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From the makers of Gunstar Heroes comes on unusual platform jaunt starring a guy with a flip-top head. We check out this intruiging phenomenon.

and we get the scoop on the game based on Mon Utd's youngest soccer sensation.

ITCHY& -glom- SCRATCHY 27 The devilish duo from Bart Simpson's fove cartoon hove bagged themselves an Acclaim game. We look behind the scenes

Acclaim ore the lotest in a line of software houses to iump on the Megadrive footie bandwagon

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The MEAN MACHINES team don silly wigs and put old games through their paces to decide whether they're worth setting free on on unsuspecting public — even at bargain basement prices.

90 Nostalgia City ahoy! MEAN MACHINES look back in wonder at the changing face of video goming, spanning more than a decode, ond see if things ore really that much different.

This one-on-one combat game from i Mirage, with it's spectacular use of rendered graphics, is rumoured to be the start of a revolution in video gaming, Now, at lost, it's coming to the Sega systems, MEAN MACHINES as usual, looks beyond the hype and gives you an exclusive look at the game which could even change the fortunes of the Mego-CD.

MEGADRIVE VIRTUARACING 48 This Megodrive conversion of the brilliant arcade racer is nigh-on perfect in the looks deportment but how does it stand up on the playability front? And can any game really be worth £80? MEAN MACHINES reveals all.

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Thrust meets Gravitor in this cavernous new thinking mon's shoot 'em up from Sego.

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GAME GEAR REN STIMPY 74 The clever Chihuahua and cranky cat transfer their talents onto the Game Gear for yet more run-of-themill platform mediocrity.

MEANBEAN r Don't blame us, we don't decide the iMaster System release schedule — if its there we cover it. I'm living in me car at the y'know and I'm on pills for me rmoment nerves and... l rot 1 0 M E G A - C Du l A T I : POWERMONGER 54 JURASSKPARK 66 8 0 More Gods games with this latest from EA. Much like the Megodrive but NFL'SGREATESTTEAMS with pretty intro screen and stonking sound — fabulous surprise,

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SOLEIL 94 Megadrive owners have long bemoaned a lack of Zelda-style games for their machines well now the balance looks set to be redressed with this hot new RPG number from Sega.

01' misery-guts prepares for some more shooting down in flames action as he deals with your queries and comments in his inimitable style!

Stevie-baby gets on down with gusto to the job in hand... and then started onswering some of you questions. Most usefully we like to think.

Confucius do say: "If selling, swapping or buying's your game look in Megamart cos it's reeeeeally great." No he did, honest!

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All the gen on the hot new releases in the Sega world (and some of the cold and lukewarm ones to boot).

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the Gunstar Hero creators, this time an isometric RPG in the 2 0 2 1 a n d t o l e r e n

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Mr 'Sunshine-and-light' Davies finally realises that 'doing the tips' doesn't involve rummaging around in rubbish dumps and brings you more Sega satisfaction than a constipated elephant.

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seems I 0 the software industry has gone into temporary hibernation, taking STEVE all the longawaited games with it. Marko's Magic Football, SoulStar and Tennis oil-Stars have oil disappeared with their respective companies for a short break, leaving a bit of a drought as far as quality software goes — although thank heavens for the simply stunning Virtue Racing and Sub-Terrania.

Thankfully, we've managed to use our charm and manners to wheedle first looks at some of the best new stuff on the way, and this should make up for a bit of a crop month in terms of actual releases. It's obvious that the current lock of decent stuff to review is just a hiccup, but you con find solace in our expanded preview section.

Sego's Soleil is simply stunning, Jimmy White's Snooker shows that the Megadrive con handle polygons even without the SVP used with Virtue.

What's more, footy fans con also look forward to the rather promising Ryan Giggs licence from Acclaim There's great stuff around the corner, and, as ever, MEAN MACHINES SEGA will have it first — we're not Britain's bestselling video games meg for nothing, you knowl

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of severol inch- heart of a es of snow_ Of freak blizzard course, being the investigative journalists we ore, we felt we had to compare snow games against the current Megadrive range. Here are our findings

CARD-MGARREST We get a lot of compo entries and letters here at MEAN MACHI NES SEGA. Nor mol l y, we receive hun-

dreds of those dull plain white ones with the .ww010111' answers scrawled on the bock. Every now and

then, though, we get o series of postcards so... well, awful that they have to be seen to be

believed. Granted, we get a few nice ones, too, but overall they're pretty dire. But can you beat the rather terrible ones we hove on display here? If so,

we want to see it, and we're offering prizes for the worst postcards we receive. So if you've been on holiday and found one so tasteless, it makes Chris

Evans look like a Jean-Paul Gaultier model, send it to us at: WISH YOU WERE HERE, MEAN MACHINES SEGA, Priory Court, 3 0 -3 1 Fa rri ngdon La ne , London, EC R 3 AU

Kevin Palmer, from John Murphy from Praire*. My, what a handsome chap: still, at host he's only on the radio!

Afady Garland, from Warm Fairdough from Semester.

Apparently, the dead camel sue. Ws a good job, really—

1111MIAMAC 1 5 A INTEROLYMPICS Sliding: The snow equivalent of Sonic, this one- Simply leg it down Farringdon Lane outside the office and part your legs slightly to achiever perfect balance as you slide along the rood.

Hazards come in the form of cars, tube station entrances, and old ladies. 93% Snowballs: A bit of a a timeless

For inston once everyone knockered Out one wag c Claire looking always soy silly in a white 'that's enough hat. flow.' As everyone agrees and walks back, said wag can then launch a real

Space Invaders classic. You know the rules, but several new options have now been added

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MACHINE S crew lik e more tha n s lobbing out in fr ont of the old goggl e box . But w ha t's essential v i e w i ng for our s qua re -e y e d te a m ?

STEVE'Time Warp' MERRETE Pulling his long scarf around him and leaping into a blue Police Box, Steve admits that his favourite TV prog is Doctor Who. Why the fixation with a programme currently no longer on our screens? 'Well, my girlfriend heard me saying "I'll see later, Dalek", when I was on the phone.

'Well, something like that anyway...', he said as he dematerialise&

LUCY'Woman From Auntie' HIC 0oh, ()oh, bit of politics. Ben Elton tockl our Luce's fancy. 'I-think-he's-really-funny, andlove-his-fast-paced-delivery,and-theclever-way-he-pokes-fun-at-the-establishment. My-nome's-Lucy-Hickman,thankyou-and-good-night.' Needless to say, our Lucy wows us all with her fantastic dress sense and nice line in spangly suits. *Basil Brush, from Rados! Scott, Perthshire. Al last we find out what halted Basil's premising

career — a 200mph train!

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'Derriniir roles Claire in • most unladylike fashion, and stuffs Ox. Falling Over: Gus's speciality.

Loden down with breakfast bagels, a newspaper and cans of Irn Bru, simply walk down the rood until your heel skids and you fall on your backside. Not much fun on your own, but better with a crowd. 92% Snow Shapes: Another gold for Gus Fall backwards in true

01 'AI' BROWNE 'Quantum Leap does it for me,' says our would-be Sam Beckett Art Ed. 'I love the way the hero jumps from body to body, doing loads of good turns.' Sadly, Oz's attempts to mimic Som's on-screen good deeds have resulted in two stunned old lodies he tried to help cross the road. One even hod a stroke — but only because Oz let her...

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corn y metrical arms up and down. Then stand up to look at what shape you've mode, whilst everyo 'laughs at the frozen dog crap and leaves stuck to the back of your coat.

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Actually, that's enough snow events for now...

mrs classic sci-fi series, Space 1999, rates highly with oar Gus. 'It was brilliant,' he comments. 'All those flashing console lights, and walkie-talkies which were identical to today's portable phones — talk about way ahead of its time.' Since confessing to this, Gus has since been seen wandering around in what appears to be a blue and white romper suit, doing his best Martin Landau impression But since nobody remembers Mr Landau, we can't actually gauge how close it is.

CIAIRE 'Kiddy'COULTHARD Claire shows her age a little with her favourite TV prog. 'It's Mary, Mungo and Midge,' she simpers. 'Ildon't know why I like it so much, I just do.' For those of you too young to remember this children's lave of the 70s, Mary was a girl, Mungo a dog, and Midge was a mouse. They all lived together in a high-rise London flat , and got into terrible scrapes. Every week a visit to the shops end chaos, or a visit from the postman result in a tragedy. The would chide the mouse, and Mary would be patronising. They ran a good scam with Mungo signing on at the DSS for benefits in Midge's name, ond their Social Worker often popped round with free foreign holidays. We can see what Claire sees in it now. (Actually the benefit/Social Worker bit is a lie).

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With more r e s in more towns we always get the best deals on Sega games nd with our price promise, if you can get a game cheaper, we'll refund evdifference*. they say in this funny old game: if you don't poptilong to Dixons for your games, you're likely to be as sick as a parrot.-. in& 1

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EGADR1VE t o tSony have beaten the likes of iAcclaim to snap up the rights to one of this year's biggest film O licences — The Flintstones. The N summer blockbuster for 1994 Vlooks set to be Spielberg's update of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, with Roseanne co-star, John Goodman stepping into the furry shoes of Fred, In addition Goodman is obly assisted

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Elizabeth Taylor as Wilma's mother, Zelda. The pre-release hype in the States is billing this as 'the movie of the year', and it was only a matter of time before some wise soft co snapped up the rights to produce a Megodrive game based on the film. Sony were first post the post with their cheque book and pen.

The licence is a result of Sony's new distribution deal with Ocean, and will probably result in ony Megadrive conversions of newly-signed Ocean games coming through Sony. Ocean's

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l- this issue of i MEAN OP B Y S E C A I pMACHINES to 411. M A R S . _ _ A l wbed, news filetered through r regarding a qew machine from Sego. Calledethe Mars, the chine is basically a mini-Saturn, and plugs p Base), into the Megadrive (like the Power allowing the user to play 32-bitugamest The t first games to be reieosed alongside the machine in November ore Virtue Fighter and t Virtue Racing Deluxe. The unit won't be able i to run CD-based Saturn games, but we con reveal it will cost El 50. This is anreal shot in g tuned for the arm for the Megadrive, so stay more a full tech spec and more news in next months MEAN MACHINES.

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Zelda lookeylikey, Addams Family Values, is already part of the deal, and Megodrive version should hit our shelves by November. The Super NES gome looks to be extremely promising, and tokes on original slant on the licence

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Acclaims cheque book suffers another 40 B Y A C C L A I M bashing, as they leap in for another of this ED M E C A D R I V E year's big movies: Stargate.Set some time in the future, Kurt Russell is a military chief ordered to investigate a hole in time — the stargote of the title — found by a group of archaeologists working in Egypt. However, the team stumble too close to the pulsating hole and find themselves in a world governed by a on evil dictator. As with True Lies, Acclaim have only iust turned their attention to the licence, with game and fi lm due to hir in November/ December.

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theme — ie. there's not a platform in sight — and follows the adventures of Fester as he meanders across a massive scrolling landscape in

search of potions and In addition, Ocean have also recently announced they have secured the licence to Spie!berg's sequel to Jurassic Pork — a film only just entering pre-pro-

stage, ELECTRONI C and a p u a L I SH I N G massive coup for Sony if this is pad of the deal.

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BY S O N Y MEG A D R IVE r E The word classic is bond; little W too often for our liki However, game which rightfully C a claimone has to the title is David Braben's classic sci-fi trading epic, A Elite. Well, after years of waiting, M someone hos done the right thing and snapped it up for the Megadrive — E

Sony, no less! The ink is quite literally wet on the contract, so there's no new of who will be developing the game or what improvements they aim to make, but rest assured MEAN MACHINES SEGA will be taking an exclusive peek at the 'Game Of A Lifetime as soon as there's something to see

With the disapC A M E p o i n t i n g Last Action Hero well A D B Y A C C L A I M a n d truly behind A h im , Mr M E G A D R I V E l l Schwarzenegger (Sir) once again teams up with James Cameron for another bosh at the action/comedy scene this Christmas. True Lies is the name of the film, ond Acclaim have snatched the licence and are currently preparing a game storyboord. The film sees Arnie as a freelance expert currently working with on anti-nuclear tosk force — something his family know nothing about! As can be expected, the film is set to feature a number of showcase action scenes between the funny bits, and Acclaim are confident that it'll make a bit of a smart game.

They my be right, but we're not likely to see anything until much later this year.

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Basketball fever has sent Acclaims NBA Jam straight to the top of the charts, and fans OP B Y F O X V I D E O of the sport can relive some of its greatest moments courtesy of a new video from Fox:NBA Jam Session features music from the likes of Bell, Biv, Devoe, Heavy D and... er, Patti Lobelia, and accompanies some of the best shots and attacks from the lost few years. Charles Borkley, Shag O'Neill and Larry Bird are among the players on view, but you can get better acquainted by wining a copy of the video in our rather smart compol We've got six copies to give away as first prizes, whilst the next six pulled out lucy's balaclava will get soundtrack CDs. What' more, six runners-up will find a CD copy of Shaq's 'I'm Outstanding single on its way to them_ To win one of these prizes, just answer the following question:

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How many of you have been sitting at home waiting to hear who won the fantastic Super Street Fighter machine in our Chrimbo compo? Well, wail no longer as we can now unveil the winner. It is (gasp) JAMES RILEY, who hails from THAAAESMEADI So, James, expect to see a van containing your coin-op very soon - we suggest you start clearin• out a corner of your

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With the lounch of their Sport Accolade label, which, funnily enough, is a label just for sports games such as Charles Barkley:

— feeling 1 a touch generous so they've very kindly dug into their coffers and 1 come up with a bundle of sports-related prizes especially for you.

One 1 lucky perp can bog themselves a whole host of goodies including a1luxury Sport Accolade baseball jacket, concocted from the finest materials, which will even make the tea (providing you put your mum 1 in Wit first). There's a !overly sports bag up for grabs into which you con r bundle your wet swimming kit and it's guaranteed not to make them - mouldy for at least an hour, The winner and some carefully selectgo S runners-up also get a limited edition Sport Accolade pin badge, a ed shu p e r -u c12 l t o oPAM SEGA sU u

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All you hove to do to be in the running for a prize is answer the lowing questions: 1. What bank has a name similar to Charles Barkley's?

