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GUN GRIFFON 24 It's a foul, mad, lima nearby vegetation Yes, KING OF FIGHTERS 21 The Nut Gee classic strives on Saturn with no Inotovauve Ise Warfel Duisi R systeimNHLPOWERPLAY '916 32 Not so may hockey sticks as we head ler a multiple edema on the ice with Mc Bonk DARK SAVIOR 34 The latest pictimes from Climax's revolutionary new RPG READERS' SURVEYelf for the rigours by tackling guidegargantuanourreaders'ssurveyform.SHININGWISDOMGUIDE56LitbpsguruStovebeyourthrough 1 this , forthcomingWeeblefantasy. EDITORIAL 6 A fascinating glimpse behind the scones of the daily turmoil that bears hull on Ukase very pages. Welcome NEWS 8 And vetily they brought unto the masses died' news of such wondrous entertainments as Syndicate Wars, Adria Golf Bad Mommightyandconi-operated amusement& VIDEO CD 12 Light danced beam then very ayes Lel The pictures took lorm and moved in magical CREAMlormatitms,OFSEGA 14 Competition was fierce among the contenders, who strove fur a coveted place ia hew peeple's affections. SIEVE'S TIPS 52 The inquisitive journeyed to the cave of the tips wizard - for aitt ice, the strange little Man imparted spells to his bravo and foolhardy apprentices OUT NOW 68 The travellers gathered round to exchange tales honk the city stones et a magical flying carpet, fearsome automata and moghty-shouldered Wieners Were Whispered in reverence. MEAN YOB 90 the arena of combat bore witness to fearsome struggles tor supremacy— none it seems, were a match for Ow mightiest warriet of all OhA 92 Many flecked to loam at the foot 01the master, and Mileh Was learned thorough dedicated serf•sactoftce patient CuriousMEGAMARTperseverance96holdsdentedthe people — •ninny fled m fear from the terrible sight that plagued their mum, NEXT MONTH 98 And what of the future Well REGULARSofSaddlePANZESTDRItCCONfEginaaltaraagtsvim•P•amins110MOPaicaa.•%IlowAtivuosoLUZNum0RAGOOrEl16uraneight-pageexplorationthemust-havegameofspring'96.

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arcus has been spe spare time playing Sa Cyberia. "I think what attracted me to the ro chance to play voyeur and leer that chick copping off with that bloke. It all gets a bit uncomfortable later when I get ked unconscious, but to take the rough w' oth." Marcus has an u 'rig ambition:green e Toy Story game. Th 't many lines to learn and 'ye got the looks for' •

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en working for Bullfrog y." admits Gus. ''They've uite good to me, giving me e bit part in Theme Park. I'm the comfy sweater-wearing father of the family that gets sucked into their TV at the beginning. They've promised me a promotion - I'm going to be one of the ride mechanics next month." Gus ambitions to loin the navy: If I could be anyone in a game I'd be Admiral Blocky in Wing Arms. That trick of talking out of sync with my lips would make a great party piece.

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8 re s been putting those rmidable thighs to good u acently, understudying for arah Bryant in Virtue Fighter. ince Sarah had a make-over nd moved on to VF2. the post as been vacant on the original ame. A chisel and hammer on ensured Claire looked the art. "The best bit's getting to eat my brother upl" she uses. "I hope to move on to Baku - I'd like to be the green bird that cries when mputer loses. But I can't ﬁt into the costume."

his month you'll find the first review of the first Saturn link-up title. Gebockers. Its crap, but that's of little importance. Its what Sega make of the cable that's important. At the moment. the view from Japan is that splitscreen is better than link-up. as the cable requires two Saturns, two monitors and two copies of the game in close proximity. The argument Has always been that network play is fun for magazine writers like us, but useless for you lot. Okay, that's true to a point. But the third-party developers have got ideas for the cable, and it opens up whole new areas of gameplay. Despite the lukewarm response, it looks like the AM1 Virtual On conversion will be the first game by Sega to use the add on. Hopefully it won't be the last. In meantime,the enjoy the issue and please send back questionnaire.theGUS

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Spot the difference. NOT. Marcus recently arrived late. Claiming he just had to trim his beard. ..he's clearly been modelling himself on the perv from Cyberia.

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cleaning of Virtue City recentlyain't using a broom to do it. It's smart being Smarty off irtua Cop. I've been taking out ps and zooming around on patrol - and I haven't even got a driving license!' Steve has lofty ambitions for his future role, 'I • tend to play a certain blue gehog in this year's new nic game. I've already started ng my face with chips in 'rder to cultivate the perfect • ire."

Stride in Blom: Machinehe reel freezing in that clobber," she moans during i , rare fag break, "and I'm getting a bit tired of being strapped to th incendiary device, but at least I get to take the clothes home at the weekend." Lucy's ambi to play Woody in the Toy S game. "Or anyone who wears decent pair of trousers."

CLAIRE BRYANT 10 Sarah Bryant was chosen to represent our Cluuurrm because of the size of her choller whollers and her super sonic athletic build. Clur has recently taken to cartwheeling across the ofﬁce, shouting 'Hi ye!' and felling male members of staff with tension,executedexpertlykicks.Sheputsitdowntopre-menstralbutweknowbetter.LUCY

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Second-only to The Sex Pistols in notoriety, The Clash ﬁrst made their mart in 1977 and continued to present politically-edged punk until they disintegrated in the early Eighties. This is Video Clash gathers eight tracks, from thew second through to their penultimate albums. Highlights include the rousing London Calling, the melodic Train in Vain and the Levi's advert lave Should I Stay Or Should I Go? While this CD illustrates their musical versatility, all but the most recent tracks here now sound badly dated, and the group's well 'ard posturing now seems merely quaint. Encoded in

A rarity on two counts - a Video CD Western from the otherwise quiet Philips. This impressively photographed movie tells the story of Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck), an American long-distance marksman who travels to Western Australia in 1860. He soon Finds himself up against a dastardly rancher Marston (Alan Rickman) for refusing to shoot Aborigines and up against the barmy but beautiful 'Crazy Cara' (Laura San Giacomo) in an entirely different sense of the phrase. Tom Selleck projects a roguish charm that the ﬁlm itself never quite matches, and Alan Rickman is, well, the baddie. You know the routine. Well made and well encoded, if ultimately unengaging

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This triple disc set, assembling the highlights of a 1990 benefit gig that was previously only available across three video cassettes, is a very promising start to Castle Communications' Video CD releases. This epic concert stars a motley crew of rock 'elder statesmen': Dire Straits are dull, Cliff Richard is cheesy and Status Quo are annoying.On the other hand. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page are still nails (if a little geriatric), Paul McCartney is in Beatles-friendly mode and Pink Floyd are defiantly magnificent in the lace of a rainstorm. A lucky dip that usually comes up trumps

"Sit back and enjoy the carnage and the capers in Above The Law!" gushes the Steve Priestley-style narrator in this blocky compilation of motorsport pileups. His hilarious voice-overs specialise in patronising comments following the unfortunate drivers' mishaps. "Let's impress the crowd with a wheelie, he chirps after a motorcyclist raises his front wheel.Hmm," he V a XOCIE >CCP: I. A W

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Castle release. This ﬁlm, shot in 1970 but only completed and edited in 1995, is a revelatory and frank document of the last great music festival - the bitterness and disappointment of the organisers leaves as great an impression as the music. And that's of the greatest vintage - Jimi Hendrix (in his last UK performance, merely two weeks before he died), The Who, Free, and The Doors all sound excellent, even if they sometimes look a bit worse for wear. An essential snapshot of the end of an era As with the Knebworth discs, the encoding struggles with the numerous crowd scenes.

