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Tecnosoft are producers of some of the best console pinball — Dragon's Fury on the Megadrive being a shining example. Now their ﬁrst effort on Saturn, Fantastic Pinball, is available for perusal on import. It's both mightily traditional and very bizzare, with a scrolling composite table and various bonus table leading off. However, the graphics are quite over the top, with cute little angels and horrid little monsters spanning the h and hell visual layout of the table. Fun. if you like that sort of thing, but no ofﬁcial release date.

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These are the ﬁrst genuine UK version pics of Virtue Cop in its near-complete format. The game now has all three levels, two-player mode and all the incredible graphic detail of the coin-op. The game that MEAN MACHINES singled out at the E3 show in May has come a hell of a long way, and promises to be one of the showcase titles of Christmas. Not only does it move amazingly smoothly and speedily — the gameplay is hectic. We hope to bring you a full review of the game in the next issue.

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List month we featured Riglord Saga, a keen Shining Force clone with a host of extras, that has been wowing them in Japan straight to no. 1 in the charts. Our hopes of a UK conversion are conﬁrmed, and the game shall emerge as Mystaria sometime in the new year. The process is only delayed by the huge amount of text and options in Japanese.

The Saturn strengthens its position as the console for racing games with another Set311 project due out before crimble — Fl Live. It's a mixture of sprite-based and polygon driven racing, using a championshipformat similar to the venerable Super Monaco GP series. Gameplay is extremely fast, and on courses like Monaco itself, all the detail of the town has been added around the track. The 'Live' comes from the commentary that follows each race, and the picture-in-picture display that shows leaders and race highlights — there are even pile-upel

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One of the greatest PC games of all time is expanded and enhanced for Saturn. Build and maintain your own cities through centuries of growth and decline in one of the most addictive titles ever,

The biggest-selling series of football games enters the next generation with the groundbreaking 'virtual stadium' process. Highlights include graphics based on specially ﬁlmed footage of actual players.

First up, we've helped ourselves to a Saturn - but that's not all, Oh dearie me no. Not only will our lucky winner cop COO worth of state-of-the-art games console, they'll also receive all existing UK Saturn titles and EVERY SATURN GAME AVAILABLE IN THIS COUNTRY UNTIL CHRISTMAS. So, if you're up for receiving a veritable skip worth of gaming goodies, and something to play them all on, just answer our dead simple question at the bottom of the page.

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Battle the evil Dr Dark in the Mega Game is neck and neck with Bugl for the accolade of ultimate Saturn platformer. This funny little Frenchman looks superb and plays a treat.

Aside from 7,, look at loads of pukka stuff before anybody else and getting a ﬂash new logo, the guv'nor at Sega has given us the keys to his drinks cabinet. Just think of all the time we wasted prising the back off with Gus's head, eh? Actually we lied about the last bit (we used a crowbar) but we have been chucked the keys to Sega's goodie store. This month our cup overﬂoweth with a ton of stuff that we're going to have to shift before Sega realise it's gone missing.

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The best just got better. The yarning world's ﬁnest beat 'em up gets bigger. more detailed and whole lot slicker. A groundbreaking conversion of the most popular coin-op in the world.

Virtual pinball reaches new heights of realism in this stunning simulation. State-ofthe-art dynamic camera angles follow the ball around incredible fantasy tables.

Unprecedented detail and control with JVC's ﬁrst Saturn title. Create your own characters and pummel your way to the top. See our review this issue for all you need to know.

Another Sega arcade classic makes an impressive transition to Saturn. This is your chance to clean up the streets of Virtue City, armed only with a revolver a great deal of stealth. Essential.

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As Gus legged it out of Sega HO with the Saturn under his arm and the games in a sack, Steve noticed a pile of boxes in a dark corner. Could it be.. .yes, it was! A load of 32Xs and Virtue Fighters! Steve stuffed five sets inside his jacket, leaving Marcus to take Out the security cameras and guards. If you want to make our risk worthwhile, and fancy winning one of five brand new 32Xs complete with Virtue Fighter, then give this competition a go. In the shops this Christmas. the 32XNirtua Fighter bundle will set you beck 029.99 but it won't cost you a penny if your correct answer to the following question is fished out of Gus's underpants...

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September of 1963 was the launch date for X-Men. Marvers legendary Stan Lee worked with Jack Kirby on what was a signiﬁcant departure for Marvel. The idea for the new comic was a team of super-human characters. whose powers derived from genetic mutations; creating ﬁction out of what was a very new science.

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X-Men: Children of the Atom looks familiar if you already know Capcom games. Players choose from 10 X-Men characters, spanning the various team incarnations over thirty years. The game uses a six-button configuration similar to that of Streetfighter, and many of the game's special moves use the familiar fireball! Dragon Punch joystick combinations.

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enduring character, having been part of the very ﬁrst team. Cyclops, or Scott Summers' history has been troubled. The son of a test pilot, he lost his parents in an air collision with a UFO. Surviving, but with total amnesia, he spent the neat few years in an orphanage. where his mutant status did not go unnoticed. He travelled to New York to ﬁnd a cure for his eye-strain and there discovered his eye-blast powers. Tracked down by Xavier and the FBI, he became part of the initial X-Men students, and from then began a long and troubled love affair with fellow X-girl, Jean Grey (they are now Inmarried).Children of the Atom, Cyclops uses his blast powers to the full, with various levels of ruby laser intensity. When fully charged, these attacks are basically unstoppable. He's also an athletic and fast antagonist. enmeshing marks

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Guardian Heroes has all the hallmarks of a classic. It looks quite dreamy, with a distinctly ornate, cartoonish graphics style, and is designed to play in a mental frenetic style - on the edge between controllable and madly uncontrollable.

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very small section. getting smaller of their coding powers. They've squeezed the best out of the Mogadrive in most of their games, and done it with vigour and their eye ﬁrmly on gameplay. What could they possibly start out with on the Saturn?

Treasure's Guardian Heroes is expected in this country sometime in the new year.

Although Treasure have a distinctive style, they've struck out into new territory, with a game set in the world of 'Swords and Sorcery'. Both feature largely in the scrolling beat 'em up action. The forces of Darkness - we might be more specific, but ___,...., the game's text is still in Japanese - have a town under seige. Your " band is fighting terrific odds, against battalions of armour-clad swaddles, led by ihe occasional monstrous demon.

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cost-cutting excercise, has changed from manned to automated status. You are the engineer sent to complete this process. This means your only 'companion' on the base is the VOS, a main computer which can be accessed through terminals on each ﬂoor, and which communicates warnings and info vocally. The VOS is probably the most complex simulated computer of any console game, as a multitude of functions are accessed through its spinning virtual sub-menus. These include the MAPS main function: a defence system against aliens. There are schematics for each level, damage monitors, remote views and access to the base's reconaissance and security droids. And an auto-destruct system. The voice of the VOS was provided by a professional actress, and its functions and styling resemble the 'Mother' computer of the classic movie Alien.

Although the movie cliché is commonly used for games that utilise Full Motion Video, like the appalling run of Digital Pictures titles for Mega-CD, Millenium use it to describe Deleon 5 in a completely different way. The graphics are real-time, the 'movie' aspect comes from the atmosphere and playing experience, with the game possessing a deﬁnite plot.

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The player character is thrust into a futuristic setting of political intrigue and corporate skukluggery. As a technician for the Tyron Corporation, a space mining and defence conglomerate as opposed to the Tyrell Corporation - a crap dance act) his initial task is simple: upload a new program into the newly automated space defence complex. Before this is achieved, however, things start to go badly wrong, leaving the character with a number of options: simply defend the base; try to escape or uncover the truth of what's actually going on. There are a number of endings dependent on the course he takes.

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Defcon 5 was complex to design because so many of its factors alter in response to the skill of the player. As the game plays in real-time, novice players could quickly be overtaken by events and frustrated by a seemingly impossible game. To counter this, the pace of the game adjusts to how good the player is. Slow players are given more time at the beginning to work out the correct use of the VOS, whereas experienced players face attack situations earlier, and more resilient 'Beserker' intruders, As so many factors interrelate - the amount of ammo to enemies, the reloading of guns etc. - it took six months of testing to achieve the right balance.

The game harbours some real subtleties. For example, the air quality of various sectors of the base changes as you damage the interiors with laser ﬁre, When it reaches critical levels, the computer automatically seals of that area, limiting your access. However, opening doors between good and bad areas will dilute the bad air and keep them accessible. Similar strategies are used to ﬁnd quiet VOS terminals, as those by lifts and main corridors are dangerous places to linger.

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is easily seen in the ﬁrst rough demo. Incidentally, if things look a bit 'samey', that's because only a single level was playable. The game is again split into a series of campaigns, dictating the terrain, and these are subdivided into short missions Core have taken on board comments that the original Thunderhawk missions lacked depth or were too short, but at the same time aim to keep the game dynamic and acce sible for those not interested in ﬂight urns.

