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1 3 GAME DIARY: ME
MAKING OF 10111 DAN
JOn Wells continues to try and produce Ow greatest
beat-'em-up ever seen on the C64.
We t o another f a n t a i l 0
1 0 DISCOVER WHICH GAMES
YOU VOTED M E BEST EVER
Did Mayhem come top?
What do you think?
Anyway, discover which
games claimed the other
49 positions. Its not
quite as predictable as
you might think.
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1 7 ME ALL-TIME TOP SO
C64 GAMES - VOTED BY YOU
Here we ate, lawn - the definitive Top 50 And there are
twine a taw surprises - and shocks - in there.
3 4 W4TVIEw C64
COMPOSER JEROEN TEL
Meet the man who's the John Williams of the C64
world - if they gave game soundtreciks Oscars this
men would have a truckload of bald statuettes.
3 4 INTERVIEW: JEROEN
TEL, C64 COMPOSER
The name might not be
familiar but the music
will be. Mr Tells
responsible for the
track to games like
Lemmings, Smash TV,
Outrun Europa and
Turtles The Coln-Op.
t a dude.
( - 1 4 THE TOP 2 0
PD GAMES EVER
Not voted by you B u t trust us on this
lot okay? We even
1 0 REVIEW* HEAVENBOUND
You've got the demo, but is It worth buying the whole
game? This is where you'll find out...
tell you how you can
order the whole lot
for less than the
price
of the number
one game In
Top 50.
1 1 REVIEW: CASHMAN
COMPILATION
Three games at an incredibly low price. But are they
cheap and cheerful or cheap and nasty?
1 2 REVIEWz MCE
1 0 GAME REVIEW:
HEAVENBOUND
Who says they don't make games like
that anymore? Whoever they are.
they'll be silenced by
plattormer that
owes a lot to
Rainbow
Islands.
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2 6 GAMEBUSTERS
There's a complete
guide to Wizard 'a Pet,
plus tips for taking
the easy option with
games like Archetype.
Cool World
Deliverance, Exile,
City Bomber. Batman
and Supercars.
Will this Wzzed-up adventure from Visualize send you
straight to sleep or keep you questing?
1 4 PID FORMAT
The Top 20 best ever FREE games!
2 6 GAMEBUSTERS
More tips, hints, Wings and players guides for the
terminally lazy 111111111111Mag inedequales.
•-isegoe els Amok-
9 ON THE POWERPACK...
DROPZONE
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Its at number 16 in our Top 50, and we reckon
that if it had been on the Power Pack a couple of
months ago it would have powered into the top
Discover why the consoles are
over themselves to
4 :
have VerSiOna of this superb O W '
Defender-style shoot-'erwup.
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2 4 CREATING COLOUR
Dinar
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Final pert of our Assembly series.
2 1 M O U E TIPS
The techie CIAA section that refreshes the parts
Heinekin would make go fuzee—bang!
The Electric Boys explain how FL] can be used to
let you have more colours on screen.
1 7 MEAN MACHINE CODE
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HEAVENBOUND DEMO
Its up. up and and away with a demo of this excellent
vertically-scrolling platiormer from Austria.
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8 BACK ISSUES
GALAXULNS & CHAOS
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1 6 READER ADS
TURN TO PAGE 9 FOR THE FULL COVERTAPE BRIEFING...
Two addictive little blasters plucked from this months
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5 SNIPPETS
6 LITERS
Still
GLOBULAR GAME
Just out from k W software is a new
brain-bending puzzle-onentated game
called Amorphous.
M P . who were also responsible for
Squarescape (reviewed in CF44), claim
that the new puzzler has been specially
written to take into account all the
criticisms ol their previous game. which
met with a luke•warm response.
It involves a blob who has to find
his path through various maze-like
levels. the twist being that when he
meets intersections, he always follows
a strict set of rules about
which route he'll take — in
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other words, if there's a
choice between up or left
he will always head
upwards_
Add to this the fact that
he can only CTOSS each tile in
the maze once, and we've got
what sounds like the elements
of a classic Fuzzier
The game costs C3.50_ Make
cheques payable to Paul Kibiszyn, and
send your orders to M&P Software. 21
Stockwell Road, Milton Malsor,
Northampton, NN7 3AN_ Or you might
like to wait for our review next issue (we
like to think we serve some kind of
useful purpose here on CF).
