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MAY 1990 No. 10238 | i• H

MEAN MACHINES
Nine pages of console reviews, covering Sega's Battle Out
98 HAMMERFIST
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET
Run, PC Engine Atomic Robo Kid and Megadrive Super Real OF THE ROBOT MONSTERS 38
Basketball amongst others. Also we compare the Engine and DYNASTY WARS 44
Megadrive versions of New Zealand Story' FIRE AND BRIMSTONE 46
SKI OR DIE 48
KID GLOVES 53
GRAND NATIONAL 54
ITALIA 90 62
PLATOON 62
ARKANOID 62
PSYCHO HOPPER 63
ARCADE FRUIT MACHINE 63
MANCHESTER UTD 66
SPACE ROGUE 66
FERRARI FORMULA ONE 66
X-OUT 67
FIENDISH FREDDIE S BIG TOP O' FUN 67
TURRICAN 70
JUMPING JACK SON 73
COLORADO 74
KLAX 76
THE OTHER STUFF 7
PLAYER MANAGER 79
R E V I E W S INDEX XENOMORPH 80
8 CLOUD KINGDOMS 84
NEWS 20 CASTLE MASTER 86
MAILBAG 31 COLONEL S BEQUEST 89
HIGH S C O R E S 34 BATTLE OUT RUN 98
RESULTS 57 WORLD GAMES 99
CHARTS SPACE INVADERS 100
62
SUPER REAL BASKETBALL 103
BUDGET 66 NEW ZEALAND STORY 104
UPDATE 94 PARANOIA 106
A R C A D E HIGH S C O R E S 112 ATOMIC ROBO KID 107
NEXT MONTH
STAFF WRITER:
DEP EDITOR' PAUL PAUL •LAND0*
ART E D I T O R : AN- •LUKE* GLAHCEY
DREA *LE(A" WAL- RAND
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KER for a stormlrooper,
The apunky M - M n » end scoundrel. Paul
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 EVIEWS INDEX
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

THE THE REVIEWERS C+VG HIT!

RATINGS JULIAN RIGNALL
C+VG's arcade player who
GORDON
REVIEWS
When a game Isreviewed, we HOUGHTON
give ratings for five dffferent lives for coin-op conversions, Ex-ZZAP! 64 Editor who loves HAMMERFIST 37
criteria: shoot 'em ups and arcade ad- games of all sorts, but blasters Two heroes for the price of
ventures. are tops In his house. one In Vivid images' terrific ar-
GRAPHICS cade adventure.
Does the game look good? Is PAULGLANCEY PAUL RAND
the scrolling smooth? Are the He loves games requiring An easy-to-please gamer who ESCAPE FROM
sprites flickery? Is the anima> brains, but doesn't mind the likes all sorts of computer THE PLANET OF 38
tlon realistic? This mark odd blaster. games.
covers all visual asoects of the THE ROBOT MON-
STERS
r ;astle M a s t e rM
game.
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SOUND Supremely comical arcade con-
B version from Domark.
Sound and music that enhance «««
a game are given high marks. rzrt t DYNASTY WARS 44
The sound rating is tow If the I*' Fight off the clans of Japan in
soundtrack or effects are inap- «- irzmt US Gold's conversion of the
propriate.
VALUE
t tt* Capcom coin-op.
SKI OR DIE 48
Here, we take into consider- I ZJtt • r_ Fun in the snow with EA.
ation the price of the game, the .r| H
amount of entertainment it of- TURRICAN 70
1> »r> Superb arcade adventure from
fers and the quality of the pack- t i n
aging. In other words • Is it rt • the people who brought you
it*.' Denaris.
worth the money. i 1 IIKf !
,Tin r • •#• • •• -lift- , m t <> r< •* >1 1[ • » » KLAX 76
PLAYABILITY i |
••
ri —
This tells you how addictive 1 Hyper-addictive conversion of
•
and enjoyable the game is • ! —#« L v J the tile-toppling coin-op from
Domark.
the higher the rating la, the
more playable the game is. REVIEWS CASTLE MASTER 86
XENOMORPH 80
OVERALL SPECTRUM Go on a hunt for chips In
The most Important rating of PLATOON space in Pandora's great 16 bit
all. This Is what w« think of the PSYCHO HOPPER
« AMIGA adventure.
jr HAMMERFIST 37
game as a whole, taking Into ARCADE FRUIT MACHINE
GRAND NATIONAL 54 CASTLE MASTER 86
consideration all the other Domark and Incentive come
ratings. In short, how good the ITALIA 90 62
AMSTRAD SPACE ROGUE 66 together to produce a HIT!
game really Is. Freescape quest.
PLATOON 62 COLORADO 74
FIENDISH FREDDIE'S BIG PLAYER MANAGER 79 SUPER REAL
THE MARKS
TOP OF FUN 67 XENOMORPH 80
CLOUD KINGDOMS 84 BASKETBALL 103
This Megadrive release Is the
85+ C64 best Basketball game around.
HAMMERFIST 37 PC
A C+VG HfTI An outstanding STAR FUGHT 50 SKI OR DIE 48 NEW ZEALAND 104
game that shouldn't be missed. PLATOON 62 COLONEL S BEOUEST 89 STORY
ARKANOIO 62 Cutesy Kiwi conversions on
70-85 PSYCHO HOPPER Megadrive AND PC Engine!
A very good game that missed FERRARI FORMULA ONE 2 SEGA
out on a higher accolade due X-OUT ™ BATTLE OUT RUN 98
67
to minor discrepancies. WORLD GAMES 99
Should definitely be tried,
though. ST MEGADRIVE
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET 38 CURSE 102
OF THE ROBOT MONSTERS
55-69 DYNASTY WARS 44
SUPER REAL BASKETBALL103
Average to fairty good. Could NEW ZEALAND STORY 104
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE 46
still appeal to fana of the genre. KID GLOVES 53 <*r
MANCHESTER UTD 66 PC ENGINE •»
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40-55 JUMPING JACK SON SPACE INVADERS

Below average to average. KLAX NEW ZEALAND STORY

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Generally a disappointment. PLAYER MANAGER PARANOIA
XENOMORPH ATOMIC ROBO KID

15-39
Generally a poor game that
mightn't even appeal to the
most ardent fans.

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puter throw up.

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 The hottest, and possibly the most
powerful console yet is just about to hit
the streets! Coin-op giant SNK (the
folks who brought you the gun-toting
hits Ikari Warriors and Guerrilla War, to
name but two) are ready to launch the
Neo Geo (New World) - and that's just
what it is!
The console's slimline, black casing
hides a collection of 16 and 8 bit pro-
cessors, together with a stack of cus- played at home. What's more, the Neo
tom sound and graphic handling chips, Geo games cartridges are capable of
which work together to produce some storing staggering amounts of data, up
of the most awesome games to be to - wait for it - FORTY megabytes!

INANE PRO- INANE PROMO

MOPIX The second gormless promo shot of
the month comes from that source of
many an odd pic, Domark. Here we

No 1 have Dom 'n' Mark with Incentive's Big

Cheese, Ian Andrew, cavorting outside
Our first Inane Promopic of the month Fulham Palace Church (site of the
is this portrait of the Impressions team priest-spearing scene in The Omen) to
who are about to launch a strategy
game based on the Battle of Rourke's
Drift during the Zulu wars of the last
century.
The game is due out "soon", but if
you want to know a bit more about the
subject, either get yourself down to the
video shop and pick up a copy of the
film Zulu (starring Stanley Baker and
Michael Caine in his first celluloid ex*
cursion) or be the first to send in the
title of the second film in the Zulu
series and you could win a copy of the
VHS video to keep for always. Send
your entry on the back of a postcard
to: WARP ONE MR ZULU COMPO,
C+VG, PRIORY COURT, 30-32 FAR
RINGDON ROAD. LONDON, EC1R
3AU.

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 Just think of the games you'd be able
to play with a cart that size!!!
But don't get too excited yet, be-
NO STRINGS
cause the cost of this equipment is a
tad higher than yer usual console gear. ATTACHED
For the console itself, we're talking a Infra-red joysticks are nothing new
tenner off three hundred quid. And if (there was an absolute stack of them
you think that's expensive, what about launched years ago - none of them
the software, which comes in at a worked particularly well though) but
weighty £140 - not that much cheaper this latest attempt from Spectravideo
than a PC Engine! SNK are could be a winner.
optimistic, however, and The Spectravideo IR Infra-red Joy-
predict first year sales stick comes in two parts - the pistol-
shaped stick itself and the infra-red re-
ceiver, which you plug into the back of
your computer. This box picks up the
infra-red signals sent by the stick when eyesight and a very long living room.
you move it and translates them into The joystick is compatible with most
the signals the computer expects. It computers equipped with an Atari style
works up to a distance of 30 feet, D-plug and it will be in the shops by
which is handy if you have very good the end of April, costing £39.95.

figures of 300,000 for the machines

and 1.2 million for carts. The Neo Geo

SEGA MASTERS
is being launched in Japan this month,
and no doubt one or two mail order
firms will have their hands on a couple
of machines by mid-Spring, so start Why are these people smiling? Well, away empty handed, as all four were
saving your pennies or get searching the four in the front are the finalists of then flown over to New York for four
for a leprechaun. Sega s nationwide search for the top days of sightseeing and stuff (there are
Master System games players. On a lot of fours in this news story aren't

>W)PIX No. 2
March 9th, the fortunate foursome there?)
were shipped down to Gatwick Airport And the four folks in the back row?
for a final playoff aboard a Virgin Atlan- Well, they're all Sega employees who
publicise their collaboration on the pro- tic 747. After heated bouts of World are obviously smiling because they got
duction of Castle Master (reviewed on Grand Prix, California Games and R- a four-day freebte in New York (jammy
page 86 of this very issue!). We're con- Type. Paul Fawson (on the left) bleeders).
sidering making the Inane Promopix emerged the victor. Still, no-one went
slot a regular feature, so, publicity-
seeking softcos, get snapping!

A-MIGA-DRIVE LATEST
We've had an unbelievable amount of tween the converter and the underside
letters and phone calls over the past of the Amiga, then photograph the
month about the fantastic new A-Miga- whole thing with the Japanese instruc-
drive converter, so we decided that it's tions on the Megadrive cartridge facing
time to come clean...ha ha, FOOLED the camera (always assume that the
YOU! Didn't you check the date on the majority of your audience can't read
cover? Japanese). Then, hey presto - a break-
tn case you're wondering, here's through in technology! Or not, as the
how you can build an A-Migadrive of case may be.
your own. so mums and Sega execu- But what about that screenshot
tives, leave the room now. Take a showing the converted TV Sports Bas-
Japanese-to-UK Nintendo cartridge ketball? First, we expanded the screen
converter, and place the two plastic using the little knob at the back of our
bits on top of each other to make it 1084 monitor, then fiddled about with
look bulky and realistic. Then rip the our dodgy SCART lead so that the col-
label off a handy Megadrive cartridge our changed. And there you have it;
(you may need an adult to help) and one enormous stitch-up on your part,
balance it in the Nintendo converter. and one gigantic giggle for us lot - nice
Run a Centronics printer cable be- idea though, isn't it!
 SEGA
SLASHES
All you moaning minnies who whinge
about the price of Master System soft-
ware being too high, take heart • in an
unexpected move, European distribu-
tors Virgin Mastertronic have an-
nounced a range of price cuts on their vroiiK*
older and crustier carts. -flOli?*
KOJ-T*
For the measly sum of £9.99, you •OlkT*
can pick up Enduro Racer, Ninja, Res- - M H * ]
cue Mission, Super Tennis, Teddy Boy
and Transbot, while for three quid
more you can get Action Fighter, Aztec
Adventure, Fantasy Zone, Global

TETRIS
Defence, Secret Command or World
Grand Prix. All these new prices will be
in effect right now, so stick a knife into
your piggy bank and rake oul those
coppers doubleplusquick! WHILE TIPSY
Good news for all fans of the classic
puzzle game Tetris - it's been turned
into a prize-giving pub machine!
There are two different modes -
practice and "real". The practice mode
costs 20p and lets you play an easier
version of the main game. You can't
actually win any dosh in this mode, but
stick 50p into the coin slot and it's time
for some fast-moving, brick slotting fun
and games - well, very fast-moving!
But then, what do you expect? Money
for nothing? (Chicks for free? - Ed) As
Brucie would say, points make prizes,
and the higher your score, the more
cash you collect, up to a top payout of
a tennerl

BUNDLES OF FUN
Now that the STE is on the shelves at bundles. From mid-April, you'll be able

MINDSCAPE
£399.99, Atari have decided to lop a to pick up an Amiga 500 attractively
hundred quid from the price of the com- packaged with a copy of Deluxe Paint
mon-or-garden 520 STFM. The Dis- II and three top-quality new games -

CONSOLE covery Pack, contains an ST, a tutorial Rainbow Islands and F-29 Retaliator
disk, a copy of ST BASIC, the powerful from Ocean, and Domark's Escape
Neochrome art package, games de- From The Planet Of The Robot Mon-

THEM- signer STOS. a book called Discover

Your ST (that's in case you can't find it
in the box - hur hur) and a load of top
sters. The "Flights of Fancy" package
weighs in at 399 99, but those superb
games certainly make it a tempting pur

SELVES games.
Commodore, too, are currently into
chase.

Those lads and lasses at Mindscape

have all got big. cheesy grins on their
faces at the moment - they've just
become the first third party company to
be allowed to flog Nintendo cartridges
in Europe!
The deal is set to make the com-
pany an absolute stack of cash, and it
kicks off with conversions of the Atari
coin-ops Paperboy and 720. These
two will be followed by a host of others
in the coming months, one of which
will be a game based on the firearm
frolics of "Dirty" Harry Callaghan, the
Magnum-packing copper made fa-
mous by Clint "Make My Day" East-
wood, and another a game based on
the series of Mad Max films. We watt
with baited nostrils.
 THE GAME WITH WITH THE FIRST INJECTION-MOULDED,
EIQHT WAY ROLLING, RUBBER-BOTTOMED SOFTWARE I
hen Terry's magic crystals e m stolen by Baron von Bonsai and taken to the lend of Cloud
Kingdoms there's only one thing to dot He climbs into his super-giant green skycopter and sets off to
rescue them. There Terry searches each kingdom collecting the crystals as he goes • but things aren't
that easy., along the way he encounters the Giant Rolling Elghtbells and the Bad Insect Monsters...

Cloud Kingdoms is addictive arcade action all the way) Each of the 32 levels are totally different •
explore them all end delight at the stunning graphics, sound effects and compulsive toy stick twitching
This Is one game you Just wont' be able to switch off!!

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Spectrum Cassette £2.99
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RELEASE DATE 16th May 1 9 9 0
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IwlnMriu Htnrd by Bluth Group and u>d under
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© 1983 Don Bluth. Alt righta reserved. and
copyright, trademark and other nailer* ••
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RELEASE DATE 27th June 1 9 9 0
A Domark Publication Source cod* and gimr
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 EVEN MORE
DANGEROUS
tf you were a fan ol Microprose's teeth-
grinding platform game. Rick Danger-
ous, you'll no doubt be pleased to hear
that the original authors, Core De-
signs, are currently working on the fol-
low up, set in space, which is due out
during the summer.
In the meantime, if you were having grammed Rick which lets you select
difficulty with the first Dangerous install- your starting level and also has the dif-
ment, you may be pleased to hear ficulty knob turned down a notch. Con-
that, for a nominal fee, you can now tact Microprose on 0666 504326 for
trade in your original copy for a repro- full details.

COMPILA- COMPILA-
TIONSVILLE TIONSVILLE
How often have you wished you could
hit a home run on the local baseball
diamond, then drive your Porsche
down to Cape Kennedy, hop a flight to Also new on the compilation scene is
the moon, then get back just in time for Electronic Zoo's Top 20 Solid Gold
a round or two of Crazy Golf? Loads of pack, which comprises 20 old C64
times, we bet. Well, this new compila- games for £14.99. The games are
tion lets you (sort of) do just that. Acco- (deep breath): Top Fuel Challenge
lade's All Time Favourites includes (dire drag-racer game), Richard Petty's
Test Drive (reasonable race-around-a- Talledega (mediocre driving game),
mountain-in-the-fast-car of-your-choice Motor Mania (another mediocre driving
simulator), Hardball (nifty baseball game). Time Tunnel (tragic arcade ad-
simulator). Mini-Putt (jolly seaside pas- venture). High Noon (jolly cowboy
time simulator) and Apollo 18 (excel- shoot-out), Aztec Challenge (very
lent moonshot simulator), It's out now strange, but playable multi-level plat-
on PC and C64 disk for £29.99 and form/action/puzzle game), Forbidden
£14.99 respectively. Forest (atmospheric 3D shoot 'em up),
Delta Man (we've never heard of this
one). Slinky (mildly enjoyable Q*Bert
game), Caverns of Khafka (odd plat-

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that one either), Fearless Fred (nor
this one), Spite and Malice (nor even
Empire's contribution to the current Anco's blockbusting Kick Off! The 8 bit
epidemic of football fever is a compila- versions also include Kick Off and this one), Legend of Knucker Hole (un-
tion of three soccer games, imagina- Tracksuit Manager, but International usual platform affair), Psycastria (a
tively titled The World Cup '90 Compila- Soccer is replaced by the equally very poor Uridium clone), Beyond For-
tion. The ST and Amiga collection com- weak Gary Uneker s Hot Shots. The bidden Forest (much-enhanced sequel
prises Microdeal's International Soccer packs will be out at the end of April, to Forbidden Forest), Chernobyl (intri-
(not so hot), Tracksuit Manager (first priced at £24.99 (16 bit) and £14.99 (8 guing power station simulator), Profes-
rate management sim) and - get this - bit). sor IQ (another one we've never heard
of), Grand Master Chess (passable)
and Potty Pigeon (wacky arcade ad-
venture from Tony Crowther). The
gems just about make up for the duds,
which, for 75p each, aren't such bad
value for money at all.
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Question: What's sleek, black and desired Did you know that if you placed 21,674 Nin-
by beautiful women the world over? tendo Game Boys end-to-end, they'd
Answer: No, not Eddie Murphy - it's that hot stretch a very long way indeed? And did
little number, the Sega Megadrive. Ques- you know that, had the Game Boy been in-
tion: Which is the best, most sexy and up-to- vented at the time of the American War of In-
date games mag in the whole world, with dependence, it wouldn't have been much
one of these much-sought after consoles to use because batteries weren't around at the
give away to one of the lucky callers to our time? Ah, but did you know that if you ring
comps hotline? Answer: Well, it couldn't be the hotline number printed immediately
anyone else but C+VG, could it? Yes, we've above this complete load of old twaddle,
got another Megadrive to pass on to one of you could be in with an absolutely cracking
our readers - and it could be YOU! As usual, chance of receiving the on-the-move
it's so darned simple to enter this compo gamer's dream machine? Well, just pick up
that even as yet undiscovered ancestors of the receiver, dial the numbers and see for
the lost Inca race will know the answers to yourself!
the questions which can be heard by phon-
ing the special hotline number. But they
don't have telephones, so get dialling be-
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fore God builds them a public phone box!

