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EDITORIAL 6 Miro crap dredged up at the end of a m y firing issue.

NEWS 8 We've got a clutch of news specials that will leave you gasping, gasping, dutchleg yourself mooning, dizzy and disorientated. Well, pleased at least. like we

EGADRIVE X-MEN 2: CLONEWARS 68 gain of avelegds Oho editorial loond admires** melons of another.

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telly newsy miny imo — which player's guide is doomed to go? Well this month we fulfil our obligations with the secsad port of Bubble and Squeak_ And vat lbeeele it had got the IMMO"

USI Salt's dittoes racer bus vs all smoubitling for seem r a t a the mini. tor. See Vivid larege's ressolialls handiwork for yourself.

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MEGAMART 91 Notice how, with the imminent rekase of the Saturn, more and more Megadrives appear for sale! And the odd Master System, too. They're jobb, aren't they, I wouldn't we 'oaths drippings from my nose for one—

YOB 90 We've been told that someone has been impersonating YOB on Sky Ono cod wherein, competition prizes. WA, I *appose we could ask Scats Chisholm Is di eur letton page.

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BCRACERS First with the 3 *red version of stone age kiwi caper. Now with that vital split-screen mode.

EARTHWORM JIM CDBO Lille Jimmy worms his way into more trouble E X in an beefed 1 up, fleshed out 4 aided 1 Spatial eddies whb beeping.

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PANZERDRAGOON 54 Here he dragons! Torn straight away to this incredible game, laid out in the definitive Saturn review. Sega's firebreathing legions will swallow their rivals whole,

COVER STORY 1 8 V Milk break at the Sega Pro offices. Phil Ching'son the left. Honk!

*malignly Steve manages to answer lour (owe 'ens) pages al your letters this men& Now, you ask? Caffeine, hi e nicOd Sky Movies and the love of a geed m o w kept him up tort,

NEXTMONTH 98 You The Jury: Should the filth that is MEAN MACNINES be printed regain? Look at this page before rimming. (Calls cost a montio's wages at cheap rate, cmvputated limbs at all other times).

For yo u r a mu s e me n t we cover B u l l f ro g 's s e n s a t i o n a l n e w T h e m e P a r k s i mu l a t o r. T h e fi rs t M e g a d r i v e g a m e t h a t le t s y o u s a c k p e o p l e a n d mo p u p t h e p u k e o f y o u n g c h i l d re n . W e r e v e a l a l l in a f r a n k l y ma s s i v e r e v i e w , w i t h a s p r a w l i n g p a r k o f o u r o w n — Ch e e s y T o n g u e W o r l d o f M i s a d v e n t u re s 4 MAI SEGA

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FEVERPITCH 26 Football violence is a popular topic at the moment, mainly because of a certain French 'hammy', ne eest pas? Just the right time for US Gold to come up with a new type of Soccer game. One which irresponsbly einemages players to cheat, inflict injury emi drink beer. eustahl

TIMECOP30 Sean (bode Van Demme might sound Ilk. OW polkaASIa Alto, but he has no problems understanding the physics of time travel We intrepidly loom through the channel tunnel to confront more people who talk strangely, just to see their new Mega-CD game.

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IiiiMIEVEl o p l . , l * There's a feelM A hushed ing in the office at the W moment. By the time reading 1 this issue, 1 you're we will have got our hands on 1 —Daytona 1 for the Saturn and we can't wait! since M I and MKII ‘ Not 1 have we 1 awaited a game so eagerly, and 1 needless 1 to1say next issue will see Daytona given more space than other game. Ever.

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favourite in A the arcades, MEAN MACHINES ' 00 B Y P R O B E has got the first picr tures of Time 00 M E G A D R I V E eWarner's Primal aRage conversion tor d the code is a the Megadrive. Developed by Probe, mere 20% complete with two Vertigo y sprites battling it out against a series of backdrops ported from the a arcade board. f The Primal Rage coin-op pits a number of prehistoric i creatures against each other in a battle for world supremacy. A one-r on-one beat 'em up, a variety of m flesh-tearing dinosaurs and huge apes offer some of the weirdest special moves you are likely to see, including pungent farts, skull-crushing dives and bad breath! However, rather than create the creatures directly on screen, Primal's many combatants were created using the Roy Harryhausen techniques of creating clay models built around flexible metal skeletons which are painstakingly bent and filmed to create each animation.

Time Warner's conversion is based on the latest update of the Atari coin-op, which has added an extra dino to the fray, and both Time Warner and Probe are confident that all the coin-op fatalities and moves will be crammed into the Megadrive cart — including the ability to eat the villagers who crowd each bout. A Saturn, 32X, and Game Gear carts ore also on the

DAYTONA11 THINE •Sego's Daytona USA on Saturn, the most important release for the 00 B Y S E C A °chine to date, is to arrive in 00 S A T U R N I I I n on April 5th, meaning that a full will be possible next issue. Work is still ongoing, with the multi-player mode causing the most difficulty. Sego intended to release a multiplayer connector at the some time as Daytona, but the game may still appear in a single player format. Whatever the outcome, nearly all the game's polygon features and custom FX have been ported in the conversion.

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Normally, if you tell a Porky, you get a slap round the head from a 40 B Y V I R G I N parent. Not so, with Virgin's latest Disney Yep, the 4100 M E C A P R I V E acquisition. chops behind The Jungle Book and The Lion king have teamed up with Disney again, this time for a platformer starring that wooden actor, Pinnochio. Developed in the catacombs beneath Virgin's Ladbroke Grove HQ, the game is said to be a rather smart-looking plotformer featuring animation identical to that of the • cartoon. Plot details hove yet to emerge, but Virgin have confirmed that the game is set for a Megadrive, 32X and Saturn release later this year A . nd we'll be getting it first. Nyah.

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Good news for the 32X coming from EA, with one of the biggest 3D0 hits to date, Return Fire, making its way to the Sega add-on. The innovative worgame mixes realtime polygon graphics with split-screen action.

There's a strong strategic element to the game as you direct tanks into enemy territory in ei bid to capture their base.

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project staffing a slimy blob.

Provisionally titled 'Ooze', no pictures are yet available but the Americanoriginated game features a novel overhead gameplay perspective and tasks involving slithering about digesting all and sundry. Sounds like it should be renamed The Gus'.

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Sig' ill are indicating th r novel beat 'em up Comix Zone is going to ariake the running for the SO B Y S E G A Megadrive this summer_ The game is attracting more MEG A D R I attention than the average Streets of Rage/ Ninio Turtles affair by placing the action within the 'pages o f an action-packed graphic novel.

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The hero, Sketch, battles his way through each panel, which is laid out as a series of separate drawings mapped onto a page, scrolling in four directions. His nemesis is the animated hand which arrives to scribble some mean-looking creatures. Progress sometimes means busting through the margins between frames, or breaking through the scenery. The action is nicely offset by a puzzle element, and storyline inserts.

This 24MEG cart features some of the best-looking graphics seen on the Megodrive, and it's no exagerration to mark this out as one of the major titles of 1995. MEAN MACHINES will be carrying more before the projected July release.

SEIMINGSPEEDY N M HAILS Determined not to go the some way as Larry Grayson, Speedy Gonzales is trying to resurrect his career before 41, B Y S E G A becoming cat food. Although 41, M E C A D R I V E his catchphrase: "Arribo, Arribo" doesn't quite match up to "Shut that door", Speedy enjoyed a late Seventies teatime following with his Mexi-comy cartoon. Sega are employing him in yet another cartoon platformer.

His legendary speed plays a part in his battle to save his girl from the clutches of Sylvester the cat.

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Sega plan to add their NBA Action to the melee of basketball games on the Megadrive 40 B Y S E G A stand. Despite a rumoured slow response to Acclaims NBA Jam 0 M E G A D R I V E TE, they obviously feel their overhead viewed game with copious stots is going to thrust the sport back into the media spotlight O r something NBA Action is due out this Summer

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MN!AGAIN Remember our CES report where (41, a N BE Y WT BCAA M E II we unveiled the first pics of Interplay's 0 32X rather smartlooking Alone In The Dark ll for the 32X? Looked good, didn't it? Well, sadly a UK release has been further postponed as Interplay don't have the rights to release it in the UK! This is a real blow, as we reckon it had all the makings of one of the best games for the plug-thru and would be the perfect showcase for it. Still, Infogrames distributed the game in the UK, so perhaps it will appear through them.

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A 3D maze blaster, similar to Doom is one of the March Saturn releases. Daedelus takes place on a massive orbiting space station overrun by swarms of hostile robots. You pilot a remote armed unit through dozens of labyrinthine levels. The textured graphics look sensational, and all sorts of Saturn graphic effects ore used.

A full review next issue, we promise.

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There just wasn't the space to preview US MO B Y S E G A Gold's on 4110 G A M E G E A M I Megaman Game Gear, but as these pics suggest, the game is pretty for advanced and due to hit the streets in a couple of months. Following their minor triumph with James Pond 3 (reviewed this issue) US Gold hove themselves a potential gem, with high. lighted levels from the last six Megaman adventures on various other formats. The garneplay is as faithful as the graphics, and we can hardly woit to do next month's review.

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00 3 2 X With the 32X yet to play host to a footy game, EA have stepped into the frame with an enhanced version of FIFA. Looking to the next generation of machines, it looks likely that EA's biggest titles are set to hit the p l u g although at the time of writing it hadn't been decided what form the game thru, would take. Here at MEAN MACHINES we're hoping they'll attempt to cram the panning and zooming of the 3D0 game into the cart, but there ore doubts as to whether the 32X could handle it. Still, needless to say, we'll be watching for news of FIFA 32X like a hawk, and you'll see it here first

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POPflIl HOPII111 e l N E W G A ME 41, B Y W O R K I N G D E S I G N S 4110 M E G A C D Poptul Mail is a strange action adventure game on the Mega-CD which has just been released in the States courtesy of Working Designs. The company has made its name in converting massive Japanese RPGs like Lunar: Silver Star and \lay to English text translations. Popful Mail fits into that mould, with a massive two hours of dialogue. It also has appealing s i d e -reminiscent of the Wonderboy games. A UK version possibility. s c r iso a l l serious ing a r c a d e s e c t i o n s

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4 , B Y U S G O LD co M A S T E R S Y S T E M ' They thought it would never happen... but the Master System is set for a new title. US Gold ore converting the NHL Hockey game reviewed on Game Gear this issue to the super-annuated 8Bit. So does this portend a Master System revival along with flores, lava lamps and Labour governments? Well, Sego estimate they'll still sell more Master Systems than Saturns in 1995._

The Mega CDs first reference work has arrived 4110 B Y S E G A in the US, with a compact disc version of 4ID M E G A C D Compton's Interactive Encyclopaedia. 12 attractive leather-bound volumes have been squeezed onto the platter. In addition to the complete 34,000 article edition, ther e are 5000 photo stills and a few dozen video i sequences. No plans as s for on English: yet spelling version in the uK, but the gap in the market is certainly there,

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Sego's much-needed platform 'nick_ tion for the Saturn is coming in the form of Bug, a little title for a poten, tiolly massive game. The eponymous hero explores a bizarre but beautiful world of strange birds and dragons.

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I GASYLUM NM TNNEXTEENENATION SEEKN you were disappointed that the 32X version of MKII wasn't quite arcade perfect, Acclaim and Probe ore set to redress the balance with a new Saturn version. Although the game has yet to apear on a release schedule, MKII for the Saturn indeed be arcade perfect, with the coin-op ID S A T U R N A t will sprites reproduced perfectly for the machine, and • a l l the effects and juggle combos surviving the transition. Needless to say, Acclaim ore remaining tight-lipped regarding a release dote for the conversion, but more will be unveiled nearer the Saturn's launch.

