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• System 3 has rescheduledVendetta - ta driving-around-in-a-Ferrari-and-beating- up-crooksgame - for the New Year.Stablemates will be its as-yet-un-named tennis simulation andFlimbus's Quest, a culsoe platformand ladders game

• Atomic Robo-Kid, the CorkyCoin-Op from last year. is to bebrought to the Speccy by Achvisionearly(ish) in 89 Work has hardlystarted yet, so we can't tell youmuch about it except that it s atraditional horizontally scrollingshoot-'em-up with a cute, boxycentral character

• Crazy French software house I I IInfogrames has a couple of newieswith equally silly sounding namesout before Christmas - Tintin andBobo TI MM (or Tontin On The Moonto give it its full title) is of coursebased On the famous Belgiancartoon character by Rerge. It's afour level platform and laddersromp with looks not unlike DanDare, though there are some littlespace ship bits planned too On theother hand. Bobo is um. alsobased on a Belgian cartooncharacter. though this one ain't sofamous. Its been out on the 16bitters for some time apparently.and is all about a rather hopelessconvict who keeps trying toescape, but of course never doesThere are six mini games. one

based on spud bashing. where he tohas to peel potatoes against theclock, another involving floor Acleaning where he has to stop 1people walking across it betas* II I Ldries, and so on R wetting stuff.eh? Intogrames realises it soundsabout as playable as AdvancedLawn Mower Simulator, but insiststhat It's all quite fun really.

• Audiogenic is entering the tootlemanagement stakes withSuperieague Soccer - a game itsays can be played in parallel withits Emtyn Hughes International 4110

1Soccer arcade game, giving a sortof super-edited highlights effect tothe proceedings. Tactical adviceapparently came from the WestHam manager. who should know.Though he did cock it up a brt lastseason when his team wasdemoted

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• There II be more toote action thisChristmas with Gremlin's FootballerOf The Year 2 hitting the shopstowards the end of October. This1$11 t its last Speccy release, mindyou, 'cos a compilation called The 111 .House Mix will be out about thesame time It'll contain Arlura (a bit g i buseless). Technocoo (average)Motor Massacre (can't remember).Skate Crazy (brilliant). Night Raider(limm) and Dar* Fusion (prettygood).

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Dasid Well. it's all see, well tohe united to a harbie onFireworks Night, but to such atriffic bloke's house— well. Whatcan I say? Nigel showed me intohis •Iiiy-er' as he calls it tit justlooks like a hall to mei. andhanded me a $iarill glass id'Dubonnet and Ionic. Blurgh

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plush orange carpet to the patio,which Nige told me took him inmonths and two whole hags ofconcrete to put down. Trilf. Nige„And so to the food. As me andhis wife sat noshing into amatched pair of Steakhouse

grills, Nige set off the I , • orfour bangers he'd planted in thegarden earlier on, Bang! said thehangeri. Sizzle! said theSteakhottse grills. "Ooh. Auh."said Nige. What a nice evening.

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FLASHPOINTOceanYou really have been spoilt recently,what with all these easy-peasy arc•games that have been comingyour way. So now it's time to rev uyour intellect, put your brain cells igear and burn some grey matter.Flashpoint was on the brink of beinreleased at full price by Ocean whensuddenly it occurred that, rather thanrestricting it to the dosh-laden few, itmight as well circulate it overnight tothe crème de la crème of computerusers t h o s e VS Spec-chumsthemselves.

Don't be under the impression thatjust because Flashpoint is a thinkingperson's game it lacks the snazzygraphics and fast-paced action of thestuff you may be more used to. Goodheavens, no. Everything moves atlightning speed, and as well asconcentrating on the game from yourpoint of view you'll also need to keep acareful eye on what the other chapsgetting up to.

It takes place on a map of 4,000squares, only a small part of which isviewable through your roving grid. Theobject is simply to score as many pointsas possible. These are notched up byremoving the other player's 'forces'from the map. Each has his own grid to

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pressing down and firing again. To zapone of the other giry's forces simplyalign one of yours so it's in the samegrid position as the target, and pressfire. Bingo! Ten points. Be awarethough that forces are immune whenthey're in the middle square of the grid.

As well asAll this simple stuff, thereare special formations of forces thatwill give more dramatic results,sometimes wiping out whole chunks ofyour opponent's brigade at a stroke.One of these is achieved by placingthree of your squares in a horizontalline and then moving the grid so one ofthe squares is at the edge of it. Pressfire and blammo! Any enemy forces onthat line are eliminated. The otherformations are a bit more complicated— check out the info elsewhere on thepage. The lasers come in handy too.

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i level of Activision's Christmas biggieaII Power Drift. You're the daredevil driverof this neat little dune buggy, racing

1 around a series of ever-so-wibbly up-and-down tracks against 11 other ruderacers. Get in the top three of each racer

. and you move on to the next level. •(Except you don't here, because it'sonly a demo of one track. What d'want, blood??)

The complete game takes us aroundfive courses, with five different tracks

each. Some are pretty simple, sounder themselves like figuresand some are even morelicated. The one on this month's

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Clive Paul, and includes sharfiendish Jumps and loads of

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Some driving games can be adrag, can't they? Allthat whizzing around incircles for no readily apparentreason, and getting beatenby cars going impossibly fastwhen the best you can do iscrawl along like a snail ontranquilisers. Depressing,isn't it? Well, un pressyourself, 'cos you're about tobe impressed. The only dragin Power Drift ;, the drag-style racer in which you spurtalong the amazing twistytracks.

Power Drift comes fromActivision via Sega. whomanufactured the originalCorky Coin-Op machine.There are five courses touhoose from, each marked Ato E. As one of a field of 12cosmic road racers, you haveto be in the first three acrossthe line or you're out, and,believe you me, it's going tobe no picnic to get into thenumber three slot in all fivestages. The first three stagesof each course are apparentlyeasy-peasy, just as I say amatter of staying in the firstthree past the line. Butstages four and five containmore wacky obstacles likejumps. Sure, there are rampson scaffolding which take youup in the air and bring yougently down to earth again.but sometimes the groundjust disappears and you

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As you progress throughthe stages the courses getharder and mor e nasty, wi thbigger jumps and fastercorners. The other cars don'tactually get any faster ormore intelligent, but sincethe courses get more difficultthis doesn't show. The designof each track is progressivelymore complex as you goalong.

An element from the coin.op which is sadly lackingfrom the Spectrum version isthe overhead views of thetracks that you get in trackselection mode. This wouldshow you the different tracksas a plan view, wi th all theups and downs in precisiondetail. So in this version youcan't see that some circuitsare round, some straight, andsome two figure eights ontop of each other with rampsgoing between them. Butnever mind, something hadto go when they crammedthis mul ti -megabyteextravaganza into a 4-8KSpeccy, and that was it. Itshouldn't spoil your tyre-screeching enjoyment of thegame though. And it is one ofthe screechiest games aboutYour racer is so overpoweredthat it skids around everysingle corner, so after eachrace there's more rubber onthe road than there is on yourtyres.

At the beginning of thegame you select your playerfrom the 12 feces competing.Having chosen yourcharacter, you're put in yourcar to race the others. Eachmotor has its own position,and, unlike many othergames, the cars occupy realplaces on the track in thecomputer's memory, sochasing and overtaking arepossible. Normally in gameslike WEC Le Mans and PolePosition the movement ofcars is random, and placingsjust rely on how many carspass you. But in this gamethe race is real — you reallydo have to beat the otherracers. A nice little devicewhich has made it over fromthe coin-op is the displayrunning across the top of thescreen. This shows the faces

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of you and the other driverswith the placement of eachunderneath. The numberunder you changes as you getovertaken, as do the faces ofthe leading and fol lowingdrivers,

p,Its programmers are nonewcomers to racing games_In fact they're the self-sameteam that brought you WinterGaines. The Games, Tar-Panand even WEC Le Mans itself,which as we all know ain't aroad racing game, it's theroad racing game (or, at least,it has been for woks). SoJohn Mullins thought thatdoing another one would bea piece of, well, cake. But notso. "We thought we couldjust rip the code out andbuild the new game aroundit. But on WEC the track runsalong the ground, whereason Power Drift the road risesup out of the ground andtravels over it. So we had todo i t from scratch, and wi thall that 3D stuff, well, there'sa fair amount of maths goingon." Apparently they figuredout a new technique whichlooks like 3D, works like 3Dbut isn't 3D. On the 48KSpectrum, wherecompression is the order ofthe day and you've got sixmegabytes of coin-op, youobviously need to invent afew neat techniques to keepup the speed and eameplay.Obviously it had to be amulti-load, but why hold upthe game by making it load inthe middle of the action? Toavoid this annoying tendency(a feature of games likeOutRun) Power Drift levelsload in complete from thetape. So there'll be no stopsin the action!

Game P o w e r DriftPublisher . . ActivisionProgrammers J o h n Mul l insand Cl i ve PaulStreet Date N o v e m b e r

Three, Two, OneLook at 'or go! OurStirling silver fostresstakes to the road andputs pedal to themetal. See the bitsof rubber fly in alldirections! See ourheroine's hair blowingin the breeze as shebattles her waythrough the pack fora place in thetop three!

Soon you begin to seethe point of PowerDrift. Whereas mostother games are bol tedto the ground. PowerDri ft whizzes up in theair on tracks whichundulate like a rollercoaster in a car ad.10o. I feel si ck. _

SqueeeallillClouds of desertand rubber dust bi l lowup as she squealsaround the bend,narrowly missing thelamp posts andbillboards around thecourse. Sometimesovertaking doesn'treduce your placing,but that's becauseyou've lapped the carin question.

Oh NcAs the other cars hitthe tape at the end ofthe race they pop upon the screen whereyou are, whi ch if youeither touch the brakeor crash at any point Isat the back of thepack. Will our heroinemake third place andstay in the race? Coo,I hope so — she'srather nice. . .

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Sssshhhhhhh!!!Win! Win! Win!Ke e p i t qui e t, bu t y oustand to win (win! w inl)a special spy gradePhilips 14" remotecontrol colour TV ANDten secret copies ofNlicroProse's Gunshipfor YOUR Spectrum.Pass it o n . . .Pssst. Hey you.— want to buy somesecrets? You don't? Aw, come on,they're quite cheap, How aboutnylons? Ration books? A USAFF1170 Stealth Fighter? Ah, I knewyou'd go for that one, It's a goodhttie spy plane and so deadly secretthat everybody in the world knowsabout it even before it's flownanywhere Brilliant, eh?

Okay, so the real plane isn't THATsecret, but what about the specialnew flight sim from MicroProse,Project Stealth Fighter? How secretis that? Well, not very secret either,actually. We've just reviewed it andwe thought it was BRILL_ There youare, flying secret missions over allkinds of highly un-American andideologically unsound places aroundthe globe, alternately taking covertpiccies and blowing the poop out ofthem. It's one of the smoothestoperators on the flight sim scene,and so new the shrink wrapping'sstill on it.

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(128K only) • 4 Jonathan The The first flight h nu,simulator I can remember ;•playing was Psion's. erm. FlightSimulator. Or was that Flight

Sinnii.ttiotO Something pretty innovative .tanyway. It was lull ol little quirks. such as a •compass with 370 , but the 'crash' Outwas brill.

Then Digltal integration appeared on the scenewith its F15 simulator. II was pretty much the same,really, but there were things to shoot down if youhung around for long enough. Various successorsthen trickled out until finally as always) theAmericans appeared on the scene. Project StealthFighter, luckily for this intro, is MicroProse'scontender.

Unfortunately. MicroProse seems to havejumped the gun a bit when launching this one, andmust have cringed when the real Stealth Fighterwas roiled out looking nothing like the piccies onthe box. Still, as you're not meant to be able to see itanyway It probably doesn't matter.

Being American, most of the game revolvesaround trying to knock some sense Into theRussians Libyans, Iranians and whosoever elsecurrently happens to be irritating our friends acrossthe pond. it goes without saying that the game isdangerously complicated - the sort of thing thatonly a real pro like me should be entrusted with.

With your fingers strategically placed above thevast battery of keys you have at your disposal. andyour plane squatting at the end of the runway,aircraft carrier or whatever, it's time to confront thefoe. Prodding the right combination ol buttons doesthe trick, and soon you should be off the ground.

At first sight the graphics just look like a load ofsquiggly lines crawling all over the screen, This is amistake Itisi anyone could make unless they've

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try this at home, kids. Closer inspection reveals anarray of ships, mountains, tanks, buildings andeverything else you'd expect to find. There areenemy planes too, but these approximate moreaccurately to pre-WWII airliners than MiG-whatever's. They look a lot better while being 'takenout', I reckon.

The next job is to decide what to blow up from themillions of flashing dots that plaster yourInstrument panel. On the subject GI graphics,I thought a rather unsightly touch was theway that the whole screen goes blue when you'reflying over sea, and green when you're flying overland. Oulte how else they could have done itthough, I'm not sure, so p'raps I'd better shut up.

Once in the air your lab Stealth Fighter seems tohandle pretty much like any other fighter I've flown,Stealth or not. Considering the number of lines thatare being heaved around the screen things runpretty smoothly, at least until one of those planesappears, at which point the game goes over to slowmotion.

One of the things MicroProse has always beenparticularly hot on Is cramming lois into its gamesand Stealth Fighter, as they say. is no exception.

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got fourSidewinders,two Maver icks,thr ee Snakeyes,thr ee Slicks, •tank full of gas,and I 'mwear ing darkglasses! Let'sdo it!

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The scope is positively enormous, what with thedozens of different land-and sea•based targets, awide selection of combat areas and a huge range atflashing lights.

I reckon that Stealth Fighter is the best Speccyflight sim to date, and corning from me that reallymeans something. Not quite up to the standards ofFalcon of course (Never heard of it. Ed), but a greatachievement for those content to remain faithful toSir Clive.

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Jonathan 'Black Armband' Davies Bereft of life, he rests inpeace No, not Jon himself, but his old churn Fare/ 'The'Warthog of course Yes, the old gas- bubble himself has !maltyparped his clogs and passed on Jon says the end was quick,but messy What were his last words, Jon? He said 'BANG'and that was it,.7

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Phil 'Pert Of The Furniture' South Snowy's been aroundYup l He's been everywhere, man We think we can say thathe's truly one of the very oldest and saddest lags in thecomputer game bizness Until Marcus 'Binky' Berkmann walksinto the room, that is Then he's merely the plumpestYuk yuk yuk!

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the thing just because it's so much like theother racing games around?

Well, no, actually. My moles tell me (particularlythe one on the back of my left thigh. which is mostinformative) thal the game was originally destinedto be called Continental Circuit, but while the chapresponsible for promoting the game at Tait° HO wason the phone discussing the launch of the game heaccidentally got a crinkle-cut potato chip that hewas fiddling with stuck in his ear, dulling his hearingsomewhat Not wanting to make a fuss, hecontinued with the conversation but misheard thename pi the game. innocently passing the revisedtitle on to his minions in the publicity department.After undergoing emergency surgery to remove theforeign object. he returned some weeks later to findthe office in disarray. Posters sporting the newname were covering the walls, and hall the staffwere discussing the luture of our unfortunate PRman Whatever the outcome of his tribunal was. thename stuck and the game will probably get a lotmore attention because of it. (Okay. so there's a bitof artistic licence in there but you gel the gist.)

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cars which vneed to beovertakenin order •to move onto the next one.not to mention thetime limit. You have a steering wheel, anaccelerator and a couple of gears to wagglebetween, and all of these will need to be skilfullymanipulated it you're going to get anywhere.

The only thing standing in the way of success,apart from your questionable driving technique, isthe risk al other drivers swerving in front of youwithout warning_ As you begin to sustain hits yourcar will begin to emit clouds of smoke. Unless you'pit in pretty sharpish you'll find the smoke turningto flames, and then you've gal real probs

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flatulently noises and manages a couple altunes too_ Oh. and also the start sequence and thepitstop are kind of okay. And I like the way that youcan send other cars spinning off the road when youhit them_

Continental Circus doesn't really contribute tothe cause of the Speccy in any way there was adefinitive average come this could well be it.Average look average feel. average smell. Apedfrom the sound that is. which is above average (torits type). Although.., no! I take it all back — that'saverage too. The whole thing — it's average.

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It has to be said that from a visual point of viewCirrus isn't going to change home computing as weknow d The car sprites can only be described aslunctional. the scrolling isn't particularly smoothand the roadside decoration is so notably un-notable

that I can't even remember what it looks likeoff-hand. Fairly drastic I would imagine.

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hot either. There's so little to do. lust, dodge from side to side and press theE gear button, that races become almost a

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IT'S A RIGHT EYE OPENER!Let me tell you about onenlightening experience I havejust had! I hadn't bought YS for afew months 'cos I was planningto buy an Amiga, and hod lostinterest in Speccy games.Anyway, I thought I'd buy thismonth's YS to see if anythinghod changed and to get the freetape.

When I got back from thenewsagents, I looded up thedemo of Passing Shot. Wow!Worra game! By now I wasseriously thinking of keeping my+2. Then I decided to look atAdvanced Lawn MowerSimulator. Wh000al You justdon't get games like this on theAmiga! Can the 16 bit gamesreally be much better than

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Yep the Spectrum, it's a blimmin'miracle, isn't it!? And full marksto Garden Soft for showing usthe full capabilities of thisremarkable machine( Ed.

MOW COMMENT!I, Sir Tobias of Ilford, claim to bethe first person to finish thatsponky game, Advanced LawnMower Simulator, Using noPOKEs or cheats, I managed tomow the lawn so well that I wasoffered 'a corned beef

DOODLEBUGI asi * , let's tains a woo posh of this inonth's offer ing shallint? Ws frees Oliver ladoona and it's rather witty, wethoogisti I t ties hi wi th this Ed the Duck that you lot keeponenHossing, and oleo adds w h o l e now meaningt o thophrase 'to buy the fame!

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Reckon you con scribble down something that'll make the YS teom titter? (0o4,l No,mizeus, no. don't?) Or nsake us gasp with amazement at your arhstic leanings (oo-•r l t Well, you know the routine, tend your scribbles (in biadt In& only, Osumi) toDoodlebugs, YS. 14 Rothbooe Place, London W IP I DE Anythmg that gets printedwins a game'

sandwich'! Here ore my tips forthe game1) Choose the Patio Sprintette.2) Keep the 'Mr key pressed.3) That's it!