The 10 landscape generator keeps some of the charedör of the original game, but greater sophistication allows the use of height features, with hills scaling smoothly into view. The enemies are now created from complex polygons. As our pics show, they look even more impressive close-up, retaining their detail and with none of the pixel'stion of the old sprite images.

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The multi-layered backgrounds exploit the colour facilities of the machine more than any other game we've seen, and feature some neat animations. The characters are bold, detailed and well animated, and the gameplay don't stink either. The other ace up Golden Axe's sleeve is the sensational magic power moves with dominating special effects.

Foolish, you might think, with Mortal Kombal, Streefﬁghter, Primal Rage et al sewing up the market, but Golden Axe: The Duel looks, as Mr Kipling might put it, exceedingly tasty.

For the Titan game, Sega have taken the characters and the magical element of the previous game and applied them to the familiar one-on•one beat 'em up scenario.

The import version of the Duel is Out, and Sega UK have yet to schedule a release. From what we've played of it, this should hold its own in the combat zone without any difﬁculty.

From there, things went a little pear-shaped. Both t instalments tried to improve on the appearance, but did nothing the play.

launch of Golden Axe: The utUSA.Daytonaighter. V heralds the arrival of the true arcade experience in the home, courtesy of the Titan systemic.

A creditable Megadrove conversion followed, be one of the ﬁrst essential games on the machine.

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Id!' was developed last year by Serie to ornplement their more expensive model 2 bo An-ops. and uses more modest technology. However. it's technology that ports very well Saturn - which shares Titan's essential feat Golden Axe, the ﬁrst Titan proiect, comes MO pixel-perfect conversion.

Several of the ten characters will be familiar to Golden Axe veterans. particularly Kain Blade. Milan Flare and Gilius Thunderbiadet the original trio of heroes. Baddies get a look in with Death Adder, the head nasty himself. The other characters are a mix of brute strength and speciality attacks, including a rotund bombadier (Ponchos) and a necromancer who can turn adversaries into frogs (Zoma).

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The Duel uses graphics scaling to allow the characters more room in which to fight, but the effect is used with more panache than previous attempts like Battle Monsters. The perspective will zoom out and in smoothly depending on where the fighters are in the playfield, which covers several screens at the highest magnification.

In addition to their normal or special attacks, the ten characters can employ their magic potions to enhance their ﬁghting skills and devastate their opponent with a massive spell attack. This is integrated within the game using the cute elven characters from the previous Golden Axe games. These pintsized characters ﬂit across the bottom of the screen during the battle. Hit them and they pop a potion, which may be collected and added to your potion meter. Get enough and you are rea •6 to enjoy a short period of magical empowerment.

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Troopers and Power Rangers previews on the same page! It really doesn't get better than this. These guys ROCK! I'll see anyone outside talhe disagrees - like the dork who wrote that Power Rangers preview. Okay, the 'Rangers suck but these guys are different altogether. I mean. they molly rock. So whet if there are similarities? The Troopers improve on the genre. In fact, they're probably a post-modern ironic celebration ol the Power Rangers. Yeah, they're the Power Rangers revival before the Power Rangers split up. The 'Rangers will come and go, but the 'Troopers will never Thisdie. is a beat 'em up. But it's totally different from the 'Rangers one because A) I think it rocks, and B) it's one-on• one, so there's none of those poxy scrolling routines. The 'Troopers don't need to scroll to keep my Soattention.youput the VR Troopers against a selection of their enemies, and there's some mechanical things in there. And il all takes place against the sort of backdrops you'd expect to ﬁnd in a quality TV show - derelict sites, swamps, cheaply. decorated lairs and old Power Rangers locations. This game means serious business, although MEAN MACHINES wouldn't say that in its nonjudgemental preview. So you'll have to come bac next month to hear what they have to say about my beloved Troopers.

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of Surgical Strike and Fahrenheit, on your shelves soon GIAIWIE 1•11106 MOVIEDECEMBER This is the Commisariat of good gameplay. I'm sorry, you can't bringthat game in here. 11,tf1RuﬂEAD-_4 1=11111 tv 'Zirark GlaMPLETC , m7 gAlto ERB CRAWLER Part of the Wirehead experience is a skateboard trip down a suburban street. It's typical of the reaction-based gameplay and situations the game takes. Whilst trying to avoid the , you also face roadworks, a woman with shopping. oval men and an old biddy's picnic table. Crashing into any Cif these is mildly amusing but, unfortuna • sts you a life. trunks.excitingWirehotkrscar

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Off World's most enticing option is a split-screen mode, making it a genuine two-player racer. The general idea is much like the single-player mode, but this, of course, a battle, with your destructive capabilities wreaking havoc on your friends.

And, if you will, missiles, mines, energy shields and the largest tyres you ever did see. Off World Interceptor is half-race, half shoot 'ern up, with a series of hostile terrains to cross, and a range of enemies to fend off. The game uses a distinctive Scaling graphics system and a range of cockpit views, running at a fair lick.

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more space for oars on Earth. Every NCP car park every single yellow lino, every Avis rental lot and every Fisher Price garage will be lull to the brim. Then, the autophiles will take their four-by-fours and look for planets that for the space to allow to cut up, rev up bew up the automobiles of the next millennium. Probably. Bul it's a good excuse' for a game, and Crystal Dynamics. the high proﬁle US developers have used it as the basis for Off World Interceptor a game where you explore the wonder of new worlds, with the comforts of Radio 1 and directable heating vents.

MN CHAMPIONS , n how many games can the central characters boast names like 'chits, Krunom and Oblina? Aaahh! Real Monitors can, and with a title that's just as weird it's no surprise really is It? This is a game based on the 'hit' estimated series of the same name, and your task is to help the three creatures pass imonsterllwtit imams. A three-way control me Is omployed, similar to that of Animaniace. such character having different skills than the others. They can also join forces to throw each other to previouslyreachable heights. ere are over 25 levels HistoryDump.aroundsituatedtheCityNaturalMuseum and Ofﬁce amongst • plus 5 bonus • so there's of scaring toaye MVP IS IP P O 1111 PO IIMPO rvolor,4 Intf' A •1174:1ame. bead lb :14 All2;*141447;1411. 1•16-22112;117,2113.,=1 !!!!!! 4ﬁrAtlia NOVEMBERVIACOM PLATFORM h1;i

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you.WIN A SA URN GAME!!! Here's a little incentive for all you Saturn owners. Once you have played whatever games you own, pop down some tips and send them into me and for the best tip, every month we'll be giving away a shiny new Saturn game to the or, so get scribbling and licking those stamps! FEVER PITCH LEVEL CODES Paul Henrick from Derby has sent in loads of top codes for this top game, Top man! Anyway they let you play as Brazil in any round you want. The letters in bold have to be yellow when you enter them, the others have to be in white. ASIA: BLABBBBBBBCCVP: (vs IRAN) BBBBBBLGBFCD: (vs CHINA) BCBBBBLDXGLN: (vs AUSTRALIA) BCLBBBLCKIKWXX; (vs JAPAN) SCMBBBLBVKB112: (FINAL vs SAUDI ARABIA) AFRICA: SCM8BBLGVMLL; (vs MALI) OMMBBBLFBNVVVX: (vs •MMBBBLKBPEWL:TUNISIA) (vs IIMMBBBLPBRCDX:GHANA)(vs EGYPT) IMMFEIBLCICTBNZ: (vs CAMEROON) IIMMFEIBLI-OIVCX2: (vs IVORY COAS •NMFEIBLCOWMOS: (FINAL vs ZAMBIA' AMERICA: •NMFBBLHO2CL4: (vs BOLIVA) •NMFBBLMDILVII: (vs ECUADOR) SNMF4BLBV5C4G: (vs USA) IINMF4BLGV6LD8: (vs COLOMBIA) ONMF4BLLV7WNX; (vs URUGUAY) •INIMI4BLOVEIBBL: (tes MEXICO) BNMF4BVBV9V6N: (FINAL vs ARGENTINA)EUROPE: BNIVIF4SVGVFMLCI: (vs 0 ORTLIGAL)BINIMP4BWLVIIIVVIEE0 SCOFIl IIINMF4BVFIXLC419kisANDIh BULGARIA) 11141F4BUCX0i Da (v$ 6PAIN)1SNRI4BVH)(11118111SWEDE11114RF4EIVM)IVEIINT7vsFRANCE)11110F4BVRXXMOO:(FINALvsHOLR1E:FINALvsALLST

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Leo. who's from Abingdon in Oxford. aslo sent in a couple of cheats for the 32X that we just managed to sneak in before the deadline. His ﬁrst is for Star Wars, and lets you power up your shield on the surface of the Death Star levels. He says that if you shoot the hour glass shaped thing in the trench, where R2D2 ﬂys you in, it will give you a shield power up. He also adds that if you manage to pull it off in training mode, it will be a great help as you can start Rebel Attack with an extra shield.

