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• Only a year after it first appearedon the Amiga, Electronic Arts hasthe Speccy version of FerrariFormula 1 more or less ready.There's an awful lot to fit into 48Kincluding sequences where you

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• Up in sunny Manchester, Oceanalready has two potentialChristmas hits well under way.Chase HQ, is one, and it's aconversion of the recent ultra-fastarcade hit It puts you in the driver'sseat of a police Porsche on the highspeed trail of various supercarriding perps. It's fast, frantic andfun, with such niceties as a highscore table delivered in rap to addto the fun!

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• Enigma Variations, who codedthis month's kktgapreview gameGilbert Thti, Alien for Again Again. Iscurrently working on anotherlicence - Defenders Of The Earth!This is a Flash Gordon spin Off, withthe evil Ming (the Emperor, not thevase!) as the villain for a new groupof heroes, Pt you can't wait for theAutumn release, why not check outthe cartoon on Monday night'sBeeb?

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Craysoft has lust brought out a 'thoughtcontrolled joystick. We didn't believe it — until, achap from the company came in and jolly wellshowed us.

What you do is tape the electrodes from themain unit onto predefined areas of your bonce.This having been done, hardware within thecontrol panel wacks a test page onto the screenof your monitor and asks for mental *prompts'.On screen the word UP flashes, and you have tothink 'UP' ten times (the control box remembersthe electrical signals your brain produces), andthen asks you in turn for Down, Left, Right andFire. Your brain signals are converted into I N 31commands (so the whole thing is compatible witha Kempston joystick In r face). Brill stuff!

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THE JOCKY 'JELLY-BOT' WILSONSIMULATORHow often have you scoured the Radio or TVTimes only to find that there isn't a dartsmatch on' Weil, thanks to us your problemsare over All you need in order to avoid thissituation for ever (and a day) is a pair ofscissors, a bit of cardboard, some glue, adrawing-pin, a 'grown-up' and fi fteen spare

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I NSTRUCTI ONSI) Glue the page (or aphotocopy) Onto card(or get a grown-up todo it for you).2) Cut out Jocky andhis hand.3) Glue locky to a pieceof soft wood (or cork-board),4) Position iocky's handabout an inch in frontof his face and push adra wing pin throughthe centre of his wristInto the wood (or cork-board).5) Tweak tab •A' to givea realistic throwingaction.

This LastMonth Month Game/Publisher1 ( 1 ) Robocop/Ocean2 ( N E ) Dragon NinialOcean3 ( 3 ) Afterbumer/Activision4 ( N E ) Wecte Mans/Imagine5 ( 4 ) Double Dragon/

Melbourne House6 ( R E ) Emlyn Hughes Soccer/

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•eilliCHEL J. SMIRIl OW REVIEWS.• WITHOUT A• CLUE (PG)

Michael Caine, BenKingsley

I ever a movie soundedlike it was the story of theVS team, this is it' Nosuch (bad) luck. I tsactually another Sherlock,

• I m e s o n l y r t ' s not of yousee what I meanHolmes is played by Michael

• Caine, a crappy Cockney actorhired by Watson tKingsley) to

• imitate his fictional creation(That's Holmes who's the crappy

a ac tor • not the brilliant, wonderfulwhat more can I Say. darling,

• Mickey C) In fact Watson is thereal brains behind the

• investigations while Holmesprefers wine women and song

• A n y h o w, one of the Bank ofEngland's printing plates gets

• nicked and instead of sending thepeelers round to Rathbone Towersin search of the inky fingeredforger, Lestrade suspects a minoremployee of the Bank who'srecently gone missing

But Holmes. or rather Watsonknows better. Nobody wants to

a l lis ten to the great detective'ssidekick though. and unfortunately

S . f or him Holmes has got led upwith playing the fall-guy and goneoff on a drinking binge lithe case

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his life Just one more time a n dI M that 's far from elementary.

With its succession Of sillyJokes, as Holmes pretends to bedetecting while Watson knows

• what 's really going on, and the oddshoot Out more reminiscient of

• Chicago than Baker Street to keepthe action cracking along, Without

• A Clue has the case sewn up whenit comes to entertainment And not

• a lot of people know that!

AN ALIEN (15) 1 1 1Dan Aykroyd, Kim 1 1 1 1

• Basingero what, M yn -

abOyfriend's a Welsh

• 14 1 1- p il lo ck And when it

• c o m e s to a toss upbetween a pouting

l a man from Mars and a cosmiCtosspot from Cardiff. I know whichl e I ' d choose

So does space scientist DanAykroyd• o n l y h e' s a lw ay s toe busy

gazing at the stars to spot Me-l a M o w approaching across the I I

Shag pile Kim Basinger literallyl o has to launch herself at him before a lhis rach0 telescope starts to sense• he r amorous emanations -

knoworrimaneanl• A c t u a l l y of doesn't take any visual

assistance to spot Ms B's

i n attractions She spends so long in a l• s e m i-t r a n s pa r e n t b l ou s es you a

• go t time to count the spots on herback, to say nothing of the otherside Wise up, Kim, and wear a

• w o o l l y vest'Butt digress Dan falls head over

heels for curvy cutie Kim without a lrealising that she s a igullaw

• ' • • alien! Whar You guessed? Ohwell, I suppose it proves you readn o t he title

• Dan's young daughter also• stumbles on Caddy's new

girlfriend's secret Now Kim is busy• M I learning quaint earth customs like a

• s nowing but her personalassistant a sort of eyeball on a• s t ick which lives in her handbag.has plans to destroy the earth Thi

• sis probably the first time a planet1.1 has been threatened by a purse

• T h e plot s as thin as one of Kim'blouses, but if you get bored you

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COMPUTER TALENT 4 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 . 1 1 1 .1 1.Here's a photo we received from CodeMasters, picturing two of its latestprogramming recruits, Petra Williamson (farleft) and Gabby Raeburn (far right). Petra (19)is from Scotland and is both a games designerand a Z80 programmer, She's currentlyworking on Code Master's MotorcrossSimuiator, and her interests include mud-•vrestling and making model jungle-animalsout of pipe cleaners. Gabby (21) is fromNewcastle and is now working on a RallycrossSimulator for the Darlings. Her interests arebarn-dancing and freestyle trampolining.

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Microprose shocked everybody when theyreleased Microprose Soccer for the C64. Notonly had they produced a non-militaristicproduct. they had done it with such expertise thatPAicroprose Soccer has become an instantclassic on that format Now, Microprose havereleased the sixteen-bit version. Just how do theycompare with the original version? Read onThe simulation provides both indoor andoutdoor action with American rules six-a-sideand standard eleven-a-side respectively Thetime for each game can be varied between 2 and12 minutes. Players may play against each otheror one play against the computer. Selection ofyour team in the World Cup Competition iscrucial, as it is in real life - it is much easier to winif you are a historically good footbailing nation,such as Brazil than if you are Oman or Algeria.

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MICROPROSESOCCERConversely. if you get too good. you could trytaking on the might of West Germany withyourself playing as Poland. Other control optionsallow for extremely varied games, with effects,such as, rain, thunder, overhead kicks andbanana shots coming into play.You are presented, on kick-off, with a look-downview - not a common one, but one that workswelt On the I 6-bit versions, you get no-holdsbarred, full screen. 8-way scrolling (so smooth!).

Ihrow-ins, comers arid goal kicks all play theirpart in the game_ Mention to detail is one ofMicroproses hall marks and Microprose Soccerhas not been left wanting in any respect Thecolour of the players strips. strength of bananakicks and an action replay when a goal is scoredare all excellent finishing touches to an alreadybrilliant game. Overall, Microprose Soccer has tobe the definitive football simulation - be there forthe kick off!

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We've got something foreveryone this month. For theaggressive, emotional fire signs(that's Leo, Aries, and Saggittarius)there's Mantronix from ProbeSoftware (coders of this monthscover game. OutRun Europa. factfans) - a 3D arcade adventure alongUltimate-ish lines.

And for those more cerebral airsigns (Libra, Gemini and the otherone) we have something verydifferent. Just turn over the tape andyou'll find Red Door the first textadventure we've ever given away onthe front of the mag! Yowzall

If you're a fan of adventuregames anyway. then you'll getstraight into this offering fromTartan So*Aare. II you're not, thengive it a shot anyway - who knowsyou might become hooked for life!

But don't be too downhearted ilyou don't fall into either of thesetabby elements (or if you're too crapto know what sort of sign you areanftray) cos we've thought ofsomething for you to do too!!

For instance, if you're an earthsign like Taurus (maincharactenstics: practicality,annoying people ...) (Ahem. I think

find I'm an earth sign! Ed) Er,

like we said, main characteristicsbeing really, really nice, then you'llprobably have great fun beingpractical and taking the tape apartand putting it back together again.

And finally, should you be anintuitive water sign (sorry, can'tremember what any of them are)(You're fired! Ed) then there'llprobably be no need for you to loadthe adventure tape up at all becauseyou'll know how it'll all turn outanyway. Oh you don't hey, then readon.

MANTRONIXg r a • - • ••=o W-- A n e n E a

Stop! Don't do it! Try sticking this onthe cassette player and you'll not bein for the thirty minutes at funkyelectro rap you might expect. butfive minutes of hissing noises (notunlike the band Mantronix, in tacthaw haw!). You're best advised tonip over to the Speccy forthwith andload it there. 'cos we can guaranteethat playing the game Mantronizwill be far more entertaining.

Mantronix whisks you away to analien world - complete withcheckerboard floor and zillions ofhostile aliens. These aliens are notjust being randomly unpleasantthough, 'cos they have a job to do:guarding four intergalactic criminalswith the unlikely names of ArielHead. Max Parka, Yokohama andXtro II.

UP a bit, rtglrf a bit

This sort of Planet del Crimebeing a bit of a dodgy place tothen, you - in your capacity asintergalactic bounty hunter - decidethat it's better perhaps to pass up onthe chance to go personally - sosend your faithful Mantronix droidinstead.

There he goes then, a stumpylittle guy in clumpy boots and anoversized spacesuit. straight intoBIG trouble. Happily lor him hecomes equipped with a chestmounted taxer and a number oflives, Unhappily for him though,there are squillions of these bizarrewibbly aliens to defeat. most ofwhich lend to look like salt shakers.lemon squeezers and other table lopcondiments.

Besides finding and doing awaywith the aliens and the lour villains,you also have to find eight powercubes (which look like, erm, cubes)which you can use to change thedirection of various conveyor beltsdotted around the place. Thesecubes are also useful for destroyingthe pulsators which the •cnms• liveoff, These look like tall egg cupswith eggs in them and legs comingout of the stem(??)

There are plenty of othercollectables around too (like swag,sparklers and helmets (Go-edwhich give extra lives.)

That's all you need to know (or allI'm going to tell you anyway.) Sonow, gel playing.

RED DOORT a r t a n S o f t w a r

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,urNa and pats.a hic m e 41e • rent kettle of fish this is!

a tot, down No pictures for a start. No ShakeyMantronix durks and dod , iett

soundtrack either, much as we werehoping for. Not even so much as anycontrols to learn either, it all beingdone by on-screen prompts. Sowhat does il have, then? Let's take alook behind the Red Door and findout...

You begin the game standing infront of a red door. Knock and enter-and (Eekl) everything goesblank

Next thing you know, you findyourself trapped in a dark torch litcorridor, which is part of themammoth burial tomb of someancient Egyptian Pharoah, There aretwo rooms you can enter, eachcontaining... Well, you'll lust haveto play the game and see, won'tyou?

This game is actually one sectionof Tartan Sothvare's Six-in-One tape- one of the harder games from thatcompilation, in tact If you've neverplayed an adventure before, readthe introduction which explainsexactly what an adventure game is.

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-rand what you have to do. Then go to

it! You'll become totally frustratedand lost in minutes! In lad. you'llprobably get frustrated and lostanyway. But for those still strugglingon manfully next month and gettingnowhere, we'll be running thecomplete solution in the June issueso you can see where you wentwrong. Betcha you'll kick yourself!If you enjoy Red Door and fancymore of the same. then you coulddo worse than buy the completeSix-In-One tape: or one of the otheradventure games from Tom Frost,61 Bailie Nur* Crescent, Montrose,Angus 0010 90T, or on (0674)74259.

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JOYST1 IBBLERSAnd now, without further ado. let's meetyour guides through the software Jungle forthis month. After brushing with death inwoodlands of Combat Zone they're shaand cleverer than ever, and three times asbendy in the head. They're, erm, here, andhere they are. Tantaraft!

Matt 'Goss' Neap Vow Sinclair s sawsto Danny in the Parbidge Family. Madgi rl ies to taint with desire wherever he

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100 Wow' Total and absolute excellence

90' + Getting up to lever temperature. Anygame that scores a total score of 90' ano above

gets the esteemed YS Megagame rating. Coo!

80'+ PDG! (i.e pretty damn good). Wellworth digging deep into the old dosh bucketfor.

70' + Very enjoyable. but might not havelasting appeal for everybody.

60'+ A few niggles. Lacking in certain areas.Think before you buy.

Pretty average. Very average in fad

Erm, below average (believe it or not).

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Here it is - an annotated VS Final Verdictboard for you to digest. 0y, stop chewingthe page, we meant 'mentally digest'Lk Expectancy How tong willil be belore the cassette endsup in the 'never to be seenagain drawer? Or will you stillbe dragging It out in years tocome to have another go?

Instant Appeal: how quicklycan you featly gel your teethinto the game? Will it slowlygrow on you? Will you getstraight into It?

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One in the mornings' Then you might wellNave heard our Marcus, mentioned la theconstantly is' on Simon Bales show Sealer,hales Marcus Martus hales Sees, We halediem both Who do you hale?

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Electronic Arts/E8.95/E14.95Matt I'm a sausage. A sillysausage. There I was. thin'There's something a wee bitodd about the controls on this'balk

one matey.' and I was playing in the ridicu-lously silly 'goofy toot mode all along. Whatan embarrassment. eh?

Perhaps I d better explain. Skate Orskateboard sim. and whilst you're gron your wheels you can execute yoLfrYT1oves using!wo different sets of controls - the regular foot',iption which means the board goes more or less

the way its meant to. or the 'goofy' one thatmakes it all a bit more wibbly This oddity apart.you'll find that this is actually very much along theiines of last years 720'

You start in Rodney s skate shop where yousign in Then its off to the town square where youmust choose the event you wish to take part in. Dothis by skating down the right path. But bewareyou don't always end up playing the 'deadly'Jownhill race which is very easy to select if you'renot paying attention.

You have a choice between playing thea set order, or going to whichever yoplugging away at that, I've outlined t , 79Ousevents in the box to the side, so I won go into toomuch more details here, except to say that unlikeits rivals this seems to rely more on a sort ot viol-ent 'knock the other guy over gameplay than onexecuting neat tricks all the time. Should you notnave a pal at hand, you can always play themachine which provides three villains - PoseurPete (he's easy to beat), Aggro Eddie who's apretty tough customer and shop owner Rodney's

The Downhill Race.This is a basic speed trial, though there arebonuses to be earned for taking the trickierroutes - down the tunnel, through openings andclosing gales and so on. Jumps. ducks and slid-ing turns can be executed, but take some prac•lice. You can play in either 'regular • or 'goofy'loot modes. which is the difference between hav-ing approximate control over the board and, erm,having approximately no control over the board.

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The High JumpBuild up speed over a number at runs to make anextra high leap without coming a cropper. In theYS office we were all shouting. "I've got six feetlen inches)," "That's nothing I've got eight leell-Friar friar.

The Downhill JamA back streets tree-tor-all race across variousobstacles with an opponent who you have topunch, kick or knock over, and who will stop atnothing to similarly gel rid of you. Probably thehighlight of the game. though I found myselfstrangely out ot control of the character at times,

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Gremlin/ri.99 cass/E12.99 diskJonathan In a flagrant attemptto provoke me into theuncontrollable use of the word'unoriginal', Gremlin appears to

have unleashed yet another Nemesis/ IErolon derivative. But it takes more than Matto make me snap. Besides, Dark Fusion is

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it you're to make It through the various!eves You start on foot, with the traditional left,

lly pretty good.mutant aliens pour forth, and will have to be

You re in the usual predicament. Hordes of

rittr and lump movements available. Fusion podseayew' hat you're after, and you'll find three scatteredaround each level. The first two open up to revealtriega-aliens, the sort of thing you normally seeMocking around at the end of each level of

i'scrolling shooters. Once these have been

- atomised, the final pod gives access to the RightIone a bog-standard scrolling shooter, where

oliathings really hot up. There are four levels like M -2 .1a l l very di fferent so variety isn't a problem

liExtra spice is added by the presence of icons.

These occasionally appear. and can be picked upaull to give you extra fire-power, energy. you know the

wag sort of thing. You can only carry one at a time, butalri you can save it until its needed'es,.. There 's also a gimmick. Yes indeed, something

N.,: l ewl The longer you hold down the lire button, themaster your shot will be when you release it. Thismeans that you can either opt for rapid, punybullets to dispatch smaller obstructions, ormassive dollops which come in very handyagainst larger adversaries.

v e <4 . . Tha t' s about it for novel ideas though, so it's all

lown to programming. Luckily there's no problem• here Although the graphics look even morelarralial than the plot, they're colourful and movesmoothly, and the horizontal Scrolling is ' I r tparticularly slick. The collision detection is ttitfav

, only thong I could really question. Obstacles seeme.,0 to be surrounded by some kind of invisible but

'4:)eithal aura, so give them a wide berth./ One point worthy of note is the muiti-channel

t._itune at the %Owing, complete with extensiveN ' percussion effects There's also a nice, but utterly

S pointless bit of animation on the title screen withloadsof little balls spinning around in formation.Well I liked it anyway.

As you may have gathered by now, I wasiiMpressed by this one While it doesn't quite rank

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CAN I ENTER THE DUCK!I am a subscriber to yourcomputer magazine and, everymonth, I see the compos andprizes that you give away.

In January I sent a couponfor the big compo in this issue,something like 'There's NoPlace At The Inn ' and soon. I don't know if overseasreaders can enter the composyou have, so I'm writing to findout.

I have ready a coupon forthe Duck Compo, and I wont tosend it, but first I have to knowif participation is possible.

Sorry about the EnglishGrammatical errors, if thereare ones. My English isn'tperfect, and probably neverwill be.Andreas HasenackSao Leopoldo, Portugal

First of all, your English isperfectly okay. Secondly,participation is very definitelypossible, wherever you live. Weeven let people who live inHolland (the land of the clog)enter our compos!!! Ed.

KINDLY LEAVE THESTAGE

Roll up, roll up, Ws hol dyour ribs time agai n(doesn't time fly). Thismonth we've got a real ly,really crap poke and arather rude one. The really,real ly crap loke comes fromS. Illonardson who hails fromLiskeard in Cornwal l andthe rather rude one comesfrom Pawl Mouton of Fintry,Dundee. They both win anincredibly circular r s badge,as could you if your 'joke'gets prireed. Anyr oad, herethey ores

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CI: What's the difference betweenlight and hard?A: You can sleep with a light on.

The address for yourhumour ous gems? Why,Kindly Leave The Stage,Your Sinclair, 14 RathbonePlace, London W1P 1DE ofcourse.

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WRITE TO THE ED, YS, 14 RATHBONE PLACE, LONDON W1P 1DEStar letter winners nrcyliv three games! Ali letters win a VS badge.

POINTLESS IDIOCYIt's been a while since I'vewritten to you, so I thought I'ddrop you a line to say how greatthe mog is b u t I won't, cosI'm not a fawning fat slob. (A fatslob maybe, but I don't fawn.)

I write to bring both you andyour readers' attention to a nastychange those, ahem, nice peopleat Ams•••cl have mode to theSpeccy +2. I refer to the fact ofthe er, sex change! Inside all new+2's (the ones with the blackcases and repositioned ports)the Ams•••d engineers hovenow put a +3 board minus thedrive circuits.

Until this pointless bit ofidiocy, all +2's could use most ofthe commercially available thirdparty add-ons. Not so now! Soout there are a lot ofunsuspecting NEW purchaserswho bought their machines atChristmas tearing their hair out.Brilliant Amstrad, absolutelybrilliant!

I myself had intendedupgrading to o +2, but not anymore — Mr Sugar's cronies hoveput the Kybosch on that idea.

Listen! What's that noise?'Arrrrbrrrbrrbrrh Inv tut hottot hi t (si lence)' Oh no — potdown, We a doodlebug!!Damn — It's the wai ting that'sthe killer: the tension; notknowi ng where We going toSaari Turn to tcom to tuns. I tmust have missed us by now.We probably safe to get outfrom under the table. Herogoe s - -KERILAAAAAMMAI I I I

V/611, thanks a lot, GlennKornaghon from Armagh.You've lust demol ished CastleRathisono. Ah well it wasgetting pretty crowdedanyway.