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Scotland's drippy AOR boys in ﬁfteen videos that span their singles career up to 1993. Wishing I Was Lucky, their ﬁrst and best single, kicks everything off with an unbelievably tacky promo that sees the lads sucked into their television sets with 'hilarious' consequences. From thereon everything was smanened up a bit. If you canmake it throughSweetLittle Mystery, Angel Eyes (spelt 'Angle Eyes' on the sleeve) and Sweet Surrender you'll be rewarded with a selection of tracks from the wilderness years before they resurfaced with the unintelligible promo for Goodnight Girl. A well encoded spoonful of syrupy smooth

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Its approach is quizzical at ﬁrst, as if the appearance of the dragon sparks long distant memories. It is both hideous and beautiful at once. Despite its huge bulk, it can soar across the sky in an instant. It turns tail on the dragon and myriad, jewelled lethal stars explode across the sky. The ﬁnal confrontation. Or is it?

The original Dragoon was the most exciting game for the Saturn when it debuted in Japan a year ago. Despite its shortcomings, it still shines. But this sequel is aeons ahead. PDZ is epic, dazzling, stirring and thrilling in equal measure. The ambigieus plot of the original is expanded in a fantastic story intro that snaking it more of an adventure than an arcade game. But the story ends up offering more conundrums than those it solves. Quirky mystery is part of the PDZ experience as there is a whole culture of hidden features within the game, including an elaborate box of tricks offered as a 'reward' for good play. Graphically, Wa far in advance of any shoot 'em up on any 32-bit format. Advanced polygon routines give a solidity, detail and smoothness to the backgrounds, and an artistic imagination has produced creatures nightmarish and stunningly beautiful in equal degree. Each level progressively astounds, especially the leviathan bosses which end each episode in a perilous confrontation. The last of these is so incredible as to be a deﬁning moment in console gaming. Musically, the game's stunning appearance is matched byte for byte. The achievement is all the more impressive as It comes direct from the Saturn's soundchip. Developers in this country must strive to make use of this Yamaha-designed wonder, or Saga must provide an easy interface for it, as its neglect is, shown by PDZ, criminal. But it's too easy. Ves. the PAL version will be harder and the game has long-term interest. but still its just too easy to play through. How can we still recommend a game that hardened players will complete in a few days? Because it's a must-have game. PDZ is simply the musthave game of spring '9

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In order to hone your skills before you enter combat proper, there are two training levels to potter about in. Scaled to easy or difﬁcult level, the easy section drops your griffon into barren territory sparsely populated by enemy vehicles and a nasty boss in the shape of a rival griffon. The more difﬁcult practise level drops your griffon into the middle of rolling pastures and charming woodland. Both of which you can destroy with your impressive array of weaponry. There is more to kill on this level, more aggressive opponents and two especially troublesome helicopter gunships to contend with. On both levels there is a strict time limit to adhere to - you must destroy all other vehicles and cross the designated in the

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seeing as he's the hardest bloke in the universe he wants to test his strength by organising the one-en-one tournament to end all tournaments. Thus the King of the Fighters is born. But, in his eagerness and his desire to destroy the best fighters he his mothership to explode, taking the best challengers with him. So. he fails in his first attempt, but somehow manages to survive the crash (funny that) and revives the tournament. So all the fighters have gathered back together in another quest to become King of the Fighters.

Ignoring the ultra-realistic plot, this basically boils down to another beat 'em up, attempting to challenge SF for the fighting crown. It premiered on the Neo Geo in the form of KoF '94, and this upgrade soon followed to high aplomb in certain areas of the gaming press. Now, it has arrived on the Saturn, in the guise of the latter version, to wow all you Saturn owners. The format is the same as all the fighting games you come across, with one bloke or woman trying desperately to beat up another bloke or woman. Zero points for originality. But it's the style of the game that may help to set this apart from the other games in the already overcrowded field. It has a very anime feel to it, with very stylish character movements and appearances. An added bonus is an awesome multi-player mode, which is detailed elsewhere in this feature. If early indications are anything to go by, it could cause quite a stir. But, with no European publisher yet signed, it might not see the light of day on these shores.

No you perverts, not that sort of threesome. We mean a bit of three-on-three fighting action. This game has a Team nIn(te option ii which in , ir anyhoose-oneofthree characters to team up together in an elimination-style battle. The As fighters are already grouped I teams when you start, but you now have the opportunity to pick your own set of warriors for your own specific needs. With 24 characters to choose from, a veritable feast of possible combinations are on offer. The groups are built around past jp games and alliances withother characters from SNK's other beat 'em ups. For instance, there is a Fatal Fury side consisting of the Bogard 11 brothers and Joe Higashi, and numerous other stowaways from the Fatal Fury and Art ot Fighting games.

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The standard 24 characters are not the only blokes and blokettes who you can control in the game. When you manage to beat all of the other fighters, you move onto the spaceship home of the first boss: The SkyMother. The first boss is Saisyu Kusanagi who is a martial arts character, and the father of Kyo, one of the other fighters in the game. He is immensely powerful for an old bloke, and possess a stunning finish if you get near to beating him. However, if you defeat him in one round, Omega Rugal takes his place, and an even greater foe awaits you. Rumour has it that they are also playable with a cheat, but nothing is confirmed yet...

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But, as brieﬂy hinted dt before, whatever is said about this ILL., slicks and pucks runaround, one thing it does make for is an excellent gaming experience, Take EA's NHL Hockey. Probably one of the ﬁnest sports games ever to appear on any Sega machine. So it's no real surprise that Virgin have decided to throw their considerable weight into the market with their version of events - namely NHL Powerplay Hockey. With the only other Saturn Ice Hockey sim being the slightly poor NHL All Star Hockey, it doesn't exactly have much to live up to. Which makes this release even more important, as it could well be seen as.' benchmark for future games. But what will probably set this apart from other Hockey games will be its level of realism. The player movements and the animation are all top notch, and represent a lot of hard work on the programmers' part.

