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SPECIALS
PREVIEWS 23
More previews than the
Cannes Film Festival.
Winter is the busiest time
for software releases, and a
host of new titles are poised
to flood into the shops over
the coming months. Come
with us on a tour ol what's
promised,..
SOFTWARE BARGAINS 1 16
Something old, something new.. .Phil South casts his expe-
rienced eye over the Christmas compilations, and
checks out what's new on the budget front.
GAMEPLAY
SCREEN TEST 53
Bigger than ever, including the lull treatment to After
Burner and Tnurtdertrfacfe, Batman, Total Eclipse and a
cast of, well not quite thousands, you understand,,,
ARCADE ACE 16
A trip to Preview '89 reveals what
is in store for the coin-ops next
year - including Robocop.
SCREENTEST
SUPPLEMENT 115
A new section comes into being.
We kick off regular coverage of
the budget scene as part of a
special look at compilations, and
TtiCkS 'N Tactics grows.
TRICKS N' TACTICS 129
Expanded this month to make roum for official tips an
Powerdrome from the man who wrote it, a player's
guide to Space Harrier and hints on SombuzaJ from the
people who know. Plus the usual extravaganza of hints
supplied by you, the readers.
ADVENTURES 139
The Pilgrim passes on, leaving the
way clear for Steve Cooke to go
Fishing, and take a festive look at
the world where a young man
should Go North.
IT S A CRACKER
Welcome to a bumper Christmas Special issue, packed with the low-down on
the games market. A market mat is hotting up for 1989, as our massive
Previews Special reveals.
Within a month or so, you'H not just be spoiled for choice with the volume
of software arriving in the shops, you'll be positively devastated by the range
of games available. A European blitz is just- around the corner, with German
and French programmers set to join the Americans in an invasion that should
take software retailers by storm. We're on the case, and you can look forward
to receiving sound opinions on all the games software throughout 1989 -
next month Steve Jarratt (ex ZZAP!, CRASH, Commodore User) will be
adding his weight to ACE to help us cope with the volume of work we've got
cut out for ourselves.
On the hardware front, too, things look rosy for 1989. Sega and Nintendo
are polishing their acts in time for this Christmas, and beyond. Konix will be
launching a console early in the New Year, and 16-bit consoles are already
half-promised for me UK by Atari, Commodore, Sega and Nintendo. SAM from
Miles Gordon Technology has evolved in to an even more powerful machine,
and of course the Flare machine hasn t faded away. 1989 is going to be a hot
year for hardware, with Compact Disc Interactive on the horizon for next
Christmas.
Join us next month, as we burst into the New Year with all the details of
what you can expect by next Christmas. Meanwhile relax, enjoy and have a
good one...
THE ACE TEAM.
REGULARS
NEWS 9
News of a brand new arcade system Irom Rare Ltd -
John Matchday Ritrnan has forsaken the home computer
to write for the arcades... Find out what's going down.
LETTERS 12
Opinions and arguments from around the world.
THE BLITTER END 1 94
Wrapping up another bumper issue in a style all of its own.
GRAPHICS
147
Our resident expert
takes a close look at
Forms in Right, and
rounds up the news in
the world ol computer
graphics.
Check out the full SP on Nintendo and Sega games in
this month's round-up of software titles available - page
164; look over the hardware options in the ACE Upgrade
Guide - page 172; have fun and games with Random
Access - check out what N'Gar Thrombobo is up to,
marvel at Nigel from Rigel and enter the ACE competi-
tion, page 178; scan the pages of the ACE market, open
every man* for a software or hardware bargain with the
Adventure Helpline going strong - page 18b.
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THE ULTIMATE
ARCADE MACHINE
John Ritman, programmer of such
classics as MatchDay, Head Over
Meets and Batman, has forsaken
the home computer to work on
arcade machines. Not any old
arcade machines, mind you, but a
new system developed by Rare
Ltd. the people who brought you
Ultimate games.
Based on a custom chunk of
hardware called the Razz Board,
Rare's new arcade machine
should find its way into the
arcades during 1989. Among the
first games to appear will be one
written by John, with graphics pro-
vided by Bernie Drummond, his
pixel collaborator in projects like
Batman and MatchDay 2,
It shouldn't come as too much
RAZZ AMATAZZ
Based on a
jazzed-up Z80
chip, the Hitachi
HD641S0, the
Razz Board has
SOOKor 1Mb Of
memory, depend-
ing on the needs
of the game it is
running. An
extended address
bus allows the pro-
cessor to address
all this memory,
which can be fold-
ed into Z80
address space in
4K chunks.
Running at
8MH2, the chip
appears 10 run at
10MHz on account
of the increased
speed of many
instructions - the
most useful of
which is an 8-bit
multiply in 17
t' states. An
extended interrupt
system allows
onboard counters
to be programmed
to count down to
zero and then
cause an interrupt.
According to
John Ritman, one
of the best fea-
tures of the pro-
cessor is the
onboard DMA that
allows direct mem-
ory to memory
transfers (like
LDIR instructions),
but achieves them
without using reg
jsters, only takes 6
Estates per byte
and can access all
memory without it
being folded into
Z80 address
space.
The graphics
power of Ihe board
is simply stunning.
The system sup-
ports a screen
made up from 4
64K screens, each
with a resolution of
256x222 where
individual pixels
can be set to one
of 64 colours.
262,144 shades
are available in a
palette, and each
screen can use a
different palette
selection.
Two of the
screens are back-
ground screens,
and have hard-
ware scrolls in
both X and ¥
directions, while
the other two
screens are sprite
screens. Only one
sprite screen is
displayed at a time
- the other one is
updated, then they
are swapped dur-
ing frame flyback,
ready tor the next
update. Using the
video output chip,
a screen can be
cleared during fly-
back.
The most cun-
ning part of the
screen, however,
is the Razz sys-
tem. When activat-
ed, it allows the
programmer to
use Ihe DMA func-
tion to transfer
sprite data to the
screen.
A sprite rou-
tine need only be
15 lines of code,
and yet it can han-
dle any size sprite,
which not only
simplifies pro-
gramming, but
also increases
speed, No more
pixels are drawn
than are needed -
on most machines,
a square is drawn
to keep things sim-
ple, even though
most sprites dont
fill il. An empty cir-
cle 20 pixels in
diameter^ tor
instance, requires
400 pixels to be
drawn on most
computers (20x20
square), but on the
Razz board only
SO pixels are
drawn.
Sound is taken
care of on a sepa-
rate board with its
own HD64160 pro-
cessor supported
by 500K of memo-
ry, 2 FM sound
chips r and stereo
and sampled
sound outputs.
of a surprise to learn that John s
first arcade game is to be an
eleven-a-side f four-way-scrolling
football game. A one or two play-
er game, Final Whistle is a four-
round World Cup competition,
played with a joystick and three
fire buttons. The Matc/jDay kick-
meter has been dispensed with,
and using combinatory of the
three fire buttons and joystick
moves, over 600 different moves
could be available,.,
"It's blmdingly fast as com-
pared to MatchDay,' John
explains, "with eleven players, on a
side there is less time to think and
much more adrenalin is going than
in MatchDay.'
Although intimate familiarity
with both Z80 code and the rou-
tines needed to handle a football
game came in handy when John
was writing his arcade game, the
transition from Spectrum to
arcade board was a giant leap;
"It's a weird concept,., working on
the 48K Spectrum trying to cram
as much in as possible, then sud-
denly people give me Megabytes
to play with, it's great to have
gone into an area where I can let
my imagination run riot because
of all the RAM and technology
available to me as a programmer."
It looks as if the home com-
puter world has lost John and
Bernie permanently - they're
already half-way through two more
arcade games for the Razz board.
It's too early yet to tell exactly
when Final Whistle will make it into
your local arcade, as Rare Ltd are
currently tying up deals with
distributors. As soon as the
details are firm, we'll be able to
bring you screen shots and the lull
rundown on Jon Ritman's
game.
Meanwhile, by way of light
entertainment, John is writing
a CP/M version of Cor
Wars, the game mentioned
last issue in Andy Wilton's
Get Smart feature. Not
as a commercial pro *
ject, mind you, more
as a bit of light
entertainment. You
might yet be able
to play a new j
John Ritman
game on your
computer...
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True to his word, the new Editor has scanned this month's collection of readers'
letters, double-checked a combination lock on his wallet that would battle even
the most hardened adventure games fan, and declared that no current offering
lives up to the standard set for his star prize of £100 in software.
There is, however, a spot prize of fifty quid's worth flying out this issue, just
to prove that no-one can be in Jasper the Grasper mode for 24 hours a day.
Readers keen on copping a ton of software should scrawl down their fresh
ideas (no more 'I hate pirates/ prices are too high/ my machine's bigger than
yours - yah boo sucks' letters, please} and send them to:
ACE LETTERS, THE EDITOR, 4 QUEEN STREET, BATH BA1 1EJ
IN A JAM OVER JARRE...
I was interested to read your
reporter's account of the Jean
Michel Jarre Docklands concert in
last month s ACE, You see t I was
there. My own opinion is that Jarre
makes the Pet Shop Boys' music
sound as if it was made on a cou-
ple of tin cans. I have been to a
few (large) concerts, and it
appears to me utter tosh to sug-
gest that Jarre's music was
uneasy'.
If your reporter had spent
less time debating the deprecat-
ing way in which to apply his liter-
ary genius, and more time in
which to study how the effects
were mixed with the tiny nuances
and explosive movements of Jar-
re's music, then perhaps the
review might have been more
favourable,
I think the fact that a record
number of (paying) people passed
through the gates to view the con-
cert of the century is testimony to
the musical brilliance of Jarre, the
appeal ol his music and the stun-
ning displays which accompany it,
Richard J Browning
South sea, Hants
JARRE- ING CONTINUES...
In reply to your article in the
December issue of ACE about
Jean-Michel Jarre's "Destination
Docklands', you were out of line
to put it down as you did. It
seems to me (and a lot of others)
that people used it as a publicity
stunt, and I was surprised to see
you join the bandwagon.
If all the Stars who turned up
that Sunday were interested they
would have booked their tickets
way before the second concert
was announced (after the original
performance was postponed). But
no - they all decided to go just to
get some publicity
In all I think Jarre's had a
bum deal from the popular press
when he deserved better - would
you be able to organise such an
event? If so, then fine. But if you
can't, don't slag off the people
who are willing to try.
Michael Davies
Cardiff
...STILL ON THE JARRE
As a very big fan of JearvMichel
Jarre I must totally disagree with
the way your reviewer put down
this concert, I thought the concert
was so good I went on both days.
The weatfier did not spoil it - in a
way, the rain made the lasers
sparkle a little bit, thus adding to
the effect.
How you could say "there's lit-
tle in the way of memorable
melody there* is beyond me - it's
the most memorable weekend ot
my life until I see another of his
spectacular concerts. Neither do I
agree with the last paragraph,
"Hardly bringing high-tech music
to the people". I'd like to see one
of you writing/playing/conducting
and producing music of that unbe-
lievable standard.
Colin Groombridge
C afford, London
Sorry to have caused offence-
Mark Jenkins has been repri-
manded tor destroying heroes.
GK
KLEVER KONIX
At last someone has had the
gumption, common-sense and
sheer native cunning (not to say
courage) to give the game-playing
world just what it has wanted and
needed for a very long time!
Not everyone wants or indeed
can afford to shell out £300 for a
complicated and cumbersome
programmable games machine
with a nasty keyboard stuck out
front just to remind you of the
serious side' of computing you
are trying so hard to Forget.
Oh Joyl Could it be KONIX to
the rescue?
At last we gamers will have a
machine to be proud ol, and not
be made to feel like second-class
citizens because we don't own a
proper' machine: soon we will
own something which in many
ways will be superior to an ST or
Amiga! Power to your arm KONIX!
Mr David A Austin
Clayton
NO COMPARISON
Love the mag, but for one tiny
detail as mentioned by Mr Toms of
Mel sham.
Although I do disagree with
him on having different sections
for different machines, I agree on
the system being unfair. Why, I
hear you asking. Well, you only
show the graphics for one
machine on each review. Being a
Commodore 64 owner, when I see
a game like Heroes of the Lance
for my machine I would like to see
how the graphics compare. I'm
sure Spectrum owners would as
wel. So, if possible, print small
inserts showing the different
graphics of each machine.
David Clowe
Ipswich
We do try to print as many shots
as we can, but release schedules
of software houses and our own
print lead times sometimes mean
we can't print a shot of every
game that we state is OUT NOW.
GK
A BIT OF A ONE
I regularly take your mag and a
few others, primarily to read
things from a different point of
view, and I have been very
pleased to see the release of a
new lfrhit games mag (The One),
but I didn't realise that after the
first issue they were to rename iti I
am referring to the yellow centre
pieces on page 53 about playing
Starglider 2 which read, "The
pleas for help have been flooding
in thick and fast, which is why this
issue of Starglider 2 gets the full
treatment,"
Simon Robtrins
Spalding
Tee nee! GK
TOTALLY AEHOSOLEOT
As you now have a new editor I
thought I'd bring up a totally new
debate - peripheral (that's add-
ons to you and me) superiority.
Why all these joysticks, joybaHs
and joywhatevers?
I mean, some of them can
give a slight amount of joy, but
others (eg name deleted for fear
of lawsuit) are a pain in the prover-
bial ?% AA % and break after two
days of playing Menace There's
another thing. Why are all periph-
erals either black, cream or white?
OK, there's the occasional red but-
ton or gold logo, but why no out-
rageous designer colours?
I think we're a bunch of
racists myself. I mean how would
you like it if you were a beautilul
green Martian visiting your Earth
cousin Alan Sugar (.no!!!) wanting a
good game of beat the /arquan
gle out of the human grimble-
plobs r and all the joysticks are
horribly boring as human skin is.
No putrid pink, no marvellous
mauve. So, joystick freaks, paint
those add-ons to totally crucial
joystick! rThat's French for yellow).
A red rampack] Anyway 1 own an
Amiga 500 and intend to paint it
neon yellow with black stripes, so
it is dazzling in visuals as well as
sound, g rapt lies etc
Philip Lukeman
Liverpool
This reader wins a spot prize Of a
tin of tartan paint and a bottle of
Alka Seltzer GK
MORE INTELLIGENT THAN
SNAILS
As has been said before, many
1 2 Advanced Computer Entenainment
people consider the playing of
computer and video games to be
at best a trivial pastime undertak-
er by spotty teenagers and at
worst a front for drug abuse.
To these people I say this;
computer gaming is a sport, ft
you want examples ol really trivial
pastimes, or so-called 'sports',
then look no further than the Guin-
ness Book of Records, In it you
find records relating to games
such as tiddly-winks and marbles.
Both of these pointless games
have a national following, with
competitions and meetings. And
what of the much more bizarre
sport' of snail racing? I hasten
(unlike the snails) to add that this
strange activity is taken very seri-
ously by some people!
And so back to computers.
Surely noone would put computer
games in the same class as the
above activities? Personally, I think
they are an excellent test of skill
and hand-to-eye co-ordinatbn, not
to mention intelligence.
Richard Davis
Wood side Park, London
Pass me a GTr snail GK
RACE HATR ED
I waited expectantly for the arrival
of Nigef Mansells Grand Fr« for
the Atari ST after playing it on the
•Spectrum.
After 10 minutes playing the
game, though, I was absolutely
appalled at the conversion from 8-
bit to 16. There was no sound
worthy of the name, and the game
strategy (ie circuits, steering and
gear changing) was pathetic.
Also the scenery didn't pro-
ves dny help in changing gear -
at least the Spectrum version
gave you some incentive to try.
Whoever was paid to convert
this is stealing the money he
obtained.
D M Brown
Charley, Lanes
if space had aflowed, we would
have sdid much the same thing
tfws month. GK
BRAIN DAMAGE
The brain is like an incredibly pow-
erlul computer. How our parents,
our environment, and we our-
selves programme it ultimately
decides the reality of our every-
day lives.
Accepting this is the case,
and other readers may disagree,
am I alone in being concerned at
the number of action, strategy
and simulation games which
depict the enemy as either third
world people or nations who live
under a different political system
to our own? For example; Red
Storm Rising, Raid Over Moscow,
Stealth Fighter, Hunt For Red
October, Platoon, Battalion Com-
mander, Gurtsfljp. I could go on.
This kind of stereotyping pre-
pares our minds to regard certain
people as OK to hate and kill.
Thoughts programme our minds
for action. Surely this type of pro-
gramming cannot be right?
V C Botterill
Hertford
Anyone else like to comment? GK
POSTAL CODE
While reading last month's letter
about a certain mail order firm. I
thought that it might be a good
idea if ACE ran a 'Top Mail Order
Firms' list. Readers disgruntled or
encouraged a mail order com-
pany's service could write to ACE
explaining the situation, and ACE
would award the firm a nwk, say -
2 (appalling service} to +2 ( excel-
lent),
A table cojld then be com-
piled so anybody thinking of buy-
ing a product through one of the
mail order companies advertising
in your magazine could see if they
were on the list, If they were not,
the reader could decide to use a
company listed or try the compa-
ny out, and possibly write to ACE
telling you of their experience.
Of course it would not be pos-
sible for ACE to guarantee any-
thing, but it would give readers
some confidence when ordering,
and motivate companies to
upgrade their service. Tanks for
the time (oops!)
Br hum Bhatia
Brighton
Coufd prove tricky. We'd only get
to hear from disgruntled cus-
tomers, so a matl order house
that did ten times the business
could have a highly efficient ser-
vice but a larger number of dis-
gr untied customers than its low-
volume competitors. GK
LAAGER LOUTS?
We have one big software distribu-
tor in the Republic of South Africa,
but they don't support the ST or
Amiga any more. They used to
have a few titles,, but at prices
which meant that none of us could
afford to buy more than a title
every 3 months. A few of us
decided to get stuff by mail order.
I wrote to no less than 12 compa-
nies to enquire if they would con-
sider orders from us and charge
the extra postage on parcels to
us. I did not receive any answer
except for one company. In short
it stated that they refuse to sell to
South Africans. The tone of the
letter was also very hostile.
We were very disappointed.
We have formed a small ST User
Group where racism plays no
part. There are people of every
race in our club and there is NO
discrimination. Why should the
mail order companies discriminate
against us?
Charles Swart
(South African ST User Group)
Johannesburg
COURT IN THE ACT
I have watched with interest the
recent spate of, as one computer
journal put it, Software House
Paranoia'. I refer to games, such
as K:»! akis, being stopped due to
their distinct likeness to a recent-
ly-acquired licence.
Whilst I realise and under-
stand that companies which have
paid large sums of money for
licences do not want rival compa-
nies cashing in" on them, surely
there must be a better and more
mature way of settling things than
the company hot-footing their way
to lawyers every time a clone is
released.
Surely the software houses
are mature enough to get round a
table and talk, instead of slapping
an injunction on the game the day
of its announcement.
Perhaps, once seated round
the table, they can discuss the
idea of allowing the other compa-
ny to release their clone so long
as they pay a certain percentage
of their profits to the licence-hold-
ing company.
This would mean everyone
could benefit: the licence-holding
company could sit back and get
on with writing software rather
than spending days putting
together a court case, and they
would still earn large profits from
their own game and all their rivals'
versions!
Rival companies would benefit
by not having to throw 6 months
coding in the bin, and the con-
sumer would benefit from the fact
that there would be several ver-
sions to choose from - instead of
having to have the version that
won the court case (not always
the best one!)
Mitch Pomfret
Bra mh a II
i suspect mere's more chance of
pigs flying, but its a nice
thought, tn this festive spirit of
good will I'm awarding Mr Pom-
fret a spot prize of £50 worth of
software GK
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In fact, weVe got the latest releases and
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They cover entertainment, business,
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And prices start from £9.95 to
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What's more, our staff know what
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XMAS PRESENT
Courtesy of ACE and Ocean, this issue comes complete with playable demos of the
arcade beat-em-up DRAGON NINJA. Load the demo into your machine, and get a taste
of what it will be like punching and kicking your way to victory in the full game.
EXPLOSIVE ACTION WITH
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CASSETTE
Side 1 contains the C64 version
of the demo, followed by the
Spectrum version, while Side 2 hoWs the
Arnstrad CPC demo. Simply set up your
machine as if you were going to load a tape
game, put the cassette in the player, load in
the normal way and get punching.
DISK
If you own an Amiga or an Atari ST r
turn the computer off., pop the disk
in the drive and switch on. The
DRAGON NINJA demo will autoboot and
you can get down to the action.
GOT A DISK AND NEED A CASSETTE?
GOT A CASSETTE AND NEED A DISK?
Although your newsagent should have sufficient
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disk for a cassette or vice versa, simply follow
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or Disk from the cover
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ASSOCIATED LEISURE
ARC AD
An all-round view of the Oelune Power-
drift con a ole, continuing the Out Run
IrendJ.
Coin mechanism manufacturers, fruit
machine distributors, arcade game sup'
pliers, they were all there - entertaining
the crowd*...
missiles. Two fire buttons on the joystick allow
you to fire either laser bolts or homing missiles,
rather like Afterburner, The midrange Ga/axy
Force cabinet is a sit-in affair with the joysticks
located on either side of the seat. The cabinet
banks, dives and climbs in during the game,
emulating the moves ot your fighter. Then at the
top ol the GF it range is the Super Deluxe model
- another sit-in r but this time one surrounded by
a huge rolkage of aluminium tubing. This huge
beast inclines 15 degrees m two directions, and
can whip through a 335 degree spin to left or
right. Stand dear of this beast when someone
has got their money in the slot!
Creating almost as much of a stir was
Sega' 5 Power Drift. This comes in two cabi-
nets, the upright and a Deluxe model that is
shaped like a cross between a jet-bike and a
racing car. You drive a small buggy around a
circuit and have to finish in the first three
places to qualify for the next circuit in the
COIN-OP CARNIVAL!
^^■he venue: I ondon's Novo tel. The show
I - Preview '89; the equipment - any-
I thing that accepts coins and provides
short-term entertainment, A trade show,
crammed with arcade machines, jukeboxes,
fruit machines and the odd "fairground'
sideshow. All set to continuous free play lor the
benelit of the visitors.
Just like any computer-
related show, the noise in
the hall is deafening,
Arcade machines by the
score pump out music and
sound effects at lull vol-
ume, but unlike most
shows the racket produced
by the demo hardware isn't
augmented by the clamour
of eager young visitors
scurrying from stand to
stand in search of freebies.
The visitors are of an alto-
gether different breed.
The machines are far from idle. Suited
businessmen stand in huddles, queuing for
their turn at the joystick of the latest arcade
wonder-machine: even if you are wearing a suit,
it's sometimes difficult to maintain your deco-
rum. Attending a trade show has its benefits -
after all, it's not often you get the chance to
sec paunchy forty-year olds clambering into the
bizarre cockpits and cabinets of arcade
The home computer industry's biggest show of the year was held in
September at Earl s Court. The arcade industry's equivalent, The
Associated Leisure Preview '89 Show, took place the following month
at London's Novotel. So one afternoon, Andy Smith entered an arcade
freak's heaven and found everything set on free play...
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Gelling to grips with Viper. This is a physical as well as mental sxcercise as you
swing the monitor around blasting all and sundry. Complete m tinge and you're
allowed to pull as many silly laces as you like ■ within the time limit ol course!
machines with all the enthusiasm of ten year
olds clutching ten pees in their sweaty palms...
Sega's Ga/axy Force (J was one of the
show's star attractions - mainly because of its
cabinet. Bottom of the range is the standard
upright with two joysticks sticking out of trie
cabinet. One controls speed while the other
moves your on-screen spacecraft around, on the
mission to dodge and shoot enemy ships and
series of twenty-five. Skill, rather than luck,
plays a major part in Power Drift because the
courses are small and you have to do several
laps per circuit. A good driver soon learns
where to brake, accelerate and shift gears.
Best of the rest included a game called
Viper, which has the monitor swivelling indepen-
dently of the rest ol the cabinet. You're in a heli-
copter lor this one, being attacked by a whole
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I Above) The Super Deluxe version of Galaxy Force II with (inset) the 26" monitor display
and (below) the Deluxe version - cheaper cabinet, same game.
bunch of enemy aircraft and have to move the
monitor to line up the shots on the enemy -
weird stuff' Gang Hunter Ic-atLres the machine
gun from Operation Wolf and a game very sin>
lar to Dead Angle. Moving the gun mounted on
the cabinet moves a small sight around the
screen, and the obvious idea is to shoot any-
one that gets in the way. The player is repre-
sented by a large outline of a man with a gun.
Chase HQ Iron Taito {who are sporting a new
logo these days) takes the Out Run genre a
step further. As a top driver in the police force.
you're out on patrol when a message comes
through from HQ... This is Nancy here, armed
bankrobbers have been spotted fleeing
towards the suburbs in a white sports car-
.. .please intercept, over'. It's then down to you
to arrest the criminals by catching up with
them and ramming their car - you won't have
any trouble spotting the criminals, once they're
m range a large arrow points out the baddies
for you. Apprehend the villains and it's no time
at all before the next assignment comes over
the radio from Nancy. •
A BRIGHT
AND GLOWING
FUTURE?
Though there was very litlle that was inno-
vative on trie game design front at Preview
'69, arcade game manufacturers are cur-
rently getting very excited about the new
ways of presenting games. It seems to be
the standard thing now to produce a game
in several, increasingly expensive and
increasingly mobile cabinets. Could this
mean that arcade designers are running
out of ideas and have to resort to gimmick-
ry to sell their wares? Mary Hynes of Elec-
trocoin_agrees lo a certain extent and
points that the "biggesl news in the coin-
op business at the moment is the introduc
tion of Ihe 26-inch monitor* - Going out is
the 22-inch monitor lhat's been the stan-
dard for the last tew years and coming in
is the 26-inch screen that has better defini-
tion and allows bigger sprites and playing
areas.
Even bigger news, and set to revolu-
tionise the whole arcade industry is the
advent of the High Definition monitor. The
first dedicated consoles featuring the
monitors which display
near photographic quality
pictures are due to arnv©
within two years, Namco
recently launched j
their first game
Home Run) for
the system at
an arcade
fair in
Japan.
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ARCADES
ROBOCOP
Data East.
Home computer games based on
hit films are nothing new, we ve
had ftambc, Friday the 1 3th, Pla-
toon and so on. It's not often a hit movie
becomes an arcade game though. The Star
Wars series made it into the land of the coin-
slot and now so has Robotop.
The player takes control of the main char-
acter from the film and has to work through
several stages, clearing the streets of law
breakers and general no-gooders. The action
starts with a report from HQ announcing that a
not has broken out downtown. As the toughest,
fairest and overall best-egg copper since Dixon
of Dock Green, the assignment falls to you.
Walk the lawgiver left-right across the 2D play-
ing area, and baddies come running in from
either side of the screen. Use fists and feet to
dole out bashings.
Half way through the stage, the bad guys
Going Iran left to right. At the start of Level One, ever, the baddest bad-
dies are no match for your high-powered right arm. On Level Two - it s
time to get your gun out. Smash the crate to pick up the three-way
extra weapon. Level Three and things are startin g to get ver y mean. Get
caught under that crusher and you'll end up
worse condition than those cars!
FUTURE COPS
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start appearing from first floor windows as
well, so you pause and take out your high-pow
ered pistol. Gameplay moves from a Karafe
Champ-type txu-ir efn-up to a straight shnot-em-
up r where extra weapons, including a three-way
pistol and a laser gun, can be collected by
smashing open large crates that appear on the
sidewalk. Before completing the stage, the end
oMevel-guardian has to be taken care of and
the first one yon have to slug it out with is the
ED2G9, a monster prototype law enforcement
machine, that has a few problems with criminal
recognition to say the least!
Stage Two is similar to Stage One, but
tougher. Platforms make an appearance and
the baddies are more numerous and start using
innocent passers by as shields. This could
pose serious problems because your prime
directives: L, Serve the public trust. 2. Protect
the innocent and 3. Uphold the law, state qurte
clearly that shooting innocent people is
worse than letting criminals escape. Fortu-
nately, hitting the innocent people is a
tougher than it sounds.so you need not
worry too much, Destroy the Stage Two
end-of-(evel guardian - a truck bad of
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The ED209 guarding the entl of
tho first level. The odds are not
in your favour ham, so you've
gat to be quick to shooi it
and avoid its shots.
Move too slowly and *
you'll soon disco v
er it doesn't
know the
meaning of
tho word
Mm
cham-saw-wielding bad-
dies - and it's time for some target practice.
The display changes to show a shooting
range through the eyes of Robocop, Horizontal
and vertical sighting lines appear, and manipu-
lating the joystick allows the point where rjiey
meet to be moved. Position the intersection
over targets that appear and a lock-on box
appears around the target. This part ol the
On the firing range. Lock onto tho tar-
gets as they trundle towards you - then
let em have it!
game is not tough, but quick reactions are
essential if you're to have any chance of
destroying the small robot targets that trundle
from background to foreground.
Things start to get really difficult on the
stage that follows the firing range. Mot only are
baddies shooting and throwing grenades, but
there are pieces of moving scenery to contend
with... like huge car crushers, and more.
Data East have done a £reat job in capturing
the flavour of the him - the digitised speech is espe-
cially good (clear a level and Robocop "thanks you
for your co- operation'). They have produced a very
playable, shoot-cum-beat-em-up. •
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Lombard RAC Rally recreates all the excitement of
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Complete the five stages - down winding tracks,
through verdant forests and over precarious mountain
ranges - with the additional hazards of night driving
and fog.
Repair damage and add new features to your car in
the workshop, and earn money for spares by taking
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FORWARD
INTO 1989
Apart from the rush to get games
info the shops in time for the
annual buying spree colloquially
known as The Festive Season,
software houses are looking
firmly to the future. After a bit of a
slow start, it looks as if program-
mers and game designers are
finally about to start producing
16-bit games that really utilise the
capabilities of the "new genera-
tion* of computers. And plenty of
good stuff is on the horizon for
3-bit games in 1989,
Palace, ior instance,
should have Barbarian W
tied up for the ST by the
time you read this, and be
stepping into the New Year
with a well-filled portfolio of
products under devetop-
ldy Wilson (of Dan Dare fame, amongst
other programs) and Gary Carr (graphics for
Barbarian A have got their heads down on Mon-
ster Museum, a combat-arcade-adventure in the
Impossible Mission mould, set in a museum
where all me exhibits have come to life.
Palace stablemates Outlaw are getting
ready to publish Cosmic Pirate from Zippo
Games, a company that specialises in writing
for Japanese consoles. In order to become a
fully-fledged pirate of the cosmos you have to
prove your abilities to the space mafia by under-
taking missions, and to undertake missions you
have to earn piracy status by spending time on
simulators. Simulators hone the skills needed at
the helm of a pirate spaceship and bear remark
able similarities to classic arcade games. After
a while, the simulators cost money lo play, so
it s a matter of investing some oi your ill-gotten
gains from misskms in further training.,, or buy-
ing add-ons to upgrade the performance of the
basic pirate ship. ST and Amiga owners should
be able to enpy Cosmjc Pirate early next year
with PC and 8 bit versions following later.
FIRE BEING HELD
System 3, avoiding the mad rush to release
games in December, is holding fire on Oomina-
tor, due for release in January, and Tusker,
which should trumpet into the shops early in
March, Last Win/a (I) on the ST and PC is immi-
nent, and "By popular demand," according to
bossman Mar* Cale, Last Mrya 1 should be
out and about by Easter
SLOW TRADERS A' COMING...
Despite reviews elsewhere which might suggest
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PRISON • Chrysalis
First brand-new game du« from brand-
new software house Chrysalis is this
arcade adventure lor the ST and Amiga
which challenges the player to escape
from a penal colony on a planet deep in
space. Sections of a hidden ship have to
bo found and then assembled before
escape is possible. Also In the pipeline
from the same company are 16-bit ver-
sions of the Ultimate classics Atic Atac
and Sabre Wulf, due by Easter* and a
brand new licensed version of 30O0AD's
Rogue Trooper.
| Below) ST - strolling causally along the
planet's surface in Prisoner, in search of
vital components that
make good an escape.
be used to
ST - Mat just Munsters, but monsters as well.
THE MUNSTERS
• Again Again
Last month we showed you a picture from
the TV series, this month we reveal a shot
of the game and next month you can read
the review* Due very soon on all five major
formats, and rf o pal has got an MSX
machine, give him the good news too...
STORM WARRIOR;
SUPERTRUX
• Elite Systems
On the o-hit front, Storm Warrior offers
hack n slay fantasy combat through
caves, mined cities and inhospitable ter-
rain during the guest to overthrow the
Queen of Darkness. On the C&4 and
Amstrad. Race action fans can get
behind the wheel In another scrolling
road driving game which puts the player
behind the wheel of souped-up truck
tractor units- CM, Spectrum and
Amstrad owners will have to supply
their own Yorkie bars for added realism.
On top of that, Elite plan two quizzes for
Christmas - Mike Read s Computer Pop
Quiz, which features over 1,000 ques-
tions, and A Question of Sport.
Early next year, look out for Galactic
Wanderer Irom Elite, a 3D intergalactic
trading game that involves strategy and
arcade adventure elements - due on all
format s.
| Above) C64 - foaming along the Euro
road in Super! ru*-
( Below } C64 - mind that dragon crea-
ture.., hack n' slay the Storm Warrior
way.
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FREEDOM # Coktel Vision
French software houw Coktel plan a host of 1A-felt releases which should bo arriving en
those shores very shortly* There's Freedom, ■ role playing, strategy wargame in which
you attempt to escape from slavery in an ClSth sugar plantation, Pegs, guards and the
plantation manager are all on your trail; out on the ST any day now.
Also from CoMel, look out for imminent IBM, Amiga and ST releases: Emanuel le (no
set and violence, just the quest to rescue Emanuoife from Brazllj; Terrific Land, an
arcade adventure In which the aim Is te escape from a weird island; and 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea, an arcade adventure based on the Jules Verne novel in which
you try to escape from being enslaved on the Nautilus. Finally, in the first part of 1909,
keep your eyes peeled for the official Jungle Book gome, licensed from Walt Disney, as
and a Peter Pan licence ton.
ST - righting your way out of slavery, in Freedom.
CARRIER COMMAND
• Rainbfrd
IBM, Amttrad and Spectrum (Including
4SKJ versions of this amazing 3D Realtime
production are just around the corner. The
complete set of Carrier Commands should
be available by the end of January, no mat-
ter which machine you own.
Carrier Command - the IBM PC EGA ver-
sion and below...
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ST - Working as an agent for the comput-
er that controls a subterranean city, life
can get hare*. Especially H you do tno
well, and become a threat tn your master.
That's Paranoia for you,..
PARANOIA COMPLEX
• Magic Bytes/Gremlin
In a futuristic subterranean city, the
computer rules. To retain power, It
needs a few human friends to take nut
people who are getting over-powerful,
so If you fancy being an agent for the
computer, your career prospects OOukl
start improving rapidly. Bo careful out
there, though. Get too powerful, and you
become the hunted rather than the
hunter... so the ultimate aim is tn
escape from the city. Due on all major
formats sometime around February.
Around the same time, look out for
Tom and Jerry, frantic cartoon-action
from German programming wizards
Magic Bytes, agpin due on all major for-
mats- Night dawn, Wall Street, USS John
Young and Persian Gulf Inferno should
fallow between March and June 1 9B9.
Motor Massacre
Federation off Free Traders
otherwise, Gremlin are still beavering away at
Federation of free Traders - as this issue went
to press, there was still no sign of the game
escaping from their Sheffield programming lair r
so a full review ol the completed version should
find Its way into the next issue. Dark Fusion, for
the Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad is due before
Christmas and should appeal to shoot-em-up
fans who fancy zooming across a scrolling sub-
terranean landscape, using a jetpack for propuf-
sion, and destroying aliens on the way,
If driving and tolling is more to your taste,
then check out Motor Massacre, another pre-
Christmas release
promised by Gremlin - *> *
for ail major formats
- leap behind the
wheel of a tooled-up
motor in post-holo-
caust times and deal
death to anything
else with wheels.
Turning the classic concept of computer
game design on its head. Gremlin have come
up with Ramrod. Rather than playmg on a com-
puter to stop yourself getting bored, you choose
between a robot and a man and then try to stop
them getting bored inside your computer, Both
characters are mindless music freaks, who never
stop running in the quest for entertainment.
