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It's also faster than its super-charged predecessor. So fast that the puck wears an asbestos overcoat And it's bixer. A whole lot bigger.

The 25 new features make for a whole new game play experience:

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New battery back-upsaves the personal records of up to 7 pbyers on the same cart And of course, because it bears the NHL name, all the updates teams and players featured in NHL Hockey '94 are completely for real.

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EXCLUSIVE review. it was completely brilliant MEGAMART 92 on the Megodrive but • ECCOTHEDOLPHIN 96 Borgoins galore! Rubbish galore! And there's plenty more besides in the Sego equivalent to a jumble sole at the local community centre.

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This month, we exclusively reveal the Megadrive version of Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition - a game which we reckon is one of the greatest Megadrive games ever released.

What's more, were prepared to put our money where our mouth isl We've spent a fivefigure sum putting together and printing a special 20 page Street Fighter II celebration edition, with all the information about Street Fighter you'll ever need. Every special move revealed, every single option of the game gratuitously exposed, all the characters' stets brought to light and 24 devastating combination attacks revealed. It's entirely free with this months MEAN MACHINES. It's the ultimate guide to the best beat 'em up ever devised, put together by the masters of Street Fighter II. To our knowledge, we're the only Sega mag to actually own the coin-op SRI (we've hod original, Champion Edition and now own the Turbo PCB) — and our two years of intense SF!1 ploy make us the best people to tell you oil about the Megadrive game.

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WIZARDPINBALL with great joy in this office when we heard of two pending pinball releases.

The first is Virtual Pinball (pictured) from EA which from the brief glimpse we've had at it so for is looking smashing (the joypad had to be literally wrenched from Lucy's grasping mitts when she hod the exclusive peak at the game at EA HQ lost week). It's the first game of its kind which allows you to construct your own table choosing from a vast array of flippers, bumpers, backgrounds etc. When you're happy with your concoction you con save it on the cart's

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connected for an eight-ployer elimination tournament — however, once you've been eliminated, you battle it out with the other losers for the runner-up positions! Using this mode, it's possible to have eight Guiles (or whoever) battling it out. As a little bonus, you can even choose your own character colours as well.

No news of a console conversion yet but we'll give you more news as and when. In the meantime, check out these coin-op pics•

FORMULAONEDSPACTION F light sim specialists Microprose ore bringing out some console corkers in the next few months including F15 Strike Eagle II for the Mosier System and Game Gear, The Chaos Engine on Megadrive, as well as the one that Jaz and Rich ore really waiting for — Megadrive title based on Star Trek: The Next Generation However, the most interesting news involves their commitment to the DSP super polygon chip for the Megadrive. The first title that the firm wish to convert is their

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• Zooming onto the • Megadrive fairly shortly is • the sequel to EA's utterly topper Lotus Turbo • Challenge game.

• Unsurprisingly looming • under the name Lotus II, • the player once again jumps into • the hotseot of the Lotus supercar and drives hell for leather over a • massively varied range of tracks • in some of the worst weather • conditions possible. Choose a • mean machine to manoeuvre — on Esairit, an Elan or their M200

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Belmont whose exploits with t Konami have allocatCount Dracula ore legcendary, no longer stars ed unique powers to Eric oas the hero, being and loony and there ore replaced instead by two specialist levels for eoch u characters named Eric character. Its still in the l Lecorde and Jonny Morris early stages of developd— we kid you not! ment but we look forbJonny is of the Belmont lineage ward to bringing you a spectaceand exercises a whip known as ular review of this promising game very soon! tthe 'Vampire Killer', to aid him in his mission for Dracula's h e

Never Land where the fun begins_ Over loads of platform levels, fight and think your way through until the final show-down with Hook.

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FOOTBALL WITHTEETH For some serious bloodshedding in the nome of football, check out Beastboll on the Megadrive from Microprose. The aim of the game is as any other footle match — put the ball in the goal, but with this game, the methods ore slightly different.

Set in the year 2089, eight teams

consisting of man-mode mutants punch, kick, stab and shoot their way to victory. Alone or with a mate, systematically dismember the opposing team — it's not a problem because they can all be rejuvenated after the match anyway.

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VIRTUASTARWARS! Decently unveiled at INthe Tokyo femme show was one of the most stunning coin-ops ever devised. Created by Sego, the game is Virtue Star Wars.

The game uses the same polygon technology as Virtu° Racing, but introduces scenes from the Star Wars films. The

result, as you con see from our screenshot, is absolutely stunning. At the moment, the game is only 20 percent complete with lust the one level However, that level is the Death Star attack from the originol Star Wars film and it looks ace! We'll hove more details very soon.

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or the hordened gamblers few. Fairly • r among you, Caesar's Palace straightforward • on the Game Gear from Virgin is stuff by the sound of it. We'll • everything you could ever wont. bring you the full review as soon ij Oswe can.

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Master System and Game Gear. It's Sonic Chaos and following on from Sonic 1 and 2 it's manic platform action and then some...

BYSECA The fiendish Robotnik has stolen a red chaos emerald and it's up to Sonic and Tails to get that one bock and foil the evil one's plan to steal MASTERSYSTEM/ even more. The game features all new levels, zones and action features — including Sonic's Rocket Shoes and Pogo Stick but whether it's CAMEGIP any good or not is something we'll fill you in on ot a later date.

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PLATFORMFOOTEFEVER Domark has created an all new platform character for the Megadrive. His name's Marko and he stars in the forthcoming Marko's Magic Football.

Domork is promising gorgeous cartoony graphics, ten levels of puzzle-solving platform action combined with loads of hidden rooms, character interaction

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and a chance to test out the old soccer skills. More news when we get it.

One thing you con say about Marko — he's got balls!

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• The programming team behind the • John Madden Football series are ploughing their resources into a • new footie challenge from Acclaim • — NFL Quorterbock Club.

• Choose from one of 28 NFL teams and ploy the • game until final victory as Jim Kelly, Warren Moon or John Elway (who I'm sure ore really, • really famous and great) or go helmet-to-helmet • against a rival in The Quarterback Challenge. The • 16-Meg cart features a flying-eye view of the • action, a choice of weather, game plans and • transfers as well as target practices and obstacle • courses. More news when we get it.

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Dile of the best Megadrive games )f the year — Flashback — is being

:onverted onto the Mego-CD by iony. As you can see from this .creenshot, the CD version closely esembles the Megodrive arcade idventure in which Conrad Hart

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After being kidnapped and imprisoned in on English Zoo, C.I's escapades take him over six zones, each with three levels where it's platform action ahoy with loodsa puzzles to solve and baddies to bombard with o never-ending supply of peanuts. Watch this space for more news.

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a well fact that Vikings spend most of th time looting and pillaging, wearing horned helmets, quaffing loads of ale and drifting along in oddlyshaped boots. What is less known about this strange breed is that they spend their spore time wondering around spoceships, exploring caverns, being kind to animals and children and performing complicated tasks in order to save the world.

This extraordinary extracurricular habit of theirs forms the basis of this new game from Virgin Games.

It stars three typical Vikings — Erik the Swift, Boleog the Fierce and Olaf the Stout who are nabbed by the alien Tomoter and whisked into outer space where their fate is to live out their miserable lives in on intergalactic zoo!

Its up to the player to use the unique skills of the fiercesome threesome in the right order to find the way home in this action-pocked shoot 'em up/ beat 'em up/ strategy/ platform aciunt which is a convert from the Super Nintendo, It may sound strong°

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having so many different game styles packed into one cart but according to the American Producer, Alan Povlish, this is what they were aiming for and this is what makes the game so hot.

——- -" He said: We've token -.— aspects from all the genres and 01 r packed them into one game.

6 . di1 . 7 " The idea of controlling each of the three characters, each with their own skills which have to be used in conjunction with each other has never been done before — it's a whole new concept. Although there ore some similarities between this game and Lemmings, I think this is much better because these characters hove so much personality. The graphics ore top quality, the music is top of the range — the tunes are so good you could almost dance to them," he added.

Hmm, well he would soy that wouldn't he? However, we have to agree Lost Vikings is looking pretty smori but naturally we'll bring you the full run down in a future issue of MEAN MACHINES SEGA

ONEBETWEEN THREE This is another in the growing line of Megadrive games 1111 1 1 most 1 1excellent four-player adaptor which uses Sego's — the Sega Tap. Okay, so with this game you can only . three people playing (since there are only three have characters) but it really brings out the best in the little doobrie 1 because its absolutely great fun for you and two males to have full control * of " one character each.

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MEGAMANIA The guys from over the waters ore &ready beavering away at a Mego-CD version of Lost Vikings which Alan Pavlish reckons is going to be miles better than even the Megodrive version. He said.

'We're going to really build up the personalities of the Vikings in this one.

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It's the question on everyone's mind — lust what is the ultimate Megadrive beat 'em up? Is it Capcont's own conversion of the arcade phenomenom of the 1 Street II? Or is Acclaim's 9 0 s Fighter — Megadrive conversion of Mortal Kombat the more superior title. First, we compare the features of the two contenders and then we ask each member of the MEAN MACHINES editorial team to decide — lust which game is king of the beat 'em ups?

The sound side of things turned out to be a lot more controversial there is no doubt that Street Fighter II has more sound — it is after all a 24-meg cart, with 50 percent more room for data than Mortal Kombot's 116-meg. This means that the Megodrive version of SFII has every piece of speech from the coin-op in there along with all the music. The problem is that the Megodrive can only play one sample at once and SFII's programmers ore attempting to play two simultaneously. The result: a loss of quality in the speech.

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ND ONE: GRAPHICS In this first round we examine the graphics of each contender. Both titles are very impressive indeed — Mortol Kombot goes for the digitised graphical realism whereas Street Fighter II opts for a more cartoon-like approach. Both games have excellent backdrops, sprites and onimation Overall, the MEAN MACHINES crew agreed that Street Fighter II had the better visuols — arguing that the CapKom game had more grophics, better colour schemes and slightly better animation.

Although the overall effect of S Mortal Kombat's I graphics ore excellent in T motion, some of the sprites P and backdrops seem a bit R E around the edges. rough

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nament rounds/leagues ore there? Are there any onnoying points in the control mode? Well, Street Fighter II wins hands. down, The list of feotures is incredible — we needed two pages of our Street Fighter II book to describe them oil_ Suffice to say, there are ten game speeds, in versus mode you can turn on or off specific special moves, introduce handicaps and even indulge in group play — where each player con choose up to six characters each to play with. Utterly excellent.

Mortal Kombot isn't half as sophisticated at all — ond worst of oil, you can't pause the game — even with the six button joypod! To its credit, the "gore" mode (press A, 8, A, C, A, B, B on the screen where the stuff about the Mortal Kombot code appears at the beginning) is quite amusing and the game is a lot more controllable than SR if you're only using a three-button pod. Overall though, Street Fighter II is miles ahead in this cotegory.

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Othe What's more, it plays very similarly to the coin-op indeed. arcade modes of Street Fighter II are frighteningly close Uto theTheoriginal coin-op's as well. The Megadrive game is actuolly a conversion of two coin-ops: Street Fighter II Champion Edition and Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting! Much proNgramming expertise has been brought to bear on this game — the scrolling mode .

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We've got the statistics of eoch game out of the way — now onto the really important stuff. Which of the two games is more enjoyable to play?

At the risk of sounding monotonous, it's got to be Street Fighter II again. Mortal Kombot plays pretty well and is extremely close to the coin-op, but the fact is, the arcade machine came out after coin-op Street Fighter and it "borrows' a lot of ideas, right down to some of the techniques used to pull off special moves and it's lust not as good.

Street Fighter just feels a lot better to ploy. When you punch or kick your opponent, it feels a lot more real and a lot more satisfying than in Mortal Kombot. In MK, the graphics, movement and sound used lust oren't as realistic as in Street Fighter.

Also, in one-player mode, the opposing computer players ore extremely thick indeed, falling foul to the same combination of moves over and over again.

Street Fighter characters each hove a vast range of megadamage inflicting combination attacks to master (some characters are versatile enough for you to create your own combos).

Mortal Kombat does make some effort to produce combination attacks, but they aren't as diverse, instinctive, logical or as effective as in Street Fighter

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Once again, it s Street Fighter II that rules supreme, With far more in the way of difficulty levels, combination attacks and characters to master the game with, it's Street Fighter II that gives you better value for money — even though Mortal Kombot is ten quid cheaper.

In our opinion, Mortal Kombot is quite shallow in relation to Street Fighter II. Yes, the action is enjoyable while it lasts, but you're quite likely to have beaten the game within (at the most) a couple of months. Only the two-player mode adds to the lostability rating.

