Robocop III - Demo Dark Sceptre, Freaky Footy, Prize Game - I Doomdarfe's Revenge The Ultimate Hacking Utility - Monitor! SU Crew on tape! with Tips I Amazing and Pokemania 03 77Q262™545021' / N Njtf^ 31 **> \T'H * V V KJ? > <•/ ■•■ faU L_£j' ^ N |\ v / /rV) £ v^Ltd^Iy tDCJOZ/ly ui^jvjuu ALL AVAILABLE FOR: SPECTRUM • COMMODORE . AMSTRAD THE HIT SQUAD P.O. BOX 350- MWCHESTFR M602UC SOFTWARE Big Hose's USA Adventure Bismark Double Dare Game Over 2 G-LOC Ivan Stewart's Off Road Hall* 90 Kid's Pack Lest Commando Megamix 4 Midnight Resistance Monty Python Neighbours Ninfa Collection Rainbow Islands Shoe People Soccer Stars Space Crusade Super Seymour TNT 2 Codemasters rectpe for success cooks another winner! 26 Achtung, acthung' Oas isl ein ship blasting strategy game. 56 The game of the TV show. Pit your wits and your general knowledge 33 Ancient game format that actually delivers suprisingly good action 37 US Gold's conversion of the amazing coin-op} 4$ BEST BUDGET and SU GOLD award winner, Off Road is a real champion. 57 Relive the thrill and spills of the World Cup whilst playing in slow motion 56 Popeye, Postman Pat, Sooty and Sweep, Wobles and Count Duckuia Quack!! 5€ Archaic arcade shoot- em-up taking you over three planets 56 Alt the 2D Gauntlets on one compilation, along with the Deeper Dungeons add-on 57 Ocean are putting the tug guns out on the Hit Squad label with this great release 56 More entertaining than a hovercraft full of middle class comedians, , . 56 It's the game of the TV series of the book of the movie of the multi coloured coal 14 Dragon Ninfa, Shadow Warriors and Double Dragon i join forces for the fight! 4Q Yes, it was out on the Rainbow Collection but now it's budget in its own right 56 Gremlin's first attempt at educational software, is top of the class! 51 Ail playing together; GazzaZ, Microprose Football, Emlyn Hughes and Kick Off. 41 Based on the boardgame and an SU Gold this issue. It's out of this world! 20 Codemasters Hollywood hero is back! 29 DoMark's follow up to their hit TNT compilation. 12 CHECKOU COIN-OPS 56 VV^'tit t SUAL' and Grahai EMAN1A! :- f r as been infested this week girlie tipster. Hannah S iern? 9 megatip: FREA KY FOO TY 4SK A big chance toi oil lo don your sheepskin coots and rise to the lop in a totally out of this world footle management game Ploy the very fruity role ol Mango Jon©*, space archaeologist extraordinaire wno in the course of his hovels discovers the fabled world at OOJI. a plane! inhabited bv a roc© of wobbly creatines known ai the Wibbies The Wibbies ore a silicon- based ii'e form who hove developed in a completely different way to other human beings but who. somewhere In the course of their development, monaged to dls> cover the delights of a game called soc- cer footboM Now they wont Mango Jones to put on his earth experience Into managing a wtoble rootbafl team. Features include selling and buying stars £foatbaH ones, not space ones), training schedules, league siortsHc* etc Full Instructions on control ond gameptoy wNi be scrolled on screen and then It's up to you to get to the top of this crazy space league. Aitnougn now over seven years old. Lords Ol Midnkj ol the best adventure games ever to be loaded mi OH, BUT I'M TELLING YOU THE PLOT! You must overthrow the evil witch Doom- dork and restore order to the lands of Mid- night and when you staff the game, you control lust four lods out on the town they ore: lutOr the Moon prince o"d his son Mqi - kin, Rorthron the wise ana Corieth the Fey The computer lakes the unenviable. Out romantically evil role ol Doomdaik and controls his quarter of a million Iceguards wqnlors qnd something called The Ice Fear' which can sap whole armies cour- oge ond hove them all running to The toilet, worse stm. if can even make some desert to take up sides wllh Doomdark So why should four likely lads from the sticks want to tangle against this lot? well, be- cause they can win JOIN THE ARMY, SEE THE WORLD Thanks to Luxor the MoonpMnce. our side has the Moon Ring which gives him power- s of vision and command He can basi- cally look through the eyes of any of his selected alles and pass nts commands onto them This is especially useful when the allies he commands have large oimles tucked awoy somewhere. The ring olso radiates prelection from the ice Feci and the protection Ls greater the nearef you are to the wearer Hurrah foi the ring!! BUT... The ring also rodlotes 1 □ warmth that allows Doomdark to know roughly where the wearer is ai any one time (Boool) CONTROLS Keyboard C 3 Eye This key allows you to see Ihe eyes of Ihe selected character and in the direction that he's facing if whilst using in is option you hit a compass key, then the character will (urn lo look in Lhe chosen direction 1 -8 = Compass points. I Norlh: 2 North- east: 3-Easr. d-Southeast. 5- South. 6-Sauth- west. 7 West; fl-Norfhwest U = Night Press this once you've made all ol your moves for lhe day. Doomdark will now make all ol his moves The results ol any night battles wilt be shown al dawn rVl - Select. This gives a list of all characters thai are currently allies Once you select one ol lhe allies, the display changes lo the look option for that character The four mam char- acters under your conirol have I heir own keys as detailed below ; C = Luxor V a Morkln | . Corleih the Fey H m florlhfon the Wise Q ■ Move forward This nudges your selected Character one iocotion forward in the direction thai ne is racing He won't be able lo move however ir he sex housted or something is in ihe way I * Choose This key will present you with a special list of oplions lhal are available lo your character depending on *mal situation he may be in This list ol special options includes. SEARCH HIDE (when character is without an army) RCCRUIT LORD. REPAIR DEFENCES etc The choices available can also indicate a characters personality For in- stance, a brave character will always be able to attack the enemy \\ = Think, This works like an inventory bul gives details regarding ihe character "s stale of health, location, personality, armies under their control and any battles that they've fought m Last 24 hours LJ - Load The load game option, this will allow you to load up a previously saved game 5 = Save i No prizes tor guessing here This option will allow you lo save out your current game '-• = Yes J = No OKEMAHIA 48/128 Graham Mason's amazing load-in pokes with new boogie on down 12AK only soundtrack' Pokes ihJs month ate for: Double Dragon II Double Dragon hi Captain Planet Rick Dangerous I & RAA^ j bv M'ke Singleton, is or jo Specif um DANGER* YOU Con I festort a game in lords ol Midnlghl To commence play again you rnusi lood m me wnoie ol me progiam Tioiti scratch There s Jusi f>oi enough memory ken ovei aftei storing Over 4000 locations and 33 DCX1 ti«l11W2£ MAP IMAGES -0T1 •aT;«7Wr>B»,Jbnhpr)-f r AX0Tt-»TZSTt}1 (bawp. paafri - SU, PHorj Court, 30-33 Farm^don Urm, London, ECtR 3AU » Cetouf try Fropunl ■ PnnisrJ by KJnfWtaf Wag ■ Nd part erf th« magazine may ba reproduced . »k>'*d In in •totvonle retrieval lyatam in wed U wrap your cwpt m «rtrrKhjt tm opnaant ul Iff* Pufcltiher pi you a""* Mm e cbtp ha'a nlnk arpovil * though And em brinK at the SU Crew we'd |uil K*» lu u y lh«i H * trail Id ba back on Earth Even win *ir» lamina d*Maa and mlaary it i a better place than ismg of (h* de*p«pa£« onjiwr* HuU *a'v* b*ar- (Maying on lor the hut hn irantfta it give* you a useful insight info whal pro- grams do when they are In your Spectrum You can externally manipulate programns lo tee what going on and to change them. To USE; Load monitor first and then load In the program you wanl to look at using the monitor < load comma nd . Now me the following keys to manipulate the program, (NOTE: Al commands ex- pect a four dlgt HEX number to be typed. I The while cursor It waiting (or you to Input the address in hex) E ■ E ine atows you to see the last com mand typed in y - Return to Basic (QUIT) P • HEx dump. A - Block move. Type In START FINISH and WHERE TO S ■ Saves out any loaded program. H - Continue (as BASIC command) J • Jump 10 address, (e.g JUMP aoorj would be o reset. u nbu rn run, % K- Save Code. (Header less save; type START (hex no. LENGTH) L - Load (To load In a ptognm for viewing C - Load o heodertess program. V ■ Print* the name of the loaded program M ■ Alter program, (eg enter adress then type In new two digit HEX number .) ENTER moves you to next locotion, X exits) Q - List basic program, (eg, type in Q001 , ond then keep pressing enter to see basic program as the computer sees li. X ■ Aborts current command ond returns to cursor. -# • * SPECIAL SU CREW ASK in the SU Crew puzzle you win Una glttsed images of each of your lavourite Crew members, they win took similar but there are actually ten differences be- tween them. Your Job It to find and high- light these differences using a cursor square guided by up. down, left, right ond fire buttons. ThU has to be done w specific time limit and beMev ear uctlons are Included In the game ioes not iped lime* and 'real mtty ■op time oseony VATCH). ie : toggle betw lime" instea Useful £i*>3 1) Only MYSTICS con successfully CHARM, CURSE. BEWITCH or RELEASE. 2) Vou will hear the sounds of any fight one of yout warriors is involved In, even it it ' s of f-SCf sen Pf es$m g RR E d u ring W A TC H wilt get you straight lo the right. 3) You wHl hear a snatch of music when ever any warrior change sides, even If he's off screen Usually this will be someone join- ing your side if you wani to find out who II was, check on your warriors orders. War Mors with Ofders you haven' I given will be the new recruits 4) PetriNed woirlors (i.e turned to stone) will not move off or take fresh orders How ever, they win tlghl if lorced to ond can kill or be killed S] Warriors EN GARDE are ellher in a tight or about to be In a fight They win ignore further orders until ihe fig hi is over ■») No more Irian one fight is in progress at any one time. This allows you to keep a 2) Which teams • enemies is prese ga 1 J® -e- frier 'sgarded as insi isregc belter eye on what's happening. 7) warriors, very chivalrously, wHl not at- tack a warrior who Is already In o flgnt or wailing to fight (le warrior EN GARDEJ This someilmes means you find a whole bunch of warriors standing by near a fight oil waiting their lurn to try out their swords, A lucky way of getting pasi defenders B) The colours of me team ore - UMBRARG'S {Shadow Lords) RED VERDANS GREEN TYRIAN'5 PURPLE KUANO'5 CYAN A URIC S YELLOW GR1SULS ©R^* YOUR OWN WHITE <9 outcome oi a fight depends on tne qualities of the two warriors. There is no ran- dom element If both warriors have exactly the some fighting qualities, the at- tacker wins 10) Just setting o« lo KILL ENEMY or GRAB Dark SCEPTRE without preparing the way first 15 simply suicidal Assu not e PROGRAM by I LAST MONTHS PASSWORD So, you waited a wi Is. Theonswe 1 Sweevo BAGEL! ■ ««&* ^ >>>» 85V »S*£ /W/ 1 Got a hand held? STTOV GAMEBOY GAME GEAR LYNX ENGINE More hand-held action than you can stuff down your trousers! eboy, Game Gear, Lynx d PC En$'m&£jy\wt take m alt to pieces ah&tetl you which is thktest! chock-a-bioek full of the latest reviews and previews on the greatest hand-held games in the world 1 . ^ atest and greatest, it's Britain* ONi!y hand-held console mag - and/its free m C&VG! GO! Grab it quic - it's going fast! ♦**^4*****++*¥+**¥*+ ******* JAPES pectravldeo. the joystick people, have just announced three new additions to their Logic 3 range of chtllin joysticks. The last one we saw here n SU Tower* was a Strange beast called the Stingray - a gun atyle handle with forefinger trigger and a short joystick mounted on top. It took a while to get used to but was still a good mover. The latest additions are a tad more conven- tional though. All are table top sticks, the smallest of which is the Alpha Ray which has handle mounted swit- ches and a compact base, the mid sized one, the Sigma Ray, is similar but has base mounted switches too. Trie lar- gest one is the Gamma Ray, a major piece of gear with stopwatch, digital counter and more buttons than you can shake a stick at All three come with dual plugs, making them compatible with most machines including the Spec- trum. In your local shops very soon! oooooooooooooooooooooooo ""••«« GX/vjf soy~ • •• ,c s^ The Nintendo Gameboy, as seen In SUs consoles lea- lure late last summer (and If you really don I know what one is at this stage you must have had your head bu- ried firmly in the ground for the last two years) has re- cently raced away with a very clean pair of heels at the British Association of Toy Retailers awards The Gameboy was named Toy 01 The year after sales of 400,000 were re- corded for sll of 1991. Previous winners of the prestigious award were Lego and Trivial Pursuit, Up there with the big boy* eh?, IF you ain't seen Nintendo you ain t seen noihin Further news on the Gameboy Is the confirmed exist- ence of a colour machine. Not a lot is currently known about It except for the fact that it is due for release in Japan this year with the USA next on the delivery list. Suc- cess may well ride on the new Gameboy s battery life, tack of which is one of the main problems wHh current colour handhetds such as the Atari Lynx and Sega Gamegear. Un- fortunately it also seems that mono Gameboy games, of which there are hundreds available, will not be compatible with the new machine but it's size should still make it popular. O © Sir Clive Sinclair, (he esteemed inventor of the Sinclair Spectrum is now producing a new electric dream machine to follow In ihe skidmarks of his second most famous (or infamous) product, the C5 electric automobile. Taking advant- age of recent technological breakthroughs it appears that he i$ about to launch the electric powered bicycle What it will look Hke. how fast it wi» go and how far it will travel remains to seen but the good news is thai even though it is self powered - fourteen year olds will legally be able to ride it. It's nice to see that Sir CUve can still astound the world with fresh rumblings from that magnificent scientific mind of his! CODIES SHELL OUT AND DIG UP SLUG HERO The world has been looking for a brand new hero ever since Dr.Who finished his last TV series and finally put away the dodgy synthesiser sound effects, As usual Codemasters claim to have come up with the solution to the problem. It's brilliant* if we all lived In a Codmasters' world there would be no more wars, famines or aircraft dis- asters, the only danger would come from bouncing eggs, burgers, fruit and the odd troll or gatekeeper. Unfortu- nately we don't live in a Codmasters" world but just to lure us inlo a false sense of security they've kindly come up with yet another super hero for us. He's cute, he s inverte- hrai-k* And his name is Steo. I firmly believe thai everyone must have heard of Dizzy. The eggy fellow has been In countless Codemasters ad- venture and arcade games and has hatched tons of imita- tors, not least from Codies themselves (see Seymour and the forthcoming Steggy Slug). According to David Darling, Codemasters' Managing Di- rector, they've recieved so much fan mail and had so many requests for Dizzy gifts that they've decided to launch a complete range Of Dizzy merchandise* It Includes mugs, clocks, caps, t-shirts end sports bags and prices range from just £3.99 to El 2.99 which isn't really too much to have to shell if a Dizzy clock or cap is eggs-actly the sort of present someone close to you would like. o o Steggy, as his friends call him, doesn't set out to be a hero but has the mantle thrust upon him by virtue of being a Slug. Sounds strange? It is. But remember Dizzy is an egg? Slugs give birth to lots of little slugs (known as t yun- gunz) as part of nature s course and in the game you must help Steg feed his ever increasing brood of babies by pick- ing up as many underground bugs as possible. You can also pick up special objects which all add up to a super bionic slug, known as RoboSteg. RoboSteg is capable of gathering even more food lor t'yungunz. No final release date has been set for Sieg but it should be out very soon. Keep an eye on SU Tor more news, unless you're a gar- dener of course!! OCEAN'S BATTERY FARM SHOCKER!!! Here it is! Captured on film for the very first time, this Is the dungeon where Ocean breed their factory firmed games testers in cramped and inhuman condition- i. and kept there for 24 hours a day. nm crtrnprt wd Hwiwi tea of benanj firmed ginwi tNMn. One W wfl •*»■■- e«t fate