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MEC AD R IVE One of the better Amiga games for ages, Binary Asylum's Zeewolf is Megodrive bound. Best described as 'Choplifter in 3Dl, the player is given control over a blue helicopter as they whiz across a polygon-based landscape in search of their green enemy. The basic aim is to blast the greens into submission whilst rescuing as many of your blue compatriots as possible. The Amigo game was graphically reminiscent of David Broben's Zarch/Virus which hit the floppy machines a few years back, and the Megodrive game is set to recreate the pathwork landscape and keep it moving perfectly_ Apparently, Binary Asylum are touting the 90% complete code to a number of software houses at the mo, so expect pics and more news imminently.

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Activision are currently working on a version of Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure for the 32X Looking rather similar to the existing Megadrive and Mega-CD games, Harry's 32X outing is expected to feature larger sprites, even more levels, and better animation than before. A release date hasn't been set, though, and only a very murky shot has filtered through to us.

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4 about to 1 4 u n v e i l a 32X 1 . 3 2 X version of . their Judge 0 Dredd licence. With the Megadrive and Game Gear B code both 75% complete, Probe's next task will Y be to bring Joe and his cohorts over to the plug-thru, along with bigger sprites, better A sound and extra levels. The basic platform eleC will remain the same but, as is the custom ment C such upgrades, the game will be expanded with inLevery area.

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Cyclops and their mutie mates. And we know you love them, too That's why we're offering you the chance to win one of 41110B Y forty sets of the brand new Ponini X-Men collector's cards. Oh P A yes. Each set comprises twenty packs of cards, with each pack containing N I N ten cards, And as the set is mode up of 150 cards, there's a strong chance you'll complete I the set immediately. If not, then you'll have to go out and buy a pack for 60p won't you!

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A shorter column this month, because of the ad below. Still, we're off to movieland, where following the likes of Judge Dredd and Batman Forever, we heor that Tank Girl is also Megadrive-bound. The film stars Lori Petty (after Emily Lloyd backed out because she didn't know she had to shave her head. Dohl), with Ice-T and Malcolm Macdowell also in the cost. SCI have alreody been scared off by the cost of the licence, but rumours ore abound that it'll arrive courtesy of Ocean. by the way, we had a taster of the Batman Forever three•minute trailer, and it looks stunning. Let's hope the game's as good. Please.

Sad news from Brum, where US • Gold's Izzy platformer (WIPed last issue) has been delayed until September. We've no idea why, though.

Arsenal sponsors, JVC, are developing a character called Johnny Flash who is destined to star in a series of cartoons which JVC are paying for.

Needless to soy, Mr Flash is also destined to hood for the Sego systems, with a Mega-CD game already confirmed.

Ocean's Costner licence, Waterworld is said to be shaping up very nicely indeed, with Putty Squad developers, System 3, at the controls. Still no details on the game yet, but we iust thought we'd keep you posted.

Were good like that. Talking of Ocean, don't expect to see a review of their Manchester United game we featured in our supplement a few months' back. basically it's complete arse, and a tragic attempt at a footy game. And you read it here first!

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T lot since this comps minion was at h high school. Back then sport eequalled PE, equalled scratchy Y r 'gym kits and cold, wet morning runs around the 'cross W country' course, which was o in reality a patch of muddy rgrass between two brick lbuildings. Of course you could forget you kit, but d you'd just be given a pair o suspect nylon shorts that fsomeone hod cocked their S whack in. p But things have changed, oh yes! Nouvelle sports like o rSnowboarding have mode it a positive pleasure to get healthy. Snowboarding involves skiing, but on tleg, which is a pretty silly thing to do, with all considered. The 'bonus St being able to wear 1,11 the clobber — ski-hats and d a l * h tops . 1 1 with squiggly bits and funny slogans. aAnd novlOega have seen potential to link the high-speed danger ssport wifTl.the not-so-aerodynamic but terriblii powerful 32X machine. And they've gone as far as putting a g o snotoboardi9g cteam together, from the UK's top five youth c t i t o r s g i v i n g h lots of cash and we flying them to exolit r t s for pho•o A athem shoots.

Can't Eta bud, say. b And i b to celebrate their daredevil antics, Sego's ogency SSM is invitn ging you to risk life and limb by designing a Segayelated snowboard, with any artistic or design features you fatty. The prize for ethe best board is a Megadrive-32X combo with one of the new d titles, a snowboarding video and a lo g irt ab le Oa Hine hat. Some arunners up will get vids and hats.

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Oh dear. Maybe you should have skipped that burger. Never mind, there's a balloon waiting for you in Toyland — come in and browse. So you want some seated entertainment? Buck's Fizz are playing in the pavilion shortly, you might just make it. Who's crying? Don't worry Coco the madcap clown will make you smile (and if he doesn't I'll sack him). Here comes the bus! What, leaving so soon? Wait, you'll miss the dolphins! They really do jump through hoops. Don't go — hove some chips!

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The cheapest thrill, and usually the first attraction. Good for kids, but notoriously unreliable.

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A rollicking white knuckle ride, thot takes up hardly any space, yet offers top notch thrills. In the upper price bracket.

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Spring appears as burgeoning flowerbeds.

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The most expensive ride to start with, but its a real draw, as it scares the crop out the punters. The only pity is its poor capacity,

Later on, the band is the type of feature that appeals to a broader range of punters. It pleases rather than thrills, but is low maintenance.

You lay your own track, as big as you want. The more turns it has, the greater the thrill, but the risk of accidents olso increases, and it can prove to be very expensive.

A real snoozer this one, but it has the advantage of being relatively cheap and having bulk (opacity. Suits a quiet corner.

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Creating a focal point, with a little bit of grandeur helps impress the punters, but there is a noticeable problem with open spaces. The lack of a guiding path means punters hove a tendency to wander aimlessly.

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- The later shops, like the elaborate Toyland sell higher 4value good' and make a bigger profit, but hove o range of shops for poorer people.

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Getting the right queue length is important. Too long and it wastes space.

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potentiol park sites dotted around the globe. Each presents different challenges for the owner, depending on the economy of the host country. First, to buy into other countries you need capital gained from your previous profitable park. The more lucrative the area, the higher the s t a rt America costly and Japan astronomical), The population estiup mates ore important as they c o show how easy it will be to pull s large t in numbers. Take note of ( Estate of the economy as the poorer u r punters bring a lot less spending money. And watch out o for nasty land taxation and high p e rotes, which take an interest iannual bite out of your bolonce. s c h e a p ,

Sound ploys an active rather than cosmetic role within the game The sampled spot effects accompany punters being sick, crying, laughing or the arrival of the allimportant bus. Cleverly, the music changes between one of thirty jaunty themes, depending on the main featured ride. If the ride malfunctions the music will start to reflect this by going wonky.

The problems with the Unions in Theme Park would make Maggie weep. Every year they turn up at your office demanding ludicrous pay increases. What follows is a quick game of skill, with you extending the hand of agreement towards them, but making them compromise the most, Failure to agree is costly — the staff go on strike, parading with placords outside the entrance! When they come to renegotiate they demand even more. The some process is gone through with the shop suppliers.

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In Theme Park you create your own world of amusement.

Starting with an empty plot of land leased from the government of the country you are in, the park is constructed through a series of icon menus Rides, shop units, gaming booths, paths, signs, landscaping features and staff may be purchased Naturally, the bigger your park, the more money you can realistically charge for entry, and the more people flock to its gates.

Ekiloncing your budget is crucial, as it costs more and more to run. In the long term you want to make a huge profit, sell up and start again in a more lucrotive location. After all, who wants to sell balloons in Sheffield for their whole life?

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Shops, food franchises and games come under this heading. They bring in essential revenue after your punters have paid for entry tickets. Like the ride menu, better shops come as a result of investing in research. Dodgy businessmen should note the 'fiddle factor'. Each food unit has an option to maximise profit at the punters' expense.

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This ranks as one of the most eagerlyawaited console conversions for ages, and Bullfrog have pulled out all the stops to make it every bit as good as the PC version. Even is strategy games aren't your thing, the subject matter will entice you into the world of business, and you'll soon be engrossed. This is where Theme Park really succeeds: its simplicity. Anyone can sit down and fool around with a potential Euro Disney, but to create a balanced park which makes a profit takes time and practice, adding layers of depth to the game. In portingthe code, a few ommis;ions have been made (mainly to make play less fussy), and this has created a conversion which can hold its head up high next to the 4 classic PC version.

The most important impression of your park lies inside the mind of its patrons, after all, they pay admission. So it is lucky you are able to look inside their minds. There are two ways of doing this. The first, using a question mark tool allows you to sweep round the park 'polling' your visitors by seeing what's on their minds at that moment. If you want to know more about on individual you can. An arrow appears above their head, enabling you to track them around the park. An odditional information screen shows how happy they are, how long they've been in the park and how much dosh they have left.

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jostling for business. Making money may be the only thing that matters to you, or you may strive to top the charts in the six categories that all 20 parks ore judged on annually.

'Richest' is a measure of weolth; 'Exciting' depends on the quality of your rides; 'Amenities' covers items like shops and toilets; 'Satisfying' is a mysterious category, but relates to your punter's feelings; 'Size' is important, in this case; finally 'Pleasant' is judged on the landscape, layout and upkeep of the pork.

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This IS the most complex and detailed Megadrive game ever created.

It's constructed with a staggering amount of variables, factors and elements that make it awesome to watch in action, like an intricate clockwork model. In actuality, it's surprisingly easy to play, both in terms of control and understanding, and very absorbing. Settling down to Theme Park sessions of five hours or more is the norm.

So no complaints about playability and longevity.

As for execution, well every simulation from Sim City to Railroad Tycoon has passed the Megadrive by, presumably because it was assumed it couldn't cope.

Well, Bullfrog have shown that the robust little black monster can. The game has four speeds and is capable of running at an impressive lick. It handles hundreds of animations and a huge park layout with apparent ease.THIS IS NOT A POOR MAN'S THEME PARK. If anything, it's a streamlined and easier to control version. However, a couple of minor gripes. Some elements of the game seem to be persistently troublesome. Litter is a pain, as cleaners often congregate at the outer edges of the park; staff demand ridiculous and unrealistic pay rises. But for more serious, there is no battery save on the cart, so you have to start a pork from scratch with every session. The passwords only recall cash and previous pork locations. This one blight costs Theme Pork a good few points, but it must be stressed that this is a unique Megadrive cart, and an opportunity not to be missed.

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W O R K IN P R O G R E S S BARRY 1 BELLI 1 0 ES'BARGER

Hmm, if I were to throw the following words at you who would Barger remind you of? 'Geordie', 'Beeeeeeeer', 'Why', 'Aye', 'Chips', lindesforne, 'Shite'?

Barger is the strong arm player (his right is the more powerful for some reason.

Probably because he's a bit of o wo...) and whilst he is competent at kick. ing and passing, fouling and punching people are his strongest points. \tinny Goscoigne anyone?

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Julian Dicks, Eric Canton° and %finny Jones. John Fashanu, Stan Col lymore and Ion Wriqht. What have these players got lo common? They're known for something other Ilion dazzling ball skills, that's what.

