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is racking up some very tasty titles already. 
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Playstation should be CHEAP! it’s 
priced at ?299 in the US which will hopefully 
translate to no more than ?500 locally, 
which will be essential if they want to move 
big numbers. It is the Playstation that 
currently has the global gaming community 

buzzing and the news that Mortal 
Kombat 3 has a six month exclusive 
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Three days of games, games and even more games were had in 
mid-May at the E3 show in Los Angeles. E3 stands for Electronic 
Entertainment Expo and it was the show where the Sega Saturn 
and Sony Playstation were officially launched in America and 
even Nintendo showed photos of their Ultra 64. Of course, some 
fairly blistering software was also on display... 

HYPER's American correspondent, Nils P. Jacobsen got the 
latest goss on the video game industry, and the games you can 
expect in 1995 and beyond. But there was simply too much 
happening at the E3 and not everything can be covered here. 
We’ll touch on the major happenings but expect more exciting 
news in the coming months. 


NINTENDO 

First of all, Nintendo provided the disappointment of E3 with 
the no-show of the Ultra 64 After firm promises that it would be 
there, all we got was a picture and some SGI simulations But as 
you can see from the picture, the Ultra 64 hardware looks hot! 
Four player support built in, nice sleek design Can t wait to see 
what this baby can deliver! 


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Best of show for the Super Nintendo was without doubt Killer 
Instinct. Scheduled to be released in September in 32 MB glory, 
this title will knock your socks off. It’s fast, furious, and fun to 
play. If you liked the arcade, you'll love this one! All the fatalities 
are in there, all the moves, lots of dark, red blood and 
-» even the humiliations. All using the ACM graphics 

from RARE. It will be expensive, though, $75 in 
the US. The first 2 million copies of the game 
will be bundled with "Killer Cuts”, a CD 
featuring the music from the arcade version 
of Kl. I asked a RARE representative about Kl 
on the Ultra 64 compared to the SNES version. 
It will be totally different, more like a Killer 
Instinct 2. he answered. Some different 

_characters, new moves and fatalities. 

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Quest 
also looked really good. Wasn't all that 
different from DK, but if your craving 
new enemies and more than 100 new 
levels, then this is the title for you. 

Two new games featured the new FX 
chip, Comanche and Doom. Yep. 
Doom on the Super Nintendo. No 
ceiling or floor textures, but the rest was there. 
A bit choppy at times, not close to the Jaguar 
or 32X version, but still OK. Comanche must 
be one of the most pixilated titles I've ever seen, but 
the gameplay wasn't that bad. Try before your buy, 
though. 

Earthworm Jim 2 is another winner from Shiny with 
improved graphics and even wackier levels like Lorenzo's Soil 
and Wormburger. For the truly devoted. Earthworm Jim action 
figures will hit the shelves in September. 



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There were no sign of Star Fox 2, apparently it has been 
postponed until next spring. 

Virtual Boy 

Hmmm. People still don't know what to think about this gizmo. 
Galactic Pinball, Mario’s Dream Tennis and Red Alarm all had nice 
3D effects, but were they worth $180 (US)? No way! Not even 
half. It's hardly portable, you shut yourself out of society, graphics 
are very “vectorish". Sorry Nintendo, but this just doesn’t measure 
up. Maybe you should have gone for a colour Gameboy instead? 

Gameboy 

Killer Instinct on Gameboy? It’s true and its coming soon!. But 
remember that much of the appeal of Killer Instinct is it's stunning 
visuals, which you won't get with this title. Street Fighter II will also 
appear at the same time, so you’ll have to choose between the two, 
according to your preference. Both are definite try before you buy. 
Donkey Kong Land, however was cool. Yes, nice ACM rendered 
graphics is possible on the Gameboy. Over 30 levels of fun and 
games. And as appropriate, the cartridge will be banana yellow! 

SEGA 

Sega stunned everyone with their announcement that the 
Saturn is now available in the US. For $399 you get the unit with 
Virtua Fighter. They said "consumer demand” made Sega rush 
release it early. Everyone else thinks they were intimidated by 
Sony and wanted a head start. Rumour has it. however, that the 
supply will be limited until Christmas. Sega had a huge setup, 
with 8 player Daytona, 4 player Sega Rally, tons of VF2 and 
Virtua Cop machines (all free play, of course). 

Saturn 

Well, the system is out with the following games available: 
Virtua Fighter, Daytona USA, Panzer Dragoon, BUG!. 
Clockwork Knight, Worldwide Soccer and NHL All-Star Hockey. 
Extra controllers, including the steering wheel and memory cards 
are available too Games coming soon include Astral. NBA 
Action, Gale Racer and Black Fire. Other games in development 
all looked sharp, including Rayman, Casper, Solar Eclipse. 

32X 

Now that the Saturn is out, hopefully no more people will buy 
the 32X. But there were some good stuff there for it. Kolibri is a 
very graphically impressive side scroller. Smooth parallax scrolling 
with an Ecco feel to it. Virtua Fighter was still early, but looked 
promising. More blocky than the Saturn version, but very fluid 
X-Men and Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000 also looked promising 

Mega Drive 

Garfield: Caught in the Act is looking good. True Garfield humour 
and great animation. Earthworm Jim 2 was looking better than its 
predecessor, as on the SNES. Comix Zone has some very nice 
touches to it. Cool graphics and music, plus fast action. But the 
favourite for many was Vectorman. Kinda like Mega Man on 
steroids. Very nice 60 fps graphics. A definite winner. Didn't see 
that much for the Game Gear, except a monster 8MB Garfield cart, 
the first for its size. If you’re into VR Troopers or Power Rangers, 
well, there is a game for both but they’re only for the dedicated fans. 

SONY 

The final major surprise of the show was the announced $299 
(US) price tag for the Sony Playstation. At $100 (US) less than the 
Saturn, it is set to move in big numbers. When asked about moving 
their release schedule up in light of Saturn’s imminent availability, 
the only comment was ‘‘We’re set on a September 9th release.” 

Oh, and did Sony show off some stuff! You all know Ridge 
Racer, Tohshinden, and Tekken, but the one title that caught 
everyone’s attention was Destruction Derby. Super smooth stock 
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before you’re toast. Extremely nice graphics, with debris flying 
and smoke all over the place. Stunning sound effects and even 
link-up two player ability. A true winner from Psygnosis. 

But Psygnosis had more, much more. Wipeout, a futuristic 
Hover Craft racing game in the Crash and Burn genre. Your jaws 
will drop when you see how smooth this is. Also Assault Rigs - if 
you enjoyed Tron, this will put you on fire. And finally. 
Lemmings 3D. Very cool 3D graphics, basically the original 
Lemmings, now in 3D. Rotate around the arena, even see the 
action through the eyes of the Lemmings. Darkstalkers looked 
real good, so did Street Fighter: The Movie. Air Combat from 
Namco looked real close to the arcade. ESPN Extreme Games 
looked sharp, with roller blading, mountain biking and 
skateboarding. All in all, the Playstation looked like a winner. 

ATARI 

The highlight of the Atari booth was without doubt Defender 
2000. Jeff Minter, an absolute God in programming, was there 
showing of his latest product. Contains the original Defender, 
Defender Plus, which looked really cool and Defender 2000 (too 
early to show). The CD only game will contain lots of easter eggs, 
tons of music from the makers of the Tempest 2000 soundtrack, 
complete hidden games like Llamatron and so on. Rayman looked 
as good as on the other platforms, and it is one very nice 
platformer. Ultra Vortex is shaping up to be a killer fighting game. 
Some truly unique and stunning graphics in there. Very close to 
being done. Their VR setup was nice, but didn’t run off the 
Jaguar. You might have played Zone Hunter at a local VR arcade. 
Shows potential, but at $300 in addition to the Jaguar just for the 
helmet, one has to ask if this is another piece of hardware from 
Atari that will end up with very few games. Hmmm... 

CRYSTAL DYNAMICS 

Wow! Saturn and Playstation owners are in for some serious 
treats! Previously only seen on the 3DO, titles like Gex, Total 
Eclipse and Off-World Interceptor were showing on both systems. 
This time running at more than 30 frames per second. Super 
smooth, more details and colours. Solar Eclipse, actually a 
"prequel” to Total Eclipse, will bring you to your knees crying. It is 
truly awesome, and is coming to the Saturn and the Playstation. 
Stunning graphics, over 40mins of silky FMV featuring Claudia 
Christian from Babylon 5. To quote their press release: "Strap 



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Coolest T-Shirts: Sony 
Best Arcade: Sega 
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Most Hyped: 3DO M2 
Most Wanted: Ultra 64 
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yourself in and kiss your butt goodbye!” It is that good! Also looking 
great were an adventure called Legacy of Kain and a basketball and 
baseball game. No new titles in development for the 3DO, however. 

ELECTRONIC ARTS 

You thought the 3DO version of Road Rash was a bit choppy? 
Welcome to the next level - take it for a spin on the Playstation. 
This is what it should have looked like in the first place, this 
game rocks more than ever! They did the same thing to 
Shockwave - how much better can it get? Wing Commander III 
for both the Playstation and the Saturn was looking awesome, so 
was FIFA Soccer 96. Syndicate Wars for the Playstation was 
looking really hot - you won’t believe the smooth 3D perspective 
graphics. 

3D0 

The buzzword at 3DO was M2, their accelerator upgrade. 
HYPER attended their E3 unveiling, but was very unimpressed. 
They showed no games, showed no list of upcoming games, 
showed no list of developers and didn’t mention price or 
availability. All they did was to show some pretty impressive FMV 
and hype up the specs of the M2 (which were very hot already!). 

Oh well, at least the original 3DO did have a good showing. Your 
eyes will water when they set eyes on Blade Force. This title is 
smooth! You fly a "heli-pack” through a 3D world, blasting your 
way to heroism. Very nice title, so start saving your pennies. Planet 
Strike also looked extremely promising. This is a flight simulator to 
be proud of. Wing Commander III still looked a bit choppy, but had 
the distinctive feel to it. Includes surround sound and exclusive 
footage for the 3DO version. Slam’n’Jam had smooth movement 
and easy play. The two-player option is a blast. You’ll love it! 
Deathkeep, SSI’s follow-up to Slayer also looks great. They’ve 
fixed everything that was wrong. It is ultra smooth and makes 
Slayer look like a buggy Beta version programmed in Basic. 

ACCLAIM 

Coming for all platforms except 3DO is Batman Forever. 
Featuring awesome digitised graphics, two player Batman and 
Robin co-operative play and more than 60 levels, this title will 
excite everyone. Coming for the Saturn and the Playstation is 
also NBA Jam Tournament Edition, WWF Wrestlemania and 
Mortal Kombat II. But maybe the title with most potential is 
Alien Trilogy, a first person game that will give Alien vs. 
Predator for the Jaguar a run for its money. It looked intense, so 
don’t play it alone. (All mentioned titles are also making their 
way or are already out on CD-ROM for the PC). 

WILLIAMS 

Mortal Kombat 3 is coming soon to your console or PC! Almost 
every single platform will get this game. This October the SNES. 
Mega Drive, Game Gear, Gameboy and PC will get it. The Sony 
Playstation will have a 6 month exclusive on the 32 bit systems, 
before the Jaguar, the 3DO, the Saturn and the Ultra 64. Does 
this mean that the lag will make them include the 6 new 
characters set to debut in the arcades in October? We’ll keep 
you posted. The conversions were looking good, and the SNES 
version was better than MKII The Playstation version was 
looking very sharp - can t wait for the final result! 

PC 

Well, it looks like the era of the 386 is definitely over - maybe 
even for the 486 too! Almost every single game at the show were 
running on fast Pentiums. Right off the bat, two games looked 
very promising. Mechwarrior 2 from Activision had very cool 
texture-mapped 3D graphics. You choose from 15 BattleMechs 
going on 50 missions, including head-on action using a modem 
or over the network. Watch out for this one! 

Ever wanted Virtua Fighter on your PC? Not satisfied with One 
Must Fall? Meet FX Fighter. Fully texture mapped fighters and 
arenas with flying camera perspective. Awesome gameplay on a 
Pentium 90. (One of the programmers swore it would play as 
well on a 486 with slightly less detail). 

From LucasArts. Rebel Assault II and The Dig are in the works. 
Rebel Assault II looks much better than the previous version, but 
the game mechanics are still more or less the same. At least you 






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can choose between five different fighters. The Dig will even run 
under Windows 95 and features special effects from Industrial 
Light and Magic. Look forward to a great adventure! 

From Psygnosis comes titles like Destruction Derby and Wipe 
Out. Destruction Derby will include 8 player network support and 
superb texture mapping. Get ready for it! 

And finally - Sonic is coming for the PC! Not just any PC 
though, a Pentium PC with built in NSP (Native Signal 
Processing). It’ll be some time though, as the motherboards sup¬ 
porting this won't be out for months! They’re talking about 
bundling it with the new PC's featuring the new board. 

It was truly a show to remember. The best gaming show ever.. .with¬ 
out doubt. I haven't even touched a 1/4 of what was there, it was so 
huge. We have a lot of fun coming our way in the next few months so 
stay tuned and HYPER will keep you up to date. 


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Data East are pioneering revolutionaries in the game world, 
for they and only they have finally given us a fighting game 
with the features we really want. Their new Tattoo Assassins 
is so sick and gross you’ll need a barf bag while you play! 

Don’t be fooled by the measly line-up of nine fighters, for 
between them over 200 fatalities are available! These 
include fart, vomit and diarrhoea attacks, as well as 
nudalities which have to be seen to be believed. 

If dropping your daks and farting a complete chicken 
dinner is your idea of fun, then Tattoo Assassins is the game 
for you. The game firmly belongs to the “flaming fireballs" 
schools of beat 'em ups, with conventional attacks limited to 
just the basics. Most fighters wield a weapon of sorts, with 
one wannabe rock God swinging his guitar around and 
shooting fireballs from it. 

Taking the beat ’em up genre to new lows of depravity, the 
machines are sure to attract huge crowds of gamers. MK 
fans will probably be the first to convert, as their game 
probably has the most in common with Tattoo. Aside from 
the obvious similarity of side-on digitised characters, the 
controls are closer to the MK series than any other fighter. 
Only an extra “tattoo" button is different: it’s purpose in life 
to make fatalities easier to perform. 

This is not a game for occasional play, with so many 
special moves and fatalities only hard-core and well funded 
gamers are likely to get the most out if it. Lookout for 
Tattoo Assassins in your arcade, if you don't have the cash 
or patience to thrash it through yourself, just hang back and 
wait for a master to play, as chances are the show will be 
more entertaining than anything else around. 


The World 
Video Game 
Championship 

It's on again! Blockbuster Video has started the second 
annual World Video Game Championships which will sort 
out the experts from the try-hards. And the good news this 
year is there are no age restrictions, so you’ll all be able to 
enter in an attempt to prove your joypad prowess. 

More than 20 000 Australian and New Zealand gamers are 
expected to enter the competition which will take place at 
over 70 Blockbuster Video stores across Australia and NZ. 
There will be prizes for every entrant, but there will be two 
ultimate winners - one on Super Nintendo and one on Mega 
Drive. These two will be sent on their way to the World 
Final which takes place in San Francisco on the 19-21st of 
August. Once there they will fight for Australia’s video game 
reputation against competitors from Canada, United States, 
Europe. United Kingdom and Latin America. 

While it’s only the second year, the Blockbuster World 
Video Game Championship has already become the premier 
video gaming competition in the world and over 250 000 
gamers entered worldwide last year. Over three weeks from 
21st June, the Store Championships will take place with the 
battle raging over NBA Jam (SNES) and NBA Live 95 (Mega 
Drive). The highest scorers in each store in two age groups 
(12 and under; 13 and over) will be the Store Champions, 
with the highest scorers for each age group in each state 
heading off to Melbourne for the Australasian championship. 

If you want to enter, simply go to your local Blockbuster 
Video store and sign up (the register opened on June 1), or 
ring Jo Passey at Blockbuster Head Office on (03) 639 3355. 
As someone once said - you’ve gotta be in it to win it! 


Watching supremely cool computer graphics gives a tingly 
excitement no other medium can provide. Unfortunately our 
fixes are usually limited to just a couple of tantalising 
minutes worth in game intros and cut scenes. 


No longer will be graphically deprived! With the release of 
The Gate, a whole juicy hours worth of the sexiest images 
ever can be experienced as often as you want on your telly. 

The visuals are simply astounding, better than anything 
you’re likely to have seen so far. Many top companies were 
involved in it's production - including our friends Sega. 

The story follows the rise, fall and rebirth of humanity - no 
small challenge. One sequence showing the technological 
development of humankind is particularly powerful, the 
emergence of basic weapons through to writing and music 
are portrayed beautifully, with the first tentative steps into 
space taking traditional spaceship graphics to new extremes. 

Another sequence shows the formation of the galaxy, kicking 
off with the Big Bang, the camera races past the swirling dust- 
clouds that will one day become stars, taking the viewer in a 
high speed plunge through the atmosphere of a virgin planet, 
finally closing in on the formation of a DNA molecule. 

The spectacle is broken into nine distinct segments, each a 
chapter in human evolution. This is no documentary though, 
instead of a narrative we are treated to a specially written 
techno-symphony from synth-master Thomas Dolby. Tom’s 
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12 »HYPER 



Confirmed Kills On The Net 



Imagine this: An Internet- 
based flight-sim which allows 
up to 500 players to fight it 
out in any of 60 different 
WWII aircraft, all of which 
have flight models better than 
almost anything currently 
available. 

Stop drooling, for this 
outrageous fantasy is about to 
become a reality. Domark are 
putting the finishing touches 
on Confirmed Kill and what 
they’re planning has sent the 
HYPER Wow-o-meter 
ballistic. 

