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this autumn In a deal just signed between the BBC and Macsen, Dirty Den, Ange, Lofty and all the Queen Vic regulars will now have their destinies controlled by their own adoring public. Spectrum, Commodore and Amstrad versions will be available in December and Fastinders the game looks sel to join the TV series al the top of the charts. Macsen won the deal despite expected heavy competition from other eager publishers lt is having to work very closely with Fastenders secon by nearly /0 million people eac hweek — to gel the correct amounts of excite- ment and authenticity. The best- loved soap in Britain has an almost religious elfect on many fans and a poor game simply won't be be accepted, if seems,
TV RATINGS-TRASHER East—nders will become a computer game
Due to BBC constraints and BANG'S hot-off-the mark mews coverage Macsen was particularly wary of releasing [oo many de- tails. Joint boss Moehwen Gywn- daff told BANG; “Many other companies approached them but in the end they came to us’.
Characteristically, the soap which strives to be different is also being touted as something more than the run-of-the-mill adventure or arcade game.
“We are co-operating very closely with the BBC on it, Put it this way, all of life is there, and if you get away from that, then you are getting away from the essence of FastEnders,” commented other
joint boss Edryd Gwyndaff.
Details concerning cost of the licence, type of agreement and
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2 BANG September 3rd, 1986
NINTE
Huge US toy company Mattel is to launch the immensely popular Nintendo Entertainments System into Britain. It is a solely game machine which could strike fear into both Commodore and Amstrad.
Nintendo USA signed the deal with Mattel although its parent Company is in Japan. Distribution is now tied up for both the UK and Europe and units will be available possibly in Nowember but definitely before Christmas.
BANG contacted Nintendo USA's sentor vice president Howard Lincoln, who commented: “The decision is based on what we have done in the US and Japan — the unit will be well received.”
Robot arm
The system comes in various configurations of control deck, light gun, robot arm and cartridges, with the basic unit selling for $139-159.
Lincodn added: “1 think its popularity comes from the quality of graphics and gameplay. It uses technical chaps which are state of the art. Also the quality of games Nintendo produces means there is no fall-back.
They are all arcade tithes.
“Thirdly, | think it is the variety that’s offered with the robot arm and light gun.”
Million Sales
Since launching and selling out of the system in New York last Christmas, Nintendo claims the machine has built up a demand which will see a million sales clocked up by the Christmas. “We are looking forward to it and we thank Mattel can do a good job,” added Lincoln.
BANG contacted Mattel's senior vice president Lindsey Williams in Los Angeles, Calitornia, who commented: “I only heard yesterday that the agreement had been signed by both parties. We are currently making certain packaging changes and changes on the information sheets with regard to warranties.
“There will be limited destribution prior to Christmas thes year. ft wall be in certain parts of the UK by the
promotion were not forthcoming but Gwyndaff added that Fastin- ders paraphernalia could be in- cluded in the package
Track Record
Macsen is by no means a large games publisher but its track re- cord of previous licences helped secure the deal. Blockbusters, Bullseye, Treasure Hunt and Clampdown have all come from the Dyfed based firm — although this is its first non-quiz show l|i- cence,
Moelwen Gwyndatf estimated overall sales would reach 700,000.
The current deal only applied for Britain but Macsen has not counted out the possibility of overseas rights. Price is expected
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middle of November and we hope to distribute widescale in 1987.”
Although stressing its availability, Williams was also al pains to poont out thal it “really means limited”. This is due to the popularity of the console in Japan and the USA and constraints on production. However, it is promised to be “widespread” by February or March.
Exporting costs
The bad news for eager Customers is that due to exporting costs the deluxe version of unit, light gun, robot arm and cartridges will initially sell for around £250-295.
The basic unit will sell for around £150. This is high bul with the prospect of later price-cuts and other importers computer manufacturers will be watching it all very carefully.
Amstrad’s Alan Sugar has been aware of Nintendo's success for some time. After a trip to Japan he commented: “The japanese have woken up their own market and it led me to believe that an on-going entertainment market exists,”
Atari currently sell the most games consoles in the UK via its 2600. It too has woken up to the demand for just a games machine and is affording special Christmas attention to a system which sells for just £39.99.
Both Atari, Amstrad and Commodore will watch Mattel’s Christmas advertising very closely.
Williams commented: “| don't see it as being in direct competition with home computers — if ts direct competition to the game playing ability of home computers.” He forecasts the yearly UK market to be worth around 15 per cent of that in the US, which was then estimated to be around £25 millon.
The US market was estimated at a staggering $250 million.
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HOOKING INTO HOOK
Amidst goodies donated by The Stranglers, Duran Duran, Radio One, Smash Hits, Hendring Videos and Virgin Records, there will be an Amiga computer at the Off The Book auction held at this week's PCW Show.
The auction is to raise more money for the anti-drugs charity Off The Hook, which was established by the software industry earlier
Dorannies Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes have donated signed pics and records; more pics and teeshirts have come from Radio One; Smash Hits and Virgin have supplied records; and the mag
Yacketty | yacht
US Gold has tied up the UK rights for a game based on the prime international yachting event — The America’s Cup
Duc to Britain's dismal record in recent years the race fails to whip up roo much enthusiasm over here. However, Australians take i all very seriously mdecd, so if is mo Surprise that the game was Wrilten down under
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Boy George
The auction of the Commodore-donated Amiga — worth over £1,500 — takes place this Thursday evening on Activision's stand.
All money raised by Off The Hook — and it's expected to top £100,000 shortly — is passed on to The Prince's Trust.
Hook money is already helping to fund rehabilitation units. Some has also gone to Dr Meg Patterson — who treated Boy George.
HEY, HEY WE'RE THE MONKEYS!
Martech has ventured deep into the jungle of licences to win the rights for a Tarzan game.
Tarzan — Lord Of The Jungle will be available from November on all sensible formats as well as MSX.
The ancient loin-cloth hero has now successfully transferred to all media. In around sixty years Tarzan has appeared in books, films, TV
shows and even records (remember Tarzan Boy by Baltimora?) (Jf's not compulsory is tt? — Ed).
Martech was in negotiations with the Edgar Rice Burroughs company for several months before persuading it to hand over the licence.
“All that bananas”
The author is Armchair Entertainment and The America's Cup should be launched in time for the event itself — which begins in November and runs Through to Pehruary
Also planned ts a game based on the works of hit science fiction writer bxaae Asimov, Aavieth will be available on October on (C64. Amstrad, BRC and Spectrum
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“We had to sign absolutely enormous contracts, bat it will be worth it because Tarzan is bound to be the number one Christmas hit,” Martech boss David Martin told RANG.
He added that the game involved “all the traditional Tarzan-type things like monkeys, qui id, hunters, elephants and all that bananas”.
tt will be simultaneously released on all formats costing £4.95 except Spectrum which is a pound
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Realising that expensive add-ons can mun a machine's popularity, Commodore is providing a spectrum-like deal for its new B4C.,
For £249.99 a package of games, cassette deck, mouse and machine will be offered similar to the bundle deals offered on Spectrums in shops such as Dixons.
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NAME THAT TUNE —ER, VIDEO... — ER, GAME...
BANG readers have Floyd (Who they? — Fad), been asked to help and Godley and Creme name a pioneering have alrenity been ticd up | new joint computer / ©! Cortes venture. Soft music / video scheme ware houses such as CRL Sh have also oxpressed strong Officially, the thing is interest dubbed “The world's But Croucher’s problem | first interactive Pop is coming up with a name | video album”, Based on for the idea — interactive computer generated im- Pop video album being a ages being incorporated bit of a mouthful.
SOMETHING FAIRLY similar to this will be launched by the Amstraddified Sinclair Research this week at the PCW Show.
It’s the Spectrum 128 Plus Two, which comes complete with Alan Sugar's promised “glued on” datacorder in a delicate shade of grey.
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IN A SPIN
Vortex — publisher of Highway Encounter, TLL and Cyclone — is to release its first game since teaming up with US Gold.
Revolution will be available from the end of September with all sales and marketing done by the software giant.
Layers and puzzles
The game concerns climbing a number of layers and solving each layers four puzzles in a limited time The layers and puzzles present in the game are chosen randomly by the computer from the program's “library”
Boss Luke Andrews told BANG: "We feel that we have always come up with good onginal games but we are only a small concern, With the market shifting to Europe and the rest of the world i would have been difficult to continue as we Were.”
Revolution
Revolution will be available on the Spectrum and Amstrad retailing at £9.95 (cassetie) and £14.95 on Amstrad disk.
The ‘thing’ is being de-
veloped by former Auto-
mata man Mel Croweher in conjunction with Activi- s1On Ss boss Rod Cousens Their new company — Called Scorpio Interac-
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debut at this week's PCW Show
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Any necessary peripher as — and some may need some form of modulator — “will not cost more than most joysticks”,
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ZEN AND THE
ART OF COMMODORE
He is a thwarted writer of musicals. He is a jogging part-time Zen Buddhist. And he sold his first micro to a stuffed bunny manufacturer in Cambridge.
All these weird details emerged last week about Commodore UK's boss, Chris Kaday.
Ailing Giant around
He's the man who's been trusted with the nasty tsk of slashing CBM UK's overheads (aka sacking staff, closing premises) in an attempt to help turn the ailing giant around.
Recent figures show that globally, the firm lost $350,410.96 per day EVERY PAY for the year to the
Kaday’'s personal details cropped up in a remarkably candid interview with business trade
Dropped their instruments The musical venture very nearly came off. Kaday had written it and it was half-way through 7 production in 1980 for BRC 2 when the musicians dropped their instruments and walked out. Other musical encounters followed, “I used to play the sitar with a Sikh musician who spoke little
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English. He could only say ‘stop’, ‘go’, ‘you are my brother’, ‘I love you' and ‘I give you evervthing’. That was all we needed — iy got ws through everything,” Kaday relates.
