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ACE FLASHBACK! 3
We celebrate the end of the decade that launched home
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computer entertainment. This isn't just history, its myth
and legend - including such unforgettable trivia as the 1K ACE is overlowing with games news
micro advertised for running a nuclear power station! again...In addition to the full reviews
listed below. you'll find coverage of
DEATH CHAMBER 1 2 0 the latest conversions o n pa ge s
Asteel womb, a vibrating control panel. and sixteen 1231124; our guide to over 6 0 top
terrified gamesters locked in mortal combat. Is the Bat- games in the Pink Pages (starting on
detech Centre the end of life as we know it? p.137)— ideal for Christmas presents
(for yourself. o f course), p lu s three
new fantasTRPG's on pp.109110.

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GHOSTBUSTERS II Actrvision 8 8
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n De s i gn E di t or GHOULS'N'GHOSTS US Gold 6 8
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Cont r i but or s THE BIG CHILL 1 0 4 INTERDICTOR Mares 8 4
Eugene Lacey Humanity faces extinction, ..Polar bears die of IT CAME FROM THE DESERT 8 7
Kati Ha ma cold...We plunge into Midwinter, Rambird's most ambi- Cinemaware
John Minson
tious game to date, and discover a 20-million triangle,
John Cook LEISURE SUIT LARRY III 6 1
fractal-generated hell on earth.
Gordon Houghton Sierra Online
Gary Whitta
Gary Penn GOLDCUT GAMES 2 7 MOONWALKER U.S, Gold 7 0
Ciaran Brennan On a cold and grey November morn, two members of the MYTH System 3 6 2
Mark Patterson ACE team crept out of the ghetto and visited...Birming- ONSLAUGHT Hewson 5 2
Phil South ham. They returned with news of startling software devei- QUARTZ Firebird 9 2
Pat Winstanley opments from the UK s program powerhouse: US Gold,
Christina Erskine RALLY CROSS Anco 8 0
ROLLER COASTER Tynesott 7 4
Addi t i ona l De s i gn By
Phil Hendy SNARE Thalamus 9 9
SWITCHBLADE Gremlin 5 1
I l l us t r a t i on
Geoff Fowler THE CYCLES Accolade 9 7
THE THIRD COURIER Accolade 5 8
Adv e r t i s i ng
Ma na ge r TOOBIN• Tengen 7 2
Garry Williams TURBO OUTRUN U.S. Gold 6 5
TWIN WORLDS Ubisoft 7 7
De put y Adv e r t i s i ng
Ma na ge r BEYOND WORDS 1 2 6 WONDER BOY Ill Sega 5 0
Jerry Hall ACE readers put their souls on screen in pixel prose.
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 END OF AN ERA
it fair ma d e us we e p , guy. As t h e ACE T e a m t ra v e lle d b ack o v e r the last ten
years fo r our p ilg rimag e through t h e d ecad e, e v e n t h e iron-spirited Rik Hayn es
was seen to sh ed a p rivat e tear. F a re w e l l Eugene Evans, p ro g ra mme r of the
immo rtal Wh acky Waiters, n o w lost down t h e brain d rain (su rely s o me mi s t a k e -
it w a s a t errib le g a me ) to th e USA; f a re w e l l the Micro d rive ("....it will h ave a
majo r imp a c t fo r so p h isticated personal/business software..."); an d wh e re do
Space In tru d ers in tru d e n o w (probably a t n u mb e r one in so me f a r East ern coun-
try). It 's a ll th ere, in a g ian t t h ree p a rt series startin g this mo n th .
However, w h e n w e a c t u a lly got d o wn to playing s o me o f the G re a t Old Games,
we got a b it o f a shock. A f e w fl ickerin g sp rites je rk e d acro ss t h e screen , so me-
thing b eep ed , a n d then w e g o t ERROR I N L I NE 40059. We soon d ried our tears:
gameplay ma y b e w h a t i t s a ll about, b u t give us g a me p la y AND solid-3D state-
of-the-art displays ( wit h d ig itised stereo sound) an y day.

G A M E P L AY REGULARS
SCREEN T EST 4 4 NEWS 9
The glowing games heart of Christmas features the After all the fuss over the Nintendo Gameboy, we hear
rigours of Hard Drivin', the terrors of Ghouis'n'Ghosts, news of a colour model...plus news of the stimulator
the fists of Bruce Lee, the screams of ft Came From a new form of simulator that really kicks ass. A report
The Desert, the lechery of Leisure Suit t arry too on the outcome of the historic Tetris legal battle
Santas - but you do get a Mickey in Moonwalker. between Nintendo and Tengen.

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IN ARCADIA 1 4
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Some sprites are cute: some sprites are
Coin-op futures: will Block Hole be bigger than Tetris?
vicious; but this man's sprites won an
BIG BANG! 2 3 Oscar! ACE profiles John Lasseter, a man
who can move mountains - on screen.
The ACE Stockmarket continues with this months
charts as software houses suffer the slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune in the games world.

DIAL 999! 1 1 3
You re in a jam. turn now to the ACE Tricks and Tactics
section. Hints and maps for Shadow of the Beast. Spy
Vs. Spy I) on the Sega. Xenon U tips, and more...

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video of Bruce Lee in action, courtesy of Mindscape. report into the psychology, challenge, and
achievements of computer wargaming.
ACE VOUCHERS 1 5 1 Will the final battle be between men...or
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• Rent yourself a console

• Codemasters go on CD.-
ACENEWS
GAMEBOY
Just when you thought it was safe to start saving up for
an Atari colour Lynx console, news comes from the East
of a new Nintendo....
intendo is planning to launch a full profits from its phenomenally successful mono
colour version of its highly successful deck. As ACE went to press Nintendo was
monochrome Gameboy, according to unavailable for comment.
a number o f unofficial sources. Its current Meanwhile. Nintendo has just won its long-
monochrome Gameboy hand-held system is going court battle with Tengen over the classic
doing a storm in Japan and USA with demand Terris. Nintendo now has exclusive rights to
easily outstripping supply (see ACE 27). this addictive game - after some confusion
Meanwhile Gameboy is set for a UK debut over what company had what rights from
at the Earls Court Toy Fair in January - along whom. Although this Nintendo vs Tengen court
with its rival Atari Lynx colour hand-held con-
sole. Some cynics say Nintendo will wait sever-
battle is over, there is still another $100 million
lawsuit between the two companies - this time *PI
al months before officially disclosing a colour over alleged patent infringement. The final judg-
Gameboy - thus allowing them to soak up the ment in this case will be in the New Year.

STIMULATING! SEGA FOR RENT

Virgin/Mastertronic has hit upon another
great marketing scheme to promote its
Sega Master console - its going to let you
A Californian entrepreneur has developed a revolutionary new like-like entertainment rent (or buy) Sega's from your local video
race-car simulator. Developed by Driver Seat, the Stimulator is an amusement-park rental shop.
ride similar to Walt Disney's Theatre-Simulator (as featured in ACE 27). Based around Under the scheme, you can go into any
a Formula One racing car, the Stimulator is a fully-enclosed motion capsule - a RCA/Columbia outlet (there are some 1200
scaled-down version of the many civil and military flight-simulators - which can move around the UK) and rent out a Sega console or
at 25 revolutions per minute. In fact, the Stimulators are built by Environmental Tech- games cartridge. Although market forces will
tonics for training Navy Pilots. US gamesters can look forward to experiencing a decide the eventual asking price, a rough price
Stimulator later in the year at their local shopping mall or amusement park - as for guide would be £10 per weekend for the con-
their UK counterparts we'll have to wait and see... sole (with a few games thrown in) and E2 per
night for a game (from a selection of twenty
top titles). On the subject of the Sega's rental
durability, Philip Ley - Sega Brand Manager at
Virgin/Mastertronic - told ACE: 'we're lucky the
Sega's so bullet proof".

SHOP TILL 'YER

DROP
Computer City Supercentre - the world's first
computer supermarket - opened to a raptur-
ous computer public last month in Garden
Grove, California. As well as demonstrations of
the latest hard and soft wares there is a soft
ware lab fo r testing programs. The normal
assortment of box-shifters are supplemented
by manufacturers such a s Apple, IBM and
Epson. The next Supercentre will open in San
Diego. and Computer City plans to open 20 US
stores over the next five years. Unfortunately a
UK Supercentre doesn't look very likely, but
Walt Di sney's Body War s the a tr e •s i m ul a tor i n l ul l s w i ng you never know...

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 NEWS FROM
USA
• The Wizard movie from Universal Pictures -
starring Fred Savage from the cult Channel
Four Sunday evening comedy The Wonder
Years - tells the adventures of two brothers at
the National Video Game Championships. I t
opened across America on 15th November, it
should be over here during 1990.
• Taito America has bought up the rights to
Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade from Lucas-
film Games, The game should be appearing in
coin-op form sometime this year. Previously,
Atari Games handled the coin-op conversion of
Lucasfilm's Indiana Jones and the Temple of
Doom.
• Cinemaware games are to be converted over
to Nintendo NES. No title details at present,
but Defender of the Crown is sure to be among
the conversions planned.

Bros. on CD. . . Da r l i ng Br os. t ha t is!

IN THE PIPELINE
Entertainment International is so pleased with

COMPACT NO SEXIST its latest game that its licensed the title out to
leading US software company Lucasfilm and is

CODE SOFTWARE planning coin-op. console and hand-held ver-

sions. With a provisional title of Pipe Dream,
the game was originally created by John Dale
MASTERS OASIS (Organisation Against Sexism in Soft-
ware) recently celebrated its first anniversary.
at the Assembly Line. but once Lucasfilm got
involved with the project, it underwent some
Sandra Vogel, founder of the organisation and tweaks in the looks and playability depart-
Veteran budgeteers Code Masters ha s ments. Pipe Dream is one of those simple, but
keen S T gamester, decided t o campaign
come up with a novel way to sell a games infuriatingly addictive, arcade/puzzle games
against sexist software after playing one offen-
compilation... by releasing it on Compact like Tetris or Xor. Expect to see it sometime in
sive game too many. Vogel says, "I can see no
Disk for Spectrum, C64 and CPC. January on Spectrum, C64, CPC, ST, Amiga,
reason why stereotypes of women for men)
The E.20 30-game compilation (including
Code Masters "classics like BMX Simulator, should have to be used in computer games. NIP
One o f the advantages this technology has
Fruit Machine Simulator and Four Soccer Sim-
over other games media is that you can do lit
,c1:
u)ators) comes on a CD and leads to connect
to a CD player. Code Masters claims its CD will erally anything with a computer".
Membership to OASIS costs E3 (E5 over-
1 0:4 0:4
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work with 99% of players, with an average load Cit 0:4 0 11_0
time o f just 2 0 seconds. German software seas). Members receive six magazines a year, 9,1 I R O
lists of recommended software and names of
developer, Rainbow Arts already has a similar
CD package for the C64 - though the Arts useful organisations. If you're interested make 0 0:4
cheques payable to Sandra Vogel or send an
pack only includes six games and costs E.30. 0:4
SAE to: Sandra Vogel, 3 Alden Court, Stanley
Amiga, ST and PC owners will have to wait for 0:4
Road. Wimbledon, London SWI9 8RD.
their CM CD games due to "technical difficul-
ties'. Funnily enough, Code Masters aren't call-
ing the pack, CO Simulatorl

BUDDING
BUD°
Electronic Arts' latest PC release is a epic mar-
tial arts game with a multitude of opponents
and disciplines to master. The most startling
thing about the Budokan is its beautiful graph-
ics and wonderful sound: the picturesque back-
drops are complemented by life-like sprites and
nice little animated touches like flying birds and
waterfalls. Even the sampled sound effects
through the internal speaker are impressive. As
with many EA PC titles, the full complement of
graphics modes and sound boards are catered
for. ACE has played an preproduction version
of the game, and it not Only looks and sounds
good but also plays extremely well - check out
next month's issue f o r a fu ll review. P C
Budokan costs E24.99 and should be available
now - other versions may follow later in the
year. Eat your he a r t out, Br uc e Le e !

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 HARDDRIVEN' on the ST using Turbo C and Art
Director. The final source code is
350K400K with a ratio of 70% C,
30% Assembler. The hardest part
ACE INTERVIEWS THE GUYS BEHIND DOMARKS 9 3 to write was the rotation code,
:ures -
:hannel RATED RACER
-7 the most difficult version was the
yonder Jurgen Friedrich and Mike Day are the program- previous record was 19 PC, due to its lack of horsepower
iers at mers behind the ST and Spectrum versions of days, 1 hour and 45 min- and differing graphics modes.
Os. It utes), had only written The 16-bit versions maintain a
Hard Drivin' (reviewed on pages 46/47). Spec-
iber, it trum Hard Drivin' took five months to write. Day one game before Hard frame rate of 8-10 a second, with
used a Tatung Einstein as a development sys- Drivin' - Double Dragon over 150 objects on screen at
hts to on the PC. Day made the the same time. Friedrich started
tem until the source code got too big, he then
Lucas- switched to a PC 386 PDS system. The final move from the PC to the out writing utilities for the Apple II,
nng in source code comes in at 200K, including the Spectrum because, - but he g o t so hooked on the
iously, bitmap graphics Hex data. Day spent the first tSpectrum
he i s a simple Star Wars coin•op that he wrote a
;ion of month optimising the polygon handling routines clear cut machine to pro- Mac version. Hard Orion' is his
FA
)le of - the final game runs at 5 frames per second gram with no complicat- J O rgen w e l l ' h a r d F r i e d r i c h second game, and he will proba-
with a 'Virtually unlimited' number of on-screen ed Operating System or bly be writing the 16-bit versions
dover objects. The CPC and C64 versions use the graphic incompatibilities". Day believes there of STUN Runner. Friedrich foresees a trend
esent, Spectrums program code and will b e increased emphasis towards 3 D graphics a n d mo re complex
imong data tables, "converting t h e towards 3D games in the future: games with "artificial worlds where four or five
source code onto the 064 was the new powerful graphics hard- players can interact together..."
difficult - the original C64 pro- ware will be put to good use".
grammer opted out - but the His next game will either b e Airgen Friedrich M i k e Day
object shape data remains the another Spectrum coin-op con- TOP FIVE MOVIES T O P FIVE PAST-TIMES
with same for all versions". What this version - probably Domark/Ten- BtADL RUNN-LH I GIRLFRIEND
out to gen's STUN Runner - o r a 2ALIENS 2 JUGGLING
means to C64 gamesters is -
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unfortunately - monochrome 68000 programming p ro je ct 3VERTIGO 3 PROGRAMMING
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graphics, but Day offers "at least developing complex 3D routines. 4 NORTHBY NW 4 WEIGHT-TRAINING
ream, the C64 dash-board will be more Jurgen Friedrich, a 2 5 5 DIVA 5 CYCLING
Dale
colourful". Day, a 2 4 year-olo year-old West German from Dus-
n got Cambridge graduate and Recorc seldorf, wrote all the 16-bit ver- TOP FIVE MICROS T O P FIVE GAMES
some sions of Hard Drivin• - except the 1MAC II I MAD PLANETS
Breaker (he's going in to t h e
van- 1990 Edition o f th e Guiness Archie version which i s being 2 ATARI ST 2 HARD ORMN'
but
Book of Records for breaking the written b y the Thderdictor pro. 3 AMIGA 3 STUN RUNtskR
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unicycling record fro m Lands Mik e Day : p r egr am m er , grammers (see review on page 4 ARCHIMEDES 4 BLAST ERiODS
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John Cook runs the gauntlet at the recent Associated

might seem a bit empty this
Leisure Preview in London and discovers a promising time of year but, as usual, the
trade is busy looking a t the
new Tetris challenger...plus m entrails o f the odd sacred
goat,
a throwing runes, and generally reflect-
ing
n on what bought in the most money last
season
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make even more next summer.
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BLOCKHOLE very well attended too.

e Arcade operators made the long trek
tos the Novotel in Hammersmith to see the
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latest hardware in action and they weren't
Konami a
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these
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The big manufacturers take
shows very seriously and there were
Block Hole is almost like Tetris in reverse; games
i that hadn't even been shown at the
Tetris meets Space Invaders, maybe? The game huge
d US AMOA show a few weeks previ-
is this. You control a single space ship moving ously.
e
left/right along the bottom of the screen, just a
ORGI ES OF DE ATH
like Invaders. Likewise you fire vertically up the r
First
screen • but instead of laser fire, it's building c the bad news. Just when you thought
blocks. it was safe to go back into the arcades
a
Down from the top of the screen comes a without sporting a flak jacket, both SNK
andd Sega come out with more electronic
series of irregular shapes - loads at once. If one
e
shooting galleries.
of these shapes reaches the bottom o f the
s This is made all the more depressing
screen then you loose a life. So how do you get
rid of these shapes? You have to fire bricks at buy Sega's effort, Line of Fire, being its
them to make 'em rectangular - then they disap- first attempt to produce an Op Wolf clone -
pear. Then they start coming faster and faster. having held out for so long. Shown in proto-
Teti
Dead simple isn't it? But it works. type only, Line of Fire utilises Sega's well
nomena.
- On Gameboy (its bundled with the
thing)
is alone we are talking 5 million and count- There are a few other complications, but
ini g_
s Counting very fast too. this is essentially it - and I can personally vouch
that it has much of the appeal and addictive-
, Not surprisingly, that means that just about
every software company in the world is trying to ness of its Big Brother.
a
produce another arcade puzzle game to be the As one of the most popular games on offer
s Tetris.
next at the Preview, expect to see Block Hole litter-
y There have been some pretty bad attempts ing the arcades early next year. And the collec-
soo far • Taito's Plotting probably being the worst tive unconscious being what it is, maybe a 'simi-
-ubut now Konami have come up with an idea lar' home computer version soon after that
m is the best of the bunch yet.
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a ger onto fire button then disengage both
g conscience and frontal lobes.
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there can be up to two of you) ammunition.
b Sega have plumped for a bonus based on
In recent years, after Op Wolf, Taito's greatest was never like this in Z Cars. your percentage of hits - and overall the
a
success has to be Chase HQ. This was a chase But despite its success, I always felt that game seems an excellent example of its
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driving game where you had to imagine you Chase HQ had something missing. That elusive type - although I am still mildly dismayed
werep in Miami Vice, driving a flash motor, zoom- touch that is the dream of all motorists who that anyone should want t o pay good
inhg after assorted mobile villainy. have ever driven in London (ave, speed during money to blow away fake human beings.
e When you caught up with them, what did rush hours, 14mph). And that is? At least Line of Fire tries to remove the
you - have to do? Bash the bleedin' car into them Simple. The ability to lean out of the car action a little way from reality by using
until they burst into flames and pulled over. It with a bazooka and blow all the other scum off

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large cartoon bubbles with 'Ouch" in, to
denote when you get hit.
SNK, o f course, had a big success
mth Mechanised Attack - a two player
clone of Op Wolf - which was, strangely, a
great deal more successful than Taito's
own follow-up to the mega-hit, Operation
ades
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flect• Criminal investigations • effectively Chase HQ II -
last allows you to do this and by golly it is so satis-
y to fying that I've got the psychoanalyst booked
already. drops you upgraded hardware by helicopter and
UK Controls are almost identical to Chase, with then the fun really starts. Kaboom!
5t of the addition of fire buttons on the strut of the Not the kind of thing you expect to get a
and steering wheel. Press it and - boring - at first great deal of intellectual stimulation from - but if
you just get a pea shooter of a piece to admin- they ever release an M25 scenery ROM for it
trek ister truth and justice with. you'll have to prise me off the cabinet with a
the Beast Buster s But if you're good - very, very good - the DA crowbar.
•en't
take Thonderoolt. Will they repeat th is with
.'ere Beast Busters?
the This can be played by up to three play-
ers simultaneously - but gone are the
human-like sprites. With this one you are
blowing away ghosties, goblins and things
that look like they've got terminal wet rot.

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ght I'd call it a cross between Op Wolf and
des Namco's Splatterhouse myseff - and a s
;NK such I guess, skating on my philosophically
iric thin ice, I'd rather see people playing this

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obviously surreal game than something
more 'realistic'. Gottlieb
its It'll be interesting to see if these sec-
- Gottlieb? Who are they? Well hold on a
ond generation shooting matches have as : U S N i ti LI TTO N TO STMO
much success as the former breed - but bit, Gottlieb generally makes quite good m i n I t ci r •vi r r ,
ito- 11111•100---- lits: 9
pintables • the latest being a super-fast
eel! you can bet they won't install either at the effort called Bone Busters. But curious-

1 Reid Lion in Hungerford.

ly, it has now entered the video market -
PI NBALL POWER and in the weirdest possible way.
People like me often criticize manu-
Two bits of good news from the Show,
facturers for lack o f imagination and
however. Firstly Pinball seems to be mak-
choosing t o ma ke safe a n d easy
ing something o f a minor comeback - rib
games. But there again, it's not our
which only goes to show that some pun-
houses on the line if the games bomb!
ters have got a bit of common. In the USA
I anticipate someone at Gottlieb is
the revenue split between vids and pinball
either going to be very rich - or home-
is around 45/55, but it's nowhere near that
less - in the near future, as Extermina-
high in the UK • as yet. With the great
tor i s a completely new and fresh
tables that are being produced a t the
game. As such it seemed bewildering
moment, however - Black Knight 2000, 1 1 .:
to many operators. 4 AT TIC M I Z E GA R A GE
Monday Night Football, Police Force, ENi-
ra, Bone Busters, etc, maybe that will The look of the thing for a start -
digitised backgrounds and sprites. The
change over here? S
theme; surreal man! You
Secondly, someone has come up with E
control a disembodied hand
an arcade puzzle game that is almost as x
which can stamp on and t
good as Tetris (Block Hole —see below).
fire a t attack waves o f e
Let's hope there are lots more to come.
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if I like it or not. But it show
that someone can still use
their imagination and is still
willing to take a flyer in this
business. For that at least,
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Afew issues ago in ACE the Fire- for the Amiga, are they really so GOD SQUAD
bird game Rainbow Islands was foolish as to forget the hundreds
reviewed. It was rated 934 and I of thousands of potential Atari ST
Dear mortal ACE readers, I am the Deity who plans to make sure that
thought it would be a great game software buyers?
violent computer games stay, not only on Earth but in the whole Uni-
to get for ST. Since then I have Mike Taylor, Hamburg verse.
heard nothing about it. All the mail if you're interested in games it
I believe that a computer game does not turn J.B. Good into that
order companies I have phoned really is time you got round to
Terminator or anyone else for that matter. Violent games are great
don't have it, it's not in any of my buying a joystick; it makes a lot
for letting off steam, and just for great fun_
local software shops and I was of games a whole tot easier and
When my followers are killed on the field of Populous I turn to
surprised not t o find i t in you more enjoyable. However, w e
Operation Wolf to do the job myself. No, I don't throw bolts of light-
Xmas '89 runners and drivers sec- take your point - programmers
ning at innocent humans. I don't even pick up an M-16 and turn to
tion. Can you tell me what's hap- should, wh e re v e r p o ssib le ,
extreme violence - I turn on my ST!
pened to it? include mouse and keys options.
Why must some stupid mortals go against violent games? soon it
Also, d o you know i f th e As f o r your second point we
doubt whether software houses will be violent TV shows. I will never understand why some mortals
arcade game Prehistoric Isle will believe that violent games cause murders and so on. I'll bet my
be converted t o t h e h o me are quite so foolish as to aban-
Godliness that it's because they never got to play a violent game.
computer? Is Golden Age being don the ST, it's a strong market
I would like to make ACE the God of ALL computer magazines!
converted? for them, especially in Europe,
and they aren't going t o turn Zsott MaIota, New South Wales, Australia
Craig Sutherland, Scone down the chance of making more
money, are they?
Your wish is our command; from now on ACE is the God of alt com-
There will be probably be an ST puter magazines.
version o f Rainbow Islands, but
just at the moment it's anybody's
guess when, or on what label, it
will appear. As for the other two HOURS OF
games you mention, we haven't FUN
heard of any conversions under- ST SALT OF article about the PC Engine. Our
I must say I've had hours of fun 13-year-old son has driven us mad
way.
playing with the 'Get 12 Issues Of THE EARTH with computer games for the last
ACE Comfortably Into The Folder' At 8 pm (or 20 hundred hours as two years. So, when he read a
game that you gave away free those naval types say) I received a report earlier this year in various
when I last renewed my subscrip- phone call form a fellow ST user. mags about the PC Engine, he
tion, He had seen my plea for help in had to have one.
MOUSE Unfortunately. I have to admit
that it has me beaten, although I
your helpline column and proceed- So in June of this year when
ed to provide me with the cheat for months he had saved to buy
GROUSE did manage 11 issues before the mode to Psygnosis' Barabarian. In one we went along to a shop in
folder exploded, showering me my hurry to load up I did not thank London. full of excitement we got
May I appeal to games designers,
and the bedroom with bits of wire, it home and - guess what? All it
programmers and software hous- him for his long distance call. So
magazine articles, a n d o t h e r to t h e Lancashire bloke wh o did was flash and ro ll u p the
es to always include a facility to
assorted debris. screen. The game had cost £45
play from the keyboard and the saved my hair (private joke) I'd like
mouse. Some of us out here use Can I, through your pages, to say THANKS! so I was hopping mad, we went
our computers for work and a) ask if anybody has beaten my I'd appreciate you printing this back to the shop and it worked
record (wh ich included l a s t letter as I feel it shows the good for them. We travelled up to Lon-
haven't got the room and b) don't
December's bumper issue)? nature of ST users. don eight times; each time they
want to have joysticks around.
There are several games I would changed parts and games b u t
have purchased • but I w a s Malcolm Crawley, S a l t - Tom Woodforde, Enstone, nothing helped. I demanded my
dean, Sussex Oxon money back, but all they would
deterred from buying them a s
they were joystick only. I can fly give me was a credit note_ This
Despite a collective IQ that fails Fair warms the cockles o f yer we took, but when we went back
around and blow things up per-
fectly adequately on Mirrorsoft's to make three figures we can heart, don't it? they gave us another PC Engine
reveal that members of the ACE as they didn't sell anything else
Falcon without recourse to the joy-
stick. So come on programmers - team have indeed broken your my son wanted_ Then I discovered
make sure that your products are record, smoothly inserting all 12 INFERNAL it worked on my old black and
of the year's issues into one white television - and on TVs that
available to the widest possible
binder. ENGINE had vertical hold knobs. So we
audience by including keyboard or
mouse or joystick playing. I was very interested to read your bought an o ld colour -
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So now I read your article
about PC Engines in ACE I know it
was not us. I think more research F-16 COMBAT LETTER
should have gone into this Engine
before it was allowed to be sold in I write to express my disappointment with your taken, but it takes me four hours to earn £25 - and
the United Kingdom. recent review of Digital Integration's F-16 Combat that's half a day of my life. I didn't need to spend
Pilot game on the Amiga. I dispute that the game is money on the game - but putting my faith in your
Mrs. P. Priestley, Croydon superior or even comparable to Interceptor. or that judgement I did so and I regret it. So please, in
it is the 'best of the bunch' as you describe. future, remember that just because a game is get-
trs a sad tale, Mrs. Priestley, and Digital Integration cannot be oblivious to the ting old (e.g. Interceptor) it does not mean that it
we can only commiserate with fact that a lot of serious Amiga simulation players isn't still the best of its kind or that you should for-
you. We're mystified as to why enjoy the benefits of two disk drives. So why do get it and needlessly applaud potential rivals to the
the shop wouldn't give you your they find it necessary to release an expensive 'quali- retch-inducing degree of sycophancy witnessed in
money back. But a t least with ty' computer program which reduces the hapless the F•16 Combat Pilot review: the aircraft's stability
your old colour telly things seem purchaser to a state of constant disk-swapping? The is quite incredible'. Cough! And .
to be a brt more fun now. game is far from user-friendly: I am no stranger to of
. . the
. r eaircraft
s p o isn superlative.'
se Choke! And how about
computers but it took me a good twenty minutes to '...an
a n d essential addition to your collection.' Well, it
figure out the Data Disk requests, which of course isn't essential to mine and has provided me with
f e e l
go undocumented in what passes for a manual. The about as much enjoyment as watching the plastic
graphics that greet the player in the mess room are plants grow at Newport Pagnell MacDonald's.
MEAN MUM blocky and poor, the character set in which the text So come on chaps, consider the users out
for messages is presented is barely legible, and the here. To prevent reviews of this sort being repeated
Way back in 1983 m y sister mouse pointer is flickery and jerky. it would probably be advisable to have more than
received a Speccy 48K for Christ- The finish of the product is nowhere near that of one reviewer 'on the case.' for any one program or
mas. All went well for two years, Interceptor. If you need reminding. load Interceptor to provide the names of the reviewers responsible
then two problems arose. up and compare the sound: on F-16 Combat Pilot. for the individual reviews so that we know whose
One was that I accidentally for the engine we hear an undulating cacophony of judgement may be more in line with that of the read-
bought a game, Haunted Hedges, white noise - while Interceptor boasts a full-throated ing individual. This is the way the old Crash maga-
which is pathetic. My mum can't engine noise and realistic weapon sound effects. On zine used to work and I have not seen a better
last five minutes without it. And, Interceptor we have responsive, intelligent controls reviewing system anywhere else, And these days,
two, the pressure pads are bust - a quick stab on the keyboard is all that's needed with stales as high as i25-30, mistakes are costly.
(no thanks to Daley Thompson). for undercarriage, brakes, radar etc. - and ifs all
So as I g o t sick o f this I very clear on the display. Combat Pilot, however, is Richard A. Harrison. London
bought a C64 two years ago. The quite a different affair. Key-presses are 'sticky' and
problem is, though, that we've everything makes the same 'bleep' - there is no ACE Reviews Editor, Laurence Scottord.
only got one - quick touch, no quick response, and often pressing replies:
a key produces no net effect at all and it needs to Unfortunately you seem to have misread, or misun-
T v f and
puters, o r I never get to play the
C64.
t h e be pressed twice! This is certainly no the way a sim- derstood this review. The phrase "the best of the
ulation should be.
t So w I'moasking you to do a little bunch" was comparing the Amiga version of F-16
The aircraft movement is also vastly inferior to combat pilot with other versions o f the same
revi
c ewoon the letters pages and Interceptor: nowhere do we have the sensation of game. At no point in the review was there any
tell
m my-mum how good or bad it speed, nowhere can we investigate the scenery or direct comparison with any of the other products
Is.
accurately whizz within inches of control tower or you mention.
suspension bridge. And a s controls go, joystick I'm afraid that I really cannot agree with your
Paul E v a n s , Wa lla s e y , response in combat Pilot is jerky and lacks any sort slating o f F-16 Combat Pilot. I t is a program
Merseyside of feel'. The scenery can only be described as designed to appeal to simulator fans who are look-
crap. A few old rocks and a tawdry white building ing for realism, rather than general game players
Come on Mrs. Evans - have a here and there to break up the monotony. and who would be more interested in gimmicks such as
heart! It's just not fair depriving where are the 'out of cockpit' all round views on the out of cockpit views that you mention.
your son of his fun on the C64. Combat Pilot as seen in Interceptor and nobler Regarding the problems that you had with flick-
Give it a whirl - you might even underdog Falcon? They're not - and we quickly lose ery pointers and sticky keys, we experienced none
like it yourself. another enjoyable element. Of course, it may well of these. I would suggest that the problems may
be very realistic, it may well be that sitting inside a be caused by either a defective machine or defec-
real F-16 induces one to continually and needlessly tive software.
swap floppy disks_ It may well be true that written Although ACE reviewers try to be as fair and
instructions from the aircraft are nearallegible. it objective as possible in the way that they review
BUG HUNTER may well be true that written instructions from the games, it is impossible to ignore the fact that per-
aircraft are near intelligible. It may be an unfortu- sona) opinion and tastes will always figure in any
Ihave found a bug in tne PC ver-
nate side-effect of flying such aeroplanes that from review in any magazine. It is inevitable that occa-
sion of The Amazing Spiderman
one's cockpit mountains all look like great pink pyra- sionally a reviewer's feelings about a product will
and Captain America i n D r .
mids. The silly booklet protection scheme I can live not concord with your own. In the case of this par-
Doom's Revenge. Any time during with - but then let's get this into perspective: who'd ticular simulation I ought to point out that yours is
the game you can save your posi- want to copy this programming the first place? It's a the only letter of disagreement we have received.
tion a t the co mic screens b y waste of money arid I feel that is a shame that pop- Furthermore, if you care to glance at our Stock-
pressing B. Later on in the game ular magazines can longer be relied on for good market feature on page 163 o f the December
when you die press Y in the Stat- advice. Next time, regardless of how highly you rate Issue, you will see that F16 Combat Pilot was the
ue of Liberty scene. When you a program, I shall make damn sure that I get an most highly rated program across all the entertain-
see the starting comic screen 'evaluation' copy from a friend before I lay out more ment magazines that month. Obviously I am not
then press R and you should of my hard-earned cash. alone in my opinion of the product!
return to your saved position with I have been an Amiga owner for a year but an
full energy. ACE reader for only one issue_ If you wish to keep
your readership you simply cannot continue giving
Alex Young ratings like 970 to programs so flawed and of such
obviously poor quality. 9 man years it may well have