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This above average game isn't ofﬁcially available yet, but obviously warrants someone purchasing it, as Robert Hughes from Sari London did. He's discovered a few topper cheats whilst battling his way round the Doom-style levels. He says that you have to hold down L and A whilst performing the Tofollowing:Skipto the next level: Press start on pad Increasetwo. the power of weapon: Press X on second pad To restock your ammo: Hit Y on Joypad broken shields: Hit A on the second controller

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From the start, work your and then rescue the first you fill up your energy at the magic fountai Then re-trace to the start and go on to bet 5 and the first puzzle. Once the laser used to open the door, kill all the demons next room to open the door and get the key.' now lets you go through the door marked 7 map. The puzzle in the preceding room is si in that all you have to do is move the block on to the switch to open the door. Once inside, you should find a couple of magic bonuses and a wallswitch, which needs hitting. The door that was previously locked in room number 2 is now open. Get to room 10 and, as you can see on the picture, you need to hit all four poles and the secret door will appear. The chest inside contains a pendant and in the adjoining room is a cat. Talk to your new furry friend and it will buy your items off you (it doesn't actually talk, but trust me, it would if it could). Now you're ready to face the first boss. It's quite tricky to kill as you have to get close enough to hit the eyeballs that appear in every orifice. Also keep an eye out (no pun intended) for bonuses that appear as you are slashing away. Your reward for killing this monster of epic proportions is the second key. Once this is in your grasp, work your way to room 14 on the far left of the map.

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Re-trace to 7 and on to 'pu pie but you need to be q n as you go n ignore the bomb and hit the clock. This should stop the bomb's countdown so you have time to move it by the door. Re-hit the clock to let it go off. If by chance you are not quick enough, go out of the room and back in to reset the puzzle. The worms the next room do not have to be killed, but they c release some good power-ups once dead. so it's to you. The best bet is to follow the screenshots for the next puzzle. Basically, you need to move the laser on to e platforms and then down by the door so that the beam unlocks it. The room inside contains Thunder magic and scroll 5. Again, the next puzzle is tricky and requires you to push a barrel onto the moving platform and over to the door to blow it up. It may take a couple of tries, but you have to do it. Rescue the prisoner, and go to the third Orb room, marked 17. To unseal the barrier, you need to hit the poles in a certain order to make a tune. Check the screenshot for the numbers and hit them in this order; 1-4-2-3-4-2-1.

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• needs some explanation. To get each Orb, you must go to the corners of each part of the map. To save time, the square marked re-trace is where you should work back to after every Orb has been collected. So now you know, Right, from the start, work your way through the unmarked rooms until you reach room 2. Inside here is a man who, when spoken to, will give you a key for the locked door behind him and many others too. Go through the door and on to the third room, This isn't particularly difficult but the combine' tion of the wind and the goblin can soon sap your life. Kill the goblin and hit the switch by the locked door. Now move past the fire and climb up to hit the second switch and the door will open. Kill all the people in the next room to get a maximum life chest. Get to number 6 and step on the filets in the order of A. Y, G. El, to eak the seal and gain the first Orb. -trace back, and go through the

move the laser to the position shown in the screenshot, by the statue, to open a secret door. Get the bonuses from inside and go through to get the scroll. Then go to room 10. The aim here is to get the demons onto the plate that opens the door, which will take a bit of patience. Once done, the target in the next room is to move the barr on to the moving platform and up the door without it touching the spikes, otherwise it will go off, The blob thing in the room will also need to be killed before the barrel moved. To get scroll 3, you need to move the barrels into a stair shape, but without them falling off, so you can jump On top and then onto the chest. To get the Orb, you need to stop the beam on these letters in this order: N-E-W-S. This will again break the seal and give you access to the second Orb.

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The game's best feature is its feeling of solid contact — some of the blows really seem to hurt. The worst is probably the repetitive vocal contribution from the ring. side, with tho same phrases cropping up over and over. You can see the graphics are chunky, but work extremely well with some of the views. You can see the fun we've had creating our own per Victory Boxing is basically an all-round good egg.

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time for boxing too, but not quite as much as Gus does. For me, even when the game does start to set a pace, its all a bit plodding compared to Virtu• Fighter. However, you could never say VF was a serious sport simulation, and Victory Boxing most certainly is. The amount of thought that has gone into it shines through. The detailed boxer creation screens, and the way you can take them on a 'career and save their progress to memory is very impressive. The game also looks, despite the odd glitch, quite authentic. In the ring that is as the crowd are limp, ﬂat textures. Sound plays a part too, with the crunch and thud of a real ﬁght. What buying the game really depends upon is whether you like boxing as a sport, and whether you like any boxing games you might already have. If the answer is yes to both, I'm pretty sure Victory Boxing will meet with your approval.

JVC make an impressive debut with what looks like being the only boxing game for some time on the Saturn. Of all fighting sports, boxing games run the risk of being slow and plodding, and at first Victory Boxing seems another candidate for the wooden spoon. But the more bouts you play, the faster your character and his opponents get. This is a little odd, when you would expect the programmers would be trying to make a good first impression. Instead. Victory Boxing becomes quite compulsive in one-player mode, and better in two-player once you have some d players to spar with.

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The game's title stems from the simple fact that you have to skid to win, That doesn't mean that you don't wipe your arse for a few days, then drop your strides to reveal all, but it does mean that the tracks duck, dive, dip and descend more times than the average Sega Power sales audit.

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The number of track settings available to race starts at 4, with other tracks becoming available when passwords are discovered. Each of the 4 settings has 6 races, and when you have qualiﬁed in all of those, you'll be given part of a password, which takes you on to the super league of Skidmarks.

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veryene was very excited about seeing Codemasters' Skidmarks. Right, that's the thidmark joke are out of the way early. Codemesters• latest foray into driving games sees them attempt something in a similar fashion to Micro Machines, but this time with a bit more rough and tumble. The real difference here, however. is that the view is 3-D/isometric. Developed using B-spline curve mathematics, so they tell us us, the tracks are true 3-D. You r aim is simple: ﬁnish ﬁrst by all means necessary, albeit in a Mini or as a four. wheeled cowl Everything from skilled driving to violent get t he hell outta my way driving is lair game.

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, a you decide you have had enough, or get too good at the normal clutch of vehicles, there are a couple of secret characters to be got al If • you suddenly have the perverse desire to climb into a cow, then this is the game for you. The other secret vehicle is an PI car for all you budding Manse lis out there, Please note: monotone voice and caterpillar eyebrows are not supplied.

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Just like Micro Machines, this is a jolly racer. Unlike Mier° Machines, it's not th sort of game you can just pick up and play. You need to invest serious hours before getting the hang of the control and the layout of the courses. The car is toe wild, and the tracks too winding. Not to mention the opposition, which is extremely tough. Of course, this all becomes part of the enjoyable challenge, but Super Skidmarks never has the variety and wsckiness that makes Micro Machines the universal classic. The multi-player option is well done, but what it sorely looks is an option to race with just your mates and no computer car.. But still a really enjoyable racer.

Micro Machines was hailed as one of the all time great racers, so Codies band a tough time trying to match or even better it. Thankfully, Super Skialmarke is • worthy follow-up. Thecontrol method is really tough to start with, which I. one of my only gripes, but if you persevere it 1100f1 becomes easy to work. The number of tracks and oars are varied and the secret options add to the lastability. The J•Cart feeture is such a cool option, and cannot stress how much of a good idea that is. But. despite Its enormous multi player appeal, it does tend to become it little tedious when you can't win the races, meaning you helm to complete them all over again. Still a good game though.

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For those familiar with the goings on of WW2, you'll no doubt be aware of Japanese suicide pilots and their urge to destroy everything, including themselves. You may also be aware of the bandanas they donned before diving to their deaths. Were convinced that anyone who persists In wearing that hind of accursed accessory is doomed to crash and burn. Know what we mean?

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This takes place in a canyon tighter than a pair of Justine Frischmann's leather pants. One false move or rashly-cornered bend and you're chasm fodder. The strategy here is to hunt the planes out using the tactical map. You are then forced to take out a landbased rig before omoorsapper. MINA SEGA 65

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4 This time your initial priority is to protect. Now your aircraft carrier is within the attack range of Japanese bombers, and the dreaded Kamikaze squadrons. When you get a break, retaliate by sinking a few frigates and destroyers. Rule Britannia! , BIG CITY You are rarely asked to do, ,,, eveneraelslevmeSol.leveeonthanmoreonthingsamesubdividedintojoint missions. MISSION 1 This is a basic introductory level with nothing strenuous, so destroying the squadrons should be easy. Avoid dogﬁghts if you can - it's not difﬁcult to shoot at planes, but intensely frustrating when you can't shake them off.

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There are two parts to this. First, a heavily defended oil rig which succumbs after several intense bombing runs. Then you must turn your attention to 0 ﬂeeing aircraft carrier, again disarming and scuttling it when defenceless.