The bunny tie-up was for a 16k machine — costing £9,000 — to look after the stuffed bunnies in the warehouse.
Shredded and relocated
As for jogging, Kaday manages 40 to 40 miles each week, during which he solves Commodore's problems. Presumably, he can cut down the mileage now that CBM UK has been shredded and relocated in a Maidenhead building just one fourteenth the size of its old place in Corby.
Kaday also “dips in and out” of Zen Buddhism. “It helps you control your emotions rather than have them controlling you. I was starting to be destroyed through work through enonmous pressures.”
[ronically, now thar CBM UK hashbeenslimmed | down to just $0 people, Kaday will presumablh have more to do. Rut where previously it was all costings and cut-backs and closures, his work now will be attempting to persuade the populace that the brilliant-but-over-priced Amiga really is worth buying.
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Ocean's cheque book has been let loose again to snap up the licence for British film The Highlander.
The game will have the same title and is earmarked for an October launch - as opposed to the film which should be on national release this week.
lt will be an arcade adventure following the film's plot of two immortals battling over four centunes. The film itself stars Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert and has the dubious distinction of a Queen soundtrack.
The Highlander will be launched on the Spectrum, Amstrad and C64 at £7.95, £8.95 and £8.95 respectively.
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dise being T-shirts and Pants and this a new pro pants | wet called low prrctnle:
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LIGHTFORCE fghter. f crucial ramifications for -LIGHTFORCE confronts alienina dazzling - | the future of the entire in- ‘battle above the strange landscapes of the dustry.’
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backwards
moment. No sooner has Superman
reappeared as a budget cheapie than
Virgin has launched Dan Dare and Piranha has snapped out Rogue
Trooper, But who are these people” STUART DINSEY sorts out his Mekons
from his Genetically Engineered Infantrymen.
uestion: What do you get if you cross a biuve-bodied mohican with a squeaky clean blonde-haired pilot?
r Answer: You get one hell of a clash between two of the comic world’s greatest heroes; Rogue Trooper and Dan Dare
The mags that these two zappers have come from are 2000 A.D. and The Eagle. 2000 A.D. has been around for nearly ten years (shouldn't it be called 2010 than?) but is shila mere baby in companson with The E. f
es heroes are of course fighting for good and ss Vas cadilibccomiased=perfareen as | oncerned — perhaps this.
viear. Rogue Trooper is . as mean as they come and sink an avil Non whenever he gets the chance.
efficient Chips (Geddit?!)
Hogue is an inhabitant of Nu Earth whichis caught Up In perpetual war between (he north and south. He is the last of the G.1.s — Genetically Engineered infantrymen. Perhaps that accounts for his blue form
and just catch those eyes! Although he is the only G.). in working order he has the help of three others who were killed, Rogue kept the ‘bio-chips’ of his three dead buddies and managed to slot them into three pieces of his equipment. Thus, his helpers are called Gunnar, Helm and Bagman
Gunnar is in Rogue's gun, but of course, and is something of a big-mouthed pyschopath. He loves a good scrap and moans a lot. Helm provides protection and Bagman is perhaps Rogue's most important fiend. He carrys disguises, ammunition, the war comouter, (he vid tape, G rations and Scum Sea survival kit
tis all one hundred mile an hour stuff with plenty of blood and explosions. Of course the language is in 2000 A.D. style, with “you can bet your chem boots being just one version of a 21s1 century cliché
Rogue Trooper is claimed to be only second in popularity to Judge Dredd and is really an up-dated version of the heroes of war comics such as Battle Victor and Warlord — except of course he doesn't go on about ‘cups of char’ as the British Anmy heroes tend to. It is not just machine guns and Jerries — this war has Lazooka units, pyscno clouds, Kashar drill probes, Nort decapitators and gases which conjur up images of spiders, serpents and beautiful girls
Computers and comic characters seem to be linking up all over the place at the
ie Eagle : e's instigator being
The Eagle has taken off
Dan Dare also has his fair share of nasties to contend with, but of course his arch enemy is thal [ite green man with a light-bulb head — The Mekon
~ First issued in 1950, The Eagle was an overnight success — number one sold 900,000 copies. Daring of the comic was good old Dan, Zipping about in his plot of the future role
His most famous enenves are the Treens — led by The Mekon — who inhabit the city of Mekonta. This city is on Venus and built on floating ishands in an artificially calmed lake. Back in 1950 the Treens were described as ‘humourless scientific automatons who rule the northem haif of the mystery planet’. From then until ihe sixties Dan Dare and hes trusty mend Digby were national heroes — boarding the Anastasia every week finding rocket ships, alien races and thelike.
Dan Dare became more like Desperate Dan as sixties styles and kids tastes left him looking Gut of date. It got to a point where no-one was interested in someone who wore a normal looking officer's sult and had a tubby side-kick with grey hair
The Eagle has always been weil received by parents and teachers and by the sixties this had put kids fight of The Eagle disappeared — and it seemeo for ever
And with a single bound...
I was only thanks to Rogue Trooper's mag 2000 4... that Dan was resurrected. He made a bref appearance in it in the late seventies and on 27th March 1982 The Eagle was re-launched. This was six months after Rogue Trooper's debul and thirty two years since Dan Dare's
It is also worth noting that both comics are published by IPC — which was called Amaigamated Press when it took The Eagle over in 1961
I seems that in the three years since his re-launch Dan Dare has once again become a firm favourite. The Eagle itself has become a very modern comic and each week caries computer news in Max's Micro Vault
So who will win the battle for game supremacy Piranha's Rogue Trooper or Virgin's Dan Dare? Itis yat to be seen if Dan will feel his age or Rogue's mohican will droop under the pressure. All you can do iS wail
| 10 BANG September 3rd, 1986
irebird is best known for its budget software which, with titles such as Thrust, Booty and Spikey Harold is beginning to challenge the dominance of Mastertronic.
Now Druid heads up
| an autumn list of full priced games including an Elite-style vector graphics game called
_Choela and Sentinel
Firebird's only previous full price success was the | Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad conversions o1 | the classic Elite
3ince then nothing.
Empire while possessing Elite'’s depth lacked the graphics and gameplay. The Comet Game was a disaster. Delays held up its release and poor gameplay dissapointed those who bought it. With 76 years till Haley's Comet natums, the game isn't likely to be re-released.
The C64 conversion of the BBC hit Revs enjoyed some success but for most Drurd is Firebird's last chance.
If Druid doesn't lve up lo the hype and advertising then no one will fake Firebird senously as a producer of full | Will Druid herald ina
| new era for Firebird or will it seal its fate as a budget litthe brother to the other Botsh Telecom companies Beyond, Odin and Rainbird?
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Untortunately you can only select one item before the Princes detect your presence and destroy the chest, Consequently you must plan carefully what to take from eae chest. Although the conte ‘ary dramatically (ome chest on! ‘ contains two water spells) the- contents remain the same every 2 aIthe, .
Should your energy be getting low you should seek out a pentagram which will revive you while you work OULWhEIao do next
Below ground the action heats up WHR mare monsters anc energy draining traps and pools set inte the floor, Here you will need a Golem that can either be controlled by a
" cond player or ordered by you, This adds dramatically to the ameplay as you must guide in | Dihde around using if as recive shield (the monsters ar : { es reve when they touch it) | .
ispells in the first chest. (9 fire
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HINTBOX 1. Don't be tempted by the
E spells may come in useful but
any further).
2.Don't stand near water as this will quickly drain your energy. If you must go near it, move away as quickly as possible.
3. Learn to use the Golem spell ® as this is invaluable. For} example it can be left in ag doorway to keep out any @ monsters while you search for chests. 7 4 Map the positions of the@ chests and the spells they) contain to ensure that you don't jj
80 as the maximum you can
carry is 99. ~TE ~. Use the pause key between & levels to take a break and to! plan your moves as standing 7 around only attracts monsters | 6b. Remember where the Sie pentagrams are and ensure you know the way back to one for when your energy gets low.
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GENESIS SAYS that God created the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested Was itt then, | ask myself, thal adventure dames Were created? ——
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And is that what has occupied the Creator ever since — the ultimate adventure of life and death, here on this small mass we call Earth!
world a
people
run by the greatest Dungeon Master of all, fighting an equa though diametrically opposed
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merely players
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But the scenano as we know it says that Games began with the classic mainframe adventure Colossal Cave
acvVenLure
sull a classic in its own night, 2d only measured by the flattery meted out by
is Meany Mmumics
Yellow brick road
It takes a great talent to initiate originality and fortunately the area of adventure dares has had
A WAS f T ' talent [ = T i Originality ha Deel fom “. Te * LEP 7 Povo Ww eo iy ioVaLOonN
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have developed, nay evolved, along a gdionous Yellow bnck road, towards the «a af Homo 2Upenoi somewhere aa the city of Emerald Green beside that elusive crock of
such adventures 4
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Alond the way hame- computers have spawned wast Quantiies of die-hard- try - Nard adventure writers.
| NLWIMeTaus precious tc be plucked from the colossal cave of more base matenal. Such names as Infocom, with its
[nese a©re ie x a m he Es a | |
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legendary. ork trilogy and perhaps more precious recent maternal in the form of the highly improbable Hitch Hikers Guide fo the which leaves even book of adventures iving im the mud, neath the tractor
treads af a bulldozer
Primordial soup- kitchen
Calan the basic rule
We have witnessed the mse, trom the primordial of Britain's loved adventure software-house, Level 9 Computing, who have dared to improve on even Colossal itself and then go on to add a second and third part, with yet more Games of their own devising following. He
soup-kitchen,
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the labrynth of Snowball has not yet eamed his nght to return to Eden
So far it may seem like name-dropping | No-oh! Not at ail! a}, but fear
cake oan: eadsane ot |) ate QLASSIC HEART —RACING JEFF MINTER GAMES ihe less well known, sei 3 ON @) | CASS ETTE
unknown, SOoTware houses have written dames well worthy of future mention in these Honous pages
My inferesis fe im the adventures, not in the amount spent on advertising. 1 am constantly on the lookout for new Scenarios, new
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Washington Redskins
Now ihe RAedskins have lost stars, John Rigging and Joe Theisman, their fulure resis on stand in Quarterback Jay Schroeder and running back George Rodgers,
NFC Central Chicago Bears
The Super Bowl cham- pions have lost defensive coach Buddy Ryan and face a tough season with everydody oul to beat ihem. Only three teams have ever retained the Super Bowl. The Bears won't give it up withoul a fight.
