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What's more, were prepared to put our money where our mouth isl We've spent a ﬁveﬁgure sum putting together and printing a special 20 page Street Fighter II celebration edition, with all the information about Street Fighter you'll ever need. Every special move revealed, every single option of the game gratuitously exposed, all the characters' stets brought to light and 24 devastating combination attacks revealed. It's entirely free with this months MEAN MACHINES.

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It's the ultimate guide to the best beat 'em up ever devised, put together by the masters of Street Fighter II. To our knowledge, we're the only Sega mag to actually own the coin-op SRI (we've hod original, Champion Edition and now own the Turbo PCB) — and our two years of intense SF!1 ploy make us the best people to tell you oil about the Megadrive game.MEAN MACHINES SEGA: the deﬁnitive Street Fighter II review, written and designed by the best players. We hope you enjoy it.

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game. She is joined by massive dude with the word OM MAXIMUM emblazoned on his pants. Hailing from Hong Kong is Fei Long, a block trouser clad Ninjo master. The ﬁnal new participant is T Hawk, a native American. New moves include the legendary Burning Dragon Punch. The game is pocked with new bonuses, including a ﬁrst strike bonus along with an awesome combo bonus. Up to four Super Street Fighter cabinets can be

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colourful (naturally). Each robot is modelled element by element from the original blueprint designs ond shaped to its exact dimensions. Once a robot's body parts are modelled the whole ﬁgure is linked, producing amazing animation. In this one or two-player beat 'em up, the player controls a

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consisting of man-mode mutants punch, kick, stab and shoot their way to victory. Alone or with a mate, systematically dismember the opposing team — it's not a problem because they can all be rejuvenated after the match anyway.More news soon.

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On its way to the Megodrive and Game Gear pretty soon is a conversion of Hook, based on the not so successful Steven Spielberg movie, We're sure you all know the story — Peter Banning is all grown up and totally rejects the fanciful fripperies of his youth. That is, until his kids get kidnapped by the wicked Hook and he's forced bock into Never

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Championship over 14 international tracks, alone or with a mate. There are four difﬁculty settings, a bike set-up option and the ultrafast Turbo Mode for those with the real need for speed. Further updates soon.

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Domark has created an all new platform character for the Megadrive. His name's Marko and he stars in platform action combined with loads of hidden rooms, character interaction and a chance to test out the old soccer skills. More news when we get it.

Dile of the best Megadrive games the year — Flashback — is being onto the Mego-CD by As you can see from this the CD version closely The programming team behind the John Madden Football series are ploughing their resources into a new footie challenge from Acclaim — NFL Quorterbock Club. Choose from one of 28 NFL teams and ploy the game until ﬁnal victory as Jim Kelly, Warren Moon or John Elway (who I'm sure ore really, really famous and great) or go helmet-to-helmet against a rival in The Quarterback Challenge. The 16-Meg cart features a ﬂying-eye view of the action, a choice of weather, game plans and transfers as well as target practices and obstacle courses. More news when we get it.

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This extraordinary extracurricular habit of theirs forms the basis of this new game from Virgin Games. It stars three typical Vikings — Erik the Swift, Boleog the Fierce and Olaf the Stout who are nabbed by the alien Tomoter and whisked into outer space where their fate is to live out their miserable lives in on intergalactic zoo!

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fact that Vikings spend most of th time looting and pillaging, wearing horned helmets, quafﬁng loads of ale and drifting along in oddlyshaped boots. What is less known about this strange breed is that they spend their spore time wondering around spoceships, exploring caverns, being kind to animals and children and performing complicated tasks in order to save the world.

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is another in the growing line of Megadrive games which uses Sego's most excellent four-player adaptor the Sega Tap. Okay, so with this game you can only have three people playing (since there are only three characters) but it really brings out the best in the little doobrie because its absolutely great fun for you and two males to have full control * of one character each.

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having so many different game styles packed into one cart but according to the American Producer, Alan Povlish, this is what they were aiming for and this is what makes the game so hot.

This is the first Megodrive game that the Americon-bosed programmers, Silicon Synopsis have ever come up with but it's definitely worth noting that they were responsible for the utterly fob Super Nintendo game Rock and Roll Racing — a futuristic, 3D buggy-racing experience which certainly won hty thumbs up in this office when it first appeared. Other feathers ir caps include Castles on the Amigo and, of course, Lost Vikings on the Super Nintendo

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It's the question on everyone's mind — lust what is the ultimate Megadrive beat 'em up? Is it Capcont's own conversion of the arcade phenomenom of the 1 90s —Street Fighter II? Or is Acclaim's Megadrive conversion of Mortal Kombat the more superior title. First, we compare the features of the two contenders and then we ask each member of the MEAN MACHINES editorial team to decide — lust which game is king of the beat 'em ups?

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The sound side of things turned out to be a lot more controversial there is no doubt that Street Fighter II has more sound — it is after all a 24-meg cart, with 50 percent more room for data than Mortal Kombot's 116-meg. This means that the Megodrive version of SFII has every piece of speech from the coin-op in there along with all the music. The problem is that the Megodrive can only play one sample at once and SFII's programmers ore attempting to play two simultaneously. The result: a loss of quality in the speech. Mortal Kombot hasn't all the speech of the coin-op but what is

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In this ﬁrst round we examine the graphics of each contender. Both titles are very impressive indeed — Mortol Kombot goes for the digitised graphical realism whereas Street Fighter II optsfor a more cartoon-like approach. Both games have excellent backdrops, sprites and onimation Overall, the MEAN MACHINES crew agreed that Street Fighter II had the better visuols — arguing that the CapKom game had more grophics, better colour schemes and slightly better aniAlthoughmation. the overall effect of S MortalREPTI graphicsKombat'soreexcellent in motion, some of the sprites and backdrops seem a bit rough around the

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Basically, how polished are the two games? What types of tournament rounds/leagues ore there? Are there any onnoying points in the control mode? Well, Street Fighter II wins hands. down, The list of feotures is incredible — we needed two pages of our Street Fighter II book to describe them oil_ Sufﬁce to say, there are ten game speeds, in versus mode you can turn on or off speciﬁc special moves, introduce handicaps and even indulge in group play — where each player con choose up to six characters each to play with. Utterly excellent.

Mortal Kombot isn't half as sophisticated at all — ond worst of oil, you can't pause the game — even with the six button joypod! To its credit, the "gore" mode (press A, 8, A, C, A, B, B on the screen where the stuff about the Mortal Kombot code appears at the beginning) is quite amusing and the game is a lot more controllable than SR if you're only using a three-button pod. Overall though, Street Fighter II is miles ahead in this

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The amount of different characters and their special moves are extremely important in a beat 'em up game_ Looking at the bare statistics, Street Fighter II wins again. It has twelve different characters to control with an average three/four special moves per character — what's more, you can control the four "boss" characters. Mortal Kombat isn't as well endowed, with eight characters

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In this round, we address just how dose each conversion is to its coin-op parent. if you're a Mortal Kombot fan, you're going to be more than happy with the Megadrive conversion. It has all of the characters, all of the moves and all of the backdrops. What's more, it plays very similarly to the coin-op indeed. The arcade modes of Street Fighter II are frighteningly close to the original coin-op's as well. The Megadrive game is actuolly a conversion of two coin-ops: Street Fighter II Champion Edition and Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting! Much programming expertise has been brought to bear on this game — the scrolling mode .

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each character has an overage of around three/four attacks along with the notorious "death" blow.

Once again, it s Street Fighter II that rules supreme, With far more in the way of difﬁculty levels, combination attacks and characters to master the game with, it's Street Fighter II that gives you better value for money — even though Mortal Kombot is ten quid cheaper.

Here at the MEAN MACHINES ofﬁce, we've had a Street Fighter II arcode machine in our games room for around two years and we still play it regularly to hone our skills (The MK machine wasn't missed when it disappeared after a month). The Megodrive version of Street Fighter II is so close to the coin-op that we reckon, like PGA Tour Golf, EA Hockey and John Madden Football, you'll still be playing the game years from now.

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We've got the statistics of eoch game out of the way — now onto the really important stuff. Which of the two games is more enjoyable to play?

Street Fighter just feels a lot better to ploy. When you punch or kick your opponent, it feels a lot more real and a lot more satisfying than in Mortal Kombot. In MK, the graphics, movement and sound used lust oren't as realistic as in Street Fighter. Also, in one-player mode, the opposing computer players ore extremely thick indeed, falling foul to the same combination of moves over and over again.

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In our opinion, Mortal Kombot is quite shallow in relation to Street Fighter II. Yes, the action is enjoyable while it lasts, but you're quite likely to have beaten the game within (at the most) a couple of months. Only the two-player mode adds to the lostability rating.

However, we think SHI's players hove more personality about them. Copcom have worked hard to produce interesting personalities including post histories for each character right up to their blood type! Modal Kombot tries hard (the gotefokl split cover of last month's MEAN MACHINES is packed with information), but SF II has for more in the way of trivia to learn and the different styles of each character are for more pronounced than in Modal Kornbot. Here's a run down of oil the characters you can actually play:

At the risk of sounding monotonous, it's got to be Street Fighter II again. Mortal Kombot plays pretty well and is extremely close to the coin-op, but the fact is, the arcade machine came out after coin-op Street Fighter and it "borrows' a lot of ideas, right down to some of the techniques used to pull off special moves and it's lust not as good.

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hove handed in an exceptionally good conversion of Mortal Kombat — but the original coin-op just wasn't very good at all - relying on its controversial death moves rather than handing in a slick and enjoyable beat 'em up. Street Fighter II is an even closer conversion of the coin-op than MK, and with all the exceptionally helpful options and features, it actually makes on effort to better the original coin-op! There's no competition really. Street Fighter looks and plays better than MK and is far, far more enjoyable and tastable. Its a termer more expensive, but worth every penny of it's intriguing sixty quid price tog.

Mortal lacks that feedback. Street Fighter features far more moves and subtler gameplay than Acclaim's hyped title: SFII takes months to moster and gives enormous scope for play development, MK takes a few weeks to explore all it hos to offer. The graphics, sound and presentation of SFII also pummel those of MK_ Thot's not saying MK is o bad game.

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To be honest, I'm a bit sick of Street Fighter II so Mortal made a refreshing change — I really love the digitised graphics in Mortal and the copious amounts of blood and gore. And contrary to popular ofﬁce opinion, I really do think there is o lot of fun to be hod out of this game and it doesn't soley rely on the death moves to spice it up. This is not to say that Street Fighter isn't completely brilliant — it is, in every department, no arguments there. Putting them side-by-side, I have to go along with the guys and agree that you're going to get more enduring fun out of Street Fighter because there's just more in there. I just don't think you should totally disregard Mortal. It oin't so bad.

Mortal Kombat was a very close copy of the arcade, and does look very groovy, but it musn't be forgotten that Mortal Kombat was always a shadow of Street Fighter II. Acclaim has produced a good version of their license, but Capcom has engineered a mirocle with theirs. The speed, ﬁnesse and playability of the twelve characters of Street Fighter II leaves Mortal Kombot forling in a force nine gale.

to get a huge pat on the bock for its nigh decaorehtfoionversconctperfeonMortalKombot.

They should hove known better. I'm referring to the fools who proudly proclaimed Mortal Kombat the 'ultimate beat 'em up' in their rash reviews. MEAN MACHINES took a more circumspect view, and we've been proved right.

It must be said that Mortal Kombot is about as near-perfect a conversion as I've ever seen of any game. But then again, so what? My old Binotone sported a near-perfect copy of 'Pong'l The comparison is probably a little unfair but its just that, for oil its stunning visuals, Mortal Kombat just doesn't measure up to the mighty SF11. The whole package locks the speed and excitement of its contemporary — even the death moves are a bit of a yawn. In an ideal world with no SF It we probably would have loved this but it's not, and there is so we don't,

So, in the battle to decide which is the greatest beat 'em up, Megadrive Street Fighter II stands proud over Mortal Kombat. Perhaps we're being too harsh Mortal Kombot is an absolutely superb conversion of the coin-op — it's just that in our opinion, the original coin-op wasn't really up to much... unlike Street Fighter II, which we rote as one of the best coin-ops overDoproduced.youagree o agree? If you feel addressYOBcle,confusedangryticuladypar-incensed,andbythisarti-writeintoMEANattheusualair-ingyourviews.We'llprintaselec-tionofthebest(andprobablytheworst,know-ingYOB)lettersreceived.

