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Exclusive pies and tit-bits on the Merin . Plus news of Sonit's new caper–.

MEANYOB 82 As the fetters if complaint roam rolling hi, Bah robs his hoods with glee and 6111111,11more ingenious ways to offend • flew mete of your delicate sonsibilities. Or something.

QBA86 Now kreg's a piece of string? What is Clinton's inside kg measurement?

No as really care? No question too De ogl Ed. i ne PAUL' STIPS 52 p o s la st month Pa ul hod a b ra in tra nspla nt e r was, different. This month he's had and e transplant as well. Yuri, we •l body Iemo a new tipster, our very own Paul ISBNs (we made him change his name r Lows ineaddiert have to alter the logo. o Nis reel ••••I 's Tarquin. Probably.) u g MEGAMART 80 h rd Iii, to use this space to mourn the fpassing of lastenders Pete Beale. H os was an inspiration to us all icharacter and r a damn useful way of filling His buy o swap sell. section of conteoh.. u REGIONALSPOTLIGHT 88 rNere's the pkk ofthe alog in the mail order business — the gays with the biggest gold stars an' no black marks.

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BUBSY 238 Puss in Boots went to London with Dick Whittington end became the Lord Mayor of laisdon's pampered puss.

Bubsy the Bobcat went around the place without pants and became an international TV and video games super. star. Who said pain deout't pay?

EASPORTSTENNIS 42 EARTHWORMJIM 44 Did you know that if you cut a worm in half it becomes two worms? Well Lucy cute worm into four bits when she was a little girl so she could have four friends.

Unfortunately, she decided to give all her new Worlds a bath and they all drowned so she had no mates — still, it was oily a molter of time before they started goosing up on het, anyway. Some things never change. Anyway, here's, new game abaft a wean in a magic suit.

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LAWNMOWERMANCD 34 CastSCI bring a new dimertsiew to Mego-CD gaming? Well they've certainly tried, with Cyberkbe causing havoc for the lens-suffering Doctor Angelo in this mega-loolcing shoot, beat and platform 'em up brought to you exclusively by MEAN MACHINES SEGA-

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UTRUNNERS64 Mediocrity at its most overage comes to the Megadrive in this desperately dell racer.

BODYCOUNT 68 Shooting laihs of Minos and then shooting some more thieve sad then dieing some shooting is the varied name of the game in this new Menoter attempt from Sega.

COMBATCARS70 HARDBALL '94 76 fillitekscle are shock down with the sequelitis us this oh-sodmilmt-frome-the-lost.rome-and IMillt4htfore-honest baseball offering gots the MEAN MACHINES treat

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BATTLECORPS60 Core Design's Thunderhawk was lab-looking bats bit lathing on the genteplay hoot. this second offering, based on the some engine seffers no such drawls's& Tern to our EXCLM Silit review for the ctrool-sorne facts.

YOURPAINT 74 &Dahl Cute tickle ponies on witches an' wainhows and firms Is point with the Mego-CM's huge calmer range.

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INSIDESEGAAMUSEMENTS 90 MUM MACHINES take up the invitation to interview H a r i i , Sego Amusemeah' big cheese in &hake. The first news on arcade releases of I I nt

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rips with this nning-lookng sequel. hat's more, t content with 4 3 we get to that, we've also managed to cram Super Street Fighter into this packed issue.

Talking of which, you may have olready seen a handful of reviews for the Megadrive version by the time you read this.

If you're wondering why we haven't reviewed it, the answer is because at the time of writing it was far from complete. Whilst other mags always go on about their integrity and not reviewing incomplete games, all of a sudden they're willing to break these rules because of Super SF If we'd wanted to review it we would have asked Jaz to do the honours for us, but this would have meant only one person sow it and MEAN MACHINES doesn't work like that. Needless to say, the full review will appear next issue — ensuring you'll get the definitive review, not some apology copied from one article sent from the States Until then, see you next month me old muckers...

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ten up for the chance to nKonomi goodies on the otl Mork on your calenrs. On that afternoon Gus ill be on ith o goggle of Konami odies in his Sego bog. Just proach him (nicely) with a py of MEAN MACHINES nd say "Castlevonia is so . live c with evil. Give me my kize". If you are one of the rst five readers to find Gus, e'II hand you o Konomi cart d and t , t h e v If you've skipped e Editorial this r month you may hove thought y there's an v imposter in the e magazine, going g by the name of PauleBufton. Fear not, he's the new tofficial and fully approved StaffaWriter person. After being kidnapped in Devon, Paul was t subjected to our brain-washing i procedure (24 hours of playing Peteo continuously) until he swore undying n loyalty to lord EMAP. Nowi you'll find him writing reviews and running to the shop s for lollies.

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After last months plea, we're gratified that the crap CDs are beginning to trickle in This month's vote goes to John Trudell 'AKA Graffiti Man' (sent

by Dove Dent, Northshields).

He's a musical red indion type, but he can't sing so he sort of mumbles profoundly to each dreary track. Al leost last month' had some prat interest.

In the period of this particular sideral division (month), the team would like to reveal the tears of the clown; their favourite funny person and jokes...

STEIN NERIM Sfeve's choice of 'foie' mety rib-tickler is les Dennis. The Family Fortune's host with the fiat name as a surname and a shortened girl's some as a first name, is enginally humid than AlanTitchmarshhosting Songs ol Praise. There were better days, whenLes dressed like a Toddy boy owl mugged along to old partner DustinGee (who tragicolly died but whose spirit lives on as thin ad Lily Savage).

CHOICEGJUAES;AtAll, Steer Streeffighter LUCYHICKMAN Associate choice goes to 'Hove I got news tor you' mom Insider and occasional Imperial Leather plugger Paul Merton.

Another uncanny coincidence, since Medan writes material for flamboyant perlormer JulianClary, and the Passport Photo Resemblonce Committee have studiedLucy andJulioa's portraits and noticed,- "Pears hest because he cracks up all the othei comedians at the Comedy State," explains Lucy.

CHOICEGARIESAKII, Micro Machine,?, Dune II 01 BROWNE "Oher, minus," said 02 to the question, immediately revealing his devotion to classicinnuendo comedian Franke Howard.

Sadly, Franke is another of the many conedens to seter that intriguing phenomenon: deoth Very mucholive is 02's second choice, 'Page Three Semi Gayle Tuesday, the Essex 'modete' with a FordFiesta and evenOlOft up front CHOICEGAMES:Akins 3, Soper Streetligeen, Daytona ANGUSSWAM Gushas a salt spotbee l.t fool-moadied teminist JoBroad, who rehnes to shut her cake We: "We're two of a kind really.

Though I'm not nee as obese as 'Ms leer andTabs 1914', we share the sameirsainK sense of humour and a podiality to chocolate eclairs.. I remember Jo telling us how she tried to lose weight by hoving her jaw wiredup—but sive gal sick of trying to stuff Ni Kipling% raspberry fancies through the steel netting".

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'Erendi and Saunders are absolutely lobo. loos,' says Claire. Actually, comparisons have been mode between Britain's top female 'lofts' duo and the nation's premier Sega nog vibe pairing — Cloire and Ley. Thisis because at parties they both like to copy the sketches where FAS make a lool of themselves on the dancelloor At least we think they're copying._ CHOICE GAMESAXII, Bcrrilecorps

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PAULBUTTON Eerily, Paul plumps for (obscurel American comedianBill Hicks. who has also joined the legions of dead huntourids. Bill', act involved going to the pub and getting tipsy.

Alot. Whichexplains why he's entertaining the daisies now. On thee shores tie chooses the risque JulianClary as laughmentei. With his taste for Cunene, how long belore he's pushing up the pansies?

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NEW GAM ES 40 B Y S E G A 4. MEGA 32 Cop a load of this! This is the future of video games — the Megadrive 32. MEAN MACHINES SEGA was whisked into Sego's UK offices as soon as the prototype arrived, and we can reveal the first details of the machine's imminent release.

The Megadrive 32 is the plug-in device revealed a few months bock, and has been designed so it's fully compatible with the original Megadrive, the Megodrive 2 AND the allnew MultiMega. I t s roughly the same size as a Game Gear, and requires o second power supply which plugs in the bock.

A November release date is still being pursued, and MEAN MACHINES con reveal that seven games will be available at the time of release. Virtue Racing Deluxe and Virtue Fighters ore old news, but details of the latest prolects make for exciting reading. However, Virtua Fighters isn't likely to become immediately available, and Daytona sadly probably won't make it to the system now.

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CYBERDRAWL To complement Virtu° Fighters, this really rough combat game (described as a '3D in your face smash-oroma') will be on early Megadrive 32 game. 32-Bit power means the ability to zoom in and out of the action, incredible use of perspective and speed

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ailltWARS ARCADE Inspired by the new Virtue Star Wars coin-op. this is a four-level shoot 'em up which will be a flagship for the new unit.

As on X-wing pilot you play through a fully textured polygon environment to a climax at the

Death Star. We ore rea l- hot about this one! ly

The classic PC hunt and kill game is to be ported onto Megodrive 32 almost in its entirety. Hailed as the perfect mix of graphical excellence and ployability, Doom on the Megadrive 32 should have oil the speed of the PC version,

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versions of MK2 are comID M E G A 3 2 plete, Acclaim are set to commission Probe to translate the games over to the Megodrive 32 and Saturn systems. A release dote hasn't been set yet, but Probe are confident the resultant conversions will be arcode-r3erfectl That means that Megadrive 32 owners could well be the proud owners an orcade-perfect conversion — and one which could well be out in time for Christmas! Acclaim are keeping very tight-lipped about the 32bi1 versions, but it should be announced officiolly within the next few weeks.

We'll be keeping a very close eye on this promising conversion, and as soon as there's something

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Rock'n'Roll 0 Rocing is being converted to the Megodrive, with Virgin currently tuning its engine and adding the finishing touches to its stunning soundtrack.

Rock'n'Roll Racing is on isometric affair with the player choosing from a series of drivers and 'rucks before taking to a series of obstacleladen circuits. As is the norm, the basic aim is to scoop as much prize money as possible by being the first post the post, and using the dosh to buy extras for your vehicle At present, should follow imminently.

I R o c k ' n 40 N E W G A M E ' iL if Rk o 40 B Y G R E M L I N ok r I • I A l L d 40 M E G A D R I V E l ar, i s Gremlin's sequel to Zool is now mosqueroding under the name 3 of Mental Mayhem and should 0 be hitting our screens some time % in October, Details regarding the c Ninia From The Nth Dimension's return are a little scarce, but o Gremlin are opting for a more m arcade/ adventure slant than p before, with the player getting to l grips with a series of object-relate ed puzzles as they scour the scrolling ploy area. t e , b It u has been a little quiet on the Gremlin front of late, t ID N E W G A M E but a the Sheffield wonders ore busying themselves f 40 B Y G R E M L I N converting their PC u arcade/adventure hI Divil 40 M E G A D R I V E over l to the Megodrive.

Divil l stars a dog-like creature out to find on escape route from p the labyrinthian play area based on Hodes. A series of corridors form the core of r the play area, but doors lead off into a series of sub-games e advance towards an which must be completed in order to exit. As of yet, Divil is at a decidedlyvembryonic stage, but Gremlin are aiming for a Novemberi release e w

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40 N E W G A M E 40 B Y S E G A 010 M E G A D R I V E 1 Although no longer on our screens, a little dicky bird tells us that Sego is busy putting together a game based on the BBC's most famous time-traveller, Doctor Who. With the TV programme apparently about to undergo the Spielberg treatment and return to our screens sometime in the near future, Sego has token delivery of a number of reference pieces to start putting together o bockground story.

