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26 A N G E L STUDIOS
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32 LUCAS FI LM / ELECTRONIC ARTS

An in dept h report f rom The Lucasfi lm Ranch.

REGULARS
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1 Be With You
Here comes Lucasfilm Games and _WC Musical Industries are work ing
together on a new Nintendo Entertainment System I NES)
game based around the famous Star Wars movie.
Thogs are seidom "St ar Wars f or the NES will of f er the most c ompelling
what trey seem.
especia0 iihen
YoU're eating
genetrany
Cyber Car first-person 3D space fl ight and combat sequences ever,"
says Lucasfilm Games, part of the giant movie company that
created the original movies.
engineered toad Say goodbye to parking problems, theft In the f ort hc oming game. players will be able t o control
Do you remember Star Wars' characters Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess
die advert for and ever getting lost again. Mercedes Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi. C-3P0 and 142-D2. Each character
Qum -
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t hyee of the Benz take all the fun out of driving. has unique strengths and weaknesses, so players must learn
mushroom' which character is most effective in different situations.
t in
starring a host Of Mercedes-Benz, the respected German auto-manufac- Like the movie, St ar Wars begins in the Tatooine Desert.
y
farmyard mbooets turer, unveiled the 'car of the future' at the Detroit
r the Woke from
and Luke, in his landspeeder, must dodge boulders. shoot Jawas
Motor Show last month.
That's lite. Wok and avoid sandsnakes in a search f or Obi-Wan Kenobi, who
Feast your taste Everything in this six/eight seater is new. The driver will give him a lightsaber and teach him the ways of the Force.
buds
, On this. sits in the centre of the vehicle making it suitable for Luke's adventure lead him to the town of Mos Eisley. where
Quoin is. in fact, both left and right-hand drive. Twin cameras and a
fermented Marren he fends off stormtroopers and meets Han Solo, pilot of the
monitor provide excellent rear visibility and a radar Millennium Falcon. They then have to rescue Princess Lela
,tous fungus. Does
anyone fancy a system warns of other vehicles changing lanes or pos- from ' b r i l l Vader, who holds her prisoner on the Death Star.
secondhaiting? sible hazards ahead. The F100 has a HUD-like central
Once they have escaped, players must navigate the trenches
display screen to replace the usual instrument panel, of the Death St ar in an X-Wing fi ghter before dropping the
which automatically prioritises information. fatal missile to demolish the dreams of the Empire.
F100 can run on petrol, electricity or hydrogen, with The f our game sections are s plit between top-down and
the latter offering a solution to the problems of oil- side-to-side scrolling displays. Top-down play involves vehicle
shortages and global warming due to exhaust fumes. manoeuvring. including exploring the surface of the Tatooine
The result of extensive research by both Mercedes- Desert in the landspeeder and the exterior of the Death Star
Benz AG and Daimler Benz, there are no plans to put in an X-Wing. Horizontal scrolling sequences include explo-
the F100 into production. rations of the Mos Eisley spaceport and the labyrinth corridors
inside the Death Star. Passwords allow players to restart a
game where they left off.
"JVC Musical Industries and Lucasfi lm Games make an
unbeatable teams," says Satoshi Honda, General Manager of
Victor Musical Industries, "O u r comhined creativity, pro-
gramming skill and experience will make Star Wars one of
the most important games published for the NES in 1991. "
Lucasfilm Games is handling the design and marketing of
the St ar Wars NES game while N C Musical Industries is
looking after the sales and distribution. Star Wars will soon
he released on the NES and adaptions for the Nintendo Super
Eamicom and PC are also under consideration.

Furze' y e t, Porsche torho-nsthter, this 4 the car to drive on the autobahn

Games will soon it into Populous a n d play on the same

world as you had in Sim City 2," Molyneux
talk to one another adds. "Obviously you can't do this wit h
all games".
Bullfrog would like all simulations in
Bullfrog, the creators of Populous and the future to be data-compatible. "All this
Powennonger, have told ACE about an means is a few software developers have
exciting plan to enable future games to
to get together and talk about what they're
share data and talk to one another. If
doing," explains Molyneux. "We've already
other software developers agree to join
sat down with some people and said let 's
this revolutionary idea, players will be
do it'. Everybody thinks it will be nice
able to save characters from one game
but the details have yet to be sown up.
and load them into another and continue
I'm not quite sure how the copyright side
play in this totally new environment.
would work out. It all get's rather petty
You could fly the fighter from Xenon
at this stage. There's a very good chance
I l l over the lands of Populous
of Populous ll being data compatible with
"What we hope to do, and it's not offi-
other games. You'll certainly be able to
cial yet, is to transfer the information
take t hings f r o m Powermonger and
between our games and titles like Sim
Populous and put them int o Populous
City from Maxis." says Peter Molyneux,
the boss of Bullfrog. - What do you think about this idea?
S o game
saved i f on Sim City 2, you can put Write in to ACE Letters and tell us!
y o u ' v e
g o t
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Are you contused by
your zillion tontbon
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klAsubishi may have a
solution to your prob-
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In the original Life & Death from Software Toolworks and
den Irt9 toots 600r:I Luck! Mindscape. players became a physician responsible for treating
an appendectomy or a Dracon graft of an aortal aneurysm. In
Life & Death A players enter the neurosurgery wing of Toolworks
Tow lint patient on the slab. this Is wheee the fuel begins. pass ir e that drill. General Hospital and go for the brain!
Does your patient have an aneurysm, tumour or a food allergy?
( EDI T ) X-Rays, CAT scans, MEM— as a Toolworks General Doctor, you
have the all
the modern-day facilities to help your diagnoses. Eventually,
your skill at the scalpel will determine whether your patient
makes it to recovery.., or the morgue!
Life &Death IP The Brain supports full 256-colour VGA graph-
ics and features sampled sound effects for the respirator, EKG
beeps and
bone drilling tools. No gruesome detail has been excluded. The
Niampoor game is available now on the PC, with Mindscape currently
converting Life & Death t o the Amiga and ST. A CDTV version
is also under consideration.
This patient could be drug addicts or stroke victim, what do you diagnose

Mario goes to the movies

Danny DeVito, the pint-sized actor from Taxi and 'wins, is to
star in The Super Mario Bros live-action movie, the first fea-
ture film to be based around a video game character.
The Super Mario Bros video game series from Nintendo,
which has sold more than 32 million games in the U.S.
since its introduction five years ago, has made Mario
America's most popular animated character. He's even more
popular than Mickey Mouse! DeVito will play Mario in the Over to X-Ray for signs
movie, which will go into production in mid-91 for an expect- of braM damage.
ed summer 1992 release.
Developed as a comedy-adventure to appeal to both "Fitia! the or pacemaker in the N
ifs s tr a y s bow brain
adults and children, The Super Mario Bros movie will be stingery makes you Bet
, the Doc doesn't tr y that one again!"
hungry be pane' I RI m a c h i n e
written by Barry Morrow, who scripted the Oscar-winning
Pain Man. It is understood that Dustin Hoffman owns the t r i c k !
movie rights to the Mario character, The Only other films to
have had a strong video game flavour are Disney's Tron and
The Wizard starring 'Kevin' from The Wonder Years TV Gameboy or Spanish. The phrases are also separated
show.
"We feel privileged to bring such well-loved characters as
gets senous into specific travel categories and the user
may view lists of over 300-related phrases. A
Mario and Luigi to the big screen," says LightMotrve, the LA- metric/currency converter is also included.
Super Mario Land is a tough act to follow, so
based production company in charge of the Super Mario The Info Genius Travel Guide provides
GameTek from North Miami Beach in Florida
Bros motion picture. 'We look forward to the challenge of information on hotels, restaurants, sight5
hasdeveloped InfoGenius, the first line of and attractions, sports and recreation and
creating a story which brings them to life while being true to informational software designed specifically
the spirit of their world." night-life in America. It also includes infor-
for the Gameboy.
In the past 12 months, gross sales revenues from the mation a n d emergency numbers.
Five InfoGenius products have been intro-
video game Super Mario Bros III total S427,334,000 - Descriptions and helpful hints are provided
duced based on licensing agreements with for each selection and city. All data is
revenues which, if the game had been a film, would rank it top-of-the-line reference sources including accessed by either price or location or both.
second only to ET, the largest grossing movie in flerlitz language translators and Frommer's
entertainment history. The automatic phone dialler can be used to
travel guides.
call any number in the database either locally
The InfoGenius Spell Checker & Calculator
I don't think thi• patient le seeing eye-to-eye with you or long-distance.
enables users to correct spelling errors of InfoGenius products will be available in
over70,000 of the most commonly misspelled September priced $39.99 each. GameTek
words. The user enters a word via an on- is also a developer of software for the
screen keyboard. The correct spelling and a Nintendo Entertainment System, comput-
list of words of related alphabetical or pho- ers and coin-ops. The company, whose
netic origin is then displayed. The user can games are family-orientated and non-vio-
also perform mathematical functions.
lent, produces a line of children's games.
Both t h e EnglishiSpanish a n d
sports games and adaptions of popular
English/French language translators use data American board-games and television
separated into travel categories such as game shows such as Jeopardy and Wheel
restaurants, hotels and shopping. An on- of Fortune. GaineTek markets and dis-
screen keyboard is used to spell any one of tributes games licensed by Fisher-Price,
over 12,500 words in either English, French Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers.
8 ADVANCED COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT
 Extra missions
for Corporation
Core Design has released an extra
missions disk for its successful sci
:s and
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fantasy role-playing adventure.
eating
im. In fi The Corporation Mission Disk is effec-
works tively a whole new game with another
16 levels of robot-infested corridors to
krgy? conquer. It also includes more graphics
E.you to discover. Unfortunately, players
cannot transfer built-up characters from
the original game. The Corporation
tient Mission Disk costs .i.14.99 for Amiga
'a11111 oiur1.1 a w l . ° Lhime tte s o o n A l Ikkt k amp Act ! R s ,
and ST. Core Design says the Mission
Iraph-
EKG Phillips launches new Disk is harder to play and features more
rewards and objects to collect.
The Derby-based company is now

audio system
The working on the PC version of
Corporation (due in the spring) and
ently
rsion Corporation it, a 'completely redesigned
Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) is a new sound medium developed by follow-up with many innovative features
Philips and Matsushita that records and plays digital sound on new-style which takes players up into space'. This
Compact Cassettes but remains compatible with normal audio cassettes. sequel will be launched in September.
The DCC product range for home, portable and in-car use will be
introduced in 1992. The new prerecorded Digital Compact Cassettes will
be available in parallel. The new cassettes are similar in size to the
existing ones but have a new high-tech design. Additional advantages of
DCC will be the convenient track selection facility and a standard auto-
reverse function. The DCCs have a playing time of 90 minutes and offer
the benefits of digital sound quality.
"Just as we did with Compact Disc, we expect the DCC standard will
become the new worldwide standard for this medium," says Wim Wielens,
Managing Director of Philips Audio.
Tandy is the first licensee of DCC and Philips is offering manufacturing
licenses to all interested hardware and software companies. The rival
Digital Audio Tape (DAT) system developed by Sony provides a longer play-
ing time than DCC but is not compatible with existing analogue cassettes.
DAT players are already on sale in Japan. Philips offers, 'DCC is a totally
new tape recording system addressing the musical possibilities of today
and tomorrow. But it also makes the fullest possible use of the best of
proven technology. Digital Compact Cassettes are not only more attractive TIN* Corporation aliaeion Dirk incendes entre r a p h k t.
a new big bad rotnir pew** and furniture.
and more rugged than the old Compact Cassettes; they take this simple e)sfro, the hotte5t
Wed toy manufacturer 04
carrier into the highest sound class for the first time",
user the IggrYs, ,s setting
es.A the tectreotogy
ded,
ides
Web of chaos McClintock, pest exterminator extraor-
dinaire. But by the time they manage to
for the PC, Amiga and C64 by Incredible
Technologies in America. Titus in France
behind its Nemo
interactive television
entertamment
ghts convince the shocked residents what has is providing the ST version. The movie system The
and really arrived in Canaima, the sleepy ham- is currently on general release and the American to y firm
What has eight legs, two fangs and an atti- game will be available in a couple of responsible or My
dot let has already been caught in a web of
tude? Arachnophobla , the latest suspense months. Little Pony,
, chaos. Transformers riff/
movie from Steven Spieberg's Amblin•
ided "The game is true to the film scenario," Visionaries spent
Entertainments, is soon to be turned into
ais says Entertainment International, "You
a computer game from Entertainment
oth. are hired to track down and free the town
International.
dto from the spiders. After liberating your
The film is set in Canaima, California -
:ally house you have to find the nest and nip
the ideal spot for Dr Ross Jennings and
disaster in the bud. To destroy the spiders
e in his wife Molly to raise their two children.
you can use pulverising insecticide, fumi-
Far from the dangers and congestion of
Tek gating bombs or a flame-thrower. The
the city, this picturesque community nes-
the levels represent different parts of the
tled between rolling green hills and rocky
mt- house - the roof, loft, cellar, and so on.
cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean
ose Throughout the different levels you
promises fresh air and friendly people. In
encounter spiders that attack you. Not
the days following the arrival o f the
all the spiders react in the same way to
Jennings family several of Canaima's cit-
liar your presence - some will jump, others
ion izens die under strange circumstances.
will bite your ankles or scratch your eyes
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TOTOWNS
After spending ma n y hours reading t h e
December issue o f ACE, I feel I must con-
gratulate you on th e Gamesworld article.
This particular piece o f the magazine was
very well laid out, in.teresting, detailed and
the artwork was excellent. Definitely one
of the better articles t o appear i n ACE
recently...
On the minus side, though, I think you are
devoting to o mu ch o f t h e magazine t o
technology o u t o f reach o f t h e average
user. Machines such as the Neo Geo, the FM
Towns, and the CDTV. Also, th e new con-
soles seem to have, to an extent, replaced
the 8-bit computer reviews. It's been quite
a while since I saw a full-length C64 or CPC
review in ACE.
Complaints aside, after over a year of reg-
ularly purchasing ACE, I still fi n d it to be,
without a doubt, the most colourful, most
informative, and - above all - most enjoy-
able computer magazine available
Piero Serra, No rth a mp to n
Cor! Warms the cockles of your heart ! Keep
the fiver and put it t owards an FM Towns !
And yes, we wi l l be produc ing mo r e f ea-
tures in the Games world style, s t art ing i n
the very next issue. You have been warned.
PULLINGA
FASTONE
Like many readers of your magazine, I have
noticed over the past few months the pres-
ence of the FAST advert in ACE. Whilst in
no way defending the actions o f software
piracy, I find this worrying. The formation
of FAST represents a virtual software cartel
while there exists no - to my knowledge -
organisation defending the interests of the
games software consumer. Thus we can see,
in an industry with a turnover in excess o f
300 million pounds, s ubs t ant ial repres ent a-
tion for the manufacturers and none f o r
the consumers.
I propose the formation of a charter, by a
neutral organisation, t h a t wo u ld uphold
the reputation of the software industry and
defend the interests o f the consumer. The
charter could be subscribed t o voluntarily
by retailers and manufacturers, a n d t h e
presence o f the charter o n th e ir adverts
could guarantee (for example) some of the
following points:
1. Retailers must guarantee that consumers
can see displays of software before buying.
2. A money-back guarantee if the packag-
ing o r the disks are faulty, o r if the p ro -
gramme is bugged.
etters
Packaging should display screen shots only
if they apply to the specific version on sale.
These points would serve the interests o f
the industry.
Spencer Lewis, Rom ford
PS I find not only the presence but the tone
of these adverts very disturbing.
Excellent idea, Spencer, a n d we' re going t o
f ollow it up. See nex t mont h's issue f or t he
results. it ' s wo r t h p o i n t i n g out , howev er,
t hat consumers DO hav e s ome repres ent a•
t ion - t hrough ACE. Ma n y people t hink we
jus t rev iew games t he way the manuf ac t ur-
ers w a n t u s t o , bec aus e w e n e e d t h e
money t hey pay f or advertising. There have
been s ev eral ins t anc es i n ACE' s h i s t o r y
where c ompanies have wi t h d r a wn advertis-
ing bec aus e t hey d i d n o t agree wi t h o u r
reviews of t heir products_ We always t ry t o
p u t t h e c ons umer' s p o i n t o f v i e w fi rs t .
Incidentally, y ou' re n o t t he only pers on t o
fi nd t he FAST ads dis t urbing, a l t h o u g h see
Blit t er End in t his issue f o r an Adv ert is ing
Standards Aut horit y judgement .
DEMODISKS
When I played Knights o f the Crystallion I
f ound t h a t I h a d b o u g h t , i n m y eyes, a
rather average game consisting o f several
ordinary components w i t h , a d mitte d ly,
some ve ry o rig in a l graphics. O f course,
there mu st b e many people wh o saw i t
quite differently as all its high ratings b y
different computer magazines shows. The
thing I want to emphasise is that even if a
game is highly rated by many people that
doesn't mean to say that I will like it too.
What I want to suggest is that publishers
offer playable demo disks o f their games
for between 61 a n d 63 so th e consumer
could check out the game without risking a
lot. I f I liked it. I could then buy the fu ll
price product with confidence.
Ann- Mi r i a m Macz ewski , Ger many
Psygnosis ac t ually a r e i n t h e proc es s o f
doing t h is wit h Lemmings, a n d w i l l b e
charging 99p for the disk. The company are
very pleased wit h th e result so far, so I
letters
expect we w i l l see mo re o f this so rt o f
thing, b u t it ' s w o r t h p o i n t i n g o u t t h a t
some people claim the disk has the oppo-
site effect - having played the five levels
included, they lose the impetus to pay fo r
the whole product, although thinking it is
an excellent game. It's very difficult decid-
ing h o w much to 'give away' in this fash-
ion.
VRHEALTH
WARNING
I think that VR will be the biggest leap in
advanced co mp u te r entertainment since
the introduction of the computer itself! But
whilst drooling over the possibilities o f VR
games, something occurred to me - some-
thing which currently I have heard nothing
about, and that was the dangerous aspect
of virtu a l reality. Wo u ld immersing yo u r
senses into a completely new and realistic
environment me a n t h a t t h e user experi-
ences the same effects as they would if the
situation was physically real?
Imagine playing the latest VR RPG. You're
walking along a dark passage when a huge
grotesque monster jumps out and proceeds
to attack you. I f th e graphics and a tmo -
sphere we re realistic enough, wo u ld yo u
really feel scared - to death maybe?
Are there any doctors Out there who can
clarify the situation?
Mi chael Webster , Bever l ey
A Doc t or Writes: Yes, s ev ere shock c an be
dangerous whatever the cause or context if
you have a weak heart, a n d stress/strain
will aggravate mo st physical infi rmities.
This has already happened with a boxing
arcade game in Japan, wh e re one man is
reported to have had a heart attack while
hitting the 'pads' used to control the game.
On the other hand, sudden death in a VI?
RPG wh e n c o n f r o n t e d wi t h a 3 0 f t h i g h
purple ur-parrot featuring 128 fully articu-
lated different jaws, an insatiable urge to
mate with human's, and a whole battery of
incomprehensible instruments o f to rtu re
may, possibly, be the best thing that could
happen to you.
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CONSOLE!
I f e e l a n g r y , n a y inc ens ed, b y Do u g l a s
Inness' c o mme n t s w i t h r e g a r d t o t h e
Megadriv e. H o w c an people be so n a r r o w
minded? Console owners seem t o be contin-
ually o n t h e rec eiv ing e n d o f c rit ic is m
where t h e merit s a n d c apabilit ies o f t h e
t heir machines are concerned and also seem
t o r e g a r d e d a s p o o r , i n f e r i o r indiv iduals
wh o only want t o plug away at a joy pad on
t he lat es t a r c a d e c onv ers ion. M r I nnes s
obviously has n' t s een o r play ed Phant as y
Star 2 o r Herz og Zwe i ( we d o n ' t all ov er-
dose o n s hoot -em-ups o r p l a t f o r m games ,
you k now).
But get t ing back t o his let t er, I paid 1265
f or my Me g a d r i v e wi t h 6 games wh i c h I
t hink is bet t er t han pay ing at least an ex t ra
1100 f or an Amiga or ST t hat has facilities I
most defi nit ely wouldn' t use (such as graph-
ics, sound, and business applications)...
You're q u i t e r i g h t , M r I nnes s , t h e
Megadriv e d o e s l a c k a k ey board. That ' s
because it's a CONSOLE. But , sarcasm aside,
a d i s k driv e, k e y b o a r d , g r a p h i c s t a b l e t ,
mo d e m unit , a n d CDROM driv e are all o n
t he way, whic h opens t he door f or t remen-
dous pos s ibilit ies . B u t w h y d o p a r e n t s
always wa n t educ at ional jus t ifi c at ion wh e n
dec iding whet her or not t o buy a console or
a c omput er. I f all y ou wa n t t o d o is play
games, b u y a console. You' re was t ing y our
money and t he machine's capabilities if you
buy a c omput er f or t hat reason alone.
If pay ing 133 f or Populous (whic h is wh a t
it costs where I get my stuff f rom) means no
more f aul t y discs a n d ex t raneous l o a d i n g
times f o r a n ident ic al A mi g a c onv ers ion,
t hen it 's c ert ainly g o i n g t o b e a f a r mo r e
enjoy able experience.
J. RRoche, Al tr i ncham
t hink t h a t c o mp u t e r owners a r e u n d e r -
s t andably sensitive a b o u t consoles because
they t hink t h a t these mac hines mi g h t ren-
der t heir own machines obsolete. This is not
the case. As long as magazines lik e ACE are
around (and we p l a n t o b e a r o u n d f o r a
long, l o n g t i me ) w e wi l l c ont inue t o s up-
p o r t and refl ec t the c omput er gamer. There
are g o o d reasons f o r get t ing b o t h a c om-
put er a n d a console. Th e fi rs t has s light ly
c heaper s of t ware (not everyone can af f ord
t he lux ury o f ins t ant loading) a n d great er
f unc t ionalit y t h e s ec ond i s mo r e c onv e-
nient f o r dedic at ed games play ing. A s w e
always say, go f or bot h! But at least get the
one y ou wa n t and don' t f eel dic t at ed t o by
fashion...
HELP!
I a m one v ery sad a n d dis appoint ed mo t h -
er! My son is severely disabled and his com-
put er is an abs olut e lif eline. He has had a
BBC c omput er since h e was about 7 years
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VIRTUALCURSE!
In i ssue 40 of your excel l ent maga-
zine, ther e is an ar ti cl e on vi r tual
reality. I t is good t o see w ha t is
essenti al l y an e nt e r t a i nm e nt maga-
z i ne cover the ne w t e c hnol ogy that
wi l l undoubt e dl y affect computer
e nt e r t a i nm e nt in t he futur e.
However , I feel ther e ar e some
i m por t a nt poi nts whi ch wer e absent
f r om your featur e.
I am a 21 year ol d s t ude nt of com-
put e r t e c hnol ogy a nd have enj oyed
c om put e r games for over 8 years,
a l t hough I n o w use my c om put e r for
WP, pr ogr a m m i ng, musi c etc. Wi t h
thi s exper i ence I k now how some
games (even on t he ol d Spectr um
48K) can total l y engr oss a per son i n
thei r reality.
For exampl e. I am cur r entl y enj oy-
i ng Capti ve on t he ST. Thi s is a
thr i l l i ng ga m e w i t h al l the i ngr edi -
ents necessar y t o captur e t he atten-
t i on ( pun i nt e nde d) a nd i t does thi s
w i t h a basi c Atar i ST, 2 D gr aphi cs,
a nd m ono sound ( on my S I M I any-
way). I m a gi ne a VR ga m e based on
t he same concept a nd desi gn but
w i t h realistic 3D gr aphi cs a nd all the
featur es t ha t VR can gi ve t he player.
I, f or one, w oul d never be abl e t o
stop pl ayi ng such an astoni shi ng
game.
Even now, t he r e ar e par ents w ho
feel t ha t thei r chi l dr en s pe nd far t oo
m uc h ti me on thei r computer s, t o
t he excl usi on of other social acti vi -
ties. such as ot he r chi l dr en a nd
spor ts. Ther e ar e i nstances of vi deo
ga m e addi cti on t ha t have l ed those
chi l dr en t o steal f r om par ents a nd
beg fr om str anger s t o feed thi s
addi cti on. I n m y opi ni on, t he si tua-
t i on can onl y ge t wor se as VR tech-
nol ogy becomes mor e a nd mor e
sophi sti cated.
I of f e r a scenar i o set I n the year
2020.
You have j ust pur chased t he l atest
auto-sensi ng VR m e ga m a c hi ne (AVR)
old a n d t h e p r o g r a mme s we r e ex c ellent ,
helping h i m w i t h r e a d i n g , wr i t i n g , a n d
t hink ing. Howev er, h e c a me h o m e f r o m
school o n e day wi t h ' A mi g a madnes s ' a n d
ev ent ually t he BBC was out and t he Amiga
in-
To me, i t appears t hat he has s wapped a
box f ul of really ent ert aining BBC disks f or a
box f ul o f abs olut ely mindles s arc ade r u b -
bish, half of whic h mov e so fast t hat he's no
idea what 's going on. I didn' t k n o w what a
mouse wa s u n t i l t h e A mi g a arriv ed, a n d
h o w I wis h t hat I s t ill didn' t ! It's useless f or First, y ou can res t assured t hat t here is lots
Mart in and fl ies of f t he t able when he tries o f Ami ga s of t ware t h a t f ulfi ls t h e needs
t o use it , d u e t o his c lums y spastic mov e- y ou speak of. Flight simulators, t ank s imula-
ments. I hav e nev er s een Ma r t i n us e t h e tors, s t rat egy games, chess programs . . , the
w i t h fr ee Wi l d West s i m ul a t i on pr o-
gr am. The ne w machi ne is a n al l -i n-
one modul e whi ch fi ts s nugl y over
your eyes. I t can sense y our ever y
m ov e m e nt fr om t he neur al pa t t e r s
si gnal l i ng your body t o m ov e . I t
feeds the si mul ati on di r ectl y i nt o
your br ai n by means of ne r v e i nduc-
ti on. You stand out s i de a nd pl ace i t
over your eyes.
You are suddenl y s t a ndi ng on t he
w oode n w a l k w a y of an ol d w e s t
t ow n. You l ook dow n t o see your sel f
dressed i n l eather tr ouser s a nd hi gh
boots, shirt, a nd l eather wai stcoat.
The cl othes feel real, t he mat er i al
itchy, t he boots soft a nd c om f or t -
able. At your wai st is a t hi c k hi de
bel t and hangi ng at y our si de is a
gun, an ol d Smi th a nd Wesson.
You l ook ar ound a nd all t he shops
and r oads you l eft be hi nd i n t he real
wor l d are r epr oduced i n t he si mul a-
ti on. You star t wal ki ng d o w n t he
pathway.
You j ust passed a cl othes s hop t h a t
in reality, sol d not hi ng but t he l at-
est, br i ghtest fashi ons - w ha t y ou
see is a dusty ol d w oode n stor e t ha t
sells wor n l eather r i di ng pa nt s a nd
t ough cotton shirts. Whe r e t he bar
on your l eft that, i n r eal i ty, ha d a
pi nk neon sign, w he r e t he chr omer s
ha ng out, is in r eal i ty, y ou see ol d
doubl e swi ng door s of a sal oon,
inside whi ch sit some of t he m e a n-
e s t t oughe s t cowboys of t he West.
keyboard wit h any of his A mi g a games , It's
just whoos h, b a n g wh a l l o p , h e r e w e g o
again on the jolly old joystick.
Please, pleas e h e l p s omeone b e f o r e I ' m
driven mad by the screeching brak es driv ing
round t h e nev er e n d i n g bends . I s t h e r e
s omewhere some sensible s of t ware f o r t he
Amiga t o s uit a c hild aged 12-14 years old
whic h requires the use of t he k ey board and
t he brain?
Ma r i on Ha y w ood, Tor qua y