IgfA Bw Twrrw dumber" where Wert are chained (0 ln»k seals fa up b llhcvltdey Our intrepid reporter broke into the high security com- pound by disguising himself as a Black Forest gateau in order to supply us with these horrific shots. He says that battery farmed games testers are chained to their seats and forced to play video games lor up to 18 hours a day without rest. They are kept in artificial light which is turned off for only six hours s day in order to simulate darkness. We at SU believe that we must bring a stop to these atrocious conditions and believe that these never before witnessed scenes of depravity and desperation should strengthen the argument for the government to legislate In order to make it easier for software producers to use free range games testers, Ken Lockley. a spokesman for Ocean said, "It's a load of old rubbish, tf it wasn't for battery games testers we wouldn't be able to supply the amount ol high quality games that we do. Free range game testers tend to be ex- pensive, lazy and keep nipping off to buy pizzas. Our bat- tery game tester* work in excellent conditions, are fed with the top notch food we supply, except for some very dodgy Black Forest gateau ■ and they all still lead nor- ma I (ish) and fulfilling Uvea.' VieW ***^**m*5R*3R BELDoMark MEMORY: 48K/12»KTAPE:t12.99 Big a' ,D *ith o"""* ! When Domark re- leased yet another five " game TNT collection to spice up the cold 199? spring air we decided to fealty lest it by lock- ing it up with Phil Phisch in SU's specially padded games room for ihree days with 16 vindatoo cut* ries, live gallons ol Or. Peppers and I microwave. Mahn did things gel hot and sweaty in there! This 9T DELIVER IT MfTMLV TO TIW #191.08 )«&. *TM recharge your gun to give you bigger longer blasts Stewart s Off Road Racer. Sad lands is an overhead view race game. A sort of cross between Death Race 2000 and Mad Max. ! J ( JTilnMafiM :'fllil. post -apocalyptic society, who must earn points in order to fur- ther customise your car between races, with turbo's, tyres. missiles and even shields Once you re |u«ced up, rt'S back on'j the track A great game and surely one of the best ^ •hue- knucWe, nerve snapping racer cum blaster available in short, Sku* and doss- bones is lhe stinker art the COll veis of various tunnels You can pic* up turbo speed up pads. smart bombs and can even pass out into the greal outside, but wherever you find Sre lhe action I tem a ms repel itive and dull This latter two games are the ones to wat~ on this compi- i. Although I didn t like STUN Runner, as a conversion of the successful Alan com-op, rl will hawe fts own fans It s very dflici and Crossbones however For those of you who are ing to pay 13 tor three gam that you'll defimiBly like, then TNT 2 is lor you H not. then you should approach the compilation with a little caution, although re- member that Doma'k don I n iTT^M Ml> H^BP view i CU Amiga offers you easy access to all the possibilities that your Amiga holds. Packed with a breadth of coverage beyond games, CU Amiga delivers - The ultimate peripheral coverage , Extensive, clear guidelines on what's available, how you can use it and what's best to buy Unsurpassed hardware coverage. CU Amiga was the first magazine to regularly feature CDTV. The best buyers guide. At least 33 pages packed each month with all the informa- tion about what's best 60 non entertainment products put under the microscope each month D0+ games reviewed cverv month. Beyond games with... You don't have to be Einstein to get the most out of your Amiga with... ^j a i» 1fe~ *S DISK:E15.99 Scott also has an ener gy bar in the form of hie popu- larity. By hitting obstacles Scott loses popularity (Bring me my coloured coat) so smashing into the old bat Mrs Mangel does nothing to boost your chances of suc- Dodge betwee cw>i. fi thit realty Neighbour tai sort oi ga could a Neighbours game be? impulse couldn't hive made It inlo t beal em up (although ■ Mrs. Mangel bashing game could have been very enjoy able}, or into in adven- ture gsme where you have a quest lo find *o original scrip!. So what does the game in- volve? Well. Im poize have come up with a 3-D racing game with Scott Robinson on his skate- board ■ amazing M! The other contestants each have their own type of transport, ranging from Matt on his motor- bike, (o henry on his nitre in- lected lawnmower of doom. There are four locations to race around including such delights Icores SOUND USWBiyTy^ Mr '•^'teerJSsK'^htw^a rtgdsstzsr / y ***lwhapX ■° neh '"*6udo ( ( with a pitltui rendition of the Neighbours theme tune and dire spot effects. *r ^^ Bui where Neighbours fails flat on it's face is in the lack variety. Although careering around the tracks is quite tun at first, it soon gets tedious Just because the TV program is so popular with little change or ong- V Jo ion Donovan, man. halrtuf and ex neighbour! star. It it a tittle known (ad thet Garth uietf to star In neighbours too. cess (although satisfaction is guaranteed). In-game graphics are quite awful, featuring bland back- grounds and poorly animated sprites, The scrolling keeps up with the action well enough by jerking painfully about the play- Sound is equally as bad I / /■ fiSS'rV ^ U;;;;;.,i area £ i I its tt\m nght of the century comer, Scoff Seofr boofr* Ns icortBs-^ fhfluMT* fd ttoMttr po/r bonus. More, mo\eii inality , there's no reason to believe that the computer game can get away with the same bland formula - in fact it's this lack of spice that wipes out any s possible long-term enjoy merit Neighbours is a game best left to the brain-dead vegetables of the world, who do not value normal things like money or sanity Confrofffrcg Sqpff'f scateboard antics takes lime practice bur it actually v lot of fun, tin- fortunately there's no variety. as Lassrter's Complex and Anson's Corner, with two races at each, split into three laps (isn't life complicated in Ramsey Street, eh?) In each lap you must pass through a number of slalom gate thingiey that fat • boy Harold has scattered every- where. ~ yat another dei race to the finish bi Scoff and.,, erm, well, no-one mise really ijetT Neighbours Fax: Whose Song Is It Anyway? When you think of the start In Neighbours you think of them acting (well trying to anyway). But in fact many Neigh- bours stars have very successful tlngng careen. Amongtt thete am Kylle Mlnogue and Jason Donovan. Craig McLochlan and Stefan Dennis, future Neighbour* tinging start tnciude Todd Landers (aaargght), the Aiesti twlnt (phwoaarl) and Haroid ill hop (actually we might be tying about this latt one). Garth; Neighbours, ttMMtr dt naah dt r netghbourt. t **$ excited whin t heard \ tiling. (©view* 1 / HANNAH'S POKE* folio* r tich might help a aarne which has been driving it Robocop 2517,0- infinite lives 25424,0 - infinite time 25795,0 - no pause when shot 31007.0 - no baddies 34039.0 - turbo speed 43455, S - repulsion 38918.0 - infinite lives 36684.1 ■ infinite time e Drag 37693,0 level 1 lite 37815,0 - level £ lite 37813.0 level 3a life 37794.0 • level 3b life 33337,0 - Infinite live) Road Busters 47025 ■ speed 48635.0 - infinite fuel credit Advanced Pinbatt Sim 37100.0 - infinite fuel 29202.x • x = score multiples *bef Peter Dzornlisa writes all the way from sunny Welkom in South Africa, with a few POKEs tor Rebel By the way. Peter. I thought the picture of the dung beeUe on the stamp was highly imaginative 49324.x x - number of lives 49918.201 - enemy robots can't kill you. but you still die If the laser misses the exit 49318,112 49319,23 - gives you TOO minutes playing Hum Level Or - As soon as you 'el, duck down and MikeEvery, who fives m Retford lire like crazy Don'l shoo! the jotlmghamshire. has found men rn ihe winoow unless lis a Ihese lips (or Robocop. real emergency n you have a lot ol iergy, kill the women and Iher shoot the man. Level Thr« The second this , duck right, duck left ten face in the oppo- site direction and lire Then tire upwards. Punch the motor- hikers' lyres in order to kill them *W2 He's such a slave driver, thai Garth, I'm sure he ^_^ was bom with a whip In his hand (actually It %U% quite suits him). Anyway, we've go! loads of ^*^ tov-er-ly tips, POKEs, hints and cheats this month - but I want to see more, much more. I want the SO office to be lite tally bursting at the seams with your letters. I want to see envelopes cascading over the desks, exploding from filing cabinets, swelling up In.. .(yes, that's enough of that thankyouverymuch). Suffice to iqy, that, as usual there is £50 worth of goodies abso- lutely gratis to you, gentle reader, for the best ol the Hacking Squad crop. So go to It. Give the SU postte a hernia ond send me j those tips at The Hack- ing Squad, SU. Priory Court, 30-32 Forringdon Lane, London EC 1ft 3AU. Nick Gilt-man ol Warrington in Cheshire has been working hard on Pit Fighter and has dis- covered (his little lip It you keep doing down and right and keep pressing lire, you splat the other guy very quickly aP* demo, only easier Bash mwA through the first two mounds ^* |P and block. When you get lo level ground after the second mound, build a bridge up and over ihe gap Three builders and two bashers required. Level 23 - They're right! Timing is critical. Find the right place to set two lemmings to blow a hole through the spiral wall (a matter of tnal and error). Hint - set one just after the other. Level 24 - Blow four lemmings up m the same place Quite like level 1 Level 25 The end of level temple is hidden >n the tall hill nearest the trapdoor (the taller of the two) Build a bridge up lo it, then use a miner to uncover their home If the miner digs too far, you might need to build a bridge up to their home. And that's it Donald says m his letter that he can't quite do level 26 yet. bgt by the time this is printed in the magazine he may have finished the entire game, so more tips for Lemmings may be on their way via Ihe postie even as you read this word. Or this one. SOLUTION Ct __ ' Prince of the Yolk Folk Pa jI Spillar of sunny Poole in Dorset spent all of Boxing Day in hia bedroom playing prince Of the Yolk Folk and whaddyknow? By the end of the festivities he'd completed the entire game and here's hia solution: Get jug of water, pile of leaves and a book of matches. Stand by door, drop a pile of leaves then the book of matches then the jug of water. You should be able to get out. L. talk to man. L, get pick-axe R. H, get a small cage, talk to lion R. get bridge kit on clouds. D, use pick axe next to rock. Drop pick -axe, L, U, get gold, D, R, R. onto boat. R, give gold, talk to man R. drop cage next o Don't paY rft© ferryman, don 'f even atk a price, tfon'f pay fhe Ferryman e/C, ere, ere. to Pogie, U, use bridge kit on the big gap. Jump right onto clouds until you get to the tower drawbridge. Get harp, R, R. U, U. fl, Jump onto ctoud, give harp to St Peter. Get cheese, go to Pogie screen, drop cheese next to Pogie, Get caged Ruffle. L, L. L, U, L, L L, L, drop flutfle, troll should go. L R, get outboard motor. I_ L. U, R gel key, L. L, D, fi. R, R r R. R, R. D. R, R, give outboard motor, get scythe, R, U. R. onto cloud, R, use scythe (on bushes], R, get bugle. L, (up top), U, R, R, R, U, use key on door D. L. (up top), L, L, gel tweezers, go to the lion, use tweezers, gel thorn L, L, give bugle to man, gel joke book, go to the piece where an- other Dizzy copies you, go up to the top, drop Ihom (go down below), Start walking and the evil Dizzy will die. Get spanner, go back to man with bugle. L. L, (up top). L, L. use spanner, go down across drawbridge, L. give joke book to princess, get regal flag, R, R. R. (up top). L, U, stand next to the pole. Use flag, talk to man, lalk to king. Go back to Daisy and kiss her. And you have completed the game well, almost Me thinks thai Paul is holding out on us here because he says that you'll have to work out for yourselves how to get the cherries for Daisy Perhaps, that part of ihe game has Paul foxed too'? Mmmmm? Eh? CtMflVti>l Faizal Hussain, from Harrow Weald in Middlesex, has sent in these quick cheats: Super Sluntman When you gel a high score, lype in Big Score as your name and you'll have infinite lives and time ^0 BMX Simulator Type "cheat" as your name on the high score table and you n always qualify Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles This quick cheat makes you in- vincible. Hold down the keys 0. Shift, I, G Ymtt rteyr Okay. }utt back off dudes. I'm fnvinible *o I'm aft tor a vtndaioo plualt! you keep your joystick pushed up then your points will just go flying! Shanghai Warriors On the score board r type "OUT- LAND', Then, when you are playing ihe game, press delete and the punks die. Treasure Island Dizzy On Ihe title screen, hold down the keys O.a.p and Enter Then, by pressing C to cheat, you can make Dizzy disappear Now use Z and X to select ihe Vraom, tring, screech. ovchHi Desolotor When you come to load Level 1 . simply last forward the tape to the level you require and it will load normally. Xenon Start the game and press Break to pause Now press the keys T,I,N,Y and press fire and you'll get infinite lives and fuel. Hete are a few cheats from An- drew Owen in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Dototator looking er. tfejoft/fe. Rainbow Islands As it's just been released on the Hit Squad label we thought you might appreciate a quick tiplette on this. When you reach the bonus stage, fire rainbows and go up them until you get to the top oi the screen. However.... if Here's fhe rainbow but where ore Bungl*. George and Zippy? screen you want, and press Space and as if by magic, you'll Start on that very screen. Is It a bird, Is it a plane? No it's SPECMAN and hes Here to help Spec- chums everywhere with any technical problems that they may encounter, using his gargantuan intellect, his awesome knowledge of the Spectrum's squidgey bits and a pair of red tights and a cape that he's borrowed from his mum.... TIME TO TRANSFER Help! I've got a +3 Spectrum and quite a large software collection and I would like to transfer the games onto +3 disk. I know that +3 disk versions of tape games are very expensive. Is there anything that I can do? David Mason. Chfngtord. London. There ore various programs, arid gadgets thai con be usee, JO Oo what you ie after. but there ore drawbacks with all the systems Far instance. Romantic Robots mullif- ace is >deat for putting games onto disc AM It does <$ piug onto the user port or the +3 dnd when the game has loaded you press me ouiton on the top. and your game is instantly put onto disc the problem is a tor of gomes ore mutftioad and you can i transfer the extra bits of the tapes onto your d/scs Now this is where the software conversion utilities come into it A glance through the bdek pages ot S.U. show companies oftertng tapes whtch convert gomes onfo disc for you complete with tevels But they have to be updated to compete with various nratections designee to overcome these utilities, so these may be costly if you wan? to keep upaottnq Help Donald Jackson (heoMhe-Lemmi tips-tame) would tike to ask ever so n if anyone knows a cheat or a POKE Altered Beast Jusl send il into to the M mg Squad, il you know of one. Lee Clarke tram Sheffield wrole in des afion to ask if there was a cheat for CJ HQ Well Lee. in the December jssl this esieemed mag we prinled fust su cheat, courtesy of Andy Elkrt Irom h Chester However, since we are such er-ly people, here il is again Once the game has loaded, check \h€ tions screen and select "redefine" keys then type 'shocked" and quickly write d the numbers. Don't know if lh>s is the sort of thing yc looking for, Lee, but if anyone has a to cheat for Chase HQ, then send il m pr and well Iry and gel it in ihe next issui Well, that's it for another month, H those tips. POKEs. hints and lips roMir there s 50 worih of goodies for ihe b and eternal fame and hero worship foi rest, Send your offerings to: Hannah Smith's Playing Tips, J 30-32 Farringdon Lane, Londc FC1R3AU. jr>em, but it s probob^ Anyway, of the* end of fhe aoy, you pays^ your money end you takes choic test way, mm JOYSTICK J OLJTY Why it it If l want to buy a joystick in- terface, or a Joystick, the shop asks me if it's for a Spectrum 48/128 or a + series. What's the difference? K. Needham, Sktpton, N, Yorkshire Wen, when Amstrad sold off their old stocks of standard Specciet they did a major redesign of the circuit board. When they dtd this they otto totally ot- tered the rear edge Gonnector. mak- ing ootfo-n s such as joystick