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this time In an arcade romp. In Elvira ‘The Arcade | Game’, the horror queen In question has been condemned | te complete a mission in a place of great peril. Elvira finds herself in a land of dragons, beasts and monsters who chase her with ravenous appetites.
As you guide her through this perilous land she ends up in Hell — not a place for nice, Innocent giris, so it’s just as well this Is Elvira. After more close shaves and near misses, your shapely protégé arrives in Arctic Earth.
She is well equipped... ahem, with various weaponry and can wield spells like nobody’s business. Occasionally, there are times when the comely crusader can trade her wares... ooh lummy! The game Is in the final stages of | development and is due for release In November on PC, Amiga and Commodore 64.
3RD-9TH OCTOBER OCTOBER 1991
SNAP CRACKLE & POP
Video-game giant Sega has now signed up with cereal manufacturers Kellogs to bring you a special offer on the back of Rice Crispies boxes. The promotion will appear on over 15 million packs of the cereal and breakfast freaks will have the chance to win one of 2000 Mastersystem II games consoles. Add- itionly, by collecting eight special tokens, munchers can send off for a Super Hero Sega Zapper, a pocket-sized zapper making eight different all-action sounds.
BE A TV STAR!
December 31st will herald the appearance of a brand-new TV quiz show. Gamesmaster will be a 10 part series dedicated to home computer games. The programme will cover all aspects of the games’ scene including new game reviews and previews, charts, hints, cheats and advice.
Gamesmaster are looking for some 30 contestants to enter a gladiatorial challenge. If you’ve got what it takes to be a top games player and want to appear on prime-time TV, write to: Hewland International, GAMESMASTER competition, al Indescon Court, Millharbour, London E14 9TN.
Entrants should include a recent photograph, background details and game achievements (supported by photographic evidence where possible). Any Games-X readers who appear on the programme will win a T-shirt!
FLOOR 13
Billed as a game of espionage and scandal in the corridors of power, Floor
13 puts you in control of an oppressive government that can and will use any means possible to keep tabs on its citizens. This controversial _ thriller/ strategy game, inspired by actual events, is being developed by PSI who did Conflict and it is to released by Virgin in mid-October for the PC, with the ST and Amiga versions in early 92.
ABANDONED PLACES
lectronic Zoo is to publish its first ever
adventure role-playing game, Abandoned Places. The puzzle element and atmospherics will certainly appeal to experienced adventurers, while an easy-to-use icon system which is similar, but improved, to Dungeon Master, will allow tinge RPG fans to enjoy the adventure.
Abandoned Places features an inner and outer world to explore. The former venue is very DM, while the surface is presented in an ingenious 3D world where you can go investigate. There are over 70 different spells to cast and 12 massive dungeons to explore. Presentation is excellent with over an hour of original music.
Abandoned Places will be available for Amiga, ST and PC at Christmas.
Drivin’ imaginatively dubbed Hover Sprint 3D.
An interesting intro sequence shows your DeLorean-style vehicle and then it is mile after mile of vector graphic bends and straights. The game comes into its own with a two-player mode, courtesy of a midi-port link up. The game will be released on Amiga and ST in December.
HOVERSPRINT 3D
Known for its cutesy arcade games, Codemasters has never been one for experimenting in game design. So it's news indeed that the company is to publish a 3D vector graphics game at Christmas. It’s a sort of futuristic Hard
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Suspicious Cargo 24 GX talks to Exile Design, the team responsible for Suspicious Cargo.
Budget Bonanza 15 All the best that's out on budget at the moment.
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Speccy Page 39 Terminator fever leaves no parts of the mag untouched.
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Console Connexions 32 Four Game Boy reviews, the Power Glove from Nintendo and much more in five pages of console connexions.
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' VIOLATOR
Programmer Charles Skilbeck is revered in the industry for his skill in producing smooth and fast scrolling, along with massive sprites’ This is evident in his current project, Violator.
To be released in December by Codemasters, Violator is a heavy-duty bomb and dodge arcade game, vertically scrolling across a never ending jandscape. Your view is from the bomb-
sight, with the objective of blasting the
landscape to kingdom come and dodging the hordes of enemy interceptors.
Violator is hardly breaking new ground, but the formula has always been @ popular one. Available on Amiga and ST.
EXCALIBUR SEQUEL
Here is the sequel to Secret of Excalibur where you are once again plunged into Arthurian England in this RPG and combat combo. Your quest to defeat Shadowmaster.
Vengeance of Excalibur contains hundreds of villages, cities and castles to explore, in search for the King who has been kidnapped by the afore- mentioned evil doer. The RPG is packed with a huge array of icons, status information, maps and so on.
In this graphically opulent game, you can zoom down to scene level to search, talk and trade. In contrast to the puzzle solving and searching for the King, there’s combat with broadswords which brings you out in a sweat.
Release is scheduled for November on Amiga, ST and PC. Meanwhile, the prequel, Spirit of Excalibur, is being developed on CDTV.
ene ee WITCH LORD
ADDITIONAL QUESTS FOR THE No.1] GAME HEROQUEST
The Witch Lord has returned to the fallen city of Kalos and now sits on the throne watching the Plains of Death, seeing anyone who dares approach. You must make the journey to Kalos and search
out the Witch Lord or the Empire could fall to his evil minions.
Available now on: Amiga, Atari ST/STE and Amstrad. Spectrum and Commodore 64 cassette and disk.
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WHAT'S OUT AND WHEN
If any of the games we review are not due for release for several weeks, What's Out and When is our guide to when the games are actually due to hit the streets. The list below details which games will be released — i.e. you will be able to buy them -— during the next seven days...
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Blood and sweat, but absolutely no tears. Rughy and the brutal Rugby/football hybrid Australian Rules must be the roughest team contact sports in the world. The launch of Audiogenic’s excellent rugby simulation, World Class Rugby, is announced with a great prize that no serious rugger fan should miss.
Audiogenic is making the realm of sport simulation its own and World Class Rugby is set to reinforce this. Exclusive to Games-X, you could win tickets to see two of Oz’s top league Australian Rules teams play. In addition, the first name out of the kitbag with the correct answers to the competition will also win a personally-signed copy of England Rugby captain Will Carling’s biography.
Furthermore, five runners-up with the correct answers will win an As you run onto the pitch, remember your coach's clichés — take no authentic international Rugby shirt from a choice of England, Australia,
prisoners and make the first tackle count, it's dog eat dog out there so Wales, Ireland and Scotland. keep it tight for the first few minutes and then ship it wide...
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There’s not much to tell about FUNGUS. What can you say about a man who likes a game played by men with odd shaped ; ' balls? The growth on his lower lip is coming along nicely. However, we'd like to know why it doesn't join with his tash.
NICK ‘scoop’ Clarkson > has become very . friendly with Grobble the gnome. We're not sure if his new found bulk leads to him resembling one of these diminutive chunky chappies or whether he just wants a tip for his roses.
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traffic bollards. We're not sure of the exact reason for this, but fortunately it only occurs on Friday/Saturday nights...