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into the ocean. The detail on some of the ships in the later levels is really cool, and at least you can distinguish what's to be shot at. The different views may appear pointless at ﬁrst but. when used in the correct places, enhance the games depth and Interest. Overall, it's excellent once you start to appreciate its gameplay, but a few patchy areas spoil the •verall effect.

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The game offers three different viewpoints for you to play under. The cockpit perspective lets all the instruments from the plane be seen on the dashboard, and has the advantage of a crosshair, to help with your aiming. However, the instrumentation and structure limits the view. The chase view is probably the best, and is situated behind your plane. Your area of vision is greater, but the lack of a sight makes aiming your weapons — particularly missiles — more difficult. The third viewpoint initially appears to be a fairly redundant position in front of the plane, facing backwards, However, selecting this when flying away from bombing runs allows you to dodge the flak fired after you. This is most effective when used against oil rigs and aircraft carriers.

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of the game you'll undoubtedly collect the range of available weapons. By pressing you'll cycle through and check the remaining ﬁrepower of what you've obtained. All of them can be used on their own, but sometimes you can also combine them for some extra special ammo. For the biggest and bestest gun, use all three and you'll get a mega bomb thingy.

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• Who'd have thought it! Maui Mallard bounces along in typically chirpy Disney style, with special attention clearly having been paid to individual characters. Donald himself Is a treat. and I lost count of how many different frames of animation the little blighter went through as he was kicked from one side of the screen to the other. Unfortunately, a little bit too much attention has been lavished on Donald. and his frantic body contortions can occasionally become a little distracting. Elsewhere, everything Is as it should be - devious baddies emetic locations, power-ups, secret rooms and a massive pipe organ that blows you up to the reef on jots of green steam. Excellent. In the midst of all this ﬁnely crafted platform palava only one nagging doubt remains • wiles will the market outgrow this sort of game

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It's like that Dirty Harry film with the sniper in the stadium. the problem with sequels is not so much the quality of the gameplay. but that the game suffers by adding nothing that makes it worth buying. Fifa '96 rather suffers from that. nut also, there is a definite office trailing that this isn't quite up to the standards of Pita '95, which really did move to improve on the original. The graphics on the pitch are fuzzier than those of the crisp Pita Soccer, and I 'd vouch for the scrolling being jerkier. This is all alleviated by the new optioes, which might convince Fite completists to go for it. but personally, I'd spend bard cash

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do like a game of bootie. especially on a console. Although I was looking forward to this latest Pita Soccer. I must admit to being a little disappointed. The players eosin to be smaller and end IS dolaNed as in previosis elliellieletors, and the crowd Sestue sipper to have diminished somewhat as wi it is ridiculously difﬁcult to tackle essplisme without fouling them. The custom tosses option is a cool idea and enh the fun when playing with friends, but on whole it doesn't feel as 'complete' as the others. Still a geed game COMMENTthough.1141110INTIEVE 1(AmitssatarsLkarrsztanyALOVERALL, seidrevenatiV'es 'complete as Fifa '95. GS ter that screensPresentidiseinstead.MIG1348havebeenimprovedbutoverall,thegraphics don t seem as reﬁned. ' 916 M SEGA 75

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With the goal celebrations in the Premier League becoming more choreographed than ever before. have added a whole host dances pigs when player scores. scorers a paticularly good goal, and even the Klinsmann dive is in there as well! The post goal noises are back, and by pressing each button after a score, the familiar shouts may not I

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the game plays with Intrusive borders that limit the screen size. If, however, you select 'arcade' option, the whole display turns to right angles, using all of the screen. Of course you have to turn your TV on its side to match it, which is only really convenient if you have a portable.

Ilikesoy. this takes me back. Pond memories of wasted afternoons hunched before horribly primitive versions of this game came ﬂooding back. A lots happened since those days. OK. I still haven't got a life. but gaming has come ON a bit. As immediately playable as this is ithe back-ﬁring homing I are especially good fun) it just isn't sophisticated or big enough to warrant a place on your shelf of Saturn games. There motet enough levels, there Isn't enough weaponry and the variety seems to mainly stem from changes in scenario. All this could have been enpasadimi set without harming the gameplay MIS jet. I'm sticking to my fond

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There are only two weapon functions in Layer Section, roughly equating with shoot and bomb. The shot is vertical, with no way of altering the trajectory, and is simple enough. The bombing laser is slightly more complex - a crosshair placed ahead of your craft automatically locks on to targets, which will be traced by your multiple laser discharges. The more you powerup, the more targets you can lock on simultaneously.to The laser is also useful for reaching targets far in backgroundthe that your shotsconventionalcan'treach.

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It's sloe to got back to some concentrated. nose poncy gaming for a Otsego. but this is also patently limited for the Saturn. Layer Section represents a nostalgia trip back to simplistic blasters with sprite-littered screens. Each game is a short ﬁx of Megadeath, with the occasional funky effect to remind you you're playing a next generatioo machine. Despite these, the games lick el sophistication ore extra weapons and limited customisatien to the existing ones drives away attention. Sonic& Ily it's very overage and visually its more SNES 1993 than Sega 1995. Enjoyable up to a point but not totem forward-looking.

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toon creations. the Hebereke are a bizarre collection of ﬂuffy midgets and marshmallows in baseball caps. There may be some greater signiﬁcance which the language harrier presents, but Is lost on us. They're hell of a cute bunch anyway.

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than play on own. And the fact it took about two goes to crack the eight stages was mighty unimpressive. The two-player game is also decidely underbaked. There seems a limited range of attacks, and the initial one — the only one realistically possible on a regular basis — has no visible effect! Couple this with the bizarre Ossiﬁes. as blocks stay suspended if attached to others at the side, and you're left with quite an average puzzle game.

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When you tire of the Heberekes• cute antics, further your amusement with them by inﬂicting mindless acts of violence.

Hebereke provides more than its fair share of sugary sweetness, but it's bizarre enough for even the most cynical adults to enjoy. Simplistic sprites trundle about the screen, and there's always a crowd of little characters doing their own thing as you play. Utterly lacking in style, yet strangely cool.

Things take, in our estimation, a more interesting turn in two-player battle mode. The screen divides into two troughs, with players trying to avoid their blobs reaching the top, again by linking groups of four, He who lasts longest wins the round. The opportunity for some excitement comes from creating chain reactions of exploding blocks. This is rewarded by an attack pod, punted across to your opponent to cause some distress

Kolibri has some natural predators who are too large to tackle and are untroubled by his ﬁrepower. Fortunately these amphibious forms - frogs and lizards - don't pursue the brave bird, but their probing tongues have a sticky and deadly kiss!

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Kolibri stands Out as a particularly charming game in the visual stakes. A Michelle Pfeiffer of console games that promises much but never quite gets Its kit off, with few climaxes across its clutch of levels. There's a constant, steep level of challenge and a steady ﬂow of airborne enemies, with new varieties steadily introduced to maintain the interest level. And interest is maintained, just about, as you try and get the right power-up to suit the right set of enemies, and try to negotiate each tight bend and cavern. But I felt the game lacked a little something, and my best guess is that as so many of the weapons are aimed automatically, most of what you are expected to do is avoid the enemies' That's not quite as much fun as killing your own, so Kolibri is played more defensively than aggressively. Nice game, though.

good nor poor, the effects are delmitely ﬁt for a shoot em up Novotrade's stockin-trade, a good control feel is much in evidence

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I never enjoyed Ecco the Dolphin - the puzzles had me baffled, the controls wound me up and the music sent me to sleep. As soon as I started playing Kolibri I was overcome with a strange I deja vv. Kolibri shares much the same feel as his seaborne predecessor, although he's thankfully not quite such a dedicated pacifist. The hassle of simply keeping your firebreathing hummingbird airborne and alive is comparoble to the hassle of maintaining Ecco's air supply. It's a drag„ and it detracts from what is otherwise a fairly engaging game. Kolibri's real strengths are its beautiful graphics, smooth parallaz and intricately drawn hordes of hovering enemies. Unfortunately. the whole &Heir is just a bit too well mannered, and ultimately frustrates in all the wrong ways and places.

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completely ignore the Game Gear for months on end. then all of a sudden they start to release top games by the bucketload. Oh. sod Sonic Labyrinth. (Cu. that crappy. patronising music that Simon Bates used to play on his radie programme when reading out sad stories. Could this he tido machine going out with. bang? The end of Game Gear as we know it? Our little black box of tricks is nearing the end of the road. Let us all seek harmony and comfort as (Enough! We get the picture - Gust. Or maybe they just decided to release a few more 'tames than usual? So many questions and so few answers. •it. despite these teasers. one thing remains: the games. The lastest gem to roll off the Sega bandwagon is Arena.