It's unbelievable! We have, especially for

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across the globe) to give away! Complete
with all you need to get you into the air, in-
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Crikey! Here's something which we haven't control sticks, and a natty black helmet like
given away for a fair few months! It's a PC wot those blokes off the "Rescue" telly
Engine, the titchy terror with enough power series wear... erm, wait a minute, it's not a
to get an Ariane rocket into space without it Lynx helicopter at all. BUT - it's even BET-
toppling over and blowing up. These things TER than that! It's an Atari Lynx portable
are becoming scarcer by the minute, yet we games machine, complete with a copy of
have got our hands on one of these elusive California Games! So now you can get lost
consoles, and guess what we're going to do somewhere in the Peak District, and not be
with it? Yup, that'! r i 9 h t > we're going to b e ] at all bothered about being found - at least,
ultra-generous and pass it on to one of you not until the batteries run out! If you want to
lot! Aren't we the nice ones. Yeah, we are. win, ring the number and pray!
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 we're not sure, but I
A big, fat, hairy welcome to the bestest wouldn't bank on it. 6. No,
not at all. CD-ROM games
letters page in the whole Universe! If are extremely difficult to
get hold of, plus the user
you've got anything remotely interes- base is small - we'd prefer
to devote the space to a
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BY THE
ware for the best letter of the month - GHOUUES
Dear YOB,
so get writing!!! This is not a complaint letter,
I just want to know if you
have any news about Ghouls
YOB: Sorry to disappoint,
K0NS0LE chines be compatible with cur- and Ghosts on the Sega 8
rent "grey" versions available bit. If you do, please please
old china - there are no
plans for Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
please and please will you in-
KWESTI0NS here?
6.1 may not be eagle-eyed, form me. on the Sega master Sys-
tem. It's available on the
Dear YOB. but I have not seen many PC Daniel Slater, Croydon, Sur-Megadrive, if that helps...
Engine CD-ROM games re- rey
At the moment I am the
proud owner of a Lynx and viewed in your pages lately.
an Atari ST. but I'm thinking Is the CD-ROM a turkey?
of purchasing a console. I'm
split between a Sega Mega-
Well
over
now
to
I've
you.
had my say, it's
CASSETTES ARE CRAP!
Dear YOB, sette recorders too! Games
drive and a PC Engine, so if G Shwaites, Streatham, Lon-
I'm writing to complain about would load much quicker and
you could answer these ques- don loading problems would be
a few niggling problems
tions it will help me in my YOB: 1.1 haven't got
about computer games. Fir- lessened.
painful, agonising decision enough room here to list
stly, I'm fed up with faulty I suppose this is the good
process: everything, but basically
games - you spend more thing about console games,
1. What are the tech-specs of the Megadrive has better
time trying to load them than and because of this will help
the two aforementioned ma- technical specifications
play them! I own a C64 and the sales ol Megadrives and
chines? that a PC Engine. 2. Yes *
am using a cassette recorder PC Engines etc. when they
2. Is the CD-ROM for the PC but you have to buy a spe- at the moment (but hoping to are officially released. But
Engine compatible with the cial interface. 3. Not for
get a disk drive soon). Why when are these marvellous
SG? ages, and it'll cost over
don't Commodore start sell- machines going to arrive in
3. When will the Power Con- £200! 4. None as yet, but a
ing C64 packs with disk this country? Another thing
sole be available here? keyboard, disk drive,
drives only, for around which is really irritating is the
4. What peripherals are avail- modem games link, Master £245.00 or so, and abolish amount of new consoles and
able for the Megadrive? System adaptor and
cassettes off the face of the computers coming out -
5. When these two machines graphics tablet are all in Earth! This goes for all other which are you supposed to
are officially released in the the pipeline. 5. Megadrive •
computers which use cas- get? I've just read about a
UK, will the bona fide ma- definitely not. PC Engine
WHAT DOES NO MORE COMPUTERS
YOB PLAY? Dear YOB,
I think that computers are fin-
and the Nintendo Super Fami-
com. From the US we got the
all, you can't copy the games.
I've got a PC Engine and I
Dear Y 0 8 , ished and that consoles are Lynx and over here we have think it's wonderful.
I'll keep it brief. I have two taking over more and more. the Konix. All the consoles The computer is dead - long
questions: In the near future there will have superb, almost coin-op live the console
1. Why are you called Y 0 8 ? be no market for computers; perfect games that the Amiga Jonas Eriksson. A/fa, Sweden
Were you christened YOB or software houses will make and ST won't even get close YOB: Blimey O'flipping
if it's a nickname, what is games only for consoles and to. Riley, you're risking the
your real name? ignore the Commodore and The consoles are simple to wrath of a million computer
2. What computer or console Atari computers. use, just plug in your fa- owners! Strong words in-
do you have? I have a crucial Just look at the consoles that vourite cartridge and turn on deed - does anyone else
Sega. are coming from Japan - the machine. You don't have have anything to say for or
R Partis, Daventry, Northantsthere's the PC Engine, Super- to load games onto the con- against this subject? I'm
YOB: My full name is YOB Grafx, Megadrive, Gameboy soles, and the best thing of staying on the fence...
(I was named after YOB the
Doc Martened, the infa-
mous Vandal whose ma*
rauding hordes swept
TO GREY, Megadrives are finally mar- South Yorkshire
keted in England will mine be YOB: Rumour has it that
compatible with the software? Elite bought the licence -
across 7th century Europe
leaving a horrendous trail
OR NOT TO And if my Megadrive goes but they won't confirm it.
wrong will I be able to have it Anyway, there are about a
of broken windows and
spray-canned bus shel- GREY mended? billion football games com-
Alastair Mellor, Syston, Lei-ing out in the next few
ters)! Ask your history tea* Dear YOB, cester months, surely you'll find
chers about him. I don't ac-
When I received the March YOB: You're wrong, old something that'll keep you
tually own a computer or
issue i spotted the Virgin Mas- cheese. "Grey" imports happy?
console - I just use all the
tertronic warning on page 99. aren't actually grey in col-
ones in the C+VG offices,
'cos they've got EVERY-
THING!
strongly advising all potential
customers against buying
our - they're official
Japanese Megadrives modi- NOT SO
"grey" imported 16 bit Mega- fied so that they can be
drives. My mate and I have used on British TV sets. FOOLED
WHERE'S become very concerned.
We are both puzzled over
Every single Megadrive in
Britain is "grey", and they
Dear YOB.
I read with great interest the
TROJAN what "grey" imported means,
but have our ideas. I say that
will not be compatible with
British software. And if
article on the A-Migadrive
and instantly realised what an
Dear YOB. it means there are copies of they go wrong you'll have
Megadrives that are being il- essential purchase this de-
When on holiday in Cyprus, I to take them back to the
legally produced that are vice would be as I own a
played on an arcade game people you bought it from -
grey. But my friend seems to Megadrive and have a rela-
called Trojan. Could you Sega won't touch them!
think that it's a way of impor- tion who owns an Amiga. I im-
please tell me whether it is mediately contacted a lead-
available for the Atari 520
ST? If so, where do I get it
ting and that all the mail order
companies supply the "grey" AN ing supplier in Japan (l speak
fluent Japanese you know)
from, and how much would it imported machines to their
cost? customers. ACCIDENT who had just the item I was
searching for. With any luck,
Ben Haywood, Cambridge Could you please tell me considering the lengthy de-
YOB: It's only available on Dear YOB,
what it means, and whether livery times between coun-
the Nintendo, I'm afraid. So Not long ago I borrowed my
my machine is a grey im- tries I should have it for April
if you like it that much, sell friend's computer while he
ported Megadrive? If my the- 1st!
your ST! went on holiday, but unfortu-
ory is correct, when Sega John Carotin, Halifax
nately tipped Coke all over it.
Imagine my dismay when he YOB: Well spotted that
new CD Amiga coming out in made in presentation a few smashed my face in! man! Award yourself a
September, and now I'll have months ago are brill, so it Yours Hospitalised, hearty slap on the back.
to wait until then to see the gets the thumbs up from me IM A Liar, Margate, Kent But watch you don't break
new machine (and hopefully for one meg and triff mag! All YOB: What a twerp... your arm.
but it, as it would be a waste the best.
of time buying the present Andy, West Midlands
Amiga). YOB: Cassettes are a right WHERE'S C64 CARTS
One last point; instructions pain in the arsenal • they're
WORLD CUP 1 read your mag every month
Dear YOB.
for computer games. They so slow and awkward. Give
might as well be in Japanese! me disks and cartridges
and I have not seen one C64
On most games these days,
you have to work out a large
any day of the week! The
Megadrive and PC Engine 90 games cartridge. Can you get
them? I have asked in every
percentage of the game your- are both going to be offi- Dear YOB, software shop in Liverpool
self because the instructions cially available in Septem- In January's Arcade Action and no-one seems to know;
are really badly written! ber - HOORAY!!! And if you reviewed a game called do you?
Please print this letter be- you're wondering which
World Cup '89. What I want Chris Sutton, Maghall, Liver-
cause I think these points are machine to buy, it's easy -
to know is will or is anybody pool
worthy of some recognition. you buy the one which has
making it for the Amiga 500 YOB: When the C64 was
Keep up the great work with the software you most wish
or any other computer? launched about seven
the mag; the changes you to play.
Sam Horspool, Rotherham, years ago, the first games
to appear were on car- spouted off about in the last amongst only 80,000
tridge. However, inde- two or three years!!! people to spot those mis-
pendent software manufac- P Daintry takes. You're part of an
turers opted for tapes and YOB: Har, har hardy har! elite...
disks because they were That was an April foot, and
cheaper and easier to mass you fell for it like the skiddy
produce, so cartridges dis- Y-fronts you are! Yar Boo
appeared. However, ru- sucks to you!
BIG BORE
mour has it that Commo-
dore are currently signing COMING UP
up big software companies
to start making cartridge Dear YOB.
games for the machine -
keep watching the news
DELIFERATE Right, I'll get straight to the
point you girlie nancy. I have
section.
MISTALE just got an Amiga but I have
not got any decent games, so
FOOLED Dear YOB,
I think your mag is fab, brill
you had better get me one or
I'll personally come round to

YOU! and mega-ace, apart from

two mistakes in your 100th
C+VG and embed my foot six
inches into your skull. And now onto something a
little different. A couple of
Dear YOB, issue. The first was you had Jon The Mega Well Ard
Punk, E Bed font, Middx months ago I asked you to
What hypocrisy! I am of one fetter printed twtce on
YOB: Oh dear, I'm really send In designs for games
course referring to your News your Mailbag pages. The
scared. Gosh, I'm shaking you'd like to see - and your
flash that DevTek are bring- other mistake was that you
ideas literally flooded in. In
ing onto the market a ma- mixed up the graphics of Asty in my pants. In fact I'm so
fact, I've had so many re-
chine that allows anyone with nax and Klax in your Arcade frightened, I'm going to
send you one game for sponses I can't fit them all
an Amiga or Megadrive to Action section.
in this month - so if your let-
copy, thereby infringing copy- James Shuter, Birminghamevery brain cell you have.
So expect no games at all. ter hasn't been printed,
right on any Amiga game. YOB: Mistakes happen -
Mega well 'ard punk in- take heart - it could be
After all you've said about pir- look at you, for example.
printed next month. Don't
acy, surely this piece of hard- Still, console yourself with deed. I bet you poo your
bed every night... forget there are prizes of
ware is against all you've the fact that you were
£100 worth of software for
the best and worst ideas •
so it's still not too late to
MUTANT TEENAGE HERO FAN enter!

Dear YOB,
MORE MAG
4. Please will you tell me any- and he says that there's
I am a total and utter Teen- thing else at all to do with only one Turtles game avail-
age Mutant Ninja Turtles fan, Teenage Mutant Hero Tur- able - and that's on the Nin-
and I have some questions
tor you.
tles. Thanks.
A Mad Turtle Fan, Biddis-
tendo. Nobody has an-
nounced whether they've
MAYHEM
Dear YOB,
1. Do you know if there are ham, Somerset signed the brilliant Turtles
any plans for it to be con- YOB: You sound worse t think those dudes from
coin-op, but surely some-
verted to the Amiga? than Julian the Ed • he's Ocean should make a C+VG
one will - we'll keep you
2. If so, how much will it cost? gone completely Mutant game. On the first mission
posted. By the way, the
Turtles bonkers too!!! I you are Paul Glancey and
3. Do you know when the film film s out later on this year -
asked him your questions you have to get Jaz Rignall
is coming out in England? watch for a special report!
off a coin-op within a certain
time limit. On the second
mission you are a lorry driver
working for C+VG and you REVENGE OF COMPUTER MAGAZINES
have to get all the copies of Dear YOB, LEVEL FOUR
cans at dogs and cats.
C+VG to the newsagents in In answer to last month's re- Overhead view of Andrea's
time for the hundreds of fans quest for a new computer LEVEL TWO desk and hands. You have to
to buy. And on the third and game, well. I have invented You are Julian "JazB Rignall, arrange the articles and
final level you have to track the definitive computer game. playing an incredibly hard ver- pages to make the finished
down Paul Rand (who's had "Revenge Of The Computer tically scrolling shoot and col- magazine.
one beer too many at a party) Magazines*. All you have to LEVEL FIVE
lect 'em up. The overall rating
and then blow him to bits be- do is get an issue of Com- Overhead view of the C+VG
depends on how far you get
fore he breathes on everyone puter and Video Games out delivery van. Drive the van
with only one man and your
and knocks them out. What on time. Sounds easy? Read back against the wall, facing around the city, delivering
an ace game, eh! on... piles of magazines to newsa-
invading alien hordes.
Andrew Hartley, Stockport, gents before they open.
LEVEL THREE
Cheshire LEVEL ONE Avoid cars, pedestrians and
Horizontally f —.ling shoot
YOB: Chortle, chortle. Overhead view of Paul Glan- and beat 'em up. As Paul other obstacles. Collect guns,
cey riding a push-bike. Paul 'Trendy* Rand you have to rockets and flame throwers

YOU RANG has to ride around the walk about the offices, look-
streets, looking for the C+VG ing for Andrea. You have to
and destroy the vans of rival
magazines.
offices so he can deliver the shoot security guards, clea- S Howland, Stainforth, Don-
M'LORD latest smash hit game for re- ners. cats and groups of fans
view. He has to avoid cars as well as finding tea ladies
caster
YOB: Nice idea - but you've
Dear YOB. and pedestrians while throw- for cups of energy-sustaining flippin' well forgotten about
In issue 100 I saw a letter ing collectible bricks and tea. me!
from James McAuley about a
Neighbours game. Well ning away from the wealthy
please, please will you print
my letter about a "You Rang.
men who are after a bit of fun.
LEVEL THREE
beat up your Lord, I think this
game will be a success if you SUPER
get the right programmers to
M'Lord" game.
LEVEL ONE
Guide Stokes around the
pawn shop looking for his
write it.
Harvey Wedgbury. Pedmore,
QUEEN
Guide Mr Stokes around the
house, spraying insects until
lordship's rings and gems,
while dodging angry shop-
Stourbridae
SIMULATOR
he finds the 201 water shares. keepers looking for money. YOB: I'm sure it would go
LEVEL TWO LEVEL FOUR down a bomb with all three Dear YOB,
You are the parlour maid, run- Finally you get the chance to fans of programme- Is your pulse getting quicker?
Is your mouth starting to
water? Don't worry, it'll hap-
KILROY pen to everyone who reads
about this great game that I
Dear YOB. Centre he discovers that the Armed only with his micro- have thought up.
I have a great idea for a studio is under siege by Ter- phone he must first take on a You take the role of the
game based on that "cult" rorists who saw his pro- vicious old lady and her hand- Queen as you drive around in
early morning show, Kilroy. gramme on fanaticism. He bag, ail the way through to your chauffeur-driven Roller.
LEVEL ONE has to work his way to the the last opponent, a skinhead All you have to do is wave at
This level sees Robert at centre to where his pro- armed with an incredibly the huge crowds which line
home, searching for his gramme is broadcast, killing large cup of studio coffee. the streets. Different joystick
script. This will be played as terrorists and freeing camer- moves create different
an adventure with Robert amen who have been taken LEVEL SIX waves, but if you do a naff
wandering around his 250- hostage. He is armed only If Robert manages to brave wave people get angry and
room house, solving puzzles with his DIY grenade launch- this a wizard who saw the pro- toss rotten food at you. But
to get the key which opens er and machine pistol. gramme about magic and. in worst of all, some people
the drawer, inside which is turn, saw Robert's cynicism blow you to pieces with hand
his script. LEVEL FOUR by saying it was a load of grenades. Sounds exciting,
LEVEL TWO The next level is a strategy af- bo***cks, decides to spirit doesn't it?
Having found the script he fair, with the programme Robert off into space. Thus
takes to the road in his Mini. Andrew Eley, Chelmsford,
being broadcast and Robert follows a shoot 'em up in
This is the second level Essex
having to ask certain ques- which Robert must overcome
where motorists who saw his the wizard's powers. When YOB: Sounds like a job for
tions to get the correct re-
programme on bad drivers at- this is done Robert is those chucklesome Code
sponse out of members of
tempt to ram him off the road. presented with an award for Masters lads to me.
the audience. When Robert
Robert presses a button on feels that the person has said Best TV Personality and he
his dashboard and the head- enough to increase his lives happily ever after. What
lights pop up to reveal two ratings, he can cut them off in about that for a chart-busting
mftily-concealed M60's. Later mid-sentence. The idea is to game?
on in the level he encounters encourage heated arguments Daniel Earnshaw, Blackburn,
grenade-wielding maniacs. to boost ratings. Lanes
There is a Strict time limit for
him to get to the studio in LEVEL FIVE YOB: Sounds like a million
time for his show. This is a beat 'em up in which seller to me. Come on all
members of the audience you lovely software houses
LEVEL THREE who disagree with Robert's • how about making this
When he gets to BBC TV views decide to beat him up. fab Idea into a game?
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 Ttps, tips, glorious tipsl
And worra lorra we gorra
this month - in fact, there
are so many tips the pages
are literally falling apart
with the weight of them.
Flip me! Anyway, enough
of my verbal diarrhea. If
you've got anything in the
way of cheats, POKEs,
maps • or anything that you
think might help or amuse LONDON, EC1R3AU.
fellow games players, write There's a monthly prize of
to me at: PLAYMASTERS, £100.00 worth of software
C+VG, PRIORY COURT, 30- for the best tips of the
32 FARRINGDON LANE, month - so get writing!

GEMINI WING SPECTRUM

AMSTRAD When you restart, you will
have infinite lives and a
Here are the passwords to le-
vels two to eight, as provided
by George Gillies of Paisfey.
HUMAN
spook-proof rope.
ARKANOID II LEVEL 2 THESTART
KILLING
On the opening screen, hold
down the O, W, D and F keys
FANTASY LEVEL
LEVEL
3
4
EYEPLANT
WHATWALL
MACHINE
all at the same time, then
start the game. Now, a press
WORLD LEVEL 5 GOODNITE
Hold down the G and O keys
when you start the game and
LEVEL 6 SKULLDOG
of the ESC key should warp
your ass to the next level.
DIZZY LEVEL 7 BIGMOUTH
you should find that pressing
X will send you forward one
Another cheat from George LEVEL 8 CREEPISH
level. Gazza from Sunder-
Martin O'Connor of Manches- Gillies of Paisley, who recom-
land discovered that one.
ter takes the credit for that tip. mends you hold down the D,
Y, L, A, N and space keys on
the title screen. During the GHOULS 'N'
THE game, this lets you make
GHOSTS
UNTOUCH- Dizzy disappear )ust by
pressing Q, and reappear If you're not making any head-
way with this game hit the
ABLES with a tap of the space bar,
Not only that, you can also ENTER key to turn the bor-
Martin O'Connor returns with flip between screens using 0 e der blue. Not only do you
a tip to get troubled Feds the Z, X, K and M keys. now have a prettier border,
through levels with ease. All it you have also switched the
entails is typing the magic collision detection off, mak-
words. HUMPHREY BO- ing you completely invul-
GART, into the high score nerable to those supernatu-
table. Then during play, ral sprites. Another one from
press all the keys to move Sunderland's Gazza.
up a level.
CABAL
Make things easy for yourself
GHOSTBUS- in this game by loading it up

TERS II and hitting the button on your

Multiface. Go to the POKE op-
If the first level of this game is tion and POKE 34822, 24
giving you gyp George Gillies (for immunity) or POKE
of Paisley reckons you 39202, 201 (for smart
should pause the action, bombs). Yet another*Gazza
then type in AYKROYD. of Sunderland tip, there.

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ST TURBO OUT-
RUN
SUPER CARS If you think your Ferrari is too
slow, you can transport
A tip from an A Nonymous of yourself straight to the next
Somewheresville. here, (or leg of the race just by paus-
this nifty race game. When it ing the game and pressing
comes to entering your the (colon) key! Sundeep
name, type in either NAME, Ray of Blackburn, take a bow
ODIE or BIGC for lots of for that tip.
extra cash. etc.