Those six players, n their time, have been booked ountless times, gobbed at fans (and licked 'em), been countless on-pi•ch scraps, and kicked enough Crop out of defencers to feed a million roses. And en there's old pros like Rodney Mor-h, rge Best and Gana who ore as wcil known et, whilst footy games have featured countless international sides and players, con you name footy sim which featured characters to mimic e likes of the said rogue's gallery? Realising is is probably the last niche in the crowded enre to be exploited, US Gold and their inhouse development team, Silicon Drerims, have combined all the factors we have tom, to 1 1,V0Pr , theft their t f r oomlCiO iJuLo f o o t v exploits nnr r i n c as noo • r i (footy l c c urskills. a te P passing, controls, and graphics instinctive — and thrown a load ofwell star onimoted players into the mix.

Taking its name from the Nick Hornby book of the some name, but bearing no relation to She author's story of an Arsenal-obsessed childhood, Fever Pitch is an isometric-viewed kickbout, with the player taking control of one of enty-eight international squads. However, as pposed to offering a series of tournaments, ever Pitch expands upon this by adding mangeriol duties including dabbling with the nsfer market to buy the said 'characters.' t's go on to the touchline for a closer look..

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Dicky 'Tricky' Discorama The most agile player in the league, Tricky is a Colombian entrant whose speed is legendary. A bit of a dirty git when it comes to tackles, he avoids getting crocked himself by leaping over sliding tackles and defenders with ease His past is a bit dodgy, though, and it is rumoured he is the 'Original Gangster' Ice-I went on about.

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Fool it , has to be said that, whilst Paul Merson was indeed a pillock to take drugs and gamble his cash away, when he / was on form for Arsenal he was one of the best players in h aUK. Likewise, although Vinny Jones is known as the s 'Psycho', he still manages to entertain. Keen to emulate this, s US Gold have added ten unique players to Fever Pitch, Thus, as you progress through the game, they • u can be bought to enhance your team and add special f f skills to the game. Each character has one special skill, e r gives the game an NBA Jam feel, but can be which e used at any time. 'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go... d a f a Ernie 'i.e Striker' Container i Good with both feet (although Palace fans r are his preferred target), Container is the a game's gallic entry and aims to counterbalm ance his onfield aggression by reading o poetry and tending to root vegetables away from the game. Despite is fiery temperau ment, though, he can bend a boll like no n other player and is the game's best goal Marco t scorer- When you can stop him nutting 'Marker' opponents. o SPECIAL: Banana shots Rigatoni f The Italian s love god of footy spends c his time scoring both on a the field and off, and is n like glue when he sticks to a defender d His silky skills include a a neat line in accul rate diving headers r and right bockheels, e but his shooting skills aren't that hot — both c on field and off! e SPECIAL: Close markn ing t l y , b Jergen 'Cheat' Gdiverman The oldest of the bunch, this bald German lists his hobu bies as collecting Welsh love spoons, and eating oyst ters A good all-rounder, Jergen was whisked from a match in 1966 through a time warp into present day England where he continues to play. Be warned, though, he has token more dives than Duncan Goodhew and , spends most of / his career slid' ing into penalty areas face first.

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Not to be confused with Spiderman's alter ego, Peter is the definitive all-round good chap. With a dimple in his chin, hair borrowed from Roy Of The Rovers, and his Mum permanently in tow, Peter's nearest real-life counterpart is Gary Lineker. However, whereas Lineker endorses Walker's crisps, the ones Perfect eats only come in Shandy flavour. Hand shondy...

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SMOOTHOPERATOR Fever Pitch is compatible with both a three and six-button joypad, although Silicon Dreams recommend the latter. The six buttons offer full control over the players, and allow for diving headers, backheels, shots and the special moves to be pulled off easily. Similarly, the final two buttons include one for long crosses from the wing and posses to the nearest player. Control is automatically switched to the player nearest the boll, and Silicon hove worked hard to keep the controls as instinctive yet as realistic as possible.

This is why they favour the six-button pod as it 1 means each move is easily accessible and doesn't require tying your fingers in knots to pull it off. Three-button owners needn't worry too much, though, as SD are working on using combinations of the A, B, C buttons to pull off the trickier moves „A

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Virtually every country you can name has been included in Fever Pitch's match table. Europe is represented by the likes of Holland, Sweden, Spain and or Blighty, whilst the Americas put up Ecuador and Columbia, and Australasia and Africa offer the likes of Kuwait and Zimbabwe respectively. There are a number of match options o offer, with a handful of cups to compete for and a massive league system, and the said 'character players can be signed by any club providing they have the necessary moolah. Similarly, if a player becomes particularly adept at Tricky's iinking runs and superb boll skills, they con equip their team with ten of the flying Colombians!

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It's Walker's job to prevent such infringements.

Cryo, the game developers have approached the game from the stories' action potential. Their biggest challenge has been to Fame! I'm gonna live forever! I'm genie learn bow to fly! Nigh!

DIGITALDREAMS Time Cop is unusual in respect of how almost all of its visuals hove been created. Instead of drawing the backgrounds and sprites in normal bitmop fashion — entirely from the imagination of the graphic artist — Cryo chose to use digitised images of model scenery and human animation, As well as being a great deal of fun for the team, who got to play the ports of the enemy sprites, the aim is to lend the game more believable animation and convincing bockground scenery. Two separate processes were involved:

MODELPHOTOGRAPHY All the backdrops are assembled from composite digitised stills of models made by Cryo's own modelmaker. A room in the development building holds an eerie collection of lightweight grey constructions, that form the fifteen levels. The modelmaker has shown quite a bit of ingenuity by using household materials and rubbish in some cases to produce impressive pieces of 'machinery'.

Other 'sets' show great attention to detail, especially the interiors, which have tiny pieces of furniture and even calenders hanging on the wall. Using the correct lighting and camera positioning, the sets look much more convincing than in their raw form. The film is then scanned onto a computer in digital form, to be recoloured and assembled for the game levels.

•CHROMAKEY This is a very widely-used filming technique normally used for special effects and composite shots. It allows individual objects or people to be filmed, then superimposed against a completely different background. Here, the Cryo team were filmed making the sprite movements of the game's enemy characters, which were then superimposed on the digitised model backgrounds.

It's all mode possible by making sure the actors are not wearing the primary colour blue, then shooting the film on a blue background. Film records in three colours, red green and blue. When the film is replayed, the blue can be removed and replaced by the desired background. Cryo did all their animations over a three day period in a specialist studio in the south of Paris.

keep strong, life-like characters in the context of a fast-moving shoot rem up. They have drawn inspiration from the comic/film time criminals, but hove replaced the Presidential hopeful Senator McComb with a villain of their own, Kleindast The gome style may be pretty conventional, but Cryo have gone about its production in some novel ways, plus it's an unusual style of game to debut on the Mega-CD alone, which is used to second-placed conversions and adventure games.

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JVC has also had an active role as publisher. They picked Cryo for its track record in CD titles, but hod quite strict ideas of their own of what Time Cop should be.

From an initial programming brief, a platform blaster game design was devised by Cryo's in house producer.

As JVC are port of the giant Matsushita media and electronics group (it's twice the size of Sony and owns Panasonic as well as JVC) access to further licenses and media properties is going to a big part of its business in the coming years. Matsushita owns both the MCA music and Universal Pictures companies, through which the Time Cop film tie-in came about.

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Although they have a low profile this side of the 'Manche', Cryo are celebrated developers in France Media interest from French games publications and mainstream ioumals and TV channels has made their name. Cryo have worked previously with Virgin for Dune CD and Mindscape for Megarace on various formats, so CD-ROM is a natural format for them. They are also competing with French rivals like Delphine and Infogrames to produce prestige products — the lost being the remarkable PC title Eden. With around 120 staff and ten teams, they are rapidly expanding. Cryo's organisation is different to many other developers. They have a production line approach, with teams dedicated to scenario, design, programming and debugging etc_ who pass the project along when their work is cornplete

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Building upon the recently-released 24MEG Megadrive version, the game aims to push back the limits • o f gameplay by exploiting the enhanced colour ' •palette and scrolling/scaling features of the 32X. Similarly, Iguana have gone to town on the games ,presentation, too, with digitised pictures galore tgreeting the player as they switch on for the ; f i r s t t i m e

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TheChallenge maintains the customising and training up your very own pro-ball player, and the Simulation once again allows you to re-enact great moments of footballing history and future in the closing minutes of crunch matches,

OH YES VIEW CAM True to 32X form, Quarterback Club moves into the next generation by offering the player more than the standard one camera angle. In all four are selectable from the in-game options, ranging from Normal, to the ant-like eye in the sky of the Blimp, and the faceon Shoulder view corn. For maximum effect, and least hassle, the programmers hove cunningly left an Auto View option to maximise the coverage of the plays.

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A tier three patchy yeurs of Mega-CD releases, many owners may be forgiven for showing little anticipation of another Megadrive to CD conversion. Many of the previous titles which have token this route show little improvement on their cartridge counterparts, despite £200 worth of additional hardware employed.

With Eternal Champions CD, Sego are making a real effort to break that chain. The strategy for the Eternal • Champions characters is destined to • • extend beyond this second title, with • a Saturn or 32X game completing • • the 'trilogy' later this year. Sega ore • • pushing the Champions brand like • no other since Sonic himself.

• • At its most basic the CD game is a • 0 side-viewed one-on-one beat 'em up 1 like its prequel. According to the dra0 , matic plot, a preternatural force — 0 . the 'Eternal Champion' has rescued 13 characters out of time, at the point each faced a horrible death.

The crew encompasses individuals as diverse as a Chicago cat burglar and a mythical Atlantean warrior. By saving them for battle in the Eternal Champions contest, he's darning the fabric of time. Something like that, anyway.

In amongst all the philosophy is an excuse for a good rumble. Each character has a staggering amount of special moves, few of which will be revealed in the manual. Some of these look like the dragon punch or missile attacks of MKII or SRI, but many exercise the imagination, with characters morphing into animals or using magic.

So much more is crammed into the game — cinematic sequences depicting each of the characters' lives. These are assembled from beautiful Silicon Graphics' renderings. There ore almost as many secret characters as official ones (including a yappy little dog and a chicken called 'Crispy'), and so many gut-wrenching ways to die. Eternal Champions is surely the most adapted CD game that Sega hove produced, and we shall give it serious attention in next month's review.

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DIM!!AGAIN Death features time and time again in Eternal Champions, with some excessively cruel ways of dispatching foes:

MENUS The most dramatic deaths, and very hard to pull off, The vanquished is sent to the evil Champion and annihilated in full rendered animation.

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Akin to 'death moves' Vendettas are used to finish off unfortunate foes. They range from ripping out hearts to a frenzied stabbing attack.

OVERKILLS The novelty here is the backgrounds come to life to finish off the loser. Watch flesh-eating monkeys drag off and devour unfortunates.

SU D E A T H S Simi o v e r k i l l s , but these may be ;nflicted at any point, even on healthy players.

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The epic confrontation between good and evil takes your fighter and back-up squadron across the known galaxy and beyond. From bitmapped backgrounds all of the locations scroll in an isometric perspective towards the final boss character Ranging from the depths space and a starship construction yard, to a plonet's surface, local hazards join in on the action to create more havoc for the dreom team watch out frIr " re fall,na girders and a!ier , t r e e s !

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JUMPING SHIP To set MotherBase apart from other isometric shoot 'em up blasters, the game's designers have rejected the standard power-up supplementols of dropships in favour of a more novel approach. From the outset it's evident you're not going to get very far in a one-man fighter against the forces of the galactic empire. So to assist you in your quest, larger cruisers pull up along side, and in a bizarre piggyback manoeuvre the smaller ship docks with the other vessel, and adopts its increased powers. The smaller ship remains attached until surrogate ship receives damage, at which point the fighter takes evasive action before the hulk hits terra firma.

