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Ba lmora l Gra phics. Ca npnburl. Yd . N1 escapades of the moustachioed pizza-man Spi
Pmorint R e p that addict players so instantly and so fully? 3D
T,YPESEIITING Is it the graphics? Is it the control? Is it the of •
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deals. the missed opportunities and the worst organised
party In the history or the planet, See pe g. 40
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Spectrum Holobyte's Falcon 3 boasts a
3D topogr aphic landscape, gi vi ng i t one
of the most realistic com bat envir on-
ments in which to fly. The added fact of
the Electronic Battlefi eld System
enabling players w i th for thcom i ng
Spectrum Holobyte titles to appear in
each other's games makes it possibly
one of the most i m por tant devel op-
ments in simulation gam es for a ver y
long time. See Page 32
T A K E Y O U R P K K 1• Thisre n t month
games sees
sceneACEandcovering both theof
the possibilities cur-
future technology in as comprehensive way as possible. The issue has a
heavy games bias this time, w ith thorough features on Mario, Captain
Planet Air Duel and Falcon 3. There's a full thirty-fi ve pages of games
reviews inc luding Space Que s t IV, Gods, Al i e n S torm a nd Fish!. But te c h
fans need not worry, as w e've assembled a free supplement 100% dedi-
cated to CDTV, Virtual Reality, and Full Motion Video. And there's even a
breakdown of those over-used and over complicated terms attached to
each. And why the decision to opt for this dangerously exciting mixture?
I t s all part of our never-ending quest to provide our readers with the ulti-
features
mate monthly guide to Advanced Computer Entertainment.
18 CAP TAI N PLANET
Mindscape is currently putti ng together two
versions of the exploits of the new mean green
titte Etat fighti ng machine. We talk to the programmers
of both and ask the folks as Mindscape about
their hopes for the product.
22 S O N Y ON CD
ACE talks to Sony US regarding their not-entire
ly half-hearted entrance into the CD arena.
24 SUPER MARIO WORLD
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*hat the White Super Mario World on t he Super Famicom is
ptesented In an holds.
sy- possibly the most playable game in the world.
After literally months of play, we feel ready to
offer our opinions as to the very essence of its
greatness.
32 FALCON 3
For those of you who like your flight Sims realis
tic, Spectrum Hol obyte are keen to cater for the
Space Quest IV • Roper Wilco a nd the
rinse Rumors. S ierra's • acellent most demandi ng of tastes, wi th Falcon 3 boast
graphics are employed in their most ing a topogr aphi c landscape as well as a host of
depthy ewe/ tricky adventure yet. Sas
the r e s t.w on page SO. ot her state-of-the-art features. Ho w did they
do it?
39 RE TURN OF THE CONFERENCE!
If you've ever wondered exactly how a s of t ware
company works. youl l be keen to take us up on
our offer to visit a Major Firm and talk to the
bosses and the programmers.
40 ECTS SHOW REPORT
We report from this year's computer trade
show wher e the industry folk have been decid
ing what you'll be playing this Christmas.
44 A I R DUEL
Glyn Williams mul ti -cr aft fli ght game promises
to offer players all-out flying action, wi th the
emphasis on the thrills and spills of heroic acro
batics and far less gametime wasted on tog
gling flaps and avoiding heat currents. Sounds
like a good deal t o us.
REGULARS
7 A C E GAMES NEWS
The Blues Brothers, Cy ber Fight, Sonic the
Hedgehog, Bat t let oads and the Addams Family.
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settles, the ruins of the old prison comes to life. In an ironic twist of fate, Alcatraz is
now the hide out of an evil drugs cartel, led by Miguel Tardiet, its cruel and callous
chief. A s a crack commando you a r e a bout t o undertake t he m os t perilous a nd
daring mission ever. Your ta s k - penetrate t h e is la nd o f Alcatraz a n d c a ptur e
Tardier.. I f you fa il t he State Department will simply deny any knowledge of your
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 Cyber Fight
From Polverdrorne author Michael Powell comes
Cyber Fight (working title), a release with spec-
tacular 31) graphics which Electronic Arts spec-
ThcChaos Engine
ulates is the first 'Virtual Reality combat game.
Wiii the next Biimap
Brothers game be an object Set in the future, Cyber Fight is the name of an
lelson in bendy mothensai- arena-based sport. Five player-controlled con-
ks? Find out next month._
testants do battle in mighty exo-skeletal fight-
ing machines. Before combat commences, you
I R ikHaynesmeetstheworld'sfastestsprite... must arm your Cyber Fighter with sledge ham-
mers, rotary cannons, wire-guided bazookas or
nuclear warheads. The variety of Cybernetic
combat enhancements include radar vision

The Blues Brothers invisibility fields and battle computers. Gravity,

friction, inertia and elasticity all influence the
combatants as they run, jump and fly through
six battle arenas.
You will soon be able to relive the cult comedy capers of
Once victorious, you're able to scavenge the
Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi when Titus unleashes a
remains of your computer- or human-con-
computer game inspired by the utterly brilliant Blues
Brothers movie. trolled opponent for the spoils of war. You can
trade this junk for better hardware. Cyber Fight
Follow Jake and Elwood, the all-time Rhythm 'n• Blues
features one- or two-player action via split-
faithfuls. as they prepare to conquer the stage once screen or datalink.
more. The game includes over 200 different scenes of
The 3D can't fail to impress. Light-sourced
gameplay and the original Blues Brothers' soundtrack.
and Gouraud shading software technology
Titus declares this piece of interactive entertainment
accurately model metallic surfaces and particle
is an explosive blend of action, comedy and music.
models represent smoke, rocket exhausts and
The Blues Brothers game consists of five levels
explosions. The game supports 256-colour VGA
set in department stores, warehouse, prison, sew-
graphics and all major sound boards.
ers and city streets. Jack and Elwood each have
Cyber Fight will be released on PC in the
different qualities related to their physical charac-
autumn, with an Amiga version planned for
teristics. Thus lean and lanky Elwood can
later in the year. Cyber Fight is the most exciting
jump higher whilst Jack can thread his
release from EA since Powermonger - except for
way through certain places more easily
Birds of Prey of course!
thanks to his smaller, albeit fatter, size.
Michael Powell and Glyn Williams, author of
Your enemies flee in fear as soon as Jack grabs a
Warhead and Air Duel, are apparently good
microphone or Elwood hoots on his harmonica. The
mates. Turn to page 44 to find out more...
dynamic duo can also fly once they've found some bee
outfits!
Rolling, rolling, rolling, keep those doggies
moving...

Mirrorsoft and Acclaim Get Together

Mirrorsoft and Acclaim Entertainment from the
USAhave agreed that Imageworks will market
and distribute popular Acclaim titles through-
out Europe and Australasia under the Acclaim
and LIN labels.
Acclaim Entertainment, I n c i s a mo to r
American Nintendo publisher and has either
released or is currently developing NES and
Gameboy titles based around The Simpsons,
Terminator 2, Nam Total Recall and A Nightmare
onElmStreet to name but five. No details of the
agreement or games affected have emerged
thus far. Meanwhile..,
As exclusively reported in the last issue of
ACE. Mirrorsoft has finally announced it has
the worldwide home computer, console and
handheld rights for the Alien science-fiction
movie from 20th Century Fox. Interestingly, the
firm is still keeping tight-lipped about owning
the CD game rights. Mirrorsoft has decided to
go for the Lucasfilm Games approach to this
license and will release both an arcade and
adventure title o n Amiga, ST and P C The
games will be available early next year to coin-
cide with the European cinema release. Alien
stars Sigoumey Weaver and Charles Dance, and
has been directed by the geezer responsible for
those raunchy Madonna music videos. The
movie i s currently i n post-production a t
Pinewood Studios. And why not?

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 Indiana Jones 4
Is Lucashim Games trying to persuade
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas into
doing a fourth Indiana Jones action movie?
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is
superficially based around a comic doing the
rounds in Forbidden Planet and Virgin
Megastores. Again, Lucasfilm Games is work-
- ing on adventure and action titles - both due
LGOLF-BALL-ISTIC for release in November. The PC adaption of
-Micropose has taken a bleak
horn basheig the commies in
Indy 4 will feature full 256-colour VGA graph-
ics with stirring tunes blasting out of your
Rhelicopter gunships and
AdUb soundboard. Sadly. there's still no
1stealth fighters to s%wng-out
veal 'what MN be one of the n NS on that new Indy movie.
1most realistic god games on
The market' Lip to tour play-
•ers can play six chattenging
1courses in 30 God tworlong
title? Four ot these are accu-
1rately mapped from reat-ide
Their Finest Hour
1and to appreciate the con-
tours of the land the view Take to the skies again with this add-on
1changes to a tottowon cam- datadisk for Their Finest Hour: The Battle Brit i
era which tracks the gaff-baits of Britain historic air combat elm from
1het. 3D Golf will Molly be Batt
Lucasfilm Games and US Gold. For E15.99
1avaitabte on ST in the sum gam
me,. An n a and PC versoons you get new missions and a chance to fly Trac
1wit frillew late some first-rate aircraft from the early part and
=,t I ihn e of World War Two. Batt
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Sonic Is Seized
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Just when the boss thought it As Saga's crack cutie game appears on the Megadrive, US Gold has Mo
was safe to buy you that new secured the home computer rights to Sonic the Hedgehog. The deal Jim]
PC comes yet another infuri- comes as little surprise in the light of the Birmingham-based firm's wit t
atingly addictive puzzle on-going agreement to convert Sega coin-ops like G ther
game destined to stop all -
Amiga. ST and PC. Chh
work for at least two hours L Sonic
o c othev Hedgehog
e r twas othe 'darling'
t of
h thee influential Winter
per day. With Shanghai II: Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. with many
Dragon's Eye from Activision veteran designers and players saying it was the best arcade platform
Look N ilo IS .thragon's my. w i th S tlanyhBi
you can experience the game they'd ever seen. Some even went on to say Sonic beats the
intrigue and strategy of this best-selling Super Mario Bros games from Nintendo. MOR
oriental game enhanced with new tile layouts, animation and sound. 'What we've created is a delightful little fellow whose unique per- LiK a
Store
effects. As you master Shanghai 11, you earn the right to take-on the sonality explodes with every minute of gamepiay," says Sega. 'You're
secite
challenge of Dragon's Eye - a game of placing and blocking tiles against probably wondering how Sonic got his name. Mon
the computer. Shanghai IL Dragon's Eye will soon be available on Amiga, Well, our little friend's uttra-sonic run- ciner
ST and PC. ning and jumping abilities are awk
guaranteed to bust the sound puzz
wil
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Tetris open. As a
matter of
fact, to the
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French creator of knowledge, a v ir
Captain Blood and there is no other rete6
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199.
run out of new in existence that
men
ideas? "Like a good compares to
old film that you Sonic's mind-bog-
love to see over and gling pace."
over again,” so the No release date
sales-pitch goes, has been set for the
"Tetris will be again computer versions,
on the shelves to though Sonic the
complete your pri- Hedgehog should be
vate software available on the
INNIN days aro kora again
library." I wonder how much money Soviet Megadrive as you read
programmer Alexel Palitnov is making from this, Happy
this re-release deal? Hedgehogingl

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The Pay Off I -
This one is for anybody who hasn't had
enough Cadaver lately. The Pay Off is an
extra levels datadisk for Cadaver whic h c on
sists of four more levels with about 200 new
rooms to explore. All this can for yours for
only E14.99 on Amiga and ST. Renegade
Software told us that while the Bitmap
-a
Brothers' Philip Wilcox, Steve Kelly, Dan CRAZY CARS 01
Malone and Mike Montgomery were working The second title in this series
on the original game. local council workers of rioting racing garnet has
sokl over 300,000 copies
digging in the street outside their Wapping worldwide. The Titus team
offices unearthed a real Cadaver.., a mum- hopes to do better with
mified 16th Century corpse! C r a r y Car s I I I _

Battletoads game s hould be ready f or Chris t mas and a

British garners can look f orward t o play ing
Battletoads, t h e s mas h h i t 12-lev el NE S
game, n o w t h a t T h e Sales Cu r v e a n d
Tradewest hav e signed a j o i n t publis hing
and development agreement. "Compared t o
liattleloads." s ugges t s t h e Tex as -bas ed
Tradewest, 'Turtles seem like pond scum."
Other Tradewest NES titles to be converted
to 16-bit computer formats and published on
the Storm label inc lude Double Dragon
The Rosetta Stones licensed f rom Technos in
Japan, Asylum and Solar let man: Hu n t f or
the Golden Warship.
Martial art s bruis er brot hers B i l l y a n d
Jimmy are bac k i n a 14-level beat ' em-up
with Double Dragon I ll. Th e i r quest t ak es
them t hrough fi v e mis s ions i n Americ a,
China, Japan, Italy and Egypt. The computer
Double Dragon mov ie is c urrent ly scheduled
to be released early nex t year. Asylum is a
f rom Regis t ered Ni n t e n d o Dev eloper t o
European Nint endo Licensee, enabling The
Sales Curv e t o publis h Nint endo s of t ware
"t op v i e w t hree-play er int erac t iv e h e a v y on its St orm label t hroughout Europe. Just
met al f a n t a s y a c t i o n a d v e n t u r e c o i n - o p in t ime for 1992!
licensed f rom the Leyland Corp." Phew!
Old Spectrum players will be pleased to see
the ret urn of the madc ap hero of Ultimate's
letpac game in Solar Ielman. The very astute
Ult imat e t eam moved onto produc ing games
for t he Nint endo console bef ore a n y ot her
European dev eloper had even heard o f t he
beast. Th e y ev en managed t o ma k e s ome
extra cash by selling t heir brand-name to US
Gold. That's why they're called Rare now. I n
the game. Jetman mus t use his pod and pac
to ex plore 12 alien planet s i n his quest t o
fi nd and rebuild the Golden Warship.
The Sales Curv e is n o w look ing t o put it s
chart-busting S Wi t i s hool' em up o n t o t h e
Megadrive and Super Famic om consoles. The Tradavemi says compared to B a tt:a tom ic M attes loom like
south-London fi r m wa s rec ent ly promot ed pond • t u n t

MOPEMONKEV BUSINESS
Laraifilm Games in the
Slates is curretirh devising a
sequeito the Secret of
Monkey Island, The original
drwmatk athentate featured
aMde variety o f entertaaning
puzzles.Chuck's Revenge
will te here in early 1992.
RAMPARTS
ThisTenger' coin-op takes
. •a • T •
vwhere)041 play a I t a r i a )
ogame of castles, banks and
uwaren attacks.Damask is
is it .bir d ? Is it a plans !Is i t the follow- kip to the Lotsis E sprit
Ch al l o n g s?
The Addams family I URFLE SHELL-OUT
As Teenage. Mutant Nina
Ocean h a s s napped u p t h e c omput er a n d
Turtles 2 shoots to the tap o f
Nintendo game rights to the forthcoming fi lm the US movie charts making
based around the frightful Americ an comedy 510 m illion h i the f o r four
days o f reieasc Minvesoft
TV-series f rom t he sixties. The Addams Family
announces it s pion to COnVert
movie wi l l hav e o n all-new cast inc luding
Konamrs cowabungo coin-op
Anielica Houston and Christopher Lloyd, t he onto Amiga, ST and PC. The
crazy character f rom Taxi and The Rock to the conversion is being handled
Future films. try Probe and will be available
I '.:• • • i f - • I f /
towards the' end cht the pear
1.

Pegasus
bteleasIng Ramparts on the
a
Amigo, ST and PC in January
c2992.Build those bank-
kmenis e l s e
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Gremlin has taken a break from all those rac-
Legend
e ing games to work on Pegasus. a colourful Set in a dark world,
d romp through the six planes of existence. As
i Legend is the next fantasy
e Persius you must collect all the fragments of role playing game from
v some crystals before Satan takes total con- Tog, the programming
a trol of your mortal world. Each level is split M irrorvatt be lie v e s Lag• nri
l be r m ", a laodmoric team behind Bloodwych.
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Into two stages. The first has you flying with program The game itself is split between 2D views
i Pegasus. collecting crystals and killing crea- depicting locations in the k ingdom and an iso-
m tures to survive. Then you run, jump and fight
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metric-3D display during the dungeon
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your way across land before battling the end- sequences. imagework s is int roduc ing Legend
of-level demon. Can you save the world? at the end of 1991 on Amiga, ST and PC.

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 Accolade Plays Hardball
Deo
Accolade has officially entered the 16•bit video games market with
yea.
Ballistic, a new label dedicated to producing titles for the Sega Acti
Megadrive, NEC PC Engine and Nintendo Super Famicom. cliff;
The first three Ballistic games will be Hardball, Star Control and
rurrican. These games will each cost £35. 99 and should be In the in a
shops from next month. Titles due on the Super Famicom and PC
Fa s t h a t I P e m e o b a l I t b a s a s a bipl
Engine this year include a gol f sim ti ed into Accol ade's Jack Nicklaus F •5 %ball I S I trample i t
O f f swa m" S t m ba r l A s t l o b M iro Spit
license and a soccer gam e. Ther e may even be som ethi ng on the M a m m a . . t o r e e d h a b l It S u i t Wh
Sega Gamegear colour handheld console before the end of 1991. Fall
cossirtucton
Hardball is the all-time best selling computer baseball simulation aisc
ysrrni .1 h a " decided ro go
with sales of more than 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 units so far. Accol ade infers the
fully 16-bit with this strate- you
gy game. 'Constructor is a Megadr ive version is the very first 8-m egabi t spor ts gam e. Anyway,
ago
massive proJect in every this adapti on has fully digitised speech and sound, num er ous batti ng
rope
Bar
and pi tchi ng options, and a team m anager featur e for total str ategic
-the guys from Pinner in PC
r
Middlesex. 'Take the role of control.
o land
a f developer, pitching Star Contr ol (which had a m ixed r ecepti on) is a gam e of 'ship-to-
t
your wits against the com- ship combat and galactic conquest'. Accolade maintains this very
h
puter as yOti both strive to
e primitive shoot'em-up represents the industry's very first 12-megabit
capitahse on the buildings
w video game. ACE doesn't know where all the memory has gone, there Aftt
you're are erecting and rent-
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ing out. Constructor brings
r
you face to face with a ll the Tgrrican is a futuristic arcade-action game originally released on TI
d
corruption associated with computer format by Rainbow Arts. This cart is packed with multiple
.
being
r a big time pmperty
levels and special effects such as water falls, stor m s and thunder . Ghc
tycoon_
e - There doesn't seem
to Accolade has also announced a Eur opean distr ibution deal w i th tho
c be a Ninia in sight!
k I ntr acor p/ Capstone, the American publisher of quite a few movie and and
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Accolade says
TI
m ent includes such titles as the old cops •n• robbers television show " M o ws Ta ma bet
Hardball is the
Ca l
Miami Vice and the off-beat movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Mona. fi rst iernergebit Eur
Vr e sports game On Suz
Adventur e. Di dn't Ocean ow n the r ights to this film? the M egadrive
Fi

Graham Gooch WC in f.
cot
Cricket sla

Those hazy, crazy, That's Illogical the

lazy days of sum- Guess what? Yet another one of those arcade
Su
mer are almost puzzlers is coming your way. German soft- ch;
here... and so ware house Rainbow Arts describes Logical difi
is that as a truly skillful and thrilling game. This fiei
Graham

2;421441Rssi
brain teaser has 100 levels, four different
Gooch cricket pit,
backdrops and a construction kit for further ski
game. mind twisters. Tads has a lot to answer for! Ra
Audiogenic mu

and spruced up
has dusted off
the source code -
Manchester ad
of'
ne
the graphics of this
classic sports sim and
United
' Europe ,stz
crt
released it onto the Amiga. ST and PC under
the gr andiose ti tl e of Graham Gooch Wor ld The t e a m m a y h a v e l os t t h e Rum be l ow s
Class Cricket. The original GG's Test League Cup l ast month, b u t t ha t hasn't
Cricket was released in 1985 and has sold stopped Krisalis f r om l aunchi ng a second
soccer sim based ar ound Manchester United.
over 60, 000 copies. Audiogenic asserts the
new version is the ultimate cricket simula- The first game was released in February 1990
tion. "All the features you could ever imag- and ha s n o w sol d ov e r 110. 000 copies.
ine along with incredible animation make Manchester Uni ted Europe takes t he t e a m
this the most exciting cricket game of all Into the European ar ena of club knockout competitions featuring
time - even if it rains." The European Cup. European Cup Winners Cup and UEFA Cup. The
game also includes the opportunity to play in the European Super BACK TO THE FAMICOM
Cup and the World Club Championship held each year those guys at Mirr000b just
won't stay still. Ecseco
The fi rst in l apan. Krisalis took onboar d the constructive ideas
M anchester U nited Industries in Japan is now
and suggestions fr om over 3000 reply cards and has converting Miworsofn Bock
garret has sold over
i l e g g e copies completely r ewor ked t h e or i gi nal footbal l ga m e . to the Future Part 2 com-
Manchester United Europe incorporates a combi nati on puter game onto the
Nintendo Super lamicorn.
of management and arcade acti on - al ong wi th ful l The film hos Become one of
goal-keeper contr ol a nd one t o four pl ayer options. the highest grossing in the
According to Krisalis, Manchester United is the biggest hisrory of Japanese cinema
brand-name i n sport. Wha t di d ever happen to that
Liverpool game from Ocean?

1 0 ADV ANCE D COIVIPUTER ENTERTAINMENT

 Death Or Glory
Death or Glory lets flight-sim fans reenact 76
years of air combat drama courtesy of
Activision. You're able to choose between 12
different warplanes, each based around a
NASA fl ight physics model, and fly a mission
in any one of six eras. Go for Sopwith Camel
biplane from World War One or jump into a
Spitfire and dogfight a Messerschmidt 109.
Why not try a bombing run through the
Falklands in a Sea Harrier? Death or Glory DROP S OLDIE R
Up to 16 players can form a
also incorporates a 'What If?' feature where
platoon in Dro p Soldier, a
you can pit an F4 Phantom jet-fi ghter futuristic strategy RPC rem-
against a Fokker DR1 fl own by the Red iniscent o f The Forever

Baron. This game should be available for the Wa r novel by toe Halde-
PC in October. man. Set in the distant
future, the drop soldier is a
highly trained combat

Back To The War! trooper equipped with the

latest Irt m ilita ry technok-
gy. including a power suit
After attempts at producing original software, Elite has decided to go which enables the soldier to
back to converting coin-op games onto major home micro formats. run. faster. :rump higher
and cony more t)owerfLa
The West Midlands company achieved great success in the mid-
weaponry Man any ordi-
1980's when its conversions of Paperboy, Space Harrier, nary grunt, Imagewsseks
Ghosts'n•Goblins and Commando hit the top of the charts. Since thinks progmminer Ross
those heady days, Elite has concentrated on console development Goodley has even surpassed
his c r i t k a t h
and games such as Overiander and Gremlins 2.
,
game, Cru e lt y Oro p
The four new titles from Elite, currently scheduled for release a c c r awilt
Soldier lm ebe pub/Is/bed on
between November and Spring 1992, will be 16-bit conversions of dthe PC, Amiga and Sr at
the end o f 1991.
European Championship 1992 (Tecmo), Caveman Ninja (Data East),
Suzuka GP/Winning Run II (Namco) and Edward Randy (Data East). 11 : 0 11 . 1

Alcatraz
Formerly entitled Tecmo's World Cup'90, the first game is a soccer
simulation adapted to tie-in with next summers eagerly-awaited event
in Sweden. i n co-operation with Tecmo, we will be using the source
code and graphic data from the coin-op original to produce a conver-
Infogrames has decided t o produce a sequel
ii sion of the very highest quality.
- Eldritch
p r o the
p o Cat,
s e the
s development team responsible for Shadow of to it s highly successful Hostages game. You
E Beast
the l i andt eLast. Ninja 3. is converting Caveman Ninja. While lead t his c ommando t eam assigned t o cap-
arcade
Suzuka GP/Winning Run II pits driver and car against Japan's world ture a drug tycoon f rom his lair in Alcatraz,
I soft- Son Francisco. The f our hand-pic k ed 'coke- Li
championship circuit at Suzuka. Elite says Edward Randy is a truly
vical busters consist of t wo camoufl aged interven-
This different looking game with fights taking place on the wings of a SIM EARTH
fleet of biplanes as they tion men (equipped wit h knives, cross-bows Prestigious Japanese games
rent and fi re-arms) and t wo crack shots placed on
further pitch and roll all over the developer imagincer
skies. The way Edward the t op o f t he buildings . Alc at raz employ s releasing the Super
rer for! Famicom version o f asp
Randy uses his whip for some novel gameplay where sound is crucial
game, et, extraordinary
moving, balance and as to success or f ailure - you have to av oid the program. Meanwhile. Maxis
a deadly weapon is one slightest s ound so t hat y our t eam won' t be has decided to call the An t
of the reasons why this spotted. During t he game you have to c limb Farm game featured in last
months ACE, Sim An t . You
new Data East coin-op cell walls , destroy t he cocaine stocks wit h a
know it makes sense.
stands out from the fl ame-t hrower a n d search t he pris on f o r a
crowd." helicopter. Alc at raz i s av ailable n o w f o r
Amiga, ST and PC.
'

RBI 2 Baseball
The kind people at Domark are inserting a free' Baseball cap into
every copy of RBI 2 Baseball. Look cool and play hard. This
Amiga, ST and PC conversion of the NES sports game from
Tengen features 26 pro teams with real stats from the 1989 sea-
MOON
son, close-up shots and instant replays of home runs. Th e anima-
vrx)rt i t
iero tion is superb and the action fluid," promises Domark. When in
18 now play, the 'camera' follows the flight of the ball and then zooms to
ott's Back follow your batter's progress from base to base,A radar map at
12 ( m -
the bottom of the screen gives you an overview of how play is pro-
ite
itrolcorn gressing and allows you to decide how far your player should run
owone o f for, or if fielding. which base to throw the ball to." For those of you
9 in the not-in-the-know, RBI stands for Runs Batted In (the number of runs
cinema.
scored as a result of a player's hit, whether they be by him or the
result of getting other players home). The next ACE sports special
will appear shortly...

ADVANCED COMPUTER ESITERTAbNMENT 1 1


EAST GOES E LE CTRIC
Video Salons are the latest
craze in the SeMet Union,
These chic cafes go on 24-
hour auto. play o f the latest
music videos and cheap
Australian soap operas
ditecth
, Meanwhile, punters in
lite
b
Easte Rerlin are buying
surveillance
a m harchecur once
e d by the Secret Police Ire
used
J coders how to animate sprites. design a
dodgy underground sales. I t
n
teems Ole hard-up civil ser-
b fine-tune collision detection.
vants are trading in their
y
Walther PPK pistols and
s gameplay. This educational spin-off will teach
bugging devices for some
a
hard currency. Na credit
i Nintendo games engineers how to code
accepted tier e•rnmradet
e
l ,
Fantastic Voyage On CD
In a follow-up story to our exclusive report last
month, Psygnosis co-founder Ian Hetherington
has told ACE that he now plans to produce
three games based around Psygnosis' revolu-
tionary CD-ROM games system.
"We now have more than one game in pro-
duction," confirms Hetherington, "One of them
is set inside the body in a Fantastic Voyage-style
Are video games bad for your health? Rik game with a working title of Inner Explorer.
Haynes investigates— We're doing fractalised blood vessels. It's all
very abstract, Cathedral-like structures which
you can fly around in with multiple ships
Super Mario School killing rogue viruses and that sort of thing. It's
very go out there and wipe them out.
Obviously, different viruses respond to different
Nintendo is taking no chances with the next generation of game things. One craft is for passing down the blood
designers and programmers. The far-sighted console company has vessels, one is airborne for being in the lungs,
Set-up a school in Tokyo to teach keen and another moves in and out of muscular tis-
sue. Inner Explorer has an educational element
platform game from top to bottom, and because it's spread over a sixty year life-cycle
compressed into something like 10 hours of
The school is appropriately named
Mario and teaches 30 would-be
you about the inner workings of the body."
Psygnosis is also planning to use the 'Fractal
the perfect console game on the Super Engine' CD-ROM software technology on a
Famicom, Gameboy and NES. Literally time-travelling sd-fi game and a pure military
thousands of hopefuls have applied combat product which will use similar imagery
entry. A job at Nintendo is virtually guar- to the Planerside technology demonstration
anteed for the most successful students. revealed in the last issue of ACE.
ACE hopes to visit this school for "The reason we want to do this type of game
games developers soon. Look Out for our is because we know we can run 3D in real-time
exclusive report in a future i ssue_ on just about every CD-ROM machine," estab-
lishes Hetherington. "We can model about

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10,000 polygons on a ship and reduce that to
just 30 polygons which we can plot it in real-
time and draw anything in-between.
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Ubisoft's latest is a departure for the French games developer. Music a

Everything we do now will be window-based, if
Master is a musical studio program for the Amiga, ST and PC where you •••
the processing power is not available the win-
can create and modify your own sound samples and compose muzak. 111111fti -.E
dow shrinks."
'Music Master finally transforms your computer into an actual synthesiz- "The idea is to be on just about everything.
er,' Ubisoft proclaims. The package comes with The investment in the product is so massive
10 ready-made music-tracks, 100 sound FX and that we have to have it on multiple formats.
the capability to integrate its audio into your own Our CD-ROM intentions are to support dedicat-
programs. The Atari ST version is also fully com- ed machines, which are either console-based or
patible with MIDI and the MV16 soundcard used like CD-I and U M , MS-DOS and Macintosh.
by Ubisoft in the game BAT. Anything we design now will work on all these
formats. The implementations will simply vary
Video Seizure according to the capabilities of the individual
machine. These games will have set pieces of
Playing video games could damage your health... if you suffer from photosensitive epilepsy. interactivity, though we're trying for free-for-
The parents of a 15-year-old girl from Michigan in the USA hove filed a law suit against mat gameplay where ever possible. You can
Nintendo, claiming a video game caused an epileptic seizure. The young g irl was playing have both in one product. We should be ship-
Kid Icarus on her NES console when she suffered a seizure states the family lawyer Douglas ping our first CD-ROM product in early 1992."
Webster. "She had a grand mal seizure and was totally unconscious," Webster says, "Her doc-
tor said it was a videogame-induced epilepsy."
Photosensitive epilepsy occurs in approximately 3% of epilepsy patients the US, that's one
in 10,000 of the population. Photosensitive epileptics can suffer seizures after exposure to
flashing lights, television screens and video games.
A healthy girl before the attack, she will now have to take medication for the forseeable
future. The law suit seeks at least $10,000 in damages. Lynne Gray, a spokeswoman for
Nintendo of America, says the company is reserving comment on the case until it has had a
chance to review the lawsuit. Current studies suggest there is no reason to believe videogame
seizure is strictly related to Nintendo product.