Here at the MEAN MACHINES office, we've had a Street Fighter II arcode machine in our games room for around two years and we still play it regularly to hone our skills (The MK machine wasn't missed when it disappeared after a month). The Megodrive version of Street Fighter II is so close to the coin-op that we reckon, like PGA Tour Golf, EA Hockey and John Madden Football, you'll still be playing the game years from now.

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RO D EIGHT:OVERALL To decide it, we decided that the entire editorial team should ch w h i c h is the better game individually and present their co M s here.

R o Street Fighter II cones Mortal Kombat on all levels. On Copcom's conversion when you spank somebody, you really 'feel' the hit.

Mortal lacks that feedback. Street Fighter features far more moves and subtler gameplay than Acclaim's hyped title: SFII takes months to moster and gives enormous scope for play development, MK takes a few weeks to explore all it hos to offer. The graphics, sound and presentation of SFII also pummel those of MK_ Thot's not saying MK is o bad game.

It's just that, as I said at the start. SFII spanks its ass.

Probe Software hove handed in an exceptionally good conversion of Mortal Kombat — but the original coin-op just wasn't very good at all - relying on its controversial death moves rather than handing in a slick and enjoyable beat 'em up. Street Fighter II is an even closer conversion of the coin-op than MK, and with all the exceptionally helpful options and features, it actually makes on effort to better the original coin-op! There's no competition really. Street Fighter looks and plays better than MK and is far, far more enjoyable and tastable. Its a termer more expensive, but worth every penny of it's intriguing sixty quid price tog.

Probe Software has to get a huge pat on the bock for its n i g h -Mortal Kombot. To be honest, I'm a bit sick of Street o n Fighter II so Mortal made a refreshing change — I really love the digitised graphics in p e r fand e the copious amounts of blood and Mortal cgore. t And contrary to popular office opinion, I creally o do n think there is o lot of fun to be hod out of this game v e r sand it doesn't soley rely on the death imoves o nto spice it up. This is not to say that Street Fighter isn't completely brilliant — it is, in every o department, no arguments there. Putting them f to go along with the guys and agree that you're side-by-side, I have going to get moret enduring fun out of Street Fighter because there's just more h in there. I just don't think you should totally disregard Mortal. It oin't so bad. e o r c a d e

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They should hove known better. I'm referring to the fools who proudly proclaimed Mortal Kombat the 'ultimate beat 'em up' in their rash reviews. MEAN MACHINES took a more circumspect view, and we've been proved right.

Mortal Kombat was a very close copy of the arcade, and does look very groovy, but it musn't be forgotten that Mortal Kombat was always a shadow of Street Fighter II. Acclaim has produced a good version of their license, but Capcom has engineered a mirocle with theirs. The speed, finesse and playability of the twelve characters of Street Fighter II leaves Mortal Kombot forling in a force nine gale.

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A game only achieves excellence when it boosts the right balance of knock-out looks, hard-hitting sounds and — most important of all — near perfect feel. Whilst Mortal Kombat is graphically and conically strong it is very much the weaker opponent when compared to the wealth of tactical genius programmed into Street Fighter II_ As Mortal Kombat is struggling down at the arcades it is highly unlikely to enjoy a second-wind on console, despite the excellence of this conversion_ A case in point: we hod the Mortal Kombot coin-op in the office for quite a while and as the Street Fighter cabinet continued to attract us to it, Mortal Kombat attracted only dust.

It must be said that Mortal Kombot is about as near-perfect a conversion as I've ever seen of any game. But then again, so what? My old Binotone sported a near-perfect copy of 'Pong'l The comparison is probably a little unfair but its just that, for oil its stunning visuals, Mortal Kombat just doesn't measure up to the mighty SF11. The whole package locks the speed and excitement of its contemporary — even the death moves are a bit of a yawn. In an ideal world with no SF It we probably would have loved this but it's not, and there is so we don't,

THE VERDICT If you haven't guessed by now which is, in our opinion, the superior Megadrive beat 'em up, you're a bit of a thicko with the intellectual dexterity of a donkey.

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So, in the battle to decide which is the greatest beat 'em up, Megadrive Street Fighter II stands proud over Mortal Kombat.

Perhaps we're being too harsh M o r t a l Kombot is an absolutely superb conversion of the coin-op — it's just that in our opinion, the original coin-op wasn't really up to much... unlike Street Fighter II, which we rote as one of the best coin-ops over produced.

Do you agree o agree? If you feel particulady incensed, angry and confused by this article, write into MEAN YOB at the usual address airing your views. We'll print a selection of the best (and probably the worst, knowing YOB) letters received.

Madden's '96? Mutant League Knitting? Please give every software house you know a slop round the face from me.

Peter Steggle, Knutsford YOB: Bet you're pleased to know EA are pla nning to make sequels to their games into the next century...and beyond!

good — a lot of the stuff I get looks as though it's been drawn by someone we a ring boxing gloves.

THEVOICEOfREASON I we've been hanging Paul out t of the window to see if he attracts ' lightning. But I'm bored enough to delve into s the s festering sock we know as readers' letters, seeing how t many I have to read before I o come across either sense or r joined-up writing. I've been m all afternoon_ The sadhere y ness that prevails doth often o cheese me off. Still, if you u think you can converse with me t and the nation without looking like a total cheeser, s go ahead, write to: I'D LIKE i TO RELIEVE MYSELF IN THIS d ENVELOPE MAILBAG, MEAN e MACHINES SEGA, PRIORY , COURT, 30- 32 FARRINGDON a LANE, LONDON, EC1R 3AU. n d

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Dear YOB I bought issue 11 of MEAN MACHINES and found that you'd printed my picture of Desert Strike, However, I was horrified to find my work was labelled as 'anonymous', I found that really weird as I had written my details on the reverse of the envelope ond on a separate piece of paper. I hope, given this information and give me credit for my work.

Peter Johnson, Liverpool YOB: Be still a nd tre mble no more! Now everyone shall know of the Peter Johnsondrawing-scandal.

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Door YOB, Scream! I am absolutely fed-up with these pointless sequels and updates churned out by software houses. Can't they understand that people want NEW games, not re-hashes of old ones? It's really getting on my nerves, especially EA. I mean, if this sort of thing carries on, what next?

John

SC I KTODEATH Dear YOB, I am sick to death of adults like my parents going on about my Megadrive, saying things like You shouldn't play on that thing all day, it's for babies'. I don't think it's that bad! I play it just because I don't hove anything else to do. Also, when will you'll

be reviewing Robocop vs Terminotor and what rating will it get?

Mark Pugh, East Horn YOB: Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGroo, wha t-a -pile -of-tos s .

Thanks for sharing your 'pearls' of wisdom with us. Well worth the price of a stamp. The

lads'll be reviewing Robocop versus the Terminator next month.

/ MESHERRIOTTREATA MENT Dear YOB, I wont to tell everyone in the whole world what a complete pain in the neck my English teacher is. He is determined to get rid of computers, handhelds the lot. He even said that if he ever spotted a person in class with a Gameboy or Game Gear he'd give them two hours detention. It's like he doesn't want anybody to have any sort of entertainment at all, as he thinks this kind of equipment rots the brain. He hasn't got a clue about games, only that he reckons they makes kids violent. He even had the nerve to accuse me of playing games in his class when I was just looking for a pencil sharpener, So please, please, please tell all the teachers who hassle innocent kids that they're in the wrong.

Richard Stevenson YOB: Your English teacher sounds very strange to me — you know, the sort of person who likes to be the hind e nd of a pa ntomime horse, pa ra ding a round the Yorkshire Dales waiting for James Herriot to stick his o r , excuse me. I was ge tting carried away there.

RIP-OffSENSATION Dear YOB, I hove just a few points to make about the Megodrive 2 and Mego-CD 2 A few days ago I was flicking through a catologue when I come across the

computer section and saw these new machines. Great, I thought, until I sow the prices. They where the some as the old ones! How can this be? A few months ago you said they were going to be cheaper because Sego hod cut out some of the more expensive features. Why ore they so much cheaper in Japan, are we being ripped off? Come on Sega, how can you justify keeping the prices the same?

on the face of humanity like you, wanting to know tra inspotter facts about ga me s that ha v e n't even be e n programmed. Just read the ma g, and you'll be alright. Better still, perform a DIY lobotomy with a Tupperware bowl a nd a pota to peeler.

Andrew T, West Yorkshire

Dear YOB, I don't want to sound like a thickie or anything, but what the hell is this Sego pirote TV business oil about? Is it me or ore they just confusing adverts hosted by some sad lot bloke with greasy hair?

No name man YOB: Despite your best efforts, you did sound like a complete "thickie".

YOB: The proble m is the Japanese currency. Everything gets ma de in Japan, so we have to buy their lurvely Japanese goods with our pitiful Englisher pounds. As long as the yen is strong, we have to suffer. Personally, I blame Thatcher...

CAGEYSEGA Dear YOB, How come Sego are so cagey when it comes to new games?

I'm sure the rest of the gaming world would like to know if they are planning a Sonic 3, or what size cart Streets Of Rage 3 will be. Its not as if they have any serious competition when it comes to Sego games.

Mr no address

YOB: They're not cagey — they've just got better things to do tha n talk to skidmorks

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BESTOFBRITISH Dear V OL Do Sego actually produce any games in this country? Most of the games I have seem to be progrommed in America (John Maddens, NHLPA Hockey) or Japan (Sonic, Thunderforce IV).

Why aren't there any British

games? Most Amiga and PC games ore written here.

Roger Wilson, Huddersfield YOB: Sego don't directly, but companies like Core, Accolade, Sony a nd EA do. Games like Populous II, Robocod and Thunde rha wk ore all best of British. YOB certainly wants to see more UK games, but only If they are of high quality. Ma ny more Cackulas a nd I'll be emigrating.

BOBBYDAVROS Deor YOB, Why is it that people like that Shelley woman think they should interfere with our lives by telling us what we should and shouldn't ploy?

Personally I don't

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dump for what she gets up to, so why should she care what I do in my own time?

Marting Wilton, Cirencester.

YOB: Praise be! MEAN MACHINES will soon be offe ring its readers a special da y out with Shelley, followed by tickets to Bobby Davro in his summer season spectacular.

Enjoy!

MEGADRIVEMADNESS Dear YOB, I made the mistake of leaving my Megadrive lying on the floor

while I went to the toilet. When I con back I found that my baby brother had ripped the cortridge out without switching the machine off. Now when I switch it on nothing happens. Is it broken? If it is is there anything I con about it?

Peter Yale, York.

YOB: My expert knowledge tells me it could be broken — purely on the evidence tha t it doesn't work. I can offer you two options: ge t it fixed, or don't. There, helpful or what?

CERTIFIED Dear YOB, I'd just like to soy that I bought a

copy of Night Trap yesterday, and despite being 11, wasn't

asked about my age

William Roker, Leeds YOB: It's a fa ir cop guy! Just make sure you hold on adult's hand a nd we a r a pa ir of plastic jocks when you play it — its s000 frighte ning!

CHEESEDOHWITH SEGA Dear YOB,

I just want to congratulate you on helping produce the biggest and best Sego meg money con buy (How to get your letter printed in one easy lesson — YOB). I have bought ever issue and I'm chuffed to bits with oll of them.

Once again MEAN MACHINES

hove proved themselves to be the best by getting the first pictures of Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting.

I'm a bit cheesed off with Sego at

the moment. The reason is that they are not getting enough games for the Mega-CD on the shelves. When I bought my machine I did not realise that I was going to hove to wait three

months before any decent games come out I hove been playing computer games for ten years and I have made up some of my own with pictures and details of all the

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characters and level etc. I am looking for a suitable company to end my ideas to, Could you please recommend me one that in your opinion would be ideal as your experience and knowledge would be of a great help, Peter Howard. Rayleigh, Essex YOB:Yes, Sega were a bit sad with the ir Me ga -CD releases straight a fte r the machine was released. However, there's plenty of stuff out now and a n average of a bout four/five releases a month from now on. As for sending your ideas off, I have yet to hear of a story of a ga me being developed from a n idea sent in by a games fan.

You could try Virgin Games, Sega or EA — just don't gel your hopes up.

PLAYGAMESORNICK CARS Dear MEAN YOB, What really does my head in is people going on about too much games playing — what a load of crap. I don't know if this is jut a coincidence but about a year ago, I just sot on my ass ploying games while my brother went out every night. There is only a two year age gap with me the youngest, now my brother's in prison and I'm still sitting on my ass playing computer games. So what do people want: their kids playing games or nicking cars?

Oh and what's your opinion?

Andy Winfield, Staffs.

