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We're all victims of fashion one way oranother aren't we, readers? I meanwho'd be seen dead these days in apair of bottle green crimpleen bellbottoms, when a mere two decadesago they were all the rage?! Wi t—(embarrassed silence). EACH course,lots of magazines try to tell you what'sin and what's 'out', but what do they

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The Pope on HEADW'Hee hee, hello. Yes, I love OperationLion on the Soetcy. raka-taka-taka- (aka-splat-spl Vot ? Oh, I thought you said'hardvare' (Op Wolf s software anrwiw you Ohl o rOh! Hee hoe! Well, you know, I alwa ge l great lalthby that old adage y ou vant to gel g e l a hat' 1Hohohot Just look at me! Mind yopractical aspect to be considered! e s 'of Me Val do get a bit nippy, I can led you. o s o thetact that 25% of body heat is lost through the headmeans headwear can give me that extra inner glow!And. talking of practicallheS. I'd look a bit of a prunebending down for a tarmac kissing session sporting astetson. wouldn't I? Heeheer

"Al r i ghtmyl oves!Nk e to see you, tosee you. . .? Ogr en,dollies, do yourdealing! (What'st ha t Ha i r pieces!Don' t knowanythi ng aboutthem, love, don' t

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DodgingThe CrashAre youbei ng dr iven off your chumpby pr ogr am s that crash?! Weil,rest easy, me hear ties, becausethe answer could very well havearr ived in the shape of the Load-I t DataRecorder . I r e pr oduced by the Notti ngham -based Mills Com puter Pr oducts Ltd, and, boy,does it have som e pretty wezzy features! Tapeheads out of al ignm ent la com m on fault thatpr events many tape recorder from functioningeffi ciently)? Well, now you don't need to pokescr ew drivers into your m achine's innards,'cos the Load-I r a only got a blimrnin' headal i gnm ent adj ustm ent knob! It's also got aLED light system to show you the optim umloading signal. Coy! Skateboar ds? Thing of thepast!

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B A C K 7-(:) T H E F U T U R E(the movie sequel) and Back To TheFuture 3 (the movie sequel's sequel) are being filmed 'back toback' in Nothrigood even as we speak. They'll be released inXmas 'RS and Autumn '90 respectively. And guess what othertwo things are being made 'back to back Ithougli this time inthe slightly less gliunorous setting of South London)? rep,Mats right Minorsott's Speccy conversions of the twofilmst They won't be ready to accompany the movies'theatrical releases mind. but should be done in tome to cleanup (a la Bobocop) when released 'back to back' (again!) with

the videos of the flicks a few monthslater. Hurrah,

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So w h i n vogue in computer ' M E Whar dwar e ci rcles at the mo? Only theS AM Coupe, that 's what! Latest newsgl eaned fr om the PC Show is that manyof the big compani es will be giving thene w machi ne thei r suppor t! The first ofthe maj or l eaguer s to do so i ncl udeDomar k, the Codi es (hur rah!) and US

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• You won't be seeing ally mole'tab* muttiload sports simsappearing on the Epyx label forsome time, we're afraid. And thereason why? Has it deserted theSpeccy or something' Or howabout (gulp) the muttiload sportssim business' Well, yes and no.'cos what it's gone and done is onlyto have dumped all of its gamespublishing business! Thecompany's still around as adevelopment house though, so wewill at least see 'California Games -The Winter Edition! I ts just that nowthe game will be published by otherpeople. okay?

• Dynasty Wars - the coin-opsensation *t t swept the nation - isset lot d Speccy conversion, USGold (of course) says that this epictale of samurais, medievalhorsemen and other Far Easternskulduggerers will be ready aroundEaster next year. though how thesweeping horseback charges aridcast of thousands will fit into 48K isanybody's guess

• Escape From The Planet Of TheRobot Monsters!! What a title!Eagle-eyed arcade freaks will havespotted the carloony Tengen coin-op around and about, which meansthe DOchark conversion can't be toofar away. can it? And indeed it isn't.Quite when this isometric 30scrolling blaster will appear nextyear hasn't been announced (if youcan't imagine what that is.remember Ultimates Knightiore orthe first Batman game). but judgingby the coin-op it should work wellon the Speccy. It's got that homecomputer -l o o k ' n ' f e e l' t o i l, d on 't

you know• After six months of silence.Thalamus is getting ready torelease a batch of new productthroughout the coming year. Firstup comes The Search ForSharla which'll be followedby Mindroll O ue de rUSA. a labynnthine ten level puzzlegame (E9.99 cassette. (14 99 disk).and then the Spectrum version ofArmoire. the C64 shoot-'em-up hit.later in the year

• And finally, as they say. rumours(as yet unconfirmed) are sweepingthe industry that - gasp! t h einfamous Whistlin' Rick Wilson mayrecord another tab 'n' groovy'waxing' before the year is out!B limey' A nation holds its breath

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em pt to improveupon the , s t i c k design. hasn'tthere, fact R e m e m b e r Le Stick? Crap,w a s n't it? e e t a h infra-red lobby?Hopeless. r a t about the entireQuickjoy'l a num ber of which were

r eviewed a couple of issues ago)? Not onlywer e they not particular ly good sticks,they 've now been w i thdr awn due to 'a legalsi tuation' wi th the similarly nam ed andshaped, but super ior and longerestabl ished. Cluickshot range. Ther e've

been by s h a p e d like handgr enades, trackerbal ls, key pads, kiwi

trust and Janet Street Porter. They'veadded LCD stopwatches,

microewi tches, extra fire

buttons and electr ic frogs that croak thewor d "Elvis". (Are you sure about this? Ed)Oh, and now there's the l ightgun, of courser,w hi ch is a sort of joystick. I suppose. (Noit's not Ed)

But still, you can't really beat the originaldesign, can you? W e l l _ can you?Spectral /ode* seems to think so. I t's lustdesigned the Quickshot OS129 FlightControl ler and claims that its design is so"cunni ng" the player will "almost for get It isther e and appear to play his favour i tear cade gam es by thought alone"11 Skivvies'?

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Football licences. eh? There'resquillions of 'em. Liverpool.Emlyn, Kenny Dalgi ish. Gazza M S )lineker and Paul •oigne (Eh? Ed)

(Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne!) (Oh! Ed), 0Even Saint and Greavslel Youthought you'd seen 'em all. didn't

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you!? But wait, here comes the one allthe VS crew's been wait infor! Yes, its the VinnieJones licence and It's

. : 411Powned by Screen 7. thechaps who gave yourSpeccy Jaws. Vinnie. or TheEnforcer as he Is known tohis fans, is the formerWimbledon and now LeedsUnited footballer who, by hisown modest admission.Is a bit of a "roughand tumble player"!Called the VinnteJones Soccer Spectacular.Screen 7 claims thatThis game should separate the men from the boys!" and who are

we to disagree?? Now. if you'll k indly let go of my winkle, Mr Jones

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Trainspottingf? ti l t. good lord. I 've neverdone any of that! What a thought! Well.it's so drearlfulls unfashionable and... Ibeg your pardon? Jean Paul Cootie isnaming his summer collection ' l eTrainworteur" Oh o h . you meantrainspotting?! Oh. well that puts a wholedifferent perspective on mallets, doesn'tIS? Yes. Although not an activeparticipant, I've always been an aridobserver of trainspoiting couture. ihechic quilted anorak with the fur-linedhood, the large framed spectacles from the NHS collectitm — itsays to me -H e y ! I ' v e s p en t m an y an hour on the p la tf or m at

Charlton; Cum-liardy with only the open air and a pastel ofall and vinegar crisps for company". I am also to takenwith those British Rail designer uniforms. The cut of the navy

serge- trousers is a line I've seen echoed in MOM) of the works oftop designers. Oh yes, the railway look will be very 'in' nest

year. Definitely. Definitely. 01 course. this year welt- hadlots of clothing employing sports club or military motifs.

but all this will soon be replaced In that der/ling Ittitlogo. In fact, the was to he the most trend) person

would probably be to apply for a job as a BR porter.right this minute!

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This is you. WonderbostNet ya cute! just watchthe way you nm, with yourlied. legs jabbering awaylike nobody's business, butyour body staying rocksteady and still. Obviously afestoon leader with thosenappies, too

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It really is a wonderful little game.We'd forgotten exactly how fab 'n'groovy it is 'til we loaded it up again —and then lust couldn't put it down. Asyou must remember, Wonderboy wasone of the most famous and massive ofSega's coin-op hits, and it's equally brillon the Speccy.

You play the tiny tot hero — clad inthe snazziest of lecipardskin perv-breeks (Ws called a nappy. Ed) — on aquest to rescue your kidnapped 'chick'.It's a simple, serviceable platform-and-ladders plot, but behind it lurks one ofthe neatest-ever variations on that oldfave, the running/climbing/jumping-about-a-bit/standing still/shootingthings sort of game.

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Your girlie's trapped e atthe other end of the jui4,,e, but ,o getto her you're going to have to makeyour way across bottomless caverns,past nasty animals and cope with allsorts of natural and un-naturalhazards. There are snakes, killer bees,snails, octopuses. deadly plants and awhole host of other critters to stompon, as well as absolutely tons of(energy giving) fruit to eat!! Trickystuff, but luckily there are pick-upableweapons, like throwable axes,invulnerability-giving fairies and evensnake-crushing skateboards hidden inthe massive egg things along the way,which should give you a fightingchance! Need a bit of extra speed?Then try pressing fire while you'removing. It gives you that bit of extra'oomph' to your lumping ability too.

Wonderboy is made up of loads ofareas and sub areas (like Super MarioBrothers and New Zealand Story) so it'lltake absolutely ages to fight your wayto the end. Its clear and cute, deadeasy to get into but hard to finish, andprobably the best Smash Tapegiveaway since, ooh. Batty! What morecould you possibly want?

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&piled the Dingalinger Overlord and thus prevent all-out thermonuclear war. TheIrmail' takes the form of a metallic ball creature with squishy innards, which the

Overlord is going to have to do a spot of negotiating with. But before this ballcreature will agree to meeting the slightly-loopy Dingalinger he insists the Thing

1 ' perform a series of tasks.7 That's what you have to do then — control the Thing as he makes his wayBround 26 levels, collecting and then matching up objects. Vicious Dingalingerthugs try to prevent him completing his task, while teleport phone booths andthe balli rather nifty ability to turn into a high-tech servocannon go some waytowards helping him Out Pretty backgrounds, smooth scrolling and a seriouslycute and fluffy central character make Thine a very appealing game indeed (whichis hardly surprising since it was coded by Joe Node creator Cohn Swinbourne).

To load: Type In LOAD(Enter ), If you've got a 128K Spectrum, youshould first select 48K BASIC.

Controls: Keyboard or joystkic. Use left and right controls to movearound the planet. Press fire to operate the cannon weapon contained Inthe ball To complete a task collect two or more objects (found hidden incapsules on the planet surface) and use them together. But be careful!Use the wrong ones and you could be In trouble!

RIDING THE RAPIDSPlayersRiding The Rapids is a canoe race game. featuring all sorts of obstacles like rocks.islands and sand banks to complicate matters. There are four courses of whitewater action, in each of which you must negotiate a senes of poles, alwaysleaving them to the right. Miss a pole and you'll receive a five second penaltyMiss a gate and you lose a big two seconds. Capsize and you'll have to paddlefrantically in all directions to right yourself An added extra level makes itpossible to design and alter your own courses, adding rocks. rapids and otherhazards wherever you want

To load; LOAD""(Enter). In I28K press LOADER OPTION.

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BODY ARMO URGrab yoursell one at these deadtrendy combo lackets and you IIreduce your damage rating by halltor the rest of the level

MAGAZINESYou start Ott with hve magazines -Your Sinclair, ZERO (What?Ed). e r . Hi te magazines. that iseach containing 40 bullets. But atthe rate you gel through the ammothey soon run out. Look Out for themagazine icon when this happens'cos 11-11 I n cr e as e your already

lormidable arsenal.

GRENADESGRENAAAGE Ill You start oil withthree grenades at the beginning ofthe game but it you shoot one atthese babies it's grenades amundol

POWER DRINKBottoms up! Wet your whistle withthis little tipple and your injury levelplummets.

SHELL BOXThis is like a goodie box tormercenaries Its stuffed lull at extramagazines and grenades - and theyall come gift wrapped Blammot

MEDICAL BOXBlast one at these open lust asyou re about to pop your clogs andhey Presto your imury level goesdown to where it started

CATYou'll probably have the RSPCA onto you alter this, but shoot a cat andone at the pick-me•up icons (exceptlor the laser sight and the medicalbox) will appear at random. Go on.kill a lolly today. I You re tired!Animal Layer Ed)

Ocean/t9.99 cassette/E14.99 diskJackie It's big. its mean. andit's as tough as my granny'ssponge cake. What is it? OnlyOperation Thunderbolt, the

most eagerly awaited shoot-'em-up sequelsince u r n . . • the second series ofMoonlighting. And is it a corker or what?

Similar in plot to its leg brother Operation Wolfyour mission in Thunderbolt is. of CourSe. to rescueSe hostages. T els time round though there areeight levels ahead of you OH Pine yOu count thefinal hostage scene), the !Jadeite we bigger andtougher and more numeruus than before. and youalso get the option el taking i u m along into thefray with you it you want - 'cos lust like the arcadeversion, this game has a spanky two player option

As in Wole you begin the game armed with acomplete energy level. an Uzi, live magazines andthree grenades. The aim of the game is to shooteverything in sight. But, pumping away at the tirebutton, it's diMcult to suss out exactly where yllitrefiring al hrst, 'cos in Thunderbolt there's AC !Ilecross hake la Wolf. Insteadthe only sight you havelor your gun is a one pixel eurSOT which gives you aminimal idea at where your shots are tailing Voncan lose a lew shots to get the feel at your weapon

ifoo-eri. but your beet bat islet keep your eyes

peeled for the laser sight icon which appears near!the beginning of every level, This'll yik.e you a la

sight on your gun tor the rest of the level. Not asI s the OppO Wolf cross hair, hot still Veil; handy.

Once you've sussed out the tiring ,i y s t e m I t ' so w n to tininess. On each level you have to take

Out a certain own her of bandies, tanks. dinghiesand helicaptets in order to move on. tintortunatelthough. you only have a limited amount of ammowith which to do this hut there are extras to he

und. Keep your eyes peeled tar the !allowingEons body dMiotir. whichil reduce your deracelevel by half for the rest of the level extra ammo,.,41he form nt inagazines, grenades and shell none,

d a power drink and Medicine box whichIlrevitalise damaged energy supplies. Cats lot the

bewhisitered variety) are also unlikely providers ofextra weaponry and energy.

Your tirst task is to make your way down aterrorist-infested road towards a church where asoy with vital information is hiding out BlaromotThe lost screentut of baddios hits you like a kickinthe teeth. 'Cos unlike Wolf with lisle:rightscrolling but lust like the arcade game)

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scrolling level and a barrage of big, eig badleaping out 01 the screen towards you. univeritable hail of bullets, grenades, rockets,and helicopters. BlaSh rig your way down the ttakes some doing. The terrorists can be dispatchedwith one bullet, but the helicopters need a lot moreshots below they can be destroyed. But waste yourquota at ba d d i es a n d m ak e it to the c hu rc h wi thout

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Into your boat for Level Five, and another into-the-screen scroller. Make your way across thewater to the enemy headquarters where the otherhostages are t3 I % belt!. Then battle on into the

rivarierl in the left right scrolling Level Six.in the thick of the enemy camp there are

termmts coming out of the Ceiling as well as theboor. Rescue the hesIdges tieing held here a n d t h e nen to the into-the-screen scrolling Level Seven,

e you must hodoot it down the runway after theterrorists.

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lime you are inside the plane where the terroristshave taken r e fuge . P i c k o f f t h e t e r ro r t st s w i th ou t

shooting the passengers alteddy onboard. As in thehostage levels, lose a passenger and your energylevel will drop. Del this far (and it'll take somedoing. that's [sure) and there's just one more taskcomplete. The pilot of the plane has been takhostage by the terrorist leader. You must takecareful aim before trying to kill the dodging furredwithout harming the pilot. Rescue the pilot and youcomplete the mission and end the game. Low theoitul though and i t b e c om e s i m p os s i bl e to fly the

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can't wart 'til James has a maleoffspring, 'cos then you can signyourselves Derek, James andSon, and the title I gave yourletter would make sense. Do theymean us? They surely doll?! Ed.

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SAY NO MOWER, SQUIRESpeaking as a pro mower, Iwould like to offer my services toendorse Gardensoft's sequel tothe incredible Advanced LawnMower Simulator as given owoyfree on your Smash Tape No 21,I think the sequel should featuremy own personal favourite, theMountfield Turbocut 3_21 withsunroof and fluffy dice, as wellas, possibly, a 'trying to start thedamn thing' sub-game (perhapsa joystick waggler? 0o-er1). Iwill endorse the product, andalso playtest it for accuracy. Socome on Gordensoft, MartinGraaskov's Pro Mow should be asure-fire hit!

128K+. She was over the moonwith this, and we set it up andattempted to load our games.However, after many wastedhours and tears on my sister'spart, she has just about given-up.

I have tried to obtain amanual for her, but to no avail.Does anyone out there have aSpeccy 128K+ manual theycould spare, or eke duplicate for

Martin 'Just Call Me HenryRamsey' GraaskovSt Austell, CornwallPS My dad is Danish, hence thestronge name.

it's not very surprising that grasscutting is your forte, with a namelike Graoskov! As for endorsingGardensoft's sequel, looks likeyou'll have to wait/ Gordensofttells me that its mainprogrammers have been loanedto its parent companyGreenhousesoft to work on anew project, Advanced FuchsiaGrowing Simulator. Three gamesmay help alleviate the tedium ofyour professions Ed.

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CRISPY BAKED OR HALEBAKED?Stick it in the oven for a fewmos, and Bob's your uncle! (Eh?What's he on about? Ed) Here'sone I prepared earlier.,. Yes, asluck would have it, I haveproduced the world's first CBB —that's Crisp Bog Badges for allyou dumb-dumbs out there!Snozz up your jumper! Dash upyour coat! Wear a differentflavour every day/Thomas %fannerLisburn, N Ireland

Er, very useful, two shrunken crisppackets, erm... but they're a tadundercooked for my liking. Ed.Oh, / don't know about that.Scoff/el MUnch / Munch 1 Snouty.

YS VS AUSSIE SOAPI am writing to you to soy thatI'm grounded for ages, and theonly things to do are either towatch Home And Away or readVS. Quite obviously, I hove beenspending a lot of time readingVS! Not only am I grounded, butI'm not allowed to use mySpeccy or watch TV in mybedroom, or spend my money.So in other words, I might not beable to get the next issue of VS.

Anyway, I've never wonanything from Your Sinclair, noteven a book on trains! (Not that Iwant one!) So please send me abadge!Ion WilliamsTreharris, Mid Glamorgan

Since you've obviouslycommitted a very serious crime,mean serious enough to ban youfrom getting a copy of YS, I don'tthink you deserve a VS badge,do you? Well, alright, I supposemissing VS for a month is morepunishment than any meremortal deserves/ Ed.

