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This would be enough to be going on with without support from the enemy. But that's exactly what has happened with news of Psygnosis• games being converted from Playstation to Saturn. The unthinkable is not only thinkable but already in disc form. I wouldn't tell anyone how to run their business, but somehow I don't see AM2 returning the favour with Virtue Cop. In the end, the MEAN MACHINES reader and the Saturn owner is the winner. Oh, and if you see some 'exclusive' on Alien Trilogy, bear in mind that to my knowledge it's based on an early demo running on the Playstation and not the Saturn. Which doesn't surprise me. After this issue I'm going to Japan with Virgin to visit Capcom and other Jap developers, so expect a lab feature nest month.

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weeble complete with a swing and a pop-up treehouse," smiles Gus, as he carves the turkey at the MEAN MACHINES Christmas dinner.

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Virgin have sealed one of their biggest Sega deals ev king on much of Capcom's output in the 'Iremainder of 1995 and into 1996. This includes all the Saturn proiects in development. which, rprisingly includes a hell of a lot of A-title material., only big Capcom release not in the mix is X-Men, which is subject to a previous arrangement with kiirrr However, the rest of the booty is well impressive: ALPHASTREETFIGHTER Areleaseprimeas appeal seems the original action rather Movie update. Alpha has quite a name in the arcades and pcom should be able to recreate it as lishly as they have X-Men. I011.11 •kot/ON• 4 VAMPIRE• HUNTER: DARKS TALKERS I Da t for '6 ps pr none beat *e amazing animation.ca one of horror chara mpires, erewolves ht it out. From •e state of com-op. • TITLE.' BAPUBLISHER:VARIOUSVIRGINTURNRELEASLEARLY'96gRIGIN:JAPANBIOHAZARD , ntly, this is tation_ S. Allow -Capcom well on the w • eating their ﬁrst arcade , nture. But the latest news points to an early Saturn ersion of Biohazard, which looks like being pretty revolutionary. The game adopts a complex isometric int, a bit like Infogrames' Alone in the Dark, but the eplay is streets ahead, with realtorne battling with (burstingsnomginly• through the ﬂoor and demanding to be fought. Biohazard is tipped as a blockbuster for '98, •Ils44•6101 RAIL P14 taw ti

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is just start to roll, but few realise that its actually the work of a UK Developer — Travellers' Tales. They seem to have hit the jackpot with a game many are saying sets new limits for the Megadrive In Japan, Virtue Fighter manta has reached fever pitch with the imminent arrival of VF2 on Saturn: 1.5m copies are already ordered in advance sales — about the size of the entire installed base! With the premature leak about Wipeout, all may not be well at Sony, compounded by the fact the deal is a package, with other Pysggy titles; Destruction Derby. Assault Rigs etc., also due.

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Team 17 are not phased by the delay on Worms, despite having to remove some of the effects and change names for legal reasons: they already have a second project Witchwood, under way. It's to be a Zeldaesque adventure, with an incredibly detailed palette ot colours. Not a million miles away. Core are sitting on a well advanced version of Tomb Raider, which looks unbelievable. All their games, except Shellshock, are developing quicker than expected — even Tee-Off, the Saturn golf sim we covered two years ago is back on track! Finally, an unnamed developer in the Midlands is set to pick up two huge projects; one from Williams, who are developing an arcade beat 'em up, and another from that movie studio who makes the animated ﬁlms we know and love_ Gus.

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The Rolling Stones culminated their 1969 US tour GIMME with a free concert at the Altamont Speedway, and roped in California's Hell's Angels to lay on the security. The event ended in tragedy when one of the bikers • murdered an audience member, but the gig itself saw the Mark 2 Stones line-up iwith Mick Taylor replacing Brian Jones on guitar) at a peak. These discs, featuring highlights of the tour and the Altamontgig itself, have a track listing that reads like a greatest hits of the band's Sixties' Output. The concert footage itself is remarkably sophisticated by the standards of the day, and encoding is of a good

seen in 18 tracks of concert and concept footage from their last few albums. In this country, these discs are only likely to appeal to the group's somewhat dwindled fan base, but tracks like the furious Jimmy James and the excellent Triphammer deserve more attention then they're ever likely to receive. The highlight is the excellent title track Sabotage - the BeastieBoys re-enactmentof a cliched '70s cop show, complete with long wigs and droopy moustaches. As with the Bon -low discs, the encoding only really gets 'blocky' on audience scenes

rockers' glittering career. Despite enormous record sales, Bon Jovi still personify the prissy permed rock outﬁts that, ironically, heavy metaliers seem to despise more than anyone else. These discs show them outgrowing the • sequins and the spandex, but sadly not developing their video-making techniques beyond the cliched swooping stage shots and grainy backstage cutaways. This VideoCD has been bolstered with previously unreleased Jon Bon Bovi solo videos such as Blaze of Glory. The encoding is able to keep up on all but the busiest concert audience

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Of all the myths in UFO folklore, the 'crash landing' of a flying saucer near the Roswell US Air Force in July 1947 is the most enduring. This fascinating documentary (originally shown on Channel 4 earlier this year) includes recently discovered footage supposedly showing the autopsy of an alien being killed in the crash. The prolification of eye-witnesses and the ensuing cover-up have already convinced many that something bizarre happened, but it seems the legitimacy of the footage (which is featured in its entirety at the end) is something only you and your zoom button can decide. Definitely not for the squeamish.

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In creating it. Core Design followed the pattern for which we now well know them. A developer ,111"411involved in exploiting hardware to depict 'hardware'. things of power, speed and destructiveness are the centrepoint of any Core production. But in the past the hardware may have let down the 'hiardware'. k.

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This time the hardware doesn't let them down. More and more the Saturn is proving to be an some machine. Thunderhawk 2 should establish that further and scotch some myths: the one at least that says its harder to program on than PC or Playstation — Thunderhawk 2 development has led on Saturn.

There have been several stunning intros for Sat games, but Thunderhawk's is exceptional. This showreel exhibits the sequence from panoramic intro, through diagramtics and to the devastating incredible thing is the

Thunderbawk was gulped down by an estimated SO% of Mega-CD owners, anxious to see their machine really do something. And it did — Thunderhawk. and Cores later CD titles. utilised the scaling and rotational programming that few others expended their energy in exploring.

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Enough history. We could say that Thunder has been in the making all those intervening It hasn't. In fact. it has been less than the s 1995, and the work of just Iwo people. Does matter? Of course not, think how many classics songs were written in 10 minutes. In any case, are sitting on a classic.

MACHINES never had. A phantom cover exists somewhere, but events developed in a way thatmeant it was passed over. If it had gone ahead. it would have been the only Mega-CD cover game we ever did. Looking back, we probably made a mistake. Thunderftawk turned out to be the most successful Mega-CD game, and arguably the best on the machine.

All these politics wouldn't matter a lot if Thunderhatwk 2 wasn't a game to be enjoyed. It is — the destructive, manic, high-speed essence of the original is present, but tempered with a greater depth and atmosphere created by more complex missions and more plot cohesion within the campaigns. The last thing to re that whatever we tell and show you here, you should pr If for some surprises when, naturally, you buy the game

Over the next tour pages you will fond brieﬁngs for the eight missions of Thunderhawk 2. These initiate the eight regional campaigns. The game' t structure allows you to tackle any of these missions from thb beginning. There are another 21 besides these. It's hard to generalise about missions because they diversify greatly. Generally there-is a set of primary objectives, though these may range from convoy protection to the destruction of a speciﬁc site or target. They range from forest, desert and plain to sea, canal, even night missions. Should you fail to complete a mission (which doesn't always mean being shot downl you lose one of three

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The South American campaigns are probably the easiest to start with. This particular campaign introduces you to enemy helicopters and static ground-based units. In the initial mission, the enemy is involved in arms running operations, and you must prevent the take-off of their cargo planes by bombing therunways, located at the far north of the combat area. Disabling the three early warning radar systems is necessary beforehand, cit ﬁghters will scramble and are particularly difﬁ• cult to down.

Ail three of these missions are under cover of darkness, making it hard to pick out targets, especially amongst the thick cover. The campaign commences with one of your top secret Stealth ﬁghters crashed, and four seperate enemy convoys making off with hardware from the crash-sites. Using radar and visual identiﬁcation, you must eliminate each one before it leaves the area. Future missions require you to destroy trains and a huge transport plane.

Defending the 'soft underbelly' of the United States is a contentious and often dirty job. As force is being employed by the Panamanian dictator, you must retaliate in kind. Thunderhawks are sent to liberate areas of Costa Rica which have been hivedpd. The objectives are complicated by the settlements in question being spread out and the enemy having already established fortiﬁcations and sophisticated missile bat teries.

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Subtitled 'The Oil Dispute', this visits the familiar territory of the Iraq/Kuwait conﬂict that became the Gulf War. For the purposes of this campaign, Saddam has been foolish enough to reassemble an invasion force — this time seaborne. A daunting armada of vessels, equipped with anti-aircraft armaments are heeding for the Kuwait coast.