Detroit Lions
Being in the same division as the Bears won't be éasy. They might contest second place bul they won't reach the playofts.
Green Bay Packers Al the end of the 85 sea- son the Packers had four Quarterbacks. Head Coach, Forrest Greg, will have to resolve thal one before ihe Packers have any chance of challenging the Bears.
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Minnesota Vikings
The Vikings lost five games by less than a touchdown last year. If they could tighten up the defence ... who knows?
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
All the way with Tampa Bay? Not this year but look oul for a few shock results.
NFC West
San Francisco 49ers Now the pressure is off the 49ers Quarterback Joe Montana could steer them back into the big ume and 4 Pipers hay clash with either the Bears or the Giants
New Orleans Saints The Saints new Head Coach Jim Mora will have his work cul out bul one thing he won't have to worry abdoul is the play- offs.
Los Angeles. Rams Inconsist lay spoilt jal salt ay 35 been a at tre aes the Rams. lf the 49ers return to f they won't get another chance
Atlanta Falcons The Falcons poor de- fence and toothless off- ence fave alréady booked their place at the bottom of the division.
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Or no longer in existence full stop. Jupiter Cantab went bust in, er, the early 50s, miainty
because the Ace rab FORTRAN — computerish for
10 EVENTS
Jupiter Cantab was a fine sounding company from the early days of computing which don't really mean any-
But the firrn behind the unforgettable Jupiter Ace (What was it called? — Ed) was the acknowledged great trend setter amongst Cambridge-based computer com panies. What links Sinclair, Acorn, Oric, HH Electronics
and NewBrain to Jupiter Cantab? They're all Cam- bridge-based computer manufacturers who cocked tt up so badly that they're no longer in existence under
thing.
their old teams.
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AFC AFC East
Miami Dolphins Quarterback Dan Manno will jead Miami's formid- able offence but will their suspect defence cost them the Super Bowi?
New York Jets Quarterback Ken O'Bnen
Kansas City Chiefs Another poor laam caughl in a strong division Against teams like the Broncos, Aaiders and Seahawks, the Cheils have no chance
L.A. Raiders
Slar players like Marcus Allen, Lyle Alzado, Todd Christensen, Mike
Haynes and Lester Hayes will Keep the Raiders
They still need a replace- ment tor Quarterback Jim Plunkett (starting his third comeback) before the real glory returns
san Diego Chargers
In 1982 they had the best offence in football history. Led by Dan Fouts (Quar- larback) and receiver Wes Chandler and Char- lia Joiner it is still fonmid- able. The delensive line needs strengthening be- lore the playols are a cer-
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Ss Seattle Seahawks
-, Running back Curl War- ner and wide receiver leve Largent will have to 24 0n top form if they aren? to come third be- hind the Raiders and the Broncos.
lainty
mean and dangercus
can both win and tose games. His form will de- cide whether the Jets will challenge Miami
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New England Patriots New England surprised everone but Chicago last year to reach the Super Bowl. Things will be tougher this year
The Colts now have Dal- las backup Quarterback Gary Hogeboom (this is a senous name?!—Ed) but will remain at the lower end of the table.
Buffalo Bills
The NFL is full of winners and losers. The Bills will, once again, be among the losers.
AFC Central Cincinnati Bengals The slow starting but | strong finishing Bengals could challenge for the ti- tle of this weak division.
Indianapolis Colts
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Houston Oilers Canadian star Quarter- back, Warren Moon, will have to inspire (he Oilers if they are to improve on their recent dismal form
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WINTER EVENTS WINTER GAMES SABOTEUR
Cascade
Elite
Imagine
Software Projects Ocean
Imagine
US Gold
Gremlin Graphics Mirrorsoft
oo#hhHm®t oO & & AI =
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Ocean
Data East/US Gold Mikrogen
PSS
Ocean
System 3/Endurance Firebird
Elite
Novagen
CAL
Gremlin Graphics Audiogenic Palace
Novagen
US Gold
Elite
Addictive Supenor
Arco
EpywUS Gold Durell Audiogeanic: Microprose/US Gold Tynesoft
Alligata
Robiek
Hit Squad Ocean
Leisure Genius Onchin
Argus Press Epyx/US Gold CAL
Tynesoft Imagine
CDS
US Gold Incentive
Design Design Melbourne House
ACE flies up to No. 1 BUDGET — Mastertronic dominates
C64 — Hole in One slays the Dragon
C16/MSX — Speed King stays ahead
BBC — Psycastria zooms in behind Thrust SPECTRUM — Master of Magic appears at no. 3 KUNG FU MASTER — chopped down
(1) Video Olympics i—) Master of Magic (—) Dynamite Dan ii (9) Molecule Man (4) Ninja Master (6) Jack The Nipper (5) Ghosts and Goblins (3) Universal Hero (7) Full Throttle
i8) Kung Fu Master (12) Green Beret
(10) Stainless Steel (11) Rebel Star
(13) Kane
(16) Theatre Europe (15) $kooldaze
(14) Bobby Bearing (—) Buccaneer
(17) Knight Tyme
a = (| }
Cascade Mastertronic Mastertronic Mirrorsott Mastertronic Firebird
Gremlin Graphics Elite Mastertronic
299 Classics Data East/US Gold Imagine Mikrogen
Firebird Mastertroric PSS
299 Classics The Edge Firebird Mastertronic
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(10) Hole In One (1) Dragon's Lair (6) Parallax
(2) Leaderboard (4) Ghosts and Goblins (7) Miami Vice (8) Knight Games (3) Speed King (5) Green Berel (11) Ninja Master (—) Knight Rider (16) ACE
(12) Thrust
(9) Tau Ceti
(13) Skooldaze
Mastertronic Software Projects Ocean
US Gold Elite
Ocean English Mastenronic Imagine Firebird Ocean Cascade Firebird
CRL
299 Classics
(14) FormulaOneSimulatormastenronic
(i—) Second City (—) Trap (—) Silent Service
Novagen Alligata US Gold
(17) International Karate System 3s
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Dan Dare Spectrum, Amstrad, C64 Virgin Games
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IN THE computer adventures of Dan Dare our hero lands on an asteroid that Mekon and the Treens have hollowed out and sent on a collision course for earth. Dan must destroy it before the Earth gives in to the Mekon's demands. The spectrum and Amstrad versions feature a laser blasting Dan battles with the Treens as he searches the labyrinth of ladders and platforms for the five parts of the self destruct mechanism. The action is fast and furious and cormuc style threats from the Mekon add to the almosphere Surprisingly the | Commodore 64 Dan Dare is unarmed and has a lot more to do. As before he | must destroy the Asteroid but this tame by firing a Giam laser through a | network of reflectors so | that it's beam destroys the | asteroids compuler | controls
Tricky problems
Then he must fight and kill the Mekon, escape, as well as rescuing two of his chums that have been captured by the Treens. But first he has to find his way in by solving a few micky problems like how to open a locked hatch without a key and how to breath underwater. Toa hero these should be no | problem and you'll soon be grappling with the Treens.
The combat is the only | disappointing part of the | game as it plays like a | poor mans version of Way of the Exploding Fist but with only three moves:
This failing is balanced by the superb
sackground graphics and a more tactical style of piay that makes combat a necessity rather than the wavy of liie tt becomes in the other versions.
An heroic challenge from Virgin
Tony Hetherington
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Dumped on your back
When you crash your customised bike is reduced to a pile of rubble and you are dumped on your back. You will get another bike to continue the race but you will have lost valuable | seconds.
Should you reach the © finishing post in time then it's on to an even harder one with barely enough time to comb your hair and wave to the fans.
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Super Cycle
C64 US Gold (Epyx) £9.95
SUPER CYCLE isa superb racing game for people who prefer their action on two wheels.
During the game you must race Your cusiom built bike and nder around a senes of courses within a set ume avoiding a variety of obstacles including oil slicks, ice patches, holes in the road, bollards that some loony left in your way and even barners designed for you to
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DESCRIBED as a the shapes available, “computer activity paint It in any of the toy, Hot Wheels Ch4's colours and then,
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| that you can do once US Gold (ENyX) you have designed £14.95 your Hot Wheelscar. Now you have your car | Inthe factory youcan YOU C2" drive it around build your own car by riers distor na morn tf PR, a ial $s too exciting for you, selecting a front, you May enter a middle and back from = gemotlition derby, wash i aS Se change the oil and fill up with petro]
Finally, the excitement reaches fever pitch when you realise that all these activities have no score, no object and no point Is the world ready for this? | doubt it!