I congratulate you onmanaging to get Garden Soft toallow you to put such onaddictive and brilliant game onyour super, lurvely, smashing,boing, boing, oo-er, how's-about-a-bit-of-how's-your-fatherly, superb, free topes!Mr Massive (Cio-er. Ed)Ilford

Oh, thanks for the Ipswich Townfixtures listing enclosed with yourletter... er, e r m , come inmost handy. Ed.

YOU KNOW IT MAKESSENSE!have a problem. The trouble is

my copies of YS don't last aslong as other top selling brandsof washing up liquid I couldmention. No sooner have I gotthem home than it's all over.Couldn't you give me some hintsand tips on how to make themlast longer?Zug The IndescructibleFareham

@ l i r y i I f you're talking about VS lastinglonger as a meg, then roe coulddo no better than to invest in asturdy VS Binder (or two). ff,on the other hand, you're tryingto use VS to help you with allthose domestic chores, then wellhave to consult some expertadvice... Ed.I've been testing YS out againstsome other leading brands onthis cub scout iamboree, andhave found that VS lasts threetimes longer than its closest rival!It even removed all traces ofBernard Matthews Crispy CrumbTurkey Chops/Nannette Newman.

ROCK STAR TOOK MYDEMC DIESELLOCOMOTIVE NUMBER!David Wilson, take a step out ofthe limelight and make way for anew(ish) mego-group — TheTrainspottersl

Yes, folks, it's true! While on ashopping excursion, I spotted abundle of records for the

)1princely sum of ten bob' so Iwhipped out my cosh andbought them. Imagine mysurprise looking through themwhen I found Hiring The Hall byThe Trainspotters! lust to proveI'm not fibbing, I've enclosed therecord (at great expense) foryour aural pleasure,Mark ParryMiddlesboroughPS Sorry about the packaging, Ican't afford Jiffy bags!

We're sorry about the packagingtoo. The record broke on the post.But never mind, 'cos by sticking ittogether with a Prat stick,spinning it on a pencil, and'playing' it on the spike on theback of one of T'zers earrings,we were actually able to hearHiring The Hall. It's a lovely dittyabout hiring a church hall inorder to hold a train numberswopping night and is the followup to their former big 'miss', YouNeed Platform Tickets. Ed.

A BRUSH WITH FATEDear oh dear, Mae, what a stateyour mouth is. No wonder witholl those letters shoved in yourkisser. But I hove the answer. Thisspecial toothbrush is mode soyou can brush your teeth andkeep rzer's fan mail (or evenyours) in your gob at the sometimeBilly RamsayScotland

Thanksh ffor nushing, %/illy, Now Ichant shay anything wishoutshpitting bitsh of tofpashte allOver the offish. (Ptuil) Phew, that'sbetter. Now at least I don't haveto get a flip-top head. Ed.

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GET REAL!am convinced that your

'Wonderful World Of Speccy' isa joke and on insult to youroverseas readers. In your 43rdnumber there was a letter fromKrzysztof Frys of Poland. I had aPolish friend of mine translate itfor me. He didn't know whatlanguage it was written in! Itcertainly wasn't Polish! Don'tmake up letters when peoplesend in real letters to you.SoIly Ginsberg (Granth)Sweden

We were very miffed to hear this,because every letter thatappears in VS is genuine.Sometimes, if they're a bit toolong, we chop them down a bit,but they are all 'rear. As forKrzysztors letter, we're baffled!Ever since VS was mentioned bya Polish magozine called !Baitedwe've been inundated with loadsof strange requests from thatmarvellous country Krzystorsfetter wos one of these, as wasamply proven by its frankedPolish stamp, As for insulting ouroverseas readers, this couldn't befurther from our minds. It's justthat some letters are a tadamusing to an English speaker.But who ore we to criticise —they still speak English for betterthan we can speak Polish,Swedish, Italian, Lap,Mongotese...! Ed.Speak for yourself, Mott. I forone can say 'groin strain', 'theboy done well' and 'it's a gameof two halves' in every languageknown to man. Yours not only a'southerner' but a Londoner bornand bred (lay art me boner),Gerri•.

DETAILS DETAILSI've been collecting VS sinceissue 20 and 1 wouldn't dream ofswopping to another Spectrummagazine, (You mean there oreother Spectrum magazines? Yolive and learn. Ed) But I havesome complaints.

1) Please start printing yourcompos on the bock of advertsand not reviews.

2) I have written hundreds ofletters to input/Output and nonehave been printed except thefirst one I sent, Why?

3)1 enter all your compos inevery magazine and hove spent£15 on stamps but never wonanything_ I usually enter on thesame day as I buy the issue, so ifyou restrict the compos to thefirst 100 entries then I mightstand a chance.

4) Please make your Letterssection bigger,

5) Why were there no CompoWinners in the June issue?

TRAINSPOTTERAWARD

NI EYE QUEUEEye hay bean reeding yourmogozeen four kwite sum tyme,and eye lyke thu Leturz pagezbeekoz eye loon proktis myereeding. Eye espeshalee lyke thuTranespotur Award sekshun. Kaneye klome an aword four sooting

soeling mistayk on thu fruntkuvur ov thu Orgust ishu. Thuwurds shood reed "Yor Sinclare'.I deesurv thu award four beeingextreemlee klevur.Graham EvansClwyd

There's nothing rong with myspeeling, you jung scamp. Andits 'Cloowid' not 'Clwyd'. Ed.

GREEN WITH AN 'E'?Oh no! You've made a mistake,haven't you? In the Septemberissue on page 20, where itshowed Catherine Higgs onGhost Train, you spelt SarahGreene without an 'E' on the

end! So, on spotting that error, Ihereby claim my Trainspotter!Dominic RoeEly, Combs

If you'd actually read thatfeature properly, you'd have seenthat we wrote 'Sarah Greenbetter watch her backl• Well, wemeant Sarah, daughter of CohnGreen the cleaner She twisted avertebrae and has a bit of adodgy back. The messy GhostTrain studio brought her to mindand so we were advisingdiligence on her part. Ed.

LATE ARRIVALThere's a mistake in the mistakesection. Look at the picture in theTroinspotter Award. Right, donethat? Now look at the samepicture in all your other mags.Note that the train hasn't movedan inch! Even BR locos can't bethat late, so I expect aTrainspotter in the post thisminute (or the next!).Philip 'Flip' ChamberlainRochdale

Flippin' Ado t We've run out ofTrains potter Awards! We wereexpecting the next delivery onthe 18.50 Notty Ash to London,Paddington, but it seems to havebeen delayed! Sorry about that,Ed.Trains potter, please, boys. KnottyAsh (with a 'K') is a for-realplace near Liverpool where theodious Dodd actually lives(hence, a ploce to be avoided atall costs), so you should bewaiting at Euston, notFbridington Yours, Gerrie.OUP Now! Ed.

WO RRILID

ECCY(Cue music)Don't know much abouthistory,(Porn, porn, porn, porn),Don't know much 'boutpoetry,But I do know that LacoesDe Cima from Portugal is

in this month's WonderfulWorld Of Speccyl

POTTY POETRYHere goes with a poem aboutYS.YS is great,I love all its charts,When I see guys with othermags,It breaks me to ports.

And here's another_VS is brill, full of gags.The reviews ore cool,Anyone who buys other mogsIs a real born fool!

A real art work, huh?

M mmm.

6) I think Madame Pico is verycruel to the people that write tohim/her!

7) Can I say hello to AndrewTurner?

Apart from these few points Ithink your mag is the best in theworldMartin Bostock

Birmingham

Well, what can I soy except._1) YOU tell the advertisers.2) What's wrong with that? Yougot one printed, didn't you?3) Even if we restricted it to 100,there'd still be no guaranteeyou'd win. That's a 100-1 shot,

Do not open, My pet lion is insidel

* * * *Lumntoxl We obviously couldn't riskOpening this one, so we'veabsolutely no idea who you are orwhat you wrote in to us about Ed.

What are your views on the matinghabits of the water biscuit?Bogi SnotbreathEssex00oh, well, fwoar, em), we hyto think about it! Ed.

Please put a Rolf Horns didgerisimulator on one of your covertapes or I shall eat myself YungThe Phantom SheepWorleySus•arise, it come in de mor-nint-Heh, heh, can you gis what it isNew Zealand lamb, thit's whoa

I hove enclosed some Englishsweets — 'Opal Fruits'. (I havenreally, readers, but it'll keeplooking, ehgiPhilip 'Art C Clarke isAlr ight' DaviesOswestry, Shropshire011 Where's the Opal Fruits Men.you scamp? lus t hove to moveon to Mark 'Fftrinn000rre WithEd.

Enclosed are some green fruitPastilles [as I don't like 'emit),Mar k 'Fffnnnaaar r eWilliamsCambr idgeScoffte, munch. mmm, thanks!,Ed.

Still trying to intimidate me withyour pathetic 'Holland — TheOf The Clog' ',D i c e . h u h l ?

Mar tin Von Span)*Land Of The ClogWho, us? Poppycock/ Ed.

If you want to know how to kill thesquelchy thing at the end of Rex, allyouStephen GrahamNewtownar ds, Nor ther nIrelandThanks, but I already know, Ed.

Please, please, please could youtell me i f I nd ia na Jones - The

Adventure Game will be comingOut on the Speccy?Adam ChristopherTrelewisNo. (Erin_ that's not 'No, I won'ttell you', it's 'No, US Gold is onlyreleasing it on the 16 hit formats'unfortunately.) Ed.

odds.

she isn't answering YOUR letter7) No you can't. Ed.

bigger it wouldn't fit in the mag?!4) Erm, surely if we made it

5) Mind your Own business.6) So do I. Think yourself lucky

and no bookie know wouldgive you tuppence for those

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NINNIES!I iust do not know what you'vegot ogainst 'southerners'. Is it ouraccents? Is it because your headoffice is too close to my brother'ssocks?

Whatever the reason, I'm surethat if this letter were published(hint, hint) maybe some more'southerners' would beencouraged to write in.

Apart from that I think YS issooper dooper, especially thecompos and Program Pitstop, butbring bock Crappa Macco, asthe new bloke hasn't chonged hissocks since Snouty had a bath!Julian 'They Call MeCrowlie' CrowleBasingstoke

Your brother's socks, eh?l waswondering what that nasty niffwas! Anyway, basically I think all'southerners' are a bunch ofwhinging ninnies! Oh, and by theway, it's not that Jonathandoesn't take a bath, it's iust thathe lets his socks 'air' in Forty thewarthog's favourite cupboard!Ed.

SNIFF, SNIFF, WAAAAHNH!Why did T'zer leave? Was it theStrain of being Ed? Anyway, I'mglad we hove got a goodreplacement. I hove reod YS foryears and enjoyed it very, verymuch, but why don't you giveyour cassettes away with caseson them like other mags? Keepup the good work and cooltopes.Daniel R am s a yEssex

Teresa hasn't really left. She's apublisher now so she can whipeven more people on the bonyfor a living. (Slap! Yahoo!) So drythose tears and stop thatsnivelling. We don't put cassettecases on the covers 'cos they'remore bulky to transport and theybreak in transit, scatteringthousands of little pointy plasticshards through the postal service.Needless to say Postman Pat getsVERY cross. What we might iustdo though is get some togetherto sell in Superstore. But then wemight not. Any questions? Ed.

I TEST FOR SPECS?Below I have written somethingwhich will test your Speccy. It willonly work on some Specciesthough, and I don't think it workson 48Ks. What you do is this.

Press Reset and then pressBreak. Something should comeup on the screen. Now pressQ,A,Z, and M,L,P, all togetherNow (if it's worked) follow thescreen prompts. This should testyour keys. There's also a scale

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Kindly Leave The StageHil And welcome to the YSGong Show! Here's our firstcontestant, and he's KeithThe Wizard from Suttonin Ashfield.

Q. What's the differencebetween Kylie Minogue in ared light district and a bin linerin a red light district?

A. Eventually, the bin linerwill get picked upl

Gong!!No, no, nol That was

terrible. Okay, your turn,

Daniel Hooper fromPlymouth.

Q. Why did the chewinggum cross the road?

A. It was stuck to thechicken's foot!

Gong!!Aciaaarghl Will the pain

ever end?Con you beat the VS gong?

If not, send your jokes toKindly Leave The Stage, VS, 14Rothbone Place, London WI PIDE. A gleaming nbadgegoes to the writer of every jokeprinted.

which will test your cassetterecorder and much morelKevin CooperCarlisle

Blimey we never knew there wasso much in it! Mind you, when wefollowed your advice on theoffice 128K+ nothing happened

We then tried the office +3. Ahhal Success! We could do thingslike test the keys, joystick port,the whole caboodle! But what'sthis large flashing warningsaying -l a k e c a re ! T he se t es ts

corrupt disks and require factorytest equipment! You have beenwarned!' Hmmm! Ed.S

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Ps FtiNt to\ yOttLordy, lordy, lordy, Miss Claudio!! Have mercy! For once, YS isgiving in to extortion! Your games ore in the post, we hope youlike them. They're the three latest hits from a certain softwarecompany, and they're 'absolutely brilliantl'Ed.

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POOR DEAR

Dear Madam Pico.I am very concerned about myparents. You see. I am convincedthat one day they will ask to takeme for a walk in the woodsThen, when we are deg, in theforest, they will run off and leaveme! What can I do?Yours scared lyHansel F StevensEdgebaston

(,00.b! )o u poor dear i(triti arebar ing r r i m old time ofit,aren't you? I'm sure this wholething is a figment (5(yourinuigination I towe llz ifyoudo suspect that your parentsan intent upon lea zing youdeep in the 'roods, then I u•ouldsuggest being lien prepared!Carry at all times, a levy kirgequantity of stone chippings inyour pocket Then i f you do find_eourselfforest-bigind with yourfolks, you can simply take itleaf out of the fairy tale I , 00 kand kart, a trail of very smallVolum for you tojirliote bornelater!

Dear Madame Pico,I have a Delta Sierraserious problem You see bothmy parents were fighter locks.sorry, pilots. and they've broughtme up entirely on tighter speak'This would he Happy Hour atM i n h if it wasn't for the no glysituation that the other Charlie'saren't locked on - that is - theydon't cop what I'mtransmitting. erm, saying. Pleaseadvise. Madame Pico. I'm sockedin and WinchesterRoger that.Jeffrey 'Chuck' TruhshavwMi l denhal l

Er.. Right then. you poor dearchocks auay and angels onefive! thi nk that irrtir best planebfactum urruld be to study Jeri'bard at school, and then applyf o ra commission as allying

(peer in the airforce There.youll find a great numy

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commentating on theFarnborough Air Display /mean. that Raymond Baxterfel low must be getting near!' oretiring soon. Anyti wry best ofluck, ;young chap, e1711, is that awilco?

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reviewed the Sinclair Magnum

Light Phaser a couple of issues

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good, but not tha t good. N ow

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As we all know, lightguns are bas-ically a fun. if limited, addition toSpeccy gamesplaying, I mean,

_fe they'll never take over from joy-

sticki as the best all-round game controllers.but a change is as good as a rest I always say.so it was as inevitable as a slap in the gob witha mullet (but not as red) that sooner or laterone would become available for the Speccy.

First off the mark was actually the StackLight Rifle years ago, but it was a bit crap. Thebiggie, of course, was the recent Amstrad/Spectrum Light Phaser. But that had its disap-pointments too, namely the rather flimsy con-struction and horrible black and white bars itsplattered across Operation Wolf This wasone of a handful of games specially converted

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to the lightgun standard. The actual weaponwas built by Trojan, best known for its light-pens, and it sort of showed. Nasty peoplearound the office started describing it as "afightpen with a handle on". which was a bitunfair, but that's the VS team for you. So it wasonly a matter of time really before joystickmanufacturers started entering the fray (infact it was only a matter of months whichmeant they must have had it planned a llalong) and the first of these to do so is popularjoystick and musical funbox maker CheetahMarketing.

The Defender is a nice piece of work. Themoulded plastic body is dark grey with bright

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IPPI7AIMPr A n n -red handgrips_ The design is quite modernand sturdy looking I s*pose, b u tstill with slightly natl Buck Rogers-like tendencies. Th e handgrip israked forwards to make it easyaim and hold, and weights habeen added inside theto improve the feel andbalance of the thing,It certainly seemsquite hefty andgun-like, unlikehe feeble

THE GAMES!( The y m a d e m e d e a f y ou k n o w ' lThe re are six gamesbundled in with theCheetah Defender, allspecially wri tte n bythe wackyCodeM asters ithoseDarling, Darl ingboys!). The gameswill be availableon cassetteto s tart with,with disk loadingversions to follow.

Accuracy-wise the Defender seems to bepretty sharp. Most of the time I aimed at some-thing I hit it. which means one of two things —either the gun is accurate, or the software isreally good at reading the gun. (Of course theother thing it might mean is I'm flipping skill atusing it!) You do have to be fairly square to thescreen though, and not too close. or the focusof the gun goes all to cock. You'll hit everythingon the screen with one shot, and that's nogood if you need to be selective, like in BronxStreet Cop for instance (one of the gamesbundled in with It). So care should be taken,and a few experiments done, be-fore you challenge someone tocompetition Unless you don't everwant to get to the second level.

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ammo, so splattering the gooks all over thelandscape on rapid lire is fun but won't getyou tar. The graphics aren't too bad, andthere's some impressively life-like bangingnoises as your gun goes oft I think I coulddo without the screen flashing every timeyou shoot though. It's not half as bad as thePhaser but a little divot of earth flipping upto let me know where I hi t would suffice.Still, t h e ga m e i sn't t oo ba d, 7- - - -just a little bit repetitive, and it's (obviously the ideal sort of thingto use a l ightgun for. - \

Jungle WarfareAn out'n'out Op Wolf clone. You scroll side-ways through a series of backdrops. from

airports to bridges and jungles, as abattalion of enemy soldiers,

oppers and tanks comesinto your sights. You

ust shoot them inorder to stay alive.

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Advanced Pinball SimulatorYegads, what's this? Pinball?! This is asgood an example as you can get to showhow odd the pairing of gun and games cansometimes be. What on Earth possessedthe desi gner of this game to make i t a'shoot-at-the' flippers-'em-up'? I t al mostseems deliberately perverse!