RESPONSIVENESSSKILLPASSWORDCONTINUESWELLDIFFICULTYCONTROLJOYPADGAMEMDLEVELSEACEUINTAunique(fortheGameGeariisometricpuzzleadventuretypethueg [Don't move or I'll shoot! The further you get into the game the more weapons become available, You start with a standard gun and a knife but by collecting the relevant icons your weapons will upgrade. Also on offer are 3•way laser, single laser, grenades/dynamite and a mega powerful barook a type gun. SEIM um= I 1HI van a 01111WeristFenny-ette-orloYlemgeomagaa 0-111iNOUri t -11-11,32]_ rim] Level be L. 111•11•".StaL%You start the game in an old abandoned warehouse crawling with baddies. Then you move on to sewers, chemical plants, caverns and even a tube station. There are the usual array of baddies to accompany each level with standard robot men inhabiting the warehouses and slime monstors oozing around the sewer levels, but you knew that already, right?

The game itself has been in development for eighteen months or so. with Sega making sure that everything is as polished as could be. We are promised twenty levels of "amazing Isometric graphics," and a multitude of "weapons and enemies." But does it deliver Wite goods? Only we haw, the answers. -

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Die Hard - With a Game Gear. If you've ever wanted to demolish warehouses teeming with terrorists then your chance has come. This is one of the most impressive, and broad. games roe ever seen on this format, with a well balanced mix of strategy and action. A wide variety of weaponry and scenarios make up for some rather predictable and docile baddies and none of the puzzles are beyond a bit of lateral thinking.

ilt=lise best deal. Highly recommended.

The most surprising thing abseil this absorbing title is that it was originally conceived for the Illegadrive. before development was switched to the Game Gear. Quite why is anyone's guess, but this is one occasion where Game Gear owners

I was looking forward to doing some really big games this month so when I was given Arena. I have to admit I thought it would be another pile of Game Gear rubbish. But wait! This is a top game and make no mistake about it. The , isometric view is awesome / and really works well,a despite being on such a small screen, and the standard ell the graphics is high which complement It as well. The baddies are a I bit static really. but that is Only a minor gripe. I also really enjoyed doing the , puzzles and trying to work out which switch opened which door. This is arm of the few Game Gear titles that I want ilei come back and play. Ince. lent Stuff.

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During the game if you press start, a screen will pop up informing you of your energy, armour levels, lives, and score. But most importantly is the ability to change your current weapon. By simply hitting left or right you will cycle through all the weapons currently at your disposal. Once you have selected the desired gun, simply resume the game.

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level, you should be in the posession of some dynamite (hit button 2 to check). Around the aforementioned stage, certain sections of the wall will be a pink colour. Chuck some dynamite at them and, lo and behold, secret doors appear. There are a couple of bonus rooms, but you cannot ﬁnish the level without destroying a certain part of one wall. Keep 'ern

are in the game, even the newest White Ranger (wool). What this means is that there are many different moves for you to see with each character. And every time you beat one of the bosses he comes back and you ﬁght him as Megazord. In case you don't know, he's the sum of their combined powers, So you did know after all eh? Secrets out, saddo. Some of the characters you ﬁght along the way include Golder, Beam Caster and Hornitron (ahem).

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ra-PLAYERSRELEASE: OCTOBER MEG• 4 2-1 PRICE. E21.99 SEGA GAME TYPEARAT 'EM UP The presentation screens are s well dons. A few frames of note but not muchNotreally any good - just gets too repetitive 611 OK to start with Geis boring quickly though Cr ro, Jr-4 a COMMENT eli smowquit• as the n seen bee with the repetitalso didn't like the all the moves are the for each character: If y a fireball with button 1 the White Ranger it will Rangers. Not a good I Kombat series, in Her than this s ty of character.DIFFER!Bac• for ai sisposallfightersTheSableonly Kt' e best progr me in the world is it? And now they've gone and made a film about it as well. Fancy actors dress in tight-fitting costumes bash the hell out of puppets from Jim H 's Creature Workshiep. Great fun. Not that I've seen it or anything, oh no. Ahem! Well despite a minor flaw - its crap - Sega feel it is an ideal concept to make a game Out of and that is exactly what they have done. Onward Rangers! I hew ire three types of tome on Oils cart. Otte is the standard versus beat 'ertilltb option a la Struitg1 l PMsirteOtthedv;iir

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simply playing games. Marcus takes a look at the ﬁrst step in the machine's development...

More sophisticated controls, displaying most of the gimmicky functions, are accessed through the basic toolbar. The only lasting use this set of functions has is the index skip facility, useful for lumping to your favourite bit of or favourite track on a concert.

The VideoCD card's basic functions are outlined on screen by pressing 'A' on the jawed. Be careful to keep the 'fast forward' button pressed down ﬁrmly - nearly every time we pressed it it had the effect of returning the disc to its intro sequence.

On. of the **vantages the Saturn has over its 32-bit competitors is its size. Indeed, prise open the liftle flap at OM beck of the machine and you'll find that a groat degree of your noechine's innards are taken up by, well, pretty much nothing. The reasoning behind this is Saga's wish to see the machine ennive as more than simply a games platform. The first stag. in realising this wish is the imminent release of the Saturn VideoC0 Card. This little silver gizmo pops into the empty space at the back of your machine, thus making it MPEG compatible. This basically means that the Saturn when armed with the peripheral, will be able to play back all discs bearing the VideoCD mark. Any compact discs that are encoded to the 'white book' standard as opposed to CDi Digital Video, which is encoded to 'green book') will be fair game, which includes all bar the earliest films, music videos and documentaries enjoyed by owners of the Philips COI system.Philipsfirst launched the format in autumn 1993. and there are currently around 250 titles on the UK market. These range from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' fin fact. VideoCD Is the only format the film is currently available on) to pervy sex 'education' documentaries.Ifyou'reconsidering upgrading your Saturn, you have to decide whether VideoCD is preferable to VHS. VideoCD offers a smaller storage medium, digital sound la definite plus for music videos or films like 'Pink Floyd - The Wall') and such amusing gimmicks as picture strobing and being able to skip to whatever section of a disc you like. On the down side, a maximum of 72 minutes of picture can be encoded to each disc, meaning films usually come on two discs. Price is also a negative factor, with films costing between E15 and £20. The area where most debate has raged, however, is picture quality. While VideoCD has distinct benefits over VHS - namely increased durability and the absence of colour blurring - some distortion during fast-moving sequences can be glimpsed on poorly encoded discs. Over the coming months, we'll be helping you make up your minds with reviews of all the latest VideoCDs. In the meantime the Saturn VideoCO card will be hitting the shops any day now at a retail price of E170. It comes bundled with a CD featuring an extended 'director's cut' of the current Saturn cinema advert and a sampler of the 17 music videos currently available in the Polygram range So, shall we see what's on TV tonight?

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1.This picture of Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) in his tab 70s gear from the second Naked Gun film seems ripe for some closer examination. First, pause the picture STROBO By selecting the strobo feature you can, whereonture.essentialsfast-movingvals,timeframefunctionyou'restrobeunsurprisingly,whateverwatching.Thehighlightsaofactionataovershortinter-givingyouthejudderyofyourpic-Prettyuselessfilmsofconcertsthere'slittlehappening (that's the first Star Trek movie and any Dire Straits gig out of the question, then) but the effect can be quite amusing on action-packed sequences. Fonunately. the novelty usually wears off before a migraine sets in. 2. Select the zoom function. lo mt. 166. 1 • i••Pioll 3. With the zoom facility on screen, go in on the picture by pressing the 'right button on the top of your joypad. noddaDCoihciVsagieS

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You guessed it, thl you perform close tips selected areas of the ture. This sounds like q a promising idea for c ﬁlms, but in practise ev thing tends to dissolve into digitised porridge upon any close examination.

allows you to ﬁddle about with the picture, via your joypad, in all sorts of timewasting manners. Aside from being able to 'fast forward', 'rewind', slow down or pause the picture, you're also able to indulge in all sorts of digital iiggery pokery that doesn't come with most VHS machines.

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p until now, there have only really been two options if you watch VideoCDs. Firstly, you could buy one of from Philips' troubled CD i range. By the time you is there'll be four on the market, all of which require Video cartridge to enable MPEG compatibility. Philo midge costs around E180 on its own, and the four CDi. achines currently available cost between E300 and E600 w e cartridge included. other option is that you ﬁddle about with your multi ac or PC's innards and make the machine compatible. cessary gear will probably cost around the some as ide0CD card, but you'll have to have real high end ma watching ﬁlms at all worthwhile. the Saturn's cost, it currently looks like probably attractive VideoCD option around.

4. Frank Drebin collared. The box at the top right of the screen shows the position of your 'zoom' in relation to the rest of the screen.

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The gags are likely to upset die-hard Trekkers, but everyone else should appreciate the warm atmosphere and sharp pace.

STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE (1979)

Atmospheric, but poorly paced and eclipsed by nearly every Trek ﬁlm that came in its wake

INTERSECTION (1994)

Director Nicholas Meyer rescued Trek's reputation on the first of several occasions with this scaled down sequel. A follow-up to the television episode Space Seed, over-the-top villain Ricardo Montalban returns with an impossibly fine-tuned physique and demonic charisma. Sadly, the same can't be said for certain members of the Enterprise crew. Scotty (in the form of the rapidly ballooning James Doohan) in particular seems to have undergone plastic surgery to make him look older since the first film, Despite all this. Star Trek II is cracking stuff which involves the characters in emotional conflicts which are perfectly balanced with some undeniably impressive effects work

Eddie Murphy on top form recreating his best role. The discs are occasionally spoiled, however, poor encoding.

By the time this was made, Eddie Murphy's career had been severely damaged by a string of flops and his box-office drawing power was fading fast. This time round, it wasn't so much in question whether he could recreate the magic of the first Beverly Hills Cop movie, but whether anyone would be watching to find out. Director John Landis actually delivers a witty and stylish film, streets ahead of Beverly Hills Cop II, which concentrates on Murphy's attempts to bust a counterfeiting ring run by the security guards in a theme park. The film's explosive climax, which takes place on the rides in Wonderland, is superb. If you get bored, however, you can always watch out for famous cameos from the likes of George Lucas, Joe Dante and Ray Harryhausen.

Director Leonard Nimoy's talent for comedy (he had already handled the acclaimed Three Men and a Baby( came to the fore with this. the most irreverent Star Trek movie of them all. In a plot which echoes the first Star Trek film, the crew find their journey home after The Search for Spock sidelined to 1987 San Francisco. Being forced to pass the Vulcan off as a Sixties drug casualty is one of the funniest moments in a script which never lets its heavy eco theme get in the way of a good laugh, Nicholas Meyer had a hand in the script which, although a bit sentimental, made this film the most accessible to non fans,

When rich architect Richard Gere drifts apart from his wife Sharon Stone (What? Is the man mad?) he finds himself attracted to Lolita Daviclovitch. We've never heard of her either, but she goes some way towards livening up this ponderous TV movie-style affair, which gets even further bogged down when Stone and Gere begin feeling guilty about the effect all this is having on their young daughter. The most striking thing about the Intersection discs are that they're the only ones we've looked at that are in the widescreen format, not that you'd know it from the packaging, Why Philips chose the widescreen treatment for this film, while they released the Star Trek films in horrible panned and scanned versions, is mystifying to say the least. In case you're interested, Intersection is based on a 1970 French film called Les Choses de la Vie (The Things of Life), you're not. Neither were we, Dull romantic melodrama for Gore and Stone fans only. And there are better films by both out there,

STAR TREK III THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK ( 1 984)

Less was deﬁnitely more here. One of the tightest and most involving Trek movies.

Although this is certainly an impressive-looking film by late Seventies' standards, it retrospect Star Trek The Motion Picture is one of the weakest entries in the series. Unfamiliar additional crew-members and unflattering uniforms contribute to an atmosphere that doesn't quite capture the essence of the television series, Worse than all this, however, is the fact the film (directed by Hollywood veteran Robert Wise) is over-long and very ponderous.

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STAR TREK IV THE VOYAGE (1986)

Although the pointy-eared one was absent from much of this ﬁlm, Leonard Nimoy made his presence felt behind the scenes as director. Highlights likely to reduce Trekkers to tears include the 'rebirth' of Spook on the planet Genesis (surely no-one really thought he was dead) and the destruction of the USS Enterprise after Kirk is put in an impossible position by some typically unreasonable Klingons As the ﬁlms continued to focus more on the characters and less on their technology, this entry perhaps took the process a little too far too quickly. It now seems untocussed and forgettable.

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Only one character is added, Captain Sawada, and several more interesting favourites have disappeared. The game uses digitised sprites that resemble the characters from the god .awful ﬁlm. Althought these are fair translations, they don't look half as good as the old cartoon style. the backdrops are, however, a complete mess. Grainy, dark representations of 'scenes' from the movie, that look more limp than a week old lettuce. Gameplay-wise the whole thing is devastatingly unremarkable and quite slow to boot. Why Acclaim, who have both X-Men and MK2 on their books shoved this out is beyond us lesser mortals.

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Three months after our import review, and our comments on Clockwork Knight 2 are like a re-run of our comments on the original. Basically we don't care too much for either. That's because we're not seven or eight year olds, who must think games like this are fab. It's all fancy graphics and funny characters. That's Just the problem — it is all that and little else. To be fair, Clockwork Knight does have a damned sight more gameplay than Clocky 1, but still not enough in the way of thought-out challenge. The bosses are extremely impressive: especially the bathroom boss. But none take more than a couple of goes to defeat, and after that rit their pattern is predictable.The addition of a playing-card quest, does make overall completion considerably tougher, but the feeling of shallow pervades.gameplayItmight both

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Virtua Fighter is the greatest console beat 'em up, and this Rem ix version at a snip, tidies up some of the bits AM2, the creators, had to leave in the original. When we saw the original, we thought it a testament to the Saturn's power, but Remtx goes beyond that, In essence, all changes are cosmetic, An end to glitching and impressive new texture-mapping on all backdrops and characters. It's amazing how fresh the game looks for it. All the moves are the same as the original, but as a stop-gap before the awesome VF 2. this is quite tempting,

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The term 'robot' was actually coined by a 1920s Hungarian playwright, using a slavic word for repetitive, tedious labouring work to describe the work of mechanical devices. And what an apt title for Sega to choose for this repetitive, tedious Doom-clone, which must be the dullest game for the machine.

YOB:The 32X CD is simply the whole kaboodle Magedrive. Mega CD and 32X in one, and the games are on CD format. It's not a separate machine. But check before you buy any of the 'games' that they are indeed what you want, otherwise you may end up a crying, blithering heap on the ﬂoor muttering to yourself about how bad the 0-Zone layer is. About Snatcher, I think I had better things to do on my birthday.

YOB:Thank you Mr freemuch-as-l-can-in-the-hope-of-a-Arse-lick-as.Saturn.Ithinkyouwantto

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calm down a bit before you end doing something unpleasant in your 'if-fronts. I'll admit that it's a great machine, but you can't generalise by saying everything else is crap. In the meantime wait for some more titles to come out or you may start running out of clean

You sexist pig! I am referring to your comments from issue 37, about the sad case 'boy' Keith Watson and his girlfriend who has much more sense than you. You are deﬁnitely one of the nerds and anoraks she mentioned seeing as you get paid to play games. I am not talking about the other members d Mean Machines. who I am sure a're only in it for the money and have social lives, but you are sad case. who

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You puny and pathetic readers succumbedhaveto the power that is YOB. No one is daring to write letters. What's the matter? Am I too hard for you? Frightened that I might rip off your heads with my little ﬁnger. bung it through a mincer and send it to your parents in an envelope? I have suspected this l•r a while and can't say it's a surprise. You lot are about as useful as a spasmic sphincter. Despite this, I ant willing to give you one last chance to prove you can write, before this page becomes the Margaret Shelley and Paul Keates appreciation society. Send your ornate scribblings to:YOB'S WELL 'ARD MAILBAG. MEAN MACHINES

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my dismay over the publicity that the Sony (puke) Playstation is getting in a certain, so called Sega magazine, le YOURSI Imagine the shock I got when I flicked through the pages of my beloved MMS Iissue 36) and saw (angry tone) a leaflet publicising a potential Saturn killer, the Playstation. Although I threw it away. I am still wondering why you put it in your brilliant magazine. Was there a cash endorsement by the Sony promotional team? I am not going to call you a traitor for two reasons: 1) I believe you and your team were brain-washed by mysterious Sony freaks and 2) (which is more believable) it was put there by accident by spotty teenage freaks who work in my local Sainsbury's. I myself am a Saturn owner so you see my Also,concern.there are a lot of biased comments in some next generation magazines, supporting the (doesn't it sound so childish) Playstation, and constantly (in my opinion) slagging off the 'inferior' Saturn, and always saying that )one track) Ridge Racer is superior to (the 3 track wonder) Daytona USA. BULL! Jamie tjamot Cunningham, Luton. YOB:I have a question for you. Have you ever heard of a full stop? You know, that small round thing that shows when a sentence has finished. Look, there's one. And another. Actually they're probably about the same size as your knob. Who cares why the leaflet was there? Nobody ever reads them days,mytheP.S.findCDsystemnothowever,andFORKanywayINASUGARBOWLDearYobamtheproudownerofaMegadrive.Mega-CDand32X.Ihaveheardaboutthe32XCD,the32XCDgames.Iam,confusedbecauseIdoknowifthisisaseparateorrunsthroughtheMega.anditwouldbeofgreatrelieftooutaboutit.Haveyouplayed'Snatcher'onMegaCDbecauseIhaditforbirthdayandIfinisheditin4whatdoyouthink?