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CLEAR FOR
TAKE OFF
have just read your write•up of VERY, VERY SAD
the Bomber flight simulator. In it
Mr.Lewis o f Ve kto r Graphics I was/am very very sad when I read a letter by another Dutchman (Eddy Borremans) in ACE from Novem-
states that 'all sums before have ber saying that it's completely normal to copy games in Holland, and that computers are only bought
been either commercial Lear Jets because you can get your software for free and as such is part of our culture.
and Cessnas or they've been light- Well let me set this straight at once. Eddy should shut up and stop generalising with everything he
ers.' Now I'd like to know if there says because he makes other people think that the whole of Holland is a bunch of software pirates who
are any commercial jet flight simu- find it quite normal to copy games. Well, it ain't true.
lator games around, as I'd love to I hay owned a C64, which included a lot of games and of course there were copies, but I can proudly
take to the skies in a Boeing 757 say that about 75% of the top-of-range games I owned were bought (by airmail in England. because it's
or an Airbus 310, landing at air- cheaper).
ports like Paris and Ne w York Of course I 'understand' why they copy:
before getting back to Gatwick. 1) they want to be able to brag to their friends about the amount of games they own. This shows how
I know that Flight Simulator spoiled these RATS really are.
does have different scenery disks 2) The games they copy are indeed very expensive - which is no reason to do
for Europe, Japan,e tc., but as far I read in his letter that he is a computer science student, who probably doesn't know anything about
as I know their flight instructions economics, otherwise he would have known that if the number of games sold goes up, the company can
only cover Lears and Cessnas. lower the price because they have to make less profit on each game to reach their goal.
It would be nice if someone It is quite unbelievable that Eddy is a student. It would be better to describe him as a man with the
brought out a commercial flight brains of a 12-year-old and someone who doesn't deserve to be Dutch.
sim with the same cockpit detail
as Falcon or F-16 and combined it Richard van Gils, Utrecht. H o l l a n d
with different scenery disks. I
would be grateful if you could give Stern words - would Eddy like to reply?
me any info on games about, or if
any software publisher plans to
produce one.
A. Turv ille . Wa r ni nglid,
Sussex
No, we don't know of any such
games. There was a n arcade
machine fro m Taito called (if tured in ACE? Five, if you're lucky. ONE BIT Mind you, I don't look down
on console players, but they have
memory serves us wet)) Taito Air- Sure, the user base is small
line. The problem with this thing at the moment, but then again BRAIN to play in their own league. It's like
was that hardly anybody played it how ma n y have g o t t h e P C Someone with a one-bit processor someone in a Lada with racing
- probably because it was too for a brain actually had the nerve stripes who thinks he can beat a
Engine? With its speed, graphics
boring compared to the other and sound capabilities there are to compare a games console with Porsche. I f your only desire i s
delights on offer. There are two going to be very few consoles a computer (ACE 26). What's playing games? Good. Buy a con-
main problems with the kind of that can match the Archie's game- enxt? some g irl writing t o you, sole. But if you want something
game you'd like to see: there's playing ability and of course it is telling you she prefers her Barbie that is a challenge every day, that
no fighting (unless you introduce first and foremost a powerful doll to her bother's Amiga? is endlessly more versatile and
a hijacking element) and there's computer. I don't care if the latest con- creative and makes your brain
no great test o f flying skill - I look forward to the games soles g o up t o the 1 6 billion work, buy a computer.
smaller planes such a the Cessna promised by the likes of Domark colours and ma ke yo u r ch a ir
needing more control than the and Ocean and also to the smaller move along with the action. They Luc Stynen, Berchem, Belgium
big uns. So we think it's unlikety names like Impact. Periscope, are TOYS and a computer isn't. I'd
you'll see that game... Clares and CIS, a ll o f whom like to see Chris Blowes design a 'Don't look down on console play-
should be congratulated for their cover for a club magazine, make ers'? Come off it chum - you
efforts and for taking a risk. an advert with a DTP program, think they're the pits.
In the meantime, how about write a letter,etc., with his Sega.
ACE reviewing Interdictor, E-Type Computer users can do all of that
ARCHIE or Karma? The Archie deserves (and a lot more) and still enjoy a
ANGST some attention and in the end it good game afterwards.
can only be good news for ST and Someone a lso complained
I occasionally buy ACE as I find
Amiga owners too when games of about the lo w ratings o f Sega
your game reviews the best o f the quality of Zarch/Virus are con- games. No wonder - only racing,
any magazine. However, I own a verted to run on their machines. beat 'em ups and shoot 'em ups.
BBC B a n d shorty intend t o What about GOOD games like RPG
upgrade t o a n Acorn A3000. Alex Card, Aldeburgh. Sof- and adventures? What about P o w
Unfortunately I don't share K . folk lous, Dungeon Master and S im
Pardesi's view that Archie games
City, to name but a few ACE rated
are receiving more coverage in
Take a gander at page 84 of this games? Never seen one of those
ACE; if they are, it's very slow
issue and you will find a review of on a Sega. Someone mentioned
progress. Interdictor on the Archie - which Thunderblade? I played it once,
I am aware of 65 games cur- will, we promise, be the first of and found i t t o b e completely
rently available for the Archie and stupid and boring. Compare this
many reviews
another 3 9 under development with F-16 Combat Pilot and Falcon
which should be ready by Christ- and you'll see what I mean,
mas. How many have been fea-

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prices' THE
COMPANYCOUNTER
of the various software house's have fluctuated
(see the Company Counter on the right) and, if
you were one of the many readers who sent in
the form for Round One, you can check out
whether you're due for a prize.
If you missed Round One, here's a quick There three columns of ratings for companies each month in the ACE Stock Market. The first shows the Over
recap. The stockmarket trades over four coun- all score tor this month only, statistically calculated from hundreds of reviews in magazines during the current
ters. The 8-bit Counter features the top ten month. The second shows the amount of change - up or down - from the previous month. The third is the shaft
games on Amstrad, Spectrum, and C64. The pricer the company's rating relative to its past performance. To get into the share price listing, companies
16-bit Counter features the top ten for the need to be releasing products reviewed by magazines. To see their fortunes rise, they need to be consistently
ST, Amiga, and PC. improving their product. In the short term, the 'one-hit wonder' will seem to do well: in the longer term, consis-
In addition to the two 'Processor Counters' tency will pay off.
there is also the Machine Counter. Here the Delphine's fortunes took a sharp Stock Market upturn when it followed up the tepidly-received Castle War-
top five games for each of the six most popu- rior with Future Wars. But can DeWhine keep up this rate of improvement. Reline's Oil Imperium is obviously
lar machines are listed. growing on people, while The Edge's budget label RAD is unearthing some lost long treasures in its golden
Remember that these listings are different. oldie catalogue.
They are not your typical chart entries, which ACE tip for next months top five: Rainbow Arts. Rock'n'Roll is one of the hot titles of the moment Isee the
rely simply on sales. Here at ACE we've always Machine and Processor charts) and this month's review ratings should see its share price soar.
distrusted that method o f charting: a game Publis her This mth + or • Rating Bet hes da 74
that's been hyped outrageously can always sell n ia 100•
Shades
its way to the top, before everyone realises Delphine 88.75 +35.92 167.99 70.67
'G rand S lam) n ia 100'
that it's a pile of rubbish and consigns it to the RAD
, (The Edge) 80 +14.33 121.82 Wic k ed 63. 25 nt a 100"
rubbish bin. Re linl a
•P a ec e 80. 25 +13. 65 120.5 Dinamic 50.41 nta 100*
G re mlin 73.38 +11.78 119.12
Instead, the ACE Stockmarket fixes it s I mpres s ions 46.5 nta 100*
G ains t ar 76.33 +8,16 111.97 Anc o 41. 67 nt a 100*
prices according to the reviews ratings each Play ers P r e m ie r 73.25 +7.08 110,7 Minds c ape 79. 86 -0. 14 99.83
game has received in the UK Magazines. Our Sy s t em 3 80. 42 +7_42 110.16 A c t iv is io n 73.9 -0. 19 99.74
researches read every magazine they can get Hews on 74.99 +6.67 109.76 Mas t erI r o n ic 63 -0_2 99.68
their hands on during the month, and the US Gold 80. 55 +6.78 109.19 Ps y gnos is 76.5 -0. 33 99, 57
games that top the ACE Charts really deserve Ub iS o lt 78 -0 . 3 5 99.55
Enc ore 60. 86 -2.01
to be there. So you can not only use the Stock- 96.8
1 6 - B lit z 76.67 -3 . 1 6 96.04
market to win prizes, but you can also treat it Act! S c re e n s h o t s .70.5 -4 94.63
as a valuable buying guide. Byte Bac k 65 -3. 88 94. 37
In order to give a fair and true overall pic- E lit e 65, 76 . 6. 13 91. 47
ture of a title o r company's rating, and to Mic ro p ro s e 75.4 -7 . 5 2 90.93
guard against 'rogue reviews, ratings are sta- Mic ro S t y le 70.36 -7.81 90.01
Fir e b ir d 64 33 . 8. 43 88.41
tistically weighted, and titles must have more A lt e r n a t iv e 67 -10 87.01
than one single review rating to be included in I nt oc om 76 -13. 19 85.21
the Machine Counter and the Processor Coun- I nf ogrames 61.1 •14_11 81.24
ters. Similarly, publishers must have more than A c c olade 52 -1 3 . 3 3 79.6
one product to qualify in the Company Counter. Hit Squad 68.17 -1 7 . 5 8 79.5
Lucasti l m 's/ LI S G o l d B a t t l e o f B r i t a i n Grand Slam 57.33 -2 0 . 6 7 73.5
This explains why some titles appear in some S i m ul a tor coul d s tor m the char ts. . . A r t r o n ic 53. 25 . 25. 75 67.41
charts and not others.
Mic ro Illus ions 79.4 PSS 53 -26. 46 66.7
+5.48 107.41
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Dig it a l I nt •n 100 +5.3 47.8 -27. 33 63.62
105.6
entry form. Check out the Stockmarket each Domark 77,77 +3.85 105.21
month, get a feeling for the way the market V ir g in 68_3 +2 89 104.42
changes as the software companies release K ix x 71.3 +2.67 103 89
new titles during the year. and watch out for Epy x /US G old 82.13 +1.25 101.55
Ocean 83 48 +1. 27 101.54
ACE rated games, any one of which may be a 83.83
Image Wo rk s +0.61 100.73
contender for one of the Stockmarket entries. SSIWS Gold 76_5 +0.31 100.41

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And a really high rating could drive up the E le c t ro n ic Art t , 75.58 +0.16 100_21
share price of the company that released it. Nov agen 94.13 nta 100'
Blade 89.33 rile
Then try to forecast next month's posi- 100'
Lev el 9 87.63 n ia 100 •
tions. There's £25 worth of software waiting
Beau J olly 86. 33 Iva 100*
for the first winner in each category to be O rig in 79.94 n ia 100 •
picked at random on the closing date. Don't Ra in b o w Art s 74,15 ry a 100'
miss it! Entries marked with an • are new this month.

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THEMACHINECOUNTER Turbo Outrun US Gold 95
Myth System 3 92,5
Ghosts'n'Goblins Encore 92
AMI GA RATI NGS PC-COMPATI BLE RATI NGS
Power Drill Activision 90.07
Omega Origin 87,5
F16 Combat Pilot Digital Integration 97.33 Carrier Command Rainbord 98.25
Ro c k Rainbow Arts 92.17 Bomber Activision 92.08
Straight in at number one, and the first reviews of Turbo
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Xenon II: Megablast Image Works 89,87 F15 Strike Eagle II Microprose 87 75 OutRun are votkily enthusiastic w i l l be interesting to see
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Batman - the Movie Ocean 89.27 Indiana Jones Adv US Gold 84.75 months bite certainly didn't like the ST version'. But the
l consistently high rating of G h o s t s h
Delotene•Paiace's Future Wars just missed Otti On a plac Its not compulsory to make your PC games aerialC011113a! -
some o l the oldies can still hold their own with the flashy
sirrulationS - ro
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mg here in a ve ry high scoring month for Amiga games
FI 6 Combat Pilo t still rules the roost - how on earth will five
b u fort iMicroprose
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Monist Integration keep s o a r i n g ' ) wing
o b avnid oPC Carrier Command must surely be one of the AMS TRAD CPC RATI NGS
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u s lhighlyy rated titles ever.
ATARI ST RATI NGS h e l Batman - the Movie Ocean 91.5
pS PsE CTRUM . RATI NGS Christmas Collection Howson 87.5
Damocles 94.63 T h Activision 86
Novagen Dynamite Dux
91.13 aMytht System 3 94 Domark 80,75
Xenon II: Megablast Image Works Dragon Spirit
'Untouchables
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Interphase Image Works 89.6 Virgin
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Paperboy E l i t e 87
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Games: Summer Edition US Gold Signs here that the CPC sometimes gets the best of the 8-
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G houls 'n US Gold 88 bit conversions: Dragon Spin'? and Shinobl, which were
- i both in Iasi month s top five as well, have had consistently
Two in the lop live tor im age woofs. but Xenon SI is pretty -
n better reviews on the CPC than other tormats.
well played out now - yOu'll see more solutions and playing All
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t s in the Spectrum toy live Oce a n 's Batman and
tUnroucriabres have had rave reviews everywhere - see
tips for it than reviews - whereas Damocles is only lust get
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THE 161I1 COUNTER THE 8.BIT COUNTER

It looks as though it was worth the wail for Damocles - the reviewers are Here at ACE we were notkceably less enthusiastic than most about this
raving about it and it goes straight in at number one, Also scoring consistent- month
ly over 90'1',. is RodenRoll - and with only a tiny fraction of the publicity of its month,
- when its Spectrum ratings should be included. And if you're looking
neighbours at numebrs one and three. for
s a compilation this Christmas, there are plenty of goodies to choose from,
nPower u 88.57
Damocles 94.13 Drift Activision (C64, CPC)
Novagen IAm, s m b
Ro c k ' n Rainbow Arts (Am) 92.17 Christmas Collection Hewson (C64, CPC, Sp) 86.67
- e r 86.5
89.67 Ghouls'n'Ghosts US Gold (CPC, Sp)
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Xenon II: Megablast Image
r) Works (Am. ST)
88.9 o
Operation Thunderbolt Ocean (C64, Sp) 86.5
Interphase
Ro ll Image Works (Am. ST)
88.75 Tolkien
n Trilogy Beau Jolly (C64. CPC. Sp) 86.33
Future Wars DelphinelPalace (Am)
G
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Continental Circus 87.34 Encore (C64. Sp) 85.75
Virgin (Am, ST)
87 Cabal
-. Ocean (C64. Sp) 85.67
Stunt Car Racer Micro Style (Am, ST)
Batman - the Movie 86.5 C
n & VG Coin-Op Hits US Gold iC64, CPC, Sp) 85.67
Ocean (Am) P
86 25 Stunt Car Racer Micro Style (C64) 84.78
Paperboy Elite (PC. STI -o
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Birmingham-based software
company US Gold is preparing to
blitz the games playing public
with a colossal collection o f
games due for release between
now and Spring. ACE has gone
on the road to Birmingham (yes,
were that dedicated), taking a
sneak look at the forthcoming US
Gold line-up...

In the past, USG has suffered a fair amount of

criticism concerning the quality of its computer
games - particularly with its micro conversions
Loom : m ade by Lucasti l m s, de s i gne d by e x -I nfoc om Br i an M or i a r t y - see over l eaf.
of Sega's Out Run for instance. Taking note of
this disparagement, USG embarked upon a
68 to see if we think they've done as good a shoot'em-up featuring a slightly-overhead
bold scheme involving the complete recon-
job with Ghouls Gh o sts. Gauntlet-type view. A PC version is planned for
struction o f its management and software
Another Capcom coin-op conversion, May.
development structures. The result was dra-
matic. A new-look USG produced two of its Black Tiger, is due out next February across all Among the other coin-op's licences due are
mayor formats. BT has been on the cards for Capcom's Dynasty Wars - a six-level simultane-
most respected games: Forgotten Worlds and
ages - a n absolute age", quips Baxter - in ous two•player hack 'n' slash arcade adventure
Strider. Now USG plans to surpass these chart-
toppers - both in terms of commercial suc- fact it will be approximately 18 months late set in Feudal Japan - due sometime in the
cess and technical standards. when it does finally arrive. B i Summer, Sega's fantasy-epic Golden Axe and
eight-way
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a s fantasy
i x arcade adventure, the honz-scrolling shoot'em-up U.N. Squadron
David Baxter, Software Development Man-
ager at USG told ACE, "we experienced numer- with
l e STv and e Amiga
l , versions programmed by from Capcom. Out of these trio of games, Bax-
Graham LiIley (Heroes o f the Lance and the ter seems most enthusiastic about Dynasty
ous problems in the past, especially in product
forthcoming Dragons of Flame), C64 BT from Wars, claiming it to be the most blood-thirsty
quality and control - now we only use software Softworx and Spectrum and CPC versions con- game he can think of
developers that we know and trust."
Surprisingly, USG prefers to use software verted b y Tiertex. Baxter characteristically
sums up BT as "a big platform jobbie". But AND THE RE 'S MORE. _
development companies instead o f in-house
behind the BT development story there lies a Back in March USG decided to commission
programmers. The actual USG software devel-
very sad tale, for an 18 year old programmer a new label solely dedicated to producing origi-
opment team is organised by Baxter and two
suffered a nervous breakdown while working on nal games - mainly on I6-bit formats with con-
other managers, with two games testers giving one o f the micro conversions. He has now sole and C64 versions under consideration.
each game a thorough going-over. But life for
swapped his disk drive for a spanner - working The as yet unnamed label has six games due
these guys can be tough going, as USG has a as a trainee mechanic for Ford. Who said pro- for release over the next six months with a
staggering 160 games formats under develop-
gramming comput- view fo r world-
ment at any one time. He a v y M e t a l : a n A c c e s s L e a d e r b o a r d , B e a c h
er g a me s w a s wide r e l e a s e
He a d) m u l t i - s t a g e t a nk • s i m ul a t i on d u e O u t o n
easy? ,
THE USG SCHEDULE S pectr um , C64, CP C, ST, Am i ga a nd PC i n Januar y.
Sega's Crack- USG'
n s more
As well as the prestigious Lucasfilm Games
down c o i n - o p usual
s European-
(see Battle of Britain and Loom previews on should b e o u t a only approach.
pages 133 and 100) and SSI licensed prod- t
month l a t e r i n
ucts, USG also has a myriad of coin-op conver- eTwo of the new
March - with ARC original games,
sions and original games planned. One of the a
De ve lo p me n t s Rotox a n d
first games due on the release schedule is d
(Forgotten Worlds) Sphericule, a re
Ghouis 'n' Ghosts - the follow-up to Capcom's o
handling the micro p a rt ic u la rly
phenomenally successful Ghosts 'n' Goblins co n ve rsio n s, ifm p r e s s i v e
coin-op. G 'n' G has been programmed by Soft- Crackdown i s a
ware Creations, the guys that brought us the beasties.
simultaneous two-
brilliant micro conversions of Bubble Bobble Rotox i s being
player, 16-level sci- programmed by
and Bionic Commandos, Take a look at page fi e x p l o r a t i o n Binary De sig n
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MOMENTS
We plundered the USG photo-
files for a few pics of recent
Gold highlights...Award your-
self a prize if you can identify
them all_

The Rot os c a po gr a phi c s r outi ne s us e d in Ra k i , ( took ni ne m onths to de v e l op.

and features Rotorscaping - a new program-

ming graphics technique which rotates the
whole screen around you- It took Binary Design
nine months to develop the Rotorscape code
using USG funding. The nearest we've seen to
this technique is in the Tengen Assault coin-op. T w o i n f a m o u s g a m e s - p l a y e r s , n o w e d i-
tor s of t w o of A C E '. s i s te r m a ga z i ne s .
Sphericule, on the other hand, is a totally slog i t out. W ho? Whe r e ? W he n?
original puzzle arcade game using ray-traced
graphics. Sphericule may be converted over to Ani m a te d g r a p h i c s c r e e n s i n S i e r r a
the Archimedes, which would bring welcome style, but w i th m or e de ta i l e d gr aphi cs. . .
relief to games starved Archie gamesters.
While on the subject of more exotic USG
micro conversions, SAM Coupe gameplayers (if
there are any!) will be pleased to hear about
the SAM version of Strider. Amazingly, it will
only take the programmer two weeks to con-
vert Strider over to the SAM! Admittedly, the
programmer is very experienced - with the
Spectrum, CPC and PC conversions of Strider
already under his belt, The SAM version itself
USG 's G e off Br ow n w i t h thr e e v e t e r a n
uses ST graphics, Spectrum program logic . . . a c c om pa ny a s t or y l i ne by Br i a n Mor i - cel ebr i ti es. W ha t 's goi ng on? W h o a r e
and will have eight-channel sound. SAM Strider arty. Due for r el ease i n Fe br ua r y '90. the y ?
should be out anytime now.
Baxter ended our visit to the USG offices
with a hint of future plans: "there will be 10 new
Capcom games, a licensed (not coin-op) road
racing game and another new label using the
talents of a single well respected programmer
with six original 16-bit only games planned - all
due before the end of 1990. And that's just the
stuff I can tell you about!'
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 ACIEFLASHBACK!
efore 1980 if you had a computer in
your house, you would have built it your- Get back! ACE
self, and you would have thought of your-
self as an electronics whiz, not a corn- storms the Tardis
outer enthusiast. If you had a microcom-
puter at work, you would be in a specialist, electron-
ics/science-orientated profession, and the micro would
and heads back in
in all likelihood be a Commodore PET. Your home com-
puter would have taken days hunched over a hot sol- time.. .to an age
dering iron to assemble and you wouldn't be thinking of ARRI VALS AND DEPARTURES
playing games with it. For that there were dedicated
Atari consoles from the States. The Sinclair ZX80 - first shown to the public in Febru- when yer average
ary - was the first sub-i100 'computer'. Available for
And it was in the US where people were buying
Apple Ils in hundreds of thousands, and the new Atari 179.95 in kit form and 199.95 ready-built, the ZX80
was a flat slab of white plastic. Those cooling vents
sprite came in two
400/800 machines. While the Atari's, like their VCS
along the top back are actually painted black lines - an
predecessors, were very much games machines, the
Apple Ils were used for serious applications as well for optical illusion which was commented on in more than colours (black and
games. American computer users tended to be older, one press review. It had a touch-sensitive keyboard,
with more money to spend on serious commercial soft- 1K RAM, an NEC 780-1 processor, which was a 'copy'
of the Z80, and built-in Sinclair Basic. Graphics? Not
white), jerked
ware,
produced until 1981. Sound? Forget it. Software? You
lt is more than likely that we in the UK would have
had to write it yourself - indeed, that was the whole about the screen,
gone on to follow the American market slavishly, and
idea of the ZX80.
rely solely on American imports, were it not for one
company • Sinclair Research. The ZX80, which sold to Another kit-form computer launched this year was and went 'beep
those electronics enthusiasts and the ZX81, which the Acorn Atom, for 1125 as a kit and /150 ready-
built. The Atom claimed to be 3-5 times faster than
brought home computing to the non-specialist, gave
the UK a distinct, lechie' flavour of its own. Apple Integer BASIC, 'and it has the unique feature of beep'.
including an assembler in the interpreter". But the
By 1980, it was clear that 'off-the-peg' computers
would sell into the home sooner rather than later. Acorn Atom boasted graphics as well: a screen with a
Already some of the burning issues of the day bore an high resolution of 256 x 192, five graphics modes and
192 graphics characters.
uncanny resemblance to debates which will carry on
into the nineties. For example, in August 1980, an arti- Acorn suffered from production problems with the
cle in Personal Computer World discussed three Atom, so much so that one retailer, described in Per-
issues: a) 'does existing legislation cover electronic sonal Computer World as the "incorrigible" manager of INSEEIMINIS E M M O N S
gig Wa t a t * •
media"; b) "Is digdised pornography on a disk action- Lasky's Microdigital chain, announced t o a ll and
able"; c) - sundry that he would not include the Atom in his next
afford
w h atot [software] to protect it from bootleggers and catalogue because he was too uncertain of receiving
pi
i rates?"
s any stock from Acorn. That manager's name was
t hBy 1981, Motorola was offering its new 68000 Bruce Everiss; the computer industry was to hear F rog get
processor as a chip for the 80s, the Z80 and 6502 quite a bit more from him. Interceptor M t CMS
e
were already well established, and IBM was introducing Atari had no UK division in those days; instead the
c o r
its first 8088-based PC. The chances are that your Atari 400/800 machines were imported by Ingersoll,
rcomputer
e c uses one of these and yet they are all at
ler
tleast nine years old. What has dramatically changed
i n t into th e colourful, fa st, sophisticated
computers
Howson Consultants Founded: 1980
e l nes
machi l of today are the advances made in terms of Having w o rke d w t .-, mainframes a n d m in is C o r n ; t h e seventies,
Andrew Hewson wa s a n e a rly buyer o f the Sin cla ir D M °, H e Wo w )
e c c processing,
graphi t of dedicated graphics and sound * M I N programmes and books f o r the mactime, and advertising them
chiu ps, a suchl as the early examples in the Commodore in the few magazroes whoh existed then. Andrew made h is name with
64 p to those of the Amiga today. Faster, bigger data books o l programs to r th e 2 X8 0 . 23(81 a n d later the Spectrum. Pilo t
storage systems have led to much bigger, multi-level Mike M a le wrote three flight sim s f o r the ZX81 before h is 1963 p ro -
r gram, Heathrow Aor T ra f c C071(0.1. and th e arcade games written b y
programs.
o Devices can now be made much smaller: Steve TLIM8r in 1'983-84 - Sp a ce Wars. Seidetab Opal:lies' backwards)
slim-line
p monitors, disk drives tucked into the keyboard Ar m * a n d Lunaaact( - p u t re a l m oney in H e w so h s b a n k. He wso n
- machines of a size which can be accommodated easi- claims to be the oldest surviving independent games software publish-
e or.
ly into the home. And finally, memory chip prices have
r etd, so that all the technology that was available
tumbl Forst ' H i r e s and Pos for the zxscr (book), 19150; Riot and Nigrtt-
in y theory eight or nine years ago is now affordable and rbre (both LX811, 1983, both written b y Mike Male
Best ever seller: Paradrod(ati wersionS)
t
mass-produced.
o More evolution than revolution, really_ Andre w H e w so n : F o u n d e r o f H o wso n C o n su lt e n t s

AdvancedComputerEntertainment 3 1
 at initial prices of £395 for the 16K model 400, .E695
r
for the 48K 800. Where are they now?
i Nolan Bushnell
E V E NTS
"The 2 X 8 0 r eal l y is a c om - mNolan Bushnell wa s the rounder of Atari. wh ich he set u p as an
pl ete, pow e r ful , hi l l faci l i ty If you visited WH Smith's outlet in Brent Cross Shop- R&D fi rm However, it had diversified in to games. when Nolan
com puter , m a tc hi ng or sur - ping Centre in North London, you could witness a curi- " wrote t h e commercial video program, Po n g . b a ck in 1972. thie
passi ng othe r pe r s ona l cor n-
pute r s on t he m a r k e t a t sever -
ous 'experiment. Market development manager John ' himself cla im s h is fi rst e ve r game w a s a M ile known number
called CompLrrer Sp a ce H e released 20 o r so more under the
al ti m es the pr i ce. The ZX 6 0 i s Rowland was putting together the fi rst 'Computer
pr ogr a m m e d i n Basi c a nd y ou Know-how' unit. A Commodore PET borrowed from a • Alan banner before selling the company to Warner Communica-
tens in 1976. Nolan then Set up a company to design and manu-
coul d us e i t to do qui te l i ter al - local dealer, a few copies of Byte magazine and a facture robots, from simple functional devices to Petsters, a light
ly a ny thi ng fr om pl a y i ng c he s s hearted toy cum robot. Today he also runs coin o p manufacturer
small range of books, "which were actually all about
to r unni ng a pow e r stati on. . . " AXI011 arid AAPES, which makes a m icro TV board for the Apple
Science of CarYt' clge acvc tti.E•e- calculators because we couldn't find any computer Macintosh. All the companies are based in California.
ment Marc h 1980 books, says John, made up the display. The crush of
interested customers around the stand was so great

1981
that it had to be roped off.
The success of the Brent Cross venture led John
to ask Clive Sinclair in September about selling the
mail-order only 1X80 in WH Smith. "Clive suggested
that rather than take on the ZX80, I should wait for his