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A fter six years of intensive game development for the Megadrive, there cannot be many sports that haven't been catered for with a cartridge conversion. Staggeringly, one of the world's major sports — responsible for a quarter of all viewing of sport on TV — has been completely overlooked. That just isn't cricket.

But this is. Codemasters have stepped in with the first Sega cricket simulation, backed by last year's top batting celebrity and earner of the game, Brian b ra. Cricket slots into their sports label, the two previous titles; Pete Samaras and Ernie Els being released to much critical acclaim.

Every important aspect of the slightly baffling game has been included, and presented for one to four players, including a cooperative option.

Apparently a break for lunch is also to be incorporated (which judging by the size of most players will go on for hours), and that familiar theme you used to hear if you left the TV on BBC1 after Going Live. A review of the complete game will be aimed at your googlies in the slips next month.

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CRICKET BOX:Essential protection for googlies.

WICKET:Three long poles beneath the bails (see BAILS).

MIDDLE WICKET:Shorter than the rest. Except mine.

CREASE:The area between batsman and bowler. Also found down the front of players white trousers.

GOOGLY:What to call someone with funny eyes. It's also a complex bowling technique.

SPIN:The last cycle in a washing machine. And makes a ball change direction.

STUMPS:Short players. Another name for wicket (see WICKET) FIELDER:Lazy sod out for a suntan.

UMPIRE:A mountain of peoples' jumpers wearing a beanie hat.

RED BIT:Found where the bowler keeps rubbing the ball.

SQUARE:Name for entire play area. And people on it.

WICKET KEEPER:Mod sod with no sense of danger.

RAIN:Stops play.

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A L - S TA R S I. updates have long reigned supreme with puck-happy Megadrive owners, but a new player has token to the ice as Time Warner unveil their new Wayne Gretzky I Ilicence. For the uninitiated, Wayne Gretzky is the ice hockey equivalent to Ian Rush, and has been in the top-flight of the sport for as many years.

Time Warner's game can be played on two fronts, as a full statistic league featuring all twenty-six North American teams, six international sides and over 600 pro players, or as a straight arcade game with the player selecting one of the said sides for a friendly against the opponent of their choice. Actually, we say friendly, but Gretzky Hockey captures every aspect of the sport — including the punch-ups and fouls which make it so entertaining to watch!

The games are viewed from the side, with the and swarming with player sprites Time Warner claim orerink 20%spanning larger than thosethree in any similar 1 scrolling roughly screens, game. Gretzky is being lined up for both Megadrive and Saturn releases, and will skate into the shops in the summer. Providing the rink

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Cue the drum roll._ Ladies and gentlemen, boys arid girls, will you please raise yoto glosses for this momentous occasion and welcome the first ever Saturn tip to grace these humble pages. Yap, that's right, here we hove it, feast your eyes and feed you' brain on playing as Dural and selecting the stage and ring size.

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A very proud Chris Acott from Towester, Northants, just monaged to beat the tipping deadline with his stupendous mirror mode cheat for the top 32X version of Vidua Deluxe. Firstly though, a word of warning — this is not one of your instant gratification cheats, you have to work hard to get the mirror tracks. To access them, simply win all five cups on either Normal of Hard mode (Easy jus' won't work).

Once you have done that with any of the cars, go back to the Options screen and highlight the Virtue Racing icon and push LEFT on the D-Pod. The Options screen will scroll along and the logo will turn bock-to-front. Champion work Chris.

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Choppers oh D o v e Franck all the way from Belgium. Not only has he come forth with the level codes for all of the missions, but he also provides the code for the subgome of the orcade classic asteroids. Good work Dove Mission I N o Password Mission 2 A B A C B C B C A B A Mission 3 A C C C B C A B B C A Mission 4 A B A C B C B C A C C Mission 5 B A A A B B B C C B B Mission 6 A B B A B C A A B C A Mission 7 B A A A B B C A A A A Mission 8 A B B A B C A A C A C Username: IVAN Password: DEATH Mission 9 Mission 10

for a second time this month by revealing the entrance to the hidden warp to the old Pitfall A2600 sub-game. Apparently when you get to the start of Level .4 and the Lost City of Copan, once you have reached the top of the tongues, killed the snake and the gargoyle on the wall, jump to the left off the platform. This leap of foith will carry you to a platform on which a very odd scorpion lurks. But more importantly, it also houses on intriguing door, through which a collection of

bonuses lie. Now if you jump to the left into the wall, a hidden spider's web will launch you into a hidden room where you'll find the warp.

WARP There hasn't been a great deal of tipstering on the Micro Machines 2 front, but Stewart Anderson hos come up with a handy little Level Warp. When you come to do the challenge on the Ceiling Circuits, do one lap, and then on the third rafter going down, hit the blue box, and hey presto it will soy 'Level Warp'. Smart,

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Apart from you've being the essential basketball on theout Megadrive, NBA Jam titles have a superb reputation for featuring some of the most incredible secret players to found.

Anywhere. Oh yes, missus, gel your dribbling gear around these secret characters! On fire!

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Okay, so it may seem a bit obvious to all those die-hard NBAers, but you'd be surprised by the number of phone calls we get around NBA time.

In answer to these NBA problems, here is a step-by-step guide to getting your fave secret character to work, using Bill Clinton as an example (his initials are CIC, and Joypad combination A, C only, and B).

STEP ONE Choose the YES option to input your initials.

STEP TWO: Using the DPad highlight the letter C. STEPTHREE: Now press and hold START. STEPFOUR: Press A to input the initial, and let go of START. STEP FIVE- Move cursor onto the letter STEPSIX: Press the C button to input the STEP SEVEN: Move cursor onto the letter C. STEP EIGHT: Hold START and press button B. And there you have it! Bill Clinton is now on your team_ Now use the following info to your heart's content. And if you still can't do it, don't ring us as there's not a lot we con do from EMAP Towers. Try it again And again, if necessary.

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Never one to renege on promises, the second part of our Bubble and Squeak guide arrives after a month's hiatus. In case you didn't know already, we think this is a fob platform puzzler, with the depth so many flashier games sadly lack. But in case you're stuck in the latter half of the game...

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Jump on the twin springs to reach the gem stash. Take both springs along to the right and use them to reach the lift switch at the top.

Take Bub and one of the springs with you. On the for right side use the spring to access a vertical shaft that leads to the car icon.

Then return to Bub and follow the layout to the exit.

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The aim here is to create a bridge to the exit by elevating the lifts via the switches. Take Bub to the leftmost switch, getting a lift to reach it, then taking him with you. You need another lift from him to reach the upper lift switch.

The next two switches are pretty simple. For the final switch take Bub to the crop of platforms at the for right. From the top left one of this set„ get a throw. You land dn a ledge leading to a spring ond the final switch. Then take Bub back to the gum jar.

Mount him and lead him up the for right stairway of platforms.

The bridge of platform from right to left leads to the exit.

DIAMOND FOUNDRY5 Get the fire switch first (I charge). Lead Bub across the platforms getting the gems. and then using the second fire switch (3 charges). Go down and left on the staggered platforms. Above

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Backtrack along the bottom for on extra life. Then collect Bub, go left getting all the gems you wont. Stand on his head to reach the lift switch. Get the captive and head up for the exit.

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Kick Bubble through the first three sets of loops, then lead him across the final set of columns.

Leave him in order to dispense the wasp, then move the spring to the for right corner of the ploy. field. Go back and kick Bubble through the loop, then collect him as he bounces on the spring On the upper level, take him left then up to the sandy platform.

Kick him left across the brick partition. Go right and you'll find him post the fire on the far left Now kick him back right, and he boomerangs bock to the level above you.

Use the gum jar, mount the flying Bubble and fly straight up through a secret passage in the brick roof. You'll find a huge gem stash and a crop of wasps. Go along the top passage following the gem trail, then down to leave Bub at the exit. Free the captive and junto right to collect the sub before exiting the level.

SANDCASTLE DESERT Bub and yourself begin separated by a brick wall. Collect the nearest spring and place it carefully on the top of the wall to its left, so that it overhangs. Go right and jump on the spring, collecting the two coins from the black baddies.

Jump down right and walk along to rendezvous with Bub. Kick him through the loop and he should land bouncing on the spring.

Jump up through the sand and collect the second spring, bouncing it on top of the first one. This gives you enough height to guide Bub to the higher level (perseveronce is needed to do this regularly).

After feeding Bub gum, take him higher and collect every gem you can find (about 50), Also locate the fire switch in the ceiling, which has three charges. There is a narrow passage to your right. that requires some perfect control to negotiate without injury, but before you go down, there is a secret passage directly above the first turning. Find an extra life amongst other goodies.

Eventually you'll come to the exit, but take Bub up to free the captive first. Use the spring to jump down the left-hand side.

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SANDCASTLE DESERT Walk to the right and retrieve the spring, needed to bring Bub out of the small pit. Take him to the right and down before the patch of fire. When you reach the plateau with the wasp. kick him right and he will go through a hidden passage, collect 250 gems and end up at the exit.

Simply retrieve the spring, take it to the brick platform on the right hand side of the level and jump up. Walk right a short distance, then jump up and across the three springs in single leaps. Get Bub to throw you up to release the captive before exiting.

NEONCITY1 Simple enough if you don't start twitching because of the flashy backgrounds. Kick Bub through the loops, then follow him up by jumping up the right-hand platforms. Use the gum o r and fly around taking out all the baddies. There is a hole in the roof on the left-that leads to the car icon and plenty of gems, also a hidden secret life in a false walled chamber Once you hove the quota, go to the top left corner of the level for the captive, then get Bub to follow you back to the gum jar for a second helping, allowing you to fly to the exit above.

DIAMOND FOUNDRY1 The water rises so quickly on this level that it has to be done intuitively and without hesitation.

Immediately take Bub down to the lower level and to rightwards.

Kick him through the loop and use the pot to follow. Leave him for the time being, instead moving right to get the pot. Use it to reach the top gantry with the robot guards. There is a fire

switch with three charges at the right end Go left to grab Bub. Take him to a position below the moving platform and get a throw up. The easiest way to activate the switch is to stand on it, fall off, turn and fire. On ascending, use the gum jar. Travel right collecting gems until reaching the narrow gap.

Dismount and lead Bob to the captive chamber. Leave him, nip down and right to get the bubble car. Back up, spring the captive and get out!

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Remember to hit the fire switch.

Bounce on the spring to reach a final pot. Carry that right, through a dense field of spikes.

You should meet Bub at the gum jar. Mount him and fly up for all the gems you need and a car icon, in chambers at the top of the level. Beware of ceiling mounted spikes, though. The exit and captive are located top left.

SANDCASTLE4 A sprawling, bewildering and tricky level. First take Bub right and kick him across the top of the large cactus. Kick him again from the top of the small brick platform nearby, and wait for him to return in a few seconds. Kick him bock left to the level starting point, then get a throw up the shaft formed by two brick platforms.

Use the fire switch tall have two charges on this level) and bring the lift down. Lead Bub to the top then kick him through the loop.