2 What shape is a basketball?

3. What is your mum's name?

Jot your answers down onto a postcard together with your name and address and send it in to: A BASKETBALL IS SPHERICAL COMPO, MEAN MACHINES, Priory Court 30 - 32 Farringdon Lane ION DON ECI R 3AU. Entries in by MAY 20 or Lucy gets it! And there's no point getting all mardy if you don't win cos the Editor's decision is final (just as long as the making of it doesn't interrupt his basket-weaving, that ix).

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NEWS SOWN JOYSTICKS1814 It's that time of year again, where you all get to vote for what you feel were the best games of the last year — yes, it's lime for the EMAP Golden Joystick Awards, where all the software houses gather together to pot ecKh other on the back, as the vie for the much-coveted Golden Joysticks. The reason the Joysticks are so special is because, it's the readers of EMAP magazines who vole — and it's you who buys the games in the first place. So, if you wont to see FIFA win all sorts of awards for Sego, or reckon that Virgin are the best, now's your chance.

Listed below ore the assorted categories and a series of examples. The only rules are Shot any games you vote for must have been released between lst January 1993 and 31st December 1993 this year Here's the categories: 1. BEST CONSOLE SIMULATION /FIFA, Sensible Soccer, Thunderhawk, Fl )

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up,apparently Streets Of Rage 4 hos last been storied. No firm details just yet, though._

On the Virgin front, they've iust secured theSenseboys to followupthe forthcoming Cannon Fodder with Semi Golf! The Amiga version is the first on its way, but we're told a Megodrive version will be hot on its heels – although quite what they're

L I U 40 B Y S E G A 1 1 1 N 40 M E C A D R I V E 1 1of Ragnorok 1 bottle form the basis o for 0 latest arcade/adventure. r4 Sego's Entitled The Story of Thor, the player controls the titular god as he sprepares N for the ultimate battle of the deities, For those of you unfaemiliar with the story of Ragnarok, it is a mystical place where all the E lNorse gods met for a final battle — and which resulted in them all W killed off! Using a bird's-eye-view, Story Of Thor mixes hack egetting and gC slay action with several RPG elements and a bit of magic thrown in for good measure. Thor's at a very early stage of develope ment at the mo, but a full preview is on its way.

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Meanwhile, up in Liverpool with the Psygnosis clan, we hear a

whisper that they've secured the rights to the Megodrive version of Dn3pzone and plan to give it the full works. Archer Maclean is rather busy on Snooker for Virgin, though, so it's doubtfu/ he'll be handling the coding chores Remember we told you about Core's Game Gear platformer, Trunkski, last issue? Well, forget It because it has been scrapped.

However. Core are intensifying 'heir Mego•CD development with the announcement that Holmdel/11 will be appearing early next year. And speaking of conceited games (well, we were a few lines back), we hear that Soga's Game Gear racer, Sonic

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Forget dice-based sub-games and weird bosses — we're in head-banging territory.

Literally! STEVE MERREIT would forget his head if it wasn't screwed on, so we sent him to investigate...

After several months of hibernation, Treasure — those clever guys behind Gunstor Heroes — are preporing for the best comeback since Gory Glitter, as they unveil a rather smart-looking platformer starring a semtex-scolped hero by the name of Dynamite Heady_ Why such a strange name?

Well, young Dyne's hood is connected to his puny body by a spring-mounted device, and this allows him to propel his noggin at any bad guys foolish enough to stray into his path. Oddly enough, though, Heady isn't the only person with this unique bonce-bouncing skill, as he comes from a family of similarly-skilled folks — and you can just imagine what their Christmas parties are like...

It has to be said, though, that such on unusual skill as Heady and his kin possess wouldn't prove that useful that often, but when an evil headshrinking cat kidnaps the rest of the family, it falls to Heady to put his projectile head to good use and engage the feline foe's mony allies in a fight to the death. Thus, with this rather odd — and still unconfirmed — scenario out of the way, Treasure and Sego invite you to traverse seven huge levels of platform japery, with the game culminating in a massive battle against the rotten moggy holding Heady's family. But if you're quick, you con 'head' him off at the pass (groan).

So far, the game is roughly 50-60% complete, but we reckon this is going to be one to watch MEAN MACHINES will hove more news as it becomes available, but feast your eyes on these luvverley pics until then...

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EXIT STAGE RIGHT Heady's quest for a family reunion spans seven large stages, which contains all manner of weird foes out to stop him. Tank patrols, large Rottweilers and enough dangerous toys to give Lynne FeuIdsWoods a heart attack, ore all vying for a taste of Heady's forehead, and contact with them reduces our hero's energy until he finally gives up the ghost In addition, awaiting Heady at the end of each stage is a particularly nasty boss. Granted, this may not sound stunningly original, but Treasure have excelled themselves and used clever coding routines which were previously believed impossible on the Megadrive. As such, you con expand to see loads of sprite rotation and enlargement as these over-sized baddies square up for the fight.

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Weird humour played a massive part in Gunstar heroes, and Dynamite Heady features some equally sun parts. For instance, as our prepares to face a vicious cat boss, the feline looks up and is duly quashed by an over-sized dog which falls from the sky! The mutt then proceeds to chew up the scenery ond spits them out as mini-bosses which Heady must destroy before the next one comes along. In addition, another boss grabs the ground and tries to yank it away like a magician pulling a tablecloth from under a dinner service. As he does so, Heady finds himself somewhere in the parallax background!

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To keep the action varied, Treasure have added a number of subgames to the basic platform action. For instance, as Heady nears the end of the second stage, a giant hand shoots out from he background and pulls him through to a shoot 'em up stage, where Heady uses his rapid-firing head to blast the assorted invaders. Others will be slightly harder to find, but, hey, do you wont everything handed on a plate!

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Coded by Park Place (the Madden men), Acclaim decided Giggs right at the start of the game's himself is olso development that emphasis :1 drafted in every now and then to should be on ployability rather than loads of confusing options. 1 offer advice, but footy fans won't In oddition, they also stipulated L be able to see the result of his input until August when the that the game should be more game is released As ever, realistic than its competition — though, MEAN MACHINES has mainly to ovoid the 32-0 scoregot the first Megodrive pics of the lines possible with Sensi. With game, now ioin us as we disasthis in mind, Ryan Giggs's semble it before your very eyes...

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The benchmark all new football games ore judged by is obviously EA's superb FIFA International Soccer. During Gigs' development, Park Place looked at each of the football games on offer and noted their el' faults and strengths, Sensi was criticised for being for too unrealistic due to the ridiculously high number of goals which can scored in a game, whilst FIFA was felt to seem a little too 'hands off in the control department. As such, Ryan Giggs features all the strengths of the other games.

Park Ploce have s, avoided the 'glue boll' syndrome whereupon the boll always sticks to the players feet, ond mode the game more of a passing affair as seen in Hudson's impressive Super NES kickabout, Virtual Soccer. They've even taken the chance to add a few extras, too, so that if a winger is being chased, they can use a short burst of speed to make that allimportant break.

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YOU COUL ALMOST BE THERE! Pork Place's attempts to make the game as realistic as possible stretches to the fallibility of the players, too. There's none of this Sensi malarkey where the players score from the half-way box instead, goals are really fought for. For instance, as with the real thing, turning whilst trying to shoot normally sees the ball sponged in completely the wrong direction, whilst 'ordinary' shots can be muffed simply by mistiming the kick. As such, before you master the kicks and passes, your matches will resemble Sunday league games played by fat blokes who drink pints of beer at half-timel NI do spites IA Ile gapes seemAyAwe

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KEEPER'N EYE ON THINGS As Jimmy Hill will tell you, good goolkeeping is every bit as important as scoring goals - and the Acclaim game features Dave Seaman-style goalies who dive at attackers' feet, pluck the boll out of the air, and palm it over the bar In addition, Ryan Giggs' Champions features three goalie options. The first gives complete computer-controlled 'keepers who very rarely make a mistake, whilst the 'semi' option means that the player takes over at particularly dangerous times.

Finally, and for the really brave amongst you, full control means that every slip up is down to you!

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W O R K IN P R O G R E S S Cartoon licences are nothing new, but Acclaim have stepped in with a conversion of a cartoon within a cartoon. Itchy and Scratchy is avidly watched by Bart Simpson and his clan, and Steve Merrett was there to welcome them to the Megadrive.

Remember when cartoons were extremely funny because they were excessively violent? When Tom was chasing Jerry and would run through a wire fence, only disintegrate into cube-shaped pieces a few seconds later? It a time when cartoons didn't have to answer to Tony 'Boldrick' Robinson on 'Stay Tooned', and before cartoons only existed to sell things. Well, forget Tom and Jerry, because animated violence is back with vengeance, courtesy of Bart Simpson's favourite sh Itchy And Scratchy — and su their popular•ty, that Acclaim ore the moggy and mouse pair their platform game.

Plot details hove never played a cartoons, so Acclaim have had p blanche as as for as the game's Thus, Itchy and Scratchy is sup i n t e r active cartoon', with the player controlling Itchy the mouse as he avoids the dozens of attempts on his life by Scratchy the cat. The game spans nine scrolling stages, and the only way to complete a level is to use the objects found within to kill off the pursuing puss — which roughly equates as a level for each of Scratchy's nine livesi The game is being developed by Bits software who are based in deepest Cricklewood, and they aiming to make the game as close as possible to the cartoon by using the same lacotions. As of yet, though, Itchy And Scratchy is a mere 50% complete, and isn't due for release until some time in Autumn.

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Bits have planned every level out on paper, and whilst they vary in terms of content, the 8MEG allotted to the game means the levels hove to run along similar lines. The main bulk of the game takes place across a series of e i g h t scrolling stages, with Itchy leaping across a series of w ayplatforms to escape the pursuing cat. After several close scrapes, Scratchy will then appear as a boss, suitably enhanced by whatever mechanics Bits deem we. thy.

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As of yet, the order the stages will appear hasn't been decided. However, Bits have lifted key ideas from past cartoons to make up the nine stages, and you can expect to risk life and limb in the following locations:

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Wild West:

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As of yet, Bits aren't sure whether to keep this as a split level where the pair swim towards a a submarine, or opt for on entirely water-based stage set within the wreckage of the aforementioned galleon

Mediaeval Village:

Itchy and co take you back to the days of iron maidens, catapults, and drawbridges - and keep on eye out for the boiling oill

Space: No firm details yet, but Bits ore currently tossing up between a space station setting or the moon's surface

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Read the panel on graphics to see how they intend to achieve it. Tactics also play a port, with the droid being able to recharge of will on certain floor panels within the arena.

SOLDIER The latter droids, including Soldier, exhibit more humanoid appearance and higher intelligence. The robot is constructed with armour-plating on a skeletal frame, which Instinct will create with textured rendering,

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RP I ANDPLOT One 'clossic element of the game is the plot. As suggested by the title, Mirage hove engineered the game around a machine revolution story. The gome is set in the 22nd century, in the precincts of a global robotics concern called Electrocorp. This secretive oompany's business is heavy-duty Military and Industrial robots, and their production is cen. tred at a plant entitled Metropolis 4. Electrocorp decided to 'tuilunulx,.., their operation by removing all unnecessary human input from the production _process. Living things were gradually phased out of Metropolis 4, to be replaced with 0 new generation super-cyborg called the Supervisor. However, things went off hods–The S u p e r v i s e r s y an ego-virus, and si shut down the plant and began reprogramming the existing equiPment t join in the rebellion. ers for Etectrocarp found they had lost cterimurilcations with their plont. Sending another cyborg in to restote order was t of _Or quct_n as it wouid be susceptible to the virus. As luck o u ld a y e it, p crock commando offered his humon brain to be encased n a machanoid body strong enough to bath* the Superv h o r s t enough to chetk the Rise of the Robots.

CRUSHER FIGHTER This is the penultimate challenge — the Supervisor's own bodyguard, no less. Mirage point to the styling of Japanese toy robots as the influence behind the design. They imagine the Fighter to be the product of Electrocorp's

Mirage ore clearly excited about the potential for this droid. Here you get a sense of its scale against your cyborg. Those huge pincers form the basis of its attack, and the head antennae play a port too. Influences from the insect-world, and the power loader from the film Aliens are evident.

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A trivial but interesting fact about the Supervisor droid is that it's designated as a 'she'. Quite how mechanical creatures develop sexual characteristics is unclear, but Sean Griffith, Game Designer explains how the idea evolved: "The Supervisor is the most human•looking of all the robots and as we storied its d found that its metallic texture and fighting style befitted a female form.

Seon thinks it's great: l a see a female character in a game that doesn't look like a Sindy doll or female Arnie".

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MEAN Y O B As I sit here plagued by my piles. Of letters, that is. I have just one thing on my Yobbish mind. Just what is it about the 70s that created such classic TV sitcoms? I mean, the Steptoes, Fawity Towers, It Ain't Half Hot, Mum. Blimey, what a cornucopia of corny fun. But what do we have today?

Nelson's Column, Up The Garden Path, and loads of American tosh. Still, whilst you're wondering about that, I can breathe a sigh of relief because I've managed to fill this space again.

So, if you want to talk about crap sitcoms like Metal Mickey, Home Improvement, and So Haunt Me, drop me a line. Alternatively, you can just stick to sending me inane insults which feature the words 'Poo', 'Bum' and 'Crap' which so many of you seem to find so funny. Ah well, takes all sorts, but if you still want to send them, address your wafflings to : A FUNNY BANDANA AND AN INFLATED EGO MAILBAG, MEAN MACHINES SEGA, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London, ECI R 3AU

where's the problem in that? My

only option now is to buy an English Megadrive. If that's what Sego intend for Japanese owners, I might just take my business to Nintendo.

Stove Gregory, Bristol YOB:Yes, Master Cheese Baron, and I'm afraid it isn't going to get any better. Sega got a little cheesed off with all the imported software flooding the UK, so 'Lock Out' chips were the answer. Still, at least you can play FIFA...

PILE OF VIDEOS Dear YOB Hi there, listen here smarty pants of MEAN MACHINES SEGA. I want to know what the Nth dimension is from the game Zool. Some people say it is all kinds of things, so can I have your expert odvice, please, and tell me the truth.

