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MICRO GAMES ACTIO
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by Richard Wilcox
Richard Wilcox Software
After skilfully piloting your Jetcopter through a bombardment of Electronic Storms,
Ground & Sea Based Missiles and attack from Armoured Barrage Balloons, you thought
you were safe to complete your mission B u t No! y e t another wave of
deadly Jet Fighters appear from nowhere with only one objective...to eliminate you!
Only your Hyper.Phase Lasers and amazing arcade skill can keep you alive to complete
a task that looks impossible. As the only survivor of a once mighty invasion force you
must penetrate deep beyond enemy lines. From a remote island protected by a complex
defensive screen you must rescue your wounded comrades held captive beside an unstable
nuclear reactor, which you must first destroy!
The ultimate in 100% Machine Code Arcade Games from a Master Programmer,
achieving a new peak in programming perfection and super smooth movement. Blue Thunder
sets astounding new standards in Hi-Res Graphics with Pixel Scrolling over
6 screens
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PERSPECTIVE GRAPHICS!
Richard Wilcox Software carries a lifetime guarantee, should any of our games fail to
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Editor
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Consultant editor
Franco Frey
Production designer
David Western
Ar t f b d it o r
Colour preview of the
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SINCLAIRTALKSTOCRASH
Some CRASH readers interview Alison Maguire
Oliver Frey
Client liaison
John Edwards
Staff writer
Lloyd Mangram
Contributing writers
Matthew Uffindell
Chris Passey
Subscription manager
Denise Roberts
1984 Newsfleld Limited
Crash Micro is published
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Useful things you can do with the STACK LIGHT RIFLE
HOBBIT,HURD It HOLMES
We take a look at Melboure House, its plans for Sherlock
Holmes and review H.11•R.G.
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Comment, plus Advertisers Index and Review Index
G E OF ME MONTH
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3 new games that may well top the charts
C A HFORUM
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Lloyd Mangram in trouble again as he reads Out what
you write in
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A brief round up for the month
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Third in our comparisons series, we look at 'Missile
Command games
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PINENIX
61 , P i c k of the month from among the established available
games
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S E RUMSOFTWAREGUIDE
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6 2 T h i s month, due to amazing growth, we split up the
guide Into bimonthly parts. This month — arcade games.
9PECIOL
Cover by Oliver Frey
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SUPPLEMENT/ Pane 156...
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The recent Leisure Electronics
Trade Show held at Heathrow
Airport (well in an hotel nearby
actually) seems to have been
rocked by those magazines
which have taken a Quantum
Leap. In the past early buyers
of new computers have had to
wait several months before
getting a users magazine to
satisfy their reading needs. But
since Sir Clive ()jumped into
the future and announced the
QL Computer there has been a
veritable leaping of quantum&
To date there has been no
definite information on the OL
beyond the lavish brochure
containing its Impressive
specifications, yet already two
magazines have retitled
themselves. Perhaps most
notably the E.M.A.P.
publication Which Micro &
Software Review (which to be
fair hasn't put anything on the
cover) contains the OL USER
(incorporating Professional
software houses, who are
forever bombarded with
advertisement managers telling
them that unless they're in the
CIL User they'll be missing out.
A second later and another
advertisement manager is
telling that unless they're in
Out...
Of course, Sinclair are
hoping the CIL will be a useful
tool in the home and not just a
games machine. But games
The QL User, they'll be missing
Computing), and the bi-monthly
Your Spectrum has now
become Your Spectrum &
User (VS is going monthly
soon).
WM has a 01_ User
supplement loose leaf inside,
whereas VS & QL User has
their supplement stitched in,
which makes it appear more
established. In both cases
there is really very little to say
about the product beyond
rehashing the extensive details
included in the widely seen
Sinclair brochure.
Consequently we are obviously
going to be seeing the sort of
wrangles that have plagued the
London producing centre for
computer magazines during the
past year, each of the larger
houses all competing to be the
mag with the most. It's all very
well, and doubtless keeps lots
of people employed, but it does
bec ome a night mare for the
playing will undoubtedly be a
large part of what it does In the
average household, so we'll
spare you the OL User bit until
there are a few real OLs about
to acutally use.
you the chance to say what you
think about a lot of thin9s to do
with CRASH Magazine, its
reviewing system and software
In general. Reader involvement
is vitally Important to us at
CRASH. Your letters are all
digested quite thoroughly, even
if they don't subsequently
appear in print. But letters do
not always give a clear picture
of what most readers think.
That's why we have provided a
questionnaire in this issue. The
more forms returned to us, the
better chance we have of
finding out what the majority of
you think about these subjects.
So please fi ll Out yours and
send it back. You're going to be
a great help to us if you do.