Interfaces, instantly incompatible. This was very much to the annoyance of the manu- facturers as they then hod to torch our o version that only then worked ana * series computer. SECRET TESTING I've heard that +2a and +3's have a built-in factory test. My friend says he cart find il but won t teJl me where It is. Please tell me so that I can gel one back on him. Peter Biiotia, Japordy, EC2 4RM Yes, it's true. Jo access this mode press and hold BREAK. Now press the reset button. You should get the test card menu. Let go or BREAK and hold at the some ttme QAZPLM. Now Jus? toOow the on - screen Instructions. TURBO INJECTION How does a turboload work? J. Bulbrook, Brentwood. Essex, Well, the shortest question asked so for. What the programmer does Is to take a copy at the Spectrum $ looding routine and stick ft Into RAM. What the routine contains is pauses between instructions and waits before saving out the next bit of information. AH the programmer does is to shorten the time that the pause lasts tor. This makes the data if ft of is saving more compact ond Quicker, and your rurbotOQO is bom. DONT INTERRUPT ME! Before In technical columns I have heard the term "running in inter- rupts". What are they and what do they do? A Freshney, Humberside. ON7 4PB Imagine that 50 times a second your computer is told regardless of what it fs doing, to go ond cfo this task. The com- putet has to INTERRUPT the program It's doing to do this. It's usually so tost at doing this, that you don't even notice that it Is going on. Now you can make use ot this facility so that you con pro- grom your computer to do One thing whilst getting on with another. The only problem is that this facility Is only really used when you 're writing In mochine code, as it Is inaccessible from basic. Got a problem? Feel as though you're on your own? Never fear. SPECMAN ts here to protect the contused and the hopeless by answering all or your tech- nical problems. Write to hfm at; SPECMAN at SU, ^* Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane. London EC1R 3AU. GAME: Space Crusade LABEL: Gremlin MEMORY: 128K TAPE:£ 10.99 DISK:C15.99 /f K 1 > Space Man S'everrj $lQDt off " P. w Wk singe received from [\#1 mother ship; "Oreed- I nought located on spece-hulk, tech out led detlroy". Suddenly i massive combat robot •tempt Into your tquid'i sec I or of the •hip. A Dreadnought. You Ink* cere (ul elm with the Plume Gun end... whoosh, i big (leg with 'BANG' written on It appears from the niuzite t oh no that darn prenk- iter Jonei haa been up to hta trick* again I less &Mminalion of the wrong people this should never happen in Space Crusade the computer game. I hope. Space Crusade involves reading a team of five Space Marines through twelve demand- ing missions, seeking out and de stroymg the enemies of mankind (and womankind, sexist pig - Yvette). and all followers of chaos and other alien evil doers. (Surety this means that the pro- ducers of that spaced out TV program The Word" will finally be hunted down and disposed of). You gel to play the Marine Commander, and a big hurrah for that because it means that you've become a member of an elite group of the most skillful and devastating warriors the galaxy has aver known, In plain game terms being a Mb Commander means having a lot of fun and never having to say you're sorry as you h have more llta-points and potentially more armour protection than any other character in the game For- lunate really as the Commander must return to base rf the *Gef your heavy weopom nw*', Super deo/» available'. Not the grooviest situation to be In and no mistake. However with careful planning and fear- fhe rrVee Space Marine Chaptan availrdbfe In Space Crvtad» ffte Imperial Fittt, me Wood Angttft and th* Ultra Marinmt Each chapter ha§ a oTrrerenf choree of mquipmmnt ana order card*. Commander weapon and card terecf box. So much choicer mission is to succeed, even rf all the marines under his command are Terminated. Mission objectives vary but all Include one primary goal (dis- able defence shield, diversionary actions etc.) and venous second- ary ones which pop up like unex- pected pimples when you're get- ting ready for a party. Yes, just when you think everything is sview »4.B nandi •fsus ten got; support Dur- i game y^ -• marine's scan- itiequ+pn iu to Identify rhe playing allows up lo :f Space > :, en at team ■ you through me nwo'k isn't hapte '. each ofher ntj up fighting against ends as well as the Drnpuier which mean >al youhai a rattlesnake with super- glue on it's tail to finally win through. Gameplay is easy as pie {and almost as yummy) since the computer manages all the complicated rule structures which normally slow down the board game letting you get on with ion. Each player can five matinee, in any order, ones per go and engage each one in combat (hand to d or with a weapon) once in a sH A Blood Ang«)t Commonder tries to take out a dreadnought! The computer will take abo thirty seconds to cq it's play the/ |P r I h* * .«* v «S? X«5? tW ^> ..■xQ- >Z*» ■assssgs ■. 4 JD vtetv or «ome o'/enr oner the tmp$rtat fltt'i Commqnrfer. fne SO warkt very well and combined with the found ere- atet atmosphere. scores sowwp^HJ? •id ODfcaStJSS^ *** "*sj»n C " m P«*riw« WS ,^gu he 20 pJctyfn? icreen /» a to* raifer fnon JO'ond afta rrypket tt easier to work out what square everyone 'i onl ©view <£)view Each misson allows thirty rounds to comp- ' (e le all objectives and ■ return to base. This limil means that an awtul lot of "thought has lo be put into formu- lating game strategies, and re- member, the computer is Just as likely to put banana skins under © e Cru- I plastic tedil GAME SET EP- HOW TO START ETCHING BBIT Before starting a mission you and one or two other players must choose one of the three Marine Chapters available. I Then pick weapons for your commander, equipment cards (special extra equipment from which you can choose four 1 out of eight Initially) and order cards (which allow special or emergency moves, though only once during a game). Then equip the four marines under your command with the right combination of light or heavy weapons for Ihe mission. Finally, choose one ol the twelve missions avail* table. These missions range from hard to very hard, so lake your time and work out a strategy! Using a coded save option your commanders rank and position can be re- called for future use. II H i UM I i nasty screaming messages from the Emperor and your Com manders, telling you that you are a disgrace and a downright idiot High scores will result m hon- our" , 'exhal ration' and, more im- portantly, extra 'order' and equip ment cards which will enable you to complete later, more diffi- cult missions. Graphics look very good and there is an option on 20 or 3D play- 2D i$ all colour and action is quite fafct, whilst the mono- chrome 3D is a little slower but has better sound which adds to a more realistic atmosphere which includes footsteps, lasers and explosions, Space Crusade will take a long time to both io team and tp master but ill bat thai mosipeople will enjoy every minute of it Just remember, learning this sort of game is I A 3D view of the Dreadnought and Brood Angel's Commander. your feet as a human opponent is (the dirty dastard).. When a mission has been completed your score is calcu- lated by measuring how success- ful you've been ir completing ALL your objectives, how many enemies you've bumped off, how many rounds you've man- aged lo complete the game in and how many of your own men have been been killed in the pro- cess, Failure or low scores result » t* The o«en cambol furn. A Dread- nought has three weapons and can use rhem or' in one gal Wat ch out! like completing your potty training - a bit hit and miss, but a lot of satis- faction once you actually get stuck right mio it, WEAPOSSFSE- 9IASTER BLASTERS The weapons Space Marines use are divided into heavy and light categories Natu- rally the amount ol armour pervelralmn and damage inflicted by the weapons diflers Ihus the combat roll section ol the screen is divided into two sections Thete are two types ol die used foi inflict- ing damage Light or close range weapons (which includes hand to hand combal). are represented by a six- sided dice, lour sides ol which score zero damage. Ihe others score either one or two points. You throw two dice each lime you use light weapons Thetoial is ihe amount oldamaoeihat you do The Heavy weapons are represented by red dice which has three reros, a one, two and a three so there is more chance of popping someones nvets off with a heavy weapon But you can see how complicated the game can become because of this Luckily, computers just love calculating things, especially random numbers so all Ihe hard work of throwing Ihe dice, forgetting whose turn 11 13 and having to crawl around under the table lo find ihe die thai fell off is taken away. (Thank God and praise be 1 ) IHE IMPERIAL ARMOURY The Attautt Cannon, one or* me Marine's most powerful hand weapons, If you gar" a high com ■ bat rot! W con kiii several aliens. Misute Launcher, This weapon gives a spread of fire over several squares. In short, it's devastating Plasma Gun, a very powerful light beam weapon that's almost unstoppable In a stralaht line. A Softer, the Marine 1 standard short 1 me- dium range weapon Short ronpe weapons for the Com- mander; Bolt pistol and Power Axe. Power Glove and Power Sword, for hand fo hand combat ma- niacs. A Heavy Boiler. 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Siansiiut« . Eipny Oam . fFC »Mm n C4> BUAR91 THE FINAL SOLUTION Garth, an official letter of complaint (al- most). I have very few complaints about SU but one is... Where do you print the solutions to the riddles (or SU prize games? I would be very grateful if you could fell me where, even if I don t get this letter printed. If I do, is there any chance of sending me Lone Wolf? I have searched everywhere * or ■* Dut cannol find it and have spent so much money trying to get it that I could have bought it five times over. PS. I never miss SU. Yours Faithfully, Jim Ken, C irtimoney . Co* Antrim. He y Jimmy (or can I call you Whan?) We print the passwords to the SU Prize Games totheSU Prize Games in the magttine - normally on the Great 8 page, bat sometimes wt hide them away further inside just to make you work for your prize- Last month, we printed the dtf fist of Passwords for every Prize Gamt since the year dot (well, $imce the dinos were wiped out by ehtor mated drinking supplies anyway}. Okay? Oh yes... tone Wtdf. \o we won "t send it. This is the tetters page - if you want to Suck Up then don 't send your pleas here! GETTING A GAME IN Garth, last week I went out to spend my Christmas money on all the games lhatyou recommended in your January issue but I found thai I couldn't get some of them Double Dragon 3 wasn't in my local shop and hadn't been in yet. WWF was sold out and Lemmings wasn't in yet either. I'm prepared to wait lor them be- cause I think they'll be great but why can't companies as big as Ocean, Psygnosis and Storm manage to gel their games into the shops in time for people like me to buy them? I mightn't have the money soon as my mother's and brother's birth- days are coming up. Chirk* Tooler, Newcastle U Lyme, Unfortunately, the games thai you are talk- ing about were Christmas releases and as with a lot of the software at that time of year, companies struggle to get the games out on time. Also you must remember that we al- ways review games as soon as they are ready This sometimes means that we review a fin- ished game before its commercially dupli- cated or even the boxes and the packaging are printed! LEMMIEATEM Your Lemmings demo was dead good, I've had a few problems with SU tapes in the past and to be honest there's been some rubbish but I've been won over by the tape on the January issue. Keep up the good work for the rest of the new year. That picture of Yvette in the Double Dragon competition was fab too. when are we going to get the poster you promised? Tim G oole, Burton Latimer , North amplonehlr t. Glad you liked the demo and Yvette sejs she 's flattered that you think she 'sfab- We*re currently in negotiation with Yvette for some groovy pics of her, but so far we're having quite a job convincing her that she 's pretty enough! So beautiful and yet so mod- est - she 's a bit like me really. (Hah - you look tike your face has been growing on a badger's bum for the last seven yean Garth * AL) BORING GAMES Well* W* true that they don V make 'em like they used to, but they "re now releasing all the fab oldies on budget - games tike Stunt Car Racer, a holder of the coveted SU BEST BUDGET award and the highest rated bud- get game ever at 9?% overall! And in this issue, we 've reviewed Game Over II. I've had my Speccy +3 for ages now and Q£JA yuf I I've just got a tape lead so that I can use SU's totally brill tapes I've got lots of games but the ones I play most are all quite old like Robocop, Renegade and Operation Wolf. Lately I bought Lotus Es- prit, Pit Fighter and NARC, played them once or twice and got bored, so please, please tell some of the software com- panies to make more games like they used to. If you don't print this letter I'll set my Garth eating cat on you Hi PS. Your mag is the best around. P,P.S. Why don't you make it a bit fatter? Yours Hopefully, Mick Gfflman, wirrlftfUm, Chiihltt. \NCQHHE BUSTER \ , Rear SU, I am writing to complain about ' I \J showing a picture of Garth smoking! ^ i Are you trying to encourage children to \ ' smoke? Just do a picture of Garth smfl- , ■ ing, NOT smoking! BAN SMOKING! 1 J Matthew McGregor (age «), Invemet*. Scotland. I , I think thai the picture that you're talking y i about was the old Tell It To Garth so indeed 1 | you *re absolutely right. So right in fact that '• i we stopped using that particular piccie ages ago (just about the time thai I gave up smok- ing 'cos it's disgusting mahn!) So you 're a bit wrong in what you say 'cos now I'm en- couraging children and adults alike to give up smoking, grow their hair long, live in a TeePee and smite a tot! **** nw%w *** * ****** *+** Nyaaa Garty, I've bin read in' your Maga- zine for years now and I think It's a chillin' experience But I bin wonderin', where has the smart looking and snappy dressing T. Naqvi dissap peered to? Hb amazin' wit and insight into the Spectrum games market surely must have in- creased sales of SU by three or four times malm And wot about that lab smile, eh? I'm tellin ya mahn. all the girlie readers loved it. or so my gidftiend tells me and she only reads the magazine when Mr. Naqvi is in it. Bring him back, now! Anthony Nakvor, lomewhere In'. East London. * +* *0i** + • * *. * • * > * -> * * * ** « ■ What a toad of old ruootsh ! This is one of the most feeble attempts we're seem in ages to try to turn a sad, street fashion failure into a dtf, ikitliit ', chittin \ high rotlin \fahf*tut. I tt fact, are you not realty Tony IVaqti lot* of the SU Crew and your mother's womb? Begone, and never dark** my high fashion wardrobe ever again' Want to get to touch with other Speccy users 7 Or do you fust fancy having a pen pat to write to? Whatever the reason, SU's Scribblers Is for you. From finding new pen pats to buying and seMng those Speccy btls. Just send your letters to PENOEMONIUM atttteSU address. You can even include photos it you like! SPACED OUT MAHN! Garth, I'm writing to com plain about the dreadful story vou wrote about aliens taking over the SU Crew and writing the magazine As a temporary earth resident from the Saaror 6 solar system I think that /our blatantly falsa story could cause trouble tor me and several other visitors from the outer reaches of the galaxy if it got into the wrong hands. Furthermore, my wife's name is in fact Ooneneeky Cheeky and I find nothing Funny about this though you obviously seem to find it incredibly humourous. I am currently liv- ing in Shrewsbury and think that WWF and Turtles are fab and Amigas and Aians are crap. Long live SU but give up the rotten alien impersonations. PS. My Earth name is Colin Rogers Happy new year. Z«h Cheeky , Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Hey Zech, you must be from another ptanet man.' Don "r you read anything in SU? If you 'It just turn to page SO, you 'tf see just how much trouble we (THE REAL SU CREW}, had getting rid of F not and his bunch of cloned SU Crew, in fact, the SU Crew are now completely footed up for repell- ing alien invaders and so are alt our readers thanks to the alien bashing kit that we 've in- cluded on page S2. So if anyone else is read- ing this reply , put on your SUA Hen Busting Kit, and pop round and see Zech! OUT OF AFRICA HI, my name is Peter and I own a Spec- trum +3. I am looking for pen-pals in South Africa. I want to swop user written programs or help and get help on pro- gramming and gameplay. Most of my cur- rent games are from SU cover tapes. I would like to hear from people in the Wel- kom Goldfields Area, you can write to me. Peter Alt mode r Diomlisa. 