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To make the going easy, Climax have released a demo disc containing a fully-functional level, the scene-setting ship level. This gives a useful insight into game feel and interface as well as ably demonstrating the 'Hyperion perspective which rotates and scales the game in RPOs_ Savior capitalise on Climax's 3-D good feature is that the designers hay story in realtime graphics exactly same as those within the game rather than concoct rendered or FtviV scenes. Early examples show the ip's crew gossiping about the strange cargo, a creature being lowered into the hold and escaping showing no mercy to a sailor guard — his demise sts as a shadow scene onto the wall.

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Each character has between one and three most powerful attacks that consume a full level of their power bar at a time. EX moves are the ones to employ for the highly satisfying 'extra special ﬁnish'. However, most EX moves are less complicated to perform than X-Men or Alpha moves, so you'll be able to employ them in the course of normal combat, with them less likely to end the round prematurely. Some 'EX' moves show distinctly MK style tendencies, with performedactionsusing a sequence of button and presses.direction

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Loaded is a revenger's tragedy in the grand tradition. The player chooses one of a band of mercenaries who have been incarcerated on a grim prison planet, Few might shed tears over a bunch of scary-looking psychotics being banged up, but in this case an even scarier pyschotic FUB l'fat ugly boy') has been responsible for setting them up. However, before you can say 'Care in the Community' the lunatics are taking over the asylum. Presumably someone has smuggled the heavy weaponry on offer into the prison in a box of Pop Tarts, as you are able to commence an immediate killing spree. The multi-level prison is distinctly overmanned, with guards running in all directions, until you begin some 'downsizing'. As well as killing, players must collect keys to open colour-coded secure areas of the maps, which resemble mazes in the early part of the game. Later, as you emerge from the lower levels of the prison, exterior levels with open spaces replace them. Each character has a unique main weapon and smart bomb which can be powered up with additional collectables.

Loaded, the idea, goes back further than the Plifestation protect. It was originally an idea for a SNES game, Killers For Hire, by Gremlin producer Ade Carliss The cornerstones of Loaded were the bases of 'Killers'. psychotic characters, frenetic gameplay l'the thinking than's Smash TV', no less) and a forced overhead perspective utilising 3-0 for depth.

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Gremlin are darned proud of Loaded. The Playstation version has sold spedefulls, lapped up by the Americans in particular, where there's a Loaded sold for every six Sony machines, Plus, the game's retro character makes it stand out from the current vogue for prissy intros, poneey polygons and general absence of sadism from devel9pers trying to be terribly grown-up for the big-boy consoles.

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Gremlin has left one man to battle with the Saturn's dual processors in the bid to bring Loaded to the Saturn. And from the most recent 'build' Richard Evans is doing a steding job. Indeed, the version we saw was too fast! Richard set about producing an early version using one of the SH2 main processors to run the game before attempting the complex task of dividing the work between the two. In the end, one handles all the graphics while the other calculates game logic. The Playstation origin of the code prevented experimentation with custom hardware like the Saturn's VD1 which is really jolly good for backgrounds.

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A game with the nature of Loaded is bound to offend. A flagrant disrespect for sentient life is shown, with buckets of red gore spilled in all directions. The effects are neatly programmed, with permanent blood stains on ceilings and floors to show your handiwork, Some countries have a historical problem with blood, and get around it by insisting on different colours. Japan dictates alien-style green fluid. Germans demand a bizarre black plasma but in good old Blighty, your sprite cadavers will be covered in the appropriate claret. Unless you're using a flamethrower, when they'll come over all crispy duck in hue_

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Loaded boasts music by well-known Indio band Pop Will Eat Itself. The two tracks, 'RSVP' and 'Kick to Kill', come from their current album Dos Dedos Mis Amigos. RSVP has already charted in the 'hit parade' making Loaded the only game to feature a commercially released single. The techno tracks suit the game's industrial look perfectly. And defying assumptions of market-led impetus for the project, the band genuinely do like playing the game. Apparently, a demo disc given to them of PSX version was overheated and rendered useless within the space of a weekendlong

Motion Capture system, one of the biggest in Europe, actually. Motion Capture, as we've detailed before, is a method of recording human or animal movement to use for sprite or polygon animation in games. Gremlin's facilities use clothing marked with reﬂective baubles which are traced on camera, digitised into frames on a powerful computer. These are converted to vector diagrams which are sent downline to Gremhn's graphic artists. All Loaded's animations, including FMV character sequences, were created in this way, with the game team stepping into the various roles (Vox was played by the receptionist).

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The game is split into 'days', each taking the player between set markers on the landscape. Each day begins with a satellite message passed back to the corp. in the States, and limited objectives, such as they are, are given. The first involves finding the wrecked plane before spider venom ithere's loads on the first level) overwhelms you.

ler movies, Congo is a Sega of American project that went on the back burner when the film mad. monkey. out of Universal in the States. Both game and flick are based on a novel by Michael Crichton. the author of Jurassic Park. Set in the titular jungle region of West Africa, a team of scientists are exploring a local myth of a loot city Maj. They hope to find a particular form of diamond useful in laser communication technology. Some of them go missing and a fresh team, led by a girlie scientist, find rumbles in the jungle. What could have been a thriller with a twist sadly turned Out to be a rendition of the clunky gibbon with actors in furry suits attempting to scare the audience. Nevertheless, the film somehow managed to be a commerival success, taking over $100m worldwide.

The genie thankfully steers clear of the movie plot, using the setting, the foliage and some of the techno to c,reate a .E •kkDoom-style explore-and-shoot 'em up. The game progresses through the dense-forested tracks of the river basin, before entering the city environs, then through underground areas to the sacred areas of the monkeys. Along the way you ﬁnd equipment left by the preceding parties, and also the vital diamonds, which must be collected to keep your company happy.

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In the tradition of Doom clones, you start with a humble pistol, but there are four other weapons to locate, supposedly abandoned by the preceding party. With these, things become much more fun. The shotgun has a fair amount of power, the machine-gun rocks, the missile launcher looks good at least, but the game's real beauty is a secret laser, Slice 'em up and watch 'em fall The Slat Trek style knot is the game's hidden treat, but can only be found welt mto the imssion Once you've located rts three components you then have to assemble them to get the gun waren, Then, DO you have ro d o pointyolpeeabuyisearsend you'll be a hone ﬁde Trekete Hiving run int u ;he twey spider Oront NO we (10.,• meet the JeIlyileen lyoneThor.Bognfromithingtodohere is unleash vn.;r Cadbury's buttons Sony. At this phut Mareut had one of tes con1.ve Pum-outs• carting which he complained about not wrythong suitable lot this caption space. He then jwocjJ1tt bugger oft doom the sandwich shop to scoN Iws lace He ciatmeo :ome with something hinny on his forum, but by that brut ,uattitnete MGle had already foiled the space Gil MM SEGA 47

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You can choose to view the game in three different modes - 'Normal', which gives you a ﬁxed mid-range perspective on the action; large'. which gives you a close-up of the enlarged character sprites. and 'Real time' which constantly switches between a sensible mixture of the two, approximating the way the coin-op zooms in and out of the action.

