purchased a secondhand 48K Speccy and then realised that the 48K was not on sale now. Is this true? If it is does this mean that no more software is to be manufactured for the 48K? Duncan Lyall. Dunblane FK15 9AT. Amstrad, the Speccy's manufacturer, only supplies the +2 now. Production of the diskbased +3 has stopped. But there are a lot of 48K machines out there and nearly all software publishers put out games that run on the 48K. Though, because of the ever increasing need for complexity in games, I expect

1 EX-FRIEND! Dear Lloyd I totally agree with what John Quinn had to say in issue 78 about piracy. A few months ago an ex-friend of mine received a Speccy+2 for his birthday and a few days later he approached me with some 90 minute tapes and told me it was my moral duty to give him a copy of all my Speccy games, which cost me in excess of £500.1 refused and he hasn't spoken to me since. The pnce of software here in Eire is very expensive. In the software store nearby The In Crowd costs £27.99 and Vendetta and Midnight Resistance cost £18.99 a piece. These prices axe outrageous, no wonder software sales are so low and piracy levels so high! Daniel Nagle, Clonakilty Co.Cork You were quite right to refuse. Your ex-friend would not only be robbing the programmers and publishers but also robbing your collection of its value. Software prices are expensive in Eire but why not use CRASH'S very own efficient mail order service? We can supply any recently published game at a discount price! Give mail order queen Carol Kinsey a ring on 0584 875851 for details! And Carol will be in contact soon as you have just won £40 worth of software from her vaults for your Letter of the Month! LM

that during 1991 we'll see a lot of 128K only software. LM TAPE TO TAPE

Dear Lloyd 11 read issue 78 and agree with John Quinn. But 1 think the software houses are fighting a losing battle. How would they know who is copying? One way to stop them would be to stop making, and importing, double cassette decks, as having these is like asking for piracy. Tony Goodchild, Colchester COG 4QA. The chances of preventing the manufacture of double cassette decks are remote. But the solution the software publishers have come up with is to release games on a cartridge format. This isn't happening on the Spectrum, but both Commodore and Amstrad have released new consoles which take only cartridges, which cannot be copied, and Commodore's cartridges work on the old Commodore 64 too. Speccy games will, as always, be released on tape which, sadly, leaves them open to tape-totape piracy. LM HACKING

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Dear Lloyd I just had to write a rap about your cool mag CRASH Since I read CRASH for the very first time. I kept on getting some real weird signs. Signs that were saymg that this mag was cool. Signs that were saying that this mag would rule.

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Ken Bane from Plymouth got hi-fire highscores on Exolon and Star Raiders but reckons it was pure luck! Ken wms £40 ot software for having such crusty old games'

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Carl Kirsopp from Great Sutton clocked up 236.950 on Bombjack'

Sarah Samways from Swanage did well on Solaris with a score ot 3.853,000! Sarah does a good pixie impersonation!

Matthew Catley from Ely reached level seven on the Powertape game Talking

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movement and action commands on a turn card. GBM then process your commands and post the results of your actions back to you. Then you fill in a new card with a new set of cammands and post that off — you don't need a computer, just a pen. You're not playing on your own: there can be a load of people playing the game at the same time as you, and they can interact with you. And that's it! A bit like a computer adventure game but | you have more freedom! Trolls Bottom ivoh/es playing against up to 70 other player trolls as you battle your way to rule the troll island. Other games include Crisis (a strategy war game as you attempt to gain control in a world war situation), Star Cluster (a game of interstellar conquest). Trivia (a quiz league game), the soon-to-belauched Football Champions (a soccer management game) and Jet Ball (futuristic sports game). You can get more details about play by mail games by writing to: Games 8y Mail, 5 Town Lane, Little Neston, South Wirral L64 4DE. • 1st Class is the PBM games fanzine run by one of the country's leading PBM games companies, KJC Games, It features tips, fiction, previews, manuals, news, rule additions, tactics, RPG scenearios, hall of fame, letters and tons more and it's very well put together and printed. KJC also run six different PBM games: Capitol (a space war game), Earthwood (a fantasy wargame involving intrigue, treachery and conflict), Dawn of the Ancients (an epic battle at the dawn of history), Sfafe of War (American Civil War in 2000 AD). Warlord (a strategic war game) and KJC's classic It's A Crime! game (gang warfare in New York city), Information on all KJC's stuff is obtainable from: KJC Games, Cleveleys, Blackpool, Lanes FY8 3LY.