STOP IT!What gives with all the remarksabout the Commodore 641?Some of us do own more thanone computer, you know! I amcertain that if you were truthfulyou would admit that the CBM64 has the edge over the Speccy(colour, sound, memory, tomention a few). So stop all theremarks about the Commodoreor I will tell everyone what yourfriends used to call you atschool!

R RichardsNottingham

The Commodore better than theSpeccy? You must be off yourchump, chum, but please don'ttell everyone what they used tocall me at school! Ed.Go on, write in and tell us allwhat they used to call Matt atschool! Trzer.

TAPE TRAVELSIt's amazing how a YS CoverTape can get to Yon Herds indeepest darkest Africa (issue39) and not to someone in NewZealand! Is someone nickingthem on entry to Godzone?Also, can you do somethingabout getting the mags heresooner, as the latest issue aroundis May's!?Marc EnglishChristchurch, NewZealand

l-fmrn, we had heard fromanother Kiwi that some NZdistributors were removing tapesand stamping 'Not Available InNew Zealand' on the cover_ Idon't know if this is the case, butthe tapes should have beenthere. However, in future,because of this and otherproblems, only subscribers' issueswill hove the free tapes. So,basically, git yersell asubscription, cobber, that wayyou'd be sure of getting the free

tapes, and of getting your issuesa lot cheaper ond sooner_Happy Easter to all our Kiwireaders who don't hove asubscriptionll Ed.

ERM, THE POETRY BITVS is cool,Like you don't buy it,You'll be a fool,

YS is skill,As jampacked as Rhyl. (Eh? Ed)The chances of unsatisfoction,Are absolutely nil.So amazing ore the SmashTapes,More juicy than sour grapes,

Playable enough for even madapes!Doesn't cost too much bread,It boosts your street cred,The greatest mag in the world,VS.Scott 'Renegade Mad'BrennanDundee

Thanks a lot, Scott,For your wonderful rhyme,would have printed the rest,

But I didn't hove time.I'm sure that I'm correct,To say you like 'free verse',spotted this from the fact,

Your last line doesn't rhymet Ed.

KINDLY LEAVE ME STAGEHello there! it's time for the VSGong Show again, and here'sthe first contestant, JimWellman from London. Takeit away, Jimmy...

A monkey was trained toeat with a fork in a laboratory.He called the fork his four-point tool. One night heescaped back to the jungle°rid took the fork with him.However, it went missing.

So the monkey went to thehippo and said 'Have youseen my four-point tool? andthe hippo said "Nov.

Then the monkey went tothe giraffe and said Haveyou seen my four-point tool?'and the giraffe said -No-.

Finally the monkey went upto the jaguar and said *Haveyou seen my four-point tool?'and the jaguar said 'Yes, I'veeaten Or and the monkey said'Whyr and the reply comebadc (Wait for it.- Ed)'Because I'm a four-pointtool-eater Joguarr

Gong!!(Never mind the gong, he

should be shot! Ed)Mega-groan!! Con you beat

the VS gong? If you fancy yourchances, send your jokes toKindly Leave the Stage. YS, 14Rathbone Place, London WI PIDE. A gleaming VS badgegoes to the writer of everyjoke printed?

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A SHREWD READERWRITESIt looks like you've boobedagain! Page 49, July 1989, WinA Day Shark Fishing Campo. Thepicture is of someone holding ashark and the caption reads"That's not a fish, it's a flamingshark!" So what do you think ashark is, a mammalll?!? I herebyclaim my Troinspotter Award.Andrew GoulthorpNelson, Lancashire

You're wrong, matey, so nerl Ashark is a small, long, snoutedmammal that spends most of its

time in subteactnean bue rowsand runways arid.., Ed.That's a shrew. Tszer.

lives on p a r d o n ? Ed.That's a shrew you're talkingabout. 'Net%Erm, okay you can hove one, Ed.

YS GETS MY GOATIn Dr B's Clinic in the Octoberissue, under Back To Skool, I'mthe one who sent in the answerto Andrew Tullock's gomesnagbut Dr B called me AndrewWhittaker! 0i, Marcus, the nameis ANTHONY Whittaker!

Get it right next time — anddon't call me a goat! You do,and I'll come up and luzz a frogup your trouser leg!Anthony WhittakerNewbury, Berks

Oil There'll be no luzling offrogs up trouser legs' in thisoffice! Ed.(Sound EX: Lutz! Squifflel Croak!Skrunglel Croak!)Aaarghl Not Gerroll Heee-heee-aaargh! Ed.He heti/ rze r .

CLOTI must congratulate VS on beingthe most brilliant mag out! Yourbrilliant Smash Tapes like Movieand Dustin leave other mogsstanding, My favourite bits are

the Letters page and theNational Rescue strip. The onebad thing is that I'm claiming aTroinspotters Award. In the Juneissue, in the Pssst section, underthe heading Tune Into Radio YS,you put that you were on the airon the 21st and 28th of May.Since May comes before June,how could we listen to it?!?Paul RileyBoltonPS Just realised you publish themag half a month earlier thanthe cover month itself! Silly me,Con I hove a Trainspotter forspotting a mistake in my ownletter please!?

No Ed,

MEGA-BISH (EH?)What's happened this time? Iwas looking through my backissues of YS when I discovered inthe July issue a mego-bish withDragon Nino and Total Eclipse_You had written Dragon NiniaPort 2, which is wrong becausethere hasn't been Port H Andinstead of Total Eclipse Part 2,you had just written Total EclipseI think because of this mistake Ishould get a Trainspotter.Thomas HodgeBradfield, Berkshire

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SMALL PRINTI hots it when you say 'clot', so stop itor h o v e to kill you!Mar k 'The Mean Mon'RenwickMarpeth, Nor thumber l andB/irney! Ed.Clot! rzer .

think T'zer needs braces.Stephen Gr ahamNor tham I reland(think my trousers are held up quiteadequately by my belt, thank youvkry much! rzee.

So much for Elvis Presley beingdead. I reckon he is still alive and haslust taken the pseudonym of DaveyWilson!Darren 'Ki ng Of The Wheel ieBins' RowleyFarnham, Surreyklinmm, we wondered why heported those ridiculous side bums?What hove you got to say foryourself, Davey? Ed.It's one for the money, two for theshow... Davey.Shut up! T'zer.

Oh, and loods of PSs, as you maystill have a chance of getting a bit of4 in Small Print.Steve 9 Know How To Get ALetter Printed In y r SmithSalisburyThat's what you think! Ed.

My fovourite word is 'S1100glelStephen FieldsSolihull, West MidlandsOh yeah? Well, snoogle off! Ed.That wasn't very nice, especially afterhe sent us those scratch 'n' sniffGarfield stickers! T'zer.Er. Soz? ed.

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HANDY HOUSEHOLDHINTS NO 26Hands up all of you out therewith a rubber-keyed Speccy orSpeccy +?

That many? Handy tip if youstort to get keyboard troubles (iesome keys don't or only partiallywork!). First UNPLUG YOURSPEC, then undo the screws onthe case. Remove the top part ofthe case slowly — very slowly inthe case of the 48K+ because ithas a reset switch. Now, you willsee two wide plastic strips goinginto two upright interfaces(plastic things which slick uprightfor the non-technically minded).Pull out the plastic strips from theinterfaces and look at them.

If the gold lines on the stripsare faded and worn where theplastic curls over into theinterface, or the plug is a bitworn, then this is the cause ofyour problem. (If the gold linesare not worn out thenreassemble the Speccy and sendit off to the repair shop!)

To set things right, simply pulloff the thick plastic plugs at thebottom, then cut the worn endsoff with a pair of scissors,leaving nice solid strips to stickthe plastic plugs bock on to(making sure you stick them bockon the woy they came offt). Nowsimply plug the strips bock in,reassemble, and then try outyour handiwork. If it doesn'twork, then you've probably gotthe plastic bits which strengthenthe strips on the wrong wayround. Unplug the power again,take the Spec apart, and makesure that the gold strips aretouching the pins and that theplugs ore not obscuring them.Oh, and on the Speccy +there are two plastic strip holders

at the bock. Undo these beforeeven starting!Michael CarterSt Ives, Combs

Well, that soundsstraightforward. The cableribbons of which you speak oremore likely to wear at the 'plug'end, but if wear appears in themiddle (where the ribbon isfolded to fit inside the Spec) thencutting is not recommended 'costhe ribbons (plastic strips) will betoo short for you to reassembleyour machinel If you do feelbrave enough to look inside yourmachine, always make sure thepower is OFF! Also if yourmachine is new, and you pokeabout inside it, you'll riskinvalidating the guarantee. Ed.

BRUV TRUBBHelp! I'm really down thedumper! It's my brother, y'seelWhenever I turn my bock hemutilates my copies of YS. Theonly thing to cheer me up wouldbe some software. (Hint hint!)Viva YSlGordon QuinlanCionakilty, Eire

tordy, your bro certainly soundsa mite strange! Normally I wouldbe inclined to stress the joys ofbrotherly love and comradeshipHowever, since he's mutilatingyour YS collection, I think drasticmeasures are called forl Bypurchasing a second copy of VSyou would be able to take thecover from the spare copy andstick it on to your Dods latestHouse And Garden (orwhichever mag your Dad enjoys).When your brother mutilates this,he'll be on to a dashed goodhiding, w ager ! Ed.

I don't understand why the people try to prove that himself is agreot deal depending that the rivals ore a fiasco! Really I think YourSinclair is great, but C a l s o ,

In my country we have an ancient proverb "In the land of blinds

I t h e g oo d, : d i si el c isn gn o; ,ttrh a ll imu oi n dasyl h alt, mi f t h et toe rt hbeur ts is td ei l l ilsmb o d ten

if the rival is good but I'm better than he, then I'm really great.C•••• is o very good magazine, then VS is the best mogl

Javier Segura KPeru

Erm, yes, er... I think I know where you're coming from, and you'reabsolutely right._ I think. Ed.

Hello, I'm a boy of Gijon (Spain). I write for you in Spanish becauseI don't write very well the English. Hola, estoy encantado desoludoros y pora felicitaros par vuestro marovilloso revista deSpectrum. Yo soy un devoto de los ordenadores y de los revistos doordenadores sabre todo las de vuestro pais clue son 'guays'. Sololes peniria par el precio de kt revista en Espana es de £2.95. Theprice of YS in Spain is £2.95. It's very expensive. Great! I wont yourmogazinel Goodbye, see you agoin.Nkwcial Gonzidez MetendezSpain

Erin. lOstrasf Muchisimas gracias par tu photo pero gclueexactamente estcis haciendo? Buena /a mejor solucicin paraaseguror clue tu VS sea una venladera ganga es muy sencilla:lobonate a nuestrao revistal Ed.

'cat Madame Pico,I am very cimfutied" Yousee, ray parent'.. who I trustimplicitly Nee always maintainedthat babies come from the cabbagepatch. I loweser of late I have beentold a most disturbing and verydifferent version tit dents by msBiology teach& I know it is verswrong to doubt the wttrd of one'speers, but someone must beidling porkies' Is it my Mum andDad or is it Mr Tidmairsts?ConfusedReigate

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D e a r M a tta l l iC P ic o ,Please help me' I have lust finishedmy GCSE exams and derr inekeeps telling me that I should havesome klea of the career I wouldlike to aim lor I know what id liketo do, but nobody will take meseriously. Basically, the linty lollthat I want is to he CaptainFishlace You know, that cheerybearded chap sailing about theCaribbean. eating only the finestcod steaks, and singing hearty seashanties at the drop 43 hat. Canyou advise me because my' CareersTeo, her e , o bv io us ly inept'

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GraphicsSee the full range of 128 colours on an ordinary TV set. Or better still, use avideo monitor for really high definition. Best o f all, use a modem TV withSCART to get the quality of a monitor on an ordinary TV set.The Coupe has four graphics modes. Even at the lowest level - Spectrumemulation - you can change the colours in the the software to take fu l ladvantage of the palette. In modes 3 and 4, you can display up to 16 coloursper line, a different colour for every pixel in a 256 x 192 pixel display; or havean 80-column 512 x 192 display for word processing and spreadsheets.And free with the Coupe comes FLASH!, a software package by ace Swedishprogrammer, Bo Jangeborg, designed to give you total control over thesepowerful graphics.

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A WHItZ0SONYDISCMAN!!Win! Twenty Copies OfOperation Thunderbolt AndTen Ocean T-Shirts!!What's It An About Then?Operation Thunderbolt — it's a game and a half, and no mistake!You probably know everything there is to know about it already.What d'you mean, no? Where've you been? Basically, it's anupdated, two player version of Op Wog with added 3D bits. Shootall the terrorists and, um, that's it, sort of thing. And, as if you needtelling, it's going to be mega!!What You Win!A Sony Discman! What a nifty little piece of gear this is! We thoughtit was so good when we lost gave one away that we went out andgot another! And now we're giving that one away too! Lummel

It comes with o pair of headphones, repeat function, AMS searchand a built-in display for the track number, amongst other whizzofeatures. You can also use it in your car (if you've got one) and evenhitch it up to a pair of proper speakers at home (if you want)!

Runners up won't go home disappointed though. The first tenwill all get a copy of Oceans ultra-violent Op Thunderbolt anda wazzy Ocean T-shirt. And the next ten after that will justget the game. Yowso!sp o n i n n o me M I N . • • • • M I ME I n M O S

What Do I Have To Do?A-ha! This is the tricky bit! How many famous operations can youthink of? There's Operation Wolf (the game), of course, then there'sOperation Overlord (the planned Nazi invasion of Britain orsomething) and then there's, um, ...'Operation — The CrazyDoctor's Gomel David used to play it as a nipper and he's a big fan!So here's Operation T h e Crazy VS Doctor's Compoll

What you have to do is this. You see before you a picture of thehuman body, and next to it there's a set of internal organs andthings. Now draw a line linking each part of the body with theplace you — with your skill and judgement — think that bodily organshould reside. So, if you think tripe belongs somewhere near thenoggin draw a line linking them up. Simple, innit? Then cut out thepicture and coupon around the dotted line, add your name andaddress, bundle it in on envelope and address it to Operation T h eCrazy IS Doctor's Compo, Your Sinclair, PO Box 1509, Enfield.Middlesex ENI 1L0. Make sure it arrives before the end of the yearthough (December 31st) or the patient'll go critical!Rules• Any Dennis Publishing or Ocean Software types who dare enterthis compo will live to regret it!• All entries received after 31st December 1989 will be consignedto the 'Entries Which Arrived Too Late dumper.

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Back in 1985 when it first appearee ells wasthe business. Time, though, has been as

cruel as ever, and now It looks a little seedyand well past its sell-by date. All the runningevents require simple waggling of thejoystick — a craze amongst garners duringthat period that must have seen off moresticks than a bonfire. Certainly, after Daley'sDecath. you too feel as though you havebeen running and lumping and throwingthings all day. and if you want unnaturallydeveloped wrists, and huge pulsatingmuscles between your fingers. then goahead by all means For the long jump andthe throwing events, it all comes down toachieving a launch at 45. ( o r a s n e a r a s

possible) and getting as close to the lines aspossible. Pretty skilful, huh? No, the game ispretty impressive for a four years old, but haslong been superseded by other games(many of them called Daley Thompson's, ) .For sport sim freaks only.

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Oddly enough. I'd never played this before —even though it was number one for about ayear in '85 or '86. Like many games thathave followed it. it's a multescroller in whichthe distance you cover depends upon howmany nestles you can kill and how manyunpleasant nestles and projectiles you canavoid. Sounds a bit snoresville, doesn't it?Well, I thought so too, as I started battlingThrough the first level or so. but there issomething strangely addictive about it all. Itsnot easy, by any means, but the learningcurve is not outrageously steep, and yousoon begin to realise what's what. 01 course,it all looks a little dated now, and the graphicsare plain, to say the least, but you still findyourself coming beck to it — even whenyou've got other games to review, as I haveZombies appear from underground (zap'em), some carrying cauldrons (collect *ern)Watch Out for vultures (zap 'em too) — infact. shoot first and ask questions later, if atall. Good stuff — I think just one more go, orpossibly two

MONTY ON THE RUNKixx/C2.99Another splendid old game, this time a trueplatform-and-ladders arcade adventure withloads of pixel-perfect joystick control andgeneral frustration and hair-tearing. Montyhas escaped from jail. only to find that on theoutside there are loads more platforms andladders to be negotiated. To get through thetrillions of well designed and often fiendishlyhard screens, Monty needs to choose fiveitems (from a large selection) for his'Freedom Kit', and anyone who keeps theirold copies of YS should find a list of the rightthings to choose somewhere in an old Clinic(it's a regular request). Both the graphicsand gameplay are streets ahead of the JetSet Willy blueprint, upon which most of thesegames were originally based, and perhapsMonty's greatest challenge is to get past the

coal crushers — white and grey whatnotsthat crush anything beneath them. Troubleis, unlike everything else in the game, they'recompletely random, and it can be impossibleto avoid being splatted. Some bits toorequire an awful lot of thought — on balanceI'd say it's harder than Wanted. M o n t y M o l e

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CRYSTAL CASTLESKixx/C2-99An excellent game, which for some reasonthat long ago escaped me was neverproperty released by US Gold. Althoughpreviewed to the press in 1986 or '87, itappeared only on along-forgottencompilation a year or so later (with acouple of real stinkers). But now it'savailable in its own right and at a very niceprice indeed. e a ' s straightforwardenough, Your ( c a l l e d Bentley forno less ob n s ) is 'List crazyabout h e ' s willing

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monochrome here you'll play no moreatmospheric and effective a burn -'em -up.It's fast, exciting and its five tracks comewith a full complement of hazards — massiverocks that do more than stop you in yourtracks. fences that need to be jumped over,huge dips and peaks In the road that stopyou seeing what comes next. And for oncethe programmers have actually discoveredwhat collision detection entails — there arenone of those awkward I-wasn't-even-closecrashes that budget titles especially are sofond of. A real cracker, and highlyrecommended, even if it has appeared on56,000 compilations already.

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paperboy you cycle through yourneighbourhood (which conveniently takethe form ol a very straight road, with houseson only one side) and deliver your papers bybunging them at the letterboxes(conveniently labelled 'SUN — is that thepaper they all take?) Get the paper in andyou gel 250 points — fail and the householdwill cancel its subscription You need toavoid the sort of hazards that cassette inlaynotes always describe as 'h ilarious.— t owhit, tramps, geezers on motorbikes,hydrants, cars, and anything else sprite-shaped. There are also some hamper-shaped things to be picked up for extrapoints, and you can have fun by breakingwindows of people who aren't yourcustomers. Quite a wheeze, and indeed thisgame has sold over 100.000 copiesworldwide on various formats. Nowadays,though, it does look a bit dated — after all, it'sso old that on initial release there was evenan Electron version. Quite neatly puttogether. but overrated.

SUPERKIDAtiantis /C1.99Someone told me a little while ago thatwhereas most full price games are slavedover, nurtured and tweaked and tinkeredwith for months by teams of dedicatedprogrammers working round the clock, mostnew budget games are knocked off in abouthalf an hour with loads of old routines simplyripped off full price games and adjusted

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All this is quite a !aft as long as you aren'texpecting anything worrying like originality orInnovation. At least, though, you have theoption of playing the game in full colour or, itthat's too much for the eyes, in any of fourdifferent single colours But while it's tun, it'ssecond hand fun at best, and that may notbe enough (or many Spec-chums.