A game only achieves excellence when it boosts the right balance of knock-out looks, hard-hitting sounds and — most important of all — near perfect feel. Whilst Mortal Kombat is graphically and conically strong it is very much the weaker opponent when compared to the wealth of tactical genius programmed into Street Fighter II_ As Mortal Kombat is struggling down at the arcades it is highly unlikely to enjoy a second-wind on console, despite the excellence of this conversion_ A case in point: we hod the Mortal Kombot coin-op in the ofﬁce for quite a while and as the Street Fighter cabinet continued to attract us to it, Mortal Kombat attracted only dust.

If you haven't guessed by now which is, in our opinion, the superior Megadrive beat 'em up, you're a bit of a thicko with the intellectual dexterity of a donkey.

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good — a lot of the stuff I get looks as though it's been drawn by someone wearing boxing gloves.

like my parents going on about my Megadrive, saying things like You shouldn't play on that thing all day, it's for babies'. I don't think it's that bad! I play it just because I don't hove anything else to do. Also, when will you'll be reviewing Robocop vs Terminotor and what rating will it Markget? Pugh, East Horn

Peter Steggle, Knutsford YOB: Bet you're pleased to know EA are planning to make sequels to their games into the next century...and beyond!

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been hanging Paul out of the window to see if he attracts lightning. But I'm bored enough to delve into the festering sock we know as readers' letters, seeing how many I have to read before I come across either sense or joined-up writing. I've been here all afternoon_ The sadness that prevails doth often cheese me off. Still, if you think you can converse with me and the nation without looking like a total cheeser, go ahead, write to: I'D LIKE TO RELIEVE MYSELF IN THIS ENVELOPE MAILBAG, MEAN MACHINES SEGA, PRIORY COURT, 30-32 FARRINGDON LANE, LONDON, EC1R 3AU.

the lot. He even said that if he ever spotted a person in class with a Gameboy or Game Gear he'd give them two hours detention. It's like he doesn't want anybody to have any sort of entertainment at all, as he thinks this kind of equipment rots the brain. He hasn't got a clue about games, only that he reckons theymakes kids violent. He even had the nerve to accuse me of playing games in his class when I was just looking for a pencil sharpener, So please, please, please tell all the teachers who hassle innocent kids that they're in the Richardwrong. Stevenson

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Madden's '96? Mutant League Knitting? Please give every software house you know a slop round the face from me.

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YOB: Your English teacher sounds very strange to me — you know, the sort of person who likes to be the hind end of a pantomime horse, parading around the Yorkshire Dales waiting for James Herriot to stick his or, excuse me. I was getting carried away logueagoandmakeIDearRIP-Offthere.SENSATIONYOB,hovejustafewpointstoabouttheMegodrive2Mego-CD2AfewdaysIwasﬂickingthroughacato-whenIcomeacrossthe

Peter Johnson, Liverpool YOB: Be still and tremble no more! Now everyone shall know of the Peter Johnsondrawing-scandal.Personally,Ithought I was doing you a favour by not ...printing your name beside it. Actually, it was pretty

MACHINESSTRIKE/USTDESSERTSDearYOBIboughtissue11ofMEANandfoundthat you'd printed my picture of Desert Strike, However, I was horriﬁed to ﬁnd my work was labelled as 'anonymous', I found that really weird as I had written my details on the reverse of the envelope ond on a separate piece of paper. I hope, given this information and give me credit for my work.

YOB: Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGroo, what-a-pile-of-toss. Thanks for sharing your 'pearls' of wisdom with us. Well worth the price of a stamp. The lads'll be reviewing Robocop versus the Terminator next month.

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I'm sure the rest of the gaming world would like to know if they are planning a Sonic 3, or what size cart Streets Of Rage 3 will be. Its not as if they have any serious competition when it comes to Sego games.

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YOB: They're not cagey — they've just got better things to do than talk to skidmorks

on the face of humanity like you, wanting to know trainspotter facts about games that haven't even been programmed. Just read the mag, and you'll be alright. Better still, perform a DIY lobotomy with a Tupperware bowl and a potato peeler.

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games in this country? Most of the games I have seem to be progrommed in America (John Maddens, NHLPA Hockey) or Japan (Sonic, Thunderforce IV). Why aren't there any British games? Most Amiga and PC games ore written here.

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Marting Wilton, Cirencester. YOB: Praise be! MEAN MACHINES will soon be offering its readers a special day out with Shelley, followed by tickets to Bobby Davro in his summer season spectacular.

YOB: It's a fair cop guy! Just make sure you hold on adult's hand and wear a pair of plastic jocks when you play it — its s000 on

so cagey when it comes to new games?

Roger Wilson, Huddersﬁeld YOB: Sego don't directly, but companies like Core, Accolade, Sony and EA do. Games like Populous II, Robocod and Thunderhawk ore all best of British. YOB certainly wants to see more UK games, but only If they are of high quality. Many more Cackulas and I'll be

YOB: Despite your best efforts, you did sound like a complete "thickie".

MEGADRIVEEnjoy!MADNESSDearYOB,ImadethemistakeofleavingmyMegadrivelyingontheﬂoorwhileIwenttothetoilet.WhenIconbackIfoundthatmybabybrotherhadrippedthecortridgeoutwithoutswitchingthemachineoff.NowwhenIswitchitonnothinghappens.Isitbro-ken?IfitisisthereanythingIconaboutit?PeterYale,York.YOB:Myexpertknowledgetellsmeitcouldbebroken—purelyontheevidencethatitdoesn'twork.Icanofferyoutwooptions:getitﬁxed,ordon't.There,helpfulorwhat?CERTIFIEDDearYOB,I'djustliketosoythatIboughtacopyofNightTrapyesterday,anddespitebeing11,wasn't

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Fighting.I'mabit cheesed off with Sego at the moment. The reason is that they are not getting enough games for the Mega-CD on the shelves. When I bought my machine I did not realise that I was going to hove to wait three months before any decent games come out I hove been playing computer games for ten years and I have made up some of my own with pictures and details of all the

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asked about my age William Roker, Leeds

helping produce the biggest and best Sego meg money con buy (How to get your letter printed in one easy lesson — YOB). I have bought ever issue and I'm chuffed to bits with oll of them.

Once again MEAN MACHINES hove proved themselves to be the best by getting the ﬁrst pictures of Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper

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YOB: The problem is the Japanese currency. Everything gets made in Japan, so we have to buy their lurvely Japanese goods with our pitiful Englisher pounds. As long as the yen is strong, we have to suffer. Personally, I blame

computer section and saw these new machines. Great, I thought, until I sow the prices. They where the some as the old ones! How can this be? A few months ago you said they were going to be cheaper because Sego hod cut out some of the more expensive features. Why ore they so much cheaper in Japan, are we being ripped off? Come on Sega, how can you justify keeping the prices the Andrewsame?T,West Yorkshire

ie or anything, but what the hell is this Sego pirote TV business oil about? Is it me or ore they just confusing adverts hosted by some sad lot bloke with greasy Nohair?name man

can get the Daleks which were shown in the September issue, I think they're excellent! Also, which game can you recommend to me from the following: Buster's Hidden Treasure, Jurassic Park, Jungle Book and Chuck Rock I Con you tell me if there is going to be a Jungle ChrisStrikeWright, YOB:HertfordshireBoldock,Funnilyenough, the Daleks featured belong to a certain Gary Harrod, art editor of NINTENDO MAGAZINE

characters and level etc. I am looking for a suitable company to end my ideas to, Could you please recommend me one that in your opinion would be ideal as your experience and knowledge would be of a great help, Peter Howard. Rayleigh, Essex YOB:Yes, Sega were a bit sad with their Mega-CD releases straight after the machine was released. However, there's plenty of stuff out now and an average of about four/ﬁve releases a month from now on. As for sending your ideas off, I have yet to hear of a story of a game being developed from an idea sent in by a games fan. You could try Virgin Games, Sega or EA — just don't gel your hopes up.

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YOB:Anon To think, this gibbering retarded specimen decided to put pen to paper and spent 24p on a

me the most — your brother's lawbreaking tomfoolery or the mental image of you sitting on your lardy ass playing games all day. Yes, gamesplaying is a laugh but there is more to life — and it doesn't have to involve car theft. I guess you'll understand when your mental faculties have developed a bit.

single hondedly plunge myself and most of the Megodrive notion into complete confusion. What I am referring to is your review of Gunstor Heroes in issue 12 How come the Megadrive can suddenly produce, and I quote "remarkable scaling and rotation that put even the Super NES to shame". As I understood the Megadrive has NOT got the custom chips to perform such o task and that is why I have just forked out C280 on a Mega-CD for the privilege of custom chips, etc. Now if the Megodrive can do it onyway why weren't we told and why has it been kept quiet up until now? Please explain! Yours Grahamconfusingly,Haw,South Shields, Tyne and YOB:Wear.What the lads meant was that Gunstar Heroes is even more amazing because it carries out these amazing graphics tricks without custom chips. There you go.

Dear YOB,

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SYSTEM and special guest art editor for our Street Fighter II mag this month. They were a birthday present bought by the team to remind him of his Davros-like playing skills. We got them at Forbidden Planet for a wallet-busting £32.00.

Matthew Manor, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.

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I have the following computers: Spectrum, C64, MSII. There's a fat lardcake at my school called Bary Colins and he says he C64 is better cause 64K works out better than 8-bit. Mia Sloblacks, Yellow Cortina YOB:WorldI'm not surprised this shallow mockery of manhood Is an acquaintance of yours. You both share the intellectual dexterity and verbal articulation of a rutting donkey.

bytotallytakenonlyyou'rewithequipment,YOB:Well,Christianagesomethingdon'tthereanditmightcrazedNo,'dangerous'!gerous'.homereadMega-CD.wareare,WhatDearvREYEDAMAGESHOCKYOB,wonderfulchoppiesSegabringingusmarvelloushard-suchastheSaturnandButIsawshockedtothattheirup-and-comingVRsystemisactuolly'dan-Yes,youheardme,itdoesn'tturnpeopleintopsychosasaMrsShelleyhavethought.Apparentlycanactuallydamageeyesightcausepermanentsquints.NowwhatIwanttoknowis,isanytruthinit,becauseIwanttoforkout1200onthat'sgoingtodam-myeyes.Ward,Wolverhampton.toomuchofany-thingisn'tgoodforyou.Bylimitingyourtimeonthetheriskbecomesnegligible.Ifyou'resomekindofdroolingvegetableaVPheadsetonallday,boundtosuffer—ifbyhavingthemickbeingoutofyouforlookingsad.Oh

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At last! An intelligent reply to Mrs Shelley (MEAN YOB No 12; Paul Kelly). Somebody has realised that the way to defeat her is to respond in a language that she con understond, but more than that in a way that she cannot argue against. I am worried about the effect she has had on parents whose children own a Megodrive, but I am more concerned about the domoging effect on my faith. I am a Christian and own a Megadrive. I can't see a problem with that. I don't let it get in the way of my church activities but that's my own business. I am shocked and hurt by that fact that what I am doing is, according to her, 'of the devil'. Now, if oil I did all day was play computer games then no doubt it would be damaging not only to me but to my family. I'm sure I can say that on behalf of everyone as we all cherish our families more than our Megadrivest Anyway, I lust thought you might like a view from the other side of the other side if you see what I mean!

YOB: Well that's the end of that. Any more letters from or mentioning Shelley will now be consigned to Rodion's desk to join the festering mound of refuse already there.

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JAZ: Hmmmm. There are no plans at all for a Megodrive version of Elite, although if you're lucky, Konami might release Elite U. Having seen the Amiga 7200 game, it would really need the DSP

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• about something along these lines, but believe me, thee- device will never see the light of day in the shops if Nintendo or Sega have anything to do with it. No one has seen much of the 300 in action, although me and Rich had a sneak preview of some of (A's titles at the ECTS show. Rood Rash • 300 looked amazing at the CES and EA are now saying that it's ten times better than that! The machine should cost around E400 to £500. There is no such thing as the Nintendo Drive, by the way. As for as 4 Saturn info goes, we've already brought you most of the info we had. However, we're getting more info every week from our Japanese correspondent. More soon.

1. Will a machine that ploys Meoadrive, Master System, SNES and NES games be made, as I have read about such a thing in other magazines.

