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EURO FOOTBALL
CHAMP
•rab,
Is it ts knockout?
D i PUFF
Rave on?
REVIEWS
THAN
MAGI
BUG BOMBER
Creepy crawile killer?
LIGHT
ANY
Techno-bauble!
OTHER
ALL THIS AND TONS
OF BUDGET TOO!!!
) _ 1 1 1
Robocod splashes d9wn on the
C64! Can the console classic cut it
on the Commodore? Get in the
iswim on p . 1 6
Euro Football Champ k-r-
Domark's coin-op kicker
comes to town. Has the
lad done well? The match
report's on p.64!
Get O u r
Powerpack on
disk! See p.7
u ure
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MAMAS;
3 6 D i PUFF
LCANIC
FISHERMAN'S TALE
ummertime and the living is
easy. fish are jumping and the
scores are high_ Well they are
issue. To celebrate the launch of Domark's
it you happen to be Robocod,
because the all-conquering
underwater agent has finally made his way
to the C64. And was it worth the wait - you
KMOSOFT
bet. Robocod is an impodant game for the
C64 and it looks like Millennium - the lolk
Euro Foe:se Champ and England's (fingers
crossed) triumph in the European
Championships, we've got a spiffy round-up
of all the footle games ever seen on the
C64. Then there's all the usual 'packed to
the staples' reviews pages. Andy Roberts
has been slaving away over Rainbow
Islands and weighs in with the second stun-
ning instalment of his complete guide. For
the more technically inclined, there's a spe-
cial look at modems, the usual tact-packed
Inside Info and all the regu-
lar C F features_
Have Fun
who took the risk - have gambled well.
Technically it's second to none, with
some of the smoothest scrolling we've ever
seen A n d as a game it retains the tongue-
in-cheek humour that made the original
such a stunner. But you can judge the tech-
nical quality tor yourself with the Powerpack
demo and by checking out our massive
three-page review!
CF isn't all Cod though, there's much
more in this summery special type July
BMW
no the words BBS and Baud mean anything
to you? It not then you could be missing out
on a whole world of computer contacts. Link
with a CF special on modems on p.39.
the C64 was knee-high to V1C20 there
was a whole bunch of coders who made the
machine famous, but where are they now?
Gary P n pulls on his rose-tinted specs•
and I b a c k down memory lane on p.52.
out the classified results of
our all-encompassing footle special. We
name the good, the bad and the outright
ugly. And there's a chance to win some
• spiffy Bristol City goodies too on p.62.
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Load up on covertape Info.
Cool Croc TWins 'rooks how good?
They said it couldn't be done, they said it
was impossible. but they were totally and
utterly wrong! Robocod is here and it's bril-
liant! Are you ready for some of the biggest
game screens and smoothest scrolling
ever seen? Are you ready for some seri-
ous console-style action? Are you ready
for some stupendous silliness? Then ren-
dezvous with the underwater agent on
p,16 (knock twice and use the password
the ocelot flies south in summer).
* 1 9 GAMEDUSTERS
4 2 INSIDE INFO
4 4 THE
nionst
The stingemaster strikes back.
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r id)
Briiiiing, briiiiiing. Hello? Oh you want to
know what modems do, where they come from and
what services you can get. AP. well then you'll want
to log on to the Commodore Format Bulletin Board,
that is, p.39. Yes, our techie feature this month
focuses on what you can do with a C64, a tele-
phone. some specialist software and a modem -
.without involving the police! II you want your -
machine to understand words like ltVx724BNI
56ituittewbidA-Akopidic" connect up, immediately!
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1 A n d the young lad. who
•••••.d Wasf playing t h divi-
sio
o u r
n football oniy days
ago, has scored a blinder for
Rovers An those games that
have tried
to make football happen on the 1.
C64 are rated in league style. We drag out'
the dogs and gods of computer footie
and compare them. Check the
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test scores o
p•62,
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5 7 SUBSCRIPTIONS
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Did dragons ever really exist? Well not like this they
didn't! CodeMasters push back the reality boundaries
with their tale of a cute dragon, his missing CD collec-
tion and the Thought Police. Regardless of the
trimmings though, DJ Puff looks like being one of the
best arcade platformers that the Codies have ever pro-
duced. DJ Putt likes to rave, but will you rave about DJ
P&P For the full story take the A46 to p.36 and turn left
when you see the sign saying 'party'.
$ Gold
nderwater agent extraordinaire, James Pond is
re in a two-part mega-demo. Part one shows
e full game's title sequence, complete with the
St ever in-game ad, and part two gives you a
ance to sample this smooth moving, super
te adventure in silliness. Can you find how to
cess the secret room? We can't! It's in there
mewhere so get searching.
What have Spiderman,
Superman, Dennis the
Menace, the Pathetic
Sharks and Dylan Dog
Wr'
got in common, Well -
believe it or not - all of
them are comic book
1
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ift
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superstars. Dylan Dog
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(apparently) rules the
roost in Italy and now he's trying to make
Dylan Dog ever be taken seriously? What's
the break into the UK. Can an overseas
the game like? For the full solution to this
detective cut it among the tights and super-
Italian mystery inspect the clues on p.32
power crowd? Can anyone with the name
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SIMULMONDO —40,
delitasters
re you calling my dragon f t ? " No, his
me's Puff, DJ Puff, and he's about to erupt on
the Powerpack in this latest platform cracker
m those Code-type-Masters. Jump over the
ikes, bum those enemies with your firey
th, and then hide. It's as cute as a very cute
g and as playable as one too! _ lay
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It' a lot more bovver
owe-
ck your neighbour's
th ough flower-beds a
your f
R ver on to the gardener - in the
re rehensible but great fun. Jeff
ngs mayhem to suburbia I f you
red why people take gardening so i y
th n load it up and become a lawn-mow m a n
h Hover Bovver.
Or, Game Dropping for
beginners. An encyclopaedic overview of who
was who and what they did in the early clays of
C64 has been compiled by veteran games ace
Gary Penn. So if you have trouble remembering
who wrote Kettle or which games Paul Woakes worked on, why we still talk about them in
hushed tones, or what they're doing now, now's your chance! If you want to wander down
memory lane or just wonder why, get stuck in to p.52
l i g o r o l o r o y e r
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64 EURO FOOTBALL
C H A M P DOMARK
The coin-op crowd
pleaser kicks off on
the Commodore. Does
it kick out Kick Off?
The arcade machine
mixed skilful play and
smart scrapping, can
the conversion carry
• tap
•• m o t e
this off or is it just
another kickabout. C F
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andslam Video
Vi it strange new won!
ting aliens, inspect
It Ii to e r e e n s in
of las
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aggressi o f way - with Agent
ange. It's a a n g e mix of shoot-
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nously fu
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trig
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)Ut
have been looking for-
• Get a disk ver
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