HARD STRIDER
Steven Franklin of sunny
DRIVIN' Southend has discovered the
Select a manual gearshift, cheat mode buried in this
then start the game and ac- neat arcade conversion. After
celerate to top speed. Once starting the game, press
you're going flat out, put the RUN STOP, RETURN, RE-
gearbox in neutral and you STORE and INS DEL
should find it impossible to together until the border goes
crash your car into another grey. Press fire to restart the
vehicle! Don't know who that game then press F7 and
tip's from, but he comes from move the joystick up and
Penge. Thanks, whoever you right You should then warp
are! to the third level (the jungle)
and once you've completed
that you'll find yourself on the
C64 very last level!

BATMAN - MEGADRIVE
THE MOVIE SUPER
Like a tot of Ocean's C64
tape games. Batman has that HANG ON
dodgy loader which lets you Peter Makinde of Clapton
trick the game into letting you sent in this password which
play more advanced levels. If provides $9,999,999,900 to
you've never heard of this be- spend on bits for your bike.
fore, Paul Gregory of We- Go to the password option
sham reveals all. Complete then enter this code:
the first level of Batman and
play the second stage until 6FF3F546F35564
you've lost all your lives. Now FFOSLPIMFJEDGH
instead of rewinding the tape
as the computer says, reset (note that that's a zero on the
the tape counter on your data second line, not a letter O).
sette, then press space and Now go to the parts screen to
fire. Now play the tape to build a mega-bike!
load in the fifth level with infi-
nite lives!
CURSE
Another tip from Peter Ma-
DOMINATOR kinde of Clapton. On the title
screen, holding down the A,
During level one, kill your-
self then tap the space bar B and C buttons as well as
just as your ship is exploding. START, lets you access
The screen should scroll to Curse s configure mode
the end of the level, but you
can re-enter the action at
any point by pressing
SHIFT, space, then SHIFT
PC ENGINE
again. Holding down the GUNHED
space bar during levels two. At the end of level one, don't
three and four also makes attack the mothershlp. Just
your ship invulnerable. dodge around it for about two *
Thanks to Ben Bond of minutes and it will self-de-
Brighton for those cheats. struct, leaving you with an

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extra 16 lives and 32 smart final screen up for about
bombs, plus a load of bonus three minutes and you'll be
points! Thanks to Glyn treated to a display of pic-
Hughes and Peter Makinde tures of the game's pro-
for that lip. grammers!

PACLAND
Glynn Hughes of Warwick
NINTENDO
reckons that, if you give the
very first hydrant a shove,
METROID
Peter Makinde of Clapton pro-
Pacman gets a ghost-proof vided this rather strange pass-
helmet to protect him from word for Metroid. Enter JUS-
sky-diving spooks! TIN BAILEY at the code
entry screen for a surprise.
DUNGEON Cripes!

EXPLORER IKARI
Peter Makinde of Clapton
sent in this handy 'n' dandy
piece of info. Enter this pass-
WARRIORS
Some handy hints here, from
word:
T Stevens of Driffield. When
DEBDE you die, you can continue by
DEBDA quickly pressing the B button
twice then the A button
then press RUN and button twice. Keep doing this until
I together. The screen will your warrior reappears. Also,
read PASSWORD ERROR, if you're playing in two player
but take no notice of that. mode but can find only one
Press button II and choose tank, both warriors can climb
your character. in and it will separate into two
tanks. The same applies to
the helicopters.
SIDE ARMS
Jamie Morse of Bath dis-
covered how to play this
CONTRA
game in slow motion. On Hagop Mouradian sent in this
the title screen, just press cheat for the recently-re-
DOWN, I, Hand RUN leased Nintendo version of
Gryzor. On the title screen,
press UP, UP, DOWN,
CYBER- DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT.
LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, SE-
CROSS LECT then START, all be-
fore the demo starts. This will
Jamie Morse again. To con-
tinue from the stage where give you 30 lives to play with!
you died, pause the game
just as you die, then press I,
II and DOWN in that order. LIFE FORCE
Then unpause the game, It's Hagop Mouradian to the
and when you're back on the rescue again, with this 30-
title screen, press RUN to extra-ships cheat mode. Start
restart. the game then press START
HXGj to pause it. Now press UP,
UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT,
ORDYNE RIGHT, LEFT. RIGHT, B, A,
SELECT, then START. If

© ©
Jamie Morse yet again. On
the title screen, hold down you're playing in two player
button I until you hear a mode, do the same but at the
sound and some Japanese end of the sequence, press
words appear on the screen. START before SELECT.
Now press RUN to start the v Q
game and you will be playing
•.4 C .
• JLJ*:
r SEGA
9
as the girl you're meant to be
ilf
rescuing. Your ship will have
turned orange, and the aliens
ff r
DEAD ANGLE
will now be a lot tougher. If f o . A superb tip for this gangster
you should finish the game in w r- f blast from lain Lindsay and
this mode, don't reset it when Brian Dempsey of Wishaw in
you get to the end - leave the Scotland Plug both joypads

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into the console, then when
the title screen appears push WONDER-
alternately left and right on
both pads and you should BOY III
hear a beeping sound. Keep If you want to see the end of
doing it until the demo starts, the game without even break-
then when you can stand it ing into a sweat, type in this
no more start the game and password:
you will be armed with 999
bullets, have up to 24 lives W E 5T O N E
and start on an advanced
level (how many lives and (that's a five, not an S).
which level depends on how Then as soon as the game
long you wiggled the joypad). starts go to the room under
As well as this, if you push the shop, and hit the block
both buttons and one of the just above and to the left of
top diagonals on the joypad, the door you came through.
you will see grenades coming Pick up the question mark
out of the windows! and a door appears, leading
to the changing room, where
ALEX KIDD you can select your character
by jumping on a block.
IN HIGH Change into Lion Man then
go to the top of the tower in
the village and jump onto the
bottom step. Press up on the
joypad and you should ap-
If you're having trouble beat- pear outside the Vampire Dra-
ing the maids at their game, gon's chamber. Now ail you
here is the solution, sent in have to do is defeat him and
you've finished the game.
by Peter Makinde.
Thanks to Allen Swinbank of
Stockton-on-Tees and Mat-
R-TYPE ROCK 'N' ROLL
Linda is number one. Another of Matthew Kemps
Betty is the thinnest. thew Doughty of Barnet tor Type in your name as SUMI-
those tips. TA. (don't forget the full stop) discoveries was the cheat
Janet is the third from the mode in this spiffy rollabout.
left. and you should now be able
to play with infinite live*. So When the game asks your
Cindy is the third from the name, type in RAINBOW
AMIGA
says Chris Hartley of Hitchin.
right. ARTS and when the game
Kate is the fattest. starts you can collect differ-
The remaining maid is
Susan.
BEVERLY GHOULS N' ent pickups just by press-
ing keys F1 to F8. Addition-

GOLDEN AXE HILLS COP GHOSTS ally. pressing F9 increases

the depth of the map, F10
When Jonathon Kjrker of puts you on the next level
If one continue isn't enough Christopher Hartley of Hitchin and keys 1 to 4 provides
for you, Peter Makinde has reckons that if you dick past Cheltenham is having prob-
lems with this game, he types keys of different colours. For
discovered a second to let the High Score table and go something really special,
you play for longer. Hold the on to the difficulty select in KAREN BROADHURST to
give himself infinite lives. enter your name as
directional pad in the top left screen, then type in MELLIE. COUNTRY to activate the
corner, then press and hold you should be able to access Perhaps you'd like to do the
same. I know I would. jukebox!
buttons one and two. ail the different subgames

DENARIS
FIGHTER Giles Bradley of Swanwick
has discovered how to acti-
BOMBER vate the training mode in
this ageing, yet nifty, blast.
Matthew Kemp of GtHingham Just press Z after the game
discovered that if you enter selection, then plug the
your name as BUCKAROO, mouse into the second joy-
the words 'Oh no! A Bucka- Giles Bradley of Swanwick
roo' appear at the bottom of has discovered how to acti-
the screen. And just by coin- vate the training mode in
cidence. this also puts the this ageing, yet nifty, blast
game into cheat mode, allow- Just press Z after the game
ing you to start the game on selection, then plug the
any mission, and also trans- mouse into the second joy-
port your plane directly to the stick port and hold down the
next waypoint just by press- right mouse button while
ing the D key. the rest of the game loads.

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GHOULS AND G H O S T S FANTASY ZONE
Welcome once again to the Official UK Highscore 218,400 James Adams, Cornwall 2.644,900 Gareth Harper, Co Lon-
donderry, N Ireland
Table, where top players register the records the GOLDEN AXE
229.0 Matthew Davidson, Croydon. GALAGA 88
rest of the country have to beat. All scores are Surrey 1.436.480 Bryan Servante, Steven-
age
R A M & 0 III
checked by a panel of experts before they're in- 893,550 Matthew Davidson, Croy- GUNHED
14,067.810 Rolf Simonetta, Oefwil,
cluded - so if you're a record breaker make sure don. Surrey
SPACE HARRIER II Switzerland
you note down your score correctly because any 26,510,700 Christopher Giles, Ash- LEGENOARY AXE
3,676.260 Dave Rose, Boreham
ford, Kent
discrepancies will result in disqualification from SUPER HANG-ON Wood
NINJA WARRIORS
the tables. Send your scores, on postcards or Beginner: 36,280,720 Glen Wil-
liams, London 227,250 Anthony Bird, Cheshire
sealed-down envelopes only, to: UK HIGHSCORE Junior: 36,177.880 Glen Williams.
London
ORDYNE
266.710 Danny Bannister. Strea-
TABLE, C+VG, PRIORY COURT, 30-32 FARRING- Senior: 30,810.090 Glen Williams. tham, London
London P-47
DON LANE, LONDON, EC1R 3AU. Expert: 51,872,300 Glen Williams. 1,118.300 Steve Creasey. Dorking,
London Surrey
SUPER SHINOBI R-TYPE
1,374,200 Wai Lm Man, Brighton. 973,300 Onn Lee, Nottingham
Sussex PACLAND
T H U N D E R F O R C E II 1.113.100 Graham Prior. Shinfield,

SEGA
8,553,264 Euan Matheson, Ross- 1,409,060 Joel Cullen, Hants Reading
hire ROCK ON
KENSEIDEN 39,229,400 Rex. Helsingborg.
ACTION FIGHTER
8.763,400 Jay Brown, Banbury. Ox-
fordshire
558,400 Paul Houghton, Dorset
MY HERO NINTENDO Sweden
R-TYPE II
14,978,820 Hywel Davies, Maehen, 167.200 Rex. Helsingborg, Sweden
AFTERBURNER Gwent BALLOON FIGHT SIDEARMS
17,404.100 Kenneth Rorie. Craig- O U T RUN 715,150 Tom Wennberg, Halmstad. 1,191.500 William Azzoug Spald-
Shill. Uvingston 54,818.580 lain Gentry, Hillingdon, Sweden ing, Lines ire
ALEX KIDD (LOST STARS) Middx CASTLEVAN1A SON SON II
1.294,500 Dennis Wans, London PENGUIN LAND 999.999 Lee Watkins, Bristol 806,870 Paul Copsey, Nr South-
ALTERED BEAST Level 22 Steven Gemmell. Hare- DUCK HUNT end, Essex
570,900 Hywel Davies, Maehen, field. Middx 1 244.000 Danny Stevens, Slratford SPACE HARRIER
Gwent POWER STRIKE GOLF 31.271,260 Anthony Bird. Cheshire
AMERICAN P R O F O O T B A L L 65,242,300 Paul Stokes, Aberdare 65 Tom Wennberg. Halmstad. SUPER W O N D E R B O Y
111-0 Alan McPherson, Giffnock, PRO W R E S T L I N G Sweden 1,096.860 David Skipper, Skipton,
Glasgow 553,800 Lee McNaughton, Che- ICE CLIMBER N Yorks
ASTFLO WARRIOR shunt. Herts 917,000 Tom Wennberg. Halmstad. TWIN HELI
1.270,200 Daniel Greetham, Tarn- QUARTET Sweden 4.272.000 Rolf Simonetta, Oefwil,
worth. Staffs 3.170.810 Gareth Wills. Bristol KUNG-FU Switzerland
AZTEC A D V E N T U R E RAM BO III 1.221,800 Rex, Helsingborg. VICTORY RUN
256,400 Peter Ramdine, Stafford 86.050 Neil Kelly. Isleworth, Middle- Sweden 19 22 23 Satnam Barnes. Southall.
BANK PANIC SOX GHOSTS AND GOBLINS Middlesex
938,800 Tony Holdlord, Colchester RAMPAGE 105.700 lam Bowden, Bearsden, VIGILANTE
BLACK BELT 851.600 David Barden. Norwich Glasgow 99,990 Anthony Bennett, Wofk-
4.293.156 Harry Webb. Glasgow RASTAN G RADIUS sworth, Derbyshire
snii
BLADE E A G L E 3 D 1.400,320 Jamie Adkms, Southend, 12,670,000 Julian Rignall, C+VG

C64
89.000 Richard Bell, Beddington, Essex OPERATION WOLF
Surrey RESCUE MISSION 983.029 Roy Gay, Brixton. London
BOMBER RAID 574,000 Martin Fox, Beeston. Beds PRO-AM RACING
1,116,700 M G Baker. E Grun- R-TYPE 305.692 M C Warlock, Plymouth ALTERED BEAST
stead. W Sussex 7.499,300 Hywel Davies, Maehen, RUSH N ATTACK 356,400 C Maddocks, Killamarsh.
CALIFORNIA GAMES Gwent 1,203,700 Paul Stokes. Aberdare, Sheffield
HALFPIPE: 87,520 Hywel Davies. SAFARI HUNT Wales APB
Maehen, Gwent 6,017,900 Gareth Clark, Banbury. SUPER MARIO BROS 49,655 C Maddocks. Killamarsh,
FOOT BAG 139,930 Stelan Bor- Oxon 9,999,990 David Hillhouse, Work- Sheffield
son. Manchester SECRET C O M M A N D ington ARKANOID
SURFING 9 5 Adam Took. Leeds 3.315.000 Julian Uoyd, Leamington SUPER MARIO BROS II 564,900 Graham Gurgan. Co.
SKATING: 4820 Stefan Borson, 3 pa Stage 7-2 Danny Stevens, Stratford Down. N Ireland
Manchester SHIN OBI TOP GUN ARMALYTE
BMX: 154.950 Daniel Curley, An- 1.321.000 John Moulding. Sunder- 175.000 M C Warlock, Plymouth 35,511,100 Gustaf Sjoblom, Saudi
coats, Manchester land Arabia
FLYING DISK 1700: Anthony BATMAN - THE MOVIE
GAMEBOY
SPACE HARRIER
Leeds, Halesowen, W Midlands 45,144.160 Matthew White, Old- 616,420 Gaspart Arnand, Belgium
CASINO G A M E S bury, W Midlands BOMBUZAL
PINBALL: 492,270 Karl Marsh, Old- SPACE HARRIER 3D SUPER MARIOLAND 326,060 Jack Howarth, Failsworth,
ham, Manchester 17,214,740 Matthew Home, London 682,440 Gas Goumas. Athens, Manchester
CHOPLIFTER THUNDERBLADE Greece BLASTEROIDS
1,400,000 Kenneth Rorie, Craig- 2,660.000 Steven Rubbery, Dudley, TETRIS 3.562,950 Graham Gurgan. Co.
shill, Livingston W Midlands 311.627 Gareth Harper, Co London- Down, N Ireland
0OUBLEDRAGON VIGILANTE derry, N Ireland BUBBLE BOBBLE
619,460 Andrew Jackson. Jarrow, 163.700 Gareth Clarke, Banbury, 6,341,420 Kevin Killen. Romford.
Tyne 4 Wear Oxon Essex
FANTASY ZONE
109.848,000 M G Baker. Grinstead.
W O N D E R B O Y (MONSTERLAND)
10,509,990 William Wong, Nr Stock-
PC ENGINE CABAL
243.794 Gareth Meney. Stralh-
Sussex port. Cheshire clyde. Scolland
FANTASY ZONE II W O N D E R B O Y III ALIEN C R U S H DALEY T H O M S O N S CHAL-
9,541,980 Jon Evans. Walsall 350,100 Wai-Yin Man, Brighton. E 110,301.300 Sieve Creasey, Dork- LENGE
GANGSTER T O W N Sussex ing, Surrey 10,670 Tony Repo. Helsinki
605,760 Hywel Davies. Maehen, W O R L D SOCCER ALTERED BEAST DENARIS
Gweni 33-0 Peter Garnett, Knutsford, Che- 576.900 Anthony Bird, Cheshire 417.700 Carl Patterson. Walsall. W
GLOBAL DEFENCE shire BLOODY W O L F Midlands
541,160 Anthony Hoult, Walsall ZILLION II 1.084.100 Satnam Bains, Southalf, DRAGON NINJA
GHOST HOUSE 1,025,900 J Cunningham, Seve- Middlesex 760.000 Matthew Hill, Adelaide.
1,388,500 James Denham, London noaks. Kent CHAN ANO C H A N Australia
GREAT BASEBALL 1,519.500 William Wong, Nr Stock- G R E A T GIANNA SISTERS

