1993-00 Electric Brain #31

40 Pages·1993·16.1 MB·English

by  Onn Lee

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CONTENTS
GameNse w.s. .....4. .................
SupeFra micNoemw .s• ..6. ...•..
YoD ude(sW!e!tl hla,ht o'wts h hea caktts h Fei nanTciimaaellsw ays
begtihnee idri toWreilaclostm!ote) h G er eNaetwF uCloll oEulre ctriSce gaN'eswL ine.-.u.p. .7• •....•..
Brain.
MegDar iNveew .s. ....8. •..........
ItG'rse Aatt4 !0p ageistb,'i sgg tehra ann mya gazwiintoehn l3y6
or3 8p ages. HanHde lNde w•s• •.••9. •••.......•.
ItN'esw E!.r i. wt.a wsh ewne d itdh fier osntbe a cikn1 989.
SneakePrrse:v i.e•w.s. .1.0. ••...•
ItF'usCl oll oAusyr o!cu a sne wee 'avded seodm pei nmkya uve
biatnsd i,yf o pur omtiobs ueey n oucgho piweecs a,sn a vuept op ut PCE ngiNneew .s• .••.1•2. ....•...•
evemno rceo loiun(r.As n pyr eferLeenutcs ke nso?ww h iccohl ours
SFIHIo:n dPoawe'rsM ove.2s•0 •
yolui ke).
Swapline ............................. 21
Besotfa lEll ecBtrrariiecnm atihnbese sptl atcore e acdo mpletely
unbiarseevdio efaw ltslh lea tgeasmtef sot rh SeF t,h Mee gDar ive ColiCno'nss o.l.e. ...2.3. ..........
antdh PeC E ngiUnneb.i aYseessdi ?er x,c etphtaiy tfo wur ict*e* *
FutuSrheo Rwe po.rt. ..3.0. ...••.
gamesb uwto ulliduk set og itvhee amr eaglrleyra etv iseewny,do ur
cheq-ufeo arl aragmeo uonfdt o s-ht ot hues uaadld ress. AsparaTgiup.ss. ....3.1. ..........•
Thimso ntahl ssoe etsh fiers atp pearoafCn ocleiC no'nssa onlde
ounre wE lecBtrraMiiacnn ( whiosf antasutsiecffaouflrlil lyal niyn g
REVIEWS
spaocnet hpea gweh ewne c ang'etat n other
pie!).
Yocua anl sroe aadb oouutvr i tsoit thF eu ture ChiCkih iBoysk i. ...........1.6. .............................
EntertaiSnhmo-ewn otrr atohuevrri tsiott h e Cosl110 gang ................2.7. ...............................
queuteog eitn- annde wasb out CnJe Ba1.1. ..............1.5. ....................................
thlea tgeasdtg certisb,ab se d Death Duel ................3.2. .................................
usufarloJ ma panmeasges f"IStof the NorthSta r 6. ..........3.5. ...................
becatuhseaeyl wagyetsth ings Gernfire ..................2.8. ....................................
yonbkesf otrhee yo'nsr aeli ent he Genocide .................3.3. ..................................
UKa nidt n'osft a ainrId ' gmo ing G-Loc. ................1.4. ........................................
toc ry. .. Horne Alone 2. ..............3.7. .............................
Sos ibta clke,a yvoeuj ro ysttoi ck Ja111e5 Bond J.r. .............3.7. .............................
onsei dfeoa rb iatn edn jaoniy n ti­ JohnM adden Football' 9.3. ......1.6. ..................
matheo uorrt wwoi tIhs s3u1eo f Kick Boxing. ...............38. .................................
ElecBtrraiicn ! King Arthur'Wso rtd. ............2.5. .......................
Titlhlne e xtti .m.e. Kirby'sDrea m Land .............3.3. .......................
LHXAttack Chopper ...........1.7. ........................
01ut Lee Magical Quest ..........1.9. ..................................
Monopoly .................3.6. ..................................
Mystic Quest ...........1.5 ....................................