Anyone who has used the 
Internet knows how painfully 
slow it can be, ordinarily this 
would rule out a project as 
ambitious as this, but Domark 
have stated that the minimum 
PC (486DX/33), which runs at 
15 frames a second, will be as 
slow as it gets! 

This isn’t just an all-out 
combat arena either, as players 
fight for any of four countries, 
with Domark monitoring the 
action the whole time, 
throwing various "situations" 
at players or teams if the 
action is looking on the dull 
side - like a V-l attack on 
London, for example. The 
virtual world is dynamic, 


similar to Falcon 3.0’s Electronic Battlefield. Supply trucks go 
about their business and surprise blitzkrieg tank assaults and 
bomber raids may appear out of nowhere. Take out the supply 
trucks and the tank assault may never take place. 

If a friend (or someone you’ve just run into on the Net) 
happens to see you get shot down, they can radio your position 
and a computer-controlled rescue helicopter will be despatched 
while you wait on the ground. It’s possible that the enemy will 
pick up the radio transmission if they’re nearby and try and 
intercept the chopper! Of course, your friend/s can try and 
shoot down the interceptors and protect the chopper! 
Supremely cool or what! 

Recreations of historical battles are planned too, with these 
theatres allowing only those aircraft that were actually involved. 

The project will compete directly with Kesmai’s well 
established Air Warrior, but with only 70 players and strictly 
limited access areas, Air Warrior looks like loosing this dogfight 
before it even starts. 

Full-screen graphics with resolution modes selectable from 
320x200 up to a very meaty 1024x768 will be supported. 
Another neat treat is the ability to customise your aircraft’s 
graphics. A range of schemes and insignias are available, with 
more exotic artwork accessible to aces with the highest kill 
scores. Motivating players is a prime feature of the game: top 
aces will be given command of whole squadrons for maximum 
fun - although an ace’s unusual aircraft art will undoubtedly 
attract enemy pilots like a magnet. 

Aside from your normal Internet provider's charges, expect to 
pay around $2.00 an hour plus a monthly fee of around $8 to 
$10, which is pretty damn cheap when you consider what you 
get. Free time will be awarded as an incentive to top scorers. 

This sort of entertainment is exactly what the Internet needs. 
Consider Confirmed Kill a fore-runner to even more ambitious 
multi-player games - but with the features Domark is promising, 
Confirmed Kill looks like a hell of an impressive way to get the 
ball rolling. Trust us to tell you more as news breaks. 








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to hit our shores . Patlabor. Uh-oh, another anime based on tech¬ 
nology gone wrong? 

After an action-packed beginning (belying the rest of the film) I sat 
there and yawned myself stupid for the first half an hour before I fell 
asleep. But wait! A few days latter I went back to the VCR and 
watched Patlabor again, from beginning to end, immediately feeling 
like an idiot for not recognising the great work of art that Patlabor is! 

The story is as follows- as the world enters the 21st century, a 
population boom causes a massive global housing shortage 
Nowhere is this felt more than in Tokyo, which has initiated "Pro¬ 
ject Babylon"; a vast housing project which relies heavily on the 
efforts of the "labors ’- huge robots with human operators. Unfortu¬ 
nately every once in a while a Labor will completely "lose it", and 
it’s up to the city's robotic police force, Patlabor, to stop them. 

Throw in a new line of unstable operating systems for the 
Labors, a city housing project which needs the Labors for comple¬ 
tion, a psychotic and very dead computer genius who has pro¬ 
grammed a world wide catastrophe, plus some funky old "Good 
Vibrations" (you heard me!) and you’ve got one of the best ani- 
mes to have hit this country yet. 

This is not the action fest inherent in films like Akira and Geno- 
cyber, but more in the tradition of Wings of Honneamise and 
Lensman. Great animation and an absolutely fantastic script make 
Patlabor a must see. 

As I understand it Patlabor is currently only showing at selected 
cinemas as part of a Manga Festival, so it ain't on video release 
yet folks. Make sure you see it on the big screen first! 

9/10 

I can't believe how many influences this work has. There are ele¬ 
ments of Akira, Macros, Battle Angel Alita, Guyver and many other 
manga animaes in this highly stylised piece of animated flux. 

Based on the comic by Tony Takezaki (of AD Police fame), Geno- 
cyber revolves around the premise that within all human beings we 
have an access to a “mind-shadow" or "Chi". A certain Dr. Morgan 
has developed beings with full access to the "winds of chi" (The 
Vajra) through a machine called the "Mandalla”. By integrating 
human beings and grafting them with cyberware, these beings can 
access the "Vajra" and can use it to destroy cities and explode heads. 

The first episode fully blew me away with it’s incredible gothic 
feel and fantastic creature morphing animation I’ve been hanging 
for the next episodes of Genocyber with baited breath, and this is 
what I found. 

Episode two-VAJRANOID ATTACK begins with a hard-core 
scene of children being hacked down by machine-gun fire from heli¬ 
copter gun-ships. This is an introduction to the invasion of Karain (a 
plot obviously influenced by the Gulf War), which threatens to spark 
a war on a major scale The "allies" are called in with a fleet of ships, 
and there’s a special new project "The Vajranoid" on board, a being 
similar to the Genocyber who is able to access the Vajra 

All hell breaks loose when Elaine, the most powerful of the Geno¬ 
cyber, is brought on board as a refugee of the war The Vajranoid 



actively seeks out Elaine to destroy her, sensing her as some sort 
of enemy anti-body. 


Episode Three continues from the second, with Elaine locked in 
fierce battle with the Vajranoid, which has ceased obeying orders 
and threatens to take over the ship. In what’s becoming a familiar 
scene in Genocyber all those that come into contact with these 
beings ultimately go insane or are destroyed. 

I must say that for me these new episodes of GenoCyber were a 
bit of a disappointment. With a change of scenery the story seems 
to have lost the gritty feel of the urban decadence of the city. The 
technical abilities of the animation hasn't waned and is still fairly 
impressive, but the storytelling narrative is starting to get a bit 
cluttered and incomprehensive. 

Still, a must see in the Manga line of anime • * 

7/10 

The first thing I noticed about Legend of the Four Kings was its 
somewhat slower pace of animation. I hadn't heard about this title 
before, and was unsure of what to expect. From the intro it 
seemed like another action based anime wrapped in eastern mysti¬ 
cism. Right on all counts. 

Legend of the Four Kings revolves around the story of the four 
brothers Ryudo, descendants of the Great Dragons (of the East. 
West, South, and North seas) who once protected China in 'Ye 
days of Olde". Hundreds of years ago the Dragons assumed 
human form and blended in with the rest of humanity, until the 
time cam that they were needed again. 

Crash cut to today, where the Ryudo brothers start having strange 
dreams of colourful dragons circling the Earth Their concealed 
superhuman powers are kicked into hyper-drive, as the Dragons 
within awaken, struggling to assume their real forms. Of course, -r 
along comes the bad guy who has watched from afar, waiting to 
harness the power of the Dragons for his own, misbegotten ends. 

Based on the original novel by Voshiki Tanaka. Legend of the 
Four Kings tries to explore the "slice of life" style of living in 
Japan (kinda like the Japanese Brady Bunch), mixing it with fan¬ 
tasy superpowered beings. 

Like the animation itself, the characterisation is pretty much two 
dimensional, lacking any sense of life and mood. Director Hidemi 
Kubo tries to establish a sense of "bigness" to this potential epic, 
but the pacing of the narrative, along with lack of mood and origi¬ 
nality made this anime pretty common fare. 

6/10 

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The Mortal Kombat series is a certified phenomenon. When the first game was launched, Streetfighter 2 
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Let's start with your background... 
Back in high school, I was one of the 
kids who helped the video game revolu¬ 
tion. You know, played Pac Man, 
Defender etc. all the time. Back then, this 
would be my dream job. I played around 
with the computer in the basement, try¬ 
ing to learn tricks of the trade. When I 
started University. I would always sched¬ 
ule my classes so that I would have an 
hour break to play video games. It was a 
very big part of my life. 

When I graduated. I sent out a bunch 
of resumes, and somehow one of them 
ended up at Midway. One day a head¬ 
hunter called me from them and asked 
if I would like a job programming com¬ 
puter games. Needless to say, I was 
there! It turned out they needed some¬ 
one to program pinball machines, 
which wasn’t really my kind of games. 
But I said "Why not" and hoped that I 
one day would evolve into their video 
game department. And I did. after pro¬ 
gramming 4 or 5 pinball games. My 
first video game was High Impact 
Football, then the sequel Super High 
Impact Football. 

How did Mortal Kombat, the origi¬ 
nal game, happen? Was it a case of 
Streetfighter beating? 

We didn't start out to beat 
Streetfighter. Our company was, and 


We were told to be really quick, we 
rushed it and put it into test which was 
really successful. So our president said 
"Wow, we have something special on 
our hands, lets not rush it". So he gave 
us like 6-8 weeks extra to work on the 
game. That's when we added Sonya. 
Then it really took off in the arcade. 

We even had phone calls from 
California from people who had heard 
about this new fantastic fighting game. 
Acclaim had the rights for it, as they 
did most of our games for the home mar¬ 
ket. But Mortal Kombat they jumped on 
quick and really put a lot of money and 
effort into marketing the game. This and 
the controversy of the game really made 
it take off. It became huge... 

Were MKII & III planned from 
the start? 

We had actually started plans for 
another type of game, but after we saw 
the success of Mortal Kombat it 
became obvious that we needed to do a 
sequel. We never plan for the next one, 
before we know how the previous one 
did. For example, we won’t start plan¬ 
ning for a Mortal Kombat IV, until 
we’ve seen how MKIII will do in the long 
run. After all the hype has settled, we 
will really see how the game has done. 
We then need to look at it objectively to 
see if it is worth it. 


deeper than before. Not to mention 
the number of characters and all the 
different moves they have. It is a lot 
more unpredictable. 

Who thinks up the moves 
and characters? 

It is a combination of everyone's input. 
We pretty much have the process down, 
since this was our third game. John 
comes up with the characters, the look, 
the style, the background story, while I 
do more of the actual gameplay 
mechanics. There is overlap, but we let 
each other do what he does best, after 
agreeing in meetings etc. Everyone 
gives their suggestions. 

Why the new button? 

It is a response from Killer Instinct 
and to some extent MKII players, who 
thought that people could play too 
defensively. They could just wait 
around for a certain move, then 
counter with a special move. The run 
button lets you charge in for a much 
quicker and funner paced game. It adds 
a whole new dimension of the game and 
improves gameplay mechanics. 

What is your favourite 
character/fatality? 

My favourite character is Sonya. My 
favourite fatality would be Jax’s. where 
he cuts his victim up. 

How many people were involved 


that one etc. 

What can you tell us about the actu¬ 
al hardware in the machine? How 
many megabytes is the game? 

18MB of image memory, 6 MB of com¬ 
pressed sound. 34010 Tl graphics proces¬ 
sor. Same as in previous MK games 

There are rumours that there will be 
new MKIII ROM's in September with 
20 characters.... 

Not a rumour, it will happen. We will 
release a new version of the game at 
the same time the home version is 
released. We don't want the game to 
be old so fast, so we will release it free 
to the operators in Sept Oct. Six new 
characters, tons more secrets Six 
months is too short of a turn over to 
the home platform. 

What do you think about the next 
generation consoles like the 
Playstation, Saturn and Ultra 64? 

I’ve only seen the Saturn and the 
Playstation. The Playstation was awe¬ 
some. and I saw some pretty impressive 
stuff on the Saturn. I’m sure it is the 
same as with the Super Nintendo 
though, where the first games don’t 
explore every feature of the new sys¬ 
tems. They learn as they go. 

How close do you expect the MKIII 
ports to be? 

I've seen preliminary versions of the 


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is, into digitised graphics. We did the 
first one on the market, Narc, back in 
1988, I think. The next big success was 
Terminator, with digitised graphics 
and an official licence. After several 
digitised games we only thought it nat¬ 
ural to make a digitised fighting game. 
The whole idea was to be “in your 
face", to have really big characters , we 
wanted to be a lot more outrageous. 
That was our goal. 

Fatalities didn’t pop up until half way 
into the project. In fact, the intention 
of the game was just to fill a hole in the 
production schedule of the company. 




If you were to compare MKIII to 
the previous versions, what is bet¬ 
ter/different? 

Probably the pace of the game, it is 
much faster There is a lot more inter¬ 
action between characters and there is 
much less idle time, waiting for your 
opponent to attack. It is a lot more of 
an aggressive game. As for looks, it is 
a lot more digitised, realistic look. 
Part 2 it was more touched up, to a 
point where it looked less realistic 
Part III has more of a grainy look, 
associated with realism. 

The amount of hidden stuff is a lot 


with the making of MKIII? 

Seven people, in fact. Five artists, one 
programmer, and one for music. 

How many actually programmed 
the game? 

Only me, ever since MK. Assembly 
programming 

What tools did you use during 
the development? 

Graphics guys use Photoshop, we have 
a lot of in-house written stuff that we 
use, for motion capture etc. Whatever is 
commercially available that we can use, 
we do, like Deluxe Paint. We take this 
feature from that one. this one from 


Playstation port and it is exactly like 
the arcade. It is ridiculous how close it 
is. The Playstation will have a six 
month exclusive period, where no other 
32 or 64 bit platform will have the 
game. In addition to the Playstation. I 
know they’re making versions for the 
Super Nintendo, the Genesis (Mega 
Drive), the Jaguar, the Ultra 64. the 
Saturn, Game Gear and the Game Boy. 
We don't do any programming of the 
home versions, but we do have 
approval of the titles before they can 
be released. As for the porting process, 
I hear they take my assembly code and 














decode it line for line to get as close to 
the original as possible. 

How do you like pseudo 3D titles 
like Tekken, Virtua Fighter 2, or even 
Tohshinden? 

I’ve played them all, and Virtua 
Fighter 2 completely blew me away. 
The gameplay is so radically different 
than MK or Streetfighter. Any game 
that sets out to be like another one. is 
limiting itself. You know, if you start 
out trying to look like a game out 
there, well, then you're already behind 
because there is a game like that out 
there. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, 
Samurai Shodown, Killer Instinct and 
Virtua Fighter are the best games out 
there, because they are all unique I 
admire VF2 since it is so totally in its 
own class. 

Some people say Mortal Kombat III 
is too close to Killer Instinct... 

I like Killer Instinct, but I think it is 
100% different to MKIII. The only simi¬ 
larity is the combo setup. In Kl the com¬ 
bos are more exaggerated. In fact to such 
an extreme where two or three joysticks 
movements hits the guy 17 times... Or 
you do this Ultra combo, where you take 
your hand off the controller and you 
watch as you beat up your opponent. 
Nothing wrong with that, it is just not 
what type of play we were looking for. 


They have rendered graphics, we do not 
etc. The only similarity really, is that they 
are both fighting games. We never set 
out to be Kl, we knew what MKIII was 
going to be like before we saw it, so any 
crossover is purely coincidental. 

What is your next project? 

Like I mentioned, it depends on the suc¬ 
cess of MKIII. MKII was bigger than MK, 
and in fact, we have now almost sold as 
many MKIII machines as we did MKII 
machines already. If it compares to MKII, 
then we will most likely to a part IV. 

What do you think about the future 
of arcades, since the home consoles 
performance are getting pretty close? 
You know, I don't think the theory 
that arcade games are going out of style 
because of the new consoles has much 
merit at all. Nintendo. Sega and Sony 
will most likely be the next lasting plat¬ 
forms. Arcades are constantly moving 
forward hardware-wise, while home sys¬ 
tems commit themselves to their hard¬ 
ware for 5 years. So while the new con¬ 
soles can do MKIII now, if we do MKIV 
it will most likely blow away a 
Playstation, for example. 

Then you have the social interaction in 
arcades etc. Two player games might be 
of less importance when the new 8 player 
games start getting here, but they won’t 
disappear There will always be fighting 


games, driving games, shooters etc. 

What are your favourite games and 
favourite console? 

Defender, Robotron, and Millipede. 
The Playstation. 

What do you think about all the 
Internet FAQ writers (where every 
possible MK code, rumour, secret are 
stored)? Good or bad for business? 

I don’t think they are as bad as some 
people make them out to be. I think it 
might actually improve business. 
People that don’t want to try a new 
game because they don’t know the 
moves, will probably try it if they think 
they have the upper hand, if they know 
a few of the moves. What I don't 
understand at all is the craze for finding 
new moves/fatalities. I mean, who 
cares if you were the one that found 
Kabal's fatality 7 A dozen people prob¬ 
ably found it at the same time that 
don’t have access to the Internet. And 
what's this about 5-6 different MKIII 
FAQs? Some people take it too far - it 
is only a game. 

What are your expectations of 
Mortal Kombat: The Movie? 

We're getting very psyched on it. We 
haven’t seen the whole screening, but 
we’ll see some of it at E3. But from 
what we’ve seen, it looks good. It will 
put Double Dragon, Street Fighter and 


all those movies to shame. 

Do you have a dream game project 
you would like to do? 

Not really. 

What are your favourite movies 
and music? 

My top three favourite movies are 
Goodfellas, Aliens and Forest Gump. I 
like the widest variety of music: Sting, 
Peter Gabriel, The Police, Genesis, 
R&B. While working I listen to instru¬ 
mentals and movie soundtracks or else 
the lyrics will throw my concentration. 




So how did you start working 
at Midway? 

I came here because John Vogel, our 
music guy. called me up and said they 
had an opening. We went to the 
American Academy of Art together. 
After two years at the academy I did 
some Ghostbuster comic books etc. 
The first game I worked on here was 
Smash TV. 

How do you make your characters? 
Originally some of the characters 
came out of Japanese and mostly 
Chinese mythology. Then it was mainly 
shaping it into what MKIII became. 