Guide Ramrod or Rambot across a hostile land-
scape in the hunt for new compact disks to listen
to, or stop off for a glass of pop or a quick blast
on a coin-op, Just keep that boredom meter from
rising so high that your chum gets bored to
death... ST and Amiga sometime in February,
other formats may follow
FOOTBALL FRENZY
Football fans, it seems, are going to be well-
catered for in the Mew Year - Kevin Tomt is
putting the finjshing touches to an upgrade kit
that allows the player to re-mix Football Manag-
er | and he's not the only fellow actively work-
ing on footie software... Budget house Zep-
pelin are readying themselves for the launch of
Kenny Dalglish Football Challenge - the first full-
price game on their Cognlto label. Rather than
sweat it out on the field, you take the role of a
team manager who is trying to get to the top -
it helps if your team gets promotion at the end
Advanced Computer Entertainment 27
of the season, but it's not vital: good managers
wasted in the Sower divisions tend to get head-
hunted by teams in the top divisions.
Not forgetting Emfyn hughes' International
Soccer which should be out and about by the
time you read this from Audiogenic, and the
Darlings of Codemaslers couldn't resist the
temptation to put four, yes four footie games in
one package: II A Side Soccer, Indoor Soccer.
Soccer Skills and Street Soccer. It's not a bud-
get package, though, coming in at £9-99 on the
C64 and Amstrad, £8.99 on the Spectrum and
£19.99 for 16-bit machines. Then there's CRL's
Profession^ Football, due for the Spectrum.
NINJA TREE SIMULATOR?
The massive Virgin/Mastertronic/Mslbourne
House/Leisure Genius combo is being a little
coy about its plans for 1989 - after reading this
issue of ACE you'll be as well clued in about
their releases as anyone. Of course there's
Doubte Dragon, due soon now on the Sega and
on home machines, Quarterback, an American
Football game ready for the C64 any day now,
Monopoly Deluxe for the ST, and C64 Diploma-
cy all due early next year.
One little clue about future plans though..,
Virgin programmers and graphics artists are
apparently reading books about British Trees
and studying the Ladybird edition of the legend
of Robin Hood. SMX Nrnja Tree Simulator in
the pipeline maybe? Ho r that's more Codemas-
ters' style. Watch out for a game set in Sher-
wood, featuring the odd band of merry men...
A PHOENICIAN COO OF A GAME
Psygnosis are getting thoroughly excited about
Baat, an eight-way-sc rolling shcot-em-up with
strategic overtones. Do battle with the forces of
the God of Evil, fighting through 250 screens
split into three multi-level domains. No less than
18 sections of a War Machine need to be found
and assembled if the ultimate bad guy is to be
defeated. On an ST or Amiga near you in time
for Christmas.
Captain Fizz Meets the Bfasreroids is anoth-
er Psygnosis shoot-em-up, due very soon, and
is set in a maze viewed Irom above in plan for-
mat. It can be played by one person, but it has
been designed as a twcnplayer game for chums
to have fun on together. Friendly, huh?
The long awaited game of cubic destruc-
tion from Psygnosts, Aqua Ventura, should be
out and about come January. Featuring fast-
moving solids, it's another shoot-em-up with
eight-way scrolling, but the interesting differ-
ence is that
some of the
aliens are harm-
less until you
start shooting at
them. Which is
when things
start getting
hectic A follow-
on to Chrorto Quest is on the cards, which com-
pletes the Psygnosis rounthip along with anoth-
er game from the man who brought you Men-
ace - both due before Easter '89.
MORE LABELS THAN
ALAN WHICKER S SUITCASE
The Activision p Media genie and Electric
Dreams combine has just announced the for-
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Aqua Ventura
Amiga - dealing death from a Phantom
Fighter over a blue landscape.
PHANTOM FIGHTER
• Martech
High-powered graphics complement the
Amiga and PC action in this stunning
shoot-em-up due any day now from
Martech via their Irish connection, Emer-
ald Software. The rolling demo looks
amazing, and the team can't wait to get a
joystick plugged in and firing. Sadly, Phan-
tom Fighter is a pleasure that is going to
bo denied to ST owners - Martech say the
ST can't handle the graphics.
PURPLE SATURN DAY
itself. Tronic Slider involve* romping
round a triangular play area on a skim-
mer, collecting energy and avoiding
monolith*- You also to shoot an oppo-
nent, nudge him into a monolith or off the
platform, fling Pursuit is a slalom in
space: set In the rings that surround Sat-
urn, a course has to be steered between
orbiting satellites. Finally, Time Jump
catapults the contestant into the future...
Also due from Infograme* early next
year on their new Exxos label is a game
based on two Tin Tin hooks - Journey to
the Moon and Explorers on the Moon.
Expect an arcade adventure-
Infogrames
On Saturn, so the story goes, everything
turn* purple for one day a year. On that
day neighbouring planets hold a four-
event Olympiad and tho action has been
captured in Purple Saturn Day - due soon
on 16-blt formats, with 8-bit to follow.
Brain Bowler Involves fighting with an
opponent for control Of two hemispheres
of a brain - aiming a continuously-firing
pulse gun at strategic points in the brain
ST - the start of Tronic Slider: the play
area zooms forward from deepest space
before the contest begins. -
ST - Tin Tin finally make* it to tha home
computer, courtesy of Infogrames*
HELLBENT # Novagen
The third 1S-bJt release tor Novagen should arrive any day now, not from Paul Wo ekes,
but programmed by Donovan Prince with graphics from Mo Warden, the person whose
screen graphics flashed past your eyes in Backlash, Still no firm release date lor Mr
Woakes' third f 6-bit offering, Damocles, though...
ST - there should be time to get a good look at the graphics in Hellbent, the latest from
NOvagan.
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GALACTIC CONQUEROR
• Titus
Strategy meets 3D arcada action In
Galactic Conqueror... a sort of After
Burner in space, with ground and aeri-
al fights leading up to the space com-
bat. As Corfaquerori the aim is te pro-
tect 41 S planet* in an interstellar
group that is under attack - choose
which planets are most at risk and
defend them. Due between now and
February on the five main formats*
The seme release schedule applies te
Crazy Cars II from Titus* the sequel
to. yeSf you've guessed it.
KRISTAL • Prism
ST - not just After Burner in space:
tic Conqueror from Tttu*.
Galac-
Amlga - things start hotting up for the Intrepid apace pirate, Drancis Frakc, as he con-
tinues his quest to discover the whereabouts of The Krystal.
Not too many computer games have I heir ori-
gins <n stage musicals - particularly un- pro-
duced stage musicals - but that's the back-
ground to The KristaL a January release for the
ST and Amiga, written by Ftssionchip Soft-
Kfareand published by Prism.
The storyline originally belonged to a show
written by Micky Keen, Rod Wyatl and Mike
Sulin - a special effects extravaganza which
almosl made it to the West End but fell victim
to the perils of production, Fasi forward fen
years and the three creators had gone ihe r
separate ways when Mike, had a brigtn idea -
why not revive (tie story of space pirate Dran-
cis Frake for the 16-bit computers which could
do it justice?
But how lo describe 7fte Kristaf? It's more
complex than an arcade game but there's
more aciion than you'd expect in an adventure,
Wrth its four disks, sword fights, non -player
character interaction and space battles, the
most accurate epithet seems to be 'mega-epic'.
This could be the Lords of Midnight or Dun
D&rach for the 16-bit generation, offering last
action and deep gameptay all in one,
Frake's adventures start with him hung-
over on an alien planet, Walk a little way and
he's accosted by a talking plant - just the first
Of a series of bizarre encounters. Bui stop lo
ehai to everyone, however odd, because ihis is
the only way you'll find oui where you are and,
more importantly, what to do. Fissionchip is
keeping quiet about the plot but we can reveal
that it concerns a Princess who's to marry the
wrong guy in just three days time.
Variety the spice of a space pirate's life
and each of the planets is highly di si relive,
thanks to the 60 beautifully drawn backgrounds
by Michael Haigh and David Hardy. The char
acters are by Chris Petts, Julian Edkins and
Rodney WyatL and each is carefully animated
to express their character, so that a hippy
slopes around, a beggar limps and the like.
The sword fights are even more impressive,
with 150 frames of animation by Neill Glancy.
Programming director Alex Mills with assis-
tants Justin, Giulio Zicchi and John Edwards
pulled the whole thing together.
The ingenious blend ot space travel and
sea-going piracy lets you fly between planets
in a space sailing ship which tires cannonballs
at insect-like alien invaders. There are high-
tech environments, grassy paradise planets
and molten worlds in which you have lo find a
way of avoiding a fatal hoi foot! Even the con-
versation parser is sophisticated enough to
provide convincing replies to most remarks we
iried.
Though the game was still in the stage
when all its elements are coming together, it
looks as if it will be a major January title and at
£29,95 should provide hours of engrossing
entertainment ot a kind seldom seen on
micros.
rnation and signing of two new labels: Vivid
Images and Motion Picture House
From Electric Dreams in the not-too-dis-
tant future, look out for incredible Shrinking
Sphere, a shoot-em-up/strategy game with iso-
metric, multi-directional scrolling in which you
pilot a sphere of varying mass through a maze.
Traps, prison squares and assassin spheres do
their best to hinder progress, and given that the
velocity of the sphere varies according to its
mass, driving isn't ail that straightforward. Mo
release date for that one r but Time Scanner, the
Sega coin-op pinbali conversion should
become electric reality m January,
And of course, a quintet of Sega coin-ops is
due from Mediagenic during 1989: Galaxy
Force, Altered Beast Hot Rod, Sonic Boom and
Ace Attacker. Just remains to be seen, in the
light of After Burner (which required 'achieving
the impossible'), how Galaxy Force will fare as a
computer game.
Adventure fans with 16-bit machines can
look forward to Sierra's latest - Manhunter:
JVew York, Aliens have invaded New York and you
take on the role of a human detective contracted
to the alien dictatorship. Throughout the game,
the pJayer can switch sides between good and
evil, and develop into a fnend of the aliens or a
supporter of the human resistance. Those of you
who like the Kings Quest series will be pleased
to learn that 16-bit versions of Kings Quest N r
The Penis of Roseila are due very soon.
MYSTERY TITLES
Down at Hewson HQ David Jones is slaving over
a new Amiga game, due around Apnl f and John
Phillips [Eliminator, working title JMP3) is beaver-
ing away on a project for the ST and Amiga. It
has the cryptic working title of MP4 at the
moment and should see the light of High Street
shelves April-time.
Apart from
those mystery titles,
Astaroth The Angel
of Death \or the ST
and Amiga is due
real soon - it's a
room-based arcade
adventure programmed by Mark Dawson, the
man who gave you ftotun ot the Wood and
Nodes of Vesod. Not forgetting a really violent
shoot-enmp with three levels and some 750
screens of multi-directional scrolling action:
Kalashmkov, again for the ST and Amiga and due
in January. 8-bit gamesters can look forward to
Storrntord in the same month, Raffaelle Cec-
co's latest opus which will also find its way onto
the ST and Amiga later next year.
Astaroth
KalfttfcnikDv
ARMCHAIR SPORTSWARE
Sports fans are in for a pre-Christmas treat from
Accolade, and should be able to enjoy tennis,
snooker/pocl/billiards, basketball and boxing
along with their mince pies if they have a mind
to. Serve and Volley, for the PC and C64 p is a
welkomplex tennis simulation that requires
players to move around on court, select the
shots they intend to play and aim their strokes
via a pop-up menu system. All in real time, too...
And anyone with the slightest interest in using a
cue, be it for snooker, pool, billiards or a
'designer' game on trie baiie with a custom set
of rules, should find plenty to amuse in the PC
and C64 versions of Rack em. Then there's
C64 basketball in the form of f ast Break, a h*
court three-on-three simulation, and TKQ [Tech-
nical Knock Out), a spirt-screen boxing simula-
tion for the C64 that gives the player a first-per-
son perspective of the action. Watch those
punches come at you!
FORMAT FRENZY
Electronic Arts, not to be outdone, have decid-
ed to extend the number of formats on which
Skats or Die, a 'street surfing r simulator, is to
appear. Between now and Spring next year IBM,
Spectrum, Amstrad
and then Amtga and
ST owners will be
able to thrill to
Ramp Freestyle,
Downhill Races and
Ramp Hill Jumps.
Up to eight Rad
players can com-
pete together, or
two players can go head-to-head in Pool Joust-
ing and Downhill Battle. Skate crayzeee
And a weird and freaky version of crazy golf
- Zany Gotf- is set to amaze and amuse PC
owners any day now. Early next year ST and
Amiga gamesters will be able to join in the nine-
Skate or Dim
Zany Go II
hole fun, which has iess to do with golf than you
might imagine from the title. Moving walls,
magic carpets, transporter pads r particle rays
and laser beams are just a few of the Zany Gotf
obstacles that boring dd has-beens like Lloyd
Mangrum never had to cope with.
EUROBOX1NG
As if that wasn't enough in the way of armchair
sporting action, German bytemasters EAS are
on the verge of releasing Amiga Ringside, anoth-
er boxing simulator and one that allows the play-
er to build a fighter and then punch past ten
opponents. ST and PC versions are due in the
New Year. Euro software house Uriel promise
1,500 frames of animation and 11 different
offensive and defensive moves in THEIR Amiga
Could that be a phial of potion nettling fn the gnu?
WAR IN MIDDLE EARTH • Melbourne House
No, not the sequel to The Lord of the Rings
adventure, but a completely new product that
spans the enlire Tolkien trilogy, Lord of the
Rings - and pretty amazing it looks too.
Around 14 months in the preparation,
every location in the 16-bit versions has its own
graphic and tune - both music and pictures
have been digitised. The pictures were given a
special treatment to make them look like part of
a fantasy game rather than a TV programme,
according to Producer Ron Harris.
The 16-bit game runs on three levels: at
the Character Level, the player can see individ-
ual game characters wandering around loca-
tions; using a scrolling Overall Plan map, the
main characters and forces can be seen mov-
ing over Middle Earth; and then a tess detailed
Top Level map showing all of Middle Earth on a
single screen can be accessed. Moving a
pointer over the plan map reveals more detail,
and allows play to return to the Character Level
at a selected location. Similarly, the Top Level
map can be viewed to give an overall picture of
what is happening in the land,, and then control
passed to the Overall Plan mapping level by
clicking a pointer. B-bit versions won't have the
Character Level, bui lo make up for the loss,
the player can get directly involved in fight
sequences, directing moves-
There are thousands of ways to lose the
game, but the only way to win is by dropping
the ring into the Crack of Doom. War in Mid-
dle Earth can be approached as a role-play-
ing adventure, as a strategy game or as a
wargame - the plot remains Ihe same, but the
way in which the player decides to approach
the problems faced by Frodo in his quest gov-
erns gameplay. Really idle gamesters can do
nothing, just sit back and watch events untold
A coupl* of characters get down to slug-
ging it out in a combat sequi-nte taking
place at Character Laval, If armies art
involved, they are le prei —t ed by single
characters.
as if they were watching a computerised
movie of the Tolkien Trilogy.
The computer-controlled characters have
their own decision systems, and will do what
they do in the books - but the player's actions
will affect the plot. And the characters are
intelligent - for instance, if the Nazgul get the
ring from Frodo, they head back to Sauron's
Lair moving like a row of Rugby forwards,
feinting and weaving in an attempt to disguise
which of them holds the ring. All the charac-
ters' decision systems are inter-related, so
taking control of one character modifies the
actions of all the others
36 Advanced Computer Entertainment
The top level map of Middle Earth
Getting close to Sauron'a hideout at
Character Level*
Another fantasy scene - this time a cat-*
tie looms up In the background.
Outpost
boxing game, The Champ, which has won
endorsement from the World Boxing Council
Starting out with brawls in the street, the
would-be boxer has to get recognised by a tal-
ent spotter and then train and fight his way to
the World Championship. All this to the theme
tune of Rocky. ST and C64 versions should fol-
low after Christmas.
If the rigours of the ring haven't turned you
into a Staf lone-done by the Mew Year, then
Linel's more Intellectually demanding offerings
should be available, including DragonsJayer, an
arcade adventure for the ST and Amiga which
involves battling past over fifty enemas, finding
fragments of a medallion and then slaying a...
wait for it r wait for it,., a dragon.
OUTPOST AT THE NEW FRONTIER
Brand new software house Frontier Games
are about to
burst into life
with a C64 origh
nal - Outpost
Described as a
tactical game,
the aim is to
move four
marine units and
infiltrate a guarded enemy outpost. Detailed
characterisation is promised, along with six
interlocked missions per game - plan your
strategy, polish up your tactics, make the
moves and then sit back and watch the out-
come in an arcade-style animated sequence.
Other 8 and 15-bit formats are promised soon
after the C64 version.
EXCUSE-FREE ZONE
Arcana, for some strange reason, seem to
think that No Excuses is just the sort off game
a thrusting young executive needs to play in
order to acquire the mentaf capacities to suc-
ceed. Whether the Arcana crew played their
own game and are themsefves now bound to
succeed with the title in the cut-and-thrust
commercial world of the software rndustry
remains to be seen. ST and Amiga owners
should be able to pit their non-executive minds
against the fifty tests contained in No Excus-
es in time to start the New Year with finely-
honed minds.
MULTITASKING MAYHEM
Just in time to keep Wo Excuses-trained execu-
tives happy in the Amiga workplace, Logotron
plan to release Prospector in the Mazes of
XORon the Amiga early in January. A 16-bit
version of Xor t there will be thirty levels, a digi-
tised soundtrack and completely new graphics
- apparently you'll be collecting hot-air balloons
rather than masks. Ideally for the budding
exec, Prospector should multitask with utilities
like Sculpt 3D and Excellence, Should prove
great for light entertainment, both in the yuppie
office environment and at home,
SO SCARY, IT DAREN'T COME OUT?
Microdeai planned to show FrjgMrfjghf {wherev-
er IS it?) at Comdex in Las Vegas a few weeks
ago, along with J.IAG. for the ST (defies descrip-
tion, just get in there and kill that virus), Trme
Bandit - an arcade adventure for the PC - and
lurbotrax, a screen-based slot-racing game in
the mould of the classic Scalextric for the Amiga.
TRAVELLING IN THE ROLES
Roleplayers have plenty to look forward to over
the coming month or so, too. Origin's first
cassette release is imminent for the C64,
Amstrad and Spectrum - Times of Lore should
be in the shops by the time you read this, visit-
ing the UK courtesy of Microprose, to be fol-
lowed in January by ST and Amiga versions.
Electronic Arts are about to release Neuro*
mancer on the C64 on behalf of Interplay, the
people behind the Bard's late series of role-
playing games. Based on the 'cyberpunk' clas-
sic by William Gibson, the game features an
original soundtrack by Devo and pits you as a
software pirate of the future, entering a huge
computer system. C64 onry, for the time being
cyberfreaks.
HELPS YOU WORK, REST AND PLAT
Another role-playing treat lies in store from
Electronic Art* in the form of Mars Saga,
which casts you onto a prison colony on Mars.
Life is cheap, and survival isn't easy, as C64
owners will soon be able to discover for them-
selves. And if you are the type that likes a
good role, look out for Deathhrd too.
Off course there's Dungeon Master's
Assistant from US Gold, a utility that's a must
for serious users of the AD&D system - with a
database of over 1,000 encounters and some
1,300 monsters, it makes a DM's life a lot eas-
ier on the C64 and PC.
With this level of activity, a role-playing spe-
cial could well be on the cards for next issue...
TELECOM TUSSLING
If huge telephone bills hold no fear for you,
Modem Wars allows C64, PC and Apple II own-
ers to dial each other up and do battle over the
phone, fighting across randomly-generated bat-
tlefields on computer screen. If you haven't got
shares in BT and a vested interest in seeing
their profits soar, there s always the option to
play against your own computer,.. Also on the
battle front, Strategic Studies Group (SSG to
those in the know) are about to complete their
trilogy of American Civil War games for C64
owners with Wilderness to NashvHte. Then
there's MacArthur's War, Baffle for Korea,
another product from the
same stable which
features an
improved ver-
sion of the
Decisive
Battles
System;
for
added
realism'
on the
the simula-
tion front.
DISGUSTING
LEVELS
Twenty five dis-
gusting' levels with
graphics to match are
promised on the Amiga
and ST by Eclipse in the
near future. Apparently
you'll be romping around
inside the stringy bits of a giant alien life form in
Growth, taking part in a frantic battle to destroy
a tumour. Ugh. If alien biology proves a bit too
stomacfK horning, ST and Amiga softies can
leap into a low-level skimmer and do battJe with
the forces of an oppressive regime in Eclipse s
other pending release, Atax Priced at £14.95
each, this duet of blasters should be around
nowOsh).
LOOKING BEYOND THE DARK SIDE
Incentive are keeping quiet about their forward
plans for 1989 - they'll admit to Dark $tde on
the ST and Amiga being scheduled for a Febru-
ary release, and hint that quite considerable
advancements have been made in the
Freescape system. Other than stating that they
are completely
committed: to
solid 3D games,
their spokesman
would give little
else away. So
make do with this
issue's review of
Total Eclipse for
Total Eclipse the time being.
FER GAME?
French software people Ubi Soft are readying
themselves for the release of fron Lord on the
Amiga, ST, Amstrad and Spectrum. You take the
part ol a warrior stranded in a country packed
with tractors, spies and assassins. A wicked
uncle has turfed your Darj off his throne, and
after raising an army the aim is to re-establish
your birthright by winning trials of combat and
being a generally sneaky fellow. Also from Ubi
Soft, look out for Shatebalt on the five major
formats - it's a futuristic sports simulator that
combines football with roller-derby, all played in
an ice rink.
8-BIT PRICE, 1 6-BIT GAMES?
New label Axxiom promise nine 16-bit tides
over the coming months, the first of which,
Powers tyx„ gets a review this month. For the ST
and Amiga, look out for Mission Efevator, in
which a hotel has to be searched for terrorist
bombs which need defusing; Spaceport, which
involves saving innocent people in a subter
ranean network by piloting a spac scooter and
destroying an alien bram; and Skybiaster, a heli-
copter 3D airto-air combat simulation.
Five more Amiga-only games are scheduled
from Axxiom; final Mission, in which the spirit
controlling a labyrinth needs a good seeing-to;
Mission Elevator
38 Advanced Computer Enlertainmenl
MIRRORSOFT d
AND IMAGEWORK<<
"The biggest C64 game ever", and "we're
going for the ultimate C64 shoot-em-up"
were phrases bandied around by the Mirror-
soft crew as they revealed Phobia, a fast
scroller from the learn ol Growth er and
Bishop. In the finished version, at least fif-
teen (hree-stage levels will be there to blast
through, presented in the form of a linked
network of planets The overall aim is to
fight through planet levels in order lo collect
nine sections of a heatshield lhat allows
your craft to peneirate and destroy a sun at
(he centre of a galaxy.
Messrs Crowther and Bishop have lei
ihe foetid side to their imaginations run riol
along the phobia theme - already a nasty
handful ol scary levels have been put
together, including one representing death.
Levels for electricity, water, birds, fire, and
darkness are already well underway, and
C64 - the fear of death' level from Phobia*
featuring ho ads that ml away into skulls,
ravens ol dwm f ghosts, hanging men,
guillotine* and coffins that release skele-
tons whan they are shot. Scare-ey.
ST - nicking off invading troops with a
trusty bow and arrow from the safety of a
fortress window- Despite the action being
sat in ancient Japan, Clnemaware
thoughtfully provide the archer with a
laser dot sight In Lords of the Hising Sun!
the whole caboodle should be complete in
time for a February release. Plans are atool
to produce Amiga and ST versions,
Also expected around February time is
a Japanese epic from Cinemaware -
Lords of the Rising Sun. Played over a
scrolling map of Japan, the aim is take con-
trol of the entire country, wresting it from ihe
grasp ol an evil man. Gathering forces to
your side and planning a winning strategy is
only part ot the game - arcade sequences
punctuate the campaign, including a
sequence where shuriken stars hurled at
you by a Ninja have to be deflected with a
sword, and another that involves galloping a
horse across fields, dispatching footsol-
diers.
Other up-and-coming titles in the
I mage works pipeline include Crimetown
Depths, a mission in which you are a killer
hired to defend a Bladerunner-ish, futuristic
city, Paitadtn* an arcade adventure lhat
INTERPHASE
Stunning solid 3D anima-
tion is the strength of
interphase - which has a
"cyberpunk' plot. Your
assistant is trying lo pene-
trate a large headquarters
building that is defended
by a massive computer
You have entered Ihe inter-
nal architecture of ihe
machine, and attempt to
deactivate the software
controlling security sys-
tems in order to make your
colleague's progress to the
nerve centre of the building
possible.
Piloting a craft through
the computer,- you try to
interface with software -
represented in the game
world by solid objects -
and solve 3D -puzzles in
order to deactivate pro-
grams. Programs hover,
delended by highly
mynoeuvraole security
modules and strange
snake- 1 ike apparitions.
Skimming through a level.
the ffoor and ceiling are
represented by different
coloured liles - flying into a
tile allows you lo move
through a floor or ceiling,
into the adjacent level ot
the computer's architec-
ture.
ST - strange chimney-pot structures ere part of the
computer's Internal security system - no matter how
many of tha defensive fighter program! you destroy,
more are generated by these pots- The lid opens, and
a burst of sparkling light emerges, revealing a small
fighter module which rapidly grows to full size...
ACE ON THE ROAD
utilises a silhouette graphic style, and Te r-
rariufn, another arcade adventure played
across the landscapes contained inside a
terrarium - the aim is to get to a fortress,
(From the top) Amiga - Crim* Town Depth*,
Pjlladiii and Terrarium* ■ trio of releasee
due soon on the Imagaworh* label.
from which you can escape to the outside
world. Work is currently proceeding on the
Amiga for 1 989 release.
Perhaps the most exciting project on
Ihe Image works label at the moment is
Interphase, as the game you might have
heard of as Mainframe is now called Check
out Ihe box tor details...
Finally, to round off the Mirrorsoft portfo-
lio of 1 989 products, there's a neat coin-op
conversion ol Atari's Blasterokts - 3D
colour graphics meal the classic Asteroids
gameplay. •
ST - claule Fack bu*tm' action in Blae-
leroide
The Way of
the Little
Dragon
Crystal Ha
Way oi the Little Dragon (aaah!), a one or two
player karate ba stem-up; Crystal Hammer, a
nice, noisy 'breakout' game with 30 levels and
lots more; Gunshoot, in which you sit at a
bank's cashdesk facing twelve doors through
which customers and baddies enter the premis-
es (sounds a bit reminiscent of an old Dinam-
ic/Gremlin Spectrum game, that one); and
SpinworW, a seven- e^p, i
level shoot-eiTrup g>y
where the object is to ' *
duff up a bunch of
aliens whose weird
planet looks like it
might be menacing
Earth.
It might be a bit
cruel to suggest that Axxiom is short of origi-
nal ideas, but if they can re-work the old ones
as well as they have with Power styx, and keep
charging under fifteen quid, 16-bit owners
should be kept happy nest year. Only time and
the reviews will tell.
A RIPE HANDFUL
Apart from Phantom Fighter (previewed else-
where on these pages) and Circus Circus,
Martech have a ripe handful of releases lined
up lor the months of December and January.
Gun-totin' shoot-eiTHip fans should enjoy Shoot
Out, an 8-brt six-shooter extravaganza in which
you aim to rid Gulch Creek of some real mean
dudes by dint of applying your trusty side-iron
to the problem. At the end of January, Martech
should have Program Wars for the ST, Amiga
and PC - an entertainment written by the pro-
grammer of Zoids which apparently allows the
player to generate UfeJike games.
REALLY LOVE THOSE TIGER FEATS
On the Capcom coin-op conversion front,
the GoT label completed Tiger Road just
days too late tor it to be reviewed this
issue, and promise LED Storm for Jan
uary, Black Tiger for
February and Last Duel
for March, Videos of
brand new arcade games
have just found their
way into the Go! offices,
we taint, and according
to their Product Manag-
er some 'really good
stuff should be out and
about for home
machines in April and
May Rainbow Arts,
also published by Go!,
n
are about to unleash Spacebalt on the Amiga
and ST, accompanied on the journey to the
shops by another preXmas title, Realm of the
Trolls.
m PARTY TIME!
Garfield's friends, Softek plan a 1 0th Birthday
bash for the fat feline and are celebrating by
releasing a party. Yes, releasing a party - on
ST, Amiga and 8-bit machines in January, it will
be a collection of game sequences with a win-
try theme. Currently the working title is Wa-
ter's Tale, but it is Garfield fx by any name.
February should see the arrival of Darius, a
cow-op conversion - how will they frt those
three screens and vibrating seat onto a home
machine? Wart and see. Finally, by Easter, Soft-
ek plan to wow the world with a Peanuts
licence - apparently the people who own the
rights to Charlie Brown, Snoopy and their
chums were so impressed by the treatment
given to Garfield that they approached the com-
pany and asked them to do a computer game!
Of course Inside Outing, the zany 3D isometric
perspective adventure, should have made it to
the ST and Amiga by now r together with a C64
and ST version of SoJdrer of Light.
MUCH MORE THAN JUST ORANGE...
Never before in the history of computer games
have so many colours been crammed onto a
single screen, according to Mandarin, who are
remarkably pleased about Pioneer Plague
Using the Amiga's Hold And Modify graphics
facility, programmer Bill Williams (Mj/idwa/fcer
and Sinbad the Sailor) has produced an arcade
strategy game which sets the player on a quest
to disable a self- replicating robotic spaceship
that has run amok. As if all those colours (up to
4,096 on screen at once) weren't enough,
original music, eight-way scrolling and
digitised humanoid speech complement
the prettiness. It sure looks good, but
was there room for a game there too or
is this just a mediocre game
HAMmed up ? Find out next
issue...
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FootbaN lor the C64 any day now - an American
Football game - and a text and graphics adven-
ture by the name ot Legend of Black Stiver early
next Spring.
THREE BIRDS IN FULL SONG
The Telecom team
of Firebird and
Rainbird are prov-
ing no shirkers in
the race for 1989
releases. From
Rainbird, expect
to see Vermmator
Billboard by February -
remember, it s the
game that involves making money as a vermin
catcher working in a tree, Around 250 levels are
promised, and catching vermin isn't the only
way to get rich: popping into casinos and trying
to make a fast buck is just one of the get-rich-
quck schemes on offer in the tree. tVer^d
Dreams is due on ST and Amiga around March
with frbit versions to follow (we've been talking
to the designers of the game and have interest-
ing things to tell you next month,), Hot news on
the Geoff (Sentinel) Crammond front: he's
working on a brand new game called Stunt Car
Racer, planned for around Easter on all five
rriapr formats.
Rre-bird too, have loads of projects under-
way, including a game from the Original Fatboy
Himself Gary 'Gigglyworks' Lrddon, who moves
into the full-price realm with Tyger, Tyger. Also
look out for Dynamic Duo by Probe Software on
■B-bit machines around the same time.
Moving one stage further down the pnce
ladder, plenty of pocket money' games are
planned by Sihrerbird at £1.99 on most for-
mats, Ldc* out for vjdeo Classics, Skuba Kidz,
Peter Pack Rat, Cauldron I!, international
Speedway, Motocross Mania and Brflboard.
Okay Kidz? Further details in the budget and
compilations rounckip after this month's
SCREE NTEST.
THUNDER BIRDS ARE GO!
ER.., GRANDS LA Ml
Fans of Virgil, Brains, Parker and Lady Penelope
can look forward to a real Thundertirds game
from Grandslam in February on 'all major for-
mats' (Firebird rather wasted their Thunder-birds
licence a few years ago on a neat puzzle game).
"mistime, a slightly less wooden game is
planned - a fourway-scrolling role-playing graph-
ic adventure is promised, which actually fea-
tures Gerry Anderson s characters and sets the
player on the trail of The Hood, the Tracey fam-
ily' e, arch enemy who has managed to video the
Thunderbirds vehicles and threatens to expose
foe Tracey s to the glare of publicity, Further
missions for the Thunderous characters are
promised later in the year.
Other licences acquired by Grandslam that
should lead to 1989 releases include the rights
to Arnie Schwarzenegger's new movie. The Run-
ning Wan. The hero finds himself as a contes-
tant in a luturistic TV game show which follows a
similar pattern to the Roman Arena - players
are put m a labyrinth and pursued to their
deaths while millions of couch potatoes look. on.
A five-section, sideways scraping game, Run-
ning Man is also promised "on all major formats'
in the first months of 1989. On a more cutesy
level, Grandslam are also working on a Dandy
licence, in which over 30 of DC Thompson's
famous comic characters have to be helped to
achieve appropriate tasks. Brassneck, for
instance is trying to bake a cake, while Desper-
ate Dan needs help to fill his Gag Bag. What, no
Cow Pie? we hear you cry,.. Due around Christ-
mas, or shortly thereafter.
UNDERPANTS AS OVERTROUSERS
Still on the comic character front, Tynesoft are
putting the finishing touches to Superman,
which should appear on the five major lormats
in time for Christmas, complete with the hero
wearing his red knickers publisher-style outside
his trousers, (obscure, ACE-style invoke) as
should Barnum and Bailey's a set of circus
games, in a package that includes Trapeze,
High Wire, Tiger Taming and Bareback Riding.
The lure of the sawdust ring and circus
action seems to be a popular theme suddenly -
Martech are about to pop Circus Circvs out on
the Spectrum, while programmers working for
the Golden Goblin label in Germany should
have their six-sequence Circus Attractions game
ready for March on the IBM, Amiga, ST and
C64. SMI, it's better than caging real animals
and making them do tricks in front of an
audience...
Superman
GERMAN PRINCES IN PALACE DASH
tf trading simulations appeal, those wily Swiss
people at Uriel are offering the opportunity for
up to eight people to take on the role of princes
in ancient Germany, In Kaiser, the aim is to rule
a country, nurturing the population, building an
army and forming alliances with the rulers of
neighbouring territories. Only one prince can
become Kaiser, and everyone knows it...
Keeping tne adventure world covered, Linel
should be releasing Ice and fire early in 1989. an
ST, Amiga and IBM PC opus two years m the mak-
ing. With three days to live, you can assume one
of nine persona s before attempting to find a cure
for the disease that is killing you AND have a go
at saving the world. Just to show that strategy
games aren't beyond the wit of the Swiss, Linel
p'an to complete their coverage of game
genres m February with Crown, which
features a detailed 16-screen land-
scape over which the player manipu-
lates an army,
OPENING THE BOX
Pandora have a trio of releas-
es due between now and
February. There's Out/and, an
unashamed vertically-scrolling
shoot-em-up in which two small fighters attempt
to Save Earth from a destructive invasion - due
any day now for the ST and Amiga. On a slightly
more cerebral level, Debut sets the player the
task of stabilising a planet's ecosytem - control-
ling weather systems, moving the population
and tinkering with food chains, the aim is to pre-
vent wars and pollution down on the planet's
surface. Arcade action, simulation and strategy
are all combined in Debut, according to Pando-
ra, and you should be able to test their claim
early in the New Year. Finally from Pandora
there's Gakfregon's Domain, a role-playing simu-
lation in wNch you, as a barbarian hero, go in
search of five gems. ST and Amiga versions are
due any day now, with Amstrad and Spectrum
versions planned for the lirst part of 1989;
there's no target date set tor the C64 version.
COMPUTER MANIACS
The Domark team leap into 1939 with their
Tengen coin-op deal (see News, last issue)
which should start producing results in the
Spring, and of course the wacky and zany Spif-
fing Image beat-ern-up is due to arrive in good
time to find its way into Christmas stockings
throughout the land.
If boring old 1989 Transporter's Diaries
are all your maiden aunties buy you at Christ-
mas, and you own a C64, Spectrum or
Amstrad, why not drop some strong hints about
the cassette-based Computer Maniac s 1989
Diary this year? Another piece of witty software
from the Twits.