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a stunning departure from the rest of the game, using gorgeous russet colours and textures on an epic scale to portray the mountainous region of the war zone. Your allies, the Jordanians, have established a stronghold amidst enemy territory. Your initial task is as part of a helicopter force travelling between them. There is ample scope for taking Out the SAM missile sites located on the steep plateaus. However, there is the risk of mistaking one of the enemy choppers for your own, resulting in a regrettable 'friendly ﬁre' incident. Excercise caution.

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TheAVENGERWINGEDAH-64carriesachillingarsenalofhigh-tech,high explosive diverse weapons for all combat situations. In addition to your limitless chain gun, you have three banks of weapons attached to either wing. Prior to each mission, the Saturn offers a default configuration would will see you through any mission, but there's nothing to prevent you re-arming your chopper, and it's a simple process. In flight the weapons are magnificent, especially the Firestorm missiles, which track targets on your heads-up-display, offer a visual and audible signal when locked on target.

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I can't deny being Impressed with AM2's Saturn projects, but Thunderhawk 2 would have to be my game of 1995. It matches anything on the Saturn. any console or PC in fact in terms of immediate visual impact, but with more depth and lasting mopes, than any game yet produced for the machine. Firstly, by all standards of presentation and technical specification. Core have put their money where there mouth is — this is a phenomenal showcase for a 3-D game. Every graphical aspect is fantastic in detail and fluid motion, with no faltering when the action Is frenetic: I have faced four enemy choppers on screen at once with not a frame skipped. Sound is also incredible with the weapon noises, chopper noises, speech and explosions so real you forget they aren't real. But Its in the structure of the game that Thunderhawk 2 deserves its laureate. So many missions and so much more complex than the original. And by the range of (actions you are expected to perform, and styles you are expected to adopt: aggressive, defensive, surreptitious, you'll spend months first completing all 27 missions . then going back to win higher scores and greater decorations. For less skilled players there are three difficulty settings and eight separate entry points, so any one mission doesn't become a stumbling block. I want you to buy this game. I want you to see the train, engage the Jet fighters, lose the convoy then frantically panic as you see tanks close on your last remaining vehicle. There are a few glitches — some clipping problems on very mountainous scenes being the most noticeable, but these are forgiven for a game that excites such admiration. Even emotion.

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Ie io infrequently do video games wander into the ter tory of macabre humour, but Thunderhawk 2 has made that journey too. When many of the enemy vehicles are destroyed, personnel ﬂee the wreckage, making a frenzied dash for cover. It is within your power to mow them down mercilessly leaving a sprawled corpse, or if you're particularly vicious, nothing but a charred mark. They also scream. This feature, we have been informed, will not included in the German version. C'est la vie, Fritz.

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When this game arrived in the ofﬁce you couldn't walk without tripping over someone's chin in the process. All work on MEAN MACHINES stopped and the doctor was called In to treat third degree carpet burns. So to say this caused a bit of a stir would be an understatement. The intro is superb and I'm pleased to report the actual game is no let down either. There's more to it than lust shooting everything in sight. For starters you have a limited amount of weapons, so wasting ammunition prevents you from destroying the mein targets. The thought behind missions is outstanding as well. For instance, when called upon to protect a convoy of peacekeepers, any of the threatening guns are hidden behind hills, and a keen eye and tactics are needed for what culminates in • tense shootout. You'll discover sneaky ways to extend your lives and rise through the ranks over a long period of play. What more can I say other than put it on your Christmas lists. at the very tep, IMMEDIATELY!

Interpolation is the anorakal term for the most striking feature of Thunderhawk 2 --- the way the graphics never break up or pixelate, no matter how close you get. The 3-D movement of other games; Bug. Hi-Octane etc. is impressive, but the images themselves inevitably suffer when viewed at close range. In Thunderhawk 2, the programmers have employed their mystical art to prevent this happening with no loss of overall speed and no slowdown at speciﬁc points. Just incredibly smooth, 25frames per second, immensely detailed 3-0.

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Toy Story is Disney Studios' next major film after Pocahontas, and represents a crucial development in the way the company creates its animated films. Since Disney's first animated feature, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the company has been seeking ways to streamline the labour-intensive and costly business of feature film animation. The introduction of computer animation in the 1980s breathed a creative breath of fresh air into the company's methods and output. Disney's recent triumphs have included prominent elements of computer-aided trickery - most obviously the incredible rendered ballroom from Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas' flowing mane of hair - but never before have triev dttempted a feature Film entirely animated by computer from beginning to end. Until now.

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s the ﬁrst 32-bit Christmas approaches. attention has never been more sharply focussed on the capabilities and performance of the next generation consoles. However, away from the limelight the humble Illegadrive is not only alive and kicking, but witnessing some incredible quantum leaps in the quality of its software. Until recently, you could have been forgiven for thinking that games like larthvilorm Jim 2 had pushed the Illegadrivs as far as it could go. but if you think 16-bit gaming's got no more surprises up its sleeve it could be time to think again.

toy Story, the game based on the Disney's first fully computer-animated film, will be launched le the States about the time you read !tab. From what we've seen of the title so far, a seems Disney Interactive's extravagant boasts may well be justified: 'The Toy Story video game offers ;Anvers with 16-bit genie machines a truly 'next generation' experience,' says Marc Teren, the company's vice-president. "The game offers an exciting opportunity for Disney to shatter 16-bit video game limitations and literally broaden entire 16-bit market...The result is a game you have to play to Sobelieve.'isthis yet more pre-release hype or is the Megadrive really about to witness the most yiskially impressive 16bit game ever seen? Soon you'll be able to judge yourself...for

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In keeping with Pixar's previous computer-animated films, the Toy Story movie is set in a world where toys take on a life of their own when people aren't around. The film depicts the conflicts between the toys in a child's nursery. Set between the child's birthday and Christmas, the two events the toys fear the most, the film concentrates on their insecurity about being replaced. One of the most neurotic characters is Rex, a tacky Jurassic Park-style Tyrannosaurus toy with a complex about his cheap construction. At the other end of the scale is Buzz Lightyear, who is the only occupant of the nursery who doesn't realise he is a toy. Buzz, who is equipped with pop-out wings, a laser beam and a wrist communicator, is advanced enough to make the more simple toys like Potato-HeadMr and the expressions.facialcouldthetheirtheyvideoactorsHanks.voiceddollrival,Allen,voicedLightyearnervous.Etch-a-SketchBuzzwasbyTimwhilehisthecowboyWoody,wasbyTornAlltheweretapedwhilerecordeddialogue,soanimatorsstudytheir

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The characters from the ﬁlm are faithfully reproduced in the game, Here, Woody has to ride a rampaging Rex through an onslaught of hostile toys.

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The Toy Story film is a co-production between Disney and the California-based computer animation specialists Pixar. Tht small, company came to prominence producing groundbreaking computeranimated short films, most notably 1988's Oscar-winning Tin Toy. John Lasseter, who directed Tin Toy, also directed Toy Story: "When we had finished our last short film, Knickknack (1989) we wanted to make a feature, We came up with the idea for a half hour Christmas special, using Tinny from Tin Toy.' This coincided with Disney's search for ways to diversify their animated films. They first went to Tim Burton to produce A Nightmare Before Christmas and then went to Pixar, who they had previously developed a 2-D computer animation system with. We felt John Lasseter was a truly gifted artist," says Tom Schumacher, vice-president of Disney's animation division, "and we very specifically wanted to work with John." In 1990 Disney abandoned the idea of a TV special, suggesting instead a feature film. The result of five years' work is only now seeing fruition.

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It was the crucial arrival of this new programming tool that made the devel opment, of Cop postrible. To convey all the scaling, polygon movement and tex turing, would have been impossible using the methods that brought the original Virtue Fighter to Ine Saturn.

Incredibly, that was only a year ago, with plaudits ﬁrming from every corner of game journalism. But the ruthless rise in standards means that only a perfect conversion will be seen as successful. A challenge Sega have been unable refuse...to

I t's the Big bigThree.theoneRather,One.ofBigSege'sthreetitles that, by any impartial estimate, blow away the rather identikit serie• of Playstation releases,. Sega's arcade conversions: Sega Rally. Virtue Cop and Virtue Fighter 2 tower above most past, present and future Saturn development. This 'second generation of Saturn software is about to happen, and that's where any self-respecting S•ga tan's attention should be.

AM2 have developed an infra-red gun to go with Vinua Cop (and other shooting games, including the sequel) which you will really need to get the most out of the gameplay. This will be available at the same time, in fetching blue or red. Sega apparently regard black as too realistic for this

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dodgy advert for satellite TV, Deadly Skies is the new JVC shooting fest set to challenge Wing Arms as the Saturn's best aero-fighting sins. Whereas Wing Arms concentretes more on the World War 2 planes, Deadly Skies moves into the nineties with hi-tech fighter planes. Move over Spitfire and Hurricane, the F-15 Eagle and Mio-2O are bore to stay.

The game is still only about three quarters complete, but what we've seen certainly looks promising. The planes are very nippy, with a responsiveness that enables realistic ﬁghting movements to be translated into the game. The end result is like Streedighter in the sky - it's you against one opponent and that's it. You must use your cunning powers of stealth and ﬂying knowledge to hunt down your enemy and blow them away, whilst negotiating a variety of 3-D landscapes.