YOB:What a chilling story. I

me the most — your brother's lawbreaking tomfoolery or the me nta l ima ge of you sitting on your lardy ass playing games all day. Yes, gamesplaying is a la ugh but there is more to life — a nd it doesn't have to involve car theft. I guess you'll understand when your me nta l faculties have developed a bit.

vREYEDAMAGESHOCK Dear YOB,

What wonderful choppies Sega are, bringing us marvellous hardware such as the Saturn and Mega-CD. But I saw shocked to read that their up-and-coming home VR system is actuolly 'dangerous'. Yes, you heard me, 'dangerous'!

No, it doesn't turn people into

crazed psychos as a Mrs Shelley might have thought. Apparently it can actually damage eye sight and cause permanent squints.

Now what I want to know is, is there any truth in it, because I don't want to fork out 1200 on something that's going to damage my eyes.

Christian Ward, Wolverhampton.

YOB:Well, too much of a ny thing isn't good for you. By limiting your time on the equipment, the risk becomes negligible. If you're some kind of drooling vegetable with a VP headset on all day, you're bound to suffer — if only by having the mick be ing taken out of you for looking totally sad. O h by

don't know what appals

the way, sorry about the r Mystic a bout o m YOB m i comment p you last month, but it was just t too funny to pass up. . w

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Give me answers from who two london yob; O.K. meg is in a cas-

tle fingers more than thumbs Joke time's funny Anon YOB: To think, this gibbering retarded specimen decided to put pen to pa pe r and spent 24p on a stamp.

MEGADRIvENATION CONFUSED Dear YOB, Your magazine has managed to single hondedly plunge myself and most of the Megodrive notion into complete confusion.

What I am referring to is your review of Gunstor Heroes in issue 12 How come the Megadrive can suddenly produce, and I quote "remarkable scaling and rotation that put even the Super NES to shame".

As I understood the Megadrive has NOT got the custom chips to perform such o task and that is why I have just forked out C280 on a Mega-CD for the privilege of custom chips, etc. Now if the Megodrive can do it onyway why weren't we told and why has it been kept quiet up until now?

Please explain!

Yours confusingly, Graham Haw, South Shields, Tyne and Wear.

YOB: Wha t the lads me a nt was tha t Gunstar Heroes is even more a ma zing because it carries out these a ma zing graphics tricks without custom chips. There you go.

GROPIN'GORDON WRT IES Yo YOB, My name's Gropin' Gorden and I have the following computers: Spectrum, C64, MSII. There's a fat lardcake at my school called Bary Colins and he says he

C64 is better cause 64K works out better than 8-bit.

Mia Sloblacks, Yellow Cortina

World

A Mare k w Iherie. Maybe Pygaosis sitatoki consider her as a iiraphk artist...

YOB: I'm not surprised this shallow mockery of ma nhood Is an acquaintance of yours.

You both share the intellectual dexterity a nd verbal articu-

lation of a rutting donkey.

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zwINTELLIGENTREPLY Dear YOB, At last! An intelligent reply to Mrs Shelley (MEAN YOB No 12; Paul Kelly). Somebody has realised that the way to defeat her is to respond in a language that she con understond, but more than that in a way that she cannot argue against. I am worried about the effect she has had on

parents whose children own a Megodrive, but I am more concerned about the domoging effect on my faith. I am a Christian and own a Megadrive. I can't see a problem with that. I don't let it get in the way of my church activities but that's my own business. I am shocked and hurt by that fact that what I am doing is, according to her, 'of the devil'. Now, if oil I did all day was play computer games then no doubt it would be damaging — not only to me but to my family. I'm sure I can say that on behalf of everyone as we all cherish our families more than our Megadrivest Anyway, I lust thought you might like a view from the other side of the other side if you see what I mean!

Matthew Manor, Cheadle

Hulme, Cheshire.

YOB: Well that's the e nd of that. Any more letters from or mentioning Shelley will now be consigned to Rodion's desk to join the festering mound of refuse already there.

HARRODINDAVROS SHOCKER Dear YOB, Please can you tell me where I can get the Daleks which were shown in the September issue, I think they're excellent! Also, which game can you recommend to me from the following: Buster's Hidden Treasure, Jurassic Park, Jungle Book and Chuck Rock I Con you tell me if there is going to be a Jungle Strike Chris Wright, Boldock, Hertfordshire YOB: Funnily enough, the Daleks featured belong to a certain Ga ry Ha rrod, a rt e ditor of NINTE NDO MAGAZINE SYSTEM a nd special guest a rt editor for our Street Fighter II mag this month. They were a birthday present bought by the te a m to remind him of his Davros-like playing skills. We got the m at Forbidden Planet for a wallet-busting £32.00.

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Phillip Eno, Warrington

JAZ: Hmmmm. There are no plans a t all for a Megodriv e version of Elite, although if you're lucky, Konami might release Elite U. Ha v ing seen the Amiga 7200 game, it

would really need the DSP chip.

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Danny Daniels J AZ:l. We 'v e he a rd rumours knowledge he needs to wr ite this section- Yes, it's • a b o u t something along these Lobsang Jaz, grand inquisitor of the Q+A section e- lines, but believe me, the device will never see the light and a ll round good egg. All he asks for is his we e k . of day in the shops if Nintendo or Sega have anything to do ly bowl of rice and a plentiful supply of questions. with it. No one has seen much of the 3 0 0 in action, although Se keep him busy by „sending your queries and me a nd Rich ha d a sneak preview of some of (A's titles a t packets of Uncle Ben's to: Pass the Anusol To Ease the ECTS show. Rood Rash • 3 0 0 looked amazing a t the My Bulging Grapes, Q+A , MEAN MACHINES, Priory CES a nd EA are now saying z that it's ten times be tte r than Court, 3 0 .3 2 Farringdon Lane, LondeA, B OA 3AU. that! The machine should cost around E400 to £500. There is no such thing as the Ninte ndo Drive, by the way. As for as 4 Dear Joz, Dear Joz, Saturn info goes, we 'v e First off, could you tell me if any I've already got my Megodrive already brought you most of company is planning to produce and I'm plonning to get a Megathe info we had. However, Megadrive version of the clot • CD. I'm uncertain about a couple we're getting more info every sic game Elite? Secondly, why is of things, though, so could you week from our Japanese corit Sega no longer produce the

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Deor Jazza. r.r. Could you please answer some questions for me.

1. Will a machine that ploys Meoadrive, Master System, SNES and NES games be made, as I have read about such a thing in other magazines.

2 How much will 3 0 0 cost, and is it any good?

3 is there any more news on the -. Sega 32-bit machine?

4. Will the Nintendo Drive hove more advanced chips than the bi Mega-CD? i t

answer my questions?

1. Will the Mega-CD 2 be compatible with the old Megodrive?

2. When will the Capcom six-button joystick be released?

3, Will there be any other games that will work with it?

4. Will Final Fight?, Sim City and X-Wing be coming out on she Megadrive or Mego-CD? 5. When are you going to review Monkey Island on CD? Mark Jones, Glasgow, JAZ: 7. Yes 2. Probably around

Christmas time — sooner on import, I 'd expect. 3. All buttons compatible with the sixbutton joypaci will. 4. No, although Rebel Assautt is coming out on Me ga -CD. 5.

Hopefully in our Christmas issue.

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excellent Phantasy Star III? I hove scoured every mail order company for this game with no success.

Some even admitted there's a greot demand for the game. so

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respondent. More soon.

DUMP IITE DoorJOZ, Please could you answer these very hard (bat not too hard for you) questions.

1, Is Sego's new DSP chip better than the Super FX chip?

2. Is Virtue Racing on the Megadrive looking better than Star Fox on the SNES? 3. Will Megodrive Jirtua Racing be as fast as the coin-op?

4. What is the blood cheat for Mortal

So,chuck a fireball at nte would you?

Kombut on the Megadrive?

5. The Megodrive's really getting on a bit now, how long do you think it has left?

6. Is the Saturn going to be as good as 3D0?

Daniel Norris, Cohndale.

JAZ: 1. I ha v e n't got the specs for DSP, although my sources at Sega say that it is indeed better. 2. "Looking better", wha t do you mean? 3.

Hopefully — some compromises have been ma de with detail to bring you the speed of the coin-op. 4. O n the screen tha t goes on a bout the code of Mortal Komba t press

A, B, A, C, lk, B, B. 5. Good question — it's bound to be superceded by machines like 3 0 0 a nd Saturn — but these machines are going to be a lot

more expensive than your £130 Megadrive... 6. Since 3 0 0 is out 15 months prior to

Saturn, Sega have got to make it better.

DUMP ITUR LQRD Dear Jaz, This is the fifth time I've written to you, so could you pleose answer my questions.

1, I have a turbo joypad with three normal buttons and three turbo buttons Could I use it os a six-button pad for Street Fighter 2?

2. When will the following games come out: Jungle Strike, Final Fight CD, WWF Rage In The Cage CD, Mortal Kom bat CD and Street Fighter Hyper CD. 3. Could you give me some info

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Dear Jaz, Con you help me, as no one else seems able to? I recently bought Tiny Toons on the Megadrive after seeing the review in Mean Machines I rushed home an stuffed in my Japanese machine only to find it didn't work. The Konomi logo appeared and it locked-up after that. I tried it °gain on my brothers English machine and it worked perfectly, so t rang the shop and they told me that the cartridge contained a special new chip to stop people buying imported games. It didn't say anything on the box, though, so is this true?

Gareth Bevan, Hull JAZ: All Konami games have import protection - that is, the game contains code that finds out what type of machine you're using (official, import) and then locks up if the cart doesn't match it.

There is no special chip. You can phone up an import shop and get them to add special switches to your Megadrive in order to "convert" it into any machine - UK, Jap or USA. It costs a fair bit, but it does work with all games - guaranteed.

on the Sega VR system?

4. Do you think this censorship lark will catch on?

Matthew Glass, Eccieshoit JAZ: P. No you cannot. 2. Apart from "Street Fighter Hyper CD" which you've made up, most of them should be out by the beginning of next year. 3.

There's not really much more can add to Rich's CES report.

4. The industry wants to be seen as responsible and Sega ore taking it quite seriously, so it probably will.

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Dear Jai, I'm going to America soon and I wont to bring some stuff back with me, but I'm uncertain about a few things.

1. Will the US versions of Cool Spot and Flashback work on a UK machine?

2. Con I use (

go-CD 2 with my UK god rive? ichael Kemp, Taniworth.

JAZ: I . Er, I think you're okay with Flashback, but Cool Spot, like all Virgin Games of late, is protected. 2. Only if you're going to use the CDX converter. Be careful with your power supplies - you should be okay if you stick to Sega power packs.

LIITE NIGHT SECRET DUMPING Dear Jana, Please can you print this letter as I need the answers, 1. Will French games work on my UK machine?

2. Are EA going to be bringing out any more games in the Desert Strike/Jungle Strike series?

3. Do you like Quantum leap?

4. Why do EA carts have little yellow togs on the side?

Geoffrey Paddison, Alsoger, JAZ: 1. Don't see why not. 2.

Jungle Strike's gone down really well, so I guess they will. 4. Because EA hove their own plastic cart mould that's why.

DUMPED gIN Dear larao, Please could you answer a few questions for me.

1. After catching all 95 Augs in Night Trap we find the game had

the usual ending. Does this meon there will be a Night Trap 2?

2. What is Willy Beamish like on Mega-CO? 3. Is the Sego Saturn any good?

4. Please, please, please give me the address or telephone number of Kelly (Dana Plato) from Night Trap.

1 Paul and Michael 4 4 Stafford , Rennard, Leeds JAZ: 1. Perhaps. 2. Pretty cocky really. 3. The spec looks amazing and the information we keep getting in about the machine is simply stunning. 4.

Be off with you, you forlorn individual.

DUMPED IN Dear JOZ Pleose could you give me some details on the following games.

1. Will the excellent PC golf game Links be appearing on the Megadrive or Mega-CD? 2. Are the coin-ops Phoenix and Xorgon wars available on any * consoles.

3. When will there be a larger range of games for the MegaCD. Cohn No-one JAZZ 1. Nope. 2. Phoenix is out on the Atari VCS, but I guess that's not really what you wanted to hear. 3. That's a bit of a stupid question. As time goes by, more Mego-CD titles are bound to be released.

Dear Jaz, Please, please pleose answer these questions for me. ). I recently bought Terminotor 7 the arcade game, do you think that was wise?

2 Will Robocop vs Terminator be better than General Chaos?

3, Is Mortal Kombat better than Street Fighter on the Megodrive?

Peter Renn, London JAZ: 1. Not particularly. 2.

They are completely different games - you can't really compare them. 3. No it is not at all.