ARRI VALS AND DE P ARTURE S

The Commodore Vic 20 was shown publicly for the

very first time at the January Consumer Electronics
show in Las Vegas, and was launched in the UK in
June. It wasn't the first colour computer, but it was the
first to sell for under S300, at S299.95, The Vic 20
had 5K RAM. a full-size keyboard which was later used
ii the Commodore 64, and its own custom chip, VIC
Video Interface Chip). It went on sell over two million
units worldwide over the next three years_
The first UK-produced Vic 20 game appeared in
September. Published by Mr Micro at /16, it was enti-
tled Gold Rush, and the first person to complete it
would win a bag of 22 carat gold.
The Sinclair ZX80 got its first games and Clive
Sinclair was reportedly "tickled pink" that program-
mers had produced graphics on the computer. The
program was Space lntruders and readers o f Tim
Hartnell's book Making the Most of Your M O could
new product, then still unnamed," he remembers. B y
either type it in, or order a ready-made tape from Ken
"Ileicm tan 6 5 - the m i cr ocom - Christmas 1980, it was officially the ZX81, and we MacDonald of Solihull,
puter that thi nks i ts a mini." were wrangling over how many units we thought we In March, the Sinclair 2X81 was announced by the
Advertising slogan from Tangenne could sell. We thought somewhere between 15-30,000
Computer Systems newly rechristened Sinclair Research, and given an
would be about right, and gave Clive an order for
ecstatic welcome by computer enthusiasts. Still with
18,000 to put in 15 branches. We ended up
just 1K RAM, and still with that flat touch-sensitive key-
selling 450,000 - in the two years of the ZX81's board, it was nevertheless a great leap beyond the
The third PCW show moved to the Cunard Interna-
ZX80, and furthermore, less expensive, at ,E49.95 in
tional Hotel (now the Novotel) in September. This was
kit form and E.69.95 ready built. It had a much lower
the last wholly business/hobbyist PCW show, before
the games began to take over. chip count, thanks to its CPO custom chip designed by
The 'third wave' o f arcade games - Galaxians, Sinclair and built by Ferranti, it had a much improved
Scramble, Defender, Donkey Kong and Pacman - screen display, it could produce graphics, it could do
appeared as Space invaders burnt itself out (the 'first floating point arithmetic - in short it was genuinely use-
wave' o f Ping Pang and BreakOut had taken the ful as a computer rather than the electronic assembly
Al i c e I n Vid e d la n d
arcades by storm in the early to mid-70s). A year or so exercise which is how buyers tended to treat the
Auctiogenic later, crude variants of these titles formed the raw ZX80.
beginnings of the games we know today. The more the market grew, the more it became
only a matter of time before the mighty conglomerate
IBM launched its microcomputer. The PC may have
been behind-hand compared to companies like Apple
PsionFounded: October 1980 and Commodore who were forging ahead in the new
Psion was set up by David Potter on leaving the teaching staff of Impanel College, London. By 1981 t h e company industry, but its solid, unexciting specification - Inters
was enjoying consderabie success repackaging and marketing software prograrrts /or the DC81 Fb g h t Sarhaahon 8088 running at 4.77M1-lz, a single disk drive, 16K
was a huge early seller, followed by Horace Goes Shang. However. Potter's ambitions la y beyond games and aher
RAM, but all expandible • and an equally solid price of
publishing titles on the Spectrum • Chequered Flag•and Screbtoe P s i o n took on the task Of producing the inte-
grated business software for Cirve Sinclair's o L machine. It a lso took time out to produce it s consistently highly
rated PS
, Al the same time, work began at Psion on hardware development, work which saw the light or day as the first Who said this - and about what?
Of P
Organiser handheld computer in 1985. Since then, Psion has concentrated almost exclusively On hardware devel-
C h e Th e Organiser and its successor, the Organiser ii, were bought in a variety ot consumer and OEM config-
opment.
(answer at the end)
surations,
s and were followed in September 1989 by the MC - Mobile Computer - range. P i o n is. however, undue "It marks the beginning of a 'new wave' of per-
pas ar one-time leisure software publisher which has successfully floated on ID the USM of the Stock Exchange.
sonal computers aimed at the home... it's well
o g
rFirst
a tide: Rig h t Sitheration. ZX81 made, well packaged and would hardly look out
mBest seller: Psoon Chess fall formats) of place alongside the family hi-h."
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 1982
up as an
ien Nolan "We hope to pr oduc e a t l east
1972.e.He tw o ne w ga m e s e a c h m onth -
1number a nd all our s oftw a r e w i l l be
ander the or i gi nal r a the r tha n ver si ons
mmunica- of exi sti ng a r c a de ga m e s . "
nd mano- David Lan!,c

1
rs. a Igni (Popular
, Computing Weekly, January
tufacturer 6,
m 1983)
a g n i
!he Apple
e S .
ARRI V ALS AND DE P ARTURE S
-
Everyone wanted to jump on to the home computer A w a r
$3.000, plus the IBM name ensured plenty of corpo-
rate sales, bandwagon in 1982. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum, e
launched in April, led the pack and heralded the begin-
1981 saw the first of the truly commercial soft- ning of games computing in the UK, Those machines
ware houses, ie those with full-time staff, proper
that followed in its wake had nothing like the brand loy-
offices and advertising budgets. Psion, Bug Byte and alty that Sinclair had built up from 2X81 days; and
Quicksilva led the way out of the back bedrooms, the
most did not noticeably improve on Sinclair's appalling
Last-named run by Nick Lambert and John Hollis, who disregard for production schedules.
later took on a certain Rod Cousens to look after the
In comparison, the Commodore 6 4 could have
company finances, and indeed, run the company. come from another planet. Its specification, which
Ouichsilva produced the first ever Spectrum game, doesn't look too terrible today, was way ahead of its
Space intruders at £595, in 1982. Bug Byte spin-off time, and made visitors to the Third International Com-
companies such as Software Projects and Imagine Falcon Patrol
for the modore Computer show in June, where it was pre-
went to achieve success o f their own (see 1983l. Vigin Games
!ctronics viewed, gasp in astonishment. The 64K memory really
Eventually both Bug Byte and Quick silva went on to
w UK in was huge at that time, its proper keyboard compared
become labels o f Grandslam Entertainments, while
was the very favourably with the rubber-keyed Spectrum, it had
Psion evolved quite differently.
eVic 20 16 colours and no attribute clash problem, as the
EVENTS Spectrum did, sprite graphics, a 4 0 column screen
ter used
and the SID - Sound Interface Chip - built in. But, to "We de s i gne d the Appl e I I w i t h
:hip, VIC The ZX81 finally made it into W H Smith, the centre six guy s a nd i t's a bout to
o million begin with, you paid for all that mighty technology: the
piece of a display which included books, magazines be c om e t he m os t-i ns ta l l e d
C64 was launched at £350 at the end of 1982. And c om pute r of all ti m e. We
and software. The demand was so staggering that WH no C2N, joysticks or software included, either_
eared in de s i gne d t he Appl e I I I w i th a
Smith had to put 500 staff on a crash course to train
rias enti- In the UK the Commodore quickly joined the Spec- c or por a ti on of 1 6 0 0 a nd i t still
doe s n't w or k . "
trum as a first choice computer for buyers, without
nplete it them to switch it on and run a small program to Steve Jobs
demonstrate the machine to customers. This was the ever outselling rt. In the rest of the world it was a dif-
nd Clive computers first real entry into the high street multi-
Ingram- ples, and it gave home computing some much needed
ter. The credibility as a leisure pursuit.
CDS Founded: 1982
of Tim On September 26. the first ZX Microfair threw In the best Br MN) tradliiOnS, tan Willia m s began b y programming to r the ZXEit , n h is b a ck bedroom, notably a
game called Castle Adventure To out the operabon on a commercial looting, h e took the programs Wong to hirs
10could open its doors to the public. Held at the Central Hall in local WH Smith, where the branch manager Gile s Hunter, took su ch an increasing interest in Ian s C D S M icro
•rn Ken Westminster it was attended by several hundred Sin- Systems that he io n e d the company a s sates manager a l Ju ly 1983. I n December 1983. C OS opened it s test
clair devotees. Entry was free of charge. Over in the shop, in Doncasmr - there are now 12 and a few months later Giles bought lan Wilkams out. CDS now employs
dby the US, Infocom launched the first Zork adventure for the over 100 people, with interests in tut-price and budget sothvare, retailing (WM :wh o rl, tape and dish duplication,
packaging and prinking.
!iven an Apple
First trile. Castk? Adventure, Z xst
till with
STORIES Best ever seller: COOOSSus Chess. closely followed by Steve Davis Snooker tall versions)
live key.
ond the Sinclair suffered its first serious setback when the
19.95 in ZX81 was rejected by the BBC. Initially, the BBC had ferent story. The C64 became the world's best-selling
:h lower selected the Newbury Electronics' NewBrain as the computer; in the US it cleaned up. Aggressive price
ened by nucleus of its forthcoming series on computing; this cutting by Commodore, headed by Jack Tramiel, led
Iproved machine had started life as a Sinclair Radionics project to a price war and near financial ruin for rival Atari.
ould do in 1978. Newbury, rather t o everyone's surprise. The Dragon 32, was launched in July and sold in
ely use- turned the BBC down and the way was left clear for Boots on terms similar to WH Smith's exclusive con-
;sembly Acorn headed by ex-Sinclair employee Chris Curry, pro- tract with the Spectrum. Its 32K RAM, graphics and
eat the moting the Atom successor, the Proton, and Sinclair Basic all compared favourably to Sir Olive's beast. The
itself, pushing the successor to the ZX81, to compete NewBrain. finally saw the light of day, produced by
3ecame for the contract_
Grundy Business Systems, which had bought the pro-
imerate There simply isn't space here to detail all the back- ject from Newbury Electronics.
ly have stabbing, foot-shooting and press speculation that The first Japanese home computer to be sold in Hobbit
eApple accompanied the award of the BBC contract. As every- the UK was the Sord M5, which was really a comput Melbourne House
he new one knows, the BBC chose Acorn, and the Proton er/console hybrid. And let's hear it for the O m 1 ,
- Intel's became the BBC Model A micro.
bugs and all, rubber key board and 16K RAM, The
e, 16K Lynx was a 150-based machine, with some impres-
rice of sively large memory configurations and high resolution
Where are they now? graphics, which simply never made it into the high "He 's done i t agai n. Unc l e
John Hollis/Nick Lambert street stores in great enough number to sell. Finally.
Cl i ve has c om e up w i th a l ove-
t In 1964. Argus Pre ss Software bought Quicilisilva, a deal which there was the curious Jupiter Ace, developed b y
ly pr oduc t w hi c h will ha v e
e nor m ous a ppe a l to pe opl e
? made Lambert and Ho llis wealthy enOugh t o warrant t a x e xile .
Both m ire d to Guernsey, where Ho llis M il is. with h is own com-
Steven Vickers and Richard Altwasser, who had both w a nti ng to fi nd out m or e
a bout c om pute r s but w i thout
per- pany Hollis Research. Hardly idle though - he wrote the S I game.
been on the Sinclair Spectrum design team. It was
well it c os ti ng the m a n ar m a nd a
Trackman N ick Lambert is now back iro Southampton. Co-Quick• another 2 8 0 derivative machine, which is chiefly l og. "
k out siva shareholder Rod Cousens set u p Ele cin c Dreams Software remembered today as the only home computer to David Tebbutt. Personal Computer
in September 1985, w h o later became an affiliate of Actrosion. World, June 1981
sport Forth as its in-built language. This proved to be
its downfall.

Aovanced CompulerEntertainment 3 3
 showed off its 780-based micro, the Memotech MIX.
"Our Mi cr odr i ve, w he n it Digital Integration Mattel announced that the age of its Aquarius would
c om e s O ut w i l l r e v ol uti oni s e dawn in September. IBM dipped a corporate toe into
Founded: February 1982
m ass s tor a ge thi nk i ng. " the home computer market with the PC Jr, I28K RAM
M a t t i': Bre n n a n Su :cla w ReSearCI' Dave Marshall and Rod Sw ill. like so many o l-ie rs a l I t ie tirrte.. and a 5.25" disk drive for $1269. The Coleco Adam
(Popular Computing Weekly, Novem- developed their first program. Fighter N o t , in their leiSure tim e . was dubbed the 'star' of June's Consumer Electronics
ber 18. 1982) transferring skills iearnt at the Royal Aircraft Establishment on to
the ZX81 D a v e now describes Fighter Pilo t a s 'rudimentary: il show in Chicago, but by Christmas, Coleco was hav-
was & v i e Gunner on the ZX81 which, with sa le s of over 10,000 ing so many problems with shortages and reports of
through WH S.m lt i. enabled the company to set up on a CGferner- faulty machines. that it was glad to have the Cabbage
cial basis, Bo t h Fighter N o t and Nig h t Gunner were co
Patch doll to fall back on.
on t o th e Spectrum in 1983. and Da ve and Ro d g a ve u p
jobs to go tuil•time at DI. A game called Valhalla caught everyone's imagina-
First t ile : Fighter Pilo t 7X,81 tion. Publisher Legend Software claimed it was the
Best ever seller Fig h t e r Pilo t a ll versions 'first computer movie", a Norse scenario peopled with
'independent' characters in which the outcome could
E V E NTS be different every time. And at £14.95, it was a nice
little earner for Legend.
In November. Sony launched the 3.5 inch disk drive in In 1983, software, which had hitherto been domi-
the UK. Those of you with 1.44Mb versions may care nated by unofficial versions of arcade games, began
to note that Sony's original single density drives stored to diversify. Adventure games like The Hobbit, by Mel-
218K, the double density a 'massive' 437K. Starting bourne House, and Level 9's Colossal Adventure and
price was £235. Snowball had significantly improved parsers. Gilsoft's
January • and the second ZX Microfair. Bursting at Quill became available towards the end of 1983, and
the seams with arcade clones, visitors could try Out
and buy ZX8I titles such as Invaders and 1K Break-
Out from flourishing Liverpool publisher Bug Byte. Where are they now?
••••
* n .
.• • 1 * ..•
Defender, Invaders, QS Scramble, Asteroids and Commodore Max, Ultimax and
A.Nom
ov=1, . e. d• a . * a a a a no • Whim Galaxians from Quicksilva, Monkey Bizness from Artic, Vic 10
•Fa
O t amma a a h i, a or 30 Monster Maze from J Graye Software. No prizes Actually these a re a ll one and the sam e computer. intended a s
C for guessing which of these were based on Space successors to the Vic 20 in the starter computer market All three
rInternational Football Invaders, Pacman, Galaxians, Scramble and Defender. incarnations were announced and previewed at shows. The Ulti•
c Corrin1000r0 mar ve rsio n wa s notable 10r ONeong a fiat membrane keyboard
kite that of the ZX81, while the Commodore MaK (the latest ver-
a
sion) had 2 K RAM, and could produce 16 0010tirS on a 320 x 200
n Screen i t never arrived, a n d w a s shortly superseded b y proto-
i types o f a 116 and 264. which eventually became the C16 and
r 1
r 1
w P
l led t o a thriving cottage industry o f 'homemade'
a u
c adventures. It was a good time for UK adventure writ-
s
Who said this - and
i 2ers, since Infocom titles, such as the famous Zork
about what?
o 4series, and adventures by Scott Adams, were not easi-
.
r ly available in the UK, and certainly weren't converted
It will have appeal as a
e
games machine because of its for any home-grown machines like the Spectrum.
very high speed and because E V E NTS
the language allows such
sophisticated user-defined The PCW show was again at the Barbican, and was
graphics." the first of the all-screaming whizz- bang games-tests
that became the PCW show of the late 80s. Star turns

1983
by Imagine and Llamasoft.
Bug Byte, one of the largest and most well-known
of the software houses which had grown up around
the ZX81 and Spectrum, was going through turbulent
times. In January, its head programmer Eugene Evans,
and senior staff David Lawson and Mark Butler broke
away from the company to form Imagine Software,
and its first game, Arcadia, for the Spectrum and Vic

ARRI VALS AND DE P ARTURE S

Plenty of new micros lined up at the starting blocks in

pow Mirrorsoft
1983. The Acorn Electron was announced in January Founded: November 1983/June
Galaxy with a scheduled release date in March. It finally rolled 1985
Antrog out of Acorn over a year later. In May, Memotech, pre-
Although M inorsoit wa s set u p b y Mirror Newspapers
viously a Spectrum alternative keyboard supplier, - ent
m d emva e
n algoe rp J -O I M aCk 0h0Chs e a s a fe a s i b i l i ty p r o j e c t i n
November 1903, .1 d id n o t become a company in it s own right
until June 1985, Ea rly titles included such educational gems a s
Caesar Me Cat. First Steps with the Mr Men and Qu id ( Thinking
Virgin/Mastertronic Virgin Games (early 19841. Spitfire 40 was published in Spring 1984 r e m e m -

1
Founded: February 1983 ber the date ve ry Cieatty, because I spent Easter Monday at the
duplicators, desperately trying lo fix a bug in it .' sa ys Jim)
1 romantic b a ck bedroom tales here. Virg in Ga rn e t . se t u p b y N ick Alexander. w a s a natural expansion f o r
110 Mirrorsott trundled along with neither big hits nor too many
1 cherd Branson's 13 ye a 'o ld record company, and was set up in a blare of publicity. The quality of it s programs grand disasters until it began to make a speciality o l the growing
1 t Ceably impeoved after Virgin set up an in-house program/mg team, the Gang of Five . in 1984. in 1986, Virgin 15-bit market in 1987. using its Cinemeware licence as a spring-
1
Games bought o u t Leisure Genius and it s range o f licensed board game conversions, and in October 1987. it board. Th e Mirror Group bought U S compan4ts FM_ and Sp e c
1
hum Holobyte (now up for sale again) to add to its software sta-
- m a new company, VirgioltilastertrOnic. The involvement with Mastertronic gave Virgin it s First entree into hard-
; ble. while M irro r
g
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tales o f f a st ca rs a n d f a s t
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was the 1983 on a high. In November, Bug First Star Software
'pled with Byte lost its second batch of per-
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hit Manic Miner, left to form Soft-
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by Mel- Atari US axed nearly a quarter
/lure and of its total staff - about 1,700 peo-
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)83, and financial results, despite announc-
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64K RAM, and cutting the price of 'Are tOU going to sell sugered water
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lid E399.99. By the end of the year, could be doing som ething really
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nemade' management ralher than programming N ow lives and works in the US. Joined Icon Simu-
:ure writ- lalions in Chicago a year ago; company has produced Dela ilu, Uninvaad and Shadow-
part published in UK by MorOrSOtt.
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not easi-
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m. In June, he received a knighthood
in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

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tar turns s oftw a r e m a r k e t, not onl y for
ers changed its name to Elan Com- gam es, but for s ophi s ti c a te d
puters, and sparked o ff one o f pe r s ona l tbus i ne s s s oftw a r e
!II-known home computing's longest running l i ke s pr e a ds he e ts or da ta ba s e
around sagas of missed release dates, a ppl i c a ti ons . "
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name changes and confusion with -
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!r broke Enterprise. 4
oftware, The Elan Enterprise, we were
nd Vic told would be a computer -
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w i t ehscence built out". Dedicated
chips handling graphics and sound
(the 'Nick' and 'Dave' chips, if you
ne will), large memory, expansion
potential, the Enterprise had it all._
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Deep Star, the greatest collectiont of man's technical wizardry, committed to the hands
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ummer 1940: the future of Britain lies on four disks with a staggering — and extremely
in the hands of a few idealistic, young, impressive — 200-odd page manual detailing every-
but ve ry brave RAF fighter pilots thing you could possibly want to know about the Bat-
equipped with just 5 3 0 fighters up tle of Britain —the Lucastilm game and the real thing.
against the might of Hitler's Luftwaffe On loading, you're presented with a menu selec-
with over 2030 aircraft. Given the tion screen detailing the game's options: training
choice which side would you have gone flight, combat flight, custom mission, play campaign,
for? Well, with this new Lucasfilm his- review combat records, review combat film or exit.
toric flight-simulation you have just that Training flight lets you practise flying, shooting and
choice, and the chance to fly eight classic aircraft bombing in various situations. Combat flight throws
from the period. You could even alter the outcome of you into one of a possible eight historically-accurate
the Battle of Britain if you're good enough! missions for each of the eight aircraft included in the
FLI GHT OF FANCY
" I f the British Empire and game. If you get bored with the preselected assign-
Its commonwealth last for
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain is a classy ments, you can build your own missions using the
a thousand years,men will Mission Builder utility included with the package. Play
product from qiirt to finish. The PC version comes
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finest hour!' "
paign missions. You can also review the combat
RELEASE BOX Winston Churchill, 1940 records of the pilots and crews who have flown on
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THEIR FINEST HOUR: Replay camera indicator

THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Continuing the historic theme first shown in its I round indicator
earlier Battlehawks 1942 air combat simulation, A
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THE HEROES can 'shoot" during every mission. REMEMBERING TH E FEW
This year sees the Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary
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After a dogfight over the English Channel, Pilot Officer
When attacked, German
Tony Woods-Scawen was forced to crash-land his Hurri-
cane on the Isle of Wight, knocking out his front teeth in aircraft frequently resorted
the process. lie then caught a ferry to Southampton, but to flying in a 'defensive
Ernst Udet arrived too late to rejoin his Squadron. lie made his way circle'. If the attacking
Ernat Udel , . e . J brilliant VOHS a te with 6 2 kills.
to a bar in a Southampton hotel, had a few drinks and fighter could turn inside
Mier WW1 we r e u r r e a s tunt pilot able to tr s e spent the night. The next morning he telephoned his this circle he could bring
his sang tip to tAkick a handkerchief 1T0111 the Squadron and told the adjutant. I f you want me to go on his guns to bear wlist being
Wound Lic tot 'coned th e Luftwelte. on a c h i e f fighting, you'd better send someone down here to pay my in ho danger of being fired
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On August 15th, 1940 a group of Junkers Ju
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3sdects o' the game s less addictiveness, Games into the and year cate- a be worth having it
n t even Laurence Scottord is ACE's
graphics with the Irritations A We don't review
lie Arkancodand flying gories. for free.
r new slat, writer - Laurence
of each machine taken into Shark require virtually zero 700-799 Still highly anything until we
s e has been playing games
account. A goodlooking brain power but are still recommended, but probably VERSI O N BOXES since he was nipper, but are 100% certain
Spectrumgame will there- remarkably addictive. Most has aucouple of aspects to This covers version-specific some of them we probably that we've got it
fcree score higher than an coin-ops score well here p
the garneplay that take the information on graphics, ought not to mention, There right. We've
Do avtrage-LDok:ng Amiga one. because they are designed
for instant satisfaction.
edgeeoff rit
600
audio, loading problems etc. was hot competition for the checked them out
b If there's no box for your ACE Staff Writer position thoroughly - now
AW N° Games don't have to be zone,- where it tends to be machine but a version is from gamesters all over the
Tie music and soLnd effects either fun or intelligent - they very good you can too.
rated here. A high rating is can be both. 6 9 9 'il you like that planned, it'll be covered as an country, but Laurence pipped
sort of thing'. update in a later issue. them all at the post by show-
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 T E N G E N ' S Hard to go Drivin' managed
up a gear on its
numerous racing rivals in the arcades earlier
this year with its realistic handling controls.
Tengen have concentrated their efforts on
:, making the car handle like a true racing simula-
- tion - rather than lavishing stacks of code on
pretty scenery and background graphics.
., The visual effect of this approach is to cre-
_ ate a game that looks very simple - basic geo-
T metric lin e drawings a n d blocky angular
shaped vehicles on the road. But what Hard
i Drivin may be considered to lack in graphics it
more than makes up for in game play.
You are placed at the controls of a super
fast sports car competing in a race against
several other cars on a choice of two tracks.
The Stunt track features three exciting
challenges; the Bridge Jump, Loop-the-Loop,
and the Bank. It is also the part of the game
where the main thrills and spills are to be had,
Getting the speed and approach right as

1
you go into these stunts is the key to success -
and mastering this control will take a good deal
of practice.

HARD D
DOMARK put the hammer down
Steering th e c a r in Ha rd Drivin' also
appears quite difficult on the first few attempts RELEASE BOX
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ding is excellent fun and can be used to partic- forward, The feeling of speed is very convinc-
u advantage on the Bank.
ular ing due to the very low perspective you have of
c The computer helps you master the steer- - the road.
h and acceleration with a variety of on-screen
ing
m
prompts. Steer wildly out of control and you
may
o find yourself driving down the road in the
wrong
r direction • but the computer points this
out
e to you. Because o f the delicacy of the
steering
r a directional arrow moves slightly to
the
e left and right. Keep this centred and you
will not go too far wrong.
a
Another feature there to help you is the
l
action replay sequence. This gives an out of
i view of the action (As opposed to your view
car
s the road from the drivers seat, i.e. you are
of
t
viewing the whole car). Particularly exciting
i
viewing it makes too, especially if you come off
c Loop the Loop track at high speed. But it is
the
there
. for more than mere entertainment - it
enables
I you to try things Out and see how the
car
f performs.
y A choice of automatic and manual con-
trolled gears are available. T h e automatic
o
gears enable you to concentrate on the stunts
u the race • but once you have become f
and
as m i
w S pe c tr um ver si on o w -
i
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 ST VERSION S T Ver si on:
Near perfect conversion of the Tengen original. Ac ti on r e p l a y v i e w o f
The speed is there, the music, and skidding, com- the L o o p t h e L o o p
plete with sound effects to match. One of the very s tunt. T h e d r i v e r
best racers now available for the ST. l a c k e d s uffi c i e nt s pe e d
to pul l i t off.
G RAP HI CS 9 1 0 FACTO R 9
cide that AUDI O 8 F U N FACTO R 9

the wtite ACE R A T I N G 9 3 7

irt to dis-
; it roars S T ver si on:
CORVinc- SPECTRUM VERSIO N Dr i ver 's e y e v i e w o f
:he m a in ra ce 'eencow leaturres a m o n o ch ro m e Loop t h e L o o p . F o o t
have of dow n, d e e p b r e a t h ,
display. Despite this t he graphics are very
a nd c l os e your eyes.
detailed and the track moves fast enough to be
convincing. it is slightly jerky but this is only to be
expected. Greatly to the programmers credit,
every single rrnportant game play element has
been included - right down to the action replay.
Once again a Spectrum conversion o f a n
advanced coon-op is pulled off against the odds.
First class Spectrum racing.
G RAP HI CS 8 10 F A C T O R 9
The appeal of Hard Drivin' is in the pure joy
AUDI O 7 FUN FACTO R 9 of racing along - over taking other cars, and PREDICTED INT EREST CURVE
100
ACE R A T I N G 9 2 1 the sensation of speed that is created in the
process. The stunts are the icing on the cake,
but in the end its the racing that remains as
The tracks are dotted with checkpoints the main attraction.
which measure your progress against the Hard Orion' appears to have an addictive
game clock. If your speed is good enough you hook that many of the current crop of racing
may get a crack at the Phantom Photon (com- coin-ops lack. Domark have captured the addic-
puter controlled car) in a race around the Stunt
tive spirit of the game for home consumption.
Track. Unputdownable and certain t o be the Dom ST = I SPICTROISI
The Phantom makes a tough adversary Dom's biggest hit to date - possibly even pip-
and accelerates away from the start at great Potentially timeless entertainment as Hard
ping all the other Christmas racers to the num-
speed. Taking him on is for the advanced Hard Orivin• is likely to become the favourite racer
ber one slot.
Driver - but is a challenge well worth building for many gainers - and thereby get many
regular spins.
up to.
• EugeneLacey

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Iptasy come to
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Duni, to the point o f using
ERputs you S O F T W A R E Toolworks tainly can'tc ebre- your particularly good
piled dungeon
accused of putting out programs that look simi- sequences b a ck o n
were. Everythi
'ialk up objects lar, however. Last time out came Life and you!
take them w• Death - the game when you were trying to cure First o ff, I trie d
ey n d try it people. Now Bruce Lee Lives, where you are using t h e repeated
sybe there's trying to kick their heads in. Naturally Bruce is jump kick - and was
tit side or ma the good guy, trying to defeat the assorted pretty successful. 'Ah
.nster,
forces of Master Po. But t e l l you this - it's so' methinks - th is
not easy. learning business is a
The martial arts bit itself is quite straight pile o f doggy. Ne xt
forward, with about 1 5 sensibly positioned qualifying round, tried
moves - activated either by joystick or key- again. Got beaten to a
board, with or without fire/shift pressed. One pulp. Tried again - seri-
particularly nice bit is the fact you can program ous intensive c a r e
a series o f three selected moves into a needed. Surely some
'Macro" - activated by a single keystroke dur- coincidence.
ing the combat sequences. This can be quite A trip back to the You'r e n o t j us t l ook i ng a t o n e m ov e he r e : t h e pr ogr a m l e t s y ou
ogic useful. gym quickly installed a de fi ne m a c r os for m ul ti pl e a t t a c k ta c ti c s .
First it's into the training room to practice new ju mp kick, lo w
r Allied pleted the ones before it,
your skill on the punch bag. You'll find this vital kick, jump kick sequence - then back to the
in U-Boats in
if you are to get through the initial testing qualifying. This worked a lot better immediate- One point, your energy does replenish at a
of war at se
stages. No 'straight into the action' stuff here - ly....until the second round. Pass the plasma slow but constant rate while fighting - but there
enarios, as
set, you first have to prove your worth in the quail- please, Vicar. Take it from me, the program is again, so does that of your opponent. Here I
examine any lying rounds. This is not a simple workout - smart! found the single glitch I could complain of -
ntic novol from the very beginning the program starts to Having got through the qualifying rounds, you can g e t into a repetitive sequence o f
the 1939-45 show its well concealed teeth. Because i t you go on to a number of missions of increas- punching each other, when very close together.
is the most learns. ing difficulty, ending with a final confrontation Neither of you inflict damage, but your oppo-
rine surface Remember back in the old days, when you nent will not back off if you carry on punching,
with Master Po himself. You can only take on a
used to be able to find a series of moves that harder mission, 'though. when you have corn- he'll just punch back.
always, always, always used to take the oppo- You can use this to take a breather if you
sition out? Bruce Lee Lives lust won't stand for are hopelessly behind in a bout and recover all
RE LE AS E BO X
that sort of crap. The blurb claims that it identi- your lost stamina. OK, so will your opponent,
fies moves and sequences that you commonly ATARI ST E TB A E a r y 1990 but he never goes beyond 100%, so you soon
use - then adapts its tactics accordingly - up PC E 2 4 99dk O U T NOW catch up.
This learning thing has to be the main char
AMIGA E T B A Early 1990
PREDICTED I NT E RE S T C U R V E lenge to the game
are
r in fine,a butl l not stunning - unlike a EA's
Bodokan
h o n e sbet reviewed next month - and
to
WNW
M IL although
y . there is a story line to it, there is no
PC VERSIO N variation
T in the
e weapon types o r disiplines
used. h
Fast, colourful, and above all intelligent. g r a p
Don't expect too much in the way of But despite that, however, i t is highly
h i candswill present you more of a chal-
sound - but you're used to that, aren't playable
you? lenge than the run of the mill beat'em-up plus it
r h lif will certianly retain your interest for longer. On
G RAPHI CS 7 IQ F A C T O R 6 that premise alone, it's well worth a look.
Rigid appreciation of the program's learning AUDI O 4 FUN FACTO R 7
lredinct leads to long term challenge. • John Cook
ACE RAT ING 7 6 8

AdvancedComputerEntertainmem 49
I
WONDERBOY Cross, and involves the usual b in with a whole
host of colourful nasty critters.
The game is quite enjoyable to play and
has some nice touches. The sprites are fun and
well animated (look Out especially for the way
Wonder Boy himself skids to a halt when you
stop. The scenery features are very good too,
like the giant springs which launch Wonder
Boy/Lizard Man onto higher platforms. Good
Hack1 arcade adventure fare for the committed...