2. When will the Capcom six-button joystick be released?

me if any company is planning to produce Megadrive version of the clot • sic game Elite? Secondly, why is it Sega no longer produce the excellent Phantasy Star III? I hove scoured every mail order company for this game with no success. Some even admitted there's a greot demand for the game. so

4. Will Final Fight?, Sim City and X-Wing be coming out on she Megadrive or Mego-CD?

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4. What is the blood cheat for Mortal

JAZ: 1. I haven't got the specs for DSP, although my sources at Sega say that it is indeed better. 2. "Looking better", what do you mean? 3. Hopefully — some compromises have been made with detail to bring you the speed of the coin-op. 4. On the screen that goes on about the code of Mortal Kombat press A, B, A, C, lk, B, B. 5. Good question — it's bound to be superceded by machines like 300 and Saturn — but these machines are going to be a lot more expensive than your £130 Megadrive... 6. Since 300 is out 15 months prior to Saturn, Sega have got to make it

Phillip Eno, Warrington

3, Will there be any other games that will work with it?

2 How much will 300 cost, and is it any good?

5. When are you going to review Monkey Island on CD?

DUMP IITE Door PleaseJOZ,could you answer these very hard (bat not too hard for you) questions.1,IsSego's new DSP chip better than the Super FX chip?

4. Will the Nintendo Drive hove more advanced chips than the bi Mega-CD? it

why don't Sega re-issue it instead of turning out bucketloads of crud?

JAZ:l. We've heard rumours

r.r. Could you please answer some questions for me.

time I've written to you, so could you pleose answer my questions.

2. Is Virtue Racing on the Megadrive looking better than Star Fox on the SNES?

Dear Joz, I've already got my Megodrive and I'm plonning to get a MegaCD. I'm uncertain about a couple of things, though, so could you answer my questions?

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3 is there any more news on the -. Sega 32-bit machine?

Mark Jones, Glasgow, JAZ: 7. Yes 2. Probably around Christmas time — sooner on import, I'd expect. 3. All buttons compatible with the sixbutton joypaci will. 4. No, although Rebel Assautt is coming out on Mega-CD. 5. Hopefully in our Christmas

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6. Is the Saturn going to be as good as 3D0? Daniel Norris, Cohndale.

2?2.When will the following games come out: Jungle Strike, Final Fight CD, WWF Rage In The Cage CD, Mortal Kom bat CD and Street Fighter Hyper CD.

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High on a mountain top, somewhere in the in of a strange and distant land, is a monk. He sits on a rock, suffering from piles and accumulating the knowledge he needs to write this section- Yes, it's Lobsang Jaz, grand inquisitor of the Q+A section and all round good egg. All he asks for is his week. ly bowl of rice and a plentiful supply of questions. Se keep him busy by „sending your queries and packets of Uncle Ben's to: Pass the Anusol To Ease My Bulging Grapes, Q+A, MEAN MACHINES, Priory Court, 30.32 Farringdon Lane, LondeA, BOA 3AU. z

So, chuck a ﬁreball at nte would you? Kombut on the Megadrive?

3. Will Megodrive Jirtua Racing be as fast as the coin-op?

1. Will the Mega-CD 2 be compatible with the old Megodrive?

JAZZ 1. Nope. 2. Phoenix is out on the Atari VCS, but I guess that's not really what you wanted to hear. 3. That's a bit of a stupid question. As time goes by, more Mego-CD titles are bound to be

JAZ: All Konami games have import protection - that is, the game contains code that ﬁnds out what type of machine you're using (ofﬁcial, import) and then locks up if the cart doesn't match it.

1. After catching all 95 Augs in Night Trap we ﬁnd the game had

). I recently bought Terminotor 7 the arcade game, do you think that was wise?

1. Will the excellent PC golf game Links be appearing on the Megadrive or Mega-CD?

3, Is Mortal Kombat better than Street Fighter on the Megodrive?

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4. Please, please, please give me the address or telephone number of Kelly (Dana Plato) from Night Trap. 1 Paul4,Stafford and Michael 4Rennard, Leeds

Peter Renn, London JAZ: 1. Not particularly. 2. They are completely different games - you can't really compare them. 3. No it is not at all.

1. Will French games work on my UK machine?

There is no special chip. You can phone up an import shop and get them to add special switches to your Megadrive in order to "convert" it into any machine - UK, Jap or USA. It costs a fair bit, but it does work with all games - guaranteed.9FF-SH9REDUMPINGDearJai,

Geoffrey Paddison, Alsoger, JAZ: 1. Don't see why not. 2. Jungle Strike's gone down really well, so I guess they will. 4. Because EA hove their own plastic cart mould that's why.

1. Will the US versions of Cool Spot and Flashback work on a UK

Gareth Bevan, Hull

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I'm going to America soon and I wont to bring some stuff back with me, but I'm uncertain about a few things.

JAZ: P. No you cannot. 2. Apart from "Street Fighter Hyper CD" which you've made up, most of them should be out by the beginning of next year. 3. There's not really much more can add to Rich's CES report. 4. The industry wants to be seen as responsible and Sega ore taking it quite seriously, so it probably DUMPC9MMUNRI.will.

2. Are EA going to be bringing out any more games in the Desert Strike/Jungle Strike series?3.Doyou like Quantum leap?

Smell say glove. on the Sega VR system?

go-CD 2 with my UK god ichaelrive?Kemp, Taniworth.

Dear Please,Jaz,please pleose answer these questions for me.

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Dear Jaz, Con you help me, as no one else seems able to? I recently bought Tiny Toons on the Megadrive after seeing the review in Mean Machines I rushed home an stuffed in my Japanese machine only to ﬁnd it didn't work. The Konomi logo appeared and it locked-up after that. I tried it °gain on my brothers English machine and it worked perfectly, so t rang the shop and they told me that the cartridge contained a special new chip to stop people buying imported games. It didn't say anything on the box, though, so is this true?

JAZ: I. Er, I think you're okay with Flashback, but Cool Spot, like all Virgin Games of late, is protected. 2. Only if you're going to use the CDX converter. Be careful with your power supplies - you should be okay if you stick to Sega power packs.

4. Why do EA carts have little yellow togs on the side?

Dear Pleaselarao,could you answer a few questions for me.

JAZ: 1. Perhaps. 2. Pretty cocky really. 3. The spec looks amazing and the information we keep getting in about the machine is simply stunning. 4. Be off with you, you forlorn DUMPEDindividual.

IN Dear PleoseJOZcould you give me some details on the following games.

2. Are the coin-ops Phoenix and Xorgon wars available on any * consoles.3.Whenwill there be a larger range of games for the MegaCD.

Cohn No-one

Matthew Glass, Eccieshoit

the usual ending. Does this meon there will be a Night Trap 2.2?What is Willy Beamish like on 3.Mega-CO?IstheSego Saturn any good?

2 Will Robocop vs Terminator be better than General Chaos?

4. Do you think this censorship lark will catch on?

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Before the Street Fighter II rumours began, this manic combat game did extremely well on import. For those of you wise enough to own a copy here is the means to discovering both a very easy and mania setting. Select the options screen then choose EASY difﬁculty ond 5 continues. Select 8C, 8B and BA from the music test and choose sound 90. This selects the Very Easy setting. For the Mania setting simply reploce EASY with HARD. Oops, almost forgot you there Herdy and Mat Miller!

lives and a choice of starting level. With the Sega logo on screen press C, B, A, C, B, A, C, B, A, C, B, A in rapid succession and the option screen appears! cheats for Ex-Rona s the player to threeaccessingtipHelloMONSTERSIiiISHBACKclearAdiscoveryofLester'sabilitytowalkthroughwallsinFlashbackhasDannyAllenirresistiblycontributinghisfindtooneandall.WalkLesteruptoawallthenturnhimoroundsohisbackisfacingsaidobstocle.Pressandholdthefirebut-tonandtoptheD-padinthedirectionLesterisfacing.ImmediatelypushtheD-padinthereversedirectionandreleasethefirebuttonandLesterproceedsthroughthewantThischeatalsoworkswithlockeddoors!GOPTHEit'sthatPaulHoldhamagainandhe'sgotonothergreatforusagain.Ahidden'continues'optionisfoundbypress-A,BondCthenSTARTonthetitlescreenandpressingAtotheoptions.Nowyourchosenmonsterhasbetweenandtwelvecontinuestograpplewith.

BehindCOOLSPOTtheshiny,happy exterior present ed by Virgin's Cool Spot is quite a respectable challenge. Adorn Roys is ki enough to reveal the secret of infinite lives ond invincibility. Start the game as usual. Next pouse the game and press ABC, BAC, ABC, BAC. A noise is heard and the level is automatically completed. Upon the start of the next level Spot is invincible and possesses infinite lives. Adam reckons this cheat is possible on any level! his incredible powers, Pinky returns with a stage skip discovered whilst under the influence of on evening's fast-food binge. Perform this cheat to order by pressing 8, C, B, A, 8, B, C, 8, A, B. Unpause the game and Mick, Mock or both move onto the next act. Ed also caters for the impatient among us as he tells of o secret progrommer's screen that allows the selection of both infinite

Ireland comes a similarly striking cheat for Fatal Fury. Thomas Kelly of County Tyrone writes saying that a different ending for the game is seen by keeping the throw button pressed after defeating Geese Howard, However if continues are used the cheat doesn't work.

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There are two reasons for printing Paul Lowndes LHX posscodes. First of all they take up a bit of room and save me a lot of hassle, and secondly his letter is adorned with bribes — of sorts. A Jimi Hendrix playing-card, a lp stomp (?) and a Chinese proverb doodah found in a bubble-gum packet. Pout reckons this sod collection wins him a huge prize. Surely someone can do better than thisl There's one thing that I'd like in the whole world at the moment. Should anyone guess what it is and send it in to me I will personally arrange an extra speciol prize for that person. Oh yes, of course, the codes: Hard I:

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calls, here are the secret ingredients to a date with the legendary (He wishes!) Reptile: When fighting above the spiked pit the human-controlled character scores two perfect bouts in succession, performing the death move in both. Following this the human-controlled character jumps down into the pit to where Reptile awaits! The one clause in the deal is Santo Claus who is required to fly across the skyline during one of the bouts to make the cheat work. Another method, that of scoring four lots of two perfects before reaching Goro, is less reliable. Roland Mawlabaux is the fighter to credit for this.

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Richard Williams, who shares the some name as of my life-long friends funnily enough, has found cheat for this well smart racer. On level eight — the Bermuda Both Tub — towards the end of a lop there lies a yellow tube. Whilst driving his car around the obstacle rather than pass through it young Dick Bills discovered his car drove right off screen and emerged half woy round the track into the next lop! Apparently this requires some practice to perfect, so

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Bolo travels the underground: The penultimate area of the forest level hides a shortcut to the canyons. Mole digs a hole through the ﬁrst wall to the left through which Rob o trots and leaps over the exit sign. Here he encounters another wall which Mole dutifully digs on through. Role now enters a room containing a washing machine. This shrinks Robo and allows him to double back on himself where he eventually passes through a narrow passage. Bounding over another exit sign, Rob hops into a mine-cart which leads him to the canyons where many extra lives and bonus points await,

Secret Squirrel: Unfortunately this most excellent of cartoon Stars does not make an appearance. Rather the squirrel discovers a room stocked with bonuses during the second piece of the forest jigsaw. At the end of the level there is a wall that the squirrel climbs at the top of which is a hidden entrance to the bonus room.

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Free-falling 'phant: Dohl Its so annoying that Electronic Arts deprived this excellent game of o battery, back-upl It takes hours of ploy to complete because of thisl Still Carl Young is at hood to explain away a problem or three. For example, he knows how to get those three pesky 1-UPs in the third forest area the ones placed high in the tree that even the sassinfrossin rabbit can't reach! The waterfall to the left of the ninth tree along is the secret. By dropping Rob o down tha waterfall and pressing hard left as he falls the jolly tusk is transported to a point above the ninth tree where he drops onto them there lives!

Hardy and Mat Miller tread the boards with this stage select for one of Konami's ﬁne titles. When the Konami logo is screened press the C button once, the B button twice, press the A button three times then B, A ond START. A hidden option screen appears from which any stage is selectable.

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Believe it or not a third version of this classic title is programmed into the Megodrive cart. Called TOAPLAN mode (TOAPLAN ore the original programming team) this is accessed by pressing buttons A, B and C together with the cursor lined up with 'control setting'. Cod

Sonic II, eh? Only Ed Lomas could be so bold! Apparently he's already sent this cheat in twice and can't understand why we haven't printed it before, even though it works! Alright, already! On the two-playe split-screen mode allow either S or Toils to ﬁnish on act but let the other character lose every last life by deliberately killing them off. After stripping them of oil their lives the GAME OVER message appears, which is obvious really Ed, and the scores ore displayed. The next level starts and the player who lost all the lives now has on almost inﬁnite supply of credits! Ed mentions that the cheat is possible with both players so the n't stop should lose all their lives.