This is the accolade given to those games of exceptional quality and which the Games-X reviewers feel deserve extra recognition
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hey’'re back. The Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood, have had their ~—band’s instruments stolen. Naturally, Elwood’s harmonica is safe because it is locked in a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist.
However, you have a concert to perform tonight, and so the aim of the game is to recover these stolen artifacts.
The Illinois law enforcement community isn’t of much help. In fact, it wants you out of town full stop, and if it finds the lost instruments it'll probably throw them on a fire.
After Jake has strangled the bass player, you start by doing a spot of window shopping as you look for your missing items. One of these is found in each level, and ydu need to have
collected them all in order to enter the next stage of your quest.
The items you require are the guitar, microphone, amplifier, and a concert poster and permit. You may then move on to the bright lights of the big stage to strut your funky stuff.
To start the game, you are offered the opportunity of playing either Jake the fat man, or Elwood the scrawny, brainless brother. You also have the option of a two-player game with both brothers. This is as chaotic as the real thing, and a nightmare to handle.
There are some subtle differences between the Belushi and Ackroyd figures; Jake holds his hat when he
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Cc The Blues Brothers is one = heck of an addictive game. Basically, it is one of your common or garden variety platform game romps with that added sparkle of graphics, sound, and fast action. Graphically, it is fast, colourful and super smooth. Both brothers have their own individual gait and dance moves, even Jake’s belly wobbles when dashing along.
The Blues Brothers has four of the most toe tapping music scores of any home computer game, all well-known from the original movie soundtrack. The sound effects have been forced to take a back seat to compensate for this, but the overall atmospheric effect is terrific. , Battling as one of the brothers ain’t foo easy, since you can’t simply fight with arms and legs ablaze. You have to pick up the scattered boxes and throw them at the nasties. You've also got to
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leaps and also waddles along the screen, whereas Elwood is much more lanky and bandy-legged.
Music is based on the original soundtrack of the film and is extremely well executed in full stereo. Adding atmosphere, it also removes some spot sounds which are rather sparsely scattered in relation to your actions.
Control is via the keyboard or joystick and a really keen joystick is needed to accurately control one of the brothers because you have to have all your wits about you while going along.
THE HEAT 1S ON A range of nasties wait to attack you, varying from the obligatory policemen, trough to crazy kids, animals, and ‘the Biob Boys’. | can’t remember Elwood
dodging the latter, but | suppose you could put that down to artistic licence.
The Blues Brothers is based on the two characters rather than the film itself. Although this may come as a let-down to some fans out there, it does, nevertheless, have its plus marks.
Titus, who produced the game, hasn't been tied to the distinctive plot of the film which, in many cases, has been shown to ruin a potential great hit.
Once you have collected all five artifacts, it is time to get to the theatre and try to get on stage. Once there, you can do what the Blues Brothers do best, and then it’s game over.
Standing in the spotlight you can sing away to your heart’s content, bop in a sweat drenched frenzy, and give yourself a pat on the back.
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The baddies range from a granny on the rampage in a shopping trolley, to blob monsters, and all are simply unintelligent. This isn’t a minus point, cos you need to know where they'll stop for pinpoint accuracy in jumping. The two-player game is a touch too chaotic for my liking, but it brings all the thrills and enjoyment of the film into a computer game form, and does it very well indeed. Definitely Titus’ most impressive product to date.
£25.99 OUT OCTOBER
The ST version will have the same crisp, colourful and clear graphics as the Amiga version. However, the sound and musical effects which give so much atmosphere won't compare favourably at all, although they will, of course, be just as clear and respectable.
£25.99 OUT OCTOBER
With a decent sound card, this is arguably one of the better versions. The Blues Brothers was originally preduced on a PC so you ought to expect the best. You'd be hard pushed to find a better platform game.
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Exile Designs is the team behind one of Gremlin’s most ambitious projects to date. The Sheffield- based software company is renowned for its excellence when it comes to fast moving action games, but Exile’s Suspicious Cargo is something very, very different. Nick Clarkson visited the team to find out more.
xile Designs is a team of two dedicated programmers, Gareth Davis and David Lincoln. They’ve actually been together for about four and a half years now, but Suspicious Cargo will be their first project to actually see the
light of day. Work began on Suspicious Cargo about five months ago and the project is being simultaneously worked on by both Exile, responsible for the coding, and Imagitec which is looking after the design and graphics.
Gareth went on to explain the relationship: “We took our system to Imagitec about a year ago. It looked the idea over and saw the potential. We then
started on a number of games and this is the first one to appear.”
Gremlin’s Marketing Manager, lan
Richardson, explained why Gremlin had
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publish and we have a very
close relationship with Imagitec. We were very impressed with Exile’s adventure system and approached Imagitec with an idea.
Unfortunately the first project Exile started work on was to be a licence but it all fell through. However, we did want to use the
j system and the idea to base
‘ epamgnenensene: / the game around the life of
{ "6 ae "the shady Jonah Hayes seemed to work.”
The system Exile has been
working on is a_ highly
sophisticated text adventure
parser. However, the text adventure
has become less popular over recent
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years. The likes of Lucasfilm Games and Sierra On- Line have set the standard for all-singing, all- dancing graphical games, so how could Exile hope to achieve success with its text-based game?
Gareth explained: “Essentially, Suspicious Cargo is a text game, there’s no getting away from that. What we’re trying to do is work on the presentation. We’ve made it very fast and easy to play - you don’t have to touch the keyboard because all the input can be performed by clicking on the various icons with the mouse.
We also have five action parts of the game to break up the pace. These ‘interactives’ are basically logic or arcade games and happen at various stages during the plot.”
David continued to explain the ‘interactives’: “The five action stages are the most radical in terms of moving away from a text adventure. A lot of the interactives are stuff that’s been done before but are new to an adventure; we’ve got a Lander-style game, an Operation Wolf clone and a Dungeon Master-type section.”
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Suspicious Cargo falls somewhere between the graphical presentation of the Sierra-style games and the pure text of the Infocom games.
Gareth explained one of the game’s main differences: “We’ve worked on presentation, so for instance, you'll get a picture of each of the characters in the game. You can move around just by clicking on exits and all the icons facilitate what you do in the game. The system gives you the breadth of an adventure game that’s easy to play.”
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So this is a text game that requires no typing? “You can type if you prefer. The parser is as good as anything that’s come before, that’s where the four years of development have gone. It will do literally anything the other parsers will do. When you rate a game on its parser you look a two things, its technical ability and how many responses it has.”
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Companies such as Infocom built up a loyal following of text adventure gurus. With its subtle blend of arcade action and pure adventure, who is Exile hoping to reach with Suspicious Cargo?
“We're hoping really to appeal to both die-hard adventurers and novices alike, certainly the people who play text adventures. We’re aiming for the people who like strategy games but have been turned off by having to type.
We still have the flexibility and humour of text but it's very fast and simple to play, since the interactives aren’t essential to the game. Players may wish to bypass them and continue with the plot — the only penalty will be the loss of points.”