Every shop in thi s bustl i ng ci ty
tr ansmi ts its name a nd mer chandi se.
so the AVR can tr ansfor m thi s da t a t o
an i mage whi ch you can see, hear ,
tough, smell, and taste.
The AVR has a smal l r adar t ha t can
detect the smallest obj ects. For ever y
man the radar detects, y ou see a m a n
packi ng a gun and w e a r i ng ol d-styl e
wester n clothes. For ever y w om a n,
you see a l ady in a bi g, sti ff dress and
matchi ng bonnet. For ever y a ut om o-
bile, a hor se-dr awn car r i age.
The radar detects a ga p i n t he r eal
peopl e who sur r ound y ou a nd the
AVR decides t o offer you an
encounter. In t ha t encounter , y ou see
the dreaded Billy t he Ki d str utti ng
dow n the ear then path. . . You deci de
to make the wor l d a better pl ace a nd
take this sucker out. As he appr oach-
es. you draw a nd shoot, t he gun feel s
real in your hand, t he acr i d smoke
stings your nostrils, a nd Billy lies at
your feet, dead.
You rip the AVR fr om y our sweat-
beaded for ehead a nd l ook dow n at
the concrete pa t hw a y - to see not h-
ing. This is wher e Billy lay, but now
there is nothi ng. Wi t h your hear t
self
beating, you smi l e a nd sl owl y l i ft the
igh
AVR to your eyes a nd r eenter the
It.
Virtual Reality...
This scenario sounds i mpl ausi bl e
and I admi t it is a pessi mi sti c vi ew of
the use of the technol ogy, but you
1 it on e nha nc e d fl a v our i ng? . . . Chi l dr en
have only to l ook t o see how far com-
puters have de v e l ope d i n t he l ast
Ps
twenty years to i m a gi ne how far they
real
can 'theor eti cal l y' de v e l op i n t he ne x t
thirty.
The pr obl em of addi cti on t a k e n t o
its limit woul d be a per son w h o
hat,
woul d never r emove t he AVR a nd
woul d actually LIVE i n the vi r tual
reality, wai ti ng for the ne x t r eal -l i fe
hat simulation to hi t the mar ket. I f for ced
back i nto the real wor l d, t he addi ct
woul d suffer ter r i bl e w i t hdr a w a l a nd
deep depression a nd fi nal l y r equi r e
ers
psychiatric hel p t o become a real per -
son again.
This is a very, ver y cyni cal vi ew, but
ri- It is one which m us t be consi der ed
it.
alongside the de v e l opm e nt of sophi s-
s. It's list is endless. Just g o t o a g o o d indepen-
e go dent computer dealer, ex plain t he problem
and ask his advice. I f he has n't got t ime f or
I'm you, shake the dust f rom y our shoes and try
somewhere else. The mous e problem is an
lying
there interesting one - we' v e passed y our let t er
r the ont o Commodore themselves t o see i f t hey
old can help - a track b a l l mi g h t be a mi n o r
and improvement, a n d t h e r e a r e o n e o r t w o
'complex' joysticks o n t h e ma r k e t w i t h
luay mult i-but t on c ont rol. Finally , perhaps y o u
s houldn't worry y ours elf t o o mu c h a b o u t
s lots t he screaming o f tyres - y our son ma y be
Jeeds
fi nding t hat this n e w t y pe o f s of t ware is a
hula- valuable means of let t ing o f f steam wh i c h
the
mi g h t ot herwis e g e t b o t t l e d up. - onc e
ti cated VR technol ogy.
The ot he r si de of the coi n w he r e VR
is concer ned is i n i ts use f or gi vi ng
t he bl i nd or dear or other wi se dis-
abl ed pe opl e an i mage of the real
w or l d t ha t t he y w oul d other wi se
w oul d not have.
I magi ne an AVR for the bl i nd. I t
w oul d r ecei ve data fr om t he shops
a nd r adar (and any ot he r theor eti cal
sour ces) a nd conver t i t i nto an i mage
whi ch is f e d di r ectl y t o the br ai n, gi v-
i ng t he user the abi l i ty to i nter act
w i t h t he real w or l d as never befor e.
Thi s is onl y one of t he m a ny good
uses t he t e c hnol ogy coul d be used
for.
I ha v e tr i ed t o poi nt out the good
a nd ba d si de of VR a nd I hope to have
I nv ok e d some t hought on the subj ect
by ot he r r eader s. Per sonal l y, I c a nnot
w a i t for the fir st affor dabl e VR
games machi ne t o be r el eased as i t
wi l l be a real l andmar k i n games
t e c hnol ogy a nd ga m e exper i ence.
Peter Gr een, Hudder sfi el d
We 'v e gi ven y our l etter t he pr i z e not
because w e agr ee w i t h your apoca-
l ypti c war ni ngs of a w or l d of VR z om-
bies, b u t because of your i magi nati ve
depi cti on of the possi bi l i ti es. I t
sounds gr eat! A f e w poi nts. . . Ever y
technol ogi cal advance br eeds casual -
ties. Ther e ar e cur r entl y mi l l i ons of
pe opl e dyi ng f r om over eati ng. Bl ame
stol e a nd be gge d f r om thei r par ents
t o go t o the movi es dur i ng t he
depr essi on—The thr eat t o the y oung
can be contr ol l ed by l egi sl ati on. . . The
risk of psychol ogi cal de pe nde nc e on
VR w oul d be substanti al l y less w he n
it is seen (as i t wi l l be) i n the c ont e x t
of the futur i sti c consumer soci ety i n
w hi c h i t emer ges, w hi c h wi l l
undoubt e dl y offer many other , equal -
ly compel l i ng di ver si ons. . . . and, fi nal -
ly, t he use t o whi ch w e put technol o-
gy is i n our ow n hands. I t s YOU w h o
w a nt e d to bl ow Billy away. I t is not
t e c hnol ogy t ha t w e shoul d be afr ai d
of, but our sel ves - and ther e's no
escape fr om that.
that's done, I ' m sure he' ll enjoy s omet hing
more serious, and there's lots about.
NOMORE
WAITERS!
I hav e dec ided t o get a Megadriv e and n o t
a Famic om f or t hree simple reasons.
1. I have a Game Boy and all good Nint endo
licenses will be released f or it.
2. As f ar as I hav e heard, You c annot play
letters
NES games on t he Super Famic om, whereas
Megadriv e o wn e r s hav e a l l t h e o l d Sega
favourites.
3. I d o n ' t t h i n k I c an s t and any t hing els e
wit h 'Super' or ' Mario' in its title.
Da v i d Hami l ton, G l a s gow
I wo u l d n ' t c ount on eit her 1 o r 2, b u t sym-
pathise wit h 31
THEMONEYPIT?
Dear ACE,
I'm a Megadriv e owner, but I f eel my query
probably applies t o every c ons ole/ c omput er
owner_ Put bas ic ally i t s t his : Wh y is s of t -
ware s o ex pens iv e? Th e 1 6 - b i t c o mp u t e r
owners hav e t o pay a r o u n d £25 f o r t heir
software, I have t o pay around £30 (I appre-
ciate t hat my s of t ware is going t o be a lit t le
more pric ey due t o t he f ac t t hat it 's mo r e
expensive t o produc e a chip-based cart t han
a mas s -duplic at ed disc) a n d o t h e r c ons ole
owners hav e t o pay f airly s ubs t ant ial sums
t oo ( a l t h o u g h t h e lat es t J apanes e ' g r e y '
s of t ware w i l l n a t u r a l l y b e h i g h l y p r i c e d
because of import costs).
These fi gures seem t oo high t o me. The tit-
bit c o mp u t e r owner s pay a r o u n d 0 5 f o r
t heir disc-based s of t ware - a f u l l f 10 less
t han disc-based 16-bit games . Us ually t h e
reason g i v e n f o r t h i s p r i c e dif f erenc e i s
increased ' dev elopment costs f o r t h e b i g
boys. Can this really be true?
In t h e e a r l y d a y s o f 1 6 - b i t c omput ers
everyone was assured t hat once t he ST and
Amiga started s elling in v olume t he price of
s of t ware wo u l d inev it ably drop. I t has n't ,
even t h o u g h t hes e c omput ers n o w d o mi -
nate t h e c o mp u t e r mark et . Similar assur-
ances a r e ma d e t o c ons ole o wn e r s w h o
c omplain a b o u t t h e pric es o f c art s . A r e
these promises going t o be hollow t oo?
I'm wr i t i n g t o y ou i n t h e h o p e t hat y ou
can s hed s ome light o n jus t wh a t happens
to all my hard-s av ed wo n g a wh e n I b u y a
new game. Sorry f or being such a ' moaning
minnie'l
Sam M e a t Ha r r ow
The o l d ' Wh y is s of t ware s o ex pens iv e?'
chestnut has been roas t ing on t h e braz ier
f or as long as I c an remember. Back in t he
mid-80s t h e r e wa s n e a r r i o t i n g a mo n g s t
Spectrum o wn e r s w h e n t h e y h e a r d t h a t
Ult imat e Play t he Game ( n o w Rare, console
developers) were u p p i n g t he pric e o f t heir
games f r o m 15.99 t o a wh o p p i n g E9,99('1).
Now, o f c o u r s e , n e a r l y e v e r y m a j o r
Spectrum release costs t hat much (alt hough
I'm sure many Spectrum owners wo u l d wel-
come a ret urn t o t hos e ' Good Old Days'!).
However, t hat ' s by-the-by. I n nex t mont h' s
issue o f ACE w e l l b e ans wering a l l y o u r
queries and more, wh e n we ex plain exactly
where t h e mo n e y goes wh e n y o u b u y a
game. I t hink y ou' l l be s urpris ed by wh a t
we reveal!
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CONSOLES ARE GOOD FOR YOU

Video games have been getti ng quite a pasting in the
States as American youth succumbs to the malevo-
lent hypnotic power of 28 million Ni ntendo
Enter tainm ent Systems. Horror stories abound in the
media about successfully suicidal Zelda freaks and
m ini-Manes knocking their heads against brick walls,
so now the industry Is fi ghting back with applications
that should earn parental respect. The Miracle is cur-
re n t ly t o p o f t h e list ...
I t's a n e a t p a cka g e , f e a t u rin g a 4 9 f u ll- size , ve lo c-
ity sensitive keyboard, 128 digital sounds and effects.
16 n o t e p o lyp h o n y, a n d a m u lt it im b r a l M I D I sp e cifi ca -
tion. The secret, however, is the NES cart that comes
with it - containing a gr aded series of over ZOO piano
le ssons, p re se n t e d in f o rm a t s ra n g in g f r o m vid e o
game-style exercises to standard musical notati on
and theory.
The Miracle keyboard is significant because i t
shows w hat can be done w hen a computer system
a ch ie ve s m a ss m a rke t p e n e t ra t io n in t h e w a y t h a t
t h e N ES h a s d o n e . Su d d e n ly a ll kin d s o f a p p lica t io n s
t h a t w o u ld p re vio u sly h a ve b e e n t o o co st ly t o p ro -
duce ca n g e t o n t o t h e m a rke t b y b o r r o w in g p ro ce ss-
ing pow er and VDU presentation fr om the NES_ Stand
by for even more add-ons of this natur e if the Super
Famicorn, which has better interface capability.
achieves similar market penetratioct.

The M iracle k e y boa nk plug Is p a y ole os

Show people, this de lightful pair spent the whole show play-
ing P it Warrior La te r Big soy tr ie d to engineer a c ool pont.-
tion with the U ltim a te Warrior. b u t was shepherded away by
envious security guards.

the street. Sending rivers of flame across an arti-

cial lake, it rears to its full height of, well, about
y fifty feet. Passers-by pay practically no attention
fat all. This, you see. is Las Vegas.
i Yes, you can have your double chocolate double malted
with
s whipped fresh cream and butter pecan ice-cream and
yes,
, those are real white tigers in the hotel lobby where you
ihave just won S500 on a Sc slot and yes, you are scream-
ting with excitement as 2000 coins vomit Out of the N inte ndo dom ina te d en entir e pavilion

'machine. Passers-by pay practically no attention at all. Las a t CIS . With US sales 'NAN topping 18
m illion units. the r e is a N inte ndo con
Vegas, remember?
s sole in one of every three US hor ne t
This, however, is a small plastic talking watch that no-
aone in their right mind would pay 5p for, The passers-by are
vabsolutely fascinated. They're practically killing each other
mi l l i ST Wi l l
oto get a closer look. The man with the watches has the air
Bla upunict's Tra ve lpilot
lof a conjurer materialising rabbits with an IQ of 150 and uses ( O s to store corn•
cthe ability to digest nuclear waste. People are taking him pre he nsive m a p inform a -
tion that links in with
aextremely seriously.
whe e l se nsor in p u t t o t e ll
n That's CES... a d rive r e xa ctly wh e re he
o is and how he can reach
,THE SHOW OF SHOWS
Isis d e stin a tio n . Pione e r
It's beyond any mortal's capabilities to give you a com- unve ile d a sim ila r syste m
eCES, in case you didn't know, happens twice a year—at that uses satellite naviga-
prehensive round-up of what went down at this year's show.
rVegas in January and Chicago in June. It is not to be con- tion signa ls ra the r tha n
fused with our own Computer Entertainment Show that On these three pages we take a whistle-stop tour through a whe e l se nsors. Bo t h sys-
utakes place in London in September. CES is about whole range of widgets and topics that you may find com- te ms cost a round 5 3 5 0 0 .
pConsumer Electronics in its widest sense. A series of vast pelling, irrelevant, or downright absurd. Elsewhere in this
thalls, pavilions, and hotel lobbies house everything from issue you can check out some of the games software we
i tracked downand tbere are aliiiiddifional featureson CD I M I I I I M M E M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
n,uclio tomind-numbingpornographicvideos. If you can buy software, the latest newson virtual reality, and console—
g and it conducts electricity (or plugs into something that development
/ 1 1 1 . 1 1technology
. at Electronic Arts' San Mateo
odoes). you can find it here, office.
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The games at CES were, for the most part, predictable S how people h a ti th e
Lat's Incentive
and uninspired. Not so, however, the devices on offer alit the s
boss tan A ndr ew tors
for controlling them. Surprisingly, ther e was nothi ng found himself an A tc
on show in the 'cyberspace' user interface categories angel ( we
promised not to
of body suits, datag loves, or eyeball tracking devices. tell his wife )
Instead, we had sticks, chairs, and even a speech
recognition device - the Voice Master key system,
which gives you vocal control of your lasers (Or your
spreadsheet). Currently only available for the PC
1/MK will recognise up to 64 voice commands which
This charming
can then be applied to user-defined keyboard device says
sequences. Since these sequences can load in other "S • '• Ii y our and
other e nde a nng
files, the possible applications are endless. Now you phrases in a
can just say 'Thanks. John' and hey presto! Wor d pro- tinny voice i t
cessor loaded, standard thank you letter pr inted will cost you
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 Just as Casio have persevered with all manner of miniaturised wa tc h technologies over
the lest fe w yews. so Franklin have ba ttle d on in the electronic r e fe e m s • widge t ermiliet.
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The Meadicam Jr slick e nd oh so s m ooth
STAR OF THE SHOW
It's a bit depressing to have to
announce that the most stunning
exhibit at (ES di dn't have anything to
do with computer games at all, but
with the rapidly exploding video cam-
era market.
As won as you abandon the limi-
tations of the tr ipod and start compos-
ing dynamic shots w i th either a cine
camera or a video camera, you come
up against camera shake. Professionals
use a device called the Steadicam
which employs a complex system of
counterweights and harnesses to
allow a trained oper ator complete
freedom of m ovem ent but w i thout
any discernible judder on-screen. You
can follow Warren Beatty from one
bedroom to another, up and dow n
stairs, in and out of cars, w i thout so
much as a jiggle.
Now the makers of Strum:Beam
have produced the Steadicam JR, an
astonishingly simple hand-held devios
that does the same thing for personal
8mm camcorders. You m ount your
camcorder on the tripod-style plat-
form, hold the entire assembly by a
comfortable grip using one hand (it's
remarkably light), and use the built-in
high intensity 3,5" LCD m onitor
instead of the viewfinder. Wi th your
other hand, you can m anipulate the
camera to pan and tilt as you move
around. The cost: S595, and even at
that price it has to be an essential pur-
chase for every user of 8mm or
lightweight camcorders.
Also on show was an ingenious
de vice ca lle d 'I n t h e Pict u re t h a t
allows you to track action automatical-
ly with your camcorder. Simply attach
a small clip-on transmitter to the
object or person you w ant 'in the pic-
ture', mount your camera on the unit,
and it will then track the person/object
in all directions. Great for filming ten-
nis, with you on the court instead of
behind the camera.
Nil W e r e the n o t Tot Robots Irons The R obot Factory In
Colorado. We can ta lk , m ov e for wa r d, ba dtwa r d. l e ft
and r ight; our heads r ota te , a nd we have synchronised,
voice a c tiv a te d m outh m ov e m e nt. Y ou can control i n
with a cassette or by a r a dio link. We cost S4295 each,
Pave a mutt day!
S how people dis -
gusting goings-
on in the a dult
video lobby
The Lynx can now be purchased in America for the
equivalent of E45. Makes you sick, doesn't it? But this
isn't the only surprise in the ongoing battl e of the
handhelds...
First the Lynx really has upset the applecart, and
not just because of that new low price and
redesigned body-shell. While everyone had fallen into
the habit of ignor ing just about everything Atari.
market research suddenly revealed that Lynx sales in
the US had topped an astonishing 200,000 machines -
more than the Sega Megadr ive or PC Engine. Now at
$99, the Lynx has become over night the handheld to
watch in the States - and that could have serious
implications for the UK handhel d market too.
UK Lynx fans will still have to pay far more for
the unit than their US counterparts, so expect a bur-
geoning grey market in the machines. Expect also to
see a gr owing software base - traditionally the area
where the Lynx has suffered seriously in comparison
with the monochrome Game Boy.
Sega. meanwhile, got a warm reception for their
Game Gear and the NEC Itarbographx, al though look-
ing pretty, seemed destined for thir d place in this
particular struggle.
Liacasfilm softwar e supremo AJ. Redmer made an
iMerestIng poi nt about handholds: Peopl e are only
just begi nni ng to realise the implications of the
smaller screens,' he said, 'and one thi ng that's emerg-
ing is that conventional video game designs don't
work so well on the small format. For that reason,
both the Sega Game Gear - which borrows heavily
from the Master system market - and the
Turbographx, which runs PC Engine software - are
losing out because the softwar e that wor ked so well
on their full-site counterparts hasn't translated effec-
tively onto the small screen. The Lynx and the Game
Boy, on the other hand, both dem anded that pro-
grammers started from scratch and as a result the
softwar e is much more impressive. From a pr ogr am -
ming poi nt of view, the Lynx is excellent and w i th
this surprising news about sales, I think it's defi nitely
the machine to watch.'
Who would have thought it? Looks as if the Lynx
may make it to the big time after
The ne w Lynx
design.
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touch smaller,
and a lot
cheaper a t $ee

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Computer tectsnol 5ega s riameGear was very popular. b u t the ne w
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train s e tt yet, but
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manufacturer LGO -41
reckons i ts only a 1E some title s don' t wor k nearly as we ll on the
year or so awes N smeller screen for m a t and Ow machine is s till
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CESoft Spots Nintendo dominat ed
about games at the show, having earned huge the CES softw ar e
respect among American developers. Not sur-
prising, then, that the sequel, Vengeance of scene w i t h a mass of
the Kilrathi, attracted a lot of attention.
W i n g Commander Scheduledwasforone
a spring
of the most
release,
talked-
the (for the most part)
game features 'extensive' speech synthesis as the original mediocre G ame Boy
storyline continues with 30 characters, new graphics (both
VGAand EGA), and an action-related sound track_ Set six releases, b u t ACE
years after the original scenario, you endure humiliation as
the result of a Kitrathi plot and must start the game in dis-
correspondents still
grace before working your way up through the ranks all managed t o uncover
over again.
Origin are already working on a third generation o f Future Wing Commander title s should be ne fi t fr om the
a f e w nuggets o f
Wing Commander titles, scheduled for completion at the ne w technology be ing developed by Origin, fe a tur ing
soft, solid gold...
te x tur e d surface details and llght.s our t. shading
end of this year and featuring, amongs other things, fully
textured graphics — yet another sign that the computer
games market and the professional high-end graphics
developers are moving closer together. Let's hope some-
one buys us the 386 PC technology that will enable us to
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Richard 'Lord British' Garriott is hard at work with the Origin
team on the successor to Uttima 111.'Almost unbelievably, he
claims that the new program will be even more o f an
advance over its predecessor than (NI was over UV.
'UVit will feature the same core routines a s Wmg to'
Commander, abandoning tile graphics for the first time and -
presenting a single scale universe,' promised Richard. Even
bigger changes are promised in the user interface, which r 4 s
does away with complex command input altogether. 'Util 1
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tetris, but vekteretale to • morecifthe• sani• • criticism_ An even bigger change is due to take place in the way
you control your party. 'There will be no control over other
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Meanwhile, WC for the Amiga is still under development party members,' Lord British reveals, 'The game takes 0
nder — a tough programming challenge f o r converters
Mindscape given the amount of data involved but currently
place in real time, so there will be no time to command your
party anyway. They will all act intelligently and independent E
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Amiga must do for the Amiga what it did for the PC,' says
fY•'
Origin are also at work on an unspecified driving sim, d. .i . . - 1r e puta ble Go s oftwa r e
Nemesis'
took over1fi fte e n years to develop
author Chris Roberts, adding that, ....the one last missing featuring light-source shading, texture mapping, and 30 ter- end Is now available in M ac and PC
0 missing ingredient in the current formula is compact disk. rains. 'I've never seen a car game I've believed in,' com- versions.1 The company h e m also
released 1 this vary ne a t por ta ble
CD will only improve our ability to compete with movies. I plains Chris Roberts, We need to come up with something version, f• • tu r i n g an attr active LCD
can't wait'. Both WC2 and Uttima WI will be available in CD- that really FEELS like a car.' Stand by for more news in display and 1 dedicated controls
ROM versions. forthcoming issues of ACE. 1
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s
mi nutes of it. Ange l ar e w or k i ng
a
on a mul ti -mi l l i on dol l ar movi e
trha t takes a futur i sti c l ook at one
e r e scaling
of the mor e exoti c appl i cati ons of
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n r tual r eal i ty - maki ng l ove usi ng
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e r tual bodi es'. Al t hough i t m i ght
soound a bi t on t he S oho side, t he
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techni
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specul ati on a bout the pr acti cal
iempl i cati ons of a w or l d dom i na t e d
by vi r tual r eal i ty systems.
'We'r e ver y c om m i t t e d t o t he
i dea of e nt e r t a i nm e nt a nd VR,'
said Angel 's di r ector of c om put e r
si mul ati on a nd softwar e devel op-
ment, ' a nd apar t f r om t he fi l m w e
cur r entl y have t w o pr oj ects unde r
de v e l opm e nt in t he ar cade fi el d
rtua
Virtual reality systems
are entering areas of
entertainment that
other technologies
simply cannot reach.
ACE jacks into
Californian cyberspace
with news of the latest
VR developments
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To produce the ft S late- of -the-arrt ani-
mations - this was produced for San
Diego's Sea Wor ld comples A n g e l 1
m e nt giv ing the m 17 m i l r l o u t ia •
and a resolution of 10 •
Graphics are either rn
ware or scanned in fr o
graphic originals and t
ceased. ArtwOrik is ino t h e r
scanning or using a digitis ing t
with a .0 0 1
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motion, m ultiple bit- planes are set
for s o l u r a the r tha n s oftwa r e
Scaling
D u possible
mum r de ns e , of realism.
i n g
(see phot os ) : To date, m os t of
Angel 's w or k has been i n t he TV
a nd fi l m a ni m a t i on w or l d but
t he y 'v e al so done some '. . . defense
w or k - whi ch has been ver y useful
for de v e l opi ng r outi nes t ha t coul d
be used i n games. '
Check out the pics on thi s pa ge
a nd don' t miss our f or t hc om i ng
maj or featur e on Ange l Studi o's
fi l m a nd ar cade devel opments.
Angel S tudios are now WerKhing out Into the e nte r ta inm e nt fi e ld, They
have three projects under development a fi lm a bout v ir tua l r e a lity ( that's
a sketch fr om the storyboard a t bottom r ight) and tw o arcade develop-
ments fe a tur ing hydraulic frames S ta nd by for a full scale fe a tur e on these,
currently under preparation a t the ACE Synapse Ciintre
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I fs 7.15pm and the campus of Stanford University, Palo
Alto, California, is closed down for the night. Surrounded
by dark alleyways leading off into areas of impenetrable
shadow, all you have to guide you is a rumour that pioneer-
ing VR company Sense8 are to demonstrate their latest
OV1-based virtual reality system in building 420-041, This
building could be anywhere within several square miles of
Freddy Krueger-infested cul-de-sacs, corridors, and class-
rooms. Your interest in new technology is hitting an all•time
low...
Half an hour later, thanks to chance encounters with
two apparently normal denizens of darkness, your interest
I n c Guilichsen in new technology is not only revived but heading for the
in twit V II roof. You're in a small lecture theatre and there on stage
regalia_
a soloring Ken Pimentel of Intel is demonstrating the fruits of his lat-
avOricis tr e a t-
ed in g o ,
est protect—a multimedia virtual reality system based
geous fea- around Sense8's WorldTool virtual world construction soft-
tured
ware, two DVI boards, a CD-ROM drive, 25mHz 486 pro-
oo;ygorni
cessor. 320Mb hard disk, VGA graphics, and additional
VPL hardware.
The excitement is all due to the massive graphic
enhancement of virtual realities possible using this new
system—which is also far cheaper than other set-ups. This
improvement is all due to combining the graphics handling
power of Sense8's Worteoof software with the processing
power of DVI. Using this system means that virtual worlds
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excitement there are still some very serious obsta- le A m .

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experience. ME M • . • t •- -
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Current VR headsets are geared to work at a resolu-

tion of 360.'240 and the display is m agnifi ed up to 3 " M O W
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times. The pixels are ther efor e 'enormous. We need 41.0

at least a resolution of 1024•780.

• Cost of Headsets •••••"%'...%=• ."' ; 1 7 . .

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Currently L3K-L4K. Need to be less than £500. •
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• Human factors I
= mi.
This encompasses several differ ent but related diffi •
One o f M ichael's m os t im por ta nt utilthe s .K e y fr a nte . r unning on Angel's
Patties: the weight of the headsets, for example, and Silicon Gr a phic . e quipm e nt
tripping up over cables. Another major problem is
'reality switching' - the user is so immersed in his vir-
tual experience that actually oper ating the equip. Angel use reai.iite models as the bests for facial a nim a tion Gr idline s are
moult becomes a problem. dr a wn onto the model's face and used as the basis for polygoinisation dur-
ing the m ode lling process, The human fa te ofte n requires as many as 15000
• Position sensing polygons for accurate s im ul• tion and a nim a tion
Most current systems are expensive, of limited range,
and sensitive to 'noise'

Eric Gullichisen o f S onwa. c lutc hing

a copy of a c t. a nd pointing out
ken P linenliaL some o f the fi ner a ttr ibute s o f the
who's been ne w WA:S ense/I VR symt.rn
wor k ing tor the
last OM m onths
on the develop.
merit o f the
intellS ensell VR
s y s te m s till
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devices accepted by the Seissee system,
Bred Hunt Director ol Computer S imulation a nd S oftwa1r e D e v e lopm e nt
Useful for VR i t ' s a SD unit.
for AngelAlShelties His credits inciude wor k on The la s t S0 tar/19liter and com
n
g
e giving c ontr ol over X, V,1 co- ordinates and
tributions to the special effects in 2010 b
pitch, roll, a nd y a w
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Palo need no longer be composed of flat-shaded polygons that acceleration, and conditions attached to it that will simulate
unded look like something out of a mildly enhanced version of "Softwaremodellingis still the gravity in your virtual environment.
ible Battlezone• Instead, you can now see the details of your bigproblemwithhandling Eric Gullichsen is bursting with justified enthusiasm as
ioneer• surroundings vividly brought to life using real-world textures. he announces that this new OVI/WorldTool system is avail-
complex3Denvironmentsin
est 'DVI offers some important features for virtual environ- able for under S20k. Indicating a screenshot of an older,
This ments', points Out Ken, 'First, it gives us full motion video at realtime.Peoplehambeen untextured polygonal display, he asserts that Virtual reali-
es of 30 frames a second and full stereo sound. It can also com- puttingmoreeffortinto the ties that look like this are no longer acceptable. Once you
:lass- bine video and graphics overlays. It also provides special add textures, things stop looking cartoonish and become
hardware,butnotenoughinto
ill-time video effects functions including texturing and fades. video-realistic,' Don't miss next month's instalment of ACE's
mosaics, blend, and so on.' graphicdatahandling." VR coverage to see exactly what he's getting so excited
Bred H unt Angel S tudios
with What's more, the texture processing of DVI allows ter- about...
terest rain mapping - very useful for flight Sims and driving
the games. It also allows object texture mapping and textured
age horizons.' The result is a virtual world that looks infinitely
s lat- more real than previous attempts.
d In addition, Sense8's powerful W o r l d
soft- provides
- real-time rendering of graphic images, sensor
pro- drivers
1 0to0 interface
Q s owith f tthe
w real
a rworld
e (through such equip-
la! ment as VPL's Eyephones and Mattel's Powerglove), and
'geometry readers' - modules that input graphic 3D models
M ichael lim be r . Director of
created using other software such as AutoCAD. Computer A nim a tion, ioe s expert-
ew For games development, all objects in Worldrool can •nce in architecture end industrial

s. This have tasks' associated with them, just as in Incentive's 30 design to generate complex and
detailed 3D environments,

ndling Construcbon iqr you can attach conditions and actions to

essing objects. This means, for example, that can have velocity, This superb dragon fr om Angel Iawr
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AMIGA UPGRADE I Condor and Its . . ' " • - • • • , . . „

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The COW Amiga upgrade looks rather
Howard Hughes
Pike the old C64 disk drives: a cream
and the Spruce
coloured box with a slot for your CD in Goose.
the fr ont It will enable Amiga owners
to play all COW software, though
rumour suggested you m i ght have to
pay extra for the infra-red controller if
you wanted to abandon your keyboard.
Price for the unit has not yet been
announced but could be high: maybe as
much as E299. Commodore claimed the
unit on show was the finished version
and that supplies should be available in
the UK this summer.