What aspects of the 30-year-old programme make it into the proposed Megadrive game haven't been decided, but we'll hove more details as they materialise.

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MINI HIM One of the greatest Megad rive 40 B Y S E G A blasters of all time is MEGADRIVE coming to the Game Gear S e g a announce an imminent conversion G u n st ar Heroes. Once again the two pped killers are set to wreak havoc t all manner of bosses and alien boddies. sof appearance, Game Gear Gunstar ry smart indeed, but Sego UK has yet to

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Hey-hey-hey, Booboo! Jellystone Pork's most famous resident is about to hop, skip and jump his way onto the Megodrive, as Empire convert its Super 4. BY EMPIRE NES game over to the system.

M E G A D R I V E A scrolling plotformer, Jellystone has been littered with a mixture of picnic baskets and deadly creatures, and Yogi's goal in life is to eat the former whilst simultaneously avoiding the latter. All the usual Yogi favourites make on appearance — Ranger Smith, Booboo, etc — and the action takes Yogi from the relative safety of Jellystone into alpine and rockbased stages. Empire has yet to set a release date, but we 'll keep you posted.

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4. NEW CAME 40 B Y E M P I R E 40 M E G A D R I V E Readying itself for on Autumnal release is a Hannah-Barbera race game from Empire. The as-yet unnamed game, pits the likes of Top Cot, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and Quickdraw McGraw against each other in a weird crosscountry race.

The precise nature of the game or characters Empire ore planning to use hasn't been set, but it is behoved Empire is planning to use a horizontally-scrolling play area in order to ovoid comparison from Core Chuck Rally and Codemaster's similar Dino Racers.

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The PC blaster Doom has been riding high at the top of the charts weeks now, and the 4110 B Y A C C O LA D E MEANfor MACHINES crew has been waiting in vain for a Sega 41110 M E G A D R I V E version. We won't get an official one until the Megodrive 32 arrives, but in the meantime Accolade has popped up with a similar first person perspective shoot 'em up for the Megodrive — Zero Tolerance. You, as one of o crack US Army defence squad, have been dropped on a space station which hostile aliens and terrorists have taken over from where they pion to destroy the Earth.

The idea of the game is: If it moves, shoot it. To achieve this feat, you wander around the vorious levels of the space station, explor-

ing rooms and corridors, entering lifts, going up and down stairs and nosing around the various nooks and crannies, There are numerous weapons to pick up to fend off the foes including rocket launchers, handguns, laser guns, shotguns, hand grenades and booby traps.

Due for release in the autumn, Zero Tolerance features 40 levels and although on its own it's a one-player game only, it's the first game where two players will be able to link up two Megadrives and ploy either co-operatively or competitively. This is already proving to be addictive stuff but we'll bring you a full review in a future issue of MEAN MACHINES SEGA.

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Those crafty beggars at 40 N E W S I G N I N G Virgin have swooped in and secured a deal to release every Lucasceis 40 B Y V I R G I N game for the foreseeable future! The chaps behind ID A L L F O R M A T S Zombies for Konami and the Monkey Island series, rts a reputation as one of the leoding console and CD do first t o see the light of day as part of the deal ore likely •be the long-awaited Rebel Assault, with the Mega-CD version of Monkey Island officially released at long last. Details of anything past the h a s yet to be announced. Needless to soy, our ear stuck to the ground for more info_.

WIN! N M BAILSSALM It's summer and the days are getting longer. Dogs are out cropping in the park, and numerous kids are whining because they can't have another 99 with on extra Flake. Even so, it's a perfect time for going out and catching o few rays in between sessions on your console, To celebrate the arrival of summer, we've got 10 Vortex Bells to give away as a bit of o lough -- courtesy of Vivid Imagination. A Vortex Ball is basically o rubber mortar bomb which is aerodynamically designed to give the user better throwing powers. They work, too, as poor old Tom Guise from Sega Mog has found out to his cost! If you wont to win one, send us a photo of a member of your family in their most ridiculous beach wear — the defter, the better. We'll print them, and you can have a prize! Simple. eh! Mark your entries:

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OP B Y S c , M e g a conversion - C D of The Lawnmower Man (revealed exclusively in our three-page work in progress elsewhere in this issue) hasn't hit the streets yet, the Battersea-based firm ore already working on a pair of CD sequels.

Whilst the third game hasn't even been given a name yet, the second has been christened Cybetwor, and sees Angelo once again entering Jobe's VR lair to try to end his menace However, Jobe has created a series of mean motes — including a gun-toting reptile called Ernie.

Rumour has it that once again its unto the breach of platform ond puzzling action with rendered sprites being the order of the day but well bring you more info when we get it.

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fa N EW GAME CO B Y S E G A 410 M E G A - C D Fans of Sego's Eternal Champions will be pleased to learn that four new characters ore on their way but only on the forthcoming Mega -has tweaked the existing cartridge C O version and the result is this souped-up CD. cMore o neffort has been put into vmaking e r the games computer-controlled fighters more s i o intelligent, and each characn . ter will also benefit from S more moves. What's more, eSega hove also hidden two gextra characters in the game, obut finding these is believed to be extremely tough.

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Fans of Batman's new cartoon adventures will be lumping out of their Botpants, as Sega unveil a new Megadrive caper starring both the Dark Knight and young Robin.

As far as we understand it, the game is a platformer, with the dynamic duo taking on Gotham's finest foes: le The Riddler, The Penguin and, of course, The Joker.

Expect plenty of cartoon-quality graphics, and Pows and Kabooms galore. It'll be swooping down just in time to land in your Chrimbo stockings ironic really, considering Batman wears tights.

• Ator---u-Adounr — yone ft ough to out of 410 B Y S E C A ed by M E G A D R I V E 9:30 during the school holidays will already be familiar M i g p h i & Power Rangers_ A gong of American teens with nothing better to do, they don silly crash helmets and suits and battle the forces of evil. In between flossing their teeth and having bonding sessions, that is.

Sego ore set to offer you the chance to become one of the mighty morphers as they unleash a Power Rangers game later this year. There's no firm details as of yet, though, but rest assured we'll have more info as and when it becomes available

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Whisper, whisper. Oh yes, the Sego gossip channel is as busy os ever with those jolly chaps at Konami our first port of call. Word reaches us that the ever-busy Japanese development team ore currently playing every race game they con find as they stori work on a new 3D racer. There's no release date as of yet, but we'll be checking Konomi periodically for fresh skidmarks. On to Sony now, who have recently acquired the licence to Kenneth Branagh's forthcoming Frankenstein film.

There's no details regarding what the game will look like, but apparently the film is looking pretty smart. Let's just hope Robert DeNiro's method acting skills don't see him stitching different body parts on to hisl Over at EA, the Langley lads and lasses ore rumoured to be looking into arcade development. Expect an announcement soon, but their biggie of the year — ShacriFe (featured this ish) — is rumoured to be one of the first.

On the Sonic front, word reaches us of a proposed idea for Sonic 4 whereupon, old Sonic carts can be plugged in and 'remixed' into new levels! Nothing concrete yet, though.

Actually, innovations on the cartridge front are starting to happen as Capcom ore rumoured to be releasing updated conversion of their first three MegaMcan games for the megadrive. Similarly, we also hear that Telstor are set to bundle Micro Machines, PI and Road Rosh onto one cart. Again, however, it's just what a little bird told us...

We're also hearing stories that Mancunian giants, Ocean, ore taking a long hard look at the Sego market with the intention of acquiring a Sego licence.

Full details, however, have yet to be confirmed by them, though. Well, thdr s all for this month, see you next month with a larger CES gossip bonanza Pip pip.

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WIN!111 BASKETBALLYIDS! With the advent of Tiny Toons Acme All-Stors, the current Basketball fever go C O M P O shows no sign of abating. Ever ones to realise a trend, FoxVideo ore on hand So B Y F O X V I D E O to unleash another slam-dunking video on to the unsuspecting public.

Chicago Bull Three Peat follows the Chicago Bulls as they swept to snatch their third consecutive NBA championship. Not only do you get to see their on-court prowess, but the video also takes you behind the scenes with insights into training and pep-talks. If you're a Basketball nut and want a copy, you can either buy it or win one of six we have on Now a n s w e r on the offer. Once again, dear readers, it's quesbock a r d and send tion time...

Which of the following is not a professional Basketball player: A. Charles Barkley.

B. Honk Marvin.

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MYE G DA RI 4 4110 B SA EC 1 Following his lengthy Megadrive vacation, Tax is set to return in a new platformer. Tax: Escape From Mars is a six-level gome which sees our whirling hero locked away in a zoo on the planet Mars.

Using his incredible spinning skills, he has been left to make his way home, taking in the sights of Mexico, o haunted house, and Atlantis along the way. Taz boosts new special moves which, amongst others, allow him to plough through walls and spin up walls. A 16-MEG cart, expect Tax to return in time for Christmas.

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Sonic's backl And this time he's battling Knuckles as the spiky twosome get to face•off in a game of their own! Lining up for an October release, Sonic Vs Knuckles is believed to be another plotformer, but Sego ore more tight-lipped than somebody who has iust eaten 200 chilies. Ah well, more news next issue...

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= ENTERTAINMENT OSA Jaz reports on what's going on sunny Calif-for-neeeeeeay...

• Greetings from the land of shake on bake! Having been through a couple earthquakes (believe me, it wasn't thing as bad as the news would hove think), I thought it was time to get off lazy fanny (that's the American word to what's going on here in the hazy, crazy o f US vid games_ And the answer is, not a lot. Not at the n t , anyway.

The Chicago CES Show will hove been and gone by the time you read this, and that's when the companies like to surprise everyone by unleashing their best products on to an unsuspecting public. Consequently, there's slews of mediocre stuff coming out right now, with all the really good stuff being kept under wraps until the end of the month... bah!

Still, that's not to say that there's nothing going on. The really big rumour that's currently sweeping through the US games industry like wildfire started, in oil places, in top financial US newspapers, and claims that EA and Acclaim ore about to merge! Whether or not this is true remains to be seen, but if it does happen, it would make for one awesome mega-company. I'll keep my ear to the ground for further developments...

On the games front, the hot news is all about the latest Saturn games, even though they're still in a very embryonic stage at the moment. Most stuff you'll already know about, but there's also a rumour circulating that Saturn Virtue Fighting will feature more moves and better playability than the arcade version! This is because, surprisingly, the coin-op wasn't that successful, beaten to the takings

by Super SF and MK2. Speaking of those two monster fighters, Super SF is out here in July, and MK2 follows a couple of months later. Super is looking well tasty, but weighs in at a vast 40-MEG, and MK2 is equally hot at a lower 24-MEG. Which will sell the most? Personally, I reckon it'll come down to the price.

Another rumour is that Sega have Sonic 4 ready to rock 'a' roll for September. It'll feature more platforming action but this time with a rather neat idea. you can plug previous Sonic games into the Sonic 4 cart and it remixes them!

This sounds a loft and a half to me, and if the rumours are true it would bring new life to all those post Sonic carts.

Other hot things States-side, are Nomco's Nebularsay coin-op, the lost episode of Star Trek: TNG, which is a stunning two-hour episode coiled 'All Good Things...', and the forthcoming Trek spin-off, Voyager. On the movie front, Mel Gibson's Maverick is really great, Beverly Hills Cop III is more of the same, but worse. The Crow is topper, but the biggest disappointment is The Flintstones which is cheesier than a feta-filled Sumo warrior's jockstrap. Also, Speed — a new Keonu Reeves film, about a booby-trapped bus is brilliont. And it has got Sandra Bullock from Demolition Man in it! We've also got True Lies coming up soon which sees Arnie and James Cameron teaming up — and looks stunning. What's more, Arnie and Cameron are soon to start work on 13 which has a Si 50 million budget and even more spectacular FX. I can't wait!