MEGADRIVE
22-01 Robert Gammon, Bedford port. Cheshire 128.628 Gaspart Arnand, Belgium
GREAT BASKETBALL DEEP BLUE IK*
63-0 Stewart Cole, Nanborough, 201.930 Steve Creasey, Dorking, 588,000 Ste Markey, Liverpool
Leics ALTERED BEAST Surrey LAST NINJA II
GREAT GOLF 2,209,900 Joel Cullen. Hants DRUNKEN MASTER 999.999 Andre Hastings, Australia
70 Alan McPherson, Giffnock. Glas- FORGOTTEN W O R L D S 999,999 Bryan Servante, Stevenage MICKEY MOUSE
gow 571.300 Paul Stokes. Aberdare. DRAGON SPIRIT 567,650 Daniel King, Manchester
HANG-ON Wales 1.162.372 Andrew Dowling, London NEW Z E A L A N D STORY
HIGH S C O R E S
v / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / i
3,415.600 Luke Hethennaton, Yeovil
OPERATION WOLF
1.000.300 B Hardcastle, Cranleigh.
LICENCE TO KILL
82,430 Timothy Hodges, Peterbo-
rough, Cambs
GUNSHIP
61,480 Fred Newberg. Dusseldorf,
W Germany
OPERATION WOLF
914,830 Martm Hills, Sittingbourne.
Kent
Surrey NEW ZEALAND STORY HYBRIS ROBOCOP
PACMANIA 600,125 Stephen Simpson, Otlley, 2,171,775 Miguel Lima, Portugal 1,982.240 Fraser Spears, Birming-
1.950.220 Mark Henn, Highgate, W Yorks INDIANA JONES ARCADE ham
London OPERATION WOLF 37.300 Remko de Gille, Holland ROLLING THUNDER
POWERDRIFT 308,400 David Chung, Leeds. N LED STORM 318.420 Michael Turner. Downend,
Course B 880,290 Steven Ball. Yorks 574.478 Steven Howard, Lowestoft Bristol
Romford, Essex OUTRUN LICENCE TO KILL SHINOBI
RAMBO III 54,877,900 Gerallt Evans, Machynl-39,573 Lior Meiry, Israel 22,030 James Thomas. Derby
962.400 Wolfman D, Nelson, Lanes leth, Dyfed NEW ZEALAND STORY THUNDERBLADE
RENEGADE III PACLAND 1.093.970 Colin Tracey. Colches- 2.789.010 Richard Voller. Becken-
79.995 Jukka Piira, Finland 217.526 A Redfearn, Huddersfield. ter. Essex ham, Kent
ROBOCOP Yorkshire OPERATION WOLF WEC LE MANS
1.950,000 Scott Langford. Redcar. PAPERBOY 1,021,122 Jegi Raht. Crayford, Kent 439,920 Richard Bilsborrow. Liver-
Cleveland 20,550 Ian Currigan, Birmingham PACMANIA pool
R-TYPE POWERDRIFT 37 450.320 Colin Tracey, Colches-
678,360 Luca Ceccarelli. Tirll, Italy 1,484.429 Philip Hogg, Liverpool, ter. Essex
SALAMANDER
AMSTRAD
Merseyside PAPERBOY
303,400 David Lertch, Milton. Glas- RED HEAT 107,150 David Pocock, S Croydon,
gow 103,843 Philip Waite. Bradford, W Surrey
SILKWORM Yorks POWERDRIFT
1.288.900 Christer Bjorkman, Fin- RETURN OF THE JEDI 1.738,600 Ole Jensby. Thisted, AFTERBURNER
land 208.911 Andrew Smart. Rossen- Denmark 28.714,950 Thurstan Johnston,
TEST DRIVE II daie. Lanes RICK DANGEROUS Richmond. Surrey
203,850 Paul Warwick. S Victoria, ROBOCOP 744.550 Casey Gallacher, Reading. APB
Australia 401.220 Aaron Kramer, Morayshire Berkshire $38,970 Andrew Buckly. Reading,
THUNDERBLADE R-TYPE ROADBLASTERS Berks
2.044,190 J M Clayton, Ryton, 523,220 Horness Spencer, Red- 3,245,336 A Lepn. Genova, Italy BARBARIAN II
Tyne & Wear ditch. Worcs ROBOCOP 42.590 James Bell. Wesl Wickham,
SIDE ARMS 374,210 Philip Newland. Becken- Kent
2.050,800 Stu, Melton Mowbray,
ST
ham, Kent BATMAN THE MOVIE
Leics SILKWORM 250.630 Scott McCulloch. Irvine.
SPACE HARRIER 3.000.420 Martin Allsop, Burlon-On- Scotland
6,143,100 Ben Key. Sheffield Trent, Staffs BLASTEROIDS
AFTERBURNER STARGLIDER II SPACE ACE 106,850 Tim Goidsby, Cheltenham.
62,731,830 Damion Williams, 529,599 Stephen Simpson, Otley 22,650 Paul Rand, C+VG Glos
Bearsden. Glasgow STAR W A R S SPACE HARRIER BUGGY BOY
ALIEN SYNDROME 2.684.896 Stephen Simpson, Otley. 7,566,980 Allan Black, Desbo- 129,190 Neil Collman, Hemel
936.800 Andrew Slamp. Port- W Yorks rough, N Hants Hempstead, Herts
smouth, Hants STRIDER STARGLIDER II CRAZY CARS
ALTERED BEAST 3.896.999 Andrew Dowling, London 385,492 Kevin Griffiths. Wolver- 14.870,030 Karl Rudolf. Redditch,
473.000 Gary Uew, London SUPER HANG-ON hampton Worcs
ARKANOID 34.819.671 Paul Lomas, Cannock. STRIDER CRAZY CARS II
730.390 Julian Rignall, C+VG Staffs 590.650 Martin Hilts, Sittingbourne, 752,966 Morten Ludvigsen, Nesna,
ARKANOID II SWITCHBLADE Kent Norway
525.630 Jaspal Jandu, London 243,540 Paul O' Keeffe. London SUPER HANG-ON CHASE HQ
BAAL SE14 22,118.682 Richard Shaw, Key- 11,237,425 Peter Drew. Birmingham
287.450 Jan Dobrodumow, Brad- THUNDERBLADE worth, Notts CYBERNOID II
ford, W Yorks 618,510 Richard Davis, London SWORD OF SODAN 136,250 Thurstan Johnston, Rich-
BACKLASH VINDICATORS 447,250 Carl Bates, Woolwell. Ply- mond, Surrey
1,450.800 James Boyd. London 496,100 Stephen Simpson. Otley mouth DARK SIDE
BEYOND THE ICE PALACE XENON TEST DRIVE 6.518.000 Stu. Melton Mowbray,
199,430 Richard Jeffries. Hadden- 8,944,860 Colin Tracey. Colches- 79.750 Vidar Sorensen, Tromso. LfitCS
ham, Bucks ter, Essex Norway DRAGON NINJA
BLASTEROIDS XENON II TEST DRIVE It 1,090 225 James Sparshott. Orping-
7,473,325 Richard Hallon, Horwich. 1.556.850 Colin Tracey. Colches- 274,370 Petri Nissi. Finland ton, Kent
Bolton ter, Essex XENON II DYNAMITE DUX
BLOOD MONEY 7,692,280 David Hansson, Partille, 156,810 Tim Goidsby. Cheltenham,
340,000 Chris Hall, Houghton-Le- Sweden Glos
Spring, Tyne & Wear
BUBBLE BOBBLE
6.345.720 Colm Tracey. Colchester
AMIGA GRYZOR
1,264,606 James Campbell, Well-
ing. Kent
BUGGY BOY
107,340 Colin Tracey, Colchester
AFTERBURNER
16,189,480 Remko deGilde. Hol-
SPECTRUM HARD DRIVIN
122,479 John Gibson, Newcastle-
CONTINENTAL CIRCUS land Upon-Tyne
3,555.370 Neil Evens. CHeltenham, BARBARIAN II MR HELI
Gloucestershire 676,753 Daniel Sprangers, Gres* AFTERBURNER 243,980 Ben Patchesa. Scaldwell.
DRAGON NINJA sendam, Holland 59.555.000 John Bristow, Erith, Norlhants
110.120 Philip Hogg, Liverpool, BATMAN THE MOVIE Kent OPERATION THUNDERBOLT
Merseyside 2.007.600 Martin Allsop. Burton-On- BATMAN - THE MOVIE 171,200 John Gibson. Newcastle-
DYNAMITE DUX Trent, Staffs 374,090 Paul Macey, Caerleon, Upon-Tyne
562.500 Alex Ware, Sheffield BLOOD MONEY Gwent OPERATION WOLF
ELIMINATOR 177,550 Tim Lehane, Co Cork, N CHASE HQ 525,650 Scott McCulloch, Irvine.
4,240,730 Colin Tracey. Colches- Ireland 12.888.960 Daniel Edwards, Chor- Scolland
ler, Essex CASTLE WARRIOR ley. Lanes OUTRUN
EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 805.261 Lior Meiry. Israel CRAZY CARS II 56,708,370 R McDonald, Thurnby.
550,166 Ian Pinder. Pudsey CONTINENTAL CIRCUS 522,114 Martin Lunn, Sutton Cold- Leics
FLYING SHARK 4.854,320 A lepri, Genova, Italy field. W Midlands PAPERBOY
4.283,920 Neil Evans, Cheltenham, DATASTORM DOUBLE DRAGON 17,500 R Banino, S Ruislip, Middx
Gloucestershire 667,370 Mark Schokker. Winters- 894.600 Fraser Spears, Birmingham ROBOCOP
FORGOTTEN W O R L D S burgh. Holland DRAGON NINJA 2,794,000 John Bristow. Errth. Kent
59,300 Timothy Hodges. Peterbo- DENARIS 1,102,060 M C Warlock, Plymouth S O L O M O N S KEY
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"DON'T GET
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arm-wresling, sword-play, addictive arcade-style i
and dice-throwing skills. game.
Ultimately, you must build
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son of the dethroned king. Can you You owe it to your home- passageways filled with demons.
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BY VIVID IMAGE
T ense? Nervous? Hea-
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appearances?
I'll tell you why not. The
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breaking down and losing
track of its occupants, and
this is just what's happened
to Hammerfist and Metalisis.
They're annoyed to find that • Zap the nasty vegetable
Ihey now have to share one on the 64 version.
hologram, so they decide to C64
smash the powerful mind stor-
age corporation and its un-
£9.99
scrupulous leader. The Mas- The first thing that strikes
ter you about Hammerfist is
Luckily, having two people the very complex control
in one body is pretty handy in system which requires a
these situations. When a bit variety of joystick move-
of running around or jumping ments accompanied by
is essential to the quest, you double and even triple fire
can switch the hologram into button presses(l). In-
the form of either Metalisis itially, it all seems a bit too
(an agile woman with a mean much, but persevere for a
kick), or Hammerfist {a meaty ten minutes or so and you
bloke with a laser-firing jack- soon get into the swing of
hammer-hand). things. Once you get
The Master's complex is stuck into the gameplay
made up of 128 screens, all Hammerfist becomes
packed with his technicians very enjoyable. The com-
and robots programmed for bination of two different
defence. These villains con- characters in one works
stantly assail our heroes, very well, and the action
draining their energy while is satisfyingly destruc-
they bash up security con- tive, though, it I were to
soles to open the way to the quibble I would say the
next room.
Bashed baddies drop spar- y///////////z continuous need to col-
kling fizzles which recharge lect energy makes pro-
• Hammerfist Hammerfist's piston paw and AMIGA gress slow. Still, I sup-
his supply of laser shots, as
well as replacing both or £24.99 pose that makes the en-
joyment last even longer.
either player's lost energy. If Programmed by Andrew Marvellous graphics,
both Metalisis and Hammer- Bond, the Amiga version marvellous sounds, mar-
fist run out of energy, then sports impressive vellous gameplay. In a
they cease to exist in a ra- graphics and sound (with word, marvellous.
tional sense and the game is four selectable in-game
over. soundtracks no lessl), but PAUL GLANCEY
gameplay remains exact-
UPDATE ly the same, right down to GRAPHICS 90%
Versions are coming for the weirdo controls. Still, SOUND 83%
ST (£24,99) as well as Am- any arcade fans would do
strad and Spectrum (both well to check this baby VALUE 86%
£9.99). Fundamentally, out. PLAYABILITY 87%
they will be no different
from the versions re- OVERALL 88% OVERALL 87%
viewed above.
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 BY DOMARK

T he evil Reptilons. the sli-

miest alien race in the en-
tire universe, have invaded
the colony on Planet X and
have enslaved all the hu-
mans - including Earth's most
brilliant (and most beautiful)
scientist. Professor Sarah Bel-
PLANET X
,lum! All the captives are
being forced to make a robot
army which the Reptilons in-
tend to use to invade Earth!
Eeek!!
Jake and Ouke. two well-
hard interplanetary comman-
dos and Reptiton disposal
specialists, have been lum-
bered with the job of kicking li-
zard butt and sending them
back from whence they
fff il came. So stopping only to
pick up a couple of upgrad-
able laser guns and a cache

A-
of megabombs. off they fly to
Planet X.
The Planet is split into 17
huge forced-perspective 3D
areas. Each is packed with
enslaved humans and teem-
r m
mmM
ing with Reptilon robots IA "
which attempt to bash and
blast the heroes and wear
down their energy bars - so
destroy them before they get
youl Humans are rescued
when touched (they can also
be shot, so be careful with
those lasers), and when all
on that level have been 3xua
saved, you can head for the Nfc~oe±eoooo
port-o-matic exit which leads
to the next screen. i i i i i
HEV ARE BEING FORCEDTO CREATE At the end of every level
AN EVIL ROBOT ARMY DESTN
I ED
TO DESTROY EflRTH!
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r
////////////z
!

The graphics are identical

to the ST version, the tune
Is miles funkier and
there's sampled speech
tool A superb coln'op
conversion which should
be put at the top of your
shopping list.

ST
£19.99
With superb Introductory
screens which are just
like a cheesy old 50's &-
movie, Escape From the
Planet of the Robot Mon-
S U b 9 l sters is brilliant from the
start. The action is really
hectic, with loads of fran-
oeevoooo
VAft tic running, dodging and
blasting required to stay
alive. And of course, In all
A Yukl Duke is Impaled on the oacillatlng aplke-o-tron. this maniacal mayhem
you've got to be careful
a the kaaea. T Ride the Cyber* led a to the next level. not to accidentally blow
up the people you're sup-
15 posed to be rescuing! The
graphics are simply mar-
vellous, with many bril-
liant little touches giving
the game a really wacky
feel - just watch what hap-

>> pens, for example, when

you walk off the edge of a
platform, or get caught on
M

apikesl The demented

UPDATE pounding soundtrack
also deserves a special
We've seen an early demo mention •It's great and
Credits:6 of the Spectrum version fits the action perfectly!
and It's looking very good Robot Monsters is slick,
JAKE indeed. Amstrad and C64 humorous, graphically
versions are coming soon brilliant and ultra-
• we'll keep you posted In playable - miss It and you
the Updates section. deserve to be fed to the
Reptilons!
JULIAN RIGNALL

GRAPHICS 94%
SOUND 94%
VALUE 90%
|PLAYABILITY 96%|
|OVERALL
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T he scene is mid 16th cen-

tury Japan. Two powerful
dynasties, the evil Kai clan
and the good Han family, are
locked in a tremendous
power struggle. War has
been raging for weeks and
things are looking grim for the
Han dynasty. Desperate
measures have to be taken...
Enter the player as one of
four key Han fighters - either
Lui Bei. Kuan Yu, Shang Fei
or Shao Yuri. What you've
got to do is get on your horse
and ride a suicide mission
straight at the Kai army,
break through their ranks
then kill ail their generals.
This involves hacking and
slashing your way through
horizontally scrolling land-
scapes packed with foot sol-
diers, avoiding their swords
and arrows to keep your en-
ergy bar healthy, confronting
ihe general at the end of
each level and wearing down
his energy bar with repeated
sword or lance strikes before
he does the same to you.
As you travel further into
the game the generals
become tougher and tougher,
and there are also war ma-
chines to destroy, rock falls to
dodge, and energy-sapping
fireballs to ride around. This
mission is a tough one - but if
you succeed and kill ail the
generals, the Kai army will be
in complete confusion, allow-
ing the Han forces to easily
sweep to victory. Failure,
though, means an end to
A Shang Fei gets down to some brandishing with his Snake
your dynasty.
Halberd

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uKBi, iOt,
A Shang Fei shows no mercy with his pointy stick.

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£19.99
I liked this game a lot in
the arcades, and I'm
i
pleased to see that this
conversion retains the
coin-op's great payability
and presentation. At the
atart of the game, where
you pick the member of
the Han family you want
V to play, there are some
beautifully drawn static
— screens. In the game itself
the tiny soldier sprites are
really nicely drawn and
animated, and the main
horse sprite Is excellent.
The action is pretty tough,
and at first it seems like
there are just too many
foot soldiers and archers
to cope with • and the
generals certainly take a
lot of beating! However,
practice makes perfect,
and after a while you're
soon sweeping through
9
the ranks scattering sol-
diers like ninepins • which
is great fun! Dynasty
Wars is a slick, graphi-
cally brilliant and very
playable game which of-
UPDATE fers an unuaual twist on
We've seen early demos I the beat 'em up theme. It
of the Spectrum and C64 won't be everyone's cup
versions, and both are\ of tea, but It's well worth
looking good, particularly checking out.
the Spectrum, which has [
some marvellous mono- JULIAN RIGNALL
chrome graphics. An Am-1
strad version is on the GRAPHICS 91%
way, but nothing has\ SOUND 83%
been seen of that yet.
Amiga Dynasty Wars is
VALUE 80%
coming along nicely, and PLAYABIUTY 87%
will feature Improved
graphics and a great] OVERALL 85%
soundtrack.

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' / / / / / / / / / / / ,
UPDATE
An Amiga version is in the
pipeline, and as usual it
should feature better
graphics and sound. No
other versions are
planned.

' / / / / / / / / / / / / z

At first glance the plat-

form shoot 'em up action
and terrific graphics
make this look like a ter-
rific Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
clone. If only programmer
Steve Bak had left It at
that, but Instead he's
added puzzle elements
which make the gameplay
very frustrating. There are
hidden deathtraps every-
where and they act so
quickly that you get no
time to escape disaster.
That would be frustrating
enough, but the random-
ness of the potions can
also work against you.
For Instance, by the fifth
screen on level one you
should have picked up
three potions, but If the
game hasn't made one of
them a bridge potion, you
might as well reset and
start again because
there's no way to con-
tinue beyond that screenl
If you create a bridge you

& BDIM6T0NE
can continue to screen
six, but if you die there,
the game sends you back
to screen five which Is
now Impassible again be-
cause the bridge has dis-

B eing a Norse god was which are scattered hither Mjollner the hammer, at appeared! There's an
never easy for Thor, what and thither amongst the home, but he can see off at- awful lot to Fire and Brim-
with all those drenchtngs in screens. Out to stop him, of tacking nasties with his lucky stone and the game looks
rain clouds and only a ham- course, are all of Hel's de- mace and magic fireballing superb, but you'd have to
mer for a best mate. Things mons, dragons, ghosts, skele- capabilities. Other weapons be endowed with super-
have taken a downward turn tons. witches, ogres and are available en route, as are human gamesplaylng
now, though, as his fellow even mutant gravestones magic potions providing brid- powers and a lot of luck to
deities have volunteered him and supernatural water dro- ges over obstacles, extra fully appreciate its merits.
to take on the massed forces plets. jumping ability, lightning
PAUL GLANCEY
of the fiendish goddess, Hel, Unfortunately, the silly god smart bombs and illumination
which are rising up through has left his favourite weapon, in dark rooms. GRAPHICS 88%
Midgard to the very walls of
Asgard itself!
SOUND 69%
At the start of the game. VALUE 72%
Thor leaves his country cot-
tage and sets off across five
PLAYABILITY 70%
Rip-screen, platform worlds.
To finish each level he has to
OVERALL 70%1
collect four sections of a key, V / / / / / / / / / / A
 WELCOME TO THE FIRST NEWAGE COMPUTER GAME...

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Take it easy.
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lain not enrage to
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E-MOTfON (E is for
Einstein) takes you to a
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a New Age. Here you can play
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scope of multi-coloured
puzzles and infinite
patterns. E-MOTION
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ikes to win. but
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W hizz down the vertically scrolling screen, trying to stay on A Choose your event outside Rodney's place.
the narrow, twisting track and leaping over hazards for
extra points - all against the clock. One false move and.,, T Nitty opening graphics, eh?
aaaagggghhhhl
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SNOWBALL BLAST
Y ou're holed up in a snow-bunker in the park armed only with
a snowball splurge-gun - and all the local kids are out to get
youl Aim with your sights and snowball as many as possible be-
miCHREL ABBOT
rtflnfi C H A M B E R S
miCHAEL HOSAHA
fore the timer expires!!