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At present there are 8 characters to choose from and each one has its own background scenario. The more patriotic of you can choose Andy. the British pilot, but there are lots of other nationalities you can choose from as well. Each Pilot also has their own plane with unique characteristics to match. All in all, Deadly Skies looks like becoming the most exciting thing to come out of Norway since...erm...

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The essence of the game is a Sisyphusian tgotchall challenge to prevent falling blocks and ghosts reaching the top of your pit. This is attained by the conventional building of lines, and also by unleashing occasional Pac-Men to devour the ghosts. The trick is to positron ghosts correctly and judge which route Pac will take,

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Johnny on the prowl while his dog brings up the rear.

S Gold's entry into the Saturn market is effectod with Johnny platformerBazookatone,steepedin rhythm and blues. Johnny is the ﬁrst quiffed platform game hero in some • but his duck's area hairdo is nothing in comparison to that of his evil enemy. El Diablo, a self-styled 'king who has all the worst rhinestone trouser. gilts and intravenous-Sig Mac habits el the reel 'KIEV. As music is the soul of the woad, the programmers took the unusual and highly liberal step of letting the musicians involved mess around for months before pi oduceig concrete tracks for the game. The result is an original soundtrack spanning all sorts of siyles. There is plenty of game as we levels from the spin-through had, many of them cavering a area. The aim is to collect the viruses spread throughout the levels with which Diablo is threatening to rid the wo of music. In shoot 'em up Style reminiscent of Earthwqpn JIM, Johnny's 'axe' lgfter to all non-Kerrang readers) takes out the little green men who seem to play an adversarial role in the whole spectacle. Graphically, yort cart see the thing is looking sumptuous, with the use of glow effects and high-resolution rend visuals. Johnny Bazookatone will be facing the rral review it litne for a January release.

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If I had a pound lot the amount of times I have mentioned *puzzle elements' in platform games to make them sound more interesting than they are, I'd probably be able to buy a Saturn. But Johnny B genuinely does use puzzles and your brain frequently. For one, it's not linear, with exits to later levels and backtracking throughout the game. Inside the stage, you may be expected to use objects which may vary the outcome. For example, the hospital stage forces you to ﬁnd a way to reduce the treatment queue to enter a vital doorway.

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as you witness the tipping greatness of Mean Machines. As you can see this month we have gone cheats crazy. Not only do we have the maps and explanations for the second part of the Light Crusader guide, but a helping hand on the Saturn stormer, Myst. If that little lot isn't enough to send your mucus-ﬁlled stomachs convulsing, then we have the usual array of cheats and helpful hints from the world of planet Sega. Don't forget that there is still the prize of a Saturn game for the best cheat sent in for our 32 bit wonder. And don't bother trying to rip off other cheats, or send us old Panzer tips as we are in the know, right? Address your pearls of wisdom to:

szs17-7z1 • NW it TIP-A-DE-DO-DAH, TIP-A-DE-DAY. TIPS DEPARTMENT, MEAN MACHINES SEGA, PRIORY COURT, 30-32 FARRINGDON LANE, LONDON, EVIR 3AU. MEGA RIVE r is SECRET SCREEN AND ENDURANCE Our resident Mortal Kombat expert Mr. Lomas has discovered a couple of ace cheats. To call up the secret screen, enter this code on the menu screen: A,C. U. 8, U. 8, A, D. This brings up the familiar Kornbat cheat screen enabling you to change the continues, see the end sequences and such like. The other cheat is far more simple. Simply hold down A and C on the menu screen and press start and you'll be able to play a four player endurance mode Well done AlsoEdwin!we were flooded with tips about the Kombat Kodes for the versus mode. Ryan Button and Craig McKinley were first out of the blocks so here a they are. The numbers represent the amount of button presses. 0=MK Dragon. loolotK logo, 2=Yinistang, 3=Number 3, 4-Question mark, 5=lightning Bolt, 8=Goro creature. 7—Raiden, 8=Shao Kahn, 9=Skull. Half Energy PI: 033 000 Quarter Energy PI: 707 000 throws: 100 100 meters: 987 123 ext:No Fear: 282 282 rk Fighting: 688 422 ycho Kombat: 985 125 Inner Fights Motaro: 969 141 ghts Shao Kahn: 033 564 ext: No knowledge: 123 926 Half Energy P2: 000 033 Quarter Energy P2: 000 707 No Blocking: 020 020 Unlimited Block: 468 466 Text Hold: 987 666 Random Morphing: 460 460 Galaxian: 642 468 Winner fights Noob Sabot: 769 342 Winner fights Smoke: 205 926 Unlimited run: 466 466

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At) • Co X ZONE: SEE CREDITS Despite being absolutely worthless, we thank David Hughes, from Liverpool for sending it in. To see the credits, go to the options screen, and hold down A, 8, and C. Keep them held down and press start and the credits should appear. MEGA C CarlPERFORMETERNALCINEKILLSAyriss,sentinaguideonhowtoperform the Cinekills on this top Mega CD beat 'em up. Firstly, select these options: Choose DUAL mode, select OPTIONS, choose the fastest speed setting, any background and any number of battles. INNER STRENGTH must be OFF, Choose your character (Slash is easiest), then select your opponent (not Shadow or Blade). Win the rounds and when you get to the ﬁnal round, as soon as you start move to your opponent and use hard kick about 8 times. They should then become dizzy, and you'll hear a noise telling you it's working. Then carry on attacking with hard kick until your opponent is dizzy, or has minimum energy and could be killed with one hit. If they have gone dizzy, the Cinekill will happen automatically. But if the opponent is not dizzy, then use Slashs' dizzy move (Jump up and press Y-iZ in mid-air) and then it will work, Phew/

4. Although solid objects cannot be put straight onto the track, use hops and skids for enhanced competition. Too many can make it unfair because a good driver will stay on the track, and yet will always hit

Here are a couple of the secret player names for you to try Out on the awesome new racer from Codies. There are still another batch of passwords to be found but that will have to be up to you. Enter your drivers name as one of these: GUFDON, HORDON, NODROG or ALCHIE for a few surprises. Also, straight from the horses mouth as it were, we have some helpful hints to building your own courses on the construction kit, from the masters themselves, Codemasters.1.Simplecourses are often the best. Players don't have to worry about learning the bends and turns on the tracks, and get right into some serious racing action!

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6. Putting jumps after bends will cause problems every time. Try to allow a bit of straight for the jump to be made successfully.

7. Putting solid objects after jumps is a deﬁnite no-go. Vehicles can get embedded on the objects, losing time and places.

3. Long straight track are good for player interaction.

8. Don't put two jumps too close to each other. If the car is still bouncing from the Seat jump it has no chance of making the second. Hops and skids are good hazards to put on the outside of the bends. These penalise the kamikaze drivers who take the bend too harshly. Don't leave the track too open. Players won't stay in your assigned driving area, Having said that, don't box in the track totally. A few short cut*always add to the fun. Narrow straights of track over gaps and charris are always good for a bit of foul play. But avoid putting narrow sections after bends. II makes lining up a lot harder.

14. Remember that by switching the handling of the car around. will alter the playability et the track drama , II you have mode a slop and start track, thellispoils the game ft hange the handling of the r instead of the track. that shoue enough personal Silverstones' off to a ing start

This little cheat was sent in by Tom Webber of St. Austell in Cornwall. To select the same wrestler, Player 1 choose a fighter, and it will tell you that you are in green. Hold down A+C. Player 1 will then flash red. Push UP and it will flash green again,to indicate it has worked, Now player 2 can select the same

5.hazards.Tryto put a sign by the tract to warn players that a particular nasty bend is coming up. This way, a driver can associate a tough bend with certain parts of the scenery.

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2. Try to avoid having lots of bends as it can lead to frustration on the players part through constant stopping and starting.

For your chance to see the 11,U,L,D,A,D,R,U,L,D,R,D.ending.To give you 999 lives when you start. If you fancy making this even harder, wait until the demo ﬁnishes, and when the Sega logo appears, enter Li. U. D. D, 1_, A, L, A, A, B, C. The game will start and if it's worked there will be a small M in the top left hand corner. el a SEE ENDING To see the ending without playing the game, press the following at the itle screen: U, U, D, U, R. A, D,,U,0,D,A,L L, L.A.BUG:L.

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11,U,L,U,A,U,D,U,L,U,L,U. For a level select. Use up and down to cycle through the R,U,L,D,R,D,R,U,L,D,R,D.levels.

Paul Hill ino relation) has discovered a level select cheat for it. On the Start/Option screen, press B, A, B, V. DOWN, RIGHT, A, LEFT SHIFT and DOWN. Bug should let out a little cry If done correctly. Now Start the game and press UP and LEFT SHIFT. This will bring up the level select. is I

To get a level select, which works at any time, you have to do is pause the game and press A,B,A,B,C. If worked, then a the number 1-1 will appear in the bottom right hand corner. Select which ever level you want to start on, and then un-pause and you'll be whisked off to the level chosen!