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"At last" says the screen message as youload in the game. but you may notnecessarily feel quite so relieved when youhave played the actual game. Based,naturellement. on the comic/cartoon series/toy range/fruit yogurt (with real fruit chunks),it's one of those irritating gameelhatpromises much and delivers virtuallynothing. On each of four levels there are twoMASK agents to be rescued, and you, theridiculously named Matt Trakker, have a tankin which to do ii This means trolling aroundthe designated area nicking up securitykeys, four of which and only the correctfour) will activate a scanner, a useful littlegizmo that shows you the way to the missingagent Another nice scenario, but onceagain control of your tank is less thansmooth, and the massive number ofopposing tanks and aeroplanes — all out toget you with an admirable single-mindedness ch a n g e s what could havebeen an interesting challenge to a mereshoot-'em-up with knobs on. There's little tokeep you going. so not surprisingly you stop.Not one of Gremlin's best

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II you"ve seen Gauntlet (it you haven t. you. erm.haven't) you'll know what to expect — keys tolocked doors, bonuf food magic floors,transporters. supershols. temporary levitation,invisibility, invincibility. the lot. Not only that, it youfeel the urge f oo-er). you can go around collecting aselection of magic gomslgoms?) which give youthe power to call up a map of the level or breathefire in particularly tricky. monster-ridden spots. Onerather spanky hffle feature is that Putty and Putynhave different abilities. Putty's stronger so hedoesn't need lo pop so many pills lo slay alive butPulyn's a quicker. much more slippery customer soshe's harder to catch Cute. huh?

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I'm talking about? No Oh well. I'llst give you a clue then — it's FRANCE.

That wasn't much of a clue. Ed)mber Captain Blood? That was pretty odd.What do you mean. ' No' ? It was odd —And this game the follow-up to Captain

n odder Bilmey that's quite a large• irdness so I suppose you want to knowabout rt. The trouble is that thisis slightly infectious. sold better getore ii starts to devour me — here goes.

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u keeping the left hand side of your space-ship[Ming towards Saturn have to circumnavigateplanet while doing two things — a) weaving in

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And there you have it Very bizarre. Apparently. Ifyou do really well in all the games you get toengage in an on-screen snoggmg session with onof the more desirable specimens of the female

The Time JumpBlimey. this is a weird one ( They all are Ed)seems a till useless, as well — the aim is to jump atfar as possible into the future The way you doto aim a crosshair over sparks which traversescreen. This you must do three limes, whichfuel a gravity-catapult which-II l i r e y o u t h m u

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can I get one at this time of day?Honk! Anyway, enough of thisPolice Squad-type nonsense. It's48 months old, so soon it'll be50. ( Yeah, so what? Ed) So, I'llmake it a special edition orSummink. Whaddaya say, Ed?Ow, alright_ Ed) Thass ma boy.

It's been a funny old monthsince I saw you last. All the coldweather is upon us, and thefierce Caribbean summer is buta memory (sigh). Yet soonthere'll be 'deep and crisp andeven' snows to trudge through(trudge trudge) and hot soup byroaring fires to savour (slurpcrackle). Yes, yuletide is nighupon us. But don't you gothinking I'm gonna be dressed inred. hopping down peopleschimneys this year. Uh-uh. I didthat before and kept gettingstuck. No, I've decided rny wintermode of employment will besomething less taxing. Howabout a gnome on a yule log9But you might get eaten Ed) Ohshoot, I forgot about that. Anysuggestions, readers?

Both DO Guy and JonathanGilbert have written to sharewith us a little solution they bothhave. Seems they know moreabout Tomes Of Lore thananyone on the entire EARTH!

Coo. How's about that then, Tip-Nippers? Super lovelysmashing. Would you like to tellus then, boys?

"Yes, we sure would. Andhere we go.

QUEST ONE — THEFORETELLING STONESAccept the prior's quest and gonorth into the dark forestLeave the path and when youget to the lake, go north intothe forest to the orc camp.Don't panic!!! There is only oneroute, though it doesn't looklike it. When you get to thecamp, kill the orc by the fire,take the urn and return it to theprior.

QUEST TWO — THE TABLETOF TRUTHGo to the castle in Eralan, talkto the regent, then go toGanestor to get the tablet. InGanestor, go into the cellar ofthe pub and press the buttonon the top right hand corner.Go down the stairs and you'rein the castle. Go up one floor.Use the red scroll (if you haveit) to kill the guard protectingthe tablet. Take the tablet andsay to it "High King". The tabletwill then tell you to kill the HighKing's assassin in Lankwell.

QUEST THREE — THE BLACKASPGo to Lankwell. Ask the thug inthe pub about assassins andthen ask the man who knowsabout the black asp. Go to theblack asp's house across thebridge, south east of Lankwell.Then go back to 1; nestor withhis confession and give it tothe warden on the top floor ofthe castle.

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QUEST FIVE — THEIMPRISONED PRINCEThe warden will then tell you tofree his son, who is imprisonedin Hampton. Go to the castleeast of Hampton. Kill theguards and take the key.Unlock the prisoner. Take thegreen scroll from downstairs.

QUEST SIX — THE LYCHE 'STEMPLEGo to the archmage who livesacross the bridge north of theenchanted forest_ Go to thepub between Eralan andHampton. Talk to the stargazes'until you get the keyword 'HolyWater'. Go to Ryder by usingthe green scroll. Buy the holywater from Friar Keine. Go backto the pub and walk directlysouth until you get to the ruins.Enter the wined temple and killthe lyche with the holy water.Finding the lyche is trial anderror. Look everywhere and tryevery lever.

QUEST SEVEN — THE CRATERGo back to the archmage andget the white key off him. Go tothe crater east of the road toLankwell. This is exactly thesame concept as the lyche'stemple, but much harder. Trialand error again is the only way.Don't use the magical axe inthe crater and temple as theslime wel rust it. Pick up thechime and leave.

QUEST EIGHT — THEMEDALLION OF POWERGo to the temple of Angor anduse the chime at the door. Goupstairs and kill the prior. Takehis key. Go downstairs and findthe button. Go down into thebasement Unlock the prisoner.Go back up to the first floor andpick up the sphere under thebed. Go in front of the grey

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Weelill _ I do. and here's another one.They're brill, see? 'Cos you can see what'scoming up along the way, which in thiscase could Save you a lot of hassle.Cheers. David Cassiday You'd find thatname a tot funnier if you'd watchedchildren's TV in the 70s

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NINJA MASTERJonathan Minton couldn't get past the bitwhere you have to chop the log. Knowthe treuble, Jon-Boy, I have problemsere', my icgs too Fortunately both PaulBainbridge and Derek Stuart have anifty hue cheatette which makes even themost stubborn tree trunk seem like thefeeblest twig When you're selecting ycurkeys for this level, use the Enter keyagain Then when its log time, press(one gtess here) Enter and if it works youshould score about 2,300. Neat, huh?

MOVIEBig snags or this a month or so ago, withboth the Ellesmere Port Ell andFV Harper in serious sewageFortunately my old mucker RichardSwann has come up with the goods. andhow So, snag by snag

1 How do you move the suts otarmour tiodung the doors? Is there apassword — and if so. what is it? -W e l l ,the suit of armour near the start can beshifted by saying OPEN SESAME'. Is theone to the left of the southern alley a bitharder? Well not really. MI you have todo is put an object between you and itand pushitoutoithe way The one upthe top of the map with the two balls (oo-erl can be got past by saying 'PUZZLE- 2. Can you get through the walled-updoor? "No, the walled-up door takes nopectin the game at all."

3 Can you gel into safes? If so, how?'To get into a safe, stand well back andthrow a bomb at rt."

4 How do you tell Tanya from Vanya?"There is away of telling the twins apart.When you find a girl, say -F R I E N D O RFOE"' If she says "KILL KILL KILL". she'sVanya. If she says 'THAT IS BEYOND

she's Tanya."As tor the Erf's question — what do

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prior and use the sphere. Thenpick up the medallion. You thenload in some more groovygraphics and that's it You'vefinished."

Unbelievable! I thought wednever get there. What a rebel.Super.

Hah! I thought this film wass0000 brilliant. All that swearingand gunplay. JUST the sort ofthing to watch with your grannyover a nice cuppa tea. Anyway, Ithink Arnie's skill, and I don'tmind the game either, lust likeLee Bryce. Stephen Wheel andJohn Cooper Take it away.comrades

"Don't use the punches,they're too slow. Walk back andforwards and the enemy won'thit you. Go as far left as youcan and head-butt until youknock a few down. Duck whenthe karate lobbies come on. Ifnowt happens when you get aB icon, be careful of asnowstorm. On Level Two lustpunch. Don't shoot thebandaged guys.

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do much, and you don't need it," Thanksvery much, Richard.

BACK TO SKOOLActually, Richard's been a bit of a brickthis month, as his complete solution toBack To Skoot has been not a lilt* helpfulin soling Michael Williams* probs.(Three games to you, M Swann!)

Cr. What is the COMbriatiOn t h eb e chained to the conker tree?

A: When you have lound the waterpistol. fill the cups underneath the stairsin the boy's school. (What with. Richard?Mat with? Dr 8) tShut up. Ed) To get thecode, stand so that your head is lustbelow the first limes floor On the shellwhere the cups are you'll find two ledgesWhen a teacher is about to pass underone of these, fire the catapult When youhave all tour numbers, wnte them downon the backboard and the bike willunlock.

0' What is the combination for theScience Lab storeroom?

A: Do the same as tor the bike. but fillthe Cups with sherry.

Shall we call this Dr Swann's Clinic?(Yes. You're Wed. Ed)

VPhew! Got my pb back (the Ed and I goback a long way — and forlunatelykept the negatives). Now to AndyRobbins' problem with this rubbishy oldgame, "Can someone pease tell me howto set explosives. dissipate red dustthrough the as puribcabon plant andescape using the craft?" Yup, theEllesmere Pon Elf can...

No probs. matey. To set an explosivego on to the convnuniputer and press thesymbol that looks like a lightning bollThen type in the first four numbers thatare on the display above your score(using the block of nght-handed symbols— two by three) and press the lightning

key again. The formula for the red dust isbroken down in the various labs and mustbe taken to the air purification plant. Toget past security doors press the bottomleft computer button to see the code,then try and gel it all the same by usingthe right handed numenc buttons on theCOnwnuolOuter They do the lollowirtg(listed left to right, top to bottom). Changefirst arid sixth i dig it), first and fifth,second and fourth and sixth, first andfourth, second and sixth, second andthird. That should help him, I thmk!"

I hope so, Ell — personally, I don'tknow what on earth you're drivelling onabout. But tbanx all the same.

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Phew! Sounds hectic. And if you donmanage it?

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NIGEL MANSELLS GRAND PRIXMark Young. as you may remember.couldn't qualify for the Spanish GrandPrix — and, it seems from my mailbag.neither can anyone else. I think we haveto assume that this is a particularly sillybug. Uoless, of course, you knowbetter

HAYLPRob Gamey. I have a problemregarding WEC Le Mans Every time Ifinish Level One the game restarts fromthe beginning instead of going to LevelTwo. As you can imagine this makes thegame rather hard to complete Hasanyone else had this problem?"

Key Ace' Vapiesden "Is thereanything you can say to the parrot inMore that gets you a helpful reply?"

Tim Bairstow "How do you gelCaspar the key in Knegnfrnate? And whatdo you need to cast spells?"

Andrew Jones (the New Zeatancbatsman? I think mitt. ' I n S c u b a K i c k

how do you get past the third reef?ahvays run out of air'

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time."Nice one, comrades

Technologee-a-deprad-vee-eta" as we say in Russia. Whichis either a sort of dessert, orthem very much.

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Yup, it's another Smash Tape tip.Ifs funny. you know. I get almostas many tips for these games wedo on the covers as I do for realfull-price games. ( They ARE realfull-price games' Ed) Okay. Iknow that, but they are free' ( Oh,alright then, Ed) So withoutmuch more ado, here's Marc

Holliday"Wait Ail the chaps are well

clear of the grannies beforeyou hit them. Stay roughly nearthe beginning. Don't collectenergy pills 'til the end. 'cosyou need all the energy youhave for the knifeman. Whenyou've killed the 200th enemy,travel right, collecting energypills as you go, then kill theknifeman."

Hmm. Got red hair have we,Marc? Hah Thought so Thanxfor the tips anyroad.

We've had some complaints thatnot enough girlies write in to YourSinclair, so to scotch therumours that real women don'tuse Speccies, here's the slimand sexy Jennifer Simpkins. (Idon't really know if she's slim andsexy, but it sounds good, andwho knows, she might be?!)

"Fimph. I found a nice littlecheat for Blob The Cop. It youpress left. right, left, right, leftand so on a little helicoptercomes out of your backpack.And what a nice little thing it istoo. (Fnarl)"

Gosh, A girlie in Tipshop, andmaking rude jokes too! Blimmin'Ada. Manx. Jenny. How's aboutsome more lips from you, hmm?Kissy kissy? Yuk, I hate it whenhe gets all slobbery like that. Putit away, Snout- Ed) ( Yeah, beforeI cut it off! Jenny) Gulp.

What? A tip for Batty already?Well. yes, 'cos what we'veactually got here is a hintcourtesy of Philip Kiernan. Takeit away, Phil

l found a def cheat which Ipresume also works on the realfinished game. You'll have toprint this because it's great,y'know. It saves the playergoing to places he/she wouldnormally have to go to butwhich normally waste about 30seconds. Here's the cheat.

On the chemical factorylevel, walk right past the ladder,swing up, go right, avoid thedrops, jump down to theplatform below, walk over tothe brick wall on your right andstand as close as you can to it,lacing right. Swing directlyupwards to the platform justabove, then turn to the leftwithout moving in thatdirection. Now swing theBetrope diagonally left andkeep your finger on the Up key.Immediately. you should bewhisked right up to a platform.This will save you about 30secs. Otherwise. never go upand down ladders — it's a wasteof time. Swing up or jumpdown. You're Batman, forgoodness sake!"

Manx. Phil. Your badge is inthe post. Batperson. Any moretips for the game will begratefully received, by the by.

Ahhh, good old Green Bert I'vereally missed ol' Bert in the

Worra close-run thing It was thismonth for the TOTM. It was verynearly Thunderbirds, yknow.But, at the last minute, I got allsteamy-eyed about all those 007tips I'd gotten. Hari' And so herethey are, from my 11'1 old chumsDavid White, Paul McGuigan.Alexander Kingham. CurtisHalsor& Malcom Begg. MikeWelters and Ronald 'Robocop'Graham. So get those watchcameras out, all you secretagents. Shhh. Sorry, better notmention secret agents. Well, younever know who's listening.

"STAGE ONEPull down diagonally left andshoot the tour gunemplacements. Next move tothe bottom middle of thescreen and shoot at Sanchez'sjeep. When you have passedthe tall building on the right.move right and shoot the gun.Stay at the back and shoot thesecond gun when you havepassed the wall. Move forwarda bit and shoot the two gunswhich are next to each other,whilst dodgi ng the wall. Go onto the road and fly forward.Stay on the road and dodgeenemy fire. Shoot at the jeepwhen it is in sight. To avoiddamage, slow down when agun fires at you. Al the firstcrossroads move left stayingon the road and shoot the gun.Get back to the middle of theroad quick. Go forward. At thesecond crossroads, move leftstaying on the road and shootthe two guns. Move back intothe middle of the road andmove to the top of the screen.Dodge enemy fire. Pull backquick when you get to the endof the road.

STAGE TWOThis stage changes every timeyou play it, but the idea is tochoose a man to shoot, get in asafe place, line your sight up atthe right angle to hit him, thenmove forward and fire. Do thiswith every man. Don't wasteammunition. Always pick upmagazines. The enemy's shotsare quite slow so you candodge them. If you havealready got three magazines,and some shots, waste theshots and pick up themagazine. This way you havemore bullets. Shoot the oildrums to blow up men. Alteryou have completed the gameonce, not all of the oil drumswill blow up.STAGE THREEKeep firing and guide James tothe back of Sanchez's plane.

STAGE FOUROnly go underwater whenJames is about to be hit bybullets, and when he gets aharpoon off a diver. Do this byfiring when he is on top of you.Guide James under divers toget the harpoon, dodge theboats and collect the drugs.

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Last CrusadeHold down 'OTD• on the titlepage and 'Shift 2' will advanceyou through the level, while 'Shift3' will advance a level.

Human Killing MachineHold down 'GO' when you startand 'X' will advance you a level_TitanicThe password is 'SUSIE.

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Tipshop, yknow. He was one ofthe best running tips lever had.This was in the old days, whenthat Hex Loader fellow used torun things, remember that? Butnow, it's been re-released! Yeeboo. So now a million and oneother people will send tips for it into me. Azowie! And the first ofthese is Jahn Anderson.

"Okay, Bert, off we go...

ARMED MENThese are deadly as they popup from nowhere, so, when yousee one, lay on the ground andstab at its feet by moving left/right on the ground. Youdon't get splatted by the tattles,

JUMPING FATTIESJump and stab in theirdirection diagonally.

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Coo. Aren't you just the Arnie ofEssex, eh? Remind me not tomeet you in a dark alley, all thisstabbing an' stuff. Yowch! Nicelip though_ BADGE MONITOR!Fling the badges over will ya

any other medieval saying I cancome up with before the end ofthe page But if you have any tipsfor the Shoppe, then dash themdowne on a parchment and postthem off, poste haste, to PhilipSnoute, VS Tipshoppe, VS, 14Rathbone Place, London W1PI DE. And remember, ['faith, thatany we print in the Shoppe willget a VS badge with 'I Got BigTips' on it. Prithy. Thass it Bye!

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You take the role ol he intrepid explorer trying torealise your dads ambition, just like in The Lag.Crusade. Only whereas MOO pop was obseittli bythe Katy Grail, your dad's obsession was Cal vi nKlein aftershave! Ho ho. only lo s nine r eade rs.what he realfd dreamt of linding was the fabledElephants' Graveyard. The only thing was that onone of his expeditions he popped his cl ip! So.being the loyal son, you venture lol l to contihis work.

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can shoot Gel the picture? There are all sorts ofbeasties lobe killed, including zombies (whichcreepily reassemble from piles ol bones in front ofyour very eyes!), man-eating plants, and evenbl oom' dinosaurs!

The best thing about it though is the way Tuskercaptures that certain le ne sais (poi leeling (as theFrench would say) - that element in the lady movieswhich made them so exciting and fun-packed. Forme, Its the way Indy solves certain puzzles andovercomes problems using the unlikely objects to

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It like me. you loved the Indiana Janes And TheLast Crusade game. but bemoaned the tact that theproblem solving and puzzle element of the movieswas a bit lacking, then try Tusker tor size. An arcadeadventure with the emphasis on adventure, withsome pretty spiffy graphics and a good many hoursworth of punting. Mappers and tippers will be intheir element!

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'centre-feel st c o n t i n u o u s forcefeedback lien, which means it felt just like drivinga real car, Spec-chums), its 3D graphics, itsadjustable swivel seat, its accelerator, brake andclutch pedals, not to mention its four speed gearstock, a really was the business. If ever Duncandisappeared from the office during the day youcould bet your last milk gum (I believe that one'smine actually. Chomp Ed) he'd be down the arcadehaving 'just one more spin -_ The scamp.