What happens is you shoot at the plungerto eject the ball into the machine. Then youshoot at the flippers to punt the ball back

into play if it looks like it's going tomake a break for it. Just like anormal game of pinball really (well,sort of). Works okay though, —and al though a bit strange at 60'first the program does play (t , , _ . . „ , „a mean pinball!

PIS Fighting FalconThis one is an Afhatturner clone in whichyou shoot at all the incoming fighters andmissiles, and shoot at your own F16 to makeit perform what the manual calls "automaticintelligent evasi ve acti on” . Hm m . J us tlooks like it bounces out of the way it youask me.

The scenery scrolls by underneath youas you fly along blasting the poop out ofanything that moves and a few things thatdon't. Trouble is you don't get much time toanticipate a plane coming on to the screen.and, i f you leave il too late to blow rt up, itgets a chance to launch its missiles at you.There ar e four levels t o h e game. overthe Sahar a, Tropics. Arctic a nd Ocean.Okay, I s'pose, but not enough / - •control over t he pl ane for m ytaste. Another sl ightly pecul iar Ikuse of the gun.

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Supercar Trans AmHey. don't I remember something lust likethis by the late lamented Ultimate Play TheGame about a million years ago? Trans Amit was called. This new CodeMasters ver-sion bears more than a passing resem-blance to the old Ultimate smasheroo, butthis time of course you've got God, or atleast a lightgun. on your side. You steer byshooting steering icons ard change fromforward to reverse by zapping the car itself. -

There are five stages to the journey goingfrom LA to NY, starting a t the CaliforniaBeach, then moving on to the Rocky Moun-tain Pass, the Grand Canyon Jump, past theGreat Lakes Stage, and finally on to NewYork City In Sight. It's a sort of arcade roadmovie really. I dunno. I found it really hard toconcentrate on steering the car withoutbumping into stuff let alone shooting as well.All along the route men withguns try to blow your bum oftand usually they succeed. Notas good as the original, but itprobably rewards persistence.

HEAD TO HEAD, - --t , , So. how does the Defender stand

' s 0 ; up against the recently releasedSinclair Magnum Light Phaser by, „ , - / Trojan/Amstrad? At first, it seemed

the guns were compatible. This was, wethought, the idea But whilst the Magnum gunworked with the Defender games, the reversewasn't true. Jon 'Techno Flash' Davies was onhand at the time I tested them and his theorywas that the Cheetah was being read by thegames as if it was always aimed at the topnght of the screen! Weird. Anyway, the possi-bilities for a standard are Out the windowunless someone makes a game which works

Bronx Street CopAt last, a classic shooting gallery typegame. You're a rookie cop on the Bronxstreet beat. In order that you don't waxsome poor passers by in the process ofblowing away h e m hem... In the processof apprehending a villain, you are put on the

with both methods, or a t least can beselected.

The Defender seems much more solidlybuilt, and the weights in it do a lot to improvebalance and handling. Having played with theMagnum beforehand I really did notice howmuch heavier and more business-like theDefender is. It seems to be more accurate too,but that could just be the way the softwareitself reads the gun. The stupid problem of theMagnum causing huge white flashing barsacross the screen has been solved in theCheetah software, and all the games reactmuch more smoothly. The games in the freepack are a bit samey in their presentation I

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at the side of the screen also throws a tinwhich you can keep aloft by shooting at it —if you're skill enough that is. Then you go onto 'help Billy The Kid shoot his way out of'various sticky situations. You only havelimited ammo for the main parts of thegame, but in the practice round you can puton the rapid fire switch andblast everything to ribbons,This is one o f the funniestways to play any of the games.Skill to Middling I'd say.

s'pose, as compared to the vaned range ttletcomes with the Magnum, but this is to beexpected as the games in the Defender packall come from the same publisher. Also, theway the handgrip on the Defender is rakedforwards, automatically pointing the gun levelal the screen, differs with the Magnum'supright hold. This means you have to bendyour wrist back ever so slightly to aim the gun.A minor quibble, but worth bearing in mind.The down side is that it takes less effort tokeep the Magnum aloft than it does to hold upthe Defender 'Cos the Del is heavier, it makesyour arm ache after a bit. But the Defenderdoes have a rapid fire button, and this is bril-liant fun especially on things like Billy The Kid,when ammo isn't limited. The major plus forthe Defender is that the lead is longer so youcan get further away from the screen

CONCLUSIONI prefer the Defender as a gun, and its gare good overall. My favourite must be 8Street Cop, with Billy The Kid a close secstill don't know why they bothered to do itthe pinball game is pretty enjoyable (sohaps there's the reason why) The Defenlooks better, it's cheaper and in genseems to be much more lab than its only cur-rent competitor. L e t ' s h o p e w esee more lightguns using this -same Cheetah standard,and evenrifles or Uzi submachine guns.Watch this space (or another verySimilarl

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On the surface. Shim& is a remarkably run-01-the-mill scrolling beat; em-up in that it scrolls and

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Ladies and gentlemen, live fromthe Alopecia Lounge of St AlbansCity Hospital, we bring you Phil

Snout with all your hints and tips.Here-rrrrrmARFIRFIR's Snooty!

Hi-folks. (Applause

applause.) Thank you,most kind. You're tookind. Ahh, thank you.ENOUGH ALREADY!

(Abrupt stop.) Thank you. Ontonight's show we've gol somany guests we don't even haveenough time to introduce them,But still, let's do the regular bit atthe beginning of every showwhere I talk 'totally unrehearsed'to the bandleader. Hi, Bob.

"Hiya, Snout."What did you do this weekend.

Bob""Well. Snout, I took my wife

fishing."Did she enjoy the trip?"She sure did, Snout, but

y'know hanging on the end of thefishing line for the sharks gaveher a headache."

(Dicidiy bomp!)Han, Bob, You're such a nut"I know it, Snout"Okay, that's that rubbish out of

the way, let's hear it for tonight'sreal stars, the Tipshop Tippers,with their tips for everything fromPostman Pat to New ZealandStory

And our first guests please!(Cheer!) It's Phillip David Lockand Billy Ramsay with someSilkworm advice_ C'mon down,Phil 'n' Bill... (thwoppa thwoppattwoppa)

-Hi. everyone. We claim to be

the first people to completeSilkworm. We did It onThursday 3rd August 1989 witha score of 89,690 and it took us15 minutes 25 seconds. The

final message reads like this.AND HISTORY RECORDS THATDURING THESE 11 DAYS MANYLIVES WERE LOST. PEACERETURNED TO THE NOWDECIMATED COUNTRYSIDE.THE PEOPLE RETURNED TOFIND CROPS RUINED,CHURCHES DEFILED AND THEVILLAGE POND DRIED UP.

A MEETING OF THEELDEP'S PLEASANTPEASANTS IN THE LOCAL PUBDISCOVERED THAT THEPEOPLE SAW THE FUNNYSIDE OF IT.

Silly, huh? Now here aresome mini-tips.• When in trouble shoot theshield to act as a smart bombwhich in turn clears the screen.• Try to keep the twin gun. it'sthe best one.• Always choose the helicopterwhen playing on your own.• Aim for the rotors on theGeneral's •copter, as that is itsweakest point.• Always shoot everything onthe ground to let the jeepthrough when playing oneplayer. If you get killed you cantake over playing the jeep.• Keep firing all the time.• When shooting the big'copter at the end of each stagetry to bomb it as well. But don'ttry to if it gets too close. Assoon as it appears shoot likemad. if it fires at you get out ofthe way and start shootingagain until you kill it. The bestbonus you can get is 9,900points if you're quick.• The medals you can get areNormal, Private, Lieutenant.Corporal and General_ if youhave got a high grade but stillget killed you still keep yourtwin gun. The same with the

My old mate AviGadesh fromIsrael had this tosay bout his brill°Rtck Dangerousmap "It took me acouple of hours todo, so pleasepublish " With aplea like that, howcan a poor Snowyrefuse'?

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aren't the first to finish, by theway. I was. Hah! You'll just haveto take my word for it, too. Ha haha.

Next contestant please,R ita.

I can't stop playing this game,nose-pickers, and neither canmost of you either. Take our nextcontestants, frinstance, RichardBray and Matthew Callanan

"A bit of help for the two cooldudes in a hot situation andbuckets of trouble.1) In Level One, if you stay atthe bottom of the screen, youseem to be able to fly throughthe pipes and things, receivingalmost NO DAMAGE!2) When you start your oneplayer game. press space tobring in player two. Jam on theplayer two tire button (using ahandy brick or the Ed's head)then position yourself behindthe firing player two, neatlypicking off the nasties whileplayer two takes most of theflak"

It makes you feel so butch, thisFog Worlds, dunnit?

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Ah, back from holiday at Last and I'mfeeling full of beans. as brown as a berryas fresh as a daisy, and the first person tocal me 'daisy gets it in the chopper withthis meal hook I happen to have handyNOW, es get the key in the lock. openthe door.. and AAAAARMIGGHH!(KERRRRUMPPP11!) C r u s h e d b y t h e

weer of the mail that awaits me Nevermind. I can open my Chnic anywhere —even from a hospital bed. So who•s first?FOOTBALL DIRECTOR III promised you regular titbits a coupleishes back and have had immense getfrom everyone for not putting anything inlast month Sorreeet So here's a burnperselection of hints and tips, from FDliboffirs Colin Smith and Derek Stuart

Beware if you ':in another club —they may be high in the league but thesquad may be rubbish So always savethe game before pining another dub.

2) Don't me injured players or theirskill will go down.

3) Only train more if you really need to.4) Sell your internationals, then buy

lesser players (Lis or 9s) who canimproye.

5) Increase the bonus pay andplayers* ratans will go up Decrease itand the,/ tall.

6) If you don't release a 94 player for aninternational, he will drop to 9,

7) Buy shares when they are cheap orlien you are km in the league, then sell

them later *ben you are doing ratherbetter. Wads of spondulicks!

8) You can sell up to 50,000 shares aseason (sez CO or 75.000 (sez Del).

But here's the really spanky lç Ipromtsed you, courtesy of TonyHannart, who tells me that his badgesize is "baggy extra large'.

i i you're short of cash, or just want tosel off an old player before he retires.here's a way to swop your player Iraanother of Kdal(ish) skill and make a bigpro(it. First put the player you wish to sellon the transfer market say an MS (valueE650,030-850,000). Next, make sureyou have all three scouts available. andsend them all after an MS. Next is themost frustrating pan — just keepwatching the Offers page week afterweek until a) you are offered an M8 fromanother dub, and b) a club (or clubs) isinterested in your MS. Now comes the funbit Bid for the MS. Offer a small' amountof cash tE5.000 to C100.000 dependingce the age of the player you're buying —the younger the player, the bigger thebid). Then also offer your own M6 as afree transfer. The other team ShOglidaccept the deal, in which case you nowstill have an M8 but have spent somecash_ Don't worry! The next screenshould be the Offers page again, onwrach you'll notice that your 'old' M8 ismil for &lie, Y o u c a n n ow ' s el l ' t hi s p la ye r,

even though you've already swoppedhim. To be sure of a sale, accept the firstbid you receive 1 650.000-E850.000)and there you are you have an MS. asbefore, plus half a millhori quid in cash(after tear

Great, eh? Tony adds venous riders —it your player is over 29 you may not beable to swop him for someone of thesame level and says it only aorksaround 90% of the time, but that's goodenough for hen. He says Pies made eightmdion quid in one season...

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Got a problem? See a specialist!Which should. I imagine, be some

small consolation for his own currentproblem. 'Yep, when I get into DivisionOne. and look forward to large crowdsand gate money. tor some reason theattendances always stick at 18,729, evenfor a Wembley appearance, Is this acommon bug, or ;s there somethrog I candata rectify it?" Cant help you, I'm afraidTony, as I haven't quite made it to DivOne lust yet (sassen frassen rassen) Butcan anyone else?

PACIANDBary Neeson was wondenng how tocross that dried-up swimming pool. It sin the wrist action, confides GrahamNeicho. "First, tun at the springboard,and when you are at the very edge of itpress lump upon which you will sail inkthe air. Keep pressing the right button,and eventuaNy you'll land on the otherside

Graham can also help with Robocop.Treasure island Dizzy, Spitting Image,180, European 5-A-Side and Jack TheNipper Il — send him an sae with yourgamesnag and he'll sod it out, Hisaddress is 8 Mill Close. Tiptree, EssexCO5 OLE.HMV!Jonathan Bayley: "Could you pleasehelp rie with SoldermarP I can't makethe web fluid Oh, and how do you_getinto the penthouse suite?"

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Cruise, what do you use the hook tor, andwhere?"

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the first lorry on stage one of GreenBeret'?"

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Mikro-Gen s Three Weeks In Paradise forabout le months and can solve 66% butam unable to sharpen the axe_ Can youhelp""

Richard Glit2 Croasman: 1 want toknow how you gel to the base inInfiltrator I can lake off but when I'm flyingI eventually run out of fuel. Hayipl"

Can you haylp? II so. or if you've gotyour own gamesnag that's causing yousteepness nights mornings andafternoons (we doctors need our siestas,you know), write to me, Dr B. at VS. 14Rathbone Place, London W1P 10E.Theresa badge for anyone mentioned.(Next reonth Magic Knight special') •

11.11Of THEMONTHkt takiFour brillo skillos supplied all thetip info for the Tip 0' The Monththis month, and they are Tom"I'm so good at this game"Bustrode, Philip Walker. DavidColes and Philip JonesGENERAL TIPS1) When in the water try to finda horizontal wall with air aboveI t Find the comer, and youshould be able to walk throubhthe wall and your air goes up,but you stay in the water!2) Shoot flying things frombelow.3) On Level One/Three youshould be able to find yourfriend through a brick wall. Thefloor below him is double, witha space in between. Mount aduck (honk!) and fly back tothis space. You should be ableto fly through the wall to yourfriend.4) On Level Two/Two when youare below the water you shouldcome to a platform like this.

You can dive into the waterwithout having to go the longdangerous way.5) The Rock Octopus is onemean mutha. Instead of hittingit anywhere you have to rapidlyshoot its eye, just above itsnose. If you have bombs, diveoff the top of the platforms andlob some bombs in its eye.(Dodge the bats!) If you have alaser gun, use it like a bow andarrow. If you actually have abow and arrow we l l , you'll getkilled.6) When you are on the icewhale, make sure you put ametal balloon on your head(get one from an axe cat!)because it protects you fromhis icicles.7) You can go through thecorners of walls to get to yourfriends using strong balloons.8) To protect yourself fromblasts, use a metal balloon onyour head.9) When there are spikes on the

WEAPONSBOMBSRubbish. Allyou can do islob them infront of you afew feet.

BOW ANDARROW Notbad but notpowerfulenough.

MAGIC WANDPowerful.Shoots magicblasts whichcome back likea boomerang.

LASER GUNThe bestweapon by far.Shootspowerful laserblasts that cutthroughanything.

BONUS ICONSFRUIT Points.

INVULNERABI-LITY PILLSMake youinvincible.

JOYSTICKEnables flyingmachine tohover in mid-air.

BOOK OFDEATH Smartbomb.

CLOCKFreezes thebaddies.

BALLOONSSame as teddybears

FLYING LASERCANON Thebest. It hoversand is quitefast.

RUBBER DUCKSame as teddybears.

FLYING MACHINESTEDDY BEARSNot too brill.They don't floatand take onehit.

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STRONGBALLOONSVery good.Punk teddiesride on them.

HOT AIRBALLOONGood andquick. Can't beshot downeasily.

BADDIESSHELLS Theyeither fireshuriken ortorpedo.

BOOMERANGMAN Shootfrom behind.

THORNSDodge them.

FLYINGTEDDIESShoot themfrom below.then nab theirflying teddy.

LYING LASERCANNONShoot frombehind andnab

STARS Nasty.Some canmultiply. Kill oncontact

FIRE TURTLESTheir fire isfast, but don'tbother withtheir balloons.

SPEARMENLikeboomerangmen. Theythrow spear upbut watch outas it comesdown.

BATS Theyonly drop onetriangle. Avoidthem.

AXE CATSDeadly. Worthnicking theirballoons.though.

PARACHUTEPUMPKINSDrop bombs.Shoot themfrom the sideor just avoid.

PUNK TEDDIESRide goodstr ongballoons, butfire fastmissiles.

DUCK PILOTSShoot deadlydots in randomdirections.Shoot frombelow.

BADDY MAKERHe walks alongshooting stars.boomerang menand shells.

BAT CATWatch out forits kittens.

SEA BLOB Brr.Easy to avoid,but do so.

SEA PLANTDon't swimclose to itstentacles.

MAGICPUMPKINChanges frombat to pumpkin.Flies slow andcannot shoot.

FLYING SPIKEOnly on LevelThree. Deadlyto touch andfollows youaround.

WATERFALLSHelp or hinder.Push you theright way or toyour death. Bevery careful.

WATER STARLooks likeshurikens. butbouncesaround underwater on LevelFour.

LAVA STREAMSame effect asfloor spikes,but only onLevel Five.

roof which have a kiwi orsomething good above, jumpup and bash your head on thespikes then hold on lump.When you restart you'll go rightthrough the ceiling. (Make sureyou have a life to spare for thistrick.)10) Use the map and avoidconfrontations with mega-baddies.11) To get past the end of LevelTwo/Three, when you have tojump over a pit of spikes dropa balloon on the platformabove. Then jump up so you'rehanging on the balloon, but stillon the platform below. Then flyover the pit and fall into thewater below. Easy!12) Always sit on top ofbal loons unless you need theirprotection on your head.13) Make your own routes. Thearrows can lead to death onlater levels.14) You control the strength ofyour jump by the time you holdthe jump key.15) To beat the Level Threeguardian (robot doll) shoot intoits stomach when it opens to

shoot missiles. It's easier whenyou have a flying machine.16) When you dive into thewater on Level Four, swimalong the surface until youcome to an air pocket with ateddy in it. Shoot the teddy andsteal his flying machine. Thenlet yourself drop. Your airdoesn't go down and you gothrough the floor, where youshould be.17) To complete Level Five/Onego right as far as you can (jumpover all the spikes) then go upas far as you can. There aresome spikes above your head.Now use tip number nine. Falldown. When you get to thebottom you should find a ducknearby. Mount it. Fly up untilyou find the place where yourfriend is captured. Find thebottom right hand comer. Nowuse tip seven. Then fly up andget your friend.