NBA Championship Basketball ......13. ..............
Photographer ..............2.8. ...............................
'IHI BRAINS- BIC1IIIC IIIIAIN
Q-Bert ..................2.4. ......................................
EDl'l'ORIEB SUPROEnMnLO ee Ramparts. ..............1.7. ....................................
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CON1'Rmtl1'0RS MarcFoord , Dan(t hMea nLeeLee) , H�. TaOin o, RBBasebalIl 4. ..............2.7. ............................
J89on Brookes, BiDgerek �­ Road Ri.ot. ...............3.7. ..................................
Shape Shifter ...............2.5. ..............................
CARl'OON8 JohFnardell
Snatcher .................3.6. ...................................
PRODUCTION/APPLE MACWH IZZKID NicoL.ascellal es !00 � Sonic2 . .................2.6. ....................................
SPEll.CHECKVEiRc tvoarAn m erongen '1ifS upeBattre r Up. ...........2.7. .............................
SupeDourb leDra gon ..........3.4. .......................
EBwa s conceiwrittveend a,n dp erfonnienNd o ttingham.
...• , SupeHrigh Impact ...........1.4. ..........................
Reproduction byW yvemL td
SupeHrQ . ................2.9. ..................................
Printed byW ilts(hBirrieLsstt do.l ) SupeNrBA Basketball ..........13. .......................
C 1993Electric Brail'VSCpiatycE.eL ECTBRRIACI aNc cenpotr se sponsifboirl ity Test Drive2 . ...............2.2. ................................
lososrd amaghowevere , causedt,oa nym atersiuablm ifotrtp eudb licNaotp iaortn . Warriorof Romle.l . ...........3.2. .........................
oft hipsu blicmaatybei oreprodnu ced ina nfony n withtohupetr ipeorrm issoifo n WortdOf lllu.s.i.o.n.s. ......18. ............................
thpeu blishers.
VIWF SupeWrrestle Man.i.a. .....2.4. ................
Publlshed byS pacCei tCyo mmunicaptii7eo7,Bn lsy tRhoea dLo,n doWn1 40 HP; Xeno2.n . ................2.9. ...................................
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GAMES NEWS
ABARC ODEdisDplay, a few buttons and a barcode slot; space war RPG. Worth getting? Not real­
you get games on barcode cards which ly ... yet. As all games for the Barcode
GAMEBOYslid e into the unit. As you might expect Battler are in Japanese they will be
these games are quite simple -generally unplayable. We hope to give you some
T
role play or stategy war games. more info on the Barcode Battler in future
here have been some strange add- Barcode B�ttlP.r r.osts issues.
ons for the Gameboy in the past but quite a bit ot
Namco have taken it another step money. But
further with the Barcode Boy. This unit Namco's
plugs into the cartridge port on the adaptor,
Gameboy with a lead that connects to the which
Gameboy's communication (multi-play) doesn't
socket at the side. require any
What's a Barcode Boy? memory,
Well before I explain what it is ... over in extra contrCll hi,t-
Japan you can buy a stand alone unit tons or an LCD dis-
called a Barcode-Battlel'.-This-5quare- ' ---,�-play-(as it'll use the Gameboy's) will cost
electronic block, slightly bigger than a considerably less (Y8300). The unit also
LEFT:N AMCO&4RC'OSl)f BOY
large size match box, has a small LCD comes with a game called Battle Space, a ABOHOVEW: THEU NICTO NNECTST OY OURGAM ErOY
IIRO
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t's been a few years -but now it's offlcial: the PC Engine DUO will officially hit
Europe this yeaprrob,ab ly around June, althoudl the exact price hasbnee'n tsettled
IyetH.o pefully, NEC will sell the unit at the same price as in the usinstead of the
doubprilcineg of Nintendo and Sega goods.If t hedoy, it will sure be � killer seller
especially if they can release all the US games at the same time!