Anyway, now this wonder of arcade machines isabout to make an appearance on to our trustySpindles courtesy of Domark, of course. SoMatt sent me hot•foot Over 10 Putney to take a pre-release gander at it But hang on a minute, Ithought (as I mirrored, indicated and manoeuvredaround Hyde Park Corner), if the whole appeal ofthe arcade game was its realism, how's it going tofare when it's all squished down into our trustyfinle black boxes? The answer, I was pleased to

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As for the Stunt Track. Well, have you ever triedleaping a draw bridge while pooding along atXlmoh. or driving blind through a loop-the-loop at50rnoh7 It's fl e w impossible Mind you, if you domake a pig's ear of it you can always sit back andwatch all your spectacular crashes from thecomfort of your Chain driver's sear 'Cos Oast like inthe arcade version. this game has an instant replaycrash sequence too.

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destroyers (big tanks with mega guns). Yourhonest-to-goodness bloke just trying to escape theplanet and make a better hie for himself, has nochoice but to pump them lull ol lead with hismachine gun. What a shame.

Well, that sounds like a pretty run of the mill beat-'em-up cum shoot-'em-up to me, I hear you cry.Well, yes. There's nothing mind-bogglingly newabout this little number, I grant you. But having saidthat, it does have some of the biggest mean-muffler-looking sprites I've recently seen on theSpeccy, clear it unspectacular backdrops and bilk128K sound. The lighting moves on the beat-'em-upbits are a bit on the boring side (just punching,crouching and kicking) and poorly animated, but onthe shoot-'em-up levels it really comes alive.

Wandering along claustrophobic corridors withgiant gun on hip. taking pot shots at the trillions ofrobots and security droids that gang up on you fromabove.., well It's got much of the feel andatmosphere at that spew film Adm. Mug a

the Speccy conversion of that was so hopeless!)Yup, real gong bo macho excitement (if you like that

of thing). For mindless blasting satisfaction itsome beating

There's one major fly in the ointment though —the difficulty level (it is a Dinamic game after all).It's just pitched way to hard Not quite as bad asNavy Moves perhaps. but you still get zappedstraight back to the beginning again lac too often.How blooming frustrating! Maybe I'm just goingsoft, tgit the fact I wasn't getting anywhere lastr e a I Im e o f t . D on ' t s ta rt r ai di ng your piggy bank

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expletive to pass my lips. She's got E4.60 offme already but insists "it'll all go to a goodcause". Hmm.

Anyway, now I've got to try and gel Itirough thisreview without letting a single bit of saucy, blue orotherwise spicy language slip out. She's reallypicked the wrong time for these sort of shenanigansas well, 'cos Ghouls And Ghosts is a right sod (um.okay, a fiver) and just the sort of game thatencourages the spontaneous use of colourfulcolloquialisms. In other words, its bloomin' tricky!(Yikes1 £5.20! Oh no. I said "Ylkes"! That's ESA&mean SO! Damn! Uh-oh. E5.80) I mean, there youare, wandering along, minding your own business,and what happens but a zombie skeleton murderer

leaps up ou ol the ground and has a go at you! Thenanother one'! And another! Vultures fly after you,plants lob stills. pigs charge, other monsters spitfire and it all gels very unfriendly indeed! And that'sjust the first level! It's enough to make a grown manweep and take out a blinking standing order withthe ruddy swear box! (Another couple ot 20 pees.That's E6.20 you owe. Jackie)

Yup, Ghouls And Ghosts is really hard. Perhaps abit too hard to be friendly. In addition to the baddies,the checkpoints you have to reach to prevent getlingsent right back to the beginning are quite far apart,meaning your first hour of playing is FrustrationCity. At least, it is if you're as crap as me. (1540.Jackie.)

Generally the controls work well but you have tojump up in the air, using your joystick, before youcan access the upwards throwing weapons - whichis sometimes rather unfortunate because it meansyou leap so high as to touch the villain you weretrying to shoot and so kill yourself. Saddlessometimes rise up out of the ground right beneathyou too, giving you no chance, Mmm.Basically really good gameplayers with a lot ofperseverence will find it 'just right', but ones whoare a bit crap might get a bit put off. (What's that,Jack? Oh. I didn't say 'crap • again, did I? Alright,E6.60. What do you mean "E6,80"?)

Right, now we've got that out of the way, let'stake a look at, erm, the look of the thing. Eventhough its based on an arcade original,programmers Software Creation seem to havetotally thrown out of the window any pretence atemulating coin-op graphics in their conversion. Inother words, it looks like a good old fashionedSpeccy game. not an 'interesting', 'honourable' butultimately failed attempt to recreate the colour andgiant sprites of your average snazzy coin-op. Totallythe opposite of games like, say, Altered Beast andquite a welcome relief.

The small, monochrome figures you see heremay not initially set the pulses racing, but they'reserviceable, have a wide range of movements anddon't gel in the way of the extremely challenging

gameplay, Later on, when a big, snazzy graphicappears (or a neat little one, like the flickering firebombs you throw or the rain that falls in somescenes) it's a nice surprise and sometimes trulystunning. The whole thing is backed by some of theneatest sounds fin 128K) I've ever heard on theSpeccy, with a real sing-along intro difty too, Otherthan that, there's not much instant appeal here buttons ol life expectancy.

So, to sum up. Ghouls And Ghosts makes awelcome change from the recent slick, flash butultimately shallow coin-op hits which US Gold hasproduced recently (Fog Worlds, Strider) and showsa massive improvement on the dull conversions itdid at the stad of the year. Its good to see the gangproducing genuinely good arcacley games againand this must rate as one of the most challengingand playable of the year. A bit of a triumph for USGand Software Creations all round. I think. BlimeyO'Reilly O'Rourke!

(I think we'll round that oft at seven quid.thantiyou very much. Jackie) Oh drat.

MATS IT ALL ABOUT. THEWGhouls And Ghosts is. of course. the sequel to thatearlier arcade smash Ghosts And Goblins, andfeatures the return of all our lavourne characters.There's our hero. Arthur the Knight Errant, a ratherskinny characterless little monochrome sprite withan exaggerated running action. magic cast ironarmour and a limitless supply al throwing spears.He's got a wide range of movements (left. right.

lump left, lump up. Jump right, crouch. throw lettw nght throw up (yuk'l. throw down and climb)can collect other weapons tram the magical

chests strewn along the way or from 'ars carried bydead Daddies. Collecting and using these weaponsin the right order is apparently the secret to successin Ghouls and Ghosts but I haven't Quite got itsussed yet_ Then there's his chick, the wonderfullynamed Pnn-Prin. She can't do anything as such)but lust sort of waits for you at the end of the gameOf course you won't get that tar - not d the forces ofevil have anything to do with il anyway land theywill). And that's the plot Good. eh?

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around every possible type of death dealingvehicle. Oh, with the exception of milkiloatsthat is. There's a notable gap in the rangewhen it comes to milkilloats. Now it's turningits hand to coin-ops with the first release onits new 'Games For Adults (But With NoWhey Hey Paris)' MicroStyle label.

Xenophobe. the coin-op, is a viewed-trom-the-side, exploration-based. multi-player blasteramawhich usually prises a few 50ps from me wheneverwe meet. And, with the nauseating sincerity ofMinam Stoppard, I can confirm that this is a prettyauthentic conversion

The plots contrived rubbish. My copy's on Its wayto the Friends of the Earth Recycling Dept. So let'sconcentrate instead on the real nitty-gritty of thegame which is to clean up space stations packed to

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Your heal th andscore. You star t wi th2 0 0 0 , heal th pointsbut the Xenos havegot some reallyInventive ways oftaking them off you.

Her e 's Player Twoalong wi th a new-found alien buddythat's cl inging to hisback and sapping his!if ',force even as wespeak. A quickwaggle on theJoystick throws 'imoff.

Told you these al ienswere scary. This oneleaps at you, spi ttingvenom.

the rivets with some aliens of the Xeno genus. Saidclean up job can be done alone or with anotherplayer and the screens split in hall to provide eachof you with a view of the action.

Each level needs to be rid of Xenos in a set time.before they completely overrun the place, andthere's a nice selection of hi-tech sci-fi weaponry foryou to utilise. Once the Xeno count on the spacestation is zilch° you're beamed back to ship andgiven a lilt to the next level lot which there's a totalol lour).

You won't find scarier baddies than the ones inthis game They sap your health points soinventively too. Some cling to you. others spit andthe worst of all zaps zillions of health points with hismesmerising version of the Paddington Bear HardStare. The skill with which they've been drawnextends to all the graphics which, althoughmonochrome, are beautifully crisp and clear.Spooky soundtrack too.

Xenophobes biggest problem is life expectancy.The attempted strategy elements (having a

Inser ting this diskInto any of thecom puter terminalsini tiates the selfdestr uct sequence.

These Xenos arecal led Cr iners andhatch from veryAbenesque eggs.Blast them beforethey get a chance tojum p on you.

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GranasiamiLts.w cassalz.TJMarcus "Woor, Saint. wossissen? Iss one o'vese compu'ergames. innit? 'Ow much wad'llwe be gettin' for it, then?"

Whatever they're getting. il can't be enough. tanSt John and Jimmy Greaves as well as beingcracking footballers (back in the 'Ns and '70s whenI v.• 'is a mere lad) are possibly the two greatestBntons of the current age. With wit, wisdom andmore casual 'limners than you'd see in a series-fullof A Question Of Sport, they shine as beacons ofsanity in an area with. let's be frank, notralot ofcompetition. Bob Wilson? Nick 'It's Not A Toupee'Owen? Or even that lamous Yorkshire hamlet, elsnWelsby? Pahl . ; $

So it's a shame to report that the lads have 0Vmeans "done great" with this computer gameequivalent For one thing, there isn't a jumper toseen. And Saint doesn't chuckle merrily at Jim switticisms once. No jokes about Hartlepool. orScottish goalkeepers, In tact, the only ihiags thatconnect this game with either The Saint or Greavsleare the rather dodgy digitised pies of them that cropup throughout the game. Otherwise, it's just anothertwo•bit footle quiz game.

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games. or even one-bit ones, It's just that, afterplaying Saint And Creel/eta it rather feels as thoughit has. This is a lootball quiz that, while moderatelywell programmed and reasonably challenging, solacks variety that you find yourself nodding oftbefore the game is even hall way through.

So, having chosen your team (say. Maidstonetad) and your captain (say. M Berkmann), youadvance to the question-answering bit Like Tr*this is tab it there are lots of you huddling aroundthe warm Speccy as the cold winter nights draw in,but d you're on your own there's little incentive. Thewinner is the player who gets the most points, and ityou're the only player you're the winner beforeyou've started. Great.

Assuming you have chosen the 'easy' questions,you now kick oft. Each question represents a match,and there are three sorts you can gel — Home.Away and Derby. Home questions score just onepoint. and these are, in theory, the easier. Awayscore two, and are usually about football in the '60s

and '70s (easy for me, hard for most VS readers).Derby questions are about football trivia, scorethree points, and are often actually the easiest ofthe lot. Which sort of question you get is decided bya bar graph on the screen that leaps up and down.Press fire and it stops, and elsewhere on the screenyour ball alights on one at the three question types

So, a question comes up. Who scored six goalsagauist Sunderland in the 1960s? To whom didLeeds sell goalkeeper Gary Sprake? (Don't ask me,by the t•J,i y — I got these two wrong.) Gel one rightand you may be given the opportunity to save apenalty for a bongs point (this, like all such sub-gainek Ls impossible at first and a pushover when

/ --you've worked out how to do it).

And. er. tun; 11 There's a short game (21matches) and a long game (42 matches) but that'sall the choice you really get. What makes mesuspect that this game was conceived andprogrammed in a hurry is that, when you finallyfinish this marathon (42 matches may not sound

selecticto of different characters to control and IDcards and keys to access certain areas. forexample) might eek a few extra hours out of it but,on the whole. gameplayS fairly shallow, with thesame combination of crouch and fire tacticsappeanng to get you past most of the baddies. Theoriginal s addictiveness came from anaccommodating nature which allowedsimultaneous three player games. Only couples canplay together on the Spectrum and annoyingly thisslows the game down pretty drastically. It'sdefinitely worth seeking out though. but If thearcade machine didn't give you excited palpitationsthen this won't either.

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time you saw it pole-vault 15 feeto the air, somersault three limes andnge into a swimming pool halt aometre below? What a con. Mind you, it'sI probably more intelligent than the thms of famous spoiling guests put

gether.This licensed TV conversion is pretty true to the

original programme with a total of seven differentrounds making up each game. Four of them areStandard Question ones which have each of thethree players moving around the triangle on the rollDI a random die Landing on your own colour squaregets you a quenie from your chosen specialisedsubject i no Integral Polymer Dynamics I'm afraidjust 12 popular sports lobe interrogated on).Tucked in between the standard bits are the Hit ForSix and Jigsaw Picture rounds. The object here is toguess from rather unobvious clues which geezertrom the list your Speccy's thinking about. The linalround is Ouicklire Questions which has thecomputer pulling random puzzlers from its 2.500strong collection, only this time its finger on thebuzzer time with the first one to answer correctlybagging the points. And that's it unfortunately, notexactly packed with variety or any ot those thrills

and spills we expect in a game nowadays.All the same. it's not too bad technically. The

graphics are clear and colourful. *though they'renot required to jump about and explode like they doIn most games, and the whole thing's gala niceprolessional sheen toil.

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mid reader I collared nosDavi d Spence who hods fromFerryhill , County Dur ham . Hisfavourite game is Robocop, but hisfavourite TV furry animal? 'Sooty. 'How did you feel when Sooty's creatorHarry H Corbett 'passed on' recently?'Well, I was devastated!?Shocked and stunned! I meanhe was a one off, wasn't he!?His son, Matthew, is crap, Isn'the? He even has Sue the Panda

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Nest up. it's Ewan War den fromWalsall. Ewan is nearly IT, and hisfavourite game is Nigel Mcmsell'sGrand PfliX. Do you wear pyjamas?'Me. pyjamas? Get lost!' Whatdo you Wet:pr then? "A night shirt.'

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Michael Jackson,internationalsuperstar, friend ofzoo animals andmusical recordbreaker, will soonbe starring in USGold's Moonwalker.We sent DavidWhistlin' Rick Wilson(who's also had lotsof records broken)to take a pre-release peek.

Right, I've got my sparkly sockson, my half-mast stripey trousers,my one white glove, I've had myskin pigmentation lightened so Ilook like one of the Finn FamilyMoomintroll, and I've spent allnight in a plastic bubble full ofpure oxygen. (Get on with MI Ed)Hem, hem, now I'm ready tocheck out US Gold'sMoonwaiker licence! Aw! I'mbad! (Mmm. And so's your musk.Ed)

Moonwaiker, as you'reprobably well aware, is Michael'smovie — an everyday tale ofgood (which is Michael, except,erm , he's 'bad') and bad (that'sMr Big, who's probably 'quitegood' in Michael Jackson speak,but is actually a DastardlyVillain). I wonder if you canguess who wins? (And anyonewho says 'Mr Big" gets the sameas Norway in the EurovisionSong Contest — "NurII PwoinI")Anyway, the interesting bit of thefilm comes before this inevitableoutcome (well, most of it does, infact), and sees Michael dancing,singing, and changingTransformer-style into a jet car, arobot and a flying saucer.Hurrah! Well, that was the movie,and here comes the computergame. Out in time to appear inyour Christmas stockings, it'sfrom US Gold, and will let youstep into those famous patentshoes and one white glove!

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*mum 1Level ThreeThis finds you in Club 30s, the disco MUM Michael sang Smooth Criminal in themovie. Kin you giss what the tune is? Vomit, you're right, but hammocks!! Mr Big'smen hove surrounded the club and they're intent on mayhem! Good job, then, is itnot, that there's a 'shooter' and several clips of ammo for Michael to pick anduse... Shoot the baddies in the windows (Sounds pain(ul?? Ed) but watch out, 'costhey shoot back! Your viewpoint here is behind Michael as he runs left and right,picking up ammo dips, and jumping over modsimt gun tracers and up on totables!! When Midwest shoots, you get one of those Oppo Wolf cursors for you tomove about. Pick off this baddies and you're on to the final leg of the game.

Level FourFmolly, we're in the Arena of the Robot, and who, you ads, is the robot inquestion? Yets, it's Subble's buddy, Michael, again. There's a redly nice animatedsequence here whore Michael walks into the arena, and, quicker than you con say'By the honour of Greyskur, changes into a meaty mbar This is a single 10114N1where you're in the middle of the arena, notating left and right, and moving acursor to shoot the bad guys. Watch out for Mr Big's huge laser that keepsappearing and trying to microwave you. Oh, and be careful with your gun! Toomuch r i d firs and it'll overheat. Knock out the laser and Michael undergoes hisfind transformation — he turns into a gearbox for a Ford Escort RS20001 No no,just kidding, actually he changes into a brilliant Flying saucer and goes bock toNever Newer Lan& And that, in a nutshell, is that! One final thing, don't worryabout Michael getting wasted by Mr Big. It's not possible, 'cos instead of 'lives',ow hers hot only platinum distill Each time he; defeated he has to give oneaway. Phew!

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Michael Jackson!!!(Erin, at least a man in our local whobears a r emar kabl e resemblance toWacko himself!)

What do you think of US Gokrs computer game.Moonwallier?

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you a drink.To, h o v e a pint!But could I just ask you about your concern with

young people and the problems they lace in theworld? Did you have any say in the drug•bustingelement of the game?

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shoot-'em-up elements. I mean, in the movie youdon't actually shoot anyone, do you

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being the finicitety. arty person that he is, heinsisted on changing several minor specifics. Theseinclude the fact that his sprite originally walked onthe balls of his feet. No way, Jose, quoth our reallyweird celeb, change it so it walks on tippy toss!Well, when a big multinational mei/osier speaks,people listen, so tippy toes it is!

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'm thrilled to reportthis month an epoch-making event inSpectrum adventurehistory. No, not therelease of that stunninadventure, One Of OurIiimtbals Is Missing,nor even the release of

that even more stunning book,Adventures On The Spectrum by MikeGerrard (both available shortly, so don'tpanic. End of plug). Nope, whathappened this month is that I got my firsever fax message! All the way fromBelgium too, via the VS fax machine andinto the low-tech cardboard box where althe adventure stuff ends up.

The faxman is David Rademaker ofPalinghuizen 90, 9000 Ghent, Belgium,who says he's a devoted reader of theadventure section. He's about to producea complete guide to The Bard's Tale, andwants me to send him a listof all adventure dubs,adventure magazines or anymagazines with anadventure section. Cheek!A devoted reader onlyneeds to look through theback issues to find theaddresses for himself. But ifyou're a Bard-freak, youmight like to write to Davidfor more details.

Bard-ists will also likehis tip from Michael Swallow of

Sunderland. To get money and itemsquickly Michael says you should chooseo load in Merger, then load in your

previously saved party, choose them,oad them in again and then trade usefulterns and gold from the character list toyour member list. Then you can eitheroad them in yet again and trade again,over and over, or save your party, deletecharacters, load in the newly saved teamnd trade all over again. Michael reckonshat by using this ingenious cheat he's

managed to accumulate 12,245,370,000pieces of gold. Just send me 10% forprinting your letter, that's all.