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Some multi-event sports S ki down the short slope, launch yourself into the air and per-
form as many aerial stunts as possible. The more compli-
cated and spectacular they are, the more points the judges will
simulations are just a col-
lection of superficial award you.
games with the emphasis VL
on quantity, not quality.
Not Ski or Die/ As well as
being fun to play, all five
events have plenty of
Y depth and are all chal-
lenging and enjoyable
games In their own right.
My particular favourites
are the brilliant Toobin'-
Insplred innertube thrash
inneirruBi (which is great fun In two-
player mode • it's im-
possible not to scream
and shout at your oppo-
nent, especially If he or

FLCRO she punctures your toob)

and the marvellous Oper- INNERTUBE THRASH
~ " r r r
' reef
ation Wolf-style snowball
blast. None of the events I t's you versus loathesome Lester in this one or two-player duell
Slide down a huge slippery slope in an inflated innertube and

C+VG
are easy to master, and pick up darts and Stanley knives so you can slice your oppo-
there's loads of scope to nent's tube! Better still, bump him off the course! Just make sure
constantly improve your you're first across the finish line!
scores (and get them on
the auto-save record
table)/ The graphics are
brilliant, with superb at-
tention to detail • just
watch what happens
when you blast a snow-
bailer In the face at close
range, for example. Ski or
UPDATE Die is by far the best
E/ecfron/c Arts were a bit sports game available on
limp and feeble when we the PC, and the best thing
asked them about other of all is that you don't
versions, and they said need a top-of-the-range
that there's a slim possi- PC to appreciate it!
bility of C64 and Amiga
versions later this year. JULIAN RIGNALL
Are they mad? Ski or Die
is brilliant and should be GRAPHICS 91% SNOWBOARD HALFPIPE
\
out on all machine si So
get a ruddy move on with
it!!!
SOUND
VALUE
81%
87%
G rab your snowboard and surf down a long 3 0 snow half-pipe
doing as many tricks as possible within the time limit. But
watch out for chainsaw-wielding bunnies, who'll slice you down if
you go anywhere near them!
PLAYABILITY 93%
OVERALL 90%
V///////////Z
STARFLIGHT
little piracy if your skills are
up to it.
Starftight comes with a
map of the system • but a
map only shows you where
to go, not what you'll find

P
there, The downside of pros-
perity is the danger of getting
killed, and there are adequ-
ate opportunities lor doing
-91-4926 BY ELECTRONIC just that...
ARTS ' / / / / / / / / / / / / Z

starflight plays like a

cross between Elite and

HP Psi-5 Trading Company,

combining a vast, com-
plex universe with a hier-
archical ship command
structure and concise vis-
A s a starship commander
ual display. Its strategic
/ ^ c o n t r o l l e d by Inlerstel,
elements are superb: you
V ^ A R a e f t S ? W • System TMUEL your aim is to make money -
soon iearn to explore the
lots of it. The place to do it is
'-"fllfflrlffl""***"—• , r , - L M ™ n a
brown and blue class pla-
right above your head, up
nets for life forms, and
there in the vast unfathomed
adopt varied tactics In
depths of space
combat against alien
After gathering a crew and
races. The Velox, for
kitting out your craft with
thB,f pods, 3nd example, can be treated
SCOTTV ANABfl f fk^^t cargo it'sf ftime
0 m feCOm
to set off
with hostility because
for the void an entrepreneu-
^ -m mending
riaI viable colony worlds they surrender fairly eas-
t p a m £ L_ Anting ground fraught
t J i i i lea - but you can also dabble in a ily, but the Thrynn should
M En ikh with as much risk as reward.
«*Aiiri Your tw0
P rimar y goals be avoided at all costs,
are inextricably linked to since without major
— — galher information and gener- defence customisatlons
• Assign your crew, then boldly go,. ate revenue. Cash is initially they'll soon convert your
'I gained from ihe sale of mine- ship Into free ranging
rals, artifacts, lifeforms and atoms. The beginning can
be repetitive (you have to
do a lot of mining If you
want to get tough quickly)
but you only need to do It
once. The only major
faults are the sluggish
disk access and the fact
that the action doesn't
look or sound too im-
pressive. For this reason
Starflight will probably
appeal more to those who
like to concentrate on
strategy rather than ar-
cade gamespiayers.
GORDON
HOUGHTON

GRAPHICS 60%
SOUND 43%
VALUE 78%,
PLAY ABILITY 86% I
OVERALL 84% I
 1
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BATMAN THE CAPED CRUSADER DOUBLE DRAGON

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"Believe me this Is "Skilful programming
brilliant, a finely-honed I has taken the superb
arcade adventure which

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is the best comic licence | game play of the
ever-you'd be batty to J * *
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faithfully reproduced it

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TM6t <> DC COMICS I N C 1988.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. on the home computer."
OPERATION WOLF R-T1TPE
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anyone ask for in a it's about as close to
shoot-em-up. , * N kt'n an ultimate space
Operation Wolf, simply I blast as anyone will
1
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Kid Cloves has no more

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platform game, but it's
still good fun. The presen-
BY MILLENNIUM tation, apart from an inno-
vative stage shadow ef-

L ittle Kid is in a heap of

trouble, but how was he
supposed to know his grand-
fect, Is pretty minimal,
and the collision detec-
tion is highly dodgy mak-
father's boxing gloves were ing gameplay frustrating
magic? As soon as he put at times • but it doesn't
them on he found himself in stop you wanting to have
the middle of the rain forest one more go. This is part-
surrounded by parrots! Wilt ly because the back-
he ever see his home again? grounds are so varied:
He might do, if he survives after every ten levels the
the journey back through a theme completely
50-screen platform game. His changes, the weirdest
path is barred by the usual se- and best being the psy-
lection of monsters and pic- chedelic section with its
kups (including keys, extra
A How's Kid going to reach all that cash? mass of abstract colour.
lives and fruit) in a flick- It's also compelling be-
screen environment. The only one has until you've tried it cause of its sense of hu-
out of the ordinary features
are the nifty spells - although
out - and the option to trans-
port yourself back three
UPDATE mour and range of im-
At the momenf there are pressive weaponry. Twin
you don't know what effect screens if you get stuck.
no plans for 8-bit or PC World and Rick Danger-
• A few death coins will see off this giant versions. ous are better examples
of this type of game, but if
y / / / / / / / / / / / z you're tired of those two,
this is a challenging alter-
AMIGA native.
£24.99 GORDON
Virtually the same game HOUGHTON
as the ST down to the last
sound effect. It's nothing GRAPHICS 79%
unusual, but it should SOUND 64%
please people who pant
after pukkah platform pro* VALUE 51%
ducts. PLAYABiLITY 72%
OVERALL 73% OVERALL 73%
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I f mounting nags and having
a flutter on the fillies is your
bent. Grand National makes
UPDATE
The Spectrum
has been around
version
for
The Results A r e good horse sense, Career about four years (I), but
around Aintree in the quest no other versions are
1st Pirate Son 661 for success over one, five or planned.
ten seasons; place bets on
2nd West Tip 9-4 the favourites and buy new
stable stock with your win-
3rd Broomy Bank 33-1 nings. AMIGA
The race presentation fea-
4th Good Crack 66-1 tures a combination of over- £19.99
head and side-on views. Creating a game based on
Number Of N o n Runners 15 Overhead is more detailed,
showing all the other horses
horse racing is an ambi•
Number Of Fallers 1 tious idea, and Elite have
in the race, but side-on carried It off very well.
allows you to time the jumps Every aspect from betting
A 66-1! If only you'd put your money on Pirate Son!
perfectly. through buying horses to
Riding a horse and whip- winning a race has been
ping it around a race course brilliantly executed, In-
is no task for the faint- cluding a neat control and
hearted. Jump too soon or display system, and some
too late and your season of the best sampled
ends in failure. Thrash the speech I've ever heard on
beast too hard and its legs the Amiga. The betting se-
give way, but let it off lightly quences are a good idea,
and you won't see the too - the form book
leaders for dust. doesn't guarantee the
winner, so plonking half
BY ELITE your initial capital on the

NATIONAL
race favourite could leave
you with a £5,000-shaped
hole In your pocket. There
are only a couple of draw-
backs: the long-term
monotony of racing and
• Whoops! Willy Carson takes a tumble at the first fence. the cumbersome post-
race results sequence -
each element of speech is
loaded in separately, and
It takes too long before
you're racing again. A
practice ride option would
have helped to get you
Into the swing of competi-
tion, and would have pro-
vided an initial way round
the program s occasional
slowness. Apart from
that, the animation of the
horses is realistic and the
sound effects appropri-
ately sparse. It's really a
question of horses for
courses: if you like a bet
on the nags, take a look.
GORDON
HOUGHTON

GRAPHICS 79%
SOUND 86%
VALUE 86%
PLAYABILITY 75%
OVERALL 79%
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The Midnle E 4St Today is as unstable and dangerous
as at pny tin ie S'nce the Crusades. The superpowers
encourage tR'ir 'fightingcocks' and try out military

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cradle of World War III. CONFLICT puts you in a
»',/ Iff, world wnene military and economic forces combine
to simulate the multiple pressures that a national
leader is under in a modern nation state. Your aim:
to force the collapse of all four neighbounng
governments. A frightening and highly realistic
wargame.

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Experie nee the reality of command i ng an American
WWII combat submarine in the South Pacific.
M aste r the controls of your vessel. then embark on
a series of missions from 'search and destroy'

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sorties to detailed escort duties modelled on real
WWII campaigns. With eleven different submarines,
fourteen separate missions to attempt, at a range
• -S of difficulty levels as well as practise patrols that
take place during the day or at night. HUNTER
KILLER has a host of features that outclass any
other submarine simulation.

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Place yourself deep within the walls of Castle
Giimblood. here lurks a murderer, who <s preying
on those who live by and keep the rituals. You as
the young Earl. Maximus, must uncover the terrible
secret in order that he can unlock the chains of
timeless obedience to the rituals of the castle and
gain his freedom. If you fail you are certain to fall
j>0 t\ victim yourself to the stalking assassins knife...
A gothic whodunnit, written by Mike Singleton,
featuring digitised sound and graphics and
promising a different game every load!
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full price software companies - only cent games, though surprising to see
Ocean and US Gold seem to have Paperboy at the top two months running.
the business cracked, so the budget It s a good game - but not that good,
houses are cleaning up. Still, most of this surely?
 AMIGA TOP 20
1 TV Basketball Mirrorsoft 93%
2 m Italia 1990 Code Mstrs 18%
3
4 .
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Manchester Utd
Gremlin
Krisalis
80%
93%
5 X-Out Rainbow A 92%
6 4 Advanced Ski Sim Code Mstrs 66%
7 m Captain Blood Smash 16 75%
8 - Rainbow Islands Ocean 93%
9 2 Op Thunderbolt Ocean 89% • TV Sports Basketball • top of the chart.
10 1 Bomber Activision 89% A crop of fine games in the Amiga Top
1
11 5 Shadow of t Beast Psygnosis 78% Twenty this month and it's left to Code
12 8 Kick Off Anco 84% Masters to throw a fly in the ointment
Infestation Pygnosis 80% with their abysmal Italia 1990 game.
13 *
T h e r e are m u c h b e t t e r W o r l d Cup
14 - Double Dragon 2 Virgin 79% games on the way. so just hold onto
15 12 Space Ace ~ El 39% your money for a while, eh?
16 15 T I Dizzy Code Mstrs 77%
PG'S TIP FOR THE TOP
17 9 Hard Drivin' Domark 91%
18 3 Chase HQ Ocean 93% MIDWINTER: it's finally been released
Ninja Warriors Virgin 86% and will no doubt be at the top of the
19 •
heap by next month.
20 - Drakkhen Infogrames 90% Italia 1990-loved bv ST and Amiga overs.

Manchester Utd • spiffy Amiga footy.

€64 TOP 2 0
1 1 Paperboy Encore 68%
2 3 Buggy Boy Encore 9 3 %

3 m Ikari Warriors Encore 8 9 %

4 m Rainbow Islands Ocean 87%

5 4 Combat School Hit Squad 90%

6 5 IK+ Hit Squad 91%

7 9 Mig 29 Code Mstrs 49%

• Spy vs Spy II - a budget corker. 8 m Super Hang On Hit Squad 20%'

9 12 Robocop Ocean 90% f
Paperboy still at the top!? Yeeeuch! En- Kixx
core seem to have a firm hold on the top 10 - 1943 49%'

of the chart, and while Paperboy isn't 11 m Spy Vs Spy II Hi Tec 85%

the best of games, Buggy Boy and Ikarl 12 • Platoon Hit Squad 85%
Warriors are deserving chart toppers. 13 • Captain Blood Players 79%
W h y is Spy vs Spy 2 in The chart but not 14 - Four Soccer Sims Code Mstrs 706<
Spy vs Spy (which is better)? US Gold
15 2 Turbo Outrun 93<-

PG'S TIP FOR THE TOP 16 17 Space Harrier Encore 45':

17 6 Chase HQ Ocean 33S

FIENDISH FREDDIE S BIG T O P 0 ' FUN:
The 0 6 4 version of the super 16 bit 18 - World Soccer Zeppelin 70S

circus caper is out very soon! 19 - Winter Games Kixx ses

20 8 Ghouls & Ghosts US Gold 8rt
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Rainbow Islands
Italia 1990
Ocean
Code Mstrs
88%
28%
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Supercars Gremlin 82%
4 6 Advanced Ski Sim Code Mstrs 67%
5 - Op Thunderbolt Ocean 89%
6 *
Captain Blood Smash 16 75%
7 7 Ghouls & Ghosts US Gold 85%
8 - Player Manager Anco 85%
9 15 Hard Drivln' Domark 92%
• Midwinter - it's gonna be big! 10 5 Chase HQ Ocean 96%
Last month's number one. Bomber 11 9 Extra Time Anco 85%
goes into a taifspin and dives to number 12 11 Batman Ocean 85%
14, leaving the top spot free for the 13 13 Nlnja Warriors
fabulous Rainbow Islands. The abomin- Virgin 87%
able Italia 1990 makes a rather soggy 14 1 Bomber Activision 89%
impact at number two. 15 2 Chaos Strikes Back Mirrorsoft 96%
16 Adv Rugby Sim Code Mstrs 69%
PG S TIP FOR THE TOP
-

17 18 T 1 Dizzy Code Mstrs 79%

MIDWINTER: Astounding adventure in 16
the snow. On the shelves now, and at
18 Turbo Outrun US Gold 80%
number one next month, I'll be bound. 19 m
Drakkhen Infogrames 90%
20 20 Future Wars Delphine 79%

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7 7 Buggy Boy Encore 72%
8 2 PTyr Superleague 80% • Chase HO • drops a gear.
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9°o » 10 - World Soccer 70% top twenty!! Will no-one pay for original
Zeppelin full-price S p e c t r u m p r o d u c t these
P% 11 •j Platoon Encore 85% days!? Seems you Spectrum owners
|5% 12 17 Space Harrier Encore 80% only want to play football or games star-
•9%' 13 • Rampage Hit Squad 74% ring intrepid eggs.
•0% 14 10 Batman 93%
Ocean PG'S TIP FOR THE TOP
ft3% 15 13 Combat School Hit Squad 90%
ms°/o 16 m
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sion which deserves to do well, but will
1 33% 1 17 15 Renegade Hit Squad 84%
you cheapskate Spectrum owners shell
70% 18 -
Super Hang On Hit Squad 87% out the necessary cash? Hmmm...
88% 19 m
Beardsley's Footy BugByte 58%
87% 20 Striker 79%
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1 1 Fantasy Dizzy Code Mstrs 85%
2 2 Paperboy Encore 85%
3 * Ikari Warriors Encore 83%
4 5 Pub Trivia Code Mstrs 75%
5 10 Buggy Boy Encore 90%
6 3 Chase HQ Ocean 97%
7 7 Combat School Hit Squad 80%
8 - 1943 Kixx 60%
9 m Ghouls & Ghosts US Gold 86%
10 5 Batman Ocean 87% A R
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11 13 Robocop Ocean 89% A fair sprinkling of decent budget and
12 - Super Hang On Hit Squad 81% full-price titles with the top two games

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13 - Spy vs Spy 2 Hi Tec 85% unchanged from last month. Ikari War-
14 - Captain Blood Players 78% riors makes a good number three, and
15 - Four Soccer Sims Code Mstrs 70% it's good to see Spy vs Spy 2 in the
chart, but what about Guardian II?
16 12 Turbo Outrun US Gold 85%
17 8 Ghostbusters II Activision 80% PG'S TIP FOR THE TOP
18 11 Op Thunderbolt Ocean 80%
FIENDISH FREDDY S BIG TOP O' FUN:
19 17 Miami Vice Hit Squad 77% A superb conversion of Mindscape's 16
20 14 Gazza's Soccer EI 54% bit circus japes.
• Ghouls n' Ghosts-Megadrive

• Chase HQ - PC Engine

PC ENGINE TOP 5
Chase HQ 88%
PC Kid 95%
Heavy Unit 57%
Super Volleyball 80%
Wonderboy III (CD) 93%

• PC Kid • PC Engine
PC ENGINE CHART
Chase HQ deservedly takes top spot. Heavy Unit

MEGADRIVE TOP 5
is a disappointing number three and Wonder-
boy's presence suggests there are a surprisingly
large number of CD ROMs about. This chart is
compiled exclusively for C+VG by Spectresoft of
Ghouls n' Ghosts Covent Garden.
4 94%
1 Golden Axe 96% MEGADRIVE CHART
5 Tatsujin 92% The two newies nudge their way into the bottom
of the chart, but they may well be nudged out
Curse 82% again next month by Zealand Story and the ex-
Herzog Zwei 82% cellent Super Real Basketball. This chart was
compiled exclusively for C+VG by Spectresoft,
Covent Garden.
 A'
HIT SQUAD

T he blockbuster film tie-in

of 1987 blazes a trait of
blood, sweat and violence
onto the budget battleground,
with the player taking the role
of a raw recruit in Vietnam,
desperately trying to escape
both the oncoming Viet Cong
and a barrage of Napalm
from his own side.
? The game is split into six
levels, ranging from a romp
through a maze of Vietnam
|ungte to a shoot-out with the I
enemy and a final blast
though mine-infested waste- :
land. The player must use a
number of gaming skills If he
Is to survive and escape.
Platoon Is as good now as
it was then, and with its
cheaper price it cannot fail to
shoot up the charts. It's addic-
tive, has fantastically atmos-
pheric graphics and sound
throughout, and most of trie
sections could easily make it
as stand-atohe games them-
selves, In short, a title which
you'd be absolutely loopy to
miss out on.
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AMSTRAD SPECTRUM V / / / / / / / / / / / Z
£2.99 £2.99 C64
A brilliant game which
perfectly re-creates all Colour is used to good £2.99
the action and excite- effect, and the gameplay A highly addictive game
ment of the film. Don't is as engrossing as the with loads crammed into
miss It! 64 version. It • Platoon is a winner!

OVERALL 94% OVERALL 94% OVERALL 94%

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / i I W / / / / / / / / / A t W / / / / / / / / / / i

ARCADE H ere's one for the bandit

addicts out there - a
win money, not points. And
saying that, this isn't a particu-

FRUIT
whole fruit machine inside larly good machine either -
your computer! It's got three it's frustratingly tight with the
reels, skill chance, gambles, feature holds, and the repeat

MACHINE repeat, and a loadsamoney

jackpot!
function is completely ob-
scure.
ZEPPELIN However, even though it's
got alt the features you'd find
A complete and utter fruit
machine nutter might glean a
r / / / / / / / / / / / / z on an average fruit machine, few hours entertainment from
I honestly cannot see any this, but after that it becomes
SPECTRUM point whatsoever in playing it. incredibly tedious to play.
£2.99 The attraction of a bandit is to

A fairly average fruit ma-

chine simulator which
should keep a bandit ad-
dict happy for a couple
of hours - but nothing
more.

OVERALL 39%
V / / / / / / / / / / A

62
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V///////////Z
IPSYCHO
I HOPPER • . • •••
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• **•
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MASTERTRONIC good, old fashioned en-
I Remember those big
orange bouncy hoppers?
Im v « * « • m
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joyment, and Psycho
Hopper delivers it In
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Of course you do, sproinglng | abundance.
at
I and bounding around the
streets, trying to squash the (OVERALL 74%
I cat - they were great Now
here's a game about a man
who spends his life plonked y / / / / / / / / / / / z
I on(tm),topcollecting
of his Bounce Bubble
treasure and
duffing up the bad guys as he I « v.e «ft'.flm 1
I travels through a series of
caves If any of the baddies Nothing outstanding,
but a Jolly n' bouncy col-
I your
collide with you, they damage
hopper, and too many
4 - J « 42? *
lect 'em up nonetheless.
hits spells doom • or at least,
I a hole in your hopper OVERALL 74%
Psycho Hopper makes a i •.«• # « j - «m » < i-dtrf r^T^ r « *
V / / / / / / / / / / / i
pleasant change after seeing I * ..fnuTl^TI
I soat this
much re-released software
price. There's nothing
you've copped it, and in my
eyes that's really the most im-
of any great note in there, ex- portant factor of any game,
I cept the urge to play on after cheap or otherwise.