CRASHTIONNAIRE
A recent letter received by
Lloyd Mangram complained
that we said in a review that
two reviewers disagreed about
the merits of a particular game,
and asked why we did that. The
reason is quite simple; if you
have three players giving their
opinions on a game they're not
necessarily going to be the
same and it's only fair to report
that. Perhaps you find that
c onf us ing? Well we are of f ering
REVIEWERSCOMPETITION
The response to our Rev iewers
Competi ti on in issue 1 has
been staggering. I had no idea
so many of you were critics!
Thank you for responding so
well. At a quick glance at the
manuscripts received, the
overall standard appears to be
extremely high. As a result, and
because of the sheer number
of entries received we are
going to have to delay
JOKERS WI LD Phoeni x
KI LLER KNI GHT Phipps
Assoc.
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INDEX REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE
ALI EN SWARM K-Tel 1 0 8
ARCTURUS Visions
3
9
ARE NA K-Tet
1
0
0
BATTLE OF THE TOOTH-
PASTE TUBES K-Tel 1 1 7
BEAR BOVVER Ar ti e 1 0 6
BI MBO Joe The Lion
5
5
BUG BLASTER Crystal
8 3
BULL RUN Phipps Assoc. • 29
CAVEMAN C. R. L.
5
3
CASTLE CO LDI TZ K-Tel 1 1 7
CHEQUERED FLAG P i on 8 8
CHOPPER X-I R & R
9
0
CONFRONTATI ON Lot h-
[or ien
8
2
CYBER ZONE Crystal 1 0 6
4
DEATH CRUI SER Nobl e
House
1
2
4
DEN IS THROUGH THE
DRI NKI NG GLASS
Applications
2
1
DI NKY DI GGER Postern 5 4
DOUBLE TROUBLE Starlite 117
DR FRAN KY Vi r gi n Games 8 9
DRAUG HTS Oasis
3
7
FORCE FI GHTER Perfection 5 4
FRED Ouicksilve
8
4
I NVADER CUBE Oasis
3 7
I NVASI ON FORCE Mi cr o-
monis
4
7
IT'S ONLY ROCK & RO LL
K-Tel
3
0
LAZER ZONE faticksilva 2 0
LOONY ZOO Phipps Assoc 1 0 7
LORDS OF TI ME Level 9 3 0
LUNAR RESCUE C. R. L. 8 3
MI CRO MOUSE Lothl or i en 1 2 4
MI LLYPEDE C. C. I .
2
2
MONKEY BI ZNESS Atti c 8 8
NI GHT GUNNER Di gi tal
Integration
3
1
1994 Visions
5
2
OMETRON Software Projects 3 8
ORI ON MI CRODRAW & KI T
Orion
9
5
PENGY Micromania 1 0 8
PI -BALLED Automata
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announcing the results by
another month. Sorry to have to
do this, but there is no other
alternative as it represents
days of careful reading on the
part of several people before
any decisions can be taken.
THE CIL INFUSER
No sooner has the dust settled
over the CIL launch than newish
software house Joe the Lion
have announced the first of a
range of games for the
computer. Actually, what they
are announcing is a program
called the Emulator, which will
be available on a Microdrive
cassette and will allow you to
load a Spectrum machine code
program into the OL and run it
as on a Spectrum. As the OL
has no cassette port, a special
connector will be Included In
the Emulator package to allow
loading of Spectrum games
from cassette into the OL.
Of course, if this all proves
true, the Emulator will
transform the OL from a
business machine Into the best
games machine on the market,
THE SKI ILL Games Machine 2 8
THE SNOWMAN Quicksilve 8 2
STAR BLI TZ Softek
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STARTRADE Digital Dex-
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ter3 SEI DDAB ATTACK
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Hewson
1
1
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TI MEBOMB C.D.S.
1 2 3
TRI PLEX Wor kfor ce 1 1 8
TROJAN LI GHT PEN
9 2
TROM OK Tronics
1
1
5
TOMB OF DRACULA K-Tel 3 0
2003 A SPACE ODDI TY
OK Trnnics
1
2
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URBAN UPSTART Richard
Shepherd
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WI NGED WARLORDS C.O.S.116
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say Joe the Lion. On receiving
the announcement, a few
members of the CRASH team
voiced doubts as to whether
the claims can be true or
realisable, and confidence
wasn't inspired further by the
tone of the press release,
which went on to say that the
Emulator is presently under
development, and that Joe the
Lion needs a team of
prgrammers for the coding
stage. Anyone with a good
knowledge of the Spectrum.
Z.80 machine code and 68000
machine code should get in
touch with Joe the Lion
immediately.
lith e Spectrum Emulator Is
successful, a follow up version
for the BBC will be developed,
Its price is expected to be in
the region of E25, Anyone
Interested, contact Lawrence
Holt on 061 366 5935
well below trade prices. This,
on the face of it, may look good
for the games buying public —
everyone would like to gel
Automata's Grouch°, for
Instance, at E3 instead of E10,
but it has a hidden comeback.