Incredibly, Virtua Fighter Animation succeeds in preserving the spirit, and even much of the feel, of the original Virtua Fighter in a 2-0 environment. While what moves you are able to execute are nowhere near as sophisticated as those you'd use on Saturn or 32X. the end results look similar, with each ﬁghter maintaining their strongest traits and tricks from the original game.

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Following on from last month's batch of secret characters, we have now been given access to a few of the multiple cheats that are stashed away in the depths of Jamdom. Of course, we expect that there are a load more, but for the time being, you'll have to make do with these. Enter the codes on the 'Tonight's Match Up screen. Gigantic Heads Baby Mode Giant QuickMaximumPowerPowerBodyUpDefenceUp3PointersPowerHands Press B, A, V. C repeatedly, in that order Press B and Y Hitrepeatedly.AandC repeatedly Press Right, Up, Down,. Right, Down, Up. V Press Up, Down, Lett, Right, Left, Down, Up. Press Right, Right, Left, Right, C, C, Right. Press Left, Left, Lett, Left, Y, Right. 11 Ell:41417 CHEATSDIGITALPINBALL Whether these chooteent-efent use is a a mystery to line as I've never actually played the game. So if they don't work ;van all go and beat up Brian Lelas Dublin, because he Sent them in. • Press the buttons when Tress Start' screen. Credits- C, B. A, A, Down, Down. eird Numbers- X, , Up, Up. ound Pro ver B. B, C, C. lasma Pro n, Left,

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Not quite sure if this one works, as I didn't have a British copy of the game to test it out on, but here it is anyway. To clear the screen of the lap times, the speedometer and all that, get to the Laps/Free Run option in time attack, and press L. and C at the same time. This should make the screen go blank if it works,

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Numerous rounds of applause must go to Andy East from West Yorkshire for being ﬁrst off the mark with some Toy 1., Story cheats. Not yet available ofﬁcially when he sent them in, but by the time you read this it should have just made the shops. Anyway, for a level skip cheat, on the title screen enter A. B, Right, A, C. A, Down, A, B. Right, A. The eagle eyed among you may have noticed that this spells ABRACADABRA. You should hear a little chime when you do this. Now start the game, pause it at any point and then press A. This will skip you on a level. For invincibility get to the second stage (you can use the level skip if you so desire) and and collect 7 stars. Now jump into the toy box, and duck down for 10 seconds, and you should become

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II wake to ﬁnd • arding outside the palace, and d will decide to p. Then an intruder digs his way the grounds, and to a shrine. Follow him in, and re presented with the ﬁrst mini level. Follow the elf round stages. and when you reach the third level, he'll jump over lava pit, and do the off, as it were. FcAlow him round to the chest, and get the Awaken Stone, but don't bother trying to lump over as well, it's impossible. Now use one of your angel wings to get back to the start and go outside.

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on a n, to test out the tap X, Y. or Z dly, until the numbers under your energy reach full, man. He'll then go away and you'll be free to start. Before you do go, ord and the Healing Herbs from your inventory.

Now comes a small series of events that you have no control over. The guards come and you must go to see the king. He then wonders what happens - all pretty useless stuff - and then you'll be ordered to guard the Princess. Go and have another nap, and you'll again restart, but this time, outside the Princess' quarters.

The minister and Kelps will talk to you for a while, detailing the problems, and will then leave you to guard. A mist will descend, and Banbo the Goblin will Everyonearrive. will fall asleep, he'll take the Princess, and then you must go to the royal crypt. located outside the far right exit of the palace, to get her back.

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The Tyron Corporation, which set itself up as the frontier defence system against alien attack is being forced to scale down its operation for lack of need. Its outposts are to be automated, and its budget cut. You are charged with effecting these changes on one major outpost, MAP-6F. But shady dealings personify the upper echelons of the Tyron board. An attack on one of the outposts at this time would be just what was required to convince the Earth Federation that more, not less, defence spending is required. But that's not going to happen, is it?

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Action is viewed from a ﬁrst-person tank-top perspective inot a reference to early 80s fashion attire). Although the tank rotates and moves forward conventionally, it is possible to spin the turret without changing the direction of movement_ This technique comes in useful later on, when enemy tanks are more sophisticated in their tactics. Other areas of interest in the turret are the compass and radar. These are particularly important because many levels involve heavy foliage cover, so working out where you are going and what stands in your way is easier to do using these devices. A further curio is the tactical map, which depicts a plan view of the tank with all objects shown as simple vectors. Designed as a nay device, it looks more like an early video game and you can actually play

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Gamsplay is repetitive, any acquired skills being less useful then grim perseverence in the face of some very dim-witted opposition. The rather dated-looking graphics similarly let down a concept that could have been a lot more arresting with some more attention lavished on its execution. The most positive thing to say about this Is that it sounds excellent, explosions and music adding an extra dimension to the undemanding action. However, next time I want to listen to two blokes banging on about how cream cakes are smaller than they used to be I think Ill visit my local bun shop.

Shellshock's heavily trailed plot development reminds you of being part of a team (though the other members are never in evidence on the ﬁeld). Between missions, you can drift around 'Da Wardenz' American base, talking to your brothers in arms, using their skills and taking their caustic advice.

Odd_ Tha description for the interlude scenes whic1ieture dialogue between other Warden,. The discussions are irrelevent to the missions, really their meant to be Tarantino-esque musings about life's little details, much like the infamous 'Royale with Cheese' speech from Pulp Fiction and the 'Like a Virgin' round table natter from Reservoir Dogs. Does it work in a video game? No comment,

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Enemy tanks tend to sit and wait for you to approach, so creeping along is a laborious but safe way to plough through overly difficult levels. The turret control is unsatisfactory and changing the controls in the tank doesn't give you another method of squaring the turret direction with the tank direction 'only the default mode has this). Tank and turret are often confusingly out of synch. And the graphics it has to be said, are much poorer than Thunderhawk. The use of a scrolling bit-map terrain produces speed, but the payoffs are monotonously flat terrain and wibbly sprite scrolling. One thing further, the 'dialogue' sequences fall embarrassingly flat with neither the flair or Insight of a Tarantino to integrate them in the action. Ironically, its not the styling of Shellshock that most appeals — it's a portion of the bare bones

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van It you say you hate cricket. there is CMS piece of cricket commentary that you should have heard by now. It's even pretty funny. Lets just recreate it for you. It's an idyllic county cricket scene. picturesque countryside alive with the cheerful chirps of birds in trees. The Persil-white uniforms of the umpires mingle with the families scattered around the stadium, straining for any sort of view. Then the bowler runs up to the wicket, and we hoer a classic line of commentary "The bowlers Holding, the batsman's Willey." linurgi Fantastic. Multiple chuckles all round. The only thing worth watching cricket for in our humble opinion. However, since the arrival of Brian Lara Cricket, there has been another good reason to partake in the otherwise dull bat and ball sport. Thanks to Codemasters, one of the most boring games on Earth became the third-best-selling Megadrive game of last year. And now they've returned, to dash any hopes of anybody ever stealing their crown. Brian Lora returns to iron out all of the problems, and add a ton more to make this the deﬁnitive cricket aim. Even though it remains, in fact, the only BOWLone.