What's different and new in MKIII? 
The new thing is of course the run but¬ 
ton Makes the game play a lot faster. 
Faster than MK &. II and faster than any 
others. Then the combinations etc. 
Graphically things are crisper, even 
though were using the same hardware 
as before. We’ve improved the digitis¬ 
ing process and the making of the back¬ 
grounds. The whole game is more 
colourful and sharper. 

How do you design a new character? 
First we figure out the type, like she 


or he and will she/he be big or small. 
Then we’ll get the theme of the char¬ 
acters, like Ninja or robot. Then we’ll 
design the costume, and while doing 
that we create the storyline and how 
s/he fits into the MK universe., Then 
we’ll find an actor that kinda resembles 
our character. We’ll grab 60-70 frames 
of each move, then we go frame by 
frame and edit out the ones that we 
don't need. They might not have the 
training, but we can stretch his leg, 
exaggerate the motion etc. on the 
computer. Even though they might not 
have martial arts experience, they end 
up looking like champs. 

How long does it take designing a 
new character? 

It depends, but designing a character 
from start to end. probably a month or 
so. I mean, just designing it, not the 
motion capture etc. Picking out the 
frames we need after a taping session is 
the hardest part. It takes forever 
Coming up with a new character con¬ 
ceptually is not that hard. 

What is your favourite character 
and fatality? 


My favourite character to play is 
Sektor, the coolest looking I think is 
Mitaro. I like Sektor's fatality where 
this device comes out of his chest 
crushing his opponent. 

Will there be a MKIV? 

IF MKIII takes off, we ll do a 
MKIV. Right after you're done with 
a game, you never want to touch 
anything like it again, but after a few 
weeks you start getting new ideas. 
This happened after MKII, and will 
probably happen again. 

What are your opinions on 
the new consoles? 

The Playstation is very cool. 

They all look promising and 
the software will decide which 
one will be the big hit. My 
favourite home game is 
Donkey Kong Country, I play 
that a lot. As for arcades, 

Daytona USA is great, Virtua 
Cop, Crusin USA and X-Men 
are all cool. 

Do you have a dream game 
project you would like to do? 

From the age of 7 to 13. my 


whole life consisted of waiting for the 
next Star Wars movie. I'd love to do 
some kind of a Star Wars game. 

What are your favourite 
movies, music? 

The all time favourite movies are the 
Star Wars trilogy, and marital arts 
movies from Hong Kong. 

Like Jackie Chan? 

Exactly. I love his movies! What kind 
of music? U2, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails 
and so forth. 



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and start wielding that willow. 

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You can hook, drive, cut, slice, 
dice and julienne. Solo or 
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Long awaited, much anticipated and 
almost here. We’re talking about Virgin's 
Command and Conquer, the red hot new 
real-time strategy game, based on the 
magic Dune II game engine. It's the same 
engine which was recently reincarnated in 
the form of Blizzard's truly excellent 
Warcraft, and it features a fast paced 
blend of strategy and resource manage¬ 
ment. with one of gaming’s great inter¬ 
faces being the tomato sauce on the pie. 

Command & Conquer is set in the 
Earth's future, where an evil dictatorship 
( is there any other kind?) is intent on 
dominating the planet. You can fight as 
these baddest of bad guys, who go by 
the attractive, if somewhat confusing 
name of the Brotherhood of Nod. Plan B 
is to fight the right fight on the side of 
the GDI. These guys are as good as good 
guys get. 

The game’s rendered SVGA graphics 
are a treat to behold, with futuristic yet 
plausible military units set against 
Terran and (we think) Alien landscapes. 
Building up your base will be a strong 
feature, with more potent units available 
as your complex expands. 

Modem play will be supported and 
undoubtedly this will become a favourite 
with multi-players across the country. 
Most strategy games take days to play and 
just don't suit the busy lifestyle of today's 
modern gamer, but with battles playable 
and winnable over just one evening session 
it looks very Telecom friendly. 

Battles will be far more than just pit¬ 
ting one unit against another, as elec¬ 
tronic warfare is an essential part of the 
futuristic combat C & C throws at you, 
with guerilla tactics another fun tool at 
your disposal. The terrain will be far 
more appropriate for tricky strategies 
too. Dune II was basically just as open 
field, but C & C offers the opportunity 
to set up ambushes, establish choke 
points and entrench snipers in safe high- 
ground positions. 

It's unknown at this stage whether 
players will have to explore their worlds 
first; Dune II and Warcraft made you 
map out the warzone with reconnais¬ 
sance units. This aspect seriously 
bugged many gamers as it was a bother¬ 
some inconvenience, and in a real-world 
situation would be completely unneces¬ 
sary. In an Earth based battlefield both 
sides should know the geography, recon¬ 
naissance should be essential for finding 
the enemy, but having to map the 
mountains and fields is seen as a weak¬ 
ness by most. 

It'll be CD ROM only, and being SVGA 
and incorporating plenty of activity it's 
likely you’ll need a fairly potent machine 
to run this fun. We don't have any mini¬ 
mum requirements yet, but expect a 
local-bus DX2 as a likely base machine. 

Command & Conquer looks to be one 
of the year’s huge games and we’ll have 
an equally huge review as soon as we get 
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Earthworm Jim 


SNES/MEGA DRIVE 


Want to hear some words guaranteed 
to excite? Try these then: Earthworm 
Jim 2. Got that? The ‘‘2" bit at the end 
is the really hot bit, go on a read it over 
a few times - feels good, doesn’t it! 

Never one to let us down, the Great 
Dave Perry has been hard at it develop¬ 
ing the sequel to one of the all-time hot 
platformers. Big news abounds, amongst 
the tasty tidbits is the revelation that 
Jim can now fly! Don't ask how and try 
not to care, but a level in the new game 
known (funnily enough) as The Flyin’ 
King features everyone's favourite earth¬ 
worm going ballistic while airborne. 

As if Jim didn’t already pack an espe¬ 
cially cool armoury, Shiny have given 
him seven new weapons, as well as many 
secret new moves which will no doubt 
look mighty sexy. The game will feature 
a brand new animation technique called 
Animotion II. Considering the fact that 
Dave Perry's work on Aladdin; and of 
course Jim I; pioneered truly fluid sprite 
animation, the claim that Animotion II 
will enable an “animated motion picture 
quality” is not to be scoffed at. 

Jim 2 will take his new-found fluidity 
through some wickedly bizarre levels. 
There's Lorenzo’s Soil. Wormburger, 
Peter. Pound and Mary and Evil’s 
Funhouse. Other levels include Villi 
People, where Shiny claim to have met 
gamers "overwhelming demands for a 
flying cave salamander level". Oh really? 

There is plot! Not that it matters much, 
but it seems Jim lost his job as a fry-cook 
and decided that the only thing to do was 
go off in search of the Divine Revelation, 
apparently to be found on the Planet of 
the Monsters. The story goes on like a 
Grundy gameshow, with mentionable 
snippets being the Giant Marshmallow of 
Love and Paperwork from a Million 
Lawyers. Bearing all this in mind, it's no 
great surprise to learn that the evil 
Psycrow stole Peter the Puppy’s litter of 
six-hundred pups, later throwing the lot 
of them off a three story building! 

The new game will fill out a whopping 
24 megabits, with release scheduled for 
October this year on SNES and Mega 
Drive. Earthworm Jim 2 is looking good 
for the Totally Tripped Out and Twisted 
award for 1995. and we can’t wait to get 
our mittens on it so we can tell you all 
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AcrossThe Rhine 


Two years ago. Microprose announced 
the imminent release of a new WVVII tank 
game. Across the Rhine. Today it’s still a 
no-shower, with the Guiness Book of 
Records people trying to decide between it 
and Stonekeep for the Outstanding 
Delayed Action Vapourware award. 

We knew it would eventually arrive, so 
when the screenshots you see turned up 
in the big brown Microprose envelope, 
nobody got too excited. Well kids, it 
now looks like Across the Rhine is actu¬ 
ally due for release ‘‘soon’’. We expect it 
now around the end of July (officially!). 

The game will use its own system of 
customisable windows in a similar fash¬ 
ion to Harpoon ll’s interface. Real time 
3D graphics will be a highlight, although 
strategy is more likely to be the games 
main slant. 

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Category: TANK SIM 
Players: ONE 
Publisher: MICROPROSE 


Machiavelli the Prince 


The game engine which took 
Civilisation and Master of Magic to such 
stratospheric success is about to be 
given another run. The diplomacy option 
in each of these games was never really a 
practical tool, but with Machiavelli the 
Prince it's the main focus. Anyone famil¬ 
iar with Microprose’s near-perfect 
empire building engine should have no 
trouble slipping easily into Machiavelli. 
Which is not to say there are no new 
challenges. Trade and diplomacy will be 
the mainstays behind your 14th century 
empire. Although war is given a lesser 
priority with the new game. Microprose 
have given the player a far superior sys¬ 
tem for controlling military units. 

The whole idea though, is to avoid 
fighting your own wars, getting some¬ 
body else’s army to do your dirty work. 
Bribery, piracy and assassination are the 
tools of your main trade, with the lead¬ 
ers of Europe’s political and religious 
institutions your targets. 

Modem play will be built in to the first 
release, something Civilisation is only just 
getting around to after all these years. 

Due by the end of July. Machiavelli is 
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The one-on-one 
arcade fight 
machines just 
keep on roiling in 
and punters just 
keep on roiling in 
their coins, so 

- this month 

ARCANE checks 
out the latest 
in serialised 
biff-fests, 
Fatal Fury 3. 
Meanwhile, over 
in Japan, 
TiM LEVY takes 
a look at the 
resurrection of a 
gaming legend... 


You just can't keep a good fighting game down, can you? 
The latest from the SNK stable is Fatal Fury 3 and it kicks 
absolute lieinie! Everything that you could have wanted 
improved over the first two games has been improved; the 
graphics, the sound (oh, the music!) and the characters 
themselves. Fatal Fury 3 is so huge that it takes up a mighty 
266 Meg of screaming chips to bring you a fighting game 
that really kicks. 

This time around there are 10 fighters to choose from, 
which is 5 less than the Fatal Fury Special Edition. Don’t 
worry though, the old favourites are here - Joe Higashi, Mai 
Shiranui. those feisty Bogard brothers and of course, the 
"the Goose” Howard, for one more round of slap and tickle. 
So what is it that you are after in this adventure? 

You’ve got to recover a set of magic scrolls and along the 
way fight the many enemies that will do anything to stop 
you. The new characters are as follows: Franco Bash - a 
rather huge man with boxing gloves; Bob Wilson - a 
"break" dancer, Blue Mary - just don’t be late for a date 
with her!; Hon Fu - a cop who uses Nunchukas and 
Mochizuki Sokaku, who looks like Raiden but I wouldn’t say 
that to his face! All these new characters add a new 
dimension to the game with their own fatal moves and 
combos adding much needed spice...and speaking of 
dimensions, you can now change between the foreground, 
middle-ground and background to fight on! 

Another interesting feature is the inclusion of a rather odd 
system of attaining a great ending. Each time you fight you 
are rated on a scale, with "E” being the lowest and "S” the 
highest. (The ratings are E, D, C, B, A, AA, AAA and S). In 
order to achieve the best possible ending you must strive for 
the best possible rating consistently throughout the game. 
Plus, if you achieve a worthy rating throughout you may even 
get to fight the hidden character... 

SNK have also seen the popularity of "combos" in fighting 
games, so they have decided to incorporate some combos 
into the game that will literally knock your opponent out of 
the screen! 

The graphics are greatly improved over the original 
adventures (well, they did have 266 Meg to play with) and 
overall FF3 is a worthy successor to the original Fatal Fury’s. 
It’s a very slick package of superlative graphics, sound, 
moves and oodles of playability. The big question though, is 
can it live up to the sheer volume of tricks and surprises that 
Mortal Kombat III offers? Unfortunately the answer is 
probably not, but it’s still challenging and fast enough to 
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Video game sequels are a common thing. In fact, most cool 
games have a most reasonable “prototype” version and if 
that proves successful, a stunning sequel is released. That’s 
been the way of it with such games as Mortal Kombat, 
Virtua Fighter and even Streetfighter. But now, over a 
decade since the release of the original, a new, vastly 
improved, Elevator Action makes its return to the arcades. 

In the original game (it came out in 1983), you controlled 
an agent whose mission was to steal documents from 
enemy infested buildings and your main transport was...you 
guessed it, elevators! You could dispatch enemy agents 
with your gun, by leaping onto them or crushing them with 
elevators. It was basic, but it was hopelessly addictive and a 
hell of a lot of fun. 

The 1995 version has rid itself of the chunky, low-res 
graphics and blunt-edged action and made the gameplay 
more interesting by giving multi character selection. 
There’s a two-player option and several new weapons like 
the machine gun, rocket launcher and (he he) grenades! 
But the enemy are now far more challenging with their own 
high-tech toys such as jetpacks, speeder bikes, 
flamethrowers, electrical traps, robots, as well as those old 
school weapons - guard dogs. 

Although it’s only in Japan at this stage, there’s no 
doubting that Elevator Action Returns will be on our shores 
soon. Check it out and relive some old memories, and maybe 
create some fresh new ones. 




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The greatest arcade racing game of all comes home on the Sega Saturn. 
Is it the promised dream of a perfect conversion? BEN MRNSILL straps in 
for the ride... 

The mighty roar of the V8, the ugly crunch of grinding metal, the glorious squeal of rubber in a power-slide, the 
unbearably bad music... ahhh Daytona, welcome to my living room. 

Anyone expecting an "arcade perfect conversion" is just kidding themselves. Get real, the Saturn falls too short 
of the outright grunt which blesses the Big Money Eating Machines. However, the work Sega has put into bringing 
the sexiest of all driving games home is damn impressive. Daytona USA for the Saturn almost has it all, the only 
obvious differences between the arcade and Saturn versions are relatively minor, and in all but one case, easy 
enough to live with. 

Sonic, Tom EL Jeffry 

Graphically the game has everything the arcade machine has, there’s Sonic up there on the cliff-face, Tom Cruise 
is up there too. Jeffry stands proud over the track and the cars are detailed perfectly. The only noticeable differ¬ 
ence is that the detail is coarser, blocky pixel’s are obvious enough to remind you of their presence - particularly on 
the trackside cliffs. None of it really matters though, realistically a slight degradation of graphic quality is to be 
expected... besides, this game is one of the finest looking console games there is - period. 

Daytona does have a problem though... a big problem. Blaring constantly is the most awful, most irritating, most 
painful background music ever heard in a game. Did I say background music? If you listen real close you can just 
make out the engine noises, which sound great in the one second gap between music tracks, but for 99% of the 
race you just can't hear anything but the most God-awful "music" imaginable. Honestly, the Japanese may know 
how to knock up a great bit of gameplay, but they have absolutely no idea about music. Amazingly, an option to 
turn it off is absent. We searched long and hard in the manual and the menus, and if it turns out that the only way 
is via a cheat code, then Sega has really lost the plot. It's so bad it almost ruins the game. No matter how much 
you want to play, another minute of THAT music is enough to make you hit the "off switch. 

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Mighty hot gameplay is needed to balance such a disaster, and lucky for us Daytona has it in buckets. The car han¬ 
dles just like the arcade version - provided you only race on manual and Very Hard settings. On any difficulty setting 
lower than that, the car handles like a wet sponge. A prime example is the last corner of the First track, in the arcade 
you just dab the brakes and drop it down to third with a most sexy power-slide whipping you through. Try it on the 
lower settings and it’s wall kissing time; only Very Hard actually handles like both the arcade machine and a real car. 
It’s not Very Hard at all - it’s actually amazingly easy, much easier than the games Easy setting, in fact. 

The Saturn’s control pad is a bit of a dud, if the truth be known. But it does the job well enough here, with a vari¬ 
ety of configurations to choose from. Default uses the control pad for steering, with up and down on the pad for 
gear changes. This is a stupid layout and just doesn’t work, using the shoulder buttons for gears is the only way to 
go for decent control, so select this setup and it’s happy driving times ahead. Still, a dynamically accurate driving 
game (it's more of a sim really) needs a proportional input for perfect control, like a proper joystick or the steering 
wheel Sega sell separately. Steering either full left or full right is no way to take a beast like this around a track, 
and if you're serious about your software then be serious about your hardware and look into an extra controller. 

Positives G. Negatives 

The three arcade tracks are reproduced perfectly, so all that money you spent perfecting corners wasn’t wasted! 
In contrast, the Playstation’s Ridge Racer has only one real course - with a very dodgy time trial extension, which is 
more like a run in the Death Star trench. I also think that Ridge Racer's driving model is also woefully inferior to 
Daytona’s - the Playstation's cars just don’t handle like anything yet known to man. 

A commendation also goes to Sega for the way they programmed the opponent car’s Al. They’re aggressive and 
race to win, don’t count on passing them in a gentlemanly fashion on the straight, at every opportunity the swine 
try to run you into the wall. Way cool. 

Aside from the tragic music, Daytona does have a couple of minor blemishes; the viewpoint change to the in-car 
view is just a mess, and the menu interface is convoluted and badly designed. If you win a race and want another go 
it’s quicker to reset the machine than sit through the many screens of tripe Daytona throws at you - which includes 
a murky brown photo of the design team you just can’t bypass. 

All up though. Daytona USA for the Saturn is fantastic value. The harder tracks take forever to master, with every 
minute of it nothing less than huge fun. Racing is exciting and challenging in all the right ways, the driving model is a 
sheer joy to take control of and the graphics are spectacular. The only tragedy is that to play for any extended peri¬ 
od, means either turning the sound off completely or just accepting the inevitable madness that ensues. 