I fall. Points are scored for

ITALIM90 (whose sampled breathing
I each brick hit, and when the
I CODE MASTERS sounds like he's a beer-swill-
ing 40-a-day man) do banal H i
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jrp
235R® wall is completely destroyed

N
you move to the next, more
ot content with hyping things like press-ups and sit-
difficult stage.
I tally naff software with a to-
sensationalist blurb,
ups
This is an appalling piece •
Arkanoid is a great Brea-
kout game, and a smashing
Codemasters have gone one of software, even for £4.99, It 1 J "m
I better - they've Introduced might look nice, but it's about
as much fun as kicking
arcade conversion. The
graphics aren't spectacular,
the Codemasters Seal of but neither were those of the
around a deflated football.
I Quality to the inlay of Italia
'90, one of the hottest licens- V///////////Z
original; it's the gameptay
that counts, and this game
ing deals of the year;.. scores highly in that depart-
I slaughtered
And they've absolutely AMIGA Fr> r^* t ' r * r> rr*j
' Lrt.r £ r t r t^ t ment. A musl for everyone
ill There are two £4.99 i—r—M|~j who enjoys bat *n" ball games.
modes, a full footy match and
I afirstsoccer skills section. The Competent graphics, V / / / / / / / / / / / y
has the player guiding sound and presentation
are ruined by appalling
ILL I* SPECTRUM
I his badly hobbling players
(are these guys cripples or gameplay, making Italia
frr.'r'-r-'TrjCr
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what?) around the pitch, kick- '90 one of the worst foot- r<fr/ r * r '
\ , r * r r r ' r V r ' r.' r ' y ' r • The graphics are mono-
I ing a ball which defies the
laws of gravity, while the
ball games around. • fr TV ir r r ' r ' T'f TCr T ' T * "
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chrome, but otherwise
it's just as much fun as
skills game involves waggling OVERALL 28%
the joystick at varying speeds
in order to make your ' / / / / / / / / / / / / , ARKANOID OVERALL the C64 version.

84%
I HIT SQUAD
' / / / / / / / / / / / / *
A nother re-retease, this
time the conversion of
the classic Breakout deriva-
v / / / / / / / / / / / /

tive coin-op. Thirty two levels

are simply aching to be
beaten before you can get to A brilliant Breakout
the big baddie at the very game with lots of ad'
. end. Sitting snugly inside vanced features. Dig out
I your Arkanoid fighter craft three pound coins and
I (which bears a startling re- spend them on Arkanoid.
I semblance to a Breakout
bat), blast the enemy missile
' against the defence wall, pick-
OVERALL 87%
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KRISALIS stack of beautiful graphics, ////////////y
M anchester Utd on the ST both digitised and otherwise
follows the same lines
as the Amiga version which
(although there are one or
two minor omissions), and
ST
£24.95
we raved about last month. the same delightfully challeng.
It's a cross between an ar- ing gameplay as the Amiga A brilliant football man-
cade footy game and a man- version. agement-cum-player sim
agement simulation, with you In fact, apart from a drop which other, forthcom-
taking on the ominous role of in sound quality and a slower ing soccer games will be
Alex "Oh dear, we're two disk access time which can hard pressed to beat.
points away from relegation" get annoying at times, there's
Ferguson and his team. This nothing to distinguish the two OVERALL 92%
version sports the same sen- versions! V / / / / / / / / / / / y
sible use of icons, the same

FERRARI FORMULA X-OUT

RAINBOW ARTS
O N E ELECTRONIC ARTS
W hen we reviewed this
on the Amiga way. way
the wind tunnel to test those
aerodynamics.
J ump into one of three am-
phibious fighter craft and
blow up the alien hordes in
back, we absolutely raved Other mags have been the 64 conversion of the 16
about it. Now it's been re- going ape over 64 FF1, but bit Hit which we reviewed in
leased on the 64 and. well.., they obviously have a differ- the February issue. A horizon-
The object of Ferrari For- ent version to the one we re- tally scrolling all-out mas-
mula One is simply to get ceived - it's absolutely abys- sacre set both in the air and
yourself, your car and your mal. The game seems rather underwater, X-Out features
team through a tough motor neat until you gel to the ac- eight levels of hard and fast
racing season, visiting all the tual race, and this is where blasting action, a selection ol
classic courses such as Mon- the whole thing collapses. ships and weaponry and an
aco, Hockenheim and our Slow isn't the word for FF1; end of level shop in which to
own Brands Hatch. This I'm not joking when I say that buy the various bits and
being a simulation rather than the game runs at a rate of
just a burn around the circuit, less than three frames per
you get the opportunity to second. Graphically it's fine,
fiddle about with the insides but who wants to play a
of your motor before the race, game which looks lovely but
tuning it to maximum effi- plays like a dead fish in a vat
ciency and then sticking it in of Blue Circle cement? Not I.

V / / / / / / / / / / / Z
C64
£14.99
What could have been a
pretty decent C64 con-
version of a classic
racing game turns out to
be a pitifully slow waste
of time. Avoid at all
costs.

OVERALL 36%
V / / / / / / / / / / A
FIENDISH FREDDY'S
SPACE
last month's review. Amiga

BIG TOP O'FUN Space Rogue is challenging,

full of action and. although it

MINDSCAPE ROGUE runs at a slightly slower

frame rate than the PC game,

R unning a circus isn't the

easiest job in the world,
especially if you have to put
ORIGIN
A
it's still fast enough to retain
nother title which was re- all the addictive qualities
viewed last month on a which its PC cousin holds. A
up with a rival the likes of different format (we looked at superlative game.
which appears in this Am* the PC version), Space
Strad conversion of the hilari- Rogue is a game which
' / / / / / / / / / / / / /
ous 16 bit multi-eventer smacks of Elite, with a blend AMIGA
which we awarded a Hit a of 3D graphics, inspace dog-
while back. fighting and a galactic trading £29.99
The acts range from high system. The big difference be A true contender for
diving, which starts with you tween the two though is that, Elite's crown, Space
jumping into a barret of water were you I'd at least have a unlike Elite, there's an overall Rogue is a tough, de-
and finishes with a leap into a good, long think about adding goal to Space Rogue - that of manding 3D space-
tea-cup, to dangerous high this neat little circus sim to opera which will keep
wire-walking. All the way your collection. I finding the murderers who
blew your father to smi- fans engrossed for
through, you must beware thereens, months.
the deadly clown Fiendish
Freddy, who will stop at noth-
V / / / / / / / / / / / Z I There isn't a lot else to
say about this version that OVERALL 94%
ing to put you out of business AMSTRAD hasn't already been written in V / / / / / / / / / / / Z
and into plaster)
Amstrad Fiendish Freddy
£9.99
is a surprisingly accurate con- Funny as well as chal-
version. with lots of colourful, lenging. Wear a corset
humourous graphics, some of while playing Fiendish
which (like the diving artist) Freddy, lest your sides
are enormous! Unfortunately, aplltl
there wasn't room for any
sound which may put people OVERALL 83%
off buying the game, but if I V / / / / / / / / / / / i

pieces. Your score is trans-

formed into dosh which you
use to purchase the extra
items - and you'll need loads
C64
of gear if you want to survive £9.99
to the end!
Apart from a pretty naff
C64 X-Out is a startling
loader, X-Out is a fantas-
conversion, with first rate
tic game which blast
sprites and backdrops, accur-
fans will drool over.
ate music and effects and
some well-mean baddies
who make life VERY difficult
OVERALL 88%
for you. The only gripe I have V / / / / / / / / / / / z
with the game is that the cas-
sette loader is a little tortu- drive) then you'll have no re-
ous, but if you can put up grets buying this superb 8 bit
with that (or have a disk shoot em up.

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with Domark and organise this robo-comp!
On offer comp is a stunning replica of the
most famous of all robots - Robbie the
Robot from the film Forbidden Planet. It's a
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are also six runners-up prizes of Tomy
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generosity?
So how do you go about winning one of
these fab prizes? Well, what we want you to
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a mega robo-war-bot armed with 100 mega-
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(we could do with some of those in the of-
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A nd here's us thinking that

nightmares are caused
by eating cheese after 9pml
ing levels, each one consist-
ing of a number of different
stages. Being a robot, he isn't
The real blame lies in the limited to leg-work only - if
I three heads of the Morgul, the need arises, he can trans-
who dwells far away in his form into an indestructible gy-
dark kingdom, and grows roscope for a limited period of
stronger alt the time by feed- time, so he can squeeze
ing on the fear which his through normally impassable
presence instills in people. barriers.
Naturally, those folks are Each stage is played over
more than a little wary of a strict time limit, and if the
going off to do battle with Mor- seconds run out, one of your
gul. so they build a robot, de- lives is lost. If you can get to
void Of any notion of fear, to the end of level five. Morgul
do the job for them - that is yours for the taking - defeat
robot is called Turrican. and him and no longer shall the in-
it's you who controls him habitants of the world wake
throughout the game. up in the middle of the night
Turhcan carries his quest in a cold sweat!
BY RAINBOW ARTS through five, eight-way scroll-
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C64
£9.99
It's rare these days to see
an original C64 game, let
alone a good one, and
Turrican is most definitely
both of these. It's an enor-
mous game, with a simply
vast map, and contains all
the ingredients of a hit *
acres of playing area, un-
told amounts of crea-
tures, items to collect; the
list is almost limitless.
A Dodge the lightning - you don't want to end up in an ash- Graphically It's superb,
tray! from the chunky, robotic
Turrican sprite to the pix-
UPDATE
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Turrican will be out during nasties and some of the

HIT!
the next couple of months most imaginative back-
on Amiga, ST, Spectrum grounds you'll ever see
and Amstrad. The 16 bits on a 64; just check out the
will coat you the princely massive Aliens-inspired
sum of £19.99, while Am- level later on in the game!
strad will set you back Not only that, but there
£9.99 and Spectrum are a couple of lovely ef-
£8.99. Update reviews fects, the best one In my
when we get the games, mind being the way Turri-
Be 1
meful not to land on those spikes! folks! can Is reformed, atom by
atom, after losing a life -
brilliant. Best of all
though, Turrican is ex-
tremely playable and
maddeningly addictive •
with twenty lives and
some well-powerful wea-
ponry to work with at the
beginning you might get
the impression that the
game is going to be a
doddle. Think again! This
is a very difficult arcade
adventure, and you need
every life you can get your
mitts on. There are some
games that sneak up on
you, make you go weak at
the knees and won't let up
until you 've completed It.
Turrican is one of them.
Remarkable!
PAUL RAND

GRAPHICS 93%
SOUND 90%
VALUE 93%
I PLAYABILITY 95%I
[OVERALL 93%
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J umping Jack Son is a fat

little blob descended from

UPDATE
An Amiga version of
the legendary Jumping Jack Jumping Jackson is
Flash, whose quest in life is scheduled for release at
to cut put the grooviness the same time as the ST
back into a world full of dull version, at about the end
classical music. The only of April. It's reputed to
thing that will free the spirit of have even more sampled
rock 'n' roll is Elvis' first music, and the same en-
single, which is hidden some- joyable gameplay as the
where amongst a psy- version reviewed here.
chedelic maze of platforms,
and Jack's musical lineage
makes him the blob for the
' / / / / / / / / / / / / '
job. ST

UMPING
To pass between the 16
the turntables - time for escape!
k Both records on
different mazes, Jack has to £24.99
collect hidden records then Jumping Jack Son Is a
put them all on turntables to great game, with very jolly
complete a tune. To reveal graphics (especially the
the discs he has to pass over fat, bouncy hero), great
groups of tiles which change sampled tunes and sound
colour as he steps on them. effects, and a very addic-
A record appears when Jack tive game underneath. It
BY INFOGRAMES

ACK SON
starts off very easy, with
just a couple of turntables
to fill and no enemies to
avoid, but after just a
couple of levels things re-
ally start to move. The
baddies are a bit thick,
hopping around almost
Unother level complete, but beware the trumpet! has turned a group of four willy-nilly, totally uncon-
tiles the same colour, then cerned with where you
when it's placed on the turn- may be. But there's no
table of the corresponding col- room for carelessness
our, another part of the tune when there are more than
plays. one of them on the
It would be simple if that screen, or if you're down
was all there was to it, but a tile-wide path, you've
white Jack's doing this he's run out of cassettes and
being chased by a gang of there's a deadly trumpet
musical baddies in the shape bouncing your way. As
of trumpets, drums and other well as the 16 normal le-
classical instruments which vels there are a couple of
can be dodged or blocked by bonus stages in there too,
dropping one of your three which are frustrating to
cassettes. You can also pick begin with, but after a
up bonus items like hambur- while they serve as a
gers, bottles of Coke, musical worthwhile break from
notes and jukeboxes which the main game. All In all,
allow Jackson to carry more what we have here is a
than one record at a time. jolly arcade puzzle game
[The first Challenge level - tricky! which should go down
>
TP1 7 well with anybody.
fm/ J|
& PAUL RAND

GRAPHICS 79%
SOUND 82%
VALUE 80%
PLAY ABILITY 83%
OVERALL 81%
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 R E V I E W > AMIQA

COLORADO
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AMIGA
£24.99
Games set In the Wild
Mid-West are a rarity
BY SILMARILS Gold Mine of Pocahontas. ferent areas, Davey has to
these days, but, as far as
gameplaygoes, Colorado
/PALACE Forgetting his shopping list
for the time being. Davey
jump in his canoe and paddle
through a 3D river subgame.
is pretty familiar stuff.

O ne day, as Davey This walk-chop-and-col-

jumped into his canoe and fending off Indian war canoes
O'Brian was on his way lect malarkey has been
paddled to Colorado to start with his paddle and dodging
to the local trading post for a entertaining 16 bit owners
his search for riches. tailing boulders.
few tins of beans and a bag since 1986 when
To find the mine. Davey
of beef jerky, he came across Psygnosis brought out
now has to tramp around sets
a dying Red Indian. There of locations, beating or cajol- UPDATE Barbarian, and it doesn't
seem to have progressed
was no saving the brave, and ing information from the local Placing my ear to the
he begged Davey to wait for a whole lot since. Wander
Indian population, and that ground, I hear the ap-
him to die then bury his body around dozens of
means finding weapons and proach of distant ST and
so that his soul could enter screens, beat up some
useful items to trade with Mr PC versions which, apart
the Happy Hunting Ground. understandably hostile
MacBiggle whose mobile trad- from the usual colour and
Davey's reward was a map, Indians and think up te-
ing post happens to be pas- sound differences,
showing the way to the In- nuous links between ob-
sing through the neighbour- should be similar to the
dian's home territory of Colo- jects and adverse circum-
hood. Amiga version in every
rado. wherein lay the Lost stances. Colorado is
To travel between the dif- way. Watch out for them
rather slow-paced, so if
in May.
you aren't heavily Into
Wow! Spears!? These Injuns sure are an ornery bunch. this type of game, all the
trekking between screens
will become tiresome
after a while. Luckily, the
paddling-down-the-river
subgame is rather more
action-packed and I'm
ashamed to admit that my
happiest moments with
this game were spent
splatting people in the
mush with my paddle. The
graphics are pretty but
samey, and the charac-
ters' are stiffly animated,
making them occasion-
ally look robotic. Sound
doesn t play a major part
in the gameplay, and the
Amiga's sound circuitry
busies itself with rende-
ring an insipid tune, and
muffled speech samples.
If games like this really
are your bag, Colorado
could be worth tracking
down, but more lively
.K i • McBiqgles • "You want it, we ain't players should look else-
• On the river, your paddle is your only weapon gQt it, it don t exist.'
where for their fun.

PAUL GLANCEY

GRAPHICS 79%
SOUND 48%
VALUE 72%
I PLAY ABILITY 75%|
lOVERALL 73%
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most playable shoot-em-up for
a very, very long time.
"Lots of beautiful girls have been abducted to
JAKem Planet X by the evil reptilons. And when I say
WAYTHfr abducted, I mean.... well, yes - exactly! It's
EVIL ROB a disgrace! And those evil reptilons are
PROFESS
downright.... evil! And that's not all- there's
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K-LAXs _. TO GO 1

A Your first four klaxes - the three-up, worth 50 points.

O ne ot the very few coin- cally or diagonally - they dis-

op conversions to be de- appear. And this is how you
veloped side-by-side with the survive, because if the con-
arcade original, Klax is a tainer becomes completely
game of tile flipping (or is that full of tiles, the game ends.
flipping tiles?). That sounds a Also, you can only let up to
bit weird, doesn't it. Well, it's three tiles drop off the con-
actually very straightforward - veyor belt without picking
theoretically. The playing them up - a fourth miss re-
area consists of a five-col- sults in that depressing
umn conveyor belt, down "game over" message-
which travel tiles of various Later levels get tougher
colour. The basic idea is to and tougher, with more and
pick up the tiles with your more tiles and the computer
paddle when they reach the asking you to create diagonal
...The row of three, worth 1,000 points... end of the table and flip them lines, or a series of four and
into the container at the foot five coloured tiles in order to
of the screen. escape that particular level,
When three or more tiles or even a big cross to access
of the same colour are placed a secret warp!
in a line - horizontally, verti-
• Double the fun in two-player model A Choose your skill kei.

A ...And the row of four, worth 10,000 points!

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UPDATE
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This superb game is to be

released on all popular
formats at roughly the
same time as the ST. We 'II
give you an update on the
other versions the very
nanosecond we receive
them. And that's a
promise!
y / / / / / / / / / / / z

It's happened! At last,

there's a game which mat-
ches Tetris for simplicity,
playability and addictive-
ness. I and everyone else
in the office who has
pitted their wits and re-

IA ONAL flexes against this super-

lative creation
ashamedly place it high
un-

MVE up in the C+VG chart of

all-time greats. Like Te-
tris, what at first looks
quite unimaginative and,

•3 dare I say it, dull, soon

becomes so playable
your electricity bill will
YOU MUST GET take up three pages if
3 DIAGONALS someone doesn't drag
you, kicking and scream-
ing, from the computer.
And the most amazing
4 in a row KLAX thing is that it's a coin-op
ounts as 2 KLAXs conversion! I can picture
arcade owners up and
A Three diagonals complete the third level. down the country with
enormous grins on their
faces a few weeks after
installing a couple ofKlax
machines! There's very
little else to say really, and
certainly nothing to
criticise about Klax. No
killing, no end of level
monsters, no power-ups,
and no damsels to res-
cue. Just good, solid,
fast-moving mega-addic-
tive gameplay which the
whole family will love,
from Grandma to the
goldfish!
PAUL RAND
GRAPHICS 84%
SOUND 82%
VALUE 97%
PLAYABILITY 97%
OVERALL 97%
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CBM AMIGA;
ATARI ST,
AM ST RAD kmolih
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ST
£19.99
Apart from the odd minor
graphical alteration, ST
Player Manager is exactly
the same as the Amiga
version. Only buy it if
you're a Kick Off loner.

OVERALL 70%
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AMIGA
£19.99
Sequels are seldom as
A Ohhhh. Cynical play there by Smith. good as the originals, and
this adage has never been
truer than In the case of
Player Manager which, al-
though possessing a
huge range of extras the
original didn't have, fails
to have the same kind of
Immediate impact. For
one thing, Kick Off was at
its most enjoyable with
two players, an option
which doesn't exist in
Player Manager. There
BY ANCO Matches look and play are also a couple of bugs

K ick Off Is the best straight

soccer game ever - few
wilt doubt that. It's fast footy
exactly like Kick Off, albeit
with a few refinements such
as increased player control
UPDATE
No firm plana for 8 bit ver-
In the match section. For
instance, I was fouled In
the opposition's penalty
sions I'm afraid, but I
action made it an immediate and differing pitch conditions, wouldn't be surprised if area, but was I awarded
hit with atl who played it, but and there's also an option something crops up later the penalty? Was I hell.
Anco decided it wasn't quite which allows you to control all on, probably In the sum- Don't get me wrong, I'm
the complete soccer experi- of your team a la Kick Off, or mer. not about to slag Player
ence so they've decided to re jus) one player in his position. Manager into the ground,
lease an updated version, but after many months of
and Player Manager Is it. • Every player has his skills Hated here. playing Kick Off and en-
Player Manager is a one- joying It immensely, I ex-
player management/arcade pected much better
sim in which you are, unsur- things from the follow-up.
prisingly. ihe player-manager The managerial additions
of your Third Division Team. are a neat idea, but when
Naturally, the Board aren't all's said and done Player
overwhelmed with the pros- Manager is only a worth-
pect of staying in Dlv 3 or, while buy over Kick Off if
horror of horrors, going down you have no friends you
even further, so it's your want to play against in the
unenviable task to move up original's two-player
the table and the divisions. Agility
mode.
There are nine menu options jiizijs-n
StMina rf.i j JI . i j j - ji- PAUL RAND
on startup, ranging from Club
information to your current R«silleoce
• 4 GRAPHICS 81%
player list, each option open-
ing up further selections
0 SOUND 76%
when clicked. As well as the
Morale I • I • I VALUE 77%
normal league matches there
is also a cup competition to
PLAYABILITY 71%
take part in, pulling in a extra
cash and glory the further
OVERALL 72%
you progress. ' / / / / / / / / / / / / s

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• One o/ The Mombassa Oak 's cryogenic freeze chambers.