Clement Chambers
is a t it again CRIL. boss Clans obviously thought long and
hard about how to get naked wom e n onto the screen in the best possible
taste. no nailed tap in using his own pr oduc tion utility DUNE ( covered in
ACE JO/ to we nd* an dinilTM liOn database o f early cinematographer
liststybodge's Puked women. E r..thanti y ou.

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991 looks like being the year when CDTV,aCDTVupgrade for Amiga500ownersscheduled for summer
CD software finally takes off. CDTV
is now a certainty for a spring launch,andoodles of softwarewere all onshow atCES.Theseare
launch (barring acts of God and
bankers), NEC are achieving an ever wider
user base for their PC Engine CD software, thesort of titles that AmigaandCDTVownerscouldbe getting their
the FM Towns continues to attract develop-
ers despite a tiny 70K user base in Japan, teeth into in just a few weeksfrom now...
and Nintendo did nothing to quell rumours
of a cheap CD-ROM add-on for the Super
Famicom,
Other rumours included a forthcoming
FMTowns launch in the US and Europe,
based on the machine's PC capability and
an alliance with Microsoft, Those with
money in their pocket can look forward to
the possibility of buying a Towns complete
with Windows 3, superlative graphics, and a LA WM
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the1 usual high- end CD utilitie s {shuffl e, toot', tim e
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away.
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mouths are, the software companies
responded by showing more CD prod-
uct than ever before...
WI LD BI RD Y O NDE R
Star of the CDTV show was
Tiger Media's Case ot the
Cautious Condor. Set in
1937 it takes a classic
Agatha Christie approach to
detection as you guide a
detective from one location
to another on board the
Cautious Condor flying boat
following the murder of the
owner's son.
'Structurally,' explains IM's
boss Laura Buddine, 'it's a maze in
time and space. The model for the game
was taken from an interactive theatre
group in the States who stage events in
houses to which the audience is invited.
You wander from room to room and scenes
are taking place all over the place. Your
experience differs according to which
rooms you visit.'
There are three hours of audio visual
material on the disk, but playtime is limited
to 30 minutes—approximately the time the
detective has to solve the murder, so the
game is almost a real-time experience.
There are 15000 paths through the game
and only one solution —despite the fact
that the game has already been available
for some time on the Towns and Tandy CD
PC, TM know of only one successful solver.
The solution can only be had when your
detective (who is intelligent and remembers
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while your commercial CCI"G a udio disk is pla y ing in
this case i fs be ing m od w i th the CO•G•rMIDI frinction,
showing you whic h M IDI channels are being m od by
the current disk a nd - a t the bottom - which vocals are
being sung. Result y o u can not only 'M onta no
keraok• style but can also change the orchestration by
feeding the M IDI track into your synth and ge tting CD
audio. synth, a nd your own voice all working
toge the r !
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and space as you not only m o to r . a house b u t also ge t
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ligent a nd remembers
everything he sees. Whe n
In other historical periods. For issample, w e can click
on the stove in the kitchen (as hem) a nd n o t only ge t
be has emiessed suffi cient evi- Infor m a tion on how it works but also see stoves fr om
dence, y ou and he can crack
the case together.
other tim e periods by clicking on the "cone for diffe r .
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everything he sees) has enough evidence Hmmm...we reckon that's an acute
to make a correct accusation. observation that a lot of other CD develop-
Interestingly, TM have avoided anima- ers could and should take note of.
tion. They were already tight for space The audio track uses a dozen actors
(yes, tight —even on CD) and decided from an American troupe that specialise in
instead to concentrate on creating a recreating 30' radio drama. All of the SFX
1930's comic strip atmosphere with hand- were generated by traditional radio tech-
drawn graphics. For this reason, they also niques (fiddling around with bowls of water
abandoned the idea of digitised graphics: etc) rather than by synthesis.
'These would have been cheaper for us,' This game doesn't break any techno-
claims Laura, but we kept thinking that logical barriers. Instead, it's set out to
digitised realistic graphics would actually achieve perfection of its own kind, and
have begged the question as to why things undoubtedly succeeded. Check out the
weren't moving. We abandoned the anima- screenshots for a glimpse of some other
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Arts are at the forefront
of games software
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.ega are now claiming sales of nearly a million
Megadrives in the States (where the system is
.known as the Genesis); there are already 28 mil-
.,, lion NES systems; the Game Boy is selling hand
S over fist; over 200,000 Americans are in love
-with the Lynx. While one half of the country glues itself to
the TV screen for religious inspiration, the other half gets
stuck into Super Mario, which some people think is the
same thing.
As a result, companies like EA and Lucasfilm—tradi-
tionally the home of state-of-the-art PC software —are now
having to turn their attention to the cut and thrust of the
console world. How are they coping?
BANCHY BUSINESS
ACE readers may remember our exclusive coverage of the
Skywalker Ranch in Lucas Valley. Created by George 'Star
Wars Lucas for his software and technical whizz-kids, the
period-style buildings include a complex of spacious wood-
en stables that house Lucasfilm Games.
Lucasfilm are now combining their high-end PC games
development with programming for the NES. As a result,
they're just about to release two games that could hardly
be more different: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe for the
PCand Star Wars for the NES, both of which you can see
shots of on these pages.
'We're going very carefully into console development,'
says software supremo kJ. Redmer, 'we've done the pro-
gramming for Star Wars but we've teamed up with JVC for
the sales and distribution.' This approach has insulated
Geo N u could do some-- seriously impressive
development on that machine', gloated . M), the lads are
obviously hanging on for a whole. new generation of hard-
.
ware that will take them even closer to the technology and
.
creative opportunities now enjoyed by their film colleagues
at Industrial Light and Magic.
'My ideal machine is possible right now,' announced
tech-boffin Doug Crockford, h a s full motion video, real
time digital compression, and high quality stereo audio with
dynamic real-time mixing. The big problem is that the cur-
rent CD-ROM standard just isn't good enough. We've
Larry Holland b r e e t h e s , • nd
programs Wor ld War Two aerial already conceived a system here that can drag data off
combat Wine r ie s . 'The nwaserds is compact disk far faster—and certainly fast enough for
the really satisfying N V says the
men who's probably reed more
FMV—but the trouble is the standard CD-ROM drives can't
WW2 air for te beaks tha n anyone handle it, You need a lot more bandwidth if you want to be
else, b u t he hints tha t his ne s t game
will take piece in a diffe r e nt s e tting truly interactive.'
CONSOLE ARTS
I TS A DOOM'S LNII A few miles further south of Lucasfilm, EA have committed
Worke rs o n Skywa lke r Ra nch
very heavily to developing for the Sega Genesis. Under the
re a lly ha ve t o slu m it a t
lunchtime s. A q u ick st ro ll
a cross the la ndsca pe d ga r-
dens, pa st the 1 9 th ce ntury-
style conse rva tory, a nd in t o
the a uthe ntic Olde Am e rica n
ma nor house , th e Luta sfilm
sla ve s a re corra lle d in t o a
plush d in in g ro o m whe re
the y ha ve t o e ndure the
cooking o f a m a ste r Cordon
Ble u che f. On the me nu wh e n
we a rrive d!

Lucasfilm from much of the upheaval (mostly financial) nor-
mally associated with console publishing, so computer
game buffs who appreciate the company's sophisticated
PC product needn't worry that it will be drowned in a flood
of marioware.
Meanwhile, Lucasfilm are still keeping very close tabs
on future technology. Although very taken with the Neo
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the P51 M ustang to the olasswe I I ? Flying fortress. The game comes with
Yes, it 's a dogie 's lif e a t the a 225 ba g. manual Pecked with contemporary photos a nd infor m a tion. In.
ra nch. game graphics were by Jim tokleorl end M a r tin Cameron

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Secret Weapons of the Luftw affe fea-

Greg Hammond producer of Secret Weapons of the
Luftwa ffe o n e of the P a l models the y digi.
tures several signifi cant coding devel-
opm ents that make it even more
playable than its popular predecessor,
Battle of Britain.
First, ther e's increased artificial intel-
ligence in the opposition, m aking the
challenge tougher and more engaging
all round. But according to producer
Greg Hammond, 'What makes this pr od- Secret Weapons of the Luftwa ffe sends you back to World War 2. b u t this
uct really come alive much more than tim e the game designers have speculeted ee to wha t m ight have Happened
Battle of Britain did is that now we If Hitler ha d succeeded in br inging some o f his more obsuore research pro-

1 tilled in their m uc h for the pe r fe c t plane anima-

tion Graphic enlists Arn M cieoct and M a r tin
Cameron &grilled models lika this in diffe r e nt
have this dynamic scaling where, i f an
airplane is in the distance and i ts com-
jects into the war. Despite the speculation, the research Is meticulous and
historically accurate as the player dogfi ghts and campaigns against the
ME161 rocket plena and the Oa ths 229 je t powe r e d fl ying wing
positions and sifts - the program the n does all the ing towar ds you at 400 mph and you'r e
'in- betwealing' necessary for dynamic scaling dur-
ing fl ight In a fi ghter at a similar speed, i t means
your rata of speed at closing is 800m ph
combined. In Battle of Britain the
planes were a little bit slower, but the real im pr ovem ent is that in SWOIL they
don't appear dose up quite so soon - first they'r e little dots on the horiz on and
then, as you fly past they'r e scaled very rapidly giving you a real sensation of
speed. This is particularly i m por tant because in this game we have Jets doing as fast

we t Luc Ila r the le t he a ding up console

development te c hnology a t
E lectronic Arts USA

Enemy up ahead! S WOTL features p l e .

speedier a nim a tion and more
de ta ile d 254 colour graphics_ Chugs
you've S hot the m down, y ou ge t
Ins ta nt replay - ItK to,O
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features include in- fl ight maps, a
custom
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p i l o t, service record to keep beck
of your per lom m uss

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d o n . on M ac systems,

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enables pr ogr a m m e n l o switch
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guidance of development manager Luc Barthelet, console

games are developed using a powerful Mac-based system
with code being written in C and assembler. They then use
a special utility to track down the areas of the code where
the CPU is getting bogged down during run-time and opti-
mise the relevant passages.
The latest fruits of this labour are Road Rash and PGA
Tour Goff for the Sega. Still in development, Road Rash
blends SuperHang On-style bike racing with aggressive
Go LIVE to _end powe r ful s oftwa r e de v e lopm e nt tools. This module enables graphic
artists to wor k on bitm a ppe d backgrounds and sprites which can tha n be
punch-and-prang tactics as you race against fourteen other
riders on public roads, High points are the animation of
California! translated into Character-block graphics line d by tit* Sega and, in tha old
days, by the C44 and S pectrum) a nd back again at M i l .

your figure as he lashes out at the opposition, takes a tum- The A CE I nterac t ive Mapiole L • l a t a g P o i M t to m rn o tl i cate 1 0 1 1 0 1 . 1 0 i, Studio@ l e 4 0 ,4 4
ble, shakes himself, and clambers back onto his machine. 0101100t001 S i Ito

PGATour Golf on the Genesis takes most of the Phone L in e features a•illsons• n • ttle p tt

strengths of the computer version with fly-by views, tips olO0 0 0 D D E .

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live min i-in t e rv ie ws i sq
from professionals, good shot options, 3D contoured
greens, four courses, statistical tracking of your perfor- with Lucasfilm and EA
mance, and instant replay. You can also play against one to developers. Dia l now!
four human opponents.
EAhave fifteen in-house programmers, all with PC or They're o n -lin e f ro m
console experience, aged between 25 and 30. Most of the offical ACE on-sale
their games take around 20 manmonths to develop with up
to three programmers and three graphic artists working on date (8th February) for
each title. Right now, we're looking ahead about one year four weeks.
for CD products,' says Luc, '...and then we can go from the re ag aitio r / l o ad Icittl• •de P ttro to t. I I .10utet irmir ettt to Ito rtto t I
problems of squeezing graphics onto floppies and car,
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kisounding of a distant bell is carried on the
evening breeze. I carefully continue my journey
to Britannia Manor, my heart and mind working
overtime in nervous anticipation, The cloudy
moon-less sky gives this night of October 31st
the perfect setting for Halloween. The night
belongs to ghouls, ghosts and Richard Garriott,
This millionaire gaming genius, creator of the
popular series of Uttima fantasy role-playing
games and co-founder of Origin, is now ready
to thrill a more select audience of fantasy
lovers. I join three town-locals for the quest of a
life-time. I just hope we live long enough to tell
the tale,
TALES FRO M THE CRY P T
Let the quest begin. We follow a path lined with
glowing pumpkin lanterns engraved with the foul
smiles of a devil. Are they laughing at our
impending doom? Lord British leads us to the
door of Britannia Manor, once the site of a fine
Abbey, the home of a now extinct order of
monks,
Our guide boldly steps up to the front gates
and points his staff at the crystal ball inside the
hall. A violent burst of electricity sends the poor
soul to his doom. We cannot get in this way,
Rumours suggest some of the monks have fled
into the nearby woods. Perhaps they know of a
way inside this evil place?
Agrim guide clothed in black robes wears a
haunted look as we approach his encampment.
Afire-pit burns bright, something boiling in its
dark cauldron. The guide does indeed know of a
long-forgotten entrance to the abbey and leads
us to it. Along the way he tells us the sad story
of this once beautiful building. The evil sorcer-
ess, Minax, took over the Abbey. All who
remained have never been seen again,
Something vile and terrible must have happened
to them. Are you sure you want to make this
trip?," says our guide.
The woods are lull of werewolves who angrily
snarl at the five unwelcome visitors. We keep
close to our fearless guide. A horrible noise

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commands our attention. Out of the fog we see
the glimpse of a horrifying sight, a red-eyed
Stalker tows the gruesome skeleton of a horse
back into the mist of misery. The Well of Soul
tells us to go back.
We reach the forgotten entrance. Vines encir-
cle its Gothic columns like a hangman's noose.
The cellar doorway is open but our guide won't
go any further. We venture inside and a door
drops down over the doorway. There's no going
back now. This place is pitch-black and seem-
ingly leads nowhere. Something is in here, we
can hear it breath. We run through the wine cel-
lar and up a secret stairway to be greeted by a
maid dusting the bedroom. 'Be careful, you
have entered uninvited and unannounced into
the realm of the Evil Enchantress, Minax," warns
the simple servant. Our only hope of escape is
to find the Gargoyles Talisman, Suddenly some-
thing pushes a hole through the bricks and
starts to grab towards us. Time to go!
We learn of a creature that lives in the old bell
tower, perhaps it knows of the Talisman? Faces,
handsand arms push through the walls grab-
bing at us as we pass through the hallway. We
reach the stairs of the bell tower. The bell tolls
while bats squeal A menacing vampire floats
down from the ceiling looking for his next victim_
Not us pal! We enter a foggy swamp - avoiding
the soggy Monster from Under the Waterfall - as
we cross the shaky bridge to the misty River
Styx and boat beyond. We nervously climb on-
board this feeble vessel. The boat suddenly
moves by itself. We're less than half-way across,
when Swamp Monsters jump out of the water
and grab the boat and our legs! The boat rocks
to and throwand we nearly end-up in the drink,
The MonsterCave certainly lives up to its
name before we stumble upon the torture cham-
ber. We weave our way through wailing victims
as Minax's minions prod, whip and torture their
pathebc captives. The Gatekeeper opens a
creaky gate into the throne room, %flax sits at
her throne occasionally using a cat-o-nine-tails to
casually whip two little girls - twins tied to the
throne. A mass of squirming humans sit on the
floor. Dressed in a revealing sea-green gown
Mina has a beautiful, sensuous body but as we
approach she turns her terribly ugly face to us,
The Gatekeeper keeps getting real close to us,
tenderly touching each member of our party
without speaking a word. Yuk!
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the Talisman. She marks the forehead of a vic-
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trouble. I'm just glad it's not me. You must seek
your exit beyond the realm of mortal souls... in
the Nether World," hisses Wax. "Now go!"
We're now barely half-way through our quest.
We're scared, weary and at each-other's throats_
Before us lies the chapel, snake cave, spider
room, graveyard, crypt, gargoyles, gazebo,
hanged man, laboratory, stairway to hell, maze,
pit and chequered box before the grand finale
with the demon in Garriott's double car garage.
Sorry, it looks like reality has started to reenter
the house of Lord British and our chill-spilling
story. Never mind, I've had immense fun while it
lasted.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
So what had I experienced in the past 45 min-
utes? Put simply, I'd played UltIma in the flesh!
Instead of multi-coloured sprites I'd encountered
over 75 'actors' in ghoulish make-up. The play-
field didn't consist of parallax-scrolling backdrops
but steep stairs to climb, narrow places to crawl
through and no-place to hide. Gameplay in this
world consisted of me screaming out in fear for
more times than I can remember, or care to own-
up to.
Richard Garriott, eccentric millionaire games
designer, had turned his hill-top mansion into the
ultimate haunted house. This Spook House was
superior to anything even Walt Disney's theme-
park lmagineers could provide. Garriott's cre-
ation was interactive; I had to converse with the
special
characters and work with my fellow party of
explorers. I became totally immersed in the
sights, sounds, smells and story. We just didn't
know who or what would come next. The Spook
House was a fantastic, thrilling and unforget-
table experience.
Just what prompted Garriott to do it? "I've
been doing Spook Houses a lot longer than I've
been doing software," admits Garriott_ "I lay it
all on my mother. She used to play pranks on
me when I was a kid, like building a fake brick
wall where my bedroom doorway used to be
and waking me up in the middle of the night with
scary noises." With such a background, it was
perhaps inevitable that Garriott would end up
turning his lovely home into a S50000 Spook
House.
There was merely one question left unan-
swered: what will the imaginative Garriott do
next time? "I've already got a heck of a lot of
ideas for the next Spook House," smirks
Garriott. If only he didn't have to produce Ultima
WI first
TALES OF TRIVIA
I Richard qiittricell and his hehters traded
itories u f o u r in the m or ning about how
they'd e d Ito scare people dur ing the
ni ght
• The Spdok & s e took about six weeks to
construct. Galithdtt's Recta/xi became a
swamp, his leefityard %ova.. tur ned i nto a
graveyard. He even lured his neighbours'
house to hold a pArity fee everybody w ho
had wor ked on INWSpook Howse
• People from the local tO4Nr1 of Austin
queued outsi r tofer r i ol l 's faupp.. tot nearly
12 hours to receriie a fete f r e t to the
Spook House. Unfortunately, not everybody
got one, As r o s u l t on pe r s on immediately
sold her ticket to a disappointed punter for
100 dollars. • - • . '
• One place people di dn't visit dur i ng the
spooking was Gairricitra Personal astronomi-
cal observatory. Garroott's fatilist is a fhlietilikr
NASA astronaut w ho has fl ow n abated /IOW
the Skylab ,
i• Richard Gar'licitt often jokes about his pas.
sIon for movies and Midi of love for litera-
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ture.
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c to wrote his Ultima games: CI ,
Lewis' Chronicles of Narma
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• Origin had an estimated revenue of 10 mil-
lion dollars dur ing 1990.
• Remember, as m b e r of the Exclusive
ACE Club, w e e YOU the chance to visit
this Spook,
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devel opers works in what are kindly described
ti
asunassuming conditions. Bullfrog, creator of
the award-winning Populous and Powermonger• is
busily preparing its next generation of games
above a seedy-looking shop in Guildford.
Little wonder then, that this talented company
began its illustrious career writing less exciting
products more in keeping with these down-beat
surroundings. Indeed, a database package
seems to be Bullfrog's skeleton in the cupboard.
More surprising is the company's name change
from Taurus to Bullfrog. Piranha would have been
far more appropriate, as these fearsome crea-
es
tures claim pride of place in the Bullfrog silicon
sweatshop.
THE GREAT WAR
Dedicated Powernnongers will be pleased to hear
Bullfrog's current project is a series of extra
Worlds of Powermonger' data-disks filled to the
brim with new scenarios, people, weapons and
graphics. "Due to the success of the Populous
What's the connection
between gods, Guildford and
goldfish? Rik Haynes pre-
views the forthcoming
sequels to Populous and
Powermonger...
data-disks we had some Powermonger data-disks
in mind at the very start of development,"
explains Peter Molyneux, the boss of Bullfrog.
The scope of things you can change in these
data-disks is enormous. Every single aspect
about a person, the landscape and the way they
interact is redefinable."
The first 'Worlds of Powermonge data-disk will
be set during the First World War. The Great War
was chosen as the premier Powermonger data-
disk scenario because new technology was just
breaking into warfare at this time. "World War
Two had too many technological things already
there to make it realistic," offers Molyneux,
'World War One was just about perfect, I like the
idea of the trenches. You can just cut a 'V' down
in the vector graphics landscape. The First World
War seems more heroic somehow."
You can tell a squadron of biplanes to attack a
village and they'll strafe or bomb it," Molyneux
enthuses, "People will actually dig trenches and
entrench themselves in there. This will be like
Powermonger WWI instead of just another extra
special
WAR OF THE WORLDS
The concept of creating your own
'Worlds of Powermonger' data-disks is
very exciting but how w oul d you actu-
ally go about it? Peter Molyrbeux
explains how you could produce an
Earth vs the Flying Saucers 8-movie sci-
fi Powermonger data-disk... "The first
thi ng you could do is draw the land-
scape using any paint package like
DeluxePaint US. You then design the
maps to play on and bring them into
the game. Then you could design the
attr ibutes of all the people in the game
and the weapons they could actually
use. People can have a whole range of
attributes such as curiosity, intelli•
;pence, loyalty, how much they eat, how
fast they breed, how long they live,
and so on. We've got about 10 basic
variables which you can adjust.
Mani pul ati on of these variables gives
you an enormous range of difference in
reactions for each person. Then you
could change the attr ibutes of the
weapons they use There were 10
weapons in the original Po warmonger
but the program will. in fact, suppor t
up to 64 differ ent types of weapon.
These are br oken dow n i nto differ ent
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a m . o f tho E ditors used by Sullihrog to or te tto•
'Worlds ol P a we r m or tgor de ta dia lt.
classes, fi r ing weapons like a bow and
arrow and static weapons like a can-
non. You can set the destructive ranges
of weapons, which in the case of a can-
non is one square. I f you w anted to be
a sick bastard you could set the
destructive range of a w eapon to half
the area of the map and 'nuke y our
opponent. It's all been carefully
designed to give you an enormous vari-
ation. You can say to an alien person,
'I'm going to make you very aggres-
sive, very curious and very domineer-
ing'. That alien will then do its own
t hi ng Out you can't give the alien spe-
cific objectives to fulfil dur ing the
course of the game. It's up to the indi-
vidual person to decide w hat to do in
the game, that's the w hol e basis of
Powermonger. it all sounds incredibly
complicated but it isn't once you've got
used to editing the basic variables."
Bullfrog boys Itio<karlse fr om centre fo r w a r a S ean
Coopm Gimlet C or p.., S imon Winte r . Gary Carr, P eter
Molynmaa. k• ven D ook in and now- boy Alex
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 special
DEATH OF A GOLDFISH
Bullfrog has tw o tropical fish tanks In
Its cramped office. One is filled w i th
piranha, the other contains the hapless
victims waiting to be eaten alive. As
my visit was a special occasion, the
hungr y piranha had a treat in store. A
beautiful fan-tailed goldfi sh w asn't
quite so lucky. At first the shy piranha
only took little bites Out Of the
for ge t Jews, a red be llie d piranha CI M e more
fr ighte ning_ "specially if vixens a golcHishl
defenseless golden fishy but a split-
second later, the largest piranha
attacked and sliced the goldfi sh clean
in two. Its head, trailing a stream of
W e p t fl oated to the top of the tank.
The rest of it was nowher e to be seen.
M e blood in the w ater then caused
such a food frenzy we had to count the
number of piranha left in the tank
w hen it was over. The red-bellied piran-
ha (RooseveltieIla Nattereri) grows to a
size of 30cm in the nor ther n regions of
South America. Its conical teeth and
well developed iaw muscles gives it the
talent to take big bites out of the flesh
of its victims. The red-bellied piranha is
banned from certain parts of Nor th
America and Australia to prevent them
becoming naturalised in local rivers. If
you're interested, they like tanks w i th
subdued lighting, oh, and they'r e par.
teal to the odd goldfi sh or three!
Bullfrog have been
toy ing around w i th
640 several graphic
styles for possible
,1 futur e expansion
data-disks•
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missions disk. What it won't be is historically accu-
rate. If it was historically accurate you'd have to be
forced into winning certain engagements. You'll still
get the choice of playing British or German forces
in your conquest of Europe. All the graphics will
change, except for obvious things like trees. We're
having a few problems with certain features
though, like what should we do with the sheep?
There weren't that many sheep wandering around
the Somme in 1916r
"Hopefully the 'Worlds of Powermongee data-
disks will be coming out at £9.99 each. If the First
World War data-disk is successful, then we're plan-
ning to do an American Civil War data-disk which
will coincide rather nicely with the launch of the PC
version of Powermonger," Molyneux states. Phil
Trelford, who has previously worked on Psygnosis'
Blood Money, is writing the PC version of
Powermonger. This adoption, due to be released in
early April, can be played across a network of up to
four machines. Powermonger is also being convert-
ed onto more exotic Japanese formats like the
Nintendo Super Famicom, Sharp X68000 and NEC
PC9801. These adoptions are being handled by
lmagineer, this top Japanese games developer has
already converted Populous and Sim City onto vari-
ous machines.
"The American Civil War data-disk will have things
like muskets, rockets to send messages, horse-
pulled wagon trains and proper sailing boats.
Again, it will be a completely different game. You'll
have all-new weapons and personalities. There will
be battles between Union (Northern) and
Confederate (Southern) forces, plus a few Indian
(Native Americans) skirmishes as well. All we're
doing is using the American Civil War as inspiration.
I'm really looking forward to doing the American
Civil War data-disk, it should be great fun,"
"If there's any life left in the old data-disk dog by
then, we'll do a futuristic one, possibly bundled with
the Editors we use to make-up these Powermonger
worlds so people can create their own (see the
panel for further details). The only difference
between a Po wermonger data-disk designed by you
and the one's created by us, is that we'll be adding
special little features to the game like the trench
warfare found in the World War One data-disk."
The first Powermonger data-disk should be avail-
able as you read this
LAND OF THE GODS
To quote the Powermonger manual, "Bullfrog has
an idea of the ideal game it wants to write.
Populous was the first step to writing this game
and Powermonger is further along. But Bullfrog's
ideal game is yet to be written". So will Populous If
hit that high? "We've been working on the design of
Populous If since the original was completed," says
Scone o f the Ancivni Cirei.,P block graphics to be seen in the up•
and- coming sequel to Populous_
The ne x t Bullfrog release alter P opulous H ie c ur r e ntly be ing pro-
grammed by Sean Cooper. Code- named 'Bob' is has s om e thing to
do with 1,009s...elks B ullfr og is also wor k ing On a nothe r n e w
concept' ga m e title d E volution L o o t out F o r . special r e por t in a
futur e issue of ACE.
Molyneux, "Populous is very close to all our hearts
and we really want to make a very good job of
Populous II because the game deserves it,"
-
lems.
W The trouble with Populous is that towards the
ende of the game if you're slightly ahead it's obvious
that
w you're going to win. So we're putting some
more
a balancing elements in so the world is never
actually won until you've finished the whole thing.
n
The basic action of the game is exactly the same,
t
raising and lowering land. The landscape plays
t of a part, so as you raise a point up the land-
more
o changes. If you build a mountain there will be
scape
c
a snowy point at the top, as it goes down to sea
u it has a green belt, desert and swamp areas.
level
These
r all have different effects on the terrain, so in
this
e respect, it's going to be a little more strategic."
"There's
s going to be lots and lots of godly
effects.
o Instead of a volcano just going whoosh and
appearing,
m it will rise out of the landscape over a
number of games turns, the top will then burst and
e
lava will come pouring down the hill and sweep
o
away everything in its path. When you cast the vol-
f spell you won't know where the lava will flow.
cano
Sot it could actually blow up all your territories
h
instead of your opponents. New godly effects
e
include tornadoes, typhoons, tidal waves, plagues,
P
pestilence and even some wacky things like rain-
storms
o of frogs and plagues of locusts. We're try-
ingp to think of as many effects as possible but a lot
ofuthem will have a role-playing type aspect in that
you'll
l only have access to a few of them at the
begi
o nning of the world. The idea is that this will
encourage people to continue playing to see what
u
the next effect will be. There's not only going to
s
bad godly effects, you'll be able to make land more
p clear paths for your people, part the seas,
fertile,
r
etc."
o
"There will be three tribes - good, evil and people
b no religion. The game will start in a world not
- Ancient Greece. Powermongees graphics
unlike
system was based around vectors whereas
Populous It will be based around blocks."
because it is completely written in assembly lan-
guage instead of a mix of machine code and
used by bulletin boards. Populous I/ should be fin-
ished on the Amiga and ST by the end of summer.
Populous will be ten times better than the origi-
nal." Megalomaniacs have never had it so good.
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t ool around. 46 DRAG O N'S LAIR Empire
The cur ve is di vi ded i nto six 47 WRATH OF THE DEMON Empire
sections, i ndi cati ng the pl ayer 's 48 T E A M SUZUKI Gremlin
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hour, one day, one week, one m onth,
1 a nd one year. And thi s can tell y ou a 49 H A R D DRIVING 2 Domark
Tho plumping and presention aro rnediratre..
l ot m or e a bout a gam e tha n just the
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56 ZARATHRUSTA Hewson
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58 HUNTE R Activision
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ti ng i nto. Al ter nati vel y, the gr aphics 60 G I M E WAVE US Gold
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s of death and deceit and waste the crime lord
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Blade to any desbnation that he knows of in the

city. This is an important point. Unless Blade has
come across some information like someone's
address•he won't know how to get to it, and
since you view the gameworld through his eyes,
it won't showup on the Em-way map,
Before each lead can be successfully investi-
gated, a particular problem must usually be
overcome. Offices close at night, for example.
Police will showup the most inconvenient times.
And the criminals won't slow their fiendish plans
while you catch up.
The basic framework of the game involves a
lot of legwork. Successful interrogation of a
character will usually yield some sort of lead.
Although controlled by multiple-choice selec-
tions, your interaction with the characters is rea-
sonably subtle, allowing a lot of object-swap-
ping. and good level of conversation-branching.
.._And kerns as if hard action is what
Characters will behave according to your treat- ewers arc.' in get! I , ghv n . i I y
ment ol them. In most situations, you can play .. f r i e n d l y asshe sesonsIs