24 Hamlet Street, St Helen i, Welhom, MSI, South Africa. GIRLIE CORNER Wanted, female penpals who are 4BK Speccy users Fed up of all the mates? Than write to me, the only female Speccy user on this planet? If you 1 re out there please write! Angel* Gednty, W Owltr tint, Flrvtlt, Sheffield 4, South Yorhthlre, 54 BG A. CHESHIRE CHEESE Dear everybody. I'm desperately in need of a pen pal (must be male} (you don't know what you're missing -Ed) To swop secret cheats, tips, secret programs, ma- chine code, [okas etc. Britain only please and respondents must be 8+ I own a Spectrum +2. Write to: M. Keeling, 12 Falcon Drive, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 3RX. PORTUGAL I'm writing to ask if you could put me in touch with +3 owners in Britain. I own a +3 and have formed a major dub that in- cludes users from Portugal and Spain. Since I do not know any +3 users in Bri- tain. I hope that you can help by printing r i my name and address so that people can write to me. Eurico Oacar Cava*, flui Alexandre Herculano, Numaro 57, Ft/t Frcntt, Candal, 4400 Vila Nova di Gala, PORTUGAL FAT FRIENDS WANTED My name is Alan and I'm quite a fat boy SO I don't have too many friends but I just love my Spectrum. I'm interested in all Spectrum games, cheats and pokes, and would like to swop software, cheats and bagel recipes with anyone over 13 stone. Write to: Mr A Oyke», C/0 SU, SU Towen, 30-32 Farrfndon Lane, London EC1R 3AU. WILD TURKEY Hi. I am a 1 5 year old ZX Spectrum * owner from Turkey, I've got 1 50 games and am loo kin for a pen pal to share them with. Write to me as soon as possible - No matter what country you live in or how old you are. Write to me; F. rdlnc Oxoftla, Betonyol Kanarya tok. No 0/3, Botlincl, It tan but, 81 1 1 0, Turkey. VERY WILD TURKEY Hello. I'm a seven foot tali Albanian roos- ter called Roger. I'm into getting up very early in the morning and saying 'Cock-a- doodle-doo' and strutting my tunkies all day in front of all the fab chicks that live by me, I don't have a computer but I col- lect various types Of Cereal grain and am an expert in scratching farmyard floors- Write to me! Soger the Cockrel, 3rd Hut from the back, Snr Joselph Murhmai Di Hahllvar Farm, Albania. © NAME. I ADDRESS I I I POSTCODE I I I PENPAL n SWAP/SELL D I OTHER yummy software ike Heroguest, WWF or Pilfighter because I know that you are much cooler and kinder than ihe real Garth Bumpier who's more like a mean ok) pirate lhan the editor of the best Spectrum mag in the universe. Hew can you run a magazine wiih a beard like thai 7 Keep up the good work SU Space Crew and make sure those tarty old Earthlmgs don'l take over again. PS Please, please send me some software, I havenT been able to get good stuff since I let! MARS' J ■« on Deerlng, Swindon, Wilts, (late el Great Sand Lake, Man) ■ Ahhh Jason. Garth here. Your timing is maedibie. The Commander has been vanquished and the SU Crew ate back So what C&n I say'' I'LL TELL YOU WHAT WHYDON1 YOU TAKE YOUR HALF- SOAKED. OBSEQUIOUSNESS AND TRY TO USE IT ON THE COMMANDER? I'M JUST SO MAD NOW THAT... (quick chapi. tie Garth up otherwise he won! make it to the end et this tetter AL) OH MUMMY Garthypoos(!) ...You're my only hope! Recently my Mum had a go ai me lor surprise, surprise, NOT having enough software. Now Ihts has me in lerminal shock so I really need some software. Ter- minator 2 and 3D Construction Kit would be perfect but I might settle tor Rodland or Teenage Mulant Hero Turtles 2 otherwise I will be terminally killed by my Mum and my sisler will gel a chance to nick al my games So please, please give me Ihe soft- ware! Daniel Funnell, High Ongar, Essex. • WeU Darnel, your letter was sent to the right section (SUCK UP), you gave me a good reason to send you some games and you even asked (or seme games that I've got. tt'sju$t such a pity that you called me Garthypoos NOW YOU'LL NEVER GET ANYTHING ■ DO YOU HEAR ME NEVER. NEVER. NEVER.... fbft SoPrWHHE HI guys, flig Al" here Just saying that Garth's having a bit of a problem at the moment - having his brain fried by the aliens has reduced his patience a little. So I'm taking over Ihe rest of SUCK UP whilst the poor old fart has a lie down and a cup Of Horileks.... Right? Where were we 7 HAMMER HORROR! Oh wonderful Garthy, I have had a devastating^ bad piece ol luck recently. I wenl out and bougM 30 Construction Kit, got home lo my house where [here is some real construclion going on and shock horror, one of the dumsy builders went and smashed it lo pieces with a 12 pound sledge ham- mer So now my loyal old Speccy and I are in deep mourning. Please, please send me another copy ol (his fantastic game lo cheer my Speccy chum and I up again. Many, many thanks. PS I hope you and Ihe SU Crew (wherever in the cosmos they are), had a happy new year. PPS Say hello lo Hannah lor me as I ihink she is very rjishy XXX. Nell Martin. Maghull. Liverpool • Hah! Hello there Neil Big Ai' here and i d just ike to say what a remote piece Ol luck you had with the buttders. t was going to be a builder myseit at one time but I fusi coufdol get my bottom to hang out of She back ot my jeans property so ihey failed me at the medical. With 30 Construction Kit you can be a builder straight away soim sending a Copy out to you PS Hannah says 'Ta very much tor the compliment' and shed like you to send m a photograph so she can see just how dishy you ate! PIRATE PROBS One day shortly after Christmas I lent a friend some games but after a few days I got suspi- cious cos these games slarted no! to work any more. The next day he brought a blank tape full of MY games into school. He had taped them! I look a nolo ol the games on his tape and sure enough when I got home the games which he had taped were broken (except for a lew). I don I know how Ihis happened but I think ihey must have goi broken while he was taping them. So please wil you send me a few games (which I definitely WONT lend lo anyone) so thai I can sicken him till next Christmas. (Preferably WWF Wrestlemama cos your demo was brill and Bart Simpson looked brill when you reviewed it and send a lew others too please). Peter Merlin, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland. * Argggghhbhf A pirate. Welt Petet t we've passed your friend's name and address onto F.A.S. T. {the Federation Against Software Piracy) and S- T.O-N.K. (Seriously Temtymg Organisation tot Nuking Kippers) And we really hope thatFAS, T. get to him betore ST.O.N.K. do. in the meantime, we've passed on yout name and address too be- cause itS. TO.N.K oo get him. tie him up by the thumbs and throw smoked fish at him (or worse'}, then FAST might offer you a reward {but dont ac- cept any sweets off them eh kids?). ROCKtTMAHNt! As one rocker and would-be Arnie impersonator (I would be rf I didn't have a body like a sackful of toothpicks and knotted siring) to another you've gel to help me. A good lew monlhs ago. I bought a Sam Coupe, to replace my Speccy which finally bil lite dust. Then, just after buymg it, both my girl- friend's employer and my own decided our efforts were surplus to requirements Anyway I've got loads of Spectrum games but very, very few work on the Sam, (even lewer good one*). With Christmas and all that, if you don i send me a Ireebie you're going lo condemn me Id death by old relatives and 'wonderful television programm- ing. What I realty need is a tape thai lets me play my Spectrum software on the Sam, thereby escap- ing tedium, boredom and crap TV .Please Garth, be a hero and save a fellow leather (ackeied per- son from a late worse lhan ...weH the worst possible fate you can think ol. Yours Sincerely (and in a potentially life threatening position (oo-er)J Steven Griffiths, Walsall, Wesl Midlands. • Sam provide a shadow ROM emulator which should have been on your demo disk dude' It wilt make SAM work with most Mtes Alternatively. The Mess- enger, a Spectrum interface, available from SAMCo piovides a more efficient tovte, as it wil atom any Spectrum game to run on your SAU by downloading it through SAM's network port. As lor your sue*, up. I was rubbish, Garth ism (act a 70s chUdandnota rocket. The Amie image is just to please his mother who doesn't like him weanng cream coloured flared suits with wide collars, tntly shirts and his dreadhji- ptatfojm shoes NEIGHBOURS (Tra-feMUty NEIGHBOURS My next door neighbour is a complete dork and my Mum invites him over lo play on my Speccy He sits for hours playing Ihe worsl games I have. Then I try to get a game and my mum tetts me that if I don't give him a game whenever he wants she wrl rip up my Sinclair User magazines {what a waste) and I haven't even got the money to buy a budget game So please, please, please could you send me Lemmings so thai I coirtd grve him some Ideas on exploding or jumping off cliffs or Final Figtii so I can gel some tips about kicking him lo death, Karol Frlel, Omtgh, Co. Tyrone NJ. • Karot, you are a terrible snob, tins poor JurfrmgnirTi have any friends and you aren 1 helping him out at att by not wanting him to play on your Spectrum. Yout mum is obviously a much kinder person. How- ever, if your fksvety) mum realty wants to ban this weed in the house att the time maybe she should get another Spectrum tor him. you K soon be far too busy playing (he game we're about to send you to bother with unpopular Wife gMs kke your neighbour- OH SISTER! Dear Garth, I am having (Smash), damn there goes another joystick, as I was saying I am having trouble with my little sister, you see she is a... toy slick murderer! Yes, my sister got through live, let me repeal that, five joysticks in Ihe last year and as a result I think I'm going mad! Hang on. I am going mad 1 Ha. ha, ha. ha, hat Wait 11 There might still be one thing that will prevent me from entering the portals of insanity, a game I've been after since June. Yes! That's it! The immortal Turrtcan 2, 1 sent off for it in June on mail order and haven't been able to keep myself away from the let- terbox since, only to find out recently that the order had been canceled, please help met Gavin Moseley, Stoke on Trent, What? I hope you got your money back mahn. those mail artier dudes are usually very reliable but unfor- tunately they sometimes do go out of busme$& This is a sad story which jv$t happens to have a happy ending as you have been selected to redeye fheCot- Qfimabadway memorial copy of Turrfcan Son OS Cold's Mgxpack compilation, bought with the pocket money he left behind in the editor's desk after we soundly kicked his butt and sent him retting back into space. Enjoy it while you can because you never know, if he finds out you have it he rmghtjust pay you a visit to aet it back! AMIGA HATE My tale is a sad one, ( have been with the Spec- trum world lor ages (around six years) and I am very happy wrth my Speccy, Bui, ever since people at school started to gel Amiga* [throw up) I have been the victim of cruel taunis such as "ha! Specif unrts are crap' and "Spectrums have slick in- sect sprite graphics' I feel thai the Spectrum has a much more friendly character (and a powerpack that you can warm your leet on loo 1 ), 1 have been SU regularly smce issue 91 (Oct 89) and on and of before thai. As we're slifl m the season of goodwill and be- cause aB the Amiga owners think that Spectrum graphics are "crap please, please, please, please could you send me me excellent Double Dragon 3. Thai should make em weep, eh?! Youft Pleadingly, Philip Cooper, B»r row- In-Fur n ess, Cumbria, • You're dam right. Double Dragon 3 wouid make "em weep but I realty think you are a bit too quiet tor such a views game, I mean anyone who loves their Spectrum so much that they warm their tootsies on it's trusty oW powerpack must be realty anti violence and senousry Mo veggie burgers and Greenpeace. It would be such a pity to shatter your world with a tough Ughtm game kke 003. It you take up some form ot martial art and send MS some photos of ail me nasty Amiga owners you've soundly trounced men t might change my mmd. SICK AND SWEATY Existence, I recertify went to the doctors be- cause I was feeling in. After hall an hour of examination he said 'I know what il is 1 , 'What, whal?' 1 painfully asked "You have a bad case of schooiworkitis' said he, the only cure is a heavy dose of violence" 'How can I get that?' I asked. 1 would recommend a violent computet game like WWF Wfestlemania" "Is there any other cure?' I asked * Sorry, no. and I can't give you a game on the Na- tional Hearth, so you II have to gel ii yourself' he re- plied 'WHAT?!' I exclaimed wondering whal I was lo do He continued, 'I am closing m a few days and there isn't another doctor for mile so you'll have to hurry up and gel a cure' he continued "8*"tfy H**l"1 So I thought tor a while and finally Ihe answer came to me so t wrote to you. Oh no, I leel an attack of Schooiworkitis coming on (Several complicaled mathematics iheorems later), Phew lhank goodness lhat didn't last loo long. Please send the only cure to a sick, maybe dying Spec ma- niac and of course SU maniac. lain McDonald, Dirnley, Glasgow. # Look lam. mere is nothing wrong with hgvmg scbooi- wonWs. in later «M you wkf look back fondly at your school career and aM yow favourite teachers and say. 'What a sad lot of old tools!, I'm really glad that SU didntsendme that game I asked for. becuase I wouttm have studied so hard and become the Prime Hftmsrer." Actuary, there's nothing I hate more than school truants annoying ooctortjusf before Christmas. Like magazine staff they re a great bunch of guys and tfwy need rfmr holidays too!! Ladies and Gentlemen, please note that it's *************** * * * * * « + ****** * * THE * * EMAP * * * GOLDEN J* JOYSTICK ; AWARDS 1991* *************** * * * Hoorahll It's that time of the year again when you the readers get the chance to vote for the best (and worst) Spectrum games of 1 991 . * * * * * * * * * Yes SU. In conjunction with our sister magazines, C+VG, Mean Machines. CU Amiga, Megatech, The One ST, The One Amiga. PC Review and ACE. present the EMAP Golden Joysticks Awards to be held at the Kensington Root Gardens. This evening of swank- ing around in your best black 501 s and denim jacket and bow tie is (he biggest event of the software calender, Yes (oiks, software producers will be falling over themselves trying to bribe re- viewers with crates of champagne and promising to let them borrow their Fer- rari's F40's for a fortnight (can I borrow the red one please?). Reviewers wilt, more than likely, just be falling over alot. drunk on the atmosphere of the event, But bribery is all to no avail. (But you can try anyway chaps cos my car had a tittle argument with a sheep at Christmas) These awards are awarded by YOU the reader And it s your vote thai really counts (and I mean thai most sincerely folks)) So grab your pens and get scribbling. We want your votes on ihe best Spectrum games of 1991 All voting forms must be returned by "1 0th March when we'll pick one lucky reader out ol the hat who'll receive £50 (what!), yes £50 worth of software. Ten runners up will each receive a crisp. Spectrum game (but we'll decide what flavour it II be') <5 ***************** f SU GOLDEN JOYSTICK AWARDS 1991 In each of the following categories, choose the game which in your opinion, is the wlltJn'est. chiflln'est game for that award. Games that you choose must have been released between 1st January 91 and December 31st 1991. 1) Best Graphics 8 Bit . 