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W this section of the magazine? Some mysterious force or the mark of genius? Witnesses of the proh found manuscripts sent by our prolific regulars all testify to un-ploceble yet distinct feelings of discomfort. aIt's a strange phenomena that raises many questions, most of which are better left in the shadows from whence they came. Games featured amid this month's curiously inspired ramblings ore Cool Spot, Rocket t knight Adventures and something astonishing for Super Monaco II. Are strange voices speaking to you at enight? Is every waking thought haunted by revelations applying to games strewn about the bedroom? If x fancy the chance of winning a couple of superb Electronic Arts carts, send everything — all excepting you aused tissues — to: TAKE ME TO YOUR READERS, MEAN MACHINES TIPS SECTION, PRIORY COURT, 30-32 FARRINGDON c LANE, LONDON, ECIR 3AU. t l y Paul Prunty is blunt and to the i Jonathan FrescoIla saves us the trou.point No messing, he just banged s ble of playing right the way through these two pass-codes for Bulls vs i Lakers on a post card and sent it Bubsy's adventure with this okay list t of all five passcodes: in. SXMBBBBF triggers the end of t Chapter 3: SCINYMN game sequence and SXSBEBBC ploces the player as Bulls in the h Chapter 6: JMDKRK final against Blazers with a 3-0 Chapter 9: DBKRRB a lead. Thanks Pau.... oh, he's off Chapter 12: SUMBG t Chapter 15; BTCLMB already! p u s h e s p e o p l e o f

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COOLSPOT Behind the shiny, happy exterior present ed by Virgin's Cool Spot is quite a respectable challenge. Adorn Roys is ki enough to reveal the secret of infinite lives ond invincibility. Start the game as usual. Next pouse the game and press ABC, BAC, ABC, BAC. A noise is heard and the level is automatically completed. Upon the start of the next level Spot is invincible and possesses infinite lives. Adam reckons this cheat is possible on any level!

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FATALFURY From a spectacular location in Ireland comes a similarly striking cheat for Fatal Fury. Thomas Kelly of County Tyrone writes saying that a different ending for the game is seen by keeping the throw button pressed after defeating Geese Howard, However if continues are used the cheat doesn't work.

IiiISHBACK ryrTnirTre , "„ii•MPI Before Street Fighter II rumours began, this manic -combatthe game did extremely well on import. For those of you wise enough to own a copy here is the means to discovering both a very easy and mania setting.

Select the options screen then choose EASY difficulty ond 5 continues. Select 8C, 8B and BA from the music test and choose sound 90. This selects the Very Easy setting. For the Mania setting simply reploce EASY with HARD. Oops, almost forgot you there Herdy and Mat Miller!

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Hurray for Ed Lomas! Just when he'd apparently exhausted his incredible powers, Pinky returns with a stage skip discovered whilst under the influence of on evening's fast-food binge. Perform this cheat to order by pressing 8, C, B, A, 8, B, C, 8, A, B. Unpause the game and Mick, Mock or both move onto the next act.

Ed also caters for the impatient among us as he tells of o secret progrommer's screen that allows the selection of both infinite lives and a choice of starting level. With the Sega logo on screen press C, B, A, C, B, A, C, B, A, C, B, A in rapid succession and the option screen appears!

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A discovery of Lester's ability to walk through walls in Flashback has Danny Allen irresistibly contributing his find to one and all. Walk Lester up to a wall then turn him oround so his back is facing said obstocle. Press and hold the fire button and top the D-pad in the direction Lester is facing. Immediately push the D-pad in the reverse direction and release the fire button and Lester proceeds through the want This cheat also works with locked doors!

GOPTHE MONSTERS Hello it's that Paul Holdham again and he's got onother great tip for us again. A hidden 'continues' option is found by pressing A, B ond C then START on the title screen and pressing A to access the options. Now your chosen monster has between three and twelve continues to grapple with.

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Richard Williams, who shares the some name as of my life-long friends funnily enough, has found cheat for this well smart racer. On level eight — the Bermuda Both Tub — towards the end of a lop there lies a yellow tube. Whilst driving his car around the obstacle rather than pass through it young Dick Bills discovered his car drove right off screen and emerged half woy round the track into the next lop!

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MAIN R S gaTec , our sister magazine, actually beat this one but then they probably hired evil omos Guise to steal it form our pigeon hole e post room! The cheat allows players to skip rough the levels and fight only the boss charers On the options screen select SOUND TEST and choose 18. Also have the SE TEST read 72. . Select EXIT, push START and behold the first of r e m a n y , e n d o f 36 l e

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MORTAL KOMBAT In a pitched attempt to end all the phone calls, here are the secret ingredients to a date with the legendary (He wishes!) Reptile: When fighting above the spiked pit the human-controlled character scores two perfect bouts in succession, performing the death move in both. Following this the human-controlled character jumps down into the pit to where Reptile awaits! The one clause in the deal is Santo Claus who is required to fly across the skyline during one of the bouts to make the cheat work. Another method, that of scoring four lots of two perfects before reaching Goro, is less reliable. Roland Mawlabaux is the fighter to credit for this.

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ROWTOTHE RESCUE Free-falling 'phant: Dohl Its so annoying that Electronic Arts deprived this excellent game of o battery , back-upl It takes hours of ploy to complete because of thisl Still Carl Young is at hood to explain away a problem or three. For example, he knows how to get those three pesky 1-UPs in the third forest area — the ones placed high in the tree that even the sassinfrossin rabbit can't reach! The waterfall to the left of the ninth tree along is the secret. By dropping Robo down tha waterfall and pressing hard left as he falls the jolly tusk is transported to a point above the ninth tree where he drops onto them there lives!

Bolo travels the underground: The penultimate area of the forest level hides a shortcut to the canyons. Mole digs a hole through the first wall to the left through which Rob o trots and leaps over the exit sign. Here he encounters another wall which Mole dutifully digs on through. Role now enters a room containing a washing machine. This shrinks Robo and allows him to double back on himself where he eventually passes through a narrow passage. Bounding over another exit sign, Rob hops into a mine-cart which leads him to the canyons where many extra lives and bonus points await, Secret Squirrel: Unfortunately this most excellent of cartoon Stars does not make an appearance. Rather the squirrel discovers a room stocked with bonuses during the second piece of the forest jigsaw. At the end of the level there is a wall that the squirrel climbs at the top of which is a hidden entrance to the bonus room.

TURTLESHYPERSTONEHEIST Hardy and Mat Miller tread the boards with this stage select for one of Konami's fine titles. When the Konami logo is screened press the C button once, the B button twice, press the A button three times then B, A ond START. A hidden option screen appears from which any stage is selectable.

SLAPFIGHT Believe it or not a third version of this classic title is programmed into the Megodrive cart. Called TOAPLAN mode (TOAPLAN ore the original programming team) this is accessed by pressing buttons A, B and C together with the cursor lined up with 'control setting'. Cod

EGADRIVE TIPS Sonic II, eh? Only Ed Lomas could be so bold! Apparently he's already sent this cheat in twice and can't understand why we haven't printed it before, even though it works!

Alright, already! On the two-playe split-screen mode allow either S or Toils to finish on act but let the other character lose every last life by deliberately killing them off. After stripping them of oil their lives the GAME OVER message appears, which is obvious really Ed, and the scores ore displayed. The next level starts and the player who lost all the lives now has on almost infinite supply of credits! Ed mentions that the cheat is possible with both players so the n't stop should lose all their lives.

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SUPERMONACO CP This unbelievable cheat allows the motorbike featured in Super Hang-On to roce alongside the cors in Super Monaco Grand Prixl Enter HANG-ON as your nome for the World Championship and save it. Now reset the machine. Do not switch it off! Now select free-practice image-training and the grid. Press DOWN and A on the 0-pod until the transmission select screen is displayed. Select transmission as n j w i e n d 1 0 - 0 1

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Sean McKonna's lip: Score a hole in one by selecting a two iron at the tee and taking a Punch shot. Unbelievable but true, says McKenna — So long as maximum strength is used, the bock-swing as near to the centre as possible and the boll stays within the fairway.

Okay, look. Everybody has got to read this - McKenna's insane banter about who knows what: 'Due to a financial ressestion personalty, and the demand for Deomon charmer's (My Proff ) I am in turmoil as I con feel a whole family style network of Demi-holes on PGA II. I also gain conferdance from my portener in Seeking Game Demons Who sweares to know the exact Location of a monic surge on course I of PGA can only wait and hope, my fate lies with you 'Let's go Demon-bashing on PGA •Demon dwelling — a hole where the expected Eagle turn's to a baffling bogey. "major Tip — Extract a demon + reverse the polarity, le = minus - plus return - the demon successfully and open the gates of reality "Outcome - Achieve the impossible.

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SOPPEACE Surely Ed Lomas is discovering more cheats for Sol Feace than there ore actually programmed into the game! This one makes the ship not only invincible but totally invincible! Ed, I'm asking you what's the difference? Bong in the level select cheat (A, 13, C, A, 8, C, 8, C, B, A) and select the configuration screen. Highlight MODE and press RIGHT on the 0-pad until MY99 is displayed. Hold down the A button and

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As the inimitable Polterguy. you can activate up to 400 supernatural fright items

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ORIGIN Care Design already has a genial sinned Thunderhavrit available

peep Core Desi a there are many problems requiring a solution on this planet of ours.

Rather than dwell sal upon the likes of end ing drug Baron's reigns, thwarting some major invasion or rescuing small villages from evil tyrants, Core's first real Mega-CD title provides the player with the tool to and to it all. At the helm of the Thuncierhowlt p r o t o t y p e helkopter gunship — Mega-CD owning mercenaries now storm into battle against everything and anything that moves.

Through ten assorted operations, incorporating 48 separate tasks, the Thunderhawk's pilot undertakes salvage missions and defends innocent people from exploitation in places ranging from South East Asia to frozen Alaska. Seeing as the 4 .

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PANAMA CANAL: CANAL CRISIS Imagine the chaos of a city without bananas! This is potentially the case in Panama as warring factions attack all merchant shipping passing up and down this stretch of water Enemy gunboats, water mines and SAM (surface to Air Missiles) sites are the targets here.

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Consequently the boredom threshold is crossed very early in the game.

Thunderhawk is awesome to watch, sonically extravagant but is downed in the fun department - almost, nearly but not quite the killer I had hoped for.

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turing at all. Still, justice must prevail and so the guerrilla troops, currently enjoying what little the town has on offer, ore soundly blasted from their strongholds and convinced never to try this kind of gag again! In between Thunderhowk and the towttere determined tank divisions and the like and a bridge is sacrificed to prevent any further domage to this precious Central American V; v n .

sourrn AMEMCA: A I M S RUNNING The legs of a thousand South Americans are fleeing their homeland due to terrorists behaving as only terrorists know how, courtesy of arms running hostile farces. Five missions bring this dread situation to a standstill allowing the South Americans a safe return home.

Another wily tank thief foiled by those guys from Chubb and Yale.

A US hieresearch lob under threat fro just about everything the enemy has to offer. This could mean on end to the many strange and unthinkable experiments going down in this vicinity.

Perhaps it's just as well! Still, duty calls and the Thunderhawk once again takes to the skies and routs all and sundry before they can \ I : e t t h e i As mentioned eorlier, the r Thunderhawk is required so w solve the problems found in ten locations worldo wide, Each has its own o list of prime directives., l Here's a brief lowl down: y g l o v e s o n a n y t o p s e c r e SOUTH AMERICA: NTEALni DOWN t 'MEM , Looming trees b make a nuisance of themi selves in this locao tion as do Surface to Air Missile l sites camouflaged by dense o forestation and well disguised g patrol tanks. The point of this i operation is to destroy the enemy c base where scientists ore excitedl a deciphering the workings of the Stealth machine in the hope of con ng semi l their own evil purpose. f fi h d ‘ 11Ic e 1 e s 1 i t MPA SEGA 4 3 i / g .

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Well if it isn't another besieged town in the middle of nowhere! This time round the inhabitants don't seem bothered at all by their misfortune, so long as they get their three meals a day and plenty of fizzy pop! A convoy of trucks from some of the world's most renowned supermarkets is on its way to with massive supples of everything. Defend this convoy, resisting the temptation of going on an all-out, gookVz st ro yi n g b o n a n z a t h a t m i g h t f o r f e i t t h e c o SMITH FAST ASIA: CHEMICAL n v I WAHFALT: o e nearest y most of us get to ' chemical warfare are s the results of hot curries and too p much lemonade. In South Eost r Asio, chemical weapons ore constructed with the aim of being o considerably more deadly. The t victims certainly can't lough the e likes of nerve gos off in a hurry. c Byfirst knocking out the enemy radar stations the chemical weapons assembly plant is themomn t iN o o ll n :g .e4t4 MI A SEGA i

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Simply taking care of all the primary targets in this instance is worthless if the UN transport is shot down, in which case all of the player's efforts are a big waste of time!