WORLDOF ILLUSION .1)ft58-16 EGADRIVE TIPS SUPER MONACO CP This unbelievable cheat allows the motorbike featured in Super Hang-On to roce alongside the cors in Super Monaco Grand Prixl Enter HANG-ON as your nome for the World Championship and save it. Now reset the machine. Do not switch it off! Now select free-practice image-training and the grid. Press DOWN and A on the 0-pod until the transmission select screen is displayed. Select transmission as njwiend Un0 10-01 pzit, sti;j11c.. 1 • 2•9"97 1 '136"3t3•,a"11' 1111:11 Call Young tells of a path in stage two that avoids tho entire collo ing ceiling area. Choose Mickey's adventure and take him past th magic carpet bit to the rocks where lightning strikes. Mickey raises both rocks, drops them to the left and drops down a further two r • faces. Unpredictably, he now jumps right back up and travels back the moving rocks Continuing left Mickey finds himself floating along the bottom of the screen where he arrives in the cloud area where the piano awaits! Carl. How the heck did you discover that one, eh? 2 ALLgatestoDemonsgainwholeinsanecloserletterSeanWORLD00.11111.211L113CLASSLEADERBOARDMcKenna!Itseemsyouorenotwell.Indeed,ifyourisanyindication,thefuseofyoursanityburnsevertothelunaticwithinyou!Findhelpandquickly!SeanMcKonna'slip:ScoreaholeinonebyselectingatwoironattheteeandtakingaPunchshot.Unbelievablebuttrue,saysMcKenna—Solongasmaximumstrengthisused,thebock-swingasneartothecentreaspossibleandthebollstayswithinthefairway.Okay,look.Everybodyhasgottoreadthis-McKenna'sbanteraboutwhoknowswhat:'Duetoafinancialressestionpersonalty,andthedemandforDeomoncharmer's(MyProff)IaminturmoilasIconfeelafamilystylenetworkofDemi-holesonPGAII.IalsoconferdancefrommyportenerinSeekingGameWhoswearestoknowtheexactLocationofamonicsurgeoncourseIofPGAcanonlywaitandhope,myfatelieswithyou'Let'sgoDemon-bashingonPGA•Demondwelling—aholewheretheexpectedEagleturn'sabafflingbogey."majorTip—Extractademon+reversethepolarity,le=minus-plusreturn-thedemonsuccessfullyandopentheofreality"Outcome-Achievetheimpossible.RIGHTSRESERVED.SM9.3reEH?

Steven Gelling — who deserves a good beating for being disgraceful! Morgan Baikie for Warriors of the Eternal Sun maps. Philip Linﬁeld for his indiscipheroble-blotch-Sonic II-debug cheat. Christopher Dudley for an extensive Revenge of Shinobi player's guide (somebody send on SAE and I'll pass it on), l Brant for his bumper book of tips. S Fowler for enormous Streets of Rage poster and that old Mania tip. Oh, and Rich would like to soy "thanks" to our beloved postie, Rob McBride for being so sad and forlorn on Mario Kart,

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than there ore actually programmed into the game! This one makes the ship not only invincible but totally invincible! Ed, I'm asking you what's the difference? Bong in the level select cheat (A, 13, C, A, 8, C, 8, C, B, A) and select the conﬁguration screen. Highlight MODE and press RIGHT on the 0-pad until MY99 is displayed. Hold down the A button and

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Fred — whichever way you look at it cos the Flintstones is the only Master System game in the section this month. So Chris Yacomini has saved this machine's hide, for one issue at least! On the title screen press UP, RIGHT, RIGHT, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT and START. As soon as the game starts pause the game and hold down both buttons along with: UP For level one.

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proceed to press RIGHT again until MUTEKI replaces MY99. Whilst still holding down the A button choose a starting level, exit, choose CONTINUE and Sol-Feace is invincible! Thanks a trillion-billion Ed.

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UNTIL YOU'VE HAUNTED YOUR FIRST BATHROOM YOU HAVEN'T LIVED... OR DIED FOR THAT MATTER. 1.41 • r hir ff 41 , %OltFat.1 Revenge is sweet so they say. And what could be sweeter than to return from beyond the grave to haunt those who were responsible for your sad and untimely demise - the evil SardiniAsfamily.theinimitable Polterguy. you can activate up to 400 supernatural fright items

However to achieve your ghoul (sorry, goal) take extra care you have sufﬁcient supplies of vital ectoplasm. or you're dead... well deader.

If you "possess" relentless cunning, the kind of courage that comes naturally (or supernaturally) with being dead already and a disgusting sense of humour.., this is the game for you.

to drive the four Sardinis from each of their palatial mansions, wideeyed. white haired and witless.

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Through ten assorted operations, incorporating 48 separate tasks, the Thunderhawk's pilot undertakes salvage missions and defends innocent people from exploitation in places ranging from South East Asia to frozen Alaska. Seeing as the 4. Thunderhawk is armed with the latest in arms technology, taking the ﬁght to the enemy is simple. Or so it seems.

Imagine the chaos of a city bananas!withoutThis is potentially the case in Panama as warring factions attack all merchant shipping passing up and down this stretch of water Enemy gunboats, water mines and SAM (surface to Air Missiles) sites are the targets here.

Thunderhawk is awesome to watch, sonically extravagant but is downed in the fun department - almost, nearly but not quite the killer I had hoped for.

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provides the player with the tool to and to it all. At the helm of the Thuncierhowlt prototype helkopter gunship — Mega-CD owning mercenaries now storm into battle against everything and anything that moves.

Sego's choke of Thunderhawk as their flagship Mega-CD title in merica is a wise one. As as? as it Is smooth, the hunderhawk handles well and the illusion of speed as the craft is piloted through the forests and canyons Is both convincing and exhilarating. Success is only guar-anteed to those who have the patience and skill to fly this thing properly, assuring that no target is missed whilst also keeping the welfare of the Thunderhawk in perspective. A strategic element enhances the gameplay and the assortment of specialist missions offer variety too. What isn't all that wide-ranging is the use of tactics. For the most part it is possible to escape damage whilst inflicting some of your own by flying at a reasonably low level and following the directions indicated on the compass and radar. Consequently the boredom threshold is crossed very early in the game.

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As mentioned eorlier, the in ten locations worldwide, Each has its own list of prime directives., Here's a brief lowdown:

Looming trees make a nuisance of themselves in this location as do Surface to Air Missile sites camouﬂaged by dense forestation and well disguised patrol tanks. The point of this operation is to destroy the enemy base where scientists ore excitedl deciphering the workings of the Stealth machine in the hope of con their own evil purpose.

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The legs of a thousand South Americans are ﬂeeing their homeland due to terrorists behaving as only terrorists know how, courtesy of arms running hostile farces. Five missions bring this dread situation to a standstill allowing the South Americans a safe return home.

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Oil reﬁneries are sitting ducks for terrorist attack, especially when terrorists hove access to submarines. Only the Thunderhawk. with its MK 54 depth charges, is capable of making sure that this enemy never comes up for oir again! Though elsewhere in the game the Thunderhowk takes advantage of low ﬂying to ovoid radar detection there is not a hope of repeating this success here as the open seas we swimming with gunboats that spot any oncoming attack, from miles

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30mm Cannon: The Thunderhawk's standard offence. It's ace for crop busting, tree felling and taking out the odd tank.

Missiles: Ace for taking out helicopters and aeroplanes which are much more manoeuvrable and, therefore, fall better to a swift missile up the exhaust pipe.

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have no hope of escape when these are raining down their periscopes!

S ﬂakes deserve a holidaylawny once in a while, or so claims a survey token from over three million snakes world-wide, A spokessnake for the survey — a Mr Rattle — concurred that 'Sssnakes are sssick to death of sssiting around in the sssun and sssand each and every day, sssizling to the sssound of cricketsss, cactusssesss and the like - I suimply can't remember the lassst time I laughed at a friendsss holiday usnopsss Wsss ssshamefull' Luckily for Mr Rattle and the millions like him, leisure centres are being openened in deserts across the globe in which one or two snakes may partake in a little, light-hearted competition.

The centres provide their slimey guests with as mi;ch food as they con eat and other fantastic bonus prizes. Indeed they. makp the great British holiday camps look tame in comparison! However interested parties bref warned that there are some risks involved. Most areas of the holiday complexes feature deadly drops and rock-ridden, no-go areas that ore fatal to a snakes tender body. Still it's a luxury denied to our reptilian brothers until now, so join us in wishing them many a happy visit and we y won't fall into too much danger during their stay.

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Food is served in the form of Pibbles — lively balls of assorted colours whose behaviour patterns change for each area visited. Pibbles hide beneath hatches in the ﬂoor and spring into oction once disturbed. Whole colonies of Pibbles dwelling beneath more remote hatches are also rumoured to exhist.

Strangely the snakes ﬁnd delight in licking feet as a compliment to their diet. Prolonged slurping dissolves feet and the chance of extended pleasure in the leisure centre is deposited in the form of an extra life, Freaky.

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response, the control method Is pretty poor in that it is often confusing. This problem Is worsened by the strange perspective found in some Instances and so many an unexpected demise is a regular occurence. It's a shame that Rare have ignored the Megadrive's superior graphics and sound capabilitites too — there really aren't any differences between this and the NES version. Tsicl Rattle 'n' Roll are a laugh, the puzzles they encounter are interesting enough and really there is nothing else quite like their game available for the Megadrive at this point in time. For these reasons I'd recommend that players seek the game out, though it's not a priority.

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Pibbles aren't the sole proprietors of the spaces beneath botches. Bonus goods and other snake-assisting paraphernalia lurks there too. Extra exploration time is provided upon the discovery of a clock, crash helmets offer invincibility and clock-winders boost a snake's speed for a whilel How much fun can two snakes handle?

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No matter how adventurous the snakes, they ore only allowed to progress having proved their glutinous worth. Snakes who shy away from eating are poor for business. So scales are installed in each level that discern just how much snake has eaten, A belly full of Pibbles causes a bell on the scales to ring at which point the exit door opens. Of course there's nothing stopping snakes from eating more than their fair share!

pent ages playing it. I was eally looking forward to the egadrive version — who ﬂows what the genuises at are could come up with sing superior 16-bit technolgy. Of course, just like with he conversions of hampionship Pro-Am and attletoads. I was disappointd. it is a great game, ast and playable and very hallenging, but it's no differ. nt from the two-year-old ES game! In fact, it's a little worse because the controls re a lot less forgiving. owever, what I do admire about the game is its origiality. Still, I wouldn't pay forty-odd quid for it, that's or sure. Indeed, it's a bit sad hat the geniuses who develped Knight Lore and letpac n the Spectrum can't do

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GUS ' "'d going to be. This IS the coin-op in your front room. Every feature of the original is here, including the atmosphere and amazing playability. To my delight, I've noticed someone gave the characters their personalities back. The Megadrive is the ﬁrst machine to capture Gauntlet, and howl The graphics are perfect. They may look a little ordinary, but even now, seeing all those things move on screen at once is humbling. The extra Quest and Battle games are not lust gimmicks — they are excellent games in their own right. The range of options is so utterly vast, that this must be the best presented game on the system. You can change everything from health points per credit, the name of your chore and there are eight skill lev.

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The reason was simple: Gauntlet allowed four people to engage in o wonderful fantasy maze adventure -- facing more enemies per square foot than had ever been seen before. And there was also no such thing as 'Game Over'. As long as you were prepared to shove money into the machine, you were in the game Everybody wanted one But

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In le a gameWhat stunned me was thoz In four-player mode, each team member was coming up with loads of tactics and battle plans — it is on excel/new lent team game. As an1 arcade conversion, Ws awesome — everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) from the coin-op is In there — right down to every piece of speech. AND there's two more games packed In. The battle mode is utterly superb — the level with the slicispy ﬂoor is great! Add in the RPO quest mode and password screens and you have an even more !astable title. Oh, and the music Is lust out of this world. The best possible conversion we could have hoped for. generaosts emerge from bones, grunts, demons and lobbers come out huts. Shooting the gonerators is the only way to clear a level_ Note the size and apperance of the generator. The bigger the generator, the more hits are needed to destroy its progeny. talking of progeny

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are required to prove their mastery over the Puyo Puyo by persuading the jelly-like beings into forming strings of , four or more After so much freedom, the Huy() Puyo aren't likely to kJ, low suit so easily!