Any of you lot out there gotany 'visuals' you think wemight fancy pr inting? Wellsend them in then — youknow you'l l get a spankingnew tree game out of it, don'tyou'? Attach your effor t to aWWII Messerschnsit rocketengine and launch it atDoodlebugs, Your Sinclair, 14Rathbono Place, London W1P10E. You know it makessense.

Right, now where was I? Ah yes,someone asked me recently if Iknew what a Kylie Minogue was.Here is what I sent as a reply:SUBJECT: KYLIE MINOGUEAustralian songbird ofindeterminate species and origin

its voice grates on the nerveslike a badly tuned set ofbagpipes. Often to be seen inthe arms of the, er, equallytalented though less colourfulJay(son) Donovan — again ofindeterminate species or origin.

Tentative links can be madewith the well known stud farm ofStock, Aitken and Waterman,where there's also to be found afairly pathetic stallion known tothe world as a Rick Astley .Inconclusion:Origin UnknownSpeci es — UnknownTal ents — VoguePlumage — Loud and brassyMating Habits No dataavailable

Here's to finding that the restof 1989 sees you, if not sober, alittle merry and not a lothandstand.Zaean the SiliconChameleon(alias Malcolm Wright)Spennymoor, Co. Durham

You're wrong about Rick Astley,old bean. He's taken the plungeand left messrs Stock. Aitken andWaterman and is currentlywriting and producing his ownstuff (and in his spare time heworks for us under thepseudonym of Mali Bielby). Ed.

MEGA NASTYAlthough I think your may isbrill I'll get straight to thepoint_ I claim to be the firstperson (under 12) to havecompleted R-Type. Here's howyou destroy the end of levelmega-nosty. Destroy eyes withfireballs and then destroy thething that pops out of themiddle (0o-er. Ed), There yougo.Rory WilsonCurrie, EdinburghPS You're beautiful_

And you thought it was hard— wait until you get to levelfour! Ed.

A VEGETABLE WRITESI never win anything (well,okay, I won a holiday inDisneyland once — but that'stoo cheap to count). Anywaylike I said, I never win anythingso you can imagine myoverwhelming joy when I hado letter published in your maglost April and I reolised I hadwon on exclusive YS bodge!Honestly, I cried with joy allday.

One year on and you'returning me into a blitheringparsnip. I get up at 4,00 amevery morning and wail thethree hours and fifty-hvominutes for the postie to arrive_I rip open all the mail, but asyet no badge_ In fact you'returning me from a parsnip into

. e r r n , piece of broccoli_Anyway, regarding the Feb

ish• Have you read G. Curriesletter? What a load of bunny!

Still in the Feb ish, what theheck is Roy Orbison doingplaying A Question Of Sport inthe Future Shocks section? Thisis surely a major achievementsince he isn't a sportsman andmore remarkably as he isdead!Guy McEvoyPenrith, Cumbria

He was being propped up byBill Beaumont (and,incidentally, he answered morequestions than Ian Botham).Oh, and sorry about your lackof badge too. I can't think whyyou've not received it yet.Anyway, there'll be onewinging its way to you, just assoon as we've received thelatest delivery of badges. Ed.

VIOLENT INTENTwould like to mention that in

your review of R-Type you gavethe mega grophics nine. Justnine! Ptuil They deserve amillion.

Anyway, YS is brill°, with allthe free games and demos, butthere is one problem — some ofyour POKE s are too long. Whydon't you put them on tape? (Wedid last month. Ed).

If you don't print this letter Iwill bum all my copies of YS andsmash all the tapes (I will also killDuncan because he bodged theR-Type review).S. WiggintonHucknall, Notts

Crikey, you make AyatollahKhomeni sould like 'the voice ofreason'. Erm, on second thought5maybe you don't Ed.

EXTREMELY PEEVEDI am writing this letter in totalfury. The game concerned is R-Type. Whaaat??1-le must benuts," I hear you say, but thebetter games players among youwill have already discoveredwhat I'm about to import (andthe rest of you will eventually).The problem concerns level eight— or rather the lock of it. Whenyou finish level seven and load inlevel eight, you get a replica oflevel seven again. And there'smore — if you complete thislevel eight (seven) the game justscrolls on for ever, no end ofgame sequence or messageabout depleting the BydoEmpire. I therefore urge readersnot to buy this game as it is a ripoff IIJ. ParkerNorwich, Norfolk

Wooh, woah. I've been ontoAdivision, who is extremelyconcerned about this whole stateof affairs. Somewhere along theproduction tine someone mode amajor cock-up. The chumpresponsible for the missing levelhas been decapitated (orsomething), and Activision is re-mastering the entire game, soanyone who wants to finish it canwrite to Activision (enclosingtheir original copy) and hove thecompleted version forwarded tothem Ed.

MIT CUTLETSYour normally tasteful magazineis going down in standard. (Ohno, not another one, Ed) In theold days language such as"perv", 'oo-er" and "Sam Fox'srts" was used, alongside pic-tures of scantily clod women,acting merely as innocent sexualobjects_ But in the May issue Inoticed the word "meaty', anda reference to "bacon" on page42 Don't you realise there oreimpressionable youngsters read-ing your magazine? You shouldbe ashamed of yourselves, usingsuch indoctrinous, brainwashinglanguage! I look forward to thereturn of your traditional highstandardsAndrew 'Meat is Murder'LyonsLondon W7

What's your beef? I don't wantto get sausagey about this par-ticular can of pork, but if youask me, you're off your bacon.it's rare for me to get steakedup about things (well, mediumrare, anyway), but you've gotme grilling on this one. Come upto the office and you'll see whatwe can do with a T-bone —unless you're chicken, of course.Oh my God, once I've started,can't stop writing this tripegiblets venison Ed

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irs A FAIR COPPERWell, what con I say? You'vegone and made another totalcock-up ain't yol If you castyour eyeballs over page 29of the Feb 08 9 i s h , y o u w i ll

find that you have a POKEfor Hopper Chopper. You sillyprofs! The game happens tobe called Hopper Copper'No flippin' HI So hurry upand send me myPuffertrainspotter Award.Don't blame poor littlePhilipkins either — it wasn'this faultJonathan ClayDoncaster, SouthYorkshire

Oh yes it was (oh no itwasn't?) oh yes it was! Ed.

UNSUCCESSFULATTEMPTLet's examine the Februaryissue, shall we? (Go ahead.Ed). On the Contents page itsays that the Back issues oreon page 90, but alas page90 is an ad for someMartech games — you willfind the Bock Issues on page160.

On page 22 in KindlyLeave The Stage, the jokesays 'How do you turn aduck into a soul singer?'Surely it should soy 'How doyou turn a duck into a solosinger?' And lastly, in theletter from A Adema (page

23) it says 'PS How manybodes do I deserve?' Surely itshould have read 'How manybadges do I deserve?' Youcan send me a TrainspotterAward now.Alex BirdsallTotries, Devon

Point one. You won't findanything at all on page 160largely due to the fact thatpage 160 doesn't exist. Whatyou meant to say was 106.

Point two. The joke wasabout Bill Withers, who is aSOUL singer. So there.

Point three. A Ademo didactually ask us to send him a'bade'.

Looking at the evidence, Icome to the conclusion thatyou actually owe me aTrainspotter Award. Ed.

YOU WHAT??I've spotted a mistake onyour Letters page!!Unbelievable but true!

I quote 'Please pleaseplease, you have got to Ihaven't missed on issue sinceissue eight of YourSpectruml!" Whoot?? Pardonme, am I deaf? (No, juststupid. Ed). Should this notread Your Sinclair? Pleasesend me a Troinspotter as Ihave never spotted anythingat all before.Robbie UlletinckLondon N i

You still haven't you clotOnce upon a time there wasa mog called Your Spectrum,then one day the namechanged to Your Sinclair.Same magazine, different'monicker', So you don'tqualify for a Trains potter atall. In fact, I might not evensend you a badge (aren'tmean). I'll shake up this canof Diet-Coke to decide — if itsquirts all over the placewhen I open it you don't geta badge, if it doesn't you do.Shake shake shake shake(shake shake). Click. PsssllBlimey, you were unbelievablylucky there, Ed.

THE NAME GAMEIn the September issue of YSTom Price from Devon wrote insaying that Northstar was anIndustrial Estate in Swindon. Tothis you replied 'You'll be tellingus next that the Magic Knightisn't a hero with special powersborn of a land of fantasy, but aBritish Rail ticket collector atSwonsea'.

Guess what? My best friendhas a brother who has agirlfriend who has a second

-cousin (twice removed) who's

mum works at the SwanseaBritish Roil ticket collectionoffice. One of her workmates iscalled Magic Knight. What doyou think of that then?David TaylorDarlaston, W. Midlands

Alright then, and before the restof you write in we already knowthat Monty Mole works in theWimpy in Crewe and that Vixenis a manageress in theShrewsbury branch ofSainsburys. Ed

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CLAIRVOYANTI have o serious matter todiscuss with you — why, ohwhy, don't you put adventureson the cover tape? (We hove,we have Ed) I know that therewould be complaints from a lotof people if you put just anadventure on the tope, so youcould have an adventure onone side and an arcade gameon the other. (We've done that,we've done that. Ed)

I think you'll find a lot ofpeople satisfied with somethinglike that. (We know, we know.Ed)

I'm not an odventure freakbut I do like adventures. I readthe magazine every month andI am very pleased with thequality. I used to get a lot ofthe other mogs too, but latelythey've been getting tediouslyboring so I don't get themanymore (even the covergames ore crap).

Give my thanks to Phil Southfor printing my Last Ninja Ifmops — he said there's afuture in illustration for me(which is actually what I wontto be — on illustrator). Whatqualifications do you need tobecome an illustrator? I'mdoing A Level art and someother subjects. To all at VS:you're brill!!Allan WalshNorth Warrington,Cheshire

BUG BYTESSend me a badge or my petfly (enclosed) will bite yourhead off.Max RobertsonHarpenden, HertsPS It may be dead by the timeit gets to you.

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And lolly super maps we allthought they were too! UM,you don't actually needqualifications to become asuccessful illustrator, you justneed talent (and tenacity).However, a good art collegewould be the next best step:after you've finished your ALevels, that is. Ed.

You were right. It was as deadas a dodo! And yourbargaining power perishedwith it. Still, s e n d you abadge anyway. Ed.

THE WONDERFUL WORLDOF ME SPECCY

Every month we ask youto write in from landsafar, so you can haveyour letters printed inthis, our 'international'

kisection. This month's/*person from elsewhere

on the planet' comesfrom Ireland. His rusehas worked (because wewere feeling generous),but it won't work again— remember, a postmarksaying 'Scunthorpe' is abirrova giveaway. Oh,and there's someonefrom Italy in there too!!LOVE LINESDear Miss the EditorI have thirty-three years oldand I read your magazine sincethe issue first.

As I am getting very muchthe older I would dearly like

, the Trainspotter Award as it

F,, ould make happy me for rest(my life.

The error I spot is the pagenine of issue 39 in March.

. Under section of making a'Valentine cord step five, theword envelope is spelled Out

MORE WEIRD ALIENSI would like to air my views onsoftware piracy. Wait a minute,what are all these lights? What isthat strange noise? Who orethese disfigured beings?AAAAAARIRRGGGhthill

— Greetings earthlings, weare from the planet Sdfghikl(whose letters come in a row onyour typewriters). We are on adesperate mission — our planetis dying and we desperatelyneed what you earthlings call 'AYS BADGE' This will stop our

SMALL PRINTWhen I pull blu-loc off mybedroom wall, the wallpapercomes off with it.Leigh LovedayW. Gl amor gan, WalesRemove little arts of wallpaper frombehind the radiator to cover theoffending areas. Ed.

Don't ever think of printing myletter in Small Print or in theWonderful World of The Speccysection, okay?Gabrielle RoncolatoMi lano, I talyWoofd I do something like thatEd.

Pleose could you send me a posterof Bernadette TynanJ. Wor thi ngtonRawtonstall , LanesFresh out, I'm afraid • How aboutone of Bernard Matthews? No,thought not. Ed.

enevelape.If you would send award for

me it will make me very happyfor rest of my life.

Also thank you for printingpicture of Bernadette Tynan. Itwill happy make me for longtime.

I am your award expectinghumbly faithful.Mervyn NeillNertownards, Co. DownPS I am not foreign at all, but itappears to me that in all theyears that I've bought yourmug it's the only way to get aletter printed.Seems to hove worked, doesn'tif But before you get too smug,I'd better tell you that yourbadge is being sent to Poland:do you get prizes for tellingporkies? Not in this mag matey!Ed.CENSOREDDon't ever think of printing myletter in Small Print or in theWonderful World of TheSpeccy section. okay?Gabriele RoncolatoMilano, Italy

wouldn't dream of it. WhoopsiEd.

Thanks for the talk. Please don'tplay with my name, okay?Miguel Al exandr eFranco, FerreiraI've got a confession to make, ha da quick game of croquet with itSorry Ed.

planet from folding up until it fitsinto a piggy bank. Please do notfail us. Beewooweew000

Who were they? Anyway, I'veforgotten what I was saying nowNeil StewartGlasgowPS AociaaaarrghIll The aliensore back for the PS'sll

It's strange, I agree, but I've alsonoticed that when alienssuddenly disoppear they make a'beewooweeew0000' sound. It'senought to cause amnesia in thebravest of folk Ed.

Tell Man [liethy to stick a deckchairup his noseRichard DunnHorsham, SussexThere's no room — that's where he illkeeps all his Rick Astley singles Ed. •

My mum ripped out page 69because of the peory * tur a —and I was interested in the article aswellRichard PrestonHolmfirth, HuddersfieldThat's censorship for you Ed. • -

What's all this about the AdvancedLawnmower Simulator?Ben DysonBurnley, LanesBlimey, you've certainly 'got yourfinger on the pulse'. Ed.

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Bottom!Dv.H- st4d.kmrm studs at the bottom talswimming pool t h u m b aslodged in alw cleaning trni and I'mrapidly running out tot breath lawkshI happened to have w a t e r pnapen. iNtrier and ready stampedemehape secreted away in my trunksfor lust this kind of emergency) -

only hope that someone finds numletter floating, (ui the surtax tar thepool and posts it to sou. I'm at ths-bottom of the deep end ( 12h ) ut- lila-Brighton posit (near the marinaPlease help meJohn Salm onBr i ghton, Sussex

Dearjohn,fudging by the date am 11,eplatinum ayotaa imagine Mt 10()la te to he lp, h u t j u s t i n ChiSr i i tA n ' t Iwould stoggest tha t)tiza thrash arourlegs amain.), a r m a t u ni t 7 1a o

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Sore Thumb!Dear swan Flo,I know a lot of people who write tosou send in protcnd problems butrye got a real one. ma please' take itseriously. I'm really tall six foot fiveand a half inches to be pmase a n dI'm airily twelve years old Theproblem is that I'm quite shy andretiring and don't like to he noticedhut there's nothing I can dia aboutthe fact that I midi out likr sorrthumb, I n f ac t les worse than that -

I stick out like a giraffe in penguincolony. All my friends are aboutInches shorter than nw - what amearth Lan Ido a ir a t at?Ian 'Lefty PledgeStoney S tanton, t r i es

Aril a lot I'm afraid onv latvAlltan suggest is that ra n c h o p y o u rclamant circle ollriends and starthanging around with haskettnallplayers or higb /amp atheietesyon ger older your problem willI nc Well out as .i w u r p r e r S c a t c hyou up ha the height stakes I unlessyou continue to grant a t theridiculous rate Mal you hate upuntil note in which rase yosalalways poke ont in crowds).

nom you got a problem? Weltdon't despair Let Mariam Picohelp va t & S en d our p ro bl em.%

to MatiaMe P k o Problem Page.Your Sinclair, LI HaillabonePlace, London, W I P11Th Al lletters will be treated in thestrictest confi dence

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Time once again to win some goodies, you lucky people! Thismonth our Prize Trickster is provided by Ian McCormack fromPaisley.

'Tis very simple (honest!). All you have to do is fit all of thenumbers shown in the list below within the puzzle squares.Just to be extra generous, Ian's already put one in for you.Once you've done thal.fill in the coupon and post the wholeshebang off to Don't Think You've Got Me Fooled For OneMinute, Ga. Ga, Ga. Compo, Your Sinclair, PO Box 1509, Enfield,Middlesex, EN1 i l i a And you may just get your hands on somenew software. Waheeeeyyyll

WHICH WAY, JOSE?Mon namesake. Pete Shears from deepest, darkest Devon sentin this luverly little puzzle. See if you can sort it out.

A man has a square house, and all the windows (one in eachwall) face south. He is looking out one of the windows when abear walks past.

What colour is the bear?

WEIGHTY PROBLEMI'll hand you over to Master P Gillibrand from Sheffield who islust set to trick and tease you with his puzzles

There's a box filled with water which weighs 5kg. What can youput in the box to make it weigh less?

TIME FOR MIME -.Pon my soul Mast er P Gilibrand's back with another...

A deaf and dumb man went into an ironmongers shop to buy ahammer. He couldn't speak so he mimed hammering. Nextanother deaf and dumb man went in wanting a screwdriver s ohe mimed putting in a screw... Then a blind man went in andwanted a saw. What sort of mime did he do?

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SPORTS FAN • = 1 1 1 1 1 1 6Ta ver. much Mr Aicky-Boy White of Doncaster for thistrickster...

If you have an Umpire in Cricket and a Referee in Football,what do you get in Bowls?

1111Stephen Kemp provides the next problem for you lot. Work thisone Out if you dare...

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Thanks to all those who wrote in this month (especially DeclanMeade, but I'm saving yours for something special!). Rememberthere's all sorts of goodies up for grabs if you provide any of thepuzzles printed in this months issue. There's a bundle of threegames for the Prize Puzzle writer, and a badge for everyone elseSo get sending, to Pete's Puzzle Page. Your Sinclair. 14 RathbonePlace, London W1P 'IDE, Oh and if you're stuck on this month'steasers, turn to page 91fo r the answers.

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Duncan "Don't shoot me, I'monly the piano player."-Okay, bub, I guess I c'n letcha

go. What's yer name bye way?" ' Richard Clayderman, sir." "Oh

dear, I'm going to have to shoot you afterall." Bang.

Chicago in the thirtes wasn't th( race to be ifyou were a musician. (What are you 7tettering onabout? Ed). Especially it you were a v.' i t e .Encountering a savage bunch of Al i i Plinenon a dimly lit street corner w o n t h & I abarrel of laughs if the only pro b o i l& c i l dpull from your violin case wo,for you then, isn't it, that jr this game Asu re f ,playing the part of Nigel Kt iftedir The role a ptaking on is that ot Detective 0%1'. po lic a r r .with a m!ssion - to boldly gb wrstare no mart b at

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OutRun Europa's about torev its way onto Speccysaround the globe, so weplonked Duncan Mac-Donald into a Reliant

— — Robin and sent him overto Probe to have a quickpre-release gander at it!The conversion of the arcade classicOutRun was a bit of a disappointmentfor Spec-chums, as you probably know— the problem being that theprogrammers actually tried too hard tobe faithful to the original coin-op. Fourhundred trillion sprites the size ofMount Everest was a nice idea intheory, but in practice even therenowned processing speed of therubber beermat couldn't cope —leaving the gameplay wallowing insticky mud. The race crawled along atthe speed of Ayers Rock (that's notparticularly quickly) making the 32,000multi-loads a tiresome chore ratherthan a brief resting period betweenlevels. So what of OutRun Europa, thefollow-up? Have the programmerslearnt their lesson? The answer is aresounding 'yes indeedy' by crack°, soread on to see how well they've done.

Drive OnIn OutRun Europa you're at the wheelof a convertible Ferrari Testrossa (likeyou were in the original OutRun) andyou've still got the tasty 'chick' in thepassenger seat, praise the Lord. (That'snut( of that! Ed) You've got a lot ofdriving in front of you though, namelyfrom here in good old Blighty all theway to West Germany, taking in the'delights' of France. Italy andSwitzerland en route. Each of the fivecountries is split into three differentstages; rural, suburban and urban, soin essence we're talking 15 rip-roaring,hard driving levels! Yah000!

Hacking along England's countrylanes at hundreds of miles an hour, youpass hedges, trees and telephoneboxes. Up hill, down dale, as the road

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scrolls inexorably towards you — ohdear, what's that up ahead? Looks a bitlike another 'motor', a Lotus if I'm notmistaken — a nifty bit of overtaking'sin order here, I'll be bound. Blimey, he'smoving over. Crikey, I can't getthrough. Quick, over to the other sideof the road. Yikes — a telephone box!Blaaaarrgh! Curse British Telecom! Infact, curse these country roads and allLotus drivers — I'll be much happierwhen I get to the city.

An hour later. Yippee, there's thePost Office Tower — and there's aLondon bus. Yahoo, there's a taxi-cab,I'll carve him up. The infidel. Inhale myexhaust fumes, cabbie. Ho ho ho.