WnO NDE incarnation, once again

This time you begin your adventure as per
any day of the week. You know, it's the usual • Laurence Scotford
R1 the art of the silly sprite to the Sega. monster hacking routine (no sweat). But things
bringing
As
B with
o ythe other Wonder Boy titles you play start to go wrong when you come across the RELEASE BOX
is ladolescent
the sa y hero a s he carves his way nasty old Dragon_ When (and if) you manage to
through various bacidies (none of whom look in mortally wound him he throws a horrible curse SEGA E 2 7 . 9 5 cart O U T NOW
b a c
k
w
the least i bit threatening), in a platform based and turns you into Lizard Man (yukt). Which only
action adventure.
it h n goes to prove what you suspected all along — G RAP HI CS 7 IQ FACTO R 4
Dragons are really bad losers.
h i AUDI O 6 FUN FACTO R 7
sc
Well, no use crying over
spilt milk — you're a lizard ACE RAT ING 6 7 5
tu h now and you're going to have
i r to work out how to regain your
dt i normal form. I t isn't all bad PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
news, however, you do look
e very cute as a Lizard (honest-
p ly, it suits you). Even so, you'll
probably not want to stay that
o way for too long.
The answer lies in a magi-
w• cal item known as the Sala-
mander Cross (no, n o t a n
e
1r . 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 the award for heroic fizardry but
only thing that can restore
Quite a good fun game to begin wi th, but
Wonde r Boy c onfr onts t he evi l fi r e -br e a thi ng dr a gon. E v e n you to normality (normality?1).
there's not enough to keep your interest up
o
It h e m a na ge s t o de f e a t t he m ons t e r al l w i l l n o t be w e l l .
The dr a gon ha s s om e thi ng na s ty up i ts scal y sl eeve.
The rest o f the game con- for very long.
cerns your quest for the said
n

GHOSIBUSTERS
t
h
e
S
sneak past the Marshmallow man for your final
confrontation with Gorza.
The appeal of Ghostbusters really lies in
the sheer variety of the gameplay, even though
some of the sections are ridiculously simple.
As an added attraction, the better you do, the
The
E classic spook license now haunts SEGA..
more complex and useful the equipment you
can buy. This feature is likely to keep you com-
G played
ing it several
back to thetimes.
game, even after you have I
A
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vehicle and equip it with the essential pieces of
Laurence Scotford
equipment needed to go out and bag ghosts.
e. game.
good 1 Such was the case with the origi- Once you have kitted up, it's time to drive off
a Ghostbusters
nal 1 game, released way back in and nab some nasties,
lI / Activision, the company responsible for
1984. In the first section of the game proper you
the title, chose to concentrate on the more
w I action sequences from the film rather keeper and ThewithMaster
obvious
a
w are presented a map of the city. The Gate-
of the Key are both
h
yI worrying
than e too much about a subtle plot_ wandering around, If they happen to meet and
This approach seems to have worked well. IQ FACTO R 5
s make their way to Zuul, then things start get-
n FUN FACTO R 8
a The game on the Sega plays much the ting nasty. Meanwhile, you guide your ghost-
same aas it did on th e original computer ver- busters symbol around the streets touching the ACE RAT ING 7 2 5
r fYou begin with a small amount of cash
sions. ghosts before they accumulate and f o rm
a i Marshmallow man.
with which you can buy a basic ghostbusting
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In the second section of the game in which
h m you have an overhead view of your ghostbust-
e t ing vehicle driving through the streets. You NOUN
W
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r i must avoid other traffic, while sucking up the A
?
p e passing ghosts with your ghost vacuum. Once R

l - you arrive at the infested building you enter the

e section of the game which actually requires
i
a some sort of skill. Here you must manoeuvre
n
your ghostbusters with their ghost trap and Ion
s t
1 .1 .1 1 ,te dm •r•n ma n. pnae

beams to capture all of the ghosts floating in U. %

a u front of the building. if you fail to trap them all
n hr e r o e s m o v e i n , i o n b e a m s a n d
Our A varied game wi th reasonable staying
you will be slimed. Ugh. Your ultimate aim is to power. You'll take a while to really get into
t
ghos t-tr
n a p a t t he r eady, I n a n a t t e m p t t o build up enough points to enter Zuul before the
bag a f e w m or e ghos ts . T h e y h a d ba t t e r the swing of it.
s
ge t i tsr i ght, though, or they'l l be sl i m ed. city's PK energy gets too high. Then you can
u o
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I play and
ire fun and
SWITCHBLADE
ir the way
when you
GREMLIN's little Cyber Knight goes forth into arcade
adventure land
Ocu
tI*
good too,
h Wonder melling away at your opponents for
ms Good THE quite some time before they disap-
itted. era
c of darkness and despair. The pear in a puff of pixels. Hold the
dark
a t lord o f nightmares, Havok, button down for long enough how-
nceScatford e ng slept for 10.000 years has ever and you will execute a perfect
havi
filially
u woken. The Fireblade has sweeping kick — powerful enough
been broken, a n d it ' s sixteen to dispatch most bad guys with
r
pieces scattered through t h e one blow_
ITNOW tunderworl
w d where Ha vo k n o w The actual display shows only
t
reigns. The slaughter has begun, the a re a s y o u h a ve already
o
and all of the Bladeknights, hi-tech explored. Any areas you have not
OR 4 o
warners of Thraxx are dead. All, yet entered are initially dark. This
OR 7 rthatl dis, except one. The last of the makes the whole task of exploring
eCyberkni
n ght's, Hiro, is Thraxit's last the complex a lot more interesting_
ohope. Often areas are accessible only
t Harrowing stuff isn't it? You, after you have smashed your way
fnaturally enough, play the hero Hiro through a crumbling wall, so it pays
r about that), in this platform to be thorough. This is especially
e(sorry
based arcade adventure with beat- the case with regards to power-ups
Th
em-up elements. Your task is to and bonuses, which are frequently
a
search the undercity for the sixteen hidden behind crates.
rpiaeces
x of the Fireblade.
nOnce you have collected
xthem all you will b e
eready
w fof your final con-
ifrontati
s on with Havok.
During your search
you will have to tackle
the many evil creations
of Havok. To begin with
you have a basic series

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of punches and kicks to

S HADOW
)r your final defend yourself with ,
Fortunately for you, your It he 's qui c k e nough, Hi r o c a n gr a b t h e
eally lies in Cyber Arm i s repro- cr ystal a bov e hi m for a bonus .
Nen though grammable_ Yes folks,
isly simple. that means Power Ups, and lots of Graphically. Switchblade i s

,
you do, the 'eat Rather than have a whole quite nice. The sprites are not that
ipment you gamut o f complicated joystick large, but this does allow for a larg-
you corn- moves for each offensive move- er playing area. There are also
you have ment you must use a power bar (a some fairly tuneful ditties playing The Hound of Shadow is set
la R-Type) to gauge the strength alongside the usual spot effects. in London in the 1920's and
Gameplay seems to be pitched just

(1
and type of each punch/kick you is rich in the atmosphere of
Brice Scotiord make. This depends on the length about right as well. The combat the era. It features Timeline'
of time that you hold down the fire method works well, and allows you
a new role-playing system.
button. to get straight into the game with-
Make short stabs at the button out having to absorb half-a-dozen Use investigative research to
discover the secrets of
'UTNOW and you will throw light punches. impossible controls. Well worth a

-
These are quick, but not very pow- look — there should be something arcane lore.
7
erful, so you will have to keep pum- here to satisfy most people. Available for ST and Amiga. i
• Laurence Scottord Coming soon for PC. s
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soundtrack make for a la irly enloyable
romp. It s not a game that I would classi-
Create
o your character
fy as an 'Amiga game however, in that n give you plenty of sleepless
an exciting game that should
it doesn't re a lly d o anything that you
couldn't do lust as well on an ST. Dont i
nights: when you're not up playing it, it will beon your mind..."
AA let tnat stop you from giving it a try how- STFormat—Gold n
ever. I t plays well once you ve got into
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WHEN you've had one of those really

hard days at work, everything
ed.These are set against
equally b rillia n t b a c k -
that can go wrong has gone wrong, and you're ground graphics and a
just about ready to explode, there's nothing colourful, graduated sky.
better than taking on a whole army single hand- which obviously involves
edly and having a good hack for half an hour or some p re t t y intensive
so. Let me tell you, it's a really good way to palette switching.
shift that old tension headache. Just in case You begin at the far
you haven't got a few friends handy who are left of the battle field and
'
willing to be hacked about a bit, Hewson have must slash and hack your
-
come up with the perfect solution - Onslaught, way through the enemy •
If. like me, you have always thought that forces to reach the oppo- '
conventional wargames were a b it d ry (my site side of the field. It's 1
apologies to all those hard core table top war not just a case of plough- 0
enthusiasts out there), then Onslaught is the ing yo u r wa y through .
game for you. It is based around the mythical however, f o r if you let 1
land o f Gargore. A land peopled by war-like too many of the enemy t
tribes, each o f whom worships one o f the get past you then you will k
many gods (all neatly explained in the rather lose the battle. To start Our he r o i s a b o u t t o b e i m pa l e d b y a pa s s i ng c ha r ge r . W hi l e A
-
detailed manual). You play a lone warrior, also with you are armed only he's dyi ng the r e 's ti m e t o adm i r e t he col our ful sky. Whi c h, i nci -
a
a follower of one of these gods, who sets out with a mace, but as you dental l y, c a n be e di te d by the pl ayer
n
to conquer the entire land (ambitious eh?). kill your opponents they
There are several phases to the game. The leave shields behind which can be collected to t
PREDICTED oINT EREST CURVE
first presents you with a square battle map, gain mo re powerful weaponry. Selecting
divided into a grid with each cell representing weapons can prove a little tricky in the heat of v
either a kingdom , a temple, o r a landscape battle. Fortunately, there is a tutor mode that i
unit. Landscape units are shown as mountains, automatically collects and selects weapons for o
water, and so on. You cannot cross these you. The only disadvantage with this mode of '
unless you have collected the relevant magical play is that your score is never entered on the
charm, available at certain later stages of the hi-score table.
game. By moving the cursor over an adjacent The second stage, siege, is much like the
enemy kingdom you are shown an information first only you actually enter the enemy's fortifi-
panel giving you the alignment, type, strength. cations. The third stage, mind battle, is a sub ST

and so on of the people who reside there, If game in a completely different style. it suppos- Initial high expectations are not disappointed.
edly represents the psychological bat- I'm not convinced i t has staying power
•o tle between you and the enemy lead- though.
• !,• ,
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• r A h l • 4 er. This involves moving a cursor
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successfully conquered that kingdom.
As you slowly conquer kingdoms on
the baffle map you will also have to
contend with plague and rebellions,
making it just as difficult to keep king-
ST VERSIO N
The ba t t l e m a p, s how i ng t h e te r r i tor i e s t ha t m a k e doms under you as it is to gain them Your immediate reaction will be: 'That's never run-
up the w ar -scar r ed l a nd of G a r gor e in the first place. ning on an ST!'. The graphics are incredible. For-
Onslaught is a superbly presented get any notion of dull 16 colour limitations on this
you now press the fire button you can attempt game, with a lot to it. It is quite enjoyable to game. The scrolling is as good as you can expect
to conquer them. play, but the method of selecting weapons and from the ST, bearing i n mind that, on this
Conquering kingdoms is the main, meaty the over busy on-screen action can make it dif- machine, its a fairly processor intensive activity_
part of the game, and is achieved in three ficult to keep pace with the game. This is a Hewson haven't let you down in the sound depart-
stages: field battles, sieges, and mind battles. shame, as it flaws an otherwise excellent prod- ment either. They've obviously worked hard on
The first two are quite similar and are the best uct. I also suspect that conquering kingdoms getting the old prehistoric sound chip pushed to
its limit. Loud, Colourful, Fast and Furious_ What
parts o f the whole. When you first see the could become a bit monotonous after a while.
more can I say?
graphics for these stages you are going to be Having said that, if you enjoy a bit of frantic
absolutely gobsmacked. You a re presented Hack 'n' Slay, then this is definitely the game G RAP HI CS 9 1 1 0 FACTO R 5
with a sideways scrolling view of your warrior for you.
AUDI O 9 F U N FACTO R 8
battling, claw and tooth, with the opposing
army. The sprites are absolutely first class. e Laurence Scctford ACE RAT ING 8 5 0
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PALACE SOFTWARE import a great Gallic graphic adventure.
ADVENTUREShaveseen something of
arevival recently—but not, perhaps, in the way
N I Mil 1
that many old adventure die-hards might have
hoPed for. The text adventure seems to have
finally died a death (at least in the sense that
none of the larger commercial software houses
cater for this format any more). When a com- •
pany like Level 9 (having already made a con-
cession to graphics fans), packs its bags and
moves on from a genre it has been renowned
for, then you know that change is in the air.
There has been a noticeable move towards
more complex graphics, and simpler, though 1
more sophisticated, ways of interacting with
the machine than was afforded by some of the
early adventure classics. This is, perhaps, not 441111111111111111FS
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machines like the ST and Amiga which both Iwo —
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graphics memory and easily accessed graphical front

ends. - a nd ther e's
eplay of Companies like Sierra-On-Line have lead cI m
ampr .essi ve i sn't i t? Thi s is j ust t he
from. ope ni ng l oc a ti on, pl e nty m or e w he r e tha t

de hit and the way forward with celebrated titles such as

•
For example, rather than captions , text boxes, you require, you move the pointer to the per-
edit in Leisure Suit Larry, Poiice Quest, and Space and menus blocking out huge areas o f the son or object you wish to apply the command
rsions. Quest. These are all distinguished b y their screen, they are presented as white text on a to. For instance - if, in a standard text adven-
heavy reliance on detailed background graph- translucent grey background, a la Channel 4. ture, you would type 'OPEN BLUE DOOR', with
ics, animated sequences, and the use of the This way, you ca n still see th e graphics
at with th Cinematique you would select OPERATE, then
mouse for movement and selection of many of beneath them. move the pointer over the blue door and click.
g of the the commonly used functions like saving and Movement is achieved by moving the point- There are several advantages to this sys-
Boss. Use loading games. The Sierra games never com- er to your planned destination and clicking the tem. Firstly, there is no fiddling about trying to
come to pletely divorced themselves from text input mouse button. The hero, an office window find just the right word to use, secondly, unless
however, and although they all use an extreme- cleaner, then attempts to walk towards the you're a touch typist, this method is much
ethe gang ly advanced parser, which does make things spot you have indicated. When you come to quicker. Another benefit that is probably not
, factories, easier, you still have to make the machine give him other instructions yo u discover the immediately apparent is that there are a limited
irts of the understand what you want to do through typed beauty and economy of the Cinematique sys- number o f combinations o f commands and
phrases. tem that has been used to create the game —
lack objects/people, so even if you cannot solve a
At first sight, this new graphic adventure no text entry! problem logically, you can probably do it even-
r the final from French developers Delphine Software By clicking the left mouse button you call tually through trial and error. (I can see purists
the looks quite a bit like the Sierra adventurers. up a menu of standard adventure commands: turning the page in disgust!) This does mean
elf! But the resemblance is only superficial. An EXAMINE, TAKE, INVENTORY, USE, OPERATE, that this adventure is likely to prove a lot less
immediately noticeable difference is the superi- and SPEAK. Once you have selected the notion frustrating than most, especially fo r novice
ernattonal, Inc or quality of both the graphics and sound adventurers.
effects. They are not just good, they're first The actual plot concerns the thwarting of
RE LE AS E BO X
class. Much the same goes for the animated alien plans to disrupt history making their con-
sequences which occur a t particular points ATARI ST E24.99dk O U T NOW quest of Earth in the 43rd Century inevitable.
throughout the game. Attention to detail, espe- AMIGA E 2 4 . 9 9 d k O U T NOW You have been unwittingly drawn into this rather
cially in the presentation, is found throughout. messy state of affairs. You find yourself being
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dragged through several time zones in an
PREDICTED I NTE RE S T C U R V E attempt to put a stop to the diabolical machina-
102 tions o f the aliens. This provides plenty o f
AMIGA VERSIO N opportunity for for varied graphical locations

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Lae 41Future Wars thete is none ot the shoddy 'art- and problems, that should be enough to keep
work you may have to come t o expect from most people happy for some time_
adventures in the past. instead you afe treated to Although I can see that Future Wars might
superb graphics, stunning sound. and detailed not appeal to adventure purists, it does suc-
animation. The onematique system makes good ceed in making the genre accessible to a lot
• use of the Amiga's mouse and graphical capabili- more people. It is certainly an enjoyable, well-
mote . ties. A stunning product. presented product with a lot of depth, and I

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wholeheartedly recommend it if you fancy an
G RAP HI CS 9 9 I Q FACTO R 8
It will take a while to get into the game, but adventure that is a little different.
you won't be disappointed. Shouldn't take too AUDI O 9 F U N FACTO R 8
long to solve though. ACE RATING 9 1 0 • Laurence Stafford

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I F ing shoot 'em up freaks into an apoplep- sented b y a different
tic
t hseizure, it's Hybris. Released near the begin- colour capsule. There's
ni
engr o f last year, Discovery Software's US not to o much differ-
imported
e ' blaster did for the Amiga shoot 'em ence in style or perfor-
up
s what F/A-18 Interceptor had done for the mance, a n d i t a l l
Amiga flight sim - mainly because at the time comes down t o per-
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there were no decent quality blasts about, sonal taste which i s
n
apart perhaps from Sidewinder and Xenon. the best weapon, but
e Such was the critical success of Hybris, a check out the Magma S cor chi ng a c ti on fr om the pr ogr a m m e r s of Hybr i s.
w
follow-up was inevitable - and here it is. Its not Waves for some whole•
o official sequel - there's no Hybris II subtitle
an sale destruction! And of course there's a com- All in all, Battle Squadron must go into the
r anything like that. But it's by Martin Peder-
or plement of smart bombs for when the going top three Amiga shoot 'em ups, along wit)
sen
d and Torben Larsen, the team behind the gets tough. Xenon II and Silkworm - not to be missed.
original,
t and after one look at the game there's Each level is broken down into two halves • Gary Whin
no
h denying the similardes. In practical terms. - the first takes place above the planet sur-
Battle
a Squadron is really Hybris 1990 - a 12" face, where the aliens thankfully aren't too RE LE AS E B O X
remix
t of the original, with Martin and Torben nasty, while the remainder is fought out under-
taking the original formula and giving th e ground, in the planet's subterranean caverns. AMIGA E24.99dK OUTNOW
s
graphics, sound and gameplay and elaborate This is where things get sticky as the huge sta- No other versions planned.
e
overhaul. tionary aliens that were such a pain in Hybris
n The most notable new inclusion i s the make a comeback - but this time they're big-
d
simultaneous two-player option that seems ger and beefier. Look Out for the gargantuan
s
sadly lacking in many shoot 'em up these days. Venus Flytraps! AMIGA VERSIO N
A the good fight together with your mate to
Fight Of course th e end-of-level baddies are An excellent soundtrack comprising a plethora of
m the task that much easier - and enjoy-
make back, but they're badder and more vicious than themes and jingles does the business, and graphi-
ever. This time around it's not just a matter of cally there's little to touch it. It's the little touches
able.
i There's a level of healthy competition pro-
duced as a result - you're a team when it pumping them full of lead - most of them have like the slight left-to-tight scrolling that give this
g the edge. The only Quibble is that there's not
comes
a to killing the alien peril, but as soon as to be taken apart piece by piece in the correct much feeling of depth to the backdrops - perhaps
a- weapon capsule is released, it's every man order. some parallax scrolling would have helped? Game-
for himself. As sequels go, Baffle Squadron does the play-wise however, it's Top-Hole, Numero Uno, The
o
And talking of extra weapons... There are job - the programmers could have copped out Big Cheese. Jolly Good Show...
w
25 in total. Remember in Hybris, how the and done a few measly extra levels, but the
n G RAPHI CS 9 I C / FACTO R 2
weapon was upgraded through a series o f complete facelift that's been done here means
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stages? Well that's how it works here, but there you've got a whole new shoot 'em up that still AUDI O 7 F U N FACTO R 8
are fo u r separate and upgradable 'base' manages to retain the winning feel of the origi- ACE RATI NG 8 6 7
nal. Its tough - at least as tough
as )(e rr- Jo - but a moderator
screen p ro v i d e d that allows
you to s s around with num-
bers of lives, alien speed, extra
weapons and so on to give you a
head start.
Aesthetically it's a winner
a real improvement over the
original with bigger, badder nas'
ties a n d - something which
Hybris lacked - proper varied
landscapes. Ch e ck o u t t h e
mechanical level for some jaw-
dropping effects!

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An i nter i or Dunge on-s ty l e - thi s Is a hotel .

encounters are just as dull and after being told

to get lost by the nth identical looking barman
in the nth identical looking bar, you're looking
up at the shelf for something else to play.
Your search for the NATO plans involves
You start the game in your apartment. The similar repetitive gameplay a s you question
these days. A quick visit with a ham- display shows your current location: there are everyone you meet (almost always with identi-
B mer to chip a block off the Iron Cur- three categories of location display rather as in cal, uninteresting consequences) and explore
tain
e for posterity, a few free beers from emo- The Bard's Tale series. Interiors of shops and
all possible locations, mo st o f which look
tional
r innkeepers, fl o we rs f r o m ecstatic apartments are revealed as single flip-screen
exactly the same. Back in your apartment your
passers-by, in fact just the place for a holiday if rooms. Exteriors scroll towards you with a per-
l computer occasionally drops heavy hints in the
you fancy seeing history unfold before your spective view each time you move, and there
i form of e-mail from your superiors. After solv
eyes. are also the equivalent of 'dungeons'—sparsely
n On a rather different level. Berlin is also the ing the first puzzle (with a sense of relief rather
detailed perspective interiors that scroll in a than achievement) I returned to the house to
s similar fashion.
scene o f Accolade's latest offering. It's a find that the solution was practically handed to
o
strange experience to wander up and down the me on a plate by my boss.
u
Ku'damm in the game while simultaneously
As the Iron Curtain is swept As you move along the street, different cat-
n
watching a TV program featuring hordes o f egories of establishment are flagged by icons
tired
d and emotional Germans tumbling down aside, ACCOLADE plunge you at the bottom of the screen: a bar to your left,
the
s same street. With such strong competition back into the Cold War. NATO for example, or a hotel to your right. Unfortu-
from
l current events, can the game hold its nately all bars look the same from the outside
own?
i plans are missing, and its up to (as do all other building categories) so you
k TIC takes place in the old Berlin and the you to create an RPG-style have to visit each and every one in your quest.
Wall
e is most definitely in place. The program This soon becomes rather tedious since the
character and get after them...
gives
a you the opportunity to create a number rewards are not numerous enough to compen-
of Agent files, each of which effectively defines sate for the disappointments.
n
a player character who may then be 'activated* Encounters involve the relevant assassin or Things do hot up later on as you get fur-
e enter the scenario. Your objective is t o
to colleague appearing as a detailed figure super- ther into the case, but it is a tremendous strug-
x
recover stolen NATO defence plans before they imposed on the current location graphic. A gle against the impulse to reset the machine to
c
can be sold to the Russians by an apparently description of the encounter is flashed up, and get this far.
idefecting Western agent. if things turn nasty you'll be keeping a close The Third Courier is a disappointment. A
t Each time you play you can select any one eye on your character attributes on the right of slick user interface conceals what is, essen-
of
i your filed agents and 'activate' him (or her). the screen. It doesn't take many shots from a tially, a very simple game mechanic which
Relevant
n characteristics include the standard policeman's NATO rifle to get the health down lacks variation in gameplay and ultimately fails
RPG-styl
g e attributes, but these have a rather to zero. to raise th e adrenalin levels. Great body.
subtle
p effect on the action during the game. Commands are a ll menu-driven but the shame about the brain.
What's most important is your ability (or other- design of the menus can mean some rather • See p.143 fi r release detatis
l
wise) to handle a gun and your current poten- tiresome multiple selections f o r frequently
a
tial for healthy living, both of which determine needed options. For example, confronted by a
chow long you're likely t o survive constant LANDS CAP E 6 0
policeman demanding your papers, you have to
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attacks by panhandlers, muggers, drunks, and A a ct ive gra phics ma rre d by la ck of variety. Ve ry
ACTION, USE, US PASSPORT every time l i ttl e a r u m a l to r t.
assassins. Adding in an ENCOUNTER menu could cut this
and other hassle fac- E NCO UNTE RS 6 5
mono tors down consider- You meet people a lmost e ve ry step of the way. but
Action I nventor s PEN few of them have anything inteneshng to sa y and
ably. raoSt o l them look a like .
This may seem
like a small problem, CHALLE NG E 7 8
but it's compounded Will la ke a long lime to solve , but not f u ll because of
the puzzle s: pace of gameplay is slow and in much
by the game's most of the game tria l. e rror. and e xploita tion substitute
serious design flaw: for logic and ingenuity.
over-frequent a n d
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pi 0 4 tiresome t h a t I t levels soaring. The drama of the scenario
I E M I becomes a real disin- isn t adequately translated into dramatic
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e nc ounte r s t a k e thi s for m a t: a gr a phi c fi gur e, a nd l i m i ted i nte r a c - movement. O t h e r
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EntertainmentSoftware
 many felt didn't live up t o the promise o f
1 milestone in computer gaming! it was LSL I, In this new title the humour is more sub-
T LANDS CAP E 8 5
one of the first titles to achieve signifi- tle, the locations more interesting, the anima- Attractive animated sce ne s with some ve ry colouitu •
h penetration of the PC-compatible market
cant tion more polished, and the story-line more backdrops a s La rry scuttle s or - ii you haven't got

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and
e was partly responsible for software houses absorbing_ Throughout the game a series of 386 PC - dawdles a cross the scre e n.
in
o the UK launching their attack on PC owners. excellent animated cameos include seeing little E NCO UNTE RS 7 0
r The formula for all the games is pretty sim- sheets o f paper slip through photo-copiers, Lots ol lim n . including some that might be consid-
pl
i e. Fat, balding programmer Al Lowe has cre- being beaten up by your boss, longing for Pas- ered on mildly dubious taste. ii would be nice of Sier-
ated
g his on-screen persona Larry Latter to pur- sionate Patti in the piano bar of the Casino, and ra could beef up the conve rsa tions though.
sue
i his male fantasies in the form of a stable seeing several women in various states o f CHALLE NG E 8 0
relationship with a good-looking gal, Although undress.
n Easy to get into, but you spend a lot Of time Covering
a the same ground. M ost o l the puzzle s are soluble by
examining e ve rything in sight.
l Watch out — he's back! SIERRA-ON-LINE's animated nerd with an
Linsatiable desire for romantic encounters is once again in pursuit of S Y S TE M 8 0
Slick animated adventuring with occa siona l la pse s
e
a mate. This time, he's after Passionate Patti, who's got a thing about 01 speed Powe rlui PC syste m recommended
i
sPulsating Pectorals. Is this really just 'good clean fun', we wonder...
ACE RATI NG
u
Larry's
r a one-woman man, however, he can Ifs this last bit that makes up the first of 890
onl y achieve this status by flirting with every the reservations. Previous LSL titles have been
e
lady he meets, and so far the games have entirely innocuous in their pandering to male Leisure Suit Larry has become almost a
S
ensured that he meets quite a few, legendary figure in PC gaming. This latest
fantasies, but LSL3 definitely goes one step
u title confirms his, et missionary status. It s
Score 2 1 5 of 40013 further and introduces
i L e i s u r e S ui t Lar i • a pity, however, that the series seems to be
t leirt graphics that are obvi-
ously designed to be
heading towards increased female nudity,
L as seductive as pixels
a I I can be. This may be need a fast PC with EGA or VGA to get the best
r easy on the eye, but out of them. On a bog standard machine, many
r
y
1 it's a l s o undeniably
exploitative of women's
of the animated sequences are so slow as to
be painful. This game isn't as bad as some of
w bodies in ways that the the earlier titles (Kings Quest IV in particular)
a earlier games weren't. but the speed still aggravates sometimes, It's
s If that so rt o f thing also questionable whether text entry is really
bothers you (and I'm suitable for this sort of game: speed of interac-
a
not overstating this - tion might well be improved with a menu-driven
the g a me h a s ve ry command system.
clear mild pornograph- LSL3 is, despite its shortcomings, a very
ic tendencies) then the enjoyable romp and possibly the best of the
experience is going to Larry games to date. Let's hope we don't have
be marred as a result.

LEISURESU1
You've got 4 0 0 0 poi nts t o scor e. P i c k up t w o by l ook i ng a t your - to wait too long for the next one,..
self in the mirror. Y ou'v e got t o l ook y our hos t for Patti . . . Another weak- • See p.143 for release details.

LARRY 11
After his initial success in LSL1, Larry ness in the game concerns the way events die
kicked off LSL2 by losing, in the first scene, handled by the plot For obvious reasons, cer-
his conquest of the previous game. lie then tain things have to happen in sequence, but at
finds true love on a Pacific Island, but in this the same time it's clearly an advantage to allow
latest title the same thing happens all over the player to wander around as freely as possi-
again. Life with Larry is Obviously not a bed of ble. This means that you often attempt to carry
roses, so our anti-hero is forced to abandon his out an action, only to be told that you can't do
flowery Bermuda pants, don once again his it 'now' but you might like to try again 'later'.
appallingly tasteless leisure suit, and set out on This clumsiness was a feature of several early
the search for a new companion in the island text adventures and nowadays game designers
paradise of Nontoonyt, usually find a way round it - in this case Sierra
With one or two reservations, it's hearten- haven't.
ing to report that LSL3 is definitely quite a lot Thi s doe -e y e d l a dy I s m or e I nte r e s te d i n
The only other criticism is one that applies
more enjoyable than the last game, which 'm ai l i ng a n d souveni r s t ha n i n your body.
to all Sierra games, and that's that you really Tough l uck. . .

Advanced ComputerEntertainment 61
 MYTH
SYSTEM 3 weaves 8-bit magic
here to keep even the most easily bored per-
son going. Each section has a very different
feel to it, creating its own very special atmo-
sphere. Take, for instance, the vicious lightning
while you are fighting aboard a Viking boat in
the Ancient Norse era, or the gloomy, echoing
halls of Medusa in the Ancient Greek era, both
extremely good effects (better executed than
anything I have seen in a similar vein). Then
there is the way that weapons and items you
collect must be used at the correct time and in
the right way to complete each section (so you
I f is very easy, when you have become forbidden for any of the good gods to intervene can't just hack your way through). The final con-
i used to the sort of quality and presenta- directly in the course of history, so they assign frontation is also very surprising, but you are
tion usual in the best 16-bit games, to dismiss a mere mortal (that's you matey) to travel going to have to find out about that for your-
new 8-bit products as inferior titles designed to through several time zones in order to put self. Add to this a tremendous soundtrack and
run on inferior machines. It is also easy to things right, and ultimately face Dameron him- spot effects, and you have one of the best 8-bit
believe that computers like the ZX Spectrum self. The zones you must travel through are games ever created.
and Commodore 64 have already been pushed Hell, Ancient Greece and the Halls o f the
to the limit. There has been some very impres- Medusa, Ancient Norse, and Ancient Egyptian • Laurence Scottord
sive software developed fo r both o f these eras.
machines in their long existence. Many pro- In each zone
grammers have found ingenious ways to get you must com-
around both machines idiosyncrasies. So sure- plete c e r t a i n s /
ly nobody is going to get anything more out tasks in the cor- N - s-

them? Wrong! System 3 have done just that, rect o rd e r t o o

%
with Myth_ restore the natu- .
The idea is that one of the gods, Dameron, ral course of his-
has rebelled and begun to change history. It is tory and then go
forward t o th e
e- t a Al
- V E A c t l e
- - - - - i l l next zone. Unfor- t/
To be perfectly honest with you, I've not seen any- tunately for you
thing as accomplished as this on the humble there are a num-
Spectrum. Having seen the game on the C64 ber of creatures
first, I would have expected the programmers to and t r a p s i n
have copped out on this version, and gone for the each s e c t i o n * i t • o t lipot olow
usual monochrome screens. Not so - not only
have they used all the available colours (yes, all
which, u n l e s s
dealt with care-
rel—gere.. " a l Agall00
eight of theml. but I challenge you to discover any
major attnbute clash. In case you don't know the fully, will thwart 111
Oh dear ! I t l ook s as i f y ou ha v e be e n c a ught be t w e e n the devi l a nd
Spectrum that wet, let me tell you, using lots of your progress. t h e d e e p b lu e se a .
colour in a game of this type and managing to To defend your-
avoid attribute clash is not only very difficult, it's self against them you initially have nothing but
near impossible. PREDICTED INT EREST CURVE
your fists, but other weapons can be collected
But, disregarding the tremendous technical as the game goes on. The idea is that, as the
achievement, there is lust as good a game here

Fe
planned confrontation with Dameron gets near-
as there is in the C64 version. Garneplay is slight-
ly different, mainly in the way that puzzles are er, your powers become more and more god-
like.
solved and each section is finished, but the atmo-
sphere and variety is still there_ The game itself is essentially a two-dimen-

-
The only thing we couldn't check was the sional scrolling game with platform elements.
soundtrack, which has yet to be implemented, but Now hold on there, before you turn the page,
the all of the other elements were complete and this isn't just any old platform game, it's the km .
extremely impressive_ I t you are a Spectrum best I've ever come across, and I've played a CM S P E C I I N I O
owner you should buy this game. The chances

m
few platform games I can tell you. So what real-
are you won't come across a better product for Might not look very special at first sight. Just
ly makes Myth stands out from the crowd?
your machine_ wait till you play.
Well, the first thing that strikes you is the
quality of the animation. You've never seen any-
G RAP HI CS 9 1 0 FACTO R 8

s
thing like this on either the Spectrum or the RE LE AS E BO X
AUDI O N I A F U N FACTO R 8 C64. Each figure is given a life of its own. For-
get stiff walks, unrealistic jumps, and uncon- C6411 28 E 9 99cs El4 99dk O U T NOW
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in this game. Every sprite from the
beginning of the game to the end is
captivating. As if that wasn't enough,
just wait until you start moving the
r16 bit versions to De reeasea in 1990.

central character. The degree of con- C6 4 V E RS I O N

trol that System 3 has managed to
squeeze out of the humble joystick is
quite incredible. You'll really enjoy the
i
This almost iooks !me all Airiga game that some-
one has managed t o get running on a C64.
Superb animation, tremendous sound, and bags
of atmosphere make this a must buy. It you want
way you can finely adjust your jumps
and leaps, or the way you can duck
and weave with the sword when you
are tackling enemies.
also
al
another reason for parting with your cash, it's
huge, and there's lots of variety in there. I
was impressed y o u will be too.