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Tn.two-player mode, each time line is formed, o single tronsparent Puyo Puyo drops onto the other player's screen that's not the end of it! a player successfully create a chain-reaction in

ymphette of the Nadia woods, plays hard and works seldom, preferring to spend her days with her friend, Carbuncle. The colourful spirits of thewoods — Puyo Puyo adore Arle as she allows them freedom to do as they will. As you might expect, Arle's woods are the most wonderful dwelling place in all Nadja. This could all change as dissatisﬁed inhabitants of the Nadia countryside ore challenging Arle's rights to the woods! In order to stake their claim the various imps and sprites

Puyo Puyo is a game for one or two players in which the ﬁght for control over jelly-like blobs takes pace in both co-Operative or simultaneous-play situations. It's brilliant fun. So is this review.

lines of Puyo Puyo are formed the cry of 'hliyo or what sounds like 'Canton& is issued and hoards of transparent Puyo Puyo drop onto your opponent sDevastating!screen.

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But sometimes small Improvements reap large benefits, and that can be the only explanation as to why Puyo Puyo has been played constantly this month. The two-player head-to-head is Columns in a new class of its own. Throwing a massive •Cantona' that buries your opponent, or fighting it out at the very brim of the trenches is an , experience that Columns could never aspire to. Apart from that the game has great charm. The weird characters are great — I love Tara the aggressive fish, and the little bloke in the centre is a constant source of amusement. This is the best two-player puzzle game on the system. Get it, even If you do have Columns.

through the mass of Puyo Popo, leaving a fro' of identical Puyo Puyo in his woke This line inevitably disappears and the player is afforded a little more time to sort things out. Occasionally a huge Puy° Puyo falls from the top of the play-area too, taking a load of his pals with him.

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Raccoons play a big part, appearing in flying row-boats, riding atop frogs and dolphins, diving off high cliffs and even working trains. However, other animals make an appearance too. There are puppies on flying carpets, flying pigs, chickens ond the first end-of-level boss is pulled onto the screen by a cow (complete with digitised moos) that shoots fireballs from its mouth. Must be all that mustard cress they feed he cattle in Japan.

climbed dboard Pochi and set oft% in hotWouldpursuit.she reclaim the key? Would Dr Pon take over thearp world? Does Dr Pon get turrill on by bunny girls? Could a raccoon and a bunny girl ever ﬁnd true love? Will Rome ever star in another of those under-the- it counter videos? Only you can decide in this bizarre Mega-CD shoot 'em up from Victor.

her pet dragon Pixhi. Often old men would pay her money to do this. Then one day an evil supergenius raccoon called Dr Pon stole her key and escaped in the Ark. Using the key he intended to unlock the Arks secrets and use them to take over the world. Onlyw RamilLI had the power to stop him Tightening the strap on h

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Flying Squadron might play similarly to most horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em ups, but it certainly doesn't look the some. For starters, there's not a single space-shiRin sight! The main sprite is a bunny girl on b dragon and most of the baddies happen to be animals.

Pochi-kids home in on the enemy and collide with them causing masses of damage

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Hidden in various places throughout the game are a number of extra lives. However you're going to have to look in some of the strongest places to ﬁnd these bonus credits. For instance, on level two there is a giant salmon swimming up a waterfall_ The credit is inside the salmon! Fly over the big ﬁsh and voila, one instant credit is yours.

The crazy boss contraptions are all made of bamboo, ships sport pagoda roofs and the soundtrack has been played on genuine Oriental instruments . There's so much attention to detail. Raccoons ﬁddle in their pockets before pulling out catapults, or perform breathing exercises before diving off a cliff. What's more, Keio Flying Squadron is a tough blasting challenge. The screen is always packed with baddies and it really takes lime working out the bosses weak spots. However, this game just doesn't scream Mega-CD at you. Yes, it has a great musical score and animated intro, and granted it probably wouldn't have such a wide variety of sprites without the massive CD storage space, but you still can't help thinking it could have been a cartridge game. Regardless though, this game would be a topNotch shoot 'em up on any system. If you have a MegaCD, get

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of ﬁreballs in various directions. Covers a greater area, but not as potent as Single-Shot.

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Standard issue dragon oreoth, this simply ﬁres a thin stream of ﬁre bolts from Pochi's mouth.

Should you find yourself with a bit of breathing space during the mass blasting-fest it's best to stop firing. This gives Pochi time to generate some miniature Pochi-Escorts Two of these little fellas can be created at any one time and they fly around Rami letting off their own brand of mini fireball. What's more, if things start getting hairy, a quick top of the C-button detonates one of the Pochi-Escorts blowing up everything on screen.

encountered are certainly as far removed from being typical as Keio is from your aver- L age human being! This means that players are seldom bored by the action because there is nothing expected, only surprises. All except death which, not surprisingly, comes readily at ﬁrst as this game is so unbelievably tough! As Tom states in his own special way, this could easily be a cartridge-based game but the fact is that it is still 90% excellent and 100% gotta-have!

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Being a Mega-CO game, Keio Flying Squadron has the customary animated intro. Featuring the usual brand of Mango-style cartoon action, this intro not only tells the story of how Dr Pon stole the key and Rami transformed into a bunny girl but also includes a brief explanation of Jopon's civil unrest during the time the game is supposed to be set, Unfortunately, it's all in Japanese so it doesn't make the slightest sense.

Strip K i ng dron of all the cartoon festivities and it remains essential for any serious shoot 'em up fanatic! Though the majority of the game seems quite possible with the Megadrivealone the clear voice of the Mega-CD allows the game's soundtracks to really shine. They are superb. The path followed by the gameplay is nothing new but there ore a few old dogs being taught new tricks, particularly where

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In the land of Yolksville they deﬁnitely do — millions of the little bleeders who live in oval by and harmony. But one thing blights their rosy white and yellow lives — it is the rumour that.the Evil Wizard Zoks has no time for eggs. This is actually a lie. Zoke has a special place reserved leer-eggs at his brookfa table. It's called hi e. To the Yolkfolk this geeze known as the ord Zak purely because he his eiNO-- fried. It was not Zak' intention to h egg he lifted from the local shop captive. However — from the Yolkfolk's perspective tomorrow's breakfast is called Daisy and her bovfriend Dizzy is going spore!

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Dizzy is the star of many a Sinclair Spectrum game. Now every problem this egg has ever hod to face is conveniently ﬁtted together into one adventure for the megadrive. Guide Dizzy in his quest to save Daisy from the Evil Wizard Zak and help him make sense of his far from natural surrc, clings in the process,

ber handl The Coclemasters deserve credit for the pretty appearance of their game but there is nothing of the genius found in the Codemasters' other product — Micro Machines. Merely lugging objects from one location to another is no bigfun and scant reward is offered at the end of the process. Though Fantastic Dizzys graphics are appealing, the game plays like the old Spectrum game upon which it is based. Sorry Codemasters but this is a fairly rotten egg in an ash wise healthy basket.

ith the extensive array of locations awaiting Dizzy's constant exploration it helps to know where he's been. There are 250 stars lingering on Yolksville. By collecting them, Dizzy con tell if he's visited somewhere before due to on absence of stars in that area.........._

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,•• SCRAMBLED EGG Many of the tools and intriguing articles collected by the player's free-range partner are of a strictly practical nature. Yet there are also occasional puzzle-pages found in some locations These funﬁlled, magical documents are left behind by the good wizard of Yolksville and reword Dizzy with on extra liStoold he solvethe puzzle. puni PrI r 1 1\ %%\feoli7.rda It n••••4'111-/ / L, Ir . •-• DIZZYg-IONIC iiiiiM Ra IPORTIEllE1=11=1E11 LILIDLIDLJDLJLILI 1.7.1 1::1E1 Mak El C3 OE= RENOcawBREAKDOWNIcloEl=1==IEJIEDLI=IDEl 1111EIR El 01=J LI El IID I:=I 1=1 LI Aiiqiek*A14'%erFPriv-IIIDOZEYDAISYAnintriguing9 GRANDDORADENZILDIZZY Dizzy is able to c ree items around with him at any time. This is handy as every left strewn about Yolksville is put to good use. For example there are lifts that only function if the corsnisiyekdreGI machinery requiring a spanner 0 in the works in order to fun.tion properly Unfortunately for Dizzy the most important eromsitecip furthest point from the relevont obstacle. lees betterisFlashbackupMegadriveenoughawaitinglocationessentiallybeplentybutthegamewhetherwonderingCodemastershaveaeonscept,COMMENGusTheprob-lemwithDizzyIsthegameisn't'big'enoughforthemachialt.Dizzyisessentiallyaten-year-oldcon-whentheAmigowasasparkleinCommodore'seye,andSpectrumsruledtheEarth.Nowsuddenlyafterofgameevolution,Dizzyand16-bittechnologybeenhurledtogether.weresobusyiftheycould,theyneverstoppedtothinktheyshould.TheitselfIsajollyaffair,graphicslooksimplisticcheerful,andthere'sofplatformactiontohad.ThepuzzleelementistakingobjectAtoXoverandover,andaresult.Itsjustnotforsophisticatedowners,brougtsonqualityfarelike1andX-Men.Dizzy'nice',butsonIim.sWstobend POOfGRAPHICSreveriongs „t /blur Dan 1 themes ateisvirtual chipfolegadrive'simiolttothesosindNOITATNESERP[ Alot al careis takentopresent Diu, appealchildrenderstormssuchA.ayndlooted1110styleonon'Weeks(zoomVStillItalllooksveryoldtostieSlSomelovelyeffectsasrandomthun-entoonceohosstory-bookvThevastmammyofsprites art for cnmll andthetefore notimpressiveat quicklyasMOWvhoHcontrolPIATABILITIallDutyispleasanttolierespondsNellenoughtoCCM-mendsVUnfortunatelyDine'strialsandtribulationsaren'taspleasanttoendureABFonhyshcDizzyisbeteDearasfoothillthelithesuggestsaidbecomesabore-OVERALLd59 761 57635071 Commiserations to the Codemnsters in presenting this — one of the least endearing Megadrive titles in existence. Mee MPA SEGA 65

MEGADRIVE REVIEW PLAYERS Li RILEASEBYPRICEHOWofEA'sRISPONSPIENESS:CONTROL:OPTIONSnutEAJOYPADCONTINUES:NONESKILLLEVELS:3GOODGAMEDIFFICULTY:MEDIUM1STDAYSCOREWINTRFINALS!I,.ORIGINYetYetsmotheradditiontoeveryrowingfamilyeelvoltonalgoons.,-TOCONTROL4 1 diugotdapyojehtesUelpmiSI Oilier about end make use of the bottom to pectocm the following functions, I I udlone/dopehtp:;Cirli player. ooidoriiiehtnissaP11 the 11Hpeci, Siboopet NOWTOPLAY Gel the puck im the bock of the PP through a combination of skill and kne•doom rough and tumble, 7Z1Z =7 The ﬁrst thing you've got to ask about this 41 game is 'what's new'? The sad skulking answer is actually a rather muted "not a lot, really". EA have stuck with the tried and tested formula to the extent where they've shied away from making a changes to the core of the game at all. Instead they've bolted bits on at the edges which will only make a difference if you follow the game in real life. For instance, the amount of statistics on offer have increased three-fold. Alongside this each team features digitised pics of its players, along with even more statistics, the words 'not at all necessary" instantly spring to mind PIrztrk•,1,1 I 15 I , i t I , 10'0.titVirIiMNiPre--mr It If 11P11 11'1 lltin11 OR111 Is Obis square-knved buffoon the sort of role inotiel we want the youth of loam to aspire to? Ben this game! nair

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new product. There are several new play modes, more tournaments, two, three and four-player games if you shell out for the four-player adaptor, and little digitised cameos of the players. Well worth the money, eh? A Misty, would you look at the sire of those two behind the goal! Talk about having an unfair advantage. 2(----\ Make

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missing is the blood that accompanies particularly serious injuries. While it was a gratuitous, non-essential part of the game, there was plenty of satisfaction to be hod when you left your opponents star striker shedding bucket loads of blood on the ice! Why has this aspect of the game been left out?

The key feature of this version is its compatibility with [As new four-player adopter. Plug in this widget and the extra joypads to play with up to four people in a two-o-side game- While this is an obvious plus point, if you've already got on earlier version of this game, it's a lot of money to lay out on top of the adaptor and extra pods just so you can have a bit of a off with your motes

Ws not that It's a bad game, Ws lust that the previous Incarnation was far more enloyable. For one thing It had the ﬁghting. Call me violent and shallowminded, but I loved giving any opposing player who stored a ruddy good scudding for being such a smart-ass. If you feel an aspect you can do without, version is the one to look for. Me,

There may be a host of minor improvements in the game, but there ore olso a couple of glaring omissions. Brace your-selves for this one. Gone are the Street Fighter-on-ice ﬁght scenes, instead the players ore all namby-pamby and won't get into a ﬁght no matter how much you provoke them. Also

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•Listen, babe, don't get stressed out. You can cling onto me,' ventured Chuck a& his hand casually slipped round her shoulder 'Get off you CREEPI," shrieked Stacy, 'You're historyl". As she lumped up from the sofa she noticed on impish ﬁgure on the TV screen. • Don t go Stacy, the fun is about to begin". Suddenly she felt an invisible hand tug her towards the TV. They were both being sucked into the movie. "What's happening!' she stuttered as the gum fell out of her gaping mouth, "Chuck, Chuck, help ireeeeeeelll".