The software house doesn't gel
all the revenue it needs and so
risks going out of business
(not that Automata seem to be
doing that, It would take a
noise enforcement law to do
that), which means that the
public have less choice in the
end. Besides which, thieves
shouldn't prosper as well as
the ones I have in mind seem
to.
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C.D.S. JOINS
G.O.S.H.
C.D.S. Microsystems have
become members of G.O.S.H.
the Guild of Software Houses
Grant Liner, sales mananger
for COS sayd, •G,O,S.H. has an
important role to play in the
development of the consumer
software industry. The
Consumer Charter which has
been agreed provides
consumers with a guarantee of
reliability which in turn must
benefit those companies who
are members of GO.S.H. and
adhere to the Guild's quality
standards which we hope will
become widely recognised.'
Of course, it doesn't
necessarily follow that all
G.O.S.H, games are good
games, but at least they should
behave well!
G.O.S.H. also has an
Important role to play in
protecting its member
software houses from the rip-
off merchants who sell brand
new games and exhibitions at
H W RA NGSW R
O THE TI
OK
There h a s b e e n m u c h e d i t o r i a l a r g u m e n t o v e r h o w t h e
new games s hould be rated — and indeed, even if they s hould be. One
argument i s t hat g iv in g games a ra t in g is t o o inac c urat e We'v e a ll
bec ome used to c omputer mags doing s omething lik e it. but a rating is ot
little use if it isn't c lear on what it is based S ome give a score Out of five,
some o u t o f eight, ot hers o u t o l twenty . A n d we'v e all s een t he bad
reviews that gives fi ve s t a rs and the good rev iew that gives t wo'
In CRA S H y ou will fi nd t wo s ec tions a t t h e e n d of each rev iew
whic h can be c ros s -referenc ed to the rev iew it s e if T h e fi rs t is headed
CO MMENTS a n d gives tac tual information regarding the program and
a very general rat ing based on the three indiv idual rev iewers ' opinions .
Then c ome seven ratings A ll the fi gures given are percentages. Some
of the headings are used differently than y ou may have enc ountered in
other magazines Firs t ly the heading USE OF COMPUTER. Until now this
has u s u a lly indic at ed t h e u s e o t h e S p e c t ru ms c apabilit ies b y a
program, but we do not use it that way. After all a really excellent game
may only need 9K of memory — who's to say whether that is a good or
poor use of the c omputer? Some games don't need fabulous graphic s to
be great games — who's 10 Say a game with s imple graphic s isn't making
full use ol the c omputer? It isn't a relevant heading for the games play er
So our USE OF COMPUTER means, how us er-friendly is the game, have
they prov ided s ens ible k ey board pos itions . are there plenty of joy s tic k
options ?
The other heading whic h differs in meaning from the way it is used in
other magaz ines is PLAYABILITIC whic h up till now has usually defi ned
what w e m e a n b y U S E O F CO MP UTE R. W h a t w e m e a n b y
PLAVABILITV is literally that — is it a fun game to play from the word go?
After all. a game may be enjoy able but not very addic tiv e in the long run
We t hink it's lair to point out the difference.
ADVERTISERS' INDEX
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tic
tomato
87
48
18
26
I noenthe
Level 9 Computing
Lyversoft
Megadodo
Micromania
Micromega
Now Generation
News-soft
Noble Houl e
Orion
Phipps Auociates
P.S.S.
Quicksilva
R 81 R Software
Richard Wilcox
Severn
Software Projects
Starzone
Ultimate
Vortex
2123
126
112
126
17
91
93
mix idge Computing
.C.S.
6
10
C.D.S. Microsystems
Crash Micro
81
104
Crystal Computing
33
Digital Integration
Electric Software
45
21
127
Fantasy
Games Machine
75
Gilsoft
60
Howson Consuhants
113
Imagine
7,15,19,27
55
67
41
50.51
126
16
125
13
103
128
109
2
71
40
32
105
102
Use °I computer
How good or bad are the c ontrol key
positions; is there a good range of
joystick options; is the program
quick to res pond to input / In other
words can you use the c omputer
easily with this program?
Graphic s
Speaks tor itself
Ovens°
The six above percentages are
averages out to a fi nal fi gure.
All the above percentages are
based on an average of the three
indiv idual reviewers' fi gures
Playability
SC L OFPER EN GE
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RATINGS
Under 30%a waste of time
31-40% g e n e r a l l y poor, but may
41_50%
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51-55% r e a s o n a b l e if type of
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game enjoy ed
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58-80% g o o d on most counts
81-70% g e
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71-80% h i g h l y rec ommended
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81-90% K n i g h t of the Britis h
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Is the game fun to play right from the
start or, alter a c omplic ated start.
does it bec ome fun to play /
Getting started
Are the ins truc tions clear both for
c ontrol keys and game's objec tiv es /
How good or bad is the pac k aging
and loading/
Addictive qualities
How long do you want to keep
play ing, and will you want to play it
again?
Value tor money
Speaks for Itself
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