CHART SENSATIONS!

i A combination of Dizzy, the Ouattro packs and a host of original games have shot CodeMasters to the top of the software charts! At the end of September the Codies claimed a whopping 38% hold of the Top 40 chart with 19 titles placed, and are out-selling every software house with the exception of Ocean Spokesman Mike Clarke said 'One in every four budget games sold is a CodeMasters title and I'd like to say a very big thank you to every one who's been buying our games!' Hurrah!

A FESTIVE PRINTER

(for people with a lot of doth)

Citizen's latest 24-pin dot-matrix printer, the 124D, is in the shops | just in time for Christmas, retailing at £279 (excluding VAT), which is good value for a quality printer. And some lucky blighter, as you can see in the pic, is getting one courtesy of S Claus Esq Capable of printing 120 characters per second (draft mode), the 124D offers a choice of typestyles, supports an 8K memory | and comes witha parallel interface. Plus 3 owners can plug it straight in, others will need a Centronics I interface.

• RW Games is running a PBM version of D&H Games s Football Director. The game allows you to control the action of a football club supremo and tussle with the demands of fielding a winning team and all the backroom wrangles. You can contact the company at: RW Games, 39 Berry View, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6LQ.

WHERE IS ICHASE HQ 2 i Last month we promised you i playable demo of Ocean s Chas HQ 2: Special Criminal Investigation on the Powertape. The more observant of you will notia there isn't one (booo!). The reasn is that because the game's so complicated it's taking longer to program than originally thought nd might not appear in the shops util January! Keep you fingers, andill other available extremities, crossd for that Chase HO 2 demo in full I soon.

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Another bumper crop of prizes are winging their way to the lucky winners of the recent clutch of compos. Are you going to get an extra Chrissie pressie courtesy of CRASH? Read on and find outl CodeMasters Road Racing Action Compo (issue 80) drew a sackful of entries. No wonder, wiih the brill prize of a Taniya four-wheel drive Fire Dragon (kit form) up for grabs! The first prize winner is Simon Gould, Warrington WAS 2PJ. Congratulations! The 20 runers-up who each receive a CodeMasters game are: Steven Arthurs, Bristol BS14 OHU; Nicholas Wattery, Manchester M28 4TN; Matthew O'Sullivan, Oxford 0 X 4 1PY; Joseph Moulding, Balsall Common CV7 7EX; Scott Edwards, Cheltenham GL51 6SD; Martin Henderson, Shetland Isles ZE2 9DS; Andrew Lloyd, Feltham TW14 SAW; Ian Simpson, Gosport P 0 1 2 4RR; Douglas Christie, Banbury 0 X 1 6 7UD; Ursula Lednor, Rustington BN16 3JU; Andrew Gillham, Woking GU24 9PT; Stephen Atkinson, Towcest NN12 7RS; P Wroe, Haisall L39 8RH; Michael Sheldon, Streetly B74 3EE; Stuart Richards, Whitchurch SY13 2JB; Tony Goodchild, Colchester C 0 6 4QA; Christopher Povey, West Mailing ME19 5PY; Andrew Gilliam, London SW1W 9JZ; Andrew Goaman, Hartland EX34 6AN; Martin Lesson, Bournemouth BH5 1DB. And now it's... Time for the results of the fish-siapping competition! How sillyl No. it's the results of Virgin's Monty Python's Flying Compo1. The winner who gets the

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I'm dreaming of a White Christmas, just like the ones I used to know. Those were the days, when Jim Reeves had a hit with that song and all pop stars had sensible hair cuts. Thank god it's all changed that's all I can say! Are you feeling festive yet? All this fake snow and the faint sound of sleigh bells — it's like going Christmas shopping at Woolworths. I've got some pretty squillerilliant tips for you this month. There s the complete low down on Midnight Resistance including a map of all the levels, tips on Rick Dangerous and some super doopor stuff on that great Dizzy game, Kwik Snax. The £40 of software goes to Richard Lane for his Midnight Resistance map. I'm off to hang my stocking on the mantlepiece now — I had a hell of a job finding one big enough to fit a new car in — never mind: I'll just have to make do with the usual orange and apple. Have a jolly good Christmas, and don't forget to send me all your unwanted limited edition Pet Shop Boys records that Santa will bring you.