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lithe horror imagery mediately toe-tags the ame as being cred too. Ghoulish characters enio starring rolls in many games but never feature so forcefully and imaginatively as they do here. That familiar, excitementedge-of-the-seatassociated with horror courses through the players veins as the lives of the neighbours' lie in leapordy.

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I hope our off-the-wall review gets across how off-the-wall Zombies is. You'll encounter every B-movie cliche there is over 48 huge levels of action. Thankfully, the gameplay is as inspired as the idea. There's a constant stream of danger, with zombies erupting from under your feet, and chainsaw madmen behind every hedge. There are loads of weapons and objects, each with a right and wrong time to be used. All this challenge and game depth wouldn't rate as highly if it wasn't for the humour and atmosphere. Zombies has got both in huge measure — with suitably cheesy music and just fabulous graphics. Adding a dual player mode is just the icing on the cake. There's not much to say when games ore as addictive and well-programmed as It's bly the be nd coduct Konami gadrive

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a slightly ruffled Gomez the kind of steps that only a s, immortal fiend con! A ne-seeking judge is out to 'Cheat the Gomez of the family easures. Only by releasing his t relcdforTs from their conwithin the reftgice are the dge's cloirnsto *wryest fortune made null and void Acclaim, in association with Ocean, present this rather unsophisticated portrayal of the whole crazy situation in the form of a platform game. Guide Gomez in his search abroad the enormous mansion and its grounds, using his cunning and guile to outwit the judge's mercenory ghosts and ghouls. Many locations, some of which are secret, and their associated surprises await the click of the fingers and a flick of the Megadrive's power-switch.

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cept of this game is extremely ancient and the programmers hove made no attempt to add any aspect of originality to the game. I was really bored with the game after a veryshort while and I can't really recommend the cart at all there's loads more decent platform games available (Sonic III, Tiny Toons, Rocket Knight, Flashback, Cool Spot... I think you get the idea). Away with you Addams Family, away!

G omez Addams is a mon oflittle worries. To him torture is synonymous with true love and pain the soul mote of pleasure Death has abandoned the I Addams family, having mode numerous appointments with each generation which none have seemed able to attend! The fact that Gomez beloved are being held captive by strange monsters throughout the Addams' abode presents the indomitable Gomez with nothing more than a little intrigue.

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NES I'm further convinced of its lack of appeal when playing the Megadrive version. In its favour the graphics are good — but not great — and the music Is entertaining, though not at all brilliant. Players may lead Gomez through over 100 locations too which is great, only most of them are nothing more than tiny ante-rooms holes containing score-enhancing collectibles. Gomez is personiﬁed as a cute character but fails to amuse since his response is so terribly slippery. At no time is one inspired to merrily click the ﬁngers — breaking those of the programmers responsible is more often the inclination as Gomez scoots into enemy sprites and deadly drops time and time again. Perhaps I'm being to harsh but this product does not warrant the acclaim it received over a year agoand Acclaim would have been wiser not receiving the game from Ocean at all.

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Door old Sonic. Last year he was the hottest hale hog in town. His platinum-selling Sonic II cartridge rocketed him to stardom and made both he and his co-star, Tails the Fox, household names. Popular idols for hordes of screaming animal fans Yup, Sonic the Hedgehog was BIG news. Then came the mighty fall. After a massive row with Tails, his two-tailed buddy stormed out of their penthouse burrow claiming Sonic was on untalented spiky pig. With Sonic's career spiralling ever downward he was only able to get oddjobs as a selectable icon on various football and tennis games. II all seemed over for the Blue Wonder, until he met HER! Across a crowded woodland bar he sow the most beautiful female hegedhog ever. Their eyes met and they fell in love. Rosy was her name and she was a natural pink. It was she that brought Sonic bock from the brink and helped him relaunch his career with promises of a new game, Sonic CD, sparking Sonicmania once again. But life for our spiky blue pal has never been easy and misfortune struck. The evil Dr Robotnik kidnapped Rosy and threatened to turn her into hedgehamburgers. Now it's up to Sonic to save the day and rescue his love. He won't let her get away, like he did Tails. Go Sonic, Go!

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graphics are very flashy and it all plays at an incredible speed, but somehow it lack the soul the other Sonic games possessed. There's nothing new in it. All the levels play almost identically, Ws just a case of rolling through twisty tunnels and loops or walking underwater searching for air-bubbles. There's nothing to match Innovative little mechanisms that appeared in the first two games, like say, the giant nut and bolt lift from Sonic II. What's more, the saved position and infinite continue option means you can finish this already tooeasy game in one go. What could have been a clever time-travel feature has been wasted and the Special Zone is boring and too slow and jerky to be of any fun. Only the cartoon intro and music shine through, but they aren't really an integral part of the game. The previous Sonic games set new standards. Sonic CD fails to reach already average ones. Mope, Sonic CD fails to hit the lend

In Sonic CD our spiky blue hero can actually travel through time. This is done by running by either a PAST or FUTURE sign and then picking up speed. I Sonic maintains a constantly high velocity he starts to spark before vanishing, only to reappear in a new time zone. For the most part these new eras are identical to f their present day counterports, but in technologically different states. Strangely enough though, this novel time-travelling feature is completely unnecesary to completing the game.

wit all the Sonic games. Sonic CD has a secret Special lohne.Accessing it is done in exo4gly the some way as in Inc original Sbnic game. Ouil hedgehog hero must collect ﬁfty rings and then jump through the giant ring at the end. Viewed from behind Sonic, you guide him around a race-track bashing into UF9s. All of themust be hit before a timer runs out. To moke things harder th h ere ore various obstacles like speed romps, bumpers and. a s which actuoliy sop your precious time_ The 3D effect i ry erniniscent of Thunderhowk or the driving bits from Batmo eturns CD and looks truly !incredible t

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As withwitholl Mega-CD games, Sonic CD features a ra r smart cartoon intro, Reminiscent of the popular Japanese anima look, it tells the story of how Sonic found the Miracle World chained to his own planet, by a suspicious-looking Robotnik-shoped mountain, It doesn't take our hero long to work out who is behind this strange turn of events and he immediately sents off toward the Miracle Planet by running along the giant chain.

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game at all and there is a lack of innovation in it. Each new Sonic game has contributed new ideas to the genre, but with the exception of the Special Zone (which isn't that great), there isn't much here that's at all new. That's not to say that Sonic CD is crap — far from it, it's excellent to play and the graphics are awesome. The sound effects and music are totally amazing. The techno rave music is utterly superb especially when pumped through a decent hi-ﬁ (and It's even better through my surround sound system). * What's more, it is too easy and the save game optionreduces lastabilit further. There is a lot to see in this game though, and the different time zones, although In no way essential to the game, do bring you back to the game. Sonic CD is an excellent CD release — but how about some new, origi-nal ideas for Sonic Ill?

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You've got to got Cosmic to the Linoleum space-bus stop, preferably with a valid ticket, then get him to his half-way point on the asteroid world of Detroitica, orKI from there to a refuelling stop at a space stotion, then onword. to Earth!

and unhelpful Post Office staff, but if you're stuck somewhere you've got to lump it haven't you Cosmic starts off in Old Lino Town and has to find himself a passport to get him across the border to Formica City. Of course, ports don'tdon'tjust grow on trees, but luckily he storis the gome posse ion of his birth certificate (now that IS lucky!) and all he has tato is find some cash (one linodollor is lying clp the ground in the first screen and that's not bad for a start) to pi* for some pictures to be taken in a Photo-U-like booth. That's on easy problem to solve, but more colpex ones include getting around the planet using the malfunction-prone Teletmnsporter system, the acquisition of a missile targeting device, ond a driving licence (from someone called Shady Lionel). If you solve all those you should find yourself with a bus ticket to Detroitico, so oil you hove to do then is get yourself to the bus depot on thb for side of linoville.

!Jove a nice holiday this year I did you? ClIpmic Spacehead certainly did. Mr Spaceheod thought it would be quite a nic4 idea to have a change from the usual country spacecompsites and astrobeaches of his home planet of Linoleum and go on ch. sort of galactic gadabout. So It just got in his little ﬂying saucer and followed his nose. And to his surprise it lead him to our own • humble planet, Earth, which was much spoken of in Linoleum legend, but was still thought to be a subjql of Olblrourse,myth:Cosmic wcraquite literally over the moon to ﬁnd that he'd discovered the legendary planet Earth, but was also so gobsmackpd that he completely forgot to take any proof of its existence back to his fellow Linoleums. No Mickey Mouse hots with the plastic ears. No furry Spanish donkeys. No Devon toffee&SAID claim his fame (and possibly some money as well) Cosmic has decided to go bock to Earth, pick up some souvenirs and return, hopefully to crowds of cheering Linoleums and adoring Linoleum ladies. The problem is, he's got no money left after his holiday and no obvious means of transport if itlooks like he's rooted to the spot unless you help him out

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RICH the graphics are on the whole quite smart. However, some of the puzzles are just totally illogical, Faced with a massive beast that blocks your path, the solution is to give it a helium baloon! You what? However, the biggest shame with this game is that all it takes is around one day's play — around seven to eight hours at the most to see the game through — that's ﬁve quid an hour! For that reason alone, we just can't recommend that you buy this game.

Lucasﬁlm adventur ich ore on the Amiga and P . Cosmic ﬁnds himself in a location which is pictured in the top half of the screen, and you get to gOide him around it using a joypod-driven pointer. .

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Num also interact with objects in the location to solve puzzles. Julrpoint to them then select a command to use with them from the list of ﬁve on the menu. Pick Up, Use, Look, Talk and Give. If he picks up objects they're listed at the foot of the screen in a scrolling list. It's all very simple.

The orcade bits come in when Cosmic leaves one location for another Yes indeed, it's Action-A-Go-GoPlatform-ossoon as he trips into the stroen next door, and for this bit the _aoint-and-click control sys-is abandoned for normal platform game-style controls, r Spaceheaded hero has Wget from one side of a scrolling screen to the other, dodging wondering beasties which boiace around their predetermined paths threatening to nobble hiN. As an added incentive, odd platforms hove a piece of Cosmic Candy on them, and if Cosmic can collect ten of these he's awarded on extra life, • •

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I f you haven't played PGA Tour Golf before, you're in for a big Surprise as it is universally recognised as the greatest golﬁng simulation ever devised for the home computers. On the Megodrive, it has even spawned a sequel — PGA Tour Golf II, and it's even more incredible, Now, the golﬁng magic of the PGA has arrived on the Master System in the guise of this conversion from the guys and gots at Tengen. Does it succeed in bringing the 16-bit magic of the best golf game ever to the 8-bit conic, sole? Or it is a sod shambling 41 ' a

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option exists to improve your skills by visiting the putting green The console puts the ball randomly on the green ond unsurprisingly, its your job to putt the little blighter. When you're consistently putting the ball in one 'stroke' be off with you to the main " OS,IS

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Master System PGA plays every bit as good as any other version I have played and is, in fact, better than the Super NES version! Though the update of the screen is slow this isn't much of a problem as Golf is more a thinking person's game anyway. Every feature that has made the PGA series is present, if not slightly 'modiﬁed' to suit the capabilities of the machine. Therefore it is simple enough to conclude that this is best simulation golf available for Sego's system.

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course, you have a choice of clubs to use from woods to irons to putting wedges and suchlike. Each club has its own qualities, the most obvious being that they hit for different ranges. The Master System chooses the club most suitable for the range to the hole outomatically, although sometimes a manual choice yields better results.

Four taxing, 18 hole courses ore on offer in PGA Tour Golf — each based on real life events Test your golfing skills on TPC Avenel, PGA West Stadium, TPC Sawgrass and (made up especially for the game) Sterling Shores. The courses range in difficulty from the rather easy TPC Avenel to the golfing hell that is Sterling Shores

This is a very good version of the Megadrive game, capturing the control method of the original perfectly with just about all the features and courses. There are a couple of problems with the game though. Firstly, the screen update is extremely slow — it takes a good couple of seconds for the screen to form fully.