3DO'S MEGA CD
FOUR TO EIGHT The Super Famicom version (called the
MACHINE
Twin Tap) is slightly different. Instead of
an adaptor that plugs into the machine
s mentioned some time ago, the
ast month we revealed that both and enables six single-button controllers
former SMSG -now called 3DO
LHudson Soft and a second company, to be plugged into the adaptor, the Twin
comprising Electronic Arts,
Party Room 21, have produced four­ Tap consists of two single-button pads
Matsushita, nme Warner and Klein
player adaptors for the Super Famicom. connected to one control SF socket. So
Perkins) - have come up with a CD­
Now Party Room 21 have gone one step by buying just one these lets two people
based 32-bit machine, which the group
further with a Party Tap for the SF. play -buy two and four people can play
hopes to sell in the States for around
Readers of EB will have read about the on a standard Super Famicom. But if you
$700.
Party Tap for the 8-bit Famicom. This unit have the four-player multi-adaptor too, up
The system is unlikely to be available
enables six single-button controllers to be to four twin-taps can be plugged in -
there until late 1993, although a num­
attached to the 8-bitter so that six peo­ enabling eight players to compete!!
ber of software developers are already
ple can play together. However, as Before you ask why another
writing material for it, including the Sales
the controllers were limited, the Twin Tap can't be plugged
Curve with Lawnmower Man II, based on
only games released for it into the other port for ten
the sequel to the VR movie.
were multi-player quiz players ... I haven't a clue.
Unfortunately the 3DO group are keeping
games, where the con­ Maybe the Super Famicom
the machine's specifications a secret,
trollers were used as will blow up?
with software houses also keeping a
buzzers. Okay ... with the Twin Tap
tight lip in accordance with the terms of
on sale just before Christmas
their non-disclosure contracts!
for Y1850 each, are there
It's also expected that the machine
any games that will use
will be used in conjunction with cable
them? Well it just so hap­
TV, enabling users to order shopping,
pens that Party Room 21 are
send faxes and all sorts of things.
to release a quiz game for
Rumour has it that the machine might
the SF where up to eight
even be rented by the cable companies
players can challenge each
to let users download games directly.
other. Mind you the questions
More news on this system when we
are in Japanese. Hmmm!
have more!
PAKT"IR OOM2 rsTW INT A.P. S.I.N.BG.UTTI.OE N C ONTROUERSFO RTHE SF/
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Issue 31 ♦ February 1993
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reeNnI,C AaMn d( hopeifuntl hlneyo t to doi stfuatnutrh ei)gh
SupFearm icfoema,t usribixun tgt ionnsst oeffa oduo rn �
definiBtuiStoo nnh.ya vtea kaed ni ffearpepnrto taoTVc whi tthh eir
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newi nventthiVeoi ns,o rAst yroocuna .gn u efrsosm t hnea mteh uen it
firbeu ttaonnadss low-mcootnitoIrnnJo alp.ia ctno sts
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mei nformyaotmuii oghlnti tkoek noawbo utth Jea panese
hc>lopm machifenaet,u rtihnegagim rell me Traveller.
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witthhP eh ilmiopdseA lsy. o cua sne teh mea chine Gameboy tunientshe Britishcharts . The Tetris tunwase just
loolkistk hePe h ilmiapcsh iannecd o mewsi taSh uper about bearable, but Super Mario Land ijsu •s•Ata•a a rrrgghhl Come on,
Famicomj-osytyplaed whiocneh o f you went out and boughtth e single? It's mucmho re
pleasant listening toth e� tunthroughe your headphones while
playing thaa,nee . Tot oipat ll anolher Mario tuniesi nth ep ipeline.