Suspicious Cargo looks like it’s shaping up nicely, but when will we be able to play it? “The
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The game should eventually appear around the beginning of November.”
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You are Jonah Hayes, the owner of an old converted passenger ship known as the Lucky Lady. Unbeknown to Hayes the finance company with whom he’d bought the Lucky Lady has just been taken over by the Universal Products
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The basic thread through the game is the cargo that you are forced to carry. The cargo itself is a simple crate within which is a genetically-engineered creature created as a living weapon. Unfortunately the quarantine regulations around Earth forbid the import of deadly creatures and the UPC is relying on you to smuggle the monster onto the planet.
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Constantly being monitored by the UPC, Hayes must decide whether to go through with the plan or to inform the authorities of his predicament. All in all, Suspicious Cargo adds up to one huge heap of trouble for Hayes. With only his on-board computer, Babbage, and a maintenance droid to
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CRUISE FOR A CORPSE GUIDE PART 1
Delphine’s adventure games just seem to get better and better. Future Wars was great, Operation Stealth Was amazing and now Cruise for a Corpse is mind- yy blowing. In fact we just had to do a player's guide on ce it, it was that good!
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TIME FOR A SHARP EXIT
I have a small problem in Leisure Suit Larry il. (Don’t put yourself down lad, I’m sure it’s not that small - X). I’m on the plane and I’ve given Ken the pamphlet, but | just can’t open the emergency exit door. Please, please help, Boc, mate, buddy...
Jeff Liddiard, Slough.
Dr X: Hello Jeff, how are you? | hope for your sake you Dought the blue paté special from the food kiosk at the airport. If not, quit the game and restore! Just before you ump on the moving walkway that takes you to the airport gates, buy the food from the woman serving Dehind the counter.
wrely, it won't make any difference to Ren. My méteoric rise through the ranks of “Natives, Inc.’ is because of my superior managerial abilities, not just because I married the boss’ daughter!”
Now that you've dealt with Ken the bore, take out the pin and pop the little prick in the hole. Jiggle it around a little and the grip will loosen, allowing you to jump out
When she eventually gives you the dish, examine it carefully, then search through the paté and you should find a bobby-pin which can be used to pick the emergency exit lock to escape from the plane. Hang on 2 minute, buy the insurance before you board the plane, cos you're going to need it!
HEADACHE OF LAZZA
Please could you help me as I’m stuck on Leisure Suit Larry Ill. (Not another one! - X) Please could you answer these questions.
1. How do I get a ticket for the Casino?
2. When can I join Fat City?
3. How do | get the bottle of wine from the Comedy Club?
4. When does Patti play the piano?
5. Do | need to go back to my office for anything?
6. How do I get a suntan?
1 would be most grateful if you could answer these questions and even more thankful if you could do it as quickly as possible cos I’ve had many a sieepless night. (Oh yeah, what have you been up to? - X)
Matt Durand, Kilburn.
PS. Your mag is brill. (it’s not my mag, but thanks anyway - X).
Dr X: In the name of the Lord, how many requests do ou want me to reply to? | should be paid by the amount > questions | answer, not by the hour!
ip Suture don’t be so greedy and only ask me a couple of questions. Next, you'll be wanting me to fill the Seae with complete scilutions
letters you won’t get anything, ha! Forward your Xmas lists to: Dr X, Games-X, Europa House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4NP.
Heer Christmas is nearly here! Three more months and you'll be tearing apart the gift-wrap to get at your brand-new Mega Drive or stocking full of video games. I remember how I used to love Yuletide when I was a lad, but now give me a huge turkey and a Christmas pudding and I’m happy for an hour or so! Anyway, Santa X will soon be receiving your mail requesting huge pressies, but unless you buck up your ideas and send me pleasant
1. You have in fact already got a ticket for the casino, but you haven't realised it. The ticket is a type of protection detailed in the manual.
2. You don't actually have to join Fat City, you become a member by luck. See Susie at the solicitor’s offices and ask about your divorce. See the whole thing through and hidden among the divorce documents will be her membership card.
3. Simple, pick it up, but you can only have it when it’s needed.
4. Patti plays the piano when she feels like it.
5. Nope.
6. You lie in the sun, stupid! Grab the beach towel and lie on the sand.
I have got the game Soldier 2000. (I really do feel sorry for you - X). It’s a brill game but | can’t get past level 1. I’ve had it for more than a year now, and every single time I reach the last hostage he’s dead! How do | prevent this.
Stuart Perry, Norwich.
Dr X: How can you like such a game? | personally find a sparrow with rigor mortis more exciting. Anyway, if you like it Vl help. You're are doing one of two things wrong.
Either you’re bursting through the door and killing the hostage yourself, mind you don’t blast everything in the room, or you're are taking too much time. If you wander around each room the hostages will eventually be shot by the terrorists.
KING'S QUEST QUERY
For my birthday | got King’s Quest V but after two days | could progress no further. | can manage to befriend the ants and the bees but I can’t get past the snake on the way to Mordack’s castle.
Alastair Simons, Newbury.
Dr X: What do you think you're playing at? | answered a similar request way back in the early days of Games-
By the time you want to leave the town, King Graham should have the tambourine in his backpack. To get past the snake just wave the instrument in front of it it in front of the slippery character. He will slide away leaving you to continue.
BACK AGAIN
I’m writing to ask if Back to the Future 2 is coming out on budget on the Commodore 64? If so, when, and when will Hydra be released on the same machine? Finally, what will be the launch price of the PC Engine GT in Britain?
Sean Narkin (I think! - X), Glasgow.
Dr X: |'m not sure when BTTF 2 will be released on budget, but in my opinion you'd be better off spending your money on 300 penny chews cos you get more enjoyment out of them! As for Hydra, it’s been out for ages! There are no plans to officially release the GT Engine in this country so you'll have to stick with the Grey import price of around £260.
My advice to you, laddy, is to keep your cash and spend it on something more worthwhile, like 2 bottle of Morning Fresh!
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GAME: JERRY BOY MACHINE: SUPER FAMICOM PRICE: £41.66 SUPPLIER: CONSOLE CONCEPTS
he Jatest game to appear on~
the wonder console is Yet another platform game and guess what? It’s in the style of Mario.
Jerry Boy is your everyday blob who just happens to be jumping around platforms killing things. Apparently he wasn’t always a blob, but some wicked bloke came along and changed him from his normal young human form (or something like that).
As this blob Jerry must now fight his way through loads and loads of platform filled stages, but being the clever blobby type he is, he can climb vertically and even hang upside down. All this is done by pressing button Y on your joypad.
Each level offers you a new and more difficult challenge and a whole new set of graphics. At the end of each stage there is a large end-of-level beastie to
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SEGA’S SCINTILLATING SELECTION
Sega is continuing its support for the Master System, | Mega Drive, and Game Gear, and has a massive election of titles due for release before Christmas. The portable Game Gear has 15 new titles which will be launched in the UK in the last quarter of 1991. he line-up for October is Factory Panic, Out Run Japanese import version reviewed in issue19 Games- X), Joe Montana Football, and finally, Putter Golf. November will see the release of Frogger,
kill and these are fairly easy to attack but hard to beat.