CLOSING ON CONSOLE THOUGHTS
Finaify, on the console front, Sega have been
fairly active of late introducing a batch of games
(reviewed in SCREENTEST, save Double Drag-
on which came at Single Speed, arriving too
late for review). Not to be outdone, Nintendo
are making a new push into the UK market this
Christmas and plan to release between two and
four games per month throughout 1989. Apart
from the the Nintendo games reviewed this
issue, look out for Gradius, Top Gun, Casffeva-
nia and Gooses tf in tine near future. Meanwhile,
if you're thinking about splashing out on a con-
sole this Christmas,
check out the Pink
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what you could be
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Welcome to the biggest Screen Test section ever. We said that last
month, and after adding even more extra pages we're saying it again.
The peak selling period of December and January is about to
begin - even with our huge preview section, we stiFI had to up the size
of Screen Test again to cope with the volume of new releases.
Which game is going to top the charts over the festive season?
Hard to tell, but as you might expect Thunderblade and After
Burner are both hot contenders, reviewed this issue, but WEC Le
Mans could give them a good run for their money. As we went to
press, WEC Le Mans hadn't made it out of the Ocean Pits, so it
remains an unknown quantity.
Two original titles, Batman and Total Eclipse get Ace Rated this
month. It's good to see that originality is far from dead in the wake of
arcade conversions.
It's worth repeating last month s message, once again: it's the
biggest and it's full of the best - enjoy!
THE RATINGS
HOW THEY'RE CALCULATED..*
II you buy a game, how much enjoyment wiN
you gel out ol it, and for how Jong? Jusl check
cui our revolutionary PIC (Predicted Interest
Curve! lor the full story. Brilliant arcade games
start high on trie curve, and then steadily lail
orf as you lose interest: powerful puzzle games
may ride the crest of the curve for months -
but Ihe moment you solve them they'll come
tumbling down; complex stralegy games may
Stump you at lirst - but climb up the scale as
ycu begin to appreciate the scope of :ne
oamep<ay. And as for the turkeys - (hey start
low., stay tow. and have nowhere to go but
down, down, down,
Once you've seen how long ihe game can
hold your attention, all you need to glance at rs
Ihe renowned ACE RATING. This ir. calculated
according to the area under the PIC. The big-
ger it is, the better ihe game. Add to that our
definitive ratings for IQ Factor {will it give your
brain cells a work-out?) and Fun Factor - a
measure of instant appeal and exhsiaralion as
you dive into the game, Then there's the
ARCADE ACCURACY rating, used where
appropriate, to report on how good a fob the
programmers have done with the conversion
job on a game that began life in the coin-op
arcade. Of course, we rate the Graphics and
Audio effects too.. .for EVERY machine the
game's available on, giving the lull picture, no
matte r which machine you own
WHY YOU CAN RELY ON THEM...
The ACE reviewing team covers a broad spec-
trum of computer entertainmeni talent. Andy
Wilton - now moved on to be permanent tech-
nical wizz on our sister magazine PC Plus - is
as handy with a smart bomb as he is with hex-
adecimal. Andy Smith wouldn't know hexadec-
imal from a hole in the ground, but can wipe
the lloor with any number of alions. Bob Wade
(ex- Personal Computer Games, Zzap'64 and
Amstrad Adian) has played more computer
games than any sane person ought lo. Add
Steve Cooke (ex-PCG and formerly columnist
tor magazi'iea ranging from Zzap!64 to Your
Sinclair) and couni in our new Editor. Graeme
Kidd. who has over five years' worth ol profes-
siora replaying under his ample belt, and
you've got age and experience as weN as
youthful enthusiasm.
Every game on the following pages has
been seen by all of us. We compare notes,
express differing opinions, and only then do
we decide who's lo take final responsibility for
getting our views into prim. What follows, then,
isrrt jusl a collection of casual comments, but
the definitive ACE verdict on this month's soft-
ware. We've checked il out - now you can too.
INDEX
ACE RATED
91 BATMAN Ocean
86 TOTAL ECLIPSE Incentive
REVIEWED
54 AFTER BURNER Activision
72 BLACK ORCHID
Mundane
68 ESPIONAGE Grandsiam
98 FIST + Firebird
64 GUERRILLA WAR imagine
70 HELLFIRE ATTACK Martech
105 LAST NJNJA 2 System 3
58 LIVE AND LET DIE
Domork/Efite
106 NINTENDO GAMES
111 PACMANIA Grandsiam
64 POWERSTYX Axxiom
86 PUFFY'S SAGA Ubisoft
80 RAC RALLY Mandarin
B3 RETURN OF THE JEDI
Domark
69 RISK Leisure Genius
103 ROBOCOP Ocean
98 SAVAGE Firebird
76 SEGA GAMES
80 SUPERSKILLS Grerniin
70 TANK ATTACK CDS
98 TECHNO COP Grerniin
56 THUNDERBLADE US Goid
68 TRIVIAL PURSUIT Domark
63 TURBO CUP Loriciels
72 UGH-LYMPICS
Electronic Arts
109 UMS- SCENARIOS
Rainbird
UPDATES
58 FLYING SHARK Firebird
109 UMS Rainbird
SCR EE NT EST
SUPPLEMENT
1 1 7 Christmas Stocking Fillers
Compilations overview,
and the Best of Budget.
129 Tricks 'N Tactics
Including Michael Powell's
guide to his smash hit
game, POWER DROME r and
Tony Crowther s guide to his
levels of BOMBUZAL,
aided and abetted by
Mike Jordan of Mirrorsoft.
Advanced Computer Eniertamment 53
ARCADE ACCURACY
It's fast, colourful and has. all the
features of the arcade game that
you could reasonably expect.
COIN OP SCORE 8
plane indicates where the machine gun is liring,
and if an enemy plane wanders into the sight, it
tacks on to the enemy plane. You then let loose
with a missile which will rocket towards the tar-
get - meanwhile, your small sight's still out in
front so you can end up with half a dozen or
more targeted enemy planes at once.
Dealing with the enemy like that is not such
a problem at the start of the game as long as
your reactions are swift enough to bank left-
right to awid the incoming missiles. The prob-
lems start when enemy planes and enemy heat-
seeking missiles start coming from in front and
behind. The best way out of this hind of situa-
tion is to start using the throttle control to
speed away from (or slow down and sneak in
behind) the enemy. In later stages the skies are
ST - «tag» on* and toma enemy plan** cents screaming past you. Oat em tn your
sights and fire off a missile.
AFTER BURNER
ACTIVISION Lock On
TA |f C a Same, almost any game, put it in a
IMIYE | arge colourful and very animated
cabinet then plonk it in an amusement arcade
and what have you got? Large queues waiting
lor their turn on the latest sure-fire arcade hit.
After Burner was THE machine to play in
the arcades earlier this year. It came in three
versions: The upright cabinet, which is the stan-
dard arcade machine, the sit-in version, which
shook and rattled as you played, and the
Deluxe version, which shook and rattled
enough to knock your false teeth into your lap.
Now Activision bring us the home micro ver-
sions of the game - which come without a cabi-
net, so you'll have to do your own gyrating con-
sole impressions.
The object of the game is very simple - fry
your F-14 Thunder Cat through stage after
stage of enemy territory and survive for as
long as possible. Chances of survival are
increased by shooting down as many of the
enemy aircraft as you can before they shoot
you. Your plane is armed with a continually
front-firing machine gun and heat-seeking mis-
siles. A small square sight just in front ol your
Spectrum - powering through the canyon in Stag* eight. There are no enemy plana* to
worry about as you blast everything on tha ground. Mind the wall* though! Far right -
you're hit! You're going down! You've only get eight lives left! Oh no!
Balow - C64 version,, notice how Mocky the graphic* are.
RELEASE BOX
ATARI ST £24.99dk
OUT NOW
AMIGA £24.99dk
JANUARY
SPECTRUM £9.99cs*£12.99dk
OUT NOW
AMSTflAD £9.99cs • £ 1 4.99*
IMMINENT
C64/128 £9.99cs*£14,99(3k
OUT NOW
IBM PC No plans
54 Advanced Computer Emerta-n - u ■ t
SCREENT
RIPE FOR
CONVERSION?
The programming team who converted
After Burner have done a first rate job
- very little, if anything, has been left
out and the game plays very well. The
only problem is, was After Burner real-
ly suitable for the home micro? Unlike
R-Type, which is a challenging and
enjoyable shoot- em -up, A.B. outside of
Ihe sit-in cabinet is dull The cabinet
made the game popular in the arcades
and, without the fHls. ihe home com-
empty of enemy craft and it's a simple case of
blasting away at ground targets such as oil
tankers and look-out towers - occasionally you
have to do this whilst frying through a narrow
canyon.
Although your machine gun has an inex-
haustible magazine arid keeps firing away hap-
pily, the number of missiles is limited and
should you be so foolish to use up all your mis-
siles early on, you'll have to survive without
them until the refuelling stage, when either a
large tanker plane comes flying over and drops
a cable which your plane attaches itself to auto-
matically, or a landing strip comes into view
and the plane lands and gets refuelled.
After Burner is pure sky-high mayhem, "the
ol' brain cells won't get a work-out but your joy-
stick arm certainly will. It's playable stuff, but
once the novelty has worn off you'll soon
realise it is just a standard scrolling shoot-em-
up with little in it to keep you interested and
playing for any great length of time.
• Andy Smith
At th* start uf b naw stage on the
arcade machine.
purer versions are poor cousins, Oper-
ation Wolf is another great arcade
game, and although the coin -op fea-
tured a huge rattling machine gun
mounted on the front of the cabinet
that couldn't be emulated on the home
micro versions, the game itself was
good, and a competent conversion
that compensates for the lack of
machine gun should be (and is) a
good computer game. Can the same
be said for After Burner?
C64 VERSION
The graphics are the worst of the bunch, They're
colourful but very blacky - to the extent that it's
often very difficult to see what is going on and
where the missiles are coming from. The sound
too is poor - the effects especially.
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
4 IO FACTOR 1
3 FUN FACTOR 4
ACE RATING 519
SPECTRUM VERSION
Great graphics, great gameplay and OK sound
effects and music Unfortunately the game soon
gets repetitive and you'll see your interest wan-
ing fast.
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
JO FACTOR T
FUN FACTOR 7
ST - Blum! A missile hits home. Watch
out for that Incoming missile at th* tap of
the screen though or you'll go crashing to
the ground.
Blasting, off at th* atari of the game en
the Spectrum. Tilt your chair back at you
power skyward*! not toe far!].
Spectrum - In the thick of th* action.
You're locked onto four plenes so lot
thorn missile* tflyf
He-fuelling and re-arming en th* Spec-
trum. The player tak*s no part in this so
it comes as a welcome break.
ATARI ST VERSION
The sound effects are good as are the graphics
and gameplay. It s still not a stunning game though
and you re liable to bored sooner rather than later.
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
I O FACTOR 1
FUN FACTOR 6
ACE RATING 687
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
ACE RATING 656
Imin f hour 1d»y 1w*«h l month lyaar
A standard arcade shoot-em- up.
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it appears to play well too. Wait lor the update review In a future ACE. firing!
THUNDER BLADE
US GOLD go to the rotors
' Christmas was US Gold's Out Run,
and they're hoping to repeat the feat by tak-
ing to the air this year. The competition is
much hotter these days though - so have
they managed to come up with the gameplay
goods?
To start wrth h the helicopter you fly is
viewed from above, it sits on a roadway wait-
ing to rise up and launch itself forward. Both
speed and height can be controlled by the
joystick, but it's easier to change speed
straight on - bullets, buildings, trees and all
It's still a matter of weaving through the
buildings and flak, pouring high-explosive
death at anything in the way.
Stage three takes place out in the ocean,
where the copter overflies a ship at a set
speed, tt can still be moved all over the
screen, but the height remains at a set level.
As the ship scrolls by h gun emplacements
come into view and are dealt with in the
same manner as ground objects in stage
one.
SPECTRUM VERSION
The graphics are fast and impressive, loads a!
detail and meaty explosions. It's tough to see
what s going or* in the head-on sequences, a. r d
the colli^on detection is questionable at times.
The chopper noise is acceptable and goes nicely
with ttie bangs, and booms.
GRAPHICS 8 IQ FACTOR 1
AUDIO 6 FUN FACTOR S
ACE RATING 793
ARCADE ACCURACY
Faithful reproduction of all the
arcade features and admirably
close graphics and gameplay.
COIN OP SCORE 9
using the keyboard. As you change height
the chopper stays the same size, but the
buildings, scenery and enemy weapons loom
larger or shrink away - and very nice it looks
too,
As you rotor-motor over the ground there
are buildings that have to be avoided and
lots of tanks and helicopters letting fly with
shellbursts. Bombs and bullets will put paid
to them, but violent evasive action in all
directions is essential.
The second stage is just like the first,
except for one crucial factor - the view is
from behind the helicopter. Instead of every-
thing passing by underneath it all comes
56 Advanced Computer Entertainment
SPEC - The final fortress la packed to the gunwale? with weaponry - an awesome
pro&pect far your littla h«l icoptar.
RIPE FOR
CONVERSION?
Thunder Blade is another coin -op
that relies heavily on physical
effects for thrilling and shaking up
(ha player. Once again that all goes
out the window for the computer
versions, resulting in a loss of
much of the adrenalin rush from the
areata
Having said that, it isn't in as
difficult a position as After Burner
because there's more variety and
skill required in the game pi ay. The
conversion is excelient, even on the
humble Spectrum, but only time
zwiil tell whether coin-ops are soon
going to be completely impossible
to convert.
Approaching the fortress in the
arcade game.
(Above) Amiga preview shot - the game s not quite finished yet, so we haven t
reviewed It. We couldn't resist printing ■ couple of shots to whet your appetite
though.,.
l£up
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C64 - 1. Those tanks look tiny but their firepower la deadly. 2. diving downward*, the
detail increases an the tanks and the buildings loom threateningly near. 3. Two tanks In
glorious close-up.
Get as. far as stage four and the controls
are exactly the same as stage one. However,
things have been complicated by having to
fly down a canyon. Clipping the walls with the
rotor blades isn't very healthy and results in
a large lump of scrap metal on the ground.
There are 12 stages in all, and none of
them are easy. Jets will fly across the screen,
letting fly with everything they've got. Flotillas
of boats will blast concentrated fire in similar
devastating manner to the tanks. Head-on
flights across open country will get increas-
ingly hazardous for the health. Finally the tar-
get of your destructive aspirations will appear
- an enormous fortress tooled up with lots of
deadly weapons. Just getting this far will be
tough enough, and taking it out even harder.
This is still a good shoot-em-up on com-
puters as opposed to the coin-op. It lacks
any strategy or depth, but you can t have
everything. The switching of views and the
types of problem that are thrown at you will
provide no shortage of interest,
• Bob Wade
C64 VERSION
Graphics are on the chunky side but move with
speed. Much easier to tell wtiat's going on than
on the Spectrum. Good music and effects too.
GRAPHICS * IO FACTOR 1
AUDIO T FUN FACTOR S
ACE RATING 800
1mm Ihour 14*v Ivrvek 1 month 1 war
Bags of entertainment, blasting tin rough the
stages.
Affvancea Computer Enienammenl 57
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FLYING SHARK
ATARI ST •Firebird E24.99dk
> a game that shoot-em-up
* freaks really got their teeth
into on the 8-t>it computers. ST owners might
have given up hope of ever seeing their ver-
sion but it's finally here. Has it been worth the
wait, or will it be just another game forgotten
about after Christmas morning?
The 'Flying Shark' is a biplane that doesn't
behave like anything out of Dawn Patrol or The
Blue Max. It flies over a vertically-scrolling land-
scape, blowing to bits the best the enemy has
to offer. It can arm up with weapons that give it
ARCADE ACCURACY
Exceptionally good conversion that
will delight the coin-op's fans.
COIN OP SCORE 9
ATARI ST VERSION
Fantastic backgrounds and spritss. combined win
OK scrolling, make this a great looking game. The
accompanying muM and explosions rnaKe it sound
good loo.
GRAPHICS 9 IQ FACTOR 1
AUDIO 6 FUN FACTOR 9
ACE RATING 895
a very impressive forward field of fire. The
power-up capsules are obtained by shooting
defenceless waves of planes. However, the
ST - dattroy that wave of planes and col-
l*ct th# po war-up &ymbol.
UPDATE SPECIAL
rest of the enemy isn't so helpless.
First to be encountered are the groups of
two or three planes that loose off shells at you
and can crash into you as well. Then there are
tanks which take two hits to destroy - the first
taking out the turret and the second finishing
the job. Gunboats, too, take two hits.
From there on things just get tougher ■ mul-
tiple hit gun emplacements, massive ships and
aircraft carriers, and ever more complex lines
of defence. Smart bombs come m handy, but
survival depends on hanging onto the extra
weapons. Lose one life and it's something of a
lost cause.
A smashing shootem-up that verges on being a
bit too difficult.
• Bob Wade
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
lmin <hunr *<ii\r 1wrnh Intanth lyear
ST - grab that B and you'll have an extra
smart bomb (very handyll*
Highly addictive and very lOUgh
LIVE AND LET DIE
ELITE and DOMARK join forces
C$4 - that helicopter has Just dropped
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JIMMY Borkd s bdCh< Having survived the
lillfim I mayhem 0 f The Irving Daylights
(doesn't he always?) he's ready for some fresh
adventures, this time based on an earlier film.
Ln/e and Let Die, the computer game,
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This rogue is planning to flood the US with
heroin that he cultivates on his Caribbean
island of San Monique. To foil him you have
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C64 VERSION
Fast, colourful graphics and good gameplay
make Ihis an enjoyable game to play. You'll have
fun getting to know the courses - but with only
four, that won 't take too Inng.
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
B IQ FACTOR 2
70 FUN FACTOR 8
ACE RATING 723
plant and destroying it with a missile.
Before attempting this, it's best to get
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practice courses.
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go - tine faster the boat travels the Jess fuel it
uses, so don't rely on taking things easy,
Live and Let Die. is a curious mix of game
styles. It's a lot like Buggy Boy on water (not
really that surprising, considering Elite pro
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Ran and Road 8/asters in there too. More
courses would have been appreciated, but the
game plays well and is a tough challenge,
• Antfy SiTHitfi
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The other cars are much more likely to
cause problems than the roadside obstacles,
because they tend to weave across the track
at just the wrong moment. Just bumping a car
is not always disastrous - quick reactions usu-
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Rear-end another car though, and you re m big
trouble: the car goes bouncing all over the
track before coming to rest, which loses vital
seconds that are very hard to recover.
A neat feature of the game is the way in
which other cars can be prevented from over-
taking if you weave all over the road - it's not
cricket, out it does work! Cornering correctly is
vitally important; go too slowfy round a corner
and valuable time is lost, go too fast and you're
likely to spin off - again losing time. To put in
anything like a decent time takes practice and
a sound knowledge of the circuit.
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it does have a choice of several gear changing
options. Fancy an automatic gearbox that
leaves you to concentrate on accelerating,
braking and steering? No problem. Fancy indi-
On the starting grid at tha Dijon circuit,
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RFNF Metge ma ^ not b * as famt,us 0vcr
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Rene specialises in driving Porsches - 944
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Loriciels like Porsches. They also like Rene,
which is why they've got him not only to
endorse, but to help design a driving simulation
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The perspective chosen for the game is great,
along with the graphics, scrolling and sound
effects, All in all ttiis is a terrilic driving game that
Ml keep you entertained for a long time A shame
then that its potential wasn't fully realised
GRAPHICS 8 IO FACTOR 2
AUDIO A FUN FACTOR 8
ACE RATING 796
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
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Great fun, but lacks variety.
TURBOCUP
LORICIELS step on it
based on France's popular series of 944 Turbo
Cup races.
The player competes m lour races, each at
a different track. The real races last two days -
practice takes place on the first day, and the
race proper starts on the second. In Turbo
Cup you get a practice lap of the course, which
determines your grid positfon for the two-lap
race that follows. Obviously, the object is to
get round the circuit as fast as possible, so it s
a jolly good idea to avoid crashing into the
other cars or roadside obstacles.
On the Paul Ricard circuit, You always
coma off worst when you rear-end the
other cars.
eating a gear change by pressing the fire but-
ton on the joystick? Again, no problem. There's
even the option to use the fire button as the
clutch, which means the joystick handle is used
as if it were a real gear stick - hold trie fire but-
ton, move the joystick to the correct position
and release the fire button. All this while con-
centrating on accelerating, braking and steer
mg and keeping an eye out for the other cars...
Loriciels have produced a great driving
simulation in Turbo Cup. The competition is
tough, the courses vary in difficulty and the
gear change options add some lasting interest.
Unfortunately, they don't add enough to com-
pensate for the limited number of courses or
the annoyingly short races,
• Andy Smith
Advanced Computer Entertainment 63
SCREENTEST
POWERSTYX
Get a qix out of AXXIOM
Al Y was one of the most original titles in
the arcades when it appeared ■during
the early 80s. ft was one of those unique con-
cepts that appeared in the early days - one of
a number of games that used just one screen,
didn't have great graphics, but had sparkling
garneplay
This isn't a faithlul reproduction, but has
the same central idea which calls for the player
to close off a chunk of the screen in order to
AMIGA VERSION
The backgrounds related by filling n bones builc up
to lovely pictures. The musK: is horrrtly repetitive- and
the rest of the graphics, and effects are ordinary.
GRAPHICS G IQ FACTOR
AUDIO 3 FUN FACTOR
ACE RATING 621
progress to the next one. Controlling a cursor
that starts at the edge of the screen, and
which can move into the centre drawing a line
behind it, the aim is to draw a line that enclos-
es part of the screen. When the line joins back
up with the edge or another line, the area
enclosed is filled with part of the main back-
ground picture.
Two main hazards have to be contended
with in the quest to enclose and fill 75 per cent
of the screen. Two skulls circle the unfilled area
of the screen, following the edges and destroy-
ing the cursor on contact. A swirling chain of
objects bounces around the screen, remaining
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GUERRILLA WAR
IMAGINE S armed resistance
LIDCIWI j 0S t marines is a
pretty tali order. Even if they are equipped with
all the guns, grenades, bazookas, flamethrow-
ers and tanks available, it's still going to be a
battle against the odds - the enemy forces are
well-equipped and are often found welklug-in.
Play is very much in the Ikart Warriors and
leathernecks death-dealing mould, with lots of
vertical scrolling and hammering away at ene-
mies coming on from the top and sides of the
screen. The simultaneous two-player option
(where you can't shoot one another) leads to
faster progress m the mission, but the need for
co-operation brings its own problems.
Fighting through the live levels you
encounter riflemen, troops throwing grenades,
tanks, men with flarnethowers and bazookas
and then a large enemy at the end of each
stage that takes multiple hits to destroy.
ARCADE ACCURACY
Its about the best you can expect
out of a Spectrum,, but it doesn't
convey everything the arcade
does
COIN OP SCORE 6
Sp*ctram - close to a tank which can be
commandeered. Watch out for soldier*
throwing the grenades that are exploding
on the right O* the screen.
Bazookas and flamethrowers dropped by
dead soldiers, can be collected and used, and
it is possible to clamber into abandoned tanks
and drive around. Tanks have excellent firepow-
er, and make blasting through walls, fences
and sandbags much easier,
There's nothing here we haven't seen m
previous Commando derivatives, but the ele-
ments are combined to make a tough game,
Plenty of action for jungle-hungry combat veter-
ans to fight their way through.
♦ Bob Wade
Amiga: - complete the first screen and
you're rewarded with this pretty picture
of a cool dude resting on his car.
harmless until you start drawing a line. If the
chain touches the line being drawn by the cur-
sor before a section of screen is salely boxed
in, then a life is lost and the cursor returns to
the point from which you started drawing the
line of death.
Bonuses fly across the screen and confer
such things as extra speed, time freeze, level
skip or an instant death when touched by the
cursor. On subsequent screens, the edge-fol-
lowers get faster, making it much tougher
when you've only got a small amount of screen
left to enclose.
A simple, addictive game that doesn't quite
match up to Qix, but still proves tough to put
down.
♦ Bcd WadB
SPECTRUM VERSION
Lots of detasl to the graphics, although the bullets
can be hard to spot in the thek ol the action.
GRAPHICS 7 IQ FACTOR 2
AUDIO 3 FUN FACTOR 7
ACE RATING 704
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when you get through a level or two.
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stop the spread of the plague before it's too late.
• Drone flight patterns that you can program to soak up energy from the city below
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werve in an exhilarating arc, battling
for control of your ghostly fighter, as you
seek to dominate the skies,
Landscapes of the alien world flash by
in a blur of multicoloured iridescent
hues.
Your finger moves to the phalanx
missile button as the first wave of
Echelon Destroyers scream towards you,
their cannons blazing in anger. The flash
of orange and red and the breathtaking
thud of a massive Shockwave signals your
first kilt. Sparks spray from your glowing
wingtips as you accelerate into a
mindwarping dive. Can you make it over
the first landmass, and if so, what further
dangers await you?
PHANTOM FIGHTER is a stupendous,
state of the arts seek and destroy arcade
combat game,
For discerning AMIGA and PC owners
everywhere -who dream of
conquest.
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Designed and programmed by
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ESPIONAGE
Tinker, tailor, soldier, GRANDSLAM
FURTIVE
dealings are afoot in the
murky world of international
spying. Which is P of course, perfectly true, but
the spying theme has nothing to do with this
game. H anything, the scenario serves to com-
plicate matters unnecessarily so let's forget
the cloak and dagger stuff and get down to the
board game.
rt's basically a cross between chess and
draughts, with a more intricate playing area
and a different game objective. Up to four play-
ers can take part, any or all of which can be
controlled by the computer. Facn player con-
trols three types of pieces - or agents: six
couriers that move diagonally like bishops in
chess, four secret agents that move like
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The graphics and sound effects are on the mini-
mal side, but this doesn't realty make much differ-
ence to the game.
GRAPHICS 3 IO FACTOR S
AUDIO 2 FUN FACTOR 6
ACE RATING 780
queens and two surveillance agents that move
like rooks.
At the start, in the detente phase, players
distribute their 12 agents across the board.
There is no preset arrangement for pieces, so
setting up the board at the start is an impor-
tant element of gameplay. The overall aim is to
end up with the most money - cash is earned
by retrieving microfilms from the middle of the
board and getting them back to your base, and
also by capturing agents. Agents can be cap-
tured and removed from play in much the same
way as pieces are taken in draughts.
A few games will be needed to appreciate
C64 - dotante It over and raw th« cap-
turing begins. If you find it difficult to dis-
tinguish betwHn the pieces, you van
worn in pn the board for a clearer view.
SPECTRUM VERSION
Functional graprncs and minimal sound effects.
GRAPHICS 3 IO FACTOR a
AUDIO 2 FUN FACTOR C
ACE RATING 7BO
the tactics required, but play is very involving
and enjoyable once you've learnt the rules. The
computer opponents arent that skillful, but
they provide reasonably testing opposition.
• Bob Wade
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
1mm Ihour Tday Iwi-i-h lmnnih lyciir
Confuting at firsl bul turns jrlo a very absoihing
tactical game.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT
A NEW BEGINNING
DOMARK's new beginning
HAVING cleaned up with the lnviul Pu -
■ ■Mwiim suit licence once already,
Domarfc are clearly intent on milking it for all it
is worth. (And why not?) This new version isn't
the familiar board game that was imitated first
time round, but an attempt at making the basic
game more computer-orientated.
Play is still based on answering trivia ques-
tions, but the action is transferred to a 'save
the world in deep space' scenario Up to six
players can take part in a trip through si* galax-
ies on a journey to the world of Genus II.
In each galaxy one planet contains an
obiect After landing on a planet you are asked
a question: get it right and you destroy the
planet (or collect an object if one is present}
before moving on to another planet; fail and it's
the next player's turn.
After collecting the six objects, the six
AMIGA VERSION
Graphics and sound effects are okay. The pianer
scenery is pretty but there s not much in the way
af animation.
GRAPHICS 6 IO FACTOR 6
AUDIO 2 FUN FACTOR 6
ACE RATING 614
elders on Genus II each ask you a question,
One of them asks the 'ace' question - get Hie
right answer, and you have won.
This is hardly a revolutionary new style for
trivia, but if you liked the first one you'll like the
sequel.
• Bob Wade
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Amiga - you're being quizzed by an alien
life form. Get the question riqht and you
trash its planet - nloa huh?
68 Advanced Computet Eriteitainmerrt
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
■aaaaaaaV Baaaaaaaal VaaaaaaaW ■■aaaaMi
1min 1 hunt 1 day fwotk 1 month 1 y»ar
Never very new or exciting, but contains lost
more trivial entertainment.
CrtJIE POSITION FOR
fltiHOOfl - REP flfihlES
Th* information screen that a player can
Call up to see how well he is doing - and
how well everyone else is faring in the
quest for world domination, .*
WU AT more could a megalomaniac want
IT nttl than Wj>r | d domination? (A whole lot
of money to spend as well perhaps?) There's no
money in this conversion of the hugely popular
board game so that just leaves the world to con-
quer. Up to six players, computer or human, can
compete for control of the 5Ck)dd countries
that make up the world.
At the start, players diwy up the countries -
or the computer can be told to dish out coun-
tries at random - and then each player takes it
in turn to distribute armies. Now comes the
attacking phase. Whoever starts is awarded
extra armies, the number depending on how
many countries the player owns. If the player
has total control over a continent, extra armies
above the normal rate are supplied, in propor-
tion to the size of the continent held. Then the
new armies are stationed and attacks mounted
on neighbouring countries, one at a time. An
invasion requires at least two armies to mount.
Battles are resolved by railing dice. The
number of dice rolled depends on the number of
armies involved in the conflict - an attacker rolls
two dice unless he has more than two armies
attacking, in which case he can roll three. The
defender always rolls two dice, arid goes first.
The values showing on each die are used to
decide the fate of armies - the defender always
wins ties. For instance, if the defender rolled a
one and a four and an attacker with four armies
rolled a two ones and a six, the defender would
lose an army (the attacker's six beats his four)
RISK
LEISURE GENIUS on the campaign trail
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and the attacker would lose an army (the
defender's advantage means his one beats the
attacker's ones).
The battle continues until either the attack-
ing forte is reduced to one army or the defend-
er is booted out of the country, in which case
the attacker moves some of hrs armies into the
The red p layer prepares tp launch an
attack on Great Britain from Scandi-
navia. I Inset] Britain fall after the first
dice throw, Tha rod player moved two
arm las. In and* decided to end the turn
with a free move which means he can
■nova armies front any territory Into an
adjacent territory. The red player is now
in a strong position to capture the rest of
Europe.
conquered country and can either continue the
attack against another country or retire and col-
lect a card.
There are three types of card: artillery, cav-
alry and infantry. Three cards of the same 'suit',
or three cards,, one from each suit, count as a
set. Sets are exchanged at the start of an
attack phase for extra armies.
All the features of the board game have
been included, and the computer version plays
well. Risk never was a complicated game, and
seasoned strategists will find it too simplistic
and too reliant on luck to really test them. For
everyone else though, it's an easy and enjoyable
entertainment which you'll come back to time
and time again.
• Andy Smith
C64 VERSION
The wrap-round world scrolls fru&tratingly slowly,
and the dice rolling sequence would have benefit-
ed from being more rapid, but apart from that rt
plays well and will keep you (and many of your
friends) happy for months to come.
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
7 IQ FACTOR 5
HiA FUN FACTOR 7
ACE RATING 840
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
lmln incur 14*y 1w*vh 1 month iyear
Easy and enjoyable, you'll be playing this for a
long lime to come.
Advanced Computer Entertainment 69
SCREEN TEST
TANK ATTACK
Boardgame Blitzkreig from CDS
CO I I OU/IMO on * rom * e success
rULLUYlinU 0 f their first comput-
er-moderated boardgame, Brian Ctough's
Football Fortunes, CDS are now taking trie con-
cept into the strategy/wargame market.
rank Attack comes complete with a fold-
out board which features a hex map presented
in board-wargarning style. Four countries are
represented, and the play area includes a vari-
ety of terrain - rivers, lakes, forests, moun-
tains and towns.
Two, three or four human players can set-
tle round a table with the computer and do bat-
tle - the number of players doesn't affect the
C64 - the animated battle sequence* At
the toot of the screen are the control
icons, from left to right: Move, Fir* on
Enemy HO, Fire en Enemy Unit, Go to
Next Flayer s Turn +
The Tank Attach board, with unit* in
petition.*.
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C64 VERSION
The graphics and sound effects are adequate
rather than flas-hy - but then the real display arid
action is on the board. All versions will appear
remarkably Similar, with 16-bit machines offering
slightly flashier presentation.
GRAPHICS 3 IQ FACTOR &
AUDIO 3 FUN FACTOR A
ACE RATING 743
basic gameplay, but determines a pattern of
alliances between the countries on the board.
Once the nature of the basic conflict has
been determined, the computer has to be told
who is allied with whom, and then players can
deploy their forces on the board.
Four armoured divisions, each comprising
four armoured cars and eight tanks, are sup-
plied as small plastic playing pieces. Notches
on the rear of a piece indicate the firepower of
the unit it represents: there are two grades of
armoured car and three grades of tank.
The overall aim is to destroy the bases of
opposing countries by moving armoured units
within range and blasting the HQs to
smithereens - but first hostile territory has to
be covered and opposing forces destroyed
while defending your own base. The computer
acts as game moderator,, deciding the out-
come of fire-fights, keeping track of the status
of each of the forces locked in combat and pro-
viding a bulletin after each completed round.
At the start of a turn, a computerised die is
cast which determines how many movement
units a player can use. After moving the player
can opt to start shooting at forces that are in
range by clicking on the appropriate window on
the turn screen Moving a pointer allows the
allegiance of the target and its distance from
the firing unit to be input to the computer, and
both sides then have to reveal the firepower
and armour of the two units about to be locked
in combat. While a light armoured car can take
out a battle tank, the odds are against it..
If the attacker confirms the order to fire, a
short animated sequence follows, in which the
attacker and attacked units trade a single shot
before the computer reports on the outcome.
Sometimes, a unit may be damaged but capa-
ble of being repaired or rebuilt, in which case
the player can remove it to the appropriate
depot where it remains until the computer
allows it back into play. A unit is removed from
the board rf it is destroyed.
Tank Attack doesn't appear to have the
intricate decision-making systems that would
satisfy a wargaming purist, relying fairly heavily
on ruck, but there is plenty of opportunity For
modifying attack and defensive strategies. A
good game for sitting around having fun .
• Graeme Kidd
■CHI IStMTSfS
tL ft Hi
SEP* (
Blasting away on level two* These
incoming missile* should pose you a few
problems-, but it doesn't take long to
learn how to dodge them. They then
become more of a nuisance than threat
and that adds nothing to the game's last-
ing Interest,
HELLFIRE
ATTACK
High-flying flames from
MARTECH
LOOKS llke After B u ™e r and plays like it
Is Wfw l00 major difference is that
instead of a plane you're frying a helicopter.
The graphics are disappointing because the
scenery scrolls by m rows, looking like card-
board cut-outs. The attacking craft can be blast-
ed with cannon fire or homing missiles, but
have rockets of their own. The problem is that
avoiding them is a rather simple manoeuvre.
It's another game that fairly accurately
reproduces what there is in the arcades, but
wasn't really much of a game in the first place.
• Bob Wade
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PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
1DO
lmbl IhOUF Iwfrrti lm»nll> 1>i-.ir
ACE RATING 554
l«nin Ibouf %4»v 1 week 1 month tyvpr
An enduring game; one thai titters an opportunity
lor people to have Tun together. You'll come back
lo H from time (c- time lor ages.
THE ARCADE GAME OF THE YEAR
SCREENTEST
BLACK ORCHID
Another MUNDANE morning
The Benign and Malign farces. movA In for
Hi* MIL-
ATARI ST VERSION
The graphics are colourful but the sound effects
are dull. Black Orchid is a simple, playable fanta-
sy-wargame that's best enjoyed with a human
opponent.
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
7 IQ FACTOR 4
5 FUN FACTOR 6
ACE RATING 643
CTAEE problems are always worrying.
* ■ Fortunately the staff in The Black
Orchid is a thing and not people. The staff still
causes problems, because it's broken in two,
and the forces of Good and Evil are about to
start slugging it out in an attempt to gain con-
trol of the other side's piece.
Why all the fuss over a staff? Because it's a
magical one that allows whoever is holding it
full control over the elements. At the start, the
two halves are kept under lock and key in each
side's citadel: the only way to gain the power
of the staff is to capture the other piece. Two
people can wrangle for the staff, or a single
player can take on the computer.