M Silly YOB:Ws a place inhabited by incontinent pIllocks such as yourself, who believe that Zool is the next Sonic or Mario. It's also the place

KIMONO CALENDER onticipotion with the Sego logo on screen, then I was confronted by a bordered box. Inside it read] "This game cartridge is only designed to run on a European Megadrive system". Was I cheesed off or what?

I have owned my Megodrive for over three years and now I can't play Sensible Soccer. FIFA only works if I reset the machine after turning it on. I wont to know if the some will apply to all English games in the future.

I knew that Sego were going to bring in this safety chip to stop importing, and I can understand that. What I don't understand is that I'm being penalised for owning a Japanese Megodrive and buying English games. The money still goes to Sega The petled soulmote for Europe, Yob, envisaged by Oat.

Dear YOB I am extremely cheesed off .Why? Well, for Christmas I asked for a copy of Sensible Soccer on the Megadrive. I opened it on the morn and carefully loaded it into the Megadrive (no mean feat after the extended Ribena drinking contest I hod the previous night). Anyway, there I sat in

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Stephen Newtonshows Cosmicafter thugs have squirted Supergiue in his eye. where rubber bedsheets are the order of the day, and where most of its inhabitants drown in a puddle of their own making at night.

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Dear YOB Me and my brother hove been saving hord for a Mega-CD. We even sold all our cart games.

Mum gave us EIS() for Christmas (thanks again, Mum) and we finally hod enough to buy one.

Now a bloke at school reckons that we've wasted our moneyl He says that Sego are bringing out a new chip for cart games that'll rnoke them even better than CD games. He told us that Virtue Racing won't even come out on Mega-CD because of this chip and that was one of the reasons we bought a Mega-CD.

BLONDE'? First she whips you into submission then smothers you to death between...(censored) She might not be the greatest warrior ever but she and her 'special move ore original. There's no point in just slightly changing things. If Capcom don't realise this before the other big boys (Takora.

Acclaim and Sego who have oil recently released beat 'em ups) then they are, without a doubt, going to lose that Streetfighting crown

Please YOB, tell us he's full of bull and if he isn't kill everyone at Sega for us (and our mum's) sake.• Mork and Pabi Walsh, Walton-onThames YOB:Oh, a nd because you own a Me ga -CD you c a n't play Virtua! C'mon, yes the Me ga -CD ha s n't done as well as was hope d a nd the software is a little on the poor side, but a t least you ha v e the likes of Sonic CD a nd Double Switch to keep you going. I really hate irrita ting berks like tha t so-called Sega authority of your school.

They're bilious pustules who deserve to be squeezed out f

existence. Bring on the Oxyl 0, Nursie...

ZIG AND ZAG STICKERS Dear YOB On hearing that Capcom are already planning to start work on a console version of Super Streetfighter II, I was disappointed, after initial excitement, to find that there ore only four new fighters. Okay, that makes in total a, er, lot of fights, but —

isn't it about time they ditched all their old characters? Why don't they spend their mega-bucks creating and perfecting 12 all-new characters with all-new special moves instead of releasing endless rehashes of a decent but dated game. It's time for some new faces. What about BUXOM

Lee Atkinson, Spennyrnoor, Co, Durham YOB:I be t you sit a t home dreaming a bout being squashed to de a th by a buxom video ga me character don't you? Deary, deary me.

Capcom a re currently working on a ne w Street Fighter set in a diffe re nt ga me e nv ironment, but Super was me a nt to act as a filler to keep people like yourself interested in the series. Blimey, if Capcom ha d known wha t a sad a nd lonely person you are, though, they could have saved a few gra nd a nd just sent you a copy of Razzle.

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Dear YOB Who is Ed Lomas Pinky Floyd? If he's in Paul's Tips is he better than you, because you're not so bad? Why do you do MEAN MACHINES SEGA,

not him if Ed Pinky is better? Why? I read Megatech and more, but he is in that as well, so who is he and where ore his tips from? Why? But me ond Steven my friend want to know if he is from Rochester near us in Chatham, but do you

know him or meet him?

PS. Con I hove a job and is FIFA on game master any good?

Peter Johns,

Chatham YOB:You're not so ba d? Not him if he is be tter? Don't tell me tha t all Chatham's schools have closed down?

Ed Lomas is a bit of a ME AN MACHINES SEGA matey who constantly supplies us with tips, a nd Paul Davies sees him occasionally.

Mind you, Paul will see a ny -

one who's nice to him, so

don't consider it too much of an honour. Honestly, he's like a little puppy dog sometimes — even to the point of rolling over to you can tickle his belly. But we can't discuss tha t until the court case is over...

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Dear YOB Please answer this simple question. If then why do the batteries

Raymond Dyer has Sperirster wielding his w o rm in my Game Gear run out after

just two damn weeks? Please help me. idly Johns-ton, Northampton

YOB:Because, the Ga me Ge a r suffers from particularly hungry power dra in - now tha t wasn't ha rd to figure out was it._ Hey, you're not THE Ally Johnson are you? You know, the Page 3 girl? I t would explain a lot...

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Dear YOB After reading your excellent review of Eternal Champions, I thought to myself, 'wow!

What a brill mag'. I think your mag was too generous with Eternal Champions' graphics.

Eternal Champions (which I will continue to call EC) is coming out in January yet Gomesmoster say it's out in February, Mega Power soy March Who is right? Don't get me wrong I am a fan of your mog, but I'm not sure when it comes Out. Please print this letter so I can soy to my friend: "I've got my name in a mog and you haven't", and I can gloat all day.

Gavin Spence, Lanarkshire YOB:It was originally pla nne d as a January release, but slipped slightly. As for ge tting your na me in the ma g, I'd just like to ta k e this chance to say 'Ga v in Spence has got a face like a pig's jacksie, wears dresses a nd idiot mittens, a nd is a complete gink ' — now boast a bout tha t!

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Dear YOB With Christmas over for another year, I found myself bored and decided to write to King Yobster yourself. I hove written a rap coiled 'Megadrive .

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EMPTYJIFFYBAG Dear YOB Iknow thot this isn't tips section, but this letter comes from Finland and I need desperately tips to following Megadrive games: Ecco the Dolphin, Gunstor Heroes, Rocket Knight Adventures. Oh, and don't tell me that tip which was in issue 16 for Gunstar Heroes, I already know that. And if you don't print this letter and answer my question I'm going to 'visit' in your office and rip your face off. Then I'm going to blow up your office killing everyone in that building.

Hawk, Finland YOB:Yeah? Well we're waiting for you, Hawk. Basically, you can forget getting any tips from me because I don't do them. And no matter how scary you try to be, your wet lettuce threats don't cut any mustard. Besides, what have the Finns ever done for us?

'Megodrive' The Megodrive is on awesome machine The people who play it aren't just teens.

They range from small children to OAPs — Start off beginner, work to expertise There's software houses, like Virgin and EA Who make the games, and make them fun to play There's computer magazines, their [sic] in the know They tell you what to be with your well-earned dough.

Some people out there think computer games ore bad I think these people ore just sod.

They say these games ore violent gory thrillers That turn their fans into crazy psycho killers.

They ore wrong, computer games are cool Anyone who disagrees is a fool Sport-driving-platform-flight sinv All these and more on this fine system.

In case you've forgotten, the system I describe, is the mighty, awesome SEGA MEGADRIVE Chris Shaw, Belfast YOB:Er, yes... thank you MC Shaw. Although somehow I doubt if House Of Pain and Cypress Hill are filling their undies at the thought of your rapping 'talents' (used in the loosest terms possible).

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Dear YOB I read from your last issue that Jaz has gone to America. That was a bit of a shock, I can tell you. Let's face it there isn't really anybody else who could call themselves a 'games personality', You lot at MMS ore sound enough, and you make a great mag, but I'd hardly call you stor material.

What I find even sadder is that the people trying to take Jazza's place ore pretty pathetic. In some really crap Sego mag there's a geezer called Dave Perry who's always being made out to be some kind of games guru My butt! I sow him on Gomesmaster and the guy sucks eggs through straws! He even made 'Dexta Fletcha' seem like a normal human being.

On the subject of the lomentable lamesmoster', what ever happened to Dominik 'Oh, my word' Diamond.

One minute he's leaving to become a star and the next he's loitering behind Donny

Curley's blubbery body on the cover of a tips video. Of course, he'd rather be doing Ex-EditorRkh Leadhatter that than throws a strop. Thanks, having his au! Johnson. own show

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OhLordy, Ns those Eternal Champions! beet ht. damns, Cheltenham. on Channel Four, but all I can say is come back Jazza, all is forgiven.

Gary Crow, Glasgow YOB:Jot may be gone, but his spirit lives on in his news column where he tells us of all the goings-on in the US of A. As for Gamesmaster, it has to be said that it has completely lost its way. Whatever happened to the mixed batch of news, reviews and tips we used to have? Now it's all challenges and not half as interactive as it has to be.

And, please, will someone please point Dexter to a bar of soap — he always looks so grubby. Tsk, tsk.

MYSTIC YOB Our monthly contact with the beyond was ceased because it was just too uncanny. But don your rubber pants once more, because Mystic Yob is bock...

Mr Eggywiffer — you are the trogic illustration of what a forceps delivery can mean.

Paul Reid — Forget journalism. I'd concentrate on getting a job in MO .

A. Dunn — You CAN use it for that, but forget about ever getting Child Benefit.

Phillip Lowell — Yeah? Well lick mine tool Aaron Rotchffe — I would co I it thieving from your mother, you little turd.

More spiritual messages next month.

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Also, do you know where I con get hold of an old Atari Tempest coin-op?

1 Darien Payne, Oxford STIVIdlaga woo', be M a s s ing Golden Axe III in this country — basically, bacons* Ws se completely crap. Se, oaloss sons••ne else picks up lb * rights, Ws Novae likely to sae a UK relates*. As for a Tampon/ anachlao, try I . got bold of • espy of Cain Slot ntagazine front year newsagoat. Ws a trade-only paper, bet forstered loads el saosed-Issad nochines for sale.

tATTOO Anormal life! Yes, a normal life. Despite his greatly -while, he couldmove about prettymuchas before he e adopted Jaz'sconsoleknowledge. Granted he'd had n to have stabilisers affixed to the back and front of l ahis head to stop him teetering over, but he still looked pretty normal. Well, normalcompared to r one of those tartan trolleys old ladies pull behind g themanyway.So, if youcancatch him before he e goes for another trundle and beforesome blind old d hint stuffs a packet of Lincolnbiscuitsdown the c front of hischequered trousers,Steve is still here to r answer all your S e g o more, he's pretty goodwhen it comes to discussing -a pet rne lproblems, a t e d too, so if yourdog'sdown in the mouth i u eorsyour q t icat's o ngone s all stroppy,drop him a line at: .u NO, m I HAVEN'T W h a FARTED t ' — I ALWAYSSMELLLIKE THIS, Q&AMEANMACHINESSEGA Priory Court, 30-32 , s Farringdon Lane,London,ECM3AU S t posed to be crap, but I wont it for e my collection to go with the other two. Anyway, this the question v which has been bugging me for months: When is Golden Axe e going to be released in the UK? Dear Steve' f I've phoned Sega about it, but Please help my very desperate they were no help_ All they keep problem.

I love the Golden Axe o telling me is that there's no games and when I first bought release date yet. Are they telling myuMegodrive I bought Golden the truth or keeping it a secret_ I Axe straight away, and thought think it boils down to Sega messn the game was brilliant, Then ing about with the release dates.

Golden d Axe II came out and I I was so desperate to get Golden went crazy over that Now, I Axe ill that I even tried to buy the t that Golden Axe III is supknow import version. But even with a h a Mht SEGA ( -

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Dear Steve Here are some intriguing questions for you.

1. Do you think the Mego-CD version of Mortal Kombot will be arcade perfect?

2. And the same about Mortal 2?

3. What do you think of Doctor Who? I think it's a magnificent wonder of the world.

4. What do you think was the best Dolek story ever?

Remembrance Of The Daleks, perhaps?

5. Since 32-bit is outdated already, do you think Sega would be wise to scrap the Saturn and go straight for the top with o 64bit machine instead?

6. 16 plus 16 ore 32, right? Then why did you say that the Megodrive and M e g a - C D er • aren't a 32-bit machine?

Cardin°, Ebggies, The Comfy Chair togethSTEVE:1. None. Basically, Ws the Megadrive game with a handful of digitised scenes bolted on for good measure.

2. it's look very nice, but it'll never be arcade perfect. It's close, though. 3. I think It's an excellent programme — and long overdue for a return. But not via the Americans. 4. Nah, I prefer Genesis. 5. Not really.

After all, it doesn't matter if there's a 128-bit machine out there — if the software for it's crap, then all that power is wasted. Look at the Jaguar stuff so far, and you'll see that it's all effect and very little in terms of playability. 6. Doh! So if I had ten 8-bit computers, I'd have an 80-bit machine would I? The chips inside the machines dedde on the machine's size. The PAegestirtva a n d htogr o-CO a r o

both 16-bit, but the two chips do not combine its power.

After all, lust because the Saturn has two 32-bit chips doesn't make it a 64-bit machine.

ANCHOR Dear Steve 1When is Street Fighter II coming out on the Master System?

2 When is the moo going to review Aladdin on the Master System?

3. There aren't that many good two-player games for the Master System. What ones do you recommend?

4. Also when will your may review Road Rash and Ecco for the Master System?

Marion Kameko, London

STEVE: In a word: never. 2.

Last month. 3. Micro Machines is a goodie and so is Masters Of Combat, and that's about HI 4. Road Rash we've already done, and the Master System version of Ecco is still in development limbo.

STORKSB Dear Steve Could you please answer some questions for me.

1. In Super

where do 0 Fei Long, T Hawk, Cammy and Dee-Jay come into the game?

2. Do you have any of those Ponini SEGA Super Play cords? If you do, can you please send me some as you can't get them in Australia.

3. If you can't, con you please tell me when they will be available in Australia?

4. I own a Master System, so can you please tell me the best games which ore coming out?

Road Runner and Robocop Vs

Q+A Terminator both I c a pretty cool.

5. Why did you stop Lookback? I really liked it.

6. Why did you also stop putting in those Mega-CD cards came with the metal tin? that * 7. Who does the illustrations for Meon Yob, and the pictures of you and the other reviewers?

Matthew Lanham, Gilmore, Australia STEVE: 1. They're lust yer average, run-of-the-mill, Joe Ordinary fighters. They pop up between the 'old' characters as the game progresses.