Travel up yourself, using the switch to bring down a left out of sight to your left Go up and left,

4144A3 N .• .: d o o c i a b ( l codus. Climb o up the next c set of palms i and jump A right to cross the fire. Now get Bub . and use fighting a wasp to retrieve a spring. There is also a fire switch top left. Take the spring down and use it to jump over the

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Place the spring below it. Now go back and knock Bob through the loop. Bring the other spring to the place he ends up and you should be able to reach the gum jar. Use the jar, jump to the right and up to the next set of platforms. Across fire and cactus to your left is the exit, bubble car and captive.

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Lead him from that perch to the right, and kick him through the second loop from a position right of the fire switch. Use the switch three times. Return left, taking the spring, and kick Bub through the second loop, so he disappears up the vertical shaft. Go left to find him in the walled-off section. Use the spring to get him on the higher platform and kick him through the third and final loop He is now near the gum jar. Return there and mount Bob.. collecting gems and the car icon — partially hidden behind the red cycling strips. The way to the captive and exit is up and left from the gum jar.

SANDCASTLE 013111I Kick Bub through the loop first, then take the pot and go up.

Take the lift to the level near Bob, and kick him left through the loop. Take the spring up to the point he stops, and use it to bounce him to the gum jar level.

Mount him and take him to the narrow passage where you are forced to dismount. Lead him along to the right, moving the spring to a point that allows him to bounce to the second gum jar.

Fly to the right and through the narrow system of passages. You arrive in o large chamber with a fire switch and some bonuses.

Go out to the right and down.

There is a secret passage in the wall that leads to the car icon and loads of gems. Retrace your steps and fly up and round to leave Bub at the exit point where you previously started. Jump up and use the lift to release the captive. Now return to the exit and leave.

onto the wall above the gap where Bub is to find the car icon and a secret life. Move the spring to a position just right of the step after the narrow gap. This should allow you and Bub to bounce partially over the spikes. Take the spring over and bounce up to the exit.

NEONCITY3 Kick Bub right immediately. Run right and jump onto the second platform level in time to stop rolling Bub in his tracks. Shoot the tortoise, then lead Bob up to the next platform on the left. Kick him through the loop and go right to locate him near the bubble jar. Mounted, go right across the spikes then up and left on the blocky platforms. Jump three times on the spring to get to a higher platform on the right.

Jump right ogain and leave Bub at the narrow gap.

Return left, jumping on the spring again and this time going left.

Release the captive and collect the spring. Carry it right, bounce on the spring and then bounce

Go loopy. Kick Bob through through the first loop circuit.

Jump to the top and stop him on the top area. Call the lift and walk to the second loop circuit.

Do the same and take him to the next loop area. Kick him through and use the fire switch six times.

Go up and stop Bub rolling. Lead him left and onto the lift. Kick him left through this loop circuit, and use the spring to get to the top. Use the final lift, free the captive and leave Bub at the exit.

Wolk full right and down a couple of levels to find the bubble car. Return to exit.

NEONCITY5 A burst of speed to the finish.

Grab Bub and head up. Kick him through a loop, get a punt up to bring down the lift and kick Bob through the second loop, to get o bounce off the spring. Reposition the spring overhanging the edge of the platform, then lead Bub onto it. He should reach the higher platforms on the left side.

Bring the spring over and position it overhanging the right end of the second top platform in that set of three. Bounce Bub onto it and he should reach the higher platforrris. Kick him through the third loop, then backtrack quickly to get the spring and car icon.

Take it back up and call the lift down for Bub. Take him up and kick him through the loop, using the spring to follow him. Once you reach the top use the gum jar, then hit all the fire switches three times as you fall down the shaft to the right. Cling to the right wall to ovoid missing any.

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It was well e deserved, since the first release, Virtua Fighter, was frankly incredible and remains to this day the best game on the machine. But after VF, the quality of software releases dropped dramatically. Tama was crop. Clockwork Knight was rubbish, offering zero value as you could complete it in one sitting. And any magazine that has given Victory Goal over 60% is betraying its own rampant stupidity. But now a new title has arrived — a game that really shows off what the Saturn is capable of.

Panzer Dragoon is a breathtaking shoot 'em up. Climb onto the back of a dragon and ready ygurself for the most graphically stunning, most frenetic blasting experience you've ever seen. The plot behind Panzer is pretty much a waste of time. Suffice to soy that your dragon pal's rider has been murdered by a big mutha of a firebreather and it's up to you to take that rider's place and seek vengeance. This boils down to seven levels' worth of superb blasting action as you use your loser and missile spitting crossbow to dispense a swift form of justice to some of the weirdest, most graphically amazing enemy sprites you've ever seen in a videogame. And then ready yourself for some truly superlative boss-related action.

Every graphical trick in the book has been used to make Panzer Dragoon the best-looking blaster ever.

Textured polygons and scaled sprites embellish the backdrops to superb effect.

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VIEWPOINT If you thought that having four views in Viriva Racing was quite impressive, just wait until you see what Panzer Dragoon has in store for you. For starters, there are four different 360 degree views you can occess, which are essential for scoping out your targets as they come at you from all angles. The top I and R buttons on the joypod are used to access these perspectives.

Adding to the experience ore the distance buttons X. Y and Z. The X button offers the nearest perspective, Z the furthest away.

These aren't just included for cosmetic purposes - each comes in handy, particularly when fighting the bosses when a different angles are importontf.

The beginning of the game takes you through a partially sunken city. The architecture is falling around you as you progress through the level, so deft flying is required. The reflections in the water, combined with the stunning texture mapping make this level look brilliant. In fact 'brilliant" just doesn't do it justice.

The initial run through the city requires you to swoop under arches which are in danger of falling around you,

These strange flying creatures don't really seem concerned by your presence. Gun them down any wayl

This temple-like structure looks astounding on the outside

These plants are kind of like venus flytraps. Fly in too low and the plant closes up, causing much energy loss. Fly high or aim for the centre and blast,

Beware though, because it starts to break up and sink around you!

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When the worms hove been downed, you take a trip through a tunnel in the mountainside.

EPISODE TWO Having escaped the oceanic world of episode one, Panzer Dragoon finds himself caught up in a barren desert, populated by Dune-style sand worms Suffice to say, they aren't particularly friendly....

But underneath the sank lurk these graphically awesome sandwormsl You need to blast at every section of the worm, before concentrating fire on the head

The terrain itself is pretty blank apart from the inclusion of a mountainside or two..

Despite being so graphically complicated, there comes a point where you take on Iwo of the sondworms simultaneously!

Inside this tunnel are bizarre cave-dwelling face hugger style creatures. Blast them before they leop up and drain your dragon's energy!

EPISODE THREE If you thought that the first two episodes offered stunning scenery, you're going to be totally astounded by what awaits on the third episode. Panzer Dragoon enters a bleak, mountainous mining area at twilight. By the way, this is the first level in which the sprites actually attack you on purpose

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This is a mining base, fairly pocked with modemlooking installations. Sometimes, careful flying is needed to pass through tight arches Homing missiles are super-important on this level, This is where the legions of enemy particularly when you're flying past sprites really begin to get their acts these mountains. together, attacking at quite a fair old Every port of the poce. Strategic use of the homing misscenery is pocked siles is required here. with flamethrowing installations. Use your sight to sweep This is the first time you'll meet one of the the area and let enemy's strongest type of airborne fortress. it off those missiles flies around the mountains causing all sorts of before the flomethrowers aggravation- Aim for the "basket' underneath the main structure!

I hope Sony have a good look at this. After the techheads have p u t a console together, It's the C creatives . who make the machine. The l behind Panzer team i Dragoon have excelled in r area. Technically the every s drops jaws with every game i successive level — the forest level t and underground complex ore awesome to a behold.

The playability is r similarly gargantuan.

It e manages to create a fixed path 3D blaster with a feeling of freedom and space.

Launching a salvo of streaming claws of superblaster energy and hearing their thunderous report is joyous. An epic, a classic, a monument to gaming.

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This level is mode up of long tunnels connecting up large chambers. Typically, you can expect to find a new spritebased challenge awaiting you in every chamber...

Even though Panzer Dragoon laid waste to the mining areas, sufficient meanies remain to give chase, forcing the plucky dragon/man combo to take refuge in yet onother mountain. But it's a trap! And the forces of evil have claimed this particular mountain as one of their strongholds!

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Although having said that, later tunnels have these doors which tend to open in rather unpredictable manners. Watch out or Panzer might end up as a bloody splat if you're not too careful.

This level really shows off the Saturn's light sourcing and texture-mapping techniques in the form of these incredible looking tunnels. But first things first, the enemy ore quite literally on your tail. Let them hove it!

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The enemy sprites on this level are the most deadly yet, each capable of firing off a devastating green laser. When the screen's pocked with enemy sprites, you're forced to negotiate your way through scenes like this(

EPISODE FIVE Well we're sorry, but game graphics as they stand really can't be bettered by what awaits you on level five of Panzer Dragoon. You fly over an richly detailed arboreal domain, laying waste to airborne squadrons. And it's got the best boss ever .

The deeper you get into the level, the more richly detailed the scenery becomes... as you can discern for yourself by glancing at this screenshot (which you probably have already). Just look at that forest._ stunning eh?

1 1 41 21 1r Panzer Drogoon offers an incredible feeling of taking place in1- an awesome airborne battle - and that i, feeling is strongest on this brilliant level. Enemy airships and squadrons buzz past you... take out the 4 airships and mop up the sprites with your homing missiles! l i r

Where do you begin with a blaster as special as Panzer Dragoon?

The screenshots teU you everything you'll need to know about the graphical qualities of this game. They are without peer - there is no blaster on any console (and that definitely includes the Playstation) that compares visually with this. It's not lust technical excellence either - Panzer Dragoon has obviously been put together by on incredibly imaginative team, as the range of backdrops, sprites and bosses create a brilliant atmosphere. And the gameplay's excellent as well. You ore limited slightly in your flight path, but this makes no impact on the gameplay whatsoever, despite what some people may have been saying. The Inclusion of four different perspectives is an excellent addition that more than makes up for the slight lack of freedom - and is highly original - something rare in the shoot 'em up genre. In fact, from start to end, Panzer Dragoon feels incredibly fresh and original. The concept may not be stunningly new and original but it's the execution of the title that makes it so innovative. I won't mince my words. Panzer Dragoon is on Incredible videogame right up there with Virtu° Fighter in terms of quality (although VF is still the best game on any 32-bit home system). I shudder to think t ludicrous prices the porters are going to charge - but you know what? It could just be worth

Airships, airships and indeed more, er, airships. You can't get away from them in this level Probably because there's so many of the blasted things.

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BOSS ONE An enormous armoured airship is the first major Panzer Dragoon target. First of all you need to take out the circling mini-satellites before you start your assault on the airship itself. Beware of the three homing missiles it drops into the sea Before long, they zero in on your position.

The evil dragon hasn't quite mode its escape yet and you first encounter it at the tail-end of level one. Dodging between the fireballs and shockwaves, you need to unleash a constant barrage of fire and homing missiles if you're to stop it. If it seems too easy, it is. The energy bar is in fact a sort of annoyance level.

When you've drained its patience it flies off to level seven for the final confrontation, where it's considerably nastier.

BOSS THREE If you're playing the game on NORMAL level or above, you're in trouble. This boss starts out as a two-pod rotor-bladed tower of death. Dodge between the blades and wear that energy bar down. If you've done your job properly, it should transform into on enormous stomping robot. Be careful where you blast. If you aim at the rotor blades and destroy them you're in trouble (again)

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BOSS FIVE A huge enemy HQ lurks at the end of level five and it is quite frankly one of the most impressive bosses in a videogome evert h's your job to circle around the base, destroying the base a floor at a time, dodging between the scores of fireballs launched in your direction. Even when its energy bar has been depleted, the terror isn't over. The base rises into the air, opening up some doors wherein lies yet more weaponry! You won't believe your eyes when you see this one

Consoles have never before exist rienced the anima, tion and dynamism tit the characters here. II looks could kill this game would be Charles Manson

SOUND Adecent range of blasting effects and explosions, coupled withsome suitably dramatic back. groundmusic.