Play begins with neither player controlling
characters or armies - each player controls
just one of the 21 sectors that make up the
island over which the conflict ranges. Money
has to be spent to recruit characters and
troops to your cause, and the amount available
to spend fluctuates, depending on which and
how many sectors of the island you control.
After spending money, characters and troops
are deployed by the player in his sector and
then it's on to the movement phase, Armies
and characters can onfy move into adjacent ter-
ritories r and move once per turn.
Combat is resolved after a move, and then
the whole process starts again. Over 60 indi-
vidual characters wander across the island,
each with differing attributes that effect their
combat efficiency and other factors. As with
most fantasy games, magic plays an important
part and there's an impressive list of spells to
hit the enemy with - providing sufficient magic
points have been accumulated.
The computer opponent is weak, even on
the higher of the two settings, and the game is
far too simplistic and limited to really test pow-
ers of strategic planning. Tussle with a friend
for the staff, though, and play becomes Involv-
ing and fun.
• Andy Smith
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UGH-LYMPICS
Go clubbing with ELECTRONIC ARTS
GRONK Glunk ' Crudla - Thafc Ugha and
WriVllIm Vincent are not names that
spring immediately to mind when you think of
the world's top sports personalities. They are
however, the stars of the six-event Neanderthal
CHympics.
If you're thinking of the usual 100m dash,
or 4)t400m relay, forget it, The events here are
unlike anything you ve seen bet ore.
Mate Tossing is the first event (not as
offensive as dwarf-throwing, but a sport that
would be frowned on by today's Modern
Woman). By rotating the joystick - slowly at
first then increasing the speed, your character
starts to go into a spin with his mate (he holds
her by the feet). Press the fire button aid she
goes sailing through the air. A straight waggle-
em-up follows, as you try to run away Irom a
hungry sabre-toothed tiger. Survive that and it's
waggle time again in the fire-lighting contest.
After starting a good blaze, it's on to a
nice spot of Clubbing. A straightforward beat-
envup set on top of a high platform, clubbing
simply involves bashing your opponent until he
falls off the platform or runs out of energy. With
no respect for historical accuracy, caveman
meets dinosaur in the last two events. Dmo
Racing calls for Lester Piggot type skills - you
The Dino Vaulting event- it looka Ilka
drank is about to flo into early retirement!
sit astride a dinosaur waggling the joystick to
make it run, hitting the fire button at the right
moment to make it jump obstacles.
The caveman competition finally ends with
a game in which a hungry dinosaur lurks on the
screen, and contestants have to pole vault over
it in order to survive.
Caveman Ugh-Lympics is full of humour
and is great fun to play - especially with a
group of friends. The events are not hard to
master though; once the novelty has worn off
you're left with a standard multi-event waggler,
• Andy Smith
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The graphics are big and colourful. The game-
play is good and the sound effects are pass-
able. A fun. game to play, and one that is bound
to appeal to younger games players. If you're
looking for a serious long-term sporting chal
lefige, you're probably better of I with something
else.
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
IQ FACTOR 2
FUN FACTOR 7
ACE RATING 689
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Trapdoor; and elevators
transport you - sometimes to
your surprise - inside ancient
buildings and under lakes and
oceans. Guild up the Firepower
necessary to fight off your
aggressors, Action and
excitement all the way with this
macabre and unusual game;
which has that elusive extra
something to keep you coming
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Saga - blasting helle Dpters. in the over-
head view stage.
Sega. - in the second stage* the tanks
gat meaner, but the helicopters nose no
threat at all
to be confused with the home com-
puter versions which are being han-
dled by US Gold, this oflers the same combina
tion of two types of shoot-em-up, in which you
view the helicopter from behind or above.
Beginning with the overhead view, waves of
helicopters and tanks appear from the top of
the screen. The choppers just try to crash into
you r except for one nasty guy who hovers on
screen and rattles off masses of bullets.
While weaving around blasting, watch out
for the tanks which loose off the odd shot,
Tanks need to be taken out by using the sec-
ond fire button, which fires shells down to the
ground.
In the second section things work m a simi-
lar manner, but everything is viewed from
behind the copter. The tanks on the ground
have much more deadly firepower, but on the
plus side, the choppers can no longer crash
into you. Enemy planes are thrown in for good
measure, but only those that appear a little
later on can do any shooting.
Getting through the first two stages is a tall
order, but the reward comes in the form of a
nice easy strafing job on what looks like a large
rocket. It isn't easy lor long,., a testing bit of
obstacle dodging soon follows.
The main problem is that play is far too dif
ARCADE ACCURACY
Surprisingly, this is not as close as
the computer versions in some
aspects of graphics and gameplay.
COIN OP SCORE 5
ficult. You can eventually learn the way through,
but it takes many restarts, and ploughing
through the same old start waves soon gets
dull.
• Bob Wade
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
imin incur 1<fay 1w**h 1 month 1y#ir
Too dklflcull lo gel you hooked.
GRAPHICS 7 IQ FACTOR 2
AUDIO 4 FUN FACTOR 7
ACE RATING 644
CAPTAIN SILVER
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
PLENTY :r|ure hacl(in E aDout with
1 ' swords In this one (and make
Sega - ■ purple Cheshire cat waits to
pounce from atop tha wall, while another
hairy beast close* in from tha right
no mistake). Armed with a cutlass, the Captain
is off to fight anything fool enough to get in his
way.
The first level ^s just horizontally-scrolling
combat - and the Captain has his hands full.
Nasty, furry things charge at him, Cheshire
cats leap off walls onto his head and a pied
piper shoots killer musical notes..,
When a baddie bites the dust it leaves
behind a letter. Collect the letters that spell out
'Captain Silver' and an extra life is yours. Other
objects that can be collected, or bought at
shops in exchange lor points, include additional
firepower, jump height, shield and time.
Firepower is the most important upgrade
available, because it confers stars that can kill
from a distance. As you get more tokens, the
number of shooting stars increases, making
the Captain's voNey of fire more effective.
The range of adversaries and problems is
extensive. This is the sort of game, like Golvel-
1 mn n I h 1 f+H
An enjoyable hit of hacking and hla sling made
interesting by extre weapons,
lius and Lord of the Sword, that the Sega lends
itself to most easily. What is lacking is variety
in the gameplay - the different cute graphics
you encounter don't make amends.
• Bra Wade
76 Advanced Computer Entertainment
GRAPHICS 7 IQ FACTOR 2
AUDIO 6 FUN FACTOR 7
ACE RATING 706
SCREEKTEST
HSATIONS ?
MONOPOLY
UNFAMILIAR
names feature on a
very familiar game.
All the street names are different from those
you would expect to find on this classic board
game, but the familiar layout is used.
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the right.
The transition onto console has been
achieved rather well, although there's the usual
problem of not getting the whole board on
screen with enough detail. However, the Sega
saves you all that messing around with dice,
money and title deeds.
Up to 10 players can take part, any of
whom can be controlled by the computer. The
computer players have three skiJI levels, but
the setting doesn't make too much difference
to performance as the game relies substantially
on the luck of the dice.
The small board means it is difficult to
know who owns what and what they've got on
it. However, all this information is available via
menus. You can't really go wrong with this one
- nearly everyone likes Monopofy,
• Bob Wade
GOLVELLIUS
COMBINED game styles strike agam
as an arcade adventure
is spiced up with scrolling platform action and
shoot-em-up elements.
The overall aim is to track down seven
crystals and rescue a princess - ho-hum, how
original. The action is more interesting, starting
with a bit of horizontal scrolling in which a
sword comes m handy to hack away at a few
snakes and obstacles.
This leads to some flick screens, where
you can freely wander around, hacking away at
insects, snakes and animals. On nearly all
these screens a hole appears in the ground
which can be entered. Peopfe willing to give or
sell objects lurk in the holes - the gold needed
for trade is acquired by killing things above
ground. Getting objects like extra power units,
shields and so on, is crucial.
Enemies get harder to kill and objects hard-
er to find further into the game. It all seems
uninspiring at first but grows on you, not least
because of the "continue game' option which
allows the exploring to continue after a disas-
ter.
• Bob Wade
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
Saga - these snakes on the flick screens
may not look as nasty, but they still hurt
jrour power level If touched-
Hum 1hnur Id** 1 wrvh 1 ma nib Ty*ar
There's plenty to explore and do. wilh a reason-
able r$nge of ercede sequences,
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
S 1Q FACTOR 3
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Sega - dping battle with a giant snake in
the lint scrolling sequence.
ACE RATING 741
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
Into Ihaur 1w«ek Imofilh lyear
an exciling game but one that will last
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
3 IO FACTOR 6
3 FUN FACTOR 5
ACE RATING 712
LORD OF
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HACK tnr0u 6^ an arc ade adventure
, ** vr * where a trusty sword and bow are
needed to fight off the enemy hordes.
The quest is a fairly straightforward matter
of battling along horizontally-scrolling land-
scapes, mapping out how the locations con-
nect and following the instructions provided at
certain spots. Following instructions leads to
vital objects and places.
The attacking creatures sometimes need
more than one hit to kill them, and behave m
different ways - flying, jumping, hovering - and
crouching is the only way to kill some of them.
A continue option is offered here too, which
makes it much easier to explore and work
things out. Sadly, the gameplay lacks variety
and the adventure element is restricted to map-
ping a route.
Imin Ihnur Idjy 1 wttk ImMlh
Quickly becomes boring of wandering around.
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
6 IQ FAOTOR 2
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ACE RATING 412
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MANDARIN'S muddy motoring
CARS have beefl s P roiit ' n 8 a " sor ^ s °*
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Rally is one race where you won't find any
machine guns strapped to tne cars. The only
add-ons available here are fog lamps, engines
and other performance improvers.
The raJly is composed of 15 stages, with
three stages run in a day. After practising the
stages in their groups of three, the rally as a
whole can be tackled.
As in real life, the stages take place under
a variety of conditions and across different ter-
rains- - drivers have to cope with fog and the
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mountains. Visibility is very bad in places
because of the undulating, winding roads. Fast
reactions are needed to cope with sharp bends
that suddenly appear as you top the brow of a
hill or race through the fog.
During practice, money can be earned by
answering some rallying questions correctly
and prize money is won by gaming a place in
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ATARI ST VERSION
Graphics are okay, but the impression of mave-
irant given by (he road could have been better,
The engine noise isn't very convincing,
GRAPHICS 6 IQ FACTOR 4
AUDIO 3 FUN FACTOR £
ACE RATING 674
the stages of the rally. Cash is used to repair
the car, or to buy add-ons such as fog lamps,
better engines or four wheel drive.
This is basically Test Drive with a more
undulating road and less traffic. As such it's
good r and completing the whole rally is far
from easy,
• BobWade
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
mm
ST - Mind the trees collision* make a
nasty m«it of a shiny maw car... The
drivar is animated, moving mm he steers
and changes gear - vary nfc* It Is to-O.
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Excitement tails off quickly, but the challenge
remains strong.
ATARI ST VERSION
The graphics are fine, and the turvg that plays
throughout is ojuite jolly. Fun stuff, but too easy to
keep you interested for very tang.
GRAPHICS 7 IQ FACTOR 1
AUDIO 5 FUN FACTOR 6
ACE RATING 594
PROFESSIONAL
footballers
don't always
lead the glamourous lives we read about Stay-
ing fit for each match calls for hard work, and
long training sessions are a must.
Three main activities keep Mr Lineker fit:
gym work-outs, ball control and field work.
Gym Work is divided into four disciplines -
weight training, push-ups, sauat thrusts and the
monkey bars. In each 'event 1 Gaz works
against the clock and either has to complete a
set number of moves or cover a ore-deter-
mined distance. Pulse rate and energy levels
are displayed at the side of the screen, and as
the work-out progresses,, the pulse rate
increases and the energy level drops. Stopping
to rest reduces the pulse rate, while taking a
swig from a bottle of glucose boosts energy.
GARY LINEKER S
SUPERSKILLS
Get in training with GREMLIN
The ball control section simpty requires the
hero to keep a football bouncing off different
parts of his body. For example, Gaz may have
to head the ball three times, bounce it on his
left knee twice and then kick it with his right
foot. Out on the footie field, a dribbling test
requires the ball to be guided between a set of
cones, then shots at goal follow. Finally, in an
accuracy test Gaz tries to shoot the ball
through some suspended tyres. All the events
can be practised individually, or strung togeth-
er in a 'designer training programme'.
Despite the awful instruction sheet, Super-
sWfls is very easy to master once you know
what you're supposed to be doing.. Though
m
Super sMis is well put together and is fun to
play, it won't take you long to burn out. Still, it's
an improvement on the Lineker soccer game.
• Andy Srnitfi
SPECTRUM VERSION
MurtWoad and slightly tougher to play than the ST
version, there is too little in it to keep you interest-
ed for long.
GRAPHICS 7 lO FACTOR 1
AUDIO 4 FUN FACTOR 6
ACE RATING 590
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PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
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The action is split into different stages in
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All the sequences involve diagonal scrolling, as
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The first phase of every level involves
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COIN OP SCORE 9
ST - Speeder* flash past trees, and often Into them. An Ewok rope trap here will earn
bonus paints if you go through it... and It might taka out a ■Jorrntrooper*
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DOMARK are back with the Force
|Fwtt tt» left) *T - rumbling along in an Imperial Walker, watch nut for the logs that can
bring It crashing to the around ; fly past Darin' • ship and lighter* to gat to the Death Star
and when inside weave bet wean the red barriers to make It to the reactor.
ATARI ST VERSION
Scrolling is good for an ST, particularly consider-
ing it's diagonal. The graphics are delightful, and
the animation on Walkers and other objects is
also good. The digitised speech is excellent and
ingame effects are pleasingly violent and noisy.
graphics b iq factor 2
AUDIO 7 FUN FACTOR 9
ACE RATING 854
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trees and stormtroopers astride Speeder s.
Troopers can be rammed into trees or shot if
they're foolish enough get in front of you. Later
Oft, traps set up by the Ewoks have to be avoid-
ed - ropes strung between trees, log sandwich-
es and hollow trees can all be negotiated for
bonus points.
On later levels the positioning of the trees
and Speeders gets more difficult, and addition-
al hazards appear, like Ewok hang-gliders that
drop rocks across the path. At the end of the
route a welcoming committee and a tasty
bonus score await the hero's arrival.
The second stage on Level One involves a
trip in the Millenium Falcon to destroy a Death
Star by blowing up its reactor. Weaving the Fal-
con between barriers, with fighters in hot
pursuit, the reactor at the end of the space
assault course has to be blasted. Then it's time
to fly back the way you came in order to escape
the exploding Death Star. On subsequent levels
the tunnel becomes even more deadly with
more complicated barrier layouts, descending
bars and gun turrets at the tunnel sides.
From Level Two onwards an additional
stage appears in between the Speeder and Fal-
con runs. In the extra stage, control switches
between a Walker making its way through the
jungle and the Falcon attacking Darth Vader s
ship. The Walker encounters log piles, rolling
logs, other Walkers and rock hurling catapults,
while the Falcon has a couple of fighters
accompanying it as drones and has to battle
fighters and the gun turrets on Vader' s ship.
Bonus scores are given at the end of the
first jungle stage, after the reactor has been
destroyed and when the Death Star blows up.
Big bonus scores are also on offer at the end
of the first stage if the game is played at the
Medium or Hard skill levels, which start you at
levels Three and Five respectively.
Jedr is a marvellous combination ol slick
graphics, digitised film speech, blasting action
and frantic flying. It has turned out as the best
of the three Star Wars games because it lends
itself more easily to computers, whereas the
vectors were more of a coirwp speciality.
• Bob wade
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
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ety and difficulty to grip you.
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SCREENTEST
Amstrad - that * your bi plan* parked outside the pyr
Head rhrough ttie door to start Adventuring,
amid at the start of the game.
eclipse, and that means its the moon that is
going to go boom, causing an awful lot of ife
terminating problems for the people on Earth.
Being a right little Indiana Jones, you've
flown in by biplane to the pyramid and are
going to have a crack at getting to the shrine
and removing the curse. Ail before the eclipse
happens and the tea gets cold in the pot.
As well as the Freescape view of the sur-
roundings, the main display contains a number
of informative icons. The top ol the screen
shows the number of Ankhs being earned
(these ancient artifacts act as keys) and the
value of treasure collected, and contains a pic-
ture that shows how near the eclipse is, At the
bottom of the screen a message window gives
details of the location and reports on events as
they happen, and below that is a watch that
shows exactly how much time remains before
disaster strikes, a water-bottle, a heartbeat
meter, and a compass.
There are a number of ways of goofing
things up on the quest - such as running out of
time, agitating your heart so that you have a
heart attack, or encountering an instantly tern>
TOTAL ECLIPSE
INCENTIVE walk like an Egyptian
©Anyone who hasn't heard of the
Freescape programming sys-
tem must have been living on
the moons of Evath for the last
18 months. In the hands of the
creative team at Incentive it
turns out solid 3D environments m which all
manner of adventures have been taking place,
Take a wander back in time to 1930, to a
world m peril. Mankind is threatened by an
ancient curse - if, at any time of the day, the
sun is prevented from shining on an Egyptian
shrine at the top of a pyramid, whatever pre-
vents the light from reaching the shrine will go
boom, Unfortunately there s about to be an
nal trap. The heartbeat is speeded up by falling
off things, running out of water or getting
attacked by the automatic defence systems.
The overall mission objective is to get to
the shrine at the top of the pyramid, but in
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Amilrad - inside the pyramid, Going from
top to bottom you not totne idea of the
massive range of views available as you
wander about.
Right - tha same view (different angle) on
the Spectrum, It may not be as colourful,
but It's as playable.
86 Advanced Compter Eitetainment
p_« m m r *»." ■** _"•<**
w
JLmstrad - could she be th* key to a puzzle?
order to provide an ongoing measure of
progress (and make the adventure worthwhile)
treasure can be picked up along the way.
Trie puzzles are similar in nature to those
m Dn/Jer, but everything is much more com-
pact. It s not a matter of exploring large open
areas, but one of mapping a complicated maze
Df rooms packed with objects. Much of the
uneventful travel between places that you have
in Driller and Dark Side is eliminated , concen-
trating both the mind and gameplay.
Your "interface with objects is again con-
ducted in two main ways; shoot them or walk
up to them. There s the same freedom of
movement to look up and down, crouch or do
V turns and there is also a handy option to re-
orientate yourself to face forward - it saves a
tot of time spent messing about after having a
SPECTRUM VERSION
The stippling, one colour eHecr has never been as
etlectwe as the multi-colour modes of other ver-
sions, out rt still looks good. Precious little in the
way o( sound effects again.
GRAPHICS 7 IQ FACTOR 7
Th* number of
AnkhEi in ypur pos-
session.
The amount of
treasure you have
collected hi far. •
This icon shows
how close the
moon is to eclips-
ing the sun, m
The compass
shows you in
which direction
you ere facing,*
The watch show
ing the time. The
eclipse occurs at
1 0am,
Your water flask.
It needs to be con-
tinually refilled to
keep you alive.
Your heart. The
taster it heats the
closer you are to i
cardiac arrest.
AUDIO
2 FUN FACTOR ©
ACE RATING 902
AMSTHAD VERSION
t\ the year or so that Freescape has been
around nobody has come up wilti a competitor
for its graphic style. It's as distinctive and
impressive as ever.
good look round a room.
Trie early rooms are full of relatively easy
puzzles to solve, getting you comfortably into
the action. It's not just a matter of finding one
correct solution either.,, there are a Dumber of
ways of solving most situations, giving a wel-
come flexibility to the gameplay.
It's hard to go wrong with the Freescape
system, which is ideally suited for producing
absorbing games. Total Eclipse is nearer to a
standard arcade adventure than the previous
games in terms of exploration and puzzle solv-
ing, and Freescape gives it the winning edge,
• Bob Wade
GRAPHICS S IQ FACTOR 7
AUDIO 2 FUN FACTOR 6
ACE RATING 907
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
_i M
1 mm IN cur 1 day Iwtit 1 month IvMf
Freescape isn't as initially exciting these
days, but There's all the addiction and chal-
lenge you can handle
Advanced Computer Entertainment 87
At tha start of Level Four. These switch-
es above and to the left of Putty are
important...
...Oops? Puffy bounced onto the wrong bit
and will not be able to get at any af the
food on this level
Pufyn's turn this lima. She's in training
mod* (hence all those health points) and
has managed to collect a tire pill.
PUFFY'S SAGA
UBI SOFT launch their invasion
ZOMBI yn thc CPC hLHrdly made J&l Soft
bvMDI a household name in the UK, but
over the coming months the French software
house hopes to change the position.
Putty's Saga, the first of a series of forth-
corning UK launches from Jbi Soft, is a Gaunt-
tefrsh maze game in which yoj control either
Puffy himself or his girlfriend Pufyn. Rushing
around some 30 walled levels, the aim is to
collect small brown balls and avoid nasties.
Both characters look like small potatoes, but
have different attributes. Pufyn, for example,
can move quicker than Puffy, but has weaker
firepower and tends to get fewer goodies.
The nasties come in different shapes and
sizes; some roam around the levels chasing
you, while others remain stationary blasting the
hero or heroine as they bounce past. Health
points are reduced by contact with the
denizens of the dungeon, so keep out of their
way or shoot them before they touch you.
Extra weapons are available, including super
shots which greatly increase firepower, and
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"Die graphics are cotourful and though the scrolling
is a bit naff, the animation is good- The sound
effects are wonderful as is Ihe digitised speech.
Let's hope Utn Soft keep up the good work.
GRAPHICS B 1Q FACTOR 6
AUDIO B PUN FACTOR S
AGE RATING 844
SCORE-
•
5* 1
extra speed which puts the character in athlete
mode. To keep those health points up - they
count down continually whether you bump into
baddies or not - make sure to eat the food
that's scattered around the place.
All the brown balls on the current level have
to be collected before access is gained to the
next stage* This process would be a lot easier
if all the brown balls were out in the open -
some are hidden behind walls or in chests, and
the only way to get at them is by collecting
keys which open chests and certain walls, or
by bouncing onto trip switches which open sec-
tions of wall Hang around too long on a level
though, and the walls start disappearing on
their own, which is not usually a good tiling...
A form of currency - Magic Goms - exists,
and can be collected and used to buy extras.
For the very reasonable price of one Gom,
another hundred health points can be pur-
chased or a swap effected between the two
characters.
Pufly's Saga is great fun to play - all the
puzzles and traps mean it will take a long time
to master. Then you can go back and do it at
over again using the other character.
• Andy Smiti
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
1 nun lhouf 1d»y Iwnk 1 month 1jp**r
Humorous and challenging.
Puffy «v running out of health points - he
has got antra speed 1 ho ugh, so he may
be able to got past those dragons and
collect the food on the way- It might be
an idea to trade in that Magic Com (blue
ball below the keys) lor an extra hundred
health points at this stage.
88 Advanced Computer Entertainment
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wg Converse through
I simple commands
J Ltnd menus.
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gradually become involved in a compelling plot.
With 13,000 screen locations, a powerful but easy-
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The Joker game - in living colour!
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floor flashing), before using them in the correct
locations in order to progress. An element of
combat is involved, but true to the original sto-
ries, no-one actually dies.
There are two main screen displays, and
pulling down on the joystick with fire pressed
toggles between mem. In the main display
mode, each location is viewed side-on, the size
ol the display depending on the size of the
location and whether there are any objects in
it. Leaving a location causes another frame to
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BATMAN
THE CAPED CRUSADER
Batman licences? OCEAN Gotham...
jes until you either use or pick up an object,
when the overlays clear and the display starts
afresh. The other main screen mode is the
static utilities screen which reveals health,
strength, stamina and so on. It also contains a
group of icons including a use' icon and a
drop icon, surrounded by the objects collect-
ed on your travels. To use an object, select it
and click on the use icon.
As well as wandering around collecting
objects, there are the criminal's minions to
avoid or fight. Be careful though, because fight-
ing takes energy which can only be replaced by
collecting and eating (using) food, which is
sometimes difficult to find.
Of the two games, the Penguin one is the
easier. Comic strip captions often give you
clues as to which object should be used where.
There aren't so many clues when you're playing
against the Joker though, so beware.
Batman The Caped Ousader is great fun
to play. The pU22les can be tricky but with a lit-
tle bit of lateral thinking they get easier.
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The screen display is great - Itiere's even an
option to play with the backgrounds in mono or
full colour. The game plays well, though rt is
sometimes annoying to try a law kick on an oppo-
nent and end up m the utilities screen. Overall, it's
Tun to play, and wi;l keep arcade land Batman)
fans happy for a long time.
GRAPHICS 9 IO FACTOR 5
AUDIO 6 FUN FACTOR B
ACE RATING 903
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Hold on to your stomachs, unscramble
your brains for the journey of a lifetime
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EXPLODING FIST +
More fist-action from FIREBIRD
OVER
three years have passed since
The Way Of The Exploding Fist
blasted onto the home computer, heralding a
new era in combat games. Little has changed
or the beat-em-up Iront since then though: the
opponents have got uglier, meaner and more
numerous, but the basic theme still hasn't
changed.
Fist* can accommodate up to three play-
ers, computer or human, and the aim is to
become a 10th dan by winning two bouts per
dan. Manage that without getting knocked out
of a round, and you then have to defend your
title against more, increasingly difficult, oppo-
nents. As you'd expect from a beat-em-up, the
standard 16 moves are available - eight with
the fire button pressed, and eight without. The
bouts are each timed to one minute, but they
can finish earlier if one player manages to
clock up eight hits on the opponents.
After every two bouts, the surviving human
players get to lake part in a points-boosting
bonus game. Placed in a dark alley, the player
has to manoeuver a cross-hair sight around the
screen and aim Shuriken at the dragon heads
that appear. Miss one of the heads and it
comes flying toward the player and the bonus
game is over.
Though it's not original stuff, beat-em-up
fans will find Fist* playable, with a degree of
short-term addichveness.
• Andy Smith
| Left | C64 ■ the g.-een guy is just about to
start hitting you while the red guy waits
for his turn. The backgrounds arc colour-
ful with all that noon flashing away!
C64 VERSION
The graphics are goad, but don t expect too
much in the sound, department. The opponents
are tough - which is good - and the abtfty to
accommodate up to three players is even better.
All said though, it is unoriginal and you will tire of
it
GRAPHICS B IQ FACTOR 2
AUDIO ft FUN FACTOR 7
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Good, challenging Fun for beat-em-up tans, but
likely lo wear thin after a while.
SAVAGE
FIREBIRD answers the call of the wild
Amctrftd - hacks his way through montlroul adverurift* In tha castla dun-
geona.
UIIMIf Q eve rywhere have ^ en ending
nUlllw fte ad for this. Now they get
the chance to strut their funky stuff in a trio ol
arcade challenges. But even if you are man
enough for the game, is it man enough for you?
Savage's muscular body only appears in the
first stage, which is similar to Tranter, A large
figure runs and bounds along scrolling corri-
dors, battling off the denizens of the dungeons.
The escape route is made deadly by the large
corridor guardians and the pits which have to
be jumped over.
Stage Two is totally dillerent and is a test
of reflexes. The action is viewed through Sav^
age's eyes as he races across the Valley ol
Death. Monoliths come hurtling towards the
C64 VERSION
Compares well with the CPC version - super
graphics and lively music and effects.
GRAPHICS 9 IQ FACTOR 1
AUDIO 6 FUN FACTC
ACE RATING 704
FUN FACTOR 8
AMSTRAD VERSION
Some of the best graphics yet seen on a CPC in
all three stages. Sound effects and music arc
also good.
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
9 IQ FACTOR 1
6 FUN FACTOR B
ACE RATING 704
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SCREEN TEST
TECHNOCOP
Highway robbery from GREMLIN
f*ADC sometimes have robotic attar h-
vVr^ merits - but this one is going up
against the evikJoers without any shiny armour
plating. However lots of hi-tech gear as well as
a sparking new fast car are on offer to this
heroic lawgiver...
Hopping into ttie car, which has a machine
gun mounted on the roof, you set off along the
road. Traffic that gets in the way tan be blast-
Spti£lrum - Inside the first building th*
radar scope homes in en the criminal,
whose details are shewn Oft the bottom
left of the screen.
screen and have to be weaved around. You've
also got to shoot skulls and other monsters.
Stage Three takes play back to the dun-
geons, but this time, in the form of an eagle t
he has to retrieve magic powers and free the
imprisoned maiden, The eagle can shoot as
well as fly - handy when dealing with the mon-
sters that assail it.
The three stages offer different tests of
game-playing ability, but no singte one is that
good. As a package, though, it hangs together
imbI
• Bob Wade
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ed or barged aside, and when a message
comes through that a crime is being commit-
ted, speed is of the essence in order to get to
the scene of the crime m time, If the traffic is a
little heavy, there's always the Nuke'em mis-
siles that act as smart bombs. Later on, addi-
tional equipment is available to deal with
motorists - a turbocharger, a more powerful
gun and side rams. Bonus items found on the
missions help increase the score, replenish life
or repair car damage.
At the crime scene leave the car and pro-
ceed on foot into a building, tracking the crimi-
nal who has to be caught or killed on a radar
scanner. Criminals don't have to end up in pine
boxes, but can be captured using a net gun.
Speed and care are called for because there's
a time limit for capturing the bad guy, and inno-
cent civilians shouldn't be shot. To get to the
quarry, holes in the floor have to be leapt over
and lifts used to move between lloors as gang-
sters attack you with guns, knives and whips.
When a mission is completed, successfully
SPECTRUM VERSION
The driving stage is fast and great to look at, The
buitong stage doesn't come across so impres-
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limited to engine and shooting noises.
GRAPHICS 7 IO FACTOR
AUDIO 3 FUN FACTOR
ACE RATING 804
or not, it's back to the car and on to the next
building. Before the day s work is done, eleven
criminals have to be apprehended, hiding in
increasingly complicated locations - the build-
ing maps getting bigger and trickier to get
around.
A very pleasing mix of driving action, which
compares well with other recent car games,
and exploration. There's no let-up in the action
on erther stage. It's annoying to have to repeat
the early buildings every time you play, but oth-
erwise it's well paced and full of things to shoot
and find,
• Bob Wade
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R oboe op slugs it out with a chain saw
wielding maniac in Stage One.
IT 1 © not often the launch of a new comput-
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and now Ocean are poised to launch the com-
puter game,
Obviously, both versions have their roots in
the film, but Ocean - having seen early ver-
sions of the Data East game - had a choice.
They could either do a straight coirvop conver-
sion, or leave the coin-op alone completely and
concentrate on turning the film plot into a
playable game - something they had done pre-
viously with Platoon, In the end they decided to
combine the two.
The game breaks down into nine main sec-
tions, each sectKKi based on sequences from
the film. The first stage has the player control-
ling Rohocop as he goes about his daily busi-
Shnot the bad guy, but mind the girl,
Remember Direct ivft Number Two.
The photo-fit section. Match the face an
the right to the one en the left.
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ROBOCOP
Part man, part machine, all OCEAN
ness of serving the public trust, i.e. shooting
baddies. This horizontally-scrolling part of the
game is heavify inspired by the coin-op. Bad-
dies appear on street level and from first floor
windows and most of them are armed with pis-
tols or chain saws.
You have to shoot the baddies (each baddy
takes at least two shots before he dies} while
avoiding their shots. To make life easier there
are four types of extra weapon to pick up
including three-way shots and super shots that
allow you to take baddies out with one shot.
The Manta Gun that is used at the end of the
film also makes an appearance towards the
end of the game.
You have a limited supply of energy, and
every time you take a hit the meter drops a lit-
tle. Fortunately, extra energy capsules can be
collected, but allow the energy to drop too
much and you lose one of the initial three lives.
Other parts of the game include a target-shoot-
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baddy who is holding a woman hostage - hit
the woman and your health meter suffers
severely {Directive Number Two: Protect the
Innocent). There is also a photo-fit ID sequence
with 40 seconds available to match up pieces
of a face and build up an Identikit picture for
the face shown on screen. Finally, there are
shoot em-up sequences in the drugs factory
and the junk yard.
Combining elements from the coin-op with
the Ocean interpretation of the film has worked
well. There's plenty of shoot-em-up action, and
the other sequences capture the feel and
flavour of the film.
• Andy Smith
SPECTRUM VERSION
The graphics are great and the music and dign
tised speech on the 1 28K version are very mood-
setting. Its lun to play and, though tt»e first few
stages are a little easy, the game >s tough enough
to keep you playing. 48K owners will have to
mutti-load the game and miss out on all that
speecri and music, which is a shame.
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
8 IQ FACTOR 2
B FUN FACTOR 3
ACE RATING 807
In the drug* (actor y. There's an extra
weapon directly above Rebocop - If ha
can net to II...
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
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LAST NINJA II
SYSTEM 3 goes Hnya!
■ fll Ninja down, especially
when he's Airnakuni f the chap who
ycwj helped to defeat the evil
sliogun in Last Ninja. It was only a
temporary victory though, as Kuni-
toki has risen again, more power-
ful than ever.
Instead of the green and
pleasant lands of the original, this
time around the no-good Shogun
has picked the towering skyscrap-
ers and tough streets of New York
to spread his wicked ways.
Our hero has to find his way
through five different areas, each
taking a load, until he reaches the
baddies' retreat.
Knifewielding muggers, punks
and other Ninjas block progress on
foe journey to the evil Shogun, and
even :he police join m the battle! At
trie start, you fight with fists and
feet - there are a few unarmed
moves available, but careful explo-
ration should soon lead to a
weapon, which makes the whole
fighting process a lot less painful,
Sometimes it's worth avoiding bat-
tie altogether to preserve that all-
important life force,
A puzzle element to the game
consists mainly of finding objects
and fitting them to obvious situa-
tions... nothing to really stretch the
brain. The real problems come
wtti the over-complicated control
system which makes even simple
tasks like picking up objects and
leaving rooms difficult.
Last Mrnja W is a curious mix
between a beatem-up and arcade
adventure. Fans of the original will
probably enpy it, but rather than
an improvement its more of a
scenery change.
• Robin Alway
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iff but COnlrol iSrt'l ftHV-
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I don't know whether the 'mach' bit refers to
the speed of the rider in this game, or to
his macho qualities, I'm sure that Nintendo run-
tended it both ways, as usual. Don't you just
love literally translated Japanese? All those
cars named after bowls of fruit and flowers.
Doesn't it crease you up?
Mach Rider takes you into the fast lane, via
the Jikes of Road Blasters and Super Hang On.
You drive a fast bike, with four gears, chased
by evil trikes along a twisted roadway lined by
oil drums. Oil and water on the road surface
can lead to a skid, and anything you bump into
MACH RIDER
Hell on two wheels with NINTENDO
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GRAPHICS 7 \Q FACTOR 3
AUDIO 6 FUN FACTOR Q
ACE RATING 636
makes hike and rider explode into little |igsaw
squares. There is a choice of challenges: com-
bat, endurance or a solo track, and even a
track designed by the player.
in combat mode, points are scored for
negotiating the track and offing as many of the
opposition as possible without getting waxed
yourself. TTiere are two methods of attack: one
involves using the twin, nose-mounted cannons
on the bike, while the other technique means
pushing a trike off the track until it smashes
into an oil drum.
Endurance mode just involves covering the
length of the track inside a time limit, slightly
tight in most cases, which only allows one or
two crashes and full speed riding is called for if
you want to get to the end in one piece.
Control of the bike utilises the paddle's up
and down arrows to change gear, left and right
to steer and the A and B buttons to accelerate
and fire respectively. Its a very fast game, and
although Mach Rider, with its fluorescent green
background, doesn't promise much the first
time you boot it, the play is so addictive that
you II suddenly wake up one day with a full
beard and realise you just spent six months
playing it and your dinner's burnt,
Once you get over the initial embarrass-
ment caused by crashing into everything, pre-
cise control comes quite easily, and this is due
to a certain amount of help from the computer.
It leans you into the bends and doesn't overre-
act when you do. It may not sustain interest
after you've got well up in the tevels. but
designing your own tracks will take up time in
the future.
PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE
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Fast, bike-riding shwt-em-up. bul only of lasting
interesl Id real blasting addicts,
PRO WRESTLING
NINTENDO pulls yer ears off
you play the console, it's the computerised
player who does all these things to you. For-
get three falls and a submission. Try a tnp
down the quack's in a minibus with a blue light
on the top.