Blade as either a gun-toting thug, a straight-

arrow or a sleazy greaseball. Continually threat-
ening to push peoples' faces inside out will even-
tually have to be backed up by action.
The biggest problem with Rise of the Dragon is
that it's a bit easy. A few concerted attempts
and you'll have the case sewn up. However, it
ven has a number of facts in its favour. For a start,
.at for it's fascinating to play. In every situation, there's
day left always something new to try. The graphics are
rays superb. You can either play in 2, 16 or 256
3see colours. Obviously, the higher the capabilities of
his lint your machine, the better the game looks.
ke was Monochrome is a bit dodgy, 16 is fine and 256
ath. is absolutely beautiful.
kclick- Anotherreason for its relative ease is a testi-
mony of the thoughtfulness of the story design.
take you In order to give a filmic quality to the way the
.ay sys- game progresses, Blade won't hit any real dead
n send\ ends. Whereas most adventures will regularly kill
oft the hero from the word go, Blade has a pretty
safe time unless he does anything desperately
silly. In the latter part of the game, however, the
action escalates and more care must be taken.
Also included are two arcade sequences which
play during combat with the bad guys at the the
end of the game. The difficulty of these sections
can be tailored to suit your preferences, and
even skipped through if you're really not an
-tp.trit r d cm..* Do ond vtit how •_4•..fre ebbe
arcade person.
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m inute
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has to be said tha t the urge to w e wha t' s ne a t provides
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going to take too long to complete i f y ou m a lty put your
ca rtoons m a y be wo n d e rin g h o w th e y w o rk. I t's mind to it ( not tha t much of a m ind is required) . If
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awrinkle in time, Inspired by his love tor Daphne ganzas: Will Dirk d a re to
and the size of his mother-in-law's rolling pin, Dirk be different in Dragon's
must overcome ravenous snakes, living skulls,
giant pterodactyls, camp angelsand Mordroc Lair ?
himself to rescue her in this rollicking (and expen- Or will Wrath o f the
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,ever his! in desperation you thr ow your sword a t the arch vil-
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sent to slay a Demon threatening your
King's realm, Why the manual can't just come out
and say this is a complete mystery. Instead, you
get a load of old guff about some wizard called
Anthrax i?!), a faery having a bad dream and a
murdered King's messenger - it's all far too con-
voluted to explain here. I suppose it's meant to
generate 'atmosphere'

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marvellous intro which creates bags of atmo-
sphere all by itself. I know you read this every
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the progress in the plot. accomplished and polished game yet written for
er? The game is made up of a series of 'scenes', the Amiga.
each of which contains some sort of task to be
completed and, while they are not outstandingly
original, they are sufficiently varied to prevent
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are responsive and the game tasks are entertain-
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of all the characters is superlative - the galloping tic and sounds great but plays well too.
horse and the hilariously goggle-eyed dragon are
particularly memorable. • David Upchurch
The scrolling levels feature numerous levels of
parallax which create a great feeling of depth.
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Practise tips help ge t to grips with

the behaviour of the bike it' s best
to hit the inside of the comes whe n
you're ha ft way round and the n
groarkially slide out to the outside

On the grid. Y our b .

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T pit their simulated motorcycle prowess
against
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excellent
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methods,
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and genuinely realistic.
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across
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right through from start to finish if you've got the
u
staying power (and the ability). More advisable in at speed, it's possible to work on faster lap
k early stages of play, though, is to put in a lot
the times and picking your best line".
i practise. Even with three different control
of Unlike the real thing, the Team Suzuki bikes will
o
options available (joystick or 2 mouse settings) never fall over. However, every time they leave
f three engine sizes at your fingertips, it will
and the circuit they will incur some damage. Reach
take
f a good while to accustom yourself to the 100% damage and your bike will gracefully lie
behaviour
e of the bike. down and die_ Damage points are also amassed
r 125cc race bikes are a breed apart from their by bumping into other bikes and trackside
road-going
s equivalent. When pushed, you can objects.
achieve
t a clean 120mph from their howling little By the time you can complete a couple of laps
powerplants. It's best to get to grips with the without your damage reaching 50%, chances are
h
rudiments of bike handling and track etiquette on you're ready to race. Qualifying for a race
e
a machine of this size, since these bikes (in the involves completing three laps of the appropriate
p
game) have automatic gearing. circuit (unless competing in the World
l Once you're happy with the extreme degrees of Championship, you can ride any circuit at any
a
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the frame r a te if y ou desire.

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ness of the 3 0 wor ld overriding tho ta c t tha t you spend
the fi rst hour crashing the bike. A fte r then, there's a
m inor fr us tr a tion stage While y ou m a fte r bike control.
Once out the othe r side o f this dep. though, i t a
s tr a ight r im o r Suzuki-

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relative ease, overtaking in Suzuki is tar from a
formality. Since all the computer controlled riders
00: 33:02 will automatically keep as close to the perfect
line as possible, the only way you can get around
them is to take a route other than the optimum,
losing precious seconds if you make a mistake.
During practise, you can view your bike from
five different angles, each infinitely definable by
Chasing other P e rotating and elevating the camera. While racing,
bikes It a tiarver•
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Taking a cavalier of view, from behind the bike and over the back
opproath to ovet.
taking mil wrely of the bike.
sea you off the
te e th
To speed up the already swift frame-rate, you
can opt to turn off the other riders (resulting in
ghost-bikes) and also do away with the bike's
egg Y our final We e k .
ands of each race instrument panel and handlebars.
can be whined
through thy
For anyone with more than a passing interest in
skk replay tarn either motorbikes or what can be done with a
WO. Useful hints
can be geeened by
decent polygon system, Team Suzuki is an
checking your essential purchase.
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D espite MiG-2 9its relatively

Fulcrum primitive
is one of thetechnology, the
best fighting 1
aircraft in the world, so there's plenty of potential
in this first-ever flight sim from Domark_
Unfortunately you couldn't call the Amiga ver-
sion more than adequate; despite the giant box, Prepare tor ta k e - ott Gr ound de ta il is pr e tty
minimal, and there's no inc aaaaa in speed to
the 129-page full-colour book on the MiG-29, the compensate.

extensive manual and the fold-out poster, the

most important part of the package, the game
itself, doesn't impress.
Things start fairly well with a grungy heavy
metal intro tune (it's not very Russian, though), fol-
lowed by a title screen showing the MiG flying

P
over the Kremlin. It's downhill from there, as the
opening screen of the game, showing a bleak
office with an overhead projector displaying a list
of missions, is unintentionally hilarious - the pilot
in the background looks constipated and his corn-

N I G 2 9 1

F U C R M I I I
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manlier clutching a clipboard has a peculiarly
deformed hand (too much cheap vodka, per-
haps).
You select a mission from the six available,
one of which is a training flight where a crash
returns you to the runway (in other missions, a
crash is fatal).
The five genuine mission scenarios include
sub-hunting in the Arctic, dogfighting with
Chinese fighters over the Great Wall, attacking
bridges, trucks and SAMs on the ground, and a
final multi•role scenario destroying a nuclear
Each mission briefi ng is preceded by an attr active illus tr a tiv •
mreen. Here a small town ne s tling in the S iberian m ounta ins is
under attack fr om enemy missiles. Y our mission is to fi nd the
silos and destroy
1
power plant in the desert (topical or what!). You
It mig h t be b u ilt f ro m
have to accumulate 500 points before tackling
the final mission.
transistors and chewing-
Although the cockpit interior appears to be an
accurate depiction of the inside of a MiG, it's not gum, b u t the M 1 G
too exciting. Systems such as radar, altimeter,
head-up display, weapon selection and engine -Fulcrum is a fi ercesome
controls are all familiar from many other flight 29
sims, and you have a choice of keyboard, fi ghting aircraft. ACE
mouse, joystick or analogue joystick controls. I
found the plane hard to keep in steady flight takes DOMARK's simula-
using a mouse, so the automatic level flight con-
trol is useful. t o r f o r a spin.
Although you get a lovely picture depicting
each mission scenario before it starts, the out-
of-cockpit graphics are on the minimal side;
deserts, ice fields or night landscapes according AMIGA
to mission. Using the numeric pad keys you can
alter your angle of view, eliminate the control
panel or select a third-party view to enhance the
game, but nothing will enhance the poor sound PLI
except turning it off. C 4 04 1 1
Ossi• loan SOO
According to test pilot John Farley, perfor- 1M e intr o screens and graphics displays C r . pr e tty
mance accurately represents that of the genuine impressive. bir t in the areas of de pth and v a r ia tion i t ' ,
article, and here we have to defer to experience. 1.dtion
is aM I le nt li takes more tha n a c om pe te nt s im ile -
ppointm
to compete in a crowded market, and M iG- 29
You have a small choice of weapons • cannon, ldoesn't make enough of the oppor tunitie s offe r e d
and air-to-air or air-to-ground missiles • but the
k c i RAT I NG
AMI G A
dogfighting sequences are too slow to be really
exciting. 750 Though 11%onte d• ghtly 'Ammer th an othe r An e w
14.7,1 h o w th ar 1,uIs male s a kg or arthre ve r • The
Overall, MiG-29 Fulcrum is a bit of a cabbage. bar kgrounth ore rVt wee, titto o re t
screemhots at enemy aircraft and ground abysm
It might look good from the screenshots, but the look enceenore tnrhgte l me n o re sio n te ll SO

limited action, restricted scenarios, and lack of great Control nn't sena olarty say - wal. Ihe
m oo, ot gent - and the braised inalitionlmmi
expandability through extra mission disks, make m e s o n s . . M a c h atter the O W* l i n t tronO l sol
Crmaetent. Pat not eveirthine it rouill
you ask yourself what is the point of producing a
merely adequate sim when there are several RE
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sequel or are DOMARK
'clutchi-ing at straws?

, speed to I ts always nice to see a software company

continuing to update their product after
release. Buy something like a word-processor
and you get such updates for free, but if we're
talking about a game, its galling to be asked for
anotherwad of cash for a supposed sequel
which is in many ways just a 'bug-fixed' version
of the original.
It has to be said that Hard Driving 2 - Drive
Harder is a line game (though you shouldn't
make the mistake of think:rik
driving
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h r Wills). Based on an R e m e m b e r t h a t yo u ' re n o t d ri vi n g i n t r a n c • an d I vy to ke e p o n

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to create a series of realistic driving courses Performance is realistic - take a curve too last
complete with death-defying stunt obstacles. The and you start skidding convincingly - and the
result is a unique cross between a racing game speed of the whole game is slightly faster than
and a flight simulator. that of the original, which is a welcome improve-
Initially there are five courses to choose from, ment.
though the icon-driven track designer means that Other improvements include auto-centering of
you can edit them to suit your taste, or create the steering, improved visibility check (other cars
yourown courses from scratch, defining your no longer appear through mountains!) and a two-
own lap time values, restart points and so on. machine link-up. In this mode any combination of
Youhave a wide range of control options includ- PC, Amiga and ST can be linked together via RS-
la- ing mouse. joystick or keyboard, and several 232, and you can race head-to-head without colli-
combinations of the two. You might like to start sion detection, or in a standard race with colli-
with automatic gear changing, and work up to sion detection and a drone car. The versatile and la tte r a little practical e a s y toe tuo track edi-
manual shift as your performance improves. If you want a truly different race game, try tor. inv e nt a real toughy , the n inv ite a cocky nerd Drivin • mate
to see how good he or she really is.
The full 3-D view track is surrounded by realis- Hard Driving 2. Trouble is, it's most likely to
tic objects such as road signs, houses, barriers, appeal to people who already have the original
and even cows (!?). Some objects are obstacles,
others are just decoration, but the stunt sections
Hard Driving, and they might not think the Minor
improvements are worth the money. A case for
5
such as loops and jumps have to be taken seri- an upgrade offer, Domark? Mai I
Cusly • Chris Jenkins 1.4 1
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repley of the trag- ,
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fl ying camera ,n inety the improved c ontr ol options mean the le a r ning
Here you're just curve is n't ea fr us tr a tingly high as the original. The entre
a bout to have a courses and the option to design your own tr iune s add
bit o f a barney longe v ity to an excellent pr odue t
w i th a barn.
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at a strange brew! One minute you're

playing an upgraded Dungeon Master, next
a cut-down Shadow of the Beast and then....
well, I don't know quite how to describe it, it's a
sort of combination of the previous two sections
I guess. Even stranger, this bizarre mixture actu-
ally works.
MI Mason, a lecturer in medieval history, is
travelling home through desolate storm-lashed
Snowdonia when his car breaks down. Unable to
fix the fault he takes shelter in a strange stone
tower nestling in the nearby woods. Exhausted,
he soon falls asleep,

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The 3D graphics provide a very high ins ta nt 'pull' fa c tor

Gamitplay- wiset. there's ple nty to do, e nd the constantly
changing v ie wpoints he lp keep your Whereat. however,
Kentaro/se RPG fans may be put o ff by the lack o f real
Interaction w i th the pe ople you m e e t and the s lightly
fnartratinct arcade espects.

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Once inside the castle you ge t yet a nothe r change in v ie w Y ou AMI G A
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game changes to a side-viewed run along a path . avoid ta k ing soma damage, a lthough tha nk fully you s ta r t o ff with ple nty of energy
Ie rn t
infested with people bent on your destruction.
hel- Iis. Control is by both joystick (to guide Mason
Using the joystick you can run left, right, jump do
around the rooms) and mouse (to click on icons
t•
and duck their attacks (although this seemed to andw ' interact with scenery as in the 3D section).
C
have no effect on preventing them hitting you). e
tl Obitus may sound like it could be a real dog's
Eventually you'll reach a new location to explore. M
dinner
l L it actually comes together surprisingly
but
The most frustrating thing about this section s
well.
.e RPG I purests
M would no doubt find its cross-
from an adventurer's point of view is that
breeding
Mn / of game styles annoying, and it has to
although you may see an interesting castle in the bece admitted that the game lacks the depth and
distant background, you can't actually turn off atmosphere
s of a Dungeon Master or an Ultima.
the path and visit it. t
However,
o gainers looking for something a little
There's a third game style, which comes into different
n with more depth than the typical arcade
play when you enter a castle_ Each room is a Can you tr us t this m y s te nous ge nt •s help? With the icons in
adventure
l but more action than a 'standard RPG the bottom le ft you can pick up it• r nit s e t food or use the
shown in perspective and as you move Mason Objects in your inventory box lope n doors w i th keys. c lim b
should
l give Obitus a whirl - I think they'll like it. down hole with rope or, as here. attack with a koN14,
around he shrinks and grows according to where y amongst other things.
p • David Upchurch
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Alltle n n T. Bingham has been described as a BEAST running smoothly. Before each shift the
l i a r crank in the Toy Trade press, but men of Boss calls you into his office and shows you the
vision are often ridiculed, Bingham, the founder night's production schedule. Fail to meet your toy
and president of Industrial Might and Logic, quota and you get the sack. Succeed and you go
scoured rubbish dumps for raw scrap and built onto the next shift, with any excess dolls result-
his great dream - the 'BEAST', or Bingham's ing in a wage bonus_
Environmentally Active Solution for Toys; a
machine that could produce toys to his exacting
specifications without wasting his money or the
Earth's resources!
The BEAST began turning out high quality mini-
dolls based on famous LucasFilm characters,
such as Storm Trooper Toddler and Mini
Threepio. But production was plagued by bugs
the BEAST was very idiosyncratic and needed
constant maintenance. Then, furry lemmings
started sneaking into the factory and hindering
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of Fred or Fiona Fixit, you have to keep the d
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heavily-defended planets_ Using your limited sup-
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defences and negotiate deadly underground cav-
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pull than others; and others have heavy defence
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Zarathrusta succeeds pretty well. The difficulty attemp t to re
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control method, rather than being blasted out of
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vegatated jungle areas, through mechanised
zones, to icy wastes, Fuel in certain regions is
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space, to pillage more remote worlds. collect the pods and run.
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superficial actually. l o t Zerafarusta is the s or t o f game
escape before the planet collapses. Actually, tha t youacan keep coming back to i n small doses - for
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NW expanded the strategy sec-
tions of Elite while erasing its
arcade sequences? That's what
Activision seems to have
done with this sequel to Mdlennium
2.2, the successful science-fiction
strategy game_ The appropriately 1 1 :7 =1 1 7 =1 :1 1 M _ I l L =B 2 M

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titled Deuteros, the Greek word for
second, is an atmospheric follow-
up to the surprise hit of 1989. At
its core, Deuteros is a resource
management game. Once you've
got the orbital factories, space-
ships and universal exploration
nicely under way, the game
expands into a dynamic adventure
-Now you•re ready to go whe r e n o person hos
Dgone
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. t one b u t can this e ngine ta k e It. cap-
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the Sinclair 2X81 and since that
time has written some six strategy
games on various computer for-
mats.
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but nearly ten times bigger,

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involving mysterious alien artifacts
and deadly encounters with their
creators.
Ian Bird, a 31 year-old program-
mer from Coventry, has created
both Millennium 2,2 and Deuteros,
but he s no newcomer to strategy
games. Bird produced the first
strategic submarine simulation for
Deuteros provides a far greater
challenge for your dedicated space
strategist, It is set one thousand
years on from where the original
ended. The legendary Millennium
2.2 galactic empire is waiting to be
reclaimed, though a space-fleet has
to be built from scratch before you
can go forth and conquer. Space

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technology has been forgotten, so
it's up to you to instigate research,
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grammes for this epic project. Then
producing a the fun really begins.„
B-movie? Jai Redman is again providing the
Rik Haynes visuals, only this time the graphics
have a bio-tech feel and more ani-
previews four mation.
new games

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from the Deuteros, and quite rightly too, for
the game has far greater potential
veteran than its illustrious predecessor. It
American has, in other words, the hallmarks
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software house... is launched next month on the
You're looking a t P lanet E arth_ a t least what's
le tt of it. This Is whe r e your space eilverthsr•
begins.
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HUNTER
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Hunter.
PaulHolmes, an ex-CRL pro-
grammer,has written a game
whichusessome of the most
innovative three-dimensional rou-
tines yetseen - thus creating a
novelnewstyle of arcade action
game. Hunter is like a James
Bondmovie or Milk Tray advert
displayedin glorious 3D running
at a max of 25 frames per sec-
ond.
Youron-screen character can go
anywhereanddo anything. Enter
buildingsandmanipulate anything
insight. Yousee a helicopter lay-
ingidle. No pmblem, Just walk up
to it andyou're away, flying in the
skies.The same goes for more
mundanevehicles like bicycles
andjeeps.Youcan even do a
spotofwindsurfing but there's no
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in a main battle tank.
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campaign game or split into
smaller missions. The large game-
map is randomly generated every
time you play to help maintain
long-term interest. So move over
action man because Hunter is
soon to be released on Amiga
and ST. A new age of 3D combat
adventuring is about to begin.
M onter A nd all because the lady loves M ilk
Tray_ M unt• r can go anywhere in this games,
R- typ• PI This end- of• iseel guardian ha t gained
or modified by shooting certain
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Romero? No, it's a conversion of
cles to tontr ol in the game, though ACE has a f
soft- spot for th• bicycle, SNK' s horrifying Beast Busters
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arcade game.
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gun
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mission to end this zombie uprising.
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a and innocent bystanders to
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multi-directional
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leaves the fire-button during play,
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f
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from SNK since lkari Warriors so
the computer conversions should
be worth a look. Hopefully, the
game will also be transferred to
SNK's games-starved Neo-Geo con-
sole system, which is in desperate
need of greater software support.
• a s t Illust•rs. WhyWaterman?
A itk e n and does this remind rne o f

search, The evilBydoempire is back and
determined to subjugate the
?ct. Then world(again). A desperate battle is
about to be fought out in the limit-
ding the lessandunknowndimensions of
raphics spacewhichhave been contaminat-
re ani- edand corrupted by this evil
power. It's payback time, You're
sentinto eight different sectors of
loo, for space in the sophisticated R-9 fight-
Aential er. You're personkind's only defence
sot%It againstthe enemy. You're all alone.
marks ArcDevelopments is handling the
Riteros conversion of this !rem coin-op, a
he scrollingshootem-up filled with
does boss sprites, reflection lasers and
shieldorbs, Weapons are increased
they leave behind. The first jewel
collected also releases a special
weapon, The Force, which can be
attached to the front or rear of your
R-9 fighter, sent ahead to clear a
path, or behind as a rear-guard. The
Force is equipped with its own
lasers to take care of itself.
R-Type Il is very much 'more of
the same'. It has similar aliens and
backdrops complemented by
greater challenges and obstacles.
Although
the game will be finished within the
next few months, Activision is hold-
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chordes of baddies to blast, extra ammo and
ebonuses to pick up, and justice to be meted out
fon your way to rescuing the Prez's daughter.
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for more than a week. wrinkles were not ironedp out at the fine tuning
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tette
explosions are bigger and bloodier. (Now there's
mature criticism for you!) Fortunately, the game
of the largely avoids MRC's annoying gameplay nig-
ieard of gles, although the control method, which is near
MOB, has identical to NARC, is just as fiddly until you get odd, 0 6 3 1 t h . 0 0 6 ;

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down
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ever-more
g high-powered ground defences. For the a power-up. Depending on the colour of the float-
kLES CF4 8 first few seconds, you'll need to perform some
CE Bi nde r 1 , ing rectangle when you collect it, your weapons
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green laser beams.
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MEGADRIVE You can also collect extra smart-bombs which
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Squadron makes you really fight for them.
4 1 5 , After completing a stage of over-ground action,
M EG ADR I V F you are sent downstairs for some subterranean
blasting. Some of the underground sections fea-
Certainly not the m o st o rig in a l
game in the world, b u t a n ture massive lumps of space-coral which drift
extremely good e xa mple o f the down the screen obscuring your view of the
type, I f you've got a ma te t o p la y action. There seems to be no reason for the
with. yo u 'll e njoy it m ore . since
inclusion of these objects except to make fife dif-
the a ction ca n be come a b it o ve r
wheiming f o r a lone wa rrio r. ficult. Since you would be able to see where you
were going it you were actually in control of the
RELEASE D E T A I L S spaceship, it seems a bit unfair to be prevented
from seeing what you're fighting.
MEGADRIVE 1 E 2 4 _ 9 9 O U T NOW
In conclusion: nice and simple, plenty of action
No otter versions planned
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Worth buying a Famicom for?

I t's the latest Super Mario game and it's on

Nintendo's Super Famicom, We've had Super
Mario Bros a n d now V. Is Mario really
worth yet another sequel or are Nintendo get-
ting the Rocky syndrome?
All the action happens in - surprise, surprise -
Super Marroland, a plac e that bears a suspi-
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cartridge memeory. When you plug in the next
time there's your game on the title screen
menu along with the amount of tasks you com-
pleted. It's great carrying around Super
Maitland cartridge with an impressive saved
game - it's like having 27-er conker!
There's a great many things to be picked up
along the way, many of which add to Mario's
repertoire of dextral skills: a cloak enables
Mario to fly; a flower gives him atomic gob;
and a star awards limited invulnerability. Best of
all are the blocks containing eggs - hit one of
these and out pops a rideable two-legged
dinosaur hatches with a sticky fire-button-acti-
vated tongue that can eat up all sorts of annoy-
ing sprites.
This is a great game. The map structure over
the top of the more traditional platform screens
Altar all Put e n e e ti r t1 Mario perform. with hi. twa in ,t •.t •
adds a depth not found in bland copy cats, It's haat.. headache,
blatantly obvious how much love and pride has
been spent on the development of what is unde-
niably the state-of-the-art in entertainment soft- •
ware.
All-in-all Super Marioland rates as just about
co
the best reason in the World for going Out and
getting yourself a Super Famicon. I know it's
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machine but with a Super Mario land cartridge
bundled into the deal I'd say its well worth It.
Check out out your local console importer ASAP.
Going underttrnand an hot poraull al liary. The echo no the sound effect. in
• Ga r y Liddon t f t e h . . . . 4 6 M R

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 console screentest

HARDCORE HARDWARE
Wi th a choice of 29 di ffe r e nt w e a pons to fi t
i nto your fi ghter , fa ta l m i stakes can be m ade.
Here's a gui de to ge t y ou goi ng. . .