Now you may think it's an easy job,itting back in my hammock here andeading the occasional fax message, buto get some rather strange mail at times.

For example, I've had three letters fromNewcastle all in different envelopes, alln the sari] hand-writing, all asking meour questions and all allegedly signed bydifferent people. Is this reader weird, oroes he just want to make sure he gets

the answers? So for David Burton, aliasGeoff Conway. alias I Bixby, here aresome of the answers. To pass the tank inEspionage Island EVISOLPXE ESU. Howo get into the hole in Eye Of Bain? Well,here are several holes in this adventure,so just ELOH OG. How to open the door

in the ruined tower, also in Ex. Of Bain?First you need the key to unlock it, thenyou ROOD OG. To get the key, SENOBENIMAXE. Finally, something that mustbe really puzzling this reader as he asksit in all three letters, how do you get onthe bus in Z2zz? A common question,and the common answer is first to NGISTCERE, then SUB POTS and VENOMEVIG.

Not all letters are quite so puzzling,though. Some are just plain helpful, likethe one from C Pope of no knownaddress who sent me a full solution toThe Hobbit. He also asks where he canget hold of Lard Of The Rings andShadows OfMordor, as he can't find themanywhere. Try putting an ad in orsending a letter to one of the adventurefanzines mentioned in my recent Mag-Watch article. Thanks a million for thesolution, which apparently took all day towrite out I can believe it. The tip I'll use

is one that'll answer a question fromanother reader, who wanted to knowhow to open the chest in The Hobbit. Theinput from another reader, who wantedto know how to open the chest in TheHobbit. The input you need is admittedlya little difficult to work out, as you musttype TSEHC NEPO. Not many peopleget that one. The secret is that you canonly open it at the end, when you returnwith the treasure, so off you go and getit. C Pope's method of dealing withGollum shows no mercy DROWSHMV MULLOG LL1K.

Where to get hold of adventures is acommon question, and Joseph Perry ofWillenhall in the West Midlands has asuggestion to make. Try your locallibrary. He goes to one in Wolverhamptonwhich hires out computer games on his

library ticket, and judging by the numberof questions Joseph asks they stock a fairnumber of adventures! Not all librariesoffer this service, but try asking in yourlocal one because even if they don't do itthere may be a branch in the area thatdoes.

My next letter's from a cat, whoclaims that its name is Paul Cook andthat it can write adventures with PAWFur enough. But Paul The Pussy sayshe's run out of ideas of his own and islooking to collaborate with someone on agame. If you've got an idea, an outline, astory or a half-written adventure, and arefinding the programming side toughgoing, contact Paul Cat at II EvergreenRoad, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR32 2SB.He's at your service for two tins ofVindaloo Whiskas.

Now I look through it all, there's beenquite a mailbag this month. The nextletter's from no less an address than thatof The Ritz, in London. This is from thatfamous spelling mistake, Denis Reilly,who pops up mysteriously all over theworld, usually writing to me onimpressive hotel notepaper. Whatmysteries lurk behind these movements?This time Denis has also sent me apostcard of his patron saint, St Denis,showing him holding his head in hishands, having had it chopped off. Hishead, that is. What has this to do withadventure games? Nowt at all, so on tothe next letter.

Fiona Robertson of Dundee offers tokiss my feet if I can answer herquestions. Bad luck, Fiona. To use thecash machine in The Shrewsbury Key —ETON EKAT/TOLIP ESII/DRAC ESU. InOPeralum Berlin you do need to open theleft luggage lockers, and to get the keyyou must search around on theunderground platform (NIB ETSAW EHTNI S'TI). And what do you do when youget to the bus station? First save yourgame, and then HCAOC NO TOOBNEPO.

Derek Shaw of West Kingsdown sayshe's 39 but looks 59, and the reason isCatditz. How on earth do you solve theproblem of the creaking floorboard?SDRAOBROOLF EKAT OT REVELI.:SU. And how to find the dagger in thesewers? The answer's forwards this time.just go e/e/e/w/e and then west to getout again. You too can write to MikeGerrard and look 20 years younger. Ifyou're only 20 years old though, betternot bother.

C A Henderson of Cleveland asksabout The Balrog And The Cat, as well hemight. What to do with the stone?GNIRREH DER A SM. How do you signthe form? With a small pencil which youget YOB LLAMS EHT MORI'. To do thatyou must first GGE EHT KCARC, butsave your game before trying as there's a

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urrlw marr EKOP. To get that, firstHCNARB A KAERB in the deep greenforest, and then [)ROWS RUOY UTIW TINEPRAHS.

Graeme Bell of Bletchley asks how toget past the crocodile in Zzzz.ELIDOCORC Ni) DNATS. That one waseasy. Mrs Watson of Ely inCambridgeshire wants to know how toget off the ship in MindshadotaREVAELC I-MW NIAHC ROHCNATUC. Darren Davies, also of Ely butthis time in Cardiff. asks about InspectorFlaked. How to get the key out of thevase — SREDNULB OT ESAV EVIG.How to get in the trunk — EDAPS EHTHMV 11 SKAERB SREDNULB.

Steve Anderson writes fromGloucester with some more funny inputsfor "the excellent Behind Closed Doors"He also sends in his own 11-movesolution to the game, similar to that ofCraig Henderson in ish 45 except thatSteve suggests you begin by pulling thechain, which makes the Balrog jump tohis feet. Then he must pull up histrousers. Steve's additions to the funnyinput collections are GAMES, STEVE,SEAN, SEX, CATCH FLY, ROCHDALE,BALROG and, would you believe.JACKIE RYAN! Soon as I finish writingthis I'll be investigating what responseyou get to that one. Steve also includes afew rudies that I can't possibly print, likea certain four-letter word typedbackwards.

Sometimes letters arrive at just theright time. David Greive and his sonAshley %Tire from Dumfries,presumably each with one hand on thepencil, and ask how to get going onKnightniare. I didn't have the info onthis, '61 another letter in the same postfrom Matthew Lawrence of Wokingtold me all about it. That's a commonquestion, and pretty tricky, so for thebenefit of all here's Matthew's advice,printed in a foriturds direction (so if youdon't want to know just read itbackwards). GET FOOD, ASK OLDMAN. GIVE WATER, GIVE FOOD, ASKOLD MAN. GET SPACE, GET ROCK,OPEN DOOR, GO EAST, TAKE ROCK,DIG GROUND and you'll fall into adungeon passage with two guards.Immediately enter THROW and pressfire, open the door to the south (don't gowest whatever you do). and when youcome to the wall monster answerFALSE. TRUE, FALSE.

Phew. what a month. Letters fromThe Ritz and a cat, faxes from Belgiumand promises to kiss my feet. I think Ineed to go and lie down in a darkenedroom...

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Venture forth with Mike Gerrardilk John Tabraham of PrescotW asked me about theSpectrum release of Bard'sTale II, a s h e' s now mapped

every square of every level inthe first game and can't waitto get his hands on the follow-up. He'll have to,unfortunately. Since thereader's wish is my command,I picked up the phone toActivision and asked themabout it. All they would saywas a fairly non-commital"Not this year". Oh well, it'snearly next year, but Iwouldn't hold your breath bythe sound of it.

i lk Devotees of the bard (Bard'sI P Tote, that is) are alwayswriting to ask me if I've got mapsof the game, which I haven't. ThinkI'm made of paper or something?But registered addict JohnTabraham (again) has come to therescue, and is offering a map andhints service. He sent me a samplemap and it really is worth having,but as there are several sheets tocover all the levels in the game hewill have to charge for thephotocopying. It works out at£1.50 (plus sae) for the fall game,but he will throw in a lengthy listof hints and tips as well. "Purecraftsmanship." John calls hismaps, and who am I to disagreewith such a modest assessment?The maps are available from himat 35 Knowsley Park Lane,Prescot, Merseyside L34 3NA.

Ami Another impendingrelease ought to be

Gnome Free, the third of Level9's Ingrid Bottomlow games.Only the other day I read aninterview with Level 9's PeteAustin, who ticked thejournalist off for suggestingthat Pete himself had saidthere would be a third Ingridgame. "I think I was slightlymore careful with my words,"Pete answered. "What Iactually said was that I wouldvery much like there to beanother Ingrid."

Well, blow me down butlater that very same day Ireceived a letter from ClaireWatson of Needham Marketasking what had happened toGnome Free, as promised onthe box for Ingrid's Back? Sure

enough. a quick look a t thepackaging reveals that GnomeFree will be published in May1989. Ahem, yes, well perhapswhoever writes Level 9'spackaging should be slightlymore careful with their words!

So what's happening onGnome Free? Well, according toPete they've got an outlineand even a booklet done, butare waiting to see how theirnext release, Scopeghost, doesbefore committing themselvesto a third Ingrid game. It'll bea great shame if they don't goahead, as the first two havebeen amongst the bestadventure releases of the lastfew years!

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I will. But what are you doing inthe news section? Oh, I see,looking for a quick plug.Varr00000m! There it went. Andlet's see it again in slow motion...

What am I on about? I've noidea. What Daniel's on about is hisSpectrum Software ExchangeClub. run from 178 Forest Road.Kingswood. Bristol 8SI5 2EN.He's been running it successfullyfor some time, though says he'dlike to attract more adventurersas at the moment only 5% ofmembers want to swop adventuregames. I'm always getting lettersfrom readers trying to get hold ofolder adventure games, and swopclubs like this are one way ofdoing just that. Send an sae forfurther details, and note thatDaniel deals in original copies only.Pirates will be shown the door.

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Tartan's last release, DoubleAgent, and looking at theprogramming work that's goneinto this new one I'm not

surprised! The result is aheadache of an adventure that's totallydifferent from anything you've everplayed before, and guaranteed to keepyou scratching your head for months onend. There are two modes of play, easyand hard, and as the easy one islmpossible. anyone playing the hard levelTHE GORDELL

deserves a medal — or a medical check-up.

Gordellois a three-part, text-onlyadventure which tells the tale of the evilDr Gorden° and his clinic in Switzerland.It's here that he has perfected thetechnique of making clones of animals,and is now experimenting on humans.The actual storyline is as complicated asa piece of knotted string, but it's allexplained in the optional instructions.

A few of these knots in the plotunravel in places where they shouldn't.For instance, you are an agent for the S6secret service in London and your bosshas received a video from Gordello thathe claims shows you and a clone at hisSwiss clinic. In other words, he claimspu are a clone, the original being underhis control in Switzerland! Your bossdisproves this by the simple technique ofasking you your phone number, as theimperfect clones cannot remembernumbers. But a moment later youdiscover your task is to unite the twopresent sub-standard clones in theClonetron machine and thereby producea super-clone, capable of speech. So ifyour boss already knows that the twocurrent clones are not capable of speech,what on earth is this phone numbernonsense all about? As long as you canspeak, you can't be a sub-standard cloneanyway. On top of that, if your bossknows that uniting the sub-standardclones in the Oonetmn will produce asuper-clone, how come Gorden() hasn'ttwigged yet? I think the plot's got soconvoluted it's totally out of control.

Anyway, ignore all that and get on withthe game. Just do what you're told andyou'll be alright. At first glance the split-screen looks identical to Double Agent,and even at second glance too, with theAB clone's half of the game on the left-hand side, and the BA clone's down theright. You can conveniently control bothclones from a keyboard in London, butonly one at a time, switching betweenthem by typing AB or BA. You can alsotype P to pause, and believe me you'llneed to!

The BA clone has a design flaw( another one!) in that it does theopposite of what you tell it, so GETJACKET will result in the jacket beingdropped. In fact this isn't fullyimplemented as commands like SEARCHand STEAL still work as they should —maybe the author couldn't think ofconvenient opposites. I know I can't.

Part One requires you to manoeuvreboth clones into the ante-room of theClonetron machine, avoiding the variousguards who are wandering round the

place. The clones are in different areas ofthe laboratory, the only joint locationbeing the ante-mom, so no co-operationbetween the two is needed and you cansolve the problems on one half of thescreen first then go on to the other, orflip between the two as you go along.

If I thought Part One was complicated

the opposite ot what you say, and theicseems to be only one entrance to themachine? I get a headache just thinkingabout it.

If you get to Part Three, which Iestimate should take you 'til about 1999when the story is actually set, then youwill at last have managed to create thesingle super-clone. So what happens tothe second half of the screen? Can wekiss it goodbye? No chance. In thatwindow you can now control any one ofthe 14 other characters that are movingaround. Type CALL SOLDIER, forinstance, and it's the soldier's view of theadventure you see on the right-handside. My mind not only boggles itdouble-boggles at the programmingproblems there must have been. If it took18 months to write I reckon Tom Frostmust have been working a 36-hour day.

Anyway, the fourth part of this three-part adventure is a bonus program thatgives you some news you definitely willnot want to hear when you get to the endof the game. There's also a couple ofpuzzle games as a reward for finishing.

Gordeilo is a fascinating adventure, andin amongst all these complications ofplot, screen layout, character-switchingand programming there are some cleverpuzzles as well. The features in the gamearen't just gimmicks. they are actually

:lc Lamle AI% D i v a nThe R-section Dormitory IAwhich I spend many resttessniyhts. Onty ex it is eastshouts out but i t ' s no usehe's out oF sightThat's i t ! I 'm going westHow stupid! Do ex it in thatdirection!I notice wandering intoview a t at t oFF-dutyORDERLYI Feet quite adventuresomeat the momentI notice wandering intoview a tab MISTRIIT i l l at rig coat

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(and I did) then Part Two gets evenworse, The twist, as if we needed one, isthat the two clones bumped their headstogether when leaving the ante-room atthe end of Part One, the result being thatthey now both respond when you type ina command, with the one you're incurrent contact with acting first. Don'tforget, though, that clone BA still doesthe opposite of what you tell it, so if youtype in SOUTH then AB goes south inhis half of the screen while BA goesnorth in his half! At least they start off inthe same place, and you're only facedwith making one map in this part. nottwo separate ones. But how on earth doyou get both clones to the Clonetronsimultaneously when one always does

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THE CASE OF THE BEHEADEDW e've had quite a few Sherlock

Holmes send-up adventuresover the past year, so it's goodto see someone going back tothe original character and

producing a terrific adventure as a result— knowing that the Sherlock characterand stories are safely out of copyright, ofcourse.

This is a two-part text-only adventure,so how come there are four programs onthe tape? Elementary, my dear readers,The first pmg's an intro and the lastpmg's a free bonus adventure calledYuppie. This revolves around a day in thelife of an aspiring yuppie, Nigel Floulkes-Smythe. It's amusingly done, andraised a few chuckles from me.

The intro program, which is written inBasic, loads up a menu from which youcan choose several options. There arethe credits and some brief adverts (andno. I don't mean they're adverts forbriefs!), with lists of some of thecommands each adventure understands.Useful in Smuggler will be X forexamine, Z to wait, ALL commands,FIND (another character), TALK TO/QUESTION/ACCUSE (anothercharacter), TS/IL for tape save/load andRS/RL for RAM save/load. Yuppie haseven more interesting commands, likePROPOSE. REMOVE and INSERT,though sadly I didn't get far enough intothe adventure to try those out.

Back at Smuggler, the scene-settingstory is a really well-written piece, anextract from Dr Watson's casebook that'sfull of the feeling of the original Holmesstories. In fact it reads to me like it musthave come from a real Conan Doyle story— either that or programmer PatrickWalsh is very good at pastiche (thismonth's big word).

In the intro you meet Victor Wathley,who's consulting Holmes about hisuncle, George Wathley. George has beena tea-importer for 20 years, and is a verywealthy man, though Victor suspects thewealth may have more to do withimporting opium, alcohol and other suchstuff than just the old PG Tips, But healso suspects that someone has a hold onhis uncle, and is forcing him to do this,so he wants to know if Holmes can help.He shows Sherlock a note he found at hisuncle's house on a recent visit, whichsays 'REMEMBERJOHNSON, YOUWILL GET THE SAME'. Holmes recallsthe recent murder of Nathaniel Johnson,whose body had a note attached whichshowed two crossed swords. This is thesymbol of the Fellowship of the Swords,a masonic-like society. Holmes arrangesto meet Victor at his uncle's house inHorsham, where they then find thedecapitated body of the uncle lying in apool of blood. Your task as Holmes is tofind the killer, the weapon and themotive.

On loading up the first part, it's 2 pmand there you are outside Wathley'scountry house with Watson, Victor and aheadless corpse at your feet. Don't tread

in the blood, it could be evidence.Watson finds a button and a note on thebody — the note, needless to say, hastwo crossed swords on it. Victor runs offto fetch the fuzz, leaving you and Watsonto explore.

In the entrance hall you find a walkingstick, with an ivory tip and a top that'sencrusted with diamonds. This suggestsrobbery wasn't the motive, though thestick requires a close examination. A fireis still burning in the grate, so the crimemust have been fairly recent. If you canfind the secret room, which is none toodifficult, you will unearth a diary whichexplains quite a lot about what's beengoing on. You also trigger off an amusingtittle message, where Watson's startled

UGGLERI suppose, as you're faced more with theway things would be in the real world —a lot of objects to examine and to seewhat you can make of them, rather thanjust trying to get through locked doors,although there's one of those for you too!

There's also the traditional adventurebug. which I hope the author sorts out.In Wathley's bedroom, if you open thewardrobe you're told there's a coalinside, which then appears in thelocation description. Try to GET COALand you're informed it ain't there! GETCOAT FROM WARDROBE? Nope.ENTER WARDROBE? Nope. EXAMINECOAT, WEAR COAT? OPENWARDROBE, CLOSE WARDROBE?Nope, can't be done, I checked the hint

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by a spider that runs up his trouser leg.As you point out what it is he brushes itoff "and tries to regain his usual air ofdignity". There are quite a few of theserandom messages which add to theenjoyment of the game.

As I played further into it, I found itvery slightly disappointing — not that it'sbad, not at all, just that I think morecould have been made of it, when somuch trouble has been taken with thestory background. There aren't too manyproblems, and those that are there arecomparatively easy — more a case ofexamining objects to find clues, andwatching your score slowly mount up.You hope.

This certainly didn't put me off thegame, but it shows the difficulty ofadapting a Holmes-like investigation intoan adventure game. It can be done, but Ithink you need a bit of problem-solvingto your evidence-gathering. It's adifferent approach to an adventure game.

sheet I'd been given, which suggested itwould be useful to me if I got somethingfrom Wathley's wardrobe. I wish I could.

Assuming that bug's sorted out, this'llbe an excellent game to play as what Isaw of the rest of it was perfectly bug-free. The inclusion of a few tougherproblems would have improved it, but itstill rates very highly for entertainmentvalue and professionalism. It's the firsttime I've heard of Patrick Walsh andMental Image, but if The Case Of TheBeheaded Smuggler's anything to go by itwon't be the last.

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the first release by the PegasusDevelopments team. It's got fulltext 'n' pix on the +3 (which isbeing reviewed), with a lengthy

text-only version for 128K machines andyour basic bog-standard text-only job in48K. The +3 disk uses the 'B' side tostore and call up the graphics, and theseare beautifully done in full-colour,putting Level 9's recent lanai°,attempts to shame. Take a bow. PeterCollins. There's even a bonus adventureon the disk, Teacher Trouble, and, despitebeing set in a school like hundreds ofothers, it's better than most and won meover at the point where the hero iswandering down a corridor and "Ernir is

confronted by an enormous green thingcovered in scabs! But enough of myproblems and back to the game..."