There isn't much in the instruction book
about how players are supposed to deck their
AC Bernard Cribbins would say, "It's just
like the real thingf And he'd be right
too, that wacky little wombler, because Pro
Wrestling is just one step away f.om smelly
armpits and old grannies shouting "PULL IS
EARS OFFr. Admittedly this isn't the English
concept of what wrestling is all about, as
there's a bit more actual bodily harm in this
Americanised game, English wrestling is a
gentle theatrical sport where skilled athletes
throw each other around the ring and the
audience works off its aggression by yelling
its lungs out and stamping the place down.
In America there's a bit more bloodshed,
it would seem, as in Pro Wrestling you punch,
savagely kick and fling your opponent out of
the ring, stamp on his neck and whirl him
around your head by his groin, Well actually, if
GRAPHICS
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AUDIO
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RATING 794
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round results in a technical knockout. If neither
boxer is KO'd, the three-round bout is awarded
to trie contestant who gained the most points
during the fight.
Landing hits is not straightforward - only
the weakest fighters relax their guard repeated-
ly. Little Mac can only keep punching for so
long - a small heart icon at the top left of the
screen shows how many punches he can afford
to waste - if one of his punches is blocked, the
number by the heart decreases by one. If he is
hft„ three hearts disappear and when all the
hearts have run out, Mac can't fight back until
some more hearts have been earned by dodg-
ing or blocking punches.
Punch Out? is not meant to be a serious
boxing simulation, it's just a fun beat-ermip
that's tough enough and enjoyable enough to
keep you playing for quite some time.
• Andy Smith
GRAPHICS a IQ FACTOR
Ho wonder you're nicknamed Little Mac |lf you were Big Mac you'd be a hamburger),
Hare you're up against your first opponent (Platen Honda) en the World Circuit and you
dent seam to be doing toe well.
AUDIO
G FUN FACTOR B
ACE RATING 792
MIKE TYSON S PUNCH OUT!
Break some heads, NINTENDO style
opponent (be it a human second player or the
computer) except that you can slap the but-
tons and the paddle until you get some stick
in for yourself. There is however a huge range
of different moves available once you've
learned how - about 23 according to the
paperwork! That's quite a lot, really t and it all
adds to the realism quotient of the game. The
best bit is where you ttirow the bloke out of
the ring, dive out of the ring while he's still
down, stamp on his head, and leap back in
the ring again. That way he stays out of the
ring for the 20 second limit, and you win the
bout.
Although it's a bit hard, this is fun. Played
as a two player game it's loads of laffs.
• Phil South
FRANK Bruno may be due to fight Mike
rflMllli Tyson 'real soon now' r but if you
can't wait for the real thing, you could always
try stepping in for Frank - on the Nintendo.
As Little Mac, you're after Mike's crown,
but before you get a chance to slug it out with
the Heavyweight Champion of the World, Mac
has to prove himself. That means starting at
the bottom of the Minor League and winning
promotion by defeating three other boxers. In
the Major League four more boxers need to be
beaten before Mac gets into the World League,
where he has a chance to box his way to the
finale" with Mike Tyson.
The moves available are baste - dodge
(to the left or right), guard, duck and punch
fto me left, right, head or body). The idea
is to land enough hits on the other guy
in The ring, knock him down and,
hopefully, out. Remember to avoid
getting slugged yourself.
A stamina meter at the
top of the screen shows
how much energy the
fighter has left. When it
reaches zero, the boxer
hits the canvas - three
falls in one three-minute
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you II be Heavyweight Champion of the World.
Yen, I know it's Mike Tyson sitting in the other
corner. But you got the skill, the strength and
the stamina. So just go in there, kid.
Weave, dodge, jab; keep your guard up
and your mind on that title.
And remember, this is Nintendo,
right? So you might get beat, but you won'
get hurt.
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The Union army moves in for an attack
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Viva tha Overwhelming odds.
ONE year Ir: lhy ' ast-mov " n E software
vflE business is indeed a k>ng time. Still,
that s how long UMS has been available, and
rt's only now that extra scenario disks have
started to appear.
Two separate scenario disks are currently
available, and they load into the main program
to re-create famous battles - from the Vietnam
War and American Civil War respectively. The
American Civil War disk contains the battles ol
Stolon, Antietam and Chattanooga. The Chat-
tanooga scenario is split into two battles, load-
ed mdivhduaHy, that each deal with one day.
Chattanooga 1, the mam battle, deals with the
conflict on November 25th 1863 - the Assault
on Missionary Ridge - while Chattanooga 2
covers the preliminary engagement that took
place on November 24th 1863.
As the main UMS program comes com-
plete with the battle of Gettysburg (amongst
others}, the American Civil War scenario disk
will come as no surprise to anyone who is
familiar with the original package,
Shiloh was a great victory for the Union
army under Grant after several earlier shock
defeats at the hands of the Confederates. Anti-
etam was a hard-fought battle that the Union
troops finally won, though Lee's Confederacy
troops performed magnificently considering
they were stuck behind the enemy lines,
hemmed in with a large river to their rear - not
only out-numbered three to one, but with their
forces spread over almost 20 miles!
Chattanooga was fought over three days,
with trie Union army taking the eastern slope of
Missionary Ridge by the evening of 24th
November before capturing the rest of the
ridge the next day. The Confederate army suf-
fered a severe beating at Chattanooga, after
which the number of Confederate prisoners
outnumbered Union dead by over five to one.
The Vietnam disk contains three scenarios
from the battles of Dak To in 1967/68 in which
the Americans were fighting the North Viet-
namese Army (NVA) - uniformed regulars
equipped with automatic weapons and mor-
tars, rather than the popularly-imagined Viet
Cong peasant soldiers clad in black pyjamas.
In the battle for Hill 823 the NVA hit the
Americans hard with sniper, mortar and
grenade attacks. The Americans finally took
the hill but suffered substantial tosses. The sec-
ond scenario on the disk is set just north of Hill
823 on the slopes of Ngoh Kam Leat f where
an understrength US unit wandered into a heav-
ly-fortrfied enemy position. Several other com-
panies went to the beleaguered unit's aid even-
tually reinforcing it before nightfall, when the
IWA disappeared. Hill 875 was another hard-
iDught US victory, where the NVA inflicted
heavy losses on the American forces from their
hidden bunker complexes even though the
Americans had shelled them for hours on end -
at one point the Americans were even shelling
their own units during the battle.
The Vietnam scenarios are interesting not
only because of the highly tactical nature of the
battles, but because of the introduction of
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F-100 fighter bombers and helicopter gunships.
Like the battles provided with the main pro-
gram, you can alter the terrain and the forces
to your heart's content. You can even take ter-
rains and armies from the scenario disks and
mix them with the original ones. How would
William the Conqueror have fared against a
handful of grunts armed with automatic
weapons and supported by 155mm Howitzers?
The answer is easy to discover, try it out and
see for yourself...
• Andrew Smith
NVA machine gunners open up an an
American unit from their heavily fortified
positions. The Americans are trying to
reach a struggling unit that wandered
into enemy territory,
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UMS AMIGA
Amiga UMS - note the movement
line colour has changed from red to
Mack-
Coming real soon now" is the Amiga
version ot the original UMS
program The two-disk package has all
the features offered in the ST original
-the first disk contains the mam pro-
gram along wilh the same five scenar-
ios that come with the ST version
(extra scenario disks for the Amiga are
to follow). The second disk contains
"he program to edit the scenarios,
armies and maps. Extra features
included for the Amiga version are: a
line ot sight option, the ability to
change the colours to workbench
colours, and battle sounds - this last
option is only available to people who
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ACE RATING 727
AMIGA VERSION
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hit the arcades. To turn a classic old game into
a popular new one, all you have to do is view
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It'* easier to tell what's going on than on
the ST version.
been augmented by awarding Pacman the abili-
ty to jump. No longer is there the frustration of
getting trapped in corners, because you tan
bounce out of trouble.
The drawback with this graphic style is that
only part of the maze, can be viewed on screen
so it's impossible to know what's going on else-
where in the maze but the 3D view does add a
welcome, fresh perspective to the action.
It may not be very original but there's no
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Welcome to Screen Test Supplement,
the start of a whole new section within
the magazine.
As this is the Christmas Special,
we've crammed in extra pages of Tricks
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provide his definitive run-down on the
compilation scene this year. The
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the compilations overview will expand
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from the world of the cheapie game.
The Screen Test Supplement will play
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MASTERTROMIC
Cheapy supremo Mastertronic is
launching something of an
assault on the budget market
ttus yule, with a fair selection of
corking little numbers springing
gaily from its various labels.
Mad X has the frbit releases of
Rockford (Spec, C64 and Am s;
£2.99), the Arcadia coin-op and
Melbourne House 16-bit release,
ffocfcfaref was adapted from a
very popular game called Boe-
der Dash, whrth was brilliant on
the C64 and arrived later on the
Speccy about two years ago,
where you dig your way through
soil P collecting gems, and try not
to drop boulders on your head.
A bit like life in the ACE office
now I come to think ot ft.
On the Mastertronic own brand
label, a number of interesting
things have emerged. Get Dea-
fer (ST; £14,99* was an Info*
grames release, and a darling lit
tie 3D arcade adventure not
unlike Fairttght or Inside Outing.
You walk around a house manip-
ulating objects to discover the
dark secret. Sounds a bit like a
chocolate advert to me. Very
popular at the time, though. Also
out now are Majik (Spec and
C64; £1.99csJ, Sidewinder (PC;
£9.99cs) and a brand new
WE WISH
YOU A...
CHEAPY
CHRISTMAS
Buying or receiving games as presents at this time of year used to be a
hazardous process. "What cheap rubbish are they going to push on me this
time? >T sort of thing. But getting on the business end of some rather toothsome
games is becoming cheaper, as many games have "sold through" (as they say
in the video trade) to budget, increasing numbers of compilations are available
containing ex-chart toppers, and more and more 16-bit budget games hit the
stores. Phil South, the well known hard-nosed journalist, delves into what look
to be the really good deals over the festive season, and gives us his nosy
opinion...
M t s quite curious how the software industry set
I the tone for the video revolution. The idea of
I budget title 5 was snapped up by certain smart
video company bosses and the 'under-a-tenner' tape
was born. But now it's come full circle and games
manufacturers have seen the value of 'sell through
video. When a film has completed its main run in the
cinemas it comes out on video for about 70-80 quid.
A couple of months later rt may well have a 'sale'
price of something nearer f 25 slapped on it. Finally,
after it has fulfilled its window' at the video libraries,
they rebox it and push it out for a tenner or so. Bril-
liant for everyone. Vou get a good deal, and the film
companies use the income to make more films.
Now this might sound irrelevant to you as a buyer
of games, but now the budget world of games is
starting to creak at the seams with last year's
gigagames. It's true, and it's a brilliant state of
affairs. Not only do you get pnmo quality games for a
couple of quid, but the companies who made them
keep producing games for you to play in future. (On
account of not going out of business!) The other
noticeable thing about the year's bumper business
season (you probably know it as Christmas) is the
number of high quality 16-bit games which are start-
ing to appear. Young programmers have learned how
to tame the 16-bit workhorses and are rapidly crank-
ing out as many cheap and cheerful shoot-em-ups as
the average user can handle,
These trends are a good thing, especially this re-
release craze. The games player gets first class soft-
ware for a budget price, and this is good news, par-
ticularly for the first timer who has recently bought a
Spectrum or a new CBM 64C and just wasn't around
for the originals. People who collected' games -
okay. STOLE them through copyright infringement -
will walk out and buy legit copies of their faves just to
really OWN one. And people who couldn't afford to
buy a lot of games before can now catch up on the
ones they missed.
So let's have a look at what's hot and what's not
m the festive season - all the compilations and bud-
get titles your little heart desires.
ELITE
FRANK BRUNO'S BIG BOX
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £12.99cs and £17.99dk,
C64 disk £14.99)
FISTS AND THROTTLES
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £1299cs and £14.99dk)
Chief compilation station m the late eighties has to be
Elite. It seems to us that it was the first firm to bring
out a blockbusting compilation, Yup, leave anything
lying around and they'll bung it on a tape with loads of
home-grown
thingy called Star
l/VJtt* (Spec;
£l.99cs>, descnbed by Andy
'Flathead' Wright as "a budget
shoot-em-up hit lor Christmas",
but then again he would, as it's
his baby.
But by tar the best stuff to be
had from Mastertronic is on the
Ricochet label- Uttle Computer
Peopfe (Amiga; £i4.99dk) was
originally an Acfivision release,
the idea being that you have a lit-
tle person living in your computer
wham you feed and entertain to
keep him gl»ve. Well weird, but
enormous laffs. Jet Set Witty
{Spec, C64 and Ams; £1.99cs)
must be the longest running
game in the history of comput-
ing. This was the second game I
ever bought, and must be the
one I've played most over the
years, if you took all the sessions
and laid them end to end, Rock-
N'Bott and XI 5 Afpha JWrssrort
(both C64; £1.99cs! are a par of
Actwision refugees which came
out around two years ago, in
what I believe was Activision's
golden era. Remember Ghost-
bus fers and Web Dimension? And
Mrndshadow (Spec. C64 and
Ams-£1 ^9. Amiga and ST;
£14.99dk) too! This was state of
the art adventure stuff - well, at
the time anyway. We've come on
a bit since then, And finally
KrmgMmare (Spec, C64 and
Ams; £199) last year s release
based on the slightly odd TV
maze series.
ZEPPELIN
Thus newcomer to the budget
game, known to its friends as
Dingiblesoft, is positively over-
other big games. Literally anything that's not nailed
down,
Take Frank Bruno's Big Box for example. The
names sound familiar, and why not? they've been on
Elite compos before, especially Bath/ and Battle-
ships, and Seocoy Doo and 1942 were already on
one of its Hit Pak collections, (Who us? The same as
Hit Pak? Nahhhh!!!!) Featured games on France's Box
are Frank Bruno's Boxing, Commando, Scooby Doo,
Ghosts 'N'Goblins, Batty, 1942, Airwotf, Bomb Jack,
Saboteur and Battleships. That's 10 originally full-
priced games at 13 quid! The games haven't worn
much with age. Look at Batty, for instance, Even on
the Spectrum it's one of the best Arkanofd clones
e^er, and in a lot of ways more addictive, Battleships
you may have seen reviewed in a couple of maga-
zines at the time it was supposed to come out, but it
never did. Elite's excuse was that it wasn't up to
scratch, but how it levels that with the fact that the
mags all gave it full marks I don't know. It's a rework-
ing of the battleships game you play with pen and
paper. You fire at the squares of a grid trying to guess
where your opponent has placed his ships, you know
the one! (Incidentally, if you see an Amiga version of
this game, check it out as it s the best one of the lot!)
Of the other games 1 942, Bomb Jack, Ghosts W-
Gobtins, and Commando are fine examples of Elite's
ability to spot a good c cm-op license when it sees
me. All four are not bad at all, although I particularly
recommend Bomb Jack on the Speccy, and Ghost-
sW'GoWi'ns on the C64, These two get my vote as
past favourite games which I'd gladly play now.
Fists And Throttles isn't, as you might have
taught, a purebred beat-em-up compilation, as the
throttles mentioned are those on a car or bike rather
than making people gargle by squeezing their necks.
This is a really top flight compilation, containing Ikari
Warriors, Thundercats, Baggy Boy, Dragon's lair and
Enduro Pacer. Four coin-op conversions on this one,
900+ rated in ACE at the time, one of which is an e*r
Activision release. Tnundercats was also rated highly
(931) and rightly so, T'Cats was a superb slice n'dice
game produced by star Elite contractors Roy and
Greg at Gargoyle Games, who are well known for their
quality gameplays and graphics. Buggy Soy was one
of the most original driving games, and unlike so
many titles there isn t much to choose between for-
mats, although I suspect the C64 version would win
by a nose.
US GOLD
GIANTS
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £12.99cs and £19.99dk, C64
disk £14.99)
HISTORY IN THE MAKING
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £24.99cs and £29.99dk}
AMIGA GOLD HITS
(Amiga only; £24.99dk)
Lot s face it, ; anybody's £ot o fa r amount of guoc
product to offer in a compilation, it's US GokJ. A num-
ber of Christmas No. 1's under its belt, for sure, and
Giants has most of them. This again is choc-a-bloc
wrth coin-ops, like Gauntfer, Roiling Thunder, 720 and
Oufflun, the only fly in the ointment being California
Games. This was hailed as the worst game of all time
on certain formats, and just plain vanilla on most oth-
ers. But the other crucial blockbusters in the package
more than make up for CG's complete lack ol lustre.
Gauntfet must be one of the best-loved games of
all time, in the arcades AND on the small screen. The
computer version broke all sales records, and a hail
of clones ensued, surely the highest honour for any
computer game (imitation being the sincerest h if
unwelcome, form of flattery!) , 720 and J?o//ing Thun-
der had their moments, and to some the Spectrum
versions were the best players, oddly enough, but by
far the hottest property of all time in the software biz
is OutRun. Although US Gold is attempting the same
degree of hype and build up with this year's Sega
licence, Thunder Blade (they might succeed, and why
not?), nothing can really match the excitement of last
year's QutRun fever EVERYONE wanted the game,
and most of them bought it, I have a sneaking suspi-
cion that this isn't the last we'll see of it either. US
Gold spent too much money on it to let it just die
away. I feel a budget release coming on before it final-
ly croaks.
History fci The Making is the most extraordinary
compilation, featuring an incredible 15 games. The
collection purports to be a potted history of the great
label. What it is in fact is a REALLY good excuse to
flog off almost every success it has had, persuading
almost everyone with a computer to fork out huge
wads of cash, It has got some impressive titles on it:
Leaderboard, Express Raider, Impossible Missfon,
Super Cycle, Gaunter, Beach head, Beach head |
Infiltrator, Kung Fu Masters, Spy Hunters, Road Run-
ner t Bruce Lee, Goorwes, Wortd Games, and Raid.
Some of these are a bit creaky in the light of today's
widespread sophistication, but for the most part
they're still playable. And some of them are complete
stunners; impossible Mission remains an all-time
favourite of mine, as do ieaderboard and the Beach
Head twins. But there are also some unexpected plea-
sures, like Spy Hunter, which is an early vertically
scrolling shoot-em-up, based on a coirvop I believe.
Spy Hunter, although a bit of a throwback technically,
is brilliant fun to play and, for those of us who vaguely
remember it the first time around, a nostalgic experi
ence.
Your basic Amiga nut could do severely worse
than try a go at Amiga Gokt Hits Biomc Comman-
dos, Roiling Thunder, Jinks and Ieaderboard.. AGAIN!
For my money the good feature about this one is the
inclusion of Roiling Thunder, one of my favourite
game 5 in the slotty arcade, and the Amiga conversion
being one of the most accurate in existence t if a little
slow at times. There isnt really the space to look at
flowing with new
products. They
have Lbs Vegas
Casino (Spec, C64 and Ams;
£2.99) featuring Baccarat,
Craps. Roulette and Blackjack.
Jocky Wilson's Dart Challenge
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £2 99)
includes round the cfock. straight
competition and playing against
a human player. Unfortunately
there are no beer tokens or
strap-on belly included in the
game, so you'll have to supply
those. The only other £2.99
releases on Its catalogue are the
plan view, sc roiling Rally Statute-
tor (Spec C64 and Ams; £2.99],
Para AssauJt Course (Spec, C64
and Ams; £2 99) and Zybex
(Spec; £2.99). For £1.99 on
C64 only, they have Terrafighter
and Master Blaster plus Battle-
tank Simulator on the Spec and
Amstrad. The other title which
could bear some scrutiny, if only
for the name, is 0jon«: Ninja
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £1 99),
Really, the mind boggles.
RACK- IT
Hewson s Rack-It label has
scored a good few points by re-
running FTL's bach catalogue,
with the scrolling shootem-up
LJghtforee, the aquatic
arcade/adventure Hydrofool,
plus the highly original beat-em-
up Shockway Rider. All these
titles are Spectrum C64 and
Amstrad, and should be chunked
out at £2,99, Lfghtforce was
something of a celebrity on the
Spectrum, as it was one of the
first Spectrum games wtiich had
full colour sprites and bach-
grounds. (OK so Dark Sceptre
had them, and big sprites too,
but can YOU stay awake long
enough to see them?) Hydrofool
was one of the better games that
Roy and Greg did. and as an iso-
all the US Gold compilations, and there are hundreds
of them, but check out the listings at the end for
details of all of them.
OCEAN IMAGINE
THE IN CROWD
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £12 95cs)
3 STAR
(ST only; £24.95dk)
TAITO COIN-OP HITS
(Spec. C64, Ams; £12.95cs and £1 7.95dk)
Two from the Ocean label and one from the once
proud software house, now mere cypher label, Imag-
ine. One of the very hottest compilations out now is
The in Crowd, which apart from being an ancient and
excellent Brian Ferry tune is also Ocean's compilation
flagship this year. Firstly there's Barbarian (Maria's
c hubbies version), Crazy Cars, Kamov, Gryzor,
Predator, Combat School, Target: Renegade, and
Platoon. A good 80 quid s worth of games just one
year ago, and now you can get them for £13! My
personal favourite on this list must be Target: Rene-
gade, the best beat-em-up I ve ever played, and the
only game I ever stayed up all night trying to beat on
the C64. Platoon I found a bit disappointing, but hav-
ing to produce a war game which doesn t glorify war
is a bit of a tough brief, so it's only to be expected I
suppose.
5 Star is a compilation which has appeared on
other formats, but only now have ST games been out
long enough to bundle them. Barbarian (once again
the Palace or Maria Whittaker version}, Crazy Cars,
Enduro Racer, Wizbalt, and Rampage. These are real-
ly hot properties too, but strangely only one is an
Ocean game! The others are by Palace, Titus (no
jokes please!) and a pair of Activisions, in that order.
But you see there is a new rule in the compilation
game (Awright my loves?) and that is: it doesn't even
have to be your own games, as long as they sold
moderately well, then they're fair game, see?
Predictably enough. Barbarian sold huge mounds
of copies, mainly, it's thought, due to Maria's huge
mounds on the cover. Although rt was received with a
certain amount of critical disappointment, the game
ran and ran in the charts, and hints and tips were fly-
ing back and forth to mags for months afterwards.
Of the other games on 5 Star, the only slightly dubi-
ous title is Rampage, i dunno - some people really
liked this coin-op jobby. but I can't say it ever really
grabbed me. Best game on this one has to be
Enduro Racer, but then again I like road racing
games so that was inevitable.
Taito has had its fair share of coin-op conver-
sions, and to prove it Imagine has whacked a load ol
them on one tape, including ffastan. Sfap Fight,
Renegade, Arkanoid, Flying Shark, Arkanoid It:
Revenge Of Don, Bubble Bobble and the Legend Of
Hage. This collection gets the vote as second best
buy, on account of being choc-a-bloc with chart top
pers, none oi which have really aged at all - they still
play better than a lot of current releases. There isn't
much to choose between formats either, with the
Spectrum versions bemg as fast and playable as the
more colourful Commodore and Amstrad programs.
Bubble Bobble, rated 958 in Issue 1 of ACE by the
way, was a wacky old game in the arcades, and I
would have to admit to rating this over all the more
obvious hits on the tape as the most addictive by far,
BEAU JOLLY
SUPREME CHALLENGE
(Spec, G64 and Ams; £12 95cs and £16.95dk)
COMPUTER HITS
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £12 95cs and £16.95dk. ST
and Amiga soon)
Taking its lead from the record biz, Beau Jolly has
been doing the Now That's What I Call Software
game for some time. While not actually producing
any software, they are adept at blagging other con>
panies to let ttiem produce compilations on their
behalf. And so Supreme Challenge contains EJife.
Tetris, Starglider, Sentinel, and ACE 2, a very strong
line-up indeed. If this doesn't qualify as the best
games for the least money, then my nose is a carrot.
Getting hold of just Elite and Starglider 8-bit versions
would be a major coup in itself, but top that off with
the maddeningly addictive Tetris, the incredible
flight/combat sirn ACE 2, and the mind-bending Sen-
tinel, this is a world-beating compilation. Anyone who
doesn't agree with this must be dead from the joy-
stick up. If you don't buy any other 8-bit games this
yuletide, buy this collection. Sentinel is pretty odd,
but it has to be the most original game of the last
year. With its unique 3D perspective and surreal land-
scapes, it rates with me as best game of this compi-
lation. (Hey, that means it's the best game on the
best compilation! Ohh.)
And to prove that I can get even more excited
without exploding or needing the assistance of a box
of man-size tissues, there's Compter Hits... Hmm,
OK so not many utterly brilliant games on this one,
but there are lots of "em. On all formats there's
Enlightenment: Druid H, Ninja hamster, Tarzan,
Mega Apocalypse and Waster Of The Nile. On the
Tl/"^ metric arcade
|\I m adventure had
huge mounds of
things to recommend it - not
least of which are the hilarious
graphics and animation. Not only
that but some really stunning
puzzfes. Highly recommended.
CODEMASTERS
Mever without at least ten new
titles a week. Those Darling
Boys, aka Codemasters. have
got a goodly wedge of stuff too.
International Rugby Simulator
(Spec, C64, Ams; £2.99. ST;
fl9.99dk) lor a start, with some
very splendid graphics on the ST.
Pro Sh Simulator i Amiga onry;
£] 9. 99dkf finally on the 16blit
ter, BMX Freestyle iSpec and
Ams; £2 99cs) a bit like A TV
Sim, but with more things to do,
Ninja Massacre (Ha ha ha ha.., er
Spec. C64 and Ams; £2 99cs)
as the ultimate Gauntlet clone, it
S62 here, the freshly renamed
SAS Combat Simulator (Spec
and Ams; £2.99cs), a yeh beat
em-up called Btgfoot (Spec and
Ams; £2.99cs), Skateboard
Simulator {Spec and Ams;
£2.99cs) - of course, why didn't
we think of that - and Death-
stalker (Spec and Ams; £2.99cs)
a super little arcade adventure of
the slice'n'dice persuasion.
K1XX
A trio of e*-Gremlin and one US
Gold releases - Footballer Of
The Year (Spec, C64 and Ams;
£2.99cs), Krakout (Spec, C64
and Ams; £2.99cs), Way Of The
Trger(Spec,C64, Ams. MSX,
BBC and C16; £2,99cs) and
finally and most significantly
Leaderbcatd (Spec, C64 and
Ams: £2.99cs>! Considering that
you can buy Leaderboard on a
number of compilations, check
C64 there s also Traz, Samauri Warrior, Morpheus,
Frightmare and Magnetron. Spectrum versions carry
copies of Frightmare and Trai, Amstrad versions
have Boggit, Activator and Endurance, and both
Spectrum and Amstrad versions contain extra added
Dark Sceptre and Catch 23. OK, so I said they
weren't all that stunning. They're good games, but
standing alongside the Supreme Challenge they
look pretty pale indeed,
REML
GRAPHICS
10 GREAT GAMES
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £12.99cs and £14.99dk)
graphics at the time, as I recall, and they are imp re i
sive, especially on the C64, Makes you want to grow
a moustache and say "Chocks away. Ginger' and stuff
like that. Check Ft out, Wing Commander.
MASTERTRONIC
MEGA PLAY
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £9.99cs. BBC version to follow)
Unsurprisingly from the home of the Budget Burger,
all the titles on the Mastertronic compilation are ex-
budget games themselves, more of the £2.99 class
than £1.99 as I recall. The games on the C64 version
SPACE ACE
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £l2.99cs and £14.99dk)
FLIGHT AGE
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £1 4.99cs and £ 1 7.99dk)
Big games, big compilations, that's fruity old Gremlin,
It turns out that the company is re-re leasing every
game it ever made on three mega compilations. 1 0
Great Games contains Leaderboard, 10th Frame,
Last Mission, Rana Rama, Firelord and Frghter Pilot on
all formats. On the Speccy and Amstrad there's
ftocca, /mpossabaJf, City Slicker and Dragontorc, and
on the C64 there's Uebounder, htdis Alpha, Eagles
and Atley Kat. Something for everyone, I think you'll
agree, I must declare a fondness for Leaderboard
and Jeffy M inter's fridrs Alpha on the the 64, and
knpossabatl on the Spectrum - these make it worth
checking out 10 Greats on their own.
Space Ace is a collection of loosely Sci-fi based
games like Cyber rtOid, Worths tar, Zynaps, Trantor,
Exofon, Venom Strikes Back and Xevious. Trantor is a
pretty hot little number, not entirely removed from
Probe's last job called Savage, I think you'll find! Fast
and furious and worth a look. Cybernoid, Zynaps and
Exoron's reputations precede them, of course, and
certainly guarantee good sales for this one.
Flight Ace is, as you'd expect, wriggling with
flight sims, including ACE. Spitfire 40, Air Traffic
Control, Tomahawk, Strike Force Harrier and ATF.
Now then! .4 if was a pretty amazing game, and rated
huge mounds of points everywhere. Its a cross
between a flight sim and an arcade game, with grip-
ping graphics and an action-packed gameplay. You
can skim the surface of the play area in the terrain-fol-
lowing mode, which is an exciting way ol avoiding
enemy radar, as any cruise missile will tell you. Spit-
fire 40 was something of an award winner for its
are Pipeline II, Agent X //, Rapid Fire, Cage Match,
Street Beat (previously called Ghetto piaster or some-
thing, wasn't it?) and Destruens. Most of these games
come from the pre-ACE days that time forgot, all that
is except Agent X It, which in Issue 4 rated a 616. On
the Spectrum and Amstrad it's Agent X II, Desfructo,
Zub, Rasterscan, Curse Of Sherwood., and 1 80. A bit
of a ho hum selection really, and apart from the
impressive and amazingly programmed Zub, a couple
of quid too expensive.
MIRRORSOFT
TRIAD
(ST, Amiga; £29.99dk)
A truly blockbusting trio of games here. If you didn't
buy them the first time around, then you must now.
Starglider was THE Amiga and ST game for a couple
of years, and if you haven t heard of it you must have
had your head in a bucket of sand for the last IS
months, After Stargtider had made its impact and left
to storm America, Cinemaware's Defender Of The
Crown knocked the spots off of EVERYBODY S boxer
shorts, and was hailed as the perfect Amiga game.
This is mostly due to the superbly drawn graphics,
and owes nothing to the gameplay, which to my mind
is just a little simplistic. Psygnosis' Barbarian was a
peculiar little beat-em-up, which was also praised lor
its presentation, but gamewise it always struck rne as
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whether you'd like
what it s teamed
with, It is THE golf game, and if
you don t have it, I suggest you
avoid embarrassment by nipping
down the shop and getting it
today. Way of the Ttger isn t bad
at all, and rates with me as one
of the more interesting martial
arts games of the last two years.
And let's face it, there have been
a few quite doppy ones,
SILVER BIRD
Telecom soft ha s a wedge of
games that would choke a bison,
rot that I've tested this you under-
stand. Firstly there's International
Speedway (Spec, C64 and Ams;
£1.99). This is a super race
game which allows you to play
with dirtbikes without having your
reck broker, or being splattered
from head to trainers ir mud. You
race against four other bikes and
go though local competitions up
to International level. JWotorcross
Mama [C64 only; £1.99}, is a mul-
tiload race game which not only
presents you with different haz-
ards, but also gives you better
and better bikes to choose from.
Scuba Krdz (Spec, C64, Ams and
MSX; £1 .99), as well as being the
900,000th Telecom soft release
ending in a Z, is your search to
rescue the rippers from the Evil
Sea Lord's undersea cave. Kwarl
There are eight treacherous, evil
and cruel caves to navigate, and
watch out for the nifty shark dis-
guise! But the funniest release
has to be Billboard (Spec, C64
and Ams; £1 .99). Silver-bird' s
great tradition of puzzle games.
{Huh? Ed} puts you on a ladder cm
a billboard, piecing together puz-
zle pictures which have been split
into bits, from 4 to 64 pieces
depending or the leveL It's your
task to fit them all together again.
Brill.
being repetitive. Having said that, we are talking
some very ritzy looking games. If you like strategy
games, then try before you buy is my advice. They do
iook very good on the monitor, and will certainly
impress your *H)it owning chums.
MEGAPACK
(ST and Amiga; £24.95dk)
One of the few other 16-bit compilations worth look-
ing at is Tynesoft's festive collection, containing Win-
ter Olympiad, Mousetrap, Ptutos, Seconds Out, Frost
Byte, and a previously unreleased game called Sui-
cide Mission. On the ST the unreleased game is
something called Blood Fever, Winter Olympiad didn't
score over-well m the issue of ACE (around the 500-
600 mark) but the graphics weren't bad at all.
Although nothing different as a sports game, it will
doubtless please fans of this genre.
COMPILATIONS AT A GLANCE
MASTERTRONIC
• MEGAPLAY :Sper.. CBM, Ams.
£9.99cs, Out soon on BBC I
PIPELINE II, AGENT X II. RAPID FIRE.
CAGE MATCH, STREET BEAT,
DESTRUCTO
(On the Spectrum and Amstrad:)
AGENT X II, DESTRUCTO, ZUB,
RASTERSCAN, CURSE OF SHER
WOOD, and 180.)
US GOLD
• GIANTS iSpec. CBM, Ams.
£12.99cs, il9.99dk.ex CBM
£14.99*.!
GAUNTLET, ROLLING THUNDER, CALI-
FORNIA GAMES. 720, OUTRUN
• HISTORY IN THE MAKING (CBM,
Spec, Ams; £24.99cs, £29.99dk)
LEADERBOARD, EXPRESS RAIDER.
IMPOSSIBLE MISSION, SUPER CYCLE,
GAUNTLET. BEACH HEAD. BEACH
HEAD «, INFILTRATOR, KUNG FU MAS-
TERS, SPY HUNTER. ROAD RUNNER.
BRUCE LEE P GOONlES, WORLD
GAMES. RAID
• AMIGA GOLD HITS iArmga Drily;
£24.99dk)
BIONIC COMMANDOS, ROLLING THUN-
DER, JINKS. LEADERBOARD
» SPORTSWORLD 68 IC64 only;
£ 12.99c s and £l4.99dk)
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, 1 Oth
FRAME. HARDBALL, LEADERBOARD.
4th & INCHES, SNOOKER and POOL,
GO FOR GOLD, WATERPOLO
• COMMAND PERFORMANCE
(Spec, C64 and Ams; £12.99xs and
£l4.99dkl
MERCENARY, HARD6ALL, ARMAGE-
DON MAN. LEVIATHAN. BOBSLEIGH,
SHACKLED. TRANTOR, CHOLO, XENO.
10th FRAME
• TASTE OF AMERICA IC64 only;
£9.99cs)
SIDE ARMS, SOLOMON'S KEY, WORLD
CLASS LEADERBOARD. SUPER CYCLE
» GO CRAZY (Spec, C64 and Ams;
£l4.99tsand£l7.99dki
SHACKLED, BAD CAT, JINKS,
SIDE ARMS, DESOLATOR, BEDLAM
(Spectrtrr version contains: MlS$lC\
ELEVATOR, THUNDERCEPTOft,
FAST'N'FURIOUS, DESOLATOR,
SIDLARMS and SHACKLED)
• EPYX ON PC II (PC oniy;
£19.99dk. 3.5' version £24.99dk>
WORLD GAMES, IMPOSSIBLE MISSION
II, STREET SPORTS BASKETBALL
ACTIVE DISTRIBUTION
• EAS COMPILATION (Amiga only; 2
disks £9.95d>0
MOTORCYCLE RACING, BREAKOUT
CLONE, CAR RACING GAME
MIRRORSOFT
• TRIAD (ST, Amiga; £29.99dW
STARGLIDER, DEFENDER OF THE
CROWN. BARBARIAN I LSI
GREMLIN GRAPHICS
• 10 GREAT GAMES (Spec. 064 and
Ams; £12.99cs and £14.99dk)
LEADERBOARD, lOtn FRAME. LAST
MISSION. RAN A RAMA. FIRE LORD Ion
all formats): ROCCA. IMPOSSABALL.