• Space Janitor Griffin, armed to the teeth.

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ST
£24.99
Apart from the addition of
an extra disk, this version
contains absolutely no
differences to the Amiga
version - it's still a game
worthy of anyone's time
and money.

OVERALL 90%
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A The insto-pizza machine. Hmm, anchovle and coconut,
Griff 's fave. y///////////z
Janitors have it rough at the only that, but there are also
best of times, but their fuel rods to find and a variety AMIGA
problems are nothing com-
pared to this particular care-
of aliens, which have wiped
out the miners on Atargatis,
£24.99
taker's. He's just discovered to seek out and destroy. Xenomorph is an almost
that, during a two year re- You begin with nothing but instantly appealing game,
search mission, the rest of a food dispenser credit card, due partly to its Dungeon
the crew on his ship, The but there are loads of other Master look. The feeling
Mombassa Oak, have been useful bits to find, including a of solitude Is total (not
killed by a computer malfunc- wide variety of weapons and even your usually friendly
tion leaving him the sole survt' grenades, medical supplies computer will speak to
vor. What's more, the whole and the key cards needed to you!) until your first con-
computer navigation system open the doors in the Astar- tact with the alien attac-
has packed in. leaving the gatis platform. Survival is kers and that turns out to
Oak drifting in space. Switch- quite a problem and as well be something of a shock!
ing over to manual control, as seeing off alien attacks, The aliens and the
the janitor makes the jump to you have to continually bol- scenery are nicely drawn
the nearest hospitable mining ster flagging energy levels and, while the animation
platform and after docking, with food, and keep an eye is jerky, it isn't a hind-
scans the area. To his sur- on radiation absorption rea- rance to the overall at-
prise, no traces of human life douts. mosphere. There is a lot
are found - what has hap- to do in Xenomorph, and
pened on Platform Atargatis? it's Imperative that you
Xenomorph is a graphic
UPDATE plan ahead to stay alive,
adventure designed in the Break into that piggy and It's probably wise to
icon-driven, 30 style of Dun- bank and strut your funky make a map. I'm writing
geon Master. You play the stuff down to the software this review after a four
lonely janitor, whose mission shop when the PC and hour session of blunde-
it is to repair the Mombassa C64 versions of Xeno• ring around during which
Oak by entering the Atargatis morph appear In a couple I collected most of the
mining platform and finding of weeks, costing £24.99 chips, though now I
the microchips required to re- (PC) and £14.99 (C64 disk haven't got enough
place those burnt out by the only). And coming soon is strength to last longer
computer malfunction. Not an Archimedes version than another half-hour.
too! The game's addictive
The Mombassa Oak comes in to land. qualities ensure that I'll
return time and time again
until that lonely little jani-
tor escapes to sweep
floors In more hospitable
parts of the cosmos!
PAUL RAND

GRAPHICS 86%
SOUND 84%
VALUE 89%
PLAYABILITY 91%
OVERALL 90%
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BY MILLENIUM
P oor Terry; he's had an un-
fortunate life. But then
again, there's not much call
for small, green, rubber-bot- V / / / / / / / / / / / Z
tomed balls in the com-
munity. Shunned by the lo-
cals and despised by other,
AMIGA
less-socially aware balls, he £24.99
ascends to the Cloud King-
doms, where he at last finds Cloud Kingdoms is a
a use for himself. Baron von game not unlike Quedex
Bonsai has enslaved the in both looks and, to a
Cloud Fairies and stolen all of small extent, gameplay.
their power crystals so they But instead of a lifeless
cannot use magic. And as ball you have a sad-look-
the only way of rescuing a ing, green sphere which
fairy is to send a green ball to you can't help but feel
their aid, Terry's given the job. sorry for, especially after
considering the enormity
And what a job it is! Terry
of his task. Cloud King-
must collect all the crystals
doms is difficult from the
from 32 different multidirec-
word go, but the chal-
tional^ scrolling kingdoms.
lenge is a stimulating and
The baron isn't nearly so
addictive one. You aren't
stupid as to let him roll
limited by lives, but each
through unchallenged
time death rears its ugly
though, so he's positioned a
head the time limit shoots
number of guards in each of A Jumping around these pink platforms is no job for softies!
down, making for a frus-
the kingdoms, whose task it r
is to stop Terry's quest by ////////////z trating first few attempts.
Once you get into the
holding him up long enough flight. Terry must beware the
for each level's time limit to bad items which include beer C64 swing of things however,
It doesn t take too long to
run out, thus ending the
game and any chance of the
bottles, making the round rol-
ler super-tiddly, and of course
£9.99 suss out the best way to
Due to memory restric- tackle each stage (al-
fairies' rescue. the hazards which are built
tions, the number of le- though actually putting
But fate doth smile on our into each kingdom such as the theory into practice is
young sphere in some small icy floors, holes in the ground vels on the 64 version has
been cut from 32 to 15, far trickier!). Nice to look
way, by offering a selection of and pinball bumpers. at, as well as jolly good
helpful items to make life a and some of the baddie
sprites have been fun to play, Cloud King-
little simpler, items such as V / / / / / / / / / / / Z doms makes a pleasant
energy-giving bottles of pop. omitted. That said, the
paint pots which let Terry ST gameplay has been
tweaked to make it gener-
change from all the
licensed stuff kicking
paint in walkways and wings
that allow a few moments of
£24.99 ally more difficult than the around of late.
What little differences 16 bit versions, whilst re- PAUL RAND
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UPDATE and the Amiga version are qualities of the other for-
mats. So despite the drop
GRAPHICS 84%
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other version to follow the
purely cosmetic - the
in quantity, Cloud King- SOUND 77%
game itself remains an
ones reviewed here is for enjoyable arcade puzzle doms hangs on to Its VALUE 80%
quality -and play ability.
the PC, which wilt cost romp. PLAYABILITY 81%
£24.99 and will be re-
leased a week or so after OVERALL 80% OVERALL 80% OVERALL 80%
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CASTLE
Aiieee! The nasty pink spirit got you! A Feeble, eh? You need some nourishing cheese.

M/
• Yeek! The barn's full of evil spirits!

M agister the mage is com-

pletely mad. He's been
ruler of the hilt for 13.000
years, casting pretty nasty
spells on any human who at-
tempted to establish a settle-
ment there. One day, having
reached the ripe old age of
13.000 he dozed off for 500
years.
Along came the Normans
and built a castle: a magic
castle, which sapped his
strength. When he woke up
and found a fort full of people
above him. he flew into a
rage. Unluckily, his wand had
gone limp, his powers were
spent and people only
laughed. Jn embarrassment

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Castle Master is strutting
its knightly stuff soon on
all major formats: 16-bit
will set you back 24.99
(PC) and 19.99 (Amiga),
the latter also including a
brilliant soundtrack. On 8-
bit, Magister-mashing will
cost 9.99 and 14.99:
there'll be less graphical
detail, but all the basic
gameplay will be retained.

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£19.99
The best part about
Castle Master Is the total
freedom of movement
within the game environ-
ment • more so than in any
previous Freescape pro-
duct. Progression isn't li-
near: there's usually
more than one way to
solve a puzzle, and if you
just want to wander
around the castle admir-
A. Aha, the wizard's got some cheese, but has he got a key? ing the scenery, you can.

ASTER
It's also the first Frees-
cape game to be de-
veloped primarily for 16-
bit, so there's an ani-
mated Intro sequence, a
20% larger screen, much
more object detail (rather
than simple polygons)
and the addition of an ac-
tion hand. There's so
much to do it will take
ages to finish even with
minimum points. And if
your bent is for playing
princesses rather than
BY INCENTIVE/DOMARK knights, Incentive have
he sulked off to a hut outside combs, puzzles, one-way other discoveries to be made: included an option for
the walls, vowing vengeance. routes - oh, and ghosts. secret rooms, some very cryp- that, too - playing a
Always one to spoil a Ghosts drain your energy, so tic clues, hidden food, mys- woman is a different prop-
party, Magister turned up on if you don't send them to terious potions and bottles of osition. Take a look at
a feast night and transformed Spook City pretty pronto, beer. Castle Master - It's the
everyone in the castle into they'll shiver the life out of To rescue the princess best Freescape game yet.
grisly ghosts. Unable to con- you. you need to find ten pink pen-
trol his laughter (the sign of Your task is made easier tacles (stashed away in the GORDON
all good villains), he then because control is divided be- oddest places), which allow HOUGHTON
went and kidnapped your tween two "hands'. The wea- access to the pentacle vault -
twin sister. What a dastardl pon hand helps you dispatch this contains more gold than GRAPHICS 87%
That was a year ago - now, those rotten wraiths with a Fort Knox and (more import- SOUND 79%
standing outside the fortress spunky slingshot; the action antly) the final key to your
in some natty knightly gear, hand allows you to perform twin's prison. To get any- VALUE 87%
you're rushing to her rescue. such nifty tricks as open where near these magical PLAYABILITY 92%
Easter said than done. doors, examine objects, eat items you also need keys:
Castle Eternity has over 100 food and pick items up. seven will do. but if you want OVERALL 90%
rooms, endless corridors, a
full set of confusing cata-
As well as hunting and Kill* max points, ten should be
your target.
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COLONEL'S
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family to his home on Misty be prepared to put up
Acres Plantation. Making out with. Black humour plays
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nounces that upon his death, you II find yourself chuck-
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an exact share of his fortune loose chandelier falls on
and, in addition, should any top of you, or If you're
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DARIUS THUNDERCROSS
30,433,020 Scott Redshaw (RED).
4.293,600 Keith Bradley. Black-
Sheffield, Yorks
burn. Lanes
TOOBIN'
DEMON WORLD
1B,798,164 Alex Ware, Sheffield
1.501.500 Martin Deem. Portsmouth TRUXTON
DOUBLE DRAGON 2.005,280 Mitch J Slater (SUN).
1.010.750 Duncan McNally, Bollon, Croydon
Gtr Manchester TWIN COBRA
DOUBLE DRAGON II 5,440,247 P Koltas. Greece
885,000 John Bristow. Erlth, Kent UN SQUADRON
DRAGON BREED
1,333,810 Gary Harrod, Poole
996,450 Jamie Morse, Weston-
VINDICATORS
Super-Mare
DRAGON SPIRIT 1.467.400 Hwo Li Lam (DRY). Lei-
994,375 Jamie Morse (JIM), cester
Weston-Super-Mare VIOLENCE FIGHT
DYNAMITE DUKE 257.900 Jamie Morse (JIM),
1.337.900 Gary Harrod, Poole Weston-Super-Mare
DYNASTY WARS VULCAN VENTURE
1,010.700 Peter Amor, Clevedon, 945,650 Colin McWhiter, Ballyme-
Avon na. N Ireland
FINAL BLOW IKARI WARRIORS WARDNER
1,081.000 Colin McWhirter, Bal- 13.235,975 Paul Stokes (PJ). Aber-
I.364,220 Peter Amor. Clevedon, 1,412,300 Graham Shaw, mena, N Ireland
Avon Loughton. Essex dare
ASTAN II WONDERBOY III
FINAL ROUND KING OF BOXER 894.950 Jamie Morse (JIM).
I I , 9 4 5 , 6 0 0 Tim Walker, Brighton 487,000 Michael Pearson (MP), Weston-Super-Mare 629,392 Paul Bristow, Erith, Kent
FLYING SHARK Staiths, Cleveland RAINBOW ISLANDS WORLD CUP SOCCER
KLAX 621,500 Daniel Ellis (LSD). Bath, VS BRAZIL: 3-1 Ryan Humphries,
2.949,600 Gary Harrod. Poole
37,040 Alex Ware, Shenfieid Avon Durkar, Wakefield
FORGOTTEN WORLDS
LEGEND OF HERO TONMA ROADBLASTERS VS ITALY: 2-1 Ryan Humphries.
6,927,600 Gary Harrod (GJH), Port-
209,890 Chris Ford, Lancing Durkar, Wakefield
smouth 1.560.000 Stu, Melton Mowbray.
LINE OF FIRE VS ARGENTINA: 2-0 Ryan Hum-
GALAGA 88 Leics
1.875,100 Grahame Ellis (GRA), phries, Durkar, Wakefield
1.678,070 Chris Ford (CAF), Lanc- ROBOCOP
Wriltle VS FRANCE: 1-2 Ryan Humphries,
ing. W Sussex 5.234,600 Jeffrey Ford, Ketlering,
MAIN EVENT Durkar, Wakefield
GALAXY FORCE Northants WILLOW
2,253,070 Tony Schrali, Reading, 5,486 6 0 0 Tim Walker, Brighton ROCK N" RAGE
Berks MIDNIGHT RESISTANCE 9.999.990 J Stevens. Cranfield, 1,430,600 Gary Harrod, Poole
GANG WARS 1,569,100 J P Hicks, Cleethorpes, Beds WINNING RUN
150,500 Haq Nawaz. Birmingham S Humberside SAINT DRAGON 2 08 00" Julian Rignall. Southend
GEMINI WINGS NARC X-MULTIPLY
940,370 Colin McWhirter, Ballyme-
3.780,250 John Stray, Lincoln, Lines na, N Ireland 94,085 Alex Ware (AJW). Shenfieid
1,108.640 Martin Deem. Portsmouth

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A big robbery has taken

place and all the crimi-
nals are high-tailing it to differ-
in the state, so it's up to you
to burn rubber and appre-
hend the villains before they
ent parts of the country in reach freedom I
high speed vehicles! Your The action starts some dis
Ferrari F40 is the fastest car tance behind each criminal, See the sights of America by car,'said the brochure.

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SEGA n AYTFTTflTTI
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Battle Outrun bears a re- i
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markable resemblance to
Chase HQ, and while it s 1 m\ 4
pretty good fun, there are
a couple of things which I
BY SEGA TUNE-UP PHRTS SHOP
and you've got to race along SAVINGS. $ 3ooo
found annoying. First of
through heavy traffic to catch
all there s no indication of R 3 o o o
up. Sometimes a friendly
the distance between you
and the criminal, so
lorry appears and lowers its
B.
C
8 o o o .
1 8 o o o BODY.
tailgate so that you can drive
you're never quite sure 1000
in. Once inside you can buy 3 000
how well you're doing. 8000
extra goodies for your car to
The other thing is that the
improve its performance (and PI. 2 o o o .
game isn t particularly dif-
ficult. It doesn t take too
you need all the help you can
get on later levels!).
B.
C
5 o o o .
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long to suss out the game
When the criminal is finally R. 2 o o o .
and capture all eight
criminals, and once
in sight a bar appears at the
lop of the screen and you've
B
C
5 o o o
1 2 o o o . CHASSIS
you've done that the
got to smash him off the road
game's appeal wanes. On ill I|
the positive side, Battle
with repeated hits to make
him surrender.
J
Outrun has plenty of ac-
The game is played over a A Time tor a tune-up in the back of the mechanic's truck.
tion, great graphics and a
strict time limit, and failure to results in the end of the more difficult level where you V Th
choice of soundtracks
smash the baddie off the game. Arrest the criminal and have to capture an even fas-
and that's enough to keep
road before the timer expires you move onto the next, ter felon!
most racing fans happy.
But If you want my honest • Drive over the ramps for extra thrills I
opinion, I'd wait and see
what Sega's forthcoming
official conversion of
Chase HQ is like before
buying this - we'll be re-
viewing it next month!
JULIAN RIGNALL

GRAPHICS 84%
SOUND 73%
VALUE 73%
PLAYABILITY 81%
OVERALL 80%
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SEGA
£24.95
California Games is one
of my favourite games, so
when this sequel came
into the office I rushed
• Phew! That shore wuz wun helluva tough steer! over to the Sega, slapped
in the cartridge... and was
very disappointed in-
deed! The graphics and
sound are great, with
plenty of colourful back-
grounds and excellent
sprites, but when it ac-
tually comes down to
BY SEGA either compete or practice in ing (ride a bonkers bull for as playing the events them-
selves, there's really not
long as possible) and caber
T his sequel to the smash all or some of the events.
The events are: barrel toss (chuck a telegraph pole much to them. Caber
hit number one, California
jump {skate along then jump as far as possible). At the toss, log rolling and barrel
Games, has four new events
over a selected number of end of the competition, points jumping are all very
for up to four international
barrels without falling over), for each event are totalled simple indeed, and re-
players to tackle.
log roll (try to stay upright on and an overall placings table quire hardly any skill to
First of all the players master. The only event
choose which country to rep- your river-floating log and is displayed.
topple the opponent), bull rid that comes anywhere
resent, and then they elect to near the quality of the
' s hardly a "barrel' of laughs
ones in California Games
is bull riding, which is
great fun - and tough too!
But that doesn t save this
package from being one
of the biggest Sega disap-
pointments ever. There's
simply not enough enter-
tainment to justify the
price tag.
JULIAN RIGNALL
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The revamped version.,

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... and the original.