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taking the roll of 'Beefy' Botham in his awesome innings that single handedly rescued the England team from the brink of defeat, then you can. Or if the chance of completing the record-breaking 501 from Mr. Lara himself is your idea of fun, then guess what? This game will let you. Other Historic games include Lards other record stand of 375 for the West Indies against England and the Nat West Trophy Final from 1993.

The game features all the 18 County Cricket teams, with a complete set of statistics for each of them which include all of the '95 season results. It also has a version of the recent Cricket World Cup, complete with all the teams participatedwho available for selection. With each of these teams you can pick any of the 15 or so players from the squad, and 41 change the order in which they bat and ﬁeld. If you are also having a bit of trouble I getting to grips with the game then there is a practice feature that takes you down to the warm up nets, and lets you tackle any form of bowling until you become as good as Brian.

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The game benefits from having multiple options to play under, with the programmers avoiding the problem of having lust the one game style. Obviously, there is the standard one player versus the computer mode, and the versus mode, where two human players can pit their wits against, each other. But also included is training mode, • which is perfect for learning the combos and moves for each character as it throws you in against a 'gormless' fighter who has infinite energy, and there is unlimited time, so you can spend as long as you like perfecting all your moves. We are assured there is another, hidden, option called the Dramatic Battle. This takes the form of Ryu AND Ken lighting Bison on a single background, as you would for a normal fight. Two human players can play against Bison, and they share the same energy bar, meaning that of one person is getting caned, then both the people are. Unfortunately. Ryu and Ken are the only characters who can fight Bison, but their similarity and easy moves mean that mega combos are possible, with both players ganging up on the other. Rest assured that as soon as we find out how to do it, we'll he printing it in the mag.

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Anyway, this is also the Saturn's ﬁrst link-up game, which basically means that if you and a mats have two Saturns. a link up cable and two copies of the game, you can both play on separate televisions. So it all sounds pretty good then, eh?

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Well it is in a way. The action follows the character around from a behind-the-player perspective, a la Mario, and you drive lor float, or fly depending on who you are) about as the rest of the area rotates before you. This is useful for showing most of what is directly in front of you, particularly in the distance. When you have the person you want to be the crap out of in your sights, then a small Lock On target will appear over them, meaning anything you fire will home in automatically.

his game has plastered all over the Japanese Saturn magazines recently. For the beneﬁt of those that haven't seen any of those mags (what. you mean you can't read Jap ?) rigida Is their basic format - loads of pages. most of which are adverts, loads of games involving young Japanese girls taking their clothes off (we kid you not). RfoGs and weird games. These mainly star chunderingly out. characters with no and eyes that are almost as big as their heads.

Although this game dossn't suite ﬁt into the latter category, it possesses all the necessary cuteness to qualify It for saturation coverage in the Japanese game press. Your object is to trundle round an arena and locate your opponent, before letting rip with a few special attacks and blowing them up. Of course, this being a cutesy type of game, you don't see any limbs or internal organs being splashed all over the place. Which is a bit unfortunate really.

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Bearing in mind the popularity of one-on-one ﬁghting games (and especially Virtua Fighter) in Japan, the people that developed ers decided to incorporate pointers from that genre. As a resutt, ng the special attacks comes in a similar fashion to VF, with pulling off moves in both games. But even if this bizarre hybrid of styles was successful in the Land of the Rising Sun, it's unlikely to be as well received by gamesplayers in the UK.

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This is the biggest turd l'ire bad the misfortune to play in recent months. It's meant to be a light-hearted shooting type game, geared more towards the multi-player crowd than anything else. but it fails on all the above counts and more besides. But for the intro, the graphics look like they have been ported straight from the SNES Mario Kart. The playability is nowt in two player mode and dipping below crap in one player so how anyone can even consider purchasing this is beyond me. The sound is pants and the animation is practically nonexistent. All I can say is that this was a big fuss over nothing in Japan and won't do well at all here. If any you have any sense at all you'll leave it on the shelf to gather dust. AbsoluteCOMMENrubbish.

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ands up all those that have boon to Spain on their holiday.? ilmmm. most of you by the looks of it. Now hands up all those that saw a tiny lizard as they came out of chalatotapartmentatollisaltheir Ahhh just as many still. Finally. antand your arms Of you tried to pick the little buggers Iltap.ortly to ﬁnd thair tails fell oft? All et you. I thought as much. Yes it is a somewhat sad fact that these poor little reptiles can 'detach' themselves from their waggly bits, in a desperate ploy to escape the clutches of pesky predators and inquisitive ﬁngers. But what you don't realise, is that they then hobble off and watch TV Well, at least Gex does, He is a one hundred per cent couch lizard. Slobs about all day, watching the Neighboure repeats on UK Gold. Until one day that is, when he Is mysteriously sucked into the or goggle box by a mad insect inventor. His crimes: for lapping up too many of his creepy crawly chums. So now, in order to escape from his TV hell for Eldorado as we refer to it in the business) he has to roan ,it around the set collecting remote ,.controls and videos to set himself free.

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Well, it got your attention anyway, Being as he is a lizard, our Gexy boy is equipped with all the latest mod-cons that any self respecting gecko should have. The biggest asset is his ability to stick to almost any accessenablingsurface,to the most tricky of places walls,walkingbyupand

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in order to make an impact. And this fails on all three counts. The graphics are outgunned by well-established titles such as Bug! and Rayman and the gamoplay, while not quite plumming the depths of the unbelievable Johnny Bazookatone, is flat and repetitive. I for one was having flashbacks to such ancient 16-bit titles as Root while negotiating the cheeky little lizard up and down high walls and around spikey blocks. This would have made a film, if hardly memorable, Megadrive title. The Saturn deserves better.

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pricad. The problem with Jill the Saturn's fancy technology is that some of the old but good game styles are being left behind. To date, the only alternative horizontal scrolling shooter is Parodius. That looks better than this but is way easier. Darius at least challenges its players with 30 odd levels of demon ﬁsh and molluscs purnmet into space scampi. The visuals ege talked about. However, this could be the allegadrive's biggest slice of action in 1996. so we've made Toy Story the honourable 16-bit exception.