The Hermitage is a gothic tale set in theMiddle Ages in which you play the part ofa monk named Ambrose. YourArchbishop gives you the task of goingon a pilgrimage to the mountains ofVainmiomen to destroy an evil hermit,said by some to be an incarnation of thedevil himself. You don't really feel up to itbut the 'bish won't take "No" for ananswer and off you go. This is a briefsummary of a longer background nicelypresented in an optional introduction.

The game's got a good professionallook all round, except for spellingmistakes like 'existance', 'monotanous','tmeasyily' and others too numerous tomention. Pegasus will have to sort thisproblem out if it's going to develop.Which it will, judging by this effort. Thescreen's well presented, the text is good,if a little gory in places, and the whole 170.redthing moves along briskly. v a t u l l o r m . v .

For once it pays to retrace your P e r s o n a l Palingfootsteps at the start, to discover that

nasty things have been happening at themonastery. Several bodies are now lyingaround, with grizzly things having beendone to them. There's a good gothicatmosphere, added to if you examine thestatues in the chapel or read the bibleyou find in the pulpit. Off on your travelsyou get half-way over a rope bridge whena man appears at the other side andthreatens to cut the rope if you don'tcough up some cash. Result? One deadmonk. Elsewhere there's a village whereall hell's let loose, with drunken riotings,flaming huts and women being burnt atthe stake. A good deed or two areneeded here if you're to progress.

Conversation with other characters isa bit limited, in that you can usually say

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h a t e . F a t t i n 9 t o r 9 t : i n e c s , T' g r a s p t i 9 h e a d a n d c i t i i np a i n . T h e v i t t a t l e r s r e r e t 9 t a u c ta n d t a u n t r e 1 4 i t h c r u e t ,u o r d s . " W h a t s h o u l d 1 d o L o r d 7-,I s h o u t , h o p i o 9 f o r c l u i d a n c edb u t t o n o a v a i t . U 9 f e e L i n g ss a s , I L e t h e r b u r n f . V u t u i s h e a rs a s s ,,T a l t e p it s on this poor

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what you like to them and get thenecessary response, and the vocabularycould be wider. A woman asks you tohelp her, but HELP WOMAN doesn'twork, nor does RESCUE WOMAN(despite RESCUE being in the game'svocabulary according to the VOCABcommand). You have to FREE WOMAN.

When a game has a few faults, as thisone does, it often puts me off but thestrong story and atmosphere of TheHermitage make it stand out from thecrowd. Anyone taking the trouble toproduce a special graphics version justfor the +3 at under a tenner deserves apat on the back too. Well worth buying.Title 7 7 1 e i l e m o s a g rPublisher P e g a s u s , 760 Tyburn Road,

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find space kr them all I can foully get nd ofthe bacIdog, .. 'fil the next IN °nettersarrives.

Steve lodey says he's getting kmely because no-one'swriting to him any more, and all he can find to do is iswith his feet up drinking beer and nursing his footballinjury. I'm sure you lot can soon put a stop to all thatnonsense! Send your saes to Stew at 5 Felix Road,Felii5towe, Suffolk 1P11 l'ID kw any advice at all onAftershock, Casde Bkitirstar Classic Attionnor, DenimFrom The Da&ide, Dungeon Advennor, El Dorado,Extra/41de, Erik The Irdung, Esps9nagr Island Ey t %Bain, Fantasia Diamond, Fourth Protocol, (item Ranger.Golden Appk, Ground Zero. Hammer i ,-G m m t i o k i ,Handistea4 Hobbit, Imagotabon, Inca Curse, In Smirk qAngels, irousabl e Island, Kartsmit Kadnit Knadia,Kolnosk Sam ljle Tom, Lords Of Tom, Montort's QuestMountains (t(at Prim Of Magik, Prekstori Adverawy,Quest (Howson). Goidm Eggcup, Holy Gala Red Moon,Return To Eden, Res Revive. Robin Of Sherlock,Sorhast Delta, Serfs Tak. Sherlock Ship Of Ikon,Smott6211, Sornaor Of Clayroungwe Casde, Submotk, TempleOf Vran, Toioiroolmos, Batt. Urban Upstart Valkyrie D'',Veinor's liar. ViTy Big CateAdrerrhor and %mu inPan:disc

Stew also asks if there's room to thank DoreenEtankm for her very kmd help to him on The lade Same,Sorry, there would have been but for the space that lastsentence took up.

Here's a letter from a place called Hala, %Ouch I thoughtstood for Hints Archive For Lost Adventurers, butapparently it's a place near Lancaster, It's where readerAnthony Melville lives, at 39 Saturn Drive. Hata,Lancaster, Lams LAI 4QX to be precise. That's the placefor your queries, dearies, on Big Sleaze. Book Of Ilie Dead.Bored Of The Rings, Buckaroo Banzat Buoy Castle Eno,Carus Gases Of Despair Color: r of Magic, Crown OfReigriallinA Cryskd Of Otanbt, Codertls Quest, !Ark LotDown From The Darkside, El Dorado, Esape, &Mostar.Eye ((Bath, Bain, Football Fengt Forest At World's End, ForYour Thighs OnlyL Galanes, Golden Appk, (;olden Baton,Goldnt Mask, Grady Gukh, Germ boor. Granlots, GroundZoo, Hammer Of Gremmokt Hampstead, Tim Heim Hoots(Kam, Hobbit imagination, Inspector nuked. lathNeadact, feuds Of Babdcm, Knight 7)sier, Kabyaski NowLifeboat Lift Term Loads Of Midnight, Loris Of Tone,Matt Luau, Mina Of Satunt, Mordon's Quest, Maul,Nem Dome, Nevemtdeng Story Poole Adventure, Planet CyDeath, Play It Again ,Sam, Proya X: The Mum Man,Golden Eggcup, Holy Gnii I. Red Door, Red Moon ReturnTo Earth, Res Ramp', Sokoto, Scary Ammon, SeabaseDelta Se - Koa Of Assiak Shadows Of Morrior, Shp OfDoom, Shertabitry Key SMASHED, *Try*, StrangeChbsso; Suisun& Tom Of TfftliBSS, Pow Weeks inParodist, Twin Kingdom Vizilat Urban Upstart Valkyne 17,Voodio Castle, What Door, 14arioni and Zvi.

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And the Wry last kind soul nt them all— til nexttime— is regular reader and even more regular writerShane Wood, of 20 bale View, High Ethedey, BishopAuckland, Co Durham 1)114 0IH. Shane has the habit ofasking me a question about a game in his kter then bythe time he gets to the PS tells me that he's solwd itAmong the games he has solved and can answer questionson (minded you enclose the obligatory sae) are Bulb° AndThe Lizard King, Bum Borrd Of Th e Rows, Coto', OfMagic, Claws of DesPar• Enk At Vrilang Everyday Tait OfA Swam Of Goa Fiddo And Slant Hobbit, Hiroo OfKasen,Itionpstiod, Kolnask Now Lord Of The Roo, Lords OfTime, Golden Ugrup, Holy Grta Robot (4 Sherwood,Robin Of Sherlock, Sotbad And the Golden Slap, Star Wrrdt,Serfs Tale. Secret Of bait Hodearne, Terommolows, Witbm,Warworits and Zzu.

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IP IR CO 1 1 1Me oh my, is Jonathan Davies a hero or what?

Still reeling from the trauma of FattyThe Warthog's, er, untimely demise

(Sob sob waaaaargh! JD) our

resident progl ock is... um.. . here again!

Well its not, actually. it's avariety of colours, but redsounds nicer. This routine isthe work of Menno van derStar who, with a name like that.could only come from theNetherlands. It does the mind-bogglingly useful job of givingyou a little pointer which youcan move round the screenand use to select icons, drawpictures or anything like that.The code works underinterrupt mode two. so onceyou've run it the computer canget on with running your Basicprogram while the pointermoves around as a'background task (100%computerspeak there).

UsageCouldn't be morestraightforward. Type in theHex with, of course, theHexloader (check Out issue 45for more info on that), and saveit. Then reset the computer, putit into 48K mode if necessary.CLEAR 64999 and then loadthe code back in.

When you RANDOMIZEUSR 65000, up it comes(fnurk). The arrow can bemoved around using Q. A, 0and P. and M 'fires" It's best ifyou put the computer intosome kind of a loop at thispoint, otherwise loads of lettersappear at the bottom of thescreen. The longer you hold

well, yuletide is almost

upon us once again.and all over thecountry those tacky

illuminated snowmen are beingdusted down and hung all overlamp posts. City centres takeon an unnatural multi-colouredglow and Uncle Al rubs hishands in glee at the thought ofall those potential Speccyowners scribbling out theirletters to Santa.

down a key, the faster thearrow moves, but it never goesoff the screen.

When it comes to actuallyusing the thing, you'll find that65485 holds the x position ofthe lip of the arrow and 65486holds the y position.

When you press M, 65487

The trouble is, having gotyour shiny new +3 orwhatever, what are you goingto do with it? Being a Pitstopreader, which puts you a cutabove the rest already, you'llfling away the free games packalmost immediately and startsearching for something a littlemore stimulating. Then you'llthink back, inspiration willstrike and you'll reach for yourtattered copy of this ish.

• m e m e • ew% by Menno van der Star evi vem m , 06changes from nought to one.By peeking these addressesand getting your program torespond accordingly, you'll findyou can generate amasterpiece in minutes.

If, for some perverse reason,you want to get rid of the arrow,RANDOMIZE USR 65006.

There's yet another bumperbundle of code for you todigest this month. starting witha decidedly handy pointerroutine from Menno van derStar. Not only that. there's afunny sort of wibbly thing fromAndrew Paine too which I'msure will find itself a usesomewhere. And finallyTurstan Felstead makes awelcome ( '71 r e t u rn

i bet if you tried to count thenumber of times you've satstaring at your Speccy screenand thought "I wish I couldmake it wibble about a bit"you'd run out of fingers andtoes in no time at all.Frustrating. isn't it? AndrewPaine has obviouslyencounted this problem moreoften than most. because he'sactually got up and donesomething about it. WIPPle isthe result, and it does in factmake your screen, or just partsof it if you want, wibble about abit.

To put the thing intooperation, type in the Basicsection and save it with SAVE"WIBDEMO" LINE 190. Then,by way of the Hex loader, typein the Hex at address 60000and save it after the Basic.Then reload and run. Wibbly,eh?

But it doesn't stop there. Youcan tweak the program to yoursatisfaction by POKE ing thefollowing addresses.

60004 Number of repeats untilpicture is stationary.

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thought about my Christmasshopping, Trouble is, howeverearly I start I'll still find myselfcompletely prezzyless onChristmas Eve. Please sendyour programs and gift ideas tome. Jonathan Davies. atProgram Pitstop, YS. 14Rathbone Place. London W 1 P1 DE.

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Real Fighting - Real Tactics Real ManagementEnd o f Pound 7 your borer returns to the corner t h e cu ts Worsening and therea swelling beneath the aye. You have th irty seconds to patch him up What aboutyour lig h t t a ct ics? I s h e in f ron t? On ly the th ree fi g h t ju d g e s kn o w f o r su re .should you g ive h im fu rthe r in st ru ct io n s) - t o o l a t e t h e b e l l s o u n d s .

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All fights use an artificial Intelligence with indepth commentary a; MilBoxers struggle to become Heavyweight champion of the world.

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Checked out ZERO yet? Whaticlya mean. 'No'? It's our sister magazineand it's lust as skill as VS — but with one major difference There aren'tany Speccies in it. Instead, its full of stuff about the 'snoot' machinesSTs and Amigas and PCs). There's news, reviews, hints, tips — all thekind of 'gear you'd expect, as it happens And there's also a 'mag wrthirmag' called Console Action, which is full of. erm, well. console stuff —Nintendo, Sega, PC Engine and all that malarkey And the best thingabout ZERO is that, unlike most of the other 16 bit mags. IT ISN'TBORING. Well, bits of it are, but mos t of it isn't_ And anyway, the boringbits in ZERO are r ,uch les s boring than the boring bits in the other 16 btmags. So you can't lose really, can you? Buy ZERO and VS — you'll hawthe best of both worlds.

KEEP UP TO DATE ON THE 16BIT MARKET - THE YS WAYZERO issue two is OUT NOW, and it's literallyjam-packed with brilliance. From an exposé onthe new Sega MegaDrive, through 'hundreds' ofamazingly entertaining ST Amiga and PC gamesreviews, to an in-depth interview with BungleThe Bear (from Rainbow). We could go on forhours, but then the best thing you could do is togo out and BUY the blinking thing — it's onlyE1.50.

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Tape horn a few is

ago, Everyone who's got that little cracker s t u l d ittiON whatplayable little sausages these,games are_'iou controlcursor and must try to n t in' the screen by boxing areas oft,betore the baddies t at lu rk a ro und the edges catch up with you,As they can only k.ill you white you're t a k i n

ry ing to box ott a ce and section ot

their area, the sloll in the game is seeing yourab chan t git, without being too greedy and gett ing n b e d ,

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Your Sinclair is proud to present,living, breathing Technicolotit, MaBielby and his amazing, performing.

There wasn't room

for a Slots lastmonth, mainlybecause the issue,was c ram-packjIwith Christmas Speccy st ff.

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This is the biggest and most spectacular dedicated cabinetaround at the moment . Peer in the back and what do you get bultwo screens worth of horizontally scrolling s h o o t-' e m - u p . A n dspace ship horizontal scroller at that, A bit of a disappointmentreally. Still, as horizontal scrollers go it's a bit of a goodie_ Thereare hundreds (well, lots) of stages, start ing off on the surface ofthe Sun and work ing their way out through the solar system pastthe Sun.Mercury, the Earth, the Moon and so on to Jupiter. Still, back to

Here come the waves of alien space craft f rom the far end ofthe right hand screen now, giv ing you plenty of t ime to knockthem out of the sky. A lot of these first wave ships are leavingicons behind too which seems pretty generous — unt il yourealise how badly you're going to need them! Extra missiles,lasers, bombs and the force field especially come into their ownin a big way when ships start appearing f rom the back of thescreen, curling all around the place. Mutant fish leap out of thefire beneath you as well and giant end-of-level monsters likemassive dragon fish float s lowly but dangerously on to thescreen, At some points the game flips and starts scrolling theother way with you now approaching f rom the far right_

Sagara (what on earth is that name meant to mean?) is a fairlyv ivolv ing s t a t e-o f - t h e - a r t s h o o ty g a me , b ut , c a bi n et

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mote worthwhile one than Omega Fighter, An evit Southstyle dictator called Colonel Claude t7) has taken over

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ate weapon. They alt get the upgradable torvidard fi ring machineAbut one of them also conies tted withr e s out a

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since you can actually see your sprite there in the middle of thescreen. You have a cursor on-screen too, which you control with amove it about.dedicated joystick, and your hovercraft sort of follows it as you

The game starts out on swamp land, where you must zoomaround trees growing out of the water, bounce over floating logsthe hovercraft has a jump option and lands with a nice slapping

ooise) and take out hordes of tanks, ships, choppers and thingswhich attack f rom all angles. It scrolls ho r i z o n t a l l y a s w e l l a s i n t o

the screen. so, if things are gett ing too hot for you in One area,rou can aiways scoot off sideways away f rom the action to whereof land cause no problem either.things are a bit cooler. Being a hovercraft, small islands and bits

It comes in a neat dedicated stand-up cabinet too. Simple fun,taking over this columnbut ace all the same. Oh yeah, and it's by Tait°. They seem to beOverall: 81"Convertibility Factor: 8The scrolling might be difficult. but the hovercraftshouldn't be too tricky to animate (it's basically

goodie.just a big red blob). It's be dead playable too. A

OMEGA FIGHTERWell. it 's cheap (20p a shot) which is just about all I can say forI-to hum. Basical/y, what we've got he i s Galaxians. Updated,with a pretty Earth background graphic, but Galaxiansnonetheless. And that's it. What, you want more? Well ok ay i r 5vertically scrolling Shoot -'emu w i t h some pretty simplydesigned sprites coming down the screen at you in waves, and aYour equally s imple spaceship mov ing up the screen towardsthem. You shoot at them and they um, shoot at you. Other leveltake you inside giant alien ships and the like, but irs all a bitsamey (even the weapon power-ups you get just deliver more ofthe same) and not very interesting. Your ship does a neatCatherine Wheel-shaped explosion when it dies though.Overall: 63*Convertibility Factor: 6Perfectly possible, but does anyone really want to

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OIG RUNthat gets the treatment, and p r a c k s . The game

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race talces place o u g h a n d gasover a series oi stages across North Africa, fruit,.

the streets ot FranCe to the roughest desert tlives in a dedicated s it -down cabinet — th w i t h o u thydraulics — and features highlurbo, h o w does it

and low gears and brake

pedals. Your ride is a Porsche t h o u g h there are all sorts otother cars to race against. M very welt, but p l a y ' ?

Pretty blooming well, actually, Though the graphics aren't aspolished as in

g a m eChase HO, say, and the sprites are in general a lot

blockier, they do the iob well enough, and the speed ot themore than makes up for it. Big Atin tills the screen with thesharpest ot bends, trickiest it

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in a Middle East war setting)and Arch Rivals (a comic

, basketball game from Dataast). Oh, and then there'sdstan foga 2, of course.

More of the same platformand lar s slashingrmayh , but faster,smoo o er and better thanthe original. Took them along time to get around to asequel though, didn't it?

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What a star he is... At the tender age offive, he was a member of the JacksonFive. lea been singing and dancing mostcil his life. His best friends are zooanimals His second album Tbriaer soldover 40 million copies worldwide, and Bad,s die first album in history to have hadlive number one singles. He sleeps in apatio airtight bubble and talks likeMickey Mouse. The President of theUnited States gave him an award tor hismany amazing achievements. He wears agreat deal of mascara, and one glove.Beneath his cool outfits he sports a pairof those very nasty nylon briefs with apicture of a hall-eaten apple on the front.Are you sure about all these 'facts'? Ed)He starred in his OW movie Moonwalkerand is now in the computer game of thesame name, It, Mcoomvalker! And itsgoing to be 'bact!! eNhich means 'verygood in Michael Jackson speak)

Yep, US Gold hps got itself the rights tothe Michael Jackson movie and theElinningharn-based software house issure to exploit all its exciting bits for thecomputer game! Hurray! And guess what,they're so chuffed about it, they'reoffering us some splendid prizes in this,the Your Sinclair/US Gold Moonwalkercompo!!

