AMIGA POWER ISSUE 39 JULY 1994

TRICK OR TREAT
Anyone with contacts in the shady world of PC gaming will have heard of Doom, and its exciting two-player network facility. Well, here's your chance to play a simpler, slightly cheaper-looking, but no less enjoyable version of your own. Kill! And kill again!
Inspired by the likes of Doom and Wolfenstein on the PC, and the fabulous Extreme Violence on AP24's coverdisk, AP reader Duncan Stuart's answered our call to arms and been thoroughly rewarded for his efforts. It's two player fun once more, only this time you've got to run around an odd maze dressed as a wizard and try to blow the other chap (also, curiously enough, dressed as a wizard) out of his little blue curly boots.

GRAVITY FORCE 2
Two-player Thrust with guns. It's that simple. And that good. Really, really, really, really good, in fact.
In the few weeks this has been in the office, it's been hailed by many (but not all) of AMIGA POWER as the best game of all time due to its irresistibly competitive nature, which has made us think how cruel life can be. When professional programmers are getting paid vast amounts of money to come up with gaming drivel such as Dracula and The Last Action Hero (reviewed this issue, folks) and true talent such as the curiously named Barf and Mad Lamer are writing this in their spare time, then there really is no justice.

BOB'S MAGIC GARDEN
More underground fun, but this time with fruit. You should be getting good at this by now. Eh, chums?
Or Mr Do, that classic arcade game involving digging around and avoiding nasties and, er, hang on, haven't we already done this? Mr Do is, it must be admitted, awfully similar to Dig Dug, but whereas you had the fiendish bike pump in Dig Dug, in this one you've got a magic ball that clatters along tunnels and then returns to you. This may be a minor change, but it makes a whole lot of difference to the gameplay, so give it a whirl. It's all-time top fun, we reckon.

DISK 39-2:

ELFMANIA
Don't be fooled by their pointy ears and delicate-looking attire. These folk are spoiling for a fight and, thanks to AP, you can give them one.
It's a beat-'em-up. You beat things. Up. No, that's about it. Work out all the moves for yourself. You can access them all by either moving the joystick or pressing FIRE and then moving the joystick. At the end of the round, the one left standing is the winner. It's ever so simple when you think about it.

APIDYA
Try out a whole level of this tremendous insect-based shoot-'em-up. Let nothing get away unscathed -- not even the gladioli.
We've had a few problems with this game on one (but not all) of our 1200s, so if you get any funny stuff, boot up while holding both mouse buttons down, and then select the ENHANCED option in the CHIP SET memory and then it'll load. Don't ask us why it does this, because we simply don't know.

DIGGER
The first of two variations of the digging-tunnels-underground theme this month. So make like a mole.
Known to the greater mass of us as Dig Dug, that classic old arcade game involving digging through the ground and killing nasties by blowing them up with a bicycle pump in a sadistic manner not entirely unlike that thing little kids do with frogs and drinking straws. The great thing about old arcade games is that what you have to do is so amazingly obvious that you can just play them. So just play it.