And now the cheat. On themenu screen type FLUFFY forinfinite lives and PHILLIP forextra firepower.

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'ff you take your carrier closeto the island and launch thetwo drones at either side youcan send out a Manta. Fly theManta at top speed towards thecommand centre, really low,and just as you're about to hitit, drop a bouncing bomb andpull up. The command centreexplodes every time, and themissiles and stuff will soonstop being fired at you. Thenbring back your Manta andsend out a Walrus with anACC13. I ts usually better to turnthe ship around before youlaunch the Walrus so the backis facing the island. The easiestway to do this is to go to themap, put a cross at the back ofthe ship and press program.The ship will turn around.

Make Elwood a resourceisland and Socrates aridGenetix factory islands. Beforeleaving Genetix set productiontargets as follows.Fuel-SOACCB-R-6ACCB-D-6ACCB-F-6Hammerhead-30

Then steam back to Vulcan(use time lapse) and load upthree Walruses with thefollowing — 1 x Atavar, 2 x 3Harbinger and 3 x Virus Bomb.Don't give them any fuel.Launch them all, then get themto fire their weapons at eachother. Use the carrier laser tofinish them off. Launch threeMantas with no fuel, giving oneof them an Assassin missile.

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Manta 2 — As Manta 1Manta 3 — 3 x Assasin

Fuel up all Walruses and armnumbers one and two with anAvatar each and an ACCB-R onone and an ACCO-F on theother. Arm number three with aVirus Bomb and 3 x Harbinger.Launch it and fire all weapons.Recall vehicle. Re-arm andrepeat until all Harbingers aregone and no Virus bombs areleft. Refuel number three andgive it the remaining Avatar andan ACCB-O Doing all this getsrid of stores you never use, andallows you to carry more ACCfuel, so there's no chance ofyou running out betweenislands. You can now starttaking over islands (don'tforget to refuel carrier first).Remember to keep moving thestockpile island forward. Whenthe enemy carrier is nearby onan adjacent island, DON'TPANIC. Make sure you haveplenty of Hammerheadmissiles and Quaker bombs.Sail towards it on autopilot.When you get near it, clear theautopilot and turn the carrieraway from the enemy andreverse in. Once you comeunder attack turn the turretround and fire Hammerheadsat the enemy. Oh, before youdo, put the carrier in full speedahead and steam away fromthe enemy while you blast itwith Hammerheads. and watchout for enemy Mantas. Onceyou've destroyed the enemycarrier take over the enemyIslands by dropping Quakerson the command centres thendeploying your own ACCBs."

Ha ha ha ha Them( a lot,chappies, Super smashinglovely. Lovely bunch of chaps.And you won't go away emptyhanded. Well, perhaps you willafter all. Ha ha ha ha. Okay fine.Super.

That's all we have time for on theSnout Show tonight, glad youcould be with us, All that remainsis for me to say if you have anymaps,tips or cards you'd like toshare with us on the show, justwrap them in a crisp five poundnote and send them to PhilipSnout, VS Tipshop, Your Sinclair14 Rathbone Place, LondonW1P 1DE, and any we print willget a terribly sincere non-sexistand loving 'I've Got Big Tips'badge. Don't you go changing!Ta ta!

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an edition of Rage Hard in March thisyear Flicking back through the issuesit appears that I said. ''l should begetting a review copy of the machinesometime this month, and happily youshould only have to wad for May to buyone" Well deary deary me. howwrong can you get? So what's beenthe hold-up. hrnm7 H o w m u c n h a s t h e

soon-to-be-finished product got incommon with the design that Ipreviewed? Well, the answer isactually quite a lot, but let's go into tin more Snout•like detail. Hang on.where's me magic screwdriver? Oh01. Jackie. stop cleaning Matt's ear'out and bung it over here Yeeurch'

U Got The LookThe 'designer' plastic casing of theSAM features a 71 key tilted full travel(Proper) keyboard for typing purposes,which sits on lop of a state-of-the-artrubber membrane. This ensures thatno grot can enter the machine throughthe keyboard, but, please, don't gopouring your coffee over it just to test illThe dnves, if you fit them, are hiddenunder the front of the machine out ofthe way, so the look is very clean, Bythe way, the colour of the rim-mouldedcasing has yet to be finalised, but thepossibilities for changing colour areapparently endless. Pink, L i m egreen/ Purple') P'raps we could see agold special edition')

The basic SAM Coupe comes with afacility for tape loading so you can load I ,all your Sinclair games nght away But i kthe beauty of the SAM system is thatyou can boll on more wazzy slut as itbecomes available Underneath theraked keyboard there is space for twoultraslim 3.5 Citizen disk drives. NCIare the first people in the world to usethese new drives, arid they re only X.thick' The drives come in two flavours,the normal IBM size and a whopping2Mb. Because each drive has its owncontroller on board, you can run bothdrives at once. The drive mechanismis encapsulated in plastic, and can be

slipped in and whipped out as manytimes as you like. (Honk') This meansthat if you have a mate who's got aSAM with one drive you can pop yotirsin his machine for some twin drivecomputing! Coo. The disk operatingsystem is so clever, it is actually fasterthan the likes of the Amiga and ST

The printed circuit board inside themachine T-shaped. This caused agreat many problems, as the CADprogram they used fell over when theyfed in the board shape. So part of thehold-up with the machine has beendue to Bruce Gordon designing theboard by hand. The top of the T runsatong the bad( of the machine and has

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the interfaces on it The board runsdown the centre of the two drivestowards the front of the computer.

In the back of the machine are allthe output and input ports. UHF(channel 39). composite video, digitaland analogue RGB, standardKern pston type joystick port with 'dual'capability (with a splitter), mouse port,lightpendightgun port, Sinclaircassette port, MIDI IN/OUT/THRU,network port, 1RS232 and parallelprinter port via a Smart cable. Thejoystick port will run normally if you justplug one joystick into it. but with aspecial splitter r u n two The reasonfor this is there wasn't room on theback for two with all the other ports onit The MIDI ports have recently beenredesigned by Keith Thrower to runindependently of the main processor

The centre of the machine is anormal Z8OB running at 6Mhz, backedby the custom SAM LILA chip made byFujitsu, a 32K ROM containing theBIOS Basic and disk operating

system, 256K of RAM (upgradable to512K on the board) and the two Philipssound and video chips.

The SightsThe graphics on the SAM arespankingly good. (Slap' Vow!) Thechip responsible for most of this is thePhilips TEA 2000 chip, giving you fourbasic modes of operation. Mode Oneis a 32 x 24 character screen, and canbe thought of as the Spectrum mode,Each Character square IS capable oftwo colours from the Spectrum paletteof 16 colours, but selectable from abigger palette of 64. Mode Two issimilar to Mode One, but with a 32character x 192 pixel screen Againeach 'character' is capable of twocolours, but as they're much, muchcloser together it looks like moreAgain. 16 colours from a palette of 64.Mode Three is the 80 column textmode, with a 512 x 192 pixel screen.Ei4 .;t1 pixel can be a different colour,but only four colours from the 64 colour

palette. Mode Four is a 256 X 192 pixelgraphics mode, where each pixel canshow any of the 16 colours from the 64colour palette This is the top endgraphics mode

To program the advanced graphicsand sound you can use the built-inBasic, written by Andrew Wnght (theauthor of Beta Basic, which featuresall the bells and whistles )ou expectfrom a modern Basic, kkePROCedures, DO-UNTIL. WHILE andWEND You can do calls to Z80Machine Code arid there's a wholeload of new commands to takeadvantage of the new graphics BoJangeborg, author of Artist (t, is writinga special set of graphics utilities for theCreation of SAM graphics, plus a newart program specialty for the newmachine

The SoundsThink of a sound Now' Go on, thinkhard. Got one? Good Well, now youcan create that very sound with theSAM's amazing sound chip. Thechiptet in question is the PhilipsSAA1099, and it features stereo soundgenerated from six oscillators and twonoise generators. Yes, that's six.instead of the usual three. And usingthe amazing music and soundsoftware designed by music 'wizard'and man ol a thousand notes (all Ofthem fivers) Dave 'Interesting'Whittaker you and your SAM can makebootilul music together And it's true,'cos the sound chippy is over eightoctaves and has control overwaveform, amplitude and envelopeThe waveforms give you the basicshape of the sound. and the amplitudeand envelope shape the soundthereafter giving it a stow attack forsmooth, sleepy sounds or a sharpattack for percussive, snappy sounds

When When When?Yes, we know you'd like to have oneBut you're going to have to wait."Before Christmas" is all that MGTwould say, and it's not messing aboutwhen it says that. The firm is relying onso many outside contractors that"committing to a firm date at this pointwould be a bit silly". Pnces are yet tobe confirmed, but the E 150 mark forthe basic cassette-based unit will bestuck to as far as possible. Software isno problem, as the unit on its own willrun any Speccy software, but specificSAM stuff is being written right now,and PDS has written the SAM version

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Kendo, from what! can wers out. seems tobe a case of wavirin a sword about andhoping that someone's standing in the way.At least, that was the technique I managedto perfect Kende Warrior is spread overloads of screens. some of which are blockedoff by fe l= fleets, and others by gun turretswhich shoot at random. The budding whichall this takes place in (which turns out to bean enemy headquarters of some kind) isalso patrolled by various kinds of fiendishfoe. The ones I've encountered so far have

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SIGMA 7Encore/C1.99

Originaily released by Duren a couple ofyears ago, Sigma 7 's name derives from thevery popular Greek letter 'sigma' and thenumber seven, which alliterates quite nicelywith it. The game announces itself as a'space fantasy shoot-em-up', in fact a 'primeexample of this genKil, e boast I'd be foolishto argue with

Like all Du ra s Other stuff, the graphicshave a slight* unpolished look about them,but the subtffrUcture is sound enough. Acunning blend of scrolling shooter, Pacmanand puzzle game. Sigma 7eertainly pushesthis genre to its limits Phil says, "I prefer theCommodore 64 version, but you probablycan't say that in a Spectrum review,"highlighting the scritchy scratchy sound asone of his principle disappointments.Personally I thought the sound was fine.

Two quid is a small price to pay for thisformer blockbuster which is only just startingto go rusty.

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Well, it scrolls. Diagonally. You can shootthings, and you can also land to pick uprefugees who have been stranded on the

planet surface. You can fly through buildingsand things too, which can be ratherunnerving. It doseret look particularlyimpressive, but then diagonally scrollinggames rarely do. So much effort seems to gointo lugging the graphics across ttio soreenthat little things like sprite d f .s l g n a r d s c i a leffects tend to be forgotten

The purpose of all this is to libeihte i e cityof Xenon from the fiendish alien invaderswho have moved in. Most c i te anginalpopulation has been evacuated, but a fewkey figures remain. Thesa are the onesyou're meant to pick up. As you're doing thisthe obligatory alien hordes arrive and floataround taking pot shots at you.

I endured it for about 20 minutes and thenmoved on to better things.

PROTECTORMastertrenic /C2 .99Ah ha! A helicopter game — time to dustdown the age-old 'chopper' pokes. But thenagain, space is short. and I really can't bebothered, so let's dive straight into TheReview.

This three-quid's-worth places you in thedriver's seat of a helicopter at a trainingschool in the Nevada desert. UnsurpriOgglyyou are a trainee chopper pilot. Yourmission? To fly around and collect suppOesthat are dotted around the landscape anddeposit them back at your base Playlet two,or the computer if you're a bit lacking friend-wise, does the same. Once all the supplieshave been collected a bomb will appearwhich can then be dropped on youropponent's base. End of game. The'competitive edge' Is provided by the abilityto nick supply cases from the other guy'sbase for one's own use (while he's notlooking, of course), and to shoot him,causing him to drop whatever he's carrying.

GREEN BERETThe Hit Squad/C2.99Quite a seriously old side-view scrollingshooter this, but one which provokedenormous intere w h i l e after it firstcame out. It's not s e e why. Buttell you anyw

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Se ' a s i d e such prejudices ancidelvinginto the inner woec logs of the pronremreverds... oh dear . ie rky scrolling,confusing mishmashes of sprites, splutterysound, just-toorelow movement , .. yeurch. Ifyou want to you can pick up little Ps whichimprove your firepower, but I wasn't reallytaken by the idea

If The Edge was hoping to make a few bobby flogging this to unsuspecting,impoverished readers, shame on them_Anyway, its plans have now been foiled, soner.

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Guy Manly's your name and, predictablyenough, killing people's your game. Innocentspace traders, in fact, with the aim of nickingtheir cargo and selling them down themarket, like, no questions asked.

What this actually involves is flying arounda rather blandartr011ing grid arid shootingthings. There are various wayseicloing this,which are selected from a Wit te d menus.It's necessary to do this several times inorder to build up enough skill to progress tomore important things, such as inter-planetary travel. Everything, naterarevolves around amassing credi

I didn't venture too far into the depths ofthe game, as it would seem to require a lot ofpatience, dedication, enthusiasm and all theother qualities I so visibly lack. Theimpression I got was of a graphicallyuninspiring but otherwise fairly soundstrategy game which will probably appeal toa minority audience. I won't be returning to it,though, probably because I'm not a minorityof any kind,

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Your job is to sdl around the Manticseeking Out U-b o a t s w i t h y o ur s o na r . H av in g

found them the screen flips to a side viewwhere you have to guess the depth that thesub is sailing at and set a depth chargeappropriately. Also to be considered ietheD-Day invasion, which sounds extremelyexciting although I'm afraid I didn't gel thatfar.

The piedes are what really let thingsdown. I thought UDGs had been extinct foryears, but there seem to be loads of themscuttling around the garishly colouredscreens here, Although some of the ideas inWultpack are okayish, it's been programmedso primitively that coldly ignoring it wouldseem to be one's Only option.

INTERNATIONALFOOTBALLCult/C2 .99Out of a large heap of broadly similar-lookingsoccer games submitted by Cult, I decidedto subject myself to this one. As always, thetheme is management and the technique isto select the right things from the rightmenus at the right times. Out of all thefootball gamed I've been rn acielo playOtemational Football wo od appear to beone of the most oomPrenenstve andmost agonising to review.

Obviously, Ihe football takes p l e o a ninternational basis — it centres aribund theWorld Cup. Veu got to manacle the team ofany nation of any level of obscurity of yourchoiceend even more Obviously, attempt tolead ffiem to victory Or several other cups.in tagi: '

ThOre are thousands of features listed onthe inlay, very few of which I can even beginto comprehend. Those in the know will berelieved to hear that the game encompasses"average attendances", "relegation","manager sackings" "-I- much more".Sounds good to me

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Just coming up to its third birthday, this oneprovoked mixed feelings when it was firstreleased. The name derives from the fractalmethod used to generate the scenery, whichis the game's main selling point_

Apart from gawping at the landscape, yourjob as pilot of a Valkyrie liiirtter is to patrolthe surface of Froctalus looking for Shot-down pilots to pick up (oe-et). Aliens need tobe watched out for on later ovate, and tship is armed to deal with thertewhennecessary. • ;

Although the backdrops look i t r i v ewhen stationary, they assiA disg g l yjerkily, and there's larks, much unsightlycolour splashed around the place Thewhole appearance of the thing is distinctlynalf and I can't sin I enjoyed one minute ofthe time I spent (Amyl n g it. However, for themore persistent there's probably quite achallenging game lurking under the grottyexterior.

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Gosh, it's so scary, but as it'appens we're rather butch sowe can stay here_ ._ EEEKIOkay, we'll tell you from insidethe VS cupboard instead.

Ghouls And Ghosts is theUS Gold version of the sequelto the triffic coin-op gameGhosts And Goblins. Asbefore the scenario involvesyou duffing theectoplasm out of arange of horrormovie extras, en routeto rescuing your ladylove, the princess. Onlythis time the enemies aredifferent, and all the tools youneed on your journey aresupplied by magic chests. No,we don't mean MariaWhittaker, you fo rty person!All in all it's a brilliant sequel.We just wish the officepoltergeist wouldn't keepbreaking the place up eachtime we mention it. (Crash!Yelp!)

Win! Win! Win!Now then, where were we?Oh yes, the prizes.

There's a first prize of twomega-wopper Philips 'Movin'double tape deck and radioghetto blasters.

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One thing you can't deny — itsgoing to be pretty tricky trying tofigure out the best ploce to stashyour game-buying cash thisChristmas. AI the big companieshave some pretty unstoppable hknand arcade Ikences lined up, butOcean has rather more than most Imean, 8CHM011 should dill behanging around, then thens's TheUntouchables la superb filmconversion), Cabal and Chase NOSo the release of OpercrtionThunderbolt should be the icing onthe top of Ocean', Christmas coke.

The whole thing about Taito'sOperation Wolf (and the numerous'sequels' of which Thunderbolt wasthe only official one) was theincredible simplicity of its gurneys:cry.I mean, oil they really are are verysophisticated variations on thefairground shooting gallery theme.The only thing that's dilferent is thatyour ducks ore swopped for tanks,planes and soldier sprites — and the•diteks' shoot bock! Very simple andadcfictive all right, but undeniablygamey. So why should you splashOut for Thunderbolt this year whenyou already gat Wolf last year?Good question. Needless to sayOceans given it a bit of thought andcome up with some quite convincinganswers.

The main difference behveen thisand Op Wolf is that instead of eachlevel scrolling horizontally, half ofthem take on a 30 rolling roadaspect. Instead of moving across thepicture, you're moving into it.

The second difference concernsthe cursor. Insioad of the massivegunsight you hod on the Op Wolfscreen. here you've got, um, nogunsight at all. Or rather what theycall a pistol sight — which is so smallas to be invisible. You're stillshooting the blokes on the screenright. it's'lust that you only knowwhat your shot has hit from seeingwho is dying and where duo ispuffing up. Watch someone playingthe gams and it kaki confusing asanything, like the programmersmode a mistake. Play a yourselfthough and you soon get used to it

ar ia they tell met The idea was toreproduce the looking-down-the-cross-hairs-of o-cabinet-mounted-Uzi feel from the Thunderbolt coin-op as closely as possible.