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To get these to work, go to the start screen, with the horse, and input either of the following codes. Please note that these are all D.pad codes, not buttons:

At the player select screen, press D, U. A, L, and A. If you have done this correctly. Dural will now become available to play as. The other cheat is even easier to perform. Win a ﬁght in Versus mode and when the Winner' banner comes up. hold the I. and A buttons and the relevant screens will appear. A huge round of applause must go to Jason McInnis, from Glasgow, in bonny °Vend for ﬁnding those Out. As centsed your prize for the best Saturn tip the month is in the post!

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drop down to fight Ramlah, one of Bloottroke's evil henchmen. To kill him is very easy just keep getting in close and slash away at his body. Once he's defeated you can go through and onto the rest of the level, Make sure you use the fountain indicated, and save at the first opportunity. Ignore the blobs and climb up so you can hit the switch to open the door. When you get to the ball chucking goblins, remember they don't have to be killed but if you have the urge, push them down first. Save and go to room marked 2. As you can see, there are a lot of small 'homes' leading off from here and most are of no interest whatsoever - the same applies for Room 3. Make your way to Room 4 where you'll see 4 poles with lights that flash as you go in. it's a simple puzzle, because you just copy the order of the flashes and hit the relevant poles. As soon as you get into Room 5. go over and hit the clock

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From the start, you have two ways to go. The easiest way to go is the way we've shown, but if YOU can be bothered to suffer the frustration go the other way. The rooms you encounter here will suddenly become slippery. They shouldn't 'prove too much of a problem to you and there is no real advice on how to get through. Get to Room 1 and then go through to save. When you arrive at Room 2 there are two choices. You can either continue working your way round and end up back at the start or you can continue further on into unchartered territory. The shop marked on the map cannot be accessed until you have the crest which is found later in the level. Go to Room 3 and then rescue the prisoner. Room 4 contains a simple noughts and crosses puzzle. Step on a cross and it turns to a nought and vice-versa. You have to get all noughts to open the door. The puzzle that follows is another wind affair which requires you to push the ball and land it on the switch. It's best to do it just as the fans are slowing down a bit. When done you will get the relayer from the chest. Go back to Room 3 and go through the door at the top of the room. Hit the switch, then go to the prisoner before going through into the mirror room. If you look at the screen shot, you'll see where the secret door is. This leads to a chest. To open the door you need to kill the zombies in the reﬂection. The man standing behind the wall is of little use, but if you want to get to him position the balls as in the screenshot to get it to work. Ignore the worm things in Room 8, and go into Room 9. The chest contains the aforementioned crest. You can now use the shop.

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This level sees the usual enemiis disappear to be replaced by nintas. Kill the mills to open the door in Room 8, and then go on to the room with the chest. You have to knock it off by doing a lump attack at it from the platforms along the sides of the walls. Kill another set of enemies, and then kill the ﬁnal group of six shunken-throwing baddies to get the third

these levels the can be changed to suit the height of your jumps. Some of the switches are situated far too high for a normal jump, so set the gravity machines (see screenshot) to make your jumps much easier. Hit the machine in Room 9 and jump to the switch. Room 10 follows the same procedure, but knock the laser down before you attempt to hit the switch. The mini boss in Room 11 is fairly easy. You can only damage the middle diamond. so wait until you can get at it before attacking. The other boss, in Room 12, is a little harder. The small jelly blobs cannot be killed, so you have to wan until the spike ball appears. Hack away at that, ignoring the other jelly moulds that appear.

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You arrive on Myst Island, the central world of the adventure and one to which you will return. The most important building on the island is the library, which holds essential information. Around the rest of the island are gateways to further worlds, referred to as 'Myst linking books'. That is what you are aiming to ﬁnd.

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decorated chambers belong to Achenar and Sirius Beside the in each room is a secret panel_ Touch this to reveal a hidden room a blue page in Achenar's dungeon and a red page in a chest in easure room. In the long metal corridor there is a switch that a lift. Use the lever here to rotate the symbol to the el on Hot() raphic Rotational Simulator.

All of the frightening and intriguing ornaments in both rooms are of no consequence. The key to the mystery lies in the underground room midway along the corridor. There are also hidden rooms beside both of the 'thrones'.

In the upper part of the lighthouse, there is a mechanism which powers all electrical items on the island. The key to this upper chamber is located within the lighthouse. Tl'e three buttons on the ietty drain water from three separate areas.

The into the ship; the middle drains button drains the water from the thous._ se the right button , go down the spiral stairs in the th the chest. There is a tiny lever on the left side. Turn this to drain the chest, then back again to seal the valve. g station and drain the tunnels. Return to the lighthouse and the chest will be ﬂoating within reach of the key. the key that gives you access to the upper chamber of the lighthouse.

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Go to the lift mechanism and step in. Press the upward arrow. You arrive at an empty ﬂoor. Now push the middle rectangular button. While the alarm sounds, step Out of the lift. It will now descend, revealing the real rotational mechanism on top. The compass positions are coded as; South—cow bell: East—whoosh; North—ping; West—trill. You wish to negotiate the fortress to East and North. Leave the fortress and ﬁnd two symbols etched into cogs on the two islands. Rotate the fortress back to the south position and input these on the machine to reveal the linking book. Remember to take a page with you.

The device in :,.riutt• ruL yOU to practice with the il•Iechanism that rotates the fortress. Thc left lever changes the gearing of the mechanism — making it easier to turn (but harder to stop), the right lever applies power, increasing the speed of the rotation. The mechanism 'settles' into one of the four main compass positions after each rotation. It's important to memorise the different sound effect for each compass position. These denote the direction the fortress is now facing.

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What was thought impossible one year ago is a reality today: Virtue Fig liter 2 on Saturn is almost arcade-perfect, The game runs twice as smoothly as its predecessor, has three times the amount of moves, two more characters and it's fully texturemapped, boasting an unprecedented level of detail Even the intricate backdrops are fairly represented in the sequel. Oh and there's hardly anv ﬂickering or glitches whatsoever. Ntimerous options have been added to the basic arcade conversion, Flanking Mode evaluates and budges your Pe nce end Expert Mode leer m its mistakes and actu uses your best tech against you. Best of alt, how' ever, is Team Battle %vhere you choose ﬁve char and square them off against an wiponent's grouping, One of the more exciting new selectables allows you to choose between the normal conversion and a translation of the Japan,. only mini-sequel Virtue Fighter

posters were put on the wall where players recorded any new moves they discovered. At the same time. VF mania bit fever pitch with the launch of the ﬁrst game on the newly launched Sega Saturn. It was the game that sold over a million Saturn' In Japan alone.

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Still on the trail of the sinister J6 Syndicate and his brainwashed sister Sarah. Jacky omes to the second tournament even more powerhil than he was before. As he likes to remind his defeated opponents. he is indeed faster than lightning, making him difﬁcult to trap. His moves are far more diverse and attack on multiple levels, making them extremely challenging to guard against effectively. Although winning with Jacky is a far more predictable exercise than with the other lighters, there's no denying his sheer power.

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Like Jeffry Mc Wild, Wolf is extremely large. Far larger than he was in the ﬁrst Virtua Fighter game and as you might imagine, he's even more powerful. Unlike the VF2's predecessor, here Jeffry actually has the advantage over WO in terms of speed and both remain equally lazy in getting off the ﬂoor after they have been decked. Again, like Jeffry, learning to defend against opponents' combos before unleashing a man-size portion of throw-derived punishment is the order of the day.

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ro Mostly relying on throws, damaging moves in the game and the enhanced speed of Virtue Fighter 2 only aids his cause. His triple-headbutt technique is one of his most amusing new moves.

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This 83-year-old drunken master enters the Virtue Fighter tournament for entertainment value alone, wishing to pit his alcoholderived martial arts skills against the very best that the world has to Characterisedoffer.byhis lurching attacks and handsopponentsonemovements,unpredictableShunisthusofthemoredangerousintheofaVF2

The master of short-range combat, Akira has supplemented his powerful moves from VFI with a series of throws and stealthy back-attacks designed to throw his foes off-balance before he unleashes a massive energy draining power-combo. Akira's defence is second to none, as he's armed with a series of exceptional counter-attacks - watching him brush aside an incoming punch and retaliate instantaneously with a ﬁst to the underside of the chin is a classic VF2 moment.

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Although flushed with victory at having totally defeated Akira in the first Virtua Fighter tournament. Kage was still beaten to the championship. For the second competition he has learned an even greater range of manoeuvres. Labeled as the fighter with a move for every occasion in the first game. Kage fans should be pleased to hear that he is even more versatile in the sequel, with over 70 different techniques to his name. Mastering him is difficult, but he is ranked as second most powerful behind Akira, his new rival

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powerful kick-based combos.

I guarantee that there are going to be a lot of long faces on Play Station owners when they see Virtua Fighter 2. The original always played better than anything that Sony had to offer, but suffered in the visual stakes. VF2 is even more playable and boasts supreme graphics - supersmooth. extremely fast - there is nothing to match it. The high resolution mode the game runs in makes this the ﬁnest-looking 317 game ever. Who would have thought that the Saturn iwhich simmed to be wheezing a bit oven just copying the ﬁrst VFI would be able to produce graphics this geoid? in terms of ganseplay. Virtua Fighter 2 is totally unrivalled. lack character has between SO and 70 different techniques. Learning them all and discovering how te link them into powerful combinations offers months of intensive, super-enjoyable gamoplay. If you were happy with Saturn rel to date, prepare to reset your standards. Virtue Fighter 2 is possibly the best game ever.