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Visuals 88% - Minor flaws don’t detract from one of the sexiest looking games around. The scenery comes in to view a bit late, but the track is always 
clear and the cars look superb. Soilfld 40% ' ^ e S a auditioned millions before finding the World’s Worst Singer and some similarly talented musicians. 
Then they set the sound at 10% effects and 90% music before laughing sadistically at our suffering. GOftiepIdy 86% " Only Need for Speed has a 
better driving model in the console world. Racing is a genuine thrill and as tough as it should be. Too many menu screens bog the game down. Longterm 
89 % - Three hot tracks that take a lot of practise to master - great! A classic that should last the distance, provided the music doesn’t drive you berko. 
Overall 86% - Maybe not the killer Saturn game that Sega were hoping for, but a very sexy racing game indeed. If only we didn’t have to suffer the music! 


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SECOND OPINION 


Stuart Clarke 


Daytona USA is seen as one of the crucial “make or break" games for 
the Saturn. While Sega's new machine can’t quite match the tech, 
specs of the Sony Playstation, there’s no doubting that Sega have 
some of the hottest arcade games around and if they can reproduce 
them faithfully on the Saturn then the future of the machine looks 
bright. On the other hand, if Sega start disappointing fans with sub¬ 
standard conversions then the Saturn is going to have rings run around 
it by the Playstation, 3DO M2 and Ultra 64. 

After looking at, listening to and playing with Daytona on the 
Saturn, I’m very confused. Sure, it looks real pretty (in general) and 
has the tried and tested Daytona gameplay. but I don’t actually think 
that this is the killer piece of software Sega were hoping for. When you 
take Daytona away from the linked arcade machines (with the beefy 
speakers, steering wheel and sensory feedback when you crash) it’s just 
another racing game. A very, very good looking and well-designed rac¬ 
ing game, but when it comes down to it, that’s all it is. 

Add to this the insanely annoying music, the graphic glitches (the 
messy change to "bonnet cam" is unforgivable) and the fact that 
Ridge Racer on the Playstation is more immediately impressive and 
you’ve only got a moderate success for Sega's racing champion. Still. 
I'd take Daytona over Ridge Racer any day when we’re talking long¬ 
term fun and that’s the best kind of fun to have... 


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Panzer Dragoon 



Available: NOW © Category: SHOOT ‘EM UP ° Players: ONE © Publisher: SEGA © Price: TBA ° Rating: TBC 


Visuals 95 % Fantastic imagination + huge budget = Panzer Dragoon. The designers out-did themselves - some creatures are simply too 
beautiful to blast! Sound 90 % From frantic fire-fights to the peaceful swish of wings, this is quality No. 1. Even the music is good! 
Something of a rarity in Japanese games. G<3m0plCiy 90% ‘ What! You've never ridden a giant dragon through labyrinthine caves blasting 
alien face-huggers as you go? You don’t know what you’re missing. Longterm 83% The seven levels take some beating, although a few 
more would be nice... Still, even re-playing the easy Level 1 time after time is a special joy. OVOTOII 90 % ~ The Saturn’s future looks 
rosy indeed with games like this to back it up. It looks pretty, plays a treat and sounds divine. If you buy a Saturn, this is an essential purchase. 


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Feel the need to get away from it all? Mount your pet dragon and shoot 
some flying cows then! It’s marvellous anti-stress therapy, just ask BEN 
MRN5ILL - he needs some... 

Virtua Fighter and Daytona are pretty darn cool, but for now I reckon Panzer Dragoon is the hottest game you 
can get for Sega’s Big New Toy. It’s got it all, fantastic gameplay, drop-dead graphics and a highly magnetic game 
world where the artists let their imaginations rule. So what that it’s just a "shoot everything that moves” game; 
blasting hasn’t been this much fun since we took on Cyberdemons on the moons of Mars. 

The story unfolds during one of the all time great intros. None of it is particularly important, but the end result is 
that you are given a huge dragon-type-thingy to ride on a shooting spree. 

Waste Everything 

The game world is obscenely surreal, as are its inhabitants. Through it your steed carries you, with your job to 
waste all in your path. The course of your travels cannot be altered - the dragon runs on imaginary rails, however it 
can be moved around most of the screen while it’s journeying and this is a fundamental part of play. As it travels its 
course all manner of obstacles present themselves for your dodging amusement, giant columns collapse in your 
path, huge Venus fly traps open up underneath you, not to mention the almost constant barrage of flaming orbs, 
fired by beasties that are a lot less friendly than they look. Indeed, some of them are so pretty you just don't want 
to kill them; there’s a particular flying cow creature that never shoots you, instead it just flies alongside you in for¬ 
mation, the gentle swish of its wings the only sound. My kill ratio may have suffered, but I just couldn't bring 
myself to do it! 

Driving the dragon is fairly complicated, but when you have it figured out the game comes together beautifully. 
The direction pad steers the targeting cursor, as well as the dragon's direction - so far nothing new. Constantly 
active though, is a viewpoint control which can swing through 360°. It’s done with the shoulder buttons and takes 
some getting used to. Suss it out and the rewards are great. Your radar may show a couple of new baddies behind 
you...no problem, just tap both buttons simultaneously and you’re suddenly facing backwards. Do the job, then 
swing back to be ready for new threats. Other nasties fly alongside you at some distance, so here you can trust the 
dragon to fly a safe course while facing the threat side-on, happily blasting away in relative safety. 

Unnaturally Potent 

Your tools of the trade for doing dirty deeds are a relatively ineffectual blaster, or an unnaturally potent guided 
beam weapon. Once proper use of the latter is mastered, the game takes on a whole new feel. No longer will bat¬ 
teries of orb-launchers pose any threat, no sir, just hold down the B button and pass the targeting cursor over 
everything evil in sight, when they all have the "locked-on” box around them lift off B and whammo! Every baddie 
on screen goes up! There are few nasties in the game that can cope with more than one hit, and while this does 
tend to make the game a tad easy on the early levels, later on even the wonder weapon is barely adequate due to 
the vast numbers of beasties and their frantic activity. 

Comprising a mere seven levels. Panzer Dragoon is open to criticism for lack of value. You won’t find any knock¬ 
ing of its size in this magazine though; each level is both huge and hard, with countless replays of the same level a 
treat rather than a chore. 

This is a rare and special game - one of the finest I’ve seen on any platform in fact. There are no Panzers or any 
Dragoons to be found in the game, instead it’s jam packed with sparkling gameplay, making perfect company for 
your precious new Saturn. 



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YET ANOTHER GAME THAT TAKES PLACE ON A SPACE STATION 


THIS IS AN ENEMY BEING HIT 


Deadalus 


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Houu would you like to explore a huge space station, packing the 
awesome weaponry you'll need against the vicious robot inhabitants? 
Sounds cool, but somewhere between concept and execution something 
went horribly wrong. BEN MRN5ILL pulls out his big gun... 

It was to be expected. A Doom clone for the Saturn was almost certainly decided upon well before the machine’s 
launch. The first-person shooter cult is still running hot, and Sega wasn’t about to miss the party. Pity the poor 
gamer though, for Deadalus falls well short of it’s potential. 

Sure, it looks damn hot, the interior of the space station it's based in hits the spot nicely, the Heads Up Displays 
scattered across the screen completes the techno picture and your big guns make you feel like one hell of a mean 
dude. But it all wears very thin, very quickly. Level after level, nothing changes. The same wall patterns carry over 
to almost every single level... Dull! Dull! Dull! 

Total Darkness & Mindless Tedium 

After slogging through half a dozen levels, visual respite comes by way of new and interesting graphics! The design¬ 
ers went overboard with this design, they figured that a real visual treat would be... complete darkness! Yes kids, only 
a couple of feet of visibility and absolute pitch black for all the rest. This is the only deviation from the monotonous 
tedium of all the other levels, but it only lasts a couple of rounds before it back to the old reliable wall slabs. 

Take away the fabbo HUDs (Heads Up Displays - the overlayed radar etc.) and all you’re left with is a game that 
struggles to even qualify as ordinary. The game engine uses the ancient Wolfenstein method, not the more sophis¬ 
ticated Doom 3D style. All the floors are level, there’s not a ramp, staircase or ledge to be found, and every corner 
is a right angle. Considering that the 32X handled the incomparably superior Doom perfectly well, it’s just lazy pro¬ 
gramming that’s to blame for this sad joke. 

Anyone who paid real dollars for this tripe has my most sincere sympathy. The game can be finished in a night, 
but for sheer thrills I’d rather watch televised parliamentary debate. Your enemies are a variety of combat robots, 
but there are so few of them you begin to feel quite lonely as the corridors are wandered. 

Rooted To The Spot 

A couple of little problems present themselves when you’re lucky enough to stumble across something to shoot, 
because the main gun is off-centre and your shots never end up quite where you think they will. Further lessening 
any hope of a good play is the fact that most of the robots just stand firmly rooted to the spot, not making any 
attempt to move after you. On the higher levels a couple of new robots appear that are quite aggressive, but we’re 
talking around level 10 here, way too long to wait for a bit of action. 

The levels themselves are tiny, with each able to be completed in just a few boring minutes - compared to an 
hour for Doom and several for Dark Forces. Each of them has you finding a key, then using it to exit from the big 
door, tricky. Some levels have the key right beside the door itself! Completing a level in just a few seconds is not 
my idea of value. Later on, specific mission objectives make an appearance, like having to destroy reactors, for 
example. It all comes too late to save poor Deadalus though; for the most part it’s just key after key, door after 
door, snore after snore. 





THE ROBOTS MAY LOOK GOOD. BUT THEY DON'T MOVE MUCH 


THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW LEVELS WITH A POINT TO IT. 


NO. IT’S NOT AN ATM. THIS TERMINAL GIVES YOU LEVEL MAPS 


RED THINGS ON THE FLOOR HURT YOU 


WE SHOWED YOU THE GOOD BlTS... BELIEVE US. IT’S REALLY BORING 


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Available: JULY ° Category: DOOM-LiKE © Players: 1 © Publisher: SEGA © Price: TBA © Rating: TBC 


Visuals 60 % - A real treat for the first two minutes, then you realise nothing ever changes. An especially sexy intro is worth a mention, so 




there it is. Sound 79 % - The game’s best feature (sad huh?). Metallic clangs and surprisingly bearable music are wasted on this crud. 


Gameplay 15 % * No. Longterm 15 % ■ s a ^ over ‘ n a n 'ght, you’ll never play again and you’ll wonder why you bothered in the first place. 
Overall 30 % - A right stinker. Proof that super-consoles aren't the be all and end all. I'd rather be playing Alex Kidd on a Master System. 


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THIS IS THE DOME...CHOOSE YOUR TV WORLD 


OOOH. LOVE THOSE SEXY POWER-UPS 


YOUR SUCTION CUPS WILL COME IN VERY HANDY...ER. FEETY 


GEX IS A BIT COLD AND FRIGID HERE 


BUT THINGS SOON WARM UP 


Available: NOW © Category: PLATFORM © Players: ONE © Publisher: © CRYSTAL DYNAMICS © Price: $69.95 © Rating: G 


Visuals 91 % - Great, but not mind-blowing. If you’re expecting a huge leap in graphics from Donkey Kong Country you’ll be disappointed. 
Still, it looks very, very spunky. Sound 92% * Gex’s voice is one of the game’s highlights and some of his one-liners are guaranteed to have 
you cracking up. GOftlOplOy 90 % ~ ^ s the same ol’ platforming that we all know and....er, love. Responsive controls and cool power ups 


make it a joy though. Longterm 90 % - This can be one tough mutha. Try and find those save points or this game could take you forever. 


Overall 90 % - It's been a long time coming, but the wait was worth it. Gex takes his place as the current king of 32bit platforming. 


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Platforming has moved to the 32bit systems uuith Clockwork Knight and 
now Gex. UUill the gecko with attitude beat the wind-up soldier? ANDY 
HODGSON sticks his tongue out and tests the winds... 

32bit platforming has really arrived, and it’s in the form of a very original and smart talkin' gecko named Gex. His 
3D character is brought to life by over 450 frames of animation and the result is astounding! What really gives him 
personality and sets him aside from his 16bit predecessors is his cool digitised voice. US cable TV comedian. Dana 
Gould, gives Gex his hilarious impersonations and one liners, and sets a new standard in video game characterisa¬ 
tion. You’ll laugh your arse off with his comments such as : “My name is Forrest ... Gex” and “If I had a life. I’d be 
glad to get back to it" and many others, including sly references to Star Trek, Star Wars. Superman. Rocky and 
even Scooby Doo. 

Tongues 6, Tails 

There’s no doubt that Gex is trying to be cool, but the surprise is that he actually is. Even the plot is cool. There 
is an excellent cinematic intro that reveals how the evil cyber fly Rez has thrown Gex into the weird world of televi 
sion, ie. B grade horrors, cartoons and 70's re runs. The graphics are nothing short of brilliant and are hand ren¬ 
dered and cleverly drawn. The attention to detail is excellent. 

The gameplay is well balanced and designed both in terms of variety and difficulty. The joypad control is spot on. 
The idea of Gex is basically to tail-whip your way through different stages of each land (Cemetery. New Toonland. 
Jungle Isle and Kung Fuville) whilst battling ghoulies with your tail and collecting goodies with your tongue. You 
can also use your suction cupped feet to defy gravity running up and down walls, across ceilings and even to grip 
moving objects, such as rocket ships. There are question mark icons along the way to help you out. providing some 
clues. There are also plenty of power-up icons to collect: ice tongue, fire tongue, extra lives, continues, health 
boosters, speed boosters, invincibility, and of course, warps to secret bonus levels! 

The whole point to each level is to find the TV remote control which will allow you access to the next level. 
These remote controls are sometimes frustratingly difficult to locate and are hidden within the often maze-like T.V 
Worlds. You’ll be making several trips back and forth in some levels. 

Farting Superman 

Predictably, bosses are also awaiting you at the end of each world, making coordination and timing necessary 
skills. The most memorable boss is the farting Superman in New Toonland! (Need I say more?) Some of the bosses 
(and some of the levels themselves) are mighty hard but your game is automatically saved if you find a video tape 
during your adventures, and up to three games can be stored in your 3DO’s NRAM. There is also an options screen 
for sound, music and button configuration settings. 

Gex is really a breakthrough game not only for 3DO. but for platform gaming in general. While Clockwork Knight 
on Saturn looked stunning, it was only average in the gameplay department. Gex is a joy to play, while also being 
very funny and damned addictive. Graphically it will spoil you. and as for the long-term factor, it will not disap 
point. It combines fantastic gameplay, a witty gecko with attitude, and an extremely well thought out game. Well 
worth the wait! Get Gex before he gex you! (Sorry). 



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ONE OF THE STRANGE CAR/CHARACTERS TO CHOOSE FROM 


WHEN YOU QET AIRBORNE STARS COME OUT OF YOUR REAR 


GULLIVER HOUSE HAS LOTS OF GIANT OBJECTS 


LIKE POOL BALLS 


PLAYSTATION 


Available: NOW (import) © Category: RACING ° Players: 1-2 © Publisher: SONY © Price: TBA © Rating: TBC 


Motor Toon Grand Prix 


Visuals 94 % - The graphic style and overall design are superb, in a surreally cute kinda way. The feeling of speed is also quite real. 


Sound 84 % - There’s a wide variety of backing tracks - some are annoying, others are excellent. In general the sound effects are good. 


Gameplay 68% - The controls aren’t what they could be and the actual racing part doesn’t excite - you’re too busy looking at the scenery. 
Longterm 76% • There’s lots of options, including a two-player mode and a time trials but it’s not a game you’ll get hooked on. 
Overall 75 % - So close and yet so far... Motor Toon shows what the Playstation can do though, and you should take a look at this game for the graphics alone. 

























review 


The Japanese must have some neuu hallucinogenic drugs that they’re 
not telling us about. That’s the only possible explanation for the bizarre 
racing event that is Motor Toon Grand Prix. But does the gameplay match 
the graphics? STURRT CLRRKE goes for a feuu strange laps... 

The Playstation already has one top-class racing game in the form of Ridge Racer. While Ridge Racer falls down 
in the longterm department through lack of courses, it is a very impressive, jaw-droppingly realistic driving game. 
The uniquely Japanese Motor Toon Grand Prix throws realism out the window in an attempt to make racing game 
that’s cute and fun. And cute it is, but unfortunately the fun mightn't last too long... 

Tripped Out 

Motor Toon Grand Prix is completely tripped out in terms of courses and characters, yet it’s very carefully and 
professionally presented. The vehicles you race are actually well-known Japanese comic characters designed by 
Susuma Matshushita. Unfortunately, they’re only well known in Japan. 

There are five characters (with names like Princess Jean, the Penguin Brothers and Bolbox) to choose from, and 
they float down from the sky and morph into different vehicles when it’s time to race. All the different 
characters/vehicles have different strengths which can be a plus, but it tends to be a negative because some cars 
are simply faster than others and it’s very difficult to win if you’re in Bolbox (the big, lumbering robot character). 

There are three main Grand Prix courses; Toon Island (a fairly traditional looking country landscape), Plastic 
Lake (a beautiful, psychedelic playground) and Gulliver House (where you’ll race on a roulette wheel and around 
giant snooker balls and chess pieces to name but a few of the oversized toys). The graphics are truly stunning on all 
three and the first few times you play your race position will be totally irrelevant to the joy of speeding through the 
warped landscapes. Totally spun out, man. 

Apart from the graphics though, it’s a fairly standard racing game. There’s a real feel of speed created by the 
frame rate, but somehow it’s just not a lot of fun, mainly because of the controls. Cornering is difficult and there’s 
often a frustrating period when you slam into a wall and you'll be stuck bouncing around for a minute trying to turn 
back in the right direction. The other competitors are also rarely seen (they’re either far ahead of you or you’re 
speeding past), so there’s rarely any nail-biting overtakes that to me are essential for a gripping racing game. 