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5 end your letters do Jim Douglas Priory Court, 30-32
Faringdon Lane, London, EC1 3AU.
EASYKs
What is it exactly that you have against PCs? I
amtired of reading ridiculous comments like
When was the last time you saw a good shoot-
em-up on the PC?" (ACE 43) or misleading
statements saying that a good games PC costs
several thousand pounds (ACE 44). And then of
course there is the completely incorrect PC inf
nation in the Pink Pages.
Are you afraid that people will realise the PC is
a tually quite cheap and is a far better games
achine than the Amiga. Or What?
My I6MHz 286 has VGA, Monitor, 40Mb hard
skand an MLib sound card, yet it cost me
ss than MO . (And let's face it, nobody who
ays games buys a PC less powerful than that
3 1 ese days).
!
Does £1000 sound like a lot? Well how much
do you think that configuration would cost for an
Amiga? My PC is superior in EVERY way to an
Amiga. and I know what I'm talking about
because I play on one of my friend's Amiga's
every week.
Also, there are plenty of good shoot-em-ups
nthe PC. My own favourites are Thunderstrike,
enoo II and Wing Commander. in particular,
enon ll is so fast as to be completely
nplayable unless I turn off my Turbo switch.
ven then it runs significantly faster than the
miga version.
This proves the statement which you seemed
to ignore in Chris Low's PC Power letter - sheer
p company have no intention of fitting into the final
lrack of hardware sprites.
o !know it must be hard for you Amiga fans to
ciccept that your favourite machine has been
uperseded in every respect, but why don't you
e If not as a single game, then as a compilation,
st stop the sour grapes and accept the fact?
s This point leads on nicely to my second point. I
s M Goodall
i North Yorkshire
n Singleton can create a whole world in 3D with
gWe're far from biased toward the Amiga.
pndeed, we're continually being criticised by
Amiga
o owners for always singing the
raises of machines just like yours. Space
w
Quest IV, one of this month's featured
e
ames is only available on PC at present,
r out of it rather than 3 hours most games offer
rid it's the VGA graphics and excellent
m The 'sneak preview" reviews told us these would
torage capacity of the machine which
omakes it work. And Falcon UI, this
rmonth's cover story no less, is on which
emachine? PC.
t k O VANCED CCAAPUTI • E Nr , Pt iPa d M I ENT
h
However, contrary to your opinions, it is
possible to play excellent games on an
entry level Amiga system (i6 0 0 with a
decent monitor) while by your own
admission, PC owners have to spend at
least £1,000 on an upgraded machine
before they can get started.
And until we see Shadow of the Beast it's
parallax scrolling, graphic definition and
sprite movement on a PC, we'll have to
disagree with your statement about your
machine being superior in every way.
ACE is a multi-format magazine, and
wish individual owners would wake up to the
fact that we are inevitably going to print
favourable opinions about machines other
than their own.
CAUSEFROM
CONCERN
Firstly, !would like to say how much I agreed
with Mr Mussons letter in the april edition, but
perhaps the software companies stand to gain
more than they loose through this practise of
advertising before the game has been
completed. By getting magazines to review unfin-
ished copies, it means that things that the
game can be used to describe it under the label
'specifications subject to change*. This way, it
increases public anticipation, when in reality, the
game might not be as good as promised, thus
falsely boosting sales.
am very disappointed by Anco, and their Kick Off
series. Can someone please tell me how Mike
freedom of movement throughout and yet, after
four versions/updates Anco still cannot provide
visibly different pitches, and hnesonen/refs on a
standard ST?
This relates strongly to my first point. The
adverts for Kick Off 2 showed screen shots
portraying linesmen and different pitch surfaces_
be available. I rushed out t o upgrade to K02
and was disappointed by the results. Now the
Final Whistle is being advertised , and when I
LE TTE R
picked up the box, lo and behold, these features
are still only available on the expanded Amiga.
Something has got to be done about the
standard in the software business. If software
houses lost vast sums when their advertising
went out too early, they would not allow it to hap-
pen. They must be reapons some kind of benefit,
and if it is as I have suggested above, it is a
breech of trust between the companies and
their customers.
R.D. Davies
Nottingham.
Sorry to disappoint you, but the software
industry isn't quite the crooked back-hand
conspiratorial den of iniquity you seem to
think. Early ads and late games are unfortu-
nate accidents, and missing levels/features
are more attributable to lack of time and
memory than a desire to hood-wink
innocent Joe Punter. If you've got a real
greivance, I'm sure Anco would be pleased
to try and sort it out.
CARTTRICKS
On the subject of consoles, !myself own a Sega
Megadrive and a Nintendo Gameboy, and I want
to express my annoyance at the lack of quality
software available for the Megadrive.
Why oh why do Sega insist on churning out
shoot em ups time after time. Don't they realise
that once you've played one or two you've played
them all?
Apart from the high price asked by all the
games manufacturers for megadrive cartridges,
I feel that the originality in games design has
gone down hill. I beliece that the Megadrive is
being sole solely on graphic capabilities and not
To give an example, the best games at the
moment are John Madden's Football and Mickey
Mouse. They both have great graphics and playa-
bility where as Tructon, Demon Wing ect, have
good graphics and that 'played once, put it to
the back of the shelf" type playability.
I feel that games manufacturers could at least
try, why not look at previous games from older
machines and see if they can recreate the great
addictiveness and playability values.
I bet that loads of older games could be "dug
up" updated and re-marketed on the new line of
high quality consoles.
how about a compilation of old ULTIMATE games
or HEWSON games (somebody must hold the
rights, even if the company has gone bust).
I don't expect work to stop on design of new
games or arcade conversions, but I feel there is
a hole in the market where originality and
playability are being left behind. So come on
games manufacturers. Let's go back to the days
when you didn't mind spending x pounds on a
game because you got more than a month's play
these days.
M. Pilgrim
Worksop
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 LETTER
How right you are! We feel there's a lot of
scope for improving and upgrading old clas-
sics to maximize the capabilities of both 16
Bit and console machines. Now there's an
idea for a feature...
THELESS,THE
MORE
I am writing to you about some things I think are
missing from the magazine. I think ACE is ace,
but there are a couple of improvements which
could be made.
1) Please, please, please cut down on the
amount of writing you bung on a review, I love
reading about it but there is far too much to
read. And don't say that I don't have to read it,
because the more writing there is, the more I
want to read about the game.
2) Can you lengthen the letter pages. 3 pages
would be good_
And to finish off my point, can the letter writers favourite film star. Software routines exist
please stop complaining about the mag, It is brill. to take two photographs and deduce the
L McNeill Thus, by taking a range of images of, say,
York Sigoumey Weaver (maybe stored on CD-
Glad to help on one count. You'll have
already realised, rm sure, that letters are
three pages long this month. However, it's
entirely driven by the amount of interesting marauding Aliens side-by-side with Ripley.
correspondence we receive; you write 'em
and well print 'ern
Text in reviews? Well, we feel we've got
the balance pretty much there. Any less and increases as prices drop, it won't be too
we couldn't do the games justice.
ALIEN3-D
During a conversation about VR headsets, a sug-
gestion cropped up regarding VR television.
Imagine that TV pictures were broadcast so that
they could be viewed using the headset. Pictures
would appear in perfect 3D. It would be like actu-
ally being there. Also, using NICAM digital stereo
(of CD quality) it would also sound realistic.
It wouldn't be too difficult to flim; simply requir-
ing two slightly offset cameras as used in the
good old 3D films that required blue and red
glasses.
Just think of it. Flat, wide-screen TVs would
become obsolete. After all, who would want to
watch a 2D scene?
Horror and sci-fi films would spring to life. It
would be just as though you were in the room
with Ripley waiting for the Aliens to arrive! 3D TV
would bring a whole new dimension to these
types of films (pun intended). Nature
programmes would be able to demonstrate
things far better than on an ordinary TV. Just
imagine if they strapped a camera onto the front
of a Formula One car • experience the same as
Mansell! Or football - just like being on the
terraces!
1 6 ADVNICED Ce ad ru tt. IIFTERTAIPAIE Mt
However, I could envisage problems. Only one
person could watch a set at a time, proving fami-
ly viewing to be very expensive. It could also be a
very solitary pastime. And the sheer reality of
some films could prove very disturbing. If you
were being chased by the Alien wouldn't you be
worried? New laws governing TVs would have to
be introduced to prevent people from watching
something too stressful.
We have the technology to make do this so
why doesn't someone try to make a 3D TV
system? Or has one already been made?
Ian Flory
Banff, Scotland
Hmmm. It's a nice idea, but isn't it
underselling the concept of VR to just use it
as a high-quality 3D-glasses system? Also,
the cost of using two cameras to film would
probably make such an exercise
prohibitively expensive, at least until a huge
user-base was installed.
Far more interesting is the use of VR to
actually walk around and interact with a
computer-generated environment. But that
doesn't mean you can't meet up with your
intervening animation frames in real time.
ROM), the program could calculate just
about any pose imaginable.
This image could then be superimposed
on your 3D world, and you could fight the
Admittedly the price of such high-power
hardware puts it out of reach of the average
consumer, but as computer power
long before a workable system will be in the
home.
CONVERT!
I'm getting totally &Siled off with software
publishers. I own an IBM PC and generally speak-
ing most games are available on this format. But,
software publishers don't seem to acknowledge
the fact that there are PC versions of their
games in their adverts. One example of this is
Virgin's advert for Golden Axe. There is no
mention of a PC version, yet the next day I visited
my local computer shop and it was there - a PC
version of Golden Axe! This seems to happen
with many games Pang, Chase HQ if, Puzznjc,
Robocop if to name but a few.
Also, why are some of the major film licences
not available on the PC (e.g. Navy Seals)? Surely
if these films are such big hits Stateside (as
claimed by many), they should be converted to
America's most popular machine? And what
about arcade games?
Finally, why aren't screenshots from all formats
on the games packaging, not just the arcade and
16-bit versions, but the 8-bits as well?
Leo Sen Computer Entertainment, I find it very hard to
Ruislip believe that VR will create a gaming revolution.
MANUAL
LABOUR
I am writing to your magazine in the hope
thay my letter will be seen by the software
houses.
The cause of my dismay, and the subject
of my concern is the quality of many of the
manuals which are supplied with current
games. All too often these contain the bare
essentials needed to pay the game and little
else, sometimes a useless little novella is
through in so the player has to wade through
pages of terrible prose in order to glean a
few vital playing hints.
In the worst cases trial and error is needed
to work out basic game functions.
Is this minimalist approach to manuals real-
ly necessary? Some companies, mainly
those with a reputation for high-quality
games manage to produce excellent
manuals, although it saddens me as a true
Brit that these are mainly US companies, eg
SSI and Origin. It has been argued that part
of the fun of a game is discovering what is
possible, but this can become a tedious
The nature of most movie conversions.
especially from Ocean, make them pretty
unsuitable for conversion to the PC, hence
the Nightbreed Action/Adventure option for
PC owners.
UK software companies must cater for the
UK market, and research suggests that PC
owners are less keen to fork out for a
product simply because of its connection to
a movie.
As for screensnots on packaging,
companies are pretty free to include as
many or few as they wish, so long as the
overall look gives a fair and reasonable
impression to the buyer of the game they
will get. The best screenshots are inevitably
used because they simply look more attrac-
tive th e aim of packaging is to make the
product enticing to the potential purchaser,
after all.
The cost of producing separate packaging
for each version is prohibitive and space on
the back of a single box is too limited to
devote to relatively unattractive 8-bit shots,
they say.
WHAT'STHE
FUSSABOUT?
While I agree that Virtual Reality is an exciting
concept and has great potential for Advanced
 LE TTE R

(5) Do you think its best to use mail order for

chore after a while. Some of us players are games?
actually interested in the game mechanics (6) Is the Megadrive capable of producing Amiga-
also (eg, the hit probability with weapon X, quality graphics and sound?
at range with skill level l) and the wealth
of printed matter available for classic RPGs John Holmes,
would indicate that gainers wish to know Lowestoft
these things. Again, most of SSrs manuals
ehope have a section on these very topics.
oftware Glad to be of service, John. To answer your
Perhaps, some of the money spent in questions one at a time:
producing those silly novellas could be (1) You certainly can! Sega produce a piece
subject diverted to this? of hardware called the Power-Base
iy of the Finafly (although this is a personal view) I
rrent Converter for around E25, which will allow
would argue that a small amount of you to play any Master System game on
the bare
°factual" information, given in the form of a your Megadrive. But isn't that a bit like
and little
bestiary, armour descriptions or technical playing a scratched 78 on a Goodman's
fella is
details for objects in the game world make turntable stereo system?
e through that imaginary world far more real and con-
glean a (2) Everyone seems to be keen to get into
crete than any short story. console development, especially for the
playwortds and lengthy gametime) is to Megadrive, so definitely yes.
is needed John Leigh include some glossy books. 2: The (3) That's really up to you to decide. In
Tyne and Wear British public are perfectly happy to ACE's opinion the Mega drive is the best
mats real- put up with crappy novellas since, until console available, and with the recent drop
inly American manuals tend to be superior recently, we haven't had the opportuni-
fly to their British counterparts for two ty to be 'spoiled' with the American
in price to £150 for the Mickey Mouse
game bundle, there's never been a better
reasons. 1; The American PC market is bumper-boxes. What you've never
atrue time to buy.
desperately competitive, and with had.... (4) Yes - you should be able to find
flies, eg products costing upwards of $50, the However, with Sierra, Microprose and
lat part Megadrive software in places like Dixons
most easy way to heighten the Mindscape heading up the t o p right now.
vhat is perceived value of the product (since the
- UK market, the future is looking (5) Mail order co.'s are pretty reliable.
OL1S
everyone is claiming amazing sized brighter.
e nd o f However, the current economic climate is
putting these businesses under a lot of
pressure, so stick to the names you know.
Even if things do go seriously awry then rest
your mind, safe in the knowledge that the
ons„ And I don't feel that the technology used is a natural as the real one: to pick up an item consumer is fully covered by the Mail-Order
pretty great leap forwards, or even particularly 'state' you simply move your hand's Virtual Protection Scheme.
,hence of-the-aft. counterpart and grasp it. Via tactile (6) Yes... and no! For sprite-based games
ption for Both the hardware used and the software feedback you can actually feel the object (shoot-'em-ups, platform affairs and
programming techniques involved to create VR your holding. Agreed, the Virtuality is a anything scrolly-shooty) the Mega drive
orfor the land more specifically the Virtuality system) have relatively simple VR system, but ifs still a beats the Amiga hands down, but the
that PC been around for a few years. There is nothing huge technical achievement. Amiga's qualities shine through in filled-
•a newabout miniature televisions, quadrophonic Surely the comparisons between VR and polygon 30 games and anything requiring
.1 sound or filled polygon 3D. It is the combination Cyberspace are justified? The aim of both is complex user interaction.
, of existing technology that creates this so-called to create a realistic yet artificial interactive
ct 'breakthrough', and it is fairly logical that if you environment where the control interface is
a
i oas stick a pair of mini-TVs over your eyes, attach effectively invisible. True, Cyberspace does-
s
nthe sensors to your body and link it all to a system n't require that the user wear sensor suits
INDUSTRY ANSWERS
lble running a 3D program you can get Virtual Reality, or goggles, but then again, it's a fictional
t
they Ialso think comparisons being drawn between concept and doesn't actually exist!
o
levitably VRand the Cyberpunk concept of Cyberspace Welcome to a new area on the letters page.
attrac- are inaccurate and misleading, as Cyberspace is

MAKEMINEA
Each month, well be strapping an Industry
lie the adirect cimputer link with all the senses, not just Figure into a not especially comfortable
chaser, sight and sound, where you become totally armchair and bombarding you with your
integrated into the game world and not a casual questions. This month's Figure is Peter
ckaging
Dace on
d to
observer controlling data within the program via
fairly basic input devices.
In short, I feel that VR is not quite as important
MEGADRIVE Billotta, Managing Director of Mirrors&
Peter will be ready to answer your queries
about Morrorsott's games, his hopes for the
t shots, as it is being made out to be, and if the
computer industry and the media continue to am thinking of purchasing a Sega Megadnve, future, and the industry in general.
blow it up out of proportion with hype, many peo- but first there are a few questions I'd like to ask So, if you wonder what the big M has in
ple are going to be disappointed when they final- you. store once Predator 21s on the streets and
lyfind outwhatVR is really like. how they're handling the conversion of Allen
Is there any chance of the Megadrive playing about their ambitions for the CD market,
Matthew Kearsey the old Sega Master System games?
Gravesend, Kent (2) Is there any chance that the Megadrive will this is your chance to find out for yourself!
become as popular as the Amiga with any of the Don't be shy! Send your letters to: Peter
• Yougloss over the complexities of a true big software companies? Billotta Hot Seat, ACE Magazine, Priory
VRsystem a little easily. You ignore the fact (3) Do you think the Megadrive is worth the Court, 30•2 Farringdon Lane, London
king that these systems adjust your 'world view' money that it's sold for? ECIR 341.
ced according to you movements, generating a (4) Is there a chance that Megadrove games will
to true sense of a realistic environment. Also, become available in the big high-street stores,
'on- interaction with the Virtual world is as e.g. W. H. Smiths, Boots, Woolworths?
ADVANCED COMPUTER ENTERTAINIMENt 1 7
 Can Captain P lanet save the for th fr om the
unthink ing carelessness of the polluters? Y ou "I
As MINDSCAPE prepares r croon thum b on your joysticks', fi re button,
m us t use your arcade skills to help hint
pf *Serve our planet's na tur a l beauty. a
the fi rst ozone-friendly 0
- vi d eo gam e,
Rik Haynes wonders if r,
the competition will •
go green wit h envy.. • • •
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ith his spiky green hair and mission
to save the Earth, Captain Planet is a
new breed of comic superhero.
of
- fro
Gone are the shark.repellent Batspray and choco- bur -
late-anchovy pizzas of previous crimetighters. end
This Turtle-buster uses totally natural ingredients
like Earth, Wind and Fire. American children no and,
longer cry-out 'COWABUNGA' in wanton isn't
i
aggression. No, they're too busy rescuing
was
Mother Earth frorn uncaring humans.
wea
The same thing could happen to British pre.
'rec
teenagers now the Captain Planet cartoon series
I•
is being shown during a prime-time slot on TV-am
batt
every Saturday morning. And, no big surprise, a
Ho!
software company is currently working on
Flu
,
computer and console games based around
Des
Captain Planet. Let's just hope Mindscape
ac
doesn't give us recycled gameolayl
hap
THE STORY SO FAR... the
Gala, the worried spirit of Earth, sends magic
rings to five youngsters from around the globe - In a
Wheeler (North America), Linka (Soviet Union), GI
co
(Asia), Kwame (Africa) and Ma-Ti (South America).
c•
These are Gala's team in the battle against the
fro
further destruction of theEarth. Each has the
ad.
personal power of Earth, Fire, Water, Wind and
Heart.

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 " Our children can inherit
a legacy of wastefulness,
or an action plan that
can save our planet.
That is why we created
Captain Planet."
Ted Turner
Desinwen of Tamer Broadcasting $estern

S A l l te , • . • N A N
M om pla tfor m W k s . D on' t
isiotry a bout tha t blue grid in
the background • I ts pest a
g u id e t o h e lp i n sl o tti n g
toge the r the graphic blocks.

When the Planeteer n tog r the names N i n t e n d o Super Famicom and NES console Super Mario Bros and Rainbow Islands. For
of these five elements, beams of light shoot v e r s i o n s of Captain Planet. instance, in one of the six levels players must
from their rings and a new superhero literally M o n d s c a p e ' s decision to use Tony Crowther on grow trees in order to reach safety at the top of
bursts from the ground. Captain Planet is t h e computer counterparts comes as little the screen. [co-monsters then come along and
endowed with the combined powers of the rings su rp rise . This self-confessed workaholic has pro- try to chop these trees down. "I don't want to kill
and, thankfully, a sense of humour. 01' blue skin g ra mme d more games than even he can remem- anyone in Captain Planet because it's a
isn't indestructible, though. If Captain Planet is b e r . Captive. his first protect for Mindscape, not Greenpeace-type thing. The first action players
exposed to pollutants—such as acid rain, toxic o n l y scooped a myriad of prestigious awards but do in the Nintendo version is shoot down
waste and smog h is powers are temporarily started a partnership which looks set to continue helicopters," states Crowther. Perhaps this sym-
weakened and he must return to the Earth to for quite some time. Who else could concurrently bolises Earth vs planet-destroying machines?
'recharge' develop games based around Knightmare and Returning to the 'good-old days when he wrote
Together, Captain Planet and the Planeteers Captain Planet' In his spare time, Crowther is games in under 10 days, Crowther designed his
battle the preposterously named eco-villains also devising a sequel to Captive. Does this man interactive interpretation of Captain Planet in a
Hoggish Greddly, Verminous Skumm and Looten ever sleep? matter of hours and plans to completely finish
Pkinderwho are looting and polluting the Earth_ Like the TV-show, both Captain Planet games the Amiga adaphon within five weeks. Will the
Despite lots of action and excitement, nobody tackle the planetary problems of endangered game suffer due to this short development time?
actually gets seriously hurt. There's always a species, destruction of the ozone layer, toxic Nope, there's already far more than I originally
happyending and an epilogue showing kids how waste dumping, deforestation, ocean pollution wanted anyway," asserts Crowther, "I've put
Theycan save the Earth in true Blue Peter style. and the greenhouse effect. And that's where the hidden bonuseson there. In certain areas.
similarity between them ends. Grey has opted for players will be able to collect cans for extra
WHAT'S IN A GAME? a very visual shooterrHip with Geo-Cruiser, Eco- points.' This Sheffield-based programmer isn't
Inan effort to cope with the varying tastes of C o p t e r and Eco-Sub vehicles. Crowther thinks foolhardy enough to take everything on. The ani-
console and computer garners, Mindscape has t h i s Canadian coder has missed the whole point. mation sequences and sound are being created
commissioned two veteran games developers 1 don't like the Nintendo version," he reveals, elsewhere.
from both sides of the Atlantic to handle the I t s just another shootem-up. There's nothing never liked the cartoon series to be honest,"
adaptions. n e w in it whatsoever." he says, "ft certainty looks like its going to be
Chris Grey, the Canadian cro f I n s t e a d , Crowther is programming a cute very big. Somebody is going to be very rich at
Boulderdash and infiltrator, is g the p l a t f o r m a n s p i r c a d e game along the lines of the end of it."
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tarn Pla ne t and the Pia ne te e rs
iona dve nture te le vision ca rtoon
let comes from the same compa ny
t brought us those disturbing CNN
I tse lf is a n e nda nge re d spe cie s, "
procla ims C ha irma n Te d Turne r.
fr i
PLANETARY PERFORMERS
"Eve ryone , n o m a tte r h o w young, ha s
the p o we r to he lp. The p o we r is th e irs Turner Broadcasting System and DIC
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if we g ive it to t h e m ." As yo u 've prob- Ente rprise s ha ve ma na ge d t o a ttra ct

ell ite-TV ne wsca sts during the Gu lf
Remember the scene whe n tha t
informed re porte r thought he could
II gas and panicked? The Atla nta -
sed Turner Broa dca sting Syste m
s to put a little more e ffo rt into
• t h e fa cts right w it h Ca pta in
a cove nture wit h DIC
lie s. Signs of la ugha ble
• n * supe riority' a nd ove ra ll
s still manage to cre e p in.
t o f us, sa ving Ea rt h s
$ resources has not ha d the pri-
it should ha ve . We a re ju st
ing up to the fa ct tha t the pla ne t
a bly guessed, vie we rs w e the re fore quite • f e w sta rs t o p ro vid e voice s to
tre a te d to a sim p list ic le sson in DI Y the characters in their Captain Planet
pla ne t-sa ving a t the e nd o f e a ch sh o w. TV•show. I n ta ct, I ca n't t h in k a t a ny
Pe rha ps Pre side nt Bush, a nd o th e r othe r te le visio n ca rtoon se rie s th a t
leaders o f not-so e n viro n m e n ta lly- has a ttra cte d t h is muds t a lkin g ta le nt.
frie ndly na tions, sh o u ld wa tch e ve ry Whoop' Goldbe rg pla ys Ga la a nd the
e co-ba ckile s sounds like a bunch
e pisode f o r some tip s!
r nomine e s: Sly Sludge ( M a rt in
), D r Blig h t (M e g Ryan),
Skurnm (PON Goldblum),
C urry a nd D a vid Ra ppa port),
_ d e r (Ja me s Coburn), D uke
S tep Wine lishlomp trawlers ensnaring the Nutte r a
dolphins. those lovable clowns of the sea, in
- ( -St in g ) .
another scene fr om the PIES game.
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smashed. Video gaming is no longer
the pursuit of spotty male teenagers
A • C i t S ode'
playing Space Invaders till the early
•hours of the morning. When a household name wa
• . Sony actively gets involved, you know video
like
games
p are a format whose time has come. thir
o The demographics of video games are chang- arE
ing as
p - females and adults are getting involved
too,"
u confirms 29-year-old Olaf Olafsson,
President
l of the newly formed Sony Electronic Sony video games, you've got to be joking! Dir
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a ele
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and
n more exciting programs." pla
Many of the best-selling console and computer be
cThe global entertainment giant is aiming for the games of recent years have been structured
perfect fusion of software and hardware by wc
e around movies. Players have been driving down
reusing the images and music produced by bu
p the streets of Gotham City, getting Back to the
movie and record companies. Not such a crazy Pe
t Future and fighting crime in Robocop.
idea, when you consider Sony already owns Sp
i Unsurprisingly, software houses such as US
Columbia Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Hc
o Gold, Ocean and Mirror soft are putting most of
Entertainment (formerly CBS Records). Hot prop- wc
their future chart-topping hopes into the likes of
n at these two companies include
erties Godfather Ill
i
Ghostbusters, Gloria Estefan, George Michael this
, popularity, the quality of video games based
ands the Sinatra-style crooner Harry Connick, Jr. clz
on
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cept.e Will
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be worth over $500 million. Iinterested
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u You will soon be able to watch the movie, hear a
movies nwill be exploited in video games. We
the soundtrack and play the game without ever Hc
t want
d to make sure that the quality of the original
havi n g to leave the 'quality-assurance' of Sony. lic
product
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Sonyhas already made some successful,
albeit small, steps into the world of video game
development through CSG Imagesoft. Solstice
for the Nintendo Entertainment System was the
first hit. This arcade adventure game was actual-
ly vaitten by Software Creations in Manchester.
Olafsson has decided to publish forthcoming
video games under a new name, Sony
Imagesoft, a subsidiary of Sony Electronic
Pubkshing. He may even start another label,
SonyElectronic Entertainment.
Sonylmagesoft is in charge of all video game
development. This unit is using a variety of soft
ware developers including two European games
specialists, Ocean and Software Creations, "I
thinkOcean has done some very good work. We
are confident that they can produce what we've
asked them to do," states Olafsson,
Ocean is understandably elated. Software
Director Gary Bracey says "I don't think we
could have any greater partner in the consumer
re electronics industry. Hopefully this relationship
will enable us to venture into new areas along
with Sony.'
The first fruits of this deal will be cartridge and
floppy disk games based on two new films from
Columbia Pictures. Hudson Hawk has Bruce
Willis, the star of Die Hard and Moon/letting,
playing a cat burglar who tries to go straight
before being forced into stealing some priceless
works of Leonardo Da Vinci. Hook is a big-
budget movie telling the story of a grown-up
PeterPan. The film, directed by Steven
Spielberg, has attracted top names like Dustin
Hoffman, Robin Williams and Julia Roberts. No
wonderthe estimated cost of producing the
movie currently runs at 560 million!
Wefeel Hook is a natural for video games,"
darns °lesson, 'We're making sure that the
development of the video game is tied closely to
the development of the movie and story. We
want to make things as exciting as possible."
ACEhas got a feeling that Hudson Halt and
Hook will be improvements over recent movie-
licensed product from Ocean (see our Licence
Revoked article on page 60) Bracey told us
, Olaesson
Ocean will publish the games in Europe while
Sony will handle North America and Japan, They
will be released later this year on a variety of for-
mats.
'We will support any format that makes sense,"
Olaf sson reveals, "We're not limiting ourselves to
any one particular format We would publish
video games on potato chips If it made sense.
We have to make sure that we maximise the cov-
erage, so as many consumers as possible can
enjoy the games. We have an obligation both to
the artist and the consumer."
Sony is also getting into the video game
business as a hardware company. "We will be
announcing our overall plans for video game
hardware in a couple of months," indicates
Olafsson, He is probably referring to the recent
agreement with Nintendo, whereby Sony is
supplying an add-on CD-ROM drive for the Super
Famicom console. Industry sources suggest the
price of the new drive will be just below
M U LTIM E D IA IN
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dia t o unsuspe cting Am e rica n consume rs w it h
the re le a se o f a CD-ROM pa cke t, * f o r the hom e
compute r ma rke t, ' W e ' re a tte m pting t o
re le a se a ha rdwa re product f o r the I BM PC-
compa tible w it h a ll th e a cce ssorie s yo u ne e d.
I lk. he a dphone s, a nd six softwa re discs f o r
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bre a k d o wn in t o e nte rta inme nt a nd e duca tion
title s I nte gra ting d ig itise d vide o, a udio, gra ph-
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tionships w it h a num be r o f d iffe re n t book a nd
ma ga zine publishe rs. The in it ia l 'CD-ROM f o r
the H ome ' t it le s w ill e ve n tu a lly e xpa nd in t o a
ca ta logue o f 40-SO a pplica tions in clu d in g e ncy-
clopa e dia s, sophistica te d vid e o ga me s, m u lt i-
la ngua ge dictiona rie s, I nte ra ctive a u d io title s
and o th e r re fe re nce wo rks. N o prke t o r re le a se
da te ha s be e n sot f o r the Europe a n la unch. I s
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re st o f us? "The re a son we 're g o in g f o r CD-
ROM is w iry sim p le . Pe ople ha ve be e n wa it in g
for a 7 4 7 w it h ve rtica l ta ke -off wh e n w e ha ve
a kit o f 7276 a round- The m ost im p o rt a n t t h in g
is to ge t yo u f ro m one pla ce t o a nothe r.
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p music doesn't really come across that
nologies,
u However, once we introduce CD-based
elegantly.
video games we open a whole new category of
b
opportunities. We will be working with our music
l once this technology gets introduced."
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M ano's graphics are cute be y ond
belie& and a lthough clear, a r e
a ny thing but M a r t o
himself has an a nim a tion
appropriate to evev)t s itua tion.

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the enormous bulle t he polls h i t
cap tight over his ears N o te dust
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E ach stag e h as a t m o t p h a ri c So u n d /. to
complement the whisk M ole s make
shuffl ing sounds. American footba lle r s punt
hardened garners at ACE the balls with thum ping sounds And endial•
level m on h a n o e the ir own dramatic
addicted as long as Super themes
F Mario World on Nintendo's
e
Super Famicorn. Its vice-like grip
w our hearts and minds begged
over
the
g question rwhat is it about Mario
World
a that makes you want to keep Super Mario World on Nintendo's Super Famicom is
plmaying? And why do so few other
games
e have that special It'? arguably the most playable game ever written. But
s
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AND SOUND just what is i t that makes Mario the maestro? ACE
The Super Famicom is a highly-pow
a piece of electronics hardware,
eriul
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Marto World boasts dozens of flashy
disects the game and explains where Nintendo are
e tricks - fast multi-level parallax
visual
k
scrolling, smooth sprite rotation (as going right and where others are going wrong.
inethe Assault coin-op), searchlight-
like
p effects, fade-ins and fade-outs -
thanks
t to its graphics chip. The
Famicom's
t sound chip is no slouch
either • the echoing effects in the
h
cave levels is proof enough of that.
e
What really impresses is the
amount of thought that's gone into
the design of Mario World and its
inhabitants • there's nothing that jars
or looks Out of place - and the
cartoon-like animation makes the
characters instantly appealing and
lovable. The care that's gone into
the game is exhibited in minor but
neat details such as the dust rising
from Mario's feet when he skids CONTROL
(also seen in Gremlin's Switchblade Mario is nothing if not agile.
/I), or the way Mario pulls his cap Depending on whether the 'Speed
down tight over his head when he Up' button on the control pad is
crouches. held down or not, Mario can Jump ti
But anyone who has played various heights and even change
Dragon's Lair Ii will tell you that it direction in mid-flight. This strange
takes more than pretty pictures and physical law peculiar to Mario World
stunning sound effects to make a is vital to the player's enjoyment ri
classic game. As good as Marro a platform game there's nothing
Worlds aesthetic qualities are, they more frustrating than jumping and
are basically icing on the cake. The then realising that you're going to
game elements that make Mario so
addictive and engrossing could just
(te ll
as easily be implemented on an WHO* unde r wa te r the contrails change. and
Amiga or ST. M ario must learn to s wim Illotelmg ° M o e n "
ty tur tle shells enables him to move swittly

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ad is otherwise highly-enjoyable Car-Vila compensate for it and then use it to games like Oicts and Thrust will weii
n jump to /other major control feature is their own advantage, especially know the satisfaction reaped from
hange
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litann's inertia. Its a nuisance at Mien in the air, to perform some such complete mastery of the ogo •
first, and novices will find fancy manoeuvres; twisting and controls.
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f ba tte r jumps but lass tr a c tion on la nding
K a tt)
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blocks. r a pid m ida ir about- faces are vital.
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The variety is immense, offe r ing players an e w
skill to master for practically every level. As
well as the basic control skills over M ann, a
host of la nds r a pe dur r im like the moving pla t.
forms ( top) and the sheer surf e ta whic h must
be scaled confront him.
VARIETY
It's the spice of life, they say, and it
certainly adds a strong flavour to
Mario World. As the player progress-
es through the 100 levels of Mario
World, he or she is constantly
encountering new challenges and
having to adjust their playing style to
survive. Usually progress involves
having to face more and harder-to-
kill aliens, whereas Mario Worlds
monsters change very little. Instead,
it's the game style that changes.
In effect, each level has it's own
specific learning curve. Unlike most
games where the player is
encouraged to play to see what new
graphic delights await, Mano World
entices the player with the lure of a
totally different game challenge.
••\
what's holding other games
ck? Well, memory is probably
the biggest factor. Super Mario
World can afford to go to town
simply because each Super
Famicom cartridge can address -
instantaneously - an incredible
16 Mb of data.
Compare this to, say, the
Amiga. Most games are designed
for the basic 512K machine -
that's 32 times less memory than
the Famicom! Since a decent
arcade-like parallax scroll uses
up around 150K, you'll begin to
see how tight things get.
Memory aside, there's no tech-
nical reasons why Mario World
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couldn't convert almost
identically to the Amiga (or, to a
lesser extent Atari ST or PC).
Another important point is
the amount of development that
goes into a Nintendo game,
Twenty-odd people are credited
with Mario World, whereas
typically three or four write a UK
FAIRNESS
Mano World is never unfair. When
vou die it's invariably your fault, and
not just random chance. Too many
games rely on the unexpected to
trick the player a sudden swirl of
aliens from the bottom of the and middle lop)
screen in Xenon 2, a monster Xenon 2 Irons Imageworks and Toki fr om
Ocean. B oth fi ne games, but is n't a little cede&
appearing from nowhere and to pemrent the player making progress by
launching snook attadas.
dropping on top of you in Toki. ( M iddle bottom )
These sort of games rely on you Sven M ario World isn
-
wi.r c is appear randomly geven on top o f you) )
learning when these surprise and
t s ptarmi et enu9 a haadochas.
attacks occur and reacting p e r f e c t .
accordingly. Mario World nearly When Mario stands on one, it starts
T h e
always gives you some sort of warn- moving to the right, carrying Mario
ing- a wobbling spike means it's with it. The number starts to count
about to fall, crushers fall slowly at down, and when it hits zero the
first then speed up - allowing the platform disappears. When first
deft player to avoid trouble. encountered, these platforms are
Mano World, although constantly above solid ground, giving the play-
full of surprises, cleverly introduces er a chance to safely learn how
new game elements slowly. For they work, but later the platforms
example, on one level there are plat- will carry Mario over bottomless
forms with numbers on the side. chasms.
(Top 'oh)
illeadysoft's Dragon's Lair d is
a dream to look a t but a
nightmare to play.
( Bottom le ft)
Surprise and avoidable alien
attacks carve up Car- lhos
(Strght)
Ocean•s c oindp conversion
Banibow islands shares many
o f M ario World's fi ner points.
(par right)
Grernillin•• S witchblade
shares many of M ario World's
neat graphrc touches.
Activision's S pindissy Worlds
allows the player to develop
inglyprecise control over
GERALD as M ario Wor ld
allows over the hero.
game. But remember that Super
Mario Bros 3 on the PaES has sold
over 7 million copies (grossing in
excess of 5427 million) and com•
pare that with sales of BO, 000
for a top UK game, and you'll
realise it just isn't viable to
allocate a similarly-sized team.
But console owners shouldn't
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SAVE GAME EXPLORATION

After completing certain special lev- Each level of Marro World is packed
els (typically ghost houses or with secret rooms and levels, most
castles) Marro World allows you to accesses by the pipes poking out
save your game. What's more, of the ground. Although Mario World
since you can replay a level once boasts 100 levels, it's possible to
u've completed it once, you can reach the 'end' having only compl
onstantly keep saving your ed less than half of them. Howev
game. Since, as described the urge to continue playing
earlier, each level is a remains due to the constant
challenge in itself, this challenge posed by each level -
ditty doesn't completing a level provides enough
age the game's satisfaction in itself.
evity.