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Level 1 Guardian Keep to the left of screen and keep shooting When the tank gets near jump up out of its line of fire. Level 2 Guardian Keep to Ihe top left corner of screen and keep using your pack weapons

Anyone tor egg sarnies? Mark Caswell usually has some free after he's scoffed his dinner! This Is the nfew Dizzy game, and for all those stuck on it here are some tntfo tips. 1. Push blocks to kill nasties whenever possible 2. It a situation looks impossible, try to collect a sauce bottle, it could turn those stubborn blocks into luscious fruit 3. On bonus screens pause ihe game straight away and plan the route you're going lo take Don't forget you can go off the screen one side and come back on the other, 4. Avoid the nasty icons like the plague 5. Use the rest of the blocks in a line to protect you as you slid-e them along

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1. Try to avoid the temptation of jumping everywhere It may sound daft but it's amazing the amount of people who prefer to see the butch hero of a game bounding around like a kangaroo! II you do it in Beast you'll probably end up lumping into a nasty. 2. Don't go down the well Doing this is a waste ol time, you need a key and the door opens from the other side. 3. From the begmnihg move left not right If you battle your way through all the nastiness to the right you

come to the castle, but this has to be completed last of all 4. Explore each section of the game and get to know where all the monsters come from II you go back to that section all the same monsters will atlack you again 5. In the tree, don t attempt to battle it out with the big meany to the top/right You'll be trapped by a large stone and Won t be able to defeat him unless you have the special weapon 6. Wait patiently until next month for the solution if you gel really stuck

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Another great game and one that's going to be a BIG seller over Christmas. Here's the solution to the first level to get you started on the big adventure: grab your hat and get out there! On the very first screen you may have got killed by the lasers shooting down from the ceiling: the thing to do is just run as fast as Rick's little legs can carry him and they'll all miss you. Now shoot the

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robot that climbs down the ladder and slide bomb the door to the far right. Go through and collect the bonuses Now go up the ladder and into the alien spaceship- don't hesitate on the ladder or you'll be barbequed by a laser Cimb up the next ladder but don t go all the way jusl yet. Wait and watch when the sparks fly by. lime your moves so that you jump up from the ladder and duck to the left when the sparks stop Go left

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ed up with managing football teams? How about Rugby instead? This is a superbly presented management game. The objective is to put together the best players possible and lake your team on to win the league. The main screen has you sitting at your desk with objects around you. Pressing fire on these objects will select pull down menus with all options on them. This style of control is much better than the usual text only screens of management games. Options available lo all budding managers include player movement, transfers, team statistics, play matches, view divisions and

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lor the job include a machine gun cannon and two types of missile. Don't be fooled by the title. Snowstrike is nothing at all to do with snowball tights! What the game boils down lo is a basic flight simulation. You take oil tram a carrier or a land base and fly around looking for planes to shoot and drugs installations lo blow up. The main screen display shows Ihe conlrol panel with all the knobs and dials and a forward view through the cockpil. You can • also check what's attacking you from the rear. The landscapes you fly over are lacking in detail: most of the time all you'll see is cyan shading and the odd cloud whizzing past, though drug targets are well drawn when you find them. I found carrying out the

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A D I f Snowstrike is one of the most playable flight you can just start the engines and take off. In the air your computerised navigator s help is essential because he often warns you of incoming missiles, aircraft etc (although dodging them is another issue}. Watching all the dials and meters is a tough job and for Ihe first lew missions I found mysell dive bombing into the landscape! I'd have preferred a wider range of weapons and mission targets, but despite its limitations Snow Strike is surprisingly enjoyable. 709 M

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material and vary in weight, strength and type ot strings. Training mode will help out those of you who aren't budding Ivan Lendls. Ail the oplions ot the real game are available and you have the choice of any of the stx computer players as partners and opponents in a single or doubles game. They all have different statistics so you can have the ones best suited to your needs. Tennis games on the Spectrum go back as long as the computer itself (anyone remember Match PoinP).

M A Q I f One thing I like about Adidas Championsip Tie 1 I V I H I i l \ Break is that you only have to decide which shot to play. I hale tennis games where you have to concentrate on moving the character as well. Graphically the game is pretty good, though the main sprites are seen from above so a head with arms is all that's visible Adidasl Championship Tie Break with its pre-game options and last moving sprites is one of the better tennis games around. 77%

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his is probably the best conversion from a TV programme I've ever played. The action packed racing you see on the telly makes for even more action packed fun in the game. Choose the team you want to play and you're given a selection of courses to play: water courses, track and assault courses with a variety of vehicles to master. The most annoying thing is the way the programmers have Included explosions on every track. In the telly programme these are only special effects but in the game they blow you all over the place! The terrible multiload Is ruddy annoying loo.