A big plus though are the perspectives, and while you all may be used to the 4 different modes that are used on 
Daytona and Virtua Racing, Motor Toon goes one better. Apart from the standard four views (long-distance to in- 
car) there’s another four viewpoints that show your “car” from head-on. Not a good move to use any of these view¬ 
points for too long, but as a sort of "rear-view” mirror to glance at encroaching competitors, they work perfectly. 

Ghost Cars 

Apart from the standard Grand Prix option there are three other modes to select; Time Attack, Match Race and 
Dual Race. Time Attack is quite addictive. Choose a course (they're not as long as the Grand Prix circuits) and off 
you go. When you finish, the next race will be a race against a “ghost” car of your original race. Your best time will 
be saved on each course and the aim is to simply beat your own record. It may not sound like much, but in fact it’s 
the only part of the game that had me repeatedly coming back for more. 

Match Race and Dual Race are the two-player modes and while usually I'd be saying that a human opponent will 
make any game last longer, the split screen races in Motor Toon Grand Prix just aren't satisfying. For a start, 
because the controls aren’t the best to begin with, by splitting the screen in half you’re removing the one ace 
Motor Toon has up its sleeve - the stunning graphics. In two-player mode there's none of the “oohs” and “aahs” 
you'll get racing full-screen. Add to that the fact that the vehicles are so different (and you can’t race the same 
car), and you've got a two-player mode that doesn’t please too much. 

Take a look at Motor Toon Grand Prix though. It’s yet another gorgeous looking game for the Playstation and 
while it mightn’t have the gameplay to blow you away, it shows you what “super console” graphics are all about. 





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Graphics 70 % ** You won’t be blown away (unless it's by a perp) but it’s okay. The post apocalyptic/industrial look. SoUfld 60 % ~ ^ s 
there, yes. Gameplay 72 % ' Haven’t you ever fantasised about being Judge Dredd? That will help. Longterm 68 % - The thrill of 
using a r\ew weapon! The joy as you blast away the last Warbot! The excitement quickly wears off though. Overall 72 % ’ This game wants to 
be Flashback with more guns, and if the adventure aspect and the difficulty rating were beefed up, it could have been. 



















review 

It's time for future crims to meet their judge, jury and executioner in the 
menacing form of one man - Judge Dredd. The classic comic book hero 
finally gets his oiun movie and video game. RU55ELL H0PKIN5DN 6. 

JE5SICR POST uuarp to Mega City One... 


Policeman, Judge, Executioner...that is the Mega City One Justice Department’s brief. In this post apocalyptic, 
lawless time, society has gone slightly haywire. Gangs of Juves (juvenile delinquents) roam the oppressive tower 
blocks looking for rivals to fight, whilst weird cults and cunning serial killers run rampant within a culture bored to 
death by almost total unemployment. Every aspect of citizen’s lives are regulated and the judges enforce the law 
with an almost psychotic passion. 

Mr Mumbles 

Judge “Joe” Dredd is the premier lawman of the future megalopolis Mega City One, a titanic figure whose fan¬ 
tastic adventures have been the mainstay of 2000 AD comics for over fifteen years. Judge Dredd succeeded due to 
an alarming thirst for black comedy amongst its writers and has always been a cut above the contenders (the 
Punisher, for one). For years the prospect of a Dredd movie has been bandied about, indeed the Robocop movie 
aped our comic book hero shamelessly some seven years ago, but it was always put on the backburner. Not every¬ 
one involved was completely happy about Mr. Mumbles himself (Sylvester Stallone) being nominated as Dredd, 
but finally after years of rewrites the movie is about to be unleashed on all us patient (yet ardent) fans. And of 
course no comic book action movie would be complete without a scrolling shoot ’em up to call it’s own. 

It was no surprise to discover that the game is a two-dimensional scrolling version of what they call “action 
adventure”, but hey, they’re the Mega Drive and SNES’s stock in trade. The game designers were well aware of 
the strengths and limitations of the machine and they have produced a quintessential^ 16bit game. 

The first half of the game is based fairly closely on the movie and involves Dredd trying to clear his name after 
being framed for murder. Once your reputation has been restored via some hardcore carnage you’re back on duty, 
which is just as well because it’s only level six and Mega City One needs you. Perps of all gun-toting kinds await you 
and some of the final levels are based on the Judge Death saga (note the skull motif of the landscape, very pretty). 

Primary & Secondary Objectives 

Dredd can walk, run, crawl, climb and jump. And fire a gun of course. Plenty of ’em. Apart from his unlimited 
general shells, there are nine more weapons to use when you find the ammo. But there’s more to this game than 
keeping your finger on that handy continual fire button. Well, just a bit more. In each level you are given primary 
and secondary objectives; for example destroy all caches of ammunition, or find Judge Fargo. There are computer 
terminals scattered around each level and they can be used to get updates on your mission status (like how close 
you are to completing your objectives), health and ammo status. 

In some levels finding and activating the computers is essential to completion...but it’s never too hard. And I 
mean never. Really, I appreciate the effort to lift this game out of the doldrums that are platform shoot ’em ups, 
but the adventuring aspects are pretty secondary to the firepower. The levels are pretty big and there’s some 
exploring to be done, but the enemy sprites are kind of passive and usually ignore you until you start laying into 
them, and, well, it’s just a bit easy. 

All in all. and I know us game reviewers say this a lot, Judge Dredd is okay. Average. The graphics certainly are 
(though the level set on the scaffolding around the Statue of Liberty is worth a mention - very Planet of the Apes) 
and the gameplay, while involving the first few times as you explore, arrest and execute, is nothing new and lacks 
challenge. Still. Dredd is a very cool cucumber and I know some of you will like purging the streets of scum, for a 
while at least. Remember, break the law and he'll break you - believe it! 


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...GANEOUER JUDGE 


YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS SCREEN. BECAUSE YOU’RE A LOSER IF YOU DO 

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Justice League 


Get out those lycra tights (uuith the undies on the outside), because it's 
time to go fist to fist uuith some superheroes. BRIRN COSTELLOE 
practices his special moves and goes one-on-one fighting... 



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It seems as though everyone must have a crack at this one on one fighting scene! We have seen the Turtles put 
in a mixed effort (crud MD version but piping hot SNES cart) and Double Dragon combat titles are out and about. 
So why not have the superhero dudes in tights strut their stuff at good ol’ fisty cuffs with some flashy moves 
chucked in for the fun of it as well? 

Well after playing this I might have a reason why they haven't appeared sooner. You basically have 9 characters to 
choose from with 3 being “boss" characters (sounds kinda familiar doesn’t it?). There’s your story or “hero” mode 
which is a bit sad as there really isn’t any story at all. Then you have a Player vs CPU mode, Player vs Player and 
Options which don’t boast anything new to the beat 'em up genre. Hmmm, you can tell what’s coming, can't you... 

Killing Time 

After seeing some dude (who goes by the name of Darkseid) give his best impersonation of the Undertaker from 
WWF without moving his lips (I for one was most impressed with that effort!), you then get to see all the charac¬ 
ters icons flash on the screen really fast. Now Sunsoft really know how to kill time with their demos! Now you have 
Superman (with the all new Michael Bolton look!), Wonder Woman (mmmm, Wonder Woman), Batman, the 
Flash, the Green Arrow (who?) & Aquaman. Despero, Cheetah (Tina Turner in tights!) and the main man, 
Darkseid, are your three boss characters and they are selectable in vs Player mode. 

Firstly I’d just have to say that I think it’s great that Sunsoft have utilised the six button controllers like more 
companies should. The buttons are laid out in your typical SF2 format with the moves pretty much the same as 
well. The types of moves here vary from Superman laser beam, Batman’s headbutt, Wonder Woman's rope lasso 
and of course, the Green Arrow’s call to fame, his arrow. The speed, even though fairly slow, is fast enough to keep 
you busy while the difficulty level is very easy which is most unfortunate. 

The moves for the characters aren't really that fantastic but Batman's seem to work the best utilising his cape to 
dazzle opponents! Each character has about 4 or 5 special moves which is OK I guess, but you can’t help but want 
more. Plus the moves don't always want to work either so that adds to the frustration. As far as quantity goes they 
could have put more characters in there as well. Monotony settling as fast as it does proves this. 

Nice Screen Shots 

The size of the characters and the nicely designed backgrounds make this one good for static screen shots but 
unfortunately the animation and movement is nothing extra special. The SNES really shows up the Mega Drive in 
the detail on both the characters and the backgrounds, but Mega Drivers shouldn't get too upset - the basic game- 
play is the same. The music is raucous, the sound effects lack and there isn’t really any speech to tell of. It seems 
all the speech went in to the demo itself. Doh! 

But in the end it seems that Sunsoft have made a better then average effort at this title but just couldn’t deliver 
the goods in the end. This is a shame because this could have been bucket of fun with all the famous superhero 
characters. You can’t help but want to pulverise Superman a few times but the game doesn't let this become an 
enjoyable experience like it could have been. What is needed is meatier sound effects, some fatalities (or the like), 
razzle dazzle special moves, pumping sound track and chunky size characters. In other words get your money 
together for a Saturn, Playstation or 3DO. Or you could buy Samurai Shodown on Mega Drive if you can find it! 
There is nothing of interest here, now move along! 






DARKSEiD GOES IN FOR SOME FLAMING FIBTlNG 


ONCE AGAIN. THE MD CAN'T COMPETE WITH THE SNES GRAPHICS 


Available: NOW © Category: ONE-ON-ONE FIGHTING ° Players: 1-2 ® Publisher: SUNSOFT © Price: $109.95 • Rating: TBC 


Graphics 79 % - Nice touches here and there but just not enough razzle dazzle. The SNES graphics are far more detailed 
than the Mega Drives. Sound 61 % - A really bad experience with the music being between dire and dreadful. Once again the 
SNES comes out a bit better G(Snfl0plCiy 74 % Actually not that bad but needs to have better execution of the moves. And 
about a tonne more originality... Longterm 60 % ' Quite simply - this is too easy and too boring. Overall 66 % 
- SunSoft have showed that with the right programmers superheroes can kick arse. But not in this game. Get Samurai Shodown instead. 



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Visuals 34% A poor, sad pathetic joke really. A five minute bodgy-job for a superhero that deserves better. Sound 45 % - Biff, boom, 
crash, bang. In the tradition of everything else here, zippo in the way of interest. GOffieplay 25 % ‘ Oh the pain! It could 
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His outfit may not be so cool these days, his pouuers nothing fancy, 
but he’s Superman and lust because of that we love him. It doesn't 
look like the designers of this game share similar affection though, 
as this barker just ain't what it should be. BEN MHN5ILL nips into the 
phone booth for a once over... 

The killing of Superman was nothing less than a blatant attempt to boost falling sales. No self-respecting publication 
should ever SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX lower themselves to such pitiful SEX SEX SEX SEX attention seeking. 

The new game is here, with it's title proclaiming nothing less than the story of the biggest event in superhero his¬ 
tory. So does it deliver? In a word - no. In a sentence - yet another imagination-free left to right scrolling pile of 
crud. Come on guys! have some respect for the Great One and deliver a decent game! 

Replacement Supermen 

The only noteworthy feature of this game is that it features Superman. The Man of Steel is always a treat to look 
at, and in the game he's a well drawn and large sprite. Sadly, this is where any game satisfaction ends. The game- 
play offers absolutely no improvement over Golden Axe’s contribution to revolutionary gaming. Your dude ram¬ 
pages from left to right, punching his way through a dull, repetitive and predictable stream of unoriginal baddies. 

Vague interest comes by way of the fact that the point of it all is to witness the demise of Supes, with four replace¬ 
ments available to continue the fun. Cyborg, Eradicator, Superboy and Steel are all Superman pretenders, each has a 
slight variation of the basic set of Super-moves, though the end result is basically just more of the boring same. 

And another thing! Call me confused and old fashioned, but wasn’t kryptonite the only thing that could kill 
Superman? I know that as a game it needs the element of danger, but watching my childhood hero being slaugh¬ 
tered in under five seconds by a dirty street kid is a seriously illusion shattering event. 

Naturally the point of it all it to take on the most evil Doomsday. He's the incarnation of evil that finally did in 



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the man who leaps tall buildings for fun. He shows up for a brief bout at the end of each level, with whoever wins 
mattering not one iota - it’s just there for show. Eventually Doomsday defeats your man, bringing forth the new 
improved Supermen. Sadly though, any feeling of fresh gaming is non existent with the game entering its phase 2. 

Rutomatic Combat 

Superman’s main method of head bashing is the old faithful right hook. Combat is far too easy. Each press of the 
button brings forth an "auto-combo" sequence where three or four taps produces a flowery array of variety. It 
makes you look pretty damn skilled, but in reality the whole game is just a mad hammering of the Y button. Supes 
does have other moves, but using them is simply a waste of time. He can shoot a laser blast from his eyes, but it’s 
so ineffectual you just don’t bother. It’s also no surprise to discover he can fly, but seeing as 99% of his encounters 
are with ground dwelling nasties it’s only useful as a means of rapid transportation. 

Even large, flash sprites can’t save this one; the backgrounds are only ever ordinary, the sound's ordinary and the 



longterm is virtually non-existent. Normally a crappy crud-heap like this would rate only a Byte Size, but it’s 
Superman we're talking about and ill-informed consumers are likely to make a monumental blunder without proper 


HYPER guidance. You have been warned! 




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Make your friends play though, for it's likely your sceptical chums will still be at it as the sun rises. Brian Lara's 
Cricket is a boomer of a game, notable for being both the only Mega Drive cricket game in existence, as well as 
being simply the best on any platform - including PC. It's great strength is it’s multiplayer appeal, although vs. 
computer still offers some of the most intense fun you and your Mega Drive can have together. 

UJillouj Whackers 

Cricket can be a painfully complicated game for the uninitiated, as the caper goes way beyond just belting the 
ball and dashing between the stumps. The subtle intricacies of bowling, fielding and skilled batting hook fans for 
life. Lara’s Cricket captures the feel of this rich game perfectly, the blissfully simple interface takes about a minute 
to figure out, but building your skill will take a hell of a lot longer. This is the secret of a great game, which is 
exactly what Brian Lara’s Cricket is. 

All the World Series teams are included, with a reasonably accurate team line-up reflecting the current state of 
affairs. Choosing your team of willow-whackers and leather-lurchers plays a large part in securing victory, carefully 
mixing the various attributes of the available players is a delicate process, with as much priority given to bowlers as 
batsmen. Most hitters can throw the ball around a bit, but selecting specialist bowlers is a fundamental game plan. 
Leg and off spin, in addition to swingers and fast bowlers must be used carefully if you’re to have a chance against 
the hardest of the three difficulty settings. 

Just about any game configuration can be customised, the number of innings and the overs in each, as well as whether 
or not LBW’s are counted, as well as the more important traditional white or coloured pyjamas uniform selector. 

Better Than The Real Thing 



The games mechanics are relatively straightforward, batting is a simple case of selecting either high scoop or low 
drive, with the direction pad used at the last second for choosing the most appropriate play. Bowlers first choose 
the impact point for their delivery, before having to try and stop a rapidly moving slider graph just as it passes over 
maximum power, then tap the button in a rhythmic motion to mimic the run-up. Spin and swing bowlers also 
choose the direction the ball twists into after the bounce. 

Cricket fans will get right into this one, the variety that is possible with bowling and the adjustable fielding posi¬ 
tions mirror the game beautifully. We played this one late into the night, with fans and cricket-haters alike simply 
never wanting to stop. Indeed, as one mad cricket fan put it, "this is better than watching the real thing!”. 

Fielding can be a bit tricky, the closest player is automatically switched to, with a huge arrow pointing to the ball 
in motion. Steering the player to the ball before it rolls on for a four requires fast and accurate direction-pad skill, 
catches coming to those who arc really hot. For the easily frustrated there is an automatic fielding option, although 
this detracts much from the overall game and should be dispensed with if you’re serious about your sport. The sat 
isfaction of returning a ball in time for a run-out should not be missed! 

Like the game proper, Brian Lara's Cricket is simple enough to play but requires great skill and patience to mas¬ 
ter. It may not be the most attractive game on the Mega Drive, but it out plays most of the pretenders tying to 
grab your attention with flash graphics and flimsy gameplay. 


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texture is about as bad as it gets. Sound 72 % - Funky calypso music actually pumps! Crowd noises are a disappointing white noise, but 


it’s unobtrusive and won’t drive you barmy. GOftlGpICiy 9A% - Addictive, demanding, achievable, intense, fierce, evenly-matched, true 
to life, tough, intuitive, multiplayer perfection, green - a winner. LOflgtorfll 90 % ~ For sure * After several months, when you finally 
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rontier: First Encounters 


There are some games which are so addictive, players are still at it as 
the sun rises. Not many can keep you hooked so badly a few months 
later. Elite was one such game and here's the third episode in the classic 
series. BEN MRNSILL enters HYPERspace... 

Back in the dark ages of 1984 a game was released that, quite simply, blew everyone away. That game was Elite. 
First on the C-64, then the Amiga, it was played and loved by a sizeable majority of owners of those wonderful 
machines. So just what was its appeal? What set it apart? Sheer size mostly; this was one huge monster of a game. 
A universe beckoned for the hardy explorer. Planets could be visited wherever and whenever you chose, in any 
order and according to no particular rules. The player took on the life of a Han Solo type, taking on jobs ranging 
from assassination to straight trade. With no rules, it ruled. 

It returned with much fanfare two years ago as Frontier. Luckily for us, the designers didn't mess with the game- 
play, but unfortunately they didn’t mess much with the graphics either. Oh well, like we always say, it’s the game- 
play that counts and this oozed it. Now Elite rises again, this time as Frontier; First Encounters. 