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it's unlikely thM you can ever predict whoi
you're going to fi nd in a le v e l_
( M iddle)
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style of stage you *es
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get too smug. A l ook a t the ACE
review pages will r eveal tha t
consoles have ha d thei r fai r
share of so-so and dow nr i
awful games. Som eti m es a
memory and devel oper s i n the
world can't m ake up for dull
ideas, uni nspi r ed gr a phi u and
unor iginal gam epl ayl
a fta a toc a , a n , 0 0 0 d a t
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(Top)
Clearing a bonus room will fi ll in transpar-
ent blocks thr oughout the wor ld, making it
easier to ge t a r inind
CHOOSE
Once a level's has been completed.
the player can re-enter it as many
times as he or she wishes, and exit
at any point. Therefore, if the player
finds a level laden with lots of easy-
to-get power-ups or extra lives, then
it's possible to become as powerful
as you wish. Certain levels are easi-
er to play with (or without) certain
powers, and the smart player will
realise this and capitalise on it.
PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS
One of Marro Worlds major
features are the puzzles and
problems it poses the player. While
they're not going to keep a
hardened adventure game player
awake at night, some are sufficient-
ly cunning to provide great satisfac-
tion when solved.
S olving nalishounies ia one o f M ario Wor lds
many aspects tha t keeps you on your toes.
Tolle this scene, for enampple h i s t oft- screen to
the r ight is a tube tha t' ll transport M ario to a
bonus le v e t Out the entrance Is sealed off by
indestructible br own bloOks! Tha t •P• pod will
tur n all blocks into coins and a llow you to
enter. b u t it' ll also release those deadly spiky
turtles and • more im por ta ntly • remove the
ground fr om under M ario's fe e t W h e t to d o
,_Voce k now tha t the y e llow block ( marked '71
contains a fr ie ndly tur tle - e a tino dininieur, b u t
If a dinosaur Germ so much as touches a -
e • ot"Il be activated S o start o i l by ge tting
pod
the pod we ll out of harm's way.
_ H a v ing thr own the pod canto hone r ground.
N a no heads back to the y e llow blocks,
_ A lucky head bunt i s a mushroom
P utting the ne ighbour ing block releases ri
( turning M ario in Super bla r iol and also
allows M ario to reach the b l o c k
•O u t pops an e gg whic h pr om ptly hindses
and reveals The cutest dinosaur you mow saw.
_ M a r io pumps on Dino's back, a nd by achninia
taring a fi rm whack to the liz ard's heed causes
it to shoot out a sticky tongue w i th which It
can scoop up the turtles.
- A i l the haz ards removed, M ar io can now hit
the pod without fear.
_P ushing down on top of a nt pip* lets M ario
slip away to the bonus level.
...The lim 's just be ginning S u i t those y e llow
blocks in the r ight order to reveal an e • tr a l i l t
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king
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on steady refinement of the
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t fire from more recent Falcon 3,0, scheduled for early
concept rather than actual coding_
releases
r and nowadays only a June, is the first sortie in an
It's going to be firing salvoes at
particularly
u indulgent fan could give astonishing assault on the military several different targets; not only

will it feature advanced muttiplayer
capability, but it also allow players
owning different Spectrum Holobyte
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rain. And, just to lob a final shell at
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Kent implemented in arcades as well in a
special ultra-high resolution version.
idirg The maximum number of
at participants in an EBS scenario
any hasn't been fixed yet, but you can
ii
be certain it will be a lot more than management. Starting with your
the traditional two player head-to-
head. Falcon 3.0 is the first game
to feature in•built EBS capability.
The next will be A10 Tank Killer (see signs, attributes, flying history,
panel), followed by an CBS version
of Tank in 1992. By the time we
enter the single European market,
you could be thundering across a
3D virtual world in your metal
monster, while your buddy from
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Holland sits on your shoulder in his
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attentions of that objectionable nerd
from Stoke Poges who fancies him-
self as an A10 tank buster.
IT'S ONLY A GAME
Getting back into the cockpit of
alcpn 3.0 for a moment, what—
apartfrom a monstrous multiplayer
capability—does this beast
promise?
First, the game is a massive
improvement on its excellent prede-
cessor in terms of scenario.
Whereas the original Falcon has
fixed missions (boring missions,
after a week or two of intensive
gaming, the uncharitable might
add), Falcon 3.0 offers the player a
three way choice: a complete, con-
tinuous campaign scenario, individu-
al missions, or even the option to
design your own missions for that
particularly devious or personally
inspired combat challenge.
Once you've made up your mind,
you enter a whole game sub-strata
involving equipment and manpower
team-mates, you can create
different squadrons and save them
to disk together with their call
morale and individual skills.
Weapon selection is detailed and
comprehensive. Unlike the earlier
Falcon program, Falcon 3,0 gives
you a complete choice of ordnance
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The six nsain sections of the game offe r you
numerous control end manageinent options,
including one lirostent Action) tha t bypassm
them all and gets you straight into the sky
• Supports EGA/ VGA 1 6 o r 256
colours a s a ppropria te .
• Occupie s ove r 8 me ga byte s
• D e structive ca p a b ility include s
M 9P he a t so •ke rs. PAAM 1 2 0 ra da r
guide d m issile s. M a ve rick
a ir/ ground guide d m issile s. G81.1
guide d bombs. CBU cluste r
bombs, MK112 1 0 0 0 lb inionste rs,
Tura nde l a n ti-ru n wa y bombs,
and m o re ...
• Gra pnics a lone re quire d thre e
fu ll-tim e a rt ist s
• M ode m su p p o rt f ro m 1 2 0 0 to
9600 ba ud; a lso d ire ct conne ct
and n e t wo rkin g
• Ele ctronic Ba ttle fi e ld Syste m
ca pa bility
• Sugge ste d US re ta il p rice
freaks), ranging from the M9P heat
seeking missile to Paveway guided
bombs. 11 it's commercially
available for the 1
project
. leader Kuswara
Pranawahacli, 'we've got it in the
16,
game.'
c l a i m s
Naturally you choose your
weapons according to the mission
you have to accomplish. There are
three different theatres of war to
ADVANCED COAWITLA EFOINIAINANNT 3 3
 operate in: Israel, Kuwait, and one
that has yet to be decided, but could
be modelled on Panama. If you can't
be bothered to design your own mis-
sion, don't worry - there are over
ten associated with each theatre,
providing enough challenge to keep
you playing for weeks, if not months.
If you're on campaign and out to
win the war, your day starts with a
choice of available missions. Your
selection could be influenced by
many different factors: weather,
availability of team mates with the
correct skills, defensive/offensive
activity on possible routes to the tar-
get, available weaponry, and other
life-or-death decisions,
If you're in normal (as opposed to
EBS) multiplayer mode (linked over a
modem, or - for PC players - via a
network), you can choose whether to
fly missions head-to-head or jointly.
Before you can fire up on the
runway, however, you've got to
decide how to reach your target.
Falcon 3,0 can display detailed
maps of possible routes, including
information about threats en route
The Ge ne ra l D yna mics F16 Fighting Fa lcon fi rst h it
and relevant topography. You might the ha nga rs in Ja nua ry 1979 a fte r I ye a rs o f
choose, for example, a low-level de ve lopme nt a nd m ilit a ry spe nding controve rsy.
strike, using the valleys for shelter Airforce s ra nging f ro m Ve ne zue la t o Japan (a
and then approaching your target ma ssive o rd e r for 130 a ircra ft) ha ve joine d the que ue
to ope ra te one o f the wo rld 's most popula r fighte rs.
from behind a range of mountains, Its succe ss ha s gua ra nte e d it a m a io r ro le in a e ria l
limiting visual contact to the last few comba t we ll in t o the n e st ce ntury.
vital seconds, Topography - as we'll ACE re a de rs wh o wo u ld like a supe rb p o rt f o lio o f
see later - is vitally important in this FI 6 photogra phy could d o a lo t wo rse tha n she ll o u t
f5 .9 5 f o r Pe te r Foste r's e xce lle nt p icto ria l so u ve n ir o f
game and plays a major role in tacti- the a ircra f t publishe d b y I a n Alla n Ltd, a nd f ro m
cal decision making. wh ich th is photogra ph wa s ta ke n. Yo u ca n o rd e r it
Setting out on a mission can get fro m yo u r loca l bookse lle r: I SBN n o 0-7110-111124.
you skyborne with as many as eight
friendly aircraft, giving you four pos-
N ot only do you ge t topographical landscape- you mho ga l enhanced
sible double-up formations. Your terrain fe a tu r e , . , we ll. A nd check out the smoke in the bottom le tt of

route displays will have given you the cockpit display - you actually ge l smoke in this game, not poly gon
clusters tha t look like rock- solid pyramids in mid- air
waypoints and time/co-ordinate data
that can be fed to each formation,
enabling you to rendezvous (Or split
off) at any time en route or at the tar- popping the cranial rivets before you blow the afterburners in the fin- they ought to know - they make
get. You can also preselect combat you've even got into the plane... ished version. them.
procedures for different waypoints, There's variety up in the sky as You can also determine many
enabling you to, for example, send a TOPO' THE WO RLD well as down on the ground. As well other game factors, ranging from
colleague ahead to bomb certain Once you've actually made it above as the 116, you'll encounter at least enemy logic (from 'Drone' to 'ACE').
strategic points en route before 200 feet, you're in for another five other makes of plane, including weapon effectiveness, and speed 0
committing the rest of your men. suprise t h e topography. 'I haven't AWACS spotter aircraft who can game set-up. The latter is particular-
Choosing the pilot skills you need seen a single game with good 3D communicate vital information ly useful if you want to get up into
will also involve routing terrain,' says Kuswara, 'We will be about threat and opportunity the air within seconds of booting up
considerations: let's, for example, the first company to bring out a beyond your personal horizon. And your computer and can't be
send Lieutenant 'Chuck)? Cobblers flight sim with a realistic 3D terrain.' if you've got a PC you get some bothered with all that real-world sim-
(who's a dab hand with the air-to-sur- Mountains in Falcon 3.0 aren't just pretty sexy sound as well, thanks to ulation stuff beforehand...
face missiles) off round that pyramids, they're towering jagged AdLib, Soundblaster, MT32 and Spectrum Holobyte had a winner
mountain range at high altitude so he polygons of rock that line deep, ver- PSI sound system support. on their hands with the original
can flatten that artillery range, ready dant valleys. Once you're in the driv- Simulation sensitivity is adjustable Falcon. If the finished version of
for our approach from the North ing seat, you and your wingrnen can too, over four levels ranging from a Falcon 3,0 lives up to the promise
accompanied by Captain 'Shivers' take the high road or the low road. barnstorming beginners mode, for of the program we saw running in
Malarkey, who couldn't hit New You fly over a full 64-coloured those who want to be able to climb Oakland, California, it'll be burning
Orleans at 500 yards but can take landscape - the game version that to 60000 feet at full speed without up the skies over Chinglord, the
out practically anything with we saw was still in development and dropping a single point on the air- Gorbals, Warrington, Tierra del
wings...and so on. The level of detail didn't have the turn of speed one speed indicator, to a serious Fuego, Canterbury, the Piddle
involved in mission planning is so would like to see in a finished simulator fans' fantasy with a Valley...wherever there's a mains
great that, as the weight of responsi- product, but Spectrum liolobyte are control sensitivity that, claim the plug to fire up with, a computer to
bility begins to settle on your confident they can deliver a company, t h e same as a arm and a comfortable chair to get
shoulders, your adrenalin levels are satisfying punch in the kidneys when professional simulation trainer.' And you airborne.
3 4 Air/yawl° Cokieulle /Fir/eta...anon
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development * a e r a tion
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console devoiopment solider
way a t Gremlin. Y ou could
ions In the fun in the now
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OJOIN T H E P A R T Y . . .
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develop them. In 1990, ACE readers have gone During the afternoon, the software house will you're pla nning on co m in g to a confe re nce
h safari to companies like US Gold, Activision,
on usually enjoy showing off some of their latest a nywa y, it 's a ne a t w a y o f e ffe ctive ly sa ving
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venues will be Virgin and Gremlin. what you think of their efforts. During past ACE people a tte nding e a ch confe re nce . N um be rs
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ly a cce pt be twe e n e ight a nd 1 5 pe ople f o r
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areas
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visit
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shorte r) be fore e a ch confe re nce w e 'll le t yo u
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Estance is daunting, don't worry—we've got vis- At the end of the day, you'll find you've made
kn o w wh e t h e r yo u 've be e n se le cte d, I f a ny o f

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world of games publishing. So,. ,what are you choose some one e lse t o ta ke t h e ir pla ce .
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THE waiting for?!
Wf hat happens at an ACE Conference?
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because we try to structure the day as little as Focrnicominic CONFERENCES

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e ble. As a general rule, however.
Possi Virgin Ma s te rtronic
conferences
n begin at 12.30pm and end around A t ru ly a we some da y o u t w it h the compa ny w h o b ro u g h t yo u ga me cla ssics ra nging f ro m Da n D a re to
5.45pm.
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group tha t's in t o e ve ryth in g f ro m a irline s t o compute r supplie s.
goi
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, When you arrive you're introduced to the The d a m We dne sda y 1 9 th June
other
t attendees (we try to create a spread of Grandin Graphics
age ranges and machine owners at each event).

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r A compa ny w h o ha ve produce d the m o st stunning re ve rsa l o f fortune the softwa re in d u st ry ha s e ve r
to the ACE staff members who are present seen, f ro m be ing pe rce ive d a s a puppe t o f US Go ld to a d yn a m ic a nd in n o va tive publishe r w it h supe rb
a you) and, of course, to the software
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v
house crew you're visiting. You'll probably get a Potty Pige on, a nd M o n t y M o le . Gre m lin a re a lso h e a vily in vo lve d in console de ve lopme nt, a nd yo u 'll
e ck guided tour of the premises and a be a ble t o se e proie cts unde rwa y f o r t ile PC Engine . Ga me Soy, a nd N ES...
qui The lo ca tio n : Sh e ffie ld
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The games-buying public aren 't invited to the ECTS.
ACE sneaks you in the back door...

is year's European Computer Trade Show
was a peculiar event. Although never expect-
ed to boast the razzmatazz of the Entertainment
show in September, it was none-the-less a some-
what subdued affair, with folks from the
software biz less concerned about having an
enjoyable time and more concerned with
expending more of their energies on the seamy
side of actually making money.
The non-consumer policy enables exhibitors to
wander around freely without being trampled,
and makes for a slightly more sane atmosphere,
but without the flashing lights, pumping music
and frenetic buzz generated by a consumer-led
event, it's easy to forget that these people are in
the entertainment business.
Without the incentive to dazzle the prospective
Punters, most exhibitors opted for conservative
boxlike stands with a meagre frontispiece and an
office inside. Indeed, the quotient of profitable
deals was pretty high, but no-one seemed to be
having much fun.
Even the promotional activity seemed to be a
bit half-hearted with a couple of men dressed up
as Lemmings wandering folornly through the
ranks of suits.
Among the more noteworthy items on show
were Sonic the Hedgehog, a game finally offering
Megadrive owners some ammunition with which
to defend themselves from rabid Famicom Mario
fans, and the arrival of the Gamegear.
And the best news of all is that the number of
exhibitors signing up for a massive presence at
the trade and consumer European Computer
Entertainment Show in September is rising by the
day. We look forward to seeing you there!
No! M ot V ic tona S tation. r r s the Business Design Centrr
In tr endy is lington. v e nue for show.
THE PARTI ES:
After all the deals have been done, and before
the ink has dried, happy (and not so happy) busi-
nessmen are enjoying cndilised dnnkies in one of
the nearby alehouses.
Saturday evening, and Vic Naylor's near
Smithfield market is the venue for the Black and
White Party, arranged by PR guru Simon Harvey
and Oceans Gary Bracey and Dean Barrett.
• Atmosphere: 1: - Non-groovy sounds. A bit
crowded owing to size of the venue. However,
the beer was flowing nicely and everyone was
in a good mood. Helped along by top industry

( Inset Lahti
S nore! Ti,. latest
in Ganseboy soft-
ware, Hand- fi eld
Ho m o A cco u n ts
an d S u p e r
S preadshootireod
has the players
fi ghting hard - to
stay awake I

(Above)
US Gold PA M anwpar, Danielle We ndy a tt ( le tt; w . s busy as
ewer, pr om oting a range o f prnducts including Cruise for ri
Gyms*, OrsOarla Jones IV and Return to M onkey Wand,
(Ab o ve ri g h t )

"Wild
ing
. visit trOrri the S tates ta r ty in the s how ne• s certainly
ge tting Into the sling o f it.
B il
l
S t
Ocean's
e a Gary Bracey tries out the la te s t Japanese crater V irtual
Reality
l e contact lenses!
y ,
(Itea
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l i you hear the one a bout the m an who crossed an ST with
Skpectrum?'
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punchlina.
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(Far le ft)
Top TV personality Jonathan Ross * N o y ; a
wander around the show.

( te l l
STORM were whipping up sinthuslam for
their for thc om ing titles. Radioed.. Rig Run
and ° outdo D r a ge . 1,

( Below)
Dominic Whe a tle y lle ft) and M ark
Wee/sans. heads of Llorriarli, s c ow an W u *
of ACE for tips on Hard Drivin 1 .

le e low rigid)
figures and the fact that the show hadn't start enjoyment hampered by feeling like you were Jonathan Ellis, he a d honcho a t

ed yet and so no-one was knackered. standing in a cattle truck in the rush hour. PsygnosAs
rumours
i ts tha t he provided the
• Food: 1 - Rubbish! Hungry journos need • Drink:10 - Anything you want, all for free. inspiration
k e e for those dreamy little
some decent nosh, not measly peanuts and • Food: 5 - Lots of nice nibbles, not especially Lemmings,
n
t o
cheesy nibbles. substantial s c
(oBottom)
• Drink: 4 - "Free" beers and wine supplied • PR Validity: 3 - No big announcements to t c
Adrien Parr, M D of fi licroprose UK,
h
although it cost £15 on the door for entry in maximize potential coverage for the receptive is nov e ntly fi lling the rerently

the first place. audience. vacated shoes of e a M a r k e ting

M anager P eter koves, who ha
• PR Validity: 8 - No product to push, this was ,taken up residence a t Sierra's
ne wfr ope r m d UK offi ce. Looks
an all-out fun-binge. Everyone let their hair • Jim Douglas he'll have to p4ey it by oar!
down and had a nice time. Gary, Simon and
Dean boosted their already soaring popularity
among the industry movers and shakers. For a full report on the show's major announce
ments and events, see the News pages.
Sunday evening, and the Major Event!
Leicester Square's trendy Hippodrome plays
host to the industry for what should have been a
glittering and enjoyable event from all
concerned. Anything further from the truth would
have been hard to imagine. This particular party
was heralded as a big deal owing to the
announcement of various computer-leisure
awards. However, revellers were disappointed
on a number of counts. The ceremony took
forever, there weren't any awards to give away
anyway (they were held up in transit) the celebri-
ty cabaret was terrible and the 'free" bar extend-
ed to two (count 'em) drinks.
And the cost of entry? £44 each.
• Atmosphere:2-Trendy location, lotsof people.
• Food: 3 - Horrible buffet.
• Drink: 2 - Champagne/beer. Far from cheap.
• PR Validity: O.
Monday evening saw the Accolade cocktail
reception in full swing in The Filling Station bar,
attached to the Business Design Centre.
Rarely have so many industry heavyweights
had to come into quite such close contact with
each other. The promise of sampling the novel
Accolade Atom Bomb (a concoction so bizarre
a prize was awarded for anyone brave enough
to successfully determine its contents)
proved tempting enough to fill the station to
bursting point.
• Atmosphere: 6 - No music. Lots of fun but
sovaiicto cosioursit OP Lei AMAMI 4 1
 Four levels of
difficulty will help
you to learn quickly
• and optional
autopilot landings
wilt allow you to
concentrate on
airborne action. The
controls are simple.
e f f e c t i v e , a ndeasy
to remember. It is a great flight sim for beginners and
experts alike.

Fly missions in any

of six real world
arenas from the
Persian Gulf to
Vietnam. Central
Europe to the
Middle East and
the North Cape to
North Africa. giving
you a total flying
area of nearly half a million square miles.
Each area contains hundreds of missions and each mission
will differ depending on your chosen tactics, even if you fly it
twice!

A n amaz i ngt en
viewpoints give you
the opportunity to
view the last flowing
3-D environment
tram virtually
anywhere around
your plane - and a
unique 'Director"
option can be used
to automatically change the view for you. so that you're
always looking right at the centre of the action.

The newest smart

weaponry and laser-
guided armaments
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to a WWII fi ghter I c e
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AIRDUEL
Buzzing the airfi eld. By fl ying thr ough
an ope n hanger or pe r for m ing some
other dangerous stunt_ y ou could earn
extra fue l. weapons or lust points.

Welcome to the first all-action dogfighting fl ight
simulation from MICROPROSE. Rik Haynes talks to
programmer Glyn Williams about his new baby...
and the game!
D o atyou ever wonder
supersonic speeds what it'sbright
over like todesert
dogfight
skies? What about oufflying the Red Baron in
World War One? Imagine the kind of neat
reverse-thrust frolics you could do in outer
space with a futuristic fighter? These are just
three of the questions that have inspired Glyn
Williams to write Air Duel, a flight-sim that lets
you dogfight some exhilarating combat aircraft
from the past, present and future. With Air Duel
you can climb into a Sopwith Camel biplane or
hit hyperspace with an interstellar spacecraft.
You can even go Toral Toral Tara! in a Japanese that a playing session will be two minutes rather
Zero carrier-fighter from the Second World War.
Blasting away fr om the cock pq o f your biplane
conflict is maximised, their emotional
involvement should be heightened. The ideal way
of playing Air Duel will be between two-players
with split-screen or two machines.
How does the game work?
It's set-up so there are four scenarios to choose
Explain the concept of Air Duel? from, which are sort of classic dogfighting
rm more interested in Air Duel being a game encounters through history. This IS a way of
rather than a simulator although it does borrow adding value to the game and makes Air Duel
from the simulator genre. My original intention almost four separate products in its own right.
was to make it more towards a coin-opy sort of The World War One scenario is played over the
3D game rather than a heavily detailed entrenched battlefields of Europe in 1918 —
simulator. The simulation elements are important Sopwith Camels versus Fokker triplanes. This is
to Microprose so I'm developing those a little bit an introduction to dogfighting, you get very
more.
close to your opponent. You move quite slowly,
so there's a stronger element of strategy. The
Coin-opy, what's that? second scenario is set on the Pacific during
Things like immediacy, speed and pace. The fact World War Two. Carrier-based Wildcats against
Japanese Zero's over a little Pacific islands. The
than two hours. With a coin-op. its immediately main difference between the two World War sce-
obvious what you're supposed to do with it. You narios is pace really. World War Two introduces
don't have to read a massive manual to play it. power as an element in the conflict. The next
You just pick-it•up and go. The objective is simple scenario is the present day and this introduces
and obvious. There are certain ways of doing jet aircraft, radar, HUD& and missiles as well as
things in coin-ops. There are scores and when retaining the other elements. I'm going to do it in
your attention is being diverted in a particular a Gutty desert sort of scenario, carrier-based F-
way you get a big arrow rather than a subtle 18 against the MIG-29 (one of the sexiest planes
hint. The difference is a stylistic one. in the game). It was designed before the Gulf
War but nobody will believe me. For the fourth
What do players get up to? option I thought I'd just go wacky and do a
The objective of the game is aerial combat and space game. I can chuck everything to the wind.
dogfighting. The fact there are two players fight- Gravity goes out of the window. You have a
ing each other in, ideally, the most violent way much wider selection of weapons systems,
possible wh e re their involvement in that some of them quite stupid and bizarre.

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Air Dua l w ill be the la st p ro le ct th a t Glyn
Willia ms w ill de sign a nd w rit e e n t ire ly on h is
own. He n o w ha s pla ns to se t-up h is o wn
softwa re de ve lopme nt te a m de dica te d to pro-
ducing top q u a lit y 1 D games_ The 2 7 •ye a r.old
Willia ms wa nts t o d o m ore ga me de signing
and is a lre a dy de vising a b ig ca mpa ign
wa rga me rsimula tor w it h lo t s o f ve hicle s a nd
re a l-time a ction. He a lso th in ks it wo u ld be
nice to do • se que l t o Wa rhe a d, h is cha lle nging
spa ce -simula tor w it h inse ct-like a lie ns a nd
'a uthe ntic spa ce flight controls. "I 'd like t o
make the sce na rio bigge r a nd w id e r,
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ina omn to
s d iffe re n t wo rld s for
Phine tbusting. H e a vy spa ce ships bom ba rding
craggy planets_ So m e th in g a long the lin e o f
Alie ns w it h de sce nt ve hicle s plunging d o wn
Into the a tmosphe re a nd te a ring the cra p o u t
of a lie n citie s. I t s quite a n inte lle ctua l t yp e o f
p ro d u ct '
Will there be ground objects?
'ivhen I pick up a simulator the first thing I ever
do is find a bridge or try and fly through a
hangar, things like this. I'm not interested in
authentically landing a 747 at Gatwick, I just
want to do the stunts and stuff. So I want to
force that kind of action into Air Duel. Every one
of the scenarios is structured for this kind of
thing. There are stunt positions and opportunities
scattered throughout the maps. These are
actually useful in gameplay terms. Pulling a stunt
during the course of the game translates into
extra score, fuel or weaponry. Imagine, if you're
running low on fuel the conflict is going to end
real quick but if you can manage to fly under that
bridge with the amount of fuel you've got
available you could go back to full fuel and
weaponry and have that as an advantage over
your enemy.
Give some examples of these stunts?
There's some quite dull ones. There's bridges
and things that you have to undertly.
Barnstorming. There's barns and various
buildings that you have to fly through. And then
there are some more exciting ones. In the World
WarTwo scenario there's a carrier with holes
under the main deck which you can actually fly
through. Erm, are you with me? In the present
day scenario there's obvious things like
suspension bridges and oil stores. Similar to
this, there are also things that you want to blow
up other than your opponent. These are called
Active Targets like fuel supplies, ammo dumps,
radio masts, missile sites, all that sort of thing.
Of course these Active Targets are appropriate
to the current scenario. You fly over trenches
and craters filled with water - and blow-up
tanks, observation balloons and Zeppelins - in
the World War One setting. The Active Targets
blow up entertainingly and also translate into
scoring points, fuel or weapons. These are very
much gamey sort of things. They don't fit in with
a mission-driven simulator.
Is it difficult simulating planes in a
computer game?
Its quite interesting that. One of the ways that
Microprose have been useful is that the Project
Manager and Shape Designer Martin Moth can
actually fly. So he does know what he's talking
about. I do think there's a lot of bullshit talked
about flight models by programmers. I trying to
get something that feels right more than
anything else. Responsive and flyable. The
model has to be quite realistic as well. If I'm say-
ing this is supposed to be a Wildcat, people
would be disappointed if they could fly it 500
miles per hour or past the speed of sound. So
you have to tweak the model make it behave
within a reasonable set of characteristics that
resemble that aircraft. It's more about being fun
to play and fun to fight with.
Have you nearly finished Air Duel?
The surface detail is very scarce. Only half the
artwork is done. It's at that sort of stage. Sort of
in the middle. Air Duet was born out of the ashes
of the Fokker project I was doing for Activision.
If it was a team of 57 working on it, Air Duel
would be finished next week. Since its only me,
it will be finished sometime later this year. I've
got to take the prototype which is working com-
bat and enrich that up into something people
want to pay a lot of money for. So there's a lot
of work left to do on presentation. You're going
to have a really rich form of combat and options
which allow players to fundamentally modify the
way the game works. You can tinker about with
how the game plays and scores, how difficult
planes are to fly, whether you bounce-off or
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crash into the ground, and so on. You effectively
get 10 games for the price of one. It's like a
sport - one activity - which is beating the other
player. It lives and dies on that one activity.
Were did you get the ideas?
Mainly through my own frustrations with flight
simulator product. They didn't address what my
needs were. I want to blow things up and kill
other people. I wasn't interested in executing
meticulously detailed missions. That's my gut
reaction when I pick-up a flight simulator
product. In Air Duel you want to locate the
enemy straightaway. That's normally a very diffi-
cult thing to do in a computer flight-sim. You
can't look behind or around you. You can't look
into the distance very well. The tradition way to
overcome this is by providing instruments. With
a coin-op you don't want to learn about radars
and HIJOs or press keys on the keyboard. So in
Air Duel if you can't find the enemy you fire
some shots off - you've got limited ammo so it's
costing you something - and you immediately
get a big floating arrow that tells you the
direction of your enemy. This wouldn't look too
out of place in an arcade.
Care to describe any advances on the code
front?
I'm kind of happy with the way my graphics
system works. Not so much in dramatic
performance, which I think seems about to be
the same with every simulator released these
days, but how nice and easy it is to program,
This means it becomes quite inexpensive for me
to do things like, erm, getting it to do stuff. If I
wanted to show a particular view from a particu-
lar angle after something has happened, it's real-
ly easy to set-up a little program to do that. It's
all very well and good having a graphics engine
which can run at terrific speeds but if it's a
bugger to program your game is going to suffer
because it makes it very expensive to do a lot of
little effects. Mine will pay off. I can say I want
smoke to come out of this crashing aircraft just
by turning on a smoke-generator. Does that
make sense? I make full use of the computers
colours. In the World War One scenario for
instance you get 'fogging', I suppose you could
also call these depth-cueing, it's going to be
mistiness. I want to get a quite unique look for
the game. In terms of detail, you can actually
see the propellers moving round.
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VIOL first. Playing the game on Cadet level,
o going to freak over, because it lets you live out
the easiest, you are given limited aircraft dynam-
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• • Space, there's no up/down, left/right There are
enemy fighters that appear in order to earn refu-
els, o either mid-air jobs, rendezvousing with a C-
120 p Tanker (starting off automatic.., then you
have s to do it yourself!), or by landing on a carrier
or airfield.
Directional controls are on the right-hand
Joystick, along with the guided-missile trigger and
ordinary cannon button. On the left Joystick you
have a simple forward-to-go-faster, back-to-go-
slower action.
This in itself is impressive, with fast vector
action, fractal landscape and buckeffulls of sam-
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level that will let you play head-to-head with up to
20 or so linked machines!
Some early players have called it comparable
to being in a top-spec flight simulator - check It
out for yourself! It certainly takes some getting
over the conceptual wall that there is no screen -
that you're inside the game universe itself!
Ba tilesphere is the game that all SCA fans are
your wildest Luke Skywalker fantasies for real.
This is a game set in a real 3-D universe, In
a hell of a lot of alien fighter craft, however and
pled speech, s they're all out to get, you!
o u Ouch!
me! n d Top Gun style CD soundtrack to top In actual fact, they're defending their
everything
e f f e coff.t Mothership - and quite a Mother it is too.
s But once you've mastered Cadet level, there's Unfortunately, you (Or you plus a whole team of
Pilot and Ace levels that gradually bring in extra guys) have to travel over to it and take out all its
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a time. Nice graphics, good
sound and some neat pallette
effects should make this popu-
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Cheeky ( red!) devils. Lock- on with a heet- seeking missile and owe •Irno o n . r ight up the
afterburner. As you can lee, She V ir tua lity is n't afraid of s hifting whole heap" of poly gon. in a
bastion or a second.
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is its innovative use of the YR environment. Egypt. More of a puzzle
, I •
Superimposed on your view on the headset is a element than many of its kind -
k head-up display that includes, not surpnsingly, a and with more than adequate
gunsight Move your head - and the gunsight graphics - this one appears to
een • moves too - that is, it's not linked to the direction trancend its genre. Sort of.
of travel of your Pod. It's like have a laser stuck
are on the end of your nose, so you end up tracking Va ndy k e
out alien fighters across space with your head in one Jaleco -
direction, as you zoom towards the Mothership. 0
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that Roger Wilco has been around for a full four
games now, and his latest excursion is a more
lavish and incredible trip than any before must
indicate that the joke has some considerable
legs.
Wilco, inept janitor and reluctant space hero, is
confronted in a seedy bar by the Blake's 7 looka-
like Sequel Police. No ordinary constabulary
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these, once in the parking lot it emerges their
intentions are strictly for Roger's demise. It looks
as if Roger's goose is cooked, and only the swift and collecting objects, talking to characters he
actions of the friendly Time Rippers enable him encounters etc. The two most immediate points
to escape. of note are that (a) the graphics are astonishing,
And so, after a lengthy intro sequence, Roger and (b) Roger gets killed an awful lot.
finds himself dropping through the other end of It's a rough old life for a space hero these
the time rip into - urld - Space Quest )(11! His home days. Continual raids by the Sequel Police intent
planet has been virtually destroyed by the evil on Roger's discovery, deadly oozing slime down
Vohaul and is on the brink of collapse. Staring in the sewers, unstable explosives, and that's all
mutants wander the darkened streets. Burned in the first ten locabonsl
out vehicles lie abandoned and useless, riddled Avoiding these untimely ends obviously takes a
with laser-fire. What has happened? How can bit of practise, but Roger will rarely come
Roger get back to the, er, adventure? And what unstuck without some foolishness on your part.
is that pink fluffy rabbit doing? Dangerous situations are always clearly
Controlled exclusively with point-and-crick explained, and thanks to an excellent user- Wandering the de te c te d streets are cyborg mutants.
commands, Roger moves reasonably freely interface, the game can be saved in virtually any programmed by the S equel P olice and their evil " i n b u i l t,
to locate moistens., forces and convey the ir location back to
through his environment, examining, touching position with the minimum fuss. Even in move- HQ. By the tim e you see him , your ga m * is virtually over,

S O ALIVANCRO courtrrEn thrrEnTiwNmENT

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( Latt) Restrained in a sipmachair by tw o bunorn captors. Roger

m int think on his fe e t lest ha loses more tha n h i . trousers.

Below) M uch nicer “e ne r y tha n in S nare Quest X ii, a lthough

to less thr e a te ning.

Might, M a most fi endish t o r t . . . of ell a deadly HAM SlEPAOVERI the low right)
Cross-dressing may seem like • bit of a coma down t o . . lop- fl ight space hero, but
such indignities must be endured. ( Bottom) Work in the leisuro age is lim ite d. and
making • buck is la r fr ont easy. There's always wor k in the burger bars.

•
critical situations, a Save can be used without
taking up precious game turns.
Aside from the graphics which in places are
quite awe-inspiring, textual descriptions for all
major items in the game are included. Thankfully,
nocop-out 1 can see nothing of interest here" 1: 11111111111
messages are included. The only negative point •00 m u m . I M O

to make is that since the designers have gone 1An emu/dont sci-fi romp. Quick-pbc,ml and quid, w i tte d
the E ction sekton, grinds to a halt, a nd tor an inte ntion-
into such detail, it's sometimes a bit difficult to
identify what are 'useful' objects and what are 1ally tunny game it MA ftil9AS to nsaInIain a decent level
o f tension too. Even whe n tonere stuck in a de a d- e nt
*Aare are e nough jokes to keep you amused.
simply background features.
Speech is the area where the player has the
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least control. The player can click his 'talk* icon 880 With 256 Cabala tocel., a hard cane and a decent tent
onany character in the game, which may or may of wood aPC owner *mold be wood to arm 50k
• 'hoover., of iss machines made lei et • oansas
not initiate a dialogue. The player can't tell Roger
what to say_ Instead, the computer feeds Roger
Ines appropriate to his current situation. Go into
agent's retailers without any trousers on, and
Roger will have a discussion about buying scwne. RE L E A S E D E T A I L S
This format works better than you may expect
IBM PC £3499 O U T NOW
The back-and-forth nature of time-travel games
can usually turn into a pain in the neck, jaunting
all over the place to try and effect events before
theyhappen arid the like. Here the path is quite
linear, in a flexible sort of way. Rather than offer-
ing enormous areas to explore and get lost in,
the player is for the most part kept in a suite of
around ten locations, and forced to concentrate
onthe problem in hand, before moving onto the
next zone.
Indeed, the nature of the puzzles is pretty solid.
Onfinding yourself in an apparently dead-end sit-
uation, the answer will usually be close at hand.
Inthat sense, Space Quest IV is an immensely
lair game, allowing the player in theory to play
through all the puzzles first time round, without
learning too many costly lessons. This doesn't
mean the game is easy - far from it - but it helps
dispel irrational fears that maybe if you were to
retrace two-days effort and get the bunny it
would help you fly the space ship, for no better
reason other than it's the only object you aren't
holding.
Occasionally the game will demand that an
event has happened which will make Roger
'know' something before allowing another
Space Quest IV s lop- notch graphics are a le r cry fr ont those found in advenitore ga m e . only a short M oe ago. H e fty hard-
occurrence. For example, in the Galaxy Galleria disk access and soma ir r ita ting we lts are part and parcel ol the deal, a nd playing o ff fl oppy disks is re• Ily out of the
question.
MaN,Roger (for a number of reasons) needs to

t LA, AAI CED CCO AALI tI A E NT I r n . 1 4 0 E NT 5 1

 SC IEB IITEST C OSPU TEI

get dressed up as a woman. The first time I

played, after dithering around the mall for a bit, I
•• •A THOUSAND WOR D S
found myself presented with a helpful shop
assistant and was into my slinky-black number
and wig in no time. However, after coming O ne
ulao
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SO ill's nove
-scre l fe ation,
e n loca ture sRoge
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e nt!
unstuck and reloading, my visit to the boutique By wa lkin g t o the e dge o f ce rta in scre e ns. R oge r trigge rs a scro ll re ve a ling h is n e w lo ca tio n a nd
was in vain, and I couldn't get served to save my how it conne cts w it h the la st. Alth o u g h fa r from smooth, it g e n u in e ly a dds t o the fe e lin g o f
life. Since I presumed I needed the disguise to re a lism. Alm o st in t e n t io n a lly I suspe ct, the te chnique is fi rst use d in a fa r f ro m in sp irin g ma nne r,
get past the burly security guard on the door, it scrolling a round d in g y lit t le tunne ls in a n unde rground se we r. H owe ve r, it 's se cond use in a n e nor-
didn't occur to me that I had to try to try to use mous spa ce -ha nge r a nd t h ird on a bre a th-ta king a lie n w o rld a re q u it e stunning.
the Autobucks Teller Machine before attempting
to buy the dress. The teller machine does a visu-
al identity check, you see, triggering the helpful-
ness or otherwise of the assistant in the
boutique.
The self-referential nature of the plot makes for
The S katoo- Rerne in the Galaxy Cmillerle M all is •
good reading and easy ironies. A particular fi ne place to sie shopping, but it isn't ge tting the
favourite of mine is the option to travel back in adventure solved, s i l
l
time to Space Quest 1, and have Super-VGA
Roger wandering around the excellent
throwback graphics of his first adventure. Black
and white hoodlums even threaten to chase Rog
and his fancy-boy 256-colour ways out of town.
And if you think that's convoluted, how about
going to visit a software store in the future
selling (among other things) a working electronic
tip book for... Space Quest IV
The entrance to the S equel P olice
Dramatic scenes are handled well, atthough ( Left) Onside the headquarters is a to t fr om
they may verge too much on the Dragon's Lair landing bay. M OO hospitable plot* ,

style for some garners. There are instances policemen

, aren't the
sort
* of whom you
where lengthy scenes of animation precede a asli the tim e
brief opportunity for you to act_ Miss the chance
or try the wrong option and Roger will invariably
buy it Again, however, the save-at-any-time
makes it possible to jump right back into the
action at the critical moment should your choice
prove incorrect. T o w Inventory
screen ( left) o t t e r . .
There's no doubt, though, that Space Quest iV handy user- interface
is a deep, challenging and entertaining with the M b and
bobs you•re current
adventure, gaining a lot from doing away with a ,ly carrying.
type-in parser and concentrating on the team's Descriptions ot the
objects con be
graphic and storytelling abilities. accessed too.
• Jim Douglas

EXTR A ! EXTR A !

