AMIGA POWER ISSUE 29 SEPTEMBER 1993
Introducing disk 29...
F117A STEALTH FIGHTER
HYPER EXCITING SPECIAL OFFER! Not only are we bringing you a fab exclusive demo mission of MicroProse's newest flight sim this month, but also a free gift! Yes, when the full game of F117A is released at the beginning of September, just pop along to any Virgin store and buy it (natch), while presenting your copy of this coverdisk. You'll then get a FREE special limited edition F117A T-shirt in addition to the game! Top, eh?
It's a flight sim, you're in a Stealth fighter, you have to blow stuff up.
In this exclusive-to-AP demo of MicroProse's top new dose of airborne antics, you have to take off from Gutersloh airfield, destroy the bridge at Warsaw (your Primary Target), hopefully also take out the enemy headquarters at Katowice (Secondary Target), and then fly back and land at the Rhein-Main airfield, all against the clock. These instructions will self-destruct in about 45 years when the magazine biodegrades, probably.
BLOB
Out-of-nowhere fantastic new arcade platform puzzle gmae from Core Design -- a whole slew of levels for you to enjoy -- complete excitement!
We thought this was so great that we moved Heaven and Earth to get you this for the coverdisk at the last minute, so you'd bloody well better like it or we're all giving up doing AMIGA POWER and going home for ever, alright?
SQUIGS
PD puzzling -- Columns clone -- one or two players -- top features -- total excitement!
Well, there goes the last reason in the world for anyone to ever buy a
Mega Drive, eh? Squigs is a perfect-in-very-nearly-every-way clone of
the celebrated Sega puzzler Columns, a Tetris-related block-stacker
which, embarrasingly, is still one of the outdated console's top boys
software-wise. Still, that's not to knock the game itself -- it's a
bit fab, as you can now see for yourself. There are two basic types
of game here, the Normal game and the Rescue version, but both follow
the same principle. Groups of three 'squigs' drop from the top of the
screen and can be manoeuvred left and right with the joystick. If you
press the fire button, though, the little squigs will do a quick
shuffle and rearrange themselves in a different order. Repeated
pressing of the fire button will make the squigs cycle through their
three possible positions, enabling you to arrange them into formations
which will make horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines of three or
more squigs, at which point the squigs concerned will disappear and
anything above them will fall down to fill in the gaps (and, if you're
lucky, form more lines for big bonus points).