Totally Sucked In 

The game’s premise is entirely unchanged from the Elite’s of old. You start a game on your home planet with 
nothing but a mediocre ship and 1000 lousy credits. The caper is to visit the bulletin boards for missions to boost 
your coffers. This time round, these screens are accompanied by digitised Poms who recognise the computer game 
ground rule that no good acting is allowed. They ham it up and add a feeling of reality to the experience. This is 
important, for the very nature of the game is one of absolute immersion. Like almost no other game, this one sucks 
you in completely. You don’t play Frontier to waste few baddies and rack up the killscore, you enter their world 
because it’s preferable to the one we call reality. 

You enter as a normal citizen and have 100% freedom over how you live. An initial decision must be taken as to 
whether you make a living by way of trade or combat. A blend of the two works well, as does a progression from 
one to another after the bank balance is a little shinier. 

Frontier is the game Privateer should have been. It’s nowhere near as pretty as Origin's space free-ranger, but 
the linear traps Privateer led you into are completely absent. A mightily impressive feature is the fact that while in 
space you can approach just about any star, and if it has planets, just go in for some atmospheric flight or a landing 
if it’s populated. No transition cut scenes here, just keep heading toward the planet until you hit the ground. No 
other game I’ve seen or heard of does this, they all separate space flight from atmospheric by way of cut scenes or 
instant transitions to the surface. In lesser games the stars and planets are basically there for scenery, in Frontier 
they are real. What Gametek have effectively done is model our universe (they say it's astronomically correct) in 
the distant future. 

Upgrades and Rdd-ons 

There are 44 different ships available from the dealer, each of which feature performance compromises according 
to the sort of game you are playing. Massive behemoths like the Skeet can carry an entire planets stockpile of 
goods, but handle like a falling brick. At the other end of the scale are spritely skirmishers like the Sidewinder. Ship 
upgrades are numerous and varied. Many lucrative missions involve running passengers, but only a ship equipped 
with a passenger cabin can take them on. An interesting add-on is the fuel scoop, and in a highly risky manoeuvre 
it’s possible to refuel by skimming the surface of a star with the scoop deployed! 

Combat is inevitable, regardless of the style of play you adopt. It may be with pirates eager to steal your cargo, or 
local police who have you tagged for unpaid fines. The small and fast moving targets are a serious challenge, so 
much so that taking the trade route is almost encouraged until you can beef up your ship. 

Frontier isn’t a particularly pretty game. The best Gametek seem to have achieved with version 3 is the bitmap¬ 
ping of the polygons we grew to love. Nor does it treat you to glorious sound effects, but none of this is important, 
overriding these shortcomings is gameplay that simply whips the butt of lesser pretenders. Check it out gamers, 
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Visuals 73 % - Not a highlight. The bitmapped polygons look like bitmapped polygons, rather than anything remotely real or attractive. Live with it. 
Sound 71 % " Not good, not bad. Most of the effects don't seem much different from to the Amiga original. As with the graphics, it’s good 
enough to live with. GOfTieplGy 91% * Kicks ass! This is quality gameplay of the highest calibre. Most games try to fool you that their 
universe is real, but this one is. If you played the original, buy this today! Longtorm 93 % ' Absolutely, without a doubt, absorbing, anti¬ 
social and dangerously habit forming. If you only buy a couple of games a year, make this one of them. Ov&rdf I 88% - A gem. Prettier 
graphics would make it the greatest game of all, but for a tiny little company it’s a hell of an achievement. A compulsive gaming experience. 










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VlSUalS 65% * The graphics are none too flashy but they’re workable. Sound 75% ' An especially pleasing scream effect as you mow 
down hapless infantry Gameplay 66% * Tank games tend to be a little involved but persevere and you will enjoy it. especially in network 
play. Longterm 76% ■ Networkable... need I say more. Overall 72% - Excitement... loaded! Fun... loaded! Mayhem... loadedl 
















































The much hyped Armored Fist was the long-awaited great tank sim. 
Unfortunately it didn’t quite turn out that way. LLIill the unheralded Tank 
Commander take the crown? CHRIS LUHEELER locks himself inside a 
steel coffin to find out... 

They've been at it for years haven’t they? Game programmers desperately trying to produce a tank game that 
lives up to those subconscious images we keep in our inner brain - great machines of steel and fury, dealing death 
and destruction to all who would stand against it. Movies like Kelly's Heroes, Battle of the Bulge and A Bridge too 
Far led us to imagine that a computer based tank simulation would be challenging, exciting and most of all. bloody. 

How wrong we were. Team Yankee, Ml, Armored Fist; no matter how good they looked somehow there was 
always something missing. With Tank Commander there still is something missing but fortunately they’ve substi¬ 
tuted whatever it is with the ability to blow the crap out of your friends... yes, this is a networkable tank game. And 
there was much rejoicing... 

Networking Is The Winner 

As a one-player game this piece of software is definitely inferior to Armored Fist - graphically and sound-wise the 
NovaLogic game has the money. AF’s gameplay is also better and it feels more realistic, but who can really tell 
that until you’ve been crammed into an M1A1 dodging T-80’s in Fulders Gap. Although Tank Commander is cer¬ 
tainly not unplayable as a solo game - it features some nice graphics (though a bit Stella 7-like), good sound, as 
well as a well structured campaign which takes you from go to woe, gradually introducing new weapons (HE 
rounds, AP rounds, laser guided missiles, co-axial machine gun, flame thrower and the like) and more dangerous 
fofes; it is the network ability of the game that is the true winner. 

You can either go head-to-head in a one-tank-each scenario battling it out mano-e-mano action-style with the 
friend of your choice, or you can go tactical and pit your command skills against each other by fighting with a tank 
platoon (4 vehicles). To facilitate command of several tanks there is a satellite view command screen which allows 
you to move tanks via setting way points. You can also warp into any of your tanks whenever you wish, taking con¬ 
trol of either the commander, driver or gunner. 

Cute features include video inserts of your crew (which look suspiciously like fat, bearded game designers) shout¬ 
ing hints and reports to you during the battle, a great helicopter recon option which shows you a helicopter view 
along a designated flight path (thus allowing you to see behind hills and ridges), and the ability to summon an air 
strike from an A-10 Tank Killer - though considering you fight in a British made Challenger and given the U.S pen¬ 
chant for mowing down friendly tank columns by mistake, this may prove little comfort. 

Kicking Metallic Butt 

One last feature that deserves a mention is the incredible intro. Whilst I’ve seen better graphics in other intros, the 
excellent direction gives this one a great cinematic quality. Take a look at the opening tracking shot... out of control! 

Overall this is not the game we’ve been holding our breaths for since time began, but then again its not a turkey 
either. If you enjoy the lonely pleasures of arm-chair tank command, I’d go with Armored Fist. If, however, you 
think the prospect of sending a sliver of steel flying at over 3000 fps into the armoured body of a close friend 
sounds appealing, then this game is for you... So, put the boot stomping scene from Battle of the Bulge on the 
VHS, whack on a black beret and go kick some metallic butt! 






Pyrotechnics 



Psygnosis is churning the games out and their latest effort mixes 
Descent uuith old-skool vector graphics. UUho needs realism ujhen you've 
got psychedelia? (JUell. there’s CHRIS WHEELER for one... 

Things start to get a little strange in the realms of computer entertainment when you begin to see clones of 
clones of clones. First came Doom, then came Doom II, then came System Shock, then came Descent then came 
Pyrotechnica. If you play each game you can trace one from the other to the other without much difficulty. While 
this certainly brings into question the various programmer’s originality; if their product is good enough and inter¬ 
esting enough, no-one seems to mind. Such was the case with System Shock and Descent; both took a Doom-style 
interface but added a new aspect to it so as not to bore the gaming public to death. Unfortunately Pyrotechnica 
doesn't seemed to have followed suite. 

Strange Rlien Complexes 

Basically the game is a Doom-style flight simulator in the mould of Descent - with perhaps a little more flight and 
a little less Doom. Equipped with various weapons you enter strange alien complexes built in the heart of cooling 
red dwarf stars. Your mission is to rescue a team of soldiers trapped inside (very much like Descent). Once in you 
must negotiate twisting corridors and tunnels, trying to find your men, all the while getting shot at by the robotic 
guards set by the alien race. 

Some cute features include the wide variety of weaponry - lasers, cannons, mines, grenades radar and infra-red 
missiles and the like. Every weapon has its use and gamers that play favourites will be strongly disadvantaged. 
Another nice touch is the fact that the game lets you continue playing from the escape pod. This mini-ship, 
equipped only with a light laser, can be very useful in completing a level you almost finished with the mothership. 
The challenge of taking on enemy fighters and robot drones in this pip squeak vehicle is one of the game highlights. 

This game's upside is also its down side. Confused? This is a simple style, old fashioned game, perhaps more at 
home on the Amiga then the PC. It doesn't try for anything new or innovative, it is simply a computer game in the 
classic tradition. To this end it has a High Score list and the two player option isn't a modem link, its simply an 
alternating man setup so you can compete with a friend. The controls are very simple (I suggest playing with a joy¬ 
stick) and its plot is wafer thin. To this end it succeeds in producing a fun (though not amazing) game. The down¬ 
side of this is obvious; in a world where Doom II, Dark Forces, Wing Commander III and Warcraft exist, you have 
to take some design risks in order to achieve anything worthwhile. Pyrotechnica takes no risks, its a game in the 
mould of a thousand others. 

Blocky and Vectored 

Whilst the gameplay is good and intuitive, the graphics leave much to be desired - very blocky and vectored - in 
the style of the cyberspace sections of System Shock. Once you see it you'll understand the Amiga analogy. In a 
marketplace that includes TIE Fighter and Descent this game seems hopelessly out-classed, but if you happen to 
like the "obvious computer graphics” aesthetic then you'll be happy. The sound is okay, but really nothing can save 
a game which presents this badly. 

With all that said, the game is fun, and (for the right player) is a welcome return to old-style computer games. 
Bit of tactics, bit of skill, bit of trigger itch - not a bad day’s gaming. For those of us waiting for the next big 
thing... the wait continues. For myself, 1 had a little fun zooming around for awhile and doing the laser thing, but 
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ViSUalS 6 0% Great, for 19 VI0. It's sort of nice to see some "olil-skool" graphics again though. 
Sound 65% Nothing either way. G O HI O ~ play 7 2 % - Easy and intuitive. No hassles.. 
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gameplay means that it is like three games rolled into one. Longterm 90% * Why would you want to stop with the crew of the Enterprise 
at your fingertips and so many new places to explore. It’s time to go where no one has gone before! Overall 92% " * 3 ^ ot - A high 

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Yes Trekkers. it's dream come true time! The ultimate Trek game beamed 
into the HYPER office for this exclusive review. JULIAN SCHOFFEL takes 
control of the Enterprise... 


This game has taken rather a long time to complete, and the question is, has it been worth the wait? In one 
word: YES. In Star Trek: Next Generation (STTNG) “A Final Unity” you pull the strings of the entire crew of the 
Enterprise NCC-1701D. All of the lead actors from the TV series reprise their roles in this amazing CD only release 
from Spectrum Holobyte. STTNG combines different elements from the genres of strategy, adventure and space 
combat to create a PC game quite unlike anything I have seen before. 

Neutral Zone 

The game begins with Riker reporting an unidentified ship speeding through the forbidden Neutral Zone. Data 
announces that it is a Garidian vessel. The occupants of this Garidian scout ship then implore you to help them 
elude their pursuer; a huge Garidian Warbird. After beaming the unfortunate Garidians aboard, you now have to 
deal with the wrath of their pursuers. As Captain Picard you must decide whether you will use diplomacy or force; 
if you’re too nice the Captain of the Warbird will try to blow you away, if you're too aggressive you get the same 
result. It’s decisions like these that give STTNG a decidedly non-linear style. 

The game is incredibly detailed and gives you access to voluminous amounts of Star Trek related information. 
From the Bridge you can issue orders to the likes of Riker, Troi, Worf and Data, or you may just decide to jack into 
the ship’s computer to find out about anything from Romulan eating habits, to the atmospheric composition of 
that planet you were thinking of visiting. 

While there is an underlying plot, which concerns the alleged existence of a Fifth Scroll of particular importance 
to your Garidian guests, you’re not locked into one path of play - the game allows you to travel to a huge variety of 
destinations in your search for relevant information. 

Klingons On The Starboard Bow 

What sets STTNG apart from most other games of this type is the comprehensive degree of control you have; in 
space combat situations you configure the shields, designate which weapons you want to use, you can even choose 
which characters you want to send on Away missions. The game features a variety of different interfaces; the one 
onboard the Enterprise is fairly reminiscent of many strategy games where you use a combination of menus and 
sub-menus depending on which of the ship's systems you are manipulating. Whereas when you embark on an Away 
mission, you use a fairly standard point and click interface to control the members of your team. 

The graphics of STTNG are quite stunning. If you have the hardware you can run the cinematic cut-scenes in let- 
terboxed SVGA . Most of the backgrounds in the adventure sections of the game appear to be rendered, so they 
also look fantastic. Character animations are smooth and very detailed (right down to the smallest wrinkle and 
bump on WorFs forehead). 

One of the strongest aspects of the game is the quality of the voice acting. Let’s face it, so many CD games are 
let down by crappy acting, but fortunately STTNG is not one of them. Obviously having the budget to hire the 
actors from the TV series to do the voices has helped things considerably. Other miscellaneous sound-effects are 
also good with the soundtrack being of a similar quality. 

Guns and Diplomacy 

STTNG is a huge non-linear game. There is no single pre-determined route that you are forced to adhere to. You 
are permitted to follow your instincts and explore new parts of the star system. Exploration usually results in con¬ 
tact with new characters and a subsequent Away mission. While these missions are of the usual Star Trek variety, 
their successful completion hinges on the skills of the team you picked, so don’t send Worf on any diplomacy relat¬ 
ed excursions! 

To date, this is easily the most si/ccessfully executed Star Trek game I have played. The combination of great 
voice-acting, excellent visuals, atmospheric sound effects and diverse gameplay makes STTNG a must for fans of 
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A Final Unity is not so much an adven¬ 
ture game: that would be too ordinary, too 
mundane. Instead, it aims far higher and 
achieves its goal admirably. This game is 
nothing less than a complete Enterprise- 
sim There are no practical restrictions on 
how you use the awesome power at your 
disposal - you can go anywhere, kill any¬ 
thing or simply cruise the cosmos. 

The on-board locations are both beauti¬ 
ful and functional, conveying a sense of 
really being a part of the ship and crew 
The real actors voices also make you feel 
like part of the team If you’re into Trek 
technology rather than personalities 
though, relax because the comm screens 
are some of the sexiest techy-stuff you’re 
likely to have on your monitor 

Aside from the character control. A Final 
Unity reminds me (in a happy nostalgic 
way) of the classic Lightspeed Just you 
and a huge starship free to go anywhere in 
a vast galaxy. Still, the game does have 
work for you to do, the questing aspect 
avoids the dreaded linear approach, but at 
the end of the day it's still their script 
you're playing to. not yours. It’s disguised 
well though, with a frighteningly genuine 
feeling of actually being immersed in an 
episode of Next Gen - for the first few 
hours at least 

Let it be known that I hate adventure 
games, this one though has a magnetism 
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The game has an unintimidating warmth, 
yet provides massive scope and complexity 

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Seal of the 
Pharaoh 



Available: NOW 
Category: RPG/ADVENTURE 
Players: ONE 
Publisher: PANASONIC 
Price: S84.00 
Rating: TBC 

Oh dear. In all my days as a freelance games 
abuser, never have I come across anything quite so 
dreadful as Seal of the Pharaoh. Sure I hated 
Dragon and the mere mention of Mickey and 
Minnies' Great Circus Adventure is enough to send 
me into a depressive fit, but this “game" ("waste of 
time" is far more apt) really takes the cake. It's a 
role playing game that is so basic, so dull and just 
so downright stupid, that words cannot describe 
the feeling of utter revulsion I got when I played it. 

Why? Well because we're talking about a 3DO 
game here, not just a dodgy PC shareware game or 
a sloppy movie tie-in for the 16 bitters, but a game 
for the new generation, high end console nirvana 
that’s supposed to be happening. The competition 
is supposed to be so tight that no one can afford to 
put a foot wrong and here we find Panasonic try¬ 
ing to foist this load of donkey doo on us as a new 
high in adventure gaming! 

Seal of the Pharaoh is a characterless trawl through 
a series of tunnels looking for something that by the 
second attempt I just didn’t care about. The action 
is very primitive, akin to a lot of the console RPGs. 
You walk along a roleplaying procedure of initiative, 
combat rounds and random number generated "to 
hit" probability. Now, I’m not against this system of 
combat resolution but when that is all a game has to 
offer then you know something's 
wrong. Occasionally, an item appears 
or a non player character turns up to 
give you a clue but for the most part it’s 
walk, fight, yawn, and so on. 

Even with the 3DO’s supposed CPU 
beef this game looks like some dodgy 
homemade shareware game that you 
might pay 10 bucks for. It has that 
late 80’s computer animation feel to it 
(like the stuff they used to show on 
Quantum), lots of spherical conglom¬ 
erates trying to pass themselves as 
monsters and a seriously dull tun- 
nelscape as a background. The sound 
effects and voices are reasonable but 
unremarkable and overall the nicest 
thing I can say is that, as an experi¬ 
ence (for this is what 3DO game’s are 
meant to be) it is at best bland. 

Look I don’t want to talk about this 
“game" any more. Just don’t even 
touch this bodgy piece of shit. You 
might catch something. 