, MI111111 FAST: OIL loismrrE Oil refineries are sitting ducks for terrorist attack, especially when terrorists hove access to submarines. Only the Thunderhawk. with its MK 54 depth charges, is capable of making sure that this enemy never comes up for oir again! Though elsewhere in the game the Thunderhowk takes advantage of low flying to ovoid radar detection there is not a hope of repeating this success here as the open seas we swimming with gunboats that spot any oncoming at t ack, from miles away!

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11tAIN pirates bothering our UN ship. motes on the open seas and the situation calls upon the heroics of a land-lubber for sinking their festerin' vessels good and proper! Don't go blathering about, wasting time with petty targets in these waters! Go straight f the primary targets — the pirate's main base, situated on on island — before Jolly Rogering 1 0 / V e p i r

TO M I N . Olt SIX, 131113N! To assist in the Thunderhawk's various missions it's armed with six, forms of weaponry; some of which ore prototypes — just like the Thunderhawk itself.

30mm Cannon: The Thunderhawk's standard offence. It's ace for crop busting, tree felling and taking out the odd tank.

Missiles: Ace for taking out helicopters and aeroplanes which are much more manoeuvrable and, therefore, fall better to a swift missile up the exhaust pipe.

Rocket Pods: The office favourite! Sear into the enemy bases and rip them to shreds!!

2501b M K These ore best used for exercises, 8bridge-busting 2 though they do make a nice b o m mess of enemy boses. b s : Runway RCS-233 Cratering System: Good for bombing airways to stop enemy planes taking off.

MK Submarines have no hope of escape when these are rain54 ing down their periscopes!

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Thunderhawk is probably the most rophically mpressive console game I've ever seen.

The graphics are as spec0 t a c u l a r as can be, and really put the Mega-CD to good use. The filmy intros are totally incredible and the In-game graphics follow the trend. Each level has its own colour scheme to compensate for the limited Megadrive palette, and this means there's a wealth of detail. The sprites are great, especially impressive when you realise it's possible to view them from any angle at all (except from underground, of course, what with you being in a helicopter and everything).

Mind you, the old adage "it's gameplay that counts" must eventually rear its head, so what about the game? Well, the control of the chopper is excellent, allowing you plenty of scope for low-level flying, strafing, evasive action and spinning round and round on the spot until you're sick.

There's also loads of missions, with the best being the escort-the-friendly-aircraft and depth-charge dropping strategical-types.

The only problem is that the more shoot 'em up-based missions are too repetitive because there's no structure to them, you just fly around a large, open plan level shooting stuff. That said, Thunderhawk is still an excellent game and definitely worth the investment.

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ORIGIN Snake Rattle ini Roll was first programmed for Nintendess 8-bit entertainment system.

NOWTOCONTROL Bothsnakesmovein relation to thediredionspressedontheDpodandjumpwhenprompted likethegoodsnakestheyare.

Dime Reek or Roll about on homed. rically-vieweel plas•areo and have them munchImarl-stalts and devour bonus °knees lot points.

Slawny flakesonce deserve holiday in aawhile, or so claims a survey token from over three million snakes world-wide, A spokessnake for the survey — a Mr Rattle — concurred that 'Sssnakes are sssick to death of sssiting around in the sssun and sssand each and every day, sssizling to the sssound of cricketsss, cactusssesss and the like - I suimply can't remember the lassst time I laughed at a friendsss holiday usnopsss Wsss ssshamefull' Luckily for Mr Rattle and the millions like him, leisure centres are being openened in deserts across the globe in which one or two snakes may partake in a little, light-hearted competition.

The centres provide their slimey guests with as mi;ch food as they con eat and other fantastic bonus prizes. Indeed they. makp the great British holiday camps look tame in comparison! However interested p art ies that there are some risks involved. Most areas of the holiday complexes feature f deadly no-go areas that ore fatal to a snakes tender body. b re wdrops a r and n erock-ridden, d Still it's a luxury denied to our reptilian brothers until now, so join us in wishing them many a happy visit and we y won't fall into too much danger during their stay.

Food is served in the form of Pibbles — lively balls of assorted colours whose behaviour patterns change for each area visited. Pibbles hide beneath hatches in the floor and spring into oction once disturbed.

Whole colonies of Pibbles dwelling beneath more remote hatches are also rumoured to exhist.

Strangely the snakes find delight in licking feet as a compliment to their diet.

Prolonged slurping dissolves feet and the chance of extended pleasure in the leisure centre is deposited in the form of an extra life, Freaky.

RIVE REV EW • O M M E N T Here Is a fun, bizarre and often funny game that is attractive in spite of its basic looks.

Although lightning fast in its response, the control method Is pretty poor in that it is often confusing. This problem Is worsened by the strange perspective found in some Instances and so many an unexpected demise is a regular occurence. It's a shame that Rare have ignored the Megadrive's superior graphics and sound capabilitites too — there really aren't any differences between this and the NES version. Tsicl Rattle 'n' Roll are a laugh, the puzzles they encounter are interesting enough and really there is nothing else quite like their game available for the Megadrive at this point in time. For these reasons I'd recommend that players seek the game out, though it's not a priority.

Pibbles aren't the sole proprietors of the spaces beneath botches.

Bonus goods and other snake-assisting paraphernalia lurks there too. Extra exploration time is provided upon the discovery of a clock, crash helmets offer invincibility and clock-winders boost a snake's speed for a whilel How much fun can two snakes handle?

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The reason was simple: Gauntlet allowed four people to engage in o wonderful fantasy maze adventure -- facing more enemies per square foot than had ever been seen before. And there was also no such thing as 'Game Over'. As long as you were prepared to shove money into the machine, you were in "Hello I'm a walk yrie actually. " "Tett! WellPnoRobin Home the game Everybody wanted one But They were very big machines. Some mugs gave them away as competition prizes. The winners had to have sheds built to accomodate them. Since then the game has been converted to umpteen machines and has had a charmed life in all its incarnations. But none has ever replicoted that old • G a u n t l e t spirit before. None has hod that eerie voice echoing: 'Valkyrie, your life force is running out.. Elf is about to die'. Until now...

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DOUBLE,DOUBLE TOILANDTROUBLE! Gauntlet uses the new Sega Tap to allow four player simultaneous action. 'Players can join in anytime" as the mon says, but they all must stay on the same screen.

GUS ' going to be. This IS the coin-op in your frontdroom. Every feature of the original is here, including " ' the atmosphere and amazing playability. To my delight, I've noticed someone gave the characters their personalities back. The Megadrive is the first machine to capture Gauntlet, and howl The graphics are perfect. They may look a little ordinary, but even now, seeing all those things move on screen at once is humbling. The extra Quest and Battle games are not lust gimmicks — they are excellent games in their own right. The range of options is so utterly vast, that this must be the best presented game on the system. You can change everything from health points per credit, the name of your chore and there are eight skill lev.

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are required to prove their mastery over the Puyo Puyo by persuading the jelly-like beings into forming strings of , f o u r or more After so much freedom, the Huy() Puyo aren't likely to kJlo w suit so easily!

Puyo Puyo is a game for one or two players in which the fight for control over jelly-like blobs takes pace in both co-Operative or simultaneous-play situations.

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But sometimes small Improvements reap large benefits, and that can be the only explanation as to why Puyo Puyo has been played constantly this month. The two-player head-to-head is Columns in a new class of its own. Throwing a massive •Cantona' that buries your opponent, or fighting it out at the very brim of the trenches is an , experience that Columns could never aspire to. Apart from that the game has great charm. The weird characters are great — I love Tara the aggressive fish, and the little bloke in the centre is a constant source of amusement.

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The crazy boss contraptions are all made of bamboo, ships sport pagoda roofs and the soundtrack has been played on genuine Oriental instruments . There's so much attention to detail. Raccoons fiddle in their pockets before pulling out catapults, or perform breathing exercises before diving off a cliff.

What's more, Keio Flying Squadron is a tough blasting challenge. The screen is always packed with baddies and it really takes lime working out the bosses weak spots.

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Dizzy is the star of many a Sinclair Spectrum game.

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L depressed ike some kind of demented and extremely rhinoceros, the EA series of sport Sims trundles on with no sign of stopping. NHLPA '94 takes off where '93 left off although you have to look hard to spot the differences. The graphics are the some, the ployability is almost identical and if you've got one of the previous two games you'll know what to expect.

I nee yam. • I I unnema The quescmicnoe tion is, are t S A M )DS4. go we being , 0:NP,Latori.•••1. o c T e o i t ripped off?

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1 P I a m ot I 8 A few minor changes here and there and they've got a whole new product. There are several new play modes, more tournaments, two, three and four-player games if you shell out for the four-player adaptor, and little digitised cameos of the players. Well worth the money, eh?

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Take it from me, it's a pointless purchase unless you're after the four-player Ws not that It's a bad game, Ws lust that the previous Incarnation was far more enloyable. For one thing It had the fighting. Call me violent and shallowminded, but I loved giving any opposing player who stored a ruddy good scudding for being such a smart-ass. If you feel an aspect you can do without, version is the one to look for. Me, * s t i c k i n g with '93.

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The key feature of this version is its compatibility with [As new four-player adopter. Plug in this widget and the extra joypads to play with up to four people in a two-o-side game- While this is an obvious plus point, if you've already got on earlier version of this game, it's a lot of money to lay out on top of the adaptor and extra pods just so you can have a bit of a off with your motes

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missing is the blood that accompanies particularly serious injuries. While it was a gratuitous, non-essential part of the game, there was plenty of satisfaction to be hod when you left your opponents star striker shedding bucket loads of blood on the ice! Why has this aspect of the game been left out?

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I hope our off-the-wall review gets across how off-the-wall Zombies is. You'll encounter every B-movie cliche there is over 48 huge levels of action. Thankfully, the gameplay is as inspired as the idea. There's a constant stream of danger, with zombies erupting from under your feet, and chainsaw madmen behind every hedge. There are loads of weapons and objects, each with a right and wrong time to be used. All this challenge and game depth wouldn't rate as highly if it wasn't for the humour and atmosphere. Zombies has got both in huge measure — with suitably cheesy music and just fabulous graphics. Adding a dual player mode is just the icing on the cake. There's not much to say when games ore as addictive and well-programmed as I t ' s b l y the be n d co d uct Konami g a d r i v e

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ORIGIN The original Addams fano total strip was devised Charles Addams in the early '50s. Based on his own family!

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AddamsTo ishim a mon torture of is synonymous with true love and pain the soul mote of pleasure Death has abandoned the I Addams family, having mode numerous appointments with each generation which none have seemed able to attend! The fact that Gomez beloved are being held captive by strange monsters throughout the Addams' abode presents the indomitable Gomez with nothing more than a little intrigue.

Yet when the benign Addoms iscovers that the family fortune • a slightly ruffled Gomez s the kind of steps that only a a s, immortal fiend con! A t ne-seeking judge is out to r 'Cheat the Gomez of the family i easures. Only by releasing his t relcdforTs from their cons within the reftgice are the k dge's cloirnsto *wryest fortune t made null and void Acclaim, in h association with Ocean, present e rather unsophisticated portrayal of the whole crazy situation in the this form n of a platform game. Guide Gomez in his search abroad the enormous mansion and its grounds, using his cunning and guile to — outwit the judge's mercenory ghosts and ghouls. Many locations, a some of which are secret, and their associated surprises await n the click of the fingers and a flick of the Megadrive's power-switch. d o AI & ' I F b C K Y S C I E N T I SI T n , Paisley leeks a l too happy for iskidnap vidim. Just y what lies be been getting up to with t that wacky scientist?! h e n This is a — smooth, slick platform game with decent enough graphics and sound.

The prob4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 =h_ lem is that the concept of this game is extremely ancient and the ..... programmers hove made For the sake of being different, a no attempt to add any for the sake of all domestic animals' safef, aspect of originality to the game. I was really bored 4. i n g ' this intelligent, ex-extremity lives in a box and is occ with the game after a very 1 sionally quite helpful. Thing's short while and I can't realbox is often found in significant 1 ly recommend the cart at all areas — there's loads more 1 throughout the Addams mansion whore Gomez may decent platform games d available (Sonic III, Tiny dcli reabouts and what Toons, Rocket Knight, ultThing aboutfind his e k he might Flashback, Cool Spot... I think you get the idea). m Away with you Addams s Family, away! l o m i l

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Perhaps I'm being to harsh but this product does not warrant the acclaim it received over a year ago and Acclaim would have been wiser not receiving the game from Ocean at all.

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1 1 Door old Sonic. Last year he was the hottest h a l e hog in town.

His platinum-selling Sonic II cartridge rocketed him to • stardom and made both he and his co-star, Tails the Fox, household names. Popular idols for hordes 1 of screaming animal fans Yup, Sonic the Hedgehog was BIG news.