PC ENGINE
£34.95
If there were a prize for
]
I f you were one of the brave
few who cut their video
gaming teeth on the very first
"Most Astoundingty
curate PC Engine Coin-
Op Conversion',
Ac-

this
shoot 'em up video game e e s e e e
would undoubtedly win,
back in '79, you should find though with an arcade
Taito's conversion of their PAUSE I * » SCORE original as unsophisti-
own Original brings back a cated as Space Invaders,
e e e e e e
few wistful memories. perhaps that's not sur-
In this day and age, prising. Mind you this re-
though, it would be presump- W f r ally is a perfect conver-
tuous of Taito to expect a "S? ^ W 5 f t <*? W ^ ^
sion, right from the sound
game of Space Invaders ,UN 8 ] effects down to the In-
(even this absolutely spot-on vaders fiddling with the
conversion) to sell in a mar- lettering on the attract
ket full of shoot 'em ups like screen and the colours on
Gunhed. So, the cartridge the game screen simulat-
also carries a heavily souped- ing the coloured strips of
up version of the game with transparent plastic. Nos-
e e s e e a
prettier graphics, extra wea- talgia value aside, the
pons. but fundamentally the straight conversion Isn't
same gameplay (which I SCORE worth much aa a game,
hope I can assume you'll be but the updated version
familiar with).
oeeoee is, surprisingly, quite ad-
In the new version dictive. This fact is prob-
("Space Invaders Plus") the ably down to the pretty
laser base has been replaced graphics (the space-
with a tank or a spacecraft, scape backdrops are
and shooting the mother ship superb) and the gameplay
which occasionally scoots which ia livened up no
across the top of the screen end by those weirdo wea-
releases one of a bizarre pons. Even if you weren't
there In '79, Space In-
• The last alien, still caus-
( 4 I *
vaders is a bit more than
• Accurate even down to
ing trouble. a trip down Memory Lane.
the screen colours!
range of extra weapons, from PAUL GLANCEY
homing beams to a sort of
windscreen-wiper laser. The GRAPHICS 85%
invaders remain much the
same as ever, marching back SOUND 75%
and forth across the screen in VALUE 70%
strict formation, though some
of the more advanced ones
PLAYABILITY 76%
have learned to shoot diago-
nally, demanding some nifty
OVERALL 75%
dodging on your part. V / / / / / / / / / / A
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£29.99

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MEGADRIVE
screaming towards the on-
£31.90
BY MICR.OHET coming alien hordes. Curses. Tough, no-nonsense hori-
Level upon level of fast-ac- zontally scrolling death
S
itting in the park can be

C+VQ
tion blasting awaits the lucky and destruction is the
hazardous these days.
name of this particular

HIT!
Trees could blow over onto Curse player. Enemy ships
appear in swarms, just wait- game. At first, It seems as
you. dogs could wee up your
ing to be disposed of, and if though you're out for a
leg, or strange alien beings
you don't feel too confident of nice, relaxing plod
could appear from outer
winning with just a single- through the woods, but
space and whisk you off into
shot plasma cannon then you then the scene switches
the middle of a heated battle
can pick up and utilise the to an ultra-fast killing
in which you are the only op-
various other weapons sys- spree which is so speedy
position. Guess this just isn't
tems which appear when cer- that you can almost feel
your lucky day, because in-
tain baddies are killed. You- the G-Forces! It 's a really
stead of having leaves in
begin in a heavily wooded tough battle, and there are
your hair or tinkled-on trou-
forest, and continue through ster at the end of each level, so many enemy sprites
sers, you have just been
the twilight sky. then onto weapons primed and ready to on screen at one time that
transported from the park
deep space and beyond - send you on a lifeless float you'll think you're In a
bench to the cockpit of a
and there's a lovely big mon- through the cosmos. gamer's heaven. Even
single seater attack ship,
though the idea Is so
•t bluebirds of happiness y'knowl overused that it's in des-
• Get blasting! Those aren
I BE3V7M
D&iciil
perate need of lubrica-
tion, everyone likes a
» y
good, old fashioned and,
above all, enjoyable
shoot 'em up, and Curse
i ^ is exactly that. A must for
Megadrlve blaster-mas-
ters who like a shoot 'em
up with a bit of meat on its
bones.
PAUL RAND

GRAPHICS 86%
SOUND 82%
VALUE 87%
PLAYABILITY 84%
OVERALL 85%
' / / / / / / / / / / / / *
 There are umpteen bas-
ketball games doing the
rounds on most con-
soles, but I believe that
what we have In Super
Real Basketball is the
best of its kind, both aes-
thetically and in game-
play. The player sprites
really are something else,
perfectly formed and
superbly animated, and
they rush around that
court as if there were no
tomorrow! And then
there 'a the full-screen ani-
mation views, which are
unbelievable! There's al-
most half a dozen of them,
flPUIIH? and as well as adding
even more to the look of
the game, having to ac-

UPER REAL
• It's Inl A tremendous field goal for Houston! tually Interact on these
screens gives them a real
purpose. A wealth of op-
tions on the front-end lets
the player fine tune the
game to meet his particu-
lar akilla, and there's a

ASKETBALL
host of charming little
touches throughout, such
as the dancing girls at
half-time and the cheer-
leaders who burst onto
the scene when someone
scores. Super Real Bas-
ketball is just that - a real-
istic simulation of a fast
score as many baskets as the movement of your player
moving ballaport, and
BY SEGA possible against the opposi- in order to stuff the ball one which I can heartily

J ust when you thought it tion before the end of the through the hoop. recommend to all arcade
was safe to forget all fourth quarter. Each quarter Sometimes the opposition sports fans.
about slam-dunking, another lasts around five minutes, guard the basket, which ob-
basketball game shows its and at half time you're viously makes things more dif- PAUL RAND
face. treated to a spot of dancing ficult. but if you find yourself
After the statutory options by the local cheerleaders. On on the losing side half-way GRAPHICS 93%
screens, the player is treated going for a basket, the view through, you can always call SOUND 87%
to a 3D horizontally scrolling switches to a full-screen a time-out and alter your tac-
view of the basketball court. close up of the action, where tics! VALUE 89%
The object of the game is to you must judge when to stop | PLAYABILITY 90%|
• The cheerleaders provide ^ entertainment at ha!f^
OVERALL 89%
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MACHINES TAITO
•Wis a (fttte y e l l o w y
. who ttves vviih his kiwi
chums fn a Zealand
,ea he dld
SS*™ l'- tog
wa,r
Out of h i ^ U S broke

out Of his enclosure, showed

made
off off ,ni 0° nthe hii/s with
to' unsr" lh
em
ownL Trki
owners. T , r escaped
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Pbv a^ P
w h i s k e r , a n d m a d e it h i s bus/ I jl
•^ss to go off in search 0?h?s
H
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mped

as h e f / r « f t 3 S , ( ' S n
' a s e a s
/
as he first .magined. There
. f ^ f f f l l f S l a g e s ,0
Kate before y o u n g Tiki

Z T ^ ^ 5 and
each
'eve, s /am-packed with I •
' / / / / / / / / / / / / z grubber-Cad Tiki gobs Blueyscronies.
t h o s . ^ ™ ^ ^ Whai s
PC ENGINE
£32.90
Th/s fs a cracking conver-
sion which will more than
please fans of the coin-op
and cute platform games
in general. The graphics
are top-class, even
though they tend to slow
down when there's a lot
on-screen, and colour is
used liberally throughout.
Sound is above average,
but the tunes become irri-
tating after a while be-
cause they're very high-
pitched and squeaky.
Playability-wise, it's diffi-
cult to find fault. All the
levels and features of the
original have been
squeezed into the cart,
making for fun, addictive
gaming which will outlast
a lot of other Engine titles,
even after you've com-
pleted It.

OVERALL 90%
' / / / / / / / / / / / / a

I
 game
himself - and
l more than a match
lirpy chappie who • Hurrah! Tiki finds his V / / / / / / / / / / / Z
hatched for much chum on level two.
more than a minute! MEGADRIVE
Help along the way comes
in the form of bombs, laser
£33.90
guns hover pads, hot air bal- The levels in the Mega-
drive conversion are dif-
loons and rubber geese (to
ferent from, and slightly
gel theflightlessfoul air-
more difficult than the ar-
borne). cade game's, but It still
4 Tiki rides a goose Into a oozes excellence, featur-
secret warp. ing cute and cuddly
sprites, marvellous tunes
and sound effects, and
gameplay which you'll
T Lucky that lead balloon find hard to beat outside
is arrow-proof! of an amusement arcade!
The challenge to get
through each level is im-
0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 O mense, but you're aided
along the way by a host of
weird and wonderful
items. Even so you'll find
the going tough and de-
manding and it's a good
job that there's a continue
option built in. Everything
rj •:-. r
has been included in this
w .r conversion - it even has
"^r^M A* iipl
level warps! It might not
be to everyone's taste,
but If you're the sort of
person who craves bril-
liant arcade conversions,
fc; m i then do not ponder your
next purchase a moment
I m , V £ £
longer; get hold of a copy
of New Zealand Story
today!
PAUL RAND
GRAPHICS 93%
SOUND 94%
VALUE 92%
PLAYABILITY 95%

o OVERALL 94%
V / / / / / / / / / / A

105
• P C ENGIHE

PARANOIA
A The
Evil Eye at the end
of stage one.

PC ENGINE
£32.90
Producing a shoot 'em up
which Is tough enough to
BY NAXAT suit hardened blasters

I t's all very well setting out in and yet still playable Is al-
your fighter craft to blast ways difficult, but Naxat
away at all and sundry, but have come very close to
you're not going to get very achieving this with Para-
far if your spaceship's a bit noia. Right from the be-
poo. Such is the state of your ginning the bullets fly
around the screen, keep-
vessel in this game, but at
ing you right on your toes.
the moment you're riled
But instead of the game
enough not to care about tri-
becoming an unplayable
vialities like certain fiery
drag, its addictive
death. You've heard that the
enough to keep you com-
boss of this planet has been ing back for more. It 's not
spreading nasty rumours a fantastic looker, al-
about your parentage and. though the sprites and
paranoid fool that you are, backdrops are more than
you've decided to get your adequately drawn and
own back. This does how- coloured, and there's
ever, put you into a sticky situ- some good, meaty tunes
ation, because he happens to to keep you bopping
be the ruler of fourteen galac- through the levels. There
are visually more exciting
A Yaiee! Dodge those blades, Engine shoot em ups
Shoof the middle of the snake! available, but I would im-
tic systems and commander agine that, because of its
of several squadrons of dead- mix of difficulty and ad-
ly space beasties, all of dlctlveness. Paranoia
whom are now on course to could still be an oft-
interceptand destroy you! played game long after
Your ship has three en- others have been com-
ergy units, and if any of the pleted and stowed in a
boss-man's henchmen shoot cupboard.
or collide with your ship a unit
is lost. Luckily there are a var- PAUL RAND
iety of power-ups to bolt onto
your tighter, and these range GRAPHICS 76%
from a pretty simple shield to SOUND 88%
massive death-beams and ro-
tating drone craft. Grab all VALUE 84%|
that you can because at the PLAYABILITY 83%l
end of each level there's a
supermean guardian, which OVERALL 83%1
spews out more bullets than
you've had hot dinners. V / / / / / / / / / / /
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with a fairly standard blaster. the best-looking shoot
load of baddies to blast • lots

A tomic Robo Kid has just but if he shoots the right ob- em ups yet seen on the
of little ones and a mini-guard-
graduated from the ject it turns into one of four PC. Engine. The back-
ian on each level, and a huge
Universal University of Space extra weapon icons - collect it drops are colourful and
bigger-than-a-screen mega-
Combat and is on his first and you either get atomic beautifully designed,
guardian every fourth level
mission - to travel deep into blasters, three-way atomic many of the sprites are
that requires a load of hits be-
enemy territory and destroy fire, atomic missiles or atomic superb, and the big (and I
fore it explodes. But then,
everything that gets in his lasers! mean BIG) mega-guard-
who says spade combat is
way. tans are superb -1 ve seen
And these are all very easy?
The metal matey starts nothing like them since R-
helpful, because there's a
Type! The action is fast
• A c f f e n ' s b o s s is a toughie! and furious - maybe a bit
too easy on the lower le-
vels • but later on (around
level 14) things really start
getting tough, with some
tricky situations to guide
Robo Kid through. The
only annoying thing is
that when you lose cer-
tain weapons on higher
levels, its incredibly diffi-
cult to carry on, but if you
ignore that, Atomic Robo
Kid is an extremely slick
and polished blaster that
should go down a bomb
with any PC Engine shoot
em up fan.
JULIAN RIGNALL
GRAPHICS 90%
SOUND 81%
VALUE 82%
PLAYABILITY 86%
OVERALL 83%
V / / / / / / / / / / /

107
 has qualified for the
competition, be it rifl/IE f i v e fe,,ow
s o l d i e r s and
crummy Cameroon or defeat the megaloma-
brillo Brazil. But all niac
US GOLD these options will be
Q O I n i P D C
v V U U I t n O
Gy'end before he
decides he's sick of
With the World Cup |ust
useless without decent
around the corner, US ELECTR0C0IN
gameplay - and t h a t s
Gold are soon releasing
what programmers Tter-
Italy 90. a complete
tex are implementing at
simulation of this sum-
the moment. We'll bring
mer's forthcoming foot-
vou a full review of the games marketplace, but erfra a I m f n ? * , 0 '
ball festivities. The
game is packed with game when it finally ar- now they're launching a UDand^n» ? ft*
ultra-accurate tacts n rives. aa gg aa sSt t G
software label, the lfii ri ti ™ ' "S V
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SILKWORM
IV
SALES CURVE
What has happened to
Silkworms It and III,
that's what we want to
know' But then again,
after looking at the
screenshots of the fol-
low-up to one of the hot-
test horizontal scrollers
of last year, we couldn't
care less! As with the
first one. Silkworm IV is
a shoot em up in which
one or two players con-
trol either a helicopter or
ieep, as they storm
 REVIEW
I W / / / / / / / / / / /

OPERATION
STEALTH
f
PALACE
One simply can't trust a
. *m
world leader these days.
General Manigua of Para-
gua has gone from
being a mild-mannered,
placid sort of chap to a
drug-crazed dictator. His I ^ H B
followers have nipped
LSIS:
over to the US and half-
than before. Add a large inched one of the new
SPEEDBALL helping of management- Stealth bombers, and
the Soviets have got
style character interac-
tion, a whacking great wind of the whole she-
II nanigans and are hot- mil
dollop of extra weaponry
and other useful items footing it over to Para-
IMAGEWORKS gua to claim the B2 for
and more than a tad of
| Sequels are the flavour themselves. Which puts
increasingly more diffi-
o1 the month, and what you, as CIA agent John
cult levels, and you're
I better one to have than Glames, in a somewhat been tinkered with. Look
left with a game which
the follow-up to one of sticky situation in the se- out for the review after
has the potential to blast
the most highly-ac- quel to the respectable we've been over to Para-
its classic prequel into
claimed games of 1988? Future Wars. As you can gua. dodged and battled
oblivion. We'll tell you
The Bitmap Brothers see, the graphics have with a couple of Mani-
what the finished article
have stuffed a playing been pepped up a bit, gua's henchmen and lib-
turns out like when we
area more than twice the and it's said that the erated a copy of the
review Speedball II in
size of that found in operating system, which game!
the next couple of
| Speedball into the se- came in for a bit of criti- R E L E A S E : ST A M I G A ,
months.
quel and the graphics cism when we reviewed
R E L E A S E : ST A M I G A MID M A Y
have been totally re- the first game, has also PRICE: £24.99
vamped and re-animated PC, MAY
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RAILROAD i
across the many levels
of enemy-infested terri- TYCOON
tory. Unlike the original
Silkworm though, the se-
MICROPROSE
Toot! Toot! What young
quel is a vertically scroll- 'un hasn't wanted to be
ing game, and there's a a train driver at some
lot more variety in the time? You won't actually
various stages. Not only get to ride on the foot
that, but graphically the plate, shoveling coal I '
game is streets ahead of into the burner, but you
its forefather, with high-
L
will be able to build rail ssome tough decisions
ly realistic sprites and at- systems across the along the way like how
mospheric backdrops all world in this new one best to spend your re
round. We'll be review- from F-19 and Pirates! sources and whether or
ing the completed ver-

i
creator, Sid Meier. As not to take your rail
sion next month, so with everything in life,
there's something to route through an area of
you have to take the natural beauty, and
look forward to! rough with the smooth, y
R E L E A S E : A M I G A ST you'll need the bottle to
so as well as raking in d
deal with such hazards
S P E C T R U M C64 AM- all the dosh from your a
STRAD, J U L Y as mining disasters.
fantastic new invention, R E L E A S E : PC, A P R I L
PRICE: TBA
you'll also have to make P
PRICE: TBA

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D Q n 1F P T X mission. The robots

TREASURE
C n U O u U I
N I I N D S C A P E
A h a v e detachable body

parts - it o n e o t y o u r
TRAP
To be honest this game droids is a dk s w
ELECTRONIC ZOO
isn't really called Project into This underwater explora-
X. but our prev.ew ,S so s Gr- tion business isn't as
ahead of time, even o turbo g easy as Jacques Cous- to stay out of their way
Mindscape haven t de- ^ H * * * a l l s o r t s of teau used to make out, by jumping around the
C64 classic s* Tony - s t y monsters and pat- and nobody knows that platforms and conveyor
better than the be-suited belts, or alternatively, re-
Crowther is the m a n be-
hero of this game. He lease your pet piranha
hind P r o j e c t X. w h . c h wise to do
has to hunt around the and let him eat you out
t a k e s t h e f o r m of a Dun- laser-hmtoloo v ^
wreck of The Esmeralda of trouble. Emerald Soft-
g e o n M a s t e r - e s q u e ad-
for bars of gold to top ware are programming
v e n t u r e t h r o u g h a laby- ™ * a l r e a d y it
up his ailing bank bal- the game, which will no
rinth of p u z z l e s a n d J* * • . ,„ b e h i s
ance, but he's found The doubt bring a few happy
traps. Using a portable ' o o K ^ V o r k yet! Esmeralda's riches are
computer and.a remote greatest wo y ^ ^ memories to lovers of Ul-
guarded by various timate's Spectrum clas-
link, y o u h a v e t o g e t f o u r species of nasty fish sics, Knight Lore and
robots through the maze PC, and crustacean, which Alien 8.
to an objective, which PFHCt-^ c29.99) will nibble away at his
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RESOLUTION
101
MILLENNIUM
From the programmers
of Archipelagos comes
this 3D wonderment,
which casts you as a fu-
turistic bounty hunter,

|l £ Ij1 « ft
out to rid your city of vil- *
lains. Stalk the streets in
your vehicle until you r. ii
come across a hostile rtnrvrxiCC
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into a trillion smoking
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SKID up of (amongst many

other things) daredevil
it le
loo|
ang
MARKS jumps, loop-the-loops,
banked turns, skid pans ami
and tunnels. And if you smi
MINDSCAPE get bored with the de- C+\
Another of Mindscape's fault tracks, you can war
up-and-coming gems is build your own with the gan
this superb stunt driving track editor! You can lool
game, programmed by also watch the action Har
Distinctive Software from a variety of camera part
(who produced, viewpoints, and even flop
amongst other things, use VCR-style controls REI
the Test Drive and Hard- to stop the action, re- SEF
ball series for Accolade). Manual I'lTTTTTTl
02:05.75 0 1 : 5 2 . 6 5 wind it, fast-forward and PC
You can drive a choice
"Tilin anew 5lbu rami pan around or zoom in PRI
of fast cars around a JJUII can rat rr«T
iw;u mmt
c
H p * on say, the Ferrari Testa- E24
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110
 PARADROID game is so maddeningly
addictive that you'll feel
as though someone has
'90 squirted Superglue all
over your seat - and the
HEWSON 16 bit game promises to
Crikey! After what be even better! Just one //////////A
seems like donkey's look at the screenshot
years of waiting, at last shows how much work
we've got a screenshot has gone into Paradroid I t : 1
of Andrew Braybrook's '90 and, if Andrew's past
16 bit conversion of ar- successes are anything
guably one of the most to go by (just think
addictive C64 games about C64 Uridium and
ever. Paradroid '90 puts 16 bit Rainbow Islands!),
you into the spherical this latest one should be
frame of an influence as hot as an oven on
droid on a mission to gas mark 34! Look out
close down all the rogue tor the review just as
robots on five malfunc- soon as we get our V7TTTJ7
tioning space stations. L s j'r.lit
hands on the finished
Anyone who has played item. R E L E A S E : ST A M I G A , SUMMER PRICE: TBA
the 64 version of Para-
droid will know that, des-
pite its simplicity, the
THE has lost his biffy son,
Barnaby, and has ap-
pointed you, brave sol-
bits! As you earn more
cash, drop into your
TOYOTTES dier Cyprian, to enter the
underground labyrinth
friendly neighbourhood INFOGRAMES and track down young
armament shop and pick Trust those garcons Barns. This inane sto-
up some mighty wea- from across the Channel ryline paves the way for
pons, or extra sensory to come up with a game a 3D romp through a
equipment, or even buy design which can only world which, looking at
a whole new vehicle. be described as... un- the screenshot, smacks
We've seen a demo of usual. The Toyottes are of a 3D version of
Resolution 101, and it a race of small purple Snakes and Ladders, but
looks plenty good. The rats, one of the few sur- with no dice to roll and
review in the very next viving strains of life left loads of baddies to kill!
C+VG will reveal all. after the Holocaust. Look out for the forth-
R E L E A S E : ST A M I G A Their King, Claudius coming review, folks.
PC, S P R I N G Rapedadedilapoulos IV, R E L E A S E : ST A M I G A
* A P R I C E S : ST A M I G A apart from having an un- PC, M A Y
£ 2 4 . 9 9 , P C £29.99 believably silly name, PRICE: TBA

9 leaves the loop-the-

ioop at an unusual
ingle. The blood-thirsty,
mbulance-chasing,
smash-up fans in the
+VG office just can't
wait to play the finished
game, because it really
looks like It'll make even
Hard Drivin' look com-
jaratively soft and
loppy!
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