Karl Di.xon,

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women like turd& There is no way in the world a girl should be dumped over a copy of Virtue Fighter. So if the girl in question is reading, ditch him first, and find yourself a man with a life and who doesn't wear an anorak, Kelly Graham, Birkinhead, Liverpool YOB:Here we go The first of the YOB the sexist letters. If any of you girls are reading who were thinking of writing, don't bother. Haven't you got some ironing to do instead? Go arid do the dishes or something, or scrub the crusty crap stains from round the toilet In short, stop hassling me end get lost And I am fust in it for the money You don't think I write this crap for fun, do you?

ScotlandBy - Ok-Aya-The-N000l

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the ones at Glastonbury, and then lick them clean with your tongue That would provide the explanation as to why you have breath that smells like the rear end of a camel, and a tongue that is so caked in cack that the Dulux dog almost put it a a can of paint called Evans Brown

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boring old title for the past two years. Time for a change lads and lasses. Anyway, that's not my reason for writing. I recall that in March when you printed my last letter you said that if a game don't get a review then it's total crap. Well I'm not to sure about this. I have recently bought Fl: World Championship Edition, which I think is great (I'm an Fl nutter you see), and I would be pleased to see a review. I want to know what you think of it. Anyway, cheers and stuff, Catcha' later.

PS Where's my extra 25p gone?

YOB:Ho,London

though you have the )rains of a cheese sandwich and he wit of a baboon's backside I thought I'd write to you anyway. I would like to know why your hair is so naff and why you always dribble in your pictures? Oh, and I wrote a limerick for you: There was a young man called Mean Yob, Who always dribbled his gob, He had the looks of a pear, And stupid naff hair, With all the brains of my knob. Not bad 'ay, hope you like it. would hate myself forever if I didn't say that you were the most tiny and weedy thing it has ever been my misfortune to lay eyes on.

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Ho. Wry bloody funny. Must have taken you years to come up with that. Did you know that your name is an anagram of Smel a Levi, That's probably what you do for a living - you check the cess pits of the Earth (not Including your home) especially

(I'm talking about the cover price' PPS Lend us MO.

William Evans, West Hampsted,

Edition was not different enough from ﬂ (Non. championship Edition) to be worth reviewing. But talk about spooky. No sooner had we changed our logo, than this letter landed on my desk And as for your 25p I could give you the usual Wag about rising paper costs and inﬂation in general, but instead I'll tell you that it's paying for my latest home In the tropics complete with sauna and swimming pool. That's made losing it all the more worthwhile hasn't it?

Your greatest fan in South Africa, &tie Ames. Cape Town, South GUS:l.Arrice

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1. What happened to the Discworld game for the Saturn, as I have heard it will odron the Playstation in September"

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Probably, but I make it policy to completely ignore Action Replay stuff. 2. Keep reading MEAN MACHINES - you're part of a club. 3. Make him an ex-friend quick' The game sucks. 4. Sorry, you seem to have come over all funny. S. By looking at the background. There on the Tsang Sung stage 6 Genesis the American name for Megadrive. 7. Please, aren't you just three years out of date? MEGADRIVE, you pants.

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6 Doe,. playing the Saturn by scan make the picture better or is it lust a different way to play from the RF Chris,cable?Sandbach, Cheshire,

Thankscost? -Please print this PR.Keates, Gospri, Hants.

1. I am thinking of getting a Saturn. Should I sell my Megadrive and save up for a bit or should I save up and keep the Megadrive?It would take longer, but I've got a lot of games for a. But on the other hand, a saidfewt

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4 When will the Saturn mouse be released, and how much will this particular piece of merchandise

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5. My mate Arran said Try------v that Mortal Kombat 3 - ,was going to be based on the ﬁlm. Is this true or is he just talking crap? lain Wilson, Forgetshire, GUS Well the ﬂow of 'letters is so high, but we do our best.Ans

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2. I havu a games coever (the mag) e is dying. ve 2, with 22 • new titles), is boxed in excellent ri How much do you think I should ask for it if I was to sell it?

3. Will there be any Star Wars games on the Saturn like Dark 4.Forces?Does the Saturn version of Micro Machines have a construction kit?

1. Once the Saturn is released will Sega 'II make good 32X games?

is of no use to anyoriel. Could you please answer the following questions for me.1.Is there any cheats or Action Replay codes for the Lion King? 2. Is there a game club which I could join? 3. Is General Chaos any good? My friend told me to buy that game? 4, How ﬁnd Ermac in Mortal Konibet 1 and 2? 5. How do you ﬁnd Sonya and Kano in Mortal Kombat 2?

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2. In issue 36 you informed your readers about the possibility of renting a Saturn for E10 from their local Blockbuster video store. Unfortunately you neglected to mention that they would have fork out an extra E200 deposit Were you aware of this?

7. Which machine is better, SNES

Anyway. Yes to 1. Someyour excellent 32X stuff in evelopment. 2. There is Virtue Star Wars for the and Super Return of the Jodi is Game Gear bound. That's all at Park, Street Racer, SSF 2, Judge Dredd, Ristar. think they guy who came up with that revolting idea was quickly disembowelled. He is, as friends commonly are, talking posh. Gus, Dale BIT Megadrive, then game owns with

years old. I am the a 16

Dear PleaseGuscould you answer these questions or I'll - NO I will not fall into the sad lad gang and say or I'll rip your head off"

3. There may be a gun-pack option, but certainly a single pack will come out.

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3. Will Vinua Cop on the Saturn be. rel with a gun, as was Lethal Ent ars when it was released on the Megadriveri If not, how much will the gun set me back?

4. I heard that there was going to be a Splatter House 4.1s this true because In my opinion this game should just crawl away and die?

B. But on Mission 3, as you exit o of the small base, whose func unknown and you are told to investigate, the game just resets. Is there a certain 'Fail Safe'in the game that stops these cheats working or have I just got hold of another duff of a game from a truly unreliable shop?

admit I wiot. The story came to me through 'contacts'. Still, it is only a deposit. You do intend to take it back, don't you?

Yours most faithfully, Andy Martin, tottleborough. GUS.The cheats that we printed previously - level passwords, had no such effects See if the game does this without your cheats. Is so, it's a trip downt' shops for youlad.

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Oh masterful Gus, Please print this letter because the last two I sent weren't printed. I've got a couple of questions for you (well actually about ﬁve).

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5. Will the Saturn be any cheaper after Chilstmas?

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ibility. 4_ The Saturn version has van been started 5 I have no ide SCART is a lot better than RE 's why Sega bundled it. Sony are crowing about handing out RE cables with the Playstation_ Dead smart —1993 machine and 1965 picture technology.DearGus,Pleasecould

1. I heard that a portable Megadrive called a Nomad is coming out in the USA. Will it come out in the UK? If yes, when?

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"I 3. What has happened to the ManUtd_ game? I haven't seena review but it's out in the shops A. When will Total Football be 5.released?Whydon't you put all of the Saturn news, reviews and previews m a heemri pull ev with their handheld mag called Go!' Please print my letter, less I might be forced

to stop buying Machines and but 5, MatthewSega94.sonte16,1Power.Thomas, Wales. GUS:I. Despite the wild claims of the emottio al raftriffplans for a UK N • ad release yet. 2. You know e than me, matey, I've n eard of IL 3. It ma v lust a little too °moots with Fever Pitch or Fife. Dumped by Ocean_ 4_ Looking like a dead loss too. 5. Because,..Gol was crap and why bother. It's not as if you're getting any more pages. See. your little bit of blackmail followingDearCLUTCHworked.Gus,ddrPleasecouldyouanswerthequestioasIthink your mag is 'TOP S' 1. I thinking of getting a Saturn h n st mas• Would I be able to use my Megadrive's RF cablefor the Saturn as I don't have a scart TV? 2. Why haven't Sega included a level select cheat for Sonic qr 3.Knuckles?Inmost of my issues of Mean Machines Sega, I noticed that you leave sentences unfinished. Why is 4.this?What do you think of Red Zone as I intend getting it next due to being E20? 5 When will we get to see so screenshots of X-perts on the 6.Megadrive?WilltheSilicon Graphics in X Perts be as good as se in Donkey Kong Cou on the 7.SNES?,Wiltthere talanother platform Sonic for the Meagdrive, as I have the relit and love 'em? PautDanyluk, Hahtax. GuEl.No you'll have to buy one. Before the moans c think — are you out of your amazing m ith cruddy picture and cr Demand. SCART TV! 2. Maybe they wantedjeste,r916 once, that people Id play through the game. 3. Really? I wasn't aware of that , taking 1 4. I think Red Zone was on. of the it' best games of 1994. You'd be very wise to get it. 5. When Sega give their official meg some_ Honestly, we've seen 6.nothing.Irefer the right honourable gentleman to the answer I gave 7earlierI'dlike to think so, but I have no canndetai would make a cool More brightened.lives Next month's ObA will be just as fibre-filled as it has always been. Keep regular.h/IIVISEGA 95 -10•11

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you answer my questions.1.WillCasper be Out on the 2.Megadrive?WillRidge Racer be out on the 3.Saturn?What is the best game on the 4.Saturn?How much will the Saturn be by 5_Christmas?Canyou name these games from best to worst: Panzer Dragoon, Daytona USA, Virtue Fighter Remix, Pebble Beach Golf, Clockworla 6.kKnight.WillMega CD games wort on th MattheweSaturn? Cowley, Hastings. GUS:1. Nope. 2. Maybe_ 3 Virtue Fighter or Daytona. 4. E399 is the current asking price There is no news of any price change 5. Hummm, I hate lists — Ramie, Daytona, Panzer, Pebble, Clockwork. 6. They will most certainly not. You don't run a jaguar on lighter fuel_

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Please will you answer my questions in your ace mag that I , have always been reading since the early days of Mean Maehines.