From the city it's back into thecountry again, aiming for the EnglishChannel and, ultimately, the continent(after crossing the Channel 'Bridge' —which the programmers plumped for

instead of a tunnel in the interests of in-game speed).

France, aaaah. 0oh la la, the weatherover here's a bit naff (yes, there areactually climatic changes in this game)and the rain's coming down in buckets.Oh look a couple of 2CV's. No mirror/indicate/manoeuvre malarkey in thiscountry — just steam past with all thestops pulled Out, that's the only kind ofdriving they understand. Yikes, slippyroad 'cos of the rain. I forgot.Blammol! My apologies, monsieur'Johnny Onion'!

When In Rome...Drive through Paris, head South East(the weather improves in these parts)and you hit Italy. Bang. Oh dear, thedrivers here are even more mentalthan they are in France, and there aresome mean cars to go up against, likeother Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Theytry and barge you off the road, and tomake matters worse the weathercloses in again. Still, go for broke, eh?Wheeee! Yes, yes, yes! Yes, yes, yes!Bang! Drat!

Having negotiated the torturoustwists and turns of the Italianlandscape, it's time to head north

through Switzerland where it's not onlysnowing and very slippery, but for themost part you're driving on mountainroads with a sheer drop on one side.Yikes. Anyway, should you make itthrough unscathed you'll find yourselfon the final leg — a high speed rompon a German autobahn. You'rebadgered by BMW's and Porsches, theweather's got better again but nowyou've got to get to Berlin, where therace ends. Good luck chum, you'regoing to need it!

The steering of the car has beenprogrammed beautifully. You canoversteer, understeer and even pullyourself out of a potential skid byyanking the steering wheel (sorry,joystick) from one side to the other. Oh,and another nice touch is that afteryou've finished a country a passportpops up on screen and you get astamp in it (a passport stamp, not a 19ppostage stamp you clot).

Yes, it has to be said, OutRun Europalooks like it's going to be the definitivemotor-car racing game. With brilliantlydetailed scrolling backdrops, beautifulroad-side graphics, changing weatherand cars that are 'intelligent' ('cos theSpeccy remembers where they are —even if they're behind you), thesuccessor to OutRun looks like it'sgoing to be everything (and more) thatOutRun should have been — that's,erm, oh dear, I can't think of a goodenough superlative. Hang on, I'll justhave a look at the back of a CodeMasters cassette inlay. Ah yes, that'lldo. OutRun Europa is going to beamazingly brilliant. Boing.

Fax BoxGame O u t R u n EuropaPublisher U S GoldPrice E 1 3 , 9 9

A CLOTS GUIDE TO HOWAND WH YWhy is The Ani mat i on So GoodIn OutRun Eur opa?Animation with a pseudo 3-0effect relies on things in thedistance being small and thingsclose up being big. These are two'frames' of animation - near andfar. Here's an OutRun EuropaBeetle in the distance

If you put your foot down to catchthe rogue VW up you wouldn'texpect it to suddenly look likethis, would you

Unless of course you closed youreyes for a couple of seconds, butthat's not the kind of drivingthat's likely to get you through •driving test, is it now? In factclosing your eyes while driving atspeed is downright dangerous.DON'T DO IT Anyway, with openeyes you'd expect the beetle toget gradually bigger - like this.

Much more lifelike. n'est ce pas?The same thing applies to busstops, telephone boxes and, well,everything really.

All the objects in the game havetwelve frames of animation.which is why everything scrollssmoothly towards you!

If Ther e's So Much In TheGame How Come I ts NotSl ow Like OutRun?Because programmers Probelearnt from the mistakes made onOutRarr Also because this is anoriginal game (not a conversion(Probe were able to do prettymuch what was needed to makethe game really playable, ratherthan just attempt to mimic a coin-op which couldn't be mimicked.One 'time-saving m ove was todrop the fork in the road at theand of levels - this apparantlyused up loads and loads landloads} of memory space andadded nothing much to theenjoyment of the game. OutRunupdated its screens at somethinglike four frames per second, whileEuropa manages ten (more thantwice as fast) - even with spritesas big as this to deal with:

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politicians get the politicalpoop booted Out of them byother well known figures. Isn'tthis the shape of politicalcommentary to come? I dunno,burnt sounds good. Thegarne's not so bad either, beinga sort of beat 'em up withknobs on. Now Craig Smith,who is a sort of Phil Snout withknobs on, has further detailsfor your diary- • Try to get your opponentInto a comer on the righthand side of the screen andthen hit, hit, hit repeatedlywith body blows until theirenergy goes down. Whileyou're beating them up, get

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best to use body blows, butto run away use a backwardor forward jump. Believe it ornot. Ronnie tends to be thebest champion, as he canattack from a greaterdistance with his long neckedheadbutt.

• Special moves take awayquite a lot of your opponentsenergy, but they're slow andyou have to get fairly close.Remember that after you'vediscredited a few leaders.then the others speed up byabout a zillion times."Hmm. thanx Craig. And wipethat gob off your face, it'sdisgusting.

A quickie for a cheapie, RawRecruit is quite hard (fnar) sothanx to Trey Humanoid Lakefor this.

• if you are finding RawRecruit by Mastertronic quitehard (Mar) you can enterMONEY FOR NOTHING(including the spaces) thenfollow the instructions to playwhatever you like."

Thanx Trey. Hmm, thatsounds like a Dire Straitsreference to me. Could it bethat the maker of this game isa Baldy Headband fan?Possibly. I'm keen on thesecheats, you know. I wonderhow people find them m i n dyou I suppose if you had amonitor program, ordisassembler of some kind,you could search through thecode to see which letters theprogram was looking Out for?Hmmmmmmmm t i p , tap,rustle

Look here, I've got this letterfrom a bloke called AllanWalsh, who got his maps 'ill'stuff printed in a recent issue.It seems I spelt his namewrong, so here I am telling you.It wasn't Allen Walsh, it wasAllan Walsh. Got that? Youknow, that bloke called Walshat your school... yeah, the onewith the.. a nd the big.yeah. you know the one. (Hemhem.)

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A positive manure pile of tipsfor this one, and a good lobtoo. This was one mean andmoody game, and I'msurprised it's taken this long toget people's collective danderup. (honk). So thanx indeed toJoseph Roberts. Peter *TyneAnd Wear Tipster' Nuttall,Paul Gillibrand. ConorWatson, Chris Lloyd and PeteMack for their brillo-skillocontributions. So let us nowenter the realm of the DoubleDragon.

"• To get down high drops.don't just drop or you'll besplattered all over thepavement. Jump and you'llland without being hurt.• If you have a whip you canhit people directly behindyou. In one swing you can hitthe person in front ANDbehind.• The best moves areheadbutts and flying kicks.With these moves you canknock an enemy over in onehit.• When fighting the big men,watch out because they canhit you when you're notdirectly in front of them.• When you knock a big manover, stand still and keep onpunching, this way he won'tbe able to hit you and he'll diequickly.• On mission five, stay onthe edge of the walkway toavoid the statues with thespears.

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• Linda: Kick her, and grabher whip. But don't let her getbehind you or she'll punchyou in the back.

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ep gtag right, beatingle Low/Williams/'tars at you reach therig dos. Stay right nextem, ad as soon as they:h Of Ick Linda down,h e r ( and quicklyher *teat. (Youch! Ed)e youk done that, movele bitttbe right and leftwait ft the Loper with)at tOmme at you. Kick.Jidertrow and whip himaath. 'hen climb up toaddemext to the slidingrs. WI along the'orrn util you see Abobo

crashing through the wall.Jump down next to him(remember to lump or you'llland face first) and elbow orkick him to death as theseare the most effective moveson him. After this go rightand beat up the Chintai (try toget his knife) and finally thelast Abobo.

Level Two• Beat up everyone, keepgoing right and pick up anduse any baseball bats youcan get until you reach thesliding doors. Remember notto bash your head on the wayup to these. Stand next to thewall before jumping over it. Ifyou have a bat when youreach these doors, then bashLoper and both the Lindas assoon as they come out of thedoors.

If you don't have a bat,jump-kick them all down thenelbow them to death. If youlike more elaborate deaths,go up to the ledge near thesliding doors, jump down justnext to escalator. The Loperwill try to follow you and landon the escalator...spolllaattttl

Level Three (a)• Beat up the first four men.grabbing a bat if you want to.and waste the Linda comingout of the sliding doors. Grabher whip if you fancy, butmake sure you aren't carryinganything first. Two dead menlater you will be attacked bytwo Williams with knives.Stick really close to them sothey can't throw their knives.and kick them to death. Oncethey are dead, grab a knifeand hurl it at Chintai on thenext screen. He will drop hisknife. so stay close to himand kick him to death so hecan't pick it up again. Thengrab his knife and fling it atthe final Abobo on the lastscreen. You will only need tokick him down twice to finishthis level.

Level Three (b)• Quickly jump over theChintai and Lopar at the startof this level. They will followyou, forgetting to use theirknives. Elbow them both todeath, grab a knife and chuckit at the Abobo. Then finishhim off with kicks, or go tothe end of the bridge (beingcareful not to fall in the river).It's easy from here. Pulverisethe next four weaponlessopponents, and then you'llmeet a Williams with a barrel.Don't go too far away fromhim, or he'll bung It at you.Kill him using kicks andshoulder throws and don't lethim pick it up again. Onceyou've done this, repeat the

process for the next Williamswith barrel. In the last screenthere are two Abobos.Beware — one will go higherthan you, and the other lower,and they'll both punch youwhile you can't reach them.You can flying kick them over,one at a time, although this istime consuming, taking 17flying kicks to kill EACH ONE!Lure one of them to be levelwith the other by moving upand down. Once you've donethis elbow them both todeath. Finished.

Level Four• You'll find yourself on topof a cliff. Walk off it and do aflying kick on the way downto land safely. Always becareful not to just fall off thebridge. Beat up both theLopars on the bridge, andkeep going right until twoChintais fall from nowhere,both with knives. Rememberto keep really close to themto stop them knifing you.They'll both walk together. soflying kick them bothtogether. Once you've donethat... STOP! Go too far tothe right and you'll fall off theedge of the bridge andplunge into hell. Going up theladder's a wiser path. Assoon as you see the twoLopars and two Chintais, goto them 'cos one of theLopars is very good at longrange barrel throwing. Theycome at you crammed in apack, so its very easy to floorthem all with a few kicks.Once they're all dead. thefinal screen holds twoWilliams and an Abobo. Justwait until they're all in a line.and flying kick them all over.and finish them with kicksand elbows.

Level Five (a)• As soon as you start thislevel, there's a Loper behind

you. Quickly elbow his headin. and let the Chintai and theother Lobar come to you. Assoon as they come near you,flying kick them over, thenelbow them to death. Nowthings get tricky. Three barsof rock swing Out of the wallat you. The best way to getpast this bit is to take arunner at it, jump over thefirst bar and, always jumping,you should get past the othertwo bars. Or you can trycarefully jumping over eachbar, stopping perfectlybetween each bar, but this isdead hard. (funarr). Onceyou've cleared the bars, keepon jumping and you shouldclear the spike the statuestarts moving. If you're tooslow, do a jump justunderneath it and your headshould just miss the spike.Repeat for next spike, andyou should be confronted bytwo Williams with knives.Keep close to them as before.but beware --- if you try tododge a knife one bungs atyou, you may fall into themoat below you. Kill themwith kicks, and do the samefor the final Chintai with theknife. Now go get that girl ofyours!

Level Five (b)• At the start of this levelthere will be two Abobos.Flying kick the first one over.then let the other one comeat you, then elbow them bothto death. There are noweapons on this level so it'ssolid fighting. Go along afterthe two Abobos, beingcareful not to fall in the moat.On the next screen, you willhave to beat up a Williamsand a Chintai. The finalscreen holds Willy. (honk).He's the mean bloke whostole your blonde in the firstplace. He's protected by aLopar, two Chintais and anAbobo. They all walk in apack. stray too far from it andyou'll be shot or pushed overby Willy's gun. Use the extratime you get at the start ofthe level wisely here and tryto take out the Chintais firstwith flying kicks. Once theydie, two more come in. Letthem join the pack and itshould be easy enough tokick or elbow the wholebunch of them down untilWilly eventually dies. Oncehe does, go and enjoy aslobbery kiss with yourgirlfriend. The final messageis MAY YOU LIVE HAPPILYEVER AFTER. Ahhh, moatnice?"

Many thanx to all of you whocontributed to this amazingtipoid. Badges all round I think,(Of course the badges areround. Don't be ridiculous. Ed)

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Now there's a funny thing.,who would have thought you'dbe seeing Xenon on theSpectrum? They said itcouldn't be done. They said itwas too complex andsophsist s offi s t tr icky .Who are they anyway? It wasdone. and done well. And nowMark Dow has done it. But itseems to me he had a littlehelp• I have found a cheat mode

in Xenon. Start the game asusual and then press BREAKto pause. Hold down the keysTINY, and then press Fire.(Tiny Williams wrote the

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game. Geddit?) Hey presto.you'll have an infinite ship.and a message will appear totell you it's worked."

Coo, wotta beezer geezeryou are. Mark to be sure. Didyou know, Xenon is inert?(Who are you calling a nert?Xenon) Anyroad, thanx Mark.Badge in the post. Next!

Crunch! Hello, there'ssomething in this envelope.Eurt It's a crushed creamcracker. All the crumbs haveshot into my socks w h a t 'sthe meaning of this, James

Elliott?" • I have a sneaky o r1943. All you do is put it on atwo player game, and staybehind player two, and thenblast away at the baddies. Ihave enclosed a bribe.Please print this letter."

* i l l , . bribe. I I . . . don't knowwhat to say t h e very ideathat I would c r unc h e a t athing that's been in the postcrunch. Yes, that's a pointthough. I'm on a diet now, sono choccy bars or hob-nobs inthe post, cos I can't eat them,okay? (/ care Ed) NEXT!

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C L I N I CMore expert help for the games-afflicted.RRELORDA paor sausage was Tim Johnson, whowrote a couple of months back about thisHewson oldie asking, **How to getPrincess Eleanor, the white and theyellow knights. the hermit and the whitedragon Also how do you gain accessto the rose, sword and shield, crossbowand candlestick?" He was clearlystrugglmg - in fact, it looks as though hehad done well even to load the thing up.But Nigel A Taylor us a kind-hearted soul.and here's his reply...

"TO find Pnncess Eleanor. first rind theGreen Gatehouse. When you find heryou MI also find the rose. On your waythere, pop into the merchant and drop offany charms you may have found"

"The white knight is next door to theEast Wick of Lower Torroford." (Problemswith writing there - at leas: I think that'swhat it says!) "Go through the porlculksand hel be there with his sword andshield al the ready."

"The yellow knight is near the WestWick of Upper Bedgediden and has thecrossbow handy. The white farmer wholives nearby has the candlestick."

"To find the white dragon, be preparedto doe at the orb and travel past the eastWick of Lower Eledgedden " Nigelcontinues. " I f T i m w an ts a c om pl et e

solution and map, get hem to send me alarge sae and I'll oblige I also have mapsfor Nonterraqueous and its sequel Sou(

Of A Robot, plus the solution to TheFourth Protocol." Hope you know whatyou're letting yourself in for, Nigel' Here'shis address, tipsters. 31 MeiklefieldRoad, Dingwell, Ross-shire IV15 9TA.Remember to send him a large sae if youwant a reply!CONTACT SAM CRUISEDoing the goods on this cnnkly old thingfrom Microsphere is Gareth Hughes,who has some tips for poor benightedTom Ireland. Tom didn't know what to dowhen he reached the top floor of theHotel Royale, but luckily Gareth does

"Go to the top floor of the Hotel Royale(yes yes we know that bit). Go to theextreme left and discover the bodyAnswer phone. Hang up. go left, nght andpress F to pull fuse. Go out, go to topfloor (roof) of the cop shop. Go left ontobuilding *(space), find key on secondfloor. go to third Boor and pull fuse Goout, go to right to building 115 and youwill be knocked out. Ignore this. Searchbuilding - you should find a key. Go tostairs left to *19. go to reef and go clownIn escape. but not all the way: youshould see a tat man with a chain. Wattuntil he comes towards you and walk offthe end 11 you knock horn out go left untilyou find a key. if you don't, try again. Goto building #27 and go up to root climbover to police station roof and fall over theshae onto building t(space) Then go outDon't get close to the police stationbecause there's a gangster there. Go leftto building #74, knock on the door, go upand get caught by a gangster, he shoulddrop you off a building. Quickly get up onyour feet and go to the top floor of *74.Go right, and there you should find agrappling hook. The rest is up to you."

Clearly Well, Tim. I hope youunderstand that, 'cos I don't Where itsays '*(spacer is where I presumeGareth meant to put in the nurnber afterhe'd written the letter but either forgot orcouldn't End Out Mich building it was Butthanks to him tor those tips and if anyonecan help any funher, do drop us a line.THE GREAT ESCAPERight-well at least DiOdy David Aitken(who, now I've ivritten that, is probablyabout 8 feet tall) has put one little matterto rest, viz. what to do with the pen andpaper in The Great Escape - as publiclywondered by Mark Hodgkins a whileback. Answer? Nothing. You can't pickthem up and you don't peed them! I forone will sleep better at nights for learning

that information. and I bet Mark will tooTa, Dave (and thanks for your he onSam Cruise too)_

GOOD EGGEdwina Currie aside, there's one sort ofOeul that comes entirely salmonella-lree:a VS Dr B's Clinic Bon Oeut. ChrisDelahurity actually volunteered for thisthankless task back in ish 37, but nowhe's written to me with a Id list of thegames he can help on. Soil y o u ' r e s t u c kon any of these send an sae to him al 44St Johns way, Thetford, Norfolk 111243NW, and he'll he you out. Here goes.

Super Stunt Man, Stormbringer 1281upto 74%). Ghostbusters, ATV Simulator,Frank Brono's Boxing, Dark Star, Dustin.Moley Christmas, Shard Of ?paver, RigeirsRevenge, Play It Again Sam(Mastertrone). The Cup, Mutant,Millionaire, Gunship, Platoon (parts 1,2and 3), Energy Warrior, Star Raiders 2.Cybernoid. Samurai wamor.Armageddon Man, Frank* Goes ToHollywood. Beyond The ice Palace,Match Day 2. Combat Schoc4,Renegade, Target Renegade, 720',Bionic Commando, Trap Door, Dark Side,Deviants and Head Over Heels (exceptBlacktooth).Phew, Chris, you'll be putting me out ofbusiness at this rate. Remember,clinicians - no sae, no comment.

WIZBALLA very interesting letter from ShirleyHamilton, one of my many femalereaders )hem hem), who's had someawful probs with the Wizball hack inSmash 'Tips, let her tell you herself

"When the Wizbalt poke was firstlisted, I typed it, saved it. checked it.corrected two items, saved it and ran it.The program itself is okay, i.e. no horridmessages after five secs But I played thegame tape from the start - and it lockedsolidly."

"When Smash Tips came along, I hadanother go or live at - which issaid to be Speedleck 2.1 am exhausted. Ityped it, saved it, checked it, and ran rt.No nasty messages. so in goes theWizball tape - and it locks up againPlease, does anyone out there have aworkable infinite lives hack for WizbalP(No wonder Gauntietand Au!Wiedersehen Monty are popular - onecan actually play the games without theinbuilt hack. )"

A damsel very much in distress. Anywhite knights?HAYLP 1: DAVID JONES DEPT.Yes. those Magic Knight games are sopopular land so %StiEng difficult) thatwe're giving them an entire haylpl sectionto themselves this month Can you helpwith any of these?STORMBRINGER"How do you cast Dimension Merge andMelt Granite?" Jason Yip.

KNIGHT AWE"I can't gel past that barrier on Retreat,*Just says I need more spell power when Itry the Remove Barrier spell"Christopher D."Whe,e i s t he mag ic t al isman '? " Antonio

Gould.Any POKEs?" David McGinn.

'What do you do with the sundial, andwhat are the co-ordinates of the TymeLords?" Gary ItEwen.

SPELLBOUND"How do I repair the lift?" Christopher 0"How do I get past the Gas Room'?Antonio Gould."Any POKEs?" M. Staunton.-How do you cast CNstallium Spectrahs

and Release Spell?" Jason Yip"How do I get over the wall on the fourthfloor, help the Banshee's distant cousin,and get the fuse off Lady Rosemary'?"Gary McNeil.

Badges. as ever, to anyone who can castlight (or even spells) on these knottygarnesnags

HAYLP 2: THE EXTRA BIMYes, get a little extra hayip with theHalifax! (Eh?Ed)No time to waste - let'sget down to it

Chris tioyd aril only stuck on LASSAlinia 2. • Noce I've got probs with P• Typetoo. How do you pass the snake thing onLevel 2r Richard Parkin, meanwhile. isglued up on Finders Keepers like many aClinician in the past, Rocky) "How do youget to tee gold door, 'cos I lust can't find aroute to it?"