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BOSS FOUR The claustrophobic tunnels are bound to wear that energy bar down a great deal, which is a bit of a pain considering the evil that lurks at the climax of this level. It's quite happy just to buzz post you and injure Panzer with a high-speed collision, but its detachable wings and (especiolly) the green laser from hell make this foe one of the deadliest in the game. The fact that you're in o confined space only makes it even more deadly.

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Obviously, a golf game is never destined to blow our minds, but ISA have made the most of the Saturn's processing power to create one of the most rounded sims to date. The basic game itself is very well presented and easy to get to grips with, but extra ideas such as the ball-cam and the wealth of in-game options put this in the some league as EA's 16bit PGA series. Obviously, Pebble Beach is destined to be overshadowed by the likes of Dayona and Panzer Dragoon, but every machine should have a decent golf game, and this proves the Saturn has well and truly arrived.

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BChange club by moving left/right. e aSTANCE cThis is a way of putting hdeliberate draw or fade oon the ball Left and right r alters your positioning. e SWING i This rather natty diagram is n used as a swing-o-meter_ J The blue surge denotes a increasing power. After p you have stopped it increasing, it accelerates a back to the bottom. Stop it n in the red marked zone, or e see your ball hooked or s sliced_ e . HELP! W If you're doubtful of the controls, watch the onie mated tutorial, selected from the in-game options menu.

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I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE Pebble Beach has a boll-cam option included, which should prove pretty popular. It lets you follow the flight path of your shot, giving on aerial view of the fairway. Acceptable smoothness of movement is achieved by simplyfying the course graphics — textures ore removed from polygon surfaces, and some polygons are removed Despite this its a pleasant feature, which doesn't slow the game down at all.

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Yes, it looks lavish. The animated golfers are superb, and the course graphics ars as lush and detailed as any others seen previously. Plus the ball cam feature works quite well, although I'm sure smoother attempts at that will follow. In addition to all of that, Pebble Beach offers valuable options that armchair golfers will appredate, all of them beautifully presented: Saved golfers and course records, the replays. And the control and gameplay is well though out. Few golf games Incorporate backspin and controllable elevation. The only setback is being limited to a single course. We've all become used to multiple course games, and 18 holes lust isn't enough. But exploring those will be a golfer's pleasure for quit. some time.

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T h ere is a sociological theory which states I that mankind is the dominant species on planet Earth not because of its superior adaptability but thanks to its innate (and enormous) capacity for competition. Chia cho cho. Obviously there must be some seed of truth in these musings, as Core have come along with the game to prove it.

BC Racers' torch-like glare blasts the shadow of evolutionary doubt from the conception of fracasian transcendation, featuring as it does prehistoric humans racing motorbikes. But - and this is a big but not just against each other, but also against dinosaurs, which as we all know ore now extinct. And we aren't. So that proves it. I mean, perhops if we hadn't been so handy with the old two-wheelers these days we'd be nothing but coal.

Blimey, makes you think, doesn't it Anyway, that isn't important right now.

BC Racers is basically a behind-thebike view scoot of three laps around a variety of suitably ancient terrains, from caves to jungles through swamps and stone villages.

There ore eight different courses for each of the four skill levels, and you're required to finish fifth or above to move on to the next race.

To do this requires all your skill, cunning and knowledge of short cuts.

And of ourse, primeval evolutionary instinct.

U M W - TWO PLAVER3 BC Racers on 32X is certainly different from the MegaCD version. The biggest difference is the addition of a proper split-screen two-player head-to-head challenge which moves at full speed. It must be remarked that the sort of sprite-handling this exhibits, on a fullcroon playing field, makes Doom look a little bit silly.

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Mega-CD version to warrant the price tag? Will it have a tiny little Doomesque play window? Well yes and no, in that order.

The full-screen speedo scrolling is impressive, especially with the amount of stuff on-screen, and the two-player mode adds an awful lot of longevity - even though the main game is somewhat on the tough side. It might not have quite the appeal of Virtu° Racing, but it's got a lot more tracks, a lot lot more extras and it's a vast huge quantity of lots better than the awful Motocross.

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After the success of Megadrive Micro Machines II, this is the inevitable Game Gear version which promises most of the lobit games courses, and a four-player mode! The basic aim of getting to the finishing line of the oddball courses remains the same, and the only real difference is that this handheld game sports slightly less tracks and vehicles

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Each level has a set theme and specific enemies. In the first area, the clone factory must be destroyed by smashing a series of terminals. These open sealed doors, but wrecking the terminals unleashes deadly sparks.

After destroying the central reactor, you hove to flee the labyrinthine complex within the countdown. In another area you are felling freely down a shaft sealed into units by blast doors

111 t h i n g that appealed to me about XMen II was that it captured the feel of the comic books and cartoon series perfectly. Everything in the game will be recogniable to die-hard fans with Sentinels towering in the background, and each of the characters using their special capabilities to the full. The game itself is also very tidy, with large sprawling levels containing a wealth of baddies and power-ups. Progress is often a little frustrating as the enemy sprites are plentiful, but completion of a level proves very rewarding. Sega have come up trumps with this one, and at long last X-Men fans can buy a cart which truly does justice to Marvel's heroes.

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Featuring a massive 24 thorned m wild 'n' tracks and eight whacky characters to choose o from, not to mention two bonus games, the pace is promising to t heat up.

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RUMBLE Getting narked off with the other drivers overtaking, voicing their gripes, and taking swipes at your car? Then why not pay a visit to the Rumble zone? A perfect circle, the track is fenced in by a barrier that disintegrates after receiving blows from the cars_ Being a right royal rumble, the aim of the game is to unceremoniously dispose of the other characters by pushing them off the edge, and into oblivion_

SOCCER Surprisingly enough playing football with a cart is horder than it looks_ In the Soccer ‘revrevrramsrlorsin • • mode it's a case of looking after number one, as all goals are individual — the winner being the highest scorer within the time limit, There's a choice of three playing surfaces — outdoor on grass, indoor on a court, and even on on ice rinkl Naturally each surface dictates the movement and control of the cars.

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We've been following this one from the start, and it's good to see Vivid Image re-writing the rule book on the Megadrive.

What's more, there's just so much to this game — an incredible amount of customisation, and flawless presentation. To balance all this, getting to grips with Street Racer does take some time. Also, it can't be disputed that the game is at its best with two or more players. So get your mates and a four-tap together and I guarantee Street 1 Racer will live up to your

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In the history of video games, people of all plani ets have been menaced by a wide assortment of invaders. Elite's Thargoids came and went, Konami's Zombie hordes have been put to rest for good, and the Golaxian, God and Phoenix warriors now spend the rest of their lives dribbling into luke-warm soup in the 'Ganymecie Space Retirement Home For The Mentally Wandering.'

Yet, for from inventing a new alien race to put against their tail-swinging hero, Mr Nutz, Ocean really take the biscuit by pitting him against chickens. Obviously, o group of sad programmers thought it would be funny (during a mammoth game of MILD or whilst sharing a pizza, no ubt), and concocted a scenario where the said oaks' become oddicted to caffeine and attack orlds in their search for fresh supplies. And no doubt it was based on an episode of Deep Space Nine they g l i r were, watching too. Sod gits.

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Nutz II begins with our bushy-tailed hero relaxing on the holiday world of 'The Peanut Planet. However, as he socks up the sun and chills out after his escapades in the first game, his solitude is smashed as the aforementioned chicken invaders attack. Needless to say, Nutz comes over all heroic and feels the need to explore the planet's five main land masses in on attempt to thwart their 'fowl' plans. His mission begins within the wooded glade where he was resting, and the player is given on overview of the area via a scrolling map. Controlling a little Nutz sprite, the player guides him along the paths, picking up objects such as bombs which are used to blow up obstructions on the map. The chickens have invaded set areas of the map, though, ond entering a typically Nutz-style platform stage and jumping on them is the only way to get rid of them.

pEemooRDER In order to improve upon the original, a sequel normally retains the basic gameplay ideas but expands upon f 4 r them with the oddition of more power-ups and longer d levels. Nutz II sticks to these rules rigidly, and in addition to- his old bum-bouncing skills, a cold collection of glittering power-ups await him as• he scours the eightway-scrolling play area. These include swimming goggles for unexpected trips beneath the sea, the ability to turn into a bolt of lightning, and a feather which endows him with the power to fly. Similarly, oil the usual 1-Ups and temporary invincibility devices are present — although there don't seem to be any acorns to lob this time!

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M I M E = Mere weeks after Mr Nutz has made it into the shops, Ocean are wheeling out a new, improved sequel.

However, whilst there is no doubt Nutz II is far larger and varied than its predecessor, I find myself preferring the original! Whilst the addition of power-ups which let the squirrel fly and swim are familiar but welcome ideas, they somehow get in the way of the action a little. Similarly, as Nutz legs it across the play area, it all moves a little too fast for the player to require any real skill and the smaller levels are over before you know it I n expanding upon the original in every way, Ocean have created a game which is more than a match for recently-released platformers such as Riskin However, the glossy presentation covers a game which basically isn't as enjoyable as the first. Oh, and the map bits ore dull, too...

While Mr Nutz is quite clearly one of the better candidates for platform fun, I have to agree with Steve when he mentions the slighty thin nature of the gameplay.

The graphics are bold, colourful (maybe a little too colourful at times), and nicely pieced together, but with the speed that Nutz accierates to, the levels can feel very restricting, and that as a player you hove to do a lot of back-tracking to really cover the necessary ground. I also felt that controlling Nutz was clumsy at times — especially considering you can't change direction mid-air, as is the case with Knuckles. But I did think the map idea worked well, if at times it took quite a while to get to where you wanted to go.

Saying all this, Nutt is well above overage when it comes to a platform huntergatherer, if only there had been more point to the exercise in the first place.

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MOON BREANI13 The moon has been split into 60 levels, ectch of which ore cessed via a Mario World-style map, Starting at his rocket's nding point, Pond tackles each level in order, with a dotted line to the next appearing when the level has been completed.

This line then spreads across the surface of the moon as new areas are unveiled, including Dessert Desert and other cheeserelated bases. Despite the variety of bciddies and obstacles inhabiting eoch, the basic aim is the same throughout the game: reach and destroy a mini-reactor at the end of the stage.

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Whilst the Megadrive version of Operation Starfish was adequate enough, it never really caught my imagination. After all, why pay for an average platiormer when Sonic's latest adventure or Castlevania was out? However, despite the Game G ear playing host to more platform games than probably any other machine, Starfish seems mores original than most, with ideas such as Pond running along a ceiling, and impossibly steep inclines never really seen before on the machine. The 60 levels are well designed and offer a long-term challenge, but Starfish is let down by one major fault — and it isn't one regarding the game! When the action speeds up, the game blurs horribly making it hard to land on an enemy or judge how close you are to the edge of a level. Despite this, though, Pond's latest adventure is worth persevering with, and finds itself firmly lodged amidst the top five Game Gear platformers.