Them is o way to ovoid thisvagueness though. On each level thecomputer offers you a loser sight'and keeps letting it drift across thescreen until you pick it up. Now youhave a gunsight on screen as in Wolf(though smaller). The trouble is thatyou only get one a level, so if you'refighting the bockfies with a buddyone of you will have to do without.

Oh, didn't I mention it? The otherdiffertmce from Wolf is that the newgame has a two player optionl Oneplayer uses the keyboard and theother a loystkk. Robs your wide Itreally is a natural for this sort ofgonseplay. You start the game with a1101Mol pistol, three grenades andfive mogazines of bullets, thoughbigger weapons and more ammoappear and con be picked tip alongthe way. A bullet-proof vest keepsyou (sort of) sale, a medical boxputs your life bock to the start again,

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As in Wolf, eoch level ismonochrome, though in differentcolours — not the plain block-and-white that you can see on those notquite-finished screenshots.Differences between the eight levelsore few though — outside of thealternating scroll-ocross or into-the-screen aspect. Still, things do gmharder as you go on, and there aresome very memorable bits.

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For instance. on Level Six (ahorizontal strol(er) men hang upsidedown into the screen from theceiling, and on Level Five (set on abowl they drop in from helicoptersoff the top of the screen. Four andSix ore the only ones with an enclal-level boddie as such, a manic blokewith a grenade launcher who rushesaround the screen pumpingpineapples at you lake nobody'sbusiness.

There is a vague plot too. LevelSevein is set on on airfield, and LevalEight inside the plane itself whereyou've got to shoot the terrorists(everyone of whom seems to wear amask for some reason). Get the lostone (who's holding the captainhostage in front of him, so it takessome nifty shooting) and you'vecompleted the game. Hurrah!

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'Well, we've used some of thesome routines in the some ways, butit's 01 been improved and speededup. Its a lot faster then lcei year. Theother thing is that there's morevariety too, mainly because of the

different sorts of levels we'veThe sprites ore bigger as well,

overall we're very pleased."Hmm. That's good. What did younk about the coin-op Operationunderbok — a lot of people seem

to think it's a bit crop compared toWolf

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we've boon given a good long timework on it, so everything's moreless as good as it can get. Alsovs been able to build a fightgun

lion in, so you should be able toit with the Sinclair Light Phase,.

'The other thing was that thecontiroie option on the Thunderboltcoin- "ift mode it too easy to get tothe end. Even if you veer* crop youcould complete the game ion by

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and Mechanised Attack wasscience fictiony, not gritty

enough. Also you had to shoot themen a few times to make them diewhich slowed down the ganisplay."

Ail righl. Before we go, did youhave any major probe with it?

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°lions and so on that we had tove on each of them eating up two

a ball K, that left only three anda half for sprites, The 3D bits werenowhere near as bort There are nobackgrounds to speak of so thereore more sprites — bigger and withmore variety. The men hove eightframes of animation as they movetowards you, but the vehicles (whichare loner) take only four'

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grandma was Irish,did you? But now youdo it probablyexplains a lot,including the reasonwhy I love Irish placenames. I met

—mmen...pr- someone on holidaywho comes from Nutt's Corner nearBelfast, and my first letter this month isfrom Bill Campbell of Sallynoggin,County Dublin. Bill's problem, apartfrom people not believing his address, isto do with Castle Bkickstar He says hewas 24 when he started playing it, andhe's now 26 and still hasn't finished!

Where's the Orb? he wants to know.LENNUT YDNIW EHT NWODHow do you stop the windblowing in the windy tunnel?HU ID NI HCIAH ESOLC. Butdon't forget to open it againbefore the end of the game.

And the Irish do have a waywith words, don't they? AlanThorpe from a place calledSwords, also in County Dublin, •says that he reads myadventure column every week.What, four times in one month?Even I don't read it that often,and I have to check it formistakes. Oh well, he'dprobably been at the Guinnesswhen he wrote in. He says he'sgot as far as Zelda's lair and theBlack Tower in Kentüla, so whatshould he do next? Pack it in,I'd say, as the game's got bugsin it and you won't be able tofinish it anyway. But, in anycase, advice isn't as simple asthat on this game. The bestthing to do is send an sae (or inyour case an International ReplyCoupon) and I'll send you a help sheet.

Questions and answers from PaulAppleton of Coventry. The answer is forthe reader who wanted to know how toget on to the spaceship in PoPoe. This bitis forwards, as it's too long to write it allbackwards. Climb to the top of thelighthouse, taking care to avoid the fly,walk right, then forwards, then right,and you should now be on a platform. Allyou have to do then (I love that phrase!)is walk forwards when the spaceshipgoes past, taking care to time itcorrectly, and you should be omboard.Paul says that if you walk too farforwards you'll fall down and have to do itall over again, so be warned.

In return Paul wants to know a fewthings about The &drag And The CatPaul read in my review of this game thatyou find the entry form for the racesbehind the toilet. But where is it? It's

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there, Paul, it really is, just examineeverything in sight, check all the wordsin all the messages and all the locationtext. And how to fill it in? Well, I'm nottelling you that as you haven't even got ityet, come on! What to do inside therabbit warren? DAERB HT1W T1BBARDEEF. What to do with the twigs andcoin? Use the coin ENIHCAM OEDIVEHT NO, and as for the twigs, ma r rERONGI. There are several red herringsin this game, although there's a lot of funto be had with them just the same —EERT YRATILOS, REYSOP, ENOTS,SGIWT, EXA, PAM.

Not only does David Aitken forget togive me his address, he can't counteither! He says he's got two questions onPlay It Again Sam, and then only asks me

one. How did the Maths exams go thisyear, David? What he wants to know is inPart Two of the game, once you've gotGloria's car running, what next? Theanswer is yet another example of thisgame's awful parser, as it only acceptsthe single command YAWA EVIRD.There are umpteen ways of phrasingthat, but only one is acceptable to theprogram. Gar!

Nic Banister (any relation to Minnie?)says that as I'm such a generous person,could I answer his questions on ThePawn? Flattery gets you everywhere.But an sae would get you the answerseven quicker! How to find lironos whenyou've got the dead adventurer's body?First you have to solve the problem ofthe dragon in the chamber. Where is thekey to unlock the door at the top of theice tower, and where is the voting paper?The ballot paper's EFAS EHT NL and the

key is multi-purpose and can be foundLATSEDEP EHT RAEN EHCIN A NI.You have to do something to the pedestalfirst, mind. If the key ain't there then theadventurer's nicked it! Finally, thealchemist EC1R EHT STNAW. You sayyou've given him that but still can't getpast, in which case I admit I don't knowwhat's stopping you. Any offers? Send toNic Banister, 3 Fengmve, Longton,Preston, Lanes PR4 5BA.

Still in the red rose county, and still ona Magnetic Scrolls game, John Fearoriof Bury says that in jinx-ter h e ' sassembled the bracelet and gone upstairsto the hallway, but as soon as he entersone of the doors the game finishes andhe's told he's not far enough up the luckscale. As he's got 175 points and is

'incredibly lucky' at that point,what has he done wrong? I'd haveto go through the entire gamewith you to find that out, but iftell you what the points areawarded for that might help. Fivepoints for getting out of the bus,for getting into the orchard viaeither the bull or the wire, forgetting the spectacles and formaking the bracelet. John musthave got all those, so it must beone of these tasks that he'smissed, all of which earn you tenpoints — unlocking Xam'smailbox, getting the oil, gettingthe sack from the gardener.floating the canoe in the lagoon,getting past the mound of dirt,opening the safe, getting on tothe Order, getting to the station,getting the ticket, getting on thetrain, getting to the castle,rescuing Xam, getting out of thecell, opening the dome and finallyfor getting intoJannedor'ssanctum. You also get 15 pointsfor getting rid of the

postmistress. Why you don't get tenpoints for that, too, to make the total around 200 I don't know.

John also says that he sent off for JekyllAnd Hyde from the recent special offercoupons and thinks that it's "brill!"

A quick thanks to Paul Busow ofLiverpool and Martin McKenzie ofGlasgow for their advice to people havingtrouble loading Blizzard Pass I've alreadyprinted this info in tbe September issue,but in case you missed it you must firstgo into 128 BASIC, then type OUT32765,23. This might look like a crashbut ignore it, and now type LOAD "fl asnormal.

My usually reliable readers have let medown recently. You rotten lot! Come on,you can do it. I mentioned in the Juneissue that reader Alan Biggs ofLesmurrene, Dark Lane, SwindonVillage, Cheltenham, Glos GL51 9RW

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had got a copy of Ten Little Indians whichhis daughter had bought for .E1.50 in asale. Unfortunately, when they got ithome it turned out not to be a Spectrumversion — in fact they can't get it to loadon any machine — but the shop wouldn'tgive them a refund. Surely some kind-hearted reader somewhere has got aSpectrum version of this game thatthey've finished with and could pass onto Alan? I'm sure he'd even let you haveit back when he'd finished solving it.

Stephen Tann' of Plymouth is stuckin Fnznkenstein, and wants to know howto open the chest in the garden — EFINKHMV SEGNIH WERCSNU. And toescape the bear — ROOLF P M U JNEHT EERT BMILC.

AB Reid of Glasgow isn't a very goodadventurer, so they say, and wants toknow what to do in the first part ofZacalon Mystery once you've got thecrystal. The answer (forwards) is tomove the altar, search, search the boat,get the oars, enter the boat (GO BOAT),row the boat and go south, south, west,north. To deal with the hydra in LaboursOf Hercules once you've got the burningarrow you should fire it into the cave,then DROWS HTIW DAEH FFO POHC.You've then got one move to HCROTHmv KCEN NMI&

Jim Halligan of Liverpool is sinkingin Subsunk How to deal with theoverflowing basin, is it something to dowith the broom with the sucker on it?Indeed it is, and you're probably lookingfor the command NISAB EGNULP.

Commands are also at the mot of thetrouble that Wolfman's causing Yvonnelizard of Kent. She's got the key,pushed it into the keyhole of theshowcase, but it won't open. What'sgoing on? You have to do three things inthe right order — YEK EVOMER, YEKHSUP, YEK TREsm.

Rita Guinness of Staffs writes amulti-coloured missive containing thesolution to Mystery Of The Indus Valley,and a warning that she solved it in 65turns in less than an hour on the sameday she bought it! In the unlikely eventthat anyone's stuck, Rita says that thereare only six items you need, the rest arered herrings. The six are MIT, KNALP,EPOR, EFINK, E X A KC I P , H C RO T .

More help needed from you lot outthere. John Tabraham bought a copy ofThe Best Of Beyond, but this didn't includethe maps for Doorndalk's Revenge andSorderon's Shadow. If anyone has sparecopies John would very much welcomethem and be forever in your debt. Hisaddress is 35 Knowsley Park Lane,Prescot, Merseyside L34 3NA. I'm onlyhelping him 'cos my dad was born inPrescot — see, you're getting the entirefamily tree this month. More fascinatingpersonal titbits next time round

Venture forth with Mike GerrardThe Cryttat Of Chorale

W from Pelagon Softwarewas favourably received bymyself and others, and authorGary Power has asked me tolet you know that the price hasnow been reduced to £1.49.The bargain's available from 6Renoir Mews, North Bersted,Bognor Regis, West SussexP022 9AU, and it's well worthit. Gary also said he wanted YS(natch!) to be the firstmagazine to get a glimpse ofhis next adventure, StrangeWorld, which is a graphicaladventure for I28K machinesonly. I know 48K owners mightmoan, but it's good to see thatthose bold enough to buy aI28K are at last gettingadventures that make gooduse of that extra memory.They've been a long timecoming, but there have beenseveral in the old mailbaglately.

Gary's game is a horrorstory In the noble tradition ofHammer films, and has beenwritten using PAW The demohe sent me only shows thegraphics, but they areimpressive and the loadingscreen is wonderfully eerie,one of the creepiest I've everseen. I hope the game itselfJives up to it, and look forwardto getting the finished versionsoon.

A i, One of the best Spectrum

I V fanzines around has alwaysbeen BASIC, which stoppedproduction for a while thissummer due to half the editorialteam being involved in exams. Weall know the feeling. But now...blow the trumpets, beat thedrums... BASIC is back. Or itshould be by the time you readthis, the relaunch issue beingscheduled for October sometime.By then they should have finishedtheir quest for a new adventurewriter, but if they haven't you canalways apply for the job. I knowseveral of you are dying to burstinto print (KER-POP!). and onereason for buying adventure andgeneral Speccy fanzines is thatthey rely on YOU forcontributions. So send your El(made payable to The ZXSpectrum Club) to BASIC, 18 Poplar

Close, Biggleswade. Beds SG18OEW.

Moribund. That's myIIIP word-of-the-month. Good,innit? Say it slowly and roll Itround your gob. M-o-r-l-b-u-n-cl. Anyway, moribund is thestate that Sonia Griffiths-Glover's adventure heiplinehad got itself into for variousreasons, and she wants you tohelp rescue it by writing in anddemanding solutions, as wellas offering them. The HintsArchive For Lost Adventurersworks on a swops basis, whichIs that for every question youask you have to provide ananswer to some adventureproblem you've solved. If youwant a solution to one game,you have to send in thesolution to another. I t doesn'tmatter If HALA's already gotthe one you send, it's thethought that counts, and thespare solutions then get sentout to other people who writein.

It's a good, sensiblearrangement, so help HALAget going again by writing toSonz at 38 Bellfield Drive,Willerby, East Yorks HUIO6HQ. Get on good terms withSonz and she might even sendyou a copy of the adventureshe's written! Fair brought ablush to my cheeks, it did.

Am, More news of forthcoming

titles from the excellentCompass Software, who broughtyou the Demon From The Darkstdetrilogy, Intruder Alert, Micromonand others_ Author Jon Lemrnon is po.

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1 The Hobble Hunter. which hepromises isn't just another Hobbitrip-off. but is *something new,something great! From almostanyone else I'd say, -O h y e a h ! ' B u t

the standard of Jon's games is sohigh that it's sure to be different.It's another PAW game, but willhave lots of sound effects andMachine Code effects, which wereamong the things that impressedme about Intruder Alert.

Micromon fans will be delightedto hear that Jon is at last penning.or PAWing, the follow-up to thefollow-up. Microman III will becalled The Micro Mutant andshould be out soon. Details fromCompass Software. I I I Mill Road,Cobho1m. Great Yarmouth,Norfolk NR3I

mik Anyone in the Staffs areagi. should make a note intheir diary for 26th November,as that's the day that The8-Bit Micro Show is being heldin the Tamworth Arts Centrefrom 10.00am to 5.00pm. It'sbeing organised byenterprising VS adventure fanAdrian Betts, who says that Ifanyone wants to set up stallIt'll cost them US , or £30 witha power supply. He wants lotsof fellow adventure fans toattend, though the show is ageneral micro show and isbeing advertised on localradio, in fanzines and, Adriansays, "in rival computermags". But YS has no rivals!

If you want further details,or are interested in taking astall and getting your gamesbefore the Staffordshirepublic, contact Adrian Betts, 8Healey, Lakeside, Tamworth,Staffs B77 2RE

The I28K tape magazineIIIP Enigma is going fromstrength to strength, which isn'tsurpnsing as it's very well doneand it also reflects a growinginterest in the I 28K machines oflate. They've also just interviewedme, so that's bound to boostcirculation! Issue Four will be a PCShow special. due Out any daynow, followed by Issue Five as aChristmas special. and Issue Sixwill be a... well, a February 1990special. After six issues editor JonRose and publisher Hamish Rustplan to take stock of the situationand hopefully will be able to keepEnigma going, Send your sae fordetails to Hamish Rust, ISWestfield Road, Inverurie,Aberdeenshire ABS 9YR. To getthe latest copy send a cheque orpostal order for i1.99 made outto Enigma, or if you want to sendyour own blank C90 tape then itcosts ELS°.

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With the arrival of a new

adventure magazine on thescene, I decided it was time todo a round-up of what'savailable, giving you all the

info on addresses, prices, contents andother such essential stuff. Prices arecorrect at the time of writing, but itmight be wise to send an sae and get up-to-date details in case they've changed inthe meantime. Overseas readers shouldcheck anyway as subscription rates arenaturally higher for them. These are themags you won't find in the shops, so nopoint in even looking.

ADVENTURE CODER

The new magazine that's just

arrived is Adventure Coder,edited by Chris Hester andpublished by MandyRodrigues, who also publishes

Adomture Probe . A few years ago therewas an excellent fanzine called AdventureContact, which was started by PatWinstanley and was for adventurewriters rather than adventure players.Sadly the mag died when a new editortook over from Pat (who no longer hadthe time to devote to it) and would havebit the dust much sooner than it did if ithadn't been for the prolific pen of ChrisHester. Chris seemed to write the lastfew issues almost exclusively, despite thefact that the magazine was nothing to dowith him!

Adventure Contad has been dead andburied for a couple of years now, and

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many's the lament that's gone up fromadventure authors wondering whetheranything would ever take its place. ChrisHester has therefore decided to revivethe idea of the magazine and edit ithimself, sensibly spreading the load bycalling upon the experience of MandyRodrigues to do the actual publishing anddistribution.

The first issue is an excellent effort,although I do hope the editor doesn'tindulge himself too often and continuepublishing his own short stories. If themagazine's meant to be about adventurewriting then keep it that way! We don'tpublish knitting patterns in KS justbecause it's the editor's hobby, do we?

Still, there's lots of good stuff too inthe mag's 32 pages, which is sure toexpand if the readers respond. It coversall machines, but naturally the Speccytakes up most of the space anyway!There are four pages devoted to twoparticular PAW routines, all to do withprinting exits on-screen and the controlof other characters. This Paw Printscolumn will be a regular feature, as will aseries on writing your own adventures inMachine Code on the ZI30, by adventureauthor Paul Bnmyee. There's advice ondoing graphics in GAC, which I knowmany of you will welcome, a list of usefuladdresses and a full list of utilities andadd-ons, including some on theSpectrum which were news to me.

All in all this first issue is a verypromising start indeed for AdventureCoder, If the quality keeps up, it'll be wellworth subscribing to.

PRICE: 21 per issue in the UK(Cheques payable to 'C. Hester').EDITOR (AND ADDRESS FOR ALLENQUIRIES): Chris Hester, 3 WestLane, Raildon, Nr Shipley, WestYorkshire 131)17 5HD.PUBLISHER: Mandy Rodrigues.