1 row with Tails, Then came the mighty fall. After a massive his two-tailed buddy stormed out of their 1 penthouse burrow claiming Sonic was on untalented spiky pig. With Sonic's 1 only able to get oddcareer spiralling ever downward he was jobs as a selectable icon on various football 1 and tennis games. II all seemed over for the Blue Wonder, until he met HER! Across a crowded woodland 1 bar he sow the most beautiful female hegedhog 1 ever. Their eyes met and they fell in love.

1 Rosy was her name and she was a natural pink. It was she that brought Sonic bock from the brink and helped him relaunch his career with promises of a new game, Sonic CD, sparking Sonicmania once again. But life for our spiky blue pal has never been easy and misfortune struck. The evil Dr Robotnik kidnapped Rosy and threatened to turn her into hedgehamburgers. Now it's up to Sonic to save the day and rescue his love. He won't let her get away, like he did Tails.

Go Sonic, Go!

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I I :ks w it all the Sonic games. Sonic CD has a secret Special T lohne.Accessing it is done in exo4gly the some way as in Inc original Sbnic game. Ouil hedgehog hero must collect fifty and then jump through the giant ring at the end. Viewed I rings from behind Sonic, you guide him around a race-track bashinto UF9s. All of themu s t be hit before a timer runs out.

E Toingmoke things harder th h e r e ore various obstacles like speed romps, bumpers and. a s which actuoliy sop your pretime_ The 3D effect i _ ry erniniscent of Thunderhowk D cious or the driving bits from Batmo et u rn s CD and looks truly t I !incredible CET INTO THE TARNS! E In Sonic CD our spiky blue hero can actually travel through time. This is done by running by either a PAST H orFUTURE sign and then picking up speed. I fSonic maintains a constantly high velocity he starts to spark vanishing, only to reappear in a new time O before zone. For the most part these new eras are identical to present day counterports, but in technologically C their different states. Strangely enough though, this novel time-travelling feature is completely unnecesary to s completing the game. p E SONIC'S SONIC'S! e Seeing as it's on the Mega-CD you'd expect this game to have some excellent sounds and indeed it does. Some of the n •best ever heard on the Mego-CD in fact.

All the music has been composed and performed by a Japanese band called i Miki and sounds like a bizarre combination of the chirpy Sonic-style tunes we m know and love, together with the latest in dance and techno athems. The result is very listenable indeedi •

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Yes the graphics are very flashy and it all plays at an incredible speed, but somehow it lack the soul the other Sonic games possessed. There's nothing new in it. All the levels play almost identically, Ws just a case of rolling through twisty tunnels and loops or walking underwater searching for air-bubbles.

There's nothing to match Innovative little mechanisms that appeared in the first two games, like say, the giant nut and bolt lift from Sonic II. What's more, the saved position and infinite continue option means you can finish this already tooeasy game in one go. What lend could have been a clever time-travel feature has been wasted and the Special Zone is boring and too slow and jerky to be of any fun. Only the cartoon intro and music shine through, but they aren't really an integral part of the game. The previous Sonic games set new standards. Sonic CD fails to reach already average ones. Mope, Sonic CD fails to hit the mark.

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There is nothing game at all and there is a lack of innovation . in it.

Each newnSonic game has contributed e new ideas to the genre,wbut with the exception of the Special i isn't that Zone (which n isn't much great), there here that's t at all new.

That's nothto say that Sonic CD is crap — far from it, it's i excellent to play and the s awesome. The graphics are sound effects and music are totally amazing. The techno rave music is utterly superb — especially when pumped through a decent hi-fi (and It's even better through my surround sound system). * What's more, it is too easy and the save game option reduces lastabilit further.

There is a lot to see in this game though, and the different time zones, although In no way essential to the game, do bring you back to the game. Sonic CD is an excellent CD release — but how about some new, original ideas for Sonic Ill?

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As withwitholl Mega-CD games, Sonic CD features a ra r smart cartoon intro, Reminiscent of the popular Japanese anima look, it tells the story of how Sonic found the Miracle World chained to his own planet, by a suspicious-looking Robotnik-shoped mountain, It doesn't take our hero long to work out who is behind this strange turn of events and he immediately sents off toward the Miracle Planet by running along the giant chain.

e first in a new o f forthcoriing release A ls i n this issue is Sonic pinball, the pinba e r n e based around the Casino Night Zone from Sonic 2. Then early next year comes Dr Robotnik's mean Bean Machine, a columns-style puzzler converted from a Japanese game called Puyo Puyo lwhic vie i s s u e ) . However, biggest and best of all is the Sonic r eiend,is gipmillirdibent t Aist 0 omeus is laalsc controlld by trocit tolls as Sotc Marble• 1 • e a thre y e r • 1 0 1 1 wof all e R vSat,'e r , t

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ORIGIN Acompletely ori9inal game, though with elements of Luca sfilm prope tir a dve lthore s.

! Jo ve a nice holiday this year I d i d you? ClIpmic Spacehead certainly did. Mr Spaceheod thought it would be quite a n i c 4 idea to have a change from the usual country spacecompsites and astrobeaches of his home planet of Linoleum and go on ch. sort of galactic gadabout. So It just got in his little flying saucer and followed his nose. And to his surprise it lead him to our own • humble planet, Earth, which was much spoken of in Linoleum legend, but was still thought to be a subjql of myth: Olblrourse, Cosmic wcraquite literally over the moon to find that he'd discovered the legendary planet Earth, but was also so gobsmackpd that he completely forgot to take any proof of its existence back to his fellow Linoleums. No Mickey Mouse hots with the plastic ears. No furry Spanish donkeys. No Devon toffee& SAID claim his fame (and

Control varies depending on which part of the game you are in. Some bits are platfonwy, SOOMAPG-Ish, some wanly

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possibly some money as well) Cosmic has decided to go bock to Earth, pick up some souvenirs and return, hopefully to crowds of cheering Linoleums and adoring Linoleum ladies. The problem is, he's got no money left after his holiday and no obvious means of transport if it looks like he's rooted to the spot unless you help him out You've got to got C o sm ic t o t h e

Ihe the ;mantes to select consomme in the punk bits and use the loped as normal in the plattonn section.

Linoleum space-bus stop, preferably with a valid ticket, then get him to his half-way point on the asteroid world of Detroitica, orKI from there to a refuelling stop at a space stotion, then onword. t o Earth!

ISH YOU WERE _RINEOLINOLEUM. Linoleum completelybelies its connections with kitchen floor coverings by being a completely lovely _place. Well, perhaps that's going a bit over the top considering it's full of monsters and unhelpful Post Office staff, but if you're stuck somewhere you've got to lump it haven't you Cosmic starts off in Old Lino Town and has to find himself a passport to get him across the border to Formica City. Of course, ports don'tdon'tjust grow on trees, but luckily he storis the gome posse io n of his birth certificate (now that IS lucky!) and all he has tato is find some cash (one linodollor is lying clp the ground in the first screen and that's not bad for a start) to pi* for some pictures to be taken in a Photo-U-like booth. That's on easy problem to solve, but more colpex ones include getting around the planet using the malfunction-prone Teletmnsporter system, the acquisition of a missile targeting device, ond a driving licence (from someone called Shady Lionel). If you solve all those you should find yourself with a bus ticket to Detroitico, so oil you hove to do then is get yourself to the bus depot on thb for side of linoville.

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AW Ar wil l A l o e Cosmic Spocchood is a cu i n g blend and roost of tidier, smoother adventuring with finest quality Arabica arcade gameplay Well, sort of.

The adventure bit is broodly nice Lucasfilm adventura i c h ore based those rotho h on theon Amiga and P . lo Cosmic finds himself in a location which is pictured in the top half of the screen, and you get to gOide him around it using a joypod-driven pointer. .

N u m also interact with objects in the location to solve puzzles.

Julrpoint to them then select a command to use with them from the list of five on the menu. Pick Up, Use, Look, Talk and Give. If he picks up objects they're listed at the foot of the screen in a scrolling list. It's all very simple.

The orcade bits come in when Cosmic leaves one location for another Yes indeed, it's PlatformAction-A-Go-Go os soon as he trips into the stroen next door, and for this bit the _aoint-and-click control sysis abandoned for normal platform game-style controls, r Spaceheaded hero has Wget from one side of a scrolling screen to the other, dodging wondering beasties which boiace around their predetermined paths threatening to nobble hiN. As an added incentive, odd platforms hove a piece of Cosmic Candy on them, and if Cosmic can collect ten of these he's awarded on extra life, • •

What a shame.

Cosmic Spacehead has plenty of intriguing puzzling action, it's very original and R I C H t h e graphics are on the whole quite smart. However, some of the puzzles are just totally illogical, Faced with a massive beast that blocks your path, the solution is to give it a helium baloon! You what? However, the biggest shame with this game is that all it takes is around one day's play — around seven to eight hours at the most to see the game through — that's five quid an hour! For that reason alone, we just can't recommend that you buy this game.

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ilEthow 7 bmil I started off hating this game; the limited and someimes fi d-

dly command system, the annoying way I kept losing it on the platform bits so that I couldn't get to the adventure bits, the intrusive music. But then I got used to it, and even though the puzzles were completely ludicrous (giving a helium balloon to a gigantic monster to make it float away I ask youl) I started enjoying myself. In fact things got better the further I got into it. The quality of the graphics and the music improved, the puzzles became a bit more logical and the platform bits became a bit more manageable. In fact just when I was enjoying it the most... I found I had completed it! I don't know how long Codemasters expected the three levels to last, but I completed all of them in about seven hours of constant play. And it's only when I'd finished did I realise how little was in this game. The first planet lasts

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ore only 15 places to explore. The second is a piece of cake, and the third, well it requires a little bit of but it's hardly tax1 athinking while, even though there sentation of Cosmic Spacehead, but I certainly didn't get E40's worth of gameplay out of it and unless you're a very inexperienced player, I don't think you will either.

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E I N- Q U I C ATIME L fi l i I a l l t GD A_LOVELY Detroitica, homepf sun, ymti and spaceship manufacture.

As Cosmic lands he discovers that the automation system which runs the gigantic starbuggy produten line has gone hoywire and the robot workers hove revolted against their human moster;1 Seeing as he's stranded here, Cosmic may as well help out, and aside from dodging all the gigomatic laser welders his only problem is how to put out the fir/Mt the belly of the vast generator which powers the whole plant Once you've done that you con free the imprisoned workers, borrow a starbuggy and warp to Earth. Or can you?

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ARCADE Wb yo u ' ve Igot your driving licence on lap leum you can enter the bumper cx_races to wiropur ticket tolletroitica. Once inside the bumperdWrie the scree changes to show a race track and, • 1X 1you1have 3 to0bump 1 your way through your little orange vehicle three lops before the timer runs. Its not difficult, but the cars don' corner too well (they hove anti-gravity drives and so everything's 1111 frictionless) and the other drivers are clearly over the legal limit judging by the way they ramble all over the course, apparently at random.

• • A R C A D E EXTRA THREVENGE T w he game and appears as an option on the title screen. The ill Two Pie Splat (as its called) is act u o a reenoctment of Atari classic, Tank tthat h Player except the ePong, r have tanks been !m a t e d by two m di o u r s which ayou and o pal get • ito drive around o maze, shooting nat each other aThere are four . rmazes for you to ctry, but the reaason for Pie Splat's inclusion d is still a mystery. e W e n t d o e s n ' t a c t u a

AGreat inho eel betweenlevel sneers. a clewed, designedpassword system ond even a bonus two-player game_ "Commandsystem is lidd_ly.

GRAPHICS A Alice recreation of 50$ and Qs style

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I f you haven't played PGA Tour Golf before, you're in for a big Surprise as it is universally recognised as the greatest golfing simulation ever devised for the home computers. On the Megodrive, it has even spawned a sequel — PGA Tour Golf II, and it's even more incredible, Now, the golfing magic of the PGA has arrived on the Master System in the guise of this conversion from the guys and gots at Tengen. Does it succeed in bringing the 16-bit magic of the best golf game ever to the 8-bit conic, sole? Or it is a sod shambling 4 1 ' example a c rofaforlorn d l i lampoonery? n g This review intends to let you, the b i r d i e ! discerning Master System-owning MEAN MACHINES reader, know for sure

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PUTT AND PUTTEE If you're rather sod at putting, an option exists to improve your skills by visiting the putting green The console puts the ball randomly on the green ond unsurprisingly, its your job to putt the little blighter.

When you're consistently putting the ball in one 'stroke' be off with you to the main tournament.

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Master System PGA plays every bit as good as any other version I have played and is, in fact, better than the Super NES version!

Though the update of the screen is slow this isn't much of a problem as Golf is more a thinking person's game anyway. Every feature that has made the PGA series is present, if not slightly 'modified' to suit the capabilities of the machine. Therefore it is simple enough to conclude that this is the best simulation of golf available for Sego's 8-bit system.