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Jim's complement of w o n r y has also been expanded, with his basic ammo supply giving way to a neot in homing bullets. The icons for se resemble tiny test tubes, give Jim a homing bullet r every one collected. Using em can be a double-edged sword, though, as unless Jim hits his attacker first time, they'll loop around the screen for a while before getting their bearings and hitting the nearest bad guy. The huge blasters found in the cart game are now less common, though, but this is because Shiny see their homing devices as more efficient.

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Would you swap your old EW.I for new, whiter-than-white EW.J: SEI This new CD version of Shiny's classic platformer retains the basic mission and levels of the cartridge game, but adds on entirely new level called 'Big Bruty', which is a world built up entirely from planks and contains a huge pink blob whose appetite knows no bounds — and who splits into several smaller version if dropped from a great height! The existing levels hove also been tweaked, with new old foes dropped into different areas of the game, with the Snowman baddy in 'What The Heck' now attacking in an extended part of the stage as opposed to the hidden warp zone he used to inhabit.

Similarly, huge chucnks of new play area have been slotted into the old levels, adding even more chal• e .

When Interpi annou a CD version of S W I thought it was a pointless exercise and all we E could expect was a fancy intro preceding the cartridge game. However, Shiny have used the new version to benefit from hindsight and, not only does it feature a crop of new ideas and stages, but they have also taken the chance to add a password system and a host of new weaponry.

These little additions enhance what was already one of the best platformers to grace the Megadrive, and the superb action is also complemented by a stunning soundtrack which makes full use of the CD', rage. If you're a Megaowner who has so for held back from buying E now have the perfect se for adding him to your collection. Not that y eded one...

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Basically, you guide your enormous fortress through each level, unleashing your minifortresses on the multitude of enemy airborne meanies. Blow them all up (or concentrate your Firepower on the enemy flagship) to progress to the next level. There is the occasional variation to the gameplay, such as negotiating a mine field or blasting your way though on enemy base, but that's about it.

One thing though - don't expect Gotha to be a pulse-pounding blaster, It isn't. It's actually a pretty thoughtful, strategic wargame. It's sort of like baffleships in that you and the computer each takes turns moving your ships about in your efforts to blow each other up. This makes Gotha a very bizarre title that isn't likely to appeal to the majority of garners, which is a bit of a shame considering the amount of effort put into it.

Gotha is pretty heavy on the old Jap text, but with the aid of this superlative MEAN MACHINES universal translator you should easily get the hang of gotha. Alternatively, you can spend hours figuring it out using trial and error. Like we did.

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I hope this review will help any one who's just ought Gotha: it's all in Japanese and hours of trial and error are needed to sort out what's what. Once you've got it sussed, Gotha is an eerily enjoyable game.

Don't let the visuals deceive you, this is a strategy wargame requiring plenty of brain-power in order to succeed. Learning how each ship operates and using them to overpower the enemy is tricky, but downing on enemy mother fortress brings forth its own rewards. And there's no denying the game's lastability as well — this one'll keep you playing for weeks longer than Clockwork Knight or Victory Goal.

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cOMMENT When I was at school there were two really sad gits who used to spend hours drawing huge spaceships on pieces of A3 paper, join them together and draw lines from one ship to another, scribbling over the other's drawing to indicate a hit. It seems they invented Gotha! Using fancy graphics, the player is left to blow up huge ships, and whilst it Isn't that exciting it still proves immensely satisfying when a mother ship goes down.

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F or one reason or another Hockey has never really Ice caught on as a sport in this country. Except, of course, that is on the Megodrive, The combination of increased pace of the ice rink and speed of the puck flying from one end to the other have all captured the attention of the gaming public and converted successfully to console sporting.

At long lost the Game Gear is about to get o look-in on the action with EA's latest conversion of NHL Hockey, The teams ore all taken from the official NHL League that covers teams from the United States and Canada, and features some of the roughest and toughest tumblers below freezing point. But as ever, does it live up to the heritage passed down from big brother Megodrive? Let's investigate.

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PLAYABILIrt •Smooth,stick and rapid action enhanced by the hood•ta4tead' teammate option.

I've never hod the slightest inclination to plat Ice Hockey for real, but I've really enjoyed the EA Megadrive games. The 16bit carts rely on their playability, so I had high hopes for this handheld version, and I wasn't let down. The action is every bit as frenetic as the Megadrive games, and whilst the sound is obviously weaker the sprites still clatter into each other to provide the necessary rough bits.

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li!'w g e t 1. 5 .6 wlatest it h this ecilow a tfeeling ofon.l p • v e e' l ospless men and continuity, which made the previous games so gripping. This is perhaps due to the game being a spruced up series of Game Gear games. And beyond that, no serious attempt has been mode to utilise CD power or try new F L It's very much treading water.

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I can see it now. The place: Old Trafford. The match: Manchester United versus Blackburn in the deciding play-off of 1995's Premier League. Our commenicdor: Brian Moore.

"Hello, and welcome to Manchester United's Old Trafford ground for what should be the game of the year. The pitch is looking particularly well tended, although the players are looking a bit malnourished and there appears to be a perpetually moving piece of sand around the perimeter. Giggs kicks the ball to his clone twin Hughes, who passes it to Cole.

0oh, the silky skills of the E7 million-rated star, it's like the ball sticks to his feel. S a u x slides in with the tackle but shoots off the side, and it's down to Sutton to come back and slide in. This really is like the ball is stuck to Coloss feet as he makes a run.

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It's funny how jokes work, isn't it? One minute you're siting there listening to someone piffling about with a really contrived and obvious story, the next minute you're laughing heartily. Yes, we like jokes. Which brings us onto the subject of your letters, many of which are little jokes in themselves. If you think you're a bit of a funny type, you can write to us at WATCH US ROCK THE MIC PSYCHE MAILBAG, MEAN MACHINES, PRIORY COURT, 30-32 FARRINGDON LANE, LONDON EC1R 3ALI. If you think you're boring you might as well give up. Please.

DHU FFREY Dear Yob I have been reading your mine sin one, but r since Jaz and Rich left, your magazine has been getting cropper: I can't help but notice how sad your reviews have been lately. It a started with Lunar th Silver Star, which you managed to give 86% • obviously deserved clo %. It is arguably one games on the Megaalso oppalled when I noticed some people who I thought good at games, could only age to get to Saith in a day.

•kes most people an hour to that far. It is obvious that with a game like Lunar, you need to get well into the game before you can make a judgement, which unfortunately you bunch of morons didn't realise. Also in the very same issue you reviewed Double Switch, an FMV title and nearly rated it as a Mega Game.

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Perhaps than you would realise that there is no deep involving gameplay in it. The thing that really mode me cock my pants was your review of Victory Goal on the Saturn last issue. How did you manage to come to the judgement of 55%? Did you have the Saturn at the time you were reviewing it? I have many machines including a PloyStation and a Saturn. I O rchased ry Goal Anothercewhinggroan' for pks, then. Thomas a u t two weeks Murphy— or, timosio.

before , and still playno ious e with sad music, and is ely not in the some class as rld Cup Italia '90. Give some Mega-CD RPGs a chance, and review more of them — Vay was one you missed out!

A Concerned Reader, Hartlepool, Cleaveland YOB: Dear concerned reader, welcome to the real world.

You have discovered In your flight into puberty that people often disagree. We didn't rate Lunar 100% because it wasn't THE perfect game. Similarly. of all the FMV games released, Double Switch has been the most interactive so for! my, this expressing a different opinion stuff has really vexed you hasn't it? And as for Victory Goal, I feel we were absolutely right to offer this basic kickaround a meagre 55%. Just because the zoom mode impressed you, doesn't cut any sway with us.

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KEITHFLOYD Dear Yob Well done on a brilliant may.

Can you please answer these questions?

I_ Is there a game planned for Tails, because Sonic, Knuckles, and Dr Robotnik all hove their own games?

2. Is Choos over Knuckles coming out on the Megodrive?

3. What percent is Street Racer for the Megodrive?

4 What percentage did you Sonic and Knuckles, Virtual Rocing, and NBA Jam? 5. Is anything planned for Micro Machines 3?

6. I have a Master System and ten games that I don't play because I have a Megadrive, Should I store them away, or gi them to my brother who owns a Super NES? Jamie Corcoran, Poynton, Cheshire YOB:Once again another reader struggles with the concept of Ct&A. Honestly, Steve and I couldn't be more differ- • ant if we tried. Seriously, next time you expect an answer to your questions mark the envelope & T A N I . You'll those letters in any good alphabet, and he's doesn't get half as narked off.

couple of sheep and a bottle of Vim there a few months back. Seriously, the mag has been a top sell-out, but if you ring EMAP Towers and ask for the marketing department we may be able to furnish you with a copy. For a few quid and a dodgy handshake, that is...

Mortal Kombat 2 — Official Player's Guide on sale now in a newsagents near you for only E4.99. So I went to a newsagents near me, and then one a little further away, and then one a long way from me, but still I couldn't find one So I tried to order a copy from each of the three aforementioned newsagents, but on every occasion I was told it was unavailable, and on one occasion that it shouldn't hove been advertised, as it was no longer available. So why did the March Issue advertise it for sale when you can't actually get hold of a copy? I am now even more frustrated than before, knowing that I will probably never know any of the Fatalities, Ekibalities, or Friendships in MK 2, Mr P Morrish, Okehompton, Devon YOB:The reason you can't get hold of a copy is because we really hate Okehampton. It all goes back to a nasty experience I had

r Yob r life is coming to an end.

Sandy, Crop-Head, and myself are going to chop you into quarters, tear your liver out, and eat it. We are going to cut out your belly-button using a wine opener. Prepare to die you overgrown piece of lard. If you want to survive, send a cheque to to me and my lads for over El B million You'd better start buying lottery tickets and get your coffin ready.

Pete, Sandy, and Crap-Head, Innellan, Scotland YOB:Crap-Head. My how apt.

I really had hope that we'd seen the last of these inane letters but, no, you and your imaginary friends feel the need to write in (sigh). Still, the more serious of our readers can at least find solace in the fact that our parents knew each other and that our female relatives don't earn six pence ago playing Rugby with no shorts on. Twelve pence if a scrum is involved...

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CHRISKELLY Dear Yob I hove recently bought a copy Mortal Kombat 2, and after many weeks of not knowing any of the special moves I wa happy to see on odvertiseme

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as recently tching the DJ Kat Show on Sky One, when the competition results for 'Design your own computer game enemy' were announced. When they come to the winners, the last one they showed was a complete replica of Mean Yob. For this complete cheat, the winner received two cheat mags worth E.10 each. opinion he be shot, or bly something e slow and painful like burnt to death.

Luca Piscopo, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire YOB:The Di kat Sh

What the hell is that piece of crud. Don't tell me, Bruno Brookes co-presents it, and it has guests stars as famous as Rosemarie Ford, the girls who do the cheerleading in Funhouse, and the bloke off Countdown. Jeez, if that's the standard, no wonder the viewers don't have any imagination. I expect all their brains ore addled. DJ Katt DJ Shot more like...

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Dear Yob I would like to soy you ore the meanest Yob in the Mean Machines office, and could you please smash the person who forgot to include the Sonic I debug mode in the Ultimate Sonic Tips Guide in the face.

Well, I know what it is, but for all them poor nerds who don't, it could make them annoyed and even meaner than you As I am your Number One Fan, I have also enclosed a poem called 'Yob I Reckon'.

Yob I reckon you fart, As fast as a dart, Yob I reckon you've got a big brain, That's insane.

Yob I reckon you like killing people To get to their wills and nick their money.