Graphically it is fairly similar to Mario and very, very cute; the end-of-level beasties are particularly great to look at.
The blob is quite surprisingly well animated for what it is and the quality of the sound effects really helps to create the atmosphere.
Sadly the game is let down slightly by the control method being too complicated, since the button commands are poorly chosen on the joypad. However dedication will soon win through and you'll find that Jerry Boy is an enjoyable game to play.
No Super Mariv BroYners fan shouk! miss this game because it is without a doubt a platform challenge you will certainly enjoy to the full.
[M-RATING: KKK) | Gameplay: 17/20
Lastability: 16/20 Presentation: 17/20
Leaderboard, Ninja Gaiden and Woody Pop. The |
first release for December will
Zone (see issue WS Tor teview vi ipo versioTi Halley Wars, Space Harrier, Spiderman, and th
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MEGA DRIVE
inally, titles for the Mega Drive are listed below. For ctober there is Shining at the Darkness, Speedball , Starflight, and Toejam and Ear). Back to the. Future Il and Ill can be expected in November, as well s Buck Rogers, F-22 Interceptor, Jewel! Master, MERCS, Ninja Burai, Out Run, Rings of Power,
hadow of the Beast, The Immortal and Xenon I. Around Christmas time expect to see the following ppearing on the shelves: Burning Force, Californian
-Games, Donald Duck, Fire Shark, Golden Axe Hl, "Marble Madness, Pheuos, Robocod, and Toki.
In addition, Sega is releasing Monster World {Ml
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on the Mega Drive and Tom and Jerry on the Game Gear, both titles due for release in early 1992.
Ure Came Gear imminenh iWeeees ‘neil ‘tioody Pop, Kmetic Conmection ard Teo. Wire Game Gear TV tuner is available in October and
/comes complete with an AC adaptor, multi-player able, car adaptor, rechargeable battery pack and AV —
cable. The price is yet to be announced.
TOP RACER
Top Racer is a great looking racing games ever to,
ppear on the Super Famicom. Gremlin Graphics is leveloping it and it is now in the latter stages of
_ programming. The end result is sure to be stunning.
This is a fast, track racing game that can be played by either one of two human competitors, with he two-player game played on a split screen.
+ Numerous computer controlled cars litter the track and
enerally add more realism. The finished version will include 32 different tracks
and scrolling backdrops. The tracks will be set in the city, the desert, and even at night, where the cars | illuminate the road with their headlights.
There will be a selection of cars to race, each with their own distinguishable paint work and performance | - : rating. The vehicles will have a choice of either , : Bole 2 ‘ ome » automatic or manual gears, and there’s even talk about _ ssa or "CONCEPTS oo — a reverse gear being implemented. : 2 ; Unlike many other racing games of this sort, each leg in Top Racer is set over laps instead of Stages. , oO _ This means the player can gradually learn the ride of meen course and therefore improve his racing to beat ‘the computer expert drivers.
x, Top Racer is not due out for quite a while yet, but be prepared for a goodie when it does finally surface.
eh tT: lac. Dosunes apart those sien . ‘ t scum that try to blow me: away in their “hi-tech craft. (Steady on! — Ed) Luckily, there are games like Nemesis 2 to keep people like me at bay, a Anyone who’s played Nemesis can — » «skip past this vareareph: as' I’m going to explain what Oa fe tf. a ; MASTER SYSTEM i it’s about Each alien is nicely.animated and there (Have> _ they are even’ some sort of weaving. snakes goné? Good). ‘reminiscent of R “Type. 13 : “a a Right, all. you. The © tunes . weren't oe that <a have to do is. impressive and I. soon forgot they were a - shoot every. \playing when | got. into the ‘shooting ~ thing:you see action, The sound effects are nice and that looks atmospheric. However, { found the game unfriendly. a little too difficult even, on: ‘easy mode When they die the enemies may leave. but most. of you. will doubtless have you a bonus item, these are used to get ‘completed itiin no time...’ - Weapons and for the more powerful ones... This ‘is definitely: one of. the best you need more items, geddit? ' GameBoy titles I’ve seen and despite its Welcome hack! Nemesis 2:is an all) flaws’one that I heartily reccomend. out blast that is almost identical to its < of predecessor, something which will make | pera | \ -a/lot. of you go out and buy it‘now, Asterix is out in November, as are G-Loc,
The weapons are the same, it’s just .. "Shadow Dancer, Shadow of the Beast, and Sonic that there are. new aliens and nioré ‘the Hedgehog. At Xmas, Die Hard 2 is released, with ~ difficult levels to negotiate MERCS, Out Run Europa, and Super Kick Off 2. Graphicaily the game is very nice +a
BLUES BROTHERS ere at aind the og very smooth.
Along with the release of The Blues Brothers on the) » my Pie) ~ =e, ia 16-bit machine, Titus is producing a version for both
. ‘ ia i 4 ; : ‘ ‘s the NES and the Game Boy. It is a platform action GAME: cone ‘ you on a conveyor belt. These blocks game that features both brothers, Jake and Elwood. CHINE: GAME BOY then have to be dropped to form rows of Due to the growing popularity of consoles, the | MA * three, a kiax, on the board below. When Blues Brothers will come forth to conquer the stage PRICE: £25.00 this happens they disappear making one mofo times Set against an Uipscel rhythm (the SUPPLIER: CONSOLE room for some more blocks. game will include tracks from the highly popular CONCEPTS aid There are loads of different waves of movie), Jake and Elwood must set off across town to Soil action where you are tested to the full retrieve stolen instruments. : ey) as you try to get the right number of the However, it wonitibe-thaveasy.-Firsily <youanust i ver since the success of Tetris on correct style of klax; diagonal, escape from prison, swim through the catacombs |. the most popular hand held around, horizontal and so on.
The month of October will see Alien Storm appearing, i along with Bonanza Brothers, Dragon Crystal, Heroes of the Lance, Laser Ghost, Leaderboard, Populous, Running Battle and Xenon II.
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% under the city, and clamber to the heights of the ~ ‘ there have been loads and loads ‘of In the arcades this proved to be a construction sites, before making it to the stage to play puzzle games released, alll trying to novel and addictive little game but the - your hottest concert. equal its popularity. home computer version lost a bit of this
The. latest. of these. Klax from: appeal. Unfortunately the Game Boy Mindscape, and a conversion from the version lowers the appeal even more. Atari arcade unit no less. : The tiles are very confusing due to a
The basic aim of the game is oo ‘the screen restrictions of the unit, and =" catch blocks that are brought towards _ as well as this they move a bit too slowly to keep you interested.
This is a poor puzzle game on a machine that has already been drowned by the genre. If | were you I'd stick to ~ Tetris for now and wait for something a bit better to come along.