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Software All leads, data recorder and Cheetahloyeack £90 ono Phone (096279) 581 after4pm and ask tor Jukan• Spectrum +5. muttaace, recorder, over 80tense inch ;disks, more than 100 tapes. totallingaround 800 games Excellent condition_ £295_Write to K Riley AS Goodman Gardens.Erdington. Birmingham 824 0A0• Spectrum 12814+, Cheetah Match 1 +interface software worth £100 Mags worthE 40 All in good condition and working orderGreat value at lust o n a Tel Matthew10272:838650.• 48 K ZX Spectrum with instruction manual

and leads. £50 one Proone fies A Slaney on(01; 866 9608• SOOCerum 128K +2, a wa rd tape deck,poysticlie Lots c4 games *Orel over £200.manuals mags. E185 COD Prio r* 1082572)3609 'East Susses).• Spectrum 484+, over £530 worth of games,Antt mouse. data recorder and 42 tapes fromvenous magazines kit' tree 'worth over C MO).We sea tor £250 Buyer collects Allan Walsh7 Bra:croft Drive, Hovel:edge, AthertonManchester M29 ON Te l (0942) 875011• Spectrum +2 with box. Iwo koysticks, doslcover a re 5 0 0 tit software Good conditionWe sell tor £250 Phone 104751 32359 afterSpie end ash for Bobby•Specimen 128K -2 lof sate C180 with over

80 games. Also Cheetah loyseck interface.over 25 moms manua l and Ouickshot 2 ptusjoystick Phone Stuart Turner (0304) 831015• SPOCeurn 48K tor sale! Wert 01 originals,261 games overall Dale 'corder interface,expensed port Speech syntril All completewith manuals and instructions £215 onoPhone KINN% on Downharn Market 384217• Spectrum +3 Multrface .3 . over 100 maga,

asystoOts. tape recorder, disk box. books.tapes. over 40 ortginal disk garnet and motethan 30 asks of tape software leads_ OttersC250-teti Phone Gary on (01 ) 657 5152Deleon, Possible.• Spectrum 128K I/recorder, interface, Iwoports, two joysticks £300 worth ol softwareoduding Ost Woe, Last N i, * 2, OutRurt, NavyArmes and many more. C150 000 Call M StarrOn (0734) 723646 evenings• Spectrum +2 tor sale, £500 software,moose, interlace and two loystidis All vivre,around £700 Will sell for £296 ono For moreintormatee write to Julian Hobbs. 59 Gorton.Ash. or Canterbury, Kant CI3 2HR• Spectrum 128K +2, m icro :kw, interlace 1.cortndge, leads. books Games alone worthE240 loyst ick etc E250 ono_ Lets of otherhardware tor sale as well Phone Has& on1021) AA 7 1515 after 4pri Free POKEs toor.

• Spectrum +3, 50 games, lighlpen. bOOILSonly nine months old Also lots of mags On lytge Phone Richard on (0277) 658961 _• Bargain' Spectrum +3, data corder, mousefightpen two loyslielte. £700 worth softwareincluding Robocop, X tBors cassetteitiesk Allimmaculate condition Total iokie civet £1000Only £350 coo for peck sale Phone MColeman on Nerthampon (0604)411127 after4pm• Spectrum + with watadrive. Ram musicmachine. Ouickshot 2_ dodgy SnapshOt 2(repairable') and over 200 games Many newreleases. 1150 ono Write to JarrieS Tubman,tO Fore Street. Yealmion, Plymouth, DevoeMOIR.)

• Spectrum 128K +2 tot sate' Cornet withE250viorth of games. ESO worth mags andtwo loystacks All worth £400 Will sell for C2130Phone Howard Hudson on 109321 220880

• Spectrum +3, some games. Multilace 3,Devpac TaswOrd, some blank disks All inprod condition. £150 + pep Phone Adrian onBrookwood 87743El Spectrum 48K. printer and rolls, Kempstonloysbck. over 100 garnet including Last Hint*2. R- Type . Gurishrp. Denude and about 30

rnags packed with POIKEs All worth overt 1,000 but sadly l o r only E150 ElecInsnplus tape recorder and 15 games for 5 0Phone T a g g a r t on 10487) 815469(Huntingclen Combs)• Sega master system Two pads, threegames - may E613 . P h o n e C o h n o n ( D 21 ) 7 22

2472 allot6pm• Spectrum 48K with cassette recorder. leadsRam turbo interlace. Ouickshot 1. Ouickshol 7and OuicKshot turbo joysticks Speechsynthesieer Lots ot games are utilities All£85 Ring James Formby on Anna 'Dumfresshirel 5366 after 9 30 pm

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Lamb. M Phoenix Avenue. a id in g Notts NG44EL Te l 617077• I will swop Draw. WEC Le mans. Dragont in e and five other budget games torRobocop Write to Robert Walker, 36Debenham Road. Stretford, Manchester M32OGG• Over BOO games to swap including Op Wolf.la Type and Street Fighter Also t a lK gamesCybernord 0 48/128K. Little Computer People128K S e nd your es% for none All lettersanswered Write to PaInck Ennis. 75Augriannaugh Road, Crumble), OUblin 12,Ireland• Swop original Speccy games with me Senda Wank tape tor my swop list program_ ContaelSat Meng Wong, 7 Haddon Close. AiderlyEdge. Cheshire SK9 IRD• Wanted 1942 or 1943 Swop tor Way Of TheEgtodong Fat, SAS Combas or Ace DI AcesPhone Mark on 1 0 748 ) 3 2 1 4 1 a l s o W e n t

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Bfasloroads Swop tor full price games• I wish to sell or exchange games i also NM"loads of rolls of therm° paper and anAlPtiactyn 32 Please write to A Harding, 2EChurchdown Lane, Hucciecote, GIGS GL330H• I have a lot of programs to seep (manyrecent titles) Send your kst for mineGuaranteed reply Write to Chris PeriphaniS.•esilactoy 76 t a n s& 41223, Greece111 Wanted Great Grans Sisters and Solder OfFortune Will swop one tar any one c4 thetollowing - Stargfider 2 The Last Crosacle,McroProse Soccer and WUS Tel (0908)680688 and ask for Simon• Over 200 games to swop on the Atari SIand Specimen +3 h a ve a Multdoce 3 and aMulbface St Games Ike Operation Wolf.Double Dragon etc Write to Matt Byrne. Unit18. Royal Oak, Bagenalstovm. Co Carlow. EtaNow'• Loads of games and magazines too' saleSend sao let list to Daniel Brice,170 ForestRoad. Kingebsood. Bristol B515 2EN Pleasemark envelope 'Gamest ist Hurry -- gamesIro 1 1 1m 10p• Swop Target Renegade and PagnirnareRatty tor Batman It Telephone Donee On102572)68465 after 4pmII Wanted, Muellace 128K Will swop any threeof following — LED Storm. Pee:nano, Sannon,MicroProse Soccer OK) , Barbarian 2, Heroes0/ The Lance and Total Eclipse Write toMichael Harrison 2 Lege? Lane. Sheffield S31700

vell swop ()neer tor Far) DOIEICSOC Alsowould like to swop P11000,1 and Daleyrepropeon's 0/dorsto Chellenge for FootballDeecro, Oe g ir ia ls only Please hurrylContact Paul Giaderrew 1 WoodbourneCrescent. Dungannon. Co Tyrone, NorthernIreland B171 7 0 0s Wa swop games like Marchclay, FootbattManager 2, When Time Stood Still, Berman ItGunship. Overrander (or Bards la ic LEDStorm PkeraPraSe Soccer. R- T y p e a n d o t h e r sAlso Kempeton interface, E4 one Contact RSalmon. Rising Sun Farm &den LlanelliDyfed SA 14 8,t A

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• Forgotten Kends. Dragon Nmte. GL HotShot, Salamander. Soper Soria Kamov,•M a r Hang On Space Hamer, Settous,Tapper All ten tor £30 Phone Leigh Buller on101 1 590 8098 Buyer ccalects• Lots of games to stew like Erie, Wzbee.OaRum Eaom's Nest. Super Robin Hood All48..126K S e nd your Ina for mine Wr ite to KClark 7 Whittagreoe Crescem Nowa:antiMatiereed. Lanark_seire MI 1 5AF• WM swop Gold Saner Bronze for Last Nino2 I also hose Impossible Mayon I & 2 M l leto manna* warcua• Illufirnoti RotherhamSouth vo lt s 846 91H Orig inals only please•Legere le a d Loser Compoler try Ocean SDWill pay CS Also over 1,000 games to Ow*?Your list 110a mine Write to Steve Taylor. 1Elleachield Houoe Thurso, Caithnesa• I will swop my California Games lot BoggyBoy, WEC Le Mans Or Crazy Cart tt ContactShuts co t021) 4586189 seer 7pm

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Fernaie 17 year old heavy metal tar seekspan POP over 16. not neceseanly nincomputers but definitely into I S'(Aaaaatrarighe td)Wolie to Jane Elirott. 9C o to * Road. Camotssee Scotland D137 602• um a mate aged 13 and Um lookrng tor a penpal aged 11-14 term anywhere Please wham toClavel 'Laken. 1111 Moreland Avenue,enrinelloch, Glasgow G66 395• Female. 23, 1213K Owner wrehes to swopraest 48/128 games with tallow Speccy use. sDoer 1,6001.0e5 Reply assured to those whowrite re beton, 2000 AD flrehat7 D a v e & W e n swants some too? Ect) Contact Sneha Rohma,103 Unclog Industrial E slate Oft VeerSardwirar Marg. Prabhadeei Bombay Indira.4000251 0 1,rifi la b e and IS and want pen pals aged 14

Hobbe5 nclude Specoes music andsport I t you hee in Ireland phone 260485 Atrecites guaranteed Truly Get scnbbling toGraham Kavanagh. 53 Re/leen Pan. BallyFermat. Dubin 10, Ewe• rel I'm Be'.. and Fre looking tor some hunk...Me own a 48K Spetcy and ate aged between15 and 1 71So v e r de l o t ee IS year old lass al tO

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• I ant one years old and lookng for a Pen Palaged between eight and 13 Write to KellySkeels at 7 Stanard Road Dagenham. EssexRP. * ?HS• Mae 13. weirs t3 year old female who isinto Dungeons And Dragons and INDS inAustraha. America and Men Zealand (Jebe lIwo tiuto Ed) Reply guaranteed Includephoto 0 possible Write to Joe Gibson I 3nr ). 46Morose Road. Bnidge of Wee. Retereeshire,Scotland PAll 3NF• Spectrum +3 owner seeks pen pals valematelacea to swop haus tips. games etc Over700 trees so get out those pens and write 10me le e n NoCholson a t 52 Barrnoute WayNorte Shields. Tyne and Wear NE29

▪ otesptir.:ite tor FoorbaeDrrec ro, 7 t a p e FSwop for any three ot Gunship. Yes PrimeWeile r Road Breeders. Atkanoid 2 4 k 4 OttRoad Racing Ace d' Biggres Phone John on(0782) 552579• lacroPease SOCCef, Ernlyn Hughes Socemaria Kenny Dergash Soccer Will swop lerFootball Manager 2, Tracks...? Manager. FourSoccer Sims Roy Of The Rovers c, technoCop One kr one Contact Thomas Brighton, 6Cram, P l ac e , V re iona Road Owlsmoor,

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Pareore Way. Letchworlh , Hens SG61 10T• Wanted mouse and erest 2in excellentcondition wee mouse mat and Package Forter price or swop tor E 50 worth software Meicroce) or Other swop Contact E Preisay.Burnt Oak Collage Challock nr As ra• • 1 K: •IPQS 40P Tel Creillock 239

• Wanted - collectron of machine Coderoutines teen Program Pitstop Or books (egAdvanced Z80 Machine Code/ s e o p torInYsack. interface extension cable andsoftware. Phone Ian Sweeney,. NortternIreland 105041 51901• Wanted. McAdam 12te Swop Ire 150 gameset your choice horn a ksi of 600a- Write toMarco Pinto. Placate le a se s I apes, I 4 Esq2745 Ouelail -P o r t u g a l• Superman wattled waed uraently. W swop torBatman 2 Write ID Justin Oldroyd. 35Silverdate Road, Tunbedge WOK. Kent• Wanted' Evening Star from HewSonExchange tor case or software (Robccep.Operation Wed Tracksuit Manager and mere)Rog Paul Mundy on 1022S1 333316 after 5pm.• Computer and vele] games, magannesand tandem desperately warned Please sendyour offers to Arroyo 3 5 Nall Gardens ColneyHeath, St Albans, Hereerolserre M A0 0 G. Penpais welcome Henn to Streaky• Wanted desperately - ereue le at VS W e lnave how-to-eack part included se it you'vetorn o f t slick U on again' Swop for closh(M ats a new One. Edi Contact James bleeps.6 Pemendge Avenue, Twelienham. MiddiesexTW2 5AE Tel (01 ) 098 7837• Wanted, F o o tb a l l D i re c to r 2. Wel swop tar

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• Prubteres making dee bane ups7 W h a t y o u need is Megacopy Lots of ey liras S e n d d i s k .sae and pestai racier for e t to N Platt 8Pertmere Drive. T,nglev, DCWakefield. WestYorkshire kW 3 I PO• Jam our Spectrum ctub absolutely tree Hasover 200 games. many latest IdlesJu st seedyour name and address to Mark McCarthy. 8Fenian Place Abbeysele, Dungaryan. CoWaterford Eire• YOl H as anyone gal a complete sokfton for

CRI s Wortman'l Yes/ Send it to ire teen'Reward' Write to Nice Hughes. 14 WortharnPlace, Haverhill, &a loe CB9 UHF PS Hellomurn and Gareth.• Have yOu wetteretyped in a proggy whichdoesn't work/ Contact A Ashley. 44 HomePark Road, Saltasn, Cornwall PL12 6Bei• PBM game e s a lunny old game Can youmanage a lop tOottalt learn', F o r f r e e b o o k l e tdetailmg Features and costs write to MalcolmMacNaughtiOn I Mora: Place. Rentrew,Rentrewshire PA4 90P• POKE& and cheats *ream by enthuwastsfor tun I t you would like the booklet send aletter to Edwin Searancke, Church ViewPeitycrott, Ran:lean, Gros GL17 9XH• Lime' l'Ye got 1.300 multilane POKEsalpeabeecat Order Send sae and cheque/POfor C2 50 to R Bryant. 38 Pye StreetFaringclon, Orton SW 7AS• Soccer PBM starts October Only Li entryand 50p a match Includes bee leagues, twocupS. transters m a n a g e r appreacees.crowds aria morel If interested phone Aastarron Bristol 102121658706 atter 6prn• A new PBM, C3 start up C l 20 a turn SendCS lo Mar seal' Lancaster, 42 Greyeloke Road.Macclesfield. Cheshire Sit 10 2114.

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moderatee results. Features at real racinggroup races Sellers. auCtionS. racecommentaries C I turns Weer to RacingGames, 4 Olivier Close, Salisnury, Willetere• Yo guys' Do you ware games like Red HeatNavy Moves. $ Oi. Ouestron Or Sport andothers eye Run The Geontler Then send CIPO and sae to Shamrock Spectrum Club. 5',,innee Crescent, Waterford City. Eke.

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Aldbourne Way, Hawkeeley Kings Norton,Birmingham 838 9110• Have you written a game tor the Spectrumand want it pi/Wished/ Steed a copy with sae to',peeve. 49 West End, Bramplon, Hunlingden.Cambs PE 18 8sE Good royalties pave• Kw true Ashes Goodbye. a new cricketPBM starling soon international ceps, lourmatches etc Send an sae tor details to MarkShutz, 24 Alexander Avenue. Enderby.Leicester LE9 SNA

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menu-driven maaanne Everything in Toomice to tell Send 3l disk al C60 tape, eOpP&P and Jermsoll will do the rest JermaineMorris 3 0 The Parklands CongletonCheshire CW12 SOS Tel (0260) 271146• SPX Tech, a great new computer map withpreviews. reviews. POKES, colour posters andmuch mote. Free with first Issue - an arnaenggraphic adventure All this for only 80p. Formore details send an sae to A Fwnington, 9Pot...rarer Pant. Edinburgh EH11 I LE• F-S-Sar now completely Free' All you de issend a 060 tape E yclusive ecreel/shots.reviews, previews and swoperie For totallytree into (except Brash Telecoml phone PaulSherwood on 10509) 230887• Got a Speccy and stuck on some el yourgames, W e il h er e a your so lu ti on - a tape te

POKEs JuSt send a Wank tape phis C2 toryour up-to-dale POKEs Don't miss out on thisgreat tette Block Byte Campubng 3 4 BrallaAvenue, Glasgow GI3 4HZ.• SSD is a Speccy fanzine, well worth themeasly 20p anti sae were asking for in returnIts a great read ler the money' Write nowbottom you forget to SSUMaganne Smahlie ldGutcher. Yee Shetland, Scotland ZE2 40F• SPocAee is tre map la buy., C o m p o s ,reviews, tips and wade moree Send 50p withsae and tape to Specace. 246 Mossy LeaRnad, Wrighfington. Wigan, Lance Mee 9RL• Something is about to happen to the fanzineworld ROB. a new kind of fantine lot a newlend ot reader Contact Edward Walker i2Oaldieid Avenue. Elestall. Lecester LE4 300• T A G - - Britain's lastest growing and bastfanene is now a tape magi Issue three - up-to-date reviews, previews. POKEs M M .&arcades, campus, programming anti morelSend 60p plus stamp to Itoceril VrtyGrows. Bare. Morecambe. Lancs tA4 6JJ• Computer Lisp, ' news. reviews. previews.challis. swepshop posters. free games

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London; M Harr is from Croydon; Steven Stark from Bishops Stortford,Herts, Christian Forsmon from Blackpool, Lancs; S u s a n K e l l y f r o mGirvon, Ayrshire; D a v e H a r r is h o rn P e t er b o ro u g h; and J K Ma rs to n

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Matt Racing games, eh? (Asour Jack would start a review.)Whafd we do without 'em?Well. we'd buy a lot fewer

games this Christmas. that's for sure. Yup,from Chase HO to Power Drift to ContinentalCircus. everyone's gone car bloomin' crazy!

There are some more serious driving simulationsbouncing about too, The jury's still out on HardDrivid', but here comes The Duel, Accolade's lollowup to the mega-successful PC/16 bit driverama TestDrive. In fact, it's quite heart warming to see arespectable, simulation-based outfit like Accoladedipping its toes into the Speccy market this late inthe day. So it's a real shame I can't bring myself towrite anything very nice about the results. Because,lobe honest, Test Drive II smacks a bit of old tosh.

Oh sure, the blurb promises something a bitspecial_ 'Race head to head in the fastestproduction cars ever built!' Wow! A choice betweena Ferrari F40 and a Porsche 959! Road hazards like'oncoming traffic, rocks, loose gravel. pot holes andoil slicks.' Hot diggerty-dog! Can't wait, right?

But oh dear, oh dear.Well. let's kick off with the graphics. They're just

so lifeless! Take the courses. (No. please, takethem!) In general they're some of the most flat andfeatureless routes I've ever seen, be they desert,cliff paths or grasslands, with the very minimum ofroadside features (outside col the odd cactus). Andthe cars are no better. The dark blue dashboardsare modelled on the cars in question but, in tact,both look tar more like the plasticy job from aNissan Sunny or something. And what are the roadspopulated with? Not trucks or Beetles or Corvettesor anything else vaguely interesting, but moreblooming three box saloons! Even when you'reracing the other supercar the graphic used is justthat of another Nissan. In shod, you'll have to useyour imagination a bit here!