21 Best Soundtrack S Brt 3) Best Simulation 8 Bit 4) Bast Coln-op Conversion 8 Bit B) 8 Bit Gams of the Yaar 8) Programming Taam of tha Yaar 7} Hardware Manufacturer of the Yaar 8) Software House of tha Year 9) Worst Game of tha Yaar 10) Bast Handheld Machine Name Age Address Postcode. Got your entries in to us before the closir>g date which is March I Oth Q[£?VleW ***¥*¥** + *******^** + * + * + + + + Nose's American Adventure very handy, i(g° bmati having m* between aodgtfi I and r»d pi> Does anyone remember ihe TV series Time Tun- nel'? What a show! The incredible slory of two all- Ameri- can boys Iraversing trie corridors or lime wearing designer 1970 s clothing wllh wide lapels and Ions of screen make up. Oh the drama, the excriemenl. the pace... believe H or not I used le lave tils sort of old rot. New York is a dangerous place, especially for lovely furry prehistoric animals which have mysteriously been transported lo the greai metropolis and im- prisoned without so much as a by your leave . The only person capable af saving them has also traversed the corridors of time to see if he can help. His name is Big Nose; he has a disturbing lack of 70 s designer clothing and it you get m the way he might just chuck a great big pre- historic rack at you (Quick, quick it could become a collec- tor's Hem}. The tton it the tfnl animal you will gel fo. It cfoeirt'f get eaitert As a cute platform adventure Big Nose scores highly indeed. Ihe main sprite is fun it a little dif ficult to control and his enemres which include policemen, bounc- ing bombs, builders and wavy feather dusters of doom come on fast and furiously. To free hi$ friends from their cages Big Nose needs lo coiled keys which are scattered around the landscape He can also pick up a variety of other icons some of which are helpful, others less so Watch out for ones like the glue can and the beer glass, they could leave you in a sticky Bit ati on* Big Nose's American Adven- ture (5 not lo be sneezed at The graphics are not at all snolty, they're org and cartoon like and although sprite detection as your character jumps between plat- forms can be a bit runny, the game has lots ol play ability and is a good old wheeze at the Seymour kilft a 'on*. Once flhe bad- oU#f have been tquatHodtheyr*. toot* on Icon. PotluiH5fl is on ihe way out *wl ft teas! in the world tri computer games. where Captain Planet and now Super Seymour ate oti the |ob I retiy en joyed ihe insiallmfrnl >n the Seymour Saga, t contains m«t| mor* ercade sryie kin *ian Seymour Goes to Hol- lywood and will keep you busy pulve- rising podulers for a tang ime 4|li*l <& v i e w ****¥******* + *** + ****#* + + * * MEMORY: 48K/128K TAPE;C3.99 Super Seymour is a Bomb Jack style platform game in which our the Irtiie poiaio-head bounces, flies and spits hfs way around increasingly defficuit and heavily populated levels Each screen is divided by walls and ■1 ^ m0 rn«t*** underneath S**mour platforms and wied wltn toxic waste, fruit and mutants Our fine veggie friend Seymour must pick it all up and bump off all the bad guys to boot (literally) by lumping on their beads. There are tons of bad guys to deal with, some* like the mutant bur- gers, hallowe'n masks and heli- copter heads are quite fasl and will actively chase you around the screen, others are slower and easier to avoid and jump on. Luckily Seymour also has a variety ot special weapons at his disposal (if he's actually going to dispose ot them I hope they are bio -degrad able) which are re- leased by the mutants once they've been squashed These include the 'super blow , the pheimy 'super sprT (yuuckk!) and tne super snare' ail of which aliow him to stun or trap other- wise very awkward enemies. He can also collect a speed up icon and make 'super duper leaps enabling him to collect lots of yummy fruit and avoid lots of un- yummy baddies. Let s just hope he doesn t get any flies in his sou p- er though" Super Seymour s cartoon style graphics are very welt drawn and all the characters (good or bad) are funny and well animated The game doesn't re- ally impress immediately but once you get into it. go through the first few levels and find out how to use his special weapons property, it becomes very en joyabte and addictive. So its a big hurrah for Super Seymour. I II sleep a lot better now in my nuclear shelter knowing he's out there protecting the plane!. _.-, - , Hill . Flaying the wont spof* tn the cosmo*, they're toon dropped ptfin Siackheath Worried about what's happened to SU under the aiiens the$U Crew search for a newsagents to buy one but Whilst Tina goes off to see her boyfriend, the boy* ^ * down the TINA tales robot (Zanelii senes) Ana Garth decides to throw himsetr at the mercy of the rather weird SPiCMANf' Specmon, seeing an opportunity to make Speoman and hit hpmbty ditfrgurx night to produce a weapon that'St Jf? °* * \ EA£mUtV&£ , VW* PMNYM F» t& MO MATCH FOfl MY M ^r ^ ^-^tf ■ x Hi 1 s~X 1 ^^^^wooP... ___^^( 1 \ ^^A Tina's amailng night vision - previously used for tpotting late-night Piisahuts. pinpoints the loader The Alien's leader. Star Commander Angus Headruth, re- fuse! to hand back SV to the now beserking Garth,.. And to the mighty power oil a Alien Matter Reducer, it Fun i fJl Afiffn could replace me Crow Wrrrwrt IfM OOAfiS Of* m# spaceship fne C«A puf ffisr razor- sfrarp maid* to rt*e proWem. So the Crew try to wori men passage oack to Earth playtng gigs an oeeptpoce cruise ships Here we see Al and Garth in concert on metfe*p- jpace luter Tone DeT Outgunned, the Crew retreat at speedtt* tro& make a *e* sfuprf fhroati tfrol fhey can 7 back up and pay a ghastly pace tor their mistake * l*n photo HJi*r ■w Swvmii O imi* m* Pu«iw photo mn n etaaittr Kn«n Itt* Imhioi of rtol«me» ana tti» 4* OioOaBori and Tuttmy of photo Honss ."■tmr worff fore /nfa the 17; e ^n ae ffte odds for the Crew Specman produces ffie fru if j of notf on hours worfc wrffi white hot, British technology The 51/ Crew mobMrse ffte Garfrutiobrfe from rehtement tor the highly dangerous misston, and go looking tor the evil alien leader. -• Spectrum -charged Sobfm irn9 i ogomst the evU Heaarush S.C Headrush is sucked to oblivion The SU Crew are bockf Their mission, to botdty make spooling mistook j where no man (or alien) has mode them before! HOW © you So you think you're a real man about town then eh? All the neighbourhood pretty people really want your body and your friends consistently vote you school personality of the year.,. Huh! Load of old cobblers. Why not just admit lhal you look and smell worse than ton day old pimple puss that's just beginning to go green, AND have less personality than your average Australian pop star. Well now, thanks to the far flung talents of Freud Sump- ter and his psychic SUCrew. you have a never to be re- peated chance to clear up all the upset and confusion I which surrounds the myth of personality.. .simply get out your diary and answer the Super SU Popularity Quiz 1992, below, and remember , if you lie you are really only tooling yourself 'cos quite frankly we at SU Towers don't give a monkeys dribble how popular you are! Q1. Your horiscope tells you that the constellations are In your favour this month, so to celebrate you throw a party lor all your good friends. When you phone around to see who's coming, which of the fol- lowing answers do you most often get: (A) Id love to go> and in tact I've just won the pools and I'd really like to pay tor every- thing too (B) I'd really love lo go but I have to go to the hospital and hold my grannie down whilst she has her artificial hip re- placemen! without anesthetic, (C) Who the hell gave YOU my phone number? Snot Brain! 02. It's party night and you've Just spent all your pocket money buying food, drink and new friends, do they; (A) Turn up with more goodies, some Frankincense and a lot of Myrrh? (B) Not turn up at alt but make a reverse charge phonecalf later to say that an air disaster in the family caused their ab- sence, {C) Turn up late with no goodies and bring along a group of Hell's Angels who steal everything including your parents Hi Fi and Video? Q 3. When your teacher asks the whole class a very difficult question and you are the only person who stands up lo answer It, what do your classmates generally say? (A) Wow what a brilliant math- ametieianl I bet he was a nu- clear physicist in a previous life. (B) Sheesh! What a boring old swot! I bet he'll be a teacher when he gets older. (C) Shut up bad breath, stop being such a TURKEY! Q4. It's gym class and the PE master de- cides to let every- one play Indoor soccer for the period. Two of your best friends are selected to pick the teams do you: (A} Get picked first every time 'cos you're an all 'round greal guy? (B) Get picked last every time cos you can't kick the bait for nuts and usually stick your trainer into someone etse's? (C) Gel excused the period by the PE teacher cos even be hates your guts? Q5. What is the most common favour asked of you by friends? (A) Please come around to my party tonight because no- one else will go rl you don't (B) Can I borrow your bike to goto the beach tomorrow? I know you haven t been Invited cos no -one likes you. (C) Here fatty, shine my shoes before i give you a damn good kicking THE SU POPLARITY RATINGS: Fifteen points; You're either a completely pathetic liar or I'd quite like to come to one of your parties and I'd deem ft an honour K you allowed me to lick your little bootlettes clean while I'm there, Eleven to fourteen points; Don't worry too much you're doing fine - in fact you're doing a damn sight better than I am. Six to ten points; Gel wise. You're hopeless. In fact you're doomed to spend your entire life miserable and alone without friends Snot nose! Five points; Who me? No I'm not your friend No 1 don't want your large bundle ol money Now please excuse me, I'm very busy lor the rest Of your life doing something else, &&, c o o o o o o GAME: Double Oare hen wai in t to n g 'Going Underground by Tht Jim rtJtasad? What sport dHi Hirvty SmHh tpecialtst In? H your sniwera to Ibssa qtietttont art, '¥*• please, ind III Neva »om« clotted cr urn on my scans* tool" and ' Harvey Smith It ■ world famous gun- iHngtfl", Am Doubl* Dirt might nut Im Om gam* for you. Howevsf rf you can answer these questions correctly then please accept an SU commenda- tion of supreme knowledge, and tf you're a fan of me television program on which this game is based, then why not splurge out, and gel this game! ooooooooo LABEL: Alternative Software MEMORY: 48K/1 20K view TAPE:£3.M u ,0 O o v DOUBLE! njnr ! UAM, you fall head over heels into gunge tanks - huge slimy vessels filled to the brim with yukky muck. (IcchM! Sounds like Tinas coffee too). The quiz part is entertain- ing and certainly very as the answers are given as multiple guess options you can' guess rf you want. The challenges, all puzzles, are difficult at first, but fun. The graphics aren't dashingly good looking bun t .... . -J Double Dare is a quiz show which hits the screens every Sat- urday morning on 'Going Live', a program which I've never ac- tually seen as most mornings I can be seen 'Going Dead' until about 1 1 ,45am (Thank God and Sony lor the video recorder), The game's catch is that par- ticipants don't just answer ques- tions, (they're just sooo difficult sometimes) they must also gamble, participate in puzzle challenges and finally, the win- ning team must complete a haz- ardous obstacle course (sounds a kttle like trying to get a cup of coffee made by Tina) and collect ten nags. The worst thing about the obstacle course is that you're not only competing against time but also the course Is specifically designed to make ucu 80 urrrrrrrrni pm LINDA SLrttfi f Ti i rr.r, 'e-r. — - foceoocsroff*: * a took competrtrve. however some of the questions seem to tie geared towards older people (Who won the Cairo Cup final in 23 BC? Answer: The Roman Army}. None sn loo difficult though and GRAPHICS SOUWD_^ 57 HAYAliyfnTi mam "■ *wy mom**) IrM f m* Z! n -in «p m* anyt © shorten Double Dare's lastabilrty which is a pity 'cos it is quite faithful to the TV program and will appeal to aH TV trivia fans rooemer o\ they get the job done, (like Garth) and overall the game is very playable and easy to understand. 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A classic arcade format space shoot 'em up, Game Over II involves a rescue mission in deep space with ten levels of frantic action taking place above, on and below ground, The var- iety of gameplay is impressive for a budget game. The main Character, known as Comman- ►view GAME: Game Over It LABEL Alternative MEMORY: 48K TAPE:t3.99 a- _> * . * der Locke gels fiTride a strange beast (no, not the Garthmobile) and fly around using a space- craft and jetpack without fear for his own safety or tor parking tickets, Space j/od m«#fi asteroids, Quickly, blast em fo pieces' To cut a long story short, (well relatively so) you must reach a prison planet against all the odds, flying over it's volcanic danger zones before landing and then capture and use an Adrec' (a strange cross be- tween a kangaroo, a horse and a sad Australian TV presenter) to get you through the swamp, (Can you tell what It is yet kids?]. Other levels include an underground forest, a subter ranean lake and finally, the fiend- ishly well-guarded prison itself which all make Game Over II quite a difficult blast that de- mands lightning -quick reactions, lots of practice and a strip of Elastoplast for those finger blis- ters Garth The old ones are definitely the best and / still carry the busier marks left horn Game Over. The sequel uses s simi- tar recipe of blistering pace *nd Up-biting action. Vicious star fighter* line up to shoot at our hero, I'm so t cored/ Unfortunately I couldn't get a Sinclair joystick to work with it but keyboard control Is good. There are 24 different enemies to contend with, some are easy enough, almost suicidal, but others are dangerous beyond be- lief, especially the ones that creep (or fly at lightning speed) at you from behind, With large clear graphics and plenty of colour. Game Over II contains more than enough speed and good fight in' action to keep most combat-crazy space veterans blister fingered and welt plastered right to the end. I m **'/ |0W .!S She f busy- The plot revolves around ar> artificial intelligence that has gone out of control and popu- Me? f'm fust very hafdli latea me gaia destroying all (Hmrn, where have I heard this before'') Explosive chaige^ have been placed ^4^ on three planets -^ inhabited by these machines and now they must be detonatei-V by the Last Com mando The game takes the form of a left lo right scrolling shoot 'em up with a small but fasl -and ma^ouverablw m sprite (mounted fn a tracked arm cured vehicle) and a variety , K ~„,^™ of hopping n-m-m-rnad (twitch) I enemies There is plenty of _. —M^ ^^^%s^s^^ play ability and your commando yJ ^tmammawmmewmaw9aweass\sjftks\\\\s\sM has a long lifeline so there s nol A com/nondo'i life ■ off countdowns. 006960 • * c affl?asatt Graphics and sound are good if a little dated looking and I must say I enjoyed this little bash So many games these days can get loo complicated so it's nice to see some good old fa- shioned tun on the Spectrum. _w _w_ ^w _w ^w ^w IAU/ THE TOP 30 ALBUMS Answer; Neither at course, the biggest Ocean in ihe world is Ocean Sollware and just to prove that it's tar more than just a drop in II. The Hit Squad have put together an incredible Top Hits competition guar- anteed to have you raving through Ihe atlernoon and, for thai matter, well into the neil century too. (its true pop-picker;!) r ^ Jusf before his demise. Commandei Coioninabad- way. In on attempt to counter the human SU Crew's intergalactlc busking endeovoufs, traveled by space cruiser all the way to Hit Squad headquarters In Manchester and returned with an incredible rec- ord voucher worth £130 (which should be enough to buy the top ten albums on CO and/or cassette) and a cargo hold full of the best Hit Squod software avail- able Fighting off S.C. Headrushand Ooneneeky Cheeky on their way back from a deep space rove on Strobetlght 7, he managed to transform Ihe whole lot Into yet anolher SU Megacomp. Thanks lo his efforts YOU can now win THE RECORD/ TAPEY CD DEAL OF A LIFETIME! with the first prize of a fist full of record vouchers • enough to buy even the top ten albums, This Is certainly a competition lo rave about - because their are over 90 runner up prizes of a HI1 SQUAD gome which you can choose rom in the list below. AND 90 HIT SQUAD TITLES UP FOR GRA There ore six (er. ) deliberate errors In the second Wanted poster below, sent out bv the defeated SC Heodrush into the for reaches of space in the hope that Big At' will betray his almighlv leader Garth to the Aliens. To win one ol the fabulous hit SQUAD VAjVTFI* uely human, editing a magazine ) dodgv spelling errors, consistently eating onion sandwiches In the office and getting f the alien editorial staff of Sinclair User. ;riptlon: Five feel ten Inches tall, three feet nches wide, blue eyes, pot belly Usually ha* raggy beard, permed hair and wears a her jacket prizes, simply circle these errors, cut out the poster and send if with your name and address to "We Want Gorfy Back (even if his beard does scare Gran- nies)", 511. Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, Lon- don EC 1 R 3AU, lo arrive here no later than 1 8th March 4B ■M, WANT!?!* ielng vaguely human, consistently eating >d onion sandwiches in the office and ge ing rid of the alien advertising staff of Sinclair Iser, >escrlptlon: Three feet five inches tall, three fc ve inches wide, blue eyes, slim belly Usually i i scraggy beard, sfraigni hair and wears a ?aiher locket. REWARD Five hundred doug wm. I *ould like a copy of: NAME: ADDRESS 'w«tafc^ POSTCODE SHOE SIZE: Remember I he editor's tfeoaon «s Snal and no olber correspondence will be entered mtci untcss il r& large anrf intlaiatjle. wild a big door and lals ol roam available roc play>r»g eneigetic indoor sports Compilation GAME: Nlnja Collection LABEL: Ocean MEMORY: 48K/128K TAPE: £9.99 D RHGON-N!H | - **T '\ T"T"f Ti ■ 7 ill"! ~\" ' A 'J Ti«it^M| jLaUi'ariTv iPIIImiE ■ i" I'll VI -I'll! p ***^*""— VTil "*-**■ -l'l " — J r^s ft'i o rough (,n^ fiavtfifl |U , Never - ^ gettino M work in scores CaB me Thft Master c* Moany-JHsu. but 1h« Nmja Caiwtwri jusl fate to make h pasl itw kwri ol while beh m Tt*s wmpiia&rjft grades- This is o*S- rtitely one le avoid like a rotten birds nesl soup - otrwrwiw ri II tea ve a nasty UsJe in you* mouth. ilm Doubfe utagon dance ■ cum* ■ ..« .4 i^j ^^g^j i ■■■Ubtr- 4 p i__i &aB*Ma68smam cm mJtiiic' J'wa oof fart of sou I GAME: 4 Game Pack LABEL: Atlantis MEMORY: 4SK/128K TAPE: £3.99 Life got* on doesn't it? Past disasters Hie earth- quakes, tornadoes and the new Atlantis A Game Peek. The feeble lour on offer tiers are Super- kid, Spooky Castle, Crossfire and Stack Up, which were ell pre* vtovsty available as separate bud- gel Itttet. canity , n0p9 „. wm a naf3p * J Super kid is young Tom Essex after he drinks some Liq- uid X and finds that he has the strength of twenty toddlers and can now fly Bored with- his diet of rusks, he vows to battle crime wherever it raises it s ugly sawn- off shotgun, which basically in- volves saving stranded women and escorting old ladies home All this may not sound too excit- ing and it's not - if you can stay awake through the game and can be bothered to get up, up and away. Spooky Castle deserves awards For it's unoriginal plot. feeble graphics and awful sound, the latter consisting of about four beeps. If this puts you off then good, because the rest is worse. To start with it is just soooo frustrating, mainly due to Oon'f get caught In crossnra the frequent deaths caused by a ghost that whizzes out |ust as you're about to complete the screen, I thought this game was very difficult but I soon found oul why - the whole game consists of about 20 screens and l com- pleted it in about half an hour! If you thought that Spooky Castle was the worst game on this pack, then wait because mpilation* • * • • * • ••■*■•*-*■•*• *• ieOOOOOOOOOOQCC?c?uuu «niH^ IIUM iSS^f GAME: So«er Stars LABEL tfjtWtt- BeffEl— — - good MEMORY: 4BK/128K TAPE; £11.99 E ™tyt>tfitwc Soccer Stars 4$ billed as being (he ultimate soccer compilation Arsenal reckon they're the ultimate tooltwU team too, so *e know not lo be- lieve everything that we read. Sadly, there are a couple of s here that shouldn't have even made it out of the dressing room, along with two veritable players Who are the teams? Kick Off 2. Gazia 2, Microprose Soccer and the very impressive Emlyn Hughes International Soccer which, when I started playing, had me instantly hooked The detailed of puch and players makes play excellent as does the number of options There are so many 1 This has got to be the best soccer game that I have seen in my entire meaningless life Moving on swiftly lo Gazza 2 where the tears never stop flow ing! (Hand me a kteenex Garth} There are so many different things you can do in the mm game that it will keep you amused (And possibly addicted forever.} Ifootbt/t 9*mn - bom '* tbtoon Control 1 s easy and v i es are clear - the opposition though are ghostly half sprites to make Kick Off - A SpeccK foflure. Microprose s oonano kick specter/ Crossfire ts even worse, It's an Op Wolf clone m which you must wipe out the mobsters ol Chicago. There is a total lack of violent action, due to the graphics (the baddies look as menacing as poodles} and sound (just bleeps for dead bad dies and troops for dead inno- cents). What seals it's doom is that there is no variation AT ALL, with only two enemies who what a guy! Anu h Off 2 ghostly sp diabolical to control' I had ' me p)a- Ihe only good thing about the game being the lots of different options to choose from. last sit there so that you can shoot them! Crack-Up is a breakout vari- ant with the usual multitude of power up capsules to liven rt up. including lasers, bat extensions and extra lives It's all been done before but this is a competent done all the same and it does has a certain addictiveness about it However, one good game can't save a pack in in the net - ff$ a GOOAALtf mtyn, fm/yn, €m(yn. ... Hurrah! the game faster, and more than a little bit spooky Microprose Soccer was a ma|or dr New Aterturnet Altered Beast .New APB an* Batman The Mom Suable Boot* .. .. 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How time mes : (A curious ex- pression, when you think about It, bul we'll Irt il pass I, Five sec- onds ago il was Christmas, thin wc were celebrating the new year, then the January sales stretched willpower lo the limit. Weeks have passed by Ilka minutes and here wr al- ready well info a new year. Strange stuff, the English language, I overheard someone pitying a game or computer golf 1 few days ago ex- claiming: 'Just look at ine wind!". I mean, how can you actually look at some wind. You can we leaves blown about or intake swifling from a chim- ney, but you an 'I sec il! Still, 1 sup- pose IS il is the language that controls most existing adventure games I sup- pose we should be glad that it is such ■ rich and varied collection of words ■nd phrases, The mere facl that il is called the 'English* language probably irtu some people of Welsh. Irish (Qh Sor- ceress I never knew you cared, you old Sasanach wag - Rig Al) or Scot- tish extraction. Whether or not it an- noys the decidedly Scottish adventure author Tom Frost I do not know, tout 1 can tell you that he has been using English lo create adventure games ever since Magic Treasure appeared on the 7.XS I (remember those?) and 1 942 Mission turned up Tor the Spec- trum. Both of these tides were written ha the early eighties, and I am happy to report that Tom is still going strong today. Another early game was called 'The Spy Trilogy' and this has now been re -released by him as a bargain three part adventure priced at £2. SO. includ- ing a Tree bonus game. He has consistently released top notch material SI very reasonable prices, and 1 suggest that you could do tar worse than order ' The Spy Tri- logy". Tom's company is known at Tartan Software, and the address to write to is 61 Bailie Nome Crescent, Montrose, Angus DD 10 9DT. Of course Ibis it nut the only adven- ture produced by Tartan Software, if someone mentioned ' Bare Bones' lo you, what would you think of? Well, many things Spring to mind, most of them of a ruber strange nature, bul in fact 'Bare Bones" is ihe name given to a new collection of solutions to ad- venture games. Fourteen full solution- s ire covered in the first issue of ibis A5 booklet (it i* intended lo make il a quarterly publication ), and games covered include Alien Research Centre, Arrow Of Death I and It, CokMlz, Tea) Utile Indians, and many mere. Les Mitchell it the person behind it ■II and for further Information (as lot old laying goes) way not write lo Les ■< 10 Tavistock Street, New land Avenue, Hull, HU5 2U. ByceeH ..£& mm m V M RED UON: (Irom where #e left off): Go soulh. w, up, w, n, e, e, n, n, e, give milk to panther, e, climb tree, pltnk gap (that curious insiwction means that you can now enter the Mire lord's tower), e, wear glove, up (to the central chamber, and you can now see the Mire lord and the red lkm ruby), say "fall aurun* (a burst of flame leaps from your hand towards the sorcerer and he Is dead - would Libit it w as so easy in real life!), gel red lion, down, w, down, w, w, s, I, w, w, n, e, n, down, «. up. w, S, s, w,„ and that, my friends, is thai! RETARDED CREATURES AND CAVERNS: (from where wa left off): If you go north, you will be grabbed by a tentacle front the moat, a voice will want to know who is attempimp to pass, Bulbo will gel you released i and a gold coin will be pressed into your hand. North, lo Ihe castle ante chamber, examine chamber to see ■ handle on the north wall, examine handle to be told how to use it, examine dragon, who is sitting on a heap of gold and partially obscuring a tunnel lo the west. Type in WORN to discover what you're wearing, and amongst other things you'll find a siring vest, unravel vest to gel some tiring, tie siring when asked "lo what?", answer, "to handle*, pull string lo create an opening lo the cast, bu i you can 1 1 go easi ycl because il' s dark. So go soulh once again to leave the castle, examine wall lo see two torches, get torch, north, easi, and your torch will be stolen so go back and gel the other torch. At some point in the castle, an elf will steal your gold coin, but don't worry as we'll get it back later, Also, another elf will appear and ask whether you * ant to play as a warrior or t magician, either will do.. .to be continued JOURNEY TO WE CENTRE OF EDDIE SIMM'S HEAD: (from where we left off): Exit van, n, up, e (there's a loose panel here), hii panel (lo reveal a se- cret mom lo ihe east), e, lake big key, w, w, down, unlock door, down, lake wine, drink wine, drop big key, drop bottle, up, e. take torch, w, s. enter van, drive soulh, exit van, w, n, n, (man at hostel asks you what you want), say help (you are given t nole to give to the landlord, bul DON'T read it yourself), look, take nole, s. a, s, w, w, examine computer, type help (lo get your next set of directions), w, s. t, e, s, w, w. s, a, sc, shoot cat, ***** examine cat (t piece of paper floats to the ground), lake paper, read paper (go lo room 106 in the pub and knock on the wail three limes). ..la be conti- nued M0RD0NS QUEST; (from where we left off): The f uLuristic area - e, take gciger counter, w, and n beck lo Ihe ma- chine. Now go lo the Roman area - ne, e. move churns, lake and transport ring, w, w, examine Straw, take bat- tery, e, s, s, push plate until yon go back to the futuristic area - e, drop geiger counter, e, sc, nw.tw, spray print, HR75, take and transport de- vice, n, nw. sw, s, s, s, lake and trans- port ingot, n. n. it, nw. w, w, n, e. in- sert baitery . w, s, c, e, touch plate, s,...|q be continued AN EVERYDAY TALE OF A SEEKER OF GOLD: Give the cakes lo the trulls in ex- change for ihe spade, poke the sneaky eyes with ihe branch, the key opens the chest, lie the feather to the arrow with ihe string, ihe groat provides the entrance fee to Benny 'a Ihe sword sharpens the sword (Intel) and cols the grass, give the food to the hungry bear. ..to be continued started I •^ CHALLENGE OF fTHYUS: (from wti*f* wa !•« Off): Gel sphere, up, n, e (you tee in elf selling insurance), give coin (you hivt tnsu ranee sheet), open door(you hear i whistling noise}, duck (an arrow hits Ihe wilt and explodes), up, w, open curtain (you see 1 large dog), throw nl, look (ihe dog vanishes), gel toolh, e, n. w, open iron maiden (now THERE S i band!), examine dwarf, get map, read map (show* • route through mines ), drop map, gel note, read il (it's about the Kapow Spell, you need broken glass, water, tooth, rape, and mould), e. t (you see ■ cof- fin, but leave il for now}, n, n, n, e, s, 5. e.s.c.gel flask, exam it* flask (you see the won) "ALTHAR"}. n, n. w, n, w, s, i, s (back at Ihe coffin), open cof flti (you release a v*mp*ns ghost),, ip be continued. DOCTOR GOO AND THE SAMORONS: I (from wh#r»wa latl off): Go east, gel beam, gel oxygen, warn oxygen (press button ), w,iull oxygen (h goes down a hole)v n. drop beam (il spans the hok), cross beam, w. csam equipment, gel wire, gel mag- neU lie wire (to magnet), e, (back at hole), lower magnet, gel as ygtfi. w, n (the ait it tucked out), press button (on oxygen), e, exam desk, exam in- tercom, pte» switch (you hear voices ) Open door , e . . .to pad three ,s.-l«mlr t*ee. exam branches, gel rape,, down, n, e, enm lurtle (asleep, and has a thick shell), e (monkeys throw coconuts tt your bead), scream (turtle jumps out of his shell), gel shell, wear shell (by a tower), remove shell, knock door, fail santonin, lie M- moron. search santonin, gel key, gel card, examine card (it 'a for utna- mission rom). Up, e (hear footsteps), hide, w, up. e, exam computers (you see a liny hole), insert screw- driver ..pan four coming up next month, MOlfSWORTH: (from where we left off): Search Honda, get pass, examine pass, s, se, w, w, w, n. n, n, search camp, enter tent, gel sandwiches, eat sandwiches, leave, e. d, search rub- bish, get flak, est amine flak, read label, wear flak, u, w, a, t, chop aw, examine tree, gel branch, drop axe, a. e. e. e. c, n. n. climb fence, vault river, n, w, buy fork, e, ne, buy beer, drink beer, give camera, leave, s, vault river, climb fence, s, a, e, *, drop pok, get matches. M, enter hut, gel lamp, leave, aw, n, n, w, t, dig, drop fork, get bone.. .to be continued. JEKYLL&HYDE: (from whar* wa (•ft off In part Go east, n, a, e, e. w, a. a, I, a, I, c (you'll now be able lo pass ^Fr^c Enfield after paying him the com pemalkMi money fur trampling Ihe yuan*, girl ■ you'll arrive home and transform back Into Jekyll). Down, a, s, s, a, a, (reply to Cabbie 1 'Gaum Street". (say to Ulterwrti) "think you'. "no" (say loCabbk) 'home' (or let him drive you lo a number of random locations), When back in the hall - a, n, ■, n, up, take flask, put aall into flask, pour liquid into flask (you are now Hyde, and must find your way home. Any movement which la not allowed makes you fill into ihe gutter and gei arrested, SO use EXITS command to find out illegal moves)., la be cofilinued PRIDE OF THE FEDERATION: (from t ha atari} Note that in pan one, you need to keep on refilling your wnerbottle at the tap, you cannot lake ihe short eul back up the rope if carrying more than 2 items, and anything the droid takes can be reclaimed from the ser- vice workshop) inventory, down. n. examine pots, get packet, examine packet, w, n, n, e,..to be continued. Setters SPOOKY TALES Billy Jonas, a Liverpool lad writaa: I'va boon trying to complata loml of my old ad- r»tu»a gim», and ona thai iv« btw playing with again i» ■ gam* callad Matt Lucas- I think I'm nairlha and pith* gam*, but whan I coma to tha gr a vast an* In lha spooky placa a volet aak* ma lor Iht paaa- word but I don't know what it ha. I v* triad a law word* but nolh- ing aaama to work and I can't find anything In lha gama that might glva ma tha password. Can you halp? tt you cast your mmd back to an ear tier part ot me game, whereyware m a dub. you rmofil recSt tha 1 flap rpupn characters nit are having a conversation You overhear parf of I. srtteft joes ",„Jfw word is out. rVe meet at the warehouse' The password thai the voice at the gravestone warns js 'our. so SAY OUT, and strange things wilt start to happen. RIK1 MKA TAVA Dannia Hailing*, who do**n t coma Irom Haatln* ga but from Saaton, writ**: 'In lira Golden hand Ol Bhakhor . IV* found a snaka, and tt'a glv> Ing ma a headache. IO lat Ha aalan ■ mouse, and ■ mon- gooaa haa appeared, so 1 pup* pea* I'm supposed to catch tha mongoot* and than 1*1 It attack lha anafc* My trouble la. I can't aaa any way of catching tha mongooaa.' * ArWaun^iarig leafy, tm&y bkghtets mongooses (oust! man geese, i realty can never remem- ber), anyway, keep trying to catch H and when H ryn$ into the note in me damp room, M«* The note up wit h mutt. Next time it runs there, tt wont he abte to get info tne hole be- cause you we frtocrted if, Mow you can catch it and brmg it tQ the snake's location (quite how you're supposed to cany the thing t don\ know 1 ), whereupon Ihe mongoose mf happty see oft the sna** tor you, BOTTOM DRAWER GIRLS Andy (who, daaplta tha nami ■aauraa ma thai aha la '•- malar) Nawton, currtntly raald- Ing In London NW1. writs* Two Of ua hava baan playing tha game Match Makar, and havagraat lun quaalionlng •varyon* («v*ry gam* should hava • qutttlon command!