The game will feature multi-directional scrolling — : = = more than 300 screens set over six levels, and will | X-RATING: XX) '
scude either a one or two-player option. : Don’t expect to see it appearing on the shelves for Gameplay: 1 0/20
om = some time, because the NES version is not due Lastability: 1 1/20 = ay *
= February of next year. The Game Boy cart will i es Presentation: 10/20
rin March a so I'm afraid you're going to have
HINTS & TIPS
TECHNO COP - MEGA DRIVE
Here’s a handy way to restore your life at any time _
when you're in a building scene. While playing, press START to pause then press C ten times, A five times, B twice, A ten times and START to unpause.
If you've got it right, you'll hear the game say, ‘Techno Cop,’ after you press C for the tenth time.
GAIN GROUND - MEGA DRIVE
Once you enter the option screen, move the cursor to
the level, then press A, C, B, C. This will cause a round
, select to appear under the sound test.
DYNAMITE DUKE - MEGA DRIVE
If you’re desperately seeking a way to enter a highly groovy super-option mode that will allow you to skip levels, continues, then look no further.
You can access the mode during the title screen.
‘Press START for the option mode to appear. Then
ay A
press C ten times and the START button to enter the
, ; = option screen. You'll now be able to choose from the _new selections.
Thanks to: Console Concepts, The Village, Newcastie-U-Lyme, Staffordshire ST5 1QB. Tel: 0782 712759
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GAME: CHEQUERED FLAG MACHINE: LYNX PRICE: £29.95 SUPPLIER: ATARI
CS aicrs Flag is one of the many planned, fourth quarter releases for the Atari Formula 1 racing game which features slick graphics, crisp, clear speech, and a
Lynx and is a multi-player
increase the number of ‘lives and get 10
variety of tracks on which to race. Each track has a different backdrop and up to nine drone cars to compete against.
The transmission on your vehicle can be either manual or automatic, obviously the latter is most suited. to. beginners because a massive seven gears can be a lot to handle.
Button A is used to accelerate while B applies the brake. The courses include hairpin bends and chicanes to make driving severe, with some tracks being even more rigorous by having roadside obstacles which damage your car when you ram them.
Chequered Flag can be played by up to. six players linked together via the ComLynx cables. But remember that each machine must have its own Chequered Flag cartridge.
It is possible to change the colour of your car, as well as practice or enter the racing championships.
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The number of laps each race is set over is definable, as is the sex of the driver!
This is one of the best Lynx carts Pve seen; mainly due to the incredibly smooth graphics and, of course, the stunning six-player option. | did find it quite hard to overtake at times, but at least there’s no chance of your wheel falling off in the pit lane!
Gameplay: 15/20 Lastability: 17/20 Presentation: 16/20
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hristopher Belmont was the name of ,
the fearless ‘vampire: hunter who defeated Count Dracula’. in adventure, Castlevania. only defeated Dracula's living body and so. the. .Count. transformed into mi making good his escape.
15 years later.a small town hes: in the. heart of Transylvania’ celebrates a
Christopher .Belmont’s son coming of age. The morning . ‘after. discovered that Soleiyu Belmont’ h vanished into thin air,
Qf course the disapp Dracula’s doing, . and | strengthened. powers he: w i) his age
his human: form. To the north-east of village’ four .castles ‘sprout from ground. Hidden i in a lake'at the. ce ire these is another castic - we new lai of Count Dracula: ;
Castlevania Il - Baines Rev ange is ..
a four-way scrolling platform romp. that’s
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creatures you must use
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tha , allow you, to 3. that’, blast
“The ‘holy. cata is a niall” ‘vial that, when — “lobbed, explodes» and”. urns for | a few setonds, ile. the axe, when town, arcs off and re anything’ in its . Mearts. can.)be sllected during the. game, each one giving you an extra use of the weapon, — a Each level’ spans | a large area, and’) different” paths. léadi ing, to. dead with ‘the guardian being). _ found after you, search (up, down, left and ue
immensely addictive and extremely | an
playable. As Christopher Belmont you.
must ‘search the castles for your
enslaved son and: once again defeat the
evil Dracula.
Along the way a encounter. many. creatures.of the «night. including giant vampire bats and hulking death knights,
but none are.as deadly as the guardians that protect the end of each level. The four different castles; Crystal, Plant and Cloud, have a variety of traps and obstacles:that will hinder
your progress.. Inside each, of these. turk" the foulest of demons. Acid shakes and headless knights stalk the: Cryste a
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ihe Mattel Power Glove for the
| Nintendo Entertainment system has
been greatly accepted in the States and
Japan and has already gained a following of die-hard users.
The reason that the glove is so sought after is because it’s so outrageously different from other controllers on the market - all you do is simply slip the gauntlet on your arm and you're away.
Anyone who watched the film Wizard starring Fred Savage will have seen the Power Glove in action on the hand of some hotshot kid. Back then the controlier was only a twinkle in the eye
A: Which hand do you wear the Power Glove on? B: Which famous Italian Plumber is Nintendo’s best known character? C: What is the name of the Nintendo hand held console? Once you've done that, finish the following sentence in no more than 15 words.
| would like to take up the Power Glove Challenge because...:
Those brilliant people at Medlantic who supplied the glove for review have been extremely generous and are offering a Power Glove to the person who can answer the simple questions below and come up with the most ingenious reply to the tie- break. If you're lucky you may even win a runners-up prize.
of game players in the UK, but now NES
_ ewners in England can experience the
thrill of the Power Glove for themselves,
thanks to Medlantic Hi-Tec Itd.
_ To put it simply, the Power Glove is a radical gauntlet that you wear on your
right hand and use in place of the _ standard NES controller. It may look _ like something out of Star Wars, a /
believe me, it works! :
This. offers everything a normal joypad does, but instead of tapping in the , direction you want to go, all movement is carried out by moving your arm; left, right, up or down. Like | did youre very probably thinking “How the hell does it do / that?”. Simple. /
With the glove you get a Strange L-shape set-up which you must strap to the side of the monitor. The receiver then plugs in the NES, with the * glove connecting to another receiver socket.
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Platform games
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There are a number
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For instance, to box, use program 7, then
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‘The Power Glove is an excellent peripheral which is great value for £44.95 (including postage and packing) ©
and it is quite unlike anything available — inthe UK. | i Unfortunately only a right-handed a
glove exists, so tough luck left-handed players! There were one or two gripes! | had with the glove, the main one oe muscle fatique. |
Holding the glove out at arms length soon becomes tiring, but this can be rectified by resting your forearm on the
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You control Ronny as you desperately 7 5. ‘try to complete your task while at the —
same time earning enough money to enable you to catch a bus to the next level. This is done by running errands for the various citizens of the city.
_In all, there are nine levels of platform ‘action, taking you through office blocks, scenic parks and town areas. All are filled g with hazards, ladders, and every type of platform you could imagine.
: Surprisingly, the C64 version of Rolling Ronny is very close to that of the 16-bit. The ‘scrolling is smooth and coupled with some fine cartoon graphics.The tunes are also upbeat and great to listen to, making _ the game very well presented.