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e
se ve ra l g lo ssy ga me s-re la te d ma nua ls in the
n
n - pa cka ge . Spa ce Que st t y is n o e xce ption,
a conta ining a n e xtre m e ly use ful copy o f
g •Spa ce Piston ma ga zine , a so rt o f dige st f o r
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especially when thistimes for all
is your concerned,
first child. While
the Bitmap Brothers strain and grunt in a sealed

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aspects of Gods ltr otn • hank 'n room, all Renegade can do is nervously pace the
• s l ao fYview) Is the num bs , ot
point
we a poin you can lelb .bold. I t won' t corridor, chain-smoke like crazy and wait, wait,
be long be for e you've picked up
enough hardware to become a
veritable one ota n army. Gods is a multi-directional scrolling arcade
fbortem) A nothe r inte llige nt alien - adventure, where you must guide a hunky hero

*
this ones a fte r yoor bla nd and hops
op And down the platiormis in pursuit, through a hazardous quest to slay the vile Lord
...no
' of the Underworld. Your epic journey will take you
Te s . I can remember the good old
dayshwhe n baddies WIRE ba ddie s a nd through four distinct regions, a ruined Greek city,
Aril etr undle d mindlessly le ft and r ight
nn preset tO u l t.
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n ugly monsters, valuable treasure, sneaky traps,
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a ancient Greek version of the shopkeeper from

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shoot-'em-ups with Xenon 2, i.e. take all the best
you to Hell ideas from other games and then add that extra
something special to lift it head and shoulders
and back in their above the rest.
So what is that 'something special'? Well. for a
start the monsters have been kilted out with
latest release state-of-the-art brains. On the first few sub-levels
the creatures are as thick as so many short
planks, but it's not long before they're hunting
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harpies

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the boron. Os. come &acid_
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items and generally being a big nuisance.
Then there are the puzzles. Tripping switches
and pressing pressure pads in certain orders
can reveal all sorts of surprises, not all of them
pleasant, Sound effects are cleverly used to give
audio clues to off-screen events, such as a
switch causing a distant trapdoor to open.
There's a genuine thrill in playing through an
area a hundred times then spotting a slightly dif-
ferent wall area concealing a switch which, when
toggled, unveils a secret bonus-packed room,
Last but certainly not least are the game's
graphics. They're a wonder to behold, and the
scrolling is excellent for an ST. The Amiga
scrolling is better than the STs but not on par
with, say, Tutrocan irs - but then Turman Ii didn't
have Gods' depth of gameplay.
Now for the carping niggles. All control, includ-
ing movement, firing, toggling switches and pick
ing up and dropping objects, is via the joystick,
It's a little fiddly at first, but not annoyingly so,
and you'll soon have the hang of it. The hero also
takes his time turning from left to right and vice
versa, which can be frustrating when you're
being attacked from both sides. But neither of
these faults in any way ruin the gameplay of
what is undeniably an enjoyable product of great
depth.
Congratulations, Renegade, Go down the pub
and buy all your mates a pint and a fat cigar:
your first child is a healthy bouncy bundle of joy.
• Richard Evans

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A may have worn dangerously thin,
l
Shadow Dancer at least offers a novel was one; a man in a sheet and his pet dog.
t
twist on the theme. This time, the dead-
h hooded assassin under your control
ly

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must scour a cityscape, seeking out 4 , 1 M1 Inevitably, the dog will come off badly
and
u defusing deadly high-explosive ,

every now and again, but rather than

devices.
g Your mission is hindered by being reduced to a yelping bloodied
hordes of drug-crazed miscreants intent
h mess, it simply turns into a miniature
on your downfall.
t version of itself, useless in any fight for
Indeed, the foes you face are so fero- a short period of time,
h
cious and number so highly, that one Bonus stages between the levels offer
e alone • no matter how tough -
ninja
n extra-lives for proficient players.
wouldn't be able to defeat them all.
Peculiarly, the graphics in the bonus
o
Enter
pet
a monstrous icey-white dog; your
v and fellow battler for the Good,
661: stage are considerably more attractive
Leap into the air and
The bonus stage is actually graphically superior to than those in the main game, like the
e Each level has a number of bombs, blast away with your
deadly spinning lia r s O r 7-7
thr rest of the game, loot; ing akin to a comic book
exaggerated perspective-view up the

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all
l must be located and touched (thus allomothrely, you can
side of a towering pagoda, with enemy
of their bullets (yes,‘ they're
- 4 armed too)
send y e w dog ahead to
defusing
t them) before you can success- do your dirty work warriors hurling themselves down at
fully progress to the next level. As well will cause your warrior to conk out and
y
as
o the rank and file bad guys, extra-spe- 1i
return to the start of the stage.
you. Guiding your screen-arm left and
right to aim, you must fling the deadly
cial hardmen are assigned to protect Many of the baddies lurk in shielded
f shiruken upwards, killing the ninjas on
the bombs, and you'll need to plan your positions, behind crates and barrels their way down.
t
attack carefully for each one. which will halt your shiruken. In order to Depending on the size of your own
hArmed with both a sword (for close
get at them, your hound can be sent collection, this particular Ninja offering
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quarters combat) and an unlimited sup- ahead on an arm-savaging mission. may well prove worthwhile. Even if
n of throwing stars, you can deal with
ply While fighting off the toothsome you're overloaded with fighting product,
i
most bad guys easily. They'll fall away advances of the canine, your intended the canine slant will probably offer
like
n so much chopped liver under a hail victim stands up from behind whichever enough novelty value to justify pur-
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hiarga P ower, a nd- of. object they're currently hiding, enabling chase.
contact
a with any of the bad guys or any ir uel guardians can be a clear shot to be taken. •Jim Douglas
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[Above bottom ) Hill S treet by n i g h t The
game has full day and night cycles, w i th ti n
citisens going to wor k etc. lus t like reel life.

KRISALIS get the

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ill Street Blues

I f you have ever wondered • while watching the of control icons; and either a radio operator day and night cycles) and complex variety of
TV exploits of Renko, Bates and Hunter - what giving you details of the latest crimes being corn• game tasks are impressive but they increase the
it takes to police a tough downtown mitted, a car dashboard or a police belt indicat-
neighOourhood, here's your chance to find out. ever-so-high difficulty level, Apart from tracing
ing your current form of transport. criminals and giving evidence in the Court, you
You take on the role of Captain Frank Funllo of Command of all your officers' actions is via will also be expected to maintain a high lever of
the Hill Street Precinct, who has to keep his pop- pointing-and-clicking on icons with the mouse.
ularity up and the crime rate down by efficiently You can access the main police computer for the
supervising his highly trained team of profession- latest crime and officer statistics information, dis• AMIGA

als and thus protecting the public from pickpock- play a map of the area, send an officer to a desti-
5mom
ets, muggers, drug dealers, armed robbers, nation on foot or by patrol car, take manual
vicious killers and other unpleasant characters control over a selected officer, use numerous
one wouldn't like to meet personally. But simply radio facilities, examine any citizen's record, set
rounding up the bad guys isn't enough; once up road blocks and warn, arrest or shoot (check 0 — vorsik o n s n e . v o . . •

arrested they must be found guilty and Out the hilarious sound effect!) criminal suspects. A lthough it's quite isaly to get the hang of the icon.
successfully sentenced by the Court of Law_ Before setting off on your mission you should
based control system, the high diffi culty s e tting may
scare o i l the teseporststeM gamer.
The game starts with a flashy film-like intro spend some time not only studying the map of att=r MATINS
sequence complete with digitised pictures of all the area but also the actual reconnaissance A Ps
the officers at your disposal and mellow title patrols. Like most strategic games success 792 ,
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tune. Prior to beginning your mission you are depends on a well-planned approach to all taskF., G cr &Nato , b at matuost that
tuna WWI in g e n e smin
asked to choose the language version and the ever-readiness and quick decision-making. It ' Italy Mulche s Itst aA
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difficulty level (though even at the easiest setting would be also a good idea to practice your M ast. . • • • , 4111.0oth to a l u au s.
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I found it hard to imagine anyone other than a mouse skills (and get a proper mouse pad !I,
21st Century cyborg supercop managing to keep because the icon-controlled command system
the soaring crime rate down). RE LE AS E D E T A I ,
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S q u ash a n e w* yo u t o p l ay an y co m b i n at i o n o f co m p e t i t o rs i m ag i n ab l e c o m p u l • r vs CO M
getter. computer vs human. hum a n vs human. The computer opponents range fr om in
a bility fr om pa the tic to wor ld class. pr ov iding • challenge wha te v e r your playing quality.

Championship. A variety of options, includ- player control which gives an impression of

ing ball type, service rules, competition slightly random movement. The unusual
characteristics and the ever-so-useful isometric-3D view of the squash court
practice mode, can be selected from the makes it difficult to correctly position your
Are KRISALIS 'court'-ing icon-controlled menu system which may be player to hit the ball, but after a few
displayed in five European languages practice matches you should be able not
disaster wit h th eir latest only to effectively control the character,
(another step towards 1992?). There's also
but also to produce some brilliant shots
sports sim? an option to select and watch matches
played between the computer opponents; which will make your opponent run away in
it's supposedly designed for you to build up fear.
I t has to be said that Jahangir Khan's Sound-wise the game is above average. It
a picture of their individual styles and skills,
World Championship Squash resembles a
but it's no real help and very dull. incorporates realistic sound effects and
game released a couple of years ago. But
Like the real thing, Squash is quite difficult some jolly tunes which could make you tap
you should never judge a game on looks
to get into, but once mastered it can prove your fingers and maybe sometimes stomp
alone. Although the graphics may seem a
extremely addictive. Your player can be your feet (and that's 'maybe').
little dated compared to other current In all, Jahangir Khan's World Champion-
moved around the court with joystick.
releases, they don't affect the gameplay or ship Squash is a good sports simulation
Tapping fire and pushing the joystick when
have any bad influence on the general feel. which unfortunately lacks the graphic quali-
near the ball will play a lob or power shot to
Rest assured that Squash will test your
the left, right or straight-ahead. There's an ty of today's top games, but should bring
reflexes and joystick skills to their utmost the patient many hours of enjoyment. Don't
limits. option to let the computer take shots for
you so that you can concentrate on getting be put off by the initial chaos: remember -
The game allows you to choose between
your positioning right - very useful! practice makes perfect
two independent competition systems: a
The general feel is quite good with a very
Club Tournament played according to the realistic ball animation and not-so-realistic Torn Troscianhatarroll
league rules and a knockout World

JAHANGIR KHAN'S
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

llie cu p ro o m , wh e re yo u can save O r liMe d yo u r CUWe lla ',Pe we e

crouton by clicking on the relevant icons.
SOUASH
V S A M I G A ST

popularity among the public. Frequent gun

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your job. However, if all crimes are quickly •4 , -* opponents and two- player options offe r an addictive
solved and the guilty are successfully sentenced , long- lasting challenge.
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drawn d mo aa n Salk am ...le e k
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Rik H a rle S lifts th e lid o ft Ocean's

construction
g
Owes/ten he t
ak it ethic...
the slapstick.
style humour m
teen in S em
illainsi's E vil
fl ood m ov ie s .
e
but is nowhere
neer a2 good. -
i o M idt West and senses clerkil4

DARKMAN
or ogrommon of Dor Amon. 0 -
f
- eihrtectM s the sprite

t eepansion routines in
this JD leCtiOn of
Markman has been

T Writer/Director Sam Raimi doesn't quite live h quite diffi cMult

programmer ickfor the
West. n u / E l

h to his previous Evil Dead movies. Although

up e
i
there is an occasional glimpse of the Raimi
slapstick
s genius in Darkman, the film was a flop -
at
s the box office. Still, this fact doesn't seem to
bother Ocean. Darkman is now out on video (cert m
p
15)
o from CIC. Ocean expects it to be a bit of a o
cult on the small-screen—and possibly on
o
computer and console as well. v
f Rani describes Darkman as a "high-tech,
caction-packed Phantom of the Opera". The idea i
o
of the game, naturally enough, is to play through
m events of the film.
the
e
Aonathan Dunn is pr oud of the fe d liset the NES version of D a r k . Is a Double Dragon section
i Doctor Peyton Westlake, played by towering Darkonan is hown bir d a ls o Includes sampled sound. Fans o f the genre will be pleased
S omething you don' t he w very ofte n on this under- powered
c actor Liam Neeson in the movie, is a brilliant
Irish dock.

scientist
- working on a new synthetic skin ideal
for
s burns sufferers. Taking old photographs of provided the visuals in Strider, Mdiana Jones and is the standard platform section that you get in
bums
t victims, he's able to mould a mask using a the Last Crusade, World Cup '90 and UN all Ocean movie conversions," West confirms.
computer to recreate their faces. Unfortunately, Squadron for US Gold. Jonathan Dunn, Ocean's After these platform perils, the player runs and
y
the skin is photosensitive and cannot last longer resident artist of the audio, is composing the jumps across rooftops while being chased by a
l
than 99 minutes in light. An evil gang lead by music and sound FX. helicopter. 'This is quite a nice little level,"
e
Durant then breaks into Westlake's lab looking Darkman is in the familiar Ocean movie-licensed according to West. He says this section is a little
t an important document. They kill his assistant
for mould. A little bit of beat'em-up coupled with the bit like Super Mario Bros. Although the style is
h attempting to leave no witness, they blow
and, ubiquitous platform section and a 3D section for similar, the smoothness is a bit lacking. This is
rup the lab and Westlake with it. Horribly burnt, he added spice. The basic idea of the game was to followed by the '3D bit' where Darkman grabs
i
receives surgical treatment making him unable replicate the action of the film as closely as onto a rope hanging from the helicopter. Players
to l feel any pain. The side effects include violent possible," offers West. have to dodge traffic on the road and avoid
mood
l swings—adrenalin flows through his body Players take the role of Westlake, alias the being shot. Finally, players are thrown into a
unchecked
e giving him great strength. Westlake Darkman, and begin snapping photographs of showdown with the big boss at the top of a
escapes
r from the hospital, becomes the Durants henchmen as they briefly appear at a building. Didn't we see this in Robocop 2?
Darkman, and seeks his revenge. series of windows. So we're talking Ocean West and Clarke developed Darkman over the
f
With some design input from Ocean Software 'Shooting Gallery' yet again. If some good pics course of five months on the PC-based PDS
r
Director Gary Bracey, the Amiga and ST versions are taken, they'll have enough data to make a development system. They used the script and
o Darkman have been handled by Mick West
of mask and disguise themselves. This translates stills from the film as a source of reference.
m
(programmer) and James Clarke (graphic artist), into a few hassle-free seconds on the next stage, Interestingly, Ocean couldn't actually use the
West previously wrote the 16-bit versions of which bares an uncanny resemblance to the faces of the actors in the game. The sprite
Rotox (US Gold), Steve Davies Snooker (CDS) Double Dragon martial arts arcade game. expansion part in the 3D section has caused the
and UN Squadron (US Gold)—while Clarke has Players then enter, surprise, a warehouse. This most headaches as far as coding is concerned,

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g wmea rt tes n fr
Nom
ow ecie
knew wha t the
• fl e e t a l Rod leat
and Ocean used
to play w h e t:L A U
a kids. se ine n
3 7 r,
WILD WHEELS
W game - a nd a bla st f ro m the
e
past. The ide a ? A fo o tb a ll ga me
l
whe re the pla ye rs a re ca rs. The pa st?
l
Red Rat Softwa re .
,
h This M a nche ste r-ba se d de ve lope r
sta
e rte d out in 1985 producing ga me s
for
r the o ld At a ri B-bit compute r. The
first
e Red Rat t it le wa s, in fa ct, a n a rt
package
i ca lle d re ch n ico lo u r Dream,
Eve
s ntua lly, Re d Ra t produce d a bout
25
a ga me s f o r t h is ve te ra n compute r
before
n tu rn in g it s a tte ntion t o m ore
mairsstream
o m icro s. The Ra t-pe ck ha d
d
more succe ss w it h the Am ig a a nd ST
d rsions o f Lomba rd RAC R a lly
ve
I a nda rin) a nd I nte rna tiona l Socce r
(M
d
Challontipe (M icroprose ).
e The conce pt be hind W ild Whe e ls
a sequel t o wh a t m a ny be lie ve wa s
dates ba ck t o some o ld ne ws-re e l
f
footage o f ma nia ca l Am e rica n GI s
o surre a l sh o o re m - u p w it h ra in drops
pla ying footba ll w it h je e ps. I n the
r and a gre a t two -p la ye r te a m-up
game, p la ye rs control te a ms o f fi ve
a They ca n p ra ctica lly sp in on a six-
cars in a ra ce to bounce the ba ll in t o
the oppone nts goal_ These
a utomobile s a re a f u t u rist ic cross
between stock-ca rs a nd those p u rsu it
ve hicle s d rive n in the M a d M a x
movie s. "We 've come u p w it h some
fa nta sy ve hicle s if yo u like , • sa ys a for t h e ir ca rs.
Does West think he's a good programmer?
write efficient code which doesn't crash. I
wouldn't say my games designing skill is up
there though." West reckons his greatest
achievement has been a Mono Emulator PD
utility for the Atari ST. And did he like the
Darkman film? "It's a low budget movie and it
shows. Some of the acting is a bit dodgy. It's a
fun movie. It'll do well on video,"
Take any Ocean movie licensed game of the
past three years and it won't be hard to make
striking comparisons between them. The
defacto warehouse/platform scene, shooting
gallery and bearem-up section are all starting to
wear a little bit thin. Perhaps Ocean should
s?
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Maid W N W ,
a we i rd
~ s k i n of
(KKe vo ) Co l l e ct I m m o M I A O W
notes in the c owe d order
and rimed e a t a r e ndition of
footba ll, will a 'classic' tune in Wiz kott
on i t ho wonder-
- f u l with it?
spoke sma n f o r Red R a t. "T h e y've g o t
e le me nts o f scie n ce -fi ctkin ."
The fi rst ca r pla ye rs d rive ls a keep an • ve out for
f a irly sim p le combustion-ongine d the special M a i d iraploding
ve hicle ca lle d the Shrimp, As heads.
compe titions a re wo n th e y ca n
upgra de to bigge r, b e t t e r a nd fa ste r
ve hicle s. T h e y'll e ve n e nd-up d rivin g
monste r ca rs wh ich ca n shoot o r e a t
WIZKID cra zy odd-ba ll re le a se . Just the so rt
of th in g Oce a n ne e ds I n the fa ce o f
le sse r oppone nts.
ye t a nothe r Robocop ga me a nd the
Wild Whe e ls, a stra nge socce r- 1 1 Chris Ya te s a nd Jon Hare, b e t t e r a ppa lling D a rk man. Ta ke a lo o k a t
inspire d ga me , is pla ye d o ve r a he a d-1 "
known a s Se nsible Softwa re , w ill the se scre e nshots f o r co n fi rm a tio n
on 3 0 vie w o f the p itch w it h pla ye rs • of t h is not-so Se nsible Softwa re . The
soon be on d isp la y a ga in in the
a ble to rota te t h e ir ca rs in the g
full AC E re vie w w ill a ppe a r n e xt
de sire d dire ction. Own e rs o f tra cke d. a month.
the ir be st e ve r e ffort_ Wizb a ll wa s a
ve hicle s ha ve the a dva nta ge o f be ing m
able t o pe rform ve ry t ig h t turns. e lir ' V '
s fi r _
option. So wh a t a re the duo pla nning
d 5
pe nce , " the spoke sma n sa ys. O f feo r Wide id, so-ca lle d son o f Wirb a ll, 1.41_1 r
=
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course, a ll the se ca rs a re n 't a m illio n 1
v A "b lo ck'e m .u p " se e ms t o be t h e ir 1
1
mile s a wa y f ro m those t in y t o ys aenswe r, a so rt o f cross be twe e n •1
made b y M a tte l. Re d Rat is n o w N
Ara
l a nold and a n a ll.a ct io n bla ste r
hoping t o d o W ild Whe e ls 2 whe re r :
wit
o h a b it o f a flight-a im a nd pa int- H1
pla ye rs ca n b u y e xtra b it s a nd bobs From the makers o f Wlabeir. aticropnose
pa
p cka ge t h ro wn in f o r good , 4
Soccer
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me
m a sure . I n o th e r words, a nothe r Cattsttuction
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n 1
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t
t
spend more time on development? Batman on
a
the Amiga, for instance, was l written in less than
eight weeks. In many waysewe encourage
n
Ocean's lacklustre attempts t
at more
sophisticated software. After s all, the Manchester
powerhouse has been voted o Software I-louse of
f
the Year more times than I can remember. Lack
of originality doesn't really matter when you're
assured a top five hit in the charts—or does it?
Consumers want to try something new thesetolnell teernealay -
we've seen this en before
occasionally. Ocean are certainly not the only from Ocean.
offenders, but as arguably the top softco in the • Grap h ics, wh i l e a1111 hn
ti.0 .1 1 D .O a $ t a g e s , w o o l
country, they have a responsibility to lead by Apotons to o h o t.
example, and break this slightly over-familiar
mould.
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As a n Elf yo u m u st ju m p . d u ck a nd shoot yo u r wa y through trouble .
ELF
A l f The ideas for Elf just sort of came
together," says Paul Oglesby of Nirvana
Systems, it's quite hard to say how the game
actually developed. We just thought of the Elf
character and the rest filled around that."
Oglesby is in charge of the graphics and
Damian Sim his mate from University, is
programming Elf This is the first computer
game they've worked on and, amazingly, Slee's
first attempt at machine code programming.
Even considering these potential stumbling
blocks, the team think they've spent far too long
on the project. They began the Elf back in
February last year. -
W any
by e other games, though we did used to play
a
wlote ofr platform
e n ' t games on the BBC micro."
r e a arcade
A lively l l yadventure, Elf is split into six
levels. Each of
u these
e span over 100 screens and
i n fl
is filled with different backdrops and creatures.
n c e d
First comes the Forest with trees and hills in the
background. Next you're outside the ruins of an
old castle complete with crumbling walkways
and underground passages. Here men-at•arms
give you grief with spears, shields, cannon and
flamethrowers. Progress across the lake using
stilts and a series of platforms while dodging
flying fish and a few other things. Run away from
swamp people and slime beasts. Venture into
the caves filled with dwarves mining precious
crystals. Don't forget you've got to rescue your
girlfriend from the evil gang.
Elf is very puzzle-orientated, although there's a
lot of shooting and jumping involved. These
C orne lius the Elf in on a que st to sa ve h is g irlf rie n d
puzzles stem from Oglesby and Slee sitting
from a n e vil ga ng.
6 2 ag y A K E D COMPUTER INIe n u m am p rr
down together and hatching silly ideas.
Characters in Elf are all intended to be
humorous. The things they want are silly, like
the old lady who is after a pair of false-teeth.
The whole thing joins together as one big
joke," confides Oglesby. You must interact with
and talk to these crazy creatures. Along the
way you bump into a series of shops where you
can swap the junk collected on your travels for
more useful spells.
The gorgeous graphics seen in the game
would sit very comfortably on a Japanese
console. Does Oglesby think Elf will appear on
the Megadnve? 'That's up to Ocean." he
confirms, The boys next project will probably be
a space game, they're not saying too much
about it at this stage.
J
II,
ga me m usic a nd sound-e ffe cts f o r the pa st
fi ve ye a rs. This 2 2 •ye a r-old e ffe ctive ly took
oove r f ro m M a rt in Ga lwa y a s Oce a n's m a in
rmusicia n. As a te e na ge r he tin ke re d w it h h is
w
C64 in the de a d sile nce o f night, ju st like most
tboys d o a t tha t a ge . D unn ha s wo rke d on 30-40
tq a m es o ve r a m u lt it u d e o f fo rm a ts - f ro m
h
Spe ctrum a nd Am ig a . PC t o Ga me boy. N .
a
re ce ntly a dde d console s t o the e xte nsive list o f
n
ma chine s supporte d. D unn is lo o kin g f o rwa rd
D
to
u ge tting h is fi rst a ssignme nt on the N inte ndo
Supe
n r Fa micom wh ich he 'thinks ha s g o t the be s
a
n udio spe c o f a ny ma chine on t h e m a rke t
tha
h nks t o e ight-cha nne l sound a nd b u ilt - in e cho
e ffe cts, "C re a tin g good q u a lit y a udio o n the ST
a
s a re a l b it ch , " sa ys D unn. "I t w o u ld be nice if
Is
b
more R ola nd sound m odule s we re use d b y ST
e me pla ye rs. I ju st use sa mple s on the Am ig a ."
ga
e These Am ig a sounds a re cre a te d using the
n
Future sound sa mple r ha rdwa re a nd Au d io
M c a ste r it e diting so ftwa re . D unn ha s de ve lope d
r o w n m u sic a nd sound-e ffe ct routine s f o r
his
e
each com pute r a nd console . I t ca n ta ke a nyths
a
from
t
t w o hours t o t w o we e ks t o produce a
single t u n e Som e tim e s he h it s the Kcwg
i
ke yboa rd t o w o rk o u t a tune b u t fin d s it ha rd t
n
p in p o in t h is musica l influe nce s, "I ' ll list e n to
g
acnything re a lly, f ro m De pe che M ode to D ot
!oAlw a rd ." Eve n so, D unn se e ms t o ha ve a n
amffe ction f o r soul-funk a nd I s cu rre n tly kickin g
apround a f e w ide a s w it h a frie n d a fte r wo rk.
"Iu 'm not in t o the M a nche ste r-sce ne o f Ha ppy
M t onda ys a nd Stone Rose s. I ke e p a wa y f ro m a ll
the a t." T h is is a gre a t sha me , it wo u ld ha ve been
nice
r t o ha ve a n i n d i e
,Ocean ga me .
d a Itn co
c em e ts ars a
kincd okf a shock th a t Gunn dislike s
o
doingnthe sound FX in ga me s, su re ly t h is is the
tmost him p oert a n t a spe ct o f h is job. "I t 's ha rd
n e x t
synthe sising the e ffe cts whe n yo u ca n't sa mple
the m. Yo u 've he a rd Hume e ffe cts 2 0 tim e s
be fore . I n o rm a lly use sound FX re cords a nd
t a p e s.'
Eve ry so ofte n D unn le a ve s the sa nctua ry o f
his m u sic studio t o d o wa cky things, like the
time he ra n o f f w it h his g irlf rie n d t o ge t
ma rrie d in Los Ve ga s.
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the es-Oces out a t the wa r tone in this Hercules transport. h multi- directionality scrolling backdrops are very
The
impressive. Full of colour, de ta il and variety, the y 'r e a joy
Y ou've got to run alongssd• the ta x iing 'plane, a v oiding too b e h o l d W h a t . sh am e yo se ve g o t t o b l o w i t al l u p !
enemy fi r . w h i l e pum ping the fuselaga k ill of lead M ight)
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( Above te ntr e l
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blast away great <hunks o f the landscape P ur im • fe w shots l stage you're placed on a r a ilne y hods tha t slowly
this
rolls up-screen, ta k ing you past • gia nt loco. As you slow-
into this wa tc h towe r and wa tc h n spectacularly explode, lydtru n d l e p ast, yo u ' ve g o t to b l ast a w a y th e I . i h s I sh e l l -
leaving behind the charred slumps of the s uppor t! an d ro cke t-l o b b i n g e m p l ace m e n ts.

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and welcome to E arth," halts
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cour se of wal l s, hol es a nd y e t m or e
the
1 little groeh monster. monster s.
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m r outhe d M lle m o b !
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the e x pe c t on t he fi r st l evel . Whi l e i t 's
g c braver i e s&standar of
freedom.
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blast
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s be doi ng a n e x c e l l e nt l ob. The al i ens

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to ar e f a s t - m ov i ng, w e l l - a ni m a t e d a nd
l i ttl e l i k e G ol de n Ax eht w i t h al i ens a nd ver y ugl y, a nd t he scr ol l i ng
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a nd w a v e a f t e r w a v eor of l e a pi ng, t he y ' v e done on M o r t ' , t he n w e ' r e i n
u
scr eami ng wei r dos; arfend a r a pi dl y - for a t r eat .
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legions of al i ens t o a fi na l
confr ontati on w i t h t he Al i en Br ai n
aboar d i ts huge m ot he r s hi p.
Al i en Stor m constantl y keeps y ou on
your toes by c hoppi ng a nd c ha ngi ng
between t hr e e di sti nct ga m e pl a y
styles as y ou pr ogr ess t hr ough i ts
many l evel s. Y ou' l l ge t t o pl a y a hor -
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JEERS TER (some of which is still Top Secret).

In (fight the 'planes are pretty easy to handle,
and forgiving of pilot error, though combat
certainly isn't - the enemy pilot's are cunning and
vicious. The 3D is stunningly beautiful: even on
an under-powered 8MHz PC the speed and fluidi-
H ot from the
deadline, States,
comes and justAdvanced
Jetfighter before the ACE ty of the detailed images is very impressive. The
Tactical Fighter. When released in America the 'plane can be viewed out-of-cockpit from any
US games magazine went wild, with PC Magazine angle, with the camera smoothly panning
hailing it as the best flight simulator on a desk- between the various viewing angles..
top computer, period!" Due to the proximity of the deadline, I haven't
briefi ng and checked out the Anyone who has played F/A-18 Interceptor (still spent enough time on the game to give it a true
onemy positions on the map, one of the best Amiga flight sims after all these Preplay, but my initial impressions are that those
ta pping RETURN will ta k e
you on a vertiginous years) will get a definite feeling of deja vu when highly-praising US garners may well be right. The
fl ight down to whe r e they take Jetfighter II for a spin. The control full review will appear next month.
your 'plane is wa ning
and straight into system is almost identical, prior to take-off • David Upchurch
the cockpit. there's the same exhilirating aerial camera zoom-
in on the cockpit and the 'planes have the same
Jot
k resilience to stalling that bad pilots love! This, on -some beautifully- ren
t glancing at the game credits, is not surprising fidared
g ID . Here's your
h htomicet
te heading o ff
e because the designer of both Sims is Bob rinto the stanset - gar-
m Dinnerman, who also wrote the Bally coin-op igenus!
i f
s Discs of Tron (remember that?). f
s On booting up the first thing that impresses e
i a
o ,bout Jetlighter11is the sheer number of t
n missions • there's well over 100 to u
Just litreP A- 18. the
game world's
' t a c k l e (there's even one called rcentred around the
e
San RAOCISCO bay
Mission Saddam!), all with the s
* to o SO you ran
accent on fast action. There are relive those happy
memories of hur ting
several jets to try out, including the the Golden Gate
F./A-is Hornet, 1-16 Falcon, F-14 Bridge.