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THE GAME is based on Dante's Alighieri's classic Inferno which describes the “pilgrim’s” journey through the circles of hell until a final
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you will be attacked by swarming homets, blown round and round in a humicane, drowned ina horrible marsh and whipped to death by QeTnoTs
Each circle of Hell is represented on the screen in the form of a aD | maze through which our hero roams. Scattered about Hell you will also find objects that can be picked up for later use One such find is a bag of gold that is used to hure and pay an oarsman who will row you across to the entrance of Hell Unfortunately, the
graphics and action don't live up to the setting with the result being a dated | arcade adventure with
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A game heading for oblivion. Tony Hetherington
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Mindstone The Edge Spectrum £8.95
IT IS never very pleasant to have to hunt down a member of your own family, especially when it is your younger brother. Such was the lot that befell Prince Kyle after Prince Nemesar, who had been dabbling in the black arts for some tune, had killed his mother whist stealing the Mindstone. King Jorma had impressed ‘on Kyle the urgency oi retneving the stone, tor although tit had béen used to control evil for many centunes, it was now likely to have the opposite effect in the hands of those who knew how to use its power. So Kyle picked his three best friends, Merel, Quin and Taina and set off on his quest.
You control all four characters through a senes of cons. A keyboard option Is aVallable although | can't see many people using it. Selecting the compass picture allows the whole party to move {the locations themselves indicate
which directions are possible). Selecting a character icon leads You Into a senes of menus. The main one 1s for performing actions
pick up, examine, eat etc, and the attack menu is used for combat and anything to do with magic.
Casting spells
Each character can Carry up to four items and one spell, Objects and spells can be found, bought or traded —a brniet glimpse of a symbol and a inkling noise indicates the presence of an item or spell in thal location. There are, of course, many more items than you can Carry and you must make sure that not only do you possess the correct object, but that the appropriate character is going to use it, Casting spells req“pired psychuc energy — different members of the party have varying amounts together with strength points. Typical spells might include fireball, ight, open and alchemy. People that yoy meet might want to sell you something, trade a specific item, attack you Or just generally np you off.
Control of the game 15 superb, The menu system works quickly and is easy to understand — no hunting around for obscure commands. The same cannot be said for the graphics. Each location is Wlustrated in the top third of the screen with the party on the left and any other characters to the nght. Should you select some sort ol interactive command such as buying oF atlacking, Kyle or whoever walls slowly to the other side of the screen, The pictures the mselves one fine if is just the animation which is reminiscent of Valhalla (remember that one?)
The first time I saw Merel attacking a leopard with his axe | laughed out loud
That apart, Mindstone is an excellent adventure. Very easy to get into and yet enough challenge to make you keep going back for more. Highly recommended.
Gordon Hamlett
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House taken a flying leap forward? TONY HETHERINGTON accepts the challenge» »
TWELVE MONTHS ago Melbourne House released the award winning Way of the Exploding fist. Its explosive kung-fu action sparked off a martial arts craze that swamped the charts with games featuring punching, kicking and leaping heroes.
Despite the competition, Fist remained the master that the others had to beat. Now, Melbourne House is set to release Fists successor. Ar last...
THE STORY SO FAR
Fist I — The Legend Continues is set hundreds of years later. The masters of The Way of the Exploding Fist have been betrayed and the land has fallen under the rile of an evil Warlord.
Many have tried to topple the Warlord but he reigns ower the blighted land from his volcano fortress protected by fiendish traps and merciless quards. Those who have tied have never returned.
You play a lone hero in a land full of human and inhurnan evil You remember the basic moves practised by those who followed the Fist but you will have to become a true Fist Master before you can challenge the
LAND OF FIST II
You can practise your skills against ether a human or computer opponent ina cut down version of the original game supplied with Fist I, Once you enter the land of Fist IT you're on your own.
it's a sprawling and hostile land of dark forests, mysterious temples, impossible mountains anc underground caves. You must explore this scolling landscape, all 100 screens of it, to search for the scrolls and rune-like trigrams that are your path to become a
You will need all your kung-fu skills just to stay alive as the land is packed with warriors, soldiers, ninjas and animals out to get you. few well placed kicks but the others aren’ as easy.
WARRIOR WARNING
Ninjas often have concealed weapons to hurl at you when your back is turned; mud warriors lurk in water to ambush you and warriors, soldiers and quards all make formidable opponents
if the Warlord learns of your presence then he will despatch his assassins [0 track you down. These are walking killing machines thal only the best can beat
Also, there are the wolves, snakes, panthers and other hungry creatures that, while they bear you ne grudge, still want to eal you
A scroll at the bottom of the screen shows your current Chi level, This represents no only yout physical strength but also your stamina and inner mental strength
You will gradually recover any Chi that has been lost during combat unless you have been poisoned either by a snake or a ninja’s star. The only way to cure poison ig to seek out and meditate ina temple.
GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE
You don't have to fight everybody and everything tha! you meet as many foes are happy to leave you alone. They may try a quick swipe as you go past but otherwise they re harmless. In fact, it's a good idea only to fight when you have to as you gain nothing for gratuitous violence. It's a better idea to save your
strength for the ordeal
ahead.
Apart from staying alive, the obpect of the game is to collect the scrolls and ngrams. Take the nght pairing to the appropnate temple and | after a quick meditation, a | new power could be Fours. |
There are eight tigrams in all to collect éach leading to a new | power that will help you in | your final battle with the Warlord
Some of the tigrams lead to obvious powers, others will take some expenmenting. The tngram of E’un is associated with earthly strength and Gentle with the wind and passage through objects. Sumilarly, | Ean the abysmal warns of danger and Tui brings joy | and health. These suggest obvious powers but what of Li, Create, Ken and Chen.
One thing is certain: you'll need to have Mastered all of them before the Warlord can be defeated
EXCITEMENT DAMPENED
Having such a large playing area has diluted the ung-fu action and Consequently dampened ihe excitement of the game. Way of the
' Fist was a frantic battle of skilland | Téflexes to beat the | opponents that stood between you and the elusive 10th Dan.
Fist Tis a mapping bouts to keep you awake. if you persist with the mapping you'll find your Grst tigram and gain a new power and a lot more lasm. Now you're S@arch continues for the
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KUNG-FU CARGO
Since Melbourne House Started the kung-fu craze Fist has generated a whole species of game
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US Gold's Aung Pu Master and Anolasoft's Karafeka bull the fighting Into a plot where the object was to rescue a princess by battling through the villian's quards
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li is a good game that prepared to stick with it. However it lacks the onginality and excitement that were needed to herald a new loung-fu era.
Fist I] will be available in S§pectrum, Cé4 and Amstrad formats and costs £9,965,
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The hero of the game is a little character called TP who wanders into his living room to ask the games 3,000 questions. If the topic selected ts — for example — entertainment then TP reaches for his television.
The usual Trivial Pursuit categories are all there and are enhanced by graphic and music questions that pose teasers such as name that tune backwards.
TP also keeps the score and lights the candle that burns down to time your answers.
The Trivial Pursuit board is represented on screen along with a check on how many scoring wedges the players have won.
Trivial Pursuit will be available in C64, Spectrum,
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This is the Cyborg that CRL is about to set free. He 1s nuclear powered, heavily armed and very dangerous.
He used to be human, but was rebuilt by Gal-corp (of Tau Ceti fame) after his spacecraft crashed. He is now a mandroid and works for the military on particularly dangerous missions. He would also like to do unspeakable things to his partner who left him for dead after the crash.
The first mission for our plasti-stee! hero is to land on, explore and stop an asteroid that is on collision course for earth. (What, another one? See Dan Dare review }.
On the asteroid he finds an underground complex populated by tracking, walking and killing aliens. Luckily, Cyborg is equipped with a particle beam disrupter and a computer built into his left forearm.
Cyborg will be released in October for the C4 with the Spectrum model following one month later. Programming fees will be £8.95 credits.
US Gold’s big game for the Autumn is the computer conversion of Gauntlet. This incredible machine
GAUNTLET
dominated the arcades this summer and was played by more people than any other machine.
The game is a fast action arcade adventure that can be played by four players at once. Each takes the role of one of the characters that must explore a massive dungeon packed with ghosts, grunts, lobbers, sorcerers and monsters aptly known as death.
The real appeal of the game lies in the fact that each of the four characters offers a ditfeent challenge. Thor the Warrior is tough, Thyra the Valkyrie is armoured, Merlin the Wizard is magical and CQhuestor the EIf is just too fast for his own good.
As they battle through the dungeon our heroes are sustained by eating food, open doors by collecting food and score points by finding treasure.
US Gold claims that the C64, Spectrum and Amstrad conversions will contain the entire dungeon but will be based on the two player version that was recently introduced to reduce the crowds that huddled around the machine. All four characters will be available but only two can explore al any one time.
Players will be able to accept the challenge thrown
Amstrad and BBC formats for the non-trivial price,
A crack team drawn from the best of the world’s fighting forces have heen brought together to storm the fortress of an evil criminal.
Your mission is to lead a team of four commandos to locate, attack and destroy the enemy's main computer that threatens the world with nuckear destruction.
Each man is controlled separately and starts the mission in a different location. All are armed with sub machine guns and electro-magnetic flux grenades and can run, crouch, dive and jump through the games 3D rooms.
Stacked against your team 15 a formidable array of deadly robots, terrorists and traps such as laser beams and fireballs.
Strike Force Cobra will be available from Pirahna in October so C64 and Spectrum owners should start training now! Or alternatively, not. . .