TED JUSTSCHULZBROKE EVEN ON HOLE 11 TO STAN 5 OVER FOR A TOTAL SCOPE So, you're a tad sad on the driving front eh? Well, you con practise those gargantuan shots on the driving range. Smock those balls ore hard as is humanly possible and see how far they go. Huzzah! PAht SEGA 87 IN THE CLUB le DRIVING FORCE MEM, Just about oil the options you want.couldpossiblySomeolthe presemotionscreens and suchlike we t 4very scrappy, TheGRAPH!ATIoveralllook Is lunctional and lhe animation is okay,•The mmm.ismulti-playertuhemaster,ely.unhoptunat1411"0(iiO41'windowistoosmall,SOUNDEasytogetintoandutterlyoddktivit,you'llspendkoonplayingthisone,especiallywithmimethanoneplayerparticipating.Fourcoursestowhichshouldsometime.Theactionareallastability78Somenicemusickicksoftheproceedingsandsomeciltheeffectsaregoad_Whilstothers(theballbeing• holed lot instance) are crop. • incradmirabletheawesome,AlthoughPLAYABILmrABILITY88it'sfbIgraphicallyPGATourGolfonMasterSystemisanconversionoftheedibleMegadrivegame. ;I:414:1

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The actual game window is very small as well, with loads of space wasted, However, there's no doubting that at least some of the PGA magic has made its way over to the Master System, making it a good buy for golf fans.

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Storm is the only black girl ever born with natural blonde hair and blue eyes. She also suffers from acute claustrophobia. Fascinating.

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shot cut through sheet steel like a hot knife through butter. His healing factor retards the ageing process no one knows exactly how old Wolverine is.

man whose eyes can ﬁre beams of pure concussive force. In the game, Cyclops is locked in on underground mining system and has to use his eyebeams and physical power to outwit the alien guards and destroy the evil Sentinel bosses!

Very fast, agile, with animal-like enhanced senses, Wolverine has a fast-heal ability that enables him to survive many wounds and poisons He also has a skeleton laced with adomantium (the strongest metal in the comics universe) In the game, Wolvie is in a mod fairground/toy room bottling the Juggernaut amongst the other meanies.

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had then. The characters' costumes were out of date NO then and comics fans are going to be very disheartened by the all their heroes' missing powers. So, the licence (which had incredible potential) has been wasted what's left? A pretty enjoyable and extremely tough platform game. Fair enough but is it worth forty quid? In short, no. There are plenty of superior platform games about (Sonic II, Tiny Toons, Rocket Knight Adventures, Gunstar Heroes, Flashback... I could go on i forever)ll and this doesn't measure up. I had a good few hours worth of fun out ail it, but forty quid is a massi Investment and although I like the game, it simply isn't worth the

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Picture the scene: Gambit has a spike impaled in his leg. His hands are chained above his head and padlocked. How does he escape? By pulling the spike out with his teeth, dropping it down, catching it with his feel and then using the spike to pock the padlock open with his feet!. See the X-Men series: The 'Extinction Agenda if you don't believe

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This game is written by celebrated programmers Software Creations, They hove countless titles to their credit, including the home computer versions of the Capcom coin-op, Bionic Commandos. Their console games are few and for between. They programmed Solstice on the NES (isometric 3D arcade adventure) and the sequel, Equinox on the Super NES Spider•Mon/X-Men also appeared on the Super NES a year ago As for as we know, this is their ﬁrst Megodrive title. All of their games over have been endowed with phenomenal music, created by Tim FeIlin This game is no exception.

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abilities involve kinetic energy the power of movement. He con put so much power into on object that it explodes! He uses playing cords as ammunition. It's a race against time in Gambit's levels of the game in the ﬁrst section of the game, he's pursued by a massive spiked ball! COMICS TRIVIA:

potentialPAULexplosion of exciting action enacted by five of the most dynamic superheroes in the history of Marvel comics. In reality the game places distressing limitations on the central characters. Spider-Man is unable to sling a web unless his feet are placed firmly on the ground and Wolverine, quite uncharacteristically, finds traversing a few simple platforms a chore. Storm is neither versatile nor as lithe as her chosen persona implies. Unlike Sego's Spider-Man vs the Kingpin and X-Men titles, where the superheroes weild their powers to great effect, this uncanny bunch are shadows of their mighty selves here. Nevertheless Acclaim give Spider-Man and the X requiring much skill on the player's part. With the exception of the tiresome first stage many interesting variations of the platform theme await. Though the game's most striking feature is undoubtedly its soundtrack it is a fun game to play and commands respect as a decent title despite the somewhat handicapped heroes.

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with robot replicas of some of the most evil characters in comicdoml The unstoppable Juggernaut makes an appearance in Wolverine's level, whilst Spider-Mon has to contend with countless Spider-Slayer robots, The Shocker, Rhino, and the evil killer Carnage! The robotic X-Men killers, the Sentinels, also make appearance.

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MASTER SYSTEM, 2 controllers loystick, Olympic Gold. World Grand Prix. Sonic the Hedgehog 1 Alex Kid. Miracle World bargain eso Tel I

MEGADRIVE GAME. Green hog, excellent condition boxed, unbent booklet good as new, hardly used give away price E22 Tel. (0892) 661847

MEGADRIVE868334 for sale, all accessories, complete with arcade povrerstick. 18 games. dust cover Japanese adaptor. over 60 magazines, all ofﬁcial British versions. all 1st-class condition and boxed, womb over E780, will sell for £350 ono. Tel. (06301 672268.

SCART MEGADRIVE arid Sonic, high resolution, full screen picture, boxed and excellent condition, £95 Tel Bath (0225) 338587

SCART MEGADRIVE for sale, 2 games. 2 controllers, worth E200. will sell for E100 ono. Tel. Steven on (0742) GAME7493E10BOY with accessories. 5 games including: Mario Baseball. American Football, AC Pro Am, Tetris, only E50 ono. line condition, Tel. (0353) 662304. after 6pm

MEGADRIVE. boxed with loypad arcade powerseck and games, NHLPA Hockey '93, Senna Super Monaco, Super Kick•Off, all boxed with instructions, vgc £90. also Issues 1-6 01 MegaTech as new £18 Tel James on 10923) 855266

MEGADRIVE plus 2 joypads. Japanese convertor. 8 games for sale E175 ono or swap for Amiga Tel 051-605 1063. MEGADRIVE tor sale, 7 games and 2 ioypads worth E400, sell for noo or best otter Tel Dived on (0487) AMAZING813996. Megadnve+CO games for sale or exchange, for list tel. 0232) 844473. latest games at decent prices. oldies at E10 1

MASTER SYSTEM with 4 games £85. 2 loypacis and gun, Game Boy for sale with 5 games and ligla E45 Tel (0708) 551547.

SEGA GAME GEAR with TV tuner, 3 games and ac adaptor. all boxed, good condition. E700. Tel (0625) 531207

SNES SF2, Turtles, convertor, 2 controllers. Starwing. worth over E280. sell for 3200 Tel Ben on (0559) 384529.

18-BIT Megadnve as new. used twice plus Sonic, 2 pads and Scart lead Tel 081-893 3763 mint condition AMIGA 500. 1Meg. mouser loystick. Ions ol games and programs, loads of demos and mags. E200. Tel (0727)

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4 games. 2 joypads. convertor worth E350, sell tor CI 80 ono. Tel. Daniel on (04241269679, anytime alter 6pm MASTER SYSTEM. 2 control pads, phaser, Aerial Assault. Tasmania 4- 2 built-In games. voc. E85. Tel, Jon on (0483) 232936

II. Tecmo WC, Wrestlemania and Sonic. 2 control pads. E125 ono. also Schumacher Pro Cat heavily modiﬁed, ready to race. 3 sets of cells, very new speed controller, etc E190. Tel James on (04421 875692, for GAMEdetails.

FOR SALE Game Gear with 5 top titles, Prince of Persia. Shinobo II, Kick-Off. Monaco GP, Castle of Illusions, fully boxed with instructions. E110 11nc p&p)_Tel Noel on (0274) 834065, after 5pm MASTER SYSTEM 1 for sale, 2 control sticks. 7 games, including Eswat and RC Grand Prix, E120 ono. Tel. Nick on (06581 520208. EXCELLENT condition, Fatal Fury for Meoadrive, boxed with instructions. Tel. 071-673

GAME GEAR 4 games, Olympic Gold. Shinobi. etc plus magnify master convertor, carry case, boxed (10 months old) El 80, Tel. 10491) 838841

THUNDER FORCE 4 £17, Streets of Rage 2 £20. Prince 0IPersta CD E20 inc. p&p. Tel 10522) 702801

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Megadnve games for sale or swap T2, Tazmania, Aiien 13). all E17, Mega games 121E20, also Sega Mencer E25 or swap for the toiiowing Tiny Toons, European Club Soccer or any game all considered. Tel. Shane on (0925) 417500, daytime only.

E15, tree cheat books with order Tel, Gary on (0276) MEGADRIVE476890 tor sale with joypad powerstick and 8 games. inc,. Sonic 182, Tazmanoa. Thunder Force IV Revenge of Shinolai and more worth over E500. sell for E250 ono. For further details phone 10252) 714968 ask for Stephen PAEGADRIVE GAMES for sale. Alien 3 E25, Super WWF E25 and James Pond E20, all fully boxed with instructions, Tel. Tim on (0222) 564172

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LISTEN UP! MegadrIve and 3 games: Sonic 1&2 and also Street s of Rage, plus 1 normal and I turbo Joypad for sale, E80 ono Tel. 071-731 1776. alter 6pm It you're quick I'll throw in a mystery free WHATgoft•A BARGAIN1 Sonic the Hedgehog and mega games which includes Columns. Super Hang-On and World Cup ttalia '90. not only this. bui 22 free mags. (vg Mean Machines etc) all lot E49, worth E115 70 Tel. 071537 3491. ask for Shaun. MEGADRIVE Master System and Game Gear games for sale. Write lo M. Smith, B Portland Walk, Oadby, Leicester LE2 5TY tot a list. SPECTRUM 48K computer plus games and magazines. worth over E1600. sell tor £350 ono, buyer must collect. Write to_ A. Musgrove. 91 Shalto Way, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham DL5 501 or tel. (0325i 300781, after 5pm. MEGADRIVE. runs all carts with Oypad powerstick. carry case. 9 games inc. Road Rash. PGA Tour Golf. EA Hockey. etc. all boxed with instructions excellent condition, worth around E500. sell for E260 Ovno, Tel. Epsom (0372) 726840. after 6pm PAEGA-00 for sale. 3 games. 1month oid, unwanted gift E220 ono Tel. Shane on (0206) 053170 (Colchester)

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GEAR with adaplor. 2player lead and carry case. worth E90, sell for £45. Tel Man on (0495) 215950. FOR SALE Jungle Stnke, boxed, compleie as new with codes E31. may swap for recent game Tel i02871 660/83LOOK.

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ATARI ST FM for sale, 1Mb upgrade, Joystick, mouse. monitor lead arid about 30 games. only £125 ono, Immaculate condition, if interested, please cnlact James on 051-737 1857, will swap for a SNES, no games UKneededMEGA-CO for sake. with Solfeace. Cobra-Command and Arcade collection, mint condition with 7 months guarantee. E210 ono. Tel Martin on (0508) 50709

MEGARIVE plays all carts plus 2 joypads and 10 games. including Road Rash II, SOR II, Sonic 1&2 for El 70. Tel 081-572 9439.

MEGADRIVE GAMES for sale, Desert Strike, Road Rash £20 each, Fatal Rewind. John Madden, Sonic. Spoderman E 8 each Tel. Ian on 10455) 557523

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MEGADRIVE 3 games. Sonic 1&2, F-22, Jap convertor. 2 joypads. good condition, sell for £130. Tel 081-599 1025, SEGA MD games: EccO, Greendog, allDancer,CastleAnack.Terminator.Ouackshot,Strider.DecapWorldofIllusion,ofIllusion.Shadowallinmintcondition,El5each.aisoIneuder3 at

SUPER FAMICOM and SNES games for sale, it interested, wnte to Peter Lynch, Newcastle. Moynalty. Kai's, County Meath. Ireland MASTER SYSTEM II, 4 games including Lemmings, Sonic 2 arid Alex Kid plus 1 pad E65 Tel John on (0843)

CONVERTED NES for sale.' swap, I have a convened NES with 2 Japanese games and 3 English games. Mario 1 & 2 and Robocop, will sell lockjusi E100 ono or swap for Game Gear with 2 games. Tel Ricky on 071-624 6658. after 5pm Oil Amstrad CPC464 computer for sale, good condition with about 100 games. including, Man.Lad Europe. Outrun_ Dick Tracey. even golden oldies. like Kaman' s. Yie-ar-Kung Fu, all in full woriting order, worth about E300. sell for E85 Tel 081-542 3821, needed for quick sale, now burry)

MEGADRIVE GAMES for sale, Micro Machines £20. Jungle Strike E20, Road Rash E10. Mega-CD game Night Trap £25 arid Python loystick £5. Tel. Darren on (0834) 388113.

with TV tuner. ac adaptor, American, hard carry case, 14 great games, including Sonic 182, Lemmings, Chuck Rock Super Off Road. Super KickOff. M Mouse and many more. individual games. perfect condition, all instructions included, all boxed E300. Tel. Jerry on (02951 768180 PIES including zapper. rot., 8 games, inc. SMB3. Turtles, worth E390, sell for E200 ono. Tel. (0608) 677805.