}. But whan **a question 1h* dr*ssmak*r. lha aays thai wa mutt gal rid ol lha mica and aha'll glva ua a wadding gown, Balng mara tamalat (majra?! MERE7I), how do wa gat rid Ol thaaa mica?' * Tha is a wee bit oompoeai ed. so from the dressmaker dome toUow ing; Ovt n, n. n, n, Mr, e, e e, a, u, u, u. take orchid, d. d. d. 6. drop stick d. cast rod. cast rod. drop rod. drop boots, u. w, w, w, se, se, aw. in. ..and watch what happens. Tins may not sound Vke it's done any thaid but totktw the on screen mess- ages and s* wit! be revested. THAT SINKING FEELING Birry Wilton, from Huddars^ tlald. wrltaa: 'In Goldan Til- laman, I can't aaam to find any way Of getting aero as tha quick* sand, to what do I naad to gat ma across?' * ^aunee^amapar^^corripflss. dear boy The map tsmthe cane and tne compass n made by remov ing me hair from the ighsmin end tying rttothe fodestone that you gat tram the mbesman, Before return- ing the todestone to the mbesman. *■ dont forget to remove me hav and thread H back through the tabsman otherwise disaster rs sure to toUow. ** review* ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± BMie.frtl»;U,MiijUSGold MEMORY: WW** TAPEI11.99 DISK:£16.9» RELEASE DATE: MarcNAprt © o n ^ h n Set O lit lo recent intergilactte events ttie SU Crew irit not be aotelo bring you Uw advertised review of G- Loc-crtdde. bMZL-hwmh we're back! After MMrth* in otilet space we've dMl? beaten those darn i Md not a momeni too soenl Ah yes. it's good to be back in the dming seal again (weft, pilot s seat since this is G-Loc) and not a moment too sooty IJ the aliens had got their grubby tentacles on this combat swn. then outcome of the tight tor SU could have been uncertain. snips tire evefythmg but thaw kit- chen sinks al you, (claws in you cats 1 ) Frying a carrier -borne aircraft called the R360, a type of hybrid made from the best bits of an F14. an Ft 5 and 1he water pump from a Zanusst Turbo Washer, you must complete a series of air to air and air to ground com- bat missions (and collecting y dry washing in the process). Increasing amounts ot air- craft must be blasted out of the sky before tackling escort ships in a fjord (Yes, Shoot that Fjord Escort with your designer can- non and Habitat homing missiles). The main screen shows the ptane's cockpit controls, which are uncluttered and easy to make out and in- clude a damage indicator, radar screen and fuel and afterburner gauges. There is also a fully equipped head up display unit wiin a locking target indicator, fu* gas central heating and double glazing. The perfect home for any fully framed air combat psycho Apart from The target indica- tor and a tlashtng'missile "locked on" message the most valuable moving display is the radar screen, This warns youef the number of enemies approaching and from what direction may are coming. If they're on your tail it's very advisable to take evasive action otherwise youftgel your botty shot off! There a/e three difficulty le- vels, easy, medium or hard. I A toroiy amazing Ai mis MMJ wper- carrter Bofirer. tt"i 10 oovart ceo" it'tt at- moif Ify them Y*t pteote, hi havo onef G-LOC is a combat simula- tion as opposed to a flight simu- lation which is disappointing as the name of the game led me to behave that frying this plane would be more difficult than chasing a ferret in a coalmine. It rsn t. What is difficult is actually staying In the air during dogfights whilst in ground attack missions the enemy support Thmtm or* fifteen thlpt to dutmy In fhe lurtOC* ortock mod:. Oh no, too*, Ift Cop'n Bad Guy again, lock on and deifroK -LOC is gradual lossolcensci- ousness' due lo G-foree, a phenomena which occ- ur} during high speed com- bat manouvrrs In [el aircraft. A blackout occurs In these sit- uations because gravitational pyll or G farce Increases wllh acceleration and sudden dnecl- tonal changes, preventing blood Iron reaching: a pilot's brain. \eople standing on Earth experience a gravitational pull cl one G\ II you accel- erate in a car or a plane (or talk lo Garlh for more lhan one minute) lilt leelmg. of being pushed back. chair It G -force. though you SllOddn'l experience a blackout (unless you talk to Garth (or more than live minutes). In an* combat situation, lull* trained pilots will begin Id ex- perience G-loc at around 7.5 G The F16 If probably I he most manpuverable combat alrcrah In the world so ill H's pi I Oil are trained and conditioned 10 with- stand up to 9 G... thai s nine times what you are uperlen clog right at this moment! Unless you're reading this whilst If ylng j across some county In tlSSlON C0HPLE1 BONUS .7200 *\ m. Surface k>vmt wcQQittut haw about tome too? Thn Is now to ger G-t OC fly upjJcfe downf view + 4444t^4UU4t^ ±±±±±± + ±±4- review Take on.NohP^^ " ^iofl,^ ftft aofwmn0mvo JrcfClff- *^ Ar »d bfoif *<** ° trfto fh* **V" m at medium and found it steady going but beware of the hard option, ft really builds up a sweat and takes quite a btt of practice to enjoy. The graphics are all In mono with the enemy aircraft and missiles being weil drawn and. thanks to the omission of colour, the game is consequently very ?asf and animation is smooth. Unfortunately It is a bit boring and repetitive at first, but once you get the hang of it you'll end up blast mg away tor eges as long as you don't get too annoyed by the very basic sound wh«qh is slightly less infuriating 1 than a wocd termite trying to find Its way home after a rave Just a rather small variety of dicks and buzzes let you know that some- thing exciting ia happening. GLOC is by no means an exceptional game, it has plenty of action but unfortunately ft all looks the same. -^ Nevertheless It has impressive speed and control is easy and precise. Arcade style action which comes very close to the mark but unfortu- nately just misses It by a whisker. — ft . Shooftog it o fine art, bank me akvruft on o tove/ hor- izon tQWQixif ttt9 enemy with your ringer to Hie Are burton fc ■*«*Ciir3 ****** *"» GUN LOCK The aircraft is equipped wfth twin high power can nor, and air to air missj , es uZo cannon tL beat way of downing another afrcrafn* £ keep t^ardXe^ "'* ^ '"* ™< * • W lowards the bad guys, getting as close as o^afhl T , hlS fS Gasy en ™** ^n they* e ap- ^ selj wHenZu" fr0nt ? Ut y ° U " eed *> ««* « Pre- cisely when they re corning from behind. B" ft 'in; And Mf Nm iutt taU Into your ttahtt. Prof * fne way to do fl ia tfon'r argue, untoit It't con§twcttve. «■ rffc — A I Httm, now what couki thtt 0*7 tat me took in my -tone* book of mMrtary ho/dwo*»...to rfe do, hum de dum,.. of) ye*, if* on enjmf m/tflito, agaNI H+tpii 5hee*h, took* oi fhougn IVe been (ftof, rve tfll gof one Mto tor? rhaugJi . r ^^4i^4UU4U review <£>view 1*1 +1-*! -»ivr^-*i+i*w ■■ AME: Kid! 1 s bachlo school folks wii collection ol six, T.V, bi prograrM limed at Ihe -,. rtn I mirkel wilti Kids Pack Heal- wring; Postman Pal, Sooty and Sweep, The Wambles, Superled Pop-eye 2 and Count DiiCkiiia. graphics and a*p»f5fe but pieasmg Postman Pa gamepiay. whjtiri entertains for a Wtck-snrJ wrhite air few hours --""" roads in a simpli roads in a simple drivi. and-dehver lols -of- things type game. There s not much tQJfo in this and really when it comes down to it, nol much enjoy mem church t Come on Pat. Stop thinking about your moggy and get Jo work. A detfgWft*/ estate k easy access rojfce Cr/pf Count DjcKuia+asrtfrp^' heio searching a huge pyramid lor^arn y s ter iGus and .magical "" saxopbciie, Various obfjects 3W ourleatNTred fiend, as 4o Igor and Nanny, who pop up Otca- sio natty to help out our crispy i without ma 1 map as you go ^F?TC^- :V J- : - *'*'■ ,T 7 7 7 "J " No tttten for the Jesuakaay d •■>■ ' ' ■- ' ~ ■* ' •■■*■ tfifCKuio'i reii'dence. ngi an?i)Ore^? (fuucnf; 1 t-7* WJ •V*' r Hero i me dog rryrfng to moke a clean sweep ofit Sooty and Sweep is a plat- form romp m the Jet-Set Willy ■• mould One Or two pJayers musl . ban! . hoe Town is a happy place where all the shoes and boots and slippers go aboul Irieir business in their funny old way and where learning is always the most important thing, jusl as it should be, eh kids?. Garth At fist' An educational game thai can take on (ne Fun School M series. Errteffifning t iniem- ting and wail thought wt- Well. The Shoe People are now avail- able on Spectrum and Trampy and ail his friends are about to show four lo Six year olds exactly what spelling and counting is all about. Tne game is divided into two pants, the first is segmented into live different word, number and recognition activities and the second in- volves learning to draw and col- our scree ns. Margot & Magre Colouring: Book contains a sketch pad and a set of colouring templates It is very well laid out and easy to use wrih lot's of facilities and colours The graphics are very good and represent the individual shoe people delightfully When ^s§E you get something wrong they -j^" ( all react with sad faces, when n6 . nghl they beam with pleasure. There is a merry turn ries throughThe w and the overall * ch car- turn Balance the tee-saw and you've got the number righf. Stse up io £»4oe teoFL? Activity 1 : Trampy visits hfc friends". An object recognition on d name matching game with two difficulty levels. Activity 2* *5gr Major Sort* ft Our Recognising scopes and Objects of placing placing mem among groupings ot litre otto's Activity & The Greof Alphabet Robbery , Recognising thB importance ot capital and lower cose tetters ana where tti&Y should be ptacea and sorting out simple dtagroms. AcHvlty 4; 'Wellington goes to the park" Recognising and adding numoefS- Count the balls or numtjers weighing down one side of a see-saw and balance up the other side with the right answek ^j Activity 5: "Chortle's Big Day". Recognise developing pat- terns as part of a circus-clown s tricks and puzzles. players Or younger children, parental supervision would be advisable at frs I but the - will soon gjat the hang o. scores -8BSL... twwand love and ™1! y aJ ' eao > J^ncutJia SfS JSL Nafcw * 8 * >r ol an rt s hjf it* t y maleriaf (hen mat ^ nrasi ' mm uciimof S *Wl+Z 2.+ Z+1 + * 4i+ 2-+a*-3L^view n ^NL y Yes! Mow you too can be a lop-class levlewerjallen buster with these handy cut and keep/frlgthen the postman masks, Use them lo wacd oft Interplanetary Interlopers, pregnant women and those nasty, time-consuming school detentions. Imagine the fun and hilarity of lurnlng up lo shool as a completely useless lorm of Irishman or a completely useless form of edllor. Completely nonn ' . y t he power f/ )d|ust ing the Spin Sound »S 5p' but tne right enunfcir»gHhotj©i Of t. ng'ji'.^ ■ hi 1 ir 'in ill _ ^^^1 r»e cue boW always ihoo/i dtrtictiy up me fobre fne trick It to rum m» tab'o to got toe righl ifier". Ihegr'it/ rCSthOUQl sliangp and a utile sore on one" i Tot good fiui w^oi ar>o:.' " I '■.'•''' n ■■■•^ * ll! '1 J 1 ' 1 HUSTLER Pool is 3 game thai is realty about po- sitioning ■ getting the white {or cue) bell into the right position. This is done with side, top and bottom SIDE * This actually spins a bell so that >l bounces differently when it hits another object (especially the cushion.) TOP ■ II you hit a cue ball further !o the top. ihe effect is to make ft rod fur- ther and to continue forward aflr hit another ball., BOTTOM - Has the opposite effect, in fact enough bottom will cause a ball to roll back after hitting another ball. Use- ful if you have a straight shot to stop you going in off. ihe tioshy mooter stars do to.get o ■i ot applause and o fat fee You con even set up your Own luck *hO*J SO thai you can Impress everyone with you' potting prowess (even though it may he only two Oais al ©nee) In tournament mode, 'he computer opponents are pM itllli i Mighty Mike, the computer player, it a mat hutttet and hard to beat Well here i a mighty tricky th r - 1 Ol all a tncif shot mod© Ihis sets up the bans m a certain way, and the ideo H to p f the bats with one shot like oil octrerneHy good and present qu«ie a chaitongg. mo g«' also suiprismgly oddiCtive a'id -m I «f!0p you poitenhg' away at ii fat ages Although it wont be to everyone's taste n's worth o Shot to anyone with a mild interest in thts tort of thing The GREATEST "■•-■- — _ ^^^ ^» ive wKtoi Ofw imeioclrwe *L Foi bpe™ urn *?" 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Fast pawd-3Ction it isn l but ■WwW Cup larts mighl figtil irieif way ihrwjrjh to ihe end erf it* road. t's lime to start the Mexi- can wave rolling out again because World Cop Soccer Is tack! Now for a budget price you can enter the con- test (and try not to get knocked out by the Ger- mans in the Semi Finals The orn of this gome is to win the World Cup. (surprise Surprise') after winning the qualifying rounds Once I WORLD CUP SOCCER Through, vour team is off to must Qualify m the group to go Halyi on to me second phase, men w na lever tea m you pi c k the quo rte t linois. semi- f ma Is Not a police identity parade TfJB arrow* ind/caf* fhe currently but In tact your team 5hee*h> controilea pioyet Go, go. not. r realty Into this game 'fee* lastly prefer Manchester United and even Gang 2. But ft you think f don 1 know a football from a Black Forest gateau, then why not prove me wrong? and then eventually the final it s a long rood to the final, but defined but me game Is a bit on the stow side which can become severely 1 rustta ting a u ring matches rrnrrnWi scores -*«n* about IN con- 1 ch*wigngg. acM It's a laugh a minute being part of the elite Midnight Resistance squad. Not sat- isfied with just having ex- tremely well polished boots and lugging around humon- gous. death-spitting assault rifles, they have now de- cided lo fight against the evil invader King Crimson. There' s only one snog - all Midnight Resistant LABEL Hit Squad MEMORY: 4SK,12BK TAPE: £3 MidfiiqriT resistance the team have been wiped out opart from voui They've oteo kidnapped your entire family - shoutd you waste the kidnapper* or give them a medaP Hey don t forgel thai they've got your mum tool Save youf mum by righting through nine levels of murder and moyhem. Enemies leap in from all directions and you con wipe them out with your chosen weapon (oo-eri). that can be moved into eight differ- ent firing positions ("Of max! mum devastation The graphics ihroughout are greet Detailed and coiour- Garti A moat for *N toe fans of the amaz- ing artadt machine, **/t it *"y*ccur*te confirm on* a favourite arcade faw yetrt ago. f ui bock drops and lots of meaty explosions complement the animated sprites as fhey tun around the jerky, but fast- scrolling ploy orea, brandish- ing o variety ol hick ass wea ponry Gameplay 1 hough can be annoying due to the diffi- cult control method. But don't despair. This Is o great shoot- "em up. which at the new price should definitely be In your collection, GAMEBsmafk LABEL Summt! MEMORY: 4BK TAPE: £3.9$ 3tf$ntiu*ch Garth Buffi^ ~35SSa\tt+ chlung! Aghtung! It's the Bis mark and it's sailing right on back to either death or glory as it enters the budge) light. And you can eleel to either blow her out ot the water 01 try to command her to victory by escaping the Brit- ish Admiralty Atlantic bloc hods This is a well-balanced strategy game, with the Brit- TAPE' £3 99 damoge control section is fused to put fires oui before they spread to engine room* A or magazines with even an op dfc flan to use onti-oircrafl in M aefence. ^ Ploy is icon driven and whilst simplistic, is straight-For- ward and easy io use graphics loo oie simplistic but luncttonal making Blsmark not me prettiesi o' games, bui if you scralch the veneer you'll find o game with thought ona depth - - ■Sh/ Germon options adding vanety Apart Mom the overall strategy game, there is o fast sel-up option that has you put straight into the ocrlon. Vour mission is to get the Bismork through the British tleei and oil the soutnein edge of the map to safety ot if you choose Ihe British Navy, to sink the sucker befofe it escapes Into the Atlantic and wreaks havoc with the Ships Ihere The game features fifing the big guns, using radoi to pinpoint targets torpedoes and even using planes as spot ter and/or attack aircraft A Strategy gamts 'it t have J rely on raphtcs d these e very basic. The game however, is tar from it review mSS. bu dget review Garth: The gun putit- pin' action makes a worthwhile atfootfaftd the animation wmttliamieW >**?]