Ithfe srearrangede (oshouldr thabe tderanged ) soundtracks cason
easily clitmhbme u sic charts, Istho ws just how bad thset aotfte h e
music industry is. If Yuzo l<o&hiro (oBafre KnuckActraiser,l e, etc.
fame)were livinghe re, he'd nodo ubt be numbeorn eAn!d theH kes of
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Iss3u1e♦ Febru1a9ry9 3
GAMES NEWS
Ust issue we gave you the low down However it costs a hefty 19,800 Over in the US, it's been rumoured
from the NEC Camp, so here's what Japanese yen (equivalent to about £86). that a company are set to release a new
EGA is up to in Japan. Karaoke CDs are CD-Gs that put up modem for the Genesis. As you may
Sega have recently unveiled the the song lyrics on screen as they play. know, Sega have already released one
Fighting Pad 68, a joypad like the one Victor have produced a number of for the machine, which sold fairly well in
available with the Mega Drive but with six Karaoke CDs specially for the Mega Japan. But it never took off in the US,
buttons. The three extra buttons are situ­ Drive. They have better graphics and mainly because it was too slow and there
ated above the standard buttons - highlight the exact words as they're wasn't enough software. We'll see how
played. Hopefully, long the new one lasts!
US/UK Karaoke
discs will soon be
available. Then
again perhaps not.
A new Mega Drive
is to be released in
the spring of 1993.
It won't be any dif­
ferent in terms of
it's electronic
hardware, but
there will be cosmetic
changes - like the
could this mean Sega are gearing up for verY ugly Master System 2.
the release of Street Fighter II soon for The Mega Drive 2 is likely to be a tad
the MD? smaller, mainly to reduce manufacturing
As yet there's no release date or price costs. As the internals will remain the
for the joypad, but we'll keep you posted. same, all existing games and gadgets will
Sega also have a mouse/trackball in work with the new costume MD.
the works, to be called none other than But because the Mega-CD bolts on to
the Mega Drive Mouse! The mouse (as the original machine, the new one is
you would expect) will be all in black and expected to attach to the CD­
will have the now conventional two but­ Rom side-by-side instead of
tons. The rodent should hit the streets piggy backing. With the
around March by which time there will machine costing less to produce does
probably be a number of games that can this mean the new machine will cost less
use it, mostly role play and adventure to you and me? You must be kidding!!
games.
After Tengen announced and showed
off their multi-player adaptor for their
forthcoming Gauntlet game, Sega are
also set to produce a multi adaptor that
will enable four pads to be connected to
the Mega Drive. No release date on this
as yet. Maybe Sega have plans to con­
vert some of their multi-player coin-ops
to the MegaDrive. Alien Sydrome?
Quartet?
Sega also recently showed off a hard­
ware add-on for the Mega-CD, making it
up to the same specifications as the
Wonder Mega (combined Mega Drive and
CD-ROM). The new piece of kit, called
the Mega CD Karaoke, is a square block
which incorporates extras like two micro­
phone sockets (so it can use the growing
number of Karaoke CDs available in
Japan), volume and balance control dials,
LED key control display and more. SlGA'S NEW CD Al)()..()11-THE ME&UD KARMM:'E-NOW YOU r:AN SI"' AI.ON6 WffH YO/J1/ ME&4 DRMJ/1/
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♦ Issue 31 ♦ FebruarY 1993
GAMENSEW S
UMCO TAD.JI.A UICIRON� ARIS
After Splatter The people who con­ With Road Rash 2 coming real
House Part 2 verted King of the soon for the MD (itisn 't too
Namco are about Monsters to the Super bad a game, but it
to start work on Famicom and who are could have been
Part 3. I wonder if about to release Fatal betteOEA 's
the Splatter House Fury, are set to con­ next
saga will last as vert both Neo Geo
long as the Friday lfNiWS P<MIER. ATIEIETE. .• HMMMM sm games to the Mega
the 13th series! Drive too! Judging by
----------_---_______.. _ -"I what they have me is
achieved on the SF, ely to be a
'r-�· r· the MD games should version of
be very much identical inemaware's Amiga
f to the SF versions. me "It Came from the
�J Desert". k. yet there'snot much news
onthi s but, unlike the E:n@ne version, it's likelyto appear
on cartridge format
SIGA sound effects, music and speech. No and jumping punch; last but not least Eddie
release date set. has a head-spin-kick (break-danc-
For those with a Mega-CD, Sega have Sega has also licensed the blue cartoon i ng) and spear attack like
released a compilation CD pack called the hamburger-eating cat from Japanese tele­ Dhalsim's in SFII, plus three
Sega Classic Arcade Collection. It features vision (two games based on the character punch and kick moves which
four of their classic Sega Mega Drive titles: have already appeared on the Engine by involve jumping on to the
Golden Axe, Bare Knuckle, Super Shinobi Hudson). This character is to star in a 4meg opponent!
and Columns. The 4-in-1 CD should be platform game in the Robocod theme. The
game's real cute and looks ace. Again, no
release date yet.
