fr o u 11*1 I r si I tuiaui n a t i ve J c c i ta 11 P j i / V i tM •j t J f i s K ^ ^ Â \ v' iM -'f-TT >) c < V, check with your » HO HO HO IT S CORKING "V CHRISTMAS COMPO TIME! I /~Win five Competition Pro joysticks! Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Who was one ot the Five Star girlies once engaged to? Dragon Breed, Days Of Thunder, a) Bobby Brown a it b) George Michael Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, I c) Eddie Murphy Right, smarty pants. Over Line Of Fire, Chip's Challenge, I to page 99 and filt out • your answer on the coupon! Judge Dredd and many more! ^r r PLUS! Christmas joystick round-up it Your Sinclai goes to Russia it The worst Speccy games of all time it It's mad! There's a compo on every page! Massive it b>v J pages of hints, tips, cheats and POKEs! • Doug Quaid you have been you bulleting through various terrains • haunted by recurring hold the line or plough the fields' • drearps of another Ijfe on Mars. Y deways scrol'ng fury1 Destroy the lethal drug Nuke the criminal underworld • your mission is to out and face a stream of deadly Nuke gangs destroy the,king pin of the MR BIG CORPORATION- and then - it you survive • rf you gel that face the terror far that is * You II fiave. to outwit his enormous army of tody guards rtOBOCOP 2! gangs of charisma-bypass patients in trench coats the bullet br^fi with * the build of a.rhinoceros $nd the breath of a dung beetle, packs of VICIOUS canine yappies the psychotic clown with an evil sense of humour • you'll die. buyiot laughing1 < Then meres me gas guzzling ca^l'ac jock - a cool specimen, elbow . hanging on the door rail, a senous looking piece in his f.and and read^to blow you away as he rolls down mam street leaving you * r I' a r MORAIOH '1 mr.îMD r v r 71 A%\ i f THAN A GAME If . ROBpCOP2 •e m Ht H SL coin-op - now A s r t n V h i ng a computer game... STUNning Or up the controls and enter the itrtnau three dimen*Ional world of the B.T.U Jl. Knnnar. Travel ahead la time to the B1 it Ccnttuy and experience the thrill* of racing at speeds of over MX) mile* per hoar! KxhilarChallenging The S.T.U.H. Tunnel Network leaves yon gasping. Like a bobsled race ycro can Increase your ipeed by riding the outer walls of the tunnel. Blast armoured dronea and Mag Cycles out of your way and hit the boost pads for massive Injections of speed. These catapult you to warp-speeds - so fast that you appear transparent and can even pass through enemy vehicles unharmed Complete the various challenge screens tad race through the S.T.U.H network toward* the intimate Chtiteaê' Available on: IBM PC 3.8 fr 8.as , Atari ST, Amiga, . Commodore 64 (cassette, disk) Amstrai (cassette, disk) Spectrum +3, Spectrum 481 £8 h«ptui4trfkilnalli IMotimim: Ail rijM» rmrr*4 Attfl QAJ^M Corporal!, D Mkie^^ miimi; i i, i i. DtmulMinnLM A ranjlmjir I -Til <•«»>•»*. I v r x wl 1 jM -**<0)I1 TKIW 1/*. • I tsafcesa*} T E I M G E I XI The Name m Cow- Op Conversions CONTENTS JAN«61 \ PSSST Everyone knows (and loves) Wm • : Rich Pelley's Crap Games, but professional software houses can come up with stuff twice as bad - and then have the nerve to O D W I LL TO charge you £9.99 tor itf Read the A l L sordid truth here! J tb O UR R E A D E R S! M TIDINGS OF COMFORT t t AND JOYSTICKS CORKING CHRISTMAS COLLECTION They're cheap(ish) and piasticky, and make the ideal Christmas present! Linda Barker sorts the CASSETTE REVIEWS good ones from the okay-ish ones from the really crap ones - Bigger and Full Price and even has time to find one better than ever "jolly sexy indeed"! Find out before! This which here...I 39 Chip's Challenge month's US Gold cassette has one YS YS GOES TO RUSSIA 58 Days Of Thunder Hot Shot (the brilliant Mindscape /J Erm. we went to Russia. Quazatron), one 23 Dragon Breed Activision * And found... a Spectrum almost-Megagame 69 Extreme Console! (It's true!) Quick! Ftick to Rage Hard for the full story (Hydrofool), one Spooky goings on In our The Hunt Digital Integration and pics! colourful platform-and- For R«d October demo. 16 Golden Axe Virgin ladders romp (Chubby Gristle) and a couple of playable 92 Gun Boat Accolade 00 AC0MP00N demos too (The Hunt For Red October and the super-fast 58 Judge Dredd Virgin (NEARLY) EVERY PAGE Gazza II)\ Just think of It as an early Christmas present! 