2. Sorry, mucker, they went like hot Mr Kipling,. 3.

As far as we know, they won't, but fingers crossed.

4. Micro Machines Is a bit smart, Road Rash is quit. a laugh, and Streets Of Rage II

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handyworic h i i r SheepWorrier himself, Clary Harrod , (who's adopted a really sickening habit of ringing his Fiance and making cooing noises down the phone to Dear Steve her Please would you answer those ...) damn fine questions i e . . .

1. In SF2, what does the red fireball do?

2. When do you get the names of the people who produced SF2?

3. Do you think I should save up for a Mego-CD or wait for the Dear Steve Saturn?

Please could you use your great 4. My friend says that Psygnosis knowledge to answer my queshove found a way to put more tions. colours on screen for the 1. Will the arcade games Megadrive. Is this true?

Tumblepop and Sego 5 When will Sego stop producing Sonic come ovt for the the first Mega-CD unit?

Megadrive?

6 Is it true that Sega ore going to 2, Will VR be as excellent release two versions of the for the Megadrive as it is Saturn- one CD only, the other in the arcades?

CD and cartridge?

3. on Sonic 3, can you Tim Hall, 13orehamwood fl i play as Knuckles in the STEVEzl. It's actually a bug, one-player mode? but in Super Street Fighter, 4. When Sego sell a Ryu can use It to bum his oPPo) n e n t s . 2.

When you complete the game on Normal. 3.

You've got ages to wait for the Saturn, but I'd wait a little lust to sae how good the next wove of CD software is. 4.

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5. It got a little dull. It may return in on updated kind of way, but it won't be so long-winded if it does. 6. It was only ever going to be a limited set, that's why. 7. A guy called Patrick Rose did the pics for OSA and Paul's Tips, but the character heads on the comment boxes are the

use), but they can't actually i i odd more colours. 5. There's .

Megadrive with loads left at the mo, so it won't be for a while. 6. As we Aladdin, how long l does the offer last i ,- understand it, the machine for? k will have CD and cartridge 5. Con you give e 1.ports. me some advice?

Which is the best m o out of SF2, NHLPA '94, "s Sonic 3, t Dear Steve o Could you please answer my five t questions.

Aladdin, 1. Are there going to be special or John h 24 and 32-Meg versions of Sonic Madden '94? Please e 3. If so, how much will they cost? list them from best to r 2. When will Rebel Assault be out / worst. d for the Mega-CO? Andrew McHardy, Wendover e 3. Will Fatal Fury 2 be any chalDean lenge to Street Fighter 2?

ST IVEl. They probably won't, v 4. How powerful will Super Street e Fighter be on the Megadrive? but the Sonic coin-op is Saturn-bound. 2. It's too early l 5. Will there be a sequel to to say. 3. Hope. 4. As o Jungle Strike?

Confucius say: 'Until Stocks p Jon Anderson, Borkingside Last.' 5. SF2, Sonic 3, Aladdin, STIVE:I. Details of the 24e NHLPA, and Madden'.

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It'll be on import in a -...--month or so, but a UK release 1 has yet to be set. 3. Doubt it, I thought the first one was really crap, and the sequel doesn't look much better. 4.

There's no news yet, but I'd oso hazard a guess at 24-Meg. 5. There's one in the pipeline, but it's only on EA's drawing board at the ma.

LONDON'S BURNING , & Dear Steve Could you answer these ques- i lions please. A P E S I O d 1. Is Street Fighter 2 coming out t the Master System? for A 2 Are there any cheats to make , Mortal Kombat harder, as I con complete it easily on every level?

3. How many levels are there in Populous? On the box it says 5000, but I can get to level 5050.

Groeme Dowie, Scotland STEVE;1. Not a snowball's chance in hell. 2. Nope. 3.

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HErDIDDLE DIDDLE Dear Steve Please can you answer my questions about Megodrive games.

1. Are there any horse racing games planned? If so, when?

2. Which is the best Wrestling game available?

3 Are there any cord games available - Especially Bridge?

Cart Smith, Wirral STEVEA. No. 2. W M . 3. No it's cheaper to buy a pack!

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Matty 'Jim' Reed from Stepney has abandoned his wellies for a month to bring us this prize winning tip. It's for Konami's excellent Castlevania game • and goes like this: press UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A whilst on the title screen. Not only does it provide players with a stage select, but thirty lives ore on offer and the collision detection is switched offl Incredible, Molly, you cockney werewolf wrestler!

W the month of May e everyone, and l l what a very merry i time I'm having! tDavid 'Rik' Meakin 'from Bowthorpe has written to tell me he s fancies Lucy, only veiling his pathetic muse with a sod list of geriatric cheats; and the usual surreal phonecalls continue to twist my brain.

As if this wasn't enough, my washing machine is kaput and I'm forced to wash all my clothes in the bath! It's irrelevant, I know, but so is much of the

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each month from lovelorn lame players like David Meakin. Still,, the cool contributors remain, thank goodness, with Ed Lomas 'buck on form and Mat Miller and Herdy coming up with the goods ., once more. However, it's a new/ comer named Molly who we love i the most this month, thanks to n his awesome Costlevania cheat, f Think you can do better? Well, how is anyone supposed to know o if you don't get it printed?' Send r your most respectable efforts to: m I LOVE OZ, JUST BECAUSE, TIPS, a t MEAN MACHINES SEGA, PRIORY t COURT, 30-32 FARRINGDON LANE, LONDON. EC1R 3AU. i o n I

You can't believe everything you read, but James Tweed is convinced that Dave Perry rears his creative head when this sequence of buttons is pressed whilst the option screen is displayed: A, A, B, B, C, C, C, C, B, B, A, A, A, A, B, B, C, C• This cheat also provides players with a new list of options and a stream of endless, useless facts.

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Wild sea-horses couldn't stop me from printing this invaluable cheat, for Ed 'Pinky' Lomas from Rochester, after playing the game non-stop for four days, has discovered 'the ultimate password'! The code starts the indomitable fishy hero with 97 levels cleared, all agents rescued,all cheese mines destroyed, three Stiltonium machines destroyed and five lost treasures recovered, James also has six lives and each time he restarts is in possession of the maximum five energy units. The password is: Blue Skull, Red Moon, Red Moon, Red UFO, Green Rocket, Yellow Cake, Red Star, Blue Hand, Red Moon, Yellow Bottle, Red Book, Green Heart, Green Mushroom, Yellow Dog, Red Fish, Blue Mushroom, Red Boot, Red Fish, Blue Sweet and Red Pick. This is more like the menu from a Chinese take-away,

Ecil With this password, James starts on the 'Lair of the Mush-Beast' level, The final boss is reached from here by leading him to the top-right area of the mop, exiting from the 'Neopolitan Peninsula'. By using the spring shoes to bounce up high just to the left of the exit James collects a Secret level icon. Upon leaving the level the final, boss stage is opened.

Ed has also noticed something funny on the password screen. By leaving James alone for roughly three minutes, o little mouse walks on screen to give the cheese pointer a hug. When the cheese is moved the mouse looks really angry and chases after it! Thank you very much for all that information Ed. You're a, or... a brick!

Would you believe it? There's actually another per son in the world who's as crazy about Micro Machines as Rad Automatic! His name is Thomas HuIme and he lives in West Sussex So crazy is he that Thomas has devised a way of extending twoplayer races to nine laps. First of all select a headto-head race with the Sports Cars — NOT the Pro Sports Cars. Now start the race slowly, ensuring that both drivers keep their cars side by side Follow the track around to the left where both cars leap over the gap with the file ramp. Follow the track around to the blue hook and left through the two chicanes. This leads the cars onto the ruler bridge and over to the red file, seen on the right-hand side. Both drivers must slow their cars down and turn right past the red file; up past the note pod and further on until the file ramp is reached again.

Stop here, because now its gets interesting (I flippin' hope so Thomas!). Once lined up with the road to the file romp reverse both cars across the table until they cross the race track horizontally at the bottom of the screen. The number of laps changes from three to four. Now this, Thomas assures the world, is the fun port. Drive both cars forwards and have them jump the file romp together, going round the circuit once more and repeating the whole trick mentioned above once more, all the while increasing the number of laps each time, to a maximum of nine

Blimey! It's a bit difficult telling one FIFA tip from another, as most of them go on about scoring goals at some point in the proceedings. It's a nightmare' Chris Morris from Bonnyrigg has this tactic to cast before the goal-starved stands, In any of the one-player modes, join the computer team on the control set up and start the game.

Immediately after kick off simply lead one of the computer team's players straight down to its own goal and score.

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It's a cheat discovered by Mat Miller and Hardy (surprise, surprise) and it allows players to win merely by selecting on entire team of 'chuckers'.

Apparently, pausing the game after prompting one of the chuckers to launch a grenade suspends everything bar the fast-approaching explosive itself.

Frozen enemies are helpless against this!

RANGER-11 The general tactic employed throughout Sego's breath-taking Ranger X is caution However, to give players more time to work things out here's Mot Miller and Herdy's cheat to play the game in slow motion. Press START to pause the game then UP, DOWN, UP. DOWN, UP, DOWN, C, B, A, RIGHT and LEFT. The music restarts indicating that the cheat is up and running. By pressing the A button at this point and hitting a fire button or choosing a direction to guide Ranger X with the D-pad, everything on screen moves incredibly slo-owly. Get things back to normal simply by pressing START once more.

LETHALENFORCERS Though this may seem a little obvious, there are doubtless many players who fail to realise Mat Miller and Herdy's winning tactic for Lethal Enforcers. When confronting the boss hoodlums, concentrate oil fire on their offensive weapons.

Not only does this prevent any projectiles from coming the player's way but causes damage to the bad guys in the process. Obvious, eh?

IOU MIN Just like Capcom and Konami; TOHO is a company worth keeping on eye out for in the news. Their shoot 'ern up titles are incredible! Man Miller and Herdy have this level select cheat for one of TOHO's best — Robo Aleste. Whilst on the option screen, set the sound to 3A, the difficulty level to hard, and the CD-DA number to the stage number of your choice Now press B and START simultane•

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M O P VS1111111111Tol SPIDIRMAN Officer Scott Akira' Tarrant from the Clapham division has these pieces of advice for Officer Murphy — AKA Robocop: At the beginning of the OCP Offices stage, jump left into the wall where a hidden room is discovered. Continue walking left and go through the door next to the flashing arrow (try opening the door first!). Now continue walking left until you reach a wall. Walk through the wall and push up. You are instantly transported to the secret room. Secondly there is a secret remote base located in the Underground Complex stage, At the start of the level descend the first ladder approached from the right. Go left and take the first ladder down. Now walk right to the next ladder ond go up.

Continue travelling right and take the next ladder down. At the bottom, travel left towards the wall and jump left, through it. Continue left and take up the plasma rifle found there and poss through the door. This takes you to the secret remote base. Got it?'

ROCKET O W ADVENTURES Whilst everybody is busily trying to clock Rocket Knight Adventures on Very Hard mode it is worth knowing that there is a Crozy Hard mode, too!

Christian Bassos from Sydney, Australia writes that pressing LEFT four times, RIGHT four times, LEFT seven times, RIGHT once and LEFT once at the Konomi logo causes Sparkster to die instantly from just one collision' What's more he is only given one chance to complete the game - no extra lives and no continues!

ously. Upon returning to the title screen a continue option is discovered from where it is possible to select any stage!

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Toot! Toot! Sonic Woo-rrior! Here's a stage select for Sonic CD, supplied by the prolific Mat Miller and Herdy team.

Whilst viewing the title screen, press UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT then B. A ringing noise coupled with a flash of the screen prepares for the arrival of a stage select, accessed from the title screen.

Of course a cheat so cool as this isn't without its limitations — Sonic may only explore the stage selected, and is restricted from carrying on through the rest of the game by some terrible Robotnik gizmo or another! Poo!

Bobby Buck, who sounds like a comic book artist, has this brilliant tip for Game Gear Spiderman. In Electro's key room have Spidey drop down to the left-hand side of the area. He discovers a Game Gear near the elec. trocuters which, once collected, entertains Peter with a game of Pac-Man the next time he returns home.

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FANTASYIONE This one's from Bobby Buck from Berkshire. Allow all the attract sequences to run their course, and when the story screen appears press UP then DOWN, alternately about fifty times. It's kind of pot luck, really but when the cheat is working the first time an extra life is purchased from a shop it only costs one thousand creds, and buying all the engine ports in existence rewords players with infinite time for their weapons.

LANDIf ILLUSION Another of Bobby Buck's tips offers a well-hidden extra life. The first time Mickey visits the lake, ignore the treasure chest found in the pit (the one with the fish swimming in it).

The next time Mickey passes this way as he lour) Caverns, collect n41.1 Shrinking the treasure e and he is honoured chest with y an extra life!

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Sas the tentacledescends,then U, R, Dand I in succession. Finally U when thedoorslams.

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Wait for the fire to ignite then D and quickly U. Choosethe escapedoorby pressing L

Puzzling,this one, and requires timing.

When the ball in front of youmoves °crossyour path, press D. Wait for the next one and repeat. After the last one (purple) push U to leap the final gap.

Lwhen the cackling horseman appears, and L again on hissecond approach.Then R and R again to escapedown the hole.

Sfirst, then Ito keep on the floor. again as you walkdown the stairs, andSwhenyoucometo the door.L to walkthrough.

MoveR as the first fire ignites, then D and U in quicksuccession.L to avoid singed ankles and L again to reveal the exit.

Swhen the first goon appears, then R immediately. U briskly then S for the secondset of goons.

Wait until themudmen start to surroundyou then S. When the scene changeswith the geyserbehind you, U.There are five moreU moves,each comeswhen the scene is shownfrom a different angle.

Little bit of image-switching. S for the swordand Mace as they begin to descend,then R or Ito avoid the anvil.

Sfor the spear and Sto parry the statue.

Complex,this one. I, then R at the end of corridor.R again three more times.

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In 'Ye Rapids' pressU when you move into the centre of each channel. In 'Ye whirlpools' simply steer in the opposite direction to the whirlpool. When thecrate explodes, pressRtwice quickly to grab the chain.