The quality o f the graphics alone G RAP HI CS 9 1 0 FACTO R 8

would be enough to recommend this
S pectr um : N e v e r m i n d t h e i m pr e s s i v e spr ite, j us t A U D I O 9 F U N FACTO R 8
l ook a t thos e cl ash-fr ee col our s. game, but there are yet more good-
ies in store. There is enough variety ACE RATING 9 2 5

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 TURBO
OUTRUN
US GOLD goes back to the long and winding road with a
sequel that's been widely awaited in the hope that it
improves on the original!
The fact is that
A P E S mammoths evolved in t o e le - the original OutRun is
phants
e v oandl OutRun evolved into Turbo OutRun, one o f those games
And
v esomehow
d I don't think that Sega's classic that simply can't be
rubber
i n burner got the best deal. bettered - i n t h e
t Sega'
o s pioneering racer had everything: arcades at least - so
cars,
h girls,
u sun, su rf and a beach-bopping a sequel hasn't lust
soundtrack. The sequel had everything too - got a tough act to live
m a
the only trouble was that it was the same up t o , it ' s g o t a n
n s
everything. Any additions that were made to impossible challenge
, second version were at best cosmetic and
the ahead of it. But as far
atwworst a detriment to the gameplay: the as the homne comput-
o button actually made the flashing Ferrari
Turbo er conversions go, at
o difficult to handle, while the changing
more least this second stab
l l hardly made an ounce of difference
backdrops gives U S G o ld a
toy the action. chance t o m a k e
amends for the dismal
quality of the original M ov e m e nt i n t he S T ver si on i s di s a ppoi nti ngl y bl ocky, a nd - e v e n
AMIGA VERSIO N w or se - the s pe e d j ust doe s n't i m pr ess.
effort.
You didn't spend all that money on Com-
modore's wonder machine to sit looking Unfortunately though, th a t chance has of depth - but there's acute attention to detail
at awful still graphics and listen to the been wasted. Programmed by I.C.E. (surely in in the roadside signs! What a weird sense of
disk drive churn. this case it can't stand for In Car Entertain- priorities!
ment?), this suffers from all o f the original's And to cap it all, there's a massive wait
G RAP HI CS 5 I Q FACTO R 2 faults and adds a few for good measure. The between levels while the program loads the
AUDI O 4 F U N FACTO R 2 most immediately off-putting feature i s the next chunk, which is unforgivable in this day
awful visual style: the cars and backdrops are and age and also serves to make the gameplay
ACE RAT ING 601 irritatingly two-dimensional, creating no feeling even more stop-start' than it already is.
- Turbo Outrun has nothing new to offer and
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 HOULS
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3HOSTS
Grave goings on at US GOLD

GHOULS 'N' GHOSTS You begin your quest armed with an unlim-
ited amount of darts that you use to take out
is the sequel to Cap-com's cutest game ever - the various nasties that confront you as you
Ghosts and Gobbns, I t played like a Grimm dash from left to right. Th e weapon can be
Brothers' fairy tale and was the cutest thing exchanged for an axe, time bomb, shield, or
you ever saw. Complete with a knight in shin- knife by grabbing the power ups that appear in
ing armour, a princess to be rescued, magic the occasional treasure chest. exercised with the treasure chests. Instead of
spells, and spooky zombies arid ghouls welling One of the best power ups to get is the a power up, certain treasure chests contain a
up out of the grave yard. magic suit of armour which gives your knight magician who pops up and turns you into a
At first glance the sequel looks very much temporary invincibility, but caution needs to duck - which is no joke when you've got a
like the original - but it is actually a good deal princess to rescue and half a deozen zombies
tougher. Five levels o f difficulty before you racing behind you.
confront Lucifer in the final show down, where If you survive the guillotines and manage to
you can rescue the princess, may not sound see off the mad boxer mid-way through level
like much - but once you start losing knights one you will come up against the first end-of-
before getting anywhere to speak of on the level nasty - a long-necked demon with a
first level, you soon see that you are up against seemingly insatiable appetite for your arrows
one tough game. or axes. If you get the better of him he drops
The g i a n t g o l d e n l i on b a r s t h e k n i g h t s the key to the next level.
entr y t o l e v e l 3 . H e i s di f fi c ul t t o k i l l The next challenge is more of a platfrom
be c a us e o f hi s ha bi t o f l e a pi ng a l l ov e r dtP ' test than the shoot Pem up nature of the first
the scr een. - 5 . 1 , 0 0 0 t
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 PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE

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Tough arcade conversion that will take con-

siderable time to master.

ATARI S T V E RS I O N
Very finglit anc colourful graphics are enhanced
by the use of a black background. The game is
very similar t o the Capcom coin-op. Fast and
unforgNing in its garrw play. Good use of sound
effects and a suitable tune make for a first rate
ST arcade game.

G RAPHI CS 8 I G FACTO R 8
Pump t h e g i a n t k n i g h t f ul l o f fl a k unt i l h e A
drops the key. Thi s ope ns the door to l evel 2. AUDI O 8 F U N FACTO R 9
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one. A series of intricate rope bridges have to
be negotiated without falling through the vari-
ous holes that appear should you place your
knights foot on a rickety section o f ladder.
You won't actually fall that far - just below you
is a pit complete with giant snails and other
ghastly creepy crawlies, a ll crying out fo r
lunch. Jumping out of the pit back onto the
rope bridge requires very deft use of the joy-
stick y o u have to jump slightly upwards and
then quickly change direction to enable your
knight to secure his footing on the pit that is
constantly moving.
If you survive this level and make progress
in the following three you will begin to appreci- arcade game. It turned heads when it appeared But this cuteness should not blind garners
ate the fact that success depends on speed. in the arcades and appears to be converted to to the toughness ol the challenge provided by
The knight needs to be constantly moving for- a high graphical standard in all of the home ver- Ghouls 'n' Ghosts. This is not for the uninitiat-
ward - not just to avoid the ghouls and other sions ACE has seen. ed. You will find it addictive and enjoyable but
mashes t h a t a re constantly be prepared to invest a goodly number of days
welling up out of the ground. even weeks - of gameplay if you are serious
but also because there is a
about defeating Lucifer a n d rescuing t h e
time factor t o be taken into princess.
account. Daily too long on any
level and you are likely to be • EugeneLacey
told that you have "Run out of
time".
It is the graphics that set
Ghouls 'n Ghosts a good few
degrees above the dozens of ,
trescue the princess' arcade o the m i ddl e o f l e v e l o n e i s t oughe r t h a n
adventures that have done the t a ny of t he e nd-of-l e v e l na s ti e s . S o s c a r p-
er
rounds. The detail of the knight D ..
and of the zombies and ghouls, o .
their movements, and the back- n
grounds make for a very pretty '
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 MOON WALKER
Wacko Jacko's soft shoe shuffle put US GOLD in the Ilmelight

MICHAEL Jackson s la u n ch o n
computer had all of the
Emerald have produced a
half decent game. It is not a
razza-matazz that you would expect t o b e game for hard core garners,
associated with the vdorld's number one pop veterans o f tough arcade
music megastar. adventures, and state of the
US Gold did Jacko proud in the hype art shoot 'em ups. It is how-
department with a mega bash a t London's ever well suited to younger
trendy Limelight Club. There was booze and players - particularly if they
food in abundance, dancing till dawn, a cabaret are MJ fans.
spot by Rik Mayall, and even a Michael Jackson The opening maze game
look-alike doing his stuff on stage for the hun- is Pacman like - combining
dreds of reviewers, distributors, retailers, and the appeal of collecting the
buyers who crammed in to the nightclub for the various bits of the suit and
best PR do at the PC Show. seeing t h e jigsaw puzzle
Whilst all this partying was going down, take shape with the minor Level O ne a nd you'r e ail k i tte d out w i th your bunny sui t.
Emerald Software were putting the finishing tactical diversion of avoiding
touches to the game across the Irish Sea in your fans, most of whom have varying move- younger players - which is fine because most
Wexford. ment patterns and strategies. It's a shame of MJ's fans are. The verdict for everyone else.
Their brief was to follow the Moonwalker there are no power-ups in this level - as it however, is that the game is definitely not a
film as closely as possible - not easy when you would have greatly improved game play if you 'thriller', but nor is it totally 'bad'. Not some-
consider quite how ludicrous the storyline could have had a go at some of the mashes. thing, in short, that you'd make a long trek for,
Get this: MJ is trapped in a maze and must find But then it's not level three so you are not
• Eugene Lacey
eight pieces of a bunny rabbit suit before hop- allowed to be violent yet. The best you can do
ping on a motorbike, whizzing through a city when the going gets tough is run away, but you
destroying bags of drugs, shooting it out with have a limited amount of energy for this so it's ST VERSIO N
Mr 'Drugs Baron' Big's Storm Troopers in a best saved for the really tight corners. Disaoointing sound track. The ST is capable of a
night club, and finally rescuing Katy, the little Once you get the suit, hop on the bike, and lot better than this and when you consider the
enter level two you are initially disappointed to material Emerald had to work with there is no
girl who has been kidnapped by the drug deal-
find that it is pretty much identical to the previ- excuse for the awful 'plinky-plonly• rendition of the
ers. It all ends with a shoot out in Mr Big's com- 'Bad' album title track. Graphics also leave a little
pound where Jacko has to destroy his giant ous level, However, there are more things to to be desired on the first couple of levels. Techni-
laser cannon before turning into a space ship collect though - ten emeralds to be precise - cally not one of the best ST gamees around.
and shooting off to the stars where, presum- before you can metamorphose into the Stratos
ably, he belongs. Car. You are racing against a time limit so you
G RAP HI CS -
This far fetched derring-do doesn't matter have to make use of the radar panel to locate
AUDI O r4 F U N F A C T O R 8
a jot in the film as it merely serves as a plat- the emeralds and gather them in the quickest I
form for the spectacular song and dance rou- way. Unlike mo st computer game ra d a r ACE RA Q TING 6 5 0
tines. Computer entertainment has got a long devices this one does actually need to be used
and does also work. Bonus F
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tion. Jack° walks and runs with some of the 8
,strung by Michael Jackson's publishers. The
press release reads 'Michael cannot d ie , elegance that you would expect from the best
Michael cannot be seen to die on screen. No dancer in pop music. 00111IST
LIVEL
An even better shoot 'em is to be had on
violence! Michael Jackson is very anti-violence,
I
so there are no weapons in the game until the
3rd level'.
the final screen when you attempt to destroy
Mr Big's giant laser. All anti-violence precious- r A
r r r
'No weapons until the third level??', What is ness goes out the window as the game turns
supposed to happen then? Does MJ cease to
be anti-violent for this level? Shurely shame
into a good old fashioned shoot 'em up. Jacko
is now a robot and has to shoot all of the
Ahow

mishtake. Shooting it out in a nightclub with a guards before he gets to the giant laser.
Only four levels of play - but reasonably
M i ro%
,
bunch of storm troopers seems just a teensy Not enough variation in gameplay to
bit removed from non-violence. It does, howev- absorbing game play - result in a game that's a raise the interest levels high either in
er, make for one of the best bits of the game. definite must for MJ fans (a valuable piece of the short of the long term.
Amazingly, in the face of all this nonsense, memorabilia?). Game play is more suited to

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 DOMARK shoot the rapids in a rubber ring
13 ti
J E T and whoBiflikeare two reeeeel
nothing coolstripping
better than dudes.
down to some crazy shorts, hopping on their
toobs and launching into the nearest river. One
bright Californian day, they decide to do just
that - but this time they picked the wrong

The wrong rivers, to be more precise. Sick

of the ponds back home, they decide on a spot
of globe-trotting in search of some real action.
Their paddling japes take them along the Ama-
zon, Yukon, Nile, Rio Grande and Colorado;
and they're pretty crowded rivers these days.
In fact. Jet and Bif have to be extra cool to get
through the kind of hazards they face on this
toob trip.
For example, each river has its own unique
wildlife, such a s hippos, crocs, submerged
trees, snakes, fishermen's crazy floats, sub-
marines and (in a nightmare section) a hand
that hacks at you with a knife. There are plenty
more obstacles, all of which will deflate your
rubber toob; and if it all gets too much, you
can get rid of them with an expertly lobbed
Coke can. Then there are hazards on the bank.
zo•
Trees topple and fall into the water, anglers Wobbl i ng on hi s i nfl a ta bl e . J e t c a n t hr ow
Cok e c a n s t o r e m ov e da nge r ous obs t a - AMIGA VERSIO N
launch lines at you, natives use you as target cles a n d r e v e a l b o n u s obj e c t s . R u n n i n g Detailed, colourful graphics lalmost full-screen
practice f o r their blowpipes, sewage spills i nto a t r e e , t w i g o r a ny t hi ng e l s e t ha t 's scrolling), great music and heaps of playabilrly
seep sneakily towards you. In canyons, rocks shar p w i l l p u n c t u r e hi s r ubbe r r i ng a n d make this a brilliant conversion of the coin-op —
fall in the water far too close to your Bermuda dr ow n hi m .
even if it's not completely accurate. _lust the kind
shorts for comfort.
It's not all bad, though. If you're a particu-
114firfro*
••• • i • caa_Ag ol game to cheer you up

G RAPHI CS a I Q FACTO R 4
larly d e f t toolomanipulator, bonuses lu rk
around ever corner. Pass through gates with-
il AUDI O 8 F U N FACTO R 9
out touching them for big points; collect cans
to stock up on ammunition; chase after beach
• ACE R A TIN G 8 8 0
balls to speed you up, and collect patches for
extra lives. In fact, if you manage to collect
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qualify for extra-hard cool status. -ATARI
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decision t o paddle left o r right through a SPEC 128 E 9 99cs • E14.99dk IMMINENT
canyon: choosing one route over the other
AMSTRAD E 9 99cs • E14 99dk IMMINENT
determines which sub-stage you face next - In tw o-pl a y e r m ode . J e t a nd Bi t ba t t l e i t
and some are definitely more difficult than oth- out for poi nts a nd pr i de. The r i ver s e e m s C64/128 E 9 99cs • E14 99dk IMMINENT
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makes it all the more enjoyable to come back toobs w obbl i ng a r ound.
to time and again.
Like the arcade parent, the home versions coin-op system, and it only takes a minute to
of Toobire are great fun. The control method get used to. If you get bored of the solo game
has been translated well from the two-button (which will take a long time), there's always the PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
two-player option. Not only does this halve your
credits, it also means you can push your mate oppunINRININ
t
:
rrtl into the nearest twig and pinch all the Coke
cans before he can grab them Whether or not
„ you've played the coin-op, take a look a t
• Toobin', because it's one of the most enjoyable

tt games around this Christmas.

I—
• Gordon Houghton - , mot h N a n a p h r

AMIGA M i

You'r e n o t a l one o u t t h e r e o n t h e r i ver .

Fun from the start, the graded difficulty level,
Shor e g e e k s p e l t t h i n g s a t y o u ,
cr ocodi l es c h a s e y o u f r om be hi nd, h i p - two-player option and large number of levels
pos w a ddl e up a nd gobbl e y ou up. W ho's guarantee its lastability,
cool now ?

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 DRAGONSPIRIT AMI G A V E RS I O N
Probabty the easiest version ol them all - though it
gets a lot tougher around levels five and six - and
the dragon is a Irttle slow to respond at first. It
comes with a pleasant title tune, but more should
have been made of the firing and bombing
Does Domark's Dragon do justice to the coin-op? effects.

Other enhancements come fro m killing G RAP HI CS 8 1 0 FACTO R 4

D R A G O N Spiriti obscures arid
a very
relatively
tough flashing enemies. These include extra points, AUDI O 5 F U N F A C T O R Et
coin-op which takes the vertically scrolling shields, mega-flame, multi-directional fire, hom-
shoot 'em up theme into the realms of fantasy. ing flames and speed-ups.
Eight completely different levels lie ahead In the end, Dragon Spirit is just a standard
vertically scrolling shoot 'em up, but using a PREDICTED INT EREST CURVE
of you, populated by unique opponents — all of
whom will reduce your life-bar by one unit, dragon as the main character rather than a
Lose three units and you forfeit a life. At the fighter plane or spacecraft is a nice touch. All NI ,
0I
end of each stage there's a fairly typical con- versionsare characterised b y p o o r sound
frontation with a pretty awesome enemy which effects, and that's th e only real let-down.
is very tough to kill. Domark's conversions contain all the features
Your basic weaponry consists of lim- of the original coin-op and if you liked that, you
itless bombs and the ability to spit fire-gob- should look at this.
bets, but this ammunition can be enhanced by
bombing eggs on the ground. Blue eggs give • Gordon Hought on
you an extra head, and red ones give you an Initial frustration gives way to addiction as
extra power unit; eventually, you can work your you learn to pick up extra weapons and avoid
way up to a powerful flame-thrower. the predetermined attack patterns

S P E CTRUM V E RS I O N ATARI S T V E RS I O N
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Probably best played with keys, since with a Joy- Smooth vertical scrolling and a pretty mean dith- RELEASE BO X
stick you can't fire and bomb at the same time cutty level make fot addictive gameplay; however.
(unlike the ST and Amiga versions). The sprites the playing area is a bit small (compensated for
ATARI ST E19.99dk O U T N O W .
are nicely defined and animated, and the speed by a sideways 'push' scroll, making it harder to
AMIGA E 1 9 . 9 9 d k O U T NOW
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 ROLLER
COASTER
RUMBLER
TYNESOFTS Corkscrew Simulator
W A T E R knuckles. Know the feel-
Ying? If you do you're probably one of the mil-
elions
y ofe people
s , who go on roller coasters for
hthe eexpress
a v purpose and pleasure of turning
itheir
n internal
g organs upside down. Most of the
gthemeuparks t have closed down for the winter,
sso if you're
, still bent on pursuing the thrills and
spills of the corkscrew, you'll just have to rely
w h
on your computer simulation of all that rough
iand tumble
t fun..
e As solo player or one half of a lean, mean
team of two, you're equipped with nothing but
a bog-standard roller coaster car and a couple
of bazookas strapped on to the front and back.
The basic idea is simple; just blast the hell out
of any obstacles that appear on the vector
graphics track.
Targets range from multi-coloured balloons
dangling innocently from the roller coaster
structure, to huge airborne ships dropping mis-
siles all over the track. In between, there's a
whole selection o f hazardous geometric
Fr i ghte ne d y e t? No, nor w or e w e. obstacles and even a convincing sense o f
objects — exactly what they're supposed to be
is anybody's guess — placed at intervals along speed (only if you use the speed up option).
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
the line_ Occasionally rhomboids and cylinders The movement is very jerky, especially if you
completely block your path. If you don't man- 100 choose on-track mode, and sound effects are
age to shoot them in time, they'll do a limited 0 0 4 .(S? uninteresting (though you get a decent sound-
amount of damage to your car. Hit too many track tape thrown in) but ultimately it's on the
and your damage meter plummets down to vector graphics that the roller coaster crum-
zero sending the roller coaster completely off bles. Quease-factor is what Roller Coaster
the track. Rumbler definitely lacks
• Kali Hamza
The track itself is viewed in first person
perspective from either the front or the back of 111.••• o, •••• AMICIA V E RS I O N
the car. You travel at standard speeds (slow Neat presentation and rumbling heavy-metal style
uphill, very fast downhill) unless you alter them soundtrack tape can't make up for the har-ratsing
A roller coaster simulator which j ust lacks
using the relevant heypresses to accelerate or excitement that this so patently lacks.
that extra radical rumble.
brake.
G RAPHI CS 4 10 F A C T O R 2
The objective on each level is to hit a spec-
ified amount of targets in a specified period of The package comes with its own health AUDI O 4 FUN FACTO R 6
time. If the timer runs out or you run out of bul- warning: 'Roller Coaster Rumbler is only for the
totally radical rumblerr. All I can say is that the ACE RAT ING 4 6 3
lets, the run is over and you've lost the game.
Finish with time to spare and you move on to totally radical rumbler must have a very power-
the next track_ ful imagination. Jerky 3D vector graphics do
If you get bored of lust going round and not adequately capture the excitement of a RELEASE BOX
round the roller coasters, there's actually an roller coaster ride. It's difficult to blanch at hair-
ATARI ST E19.95dk IMMINENT
extra option on the Amiga and ST versions, raising turns and death-defying dips when the
track in front of you is an unrealistically weedy AMIGA f19.95dk OUTNOW
which lets you leave the park and go off into
the surrounding landscape to blast whatever wireframe affair. C.64/1 28 E995cs • E14,95dk IMMINENT
takes your fancy. The PC version even lets you Ws a pity because all the basic elements of
try out a monorail ride. a good game are here; different tracks, lots of

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Can a jumpy-jumpy, collect the objects, thwart Ultimate Evil, teen-
sy-weensy sprite-typ scenario still cut the mustard in 1989?
UBISOFT surprise us...
ANYsethof ir 4 the
have to go back and take the
tube under the obstacle t o
Sacred Amulet' t must surely strike terror into come out on the other side.
the heart ofi the majority of computer gainers_ I Such a banal scenario
ask you. The l 'Listen with Mother' school o f must live or die by the imple-
game design. s mentation - and I'm happy to
Yup, were scarcely in the Advanced Com- say that, on the whole, pro-
e
puter Entertainment market here, with a little grammers Blu e B yte have
t r around collecting 24 pieces of
man jumping made a great job, capturing an
some stupid a magic
u amulet that an evil some- almost Super Mario feel in
d
thing or other has , scattered to the four winds. Twinworld.
Fail and Evilh (yawn) will win and all the good lit- The physics of your little
tle pixies willt have their private parts dismem- hero appear t o have been 5-
bered. Help!!!!g coded very well, so he has 7
Nevertheless,
i apart from the astonishingly weight that is sensibly gov- Unc l ut t •ne d scr eens a nd c 0l e ia r gr aphi cs i n Tw i nw or l d.
bad quality sof sampled music at the start of the erned by gravity and momen-
game, as far e as jumpy-jumpy games go, I quite tum. This is in turn exploited by some of the less money, ihowever, would probably still
enjoyed Twinworld And I'll tell you this much - puzzles - you make a jump, say, and if you rather g o fo4r Mck Dangerous o r wait fo r
th
it's big! Two ST discs worth of jumpy-jumpy? don't reverse thrust straight away, it's the lava Dynamic Debugger.
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When the sprites are this small, that's a lot. for you, rri'lad! • John Cook
a is that your nicely animated -
The scam Firing the bubbles isn't exactly straightfor-
sprite. Ulopa, e has to battle his way through the ward either, with the exact parabolic trajectory 4RELEASE BOX
lands infested t with evil, killing monsters for depending o n whether you're jumping up, - f:19.99clk I M M I N E N T
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points m a :k e ing or crouch- AMIGA E24.9SOK I M M I N E N T
prizes i f yo t u ing - you'll ed
No other versions planned
summon t ha e find the bonus
merchant) c- i you g e t f o r
trying to make rt zapping a
difficult jumps monster w i l l
across l a vc a vary depend- ST VERSIO N
soff No serious technicai stuff here, and the sound
filled p o o l s , ing o n wh a t
could have been a lot more polished. However,
armed o n l y type of bubble the basic animation mechanics are slickly done.
with t h r e e you use, too -
types of magic the sp e cie s G RAP HI CS 8 I Q FACTO R 7
bubble. being e a sily AUDI O 5 F U N FACTO R 7
You'll fi nd changed by a
you have a him tap o n t h e ACE RATING 7 9 4
rted number of
these, b u t L space bar.
Some of the PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
extra can b e jumps are dif-
obtained a l l
You c a n't he a r the m us i c i n thi s s hot - j ust as w el l !
t ficult - some
round the shop b y picking u p th e magic of the puzzles are a bit infuriating - and you
potions that are littered around the levels. -
can proceed in the sure knowledge that if you f A A
Each level has an upper bit on the land and haven't picked all the useful items up before r
an underworld bit - which often can only be
accessed by having the correct key to get into
d
you get to meet the chief baddy, he'll probably
pummel you to bits anyway_
A
a particular door. Look Out for the odd bolt-
holes, however, which you can use to get to
i
But if you are the sort o f person that
craves the kind of agony/ecstasy gratification
, A A A
M O W. 4.
A I
ST
the underworld without using keys. that this sort of game can deliver, however lim-
This underworld part is important, as it ited that sub-set of human beings might be, After gawping i n disbelief at the old-fash-
runs parallel to the upper bit - so if you find a then this will undoubtedly be an essential pur- ioned scenario, old-fashioned playability gets
jump that is just that little bit too much to take, chase- the upper hand
on the surface chances are you're going to ThoseT hoseof us with more eclectic tastes and

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 nON&ADVENTUREALLTHEWAY-NILESTY

1111 Itisi

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1to0 play.” griptica and superb sound in a
t i n e graphics are essellentm
1 very playable game. From the
eiln an Increamingly popular
d
field of ha !tractive strategy. this word go, ti offers s wide variety
e a must for fans of this style. 99 of options and playable sub-
is
games. I f you fancy something
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fe Os the night of the Pharaoh'. death. Atnon-Re . the Sun God, rescues one young prince from the wrath of Seth. God
un Desert and Evil, bringing him to the faiths amongst whom he Is raised. You are this young Egyptian prince, royal blood flows
nt In your veins and ambition and intelligence move you Into trade as a merchant - your opportunity to escape the life of a servant,
p However, as your wealth increases and position in society rises, evil Jealcmsy threatens your life, it is then that princely courage
r protects you against your enemies. The struggle to regain your birthright is a life's Journey of adventure and action.
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FIREBIRD's beat-em-up arcade adventure

M ime pea.

potions and wands (experimentation needed), CM

B U S H I D O ismeani a nJapanese t e the

g 'the way of rm and keys which to the next stage. When you're Once you've got used to all the game's differ-
warrior' - a kind at military ethics for early feu- not searching and solving, you're battling it out ent elements, there's enough fighting and
dal Japan. In the ancient oriental province of with the opposition. searching ahead to keep you hooked.
Shimosa, two clans, the Taira (nasty) and the Truly interactive 3 D forced perspective
Genii (nice — your lot, obviously) are battling it games have never worked too well on the 64:
out to decide who's best oldies like Fairlight and Nosferatu were a bit
With typical bravado you decide that a lone too slow and only Head Over Heels managed to RELEASE BOX
fighter is the best option. You can choose one be addictive enough to compensate for the E9.99dk i12.99di O U T NOW
of eight different characters: they don't look lack of speed. Bushido doesn't have the addic-
very different on screen, but, as you discover tion o f Head Over Heels (there isn't really No other versions planned
after a while, they do behave in genuinely dif- enough to the beat 'em up action or enough
ferent ways during the game. Some characters problem solving), but it is very fast and very
are better at fighting (the Mountain Warrior, for playable. Anyone who likes a good arcade
example), whereas others are more skilled in adventure should check it out.
guile (such as the Buddhist Monk).
After training your infiltrator you unleash • Gordon Houghton
him on the Taira fortress. This is a flick-screen
environment but Grattgold have added a bit of C64 VERSIO N
scrolling, which makes the rooms seem larger ' A pleasant Oriental tune accompanies the equally
than normal and allows a bigger, more detailed pleasant land equally bland) graphics. Everything
main character - an unusual idea and one which here Is in the garneelaY.
works well. I f this character gets killed, his 1
magical belt will transport him back to base to 6G RAP HI CS 8 I Q FACTO R 7
recuperate - but he will have lost valuable time. The b e a t ' e m u p s e que nc e s u s e several
. AUDI O 7 F U N FACTO R 8
di ffe r e nt w e a p o n s , b u t m or e m o v e s
Most rooms contain special items to help , ACE RATING 7 8 9 w oul d h a v e e n h a n c e d a n al r eady g o o d
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 RALLYCROSS I
CHALLENGE
ANCO versus Super Sprint
1 r you've ever misspent happy hours grop for a start. Touch a barrier, nick a chicane or
1 r mg furtively in your pocket for yet more graze the side of a bridge and your engine RELEASE BO X
ten pees to shove into the slots at the local bursts into flames and puts you temporarily out ATARI ST E19.95dk I M M I N E N T
arcade, you'll know all about Super Sprint and of the race, After a few laps o f exploding
AMIGA C . ' 1 9 95dk O U T NOW
its clones. You'll also know that what singles around the track this can start to get extremely
this particular style of racing game out from frustrating, especially as the computer drivers SPECTRUM E9.95cs • E14.95dk IMMINENT
the others is that it lets up to four players take never seem to make the same mistake. AMSTRAD E9.95cs • E14.95dk IMMINENT
part simultaneously. The official Super Sprint It's all the more disappointing because the
conversions have only managed the usual two, excellent graphics, slick presentation and wide C641128 E 9 . 9 5 cs • E14.95dk IMMINENT
Now, if you've got the right joystick adaptor, variety of courses are a constant reminder of PC E1995dk 1990
you can ease your throttle and tear up the road what Rally Cross might have been. If it weren't
in a rubber-burning gang o f four. That's i f for the control method this would be a top-
you've got an ST or an Amiga - 8-bit owners class racing game. As it stands, it's just too
are stuck with gruesome twosomes. awkward to be anything more than mediocre. PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
As per usual there are four drivers per • Kati Harnza
race with non-human competitors to make up o h rtilf
the number. Whoever comes last gets replaced ifvF1

by a computer but d you make it into the top

three, you're rewarded with points (4 for a win,
2 for second place and 1 fo r third). You can
use these later on, if you feel like customising
for:,
your motor. on
Each player is given access to a personal Aim ral
monitor screen before the action starts. It's at
this point that you get to select your control Nice-looking Super Sprint derivative which is
method; not just from joystick or keyboard but marred by poor controls
from an additional selection of three different
joystick controls. It all hangs on whether you AMIGA VERSION
prefer your acceleration automatic or manual Despite t he control difficulties, t he colourful
(either by pushing the joystick up or pressing graphics, a wide variety of courses and lots of
the fire button). It's a nice touch, though there's animated details make this look very attractive:
not all that much to choose between them. sound is limited to a few droning effects. It's still
You also get to make your choice from a the best driving game of this type out on the
menu o f ca r improvements. These include Amiga though, as Super Sprint (excellent on the
turbo acceleration, more sensitive steering, s
improved road holding capabilities, a higher -
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each race. s
The single screen tracks throw up all sorts n
of obstacles in various combinations of tarmac e
and dirt: hairpin bends, bridges, railway tracks, v
roundabouts, fords and chicanes, Hit anything, e
and your mean machine immediately bursts r
into flames and is replaced by another one a b
few yards back. Drive too fast, and you'll skid e
or spin off the track, wasting valuable seconds. e
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vative, but it's a tried and tested formula which n
has proved extremely addictive in the arcades. v
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method and that's exactly what Rally Cross r
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barges to bridges. Heat seeking missiles make
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CLARES send the Archimedes skyward, but to be Brazil you're flying over and all the trees
have been cut down!
the interest level remains earthbound... Flying the jet is easy enough and it doesn't
take long to master rolls, loops and other acro-
batic feats. I can't help feeling it's all a little too
whilst various meters provide information easy though. Taking off along the width of the
regarding your height and speed. A head-up RELEASE BOX runway and going straight into a vertical climb?
display (permanently overlaid over the front ARCHIE E34.95Ok O U T NOW think not. There's no mention of the Harrier in
cockpit view) shows the rate of climb using a the instructions but who am I to argue? Crash-
No other versions planned
scale of pitch bars. These are numbered from ing is realistic though. Hit the ground and
9 to 9 and move up or down depending on you're dead!
your current attitude (or angle!). Fortunately graphics aren't the only part of
Control of the aircraft is provided through a game. This is no Chaplin film and sound
the mouse, o r by using an optional joystick ARCHIMEDES VERSIO N makes a n appearance wherever possible.
(available from Voltmace). Sensitivity of control Fast as you'd expect, but the power of the Whether it's the roar of the engine as you taxi
can be anything from sluggish to feather-light. machine could have gone towards handling along the runway, o r the thudding explosions
The middle setting gives the best compromise, a more complex scenario rather than sim- as your rockets bring the bridges down, all the
although it's worth changing to the lightest ply dishing o u t speed G o o d sound sound-effects are excellent. Played through a
when accurate control is needed, ie. flying though... decent amp, you could almost believe you
under (and along) bridges. An 'Autostab' instru- were there—in the plane, not on the bridge!
ment acts rather like stabilizers on a bicycle, G RAP HI CS 7 I Q FACTO R 3 To sum up, what could have been an excel-
keeping you level(ish) when control gets out of lent game, is marred by some careless mis-
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Now, enough of the theory. How does it ACE RAT ING 6 5 0 'things' to do. The whole program goes fast,
Ely? Engines on, brakes off and we're away. although this is mainly due to (a) it being run on
Pulling the mouse back slightly, raises the nose an Arc, and (b) there isn't much going on any-
and the jet lifts off into the blue skies. PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE way!
One of the main selling points of Interdic- Unfortunately Interdictor isn't a touch on
tor is its 'attention to detail', although I would the latest 16-bit simulators (Bomber f o r
hardly say that the odd 'pyramid' and the occa- instance), which is a shame. The Arc is capable
sional rectangle go to make up a 'realistic land- of so much more and I hope Clares realise this.
scape'. About the best stationary graphics are Given it's raw power, the Arc could and should
the bridges. The actual plotting can be a bit out-perform any 16-bit machine available.
haphazard; at one time, the view out of the (What there is of) Interdictor is playable
right window showed two mountains, with the and fun for a few hours. Once you've bombed
furthest plotted on top of the nearest! the bridges and managed to land the let a few
The enemy (aircraft, trucks and barges) are times, there isn't much to hold your interest.
by far the best graphics in the whole game, Should take you about three weeks to Let's hope the first flight simulator for the
although it is rare that you'll get close enough master, after which interest levels drift Arc isn't the last.
to take a decent look. Perhaps if a little more earthward.
• Rob Miller
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graphics i s impeccably
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put up Defender of the Crown to impress the you can interact with a particular person shown But the fact that it's a 1 Meg only game
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neighbours, in 1989 you plug in Disc 1 o f to be present, via a highlighted response meta' and in many ways the gameplay itself, show
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feeling perfectly (for the original see movies to get there. Never satisfied with second best, it'll be inter-
like
o Attack of the Ks tier Tomatoes). In a delight- Time is, in the present crisis, clearly of the esting to see which way they go next.
fulu send up of a genre - never lapsing into the essence and the game is played reattime, with
kilnd of mud-slinging that would break the spell a second of nowhme accounting for a minute in • John Cook
dthe program enters into a conspiracy with Lizard Breath.
theu player to believe that he (sexism is part of The attendant arcade sequences are a RELEASE BOX
thes cliche, unfortunately) is Geologist Greg mixed lot. The one-to-one ant fights (where you ATARI ST E 2 4 99dk I M M I N E N T
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meteor fragments, wh e n a particularly bearing on the outcome of the game. Whether
unhealthy specimen plonks down just outside the same can be said of the knife fight (some
the town and - unbeknown to the innocent of the inhabitants are a trifle violent!) and the
inhabitants - somehow produces a breed of 'Chicken' driving game is more open to debate. . usual Cinemaware do their best to squeeze
giant ants that will overrun the town in 15 days. However, fail in any of the games and you . utmost out of the machine. No great technical
Unless y o u c a n find yourself in hos- i s, but the highest quality of presentation.
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Cinemaware being the company that it is. best yet from Cinemaware - with special merit going for quite some time.
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Four years after the block-busting success of GB1
and David Crane's funky computer adaptation,
ACT! VISION serves christmas spirit with its turkey...