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Toy Story clearly not a Saturn same. But it's presence In Out Now warrantedisby it being ,.....reviewed by MEAN MACANES seveiel months ego and being too important to miss the official release date, T Story, has been widely flagged as 'the first next Megadrivegionerationaidebyan optinOtio. lie and ai .st bog 16-bit gall, by other miserable guts. We think it sets a ni.. .iitclard. It's the w of, a British developer. 'Reveller's Tales, who I1t squeezed even, l buttusof performance out of the hardware. Vibrant backgrounds merge with huge digitally animated sprites to create the characlers and .••‘. e settings of the new movie, which evreyone knows is the first computer-generased motion picture. The beauty of the game, which We failed to fully appreciate on the original review (haying not seen the movie) is that each of the nineteen sections actually correspond to the movie plot. AM the characters play a part — from the aliens of Pizta Planet to the scary-with-.1-heart-of-, gold mutant WW1. ;got POW does the game integrate the scenes, it tries to vary the gameplay. There's a bias towards platforming, tout r1.\ (there are also more ambitious 3-0 levels set on the road and inside the grabber machine. The programming is slick and you really do feel the benefit of a 32Meg cart. Games like this don't come up too often, whatever formapVou have, so if your Megadrive is ern kept active this

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little prank last month. No? Well It was a bit poor, but someone out there was too ashamed to admit it.

April Fool, in case some of you still haven't managed to work it out. Anyway, after much haggling with the hierarchy here at EMAP. I have managed to haggle swell free stuff and will be giving E it out to the sender of the best letter. Out because all I ever get is only worth giving to the bin, I'll probably end up keeping it all for myself. In fact, you'll never get any prizes because there aren't any. Bunch of two-bit ponces the lot of you. Just send in your letters to SAD BLAGGERS •R• DEFINITELY US. YOB'S MAILBAG, MEAN MACNINES SEGA, PRIORY COURT, 30-32 FANRINGDON LANE, LONDON, ECU' 3A1.1.

stinking job of yours? Do you have a girlfriend, so, why on earth does she want go out with you? Who made up the name Planet Yobula? Very original. Probably a right twit. Who does your hair? Do you like Warhammer? answer these questions and print my letter in your mag. I will be forced to squash your tiny body and shove it

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Well I'm sick of it. Now I'm going to take the piss out of you. Right, let's get this over and done with. First of all, Sega Power, I am an owner of one Sega Power mag and I have to admit that it is not that great, but you're not that great either, Take your hair for instance, absolutely CRUD. You'd be better off bald. And what about your baby habits like

own. It wasn't until you started going all furry and crumbly C,aire seek Mee' t o Yob's &gay pumps and starts to whineHew • you, 9,tf • q41 ane than mine. OVIn rvcome e Nod w curry,-(asturdsdolthatshe became suspicious and decided to ﬂush you away, disowning you. From there you completed your metamorphosis into a human. At least it explains why you stink of REJECTMASTERfaeces.SYSTEMeDearYob,Ihaveabigquestiontoaskyou.WillanyofthesegamescomeoutontheMegadrive:Doom,GroundZeroTexas.RoadAvenger,Thunderhawk,SimCity,R-Type,Zero,Nebulus,Predator1and2,RickDangerous,TestDrive,BubbleBobbleorCasinoGames?(Sorryaboutitbeingsolong,butansweritorI'llsetmymatesdogontoyou).Whydoyouhavethesamedribbleonyourmoutheverymonth?Asswipe.Oh,...um....whatshouldIwritenextAh,Clairewillyoumarryme?AndLucy.willyoudateYobasyoubothsuiteachother?Marcuswhydon'tyougoandproposetoaMaster System? Mr Sex God, Heaven YOB:What? Casino Games? Bubble Bobble? Do me a favour dick wad, and sort your life out by trading all of games you have (judging by your tastes, you'll probably get about a ﬁver for them) and buying one of those joke disguises with the glasses, nose and moustache. to cover up the shame of being such a pleb. Then slowly re- 4 introduce1 yourself to society, starting with English for Amoebas, and soon you'll be deemed worthy of my attention by asking sensible questions.

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dribbling? You could have ﬁlled a whole swimming pool by now with all that gob hanging out of your mouth every month. Do you think it looks hard or something? I often wonder if you suck your thumbs as well. And ﬁnally, your height - you're a puny little maggot Right, now I have a few questions for you.

1. How much do you get for It

you are. You know what I think? I

YOB:Yawn Yawn. How funny reckon that whilst your mother was slopping she that she was looking into her

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up a Addelstone,Davidbackside.baboon'sScholes,Surrey.YOB:Suchinsultsmeannothingtome.Theyaren'tevenoriginal,dogbreath.1.Iearnmoremoneythanyoucouldeverhopetoearn.Ihearthesheep-fondlingbusinessisslowatthistimeofyearanyway.2,Well,Iwasseeingyourmum,butthenthentheyhadtoputherdown,soI'msingle at the moment 3. Actually those were your mother's last words. 4. Vidal Baboon, the same bloke who flavours your breath. 5. Does Tom creepyRETURNPUNYCruise?INSULTS:THEwDearYob,Hello,youareafatknobwithahairstyle.Ilikeitwhenpeoplewriteininsultingyou,sohere'sonetoaddtothecollection!YouaretheugliestpieceofarsehairIhaveeverseeninmylife.Nobodylikesyou,faceit.Goandslityourwristsandmakeeverybodyhappy.Youaresobad,yourmotherthrewupatthefirstsightofyou.Oh,andtellyourmotherI'vegotherundiesandI'llbringthembacknextThursdaynight.Yourmotherissoold,sheowesMosesatenner.Insultedyet?Wellhere'ssomemore.YouarethefattestlittlegitIhaveevercomeacrossinmylife.Ibetyousmelllikeapig'sbacksideafteracurry.Ican'tbelieveIwastedthistimeandenergyonwritingthisletter.Ibetyou'veneverhadagirlfriend.Theyprobablyallsayyouareafatlittleturdwithnofriends,andwhocouldblamethem.Goshoveyourheaddownabogthatyourhorse,sorryyourmum,hasjustcrappedin,andyou'llprobablylookevenbetter,notthatyoucouldeverlookanygood.Goandshovethatstupidstick(surfboard)you'reholdingupyourrectum,butdon'tforgettotakeyourheadoutfirst,Youarethelittlesweatybitsthatcanbefoundupsomebody'sarse.Goaridcrawlupthearseyoucamefrom!GoodbyeTurdFace.ChrisPurdie,HighWycombe.

out, you accidentally popped out as some kind of mutated turd. Because

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The answer is that the other members of the MEAN MACHINES crew decided that you are just as pathetic and they thought that you'd ﬁt in just perfectly (and it would keep you away from doing any damage to the actual running of the may). Seeing as your only other vocation in life is to be a toilet cleaner for elephants suffering from Oh,diarrhoea.yes,and what exactly is wrong with the Game Gear? I mean it's better than your choice of system, the Game Boy and Spectrum.

ANONYMOUSOUTHICKERSDearYob,"Ireadyourcomicalltne time and love it! It's the best. YOB:COMIC! COMIC! Cheeky sod, what do think this is the bloody -BeanolHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!1HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAIIIII I

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anyway. A copy of the book 'Handwriting for Dunces' By Dag Clagger is in the post. Well done.