Thankfully, the control system is considerablybetter. You're given a wide range of skill options

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from easy to really hard, the first four of which usean automatic gearbox. with the more difficult oneson manual. Actually, there's not much point inplaying it on auto at all (too little to do) but onmanual things warm up a bit. In fact they warm up atrifle too much — fail to change up in lime and yourengine explodes! Vibes! But — and it's a very big'but' — even at the simplest level your motor isdamn near uncontrollable. To even slay on the road(staying in lane is pretty impossible l takes a milliontiny corrections_ So it's totally unlike 'real tile'.

These are, however, but petty crimes comparedto the two main holes in the thing. For a start thereis no real impression of speed — not even a littlebit! Unless you've got your eyes pinned to thespeedometer, it's near impossible to tell how fastyou're meant to be going. The clock will climb fromabout 15 to 105 mph in seconds and suddenly you'llbe going too fast to lake a comer — though it suredoesn't 'feel' like it. Again, totally unlike theexperience of driving a real car, where you onlyneed to check out the speedo occasionally.

And then there's the collision detection. It'shopeless. You'll crash into a cactus when it lookslike it's, ooh. a good 20 feet away. Apparently thecomputer judges whether you'd hit it or not withinthe next frame of animation or something andfreezes you there, which leaves the offending obiectsitting there smugly. miles from your bonnet. Howfrustrating.

And that's it really, I keep going back to the gamethinking it can't be that bad. Maybe I've lust beenunfair. Maybe, once you gel into it, after you've gotused to all the frustrating peculiarities and teamedjust how tar from the other cars you need lobe, it allewes to life and becomes playable_ After all, the 16bit Test On we took a bit of getting used lo. But Idoubt it. If you're buying a racing game thisChristmas there must be at least seven better waysto spend your cash_

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Davey Are you fatigued byfatuous lighting games?Shattered by all those mindlessshoot-'em-ups? Doh no,

missus! Well, don't get hispherical! (Groan!Et1)• Cos here. bra refreshing change, isone of those games that places its emphasismore on the ol' grey matter between yourears than the red button on the end of yourjoystick. Yep, its Spherical!

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SMART POTIONThis, on them ode mvernacular , isw hat we'd call asm ar t bomb, so,er, basically Itper forms thesame function.Col lect it bymoving over theicon, Use it bypressing 'nine!on the keyboard.

EXTRA ENERGYYou'll have toguess w hat thisone does 'cosI 'm keepingmum!

SPARKLER Thi sbaby gives youthe Str ider -typedroid. It circlesyou and wipesOut any baddiesIt touches. Butremember , allgood thingsm ust come to anend! I Ther e'sa time limit!)

POISON Touc hthis at your peril!It'l l take awayyour brick-bui lding ability.

FREEZEPOTION Thi sfreez es most otthe movingnasties, but becareful not tofreez e anybaddies whichblock your route!

ANTI GRAVSom etim esyou'l l have alevel where theexi t is above thesphere! Butdon't despair ,*cos byoper ating thisicon, you'l lreverse thegravity a n dinver t thescreen! Someanti grays needto be used morethan once to getthe sphere upone side of anobstacl e andthen dow n theother !LAMP Thi s iconwill give yourchar acterimmuni ty fromall those energyz appingthingies!

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FA CUP Wel l I tlooks a bit like It!Anyway, thistr anspor ts youto a warp level!These are welltricky, butcom pl ete oneand you'll bem oved onseveral levets asa reward!

DOOR AND KEYGet key Icon andthe doors of thesam e colour willdisappear .

WAND Hur r ah!No probs if youget one of theseon your screen,'cos it'll get youstraight on tothe next level!

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and its been programmed by Probe Software, theguys behind Firebird's Mr Hell. It's also similar toRepton Mania, which Marcus rated a hot 88* in ourJune issue, but, whereas that game boasted itscutsie croc in casual wear, Spherical leans moretowards the Gauntlet-type scenario and characters.

Basically. you play this sort ol wizard chap. Youand a friend have ventured into this castle whensuddenly. FULATCH!. your chum gets turned into asphere! Blimey! A hasty exit is recommended, butthings aren't quite that simple 'cos you have to clearthe way for your rotund amigo to roll clear at thetraps and pitfalls between you and the exit!

Your wizardly powers enable you to add orsubtract bricks and you can also collect variousicons, including good and bad polions.gems andeven a Sfrutergype droid thing that circles yoursprite and kills the monsters! There are BO (!) levelsin all, each comprising a single screen ot increasing

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complexity, not to mention a secret extra len levelswhich you can access via a codeword received fromother icons! If you choose the two player game,then you won't recognise it. 'cos guess what!?There are only 80 completely new levels in thatmode too! And, true to lorm. these are cunninglydesigned so that they can only be completed byboth players co-operating! (I knew all thosemornings spent watching Sesame Street wouldcome in handy one day!) Sometimes you have toget the sphere to the exit, other tunes you have tokill a monster. These can be huge. and explodequite nicely when bashed over the tome severaltimes by the afteementioned Moil!

But what you'rt really going to need here is quickthinking! Al the start at a level you have 20 secondsbefore the sphere starts rolling. The first thing youmust do is to ensure that the sphere is sate. 0 you'reat the bottom of the screen, and the ball is poised

another 'har d to see• scr een.ikkii•access passw or d.the unr oned scrol l 'cos you'l l ge t

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over a trap at the lop, then some bloom niftyblock-building is required el pronto! (Fortunately.there's an option for you to practice this!) As thelevels progress. there are bigger monsters andmore complicated problems to pit your wits against.You'll get skull-shaped doors that need to beremoved by collecting the appropriate coloured keyicon, and all manner of energy zapping creatures toimpede your passage. ( 0o-erl Ed) You've got a longway to go and absolutely yonks of puntinggameplay ahead of you. And with the very differenttwo player interactive option it's like two games forthe price alone. er, too, so you'll gel your money'sworth and no mistake!

And that, in a nutshell, is that! A wizard gameabout wizards, balls monster squashing (orblocking) and problem solving. II your mind isgetting jealous of all the exercise your trigger lingeris getting, then check out Spherical!

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possible on various compilations. And herewe are — six utterly ancient games in onecomplete pack. Bargain or what?Personally, I think not.

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WontlerboyThis is actually the best of the bunch. You areWonderboy and your girlfriend seems to have beenkidnapped by an evil king. So oll you must gothrough seven monochrome, multiload, horizontallyscrolling landscapes to rescue her, lumping overvarious deadly noshes. such as snails, and pickingup vital life-saving equipment like bananas. But theaction doesn't stop there. Oh ho no! Magic eggs canalso be collected, giving you special weapons like agun. And though the scrolling may be a bit jerkythere's still a lot of tun left in this old nugget. It's thebest game in Me pack, and, blow me down with aleather, if it's not on this month's YS Smash Tapetoo. Blimey!'89 Rating:85'

Back To The FutureA total waste of tape. You are Marty Maly andyou've been whisked back to 1955 where you needto get your parents to tall in love. You do this byzooming around on your skateboard, playing theguitar a bit and reading a few love poems via lots oficons at the top.

Gripping stuff, eh?'89 Rating: 30'

QuartetWonder if this is any good? Well. it's not too bad.Then again, it's not too good either. Bull suppose...(Get on with it! Ed) You and your chum fly along thishorizontally scrolling shoal-'em-up, killing baddiesand defeating an end-of-level nasty to get a key sothat you can get on to one of the next 99 levels, Lotsof mega-weapons and bonuses can be picked upthroughout. naturellement, to help you on your way.

I suppose in 1986 when this was first released itseemed quite good. But now, boy has it aged.Compared to today's hits, like Forgotten Worlds, itseems jerky, colourless and really ratheruninteresting. Sorry. but I didn't really like it.Next.'89 Rating: 51r

-A rolling stone is worth two in the bush".

they say — and this is no exception. Shoe'that big thing to your left to get the keywhich'i l get you on to the next level1 hurrah).

AliensYou've seen the film, you've read the book andyou've pickled the onion — so now play the gameOr don't as the case may be.

It's got fancy 'first person perspective' graphics— but playability? I was bored before it'd evenloaded. You switch control between six crewmembers who walk around this base on somedeserted planet. and you must try to get eachperson to this chamber where they'll be safe.

Just avoid the alien and that's it! lumme.'89 Rating: 40-The EidolonThis one's pretty weird. The instructions make nosense whatsoever (perhaps because I was readingthe French ones), but basically you wander aroundthese 30 caves shooting fireballs at goblins andcollecting jewels. Collect them in the right orderthen you can kill the end-of-level dragon and go onto the next boring level. Groan.

I'd forget this one completely if I were you...'89 Rating: 35-GhosibustersBlimeyi This one's so old you could fry an egg on it1984, I believe, 'us quite a simple game. Buy a car,equip it with as many hoovers and toasters aspossible (to catch the ghosts), then drive aroundbusting all the ghosts. Once a ghost-intectedbuilding has been located, you can drive to it withan overhead view of your car sucking up spookieson the way. Once you're there then it's just a matterof dropping a trap and, with some carefulmanoeuvnng of your gun (parp), catching theblighter.

Continue this, make enough money 'til you canafford to battle old Marshmalty himself, and voila.Hmmm. It may be old, but if you can tight your waythrough the dinosaurs then it's not that bad.'89 Rating: 60-

See th, W e l l , it , t hienbe tw e e n the two lines of fire then you canactivate the trap w hi chl i hold him forever.Yeah!

Well, there you go. Not really very good, is it I ntact, I'll go as tar as to say that its almost a totaldisaster. Apart from Wonderhoy and Ghost bustetsnone ol the games are really worth having at all.Sorry, but you'd be better flushing your money downthe too than spending it on this.

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Ghostbusters IIActivisionGhostbustersi (Thegame, not the film.) Itsold like hot cakes!Apparently Activisionshifted two million of tilt.,blooming things, whichcertainly set a fewrecords, and leaves itwith something to aimfor this year. Because,es, it's Ghostbusters,me again, with the new

novie and the Speccyonversion due forimultaneous release at'r-le start of December.

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working fromstoryboords of the filmrather than the actualTriviaShadesWhat's this all about then? A newlabel called Shades? Well, noactually, it's simply a new publishinglabel from one of our favouritesoftware houses, Grondslam. AndTrivia is to be its first 'release.

Based on the ol' pub-style triviaquizzes (y'linow, those slot machinesthat you bung 'cods of dash into justso you can get asked stupidquestions like what is the gestationperiod of o pig), Trivia is a oneplayer game in which you have to

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answer loads of stupid triviaquestions (like what is the gestationperiod of a pig) agoinst the dock,ond for free' (Well, alright then.E6.99 actually.) Questions are basedan those hoary old subjects, art,literature, leisure, sport andentertainment, so all you hove to dois swot up on your EncyclopediaBritannica and get going.

Trivia will be in your shops as youread this, priced at E6,99 oncassette and E9.99 on disk. Check itout, it'll save you spending poundsdown the pub.

to collect a sample ofslime, the 'Statue ofLiberty' bit where thefamous statue comes tolife, ond the final battleagainst the evil Vigo.We'll have a full reviewnext issue.

Trivia

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Action Covistdown ColosseumsAction Countdownlasts(Toposoffl Its a Spanish company! Itproduces budget games! And it'srather good! You may rememberEllackbeard, Colosseum and Titanicfrom relatively recently. Well, nowKizz is releasing a compilation ofnine of its games, including the threejust mentioned, for a not-to-be-sniffed-at E9.99 (E14.99 disk).There's a pinball game in there,racing games, shoot•'em-ups, beat.'am-ups _ It's got the loll Look outfor it very, very soonl

rather bizarre name forits soccer coin-op earlierin the year — so nowActivision is stuck with it.The boot-sem-up actionis of the overhead viewsort, and is based on an11 team OlympicChallenge rather thanprofessional football.Watch out for it verysoon at £999.

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Fallen AngelScreen 1This is Screen 7's latest offering —horizontal beat-rein-up with a twist.And what's the twist? Well, only thatit's set in a series of differentunderground train systems aroundthe world, that's all! Quite howthey'll come up with a watertight plotto hold that little lot together wecan't imagine but the London Tube,Paris Metro and New York Subwaybackdrops should be fun_ Anyway,it's due out in November.

BoboinfogroonesOo la lal Theeze crazy Frenchll Theycertainly know their onions when itcomes to converting wacky galliccartoon characters! We're sure Tintinwho everyone's heard of) will be a

big hit, but who on earth (well, inEngland) has ever heard of Bobo?No one in this office, sure as oeufs isoeufsl

Anyway, Bobo is o Europeancomic character, a prisoner who'salways trying to escape from jail, butwho's so useless he never quitemakes it, The game is on episodiclittle number, with some boringsounding but, we're ossured, quiteinteresting tasks to perform, Forinstance, in one, Bobo is the food

Turbo Turbo OutitunUS GoldUS Gold — whop a sneaky bunch,eh? They kept mum for ages andages about what their Christmasbiggie was going to be — but nowthey've (officially) announced it, andblow us all down if it isn't anotherracing game! The follow-up to thegreat grand-cloddy of all racinggames in fact. it's Turbo OutRuni(What a surprise.) You drive o Ferrari°gain of course (this time a so-rorti-i t- doe s n ' t- a c tuo l tr e x is i t o p e n - to p p e dF40) in o four slog. rood race acrossAmerica. You battle with Porsches,police cars and other rood usersthrough deserty bits, snowy bits (youcon choose special tyres if need be)and so on, with some pretty niftynight sequences promised too_ Alimited number of turbo-boosts (a laChose HQ) and a choice of manualand auto georboxes keep thingsmoving apace. The whole

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monitor of a lunch holt Trouble isthere ore too many fellow convicts toserve, so everything collapses intochaos Another has him spud-bashing, but there are too manypotatoes so everything collapses intochaos. Then there's the mopping-the-prison-floor bit, but everyone keepswalking all over the nice wet lino, soeverything collapses into chaos.Eventually, Bobo succeeds inescoping ltivrrahll, but now he's gotto get away by running along the topof electnc train cables la neat trick ifyou can do it) without getting friedby the pulsating current! (Vikest)Bobo sounds definitely weird,possibly quite sponky and willhopefully be out by Christmas! Sacrableu!

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Dr Doern's Re v e ngeEmpireThwipl (That's a Spidermon web linenoise.) Sptongl (That's a CaptainAmerica shield noise.) Zopowl(That's a general, all-purposesuperhero noise.) Yep, not only is theevil Doctor bock, he's brought histwo superhero chums tool Dr Doom'sRevenge is an interactive adventure,comic book)' in style, with each'page' showing Cap and Spideyprogressing through Doom's castletowards the great man himself.Along the way the web slinger andthe 'star spangled champion ofjustice' (we just mode that one up)must fight Doom's evil pals, such ashis electric-bolt-firing churn Electro,chubby chum Rhino, chopping chumMachete and his, arm, other chumHob Goblin. There are 30 arcadesequences, various difficulty levels,and it comes with loads and loads ofauthentic Marvel comicparophomalia, including a freecomic, a detailed manual withcharacter biographies and all sorts.At C9.99/C14.99, it looks likeEmpire could be on to o winner here,

Tintin On TheMoonInfogramesThundering typhoonsand blistering barnacles!Tintin, the most famousjunior reporter the worldhas ever known, is aboutto hit our Specciescourtesy of Frenchsoftware houseInfogrames.

Yup, ol' Tintin, he ofthe pale blue jumpers,fetching plus-fours, cutecow lick and 60th, yes60th, birthday, will befeaturing on ourSpeccies next month,complete with chumsSnowy, CaptainHaddock, ProfessorCalculus and TheThompson Twins.

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comic book of the samename, Tintin On TheMoon takes the form ofan arcade adventure inwhich Tintin and chumsblast off in a spacerocket and attempt tomake the first landing onthe moon. Before theycan reach theirdestination though thefirst hove to steer theirrocket through anarcadey asteroid sectionas well as put out firesstarted by saboteurs in aplatform and ladderysection.

Tintin On The Moonwill be blasting off fromits launch pod anyminute now. Watch outfor a full review nextissue. Five.., four...three._ two...

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PictionaryDomarkIfs just as well a picture paints athousand words 'cos in Picrionary,the next release on offer fromDome& painting worth is the nameof the game.

This is the latest game crazesweeping Americo. It takes the formof a board game that's played in asimilar way to charades — onlyinstead of acting out a word or title,you and your chums must guess thevarious words by sketching out cluesfor each other! Oh, ho, ho, you'rethinking — we con't do that on ourSpeedos, not without a special grafixpackage at any rate. So what's thepoint of converting it when we canplay it ourselves with pen andpaper!? Becouse, Spec-chums,Domork has incorporated oninnovative grafix package into theconversion, so not only do you get toplay the game on computer, but olsoto draw on computer too using solid,broken and dotted lines, rectangles,circles, elipses ond any number of fillpatterns to boot.

Pictionory promises to bea hoot by the look of things —especially if you're a bit crap atdrawing. Watch out for it, it shouldbe ready for your palette POW

RiskVirginYou must've played Risk in itstraditional form Las a board game)before now. Its the one in whichyou've got a big mop of the worldand have to try taking over the entireplace building armies, fortifyingdefences and trying to outfox youropponents. So yes, you'd be right inthinking there is a foir amount ofstrategy involved. Anyway, thecomputer version ollows you to playagainst the computer or up to fivefriends, includes large scrolling mapsand a gamesove facility. Available onthe Leisure Genius label at £9.95cassette, £14.95 disk in Ncyvernber, itwould make the ideal Christmaspresent_ (That's what they told us tosoy, anyway.)

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It's fa H A S furious. W E R DRIFT!Choose from twelve wacky drivers, like Jason the Skinhead orJeronimo the Mohican and rev your way through 27 stomachchurning circuits!Watt% the dust fly and - 4 3'Nair coaster track and wave goodbye to your opponents!

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Roar over mounds of mud, drive through the desert, slip 'n' slideon snow-covered tarmac and race your way through the nightto face the final lap!CAREFUL! Power Drift is no easy ride!If you're heading for a collision hold onto your seat and enjoythose 360 degree spins before you bump Wick dfown to eafth I ,Burn some rubber, put your footto the floor and Krearn bickthe winning post!!

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-,4xperience the white-knuckledrealism of a supersonic dogfightat home! Using your heat-seeking missiles and laser anti-

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On beat , d es t r o yed ,the evil Shogun Molina' used allhis mystic powers to transporthimself through time andestablish a new empire oftyranny in modern dayManhattan In fear of Kunitoki'sgrowing powers, the arcanegods used all their wisdom tobring you, the Last Ninja, across

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The s t famoussports c e comes toyour home computer screenwith this exciting simulationof the 24 hour Le Mans race.World enduranceChampionship sports carsbattle through day and nightsequences where bothstrategy and driving skills arerequired to take the winner'slaurels. This stimulatingchallenge inspired byXonami's sit in drivingsimulator reproduces all theelements at the famous racewith every twist and turn ofthe track.

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Skillful programming hastaken the superb graphicsand addictive game play ofthe monster Arcade hit andfaithfully reproduced it inhome computer versions.Join in deadly combat with tiesavage street gang of theinfamous Shadow Boss. Usewhatever weapons come tohand as you pursue the gangthrough the slums, factories,and wooded ouniterts of thecity to reach the BlackWarrior hideout, for the finalconfrontation with theShadow Boss himself

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