SNORTING cocaine isn't the wis-

est of pursuits - as
to collect some slime in
the fi lm, b u t h e wa s
actor James Belushi was (so it is rumoured) already armed with th e
unfortunate enough to find out. It not Only cost scoop).
him his life but a leading role in one of the F a s t -f o rw a rd i n g
biggest grossing comedies of all time. through the best part of
A staggering box-office revenue of $220 the movie, Section Two
million has inevitably spawned numerous cash- has you in control of the
ins, including two lacklustre cartoon series; Statue Of Liberty and a
The Real Ghostbusters and Slimer! And The crowd of native New York-
Real Ghostbusters plus associated parapherna- ers_ The idea is to guide
lia such as action figures keep the tills ringing. her along the horizontally
A film sequel was inevitable, but it almost scrolling street, shooting
didn't happen. Fortunately the original crew got oncoming ghosts with her
back together and as a result Ghostbusters II torch. The crowd is used
was able to pick up the story. Four years after to collect the ectoplasm
the team busted the demonic gatekeeper that released b y d e a d ( ! )
was terrorising Sigourney Weaver's fridge, ghosts while avoiding other ghouls on the floor. but true, these three scenes take up three
paranormal forces return to the city - and Quite where the torch and ghosts came from is Amiga disks (a staggering FOUR on the ST),
when Weaver, now a single mother, notices anyone's guess... and it's a case of musical disks until you turn
strange things happening to her baby. ..who's The final section sees the 'busters inside off. Sadly, Ghostbusters II looks like being one
she gonna call? the Art Gallery in a confrontation with the arch- of the biggest turkeys you are likely to see this
The reunited Ghostbusters find themselves villain Vigo. Having carefully lowered the four Christmas, It fails to succeed both as a film
doing battle with a river of slime (which grows Ghostbusters down a rope into the gallery (but conversion and as a game in its own right.
in response t o people's negative emotions) not too fast or they die), your first objective is Interestingly enough the fi lm was originally
flowing under New York and threatening to to dispose of Janosz (Vigo's mortal minion) and going to be called The Last Of The Ghost-
engulf the city. The slime's destination is traced rescue the baby to prevent Vigo's power being busters. After this. I hope it is.
to an Art Gallery in the centre of the city, and in boosted. But then Vigo steps out of the paint-
it lies an ancient and mysterious painting of an ing and, via telekenesis, pulls the baby towards • Bran Nesbil
evil wizardly warlord called Vigo. him. Quick! Avoid the energy bolts he unleashes
Activision's computer incarnation o f the and shoot him to win the game_
original film has reputedly sold in excess of Control of each Ghostbuster is transferred 1
2,000,000 units, which must please its design- via a separate screen, complete with digitised 6
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general Ghostbusting theme o f the fi lm a s team's failure, and Janosz is heard to say: You E
opposed to more specific elements like the are like the buzzing of flies to heeemn. A
Marshmallow Man, Foursfield has chosen to And that's your lot. Even more astounding
exploit specific aspects of the film - three •key' S
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Ghostbusters theme. Both 16-bit versions make X
sequence create a film-like atmosphere before
equivalent uses of their machine's potential, but
the game proper begins. The first section sees
early sightings of the 8-bit versions show that its
a Ghostbuster-besuited Dan Aykroyd (he wasn't the gameplay rather than the presentationwhich
dressed like this in the film) being lowered really determines the quality - or lack of 0
down a shaft. Spooks attack from all sides (not v ow . db

in the film they didn't), and Dan shoots them G RAP HI CS 7 I Q FACTO R 2
with his weapon while swinging from side to Watch And Wipe software at its best. See the
AUDI O 0 F U N FACTO R 2
side - his main aim is to collect three pieces of film instead - Its considerably cheaper and
a scoop which is used to collect a sample of ACE RATING 251 much more entertaining.
slime from the river below (well, Dan did have

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Sega's eight-legged
arcade monster.

The coin-op had amazingly

W a r n the sea side piers and fast, detailed, a n d colourful
F o downtown
larger r c arcades. A n eight-legged graphics with a space ship for
monster
e with a hydraulic seat, massive screen, you to control that could slow
and
w speakers
a tucked into every nook and cran- down, speed up and turn through
ny,
s it was a monster - even by Sega's gargan- almost 360 degrees. The ST ver- 3 D de e p s pa c e r eal l y s houl dn't be as bl oc k y as thi s
tuan standards_ sion is slow, has blocky graphics
a
c As o is often the case, the deluxe hydraulic utilising a very limited colour palette, and does rudimentary3 D shoot'em u p with average
i
version was something of a loss leader for the not fl ip through 3 6 0 degrees, o r anything graphics and sound. The coin-op relied heavily
n -
larger number of uprights that were to follow. remotely like it. on the gaspability of the graphic wonders that
o p
Unfortunately for Sega. the game just didn't The five levels are selected by pulling the could be created by its twin 32-bit processors
fseem the same without your seat being thrown joystick to the right bringing into view a cameo and 16-bit sound processor. The game design
o as the ship zoomed forwards. After one
back view of the terrain on each level_ They vary was never much to write home about - and
r
short summer season Galaxy Force, the zenith from aerial combat to caverns, trenches and without the all singing, all dancing, rockin' rollin'
of bells-and-whistles hydraulic arcade entertain- deep space. Apart from blasting anything that hydraulic cabinet it iust ain't the same.
ment, had just about disapeared. is locked onto by your computerised cross-hair,
• Eugene Lacey
Meanwhile, Activision boss Rod Cousens your a im i s also t o penetrate the enemy
announced that autumn to a press gathering at fortress and destroy their HQ. RELEASE BO X
the London intercontental Hotel that his compa- Each of the five levels plays very much like
ny had signed the rights and would be convert the last one. There are power-ups but these ATARI ST U24.99dk OUTNOW
-ing it for home use in Christmas '89. A few offer little discernible difference to your ship. AMIGA E24.99dk IMMINENT
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coin-op would regard a s being a game o f you are inside the fortress and have to swing
Galaxy Force. There has to be a point where right and left to avoid crashing into the walls-
the experience of playing the home version is but this too is let down by poor control of the
so different to the experience of the coin-op ship and the inability in certain situations to ST VERSIO N
that it is reasonable to put the question: are 'right' your position should you collide with a Dimenta were the development house who put
they the same thing at all, and - if not - is it wall. their name to ST Gataxy Force. I can't believe it is
therefore fair that they carry the same name? What Galaxy Force boils down to is a very one of their proudest achievements. The 3D rou
tines
7 pust aren't convincing. Its graphics are C
circa
_ 1985, standard,

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A N Y B O D Y remember Shirley? Well,
Paulif
your games-playing history doesn't go back
beyond a couple of years, it's a good bet you
don't. But if you're a seasoned garner, you're
most likely to reply, "The Paul Shirley?" as
young Paul was the man behind Spindizzy, an
upmarket clone of Atari's Marble Madness, and
one o f the true all-time computer classics
which, sadly, never made its way onto the 16-
bits.
Now, after a two-year absence, Paul has
returned with Quartz, another brilliant clone -
but this time he's not drawn inspiration from
any one game, but from every shoot dem up
ever written! Quartz traps you inside a huge
crystal, with the simple obiective of escaping -
alive.
Anybody wh o kn o ws anything a b o u t
physics will tell you that a crystal is composed
of many different layers, and its these layers
that form the basic layout of the game. The

QUARTZ
lynchpin of the entire game is the Lattice, an
eight-way scrolling shoot 'em up set in the core
The man behind
of the crystal and based on the classic Aster-
oids. Here, though, the asteroids are replaced
by coloured Hadrons that float around the Lat-
Spindizzy returns with
bce. Shooting the Hadrons break them up into
smaller Quarks which in turn become col.
lectable Neutrinos when shot. Collect the cor-
a stunning shoot-em-
rect amount of each colour Neutrino, and they
can be traded in for a power-up, and this is
where the real fun starts.
up for FIREBIRD.
Your ship is equipped with three empty
weapon slots (upgradeable t o six), where After a minute or so of blasting and collect-
weapons are placed when purchased. This sys-
ing, you are dragged off course into one of the
tem allows a n y combination o f t h e t e n ST VERSIO N
four other layers of the crystal. The Atomic The soundtrack i s perhaps t his version s
weapons to be fitted, so - depending on your Zone is the classic left-to-right scrolling shoot
playing style - you could have three Octagons. strongest aspect — fast moving, bouncy and
'ern up with a number of novel twists (rotating everything else an action game theme should be.
an Octogun, plus a Bomb and a Flame, arms of flame, for example, similar to those in Can't wait for the CD Single!
or... anything you like. The function keys switch Super Mario Brothers) and The Nucleus, an
the weapons on and off, allowing you to switch end-of-level baddie that must be destroyed one G RAPHI CS 9 I Q FACTO R 4
over to the correct weapon for the next sec- cell at a time. AUDI O 1 0 F U N FACTO R 9
tion.
The Void scrolls from top-to-bottom. Noth-
ing special there, but the swarms of aliens are ACE RAT ING 9 0 5
RELEASE BOX accompanied by meteors that come OUT of
the screen a t out, Galaxy Force-style, gun Quartz is sheer brilliance - virtually flaw-
AMIGA C 2 4 99dk O U T NOW less in every aspect. Each of the five separate
installations, and an even tougher guardian.
ST 1 2 4 . 9 9 d k C U T NOW The Lair scrolls from right-to-left and plays like levels is a respectable game in its own right,
a mairror image of the Atomic Zone, but is but bundled together they make an awesome
combination. t t 's tough. ..but n o t s o
much tougher due to the deadly force
fields and electric storms. Finally tough as to be frustrating o r off-
there's the Organic Zone, a classic putting. Aesthetically, i t ' s a
AMIGA VERSIO N dream; with Bob Stevenson's
bottom-to- top vertical scroller in
Its business as usual apart from the soundtrack. top-hole graphics lend a touch
the Xenon mold where every-
Its more technically accomplished than the ST's of class together with some
as you would expect with sampled speech, but it's thing has an Alien-esque slimey
feel - look out for the pulsating of the best soundtracks heard
not the same racey tune — its a more downbeat
allair that doesn't work quite as well brain at the end! on the ST and Amiga to date.
When one of the sections is Quartz is an amazing game
completed, it's back to another, seriously rivals Xenon 11 in the
G RAP HI CS 9 I Q FACTO R 4 shoot dem up stakes.
tougher Lattice, swarming with
AUDI O 9 F U N FACTO R 9 aliens as well as Hadrons. And so it
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O F more than serious threat to the British back and wait for
l a
software market. With the excellent Future them to get there,
W
t ars
e hitting the shelves over Christmas and taking all of half a
now
, Drakken, it looks like 1990's going to be a minute at times.
heady
t year for the Gallic software tycoons. Manipulating on
h Drakken is a stylish role play, set in your screen objects i s
typical
e run-of-the-mill fantasy world, bringing achieved by placing
together
F four adventurers to triumph over yet the cursor ov e r
another horde of evil demons. As with most them then clicking the left button, similar to the select a spell and click where you want to acti-
r vate it.
RPG's you have to create your little band from system in the Sierra games. There is also a fist
e
scratch, but you cannot re-roll the dice to of commands which are accessible when an As RPG's go Drakken is a fine game,
n
change a character's statistics. so it's quite though perhaps lacking the depth that makes
individual character is selected, including a use-
c to have a varied party. With a choice of
easy a classic game. But on the whole a fun, lasting
ful search facility.
h
fighter, scout, magician or priest you can play Interactions between computer controlled fantasy jaunt,
the
h field and have an immense number of abili- characters and your team is basic but effec- • MarkPatterson
ties
a at your disposal. tive. You're given the choice of greeting, ques-
v All commands are issued via the mouse tioning o r impressing them. Most of the time RELEASE BOX
and
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s operating system. When the group travels though on the odd occasion they will attack.
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return divides the party into the four members. tive manner, merely click the pointer on the la
Noother versions plannned.
a
From there you can send each one on a sepa- creature you wish to maim and the character
r task.
rate nearest will strike a blow. Naturally you can
t The only problem with moving the group expect some fierce retaliation. Spells can be
tore a character) to a different location is the used by the magician and priest and are oper-
d factor: first you select where you want
time ated in much the same way as the combat, ST VERSIO N
i The major plus is the speed. Combined with the
s smooth command system, the game flows very
smooth. The graphics are utilitarian, but provide a
s
few nice surprises later on in the game. A worth
u while RPG.
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The four a dv e ntur e r s ( s e e n i n t h e s t a t us pa ne l s t o t h e s i de o f t h e s c r e e n) be gi n t o treated with typical US attention to detail, but
explor e a n a nc i e nt bui l di ng. As y ou c a n s e e , Dr a k k he n's a tm os phe r i c 3 D gr a phi c s a r e in the end the action loses interest.
extr em el y i m pr essi ve.

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A M I G A & PC

orror and Glory that w,

battle of ititsterlite
The date is the 2nd December 1805,
The place is a few miles east o f Baum
in the province o f Moldavia. Ranged
across the barren Pratzen heights are
the forces o f the Austro—Russian army
Facing them, •between Santon H ill and
the River Bosenitz is Napoleon's Grand
Armee: The greatest battle ever t o be
fought by France's 'Little Corporal' is
about to begin.
Using a unique system developed by
Dr. Peter TUITall
you
. t h e oppor tunity t o r eliv e that
battle.
, The battlefi eld is represented on
your screen in incredible 3D graphics,
A
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theyL move
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terrain, •-•
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e Your s orders are written out for your
"Corps Commanders, just as they would
have been at the actual battle, and then
relayed by messenger riders. O f course.
orders might be reinterpreted, ignored.
or even fail to get to their anticipated
destination, and even i f they do arrive,
it all takes time - exactly the sort of
problems faced by Napoleon and the
Russian Czar Alexander on that cold
winter day.
Play AUST ERL IT Z , and take up the
challenge that gives you the chance to
rewrite the history books!

C.1989 M I KKOR SOF T

 Pc
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ACCOLADE put the PC on

two wheels and give you 15
tracks to choose from.

change u p o r
E x A C T L Y what k inyou'd
chimera d o fget
bizarre
f youi change down - and
fused a stereotyped biker with the average PC quite responsive.
user must stretch even the most vivid of imagi- Particularly g o o d
nations. I can envisage the scene now. news fo r non-stan-
Dressed in full M&S rig - with tassles - he dard joystick own-
approaches the machine. Nonchalantly mount. ers is that you cali- He a di ng u p t o t h e fi ni s h ( w i t h m o s t o f t h e o t h e r c om pe t i t or s
ing the swivel chair, he whips off the studded brate y o u r s t i c k a h e a d of you unfor tuna te l y ) I n gl or i ous 3 0 on the PC.
leather dust cover (IBM RooIs) and powers up before the race.
the International Bonneville Machines 45 MHz Looming off the grid at high speed (on the However, The Cycles still comes well into
cc thc 386 with an 80 Meg hard disc. higher difficulty this levels results in spectacu- the category of Quality product' and as long as
The internal drive growls into life as the lar wheelies) you have the track to yourself and your expectations are not unrealistic will not
was ti n whole kit surges power into the customised there's no denying that it's fun. Going into a disappoint if you're looking for a tun race game
- monitor. A s the C prompt bursts onto the turn does not tilt the horizon - that stays level with enough options to make sure you'll be
screen he sends the mouse screaming across the whole time - but the handlebars turn in, playing it for more than the customary couple
the desk into a full blown wheelie and taking and the right clutch hand animates when you of weeks. Yet another reason to consider buy-
bct 1805. ing a sound board, too!
the first double click blindingly fast, brings change gear.
of Brunn •JohnCook
up w e l l . _ The Cycles probably. Another neat touch is the way that track
i. Ranged Published b y US fi rm Accolade, p ro - gradients have been handled, with quite real's•
eights are grammed by the Canadian mob at DSI, The tic dips and hills to encounter - certainly the
•,sian army. best I've ever seen on a PC to date. RELEASE BOX
1Hill and Cycles is very much a transatlantic product
aimed at the recreational PC user and attempts Finish the lap, get a grid position and the ATARI ST E.24•99dk IMMINENT
iis Grand
to capture the thrills, spills, hills, and chills of real thing starts - against nine other guys.
! Some drive pretty damn fast and all seem to AMIGA E 2 4 . 9 9 d k IMMINENT
international Grand Prix motor cycle racing.
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. is And it's nothing if not comprehensive. get in the way just when you'd rather they IBM PC C24.99dk OUTNOW
v As you come to expect from US software. didn't. All ex-bike messengers probably.
,•clopcd by there are options galore before you even set The whole event is undoubtedly a good I A 1 1 1
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r
dive that foot on the tarmac. Take a practice lap, a sin- and if you want to take on a whole season the 1
PC VERSIO N
gle race, or go for the big one - a full season program even allows you to save position and
t
7 s e n t e d o n
of 15 races, each round a different track. come back to complete the marathon another The sound rating given is for the unexpanded PC
)ographics. Otherwise the game makes good use of the
Choose a difficulty level - there are five in all time. But does The Cycles ever manage to
rbt roops as world's fastest growing games machine.
from easy-peasy auto gear change, undam• make you suspend your belief that you are ever
across the
e agable bike and boy scout opposition to full doing anything other that playing a computer G RAP HI CS 0 I C A FACTO R 2
manual, full realism on a track game? Unfortunately not.
ut for your
he w o u ld full of Hells Angels_ M E M 11:1411111 Partly it's the hardware
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he sort o f cylinders, six gears. 165mph much better. Th e graphics
at lull wack. Ouch! So on to can't be to blame - EGA is fine
in and the..
that co ld the race itself. and CGA is, well, adequate
Selecting one track from 15 international yuckky CGA.
venues (the Brit track is Donnington Park, not Probably I'd pinpoint lack of speed as the
ak_c up the Silverstone - boo!) you find your view is a clas- major factor. It's not that Cycles is slow, far
7&awe t o sic 'over the handlebars' job, rather than the from it, but it doesn't seem to deliver quite fast me n- . day p•PiL V.•••

PC
behind the bike view of, say, Hang On o r enough to convey that extra bit of realism the
Honda INF First thing - you take one lap to hardened computer biker will hunger fo r. Great fun to get into, and a pleasure to be
qualify for a place on the grid. Vroorn! Makes you wonder how much of an overhead treated with typical US attention to detail, but
Using joystick o r keyboard, the controls that ve ry nicely implemented, b u t largely in the end the action loses interest
are simple enough - faster/slower, let/right. unused, rear view window takes up?

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tragedies in m ode n rhistory, this is only but a backdrop for a
fax more sinister event that has taken place.
An atomic bomb is found missing from a British base and is believed
to be headed to the Soviet forces. As a lone Aznerican agent, you
must scour the city questioning the military police and occupying
, - f or c e s and interrogating the shadowy figures of the undenvorld,
in your mission to recover the bomb before the Cold War takes
a much more dramatic twist.
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THALAMUS ensnare late night game addicts with their newest puzzler
QUEDEX remember t h a t ? We ll,
unless you're a C64 owner
gliding about until you find the
exit however. Firstly, each level
who enjoys puzzle type games you probably is divided up into corridors by
won't. The idea behind the game (which inci- walls. Hit one o f these and
dentally gained an ACE Rating of 934 in our you're a gonna. Secondly there
very first issue) was that you controlled a ball are a number of special tiles
rolling across a series of planes. The aim was strategically placed on each
to exit each plane in the quickest possible level. Each of these has a dif-
time, but in order to do this you had to solve ferent effect on your craft if
some very tricky problems first. The resulting you p a ss o ve r them. Th e
game was addictive enough to keep even the effects vary from minor incon-
most somnolent person playing all night. veniences (like preventing you
Thalamus' latest puzzler, Snare, is very from turning) t o disasters
much in the same vein. This time, rather than a (sending you hurtling forward
ball, you control a small spacecraft which at full speed towards a nearby At l est! A tr anspor ter , but w a t c h Out for the al i en c r a f t
glides over a platform. Using the joystick you wall for instance).
can control the crafts speed and direction, as Each of the different types much thinking then I can't really recommend
well as making it fire and jump. Turning is a lit- of tile is colour coded, but it is all too easy to
tle confusing at first because the whole screen this to you. On the other hand, if, like me, you
forget which does what, This is the one small
suddenly flips through 90'. Until you become enjoy putting the old grey matter into play from
gripe I have — it would have been better if time to time then this is just your cup of tea.
accustomed to this it can be very disorientat- each tile had a completely different design
ing, especially if you make several turns in Go ahead and try it — you'll find it frustrating,
rather than just being a different colour. The but I guaruntee you'll be back time and time
quick succession. Eventually you think nothing problem is not enough to spoil the game how. again until you complete it,
of it, but it is still quite confusing watching ever.
somebody else play. Another problem you have to face are the • Laurence Scollord
Mastering jumping is absolutely essential, alien ships which patrol each level. These keep
because there are many occasions on which to set routes rather than attacking you directly.
you have to leap chasms between platforms. Contact, however, is still deadly. It will do you RE LE AS E BO X
It's not just a case of moving to the edge of the no good whatsoever to simply blast every alien
platform and leaping either. You have to care- C64/128 C9 . 9 9 cs E12.99dk O U T NOW
ship you come across (some of them are inde-
fully gauge your speed on the approach. Get it structible anyway), Many of them are essential No other versions planned.
too slow and you won't make the distance and to the completion of the level. In some cases
consequently end up plummeting to a very you must redirect the alien by building new
sticky end. Approach too quickly and you'll walls to force the enemy ship to lay new tiles
probably overshoot and smash into a wall on Cerst V E RS I O N
for you.
the opposite platform. The graphics are really not all that hot. In fact rd
There are also switches which affect some go as far as to say that they are funchonal. There
Again the idea behind this game is to find part of the platform you are currently on. Unfor- could have been improvements here, but fortu-
the transporter that allows you to exit each tunately they can also be activated b y the nately the game is not spoiled too much by this
411 level, Occasionally a level will be divided into aliens. It is most distressing when you are inadequacy. The sound is generally good, and not
several sections, each of which is finked by a about to cross a bridge which has been erect- too obtrusive (important when you're trying t o
further transporter pad. ed by throwing a switch, to find it suddenly dis- think on your feet), On the whole Snare on the 64
Solving each level is not quite as simple as appear because some inconsiderate alien ship is an enjoyable and very addictive game.
has run over the same
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I STARBYTE clown about with manic 3D platform fun

M A T T H E W Smith's ancient well•known and

debut. Manic
Miner, was one of those rare games in which
simplicity was the key to success. It featured
small, but cute sprites, an uninvolved scenario,
and straightforward two-dimensional p la y.
screens. It doesn't exactly sound like a recipe
for an inspiring game does it?
The game was a runaway success. Highly
playable and extremely addictive, i t se t a
precedent for games to come and - together
with other classic titles like Boulderdash and
PacMan - helped establish the golden rule that
large colourful graphics, megabytes o f digi-
tised sound, and highly complicated gameplay
are not prerequisites of a great game.
Top marks, therefore, t o Starbyte f o r
rejecting current trends towards highly corn-
plex scenarios and producing a game which
has many of the qualities of Manic Miner, and
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In Ctown-O-Mania you play Beppo, a circus
clown. One day he discovers a map showing Cl ow n-o-m a ni a : r e e s ta bl i s hi ng the a r t of the si m pl e ga m e ?
the way t o a 'land o f many crystals', and
decides to give up clowning for ever to go in
search of them. Simple. eh? As if colouring squares wasn't enough, you AMIGA VERSIO N
The actual land Beppo finds is made up of will also have to master the use of pyramids.
A very competent looking game. It isn't exactly
a series o f three-dimensional platforms o n These come in two forms. Blue pyramids, when
straining this machine, but it plays well. Good use
which are arrayed small round crystals (worth a dropped, become obstacles which prevent the is made of a set of scroNing horizontal and verti-
measly 1 point each) and more exotic angular movement o f any mashes that try to cross cal bars in the background to give a sense of
crystals (worth a handsome 10 points each). them, so you can use them to fence monsters
great depth. Nice toons too.
These Beppo must collect in Pathfan style as in. White pyramids. on the other hand, will
quickly as possible. There are also roving nas- destroy any creatures that come into contact G RAPHI CS 8 l a FACTO R 7
ties of varying shape, colour, and deadliness to with them.
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contend with. There are many goodies to be had to help
Movement is achieved using the joystick you on your way: Clown masks will give you ACE RAT ING 8 0 5
(which actually takes a little getting used to extra lives; Razor Blades can be collected and
because of the angle of the platforms). To get fired at the flashes; and Jumps can be collect-
between levels Beppo must use little yellow lad- ed which allow you to leap over gaps. The lat- RELEASE BO X
ders. Occasionally there are funnels which he ter two shoot round the screen at a rapid rate, ARIBA 1 1 9 . 9 9 dk O U T NOW
can fall into to descend to a much lower plat- so collecting them is not that easy.
form or Trampolines and Volcanoes which can Once you get further into Clown-O-Mania ST 09 99 dk I M M I N E N T
be used to reach higher ones. The only other you will also begin to encounter other interest-
means of transport over large distances are ing features like one-way tiles, speed-up tiles
beamers. These are little square teleport pads and other similar items, all of which must be
which can more often than not prove to be taken into account as you plan your completion PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
extremely frustrating.
Just in case you think that all you are get-
ting here is a souped up 3D Pacman variant, I
of each level. You will find that you whizz
through the first few levels quite quickly, but
don't worry - there are seventy of them and J YI I
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of thinking involved as well, especially on later
they get tricky very quickly.
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levels. For example, you will discover squares action then Ctown-O-Mania is mo s t certainly
which change colour as you walk over them. If recommended. It's very easy to get Into, but
you manage to complete the level leaving all of should still provide a long-lasting challenge. mau l. wok m at h

the squares the same colour you will earn a Smooth multi-directional scrolling, colourful, AMIGA
massive 10,000 point bonus. That's not as well-animated sprites, and pleasant background
easy as it sounds. As the levels become harder ditties all go to make up a very polished and Quite a challenge, but once you've
solved it you are unlikely to come back

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you will frequently find that you 'paint yourself entertaining game.
into a corner as it were, and have to undo all • Laurence Scottotd for more.
your careful work to get yourself out again.