Always edit your own suite of weapon systems, the prese

looted bunch is reserved for the foolish and lazy.
SPEED UP
A fruit fighter can get you au.titly out ol a light spot Don t
be greedy or you'll gio out of M a t r a
M IS S ILE

Small Spread provsaes light saturation ground bombing

but tecturres support of fast totward-faing weapons
Back 2-Way MLs.stle Is a gccd allrounder uniortunabely
ycu have to move ahead of the target to strike it
DOUBLE

Go for the onginal Normal Double as the 45 degree

angled shot gives you superb tue support when attackMg
torwmd post/Ions
On t h o r o u g h l y toole d up, you r a n infl ict untold
damage on ills* alien hordes. LASER
E fadesaway. Huge lifting machinery brings
Energy Laser Is a devastating weapon, though It takes
m fighter into view, the hangar bay opens and
your valuable seconds to charge so Its rate of fire is lower than
e dropship releases its grip on you. Cut to out- any other system.
the
Cyclone Laser produces long bursts a last laser lire,
r de and your fighter launches into space, its
si OPTION
engi
g nesopen up in a flash of pure blue light. Rollina Option has the multiples rotating around your
Your
e fighter takes you to a new planet at sub- lighter therefore adding to a l l
light
n speed.Add a cinematic music score and -
Face
r o u n Reid
d absorbs =tac k from all directions, its depletion
sound
c effects and you have the impressive open- level is easy to see
in g sequence to Gradius iff, the first shoorerrHip p r o t e c t i o n .
y
released on the Super Famicom. R e m = Option is the quickest way to t o r
l formidable weapons platform
The aim of the game is to make your way -
i up So what's
a my recommended weapon systems s e t
through 10 stages of hostile environments popu-
lagted by 22 different kinds of enemy machines Speed
- Ups3 Brick 2-Way lvfhsile Normal. Double thergy
Prepare to t ba ttle . Laser.
up? Rolling Option, Force Vicki and Reiman Opton for
h life-forms. The end of each stage is guarded
and daring pilots or Speed lipz2. Small Spread, Normal
byt a massive boss who can take a severe batter- Double, Cyclone Laser, Rolling Option. Force Field and
Remain Option for a balancod no-compromise ightei
ini g before they're finally destroyed.
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weapons systems into seven categories (Speed
a
weapon systems a stage further by allowing you Up, Missile, Double, Laser. Option, 'and !). As
KONAMI introduces a
tonselect the type of ordnance you can pick-up
duri
d ng the game. Your Special Air Fighter can
you pick-up an alien pod the next category of Dark Force into the Super
system is highlighted, this weapon can then be
handl
t e 29 different types of weapon such as activated at anytime with the flick of a button. A
Famicom
spread
h bombs, tail guns, ripple lasers and full male American voice quietly confirming the
barrier
e shi elds. You have a simple choice at the weapons activation, This power-up process can
start
d of the game, go for a preselected group of be switched to full automatic if you can't be both-
weapoos or edit your own suite of goodies, ered to keep an eye on which weapon is current- SUPER e
a
You're then ready to take-on the Dark Force. ly highlighted. At the height of the fighting it's -

r °lir Lit
rWhenyou destroy alien craft some of them
k pods which can be collected and traded very easy to concentrate on getting a bigger
leave laser rather than blasting a Baoh bionic bomber,
fornyour preselected weapon system. A bar This can prove to be a fatal mistake,
aloeng the bottom of the screen splits these It's hard to believe this is only the first 0 h o e r v m o b o m m e l
s shoorem-up to be released on the Nintendo
s Super Famicom. The Amiga has been around for AC? C U I N G
S UP E R F A M I C O M
over five years and nobody has produced a 880 While the lambda may behind end great the

h
o g ib me n tatio n of Gradius make s a Mond heed and
shoot'em-up that comes anywhere near this stIculde r, above MI ochm * me t e rn ods e l W W I
stormer from Konami. Grachus ill is another rea- month,. The gt mow, embalms M thi leemoth
AM. o f sose te . a ge rmt Ne ve dhO mit. Gn• de d
son to buy a Super Famicom... along with Super grabbed eve from the sun and didn't* go

Mario World, Populous and F-Zero. And don't for-

get this £100 wonder machine has been on sale
for less than three months. It's unbelievable! RE LE AS E D E T A I L S
SUPER FAMICONI 0 4 . 9 9 O U T NOW
• Rik Haynes

Spealat thanks to S hakhana Consolak enal 340 SSES) o r

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Robocop, Chase H.Q., Ghostbusters II, Contra...
Rik Haynes previews fo u r n ew Gameb o y titles!
CONTRA
Nasty rebels are waiting for you in the jungles of South America. Rambo fo u g h t
for honour, justice and the nght to buy a fast-food franchise. No w it's your turn.
Equipped with a suitably large machine gun, headband and no-shirt - wh a t better
wa y to show off your muscles - you must conquer five separate areas filled with
enemy soldiers, gun emplacements, mines, tanks and submarines. These areas
alternate between side- arid top-views of the battle. Your co mma n d o character
can jump and duck his wa y through some pretty hairy situations. Power-up pods
provide three-way fire, horrung missiles and a wide-area attack weapon. The
action never stops, and neither does your
determination to fight right to the end
CHASE H.Q. Things get a little strange in area four,
Now here's a job. The Police want you to drive a thanks to a horde of insects, and a few
fast sports car and capture some crafty criminal surprises lay in-store during the final
racers. Shift into high gear and speed down the area. The backdrops in Contra have a• 1
twisting highway at 318km per hour, A turbo 1
similar feel to those seen in Teenage
option gives you the edge over the competition, Mutant
' 1 Nin)cr Turtles on the Gameboy.
provided you use it wisely. All you have to do is It's likely that these two games were writ-
avoid a few obstacles and out-drive everybody ten by the same programming team,
on the road. Taito's Miami Vice inspired racer though Konami is staying tight-lipped
chaser has been adapted to the Gameboy by a about 'who does what' in its Japanese
British software development team. software labs. Contra is easily the best of
Unfortunately, they haven't done as good a job the bunch played here. It is recommend-
as Ocean's conversion to the Spectrum. What ed without hesitation b y everybody in
used to be a simple but enjoyable game has the ACE office N o w get off, it's my go!
been ruined by poor control, jerky scrolling and
unforgivable pauses in the action. At this stage ROBOCOP
secondary lapses of quality start to show The computer cop Irom a violent near future is
through and annoy you even further. David ready to law down the law in downtown Detroit.
Whittaker's music, for example, is appalling. Robocop from Ocean takes you through 10
Even the redesigned text looks Out of place. I'm stages split into three different gameplay styles.
surprised Taito allowed this game to be The main game has your metal man walking the
released, Chase H.Q. needs a serious amount of streets of the city, taking out the criminal scum
bodywork and possibly a new engine. Bring in that infest the place. You avoid enemy fire by
those panel-beaters, quick. ducking and jumping. If you're hit you'll lose some
precious energy—you're deleted once this is
depleted. On the way, you'll discover objects to
collect. Baby food increases your energy level for
GHOSTBUSTERS II instance. Sub-games help to increase your inter-
Oh dear. baby Oscar has been kid- est in the game. The hostage scenes and shoot-
napped by a spook called Vigo, cm ing gallery are a 'hit the target with a cross-hair
evil spirit from the past with an a im to sight' affair. The later allows Robocop to recali-
rule the future. Wh o ya gonna call? brate his aiming skills and gain some extra ener-
This is your chance to be a Ghostbuster gy. The photo-fit sub-game has you matching
and d rive these frightful ghosts from faces, within a limited amount of time, by chang-
Ne w York City. Start by choosing your busting two-man team from the four ing features like hair, mouth and ears. The game
famous characters, played by Bill Mu rra y and Dan Ackyrod in the two ghostly has a worthy variation of graphics and the thumr,
movies. One will use a Proton Beamer to paralyse ghosties for a few seconds, the soundtrack from the movie. Robocop on the
other carries the traps to suck these slimers up. Ma k e your wa y through 16 levels Gameboy is a lot harder than its computer
of offices, subway mazes and trashed oal museums but beware of nasty creepies cousins. It should provide a lasting challenge for
like The Blob, Floating Head and Whirling Dervish. You'll also meet fellow garners with more than 20 seconds to comply.
Ghostbusters who can supply additional ghostbusting tools such as a wa ll smash-
er, super trap and moodshmer. If a ghost touches one of your characters they will
stay unconscious for a moment and lose a trap or bearner. The go2rne is over once
you've lost all the becaners or traps. The graphics are especially cute as you'd
expect. You can tell the game was created by Japanese designers, despite the
fact that Activision has licensed it, because the characters hcrve small bodies and
exceptionally large heads. A trademark of oriental comic cat. Fun for all the fami-
ly, as they say in tacky adverts.

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The beach that came with the program was Fistral

Cornwall, one of Britain's more credible surfing spots
waves that provide an ideal learning environment.
challenging locations, including the notorious Pipe
were promised though these big wave bays never mat
alised.
Once you'd taken note of the day's weather and :IL
ted-yourself
• accordingly (no Bermuda shorts if the
perature was sub-zero), you balanced the plastic
board on the Speccie's rubber keys. Next you moved
surfer along the beach to find a place to enter the
Only terminal bohos failed to exploit the rip-tide which
ried you towards the horizon with minimal expendituft
energy. E v e r y time you encountered an incoming v,•.!
you dipped the nose of your board to avoid being ca-
back to the shore. Eventually you reached a satisfact
s- tarting point and waited, watching the wave patte- -
until a promising set arrived. Then it was time to r -
ride, ride that wild surf.
As you caught your wave the screen cut fron
panoramic
- view of the bay to a close-up of your su
Resting
,- , • your
- hand on the miniature board, you move(
Departing Hall Of from side to side or backwards and forwards to perf,:_.
various radical manouevres. Scoring mirrored the sys'.
FamecuratorJohn used in pro-surf contests, with maximum points for gri,
moves such as shooting into the air then jack-knifing LI.,
down.
Minsondrops in You rode the wave for as long as possible, eventuair,
trying to glide off without wiping out. If you had the ener
onthe Shack Of left,
g and this depended on water temperature and the
equipment
y you'd chosen at the start of the game as muct
as your acrobatics, you paddled out again fo r another
Shamein search attempt.
If everything had worked as described, Surf Ch
of the wild surf. would have been an indisputable classic. But the problems
So mish o u s S u n C h a m p n e ve r m an ag e d to co n j u re u p WiSan n i o f b ro n z e d started with that unique selling
surfers a t M a libu o r even pasty E nglishmen in C or nwa ll! H owe v e r Fistral's
tides 'NIKE accurately mapped. inc luding the rip- tide whic h carried you out point. Keeping the plastic.
where the waves came fr o m
board on the Spectrum's!
keys wa s a ta sk only t
sky was gunmetal grey, the Atlantic icy and hos- slightly more difficult than(
tile. I tugged on the zip of my borrowed wetsuit, took mastering the real thing.
a firm grip on the surfboard, and strode manfully Then, t o add insult to
towards the ocean. The waves crashed on the peb- injury, Sir Clive issued the
bles with all the majesty that a three inch mush +2 with i t s inhospitable,
can muster. hard plastic keys. After that
It was hardly Hawaii but it was my one the unattractive graphics and
and o n ly attempt a t surfing. A s I steepish learning curve seemed
splashed hopelessly in the shallows, I almost minor quibbles.
realised why wave riding isn't indige-
nous to these chilly shores. In fact SON OF A BE ACH
a computer simulation, played by Only dedicated California dreamers persist-
the warmth of a Spectrum power ed with Surf Champ_ But having swallowed halt
supply, seemed a better idea the Atlantic that chilly morning I was determined to
each time I fell off the board. contort my hand into the correct pose. And when I per-
formed my first aerial and hot-dogged all
S URFI N C P U the way to shore, I really started to appreci-
The program which brought me to ate the program.
that chilly shore was the product of scien- So maybe Norman MacMillan was
tist and amateur surfer, Norman MacMillan, a man with a possessed o f a n unworldy idealism.
mission to introduce his sport to landlocked home comput- Undoubtedly S u rf Champ d id la ck the
er users everywhere. Surf Champ wasn't just a game but a graphic sophistication which was standard
true simulation with real beaches and accurate wave by the mid-eighties. B u t h o w sad that
behaviour. nobody noticed the complex calculations ol
Better still, there was none of the Track And Field-style wave behaviour, the ingenious keyboard
joystick jiggling which was so popular around '84. Surf reading algorithm, the novel attempt to cre-
Champ came complete with a six inch surfboard which sat Your bespoke plastic surfboard fe n ate an accurate simulation of this exciting, esoteric sport.
l u re d sp e ci al u n d e rsi d e p ro t ru si o n s
on your Spectrum's keys. You controlled your board just as to punish those rubber keys. Despite a grant from the Irish development agency,
a real surfer would. Surf Champ was destined to wipe out But for all its irritat-
There was, however, one problem with this concept. It ing eccentricies and severe shortcomings, not to mention
was cr*p. Or at least, that's what most reviewers conclud- that bizarre surfboard, it remains a tribute to lateral think-
ed. If only they'd known the exhilerahng fear of going down, ing in game design and .deserves a cult corner in the col-
down, down while your board soared over your head, they lection of any serious software archivist.
too might have appreciated MacMillan's unique vision.

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was Fistral in
ling spots with some form of action (i.e clicking on a door would
ronment. More take you through it) or response (i.e. clicking on
irious Pipeline, a pumpkin makes it form a face and bite your
s never materi- pointer - ow!). Could this be the shape of games
to come...? See ACE Issues 23 and 24 for full
details.
ther and outfit-
irts if the tern-
e plastic surf-
oumoved your ow a hone pid
nter the water. Or ie voLl i s

tide which car-

expenditure of
ncoming wave
Ibeing carried
a satisfactory
iave patterns,
time to ride,
ORIGINAL GAMES • Cosmic Osmo on the M acintosh. Uses
cut from the H yper text technology to generate an amaz ing level of interac-
tiv ity .
if your surfer.
you moved it • Driller
is to perform
incentive (All formats)
?dthe system
A puzzle-cum-adventure game where the environ-
ints for gnarly
k-knifing back ment was depicted in Freescape, a polygon-
based 3D system allowing total freedom of view
and movement, Later games improved the basic
eventually
adthe energy system, but Driller was the first. Reviewed way
back in ACE Issue 4.
iture and the
ame as much
• Elite
for another
Acornsoft (BBC B)
Sort Champ Probably responsible for selling many 138Cs, this
the problems e n in g villa ge rs be sie ging C a stle AC E foil- is the archetypical space fighting-and-trading

mai
r bv y neatened h -
t •hl o w i n g la st month's co n tro ve rsia l choice s, game which has been much imitated but (many
inique selling here am the fina l Gre a t Ga me s list s! The crit e ria
e
the plastic would argue) never surpassed. The intergalactic
h foronomination (in ca se yo u m isse d la st m o n t h s
Spectrum's r d action, depicted in wireframe 3D, provided the
3task o n ly e issue
s or have simply forgotte n) a re a s f o llo w (1 d
rin
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a
g
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h
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home immediate pull-you-in th rills but the trading at
o computer . t h a t 's w h y g a m e s l i k e R a in b o w
difficult than space stations, plus possible mission assign-
f 'Melds and Pla ne toid ( t h e d e fi n it ive D e f e n d e r Batten th e hatches and ments, added the depth needed to make this an
e real thing. a
done on the BBC B ha ve (re g re tfu lly) be e n o m it - all-time Great,
id insult t o n
g ted. However, games t h a t ha ve ra d ica lly m u t a t -
lock up your daughters!
e issued the r ed an arcade ide a a re va lid ( i.e . t h ru st , d e sp it e It's t i me f o r Part 2 o f our • Little Computer People
inhospitable, y Its obvious Aste mid and Luna r La nde r roots, suc-
S. After that t cessfully milted the t wo t o ma ke a t o t a lly d if f e r- pompous proclamations! Activision (C64)
o ent hybrid). On booting up the game for the very first time
:raphics and r (2) The game must be a 'la n d m a rk', in th e se n se
irve seemed c that it introduced a n e w co n ce p t o r t e ch n iq u e you were shown a cut-away sideview of a resi-
ORI GI NAL GAMES
h Into t h e ga ming w o r ld a n d / o r a d va n ce d t h e dential house. Wait a few seconds and your very
- 'state-of.thearr In its ge nre . • 3D Monster Maze own unique L ittle Computer Person would
(3) The game must b e e n jo ya b le - o b vio u sly! - J. Graye Software (ZX8I) appear, explore, then move in, suitcase and all.
and have long-lasting a ppe a l.
You could hear the jaws dropping when this was Some even had their own pets. You could inter-
leis persist- We consider the games in t h is list t o be e sse ntWI
rallowed half unveiled, Viewed in chunky first-person 3D, you act with him/her to a limited degree. Not much
components of a ny g a m in g b u f f 's co lle ct io n , i f
had to find your way out of a maze while avoid- of a game, admittedly, but a truly unique land-
!termined to not f o r the ir ga rne pla y t h e n s im p ly f o r t h e ir
plate in history. Ea ch g a m e I s d e scrib e d , a n d ing the unwanted culinary attentions of a large mark product.
when I per- details provided on wh o ma nufa cture d it a nd o n Tyrannosaurus Rex. Didn't seem much cop initial-
t-dogged all which format the game is be st (n-b. A l l f o rm a t s'
ly, but when ol' Rexy lumbered into view...! • Rescue on Fractalus
I Indicates tha t the ga me w a s e q u a lly cla ssic o n
all Implementations). Lucasfilm/Activision (C64)
t • Ant Attack
:Milian wa s A perilous rescue mission to save shot-down
o Quicksilva 11X Spectrum)
idealism. spacepilots forced t o crash-land o n barren
a Arguably the game that (literally) added a new
p lack t h e dimension to the way games were viewed, and
as standard 4(
p probably the first truly non-sexist. Choosing to
v sad th a t 6
rlculations of I tint play either boy or girl, you had to rescue your
e 4 1) partner from an isometric-3D city infested by
s keyboard ot o
r a b c „' 'i 't o g e t
9 "

campt to cre- giant ants, Stunning (for their time) graphics.

, t)_C . tons S r g — Fondly remembered in ACE Issue 38.
iam sport. o da
, i ta ti
- agency,
ant gaVE , S .°-
' 0c l c • Cosmic Osmo
all its irritat- fa
e1Goo o
i r Activosion (Macintosh)
to mention t1,n To
I n 6P t
ateral think- • ' tc UP a
6 ii1 Used Hypertext to give you a (marginally limited)
3 g c
01e
1v0l 4 p los y o v x interactive environment. Not much of a game, as
' in the col-
31n .i.00 svi I'
.et °
such, more of an enjoyable pastime. Each loca-
e
' 00-c 1 Do
6i n c vo oo s
k6•„o t t t tion in the game wa s depicted graphically. ORIGINAL GAMES - E lite on the N inte ndo. One of the lir s t
. 0't t 1o . 6
r
games to generate the fe e ling of a huge Universe, w i th beings
w•et C. oo
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Fractalus. this involved flying down narrow rocky
canyons whilst avoiding or destroying alien gun
emplacements and ships. The 3D view was gen-
erated with fractals to give a convincingly rugged
look to the terrain. And how could anyone forget
the shock when you rescued an alien pilot by
mistake for the first time?
• Sentinel
Firebird (A/I formats)
A massive challenge • 10000 levels! Every level
is a battle of wits between you and the evil
Sentinel on a large chequered landscape, as you
try to absorb each other's energy to the point of
destruction. Fast reactions and a clear mind are
vital for success.
• Splaff
Incentive (ZX Spectrum)
Set in a scrolling maze viewed from overhead,
the novel feature here was that the scroll moved
independently of you! You had to move to try and
keep up with it, else risk being Splatted against
the edge of the screen. So simple, so addictive,
so good.
• Thrust
Firebird (ZX Spectrum)
An overhaul of the old Lunar Lander idea. You fly
a spaceship by means of rotate left/right and
thrust, with the aim of finding a load pod some-
where in a series of treacherous, missile-base
infested, caverns. Oids (FIL/Mirrorsoft) did it
better. but Thrust did it first.
SHOOTEM
• -Jet Pac
U P S Play the Game l a Spectrum)
Ultimate
Hard to believe it was really running on a humble
Speccy when it first appeared. For the first time
the adman's term 'arcade quality' rang true.
Jetman flys around a screen teeming with aliens,
trying to recover one of four rocket pieces and
drop them off at an assembly point. Mega-tastic,
mate!
• Paradroid
Hewson (C64)
Andrew Braybrooles next project after Uridium;
another shoot-'ern-up, b u t to ta lly different,
Robots have gone haywire on a series of giant
starships. Your lob is to beam on-board and
destroy all the rogues, accomplished by straight
blasting or 'taking over' other robots and thus
adopting their abilities (vital i f you were t o
destroy some of the heavier 'droids). Recently
updated for the 16-bit machines, but the C64
version is the definitive one.
• Uridium
Hewson (C64)
First British shoot-'em-up on the C64 to feature
impressive (fixed) light-source shaded graphics
and ultra-fast, ultra-smooth sprite-based action
as your ship soars to and fro above 12 vast
Dreadnoughts, b la s t in g t h e o p p o sitio n .
Programmed by code-wizard Andrew Braybrook.
Still a game to fire up on a dark winter's evening.
• Wizbafi
Ocean (C64)
A Wizard and his Cat try to save their homeworld
from grey drabness by metamorphosing into the
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SHOOT'EM-U,S -
Uridiorn on the C64.
Combines strategy and
action in an incredibly
acM ictive mix. Recerothi
updated for the Amiga
and A ta r i ST and called
P aradrold
ST RAT EGY GA M E S
Popolotas The
Promised Lands on the
Am i g a . A n t C0 0 . 0 1 1
t- rolled
classic fr om
Bullfrog, who struck
p ro g ra m m i n g g o l d
ag ai n w i t h th e re ce n t
P owermonger.
t
ry of home computer entertainment. ATC looks a
astonishingly primitive by today's standards and
wasn't exactly a graphic stunner in its own time,
but it reeked of authenticity and kept would-be
controllers glued to their screens well into the
night.
• Flight Simulator
SubLogic (PC)
Established the whole genre of micro-based flight
sims with complete authority and has never been
seriously challenged. The Flight Simulator series
gives you authentic flying experience on your PC
SPURT S S I M UL AT I O NS - K i ck O N 2 o n th e A t a r i ST. Co u l d th i s b e
the best two- player game everT Without doubt it's Ow best and although later versions include tremendous
footy sin, - end you don' t ha y • to be a footy fa n to enjoy IL graphic detail, the emphasis remains on flight
procedures and techniques. If you can fly this
bouncing Wizball and the orbiting CateHite, travel- competently, you're on the way to a PPL.
ling around the various levels of Wizworld, shoot- was reviewed in ACE Issue 5.
ing aliens, picking u p power-ups, collecting
colour drops and mixing them together in the • MI Tank Platoon
Lab. One of the most original and slick shoot- Micro prose (A)) formats)
'em•ups ever. Sensible Software are apparently Opened up a new dimension for tank simulations
working o n a by introducing a platoon of vehicles and thereby
(totally different) sequel. vastly increasing the tactical and strategic inter.
est. Microprose combined multi-vehicle control
• Zarch with an excellent 3D topographical landscape,
Acorns oft (Archimedes) mission variety, and incidental sequences to
Written by David Braben of Elite fame, the action great effect. Reviewed in ACE Issue 27.
took place on a 3D polygon-generated patch-
work landscape being infected with red weed by • Sim City
attacking aliens. Flying a highly manoeuvrable Maxis (All formats)
fighter armed with laser and missiles, you have Easy. Build a living, breathing city. Just put a few
to hunt and destroy the invaders. Interestingly, roads and buildings down. But they need power,
you view the action in third person, with your and food, and schools, and airports, and_ all
ship hanging in the middle of 'space'. An incredi- within a limited budget. Try and please all the
ble example of the power of the Archimedes. people all of the time. On second thought,it's not
Reviewed in ACE Issue 3. easy at all. Reviewed in ACE Issue 24.
SI MULATI ONS • Wing Commander
• Air Traffic Controller Origin/MnrIscape (IBM PC)
Hevvson (ZX Spectrum) Althougn in essence another 3D space combat
Renowned as one of the largest and longest sell- game, the presentation lifts it into new realms,
ing examples o f early micro simulation and The ships are ray•traced bitmapped graphics,
helped establish the sim as an important catego- scaled in real time, providing amazingly realistic
combat scenes (akin to Star Wars), Between-
• •
4 combat events are animated to an almost film
-- •
quality level. The nearest to an interactive movie
yet seen. Reviewed in ACE Issue 39.
SPORTS SI MULATI ONS
• 4D Sports Boxing
Mindscape (PC)
The fi rst in the '4 D series o f games from
Mindscape. The most successful and entertain-
ing version of the noble art to appear on the
small screen. Boxers resembling Dire Straits'
SIMULATIONS I W n k P latoon on the IBM FL A whole pia
t o m of e m m ur e d ba ttle wa gons a t yomr disposal and a wicin Money For Nothin' characters shuffle around the
v a r i e t y of tO i tti O ttS t o t O M Pl i t t e • ring and clobber each other. The infinitely rede-
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OVEM-LIPS •
wargaming, though surprisingly they have engen-
m th e ( a a dered few clones. VMS gave complete control of
• strategy a nd
locredibi the battle process and — rts main selling point —
'IRA Recently even added a topographical map. Despite some
Por the Amiga
57 end called shortcomings (the display in VMS I is horribly
I to cluttered) these programs remain superb exam-
ples of dedicated wargaming software technolo-
gy. INS I reviewed in ACE Issue 4.
' GAMES
The TURKEYS
Lends on the
1ken-con• • The Great Space Race
SIN fr ont Legend (ZX Spectrum)
mho struck
,Ing gold Eagerly awaited second title from the company
'the recent that produced Valhalla, TGSR burst onto the mar-
ket as a specially commissioned Bob Foss cover
tinable camera angles, realism of the action competition on Personal Computer Games and
M C look and speed of the polygon-driven fighters a game that was written almost entirely in
ndards and
s
make this a true classic. Reviewed in ACE BASIC, boasting animation that would have
[ own time, Issue 40.
shamed a ZX80. Astonished phone calls to
it would-be
the Legend office by the PCG staff were greet-
ell into the • Kick Off I & 2
ed by floods of tears and threats of legal action
Anco (Amiga & Atari ST) against anyone and anybody. Barely weeks later,
Using an overhead scrolling view of the pitch and the £15.99 game was selling for 50p as retail-
players, programmer Dino Dini produced ers desperately tried to shift stock and Legend
whathave to be the definitive computer footy vanished from the face of the earth.
lased flight games. Men in possession the ball didn't stick
lever been to yourfoot asyour scooted around (unlike most • Legion
ator series othersoccer srnsl, so a high degree of skill was Software Projects (ZX Spectrum)
)n your PC needed to get the ball in the net. Supremely TURKEYS - The Greet S pare Rare on the ZX S pectrum.
A classic software bungle. This text and graphics
'emendous playable,and the best two-player game ever. 1(02
Sorry. folk s ! The E ditor deemed this screen s hot too d ts-
tur btng for younger readers and it had to he pulle d Out a t the adventure set in Ancient Rome soon required the
; on flight reviewed inACEIssue 34. last m om e nt.
player to go UP the stairs. Unfortunately the
an fly this parser couldn't cope with the word DOWN, so
PPL. FL 2 • International Soccer • Lords of Midnight the game ended a t th a t point. 'Oh f • •k!'
Conyncoore IC64) Ranbird (All formats) screamed the software house MD to then-PCG-
The first footy game where you actually felt you A unique technical achievement for its time, LOM reviewer Steve Cooke on being given the joyful
had some control over what happened on the offered M i k e S in g le to n 's re vo lu tio n a ry tidings.
pitch. Large sprites moved swiftly o ve r a 'Landscaping' technique, presenting umpteen
imulations scrolling pitch viewed from the side. So good, • Catacombs
thousands of graphic locations as you wandered
id thereby it's being bundled with the C64GS - and it's 6 about the map. A brilliant combination of very Anirog (C64)
egic inter- years old! basic war-gaming concepts with exploration and A wonderfully unplayable graphic adventure
le control fantasy elements, the scale of LOM, its graphic which certainly believed in tough puzzles. The
andscape, • Way of the Exploding Fist excellence, and simple-to-master but difficult•to- first o n e w a s completely insoluble a n d
iences t o Melbourne House (CM) triumph scenario make this an enduring classic gamesters were therefore unable to play the
Blood-curdling cries from the opponents, devas- and the clear forerunner of latter-day megagame game for more than a few seconds. The problem
tatingly fast action and excellent animation Midwinter. was that the graphics on the first screen were
ensured Fist stood head and shoulders above far from clear, and the required input was TRACE
other fight game. The variety of moves and the • Populous SYMBOL. Funnily enough, no-one (except the pro-
put a few fight-a-friend options we re genuine b re a k- Electronic Arts (All formats) grammer, w h o ra n g magazines frantically
ad power, throughs. And the sound from the 64 version They say you can't play God. Wrong! Lead your requesting them to print the solution) hit on this
and... all added atmosphere. followers to prosperity and victory against an particular combination of verb and noun.
se all the opposing deity's believers. The landscape was
[tit it's not • WorldGames viewed in scrolling isometric-3D, and could be • 'Owzat
Epyx/USGold(C64) raised and lowered at your whim. Become pow- Virgin (BBC)
Epyxproduced a whole series o f sport Sims, erful enough and you could start inflicting volca- A fabulously awful cricket game that was proba-
with this one arguably being the best_ A wide noes a n d earthquakes o n t h e populace. bly solely responsible for giving Virgin, in the old
range of vaned events, such as log rolling, caber Amazingly, all control was by a clutch of simple days, the worst reputation of all games compa-
acombat tossing, Sumo wrestling and cliff diving. Each icons. Reviewed in ACE Issue 19. nies—a reputation they had to fight very hard to
realms. required far more skill than the joystick-waggling live down. 'Owzat had vile white on green graph-
graphics, antics of similar suns. Hugely enjoyable, espe- • Powermonger ics and — oh joy! — requested the user to 'EDIT
vrealistic cially when you got your friends around. Electronic Arts (All formats)
Between- line 100' if he wanted to change his team.
Written by Bullfrog, programmers of Populous. 'Ooops! That one must have slipped through the
host film STRATEGY GAMES You play a warlord with just 20 followers washed net.,.' was the immortal message from Virgin's
re movie • Balance of Power up on the shore of one of 200 islands, ripe for PRman at the time.
Mindscaoe (IBMPC) conquest. Similar in look to Populous, the land-
Chris Crawford's seminal 16-bit strategy game scape is now formed from polygons for far more • Alice in Videoland
gave gamesters a hand in global conflict and flexibility in how it's viewed. Icons makes control Bugeyte (C64)
remains a classic of its kind. Later attempts to very easy. Incredible attention to detail - a real liv- A re-release of Audiogenic's disk-based Alice in
follow it up (even by Crawford himself) have all ing, breathing world in silicon. Reviewed in ACE Wonderland on BugByte's tape-based budget
les from fallen short of this engaging game in which one Issue 39.
entertain- label. Rather unfortunately, following the fi rst
or two players [representing Russia or the US) graphically exquisite scene, th e player wa s
ir on the battle i t out for world supremacy, forging • LIMS I & requested to insert the second disc... Play was
! Straits' alliances, supplying arms and financial aid, and Rain bird (All formats)
ound the thus shortlived, and mainly consisted of trying to
engaging in other devious geopolitical activities, Programs that changed the face o f computer throw a useless cassette tape in a bin.
ely rede-
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 The fact that there's plenty to do
makes F15 II one of the most exciting
simulations around.. .on screen
presentation is brilliant.. .the graphics