RUMOURS
& UPDATES
' T h e Electric Boys have been
In conversation with the BBC,
no less. At a recent Computer
Trade Show the Boys bumped
Into a team from Auntie and
managed to convince them that a
feature on a computer that
produces top-quality games at a
fraction of the price of console
software was a really good idea.
So you never know, you could see
the C64 on Going Live pretty soon.
Maybe.
j.
Oh, what the heck, let's face it
Commodore Cracker is the fan-
produced version of Commodore
Format. And ii you can't wait lour weeks
between issues of CF then Cracker
should fill the gap pretty well.
Issue one costs E1.60 (and that
Includes the tape) and make cheques
payable to Bnan Turner. Write to:
Commodore Cracker, Turner
Magazines, 46a Kent Avenue, Ashford.
Kent I N 2 4 8N0
News, gossip and other bits of miscellaneous info that didn't
really fit neatly into any other part of the magazine...
IT'S A CRACKER
These days it isn't just professional
mags that carry covertape software.
Fanzines are getting in on the act_
Commodore Cracker is a new
A5 'zoo boasting 24 mono pages
and a rather packed coverlape
• c a l l e d the Crackin' Cassette. The
tape features mainly PD games.
plus a couple ol demos and
messages from the
editorial team.
There's games reviews. PO
reviews, techie tips, letters,
news, type-ins and.. h a n g
on, this is sounding very familiar.
Could we see Lions of the
Universe on the POwerPeek soon?
• Still with the EB's, as you will no
doubt have worked out from this
month's covertape demo and the
review on page 10. have finally
staled releasing some of that
Eurosoftware we've been raving
about for the last few months.
Unfortunately.
negotiations with CP Verlag - the
German company that does most
of the software the ES's are
Interested in - are going a bit
slower than expected, but
hopefully there should be a few
games coming over the next few
months, including Lions of the
Universe and Fred's Back.
There is even the
possibility that some might turn
up the Power Pack (but don't hold
your breath).
In the meantime, feel tree
to hassle CP Verlag yourself to
convince them that releasing this
stuff in the UK is a REALLY GOOD
IDEA. You can contact them on
OW 911/968324. (Remember to
get permission of the people who
pay the phone bills).
• The Electric Boy's very own
Defensive, meanwhile, is also
nearing completion.
• Meanwhile, over in the Jon
WellsNisualize camp, work on
10th Dan and the very promising-
looking platformer Germ Alert
continues feverishly. It looks like
DAVE'S OFF
It's a farewell to Dave again, as he
leaves Commodore Format tor the
second time to go off and deputy edit
that games mag we told you about last
month, Ultimate Future Games,
In the meantime we'd like to
thank Tim Norris for stepping into
the gap temporarily until a permanent
new ed is found. And you'll
find out who he, or she,
IS next issue.
:•••• •
YOU'LL KICK YOURSELF IF YOU MISS IT!
The Future Entertainment show is nearly upon us. so if
you haven't decided that you're going to go yet, here
are a few more reasons why you really shouldn't miss
out on what's going to be the biggest computer event
of the year,
It's going to be taking place in the cavernous hail
at Earls Court 2 on 2601-301h October. Besides all the
sluff we've told you about so far - all the latest
software on show, all the biggest companies
exhibiting, tons of hardware for sale, lots of
workshops to get involved with and stuff like that -
there's also going to be a special seminar by two past
giants of 8-bit computer programming.
Jeff Minter (Attack of the Mutant Camels) and
Archer Maclean (Dropzone) will be talking about the
lack of originality in console games. So you can bet
Find out what the
wean who wrote
Dropzcmo thinks
about the current
same scene.
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they're going to u y loads of nice things about the
C64, and how things were much better when people
used computers Instead of consoles. That all
happens on the Saturday, by the way.
Plus the CF crew - including Simon and Dave -
are going to be there on some of the days (hint - don't
go on Friday), so you can meet us and tell us exactly
what you think of the mag (but please be kind, okay),
So what are you waiting for? Phone fY 0369 4235
now and order your tickets. They're only E6. If you
leave It to the last moment and pay at the door you'll
have to fork out E7.
Germ Alert could be released this
side of Christmas, though 10fn
Den will more likely blast onto
your 64 early in 1995. Hopefully we
should have a demo of Germ Men
on the Power Pack in a couple of
COMMODORE FORMAT 5 0 November 1 9 9 4 •

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