94 Kick Off II Anco 25 Line Of Fire US Gold We're mad! We've done it againl 12 Lotus Esprit Turbo Nestling at the bottom of (almost) 58 every page of this magazine JUDGE DREOD Challenge Gremlin you'll find a soaraway seasonal 51 Strider II US Gold The man with the chin is giveaway! Can you answer any 94 Supercars Gremlin of the questions? Then zoom to back on the Speccy (at last}! 30 Teenage Mutant Hero the back of the mag and fill We ask the question on Turtles Image Works out the form! everyone's lips - does he make Bargain Basement Robocop look like a big girl's 21 GAZZA II COMPOl blouse or what? 84 The Empire Strikes Back 27 PROGRAM PITSTOP Hit Squad TEENAGE MUTANT HERO TURTLES 33 VSGALIjUP 85 Jaws Alternative The heroes in a half shell in 85 The Munsters CHARTS "It's actually a rather Alternative 34 LETTERS brilliant little game" 84 R-Type HH Squad 84 Run The Gauntlet shocker! Bags of colour, 41 ySTIPSHOP Hit Squad smooth animation and a 54 CHRISTMAS GAZZA 85 Solar Empire Players large serving of pizza - 85 Target Renegade Hit POSTER it's all here! Squad 56 COMPO WINNERS Adventures Win 20 Hewson mugs and 57 SAM SURGEON HO HO HO IT S CORKING start the day in style! 81 One Of Our 61 TIPSHOP TiPTIONARY CHRISTMAS What do you bake a wet COMPO TIME! mug in? Wombats Is OFFER a) A kern Missing Zenobi b) A holn 66 HOW 2 HACK PREVIEWS c) A kiln 72 YS SUPERSTORE Easy or what? Now otf you go to page 99 to fill in that Megapreviews 74 ADVENTURES coupon. 87 INPUT OUTPUT 18 Gazza II Empire 70 NARC Ocean 8S BACK ISSUES v O t j i i Editor Man Biefcy » Art Editor Sal Meddmgs » Production Editor Andy AIM A 1Q We * Staff Writer Linda Barker * Design Assistant Andy Ounsted » 8d SUBSCRIPTIONS JI Nli Q I Advertising Manager Simon Moss * Production Coordinator Melissa Future Shocks —— -— Parkinson » Publisher Greg Ingham * Asst Publisher Jane Richardson V 90 SLOTS OF FUN Publishing Asst Michete Harris * Circulation Director Sue Hartley » Your Sinclair. Future 104 Dick Tracy 96 CRAP GAME CORNER Publishing. 30 Monmouth Street. Bath BA1 2BW Tel (0225) 442244 (Reader enquiries Disney (Titus) Wednesday only) Fax (0225} 446019 » Subscriptions Computer Posting 120-126 Lavender 103 Edd The Duck Impulze 100 ON SPEC Avenue. Mrtcham. Surrey CR4 3HP Tet (081) 646 1031 » Distribution MMC (lei 0483 211222) » 105 The Hunt For Red Cover Illustration Nick Dawes ¥ ISSN 0269 6983 V ABC Jan-June 90 64,717 * 106 NEXT MONTH Your Sinclair is published by the same people who put together October Grandslam Commodore Formal. ST Formal Amtga Format. New Computer Express. N^^H 106 Ninja Remix System 3 Amstrad Action. MacPubHslrmg. Ciassic CD. PC Plus. 8000 Plus. 105 SWIV Storm Sega Power and another (secret) one. Blj/nilT|Jl Christmas is with us tf"" tf JhH^ B AR A I f I A (just about), and to T 11 celebrate we've got what ^^ * 1 ^ is quite possibly the best cover-mounted cassette in J C ^ I I • I VS history! Just check out J ^ j ^J the line-up - there are three free games, including such corkendous goodies as Hydrofool (the mega-successful follow-up to last month's freebie Sweevo's World) and Quazatron (an ex-YS Hot Shot), plus playable demos of two future Speccy smash hits! It's a seasonal sensation! (And a little bit more!) the 12 rectangles on the conlral bar to your colour. diamond gives a 3D map of Ihc current level, You have a tew seconds to move Icfl or nght to side viftw gives a side elevation of the citadel HEWSON select the side of the circuit you wish to use your the query robot enters you into the drotd data Complete target then uses the opposile side to fight back. library. game Fight by moving your pulsers up and down the |i ij ... M ...... / y* wires and activating them with the Fire button. Try «V tN \ • - - Vf i • •. i -VVVVW • avoiding Torminalors, Joiners and Colour Switchers »' I t ; • • Y and aim for Splitters and Auto Pulsers instead If your grappling action is successful the status report of the control elements Drive, Power, J J Weapon, Chassis and Devices of the target are • T TT 1 displayed If you wish to remove one or more of ml these for your own use, make your selection using Up/Down and pressing Fire. Some of the elements ^ ^ ^ ^^ programmed may be damaged though (and thus unusable). by Steve Turner (pretty !.