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First,when the pile wobbles, U to steady it. Then I twice to avoid dragon fire. D to steadythe pile. When chased behind the pillar, D, 0 and quite sharply, then U asSingelumbers behind. D to run from the second pillar, and R. Wait until you stand in front of the sword, then S and quickly.Sto parry the fire, then wait again until you and Singe are facing off. L, then Sand Sagain to deal the death

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C I P t . t .4 a 11 cheat introduces a range of Ji YO• IftitlaLS MECtRe HEVPIW W I characters into the k 1 1 including America's scull-e game, dal-ridden President Bill Clinton 1 m s and his running mote Al Gore.

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Then on even bigger one. You think the tree is getting closer, and you are going faster. Speed.

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Instead of a cartoon illusion based on sprites, let's have a DSP do all the complex calculations necessary to create a virtual environment. Your car is a virtual object in the virtual environment.

It really 'moves' through the polygon world. You con observe this movement from any position in the polygon world: from in the car, from the air, as a virtual spectator in the virtual stadium beside the frock. Now that's real speed — Virtual speed -- Virtue Racing.

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CHASE From a position to the rear of your car's aerofoil. In this position you see more of the rood, by removing the cor's chassis I t has a distinct advantage when the car crashes, as the view doesn't spin confusing. ly. The viewing height is still quite low. This is the default viewing position at the start of the race,

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SHORTCIRCUITED There are three tracks. This may not seem much, when other racing games , offer the entire Grand Prix season, but -••oll put it in perspective. Firstly, it's a faithful representation of the arcade game. Secondly, each of the three tracks is vet) scape features, You feel os if you ore , driving bends, not just reoctd i s t around in -- i n g to a series of kinks in the road. ctive, There is a clear distinction in difficulty w i the tracks between t h l a n d -

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Its characterised by a long opening/home straight, flanked by a large stadium.

After the first smooth bend to the right, there's a two-stoge cantilever bridge. After that comes two reasonably tight chicanes and the mid-checkpoint. The second port of the course has a wide gross verges and some hum-dinger bends, but the animated amusement park is impressive.

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Someone should reconsider labelling this as 'Rocky Mountain Way', as the main feature is a huge, steep canyon, that turns racing into a winding ort rip, - like the scenic stretch by the shoreline.

At the end of that for cruise is a hideous, almost rightm angled bend (the programmers T could have invested in a few h rood signs). Worse is to come, with e a U-bend that requires one at r the few speed adjustments needed in the game e a r e a r e a sGOLDENGATE tThe most impressive feature of othis course has to be the huge lsuspension bridge that dominates the opening. It really is a emagnificent feat of (silicon) tengineering. It also allows you to pick up real speed before passing through the only tunnel found in the game. From the checkpoint, you'll find roodworks forcing you to stick to the right. The two flyovers make this a hard course to play from the panorama viewpoint.

PANORAMA Perhaps the most spectacular position to view Virtue from. The bird's-eye view let's you see far in advance, especially handy when chasing the race leaders. The downside is a reduced sense of movement, as the car is so far away! Also, from this distance the car seems to handle strangely.

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Secondly, okay you've got automatic and manual gears to master but the fact remains it's still only got three courses ich although tough and will btless provide a few days unadulterated fun doesn't • et. Finally, the t w o w-e is just one-on-one with computer-operated oppoep l a y e r nents which gets dull very l quickly.

Gus is right, this is l doubtless a classic and a programming triumph. But I o wouldn't buy it. n t h I PS E e LI FI P TI ME 0- . 5 4 5 0 • 7 l 3 0 . •1150"5.2 a o .114) ..ag i 4 s • =I t a b i l i t y PI E E . I LI P I

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There is a two-player option utilising a split-screen display. Only the two human racers ore on the track for the race, and there is a choice of laps and five-stage handicap facility for players of unequal ability. This options shows no major loss of game speed, but the display is slightly harder to follow and some detail has been removed from the course scenery .

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MEGA-CD REVIEW It's been twelve issues since I first saw this — both I and the game are a year older.

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"APE,PILLAGE,PLUNDEP Whichever way you approach it, conquest is an unpleasant business. First you hove to convert a town to your side. The icon for this symbolises attack, but the result depends crucially on the posture you adopt. The townspeople will resist or succumb depending on loyalty to their present leader. Once a town is yours its people, food and items ore at your disposal. You con adopt three postures: passive, neutral and aggressive.

Your posture affects the way your Captain performs every action in the game.

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THISISTHECAPTAINOFYOUR ;HIP - CALLING Orders are given via the icon bar running along the bottom of the screen, and executed by your captain.

You start off with one captain, standing behind the main map. His bond's numbers and food level are shown along with his personal health, There are other captains to find and subordinate throughout the worlds. With control of these, you con coordinate actions: create a foroging party and an attacking party, for instance.

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Personally, I think I've aged better. The extra presentation features are barely noticeable save for the impressive, but irrelevant aerial feature. The animated intro is brief by Calvin Klein proportions, most of the time is taken up by loading. The game itself Is the same sluggish, strategy game that lacks excitement or focus. It seems even slower, and the delay in the command interface makes it a chore to play. So many annoying things happen — like troops deserting at the drop of a hat, forcing you to trudge around the settlements recruiting them again. By no means an essential strategy game for any interested Mega-CD owners.

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changed. The action centres on the main window, which depicts the world from an isometric viewpoint. The commands for this are the some, letting you zoom in, rotate and scroll around the world. A new feature is the key mop, which gives a reconnaissance breakdown of the world, showing buildings, people and terrain. The command icons have been moved also.

Powermonger on the CO is a classic case of too little too late. It's more than a year we saw nal cart version and apart from a few presentational frills and slightly better sounds (especially the birdie noises) there's not a lot of difference. If anything, Powermonger CD is even slower than the cart version. There are loads of levels so you're Ok on the lastability front, and it's cheaper than the Megadrive version so for diehard strategy fans this might b e worth a look but us lesser mortals won't be too impressed.

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TOOLS larger settlements have workshops where goods may be produced. These are easily put to your advantage. Just what the town produces depends on certain factors: proximity to wood, altitude, proximity to water, presence of fishermen or merchants, and posture. By varying these, you get goods as diverse as bows, pikes, ploughs, cannons and boats. The weapons give you a distinct advontoge in bottle.

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Well, in fact, but that time all the miners on earth will hove been sacked, and important minerals will be mined from the moons of the solar system, since the home planet will be deemed much too precious to despoil for materials. Miners will uncover elements like this plastic model molecule here, which I'm now going to pull a bit off and stick here_ But it's very probable that space aliens will be flying about in ships looking much like this Deluxe Point IV drawing here, and they'll get very angry and invade the mining moons.

If that happens we surmise that Earth will send a crack team of underground troops to liberate the mining installations and kick those alien asses. We've constructed a possible simulation of the whole event on this Megadrive game here, which I'm going to attempt to play on air, even though it probably won't work.

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Gravity and inertia are elements rarely programmed into a game, as they require lots of extra calculations. They make control a struggle initially, but in the long term they give the game a better feel and odd satisfaction.

Gravity is the force pulling objects towards earth. Without propulsion, the Sub craft falls_ Normally, objects accelerate under gravity, but in Subterranio the ship falls at a fixed rate. The effects of Gravity depends on weight, so when the craft carries objects, it requires extra propulsion.

Inertia is the force that moves objects without propulsion, as they decelerate. The craft will not stop instantly, so movements have to be mode carefully. There is a retro thruster (firing opposite to the main one) to stabilise the ship.

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There's something very manicured about this game that makes it a pleasure to ers have used their r national efficienM . eGerman pronctive shoot 'em up excellent handling 4 1 .1 •W and ' . dreal u cinnovation. e a sharp, The graphics aren't spectacular but by the same token cannot be criticised, and the music is Depeche Mode, while being curiously reminiscent of classic C64 music by the likes of Martin Galway. The only spot of mildew on this blooming blaster is the amount of levels. I understand there are only nine. I admit I haven't completed, but I'd be happier if I knew there-was tons of new discoveries to make, not just a few more extremely lethal levels.

AtIETITEIFUEIMEEER We don't do these 'collect 'em up' lists very often in Mean Machines now, so as o special treat, here's a parade of the bonus icons. Come on you beauties...

Considering the rote this depletes, you con never afford to be far from one of these. The ship must have the some petrol tank as a Reliant Robin Few and far between, but these total force-field replenishers are welcome oil the same.

These cylinders change through three colourcoded forms.

Red is best, by common consent, though the green homing shot has its u r n .

SUB-mODUL: There is one of these on each of the first six levels, allowing you to travel underwater from level seven onward.

MISSILES A limited supply of extremely powerful warheads.

Just the ticket for the big nasties.

EXTRALIFE Really doesn't require any further clarification, but please don't shoot them.

EGADRIVE REVIEW COMMENT What a smart update of a real blast from the past.

The idea behind this - m a y not be ,new, but S T E V E Se enhanced g Gravita is a supremely a playable blast. Subterrania ' requires genuine skill as you s work your way through Its tortuous levels, and the control method is extremely simple yet completely effective. However, the real key to the games success comes from its missions. Gone are the Gravita days of simplistic missions. In Subterrania, mirrors need positioning, bosses are there to be defeated, and prisoners await rescue. Granted, it may not look up to much, but Sega have a real winner here and I hope it gets the credit it so richly deserves.

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II Eoch mission has a briefing, by way of a Satscan. This device shows you a layout of the cavern, and a printout of the multiple objectives. The Satscan starts as a basic module, but is refined as you progress into the game.

Soon you get more precise directions and Infra-Red spy pics of hazards. It really pays to watch the briefing closely, as some levels take a bit of working out.

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With bossy smouldering, coiled the submodule and POWs. Get the extra life from the left-hand chamber before returning to the landing point.

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MEGADRIVE REVIEW GRAPHICS 4. The next mirror is lying beneath all this techno debris.

Hint: Its use becomes clear upon reflection

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IV e graphics r y well for defined the ship and icons, and nicely constructed cavernbackdrops.

VNothing stunning or technhally ground-breaking.

2. Take it back to the laser-room.

Select 'deflector' from the weapon menu and drop it as near to the mobile unit as you can. Now land on the pad that opens the beam barrier below.

SOUND Wonderful tutoristic efleos and superbmusic, especially on the Satscansneers.

RATABILITY 1. There's another mirror to collect you must need fuel by now, surely?). The tricky port is suspending this mirror above the first one, redirecting the laser. fire to your advantage.

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LASTABILITY Viefy hard later levels and muhiple tasks throughout. ',The scope for this game could hays been a lot greater than is pre. serried hem

Like the best magic, it's all done with mirrors. Co down the long shaft to collect the first,

A All game, no frills itid eccellent tun.

Vror the 16-meg price, you basically expect more levels.

OVERALL MD111[11 [OFlaDETIFIEMEH It s a thoughtful idea for a ga m e with 0 novel contr ol system to have a trainer, and Subterrania does Nothing fancy mind but enough to get you *trot y o u r test.

Anaddition to thelist of Megadriveclassics,albeit a minoroneforreasonsof sire_ Whosaid that doesn'tmatter?

ME A D R I V E I R c ra W B cJohn k toMajor Basicsbut — can it was a fiasco it work withfor video gaming? You tend to find that new things tend to be a variation on on old idea. Mallet legend is no exception.

Most of you probably remember those hilarious features at fun fairs — the ones where you hod to bash as many furry creatures or frog-type specimens as possible with a hammer before the y reached the finish line in order to notch up points and ultimately prizes II is upon this ancient and undoubtedly fun concept that

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have my picions that many people in console game 'marketing' haven't a clue about games themselves. If they do, how can they blithely license platform game clone after platform game clone and overlook Mallet Legend. It's a fabulous idea, and rather than fudge the control method by using the joypad, they've gone and designed a special controller! The game is admittedly very simple (and I found a bit too traumatic at times). But the potential for people making fools of themselves is enormous, making this one of the most fun games of the year. And as distribution in the country is exclusive, you could be shelling out for a limited edition item. Certainly for those in search of something new.

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As well as the mutant barf-balls who pop up at alarming speeds, there's also a series of bombs which, when battered with your mallet, explode and blow up everything and everybody on screen.

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Here at MEAN MACHINES we have neither the time nor the inclination to count the number of cock Sonic clones and mediocre Street Fighter II rip-offs being churned out b y countless software companies but we can tell you it's a lot.

Hundreds probably. So when the curious Mallet Legend arrived in the office we were intruiged to say the least. To say the game is basic is a gross under. statement with only just functional graphics and mediocre sound but by gum it's fun!

There's • • something so satisfy' *at* ing about 4••001•ing all b a fiends _ t t e from 4 r hell and 1 to push 1 your 4 reflexes to the 1 absolute NM t It is o very exhilarating. I s certainly glued to this i three days solid me for l ry unusual for me) and for novelty t value and value for money h you can't fault I t As a party o piece it'll be a corker but on the down side s I doubt it will have very e long-lasting appeal for just one person.

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9 I n DAY SCORE SAVE ONE EGG 9 ORIGIN Where have you been? Onty based on the biggest grossingmovie in his. tory. Also, elemerns of Crichton's originol novel hove been added.

W offers itself, console owners h usually expect a dreadful can series of generic platform e games strewn across every n system known to man. a But in the case of l Speilberg's cinematic i gem, the opposite has c happened. The Megadrive, Game e Gear and now n Mega-CD have s each been given e original treatments land the l Nintendo fori mats had a k completely dife ferent gameJ style).

This tardy Mego-CD u version — r coming a some s nine months s after the i film's c theatrical P release a is defi— r nitely the most innovative. But is itk the best?

The setting of Isla Nublar, Hammond's genetic dinosaur theme pork is returned to, with you not as Dr. Grant, but some unknown agent charged with saving at least one egg from each of the seven species on the island (there were 16 species in the book, but who's quibbling). Most of the mission is played in redtime, with a strict limit of completing the mission before the sun goes down o r it's you who's heading for extinction.

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GAMEAIM liestue at least ome egg from ertch at **seven species before the timelimit expires.

You view the pork in the first-person, with a ponoramic view of certain locations on the island.

All your commands ore performed with a pointand-click interface, shown as a cross-hair which rooms the screen (just like Monkey Island).

Moving to new locations is possible when the cross-hair turns to on arrow. The symbol also changes to o glass when there's something you can look at more closely; and a hand when there s something to be manipulated.