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term convertcomic
loosely) a top-selling 'adult' (I use
into a computer from the various characters (though it's amazing 5'
game? Particularly one featuring bizarre how jokes that make you laugh on the printed
characters such as Finbarr Saunders (and his page often die on the TV screen),
double entendres), Sid the Sexist, Mrs Brady the Unfortunately the biggest problem with Viz is
that, although very playable, it's too simplistic 4 Einim;L
Oki Lady, Aldridge Prior (the hopeless liar) and
Rodney Rix (he throws bricks)? and lacks variety. The six sub-games are all 1
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before you've seen them all and become
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eoduofg it,
h a nd the game doesn't have enough de pth
between Johnny Fartpants (with his amazing flat- nuk
l i m i persevere
e you t e
ulence force), Buster Gonad (who has unfeasibly completely proficient in them. The races d 1
large testicles) and Biffa Bacon (the pathological- themselves are fun for a while, and there's a cer- a Am tu itio n ,
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tain urge to play on to see the new courses and a
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control, who must then be guided through five frustratingly so, you're a big fan of the comic e y ,
onine thos the sound g i ro s anr M a O W* san d e r
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horizontally-scrolling race courses, set in the then you'll get some fun star spotting, but those o to sal you
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lisions cost your dazed character valuable game and not one double entendre. I wonder if I 695 b
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seconds. can keep it up. ttwo wre n dOWN the side of tha g o o n s o re .
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Each character has special powers which can •David Upchurch stu ras a s g re at %cif it a sough challe nge tio to o
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be called into play during the race by tapping or u
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games before each race (see the 'Place your R oE L E A S E
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. • H olding d o wn fi re f o r a se cond the n
plia ble p lu m s a nd bounce o ve r a ny
ACE's a t-a -gl a nc e gui de t o t he sma ll obsta cle s.
thr e e c om pe ti tor s . ta pping it b u ild s up a Johnny spe cia l -
the me ga -chuff - t h a t 'll bla st h im • H olding d o wn fi re f o r a se cond the n
down the tra ck, sha ving va lua ble se c- ta pping it wh ip s out Buste r's spe cia l
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0lim it . An d wh a t d o ba lloons ma ke ? A Plum pa nca ke tim e ! Ag a in st the
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game has a fairly limited scope but gives you
with colourful graphics and animation; either plenty of control over your strategy and tactics;
historical authenticity or excitement seems to fall you fight a small battle rather than an extended
by the wayside. In the case of Cohort, though,
campaign. Each of the dozen scenarios has a
the combinabon comes off fairly well. History
definite objective - take that bridge, hold that hill
buffs will find enough to satisfy them, while - but you can also define your own scenarios.
arcade addicts will be able to keep their eyes The game is entirely mouse controlled; you
open for a change.
control the Blue army, your opponent the Red,
The success of the Roman civilisation was
with each unmounted figure on the screen repre-
based on their military prowess as much as the senting 100 men and each horseman 50. You
sophistication of their laws and government; in
can choose one of eight pre-defined armies, or
other words, smash the barbarians first then define your own,
build them an aquaduct. Cohort puts you in
There are seven different troop types; light,
charge of one of these civilising influences.
medium and heavy cavalry, archers, light,
Like Impressions' last hit, Rorke's Drift, the medium and heavy infantry. You also have a
choice of four terrains; open field, bridge, cliff
and hill. An overview display shows the whole of
the landscape with troop positions.
The screen display features a number of icons
at the bottom, which access different
information displays and control options such as
game save; the main window showing the battle-
field; and control windows which pop up in the
middle of the screen.
You can issue movement orders to individual
figures or groups by clicking on the appropriate
icon in the command window; to move a short
distance, select a group, return to the main
display and place a cross on the point you want
to move to. For long moves, use the directional
arrows to select the direction of movement. You
can then scroll around the battlefield, watching
your forces move into battle, and monitor their
progress by clicking on the icons for attack
strength, defence strength, missile power,
morale and numbers in the command window.
A number of different battle formations can be
selected, but you don't have the option to go for
exotic manoeuvres like the shield-backed Turtle,
more's the pity. Once you have selected a target
for missiles, firing is automated.
One of the best features of the game is the
realistic background soundtrack of thundering
hooves, clashing swords and the screams of
dying men. When two units clash, combat contin-
ues until one retreats, is wiped out, or loses its
morale and is routed. A statistics display gives
you the totals for alive, dead and routed for each
army, and a 'Fast-Forward-Baffle" mode allows
you to move quickly through the battle.
With lack of efficient communication between
forces, this form of warfare presents
extraordinary challenges. Cohort manages to
present all these challenges in a colourful, enter-
taining and fast-moving form. Ws a killer!
• Chris Jenkins

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ten ge t an ins ta nt
idea o f the
colourful Roman ro mp relative army
strengths.
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D wait, not daring to move a muscle for fear

e
of alerting the enemy ships passing high above.
One
e submariner slowly raises his hand to wipe a
bead
P of sweat from his eye, clumsily knocking a
b spanner to the floor. The metallic
e clang rings around the vessel like a
bell. There's a moment of heart-stop-
l
ping tension. Has the enemy heard?
o Seconds pass, then minutes. The
w enemy ships move on. The crew • for now •
t are safe.
h Tense stuff • anyone who watches those
e '40s war films BBC I always shows on dull
w Sunday afternoons will know the scene. Can
a Das Boot generate a similar atmosphere of
v nervy claustrophobia?
e Initial impressions are mixed. The manual
is interesting and filled with some fascinating
s
facts about U-boats and their crews. The in-game
t
presentation, however, can really only be
h
nt describd as adequate. Although the main menu
Will Veen submarine is e an attractive drawing of a U-boat under
al under attack Irons has
o(J MINDSCAPE's tw o enemy c r a ft s
attack as a backdrop, the rest are very drab,
The subtle pa le tte
U-boat sim used for the u
largely being point-and-click lists on a plain grey
underwater scenes b
background.
gi ve yo u t h a t provides • pleasing-
ly rniarky-looloing mThe number of variables that can be altered is
environment.
sinking impressively
a large. The player can choose to
control
r one of three U-boat classes, and define
feel i ng? how realistic (and hence tougher) the game is by
i
or adjusting
n how reliable the torpedoes are, how
quickly repairs are made and whether equipment
e
el developed post-1941 (when the game is set) can
c be installed.
(Right) r Before beginning the missions prop-
Negotiating an
underwater e er, there's an option to get in some
minefi eld. The
ability to steer w Baltic training, where you can
while notc hing
the proceedings practice skills such as shooting down
from an ' out- of. enemy 'planes with the deck anti-
sub c a m e r a
nukes life much aircraft gun, navigating through a
* m i n O n the minefield, avoiding depth charges and
game's most
realistic setting torpedoing enemy vessels. This is a
the external nice feature, as it allows the first
cameras are dis-
abled and you've -time player to get straight into
got to navigate some action.
Wa n g
instrurnenti ( Above) The
mthmarimr5 main con-
There are only five missions on offer, each set
AMIGA trol r oom . By clicking in exotic locations ranging from the chill Arctic to
on the rows, o f icons a t
the base of the ocreen
the warm waters of the Mediterranean. The
(Below) M anning the anti- aircraft
guns . one o f O n s o o t . more you can gelidity switch missions are generally seek-and-destroy based,
arcade hike aspect.. The guns can be twe e n the
be r ota te d, elevated and fi red submarine's various and their difficulty veers erratically between very
using the mouse. The 3D wor ld has stations. Y ou can send easy to very difficult. One mission, which simply
high and low de ta il settings, w i th a and receive messages
corresponding change in garne (some of which may involved sailing from one side of the map to the
speed. need to be decoded) in other while shooting down wave after wave of
the radio room, loa d up
( Bottom) N a v iga ting. surface illes Niger, presents/.on is romement but inks gloss th e n o n , torpedoes in the enemy aircraft, was completed on my first go.
atineheld bor n the c om ing towe r once& the standed Workbench din rework., when the semnd
h e t as easy as it looks. The tr k k is disc needs inserting es symolornald of this. The sibikty to practice ( apprognatelynamed) Another mission involved hunting down three
eagle of the more ending wernarine activities makes the germ torpedo r oom cheOk on
to slowly edge for wa r d, ta k ing care
instantly accessible but the limited number of nnilieleltel Nome of the s hips performance enemy ships; after a long hunt I was blown out of
not to sweep into mines whe n
turning the sub. Much cm he completed own easily) cans doubt sui On game, and damage status in the water within seconds of encountering the
lifesosn. the engine room. plot •
course in the map room first ship.
ise:a RAMIS
end man the thip's can. While Das Boot is enjoyable enough, what it
AMI G A non and anti- aircraft
lacks is any real feeling of tension or
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atmosphere. Apart from the occasional
Aooneat
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, in hand ne m th e meow - disembodied status message from your First
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l lacking in detail and be repelled some of the
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least because the intricate interiors to many of circumstances, when flying up a blind alley or
f facing an especially well-protected end-of-level
the generation-craft are so complex, a large
fship simply can't negotiate its way around monster, its advantageous to fire off the pod
iinside. and then guide it deep into the heart of the
c hostile zone. By making contact with the 'soft'
elelight) part of the target, the pod inflicts an equivalent
All y our ft- Type
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mechanics of flying.
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You'll need to build up to remind critics of the Gameboy's visual capabil-
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mfull
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question of remembering to be at the right

F or butthousands of years,
one objective... thethe Burai have
conquest had
of the uni- place at the right time. Most of the fun comes
GAPAEBO t
verse. Not only have they created huge armies from exploring the little alcoves which can yield
5 of robo-mutants they've also signed up Max extra goodies. The aliens are pretty easy to
Boyce amd Mike Harding and Barbara Dickson destroy, you'll have more difficulty fiddling
1-4 for a interstellar tour. Your mission, understand- around with your direction of fire than handling
this laser-canon fodder.
ably enough, is to stop this misery. So strap
0 how dz y I n P I O N T V - vomit your proton pack on, charge up your laser The backdrop graphics and boss sprites are
fine, but the small size of the sprites is
cannon and get ready to blast some Bural.
Plenty of a r tio, plenty of blastinia paterte tA fi n,. In the showe
telTn. The * t e t t e e p lo re tte n e le me n tbt% to in te re stin g p lu s o ve r O- Burai Fighter Deluxe is split into five different disappointing. A little more effort should have
rm e b id d o r. Len t co mp e te on th e h e llo e d ,' s t e t .
stages, each filled with scabby starfighters and gone into creating the music and sound-effects
Burai end-of-level boss sprites with tabby names too. Those broken dishwasher bleeps and pings
such as Giganticrab, Jawsipede and Fangskull. just don't cut it. Were the wrong notcs intention-
a a WI NG
al? Have I missed a new Japanese audio craze?
. th i t
you hadn't guessed by now, this baby is yet
another scrolling shoorme-up. You start the I think not.
Po
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7 ,. o Genetot gunfightPus month Stittotos woof game with a simple gun which can be upgraded
t orfong 1 1 1 * , 16 cm, of dodo .111 to meaty missiles and rip-roaring rings.
8 o, h e, e s to turn down the onditiod
oileoude
' w e e The screen can scroll in all directions so it's
t quite easy to miss a pick-up, bonus or escape
1 a
l route. Sometimes the direction of the scroll Special thanks to Shokana Consoles
(081 3 4 0 8 5 6 5 )
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Fleets of alien cr aft

M ats W o v e your KANEKO take to the skies
eyes and bolsin to
blast ( le ft) . The
cityscape hurtios pest in yet another Megadrive
St you do ba ttle over-
head. 'inset) , shoot-'em-up

C a'eam-up?
nMegadrive
Kaneko owners bearthink
obviously yet another shoot-
so. Aero-
5 Blasters is yet another in the long line of
turn-the-handle-and-crank
scrolling
2 firefights. Anyone who's played a
1 modern
em-out blaster will know the score: fight your
0 way
h o r i z o n t a l l y - endless supply of alien
through a seemingly
scum, picking up power-ups and boltons along
ge nbatioare e t se riamly g e ts th e adre nailirse p u mp in g . wi th its the way, to a final confrontation with a massive S wirling boiniskyts
e taious oe ntaught at e n e my sh ip s an d we t* ran g e o t ieneininerovelly tall fr om the sky
p o we rb st litiolt-ww. b e t th e ab ility tts tin ke r n i th th e g an se is
guardian. (above) D oing bat-
tle with the
le nie ncy we th e 'O p tio n W M e a me an s th at e ve n th e p o o r.si piece-
stewild he abb. in complete Ow rowdy lais levels in undry
To be fair, Aero-Blasters does have a few enormous end- Of-
week.
features which, if not completely novel, at least level guardian is

add spice to a somewhat-stale brew. For a start to be ta k e n Nuttily

M OO,
• MEGADRIVE there's the option for two players to
. . . o v a . . . , ',kiwi's:ea:ler-rad
• so o lle g . to , th . ot giant alie n
simultaneously take on the alien might.
le l.t and pounding bangs we t boen Then, on some levels, there are areas where
Tlicr • r e e d , ' a little sate ispre d and ure sic.
r• • • .1 the caverns narrow to ridiculously-thin tunnels. If
Sassi,eri...Ay
oil wo
i , don't weilet to be playing it in • EMS
e ' . lime .
that were not enough, the scrolling increases to
, H e i
hyper-fast speeds. Somehow you've got to try
1 * l ?
t
LE
h
AS E D E T A I L S and avoid smashing into the walls. Believe me,
it'll leave your joypad drenched in sweat!
unusual. A supply 'droid is periodically
despatched from home base to help you out.
MEGADRiVE n Shooting it a couple of times causes a stream
E25 99 O U T NOW The power-ups are impressive yet familiar,
i of power•ups to be jettisoned into the air. You
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a
though the way that they're obtained is a little then have a few seconds to try and pick the
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irapointing. Some have been dull. Others
have simply been uninspiring. Midnight r
Resistance is something of a first being down- "P
right shoddy.
"1
Home computer owners may well remember h d ir

Ocean's version of the game, which was excel- a

4 Aanie sicht ile sislat• se e b e b arite ahorte sh o o kt e le ki • re stsoise llille
lent on virtually all formats. Alas, owners who 5 amo u n t o f oate lle at be e thing,* 'se ve r g e l b e tte r an d th e giant*
1 fails to aa isle t, e ve n An ab o ve m e m f p Aortormer S i t u , q u aky.
have since purchased a Megadrive and wish to i
relive the thrills and spills of infiltrating and ACE le atlie S
ME G A DRI V E
1
destroying a heavily guarded enemy base will
1
680 Vrenet ttthohrhote rut m ew why the Allegaserve
be sorely disappointed. v• b e in • rie A l e . SO the 14-bit

The player begins, after some pleasant 1 •••. h at rt inaiSsges to l i i 0 . , Vie llially at b e n ts

enough intro sequences, riding along atop a 'earl ' A

jeep driven by a flaxen-haired comrade.
Immediately, he is confronted by a team of
exceptionally agile assailants, who can kill him RE L E A S E D E T A I L S
simply with a touch.
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Initially armed with a rapid-firing machine
gun, the player can fire in virtually any
direction, being able to crouch down, lie flat
on the floor, fire directly up and down, as well
as firing on the run. It's here that Midnight The S tore Rood&
It's the contrest I n Asir* tha t makes you go "O h l ' N a r r owing Resistance runs into its first difficulties. k a y t can be
passages “reassi pest a t highest speed te s ting your fl ying enchenged for i t' l l a
skills at the ( T o n i . while an alien- intensive wave ( abovo) Offering such a wide number of possible weapons. a m e nd
and bullets. The bet-
is more of a le s t of your trigger linge r . E nd o f level guardians positions means that there's no 'cushion' area ter the we a pon, the
are nothing basically new. but a t least the y are polished and
h•se their innovative touc h. ( below) . on the pad. If you want to fire diagonally down nue * keys you need.

I d M a e - M a - • • • • • M I

How has DATA EA s top-quality coin-op fared in its

k no= lengthy conversion to the Megadrive?
47
ones you need before they drop off-screen.
-
Aero-Blasters has several design faults that game's healthy exuberance and continual
detract from fun. And, in keeping with the blasting.
, The end of each level leads you to a shop
games unoriginal gameplay, you've seen them
where, depending on the number of keys collect-
all before. There's the stupid game designer's
ed in the last stage, you can buy' extra
favourite "Lose all your power-ups when you get
killed" one and, from those lazy game designers weapons. There's three-way fire, a flamethrower,
who can't be bothered to think up new and excit- a more beefy laser and extra ammunition, each
offering an easier route through the next stage.
ing attack waves, there's the classic -
On the second stage, however, the cracks real-
screen
F i l l twith
h so
e many aliens and missiles that
there' i s - • l a y e r can possibly survive ty start to show. As you work down the level, the
The game kiosks okay
status area and your on-screen persona remain
.. iggles aside, the • : • oblem with Aer to begin with. as you
ride into town a top visible, while the rest of the screen setup
.Blasters is its longevity, or r ••• r lack it - and you, fe llow comeade'S
this tends to be the case with a egadrive Otto labowel. Things absolutely falls apart, appearing a second or so
ith six
deteriorate s wiftly . afterwards, scrolling down from the top in fantas-
games. Playing on 'Normal' diffi though, whe n the he r

cred e s each go e to end of M i . vertical screiNng tically ugly manner. Any hopes the designers
begins ( eight) .
fourth level on go - and t re are may have harboured about creating some sort of
dly there's an and right, you have to put the controller in atmosphere are instantly dashed. It's like having
only six levels in all. Ad
tons' screen wh you n put the ga on exactly the right position. Partially owing to the some really fat smelly bloke coming into the cin-
ah tting and duce the nu ber imprecise nature of the control pad, and parttc- ema and sitting down beside you when the film's
of c many have e willpower uarly owing to the necessity to aim in an been running for ten minutes.
do extremely accurate manner, you will continually Indeed, the whole game is spoiled with rough-
Aero-Blast vs just abou find yourself on the receiving end of a bad edge coding and an unpleasant feel.
co p to s • It plays II, the actio guy's fire whom you simply couldn't point your If there were any Megadnve garners still happy
fa sound' d. But if u're looking gun at. to buy a coin-op conversion simply because of
their fondness for the original, Midnight
w twist on the gen or th timate sh o Despite these frustrations, the first level is
estolook okay, and while the animations for the sprites Resistance should convince them otherwise
'em-up challenge then j
are basic to say the least, you can warm to the Jim Douglas
elsewhere.
•Davisi Upchurch
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divide your party, select a character, choose a
weapon to use, return to the animated display,
move a cursor, hit the fire icon_ spontaneous it
ain't, and it's much easier simply to run away S trategy f ens may fi nd tha t a lthough PoNnamtralreolor
offers some e nte r ta ining quirks. the y may we ll have
from a fight. already seen be ttor
Once you have gained the starport you have to
trade for navigation programs, weapons and sup-
plies, before boarding your ship and blasting off.
The ship, Interloper, has both in-system and
Jump drives; on the Jump display screen, the 28
planets and satellites of the eight systems you
have to explore are depicted on a hexagonal grid
system. Your space jumps are limited to the dis-
tance of two hexagons at a time, though we are
promised that later tillegatraveller games will fea-
ture 64ex jump drives!
Megatraveller is an extremely complex game;
every facet of the scenario, from the background
and abilities of your characters to the ship's navi-
gation, computer, weapons, communications
and life-support systems, to the type of ground
underfoot and your chance of smuggling a
weapon through a checkpoint, are covered in
almost ridiculous detail_ This serves more to
slow down the action than to increase the excite-
ment; I know RPG's are supposed to be about
thought and strategy rather than blasting, but
Megatraveller occasionally slows down to the
pace of a particularly nasty traffic jam on the
North Circular.
The PC version of the game comes on two 3.5
inch disks with a colour starmap poster and a
140-page spiral-bound manual. Its VGA graphics
Too reinplerated and slow for Ow ...Tres, t h o o • h et n• gl•
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are colourful but not overly imaginative; the star-
ship control screens, for instance, are heavily
text-oriented, and the planetary surface maps
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Ow sweep design in nuke nitx:h on•cl. P e w* animation is not particularly fast.
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be outined to fold net A pey, became • greet de&
of own Ow obviously bet. POI •Inl the gewerk .
hardly worth the effort, but the game also
Winittorrinte supports the more impressive AdLib and
RealSound sound cards.
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And the way it's shaping up so far, the tittle
looks as if this not especially depthy game may
well become a storming success for the
company who built its reputation on producing
heavyweight simulations.
Revolving naturally around a series of seek-and-
p The coin-op, designed by Microprose destroy missions in such global beauty spots as
themselves,
r was pitched at a high-brow arcade the Middle East, Vietnam, Lybia and the Persian
player sock of mashing sprites but still after some Gulf, the game arms the player with variable
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pretty instant gratification. cargos of air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, as
sThis computer version, therefore, is aimed at
well as around a thousand rounds of rapid-fire
e low-end simulations market, It bypasses all
the cannon shells.
' fiddling around with cabin pressures and
the Incoming missiles can be deflected by
s
radar beacons and enables the player to get dropping clouds of aluminium chaff, on top of
pretty
F much into the action from the off, You those Top-Gun escape rolls.
don't
• even hand to land the plane for yourself if lt's far more score-orientated than previous
you1 don't want to. And let's be honest, the fun of games from Microprose, awarding points for vir-
these
5 game is wasting the enemy birds, not tually every part of the mission where there's •
trying
c to put all three wheels down at the some skill involved. Take out a bad guy with your
right time. cannon and chase him into the ground and you'll prey hasn't eluded its date with doom.
o
The most important distinction between the two score more points than if you simply loose off a
i For gamesters who are keen to add a flight
isnthat while the coin-op would feed players pretty missile and let it do all the hard work_ simulator to their catalogue, but are less
specific instructions as to their next target and A range of views from both inside and outside impressed with hefty manuals and flight paths,
- whereabouts, F-15 on borne machines allows
it's the 'plane is available and there's even an F-15 could be the answer.
aobit more flexibility. in-missile view, so you can ensure that your • Richard Evans
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mood for a good barney, and 70s fashion once
more
t filling our streets with strange sights, what
better
h time to launch a game based on the
Vietnam War?
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in
e combining both political and military aspects;
it's not enough to win the war, you must also win
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the hearts and minds of your people if you want
o remain in power. The game covers the period
to
o1965-1975, so you have a choice of playing
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either President Nixon or Johnson. Your main
s
problem, as it explains in the historical section of
the
o comprehensive manual, is that your Viet
Gong
n opponents do not really have to win; all
they
t have to do is stick it out until you are
exhausted,
h and forced to withdraw. If you follow
the
e real-life American military policy, you will
inevitably
r lose, so to win a convincing victory you
have to come up with some strategy which
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evidently escaped the best American military
d
minds of the time.
i The PC version comes on four 5.25 inch disks
o two 3.5 inch, complete with a thick manual
or
a colour posters, In EGA mode the graphics
and
are
l fair, but design is not too imaginative; the
Amiga
l version looks nicer, while the ST is
disappointing.
t
hThe loading screens feature digitised images of
troops
e and helicopters, together with suitably mil-
itary sampled music; after choosing your
b
required language, you move from here to select
r of five scenarios. These include two where
one
a have to fight the war from the start, either as
you
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Nixon or as Johnson; and three which avoid
,
much of the political manoeuvering, including the

Flturr tc mem scree
,
S outh- E mt Asiii proved to be a tragically hostile environment.
US Troops wore c ontinua lly tolle d by the ir surroundings, out.
matched by Cher!Ws superior k nowle dge of the country.
Onset above) Helicopter gunships are a much safer way to
perform ground clearances.
*let offensive, a major North Vietnamese push of
1968; Khe Sahn, a bloody conflict featuring US
Marines dug in on a plateau with heavy air
support; and the 1975 Spring offensive.
If you choose a full campaign, you start in the
Oval Room with a portrait of the President; in
front of him are two piles, one of newspapers
and the other of official reports. Click on one to
bring up headlines which give you an idea of the
progress of the war and the mood of the nation,
and the other to issue orders.
The reports index has eight options; the first is
Maps. This gives you a colourful map of the
whole Indo-China area, and by clicking on specific
areas you get close-ups showing troop
le a r ning to
balance your pop-
silarity with even
heavier
investment in the
war is A t
impnrtaert Ireseors.
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The overall menu is he lpful
Omagh and easy to follow W A
le n) Close proisimity maps
Indicate the e current v olum e and
strength of viral- am troops. ( left)
deployments. Clicking on the symbol for a partic-
ular unit brings up a display of its name, national-
ity, strength, efficiency, morale and so on; PC
moves are entered by clicking on a unit and then 5
on a new location on the map. An 'order path'
appears on the screen, and the forces will begin
to move at a speed determined by its
equipment, the terrain and so on. If you have suf-
th e r
ficient airpower you can 'airmobilise a foot unit:
this is particularly valuable when guerilla forces A m m o. bus slowenoronsp poloteritmelitres simulation
pop up unexpectedly and engage your forces in
weak areas. M C
Back to the President's report screen, and White Awn has • wed deil going forO it Armor
other options allow you to commit troops to the t omori rot t e , a n d O O Mi cal b a c k g r o u n d
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conflict or withdraw them, commit reserves, l e m a . t h e re pe t i t i v e , a l L o o of t h e Ar m e e * mi l i t a ry
send financial aid to South Vietnam, commit air s i mAs t i o n T h e n a t . . * as t h e o a r, I m o ma i ms t h e
wrossionat imisitoenng es wry cioncult to Min
support, display a summary screen featuring the a oonclinee vinery. A the Amerce. doscovered
all-important allied/communist 'kill ratio', or
return to the main screen. These options are in
effect budget proposals for the American A n e n t w o o l e d t h e m e M i d , t h o u g h Wr y liello
Moein P e way of Ando Oben taste gamete*
government, and will not come into effect until than Me PC wirier% enough Meryl a wed deiri
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the next financial year, so forward planning is tooere
- ineleclen, with lett!)e blank areas , sone
essential. screen
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none-the-less is rather dull to play; a bit like the w
war itself, its a game of half-hearted attacks, h i
cth ihsampled mow a be embolism, and ter UMW
strategic withdrawals and inconclusive krtatOn the,omtit scheme chosen for the graphics
battles.The graphics are decent but not too eadtrOMO4 Oasheddad. The hie a funcularty bid
tWed is the Ortdrant of de Preedentk who been
imaginative, and the icons for separate units olook as if they hase been thornited tuck to the Stone
nAge
could be clearer: apart from the intro music,
e
sound is minimal.
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campaign, either from a political or military
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stops a nd the reel tr ouble starts,
Angeles 1997 is certainly no city tor o t n ta n k be ddie s s tr e a m
els anymore, Colombian and Jamaican fr ont the ope n doorways, fi ring
m ach i n e g u n s, l o b b i n g g ag n ad O e
drug cults fight each other and the police for end fi ring mortar shells.
domination of the streets. But a new element is Can you sundae?

about to come in to play, or should that be

'prey*?
Ten years before, the sole survivor of an ill-
fated military mission in the South American jun-
gle described his platoon's battle against a
bizarre alien hunter that stalked them for sport.
The creature, armed with advanced weaponry
and a cunning invisibility suit, gruesomely
skinned its victims and wore their skulls as
trophies.
Now it would appear that humans are 'in
season' again...
lmageworks' latest movie tie-in places you in
the role of harassed Detective-Lieutenant Mike
Harrigan, an officer of the besieged LAPD, who
must survive four levels of shoot-'em-up peril. IMAGEWORKS ask you to slay a little prey-er

Each level plays like Taito's Operation Wolf. of his camouflage suit, who at first is quite
The screen slowly scrolls right to left, and
gun/knife/grenade-wielding criminals walk, run,
5 content to pick off the rampant druggies but
later on, as you home in on its lair, begins to
roll and even drive on-screen, blasting away at Cool
take a more active interest in seeing Harriman
the Harrigan figure at the bottom of the screen, 1•1•14 i hang up his badge - for ever.
depleting his limited energy, Using the mouse or Ilm:11 I Predator 2 is aesthetically of a very high quali-
joystick, you can aim Hamgan's gunsight and try 0 ty - you'd expect nothing less of coders Arc
to give some back, The an imate d i n fra N. With . o l d ible lu g h ip lo ss %lash p e rvad e s th e Developments. There's a superb intro, the game
wihedla g o tta. th e ganwe 't ft.., th o u g h o h in talcay re p e titive An d
Littering the floor are scores of bullet are fo u r Ne ve lt no ..natte e h o w tough. e nough:. looks great, sounds fine and plays well. But con-
cartridges which, when shot, magically become sidering what could've been done with such an
part of your ammo reserves. Other even more AMI G A exciting licence this re-working of an old and
useful items - faster-firing guns, smart-bomb .9 now pretty tired idea comes as a real disappoint-
rockets, energy-restoring flak jackets - can be noroty
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solution to Dragon's Lair IL and lots, lots more... the
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Awesome
Starray
Smith. To obtain infinite lives and shields in •."••••••r or
A this ACE-rated space quest, play until you P courtesy of Paul!
2
, m For infinite lives in
n to the cargo/energy screen and use the joy-
get z / wo o

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this
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corner
t on the screen, then press fire on the joy- - MASM
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fp a D with a cunning way to get infinite lives As lives type PUSSYCAT on the high-score
d
b . ino the Bitmap Bros super shoot-'ern-up. n
table. Typing BUMPER during the game gives
,
u Simply
e press F7 after selecting the graphics o temporary invulnerability and typing
you
t mode
s and then during the game press I (the W
t HOOPSIE takes you straight to the final
b 2r letter
t 'eye'). level
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the enter the
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nlett,
1 _ third door.

Demon -
:
next corridor collecting all the Potions you find
on the way.
Kill the Dragon, collect the Key and come
out. Run left to the end of the passage, run left
• Now go left, enter the next door you come to, again and enter the door. Go through the third
flick the switch and come back out. Go left, go door, flick the switch, come back Out and go in
of this pixel•perfect, astonishingly-atmo- through the next door and collect the Potion. the closed door on your left, Collect the
w spheric and deadly•addictive arcade Come out again, go into the next door on your Potion, come out and enter the last door on
o
adventure. Simply follow this guide sent in by left and flick the switch. Come out, run all the the right Go through the first door, collect the
Joe
w Baskerville from Frome, Somerset, for com- way to the right, flick the switch and enter the Potion, come out and enter the next door on
plete
! satisfaction._ door on the floor to your left. Run to the right, go the right. Go in the first door, collect the
H through the next pair of doors, go left, collect Weapon and enter the second door to collect
At the Dark Tower kill the small bloke who
e the Key and go back past the three doors you the Potion, Go out, run to the end of the pas-
throws things at you and collect the potion, lust came through.
rWhen another sage and enter the door.
one arrives kill him and then his
e Run all the way back down the passage and go To kill the Demon jump and shoot him. When
mate
'so that you end up with three Potions. Once in the door on the floor right at the start. Jump he looks up dodge the laser beams from
over the spikes and enter the door. Collect the above, when he looks down stand in between
syou're in the Tower follow the instructions below
Key, go back over the spikes and out through the the hole in the ground to avoid the flames,
to a reach and kill the Demon.
door. Go in the next door on your right again, go when he moves his hand duck the fire and
n Go right and enter the second door on the
right, enter the second door and then go through when he opens his mouth go to the back of the
e
floor, then enter the first door you come to and the closed door. Kill the Goblin and collect the screen and jump to avoid the flame. Keep
collect
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the c door you lust came through, go right, collect came through, run left and go through the closed
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Chase H Q 2
Though perhaps James Jack can make life
N a little more pleasant with the following hint trying to catch a criminal than skidding
o
which'll help you get the 'No Bail Warrant' for T off the road and ramming straight into a
this
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tree.
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ST
your
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Laura,
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e and as if by magic you'll find all the road-
and read it. Pick it up again, close the cabinet, side
' obstacles will disappear! if only it could
s
get the clipboard and keep turning the pages be like that in real life!
a s
until you see Hoffman's photo. Type 'Get Wanted
i n
Poster' and go to the Court.
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then t
t comes back, open the door and then give
he h
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Judge.
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mirror
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t n
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g
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ie w
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ishbringer W, W, EXAMINE PIT, E, E, DROP SHELL AND
HORSESHOE (as they are of no further use), N,
candle for light. Go N, E and PUT BLANKET
OVERGRUE (to stop your light waking it up).
N, N, N, E, DROP CANDLE AND GET BRANCH, Now OPENREFRIGERATOR, GET BOTTLE AND
sented us with the complete solution to this W, S. S, W, UP, OPEN STUMP (on top of the hill- WORM, W, W. UP, N, E, S, S, DROP BOTTLE,
p classic Infocom adventure, which was top), N,S, PUT BRANCH INTO PIT, PULL GETGLASSES AND STONE and GET NOTE. Now
a
recently re-released at budget price. What a bar- BRANCH (to free the poor creature), DROP PUTWORM INTO FOUNTAIN to keep the piranha
gai
u n! But, before we begin, here are some gen- BRANCH and then DIG AT X to find a whistle. So, happy while you GET TOKEN. Now go E, E, IN
eral
l tip GETWHISTLE and BLOW WHISTLE... (to enter the arcade), INSERT TOKEN INTO
You are teleported across the water; there is a SLOT (on the machine), PUSH STICK WEST,
H
Try castle here, so go IN, WAIT and GET FIAT. Now AGAIN, PUSH STICK SOUTH. AGAIN, PUSH BUT-
a not to get caught by the town guards - these
are WAIT and BLOWWHISTLE again - you will travel TON. Are you sure? YES. Really? YES.
r the giant boots stomping around the town
which may even arrest you if you're not careful. back across the water and arrive back beside Now input the magic word you learned from
d the pelican to open the drawbridge. Go IN and
When you hear the guards approaching, move the pit. The magical whistle is lost on the return
y and wait a few turns before you continue. journey, however! WAIT; you will be clubbed unconscious. Waking,
away
o O.K. - now, on with the solution... From the pit go E, E, N, N. N, N, E, GET CAN- you find yourself chained to a table which is a
f DLE, W, S, S, E, E, GIVE HAT to the pelican, to part of a machine. Mr Crisp is here. So WAIT,
S game begins with you standing outside the
The gain a magic word. Now go W, S and OPEN GIVE NOTE TO CRISP, GET COAT AND GETKEY,
h Office. Go IN, WAIT and GET ENVELOPE.
Post MAILBOX, GET LEAFLET, WAIT; the mailbox will UNLOCK CHAINS WITH KEY, PULL LEVER, GET
You
e will be told to take the envelope to the uproot itself, and follow you everywhere from NOTE, READ NOTE - it tells you how to pass
Magick
f Shoppe, so go OUT, and head W,W, YES now on! So, go N. N and LOOK IN CAN to see if Alexis the guard dog and then OPEN HATCH,
(when you're asked if you wish to enter the it has a false bottom. SQUEEZE CAN and then UP,MOVE PAINTING (to reveal a crank hidden
f
graveyard), N, WAIT, GIVE ENVELOPE TO DROP CAN, GET STONE. behind), TURN CRANK (to re-open the portcullis).
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GETBONE, OUT (to leave the grave), S. E, E, E, COIN TO VOSS (to gain a ticket), IN, GIVE TICK- It is very fuzzy here, so WEARGLASSES, GET
lME BONE TO DOG (to keep it quiet), N, WAIT, BROOM, EXAMINE PANEL, EXAMINE SECOND
ET (so you can enter the cinema), EXAMINE
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s within), GET COIN, E, E, N, GET SHELL, LIS-
fish WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT to gain some E, READ MESSAGE, DROP NOTE, DROP
g SHELL (for a clue), N. W, W. W, UP (onto
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n GETHORSESHOE, N, E, N, N, E, BREAK
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asked if you really wish to EXAMINE DESK.
rside the Magick Shoppe). Now KNOCK ON The door will
DOOR, OPEN DOOR, IN, EXAMINE CLOCK, WAIT, exit, type Y and, once
oGIVEENVELOPE TO WOMAN (she hands it back slam shut, leaving you
you've left, input E. WAIT,
u WAIT. The trashcan will in darkness.
to you and asks you to read it), OPEN ENVE-
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ywa r (which is still following are carrying flares into
p- Leaving the shop you must go DOWN, N, W, you around) will leap to light. So, input S, BREAK
rDOW your defence. Both contrap- CASE WITH BROOM,
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wIVE i CAN TO TROLL. Opening the can the Troll
go IN (to enter the arcade) and STONE INTO HOLE. Sure? YES.
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CONTENTS
92 ACE Charts
At last Someone's won the ACECharts Jackpot prize! And for those of
youwho haven't caught on yet, these are the most useful charts in the
industry - because they're not based on sales (which can be heavily
influenced by licensing and distribution) but on the review marks each
game received in ALL the UKgames magazines...

95 Hardware Buyer'sGuide
Our definitive tech listings and buyer's guide. This month we've printed
sections on both 16-bit computers and both 8-bit and 16-bit consoles.

109 TheACEPrize Crossword

The magazine from outer space? (3)

110Shopwatch
Dirk Longhorn looks ahead to CDP/, the GameGear, and wonders about
the chances of a colour Game Boy.-
105 Direct Line
ToYOURmicro. Note that we've concentrated our coverage in this sec-
tion on Amiga, PC, ST, Megadrive. Game Boy and Lynx. Sorry 8-bitters.
but 16-bitters will get an even better deal out of ACEfrom now on...
111 Hot off the Shelf
Our definitive listing of games that have received top ratings in ACE
over the last few months and which should still be available on the
shelves.