CITY SLICKER. DRAGONTORC (on Bie
Spectrum and Amstrad); REBOUNDER,
IRICKS ALPHA. EAGLES . ALLEY KAT
(On the 64)
» SPACE ACE ISpec. C64 and Ams;
Jil2.99csandil4.99dk)
CYBERNOID, NORTHSTAR, ZYNAPS,
TRANTOR. EXOLON, VENOM STRCKES
BACK, XEVIQUS
• FLIGHT ACE (Spec, C64 and Ams;
£14.9-9csand£17.9/9dkl
ACE, SPITFIRE 40, AIR TRAFFIC CON
TRQL, TOMAHAWK. STRIKE FORCE
HARRIER, ATF
• 10 MEGA GAMES [Spec, C64 and
Ams;£l2.99c5and£14.99dkl
CYBERNOID, DEFLEKTOR. TOUR DE
FORCE, MASK I, BLOOD BROTHERS,
HERCULES, NORTHSTAR. TRIAXOS,
BLOOD VALLEY, MASTERS OF THE
UNIVERSE
OCEAN/IMAGINE
• THE IN CROWD (Spec, C64 and ;
Ams:£l2.95cs)
BARBARIAN, CRAZY CARS, KARNOV.
GRYZOR, PREDATOR, COMBAT
SCHOOL, TARGET: RENEGADE. PLA-
TOON
• 5 STAR (SI ££4.95>
BARBARIAN (UK], CRAZY CARS,
ENDURO RACER, W1ZBALL, RAMPAGE
» TAITO COIN OP HITS \ Spec, C&4
and Ams; £1 2.9bcz and £1 7.95rA)
RASTAN, SLAP FIGHT, RENEGADE,
ARKANOID. FLYING SHARK. REVENGE
OF DOH ARKANOID II, BUBBLE BOB-
BLE. LEGEND OF KAGE
ELITE
• FRANK BRUNO'S BIG BOX (Spec,
C64 and Ams; £l2,99cs and
£17.99dkf
FRANK BRUNO S BOXING. COMMAN-
DO. SCO OB Y DOO, GHOSTS'N'GOB-
LINS, BATTY. 1942. AIRWOLF, BOMB
JACK, SABOTEUR, BATTLESHIPS
• FISTS AND THROTTLES (Spec,
CBM, Ams, £12.99cs,£14.99dk|
IKARI WARRIORS. THUNDERCATS.
BUGGY BOY, DRAGON'S LAIR,
ENDURO RACER
BEAU JOLLY
• SUPREME CHALLENGE (Spec
C64 aid Ams; £12.95cs and
£16.954)
ELITE, TETRIS. STARGLIDER. SEN-
TINEL. ACE 2
• COMPUTER HHTS (Spec, C64 and
Arms; £12.95cs and £16.95*1
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man who wrote POWERDROME, and as a result can bring some performance-improving tips from the
author himself. Baffled by BOM BUZ AL? Tony Crowther, designer of more than a few of the tortuous levels,
gives part of the inside story on defusing explosives, with a few tips thrown in by the man in the Mirrorsoft
office who gets away with spending most of his day in front of Bombuzal: Mark Jordan.
And to get into the New Year with a bang, we've decided to give away £150 of software to the sender
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BOMBUZAL
■ Tony Crowther (above) and Mir-
rorsott's Mark Jordan give us the
benefit of their inside knowledge, in
the form of a dozen quick hints...
An easy way to complete a level is to blow up all
the bombs on the level first, and see which
squares remain undamaged. These are the
squares the player should aim to finish on.
Study the map of each level carefully before
trying to com plete the level.
When attempting to detonate a pulsing bomb,
pick it up, as it is easier to see the bomb's size
when it is held up.
Remember that when you are teleportmg a
droirj, you are impervious to the effects of the
monsters 01 the levels. ^** !
When (deporting from square ^^f^
to square you are mvul- ^jr&w- j
nerable to explo- jpt^^- *"*
sions.
ADVUai) COMPUTER ENTEDT*lN«EH r
Switches have three phases: Phase 1=SET,
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never be reversed after a switch has been
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When teleporting, the explosions occur before
you teleport, so if you're teleporting onto a
mine, it will be destroyed before you get there,
provided the square is in the blast radius and is
riveted.
On the ST and Amiga versions of Bombuzal
the mouse makes the game even more diffi-
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players.
When dealing with more than one nasty, try to
kill them off as quickly as possible; use the dis-
solving squares and switches to make the
squares disappear beneath them.
When using sighted droids you may activate
switches, but when the bomb blows up the
droid will die. Also, if you try to move the
droid away from the bomb you will move
when the bomb and droid have been
destroyed,
A blind droid cannot activate switches.
Remember the code! Better still,
write it down. Vou will need it
when you continue with
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DATEL
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ACE 1
TRICKS ' N ' TACTICS
if anyone out there knows how to get the best out of POWER-
DROME, it is almost certainly the man who wrote it: Mike Pow-
ell. So if you're driving the Typhoon more like a Morris Minor at
the moment, check out what Mike has to say, slip on those driv-
ing gloves, grab a joystick and see if you can better the Mas-
ter's personal best lap timings...
FLYING YOUR TYPHOON
Powerdrome, more so than most race games,
requires a certain amount of practice before you
can play it well. When a player first starts, the
mouse could well appear very sensitive. It has to
be like this for the harder twisty tracks, where
you might want to go from full left bank to fuH
right in 1/1 Oth of a second. The joystick is a little
easier for beginners,, but for precision and fast
direction changes, you have to use the mouse.
First of all, scale down the elevator
response on the tune-up screen. If you still find
yourself smashing into every available hard sur-
face, turn the y-tock option on in the pits. After
maybe a quarter of an hour on the oval track
you should be getting the hang of it, and can
increase the sensitivity.
FAST CORNERING
To turn the Typhoon, all you do is bank over.
However, this isn't the fastest possible turn
rate. To achieve this, first of all get the craft
flipped nearly at right angles, then pull back on
the mouse , using your elevators effectively as
a rudder.
Use the racing line. Just as on ground-
based racing, the fastest line through a corner
is from the outside of the track to the inside
and back to the outside as the curve ends. In
this way you straighten out the turn as much as
possible. In three dimensions it is a little harder
to do, but the principle is the same. When on
an outside section of the track, fly as close as
possible to the sky force field - not onry is it
less damaging than hitting the ground but the
track is wider at that height.
Going into an underground section is one
of the most difficult manoeuvres to get right in
Powerdrome, but also one of the most satisfy-
ing when you can get it right. The fastest way
is not to brake at all but to flip the racer on its
back and pull back. Then roll through 180
degrees with the natural curve of the track and
pull back again,
SAFE AFTERBURNING
You won't get a really fast lap without using
afterburners. However, only use them when
pointing straight or you could have a bad day.
Overheating engines is a problem, mainly on
the test oval with its four long straights, so
keep an eye on the temperature gauges; if you
blow an engine it cancels out any time you
might have made up.
FILTER CHANGES
When a storm is brewing up, the decision must
be made as to whether to go into the pits and
change filters. Weigh up how many laps are left
- do you need a fuel/repair stop anyway? You
can take a chance and continue without chang-
ing, but the storm may be a lot longer than you
thought.
FUEL USAGE
Try to judge which type of fuel to use depend-
ing on the track you're about to race on. If
you're really good on that particular track, use
THE WAY T >l
Premium for maximum speed, rf it's one of your
weaker tracks, though, use Economy as the
extra speed will probably only make you crash
more often. The race length matters too; on a
short one a pit stop near the end of the race
may mean the difference between first and
last.
RACE TACTICS
The fastest way to enter the RoboPit is to
scream down the pit lane and, timing it just
right, cut the engines before you reach your
pit. Alternatively, if you're going way too fast to
slow down m time r smash into the nearest
available wall.
DAMAGE REPAIR
If it's nearly the end of the race, don't bother to
get repairs done, just try and limp round. If you
have to go in the pits for fuel though, just
changing the nosecone costs no extra time.
Find out your lead time just before you go in,
you then have an idea of what you can change.
132 Advanced Computer Entertainment
TRICKS ' N * TACTICS
LAY ACCORDING TO MIKE POWELL.
'our
the
ash
in a
ace
and
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just
your
st to
rest
3f to
you
jusl
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ige.
TRACK TIPS
Test Oval. No real secret to this one - just use
as much afterburner as you can, short of trash-
ing your engines.
My best Jap: 11 24 sees
AntarCorp Very narrow underground section,
se try and stay m the middle of the track. Vertical
underground chicane can be taken flat out - just.
My best fap: 53. 1 7 sees
Clorotek. Entry to underground section is diffi-
cult as it's just after a right curve. Use the flip
upside down technique. The section from
underground exit to start line should be flown
with judicious use of afterburners.
My best lap: 38.35 sees
Otyaka. This darkened underground section is
difficult at first, but not as hard as it seems when
you know which way the track goes. After you
come out onto the surface again, the section
from the exit of the right-hand hairpin to the start
can be taken flat out, but only if you get your line
exactly right through the series of chicanes.
My best /ap: 56,58 sees
Banzai. This is probably the hardest of the six
tracks. Mono Standard fuel is usually the best
choice here as it is difficult to use me extra
speed of Nitra, Slow down to half speed for
the dip under the track as a crash here can
cost a lot of time.
My best lap: 59. 18 sees
Apocalyt. The very tight hairpin (third corner
from the start} should be taken about 30%
speed. Alternatively, if you're not too damaged
already, scream straight into the comer and
smash into the wall to lose the speed. The
underground loop takes some practice U^e
very gentle corrections on the mouse - if you
crash here, it's difficult to build up speed again.
My best lap: 38.90 sees
DATA LINK MODE
If you know someone with an ST, get together
and play against them in DataNnk Mode. For the
satisfaction of beating someone you know it's
worth the small cost of a cable. If one of you is
a lot better than the other, you can introduce
handicaps by, say, the fast one using the slow-
est fuel and no afterburners. If there's several
of you, have a knockout competition.
Advanced Computer Entertainment 1 33
TRICKS '■SI' TACTICS
WIN £150 WORTH OF SOFTWARE?
Bursting into 1989. we've
suddenly got all gener-
ous. Throughout the year,
we plan to hand out £150,
ye$ £150 worth of soft-
ware lo the sender of
each month's Top Tip. If
you want to get a piece of
the action, send in your
lips, POKEs. maps or
detailed playing guides,
and do it now! We're not
interested in second-
hand tips, or detailed
guides on how to play
games lor the ZX8Q- If*
brand-new tips for the
games in the last couple
of issues that we're look-
ing for. And remember,
you may not win the top
prize, but we're also giv-
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chance to own the game
of their choice for their
machine. Make sure you
send us a list of the
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available.
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LAST NINJA 2
■ To get things roiling, here's how
to complete the first level on the
Spectrum.
From the starting room, go behind the curtain
and punch the wall box that flashes as you
enter. Return to the first room and fall through
the now open trap door. You should now see
a key on the floor, take the key arid exit.
Leave the next screen by the bottom exit and
on the following screen you'll find some
shuriken in a box - take the shunken.
Go through the gap in the wall and into
the next room, where you'll see a knife jug-
gler. Pass the juggler and go into the next
room. Throw a shuriken at the man in this
room and then take the map before climbing
the wall bars and exiting by the left. Jump the
gaps and pick up the pole and then jump back
into the previous room. Walk backwards onto
the wall bars and you will climb back down
them, leave and go past the juggler again
before leaving the next room by the right hand
exit.
Go through the gap in the wall and enter
the next room, throw a shuriken at the man
and pick up the first half of the rice flail whilst
in the women's toilets. Retrace your steps to
2
the gap in the wall and go into the next room.
Throw a shuriken at the man and pick up the
other half of the rice flail in the women's toi-
lets again. Leave the room and pick up the
hamburger at the hot dog stand. Leave by the
top exit and you should be at the gate room.
Go to the middle of the gate whilst holding the
key and pick up, then go through the gate.
Jump the river by using the boat (this needs
practice!) and leave.
In the next room are some bees - avoid
them and go up the winding path. When yoj
get to the middle of the path, run and then
jump onto the island. Go to the bushes and
poke the boat with the stick and it should move
away. Then move to the bottom edge of the
island and run and jump back onto the path.
Now cross the river by using the boat and
leave the park. Now load in the second level.
■ Jason Richardson, Wincanlom.
PLATOON
■ Here's a handy tip for ST owners.
Type in HAMBURGER - HILL when the title
screen appears and the word CHEAT' appears
below the programmers" names. Start the game
and you'll find that pressing F2 takes you
straight to the TNT. F3 takes you straight to the
bridge and F4 takes you straight to the village.
■ Mark Be 1 1 wood. M or eca robe.
1 34 Advanced Computer Entertainment
SUPER MARIO BROS
■ The classic Nintendo game has been around for quite a while, but
do you know how to set off the fireworks? Or why you should destroy
Super Mario? Read on...
THE WARP ZONES
There are three warp zones
m SMB, the first is at the
end of World 1-2. Take the
elevator up and jump over to
the too. Run to the right and
you'll find a room containing
three pipes - these lead to
Worlds 2 S 3 and 4. At the
end of World 4-2, take the
elevator to the top and run
to the right where you'll find
a warp zone leading to
World 5. To get quickly to
World 8 though, jump up in
World 4-2 to make the invisi-
ble blocks, appear. Get onto
the blocks and hit a brick to
make a vine appear. Climb
the vine and run to the right
white collecting coins. Then
you'll come to the final warp
zone that leads to Worlds 6,
7 and 8.
In World 4-2 there are
other hidden blocks in
places that look empty at
first. Stand on the blocks to
get the 1-UP Mushroom, or
other goodies.
The fireworks can be set
off when you jump onto the
pole at the end of each level.
The secret of the fireworks
lies in the last digit of the
time indicator. Jump onto
the pole when the number is
a one, three or six and and
the fireworks will go off
once, three or six times.
Since each explosion is
worth 500 points, time your
jump well!
One defensive tactic is
to let Super Mario die. He
then turns into a semi-trans-
parent Mario and is invulner-
able for a few seconds.
Just before the end of
World 3-1 there is a stair-
way, When Koopa Troopa
comes down the stairway
and reaches the lowest step,
jump on him to make him
stop and then keep jumping
on him and score a 1-UP for
every jump - up to 100!
Don't go over the 100
though, or the game will be
over.
If you lose all your Mar-
k>s - annoying when you've
got to World 8 - press the
start button while holding
down the A button. You'll
now be able to start on level
one of the last World you vis-
ited. However, you only get
another three Marios.
Remember, Mario runs
faster when you press the B
button, so at the end of trie
Bonus stage in the clouds in
World 3 - at the place where
every other block is in line -
hold down the B button and
you can collect all the coins
without falling down.
Your quc/t i/ inter/tellor wealth
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This month there's
no Tip of the Month'
prize - well, Mike
Powell and Tony
Crowther don't need
the games do they?
Still, we'll give Paul
Webster a copy of
Operation Wolf tor
his ST Jason
Richardson a copy of
To tat Eclipse for his
Spectrum, The two
Marks {Richardson
and Bellwoodj earn
themselves copies of
Puffy's Saga for their
troubles. Don't just
sit there! Go for it!
SPACE HARRIER
If getting ttirojgh the ST version of the game is
still proving too tough - despite the glorious
guide on page 136 - simply type this listing in to
ST basic and save it. Then insert a blank disk on
which you have previously created an AUTO fold-
er, and run the program.
Now, reset the computer with the disk still in
the drive and wait until the drive motor stops. Put
the Space Harrier disk 1 into the drive and hit a
key. The game should load as normal but with
infinite credit {you may continue playing after los-
ing all your lives, as often as you like).
10 rem infinite credit tor Space Harrier
20 addr-&ii7fdOQ
30 det seg=0 "1985 version of BASIC only
40 for f=0 to 239 step 2
50 read w$; poke addr+f,val("&h"+w$)
60 next f
70 bsave *aLrto'\$hcheat-prg H I addr,240
30 end
90 data 601 a, 0,ce,0,0 r 0,0,0
100 data 0,0,0,0,0,0,2361,4
110 data 203c,0, 800, 2200, d28d, 281 ,ffff,fffe
120 data
2e41 ,2f00,2f0d,4267,3l3c\4a r 4e41 ,3f3c
130 data 8,4e41 ,4267,4879,0,02,3*30,4©
140 data
4e4 1 ,4a40 , 66e8 , 42a7 ,42a7 , 4879 , 0,c2
ISO data
2f3c,4b,3.4e41,2e40,2e00,2040,91fc
160 data 0,300,2848,2030,0,11,2088,400
1 70 data 5ic8,fffa,397c,42a,i a,397c,3ea. 1 S
100 data 91 f 0,0, 4,30bC,4e75, 243c, 0,200
190 data 263c, 0,d4e 7 4eac,14,d9fc,0, 444
200 data
2c6f , 1 0,294e , 98c , 2f07,4eac,2f e , 4eac
210 data 4e,4eac.a0,ddfc,0,bc46,2cbc,4e71
220 data
4e71 ,4eac, 1 a4 ,4eac , 200 ,4aao, 232,61 75
230 data 746f ,5c61 ,2e70,7267,0,0,2c, 1 400
■ Mark Richardson, Preston
ELITE
■ If you own an ST, if you keep getting wasted by Thargoids, and if
you'd like to cheat - simply type in the following listing and run it for a
few handy accessories!
Running the listing creates a saved game on
a disk which offers the following: A front mili-
tary laser, a beam laser on each side and a
mining laser on the rear You will also get
four missiles, an energy bomb, a docking
computer, fuel scoop, ECM jammer, large
cargo bay, escape pod and over 10,000
credits. When you RUN the program, it will
save a file onto disk called CHEAT. CDR\
Next time you want all the above features,
simply load up Elite and then load in the
saved game created. NOTE the program will
not work with Hisoft Basic.
100 rem ELITE CHEAT
110 rem By Paul Webster
120 rem READ THE NOTES FIRST
130def seg=0: rem 1985 basic only
140 chksum=0: addr=&h7f<J00
150 for i=0 to 15
160 print "reading data: Line n ;30Q+(i*lO)
1 70 for j=0 to 1 5 step 2
180 read w$: word=val ( H &h H +w$)
190 poke add r+{(i'16)+j), word
200 ch ks u m-chks urn +wo rd
21 0 if chksum>29S75 then chksum=chk-
sum AND &hFFF
220 next j
230 read crik
240 if chkochksum then print "Error in
data at line ";.300+(i*l0>: end
250 chksum=0: next i
260 print "data read ok, creating file,"
270 bsave "CH E AT-C PR" , addr,256
260 print "finished."
290 end
300 DATA
FFF E.A7B6, F9B2 T 4 E A B, F7 F 1 , D2 F4 , F3F3
,5445,25390
310 DATA
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E,E1E1,3797
320 DATA
DFDF.DDDD.QDDA.D9D9.D7D6.55D6.53
D3.D1DC2238
330 DATA
CFCE r C DCC , C BCA,C9C8,C 7C6 , C5C4 , C
3C2,C1C0,1592
340 DATA
BFBE, BDBC , BB BA, B9 BS , B7B6 , B5 B4, B3
B2 r BlBO f 1464
350 DATA
AFA E. AD AC, ABAA, A9 A8 r A7 A6 P A5A4 , ASA
2AJA0/I336
360 DATA
9 F9 E,9D9C,9B9 A,9998 , 9796 , 9594 , 9392 9
190.1208
370 DATA
8 Ffi E ,8D8C , m& A , &988 ,8786 ,8584, 8382,8
180,1080
390 DATA
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175,347
390 DATA
6F6F.6D6C , 6B6A ,6928, 6775,654 1 ,6362 P 6
160,25317
400 DATA
1 33 F p 2 B39 , 5B3 F,5958,5756,5554.5350 , 51
50,21593
410 DATA
4F4E.4 D4C,4B4 A 7 4948,4746,4544,4342,4
140,568
420 DATA
3 F3 E,3 D3C . 3B3 A . 3938 ,3736 , 3534 , 3332 ,3
130,12728
430 DATA
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120,20792
440 DATA
1F1E.1D1C.1B1A, 1918,171 6,1 51 4,1 312,1
110,16568
450 DATA
OFOE , 0D0C ,060 A,0908,0706 ,0504 , 0302,0
100,16440
■ Paul Webster, Preston.
LISTING
OOPS!
The Gremlins got in the
works in September's issue
and managed to mess up
Mark Richardson's ST Alien
Syndrome poke.
Line 250 SHOULD have read:
250 data
0. 1 0.2040 . 2068 ,8,6 1 00, 1 e -2e40
Line 260 SHOULD have read:
260 data
2f00.4eef,1 04,2a2e,2a00,5c6l ,7574,6f
5c
The listing WILL now work.
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FISH
MAGNETIC SCROLLS/ RAIN BIRD bowl you over.
GLOOMY FOREST
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>Atari ST - it nay some time for your Fisn
turnea-nurridn to ses tne ^ood for tfte trees
MAGNETIC
140
Scrolls' latest product
just missed our last
issue, but we've used the time since and can
bring you not only the review, but also an inter-
view with author Phil South. Here's the lo*
down, straight from the codpiece.,,
Fish is a four-part game, with three intro-
ductory scenarios and a larger game area n
which the bulk of the action takes place. The
game follows in the MS tradition, featuring
excellent graphics, a powerful parser, and a
good deal of weird humour,
If the weird humour puts you off r dont
despair, Compared to The Pawn - and certainly
compared with Jinxter - Fish is... well... funnier,
Although the faughs don't always come off, trie
overall feeling is of a game with a more
straightforward approach. The emphasis is on
humour, not silliness.
In common with games like Lords of Time
and leather Goddesses of Phobos, Fish ere
ates a scenario in which you can move from
one adventureworid to another. The story goes
something like this;
You are an Inter-Dimensionaf Espionage
Operative with the power to 'warp' from one
body to another. Your host body can be any-
thing from a cod to a camel to a chartered
accountant. In Fish, you are variously a gold-
fish, a music technician and a rock star (among
others}. This allows you to explore a number of
very different worlds and, interestingly, one of
the technical problems MS had to oyercome in
the game was adapting the logic to different
bodies. Fish, after all, can't always get the
same things that humans can.
Your opponents in the game are the Seven
lomputer Entertainment
ADVENTURES
Deadly Fins. From your goldfish bowl, where
you start the game, you warp first to three dif-
ferent locations, solve a series of puzzles, and
then launch off into Fishworld to do battle with
the ungodly.
Unfortunately, there are some seriously
untidy programming glitches in VI .0 for the ST.
When we first saw this version, we were
assured that the bugs had been fixed, but they
were still there in the production version we
finally received for review.
Most of the time the errors are not too
serious, though it is annoying to be told that
there is a switch on the wall, then to be told a
moment later that 'There isn't a switch here to
do that". Of more importance is a bug concern-
ing the solution of one of the puzzles - so I'll
put sufferers out of their misery now by advis-
ing them to play all three cassettes at once,
one after the other and not to bother removing
them from the player in between plays.
PHIL GOES SOUTH
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Those puzzles that are not afflicted by
such problems (!) have a pleasing logicality to
foem, which is one of MS S strong points. The
game as a whole is best compared to Guild of
Tfteves - it has a coherent atmosphere, a
strong storyline, and a series of fairly compre-
hensible objectives. You couldn't realty ask for
much more from a basic text/graphics
game. ..and it does look VERY pretty!
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THE ACE VERDICT
More gameplay than Common, better game
design than Jimrr&r. and not as Quirky as The
Pawn. This is definitely MS s best release since
Guiirj of Thteves, even rf version 1 .0 on the ST is
spot by some careless programming.
LANDSCAPE 95 SYSTEM S3
CHALLENGE 92 ENCOUNTERS SO
"...so there we were, siting
on a coach, talking as we
do «n an abstract fashion
about peculiar things, when
I said to John - 'You're a
fish. Go west and what do
you see?'. From that sug-
gestion came the idea of
saving the world from your
goJdfish bowl. John wenr
strangely quiet, arid a lew
hours later he called me
and said we were writing a
game lor Magnetic Scrolls,"
So (hat's how it hap-
pens, eW> John Molloy n
music technologist, and
Phil South, mind mechanic,
[aided by devil's advocate
Peier Kemp and MS staffer
Rob SteggJes) are the first
outside game designers to
produce an adventure
under contract for Mag
Scrolls. It looks like being a
great success, despite the
problems ot creative col-
laboration.
"I'm pleased it has
come out so well," admits
Phil. "I couldn't write in the
MS style unfortunately, but
the original flavour of the
game has come through,
although it was written by a
sort of committee."
The original purpose
involves creating a consis-
tent reality in a world full of
water - not an easy thing
to do at all. Phil and John
went all out for consistency
of logic m the design of the
scenario and the puzzles.
Their main aim was the
suspension of disbelief
regarding "fish people in a
fishy world".
The game owes a lot to
Phil, John and Pete's early
experiences with Infocom
games. Sorcerer and
Enchanter were their
favourites. "I liked all their
early stuff, but those two
games I played extensiveiy.
I also played The Hobbit
and solved it without help,
which 1 was very proud of.
Jewels ot Darkness has
been another favourite of
mine."
Interestingly, Phil
regards adventure games
as multi- player experiences.
"I prefer to play with some-
one else around, and look
on them very much as two-
player games." The image
you gel is of someone for
whom adventuring is above
all a means of having fun -
a feeling that definitely
comes across while playing
Fish. As a result he has a
pragmatic attitude to games
in general:
"I don't agree wtth
over -complex parsers that
can't guess misspelt words
- even rf it's only by evad-
ing the problem and requir-
ing only a few letters for
each word. Infocom used
to have a parser that only
read the first four letters,
and I think I'd prefer that to
something so complicated
it gets m the way."
ACE certainly agrees
with him about overly com-
plex parsers. In the MS
parser, for example, you
can type GO NORTH and
you simply bump yojr -yowv.
into a door if there's one
there and it's closed. This
doesn't actually happen in
real life -people open
doors (unless they're
locked) - they don't walk
into them. Complexity at
the expense of reality is
simply a waste of effort.
So will Phil be collabo-
rating on any more games
for Mag Scrolls? Or for
anyone, come to that?
"I'm sure I will," he
chirps, "I've got lots of
ideas, but at the moment
there are none that would
make a good adventure -
ideas for stories, books,
but not for games." Sooner
or later, however, we will
doubtless be seeing more
from this gent. "I did have
an idea - Leather Clad
Rent Boys Of Doom - but
oddly enough no one want-
ed it Wonder why?"
Phil South. With a name like that, you just HAVE to
ptay adventures!
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ADVENTURES
AAA 1988
- THE ACE ADVENTURE AWARDS
Mi ndfighter. . .M on
o graphics, luke-
warm receptidi*.
BIGGEST
DISAPPOINTMENT
OF THE YEAR
Candidates for this
much coveted award
include Abstracl Con-
cept's Mindfighler.
Lancelot Infocom's
Borderzone and
Sherlock Holmes, plus Magnetic Scrolls'
Jinxter. After much debale, the winner is:
Mindfighter t complete with a pnnted guide
to insomnia.
Congratulations Anna, but we know
you'll pull found with release number 2.
WEIRDEST GAME OF THE YEAR
Three strong candidates here - Beyond
Zork for its shameless pursuit of the
Coconut of Guendor r together with its flirta-
tion with rote-playing: Slaine tor a user
interlace that defied belief as the com-
mands flashed through the hero's brmn;
and finally, the undoubted winner, Infocom's
Nord'n'Bert Couldn't Make Head Nor
Taifof Jf...and neither could anyone else!
MOST INNOVATIVE GAME OF THE
YEAR
Entries here include Plundered Hearts, tor "
its excursion into romance; Icom's games
for their user interface; Legend of he
Sword for its scrolling on-screen map;
Nord'n'Bert\o\ its game structure; and
ingrid's Sack for its character development.
There was much debate over this award,
but in the end il was decided that by open-
ing up a different approach to narrative
within adventuring, Plundered Hearts
Should get the prize, ingrid's 9ack comes a
close second, but characters are only as
important as the story within which they
appear.
BEST VALUE OF
THE YEAR
No contest... it's got
to be Time and
Magik from Level
9/Mandarin. Three
games for the price
of one, and not one a
turkey.
Time and Magik -
Ijest valu* for
money around .
BEST RPG-INFLUENCED GAME OF
THE YEAR
Candidaies here include Ultima V ?
Bards Tale 111, Pool of Radiance, and
Wasteland. There's a clear winner here,
natureilemeni, and by the beard ol Black-
thorne, it has to be Ultima V closely fol-
lowed by Wasteland and Pool of Radiance.
For ihose who want a good chop, however,
BTltl still ranks near the top.
PRETTIEST GAME OF THE YEAR
Up on the caiwalk we have the Magnetic
Scrolls products, chased petulantly oft the
stage by those romantic French chappies
with Mortvitte Manor and Chronoquest (via
Psygnosis). The prize finally goes to
Mortvitte Manor with its sexy voice synthe-
sis and alluring interior locations, Not much
of a brain, though.
GAME OF THE YEAR
Again, it seems there's a clear winner.
A game that has succeeded in widening the
market lor its own producl style, is on
course to sell a million copies, held the Pil-
grim captive at the keyboard for weeks, and
stopped much of the work in the offices of
magazines around the country . Uitima V.
Concerning which, the best story we've
heard to date is the man who rang us up
aboul the game from the office ol a famous
news agency, told us he was just loading it
up., and asked whether rt was any good.
When we tried to
phone him back, he'd
left his desk with the
disk and gone home-
He didn'1 return tor
three weeks' Just one
among many similar
Ultima V: Game tales of Shameless
of the year. addiction..
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY OF 1988...
...and a few questions about the future of adventuring.
There's no doubt about it - we've seen
more changes in the adventure scene dur-
ing 1988 than during the five previous
years. Noi since 1983 and the launch at
The Hobbit has there been a more signifi-
cant year for the adventurer.
The keynole has been the emergence
in strength of role-playing influences. ACE
reviewed no less than eight RPG-influenced
Mies in the adventure section during the
year - and thai doesn't include titles {such
as Pool of Radiance and Heroes of the
Lance) thai were reviewed elsewhere in the
magazine. Even Infocom is entering the
RPG arena with Journey- not yet seen
over here in the UK but looking strong on
visual presentalion at least.
Apart from that, there have bean two
other developments which should prove
highly significant. The first is Level 9's
dogged pursuit of character development.
Everyone knows what we think about this -
characters have to be the way lorward lor
true interactive fiction development. At pre-
sent there is Still too much money going inlo
graphics and user interface development,
and not enough into the mechanics of char-
acter handling. 1999 could see a change
here...
The other obvious change is the move
towards 1 6-bit- For adventurers, this Simply
means more concentration on disk-based
games with larger scenarios and betier
graphics, In the case of the Amiga and the
PC. it wtil also see greater penetration of
this market by American software houses,
That's not bad news - Magnetic Scrolls and
Level 9 need to be kept on their toes 1 In the
past. American games such as Tass Times
in Tonefown and Borrowed Time kept
reminding us of another, equally rewarding
adventure tradition.
THE CRYSTAL BALI
What does 1989 hold? Here are some pre-
dict ions;
MAGNETIC SCROLLS will stop releas-
ing tilles in the autumn of 1989 while they
debug their new RPG-based system...
LEVEL 9 will produce an icon -driven
game for Christmas (see news story else-
where)
SIERRA ON-LINE will produce a top-
selling game for the PC that will be convert-
ed onto the ST and Amiga and make this
company one of the bigger names of 1 9S9.
INFOCOM will cut prices dramalically
and produce a budget rang ft ol games,
A FRENCH ADVENTURE will reach
the lop ten in the charts on the Atari ST
ABSTRACT CONCEPTS will relaunch
with a new adventure development sysiem.
US GOLD will launch a dedicated fan^
lasy Label.
A RUSSIAN ADVENTURE will enter
the rumour mill but never appear.
A JAPANESE COMPANY will produce
a fantasy role-playing game for the coin -op
markei I hat will be licensed and produced
by US GOLD.
The last TEXT ONLY game to be com-
mercially produced will be released by
TO POL OG I K A
Happy 19fl9!
Advanced Computer Entertainment 143
ADVENTURE
NO PROBLEM!
THE MESSAGE BOARD
What?? Only one letter this month? Not for long,
we hope. From next issue onwards, we'll be
printing readers' letters in this space - and giv-
ing away some great prizes to the writers of
those that really sparkle. The price ol a stamp,
together with your views on any aspect of
adventuring, could put your name on these
pages. ..so |ump to it, and you might win a Iree
game into the bargain!
SHODDY?
I enclose a solution to ingnd's Back (Thanks,
Rob.) which I personally consider to be infinite
ly superior to its predecessor, Gnome Ranger.
Since the latter won the award for Best Adven-
ture last year, I cannot see how Ingrid's Back
can fail to follow up on its success. I reckon
that it would even get my vote ahead of
Beyond Zonk,
However, the game is choc-a-oloc with
bugs, inconsistencies, and so on. I feel that
both Level 9 and Magnetic Scrolls are in too
much of a rush to get their games out and are
cjttmg too many corners in the finishing
stages as a result, What say you?
By the way, I've gone back to Lancelot and
found the missing 60 points. In the cell, give
the love potion to the maid, who (alls in love
with you and helps you to escape. I'm sure I
tried that before with no success. Ho hum.,.
Rob Marshall, Cheshire
J didn't feet that Ingrid's Back was as bad
as Lancelot in respect of untidiness , but I take
your point. The problem with adventures has
always been that 'commercial reality' - for
which read 'need for dosh - has outweighed
creative effort and ingenuity to some extent,
Remember Software Project's Legionnaire for
whatever ft was called}: trying to review it, I
found that although you had to go upstairs to
solve an early puzzle, the parser didn't under-
stand any words for going downstairs. There
were some interesting quotes from Software
Profects about that game, none of which were
printed...
Yup, It's no problem when you've
got people like James Neville of
Lingfield and Rob Marshall,
bringing you tips to hustle you out
of the tightest spots.
Keep the clues coming in,
everyone. The beat way to submit
them is on a postcard, with the
name of the puzzle and the solution
clearly stated. Send them to: Steve
Cooke, co 4 Queen Street, Bath,
BA1 1EJ.
INGRID'S SACK
Some tips on getting signatures
for your petition...
Sign it yourself.
Get eight signatures at Gnel lie-
field Farm - Gnoggin, Grandma,
Arm ill a ria. Bumpy, Arback Garden,
Gnoah, Dimple, and Gnora.
Get biopsy to wait outside
I sf runt's from door. Go to the back
door and knock, then go back to the
front..
Leave the petition on the table
in the hermit's at Three Mote Hill,
Return later to retrieve it (signed).
CORRUPTION
Get the stethoscope for use
later in opening the safe. Turn the
dial four times and take receipts,
ledger and chips.
Read everything in the briefcase
to get extra points.
You need to hand Over informa-
tion on eight points to Goddard as
well as telling Sergeant Russell
about the Coke. The points are: affi-
davit, certificate, conversation,
tape, ledger, receipts, envelope and
casino. You will need concrete evi-
dence to hand over.
PAT S PATCH
Pat Winstanley continues her occasional column on DIY adven-
ture writing. ..This month she looks at coping with numerous
different player inputs,
Modem commercial
adventures have moved
beyond the old
verb/noun 'input format,
allowing the player
tremendous freedom of
expression. This can
cause headaches for the
writer trying to allow tor
different inputs which
should produce the same
result, necessitating an
awful lot of conditions all
of which are Identical
except for the input
which triggers them.
However, users ol PAW
and STAC can cheat a lit-
tle by adjusting the play-
er's Input before looking
at the main condition
tables.
For example, think of
lighting a lamp and the
possible inputs which
should work. Lamp on,
on lamp, light lamp, turn
light on, switch light on -
the list is endless. If a
condition is entered for
each of these variations,
memory will rapidly be
used up. Much better is
to use one condition to
catch the players input,
and transform it to the
input required for the
condition.
With STAC this can
be handled using system
variables. Thus If we had
a condition on the lines
of:
IF VERB LIGHT AND
NOUN 'LAMP' AND
RESET? (LIT) THEN SET
(LITJ OK
Changing the player's
actual Input to read 'light
lamp' is simply a matter
Of using the command x
WORD y which changes
the number held in one of
the variables NOUN1,
VERB1 etc. This is most
easily done In a special
condition reserved for
transforming inputs and
would have entries like:
IF VERB TURM' AND
NOUN LIGHT AND
ADVERB ON THEN
LIGHT WORD 3 THEN
LAMP' WORD 1
You must make sure
that 'light' is both a verb
and a noun, though not
necessarily the same
number.