Anyway, I'm off for some more beach-related excitement, and will be bock next month with more news and gossip from the CES show.

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Sonic has just completed his third instalment, EA's Desert Strike is set to appear in its new urban environment, and yet another Street Fighter game is on its way. This new bout of 'Sequelitis' has even reached Konami, as this October sees the d e return of Sparkster the Rocket Knight in an all-new platformer.

Steve Merrett straps himself in...

In a computer game world dominated by more platforms than a Gory Glitter concert, new video game heroes come and go. The Pink Panther was for from rinky-dink, Shinobi's Joe Mushashi has token early retirement, and the less said about the likes of Chester Cheetah and Captain Planet the better. In fact, in the last year or so, only one platform-leaping hero has really endeared himself to the Megadrive-using fraternity: Sparkster.

Unbelievably, it has been a mere nine months since the swordwielding Opossum made his debut, and as the countless waves of platform flotsam threaten to swamp us all, Konami are readying their little Racket Knight for a second outing. With barely a chance to catch his breath after the mayhem of the first game, Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures II follows on from where its predecessor left off.

With the Pigstar destroyed, the expected tranquillity which normally follows such adventures never arrived.

Instead, with the world of Elhorn still in disarray, the black magicisractising Devotindos Empire used their dark spells to control the minds of the people of Elhom as they use the planet as a stepping stone in their quest for galactic supremacy.

King Gedol, tyrannical ruler of the Devotindos race, senses Sparkster could be the only thing to jeopardise his plan and consequently puts a price on the Opossum's head. As such, not only must Sparkster save Elhorn, but himself, too...

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When EA shipped Lucy Hickman over to gay Paris for an exclusive peak at the Delphine-developed Shaquille O'Neal Megadrive game she fully expected yet another basketball jaunt (he is a world renowned basketballer, after all).

What a shock then to be confronted with a beat 'em up without a bouncy ball in sight.

EVen if who're not a basketball L freak, you'll almost certainly have heard of Shaquille O'Neal.

Al just 21, this guy has really put himself about. As well as being the star player of the Orlando Magic basketball team, he's making a name for himself in the world of music with a wellreceived debut rap album, has starred in the film Blue Chips with Nick Nolte, published his autobiography and, of course, appeared in. the recent Pepsi ad. So it seems rather natural that he should progress to starring in his own video game. But how come EA has opted for a beat 'am up and not a basketball game?

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would let us do this but on talking to Shag personally, he loved the idea. It's not Mortal Kombat, were not ripping out human spines, we're fighting fantasy creatures and monsters with a kind of a Batmen-like background to it." Ok, so what's the game all about? Yes folks, it's scenario time...

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basketball team, Shag is transported to another dimension while reading an old Martial Arts book. In this strange new world he comes across an evil Warlord who is desperate to reach the real world and take over. To prevent such a calamity, you as Shag in the Story Mode take on

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one of eleven unique fighters, oil servants of the wicked one, including the Warlord himself. However, the big guy himself has two different forms and must defeat them all to prevent the Master taking on human form and entering the real world. In Tournament or Dual Mode, with a three or six-button joypad, ploy Shag or any of the the other fighters in a duel to the death.

So how involved has Shag been in the development? "Shaq has really got into it," says Don. "He has been involved in every step. In foci, we were a little concerned that he was too involved. We thought '.leez — he's going to take over, we'll never get anything done, he's just going to keep changing things without understanding how the process goes' but he hasn't been like that at all — 0 -

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Delphine is perhaps best known for the fob Megadrive Flashback which received worldwide acclaim for it's depth of gameplay and superb animation.

Don explained he set his heart on Delphine developing after seeing Flashback at a CES show.

The graphics and animation were just the neatest thing I'd ever seen and I wondered if they'd be interested in doing a fighting game. I called Delphine and mentioned it — we both seemed to be on the some wavelength and that's how it got

E-GEO though Delphine is deter. create an excellent, cited game in its own developers have so up on ihe blood and ion front. It's not all hine and light obviously, re ore some pretty devasg death moves olready in , but it's nowhere near I Kombot in the bloodng league However, they are considering including a special gore option, accessible ret code. The details rrors which may be. hove not yet bee , as it's oil down t h space may be I curt,

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This is Delphine's first entry into the fighting genre and they'll be coming up against tough competition since Shag Fu's autumn release date clashes with the likes of Super Streetfighter, Mortal Kombot II and Accolade's New Breed. So how ore they going to compete?

Delphine's project manager, Dony Boolouk explained that rather than face these potential smashers head on, they decided to go for something a bit different. He said: "You look at the likes of Streetfighter II and, if you wont to compete with it on the some ground, it's no

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Dony explained_ "As well as tonnes of animation — much more than Mortal Kombal — we ore also very competitive in the number of moves. There ore a lot of secret moves, magic moves, weapons, funny moves and several taunting moves which are designed to get the opponent angry (there's a separate

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'We have to hove at least as good gameplay — this is critical.

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We think we've reached a compromise — the sprites in Mortal Kombat ore 100 pixels high, those in Streetfighter II are BO pixels high. In Shag, the pixels

are 70 pixels high which is an acceptable size but it means we can pock much more animation in there."

He said Delphine's aim was to concentrate on realism — making the player feel as if they are participating in a real fight_ In this way, he said, his

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THE MAKING OF SHAG Headed by Paul Cuisset, the programming team used Delphine's famed Rotoscoping technique to produce the impressive animation. This entailed filming all the characters in full costume to obtain a 3D effect but then, instead of playing the film imoge by image. tracing the contours on computer as was done in Flashback, they developed a tool allowing direct transfer, image by image, from the video sequences directly to the advanced Silicon Graphics computer. The grophic artists then redesigned the fighters using the video model established from the graphic charts drown up at the beginning of the project. More than 7,000 designs hove been drown for the animations (and that's not counting the scenery), and 40 people have worked on the project so far. Shag has been filmed in hundreds of different stances with scores of different expressions under the direction of a Kung-Fu expert and the other warriors ore played by a combination of Kung Fu experts and movie stuntmen.

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monicker and, oddly enough, it all went quiet. Now, however, they've settled for the name SCI and to celebrate Lawnmower Man, Jobe, is making his way to the MegaCD. Steve Merrett sweeps up after them...

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W under the wing of the i Time•Warner group, SCI's Mega-CD interpretation of The t Lawnmower Man is set to be l o g h the Battersea company's first tSega CD title. Whilst the carh tridge follows the film almost scene for scene as Jobe is e genetically-enhanced and M begins his quest for power e within a surreal VR landscape, g the CD game begins with Jobe a or CyberJobe as he is known — within his new world — firmly d ensconced as a sprite-based r entity. Cost as Doctor Angelo, ithe player is dropped into v Jobe's world and left to explore e ten sub-games within, the However, for those of you v expecting a series of platform e stages a la The Addams Family rand countless other licenses, s forget it — SCI hove tried to make the most of the CD sysi tem's available memory to creo ate a game they hope will push n back the boundaries of 'Interactive Game Design.'

The Mega-CD version of The Lawnmower Man is a direct conversion of the original PC CD game, but the six months between the release of the PC game and this forthcoming conversion has allowed SCI's Southampton-based development team to tinker with the playability slightly. In all, Lawnmower Man CD has been in development for a mere four months, and is shaping up for an October release. Will it be the 'Interactive Movie' SCI aro hoping? Judge for yourselve

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As big-mouthed as ever and with even more speech, Bubsy's more animated than before as he bounces, pounces, runs, leaps, squashes, slips, slides, fights and even blows-up through the game.

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He's the inventor of the WOMPUm ond is being shamelessly manipulated by Oinker who's using it for his his own evil ends.

TWINS These two identical terrors, Terry and Terry, are pint-sized mirror images of their uncle with all the some moves but with an added in-built magnet for disaster.

DINNERP. SPANN With capitalist bully-boar Oinker on the case, Bubsy's gonna have to work his fur off to save the world. This scum-bag would sell his own granny, in fact • h e did: for E2.50 A a pound, an '3 extortionate / price for a piece .. / of pork. Oinker's i t. I t Ischeme to i tt h steal reality and you can he sure the action ebe d a starts b s tcrackling when he and Bubsy shore the screen.r a r ad l i y n s b e

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The action follows the exploits of a worm going by the nome of Jim. By a ml cle of evolution, Jim is transformed from a common garden worm to a plotfor leaping hero armed with a plasma blaster — courtesy of o lost power suit which mutates the weorer into a super hero. The suit, however, is the property of the evil queen bee who dispatches her minions to recover it at oil costs. It's Jim's iob to bottle through 25 levels of assorted evil s e s and rescue the princess while at the same time keeping the suit from the o f darkness.

The team at Shiny Entertainment hope to achieve a new standard in videogoming by going one step further than simply bridging the gap between games and animation. , Their intention is to allow the gamer to play out the cartoon them\ s e l v e s . This will be achieved creating a new system called •Animotion': a box of tricks which allows on unbelievable amount of animation to be crammed into the game. According to Shiny Entertainment, Earthworm Jim is scheduled for release in early October.

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Jim can been seen edging his way along a rope using his head as a hook. What's more, he can remove his entire body from the suit to use it as a bullwhi against tougher meanies.

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Coming from a company whose slogan is 'absolutely brilliant' you might think it's just ambitious marketing by the spin doctors of deepest Warwickshire.

However, Global Golf is earnestly aiming to meet the promise of its title, with an attractive list of features normally found on 16-bit machines, or even PCs. At the heart of the cart is a one to four player golf tournament, viewed from behind the player, with detailed course layouts, and a long list of variables to pose o challenge.

The thinking behind Global Golf is to meld the sophistication of golf simulations with the playability required of a Game Gear game basically depth with accessibility. With this in mind, all options, including club selection, stance, boll • I position and swing are selected by a joypadlinked icon menu system. Originally the game . was designed with two courses; a 'country course and a 'links' course with plenty of water, but the cart has been expanded to encompass two more international rounds. That's not all the goodies, though...

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HUY COW The control systems and best features of existing golf games are in evidence throughout Global Golf. All sorts of play options, like the popular Skins game ore available, and the distance metre, power bar and 'lie' indicator of (dare we say it?) PGA Tour are visible.

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1 T h i s month all of the Mean 1 Team have stars in their eyes. Various members of the crew have had brief encounters with that rare breed, celebrities. Young Oz still drools at the thought of his encounter with the international chanteuse Cathy Dennis, Well, the poor chap doesn't get much time off for good behaviour these days. Whereas Claire has hod a slightly more topical rendezvous with the 'delicious' (her words) Steven Dorff (Dork? — Ed), of 'Back Beat' fame. Now that groovester Gus came into work this very morning with the hot news that he met Jean-Paul Gaultier at the weekend. In fact when I asked Gus who else he'd met, the list just went on, and on, and on... If you've got any star-studded tips for next month, then don't delay, send them today to: "I THINK YOU'RE REALLY FAMOUS TOO, PAUL", SMALL TIPS, MEAN MACHINES SEGA, PRIORY COURT, 30-32 FARRINGDON LANE, LONDON, ECIR 3AU.

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Here's a few codes to get your teeth around kindly donated by Douglas A. Brown from Ayrshire.