The road racing sections are my favourite: large animated vehicles zoom around the well coloured (racks. The water is a different story though, the sprites are much smaller and when you keep on bashing into things you soon wish for Ihe end. The Hill or assault course has large sprites but Ihe waggle let! and right control method makes it a bit of a pain to play. Run The Gauntlet has its good and bad points but I'd recommend it to all racing fans.

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Tie-Break has excellent presentation: screen after screen of colourful, highly detailed options. Sul having made your selections you move out onto the court, and this is a real let down. The courts are all monochrome, the colour changing when you change from grass to clay or indoor. You play from an aerial view which is supposed to be as on TV'! Whenever I've watched tennis on the telly the main camera view has always been from behind one ot the players, not from a seagull flying overhead! The wealth ol options wilt give the game an advantage over many ol the other tennis simulations, but this isn't enough to keep me playing for long. An average tennis game, nothing to jump the nel about.

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recipe for? Total and utter mayhem is the answer — but great fun too! Heller Skelter is a kind of cross between two classic game types: Pacman and Breakout. You take control of a ball and have to bounce it on the monster with an arrow above his head. If you get the wrong little devil it divides into two smaller ones — double trouble! On the more helpful side are icons which pop up from time to lime. These include warps to take you to the next level, time freeze, monster

freeze and extra lime. For an extra lite you can collect all the letters to make up the word EXTRA. Does all this sound hard to you? Well, it is. The ball is terrible to control when you first start and it'll take a lot of practice to master the controls. There are enough screens lo keep you playing for a long while, some of which are only accessible in a two player game, but it you

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nter the world ot West Coast sports In California Games. All that sun. sea.sand and six of the best sporting events, all designed to set your pulse racing. Choose from skateboarding, foot bag, BMX bike racing, surfing, roller skating and flying disk: something for ail tastes. Each event is multi-loaded one at a time if you play through the whole game at once, but there's also an option to practice so you can conlinue playing as long as you like. Graphics are not as good as they could have been

but this doesn't spoil the atmosphere. Some of the control methods are a little complicated, on the skateboarding section especially. Combinations of keys have to be pressed lo perform various stunts for pplnts: a lengthy read of the instructions is essential if you're to avoid falling off at the first attempt. A good alternative to all those endless track and field sports simulations.

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Shin Kazama in his Tiger Shark, Mickey Simon in his F-14 and Greg Gate in his Warthog A-tO Thunderbolt. Take off with an optional second player and it's up into the wide blue yonder to shake hands with the devil

(as the advertisement says). Each plane contains a permanent weapon, but a range of bolt-ons are available from the Capcom shop, at a price: bullpups. missiles, napalm bombs, super shells and a nuclear warhead called Bigboy (which sucks all the paint otl your house and gives you a permanent pink suntan). The first mission takes you to an enemy base where helicopters, tanks, planes and an aggressive end-oflevel tank await. Each level scrolls horizontally with an impressive amount of action happening on-screen. Level two has you up in the air to destroy a stealth bomber, heavily armed surrounding notwithstanding. Level three takes us to a forest to kill the enemy and destroy the end of level fortress. Level four is set in the desert, your mission to destroy a huge missile silo. On to level five and half way through the game: here you're taken to a spectacular rocky scene where you must battle helicopters and fighter

bombers to reach the massive helicopter at the end. Levels six to nine take you to a cave, an oil refinery, the ocean and a mountain range respectively. Whilst level ten is a very special mission to round off a very tiring game: blast your way into a mothership and destroy it. My thumb is killing me after playing non stop for several hours on this fast and furious alt action game! UN Squadron certainly gets the adrenalin pumping, and it'll probably wreck your joystick. The sprites are highly detailed and scroll smoothly against the varied backdrops. The enemy forces are highly aggressive and must be treated with due caution: only master blasters are likely to survive more than a couple of missions in the first few games — maybe the

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lor Ihe spanners strewn around. Collection of these allows you to purchast addons at (he end of each race: missiles, tyres, turbo jower and shields. I'm a great fan of th s type of game, with this and Super Ott Road Racer (reviewed last month) I'm being spoiled! Though Badlands doesn't have the detailed graphic style as Super Ott Road Racer, the cars and backdrops are more colourful. Another bonus is that the cars in Badlands a re more controllable, and it's easier to avoid disasters! Super Sprint with guns is how I would describe Badlands. I personally prefer Super Oft Road but this game runs a fairly close second (mainly cos it's more violent).

is lost (lose both and it's Game Over). Apart from human and computer driven cars that fire machine guns and missiles at you, obstacles include hairpin bends, oil slicks, sand banks, collapsing buildings and (ailing power