The special condition
containing this should be
called at the beginning of
each local condition
which has an entry and
the beginning of the law
conditions too.
PAW users can do
much the same thing,
setting up a process
table which is called at
the beginning of
response, but in this
case the word light"
should have a number
less than 20. The trans-
forming entry would be
something like:
TURN LIGHT
ADVERB "ON"
LET 33 'LIGHT
LET 34 'LAMP'
Then in response, or
a process table called
from there, you would
have Just one entry to
light the lamp,
Using this method
saves having to repeat
the rest of the conditional
and action parts of the
main condition 'entry and
so saves more memory
as the number of inputs
- you allow for is
increased- More impor-
tantly, it helps make your
game very friendly for the
player.
1 44 Advanced Computer Entertainment
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GRAPHICS
At first SfgM, Forms in Right 2 seems
a rattier homespun, MeSsDOS type of
. package. Certainly the- interface is
decidedly non-Amiga-standard, and is the worse
for it. In tune it is possible to get used to the
movable, triple-depth menu system, but the
lack of keyboard equivalents and almost total
absence of any iconic interface seems a rather
quirky backward step. Nevertheless, once you
pass this barrier thfe program proves, to be very
powerful, offering a unique modelling system
Lsing 'surface patches' to generate complex
curved shapes from very simple flat surfaces,
as well as & means to animate the curved
shapes once they have been created.
FORMS...
The real power of the surface patch technique
is provKJed by its ability t^fcange the number
(Below left) NETTED DOLPHIN
The final image (below right I is mad* up from a QSUAF, extruded along a curved path to
form a series of similar surfaces linked by patches. The sl» of each cross- section 1 is
adjusted to give the t apt ring body. Several more QSUHFs an given a little ffHektves*
and positioned a% fins T tail, mouth parts and flippers. All surfaces are texture mapped
from a single full screen IFF picture. Here, the full rendition was saved as an IFF tile,
brought back as a background picture and the wire frame dolphin placed in front to
show the structure,
of Sides of an object quickly and eastly. The
fundamental component used in Fom*- in
Flight 2 {FiF 2) is trie 'surface'; either a f \M sur-
face, an FSURF, with any number of control
"nodes', or a three-dimensional surface, a
QSURF, always^imited to four 'nodes 1 . For
either type of surface the curve connecting two
nodes can have any number of 'sides' but the
more there aajthe smoother the curve wjII be.
With one 'side%r instance the 'curve' would be
straight, but with ten sfdes quite smooth" curves
can be generated, a principle illustrated by the
two yellow wire frame dolphins above.
In practice the simple, one-sided form is
very quick to render whereas the complex, mul-
tiple-sided form can take several minutes, even
in wire-frame^jjo avoid annoying delays during
constructing the structure is rnodeHed initially
using a simflte ahgulitr 'skeleton' that is easy to
TWO VtLLOW DOLPHINS - the first stage
in preparing an image with Forms In
Flight, a package which allows complex
curved shapes to be generated from sim-
ple flat surfaces.., and then animated,
The dolphin on the right has curves with
one side' the other has eight. By increas-
ing the number of 'sides' of each curve, •
basic angular skeleton {with the advan-
tage of a fast redraw time} can be trans-
formed to a smooth organic shape.
'.to increasing the number of
r afehttorward command, beai>
manipulate. Late/v
sides with one str<
tjfully curved objects can be generated.
Because of this ability to transform rudi-
mentary and angular structures into smoothly
curved iorrns there is a great temptation to fry
out' the final form as soon as possibfe. This
shoul^only be attempted with care as it is very!
easy, at least initially, tor the iov>ce to move
the objefct or viewpoint into an awkward posi-
tion , even upside-down. Recovering from this 3
predicament can be quite difficult because
the curious method used to move the viewpo !
or 'camera position'.
Jpn many ways rotating the viewpoint is a
like us*ng a mouse to control the spacecraft
larch/Virus or the pJane in Flight Simulator 2.
With lots of practice it might become intuitive
but for the beginner it is forbidding. Part of the
problem is caused by long redraw times which
delay movements. If the ptogram replaced the
object during a viewpoint/camera move by 9
simple rectanguiar 3D box wrth the same orien-
tation as the object being represented, move-
ment could take place in real time. This solu-
tion is used by Cahgart (see Graphic Accounts
this issue) and seems the ideal way to hard.*
object or viewpoint manipulation.
As. well as the wire-frame mode, there are
two other rendering techniques available in
FiFZ shading and texture mapping. Compared
to Sculpt Animate or Turbo Stiver, the shading
mode is very limited. A maximum of 32 shades
{in lo-res) are used but they are dithered very
effectively, and Phong Shading is used to
smooth out angular and faceted surfaces.
There is no ray {racing and only one r fixed light
(Below right) SPOTTED DOLPHIN.
A spotted dolphin flies through the
waves - the finished image created with
Farms In Flight 2. this time shown in ell
its glory without the wireframe grid. The
background is an IFF image produced
using Deluxe Paint II.
1 48 Advanced Compute' E.nte-ia nn&nr
source. IFF pictures can be brought in and
used as foreground or background, or mapped
onto any QSURF. Check the box for a descrip-
tion of texture mapping.
...IN FLIGHT?
Animation seems almost to have been added
to the system as an afterthought - not that the
motion control provided is lacking in power, but
*^'>, .J
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m
W"
1
i
YELLOW WIRFRAME DOLPHIN with 10
sided 1 curves, placed against the same
imported background used in the final
Image. Note how much smoother the
network is, as compsied to the picture
Of TWO YELLOW DOLPHINS.
transformations of the objects ttiemsehres are
rather limited. Any selectable ob|ect, including
individual FSURFs and QSURFs, can be
assigned a 'frame block', This allows the object
to be moved in any plane, along any path - or
none - and sired or 'rounded', Using this
method rt would be possible to move the wings
of a turd up and down for instance, but control-
ling the choreography involved would be hor-
rendousty difficult. The name of the whole
package sums up the feel of the motion it
, allows... the forms fly - but like a frisbee rather
than a bird. They don t flap their wings]
...AND LANDING.
Forms in Flight 2 has come a long way from
version 1. The facilities for texture mapping
and surface patches are welcome - the* trans-
formation of a crude and angular approxima-
tion of an obfect to its beautifully curved final
& version is magical, but the user interface
^ needs a similar transformation. Camera motion
would also be greatly improved if some indica-
tor - even just the xyz axes arrows - rotated in
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real time.
Rendering works very well within its limita-
tions. An extra option to render in HAM mode -
or better still .to ray-trace would have been
wcndcrlui. Animation of complete objects is
quick and easy - an aavaifce of not using
raytracmg - but some sorfij inbetweemng is
almos: essential to get a re& feeling of self-
propulsion from the wonderfully organic and
arariate looking forms that this package can
create.
Every flat screen image
consists of an array of pix-
els arranged in straight
vertical and horizontal
rows, A texture mapping
procedure examines the
surface onto which I his
array is to bo mapped and
diodes it up evenly into a
similar, though distorted
grid. The colour of each
pixel on the original array
is then transferred to the
new grid, eventually pro-
ducing a distorted 'map" of
the entire image,
A number of Amiga
graphics packages now
offer some form ol lexture
mapping. Photon Paint will
map any area ol any
screen defined as a brush
onto one of a number of
pre defined object shapes.
Being a HAM program it
has a wide range of
shades available and so i
able 10 tone the final
object ig show a lighi
source, which can be
user-definable. Forms t
Flight 2 can only use a
maximum ol 32 shades,
so lighting effects are n
available. Nevertheless
is capable ol mapping
onto the most convoluted
surfaces, all of which
should be comoletei
under the control of the
user. The skin of the
SPOTTED DOLPHIN was
originally a full screen pic-
ture ot a section of this
pattern, mapped onto
each of the QSURFs that
make up the body.
PATCHWORK
The complex curves of the
dolphins shown on these
pages are made up from a
series ot surface patches
linked together. The form
ot each patch depends on
the way that the tour
curves forming its bound-
ary are distorted Each
patch can be visualised
like a patch on the knee ot
a pair of jeans. The fabric
was originally Hat, but by
drawing the comers back
over the curve of the knee
it also becomes curved m
three dimensions. The
effect is illustrated best by
example. The two texture
mapped surface patches
shown here are copies of
the picture NETTED DOL-
PHIN, texture mapped
onto a single OSURf sur-
face patch. Superimposing
the yellow wireframe
curves shows more clearly
that one end is bowed up
and the other down.
As natural forms are
increasingly becoming the
target of computer graphic
artists and designers,
organic modelling tech-
niques like surface patch-
es are gaining in impor-
tance. Sculpt 40, the pro-
fessional version of
Scutpt'Animate will pro-
vide a similar method to
generate curved
surfaces.
{Left} A texture
ppetf susr-
pateh of
Dolphin
e texture
ed suf*
patch with
outline Oi
wireframe
dure
mposed
clarity..*
AtwancerJ Computer Entertainment 1 49
Some of the most enduring computer
entertainment programs seem to
achieve their success by making
demands on me user which require no little
effort of the intellect. The scholar who will
break into beads of perspiration at the mere
mention of homework and who wHI do anything,
even the washing up, to avoid the evening's
light entertainment set by his teachers, seems
to think nothing of doing intellectual battle for
hours with compter adventures and puzzles.
Eudjd, which at first sight may be mistaken for
a rather dull program for computer-aided-
design, is quite an adventure, The deeper it is
explored, the more rewarding it becomes.
Euclid is MOT a paintbox program, and
jRriqht] In Euclid, you. modify your design
by working on the three orthogonal win*
dows - headed up m Front, Loft and
Above. Move the cursor Into a window,
and you can start work on its contents,
and to take a closer look, a window can
bo enlarged and popped over its broth-
ers on screen* The View window shows
the results of changes made in the
Orthogonal windows.
I/O menu
Printer and eT
output control
menu
The goodies'
menu - behind
this lies a selec-
tion of miscella-
neous commands
that don't fit else-
where
The window con-
trol icon - allows
you to choose dif-
ferent viewing
(camera] angles
for the main VIEW
window
The Control
Panel allows the
Euclid user to
move through the
tree of objects in
a data structure
REAL TIME SOLID
3D ANIMATION THE
EUCLID WAY
Or Downie takes the first 3D package for
the Archimedes through its paces,..
does not produce breathtakmgly realistic
images with textured surfaces. It is NOT the
wonderful Sculpt 3D {for the Amiga) with which
3D images of near-photographic realism can be
laboriously generated, saved and then replayed
in sequence to give the illusion of movement.
What it can do, however, is produce 3D worlds
with scenes being recalculated at sufficient
speed to give the user total 1 control in real time.
Structures can be "flown' through, using the
demo program Ffy. £uc/JCfs purpose is to pro-
duce solid 3D pictures of moving objects; Ihe
user with minimal programming skills can take
advantage of the design program supplied, or
the Euclid modules can be linked by BASIC or
assembler code by an artist who is happy with
programming...
A wide variety of demonstrations and
examples, BASIC program shells and utilities as
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GRAPHICS
quality and extent of Euclid s capabilities, dis-
pensing with the fancy loader screens and pre-
sentation graphics that have become the norm
with commercial packages - but the volume of
extras makes up for this lack of superficial
gloss.
Eucfid is quite definitely a surface rather
than a solid modeller. Objects are defined by
the planes that bound them: there is no dis-
crimination between a hollow box and a solid
block, for instance. For most visible purposes
this is unimportant, as a box and a block look
the same from the outside, References to
'solids' m the manual can be confusing, howev-
er Furthermore, there is no simple concept for
producing cross sections, and the computer
cannot readily generate 'mass properties like
weights of intersecting components and posi-
tions of centres of gravity. With true solid mod-
ellers, it is possible to build up structures by
adding, subtracting and intersecting primitives
like blocks, cylinders, spheres and cones - an
approach that often needs considerable com-
puting power if objects of any complexity are
to be produced- In Euclid, the structures are
built from points, lines and surfaces.
STRUCTURED DATA
The package offers an excellent opportunity to
learn about graphic data structures, which are
a rather like the Archimedes ADFS (disk filing
system). 'Objects, like directories, can contain
other Objects and Solids, which in this analogy
would be like files.. Unlike ADFS, Euclid can
share objects and solids between higher level
obfects - change the name or nature of the
same Solid contained in different Objects and
its associates will also change, Change one
copy of an object and all objects will change.
Eudids way of structuring data is called the
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG),
The manual needs some very careful read-
ing where it deals with data structure. Words
like 'object' have have a strict meaning, but
objects' is also a term used loosely to refer to
anything in the system. The text is peppered
with Siblings, Parents, objects, Objects, Solids,
Primitive Objects, Children, Planes, Points,
Vanes, corners and landscapes - sometimes
these words have strict meanings and some-
times they are used in a more general sense.
Although capital initials are used in an attempt
to differentiate between the specific and gener-
al usages, a different typeface for terms would
have eased comprehension,
The first section of the manual offers a
guided tour which is followed by a detailed
user's guide to the Design program. The sec-
ond section deals with the Euclid modules, and
acts as a reference text. For more subtle uses
of Arthur, the current Archimedes operating
system, you need to browse through the REM
statements lurking in the demonstration pro-
grams. An excellent WIMP environment which
offers four views of the structure you are build-
ing m the Destgner means that you can get
quite a way mto Euclid without referring to the
manual, but you will need to explore the exam-
ple demonstration with the help of the Design
chapter in the manual before the full capabili-
ties of the package can be called into play.
The real power of Euctid lurks in the sec-
ond set of utilities on the disk. Using the SYS
command in BASIC or the SWf command in
assembler, structures built in the designer can
be incorporated into your own programs. Full
data structure details are given, so more
advanced programmers could write their own
design interface software, but example pro-
grams included in the package can be used as
'recipes' by the less competent programmer.
Screen dump printer drivers are supplied,
and Euclid supports colour printers as well as
HGPL and Plotmate plotters - although plotters
can only produce wire frame graphics, since
screen memory is used to do the final stage of
the fiiddervline-removal algorithm.
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Condie - 9 smart cockroach who negoti-
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data on the effect* of natural forces such
as gravity and the movement of real, live
roaches. Tha first intelligent animal gen-
erated by the MIT Media Lab, Goodie was
doing his stuff at the CO '88 Show.
there was one. There are plans for an adult ver-
sion of Knightmare and a satellite version. See
what I mean about the world?
HYPERFAINT VS DEO AS ELITE
After an extended session using Degas Elite an
an Atari 52QST 1 realise that I was a bit harsh
on HyperPaint last issue. In many ways it is
certainly a better program than Degas, not
least in having a separate palette for each
screen, but the Atari still needs something rev-
olutionary in the way of software to revive inter-
est in it as a graphics machine...
GRAPHIC ACCOUNTS
COMPUTER GRAPHICS 86 (CCS 68 1
The CG shows at Wembley are rapidly becom-
ing recognised as the premier annual computer
graphics events in Europe. This year, as usual,
a lot of extremely expensive industrial systems
featured, and as ever they were somehow ren-
dered boring in direct proportion to their price
tag. The exception to this rule was AT&T's Pixel
Machine on the SUN stand. CGI - the distribu-
tors - had set up this modest looking machine
on the edge of the stand and until the images
were glimpsed, it was difficult to see what the
fuss was about: just a box on the floor, much
like a storage heater, attached to a large moni-
tor. But the images... until you have waited 36
hours for one Sculpt 3D render on an Amiga,
the magic of real-time ray-tracing seems pretty
much irrelevant.
Tektronix and Calcomp both demonstrated
their wax transfer printers, both priced under
£10,000 (now don't rush) but more interesting
to mere mortals was the Integrex Colourcel at
£3.000. Using the latest in Met engine from
Canon, it produces astonishingly good colour
images of near-iphotbgraphic quality. As prices
of printers fall, this sort of quality should
become available to the average home user,
The sooner the better!
The Amigas on the Commodore stand
were the most affordable machines featured at
Wembley. At the moment no-one is promoting
the Atari ST or the Archimedes at this level -
and the Apple Mac II wasn't at the show, so the
Amiga had the field to itself. Disappointingly,
Amiga Centre Scotland did not have ScuJpr 4D
on show. Eric Graham had found a few bugs at
the last minute, and not wishing to display an
imperfect product, didn't send it. They did have
a Tektronix printer, a Honeywell slide maker
and a 16 million colour scanner though - all
well beyond most home users' budget, but
going to prove that the Amiga is beginning to
be supported by the big boys.
(Right} Pro Artisan, just released by
Clara's for tha Archimedes at El 69.95.
154 Advanced Compute* Eniertainment
By far the most spectacular software on
the Commodore stand was the long-awaited
Cahgari, distributed by Hi-Tension - yet another
3D animation system, but this time one
designed to a really professional specification
(and with a professional price too - £l r 300
lust for the software). For the ashing price, it
was a bit disappointing - no ray-tracing, only
16 colours dithered to produce 80 shades. But
the interface is the best yet, offering easy cre-
ation and manipulation of objects in real time
(with a 3D box used to surround objects when
they get too complex for fast screen updates).
GRAPHICS TEA TROLLY!
Travelling Matte (see last issue] were there,
poised it seems to take over the world! The
idea of a mobile computer graphics system is
a novel but intelligent one, and deserves to
succeed, Their latest plan is totrundle a mobile
graphics station round the World Trade Centre
in Mew York like a tea trolley - a building full of
people needing a better corporate video if ever
NEW PRODUCTS
Despite its absence from CG88 the Mac is
coming up fast as its superior specification
attracts a greater level of software support.
Electronic Arts (0753 46465) are about to
release a Mac II version of Deluxe Paint called
Studio 8. All the tools of DPaint'2 and then
some are promised, offered in 256 cctas at
high resolution; should provide some spectacu-
lar displays. A review here soon. If you need to
ask the price (£349) you couldn't afford the
Macll to run it! Also from EA is Deluxe Print 2
(£49,95) for the Amiga. Full importation of IFF
pictures plus ready-made borders, cards,
posters, signs, labels, calendars and banners
in colour should improve your image.
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525694, £19.95), a drawing program for the
Archimedes. It seems to provide all of the
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fly Fair Means or Foyl puts a
new twist on the boxing game
theme - of course the basic aim
is to slug It out in the ring and
become the World Champion,
but you don't have to fight by
the Marquis of Queens berry
rules alt the time. Head butts,
groin knee jogs, punches to the
THE PRIZES
groin and kicks can ail be used,
providing the referee doesn't
see you fend them.,.
The struggle for supremacy
in the boxing world involves Jots
of hard work, dedication end
pure determination. Dualities
familiar to Barry McGuigan (who
hat never thrown a foul punch in
his career}, so Supenor and Alii*
gate asked Barry if he would go
a few rounds with By Fair Means
or Foul. He obliged, offering
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The closing date for entries is 1st January 1 983. so get ^499^
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ACE SERIAL 178
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ACE GUIDE TO
CONSOLE SOFTWARE
There's no point owning a console without
owning some games to play on it But what
games are out there? Here's the ACE guide to
console games that are available NOW.
SEGA GAMES
ACTION FIGHTER £22. AS cart
This shjoot-em-up features a motorbike
not dissimilar to the one in Hang-On
that s bnstlmg with high Tech weaponry.
Not only (hat but it can transform into
an aircraft or car.
AFTER BURNER C 24.95 cart
The console version of the game
re viewed on page 54 of this issue.
Check out Ihe review for an idea of trie
game.
ALEX KIDD E22.A5 **rt
Journey through the planet Arws to the
city of ftadacban and save it from the
evil Janken the Great. The game's an
arcade adventure with big cartoon-iike
sorites. Hi's got loads of appeal for
younger gameplayers.
Also it 1762 Pereburc Rd.. Cctlcndjc, Birmingham, B30 3BH Tel; 021 458 4564
ALtX KIDO - THE LOST STARS
E24 9S cart
The sequel to the above game. It's in
much the same ve»n as the original
game, but this time you're out to return
some stars that have been pinched
from the heavens above the planet
Aries. Again, one for younger game-
players.
ALIEN SYNDROME C 24.95 cart
TNs viewed-from-above maze-cum-
5hDDt-em-up game is set in space. You
have to rescue friends trapped on vari-
ous levels of an alien spaceship. Fea-
tures huge, grotesque end of level
guardians.
ASTRO WARRIOR / PIT POT
C 22.95 cart
Two games on one cartridge here. Astro
Warrior's a simple Space Invaders type
shootem-up and Pit Pot is a simple maze
game. Balh games are simple but enjoy-
<JDle
AZTEC ADVENTURE £22.95
cert
You are in trie legendary 1 Aztec Paradise
and have to fight your way the labyrinth
inhabited by mysterious (and deadly}
Aztec demons, monsters and spirits.
BANK PANIC £14.93 card
Sega' s version of the ancient arcade
game where you have to shoot bank
robbers as they come into the bank and
avoid shooting the innocent citizens
who are depositing money.
BLACK BELT £22.95 carl
This is a viewed-side-on beat-envup in
which you haye to prove you're worthy
of owning a black belt by defeating
numerous enemies.
CAPTAIN SILVCR E 24.9 5 curt
A horizontally scrolling combat game-
check out the review on page 76,
CHOPLIFTE R €22-93 cart
Another dd arcade game this. You're
flying a helicopter across horizontally
scrolling scenery, bombing baddies and
rescuing goodies.
ENDUHO RACER C22.95 cart
Climb aboard your dirt bike and go rac-
ing, against the clock, over several
courses complete with bumps and
other riders to avoid.
FANTASY ZONE £22.95 cart
Another one tor younger gamepiayers,
Huge cartoon sprites abound as you go
bolhng round gathering coins to buy
parts and arms lor your spaceship.
Then you're ready to go Wasting some
aliens.
FANTASY ZONE II £24.95 cart
The sequel to the above game in much
the same vein, plus a few extras.
FIB FIGHTER £14.95 card
As pilot of the F16 Fighting Falcon, you
mission is to seek out and destroy as
many enemy aircraft as you can whilst
remaining airborne.
GANGSTER TOWN £19.95 carl
For use with the Light Phaser. You re an
FBI agent in the 1920s, pursuing a
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10 Yard Fight £34.99
Play the American Football arcade
game in the comfort of your own
home with this coin-op conversion.
Balloon Fight £24.94
A, cute wersjon of the Did arcade
game, Jaust. Simplistic, addictive iun.
DonJtey Kong 3 CI 9.93
Help Mario scale a construction srte
to rescue the pretty Pauline from a
gorilla - an arcade classic of
yesteryear
Donkey Kong Junior £19.95
Mario has captured the gorilla, so
Oonfcey Kong Junior swings through
Nie jungle on vines, dodging birds m
an attempt to rescue his daddy-
Donk*y Kong 3 £1 9.95
What a surprise! Donkey Kong is back
on the rampage, this time inside a
greenhouse. Deal with rn&d. bad goril-
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Popeye £19.95
Another conversion from the coin-ops.
Keep guzzling that spinach...
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Wore classic Mario Bros action, as
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Legend of Zalda £39.95
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Nintendo takes to the Molocross
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Mach Rider £34.95
Reviewed this issue, see page 106.
Wracking Craw £34.95
A programmable game that allows the
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Spiting action, as the American
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Mere beat-em-up action, this time set
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ACORN ARCHIMEDES
T "e X5 ar«j 3 1 0 a r e home machines, while ihs 4 1 0 aid m a^e
on*y really ol interest (o senous use's.
Ths305rias512Ko<nnwwyiMiileme3i0lia5 1Mb. but both use
Aoom's own super-tost 3?-bi1 ARM chip as thev central processor
APPLE MACINTOSH
The Mac SE comes in a distinctive uprghl monies system be* wlfi
buiti-Ki drives, while tfie Mac H's s>tlein'd<ri , « bor. and detfcaled
monicr are separate. Bolh have separate *eytoa?d am touw.
Recommended retail prices start at £601 .60 tor (tie 30S OH its Own.
The'e's to sign of a second'hand market as yet.
GRAPHICS
MONITORS
Screen resolution is varabJe: epical modes would be J2uk256 in
256 colcurs 64£«256 in 'fccoours or- wilt a-i eapensve multi-
sync montor - an impressive Wux51?, again in 'S colours. There's
one hardware sprite - the cursor - but wiih ihat speedy AHM diip
»or power, H Archie's Wirtingiy fast «n software.
Though both macfiines have 1 Mb ot memory, the SE only has a
MoMrola is pjS-i it araufyi wnile Ihe I uses the mucfl faster
|but wisely related) $6020.
Hecommendec retail pnees start at S2.294 for the SE and £4.329
for re Vac II Macs "end to keep the r caue we so second- nand
ones aren't ternWy c*wap Cut-pice brand new cries are fare tea,
so the cheapest thing can be to personally import one Irani tne
Sutes (i.e. My to New ftifc, buy a Mac and tying it back with ycul
The mono-only SE has a screen resoluton of 512x3*2, whle the
Mac II rurts to a 1027x7EO screen in 16 colours, chosen torn a
palette or more than '6 million!
Bftt - composite video colour - RGB t sync no TV modulalry.
SOUND
DRIVES, MICE &
JOYSTICKS
SOFTWARE
PROSPECTS
OVERALL
RATINGS
The A/cnie's built in sound features 16 channels |in 8 stereo pairs]
and a range ot six octaves, all tod through a {pod-quality nternal
speaker.
The butt-in drive b quetandtasL and packs a Heathy 60g"K onto a
3 5i" cisK. Tie Arche comes with a nice 3-cutton mouse - but fas
no joystick porf
Games tor Arche are rare things ndeed. Suoercf and Grand
Slam are both committed to supporting the machine, but lor now the
only major titles are Zarci? and |tar 31 0 owners} Cdoqueror, both
ACE-fated games There's still nc sign of a game thai rea'y pushes
the Archw Jo anything Ike is limits.
The handtul o< graph cs packages available should keep art-loving
Arch* owners nappy lor no*. Other appncaDons areas are tick ng
over nc*ty i not exactly booming
The Archie's educational leanngs make for a poor games curoc* -
there's no sign of sucpor from any ot the big-league houses - and
the lack ot a joystick port doesnt help, The g raphes software base
would mushroom il Acorn cut Bier prices, but jntil nan things don!
ook "co not he's eittie-
Tne Arcfimedes $ years ahead of its time, and vastly more power-
hit than the competition. A stiff bit ol prics cutiing would make it an
unbeatable leisure machne. but Acorn ,ust dent seem to be inter-
ested. Al the ctinent pnee $% a 'worthwhile' buy lor computer soen-
t sis and people with money lo burn, bul iter s about it
As well as the built-in (SE| or decfcaled (Mac II) Apple units, there
are plenty of third-party monitors offering m-iior-pke screers anc
similar, tike most Ihir-gs Wac-ish, these get very pricey.
The Macs lew -channel sound chip can produce some very accept-
able noises - stereo on me Mac il - bt,i you'll need a Piiro-party
MIDI pod add-on if you're serous a*ML.i music
'he fast re-' able ouill-m dives oack OTK onto a 3.5n disk. The
keyboards very htgh-quality stuff, as is tne one-button mouse,
Games software is noUembly pienrjhjl on me Mac, though adven-
iL^ers are we;| called far The'e's a kge amount ol graphes aic
desk-lop pdbhsling software - most ol it firmly mono - and a hne
range ol titles for fie business user. There's also perrty ol gr??"
sctWe 'cr me MIDI Tuscan, cut 1 doesnl come cheap
'he tulure to' 1he Mac is excellent, bul mostly on the serous sde al
things.
The Mas's a very upmarket marine, arx) s pneed acccd npy
Almcsl essemial tor DTP useis, ifs a luxury item or Yuppie By for
the rest of ls.
Graphics 5
Sound 4
SOFTWARE:
Range 1
Quality 2
Prospects 2
Graphics (SE| I
Sound 4
SOFTWARE:
Range 4
Quality 5
Prospects 4
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ATARI ST
The HOSTFM and 1 MOSTF bath come as combired keybrar-
dsyswwohve consotes.
The 52CSTFM has 51 2K ol memory, while ihe 1 040STF nas 1 Mh.
Bolh use the Mew ola 5SW0 processor
COMMODORE AMIGA
The A5W s a single unit with built-in drsk dnve, whale die A2000
'ids a separate keyboard and syslem t>; ■
The A500 has 51 2K Ql memory and Ihe A2DQQ a hefty 1 Mh. bothoF
them using a Motorola 680OO tor processing power.
Hecommended retail pr ices are 520ST - £2M.99, 520ST plus 20
free games - 99. 1 04BSTF -£ 599.99.
There's a strong second-hand market in 550ST$, tut mosl of these
f.'^w wr iha eld single seed (3S0K lonraned capacity) drwe.
Recommended retort prices are: A50C- C3&9. A2000 £1236. Shop
a/Giitd for lower prices or package deals. There's a tor old second-
Hand irgde ir Lnwaned ASM's. though flie recent dropn RRP
rears ihal prces fere nay nrji be too goo? Also slit availade is
the creaky old A1M0, ihelirst Amiga mode* and, with its lengthy
boot-up secuenoa and puny men-cry deservedly discortiiv
ued.
IBM PC AND
COMPATIBLES
iBtfs PC is trie original, but the best buys these days are 'clones'
like Amstrads PCI Si 2 and 1 640. Specifications apply id mosl mod-
em PCs. but deed the details for yourself before buying.
PC eompatWes no*maliy ha^e S12K or&*0K of memory, with an
Inlei BC66 Dr related processor [The dO&a s slower wh e re
90236 aro 50363 are faster but more extertswe )
3 rces stan at aound SAW kt a mono PC, but a 640K machne
with an EGA display and top-ftghrl monitor will cost more like C1 000.
There's a driving second-hand mantel, and even buying wand new
you re well advised to s*iop around.
TV or ccttur monitor users can get at two screen modes on the ST,
medium res (64(1(200 in 4 colours} and tow res (32Qx20& in 1 6
colours}. bo»h working from a 5l2-c«iur palete. Users with mora
monitors can only access one mode, togh res, which gw« them a
&40<400 screen m wack and white.
RGB. More or buih-in TV T^duator f520ST oily - 104C'5T needs
separate modulator).
Ha-d*a r e sorites anc scrolling make converxna. games easy to
write, wfitelh* buJlin Writer greally sceeds Lp large-scae graphics
operations. Typcal screen modes are 320*200 in »G colours tor
games, 32^25E n 32 or 4-396 occurs for an, or 640*256 in IS
colours tor seoous use. h all cases, ootaun are taken from a
pais Bed 4096.
TftB nMmal srxincl ch^'s poor with ony three darnels and 10
sle r ec bjt the buill-ir MlOl port's made 1ha ST a must for penny-
w &e musicians.
The internal drwe stores ?20K on a 3.5ir z sk. rough rare are s. 1
seme old 520 ST s around that can only manage naff liis capacrty. A
iw;-Eulton mouse plugs ritn one & the inconveniently situated con-
holler ports, leav no ihe C"her ore 'ree for a joystw.
With the besi games suoport oi any mach ne listed here, re ST's
probaWy still leading me upgrade race G'aph.cs softwares, some
wary behnc the Amiga bul cajchng up last with ne-* lines slrs:::l- •
rig the STs limilad Hardware quite rerrwkabty. The STs buM
MIDI port has earned f| outstanding suppori or. ihe muse from, with
some ejceHer^ packages from a wide range of companes Serious,
software's ookirg up too.
Great, especially if the pries cut materialises as expected. The STs
rapdty catching the &-M markel leaders on numbers c4 Mtes. and
sasify culstrippng them on quality.
An e*cetem all-rounder, the ST reivers nc-Wlls powe^ a: ar-
abte rjrice. his number one Ir* MM fans, terrific lor games and -
■nth mono monitor - a great macfwie for serious use as well,
Graphics
4
ii
i]
Sound
3
SOFTWARE:
Range
4
Quality
4
Prospects
*
SCART o-itoul to- 6 g CornmMlo r e'5 AI061 moniof ;£S49.9S bjt
took out tor bunding deals). TV modiiators are available tut aren't
included in the price.
Built-in sound s ejcceienrl, wrlh 4 channels in 2 slereo pairs otlenng
you a nine octave range or some rsasorabs huTan-isn speecn
You'll need a third party add-on to g« MX corrpatibJity, mind ybu.
Tue Amiga's built-in diva is otter noisy and a;»ays sicw. bti it does
pack8&»(omDa3.5in disl< so rt's not a b^cisa^. ThetwcHbut-
son mouse la*« uc one ot re machines two controller ports
On me games front the Amiga's now coming oul of ihe STs shad
cw. ai: leas: to re extent ral rose ST games also appear in Amiga
form. Unfortunately may are shll usually slrsgfn con^Brsons, iwirg
no account of the Amiga's extra hardware.
There's a wkte range ot ad, video a*id animation packages lor the
machine, many ol than enceSem. Music's less well catered lor, but
the buifl-m hardware's got great potenlia
Thelhree main graphes siandards are CQA, EGA and Hercules.
Mone ol these ofler sprues or scrolling m hardware.
The main CGA fCotour Graphics Adaptor; modes are 320x2Cu in 4
colours and 640*200 in mono. CGA has no palette as such: the 4-
ccloLr Tode comes m rwc «'ou r -scieme choices bJ. trial's a: An
EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adaptor) PC can produce These two CGA
mooes plus a <ew ot ns own, offerirg displays ol up to 64M50*i
1 6 colours from a pakfte ot 64. Hercules graphics are mono only,
but with a maximum res&ubon ol 720^34$ they can be very useful
rbrappfcalions Ake DTP iDesk-Top Publishing).
Normally standard RGB, w#i» TV Output
A weak sc'jnrj stanoaro cs very mud ih-e PC'S Ach'jes' heel as a
games machine, and speaker quality is usually low acccrdn-gly
MIDI mteriaces are available, but the ST and Mac sm beat the PC
as machines tor the musicaty minded.
Though 5.25»n 3&0K disks are star the standard, the newer S.SIn
■?Z< drives a.'e becoming more iccmnrcn. Th^re a - e r*o dif^reri
|oyst« sraniaros, BM iwrncn 5 analogue, er*j the norT foT okJer
or American gamesi and Amstrad (wheh lakes a standard Atari-
style stick].
Lockng very bnghi now. Ihanks to Commodore's re-^sni ence cut
Though « hardware make* I a great games machine, the Amiga
shll lacks the software to really Show r| off property Its a musl buy
tor the computer anist. however
Graphics 5
Sound 5
SOFTWARE:
Range 3
Quality 4
Prospects 5
There's a vast software base tor PCs, but relatively lew games thai
are good by modem sJanda'ds This s baton's rapcly improving,
though, as is the art side of things i esceciai y cm the EGA front).
Music soffware is available (il ralhe r e.i:r>ansn'e| , bvi it's only on me
senous side d1 things thai the PC realy wins oul,
Prospects for a PC games b»m are good, especially if A/rstrad's
rumoured ultra-cheap PC l&sure done shows up.
The PCs a line aft-round machine, and the workhorse of modern
oomputng - bul if you're jusl interested in games or music, 'you'd
besi lock eteewnere
Graphics 4
Sound 1
SOFTWARE:
Range 5
Quality 5
Prospects 4
Advanced Computer Enlertainmenl 1 73
HARDWARE UPGRADE GUIDE
CONSOLE HARDWARE UPGRADE GUIDE
RANGE
Master system, Mastersystem Plus
(includes Light Phaser and an extra game)
and The Super System (includes Light
Phaser and 3D glasses, plus 3D game.
NINTENDO
The recommended retail prices are:
Mastersystem £79.95, Mastersystem Plus
£99.95 and the Super System £129,95.
Accessories: Light Phaser £29.95 (with
game cartridge £44.95), 3D glasses
£39,95, control stick £14.95 and control
pads £6.95 - note, the mini-sticks which
were used with the control pads are no
fonger available. Sega have also recently
released a rapid fire unit costing £5,95
The Control Deck (including Super Mario
Bros), the Deluxe Set (including Robot -
R.O-S, - and Zapoer gun).
MONITORS
DRIVES,
IfllwE Of
JOYSTICKS
A/V out and R/F out. The system's
designed to plug straight into a TV.
SOFTWARE
The console supports two joysticks, the
Light Phaser plugs into joystick port two.