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Prepare yourself for Trailblazer. This amazing game, to be released by Gremlin Graphics, will test you to your limits.
You will need all of your skill, dexterity and reactions to even stay on the track that thunders out
of space towards you.
To stay on course you must roll and bounce your ball to avoid the holes, land on the bonus squares that give you extra bounce and more speed but dodge those that slow you down.
If you complete a track within the time limit a more difficult one awaits.
C64 owners will have the added excitement of a two player, split screen, version in which you can force your opponent off the track.
Trailblazer will be available in Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX, C64, C16 and BBC formats in Noweniner,
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The recent 14-24 British Youth Culture Exhibition in London had walls and walls of text — and we all know how boring text is to a teenager, especially a ‘hip’
teenager. That didn't matter really as most on-lookers were outside the 14-24 age group. What does matter is that a scanning of the exhibition only managed to unearth the word “computers” once. Sadly, it was al the end, nestled in the inevitable text which pessimistically summed up how today's youth is being strangled by
dress — it became ‘hip’.
The exhibition also mentioned Brylcreem, Fred Perry, Levi's, Doc Martens, 17 make-up, records, record players, scooters, motorbikes, leather jackets, the duffle coat (the duffle coat?) and the music press.
Sure, computers were in there but it was a cursory mention along with fast food, fast communications and video. These were explained as some of the important | factors which help make up today's “blip” generation”. Or in other words the “blink and you miss if” culture.
For some reason, however, computers stil fall by the Wayside in even todays ‘up stakes. They have equally hi-tech competitors such as compact disc players but just don't cut it as far as ‘street cred’ is concerned.
It seems that almost everyone owns — or at least has access to a Video and this 15 a perfect example of a modem day piece of hardware which can be accepted by all. The video is a necessity both to the collector of Jesus and Mary Chain videos and to the nightclubber who depends on Miary Vice for his latest ‘look’.
Not so the computer which neatly divides people into lovers or haters.
Work boots and braces
One of the key elements of a hip product is the way its Intended use is mangled by the group that adopts it. The teddy boy's aristocratic drapes or a skinhead's work boots and braces are used as a form of communication to members of their own kind. There has to be a certain element of cult amongst the group so that they can feel that they are set apart from ‘the normals’. The problem the computer has is that it is very much associated with ‘the normals’ - or even
Exactly why this should be comes down both to the evolution of home computers and the products that were available for them. When the boom began in late 1982 Sinclair Spectrums and their brethren found themselves forced into the laps of kids al] over the country.
The demand, though, came from parents — probably the ughest word in a teenager's vocabulary. Youth culture has always been concerned with a need for shockability — be tt by slicking back your hair and
ing to a fifties dancehall or slashing your T-shirts
pogeing t6 Anarchy in the UK. When computers first arrived it was the early eighties tréndies who were
for education, parents, maths and egghead boffins.
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LAMBERETTA: Ln the fifties it was intended as cheap transport for Tiallan workers. Sixties mods loved the lack of constraints on.
THE MOTORAIEE: Fact, dangerens, and accompanied by a black leather jacket — a eymbel of rebellion that has never gone ont of style. Where's the rebellion in a C64?
Dig this: a big hooley in London about teenage fads and no mention of computers. Why not? STUART DINSEY — a teenager, natch — grabbed a boot-lace tie and pootled off on his scooter to investigate . . .
Teddy boys, hippies, mods, rockers, punks and gender benders have all got one thing in common — they don't get any support from an ‘average’ mum and dad let alone a middle class one. Yet, in the case of computers parents saw a product which they didn't understand but thought their kids would. To cap it all the boom was championed by the complete stereotype of a scientist — Clive Sinclar - who shrewdly played up to the image. Thus, a similar cry went up from t of sitting rooms: “I think our Bobby should have one of those things.”
Education was supposed to be the targetted use for 4 computer and if ls a word similar to ‘parents’ - teenagers are not too keen on the idea.
To refer back to the need for a cult identity for a sub-culture to exist, it is rather a strange paradox that computers did build up a cult following — but nota trendy one. The kids who got into computers back In the early days were in every sense of the word enthusiasts.
Unlike the way record players swept into teenager's bedrooms in the fifties and early sixties computers swept straight into cupboards — or at least the cupboards of kids unwilling to untangle a spaghetti of wires, leads, interfaces and joysticks. Record players were and still are something you could plug in and tum on. There were also ready made idols to associate with them because. of the already existent pop idols Computer software was usually to do with the dreaded word ‘education’ or monsters and spaceships.
The Scooter
This brings in another element of youth culture - the need to break away from any memories of childhood. Instead, the young mod for example wants his own transport (the scooter) and — like all the songs — he wants a girl to call his own. In the early days computers were simply too related to school and computer clubs whilst the kids who used them had not yet discovered girls at all
Over the last year or so things have begun to change. Ocean is a perfect example of a firm which 1s using all its resources to produce games derived from something ‘in’ or just plain popular. Recent licences for Mian Vice and Krught Rider as well as homing in on the American football craze with Superbow! highlight the trend. Anything, anyone hip will soon be a game.
Computers have developed in a commercial sense as marketeers have realised that if the market widens profits will increase enough for a pile of C64 tapes to be sitting next to the portable TV and below the Madonna poster, Kids’ deliberate shunning of educational software has tumed the market into one dominated by games. Of course parents aren't too happy with that and | the kids love it.
The fact remains, though, that the computer will never attain the youth culture heights of a pair of jeans or a motorbike.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Because the home computer is targetted at kids and is made available at an early age, it will never have the same mystery as, say, fashion — but it doesnt have to be scomed. Sique Sique Sputnik are ultimately cope = with appealing to the kids with their deliberate the top hype. The success they have aclueved minimal in comparison with Tony James claims, huts at least computers were seen as an important enough part of youth culture to be in¢luded in their vision of all that's hi
‘Cohan it seems will ultimately be accepted rather than adopted by any future youth sub-culture. Buy if the duffle coat can make it (as it did in the late sixtes _ honest!) then surely there must be hope.
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The Adventurers Club Lid, which had abet 200K) nionibers whan 0 las wked, i showing signs of being in trouble
The last two issues of thew newsletter have oot appeared: their ‘phone COL-794 | 200 ) was first Connected bo a recorded message abou “naw nritement” and mow gocs unanswered, and ve had no reply to recent lethers
Vera club members have confirmed the above from their own expericnce, and a friend who recently called at their regustcred office (o4ac¢ Meneclik Road, London WW? 4RH ) was met by a woman who told him it was just an aCCOMMiMtation address for post. (in fact, I've previously had a meeting there with Henry Mueller, the ‘scerctary” who runs the club, and it certainly looked bike his home }.
My only involvement with the club dates back to December 1985, when ‘| Lagreed to become Honorary President. This just involved writing an unpaid column on malters adventurous in the newsletter for a year, with no involvement in running the club, but [ naturally
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I now cannet contact anyore al the club and am undorstandahly worried for its customers. | would advise anyornc planning to join the Advenourers Club, or buy mail-order Pais from st, to satisly themeches.as to its financial stability before sending any money.
if you have any nifermatiion on tbe Curent state of the chub, I'd be grateful of you Would contact mac by ‘phone, of in person during the first three davs of the POW show.
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Helpful to the last, BANG employed all its vasl powers of investigative journalism to get to the bottom of this gripping tale.
Unfortunately when we phoned the number there was no answer either.
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The game can be played between four to seven players with | each taking a leading | role in the government of a banana republic. One “lucky” player 1s | elected El] Presidente for ife who then
| appoints his Mimuster of Internal Security, 3
| General for each of the three army
| brigades, an Admural and an Aur Force Commander
The game then
proceeds ina senes ol
| rums until the foreign aid runs our with the winner being the player whe nas embezled the mos!
‘i ical ;
| that can be used to buy votes in parliament mobilise students oF
| workers into mobs, bribe army commanders to
| keep out of coups and pay
ascassins to remove
| opponents
Corruption, bnibery and hes
El Presidente the receives the foreign aid This comes in the form of
| 1, 2and 3 billion pese notes with bait ‘h the President then draws up his buddet. ina paar budget E E] Presidente | keeps mosi ol the money | humself and hands out a few notes to thase | players | he wants to keep quiet while claiming loudly that it has been a naa Year and all the notes are ones Then everyone votes on the budget using whatever influence and votes they have acquired If the vote 1 Carmed the game continues, If not FE] Presidente May draw 1
s ee ee we is heh another bidet in which i ’
Naturally such policies annoy the other plavers bul Since The Presidents
| are poor Presidents this is
Cnce the vote 16 over the players leave the par hament and head fo] their bank, club headquanlers, MsSiess of | hore They kee p ther oxact Wherabouts secre;
| as there are villains about
seven such villains are
a players of the game erik now take the opportunity to hure assassins. If an assassin is eent to the nght place and hits his target then youre dead and your jaller gets any money you havent stashed away in Switzerland
Coup what a scorcher
One word of caution Choose your enenues carefully as a dead player
quickly returms a5 hus brother — a brother often with a grudge. Here the Miruster of Internal Sacurity is in hus element ance he gets a free assassination attempt every turn while the» | others have to hope they | find one in the cards. He is supposed to follow El Presidente's instructons buf since most Mirusters seem to forget this, Presidents should be careful who they pick for the job
After a while El Presidente will have annoyed most of the other players as he fails to deliver promise after Bromuse until finally a comp is called. Then the struggle between the rebels and the Presidents men for control of the city.
The outcome of the coup depends on the sini of the players, how many ol the troops, guards and police have been bribed
and the strength of the | revolt.