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Midwinter
t's nearly fi ve years since Mike Singleton 2000 troops.
launched Lords of Midnight upon an unsuspect-
ing games world. The program offered a whole 32 player characters.
new dimension of games-playing experience by
combining strategy with the revolutionary land- 10000 control points...
scaping' technique. 250,000 troops, lots o f
player characters to recruit, and thousands of
graphic locations made it a true record-breaker. Microprose/Rainbird
Unfortunately none of Mike's later games
really lived up to the promise of LOM, Although Doom- prepare to launch Mike
dark's Revenge and other titles were impressive, they
lacked the magic combination of simplicity, immediate Singleton's latest
appeal, and strategic interest that made LOM a win-
ner. The long wait for a true successor to Lords of blockbuster.
Midnight may now be over,
The scenario for Midwinter is simple but compelling.
Just as the world gets used to global warming and is The Mi dw i nte r te a m : (lir) Ma r ti n Moth, P aul Hi b-
bar d, R o b Da v i e s , P e t e r J one s , H u g h B a t t e r -
casting around for a solution to the problems of the
bury, a nd Mi k e S i ngl e ton.
rising sea-levels, along comes a massNe meteorite
that blasts into the iungles of Burma with the force of mines from falling into enemy hands, recruit allies
a 10000 megaton bomb, Dust and debris are hurled from amongst the other islanders, and force either a
into the atmosphere, cutting off the sun's rays and military or strategic victory. Whatever happens, you
leading to a rapid cooling of the earth's temperature. have to destroy the enemy camp at the south of the
And if that wasn't bad enough, a second natural catas- island. If all the heat-mines are captured, you lose...
trophe (volcanic explosions caused by an earthquake The similarities to Lords of Midnight, however, are
in Central America) compounds the situation. Earth soon forgotten when you start playing. Unlike LOM you
temperatures plummet to -25 degrees and Midwinter have a full-scale 3D fractal generated landscape to
has set in. travel over, Furthermore there are three different ways
One of the first attractions of the game is the of travelling (skiing, ice-buggy, o r hang-gliding) and
detailed research that has been put into the scenario. each has certain tactical implications in terms o f
It may sound horrific, but every element has been speed, vulnerability, and the ability to access certain
closely vetted by experts at the Climate Research Unit ONYER SNOW BIKE! parts of the island.
of the University of East Anglia, one of the world's Strategy is more dominant in Midwinter too, since
main sources of expertise in this subject. Whichever The r e a r e four pr i nci pal m e a ns the program offers very comprehensive mapping func-
bit of the scenario you try to knock, the result is a of tr a ns por t i n Mi dw i nter , e a c h tions that enable you to track enemy movements and
solid chunk of authority and not the hollow ring of fic- w i th a c or r e s pondi ng v i e w o f
the s ur r oundi ng l a nds c a pe . generate battle plans on a large scale. Information on
tion. Which makes playing the game far more the current status of the struggle is therefore easily
compelling... available at any time.
Set on the island of Midwinter, the plot is You have to recruit up to 32 allies in the struggle
simple but effective. Midwinter is a 400-mile against the invaders. Here again there have been con-
long landmass formed b y falling sea-levels. siderable advances over the early Singleton titles.
Authenticity is the keynote again: the topogra- Each character has a complex profile and history that
phy of the island was fixed after the game makes relationships vital in establishing alliances. This
design team checked out Admiralty charts for all adds to the strategic elements, together with your
the Azores area_ characters' differing skills in a wide range of areas.
In the new Ice Age, Midwinter offers salva- The graphic display of the game is superb. Mid-
tion to a small group o f pioneers who, b y winter makes clever use of a limited palette to display
establishing heat mines (authenticity again: the a detailed fractal landscape that scrolls very rapidly in
designs were taken fro m similar establish- A Y o u r ski -goggl es. . . all directions. Land contours are all faithfully imple-
ments in Iceland), have created a more hos-
pitable environment. After a generation of successful Ha ng-gl i di ng i s T H E w a y t o tr a v e l ,
colonisation, the islanders awake one morning to dis- a l w a y s p r o v i d e d y o u c a n fi n d a
cover they have lost contact with their colleagues liv- the r m a l u p d r a f t . H e r e y o u ' r e o u t
over t h e c l i f f s . N o t e t h e m i s t y '
ing in the southern-most parts of Midwinter. Someone, hor iz on...
it seems, is intent on seizing their island sanctuary
and, in doing so, condemning them to death from cold
and starvation.

COLD WAR
The scenario of the game from this point on combines
strategy and action in a manner very similar to Lords
of Midnight. Just as in that game you were attempting
to halt the advance of Doomdark's forces either by A Thi s I s t h e v i e w f r o m y o u r b u g g y
cabi n: buggi e s a r e f a s t a n d s e c ur e ,
destroying th e m o r b y penetrating Doomdark's but the r e a r e s om e pl a c e s t he y c a n't
stronghold, so in Midwinter you must prevent the heat- r each. M uc h us e d by the oppos i ti on.

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 mented, so that if you follow an enemy snow
buggy you can see its tail rise and fall as it MAPPA MUNDI MIDWINTER TECHNO-PORN
negotiates the icy slopes. Ski too fast down
one hill, and you could come to grief if there's The m a p s c r e e n s i n M i d w i n t e r a r e Map: dual display ('satellite view' (light.
a steep slope up the other side of the valley. especi al l y i m pr essi ve. T h e di s pl a y i s
bui l t a r o u n d a 2 0 m i l l i on t r i a ngl e , source shading) and topographical)
Topography plays an essential role in the strat- fr actal g e n e r a t e d l a nds c a pe . A b u t . 10000 control points
egy of the game, its implications ranging from ton pa ne l e na bl e s y ou s e l e c t di ffe r e nt fractal generated, equivalent to
simple ambush techniques to the feasibility of di spl ays, pi npoi nti ng c ha r a c te r s , he a t
m i nes, a nd othe r ga m e e l e m e nts . 40Mbytes of data.
hang-gliding from one clifftop to another. Even
the thermals are linked, as in real life, to the 20 million triangles of graphic dis-
terrain below. play
Cameolay is quick and easy, driven by a 3000 unique place names
selection of attractive icons that enable you to 400 miles of playing area at game
move between various command modes. level
Once in control of a character your principle
actions are driven either from the movement Characters: 32 player characters
or decision screens. You can swap characters
14 attributes and skills
at any time, wherever they may be, provided
you have previously recruited them—you start 2000 invading troops
with just one and must make friends quickly to
survive. The game has that classic combina- Display: Up to two mile view
A He r e y ou ar e a t ful l
tion of simplicity and depth that could well z oom -out, w i th the Up to 400 triangles per frame
make it a winner. 'c ha r a c te r c ur r e nt
Buildings have up to 30 faces
l oc a ti on opt i on
GAME OF THE YEAR? sel ected.

Microprose h a ve g o n e through several ma jo r

lib- changes recently. After first acquiring the three Tele-
ter. comsoft labels, and marketing the Incentive games,
they even stretched to forming two new labels o f
their own, Microstyle and Microstatus. After learning
illies a few tough lessons, the company have now settled
er a down and are planning a new Advanced Computer
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the and money spent on development, and hopefully what 0
we'll miss in terms of quantity will be made up by
are quaky.
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* r
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e- s
a S make a profit. 'We're relying entirely on the quality of
t the product,' answered marketing director Peter
a Jones. 'This game is far and away the biggest project
it t
we have ever undertaken. It's arguably the largest
i A Com pl e x c h a r a c t e r a t t r i b u t e project ever undertaken for a home computer. We
m scr eens a r e b a c k e d u p b y
c om pr e he ns i v e de t a i l s i n t h e genuinely believe it's the beginning of a whole new
e m anual . Y o u h a v e t o t a k e generation of computer software.'
car eful not e of w ho's w ho a nd Hmmin. We've heard some of this before, we
f
w ha t the i r par ti cul ar l i kes a nd
o di sl i kes a r e a s t h e s e f a c t or s thinks! But however sceptical you may be about the
r a ffe c t r e c r u i t m e n t a n d t a c - claims, you can't argue with the facts. We've already
ti cs. sat down and delved into the world of Midwinter and
N we reckon it just might be THE big game of 1990.
o Naturally we're reserving final judgement until we've
.•iet
. carried out more in-depth play-testing: watch out for
Thi s i s t h e v i e w t h r o u g h y o u r s ni pe r .
P the definitive ACE verdict next month...
scope. Y ou'v e got a n e ne m y buggy i n y our
r si ghts. The y bob up a nd dow n c onv i nc i ng.
ly as the y ne goti a te t he ter r ai n.
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THE MISSION IS VITAL - THE ODDS ARE AGAINST YOU.
F15 Strike Eagle II
F15 Strike Eagle Ills a whole new concept in computer air warfare. Dogfighting
is the name of the game. The air swamis with enemy aircraft. Dice with death as
you fight your 'burners and head for the skies. Success depends on making the
right moves—fast Super smooth, non-stop action takes place over 250.000
square miles of authentic terrain. Superb, solid-filled polygon based 3D graphics
makes it feel as though you really are in the thick of the action. Hundreds of
options, four difficulty levels and a vast amount of missions and scenarios make
F15 Strike Eagle II perfect for dogfighting veterans and novices alike.

F-19 Stealth Fighter

MicroProseS F-19 Stealth Fighter transports you into the real world of Stealth
Technology, Placed in charge of one of the USAFs most valuable and secret
aircraft you must carry out missions deemed too dangerous for normal aircraft
to accomplish. Amazing three-dimensional graphics add a totally new dimension
to F-19 Stealth Fighter as you fly, undetected, at 75 feet around Berlin and strike
deep within Communist territory.
F 19 r5not just a flight simulation—it's an exceriencel

Gunship
Gunship has proved itself to be one of the truly great combat flight simulations.
Raced on the AR-64 Apache, one of the most advanced attack helicopters in the
world and developed with the help of real attack helicopter pilot. Gunship lets analkillkillik
you loose on a high-performance helicopter that can fly low and slow, hover, M I MI m E - M 1 1 •
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Pirates, played by over a quarter of a million
square miles, offers unparalled gameplay
and adventure on the high seas;
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challenges your skills and reflexes over a
dozen missions deep behind enemy lines.

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KEEFTHE It's a steal!

ELECTRONIC ARTS
have come up with a
novel adventure,

THIEF
featuring RPG influ-
ences, a menu-
driven operating
system, and a sense
of humour.

rich but the monsters and outlaws there gener- mixing ingredients on your spell cloth and
ally carry some personal wealth, and even, include such gems as Bandus Aidus for healing
occasionally, useful items o f weaponry and and Flickus Bickus for light. To mix spells you
armour. need to own the appropriate spellbook of which
The screen display is divided into several there are several to find, then decipher the
sections. The top half shows either a still cryptic clues given to decide which reagents
graphic of your location, a 3D representation of are needed. While many common reagents are
the combat area, your spell mixing cloth and available at the herb shop, more exotic num-
ingredients, and a direction indicator. bers can involve a long and dangerous trek to
During combat an overhead view of the acquire.
combat area is shown as a small scale map Combat takes place in real time and
makes good use of the TAKE or GET supported by a radar like display of your direc- requires both tactics and fast reactions a t
E ve ry adventurer
command - but worth hisThief
Keel' the or her salt
puts a tion of view. Below this is a long narrow panel times. Both ranged and close quarter weapons
rather different slant on this innocuous pas- in which any trees or monsters are show in 3D can be used as may some spells if already pre-
time. Rather than allow you to wander round perspective. pared. But be warned, once in combat the bat-
the world blithely looting shops and houses Below the main display is the heart of the tle is to the death, usually yours, so save often
with the owners simply turning a blind eye, the control system. A set of boxes show currently as ambushes are frequent.
game takes a rather more realistic view o f available command words. Clicking on these Keef the Thief is a well crafted RPG which
theft. Get caught TAKEing anything in the city either implements the command or calls up a should offer hours of exploration and discov-
of Tel Mercon and it's curtains... further sub-menu. The system is very easy to ery. The whole game is shot through with
You take the title role, in permanent exile use and quick to learn. humour, often in the form of insults and put-
from your home town for persistent anti-social In addition to icons, many housekeeping downs, which help to set and maintain a very
behaviour. Your new hunting ground is the Tr- functions are available on the menu bar includ- enjoyable atmosphere. Its style is a nicely weld-
City area and the city of Tel Mercon in particu- ing options to reduce the numbers and nasti- ed combination o f traditional adventure and
lar, where once the evil God-King Tel- character building with plenty of flexibility to
l c held sway. Here, rich pickings explore and try out ideas.
are on offer for the successful thief,
but Keel has mt. '11 to learn in order
to survive, le t alone become the LANDS CAP E ,
Clear,
8 colourful
0 gra phics. somewhat spoilt by incon-
new God-King which is your ultimate sistent movement te chnique s. Dungeons ant rather
objective. Since rumour has it that sparsely drawn and not up to the siandard of other
the all-powerful Telloc - banished by locations
peasant revolt - is still alive some-
E NCO UNTE RS 7 5
where in the land, it's questionable Lots of non-hostile characters against whom you
whether th is objective i s entirely can pit your wits and skill a lthough conversation is
level-headed. limited to set re sponse s
Starting in the jungle near the
CHALLE NG E 8 5
city, your first necessity is to equip While not too difficult to pla y the sheer ra ng of
yourself with weapons and armour options to be considered simply to survive will pro-
to give you a fighting chance of sur- vide hours of enjoyable play.
vival. Unfortunately such items are expensive ness of random monster encounters - very use-
S Y S TE M
so you'll either have to steal them from under ful while finding your feet. Several status dis- Very e a sy to control. but changes ol movement style
the nose of the smith or look around for valu- plays are also available from the menus. Your
ables which are less well guarded elsewhere. abilities in stealing and disarming traps are
The streets of Tel Mercon contain some shown as both percentages and partially filled ACE RATI NG
pretty wealthy households who often leave valu- bars a s a re general attributes such a s 850
ables lying in full view and apparently unguard- strength, hit points and magic points. You can
ed. However some citizens are rather less also monitor current levels o f sleepiness, keef The Thief offers a fresh and original
trusting than their fellows and use a variety of hunger and drunkenness. All the displays are approach
subtle traps to protect their goods from the clear and easy to read and instantly accessible both
- RPG and text/graphic addicts it pro-
likes of you. Armed guards on patrol are a fur- at any time. vides
to t ah lasting
e challenge for experienced
ther hazard, so you might try your luck in the All good fantasy worlds cater for magic and novice players alike - and it s hilarious
g e n
jungle instead, where the pickings are not so and this is no exception. Spells are created by ,
r e .
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 MYSTERYOF A quick glimpse at a new detec-
tive-style graphic adventure from
RAINBOW ARTS. In the style of

THEMUMMY
some of the recent French mys-
teries (Mortville Manor, for exam-
ple) yo u explore Hamburg in a
search for a missing mummy...

Gameplay consists initially o f

Hamburg in this new adven- exploring the town by visiting vari-
T
h
Programmed
ture f ro m Rainbow Arts.
b y Time Warp, t h e
s,„ ous addresses and asking people
you meet about other people_ With
game
e casts you as a lawyer who,
1 well over a hundred characters the
together
y
Wilhelm,
e
dent
is
Rudolf
OP OP OP
with his driver/companion
approached by local resi-
Rabensberg. .
permutations are mind-boggling. The
game also includes several action
sequences which range from

1
a
It seems a mummy belonging to vaging exhibits from the bottom of a
r
Mr Rabensberg's father was stolen lake to messing about in a forensic
i
from an exhibition several years ago 1 laboratory with chemicals bought
s never recovered. Now news has
and
1
reached
9
African
his son that an important
mummy is to be put up for
1 ,
s i t e d b v e e e d ' Rb ee e tve le s .
agi PS •
from the local chemist.
To aid you in your task you are
provided with a map o f Hamburg
#
1
auction.
whether
2
fact
Your task is t o discover
the two mummies are in
, one and the same. As a typical
1 6y
11 1 • 1 1 4 1 1 1 v e i r e e l l • fl • e
Oi l y! s a v e 1 4 ; a b e a m
t no l eul i pbs.
a
showing 186 numbered places and
telephone/address book listing
the residents, theatres, hospitals
v
jetsetter
t
Munich
h
Sunday
e
of the era, you are due in
on Thursday and today is 0
- your time is therefore limit-
. o
w
etc. From your hotel room you are
able to contact many people by tele-
phone, while others may be visited
a
ed,
p
l The
which
screen display is divided into sections
show a clock with the current time, a
1 controlling the game, a picture of your location
r
and four bars showing
•
your level of money,
either on foot or by car.
Since I haven't got very far into the game
hunger, thirst and tiredness. Input is a mixture yet I'm reluctant to give this one the benefit of
a
short
c
text description of your location and con-
versations with other people, a set of icons for. of mouse/icon and typing (addresses, names
etc).
a full rating. Stand by fo r more details next
month.

DRAGONSOFFLAME
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,
: saga but tone down the hack'n'slay elements.
US GOLD continue the Heroes of the Lance

L the bottom of the screen together with a com- While Heroes of the Lance had too much of
you manage to recover the Disks of pass pointer on the left. Accessing commands the hack & slay and too few strategic elements
R Mishakal from Khisanth the guardian?
Ifeso, you'll enjoy this follow-up in the Drag-
L is achieved by pressing the space bar to bring
up the main menu. From here various actions
for my liking, Dragons of Flame seems to have
a far better balance, therefore appealing to a
onlance
m series. can be selected such as spell casting, chang- wider range of adventure tastes_ Although basi-
e Draconian forces have spread out across
the
m face of Krynn with only the Qualinesti elves
S ing the marching order, manipulating objects,
savingiloading etc. Also available is a com-
cally an arcade adventure, the game contains
enough puzzle elements to satisfy most follow-
still
b holding out. Although the elves will fall the
Companions
e still have a chance to free the 1 mand to show a map of the whole area of the
quest in case you get lost.
Pax Th a rka s
ers of the fantasy genre.

slaves of Pax Tharkas and recover the long-lost

r
Wyrmslayer. The Companions must run the
H
gauntlet of swarming Draconian forces to suc- . made up of several lev-
els containing a variety
e
ceed. of secret doors and
r Play takes place in the open initially with
o party seen from overhead as they move
the
2 traps and is very similar
to Heroes visually with
e
about the countryside. However the Draconian your character shown
forces
s are everywhere and battle is joined from side-on a g a in st t h e
the
o first moments of the game. background scenery of
f As combat becomes imminent the over- walls, doors, passages
head view changes to the more familiar side-on etc,
t
shot as used in Heroes. Fighting is a matter of The display s a n
h
aiming low, middle o r high at the enemy o r improvement however.
e
casting ranged weapons such as spears from Bright primary colours
aLsafe distance. If you're anything like me you'll make i d e n t i f y i n g
a yourself frantically waggling the joystick
find objects and characters
n
anywhere just to stay alive! Following combat much easier and quick-
c press of a key returns the screen to an
the er which in turn makes
overhead
e view. the game more friendly
Col our s i n D r a gons a r e m u c h l e s s m u d d y t h a n t h e y w er e i n
? All your characters are shown in cameo at than its predecessor. Her oes a nd easi er on the e y e t o boot.
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GAME EVER
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The company that - -

roduced "The Kristar
an inter-active arcade e n t u r e written •
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eroes, taking place deep under
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4* 1 r u n d erwater caverns and then in
the Fabled City of Atlantis.
Surmount the perils of the deep
with a clever strategy and slick
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helpful in doing so. POKE 2793.173 (infinite lives) 411
1.lake Punts are the best to use. POKE 11193,173 (infinite dyna-
mite)
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back. POKE 10886,173 (infinite bullets)
SYS 24480 (to restart)
3.Always pass the ball at the earli-
est opportunity.
has
4.Passing to the left is generally
tular better than to the right.
and 5.Make sure the ball is thrown in
was
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6.Don't make long passes a s More C64
Pokes Galore
there is probably a member of the
'PC opposition further up the pitch.
7,Run along the edges.
8.Try not to pass into the end
zone. Try to run the ball in. KI NG OF THE BE ACH
9.Run straight ahead and go diag- Never le t it be said that ACE (passwords) (passwor ds)
onally when there is someone run- ignores C6 4 owners. After a Mr.Wimpy (level 2) Sideout (level 2. Chicago)
ning in front or behinds you. whole TNT column to themselves Classics (level 3) Gekho (level 3, Hawaii)
la lf you don't do well on your in November, C64 fanatics can Whizzkid (level 4) Topflite (level 4, Rio)
first three downs go for a field celebrate the new year with yet Gunshot (level 5) Sundevil (level 5, Sidney)
goal instead o f making a risky more gems. This time they're Doodguys (level 6)
from Ace hacker and cracker D.Gibson (level 7) (Try these for other Ix)
throw/run.
Koen Smedts, Leuven, Belgium. Logic on
11.Field goals have more chance
Thanks a million Koen. Logic off
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12.Never go for the punt. Cheat off
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Liam Hughes of Romford, Essex pod Cristal, then get out. You do into the building East of the river. the final ECD and the game is
has strolled through Dark Side this by shooting into the boxes, To do this you have to Jet-Pac complete.
from Incentive, and here gives us you will either be giving up fuel or over a force field, then get into
the benefit of his insight into the shield. Soon the door will open. the building. In it you will find four
game.
Start by destroying ECDs 1-
When you have exited the prison
you will be in the tunnels. When
tele-transporters. No w g o and
destroy ECOs 15-20. Go to Tethys
CPC Capers
5. Now go to the Regulus. Go you have got out of the tunnels, and collect the lour fuel rods. Right, C64 owners have had their
into the building that is in front of go and destroy ECDs 9-15. Now you can get the other turn, now its time for some juicy
you when you are facing North. In Now go to Sirius, enter the (3rd) Telepod Cristal. Destroy morsels digestible b y Amstrad
here you will see fuel rods and building in the West. You do this ECDs 20-24. Go to Psyche and addicts. These tips, once again,
shield blocks. Collect all of these. by shooting the block above the go into the Telepod and shoot the come from Liam Hughes of Rom-
Now destroy ECDs 5-9. This door about 10-15 times. When cristal that takes you to Pollux. ford, Essex.
will give you quite a lot of time. inside Jet-Pac up to the top, here Here you will find the final Telepod
Now go through either Umbriel or you will see two fuel rods, and two CristaL Use this to take you to the ROAD RUNNE R K I M (
Procyon. Walk by the prison sen- shield blocks, a n d a Telepod NEREIOL sector. Take the letter K, On the selection screen
sor until you get thrown in prison. CristaL then go back to Psyche, and go type US for infinite lives. 115

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The Shadow of the Beast, I thought
it was extremely difficult. I certainly
wasn't expecting so many cheats,
tips, and solutions to be sent in
this quickly. Obviously there are
plenty o f ACE readers out there
who can beat anything the Soft
ware Houses challenge them with.
Anyway, on with the good stuff.
The solution below has been com-
piled from those sent b y Mark
Bamber o f Preston, Lancashire,
and Darren Kevin Peter Matthews
(phew!) of Southampton in Hamp-
shire. Both also sent maps of the
tree level, and Darren also supplied Jet P a
the map for the castle level.

Follow the arrow left at the start

Punch the boulders and the birds,
remembering to jump the grabber Tool A S t r e ngt h Laz er G u n

Beastly usiness
Si B i
(careful, it's difficult to see!). When E nt r a nc e
you reach the door in the tree, F
enter it.
Once you are inside the tree
go right, and jump the fireball that
appears fro m behind you. No w
descend the ladder and punch the
bee when it reaches the lowest
point of its flight. Go down the next
ladder and run towards the giant
insects. No w crouch and keep SI
doing low punches until they are all Sk+B
destroyed. Now go down a plat-
form, then up to the right, continue I
going right, then down to the right.
and down again until you can not
go down any further_ Now go left
and down, then continue left until
you reach a point where acid is
dripping from above_
Try to avoid the acid, and con- G =G u a r d ia n
tinue until some o rcs approach K=Ke y
P =P o t i o n
you. Run towards them, and a s T =T e le p o r t e r
they swing their swords, let them V =m o V in g S p i k e s
S w =S w ilch
have it. 0 =O r cs
Once you have finished off the Orcs, you should S n =S n a ke s
O w =0 . o l s
see the end of the platform. Run and jump just as you S n a =S n a i l s
are about to fall off the edge. You should now land
safely on the opposite ledge, from which you can S h =G h o st S
W.Wo rm s
retrieve the key. until the ball breaks. You should now shoot light bolts. F =F i r e b a l l
Now step off the platform and fall to the lower C =C r a w le r
Walk right and enter the teleporter. You will appear at A=Acid
ledge. Here you can collect a strength potion which the position marked on the map as TA. Go right until S p =S p i d e r s
will give you full health. Move right, punching the P P .P o w e rP u n ch
you meet the next guardian.
green snakes as you go. Now climb up the ladder and Fire the bolts at him until he dies. Don't let him E.Eye s
W .F la m e rs
go to the left. Some more purple orcs will come B=Bo u l d e r
touch you, or you will be squashed. Run right after
towards you. Use the same method to kill them as B i = B lid
you have kiilled him and kill the orcs as before. Try to G r =G r a b b e r
you used before. avoid the spikes (not easy). T a .T e le p o t t e r A p p e a r a n c e
Run up t o the guardian and crouch when i t
Now go up the ladder and up again. Go across to S I =S lo g
breathes fire. When it stops breathing, stand up, and D =D e v i l s
the left, and when the eyes bounce up, run under S k=S ku lis
punch the ball that it holds once. Now crouch again them one at a time. Stop in between each one, as a B=Be e s
immediately (or you'll get fried). Repeat this process

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 red devil will also come to you. Dispatch this with a AFTE R BURNE R - ACTI VI SI ON god before they close temporarily. Now
punch. When you get to the otherside of the plat- Levels 1-10 are easy, so try to gain as guide your man t o the bottom right-
form, get the key and go back across arid down. many bonus lives as possible for later hand corner as fast as possible and the
Now go to the right, and kill the snail, then go right levels. Concentrate on shooting planes demi-god will die automatically!
and down the ladder. Blue devils should begin to down as missiles are easy to dodge.
fall from above. Stand in front of the point at which Levels 11-18 are slightly more diffi- Level 2
they fall and punch them. Now jump quickly past cult, still t ry t o shoot planes down Kill the lizards and other aliens with
the snakes (If you have enough energy left it may rather than worrying about dodging your v-cannon. Buy first aid etc. from
be easier to run through them all). missiles. shop (don't buy multi-directional fire). To
You should now come to some owl heads. Levels 19-22 are difficult. You will avoid giant snakes, stay as close to the
When the first of these goes up, run for it and con- lose some lives. Stop shooting planes top o f th e screen a s possible. To
tinue running through the devil (unavoidable), Go and start dodging the missiles. To do destroy gun-turrets, stay at the bottom
down to the slug and jump it and then fall down. this, move up and down. Don't try and of the screen and shoot across (your v-
Continue running and kill the bee as before. Now pick up any rhythm as the missiles are cannon will protect you fro m their
punch the skulls one by one until you reach anoth- not fired in a set sequence. If you try to shots). To kill the dust dragon, position
er potion which you should collect. Go down the shoot your forward vision will be be your man directly above the dragon's
ladder and jump the worm. Continue down and obscured and you are more likely to get heart and make him face towards the
then run along and a large bee will fly above and shot down. bottom le ft hand corner, and keep
drop fire bombs. Stand in between the bombs and On all levels except 8 and 17 go at shooting. The dragon will die (your v-
jump the fireball. maximum speed. Levels 5, 13, and 23 cannon will kill the lizards.)
Now move down avoiding the crawler. Go left are just landing and refuelling except
and kill the ghost, and then go up and collect the 23 where yo u have completed th e Level 3
power punch which you will take damage from game. Kill the aliens in a straightforward man-
while collecting (unless you have previously pulled ner. Go to the shop. Buy the necessary
the lever which shuts off the electric field around OPERATI ON WOLF - ACTI VI SI ON equipment. (Don't buy laser cannon).
Level 1 is simple ju st keep your cross- When a stair shooed building appears.
hair in th e middle and occasionally Guide your man to the bottom right cor-
move up, and of course down for sup- ner, face the top right corner and keep
plies. shooting. Once you have reached the
Level 2 is the same a s level 1 top, reposition your man at the bottom
except you should go up a lot more for of the screen and no shots will touch
the paratroopers. L e v e l 3 i s t h e you.
same as level 1 except that you should Once you enter the three gates to
not wo rry about health t o o much the god of war, position your man at
because the villagers will replenish i t the bottom left corner, facing up. The
Use a grenade when there are too arms of the god will not touch you now.
many men.
Level 4 is as level 1 except you do
not need to worry about ammo as the
ammo factory i s your target, Heli-
copters are a real problem here.
Level 5 is as level 1 except you
should shoot permanently a t some
points.
Level 6 requires you t o kill 100
men. so with little time, fire everywhere,
it). Now go down and right and avoid the thrusters. and try to use all your grenades over
Continue right until you reach the worms. Get as the first half of a level, There are many
close to each one as possible, and when it goes, grenades to pick up.
run up to the dragon and crouch, then punch like
When you reach the head, move a little
hell. When it dies, quickly run into the well and
to the right and fire up at his shoulder.
climb out into daylight.
At ground level go east punching everything Forgotten When it blows up, move to the other
side and do the smae with the right
until you get to the castle. Before you go inside,
collect the light so you can see. Once inside
Worlds shoulder until that blows too. No w
make your man face to the top left cor-
retrieve the tool then make your way down to col- This one comes from Urfan Khan of ner and move a little to the left. Now
lect the laser gun. Now disable the field with the shoot his nose until he dies. All this
Coventry. West Midlands, and is a solu-
tool in order to proceed, killing the monster and tion to the first three levels_ takes a little practise.
collecting the jet pack.
On level two just blast everything. On the final Level 1 Level 4
level punch everything, and kill the giant at the end I Collect as many Zennies ( currency) as Sorry, but you're on your own for this
to finish. i
you can. Blast your way th rough aliens one
in a straightforward
OK, you're saying, that makes it easier, but it's still
manner. (Don't try and
flippin' difficult. I agree, and so does Greg Stone of shoot the fi rst lo t o f
Chesterfield. Derbyshire. So to help out those play-
ground based aliens).
ers who are still dying after five minutes play and
Go t o the shop_ Buy
long to see more of the great graphics in the
everything o n s a le .
game, here is his cheat for infinite energy:
Once you are out of the
shop, t ry and kill the
When the loading screen with the picture of the spider-hhe rocket aliens
beast appears, press and hold down the fire but-
(they inflict most dam-
ton on the joystick and the left mouse button, until
age). When you're near
prompted to insert disk two. Now proceed as nor- the end o f the level,
mal and you will have infinite energy.
guide your man through
the gate to the demi-

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 Megatips for a Megablast
Khalid F Howlader has sent in this obliterate a complete wave.
complete guide t o the Bitmap
Brother's fi rst rate shoot-em-up,
Electro Bail - useful in the rock
passage (level 3 ) for destroying
Guardians
Xenon H. No excuse now - get serpents behind you. Sometimes
reading and then get zapping. it disappears. In my experience it Level 1 Shellfish Level 4
was usually in a corner o f the Shoot it in the eye. As
( 0 it. 5appears,
) g o right to the
First a note on ioysticks. I have a screen or not on it at all. Bring it side
Level 2 - (see diagrams) • and advance upwards. Your
lipstick and a quickshjot turbo, back by keeping the fire button side
both of which have excellent aut- Level 3 (0.5) • Crab D rshot should finish off those
down and moving the joystick. II small heads. Then hit the bit at
dire options. I f yo u r joystick this doesn't work then the ball has Shoot its eyes. To avoid it, move a g
the very end and go down, but
doesn't have this then buy one as expired. in a rough figure o f 8 pattern. o n
don't stay a t the bottom. Wait
soon a s i t becomes available Watch out fo r those extendible
Flamer - this isn't really effective claws. until the dragon's head is in view.
(shop 11. It really comes in handy with autofire on because the fire Just after he has lunged, go right
when your trigger finger g e ts Level 3 (1.0) - Serpent to the bottom and let him have it
sore. button needs t o b e constantly
pressed t o g ive a continuous At this point you should have at where i t hurts (no, h is head,
Xenon II Shop Table stream. Limited range. least 2 heavy weapons a t the stupid!)
What to buy and what to sell sides. Position yourself outside of
Health - Unless you are less than Level 4 (1_0) - Chameleon
the bottom-left exit and a s he
three quarters full don't get it, Just advance up the side and dis-
SHOP # SELL B U Y emerges, keep yo u r firepower
except on level 4 where there's no pose of his eyes. Now push your-
trained on his head as he moves
1 ( n o t h i n g ) Health (and free health. self forward next to his feet and
at all subse across. He should then blow up
you can get the body with the
quent shops] leaving loads of money. sideshot as well. This saves hav-
2 R e a r Do u b l e s h o t ing to dodge the tongue.
Sideshot x 2 -41 Level 2 Level 5
3 • Go up and shoot the ( 0 . up
Pick 5 )the homing missile while
eye. destroying the turrets. Now posi-
4 Cannon -
• Go along the top. tion
T a your laser dead centre so
Powerup x 1
• Shoot the other eye. you
n k can blast the tank without
5 • Go down and shoot getting hit by its own laser.
6 Laser Powerup the last eye. Level 5(1,0)- Battlecruiser
x1
If you haven't g o t a power 3
7
sideshot then you've g o t n o
8 Laser. Powerup chance matey. First shoot the
Life (if you need engines until they stop. Now pol-
it) ish off both turrets. Advance up
9 Life (if you need the side destroying the turrets.
it) Watch out fo r little spaceships
hitting you from behind. Destroy
This table shows th e items I the lasers and then g o down.
bought to complete the game, but Pump the ship's rear full of bul-
at shop 8 you may want to try out lets and enjoy the ending,
some new weapons. Level 2
Homing Missiles - no point in get- • Circle around the island
ting these as they are given away destroying bridges. Level 3
free just before the halfway bad- • Make sure that when you are Rock Passage
shooting the spider you are as far
die (level 5) • When gap
away as possible in front of it. Oth-
erwise you will be slightly jammed appears reverse
Bombs - very effective, but if you and let rip with
against the island and all the
already have sideshots you will side shot
money will go streaming by.
have no room to carry them. If
you want to try these out then sell
side and buy rear.
Protection - makes your shield
last longer. I prefer a life instead.
Drone - quite good, but better
when powered up.
Dive - useful for getting out of
stick situations.
Laser - the hest weapon when
power is 3. Sears through every-
thing in its way.
Bitmap Staples - If you want a
surprise, this is the thing to get.
Mines - these are effective if you
can remember the postions of the
waves, as a well laid stream can

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ACE reveals the

story, specs
and sensation of

31st Century
gaming...