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It's official. Lau Chan is the champion of the first Virtue Fighter tournament, having defeated all-comers with his super-vicious brand of EnseiKen martial arts, Although the amount of new moves he's learned since the first game is a little on the lean side, he remains the king of the combination strike and in this respect, the extra speed on VF2 makes him even more dangerous • particularly in the held of ring-outs. Still an interesting fighter, but this time the others are ready for him.

of the excellent arcade music or some equally decent remixed tunes courtesy of the Sega Digital Studio Just everythingaboutfrom the arcade machine including each character s amusing victory taunts.Rampantly

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materialize on the blegadrive, you could probably count them on one hand. The most recent was the bizarre Boogerman. and this latest game to wobble and slurp out of the slimy mucus pits of Sega, is titled The Ooze. Taking its central character from the classically crap SO's III movie The Blob, it features all the blobby movements you may expect from a game based on a pool of snot including rippling, of slime and other various pus related objects usually restricted for unwashed crevices of Ed Lomas. You control an ex-human being, who, in his bizarre experiments has somehow managed to transform himself into a runny nose look alike. As a result all his friends in white coats disowned him and now wouldn't even see ﬁt to use him on their hankies. So he has to brave the elements and work his way to the laboratory to change back into his old self, Sounds a bit like my old chemistry teacher if you ask me. The game situations are the sort of places you may expect to ﬁnd a festering pool of bogeys, varying from Waste Plants to Toxic levels, and the innards of noses to the bowels of belly buttons (the last part is a lie). The game was developed by Sega's Technical Institute, and was due to be released a couple of months back, but someone decided that it should be scrapped, and then someone else decided to put it back in production, hence the delay. The main reason for it's reinstaten)ent was down to the reduced price that the producers offered Sega, providing too big an incentive to turn down.

These switches will have been triggered. they only stay s ne• y rm3d however, a few s These poles that damageimiwidiesclingidithyoursattack.topullelfpastholes,drainsandtopreventoccurring. IVIEGADRIVE REVIEW Kill the link fhttly wabb JIME1111•161kw Iti: 4RNING •• ttl* a BOG ENTRAILS 0 Scattered throughout each of the levels there are traps that once trodden on, will drain away all of your life unless you move your piddly little butts away from the 'trouble zone as it were. But, if you get kicks from sliding down drains and melting away into toxic waste pits, then you can die all you like as far as we're Econcerned. 04 4 '?t ' , 1 , ' %sae N „,14,7:s4C-f:01 14:11 Ie To1GLUPGRADESsaythestandardoozeisabitslow is a slight understatement, so thankfully there are numerous 'enhancements' available to collect. These come in the form of small Orbs that inhabit all of the levels. Some of them are tantalisingly situated next to dangerous obstacles, that if you so much as go a millimetre out of line you'll be sucked away into the poo ﬁlled sewers of the Mirth This acts as a restart point....ifmi continue from the point , collected when 111 L .-411-1.74AtiL' , I" 4.J'•,1'-- 111P is gives you a limited amount t double speed. The colours

As you only control the • head, the area of gloop acts as a sheep and follows you around. Although you can shoot out parts of the slime as an attack, the rest is uncontrollable so the head is the your main control point. The aforementioned bonoe is where you spit \fromin„ and the area that will lead to automatic death if it is hit. The gunk itself will disappear with hits, but until your head gets attacked, you'll stay alive. Most enemies don't go for your loaf until your ooze is down to a minimum, but some possess lasers that cut straight through, and can kill instantly.

sound. If there are any impatient garners out there who have the attention span of a Goldﬁsh and are considering this, be warned: it takes time to really get into it. More time than yew may usually expect. nse are lets of levels to explore, and a novel idea is that you don't have to take the same route every time, as some stages have multiple paths for you to take. But, looking at the whole thing its a

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rm really into Ooze, and it's sedate pace doesn't bother me as muck as the sprightly Steve. Originally. us Brit Megadrive owners were to moss out on this, but luckily we now have the game and an estrensely reasonable price. Gameplay-wise. this is more original than most of the full-pirce platform fare going about, and has the advantage •l being rather vast. The real attraction comes from the strange sensation of controlling an amorphous lump rather than 'a single character. The games hazards tune this to good effect. with lasses slicing bits off you, drains sucking you up. and fan blades nobbling away at your edges. It's great fun gruesomely absorbing the leftover splat of your foes to make you stronger. Graphics could be better, sound Is Weak but this is one of the stronger Megadrive titles of 'ISM getbutkickThedull,impressionsinitially,COMMENTtheﬁrstarethatit'sslowandboorrrinnng.gamedoesn'treallyoffatanygreatpacehavingsaidthat.itdoesbetter.Thegraphicsareatmospheric,butnotoverlyimpressive,andlackrealsparkle.Thetunesareprettygoodhoweverandlikaanoozytuneshould

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certain orange cat in 1970 his life was never the same. The lasagne-lowing lazybones we have come to know and love as Garfield now appears in over 1200 newspapers around the world. Garfield television series. T-shirts and telephoeses are already a way of lite for many - a game was perhaps inevitable. This plattorivier opens with Garfield and Orhe's evening viewing interrupted by an explosion inside their television set Fearing retribution from his owner. John, Garfied endeavours to patch up the set using most of the remaining bits. Predictably, something goes horribly wrong - Garfield and Odle are sucked into the television set by a mysterious force. Garfield is forced to negotiate the electrically hazardous circuit boards inside the set, as well as battle Odle through reruns of the film genres still buzzing around inside the set. As if the novelty of eliciting any movement at all from Garfield wasn't enough, this game promises cutesy animation, fiendish puzzles and a satisfyingly violent bonus level. And absolutely no lasagne.

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Mega-CD owners who bought Batman Forever will know exactly where the idea for this originated from: this is basically a deluxe version of the driving sections. I have to say it looks aged and well poor. Not to mention dull in the gameplay department. the amount of lives on in not too many sittings. Poor.of scenarios this gameplay, lasting appeal.

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Gus made the point that this actually looks quite impressive when viewed from the other side of the room. Unfortunately, as he also pointed out, people don't play games from a similar position. Its difﬁcult to know where to start listing this game's faultsthe fact that the gamoplay hardly varies across the occasionally entertaining selection of backdrops is probably the biggest crime. although the absence of our heroes outside non-interactive clips is another. Next time Batman offers to take gou Out for a Sunday afternoon spin, tell him you're washing your hair.

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I haws a great affection for Myst. which means I recommend it to the average game-starved Mega. CD owner. But the conversion from PC/Saturn has suffered in the graphics department. The beautiful renders that really

pulled YOU into the world of Myst are now fuzzy, washed-out shadows of their former selves. However, the puzzles are just as involving, and the game as rewarding. RELEASE: OUT NOW P LAVE RSBY: SIINSOFT L. MEG- MEGA CO PRICE' IVA GAME TYPEL.ADVIEUTIME Excellent, and actually involved in the •ame a • No reﬂex-related action, but hi h ualit lot and tizzies. It may take longer to crinallekli this version as things zos as aids& A good game for any machine. but tempered by the less than inspiring visuals. L VIDEO BOOK Myst is a series of rendered scenes which form a map. Sometimes you will ﬁnd moving scenes; video effects cut into the static graphics. Although the game is free of other characters, there are things to learn and communicate. appealmainattractive,aretalkingisn'tmystillbeforeMyCOMMENTideasonMystvoicedarethesamehere.thinkitsadatedgame,butthishaslessweightinopinionbecausethistheSaturnwe'reabout.Thegraphicsnowherenearasandassuch,thepartofthegame's--isFOST. ARCUS IVIIM SEGA 87

to the for the part of • -- guide to Myst. You'll ﬁnd the tips just as useful, and it will give a better idea of the game,

From the island of Myst you discover the other worlds, reached by the tanking books These are well hidden behind a series of inter-linking puzzles. The essence of this puzzle game is to uncover the puzzles themselves, then StlivP them.