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MEGADRIVE TIPS A small, but tasty tippette here for any Dracula fans. To make the game even harder ond pump it up to full Expert level, all you do is perform the renowned Konami code, ie. UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, and A. A huge round of polite applause to Michael (Herdy) Herd and Mat (no nickname) Miller, both from Oldham, for enlightening us with that

FUIVIRICh9th I received a very polite letter from a young man name of Ross Singyard, so he gets on extra gold star for neatness and, of course, his tip printed Let that be a lesson to you potential tipsters out there! Now for the tip itself. If you enter the code MAQMOD, you'll have alreody conquered all the lands, which of course means you con replay any land of your choice.

se funsters Michael Herd and Mat Miller feature again this month, well they did send in a plethora of top tips. So here we go with a stage select and sound test. Highlight OPTIONS and press START, press START again to exit. Then highlight PASSWORD and press START. Enter this password. NYUKNYUK. Now highlight › , press and hold A, B, C. and START one button at a time. A 'SECOND CONTROLLER ENABLED' message will appear. Highlight EXIT and start the game The stage select and sound test will now appear, as if by magic.

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Dom and Joe from Winslow send out a lifesaver to any poor souls lost the sea of B . 0 . 0 turning on 1Before 1 the Megadrive, plug 11 the control pad into the second player slot Turn on the AAegodrive and hold down B when the Electronic Arts logo comes onto the screen, Now when the Foley Systems sign comes up, you should hear a funny noise. This tells you that the cheat has worked.

Plug the controller bock into the player one slot and away you go. This will give you infinite lives, 99 of every gun, and 9 of every Remote. And what's more, these will be renewed every time you start a level

Steven Wo ker of Kilbirnie has uncovered this cracking life bonus. For 54 lives, pause the game and press CC, AA, BB, CC, AA, and BB. I n

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4terraces 1 : are empty. But The don't dismay because now's the time 4to dedicate some quality ploying to your Megadrive. Steve Hall, from Wellingborough, has 1in, this 4 )superb P tip for /Ant i t

. „ that reaches , the leagues A ers never R reach. The 1 cheat enables 1 you to play the M leagues or cups from specialist the normal t or expert difficulty levelshin beginner mode. For example, a if you wanted to ploy the Euro-Cup, which is a specialistt cup, all you do is: m o s t p l a y -

1. Access the options sc .

2 Set the difficulty mode to expert.

3. Go to EXIT and access the Club teams 4. Choose the specialist league/cup you wish to access, eg_ Euro-Cup. 5 Choose your team(s).

6. When the cup first stods, abort and exit the club tea4s.

7. Re-enter the options screen and set the difficulty level to beginner.

B. Exit t h e the / clUb teams_ 9.

Now go o t i oscreen n s to the cup at the top ofpthe a10. There n d should now be two roptions, e t 'Make new cup' and u'Continue r n Euro-Cup' 11, Go to 'Continue Euro-Cup' t and you should now continue o the cup in beginner mode However there is a downside to this cheat as you can't save the game. Still, you can't have everything.

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For the final instalment from the Herd and Miller duo we have a secret scene. It makes you wonder where they get all this secret stuff. Do they hove a Bond-style 'Q' bloke who installs all these added extras? Anyhow, when the credits roll, just press C, B, and A, then press START.

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instal At long lost, a cheo c r o Machines What's more, it's an absolute winner_ Go to CHALLENGE twice and select any character. During the qualifying race, cruise past the other characters and, before you cross the finishing line, stick the car into reverse and take the chequered flog. From this point on you'll have super speed! And believe me, it's great A Wembley stadium sized Mexican wave for London Kim, from Surbiton, who sent in this \ i i 5 4 ?MA SEGA . t

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Alexander Hills from Edinburgh has sent a useful cheat for a level select for all of you out there who enjoy watching poor little men fall to their doom. When the Sego logo appears, hold • down buttons 1 and 2 and rotate the D-pad in a clockwise direction until you hear a bell. Wait for the options screen to appear, and then select a level at your leisure.

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YOURA-Z The routes of each Skitchin' course are identical each time you play. The game is much easier when you've learned the location of weapons, ramps and the worst hozards.

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METHOD 1(CARS ON RIGHT HAND SIDE) 1. Move to a position just left of the centre line.

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1 . speed. A good fighting method is great amount of speed. Move 8 to duck as you ride the car and the ioyead in the direction of 2 Assume . a full complement of hit the opponent low. Don't fight the trick as you hit the top of 0 weapons early on; they ore easy on oil. Try and use your attack to the ramp, then leave the )4:typed Make sure you get the first . to lose. Don't pick up pipes or knock opponents into the path of bonus 'boning' track. There's a alone! Also, the fallen bodies of bars on later levels, It's betcars.

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Miles of barren, lifeless replication, a froctal n pattern, having no clear distinction as a whole, d yet each acre, each foot, each square millimee tre subtly different to those surrounding it. l Aesthetics, or even the quaint systems of b late Twentieth Century number theory were not r those first explorer's minds, The quest for on o resources, in particular a plentiful source of t Meridium, a prerequisite of the Super Fission energy . process fuelled their expeditionary drive.

Not native to earth, the element is found T on dense planets clustering exceptionally heavy h metals: planets like Mondelbrot. e Mondelbrot soon becomes fringed with the n forms of a colonial mining operation, and the a slow rope of a barren world begins apace, But m fractol arc has at least one twist. The main the e bio-computer, MOSES lMulticameral Organic o Synergistic Energised System) is compromised and infected by a virus, at the hands of a rival f mining company. Re-calculating the colonists as t a threat to Mondelbrot (computers can show the h most poetic logic) MOSES places lives and profit e at risk. Back on Earth the decision to dispatch a fregrettably expensive quasi-military expedition to o disable the CPU is made, and three RAM Armordillos head off for Mandelbrot. r e f a t h e r o f

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The BAMs work by downloading o . human intelligence into o cyborg environment.

You have three personalities to select from.

eats p ori ality and Innovation from the very start.

Even the options menu deserves a slight g of dis as it rotates within an isometric 3D perspective. As soon as you get into the game, its beauty becom even more apparent. The scrolling and movement are fluid and react perfectly to the controls. An immense amount of attention has been paid to the landscapes and sprites, and It seems almost a shame to destroy them. The solidity of the gameplay Is only surpassed by the simplicity of the control system. It just feels so natural moving around the terrain, easing off on the acceleration as you let another missile fly.

Above all, the music has to be some of the best that I've heard for a game. The mixture of steely guitars and ambient techno tunes, matches perfectly the fi g marish scenario of a Mani um-clod marine battling against the odds. This is a excellent example of planning and design that has paid off, and this makes Battlecorps an essential the Mega-CD library.

JACK cerrrim Age and experience count here. Jack also exhibits the best all round characteristic of average speed, firepower and armour strength.

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A confusing array of tunnels and faces, created for the extraction of Meridium. This is one of the puzzle-led areas of the game, with shields, switches and hidden areas to be located.

These ore 'hunt and kill' locales, laid out in large open chambers with many wandering enemies and hidden emplacements A systematic approach is necessary.

Mandelbrat incorporates fhte environmental zones, not counting the unique nexus that MOSES has created for himself at the planet's core. Far from being mere changes of scenery, the varying zones hold different enemy types, fixed features and require different tactics for playing. The five sceneries furnish the thirteen different levels of the game.

make these on area where you ore disadvantaged.

Unfortunately, MOSES has some excellent custom aquatic equipment at his disposal.

Overheating problems figure highly on these zones, os crossing molten areas is sometimes necessary One level features a fearsome advancing wall of flame

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T Battlecorps takes the reatest bits of that radical copter sim and roves immensely on the mthe 3D play side. Although loses some of its impact szcond time round, i the game still looks marvello and it's surprising how much visual variety exists throughout the levels. It's the missions and not the •cosmetics that make the game, though. Though strategic battle action , works better than a ma ' arcade rush, although Battiecorps can get as frenzied as you could fancy, and presents a real nugget of els. The only 'MethwarriorAype' 3D blaster on the I Sega formats, and rather c an essential one at that. hNI, a l l e

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1 The 1 9devilishly charming lead role was always played by a e lovable rogue like Burt Reynolds or Jackie Gleeson. Off he raced, 1 of dust and battered cop cars. Sure, he broke the law, leaving o •trail m 0 but che was just a free spirit in seorch of the American e what the1heck 1 W dream on1the highways and byways of the land of the free. m Now's- your chance to relive those days of dashing from state to

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b with the law hot on your heels. Out Runners is a split-screen state affair e in which you race against a computer-controlled car (as in the original arcade version) or opt for two-player mode and joyride the t planet in an attempt to beat a friend. With speeds in excess of i 400kph, the countries of the world whizz post at on alarming rote, but t that's not to mention the obstacles which ,may stop you reaching the t elusive qualifying timemiMailboitight litres of engine throbbing e beneath yeep/Pmight be an idea to buckle up for this transg global race of a lifetime. o o d o l d d a y s o f c a r c h a s e f i l Wsthe WV nockslisulerfeeivolial aleb NOMA& m s M c e S m o kWs 14I I L i d Msm in im b o w Imodoesiti bove-nowOm ime e tyre Ease& t i n n e d Mit .1 Alintwecte y a n d t h e

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It seems the local inhabitants aren't all that chuffed with the high speed exploits of the boys and their toys. All manner of local transport impedes your passage. It may be street cars in Son Francisco or a herd of elephants on the African savanna_ Whatever the obstacle, they're going to give your ABS a severe bashing.

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There's hardly a country left unaffected by Out Runner's hot-rods The rote kicks off in the US and, after completing the first track, the drivers have the choice of heading east or west. Taking the eastern route leads the racers over either the plains of Africa or the historic landscapes of Europe Head west and the action covers the Californian highways through to the Russian steppes. Ultimately, the tracks come to a rapid end on the opposite side of the planet.The action is non-stop as the drivers aren't afraid of getting their feet wet. With a splish and a splosh, it's sea bed fun. Strong., but true

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This is probably the only chance that most of us will have to drive something that pushes 400Ks. There are eight of these beauties, ranging from an Alfa Romeo Spider lookolike to a so u p ed buggy.

The cars hove pretty much the same performance, making the driver's skills oil the more up d u n e important.

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days when driving games were all tit moving c e n t r a l te from left to right, avoiding both the edges of the tracks and the occasional blocky obstacle. 0oh! the fun. 0ohl the strategy. Out Runners is far from cutting edge technology. The gameplay consists of steering, if you can call it that, the car along some roads.

And yes, that's about it. The control system is non-existent: there's no swerving or dodging, lust some lucky misses. Similarly, the car veers towards the side of the tracks regardless of rd you try to alter The animation is ppalling. The roadZips past constantly ating ill-proportioned dings and people. As the obstructing creatures and vehicles, it seems as if somebody has forgotten to include the collision detection in the programming. The split-screen is fine for two players, but you'd have thought they'd have expanded it to full size for the one-player mode. This game is enough to drive you up the wall.

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Remember the days when a race game simply involved moving a blocky sprite left and right, with only the occasional corner to worry about? Ws all here. As are the dated, repetitive backdrops, lazy use of splitscreen and crap sound effects. Out Runners would have been dated a year back, now, though, it could be carbon-dated. If Virtu° is the Ferrari of race games, this is the Robin Reliant. Do yourself a favour and ignore it...

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LASTABILITY V She boredom facto soonsets in when the realisation hits bane that there's nothingmuch to see.

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Our review copy of Out Runners was supplied by Martin at Video Games Centre, Bournemouth. Give him a call on 0202 527314.

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ORIGIN Bodycount plays very muchlike Accloim's Terminator II, whichwas alsowritten by Probe.

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E arth hashell been invaded by power-crazed aliens, bent on stripping our beautiful planet of her precious resources. What's needed is a small, but efficient fighting force of crack shots to take out the dreaded alien threat. But fear not, as the team are armed with the mighty power of the Menacer. Just watch those heavily armed and armoured aliens frazzle under the power of that Infrared technology. If that wasn't enough, the team can also opt to unleash a previously unseen alien butt-kicker: the dreaded, the invincible, the unforgiving Sega Mouse.