Yes, it had to happen. The C64 and Spectrum pases have linked to make one awesome column for your mind to digest and enjoy. This week, just for you, we have a wad of great games...
US GOLD C64 £16.99 4619.99 OUT OCT » oh! A compilation featuring simulators. Well Y worth a look, especially since you get four
Mm Udding secret agents are in for
SS 4 a rip-roaring time when Domark [> releases the James Bond Collection for both your machines. It contains three of the best games based upon the ever popular films; License to Kill, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Live and Let Die.
All are of a fairly high standard and
well worth a look when bunged together. It should be out as you read this.
Fans of Gremlin’s — excellent HeroQuest will be pleased to hear of the imminent release of the data cassette/disk, The Return of the Witch Lord. Featuring 10 new missions to challenge your intelligence and cunning, it should be available about now.
games for a slightly larger price than one! First off is International 3D Tennis, originally from Palace.
This is a strange tennis game using vector graphics which are smooth and fairly fast. However, when ali is said and done, the game is a little bit on the naff side.
Then we have Crazy Cars 2, a ctsing game in which you burn along the roads of America.
OCEAN (64 £10.99 OUT NOW WA ith his face blown away and his WW body horribly disfigured, Peyton Westlake was quite understandably miffed. Now he has returned as Darkman, out to avenge his attempted murder and outwit the criminal
mastermind Strack.
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Although it moves at a respectable speed, the game has sadly lost something in the conception.
game down. The gameplay is a little monotonous, with only the swinging level adding a bit of variety.
This is a cross between a platform game and a beat’em-up, and is played over six varying levels, between which there is an opportunity to obtain a disguise by photographing a member of the band of criminals currently working for Strack.
Apart from this bonus section there are three other game styles: the beat’em-up where you kick the life out of anyone who gets in your way; the dodge’em where you must avoid bullets being fired from above and run along the roof of a building; and finally there is the swing about level where you must swing left and right below the helicopter to avoid the traffic on the road below.
All this is too similar to any other film conversion and therefore puts the
Darkman boasts nothing new or spectacular, and is only worth a look if you own everything else on the C64 at the moment.
@~* J the elephant has already experienced one “ww rather fun adventure in CJ’s Elephant Antics. After such success, it certainly comes as no surprise to see a sequel.
This time we witness CJ roaming around the good old US of A, taking in such delights as the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon.
Unfortunately his vacation isn’t all pleasure for there is a vital mission he must accomplish. His fellow elephants have been captured and he is the only man, well beast, able to rescue them.
The game is basically in the same mould as our big eared pal’s previous adventure. Each level is filled with tons of platforms, lifts, spikes, aliens and anything else you’d expect to find in a game of this genre.
Graphically, it is very colourful, but the amount of colour clash is phenomenal and the scrolling is very jerky indeed. However, this doesn’t matter since the gameplay more than makes up for these minor blemishes. This more than warrants the price tag and you'd be a fool to miss it.
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Italy 1990 | ie, believe. it or not, one of the many football games released around the time of the World Cup last year. Despite being a bit atten it’s worth a prolonged look, :
Finally, we have Airborne Ranson, a thinking man’s army shoot’em-up. This is a very difficult and challenging game which would be even better if it wasn’t for the extremely long multi-load. | :
As a compilation, this works out rather nicely | and despite not being the best pack ve ever seen, it is certainly worth a gander,
RATING: )Q) RX
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; is the latest creation to appear from CodeMasters. He looks set to take over where Dizzy left off and fill your homes with arcade adventure games, diverse | enough to cater for all ages. __ You enter the wide world of |movie stardom. as you attempt to uncover all manner of puzzles to get you the film role you _ want. Murder, romance, film stars, and a_. short conversation with Tarzan all contribute to your adventure into the unknown.
Controlling Seymour, you must roam around the film studio and try to find the script to your movie before eventually getting to the set to start the
camera rolling. The sense of humour has been set at a high Standard and everyone will enjoy playing it as much as the Dizzy games.
Graphically, | couldn't imagine it being any better than it is. The colour clash is only to
os expected, considering how colourful the game is. Sound-
be a little
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little game that is neither too
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too easy for the old. At £4 you couldn't go far wrong,
This will only be out on the Cartoon Collection to begin with, but it should be available on its own after Christmas.
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f~\odeMasters seems to release loads of wW platform arcade adventure games, partly because of Dizzy, launched a few years back. The latest is Slightly Magic. It follows the exploits of a young wizard’s apprentice who’s been left behind in his master’s castle to fend for himself. He must
venture round his abode and avoid nasty confrontations with the likes of dragons and rock monsters.
The way to keep them happy is to ply them with food and drink or anything else they may enjoy. As well as this, you must discover spells and change your form to that of a fish or bird.
Graphically, the game is very bright, but sadly there is no attempt to avoid a colour clash. Everything moves at a pace that seems to work and the animation is also relatively well done.
Older players will have a job playing for longer than half an hour because of the simplicity of the puzzles, but younger players will find the challenge right up their street.
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Alex Martin (15) e reetings! I've got an Amstrad PC and a Al Sega Game Gear. My favourite would probably have to be the latter. The reason | like it is because it’s portable and it’s got good graphics. Mickey Mouse is the ° best game I’ve seen for it because it’s very challenging indeed. | think PC games are a bit too expensive, but they’re really good, especially Space Quest IV. I'd like to get Wing Commander II.
Rudi Stevens (12) Vell, | own a Nintendo Y Entertainment System and its not too bad at all. The graphics arent that great but some of the games are good. | would teally like an Amiga because | think they're fantastic. Final Fight is top of my list. Its one of the best beatem-ups around and | particularly like the end-of-level guardian. 1 ve been into rap music for a long time now, and my favourite rappers just have to be NWA, ee ay and King Bee,
Adam Metcalfe (25) Mi. Sega Game Gear is superexcellent, the graphics are superb for such a small machine. I’ve had it for about a month now. | would like to get the Master Gear
Peter Foster (12)
is alright but it could be better.
My favourite game is WWF on the Game Boy because it’s funny and it's got lots of good action. I'd like a Nintendo Entertainment System for my birthday. It’s got great graphics and the games are better than on the Game Boy.
IF i there, | ve got an Amstrad 464 with a colour fi monitor, as well as a Game Boy which has to be my favourite. It’s just a shame it’s not in colour. The Amstrad
converter for it because there are a better selection of games for the Master System. | think it’s a great idea.
Although | haven’t got a favourite game | do enjoy role-playing and have been doing it for about 10 years now. I’m heavily into Judge Dread. | must say that | don’t think much of Mickey Mouse.
Absar Sadiq (18)
A t the moment I've got an Atari f = ST which is good for business and great for games. | will be upgrading to an Amiga 1500 very soon or I’m a monkey's uncle.
| use the ST for word
processing, databases and art packages and | also enjoy drawing
| erie characters which | borrow from my brother's mags.
Bobby Sochi (13) Final Fight has got brill graphics and | want to get a copy of it but | haven’t got any money at the moment. | played it at a friend’s house. I've got an Amiga 500 and it’s really good. I'm into basketball and rap music, which is ace to listen to.