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This is a very good version of the Megadrive game, capturing the control method of the original perfectly with just about all the features and courses. There are a couple of problems with the game though.

Firstly, the screen update is extremely slow — it takes a good couple of seconds for the screen to form fully.

The actual game window is very small as well, with loads of space wasted, However, there's no doubting that at least some of the PGA magic has made its way over to the Master System, making it a good buy for golf fans.

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PLAYABILmr Four taxing, 18 hole courses ore on offer in PGA Tour Golf — each based on real life events Test your golfing skills on TPC Avenel, PGA West Stadium, TPC Sawgrass and (made up especially for the game) Sterling Shores. The courses range in difficulty from the rather easy TPC Avenel to the golfing hell that is Sterling Shores Aieeel

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DRIVING FORCE

Easyto get into and utterly oddktivit, you'll spend koon playing this one, especially withmime than one player participating.

So, you're a tad sad on the driving front eh? Well, you con practise those gargantuan shots on the driving range. Smock those balls ore hard as is humanly possible and see how far they go. Huzzah!

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ABILITY Four courses to master, which should tuhe some time. The multi-player action is a real lastability mmm.

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On the course, you have a choice of clubs to use from woods to irons to putting wedges and suchlike. Each club has its own qualities, the most obvious being that they hit for different ranges.

The Master System chooses the club most suitable for the range to the hole outomatically, although sometimes a manual choice yields better results.

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Although it's fbI graphically awesome,PGATour Golf on the MasterSystemis an admirable conversion of the incredible Megadrive game.

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ORIGIN Derivative platformer based on two of the topselling comic books around.

HOWTOCONTROL I always get to do this bit and

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eb-slinging around the sprawling metropolis that is New York is the amazing Spider-Mon — Several members of the MEAN MACHINES crw ore esti:Ince pnutographer Peter Parker in t e c r e t avid comics fans and are otways amazed by hovr per 'watered down their heroes appear in video - We ioin him as t t genies - o r arrive owscreer with " extra abilities', down a mysterious inclivid w h o hasbeen syem, p- o they don't have in t r n i c . g i a games o u l d a r e a bit more w e hunting down the n n y X-Men aridc ,.

Wprogrammers e titically . w k s ra fo m e th g n u d ib closely to the original chore n ' t that half the e w ore normal m a n beings born with r nThe e d X-Men r e c k o n point of licensing?

This game w o r s t offender s t in e their ° S i c make-up that a special , c a X-Factor tyet with h two a X-Men t in the wr s t u m e s (Cyclops, gives w, them on extraordina ran g e of super-powers. 'Wolverine), ALL of their powe n o d (SpiderLed o cland at tim St o rm ) , they do battle af by rCyclops •Mancan lift ten tons and pun w a y through against mutant enemies, p acting a world that walls but not in this gam& W i n e ' s healing faci n g f k them hates because they a different. tor is gone and Cyclops' eye s are hundreds of l In this conversion of ih a s h ' Super NES mes more powerful than in g a m e . Csnbitonis o game l nosed on the top-sel c o m i c s title!,. thd allow mockery of his comic rsoopi_ Come player adopts the mantles Spider-Man and four i rogrammers pay X ç tow , attention to r with robot replicastAbigreatest enemies — con trolled by the evil n i u s known only m M you're licensing!

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There have been over 20 X-Men in oil, with a paltry four making their way into this conversion. Joining them is the premier Marvel superhero, the Amazing Spider-Man. In the game, each character hos three stages to fight their way through (except Spidey, who has four!).

SPIDER-MAN lie can stick to the walls, fire off webs and has a premonitional "spider sense" to worn him of danger He con also jump over 30 feet and can punch with the concussive force of an exploding mortar shell (in the comics not in this game) In the game. Spidey battles replicas of Spider-Slayer robots and his recent nemesis — the twisted Carnage!

COMICS TRIVIA Convinced the X-Men were traitors in the Super Heroes Serial Wars limited series, Spidey took on the entire group of X-Men and coned their asses with ease! To quote Wolverine: "He mode us look like fools! Like amateurs!'

Gambit, mon. The coat - yes. The poets - OK. The ipar-rings - NO

WOLVERINE Very fast, agile, with animal-like enhanced senses, Wolverine has a fast-heal ability that enables him to survive many wounds and poisons He also has a skeleton laced with adomantium (the strongest metal in the comics universe) In the game, Wolvie is in a mod fairground/toy room bottling the Juggernaut amongst the other meanies.

COMICS TRIVIA: Wolverine has odumantium claws shot cut through sheet steel like a hot knife through butter. His healing factor retards the ageing process no one knows exactly how old Wolverine is.

CYCLOPS

thatir I've fallen Vic. *hip.

me on Acclaim, this game is over a year old!

It's almost exactly the same as the ageing Super NES game and still has all the faults it had then. The characters' costumes were out of date NO t h en and comics fans are going to be very disheartened by the all their heroes' missing powers. So, the licence (which had incredible potential) has been wasted what's left? A pretty enjoyable and extremely tough platform game. Fair enough b u t is it worth forty quid? In short, no.

There are plenty of superior platform games about (Sonic II, Tiny Toons, Rocket Knight Adventures, Gunstar Heroes, Flashback... I could go on i forever) and this doesn't l measure up. I had a good l hours worth of fun out ail few it, but forty quid is a massi Investment and although I like the game, it simply isn't worth the cash.

A very fit athletic man whose eyes can fire beams of pure concussive force. In the game, Cyclops is locked in on underground mining system and has to use his eyebeams and physical power to outwit the alien guards and destroy the evil Sentinel bosses!

COMICS TRIVIA: Cyclops girlfriend, Jean Grey was killed in space by radiation, reborn as Phoenix, saved the universe then killed billions, commited suicide, lived another life as Madelyn Prior and died agoin! After that, her original body was then found in space in suspended animation (apparently she survived the radiation after all). The amazing world of comics eh?

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COMICS TRIVIA: Picture the scene: Gambit has a spike impaled in his leg. His hands are chained above his head and padlocked. How does he escape? By pulling the spike out with his teeth, dropping it down, catching it with his feel and then using the spike to pock the padlock open with his feet!. See the X-Men series: The 'Extinction Agenda if you don't believe us!

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Unlike Sego's Spider-Man vs the Kingpin and X-Men titles, where the superheroes weild their powers to great effect, this uncanny bunch are shadows of their mighty selves here. Nevertheless Acclaim give Spider-Man and the X tough challenge requiring much skill on the player's Men part.

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FOR SALE FOR SALE Game Gear with 5 top titles, Prince of Persia.

Shinobo II, Kick-Off. Monaco GP, Castle of Illusions, fully boxed with instructions. E110 11nc p&p)_Tel Noel on (0274) 834065, after 5pm MASTER SYSTEM 1 for sale, 2 control sticks. 7 games, including Eswat and RC Grand Prix, E120 ono. Tel. Nick on (06581 520208.

EXCELLENT condition, Fatal Fury for Meoadrive, boxed with instructions. Tel. 071-673 7376.

SNES. 4 games. 2 joypads. convertor worth E350, sell tor CI 80 ono. Tel. Daniel on (04241269679, anytime alter 6pm MASTER SYSTEM. 2 control pads, phaser, Aerial Assault.

Tasmania 4- 2 built-In games. voc. E85. Tel, Jon on (0483) 232936 SEGA GAME GEAR with TV tuner, 3 games and ac adaptor. all boxed, good condition. E700. Tel (0625) 531207 UK IMEGADRIVE. 2 ioypads and Sonic 2 everything boxed with instructions perfect condition, selling for £95 Tel 081•459 1269_ ask for Sup, UK STREETFIGHTER game for SNES, 4 months old. boxed wilIl Instructions. hardly used, selling for E30 Tel 081459 1269. ask for Irene MEGADRIVE. 5 games inc lud Road Rash II. Tecmo WC, , Wrestlemania and Sonic. 2 ng, control pads. E125 ono. also S u Schumacher Pro Cat heavily p e r ready to race. 3 sets modified, of very new speed K cells, i controller, etc E190. Tel c k James on (04421 875692, for -details.

O H GEAR with adaplor. 2GAME . player lead and carry case. worth E90, sell for £45. Tel Man on (0495) 215950.

FOR SALE Jungle Stnke, boxed, compleie as new with codes E31. may swap for recent game Tel i02871 660/83 LOOK. Megadnve games for sale or swap T2, Tazmania, Aiien 13). all E17, Mega games 121E20, also Sega Mencer E25 or swap for the toiiowing Tiny Toons, European Club Soccer or any game all considered. Tel. Shane on (0925) 417500, daytime only.

MEGARIVE plays all carts plus 2 joypads and 10 games. including Road Rash II, SOR II, Sonic 1&2 for El 70. Tel 081-572 9439.

AMIGA 500 (boxed), word processor over 40 games (including demos) Citizen 9pin colour printer, loystich and mags Tel 10476) 870930 (Lincsleics). after 5pm MEGADRIVE with 14 games, including. Sonic 2. Ecco.

Lemmings and 4 RPG's. worth E530, sell for E200, Tel David on (0752) 550639 ATARI ST FM for sale, 1Mb upgrade, Joystick, mouse. monitor lead arid about 30 games. only £125 ono, Immaculate condition, if interested, please cnlact James on 051-737 1857, will swap for a SNES, no games needed UK MEGA-CO for sake. with Solfeace. Cobra-Command and Arcade collection, mint condition with 7 months guarantee. E210 ono. Tel Martin on (0508) 50709 LISTEN UP! MegadrIve and 3 games: Sonic 1&2 and also Street s of Rage, plus 1 normal and I turbo Joypad for sale, E80 ono Tel. 071-731 1776. alter 6pm It you're quick I'll throw in a mystery free goft• WHAT A BARGAIN1 Sonic the Hedgehog and mega games which includes Columns. Super Hang-On and World Cup ttalia '90. not only this. bui 22 free mags. (vg Mean Machines etc) all lot E49, worth E115 70 Tel. 071537 3491. ask for Shaun.

MEGADRIVE Master System and Game Gear games for sale. Write lo M. Smith, B Portland Walk, Oadby, Leicester LE2 5TY tot a list.

SPECTRUM 48K computer plus games and magazines. worth over E1600. sell tor £350 ono, buyer must collect.

Write to_ A. Musgrove. 91 Shalto Way, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham DL5 501 or tel. (0325i 300781, after 5pm.

MEGADRIVE. runs all carts with Oypad powerstick. carry case. 9 games inc. Road Rash. PGA Tour Golf. EA Hockey. etc. all boxed with instructions excellent condition, worth around E500. sell for E260 Ovno, Tel. Epsom (0372) 726840. after 6pm PAEGA-00 for sale. 3 games.

1month oid, unwanted gift E220 ono Tel. Shane on (0206) 053170 (Colchester)

AMIGA A500 1 Meg upgradi• printer, twin disk drove, swivel stand, mouse. toystock. 2 modulators, computer cover. over 150 games and programmes. all in excellent condition E550 ono Tel. Matt on (0884) 32494 alter 7pm MEGADRIVE GAMES for sale, Desert Strike, Road Rash £20 each, Fatal Rewind.

John Madden, Sonic.

Spoderman E 8 each Tel. Ian on 10455) 557523 18-BIT Megadnve as new. used twice plus Sonic, 2 pads and Scart lead Tel 081-893 3763 mint condition AMIGA 500. 1Meg. mouser loystick. Ions ol games and programs, loads of demos and mags. E200. Tel (0727) 868334 MEGADRIVE for sale, all accessories, complete with arcade povrerstick. 18 games. dust cover Japanese adaptor. over 60 magazines, all official British versions. all 1st-class condition and boxed, womb over E780, will sell for £350 ono. Tel. (06301 672268.

MEGADRIVE 3 games. Sonic 1&2, F-22, Jap convertor. 2 joypads. good condition, sell for £130. Tel 081-599 1025, SEGA MD games: EccO, Greendog, Ouackshot, Terminator. Strider. Decap Anack. World of Illusion, Castle of Illusion. Shadow Dancer, all in mint condition, all El 5 each. aiso Ineuder 3 at E15, tree cheat books with order Tel, Gary on (0276) 476890 MEGADRIVE tor sale with joypad powerstick and 8 games. inc,. Sonic 182, Tazmanoa. Thunder Force IV Revenge of Shinolai and more worth over E500. sell for E250 ono. For further details phone 10252) 714968 ask for

Stephen PAEGADRIVE GAMES for sale. Alien 3 E25, Super WWF E25 and James Pond E20, all fully boxed with instructions, Tel. Tim on (0222) 564172 MEGADRIVE plus 2 joypads.

Japanese convertor. 8 games for sale E175 ono or swap for Amiga Tel 051-605 1063.