117Adventureline ENS
Pat Winstanley with the latest instalment of her column for dedicated GAMES
adventurers, packed with information on where to find friends and help. M AGAZI NE

121 TheACEDiary
Our monthly guide to what's on where and what's out when

116ACE ReadersPages
Now that ACEis concentrating all its energies at the cutting edge of 16-
bit, this could be your chance to offload that old 8-bit system...
119 PublicDomain ACE has br ought you over 40 issues.
all packed stride info on ga r s .. tech-
Mark Smiddy's regular guide to the latest in PD gaming. notogy. I f you're missing arry beck
issue* - such es this one, whic h gave

122 The BlitterEnd you • actusive colwags, of the fi rst

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AMIGA
Rocket Ranger M i r r o r Image
Speedhall M i r r o r Image
Swiv S t o r m
Railroad Tycoon M i c r o p m s e ,
Silkworm 1 6 Blitz 0
.
Budget re-releases dominate this month as 3
Mirror Image's first two golden oldies get 8
the label off to a fine start.
The ACE Charts give you the
defi nitive list of top scoring
games EVERY MONTH - as C64
reviewed by ALL British games mastertronk
Silkworm
magazines. C.I's Elephant Antics Code Masters
Supremacy Virgin
A J ACKP O T WI NNE R AT LAST! Swho Storm
Well, it had to happen As reported last month, Rotherham's Phil Maxfield Super Monaco US Gold
Wh a t you can
appears to have cornered the market inthe North by offering his pals copies of
his carefully researched system - and now one of the blighters has one the You'll get a mys- Bargains to be picked up here as two
tery gam e w or th
Jackpot! The irony is that it wasn't Phil, but An d re w Alle n of cheapies head the ratings_ Slightly ironic,
up to E25 for
...yes...Flotherharm, who spotted a ll five games on the Amstrad CPC. your machine if perhaps, to see a budget version of
Congratulations Alle n - a large box is on its way to youl you can pick out Silkworm outranking SWIV.
NEXT MONTH's
In fact, we were delighted to have Andre w win the grand prize, because
top chart entries.
this is actually the last month in M itch the Stockmarket and Charts will appear
Get all fi ve r ight
In their present form. As from next month, we ll be presenting a much in any category
improved charts section - and rest assured we 'll still be giving away some
grand prizes.
and you'll get
(150 w or th of AMSTRAD CPC
softwar e! Entry
Other winners .n Round 17 we re Da nie l M orga n, Ph il Pita xfie id (of instructions are US Gold
Chips Challenge
course!), Pe te Hell, A. Johore . J. Ba rra clough Ta riq Anwa r, and C. Gleason opposite. Loopz Aucliogenic
l i ght Corridor Infogrames

THE STOCKMARKET Welltris

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Mastertronic

In a d d it io n t o our ga me s cha rts, w e a lso h a v e . b it o f fun w it h the figure s e a ch m o n th

whe n w e produce th e ACE Sto ckm a rke t. t t 's a list o f the top 2 5 softcos a s de te rmine d Infogrames grab the French flag from Ubi
by the ra tin g s t h e ir ga me s a re cu rre n tly re ce iving. You ca n se e t h e ir fortune s risin g a rid
Soft with new conversions. Loopz and
fa llin g in e a ch issu e .-
Ha ving colla te d a ll the ga me s re vie we d in the la te st issue s o f compute r ma ga zine s,
Welltris show that puzzles are one of the
we ca lcula te the a ve ra ge m a rk t h a t e a ch p u b lish e r re ce ive d f o r e ve ry one o f it s ga me s few genres free from format limitations
on e a ch fo rm a t. This is th e ra tin g th a t yo u see in the se cond colum n. So, f o r e xa mple , I f
the compa ny is gre a t a t sourcing 1 6 •bit ga me s but botche s u p it s 8 -bit conve rsions, t h a t
w ill p u ll d o w n the a ve ra ge ma rk, e ve n if yo u ca n see one o f it s title s he a ding u p the
Am iga . S I o r PC cha rts on the se pa ge s. I f a ll the ga me s a re e xce lle nt, o r if the compa ny
has ju st one b rillia n t progra m d o in g the rounds a t the mome nt, it w ill conse que ntly
ha ve a h ig h ra tin g .
IBM PC
The la st co lu m n shows h o w w e ll a compa ny's ga me s ha ve fa re d compa re d t o the
Speed ba II Mirror Image
Softwa re in d e x. This single fig u re re pre se nts the a ve ra ge re vie w m a rk (e xpre sse d a s a
Red Baron Dynamix/Sierra
percentage) t h a t a ll ga me s, a ll forma ts, re ce ive d d u rin g the la st m o n th . it 's a q u ick
guide t o h o w good the curre nt crop o f t it le s is, a nd e a ch compa ny's in d e x score sh o ws Life and Death 2 Mindscape 89.95
how w e ll t h e ir ga me s compa re t o the n o rm . For e xa mple , in t h is m o n t h 's cha rt. Core Links Accolade 85.5
D e sign's curre nt t it le s a re w o rt h 1 0 pe rce nta ge p o in ts a bove a ve ra ge - a ccording t o the Jones in the Fast Lane Sierra 77.34
industry's re vie we rs.
Although w e p rin t o n ly the t o p 2 5 compa - S oftw ar e i ndex: 76.65 With Speedball 2 recently earning rave
The M O M ever! There ani sorra very high g m *
nie s each month, w e ke e p ta bs on a ll o f reviews. it's good to see the original can
Ity budge t rinvieinet out e t the moment - the
the m, Occa siona lly a n e w compa ny w ill
I l k . . of tAlircir irnage's S peodboli still hold its own with the games of today.
e nte r th a list in g s (ma rke d w it h a n a ste risk). tilogirseseastertronies S ilkworm for instance.
This month, w e we lco m e D e monwa re t o the Chock next mosoisto I f this is • genuine
ACE Sto ck M a rke t . upward hood or whe the r the indostrys review-
Fina lly, w e d o n 't count compa nie s wh ich , e r s have had a collective boot of spring fever". WHAT THE FIGURES ABOVE MEAN...
ha ve o n ly re ce ive d a sin g le so lit a ry re vie w.
First, o f cour se, y o u ' v e g o t t h e ga m e . The n t he
PUBLISHER SCORE +/. INDEX Alternative 82 3 •5 .6 7 5.35 s of t w a r e hous e a n d - i n t h e l a s t c ol um n - t he
System 3 94 ri/a 17_35 Rainbird 82 •0. 67 5.35 aver age s c or e ( c onv e r t e d t o a pe r c e nt a ge w i t h
Spectrum Holobyte SO n/a 13.35 Palace 81,75 n/a 5.1 typi cal ACE pr eci si on t o t w o de c i m a l pl aces) t he
Microprose 89.88 +24.38 13.23 Gremlin 80.94 -3.88 4.29 ga m e r e c e i v e d i n A L L r e v i e w s d u r i n g t h e l a s t
M irror Image 89.75 +3,11 13.1 Image Works 80.48 -6.13 3.83 m ont h. D o n ' t f or ge t t h a t t he r e v i e w r a t i ngs ar e
Dynamix 88.33 .1 11.68 Electronte Arts 80.47 +17.27 3.82 t a k e n f r om al l UK magaz i nes, n o t j ust ACE, so w e
Action 1 6 87 +10.71 10.35 Elite 80 +12.4 3.35 don' t necessar i l y a gr e e w i t h s om e o f t h e j udge -
Storm 86.99 +13.32 10,34 Rainbow Arts 80 - 3.35 m e nt s her e, but all r evi ew r ati ngs are, t o a cer tai n
Core Design 86.65 +1.15 10 Audioeenic 79.21 8
+7.58 2.56 extent, subj ecti ve.
86.5 +0.137 9.85 Krisalis 78.83 .+9.7 2.18
Psygnosis
US Gold 82.52 +6.51 5.87 Sierra 7 5+3,63 1,31 SPECTRUMAND STCHARTS
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Code Masters
Ocean
82.22
82.21
+0.22
+1.33
5.57
5.56
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Oxford Softworks
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STEP ONE
Find a postcard - or write your entry on the
back of an envelope. Enter your name and
address, a daytime telephone number if you
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STEP TWO
Te us your age and which machine you own
Just in case you win
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STEP THRE E
Examtne this months charts. Then, using your
knowledge of the games scene, try to predict
Mich games will come top of the six machine
specific charts. Finally, enter on your post-
card:
• the top game for the Spectrum
lithe top game for the C64
• the top game for the CPC's
• the top game for the IBM PC
• the top game for the Amiga
• the top game for the ST
• AZ entries must be received by May 24011991.
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button, o r sale of ACE Magazine are e Ko ie tor entry.
then select any of the previous categories and • Only one entry per household Prooi of posting not tind as cyoof of delivery,
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assured that we will make every effort to ensure that the games get the
month instead of lust the top one. Then tell us
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Midwinter 2 and Gods score almost identi-
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The first correct forecast for each category four formats in all; this ST rating of 81.25
taken out of the hat wins the prize, II you get is its lowest mark in all the top fives.
more than one entry correct. you'll be entered
in further draws for each category, thus
increasing your chances of winning a prize.

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ROUND 19 Silkworm
Lone Wolf
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The top sotto° will be...(name of company)' Strong Spectrum chart with five new titles
rwise your entry may not be all scoring highly. Again, budget titles score
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Palette: 16 (2600)/256 (7800)
Colours: 4(2600)116 (7800)
TV: Yes
Moni tor O ut put No
Moni tor Suppl i ed: No
Moni tor Options: No
Sprit es : N/A/64
Speed: Slow
SOUND
Speaker Quality: Depends on TV
MI DI : No
Ster eo O utput: No
P erf ormanc e: Limited t o 1 c hannel
on 2600 and t wo on 7800.
HARDWARE
Joystick: Supplied
MI DI : No. Moni tor Options: None Ports: 2 x 9 pin D for joysticks;

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Best Buy Pric e: As RRP,
, Supplier telephone numbers are SOFTWARE believed.
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their
w own unless PR agencies are Pric e: Around 625. HARDWARE look rig
available.
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! The Star Ratings go f rom one Cu rre n t Releas es : Thirty titles due jack. STAR RATI NGS
(poor)
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r - these should be tak en int o Price: f30-35.
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e along wit h y our own needs s oftware houses work ing on titles_ Car tr i dge Mem or y: 8Mb Sound: • * *
and
n preferences. BUYLINES Existing S oftw ar e Base: Very Expansion: None N o n e
' Best Buy Price: As RRP small. Overall: • * *
t Second Hand Availability: None as C u m n t Releases: California Games
y AMSTRAD GX4000 yet is a great freebie.
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Package: GX4000 console, 2 con-
Ma in t e n a n c e : One year guarantee. Pros pec ts : Unc ertain but several
new titles in the pipeline.
MK GAMES SYSTEM
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trollers and Burning Rubber game. STAR RATI NGS BUYLI NES
Processor: 4MHz 280A Best Buy Price: As RRP Package: C64G5 console, controller
Graphics: * * *
Console Me m or y : 64K Sound: * * * and 4 games (Klax, Fiendish Freddy,
Second Hand Avai l abi l i ty: Very
Recom m ended Retai l Price: 199 f ew Flimbo's Quest and international
E x pans ion: * *
Contac t: Ams trad 0782 566344 Soccer)
Overall: * * * * Ma in t e n a n c e : One year's guaran-
IN BRIEF tee. Proc es s or 1MHz 6502
Console Me m or y : 64K
Amstrad have partly gone up the Recommended Retail Price:
Commodore path, but have wisely ATARILYNX STAR RATI NGS
£99.99
taken the opport unit y t o upgrade Graphics: * * * * * Contact: Commodore 0628 770088
the hardware_ The palette is Sound: * * * * *
irKreased, wit h multitas k ing hard- Package: Lynx with Cabfornia
E x pa ns i on: * IN BRIEF
Games
ware s c rolling and 16 hardware Overall: el k

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sprites increasing to 32 wit h inter-
rupt tricks. Unf ort unat ely the sound
chip is the same old tinny one used
in the CPCs, albeit in stereo y o u
can't have everything, I suppose
While some s oftware houses express
reservations of the mac hine being a
success outside Europe (and hence
reticent about c ommit t ing s upport
to it), many are work ing on titles for
the machine.
GRAPHICS
Resolution: Same as Amstrad CPC.
Palette: 4096
Colours: 32
TV: Yes.
Monitor Output: Yes.
Moni tor Suppl i ed: No.
Monitor Options: SCART, Amstrad
socket.
Sprites : 16, 32 wit h hardware inter-
rupts.
Speed: Good f or 8-bit technology.
SOUND
Speaker Quality: Depends on
TV/monitor.
Processor: 16MHz 6502
Console Mem or y: 64K
Recom m ended Retail Price:
£129.95
Cont ac t : Atari PR 071 388 9871
IN BRI EF
The Lynx was designed by a t eam
inc luding RJ Mical, one of the men
behind the Amiga. If that does n't
convince you consider it runs a fast
6502, has 8Mb of game storage on
its cards and supports multi-play er
games. The graphics hardware has
built in hardware s c rolling and
image scaling_ Software is a little
thin at the moment but bound to
increase during 1991.
GRAPHI CS
Resolution: 160 x 102
Palette: 4096
Colours: 16
TV: N o
Moni tor O utput: N o
Moni tor Supplied: Yes 3 . 5 inch
backlit c olour LCD
Take a Commodore C64 computer,
remov e the k ey board and stick it in
ATARI VCS an unattrac tiv e slab of a box and
what have you got? A "n e w" c on-
sole! Sales so far have been less than
Package: Both VC52600 and impressive.
VCS7800 come wit h c ontroller and GRAPHI CS
free game. Re s o lu t io n : 160 x 200 in mult ic olour
Proc es s or: 6507 (2600/6502 (7800) mode.
Consol e Mem or y: Not known. Palette: 16
Recommended Retail Price: Colours: 16
VCS2600 £39.99; VC57800 E69.99 TV: Yes
Cont ac t : At ari PR 071 388 9871 Moni tor Output: Yes
Moni tor Supplied: No
IN BRIEF Moni tor Options: RG8
The VCS2600 is a rebox ed version of Sprites: 8
the original At ari console whic h, Speed: Slow CPU, helped out by the
unt il a c ouple of years ago, remained 64's custom graphics and sound
the best s elling home games system chips.
of all time. The VCS7800 is a tarted- SOUND
up version of the VC52600 with a Speaker Quality: Depends on
faster processor, s lightly better sound TV/monitor
and vastly improv ed graphics. MIDI: No
GRAPHICS Stereo Output No
Res olut ion: 192 x 160 (2600); 320 x Per for m ance: 3 channel SAM o n e
242 (7800) of the best 8-bit sound chips.

ADVANCED COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT

HARDWARE
Joystick: loy pad s upplied.
Ports: None
S O FTW A RE
Price: Around 125.
Ca rt rid g e M e m o r y : 4Mbits .
Existing S oftw ar e Base:
Potentially huge, but small at the
moment. Commodore antic ipate
around 100 titles by Xmas.
Cu rre n t Releas es : Plenty forthc om-
ing f rom v arious s oftware houses.
Pros pec ts : Unc ertain. Do people
really want a console version of an
ageing, t hough admit t edly good,
c omputer? Software s upport is lik ely
to be pretty good f or a wh ile at
least.
BUYLINES
Best Buy Price: As RRP.
Second Hand Avai l abi l i ty: None
Mai ntenance: One year guarantee.
STAR RATI NGS
Graphics; * • •
Sound: c • *
Expansion; I .
Overall: c
NINTENDONES
Package: Standard Pack includes
console, plus 2 game c ontrollers and
Super Mario Brothers game. Mut ant
Mac hine pack as above but substi-
tutes Turtles game for mark ). Ac tion
Pack as 5tandard, but includes
Zapper gun and Duck Hunt game.
Processor: 6502_
Console Mem or y: 2K.
Recommended Retail Price:
Standard Pack £79.95; Delux e Pack
E99.95.
Cont ac t : Deight on PR 071.836 2973
IN BRIEF
The wo rld s largest s elling console,
largely because of the play ability of
some of its games rather than its
hardware, whic h is 8-bit average.
GRAPHICS
Resolution: 256 x 240
Palette: 52
Colours
TV:
. Yes
:M oni t or O utput: Yes
1 oni
M 6 t or Supplied: No
Moni tor Options: RGB, KART
Sprites : 64
Speed: Av erage
SOUND
Speak er Q ualit y : N/A
Stereo O u t p u t No
P erf ormanc e: Av erage
HARDWARE
J oy s tic k : 2 dedic ated c ontrollers
supplied. IR vvireless c ontrollers wit h
30ft range av ailable for £39.95.
Ports : None out of the ordinary.
SOFTWARE
Price: 120-40
Car tr i dge Mem or y: 1 Mb.
Existing S oftw ar e Base: Over 50
titles available here, Many more
av ailable in Japan but these require
a converter t o run,
Cur r ent Releases: Nintendo predict
about 2-3 titles per month.
ADVANCED COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT
Prospects: In the UK, improv ing
due to increased s upport - but this is
yesterday's technology.
S oftw ar e Loadi ng: Instant
BUYLINES
Best Buy Pric e: As RRP.
Second Hand Avai l abi l i ty: A few.
Ma in t e n a n c e : One year's guaran-
tee Fault y machines return to deal-
er
STAR RATI NGS
Graphics: * * *
Sound: lir*
Expansion: * * * *
Overall: * * *
NINTENDOGAMEBOY
Package: Main unit with Tetris
game.
Proc es s or: 1MHz customised 8-bit
280A
Cons ole M e m o r y : 8K
Recom m ended Retail Price:
£69.99.
Cont ac t : Deight on PR 071 836 2973
IN BRI EF
Nintendo were the fi rst company to
produce a dedic ated handheld con-
sole and n o w it seems everyone
wants to get in on the act. On refl ec-
t ion even the Game Boy was a long
t ime c oming since the tec hnology
employ ed by the display is s tarting
to look dated. No t to be dismissed
simply because of mono graphics -
this mac hine has some superb titles
and games mak ing use of the t w o -
player link -up opt ion are tremen-
dous fun (esp Tetris).
GRAPHICS
Res olut ion: 20 x 18 characters.
Colours : 4 grey shades.
M oni t or Supplied: Yes - LCD dis-
play is lit by ambient lig h t
Sprit es : 40 8 x 8 pixels.
Speed: Fast f or what it is.
SOUND
Speaker Quality: Depends on
headphones
St ereo O ut put : Yes
P erf ormanc e: Plays a lot better
t han it looks.
HARDWARE
J oy s tic k : Built-in 8-way joypad.
Portz : Headphone socketclual-
machine interface.
SOFTWARE
Price: 120-25_
Car tr i dge Mem or y: 64K
Existing S oftw ar e Base: The best
f or any handheld.
Cur r ent Releases: Increasing
Prospects: Excellent
BUY LI NE S
Best Buy Pric e: As RRP
Second Hand Avai l abi l i ty: None
Ma in t e n a n c e : One year's warranty
STAR RATI NGS
Graphics: * * *
Sound: * • * *
Ex pans ion: Dual mac hine interfac e
has lots of potential.
Overall: * * * * *
Re c om m e nde d Retail Price:
NECPC ENGINE £79.99; 199.95 (+ light gun); £129.95
(-I- light gun and 3D glasses).
Processor: 280.
Package: Console unit, c ontroller Console Me m or y : 32K,
and tree game
Cont ac t : Virgin Mas tertronic 071
Processor: 7.8 MHz 65(02.
727 8070
Console Memory: 64K internal, 8K
video. (Turbographx : I28K internal, I N BRIEF
32K v ideo.)
Japanese s oftware base is not as
Recommended Retail Price: N/A
good as Nintendo's but more titles
(US price around $199)
reach UK. Mas tertronic have given
Contact: Local dealers
good s upport t o the mac hine so the
prospects look good. Like the
IN BRIEF
Nintendo, howev er, this 8-bit
Sadly, it now seems unlik ely that this mac hine uses established but dated
machine will ever be offi cially sup- technology.
ported by NEC in the UK. Its CD-ROM GRAPHI CS
add-on driv e is now the largest sell-
ing CD unit on the mark et and is
Resol uti on: 256 x 192
Palette: 64
responsible for much of the recent
Colour s: 1 6
increase in CD dev elopment, There's
T V: Ye s
also a 16-bit version, vastly more Moni tor : No
powerf ul, called the Turbographx ,
Sprites: 64
but this is only rarely av ailable
S O UND
t hrough importers and at a price -
Speaker Q ual i ty: Depends on TV.
usually around 1300. NEC also have a
Per for m ance: 3 channels.
handheld version of the Engine
HARDWARE
whic h is s oftware c ompatible wit h
its larger brother. J oy s tic k : Game c ont roller supplied.
GRAPHICS SOFTWARE
Resolution: 256 x 216 Pric e: El 0
Palet t e: 512 (Turbographx: 1024) Cartridge
- Memory: Not known.
Colours : 32 - 16 bac k ground and 16 40
E x is t ing S o f t wa r e Base: Very
shared by sprites. good.
( t y p i c
TV: Yes Cur
a l lryent Releases: Good
Moni tor O utput: N/A Pros2pec ts : As good as
£
Moni tor Supplied: No any
5 8-bit
) console.
BWI LI NES
Moni tor Options: N/A
Sprit es : 64 (Turbographx: 128) Best Buy Price: As FIRP
Speed: Very fast considering this is Second Ha nd Avai l abi l i ty: Some
an 8-bit l Ma in t e n a n c e : One year's guaran-
SOUND tee. Fault y machines return to deal-
Speaker Quality: Depends on mon- er.
itor.
MIDI: No STAR RATI NGS
Ster eo O utput: Yes Graphics: * S r *
P erf ormanc e: 6-channel stereo S ound: • * *
HARDWARE Expansi on: * * *
Dis k Fo rma t : CD ROM at extra cost. Overall: * sr *
Dis k Pric e: Read-only so N/A
Disk Per for m ance: Superb - the CD
ROM adds a new dimension_ SEGAMEGADRIVE
J oy s tic k : Supplied wit h dedic ated
c ontroller Pac k age: Console unit, c ontroller.
SOFTWARE and A lt ered Beast game_
Price: Around 125-40 imported. Proc es s or: 8 MHz 68000 + 2808
Car tr i dge Mem or y: Not known. Console Memory: 74K main, 64K
Ex is t ing S o f t wa re Base: Large video,
Recommended Retail Price:
Cur r ent Releases: Increasing.
L189 99
Prospects: Good.
BUY LI NE S Cont ac t : Virgin Mas t erdom( 071
727 8070
Best Buy Pric e: Grey import.
Second Ha nd Avai l abi l i ty: V Rare
I N BRIEF
Ma in t e n a n c e : Watc h out - grey
imported machines rarely have any Excellent ex ample of the new 16-bit
real warranty_ console technologies. The fi rst
STAR RATI NGS decent 16-bit console to receive offi -
cial s upport in the UK.
Graphics: * t i t *
GRAPHICS
Sound: * * * *
Resol uti on: 320 x 224
Expansion: i t * * *
Palet t e: 512
Overall: * * * *
Colours : 6 4
TV: Yes
SEGAMASTER Moni tor : No
Sprites: 80
Speed: Very fast
Package: Console using c artridge or SOUND
smart card plus game c ontroller and Speaker Quality: N/A
Alex Kidd in Mirac le Wor/ d game. MI DI : No
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St ereo O u t p u t : Yes IN BRIEF Cur r ent Releases: 12 planned by Palette: 32,768

Perf ormanc e: 12 channel stereo Technically the most advanced con- the end of the year. Colour s: 256
sound is produc ed by a custom FM sole c urrently available, t he games Pros pec ts : Unc ertain, but the mem- TV: Yes
chip and sounds fantastic. are of arcade quality, wit h huge bers c lub c ould help s wing chance in Moni tor O utput: Yes
HARDWARE sprites and excellent sound, its favour. M o n i t o r S upplied: No
Joystick: Dedic ated c ont roller sup- although the gameplay is a lit t le K i n IN ES M o n i t o r O pt ions : RGB, K A R T
plied. lacking in the c urrent crop of titles. Best Buy Pric e: As RRP. Sprites: 128.
SOFTWARE The game cartridges can store up to Second Hand Availability: None as Speed: Remark able
Price: E30-50 (typically 135). 330 Mbit s of data, but this is refl ect- yet SOUND
Cartridge Mem or y: Not known. ed in t heir price - 1199.99! All is not Ma in t e n a n c e : One year's guaran- Speaker Quality: Depends on
Existing S oftw ar e Base: Good lost, since Active Sales have launched tee. TV/ monit or
Cur r ent Releases: Few in UK at pre- a club where members can rent soft- MI DI : No
sent ware f or E25 a month. Defi nitely the STAR RATI NG S St ereo O u t p u t : Yes
Prospects: Very good. system to have if you want to pose, Graphics: * * * * * P erf ormanc e: 8 Channel custom I 6-
BUTLI NES and t o be very poor! Sound; * * * * * bit PCM/digital.
Best Buy Price: As RRP GRAPHICS HARDWARE
Expansion: *
Second Hand Avai l abi l i ty: N/A Res olut ion: Arc ade quality. Overall; I t * * * Joystick: Supplied.
Maint enanc e: One year on UK Palette: 65536 Ports : One big expansion port.
machines. Colours : 4096 SOFTWARE

STAR RATI NGS

TV: Yes
M o n i t o r O u t p u t : Yes
SUPER FAMICOM Pric e: 140-50.
Car tr i dge Me m or y : 16 Mb.,
Graphic s : * • * * * M o n i t o r S upplied: No Existing S oftw ar e Base: Small.
Sound: * * * * * M o n i t o r O pt ions : RGB, SCART Pac k age: Console unit, c ont roller
Current Releases: Lots, and plenty
Sprit es : 380 unit and Super Marea,and.
Expansion: e t * more planned.
Speed: Remark able Proc es s or: 3.58 MHz 65C816.
Overall: . * * * * Pros pec ts : Ho w can it fair? Back
S O UND Cons ole Me mo ry : Not k nown
Package: Console unit, c ont roller orders were in the millions before it
Recom m ended Retail Price: N/A
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ACORNARCHIMEDES
Models : Archimedes 310, 3000, 410
420, 440
Package: keyboard, mous e and
drive; k ey board mouse and driv e
plus monit or (c olour or mono);
M e m o r y : 3000 512K; 310 1Mb; 410
1Mb; 420 2Mb; 440 4Mb
Processor: Acor n ARM
RRP: Prices range f rom 1789 97 f or
A3000 alone to12644,60 f or A440
R
wit h c olour monit or
Co n t a c t A c o rn 0223 245200
IN BRIEF
5till the c utting edge of mic ro tech-
nology. Acorn's ARM is about the
fastest thing this side of a Cray. This
very exciting mac hine - alt hough
gathering admirers since the intro-
duc tion of the A3000 - still lacks a
good games s oftware base and is
best left to the enthusiast,
G RAP HI CS
Res olut ion: 3 2 0 x 256 or 640 x 256
wit h normal monitors . 640 x 512
available wit h multi-sync monitors .
Palette: 4096
Colours : Fr o m mono up t o 256 (320
D
x 256) or 16(640 x 512).
TV: No
M o n i t o r O u t p u t M o n o composite
video: c olour - RGB + sync.
M oni t or Supplied: Depends on
package bought.
Moni tor Options: Acor n dedicated
14 inch medium res. c olour; 12 inch
high res mono; Multi-s y nc colour.
Sprites: I
Speed: Blis tering.
S O UND
Speaker Quality: G ood
MIDI: W i t h extra hardware.
Stereo O ut put Yes
Per for m ance: 1 6 channels (8 stereo
pairs); 6 octaves, 1 int ernal speaker.
HARDWARE
Disk F o r m a t 3. 5 inch - BOOK
Disk Pric e: Fro m 11.20 upwards.
Disk Per for m ance: G ood and fast.
K ey board: 103 keys wit h pro-
grammable auto-repeat. Early key-
ADVANCED c o m fu r c e ENTERTAINMENT
boards have a cheap feel giv en the
quality of the machine.
J oy s tic k /Mous e: 3 button mouse; n
support f or joysticks.
Interfac es : 2 5 pin D parallel; 9 piN
mouse; 3•5mm stereo headphone
jack; 64 way din; 41612 expansion
port: IEC 320 video outlet; I/O inter-
face.
S O FTW ARE
Existing S oftw ar e Base: Still very
limited. Some games av ailable most
s oftware is f o r produc tiv ity and busi-
ness.
Cur r ent Releases: See above.
Games : Mo s t famous are Zarch
(Virus) and Conqueror. But there
have been several impressive one-off
titles released recently.
Graphic s : Pot ent ial is enormous.
Some excellent packages av ailable
Mus ic : Lik e graphics, but dev elop-
ers remain shy.
Pros pec ts : Limit ed. Even the cheap-
er models fi nd it tough c ompeting
wit h STs and Amigas
S oftw a r e Loadi ng: Ver y reliable.
BUYLINES
Best Buy Pric e: A s RRP
Second Ha nd Availability: Still
sarce, some 305 and 310s s tarting to
appear but expect t o pay for them
Ma in t e n a n c e : O n e year's guaran-
tee Ret urn t o faulty machines deal-
er.
Models : Classic. SEr30, LC, Hsi
APPLEMACINTOSH
Pac k age: M o n it o r wit h built -in CPU
and disk drive, separate keyboard.
M e m o r y : 1 M b (Classic 1), 2Mb
(Classic 2, SE/30, LC & Ilsi), 5Mb (Hsi)
Proc es s or: Mot orola 68000 (SE/30);
68020 (LC), 68030 (SE/30, lis i)
Recom m ended Retail Price: Classic
1 1575; Classic 2 1895: SE/30 12395+
(inc 40Mb hard disc); LC 11235 (inc
40Mb hard disc); Ilsi 12295 (2Mb+
40Mb hard disc): 12645 (5Mb+40Mb
hard disc), 12995 (5Mb+-80Mb) (all ex
VAT)
Cont ac t : A p p le 081-569-1199
IN BRI EF
A very expensive up-mark et mac hine
f or those keen on desktop publis h-
ing, WIMP systems and top-of-the-
range software. Release of the
Classic range an ex c iting mov e for
wannabe Mac owners. Software is
very expensive. Quite a f ew games in
BUYLI NES
Bes t Buy Pric e: G enerally the RRP -
Macs are only sold t hrough dealer-
ships_ Ask f or a dis c ount for cash.
Second Hand Availability: Scarce
and expensive. A better mark et
exists in older models but these are
best avoided.
Ma in t e n a n c e : O n e year's guaran-
tee. Apple offers Apple-care - "ins ur-
anc e" y ou tak e out t o cover the cost
of repairs after the guarantee has
run out
the US, but f ew over here. Good f or
MIDI musicians but be prepared t o ATARIST
pay t hrough the nose for software.
GRAPHICS
Res olut ion: Classic & SE 512 * 342;
LC 640 x 480. Ilsi 640 x 480 (c olour) &
6 4 0 * 870 (grey).
Palet t e: Classic & SE are black and
white; LC 256; Ilsi 256 or 16 greys in
m a x res.
Mo d e ls : A t a ri 5205TEM, 529STE;
Colours : 2 5 6 wit h c olour monit or
TV: N o 1040STE; Me g a STs; Stacy
M o n i t o r O u t p u t I nt egral monitor. Pac k age: 5 2 0 and 1040 have key-
Moni tor Supplied: Yes board wit h built -in disk drive; Mega
M oni t or Options: Hi-res mono & versions have separate keyboard.
Power Pack includes 5205TE wit h
c olour av ailable for LC & Ilsi.
Sprites : No n e light gun, joystick and 1400 of
"f re e " s oftware. 'Dis c ov ery " pack
Speed: Classic 1 okay; Classic 2, SE/30
includes s imilar v alue s oftware to
& LC reasonably fast; Ilsi very fast.
Power pack but wit h an STEM and
an educ ational bent_
SOUND
M e m o r y 520STFM and 5205TE
Speaker Quality: GOOCI
512K. 10405TE 1Mb; Mega ST 1 ,
M O I : Th ird party interfaces
available. 4Mb;
2 o rStacy 2 or 4Mb. STE machines
ex pand int ernally to 4Mb
S t ereo O u t p u t Ils i yes; rest no.
Proc es s or: M o t o r o la 68000
P erf ormanc e: 4 channels give good
Re c om m e nde d Retail Price:
performanc e.
5205TE (Power Pack) 1399,
5205TFM (Discovery Pack) 1299,
HARDWARE
1040STE 1499; Stacy N/A
Disk For m at: 3. 5 inch - 1_44Mb
Co n t a c t A t a ri 0753 33344
Dis k Pric e: 11. 50 - 12.00
Dis k P erf ormanc e: G enerally fast I N BRI E F
K ey board: Separate wit h 81 keys
Excellent as a general purpos e home
inc luding func tion keys and numeric
mac hine f or games, s mall business
key pad. Optional extra is the Apple
and produc tiv ity . It's the number one
Extended keyboard wit h 105 keys.
choice for MIDI musicians. The ST's
J oy s tic k /Mous e: Joystick is not sup-
price s till gives it a s light edge over
ported; high qualit y single but t on
the graphic ally more advanced
mouse is supplied wit h machine_
Interfac es : SE/30 - Apple Desktop
Amiga_ The new baby ST - Stacy - is
t ipped by Atari t o be the musician's
Bus connector. 2 RS232/RS422 serial;
port able since it is a c omplete 2Mb
ex ternal disk drive; 96-pin Euro-Din
or 4Mb ST wit h hard disk and mono
expansion slot; SCSI - 08-25 connec-
monit or in a small box,
tor; ex ternal audio amplifi er. Ilse - 2
R5232/16422 serial; 08-25 SCSI T.
G RAP HI CS
Re s o lu t io n : Low-re-s 320 x 200;
SOFTWARE
medium res 640 x 200; high-res 640 x
Ex is t ing S o f t wa re Base: A very 400
wide base exists in all fi elds except
games. Palet t e: STEM 512; STE 4096. Stacy 2
Cur r ent Releases: Adequate. Colours : Blac k and whit e in high-
res, 4 colours in medium-res ; 16 in
though largely of US origin and in
low-re-s•
the business or DTP fi eld_
TV: Yes. Not Stacy.
Games : Very f ew arcade titles but
Moni tor O utput: STEM models
plenty of icon driv en adventures_
only, others t hrough TV modulat or
Graphic s : Lots of interes ting soft-
ware f or those interes ted in DIY M oni t or Supplied: No, Stacy has
integral LCD monit or
publis hing.
M oni t or Options.: Atar i monitors
M u s i c V ery well s upported f or
SM124 high-res mono; 5C1442 med
MIDI s oftware - but it's expensive t o
res colour.
boot
Sprites: I
Pros pec ts : A s always, ex c ellent -
Speed: Fast
especially in business and DTP.
NB High res olution display is only
S oftw ar e Loadi ng: Quick, reliable_
av ailable on monoc hrome monit or;