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Wicked 18 



Available: NOW 
Category: GOLF 
Players: 1-4 
Publisher: T&E SOFT 
Price: $84.00 
Rating: TBC 

All self-respecting sports fans love their golf 
games. The problem for developers is that, basical¬ 
ly, a golf game is a golf game is a golf game and 
with the level of gameplay we now have, all the 
extra features that they stick in to entice us are 
pretty much window dressing. Sure, more players, 
more courses and more stats are all good things 
but whether they’re enough to make us fork out 
for a new game when we already have a good one 
is another matter entirely. 

And so to Wicked 18, the first 3DO golf game 
I’ve seen, and the first in a new genre: Sword & 
Sorcery Golf. Yes. along with a personal caddy and 
polite crowd, you’ll be faced with deep gorges, 
dangerous volcanoes and perilous precipices (pre- 
cipii?). And that’s not even mentioning the myste¬ 
rious bits of earth that hang in the sky. Hey, if you 
thought saving the princess was difficult you ought 
to try playing the first nine in even par! 

No longer satisfied with those regulation golfing 
sims? Get ready for Extreme Golf! Well that’s the 
theory anyway, and while there’s no doubt that 
floating mountains and lakes of fire make the aver¬ 
age round somewhat tougher, there's still probably 
not enough here to send you racing for a copy. 

It plays well (like virtually every other golf game) 
and there’s plenty of detail in terms of shot selection, 
stance, fade and ball lie to keep even 
the most diehard fan happy, but it real¬ 
ly isn’t revolutionary. To be fair, it’s 
hard to imagine how a golf game could 
be revolutionary and there are some 
nice touches: talking caddies, good 
speech on the hole summaries and the 
ability to save your favourite shots for 
posterity are among the best. On the 
other side of the ledger, the absence of 
overhead view and the limit of one 
course are features you’d criticise in a 
cart, and to be honest, some of the 
graphics aren't much better either. 

Bottom line is that you’ll enjoy this if 
you’ve got a few friends over but it’s 
not a whole lot better than golf on the 
16bitters, even with geography that's 
literally based on Hell. 


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Available: NOW 
Category: ADVENTURE 
Players: ONE 
Publisher: INTERPLAY 
Price: TBA 
Rating: TBC 

If you've ever read J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy mas¬ 
terpiece The Lord Of The Rings, then you'll know 
exactly the sort of vast, gloomy landscape and 
mysterious atmosphere that the book conjures up. 
Unfortunately, this doesn’t make for a very excit¬ 
ing game. In fact it makes for a very slow, tedious 
game. With sprites the size of matchsticks, menu¬ 
hopping that moves from screen to screen as slow 
as a drugged-out snail and simplistic object collect¬ 
ing, this potential corker is flat, dull and terribly 
frustrating The game looks very nice with huge, 
lush landscapes — sometimes covered in early 
morning mist — with the menacing soundtrack 
quivering beneath. . . it captures the book's atmos¬ 
phere quite well. The problem is that these “land¬ 
scapes" seem to stretch on forever. Your little 
Frodo is rather slow. Sometimes you're looking for 
one measly object (so as to satisfy the game’s lin¬ 
ear approach). And whilst you're wandering back 
and forward across the vast "gaming areas”. 
there’s nothing to do! Maybe a few wolves jump 
out at you. but the majority of the time is spent 
walking Frodo across endless screens of. . . noth¬ 
ing. Maybe this captures the book's sense of deso¬ 
lation a little too well. 

You can pick up friends along the way, but they 
do very little except get killed by pissy snakes and 
bats that you could have fought off 
with your pinky. When it comes to 
the inevitable swordplay between you 
and countless goons, the whole thing 
is rather sad. Frodo can "thrust" and 
"parry” and he’s slow at it too. Quite 
simply, this game doesn't come close 
to other action/RPGs available such 
as good old Zelda or Secret Of Mana 
or even Shadowrun (when is that 
sequel coming out anyway?). There’s 
a decent enough game in there, and it 
will probably satisfy Tolkien freaks, 
but on the whole it's a bit of a disap¬ 
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Players: 1-2 
Publisher: CAPCOM 
Price: TBA 
Rating: TBC 


King of 
Dragons 



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Players: 1-2 
Publisher: CAPCOM 
Price: TBA 
Rating: TBC 


Speedy 

Gonzales 



Available: NOW 


Category: PLATFORM 
Players: ONE 
Publisher: SUNSOFT 
Price: TBA 
Rating: TBC 


OK. here’s what Knights of the Round is all 
about: you walk from left to right, hitting anything 
in your way with a big sword. Doesn't that sound 
like fun! 

To spice the action up even more (as if that was 
possible!), you can choose from one of three charac¬ 
ters to do your rampaging with. Cool huh? There’s 
Lancelot. Percival and Arthur to choose from. The 
first two are better at either speed or strength, while 
Arthur is an average at everything fighter. 

Think that’s awesome? Well check this out! After 
every dozen or so little baddies, a big baddie fronts 
up for a bigger and longer lasting battle! Phwoar! 

Why do they still bother making games like this? 
Playing it is so screamingly dull, that you have to 
feel pity for the poor programmers whose time was 
so criminally wasted. 

The graphics are your standard Capcom formula; 
bright and blocky sprites set against a pasty back¬ 
ground. The bad guys have been randomly picked 
from Capcom’s Big Book of Medieval Sprites, and 
the music is so bland you won't even notice it 
(which is a good thing). 

The action conforms rigidly to the tried and test¬ 
ed approach we know and hate; each fighter gets a 
basic close range attack, a jumping attack and a 
whopper screen clearing move - the latter only able 
to be used a few times each level. 

So, if you like your games boring and 
uninspired, with more than just a touch 
of formula, then Capcom's Knights of 
the Round is the game for you. 


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Way hey! It’s another left-to-right scroller from 
the old reliable Capcom template. Like Knights of 
the Round, King of Dragons tries very hard not to 
do anything new, instead relying on the formula 
Capcom reckon we love. 

For designers, knocking off one of these dullards 
is work done in a rush and mostly on auto-pilot. A 
few will get sold, a few more rented, with a few 
more dollars in the Capcom coffers. They know it 
won’t make any top-ten charts, but they did their 
maths and saw a profit. So it is and will always be. 

This bout features a choice of five fighters, each 
has special weapons and strengths, although the 
basic controls and moves remain the same for all. 
Playing this straight after Knights of the Round 
was a confusing experience. It's as if only the 
graphics were changed; the moves and controls are 
identical, as is the general feel of the game. 

The setting is medieval; fantasy, with most bad¬ 
dies of the mutant ore variety. The interest factor 
is kept marginally above rock-bottom by way of 
the many bonus power-ups. the most novel of 
which is a floating orb that wastes everything in 
sight when it's shot. 

In two-player mode the game may just hold your 
interest for an hour or so. but that's about it. Our 
Advertising Sales Director’s five year old son visit¬ 
ed while we were playing, we left him 
with the game but after just a couple 
of minutes he wandered off. "Don’t 
you want to play anymore. Damien?" 
we ventured. "Nup! This game's bor¬ 
ing!" . We ll leave it at that I think. 


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Have you ever paused to think were the video 
game genre would be without the device of the kid¬ 
nap? How many games have you played where 
someone (usually a princess - what is it with this 
monarchist crap?) is kidnapped and you must save 
them? It may well be that Patty Hearst (famous 
kidnap victim - Ed) is the most influential figure in 
games today. Sadly, the princess never does an 
ideological backflip and blows you away when you 
arrive to rescue her, but that’s another story. 

If you're struggling to divine the relevance of all 
that (and why wouldn't you be?) you’ll be happy 
to know that the kidnap-as-substitute-for-a-plot 
features in Speedy’s new adventure. All the mice in 
Speedy's village are kidnapped by Los Gatos 
Bandidas ("the cat burglars" if my Spanish serves 
me) who are basically Sylvester the cat and a cou¬ 
ple of other feline roughnecks. And. after being 
alerted by good old Slowpoke Rodriguez (surely 
you remember him?). Speedy must save them 
using his rat cunning and his...well ..speed 

Even with such a thrilling prologue I must admit I 
had my doubts about this one, but it's not nearly 
as horrendous as it could have been. Any positive 
comments about the game must be seen in the 
context of the game as a bog standard platformer, 
but there’s plenty of bog standard platformers 
worse than this one. It's colourful, rel¬ 
atively fast (though not exactly 
"speedy") and the better than aver¬ 
age sound features a healthy dose of 
"Arriba’s" and "Gracias’s" Those 
who rent may like it more than they 
expect, even if it is dead easy, and the 
kiddies (bless 'em, bless 'em) will 
probably love it. 


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Bonkers 



Available: TBA 
Category: PLATFORMER 
Players: ONE 
Publisher: CAPCOM 
Price: TBA 
Rating: TBC 


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Ticonderoga 



Available: NOW 
Category: STRATEGY 
Players: ONE 
Publisher: MINDSCAPE 
Price: $39.95 
Rating: TBC 


Bonkers is a police-cat Disney character who 
throws bombs everywhere, collecting police badges 
and avoiding grumpy guard dogs and monkeys 
with a mean curveball. Hey, it may sound stupid, 
but actually it’s a very fine platformer. In fact. I'd 
even go so far as to say it’s a very fine platformer. . 

. indeed. Looking as lovely as only Disney-inspired 
platformers can look, Bonkers packs a mean sense- 
of-humour and a rip-snorting, jolly-good platform¬ 
ing romp. Combining elements of Mario. Sonic, 
Bubsy, the Mickey Mouse series and er. . . some 
other platformer that I can't quite place, Bonkers 
is a jack of all trades, good for stealing lots of little 
bits of each great platformer and including few of 
it’s own cute twists and turns, but lacking in the 
originality stakes and certainly nothing gobsmack- 
ingly brilliant. 

I laughed. Not at the game, but at the continue 
screen. You’re told a joke by a goldfish in an over¬ 
coat and if you choose to laugh (he smiles and 
bows) the game continues. If however, you choose 
to ignore his pathetic attempts at humour, it’s 
Game Over and the theatre promptly explodes I 
predict you’ll be continuing quite a bit, as Bonkers 
is certainly not a skip through the local tulip field. 
It's quite tricky in spots and there’s a healthy dose 
of that rare additive — variety. Hopping, dashing, 
bomb-hurling and interacting with 
funny objects are all the go. 

The game is visually almost cartoon 
perfect, except that Bonkers doesn't 
animate or control as well as other 
Disney game characters have. The 
timing is a bit sluggish and takes a bit 
of getting used to, but soon you'll be 
wrapped up in solving the tricks and 
conquering the levels that it will be 
second nature. There seem to be a lot 
of hidden depths to this game that 
you'll no doubt plunge after you've fin¬ 
ished it, secrets that are not obvious at 
first but need a bit of experimentation 
to be solved. There’s enough fun and 
games in this platforming experience 
to keep you happy for days, maybe 
weeks. Definitely give it a rent, you 
might even want it for keeps. 


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Full marks to Konami’s marketing department on 
this one. While everyone else took advantage of 
last year’s World Cup to release all manner of soc¬ 
cer carts, they've waited until now to release their 
effort — and a very fine effort it is too. Still, no 
one really gives a toss (or is that a throw-in?) 
about soccer right now, so International Superstar 
Soccer (nice name it is too — descriptive, yet 
enticing) is bound to get less attention than it 
actually deserves. It's a Byte Sizer after all. 

Lack of hype aside, this is an excellent game. In 
fact, it’s probably one of the best soccer carts cur¬ 
rently kicking around (Soccer Game Pun Number 
234) for the SNES. It even challenges both FIFA 
and Sensi Soccer — but I really can’t adopt too 
authoritative a tone with that claim. All I can say 
is that I’ve enjoyed my time with it thoroughly. 

Going for a fairly tight, side-on perspective has 
given the designers more room for bigger sprites 
and slicker animation. The down-side is you get to 
see less of the Field at any given time, but a good 
on-screen “radar” largely overcomes the problem. 
Better still, the controls (particularly the passing) 
are excellent and the feel is just about spot on. 

More pluses: the sound is fine (your basic crowd 
noises and things with some sparse commentary — 
“Kick Off', “Yellow Card” and the like); the play¬ 
ers actually look like real players (I 
could spot Roberto Baggio's ponytail 
or that Columbian mid-fielder’s afro 
anywhere) even though they don’t 
have their real names; and there's 
options a’ plenty (single games, tour¬ 
naments, practice drills and the very 
unusual “Scenario Mode’’ — 

“Argentina is 3-1 down and reduced 
to 10 men with only two minutes to 
play. Can you win?"). Minuses: no 
four-player option or battery save. 

As always, it all comes down to the 
gameplay and International Superstar 
Soccer shines out like an oasis in a 
desert of mediocrity. Feel? It feels bet¬ 
ter than James Brown and certainly 
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There is a game genre that may as well be known 
as the NATO/Warsaw Pact conventional and 
nuclear strategic and tactical naval warfare sim. 
It’s been with us since not long after the dawn of 
gaming, and has been ruled for almost as long by 
the indescribably perfect Harpoon. Lesser pre¬ 
tenders like Aegis give it a fair shot, but only 
Harpoon has offered the gamer a realistic and 
playable representation of WWIII. 

Now from Mindscape comes U.S.S. Ticonderoga, 
it centers around the workings of the said ship, 
which is specifically designed to provide an umbrel¬ 
la for carrier groups against missile attack. 

Ticonderoga is more of a ship-sim rather than a 
strategy game - much like Seawolf. This is where 
the games shortcomings lie as. by it's very nature, 
the game is spent entirely at the C.I.C (Combat 
Information Center) screens, where maps show 
current contacts and where your attacks are 
launched. The unhappy problem is that the game 
is bulked-out by convoluted screens, which are 
supposed to convey the impression of physically 
travelling around the ship. In the heat of a multiple 
missile attack, the last thing in the world you want 
is to slowly navigate your way from the bridge to 
the C.I.C. There are hotkey shortcuts, but using 
them (which is essential) defeats the purpose of 
the game. 

The actual C.I.C screens are pretty visuals 
awful, which is a shame since they are 
the last hope for any gameplay. 

Launching attacks and defensive 
actions is something you need to do in 
a hurry, but wouldn’t want to due to 
the poorly designed interfaces. 

To play effectively, 95% of the beau¬ 
tiful screens must be ignored, with 
what’s left a let down. Suitable per¬ 
haps as a training-wheels introduction 
to the genre, the best course of action 
though, would be to leave it on the 
shelf and admire the pretty box from 
a distance. 


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Alien Breed - 
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Available: NOW 
Category: ACTION 
Players: 1-2 
Publisher: TEAM 17 
Price: $89.95 
Rating: M 


Super Street 
Fighter 2 Turbo 



Available: NOW 
Category: BEAT’EM UP 
Players: 1-2 
Publisher: CAPCOM 
Price: $89.95 
Rating: N/A 


The Daedalus 
Encounter 



Available: NOW 


Category: ADVENTURE/PUZZLE 

Players: ONE 
Publisher: VIRGIN 
Price: $89.95 
Rating: G8 


At first glance you’d think Team 17's latest offer¬ 
ing takes their original Alien Breed concept and 
infuses new blood into the game by adding better 
gameplay, more creatures, and yes. even a plot. 
Well, they sorta half got there but before I begin 
slagging off the game (really, it’s not that bad) let 
me tell you a little bit about it. 

You're a space marine intercepting a distress call 
from a mining colony on a remote planet - something 
about an alien attack. You and your team go to the 
rescue, but your dropship crashes and you are strand¬ 
ed on the planet. The only way out is find the source 
of this evil, and kill the Alien Queen and maybe save 
some colonists along the way. Sound familiar? Yeah, 
unfortunately the game tries desperately hard to be 
an Aliens clone, with the opening sequence (actually 
quite good SPFX if you bother sitting through all 10 
minutes of it), the storyline - and heck even the aliens 
themselves look like Geiger spawn. The result being 
that little originality is devoted to concept and game- 
play. Shoot anything that moves, pick up medikits. 
save colonists...yaaawwwwn. 

Any good points? The top view perspective makes 
the gameplay pretty easy to figure out, and it can be 
played with a mere 2-button joystick (although I 
found a gamepad was slightly easier). Two player 
action is a lot of fun - even if you’re side by side, not 
over modem. The graphics are ade¬ 
quate for a bird’s-eye view game, with 
the plethora of slaughtered miners and 
the sounds of aliens munching on civil¬ 
ian cadavers adding an unnecessary 
gore element we have grown to love. 

Any really bad points? A couple. The 
copy protection is a real hassle; it’s 
one of those photocopy proof black 
sheets with hundreds rows of numbers 
that I though would be phased out 
with the introduction of CD-ROM. I 
mean guys, really. I don’t think that 
many of us have acquired CD- 
Recorders as yet. Just one other thing 
- if you can figure out how to exit the 
game you’re a better gamer than I. 

In the end, it’s a simple game to play 
which will leave you either enjoying 
the mind-numbing qualities of a basic 
shoot-em up for a while, or like me 
you’ll quest on for something a little 
more cerebral. 


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The PC community has long been spared the 
addictive madness that is Street Fighter 2, thanks 
to the awful conversion of the basic game. Now 
the honeymoon is over. Super Street Fighter 2 
Turbo is here to steal away those few remaining 
hours in the week which you force yourself to 
spend with family and friends. 

Alongside the Mortal Kombat series. SSF2T 
dominates the arcade and console beat 'em up 
scene. Why? Awesome gameplay and supreme vio¬ 
lence, a simple recipe really. Where MK uses digi¬ 
tised actors, the Street Fighter games have always 
stuck to the colourful computer sprites which have 
an unmistakable "Capcom style". 

Controlling the fighters is not so much a case of 
moving a representation of a person around, 
instead the idea is to risk RSI and fire a sequence 
of complicated commands through the control 
pad, with the sprite hopefully coming up trumps in 
the ensuing flurry. 

