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ACTING MANAGING EDITOR Bamaby Page STAFF WRITERS Mirk Caswell. Dominic Handy, Gordon Houghton, Uoyd Mangram, Ian PTiiMpsan SUBEDITOR David Peters PHOTOGRAPHERS Cameron Pound, Michael Parkinson OFFICE Frances Mabto, GJenys Powell TECHNICAL WRITERS Simon N Goodwin, Jon Bales PBM WRITER Brendon Kavanagh STRATEGY WRITER Philtppa Irving EDUCATION WRITER Rosetla McLeod CONTRIBUTORS Robin Candy, Mike Dunn, Paul Evans, Dave Hawkes, Nathan Jones, Nick Roberts. Ben Stone, Paul Sumner, Bytn Wetthy
ISSUE 49 FEBRUARY 1988
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ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER ftoSt.-' Rennet! ADVERTISEMENT EXECUTIVE Andrew Smales SUBSCRIPTIONS Denise Roberts MAI ORDER Carol (Clnsey
In their pursuit of 'the real thing' Julian fltgnaJI and Steve Jarratt zoomed down to Heathrow to see what British Airways would gtve them The flight simulator was enough
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ON THE SCREEN
Films. mus»c and LM provide inspiration for this month's selection of artistic accomplishments
REGULARS 7 30 35 45
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CRASH INDEX - PART II
Lost your tips? Don't know where to find them' Don't despair we've got an indextorevery tip ever published tn CFIASH
70 THE REAL THING
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Roger Kean PRODUCTS CONTROLLER Oivid Western ART DIRECTOR Martie Kendnck DESIGN Wayne Allen PROCESS AND PLANNING Jonathan Rignail ISUPERVISQR), Matthew Ufflmfell, Nick Orchard
LEVEL 9 PROFILE Chris Holland goes to Level 9 and finds out who does what to who and why they do it
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EDITORIAL
More cryptic comment from the pen of Page
LLOYD MANQRAM'S FORUM
CRASH is wonderful, says a reader. Indeed It is, says Lloyd
NICK ROBERTS'S PLAYING TIPS
Wizball. Thundercats and Athena get mapped, as weH some helpful hints on Nebukjs. Plus the usual dose of Jon North
ADVENTURE TRAIL
Knight Ore presents a few problems. Like how do you get down that well?
BRENDON KAVANAGH'S PBM MAILBOX
An amazing preview of the 3rd astounding British PBM convention, wow!
108 ROBIN CANDY'S SCORES
The new section allowing anyone a chance to appear in CRASH
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PHILIPPA IRVING'S FRONTLINE
Blitzkrieg and Sorceror Lord provide a perfect opportunity for more Celtic comment
CRASH READERS' CHARTS
The Top 30 returns along with your democratic votes on adventure and strategy games
103 LUNAR JETMAN 63 TECH NICHE
The latest happenings from Casio/Bates Motel, along with another alternative Spectrum disk drive
109 PREVIEWS
The software retailers' most hated section But at least we've some idea when they're coming out
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104 THE CLASSIFIEDS 114 COMPETITION WINNERS 54 KING GRUB (and the lemons) a reader's artwork gets published
112 ET AL 114 for CRASH COMMS the phacogenic
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ANNOY THE NEIGHBOURS , . . with a p ^ ^ b i a CD system from Hewson
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ARGUMENTS
and a very nice video player
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