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• "e?hstoeit uts commentatorthe 41i•-.41.•after a particularly nasty jam. Well its either thet or the fact that the bask•tballers are 7-toot tall, with arms dangle down to their ankles and huge hands. And you know what they say about people with big handy they wear big gloves. But the familiar commentator sounds can only mean one thingNBA Jam is back, and this time the urn gets its helping. This version, the asTournamentEdition,featuresdoubletheamountoffeaturesfromtheoriginal,aswelltheusualquotaOfsecretplayers.extravagantdunksandhiddenpower-ups.TheactualgamepleVisalotslicker,andtheplayersmovealarminglyfasterthaninanyotherversions.Allthescalingisheretoo.sothatwhentheplayers run nearer to the line they expand or shrink, depending on which way you go. The laces on the players have all been added, enabling real NBA stars to be recognised easily, Also, when you lop0e the other masters?theteam_expectpertnershipsaccessibleyoucantoseeasuperCanyoudefeatso-calledJam conversionsdeservedarcadethetheTheCOMMENToriginalNSAgameonMegadrivewasoneofmosteagerlyawaitedconversionsinrecenttimes,andahit.Sequelsandcomeandgo on most formats, but in my bumble opinion, this is one of the best you're likely to get. The game is fast and annoyingly addictive. Secrets and hidden people can only enhance the already winning formula. II I had to have a gripe, it would be that the Saturn control pad was a bit awkward for this, but given time even that's forgotten. RAW recentmomenBACK!ISasgraedN RELEASE DECEMBER PLAYERS 1-4 BY tunes,NotandFantasticDOMARKplayerlaces,scalingcourtbackdrop.cobreallyanygroundbreakingCOMMENTFORMAT SATURN CD PRICE U9 99 GAME TYPE SPORTS Speech and ﬂoor squeaks are awesome. 01-17,071-..—"11164.Players could be better, but are Easy to get into, hard to put still gaud, down Lots of matches, and secrets too. m-1LOVIERALLMThepickofNBAgames.Aworthy additioo to your collection.Iagree with Steve that this is a good game, but I am not so sure that it is a sure ﬁre hit. The game has been around for a while now, and with the far more inventive games like Sega Rally and Virtue Fighter 2 due to arrive around the same Itin• . I can see more people going for those rather than this. Its still one of the better rsions though, and if you missed out on the Megadrive outing, this comes highly recommended. IMEMTIZZEZEOMII 11111111110 Z7vu,..T 11111•11111•111 Illk Ink

The stadium is presented from one of several virtual angles, that make the most of the surroundings, with high-banked seats and a convincing glass protective shield. The ice looks superb too, with super scaling and detailed markings. Although the player sprites look ﬂat and blocky by comparison, the graphical effect, on the whole is superb.

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NHL 142CKEYHOSPORTSPLAYERS 90 MM SEGA Not immediately gripping in the gameplay department, but a well-constructed sports simulation It's Phw000ar!gear.thesportthewithsexiest Always wear a helmet and bib &Moro having a Pot Noodle.

Sound is even better, with fantastic effects, responsive crowds and the echoing voice of the announcers mixed with a limited commentary. There's even a warning against smoking in the stadium! Gameplay-wise. things are a little less clear-cut It takes a while to get used to the conuots, which are less instinctive than 16bit hockey games, and the high inertia on the players makes the game slightly slower and less arcade than you might wish. You'll have to invest a large amount of time before feeling satisﬁed with each game_ Nevertheless, the stupendous multi-player mode and host of other options — including a role-play mode and half-time dissections from your coach, make this a package suited to hockey fans and sports game offn. )Adoes.

Somewhat confusingly, there should be two NHL games out for the Saturn within the next few months, but Sega have stolen a march with their game on EA's NHL '96. The ﬁrst American contender to the Sega Sports label makes a considerably better showing than Victory Goal, which suffered from a lack of knowledge and instinct of football, The programming of NHL, on the other hand, displays a remarkable grasp of the atmosphere of the game and the psyche of the average fan, by adopting the style of a TV Sports show, complete with famous (in the US at leastl presenters, and broadcast-quality presentation.

So. Eamonn, why do we produce a regular Out Now section? Well, it's quick and easy to write, takes hardly any time to design, and most importantly, let's you the reader so what pile of old cobblers Sega is shoving out before Virtue Fighter 2, Sega Rally and Virtua Cop. Only joking there, it's really to show you what pile of old cobblers Sega AND their third party pals are churning out. Chocks away...

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The second is the host of other great Saturn software that demands attention between now and Christmas. Do you really want to put such a substantial sum aside for a game you may already have? Only you can decide, but the conversion is good nonetheless.

It's also that which prevents many of them being converted, but Sega have created Mansion of Hidden Souls Out of Yumemi Mansion In many ways it's a sequel to the Mega•CD game, Mansion of Hidden Souls, but with more locations, naturally more puzzles and better graphics.

Gameplay, for the uninitiated, involves wandering around the 3-D loca- J tionsAI (within certain conﬁnes), examining objects and using them. The interface is extremely simple and there is no arcade element of any kind.

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Japanese Grand Chaser game, it adopts all the futuristic panache of a Fiat Strada, including the horrible door handles. Set on six bland planets, you race a ﬁeld of hovercraft across a dozen different courses, aiming to come ahead of the competition, So far, so yawn. As nothing comes out of Cyber Speedway particularly badly — sound and graphics are adequate, if bland, the main problem is a complete lack of excitement. Your racers are equipped with weapons, but not many different types of weapon and none possessing the sort of explosive effect you hanker after. If it was possible to send your opponents spinning off into the cosmos, Cyber Speedway might have attracted more attention.

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Many of the locations are taken from the original game, but they look one hell of a lot better. Even so, this year-old game is not at the cutting edge of Saturn technology and in our opinion is starting to look a bit dated.

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Myst aside, the Saturn hasn't yet attracted the in-depth adveiilu thatrg appeal to a wide audience of older owners. In Japan, there been no end of detective and mystery games: Rampo, Chinese Detective, Dracula Detective and Yumemi Mansion. These are usu ly unsuitable import buys because of the Japanese text.

The feel of the game is also suspect, with it being all too easy to crash, continue, crash continue — little reward for 0learning the courses and ﬁne-tuning skills. You never feel close to driving anything, just playing a simple computer game. We thought little enough of Grand Chaser when there was no opposition, but it fairs even worse now .

Ahal Acclaim pull this one out of the bag with little advance publicity, just when everyone thought they'd be smarting at losing out on the Saturn version to GT. Why not get In there ﬁrst with a perfect version el last year's monster hit?

With Sega Rally and Daytona USA, even

Why indeed not? For one thing. MK2 is not doggerel in the same vein as Streedighter: The Movie. Plus, the side-scrolling beat 'em r full satisfaction on the Saturn soup has not really been exploited to ou Forfar.

these reasons, and the attraction of MK2 itself, this should satisfy coin-op fans. But there are two main problems. First, perversely, is the quality of the previous Megadnve game. You are only going to appreciate a ﬁne-tuning of the classic, rather than be amazed by the graphics and sound.

One ﬁnal deterrent is the tack of lasting interest It shouldn't take an intelligent individual land Saturn owners generally are) more than a couple of days to polish it off, which makes it an expensive little adventure,

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John Speer, North Harrow, MiddlesexTODlhaven't got any cheats, but here's a tip. Take the game, put it in the Megadrive and turn it on. Then, stick the power cable up your arse and plug in. Now sit on a bed of nails, and wiggle about a bit. Finally get a cheese grater and shred the ﬂabby cheeks of your arse There, now you've got a butt that looks like your head. Sorted. If you didn't try that one than how's about not buying crap games like Beavis and Anusbonce so you don't waste my time with letters like this.

green with envy, all it succeeds in doing is giving the rest of the ofﬁc• a good laugh at you prate. Those concerned couldn't ﬁnd an eligible female in a lonely hearts column for the deaf and blind. If you have any real letters that don't have Brut splashed all over them or S.IN.A.L.K. written on the back then send them in to THIS IS NOT A DATING AGENCY, YOB'S MAILBAG. MEAN MACHINES SEGA. 3032 FARRINGDON LANE, LONDON, EC ift 3111.1. Otherwise sand them to Dear Marie, clo The Daily Mirror.

kind of a magazine do you think this is!!! We are a

Fifa '95 for sometime on the Megadrive 1, and now I've upgraded to the Megadnve 2 I've found that all the players have gone squarey i.e. the player graphics ate now square instead of being perfect! If I keep playing this, will it son itself out in time? II not, can you help? Suggest something! ()Percy, Wallasey, Wirral YOB:I feel like a serious answer for once. It sounds to me as though you've got a duff computer. If it only happens on Fifa, then maybe its the game and you will have to keep changing the systems when you play, but if it occurs on all of your games then you may have to take the Megadrive 2 back from whence it came.

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Amazing"' you can ﬁnd the time to read the mag, you may ﬁnd it most informative. Pleb. Oh, and the Doctor Who game got cancelled.

Can you send back all the cheats and questions please.

to know all the cheats for Beavis and Butthead, Rage and Micro Machines 2, I would also like to know what new games coming out for the Megadrive. I think your Sega books are so good!! Do you think Beavts and Butt•head are good or not?PS.

I'm a regular MEAN MACHINES SEGA reader and I lust wanted to ask you if you could print a double page spread of CLAIRE COULTHARD. I know you think I am sad but I think she is way more pretty than Pamela Anderson. I would really love a poster but that is up to you. PS.Is sheAmismarried?(Noaddress - wonder

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a game featuring myself..., sorry, myselves, is due to appear on that fentastic machine the Sega Megadrive. Please could you tell me if this is so? I know you cannot send me a reply, but I will of course de-materialise to get an issue of your fab magazine in the near future (or past depending on where I am). In addition. I would be grateful if you could tell me when it will arrive in your Earth shops.

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Thank PS.Anyyou.idea where I could get Dalek Attack for the Amiga The' Doctor, The Teaks YOB" once knew a fool who was so into Doctor Who, that he wore orange and, blue stripy shirts, let his hair grpw all over the place and insisted on shouting exterminate all the time. But enough about Steve Merritt. You know that page at the end of the may called Next Month! Well surprise, surprise it tells you when the next issue comes out!