medium and low res displays only
available on colour monitors or TVs.
Witter fi tted to late STEMs (standard
on S7T) improves the GEM access.
S O UND
Speaker Quality: Depends on
monitor.
MIDI: Yes
Ster eo O u t p u t STE only.
Per for m ance: 3 channel sound is
average to good depending on soft-
ware. STE features 8 bit PCM sound
but no current software uses i t
HARDWARE
Disk For m at: 3 . 5 inch - 720K
Disk Price: 11. 20 to f1.50
Disk Per for m ance: Reliable and
fast. Early machines were supplied
with a single-sided disk drive_
Keyboar d: 9 6 keys including 10
functions keys. Has a cheap feel
which can be improved with third
party spring kits.
Joystick/Mouse: 2 Joystick ports
are standard; 2 button mouse is sup-
plied with machine. Stacy is supplied
with a trackball.
S O FTW ARE
Existing S oftw ar e Base: Excellent.
A few budget titles are starting to
appear now.
Cur r ent Releases: None of the
major software houses ignore the ST
so it is well served with plenty of
good software_
Games: Across the board.
Graphics: G ood with some excel-
lent software to manipulate them.
Music: Excellent. Plenty of sound
samplers, editors and MIDI software
make this the musician's choke_
Prospects: Very good, but the
Amiga is currently the favourite with
software houses in the UK and the
ST has failed to capture a market in
the States,
S oftw ar e Loadi ng: Several soft-
ware companies now supply their
games on one double-sided disc,
often using the second side for extra
graphics or sound, meaning single-
sided disc owners either miss out on
some of the frills, or even worse
have to send off for tw o single-sided
discs. The alternative two single-
sided discs entail tedious disc swap-
ping w hi c h is equally annoying
newer owners.
BUY LINES
Best Buy Price: As RRP, Watch out
for the twice yearly bundles.
Second Ha nd Availability: Very
common and quite cheap. STs do not
hold their value well - beware very
old, single sided machines.
Mai ntenance: O ne year's guaran-
tee. Return to dealer if faulty.
AMIGA
Models: Am i ga A500; 41500;
42000; A3000
Package: A5 0 0 has keyboard and
built-in drive with separate PSU;
A1500 and A2000 have separate key-
board with built•in (fan assisted)
PSU. A3000 is a very powerful
machine indeed.
Mem or y: A5 0 0 512K; A1500 &
42000 1Mb; 43000
Processor 500/1500/2000
Motorola 68000, 43000 68030, 16 or
25MHz
Recom m ended Retail Price: A500
[NA; Screen Gems 1399.99; Flight of
Fantasy Pack (399.99; Class Of The
90s pack E579.99 (all packs inc A500);
A1500 from E999; A2000 from
El 199(for 1Mb+20Mb hard disk);
A3000 from f3160(for 2Mb+40Mb
hard disk). (All prices inc VAT).
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IN BRIEF
A stunning specification with custom
chips to rival alITIOIE everything
around, the Amiga is the first choice
for the most exigent of games play-
ers and video professionals. After an
initially shaky start the machine con-
tinues to sell extremely well and has
overtaken the ST in the UK, though
the latter machine still has a slightly
larger installed base. The A1500 is
near-identical spec-wise to the
A2000, but cheaper. The A3000 is a
top-end workstation substitute;
includes Workbench 2, featuring
enhanced icons, file handling, and
security features plus Amiga Vision, a
multi-media programming tool.
43000 also comes in three configura-
tions, ranging from a 16MHz /40Mb
hard disk to a 25MHz /100Mb disc.
G RAP HI CS
Resol uti on: Fr om 320 x 200 to 640
x 400 (more possible in software)
Palette: 4096
Colours: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32. 64 or 4096
TV: W i t h modulator.
Moni tor O u t p u t SCART + compos-
ite video in monochrome.
Moni tor Suppl i ed: N o
Moni tor Options: C1084 049. 99
Sprites: 1 6 in hardware + unlimited
BOBS from soft/hardware.
Speed: Ver y fast with good soft-
ware.
S O UND
Speaker Q ua l i ty Depends on
monitor.
MIDI: No, Third party interfaces
available.
Ster eo O u t p u t 2 phono connec-
tors
Per for m ance: Am ong the best
around. Custom hardware squeezes
9 octaves of 8-bit digital sound into
the four channels
HARDWARE
Disk For m at: 3.5inch - 837K; A3000
40/100Mbyte hard disk formatted.
Disk Price: f1 . 2 0 - £2.00
Disk Per for m ance: Noisy and slug-
gist). Third party software is avail-
able to improve matters.
Keyboar d: 9 4 keys. 10 function
keys and separate cursor cluster.
l oy s ti ddMous e : 2 button mouse
supplied as standard.
Inter faces: Two Joystick/mouse;
stereo audio; external disk drive(s);
RS232 serial; Centronics parallel
printer; SCART RGB/video; composite
monochrome video; expansion bus
(internal on 41500 & A2000; 32-bit
on A3000); clock/memory expansion
on A500 only; internal PC expansion
on A1500, A2000 and A3000.
S O FTW ARE
Existing S oftw ar e Base: Similar to
the ST.
Cur r ent Releases: Everyone's doing
them.
Games: Som ething for everyone.
Graphics: Quality and range is
unsurpassed.
Music: Needs better support for
MIDI. Internal sound software is well
supported thanks to IFF standards_
Prospects: Ex<ellent.
S oftw ar e Loadi ng: Noisy but usu-
ally reliable. Plagued by viruses,
BUYLI NES
Best Buy Price: O l d Amiga 1000s
can be picked up cheaply enough
but these lacked the extra graphics
modes of later models. Try to fi nd a
good value pack.
Second Hand Avai l abi l i ty:
Becoming common. Best buys are
late Amiga 500s with Kickstart 1.2.
Mai ntenance: O ne years guaran-
tee. Return faulty machines to deal-
ers.
IBM PC
Model : IBM's PC was the first PC to
be accepted in large quantities (not
the first PC) and remains the stan-
dard by which all others are judged.
There are hundreds of clones and
variations including offerings from
Amstrad, Atari and Commodore, In
general, with PCs you pay for speed
and better graphics standards. The
extra m oney is worth it if you can
afford it,
Padcage: Depends on the manufac-
turer although most are supplied
with monitors_ They can even be
bought in kit form at no extra saving
Mem or y: Usually 512K or 640K.
Can be anything from 64K to 1Mb+.
Always go for a 640K model_
Processor I ntel 8088M086 in base
machine is sometimes replaces with
the faster NEC V20B0. Mor e expen-
sive machines are based on Intel's
much faster 286, 3865X, 386 and
even the latest 486.
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Recom m ended Retail Price: Can
be picked up for as little as £299 for
a ''no frills" machine_ With top-of-
the-range 486 based clones - and
the official IBM versions - the sky's
the limit_ Look for a good EGA or
VGA model for between E750 and
L1200.
IN BRI EF
Superb value if you want the ulti-
mate all-rounder, the PC still betrays
its business origins. Almost every
major software house now port their
titles to the PC but these remain lim-
ited by the constraints of the basic
(most common) machines - which
means they tend to be limited in
sound and graphics. Definitely NOT
first choice of entertainment is your
preferred use for computers, or if
you cannot afford the better EGA or
VGA models (which are really essen-
tial for good games playing).
GRAPHI CS
The first PCs weren't fi tted with
graphics as standard but most clones
incorporate the necessary hardware
and come with a monitor. There are
three main standards: CGA - a nasty
but all to common colour display,
EGA about the lowest colour display
worth considering, VGA - an
Amiga/ST beating display; and
Hercules monochrome EGA or VGA
which are usually only fi tted as stan-
dard to more expensive machines
(Amstrad's P(2086 is one exception).
Resol uti on: ( G A 320 x 200; EGA
640 x 350; Hercules 720 x 384; VGA
800 x 600.
Palette: ( G A 8 (in two fixed sets);
EGA 64; VGA 256
Colours: CG A 4; EGA 16; VGA 64;
Hercules 2
Moni tor O utput: TTL RG8/RG131
(CGA); analogue RGB (ENGA)
Moni tor Options: Vast. Many rnon-
itors are dedicated to just one or
tw o modes - some have amber,
green or white monochrome displays
- check before buying.
Sprites: None
Speed: Fr om very slow - 8088 - to
very fast 8 0 4 8 6
S O UND
Speaker Quality: Built-in sound is
very poor. Third-party add-on sound
boards such Roland (1380) and Ad-
Lib ([150) - which is fast becoming a
standard - provide synthesiser-quali-
ty sound thr ough an amplifier.
MI DI : Third part interfaces available_
Ster eo O ut put With boards, yes.
Per for m ance: N ot the ideal
machine for the musically bent - an
Atari ST offers more for MIDI, the
Amiga more for software sound
purists.
HARDWARE
Disk For m at: 5_25in -180B60K1
1.2Mb, 3 Sin 7201(/1.44Mb
Disk Price: 60p - E3.00
Disk Per for m ance: Average.
Most PC owners also buy herd disks.
A large amount of PC applications
software refuses to work unless you
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have a hard disk. E RMI NE S name you know. guarantee b u t competition has
Keyboard: Almost as many varia- Best Buy Price: Watch out for Second Hand Availability: forced the price of maintenance con-
tions as there are clones. Prefer the package deals form large chains and Common but be careful you do not tracts down to an affordable level.
AT or extended AT layouts to the XI mail order companies. If you don't get a clapped Out monitortkeyboard_ This often means they fix in-situ free.
layout since it easier to use. know too much about PCs go for a Ma in t e n a n c e : Usually one year's
Joystick/Mouse: Neither supplied
as standard. The better clones
include a mouse or at least a mouse
port, especially since IBM's WIMP sys-
tem (Windows) has become more
CONSOLE + COMPUTER = GOOD?
popular.

SOFTWARE
Existing Software Base: Vast!
Current Releases: All major soft-
ware houses now produce some-
thing for the PC, with many now
supporting the superior ENGA
modes.
Games: Most of the best Amiga /ST
titles appear on the PC eventually.
Graphics: Given the right graphics
adaptor, the PC has nice graphics and So, there you have it, the facts in full. Now all you have to do is decide which
the software is usually excellent, on
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no matter how good the software is afford it, you really need both a console AND a computer to cover all the
Music: Unexpanded it's pathetic.
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of the best sound you'll hear on a
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Prospects: The PC is the eternal
champion a s others fail by the way- Famicom is a better machine than the Megadrive but it's official unavailability
side it carries on getting faster and in the UK means that it's a bit of a dark horse at the moment.
better all the time. This is aided by
Intel constantly improving the But not all of us (any of us?) can afford to fork out the smackeroos for two
machine's processor and the vast
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ment.
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ing itself becoming more varied, and the number

DIRECT
of scrolling shoot-em-ups is thankfully on the
wane.
The rather unweildily titled Lakers versus
Caltics and the NBA Payoffs is a fineexample
of just that, being a damned find basketball
game,
Featuring eight teams, you can face off any
team against any other, and either play against

LNIE
the machine or a friend.
Each team member has an ability of his own,
(sounds like a fantasy role playing game, eh?)
and their attributes can be displayed while mak-
ing team selections.
These abilities (all modelled on the real-life
H Megadnve recently? And how many have performance of the human players) are mirrored
you
o been pleased with? Three quarters? Half? The in the game itself. A player who has an excellent
odds
w in the increasingly expensive game of basket-shooting record is more likely to score
Megadrive
m Roulette are becoming more and from a distance than someone who's not.
more
a unattractive. Like the computer market a Control over the player works in Kick-Off style.
couple
n of years ago, for every decent Megadrive
game, there's at least one rubbish one.
Identified by wearing black shoes instead of To YOUR micro...
y white, thr player currently under your control can
While companies like Electronic Arts are get-
g to grips with the 'Drive and learning that dribble, pass and shoot the ball upon your com-
ting
a mand. Getting used to the passing isn't easy,
games must be handled in a different way on
m and the joypad makes it a bit tricky, although
console and computer, games are still appearing
generally it isn't too fiddly. Monthly machine specific
e
(from companies who you would expect to know The characteristic behaviour of the players
better)
s of a discouragingly low standard. even extends to the way they shoot the ball. columns for the users of
h However, perhaps this less that perfect state
of
a affairs will simply force Megadrive owners to
Some will try to dunk it, others will slam it in, the ten most popular
while some may try flamboyant manoeuvres will
be
v more selective, It's good news for magazine silly names which rarely work.
machines, written from a
sales, since owners will inevitably be happier to
e
pay i1.80 for an opinion they can rely on when
LvCatNP offers arcade-quality play and personal viewpoint by
y
there's a danger of buying a real clinker other-
enough in-terms and catchphrases to keep your other users...
o mates baffled for weeks.
wise,
u On the upside, though, 'Drive software is find- 'Richard Evans
b
o parpy peeps to make up the games sound, full Also Sony and Nintendo and collaborating on a
u
g
IBM PC stereo CD quality samples can accompany any-
thing you do. With the 550MB an average CD-
proposed standard that encompasses multi-
media in entertainment computing based around
h ROM disc can hold there's no problem of jam- a highly powerful video chip set that could easily
t ming everything 5 arid a quarter inch floppies. appear in the form of a PC plug in board.
Micropose are just about to announce a pro-
f
Best of all, the technologies all available right posed set of guidelines for the standardization of
o this moment and at extremely reasonable prices. CD-ROM based multimedia software, with the PC
r Intel's recently launchedi750 DVI chip set can at it's centre. Obviously there's a fair bit for the
y easily deliver the awesome amount of proccesor big boys to slug out before a solid standard has
"1
o at=gorer•TurrorETATETET
= grunt needed to create highly complex TV speed been decided upon. But it's happening.
u M
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•—zm animation, Funnily enough it's available as a PC
r .. board. CD-ROM's been around for a fair while, BUT WHAT OF THE GAMES?
1 mostly used for entertainment and utility soft. But will it mean better games? Certain sitcoms
=
1: ware. Tandy has just announced a fully fledged seem to chuck in canned laughter instead of
0 foflate
1 talkmultimedia
buzzing around
seemsthe
tolips
be the
of many
subject
PC CD-ROM system for just S399 (transatlantic jokes and it's a worry that some publishers
1:
entertainment software developers. Strip away
2 maths translates that to the £230 ballpark). games will grow in terms of presentation rather
all the blather and multimedia boils down to an
1 Funnily enough Tandy have sectored the PC mar- than content. The switch from entertainment
..
entertainment/ education software system taking
. ket as there major buyer. tt all adds up to the PC software as we know it now to that of the future
full advantage some audio/video techtrickery
. being the most pragmatic choice for anyone is very large one and developing the new tech-
W
hooked up to a mass storage device, very usual-
W looking for a mess around in multimedia, So if niques needed for this type of coding will defi-
ly a CD ROM drive, The reason software develop-
I this stuffs all available right now, why aren't we nitely mean a few stumbled steps. Even so they
ers are getting so excited about is that multime-
! all are steps in the right direction.
dia software is the sort of thing you can get
anybody interested. Not just computer tech COMPETITION!
heads, not just wide eyed game freaks, any Joe THE SOFTWARE
Sixpack or Jenny Sewingmachine that walks into The software to take advantage of these wonder- Just room for a final compo to round off with this
Dixons with a few pennies to spend. ful boxes of tricks has just failed to materialize month, The first entrry out of the hat will receive
and the reason why? Standards, or rather lack of five pieces of PC software of our choosing.
It's all down to the memorytastic amount of them. There's no one standard platform for this
information you pack onto CD Rom type optical type of computer entertainment to be run on. Send your entries to the normal address.
storage devices. Instead of a couple of nice digi- Luckily things are looking up. Microsoft have
tised pictures on the title screen and pixely look- announced plans to fully support a large number The question:
ing sprites throughout the rest of a game, it's of multimedia graphics and storage devices to What does VGA stand for?
wholly possible to have plenty, literally thou- be supported in their next release of Windows. See you next time!
sands, of stunning graphics. Instead of a few That should be due in the summer of this year. • JENNY TAYLOR

ADVANCED COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT

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tridge will not only make the game more accessible but However, where as Bub and Bob were armed with a

AMIGA probably cheaper. too. One problem is thrown up,

though, and that is with licences, As no-one has looked
magic supply of bubbles to do their dirty work, Snow
Bros's cute hero - a little snowman c an protect himself
into the feasibility of cartridges before, there may be with a number of snowballs which, when lobbed at an
slight problems in whether companies who own a enemy, cover them in snow and temporarily disable
licence will be covered when they want to slap it on a them. By repeating this process, they are eventually
cartridge as well as on disk This is certainly a grey turned into snowballs which can then be picked up and
area at the moment, and will have to be looked into rolled across the screen. As the ball gathers speed it
before any companies spend time, effort and money on careers all over the screen, killing anything in its path,
releasing cartridge-based film be-ins and arcade conver- before slamming into a wall and killing its occupant.
sions, Each of the plattorm-laden screens must be cleared
within an ever-decreasing time-limit, and success grants
Even so, creating a cartridge system could be the next the player with access to the next of the fifty screens.
logical step in terms of game design. imagine a game
with graphics similar to those of the Dragons Lay The conversion is as close as we have come to expect
R new development on the Amiga hardware front - series, only coupled with the garrieplay that those titles from Ocean France who, in the past have been respon-
ie,
u the likelihood of Amiga cartridge-based games. If the lack - if the rumours are to be believed, the cartridges sible for the brilliant Pang and Cabal conversions, and
rumours
m are to be believed, this new medium will offer could handle it. In addition, the possibility of current contains nigh-on everything from the anginal coin-op.
the
o games player games that currently span two or games improved, added to, and even compiled paves The graphics use the Amiga's entire 32-colour palette,
more
u disks on one compact cartridge without the the way for more affordable games. With details so and the speed of the original has been faithfully recreat-
annoying
r loading breaks associated with disks. if this is sketchy at the moment, don't hold your breath for the ed, rounding off an almost perfect conversion. If cutesy
true,
s then games such as Dragons Lair and its many system, but even so. this could be the development games are your bag, then you are going to love Snow
sequels
a and 3D epics will have more memory available which extends the Amiga's user base even further and Bros. Actually, whilst we're on the subject of amazingly
tor them, which will also allow developers to add extra makes it even more affordable. cute conversions and the Mancurian giants, it seems
stages
e or tart up each title's front end arid presentation that Ocean are also going to be producing conversions
Ina addition, the main boom of such a system is that it SNOW BROS of the third game in the Bubble Bobble series, which is
wil
b effectively kill off the software industry's arch-enemy Fans of the cute game sub-genre, will be performing called something odd like Liquid Kid(!), arid Ocean
• piracy. cartwheels soon thanks to Ocean and their developing France are currently about to begin work on Harnmerin'
o
u team, Ocean France. OF are currently in the process of Harry as soon as their duties on the aforementioned
n From what we have heard, Mindscape are already converting the little-known Toaplan coin-op, Snow Bros., Snow Bros are complete. News is scarce at the
looking into the possibility of the system with their PC over to the Amiga, and, from what I have seen, this is moment, but we reckon that Graftgold will be drafted in
d
epic, Wing Commander, the first lined up for release. going to be one to watch. Basically. Snow Bros's game- for the Liquid Kid honours - especially when you their
a
Apparently, the Amiga version will span an enormous six play is akin to that of Taito's classic Bubble Bobble, in superb Rainbow Islands conversion.
t
disks (such disk use has onlyever been necessitated so much that the bare bones of the game involves clear
t
for the Bluth conversions), and bunging it on to car- ing a number of screens of their alien inhabitants, •Steve Went
h
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m before adding them to the 20-voice library which is connect it to an external amplifier. lt's compatible with
o
m ATARI ST available for each Quartet composition (these can be
saved as Voice Sets).
Quartet, Replay VW, Replay Professional and
MasterSound II software, adding stereo capability to
e Quarters main display has a conventional musical what were mono samplers. But remember it's not a
n stave on which you can enter notes by selecting their sampler itself: if you want to digitise your own sounds,
t value from a menu box, clicking on the required screen you have to have one of Microdears other hardware
r position, and sliding to the correct pitch. This is a samplers.
e tedious and repetitive process, but you can enter notes Normal price is f29•95, but again there's an intro-
g much faster directly from a MIDI keyboard. ductory offer once of £1995. Even at this low price
a M =I EM EM EI M I I M I L E You can test the music for an individual voice or for you might not think it worth the bother, but the
r ilifnmm
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I E W E I M I N E BE E M E M the whole composition, and once you have the basic Playback package also includes Drumbeat, a sophisti-
d composition laid down, y ou can add to it by inserting cated 2-channel drum sequencer program which allows
i voice change messages, loop points Iwhich can be 'kits" of up to 15 samples to be assembled. UP to 50
n "nested" up to 100 times so you have loops within drum patterns can be composed and held in memory
11 g1 rs hard to keep up with Microdears outpouring of loops), note links, slides, transpositions and so on. at once, then assembled into 10 songs, each of up to
11 a1 music products for the ST; it seems that you've The results can sound very professional with a little 99 steps. You can alter timing values and insert
just finished reviewing one sampler or music arranger patience, and the package includes routines which triplets, and control tempo internally or from an external
when there's another one on the market. allow you to inckide Quartet compositions in your own MIDI clock, which makes Drumbeat a good alternative
The latest releases are Quartet V1.5, an update of programs written in assembler, Basic or C, so Quartet to a cheap MIDI drum machine.
the 4-channel 'sample sequencer, and Playback, a is just as suitable as a development tool as it is for In the package you also get a Quartet Demo
sound output cartridge which gives the ST, SIF and mucking around entertaining yourself! Driver, which allows you to combine your own Quartet
STFM the stereo capabilities of the STE. Version 1.5 allows s a owners to output through the composibons, graphic displays and scrolling messages
Quartet V1.5 is a must-have if you lament the STs stereo ports simply by pressing FS. Voices 1 and 2 go (in colour or hi-res M11110 modes). Lastly, the package
musical inferiority when compared to the Amiga. At the through the left channel, voices 3 and 4 through the includes stereo output drivers written in HiSoft Basic,
normal price of /49.95 it's reasonable, but at the intro- right. For ST, STF and STFM owners, pressing F4 will GFA Basic, STOS and machine code, so you can incor-
ductory otter price of £24.95 its unmissable. route output through the Playback stereo cartridge. A If porate stereo sound in your own programs,
Running on any ST without the need for additional you already have Quartet VI. you can upgrade to the Since Microdeal are encouraging ST software devel-
hardware, it's very much intended to give the ST the double-sided VI.5 disk, which includes the new pro- Doers to make their programs Playback compatible.
same sort of sample-sequencing abilities as the Amiga, gram, more demo music and samples, for £3. If you and public domain libraries are supporting Quartet with
offering lour sampled voices (which can be chosen want to upgrade to the new versions of all three additional tunes and samples, it looks as if nothing can
from the 100-sound library provided, or imported from Quartet disks, which again have extra demos and sam- stop Microclears domination of the ST amateur music
Microdears Replay or other copular samplers). ples on side 2, it will cost E6 - and don't forget to market. Well played!
Since the samples are replayed at up to I6Khz, qual- return your original disks to Microdeal. Microdeal. PO Box 68, St AusteN, Cornwall, PL25 4Y8.
ity is good; you can listen to the sounds through a TV, The other new product, Playback, Is an unassuming- Tel, 0726 68020.
monitor, or ideally a Replay cartridge. Sample process- looking grey box which plugs into the cartridge port,
ing software lets you loop, filter or repeat samples and has two phono socket outputs which allow you to •Steve Menet
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PC ENGINE liked the arcade game you should

love this, but otherwise there are
I was surprised to read an article in
NCE about forged console games.
You plant bombs with the aim of
clearing the screen of the baddies.
Great fun in multi player mode. My
better platform games about for the The pirates apparently target the PC
elcome to the June column PCEngine. Engine and the Megadrive. I had personal favourite.
never seen or even heard of copied
w
month has seen very little TV SPORTS FO O TBALL PCEngine games, but with a few • Formation Football: I recently
f
in the line of new Engine games. It This game made an massive impact phone calls to people in the know, I rediscovered this at the back of my
o found out that the problem was
seems that all the games suppliers on the computer scene when it was games collection. The console
r quite widespread. The copied answer to Kick Off, at least until KO
in Hong Kong have slowed down released several years ago', and
tsupplying games, etc, for the PC now it's out on console. The object games first came from the Far is released onto the Super
hEngine, and are concentrating on is simple: play for, and make strate- East, and were sold to mail order Famicom.
ethe Super Famicom and the gic decisions for, an American foot- companies as if they were new.
PMegadrive. This means the UK mail ball team. The graphics are the Now pirates here have got the • Parasol Stars: The continuing
Corder companies now have to deal same as the Amiga version, with technology to copy the games saga of Bub and Bob in this CUTE
Edirectly with the Japanese compa- plenty of speed and color. The themselves_ Some of the pirated game. Platform action at it's best.
nnies. This means that the latest game itself takes a bit of getting games are of obvious inferior quali-
games will get to our grey shores used to, but soon you'll be throwing ty (the packaging is often photo- • TV Sports Football: Just
g
slightly quicker. It also means that touchdown passes, and intercepting copied etc.), but others are so well released, and like Parasol Stars will
i
there may be a slight increase in practically everything. The game pirated that it is impossible to tell sell out very quickly, both here and
n also features intermission screens the difference from the original. Japan.
the price.
e with cheerleaders and reporters. Piracy is a serious problem, and
.THE LEGEND OF TO MRA This is the first conversion of a drains resources from the compa- • Jackie Chan: A great action/plat-
TBack to the new releases. The high- Cinemaware game onto a console, nies writing games, possibly send- form romp, with lots of Kung Fu
hlight of the month is the release of and if this is anything to go by, Ill ing them out of buisness_ Let's action.
iThe Legend of Tomra. In this game be looking forward to the release of hope the law cracks down on these
syou play the heroic Tomra who must ft Came From The Desert, and TV thieves as soon as possible. • Gareth Harper
recover lost treasures, etc. The Sports Basketball. THE E ND OF AN ERA. . .
game itself is full of platform-type TO P OF THE POPS
action, with lots of baddies to keep ZE RO 4 CHAMP If you're in doubt as to which games ACE sa ys a sa d goodbye t o the PC
This month's final release is Zero 4 to buy here is my top five which I Engine co lu m n f o r the fore se e a ble
you amused. The graphics are future , b u t n e xt m o n th we lcom e s
almost arcade perfect, and good Champ, in which you participate in think deserve your hard earned ne w Supe r Fa rnicom a nd Lynx
sound effects and music are abun- that dangerous sport of drag rac- cash: columns in t o it s w a rm e mbra ce .
dance. The only bad point for the ing. you try to progress up the rank- Sorry t o a ll yo u Engine -e a rs o u t
• Bomber Man: A classic game. the re . if NEC ge t t h e ir a ct toge the r
game is that the gameplay is a bit ings, aiming to beat and then a nd o f fi cia lly re le a se the ma chine
repetitive, with the same sort of become the champ. The idea is so simple that its sur- in the t ilt t h e colum n w ill re turn.

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DRAG O N'S LAI R
Most readers will no doubt be famil-
Lynx/Gamegear owners that the
Gameboy's batteries last for more
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1 r a R C O T T E N R EA L M S
Adv e nh4 ee
iar with Readysofts graphically
amazing but totally unplayable
some handhelds I could mention...
But be warned that Duck Tales is
Dragon's Lair. As a conversion tt
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coin-op was totally unplayable as
very tough and sometimes frustrat-
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game would otherwise be ideally
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has sent in a couple of tips for
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Mind you, it has to be said that, Mike.
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Level 1-0: Walk left and get the
extra life and key.
Overall, Dragon's Lair is a decent Level 1-1: Go through the bottom
0 E8 TOOUTDRAW game. The platform action is a little door, get the extra life, then leave
on the fiddly side, due to small size the room.
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Unless you have the reaction speed using the key from Level H . You
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Yet more platform antics! It seems
4 T one with a life and a key.
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SHOP WATCH
o r he most frequently asked clues-
• t o n s heard in computer retail-
ers over the past few months have
covered two subjects:
1. Magic Land Dizzy - when is it
going to be available as a stand
alone product? and...
2. Commodore's CDTV - when will it
be available, how much will it cost, is
it an improvement on the Amiga?
when will the add-on CD drive be
available for the Amiga, and how
much will THAT cost? And SO on. and
so on...
Well, here are the answers.
1. Last month - on 8-bit at least. If
your retailer tells you different then
he probably has large stocks of the
'Dizzy' compilation he would like to
move first. A 16-bit version is due
*real soon now'...
2. The sumptuous invitations to the
CDT./ Official Launch have now been
received by those key industry
figures (in other words. the. ACE edi-
torial staff). The invitations were
printed tacky, tacky - on CD-ROMS
and the date is June 30th. It should
be available to buy within the next
two months. It will retail atIS99
and, yes, it will be quite an improve-
ment over a standard Amiga - obvi-
ously in the sound department and
S o f t w a r e sel l er
Di rk L o n g h o r n
l ooks f o r w a r d t o
MTV.-
also in the oft-ignored ease-of-use
and friendliness departments. The
CDTV is only going to be available in
very small numbers initially and Only
through certain dealers. If your local
dealer is going to be a stockist then
urge him to hold a demonstration
evening because it really is worth
seeing.
Commodore have insisted that
the price of the CDTV will be static
'at least until Christmas' and that the
add-on CD drive for the Amiga
should be released before Christmas
and will retail at E299. This, if true,
will surely ensure the success of the
medium. It will be THE add-on that
every Amiga owner will demand
from Father Christmas and if I were
you I'd ask your local dealer NOW to
save you one, because demand is
sure to outstrip supply once existing
owners have seen the enhancements
possible with CD.
Speaking of enhancements, those
flight-sim enthusiasts with a 386-
based VGA PC are in for a real treat
within the next few days. F29
Retaliator is being released and will
chase away all bad memories of pre-
vious incarnations.. The graphic dis-
play is so highly detailed it could be
a real simulator and if you think
you've see smooth fast graphics in a
flight sim then you really ought to
see this.
Ocean will be providing dealers
with demonstration disks so don't
feel shy about asking him to demon-
strate it for you. If you really want to
be sneaky, take along an Amiga-
owning friend who has F29 and ask
to see it - although it would proba-
bly be more fun watching your
friend's face!
With the launch of Sego's Game
Gear seemingly only minutes away,
the h a n d
hotting
- up. About time too. With
just
h e lLynx
d and Game Boy there
seemed to be an unofficial truce
c o n s
with each machine professing to be
o
aimed l e at different ends of the mar-
b
ket..aTotalt tosh, of course. There is
tonlyl onee market and it has no ends-
ipeople either want a hand-held or
s
r e
they don't. It's in the consumers'
interest for there to be savage com-
petition between brands: it keeps
retail prices down and improves the
rate of software production (witness
the increases in Lynx and Game Boy
titles over the last few months)
which encourages people to buy
which stimulates more software and
so on...
Some people are holding off from
buying to see if there will be a win-
ner in the hand held war, but this
seems pretty silly b o t h the Lynx
and Game Boy have their attractions
and it seems unlikely that the Game
Gear will be any different. Basically,
the trade off is between battery life
and colour, You pays your money
and you takes your choice.
Personally, I'd pick the machine that
has the first decent version of
Scrabble for it.
Incidentally, don't quote me on
this, but a little bird told me that
Game Boy cartridges are actually
produced in colour and just the
machine is monochromatic. I don't
think the little bird has got it exactly
right, but I don't think it's far wrong
either. I'll leave you to draw your
own conclusions.
ANCO are giving us armchair foot-
ballers no peace. Not content with
putting out more data disks than
you can throw a toilet roll at, there
will be K03 in September and Player
Manager II in December. Do these
people have no respect for family
life??