RSA conce a t e trni

but actually experiencing i t: that's the popular adventure an role-p e.
underlying ideal behind ESP Corporation's such as BattleTech, Revggad ar10
t d Star Trek.
I BattleTech Centre - a simulation experience Prompted by t h e succ's s
mfar more advanced than any other system available revive the BattleTech Centre conceptgand started
ato the general public and one of the most exciting FASA's sister company. ESP Corporationa - dedicat-
ggames prospects to hit the market in years. ed to interactive entertainment.
m
i Jordan Weisman, designer of BattleTech Centre BattleTech Centre takes advantage of cheaper
e
and founder of ESP Corporation, told ACE: We microcomputer technologies: "this gives us the
n s having to
have created a whole new entertainment medium - speed and graphic power required without
E ach c oc k pi t is e qui ppe d w i th e
the worlds first complete computer simulation
a 2 5 " c ol our m oni tor , w hi c h nexperience for play".
ser ves as a fr ont w i ndow to o BattleTech
the v e hi c l e a nd di spl ays tI NTE RACTI V E STAR WARS
gr aphi cs of the s ur r oundi ng cockpit controls
oWeisman, a 29 year-old dyslexic, originally had the
envi r onm ent a nd the e ns ui ng
battl e. The s e c onda r y s c r e e n nconcept for BattleTech Centre ten years ago The ensure sr/fact
is us e d for r adar a nd v e hi c l e lcentral idea behind BattleTech Centre was to bring .
tramng On W e d
..3 ctosar•at,
s ta tus . Dua l j oy s ti c k s w i th ythe movie magic made popular by Star Wars to a r ,o
tr i gger buttons , w e a pon sel ec- ,nv3ssaue
pplace where people could actually participate in the 'olklapan trrlicalr.S
no
ti on di spl ays, thr ottl e c ontr ol , • M a i n scporan
ltotal environment of a fantasy world So Weismar Heal .cala shaws
,
ut
di r ecti onal pe da l s , cei l i ng
aand friend L. Ross Babcock Ill formed FASA in
verroOfi .eal level a,
m e s s a ge c e ntr e , r adi o c on- ..- •,••

y1980, with the hope of raising funds to produce the

Smuncia7 scram
tr ol s for c om m uni c a ti on w i th charger; Lithylny to or0

te a m -m a te s a nd a t t e nda nt a nd Environmental Simulation Project - but they were !Weal raca

i ,zarelide map P.0
ra
I 'it •
othe r i nter i or ba ttl e func ti ons greeted with scepticism from potential investors • ,
n riernal a a r r,
all a dd to t he r eal i sm of the worried about the high risk factor and costs erld
- PrEopKAeen m
ba ttl e g rAdvanced
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1 2 0 AdvancedComputerEntertainment J O VSPCi o.
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g•d,,
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 use a huge multi-million mainframe computer," says
•BattleTech Specs
Mike Hanson, director o f BattleTech Centre system
Each BattleTech Centre Lockpit contains 32Mb of RAM aid development a t Incredible Technologies. Weisman
26 proprietary PC boards, witnch make up the graphics. adds, in the past only governments could afford this
sound and cockpit control systems. The coinputers commu-
nicate wrth the other cockpits na a local area network. The sort of thing. ESP has found a way to bring the person
cockpits marl screen can display 200 3D °bracts in real on the street the same sophisticated imaging of com-
tate, using a maximum o f 64000 co lo irs on screen a t N V mercial and military flight simulations used by NASA
Onetime, and the Air Force".
The g a m e s visu a ls a re spot between t w o viewing
screens: the pnmary 'out the front window'
secondary
. s c r escreen
e n used
a tornradar
d and other information. ESP PLAY THE GAME
As e a c h obj e c t i s pl a c e d on
desi
a gned the pnrnary screen graphic system differently than The BattleTech Centre is an environmental complex
scr een, i t s a s s i gne d a c ol our
most military type simulators, which model th e on-screen
pa l e tte w hi c h c ons i s ts of 2 5 6 which simulates a fictional universe, the core experi-
univecSe via a set o4 polygons requiring incredibly fast
maths processors t o handle t h e calculations involved. col our s. P a l e tte s a r e a s s i gne d ence being an eight-player battle. Each player sits in
Instead, Battletech Centre graphics system s u se 1 9 0 0 0 ba s e d on t he obj e c t type, l oc a - an enclosed cockpit, whose simulator allows each
ore-dawn - ti on a nd s i tua ti on. An e x a m pl e contestant to see a graphic image of the other play-
CAD
arte syst
i r e m a n d rendered u st ig ray-tracing, sh a d in g . of thi s pa l e tte use is di s ta nc e er's vehicle, their movements and the surrounding ter-
source
i m alighting and edge smoothing. The graphocs systems haz e. I n t he r eal w or l d, a s a n
al rain. The BattleTech Centre operates in a 5000 square
gsoeuse s a fast and versatde geometry engine witwch per- obj e c t ge ts fa r the r a w a y i t
forms hardware scakng of the images in reatbme and te nds to bl e nd i nto the ba c k - foot location, encompassing a lobby area, two combat
w h 20 transformations such as mirroring, warping, flips
allows
iandckeystoning. gr ound - the pa l e tte s y s te m
ae
h m i m i cs thi s pe r fe c tl y
i The lobby area is decorated as a wardroom of a
w
e r n
giant starship with 10-12 video monitors broadcasting
e r
fictitious newscasts from the future, cockpit simulator
o r instructions
f and "God's Eye View" o f games in
Primary screen:
i g progress.
o This, coupled with uniformed staff, sur-
Graphi
i ncs processor 34010 at 4 0 lifl iz rounds
a players with sensory cues of a science fiction
Theoretical
* tfroughout 400 nanoseconds pet pixel universe. In the Combat Information Centres, a uni-
Practical through-put 200 'ailed* images in reat r
c formed officer hands players their sheet of orders and
r time s
Screen resolution 320400 they
e m are allowed to form team strategies, scope the
Maximum colours on-screen 64000
a terrain
a of their mission and obtain information on the
Total colour palette 16 million colours
t universe
t via a "user friendly' computer. The launch
System memory 34.5Mb of RAM, expand-
e able to 130,5Mb areas
i are dominated by eight cockpits (each 10 feet
d
Graphi c images in memory 19000 by 3.5 feet by 5 feet).
o al geometry &Igoe o
Soeci Hatchware scaling of graphic ha t t l e Te c h Ce ntr e us e s a ne w The simulators are connected via computer net-
n tnages and performs 20 n
ser ies of M e c h . to be i ntr o- work to produce a real-time simulation experience in
a tr ars tormahons. s interactive, 3D environment, The terrain, vehicles
an
duc e d to r ol e-pl ayer s ov e r the
y mission change every game, so each time you
and
ne x t six m onths . Thi s pa r ti c u-
lar O m ni -l i tech ser ves m ostl y s there are new challenges. In addition, for the first
play
in a fi r e -s uppor t r ol e. t
time, the opponent you face is not a computer, but
another
e player who thinks ahead, learns from their
Secondary screen:
mistakes,
m and is unpredictable.
Game and graphics processor 68010 at 7MHz
Screen resolution 320)(200 s Each BattleTech Centre will have two eight-player
games
, going o n simultaneously_ The Centre can
Colours per screen 16
Total cater Palette 4096 e change its fictional environment every 30 minutes.
The game software and videos are changed and the
m
result is a new universe and vehicle type to master.
b The first two environments created for BattleTech
a Centres are based on FASA's BattleTech and
r Renegade Legion role-playing games. BaftleTech
Sound system:
k is set in the year 3050, where the masters of
Processor 6 8 0 9
a the battlefield are huge, manlike BattleMech
Digital samplers A o e c m and PCM forme
Channels 2 0 t droids. Renegade Legion i s a game o f
Watts per channel 6 3 i starfighter combat in the year 6000. ESP will
Memory 4 2 0 V RAM o create several other environments in the
The sound system Incorporates three sound generation future.
n
devices, gmng it the ability to generate spatially orientated The BattleTech Centre books reservations to r
sounds from either straight sampled sounds, sampled h
sounds with frequency control or FM synthesised sound': teams,
a or mix and match individuals as they arrive to
make up teams for each ganne sequence. A half-hour
l
experience will be priced on a par with a trip to the
# l
cinema
a
or squash-court

Cockpit controls: COn MI NG TO A TO WN NE AR YOU?

d plans to develop 150 BattleTech Centres across
ESP
2 E i g h t position ioysbcks, each containng
Three bring buttons the
t United States and Canada, and has a license for
I A n a l o g throttle distribution
w in Japan. Each complex will cost approxi-
2 A n a l o g loot pedals mately
o 5750000 to build - 5500K for the electronics
52 Momentary switches package
l and $100--S250K construction cost. The first
8 Mo me n t a ry rocker switches BattleTech Centre was scheduled to open in Chicago
116 button keypad a
u before Christmas, b u t has been delayed until
132 segment LCD bar-graph
March 1990 due to leasing problems. Weisman
128 4 segment LED allphanumenc display n
Each cockpit has close to a hundred controls and over a enthuses, 'sites in Las Vegas and Los Angeles
c are under negotiation. We're also in-touch with
hundred nchcator lights.
h major UK arcade companies and theme-park
organisers - we hope to have a deal signed soon..."

AdvancedComputerEntertainment 121
 131 'VI & © 1990 PARAMOUNT PICTURES.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Look out, Beverly Hills

Here comes Axel Foley !
The hero of "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Beverly Hills Cop II" is back in Beverly
Hills - and this time he's working on a case that's a real stumper! He's going
to stop the crime of the year, unless an army of trigger-happy gunmen stop
him first !
You'll roar down crowded city streets, race against time to stop a daring rob-
bery. stalk armed killers, hunt for clues to a bizarre crime, and fight for your
life again and again in this high-speed action adventure starring the fast-talk-
ing, quick-shooting detective

AVAILABLE ON:
ST E24.99 AMIGA £24.99 PC £24.99 CBM64 CASS E9.99
CBM64 DISK £14.99 AMSTRAD CASS E9.99 AMSTRAD DISK E14.99
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 I J FP EDAL
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A R OU N D UP OF THE LATEST MAJOR

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£24 99dk
C ON VER SION S

SPECTRUM
VERSION

1
E19.99clk LI.4.99cs

The latest versions - The fi rst thing that struck me

about this version was how well
the drawing utility actually stands
The first thing I expected to find
on loading up this version was an

ST,Spectrum,Amstrad up in its own right. All of the func-

tions a re particularly easy t o
access (just a single key press for
inferior doodle package, so I was
pleasantly surprised to find that

1-
this was not the case. All of the
each), and there are enough o f functions available a r e e a sily
them to produce some quite intri- accessed with either the pointer
cate doodles. The arc tool is par- or a single key press. The disad-
ticularly useful and powerful. As vantage of this and other 8-bit ver-
an added bonus, once you have sions is the lack of a mouse for
completed a picture you can save drawing. I tried playing with the
it in Neochrome format (it is then keyboard controls, and to be quite
a fairly simple matter to import it honest, drawing anything other
into m o s t
co mme rcia l
ST a r t soft-
ware).
I'm n o t
c o n v in c e d
that p a y in g
OUT O F I I ME C or r e c t 125 fo r Pic-
The a n s w e r i s :
I N F LAT I O N E r n No tionary on the
ST is prefer-
P i cti onar y on t he S T
able to buying
the o rig in a l
Domark; A m i g a V e r s i o n est Yuppie board game
board game.
reviewed Issue 26; ACE Rating tionary. The idea behind this one However, t h e
790 is that one member o f a team
ST and other P i cti onar y on the S pe c tr um
draws a picture and the other versions d o
Having managed to capture the players have to guess the word have t h e
license f o r t h e mo st popular that the picture is intended to con- than very simple shapes proved to
additional appeal of being able to
board game o f all time (Trivial vey within a set time limit. Guess- be a long-winded and painful pro-
assign all the picture drawing to
Pursuit f o r those who've been ing the word correctly allows you cess. It is still quite fun to play
the computer (essential if you're
living in a cupboard for the last to move yo u r counter further with the computer drawing the
playing solo).
five years), Domark have n o w round the board. piccies, although if you have the
turned their attentions to the lat- cassette version be prepared to
• ACE RATING 750
wait during t h e frequent tape
loads as the next block of piccies
is got into memory,

• ACE RATING 550

AMSTRAD
VERSION
LI9.99dk E14.99cs

The presentation here is slightly

better than on the Spectrum ver-
sion, although the sound is still
limited to a twangy title tune and
the occasional b lip when yo u
select a function. There are still
the same difficulties with drawing
without a mouse, although it is a
little easier if you use a joystick.
UT 0 1 T I M E Again, not a bad effort, but both
he a n s w e r I s : this and the other 8-bit versions
RITISH ISLES are a little overpriced.

• ACE RATING 600

Pi cti onar y on the Am s r a d

Advanced ComputerEntertainment 1 2 3
 as far as I can tell the ST version vent the puck from getting into
is identical i n a lmo st e ve ry the opposing goal. If you knock in
respect. I say 'almost because three against the computer (o r
the STs inferior sound chip has against your opponent) you can
reared its ugly head again and progress to the next level. Haz-
fouled things up for the Circus ards line the floor such as mag-
programmers. Actually it's not all netic forces and walls which hin-
that bad — your engine just goes der the journey of the puck. There
suddenly silent as opposing cars are around 50 pitches in the one
whizz past. player mode and about 80 in the
That's a minor quibble though two player. You can adjust the
— the game is otherwise excel- flow o f the game b y changing
lent. There are some interesting parameters like gravity pulls and
aspects to this game which gives shooting. There are tokens in the
it a slight edge over other similar forms o f boxes th a t give you
offerings. I f y o u cra sh , f o r things like exploding balls and let-
instance, your car is damaged but ters that spell out "RICOCHET".
Fiendish Freddy on the ST not completely written off, so you The E G A graphics d o n 't
still have time to crawl into the stretch to the PC to it's limit, and

ATARI ST enough to earn enough money to

pay off the loan. These are High
Diving, Juggling, Trapeze Swing-
pits for a repair. Well worth a look
if you're a racing fan.
although the screens that were
breathtaking on the ST and Amiga
are included, they fail to impress.
FIENDISH FREDDY'S ing, Knife Throwing, Tightrope ACE RATING 850 Sprites and background graphics
BIG TOP '0 FUN Walking, and Human Cannonball. are pretty to look at but can, as I
Each of the events is quite dif- mentioned before, clutter up the
Mindscape, £ 2 9 9 9 : Am i ga ficult to master, but matters are
Version reviewed Issue 2 4 ; made worse by the presence of
ACE Rating 775 Fiendish Freddy him setf — an evil
little clown who is determined to
;71 l
Fiendish Freddy is one of those
games that really shows off the
sabotage every single event.
The whole thing is a lot of fun
- '
'1 1
capabilities of the Amiga. It had
great sound, bold cartoon style
to play, and the large humorous
sprites should keep you enter-
tained f o r some time . Shame
,1 1
t
graphics, and bags of humour. It 7 1 U 1110 V
0
was also the sort of game that about the tedious disc swapping
could well have lost all its appeal though. 5 -
" 1 7 --
:1 0- E r17
once it had been converted to the
ACE RATING 725

,
ST. Happily that is not the case.

-10 -11 -7 -
Everything that made this game 1
1
rxrnw 01=
-. 1
F 1- -
11 - N
Battl esti x on t he PC .
1
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1
PC -I1 M 7 7
screen. The sound is a bit irritat-
ing — enough t o give you a
headache. The game doesn't real-
1 -
1
BALLISTIX1
T U
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ly present any challenge, and is
far from addictive. Ballistix on the

•3
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T L24_95dk:
I Amiga PC is similar to the other 16 bit

1
version reviewed Issue 20: versions, even down to start-up
ACE1 1
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686 sequences, but alas, i t doesn't
-- —are the sort of compa- quite make the grade.

-
7
Psygnosis

idea,1
ny who can 1 take
,1chuck
) in
-1an old, simple
some pretty nifty
ACE RATING 589

Conti nental Circus on the ST graphics a n d .s o me amazing

-
sounds,
171 7then bring
1 out a game UPDATES
appealing on the Amiga has been CONTINENTAL good enough
1
' toi mistaken for
be
CRAZY!
packed in t o t h e S t version.
Packed is, perhaps. the wrong
CIRCUS an arcade

1
this one 1
original. The idea for
1 apparently t comes from
word t o use. The whole thing V I RG I N/ MAS TE RTRO NI C: Crossfire,
remember
1: but I doubt if many can
1 it, I 1 certainly can't. The
Starting in issue 30, we'll
be running a new
sprawls over n o less than six L19.99dk; A m i g a V e r s i on
idea 1
disks. A fact which is not made reviewed Issue 2 6 ; ACE Rat-
-
and 1
is to shoot balls at the puck
to knock it into the opposing
updates section in ACE.
covering more machines,
. can play1against a friend
any more delightful by the neces- ing 875
goal. more games, and giving
sity for frequently swapping the
1
You more detail.
disc that is currently in the drive.
The idea behind Fiendish
Freddy is that the bank are about
Virgin's 2 D version o f Taito's
unusual 3D arcade racing game
has now made it to the S I Conti-
1infinite-, number.of balls, but each
or the computer. You've got an If you've got any sug-
gestions for the new sec-
ball only lasts for a couple of sec- tion, let us know at
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Best bet for 8-bit machine
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attributes and equipment owners, with a choice of reckon you'd be better off
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world_ A true thorough- This places itself in the racing Sega coin-op.
Race through many types Arsenal are finished. This may not matter to you,
of terrain, such as moun- bred. annals of computer history Great game, excellent
conversion. but here in the ACE office it's an issue of great
tain Of forest, and through as being one of the most
amazing spectacles to importance. You see, ACE's ebullient. bullish etc.
many types of weather
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be playing for a good Well, eat your heart out Gary Williams. As I
while. lation. this one puts you amazing experience, and a the Test Drive wrongs with
clear winner. Where can this sequel, and to an write it is a mere 18 hours since Arsenal were
into the world of perfor-
mance bike racing on none things go from here? extent they succeeded_ soundly beaten by Liverpool at Anfield. Its only a
FERRARI other than the Honda There's nothing serious few days since they were hammered 3-1 by lowly
FORMULA RVF750. Brilhant graphics, about the game. It's just a Oldham Athletic land not even George Graham
ONE brilliant sound, brilliant SUPER HANG lot of fun. It doesn't claim could blame it on the plastic pitch).
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DECEMBER TUESDAY 12 controlling NATO task
force in North Atlantic. turkey on Monday, debugged in time. Space Harrier 2
RELEASES Independence Day,
C64: reheated turkey (Grandslam). Elite did
AT A Kenya
GLANCE Starf light (Electronic leftovers after that, MONDAY the original, but this is
liqueur chocolates and New Year's Day (Bank the all-new 1990
PC: WEEK'S Arts, disk only, see
James Bond movies on Holiday) Liberation day, version.
Populous and RELEASES above)
AT A GLANCE Madden Football TV for everyone this Cuba National Day, Wings of Fury
Populous: Promised
(Electronic Arts). Disk week. Haiti Independence (Domark). Aerial
Lands (Electronic Arts). Amiga: Battle of
Austerlitz (PSS) only, American Football Day, Sudan combat game licensed
Highly acclaimed world
manipulation game Bloodwych Data Disk simulation. MONDAY 25 from Broderbund.
makes it on to the PC; (Image Works) Daily Double Horse Christmas Day TUESDAY 2 PC:
Racing (CDS). Horse Bank Holiday in Indianapolis 500
offices everywhere Starflight (Electronic
should judder to a halt. Arts). Graphic racing sun with betting. TUESDAY 26 Scotland Feast Day of (Electronic Arts). Fast
adventure with Converted down from Boxing Day (Bank St Basil the Great racing sim (yetanotherl
Keef the Thief
16-bit machines. Holiday) St Stephen's - based on Indianapolis
(Electronic Arts). fantasy/galactic
scenario. Day THURSDAY 4 500 race, surprisingly
Tongue-in-cheek
graphic adventure, Hound of Shadow FRIDAY 22 Brave the rush to your enough.
(Electronic Arts). Role Shortest day of the THURSDAY newsagent: ACE Samurai (Microprose).
originally on Amiga/ST
hreking (Electronic playing adventure cum year: sun rises at 28 February issue is out Atari ST:
8.04am, sets at National Day, Nepal today. International Skate or Die (Electronic
Arts) horror yarn.
Atari ST: 3.54pm. Celebrate with some Boat show begins. Arts, see above)
Stunt Car Racer (Micro
Hound of Shadow more turkey Independence Day, Starflight (Electronic
Style)
Galdregon's Domain (Electronic Arts, see SATURDAY Burma Arts, see above)
(Pandora) above) 23 FRIDAY 29 The Duel: Test Drive II
Bruce Lee Lives Battle of Austerlitz Hanukkah: Jewish Feast Day of St FRIDAY 5 (Accolade). Lagging
festival of lights Marcellus the Feast Day of St Simeon behind the other
(Mindscape) (PSS)
Righteous, known as the Stylite, famous versions, this is the
Amiga: Bloodwych Data Disk
Is one of the wrapped the "sleepless monk', because he spent the Ferrari F40 vs Porsche
Neuromancer (Image Works)
PC: Gold of the shapes under the tree because he decreed last 36 years of his life 959 episode in
(Electronic Arts). Role
Americas (Electronic remarkably computer- that hymns should be living on top of a 601t Accolade's growing
playing adventure.
shaped? Has it got your sung for 24 hours in pillar. Test Drive series, Also
Infestation (Psygnosis). Arts)
name on the gift-tag? If his monastery. Any coming out now for ST
Blast away in solid 30. Interphase (Image
Hardball II (Accolade). Works). Arcade so, go out today and record of what the SATURDAY 6 are the accessory
buy the following: neighbours thought of Epiphany disks: California and
Baseball sim sequel, adventure with 3D filled
mains plug, small this has not survived. European Challenge,
Atari ST: vector graphics and
bizarre plot. headed screwdriver WEEK'S Super Cars and Muscle
Infestation (Psygnosis,
see above) Wolf pack (PSS). Naval with a long handle, SUNDAY 31 RELEASES Cars,
All formats: Snoopy simulation set in the four-way electrical New Year's Eve and the AT A GLANCE C64
socket, blank end of the Eighties. Amiga: Deluxevideo III F16 Combat Pilot
and the Case of the North Atlantic in World
Lost Blanket (The War II. Much attention disks/tapes. This way Week's releases at a (Electronic Arts). (Digital Integration).
you won't have to take glance Animation package with First 8-bit version of
Edge). Big cartoon lavished on authenticity
the plug off the kettle many enhancements one of the 16-bit raves
licence - join Snoopy in and graphics.
the hunt for Linus's Dungeon Master (FIL). to set up the computer. JANUARY over DVideo II, and of 1989. Flighrnlight
missing blanket. Acclaimed role playing or place it somewhere 1990 complements
The Search for Sharla utterly inconvenient just New games gomg into Deluxepaint Ill. A hefty
game make sit on the
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adventure boasting Flight of the Intruder
hundreds of screens, etc. which were intended Arts). Skateboard Feast Day of St Hilary
(Spectrum Holobyte)-
for pre-Christmas simulation converted of Poitiers, who gave
characters, etc. Aerial combat game
Powerboat USA set during the SUNDAY 24 release but didn't make up from 8-bits. his name to the Hilary
Christmas Eve it, due to Dragon's Breath Term in universities and
(Accolade, not CPC or Linebacker campaign
unprecedented high (Palace). One to three courts of law.
Spectrum). Offshore in Vietnam, 1972.
powerboat simulation Harpoon (PSS). The WEEK'S demand, er, waiting for player strategy trading
with various 'courses' Cold War lives on in RELEASES delivery of manuals, er, game developed by
from around the world. NATO vs Warsaw pact AT A GLANCE felt January offered a team whose members
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US home video game market. sound. The Game Boy vall be officially launched in the UK
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game cartridges have been sold m the US since 1987, and themselves,
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sold in the US since autumn 1988.
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Nintendo more than 90% market share and greater than 35% prior to the closing date - giving the correct answer
game cartridge.
penetration of Japanese households to question (1). The Nintendo Deluxe NES will be
The Nintendo NES is the most popular video game
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system in the won
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(CURRENT OWNERS OF OUR JAPANESE CONVERTOR CAN "TRADE UP" TO THE NEW
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THIS IS THE NONTENDO GAME CONVERSION THAT BREAKS THROUGH THE SYSTEM
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GREATDEALS!
Christmas is coming and and your friendly local computer
dealer is trying all the arts of friendly persuasion to get you
into his shop and sell you some nice software. And with
offers like this going down are you foolish enough to resist?
BOOTS UP into Boots to buy it, and shirts on a number of Ghostbusters II; the offer might ease the strain and Bristol, and also in
THE WINNERS youll get a El voucher major titles. Should you exclusive Dornark goodie a bit. Buy any product to Megastores in
Two for the price of one which you can put towards buy Onslaught, The bag with Hard Drivin', but the value of 110 or more, Birmingham, Brighton.
maybe your mind is the cost of any Michael Untouchables. Robocop, stocks on all these will be before Christmas, and you Dublin. Edinburgh,
turning towards treating Jackson CD. rec o Ghostbusters II or Hard limited. will get a book of Glasgow fat Union St anc
yourself to a compilation ,tape. Drivin' from Microbyte. vouchers, in various Argyle St), Leeds, and
this Christmas. If you buy d o r don't, whatever you do, HERE WE GO, denominations, adding up Nottingham.
US Gold's Winners BADGED forget to pick up your HERE WE GO to 15. These can be All offers and
package (all formats: SOFTWARE competition entry form. Live in the Liverpool area? redeemed any purchases promotions are subject to
contains Thunderbiade, Staying with Michael Once Med in, this form will Check out your local Bits at any Virgin store. Can't availability at stock.
Blasteroids, LED Storm, Jackson and Moonwalker, be entered into a and Bytes store when be bad. Although we ck) our best to
Impossible Mission II, (8-bit but moving on to your Microbyte grand draw. buying your US Gold There are Microbyte stores ensure our dealer
only) Indiana Jones and the local W H Smith or John Prizes are games because there is a in the Arndale Centre, promotion information is
Temple of Doom) from any Menzies. No vouchers, but Untouchables and big competition going on Manchester; Goosegate, accurate at the time of
software department in there's a nice fat Michael Robocop videos for buyers between the store and and the Broadmarsh going to press, ACE
Boots, you'll find an order Jackson badge with every of those games and 150 USG. It'll be your chance Centre, Nottingham; cannot take any
form inside the box copy of Moonwalker software vouchers with to win a season ticket at Kirkgate, Wakefield; the responsibility for changes
entitling you to a tree Kixx bought in these outlets. Onslaught. First prizes for either Anfield or Goodison Metro Centre. Gateshead; or cancellations to dealers'
game. Hard Drivin and Park, so it's well worth the Greenmarket, plans
Send the form oft to GOODIES AND Ghostbusters buyers are entering. Newcastle Upon Tyne; the
US Gold before the end of GIVEAWAYS IN software vouchers for a Kirkgate Centre. Bradford; ATTENTION
January and your choice of THE NORTH massive 5.200, and VIRGIN the Bull RingCentre. DEALERS!
game will plunk through AND Ghostbusters runners-up VOUCHERS Birmingham; and the Don't keep your
the letter box a few days MIDLANDS, will get free Odeon cinema Chrstrnas always leaves a County Arcade, Leeds. promotions, competitions,
later. Amiga and ST The games chain tickets. Get to the front of gaping hole in your wallet. One of these must be near special offers, etc, a
owners, be warned: Kiu Microbyte seems to be the queue and there are but if you buy your you' Virgin has its Games secret, Tell us at ACE and
games are 8-bit only. But if practically giving software further freebies on offer; a presents from any Virgin Centre outlets on London's we'll tell everybody else.
US Golds Moonwalker away. In a wild display of tree T-shirt or poster when outlet (Games Centres, Oxford Street (at Marble
on your wants list, stroll seasonal goodwill, there you buy Onslaught; an Al Megasteres, whatever) the Arch, within the
are prizes, draws and T- poster to go with special Virgin voucher Megastore, and at no 100)

ACEDEALERSFORM
Dealers — don't keep our readers in the dark: you want to sell, they want to buy. its
the perfect relationship. Send details of your promotions and events to us, and we'll
let everyone know about them. Just fill in the form and send it with your press pack
to: ACE DEALERS PAGE, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, LONDON EC1R 3AU

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For 8-bit owners who want to upgrade to ST or Amiga...

For 16-bit owners who want a memory upgrade, external floppy, or colour printer bargain...

Yes, it's true!

Voucher Number One
Every ACE reader can get E20
off his or her Christmas present
simply by using the vouchers
This voucher entitles the bearer to £20 off either an ST or
below. We've negotiated this
special deal with Shekhana Amiga when purchased from Shekhana Computer Services.
Computers, You can find Out Only one voucher per household. Offer expires January301h 1990
more by either calling at their
shop or telephoning (details The voucher may be redeemed in person a l.
below). Your purchase can be 2 Gladstone House,
made either by mail order or in High Road,
Wood Green,
person. The offer expires on London N22 (opposite Top Rank club)
Tel: 01-8899412.
January 30th 1990, so don't be
late! Or b y mall Order Iron:
Shekharia AC E Voucher Offer
655 Green Lanes
Voucher Number One will give London
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you E20 off either an ST or Tel
Amiga. Check the telephone .
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number on the voucher for cur- 1
rent prices to which the discount .
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will apply. 4
0 Voucher Number Two
Number Two will give you E20 8 11
5
off any one of the following:
an Amiga or ST 0.5Mbyte
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This voucher entitles the bearer to £20 off any ONE of the
RAM upgrade (normal discount ofollowing:
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price E100, yours for E80 with 0 - an LCIO printer (usual price L199.99);
the ACE Voucher) 1- an LC24 colour printer (usual price £270.00)
-
- an ST or Amiga external floppy 3• an ST or Amiga 0.5Mbyte RAM upgrade (usual price 1,100)
drive for only E80, with the 4- an ST or Amiga external floppy disk drive (check by telephone for current normal price);
voucher. 8Only ono vouch,- pur hiv,y2tiod Offe r eyp.res January 301h 1990
2
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72 Gladstone House, Sheldiana AC E Voucher Offer
High Road. 655 Green Lanes
Wood Green, London
London N22 (ooposite Top Rank club) NA 0 0 Y
Tel: 01-889 9412. Tel: 01-340 8565 or 01-348 2907
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