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It's now up to about 40 pages per issue— or 3p a page, which isn't bad! It tendsto concentrate more on providing tipsand solutions in as many ways aspossible — getting started on a game, alist of all the objects in one adventurewith their uses, the infamous backwardswriting, or step-by-step solutions. Butthere are other things too, like theoccasional review, lots of ads, a helplineand solution sheet service, and a letterssection — a good place to swop youradventures.PRICE: £1.25 per issue in the UK(cheques payable to SPellbreaker).EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: MikeBrailsford, 19 Napier Place, South Parks,Glenrothes, Fife K116 I D X .ADVENTURE PROBE

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soon be celebrating its fourth birthday,so that's a tribute to its quality.Probe was founded by Sandra Sharkey inJune 1986, and when Sandra becamerather too busy to continue with themagazine the editorship passed over toMandy Rodrigues, who has been puttingit about... I mean putting it togetherever since,

Probe does include solutions and tips,but is more of an all-round adventureread. Like the other mags it covers allmachines, but Spectrum owners will findvery few pages that don't interest them.When my copy of Probe arrives eachmonth I usually turn to the letterssection first, as this section is oftenseveral pages long and acts as anentertaining and friendly forum for what'swhat in the adventure world. If you'vesomething to say, you can say it here.

I also enjoy the Bugs And AmusingResponses section, which often raises atitter, and each issue usually contains alist of telephone helptine numbers. Ifyou're stuck in a Spectrum game thenthere are numbers to ring seven days aweek, from 10am to 10 pm. If someonefrom Probe can't help you, then theadventure hasn't been written yet!PRICE: t 1.25 per issue (chequespayable to Adventure Probe).EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: MandyRodrigues, 24 Maes y Cwm, Llandudno,Gwynedd 1.1.30 IR.

CONFIDENTIAL

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the promise of its first issue yet. Thatone covered just about everything on theadventure scene, and later issues haveexpanded on the coverage so that now itdeals with what you might call 'thinking'games, with articles on chess, flightsimulators, strategy. PBM and RPGgames as well as straight adventures.There are still plenty of those around.though naturally I prefer a magazinethat's absolutely devoted to adventuregames and nothing else (but don't tell theeditor, he gets upset).

If the quantity doesn't match that ofthe fanzines, then the quality makes upfor it, and I don't just mean that I writefor it occasionally! So do Keith Campbelland Tony Bridge, as well as regularPunch contributor Michael Bywater, whofor my money is one of the funniestwriters around.

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The games Louise says she Itni.im well enough to helpout on (including a few non-Spedrum titles, but what theheck) are Adeenhor Quest, Arno Gardens. Athystwde.Apadt I Gold, Bale Quest. Big Skate, Black Fointiant.Boot', Book Of The Dead Border Zone, Buckaroo Bortrai,Bugs); Bulbo Arid Me Lizard- King. Bantakerizyl b(de, Ctzsde Bladder. Glak Coiditz, Casde 0177u SkullLord, lend' Thad( Revisited, I Is Challenge, Cirrus, ClawsqDesPalr, azYmotrue C4stk, 6310Ssal Advenhor, ColourOf Magic. Corruption, The Count, Cryan Of Ramitotep,Crystal Fr'. CrystatOlarnat. (Willa The CUT,Ciisterd's Quest, Dalkz Quest, Denson Foen The Oarlock,Delti5 T h e Ountrili g Glass, DoderGerzers, DoubleAgent, Dranda, Priteonserpt, D10011n1 Alitother,Endwite7, Energem Enigma, Erik The E s a l peFrom Onti's Island, Estionage Island, &edible, ENO/Bain, Fantasia Dimond, Fist* Of Blood Capaiks,Flotball Envy Frankenstein. Gnome Ranger GoldenBaton, Green Nor, Guild Of Theses. Hammes 01Grorimold, Ifeary On The Magni, Heroes Of Kars,lierrnal Alusetort, Hollywood Intim., !Litt!, HumanTomb And The Ming Hunchback, ke Station brti.Inigmalson, Inca Curse. iniid, Inspedor Ruled. jade TheRipper, kakis Of Babylon hurray To The Cesarr Of EekbeSmith's Head. Kalssia, KaUdA, Katleta, Knight OfLabours Of Herniles Lifeboat, Lik Term, Loads OfMidi:04 Lord Of R ings (help only, no full solution),Lords Of Midrugki, but CrystaL Mansion (111164 Masters OfThe Universe, Matt Lucas. Mindsione, Moroi. The Mural,Murder Hunt Mankr Off M MU, The Nem Ending StortOdyue, Of Hope. The '0' Zone The Poen Perseus AndAndromeda. Pirate Adventure, Play AA= Sam.Prrinsforic Adventure, Reba Plana, Return ( Tit e joystick,Rigel's Revenge. Robin Of Sherlock, Rogue Comet, Seas 0,Blood, Sean Of St Brides. Se- Kaa OfAssiak Serf 's Tak,Skidosts Of Monk', Sherlock, SuirwyAlfair, Wad AndThe Gokim Skp. SmouOlail, Sosas Of Darken, Spelibreaker.SPy A*, Star Strange Odyssex Subunit:, TangledTak, Twice SIN Urban Upstart. Valteine 17. Vent CrtaAffaie, Very Btg Cat e Adventure it know*, WriderWonderland, WibleSS, Wiws6Ort and Zara

After that little lot. is there room for another Kind &nil?Of course there is! Especially when its a regular helperlike Jackie Holt from 13 Montague Street, Bulvetil.Nottingham NGti 8EL'• Jacloe's latest surcses on whichshe can help out in return for the (obligatory sae includeSTI, SMASHED. Forgoes, Poi, SO Trice Lost (M,Serpmt From Hell, lianesting Moon, Dv Holloselsea),The !foliose (graphics), Holy joystak, Nods Of Wolk'.Ghost Town (Virgm Games), DOM Through Pie DrmtangGlass, Double Agent, Cursed Bent Catt Orbit Of IkonRings OfMnfirr, Goldseeker. The bItte Lakes, Operatum

Rolm, Soap Land, Buffer Adventure, Vier Earl& Mackfif(text). and Tlw Sandman ComelkLast but by no means least is Stephen TCHAM, whoseaddress is 4 Ash Grose, North Prospect, Plymouth P1221Z. Stephen can help you out on bazaar. DangerMouse, SMASHED, Golden Eau*, Red Door, Colour OfMagic, Eddie Smith, Star Wreck, VIM Cna Mar, FootballFrenzy Craft Crazy!, Holy Grad Meat Lucas. *wry tyThe Indus Valley Spelibmend. finders Keepers. Kmglit TwatCustend's Quest, Treaswe Island. Dar): Blatant Pass, RiftsOf Time. &withal', Sprit Of arab= Ice, Dania IIILEscaPed, Rads Retrace, Howland Doub k Agent Stephensays a big THANK YOU to Mark Walker for his help onsome of those.

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Strider, Strider, Strider. yup, here we are- Strider. it got a Corky Coin-Op only (rustlerustle) tour issues ago, and we've got theSpeccy version already! Ber-limey!

lame, S tr ide r the coin-op. yourtask is to t o the Russian Red Army and returnenemy secrets to your superiors so much for thethawing ol East/West relations eh?). You've got tobattle your way past live levels of Russian nastiesbelore you lace the Grand Master of the Red Army.And then it's a battle to the death, on which thefuture of the western world depends Yikesi

Strider - The Man HimselfThe star of Strider is . Strider. He might notlook like much when he's standing still, but watchhim move! A bit like the big eyed, pointy chinnedheroes of Japanese IV shows and comic strips, he'snever content to walk when a triple back flip withreverse spin will do. lie can run, jump and crouchas well as anybody, and he can also do vastsomersaulting leaps, claw his way up walls, hangIron overhead gantries and perform sliding tackles.He comes armed with a laser sword too, which isupgradable on later levels for more slashing power.And as all of these moves are easily accessible fromthe t h e r e ' s no fatting around with the

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Str i der s task Is to m ake his way into w hat looks like the Kremlini tbureau, though first he has to climb, lump and fi ght his way acrossr ooftops, dodging gun em pl acem ents, guards and laser beams.ng r obots drop crates that release l i the droid doobr ies w henshed. These drolds are pretty useful too, 'cos they circle Strider

constantly, and each l ime you fire they release little circulating smartbom bs which wipe out everything they hit.

Ther e are tw o big set pieces on this level. The first cor n* , about twothirds of the way thr ough w hen Str ider must fi ght a giant muscleman,then dodge out of the way i up the wall Spider m an-style or under aplatfor m ) befor e a cei l ing of fl ame burns down.

The second is even more spectacular . Str ider enters the par l iamentcham ber , and afi the Pol i tbur eau m em ber s transform into a giant,her nm er -and-sici tie-waving snake! 'I Wits! Unfor tunate l y the rather nicetr ansfor m ati on scene has been taken out thr ough lack of space, so youJust get to e t h e m onster in its final form. You'l l have to do

g isom e nifty • r ring to get rid of this one!

LEVEL TWOThi s is set in the snowy Siber ian w • popul ated by moreRussian guards, robot dogs and other s than you've had hotdinner s. This is m uch MOCO platform and laddery than the last level,har der and per haps more playable.

Baddies on this level include a gigantic m echanical gorilla thatlumbers up the screen early on [but isn't too hard to kill) and a finalsection incorporating waves of bom bs that par achute slowly dow n ontop of you. These are qui te tr icky to avoid, but the end of levelencounter is a bit of a di s a ppoi ntm e nt I t consists of a bunch of manicB-oishoi fl atlet m em ber s who high kick towar d you a n d are easilyw i ped out

LEVEL THREEthis one's a bit di fferent. Quite how it fits In wi th the plot I 'm not, but suddenly we'r e out of Russia and into the Am az on rain forest.

t least, that's w hat it looks like. The platforms are this time m ade outtr ees and vines and such like, and are heavily popul ated byor ner ang tossing warr ior wom en. Blitney!

This is one of those bits wher e you have to do a lot of running anding blind, hoping there'l l be a platfor m to land on som ew her e in

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Later on, this level reveals such del ights as leaping pi ranha fish andr am paging dines. And in one of the rare instances wher e it's not qui teclear what's happeni ng a handful of mini tr iceratops (about rhino size)lumber across the bottom of the screen, and instead of a nice blackbackgr ound you've got a slightly confusing shades-of gray leafy junglefl oor type backdr op. Igo there's a spot of guessing going on.

LEVEL FOUREek! Next up you're on a big, fl oating enemy battl eship t h i n g * Watchout you don't fall down the holes in the bottom (It's possible to sinceyou're only hoping there'l l be a platfor m to land on hail the time). Ther eare yet more guards, bi l l ions of platforms and corr idors to explore anda couple of big baddies near the end to cope with. The first is a giantfl oating satel l i te thing covered in w hat look like camera lenses.Get rid of that monstrosi ty end a hole opens up beneath you. Dr opdow n and ther e's a giant geezer w i th a big sickle to cope with. Tikes(

LEVEL FIVEYou're back in Moscow for the final level, running along a weird set ofhigh tech r ooftop. , swarming wi th guards. Drop dow n a hole andther e's another big satel l i te to get pa s t Lumme! And another giant!

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So there we have it. Maybe the levels are a bit short(there are only live of them), and the difficulty levelcould possibly be pilmed a bit higher. And thoughthe big set pieLe monsters all look prettyImpressive, they sninelimes seem a little easy to kill- once you've susstit it. But what is here is reallygood, so I'm going to give it a Megag5mc It's a niftypiece of programming, one of tile cleanest, bestlooking Speccy games I've Tier seen, and some offt plays like a dream. Just tear in mind that onceyou know your moves that's it. You've done it_ OurJack is bored of the game already.

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and Matt wanted to do this sowe had a bit ot a fight and itended up with us both

doing it_ Ho hum.Matt I t s not thatsurprising really -TheUntouchables

is an absolute corkerof a game. In tact, itmight even be thebest Speccygame anyone'sreleased thisyear!!

Jackie Now don't get carried away, Matt. It isgood though - and so il should be! Every time I'vebeen up at Ocean this year it's been adding this bithere and perlechng that bit there! I can't quitebelieve its finished!

Anyway, its a six level, five load arcadeadventure based very closely on vanous originalscenes, The packaging will sort of explain that, butyou'll be better off having seen the movie or you'llfind yourself a bit lost.

Matt Its not as simple as that though. They'veadded a few strategy elements as well just tocomplicate things. For instance, instead of playingjust one character, you play lour different ones atonce, Eh? How can that work then? Well, the thingis, you've got all the main characters from the movie(Elliot Ness, the Sean Connery character Malone,the Italian sharpshooter Slone, and the toad-likeaccountant bloke) and can switch between them atany time. A couple of them you'll have to keep aliveat all costs or you won't be able to finish the game,but the other two poor chaps are expendable, so dyou're in a tricky spot and losing a lot of energy lastmake sure it's from one that you don't need! Thegame doesn't tell you which ones are expendable.but if you've seen the film you should get a goodidea,

Jackie But enough of all that. Let's look at theindividual levels and see how they work

level One THE WAREHOUSEJadde This is based on the movie's openingscenes. Its an eight way scrolling platform andladders jump-about. The play area is fairly large -about three screens tall by eight or so wide - and ispacked with hoodlums leaping and bounding andshooting all over the place. You play Ness in thisone, and d's your task to catch up with the ten mobaccountants you'll find lurking around the place andcollect evidence off them, You'll spot them easilyenough. Not only do they skulk around lookingsuspicious in long coats, but the computer providesa handy arrow that points out where the next one's

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lurking! They're the only ones who don't take poishots at you too 'cos throughout this level the air isliterally heavy with lead!

Matt This really is a very smooth and playablelevel. Look out for violin cases. They contain extraweapons (shotgun, machine gun and more ammo).Check out the bottom of the screen - you've notcollected much evidence have you. and the littlepicture changing from Ness to Al Capone (indicatingyour life running out) is nearly in full Capone mode

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I. pvel Two THE BRIDGEMatt This is a different pot of pickled herringsaltogether. In tact it probably qualities as Ocean'sthird variation on the Op Wolf theme this Christmas.You can see yourself at the bottom of the screen -you're the one rolling around on the floor at the

bottom, getting your coal all dirty. There is a point 10this though. You're faced with a wall of trucks andhoodlums swarming all over them! The scene isabout three screens wide, and you must roll around,trying to take as few shots as possible at the sametime as shooting out the liquor kegs scatteredabout. You get halt a bottle for each one you hit butsince you need to make up 32 bottles (II I rememberright) it does take some doing,

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Interesting. Instead of having a crosshairs on thescreen you see through the little binocular shape atthe bottom, so you have to keep flicking your eyesfrom there to the main screen.

level Three THE ALLEYWAYMi tt This one's a bit Op W-i sh too. That's you onthe right of the picture - you're equipped with adouble barrelled shotgun and have to pop out into

the open (where you-r e v u l n e r a b le ) , t a k e y o ur s h ot s

then nip back again to reload. Of course, the alleysare absolutely lam-packed with Capone'shenchmen - leaning out of the windows and so on -which can cause a few problems. You're collectingliquor again by the way, which you gel il you bagany bad buys.

Jackie Oh dear. Malt didn't explain that very welldid he? He started in the middle again. What heforgot to mention is why you're in the alleys in the

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first place. You're on your way to the train stationwhere you're trying to catch Capone's mainaccountant before he Bees the country. There aresix similar screens to work your way through beforeyou reach it There. Why didn't you tell 'ern that,Matt? Slap! (Whimper.)

L r o u r HAILINAY STATIONJackie Yol This is isbeutbit. no doubt about it!

Check out the bottom of the screen. There are Iwopower doobnes down there. Why's that, d'yousuppose? Well, it's because they're doing the old'you play two characters at once' trick again otcourse (well. sort ol). Only this time one of them's ababy! So you've got two lives to keep an eye onhere That's the pram in the middle of the screen.What's happening is that its rattling down the long,long staircase to the train station while you run up.down and round about it, shooting all the baddies

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there bouncing about all over the place. Extraenergy icons appear which you can either grabyourself or push the baby over to keep him alive too.

Matt It may seem a little sick having a gamewhere not only is a baby caught in a crossfire ofbullets but it's used as a shield to protect your ownlife with, and it probably is (a bit). But other thanthat this section is blooming ace - the best bit fromthe him and, rather fittingly, the best bit in the game

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Level Five THE TRAIN PLATFORMMatt This is a mini-level with a very tight lime limit.One of Capone's men has got the escapingaccountant chappie and is about to blow him awayto stop him testifying. (The poor dear!) And you'veonly got one chance to stop him! Basically, youneed to position the barrel of your gun over his head(his body won't do) and lire.

Jackie Yucki This is a little too bloodthirsty formy liking. Where's the conclusion bit?

THE ENDJadde Ah, here it is! Were atthe end ol the game. Well, sortof. I, um, didn't manage to getthat tar, but apparently you'vegot to shoot this guy off arooftop with your six shooterpistol, nipping behind a walland reloading every so ()Hen(rather like Level Three, infact). You'll have to gel him fourlimes to push him back, but allthe time he'll be taking potshots at you, shoving youbackwards! Its a bit like a lug ofwar.

Matt And that's it! What alittle cracker of a game.

Everything is as smooth andpolished as you can get on aSpeccy. and it's lam-packed lullol things to do. The

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office when I'm in a leg-hihn' mood know.And they still walk with a limp tool)

But this time its all a game and what a good sortof game it is too. Altered Beast was a corking.ripping. snorting game as a coin-op with all sorts ollab 'n• groovy undead beashes to beat up, not tomention a whole googolbyte of sound and graphics.And looking at its conversion I can but marvel4gasp, gasp) al the capacity of the averageSpectrum programmer to shoehorn this much gameinto such a small memory space. Isk! rknow I stillremember when 48K was a LOT. Still, enough of thisfoolish reminiscing.., sniff_ on with the review.

Once upon a time, a young bloke died andbefore he could even get comfy in his grave, somebleedin' wizard came along and raised him from thedead 'What do you want, you whiskery old goat,-he shouted politely. "I wuz lust gelluf setlied in megrave an' now you've blinkin' come along andresurrected me. yer big dimmock.'