Whatever the outcome, heads will roll
Hf El Presidente wins then a rebel is for the | firing squad. If he loses, one of the pro junta leaders — but most likely El Presidente hirnself - is lor the chop. A new President is elected and the game continues.
Greedy, slimy
How a game of funta is actually played depends largely on how greedy, slimy and despicable its Players are. This is because almost any deal, bribe or “aiTangement” is allowed and you don't even have to honour them.
Mest commen of these are unpaid bribes for votes over the budget,
Learmng how to play funta will only take minutes but pertecting i will take years of studying the likes ol JR Ewing and our own politicians
Al i495 Junta costs little more than a computer game and is excellent value for money It is produced by an Amencan company West End Games and is 4aVallable in specialist games shops such as Games Workshop, |ust Games and Virgin Games Centre
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THE BUNCH of comedians, pop stars, writers and pillocks that got together for Comic Relief have added to their viny! and stage show exploits to produce a book.
The Utterly, Utterly Merry Christmas Book is a cobbied together publication by Comic Relief members such as The Young Ones, Michae/! Palin, NOT person Rowan Atkinson, Sue Townsend and Spitting Image.
The Young Ones pa
it will be published on October 23rd and is the brainchild of Douglas Adams — author of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. He volunteered to get all the comic writers he could lay his hands on to write a special book for Comic Relief
it’s expected to follow the success of Living Doli by Clit Richard and The Young Ones as well as the stage show which was shown on BBC — and promptly got more letters of complaint than any other comedy
farine
THE expected return of The Tube has been announced along with the unexpected news of it being repeated on Sundays.
{ appears Channel Four has come to its senses, realging that a repeal is needed but wasted ifrun at 11 on a Tuesday magn ti.
“Do you ever get up on Sundays Jools? Depends how much I've had to drink
XMAS |
The brief Adams gave to contributors was for them to ‘produce an original piece of work thal related specifically to Christmas, was loosely aboul Christmas, or carefully avoided any mention of Christmas whatsoever”,
Chapters included in the book are: Adnan Mole’s Christmas from Sue Townsend, A Starting Expose of The Sex Life of Biggles from Michael Palin, The Gospel of a Sheep and Si. Sylvester Stallone from Reverend Rowan Atkinson and a lot if letters trom Lenny Henry explaining why he couldn't contribute.
Qe Utterly, utterly
it would cost about £50 to buy books by all the Comic Relief authors but The Utterly, Utterly Merry Christmas Book will cost only £3.95
Not a penny will be made by publishers or contributors but profits will go directly to African aid charities and programmes for disabiltty and drug abuse in Britain
“Hey guys, how about mentioning me lin the story? Oe Nell. Neil's too boring, he's just...”
The re-scheduled repeal Is billed as the climax 01 Channel Four's extended Sunday morning
misions and is bound to false eyebrows amongst TV watchdoags‘do
enancerned parents will ali recoil al ihe thought
(rat ihe alarched knickers bt iqace ee Mors if the histoncally ev hing blaring oul whe (ihey believe) people are al nembering that nreseniers JOCKS
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pressure to watch ther jill ay been ecsiatic at the prospec! of anew senes and given all the relevant t amments about whal a wondertul ghow itis. The Succ estul mix of name bands, new interviews, fashion, humour and current affairs
th. no doubt, the occasiona
Luton’ and other moaners managed to scare TV
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The new series will run for twenty ihree weeks If what is ite fiflh series. oor himaell was unavailable Riot hie answering machine pas: ec on this message to Mr Holland and Mr May (rt Wland s
hards, aril GAninuwe abort) Ww!
moO ee adoring fans ur
Superman il
Thursday 4th
September 8.00
Live and dangerous
Saturday Live Saturdays from 13 September
Channel Four
MORE LIKE Saturday Repeats as Channel Four does a milking pod on the first senes of one of its ‘Zamest senes.
These are ‘edited repeats + means some of the really bonng bits are stoke out. There will still be a different quest presenter Gach week, including Tracey Ullman, Rik Mayall, Robbie (Coltrane, Lenny Henry
Pamela Smacian t alpere are FSO ihe. Savin jerous
Rik : Waeckes!
NO MORE HEROES?
ANOTHER REVIVAL of an old sixties TV hit series Is Coming to the screen courtesy of Channel 4 this autumn,
Hogan's Heroes was one of the first US comedy series to be shot in colour and as. a result will probably prove to be more popular today than other revivals like | Love
Three rebels return from iheir banishment to wreak havoc in the state of idaho, USA. The evil bumbler Lax Luiher $606 anolher chance for world domination and Superman has to slart all over again
Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman slar ina follow-up which lar outshines the ongial
Don t miss il?
Is !T a bird? ts la planer NO, it Ss a follow-up
Thal famous supermero who likes wearing Nis pants on ihe outside
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THE KARATE KID II Ralph Macchio,
Pat Morita
Directed:
by John Avildsen General Release: »» Now
UNFORTUNATELY THE Karate Kid Part li stays true to the Hollywood norm in that it fails to live up to the quality of its predecessor, starring Ralph
Macchio in the title role and Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita as his mentor Myagi, A // tries to be something it isn't — deep and meaningful. Basically, the film has two storylines. Myagi returns to his home town Okinawa for his father's death (God only knows how old he must be — Myagi's 68) and falls in love with his old girlfriend Bul, Myagi has a rival Sato, who feels he has been dishonoured by Myagi who left Okinawa forty years previously
rather than fight Sato over the woman they both loved, Yukika. “After all, bes! way to avoid punch is to not be there,” says Myagi (Frank Bruno please note).
Meanwhile the KK (Danny) has fallen in love with Kumiko (Tamlyn Morita — any relation to Pat? and has also Succeeded in insulting Sato's nephew who now wants to kill our hero.
There are no real training montages in KA I! ~ Darel seems to learn all he needs for the climache fight scene fram a small drum on a handle
Director Jonn Avildsen
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JAKE SPEED Wayne Crawford (who he ?— Ed), John Hurt General release:
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AK If will appeal to the YOUNngéer audiences, although the final scene ts bath stirring and violent Really, it could've done with more chop and less Suey
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5th September NEWCOMER
WAYNE Crawford
Jake Speed is sound two characters rely on real life incidents to write material for Inew successful books.
20, when two young girls are kidnapped Speed
Floyd (Dennis Christopher) take up the chase on behalf ol one of the girls sister, Margaret played by Karen KOpIns.
Wigway asa sadistic wacko with an accent half Michael Caine cockney and half Australian. He manages (0 bina film to lie whenevel he appears
thal the qurls have been kidnapped by walt for it— white slavers in rebellion torn African stale Buzoland. John Hurt plays the
fones [ne the role in bese Sits
attempting to emulate indiana Jones
When Spielberg created the indiana character, he subected tiimqoers
mim — the latest example being Remo — Unarmed and Dangerous which, to out it mildly, stiffed.
enough. Audiences reared on indiana Jones expect their hero to be rugged and involved in hair- raising spectacle. opeed is neither rugged or involved in scenes like thal
Consequently, it's like a TV movie seen ona Sunday night when you re borea out of your brain
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hat sort of hi-fi listener are you dear reader? Does Madonna thetto-blast your bedroom
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OR — so what os hi-fie Well, tirsthy. HI-FI ithe
Concept, i the process of delivering the lull frequency and dvnamuic range of the orginal recorded material to
wour ears wath the minimum of deterioration and altera’. ms. And secondly, hi-fi (the Thing) is, in the comtex’ < thas article anyway, the bi of kit that’s doing wt ! § trving to — because a lot can happenin the space between the stylus for playbav ~ head) and yOUr Cars.
Consider this
REASON TO BE UNCHEERFUL
Recording studios spend thousands of pounds in trying to create an ideal listening environment in their
control rooms (that’s the room where the producer sits
with his mixers and tape machines, listening to the sound coming out of the monitors )
Why?
Because they need to hear the true picture of the music that they are trying to create. Trouble is, we take the records home, stick them on a system where the needle hasn't been changed for years, with the sound coming out of speakers half hidden behind the sofa, whilst sister dries her hair with something that seems to exceed the decibel count of lan Paisley
And do we care? Not usually.”
Why not? Because — and this is the crux of the biscuit — the sound that we're getting satisfies our needs at the time.
THE MYTH. The big myth ts that you actually need piles of expensive gear, The reality 1s that we hardly ever listen lo music in an environment where we can
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Myths about hi-fi abo pat ae
& FACT 1 To get decent bass response you need to shitt large volumes of air, So vou need bie speakers (ask dny¥ rege soun-svstem operon’) Which is why professional studi monitors rarely have anvihing less than PS” woolers inside. Soil sou want good bass response OutOl hookshell speakers or ehetto blasters, barge a0: FACT 2 Even with the best equapinent vou wall nor hear the full treble unless you are directly in the line of fire al the tweeters in vour speakers. Audi Irequencics get more dircetwnal the higher they get, sot -you re nol onaxis with the bweeters, vou re Zong toomiss outonthe high treble that gives musi 1S “presence: FACT 3 Assuming vou've got decent pear and the speakers are homed inion your cars, the chances are you're still not getting the correct reproduction. The room you reanand is contents all impose thew owe characteristics on the sound. For instance, curtains and sofas tend to absorb ireble, and mirrors and windows Can scl Lp) SpPu rns reflections FACT 4 Evenil the rest is perfect, you're still not going to hear anvihing properly unless vou are sitting quictly, concentrating on the must, and preferably insulated from such intrusions as lad PUT Lire Li the new kitchen units with his Black & Decker. All ol which leads te the imevitable concluspon that FACT Sin the real world, you're never going to tear proper HI-FI stereo reproduction unless you have god pear and an acoustic ally correct room insulated from outside nome (a bit hike a studi control room, on
fact!). Also you have to be in the night position relative
to the speakers, and find the time to sit there quietly
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with their good old British eee amps, Teaneck speakers. and turntables that teatured pizarre svstems ol balance Weights and pullews and cost an arm and a
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But then in the early seventies the Japs brought us
their litth: boxes covered with enticing small print like Dynamic Sound Enhancer’ and “Soft Touch Mechanical Logie Control’, We didn't know what it fieant. bul we knew we wanted some of 11!
