DISK
33-1:
T2 - THE ARCADE GAME
A big and sexy level from Virgin's brand-new Operation Wolf-style arcade conversion.
Hence the name. (It's got Arnold Schwarzenegger in it as well, you see. He played the Terminator. Yes.)
There's very little we can tell you about this abnormally cool demo,
since you get masses of introduction in the game itself. You play
John Connor and his right hand man in a battle across the scarred and
battle-torn terrain of Los Angeles in the near future. The ideal
controller's a mouse, which allows you to sweep streams of
concentrated fire across the screen in any direction, but you can use
a joystick if you really have to.
CHRISTMAS DIZZY
It's got nothing to do with Christmas, but it DOES have Dizzy in it.
What do you want, custard on top? Christmas Dizzy, eh? That'll be our favourite animated calcium coated
ovoid complete with delightful santa hat and pretty snow filled
landscape, right? Well, not really, but if you've just bought this,
then you'll be playing this at Christmas, which is the next best
thing, sort of. This is actually a small section of Fantastic Dizzy
(reviewed in full on page 89, cross-reference fans), complete with a
few puzzles to work out and a rather fiendish sliding tile-subgame
where you have to rearrange the picture of Dizzy and the Magician
against the clock.
DISK 33-2:
GLOBDULE
Lots and lots of 'sticky gooey stuff hanging from the ceiling
antics', brought to you by motorcycle courier from Psygnosis. Ever since we first saw this little cute pink fella a few
months ago, we've all been directing a non-stop stream of Trap Door comments towards him.
All of us, that is, apart from Lisa, who keeps going on about wine gums for some reason best known to herself.
DOGFIGHT
The entire (well, almost) 'What if...' section from MicroProse's combative flight sim. Get in
your Spitfire and take out those jets right now! (Or vice versa).
MicroProse have long been famous for coming up with top flight sim
action, time after time, but in one of their recent releases, they've
taken a flight sim game engine and turned it into an arcadey sort of
shoot-'em-up, almost. Who cares about waiting for take-off clearance
from the control tower or constantly checking maps to see if you're on
course? Not us, that's for sure, we want to fire rockets at things
and watch the smoke trail as they plunge. Yes.
DISK 33-3:
SEEK AND DESTROY
A veritable truckload of levels from Vision and Mindscape's wild rotational-scrolling
helicopter shoot-'em-up. It's peace through superior firepower time in this Desert-Strike-Viewed-From-Above game,
as you bring peace and harmony to the world by killing pretty much everyone in it who's
shooting at anyone else. The full game came into the office last month, after we'd been reading Defense News quite a lot. It's one of those weekly trade papers, devoted to selling expensive
pieces of military hardware, and we love it! Thanks to adverts in Defence News, we know
now that Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact capabilities combine to make AFAS twice as effective as Paladin (whatever they may actually be), and that with it, friendly survivors will
increase by 25 percent. We also know that ITT is committed to making the SINCGARS
system all it can be, and I think that's a valuable lesson for us all here.
CLUE
Tired of tedious old made-of-board board games? Why not get the
whole family crowded around your Amiga after the Queen's Speech for
some new-fangled old-fashioned fun?
Oh come on, EVERYONE knows how to place THAT board game, the one we
can't name for fear of bringing the wrath of of popular games
manufacturer down on our heads. Don't they?
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