"You are to be my agent In this world " said thewiz with a voice like an old wallet. ''You shall lakeon the beasts of the night and rescue my daughter.Art thou worthy of the task?" He prodded a lightningboll into the wretched dead-un's kidneys makinghis eyes bulge out like mushrooms. Being braveabout death but a complete wimp about pain, thelad accepted and trudged oft through the Graveyard.

II wasn't much, a trifle overpopulated withzombies perhaps but it was the only home he had.He ploughed into the zombies without much ado.but soon realised, as he progressed through Ms Anext lour picturesque locations DI the Forest, theCave, the Temple and then back again to theGraveyard, that something rather peculiar washappening to hunt Whistling merrily along as he

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Hey, YOU. wake up! It isn't a bed time stoly youprannoch, its the game. Ahem Right, sittingcomfortably, I C h u ck l e . ) T he n I 'l l c o nt i nu e .

On the Speccy it's easier to do a monochromeversion of a blockbustut coin-op beat- em-upgame, because it's less hassle than finding Out newways to bamboozle your way around the attributeproblem, I think this is a bit ol a cop-out, personalty.especially when the one thing that the Speccyactually does rather well is Msl colour graphicsOkay, so it's not many colours. but with care andattention you can achieve a multicoloured gamewhich moves at something like a realistic speed.Which is exactly where Altered Beast comesn(Lummel At last! Ed)

tt's a multi-coloured game, a bit like Kamm, i ndesign and execution, in which the sprites all have

their own colours The technique works better it youlayer the colours and do calculations to match thesprite colour with the background colour, but that alltakes up processing lime, so the backgrounds lakeon the sprite colour as ii moves across the screenIt's easier to do, faster to play, and so much closer tothe original game in looks and speed Altered is aslast as it can be tor the amount that's going on and aIt rates a higher score lot that but it does 'udder a . 9bd. The graphics are lust class, and the sounds arenone too bad either although a trifle annoying ifwe're talking about the theme lune

The game is quite satisfying as beat- em-ups goand my only real criticisms are at d anything thelevels are too short b) shame the players look likethey're doing ballet kicks rather than karate, and c)

' with the background and 400 bits of zombie Hyingaround it's hard to see what's going on But Alteredpushes the Speccy to its limits, and although it s aflawed execution in some ways, I'd still say it's agood game.

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scrumptious fractal program megaspecial .

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this month's batch consisted offractal programs, so I've turnedover a large chunk of Pitstop tothat very subject. In the face ofpopular demand, I have alsodesignated this issue a hex-free zone Normality shouldreturn next month though.

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If you're wondering what to

have a crack at writing next,how about some sound FX forfellow readers to incorporateinto their own programs? Your48K Machine Code ones wouldprobably benefit thecommunity most, and thosethat make the nicest noise, inrelation to their size (a fewbytes, hopefully), will beimmortalised forever in print.What an offer. e h9 T h e y ' r edead easy to do too_

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Possibly the most devastatingresponse to my recent fractalrequest came from theappropriately-named FractalFarm. an outfit consisting ofThomas Rushton who handlesalgorithms and Jonathan Scottwho does the coding. They sentin a C90 packed with stuff, aselection of whech is printedbelow The first three are prettyshort, but the fourth will lake alittle effort. And look — no hex!

ChaosThis produces randomlygenerated fractal patterns, theshapes of which depend onthree numbers which areentered when the program isrun. These should be between -2and +2. The guys at the Farmrecommend trying phonenumbers. For example, 0_01,0.631 and 0.1433. As with allfractal programs, ii takes ages torun but pretty patterns startappearing almost straight away.

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drawn on the Speccy, and here sa program to do it

All you have to do is type in acouple of branch angles (0-90degrees would be sensible) andthen wait.

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On running the program. ashort menu pops up. Pressing 1or 2 draws a landscape (mini orfull) and 3 lets you alter theprobabilities. What's happeninghere is that each x and y valueon the gnd on which thelandscapes are drawn isassigned a probability - thehigher the value, the more likelya piece of land will appear on it.There are two screens, one for xvalues and one for y, which canbe swopped between bypressing X and V. The cursorkeys are used to increase ordecrease the values at eachposition up to a maximum limitThe amount of unusedprobability, as it were, is shownon the right of the screen - itmust all be used up before thissection can be left.

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So what is the Mandelbrot Setthen? Er, it's highlymathematical, but basically itinvolves iterating the equationx-x +i in the complex plan, andplottipg a point when x fails totend to infinity. Simple. eh? Theend result is that a weird patternis generated which, if examinedclosely, can be seen to beinfinitely complicated.

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the wait though, and the authorpoints Out that using MallardBasic on the +3 reduces this toabout three hours, and acompiled version should do evenbetter still. Alternatively, you caneither reduce the area of thescreen that's filled by the patternby changing the Width andHeight variables, or simplyreduce the accuracy.

This is only the beginningthough. By choosing a newstarting co-ordinate (bychanging a and b) and viewing a

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smaller area of the set (bylowering aside and bside) youcan examine parts of it in detail.The interesting bits are locatedat co-ordinates around theedges of the shape. Anywhereelse tends to give a blankscreen. If you discover any reallynice areas, write the relevantnumbers on the back of aLuncheon Voucher and sendthem to the usual address. Also,if anyone feels like writing aMachine Code version, perhapswith a zoom facility, let me know.

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s t e e r i n g wheelofanything(even a Reliant Robin) and I'm happy as asandboy. Now. I don't know welly how

happy sandboys are capable of getting (infact. I don't even know what a sandboy is)but I'll tell you this much - lock me in a daftroom with a copy of Stunt Car Racer and I'llbe happier than a sandboy.

First ol all you should know that Stunt Car wasconceived and programmed (on the 16 bit formats)by Geoff Crammond. He's the same bloke whowrote The Sentinel, which, as anyone who's playedrt will know. gave a feeling of height and depth to acomputer landscape that hasn't been equalled sinceerm, until now) Out there was one problem with itthe speed ol the thing It didn't exactly crack along

did 117 Wh ad dy a mean, Yes. it dur? Slop arguing

this instant The Sentinel was not very fast. StuntCar Racer on the other hand, is very fast - well,pretty fast anyway. And because ifs fast it's aiso'vertigo-Inducing in the old "'lurks, It's A Long WayDown" department Much more so than The Sentinel,

THE RACE SEASONLike lootball the Stunt Car league is split into lourdivisions but, unlike lootball, each division is madeup of Only three places. At the beginning ol thegame. you find yourself in the crappest positionpossible - bottom of division lour. You have to takeon the fourth division computer opponents in asenes of three lap races land win) to get promoted.

THE CIRCUITSThe circuits themselves are 'something else'They're 'tar out. They're 'bad'. They're 'straight out

lii imey! We only seem to be doing about 11 m i les an hour. That can'tbe right. surely? (Don't be a dope, Duncan. i t's in tens so you'rereally doing 110. Ed) Oh.

of the !ridge'. They're (Get on with ii, Ed). Imagine atraditional racing circuit (Brands Hatch. Monza orsomewhere), cross it with an absolutely ginormousroller coaster, add pimps, multiply it by the firstnumber you can think of, and you'll be about there.

There are eight circuits in all. two per division,and the initial two ithe little ramp and thehumpback) are the easiest of the lot Don't fall into afalse sense of security at having seen the word

'easiest though. because in this case it simplymeans 'not quite as impossible as the rest*. Thesecircuits need to be practiced before you take on thecomputer cars because of the humps, ramps andpimps (not to mention the chicanes) that arepeppered about. Coming out of a chicane at fullspeed might seem like a good idea - until yourealise that there's a hump coming up immediatelyafterwards which'll sproing your car into the air andtake you over the top of the next bend causing youto plummet 200 feet to your doom. In Stunt CarRacer there are no fences to keep you on the track -cock up once and you damage your car badly.

WHAT'S THE DAMAGE, JOHN?Damage to your buggy depends upon the severity ofthe crash. Little 'graunches' (such as landing a bittoo heavily after a lump) cause a hairline crack tocreep along the tubular steel framework of the car.Mega graunches cause 'impact craters' (litheholes). When the crack reaches the craters, the carobviously isn't going to take much more abuse, so'pottering about with Granny in an Austin Allegro'mode is required Which means SLOW DOWN. oryou'll lose control and lurch, sparking and grindingon to the tarmac as everything snaps.

When in practice mode there's a digital clock onscreen, so you can monitor each lap time and try tobeat it next time around. When your lap limes aregelling below one minute you should be ready to 44 1enter the 'league' Oh and you can save the game atany point - which means that it you make it todivision three the computer can safely be reset. Just

load in the league table next ttme you play and theSpeccy will remember where II was you let? oft

Stunt Car Racer is. quite simply. THE racing gamegel It's so atmospheric! And novel too, It II leaveyou gasping as you take a ramp at 200 mph andthen watch helplessly as your buggy soars in agargantuan arc through the air towards the landing.bridge. Will it be a crunch or a being?

"Cruutiunch!Ir Oh no! Stunt Car Racer makes theIndy 500 look He a tricycle race through ToytownAnd 11 it ever gels' vetted up' and finds itsellstrapped to a ma t e n e t in the arcades

I know these screen shots b o r i n g , but tha t 's becausethey'r e not moving, innit? A y the gam e and it renaty com esalive. I t's the best driving garne ever on the Speccy. (Weil, perhaps. )

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Whew! Got here at last.T i e r s bl oomi ng Mini ,dunno. I can't think of a wor dto describe it. Oh, tell a lie,I 've got one. It's crop. Rightthen, Ocean choppy, starttelling me about Chase HQ,why don't you?

go

Erni, you know, start anytime you l i ke. . , when you'reroody.

Gor don Bennet, is anybodyin there? Chose HO ? Er, areyou sure you even wor khere?

"oh, yes, my name's JohnO'Br i en but my fr iends callme 'Jobble'. I pr ogr ammedthe Speccy version. . . "

Great! Then per haps youcan . . .?

"_ _but I don't rememberanything about i t. '

Oh, bril l iant, 'Jobbi e.Swell. You're a real help.Look. I'll start tel l ing themabout the coin-op, and in the

BEEAA/AHImeantime you try and gatheryour thoughts to tell us aboutthe Speccy version a bit later,okay? Okay_ Blinkin' Nor a,kangar oos in the toppaddock or what?

he coin-op. Youit ofshould a

course, it's still one omost popul ar machines upand down the country.

n (Remember him? Yep,awe it a

Cor ky Coi n- O p last ye ,and pretty well deserved itwas too. For those who don'tknow, it's a five level chase-and-smash-i nto-the-back-

atgoes something like e s .

You pl ay a couple ofundercover cops — oneblack, one whi te — cruising

m o n o o m m o u p s u gl e p w r e g s e p o t t inen u o s eic a u r u . ,

town in a rather posh soutscar — a Porsche 928!! Allseems fine and dandy butYikes! What's this? There's adanger ous boddi e on theloose and H O want his collarfelt p.d.q.11 And guess whogets the j ob? That's right,chummo! It's you. Basicallythe game's a bi t of a swipefrom Mi ami Vice, wi th eachlevel split into two por ts —you chasing after the fleeingper p (the game puts helpfularrows al ong your route totell you which way to go) andthen you catching up withhim a nd trying to push himoff the road. What made itgreat was a) the posh cars(all the Liciddies seemed to

we Lotuses. Ferraris and soon in this nei ghbour hood), b)the superfast scrolling r oodand realistic sound, and c)the fact that there was moreof an actual game to it thanOutRun. The trying-to-s m a s h - p e o pl e - o f f -t h e -r o a d

thing made it l oads more

playable.So there we hove it. A very,

very nifty little ar cade game— but was it a natural for theSpeccy? After all, Ci ar anonly gave it a Convertibi l i tyFactor of five — I think heremembered what adi sappoi ntment the Spe-ccyOutRun had been. Har dl y setthe wor ld al ight, di d it?

O f course there's anotherbig stumbl ing block forChase HO, namely the sheernumber of dr iving gamesal ready clutter ing up theshelves this yuletide. Wi thPower Drift, Ha r d Drivin',Conti nent° , Circus andTurbo OutRun competi ng foryour seasonal dosh (to namebut four ) i t'd have to be onexceptional ga m e toreally stand out from thecrowd.

So, John, or, 'Jobbie', whatdo you say to that then?

"No. "No? No what?' No, it won't be lost this

Christmas, 'cos it's bl oomi nggood, that's why. '

Ah, bri l l iant. Since yourmemory seems to havereturned (hopeful ly for longenough to get thisMegopr evi ew done at least)perhaps you can tell us a bi tabout the Spectrumconversion.

'Wel l , certainly. I wor kedon M a n s — theAmstrad ve e a s t —and I 've been abl e totighter versions of those old

utines in this one. So it's amu s m o o t h e r , lessflidcery game t was.What else? Well , as ysee we've managed toinclude near ly all the

e ar cadegame. The l e e ricons at the bottom left areyour tur bo-boosts. You getthree of these each level and

'they spin r ound when you'reusing them. Basically theymake your car go twice asfast so you can really smashinto the back of whicheverboddi e you're after and dosome damage. You can tellwhen you've got them on too— the car trails tel l-tai lsmoke Out the back. Theyonly last a few secondsthough, so use them wisely!

"At the top of the screenyou've got the faces of youand your par tner gr inning

BEE-WA141down at you andoccasional ly of Nancy fromH O — wi th instructions andwisecracks appear i ngunder neath. All the rest ofthe stuff at the top — yourspeed and so on — is selfexplanatory. Oh, except forthe gear thing. Your cor's onautomatic, but you do haveto switch from low to highgear. Do that with the fire

button — you have to reachover to the space bar withyour big toe or something toget tur bo-boost.

'Once you catch up withthe buddi es' car yourpar tner sticks the little pol icelight on top of the car, andits smashing time! Wa-boo!A gouge on the r ight showsthe damage you're causinghim. First up it's a 'whi teEnglish sports car ' (LotusEsprit) then a LamborghiniCount e d' (I think) then um,et. . . "

Avww, emon, Jobbio, youwere doi ng so well! Wha t arethe other cars?

'Err, um.— There's theLotus, and the Lambo,um. . . "

Yes, yes, we've hod those_What else?

BEE4A14"Um, an LI S I think, no, no,

it's a Ferrari, then an XJS,then, um. . . "

Brilliant. You only wrote thedamn thing. Okay, let'sforget the cars. Anythi ng elseinteresting to tell us?

"O h yes. Wel l , it's amulti load, there are lots ofgreat bits in it l ike roughterrain, l ong tunnels, trucksto avoid, sort of girders overthe r oad and so on. In thesecond level a hel icoptercomes over head to give youyour instructions, and in onelevel (I can't remember whichit is though) you drive muchcloser to the city with thebui ldings all ar ound you- Thebackgr ounds are neat too —you'l l notice when you comeout of a tunnel that thesurroundings are total lydi fferent from when you went

Great. 'Jobbie'. Near l ythere now. Any final bitsyou'd like to tell us?

"Yes! The 128K hassampled speech which isreally nice, and all theopeni ng sequences from thearcade are in there too.That's it really. It's basically alot barter than WEC Le Mans,very fast and very playableand very brill. Con I go now?Me mum's doi ng tr ipe andonions for tea."

Tee, of course you can,'Jobbie'. Take a bow.

And there we have it. Avery professional and very,very playable arcadeconversion. Not to mentionyet another contender for theSanta top slot.

Now let's hope that stupidMini doesn't need bumpstarting again.

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Wang, 7 Narrow CloSit Helen, CambridgeC84 4XX• Spectrum +2. 9000 Core:Mon, over £400sores Of software including Operation WottBatman 2 and Artefilliffler Joystick. over 100ma gs Whole lot worth over C 700. bargain atE175 Phone '0620) 85220.• Spectrum+ 481it in superb condition with200 games. £70, Microdnye, 2 toysticks.interfaces. £60 Amstrad DMP2000 printer,parallel interlace COO Prone Sam on 401) 4585981• SOS, please buy my Spec 128K+, with over200 bream new games such as Critter. The MCrowd, etcetera. plus a data corder, Cheetah125. Interfaces mags, leads, @A boxed fort 125 ono Phone Saunclerstool 811302 afterficanI I Spectrum +2 12/0( and °p ia DilOcraerydisk drive Comes with disks, genes and allleads_ excellent value al £150 Ring Mck onSheffield (07421 441606 for more details• Spectrum 128K +2 with Multitace 128,Kampalon mouse. interface. toyskoks and'cerise games, including Renegade 3. The InCrowd and morel Total C635 selling for £280.Ring (0204 t 792 773• Spectrum +3. Muleface 3, tape recorder,100 tape games, three disk COmplations,loysticks. 30 rettgaztnes, C170_ PhOrte (07671314487• 128K Spectrum two printers, two korysecksand two interlaces. speech synthesiser, lightpen, Robolech data 'colter. C300+ software.CtOCH- books and maga Geed COnditienworth C600-,- B a r g ai n a t C I SO . Tel ( 03 02 )

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• Spectrum 120K +3 for sale, complete withtoyslicks. data recorder and SO games All inpnstinen' 1 conabon tor C170 Wile to TSummerell. 48 Clevedon Road, Tiedworin,Gloucester GL1 45114• Spectrum +2 computer tor sale One yearold, in superb coricabon Also Ourcksholtoyslick, interface, and £200 of brilliantsoftware, at tor £280 Peter, 93 PrincesAvenue, Acton. London W3 BUY or 101(9920977• Spectrum 128K +2 in perfect condition,toystock, and over £300 worth of games I allnew tees) including ONVIeraear Attarborne,etcetera W a l t , £480. we accept £200 P hone(0274' 566 076 after 4 30pm