Remember, anything punted wins abadge. and Me test complete solution Ireceive each month wins three corky newgames! Write with your snags andsolutions to Dr B's Y S , 14Rathbone Place, London W1P 1 DE Seeyou next month!

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DAN DARE I & IIRobert Smith had a bit ofhassle with both the originaland the sequel. He wrote inmoaning for a POKE. And ifthese don't work this timethen my name is TheodoreBumblebottom the Second.

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INCIDENTALLY...I resurrected most of theoldies this month from aPOKE tape from TAURUSsoftware. It contains 217ready-to-run hacks andcracks and is available(priced £2.00) from TaurusSoftware, 14 ConistonAvenue, Darton, Barnsley.S75 5BB. Wellrecommended.

CRASH PREVENTORRight if you're having troubleunderstanding how thesePOKEs work and how to getthem working, then follow thissimple, straightforward,basic, rudimentary,uncomplicated, plain guide,1) Type in the hack programand double check that data.2) Save it into tape for lateruse.3) Rewind your game tape tothe start.4) RUN the hack program.5) If "integer out of range"appears then you have anumber over 255 in your data- go back and check it.6) If "error in data" appearsthen you have typed in thedata wrongly - go back andcheck it.7) If "E: out of data" appearsthen you have missed somedata numbers - go back andcheck it.8) If nothing appears thenplay your rewound gametape.9) Give those aliens one fromme okay?

BYE-BYE!And that's it. Another monthhas swooped by and nextmonth is already circlingoverhead. Don't forget to tunein next month for more hacksand cracks. POKEs and jokes- you know, the usual thing.In the meantime, if you'resitting in front of yourcomputer one day, gazingvacantly at a SinclairResearch message,wondering what to do. justpick up a disassmbler. agame and rip it apart. Just likethat. Oh yeah, and send anyresults to David McCandless,Practical Pokes, Your Sinclair,14 Rathbone Place, London,W1P 1 DE, See ya!

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• Only level one for this Rambo IIIm(don't push me!) but I like Know l e s soon. So that's alright then.

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So thanx in no particularorder to Nell Torrens, LeighWilliamson. Macc Mapper,Brian Doyle, Gary Holcombe,Neil Price. Mark Phillips.Stuart Park. Philip McCardle,Andrew Flanagan, ChrisDelahunty, Terry Hill. and lastbut not least AndrewThompson, for all the mounds

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• Flat Heads: TheseSchwartzenegger types needto be shot in the head once,but do it quick.• Prisoners: These includenurses, women and boys.They run across the screenand get in your line of fire.They'll drain your energy ifyou hit them.• Hostages: These appear on:evels five and six. You mustlet them pass. and you gainpoints.

"General Tips• If there's a crowd ofhelicopters fire a grenade atthe middle.• Don't panic!• Never fire wildly. You wasteammo.• Try to conserve grenadesfor later levels.• The enemy don't come inany particular order, so beprepared.• Don't shoot dynamite whena prisoner is on screen.• Sometimes you cangrenade a very large crowd ofsoldiers.

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Gremlin E7.99 I:ass/E12.99 diskDavey Quick! Pinch me. I mustbe dreaming! Is this a footlegame see before me? Nowhas it escaped the clutches of

Or Marcus? Maybe he was too busy chattingwith his pal Simon Bates. Anyway, here wego. here we go, here we go.

Hot Shot is a footle simulation, played from anoverhead viewpoint You take the role of an inter-national side and can choose your team from thehumble England, Wales, Scotland, or Ireland(Republic or Northern) right through to the mightyBrazil or Argentina! The teams are organised (con-fusingly) from the First through to the Fourth Divi-sion, and you must attempt to steer your team tothe top of the league. The players can performsliding tackles and headers, but be careful if youare prone to a bit of foul play. 'cos there at the bot-tom ot the screen is the ref complete with his cardcollection. (And I'm not talking about PG Tips pic-ture cards!)

Hot Shot gives you the option of changing thelength of the game between 10, 30. 60, or 90minutes. The middle two seem the best. This isbecause the computer usually gets at least onegoal in, and thus the shorter the game length youchoose, the less time you get to equalise, tel alonewin!

The gameplay is very much like Match Daywith you controlling whichever player is nearestthe bail. This causes the usual problems.iikel‘e

when you have two players at an equal distancefrom the ball, nine times out of ten you end upmoving the wrong one in completely the wrongdirection, But you can dribble (Ugh.' You messyreaders' Ed) and boot the ball in different direc-tions with ditlerent amounts of power. And fortu-nately, or unfortunately depending on how confi-dent you feel, your goalkeeper is computer con-trolled and moves automatically, (a trifle tooslowly for my liking,) to whichever side of the goalis under threat

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The dilemma mat must face p rOg i, In,: rie rs o f

these games is in the area of game scale. II youopt for nice big player sprites, then you are onlyable to show z small area of the pitch at a time. Onthe other hand, if you choose to show as much ofthe pitch as poss, then this is at the expense of theplayers who will be teeny weeny dots! Hot Shot ofcourse opts Mr the large(ish) sprites This meansthat although the sliding, tackling, and heading, isquite nice, when it actually comes to shooting atgoal from any distance over about ten feet, or evenpassing up the field to any of your team mates,

then a large amount of guesswork takes over Toits credit, Gremlin has tried to overcome this byshowing a display of the pitch in the bottom lefthand corner of the screen. This shows the wherea-bouts of the ball, but apart from this does little toalleviate the lock element.

Gazza Lineker's Hot Shot is a straight arcadefootball game in the style of Match Day It Itssprites aren't as big, but it's a faster, smoothergame than Match Day. It you're a Matte simfanatic, or in the market for your first arcade foot-ball game, then you'll probably lind Hot Shot a fungame. It you already possess most of the otherfootball games on the market then you won't findmuch new in this one. Mind you, if you do havemost of the other football games on the marketthen you're no doubt soccer loopy and I'm prob-ably wasting my breath!

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Seanlek, it's the spooky Cap-tain Blood, brave explorer ofthe galaxy, setting out on amission which would make

even T'zer cry. There's a huge galaxy aheadof you (you're Cp'n Blood you see) andyour task is to destroy five •Numbers',(clones of yourself) from which you'll suckenough body fluid to continue your life with-out dying. Yuk!

You begin the game near to an inhabited planet.which is lucky. Cos most of the planets in thegame are merely a set of co-ordinateswith randomly generated terrain and nolife forms at all Anyway. having found this planetyou're now faced with three options You caneither send an 00RX to photograph the planetsurface. (this will show you if the planet has anydefence systems). destroy the planet (kabooml),or send an 00RX baby to the planet surface toseek r- • - • 'IS.

Seeing as its in your own interest to find anumber', it's best not to destroy the planet, but tosend your 00RX in to check it out. Besides, it youdon't you'll miss out on one of the best bits of thegame, the 'Flying Over The Planet's Terrain'sequence.

This is one of the most impressive sequences inthe game, and screenshots cannot do justice tothe visual impact of the terrain moving towardsyou. rising and tailing as you swoop and soar overthe surface in search of either a defence system orlife form

Once your 00SX is under way, if the planet hasa defence system, lines will emerge from bothsides of the screen, which means that you haveb o

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been detected. When these lines meet in themiddle, your 00RX will be destroyed So it you'redetected. flying low and slow will give protection.but it does take time to get anywhere, and I foundthe best policy was to zoom along until thedetection lines got close to each other, and then tidive low and stop for a moment or two while they'lose' you.

On reaching the end of a valley, you will bepresented with a 'photograph' of the surface. II elplanet is uninhabited, this is all you'll get, and it'stime to find another But if, joy of joys, you havestumbled on an inhabited planet, the occupantappears in a box on screen, and you can nowengage it in 'conversation'.

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which contains such useful phrases as 'Where isthe Post Office?' No, actually you use a set ofaround 120 icons each representing one word,which are translated trom Iconese into Englishwhen you point to them. But it proves to be anunrewarding and cumbersome exercise for severalreasons.

Firstly, only about a quarter of the icons can beseen on screen at one time, and with so many tograsp, it's kind of impossible to remember whatwords you can use to communicate with, and afterseveral hours play, I still couldn't get to grips withit. The aim at conversation is. I suppose, to getlots of useful information which will point you tothe right planets to begin your search for the'numbers'. But as communication proved Mik ethe playability of the game was dramaticallyreduced

This is a very difficult game to accuratelyreview. In a sense, it's an adventure disguised aspseudo-Elite strategy style game, andconsequently seems to defy pigeon-holing. Thegraphics (and sound on the biggie versions) areexcellent, and the presentation of the game isstraightforward and easy to use. Though it you'vegot to spend several hours communicating to getanywhere, you only get to appreciate the quality 01programming intermittently!

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Once the icon eu ,n ica t io n system isgrasped. then I expc,1 Plat real progress could bemade in the game, and zapping round the galaxyin search of the clones could have thecampaigning appeal of, say, trying to reach Eittestatus, or solving a massive adventure.

I doubt, however, that there are manyjamesters'. zappers, strategists or adventurers -who are willing to put the long preliminary hoursin, simply to get properly involved. This isreflected in my mark, but those who chose topersevere might find an intelligent strategy gathplurkino here.

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Grand Slam/8.99Marcus Perhaps I'm goingslightly bonkers (I alwaysthought you were 10 penceshort of a phonebox as it was.

Ed), but I'm sure that this game has been onthe stocks since, well, the beginning oftime, or thereabouts. Certainly that tell-taleT1984 Namco Ltd' under the title revealsMal this is a conversion of a very old coin-opindeed. And sadly, it shows.

Pacman, of course, was so successful as acoin-op that it entered the language in a way thateven OutRun can't hope to rival i try asking yourparents which 'video games' they've heard of andyou can bet your Viz T-Shirt they won't say After-burner). Its hardly surprising that Namco tried toeke Out every last variation from this winning for-mula, but even by the standards of most sequels.P a c-l a nd i s p re tt y bizar re. While the basic form'

- running about. picking up cherries, avoiding t•ghosties - has been retained, the gameplay couldnot be more different.

Pacman has been whipped out of his little grid,given some legs and dumped in Pac-land. whichlooks like a sort of nursery rhyme country full ofpretty little houses and fluffy clouds (if you're

a; ;;,t ; h e r e , Jenkins, pleaseremember next time to bring your own bucket).Moving from left to right. Pacman whiffles throughthis ghastly countryside, occasionally jumping tocollect mid-air cherries which appear just beforehe passes them. Some cherries appear only if youhave lumped on something first (it could be ahydrant, it could be a cactus. or indeed anythingabout a sprite high), And power pills are there aswell - lump and grab one, and all the ghouliesstart flaping and running away from you, lust asin Pacman. As in the original, you get points forthe ground you cover, although here there's nomaze, lust a strict left-to-right track to follow.

What this all sounds like - and versions onother more colourful computers even look like - isa sort of Super Mario Bros with a few teeth mis-sing. Shorn of the complexity of that magnificent

old classic, P a c-l a n d s o o n d e g e ne r a t e s i nt o f or -

mula action - avoid this, pick up that, jump overthe other and unfortunately the gameplay is bal-anced so that when you do eventually get to usethe powerpill, you get to chase your foes Only forthe briefest possible time. Even then there isn't thesatisfaction lobe gained when you nab the fleeincghoulies in Pacman - you don't even get to seuhow many points you've got for it.

The conversion's by no means a bad lob it ' sas professional as most these days - but it's thegame at fault here. Once again a game that prob-ably looks amazing in the arcades (and no doubton the ST) simply doesn't cut it when deprived ofits graphical advantages on the Speccy. Pacmanwas. I know, one of the Ed's favest games ever(she still outscores virtually everyone she knowsI doubt Pac -l a n d w i l l t a ke i t s p l ac e .

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The competition comes in the form of aSanglalmadorian Sphere Corps IncrediblyStrinkmg Fighter Sphere from the Twenty-FifthCentury (a VS house point goes to those of youwho can re2qt that twice without a pause to

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—41ttgtrrfotesam44)444ajattlicisparSdrs atElectric Dreams will know. -."'".•.:••• • ,

Anyway. your Fighter Sphere has at IcId141 7:'• • •been called into action, but not to engage anunknown enemy force everyone knows they'veall been well and truely clobbered by now In tactthere hasn't been any action in so long that event h e-o ld Corps training areas have started getting

rusty and Malfunctions are commonplace.It's one of these malfunctions that you've been

sent to clear up It seems that the old boy himself.. . . .,— ,4 61 t1 Sb i lI MH LI-C l it g f Matt Ridley for those not

acquainted with batIlitAllattletipred with his penpushing job back at Corps E l i t e l i t 17u st t o s e e

whether he'd still 'got What it takes he•T481a..anunauthorised trip into the Corrt most unfargtvitwbattle trainer—The Death Run unfortunately'for him he 'hadn't'! Normally the automaticretrieval system would shut down the area andsend in a drone to recover the Colonel-in-Chief andwhat was left of his Fighter, but something hasgone very wrong. SO,It'S up to you to successfullyft vi h Run, locate the Colonel and

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''reitels to gain a much needed extra life.%me of the later levels are impossible tig.

comAtewithout the help of your Sphere'smass thdNeolume changing powers. Go over eimarked ' 41. ' a n d y o ur fi g ht e r 'l l b ec om e hea vi e6 g, ,

over a tile wItharrows pointing outwards and dieSphere will OA, larger, in this state you'll be able,to smash throiNti special walls, making largeshort-cuts. The vice you'll pay for these short-cuts is far less maiioeuvrability and a largerchance of tiles bre'atiing up underneath you.

Electric Dreams Vas got the strategy and actionpitched just right torlake /SS one of the most •

addictive games rvq%ayed in years. In thesecond, third and toy h levels you really have to t -work hard to get anyWbere. The presentation is tvery good and the d44lay works well although a [little guesswork c o * into play if you want toknow how many livegyou've got left and howheavy or large you ak. The inertia of your Sphere c,adds a lot to the plapbility. - without it trickling • ,through cracked tg land speeding to the nearest 'I , • . • . ,ammo dump wouktiose all its challenge

The Only thinglfiat spoils )SS ire the sounoeffects during ttleilame which were about assimplistic as youtan get. and even then they intidof 'flip-out' est.* now and then for no reason 1,tart!tell. The scrollifig playing area leaves a little tcpte;desired tod/jerks badly once in a while to 014'up withplatits going on onscreen.

Stig • enjoyable game that'll keep•moS-- p l eha o r a long while (there'S another t5dird g

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Monday08.18 hours : I n the mini -bus .Dear Diary,Morale is high as we whizz along the A216 in our 15 seater 'Battle Transit' Everyone'swearing headbands and tlimi Hendrix's Purple Haze is blaring out of the speakers:we're in a Vietnam kind of mood. Though some of us may not return, our ultimatesacrifice will long be remembered by the rest of the free world. God bless America, Godbless the President. God bless Mom, Pop and Apple pie (E r n, aren't you going a bitover the top? Ed)10.00 hoursDear Diary,We're there! And there are all thecoppers wi th their team leader,PC Plunkett. Time to get issuedwi th out combat 'army greens',ammunition belts, pa int pelletcartridges, eye protectinggoggles and ( ho ho ) rifles andpistols, Unfortunate ly the'peelers' have already been kittedup with the same gear, whichmay make winning the game alittle bit trickier. Ho hum.

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Corks, I ts the oid billi they'r e goi ng to bewear ing the redar m bands'.

Dear Diary,Briefing time from the Combat Zone adjudicator.The I 'S and police teams are to make camp atopposite ends of the battleground, each with ourown flag to protect. Using any tactics we like, the

idea is for us to infiltrate thepolice camp, nick their flag andthen hot-foot it back to our ownbase - while not forgetting that'the heat' will be up to the sametr ic k So defending our camp isquite important. In fact It'srze r 's tactics talk time.

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Dear Diary,The first battle! It's a - blimey,here they come. I think it's timeto pack the diary away and startfiring. Over and out.A

Oy Their. you can com e out frombehi nd that tree now — they'vew on. m o s ' . That wee quick! The funone, YS nil — and I ts only ten pasteleven. Ti m e for ear n, two.

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Dear Diary,A few more h u mil ia t in gdefeats later, we get a b rie fresp ite where we catch ourbreath, so rt out where ourtact ics have been goingwrong , and munch on thesupplied batt le -ra t ions ofmin ce and potatoes (a p a rtf ro m Jackie, who gets thevegetarian version: twigs,grass and a few leaves - o rsometh ing ). There's a few'fi gh t ing hours' left; maybewe'll be able to t u rn the tablesth is afternoon. Oh, there goesthe wh ist le : game on. Overand out.

Hey, w hat's that rustl ing overther e? Safety-catch off (dick).

Oh, I ts only the Com bat Zonedog, etNI, tar get pr ecoce Istar get practice. here boy!

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Dear Diary,Th is battle's going to be one of those long d rawn out ones. The 'heat' weren 't toc,chuffed about being thwarted - especia lly by a 'g irlie '. We've got a lo t of peopledefending the camp, but we've sent a couple of sn ipers up to the y , more densely

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dead and his brother had taken over for thesequels. but Silly us looks like we werewrong. Here's the original back lookingpretty healthy - unless it's yet anothermember of the Renegade clan.

Imagine's obviously had to think a bit moreabout what to do with 3 - atter all, it can't reallyjust reproduce the same street gang beat 'em upformula forever, no matter how successful it mightbe. Renegade 3 has thus become much more of anarcade adventure than the previous two, with allsorts of fantastic and comical elements addedwilly nilly. If you can ignore the fact that the wholeidea is a wee bit silly, then it in tact adds a lot ofspice to an over-used formula.

Get this for starters. Baddies from the futurehave whisked back to the present and capturedRenegade's girlfriend. Exactly why isn'timmediately clear, but you'd think the saucy minxwould have learned by now that it's prettydangerous to have anything to do with thosepesky Renegade boys,

Anyway, the baddies have taken her to theirbase in the future and in the meantime got rid ofRenegade by throwing him backwards in time. Heends up in a prehistoric setting and must fight hisway through that, an ancient Egyptian level, aMedieval (or as the game has it •Med-evil') settingand a future level to rescue her. At the end of eachone a grey coffin thing comes down and beamsyou to the next time zone (or asks you to doanother load if you're in 48K), though you have toget there within the six minute time limit or theportal closes up and you're stuck in the past.Hrnm. It all strains credibility slightly, I feel.

These are just surface differences. though. Themost important ones are in the gam eplay. Forinstance. Instead of the normal large open fightingarea you get in these sorts of games, much of each

The Prehistoric Age 1 1rHeavily populated with eight toot dinosaurs.'Captain Caveman' lookahkes. rock throwingNeanderthals and egg dropping prehistoricbirds (from which tiny ankle biting dinosappear once they've hit the floor!) its all wen/busy. At some points the screen widens outand six or so of them attack you at once.Yowchl

The Egyptian Zone talarge and small mummies (the tiny ones areIle worst- you can only get them with a'peeling punchl), dog-headed Egyptian godthings and acid drop from the ceiling makethis one of the best of the levels

The Iviedievir level tglThe comic element really comes to the torehere. with some of the attacking knightsmounted on hobby horses! Miniature dragonstry to get you with their fire it you're on thebattlements, and waist high 'esters attack yourlegs. There is different music on each level totit each time zone apparently, though you'llhave to use your imagination with this one Ihank_

The Future laHying saucers drop sluff at you, and variousrobots and squidgy aliens attack you onground level Don 1 let Mem slop you though -your girtinend s almost within reach. The onlyproblem now is how to get back'

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level has a raised catwalk at the back that you canclimb up to at vanous points. You can use this toget past things like lava rivers on the floor, or toavoid baddies if they're getting too much.

The other major difference is in the style andcharacter of the baddies. Instead of your standardstreet thug, you get some of the most bizarreCreations, including flying characters that drop-things on you. In nice yellow and grey tones, withsome very sharp background graphics (especiallyin the Egyptian level) and a flip screen, it's alleminently playable

In effect then, you're halt-way to a Rastan Sagaor Kamm, t y p e g am e, but wi th the larger variety of

combat moves that you get in a straight beat 'emup. These include a straight kick, a flying kick, anormal punch and a duck punch. For someone likeme, who was getting bored sick of the averagepunch and kick game, this is a very welcomedevelopment indeed,

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INTERNATIONALSPEEDWAYSilverbirdie1. 9 9How many vanations on the race game arethere? Not many, if this rather desperateentry in the stakes is anything to go by.Although. to give programmers Probecredit, they have at least given us twoclapped out old genres for the price of one.

InternationatSpeedway i ssd i p . t r a l l y , a

race game set on a soeedwayllitck, inwhich you compete against four othernders, all of whom, on the face of it, aremuch better than you So, you ask, is thisone of those games where you see thetrack from road level, behind your rider, orIs it one seen from above, a la Grand PrixSimulator? In fact, it's both — the screen isconveniently split in two — but as the track

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is so boring to look at from both angles andthere's nothing else new about this gameat all, you begin to wonder after about0.00001 seconds, why you bothered toload it up. Snoresville.