Andrew Wittick (11)
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which I've had for a long time now. Im not too keen on European _— Football though, probably because | have no interest in the sport.
| preter basketball. I've also | been doing tai-kwon-do for a year
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dead good Amiga at the moment which } has some great
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Calvin — Shop Manager V Nf e’'ve just got hold of the new "h y Master Gear and | think it’s brilliant. I've converted Pacmania and Spiderman | from the Master System to the Game Gear. They both look really good on it. The Mega Drive is doing very well for us at the moment and so is the Amiga, but
py Hunter is my graphics. Little
favourite game puff is really on my C64. | like marvellous, despite being a | wrecking all the cars. | | budget game. would like to get a- | would really like an
Sega Mega Drive | because the games | are much better.
Archimedes since there are a lot of combat games for it. The graphics are much better as well.
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* ZX Spectrum computer keyboard. Wires and tape recorder NOT included. £130 worth of games. £50 lot. Tel: (0224) 695153
* Got a Mega Drive for £75 I will buy, or if you have a Gameboy for £30 to £40 I will buy. Phone now. Ask for Rich. (0543) 256809
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¢ I'll swap my Master System II with 3 games and joypad, for C64 computer with tape loader and powerpack. Interested? Then contact James Gale, 27 Kempsthorn Crescent, Pollok, Glasgow. G53 5SU.
e Are you finding Atari ST games too hard? Would you like eight pages of cheats and tips for the latest games? Send a large s.a.e. with cheque or P.O. for £1.50 to: J. Barnard, ST Cheats & Tips, 71 Twist Lane, Leigh, Lancs. WN7 4DW
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n exciting game is in the A pipeline from that master of the simulation art, Microprose.
Grand Prix is written by Geoff Crammond of Stunt Car Racer fame.
Based on a full season’s Formula One racing championship, it has 16 tracks and 25 rival drivers.
As expected of Microprose, it is presented extremely accurately, with all the dips and curves, buildings and even the tree positions of the real courses.
At Monaco, you drive past the casino, through twisty _ chicanes, alongside the marina and through tunnels — if you have ever seen it on TV you will appreciate the accuracy. All of these courses are all quite varied.
One minute you could be whizzing past skyscrapers in Phoenix and the next, you’re up ‘n’ down on the
undulating track of Monza. Before each race you have to dash through two qualifying laps. Like the real
In pole position on the starting grid, the tension mounts. You rev your engine in preparation as the crowd cheers you on
thing, you have a special, fast-tyre compound which only lasts for three laps, and the average of your fastest times decides your position on the grid.
In fact you can choose and adjust the tyre type and the gear ratios for the particular circuit depending on the amount of twists and turns or fast straights that you have to negotiate.
Right now, Grand Prix looks to be the most exciting driving game for a long, long while. It includes all the complexity of modern day racing with all the thrills of an arcade game.
You can also watch your Sennaesque exploits as a replay on TV. These out of the driving seat viewpoints are strategically positioned throughout the race course.
You are always centered in a camera shot, which pans around as you
come closer and nip on by. Actually, the replay makes your manoeuvres and crashes look that bit more spectacular. You can expect a graphical delight although at first view it does look remarkably like Revs, an oldie from
Geoff Crammond. Indeed, with the exception of the silky smooth graphics F1 GP plays very much like its forebear. Also, like a flight simulator, you can adjust the amount of external graphics to alter the speed to suit your preferences. At the moment, Microprose is putting the finishing touches to what looks like a most memorable game. Expect to see it in the shops around November for both the Amiga and Atari ST, priced at £34.99. An IBM PC version will be released early in the new year.
Fancy yourself as a budding Nigel Mansell? Do you find _normal racing games unchallenging? Microprose’s Grand Prix may be what you have been looking for. It ain’t a case of simply putting your foot down and whizzing around. Grand Prix offers a full racing challenge.
Tearing round the corner, you'd better watch your speed or you'll hit the green car right where it hurts
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The battle for air supremacy is tough in G-Loc, the enemy aircraft swarm from all angles and only
top gun pilots will survive
see why Afterburner failed. After all, isn’t it too much to ask the humble home computer to emulate a custom designed arcade, machine? Why then has US Gold made ‘the decision to convert Atterburner’s successor, G-LOC, onto the home computer?
In the arcades G-LOC comes in three different flavours; there’s the common stand-up version, the luxury sit-down model and the bring up your lunch R860 edition. The latter, costing in excess of £70,000, is pretty scarce but well worth seeking out.
Obviously US Gold can’t replicate the stomach churning hydraulics, but has managed to achieve what is the
best conversion possible. Including all the features of the coin-op would be near impossible and to make the
game more playable US Gold has had to leave out some of the less relevant graphical details. Thankfully its managed to keep the significant most element the all-important gameplay. G-LOC actually stands for Gradual Loss of Consciousness. This
is the state the human body can find itself in when exposed to extreme G- force. G-LOC can come in two different varieties; redout is caused by too much blood rushing to the brain and blackout occurs when the brain is starved of blood.
Exposure to these negative and positive G’s can greatly affect a pilot's judgement. G-LOC sees you attempting to complete 38 action- packed levels.
As the test pilot of a new superplane you find yourself in the thick of things as an entire enemy force trys to intercept your craft. G- LOC features nine beginner levels, 13 levels for more experienced pilots and a further 16 stages for top guns.
Armed with twin, rapid-fire, machine guns and an on board missile guidance system you'll have the technological edge, but can you cope with the mass of enemy craft? Your superior ‘head-up display will keep you informed of incoming enemy FX85 tailgaters and a special booster operates your supercharged afterburners for a quick escape. The more skilled pilots among you should be able to perform a full 360
turn and give the FX85’s a taste of their own medicine.
G-LOC is being programmed by the highly talented Images programming team. Available on all major formats, it will be released by US Gold in November.
(Below) Your state-of-the-art head- up display will warn you of inbound missiles and enemy jets
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it’s your chance to air your views. So grab a pen, ( mm find a piece of paper and let’s begin. Tell me what you think about the mag, what should be added to the contents, what should disappear in a puff of smoke... Get the drift? The address is X-IT, Games-X, Europa House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4NP.
I’m an owner of an Amiga 500 and | want to ask you a few questions about it.
1. Where can | buy one of those things that enables me to use IBM-PC disks on an Amiga 500?
2. How much would it cost? (Not too much | hope.)
3. Where can | buy Ocean’s James Pond?
4. How much would it cost?
| would be ever so grateful if you could answer these questions.
Thomas Kavanagh, Balleygarrett, Ireland.
The ATonce emulator will allow you to use PC disks on your Amiga. You can get one for £199.00 from Silica Shop on 081 309 1111. ; You'll be able to grab a copy of James Pond for £25.99. Believe it or not
the place to buy the game is from a shop which sells computer games. Interesting concept, eh?