Yob I reckon you were a bully ot school, And punched boys heads in, and girls too.

Yob I reckon you're great, We could be best males, Scott C. Chatham, Kent YOB.Gus has indeed been smashed in the face for forgetting that tip, and now has a face so flat you could iron shirts on it. However, the pasting he received isn't going to be half as bad as the one heading your way for providing us with such a godawful poem! Sleep well, for we know where you live.

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See you next time.

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Couldn't you ask some new questions? Please?

If you can think of one - just one will do - you can send it to us at I PROMISE THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EARTHWORM JIM Q&A, MEAN MACHINES, PRIORY COURT, 3032 FARRINGDON LANE, LONDON ECI R 3ALL You could ask about Worms (if you've got an itchy arse), but a Doctor might be a better place to go.

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5. Which should I buy, Cannon Fodder or Earthworm Jim? PMcCreight, Belfast

Dear Steve Please answer my questions or you'll be sorry.

What is better the Mega-CD or the Saturn?

2, What is the best Game Gear football game?

3. Will there ever be a Mortal Kombot 3 for the Megadrive?

4. Can you use a Saturn game through the 32X?

STEVE 1. Do you really need me to answer that? If so, you're beyond help. No, really you are. 2. Send. 3. It depends who gets the licence.

If It's Acclaim, probably.

Anyone else: who knows? 4.

Nope, serves you right for being a cheapskate. 5. Sega Mag's Tom Guise reckons that, no matter what the

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question, I always say Earthworm Jim or Dynamite Headdy. Just to prove him right for a change, I'll opt for Jim.

SHOESTRING Dear Steve Please answer my questions.

I When is the Neptune coming out?

2. Does it combine the Megodrive and 32X? 3, My friends say it will be under ENO. Is this true?

4_ If the Neptune does combine the Megodrive and 32X, will it be 40bit?

5. In the new Sonic is it true he has o new pal called Grizzles?

6. Please could you do Game Genie codes in the future?

Kevin Seeney, Bury St Edmonds STEVEL November. 2. Yep. 3.

Possibly, it hasn't been decided. But if Sega are wise it will be as, after all, the Saturn will be out by then. 4. Don't be dopey. Just because there's a 32bit unit and a 16bit one in the equation. It doesn't mean you add them up. Does putting one Jaguar on top of another equate to a 128120 machine. 5. No, he's called Ruffelles, after Francis, lost year's Eurovision entrant. 6.

We'll see.

TARGET Dear Steve Con you please onswer these questions for me?

1. Is the Megodrive close to death now with all the super consoles coming out?

2. With all of the talk about the 32X being crap, what will happen to it when the Saturn comes over here?

3. I am a beat 'em up nut, con you tell me what fighting games ore planned for the 32X? 4. Other than Virtua Fighter can you tell me what beat 'em ups are coming for the Saturn?

5, Is Street Fighter going to make it to the Saturn or 32X? 6. Is Beavis and Butthead any good and will it make it over here?

Andy, Hertfordshire STEVE:1. Nab, it's got a few years in it yet. 2. Wil probably kill off the 32X. Then again, it'll be a lot cheaper so could be a logical upgrade for people without Saturn cash. I reckon the former, though. 3.

MKII, X-Men, Van Battle, Primal Rage, a Street Fighter of some description, and Toughman Contest. 5. I've just answered that. Why didn't y ou a d d i t to t he l ost que s -

tion? 6. Sadly, yes. It sucks big time, though.

THE DETE Dear Steve I know you were complaining about meaningless crop at the beginning of letters, so I will just compliment your magazine

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there? The guy who worked there was a real tosser who would make crap jokes with an old saveloy to the fat girls coming out of Sheik's night club. I'm glad I moved.

Z-CARS and then ask you to answer my questions 1. What happened to Star Trek ING on the Megadrive?

2. Will it be released over here?

3. How many polygons can the Saturn generate?

4. How is Daytona USA looking at the moment and when will it be released?

5 Are the rumours of a UK summer release for the Saturn true?

6. Will Super Street Fighter II X be released on the Saturn?

7, How much can we expect to pay for the Saturn?

8. Will the Saturn have a plugthru' adaptor to make it a 128bit machine?

9. When will the Alien Trilogy be released on the Saturn?

10, What is your favourite console between the Saturn and the PlayStation?

11. What's your favourite game on the Megodrive?

Paul Reeve, Bognor Regis STEVE.1. Microprose decided not to release it, because the 12MEG cart would cost a bucketioad. 2. Probably now.

3. More than six but less than a million. Loads, anyway. 4.

It's looking really smart, and it should hit the UK at the start of April. 5. Not officially, no. 6. Capcom hove no official plans. 7. In the region of E350-400. B. Not bloody likely. Why do people insist on making crap like that up? The Saturn's a cool machine, why would you need it to? 9. Late 1996. 10. I like 'em both, but the Saturn has the slight edge in terms of games. 11. Mega Bomberman. By the way, I used to spend loads of time in Bognor when I lived in Chichester. Is that late-night chippy opposite the pier still

Dear Steve Please answer my questions or I'll rip your legs off!

1. Will there be a Sonic Drift for the Megadrive?

2, Is Sonic 4 coming out?

3. Will Theme Pork be worth getting?

Anthony Hand, Birmingham STEVE:l. Nope. 2. Yep, but not for ages. 3. Yep• What's with everyone's fixation with pulling my legs off?

ROSIE

Dear Steve Please answer these questions for me 1. Is NBA Jam TE still coming out for the 32X? 2. How close will it be to the arcade version?

3. Is Tee Off still coming out for the 32X? If so when?

4 What football games are coming out for the 32X? Jonathan Dunsby, Blackpool STEVE:11. Yep, sometime In July. 2. Very. I hope. 3. Vep, but it's now called Scottis Open. We'll have a review next issue. A. FIFA. and Striker

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THESWEENY Dear Steve I hove a nice cat and I thought you would like to answer my interesting questions. By the way your mog is excellent.

1. Which has better graphics the Megadrive or the Super NES? 2. Which is your favourite Megadrive game?

3. Is Sonic the Comic any good?

4. What is 3 + 2?

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Christopher Godsell, Broodstairs, Kent STEVE:Congratulations, that is the crappiest letter opening yet! 1. The Super NES. 2. I've done this one already. Mega Bomberman. 3. No, it's arse.

4. You've got me there. S. Yeah if you go out and buy one you scabby sod.

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2. I am going to get a Jap Saturn 1. I was reading April's issue and soon, so I was wondering if it is a it said that Virtue Fighter will be sole bet that somebody will make coming to the 32X. Will it have a cheat cart to allow English all the moves and camera games to be played on it? angles?

3. Do you think the import Saturn 1,/ 2. How much will will come down in price to about Virtu° Fighter cost on C400-E450? the 32X? 3. I know it's sad, but can 4. I can complete SSF2 on level eight expert without losing a you help me on Star Wars match. Are you worried about Arcade? your job?

4. Is there really much difference 5. Whatever happened to Tom between NBA Jam and NBA Jam TE? Guise from Megatech?

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Dear Steve Please could you onswer these questions?

1. I looked in my friend's Sego Magazine a few months ago and it said that Virtua Fighter on the Saturn used only 40% of its processing power. How is this possi-

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bear in mind Virtu° was M Irushed to get it out alongside M the machine. 2. I expect Datel i ore on to it right now. 3. Only t when the official unit comes 4 1out. 4. No, because I can write whereas you can barely hold a joypad. 5. He's still here.

Sadly. In fact, he's on latrine duty now, up to his knees in everyones' second-hand breakfast. Don't worry, he's very happy there. It's like being at home for him.

THESAINT Dear Steve I need some answers obout the

out a decent title, I think it's down to the Saturn. 2. Yes and yes again. 3. No, and people who tell fibs like that deserve to have their gums fall out for making me answer letters like this. Don't tell me: his Dad works for Capcom/Sega/ the same people as a mate of Sonic's and he told him. 4. sincerely hope not.

THEPROFESSIONALS Dear Steve 32X ond Soturn, so please answer these questions.

1. Which version of Street Rocer is better, the 32X or Megodrive?

2. How much will 'obit games cost after the release of the Saturn?

3. When will Batman Forever be released?

4. When will Chootix be released, and how much will if cost?

Nazam Khalif Leeds STEVE 1_ We haven't seen the 32X one yet, so it's not fair to say. 2. The some as they do now. 3. Christmas. 4. July, and in the region of EU/.

CALLAN Dear Steve Could you please answer these questions for me?

1. I enjoy playing RPGs. Are there any other good titles besides Story of Thor?

2. I have Rood Rash 2. Is it worth getting Road Rash 3.

3. Are there any decent shoot 'em ups coming out for the Megodrive?

4. Please could you put these games in order, from best to worst: Pitfall, Story of Thor, Cannon Fodder. and Skeleton Krew?

Jonathan Roberts, Wrexham

Cannon Fodder, Pitfall, Skeleton Krew.

HAZEL Dear Steve Please answer these questions for me?

1. What do you think is the best console, the Saturn or the CD-i?

2. Will the Saturn be able to play movies like the CD-I, and if so, will I have to buy an MPEG cart to make them work?

3. My friend says you can play Megodrive games through the cartridge slot of the Saturn. Is this true?

4. Will Sego be releasing Mad Dog McCree for the Saturn?

Russell Anderson, Lanarkshire STEVE:l. My, that's a hard one.

Considering the CD-i is with-

Please can you answer my questions about the Mega-CD? 1. I have found no difference when playing a Megodrive game with a Mego-CD, but it says on the box that it makes them better. Why is this?

2. Should I bother buying Night Trap as I already have Double Switch?

3_ Could you use the Moster System Light Phaser for Lethal Enforcers?

4_ I am going on holiday to Spain soon, and I wanted to know if you can buy Mega-CD games over there without needing to use a CDX? 5. Is Night Trap 2 coming out, and if so, will it use two disks and Cinepok?

Christopher Calms STEVE-1. Doh! That's because some CD games are enhanced for the Mega-CD. My, that took some working out. 2.

Nope. 3.

Nope. 4.

Nope, they won't work. 5.

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Dear Steve Please answer my letter in your CAA section.

1. Will ony games on the Megadrive use the some graphics techniques as Donkey Kong Country? If so what?

2. Is Street Racer on the Megadrive as good as Mario Kart on the Super NES? 3. Whatever happened to Sonic Kart on the Game Gear?

4. Is Street Fighter 2 still coming out on the Game Gear?

5. Which consoles will Mortal Kombat 3 be developed for?

6. Is lou Shinden on the PlayStation as good as Virtue Fighter and Killer Instinct?

7. What is the difference between the V-Saturn and the Saturn apart from the names and manufacturers?

RossBurton, Newcastle, Staffs STEVE:1. No, the Megadrive can't handle it. DKC is completely over-rated anyway.

Strip away the graphics and Its identical to The Addams Family. 2. Not quite. 3. It morphed into the ace Sonic Drift Which we reviewed last issue. 4. We haven't heard owl for ages. We think so. 5.

None. It hasn't be licensed yet. I reckon the PlayStation's In with a shot, though. 6.

Better than Killer Instinct, but Virtu° Fighter is more instinctive and fun to play. 7. Nottin' (as me Scouse Uncle Jack says).

That's moth Earthworm fest over and done with. Join again next month for more exciting queries concerning everyone's favourite clitellum-lumbered platform star. Catch you in thirty, heads.

STEVE•1. Soleil. 2. Not really.

3. Not for a while. 4. Thor,

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