RYGAR'Khot/C2.99Awful lot of '-s a r o u nd t h is m on t h, a re n' t

there? Pygar, of course, is based on one of1987's spankier shoot 'em ups andoriginally came out on US Gold, where itsold pots. Now regurgitated for the cheapiemarket, it somehow looks less impressivethan it did on first viewing. All you reallyhave to do is run alongtO the right shootingeverythrng from the usual nestles tostrange rocks that °Merge t e r the groundwhich invariably seem to conceal (a laAthena) useful t h,n g s l i k e g e m s a n d b e t te r

weapons. Initially it's dead easy, whichrather reduces the challenge, but don't beput off, as it does get harder as itproceeds. There's not a lot of variation,though, and once again you rememberthat the original arcade version, whilewonderful to look at, was hardly the mostsophisticated coin-op in gameplay terms

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Remove the amazing graphics and theresult is always likely to be on the thin side.

With smallish sprites, and little in the wayof interesting backgrounds to look at, it'sjust a little disappointing, but for a cheapie,Rygar should keep your trigger fingerhappy for a week or two, and there are nocomplaints about speed or smoothness.Not for sophisticates, but reasonable funfor the violently inclined.

THE HIT SQUADCode Masters/C2.99Yes, I know what you're wondering. Notwhether it's any good or not, not evenwhether it's got 'NEW RELEASE' plasteredall over the cover as usual (it has), but whatDiddy David Darling has to say about hisown game. So I quote, "Technicallybrilliant, ultra-fast, infuriatingly addictive.MEGA blat 'em up! WICKED!"

Nothing like a bit of solid unbiasedcriticism there — indeed, there's nothinglike solid unbiased criticism in the

wonderful world of Code Masters. Now —do you want to know what the game'sreally like?

Actually — and as usual it pains me tosay this — it's not bad at all. The Hit Squadis a neat, fast, multi-screen shoot 'em upwith colourful, intentionally obtrusivegraphics and massive sprites. I say"intentionally obtrusive" because yourcharacter often has to walk behind them,which means that you can't see a thing andcan be easily harmed by the maraudingnasties. The idea is to collect a teleportticket on the 12 levels which will enableyou to get to the next level while collectingany other goodies that happen to be lyingaround. It's called The Hit Squad becauseyou have a choice of four people to be.each of whom has different weapons(when they pick up enough weapontokens). The four are nicely represented by

a digitised pic before the game begins.All very well, and it's a nice variation on a

million other games, but sadly it's no morethan that. As with most later Code Mastersgames you're swiftly seduced by splendidgraphics — far better thought out and moreSpectrummy than, indeed, Pygar — butthe gameplay does pall after a while. Still,this game has one enormous advantageover other recent Code Master titles — nopix of the ghastly Darling brothers. If onlyfor that, this game gets my vote.

TITANICIthocie2.99Having waxed lyrical about Spanishsoftware previously, I was bound tocome a cropper later, so let's get it overwith. Titanic is another Kixx original, alsoprogrammed by paella fans Toposoft, butunfortunately it's not a patch onColosseum-,

Here we're under the briny, scuba-ingaround in search of sunken treasure andtrying to avoid the harmless looking fisheswhich, needless to say, are deadly to the

touch. There are also even more harmfulsea creatures swimming around, all ofwhich fancy you for their dinner, but you'retrying to work your way through a maze ofrocks and things to find theaforementioned Titanic. wot sunk eight

billion years ago or thereabouts. You haveonly a limited supply of harpoons, so youbasically have the choice of shootingthings or getting the %SSC out of the way,— and you soon learn which beasties canbe avoided and which

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SAS COMBATSIMULATORCode Masters/C1 .99Or Commando, by any other name, as youblast and shoot yourself through somebenighted warzone in the knowledge thatsooner or later your number(31) is up.

Instead of scrolling vertically, as allprevious Commando 'tributes' have done.this at least has the wit • o i lhorizontally, and the 7 . • issatisfyingly large and I n fact this isreally quits tun, even If it M o r e derivativethan Stod k t k e n and Waterman. Yourlittle fellow ä n move diagonally as well asin the normal four di o n s — good news,as his main task is t t h e manybullets that his oppe a t him.Fortunately, althoug game itself is asfast as you'd wish it, the bullets are deadslow, so dodging them is not too tricky.

Also important is to avoid getting close tothe enemy, as there's hand-to-handcombat in this game — find yourself nextdoor to a gook and you're severely dead.

In all there are four 'combat zones'

(levels), which should keep anyone who'sseen Platoon too many times very happy.The programmers have also picked uploads of tricks from Green Bert, Vindicatorand such like, which makes SAS CombatSimulator (surely the most desperateSimulator title yet) rather a greatest hits ofprogrammers' tricks, but it's no less fun forall that.

Still. I hope you'll excuse me if I return toTechnician Ted

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C O L O S S E U Mn 'Kixtrit2.99Its not often that Kixx releases anoriginal game, the label mainly being tee ,concerned with recycling old US Goldand Gremlin games (and a v.good jobit does too). But for some reason ourSpanish chums have a small problembeing taken serietellty in this country,'cos it's arnatkig how many games oftheirs crop up on chesple labels whenthere's a chance that they'd have donelust as well at full price. Still, that's toour benefit if not theirs, as games likeColosseum" sometirnos crop up_ The

participant a t - a l l - c o s t sIdea's fairly r d y ou 'r e a

= w achariot race around the colosseum,and for obvious reasons (you likestaying alive), Its rather important thatyou win. To do so you must negotiatefour circuits of the track, taking carenot to smash into any boulders orspecially built walls as you go round,and should you come up abreast withany other charioteers, you must fight them to death (usually yours), You

start with a mere hatchet, and bykilling charioteers with betterweaponry and then nicking what theydrop, you gradually upgrade to alance, which kills instantly.

Now I'm not going to pretend thatthis is the most original or profoundgame I've ever seen, but it's an awfullot of fun, and quite difficult at first.The chariot sprites are huge anddetailed, and the garneplay is fast, wellbalanced and thoroughly engrossing.Which means that at three nicker thisis a bargain and no mistake. guy.Worth a punt, I'd say.

TECHNICIAN TEDRack R/E2.99When you load this up, you realise with acertain element of shock how long it issince anyone released a platform game inthe traditional Jet Set Willy mould. After all,shoot 'em ups haven't gone out of fashion,3D isometrics are still with us, and thereare still games coming Out called RevengeOf The Ninia Aubergines, but nothing quiteas platformy andollierportect asTechnician Ted over sees tho h t of day

It's very similar to Jet Set b u t far farslicker, wit • . • re to took at r e to do.Getting pa o u g h tas well as a t ' s hardto get an y o u soonlearn not to iu e v e l e youchance upon, and • course r yfemtosecond counts. I'd rimier recommendthis to everyone — because, let's face it,lots of people detest this type of game witha vehemence bordering on violence — butif you caught onto JSW on its recentrerelease, then you'll lap this up too.

GUNRUNNERRack-It /C2.99Now if it's HARD shoot 'em ups you're into,this is the business. Gunrunner firstappeared from Hewson in 1987, and ithasn't aged a picosecond. The scenario'ssimple enough— you're another of thoselone warriors protecting the universeagainst a load of alien thingies whose ideaof strategy is flying around in a straight line,waiting to be picked off

Running from left to ng a lo n g anetwork of pipes and thi . o n the surfaceof the planet Zero. you e u n t e r some ofthe zappiest na5,ties • s id e Of MikeTyson, arid all a, • r M o n oc h r om e

background. It's. . • •th, irs fat, itsdifferent (a tittle li U '• M i s s e d withCobra), and It's vi — not to betried by anyone who • - n't like achallenge. There are certain goodies youcan pick up along the way — a iet pac, forinstance, lets you fly around the screen fora brief period, while a shield grants youtemporary invincibility — but essentially it'sblast-and-avoid. blast-and-avoid.Cracking good fun, and another reasonwhy a Hewson's Greatest Hits would be amemorable addition to anyone's softwarelibrary. (So why haven't you done one,Andrew?)

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troops on the 'ground' actually see them Thecomputer should also be handling logistics,morale, weather, propaganda, intelligenceoperations - and handling them properly, not justacting as a glorified dice-rolling machine, as here.

In tact, in rank Attack the computer is usedthroughout as nothing more than an electronicrules book and a random number generator,

The object of the game is to get one of yourunits into the enemy's headquarters hex, thendestroy it But the icon for 'attempt to destroyenemy Ha' is on the screen at all times • so you canlust select it, press fire, and that's ft. the game isover. Great. Rn r 1F

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Space is the same as it's always been A massot oncoming pixels and very little else Enemycraft enter the vacuum and can be manoeuvred onscreen by consulting the two scanners As there'sno target or sights you have to align the enemy upin your imagination. pump on the lire button. arid pav ,of

pray Ice the best And if that fails then f tinning( tZ J I , i g ihead on into them normally does the biz.• A

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enough times on the Speccy. You canimagine my chortles of delight at Gremlingiving me yet another shot at the bloomingthing then. Ho hum.

Butcher Hill comes in three loads. with a levelon each. The first takes you (in a rubber boat)along the river deep into the jungle. In the secondyou make your way through the undergrowthtowards the enemy camp at Butcher Hill shootinggooks as you go. and in the third you attack theircamp, blow it up and rescue all the prisoners ofwar. Yep, I guess someone at Gremlin's beenwatching too many Chuck Norris movies again.

In level one, which seems to go on forever, yousteer your rubber dinghy down a long windingriver. You begin with six lives, but can add to theseby driving over extra stamina barrels which arefloating in the water. Similarly, you can pick upmore bullets from other barrels. However airs notsweetness and light - there are floating mines tobe avoided, reeds which send you temporarily Outot control and rocks that bounce you up in the air.Added to this, planes make constant staffing runsat you, their bullets hitting the water in a ratherneat effect There's no way to shoot them downunfortunately, but you can blow up the mines ifyou're quick enough on the trigger. This is donewith a floating gun sight (a. la Operation Wolf) arida fast eye - for until you get very near to them, themines and the reeds are nearly identical, and youdon't want to waste precious bullets on a bunch ofbull-rushes. do you?

Occasionally the planes that pass overhead areon your side and drop bonuses to be picked up,one of the most important being a compass thatyou'll need in the second load. Eventually youreach the first of three jetties where you are meantto land and enter the second load. Oh, this is Okay,I thought. I'll just Ker-Blamm! Clops. I appear tohave hit the jetty and blown up.

Let's try again. I fought my way through the firstlevel again until I reached the jetty. Right, let's becareful here, let's take it gently and tie up just so,let's Ker-Blamm! Oh dear. Let's try it one moretime. Careful, careful Phew.

I'm now in the jungle. and a bit stuck becauseI've failed to pick up the compass. Bull don't care.'cos this is where the game gets a lot moreambitious in what it's trying to do, and so eventhough it doesn't always work too well I've got a bitmore time for it.

A gunsight hovers in the middle of the screenand behind it I can see the jungle. Were talkingserious Operation Wolf here. I waste a few roundson the jetty trying to pick off non-existant enemiesthen head off into the jungle, which is most surrealand weird. It's all very dark and green and though Ican, in theory, turn around 360 and head off inany direction, I mostly just bump into trees and thescreen shakes rather disconcertingly Two or threedirections lead towards visible clearings though,so I head off along one of these paths for a while.Occasionally I come across enemy soldiers andhave a shoot out with them. More often than notdie (There are land mines underfoot and all sortsof other trouble too. Yikest)

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Finally, level three which I have to admit I didn'tget to, but which involves blowing up everybuilding on the hill with grenades before you'vewon. And that's it. All pretty unmemorable andunremarkable, really, and of course absolutelynothing to do with how the Vietnam war wasactually fought. I (luke)warmed slightly towardsthe gameplay of level two, but the whole thing hada slightly unfinished feel toll and can't really berecommended.

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mediocre.

The idea's quite neat - a rip-oft, essentially, ofthe film innerspace, which was itself a rip-off of areally silly sixties mo vAt l F a Oti ag ic J o u r n e y .starring the young Ra e i144-64J*)_ You, youpoor sap, have been miniaturized. along with yourship and injected into the bloodstreatn of somebarmpot professor who has bee i n gon himself with pure DNA. In t the plots Qingenious, particularly inboils down to a simple shUnfortunately the salavished on the game I f

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SUPERCARInn. Mis one's about o bloke who had a car which was,inn, sort of 'super ' Of limited appeal. becouse thepuppets were very basic and we re all too young toever have seen it Our hero had a suitably bnhi GettyAnderson name though M i k e Mercury! Let's stepswiftly on

FIREBALL XL5This is more like in The adventures of Steve Zodiac hissidekick Zero and robot Robert nymg emend space onmissions for the World Space Patrol Featuring theclassic Mew* tune. "wish I was a spaceman. thefastest guy alive. I'd lity you round the Universe inFireball X15 -

STINGRAYMilt of the real classics Tray Tempest Aguomannaand pais patrolling the oceans in the Supersub StingrayPatti their base at Manneville Rehiring the greatesttellomersible in history, the meanest villeins (Mebquoptubions) and the best opening kites: -A n y t h i n gcot happen in the next hall hour

THUNDERBIRDSSo himous They've named a real disaster reliefMORMON after It (Keene:atonal Rescue), thetilitimmtures at Scott. Virgil and the rest are GeirrSbust (halt)hour. F A.B

CAPTAIN SCARLET AND MEMYSTERONS'Remember Captain Scarlet is indestmcloblel You arenon Cio not mit to imitate himr Phew! Good job theytold us eh viewers, T a k e n o v e r b y t h e a l i en M y s te r t ms

Captain Scone M ott a skyscraper one day and foundhe was a) cured b) indestructable What a stroke ofkiclit Not only that, but he was a more reolisixottypmpomoned puppet too than those poor gangly Traceybays Some tool * gel all the luck

JOE 90A stupid posy rune tear old kid who could borrow otherpeople's brain ponems had a car the size at a bus nodwore glosses Wein o load at old cobbiers

UFOnfot of the kve action heroes, pseudo-Amencon EdStraker led the secret defence against hostile alienspacecraft trying to steal human organs (orsomeMing ) Famed tor some crab earM defence shipsThai bee only one (very big) missile which ahiraysmood. Oh yes. and for some very dodgy acting

SPACE 1999Much more your MellOPIS Star Trek Op an withincompiehensgthe Mats an, erm "unlikely premise(Mat the moon should be blown out of orbit and go& pop a space warp or something to another golosywith people still living On 11) but admittedly brilliantspecial MOOS Acting was at least three times betterMan in IMO (though still not very good.)

IERRAHAWKSA Worn to puppets and a Thunderbirdr,osh theme, butwith 'famous octor voices (like Windsor DaNnaS as arotund rebel Sergeant-Mator) and with heroes coiledTiger limestein and Bate Kestrel (and they're thesensible ones!) Not Quite the success it was expectedto be but Gerry's currently touting around Me idea 01 0MundertNrds live action mime so anything couldhappen

Conclusion: Gerry Anderson is acomplete Mgt loop.

MISSION ONE — MINING DISASTERSKIMS: Gee, t+1-thank you, Mr Bielby In thef-f-f-first mission V-V-V-Virgil, Alan and I

. m us t rescue a group of m-m-miners who oretrapped in their m-m-m-mine cage deepunderground, but the whole t-t-t-tunnel

p i• system is flooding, leaving them not v-v-v-

, ver y long at all before they drown. V-V-Virgi l drops Alan off from Thunderbird

2 and he m-m-must make his way downfrom the surface towards the stricken m-m-

_ mi ne cage, while I h-h-have to tunnel in at' t h e bottom of the system in the M-M-M-Mole

and reach them from there.. • A l a n : Hey. Brains I'm in this one too, you

Know! What you haven't said is that thereare vonous tools we have to pick up and use(like spanners and hommers), tollingstalactites to dodge, gaps to leap and so on.Unlike on TV we con walk about on our ownpretty well too (though Brains still looks a brtfunny if you ask me) and do some greatcomic 'business' Al various points Brainslooks out from the telly and talks to theplayer, and there's one great bit where hewhizzes across three or lour screenshanging off the bock of a run-away minecar. Yaoarghl Over to you Gordon.

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Gordon: HI, I'm Gordon trocey, but youmight know me bener as The one thatdoesn't gel to do very much.' I drive the littleyellow submarine which might be quitecrop. but isn't as bod as having to sit in Matpoky space station like John does rill thetime.

Anyway. I take part in the , . ond missionin the game and this involves me takingThunderbird 4 down to fescue Me crew of asunk nuclear submarine and shut down thereactor. It's not as easy as it sounds though,'Cos it's sitting on the edge of a dormantundersea volcano, so if it goes up we're all

eip-pn *mole! Eeek! Still, over In you Lady P

MISSION THREE — THE BANK JOBLady Penelope! Yes, thankyou Gordon. On,Parker?Parker: (Do-dt-li do-di-11 do!) Yes, Milady?Lady Penelope: This is the one we're inParker Mission three - remember? Afterthe Sub rescue mission those nice boys,Scott and Virgil find that internationalRescue have been recorded on video andthey're very worned about their super-technology becoming public for somereason It's our job to break into the Bank OfEngland and take a peek at the top secretaccident report to find Out who holds thevideo a n d why. So get your skates on.

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Parker!Parker: I'll fetch the Rolls, Milady.Lady Penelope: While he's doing that I'veJust time to tell you a few things about howyou control two choracters at once. Youtoggle between them using the space barand in some adventures, like the MiningDisaster through the dangers to the requiredploce. However, in later levels like our onethere is a degree of puzzle solving involvedtoo, and you'll have to do some pretty niftytoggling to get Parker and myself to helpeach other out. Anyway, it's over and outfrom me now, as here's Soon to talk to you.

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Scott: Scott Tracey. here, the hunkyThunderbird 1 pilot and all round hero, Myfob is to recover the video of our air craftfrom International Rescue's arch-enemy, theHood Like our craft, this level must remaintop secret, so Itiat's all I can say about it

And so there you have it, fresh from thepuppet's mouths, One thing ordent T-BirdsIons in this office (Yep. I was a bit shockedto discover we employ such obviousjessiesi) were a bil disappointed to

discover, was that at no point do you get tofly any of the Thunderbirds. Still there'sa lot Of game to be played here andno mistake. And if my guess is anything togo by (Nope Ed) this looks like it might be aright little corker Besides, if it isn't I've stillgal the freebie videos I've nicked from ourcorkendous Thunderbirds competition prizebox as consolation (Oh no you haven't! Yournicked, me old beauty! Ed) Oops!

NEWSBack cif My school they called you a bit of aiessie if you were bang into Thunderbirds. Istill had a Dinky Thunderbird 2 (though Ilost the little submanne that came wrth it),a plastic Thunderbird 1, a Lady PenelopeRolls Royce and a Spectrum Patrol vehiclebull kept them hidden guiltily under mybed where my friends would never seethem.

These days though, there's no need forsecrecy, 'cos Thunderbirds is pretty trendy.So what a pity that Firebird made such apig's ear of the licence when it releasedthe first T-birds game back in late '85. RickRobson (Who he? Ed) called Ito 'lazymaze game,' and basically it was just aload of old tripe. Eiden rabid Thunderbirdstans quickly bunged it down the softwaredumper.

Four years on though we now have anew version courtesy of Grandslam, whichthankfully has absolutely nothing to do withthe first. But is it any better? let's take agander, shall we?

Thunderbirds (2?) is basically fourgames in one, and takes the form of a twocassette multilood. There's one mission oneach side of the tope y'see. In each missionyou control two Thunderbirds characters atonce and toggle between them using thespace bar. But why should I explain anyfurther when there's the perfect chappie totell you all about it right here in the firstlevel? Take it away B-B-B-B-8-Brains...

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practical problem to startwith, from Shane Baker ofEssex, who asks, "With theSave mode that you get onmost adventure games, doyou save the part of the gameyou are at onto the actual tapethe game is on, and when youreset the computer will it stillbe on the memory of the

game?" Hold it right there, Shane!First of all, NEVER try to save your

game onto the tape that the game comeson. Most games won't allow this anywayas the cassette tabs at the back will havebeen removed to stop you pressingRECORD while the tape is inthe machine, but don't even tryit. You risk wiping out theoriginal program, then youwon't be able to play the gameat all. When you have savedyour position onto a separatetape, you will still need to loadin the original game, then loadin your saved position, nexttime you start to play the game— the data you save doesn'tcontain all the information toenable you to resume playing,which I think is what Shanewas getting at. But while you'replaying the game, you can saveat any point, and have severaldifferent saved positions onyour tape — in fact that's thebest way of playing as you oftenfind you have to retrace yoursteps to an earlier part of thegame. As for resetting themachine, this wipes out what'sin the machine's inernon,-,including any RAM SAVE (ifthe game has such a feature).So don't do it unless you intendto reload the game from scratchand don't want to save yourcurrent position. For theanswers to your otherquestions, Shane, send me astamped addressed envelopeand tell me exactly whereyou're currently stuck.