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vive, The first is similar to
Summer's coming! Asteroids, except that here your
Which, knowing ship stays stationary and the
aliens and rocks rotate about
our weather, will you. Next is a Space Harrier-like
mean either three battle against a giant space drag-
months of non- on. After that you pilot your ship
over the multi-directional paral-
stop baking heat lax scrolling surface of an alien
or constant torren- world, shooting aliens and
tial rain. Either searching for the landing bay.
Finally there's a Gauntlet-style
way, looks like run around the starbase looking
you'll be spending for the entrance to the space sta-
tion. The graphics woul dn't look
a lot of time indo- out of place in an arcade. A stun-
ord escaping from ning game, if a little derivative,
the heat/rain. and well worth its ACE rating.
ACE RATING 900 ON AMI G A
What are you
going to do with BATTLE CHESS 2
all that free time? Electronic Arts • Amiga 124.99
Why not play a top Atari ST 124.99 • PC 129.99
Sequel-itis spreads from
game? But what to Hollywood to the computer
buy? Just read on, industry! This time round the
and know that rules are based on the Chinese
variant of Chess, which intro-
whatever you duces some new moves, has a
select from this river bisecting the board (which
some pieces can't cross) and limits
list will keep you the King's movement to an
happy into the 'Imperial Palace'. As before the
autumn and well board is viewed in 3D, with all
the pieces 'taking' each other in a
beyond. variety of amusing and well-ani-
mated ways. While a bit slow and
AWESOME
irritating running from floppies
Psygnosis • Amiga 124.99 S Atari due to all the disc swapping , a
ST 124.99 (without T-shirt)
hard disc shows the game to be
A shoot-'em-up where you'll far faster and more lethal than
need to master four different
normal Chess. A game that
gameplay styles if you're to sur-
should keep even the most jaded
Chess fan happy
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Victor Musical Industries
Gameboy Y3400 (Import)
Yet another steal from the C64
catalogue of great games. Hey
kids, remember this? Guide cute
and cuddly Rockford ar ound
umpteen (that's journo-speak
for more than can be counted
on one hand) mazes of boulders
and meanies in pursuit of dia-
monds. But bear in mind that
digging ar ound boulders can
make them tumbl e down on
your heacil An arcade puzzle
game of the most addictive
kind and yet another game ide-
ally suited to the B&W hand-
held wonder.
* ACE RATING 908 ON G AMEBO Y
BRAT
Imageworks • Amiga 124_99 •
Atari ST 124.99 S IBM PC 124.99
Wher e Lemmings lead the way,
others now fol l ow - and why
not as long as the games are as
good as Brat? Little Nathan, the
World's naughtiest nappy-wear-
ing nipper, wanders ar ound var-
ious vertically-scrolling levels.
Unfor tunatel y he's a little
stupid, and will happily walk off
the edge of cliffs and i nto traps
and monsters - unless you gui de
him otherwise by placing direc-
ti on changing icons in his path.
Those who are deft with the
mouse can gui de Nathan i nto
pink pages
the coins and toys littering the
landscape for bonus points. A
magic mix of cuteness and
craftiness, Brat will have you
playing i nto the small hours_
t ACE RATING 850 ON AMI G A
C H U C K RO CK
Core Design • Atari ST 124.95 •
Amiga 124.95
Unga-bungal Poor Chuck Rock's
spouse has been ki dnapped by
the fiendish Gary Gritter and is
now held prisoner at the end of
five massive levels of platform-
pouncing, rock-throwing, belly-
butti ng pandemoni um.
Graphically, Chuck is a real
treat, wi th some hilariously ani-
mated dinosaurs and very slick
32-colour arcade-quality paral-
lax scrolling. Al though a fairly
basic pl atfor m game, the varied
backdrops, rapid pace, novel
atack modes and humour ous
setting ensures that bor edom
won't set in.
t ACE RATING 886 ON AMI G A
FLAME S OF FREEDOM:
MI DWI NTE R 2
Microprose • Atari ST 124.99 •
Amiga 124.99 • IBM PC ETBA
Now this is a challenge; how do
you sum up a huge game like
FoF? The big thaw has set in,
and Mi dwi nter is now Agora,
the island HQ of the Atlantic
Federation. You play one of
their crack agents with the task
of scuppering an i mpendi ng
attack by the evil Saharan
Empire. The majority of the
game takes place in a massive
solid-3D world, wi th your spy
able to use any mode of trans-
port he/she may come across,
everything from on-foot to heli-
copter. But this is no shoot-'em-
up. There's more than enough
strategy and subter fuge to keep
any non-arcade fan happy. A
major contender for game of
the year - already!
• ACE RATING 950 ON ATARI ST
4 0 SPORTS BOXI NG
Mindscape • Amiga 124_99•
Atari ST 124.99 • PC 124.99
This violent clash between two
solid-polygon gener ated
pugilists is the best rendition of
the 'nobl e art' yet seen on a
home computer. The use of
polygons allows the action to
be viewed from absolutely any
angle, and a video playback
opti on allows you to watch that
decisive upper-cut again and
ADVANCED COMPUTER E NTE RTM NM E te 1 1 1
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131 Broadw ay,
again. Highly realistic, wit h a
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I n sto re De m o n s tr a ti o n s J O HN MADDE N'S FO O TBALL
"Y OU'V E P LAY E D T H E TOY S NO W P LA Electronic Arts • Megadriv e
139.99
T H E RE AL T HI NG " What a game! The defi nit iv e US
f oot y game yet av ailable on any
home system. The graphics are
superbly realistic - as is the
gameplay - and the ex c it ement
HO ME ARCADE MACHI NE - is non-stop. The sampled grunts
R U N S A R C A D E G A M E S (P CB'S ) and groans add t o the action. If
Only £307 includes delivery. y ou're a Megadriv e owner t hen
P CB. from E50.00. We buy and sell PCB•s. We can obtain almost any PCB y ou'd be a mug t o miss this. Set
to order. Selection of PCB's in stock;
Slack Tiger (Capcom) ..E95.00 out f or y our s of t ware shop right
P•47 (Jalecon) .C195.00 now
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NINTENDO'S
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SFPD, its your job to try and
restore law and order. The
game takes the f orm of mis-
sions, where you mus t try and
fly you hov er-bik e int o the city
(suitably protected, of course)
and try t o arrest criminals and
so f ort h. Exciting street-level
(liCANYOUNAME100DEREN1
action depic t ed in s moot h 3D
and a highly atmospheric plot
c ombine in a superb game t hat
GAMIER
should please any would-be
gang buster.
ACE RATING 915 ON AMI G A
LE MMI NG S
Psygnosis • At ari ST 0 4 . 9 9 •
WECAN
( old thensane
Amiga £24.99 I PC £24.99
In an age of ever-faster vector
graphics and s moot her parallax
scrolls, Psygnosis was the last
c ompany expected t o release a
s imple-look ing game based on
t he suicidal tendencies of some
cutesy lit t le rodents. The object
of t he game is beaut if ully
s t raight f orward - you must
Socropusaine formaedetaisonthiscnd cu othff Wan guide a certain number of ran-
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wi l l hopef ully enc ourage pro-
grammers t o spend as much
t ime on a game's gameplay as
its graphics.
* ACE RATING 910 ON AMI G A
PI PE DRE AM
El/Lucasfilm • Gameboy 125
(I mport )
Mos t readers will probably be
more f amiliar wit h this game
under its original t it le of
Pipemania. All t he action takes
place o n a 10 x 7 grid. Using a
cursor you have t o drop varying
sections of piping ont o t he grid,
wi t h t he aim of mak ing a
pipeline f or 'fl ooz t o fl o w
down. Should t he fl ooz leak
bef ore it has passed t hrough a
set number of pipe sections
t hen it s game over. Lat er levels
int roduc e direc t ional pipes (t he
fl ooz MUST fl ow a certain way )
and obstacles. I nf uriat ingly
addic it iv e - it's the sort of game
t he Gameboy was designed for.
* ACE RATING 910 ON GAMEROY
P O WE RMO NG E R
Electronic Arts • Amiga 129.99
• At ari ST 129.99
A n e w c omput er classic, wit h
t he highes t ACE rat ing ever. You
play a warlord, exiled f rom y our
homeland along wit h t went y
f ollowers , wh o has just landed
on t he shores of 200 islands,
ripe f or c onquering.
Unf ort unat ely the c urrent resi-
dents are not quit e so keen on
y our enforced leadership, and
will do all t hey can t o resist you.
Using a s imilar v iewpoint t o
Populous, t he landscape is here
poly gon-bas ed and thus can be
manipulat ed in just about any
way you require. The excellent
visuals are s upport ed by highly
at mos pheric sound. All c ont rol
is by mouse, and c ouldn't be
easier. To play it is t o wors hip it.
An absolutely essential buy.
* ACE RATING 913 ON AMI G A
P RI NCE OF PERSI A
Broderbund/ Domark • Amiga
124.99 • Atari ST £24.99 • IBM
PC £24.99
A game t hat could so easily go
unnot ic ed and unlov ed by t he
shelf-scouring hordes look ing
f or the latest licence. The
graphics, when static, are fairly
unimpressive (alt hough t hey do
get bet t er on t he lat er levels),
but when t hey move... The ani-
mat ion as you guide a y oung
 pink pages

Prince t hrough umpt een levels moderat ely -ac c omplis hed depth-enhancing player-manager lows the s eemingly never-end-
of platforms, pits, spikes and adventurers will fi nd the task a element. Highly playable, and the ing adv ent ures of Mario, as he
s words men is quit e excellent bit easy. power-ups do have a noticeable Jumps and joy-rides his way
and life-like. And t he gameplay, • ACE RATING 850 ON I BM PC affect on the game. The Amiga t hrough 99 sub-levels of plat-
alt hough it may sound unin- version, in particular, is superbly f orm action. What makes the
spired, is as good as t he graph- atmospheric, mainly thanks to game so special - apart f rom its
ics. Some of the action has a SAVAGE EMPI RE
t he sample-laden sound effects.. superlative graphics, s t unning
Origint Minds c ape • PC f 34.99 sound FX (t he echo in t he caves
real c lif f -hanger aspect t o it. More fun than beating up your
ACE RATING 915 O N AMI G A • Amiga f TBA has t o be heard t o be believed)
kid brother. Better, play this wit h
Using t he Ult ima VI interface,
your brother then beat him up and super-satisfying - is the
Origin have taken a side-step * ACE RATING 903 ON AMI G A nev er-ending variety in the
f rom t he medieval world of
RI SE OF THE DRAG O N gameplay ; it's not all just run-
SierraiDy namix • PC f 24. 99 • t heir previous games, and now
ning and jumping. Complet e
Amiga £2499 S At ari ST 124.99 plunge you int o a night mare STRIDER this and you can consider your-
An ent ert aining and graphic ally scenario where you c ont rol a SegaNirgin • Megadriv e £39.95 self a real games supremo. The
superb - if lit t le s hort -liv ed - party of characters mysteriously This c oin-op conversion was best reason f or splashing out on
adventure. Set in t he gloomy t rans port ed to a dinosaur- rev iewed some t ime ago on t he Famic om is here.
pollut ion-ridden city of Los infested Lost World. A good home computer. Thankfully, t he • ACE RATING 910 ON FAMI CO M
Angeles circa 2053, y ou play pri- yarn well t old and - hard t o Megadriv e inc arnat ion is
vate 'tec 'Blade Hunt er. The believe I k now - actually bet t er s upremely s uperior - if you did-
Mayor's daught er has been t han Ult ima VI. n't k now bet t er you'd swear SUPER MO NACO OP
ut ACE RATING 955 ON I BM PC US Gold • At ari ST £24.99 •
killed by some duf f narcotics, you were play ing t he arcade
t he cops are chasing t heir own machine. Strider Hiry u has to Amiga 124.99 • PC M A
tails and it's up t o you t o get to jump and t umble t hrough levels A superb conversion of t he
SPEEDBALL 2
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Mirrorsoft • Amiga 124,99
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is c ont rolled by s imple point - and gameplay, St rider is a must- oh-s o-t alent ed ZZKJ, t he man
and-click, eit her t o use or exam- The sequel to the Bitmap Bros'
buy f or any Megadriv e owner. behind such technically-stun-
violent '88 hit, Basically more of ACE RATING 919 ON SEGA MD
ine objects in rooms or t o select ning games as Super Hang-On
the same but wit h improved
conversation dialogue wit h and Powerdrif t . Everything you
graphics, a bigger multi-direc-
ot her characters f rom mult iple- want f rom a rac ing game is
choice menus. Each loc at ion is tional scrolling pitch (festooned SUPER MARI O LAND
t here - a sense of speed (wit h
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int elligent ly -driv ing opponents.
The only place it falls down in
c omparis on to, say, Gremlins
Lotus, is in t he lack of courses.
But as t he rev iew said, SMGP is
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ACE RATING 871 O N AMI G A
SWITCHBLADE 2
Gremlin • At ari ST £24.99 •
Amiga E24.99
At last! A game t o mak e the 16-
bit console owners realise t hat
they hav en't got the monopoly
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t he game bears f ew similarities
t o its predecessor. The
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TEAM SUZUKI
Gremlin • Amiga f24.99 • Atari
ST £24.99 • PC E24.99
Gremlin go f rom strength to
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bike game. The action is depicted
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* ACE RATING 900 ON AMI G A
TURRICAN 2
Rainbow Arts • Atari ST £24.99
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There are some games t hat
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Turrican was one of them. It
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programmers , t he Amiga c ould
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WONDERLAND
Magnet ic Scrolls • Amiga
£29.99 • Atari ST E29.99 • PC
04. 99
The Scrolls, hav ing stunned t he
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sic. An adv ent ure game based
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* A C E RATING 910 ON I BM PC
WRATH OF THE DE MO N
Empire • Amiga £29.99 • Atari
ST E29.99 0 PC L29.99 •
Macintosh E29.99 • C64 ETBA
A highly -polis hed Shadow of
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yer usual s lay -t he-demon-and-
win-a-princess effort, but t he
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c ombined wit h enjoyable, if
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lef t / right horiz ont al scroller or
Barbarian-style hack-'ern. This
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ADVENTURELINE
Stuck in an adven- 1
ive years ago two brand new adventuring The emphasis is still on homegrown software
with reviews by readers rather than the editor.
ture? Want to know newsagent's
— shelves in the hope of finding some- Writers are unpaid as the magazine is not and
thing
m about their hobby. At that time several never has been profit making. Advertising is
where to meet magazines
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Two of the best columns around were by the Currently the subscription list numbers around
400 and includes adventure columnists on all the
Pilgrim in AA and Keith Campbell in C&VG, but
ticket to an exclu- r these were insufficient to satisfy the crav-
even major computer mags. In the summer of 1990
s of our novice adventurers. Refusing to admit around a quarter of the readership gathered in a
sive adventurers' ings
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defeat they decided to set up a complete maga- Birmingham hotel for the first Probe Convention
convention? Want to zine
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that
(nice to see a meeting outside London for a
a fellow enthusiasts could share information, change) and were entertained by the sight of Nic
know which number opinions,
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ness.
b The result was Adventure Probe which this style with a silk lined velvet cloak, rope wound
to phone for adven- month
e will see its 60th consecutive issue making round shoulder and chest, a long staff and a belt
itdthe longest continuously running adventure from which dangled a brass lantern and an over-
ture help? It's all fanzine around. sized bunch of keys!
here in Pat e
v
Probe started life being typed into a CPC6128 His appearance in the convention room was
using Tasword with each copy printed out on a greeted by stunned silence, promptly followed by
Winstanley's latest e suffering DMP2000 (which is still in use
long fits of appreciative giggles. On retiring to the bar
r
today!). Within a few months it became clear that for a drink Nic was served by a speechless bar-
and - sadly - final ayphotocopier was needed so this was acquired maid who goggled, went away, then returned a
Adventureline. So over
m the objections of one husband and a bank minute later to ask where he had come from.
Rather shamefaced Nic admitted "The other
manager.
a From that point Probe began to reflect
what comes next on the
g format and presentation it has today, an A5 room." In fact he had dressed up in the gents at
the hotel! Believe it or not, the hotel is allowing
these Pinkies? Write booklet
a
thing that
of some 48 pages crammed with every-
interests adventurers. Probe is still pro- the convention again in 1991.
z
duced on a 6128 but the print quality has The convention itself was an extension of the
to us with your sug- i
improved beyond recognition. friendship circles which have developed over the
n The chronology of Probe runs like this:
gestions at: Son of e June 1986 - first issue (with a cover date of
years by post and telephone through the medium
of the magazine. Unlike many other fanzines
Adventureline, Pink o 1996! - I plead guilty and later editors have
June there has been little in the way of serious bicker-
f
retained the mistake for posterity - ouch). The ing between members, the only black spot aris-
Box, Priory Court, f
magazine was conceived as a club forum written ing from a subscriber who bought a range of
30-32 Farringdon byt and for adventurers of all levels. From the
start
games from different homegrown producers,
h the emphasis was on home produced soft- renamed them and then attempted to market
Lane, London, EC111 ware
e which, although well produced, received lit- them as his own. He was expelled.
tle exposure in the mainstream magazines. In addition to the annual convention, a couple
3AU and stand by November 1986 - Probe and Adventure of local groups have grown from the magazine.
for a n e w section! Contact (Contact was exclusively for adventure One in Wigan meets monthly with up to a dozen
writers and lasted around 18 months) split and readers from a 25 mile radius cramming into a
Sandra Sharkey took full control of Probe. room full of computers to swap gossip, hints,
May 1988 - Mandy Rodrigues took over as tips, boasts, playtesting, demonstrations of new
editor of Probe and from remote Llandudno, games and several hours of fun. There is also a
N O W HEAR 11151 nestling between the Ormes, comes this report: group which meets in Cleveland.
Mandy saw Probe first on the recommenda- The magazine itself can be a little daunting at
Although the Adventureline section is times to newcomers who may not understand
tion of another reader and was immediately
closing down this month, we will still be enchanted. "Everything an adventurer needs." the 'in-jokes'. For instance, Spectrum owners are
offering regular information for adven- she said. When Sandra decided that she could unlikely to have come across the Grue who takes
turers within the new section that
no longer handle the work involved, Mandy was his name from an enthusiastic appreciation of
replaces it. Were looking not only for asked to take Probe over. Unable to stand the Infocom games. These tend to contain dark
suggestions as to what you'd like to see thought of Probe not appearing every month on rooms which, if visited without a lamp, result in
in such a section (see above) but also her doormat she hesitated for a month or two the intrepid adventurer being eaten by a Grue.
for people to contribute to it. So put
then agreed to shoulder the burden. Much better than falling over and hitting your
those thinking caps on and let us
Surprisingly Probe is almost identical in format head! I can exclusively reveal in this column that
know...
and content now to what it was five years ago. the uniform of a Grue is long hair covered by a

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 pink pages

baseball cap with wild staring eyes attached to it
But newcomers need not feel left out. All the
old hands are more than willing to offer unpatrori-
ising help, advice and friendship. Mandy positive-
ly encourages contributions from new sub-
scribers, be it a short hint or a full length feature.
Since all machines are covered there is plenty of
scope.
Among the readership eight and sixteen bit
owners are represented almost evenly, with the
edge still on eight bit, but many people appear
to be upgrading and retaining their existing
machines, Since the vast majority of adventure
software is for the Spectrum this seems a good
move. A quick survey of the advertisments in the
current issue offers an Amiga adventure creator,
adventure PD for both Amstrad and Spectrum, a
disk magazine for ST or Amiga containing maps
and solutions, adventures for
Spectrum/C64/CPC/ST and Amiga, a second-
hand swapshop for the Spectrum, and a couple
of fanzines of interest to general computer
users.
Overall, if you have an interest in the adventur-
ing scene you would be well advised to buy a
couple of copies of Adventure Probe - it could
be the beginning of some very satisfying friend-
ships.
FREE TI CKETS!!
Any non-subscriber who buys a sample copy of
the 5th birthday issue of Adventure Probe (pub-
lished early June) will automatically be entered
into a free draw. Two lucky sample readers will
win free tickets to the Probe Convention in
Birmingham, October 1991. Probe subscribers
have to pay £5 for these tickets and apart from
the prizewinners only subscribers can attend so
it's a worthwhile prize. To order a sample copy of
the birthday issue and have a chance of a free
ticket send your cheque/PO by 30th June -
£1.50 to ACE/Probe Draw. 67 Lloyd Street,
Llandudno. Gwynedd, LL30 2YR
ADV E NTURE SHOP
Do you want some further information or advice
about adventures? Then peruse the list below.
Here you will find everything from adventure pro-
gramming to adventure solutions, computer
games to telephone games - read on.
G UI DI NG LI GHT:
Telephone helpline - personal help 12.00am to
12.pm (7 days) 0898- 338933
Inferno telephone adventure - dumped alive in
hell! Help! 0898- 442777
Dial-a-Tip - computer moderated adventure help
0898-101234 (All the above lines cost 34p per
minute off peak and 45p other times - if you
don't pay the phone bill get permission from the
person who does!)
ADV E NTURE WO RKS HO P &
ADV E NTURE CODER
Fancy writing your own adventure? Then grab a
copy of the magazine just for you. Coder is for
8-bit programmers and Workshop for 16-bit,
Both cover simple and advanced skills using cre-
ators, Basic or machine code and each costs
£1.25 for a sample copy from Christopher
Hester, 3 West Lane, BaiIdon, Near Shipley, West
Yorks, BD17 5HD.
P UBLI C DO MAI N ADV E NTURE S
Spectrum: For a range of games at 99p +
postage contact Gordon Inglis, 11 West
Mayfield, Edinburgh, EH9 11T.
Amstrad: Homebrew PD wanted and distributed.
For information send SEA to Adventure PD, 10
Overton Road, Abbey Wood. London, SE2 9SD.
MAPS & S O LUTI O NS ON DI SK:
Syntax produce bi-monthly disks for both ST and
Amiga containing an average of 10 adventure
solutions/maps, 11 reviews and 12 files of hints.
Syntax has been established for almost two
years now and asks just 0 . 5 0 per disk or
£20.00 for a year's subscription. (Amiga owners
need an external drive). For further details con-
tact Syntax. 9 Warwick Road, Siclcup, Kent.
DA14 61J,
HO ME G RO WN S O FTWARE (PLEASE
ENCLOSE SAE WI TH ENQUI RI ES):
C64/Spec/CPC; Atlas Adventure Software,
Address as Adventure Probe above.
ST/C64/Spec: River Adventures, 44 Hyde
Place. Aylesham, Canterbury, Kent, CU 3AL_
Spectrum; FSF Adventures, 40 Harvey
Gardens, Charlton, London, SE7 8A.J.
Amiga/ST; Jim MacBrayne, 27 Paidmore
Crescent, Newton Mearns, Glasgow, G77 5AQ.
Spectrum; Silent Corner, 3 Lonsdale Villas,
Wallasey, L45 4PG.
ST/C64/Spec: Interactive Technology, PO Box
146, Sheffield, S13 71Y.
ST/Spec; Zenobi Software, 26 Spottand Tops,
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ne w releases in the wonderful
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H ofirstt news this month
compiled AMOS is the arrival
game. of the
What makes
this a real sizzler is the game has arrived
before the compiler! Dogfight 2 is the brain-
child of The AMOS Club's Aaron Fothergill with
graphics by his brother, Adam. According to
AMOS entrepreneur Sandra Sharkey, t h e
game benefits greatly fro m t h e compiler
because it relies heavily on calculation. Th e
original version," she commented, i s a b it
slow, but the compiled one can really fly..."
Was that pun intentional. Sandra?
The game, which h a s a multitude o f
options, had only just landed as this issue
went t o press, s o I haven't seen i t yet.
However, according to Sandra the player can
fight up to seven human (two on joystick and
six, yes, six on the keyboard) o r computer
controlled aircraft in a battle for supremacy of
the skies. Special bonuses allow fo r such
things as extra weapons and even a cloaking
device. A new version allowing multi-computer
combat is being worked on, until then you'll
need 1Meg RAM, two joysticks and seven
friends. Dogfight 2 is Licenceware - a measly
0 . 5 0 - order code LPD17.
Other new releases include a new version
of Reversi. Reversi 2, the sequel, p la ys like
the original, but the new licenceware version
has animated sequences based on themes
like, Night and Day, Rain and Shine, and Cars
and Buses etc. As the tiles change, an animat-
ed sequence fades from one tile to the other.
Wild. Also new from the Sparx stable are
Jigmania and a parent pleaser, Play It Safe - a
home safety program fo r kids. Finally, on a
related topic, the Sandra Sharkey's STOS PD
library has now been taken over by Goodman
Enterprises.
ACE FREEBIES WO RKS !
ACE knows this column actually results
in more sales for participating libraries -
at least one has had to be rescued from
under the deluge of extra mail. So why,
we w onder , ar e all those nice PC peopl e
si fti ng back a nd saying it's not for us?
Com e on fol ks - i f you don't hur r y your
boa t will ge t sunk by the ST and Am i ga
crowd. Are you really going to suffer
that outrage?
ES
111111111=111111111111111
GOGETTER
Amiga Mouse £3.50
I have seen the future of AMOS games - his
name i s Ronnie Simpson. Ho w ca n yo u
describe a game like this in the few short lines
allocated t o it? Briefly, it's a 3 D isometric
board game with super graphics (the title
screen is a sci-fi dream) and animation. The
idea is very simple - just like High-Low. The
computer gives you a number from 0-9 and
you have to guess if the next will be higher or
lower_
Sounds boring? No t o n yo u r n e lly -
because of all the extra features this is one of
the most addictive games I have ever played.
Once you start a game it's difficult to leave it
alone. Everything about Go-Getter is highly
polished - and the only criticism I have is the
instructions a re o n a rainbow background
which makes them hard to read. Go Getter
SHAMELESS PLUG
Thanks to the following:
PC: Advantage Shareware - 0242 224340.
Amiga: AMOS Pt) Library - 0942 495261.
ST: Goodman P M - 0782 335650. Budgie
UK, 5 Minster Close, Rayleigh, Essex,
SS6 8SE
can be played with someone else or against
the computer - and unlike mo st computer
board games, this one works! Get it.
4-WAY LYNX
Amiga Joystick E I S °
This i s a puzzle g a me a lmo st certainly
inspired by PipeMania (but really nothing like
it, honest) and written by Andreas Andreou_
The idea is to link a series of tiles together.
There are 22 levels in all, each one harder
than the last, but the game includes a level
creator so-you can create your own levels.
This is a queer game with a weird control
system that takes a lot of getting used to. In
fact, you'll probably have to read the instruc-
tions at least twice before you get the hang of
it. Once you do, beware, you'll be hooked - I
was.
4-Way Lynx has not attracted a lo t o f
attention because of its apparent complexity •
first-time users will probably need t o be a
member o f Mensa with a doctorate in neo-
physics to complete a level without reading
the instructions. That should not be taken as a
warning to avoid this one, it really is a great,
pink pages
well polished and original game. However, I
would urge Sandra to write some more lucid
instructions - do that and you're on to a win-
ner,
MONEY
SPINNER
ST Mouse £3.00
Personally I fi nd fru it machine simulations
about as interesting as watching paint dry and
Jim Holmwood's implementation is , sadly,
nothing new. There's nothing wrong with the
game, th e animation i s adequate and th e
graphics interesting if nothing special. The
sound is pretty average - although a few spot
samples do add a little and the bonus screens
are fun. In its favour, at least you cannot lose
real money. A fair amount of work has been
put into this, but the idea is, frankly, rather
tired.
EXODUS
ST Joystick £3.00
Chris JefferYs strange arcade shoot-ern-up is
a curious mixture that looks something like a
cross between Plutos and Speedball with a
pinch of Xenon thrown in for good measure.
Quite what's going on in this game is beyond
me - but who cares, it's darned good fun. The
graphics and sound are well up to par for a
budget title, the tour-way scrolling landscape
and animation smooth an efficient. The idea is
not very new, but it's a highly playable mixture
which taxes the trigger finger more than your
wetware_ Another great title from Budgie.
It is with some regrets and many fond
memories that I am finally handing the baton
of Pink PD to someone else. My thanks and
best wishes go to PD and licenceware authors
for machines the world over. May all the long
nights b e worthwhile and your games b e
great.
PAT WINSTAHLEY TAKES OVER!
At a recent computer exhibition, this tame rov-
ing reporter was spotted wading through the
mists and accosted by some demo writers.
'Why can't we get a mention in your column?'
they demanded. *Because Pat Winstanley's
taking it over', I replied fearlessly. 'And how
do we get in touch with her? they cried. 'By
writing to Pink PD. ACE, Priory Court, 30-32
Farnngdon L a n e , LONDON E C1 R 3A1J.
Anything will do — as long as it's an original
offering.'
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12-18 M A Y
S O F T W A R E RE LE AS E S
Accolade: S tr atego (ST, Am i ga
f25. 99). Boar d gam e i n w hi ch
y ou m ust m a ni pul a te your
nt's fl ag. G unboa t (Am i ga
t (125. 99)
i
n Virgin: Viz (CPC E9.99 tape,
. £14.99 disk). Race capers w i th
p characters fr om the i nfam ous
i comic. Supr em acy (C64 disk
e L19.99). G i ganti c
c str ategy/ tr adi ng/ acti on/ expl o-
e r ati on gam e set in de e p
s space.
t S O F T W A R E RE LE AS E S
o lectr onic Zoo: Galactic
c ire (5T, Am i ga EISA). 313
a$ t r
pa t rya ETBA). Rescue Eva
t fr
eg om the clutches of the lust-
uyful dr agon. Billed as an
r g-
e aa
ym Electronic
d Arts: Ce ntur i on
oe(Am
u i ga f25. 99). Car ve out a
u.career
l for your sel f in the
rG Rom
t an Empire.
oeP" ow er m onger Clue Book
pi((5.
g 00). Hi nts and ti ps for all
for m ats.
psa
ohm
S oftw ar e Business: M ot o
- ae
G r and Prix (PC l 25. 50). M ot or
(.
cycle r acing gam e.
S Audi ogeni c: Wreckers
Mi l l enni um Warriors (C64
i (Spectrum. CPC E10.99 tape,
f 1 1 5 0 tape, £15. 50 disk).
:One-to--ona com bat for one or
,
t w o player s set agai nst fi ve
di ffe r e nt histor ical back-
4101
drops.
Dom ar k: Hydr a (Spectr um ,
C64, CPC £10.99 tape. E14.99
disk). Unworn coi n-op conver -
sion: fi ght off mercenaries
and terrorists to del i ver pack-
ages ar ound the w or l d.
Sunday 12
Formula One racing: Monaco Grand
Prix Bristol Computer Fair, Holiday
Inn, Lower Castle St. Bristol.
Contact Bryan Walker on (0202)
896610 for details on this one-day
show.
Monday 13
Tuesday 14
Independence Day, Paraguay
ACEDIARY
Wednesday 15
Football : European Cup-Winners'
Cup Final
Thursday 16
Anniversary of the Relief of
Mafeking, on this day in 1900.
Friday 17
Constitution Day, Norway
Saturday 18
Football: FA Cup Final between
Tottenham Hotspur and Notts
Forest at Wembley Scottish Cup
Final: Dundee United vs
Motherwell.
19-25 M A Y
Accolade: Jack Nicklaus
Cham pi onshi p Courses voi 5
(Amiga, PC £12.99, Maci ntosh
L15.99). Accessory disk.
Master tr oni c/ I nfocom :
Enchanter (ST, Am i ga, PC
f9. 99). Rareleased te x t
adventur e fr om I nfoc onts
•
heyday.
Electronic Zoo: Ball Game (S t
Am i ga ETBA). Puzzle gam e.
S oftw ar e Business: Li vi ng
Jigsaws (st, Am i ga E25.50. PC
E30.60). Puzzle gam e: j i g-
saws, e i the r tr adi ti onal or
w i th var ious tem pl ates.
Audi ogeni c: Wreckers (ST,
Am i ga E24.99). Space-based
s hoot 'am up.
Innerprise: Cyber blast (Am i ga
L25.50). 'Moo-player ar cade
style gam e.
RespraylDornark: X ybots (ST.
Am iga, PC E7.99). Second
chance to buy this s hoot 'am
up on Dom ar k's budge t label.
Trivial Pur suit il (ST, Am i ga.
PC f7. 99). D r a g o n Spir it (ST,
Am iga, PC E7.99).
Sunday 19
Monday 20
Tuesday 21
CD-ROM Europe: 3-day conference
and exhibition at Novotel,
Hammersmith, London W6. Charles
Lindbergh, 25, became the first
person to fly non-stop across the
Atlantic, from New York to Paris, on
this day in 1927.
Wednesday 22
Thursday 23
Cricket: One day international,
England vs West Indies
Friday 24
Saturday 25
Independence and Army Day,
Jordan Cricket: One day interna-
tional, England vs West Indies
2 6 M A Y - 1ST SONE
S O FTWARE RE LE AS E S
Accolade: Jack Nicklaus
Unl i m i ted Plot Disk (Am iga.
PC, M A ) .
Vir gin: Sar akon (ST, Am i ga.
PC. C64 fTBA)
Electronic Zoo: Br i gade
(Am i ga ETBA). War gam e
boasti ng r eal-tim e action,
di gi ti sod sound, user -edi tabl e
scenarios and accessory disks
to com e.
Electronic Arts: Magi c Candl e
II (PC L29.99). Spells and
e nc ha ntm e nt in thi s r ole-
pl ayi ng gam e fr om
Mi ndcr aft.
O xfor d Softw or ks: Chess
2175 PC EI SA)
£14.99 disk)
Stor m Com puter s: N a pol e on!
( S t Am i ga LTBA).
Dor nar k: RBI 2 Baseball
(Spectrum, C64, CPC E10.99
tape, £14. 99 disk. S t Am i ga,
PC L29.99). Baseball sim fea-
tur i ng 26 team s a nd com-
pl ete w i th 1989 statistics to
hel p your team selection.
Sunday 26
Monday 27
Spring Bank Holiday UK. Cricket:
One day international, England vs
West Indies Tennis: French Open
Championship begins in Paris
Tuesday 28
Wednesday 29
Memorial Day, USA Oak Apple Day:
ADVANCED COMPUTER ENTERIAJNMEN7 1 2 1
pink pages
remembered for the flight of
Charles II after the battle of
Worcester in 1651, He hid in an
oak tree to avoid capture. If you
feel particularly keen to demon-
strate your loyalty to Charles II,
wear an oak leaf buttonhole today.
Thursday 30
Friday 31
Republic Day, South Africa
JUNE
Saturday 1
Victory Day, Tunisia 1951: reports
that Hillary and Tensing had con-
querer! Mt Everest were confirmed_
2 - 8 J UNE
S O F T W A R E RE LE AS E S
Accolade: Conspi r acy (PC
135.99). Clear nam e fr om the
m ur der suspect l i s t S tr atego
(C64 fI BA). Boar d gam e i n
w hi ch y ou m ust captur e your
oppone nt s fl ag. 41
Micr o Illusions: Di scover y
(Am i ga L25.53). E xpl or ati on
and a l i e n-fi ghti ng aboar d a
crashed spaceship,
Vir gin: Ma gne ti c Scrolls
Collection vol / (PC,
Ar chim edes f 34.99)
Electronic Arts: Halls of
Monte z um a (Si. Am i ga
£25.99)
Silmarils/Palace: Me ta l
M ut a nt (ST, Am i ga, PC
E25.99). Savage be a t 'em
Sunday 2
Formula One racing: Canadian
Grand Prix (Montreal)
Monday 3
Tuesday 4
2nd anniversary of Tiananmen
Square massacre
Wednesday 5
The Derby at Epsom
Thursday 6
Cricket: First 5-day test, England
vs West IndoesFriday 7
Saturday 8
Horse racing: The Oaks at Epsom
NB Some prices uncertain this
month due to VAT increase.
THE
A GOLDEN AG
creation. If ever anyone doubted whether games
S uper couldMario
aspireWorld
to art,onthey
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Famicom is an awesome
to spend a few
hours (which will probably become a few weeks) with
this title. You can read more about it in this issue, but
SMW-really deserves an entire magazine to itself, As far
as Diner's concerned, this game is evidence that video
entertainment has finally arrived,
We have to credit the Japanese with starting the jour-
ney. Its true that they have vast R&D budgets to work
with, but throwing money at game design doesn't nec-
essarily produce a good game, and SMW is an all-time
classic. And it's the most recent of a long line of
tremendous game concepts - the original Super Mario
was superb and Donkey Kong, in which Mario first
appeared, was a stroke of genius.
There are also lots of Japanese games that we very
rarely see over here and which deserve far greater
recognition - something they'll get, hopefully, now that
Japanese console hardware is becoming more
widespread. How many readers, for example,
remember Mappy? This horribly addictive platform
game topped the Japanese charts for months and
featured a ludicrously original scenario in which a
cat bounces between platforms using trampolines.
Superb. And then there was Bokosuka Wars,
which featured a unique control system for manip-
ulating hundreds of on-screen soldiers. You moved
the general, and everyone followed. Select other
leaders, and their various squadrons followed.
Select a single warrior and he fights alone. The
game was a frantic rush over a blocky landscape,
but none the less gripping for all that...
Things are going to get even better when we
get a more global console market. Us Westerners
are pretty mean at games design as well, but the
directions we move in tend to be very different. Of
course, there was Nebulus, a very Oriental-style
success (though not in sales terms), but for the
most part our laurels rest on simulation-inspired
efforts like Sid Meiers Railroad Tycoon and Ultima
VI. We've also been more successful than the
Japanese at integrating new graphic presentation
styles - look at Populous, for example - with more
complex gameplay.
END
Together with the proliferation of optical disk
technology, the next two years look like being a
golden age for gamesters. Even in the short term
we've got seine stonkers to look forward to. Sid
Meier's Civilisation, for example, threatens to do
for mankind what Railroad Tycoon did for chuff-
chuffs. If Sid doesn't bite off more than he can
chew, this could turn out be a classic.
David Braben's been quiet
YOU WO N'T BELI EVE I T! for a while now, but you could be
Remember our exclusive report on Vince reading news of this in ACE very
Tyre!l and the ARSE VR system? We never soon, with a launch planned for
thought that some readers might take us at Spring 1992. Ultima VII, due out
our word, but... First, we received a tele- this autumn, will combine Ultima
phone call from a foreign gentleman who depth of play with Wing Commander
wished to '...offer TyreII financial backing graphics - help!
But it was all a joke, we protested. Stunned And there's more. The prolif•
silence at the other end, followed by eration of hand-helds offers gaming
Oh er..I see...Ha ha and a dialling tone. possibilities that haven't even begun
And the letters' Our favourite was the one to be exploited. Imagine a Game
from an outraged reader who said that we d Boy version of DO, played by four
been '.._conned by Mr Tyrell Oh surely not players simultaneously using the
four player link up. Teamsters could sit round in a circle
and explore the dungeons separately or together, each
with real-time control of his own character. Hot stuff!
And what about the Sony Data Diskman wh e n the
graphic models come out, you can expect some mind-
blowing titles on that. Even CD! is threatening to go
portable._
No doubt about it, there's never been a better time
to get into gaming. Butter used to sit back in the old
armchair and reminisce about PacMan, but not any
more...
And as if to prepare themselves for the Golden Age,
software impresarios have been playing musical chairs,
jockeying for positions that will carry them into the '90s.
Their movements can teach us a few lessons. Erstwhile
Activision boss Rod Cousens has gone to Acclaim, so
he's obviously in no doubt about Nintendo's future in
Europe. Microprose UK boss Peter Jones has aban-
doned 'Prose to join narrative software giants Sierra -
and don't believe everybody who says the Broderbund
deal isn't going to happen. Finally, Andrew Hewson has
managed to move from a company with lots and lots of
debts to one with. ..hey presto!.. .no debts at all!
Wit BIM
I N N E X T M O N T H S I SSUE
The next issue of ACE hits the streets on
June eth - and i t s going to be a corker.
For the fi rst time, ACE goes RIGHT ROUND
THE WORLD! We l l be bringing you details
of games culture from Finland to Tierra
Del Fuego, f ro m Bombay to Brindisi.
Don't miss it!
PLUS:
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