Bugtastict This one's from Carl A bugging cartoonist!

reputable games magazine, but that is obviously not what you•re interested in. Claire was deeply ﬂattered until she got to the part about being prettier than plastic Pam, and then suddenly exploded quicker than a silicone implant in a microwave. If this thing has any friends reading, check that his copies of Mean Machines aren't stuck together, then give him a good kicking,

PUBICLICEDearYobIwon'tinsultyou,I'll Just get straight down to the questions! 1. When are you going to sort out the pillock twins? You know the ones who demand 5 billion pounds 2.each.Did they come round and slaughter you? 3. You're so lippyl Can you explain 4.this?IfI send away my guarantee card

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You've descendedreallyto the depths of bumlicking now. So. start sending your puny little love letters/pleas for passion to me instead of Claire. It's not funny or romantic in any way, and despite making Claire go red embarrassmentwithand Lucy

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print this letter then I will be forced to come round to your house, sellotape you to a chair and make you play Rise of the Robots nonstop all day.

like to see the day when a cretin like you could even ﬁnd my house without getting lost in the worm holes, you skinny little runt. The reason we stopped doing Master System games was because a) Sega don't make games for it any more, and b) everyone else has moved into the 20th century and plays Megadrives and Saturns All of which is obviously far too Intellectual for a half-witted, brainless, idiotic, gibbon's arse of a person like you.

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best thing to happen since the ﬂushable bog. Finally, in the last issue you said that the tips nappy was a disposable pair of pants full of cak. How did you come to tbis

First, I would just like to say I am not writing this letter to extract the urine. I just want to ask you a few simple questions. Is that cack picture of the prat holding the surf board you? Because if it is, I'm not surprised everyone is always writing letters to insult you.

for the Saturn now, how long will it take before my free Panzer Dragoon Demo Disk comes Bythrough?theway if you gimme any mouth I'll send the 'eery lads round to duff you inll

Right, that's your lot for this month. I'm off to decapitate Galvin Amis, but in lb meantime the starry eyed romantics emoting you should get scribbling instead of dribbling, and get your 'problems' out in ritr• open. Until next

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94 MM SEGA .) SUN BLEST Dear CouldGusyou please answer my questions.1Ihavesome real problems with Myst on the Saturn_ As no one else can help me, I turn to you the master whon w kieverything. eli Please tell I can get to the clocklower on island? 2. Will there be a Desert Strike game on any of the next gen. fighter:3.machines?IsStreetThe Movie on the Saturn any good? 4. When will Virtue Cop be coming 5.out?Is Datel converter going to wreny Saturn? 6. Have you played Wipeout yet? Man, what a great game that is. Is the Saturn able to run such games? 7. Is Claire still single and what does she flunk NetherlandsBossenbroek,JeroenDutchaboutguys?GUS:1_Asit'appens.WestartourimmenseguidetoMystthisissue,2Therearenoplans,butcheckourThunderhawk2review.3No, Golden Axe The Duel is the best side- scrolling beat 'em up as yet. 4. Late November in Japan, and soon after here. 5 I shouldn't think so. 6. More than capable. 7. Claire is, alas romantically entwined with a teddy bear called Hamley on Saturn may. However, she does get turned on by men wearing IDearclogsGusthinkyour may is great and I read it every month. Could you please Lovel, grovel, whimper) answer emrofsnoitseuqestIJOI. Will Baldies or Networks be coming out on the Megadrive? 2. Put these games in order (please): Risen Primalll.PinbaPsycho,Rage,Micro Machines 2 '96, Shining Force 2. Road Rash 3. 3. Is it worth getting Micro Machines 2 '96 when I already have M.M.1 and MAU? 4. Is Lethal Enforcers on reply,theyPower)(SegaSegawrotePSMeg,thegameFootballthe5anyMegadrivethegood?Whatisbeston-adrive?We'toPoorariddidn'tthat's why I read your magazine and not theirs. I hope you do a better job. Scott Hohonsof? Perranporth, GUS:1.ConewallExcuse me? 2. Micro '96, Shining Force 2, Psycho Pinball, Primal Rage. Road Rash 3. Reiter. 2_ Tricky one. If you really want the track editor, yes. 4 Nah, it's aged and crusty now. 5. Fever Pitch and Fifa '95 are Equally good, but look out for ISS From GUS•1Dave5.4_nocopyForceThanks.GouldPlease,DearJulyKonami.Gusplease,pleeeairassseeeyouanswerthesequestions.1.ArethereanycheatsforShiningCD?2.CouldyoupleasesendmeaofLunar:TheSliverStarasoneseemstohaveh?3.WhenisSnatcher2comingout?HaveyouheardanythingonLunar2?Finally,whereismynearestimportstore?NotimghdinNoneinmybackpocket.2. -. Get6441 stulledt3. Never ever. 4 Not due for a Mega-CD release, but there is a Saturn Lunar on its way. 5. Walk out your house, turn right, past the public lavvy and its own your Gus,questions?DearMALTleftGus--pileanswer my I. Is Sim 200 UotleuqesaebotgniogerV1I02.theonoutgcomin11Mee?Dike? ot‘ I,htnosnsihT take time theinvestigatetophenomenon humans as havecanfreebiestheresurety,doubt,hope,despair,Butbearstandards.tailingDon'tandrudimentaryhoursthroughwhichpleasuresandAnentMarcus'scoffusacademicisissokampos%reeSpecifically'luncheon'.'forbyitsname,gratis'.andIaretogoonone,Imustsayit'slikethatsustainmethemanydarkwithyourscriptssinisterrequests.talktomeaboutschoolIhavetothebruntofit.wherethereiswewillbringwherethereiswewillbringandwhoreareSaturnoneller,yourestassuredImyorderin. WOO -•---.0.011•••••••••••••••••••••••••11101M

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Even though we have published rumours of Tek ken, there is no ofﬁcial deal for those Name° games 5 No one challenges the brilliance of these games. The arcade demands a different kind of game structure, but both Rally and Daytona on Saturn have excellent longevity. 7. Yes. B. I think they should concentrate on producing a good football game, actually.

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3. Is there going to be a Them Part 4,2?Will there be a Fifa '96? 5. Is Bug coming out on the OliverMegadtive?Sinunonds, Guildford Sr' anew GUS:1. Rope. 2. Mope, 3. Noose. 4Yep 5. Mope. 1-TTIT ilk Dear Gus Can you please answer my questions or I will rip your legs oft 1. Is there going to be a PowerDrive 2.2?When will Earthworm Jim 2 be coming out and how much allot 3,?tsoc is it worth me buying a MX? N 4,itCan you please put these gamesin order from best to worst. Micro Machines 2, Earthworm Jim. Fria '95, Road Rash 3, MK 2. Batman 5Forever?IsPGA Tour Golf 3 coming out for the 32X 67 Any more news on Total Football for the Megadrive? 7 Is the Megadrive better than the MarkPC? Henshaw, Peterborough GUS:l. No. Lit should be opt about now. at ESO steam" minus a peon, 3 That is a decision you hem to come to. n you want Virtue Retiter for lust over E100 — yes. 4, Micro Machines 2. Earthworm Jim, EMU. Fria 15, Batman Forever, Reed Rash 3 6 It's a delicate sellwect at the matter. 7. PC come • ell shapes and forms, There's no direct WithDewDAILYcomparison.Gus.thereleaseofthe Playstation am C. is the Saturn going to drop se 'Mice from 1189, by how much and when?

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MEGADRIVEINCLUDES 2 joypads and 4 fabulous games: Cannon Fodder, Pitfall. Turrkon, Sonic. Incredible price 1,9911 Call Harry on 0161 224 2025. MEGACD, 17 CD games E280. Megadrive, 4 carts, 4 joysticks etc. E100. SMD 16MBIT 340 disks E300. 0151 4260138.

MEGACD II for sole with 5 games, Lethal Enforcer with gun, Time Gal, Road Avenger. Sherlock Holmes and Thunderhowk, all leads and manuals, will sell for E140. Phone William on 01943 877811 West Yorkshire

MEGADRIVE 2 for sole, boxed. 2 joypods, 19games Including Theme Park, Mickey Mania. Micro Machines 2, Jungle Book plus loads more classics, all worth at least E600, selling for bargain price of E299 ono. Tel 01923 245289.

FORSALEG.G. with loads of accessories. E120, and MS E50 ono or both for Ella Call Adam 01875 833 296 Scotland.

MDII, MCD, 9 MD games, 4 MCD games, 2x6 button ir 2x3 button joypods, 1 Powerbase stick, very good condition. make a good chrissy piesent. E200 ono. Call 01369 705760 - I will pay registered delivery charges.

MEGADRIVE for sole E100 with 5 top games including Streeuocer, good condition with 3 joypods. great bargain!. Tel 01993 775480. •

GREATXMAS gift - Mega CD with 7 games plus 6 MD games. Call Ben 01222 885500. Also TV all E230.