* quickly and keeps mgama foe mat that yovcancra*! Sword and sorcery again". I said as I got out my wizard'* costume and a big sword and pre- pared to do battle with the minions of darkness. "Don t be so ridiculous*, said Tina as she got out her broom handle and hit me with it. Another day passed by una* venttuiry in SU Towers. Go un tie! d Qvrt'e on okt game and ft snows, but don't GAUE: Nuflimhu 4 LABEL: KIm MEMORY: 48K/128K TAPEE3.M be fooled by appearance*. It's sin a hm bash. The base toea ti to wade into armies of nas- ties including ghosts, demons, Qrun rs (big club wielding no* ries). done throwing tobbers and various sorcerers packing up Toad, magic potions and treasure and surviving as long o* possible You can pipy as III 4 any of tour characters ond the game has a two player option which S by 'or the best way to ploy it. The other games ore. The Deeper Dungeon* a gauntlet add-on. giving even more ex- citing levels and Gauntlet n boatoofiy the same as the flat but with updated enemies and dungeon*. The gome • played from an oimosl vertical viewpoint and you con see quite o lot of the dungeon and I he enemies around your character . Graphic* ore very basic, the bod guys can only be identi- fied by their vogue shape* col- ours and their fighting charac- teristics make no mistake urrah? Yes t hurrah for Ivan Stewart and his Off Road Racer, otherwise we wouldn't have a decent budget race game to review this month. Thts re -release comes to the newly loun ched Tronlji label and f t's one of the best scores! OVERALL U%| garth flumpter w" >* } TWt b Soectnim rearfl flamw "H tZ ulftrvBte besi OtlRowlrasMod grtohw, Mstfrwg game^i* md on 1 ZftK, axesien! sound and mustc- idC^ng games ever Piay rj one Or two ployers and is viewed (h a JD overneod perspective and you fake one racer Trie Other cars ore computer con- -MfWA*«i*i. rroifed and boy can they racer You however must iry to r eat I hem. avoid damaging yuur cor on ihe rough terrain and pick up the odd can of nitm t_ use when needed for a quick blast whilst picking up any money bogs ihai appear in order to buy lyres, faster en- glnes, higher lop speeds and new shock absorbers There are several dlifereni tracks (o choose irom and the action gets racier and pacer OS you progress from track to track as you make your way through the season he P r «¥ pi «Prturrri Ivan Stewarts Off Road Racer LABEL; Tfoni* MEMORY: 48K/12BK TAPE: £3.99 - ^i»«ltkS*L" WlP *" though they ore Identifiable Sound it oho basse but to be honest when you hove a gome with ove* one thousand differ en i playing screens you can't go wrong Murrtmta four S worth o took A/an Woof «•* wis before s o imaging wjr sur- prise to 'Miff a bud. "on stafttibgj i can t place higher acco- lade on Off Rood It j a seri- ously excellent gome, brilliantly f-rogrorned and BUDGET blNbLAIn USER MORE REVIEWS MORE R MORE VALUE Dear Newsagent Please reserve me a copy si SU every month... Alright!! daet revie GAME: Monty Pythons Flying Circus LABEL: Tronix MEMO I 7T SILVER 1 old on Garth, lei me get this .Straight, You're a Lumberjack a you're o.k. You work all night and y sleep an day... so what's all this aboi women's clothing, eh? no w . lot i talk c heese as the w note fl gorne seems to (evolve around this fh L Snidtafy product ond OP Gumby ■ the weft known spai fancier and k>f> term dental op merit laieof Bo deserted by hi* bn about cramped working conditions In rod taW broin has split up mlo loui parti and gone unovaiiety of sunny package hold ay* Poor Mr Gumav must now recover them before relative sanity sets in Gumbv orey matter is coi tec led over tour crazy game !e vols each one of wntcn con- tains a quantity of jpam wWCh has to be contacted i be' ore continuing f to the next hevet There are nktden bonus terete, time bonuses t-na a lorQe ifoc* ot GRAPH! ustSBilItyiw OVERALL SaSSBsas ""^flOorJIrtrwtr i and enemies etc.) with The graphics, based on Terry Gilliam's zany cartoons and are bolh funny ond Clear. Monty Python's Flying Circus Is diffi- cult but en| ova ble and well worth a look iiy through o periscope (rt""P r ^ ht3t Gorth i js^sr-**** : - * i • m Mr D P GumbV, oe'J clobbered* * * * * * * * * "* * * dll THE ARCADE ADVENTURE There's a challenge wailing for you at Microsnips. The only question is - are you good enough? We stock a full range of games for all entertainment systems including SEGA and NINTENDO, Arcade, Adventure, Action, and Sport - they're ait waiting to take you on. And while youre here take a took at our range of computers, accessories and compatible software - you won't find a wider choice anywhere. So* what are you waiting for? Scared maybe? 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" !' i ': ■ rhis month in CHECKOUT we focus on games, whether they be for parties, friends or good old fashioned fomiiy fun - whatever your game needs, CHECK mem OUT tore, ^^ CASJLE Ghost Casa '«W m "*i Probably one of my fa wour He board games or at) time Ghost Castle has come in many guises, but this 90*a version is one ol the best. Guide your characters around the board and through the haunted castle. Take It In turns lo spin the wheel ol tale and if you're kicky you could ROW the destiny ol ye«r op- ponenl in the pa** of your hand. Drop the akuM down the chimney and natch ea the var- iety of traps spring Into action and possibly seal your tale] Greet fun and one rowl never Brow out of. Prlc9 £17.99 DON'T ^^L», -Sisi^ndJlSI II you've ever played Kerplunhi where you must pull a series of coloured sticks Irom a tranepereni tube and cohect as many marbles a* possible by miking them fall then this fame will Intrigue you kill aa much. With a twist In the game play Instead of making thing a fai the key to this leaser Is prevention. Voor Eskimo sit* precariously m the middle or a block of ice and using Ike hammers you must knock the Ice out chunk by chunk forcing your opponent lo lei htm slip. Greet for parlies - not least ol en because at the atari everyone thinks they'* win I Price £5 99 Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan learn up lor this well observed industrialists comedy that will touch quite a lew nerves with 9 to Sers every- where. Hanks stars ~ Banks, a born hypochondriac, I a dead-end |ob working tor a surgical instrument lactory. On one ol his Irequent trips lo lite doctors fie dis- covers Ihet he is suffering In terminal brain disease and that he only has six months lo live Whilst trying to come lo tern with his imminent dealh. Etai is visited by eneccenlrlc and opportunistic businessman Eflw - who makes him a proposition. The m Price £7.48 Anyone who's old enough to remember Sort Cell and the grusome Marc Almond, should remember Frusl ration and I'm pleased to announce that It's still around loday. One of the first games i ever played at parties when I was barely oul of a pram, Ike object Is to move your counter around a clear plastic board whilst sending your opponents back- ward with a pop ol the dice which is encased In a popomallc bubble. Instead Of throwing the dice a |ab on the bubble's surface does all Ike work lor you! Price* £6.99 «flf a; ■Hffl Executive toys have become big business with consumers, especially, when they realised you didn't have to be an executive to buy oncl So the next trig boom in the mini game slakes will be travel toys. Already there are miniature versions available of all your lavourhe games such as OownfalL the puzzling game that Ira ins you to be an expert sale cracker by the lime your eight and Guess Who? The Hip up matching face game. All are available through out the kingdom and at a. fraction of the cost of their bigger brothers. Price £5,W each. Ah! They don't make films like this any more. Burt Reynolds stars in this classic movie, at last released on video, about a group ol survuillsts white water rafting in Ike wilderness. The » ad ve ntu rou s g ro u p ge I more than ^ Ihey bargain for when they stumble across a group of hill-billy cut throats In the backwoods When lirsl put onto lil-m the violen earned il an IS certificate v „ bv today's standards, n s ably a Stiff lb, Whilst ***** i Gripping films seem lo be Ike order ol the month and you will have to go a long way lo find a plot as involved as this one, Harrison Ford is the respected, but suspected, New York attorney assigned to investigate the murder of a college graduate with whom he has had an explicit, illicii J affair. How ever in his bumbling h attempts lo hide this crucial E< r*^ \ Ciappethoaid gtvts you itn out rating for each video that me ew etch month. 1 ' it's a stStiiiitf Don't buy f htre ~tr arty elf cumstances A work ol ihttt brilliance. . it Itave tor any vid kid! ^ H. "tut needs ■ rife mineral from a remote island who a inhabitants won't let it Qui ot their sighl unless a human lumps into their volcano. Joe has nothing much (0 loose, and as In* MMonaire his given him unlimited use n»s Gold Card, he iccepls Ihe task. Many people will be ante lo relate lo Joe s lilestyle 01 misery mnicied on him by his boss (Yeah right ont - Al) and so his acceptance of Ihe otter tt easily believable. However his involve- ment with Ihe ugh/ Meg Ryin It nol so e "■ n% especially as her gorgeous sr, is aher the same favours. As light hearted as a Film about dealt be and mildly amusing In ph_ hls la delinJiely one lor those wh, don 1 1 have a good booh 10 read. 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SOUTHWEST MANCHESTER Ml 5 4LS CALLS COST MP PER MIM AT CHEAP" RAti. 4flP PER HIM AT ALL OTHER TIMES _•— COIN At last, Sega's first new re- lease of 1992, plus newies from Capcorn, Konami and Data East all brought to you from the man with the Chocolate Hobnobs and Tea (milk with one sugar please), John Cook Mo « this Is not a misprint Copcorn's latest master piece Is colled, yes. Knights of the Round. Now, the scho- lars out there might well be wonde- ring - considering there are Knights and swords and chivalry Involved In this thing - what the hell has hap- pened to the Table bit of the title. through horizontally scrolling scenery packed with oil sorts of bad guys - in search of the Grail. •flHrft * * tur -*■ *-*■*&- » Jin . i li v*u fruiiM. >■.* wfift ^ Don't ask us - ask the translators at the Japanese Capcom offices! Indeed - In days of old when knights were bold, no-one would have dared to tamper with Oide English Legends. But nowa- days, anything goes! So the quest for the Holy Groil has now been con- verted Into a three player vld, with you the player, given the choice of being Arthur (Long Swoid, well bal- anced In Power and Speed), Lancelot (Scimitar, bit of a wimp and fast on his feet) and finally Perceval (Axe, built like Arnie). The scam Is that one, two or three of you wade your way Controls are simple enough, with 6- way Joystick and two fire buttons - one lumping and the other slosh- ing with your weapon, lake a hit and your power meter at the top of the screen goes down Grab extra power by slashing at bits of scenery which then disap- pear to reveal goodies - food or dosh. Ihe opposition - sword- smen, barbarians and massive guys on horseback - have their own separ- ate power meters at the bottom of the screen - and you'll find that they ail need more than a few whacks to send them back to ValhaUq, The overall effect comes In a bit like Gold- en Axe - so if you liked thai one - now o couple of years old - then Kntgtits of the Round is going to be your cup of tea. Otherwise, give It a miss eh? Addict Factor 78 This. Is usually o very quiet month in the arcade business, as everyone Is saving up their new releases for the Show of the year - the ATEl held in Lon- don in a coupte of weeks, However, judicious use of a pair of sunglasses, a crowbar, some drugged raw meat, a Jason Donovan CD, a large carton of whipped cream and a miniaturised camera enabled me to indulge in some serious industrial espionage ond go where no SU Journalist had gone before, Hang on In next month, however, for ATEl news and pics Including Virtual Reality Dungeons and Dragons (gasp), a totally excellent new sit-in two person moving simulator tram newcomers to the arcade scene, Re- dlfuslon (who usually Stick to making million pound flight sirns for training pi- lots), a new pinball machine based on the Speilberg movie Hook and learn exactly how [ did utilise that whipped cream. it scorns like ages since Sega came up with a new gome - maybe they've been busy doing other things'? Still, Fl Exhaust Note is now here and al- though it's not anything thai Is going to change the face of video gaming - If you are Into car racing. It's, well worth a try. As usual with Sega, It's the technol- ogy behind the game that impresses more than the game Itself - using the neat routines that found tholf flrsl out- ings In GP Rider. From your view be hind you Fl car. a realistic, super- smooth scrolling track, complete W road cam bet and slopes, whizzes by... or not, depending on how skillful you are. At the start of the game, you can choose oulomatic or manual with the gear changing being con trotted fairly simply on the lever on Ihe rlghl on the console. Up to change up, down to change down but dealing OK. Ever ployed a vld and decided to yourself thot you wanted your spaceship to, soy. go that bit faster - even If H meant having slightly weaker shields? Or maybe you hove superfast reactions, so don'f need thot extra speed. ..but wouldn't mind some extra firepower. Or maybe you're o complete spa; and wont extra shield- ing, massive defensive firepower, a nu- clear fallout shelter and a change of underpants. Weil. If this is the cose then Rohgh could be for you, baby' As ft happens, Rohgh - ond any guld once on how to pronounce that from the fluent Japanese spearers amongst the Su readership woutd be mo*t welcome - has a scenario that Follows on from thot OK gome Vapour Tral. with the baddies of Lagnelok re- grouping somewhere in Oceania and you * the brave fighters of Ku-Ga - hove to go on in there again to tight the good fight. On the face of It, the game looks like a slick space age version of Silk- with a six gear box can get a trifle confusing Best odvice te to stick to auto until you've learned you've learned the track. Other controls are bog standard driving ones - steering wheel, gas and brake pedals. Don't Forget to us© the gearbox as a brake If you're on ma- nual. The track Itself doesn't appear to be based on any single real one - but Is full Of fast corners and tricky hairpins to challenge any potential champion. There's a set amount of time to start the game - with extra time given when you pOSS the finish line OOCh lap Four laps finishes the race Afthough there is a single player ver- sion ■ as usual it's much belter If you can have a go on the two player ver- sion ■ playing against a friend, it's amazing how the competitive edge can sharpen up you performance by a couple of seconds a lap. However - even though this Is with- out doubt, the most Impressive driving worm - two player, metallic graphics, surface and olr action - and on that level Is still very fast, smooth and clean But the most Interesting ad- vance about It Is the tact you con not only select your spacecraft to start with - like you could In Vulcan Venture each one with different charac- teristics, but you can actually con- FMMiJt &£C3GGB£ Addict Factor 84 sfm so for, in pure technical terms, there's still not a game to touch Fine! Lap II for real mulll-player fun ...and it looks like Sega need to go back to the drawing board and balance Fl Ex- haust Note for gameplay tweaks to convert this one into the classic that it should be struct your own craft out of basic building blocks before the action starts Each craft is maOe up out of three constituent parts, each with four op- tions. For your body part - holding the main v eapon - the choice Is out of Homing Missile. Eiectrotrlgger, Flame Launcher and Grenade Launcher. The Arm is your choice of close com- bat weapon; Nuckle Shot, 8eom Sword, Iron Claw and Pile Bunker, Fi- nally your Leg portion, o 2 Leg Watker, o 2 Leg Hover, a 4 Leg Crawler and 6 Leg Wheeler. These vary In armour strength and mobility. Using a reasonably easy to under- stand matrix system, you make your selections and then try out the new motor In bottle with the bad guys. The horizontally scrolling action sees you blasting about the place In Trans- formers-like kit, dealing out seven dif- ferent types of bovver to the thou- sands of enemy sprites that ore effort- lessly whizzing about the place. In the meantime, there are sundry power-ups and weapon boosters you can pick up, while dodging between the flat, And even If you take a few hits. It's not all over then - as you eject from your blazing vehicle and con- tinue blasting away in diminutive form. 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