Nowhere on the planet is safe as the marauding alien forces stalk in search of essential materials. Even the lowly commuter has his routine interrupted as merciless invaders overrun Liverpool Street railway station. Have they no shame? So lock and load as open season is declared on the invading.extraA Wa d Lasoka fobs $talksa. terrestrials.

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Unfortunately, as with Terminator II, Bodycount just doesn't come up with the goods. Ultimately 'point and shoot' games are flawed from the start. Let's face it, how long can the average games player waggle the joypad around while holding just one button and firing off the occasional grenade?

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Ity dispatching even one.

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Bodycount supports both the 'Menacer• and the Sega 'Mouse'.

Launched way back for the Christmas of 1992, the Menacer pock included the statutory six game pack. It also died a bit of a death. As for the Mouse, it's now on the market at around the E30 mark.

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-rhey re under starter's orders The engines scream in anbcation of the off. With a blin e green light, they're offl rtling down the track they take e bend, then another, ring through the chicane nsion buitds It's going to close finish Then Mum mes in and tells me not to sh my Scolextric cars, Bahl re's nothing more fun rashing toy cars and t Cars works on this twisted concept. Except the difference re is that you don't have to • ry. Choose your driver from ght diverse personalities, line e on the track, and put the tdot to the metal. There's a c king 24 tracks to comp h up of six y rent locons with four oriations of uch course. All ranner of spe'al f weapons are ayour fingers.to slow vwn the other empetitors and Parantee victory. So if you fancy ourself Os Marc Bolan or Leslie Crowther, come on down and rke the wheel.. s c h e D i n k

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No they're not a dolled up in shell suits

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Each has on individual weapon to send the competition off in a spin.

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COMMENT This buy

little number immediately brings Micro Machines to mind as it portrays a similar concept.

That is actually its ma in weakness, as it fails to match it for quality. The basis of the game is fairly playable, especially in one-player, but Comba t Cars misses the opportunities to build on

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this to make something really special: graphics are competent but unsurprising; the cars themselves have lacklustre special powers.

The two-player option is

another good idea, but you ore forced to play it out over a 24 race marathon.

Surely varying the size of this option wouldn't hove taken that much thought?

Combat Cars is underdeveloped, and Micro Machines 2 is already on the horizon...

GROWL The best bet for the novice player. Good road handling, the smoke doesn't do anything though.

M GADRI . N.OWAVE AILABLEINSPLITSCREEN R E VVERSION I E W Tired of playing with yourself?

Get a mate and away you go with two player fun. The tried and tested split screen two player mode is back with a vengeance. The format is either 'mono y mono' thrashing the living daylights out of each other, or working as a team against the remaining drivers

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SOMETHING FORTHERACETRACK,SIR?

This is the place where you blow all those hard earned winnings.

The selection covers the essential elements of the game, new tyres for better handling, new engines bias to o o mtop p hspeed, to occur for improved azd i dil l

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He's a crafty devil. Superb acceleration and guided missiles.

Watch him and weep fat boys

Shame they didn't call him Skoda.

Fast, but crap with a tiny shotgun

story.

Micro Machines meets

Road Rash 2, meets Rock 'n' Roll Racing.

Combat Cars has lifted all the essential elements of these

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Graphically it's nothing special. For a start, the 3-D perspective is all disproportionate. The sprites have no real depth, let alone logical collision detection. In twoplayer mode, the slow down Is significant. Pass the aspirin. But after all that I Inexplicably found myself enjoying the game and wanting to give it lust one more go'. Its simplicity is, I suppose, its charm.

•i;: ItL' An** colour and the background detail really stand out.

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ASome really nice dancey boppy catchy tunes. v There thing . wrong when you ' can't hear an engine in a rod s om e .

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cr itOn - the ball City, never the ' danger. Steady on, your chance. Oh, you've scored a M City, City, City." The halgoal. u cries of dedicated footie lowed fans. The pride of a city rests in the hands of eleven blokes with extremely dodgy haircuts. The next ninety minutes could be the most exciting event of your life, but then again it could be just another cold, wet, and boring Saturday afternoon, It's a funny old game.

Especially with this frenzy of soft. wore being released to mark the 1994 World Cup in the good ol' U.S.of A. What started off as a kickabout in the pork caught the attention of the Yanks and has become mega bucks. Let's face it, it's not been so foshionable to be a footballer since Georgie Best, superstar, was wearing women's underwear. Ultimate Soccer has every intention of cashing in on the seasonal popularity surrounding the big event.

With numerous options and even the inclusion of a league system, it certainly wants to play with the big boys.

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For set-pieces like free kicks and throw ins, a handy dotted line guides the strength and direction.

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COMMENT This game is so substandard tha t it's not even funny. It's bad enough that it has to be yet another football game, a nd one tha t is a ha lf-he a rte d a tte mpt to cash in on the World Cup craze. The actual ga me action is dreadful. The one thing you'd expect from a footie game is to able to follow the ball. This is not the case in Ultimate.

Frequently, the ball goes completely out of view as the scrolling isn't fast enough to keep up. The screen jerks a round so erratically, tha t the player is left completely clueless as to the position of the ball.

As for the league element, there's not a gre a t deal of point to it all. In play, there's no difference in content. I could find only one item of merit: the penalty shootout. Nice idea, shame the control system is too basic. I would strongly advise Master System owners to take a wide be rth of this one.

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Shame really, as the gre a t Striker — from whence this ultimately came — is a classic. However, the Master System struggles to put on the same show, showing its inadequacies in a way tha t Sensible Soccer on the same forma t does not. Sensible really is a benchmark for all future Master System sports games, demonstrating tha t they can equal the ir 1 6 -bit counterparts in terms of playability. Ultimate, me a nwhile struggles with scrolling a nd a n unwieldy strategy system. An early bath for this one.

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The game takes a whole new perspective with the penalty shootout, viewed from behind the prospective scorer. With a swift boot of the ball, you guide the direction to slip it post the keeper.

In a similar fashion, when your 'keeper faces the

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aseball. It's just cricket, is it y? For a start, ere's all that music and shoutg. But what really gets me, is how soft _it all is. The back •stop is padded up like the Michelin Mon and the rest ' t h e fielders all have girlie es to help them catch the ball.

Ou never used to get all this in a friendly game of Rounders. What's wrong with them all? Having to catch a leather ball travelling at speeds in excess of 70mph and feeling the sting of the encounter for the next two weeks is all part of growing up.

By signing up the players from , Major League Baseball Players ciation, Hardball '94 promisbring even more realism to game. As with most sports, the ntial feeling of the up-to-dale players and teams has to be considered and this is featured with the all new 1994 League/Division/Playoff structure.

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Am I mistaken, or is this a step back from Hardball III? Baseball games are a specialist pursuit, which always makes them difficult to rate. However, compared to Accolade's previous acceptable efforts, and Tengen's fine RBI '94, Hardball '94 comes across as a bit irrelevent. The new angle that has been taken is one which thrills baseball statistics fans, though there's not many of them in Britain. Othewise the clever rendered batting animation Is spoiled by the poor outfield graphics. Hardball '94 is good enough to satisfy its target market, which is, fortunately, 3000 miles across the Atlantic

ItO T/telS You can never get enough practice to prepare you for the onslaught of the pitchers. Try out as many pitchers from as many teams as you wish. All of this in the safety of knowing that you will never be struck out.

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It is now possible to play all the 162 games of a real season. You might think that would take a hell of a long time With that in mind, the development lads at Accolade have devised a battery back-up to save all the necessary data to maintain the league.

The Player Editor allows the customising of teams and their attributes, and also makes use of the battery so you con build up a dream team.

By improving on the sense of realism, Hardball '94 tries desperately to fill the shoes of its predecessors.

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' a a l ngraded the importance of l dthe gameplay. For true P A U L rf aan a t i c s of the sport, the statistics may be seen as a l average gamer, playabillbonus. But forhthe ty must alwaysacome l first. Even during the boning, the digitised characters appear lifes t less, and there is no guide to the distance s h and speed of the approaching ball. When it i e comes to the overhead view of the playing g bcan I say? There is field — well what absolutely no need n a for such poor sprite animation. To topi it soff the control of the fielders is just abysmal. Hardball '94 has some f e nice ideas to improve the garners lot, but is i before b caught out even it passes the first options base. c a a l n l t c l a

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T hey say that days were the best daysschool of your life. Hmm, not so sure about that one. But certainly the days at nursery school were iriffic.

All you used to do was play in the sand pit, jump up and down in the paddling pool, and cover your hands in poster paint to make ace hand prints and fin. ger paintings.

Those carefree days. Lolling about making a huge mess. But it no longer has to be a carpet staining (?) occupation with the advent of My Paint. This package has the potential to keep any child, be they young or old, happy for many an hour on end, da bbling with paints to their heart's content. The possibilities are literally endless. By using the Me ga CD's increased storage capacity, My Paint can bring your pictures to life with sounds and speech relating to the content of the builtin Better thancan a thump in drawings. the face with a rusty of Dulux.

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Gus; It's simplicity is an earth shattering puissance highlighting the rood to eternity.

Steve: From the Pop Art/Warhol school, the message promotes arts rebellion in society.

Lucy. Fantasy confronts traditional Romonticism in a off-world exploration.

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----fi r m forever blowing bubbles.. , I enough about Michael Jackson, let's to k about Columns. Whoops, sorry, we mean Magic Bubble. Easy mistake to make, though, for verily this is o Columns clone - albeit one that's played upside down and has cute little bubbles with cute little arms and legs instead of jewels.

The rather tenuous storyline involves you as the master of the deep trying to save all the underwater sea life from death by suffocation by persuading the bubbles to yield forth their precious bodily oxygen. The cantankerous little sods will only do this though if they're linked up in lines of four which produces a huge four-fold fart, releasing the oxygen.

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Everyoneisthinks there's a fortune to be made, but why do the casinos have crystal chandeliers and marble floors?

Gambling isn't 'luck', it's an almost exact science, In the scheme of things, casinos lake more of your money. With Ceasar's Palace these problems are eliminated. After a £50 outlay, no one will top you for a single penny. The trouble is, its just a pretend video game casino. Remember, don't win — it's just for fun.

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B O Mega CD 9 Games including and all X Sonic titles, Flashback, Fifa E Soccer, Lemmings & Movie games D Nightrap, Ground Zero Texas also platform games and computer X literature, everything worth over E E2000 bargain at E725 Tel. (0494) D 439523.

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D MASTER SYSTEM FOR SALE R with 5 games separate and 2 I games built in. Games include V Sonic and Operation Wolf.

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SEGA MEGADRIVE THREE Pads and 28 games include Sonic 1-2-3, Sonic Spinball, Fl, Eternal Champions, Fifa Soccer, Jungle Strike, TA Z Flintstones, Speedball, Bubsy Bobcat, Streets of Rage and 15 more top titles may swap or sell separate Te l (0527) 517826.

MEGADRIVE WITH EA HOCKEY and Jon Madden American Football. Great Condition worth over E100 sell for E65 Phone 081 866 8250.

MEGADRIVE WITH 6 Excellent Games including Fifa Soccer and Street Fighter II. 3 Joypads. 1-6 Button, 2-3 Button, All boxed, Hardly used. All in mint condition cost E370, sell for E170 ono. Tel Matthew on (0234) 213106 after 4pm for details.

NINTENDO FOR SALE. Excellent Condition with all leads and fully boxed. With it comes two control pads. Zapper Gun and 13 games.