32X FOR sale, 5 games: VR Deluxe, Doom,Star Wars, Afterburner. 6 months old, all fully boxed with instructions, excellent condition E225. Call 0181 330 6454 (Surrey. Worcester Park). Also brand new

TOPRATED Megodrive games for sale, priced E10-1,30. Phone Philip between 46.30pm on 01905 616049. All boxed as MEGAnew.CD, excellent condition, boxed, 12 gemes, all for E200 ono. Ring Alex on 0181 950 4814.

MEGADRIVEWITH 30 games Including i Sonic 1,2,3 los 4, MKIL SSFII. Urban and Jungle Strike, Action Replay II and Game Genie with cheat book, 3 jogpads. 1 joystick. All In good condition for just 1,350. Tel. Rkky 012477 38232 after 6.30pm. JAPSEGA Saturn with VF. VF Remix, Daytona. Panzer Dragoon. 2 joypods.PSU,SCART lead. Sell E400. Tel Seth on 01286 871515.

FORNorthants.SALEPAegocirive and 6 games and Mego CD and 25 games and 32X wIth 1 game plus magazines and 2 joypadsworth E1400, will sell for 1,500 - what borgoinl Tel. Derbyshire 453045.

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SEGAMEGADRIVE with 36 games: Theme Park. SFII and others plus 6 pads. 1,300 cash or swap for Ptoystation or Saturn. Phone 01475 539442.

SEGAMEGADRIVE for sale with 2 Orods.Streefﬁghter 2 SCE, Sonic 1 and American version of Mortal Kombat 2. oll

32XANDMEGADRIVE with 2 controllers and games: Star Won, Virtue Racing Deluxe, Balk, Doom, Stonj of Thor, FIFA 95, NBA Jam TE, MKII, PGA Golf and 7 others' Plus loads of MMS magazines. E250 ovno. Buyer collects (Wilts) 01980 653622. MEGADRIVE, 2 6-button pads and 2 3button pods, 8 UK games includingMKI+11 and Micro Machines 2. 2 Japanese games with adopter. Menace( 6 game catt, all In very good condition, E280. Phone 01223 832552 and ask for EARTHWORMRichard.JIM for sole E30 ono. Tel 01827 711775 after bpm (Tamworth FORarea).SALE

MEGADRIVE II, 12 games, FIFA 95, Sompras, Sonic 3, Zero Tolerance, 4 joypads (2 6-button), excellent condition worth 1,350. Sell for MO ono. Coll 0181 349 0173 after opm.

7CHEAPMEGADRIVEgames for sole, Golden Axe, Sonic 2, Streets of Rage II, Marble Madness, Mego-lo-mania. General Chaos,Bubs9 2 and Jimmy Whites, E20 each, 1,50 for 3 or the whole lot for E100. Phone William 0171 435 1939.

MEGADRIVE games, Urban Strike E12, Red Zone E15. Ecco 1 15, Gods E10, Zool 1,5. Action Replay 2 E20. MEGA CD games, Silpheed E12. Jaguar )0220 E10. Prince of Persia E10, Sol Feace E10. 32X games, Doom, VR Deluxe E30. Phone 0181 292 3009.

MEGADRIVE, Mego CD, 6 controllers, both 4-player adaptors, 73 games in all, including latest Mies. E550 - coil Marcus on 01242 222887.

MEGADRIVE for sale: 2 control pads. 1 Arcade Power Stick 2 plus 4 games. Cost E130. Call James 0181 398 4832.

MEGAC1)2 32X with 18 games Including Souistw, Fl. Bottlecorps. Botmon Returns, Doom, V. Racing, Afterburner. Stat Wars, worth E800, sell 1-320 ono. Will consider splitting. Contact Daniel 01933 673206

SEGAMEGADRIVE, Mega CD. 2 infrared joypads, 9 MD games. 10 Mega CD games. worth E1,100 will sell for E300. Phone 01246 414626.

IMUST be madll loads of MD. CD and 32X games from as little as E10 each. Also for sole, 32X and 2 6-button joypcsds. For the privilege of this bargain phone Cardiff (01222) 596828 (buyer to pay MEGADRIVEpostage).MEGA CD. 4 joypads. 18 carts, 18CDs, SOR 3, Sonic 3, Flashback, Banlecorps, Soulstar. FIFA CD, Thunderhowk. £400. Call Derek OM 378 9592 South East London.

MDGAMES for sole, NBA Live 95. n, E15, NHL95, College Football, Davis Cup. M.A11 Boxing. Rood Rash 2, Lotus 2. Sonic 2, Super Kick Off, Bulls v Blazers E10. Sonic I, Agassi. Outrun. 2019 E5. Ring Peter after bpm (Edinburgh) 0131 664 0284.

FORSALE 32X with 3 games. Megodrive with 6 games, eve hWortboxed.thingry1,550,sellforE200. 01684 564019.

Megadrive 1, boxed, includes Super Streetﬁghter II. Mortal Kombat Earthworm Jim, Rock'n•Roll Racing. 3 pads (1x6 button), carry case and lots of assorted magazines, all In good condition, valued over E380, accept offers wound E200. Tel Andy 01754 610426. MEGADRIVE vAth 1 controller and 9 games including Theme Park orid 12 Arcade. 16 tip books, Menocer lightgun with 6-game cartridge. All boxed. Sell for E130. Tel Dean on 0121 378 5553.

MEGADRIVE and Mega CD for sale with 21games Including Theme Park CD, Micro Machines 96. All boxed with instructions, worth E900, going for 1400. If Interested contact Jonathon Baughen 01923 820191. I on not selling separately.

AMIGA 500 for sole, 2 joysticks, mouse with mat, keybowd cover, double row disk box and 38 games, instructions included E260. Wordworth for Amigo also for sale, hwdly used, boxed. E3,5 (was 1,55). Tel Derek on 0141 887 9009

95. Lion King. Sonic 3, MK2, Urban Strike, Fl. PGA 2, 17 games In oil. E175 ono. Also Master System 2, 4 games, PGA, Ultimate Soccer, Alex Kidd, Spiderman, 01274 493558.

for E210, If Interested contact Mont on 0171 207 4020 or write to 338 Kennington Rood, Kennington, London5E11

Mortal Kombot 2 (32X) Included. MEGADRIVE with 4 joypcsds (2 have 6 buttons and outoﬁre), 14 games including Sonic 2 os 3, Micro Machines, Super Street Fighter 2, Flashback and Virtua Racing. Cost me 1,345. Selling for E175 ono. 01925 604634.

I[Lee's what to dll)For just U. you can have your ve y own advert containing up to 20 words! Or V ou've got money to burn and have plenty to write, an extrei golden nugge I iuy you the boxes below, stick it in an I•r that h d to find co rted. t ying o sell your unwanted game 1 ?? r4s) probl 1111 want a pen pal who likes what you like ?? piece of cake. whether you want to buy, sell or swap, the MEGA MART is for you! another 20 words - yep, 2 for 40 words! So fill envelope along with a cliTque or postal order made payable to MEAN MACHiNES arild send to: MEAN MACHINES MEGA MART, PRIORY COURT 30 32 FAIRRiNGETON aGily4re b]j Jless g o@,1.c wee or ye CItTGO '(1'@CI \•-reAlliglhilomillammams -IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIkm' thalbot IIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIEIEEIIIIIIIIIIIIII tot COO P11.111111.11.1111111111.1. 0 1: " 44 4 slilt%iltaAN'11" 1111.1111.111.1.1.1.11 * "s1rds) Ilia mnoir1111nnomm11.11.11111111aesaelPUA3RICENODNOLtahilAillA ' MEGA ART is for private adverhsers nly. Anybody s,ndong in a trade advert will not have it published. Your cheque won't be cashed and no correspondence will be entered into. However, if you are interested in placing a D4' •id. please contact Liza flawkes on 0171 972 6700 now ear. MASI NOTE: 1word set bet. nese smoissre Wei 1 word. Use capitals see writs neatly te preld silsteesel addressname postc00611111111.1no11.11111111PI look41litlephone

Just like last year, MEAN MACHINES has come up with a cute little game, for that time on Boxing Day when you've got board of playing Robotica or Streetfighter: The Movie. Well, we did warn you. Anyway, this one is called 'The perils of development' and it's a realistic simulator of the processes that go into a Saturn game. Actually, it's snakes and ladders. All you need is some counters and a dice. Interview..SagoWent*Badan Virgin want to publish Fat cheetn, arrives forth hoeitts. ar r tce•id ebotiv Your first liana , gets feature.1111110911MACHINESMEANaCoHutYouscoreitreview93% The game is on the shelf. The sequel is secured. You're rich and Whatfamous.aload of tripe! And there'll be more next month including; Reviews of Crystal Dynamics' stuff, including The Horde. A review of F-1 Live information. Exclusive info on Acclaim's Saturn sports Sims. A review of the incredible Toy Story on Megadrive. 98 MM SEGA A report from Capcom, as Gus flies out to Tokyo. Exclusive coverage on Darxide 32X. Worms for Saturn detonates before your eyes.to J p, The meaning of 'Baku Baku' is finally revealed. Vinua Cop reviewed in lavish multi-page technicolour. Myst finally demystified and Rayman rendered in tips. And more, definitely more...

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