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EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW
AND COMPETITION
REVIEWED: CHOLO, MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, RANARAMA,
C16 PAPERBOY AND STORM FA CUP COMPETITION
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Spectrum 48/128
Cassette t 7.95
Commodore 64/128
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Amstrad CPC
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Available from all leading software
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Prices include postage
and pocking plus VAT.
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Quartet is
coming t h e
next multi-
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for your 64
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previewed.
1 8 Q UART E T
It had to happen — more four player games. Quartet
was the next quad-coi n-op to hi t the arcades after
Gauntlet. We preview the 6 4 conversion.
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This Is an
Amiga A500,
could be you
See pp 85.
Commodore 64 and
128
1 7 Mast ers of the
Universe
1 8 Q u art et — preview
2 3 Bomisjack II
2 5 Krackout
2 6 Leaderboard
Executive
2 8 O range Hill
3 0 i n t o the Eagle's
Nest
3 0 Elevat o r Action
3 3 Sh ard of Spring
6 3 S I NBAD
What's this, Amiga games reviewed in CU? 'fop. and
no apologies, wi th the machine coming down to the
same price as the S T and and the games getti ng
bigger and better we thought you'd like to know a bit
3 4 Chol o
about it.
8 2 E NT E RT AI NI NG THE FUTURE
A E500 Amiga. mega games. ne w coin-op style
consoles t o pl ay at home. Atar i ST's — i t's all so
confusing. Just where does the future of gaming lie?
Chris Bourne probes some of the possibilities.
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5 L E T T E RS
More Letters than ever this month — four pages of
your bit.
10 Buzz
Tw o pages of full col our previews. t w o pages of
charts, and all the news that's wor th printing,
8 8 P L A Y TO WI N
Maps of Nosferatu, Futur e Knight, C1 6 Storm, and
the usual batch of pokes.
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Ma g i c Madness
C yb er One
Sh o rt Circuit
Exp lo rer
Nig h t Walker
Equaliser
Af t ermat h
Mu t an t s
Sp o rt of Kings
Alien s
0111 and Lisa
Shaolin's Road
Ran arama
SO S and Sun Star
R f t h Axis
Sinbad (Amiga)
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Win your sel f F A Cup ti ckets w i t h Brian Cl ough's
Football Fortunes!.
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9 4 T R I E D AND TESTED
Mini Office II and CRL's image System are given the
DODO o v e r .
9 8 ARCADE S
We l aunch the Better Arcades Campaign. BAC for
short — read all about it and all the latest games too,
Back BAC.
1 0 2 RE S UL T S
Super Sunday, Master s of the Universe Doz ens of
prizes. Did you get one?
1 0 8 H O T SHOTS
Albert Square's gossip has nothing on the goings on
in the games world, Mi ke Pattenden is the man with
his ear to the ground.
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Bubble Trouble
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Handballed
this skill onwards it is practically
impossible and the shots taken by
the players are enough to blast
Pete's legendary gloves into the
back of the net (with his hands still
inside them). I have just one fault to
point out and that is the ball never
mi ses the goal and the defenders
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might as well be statues, though the
animation is convincing and the
Warning
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I was once flicking through
your pages when I saw an ad. for
Ikari Warriors at 46.99. 1
immediately shoot to the Post
Office for a 46.99 postal order. It
has been three months now and I
have not received the game. I have
written to them once and have had
no reply.
Mark Aryadkike,
London. N8.
speech is very good (you sure! Ed),
especialy when it says the title as if
hewas a commentator.
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I'msick of games featuring
Much to my generosity I have
television or cartoon characters.
enclosed the code numbers needed
There are thousands of games
featuring so-called "comic heroes". in order to upgrade to a higher and
more difficult skill level.
Get rid of them. I don't care for
Skill C o d e number
taking part in Scooby Doo's
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•'funny" adventures. Neither do I
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want to play a superhero in "Flash
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Gordon". And who cares what
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happens with "good old" Tarzan.
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If I get more games featuring such
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heroes, I return them to the shop
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No, software companies. produce
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good games like "Seven Cities of
loin,
Gold", "Elite" and "Ulitma IV".
Plymouth,Devon.
Pleasehave a sick title on this
(another content and wiseCommodore
letter! I love them!
produce such excellent games
User)
[ors Dybwad,
between £1.99 and 42.99, then I'm
Norway,
sure that US Gold for example
could follow their example. 1 realise
that these companies are not quite
in the same group as the budget
software houses, but nevertheless
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I am writing to say. that after
I would like to state my point
there is no justification in the high
considerable practice, I have
of view regarding the computer
managed to reach Skill 'I' at Peter software industry towards software prices, and after all the budget
software houses do bring out such
Shitton's Handball Maradonna. From piracy.
goodgames that they almost and
sometimes equal the high asking
prices that US Gold demand.
If they only dropped their prices
people would rather pay for the
original than to have in somecases
an inferior copy. this would also
have the added effect of ploughing
back the money towards even more
good games.
C. M. Jones.
Scarborough.
There is talk of software
coming down in price, but we
suspect it's only talk — it would
cut into the software houses'
profits too much. Still we live
in hope.
Piratical
prices
This letter is included as a
warning to others who send off
for games which have not been
released.' We try and stop small
distributors doing this but some
sneak through. If it's not in the
shopsand we haven't reviewed
it — it's not out! Rest assured
though, we'll have it first.
Don't hold
your breath
After reading the letter by
Nicholas Smith in the February
issue, I thought I had better write
to let him know he is going to have
ahell of a wait, as I returned a
faulty copy of Supercycle on tape
two or three months ago and have
still not received a working copy. It
makes me laugh when they go on
about piracy, when the companies
can't even be bothered to look
after their customers.
R.Travis,
Barnsley, S. Yorks.
My personal view is that if
software houses, such as US Gold,
who currently sell software games
onaverage at about 410, were to
drop their prices to a more
reasonable price, eg 45. they would
reduce the tendency for people to
copy the games
If software houses such at
Mastertronic and Firebird can
O ur l e t t e r s b a g i s bul gi ng w i t h y o u r c om m e nt s .
criticisms, quer i es a nd pr aise c ur r e ntl y so w e 'r e e x •
pa ndi ng our l etter s page. E v e r y l e tte r pr i nte d gets a
c ov e te d C om m odor e Us e r T-shi r t, b u t w e 'v e a dde d
an e x tr a i nc e nti v e — t he chance o f w i nni ng a char t.
toppi ng gam e for the star l e tte r of the m onth. S o ge t
y our pe n a nd pa pe r out a nd w r i te i n to.,
Letters, Commodore User, Priory Court,
30-32 Farringdon Lane, London EC IR 3AU.

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