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Unsurprisingly, there are live dinosaurs on the island. Velocimptors, Dilophosaurs and the T-Rex ore potential dangers. Even Triceratops is enraged by careless actions. Using the motion tracker and learning each animal's distinctive sounds will extend your life expectancy.

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The presentational ideas, like the control room, Dr. Bakker's dino-tour and the sweeping motion in the Visitor Centre are impressive, but thinly disguise the remainder of the game — a dull exploration game comprising of finding item A and taking it to point B. Whereas the dinosaurs may have added a frisson of excitement, I found they lust got in the way of the task in hand, and I was irritated, not terrified by the umpteenth *raptor attack.

For Jurassic-heads, the atmosphere may be enough to carry this, but only maybe.

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You hove a box inventory to hold some twenty or so items (excluding the eggs you find).

Many of these ore cutting instruments to allow access past security measures. Some measures need a more hi-tech approach, via the colourcoded security cords dotted around,

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rALTERNATIVELv? • NKEY ISLAND The best point and dick adventure for the Mega-CD, with tons of humour and a huge amount of gameplay .

The gome uses the vaunted Cinepok FMV system to create animated segments like those seen walking through the visitor cen tre. When you walk between areas, or look at the are-filmed dino-info kiosks you ore treated to the usual Mega-CD jerkymovie fare.

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DRACULA UNLEASHED More movie atmosphere, with similar item/clue based gameplay to Jurassic Park.

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LASTABILITY I had such high hopes for the CD version of Jurassic Park, so this comes a real letdown. It's nice that Sega have tried to do something different with the licence — and the initial impressions given by the detailed play area are very good b u t behind the well-presented front-end lies a very simplistic game.

For the most part, the puzzle element in Jurassic CD simply requires the player to take any objects they find to rather obvious locations. Yes, there's the odd dinosaur to be seen, but there's never any real feeling of menace generated — one of the film's strongest points. The potential for a dino blockbuster was fantastic, but this is another missed opportunity to add to the list.

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Tales of the sea ore scary affairs.N i recount stories of huge squid-like beasts capable of e a t g u ship s.ivicol sirens out to sing crews to their doot and a mod sea Captain who gave it 011 up to create fish in breadcrumb meek.

More often than not, though, the stories are simply regarding one-legged seafarers,with a penchant for sporting exotil birds on their shoulders and white trails down their basks— pirates.

Data East's latest game revolves around the adventures of a young rap.. scallion pirate called Cop n Havoc • - , . whose crew have been kidnapped by the eternally-evil Bernard The Brutal.

Obviously this sort of behaviour is nothing new for a pirate such as Bernie, but ih s time het has an ulterior motive. the treasure map Havoc and crew were holding. According to legend (well, some drunk old scrote in the local t avi eml, a magical emerald which offers complete control of the seas awaits anyone who follows the map. Thus, swotted up on rescue techniques ,/having from Sonic the Seafarer and Bubsy the Barnacle, Havoc is ready to take on Brutal on his own ground..

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BUCKLIN SWAS For o swashbucklir pirat e. Capri Havoc is rather defenceless. Although the wannabe Leing-John is armed with his trusty cutlass, the weapon can only be produced whilst he is turning a somersault — enough to make anyone 'hand. though, Havoc is a little more sprightly than his wooden-legged rivals and makes his way across the hazs ard-filled stages in huge leaps or runs to rival Linford in e the sprinting stakes. Similarly, Havoc's bouncing skills ore y called upon to kill the assorted nasties in his path. also eNow that's original....' s w a t e r i f h e g e t

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Diamonds: Earns a player 'Diamond P • Chicken Leg. Replenishes Folf energy.

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Treasure: 50 points to you, Squire.

Goblet: A mere 10 points.

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Havoc's thirteen-stage mission starts in the green woodland of Cape Seaiph and ends with a final face-off with Bernard in his fortress_ Between this, though, Havoc bottles through tried 'n' tested thorned levels — including the obligatory ice and fire stages — each of which contains suitably adapted foes. As such, during the aquatic levels, expect to see more than your fair share of octopi and sharks, whilst the burning hamlet features o -• nasty line in fiery devils and imps

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Just French andlive Saunders are beginning to look terribly middle-class, and Rik and Ade struggle to raise the merest glimmer of laughter, Britain becomes the butt of several US cartoon comedies.

Ren and Stimpy is the vanguard. The show stars the mexican-bred dog, Ren Hoek, the scrawny one, and his longtime companion Stimpy the cat, who has a fondness for his litter tray. A mixture of Sid Caesar gags and Monty Python silliness, the show was the inspired creation of one screwed-up animator (later dumped from his own show for his own worrying behaviour). The Game Gear version is a platform game, in common with the earlier Megodrive version, but this time follows the pair in their mission to reinstate the annual Yak shaving contest so dear to their hearts...

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These characters have a real game potential, with their revolting habits and wacky world, but neither this, nor the Megadrive version, does nearly enough to capture it.

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E G A D R I V E 'REVIEW F yessential e a r viewing. s ago, every kid watched the Pink Panther.

On read a Saturday night, it was Just after the football scores had been out, and before a youthful Jimmy Saville fixed it for even more greedy kids, the Pink Panther would appear in two cartoons, with a dull Inspector Clouseau one stuffed in the middle.

But — and this is a major but — right at the end, the Inspector and all the others would be picked up from the cinema in this really smart pink racing car, driven by a ginger-haired, freckly kid. Boy, how I wanted to be that kid — I'd even hove suffered his appearance for a chance to get behind that wheel.

In fact, anything I could have done to get a go in that car, was done. Pink Ponther chocolate bars were consumed by the handful (and, yes, even the chocolate was pink), TV comic was bought in the vain hope there'd be a competition to win the car, and I even wrote off to Jimmy to fix it for me. Now, Tecmogik has brought the rinky-dink Pink Panther bang up to date in a platformer. It doesn't have the car in it, but as it only featured in the last two minutes in the TV show, I doubt if the programmers deemed it important. It meant a lot to me, though...

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SET PIECE Pink's adventure starts with on introductory sequence where he is caught painting the Hollywood sign his favourite colour. Fleeing retribution, he escapes into a film set resembling the kitchen from Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. However, on exploring the platform-laden location, Pink discovers it also offers access to linked sets. Including ones based on Robin Hood, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Tarzan, and any ghost story you've ever seen. However, before he gets to his chosen location, a nightmarish walk through the back of the set odds a smaller sub-level where manic cameras and falling sand bags threaten to sap Pinks energy

HEY, BIG NOSE! When Pink has made his way across the eight-way-scrolling landscape and collected a predetermined number of star icons and power-ups, he is left to battle it out with a boss chap. These vary from stage to stage, but are based on that big-nosed guy our rinky-dink hero annoys so much in every episode. For example, during the 'Pinkin Hood segment, the Manilow-lookalike dons a suit of armour and attacks from one of four battlements.

Until you hit him enough and he keels over, that is...

COMMENT Boom, boom, boom, another one bits the dust...

As the Pink Panther wanders Into a slow-moving w i t h all the excitement e p i s o d e of Home And Away, I still find It hard to believe that all the time Tecmagik has spent developing this game has resulted in such an uninspired effort. Granted, the cartoons themselves aren't that exciting, but surely they could have produced something better than this tedious effort. The levels Pink explores are nothing better than average, and the only time the game ever gets taxing is when the unfair collision detection results in the unavoidable loss of energy.

What few good ideas there are in Pink Panther — the spooky stage's secret labs, for example — are sorely wasted, leaving another licence cop-out which is best avoided.

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Pink's only protection from the many bad guys is a gun which fires a boxing glove. As the assorted ghosts/archers/cots/whatever attack, a swift rebuke from this novelty godget will see them off. However, some of the larger monsters Pink faces — Frankenstein's monster, for example — require several hits, and this is where the game's handy powerups come in useful. These appear as icons dotted around the levels and range from o device to extend the range of the glove-gun, magic platforms to bridge previously-inaccessible gaps, and an umbrella to break a long fall.

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A ppeors plots are being slashed liberally. Take s Battletoads on the Game Gear. a Previous versions of this game w hod a perfectly reasonable silly eplot which has just been aexpunged from this Sego handrheld cart. Turn on and you're egreeted with the title screen. No istoryboard, no animated bit, just 'wham born thank you ma'om'. n Luckily, I know the plot, so I'll rtell you. A wicked space sorcereess has kidnapped a beautiful cspace princess, and it's up to the eBattletoods — three intrepid agents — to enter the multischambered lair of Gargantua to srescue her. These fearsome felilows have the most awesome ohand-to-hand fighting skills in nspace, and a wide array of gadThis won't stop it being ,getry. one of the toughest adventures iyou've ever faced, though, so be tprepared...

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I i S playable,varied game, and this in itself is a l T 1 1 of a rarity for the Game Gear. Worth a shuity.

I E i W n t g o n g Those Toads sure pock a punch. Many of the levels ore scrolling beat u 'em ups.

Flying pigs, ogres, and the like assault you by bursting out of e the scenery — and then there's the stilt monsters. Hit these, and you , use the debris as a weapon. By punching something repeatedly, can M work up to a super punch, which blasts it into oblivion There are you I other running, jump-kicking and even body throw movements.

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Throughout the game, linked beans in a variety of colours foil into the player's troughs. These will begin to stack untidily unless you rotate the beans so colours match. When a group of matching beans exceeds four, the beans disappear, leaving a gap that any stacked above fall into. This process continues until either the right or left player is unable to stop beans piling off the top of the screen.

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C U eilence in court! Within the aasphere of the Criminal Law, the Court of Appeal functions as the last resort of the convicted. It is the one place for them to receive clemency, consideration and even acquittal from their sentence.

Similarly, in the world of

KID CHAMELEON History. Kid Chameleon appeared before Jaz and Rod, as a platform game where a young 'hip' kid tried on various helmets and suffered personality changes as a result.

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ished to the very reaches of the top shelf, with reviewers comments ringing in their ears and nary a snowball's chance in Hell of being bought. Now, Sega have repackaged many of these titles with an attractive bargain price-point, and the prospect of them appearing 1 in public shops must be faced. Are they a potential

PROSECUTIONu mud I point to the testimony at the time that this game was 'for too easy'. My colleague Jaz claimed there was only one hard bit, some six levels into the game and the rest was 'plain sailing from there to the finish' And the main character is about as hip as Keith Chegwin, A sod victim of juvenile delinquency.

DEFENCE I'd like to draw your grace's attention to remarks mode at the time praising Kid Chameleon's •novel ideas' and originality.

The game is quite easy, but still has something to offer, some two years on_ Many newer games, like Socket and High Seas , Havoc offer little more

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JUDGEMENT

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In these terrible, terrible days, we sadly cannot expect huge amount of originality. However, Master Chameleon's greatest crime is that it is too easy — and that in itself is unforgivable.

As such, I feel that Kid should be locked away until he has repented - perhaps in time for Middle-Aged Chameleon?

JUDGE — LORDJUSTICE MERRETT

DEFENCE— THELEARNED LUCYHICKMAN

She was called to the bar at the age of eighteen (and hod to wait three years to get served). Lucy is a legendary cross-examiner, but she does it even better when she's in a 1 good mood.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Stephen Merrett has sat on the bench for some years (as a result he has terrible piles). H e is renowned for harsh sentencing, and his spelling is not too hot either.

PROSECUTION ANGUS SWANQC Respected and experienced, Gus has been wearing wigs and garters for as long as he can remember (but only while working). A scourge of some software firms, he memorably sent Andre Agossi down for a very long time.

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History: Toeiam and Earl first appeared on trial some two and a half years ago. The cartridge caused a considerable affray by starring two interstellar 'dudes' in an overhead-viewed exploration game set in a 'wacky' multi-level environment.

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History: This maverick cart attempted to the unlikely feat of mixing art and console-gaming together. Buyers were attracted by a picture of a family making a picture of a fish on the front cover. The cart allows you to draw pictures on screen, like a console Etch a Sketch. And there are no death moves.

PROSECUTION

PROSECUTION

I think the bench should make a stern example of Messrs.

Toejam and Earl. True, there is a modicum of humour within the game, but it fails to disguise the simplicity of the gameplay.

It's real crime is looking dated, whilst acting hip. The console equivalent of 'MC' Hammer.

The area of law this comes into is Trades' Description. Art is neither artistic or living. The range of drawing tools is minimal, results look awful and cannot be saved. Even at E14.99, I'd advise the public to buy some felt-tips and on Ecology pad insteod.

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My colleague's remarks are totally unjustified. Toejam and Earl was hailed as a 'cult classic' and 'a bankers adventure' and I personally find it as much fun to ploy now as then. If being chased by mad dentists and ice-cream vans is subversive, then that's what I am.

In this case, the defence has no evidence to offer. I'm sorr it's y crud.

JUDGEMENT

DJUDGEMENT

Simplicity in a game is often a good thing and, at the time, Messrs Toejam and Earl were somewhat more interesting than their rivals. It should also be noted that the pair recently finished community service in a sequel, which we would recommend the jury look at instead.

Art Alive is a sod and practically useless cart. Ws bad enough that it has to live with this knowledge, but I recommend it is locked away and the key lost in transit.

History: Mercs was part of a fad for upwardly-scrolling shoot 'em ups featuring hunky marines and unfortunate gringos. Players would storm up foreign landscapes carrying all sorts of weapons without a thought of trespass or passport controls.

PROSECUTION

DEFENCE

It pains me to tell the court that I hove gleaned some enjoyment from Mercs.

Counsel at the original trial, sold this was 'a spot-on conversion'. But really, is this the sort of lager-loutish behaviour when Britons go abroad that we can applaud?

The prosecution has to concede that Mercs is an exceedingly good game, with its 'meatiest mega-weapons ever seen'. This court isn't hear to pass judgement on foreign policy, but on standards of gaming in this country. In that area Mercs is unquestionably a bargain classic.

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en the enjoyable — if violent - - nature of Mercs. The court recommends is should be allows bock into everyday life — and should mix with society again as soon as possible.

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History: This can appears before the court not long after its first assessment.. X-men features the six uncanny heroes, in a cannily produced platform beat 'em up, with two player's taking on Magneto's forces

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Any proceedings dealing with Michael Jackson must be done with care and compassion But this game simply doesn't wash.