Here’s a joke: What's the difference between a Game Boy and a set of traffic lights? You get more action from a set of traffic lights, and the colours are better! Seriously though, how about some more info on this fantastic Master
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System adaptor for the Game Gear: When? How much? Where from?
PS How about a competition for the daftest looking dad?
Dennis Mitchell, Aberdeen.
Ahh, but you can’t play Teiris on a set of traffic lights can you? In fact you can’t play anything on them so it was a preity silly comparison wasn’t it?
The Master System adaptor, which allows Game Gear owners io play Master System games, has just crossed the Pond to reach our fair shores. It is available in a selection of shops for between £25.00 and £35.00
Never mind daftest looking dad, some of our readers (see Loon of the Week) would win prizes in any ‘Let's look stupid’ competition.
First off I'd like to say thanks for the free Toki/Elf poster (even though | own a Master System and a Game Boy). It came in very useful in the construction of advanced aerodynamic vehicles, ie paper aeroplanes.
Please could you answer these questions: 1. What d’you (and your motley crew at Games-x) think is the best game on the C64? 2. Is Chase HQ any good on the C64?
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3. How much is Street Fighter?
Keep up the awesome work dudes. GX is by far the best computer mag ever. Paul Chapman, Welwyn Garden City, Herts.
1. At the moment it has got to be Rodland.
2. Bri seems to raie it.
3. £2.99
At the moment | have a C64GS, but | am saving up for an Atari ST. | am a little confused as to what is the difference between the ST, the STfm and the STE and do they play the same games? Oh, and one more thing, is the Amiga better than the ST?
Jonathan Ormerod, Tarleton, Preston.
The ST is no longer available. It is a machine without an internal disk drive. The STE is an STim which has been enhanced. Here is a brief run-down of the main features:
1. The STim has a palette of 512 colours and the STE has 4,096.
2. The STfm has a mono sound chip whereas the STE has stereo sound.
3. The. STim has 192K ROM and the STE has 256K ROM.
4. The STE features DOS compatible formaiting.
5. The STE can cope with six digital joysticks and four analogue compared to two and none respectively on the fm.
6. The STE has light gun and light pen support.
7. The STE has enhanced GEM features and enhanced disk operations.
8. The STE has an external Genlock port.
All software produced before 1989 is compaiible as is the vast majority of that from post-’89.
As | hold faith in your undoubted knowledge of this universe | would like to ask you some tiny little questions, so here they are...
| SCQRE As you requested that we | EMRE cond in our hi-scores, | l have decided to send in
| my super score of 585,894 for Jets | _on the Game Boy. As you can see | | the photo shows my brilliance. | | A All, Weybridge, Surrey
_ That is one hi-score. You must’ | Spent the whole of your summer hols | practising. _ impressed us here, so much so that | | there is a T-shirt in the post. Fungus | |_ has just informed me that his highest | |_ score is 1,156. Some people are so
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1. Will Sonic the Hedgehog be coming out on the Master System?
2. Will Gods or Magic Pockets be coming out on the PC?
3. Who is Mrs X?
4. Can you order some back issues of GX as (I hide my head in shame) | missed issues 8 and 10?
5. What is the most playable game on the Game Boy and pleeeease do not say Tetris? The second best will do.
6. Who writes Tip-X?
7. What happened to Boy Bunder?
8. Can | have a T-shirt?
Andrew Hawthorn, Cambridge.
1. As far as we know there are no plans
as yet. Even if a conversion does take —
place the game won't be the same. Maybe it's time to swap your Master System for a Mega Drive.
2. Well, some of the Bitmap’s titles have eventually appeared on PC format. So
even though there are no plans as yet who knows what the future will bring.
3. She is ever such a nice lady. Her only down point is that she is married to that obnoxious Dr... (watch what you are saying about my little snuggly-bunnykins — Mrs xX),
4, Well, seeing as you hid your head in shame I'll see what | can do for you.
5, Well, that game where you have to make different shaped blocks join together to form completed rows is a goodie, Then of course there's Pipedream.
6. John Davison and anyone who sends tips in.
7. I'm not really sure. One minute he was here mumbling about Go-Global, the next, well no one seems to know. | think the Doc had something to do with it, but he's not letting on.
8, I'll give you one guess. It begins with an ‘n’ and ends with an ‘o’. (Ahem, why does this letter appear on this page when it is obviously addressed to me? — Dr X.)
You clever, wonderful, money saving person thank you for making a brilliantly amazing magazine which doesn’t just save money, but is also an enthralling read. After that modest start here is a little rap:
Games-X is really hip,
| get dead mad if it gets ripped.
| leave my mags all over the room
which is good enough to be sold on the moon.
My mum’s always complaining that | make a mess,
So then | tell her that this mag’s the best. So come on everyone, buy Games-X now,
Or else you'll get shot by my pet cow. Adam Daunbobbin, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport.
Lost it a little bit there, didn’t we? Don't give up your day job now! Anyway you lot, listen to what the man said.
| have had some ideas to improve Games-X. Here they are:
1. Make the magazine more colourful. Make the pages red, blue and yellow instead of just white.
2. Give more things away and not just T- shirts.
3. Make X-it longer and cut down on the advertisements.
4. Add a PD section.
5. Make the scoring system more precise.
Thomas Element, New Mills, Cheshire.
*. We had freaky patterns on the pages *>r 2 long time so we decided to have a ohange. Why red, blue and yellow?
2 You mean things like lots more
abuse?
2) Well... (how about making Dr X fill half
| en the phone
the mag? — Doc). 4, We have done.
5. What does everyone else think about this? Do you think that a scoring system using percentages would be better? Write in and let us know,
| share an Amiga 500 and | think it’s great. I’m considering purchasing a Game Boy and at only £70.00 it is a bargain. My brother hasn’t got a clue though, he thinks they’re really bad and believes | should be locked up in a mental asylum, chained to the wall and made to listen to Kylie records as a punishment for even thinking about buying one.
Please, please, please set him straight and give him a severe telling off. PS Your mag is totally awesome. James Campbell, Coatbridge, Scotland.
No one should be subjected to Kylie records. Arghh, what a thought. There is nothing wrong with the Game Boy. Have you ever tried putting your Amiga in your pocket to play on a long journey? It's also the best machine to play Tetris on!
TEAM TALK
John has decided to be as) lazy as a sleeping snail this week and has taken a week | off. The place just isn’t the same without him and the) loud blaring music coming | from those head phones!
We had a barbeque on Saturday night, it was an evening full of entertainment, beer and fattening food. | Highlight of the occasion was Nick Walkland’s brilliant impression of Marlon Brando in The Godfather, something | he can only repeat when intoxicated. A riotous evening was had by all...
Our own southern news editor, Jason, has put in an appearance at the office this week, a rare occurrence believe me! He does nothing but sit at his me desk talking
and moaning about the design of the receiver, as | we all do!
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x "Beam me up Fergie, for the exclusive Star Trek preview”
* I's AD&D month so Nick gets fhe low-down on this strange but addictive phenomenon
* Psst, wanna know the Secret of Monkey Island 2?
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