2. I also understand that a similar device to the Super GameBoy is

meGear games on your Megiadrove. Will it come out here and when? --

LEI.Sompros 95 £17. Virtua Racing E20,coil Richard on 01202 513062.

MEGADRIVE for sale, 18 games including SFII. VR, Sonic 2. 4 joypods, over 30 MC090Zine5, £250 ono. Phone Woody on 0121 778 6388.

MDGAMES for sole: Virtue Racing, worth E70 sell for 1.30. EA Hockey and J Madden £10 each. Mortal kombot. PGA

MEGA DRIVE and Mega CD for sale, 4 pads (two 6-button), MS Converter, 4 way play. joystick, 24 games In total plus Action Replay, sell for £250. Call 01252 621645 (Fleet. Hants) ask for MEGAStuort.DRIVE and 32X for sal., 12 great games including Fever Pitch, Star Wars Arcade, Jimmy White's Snooker, 3 joypods and loads of mogs. Worth £650, sell for E275. Ring James on 01482 563757.

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GAMEGEARgames: Mickey N. M Kombat, Fantasy Z, Krusty, Tefminator. Olympic G. Axe 8, E,5 eachill TV Tuner £151 Plus cowry cases,AC adaptor, £71 Plush Battery pack £71 Game Gear E251 5 game cart (Sonic, Monaco. Columns, Pacrnan. Woody P) E71 Whole lot £1001. Daniel 01883 343835.

plus 32X plus 10 of the best: Doom. MKII 32X. VR Deluxe, NSetol Head, Fred Couples Quarterback Club 32X. Micro Machines 2, Theme Pork, Sorn 96. Lemmings 2. 3 control pods £250 the lot. May split - call Gcveth on 01480 460124.

AMERICANMEGADRIVE and American Mega CD OW 2 Arcade Power Sticks and 5 games: FIFA 95. NBA Jam. Loridstalker and Anal Fight CD. Good condition, fullyboxed. E200. Phone David 0181 459 4152 after 5prn.

SEGAMEGADRIVE, 3 pads, one 6-button. 15 cartridge gome holder. 13 games Including Story of Thor. Theme Park, Bombormon, Urban Strike, Streets of Rage 2, Sonic 3. etc. Worth £600, bargain at £250 - consider split. Phone after 6prn01484 658826.

MEGADRIVE and Mego CD for sale, Menocer, arcade stick 6-button, 3-button joypad. 15 games including Mortal Kombot 2, FIFA 95. 6 Mega Cl) games Including Night Trap. Will sell for £350. Ring Martin (016487) 51653. Co. Tyrone. Northern Ireland. only after opm on FORweekdays.SALEMegadrive, Mega CD, Mego32X, all boxed with instructions with lots

2, NHL 93, Rood Rash 2 arid Sonic 2 E15 each. Also cheaper games for sale. Phone 0181 783 0536.

Buyer must collect (Edinburgh). Worth over E1500, sell for L650-E500. Hurry to avoid disoppointrnent. All boxed except Megadrive. month old. MEGADRIVEgames for salon! FIFA 95 and Micro 2 E25 and Sank 3 E20, all gameslike new. Simon - 01932 882321.

32X.MEGADRIVE with Metal Head, Star Wars, two joypads plus one 6-button, 3 Megadrive games inc. FIFA. £200. Call Tim (Birminghorn) 471 2378.

MDGAMES to swap, loads, MKII, AtM2. Pete Sarnpros, etc. Master System II. light gun, 16 games. v.g.c. 01443 835492. MEGADRIVE and 32X for sole with four pads and 19 games, sell for £275. Phone 01484 666411 ask for James.

MDGAMES for sole: Mortal kombat 2 E18, PGA 3 E,20. FIFA 95 £16, Mego Bomber Mon £20. SFCE E10. Super Thunderbichde £3, Brian lara's Cricket E23. NHL 93 E7, NH1 95 £18. Rood Rosh 3 £23. All Boxing

SEGAMEGADR1VE 32X. 6 button turbo and joystick, multi player tap. 12 top games including Doom, Virtuo Racing , NBADeluxe.Jam.MortalKombot IL Perfect condition £275 ono. Tel 01392 423952 Friday to WANTEDSunday.-TETRIS for the Mogadrive. Cash waiting, will collect. Phone 01522 514685 after opm.

MEGADRIVE and games for sole. games Include Cannon Fodder, Mego Bombermon, Story of Thor and Micro Machines 2. Gameboy games also for sale. If interested Phone Jon on 0181 386

Collection, all on CD and games such as Two Tribes, NHLPA 93, Sensible Soccer, Madden 94 and 9 others, all for £180. Call Maidstone 0589 169307.

FOR1634.SALE, Sinclair +2A, lightgun, numerous games. also 6 lightgun games. E100 ono. Also for sale Atari 5205TE. a few games, mouse. 2 joysticks. boxed, £200 ono. 0141 649 8912 (buyer collects).

GAMEGEAR, 6 games. ShInobi 2. Street of Rage 2, Wimbledon, Out Run Europa. etc. Good condition, battery pock. magniﬁer glass, charger. carry case, will sell for £135. Phone 0181 550 0991 or open to offers. Ring for good deal.

JAPANIME cartoons for sale, titles include %mato. Samurai Showdown, Fatal Fury, Final Fontasy, Dro,gonball, Demon CityInvasion and more. Bas 0181 672 3054.

MEGADRIVE with 5 games £70, or swap for Come Gear with any games. Uxbridge 01895 813909.

4SALE!MD1 and MCD1 with 15 games, 10 CD. 5 MD. Includes Tomcat Alley, Sonic CD,Thunderhawk, etc, worth E.650E700, sell for E,310 ono. Willing to split things and compromise. Ring 01943 463143 (Otley. W Yorks) ask for Cohn. DAYTONAUSA ofﬁcial UK version game in top condition with instructions, E,25. Phone 01926 330996.

MEGADRIVE, 2 years old, dust cover which holds Megadrive and games pads. 3 joypads, 1 programme poor. many mags, 31 games including MK2, SF2SCE. FIFA. Quick sale, £325 ono. Contact Barry on 01480 414021.

MEGADRIVE European Cup Soccer and Shadow of the Beast, used twice. LIO each. Call Thomas 01423 322518.

MD(Birmingham).plusﬁvegames like Golden Axe and Eternal Champions, all boxed, also Includes two 6-button pads worth £12 each. Worth E190, sell for E110 ono. Also cheap MD and MS games. all boxed. Phone 01803 323245.

of games and two 6-button joya.ds.Action Reply ocart and books. 95 ono. Tel 01733 891330.

SEWNGMEGADR1VE, Mego CD, 32X. with two joypads, 18 games including FIFA 95. Micro 2, Sonic 3. Doom, Sonic O. SFII SCE.Contact Ustrian 0131 556 6657.

FORSALE 32X, includes Doom and VR. E150. 10 Megadrive games £75. Sonic 1+2. Gods, Another World, Mega-lo-monia. Thunder Force IL California Games, Ftant03y Z0110, RAT Games II,

MEGADRIVE and Mega CD with games:Thuncierhowk. Boseball, Sherlock Holmes. Sol Noce, Cobra Command, Arcade

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MEGADRIVE. Mega CD. Menace( gun, 1 pod. 8 MD games including Theme Park and T2 Arcade, 3 MCD games including Ground Zero Texas, 15 tip books, boxed, sell E200. Also 32X with Doom, VR Deluxe. £130. Tel Dean 378 5553

LIU ATTACKChopper with instructions. swop for Another World on Megadrive. Phone 01236 735650. Ask for Stephen. MEGADRIVE games for sale, EIO each: Micro Machines 2, Sonic 3, Streets of Rage 3, Ba liz, Dragon, all In good condition. £5 each, Mega Games 2, Road Rash, Super FOnt039 Zone, Mickey MOU303 Costle of Illusion, Phone 01483 505036 ask for Daniel.

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