AMIGA POWER ISSUE 40 AUGUST 1994

BANDIT MANIA
Sample a whole fruit machine in our demo of this multi-machine extravaganza.
Fruit machine, eh? You either love or hate their relentlessly plonky music, cheerfully naff flashing lights and relentlessly one track game play. Money, button, whirr, money, button, chunka, chunka chunka and so on. To most people they're a harmful pub pastime, and yet to others they're as addictive as, well, something very addictive indeed -- minstrels, maybe. If you fall into the latter category they are, of course, a constant drain on your 10p collection. That is... until now!

EXCELLENT CARDS
Play a selection of top card games in this demo of the -- quite literally -- Excellent Cards. Oh yes. Indeed.
At last, that summer problem is solved. You know when it's really hot and you don't want to go out, even though you've spent all winter complaining about how cold and miserable it is? You know how there's nothing on telly until the Autumn, so you decide to play cards instead? And if you're nodding your head, then you'll also know that after spending ages laying all the cards out, the dog runs in, or a draught blows them all over, or you find out you've lost the three of diamonds. But fret ye not, pale-skinned sun shunners, for help is at hand from AP.

DISK 40-2:

IMPOSSIBLE MISSION
An exclusive demo of the classic original Commodore 64 game, so you can compare it with Impossible Mission 2025.
Only it isn't 2025 at all. No way, José. It's 1985 and we're all listening to Duran Duran and Men Without Hats. Most of the AP team are either doing their A-levels or at the University,  and Impossible Mission's the hottest thing to hit home computing since Manic Miner on the Spectrum, with its robots and lifts and character so well animated it's almost like watching a film. And that synthesised speech -- blimey, it's as if there's an actor in your Commodore 64, isn't it? Stay awhile, stay forever, Alvin Atombender commanded us -- and by and large, we obeyed.

TANKS 'N' STUFF
Assemble several friends, choose a massive steel tank each, and then venture forth to capture each other's flags and -- ideally -- blow up as many tanks as possible. It's a complete, fully-playable game, and it's unbelievably good fun. Trust us -- we know.
Here's the first of two tank games Cam insisted we include this month. But before we get onto that: Haway the lads and everything, and a special thanks to the Assassins, the Tyneside-based PD company who've been bunging out some very 'special' games our way for a few months now. In recognition of their sterling work in helping to pack our coverdisks with great games, and as an expression of our undying gratitude, we promised to give them a gratuitous plug, so here goes...

INFILTRATOR
Don't be deceived by appearances: though laughably simple, this is a fiendishly competitive complete two-player game.
Channel Four's constant commitment to the odd and curious gave us a season of Khabaddi a few years ago. It's apparently India's top sport, and is basically an elaborate form of tick where if you're grabbed in the opponent's half, you're out, but if you manage to reach their back line, you score points.