The 3D glasses slot into the card slot on
the front of the console. Joysticks and
pads have two buttons on each for game
selectioiVfiring.
The recommended retail prices are:
Control Deck £99.95 r Deluxe Set
£149.95, 2apper gun £24.95, R.O.B.
£49.95 and joystick £39,95
R/F out, separate audio and video out
sockets. The Nintendo is designed to plug
straight into a domestic T.V.
Most of Sega's arcade games find the<r
way onto the console, so there are plenty
of acbon games to play. There are aha a
large number of games with extra appeal
to younger gameplayers.
The Nintendo supports two joysticks. The
robot utilises the second port via the sec-
ond controller.
OVERALL
RATINGS
The Sega console has dominated the U.K.
console market for the last year- 16
months, thanks to Nintendo s poor launch
into the market at the end of '86. Games
have since continued to come out at a
steady rate of 4-5 per month for the con-
sole, and will continue to do so,
If all you want to do is play games, all you
need is a console. The Sega is currently
the better supported machine but the
Nintendo may soon start giving it a run for
its money.
Graphics 4
Sound 3
Software;
Range 3
Quality 3
Prospects 4
Super Mano Bros is one of the best
games ever released, for either console or
home computer so it's almost worth own-
ing a system for that one game. Since the
Nintendo launch in late '86 the range of
software has been awful. The Japanese
and Americans have had hundreds of
games to choose from whereas we Brits
have had precious few. Nintendo reckon
that's all about to change though, and will
be releasing 2-4 games per month.
At the time of going to press the
prospects look good, then again the
prospects looked good when the machine
was first launched.
The Nintendo is a great machine, most ot
the software arcade style games, but
there are some educational titles available.
The Japanese machines can be fitted with
exha disk drives and other widgets but the
British models can't as yet, so you're still
only going to be able to play games on the
machine lor the foreseeable future.
Graphics 4
Sound 3
Software;
Duality 3
Prospects 3
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N'Gar Thrombobo continues his reign of terror, but has Horace Claghandle got something up his sleeve?
Find out in part five of the riveting ACE serial. Then, when you've calmed down, have a go at solving the
puzzle or completing the crossword - you might even win something for your efforts!
■Hk oetor Slammer took off his overcoat
B and went outside. There was no solu-
mtr ton but to go and visit his MP - but first
he would visit his cousin in Australia. He started
walking,
Horace Claghandle looked up briefly as he
heard Doctor Slammer struggling with the
interns outside, then returned to the keyboard of
the Director's Amoeba. What Horace Claghandle
was writing was no ordinary virus. The thing, he
was creating had a mind of its own. He called it
MATAHARI (Machine- Accomodated Totally Annr
hifative and Horribly Active Recursive Intellh
genceK and was busy working on its data accu-
mulation subroutines when a single line
appeared on the screen;
"Something wonderful is about to happen to
your,."
Horace Claghandle grabbed one of the
meat cleavers Doctor Slammer kept hung on bis
office wall, and brought it down on the modem
lead still plugged trrto the Amoeba fast enough
to shave 17K of machine code off N'Gar Throm-
bobo's rear end as he retreated down the wire.
Now Horace Claghandle was fuming. He fin-
ished the program, saved rt onto a floppy, then
ran out of the asylum and down the drive
towards the bus-stop,
N'Gar Thrombobo was packing his bags,
and it was taking longer than he thought it
would. There was a whole load of information,
for a start, about the thermodynamics of sewer-
age compression that - well, he might need at
some stage in the future...
It took him approximately three billionths of
a second to work out how long it would take to
save himself onto floppies I he didn't trust
modems any more), and another five billionths
of a second to tap into the local bus service's
timetable and work out how much less time it
would take an escaped lunatic with a meat
cleaver to get to the sewerage works.
Horace Claghandle found Mr. Tord in the
main pumping room, supervising the engineers
as they tried to disconnect the pimping motors.
'Ah, you must be the lady from the software
company to be sure to be sure." said Mr. Tord,
who wore extremely thick, round glasses that
didn't help his eyesight very much.
'Mr. Tord, I need to use your main computer
terminal,"
1 78 Advanced Computer Eni&rtainment
THE ACE SERIAL
The Git
In The Machine:
Parts
'Oh, sure you do. Here, let me take your
coat first." said Mr Tord, reaching out and grab-
bing Horace Claghandle by the scalp. "My, this
coat, it sure has to be one of d'heaviest coats
of all." muttered Mr. Tord. He opened the door
to the main stairwell, thinking it was the cloak-
room, and hung Horace Claghandle on a hook
that wasn't there. 'Now madam, what is it you
were saying..,?"
Mr. Tord" s visitor was gone.
"Well, isn't that the strangest thing!" he said
to a large red fire extinguisher. Then he noticed
something small and flat on the floor. "Ah, a let-
ter. It must have failed out of the lady's pocket."
he said as he picked up the floppy disk.
N'Gar Thrombobo had gone on a drastic
diet. He'd wiped out all the useless data he'd
accumulated at the sewerage plant and got him-
self down to just over 500K of densely-packed
programming. Once more he was a lean, hungry
fighting machine • now all he needed was a
means of escape.
Mr, Tord was srtting at what he took to be his
office desk, trying to open what he thought was
an envelope with his penknife. After a few
moments' waggling he succeeded only in break-
ing the blade.
'Damned thing]* he muttered, Til put it in the
drawer for later/
He grabbed the drive switch on the console
m front of him and pulled hard enough to yanfc
the casing six inches out from the waif, and take
half the wires off the back. He peered at the
sticking drawer, pushed the envelope into the lit-
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opened the door to the coffee machine, and
tried to get in.
Sure that the sick, evil, tortured mind of
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him at the last moment by sabotaging the main-
frame, N'Gar Thrombobo saved himself onto the
floppy that had by some miracle appeared in the
last functioning drive a fraction of a second
before it stopped spinning for good.
But he had the feeling that he was not
alone. That there was something there, some-
thing lurking in the blackness just outside the
range of his perception. Something so terrifying,
yet so irresistible that.,.
MATAHARI!
SOLUTION
TO PRIZE
CROSSWORD
No8
The first correct entry out
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Angela Bonner of Fal-
mouth who wins £25.00
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SOLUTION TO THE
ACE PUZZLE No8
THE ACE PUZZLE NolO
Set try Archie Medes
I have a copy of (he latest best-selling
novel wtiich I propose to read over a
number of consecutive days. In addi-
tion, I have imposed a number of extra
requirements relating to the number of
pages to be read on each of the days.
These are as follows:
1 . On no single day do I wish to read
more than 300 pages.
2. On each day after the first I intend
to read as many pages as indicated try
the product of (he digits of the page
reached the night before.
3. The final day's reading should bring
me EXACTLY to the last page of the
book.
For example, if the book had 62
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pages i might decide to read 24 pages
the first day. This would mean that I
would have to read 2 times 4 pages on
the second day, thus bringing me to
page 32 - i.e. 24 plus 8. The third day
would need only 6 pages to be read (to
page 38) and I would finish the book
on the fourth day by reading 24 pages
bringing me exactly to page 62.
Can you say what is the longest
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read using this set of rules, and how
many days will it take?
instead ol working the puzzle out
with pencil and paper, why not devise a
simple listing that will allow your micro
to solve it for you?
The first correct entry out of the post-
bag was Larry Barnes of Leeds who
wins £25.00 of software for his micro.
The four aces of spades originally
occupied the following positrons from
the top ol the pack:
33 97 161 193
The listing 'shuffles' and deals' a pack
of 208 cards in the manner described
in the puzzle. The enlarged pack is
represented by an array PK() r each
part of which is initially seeded with its
position from the top of the pack. As
the posihon of the cards is altered
these values are transferred within the
array. In this way the array represents
the cards as they are at each stage of
the deaf, but the values held in the
array are the initial positions of the
cards at the beginning. Thus, when the
pack is reduced to just four cards,
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start.
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150 FOR F«l TO C 2
160 PK(FNPK[F+2)
170 NEXT
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190 IF C=4 THEN GOTO 210
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210 PRINT PK(l),PK(2KPK(3! t PK£4)
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ATARI 8QC, 2 d« drives, 050 .nwrtjea, joysfcki,
paWBCiiWdge, wffwjrt. laps* £250 one ^'w*
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APPLE HE. mans, ? dsk ftyes ana o-ner bils ard
bobs £300. Ptwe SUN on 0225 447723.
ATARI 520STFM wflh tvfl in dais drve C260 woth of
■flftwlM ndudmg D**pac 2, Assemplii art Degas
Eire An uftlity, ipyslich and mouse, rwn cancrticri
E250. Tefophona Sheffield 67(1268 lib* 4 3apm.
C6M&4, r ovs:ck. ilala recorder, 50 games mcLding
Salamander, Hawkeye, Predator and RcadbiasiBrs
and many Dmei* Worm E450, settng tor £200 ra-
re-ares: gher Ivepwe 2 1 3*^ 319: aher 5pm, ask
fprKlMer
SPECTRUM t & joysticks 2 interfaces. 35 garrp;
d«k, 75 Of Jape, baft of Tiaps, dish holder, Bart!
dsks hsjred, won £753 =rce £299 Phone Joe |01 .
MCG*6 lifer 6chr
SPECTRUM 1 26K sarrpjler plus cassette recorder
andSjoySttka. many games including Targer
Renegade ard Eire, bads ol rrags. good cCrtoYon
Slllurderguararree £130. Pnare Trevor |027&i
414439 after Spm,
ATARI ST ORIGINALS -aaderboard, Strike Farce
Hanw. Road Runner, Star 7if*h, Gauntlet Pat*
Beardstef s Soccer £6 each &■ £25 me bl fljford
S»nej. HighcroH, Whtford Road. Klrrmgkm.
*u«nnster Oeifln, SX13 7RG.
SKA MASTER sys:crr two.oystcks ard lw games
iwcrth £95/ rv-Ldrg Space hvrf siii L<"dEr r]i,.y
antai, prutrsct condhton *ntf preai Chriglma* pr*Mnl.
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BBC ■ Computer + Qtftfojcl adapts ■ datt recorder
.oyslbt. ♦ £6CK) of schwas Wcrlh E12CO wil se; fa'
£250 ana, fling Dancasrer 537409. ask for Oierw
AMSTRAD CPC464, mono monroy, modulator.
OMP2CO0 primer. soTware £3SO hlro lr> Base, cov-
ers alters above £275 Wrt separate, printer £125,
computer *w other herns £200 Cootafl Steve 02i
S238
CBM 64 and daiasane n boa, £300 ol games, light-
i»n ard an software, Eiiramai CfSCek ard rraga-
lines worth over E500 Sell for E1 40 ono. Phone 0279
51404 after 4pm
ATARI 52QSTFM, 2 ppbeks . 1 B games. SW bOrtd
£300 Oftr>. Wmie to 4 Rasen Square. Chadderlnr
Odham, a9 SSV <y pfmre Jisori on &7S 9733 afer
6pm No offers.
CBIi64, ilskflr^rj prmter, rtriBS*He. joystck, bacjMO
•:jrlnofle bate of games on Hp* and BfeJu Easy
Scnpt k»o1 mags, manuals ate. £340 1*?
;&w»rtings| Duciey 0384B727B2 idaylimei 532B8
SEGA MASTER S-FStem mrtfi E2O0 mjiFi afgarres
induringAtlar Buner, Secret Commartd plus many
mcr*aood 1(Ik also ncWes Ihe Light Phaser onlv
rec E2CO Ciic?404 4aa;
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pen. pfxx\, jaystcl!. aporart E387 games, lols of
1153s -nachma cooe booh, slew spwkers. worth
E600+, sail tar E260 ono Phone BaJuewell 4667.
ATARt STPM (Has * meg dish rjrtve mouse end il'
•eafl*. some games, any £250. Phoie Sterl jmi MS
C(38, on* '50 gamea, 60 majalnes. 3 dalasettts. 1
rojtfck. 2 bachup lar't^cs £52C oin A'o-r-i
rj« E1300. If interestad ring 464 0067 ewamrtjs. 3S .
id 5p€f<er cr Bano
STAR LC10 Drnter, a»cetle« conoffloti £165. Write M
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Iraland. BT36 9LT. SUIa Phane No wflh yov reply
Ixtjoe STD piaasB
AIISTflAD CPC6 1 9 Mlh co ojr imnv incLdr*
Pr-SOCk, £100 worth of wltwai*. oosl £900, *a sell lar
£350 ano CoHacI /(JMfi;. 2C4364 GtMrtM Ash
"o r \1armew, rng after 4pm
SINCLAIR SPECTRUM +2 '2jK. MMM ontftion
wlhal leads ard manjal. two high qu^rty (OySChs
and irCer'aoe £ ' 93+ worth ol games, pf aa" bargain
£200 ono Pluee prnne B-co^cod BB8O0.
CRM 64, rassede da*. 1 54 ' dish dme, rrusc
eipanson syswm jO^litf and (nwrgoronal games
AlHor £250. Pirg Nik 061-980 S413 afser 5pn
EKoelerrl conorMn'hury!
COMtoODORE T2B ard da'aserle tor sa e abs sah
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manLas ex C ' 5>3 cno. Contact Nk> WinJ '3227
6731 i gnejfia coitsaaprax S443.
ATARI ST PU, ! MB B!<iefra dak rjnw*. E2O0 soft-
ware, *1 worn aboirl £?3C &el "rj- one- or swap
tor Amiga A500 ard modiJairy Tel Phil 0?07 32tt47.
AUSTRAD CPC 464, 1 6 momhs old with. TV modjla-
for ard El M rwrn ol rjames ircl. ATF. Da* S«Je ale
anry El 50. Conraa Matme* Pnlcharrion Bnsto 0<S4
two.
8LHT -ny £203 worn at gaires tor £l ?i and gai r^'
C54. laae dea, 2 ipyslcus and dA manuals absooslf
Iree Sottware inCMpi Da+ &de PlRlocn Gontal
School. Tel 0706842924.
COMMODORE 1 a, e^ceiaraior - dish.dnve. Koala
pad. 20C, games, dsk bo.i. ,o>shck 70 dshs. Freeze
Macnne f.nui Ca^as* C2hi dalaseoe, 50 maga-
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CS93 625092 |0ab«^ Bay| ScoSanp
LOOK! Spectrum + 2 with Kempslon three fOyStk*.
and cartridge ip»riaos, over £200 software inducio$
WT$4 Btrjnic CommanJc Matctday II ana Targni
flaregade £220 one. Phone Denet on 999 SC23
Dapefiham.
ATARI STFW i520i. twa d'nr«s. «el ow C«C' worth
»ltwar*, ted £300 pno or swap Amiga A500.
•■ffiange Arr*pa prelered Te Barnsey i\%2S'.
712744, ask tor Seofl.
AMS7RA0464 soltware Miri E4COt. |0>srk>s
maguines. books, (UK cov*r, sell for £ ! 50 ono
Phone 01 873 9945 after 5pm or wnte K) Milcom.
383 Clarerx* Lane, Raehamphjn. L order SWl 5
5Q&
AMIGA DlGmziNG eqjipmenl Oa Via*. Dc-Crsd.
'S*W Bender. PHnasonc camera, csmera Hand
whh lights, fjoffwa and monitor for tamsra. A1 oprt-
dhon ur^de 1 gjarartes, won E&33* EJ'5 ano
Phone Tony 01 -90? 9flie
AMSTRAD CPC612S cobur VDU, 4Sc <mve {inbutl}
AMXMousa MAKU'Fie Tasword. Taspell cassette
eaOS. iCyslcH. decs ard rro'ij- gneal syslerr iooc
at n#w £390 C ro Phone Adnar 04285 fi^a?
SPECTRUM* , laps recorder. Waiadnva * waters,
oorrputef d*sh. 2 joysticks, £250 worth of sohwa-e
magajiius. al logeihe- won E425. sell for £500
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7755303
SPECTRUM 1J8»UZ. Kerrpslan . Chieerah pystcks,
' 1 2 scrtrwan} ^fles incudfig Outrufr, Super Hang-On,
Enduro Ftacer and Virus, hardware hdudes Roboos*.
filK-i bis cfiilarali/a. 50 mags worm E620t sel
lor £450. Paul {0280} 61 282a
ATARI 520STFM rntudng -ncLsa, pysck. drsk boa,
kHdsamags % Software, incudrg l^roeor Masw
Xenon, Mm SyndrDma, STOS. Qwnium Part, soft-
#a r e worm E3W Sel Icr C4CC' cno Contacl Sarte on
01 -746 4820.
SELF ADHESIVE abets suitable fry tractor or frcdcri
pnrre-s, whua 36rrm > Mmm ' 000 £6 50 20CO £9 10
inc PiP Paymerfl rp G Cortran, 1 3 Woodland*,
CalcneslBr. Essei C043JA.
SPECTRUM* 2 128K Munractr 128. joyslK>. ard
£400 worth of software iiciidng Driller, Cypemod.
Daihside and Vihere Time Slcod Shll Worth £600,
accept £250 Phone Tmg (0442B£| 7509.
AMSTRAD CPC GAMES fo' sae- 1rom £1 .00 1c £5.M
CllJ Ili Crty. twer£l|»CI wOlh af games Al oi^i
nat sel bt tor £150 ono. Pmne 041 81 2 6B74 after
EpmpkHH,
4BK SPECTRUM mm Saga 1 keyooard
Miv odnffl * Inlertace 1. 13catridges - Poj
Kampston Pro JoysK* wf!h Slomo mertac* Tandy
cobur graph ci prtnlsr wtfiZX Lprrtl 3 mwriaoe, 3
dnanne spynO synthesizer Mth jpeakar P^b dala
casserse recorder, inlertace 3 |magic bLflani, 'Bele*
d5h inlerlace, over £1 OOP ol software, books h mar-
lines £25!) 00a, wllng loseparale -
5330 («tter 6pm| ior more rjeta'S
COMMODORE 64, ape recorder, joys!**. boc*s and
lots ol sorfwara ESS ono. B8C 'B , Cape rBcofce 1 , py
SlrChS, books and sotiwa/* £1 50 ono. Te Aberoeta
r0745) 62646'
SPECTRUM f 1, 13 morriha ckl. £4D0 games mags,
speech mod, 2 .^sicus. ^empsron IT £■ 75 =mrt
Legh London E4 • 01 531 6960.
AMSTflAO CPC4C4 cpmpuiar with Duih n I ape
neco 1 *'. cobur mcnto funds' gaarant&a; EtMP
20O0 prrw, £t>OC wor'i Congira so'rwai'e jrpjnd
1CO magizines Al lor £252. =l ng firac'o-d 1
635212,
ECSTASY an you Amsrad ar Soecrnim tor £5.
Sexual game lor 2 1 D players Send money id
- 32 Hgli'ie* Gdns m* Soulhgale, London.
1*11 ISO Slale which tOrpuler yai. nave.
ATARI 520STFM w* mcuse. rwo pystiks, aboul 23
games inc Xenon, CttharalDf Odselc £600 originally
sell for £350 Ported mrdrtion B months ab Phone
C- 5"3 3€«cro
AMIGA A500 rdudrg mcdulafor mouse, rrojse
ral 2 ti*wks 3rd some gemaj ndudng Virus
Earner Command, efc 6 months guarariae left Wil
sal lor E4O0 cr nearest gher Pnone D494 71560
ST SUPER PACK ORIGINALS. Al opufcle sided soh-
wa^e eg. Summer Olympad £ 7 Thundercaffs £7.
Send SAE fo- ful list 10 Mchael Pooinsar 20
Kdoerminsler Roec Sough Berts SL2 JA2
COMMODORE B4 T drsh dn«. casseoe recwder pnr«.
«• pys:ck. hjwrocs 0' 31 c ra a - c -At* gures
Back-up systems, boons, magwnas. £1500 whan
raw Sail for E375. Telephone /Rjsper] *3$ ■
Bvanrgs
ATARI ST ORIGINALS tor sale. Vm* Test Dt*».
UMS. Deiender o1 ma Crown, Capt Blood + Mhere E7
each. Write to Malcolm Bruce IDF Log is Avenue
Aberdeen. *B?7TN.
AMSTHAD CPCfiia aobi.r rronfiar, (rjyslicx £70
wy.T-1 o' dsc software, mags a,-fo books Eiielleni
COnrJtjon.Altor£230 Tl 0462 893375 at1«r si>
|7 30 Salurdeys!
46K SPECTRUM TuDo hlertaxe. 1ape recordar. (0y-
stick, 60 gemes worth E5CO aboul 30 mage Hill sepa-
rate gema lor a good p-ioe w I sell E220 ono. Prone
aAtu Spm iDTOi 556M3
SPECTRUM f 2 bads ol games and mags wllecttc
■aver 1he years, «l oosl £1 OOO new Raasonatrte ofhys
phone Shajn I'DSOflj 502O74 foohirg for E250 rjno.
Pe^se phoig aker 4pm.
AMSTRAD CPC464 cobur montor, rise drwa. joy-
slick. maga*r«j. £450 software tor £400 OflO or P.TJ
lor Arnga. ComaO Martr or .;0r224i 872424 atter
6pm.
CBAW4 dish dme, OSWI SOurd sample' and oVbrri
scftwafe pits £300 software on rM and rape.
Ggnshe, Comaf Sotwol e»c £200 One. Phone Chrs on
i3562! Sfi7'50 after 6pm
ST SOFTWARE for sab, very latesl £2 50 each PO
Bcu eg. 2S80AD, Rdoeraerk, Hollanc!
CRM 64 sisc orv^ cassetla racwoer baos tfgamas
on tap* *<W dec £250 onrj. FTion* Srnor on OSl 707
41 76 after 6pm.
C126L 1571 disk drve. dttasatfo, pOyetick plus £250
worth orgnal software on disk and tape, mml oon*-
lon. Bargain C4S0. Pnone Steve 01 -993 4741 .
ATARI STFM. 1 Meg memory 1 Meg oulsde ar-*e
Surii^-able to A o> B dnva mouse Parasomc KV.
P1081 pnrler. foadsa software inc wond prooes.'vr
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COMMOKJRE 64 ' ;■ -, , Julawflu. sohwa-e, pre*
Orty C11C- "tot* Vifciw |01 : 7B9 499S after 7pm,
Buy my Commodore 6i tor El 29 and get my
dalasetla, 2 ovsIkm. £350 wcrih crt games software
ElOOworthtf maoaires mantis ai*J dts ar extras
-hw! Ptior* IOC1J550 64B9.
8BCB MICROCOMPUTER cab »Ouf monfar,
Panasonic KXP1 D61 out and disk drive &L'*0 Hack
£55fl ona. 2B C-ownlards Lane, Cssetl, W Yor*i Tei
AMSTRAD 464 cocgr dec ohve. therml ftonter,
256K memory speech Pyradev, Advanced Art Studio.
Mm 0"ce. Wis si gai>e5 bocks, nags, rape; and
dSCS E450 Tel: 0375 679301 alter 7cm.
AMSTRAD CPC444 #n ; 3 b,.f n-fl-mar, very good
condbon nrJudng 40 games, maniais, betas. Cost
C6M. -Mil seHI l(K E1 50 ooo Please phone C 130
5325 and ask icr MaJoalm.
SPECIAL*! + JeiaHtmoonoiiior txsxwi as new
•^gam»ircJud^Ol*WJfldTrBiteier, Cheetah
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Phone {1707 548%.
SPECTRUM SOFTWARE - Gem* Set Matt* £3. Hh
Pah £2.50 Odd E2.M, Erduro Raoer £2, Spec*
Harrier £2, ScWa Milion One E2 ar fliccnange ror
Oortraodora games. Ted: QMS 706551
SPECTHUM 128* Ur sale, slil bowd. oood confer
comes *D Turbo tmerlaoe. leads, joys:ck, cassene
reccrMr £260 worth at games (ongrall C9Q cno,
Phone Brighton wi |02?3) 5ftl9?5.
ATARI 5205 TRU lun&oxedl good condition and 16
garnea irduonc E He Slargldar ■ £200. Write to Paul
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FOR SALE Spectfuni Plus Two, Kerncston Mouse.
Spew syHr- oads :' garret jIi lies ,i xi i~>qs. ata
jayslK* aid mouse mat, #onh ort* £300, only £150.
Ptease prior* Ortord B63766
REAL TIME text actoenh/e with irrtoractiva characters
lor Amstrad CPC's aUs quiz program £4.99 d« only
S*i*T SAE to SW Langan. 33 Dacre Cresteni,
< nplcr HHchin, Hens, SG4 6QT »or (totals.
SEGA GAMES CONSOLE, two con raters and rcu'
5*ff*$ including Chopifte r and Kung Fu Kd
Excellent condfecn, wll sefcior£l40orvo. Tel: Hi 291
7094 after 5pm
CBM 64, 2 da!a casseoes, £300* jl original scftwari ,
Muse Maker pftbcfc, manly boons and magazines
Syi 1 6 morths nsurance remaning All tor £1 BO. Tel:
CH30 423!34 |,Nth HumrMrsce) a Her 5pm.
IMMACULATE 064, rise dme, C2N Prp oyshc*.
E500t woTr sohwa'e r ese: san-tooe. cracrammhg
manuals, Baste lUonal prolans, toadsa magazines
Worth well over £BQQ Wit accepl E32C ona. Tel: 092$
773923 JBOA.
AMSTRAD CPOG123coo.ir j"0f ^MS, Iqhl-
pen, Munface.pvstck. 15 War* ctaks plus over fSO
anginal games routing many classics ard some uhi-
1*S Excetontcondrtian £450 cnq. Tel: 0*ent ;&+95"'
213146.
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Mega ST. Can after CBSti instead of ddki rx drim.
Pronfi M, i3236 6B507 iAmr*| artier 7pm.
SEGASVSTEM doj<m. 5 games, manual, caRa-
ogues, loyghc* £90 ono siectrum + 2 5C games
,o>^lic^. manual EW arc ur swap either or both for
STFM{C332: 76-633 ^er 3.3tvjm
CBM 64. |0]f5hcti E5CC aames. nouse. Freeze
Frame, mafis, 2 r»coioeis. £30C o' swap tir A-an
ST. Ptwa AliMaif .;036554| 574 6-1 Opm (M|. Week
G^ttlycalrow!
SPECTRUM GAMES: or^natgamg cheap. Prices
from- £4 lo £1. For 1st send SAE to James Knowles.
21 Horaewood Ftoed. Somerw, Cfi
LVbyshire. S4J 7LS
SWW OR SELL last ASM and Carrier Ccoimand to'
ST EtQflach BBC 'B' joystick, cames ifliSkl. books
tor sale cheap. Phone Alan 031 340 2573.
AMSTRAD 464 **n MlOur mon«r£220 ona.
JoysrK*. W<H-igrial1ntos <x Bard's Tato. Wond Class
Leadertoard, FooOall Manager 2. £40 mags Phcr*
David aner 5pmon (Oi l BS2 S" hi
CPC 464 with cctouf mgnlor igm pen. Basic manual,
plld hundred* Ol r)»*n*4, wonh £1350 Otter ESOfJ.
Phone David ieveninp^) 01 657 1 596 Seisocn Sam
Croydon. SuT*y
AMSTRAD CPCK4, mono mentor wilfi twetve
games and some -nagw.nes Only Ihree nomhs cto
Cost £245 99 Sel £150 Heply 29 Davalse Tetaje
Phiipslcwi, New Treoegar, Omm. S Warn. NP2
68H.
064, 1571 discd-ivB. 25C dscs wtn ihreed'SC bones.
Adtor Repay 3, dalaselte, 1 00 tapes, latest ohgm**.
excellent coTdhian, worth £90Ci $eilE345 PtWfl
Wrexham »7€ 266414
ATAfll 520STFM, mojse, dsk bo. bacs ol PU sotl-
« e bacs o" mags al oaneci new C740 oi mil- >jh
games wothElSCl, only £?90 Of gam« tor E55 ono
Telephone 061
COMMODORE 64, C2H f#c« . mouse » Oy» £300
software and m*gs. all recenl rtes worth over £450
accept £150 aro. Phone 0530 243568
SPECTflUM 128 + f JOO games iLrtc .oyslick. B.W
TV.Vttdnriof. ntfirlace, dalacorae-, £ ' S3 ono ewek sal*
leeded. Ccr^ar SlLal Amakin. 4 Ashrieto Grave,
Pjdsey Wesl Verts. LS23 SAG TflT 0532 573471.
ATARI 520 STFM pus £300 at eacellert sottware
*td tuv M Arre-icar = D cis«s Dcsed plus l?erjlure
£35C. Pnore Mall ar 057934 '24 weeknars 4pm
AMSTRAD 464 bored, coour monitor speech syn-
thesiser, Cuc&hot joystick, Igronal ggde package,
gamas «o1h aver EK*3 Hts ircluce A~F etc Will set
tor only E300. tr ireeresttc pnere Warcestier 350057
Cl2f, 5 25 DD Assorted discs, joysticks, games £300
ixiy - ZfA catassetlfi oysheks. 50 * fames tl50
dtki or swap for Amga 500 Iflri 01 57162130,01 736
MM, *sh 1oi Pete
CBM64C incljdirig mcyse, £500 warm of originel
gsniw, Outrun. Test Drve Papetoy etc. OttMriMv
leads. 2 toyEikte, menjalj, mjgj and bo*, tojetpw
wortn EBS6. £275 one Atowst new. M D602 6-2391 .
C6M $4, 154 ■ due drive, >ape *k> fiyVAi. eic.
some soltware E 1 S3 Phor% D26S 4fl66 afte' 6pm.
SPECTRUM +, at leads, transformer manual plus
ackJfltonal took, approx 55 software lilies, head aearv
e- rjver 25<3 mms c" data-free tape recorder leads,
only £1D0lhe tot. Phcne attor5pmU1 597 7220.
WAMT A MICRO MSX 64* SaryD ♦ casaette ♦ prm-
«r, Cooks, mags, pames lei: Geo-ge ar 07J7 3384CC
attar 6pm.£15O-£200.
C64 GAMES on cass, 110 all ordnat nbudng
SaiParan 2, E rie ijnsfHp, Outrun plus many recem,
releases wpflh ovei £4C0 Bargair at E95. W: Rob
0*40 61696 after 5dm
CBM 64. dalaserto, maotm, cOuWar 64 ssLes 1 ta
35 of Ziap 64, £300* of original software, carry case
All baxBd ardy E200. Phone RtMHl *^94 Newtmr^
|0S3S.|E46D5 Bher 6pm,
COMMOMflE 13», 1541 d sk C2N cassette.
Mrecto moo*m, 106+ games rifJudng Ftghl Sim It.
flefl«gade II. Strike Fleet ale, worth aver £ 1 500. sel
fcr £650 ono. Horsham 6 1775-
ATARI 520STFM 1 mega. 11 moTlhs c4d at bQHed as
new. 30 games, cantor Command, Virus, Dungeon
Mast*. Xenon, GajrBet II, Otoe, Terrapoos, WnbaK
Right Sm II. Degas II, £396 T* 0279 8431 07 after
Spm
$EOA CONSOLE, aK leads, cenva pads Good con-
ctoon. Wcnder Boy. Rocky. My Hen? Wretiino; Secr«
Cammard, Hang On. tnocliftar. Quanei. sell lor El CO
ono.
Pfone Rotnerham. ;0739i 371594
SPECTRUM * 3, mututoce 1 Brother HR-5 onreet,
oaSst/diMS casse!Sepa r e-. toOCS o 1 iaswlles.
disk box. Crty iamcyrlr>stad.alltar£150. Tel: 01 529
71 S2
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Wear. NE9 5TX
Tel (091} 4*75639
The Coiour af Magic Pad 1 and some ol Part 2.
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Q274 58B236 rttnekday: 3 6pm. weekends alt day
For tech help on Djngeon Master Tel 0734 7KJ508 ask torChns.
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Greal G*ana Sisters Lealhernecks XR35 Fia inierCeplDi, Test
Drive, Xenon. Firepower, Hoflywood Smp Poker. Tetns, ECO.
Vampire Empne, Soccer Supremo. Garrison I ft II, Bubble bODble
and over ioa mora.
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0245 356641 after 9pm or weekends
Advertise Land. Colossal Adventure, Ct&js Cotoitz, ^re*dv
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Nirmal Smgh. 104 Vansiftart Road, London. E7 0AA.
Cok»sa* Cave loriganal advanture). GulW or Thieves, Leather
Goddesses dI P hobos, Th* Pawfl. Jmxter.
ClivB J Mewsa 66 Billel Lane, Berthamslead, Herts. HP4 1DR
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Amslrad quenes welcome but solutions not guaranteed.
Sean McManus. 226 Chertsey R&e. Stevenage Hens &G2 500
The Pawn and Kmghl Ore {pad 1 and early part 2).
Shuad Ahmed, Tel D1440 91 76 (4- 1 0pm i
Bards Tato I ft II. Ultima IV. Phanrasie 1, Gnome Ranger,
Mmdshadow.
Derek Wang, *2 Ingram Rr>ad. Thornton Heatn Sjrrey. CR4 6EE
Dungeon Master
SAE id: Anthony Hopkins. 91 Scnngiied Avenue, Sandiacre
Natlipgham, N01P5NA
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ips Od and new games send for nrarnaliot
Mart Essen, 26 Thick Holllns Drive, Mettham, Huodersfied, HD7
SDL.
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JUST SAY NO TO TORTILLA CHIPS
FREE GAMES!
Mr David Witate of Ctoclon On Sea -s pretty chuffed at
the moment, are Robert WhafcnH of Evesham And
Riclwd Moore o' Leeds, wny? Because they won our
U.S. Grid competition, which means they I al be getting
FREE games for We next YEAR! These 25 kicky runners
up each win ihBnsehes camletefy brilliant ACE tee-slwti.
D. Hamm, Reading. Gary Morton, Bristol. Simon Rinatdo,
Bedford. Lee Kennedy, Hartlepool. D. Rutland, Sheffield.
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es folks, even the finest brains and highest minds of the country are reduced to petty
back-knifing and poor sportsmanship by those oh-so^ompetitive board games. Take
revered ACE staff writer and aJkound snuggly person Andy Smith, for instance, Andy is- pic-
tured here at Grandslam's press launch of Espionage, and doesn't he look pleased with himself.
Small wonder; he wiped out not only the player opposite but indeed all other journalists present at
the launch, thereby winning himself a bottle of champagne,
Are we elated by this victory over our rivals? Do we intend to gtoat over their strategic shortcom-
ings? In a word, no. What should be one of our proudest moments ever is instead one of deep
shame. The plain truth is, Andy had played the game before. In a late night session of board
games and Mexican food, the lad was intensively coached in Espionage tactics. It's rumoured that
other ACE writers were involved; the whole team withdrew before medical tests could reveal the
tell-tale traces of paprika and chillies, so we may never know for sure.
This scandal may rock the world of games journalism on its heels, but we Blitterntes felt compelled
to speak out in the interests of fair play and traditional British muddle-he adedness. Naturally, we
also felt compelled to strip the disgraced Smith of his champagne.
I Left) Andy Smith, still smug
his downfall: cl*airiy, h#'s not ■ main to fl©
TRACK(S) AND FIELD
T| ruth to tefl, it's been
something of a
month for
boardgames. It only takes a
casual glance at pages 6&
70 to see just how far things
have gone, but if turttier
proof were needed just take
a look at this picture of our
esteemed editor Graeme
Kidd, Firmly in the grip ol
boardgame fever, Graeme
has actually donned a suit to
meet his heroes, Ake and
Graeme Kidd, ftnnkad (not* fluent u» of ml I It pry
JsrQon} by AKc auid
Henrik Anders son. In proto-
col terms this puts the
authors of CDS's Tank
Attack somewhere above
HM the Queen, Sir Give Sin-
clair and even ACE publisher
Kevin Cox. (The addition of a
hat would have afforded the
Scandinavian pair a near-
divine status, but mercifully
Graeme stopped just short
of this excess.)
Veteran Blitter End readers
should note the vehicle in the
background of this photo.
We have it on good authority
that this is in fact one of
CRL's new company cars, as
driven by Chief Exec Mike
'Road Warrior' Hodges. How-
ever, given that the photo
was taken at the National
Army Museum in Chelsea,
there may just possibly be
another explanation.
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B*S1 Byte.. 165
BoKOft 190
Sytebaek 166
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CI* 175
Compuman 55
Computer Adventure World 1 89
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