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I laughed for hours and hours when I read the letter from John Harper in the August issue. And what you said!! I just had to write in as I knew it shattered your cool image. Well maybe cool is going a bit far. When I used to get fed up with my Master System and throw it out of the window. I used to pick up MMS and laugh my head off until I fell asleep. I know you will now crawl into a bottomless pit and never let yourself be seen again as I have brought your dreadful past out into the open, but all I can say is good

Just one question: If all the people who write to you are such pathetic of human excrement, then how come you were put in charge of dealing with them?

Dear Mean Yob, I am very interested to know just how good I am at PGA European Tour 2. My best score is 236 1.52 under par) for 72 holes, at Wentworth. My best score for 18 holes is 56 (16 under par) at Wentworth. Am I simply the best? Or is there some super human anorak who would dare suggest that he is better than I? If anyone reckons they can beat me, do not hesitate to contact me. I have a gut feeling that I could be World Number 1

meltinggoingWhatinﬂuence,wouldYOB:DreadfulStuartHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.luck.Marshall,Norwich,NorfolkpastisnothowIdescribeyourletter'smorelikedreadfulsap,canyoupossiblygainfromHAHAHAHAHA,otherthananythingyourrancid

and then drive into a lake. Hope you can understand all of those long ﬁve-letter words in one go, like Christmas: because your family has

Kenny (the boy) Highland, Hayes, Mtddx.YOB:There we go Anorak challenges anoraks. Get in touch if you can shut him up.

David Jenkins, Bishopsteignton, 41YOB:ThisDevon. guy's handwriting and spelling was so poor that we all had a big argument about some of his words - day or clay? The sensible people said it was clay, the people who understood how stupid this person is reckoned it was deg. Whatever it is, anyone who draws humorous references from Australians is a prize tosser

breath comes into contact with, is beyond me. Tell you what, why don't you climb in your tractor, stop chewing your bits of hay,

Let no one say we duck the issues of th• day. Once again you r••dera display year intell•ste. Join ea next month, when maybe PEE! Johnson will 11 decide, to bore us al stupid. Again.

disowned you and you have no friends, therefore you never get any cards or presents, your piece of day from a baboons butt.

3. What games would you recommend out of Sega Rally, Panzer, X•Men and MK 2?

B. WI on the Saturn is so crap, how can you say it's good?

S. There may be something on Ecco at E3.

superior magazine, brilliantly written, Now onto the questions

William GlasgowQueen,

3. Jimmy White's Snooker was brill on the Amiga, any chance of Virtual Pool or Virtual Snooker coming out on the Saturn?

4. Will it be better than the Plavstation version?

AnsWatGus.1.Ifyoucan ﬁt

4. I also have a Game Gear and I ﬁnd it harder and harder to ﬁnd games for it. Are the games beginning to dry up in this department?

3. When is Road Rash coming out for the Saturn?

7 Sega Rally.

Firstly,DearMATTEL•Gus,congratulationson

GUS:1. Interplay and their afﬁliate, Spectrum Holobyte, have traditionally had dibs on Trek, but neither has come forward with a next yen 2.proposal.Idoubt it - Alpha is the apex of Streetﬁghter and Capcom have enough beat 'em ups as it is.

3 What about the Saturn'? 4, I like RPGs. What's • llufossiefiL of EC1LANE.30-32MACHINESPYOU'REWingmakeclothing.propercreamer'otherCoffeematecontactalarm...withdoorleft...isuntilthewater...there'sandlastmakesquestions.yourshiningletters.answeringeventsannoyingthatit'sajoytorelieveitbyyourOttAYoulittlelightswithearnestlittleItalwaysupfor...BeingintotheshowerdiscoveringnohotSqueezingtoothpastetubeyouadmittherenotoothpasteSleepingnexttosomeoneaparanoidcarComingintowithorany'nondairywithouttheprotectiveButyouitallbearable.yourwordsto.TAKINGTHEOWLMEANSEGA,FARRINGDONLONDON.R3AU. 1fii;1-1;111L gran! TiT;Uii;

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of Rage) coming to the Saturn?

2. I'm also a great SF2 fan. Since Super Sfa Turbo was 300 only, is there a nce that Cepcom will release t. or maybe a compilation of all SF2 games, on Saturn?

6. No details of new features at theThesemoment.arearcade titles only at e moment

5 Does the Fla on have more corn I g for it?

2_ Doom is def. Biohazard is probable Bio - nahl 3. Due this summer.

The picture quality on SCART is FAR better than RF aerial, so it makes sense to givt buyers the best possible packateM decent SCART monitor/telly costs about 2.E170-E200.Afterthe success of Premier Manager, its not to be ruled out 3. All, except MK2 je excellent, but wait for Panz 4. There will be fewe Gear titles, but Sega want to hatfoa few stunners for the handheld Virtue Fighter is a perfect example

1. I am a great Star Trek fan, so is there any chance of a Star Trek game on the Saturn?

Dear BecauseGus,the Saturn now has Wipeout. Tostunden and Destruction Derby, will the Playstation be acquiring any Saturn games?

7. What's your best Saturn game?

Scott Wright, Ilse of Wight GUS:l. None of Sega's AM titles for sure.

Dear Virtua Fighter on the 32X with 32 megs, why can't you it on the 2.Megadrive?Howmuch did you rate VF on the 32X7

3. Very slim.

4. Madden's has supposedly undergone reprogramming and we've heard mailing on Hockey for months.

6. Will the 10 player Bomberman game be a straight conversion of Hudsonsoft's Hi-Ten Bomberman, or will it have loads of new features?7.Please tell me when Virtue Sonic and Virtue Fighter Kids are coming to PAL Saturn( Kevin Hutton, Eccleston, St. Helens

GUS:I, Long and boring. Basically, boxing both leads would cost another 620_ Sega researched potential buyers and found BO'i, would have compatibleSCARTtellies.

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1. Why do you get a Scan t lead when you buy the Saturn instead of an RF unit? Yet on the Playstation you DO get an RF cable. Because of this I had to shell out an extra 2.£20.Will there be any manager games i.e. Championship Manager, or Premier Manager on the Saturn?

6. Thunder on the Saturn has 24 miss , ut in Gamepro it said that ttr aystation version had 37 Whetie this?

2. Will these games be out on the Saturn. Doom, Biohazard (Resident Evil) or Twisted Metal?

4. I hope so, that was crud'

5. Development is roughly equal 6.nowGamepro got it wrong.

5. Any new versions of classic Megadrive games (Ecco. Streets

8 Despite being graphically crap, I enjoyed the Grand Prix mode Sad, I

4, Any word on the rest of biXs sports games for the Saturn?