(reous a few years ago If you win the Hurrah! It's a lift thlngie up to another i' level bit of the citadel. for great games like I I I II 3 I 111 II " E || I J |S SI ov< i:.gr:lufftho status (the First screen displayed shows your whr;n it war; originally current status) you must grapple successfully with , reviewed in VS. ( n SQ * So whafs it aU aboul? 1 a higher class of droif^ ^''Gff.S^rf^ffl^^ ''OU chose h ything Well, it's one of those ^ ^ m e m ^ g\ . , isometric 3D Jhinqr, -— (doo t pjcJ{ omG Energy Your energy is shown by the rotation speed t vt ryone u;.< rj id bf so K!5L,LPP-*22 ( screens showing Famous Five others bits of the completed game. Adventures from includingw adroi' • ut-of-a-helicop• ter- Enigma for the SAM. onto*a-movmg-sub bit and an Op Wolf style What is George's lather called? shoot- em -up among the torpedo tubes a) Crispin Please note his demo will not toad on b) Jeremy 48K machine®. c) Ouentin Take lashings of ginger beer Part of the rolling demo bit you get after CONTROLS Keyboard Q, R. O P and along to page 99 and Jot your the playable section - we reckon.this Space, or Sinclair. Cursor or Kempston Jolly answer down. bit's an Op Wolf style shcot-'em-up. joysticks. CRASH SMASH 92% GEN 0 OR 92% ZERO HERO 91% YC FUN ONE 91% An evil ("wee of monster machine* has risen to conquer the Galaxy One by one the peaceful races of the Galaxy have been attacked and enslaved by the Cyborg Monsters. No race has Ihe strength to stand against ihe power of the CyborRS. One lone n>hel rises from within the ranks of the mechanised monsters. Part dragon, part machine, the Cyborg Warrior fights back against Ihe Ivrant masters. The Galaxy has a Hero. Hope returns to 'he hearis of the people al the rtse of the armoured champion (bey call "ST PKAGON" THE SALES CURVE • I haven t seen J duvnl *hoat-em-vp for (in fad Silkworm 50 LOMBARD ROAD HJi pmbahlt the btf). Mote this lookit tcr to end viiUi a pnxlut t LONDON. SW11 3SU from the very tame Silkworm programmers that could chalhi>i;r Ihe mighty K Tvpe rlsvlf' i7ern Sc/i IW/ti HURRAHLHURRAH! HURRAH! i HEN HURRAH AGAIN!) Y O J ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^S YEARS OLD! jlike the magazine you hold in tan (bom from the oshes of a jr hands today. Since then YS more techy mag called Your Ihad three editors, about Spectrum) appeared on this day (of »n art editors, four publishers thereabouts) a whole five years ago! loodles of other people ft had Elite's Commando on the front ^ H l ng on it, and - more (looking remarkably like Arnle ^^Brtantly - has seen off all Schwarzenegger, despite the fact become Britain's best- vl the game had nothing to do with j^Hig Spectrum mag. That's It film) and was, well, nor totally long may It reign I A n ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Hl l e y 's C r ap G a m es mu i ^ M n ^ ^ M ^ H T i i n n lh as we e x a m i n f l H ^ H H ^- p i t i f ul e f f o r ts | s o m e o ne a c t u a l ly t r iM to c h a r ge f o r. Y e p, i t 's t he a w e s o me a t t a ck of Grand Prix Master Dinamic YS 48 December ' 8 9 - 43 Some people love Dinamic games, some people hate them, but there s one thing everyone agrees on - they re blooming hard. Sometimes too hard. Jackie called i impossibly difficult viewed-from Sporting 7Mangles CDS game" and "nearly fiippm impossible1" t thai was just the beginning - after aH. I V$ 48 December ' 8 9 - 40 "tricky control system makes it very hard 1 Oh dear Obviously the idea of producing a qualify on any of the given tracks and it i Speccy quiz game at all isn't a very good "graphically u r?astounding and near» one (check cot Em/yn Hughes Arcade Quiz unplayable' Td give it a mtss if I were1 a couple of issues ago!) but basing one she concluded of th? game (apparently around a TV quiz seems to be a recipe for based on some obscure Spanish motorbike disaster In tact. Robin said exactly the champion), 'unless, ol course, you re of same thing In his review - "basing a game Spanish descent Oh dear It s only at this around this TV prog obviously wasn't a point that our Jack's argument starts to fat great idea" Told you. After all. it's "yawn- apart as it's a little-known fact that she is inducing "not exactly packed with variety herself in fact a quarter (or something) and w

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