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• Spectrum +2 tor sale, with Cheetah Joystickand interface, CSSO ot software. books andmaga. Cost £700, will accept C250 ono, Phone(0903) 44803 tor details• Friteen year old +3 owner wants to swopgarres on deli or tape I have amost everygame ever written' So Write to Simon. 17Brooldands Road, Swinton_ Manchester M27aAT• Wanted, any war strategy games likeBetzeneg Orginaks only please W swop forRenegade 3. Batman. Go Crazy and manyr•DC•re Phone 108961 2747 any time between10am and 4em Ask tor Camme, or pop me akne at 22 Balmoral Avenue. Galashers.To 1 1 JU• Will swop any of Last Wife 2, Operator'Woe, Robocop. for any of Two Player SuperLeague. Kenny Deiglian Soccer Manager.Jaws or licence To KO Craig Slater. 6Baberton Mans Wynd, Edinburgh, ScotlandEt-114 3EE• I want to swap Spectrum games., both oldand newt Vote list gets mine! David Gidley, SOFowler Road, Cove, Farnborough. Hants 0L114OBW• Wanted, Silkworm, Operation Wolf.Forgotten M a ris and others Swop for gameslike Double Dragon Gunsho. Nebulus and Fistn Write to Julian, 19 Shappenon Close, GreetBilling. Northampton. Also wanted. Human)(Ong Machine.111 Hr folks, L o o k I s e re, I wa nt to skimp games

48K or 128K, especially anything new Sendyour let tor mine, Tali Bean. Tneweidor-3D.Ramat HaStlaren, Israel 47284• Will swop in Crowd. Echelon. Rood Blasters,WTSS, Star Wars. Dark &de, Go Crazy andTotal EcAos An y hewell games considered.Wnie to Mark, 27 Deacon Street, Be a st NIreland B715 3 E0• Help! Have you got the game Cricket Boss?n's art old game by Addlctive I f se write to IStanton. 52 Royston Gardens, Redbridge,'Nord, Essex 131 3SY Reply to every killer• thaw loads of budgei games ID swop Sendyour let for rrine Paul Sheciden, 12 Byrand.Abbey Park laingworth. Hadar HX2 9JX• Two tor one', W a n t e d. S e e e tr i g n ie r a ri d

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Delaney. 2 Kelp Head Cottages. Petering, NYorke Y0113 8LN now' Originalsinstructions telly, please• I need a dhsk drrvel re de anythrig for one,'Gad' Ed) We swop for Speccy + andaccessonell Or pay E 1520. Lars make a dearPhone StroOn (0273)478460 between 5-6pmweekdays'• Wanted. someone who likes computergames are can play games really well I t youcan. then wroe to BR. 1 FlaWthome DriveHarrel Shots, Scotland MI.? 5SG Must haveSpeCtrurn 2 or 3. Bye!• Wanted. Timex 1000 or 2000 interface Willpay do ll or swop for games like OpeareonWorm R a nce ° Postage and Packing PaidContact Simon after 4 00prn on Colchester(0206)48576.• Wanted. Interlace 1. and one or twonwrodrhes Must be in good working order.please Phone (0703) 760571 after 7ten• I need a Spectrum t2I3K mouse system vonAmo 01 Will pay up to £30. Phone 1062)0823527 after Spin anyclay and ask for DaveStye. Byeeel• Hey, D i d a ny bo dy out there ever buy Kwith

Me sequel to Redhawleli I you did, thanpease let me know now! Cal Ken onNorthwice 593985• Meted, rout De Force and Super Hang OnSeen for Predator, Rocco. Rock We/reset.Back To The Future Originals only. Canted CConan. 9 Pen-Y-Dre, CagnOS. Maerthyr. SouthWales CF47 90v• Wanted any strategyeareasy wargamesgood nide Example Elloodbowl, SpaceMarne, Deno Future, Space Huai, Also Ceade(miniatures Swop for money arid/Or softwareSend otters to Robbie O'Donogilue, CaravanCentre. The Pe lt Kearney Co Kerry, Ireland• Wanted Quoddy, C rim + operating systemfor +3. Will swop Arten Syndrome and WEC LeMans original +3 disks. Write to DouglasBryson, 11 Beirnont Crescent. StranrawScotland DG9 788• Wanted Renegade and Rampage. tor EddieKidd, M e t y , Dtty, POD. Boni") Fuvon, %pees,and lerp Door If you've any other ewes*, sendMelo in! Phone Watley 565 3106 after hall oaatex Tha nk you,• Waned, Opus Deeovery 1 disk drive Swopto" Altarbumer. Mwauder Enduro Racer. 19,Max Headroom. Ancient Be lem and issuee10-20 of VS. Also wanted, Speccy printer.ewe) for ten games and issues 23 and 33-40.Include rolls for printer if possible. Phone Paulon Sterybrege 303 1344, and please hurry,• ROB interlace required for Spectrum 48K+Wme to Outten Parker 6 Manor Court Road.Harwell. London W7 3EL.• Wanted, Mulleace 1 with instructions. and/or a modem for MerOnet Phone 23785ISwindOri) ix wee to Jon Arnold. 12 St AlbansClose. Swerdon. Wilts SW 2ESEll ~ l e d , printer for Spectrum 128 e2Please peons) 1 0 74 4) 57 16 0 -

• Wanted. user tape and manual for 'EchoSoft' musical keyboard. Contact JDWatenshate Durreemin. Castletion. Wheby, Nvette V021 Z .• Wanted. Mutt:ewe 1. WI swop Saboteur.Scooby Dots, Le na rt'''. Army Moves, andComputaa Manama Mary. P lease write toJamie Poker, 1 * Campfeld Road. Eltharn.

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• Anyone got an old Corgi Baimobile theywould sell to me? Doesn't have to be boxed,but would prefer good condition Please vette,stating your price, to David, 173 ShakespeansRoad, London 5E24 OPv• Wanted. +3 manual Will swop Operation• Z yn a p s, Green Beret Great Escape,Army Moves, Psycho Soktost, Night Rider,Sweet Hawk. Frank* Goes To Hollywood.Rambo. Warm Vice. Phone Paul on i 0254776128• Wanted. live octave synthesiser with lull saekeys. Needs to be decent p a y aroundE350 Phone (0594) 5440E18 and ask torEdwin• Wanted horrendously! PAW and rote DeForce (anyone remember ite l/ ) I Yee COuman from MerMytt Ed) Must have fullinstructions, packaging. etcetera Swop forTerre, Rattan. etcetera Phone Andrew fordetails an 1097E11 860428• Wanted desperately. Spectrum + 3 inexceeent condition, with heaps of new gamesprelerably on disk ). and tie/Slick Write to

Berearnin Smart, 198 Main Road, Ocean View°unease New Zealand• Desperately Wrung a Spectrum e e elsethese hare books Sp e ct ru m Shadow ROMDaassembly. tinaerstencang Your Spectrumarid Spectrum Microdeve Book Ott yes,Neatly forgot the Spectrum +2 by LIM Sinclair.Help!' Roger. 50 FOx Homa Coulby, Newham,Mirreesborough, Cleveland TSB enu• Wanted urgently. Jet Set Wray 2 by SodtrickePlease contact James on St Albans 1.0 7 2 7 140095

• Fee, expenses aed sp. eadsheets 112 50each Send PO or cheque to 14 Hoist Close,Lowestoft Stelae NR 3 3982 Sony, no deka,cassette only. Speccy Only• Brock Thwack. Fishy. and 29, three gameswritten by me' II you want them send £2 cashand a cassette to Miss A Nunn. Croglea GuestHouse, Anent:re Scotland P1-122 1R1-1111 Clash, the only P944 mats haft strategy, halfdiplomacy and nail economics, but sell addsupi Only 111 monthly, into from Clash,Surnytield Cottage Staten Road. Laingworth.Lincoln LN3 5130• Wow' Over 1.250 multilace POKEs Inalphabetical deer. Send a large Sae endchews/PO for E2 50 to R Bryant. 38 PyieStreet. Faringdon. Oxon 5N7 7A5• Supoloce for the 40K Spectrum is out andcoats 50p, S e nd a n s ae and 50p to James

entrant. 41 Hillcrest Road, Weelbotough.Outdone Surrey GU2 OHR. Dont worry178K era, I'm working on One for you' PSAnyone got a copy of Dizzy / / WI swot) tor LASwat. Krakatoa. BMX Sim. Marko Mnerorlbw Bear (O f ' T h e ft h ey a ds o Ed)

• Free gone with every P0KEs pack, F u l lC-90 POKEs tape and 192 klulteace POKEsfor £3' Cheques/POs payable to Paul Dungey.POK.Es Pack, 46 Green L ane PenrynColwe ll TB /0 80J• Soccer M N commences soon' League andcues. transfer market, and mOre Places left in12,3,4 arid non league For details send 25ppostal order to Alistair Crook 1 Or letter FromAmerica la m./ Ed,. 7 BuddarK1 BalchNessea, Bristol, Avon 8S19 290• Ovenerow Thatcheri Now it's poeLsibiethis hilarious game' Hi-resolution colourgrapier Machine Code. 'ovate* Compatible.Over BOO lull colour screens, £2 99 AlanSaunders. 39 Bareleming Road, Mauchleas.Ayrstere , Scotland 1(45 50R• Goal" An all new booty Pe e simulator' Weare looking for 66 members! 20p a game,Three divisions FA Cup. and much more,Please send Me for more Mt:manor, to Paulingram, 21 Coronation Street We e vil,Woresop, Nottinglematim S80 4TO• Spec tech None bneent tools forprogramming, inoct design, re-addresser.C2 00 with tape or own dee. £2.99 withouttape Sta le d using 2'3 Cheques and sae toChns Binnie. 19 Marmon Road, Nee%Berwl0k, East Lothian E l-119 4P0

• Need a POKE of tip of any kite " HOP ishand Send 50p and an sae with the name(s)of the games' needed Write today, withoutdelay, to Fiona Robertson. 23 LawrenceStreet Brought/ Ferry. Dundee DOS I ET• Great new +3 users group Monthlynewsletter arid bimonthly magazine on disk.public domain library, special de re etceteraFor full details, please send an sae to DanielGarner, 57 Lovers Walk. Dunstablia Beds LU5480• Closing down sale', A l l ' C a m P O KE S '

POKES, maps, solutions, adventure maps aridsolubons, and mote must go' Over 50% de,Catalogue 40p and sae, to CamPOKE, 248Comber Road Lisbon. Co Antrim EIT27 6.Y.2Hurry

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page mega scenario, lab artwork. n if typrofessional Mag fully typset and goingSo hurry. chequee/Pos 10 Ian Band.BOswerlden tiouse. Cape Cornwall. St Just.Cortmaa IR19 7NJ• ROB. Something is about to happen that willbang the Spectrum tartene world to as knees'12 °attired Avenue, Reseal. Leicester LE43E00 Out soon 50p• cannne publishers care to renew myprograms' (Tape two contorts 13 simplegames ! Vaill swop your 'sine tor my tapes Anytakers' Chris Brown. 45 Medway Avenue.Weren't, Esse%• Ba ur I ts amazing, O v e r 4 0 p a g e s t o r o n ly

25p F w e e e Renews, news, articles a remore. I inlerested. send the dosh and stampto Blast. 28 Colereme Road Greal Barr.Birmingham 842 1LN row"• Demon Monthly is a brilliant new magazinecomateang FRP. computer reviews and loadsal other things Send sae to Demon le a 38Ruskin Avenue. Wakefield WF 1 2 9 6 fordetails111 Spier" the new friendly Speccy mag Foryour free — yes. I asoll tree — copy of the infopack, write to me at 67 Eversiley Avenue.

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who nte f r• Basic is back! The A4 tarter* withsorneinng tor every Speccesa For the latestcopy send a choque/P0 lot E 1 to K Jarman.Bask; to Poplar Close 13oggleswade SG18OEW• POocEs And Prods, the great new Spectrumma;' les got reviews. POKEs, quizzes, DewsSo come on, send lust El 00 to Scott Gnfeths17 Woodstock Street, Hucknall, NottinghamNG15 7SP• Spectrum utilities, programming to help.graphics, alto. homegrown software for Ser0o5users' Monthly on DesciperweeD, Opus,Microdrwe, cassette, £2 gets your NM ono* OfOutle0 Ron Cavers, 605 Loughboough Road.Resell Leicester• Now Wave is a brand new fanzine dedtcatedto consoles, including news reviews, lips andmuch more Send 60p to Aricvew Broadetods.Hillside HOuee. 124 Thrupp Lane Stroud. GlosGL5 2EH111 Zeta — exchange 'amine Swop software,hardware records etcetera Only 75p tor nextissue. includes your ite of swops HornegrOwnsoftware adverts accepted C one d GO Snew.25 Redwood Avenue. Royston. Barnsley. SYorks S71 4JP• Spacial' is a voila new tonere, I t s o n e S k i l l,

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because it features you in the role of amega hero sent out to foil a terrorist plan byblowing the little beggars away. In otherwords dakkadakkadakka splat argil armhit neow biam and so on.

Operalion Wolf is obviously the inspirationbehind Cabal, although the new game buildsheavily on the original and requires a more subtleplaying technique. Rather than viewing thebattlefield through a scrolling window, you see itone screen at a hme. it you see what I mean. No?Sigh. Cabal consists of 20 screens, split up into fivlevels of four screens each. (The levels multiload48K.) Before you can move on to the nest screenyou must blow away a certain number of baddies,and much of the scenery as well d you want lo. Thecomputer then flips you to the next screen whereyou must do much the same thing. And so on. Al theend of each level there's a horrid big baddy whichmust be knocked out before you can progress.

Other differences are that instead of merelymoving your gunsighl around and shooting thingsyou've got to keep an eye on your lithe guy at thebottom ol the screen Every so often you have tostop shooting and move him out ot the way GI thebullets. grenades. bombs and sluff that are hurled athim by the enemy. The way it works is that whenyou hold down lire and move the joystick thegunsight moves and the bloke stands still, and whenyou're not pressing lire the chap wanders aroundImm let to right You'll find you'll need to do abouthalt and halt. There are also grenades and add-onweapons to collect (a machine gun, which tiresmuch faster than the usual one and clears the wholescreen in about three seconds, and a bazooka whichmannabses vast chunks ol the enemy with oneshot). The scenery acts as cover which either you orthe terrorists can hide behind until it gets'crumbled'.

The game follows the coin-op original extremelyclosely although the graphics are more cartoony.Spectru my (which figures) and nicer I think. Justabout everything trom the coin-op is here, includingthe lethal helicopters which hover above youdealing dealt and the massive end-of-level baddieswhich are highly imaginative and very tough to dealwith. It also plays just like the original - tough, butnot so hard that you get :fuck on the first level forages.

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LEVEL ONEFirst blast your way through anoccupied village, then enter andraze to the ground an enemyairtime. Then a sort of helicopterthing swoops down and needs tobe taken apart.

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LEVEL THREEBlow your way through the docks.where cranes and buildings canbe shattered and mangled. Thenyou'll come across a shipteeming with terrorists. Nuke dlThe end-of-level nasty thenmoves in –and boy, its a toughie

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Jonathan Remember SpyHunter? Well, this seems to bethe sequel, and judging by itscopyright date on the title

screen, it first appeared in the arcades quitea while ago. Action Fighteris based very heavily on Itspredecessor, whichstraight away tells us thatsimplicity is the name ofthe game. It also meansthat Action Fighter is abit crap, although that'smost likely more to dowith the original arcadegame than any fault of Firebird's.

Stage One, Part One, and we're Justappr oachi ng a ramp %Welch should Ellow us toJump over the river. The yedow arrow showsus which way to go St always points UM.

The proceedings begin with you on a motorbikezooming along a scrolling road. The traffic Is fairtyheavy and rather aggressive, so you'll need to makefrequent use of your built-in laser. Blow awayenough baddies and letters will start floating down

the screen. These, ifgrabbed fast enough, willeventually transiorm yourbike into a car (althoughhow this benefits you I'mnot sure). The careventually sprouts wingsand sets oft into_

Part Two. This is aradical departure fromthe original Huntertheme, but looks to melike a bog- standard.run-of-the-mill, seen-one-you've-seen- 'em-ail scrolling shooVem-up. (Eeekl A hyphen

invasion!) The screen rolls past extrrreeemelysl000wvAvly. and your car/plane/tangy flies up.down, left and. yes. right, shooting, arm,everything. When you've done that, it's on to StageTwo — very much like Stage One but with thegraphics changed round a bit.

At the end of each stage there'ssome kind ol mission tocomplete. The missionsinclude blowing up asubmarine, some hover tanksand helicopter gunships.

Gripping stuff. As in Hunter, trucks drawup alongside you every so often to bestow you withadd-on weapons it you drive aboard.

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Stage Three, Part 'Two, end we're *Arbor's*.The gun sight shows w her e your bom bs wigland and w e d, you Clan probably guess ther e s tbe no bad thing — some reckon Hunter is anextremely addictive game. Not me though. Iwouldn't say the graphics are much better thanHunter either. They're in monochrome tor a start.and all the sprites are a bit on the small side.Humph.

In all right for a bit, I suppose, but Fighter'slasting appeal is definitely limited. I can't imagineanyone playing It for much more than. ooh. a very

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I leach V ol ia yOceanBlimineyl The summer's over and theYS volleyball team's pocked the netaway for another season, so why'sOcean chosen now to bring out avolleyball garnet? Because winter's

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ot moze affair which you look downupon Gauntlet style. You pick upicons which doesn't sound toounusual — until you hear what sortof icons they are. Yep, they're piecesof a rabbit suit (of course!) and asyou coiled the ears, the fluffy tailand all the geor the little poccie ofMickey in the bottom corner gets

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increasingly bunny-esquel BlimayiNext to that the other spooky bits —like when he turns into a space ship— look tome in comparison.

Hard Drivin'DomarkGordon Bennett! Strike alight! If it isn't another

racing game! Hardly ashortage of them thisChristmas is there? Still,Hard Drivin' is a ratherdifferent tin of pottedshrimps from most — it'salmost the game that theterm 'driving sim' wasinvented for. You'llremember the coin-op.Based apparently on amachine intended foruse in driving schools, itwas the most accuratesimulation yet, withclutch, brake andaccelerator pedals, achoice of auto ormanual transmission andeven an ignition key! TheYS team blew pounds onit every lunchtime for amonth (well, nearly).And now (yes!) it'savailable on the Speccy— or about to be. Thereare still two routes tochoose between — thespeed course and theever so, um, loopy stuntcourse, which featuredraised bridges, carscoming the other way.and loop-the-loopsrather like a giantMatchboxWhizzwheels set! Ourresident Hard Drivin1expert (Monsieur LeDune) says the coin-opalso had a skid panhidden near thebeginning of the courseif you took a very sharpleft, but whether suchsophistications will reachthe Speccy we'll have towait to December to findout.

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