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most realistic 3D effect yet seen on a
flight simulation.
C&IIG 93%

Flight sim fans know who

does it best - and F15 II is
our best yet
At MicroProse we're pleased that our
flight simulations are acclaimed as the
best technical products around. We're
proud of F-19 Stealth Fighter, Gunship
and Knights of the Sky, for they
accurately recreate every aspect of real
life piloting, from the highs to the lows.
Now we're having fun with F-15 Strike
Eagle Ii. A fighter pilots dream, as it is
pure action all the way. Using the great
3-D graphics, real-world mapping and
technical specifications of a supersonic
jet, it puts the emphasis on flying and
firing, dogfighting and duelling, shooting
down and blowing up,
All the options you'd expect from
a MicroProse flight sim are there
- combining to give hundreds of
different missions - but 'in-flight
you're left to concentrate on your F-15 Strike Eagle Ills
'stick' and your 'fire' button.. and already available for
IBM PC's and
staying alive.
compatibles, and is
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ACE RATING: 9 7 3

At last it s here Lead 20 men across 195 lands, conquering and pillaging as you go. All control is by
aclutch of icons. But be warned - a simple interface method conceals a game of huge strategic
depth. Foronce the hype is completely justified.
Graphically identical to the Amiga version, Bullfrog have also done a fine job on the sound. The sam-
ples maybe a little fuzzier but they're as good as could be expected - which is just as well consider-
ing the pretty important role sound effects play in the game as audii clues as to what s going on.
Gameplay, of course, is also identical - why mend it if it ain't broke? There aren't enough superlatives
in the dictionary to do this game justice. Just go and buy it, will you?
ATARI ST RATING: 9 7 3 P oniermongor on Ch. Atari S t in- de pih strategy for
th• masses.

PRINCE OF PERSIA
Domar k/ Br oder bund E 2 4 . 9 9 ;
Ami ga version r e v i e w e d i s s ue 4 0 :
ACE RATING: 9 1 5
No complaints here: this is as good a version as
you could hope to see. While the background
graphics of Prince of Persia aren't astonishing
evenon the Amiga, consisting mainly of dungeon
walls and platforms, the animation of the main
character is superb, and fortunately this doesn't
change for the PC.
The plot is, admittedly, completely unremark-
able; the Pnnce has to fight his way through the
evil Vizier's dungeons in sixty minutes, otherwise
the captive princess will fall into the baddie's
clutches. But rather than the usual selection of
IB M PC
slavering demons and goblins to fight, the game feature. Programmed by Broderbund in
Prince's challenge consists more of working out France, Prince of Persia is a triumph of anima-
the strategies necessary to negotiate crumbling tion techniques and game design, and should not
platforms, avoid mantraps and outwit sword- be missed.
wielding guards (though there is plenty of sword- IBM PC RATING : 9 0 5
fighting tool).
That being the case, the PC's graphics hold up
Po-Anc• o f Persia on the IBM PC. Look out! Beware tha S ilvery
perfectly well, and the sampled sound effects Spikes or D oom !
(portcullises opening, buttons choking) give you
useful clues to solving the problems. The music
is also good, featuring several different themes
and enough variation to keep you interested even
if you are just using the internal beeper.
Supplied on a single 3.5 o r 5.25" disk, the
game can be transferred to hard disk, and all
graphics modes are supported. There are key-
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It Canis From rho ° to r t on the IBM PC This hairy oP c r itte r is
• pain in ths ass
This epic graphic adventure/arcade game draws heavily on 50's sci-fi films like Them and Tarantula
for its plot. The graphics, though, are anything but the grainy black-and-white of such low-budget
gems; there's no CGA mode, but in VGA or EGA you'll enjoy the colourful animated backdrops. The
graphics of the PC version doesn't quite measure up to the sophistication of the Amiga's, but the
colourful detailed backgrounds and animated characters are the main joys of the game, and on the
whole transfer pretty well to the PC.
The same cannot be said for the music. If you haven't fitted a Roland, AdLib or Soundblaster card,
don't make the mistake of switching on the internal sound - the repetitive tunes, which seem to con-
sist of the same four notes over and over again, will soon drive you buggy.
Taking the role of a geologist investigating strange happenings in the small town of Lizard Breath,
you choose actions from scrolling multiple-choice menus, and find yourself thrown into arcade
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take the form of a view of the background and your target, together with your hand clutching a gun,
knife or fire extinguisher in the foreground. The action isn't particularly fast or frantic on the PC ver- 3111
sion, but the element of skill is still pretty high.
More challenging are the strategy-based sections, where you use the scrolling town plan and over- C64 wan

head views to marshal your forces against the attack of the giant ants, and odd diversions like a Mb
game of motorised chicken with the local tearaways. E qp
Supplied on four 3_5n disks, ICFID requires a great deal of disk-swapping unless you transfer the S.T.U .N . R U N N ER
whole lot to hard drive_ There's a game save routine which is accessed through the map screen, and D o m a r k f T e n g e n E 9 . 9 9 c 5 / E 1 4 . 9 9 dk ;
options for joystick or keyboard controls, which allow you to move diagonally by pressing two keys Am i ga v e r s i on r e v i e w e d I ssue 41; 11
together. 1a1l
ACE RATING: 4 8 0 •••••
Though the Cinemaware format, used in Rocket Ranger, Three Stooges, Sinbad and several others, Winn

is now becoming a little tired, ICFTD is one of the best of its type and the PC version is no disappoint- Better sound and more colourful graphics than g o
ment.
IBM PC RATING: 8 4 0 the
, Spectrum, which more accurately resemble k m
the colourful filled-polygon tunnel backgrounds of P
. Amiga version, inevitably put the C64 version Z .
the
ahead
. of the Spectrum; but again the low speed
A M S T R A D CPC of the program makes it pretty to look at but
numbingly boring to play. Compared to the16-bit
LOTUS ESPRIT TURBO versions, not to mention the impressive coin-op
original, &TUN. Runner on the C64 is a waste
CHALLENGE of disk space.
Gr eml i n E 1 0 . 9 9 c s / E 1 4 - 9 9 dk ; Am i ga v e r s i on r e v i e w e d I ssue 38; C64 RATING: 4 1 0
ACE RATING 8 7 5
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For some reason the Amstrad version fails to give the same impres-
tkn of speed as the Spectrum; the roadway twists and dips nicely,
out even at top speed you don't feel a sense of exhilaration - perhaps
because collision with another car or an obstacle doesn't damage
you, it just slows you down, as in the other versions.
Though the graphics are nicely designed, use of colour is pretty lim-
ited too, so despite good in-game music the whole doesn't add up to
much more than any other road-racing game_
AMSTRAD RATING: 6 7 0
4
Lotus E sprit ' Who Chailerige on the Amstrad CPC R e d , graphics, b u t they're 1
ta r slower tha n the Speccy•s. 5•7:1144. Ifisstrior on the C6.4. M ore colour. b u t s till: oh deer.
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CHALLENGE S.T.U.N. RUNNER
Difficult and Practice modes, featuring different
Gr eml i n E 1 0 . 9 9 c s / E 1 4 . 9 9 dk ; numbers of races which have to be completed, Dom a r k t r e nge n E 9 . 9 9 c s / E 1 4 . 9 9 dk ;
Am i ga v e r s i on r e v i e w e d I ssue 38; and a choice of three in-game tunes. The Am i ga ver si on r e v i e w e d I s s ue 41;
ACE RATING: 8 7 5 Spectrum versions of these are pretty good, and ACE RATING: 4 8 0
the sound effects acceptable, You also have the
choice of manual or automatic gears and two With a rating of 480 for the Amiga version,
Officially licensed by Lotus, this racing simula-
forms of joystick controls. you'd be right to expect very little from the 8-bit
tion doesn't offer a great deal not seen in
In one-player mode the lower half of the screen versions of R u n n e r . In the Amiga ver-
dozens of other cockpit-view racing games,
except for the two-player split-screen view - and is taken up with a nice illustration of your car. sion, though the speed of the filled-polygon ani-
even this brings back memories of the classic While you're racing, although the nicely-designed mation is low, at least it looks pretty: in the
Atstop IL graphics are understandably mainly Spectrum version, the colourful tunnels through
monochrome, the animation is fast; the road which you race your space-motorbike are
While the Amiga version features 32 tracks,
the 8-bit versions have only 9; you still have a twists and dips convincingly, and even when you replaced by spider-webs, roadways and tunnels
are in two-player mode and there are several which are plain in design, lacking in colour and
other cars on the screen, you get a decent devoid of real animation.
impression of speed. Since the action consists solely of steering
re
A fair game, but not an original enough basic your bike around the walls of the tunnels, follow-
idea to compete successfully with the dozens of ing the trail of stars to achieve the highest
other road racing games for the Spectrum, speed and aiming for boost pads, some nicely-
SPECTRUM RATING: 7 8 9 designed enemies would not go amiss; but the
alien ships here are poor little sprites which
you're almost ashamed to blast.
Sound is poor, and the between-screen map
displays add nothing to the action. On the whole
it's hard to find anything to recommend in this
effort, unless you're looking for a birthday pre-
sent for someone you really dislike.
SPECTRUM RATING: 3 5 0
Lotus E sprit Turbo Cheilleoge on the S pectrum The trade a d
between colour and s pe e d makes this V egliOn more cosloyeble
then th• CPC incarnation. S. FUN.R unne r on the S pectrum. M onoc hr om e graphics and
angular tunnels lose the look C l the coin op. while the lack of
speed Imes the speed.
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mate powers to the full if he is to scale level-upon-
level of multidirectional scrolling mayhem.
Climbing vines, scaling rock-faces and avoiding
traps - it's a dangerous life being a monkey, espe-
cially when every creature in the jungle is out to
get you The meanies fly into you, fall onto you,
drop things on you and fire things at you. And all
the time you're having to climb up, up, up!!
Toki is one of those infuriatingly addictive
games which mixes all-out arcade action with sim-
ple puzzles and fantastic graphics.
It has to be the dream of every arcade fanatic
to have a coin-op in their own home. Imagine:
constant freeplay and the envy of all your mates!
Well, now your dreams can come true! Along with
Ocean, ACE is offering you lucky readers the
chance to win the super Toki coin-op, all crammed
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The il360 In sicieview. I t r e a l Pock 'n• roll, folk s !

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0 , # , ". oily. Arcades are getting almost
respectable. This year, the ATE was gr
2 b y the presence of Peter Lloyd MP, Under
Secretary of State at the Home Office, who
The Amu semen t Trade Exhibition f o r r u a opened the proceedings of arguably Europe's
most prestigious arcade event, with a whop
keynote fo r the wh o le o f th u r o p M 210
pi exhibitors.
- Coin-Op year - John Cook w t h e r e to The money that accrues to the Treasury as
result of the AWP trade is enough to warrant
make the mo st of f r e e p l a y wheeling out of a junior Minister on occasions
like this, just to keep the trade happy - atthou
whether the House of Commons will ever opel
an ArcacittArmex (presumably just off from the -irk,od
Tea Room) is open to debate. l e i n a T" P l•attm,
Whatever, Mr Lloyd's eye miglt have stoppe:
R360, which looked as if it could proy
r disciplining the more t
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game and before y i d I just throw
up, or is that last night's pizza on my trousers,
they'll be jumping through the lobbies on a thr
ne whip, no worries.
t the R360, the most tal
plecb u t p m e n t
made its Western flemipherica debut here
boy! - did it go down a treat. Up, down, left, n
- the works, and impressively fast too.
Ifs undoubtedly the most significant piece of
arcade equipment to appear for a number of
years, if only to empasise to the home market
that instant hit coin-op licences are now a thing
the past.
It doesn't matter who licences any game that
specially written for the R360 (G-Loc is running wha
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who corpses out tots.

but the new one they were pushing this time was
a futuristic four-player motorbike/combat game
called Cycle Warriors. With distinctive and stylish
graphics, it's an eye catching unit that is bound
to appeal to the younger player.
Likewise Rad Mobile; another superb demon-
stration that Sega's got the best software engi-
neers in the world, if not the best game design-
ers. It's a 20-level driving game that has you
cruising across continental USA which is high on
visuals and low on gameplay. One day, Sega will
come up with somet hing worthy of its excellent
sprite-manipulation techniques - until then, sit in
the unit and marvel how they do what they do.
An interesting PCB game from Sega was called
iost Borench• It's an isometric-view arcade puzzle
LIE was grac time to time, For example, Crazy Golf, with plas- game. Initially seeming a bit dull, continued play
Under tic turf that reforms to a new configuration on suggested it might have some hidden depths -
'lice, who each hole and inflatable bouncy things in all we'll give you the definitive view next month.
ily Europe's shapes and sizes. You tell 'em what you want, Atari. What can you say about Atari that hasn't
ha whoppin and they'll make it. Yes, really - anything! been said before? Sometimes they seem com-
But my favourite was computer palmistry. Put pletely barmy - however, occasionally you pick
reasury as a your hand on this scanner and 10 seconds later, up a flyer on something and just hope it inspires
to warrant t there are your innermost secrets being ham- the public consciousness.
Occasions mered out on a dot-matrix printer. Apparently, I You could almost see the crossed fingers on
py - although have a very pronounced Mound of Venus... its stand, where the new game Ramparts was on
ill ever open The latest SWP innovation is one you're not show. Go meets Missile Command meets Tetris.
afl from the two.player ga te Drivin• be a good going to believe • so sit down and get yourself a It's that strange. Again, continued play suggest-
oak -
Y o glass of water before the read the next sen- ed there was more to it than the initially met the
ave stopped ur tence. After playing Tetris for money and Loopz eye. You'll either be intrigued by it, or feel moved
w i
:ouid prov s next to useless because (a) you for money, now you can play... Space Invaders to send Atari a "Get Well card.
ouldn't do a very good version and (b)
h for money! Obviously the coin-op business has However, the firm has been clever enough to
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come under the influence of the Green move- grab the rights to a video disc game, Mad Dog
I just throw ral years ago, coin-op licences were price-
o ment at last - with (presumably) recycled Oncs McCree Shoot at the screen with an electronic
u
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r being used to run the software on this one. six-gun - but with added good storyline and a
!sOn a three- same technical capability of the hardware in the
c Feeling frustrated? Then try Sonic Blast Man rudimentary adventure structure. It's good, very
o
coin-op.Youcould do a near perfect version for
m from Tait°. Protect your hands using the boxing good. Play it if you can.
borne format • great stuff/
m gloves supplied with the cabinet, read the dis- Meanwhile, there was a three-screen deluxe
a
es, Then, in following years, licences were useful
n claimer (if you break your hands, we break our version of the Race Drivin' machine, plus one
)ut here and. becausethe coirH)p manufacturers were coming
d hearts, but not our bank) then hit the unit as hard that you can link up to another unit, racing in
,
vmleft, right up with most of the good ideas - Operation Wolf,
o as you can. Depending on your cumulative per- true one-on-one style and thus fixing my major
o. for example. formance over three hits, you either knock the
h gripe about the game as exhibited a couple of
it piece of With the present climate, in an arcade industry teeth out of this hard-looking b•stard and get the issues ago. Thanks, guys!
imber of that is paranoid about the incursion of the home girlie, or get a free Bullworker. Well, something Two great sporting games showed up, one
ne market market into its income, there seems to be little like that, anyway. from Williams, high on the success of Smash TV,
low a thing of innovation ictlhe sequelmania at AMOA this OK - so much for the novelties, but what was and another from Konami, looking for something
year)and a ghoulish interest in profit margins. new otherwise? Quite a bit, as it happens, with to supplement the phenomena of Turtles,
game that is It's lust not worth spending the big money on more new releases on show than were at the The Williams game is called High Impact
is running what's out there right now on PCB. recent New Orleans AMOA. Based on American Football it can be played by
ime format Whatare making headway are the games that Jaleco must be pleased with the reception for one to four people. Simply the best, this is one
are trying to maximise the use of the unique 'Cisco Heat - best driving game of the moment - game that's going to be snapped up by the
aspects of arcade play - multi-player capability, home software companies. Then there's
real motion effects, hard-wired routines. The suc- Konami's Golfing Greats; At last Konami have
cess of the R360 is that it can deliver what a found a good use for its sprite technology in this
home system can't - upside down gameplay! Try wonderful PCB game. Impressive effects, great
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learn, eh? so, thanks to Capcom.
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brand new titles: Prince of Persia has been Just II
highly rated for its graphics and animation.
The ACE Charts give you the STE
defi nitive list of top scoring Exam
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reviewed by ALL British games :ard:
magazines. Rick D a n g e ro u s 2 M icro St yle 89.15 • thi
Cal ifornia Games Kiss 81.25 • th
DI D Y O U WI N LAS T MO NTH? Amazing Spiderman Empire 8625 th
Nightshift US Gold 84-5 • th
ACE readers are developing chart predittion in t o a fine art Eve ry top game W h a t y ou can Platinum US Gold BIS S
was spotted by at least one reader and one - Powermonger on th e Amiga - WI n... •i 9
Last month we said Pick Dangerous
was tipped by almost everybody. First off, Pe t e Ea m sh a w o f Rotherham man- You'll get a mys- t
tery gam e w or th deserved the top slot in the C64 chart - YOt
aged t o p u ll Wheels o f Fire o u t o f the hat for the CPC. An d r e w Wa t so n o f ,
up to 125 for this month the reviewers agreed. Budget T10
Edinburgh was one o f the very f e w wh o managed t o guess Golden Axe f o r the
your machine if offering California Gaines shows the old that
C64 A lo t o f people came up trumps wit h Soeedball 2 fo r the ST h u t Eric de you can pick out
can still hold their own against the new. IOU
Loos from the Netherlands was first out o f the hat, Jo h n Sh e a rin g g f NEXT MONTH's
top chart entries.
Godstorse was first past th e post wit h Power-monger fo r the Am ig a . L u ke ST
Get all fi ve r i ght
Sm it h o f Birmingham h it gold w it h R-Type fo r the Spectrum.. Ricca rd o d e l
in any categor y you
Gre co o f Saltcoats took t o the skies wit h Win g Commander on the Pr_ Arid be
finally, a special mention t o Ph il Maxfield, w h o got every game rig h t but
and you'll get
EI S° w or th of AMSTRAD (PC ing
softwar e! Entr y 111
missed the d ra w every tim e. Tough luck Ph il - b u t at that rate you're going t o
instructions are Shadow of the Beast G r e m l i n 8564
be winning as often as not.
opposite. Si
Target Renegade H i t Squad 83
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtleslmage Works 82
THE STOCKMARKET Ivan lr onm an' 5tewart V i r g i n 773
Motorcycle SOO C u l t 59
In a d d it io n t o o u r ga me s cha rts, w e a lso ha ve a b it o f fun w it h the figure s e a ch m o n th The Turtles have made it into the top five,
Whe n w e produce the ACE St o ckm a rke t . I t 's a list o f the t o p 25 softcos a s de te rmine d
but Gremlins version of the 16-bit Shadow
by t h e ra tings t h e ir ga me s a re cu rre n t ly re ce ivin g . You ca n se e t h e ir f o r
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we ca lcula te the a ve ra ge m a rk th 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 and there's a big gap between it and 114500.
on e a ch f o rm a t . This is the ra tin g t h a t yo u se e in the se cond co lu m n . So. f o r e xa mple , if
the co m p a n y 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 wn th e a ve ra ge m a rk. e ve n if yo u ca n se e one o f it s title s he a ding u p the
Amiga , ST o r PC cha rt p rin t e d o ve r the pa ge . I f a ll the ga me s a re e xce lle nt. o r if the
compa ny ha s ju st one b rillia n t progra m d o in g the rounds a t the mome nt, it w ill conse -
q u e n tly ha ve a high ra tin g .
IBM PC
The la st co lu m n shows h o w w e ll a com pa ny's ga me s ha ve fa re d compa re d to the
Softwa re I nde x. This sin g le 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 Wing Commander Origin 965
pe rce nta ge ) t h a t a ll ga me s, a ll forma ts, re ce ive d d u rin g t h e la st m o n th . I t's a q u ick Wonderland Magnetic Scrolls 94
guide t o h o w good the curre nt crop o f t it le s is, a n d e a ch compa ny's I nde x score sh o ws Knights of the Sky 89,5
Microprose
h o w 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 onth's cha rt,
interphase Image Works 85.5
Psygnosis's curre nt t it le s a re w o rt h 6 .8 3 pe rce nta ge p o in t s a bove a ve ra ge - a ccording t o
the in d u stry's re vie we rs. It Came From the Desert Cinemaware 05
We p rin t o n ly the t o p 25 compa nie s e a ch m o n th . I n fa ct, w e ke e p ta bs on a ll o f the m, Covert Action Microprose 85
but yo u d o n 't wa n t t o re a d th ro u g h a list o f o ve r 1 0 0 na me s in e ve ry issue .
Occa siona lly, a n e w co m p a n y w ill e nte r the listings, in wh ich ca se it s na me is m a rke d Wing Commander improves its rating and
w it h a n a ste risk. Wonderland r f .
Fina lly, w e ta ke ca re t h a t the in f o rm a t io n S oftw ar e i ndex: 75. 12 ,
here is g e n u in e ly u se fu l. To tha t end, w e
D own slig h t ly. b u t o ve r 3,5 m a rks u p a ppe a r s
don't count compa nie s w h ich ha ve o n ly
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on the fig u re f o r t h is t im e la st ye a r. WHAT
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Mastertronic 77.84 4 3 .3 4 2.72
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m ont h. D o n ' t f or ge t t h a t t h e r e v i e w r ati ngs ar
n/a Virgin 77 -5.28 1.88
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System 3 +5.67 9.55 Rainbow Arts 76.44 -5.09 1,32
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don' t necessar i l y a gr e e w i t h s om e o f t he judge
Millennium 76 -0.61 0.88
81.95 +5.77
ments her e, but all r evi ew r ati ngs are, t o a certaii
Psygnosis 6.83 US Gold 75.06 -1.37 -0,06
extent, subj ecti ve.
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remember those? Bu t f o r once t h is seems la rg e ly like a
7.99 MARK SMIDDY returns game in it s o wn rig h t .
Dig-Dug - like a ll th e o ld ie s it 's simple t o p la y b u t ve ry
addictive. The idea is t o guide M r Dig around t h e screen
from another voyage o f Dick is a miner, a subterranean explorer o r. as some d ig g in g tunnels t o th e bonuses and b u rie d treasure - co l-
would have it, a one-man d e m o lit io n team. In p u rsu it o f
799 discovery and debate into happiness and a Skoda Gri, Dick has decided t o do a b it o f
lect a ll th e item s and Dig moves t o th e next le ve l. Du rin g
his excavations Dig is relentlessly pursued b y some n a vie s
...........4.99 Shareware land.- prospecting. An yo n e in t h e ir rig h t m in d wo u ld ju st blag - b u t these can be kille d either b y -
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lawyers
h were the numerous Tetris "clo n e s' appearing gold as possible, b lo w in g th e odd bat away, co lle ctin g the of Space Blo b in fa m y (see b e lo w). At t h is price, e ve ry
almost
h daily. key t o the n e xt level and m a kin g a swif t e xit M a in ta in in g home sh o u ld have one.
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99 carrying Plumb Crazy is, stop n o w and destroy a ll copies.
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7.99 i undeniably addictive and has a h e lp feature t o get you
tude the PC would probably have died o u t lo n g ago. Bu t
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enough of that - on with the show. past some o f th e wo rst levels. Reminiscent o f a magazine
.. .12.99 g it in th e d a rk.
listing, Space Blo b isn 't g o in g t o w in any prizes f o r techni-

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the m e - w ha t w i l l they thi nk of next?
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be foxed into thinking this is just a Boulderdasb clone.
should have a copy.
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AU FREEBIES WORKS!
ACE knows this colum n actually results
in more sales for par ti ci pati ng libraries -
at least one has had to be rescued fr om
under the deluge of extr a mail, So w hy,
we wonder, are all those nice PC peopl e
sitting back and saying it's not for us?
Come on folks - if you don't hur r y your
boat will get sunk by the ST and Am i ga
crowd, Are you really goi ng to suffer
that outr age?
MR DIG
ST/Amiga £3.00 J o y s t ic k
Time n o w f o r a b it o f nostalgia. Old -tim e rs like me st ill
remember th e days when 2M Hz 8-bits were fast, 1 6 K wa s
a massive amount o f RAM and co lo u r was a p re t t y neat
idea, To th is day. I can st ill recall lu stin g o ve r the At a ri
400's 258 co lo u r palette and superb sound. So what? We ll,
there was something in d e fi n a b ly wa rm about th e At a ri's
display and ch u n ky fo n ts; and these fo n d memories come
flooding back wh e n M r Dig boots up O n ly the hackneyed
(but nicely done) scro llte xt gives a wa y it s Am ig a id e n tity.
because i t aims to m ai ntai n the spir it of
PI3 or Fr eewar e BUT pr events libr ar ies
m aki ng a pr ofi t fr om s om e one else's
wor k. The i dea is simple, i f you buy a
ga m e fr om a PEISoft vendor , the n y ou
can gi ve copies a w a y to your fr i ends for
free. If, how e v e r you w a nt to sell the
ti tl e - even char ge a copyi ng fe e t h e n
you m ust char ge a 50p r oyal ty w hi ch is
payabl e to the author . S ounds like a
neat i dea - l et m e k now w ha t you thi nk.
Wr i te to m e at d o ACE, Pr ior y Cour t, 30-
32 Far r i ngdon Lane, LO NDO N EC111 ONE.
I am par ti cul ar l y i nter ested in hear i ng
fr om the author s them selves.