Being a laughable and dated platform affair, it has no business on the shelves, even at a bargain price-point. As an act of simple mercy, let us put it away, so that no-one need smirk at its 'formation-dancing dogs again.

I'm surprised to see the X-men before the bench again so

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The Defence disagrees. Moonwalker was rated quite highly in its day, and no less than Jaz Rignoll said 'there's plenty of fun to be had'. Yes, it is out of date, but Matt Regan's recommendation stands true: 'For Jackson fans who like rescuing kids'.

My uncanny friends have been vindicated. It's a case of mistaken identity, where the real culprits are Spiderman and the Uncanny X-men from Acclaim — a dull platform romp which sells at double the price Justice for the Sego X-men six!

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Isis clear that Michael Jackson is no longer a... 'hip cat', I believe the phrase is. I feel his antics are tiresome and as uninteresting as his music. I also recommend the game is kept away from children.

A clear case of mistaken identity on the prosecution's part. It is wrong that this cart be brought for retrial so soon after its release, but I intend to free it and feel it should be given a

Histoty.This Komi case covers two previous trials: John Madden '92, the first update of the comprehensive American Football sim, mixing strategy and arcade action. The second is EA Hockey, the original team sport on ice with a smooth, vertically-scrolling rink.

History: A very old Megodrive title based on a coin-op, where the player flew across a 3-0 chequered landscape, blasting huge sprite-linked dragons in a shoot 'ern up frenzy .

PROSECUTION In my mind, these orig,nal two offenders are worthy only of praise and not censure, and it seems suspiciously good value to have them together on one pack. But they have simply become persistent re-offenders. How many times have we seen John Madden pass through the reviewing process, and his accomplice Mr. Hockey? Too many, I contend.

DOME I find my learned friend doing the Defence's work for herl These ore simply stunning games that deserve gratitude and a new loose of life. They cannot be held responsible for the faults of their relatives; John Madden '93, '94, NFILPA and the sinister Bill Walsh. I sue for a dismissal.

JUDGEMENT I feel that it is only fair that these original classics are allowed back on the outside to earn some more money. They cannot be blamed for the unscrupulous behaviour of their relatives. Case dismissed

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fresh start by the general public.

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shoot 'em up in un-spaceworthy vehicle. This vehicle is a death-trap — shuddery graphics, poor sound and repetitive gameplay. Even the budget tog is no excuse — to the knockers' yard with it.

DEFENCE It s easy to be unkind about this game, but I ask you to consider this — what alternatives are there? The Megodrive has few 3•D shooters, bar the atrocious Galaxy Force II. And there are some people with a soft spot for the original arcade game. I'd permit it to be bought if owners choose with due care and attention.

JUDGEMENT Space Harrier, it is quite visible that you have spent all your memory on presentation, leaving none for gameplay. You will be sent to live in a darkened room, where nobody will be forced to endure you again Send him down...

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I n the beginning there was darkness. Then the great God, Binatone, II looked down at the poor, uninspired people and gave them light.

Well, Pong. As man marvelled at the incredible rectangular Edbergs and Graffs as they bounced the square ball to each other, already Binatone's deity status was under attack from the larger usurpers, Atari and Mattel. Consequently, like the historical mighty empires, consoles and computers have risen and fallen, with more advanced system leapfrogging their out-moded parents.

Despite this progress, the old adage 'The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same' has never been truer. Regardless of how advanced the video game industry becomes, the promotion of software, the game genres, and the companies behind them remain much the same. Hard to believe? Well, join us as we delve into every aspect of the video game market in search of some of the crappiest and most ground-breaking games, ads, peripherals and ideas you'll ever see.

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PRICEWARS O when the price of a IMegadrive was reduced ffrom E200 to its present yE804-, spare a thought for the poor so-and-sos who owere lashing out for the then ustate•of-the-art Atari VCS machines and Colts_ Think w ecartridge prices are dear rtoday? Well, VCS owners had to pay around E35 for a 2-4K e game - - that's less thon m1/50th of a MEG! Similarly, a rzu ikit-form ZX81 with its massive f 1K memory (enough for 30 _•••=7:1=A •=1 f lines of BASIC) cost E50 whilst ethe C64 weighed in at a hefty E E350 for its eight-colour n ni dpalette. ou And, because this was at the •••-••='.•—• s u cti l OMI DAL ono dawn of gaming, there was • •• Bei - LUIS N O M Ole t o every chance the system you t e u r opted for would be obsolete by r - •_ b the end of the week! The Elan Newl....12 Mellow u .

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Witness the amazing Sinclair la-roll printer. This excellent machine opened the world of publishing up to humble Spectrum ZX8I owners. Using that funny paper used in public toilets and for lining cake tins, it was just the job for a printout of your Biorhythms chart.

PERIPHERAL,A so limited it early was only sensible to strapwere Bock in the Eighties, computers things on to make them better. Cue the misguided peripheral spree. The first buy, of course, was a joystick. Sadly, Spectrum owners had to buy a widget so allow them to conned the joystick before they even bought the joystick! The Kempston interface was born. But it wasn't the only one, so games hod to come with all the different control possibilities, including Saddos-who-don't-own-aQuickshot II-mode. The Quickshot was the 'stick du temps', even less responsive than it is today and the cause of many a boring conversation on 'microswitches' and 'gold leaf contacts' But beyond that was an exciting world, where companies tempted you to believe your Z80 processor was the key to global computer domination! Your computer could even gain the power of speech. The microspeech was a sad abomination with a ridiculous E50 price tag. By typing in phonetic patterns, you'd hear a spoken return that makes Stephen Hawking sound as animated as Ken Dodd_ Apart from "We are the Daleks" and, 'Malfunction: does not compute", the Curroh speech was useless to man or beast.

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Tons of unlicensed clones left little doubt what they were offering: Puckmon, Spriteman, Bite Mon, Maze Man, Dotmon, Zuckman, Munchie Man, GuIpman II, Gobbleman, Gobbler, Ghostman, Ghost's Revenge, Monster Muncher, etc.

Other games subjected to the treatment were Centipede, a garden-pest based blaster, Frogger (ripped-off with various Frogman, Jogger and Chickenrelated programs) and Donkey Kong. By the time of Kong, though, the companies had even given up thinking of original names, so they're were umpteen versions of Kmzy Kong floating about. Tragically, Ocean even bought the rights to an abysmal sequel — Kong Strikes Back.

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It's hard not to giggle at the past efforts. The may was in mono; it's was hard to tell between reader's artwork and commissioned drawings and the letter's page is full of fascinating letters about Checksum errors and Pokes. A checksum was the topic of many a soddo's conversation, It's a small routine that allows you to check data by adding the values together and checking the total. And a poke was a way of jigging about with the code of a game. A bit like a stone-age Action Replay.

For a long time anoraks of that type held sway. Computers weren't supposed to be fun — even computer games weren't meant to be fun. Instead you amused yourself with the Listings.

Unbelievably, Listings were 'complete games' shown as lines of text in BASIC, printed 'free' with each issue. Listings were UTTERLYcrop for the following reasons:

'Seal of Quality' and current strictSego's licensAnyone would agree that despite ing, software is a mixed bog. Very few games get Megagame status, but back then buyers were at the mercy of some real cowboys. Some of the stunts they tried to pull off were literally breathtaking:

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• Audiogenic decided to convert their abysmal C64 disk game, Alice in Videoland, to cassette. All fine and good, but the game was originally m u l t i and - they didn't bothering altering it. Tape owners found l o a d to , their dismay, that after they completed the first level, the rest of the game didn't load • One company tempted you to splash out in the most irresistible way. Cascade advertised their 'Cassette 50' game in every may, in every issue. It promised 50 separate games - all of which were terrible and written in BASIC — on one C60 tape for El 0, with a digital watch thrown in freel Alarmingly, we saw a company trying to resurrect the some idea for the Megodrive at last year's ECTS.

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The creatures lining up for a scrap depend on the player's surroundings, with huge fire-breathing dragons lurking within a sprawling cave system, whilst huge mutant toads and hero-chomping fish are poised to snap up any unwary players should they need to cross one of the rivers within the game map. It certainly makes a change from the usual arcs and goblins!

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Ordinarily, RPGs such as Soleil see the player collecting magic potions and weapon powerups os they progress through the game. This time, however. Sego have opted for a weirder, but equally interesting slant on the theme.

Pressing on as-yet-undetermined button unveils an inventory full of — wait for it! — animals!

Believe it or not, these oct as ingredients for number of potions (I wonder what the RSPCA would say about that!), and specific combination of the lions, othersuch big cots and even dinosaurs go together to boost the hero's weaponry, endowing him with such luxuries as a fiery boomerang or a more powerful sword.

Even better, though, it's not just limited to weaponry, and another combination create a large lizard for our hero to ride!

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Battlecorps is the latest CD title to emerge from their Derby HQ and is set on a series of mining planets in the year 2096. With Earth's resources now virtually nonexistent, the human race has gone into space to plunder other planets for the vital ores needed. As can be expected, mining has become big business, and the industry is now dominated by the Interplanetary Mining Corporation (IMC) and BioMechanical Incorporated. With the ore's value shooting through the roof, dirty tactics have come into play, and the Inserter race are the BioM• ck Corps' lastditch attempt to wipe IMC out.

As a new member of IMC's security squad — the Battlecorps of the title .-• you and your heavily-armed Walker ship have been dropped into the Mandelbrot A system where the latest wave of Insectar attacks are taking place. Mandelbrot is made up of fi ve moons, each of which has a different climate. The first, Veg ra tion t i swhere the mining bases are under attack from the a bisector ships, whilst lat er v o l c planets t ake place underwaa i cin a claustrophobic ternand mine. l o c Atathe time of writing, -Battiecorps exists as three playable levels, with the fi nal two currently under development. Needless to say, though, MEAN MACHINES SEGA will bring you the exclusive review as soon as the game is complete.

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The walker under your control is a massive beast which is controlled via the joypod. The A button and the D-pod ore used to get it moving, but the D-pad alone allows the player to rotate the top half of the machine to turn and shoot any oncoming Insector ships — and pressing the A button Again will snap the legs round so you can continue in the direction you're currently facing! This then leaves the B and C buttons which ore used to control the walker's weaponry system. Initially, these are just a couple of chainguns, but collecting power-ups upgrades them to mining lasers and missiles.

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M E G A D R WE P R E V I E W IP , B r e a k , there's more to Snooker than potting as many balls as you con in a minute and dressing up as a Pantomime Dame at Christmas. Instead, it's a game of skill and accuracy — feeling Virgin are hoping to convey in their forthcoming Megodrive conversion of Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker.

In its original Amiga form, Snooker won a legion of fans thanks to its unique viewpoint and control system You see, whereas post games gave a bird's-eye view of the proceedings, Whirlwind Snooker allows the ployer to view the action from virtually any angle — including a scrolling view from the moving white!

The key to Snooker's versotill iy is the icon system used to control the game. Located at either the side or the top of the screen (you decide), a simple point 'n' click system allows the player to zoom in ond out of the table, chalk the cue, or raise the angle of the shot. Similarly, when the cue hos been lined up, both the shot strength and the amount of spin the player deem necessary con be added via a secondary icon set.

So far, Whirlwind Snooker is roughly 70% complete. Most of the boll collision plotting routines are up and running, as ore basics such as the cue graphics and zoom features. However, the balls still behave a little erratically at times, and this is being sorted, whilst a series of bonus trick shots are also under development. Expect a full review in a Snooker-loopy MEAN MACHINES SEGA real soon.

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2. Chalk Cue: Shots requiring a lot of spin need loads of chalk.

3. Top Spin: Aims the cue to the top of the white ball, shots using this sees the white roll after the target boll.

4. Left Spin: Careful use of this &lows the player to curl a shot around an obstructing colour.

5. Spin Icon: A small dot on this icon indicates where your cue will strike the white.

6. Right Spin: The some as the left._ except to the right, that is.

7. Bottom Spin: Striking the white at its bottom produces a shot which will bounce back from the target ball.

8. Guide Line: Essential for shots which require a double from the cushion, this allows the player to plot the angle of deflection.

9. Return To While: When you've finished scanning the table, this returns you to the view behind the white.

10/11. Pan Shot: Pan across the table to change the angle of the shot.

12. Bird's-Eye View: Simply view the action — and any long shots — from afar.

13. Raise/Lower Cue Angle: If the white is directly next to a colour, an acute angle is needed to position the cue over the blocking colour. It's rather like those trembly hand shots you see on the telly.

14, Another View: Well, it is. This time from the bottom of the table.

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The game is played across a series of scrolling isometric screens, and the action is a mix of swordwielding action and the aforementioned puzzling.

The dragon's cronies include the usual orcs and insects, but others to keep an eye out for include some impressive-looking ghouls and reptiles.

Similarly, the puzzles are complex affairs which span several rooms and may require the collection of specific objects of a series of moves performed in the right order.

As of the time of writing, very little of the game exists, but what is apparent is that fans of Landstalker should keep an eye on Relayer. MEAN MACHINES certainly will be, and well bring you further details as they become available.

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In terms of appearance, RBI '94 doesn't look that different from its predecessors, but Tengen have tightened up the animation, added all the latest stets from some 700 players, and made the game slightly more user-friendly than in the post. This means that if the likes of Hardball III and RBI '93 have scored you off because it seemed nigh-on impossible to hit the boll, Tengen have added a pitching machine for practice purposes. Another new feature is a 'make or break game, where the player is dropped into a pre-played game at a vital point and must hit a home run to win the game or catch your opponent's lost batsman out. It's a bit like all those gooey American films, where little Joey hits a home run and is instantly liked and gets all the girls. Except better.

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Tengen have mode both pitching and batting slightly easier than before, with the A button and the joy pod controlling the height, strength and spin given to each throw, whilst the three buttons allow the batter to swing, bunt or block. In addition, fielding shouldn't be quite so tedious as in past Baseball efforts either, as it can be left to the computer if you can't be bothered.

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With players stunned by the ball and fight scenes galore, the programmers have also taken note of Babe Ruth's home run skills and added a rather smart interlude screen. If a player smacks a boll right out of the park, the screen follows it until it lands — into the surrounding gasworks, water factory, etcl

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TACTICAL PLAY Before the matches begin, World Cup unveils a series of options screens which invites the player to tinker with every aspect of the game. All the usual weather and pitch condition features are there (which is a bit strange, as most of the US stadiums being used in the competition are under cover and use astro-turfl), and smaller items, such as the backpass rule, can be selected at leisure. One of the more important options, though, allows the player to predetermine their side's style of play.