Bare Knuckle II (Streets of Rage 11) is look­
ing well ace and, if you watched the first
showing of Bad Influence on the box, you
would have seen it in action. The major
changes from the original are of course the
bigger graphics and the extra two charac­ Check
ters (with Adam given the boot). Also the out the 3l'Tie OON.
helpful special police have been removed A number of magazines have announced
so that the extra button can instead be that Sega are to bring out a Street Fighter
AXEtSWAQW PIJIICll?SRI IIIP-6IF
used for different moves. Each character II
available as you read this, probably at the Championship
same price as a standard CD-Rom game. Edition for the
The reason for releasing this is obvious: all Mega Drive.
the games have sequels coming out or They say it's
already available. If this takes off, Sega may expected to be
release more compilation titles in the available
Mure. around March
Sega are also set to release a CD-Rom '93. We think
baseball game called Super League CD. The this ishigh ly unlikely! The original game for
game doesn't look any different from their the Super Famicom is one of Nintendo's
SE«SCIWYWME11Wt NS...IS1HIS TIEBMlllf!
previous cartridge games, apart from digi­ biggest selling points, so Nintendo would
--------. tised pictures of now has a number of special moves: Max lose a large number of buyers of their
actual baseball has a two-fisted punch and a charging machine if a Mega Drive version of the
players (Japanese elbow, together with a flying feet kick, sup­ game were to be released. However, with
ones that is), and plex and slide attack; Axel has an SF-style Sega about to release a six-button pad(s ee
you can expect a dragon punch and a dragon-flame punch, Sega Hardware News), SAi might be on the
lot of sampled as well as a head-butt, backdrop and cards - but probably not until later in the
upper-cut; Blaze has a back-flip-kick and a year! We'll of course give you the info iift
COIIE.W/441 AC4II l1ACE! multi-hand-punch, plus air-throw, backdrop does make it to the MD.
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Issue 31 ♦ February 1993
GAMES NEWS
VIRGIN
If you had a super duper powerful PC,
then one of the best golf games was
Links, which featured eight amazing
famous courses (fully digitised in all their
glory), plus a host of other options! Well
it seems Virgin are to convert the game
for the Mega-CD -although it certain­
ly won't look as good, as the MD can
only display 64 colours on screen
instead of the 256 colours of the PC.
Virgin also have the licence to
Terminator V's Robocop comic and they
are expected to release a game based
on it. But it's unlikely to hit the streets
until late '93. Thceo mic itself is not that
brilliant.
As on the Engine, Micro World have
signed up Loriciel's conversion of Panza
Kick Boxing for the Mega Drive. But as on
the SF it will be called Best of the Best.
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'Y. ll�1 aihnn intJ., ainpbgau nta entshde e Y t-� w:s,.�1 o1 a GbWrkeeaa nitrteo vsfuoesgtirrs loi o
.......
Konami's new Turtle game,
GAMIIII(
called Return of the Shredder,
is looking to be a real hit when GameTek hatshr ee very interesting new games for
It's released. In fact check out the SF. Arst there's the American Gladiators, which
the full review next Issue! The should do well over here considering the popularity of
game will be very much like the TV show. Thgea me's a one- or two-player multi­
Turtle IV (Turtles in Time) onth e sport type game based on the show - it looks pret­
SF with some levels the same, ty good! Secondly there's TheHu mans, a conversion
plus some bits from the NES of the Amiga game (see Sneakers). The third game is
game and some new ones Jeopardy, based on the word game of the same
thrown in name; hopefully it'll be better than Wheel of Fortune!