Sell for E250 offers accepted. But buyer must pay postal costs of the Nintendo. Phone Matthew on (0436) 672153.

NE0 GEO WITH 2 JOYSTICKS Memory card, Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting only E370. Megadrive NBA Showdown E32, Snes Zombies E32 20 other games available. USA PC Engine II games only E140 or swap. Phone James on (0934) 833788.

AMIGA 500 WITH MOUSE, Two joysticks. Disc Box and over 30 games E150 Phone Ben (0367) 242039.

GAME GEAR WITH MAINS Adaptor, Battery pack, Kick Off, Sonic and Donald Duck E90.

Phone Ben on (0367) 242039.

YAMAHA P5300 KEYBOARD for sale. Three chord memories. 100 sounds to choose from, sound mixing facility etc. Free commodore 64 with loads of games. If interested phone (021) 705 4520 and ask for Russell.

(Preferably after 4pm on School days) Buyer collects.

MEGADRIVE TWO TURBO PADS. Twelve carts, SF2, Flash Back, Jungle Strike, EA Hockey 93. Alien 3, Desert Strike, David Robinsons B.Ball, California Games. Buck Rogers, Maddens Populous, Sonic Good Condition.

Buyer collects £300 ovno (0533) 760339 Leicester will not separate pack, SEGA MEGADRIVE WITH MAJIC Drive plus 70 games one cartridge two joypads or swap for Motorcross Bike E350 ono.

MEGADRIVE WITH NINE GAMES in all, including Fifa, Micro Machines, Flashback, Cool Spot and others cost E180 Tel (0753) 853275.

MEGADRIVE FOR SALE WITH Street Fighter II, Jungle Strike.

Cyborg Justice Shinobi Gynoug WWF Super Hang on E199 Tel (021) 440 3640.

THREE MEGADRIVE GAMES for sale, Sonic S u p e r Hang on and battle soaudron E18 each, with boxes and instructions! Mange video for sale, Lensman, E9.

Master System 2 for sale, over 6 games, one controller and one joystick. For information call (081) 343 7797.

MEAN MACHINES SEGA Issues 1+3 E5 each. Issues 2+4+10 E4 each. Issues 11-13 E3 each, Issue 14 E2. Call Jamie (081) 449 3012.

MEGA CD AND MEGADRIVE (Both English) 10CD Games including Silpheed, Sonic, Thunderhawk, Sherlock Holmes and More!. 6 MD Games including Sonic 2 and Jungle Strike!! S.G Propad, arcade powerstick. All worth over E800 sell E400 ono.

Call 0952 825846 ask for Lizard.

MEGADRIVE (UK) AND MEGA CD with 2 x 6 button pads +2x3 button pads eleven games including Street Fighter II, Sonic CD Thunderhawk, Flashback, Micromachines. Coolspot and Final Fight CD. Excellent condition hardly used sell for E300 contacrt Aaron (081) 689 7531 GAME GEAR PLUS TV TUNER car adaptor and 11 games. Master System convertor with R-Type Game Get leather case and carrying case worth over E400 as in new condition. Sell for E210 ono.

Telephone Ray on (0829) 760361. after 5pm.

MEGADRIVE WITH 11 Excellent Games including SRI plus 3 joypads, one 6 button. All in mint condition. Boxed with instructions and leads E200 ono. (0473) 310482 after 4pm. Weekdays.

Ipswich area. Buyer collects.

UK SUPER NINTENDO WITH 10 top rated games including Star Wars, Tiny Toons, Mario Karl Joypad and a USA/AP convertor.

All boxed up in mint condition.

Only E360! Tel. (0494) 433716.

Ask for Chris.

MEGADRIVE GAMES FOR SALE PGA Tour Golf II £25. European Club Soccer E20. Call Tom on (0684) 574542.

MEGADRIVE + MEGA CD II, Arcade POwer Stick + Two Pads, 5 Cartridges including Virtue Racing, Fifa Soccer + Ranger X 5 CD's including Lethal Enforcers, NHL 94 + Sonic. All boxed + in

mint condition would cost over E800 new E450 (0923) 267606 (Watford).

MEGA CD, MEGADRIVE 9CD Games inc Ground Zero Texas Thunderhawk Batman Returns, Night Trap, Final Fight, Sonic CD + more 11 Megadnve games, Aliens 3. T2. World of Illusion etc. +CDX Game Genie Arcade Power Stick + 3 Pads all for E575 (0582) 663560.

MEGADRIVE GAMES FOR SALE PGA Tour Golf II E25 European Club Soccer E20 Call Tom on (0684) 574542.

MASTER SYSTEM II WITH TWO Joypads plus live excellent games including Sonic Price E50 Tel Johnathon on (0403) 782293.

SEGA GAME GEAR, ADAPTOR, Master System Convertor, Super Wide Gear, and over a dozen games including Jurassic Park, Sonic 2. Mortal Kombal, Lemmings and Chuck Rock. Everything boxed in excellent condition" Worth Loads, Sell all for E160. Tel (0284) 728036.

N.E.S FOR SALE WITH 5 GAMES and 2 control pads. A bargain price of C80. If interested Tel. Umesh (081) 449 3176 FOR SALE MEGADRIVE ALL Leads £55.00. Speedball 2 E16.

Euro Club Soccer E18, Chuck Rock E16, Spiderman El 0, Jungle Strike E26, Quack Shot E20 Revenge of Shinobi E12, Sonic 2 E16. Thundedorce 4 E18, Eswat E14. Greendog £12. Super Harry on El 0 + SNES stuff. Tel Key (0920) 877341.

SONIC 3, BARGAIN E25, hardly used. Also Mortal Kombal, Ecco, Sor 2 E20 each. Aarlon Senna's Super Monaco 2, JM 92, Sonic 2 E15. Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Soace Harrier E10. Convertor needed £5 Ask for Nick on (0277) 221969 after 3.30pm.

MEGA CD PLUS MEGADRIVE Normal CD's plus Thunderhawk.

Ten Carts, including Alien 3, Flashback, F22, Desert Strike.

Robocop v Terminator. 2 Control Pads. Joystick, Action Replay Cart, Bargain £300. Phone (0296) 81293 evenings

MEGAMART BOXED MEGADRIVE 28 GAMES and Mega CD 9 Games including all Sonic titles, Flashback. Fifa Soccer, Lemmings + Movie Games Nightrap, Ground Zero Texas also platform games + Computer literature, everything worth over E2000 Bargain at E725.

Tel (0494) 439523 AMIGA CD32, 9 GAMES Including Microcosm and Labyrinth, 5 months old, all boxed, mint condition, E270 Call (0242) 513,331.

MEGADRIVE ARCADE Powerstick, Joypad. John Maddens '94, Sonic 18.2. Mercs, Euro CLub Soccer, Hellfire.

Zerowing, Taz Mania, Altered Beast, Road Rash, Streets of Rage (12) worth over E500 everything can be boxed as new.

Great Condition. Offers, Richard (0734) 695457.

FOR SALE! MEGADRIVE, Three games. One six button control pad and one normal. Also NES with two games. Plus 20 inch TV. 31 inch computer desk. Goes to the highest bidder. Phone Clinton on (0304) 824382 between 4pm and 7pm.

MAGAZINES SEGA PRO 18.27 Sega Force 1.5.7,12 Sega Zone 1, Sega Power 2526,2729,32.34,35 Console XS 2, Mega 1,2,4. Mega Action 1, Games Master 1, Megatech 7,10.11.13.14.16,17.

Electronic Gaming Monthly, Feb 93, March 93, April 93, May 93, Tel. 0765 689229 All El, also wanted Mega CD with 2-3 games E200 SONY WM-FX45 WALKMAN Digital radio with 10 presets had 1 month E70 also Intruder 3 Joystick had 6 months E25. Scalextric 'Road Racing and Heroes both E25 - s Gunstar e t each E 4 Tel. 5 (0765) 689229.

SEGA GAME GEAR, SUPER F l a s Wide Gear, AC Mains, Battery h b a c Pack, Car Adaptor, Master System k COnvertor,Carry Case Holds everything, 5 Games. Mortal Kombal, Chuck Rock. Suer Kick Off. Columns. Leaderboard Golf and California Games for convertor. El 50. Tel. (0259) 752329.

MEGA CD WITH Thunderhawk, Final Fight (U.S) with CDX converter plus seven other games E195 ono (0284) 766540 (Suffolk area).

MAGS, I HAVE 100 MAGS FOR sale and they include videos,

books and other free gifts. All for only E28! So if you are interested phone (0727) 846308 and buy the mags. Ask for Dave.

SEGA MEGADRIVE WITH 14 incredible games, featuring Streets of Rage 2 Jungle Strike and Aladdin. Also with extra fay pad.

All in excellent condition bargain at E300. Tel Nigel (0494) 724871 after 3pm week days.

MEGADRIVE GAMES TOP 14 games including Flashback. MegaLo Mania boxed. Instructions E200 also Game Gear + 5 games call (0491) 838048.

MEGADRIVE GAMES E15 EACH Sonic Spinball. Street Fighter 2, Micro Machines, Mortal Kombat, Action Replay. Aladdin, Fifa Soccer, El 0 each Cool Spot, Fatal Fury, Jungle Strike, Jurassic Park, Flash Back. Lethal Enforcers El 5 Meancher + 6 games E15. Russell.

24 Seeking Crescent, Colchester.

Essex C04 4RJ. UK SUPER NINTENDO Includes three games, Super Empire Strikes Back. John Maddens 93 and Mario World, Two joy pads and all leads and boxes. If interested phone (081) 950 9457 and ask for Rob. Offers accepted around the E120 Mark.

UK MEGADRIVE AND MEGA CD with seven games, UK super Nintendo with Street Fighter Two Plus three games plus fifty Sega and Nintendo magazines. All for E400. Phone (021) 382 7164 after 6prn. Ask for Winston.

BATMAN, KLAX, CORPORATION Dragons Fury. Another World. Mega Games I. Talepsin Thunderforce IV, Ex Mutants, Alien 3. Terminator.

F22, Hellfire. Rintstones, James Bond, Avengers, Rolling Thunder 2, Lotus Challenge, Marble Madness.

Back to the Future Ill. Castle or World of illusion, Mutant League. 0 5 each! Tel (0724) 848762 SPIES FOR SALE w r m MARIO World, Mano All Stars, Waynes World, Wrestle Mania and NBA Jam plus two control pads only E150 ono. tf interested phone (091) 581 6037 and ask for Adam.

PHILLIPS CDi, WITH 13 CD's Only E425 or swap for a 485 PC Also SNES, Megadrive, PC Engine Hardware, Software and accessories for sale or possible P k Swaps example Megadnve Micromachines only E24. Phone James on (0934) 833788.

SNES FOR SALE 2 PADS 7 Games + JAP/USA Converters Streets

Rghter 2 F-Zero Castlevania contra 3 John Madden 93. All for E200 Tel John (0902) 893426 MEGADR1VE GAMES FOR SALE from E5 Revenge of Shinobi to E20 Rocket Knight Adventures inc Muhammad Ali Phone Phill (0245) 256450.

50 SNES GAMES INCLUDING Joe & Mac 2, Bomberman 2 and Turtles Tournament. Will not separate.

Bargain at E270 ono Tel (0272) 686258/(0831) 267711.

DOUBLE PRO FIGHTER DISK Drive for both Megadnve and SNES (24 MEG) + 15 games. Hardly used 11 months warranty. E270 Tel (0272) 686258(0831) 267711.

I WOULD LIKE TO SWAP Thunder Force IV for Toe Jam & Earl 2 so call 'now' on (0223) 572496.