Tom Williams aged I n fromLichfield says he's been stuck onMountains Of Ket for years. What.a twit! Oops, sorry I really muststop insulting our wonderful readers.Anyroadup, my advice to young Tom is toignore the cliff face, and to dropeverything if you want to be able to swimin the river. And don't wait two years nexttime you're stuck.

Simon Hathaway from Plymouthasks about The NeverEnding Stoiy Youshould drop the crystal in the room withthe ENIIICAM EGNARTS in it, to learnsomething you'll need later on. Don't kill

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the torturer — try bribery instead. I don'tthink the cape serves any usefulpurpose. but I may be wrong (there'salways a first time!) For help on Redhawkyou need to contact one of the experts,which counts me out. Try sending yoursae and questions to someone like o h ,like Gregory Quinn, 71 Festival Road,Portadown, Co Amargh, N. Ireland BT635HE. And for help on all the other gamesyou mentioned, send your sae to me andtell me where you're stuck.

If you're stuck in any of John Wilson'sgames you can always try typing invarious names to see if you get aresponse. John loves filling up the

available memory with messages forfriends (and others) to discover. If you'vegot Behind Closed Doors: The Sequel (andif you haven't, why not??) then try thefollowing: YS, JUNE. EKIM, MANDY,ELISABETH, DOREEN, FRIENDS. TV,RECORDS, LIKES, DISLIKES,KA R EN, ZENOBI. TED, SMART EGG.That lot covers everything from KeithFloyd to syrup sponges, although I refuseto be responsible if anyone's offended bysome of the cheekier responses!

Robert Beavan from Hereford askssix zillion questions, so here are just afew of the answers. lb get to the magic

ring in The Hobbit you must first escapefrom the world-famous Goblin's Dungeonand then go SE/E/SE/E. Apologies fornot writing that last bit backwards, but itwouldn't have been easy to do! To find theidenticard in Rigel, first you ELCIHEV NiSTAES ENIMAXE, and then you justSTNEMUCOD EHT DAER. In InspeetorFluke!' tto get into the pub you mustENOB PORI). In Shadows Of Moidon assoon as the skinny ore enters you shouldPROWS HTIW CRO LLIK, and repeatthis, and also alternate it with askingSam to do the same. It also helps if youspecify in the input which orc you mean.

Talking of orcs, remember the sleepyorc in Hammer Of Grintmold?1said you got past it by simplykilling it, but some people saidthat didn't work. It turns outthe answer to the problem isdifferent in more recent RAWversions. as opposed to theoriginal Qua Thanks to SueMedley for the other solution,which is that first you mustexamine the orc to get a clue asto one of his little weaknesses,then yxu CRO RAEN N()GA LFECALP. Go away for about tenmoves and then return.

Sue also contributes to thegreat limier saddle controversy.First of all I said that youshould ELDDAS TSOP to get itto the station, but some upstartby the name of Denis Reillyclaimed you should KCAS EHTNI TI TUP instead and saveyourself two-fergs. Sue chips inwith the info that Denis'ssuggestion is easier, but doesn'tearn you maximum points. Thefirst method gets you 10 pointsfor doing it, and then you mustdo a bit of busking for another10 points, which also gets you aone-ferg ticket for the train soyou don't need the two-fergcoin after all. Carrying thesaddle KCAS Eurr NI doesn'tyou get the equivalent.

At this juncture (you didn'trealise we were at a juncture?). I'dlike to give a rather belated thanks toeveryone who sent me a Christmas card.Better late than never. Thank you, eachand every one, except for Greg Quinnwho told me to enjoy myself and notdrink too much. Make your mind up,Gregsy-baby, it's got to be one or theother!

Karl Camenzulp from East Ham askswhere to go once you've got the talkingbomb in R4get. You will have toDLEIFENIM EHT SSORC, and to do thatsafely you will need ROTCETED EHT —and know how to use it properly.

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there? If so, make a note of this nameand address, A. O'Brien, 30 Penrith St.Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA14 2BP.This reader says he recently dug out hiscopy of this oldie, and after playing it forabout an hour he realised why he'd givenup on it in the first place: bugs! He'smanaged to get to Level four but can'tget to the end of it despite the updatedversion of the program that he receivedwhen he complained at the time. Areasonable complaint, as one of the bugscauses his entire inventory to disappearfrom time to time! If anyone can help oradvise, please contact this poor sufferingsoul direct.

C. Gallagher is also a poor sufferingsoul, but it serves him right because hewent and bought Not A Penny More, Not aPenny Less, probably the worst adventuresince the dawn of time. C.G. has been,"Stuck in the underground for a long timenow, so any help anyone can offer wouldbe greatly appreciated." Other suckers...sorry other sufferers should send theirhelp to 73 Lovemck Crescent, Rugby.Warwickshire.

Nigel No-name writes all the wayfrom East Doncaster. and before you saythat's not a long way this is the one inVictoria, Australia! Among other things.Nigel asks how to save the woman fromgetting shot in Jack The Ripper This is oneof those fussy-input problems, so isworth repeating for other readers. Theinput you need is YDAL FO TNORFBR].

Trouble with an input in another CRLgame for Mark Rawe of SouthOckendon, and he says he thinks the menin white coats will be taking him awaysoon if he doesn't sort it out. This is inWilfnian, and Mark's been told he mustlook in the mirror, but when he typesLOOK IN MIRROR he just gets thelocation redescribed. I don't have a copyof Waltman to check it out, but it soundsto me like the pmgmm's just reading thefirst two words and responding as if you'dtyped in LOOK on its own. Try LOOKMIRROR instead.

James Handley of Barnes in Londonmust be a quick adventurer, He starts hisletter by asking for help on Seabase Delta,then by the time he gets to the P.S. hetells me it's okay 'cos he's finished it! (Ora slow writer! Ed) What he hasn't finishedis Inspector Finked, where he needs toknow what to do in the churchyard. FirstSEVARG EHT ENIMAXE. Then use theYEK LLAMS to unlock the gate. As forthe vicar, just give him WAR) EHT andthe mucky magazine! And no, I don'tmean }bur Sinclaii: who said that? Kindlyleave the page. Oh, we've all got to leavethe page anyway because we're at thebottom. Byeeeeee!!!!

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disappointed that WilliamYoung had to close down hisSpectrum AdventureExchange Club recently. Butnow he's back, with a terrificidea, which is that SpectrumAdventurer will return, butthis time purely as a meansof publishing adventures. I'lllet William explain what isplanned.

"Your recent article onpublishing adventures wasextremely interesting butunfortunately it can bedifficult for an author to findan outlet for his/heradventures — enterSpectrum Adventurer.Budding adventure writers —if their adventures are goodenough — will have a readymarket for their products.This means that authors canconcentrate their energieson writing and leave thehard slog of producingcassette labels, inlays,mailing jiffy bags and therest to SpectrumAdventurer.

"Spectrum Adventurer isnot a profit-making concern,it exists solely to promoteadventures. Any profits fromthe sale of adventures will goto the authors concerned. Ihope to produce adventureson tape and disk, and detailsof the games will be senteach month, free of charge,to everyone on my mailinglist. If anyone wants detailsall they have to do is sendme their name and address."

The address of SpectrumAdventurer is 4 KilmartinLane, Curluke, Lanarkshireswr.aBefo re the Spectruml e r Adventurer tapezinedeparted. it ran a competitionto win a +3, which was open toeveryone who bought its Virusadventure, and William Younghas lust announced the name ofthe lucky 4 3 winner • - M.Morrison of Exeter There werealso seven winners of mysteryprizes, and among thoserecognised several YS readers,such as Allan Phillips, WalterPooley and Mike Brailsford. Welldone. chaps. Now that thecomp° is over. Virus has beenreduced in price from E2.99 toEl_99, post free. I dorecommend it as being veryenjoyable, and well worthadding to your collection. Sendyour pennies to the SpectrumAdventurer address above.

W Here's something thatmade me smile. I've justhad the latest press releasefrom Official Secrets, givingdetails of the exclusiveMagnetic Scroll's game,Myth, that's being handedout free to members and tono-one else in the knownuniverse. Myth's been talkedabout for a few months now,and I was beginning towonder if it really was amyth, so I liked thecomment in the pressrelease that said "MagneticScrolls has been working onMyth for, ooh quite a longtime now really." Say nomore!

But why so long! I askedAnita Sinclair. "Well basicallybecause it just grew andgrew. At first the idea wasthat it was going to be avery small ten roomadventure with about fourpuzzles, but as it was beingwritten it expanded to abouttwo dozen rooms and tenpuzzles, and we keptwanting to make it better.Quite honestly. I think it'smuch too good now to giveaway!" Lucky Official Secretsmembers.

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Membership costs E19.95from Official Secrets, POBox 487, Harlow, Essex CM219PH.

ahAnd the next MagneticIII,Scrolls release? Anita Sinclairagain. I doubt if the next onewill be out before September,which is a long way away, but itwill be different, Don't get mewrong. it'll still be a text-basedadventure, but we want toincorporate into it all of theideas we've had about whatadventure games could be doing,ideas we've had since way backwhen we were doing The Pawn.It'll be different, that's all I cansay" But all Magnetic Scrolls'games are different (especiallyFish!). This one will be evenmore different!"

S Now, quite a lot of youhave written in to askwhat has happened to TheGreat Peepingham TrainRobbery, which I had anexclusive sneak preview ofseveral months ago. This isthe game written by ColinJordan, whose previouseffort was Inspector Flukeit,which endeared itself toloads of people, includingme. Colin writes to tell methat Peepinghom wasoriginally commissioned byTop Ten Software, but afterkeeping him waiting for awhole year. it's nowannounced that it's no longerreleasing adventures, so itwon't be publishing it.

Fear not though, Flakeitfans, Colin has decided torelease the game himself,

Just to refresh yourmemories, Peepinghomfeatures our belovedInspector Flukeit and hisfaithful sidekick, Blunders,this time called in toinvestigate a train robbery.

There's also a 128K versionavailable now, and thatfeatures a few extracommands like RAMSAVE/RAMLOAD and P1X to turnthe graphics on and off.Either version is available ontape only for £2.99 fromAxxent Software,Shirwedean, Sandyhill Road,Saundersfoot, Dyfed 5A699 H N .

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published by l'S reader LesFloyd. will set you back Elmore than the usual price fixedfor such offerings, but then

Les is donating El from every sale theWishing Well Appeal in aid of the GreatOrmond Street Childrees Hospital, a veryworthy cause. He also says that the firsttwo orders received that have IS writtenin the bottom left corner of the envelopewill have their money returned and get thegame for free. This chap's nothing if notenterprising!

Can he write a good adventure,though? Well, with a little help from his/-414Ts Les hasn't made too had a stab at it.The story is set on the German-Austrianborder in 1954. but the Germans are stillthe potential baddies as they're suspectedof building nuclear missiles in a mountainhideout. You're on your way to investigatewhen sniper fire causes you to crash yourjeep into the mountainside, so there'snothing for it but to continue on foot, tryto destroy the base and make the pre-arranged helicopter rendezvous.

The game's only small, about 40locations, with 12 of them havingreasonable graphics to them. This is nota game that's going to tax the experts forvery long, but newcomers should getmore out of it. The problems are all fairlylogical, and I progressed through it quitewell, with a heavy use of the RAMSAVEfeature. For this you type RS, although itisn't documented — but the author saysbetter documentation will be ready by thetime this review appears. TheRAMSAVE is needed for the manyinstant deaths that are lurking, but I'mglad to see you're warned about most ofthem in advance.

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There's a nice try at descriptive text,which is atmospheric without filling thescreen to overflowing, like, "You arestanding on a wide dry road beside theopen mouth of a dark forbidding cave.The rock above looks down onto you, thesun's light turning the sandstone to thecolour of blood." What a shame this hardwork is spoiled by a great number ofspelling errors, such as "a lenth [sic' ofrope", and 'hastilly" for "hastily" Hedoes get his rope in a twist elsewheretoo, as one bugette occurs when you'veclimbed down it. I thought I'd try GETROPE, as some careless programmesallow you to do that despite it being tiedto something a few hundred feet aboveyour head, but here the response to GETROPE was a mysterious "ENTER GAMEPOSITION." Hmm, h a v e to think howthat one got there. A few other errorsshould have been spotted, like the bird'snest which you can see when you reachthe top of a tree, but if you try to GETNEST you discover "There isn't one ofthose here." At one point you must JUMPONTO BANK to get from one location tothe next, but JUMP TO BANK doesn'twork.

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its free exclamation mark) putsme in a tricky position, and Idon't just mean at the start ofthe game when you're

swimming upside down in a goldfishbowl. No, what I mean is that thislatest Magnetic Scrolls title is co-written by our very oVill Phil South, soit's a bit difficult being objective whenyou've heard about the game from thestart and seen the blood, sweat andbeers that Snouty's put into the writingof it. Nevertheless, I shall try I shallalso try t9 avoid fishy puns, mainlybecause every one you could possiblythink of (and some you wouldn't wantto) have already been used in thegame, or in the packaging.

Our old friend the blue box this timecontains the inevitable disk — verysorry tape-type persons, but this isabout M K of adventure — and a one-week travel card for the HydmpolisUnderground Omnibus Company whichis not valid before 9.00am Mondays-Fridays, except DoggerBank Holidays —gerroan! There's a Fish IdentificationChart, a sheet headed "How to LookAfter Your Fish" and a document fromthe Mission HQ of the Department ofInter-Dimensional Espionage. At thispoint you might be forgiven forthinking "Goldfish... espionage.swimming upside down in a bowl...what the fish is going on here?"

What you obviously don't know isthat some fish are in fact really Inter-Dimensional Espionage Agents indisguise, and that means you. Youthought you were on holiday in a bowl,but you are about to be recalled to dutyby your boss. Sir Playfair Panchax,told to pull your fish finger out and geton the trail of the Seven Deadly fms,that dangerous group of inter-

dimensional anarchists. To help you.your boss has conveniently sent youthree time warps, and you can gothrough any of these at the start torevert to your normal state (whateverthat is) and wind up in three differentintroductory adventures. It's throughtime-warping that the Fins manage tocommit many of their dastardly crimes.

On the other side of one warp is arecording studio — the music businessfeatures very heavily in Fish! Youmight even find a cassette made by theFins, and the machinery with which toplay it — that's provided you're quickabout it as the producer keeps askingyou to make him a cup of coffee and ifyou don't oblige he throws you out onthe streets, where you automaticallywarp back to your goldfish bowl — andwarping hurts!

Another warp leads to you wakingup in the back of a grotty van, and younow seem to be the roadie to a groupof some kind, who've all gone and leftyou to wander round in the ruin of anabbey, trying to avoid the attentions ofa group of hippies. This isn't easy,especially as you end up wanderingpast their camp-fire carrying a churchpew This does rather tend to drawtheir attention to you. By now you willhave gathered that Fish! is one weirdgame. probably a love-it or hate-it jobdepending on the wavelength of yoursense of humour. Anyone weird enoughto read YS in the first place is probablygoing to love it.

I did have some trouble in the thirdwarp, however, which leads to a forestclearing where another espionageagent, Micky Blowtorch (author ofWarping Along With Blowtorch), islurking. Not that he's very co-operative. In order to have a good lookround the location where he was

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There were niggling parser problemselsewhere, too, partly due to thetricky things you had to try to do inthe game. I thought the problems hadjust a bit too much emphasis on timing— doing things in the right numbers ofmoves, which means that you have torepeat actions quite a lot so as to workout the best order, that type of thing.

But one thing you cannot say is thatFish! is just another mundaneadventure. It's one I've kept loadingup, returning to each of the warps inturn and trying to make a bit moreprogress in the hope of getting throughto the following major part of theadventure which takes place inHydropolis. It's tough going! It's alsofull of funny finny jokes, leaving no fishunpunned, and no barrel unscraped inthe quest for aquatic cracks. Spectrum'adventurers seem to like that kind ofthing — and they should definitely likeFish! (Can I have that fiver now,Snooty?)

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Spectrum competition tobring you the first preview ofthe new game from AbstractConcepts: Parisian Knights.

It's written mainly byjohn Popkess, withhelp from his sister Anna 'Mindfighter'Poplcess and their Abstract partnerFergus McNeil. All three came into theiSoffice recently with the one and onlySpectrum copy of the game in existence,introduced me to the adventure, and thenkindly left me to play it by myself for afew hours. This is a preview, then, andnot a review, although the adventure wasabout 95% finished. Bear in mind that anyquirks or bugs that I spotted may wellhave been taken out of the game in itsfinal spit and polish.

From the future of Muuttsgitter,game takes us back to the past, toNovember 1927 to be exact, and you arePhillip. a kind of 1920SJames Bondfigure. You're an intelligence operative forFrance's Bureau D'AffairesInternationale, and have just returnedfrom a successful mission in London. Butno sooner are you back than your life's indanger and you set off on another missionthat will take you as far as China in thisfour-parter.

Part one is restricted to Paris, in andaround the Bureau's headquarters atChateau Lebian. In fact part one is veryrestricted, just 17 locations, and the aimis to pick up a bit of information (and afew objects), stay alive, and get out ofParis on one of the trains leaving fromClemenceau Railway Station. Billed as agraphic adventure, this part has just theone graphic, of the Eiffel Tower. Laterparts have more pbc, but not many.

The text is lengthy and true to theperiod, so it's no great hardship to switchthe graphics off. There's the same controlpanel that Mindlighter featured, whichcomes up on-screen if you press ENTERwithout an input, and this allows you tochoose various options.

Part one certainly has a lot of depth toit — but does it have enough content?Many people are wandering round,especially at the Bureau, and you canconverse with these to a limited extent,but it doesn't seem to add much to thegame.

The setting's convincing, and thecharacters and random messages give asense of reality, but I wonder about thedesign of the problems, and the amountof adventure challenge that's in there. Toget to part two you must catch a train outof Paris, with two choices open to you atthe station: platform two goes to Geneva,and platform one goes to Baden. There'sa ticket office for each platform, and a slipof paper in your pocket entitling you to aticket on any Baden-bound train. You'vealso loadsamoney in your wallet, but ifyou try to buy a ticket for Geneva you'retold you haven't any money! You canexchange the slip for a Baden ticket, butif you try to go back and get a ticket forGeneva you're prevented from joining thequeue. This is obviously essential for thegame's purposes, but it doesn't do much

for reality.The trains to Baden leave at 4.30,

12.00 and 19.00, and you pretty soonrealise that your life depends on catchingthe right train o r on how you catch it.Instant death lurks with all three, andunfortunately lurks in several otherplaces too — not my favourite way ofleaving a game. 48K owners will need tosave to tape and RAM regularly. But themain fault here is the design of theproblem. Get to the station at the wrongtime and you have to wait several hoursfor the next train. Each input onlyrepresents the passing of a minute,though you can WAIT 10, or WAIT 60 o,hurry things along. I admit I was limitedwith not having full instructions. butWAIT 120 only resulted in 2 minutesgoing by, and WAIT 2 HOURS wasn'tunderstood.

Okay, so you can type WAIT 60 severaltimes, but this game does attempt tosimulate real-time and the response toeven a single WAIT 60 was that I had tosit back and watch while a schoolgirl in astraw hat walked by swinging her tennisracquet no less than six times (even atthree in the morning!) and it really didseem like a genuine 60 minutes hadpassed before the prompt returned.

If I thought I was bored in Paris,believe me, I hadn't seen anything yet!Finally working out how to catch a trainto Baden without getting killed, and stillwondering if I shouldn't have been goingto Geneva all along, I was then facedwith a train journey of four hours. Yep.you've guessed what's coming. How doyou pass 240 minutes/moves on a trainwith only four empty carriages forcompany? Isn't this taking reality just abit too far? I mean, I didn't even have apaperback with me to read! Surely thisjourney time could have been skipped?All I could find to do was WAIT 60, WAIT60, WAIT 60. WAIT 60...

In Baden I thought things werestarting to pick up. More locations toexplore, and lots of locked doors! Hooray,this is what we adventurers want, properproblems! Then came the bit where Ireally started to tear my hair out. Thehotel manager. Herr Kutter (geddit?),showed me to my room and asked me i sthis room satisfactory?" YES, I typed."That wasn't possible." SAY TOKUTITR, YES. "He didn't seem tounderstand." Nothing worked at all. YES/NO/SAY YES/SAY NO/AGREE/DISAGREE/SAY TO MANAGER, YES/SAY TO KUITER, YES/ SAY TOMANAGER, "YES". I couldn't get rid ofthe so-and-so, and in the end [triedKILL KUTTER. It worked! A bitawkward, having the body of the hotelmanager in your room, but it should helpto avoid paying the bill,

A final verdict on Parisian Knights willhave to wait till the finished versionarrives, but going by what I've seen sofar there's a long way to go to turn thisinto an enjoyable adventure. A greatshame, after the promise I thoughtMindfighter showed.