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ou take control of Luke Skywalker in his X-FlgMer ship and must destroy one attack wave after another of deadly enemy fighters. Wave one has Luke flying out in deep space with a number of the Empire's Tie Fighters to be shot. He then dives down to the Death Star to fly through deadly laser towers which grow up from the ground: a 50,000 bonus is given if all towers are destroyed. In the final scene Luke dives into a trench and must hit the exhaust port to

cause the Death Star to explode. The wire frame graphic style is incredibly similar to the arcade machine and all the gameplay has been converted intact. After a little practice all the attack waves can be mastered — which kills the long-term appeal ot the game. However, you can get plenty of enjoyment from Star Wars

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things aren't as simple as they sound. You have to finish the race in first place else one of your two credits

lines. The first tew tracks are fairly clear ot these hazards, so you have a chance to concentrate on watching out

M | p | / It's a pity Domark have chosen to release this H I U i i game at around the same time as Virgin's Super Ott Road Racer. Ihe two games are rather similar. This is nowhere near as detailed though. Badlands is a lot ot fun. due to the demolition derby aspect of the gameplay, if a bit easy to complete. The tracks are nothing special — some are simply boring and others are spiced up a little with tunnels and jumps (wooo!). It's a pit you can't actually destroy the opponents — blast 'em with your gun and they just flash and carry on. Badlands is a good conversion, bul the coin-op isn't innovative enough to make Ihe game really exciting. 59%

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t's 40 odd years since the first person flicked a small weighted piece of plastic across a green table-sized blanket and tried to hi! a huge (in relation to the player) ball. I remember owning a Subbuteo set when I was a nipper, and playing the Electronic Zoo computer version has brought the memories Hooding back! The game starts with the usual option screens: Single or League Matches. Both options allow you to play against either a friend or the computer, though league is more fun because it allows you to play with up lo eight people (single only allows

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seemed to have his head up In them, Dylan went to Ice Land for being so cool. Grand Dizzy to Cuckoo Land because he's a bit senile and sweet Daisy was put in the dungeon! Zaks knew Dizzy would attempt to rescue her. You now have the task of rescuing each of your mates. The game's played Pengostyle: you push blocks around the screen, crushing nasties if they get in the way and collecting the fruit and other objects you find. Bonus extras can be found and do weird and wonderful things to each screen's layout. Once a screen is completed you go onto the bonus section which has to be done In a set lime limit. Graphics consist ol

feet: the skill here lies in flicking the player at the ball (and totally missing, in my case). Sound effects and graphics are as simplistic as the gameplay, so even with a few mates playing, Ihe computer version doesn't quite catch the atmosphere of the lable-top game. MARK 50%

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M A p i / I loved the original Strider in the arcades, I v I H l t H though the computer version appeared in Issue 69 and received a mixed reception. Now Strider Ifs here and is as controversial as its predecessor. Nick disliked the original and is a misery guts about this sequel. I love it! The main character sprite is still as atheletic as ever and as a bonus now carries an extra weapon (yippee!). Another great addition is Strider's ability to don a huge armoured suit to tackle the end of level bad guy. US Gold have come up trumps again; in fact coin-oppers Capcom like it so much Strider 2 will be in your local arcade before you know if! 88% cut the mustard. All that bounding around with a silly looking sword. One thing this game has which the original lacked is colour. No more 100% monochrome: you now have coloured trees and platforms. This, of course, brings our old friend Miss Colourclash onto the scene. Whenever Strider jumps or walks over the background he changes to its colour; can't be helped really. Strider II is a little better than the original: arcade freaks might find it more playable.

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eing a peasant ot limited intelligence you went and volunteered tor a dangerous quest. You are Gormless Gary and must rescue the beautiful Princess Clare from the clutches ot the evil ghosts. And the reward if you succeed? Her hand in marriage and a bit of nimpo. Your journey is a dangerous one: each room is locked tight and rabid bats swoop at you every chance they get, sapping your energy. Keys have been left lying about the castle and collecting these opens the doors (really? -Ed). There are three ways to fail: you can lose all your energy by being swooped on

by the bats, contact with one of the evil ghosts means instant death and falling onto a fire won't do you much good either. While the graphics are OK, control method and gameplay belong in the bottom ot the barrel. If you survive for more than four screens you must be an expert, either that or you've found a poke for infinite energy. Each screen is laid out in such an annoying way that you won't only be cursing the ghosts for killing you but also kicking your screen in a rage.

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