I HAVE GOT SWAP FOR PAPER Boy and Ind Jones for almost anything. Just call (0243) 864657 the game must be seen first.

PHILLIPS CDI PLUS FILM Cartridge Four D.V Games Space Ace Caesers Boxing etc. 16 games Voyuer Tennis Golf etc.

Two Joypad. Six films Swap for Mega CD and lots of games.

Buyer collects worth over ELIO°.

Phone Gary (0524) 770558.

SWAP BOXED SUPER NES with 13 games adaptor games includes SF2 Turbo Contra 4 Starwing Batman Returns. I want Mega CD with games or Neo Geo with games. Contact Ricky on (081) 368 7486

WANTED SNES P.0 ENGINE 81 Megadnve Games top prices paid.

I also swap games for the consoles above for lust E3 for details. Send list with SAE to Swaps 48 Dawlish Road. Reading, Berks RG2 7SF. Top titles, Top Prices I WILL BUY ANY AUTOBOT Or Deception Trans-Formers tor a good once. If you have any please phone (0760) 724070.

WANTED ATARI JAGUAR Games especially Alien v Predator and Chequered Flag. Will pay good prices or will Swap Tel: (0266) 880155.

WANTED COMPLETE LEVEL Passwords for Mega Drive 'Jungle Strike P l e a Please see page 96 for order form. s e

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In the lower depths of the Pacific Ocean lurk palid sea creaures whose bleached white skin indicotes they have never come into contact with the sun's rays. Living in their own dark little world, they meander around with no purpose whatsoever. Which brings us nicely to this month's letters. The similarities between some of the people who write into these pages and plankton is uncanny, and if you want to impart yourviews of bullying sharks and jellyfish, write O p > , . . to: TORI SPELLING HAS A u m o q u i p s *Meer FACED LIKE A SMACKED BUM MAILYOB:Claire has plenty to say, and it's BAG, MEAN MACHINES SEGA, Priory all pretty boring. You should get together, actually — you'd make a great couple. You're Court, right, she is better looking than Oz, but then 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London, again that wouldn't be hard, would it? As for EC1R 3AU your pitiful questions, rve handled a lot big-

Victorian Fireplace with matching mantelpiece. Anyway, she wos Mrs. Big alright. Not quite the' bit past it old love' she'd have us believe. Not only that, but on her arrest, the C.I.D. discovered that she was the brains behind a moss crimewave in South-East England. What's more, she's wanted in four countries, and has an F.B.I. file that dotes bock to November of 1963, detailing on incident in Dallas when she was spotted with a rifle behind a grassy knoll.

Talk about not knowing someone! She was sent down for life (about 6 months then in the old door's case) but on her way to Broodmoor she was sprung by 1h e r evil cronies and was heard , saying "Grannies of the world ! unite! We will crush them, hal ha! ha!". She was always a bit tipsy on the sherry around Christmas time, well October really. She said that she liked to plan ahead. Well, she is now somewhere at large in the Basildon area — gasp! Live in fear ignorant citizens! Lock all the windows and doors! Keep women, children, and pets inside!

That was a public announcement.

Grant Tabard, Basildon, Essex.

YOB:Well, the lesson is you should choose your relatives a bit more carefully In future. I knew an old woman who used to steal oranges by stuffing them down her corset. When they caught her they let the charge drop but she got months for smelling of Now I mention it, your r came on sort of yellowish stationery. I suppose you'll say Ws Basildon bond...

ger and mealier than them.

Dear Yob, Hello monkey spanner, I hope you con answer these taxing queries Why does the cartoon of Paul look like Peter Ebdon? Why do you look like Freddie Starr? Why is abbreviation such a long word?

How come everyone is having a go at Claire? I think she's really nice, and much better looking than Oz. How about letting her (and Oz, I suppose) review a game occosionally? rm sure loads of readers would like to see what Claire has to soy, I know I would. I hope that all these questions aren't too much for you to handle, better go and lie down now hadn't you? Oh go on then, insult me if it'll make you feel better.

P.S. Do you like Penguin Coke Bars?

A. Camel.

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PA M EARS Dear Yob, I am writing to you in response to your wise words of wisdom in your answer to my letter (issue 20), the one about the burglary. Yob, or should that be Mr. Holmes, how right you were If you recall, I was burgled while at my Non's, and you suggested that 'the old dear' masterminded the whole scheme

Well, she only did send the boys round to do the biz while we slaved away creating an authentic

Anmopitiblon flight of fancy, from someoneto stored to reveal their identity.

the rest, obviously I was mistaken.

Stuart Alexander, Swindon, Wilts YOB:When you grow up, you'll discover a little thing called evidence. You use it to back up claims like the ones you have just made. None here, I'm afraid. In fact, your letter Is one long collection of butt noises punctuated by full stops. The (few) references we have made to Nintendo have all been pertinent — who does want a Gameboy Super NES, for chrissake? In comparison, you're just impertinent. Go away.

Door YOB, I have a friend who thinks that Revenge of the Shinobi is better than Flashbock He thinks the graphics are a lot better and the gomeplay is excellent, is he sod or what?

Neill Collie, Leighton Buzzard, Beds.

YOB:Nerds of a feather flock together. After all, he is your mate.

GERARD M A I M Sonic in sheiks treat Mario in sonny Weston Super Mare.

HARISSINFORD Dear YOB I hate you, I wish you were dead NOT! You are the beast I Sens, Mona.

YOB:And you ore the anti-joke. Imagining using that rib-tickling expression from Wayne's Underworld which everyone else buried years ago. You are sad (fin).

NARROW Dear Yob, I hove been appalled at the amount of cock MEAN MACHINES SEGA has written about Nintendo over two years. Being an avid reader, I can remember that in the second issue of NMS, after the split, a person wrote in worried that the two mags would start saying "Sega is sad" or "Nintendo is rubbish".

Jazza replies 'Don't worry you won't read any of that tripe in here". The issues of MMS which followed were free of immature comments, but soon after that, sly remarks began to creep in. Not many at first, but gradually working up to at least ten an issue. Reviews were getting stupid because you weren't actually comparing the game under scrutiny with other Sego attempts, instead saying that the game was better than any Super NES cart around. Doh!, what is the point of thatl After all, you ore a Saga magazine, not a "let's slag off the rival console" publication.

From this letter you must think that I am a Nintendo owner and you ore correct, but I also have a Sega so I'm not being biased I purchase MMS land NMS — I don't see any jokes at Sego's expense there) every month, but recently with all the anti-Nintendo remarks being dished out I don't know why I bother.

"The Super NES is crap". I could accept this if I saw it in on inferior mag, but in MEAN MACHINES. I thought that you were a cut above

Dear Yob, Why is Super Kick Off so crap? I was playing it for a few days and it is so crap it is too easy! I would olso like to say that your mog is brill. Also why is Nintendo so sad. They have no good games and they don't have a CD. P.S. Do you like Penguin Coke Bars? Give me General Chaos or you will die!

D, Scotland.

YOB:Nintendo have no Cee-Dee, you have not a Scoo-bee. I love penguin cakes, but it's a b'gger getting those feathers out from between my teeth. I have here a copy of General Chaos... which I'm not going to send you.

GROHNONOEDAY Dear Mean Granddad, Why the change? Is it because you didn't get your pension or is it because your Zimmer frame was stolen? Please, please, please, tell me why you don't

3 1 A 4 A r ,SDarkness?) of Ilford. _ c ainsult people as much as you did. rThis has gone on too many ediytions — get hard, get tough, oxy!cute them. Sorry I've gone cnmFpletely off the subject just like ryou when you said how smog oMr. Blobby was. You see I don't mind if you take it out on me, I m don't run off and cry to Mummy C because you said I looked like a amonkey's behind that's raw. r l P r i n c e ( a t

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Chris Price, Frinton-On-Sea, Essex YOB:You want do boys round? You got do boys — chill the black puddings lads — Yob's going out on the rood again. So you think I'VE gone soft. You're about as hard as my first turd — and that was after a curry. Anyway, you can't run to mummy, seeing as you stay at Mrs Gaskell's orphanage for bed-wetting nonces.

WNW MR Dear Yob-a-Dob, I would like to start by saying, chufty boofles on toast with bobble de flibble on top. Tibbles the cat is doing a diarrhoea special in your favourite pair of slippers and when you put them on you will get a strange, squishing sensation!

Seriously now on a more seriously serious note, I would just like to publicly humiliate my sister, Catherine. Not only is she an East 17 fan, but she actually fancies Rod Automatic! She thinks he's a Sex God! She wanted me to tell you that her name was Arid l Ultra, but I thought that would be a bit too sad.

Cry Baby Booties. Fiibberdy Rob Land YOB;You have an astounding grasp of English — astoundingly retarded. I would imagine there's a water area and sand pit in your literature class. It's obviously genetic, considering your sister's little 'complaint'. We're thinking of a 'scratch and sniff' special for Rod (he does plenty of both) the only [MAP employee to smear crushes under his desk. Seriously, Steve and Gus sit behind Claire's desk and watch the workshy git tap away on his keyboard, delete what he has written, excavate his nostril and put it under his desk! Greuuuuuuaagh

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Dear Yob, I just have to say that Sega and other games companies ore both sexist and homophobic, and as to that sick idiot in issue 19 who wrote in to suggest a game of his own twisted imagination, I'd lock him up and throw away the key. Games ore bad enough as it is with women being shown with hardly any clothes on, and weak compared to the male characters who have the most power and are always fully clothed. Also there is a great deal of homophobia in games as there are no gay characters to be seen. They exist in life so why not include them? Unfortunately, if you print this letter there will no doubt be many complaints. I wish people would just accept others and stop being so bloody stupid.

Tanya.

YOB:Yob get serious. You are right that women shouldn't be portrayed as weaker than men, but in many instances both men and women are shown semi-clad to give a game an exciting image.

About gays and lesbians. Well, along with all sorts of other people some of them work at EMAP (who knows, maybe even this magazine), and are afforded the same rights, courtesies and prospects as anyone else. Which is how it should be. But for a mostly young readership, such issues should be explored in a more suitable forum than MEAN MACHINES SEGA. Blimey, a serious answer. I'm off for a lie down...

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DAVID CRENSHAW: You obviously bring new meaning to 'where's the soap?' Just make sure your Mum doesn't wash her face with it after-

wards...

SARAH TAYLOR: Steve says he wouldn't use mine let alone his.

ALEXMULLET: Unfortunate name you hove there Alex.

Not as unfortunate as your obvious lock of intelligence, though.

IAN CHAMBERS: A cheese grater, eh? My, I bet you don't get out much.

DUCKLING VON DRAKE: Ho-ho. Blimey, if we were in 1973 right now, you'd get your own mini-series. Get up to date, Bozo

MAVERICK Dear Yob, First of all I think yours is the best write-in column Anyway I bought Thundedorce 4 not so long ago for only £9.95. Our local computer shop must be going soft, ond after I completed it, it says "to be continued...". So will there be a Thunderforce 5, and if so when? What do you think of Maximum Carnage? C&VG ore braindead, they coiled Carnage, Max. Wrong, he is called Cletus Kasardy.

Philip Smith.

YOB:There will surely be a Thunderforce V, but don't ask me when. I wouldn't want to say the entire CVG staff are infected with Mod Cow disease, but let's say they are not averse to the odd hamburger. Paul Rand is to sensible conversation what Christy Brown is to international athletics.

Dear Yob,

This is just a short message for Helen Rossendale (lost issue's mail bag) I would just like to reassure you that I would never insult Yob. But I would like to know why you get turned on by a steel clad midget with a Mister Potatoe Head head called Yob? Guile YOB:Now then, now then! Yob is no midget —

and when did you last look down recently? I see you've been taking English lessons from Dan Quayle. You have a lot to learn, my son, and first Is how to pee in a straight line — though with your tiny todger that will take some doing.