MEGADRIVE games Paperboy £25. 4 on 1 cartridge, Mickey Mouse Ouackshot. Toki. Sonic 1 £60. Tel Rhys on 10625) 582004

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AMIGA 500 (boxed), word processor over 40 games (including demos) Citizen 9pin colour printer, loystich and mags Tel 10476) 870930 (Lincsleics). after 5pm MEGADRIVE with 14 games, including. Sonic 2. Ecco. Lemmings and 4 RPG's. worth E530, sell for E200, Tel David on (0752) 550639

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EVERY ISSUE ol MM and MMS Sega plus many other mags (MegaTecti. Sega Power. etc) E5 for 199213„ CIO 1991 E15 1990 Also Toe Jam & Earl £15. some posters and videos vanous prices. tree advice with monitor speaker wiring Tel Leigh on (0233) 624185.

, This isonly for the serious gamer No cack guaranteed! Please seed El cheque to, D. Heath. 4 Camelot Gardens. Rushley Park Basildon, Essex SS13

LATEST Megadrive & Mega CD games wanted! Will pay up yo E20 Tel (0232) 844473, SAE s 10 10 Glebe Gardens. Newtownabbey. Co Antrim 8136 6E0

SWAP Master System with 6 games for Game Boy or Game Gear with I game. Tel. (0903) 751462. between 5-

SWAP a Sega Megadrive with Super KickOtt Super Wrestlemanta and Sonic with 2 pypads mint condition, for tether an Alan 520ST or 1004$T, or sell £150. if interested phone SWAP()621)819275myDesert Strike, Madden '92. Mere& Twinkle Tate. Mart)* Madness, EA Hockey. Bare Knuckles. Rob000d for Rainbow Islands, Gods, Arcuss Oddysey, Sword of Vermillion_ Phantasy Star 3. Woneerboy 5, all boxed, will pay £2 on top per game. Contact Jamie on 081 983 SWAP3788,my Megadnve (Jap CD) needs CDX convertor. Master System convertor + 2 games, 10. BO% + MD games, 4 CD games 2 'eta red control Pads, 1 turbo joypaa + 10uackshot). would like to swap for Amiga Al200 with mouse mat, extra drive. games + ioysticks. dustcoveri Tel, 107681 899773

I WILL SWAP Pacmania. Strider. Joe Montana, Mike Ditka. John Madden Football plus many others tor any docent games Tel (0993) 882274,

SWAP my CDTV Amiga for Megadnve or SNES any games Tel March on (0268) 781096. after Som. please MEGADRIVE will swap Superman for Road Rash Tel. Kerr on 071-328 3295 (Or swap for Jurassic Park), ILL SWAP my Megadrive games Golden Axe. Streets ot Rage. Castle of Illusion. Alien 3, for After Burner 2, Micro Machines. Another World. Road Rash I or II. Pit Fighter. California Games and Ghouls 'n' Ghosts Tel Nathan on (0602) 497931 (Nottingham area)

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FOR SALE SMS3201 and 0 Games. only £2 each Send art SAE to. Simon Chan. 55 Dickson Street, Widnes. Cheshire WAS 6NX, for a full list of available titles.

INTERESTED in making quick easy money? Send a SAE to David Newman, 101 Conway Avenue, Great Waluttong Essex S53 OBH. JEWELLERY AND POPI lot free lewerlery by post booklet. send SAE to: L Kitchen. 7 Kempton Road. Ipswich. Suffolk IPI 60Y

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SUPERB BARGAINI A mint condition, still boxed. Amiga 500+ with many full price games. Tel. Chandran on Gravesend (0474) 334680. now'

DESPERATELY needed. original Mean Machines Issues 11-14 and 18. will pay £2.50 each or E15! for all Tel Edward on (0428) 683140

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NES FOR SALE. 2 loyeads. 9 games. mint condition plus Game Genie £100 ono Tel John On (0736) 753789. after

Sega Game Gear with 3 games, TV tuner and battery pack. everything boxed. except the battery pack E250 ono. Tel (0538) 702625. anytime after 5prn ask tor Dave.

DO YOU WANT a Pan Pal? Are you aged 14-18? If you are, loin YPC Pen Pal Club its's free. Write to: 28 Glyme Way, Long Hanborough, Witney, Oxon 0X8 8J

GAME HAGS Mean Machines issues 3-24, also Mean Machines Sega issues 1-7. Tel. Okver on 061-798 7195

1M LOOKING lor a gai Pen Pod' aged 11 to 12 Viinte to Danny Chambers, 173 Burnley Road, Blaclibum, Llancashire B81 3HN

MEGADRIVE (LISO4 E105, Mega-CD II £210. both for £299. can send COD Tel Chhs on 109041707866. after 4pm.

I AN 100% MEGADRIVE TIPS, 18 pages. 70 games E1 only. olUs free utter for Sega Pro Master Tips Book Chance also to order a monthly magazine Chequer° payable to Chris Reeve. 14 Blacksmith Lane, Thorpe on the Hill. Lincoln LN6 98(

PLAYprices. REAL arcade machine games on a Scarf monitor! For details of our arcade board controller send large SAE to: Protek Systems, 28 Churchlields. Bradford, W. Yorks BD2 3JN

I WOULD LIKE to swap Chuck Rock & Mega games. 1 including Super Hang On, World Cup Italia and Columns for Super Kick-Ott ot any RPGS Call Paul of Andrew on (0206) (Colchester)871089Any decent games given thought SWAP S.Monaco, World Cup Itaka 90. Power Strike for Master for Super Real Basketball. Prince of Persia or others Tel. 051-228

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FOOTBALL GAME LEAGUE to start on September 8th Manage a team from the 4 divisions Write in quick, if there is a team you want Full information. send SAE to. B. Cleminson. 7 Cooper Close. Crowell Bishop. Nottingham NG12 30L There's sell time' MEGAZINE the brand new Fanzine for Megacinve owners Who wants a whole lot more than reviews

MASTER SYSTEM for sale. plus 13 games. inc. Astent. Sonic 2, Gauntlet. 2 control pads £105, voac Tel Mark on (0273) 671950

SEGA MASTER SYSTEM II with 14 top games tor sale, worth over £300, sell for E200. if interested. phone 081 949

WANTING735952 a fairly new SNES with SMB3. Super G&G, Super Wrestlemania and lot only Et 20 Tel Ben on (0225) 743225

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UK MEGADRIVE with 2 games costing under E100. would like I 2-player game and 2 controllers. Tel Mark On 071-267 0881_ MEGADRIVE MEGA CO games wanted, will pay up to £25, will also swap my games from E4 Tel. (0463) 221173

GAME(Bucks)GEAR accessories, 7 games master gear convenor, TVy tuner, gear to gear cable, carry case. Tel (0865) 735952

STREET FIGHTER II. turbo for SNES USA mactlines only. used only once. boxed with everything in mint condition £45 ono. Tel (0484) 719525.

MASTER SYSTEM I with 3 games 1 control pad all instructions £30 Tel. (0865)

SWAP Budokan for Sonic 11 or Micro Machines or Flashback Tel (0284) 810292,

Flashback or Megalomania on Megadrive for Road Rash 2 or World Trophy Soccer, Tel 10 4241103417 (Reading area only) ATARI 520STE with many games. roysack and mouse, very good condition_ wit swap for Amiga 500+ Tel (0422) 846010 and ask for Chris after 5prn. Games include; Robocop. James Pond. Chase HO, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and many more ILL BE BACK! Swap Terminator for Sonic 2 and swap Galaxy Force 2 for Strider, rl interested, call Daniel on (0377) 257386. WARP SPEED for Star Control (Megadrive) or pay E35 for Star Control Tel (0727) 837241. after 6prn and ask for Ned SWAP boxed SNES with 10 games. includes, Manokart, SF2, Contra 3, Final Fight 2 plus Pro Action Replay with book ot codes. I want Amiga 1200 prelerably with 20Mb ram with software Tel Ricky on 081-368 7486

• hard drive, latest version brand new. need money for a 3D0, can send COD. Tel Chris on 10904) 707866

SWAP MEGADRIVE games. will swap Road Rash Greenhog. WWF. caters. Tel. Ryanon /0268) 775741. AMAZING MEGADRIVE. SNES & Mega-CD games for sale or exchange. new titlesgood prices; older ones from EIOITel. (0232) 844473.

MEGADRIVE GAME for sale mega games, which has 3 top games. Games in good condition with instruction manual, The 3 games are: Italia '90. Super Hang On and Columns, your game must be in good condition, top title and manaut Tel. (0782) 399512 arid ask for Adam SWAP my Amiga 600 with 30 games under I year old, for your 10 or more Megadeve CD's or cartridges .best otter secures Tel Steve on 081855 2967, after 6pm WILL SWAP SNES and 3 games, Sla Starwing, Turtles and 2 controllers for Amiga with accessories. Tel. Ben on (0559) 384529, EDGE ISSUE 1 for sale or swap, very rare, I have orgy 1 mini condition copy let?. Tel. 10480) 810511, NES FOR SWAP 2 loypads. 9 games. mint condition plus Game Genie for 3 Megadrive games Tel (0736) 753789, after Cipm.

DIAL A CARBOOT SALE, everything from guitars and cliscmen, computers and games to radio-controlled cars, top Megadrives games. NHLPA. Hockey '93. PGA 2, Tazmania. Sonic 2. Streets of Rage, etc. Lots ol misc games. Tel Malcolm on (0494) 712717, for list and

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for sale 2 controllers, with EA Hockey, Sonic. Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Lemmings, all boxed £135 Tel (0392) 52623 (Exeter).

SWAP my Megadnve with 14 games. including Micro Machines, Flashback. Ecco, Megalomania. Tiny Tooris for your Neo-Geo with 4 to 5 games. particularly Art of Fighting or Fatal Fury 2 and 2 controllers or sell for £600 Tel (0303) 250961

SEGA MEGADRIVE, Road Rash II, PGA II World of Illusion. Thunderforce IV, Global Gladiators, arcade powerstick plus loyead. £195 ono Tel. 041

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WANTED: Jackson and Livingstone Fighting Fantasy game books, will pay 75p-E1. don't need numbers 1 or 13 Tel (0947) 810425. after gprn ask for WANTEDMark.064 disk drive EQ. Speccy +3 with multiface £50. Amiga with lots of s w will pay E150. also Atari 400 sw and Alan 2600 console £25 Write to S Macey Flat 9 n Moorland Road. Leeds LS6 1AJL

MEGADRIVE GAMES for swap or for sale. Micro Machines. Ghouls 'n' Ghosts. Tazmanta. Mario Lemieux. Hockey Tel Canal on (0232) WILL763349.SWAP

SEGA GAME GEAR. boxed as new, mains adaptor, carry case and 5 games for only El 30 Tel. (0494) 482042

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FOR SALE Fatal Fury £30. MS games Aztec Adventure and King Fu Kid £5 each. Tel (02831223811

FOR JUST El. I can give you informarion on the cheapest Mad Order Supplier of any Megadnve gam& Send games list to Shao Chan. 20 Criarlecole Ave Braunstone. Leicester LE3 2SH, with SAE and Cl cheque.

SWAP or for sale) Fatal Fury. Cyborg. Justice. Global Gladiators. Chakan, Risky Woods. Galahad. NHLPA Hockey 93, Knaty's Fun House. Hellﬁre, English Megadrive games E15-C20 each. Mega-CD game Road Avenger 1.20. Tel. Steve or Caz on 081-575 7207

13-YEAR-OLD boy looking for Megadrive owning pen Mend Write to Andrew McPhie, 2 Eshview Grove, Dackeith, Midlothian EH22 IJVV.

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