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GAM ES PREVIEWS
Oncaeg aitnh eE Bc repwu t Talent shows, well it does in the graph­
ont hediarr skh adaensd ics department anyway. Probably even
prettier than the new Addams Family
takae s neapkr evioefw
game, Mr Nuts is cute and extremely well
someo ft heu pa ndc oming drawn. What is most apparent is the love­
gamefso trh eS Fa ndM D. ly three-layer parallax with tons of colour
and a main sprite that looks like Two-Tails
in Sonic 2. When I played it recently there
�as �irtually no gameplay, apart from just
AddamFasm ily:
1he Jumping around from platform to platform.
Pugslc,'s Scavenger Hunt But it was in its early stages of develop­
ment so any critcism would be pointless
super Famicom by Ocan and unfair.
LETHAW&ILFO N ON THESf. . l•STHE t.4ME MORE lETHAl? The big question is, however, can you
Jason: The most impressive game I've survive another platform game?
seen recently has to be this follow- up mulaic, tongue-in-cheek thrillers that have
from Ocean. No, honestly I'm not kidding. been bettered a million times before.
Equixno
Ocean seem to have really pulled up their Perhaps that's why this game held my
socks with this one -it's slick, playable interest for the sum total of one minute. super Famicom by Sony lmagaoft
and immensely attractive. Three level It's very like Hudson Hawk on the Amiga (devel oped by Software Creations)
multi-directional parallax has been done (if anyone remembers that) and when
before on the Super NES, but this effec­ compared to the new Addams Family Jason: I played the finished version of
tively? Naaaahhh. game it looks primitive -to say the Equinox back in August last year when I
least.
visited Software Creations in Manchester
I think Ocean only have one group
and I liked it very much. The game had
of really talented programmers and
previously been hyped for its clever mode
they certainly didn't work on this!
7 rotation on the scrolling map section -
God only knows why NMS thought it
and it works quite well, even if it isn't as
was worthy of the cover treatment
impressive as I'd hoped. Atmosphere is
(and what a c*** boring cover it was
one of the major ingredients of this
tool). Cutsy platform antics don't suit
arcade adventure, helped along no end by
this licence either and the graphics
some very spooky music from top musi­
are rather poor too. I wouldn't get
cian Tim Follin. The game follows on from
too excited if I were you, even if
Solstice, the popular NES isometric
you're mad on the films.
adventure from a few years back and, of
course, the graphics have been dramati­
THEW ICKED I.OOKJNG SEQUEL TOADDMI S .GR.EA.TGRA PHICS MrNuts cally improved, with some great colours
super and effective shading. Controls are tricky
Famicom by Ocean
While I was never a huge fan of the as 1n most games of this type -the
original Addams SNES game, it was unde­ diagonal movement being tackled by the
Jason: A new Viz charac­
niably very popular, if a little short-lived. standard
ter destined for the Ocean
Things have certainly progressed since up/down/lefVright
conversion treatment? No,
then in the graphics department; mean­ on the joypad is
actually it's a stunningly
while the new game still retains the boun­ something I found
beautiful er ... platform
cy feel of the original with some nice to be quite tire­
game (where do they get
humorous touches thrown in. Packed with some, although I ,
their ideas from, eh?) fol­
colour and some clever visual effects, this guess this gets
lowing the exploits of a
will be one to look out for. easier with prac­
squirrel and -oh God,
tice. Keys,
you don't want to know the
LethalW eapon weapons, tokens
plot, do you? Good.
and a hoard of
5upcr Famicom by Ocean Mr Nuts was actually
other things are
developed by Ocean
waiting to be col­
Jason: I'm no fan of the Lethal Weapon France, who used to do
lected and there
series - they're just a collection of for- the decent Amiga stuff like
CAN YO/IGUESS HOE MAN't NUTS HE HAS INSTORAGE? ! are many scrolling
Pang (brill conversion).
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Issue 31 ♦ February 1993