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The annual awards handed out

by the Adventurers' ClubLimited always have a specialInterest for me because they'reamong a few adventure awards

voted for by regular adventure players.The Adventurers' Club, or ACL forshort, has about 3,000 members, everyone an adventure freak, so when theycast their votes you know they're doingit from experience.

The awards mean a lot to thesoftware houses too, and this ye4r._..the awards were handed outpublicly for the first time,Sherlock Holmes Hotel inBaker Street (where else?)k, e r e w e r e

representatives from Mirrirsoft,Gilson, Level 9, Rainbird, MagneticScrolls, Electronic Arts and many manymore, not to mention just about everymagazine with a healthy adventuresection — including ES, of coursWell, with a buffet and a free glaswine on offer, how could I miss it?

Actually I nearly did miss it,a typical adventurer I tried to ehotel through the wrong door atfirst attempt.

The 'evening' actually began ato'clock, and by about 4.30 thedrinks were already being claimedwas great to have a chance to chat tiak-4tfellow adventurers for an hour or sobefore the awards were announced and,more importantly, the grub wasbrought out.

One of the highlights for me waAbeing able to meet people who! onlyknew through their adventures, peoplelike Linda Wright of Marlin Gamesaat

Jack Lockerby of River Software, aidTom Frost of Tartan Software, whdcltravelled from Scotland just to be there.

With several people from the morder companies there too, it waspleasing that this year ACL supremoHenry Mueller had included a couple ofnew categones specifically for them.First was Mail Order Software

Company Of The Year, and I wasdelighted when the winner wasannounced to bejohn Wilson's ZenobiSoftware. Regular readers will knowthe high esteem I have for Zenobi'sgames, so it's good to discover thatothers feel the same way. The onlydisappointment was thatjohn wasn't!',ahle to travel down to be there, so Iwasn't able to allow the RochdaleBalmg to buy me a drink to celebratehis victory. (Actually, I think that's theonly reason he didn't come).

Nent category was the GoldenShield. for Mail Order Adventure OfIlle Year, and again I was pleased tosee the award go to what I felt to be theobvious winner. likyll kta Hyde.Mitten and published by EssentialMyth. I think this is the only mail orderadianture that's ever been made a:megagame, when I reviewediii IA '

/August. Aild remember, you ik2dabout it first in VSas long ago as • ' ,January 1988, when I ran my exclusivepreview. It was a turrific honour for /Sthen, when Tony Bride read out aletter from Essential Myth apologising'for the fact that it couldn't attend t iasking me to accept the award obehalf becauFt• of the support it' ;both from me and the VS rea d e r s .a. Next on the podium was Dave

-Barker, who I know is a l'Sreaderhas now been elevated to the loftyheights of the ACL council. Dave said alade about the commended adventuresof the year, which were Lancelot and

•v,nd Zork

the Golden Sword award I( ,r- R o

Ken Matthews was called on it . 2 )1 0

PlayRig Game Of The Year. Kenannounced the Golden Sword winner asDungion Iletster, and was lucky enouto hand the award to Mirrorsoft's CaCampos, who sent. our photographer_,,,,,,to overdrive.

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telephoto lens zoom out so quickly. Atleast I think it was his lens. (0o-erl)Next up was me. I was handing out

Iltatothe gong for National Software

Company Of The Year, and the winnerwas Magneti c Scrolls.

Henry Mueller then gave out the firstaward for the Fellowship of theAdventurer's Club, an honorary awardt,1 the peson or persons who have donemost to further the cause ofadventuring. This was won by Level 9.

Finally we got round to the mainawards of the night, the Bronze, Silverand Golden Chalice Awards for BestAdventures Of The Year. These werehanded out by Keith Campbell, ACLPresident.

In third place was Rainbird's LegendOf Thi• Sword, not something Spectrumowners will have seen, although I knowsome of you also have STs and willknow how good this release is. Theaward was collected by one of theprogramming team of Silicon Software.Back to the podium came a MagneticScroll to pick up the Silver Chalice forfinrIcr. and then it was time to revealthe best adventure of 1988. What couldit be? I was as keen as everyone else to,find Out, and just as pleased to discoverthat the winner was again my own-choice, the game I described as Level9's best ever release, Ingrid's BackThree cheers for Ingrid — and for PeteAustin, who accepted the award on her'total('Ark Henry Mueller wound up the

ottneedings, it was nice to see TomFrost stand up and suggest a_spontaneous vote of thanks to Henryfor Organising it all. Well done Tom,and well done Henry. And then it wasback to the nosh, and back to the bar,where the level of the scotch bottle wasfalling rapidly. Tom Frost claimed it wasevaporation, but I didn't believe him.

was a great evening, no doubtaI i t, and I only wished more ACL

ibers had been able to be there toenjoy it. Maybe next year. I shallcertainly be there though. AfterLinda Wright still owes me a drink! UP

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7- Matt What an odd compilation

this is. No theme or concept toit at all, lust lots of stuff from1987/88 that sits together

rattler awkwardly. a bit like chalk andcheese. A sports sim here, a strategy gamethere su re l y nobody's going to be big onall of them?

Lucky then. that most of this lot are prettygood. there's even a smattering of mega-games. though I can't really rave about theopener...

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10th FrameA :en pm bowling sim? Doesn I sound too promi-sing to me and, ahem, it isn't. Don't get me wrong- it's a reasonable and challenging programstruggling under the weight of an original gamethat gives very little to go on. There is only reallyone screen, with you as a little wire outline manbowling at the bottom, and the pins set up alongan alley that stretches away in front of you.

You can take part in either League or Openbowling, with three different skill levels - thoughOnly the hardest 'professional' one is worth goingfor What more can I say - the graphics are so dullthat even the reasonable playability can't save it inmy eyes. In '87 we gave it a (gerPmtis) Rear Nitin '89 I'll lean nearer 55°.

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The Armageddon ManEek! It's a bit hard this maintair..;ig world peacelark. Armageddon Man is a sort of WarringNations Manager in which your task is to jugglethe economic and military balance of sixteen dif-ferent countries and prevent war breaking out by acombination of praise. aid, condemnation andmilitary force. An icon driven strategy exercise, it'sfar too complicated to go into here except to saythat it takes a lot of concentration and a strong

memory which is probably why I succeeded inprovoking limited nuclear exchange withinminutes! I'll have to stand by the eight (pre-Foreign Legion) Gwyn gave it, though I did find thetask of keeping all these squabbling youngsters inline, a bit 'trying.'

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ShackledA t)4icK &Id white Gauntlet clone that's a poor imi-tation of Avenger. Ranarama and the big G' itselfSmall sprites, bad collision detection and pooranimation ruin what remains a playable concept,especially in two player mode Not a highlight ofthis collection

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A IIXenoThis one's pretty damnlood too Very simple andvery playable, its a futuristic variant on ice hockeyfeaturing two saucer-shaped craft instead ofteams. You look down on the pitch from behindthe audience and control your saucer-by a b i z a r r esystem involving protecting a cursor which is con-nected to you by a dotted line, and then shootingoff as if catapulted along that line It takes somegetting used to. but in twc p',3ver mode, with the

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time limit on each move reduced to a couple ofseconds, it's one of the fastest cut-and-thrusts(0o-er) around.

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I quite like it A 3D vector graphicnting part at the surface of an alien plat

absOlutety lam-packed with hidden rooms.rs, space-ships for the nicking, telepoys and so on You can quite easily spe

!hi t i l lip which isns it took him ation and map-

took to

TrantorPerhaps the most cuilventional game here, it's ahorizontally scrolling shoot 'em up with nice biggraphics, last and smooth animation and greatsound. Theres also a tiamethrower (myfavourite!). It's blummin' good, it not quite worththe nine generous Snouty once gave it.

HardballCOlotirtui baseball sim, with large. well drawnsprites. It's obviously a thoughtful representationof the game, where you can play both fielding andbatting sides, substitute team members andchoose between at least eight sorts of pitchingthrows. The only problem is. I don't find baseballall that interesting. Ho hum.

CholoA wire frame 30 vector graphics thing that I foundquite hard to get into. You find yourself in a postnuclear world. All the humans are trapped in anunderground bunker by rampaging robots who aretrying to keep them down there. You play the one

sane robot trying to break the seal and let thepeople out by capturing and reprogramming thehostile droids. It uses all of Firebird's vector gra-phic skills and it it pales a little next to Mercenary.there's no great shame in that.

Psycho Pigs UXBWhat was °VIC thinking ot9I H e g a v e t h i s s i l l y ,

monotone effort an eight. But I think its hopeless.It's repetitive, its i t s the twelfth time I lust

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um1Dth FrameArmageddon ManBobsleighCholaShackledMercenaryXenoPsycho Pigs UXBTrantorHardball

DiagnosisA very mixed grill, both in type oflame and in standard, but contain-Ing a lair amount of crackling non-,tkipless

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Now this has to be the single-most useful program I've everprinted here in Pitstop. I do notjest. You may have noticed howI always brag about the size ofmy disassembler in the POKEpages (they don't call me Davidi f it moves POKE it"McCandless for nothingy'know). Well now here's a tinydisassembler, brain-child ofone Gary Shepardson. It's soversatile and brilliant that Idecided to split it up over twoissues just to increase thesuspense (and make it looksmaller)

CunningThe most cunning feature ofthis gembo is that it resides inthe top-half of the screen. Thismeans you can load theprogram you want to disect andnot have it over-written by thedisassembler — a commonproblem among us masterhackers.

Useful!There are a variety of uses forGary's program. Best is thestreet credibility value. Inviteyour friends around, have thedtsassembler 'accidently'running on your computer, andthey'll be so amazed they'llbuild a religion around you!Also, this program will allow youto nose about other people'sprograms, and let you searchfor mysterious things like

PROGRAMIDITSTOPIt's time once more to look at your programming prowess, so here's

your host with the most, David "Fab Wack Macca" McCandless.

Isaid a few months

ago that Pitstop wasgoing to be party to afew changes. Well,those changes are

coming soon to a magazinenear you. For a start I'll beletting my responsibilities slip,Yep. I'll be hanging up myclichés and packing myannoying sub-heads todepart for pastures new (andhexadecimal free). And Jon-boy Davies will be taking over

with his unique brand ofenthusiasm, (he'll probably doa better job than me). Butyou'll have to wait for a coupleof sleepless months for thechange over — and the firstperson who says they'relooking forward to it getsseverely beaten. (an lookingforward to it. Ed), Ah, eerrrh,well, I meant more of athunderous round of well-earned applause.

Anyway this month's

by Gary ShepardsonPOKEs and cheat modes. And y o u ' l l be able to install it into aif you're UNBELIEVABLY clever Mult ilac e

offerings are pretty varied.First is the premiere part ofThe Hacker, aphenomenonally usefuldisassembler by GaryShepardson, serialised overtwo issues for your delight.Then, Chris Pile makes awelcome return to thesepages with his screenquadrant magnifier — read onfor more details of that. Andthere's a special fromDamian Stones too!

BrilliantIt you s imply cant wait until nextmonth, or lust can't be botheredto type in each instalment of the1024 bytes then send a chequeor E2,50 postal order to GaryShepardson, 4 Epping Close,Thornaby, Cleveland. TS17ODY. And old Gazzer will do therest.

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Usefulness is simply emanatingfrom these pages this month. Ican barely believe it myself.After the superlativeness of thelast offering we now have ChrisPile and his excellent (and

• sh o rt ) Quadrant Magnifierwhich'll allow you to zoom in ona specific quarter of the screen.Wowsers.

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Simple PimpleTo get magnifying just type inthe self-sufficient, user- friendlyBasic program_ Once RUN. thiswill assemble the code inmemory (at address 63400incidentally) and SAVE it foryou. Cor, some people don'tknow how easy they have it.Afterwards NEW the computerto clear the BASIC away. Thecode will remain intact.

Z13000000M!First thing to do is specify whichquadrant is to be magnified.You do this by POKEing a valueinto address 63401 (0 T o pleft, 1 — Top right, 2 — Bottomleft, and 3 — Bottom right). So ifyou wanted to magnify thebottom left you'd POKE

63401.2 and so on. Follow upthe POKE with RANDOMIZEUSR 63400. A magnified

by Chris Pileversion of that part of thescreen will now fill the entirescreen. Repeating this process

TECHNO B I L G E448 E X T R A C O M M A N D S F O R T H E

PRICE OF ONEWarning: You are nowentering the technical zone.All those with brains smaller

• t h a n Southampton should not- read on, Insanity, lysteria and

other related disorders mayresult. You have been

• , - - - - -warned.

• I f you are a programmer, canhandle machine code and arepretty damn observant, youmay have noticed one or two

• y a w n i n g gaps in the Z80assembly language instructionlists. Well, in fact they aren't justgaping hexadecimal abyssess

O b u t actually hidden secretinstructions_ Spook!The story goes that when

Zilog (who put the 'Z' in Z80)• c a m e to polish off its newwonder chip, it found that some

cunning instructions didn'tactually work (a bit of a

▪ b u m m e r considering that thechip was practically finished).So rather than redesigning theentire chip (and spending lotsof money) it opted to just ignorethe culprit commands, sincethey weren't that essential.

The discovery of theseconcealed commands is nogreat revelation nowadays, butyou know me, I'm always slow

to pick up on good ideas. I, ofcourse, in my all encompassingwisdom, knew about them andpretended to understand them.But it was not until DamianStones approached me with anenlightening article that Irealised their full potential. Sowhat else could I do but tell youlot?

INSTRUCTION C O D E INSTRUCTION

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00 R E S 008 R E S 110 R E S 218 R E S 320 R E S 428 R E S 530 R E S 638 R E S 740 S E T 050 S E T +58 S E T 360 S E T 468 S E T 570 S E T 678 S E T 7

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MysteriousThese mysterious mnemonicsinhabit the DD-CB and FD-CBareas of the tables (that is theymust always be prefixed withDDCB or FIDCB). Theseinstructions do the same asnormal ones but load the resultof the operation into the Index

Here It Is9970 NEN MLOCE LIN T DELETE

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register specified. For example,DD-CB-00-01 loads C with thecontents of a RLC (IX+00) i.e.LD C. RLC (IX-1-00)_ If you knowZ80 this is an illogicalcombination but it works.

TablesHopefully these tables willexplain what I mean moreeloquently than I have alreadydone:

Form the command with thefollowing structure: DD-CB-nn-XX where 'nn• is adisplacement for the indexedcommand (i.e. IX-f-nn) and 'XX'is formed as shown opposite,

Toodle PipAnyway, howsaboutsending me some of yourinspiring 'not bad' littleprograms yer selves/ Male orfemale, Basic or Hex, blondeor brunette — I don'tdiscriminate. Just documentit as well as you can, jam itonto a tape and bung it to me(via the Royal Mail grapevine)to David McCandless.Program Pitstop. YourSinclair, 14 Rathbone Place.London. W1P 1 DE,

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M•usic Micro Please!

(Okay, okay, no morenaff puns like that Ipromise). Music is one ofmy lave hobbies, as you

know, but il has always been a bit of asore point on the Speccy, to be sure,Its been possible to make music onour favourite button box before. but-how?' has always been the real

question. Packages to help youhave come and gone, but it seemedthat no-one ever put much thought intothis aspect of the computer, TheSpecDrum was one good idea, butyou needed the box to hear thesounds, and it you wanted to giveSomeone else a copy of your "song"what good was that?

So. if you like to make music foryourself or have a more commercialidea on mind, game effects and musicfor example, then a new program fromTorchraven looks like being nght upyour street.

Take NoteMusic Maestro is a music creationutility for the Spectrum range, requinngno add-on boxes, and lots in the wayof editing, playing and saving sluff.Things which require more specialistknowledge or extra devices have beenleft off, like MIDI and print out Options.So it's the ideal thing for folks whowant to dibble around with music insome way, but can't really afford theexpense of the current crop of MIDIadd-ons. MIDI is okay, of course, but itdoes mean that you have to spendupwards of 300 smackers on a MIDIsynth or module! Cost effective musicon the Spectrum was the plan Sowhat is the end result like?

So Much In It?Music Maestro is supplied either ontape or disk If bought on tape it can betransferred to disk for use Thesupplied programs are as follows: abasic loader and load screen. theMusic Maestro program itself plussome essential demos and utilities forcompiling and setting interrupts, aridso on.

To load the program you simplyinsert the disk and press ENTER forloader. The program loadsautomatically After the program hasloaded, you are presented by the mainMusic Maestro screen

Music created by Music Maestro inthe editor can be saved in two ways,as -s ou rc e ' code, easily edited note

lists, or compiled blocks of machinecode, called 'music objects.' A longtime ago there was a package calledWhaaml Music Machine. If youremember that, you'll be intrigued tonote that better than that, the MusicMaestro program not only allows youto program the BEEP speaker, but alsothe three channel AY chip sound foundin the 128 and +2/4-3. This is the firstthing you notice about the mainscreen, you can select between BEEPand channel music. In the lop left ofthe screen the contents of the threechannels, indicated by the numbers 1,2, and 3 are displayed, and you canselect any channel by pressing theindicated number key on the top row ofyour keyboard. Channel on/offindicators show which channels will beplayed when play is selected. AndTone on/oft, which is only used whenthe AY chip is being addressed, showswhether tones are generated for theshown channel. Again, the WhiteNoise onioff shows whether noise will

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HARD!More from the column which looks

more at your Spectrum hardware thanyour software, (honk). Phil South

takes his magic screwdriver to MusicMaestro for all Spectrum computers,

and avoids ALL the obvious puns.(Well nearly all...)

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There is a Speed rating as well,between 1-4. at which the currentlyloaded piece will be played, and nextto that you'll find the key in which themusic is written, shown in varyingamounts of sharps or flats. Don't worryabout the amount of 'real musicnotation and references in the game.One of the points of this program isthat it allows you, by twiddling aroundto learn more about musical notation ifyour musical education doesn't run tosticks and blobs

Other features of the main screenare a white noise level, which willincrease or decrease the amount ofgenerated white noise, if you're usingany tor a drumbeat, say. The otherthing is to toggle the sound-to-lightfacility. This is a bit of fun, which I'll gointo in a moment.

Centrally, the screen shows thenotes to be played on the currentchannel The highlighted be in thecentre is the cursor position, whereyou insert, edit and delete the notesdirectly underneath. This area doublesas a wave display when you're editingwaves/envelopes. Right underneaththe central editing zone is a line for thename of the file you're currentlyediting. You can alter the name arty

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time you like, All the other options forusing the Music Maestro program areright along the bottom of the screenTo use a much loved convention, allthe inteial letters, or at least thehighlighted letters, are the keyspressed to activate each option Oneoption which remains constantthroughout all the menus is the 'Cccommand, for quit obviously.

Saving off your edited scores iseasy, as you just tap the F key for file.T or D for tape or disk, and L. S or 0 forLoad, Save or Object Save. Files areautomatically appended with theextensions .MUS for source, .MOB forobject hies. arid .ENV for attachedenvelopes. You can also specify, (andthis is usetul if you do your music forprofessional purposes) whether thetune plays just once, or whether you'dlike it to repeat over and over. Handyfor title screen tunes and high scoretables.

Allow Me To Compose MyselfEditing on the Music Maestro is adream. You can go to a certainmeasure ot the music by typing S for'start. E for end or B for a certain bar,For varying note lengths and pitches.you can select StaCcato. Dot Sharp,Natural and Flat. (Flats and sharpt3always stay until cancelled by a

natural. as in real music ) Rests are asimportant as notes, as you areprobably aware, so you can insert arest by pressing R The thing whichseparates this package from others,including Ma e & Music Machine, isthe amount of actual editing you cando to the score once you've entered itYou can also perform 'block'operations, chopping and changingwhole chunks of your source to makethe piece longer or shorter, or repeatareas which you can't be bothered toenter again. You can also Play lust theindicated block, rather than the wholepiece! Handy for checking out asection without having to sit through anentire performance

Letter PerfectYou can draw two envelopes for eachchannel, pitch and amplitude(loudness) which affect the 'timbre' Orlone of the note And you can also editthe envelopes with graphic feedbackon the screen This is actually afeature reserved for only the mostexpensive synthesizers The controlover the evelopes is how you make thenotes Sound like different instruments.Now I wouldn't want anyone to get thewrong idea, here The differencebetween sounds isn't that pronounced.and nobody could mistake a Sinclairsound for a real instrument But youwill be pleasantly surprised by therange of tones you can get with theonboard synth chip. As for the BEEP,well, you can't affect its sound, onlynote and duration

Dig The Colours ManThe sound-to-light effect is activatedby 0 for options, and then L toe LightThen the pieces you play on MusicMaestro are interpreted in a 'free-form'display of coloured dots on the screenThis is rather nice, and I spent manylong hours in the dark watching thisbefore they broke the door down andtied my sleeves behind my headFortunately you can press the SPACEbar to quit this pretty cosmic mode.