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GRAPHI CS
Resol uti on: 192 x 160 (2600); 3 2 0 *
242 (7800)
P alet t e: 16 (2600)/256 (7800)
Colours : 4 (2600)/16 (7800)
TV: Yes
Moni tor O utput: No
Moni tor Suppl i ed: No
Moni tor Options: No
Sprites: N/A/64
Speed: Slow
S O UND
Speaker Quality: Depends on TV
MI DI : No
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to TV/monitor. Moni tor Supplied: Yes - 3.5 inch on 2600 and t wo on 7800.
Game Boy and the Lynx price cut. In MI DI : No. backlit colour LCD HARDWARE
fact, the encouraging news of Lynx Ster eo O utput: Yes. Moni tor Options: None Joystick: Supplied
sales in the States plus rumours of a P erf ormanc e: Unimpressive 3 chan- Sprit es : Special graphics hardware Ports: 2 x 9 pin D for joysticks;
further price reduction has prompt - nel c hip as on old CPCs, but now effectively treats ALL screen objects TV, c artridge port.
ed us to revise our predictions f or runs independently of main proces- as sprites! SOFTWARE
this hitherto overpriced and under- sor. Speed: Fast Pric e: 17-13.
supported machine. HARDWARE SOUND
Car tr i dge Mem or y: Not known
To help yeti make that all-impor- J oy s tic k : 2 game c ontrollers sup- Speaker Quality: Very good Existing S oftw ar e Base: Small
tant decision, here's a f ull run-down MIDI: No
plied. Cur r ent Releases: Rare
on all the major contenders. These Ports: Monitor /TV ports, stereo Ster eo O utput: Yes Prospects: Unsure in the light of
packages and prices are the ones headphone socket 3 joystick ports (2 P erf ormanc e: 4 channel, 5 octave
new c ompetition f rom Japan.
you'll find on the Shop shelves.. stereo sound has to be heard to be BUYLI NES
digital, 1 analogue).
Generally, local dealers should believed
S O FTW A RE Best Buy Price: As RRP.
be the first place to make further Price: Around 125. HARDWARE
Second Ha nd Avai l abi l i ty: Wor th
enquiries, although we've prov ided J oy s tic k : 4 way joypad.
Car tr i dge Mem or y: 128K look ing
company contact numbers in case Ports : Cartridge port; multi-play er
Existing S oftw ar e Base: Small.but Ma in t e n a n c e : One year's guaran-
you're having real problems. port; s tereo headphone mini-jac k .
g ro win g fast. tee
The Star Ratings are there as a Cu rre n t Releas es ; Thirt y titles due SOFTWARE
rough qualitative guide: the more Price: [ 3 0 3 5 .
by January 1991. STAR RATI NGS
stars the better.
Pros pec ts : Very good, wit h several Ca rt rid g e M e m o r y : SMb 2600 7 8 0 0
s oftware houses work ing on titles. Existing S oftw ar e Base: Very • * *
Graphics:
AMSTRADGX4000 BUYLI NES small.
Cur r ent Releases: California Games
Sound: • * *
Best Buy Price: As RRP. None N o n e
Expansion:
Second Ha nd Avai l abi l i ty: None as is a great freebie
Overall: • * *
Package: GX4000 console, 2 t on- yet. Pros pec ts : 200K sales in the States
troeers and Burning Rubber game. and increased interes t means this
Ma in t e n a n c e : One year guarantee.
Processor:4MHz 280A machine is perhaps the best c olour
Console Memory: 64K STAR RATI NGS portable bet at the moment. C64 GAMES SYSTEM
Recommended Retail Pric e: [ 99 BUY LI NE S
Graphics: * • •
Contact: Amstrad 0782 566344 Best Buy Price: As RRP
Sound: * * • Package: C64G5 console, c ontroller
IN BRIEF Second Hand Avai l abi l i ty: Very
Expansion: * I t and 4 games (Max , Fiendish Freddy,
Amstrad have partly gone up the few
Overall! * * * * Flimbo's Quest and International
Commodore path, but have wisely Ma in t e n a n c e : 1 year's guarantee. Soccer).
taken the opportunity to upgrade Processor: 1MHz 6502
the hardware. The palette is
increased, with multitasking hard-
ATARILYNX STAR RATI NGS Consol e Me m or y : 64K
Graphics: t r * * * * Recom m ended Retail Price:
ware scrolling and 16 hardware Sound: * * * s i r * E99.99
Sprites increasing to 32 wit h inter- Package: Lynx with California
Expansion: * Cont ac t : Commodore 0628 770088
Games
rupt tricks. Unfortunately the sound Overall: * * ,
chip is the same old tinny one used Proc es s or: 16MHz 6502
IN BRI EF
in the CPCs, albeit in stereo - you Console Mem or y: 64K
can't have everything, I suppose. Recom m ended Retail Price: ATARIIICS Take a Commodore C64 computer,
remove the keyboard and stick it in
While some software houses express [129.95
an unattrac tiv e slab of a box and
reservations of the machine being a Cont ac t : At ari PR 071 388 9871
Package: Both VCS2600 and what have you got? A -
success outside Europe (and hence VC57800 come wit h c ontroller and sole!
n e wI t"'s an
C unusual
o n - mov e, and the
reticent about committing support IN BRIEF
free game. signs are that Xmas '90 sales were
to it), many are work ing on titles for The Lynx was designed by a team Proc es s or: 6507 (2600)/6502 (7800) not encouraging_
the machine. inc luding RJ Mica!, one of the men
Console Me m or y : Not known G RAP HI CS
GRAPHICS behind the Amiga. If that doesn't Recom m ended Retail Price: Resol uti on: 160 x 200 in multi-
Resolution: Same as Amstrad CPC. convince you consider it runs a fast
VC52600 139.99, VCS7800 L69 99 colour mode.
Palette: 4096 6502, has 8Mb of game storage on Contact: Atari PR 071 388 9871 Palette: 16
Colours: 32 its cards and supports multi-play er
Colours: 16
TV: Yes, games. The graphics hardware has IN BRI EF TV: Yes
Monitor Output: Yes. built in hardware scrolling and The VCS2600 is a rebox ed version of Moni tor O utput: Yes
Monitor Supplied: No. image scaling. Software is a lit t le
t hin at the moment but bound t o the original At ari games console Moni tor Suppl i ed: No
Monitor Options: KART, Amstrad
socket. whic h, unt il a c ouple of years ago, Moni tor Options: RGB
increase during 1991.
GRAPHI CS remained the best s elling home Sprites: 8
Sprites: 16, 32 with hardware inter-
v ideo games system of all time. The Speed: Slow CPU, helped out by cus-
rupts. Resol uti on: 160 x 102
VC57800 is a rev amped version of t om graphics and sound chips.
Spe•d: Pretty good for 8-bit tech- Palet t e: 4096
the VC52600 wit h a faster processor, SOUND
nology. Colours: 16

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Speaker Quality: Depends on
TV/ monit or
MI DI : No
Ster eo O utput: No
P erf ormanc e: 3 c hannel SAM - one
of the best 8-bit sound chips.
HARDWARE
J oy s tic k : Joypad s upplied.
Ports: None
SOFTWARE
Price: A round f25.
Car tr i dge Me m or y : 4Mbits.
Existing S oftw ar e Base:
Potentially huge, but small at the
moment. Commodore antic ipate
around 100 titles by Xmas.
Cur r ent Releases: Plenty forthcom-
ing f rom v arious s oftware houses.
Pros pec ts : Uneertain. Do people
really want a console version of an
ageing, t hough admit t edly good,
c omput er/ Software s upport is lik ely
t o be pretty good f or a while at
least.
BUYLI NES
Best Buy Price: As RRP,
Second Ha nd Avai l abi l i ty: None
Ma in t e n a n c e : One year guarantee.
STAR RATI NGS
Graphics: / 1: * *
Sound: * * *
Expansion: *
Overall: * *
NINTENDONES
Pac k age: Standard Pack includes
console, plus 2 game c ontrollers and
Super Mario Brothers game. Mut ant
Mac hine pack as abov e but 5ubsti-
tutes Turtles game f or Mario. Ac tion
Pack as Standard, b u t includes
Zapper gun and Duck Hunt game,
Proc es s or: Not k nown.
Consol e Mem or y: 2K.
Recom m ended Retail Price:
Standard Pack 09. 95; Delux e Pack
199.95.
Cont ac t : Deight on PR 071.836 2973
IN BRI EF
The wo rld s largest selling console,
largely because of the play ability of
some of its games rather than its
hardware specifi cation, whic h is 8-bit
average
GRAPHI CS
Resol uti on: 256 x 240
Palette: 52
Colour s: 1 6
TV: Yes
Moni tor O utput: No
Moni tor Suppl i ed: No
Moni tor O pti ons: None
Sprites: N/A
Speed: Av erage
SOUND
Speaker Quality: N/A
Ster eo O utput: No
P e r f o r m a n ce : Ave ra g e
HARDWARE
J oy s tic k : 2 dedic ated c ontrollers
supplied. IR wireless c ontrollers wit h
30ft range av ailable for 09. 95.
Ports : None out of the ordinary.
SOFTWARE
Price: L20-40.
8 8 ADVANCED COMPUTER ENTERTAMMENT
Car tr i dge Mem or y: Not known.
Existing S oftw ar e Base: Over 50
titles av ailable here. Many more
av ailable in Japan but these require
a c onv erter t o run.
Cur r ent Releases: Nintendo predict
about 2-3 titles per month.
Prospects: In the UK, improving due
to increased s upport - but this is yes-
terday's technology.
S oftw ar e Loadi ng: Instant
BUY LI NE S
Be st B u y P r ice : 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. Faulty machines return t o deal-
er.
STAR RATI NG S
Graphics: * * *
Sound: • t
Expansion: * * * i t
Overall: v e t
NINTENDOGAMEBOY
Package: Main
unit wit h Tetris
game.
Processor: 1MHz
customised 8-bit
Z80A
= =
Console
Mem or y: 16K
Recom m ended 41"
Retail Price:
£69.99.
Contact:
Deight on PR 071 836 2973
IN BRIEF
Nint endo were the fi rst company to
produc e 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. Not t o be dismissed
simply because of mono graphics -
this mac hine has some superb titles
and the two-play er link -up opt ion
has tremendous potential.
G RAP HI CS
Re s o lu t io n : 20 x 18 characters.
Colours : 4 grey shades.
Moni tor Supplied: Yes - LCD dis-
play is lit by ambient light.
Sprites: 40 8 x 8 pixels.
Speed: Fast f or what it is.
SOUND
Speaker Quality: Depends on head-
phones
Ster eo O utput: Yes
P erf ormanc e: Plays a lot better
than it looks.
HARDWARE
Joystick: Built-in 8-way joypad
Ports : Headphone sockeodual-
machine interface.
SOFTWARE
Price: f 2 0 25,
Car tr i dge Mem or y: 54K
Existing S oftw ar e Base: The best
f or any handheld.
Cur r ent Releases: Increasing
Prospects: Excellent
BUVI I NES
Best Buy Price: As RRP
Second Hand Availability: None
Ma in t e n a n c e : One year's warranty
STAR RATI NG S
Graphics: * * *
Sound: ' r e * *
Expansion: Dual machine interface
has lots of potential.
Overall: * ! 4 * * *
NECPC ENGINE
Pac k age: Console unit, c ontroller
and free game
Proc es s or: Customised 8-bit.
Cons ole M e m o r y : 64K internal, 8K
video. (Turbographx : 128K internal,
32K v ideo.)
Recom m ended Retail Price: N/A
(US price around 5199)
Cont ac t : Loral dealers
IN BRIEF
Sadly, it now seems unlikely that this
machine will ever be officially sup-
ported by NEC in the UK. Its CD-ROM
add-on drive is now the largest sell-
ing CO unit on the mark et and is
responsible for muc h of the recent
increase in CD dev elopment. There's
also a 16-bit version, vastly more
powerful, c alled the Turbographx,
but this is Only rarely av ailable
t hrough importers and at a price -
usually around 1300. NEC also have a
handheld version of the Engine
whic h is s oftware c ompatible wit h its
larger brot her
GRAPHI CS
Resol uti on: 256 x 216
Palet t e: 512 (Turbographx : 1024)
Colours : 32 - 16 bac k ground and 16
shared by sprites.
TV: Yes
Moni tor O utput: N/A
Moni tor Suppl i ed: No
M o n i t o r O pt ions : N/A
Sprites : 64 (Turbographx : 128)
Speed: Very fast considering this is
an 8-bit !
SOUND
Speaker Quality: Depends on mon-
itor.
MIDI: No
Ster eo O utput: Yes
P erf ormanc e: 6-channel stereo
HARDWARE
Disk For m at: CD ROM at extra cost.
Disk Price: Read-only so hiin
Disk Per for m ance: Superb - the CD
ROM adds a new dimension,
J oy s tic k : Supplied wit h dedicated
c ontroller.
SOFTWARE
Price: Ar ound 0 5 - 4 0 imported.
Car tr i dge Mem or y: Not known.
Existing S oftw ar e Base: Large
Cu rre n t Releas es : Increasing.
Prospects: Good.
BUY LI NE S
Best Buy Price: Currently grey
import.
Second Hand Avai l abi l i ty: V Rare
Ma in t e n a n c e : Watc h Out - grey
import ed machines rarely have any
real warranty .
STAR RATI NGS
Graphics: * t e t t *
Sound: f k * * * Co
Expansion: * * * *
Overall: * * * *
1 = . • • J E M I N M E 1 = 1 . 1 1 P •
Package: Cons ole us ing c artridge;'
smart card plus game controller arc
Alex Kidd in Mirac le Wo rld game.
Recom m ended Retai l Price:
E79.99; E99.95 (+ lig h t gun); f129.5
(+ light gun and 3D glasses).
Processor: Z80
Console Me m or y : 32K.
Contact: Virgin Mastertronic 071
127 8070
IN BRIEF
Japanese s of t ware base is not as
good as Nint endo's but more titles
reach UK. Mas t ert ronic have given
good s upport t o the mac hine 50 the
prospects look good. Lik e the
Nintendo, howev er, this 8-bit
machine uses es tablis hed but dated
technology.
GRAPHICS
Resolution: 256 x 192
Palette: 64
Colours : 1 6
TV: Ye s
Moni tor : No
S O UND
Speaker Q ual i ty: Depends on TV.
P e r f o r m a n ce : 3 ch a n n e ls.
HARDWARE
Joystick: Game c ont roller supplied.
S O FTW ARE
Price: ir :0-40 (typically E25)
Car tr idge Me m or y : Not known.
Existing S oftw a r e Base: Very
good.
Cur r ent Releases: G ood
Pros pec ts : As good as
any 8-bit console.
BUYLINES
Best Buy Price: As RRP
Second Ha nd Avai l abi l i ty: Some
Ma in t e n a n c e : One year's guaran-
tee. Fault y machines ret urn to deal-
er,
S TAR RATI NG S
Graphics: I t a-*
Sound: i l t * *
E xp a n sio n : t e r *
Overall: * * *
SEGAMEGADRIVE
Pac k age: Console unit, c ontroller,
and Alt ered Beast game.
Proc es s or: 68000 + Z8OB support
Console Me m or y : 74K main, 64K
video.
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Recommended Retail Price: machines. Colour s: 4096 Existing S oftw ar e Base: Few at
£189.99. TV: Yes present.
Contact: Virgin Mastertronic 071 STAR RATI NGS Moni tor O utput: Yes Current Releases: 12 planned by
727 8070 Graphics: * * t i t * Moni tor Suppl i ed: No the end of the year.
Sound: * * * * * Moni tor Options: RGB, KART Pros pec ts : Unc ertain, but the mem-
IN BRIEF Sprites: 380
Expansion: tar * bers' c lub could help s wing chance in
Excellent example of the new 16-bit Overall: Ant * * * Speed: Remarkable its favour.
TER console technologies. The fi rst SOUND BUYLI NES
Package: Console unit, controller
decent 16-bit console to receive offi - Speak er Q ualit y : Depends on Best Buy Pric e: As RRP.
cial support in the UK. TV/monitor
GRAPHICS SNKNEO-GEO MIDI: No
Second Ha nd Avai l abi l i ty: None as
yet
Resolution: 320 x 224 Ster eo O utput: Yes Ma in t e n a n c e : One y ears guaran-
Palette: 512 unit and memory card (Can store 27 Per for m ance: 13 channel stereo. tee
Colours: 64 games scores) HARDWARE
TV: Yes Processor: 12MHz 68000 + 4MHz J oy s tic k : Supplied, second av ailable STAR RATI NGS
Monitor: No 280A s upport for around E70. G ra p h ic s : * * x a *
Sprites: 80 Consol e Mem or y: 64K work RAM. Ports: Walkman socket Sound: I n k * * *
Speed: Very fast 64K v SOFTWARE Ex pans ion:*
cartridge o r SOUND ,
Recom m ended Retai l Price: E399 Price: L200. Overall: I t e r * *
ntroller and Speaker Quality: N/A d e o ac t : Active Sales 081 752 0260
Cont Car tr i dge Mem or y: 330 Mbits.
'Id game. MIDI: No R
Price: Stereo Output: Yes IN BRI EF
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in);E129.95 Performance: 12 channel stereo M
Technically the most advanced con- HARD MA N
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AWAITS CALLS
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HARDWARE sprites and ex c ellent sound,
onic 071 F o llo win g D a vid's pro-
Joystick: Dedicated controller sup- alt hough the gameplay is a lit t le m otion t o Production
plied. lacking in the c urrent c rop of titles. Editor, t h e te a m ha ve
SOFTWARE The game c artridges can store up t o persuaded me t o ste p
330 Mbits of data, but this is reflect into h is shoe s e nd ma n-
Price: 0 0
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Existing Software Base: Good
)ve giv en Current a club where members can rent soft- sugge stions re ga rding
I t y p i Releases: Few in UK at the se ction the n w rit e t o
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c a lly me a t the usua l AC E
the system to have if you want to pose,
Prospects:
f 3 Very good. address o r ca ll d u rin g
-bit BUVIINES and to be very poor!
5 ) the H o t lin e hours.
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.
Best Buy Price: As RRF'
Second Hand Availability: N/A Res olut ion: Arcade quality . Steve Cooke
Palet t e: 65536
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year (although I can't understand for the life of me why.
•E apart from the amazing set design there was very little
to hoed your attention. I wished I'd stayed at home and-
Out the money I saved towards a new Master game -
£14.99 they re much more fun!). Basically a scrolling shaot'ens-
up, interspersed with bonus levels at a shooting gallery,
E25.99 it's not bad fun. The graphics are a bit small but well-
£16.99 detailed and animated, Look out for the full review soon
in ACE.

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E47.99 MI CKEY MOUSE
Who s the leader of the gang that's great for you and
FREE me? M - 0 4 U - S - E . (As if you hadn't guessed
V from the heading!) Disney
games Med up which should be hitting the
a ves of you local Sega stockist now or very soon. -appearance on the Sega in a fantastic platform game.
shel
g Virgin
s r oMastertronic
d e n t hope to have this on official release
MOOMMUUM
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a next
s ccouple
a l of months. And let's hope they do
Omm
l Moonwaaer, based on the special FX laden movie of because
m a this k is one
e cracking
s game. The authors have
units managed
h i to cram
s every ounce of cuteness and humour
l samename, gives you the chance to guide every-
the
h no a s favounte waxwork Michael Jackson around
body'
s
fi the original
from r s
cartoons into this silicon masterpiece.
t of puzzles and playability, and sporting graphics and
Full
To YOUR micro...
umpteen levels of platform beat:ern-up action in a quest
tot Out an end to the antics of the evil 'Mc Big'. animation of the highest order, this is one cart you really
e though Itoonwallier may sound a little so-so, it has can't afford to miss!
r
several features that lift it above other beareitaups, For
t the graphics are superb; highly detailed and
one, There are no fixed release dates or prices as yet. As
„ r soon as I know more I'll let you now. Monthly machine specific
o
clor those of a liegadrive and that's high praise indeed! columns for the users of
n some& the fighting moves - twirls and hat-throw- One thing these releases show is that there's still
oAlso,
i lots of life in the Master system yet witness the graph-
the ten most popular
llog - are amumgly unusual. The only dark cloud is that
c
othe gareeplay is a little easy, maybe because the game
ics of Mickey Mouse and Moonwalker to see just what machines, written from a
the console can do when pushed.
u is haimed at the yousgei Sega owner. personal viewpoint by
r a
Phew! That's just about it for this month. Good
other users...
tDICKv TRACT
games playing until next timel
iYeteanother tern bein, but a little more up-to-date this
aa
5 t b of-level bad guy. tt's okay, but not overly inspiring (cf James Pond, the fishy superspy from Millenium. I
he 'Weedy Seed overview of Dangerous Seed In this col- remember thinking at the time how suitable for conver-
ev umn for rnore of the same).
5 sion to console the game was. Great minds obviously
cv Shadow Dancer is a so-so multidirectional scrolling
5 think alike because EA are due to bring out the game on
ay beat the Megadrive (or Genesis in the US) in March.
so -
month's ACE. Basically 'One Ninja and his Dog More puzzle and platform antics are the order of the
5 uf ' eDynamite
m Duke is a horizontal scrolling beat:ern-up in day in Dark Castle, Originally written for the Apple
ab the
- style of Street Fighter. I haven't actually seen it so I Macintosh, the conversion promises improved animation
5 l e can't
u p -give you my opinion on it. Look out for the ACE and sound effects, and full use of the Megadrive s
va review
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i u e- Sega owners starved of RPGs will be pleased to hear
et WEEDY
s h o SEED that Might & Magic if is also due for conversion.
wi And
o Vwhat e s this plopping on to my mat? Why, it's an Naturally the conversion will take advantage ot the
ef imported
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r u your
u p spaceship over vertical parallax scrolling alien
v l itry r nandMasterfrona
reduce theareannoying
pullinggap
out between
all the stops
the to and have a new user interface to allow input by pop-up
c worlds
a killing the manic miscreants, collecting multiple- menus. Expect a Spring release.
Japanese
n carttge release dates and those of the UK.
o level
n power-ups and slowly making your way to your
thete's
u e nothing more annoying than reading about final
d confrontaion with the end-oftevel mother cowntovensy CORNIER
som
l we juicy newgame on the shelves in Japan and then aliensssssazzaZZLI
w Now don't get me wrong, I think the Sega Megadnve is
havi
d ng to wart for 'what seems like an eternity for the a O000ps, sorry, fell asleep on the job there. I'm afraid the best thing since Michelle Pfeiffer. However, it seems
official UKrelease. So a t can we expect to see soon?
e tos say that Dangerous Seed is a very unexciting release to me that there's been a bit of a decrease in the con-
a - rthis style of game has beencloce elsewhere loads of sistent quality of Megadrive releases, Whereas in the
PLEASE RELEASE ME, LET ME GO
s time
e and generally much better as well. The sprrtes are early days every cart was a scorcher (Altered Beast.
Strider
i has been out for quite a few months on grey
small,
v the power-ups uninspired and the scrolling less Golden Axe and Ghouls n Ghosts spring instantly to
import, but now it's Finally due for UK release. I've raved
l than
i perfect. Unless you're really desperate for a new mind), recently it seems that for every Strider we have
about
y the game before in this column, so I won't go on shoot:ern-up
e and you've bought all the good ones then
too long. Suffice to say this has to be one of the most to make do with a Hellfire, Dangerous Seed or Sword
m don't
w make the mistake of parting with your cash for of Sodan_
accurate conversions ever seen. Every aspect of the Dangerous Seed.
i e I suppose this phenomenon is inevitable as more and
original
s coi n -op has been squeezed in this truly astonish-
d more is produced for the Megadrive • not every cart can
ingt cart, and since the coin-op was brilliant anyway, SEGA STATESIDE
i be a classic. Of course this is just my personal opinion -
you'a v e got one of the best Megadrive games currently Electronic Arts, not resting on the success of their
n what do you think? Am I just talking out of my... ea.,
available' Deflartely a 'must buy'!
k excellent
l John Madden Football game, unveiled some rear entrance? Write and tea me what you think at the
e very
a interesting new releases at the Las Vegas CES normal ACE address - and considered debate Only,
Arrow Flash is another in the long line of shooVern- (see
t s report elsewhere in this issue), please, no mindless abuse!
ups, this time horizontal, scrolling. You know the rou-
h t Sega owners who are also fortunate enough to own
tine- shoot baddies, collect power-ups and hilt the end- • David Upchurch
e an Amiga or Atari ST may be familiar with the exploits of
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AMIGA bundle some software with the package in addition to
the welcome' disc so you'll have something to play with
when you first buy the CDTV, which should make it a
mare attractive purchase.
Availability shouldn't be a problem, because
Commodore have signed a deal with Downs. the high-
street consumer electrical goods retailers. They'll be
selling the CDTV from 100 of their stores nationwide
alongside the videos and TVs (a move obviously
designed to separate the machine from the computer
'ghetto).
ONLY But what of that all-important (to us Amiga owners
anyway) CD add-on that'll upgrade the Amiga to a full
ccrrw Well, that was on display too (below). No news
year. Christmas is already a fading but happy as to how much it'll
1 5 T
memory andthere's nothing but cold, wind and rain for
T cost yet, but rumours
ahgood lour nxinths are it could be a little
WLY
i But that's not to say it's a dull time. Indeed, this expensive. The only
offices. Unfortunately I'm sworn to secrecy and can't
give you full details oust like a spy film, Isn't it? - "No."
cry the readers). However, what I can tell you is that it's
absolutely stunning. Take my word for it, if future Cl)
product is all like this then the chances of the COW
being a hit are assured. Look out for the full ACE report
on this exciting new work in a month or two.
• CAN SI NG A RAI NBO W
Okay, enough of this mouth-watering news about the
future, what of the stuff that's out now?
Well we've just had a copy of Turrican P in for
review, but unlortunately it arrived too late to get into
this issue. However, platform shoot-'ern-up fans will be
pleased to hear that Rainbow Arts have skillfully avoided
the fate of most sequels and produced a stunning game
that improves on the original in every way ('Not possi-
ble,' I hear you cry). Over the past four days when I
should've been trying to reach deadlines rve been more

15 March
s
as
could go down r computer entertainment history
h the monthwhen the long-anticipated CD revolution
started.
a at least if tangs go according to Commodore's
thing that doesn't
come with it is a
remote-control unit,
worried about reaching the end of Level One. Co these
Germans know how to program the Amiga or what?
Brilhand Look Out for a full ACE review next month. (I
livery plsans! Yes, the CCM is nearly here - honest! but we can live without that, can't we? warm° wide it. me, me, me!)
t At the recent Las Vegas CES (see the full report As with any computer hardware, it's only as good as The latest release from US Gold is Super Monaco
elosewhere in thrs issue) Commodore unveiled the much- the software available for it, so what was the product on Cl'. The Megadrive version was great, but lacked the
vaunted
b CONto the waiting pack of media wolves display like? Well, reaction was mixed - but it was obvi- giant roadside objects of the excellent coin-op. The pre-
(agar)
e andannounced that the machine would retail at ous that the developers were trying hard to use the view of the Amiga version I saw had managed to retain
$999
t ink USand £699 in the UK, with the first stock advanced capabilities of the CDTV and it had to remem- these, and the speed and smoothness of the screen
hitting
h the sheides in mid-March. However, there are bered that quite a lot of the software on display was update was stunning, Oh dear. I can feel that worn old
reports
e that Commodore are quietly confident that they very pre-production and could change significantly by phrase 'arcade perfect rearing its hoary head.
can
m get the CDIsts price down to around £600 - which the time it's eventually released. Unfortunately the version we saw had only one (admit-
would
o comously make the machine more more likely of tedly quite long) track but US Gold assure us they are
achi
s eving the projected minimum 50,000 UK sales PSVG NO SI S IN CO S HO CK adding more. Again, look out for the ACE review next
Commodore
t are understood to be hoping for by I managed to get a sneak look at Psygnosis' CD product month.
edeheel December
d in development during a recent visit to their Liverpool • David Upchurch
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recent
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up
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tortion
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demands
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mode.
f It comes with a 200-page ring-bound manual, a different colours into a single colour with a range of
II 6X.I keyboard
t control reference card and three disks; one
information contact: Electronic Arts, Langley
brightnesses. Apart from the standard system fonts, Business Centre, 11-49 Station Road, Langley,
thew program, one contains animation utilities and the DPaint comes with a number of more exotic type styles Berks SL3 SYN. Tel: 0753 49442.
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pound increase in full POWE RMONGER 1 9 . 9 9 B O X I N G MANAGER 1 6 . 9 9
L ast month we saw the price
one Navy Seals is certainly rather
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good and at the time of writing it
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doesn't look as if anything else will
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US Gold's latest piece of software for
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the Spectrum this month, is really the
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coin-op this is a horizontally scrolling
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IBM PC 130s, Sierra quickly decided to include sound sup-

port in all of its software. Then, having done that.
it also offered the hardware to Sierra software
users at competitive rates in order to speed up the
emergence of the PC as a leading games machine.
And now that AdLib and Roland sound have
become established (Stateside at least, where
nearly 70 per cent of home PCs have either one or
the other peripheral installed). Sierra has turned
us later). For those of you who are still with us,
here's another advantage to owning a PC,
because while Amiga and ST owners have to con-
tent themselves to following that guide, you can
make things simpler still by using this built-in
cheat mode as discovered by one Michael
Batters-by of Packenham in Australia (g'day cob
her, may your billy never boil over). al
The reason that these tips are Only for PC 15

its attentions to the fledgling CD-ROM format and nd

owners is that they are accessed through DOS: all
is hoping to perform a similar •spreading of the you have to do is, when starting the game, T.
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smug
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mean that you'll be able to keep up with the key increases your available time (and for those ,gre
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kitchenWtable more than 10 years ago. Sierra has Fee
quests, quicker and more frequently, you'll also be who insist on making things diffi cult for them-
igrown EMinto the largest single games publisher in
the united States - and it's nowadays not only the able to avail of Sierra's acclaimed customer sup- selves, the minus key loses time), while pressing U. rel
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a costly transatlantic phonecall). There's now little need for you to make a map, as tei
R become such a by-word for PC adven-
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there who P hasn't trawled the seediest of bars with service to dish Out tips, technical support and sales off in dreamsville with your fair princess while all
a a advice, but until this is up and running call 0734 of your usually smirking Amiga and ST-owning su
LeisurekSuit Larry, helped good King Graham in his
vseemingly 303171 to talk to one of Sierra's two full-time cus- chums are still back down in the dungeon marvel- ( i n
• neverending Kings Quests or gone on
the beat with Sonny Bonds in one of the first two
e tomer service chaps. ling at how many colours they have on screen (tter
Police Quests. The quest has never been easier. poor
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the bookshelves in search the scripts, which cove r every word spoken in episodes l•
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45. The y're bound together in a single volume complete etc, the first thing people will te ll you is 'don't bother
of literature suited to the with piccies, which any Python fan would be proud to with the manual - it's useless'. The Computer Hobbyists

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Handbook could be just the answer to this dilemma. In a
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Pan Books, E3.99
Science Fiction 1
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The book is we ll illustra te d with bla ck and white
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Have you ever wondered wha t happened in the time

mental health.
1 photographs and graphics to explain things. a nd it is writ-
ten in language which won't put the beginner off. Worth
between the last episode of Star Trek the TV series a rid
Star Trek I The M otion Picture? We ll, you need wonde r no
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buying at the same time that you get hold of your first
computer.
more. The officia l version of events has been put on
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TALES FROM THE PLANET EARTH
the Enterprise move on to other things. Read the book
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The idea behind the book is a good one, though I'd
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IT'S A FUNNY THING
like to have seen more of tile TV series characters cov-
ered. Perhaps they will crop up in 'A Flag Full of Stars and
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them have been published before, but are difficult to ge t
hold of. There a re a number of olde r stories - The Road to COLLECTED BY ROGER FRAMPTO N
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amazing pre dictions - for porta ble personal hi-fi systems,
known toda y as the 'Wa lkma n'. This is a colle ction of funnies from the world of it M a ny
There are sixteen stories in this 300 page b o o k-
1 of the pieces have been contribute d from computer Weft,
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MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING tion fans should put it on the ir 'wa nts' list. at social gatherings with vast range of computer sma ll

CIRCUS: JUST THE WORDS 1 ta lk. Or, bore the m to death!