And seit came to pass that hi-fi became a mass Sonsumer market. Nowadavs we have a bew oi hone of audi hardware. bur the amazing thine | issachecap. [Danvthing. hi-fi has gone DOW Vy in
price in teal terms. And at's all brilliant stull — from the not so humble Walkman. through ghetto blasters. ly midi systems. dawer systems and separates — each
with its particular strengths and weaknesses, bur great IN Us aM wah
Bul are they hi-fi? Who cares YOL.
Phere are. of course. some slightly illogical items, suhoas the 290 gund tower svstem with CD plaves SUC’ me. intact) once said that putting a CD elaver ini acheap tower svsterm is like putting a VS engine inte a Giron JtY —icit sa bleedin waste of Lat’
The aweseme reproduction potential in the meht circumstances, remember! ol the CD plaver is cancelled wut bv the general crappiness of the rest of the svstem. The speakers are usually the weakest link In mids and tower systems. If vou re the discerning ype whe will netice the dillerence, get a mud or tower svatem without speakers and fork oul around £140 for Some decent ones 10 add on
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Sef there's a moral to this tale, iis this
When i comes lo buying audio gear, remember the Facts (Pte S). Don'tbe dedyped by the knobs or blinded by science — just get Whatever Is adequate for your needs. You'll probably never know the difference
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CHANNEL FOUR'S autumn series of films offers, as usual, a mixture of oft seen classics and obscure foreign features thal appeal only to the minority .
inthe classics section 's quite possibly the best Marx Bros. film A Night At The Opera and that timeless GUO spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in Adams Rib | |
Both of these, along with Peter sellers The Party and Claudette Colbert in Palm Beach Story will be shown on Tuesdays at 9pm which is apparently the ehannel’s most watched film slot
indeed, Channel! Four s emphasis is on comedy this autumn, with Thursday and Saturday afternoon matinees of films by Will Hay — a greatly underestimated slapstick artiste — Jerry Lewis, Wt
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Lost Weekend starring Ray Milland as a drunken writer who goes loo far, and Laurence Olivier's lowering Heatheltf in William Wyler's pre-war version ol Wuthering Heights which even today moves the Viewing pubic lo tears.
No doubt in an etfort to bring the masses to switch to Channel Four, F.1.5,T. starring Rocky — sorry, Rambo — sorry, Sylvester Stallone in a tale of trade unionism in the thirties. It's not even worth bothering with — Stallone as a thirties’ Arthur Scargill is embarrassing.
Fields (who on celluloid is greatly disappointing), Charhe Chaplin and the Kings Of Comedy, Laurel and Hardy
Thursday nights look like being Ihe most interesting, with a season of Alec Guinness films including The Horse's Mouth, Our Man in Havana and Father Brown. There is no mention in the list before me of The Card, one of Guinesses fines performances of his masterly comic penormance in Ealing s Kind Hearts and Coronets.
There will also be a season of films by greal directors, such as Billy Wilder's extraordinary The
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“Morning angel" droned an all-too familar
Itwas my agent Merv. | bet you can’t quess my pel
Looks like we're going to get on fine
‘You there Babe’ There's a new magazine starting up wants you 10 do some work for them Calls itself ‘BANG
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“Look darling” pleaded Mery, ‘they need someone who loves Rock and Roll, knows everyone, goes everywhere and rats on all her inends.
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lsilammed down the phone and pondered the options. It came down to slash 6 wrsty-p005 of write the naffing column And | am telling you it was Oamn chose,
So here we are — initia! ish time. And at this crucial stage of what is bound to become an iInhmare rewahonsnig. jaren t (hey all dears’) let Davina make you this solemn promise Everything you read in this column will be the total and absolute truth
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And a few quarter-
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But Davina just knows You Can spot La difference. Which we trust is More than can be said for any lawyers lookING in (hi parasites). Not that | care aboul being sued, bul when | handed the Editor the outline for this article, such a cute little nervous twitch appeared above his nght eye Very fetching. Mind you, he'd struggle to look any uglier
So lel’s get down to Bizz.
And where better to
than in the direction of Mr Clean himself, Paulie Macca, known fo his fnends as ihe Banker Because he s gol more than Barclays
Wellit tums oul he 5 not such acastiron cert for old cherud fealures raleases hs first chity in aes and que pals Not anly does il —. new depths of viny! pongabulity bul Oren ecratches [ne Si urface ol the hallowed Twent ity Howls of despair irom EMI HC and a long ine Oo Company execs badgerning the girls al Boots for diarronea fables
However mes chenes ns is snot exactly a new avent in our Paulie’s career. For precisely the same thing happened pre-Crimble 84 when Say. Say, Say was launched on Joe Public whe, in an all-too-rare display of collective good laste, promptly stuck up two fingers. Said dirge bombed down trom Numero 6 to 18 in only the trard week of release. True. the Macca/Jackson combo — not exactly snort IN MON depanimeni prompliy snot a pukie-
_wveervideo and
propeted Say back up the PSTHIQS Aut | thark
ooane s pont is made,
Manchester Square whisper that the soon- come elpee Press To Play may be delayed whilst bigwigs scratch heads, armpits and bums in search of a more appetising aperitif in advance of the main dish Believe this not. Davina'’s ears have already sampled Prass, (courtesy of friends in tow Places) and | can vouch ‘there just ain't no taster morsels on offer. Press wil be unavoidable in al! record emporia come mid-September _ And af of mega-
Ballet comeback didn't exactly shake the roots of the R&B globe, CBS spent tnihons signing that shower and. in the glare of a publicity blitz Fight For Ourselves went down the khazi.
However, whilst musically ther talent may be on a par with Daffy Duck, mention of the spands does make my bits that still wobble (no SMartarse — | don tmean Grane) launch into their
impression, Not that Davin's jealous, but r possessed Martin Kemp to marry - thal ey Holliman? § She got that | aw nt? (The first one of
ie all
concen once — pul on my Sschooigirl unilonm and STILL looked the oldest one there. They MUST rand primary scnools 1Or (ent
Chair
qucIeNCce A somewhnal o oer nw S35 motley Guncn showed up al the Prince gigs al Wembley. lt was all Very oulre my dears and SUCH a lolol ss ADOUl a litle sax wilh a Mike
Why lve done it loads of times. And take il trom me Hien Wy 5 are a lol more fun
Post- gig, things
Of we gay is0me more tl fe omers) trooped to Busby 5 for a bash, and Waltzing through the entrance Davina was stopped by a most impertinent bouncer. No matler— expenence leaches one how to deal with minions. ““Guest-list lened, and Sauntering off in search of the Bar heard a voice behind me pronounce ‘It's OK, George. Prince warned us his mother might show up. Ahandbag round the moosh Soon put hin night. And talking of smacks orings us to Boy George and S€aucoup mutterings of discontent from the land of the Virgins. The larots have been predicting a Culture Club
spill for Nan a yonk
85. 5 ocean pee wish
they d get on with it, and frequently li@’awake at night dreaming of a trilling ino of Divine, Marilyn and Georgie. And who Knows, maybe to mark nei debul, a release of sslers are doing it to.ane another? On the good news front, September is fOOKING tasty LP-wise, ino with the spastic plastic currently lining the charts Wombling Free would be an improvement (altogether now “Underground, overground. . ."’). Leading the pack as ever iS Elvis (cali me Declan) Costello with a swift follow-up to the much- Vauried King of America, Closely followed by (Control yourself girls) David Sylvain's long- awaited Gone To Earth (Tell me truly — don't you think Davina Sylvain has kind of a nice ring to it?) But saving the big news for last — Nana Mouskouri will shortly be regaling discerning music lovers everywhere with her latest LP Wouldn't you rather be deaf? Looks ike trandy Greek restaurants are the place to avoid unless you want an e@artul. Youdo? Do you work “for the WME? Lots of luv, loves
DAVINA
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TOP TWENTY
1 (-) WHAM IN CHINA (CBS/FOX)
WHAM
2 (2) ALCHEMY LIVE (channei 5) DIRE STRAITS
3 (1) BRO'S Si ARMS (Polygram) DIRE STRAITS
4 (3) VIDEO EP (er __ FREDDIE MERCURY
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6 (4) THE | VIDEO (CBS/FOX) WHAM
yf {-) WAKE (Polygram) SISTERS OF MERCY
8 (6) THE VIRGIN TOUR (WEA Music)
MADONNA :
9 (7) THE HAIR OF THE HOUND (pm) KATE BUSH
(16) THE VIDEOSINGLES jeo.yq:am) LEVEL 42
) GREATEST HITS jaca Columbia) BUCKS Fizz
(11) STARING at the SEA jesiace) THE CURE
(9) RED UNDER A BLOOD
KY (VirginmvPVG)
10 11 12
13
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10)1982-86 THE VIDEOS (PMI) MARILLION
(13) WHAM 85 (CBSYFOX) WHAM
(15) GREATEST FLIX pen
QUEEN , (12) LUXURY of LIFE (RCA Columbia
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FIVE STAR 18 (18) NO TICKETS REQ'D (WEA) PHIL COLLINS }
(14) = (Channel's) = ™ ROD STEWART
(17) THE on FILE (PM) KATE E
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i WHAM IN CHINA - - FOREIGN SKIES” (CBS/Fox Video)
tiga!