Thus, using a series of icon•based diagrams, complex set-pieces can be decided, and the computercontrolled players in your side will then automatically get into position for the move.

BOXING CLEVER In an attempt to odd a little variety to the matches, Tiertex have odded a series of animations to brighten things up. Basically, these appear in a small box to the bottom-left of the screen, ond either show the ref making a decision, or the crowd's reaction to the ons-creen action. Similarly, should one of your team be sent off, a picture will appear showing the disgraced player hanging his head in shame,

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FOR SALE MEGADRIVE. 2 turbo pads, 12 carts. SF2, Flashback, Jungle Strike, EA Hockey '93. Alien 3.

Desert Strike, D. Robinsons Basketball, Buck Rogers, California Games, Maddens, Populus. Sonic, very good condition, buyer must collect, E300 ovno.

Tel. (0533) 760339 (Leicester), between 4.30pm-8pm. • MEGADRIVE with 2 joypads (1 megafire) Sonic 1&2, Desert Strike, Mortal Kornbat, F l Bubsy. Micro Machines, Lotus Turbo Challenge.

Risky Woods. Another World. World of Illusion.

Carmen Sandiego Mega Games, all for E380. Tel. (0332) 882323. PS ignore noises on line.

NEO-GEO arcade console, joystick. memory card and games including one of the best ever Viewpoint, worth E500+, sell for E350 ono, also selling 45 SNES games, will not separate. must clear the lot, major bargain at E290. Tel. Terry on (0272) 686258.

UK GAME GEAR II, games wide gear ,mains adaptor. battery. pack gear to gear cable, deluxe carrier case, everything fully boxed with instuctions, games all over 80%, excellent condition for E180. Tel. (0245) 442719.

FOR SALE, Megadrive and back-up device and lots of Jap games. will split. Tel. Wayne on 091565 8000

MEGADRIVE for sale, 6 games. including Streetfighter. Sonic 2, Sonic 1, The DueII Dangerous Seed (including adaptor) and 3 control pads and only E125! also for sale, 18 MMS mags. 10 MD Advanced Gaming mags, 9 MegaTech mags & 10 Sega Pro mags. Tel. (0727) 846308. after 4pm weekdays.

MAGS, 5 'Mega' mags and 35 other Sega ones!! name your price! all offers considered, what a bargain! all tree gifts with nags, inc. all in mint condition. Tel. David on (0727) 846308, after 4pm weekdays.

SEGA MASTER SYSTEM, 2 joypads (1 Megadrive), light gun. 10 games. Sonic 1&2, Speedball 2. Operation Wolf. good condition, E60 cno Tel (0272i 490674.

MEGADRIVE FOR SALE. 12 games, including SF II, Sonic Hellfire. World of Illusion, also 2 joypads. 6-button poypad and arcade powerstick, plus 17 issues of MMS. sell for just E230, worth over E700. Tel. Damien on 041-942 9566, if interested.

MEGADRIVE FOR SALE. 2 control pads, 8 games. titles include: FIFA International Football & John Maddens. price El 50.

Tel. (0463) 870090.

MASTER SYSTEM convertor for Megadrive, includes 7 games, only BO. lel. (U4UU) 811b8, after 6pm for details_

SNES PAL VERSION, 12 MEGADRIVE GAMES for games. convertor, 3 sale, Decap Attack, Ouackshot, Strider, joysticks. Iremskins.

Golden Axe. Alex Kidd, Street Fighter II, Alien II, Super Stanwars, Super for details phone Peter on Tennis, Super Marlocarts.

(0604) 847332.

Parodious Star Fox, NINTENDO Super Super Soccer, Super Famicom (Scart) with 2 Ghouls 'n' Ghosts. Mario, pads and 18 of the best Batman Returns E350, no games including: Contra, offers, boxed. Tel. (0476) Axelay. Castlevania 4, SF 77290, after 6pm, over 35 II and Star Wing. all for mags.

E250. plus Phillips Scart SNES FOR SALE with 2 monitor for only E80, controllers. convertor and everything is in stunning 6 games, including Mario. condition. Tel. (0753) 892441.

All-Stars, Starwing, SNES GAMES tor sale, Streetfighter E195. Tel. (0756) 7 Mortal Kombat Baits 905 NEO-GEO, 2 games for Nightmare. SF2, Super SWIV, Ghouls 'n• Ghosts.

0 8 or swap, boxed as sale new, will consider any Actraiser. Zelda, Another swaps or offers. Tel. Paul World and Action Replay on 021-328 9056, after (E25) all games boxed with instructions E20-E30.

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MENACER with 6 game Tel. John on (0782) pack and T2 plus 2 sets 279301. week nights (not of batteries. worth E110, Wed). sell for E50 ono. also MEGADRIVE GAMES for sale: Mortal Kombt E30, Sega Pro 1-12 E12, 2 Crude Dudes El 0, Aladdin E30 or swap for Ouackshot El 2. Populous Sonic Spinball. Tel. Paul E15. Tel. Andrew on on (0634) 365101 (0621) 817914, after (evenings only).

MASTER SYSTEM for 6pm.

SNES with Mario. also sale. plus Alex Kidd E20.

Magic Sword, WWF. plus Master System Sunset Riders, Mortal games E5-E20. Tel. Steve Kombat Tennis. on (0782) 279301.

MAGS FOR SALE, I Warspeed and have over 50 of them. I Probotector games E35.

Computer and Mario E88. might swap them for a the lot E305, instructions good game. Tel. (0442) 825204. for only Warspeed. Mortal Kombat Sunset Riders MASTER SYSTEM II and Magic Sword. Tel. Alex Kidd, games built-in.

(0457) 763003. plus 15 games including MEGADRIVE. mint Sonic 1&2, Mickey Mouse condition, with 2 controls 1&2. Prince of Persia. and 5 excellent games.

Alien 3, New Zealand boxed with instructions Story, all excellent and leads. sell for E150 condition, bargain E100. ono. Tol. (0457) 072169 Tel. 081-040 7003 (Manchester area).

(Ealing. London).

CHEAP MEGADRIVE carts!! Alisla Dragoon.

Gynoug, Predator 2 El 0 each, Cool Spot. Sonic Spinball E30 each. Tel. Ryan (0292) 263406.

PC ENGINE (PAL) with CD Rom. 19 top games, sell for E250_ Tel. (0734) 418130.

MEGADRIVE and MegaCD with Jap/USA conversion. Master System convertor. 3 controllers. 7 CD games. including Won derdog.

Montana and Sewershark, 11 Megadrive games including FIFA, WWF and John Madden and 6 MS games E500. Tel. (0823) 286743, will sell separately.

FOR SALE, UK version of Robocop vs Terminator for Megadrive E27. Tel. (0440) 61487 and ask for Chris, MEGADRIVE GAMES for sale, Dungeons and Dragons and Wonderboy in Monsterland for E20 each. Tel. James on 081398 9932.

YAMAHA PSR-36 for sale, accessories include Stand magazines and carry case, it records and is worth over E300 but I will sell for E135 ono or I will swap for Megadrive or Game Gear with accessories. Tel, 091-414 6434, ask for Helen.

MEGADRIVE 2 + MEGACD 2. with Thunderhawk and Junglestrike also TechnoPlus joystick, all hardly used and worth about E430, selling at E300 ono, Tel_ Alex on (02 .7i) co941 n r 102toco message on machine.

111E4111MT MEGADRIVE GAMES for sale, Alisla Dragoon Revenge for Shinobi E10 each, Galahad, Cyborg Justice E20 each, Mazinwars. Mega Games 3 E25 each. Tel. Chris Jnr. on (0245) 380205, must live in area of Chelmsford or Southend.

MEGADRIVE, 10 games (UK) inc. FIFA Soccer, SF II. Grandslam Tennis and many more, plus EA. 4-player adaptor and 5 joypads (2 6-button), all boxed and in good condition worth E660+, sell for E240 ono. Tel. Duncan on (0844) 216993. after 5.45pm_ MEGA-CD with 10 games, including Thunder Hawk and Ecco, also with CDX which plays import games, all boxed and very good condition, sale price E260 ono. Tel, (0703) 777460.

FOR SALE American Scart Turbo Duo and Turbo Express hand-held comes complete with 15 games. all leads and psu, everything boxed, all instructions, mint condition E390 no offers, Tel. Lee on (0222) 799591, buyer must collect from Cardiff.

SEGA GAME GEAR, 5 games, including Sonic 1&2, Game Gear still boxed. Master System convertor, with Terminator and Speedball 2, rechargeable battery pack, mains adaptor, carry case, worth over E350. sell for E210 ono.

Tel. Mark on (0443) 411496. after 4pm, weekdays.

MEGA-CD GAMES, Silpheed (Jai)) E20, Batman Returns (American) E15, Kris Kross (American) 115.

Final Fight (American) E10. Tel. (0242) 513331.

GAME GEAR with TV Tuner, Master System adaptor. Sonic, Chaos, Super Monaco GP2.

Columns and carry case, E120. Tel. (0327) 359093, MASTER SYSTEM games for sale, including Sonic 1&2. Super Tennis, Mickey Mouse, all for only E15! Tel. Andy on 081 398 3368.

MEGADRIVE, 24 games, 3 6-button controllers, 1 normal controller.

Menacer gun, Japanese adaptor, speakers. EA 4player adaptor, Hints and Tips, video, dustcover, games include Street Fighter 2, Sonic Spinball, Rocket Knight and more, all offers considered. Tel. (0462) 455572.

MOONWALKER. SOR I Toejam & Earl. Strider, Kid Chameleon. Altered Beast, all for E65 or El 0El5 each. Tel. (0533) 811199 (Leicester area).

GAME GEAR plus mains adaptor. TV tuner, magnifier, car adaptor and 4 games, mint condition, E110 ono. Tel. Mark on (0353) 663570.

AMSTRAD COLOUR 4645+ complete with 128k memory 3" and 3.5" disk drives. printer, E150 worth of games/utilities, all worth over E800. will sell the lot for E300 ovno.

Tel. David on (0252) 377974, after 8.30pm.

AMIGA 600, external drive. 1Mb ram+ clock. colour printer, 14" colour TV, 1350 worth of software, syndicate, Cannon Fodder, Dune 2.

The Settlers, Championship Manager 93/94. worth E950, sell for E650, full details, write to: Stewart Johnstone, 4 Albert Place, Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland DG12 5DH.

MEGA-CD GAMES. Final Fight E30, Road Avenger E30, Sewer Shark E30, Jaguar XJ220 E35, Silpheed E35, boxed as new. Please write to: Robert. 1 Maitland, Glascote Heath. Staffs B77 2H11 (Include your name, address and which games you're interested in).

GAME BOY FOR SALE, with carry case, light and magnifier plus 6 games.

Track-1.F, El Race and Super Hunchback, Super Mario, Duck Tales, Teem.

4-way adaptor for Fl Race, worth E180, sell for E105. Tel. 061-432 2526, ask for Toni.

FOR SALE Amstrad CPC 464 with 65 games for E60. Tel. (0527) 836739.

AMSTRAD CPC 464 for sale, with joystick, modulator, 116 brilliant games. dust cover, carry case for games and a mini office 2 set, which is used for wordprocessing, graphs, etc, all for E75 ono. Tel. Iftikhar on 081591 8101,

I WILL SWAP my Ecco the Dolphin. all boxed with instructions for Game Gear for Sonic Chaos. Tel. (0446) 748113 SWAP FOR a Mega-CD: Gunstar Heros, Moonwalker, Predator 2, Road Rash 2, Tiny Toons, carry case.

Intruder 3 joystick and some magazines, the Mega-CD must have 2-3 games, English, plus for sale Scarpa boot size 7.

E70. Tel. (0765) 689229. ask for Ian. SWAP MEGADRIVE 6 games, 2 pads. everything boxed, hardy used, for Amiga 600 or 500+ with mouse and joystick, no games needed. Tel. (0922) 493290 (daytime only) and ask for Jonathan.

MORTAL KOMBAT, Zelda 3. Stnker World League. Basketball.

Magic Sword. Mario World, Super Formation Soccer and Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts on SNES, to swap for any good Megadrive pames. eg Ultimate Soccer, Landstalker. Tel. 081-977 4307 (weekends only), FOR MEGADRIVE European Club Soccer and Tazmania for Aladdin (swap). Tel. (0527) 836739.

CAN ANYONE help me finish Fantastic Dizzy on the Sega Megadrive? I have around 35 stars left to collect and it is frustrating me! Please wrtie to: W Ennis, Haarlemmerweg 181 HS, 1051 LB, Amsterdam, Netherlands,

PEN PALS 12-YEAR-OLD boy requires Pen Pal boy or girl. Write to: Matthew Scoble. 5 Palmer Street.

Chippenham, Wiltshire SN14 CDT. COOL 12-YEAR-OLD boy seeks female Pen Pal/girlfriend. Write to: T. Simmons, 40 Ravens Crescent, Dewsbury, W. Yorks. WF13 30G.

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SWAP absolutely, ,nothing for your old or new carts, just send them to me and I will send nothing in return, Send to: 3 Pickwick Walk, Uxbridge Road. Hatch End, Pinner, Middx. HA5 4HS. I WILL SWAP Menacer pack for 2 decent games.

Tel. 081-504 4404, ask for Jim, before 6pm.

I WOULD LIKE to swap Fighting Masters for NBA Jam Basketball or for Micro Machines, for the

WANTED MEGA-CO and games. also Gauntlet IV for Megadrive. Tel_ Warren on (0442) 877136.

BEANS, not really!, I want a Gameboy, good condition, with games.

FANTASTIC OFFER! 18months-old, Amiga 500+ with: Philips monitor, second disk drive, 1 Megabyte Ram, Amiga stand, 30 sizzling games. list available, includes fab word processor (Wordworth). all leads, power supply and instructions included.

E400 ono. Tel. Adam on (0923) 239145 A PC ENGINE magazine for all you Engine/Duo Owners out there, a magazine in English which covers recent and new hardware, software and Mange. Send E1.25 to: Toriano Bellot, 115 St. Michael's Tower, Gosport

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