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Resetting doe s n't always cl, the Megadrive's memory. o e l Only a 'ha r d reset' (ie turning l the machine off for a fe w seconds) will completely clear it.

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3. Somebody told Dear Steve, Dear Steve, Please can you answer these questions: 1I s it worth buying the CDX Prod (I can get one for E20).

2. Is it worth converting my Megodrive to play at 60Hz? (The US and kip standard). have SRI and know at

these q you Neese answer Would 1. u e s t i o n s for Should 1 buy the me?g m ae Virtue Racing, because Ore on/y three races?! there 2. Is there something like this corning on the Megd-CO?

60Hz the picture is the

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Dear Steve, Being the Oracle you ore, I thought you would answer these questions for me!

I Doe s the Mega-32 bring the Mega-CD's graphics up to 32Bits along with the Megodrive, or does it only ()Pow you to play full*

2 Is the 'Sego Audio/Video N Cable' described in the L k megadrive's instruction manual the some thing as a scan lead'?

3. If they are different, how much does each one cost, and which is the best? y James Harris, Rochester.

STEVE:11. Both. 2. Yup. 3. I dunno. Wha t am I,

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bonus stage when I touch a blue ball the picture nearly always pauses for a few seconds, but the music carries

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re a lty lus t a load of pretenders. 3• i rs c r a p out ft conl w i t h a e K o n al n t i ' s Mega-CD Lethai Enforcers r pack. 4 . Doma rk have e got Kawasaki Super Bikes a in the offing. 5. Not thad t we of at the I nOMent. y

3. Where can I get it converted?

4, Has Double Switch been

5. My Dad might be buying 0 PC CD-ROM. Should I buy Rebel Assault on the PC or wait for the Mega-CD version?

6. And finally, I have Sonic 3 and just lately on the M t IP' C h a o s Emerald

there is going to benlaeMegth% CO pisto/ on the market. is true?

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Megadrive is no longer under warranty, yes. But is it worth it for one game? 3. A church, or wait for the Jehovah's witnesses to come to your door. 4. It's out there. Somewhere. 5. They a re both very good. Obviously the PC version looks clearer, but the Me ga driv e is just as playable.

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Dear Steve, I would he grateful if you'd answer these questions: 1Doe s the Mors enhance the colour palette of the Megadrive?

2. Will there be a sequel to the brilliant Eternal Champions?

3_ Will Sonic 3 be released on the Master System or Game Gear?

4 Will there be o sequel to Micro Machines? 1 . 1 1 k ' 5 1 Will Soleil be any good?

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WHAT'S • G O I N G ON? Melon Man. STEVE:l.

Yea. 2. It depends.

If your

Dear Steve, Please, please could you answer these questions: 1. Can you play on American or kip CD game on the UK 2, is Mortal Kombot II in making for the Megadrive 3. Will NBA Jam come Out on the Mega-CD? If so when?

4 Whe n will Super SFII be out on the Megadrive?

Lion] Roxburgh, Liverpool.

STEVE:1. Only with 0 CDX cart.

2. Yup, see last month's issue for the first ever pics. 3. Nope , never. 4. We reckon it'll be

'11111% 11111 TEVE:1. Yes. 2. Possibly. 3.o wil.4. H 2 s a h C ic n tS u ,b See last month's Work In Progress. 5, I t looks good, but it's too early to say.

again ainside, a soli. t• r glistens as it m s its way down the wizened old man's face. If only he knew all about Mortal Kombat II. Bloody whippersnappers...

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An unassuming industrial unit in New Malden, Surrey, is the powerhouse of Sega Amusements Europe, unarguably the most dynamic mover in the arcade sector at the moment. Kenji Horii, Managing Director of the Amusement Machine t Division was interested in our Arcade Special last month. After he arrived back from the JAMMA show in Japan (the world's biggest arcade showcase), he invited Gus Swan down for a revealing chat... fi r GUS:Thank you for taking time to speak to Mean Machines, Mr Horii. How long have you worked with Sego Amusements?

HORII:For about five years. Before that I was involved in the export trade with arcade machines from all companies At Sego " -- - for ' their products. At the moi moting Virtue Racing, 1 - Jurossi 1 Fighter and Jurassic Park.

GUS:Looking a t tha t line-i emphasis is on the new a board, Ha v e Sego abandc old PCB cabinet for good?

HORII,No, but things are nio forward. We still hove a rang products, but we have to juck carefully what is right for eac market. If you look at the cat logue of new games at the JAMMA show, we hove still h some sprite games, like Dragonball Z VS. There's still market for the PCB, but we expect it to shrink.

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F GUS:On a personal level, wha t do think of Namco's polygon g a m

HORII:There or two sides to thc question. They good games. R Racer is a gooc HORII:Thefi r d w game But in at is all the time, PCBs are reaching the ' advancing a r e industry, succe! potential m a t t level e r of CG technology, However, most 1 1 0 measured in hc sprite s . games ore nowhere near that level. After CG games general hos been available, Virtue Fighter for example, and T h e money. I'm not wrso cnn-i nnr ok ;* uv;th n r i f o - k n t mei nnm e s l i k sure that these le s te v game inevitably games, howevt l re good, will be st e e other monuoe t cessful in genet toment is that f money.

But Rid the level of h a r Racer is good ecessary to cred w o lity games. r e GUS:How do e of them ore see Ridge Rac imi,Namco and competing wit ,r example, but Daytona? not there yet, lave to increase HORII;Daytona technology just been relecr , the market, an Istry, and in we've only Mtn me f I think it will duced the delu possible for us o version, and frc Dmmuncate r the income levi en companies t so far._ well, I' h very happy! At in the London Trocadero, e they installed Ridge Racer first, w about two months ago. They h :Cooperation! installed Daytona about a month e o something later, because we delayed. led Namco l illy e see yourGUS:On purpose?

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GUS:Still on technology, does it annoy you when people compare Virtue Fighter with Streetfighter II? HORII:No, I welcome it. I think it's good for the industry. Now's the time for us to compare the different levels of technology.

GUS:Sonic: The Arcade Game is your one PCB Do you have any plans to transfer more characters from the Megadrive to the arcade?

HORII.We will have many more Sega-branded charocters There's Sonic and Tails of course, and many more.to come, but these are mostly suitable for the home market. They help attract younger children to the machines, but the arcades ore something different. Few arcade games actually require characters to make them successful.

GUS:What do they require?

HORII:The game itself is much more important. The depth, the playability• Home video game use is entirely different. People can play half on hour, an hour. Who is going to spend the some time on an arcade machine? We have to develop our games to deliver the fun within a couple of minutes maximum. Our development is concentrating enjoyment within that short time. Making a character game • I l e is very difficult. rage of the character important. imaging the image of a character in an trcade game is always potential danger.

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HORII:Yes, I've got one today from Hamley's (shows spreadsheet with daily tokings on each cabinet). See, Jurassic Park in comparison with the others (about 050) is a very good level.

GUS:I see from these figures tha t the big cabinets are taking more than the uprights..

HORII:Yes, I don't know why that is.

I think we still have a lot to learn about the kind of people playing our games.

GUS:With those figures I expect you could tell me wha t has been Sego's most successful ga me .

, this sort of this is called a 'Love Chair' or 'Love Seat'. It's designed so a boy and girl can sit together, and in Japan they do. It's not really European or UK style! Also, little children can sit with their parents as well as lovers. It's a family machine, and oars of our strategy to widen interest in arcades as places of family entertainment.

GUS:So you think the machines have been misunderstood over here because of cultural differences. I mean, people tend to think, "Wha t's this?

Ooer, I feel a bit sick!".

I don't really think it's the movement that causes the problem. It's more to do with the style of the game. They ore the first of their kind in the European arcades, and the style here is different. We hove faced some difficulty with Rail Chose, and we might have the same with Jurassic Park if we don't choose the right arcades.

This ride is really for young children or girls, not for experienced gamesplayers GUS:But how do you respond to those who say it's a poor use of a license? It's rumoured tha t Amblin Entertainment (the film's producers)

Sego's most successful; It's not a video game — it's a crane game. In Japan we hove many different types of crane gomes. The biggest seller is UFO Catcher, with 40,000 units despatched.

In fact, people don't talk about 'crone games' in Japan, they call them 'UFO catchers'. The most successful video game Sega have hod was Outrun, which sold about 30,000 units worldwide. That's part of the reason we released the sequels, including the present Outrunners.

Even though it's not CG level, it has been well received.

HORII That's our biggest problem.

Sega ore trying step by step to alter this image, by changing the atmosphere of arcades, making them attractive as family places. We wont to distance ourselves from the fruit machine image.

GUS:You're doing this through the Family Amusement Centres. How many do you have now?

HMI :Fi v e , no six, in the UK: Brent

Cross, Homley's, Debenhams, Croydon, Bournemouth and now Reading. We plan to open about 17 to 20 this year — as many as possible GUS:They're all very southern.

Can any of our Northern readers expect a look in?

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in Cromwell Rood. We are expecting Sega'smost successful to spread arcade product EVER! across the UK. Our main purpose is to grow, and by doing so change the image of the arcade. I don't think we can GUS:Suprising really, as crone change the arcode market through games have never been big our own operation alone — even if here. Do you think you could we hod 100 centres, we'd still be make them popular? small. So we wont to influence other operators to follow our HORII:1 think so. A lot of it example, join our lead in changing depends on the government. As the market. After all we make the you are giving out toys as prizes, machines, so we have to stimulate technically it's a lottery, it becomes a licensing the market by changing its image. matter. It can be quite difficult to get licenses for these machines as it's a matter handled by local GUS:At any point do you envisgovernment. If they can understand these games age UK amusement parks in ore for children, not gambling, things could

the some form you have in Japan?

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However the real one — what we coil phase one of our theme park idea, opens this July in Yokohama Very big and lots of new machines.

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talk of exact conversions of CG games for home consoles. Is this true?

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Konami and others to develop for Titan HORII Sego World has exceeded all our expectations. We were so surprised that it has accelerated all our theme pork plans. We're

Industries?

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HORII:Not completely. Even the Saturn is launched, the Megadrive will still has some life As long as there continues to be development. it's o worthwhile market. If Megadrive development continues, there will still be a place for Megoplay in our arcade schedule (Megoplay is the multi-game 16-bit arcade unit)

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machine. That is a troublesome area. Anyway, if the first game is successful, we're prepared to make more

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Certainly, I think there could be a move from con-

HORII:Yes, we hove o new brochure out. It will mean putting out some more hardware We 're choosing the games for it very carefully, only big games.

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C O F SUE NO CROSS DE PON (SUN) Japanese crossword arcade game' WORLD HEROES 2 JET (SNK) Update of the combat game.

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TOP HUNTER; RODDY AND CATHY (SNK) Side-arms type scrolling shoot 'em up.

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UPER SIDEKICKS 2 (SNK) Isometric soccer game.

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MAY JINSEN (SETA) Mah Jong, anyone?

LIGHT BRINGER (TWO) Fantasy adventure in King of ragons mode.

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POTO POTO (SEGA) Hexagonal battle Tetris.

ZUPAPAI (FACE) Colourful platform game like Rainbow Islands.

GURURIN (FACE) Tetris you play by rotating the screen.

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WINDJAMMERS (DATA EAST) Do battle with frisbees.

OTENKI PARADISE SNOW BROS (TOAPLAN) Four player sequel to excellent platform puzzler.

NEBULASRAY (NAMCO) Vertical shooter smartened with hidef backdrops.

RACING FORCE (KONAMI) Poor racing game.

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