62 minutes ,
THIS is the most succinct witness of a clash of cultures, A pair of Aliens, revered in their own back yard, land in the market-place of an ancient civilisation, without maps, dictionaries or history books, and proceed to perform prumutive rituals in front of a bemused populace.
Imagine the huge mothership from Close. Encounters landing in Peking and disgorging Morons From Outer Space. Now imagine the Moron’s first action to be reaching for the combs in their back pockets! (Lf it were not so funny, i would be tragic.
I was lucky enough to visit China four years ago, and top-of-the-pops was The Lonely Goatherd, while the kids wore uniforms. According to this film, things have certainly changed. Was that an aikido-dancing punk I spotted?
The live concerts cover the expected Wham! hits, trom Wake Me Up Before You Gogo onwards, and Prove conclusively that George Michael is a damn fine performer, and that Andrew Ridgeley has no cress sense, no musical ability and no bum.
The video-cliches are duly trotted owt, clow motion | shots of ancient grinning chinese faces, the Great Wall. | locust swarms of bicycles, and overfed shits and boors | from the freeloading bowels of Fleet Steet.
Did you know this video made the Guiness Book of
Records before it was released, as commanding the | largest audience for any film premiere? (It was shown
to 72,Q%%) fans at the Wembley farewell concert).
} Did you know that 3,500 years ago, China appointed a Keeper Of The Tone, who kept metal gongs at constant temperature and humidity, and that musicians came from the far corners of Asia to tune their Instruments to perfect pitch. Much more interesting ...
' Bugs Bunn
_ FREDDIE MERCURY:
“FREDDIE MERCURY VIDEO EP”
(PMI)
HIS face is a cross between Burt Reynolds and
Bugs Bunny. His ‘body is a cross between Sean f
| Connery and Madonna. His ego is a cross 3 between PJ. Proby and Zeus. P: Watch him raise the opera house roof! ys
ifs Ns head berwoen iadleg lege! Berar We a
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WHETHER IT'S bump 'n'grind dross from ii sie _ Sam Fox (Do Ya Do Ya yaaa ich ai
computer games OrmMusiIcC Wanna Please Me), igi : videos, the trouble with Other Vidtracks include ss Tuesday 7 October compilations isthatyou = Lave! 42 (Lessons In = Channel Four always get some real Love), Simple Minds (Ai garbage alongside the The Things She Saia), = ae hubby good stuff, De oat Big Country (Look Away) * 1 came to England
Now That's What! Call Siy Fox (Let'sGo All Tho = Seno ads Music 7 (video) is no Way), and Sick Sick ==) Dn ae rd exception. For every post- Siunid's Love Missile FI. — e the ha Surprise ond Punk dance pop siammer ; sen = bi alate (Happy Hour), there's a costs a penny less th ary -“ piredliony su 5 ye
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ee «(oe nothing to do with that . toe ; — _ SS — —EE —— (Brfiant—Ed). ts about | the scenes filmed in Hong Kong. Tyne Tees sent a film crew to make a fifty minute documentary which includes a Paula Yates interview with George Hanson The ex-Beatie was tne | executrve producer of the | film and in the internew he performs a couple of
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BR! TAINS MOST ADVANCED COMPUTER MODE RATED PLAY BY MAIL CAME AN EXCITING NEW CAKE Shanghai 5 LIFDTise : — r ——EEE sett is set in the 1930s
and should be on cinema
alt : " : | pAsiatege mere Warfare game, Completely computer ‘ Tea : f release towards the end moderated Sa "> > af ae OR gg. oy of the year | * Approximately 35 players per game hematite | : @Piayers design their own race's characteristics and: *-
description * CONSTrUCT bases On your planets for protection and : production. | . a a your own starships and build them at your star ases ® Expand your empire and conquer other races # An ‘advanced stage’ of the game introduces new technologies of stargates and improved ship movement Capabilities ~ .* *Capitol’s simplified order formats are easy to 25 remember Noc oding your OF ders onto co mpu ter Car co or other Gimmicks & 7. 2 . fr i, # Capitol has an easy to understand rulebook. complete Ais a WIth Numerous examples Ses meer Ns : * Capitol was subjected to the largest playtestofaANY — — - bss Ms, a S rf 5 _ Commercial PBEM game. Over 100 players playedover - Ww ' ; : : , 1500 turns of Capitol prior to release bore . ee _ == # 2 : be ; es - @-. oF, —— = “Capitol is fast becoming the standard against which a. other space warfare games are compared“ - oa 7. i ®With each rulebook you receive a set of overlays to use ,*." - — In mapping the game and moving ships. ee) *Mapping Capitol is extremely interesting, using the : Computer printed maps you receive with your turn “— py fs . Pesults = yt a i Z ®No due dates. Capitol allows you four turns per month. — 1 a = | H Most other computer moderated games have the usual : -, one turneévery two weeks. .
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Words ae MEL CROUCHER, pictures by Robin Grails Evans
toddler-minder to your favounte child, a radar type alarm (thal shrieks warnings if junior Is abducted from a preset radius. Feel secure for less than $30.
But | award my Open Palm of the Week to Ms. Nancy Burson of New York City, whois a “computer artist . suppease a child aged nine went missing Six years ago. The freckle- faced innocent's last photograph is probably unrecognisabie from the tatooed hooker which has pupated, presupposing we are not looking for a corpse. Well, our Nancy will feed this photograph of the missing child into her computer, and proceed to ‘age ‘itintoa likeness of today's possible appearance, by Ssupenmposing pictures of mom or pop, and using her imagination
You can a much the
Specifier saat or whatever you wish, if you invest in a £50 video digitiser, and write a simple program, The resultant face may be circulated in the newspapers, or it could decorate the side of a milk a carton, which is becoming ne pT a favourite source of advertising revenue, a5
os ; well as providing the
ie ‘aged’ photograph, Nancy : will charge the distraught = parents a minimum of 500
bucks.
Maybe the reason for $0 many disappearances is not such a mystery after
a. all. Perhaps they've run a: Sat away to escape from AMERICA: LAND OF “Teddy Ruxpin’, an cynical exploitation of THE FREE electronic bear with fear. After all, the entire moving lips and a battery | nation is controlled by (Cot cards weicome) shoved up its poopchute, | exactlythesame isawonderful that whispers warning mechanism, for exactly Seiten myfriends,and tales allaboutthe legion | the same reason: profit. te Unted States is my of wicked wackos that | First, you get Teddy ‘S600nd favourite infest your local Ruxpin elected President neighbourhood. Teddy | of the USA. retails at around er Then wise old cuddly Video tapes an Teddy whispers terrifyin fingerprint records of fairy tales all ate . kiddiewinkies are an Big Red Bogeyman. increasingly popular Then, when he's got all present, lavished on the kids good and scared, increasingly paranoid Teddy's manufacturers ir tots, and an updatable step in and offer to protect 1 sear record designed as a sort the kids with their magic heroir of insurance policy forthe computer. nth day your Wendy or Hank it doesn't matter that ghtyou ==. go missing. 25 bucks, the computer doesn't ae, 3 } forfree.Or ——@xist, when they can open Sis turning haw about a microchip fort starters by charging 4 pinto a cemented to a child's billion Big Ones for a ar tooth, containingname, — computer program which records, only $6007 ) that just might
UNCLE NASTY’S KOMPUTER ALFABET: Your weekly education into computing reality. The Truth, the Whole Truth, and a couple of fibs.
Ais for ADVENTURE GAMES, which were invented by the ALMIGHTY, using an APPLE running the Liisp snake lanquage, and first played by ADAM and Eve, who
were hali-naked, unemployed and believed Al maces in potas (which means
they voted Conservative too), The greatest ; Game ever written is caled Pimania. ee iim. Ais for ARCADE GAMES, such as ASTEROIDS which concemes hormone
therapy for olympic ATHLETES. Arcade Games are an ABUSE of t gy. The best Arcade Game ever written is callad Deus Ex Machina. (Ais for ABSOLUTE nonsense — Ed)
Ais for ACRONYM, asmartyarse stringing together of initial letters, to form an irritating name; e.g. MUD (multi User Dungeon); AMSTRAD (Alan “Muscles Sugar Trading Ruthlessly At Dixons); AIDS (Advertising Incredibly Diabolical Software); BANG (Banal Amateur Nasty Gutterpress).
Ais tor ADVEATISING, (see ‘AIDS’, an ALIEN life form, that feeds on human bodily fluids, especially yukky ones. There are three main species:
the Ad Salesperson (Epidermis Elaphantus Telephonus)
the Ad Copywriter (Forktungium Backstaberum Alcoholis)
the Ad Illustrator (Homicidus Derivitus Bumtitium)
Ais also for APOCALYPTIC ARMAGEDDON (which is where we're all heading, now thal an entire generation has been electronically conditioned to zap Aliens); ALAN SUGAR (the only computer supremo who can wear his face upside down without anyone noticing); ADDICTIVE GAMES (resultant in myopia and lycanthropic manual hirsuitness); AUTOMATA (the best-loved software house in hystory, for sale, apply P.O. Box 78, Portsmouth); the AMIGA (a Mexican inflatable ladyfriend with floppy discs and video compatibility); and lastly, AMERICA, a mythological land, said to lie far to the West of Cormwaill, inhabited by gross monsters who worship the hideous god Omyti-Dollah, and the all-consuming goddes Rodkuzyns.
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