MEGADRIVE tor sale, 7 games and 2 ioypads worth E400, sell for noo or best otter Tel Dived on (0487) 813996.

AMAZING Megadnve+CO games for sale or exchange, for list tel. 0232) 844473. latest games at decent prices. oldies at E10 1

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MEGADRIVE. boxed with loypad arcade powerseck and games, NHLPA Hockey '93, Senna Super Monaco, Super Kick•Off, all boxed with instructions, vgc £90. also Issues 1-6 01 MegaTech as new £18 Tel James on 10923) 855266 MEGADRIVE games Paperboy £25. 4 on 1 cartridge, Mickey Mouse Ouackshot. Toki. Sonic 1 £60.

Tel Rhys on 10625) 582004 MASTER SYSTEM with 4 games £85. 2 loypacis and gun, Game Boy for sale with 5 games and ligla E45 Tel (0708) 551547.

SEGA MEGADRIVE E75 inc.

5 games. Sonic 1, Lemmings, Spiderman. Streets of Rage.

Illusion. Tel. (07081342546 ask for Robert (Bamford.

Essex) GAME GEAR 4 games, Olympic Gold. Shinobi. etc plus magnify master convertor, carry case, boxed (10 months old) El 80, Tel. 10491) 838841 GAME BOY with magnilight and 8 games, boxed & instructions. Mario 2. Pimp Gaiden, T2• Prince of Persia, Pitfighter, Kung Fu, Fl o m.

Toms, all for £130. Tel (0732) 833376 FOR SALE SNES SF2, Turtles, convertor, 2 controllers. Starwing. worth over E280. sell for 3200 Tel Ben on (0559) 384529.

MASTER SYSTEM, 2 controllers loystick, Olympic Gold. World Grand Prix. Sonic the Hedgehog 1 Alex Kid. Miracle World bargain eso Tel I SUPER FAMICOM and SNES : games for sale, it interested, 06 wnte to Peter Lynch, 75) Newcastle.

Moynalty. Kai's, 4 County Meath. Ireland MASTER SYSTEM II, 4 7 games including Lemmings, 0 Sonic 2 arid Alex Kid plus 1 6 pad E65 Tel John on (0843) 1 602611.

GAME GEAR with TV tuner.

7 ac adaptor, American, hard carry case, 14 great games, including Sonic 182, Lemmings, Chuck Rock Super Off Road. Super KickOff. M Mouse and many more. individual games. perfect condition, all instructions included, all boxed E300. Tel. Jerry on (02951 768180 PIES including zapper. rot . , 8 games, inc. SMB3. Turtles, worth E390, sell for E200 ono.

Tel. (0608) 677805.

CONVERTED NES for sale.' swap, I have a convened

NES with 2 Japanese games and 3 English games. Mario 1 & 2 and Robocop, will sell lockjusi E100 ono or swap for Game Gear with 2 games.

Tel Ricky on 071-624 6658. after 5pm Oil Amstrad CPC464 computer for sale, good condition with about 100 games. including, Man.Lad Europe. Outrun_ Dick Tracey. even golden oldies. like Kaman' s. Yie-ar-Kung Fu, all in full woriting order, worth about E300. sell for E85 Tel 081-542 3821, needed for quick sale, now burry) THUNDER FORCE 4 £17, Streets of Rage 2 £20. Prince 0IPersta CD E20 inc. p&p.

Tel 10522) 702801 SUPER NINTENDO plus SFII Mario IV, Mario Kart , Star Fox, all boxed. E150. Tel. Ronan on (0353) 665577 (daytime). (03531 664501 (evenings).

MEGADRIVE GAMES for sale, Micro Machines £20.

Jungle Strike E20, Road Rash E10. Mega-CD game Night Trap £25 arid Python loystick £5. Tel. Darren on (0834) 388113.

PAEGADRIVE GAMES Megalomania PGA II, Ecco, Super Kick.Off. Streets of Rage II. prices E20-E25 Tel Justin on (0884) 38964 AMIGA 500 plus new mouse, , Simpson Lemmings. Jack i Nicholas Golf Indiana Jones e and the Fate of Afiantos arid vRobocod, worth over E600 sell r E299.99 most things for under 1 year old, all boxed, j excellent condition. Tel o (0685) 875747. yMEGADRIVE GAME. sGreen hog, excellent condition t boxed, unbent booklet good as i new, hardly used give away price E22 Tel. (0892) c661847 kSCART MEGADRIVE arid , Sonic, high resolution, full screen picture, boxed and g excellent condition, £95 Tel a Bath (0225) 338587 m SCART MEGADRIVE for e sale, 2 games. 2 controllers, worth E200. will sell for E100 s ono.

Tel. Steven on (0742) i 7493E10 n GAME BOY with accessories. c5 games including: Mario lBaseball. American Football, AC u Pro Am, Tetris, only E50 ono. line condition, Tel. (0353) d 662304. after 6pm i n g

MART EVERY ISSUE ol MM and MMS Sega plus many other mags (MegaTecti. Sega Power. etc) E5 for 199213„ CIO 1991 E15 1990 Also Toe Jam & Earl £15. some posters and videos vanous prices. tree advice with monitor speaker wiring Tel Leigh on (0233) 624185.

SUPER FAMICOM plus 3 games and 3 control pads £180 ono Tel r-opengairs l (0236) 830411, buyer must collect FOR SALE Sega Game Gear with 3 games, TV tuner and battery pack. everything boxed. except the battery pack E250 ono. Tel (0538) 702625. anytime after 5prn ask tor Dave.

SUPERB BARGAINI A mint condition, still boxed. Amiga 500+ with many full price games. Tel. Chandran on Gravesend (0474) 334680. now' SEGA MASTER SYSTEM II with 14 top games tor sale, worth over £300, sell for E200. if interested. phone 081 949 7885 MEGADRIVE for sale 2 controllers, with EA Hockey, Sonic. Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Lemmings, all boxed £135 Tel (0392) 52623 (Exeter).

FOR SALE Fatal Fury £30.

MS games Aztec Adventure and King Fu Kid £5 each. Tel (02831223811 SEGA MEGADRIVE, Road Rash II, PGA II World of Illusion. Thunderforce IV, Global Gladiators, arcade powerstick plus loyead. £195 ono Tel. 0 4 1 -MEGADRIVE back-up system •7 hard latest 7 5 drive, 2 2 9 5 version

brand new. need money for a 3D0, can send COD. Tel Chris on 10904) 707866 MEGADRIVE (LISO4 E105, Mega-CD II £210. both for £299. can send COD Tel Chhs on 109041707866. after 4pm.

STREET FIGHTER II. turbo for SNES USA mactlines only. used only once. boxed with everything in mint condition £45 ono. Tel (0484) 719525.

GAME HAGS Mean Machines issues 3-24, also Mean Machines Sega issues 1-7. Tel. Okver on 061-798 7195 MASTER SYSTEM for sale. plus 13 games. inc. Astent.

Sonic 2, Gauntlet. 2 control pads £105, voac Tel Mark on (0273) 671950

SEGA GAME GEAR. boxed as new, mains adaptor, carry case and 5 games for only El 30 Tel. (0494) 482042 (Bucks) GAME GEAR accessories, 7 games master gear convenor, TVy tuner, gear to gear cable, carry case. Tel (0865) 735952 MASTER SYSTEM I with 3 games 1 control pad all instructions £30 Tel. (0865) 735952 WANTING a fairly new SNES with SMB3. Super G&G, Super Wrestlemania and lot only Et 20 Tel Ben on (0225) 743225 NES FOR SALE. 2 loyeads. 9 games. mint condition plus Game Genie £100 ono Tel John On (0736) 753789. after 6 P 1 1 SWAPS 1 SWAP MEGADRIVE games. will swap Road Rash

Greenhog. WWF. caters. Tel. Ryano n /0268) 775741.

AMAZING MEGADRIVE. SNES & Mega-CD games for sale or exchange. new titles good prices; older ones from EIOITel. (0232) 844473.

SWAP my Megadnve with 14 games. including Micro Machines, Flashback. Ecco, Megalomania. Tiny Tooris for your Neo-Geo with 4 to 5 games. particularly Art of Fighting or Fatal Fury 2 and 2 controllers or sell for £600 Tel (0303) 250961 I WOULD LIKE to swap Chuck Rock & Mega games. 1 including Super Hang On, World Cup Italia and Columns for Super Kick-Ott ot any RPGS Call Paul of Andrew on (0206) 871089 (Colchester) Any decent games given thought SWAP S.Monaco, World Cup Itaka 90. Power Strike for Master for Super Real Basketball. Prince of Persia or others Tel. 051-228 7376 I WILL SWAP Budokan for Sonic 11 or Micro Machines or Flashback Tel (0284) 810292, I WILL SWAP Pacmania.

Strider. Joe Montana, Mike Ditka. John Madden Football plus many others tor any docent games Tel (0993) 882274,

SWAP Master System with 6 games for Game Boy or Game Gear with I game. Tel. (0903) 751462. between 59 IPWILL SWAP a Sega Megadrive with Super Kickm Ott Super Wrestlemanta and Sonic with 2 pypads mint condition, for tether an Alan 520ST or 1004$T, or sell £150. if interested phone ()621)819275 SWAP my Desert Strike, Madden '92. Mere& Twinkle Tate. Mart)* Madness, EA Hockey. Bare Knuckles.

Rob000d for Rainbow Islands, Gods, Arcuss Oddysey, Sword of Vermillion_ Phantasy Star 3. Woneerboy 5, all boxed, will pay £2 on top per game. Contact Jamie on 081 983 3788, SWAP my Megadnve (Jap CD) needs CDX convertor.

Master System convertor + 2 games, 10. BO% + MD games, 4 CD games 2 'eta red control Pads, 1 turbo joypaa + 10uackshot). would like to swap for Amiga Al200 with mouse mat, extra drive. games + ioysticks. dustcoveri Tel, 107681 899773 SWAP my CDTV Amiga for Megadnve or SNES any games Tel March on (0268) 781096. after Som. please MEGADRIVE will swap Superman for Road Rash Tel. Kerr on 071-328 3295 (Or swap for Jurassic Park), I LL SWAP my Megadrive games Golden Axe. Streets ot Rage. Castle of Illusion.

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These shrunken racers each control their own minivehicles, and have pledged to free Jamser from the vile influence of One-Dar. Their plan is to sneak under the brim of the enchanted cop, an easy task given their reduced size, and, er, drive all over the malignant troglodyte until he submits. Or something like that anyway look, they haven't really got past the planning stage yet, alright? Their busy racing their little hearts out in the phenomenal Game Gear conversion of their popular hit game l© Tenuous Links Inc 1993).

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TURBO WHEELS These sand-hoppers are sprightly buggies. With a high top speed, cornering is a little tricky, and their light weight means they bounce around a great deal if they hit so much as tide mark.

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WARRIORS Fitted with front-bumper detonators crashing into another Warrior generally leads to these trucks blowing UF11 Also watch out for their skiddy cornering and the glue spots and oil slicks around the track.

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SPORISCARS Very nippy, but cornering can be a problem at first Try to get the hang of the Miami Vice-style "power skid f or mcutimuns advantage and pose power.

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FORMULA 1 The ultimate challenge, the Fl cars are very, very fast and very manoeuvrable, but the courses they're set on ore the trickiest outl Going heck for leather is the only possible rood to victory, which only makes things harder.

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M o flotation tank, more intoxi cating than a 'Fruits of the o Forest' joss-stick. mare atmosr pheric than a sunken Spanish e Galleon, no wonder Ecco was c such a great Megadrive success. a conversion follows almost a This year to the originol, ond presents l the game ,n much the same way. m Some levels ore missing, and i some puzzles have been n changed, but the handheld verg sion of our Cave dolphin chum is a t chip off the 16-bit block. h a n o n h o u r i n cco has some drama moments — like SWirilIitil l r through shark-infested waters, conversing with a globular helix, travelling through time (on amazing sequence) and fighting a huge beetle boss.

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Small but perfectly formed is what immediately sprang to my mind when I saw this Game Gear conversion of Ecco. As with all the other versions, this is graphically superb and super smooth too. I must admit. I found even the Megadrive version utterly frustrating at times and you certainly don't get off scot-free with this — it's rock! All in all a great, if frustrating conversion and a good addition to any Game Gear library.

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C hoos hit theEngine first Commodore Amiga earlier this year and. although judgment was reserved at first — the game appeared to share too much in common with Gauntlet — this new Bitmap Brothers title soon proved its worth and became a classic. Now this manic tale of 19th Century computer gone berserk is being prepared for the Megadrivel The Bitmop Brothers ore the team who programmed Speedboll !I and there ore elements of that superb game built into the Chaos Engine alongside a hint of Smash TV and a tip of the hardhat in the direction of Mercs.

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