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Hello, I 'd like to ta lk to you tonight about a minority

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morning in over the mult i-direc t ional paral-
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downer! You need world, shooting aliens and
searching f or the landing bay.
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Fully revised B.A.T.
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titles featured in an agent of the Bureau of Astral
Troubleshooters, or B.A.T. f or
ACE over the past short. The arch-criminal Vrangor
three months, as (made-up name!) is holding the
well as older but planet Selenia, home of the
Galaxy's major businesses, to ran-
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you see here There's no t ime to spare - you've
should be avail- got to fi nd Vrangor and stop him,
pront o! Two years in the making,
able from your all that effort shows in this
local dealer now. graphic adventure par excellence.
Every location and event is
AWESOME depicted graphically, wit h all
Psygnosis • Amiga £34.99 game interaction carried out
A shoot-'em-up where you'll using the mouse. Not so much a
need to master four different game, more a way of life. As an
garneplay styles if you're to sur- added bonus, there's a plug-in
vive. The first is similar to sound card t o give the humble ST
Asteroids, except that here your Amiga-lik e samples.
ship stays stationary and the * ACE RATING 908 ON ATARI ST
BATTLE CHESS 2
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Sequel-it is spreads f rom
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due to all the disc s wapping, a
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BATTLE CO MMAND
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The latest solid-polygon epic
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Mauler tank t hrough 16 t ough
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satellite in enemy territory_
Alt hough the accent is on action,
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pink pages
originalit y and it could've been a
Trailblazer.
ir ACE RATING 899 ON AMI G A AND
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BUCK ROGERS: CO UNT-
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551/U5 Gold • Amiga f TBA • PC
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The year is 2456, and Buck
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Fans of this genre should be
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medieval setting.
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Minds c ape • Amiga f24_99 •
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Anot her in t he ever ex panding
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are impris oned_ Excellent
bit mapped graphics, at mo-
spheric real-t ime stereo sound
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in t he ACE-rated category.
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A new c omput er classic, wit h
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You play a warlord, ex iled f rom
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Set in a medieval fantasy world,
you play a student at Sorceror
University who wakes one day to
find the campus deserted.
Something terrible's happened -
and its up to you to save the
day... This has all the qualities
you'd expect from an adventure
written by ex-Infocom staff: it's
big, well-written, with lots of
(sometimes quite dreadful)
humour, graphics (occasionally
animated) and - most important-
ly - an engaging plot with loads
of sub-scenarios. The only minus
point is the antiquated parser,
which has to be to do everything.
* ACE RATING 895 ON IBM PC
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Mirrorsoft • Amiga 124.99
Atari ST 124.99 • PC ErBA
The sequel to the Bitmap Bros'
violent *88 hit. Basically more of
the same but with improved
graphics, a bigger multi-direc-
tional scrolling pitch (festooned
with bumpers and ball energis-
ers), extra power-ups and armour
to pick up or buy between
depth-enhancing player-manager
element. Highly playable, and the
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version promises to be even bet-
ter with meatier sound effects.
More fun than beating up your
kid brother. Or even better, play
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mode then beat him up.
* A C E RATING 889 ON ATARI ST
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Activision • Amiga 124.99
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A (sort of) sequel to Paul Shirley's
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resembles a spinning top and you
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lifts, switches,and roaming nas-
ties in a search for diamonds. A
clever mix of arcade thrills and
puzzle-solving that requires you
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will make you glad you did in the
end.
* ACE RATING 890 ON AMI G A
ULTI MA VI
Origin/Mindscape • Atari ST
ITBA • Amiga 1TBA • PC
134.99 S C64 LTBA
The ultimate role playing game.
Sixteen thousand objects, two
hundred and fifty characters,
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issue 39.
* ACE RATING 950 ON I BM PC
WING COMMANDER
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1TBA • PC 134,99
Another 3D space combat
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ence on a home computer. The
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Sadly only on PC at the
moment, and then best appreci-
ated on the higher speed mod-
els.
* ACE RATING 949 ON I BM PC
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Magnetic Scrolls I Amiga
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134.99
The Scrolls, having stunned the
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ly as to make it solvable by sim-
ply knowing the story. The lav-
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of the Rising Sun?
displaying a number in the top right hand
2. Which Ocean game recently on budget
corner. What does it signify?
caused an outcry because it involved drug-
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ging computer scientists in order to com-
game called 'Barbarian' and later a sequel?
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the cover of Dr Peter Turcan's Austerlitz? relevant games on the right
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ta r t Neil Hardy sent us In a of Britain banned in Germany? 6. Which company produced such classics as Leonardo Dungeon Master
ma ssive a nd h ig h ly e nte rta in- S. Who created such zany titles as Ancipital, 1K+.Last Nina, Tusker, and Myth? Dirk the Daring Laser Squad
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ha ve n't got space to fit it a ll in b u t Camels? Golem Au s
Clough's Footballing Fortunes have in com-
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do. M e a nwhile , the re 's a cheque in the B What are the only words spoken in far. Name one other spoiling person who Bee Kick Off
post for Stua rt a nd w h y don't some o f Theatre Europe? has actueved this. ED-209 TV Sports Football
you othe r la zy so-and-so's w rit s in wit h 9 Wh o is the hero of Fairlight? 11. Johnny Reb was one of the first success- Chaos Pipeline
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in all these games.
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to drop the fl o w e r fo r the KGB a ge nts the n e nte r,
pin o n the rig h t the n push ha ndle t o ope n door.

SAEs please), and if I

don't know t h e
answer, I know a
man who
CAPTIVE right. Doors and walls will stop it but it can cross
fire and water and walk through most monsters,
(In some places there are invisible walls which
block your progress. If you appear to be stopped
by a glass wall simply smash it.)
A few hints to get you started. Using the camera you can check out a new
News, tips, gossip, area with no risk. Pressing the green button
anecdotes and Last month we looked at general tips and tech-
changes the display and shows a small picture of
the camera's viewpoint as you would see it.
niques to get started, and some of the pitfalls to
adventuring trivia avoid. This time we'll examine some of the good-
Pressing the red button detonates the camera
which then damages any monster on the same
are also all most ies you can buy and find and how to use them.
Codes: square.
welcome. Write to Two types of men, professors and guards,
The Route Finder is used in the open to point
to the base door or your 'ander, while inside the
wander around the bases carrying clipboards.
me, Pat Winstanley, Both types of men are quite easy to kill - they
base it points the fastest way to the exit - wear
it before you blow up the generators. The Radar
Adventureline, Pink won't attack you unless they are hurt first, at
which time they become vicious. The professors
gives early warning of monsters by displaying
the floor ahead with any monsters shown as light
Box, Priory Court, drop codes for probes while the guards drop
those for the gates and wall openings.
squares. This is especially useful for the econom-
30-32 Farringdon Not all codes are found near their point of
ic use of ammunition when shooting through
holes.
use, some are even on different floors_ Every
Lane, London, ECIII time you find a new code, write it down CARE- The Mapper is VITAL although it takes some
getting used to. As you move around it shows
3AU FULLY. There's nothing more frustrating than sell- areas you have visited in some detail while unvis-
ing a clipboard only to find your notes are incor-
ited and areas of darkness are black. One thing
rect - yes, it did happen to me! Codes used to
to watch for are holes in the floor and ceiling
open gates or remove walls can be r
which don't hold a ladder. The upper ones are
close
e - them again (for word codes simply retype
N O W HEAR TH IS! extremely difficult to spot by eye but show as
the
u s code
e d while t for
o patterns simply spoil the stairs on the mapper.
arrangement).
If you want to contribute to these The display can also be marked by clicking
Maps and Optics and Cameras:
pages, get your pen out and start As soon as possible, buy optics II. III and IV
scribiling! Particularly welcome are and a camera. Used in combination you will have LET M E K N OW!
short, self-contained hints and single a powerful method of finding your way around
problem solutions. I'm also interested If the re 's a n y spe cia l subje ct yo u 'd like t o se e
and spotting trouble before it hits you. To set up cove re d in Adve nture line , th e n le t m e kn o w a t
to hear of PD and Shareware programs the camera, simply drop it on the floor ahead of the a ddre ss I n t h e Va n e l o n the le f t . I 'm pa rticu-
- the best will be reviewed (space per- you and it will spring to life. la rly inte re ste d in a n y com m e nts o n the n e we r
mitting), and that could win you undy- Make sure the monitor is connected then sim- a d ve n t u m , such a s Sorcinors Ge t All The Girls,
ing fame.. .or shame! Take the risk! Wonde rla nd, a n d Tima que st. I s the re AN YBOD Y
ply click in its centre to move the camera for- st ill p la yin g the old, t ra d it io n a l a d ve n t u re d
ward and click on the arrows to swivel left or

ADVANCED COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT 1 1 3

 pink pages

the button. This will bring a flashing dot to the

screen which helps to identify things like move
able walls for later. Mother handy use for mark-
ers is to pin down code cupboards for later as
these are easily missed once the cupboard
doors have gone. Don't forget to delete markers
after use or you'll soon become confused by all
ZAK MARACKEN
the little lights. Another helping of Mike Bareham's solution.
When orientating yourself with the mapper you
might find the Magna-Scan (compass) handy at Wa lk t o the ce ntre o f the ro o m a nd use the g lo win g obje ct On the ba se . Wa lk a wa y f ro m t h e m a chine
first Later, when you have sorted out the map- a nd use the ye llo w cryst a l. C lick o n the Lima loca tion wh ich h o n the m id d le b o t t o m o f t h e o ld m a p.
You w ill n o w be te le porte d t o the o th e r e re in the huge ca rving. Pick u p the ca nde la bra _ t h e the ye llo w
per and when your monitors are bristling with
crysta l a nd click o n the Eg yp t loca tion_ Wa lk t o the ma chine a nd use the ca nde la bra o n t h e g lo w in g
shields and Anti-Gray it might be better to sell
obje ct. Pu t On t h e we t su it a nd the oxyge n ta n k. Use the duct ta pe o n the fi sh b o w l. Pu t o n t h e ta pe d
the compass back to the shop fish b o w l. You a re n o w we a rin g yo u r spa ce suit
Dev-Scapes: Wa lk a w a y f ro m th e ma chine a nd use the ye llo w crysta l a ga in. C lick o n the M a rs fa ce cha m be r. You
are n o w in the M a rs fa ce cha mbe r. Find th is on the e nclose d ma p. Use the ye llo w cra yo n o n t h e stra nge
In the early stages, the only Dev-Scape you m a rkings a nd d ra w the d ia g ra m yo u ma de ca lle d numbe r 3 . The thre e doors a t the b a ck o f t h e ro o m
need is Anti-Gray (Basic) which turns you upside w ill n o w ope n.

down and allows you to reach ceiling holes.
Walking around on the ceiling is handy round
about level 4 where you meet floating monsters
and your weapons only tend to shoot low down,
passing straight underneath them. A quick flip of
your party and you're back on level terms again.
Watch where bullets go from different guns and
try to carry a mix of weapons on these middle
levels, some shooting high and others low. I
found Hunters and Magnums to be a good com-
bination.
As mentioned earlier, Anti-Gray is handy when
shooting through holes. Cannons, for instance.
shoot low, but turn over and you have a very
potent weapon from fairly good cover, Don't get
too complacent though—some monsters can
shoot through the holes at you!
Other handy gadgets in the Dev-Scape range
the deflector useful as it both shields you and
are Fixer and Restorer. The Fixer will repair any
N ow use the M a rs fa ce m a p a nd fi n d yo u r wa y out t o the e xit . You w ill ha ve t o use t h e lig h t e r t o
find o u t wh e re yo u a re going be ca use the doors a re coloure d. Whe n yo u fi n d yo u r w a y o u t o f t h e M a25
and in t o the gre a t cha mbe r, w a lk t o the e xit a nd w a lk le ft t o the la nding sit e . Sw it ch t o M e lissa ,
damaged body parts up to a maximum of 10%
turns a monster's fire back on him. Unfortunately
efficiency. Not only does this make damage it is expensive both to buy and repair,
cheaper to repair at the shops, it also allows you Both shields and deflectors disintegrate if they
to get hands and arms back in use so you can reach 0% efficiency so try not to let them get too
fight, and legs back to speed you up when franti- damaged. lt costs about half as much to repair a
cally fleeing. The Restorer is simply used to badly damaged device as it does to buy a new
charge you up again when power points are
one (assuming you can find a nearby shop which
sparse. Both these gadgets are worth buying as stocks the device),
soon as possible and carrying constantly. The other two Dev-Scapes, Greaser and
Shields are very efficient against the weaker
Power-Sapper are less useful, and in fact, the
monsters and you only need your two front men power sapper is positively dangerous. Who in
to wear them. It's worth leaving them on as long their right minds would spend money on a device
as possible as a first defence against sudden to drain power? Any ideas?
attack, but watch your power. Later you will find
More hints next month but for now happy
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throughout the Virgin
5 ales are in full swing Centr
MegastoreiGames
chain, wi th some appetising red
tions on a number of game
Spectrum Holobyte's Falcon, f
instance is being sold at £14.99 on
the ST, and £1999 on the Amiga - a
Cut of fl 0 from the original price.
Similarly, Dungeon Master is also
being sold at E10 off for both ST
and Amiga versions, while Harpoon
on the PC is going for E29.99.
Other titles from the Mirrorsoft
stable are also going for a song,
although stocks were limited when
the sale began, so you may have to
hunt through a couple of Virgin
Games Centres to find them. There's
a fiver off Cadaver (ST and Amiga,
now L19.99), TV Sports Basketball
(PC, £24.99) and Wolfpack (Amiga,
C24.99), with E10 off the PC version
of Wolfpack at f24_99.
Or perhaps you fancy some
Accolade titles for less than CS?
Virgin has limited quantities of the
following: Fast Break (Amiga), Day
of the Viper (Amiga), Thir d Courier
(PC), Don't Go Alone (PC) and Steel
Thunder (PC) - all selling for £4.99.
And these Accolade games are
going for C9_99: Grand Prix Circuit
(Amiga), Test Drive II (Amiga) and
Jack Nicklaus's Golf (Amiga and PC).
These are just some of the items
currently discounted in Virgin's
Games Centres - and there are plen-
ty of non-software sale items in the
stores as well_
HARD SELLS
If it's hardware rather than soft-
ware bargains that you're looking
for, take a trip north to the
Computer Store chain (details of
branches below). Here you'll find
the Commodore Amiga Screen
Gems pack has been reduced to
£359.99, plus all buyers will get 10
software vouchers at El each to be
spent in the store.
If you buy a Sega Megadrive at
any Computer Store outlet, you'll be
able to pick up a free game of your
choice to the value of £34.99 -
that's in addition to the game
already bundled with the
Megadrive. And Sega Master
Systems have been reduced by E10
in all Computer Store branches.
Further north still, in the
ComputorShopieBytenere chain of
stores, there are special promotions
Our crossword went missing this month
- many apologies. There's a quiz on
page 111 to make up for it, and here's
our regular bargain spotters section...
going on throughout February con-
cerning Gremlin's Team Suzuki and
Psygnosis's Lemmings. Check your
nearest ComputerShop outlet for
full details.
WHE RE TO GO TO FI ND
THE M
You can find Computer Shop outlets
in the Arndale Centre, Manchester;
Newcastle, Leeds. Preston,
Sunderland, Stockton and
Nottingham. Also part of the
Computer Shop chain are the two
Games Store outlets in Carlisle and
Middlesbrough, which stock role-
playing games as well as computer
software.
Virgin has its Games Centre out
lets on London's Oxford Street (at
Marble Arch, within the Mega5tore,
and at no 100), Bristol, Kingston
and Oxford, and also in Megastores
in Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton,
Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow
(at Union St and Argyle St), Leeds,
and Nottingham.
The Computer Store chain is
based in Yorkshire, with shops at
Printing Office St. Doncaster;
Negate, Bradford; Trinity St Arcade,
Leeds; Market Place, Huddersfield;
Westmoreland St, Wakefield; St
Sampson's Square, York; The
Woo!shops, Halifax; Market St,
Barnsley; High Street, Scunthorpe;
Pinstone Street, Sheffield, and the
Broadolarsh Centre, Nottingham.
All offers and promotions are
subject to availability of stock.
Although we do Our best to ensure
our dealer promotion information is
accurate at the time of going to
press, ACE cannot take any responsi-
bility for changes or cancellations to
dealers' plans.
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DEALERS!
Don't keep your promo-
tions. competitions, special
offers; etc, a secret. Tell us
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body else.!
SHOP
ATM
Software seller Dirk
Longhorn looks back
on the good old, ba d
old days a nd offers a
small prize to nostal-
gia freaks...
desk from the office
w recently. I came across a
hcollection of photographs from
iAutumn 1986. Initially my attention
lwas focussed onthe way the shop
eitself had changed: most of the
posters around the walls seemed to
c
be promoting Ariolasoft products
l
such as Stealth, Archon, Racing
eDestruction Set and an early icon-
adriven adventure, Wild West.
r At the time I thought that those
iproducts were State of the art and
essential
n purchases, but they sold
glike the proverbial sack of dead
leaves dipped in urine, which is a
O
shame. The software titles that real-
u
ly were doing the business were
t review of Ant Attack stated that the
Gauntlet, Jack the Nipper.
a
Footballer of the Year, and
n
Gunship, Amazingly - or not -
o
Gunship still sells well today on all
l
formats, while the others have long
since
d joined the budget boys on the
bottom shelf and (quite right too)
are submerged beneath the ever-
increasing amount of E2,99 simula-
tors.
The joystick section was dominat-
ed by one range: Cheetah. Even
now, their two models (125 and
Mach 1) still sell well, but nobody
could claim the range has evolved in
any way. Consequently their 'sticks
appear (unfairly) dated in compari-
ADVANCED
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son to some of the 'triumph of the
stylists art' that are currently domi-
nating that section.
The peripherals section was
largely taken up with add-ons for
Spectrums: replacement keyboards.
joystick interfaces (three different
types!), sound samplers, printer
interfaces, MID! interfaces, light
pens, drum machines, Microdrives
etc etc etc. The gob-smack ingly
staggering thing is how few of
these devices actually worked ade-
quately (or at all, in some cases)
By far the biggest change,
though is in in the choice of
machines we offered for sale. In
those days, you could buy the
Sinclair Spectrum +2 for £149. the
C64 'Connoisseur Pack' for £249, the
Sinclair QL (a few left at E199). the
C128 for £299 and two new kids on
the block, the Atari 520STFM for
L469 and the Amiga 1000 for...
gasp...11195. We don't appear to
have stocked consoles in any form!
Nowadays of course the choke is
huge and far more reasonably
priced, but isn't it disturbing that so
many of the class of '86 are still with
us? Albeit at reduced prices? Where
are the class of '90's Young Turks?
Desperately promising to kick ass, as
the ST and the Amiga were back
then?
Sadly, the only new kids are com-
ing from the console streets: the
Megadrives, Super Famicoms, Neo-
Geos, PC Engines and the hand held
delights of the Lynx, Game Boy,
Game Gear, and Game Mate (try
yelling that in certain pubs - 'Who
wants to see my Game Mate!?).
Unless one includes the PC
clones, there has been NO new com-
puter either readily available or
waiting in the wings to replace
some of the older examples in the
public's affections - bad news for
those of us who prefer a more com-
plex user interface than a couple of
buttons and a rocker pad:
One last thing - there was a
game released at this time (at
£49.99) called Defender of the
Crown - I played it again before I
wrote this piece and it really is time
Mindscape (or whoever) re-released
this little gem at a budget price. It's
far too good to languish in a 'wait-
ing room of fame' waiting for ACE
to do a feature on it. Talking of
which, John Minson's excellent re-
follow-up by Sandy White was
called I of the Mask, but it was actu-
ally Zombie Zombie, which had one
of the most user-unfriendly loaders
of all time: the volume AND the
azimuth had to be spot-on for the
average Speccy to load it, which is
possibly why it disappeared without
trace,
In those days. Sandy White's pro-
gramming feats were always credit-
ed to -
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-d y to the usual address.
marked
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CROMANNICA ACE Back Issues can CD-ROM drive and CD-audio capability,
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solutions,
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ISSUE 35
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Drakkhen Guide (part one) - (MIT) facility are working on computer generated
past issues of ACE. Well and Chris West Adam Morley
update this list next month Dungeon Master Guide (part holograms, interactive computer newspapers
Xenomorph (part one) -
and also be giving you a three) and virtual reality man-machine interfaces.
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ISSUE 32 (part two)
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Dungeon Master Guide (part ISSUE 36 capacity for 64Mb games cartridges and IC card
ISSUE 29 four, final part) capability, ACE gave you an exclusive chance to
Defender of the Crown (mini
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the FAST ad encouraging youngsters to grass on their
either spend our time and money trying to squeeze criminal colleagues is neither indecent nor encouraging
I our games onto floppy disks, which are relatively greed. 'We do not object', say the ASA, 'to the adver-
t
expensive to produce when your game needs eight of tisement which in our view presents a light-hearted
them,
c and which can easily be copied by the unscrupu- story to draw attention to a serious issue.' Thanks and,
lous,
o or we try and cram them into cartridges which by the way, ACE does pass on the addresses of all
cost
u a fortune and have limited capacity. And all the those trying to 'swap lists' through the magazine to
lime
l were sitting around telling each other that all will FAST.
bed well because soon we'll have this optical disk thingy
called OD-ROM which can't be copied, carries oodles of Finally, our condolences to Ian Richardson of Gremlin,
o
data, and costs pennies to produce. who was unable to fit into his Formula First car at the
n
Unfortunately CD-ROM is a rubbishy standard based companiy's recent Brands Hatch launch. Rumour has it
l a system devised by the music industry and quite
on that the next Gremlin game will be. .Range Rover Rally
y
incapable of delivering data fast enough to animate the Wit bliV
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complex screens of today's games_ Instead of
a
everyone getting together to produce a new CD
standard,
p everyone is going off on their own to
NEXT MONTH'S
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' tryp and find ways of making CD-ROM go faster,
using
e either add-on hardware like DVI that costs
SHOCK HORROR
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moren than the drive itself, or else spending

hugei amounts of money trying to solve the
problem
n in software and, as likely as not, get- Can you take it? Next month's ACE features a
ting nowhere fast.
t red-hot exclusive report on a new form of
The hideous truth is that OD-ROM just isn't
h games technology that's going to turn the enter-
good enough for gamesters. Were still waiting tainment world completely on its head. Going •
e
for CD entertainment because everyone is still
c to make something of it. COW is a brave one step BEYOND virtual reality, ACE will be
trying revealing in detail the extraordinary develop-
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attempt, CDI an expensive one. Blitter reckons
ments being carried out by Apollo Technology in
thatm the best thing to do would be to start all
Wales. If you thought VR was out of this world,

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over,
p and design a basic optical storage sys- this is going to blow your mind!
tem u that gives us what we want. It wouldn't be
a problem
t to produce - in fact one Lucasfilm
In a lighter vein, we will also be bringing you
employee
e claims he's already designed such a another of our 'Temporal Fax' features (remem-
system
r on paper, giving the impression he did ber Gamesworld?), this time reporting on the
it during a lunch break.
b unusual - and mildly disgusting - biology of
uBut it won't happen. Well still get those glo- extra-terrestrial gamesplayers, You have been
rious CD games and yes, they will be every- warned_
s they've been promised to be. They'll just
thing
cost i us far more than they need have done
You'll also be faced with some numbing facts
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because, at the heart of the system, that
kg, about who gets your cash when you buy a
e old CD-ROM drive will be spinning away
cranky game. Spending those pennies may never be
arid s the rest of the kaboodle will be straining to the same again.
overcome
s its limitations.
. ACE April 91 Issue 43
You
Wexpect to heer a few sick stories in Las On Sale March 8th
Vegas,
e but this one really takes the biscuit.
Members of a UK software house booked into a
hotel and demanded to see their room. It stank.

OOPS!
Our monthly crossword took a dive this
month and missed the press, for which
many apologies. It will be back again next
issue. This has meant some minor rear-
rangements in this month s Pink Pages: the
Dealers section is now on page 119 and on
page 111 you II find a very tough quiz set
by Stuart Hardy. If you reckon you know
about games, this could change your mind
very quickly! The answers and ratings will be
published in next month's Pinks.
On closer inspection, the smell
appeared to be coming from a
dead body, stuffed between the
mattress and the bedframe. 'I
say, remarked one of the lucky
lads, while the other was being
sick in the bathroom, *you obvi-
ously don't air your rooms night-
ly.'
The ASA (Advertising Stadards
Authority) has rejected a claim
against ACE which alleged that
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