Dear Gus, I got a Saturn for Christmas, and I have a few questions that need scoing out straight away.

a. the best I Megadtive 5. What douh RPG stand for ' 6, How much did you give Samurai 7.Showdown?Howmuch did you give Lethal 8.Enforcements?Howmanybits are there in a Mega CD? 9, Why don't Sony make games for the Playstation and Namco do? 10. Are Sony going to make games for Sega anymore? 11. Is Doom on the 32X any good? 12. Is the rumour that SSF2 Turbo is coming out on the Game Gear a big lie? Name and address withheld (l) GUS:11. It's not to do with size. The 32X is much more powerful than the Megadrive. 2. 93•4. 3. It was 95%, but we'd give it 88% now. 4. Landstalker. 5. Role-playing game. 6. 50-something. It took a tanking 7. Can't remember. Hey get some back issues. .It's a 16-bit CD drive. 9. Sony do. It's called SIE. 10. Yes, through Psygnosis. 11. Yes. 12. games4.Rally?have3,.eib.18bright?graphicsranrunlikeframes2.theversionsPleaseDearSPEARSLies.Gus,answermyquestions.1.Whycan'ttheSaturnandarcadeofgamesbereleasedatsame?TheSaturncanrunupto60asecond,sowhydogamesSegaRallyandDaytonahavetoat30framespersecond?Iftheyat60framespersecondtheirwouldbearcadeperfect.•Whydidn'ttheSaturnDaytonaatwo•playermodelikeSegaWhyisn'tAM1andAM3makingfortheSaturn? Barry Bowles, Peterborough GUS:1. Why would people go into Itarereades? Weald ﬁlms come out on video at the same time as at the cinema? 2. Frame rate is just one consideration. Rally and VF2 actually run at 60 frames, but this requires excellent programming 3.skills.Lack of time. 4. They are: Sega Rally and Ba111111111111004h11....911114 AMI APA1 is producing Virtual On. ACTION GT Dear Gus, Your mag is _Ought every single copy since itbegan, so can you answer these 1.questions...Nowcome the Megadrive can have the game Toy Story with the level called 'really inside the claw machine' which is very like Doom, but can't achieve the actualo lama2 Being as the Megadrive is going out of fashion, why don't Sega lower the prices of the games? 3. Is Fifa '96 off the 32X any good? My Dad was going to buy me it for Christmas only because he wanted Fifa) but when he saw the grap nodewollatn'saW,,14. Please give me a Saturn! Adam Smith, Cove GUM. That r DoombilIts stun not anywhere 2standardsItstillcosts as ch to make them, but theree loads of bargoin software outthere. 3. It's crap A real mess. 4. Sorry, that's a demand, not a question PALITOYrGus,on'tmeantodistractyou from our margarine-lubricated wrist movements, but I have a few

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Jaime Slater, Oxford GUS:l. April and E44.99 the and I haven't heard about it for ages read somewhere a while ago that it would be released sometime around now?

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3. Is Quake going to be released for the Saturn?

because I Apparently.personally.everythingtakeso

will ou answer my ow any DearTONKAGus,1.WhathappenedtoX-Perts, as

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6. When is Sonic 4 coming out and will it be platformera or a heat 'am up? Is the Sonic beat 'em up coming to the ould Vinua ighter possiblebeon the Megadrive by using the SVP chip, or some other chip like that because it is dead smart? Are the 32X and Mega CD Barrow-in-Dougdead?Forrest, has been spasming about in development Hell for that. Yes. This is rubbish and unsupported conjecture by 'Next Generation' magazines trying to maintain reader interest Should be. More soon. Maybe. Unlikely. The 32X is twitching. you next month. But then maybe not. Because. see, I won't last long in this business

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MP 3. Yes. It's only a couple of months 4.away.Its not even conﬁrmed for 5.SaturnWehave secret plans for all /6..ConitigenciesThere'llbe more ads come expensive.tageS.S2thejustBabylon9.toB.gamebringMario7.out6.5.whenMarioSaturna4.in3.thebutSonic2.Willarcadequestions.winter.PLAYSKOOLDearGus,Pleasecouldyouanswermy1Inissue41,1sawclopsofangamecalledSonicFighter.thisbereleasedontheSaturn?WhyhaveSegareleasedthreegamesfortheGameGearhaven'tmadeanynewonesforMegadrive?Whyisn'ttheNomadcomingoutEngland?InSegaProitsaid''SegareleaseNintendoUltra64add-onfortheandtheﬁrstgameforitis64."Isthistrueandifsoisitcomingout?Whydofoolsfallinlove?IsaversionofChaotixcomingfortheMegadrive?SeeingasNintendoboughtout64,areSegaplanningtoouta3-DSonicplatformfortheSaturn?HowdidtheygetalltheanimalstalkinBabe?IsJasMannfromthegroupZooatransvestietorishetryingtomakçafashionstatement?10.HaveIspeltTravesbetright?GaryRussell,BrandokSuffolkGUS•1.DependshowItdoesinarcadeThey'retakingtheirtime. 4 It was an April fool from the 8.7.6.5.arch-fools.Indeed.Nope.Seegossip...AskEammon Holmes 9 He's worse than that, he's a one-hit wonder. 10, Megaquestions...continueIDearGUS'MaybeJamesdecentAresimplePleaseDearTONSWADDING-No.Gus.couldyouanswermy1question.theregoingtobeanymoregamesfortheGameGear?Keenes,UpperBoddingtonGus,thinkthemagtobuy1.Whydoesn'tyourCDgames? ',cominggwenynaeberehtlliW2kl out on the Mega CD? 3. Do you think that Super Skidmarks on the Megadrive is worth buying? 4. Will there be any chance of XMen: Children of the Atom being released on the Mega CD? 5. Is these any chance of a faxdmodem add on being released for the Megadrwe or Mega CO? Samt Kasap, SE London. GUS:1, There aren't any. 2. To be frank, I'm aware 'of none. 3. Yes, 4. Never. 5. Never never eat

4, I read somewhere that a company were developing a Saturn Is this true and if so will it be a new 64 bit machine or will it be just a different case for the original Saturn? elikenomm,Will the Megadrive version of International Superstar Soccer be as good as the SNES?

questions for perusal. 1. Is the Saturn better than the 2.Playstation?WhenisStriker '96 coming out on the Saturn? 3. How do you select the hidden car on Sega Rally? 4. Does CI b A stand for queer and 5.aging?Youlike Shun from VF2. Eva Foot Ift0171 the half way line) GUS:1. Yes. 2. Someone says May, but I doubt' 3.It. See Sieve's tips for that sort of 4.guff.Oh, I'm sure. 5. No, I like Wale. Shun's your IDearVALLEYCHADdad.Gus,thinkthenewpicisgreat, and please can you answer the following questions. 1. Do you know the release date and/or the price of the stunning Guardian Heroes? 2. Do you have any news on the brilliant looking RPG Dark Saviour? 3. Is there any chance of the Playstation game Discworld being released on the mighty Saturn? 4. Do yoirhaye any informalbn i.e. release date, price etc. for Resident Evil on the 5Saturn?Doyou have any plans to covermount any playable Saturn demo 6.discs?Are Sega planning any sore TV ads as the last one was really cool? Thanks for the help and I would just like to say that Lucy is better than Claire Thanks again.

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2. Why hasn't Doom been released on the Saturn yet?

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