The Verdictlike Music Maestro a lot It's a wellthought out program which hassomething for everyone Home usersMI enjoy making their own music. Andpro users can save machine codemusic for use in programs, as theinstructions for using interrupt drivenmusic are very comprehensive

On any other system the pricewould be high, but on the Spectrumthe software standard prices call thetune. to coin a phrase So to obtain acopy of this marvellous utility, you onlyneed £9 95 for cassette, and C12 95for dtsk_ A bargain. I think you'll agreeIncidentally, Torchraven is currentlyselling Music Maestro direct by mail,but if any major distributors/softwarehouses are interested, Torchraven willbe only too happy to take their cal.

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Off-road rac ing is a rum ofi l sport. . !Almos t as rum as a banana.

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Maruf Cidthn from Neward, Notts; Peter Young from Saddleworth; JamesMilne from Kettering; Stephen Proctor from Codsall near Wolverhamptonand Master Van Ruotk from Doncaster.The much safer Of you're Bihar * to dust) it X 4 Ott Road Race from Epyx.goes to the following Zb runner uppeosIan Corker, Sheffi eld; Darren Hubbard, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear; JamesKing, Selly Oak, Birmingham: Pau/ Wilson, Blackburn, Lancashire; V Barwick,Redditch, Worcs; J Shade, Lewisham, London; Tim Jones, Cheltenham,Glos; Paul McPherson, Fife, Scotland; P Render, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire;Mr Chris Spear, Hounslow, Middlesex; Stephen Watts, Steeple Morden,Herts, Stephen Law, Burns, Suffolk; I Stuart, Shepton Mallet, Somerset;Benn Moor. Whitby. North Yorkshire; Michael Hurley, Whitchurch, Cardiff;Philip Loveday, Sheffi eld, Z Reddrn, Leatherhead, Surrey; Andrew Booth,Bolton, Lancashire. Brent Payne, Irchester, Northants; Mark Graham, SellyOak. Birmingham: Norman Crooks, Bangor, Co Down: Graham McDougald,Musselburgh, N I,d l o t h i a n , I H o g g, D o n ca s t e r, S ou th Y o rk s hi r e; Gavin Pr ior ,

Blackpool, Lancs; George Milne, Cupar, Fife,

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Second to the chequered flag, and first to the Image Works bag ofgoodies were.R a rd o Marks ,n Helston. Cornwall and Scott McLaren from Dundee.Closely followed by 20 runners up:Martin Henderson, Unst, Shetland Islands; Adrian Markham, Grantham,Unes, Ian Bennington, Langley Park, Durham; Karl Woodbridge.Wellingborough, Northants; Daniel Budd. Wakefield. West Yorkshire: PeterThornton, Burley In Wharfedale, West Yorkshire:G Walker. Work ington,Cumbria; Paul Wilson, Blackburn. Lancashire, Gareth "Teague, Nalisea, Bristol;Ual Cartwright; Lisburn, Co Antrim; Karl Bunyan, langworth. Lincoln,P W Foster, London; Mark Blair, Muir Of Ord, Ross-shire, Stef Ratcliffe,London; J J Spire. Headington, Oxford; Alan Johnston, Redcar. Cleveland.Colm Andrew, Broadbottom, Via Hyde; Michael Tibbenham, Basildon, Essex;David Griffi ths, Harpenden, Hertz: Gary Brighton Newmarket, Suffolk.

This Is My YS/Operation Wolf Compo EntryAnd I Havn't Cheated Honest Guy, CompoAhoy there, Cap'n Fishface here, wit h the winner of the fantastic radiocontrolled boat!Wei Ling Man from Brighton,Ten Operation kittll T-shirts and copies of the aforementioned game thenwent to these landlubbers:Clive -termer, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; Tony Jones, PwIlheli, Gwynedd; AllanJackson. Carlisle, Cumbria; Richard Mark. Helston, Cornwall; Dean Horne,Langwith, Notts; Matthew Luckett, Tiverton, Devon; Dav id Troup, Kings Lynn,Norfolk; James MacDonald, Rochester, Kent; Mark Tunslall, Leyland,Lancashire; Andrew Richardson, Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire.And ten copies of the game alone to:Alistair May, Elgin, Scotland, Robert Delaney, Solihull, West Midlands;Tamoor Shah, Blackburn, Lancashire; Simon Hamilton, Walton On Thames,Surrey: Jon Stewart, Woolpit, Suffolk; Paul Warren, Edgbaston, Birmingham,Stuart Blair Watt, Harpenden, Herts; B Williams, Llandudno, Gwynedd; JohnMcKenzie, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear; Darren Castledine, Pitsmoor, Sheffi eld.

Oo-er Worra Chopper, You Can Fly MeAnyday Compo.Two whopping choppers went to these lucky blighters who won ourDecember issue,Matty Alexander f rom Shrewsbury, and VV Roberts from Colwyn BayThe following fi fty of you should get ready to don your fl ying helmet andmirror shades 'cos your going to be play ing Thander Blade very soon.Mark Ryder, Madeley Heath, Nr Crewe, Chandi Abay, High Wycombe, Bucks;Chris Davies, Tupsley, Hereford; Jamie Noble, Rutherglen, Glasgow,Jonathan Hookings, Haydon Wick, Wilts ; G E Jenkins, Cwmbran, Gwent;Rochelle Astbury, Wythall, Birmingham; Tim Hills. Great Yarmouth. Norfolk,Steven Green, Luton, Bedfordshire; Lee Hawson, Neward, Notts; S Maughan,Gateshead, Tyne & Wear; Dawn Lawrence, Coventry, West Midlands; lainMacDonald, Dunoon, Argy ll; Byron Jones, Nallworth, Glos, Gary MacFadyen,Antrim, N Ireland; Richard Birkett, Kirkcaldy, File; Steven Lowe, Grimsby,South Humbers ide; F G Gilmore, Bolton, Lancashire, Tom Collins. Wrexham.Clwyd; Kyle Reid, Cumbemauld, Glasgow; Mark Snaps. Wigan. Lancashire:Allan Watkins, Maidenhead, Berks, J immy Bushell, Catford, London; S AKirman, Sleaford, Linos; Richard Gardner, Tillicoultry, Scotland: Karl Fewster.Scunthorpe, South Humbers ide, H A Williams. Cadole. Clwyd, Lee Smith, ElyCardiff; Jade French, New Milton, Hampshire. Peter Crooks, Wigan, Lancs;Sakhawat Ali. Seeley, Birmingham; Philip House, Breightmet, Bolton; GaryGreenough, Basingstoke, Hampshire; Neville Maddison. East Winning,Durham; Adam Walden, Elloughton, North Humbers ide, Paul Warren,Edgebaston, Birmingham: Colin M Young, Rosebank, Glasgow; 8 Russell,Mamie, Cheshire; Jon-Paul Smith, Maidstone, Kent; Jonathan Davies,Wrexham, Clwyd; Nathan Bray, Hayle, Cornwall: Mr E Smith, St Helens,Merseyside; Barry Moss, Wookey. Somerset, Daniel Halford, Abertillery,Gwent; J T Henderson, Upper Stratton, Wilts , Mark Jay Norwich, Norfolk;Andrea Taylor. Great Barr, Birmingham, Mart in McHugh, London; P Gibbon.Urmston, John McKenzie, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear

I Owe You Nothing (00-er) CompoTake it away, Fresh and Fly and Danny... -Y e ! W e ' r e F r e s h a n d F l y , A n d

we're here to say, this is a real neat HI-FI. VS is givin' away, it's got a CDPlayer, and we want y 'all to know, that I ts going to the young person,whose name appears below." (Ho, ho)Ian Brown from Bradford.

Sorry to interrupt, children, Mrs. McClusky here. The 25 runners up appearbelow and if I can retrieve the copies of this computer game thing thatyoung Danny has appropriated I shall have them forwarded poste haste]Paul Brinkley, Derry, N Ireland, Dav id Stockdale, Workington, Cumbria. JohnCockburn, Leeds, West Yorkshire; A Harrison, Heywood, Lancashire; Mart inHogg, Bugbrooke, Northants; Joseph Jackson, Darwen, Lancashire; P Went,Netherfi eld, Mitten Keynes; Mr G P Coates, Reading, Berkshire.P Whitehouse, Selby, North Niarkshire, W Badsey, Selly Oak, Birmingham;Alan Darlow. London; Douglas Bryson, Stranraer, Woglownshire, Marc Turner,Plymouth, Devon; Sean Slattery. Portaloise, Co Laois; Joanna Mann,Leighton Buzzard, Beds. James Allison, Kilmarnock, Scotland; Barry Soulis,Shawlands, Glasgow; Donna L Talby, Swainsthorpe, Norfolk ; Paul RU55811.Hailsharn, East Sussex: Chris Elliott, Castleford, West Yorkshire; Brian Gooch,Sheringham, Norfolk; J Morton, Battersea, London; Sue Hanmore, Sandown.Isle of Wight; Jason Higgins, Willingham, Cambridge; Mat thew Sidgreaves,Yelverton, Devon.

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impressive.Hurtling along admiring the scrolling isn't all,

however, for on your travels you will encountermany obstacles, which must be either avoided, or.much more fun, blasted, zapped, totalled, andwiped-out Whatever you want to call it just keepfiring! Waves of aliens will annoy you by weavingand lurching all over the road and firing missileswhich will deplete the shield of your EliminatorAnd though walls are fairly easy to dodge the'cones' on level one are a little tricky. Set up in azig-zag pattern, getting round these entails split-second timing and tons of dexterity.

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lool'em up these days if it didn't have the now bogstandard 'collect the blob to get a bigger weapon'system, and Eliminator's no exceptionOccasionally, a revolving pyramid and cube onopposite sides of the road will be encountered,and only one can be grabbed. The cubes will boostthe supply of ammunition, whilst the pyramid willgive a bigger weapon. The weapons range from asingle tire weapon, right through to a triple lirecannon, which uses tons of ammo dead fast. Andit's best to see whether you need ammo or

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armoury more - before making your choice.There's also the occasional ramp, which will liftyou over an otherwise impenetrable wall, or flipyou up to the ceiling if in a tunnel section — mostdisconcerting.

I often find that 'into the screen' 3D limits shoot'ern ups, as there is not much room formanoeuverability on the road, and so trying toshoot at things and steer proves impossible Onfirst playing I suspected that Eliminator was aboutto fall into the same trap. Fortunately, after a fewplays, the addiction was setting in and Eliminatorwas proving to be a happy exception. The vehiclehas a high level of manoeuverability, there's plenty

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T H E REVENGEHey chums! Don't do drugs — okay! Look at all the trouble thatdrug dealers have caused J immy and Billy Lee — first of all theykidnap the boys' girlf riend, and now that they've finally got herback they've returned to gun her down! There's only one thingfor it . . . the brothers must return to the streets to avenge their

The action is mighty similar to the original's, but differentgirlie's unt imely demise.

backgrounds and harder enemies make for the init ial differences.By far the greatest difference though is the addit ion of a newrange of fight ing moves to add to the heroes' armoury,

Roundhouse and Hurricane Kicks are iust t wo of the newmovements, but don't expect to be able to pick them upimmediate!y as it took me ages and ages to get the hang of them.Unfortunately the game doesn't actually give you a lot of t ime topractice as the iunkies are much harder than they were in theoriginal — and they're armed with a whole new range of weapons

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the previous triangular but ton configurat ion, the three but tonsare now laid out in a straight line making a lot of the moves muchharder to access. This aside, The Revenge is more of the sameand a nice treat for anyone who's finished its predecessor.

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CIARANS CORKY COIN-OPGHOSTS 'N' GHOULS

Poor old Arthur goes away to the crusades for only three yearsand what happens? The land that he calls home is overrun by theghosties that he thought he'd got rid of and his people are fleeingin terror. To make things worse, the ghosts have managed tostrike the first blow and have blown his trusty steed tosmithereens, Poor old horsey — poor old Arthur!

The knight in shining armour is now left to run along a rollinglandscape in search of the magic armour which will finish hisquest. Trouble is, the road is long and fi lled with wicked ghouls —and there's a hell of a lot of treasure chests to be searched.Should Arthur open the wrong chest, a sorcerer appears andattempts to cast a spell. And if Arthur isn't quick enough to stopthis then he could find himself temporarily aged to add to his

Arthur has six weapons to collect and keep — and a bunch oftroubles.

spells to double their power, Spears, knives, napalm, hatchets,spiked disks and swords are all available, but he'll need everyone of them, 'cos the opposit ion gets tougher as the road is

An init ial blow f rom one of the demons causes Arthur to losenegot iated.

his armour and fight on in the scantiest of undies. The next shotturns him into a collaosing skeleton and loses him one of his

Ghosts 'n' Ghouls is a brilliant follow-up to the ancient Ghosts 'n'three lives.

Gobiins. The 0meg:day may not have advanced much over theyears, but then it didn't really have to did if? A classic follow-up toa classic coin-op. Dare! say it? It's magic!9

screen.

HOT CHASERace games are start ing to jam up arcades again, presumablyafter the success of Chase HO. This offering f rom Konami adds atouch of suspense in the form of a t ime bomb ticking away in theboot, but even this doesn't add anything to a rather tedious affair

The problem is that the control is extremely sloppy and the on-screen car doesn't respond like a proper motor at all. For instancehow can a car that takes corners at about 150 miles per hour,suddenly lose its grip on a shallow bend at half that speed?Ludicrous.

An occasional appearance by soldiers and other carsat tempt ing to block the road fails miserably to add to the'tension', as does the tacked-on jumping effect which is bothuseless and visually unimpressive.

I'm usually a great fan of racing games, but this is a trulymiserable effort that left me sad that I'd bothered to feed it acouple of coins. Don't make the same mistake, especially not ifyou're used to OutRun_

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HARD DRIV IN9Forget OutRun's speed or Road Blasters gameplay, Atari's latestracing coin-op is developed from a machine that was designed toteach people to drive for real — so those of you who don't havethe slightest idea how to get a motor running need not apply.

At a quid a turn it can cost quite a bit to become the next JackieStewart — but if you have the money, the patience and the abilityto set the wheels in motion, Hard Drivin' is well worth taking for atest drive.

The simulator's realism is taken to its inevitable conclusion bythe addition of three pedals (clutch, brake and acceleratorl, a five-way gearstick and even an ignition key. For those who aren't toocomfortable with manual transmissions though, the gearstick andclutch can be dispensed with by selecting automatic modebefore starting the engine.

So down to the driving. There's a choice of two courses to benegotiated: either carry on straight from the starting line for astraightforward road, or veer off on the first right-hand turn for a'stunt' track which incorporates such delights as an open bridgeto be jumped and a loop-the-loop to churn your stomach.

It's important — especially on the stunt course — to observethe speed restrictions, as going over the top usually results inleaving the road. This can either mean a quick gear shift andreturn to the track, or a complete write-off.

Despite the classy cabinet and the neat presentation, HardDriviris accuracy turns Out to be one of its major drawbacks.Those of you who can already drive will more than likely alreadyhave access to the real thing, while the rest of you are going tospend a fortune brushing up your skills. I fs worth at least one gothrough.

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screen than usual. Tecmo's Shadow Warriors is the first coin-oprange in Japan.that I've seen which utilises the large format screen that's all the

The bigger screen allows for larger characters to interactagainst more spacious backgrounds, and as such should intheory provide a better game. Un f o r t u n a t e l y i n t h i s c a s e i t

doesn't really meet the mark as the gahard for my liking. meplay is just a little too

The plot is the usual nonsense about Ninjas On the streets ofNew York, fighting an assortment of muscular bad guys in really'bad' gear The first sequence displays a tittle story about one ofthe Ninjas being attacked on a rainy night, and this is one of theits Own right.most effective parts of the game — it's almost worth a watch in

Shadow Warriors isn't a bad game by any means, it's just to(difficult for my taste - but I'm sure that there's masses of youwellto use the wider format screen uses a little more im a g i n a t i o n a

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Agai n Agai nlobba lobtio lobb, Aw-white my

son!" Yes, ifs everyone's fovouritesnotty green alien, Gilbert! Everyonewho anyone knows who Gilbert isdon't they? And here he is, in hisvery own computer game!

After filming Get Fresh in the Tyne

Tees studios, Gilbert has hopped intothe Millenium Dustbin and flownback to Drill, his home planet. Thegame starts with Gillie on Drill havingheard the news thot he has beenoffered a new controcill Gilbert'srobbiting on and on about it andreally winding up his fellow Drilleans,so, in order to stop him from havingmore TV exposure to brag about,they've gom and half inched variousvital components from his space ship.Tikes! And it's your task as Gilbert, tocollect all these pieces, reassembleyour craft, and get to the studioswithin 24 hours!

Snot that easy though, 'cos beingsporting fellows, the Drilleons

Ho, not that! Gabe star ts fl oating!his is very useful for escaping fromarts of the sewer system and also,

as in this piccie, tor flyingover very big beesin the swamp!

challenge Gillet to ploy some videogames - if he con win, then he willget a clue to the componentswhereabouts. if he loses he gets atime penalty! Gilbert must then dashabout the planet looking for thevideo game machines inside the MilkBurs and Snot Burger RestaumntilYou must olio play the gamesthemselves. So arm up for SnotfightAl The OK Corral, Sprout Wars andBrain Drain.

After you've played these sub-games and sussed the clues, you willhave to move Gillie across the planetto retrieve the bits! Sounds wellintriguingl Check it out, it's available'soon!'

Her e's Gillie in one of them any bars and cafes indow ntow n Drill.This is usually the place todiscover the video gamem achines.Popping into a Milk Bar canhaPienish your snot level!(I 'm sure the Milk MarketingBoned would take umbr idgeover this!)

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ActbridanTok,ng off from the Activision airstrip,in the not too distInt future, is ahobby nese flight im, c a l l e d B o m b e,

Protrammed by Vektor Graphics, thepeople responsible for bringing youStar Wars and Empire Strikes Bock,features solid 3-D grophics whichaccurate'', represent six different:

Planes ranging from the F-15 Eogleto the delta winged Sisab Viggen,and, the Russian Mpg 27 'Rogge?!

Each plane, we are bold will hov eradically different characteristics

Including handling' You'll also get achoice of one of 141 adversaries for ohead to head controntatior

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will be air-heiground action, inspiredby an international bombingCompetition hi.)sted annually by theUS Air force \rektor tell us that youwill be able to go in armed to theteeth and blast away at everythingthat moves, I t l o o ks l i ke B om be r

could do for Spetty flight simulatorsin 1989, what Fighter Pilot did in19841

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planet. Oncegoes purple andthe neighbouringtogether and

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pre--robotic adversary andthe form of the othercompetitors via on-information sheets arecords. And whot pn b e supon the winner of these eventrwhogallantly defeats all the 00,-, s p e c i e s

in the cosmiverse? Otaly ', nog 'andmaybe more (it sez ) from theplanet's beautiful lerepresenatative that s hat! Steamy!!

This is more se fl y French stufffrays those wac c p s at Exxos,who b a p t a i n Bloodwhich 1 d in this issue_ PurpleSaturn i s due out in April!

Mel bour ne HouseThis little number from MelbourneHouse is due for release inMay, Its supposed totherapeutic for all thoget very tense and frit's suppos b e

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Then, will be 801Count 'em —BO!) levels, each one an immenseand synthetic world, over which youmust guide a powerball using yourmagical, magnetic rocket! But watchout, there ore loads of death icons tobe avoided! With wildly colouredgraphics and speedy scrolling this isthe sort of tricky game that woulddrive you honkers'

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programmed by Origins Systems,Times Of Lore appears to be in theGauntlet mould but with severaldifferences. There is much moreadventure type input with you talkingwith other characters and going anquests. And there's a hug. gamemap too with castles, sea, forest andall that gear. You will be able tochoose one of three heroes ondheroines as your character and, it'llbe up to you to find out what it's allabout by walking about a bit andconversing with the natives. Times OfLore will be out sometime soon.

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liefectt oli manner of adversaries-such as flash Harry and the Catford•Kid, before you get to hove a crockat 'Maltese' himself! There will be a

tournament or a procike option, ayou can tr,en sit back and study youropponents 'form' as they have apractice knockabout'

There will be a unique 'movearound the table* feature and youwill be able to put spin on the cueball lust like in the real thingl Soundsgood eh? These games, due tonature of the original, ore basicvery simple but Firebird has endoured to make 3-0 Pool the stole ofthe art in this field! It looks like it'sgonna be a corker, so chalk up thosecues in reodinessl

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The gornei an overhead boot-ibout where you can take on a chumor the computer for some dazzlingfootwork You con choose from 29teams with variable attributes. Thereare banono kicks, three way throwins and even adverse weatherconditions for you to cope withl Andif you fancy yerself as a bit of aJimmy Hill, than simply strap on thathuge false chin and switch to theunique action replay facility' It's allhere in Mtcroprose Soccer due outprobably as you read this!Saint: Och, ha, ho, ha. ha, ha, youslay me Jim, you slay me!

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