The "Turbo" edition adds a few new features, the 
most significant of which is the addition of a power 
bar at the bottom of the screen. This has nothing 
to do with the all-important health meter; its func¬ 
tion is to charge up power for devastating special 
attacks. Another Turbo special feature is the 
adjustable speed setting. True SF2 masters play on 
the fastest Turbo setting, it’s unbe¬ 
lievably hard but Street Fighter is a visuals 
game of pure skill and the speed selec¬ 
tor lets you up the pace as your skill 
grows. The PC version includes the 
ability to play as the mighty Akuma, 
with the arcade and console cheats 
carrying over as well. 

To coincide with the games release, 
hardware distributor Westan is bring¬ 
ing in the Phantom 2 joypad for the 
PC. It’s the world’s first 6 button pad 
for the PC and is essential if you’re 
serious about your Street Fighting. 

You won’t need one if you have four 
hands, but to get the most out of this 
excellent game you’ll need to be as well 
equipped as your console brethren. 


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The Daedalus Encounter is a huge 3 CD game 
from Virgin. It stars Tia Carrere (Wayne’s World, 
True Lies) and features over two hours of live action 
footage. I'm sure that if you're anything like me 
though, you don't give a rat’s ass about how much 
live action footage’ it contains. After all, if we want 
to watch a movie we hire a video. The most impor¬ 
tant aspect of any game is gameplay and unfortu¬ 
nately in this area The Daedalus Encounter has a 
fairly serious case of Critical Path’ disease. 

The Daedalus Encounter is a sci fi game and your 
character is a crew member on a surplus ship; the 
Artemis. While Tia Carrere plays one of your fellow 
crew members, don't buy the game hoping to mas¬ 
termind a romantic interlude with her (as in Wing 
Commander 3). Unfortunately your character has 
had a nasty accident (prior to the start of the game) 
which resulted in some minor surgery...OK, it’s not 
so minor; the only part of you they could save was 
your brain, which they transplanted into a life sup¬ 
port system. So unless Tia Carrere wants a very cere¬ 
bral relationship, you're on your own. champ. 

I’m afraid this game is another of the "push button 
at exactly the right moment and watch cinematic 
sequence" variety. In fact The Daedalus Encounter 
is really nothing more than a lot of footage of Tia 
Carrere mincing around in a commando outfit past¬ 
ed together with some Bioforge and 
7th Guest type puzzles 

While the animation and live action 
footage is of a very high standard it 
just doesn't compensate for the play¬ 
er’s limited interaction with the gam¬ 
ing world. The game runs in Windows 
only which means that things can get 
a little unstable if your video card dri¬ 
vers aren’t fairly stock standard. I ran 
the game using a Number 9 PCI 
graphics card and it kept crashing at 
regular intervals; very irritating. 

All in all I was disappointed with 
The Daedalus Encounter If it was 
released two years ago it probably 
would have been a huge hit, but 
because most of us have seen CD 
games with fancy graphics by now it 
has probably Myst’ the boat. 

Julian Schoffel 


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Are You Afraid 
of the Dark? 

The Tale of Orpheo’s Curse 



Available: NOW 
Category: ADVENTURE 
Players: ONE 

Publisher: VIACOM NEW MEDIA 
Price: $64.95 
Rating: G8+ 


Might & Magic: 
World Of Xeen 



MAC b PC CD ROM 


Available: NOW 
Category: RPG 
Players: ONE 

Publisher: NEW WORLD COMPUTING 
Price: $89.95 
Rating: N/A 


Spaceward Ho! 



Available: NOW 

Category: STRATEGY/CONQUEST 
Players: 1-19 

Publisher: NEW WORLD COMPUTING 
Price: $59.95 
Rating: N/A 


While it seems strange, even ridiculous, to have a 
horror game which is rated G (gee. Mickey I seem 
to be tripping over my own intestines). Viacom 
have decided to take the chance and produce The 
Tale of Orpheo’s Curse, the first in a series of 
Storytelling adventures in the Are you afraid of the 
Dark? series. 

You play two standard American kids (ala 
Goonies) who must venture into the haunted 
Orpheo theatre as part of an initiation into a horror 
club called the Midnight Society. Succumbing to 
peer pressure. Terry and Alex venture into an old 
vaudeville theatre to unlock the various mysteries 
within. The plot unravels as you explore, finding 
various items and listening to stories from the 
numerous ghostly denizens... are you scared yet? 

The game interface is a standard point and click 
routine, with the cursor changing shapes as it 
moves round the screen depending on whether you 
can interact with the item/situation beneath it. At 
various times in the story you play either both 
Terry and Alex or one or the other. The plot can 
be resolved in several ways; some satisfying, some 
not - and your own story can end at any given time 
(like a Choose Your Own Adventure book) 
depending on what decisions you make. 

The graphics and sound of the game are good but 
you will have seen and heard better. 

My main problem with it is that for a 
horror game it doesn’t have much 
atmosphere - you never really feel 
scared. I realize that terrifying a gen¬ 
eration bought up on Freddy and 
Jason may be difficult but I would 
have liked at least a spine shiver or a 
bit of a chill. 

This game might prove okay for 
those who want to initiate younger 
siblings (or offspring) into the joys of 
horror with out pissing off their par¬ 
ents. but for us grown ups the average 
episode of Scooby Doo will prove 
more terrifying. 

"And I would have succeeded if it 
wasn’t for you pesky kids....” 


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The Might and Magic series has been around for 
years, appearing even on the SNES. and it's finally 
been souped-up and stuck on a CD-ROM. Nothing 
much has changed. World Of Xeen is the classic 
Might & Magic game engine with a few fancy bits 
thrown in to make it look and sound prettier. This 
is perfect though, for the "novice" gamer. Hard, 
cynical, thoroughly experienced gamers like myself 
will tire quickly with it’s repetitive formula and 
simplified level of character-involvment. The 3D 
view of Xeen. still doesn't scroll but steps and 
some of the routines (such as fighting) are even 
slower than they were on the SNES Might & 
Magic III. All the characters talk, but they appear 
to you in a tiny little box the size of your thumbnail 
and they look like they were drawn on a 
Commodore 64. But gripes aside, the gaming area 
is quite huge and it takes a while for your charac¬ 
ters to get their act together so the going is evenly 
paced (maybe a bit slow for some). As you move 
about, you’ll receive a number of quests which will 
gain you experience points on completion, priming 
your band of adventurers for the fulfilment of their 
ultimate goal. And what is that exactly? Well, with 
World Of Xeen, you actually get 2 worlds — The 
Clouds of Xeen and The Darkside of Xeen — each 
with their own goals and one final mission which 
involves travelling in between the two. 

There are some nice cinematic 
sequences, though I think "cinematic" 
is rather generous term in this case 
compared to other CD-ROMs on the 
market. Still, for Mac owners, this is 
some of the best RPGing you can get 
(because the Ultima series is probably 
never going to arrive), but for PC 
owners — unless you’re a big Might & 

Magic fan — there are some CD- 
ROM RPGs out there that makes this 
one weep. It is addictive and well 
designed though, so your money cer¬ 
tainly isn't wasted. 

Eliot Fish 


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"Will keep you entertained for hours and hours!" 
That's what it says on the back of the box. And 
you know what? It’s true. Because unless you have 
the privilege of playing this game over a network 
with other human opponents, this game’s longevi¬ 
ty is going to be in the "hour" department. Not 
the "week" department or the "month" depart¬ 
ment. Really just a piece of nicely packaged share¬ 
ware, Spaceward Ho! is a solid strategy space con¬ 
quest game that's all done with menus. Yawn. It's 
fun for about as long as it takes you to figure it out 
and conquer a few planets, but I doubt very much 
that anyone would come back to this game for 
future sessions. Unless of course, as I stated earlier, 
that you can play it over a network with a lot of 
friends. That’s when this game would really shine. 

The goal is to conquer the galaxy by populating 
planets and mining for metal. Of course, you have 
to build a variety of ships to do all this with too. 
From fighters to colony ships, you have to figure 
out where to spend your cash to get the best 
results. Playing with the bar charts and pie charts 
is how you adjust your spending. It doesn’t get 
much more complicated than that, Simply hop 
from planet to planet, terraforming it to make it 
hospitable for your colonists, and fight when it's 
necessary. It’s a basic yet addictive concept. Every 
game has a different selection of plan¬ 
ets with different gravity and temper¬ 
ature ratings, making for an endless 
strategy challenge for serious con¬ 
querors. The fun is in the network 
play, sending evil messages to your 
opponents, or all ganging up on the 
poor sod who’s got something that 
everybody else wants. The computer 
can play a clever game, but it has NO 
character. It’s almost like MOOing 
with computer generated personali¬ 
ties. For a while it’s fun but that fades 
rather quickly and the only saving 
grace is the potential for the unpre¬ 
dictability of human opponents. 


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New Enemies - Phase One Dark 
T rooper 

Tips - get good at jumping. 

Level Guide 

From the LZ jump down to the 
ground level of the complex. You’ll 
have to fight a long running battle 
with dozens of Imperial troops and 
droids as you traverse the length of 
the complex searching for the entry 
elevator. At the far end you should 
find it. After entering the elevator the 
trip through the complex is quite rou¬ 
tine. Although dangerous I don't 
need to provide you with directions as 
the path is completely defined. Walk 
through the mine until you get to the 
grinding room that has the column 
moving up and down. Jump onto the 
column and ride it to the bottom. 
Near the base there is a door in the 
side wall; jump from the column 
through this. An extended section of 
corridor now needs to be travelled. 
You’ll have to negotiate some deadly 
grinding pits along the way until you 


get to an intersection. Go left here 
and right at the next junction and 
you’ll come to a drop-off with the 
blue key visible in an alcove a short 
jump to the left. Jump across and get 
the key, then backtrack back to the 
first intersection, taking the new path 
till you get to the door. Follow this 
corridor until it comes to a grinding 
pit. Jump into this and follow the 
corridor till it comes to a drop off. 
Jump across to the metal grid jutting 
into the chasm from the left. Enter 
the corridor and follow it till it ends in 
a drop-off. Walk slowly off the right 
hand side of the corridor - don't 
worry, there's a ledge below you. 
Jump from this ledge into the alcove 
at right, follow the path around and 
ride the elevator to the mine bottom 
floor. You’ll see the main power gen¬ 
erator in the middle of this large 
room. It is here you must place the 
bomb. Find the socket on the genera¬ 
tor where the bomb goes but do not 
place it. Enter the southern corridors 


and map them out, destroying the 
turrets inside. Go back to the genera¬ 
tor and place the bomb. From the 
central column a Phase One Dark 
Trooper will appear. Kill him. I did it 
by retreating into the southern cata¬ 
combs, running backwards and 
grenading him to oblivion. After you 
waste him, ride the small elevator up. 
back to the grinding room. There will 
be a large set of doors here that are 
now open. A switch on the side will 
also be revealed. Flick the switch and 
this opens a series of doors revealing 
a long corridor lined with Imperial 
troops. Snipe the troops from here 
without moving forward. When they 
are dead, line yourself up with the 
long corridor. Now run forward and 
don’t stop until you are outside. The 
moment you step forward the doors 
begin to close, so you’ll have to be 
skilled. From here it is an easy matter 
to get back to the LZ. 

Note: The Dark Trooper cannot be 
shot when his shield is raised. 


Level Guide 

Negotiate the caverns until you get 
to the shuttle controls. The button 
here summons the shuttle; hop on and 
ride it to the fortress. Open the main 
doors by shooting at the target 


shaped remote trigger. Enter the com¬ 
plex and turn left. Pushing the button 
here opens a small door to the gate¬ 
house sniping position. The far wall of 
this room has a crack in it. Throw a 
grenade at the crack and enter the 
resulting hole (goodies inside). Back¬ 
track to the main courtyard and get 
on the large lift t the far end. Look up 
and shot the remote trigger visible on 
the top level. Go left and follow the 
corridor round, pressing the switch in 
the end room. This reveals a switch in 
the area below. Backtrack across the 
lift and jump off the platform. Ride 
the lift down and follow the corridor 
to another interior courtyard. Flick 
the switch here and get on the 
revealed elevator. Ride the elevator 
up. In this area you should find a 
large circular elevator with a switch 
on the outside. Do not enter the ele¬ 
vator, but flick the switch once. Back 
track slightly and enter the dark, 
small corridor which opens left off the 
platform elevator. Search this corridor 
until you find a crack in the wall. 

Blow up this crack and enter the 
room revealed. High on the left wall is 
another crack. Blow it open and jump 
up. This leads to an air conditioning 
duct room. On the lowest level is a 
steel door. Open this and jump down 
into the shaft revealed. You are now 
on top of the lift. Find the door on 
your level, enter it and follow the path 


till you get to a black door, open this 
and jump across to the door on the 
other side of the shaft (a lethal fall 
here so don’t miss). Negotiate crawl¬ 
way until you get to the garbage com¬ 
pactor room. Jump onto the far com¬ 
pactor and move to its far end. Across 
the way you should see another 
garbage crushing platform. Jump to it 
and move along it till you see another 
platform across the chasm; jump to it 
and from here jump to the ledge on 
the left. Open the door here and fol¬ 
low the corridor until you see a live 
mine on the floor. Trip this and enter 
the resulting hole in the wall. You’ll 
now find yourself in a long corridor 
lined with doors all marked with the 
Imperial seal. Ignore these until you 
get to a larger door at the corridors 
end. Open this and kill the Imperial 
officers in the guard post behind, get¬ 
ting both their code keys. Backtrack 
to the security code interface and 
match up the symbols on it with the 
symbols on code key 2. The first cell 
on the left contains your man. 

Note: To trip mines without getting 
damaged by them; roll a timed 
grenade next to them and find cover. 
The grenade's explosion will set off 
the mine harmlessly. 

This level is massive; the above 
method circumvents at lest three-quar¬ 
ters of the level - however you can not 
enter the cell area any other way. 













New monsters: Phase Two Dark 
T rooper 

Level Guide 

From the LZ veer right when you 
come to a divergence in the path. 

Travel along the face of the fortress 
until you come to a carved doorway 
in the ice wall. Enter this and follow 
the path, jumping across the slippery 
ice gorge and proceeding around the 
fortress until you come to a small 
doorway in the outside ice wall. Enter 
this, climb the icy stairs and jump 
into the small stream that originates 
here. Ride the current until you 
emerge into daylight and you see a 
small ice platform on the left side of 
the river. Jump onto this (there 
should be a blue key here - but the 
next move renders it useless). Do a 
running jump onto the moving tread¬ 
mill across form the ice platform. 

Ride this for awhile, beware of Imperi¬ 
al troops set to either side of the 
treadmill and turrets mounted on the 
ceilings of the overpasses. When you 
come to a guard post on your right, 
you will see a remote trigger guarded 
by several Imperials. Shoot this and 
proceed over the now open metal 
door. Enter the red door at the end of 
the treadmill, hop back on the mov¬ 
ing walkway and avoid the crushing 
roof. You’ll turn a corner and see a 
guard post across a small gap, leap to 
this and flick the switch inside. Jump 
back onto the treadmill and ride it 
through the now open door. You'll 
soon see a gap in the treadmill ahead 
of you. jump this but watch out for 
the reverse action of the opposite 
walkway. In the room ahead, go 
through the left door and activate the 
button inside. Jump up into the 
secret corridor which opens outside 
the room and follow it through a dark 
passageway. You'll find an area con¬ 
taining two buttons; press them both 
and them jump down into the turbine 


shaft. You'll now be choking on toxic 
gas. Either put on a gas mask you 
may have already found (F4) or run 
quickly forward and pick the one up 
that is lying close by. Set an explosive 
into all three sockets. Be careful to 
monitor your battery usage as the gas 
mask uses power. In the junction of 
the wall opposite the housing socket 
of the last bomb, a Phase Two Dark 
Trooper will appear. Kill it (ha ha). I 
did this by laying several mines at the 
site where he would emerge before 
placing the third bomb, this way he 
takes a ton of damage before he even 
sees you. Then just back away and 
clobber him from a distance with the 
auto-gun. Try and lure him into chas¬ 
ing you round the corridors and set 
mines for him at crucial junctions. 
After he's gone a new corridor will 
open up, enter this and proceed to 
the door. Just beyond this door in a 
concealed alcove on the right-hand 
wall waits a Phase One DT. Go 
through the door, lay a couple of 
mines then back down the new corri¬ 
dor. The DT will emerge, wear the 
explosion and come after you. Lob a 
few grenades at it and he should be a 
goner. Negotiate the maze until you 
find a well-lit corridor. There will be 
more then one DT in this maze 
depending on what difficulty setting 
watch out as you 


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you're working at 
open each new door. Follow the new 
corridor to a switch. Flick it. jump 
across the ice gorge, climb the icy 
stairs (carefully) and head back to the 
LZ. Job done! 


New Monsters: 

Concussion Rifle Snipers. 

Level Guide 

From the LZ jump down into the 
hanger. Traverse the open space till 
you find a small switch. Flick this 
and crawl into the doorway 
revealed. Get the yellow key. Go up 
the elevator and jump down onto 
the platform which juts out into the 
middle of the hanger. Turn round 
and face the door at the platforms 
end. Enter this and follow the corri¬ 
dor to a drop-off. Jump down and 
enter this tight corridor at the far 
end. Enter this and veer left 
through a door. Down steel corri¬ 
dor, across dark room, and through 
the red door at its end. U-turn right 
through another door and move 
halfway onto the bridge. Turn left 


and jump down onto the platform 
below. Go through the second door, 
find the stairs and ascend. Turn 
right and get the red key. Find the 
ledge and go up, through the small 
opening and down the stairs to the 
blue key. Backtrack to chamber 
entrance. Find this door, go 
through, get onto platform and pro¬ 
ceed through the new door. Follow 
the corridor, past the shuttle bay, 
through the door. Follow the corri¬ 
dor and proceed through the end 
doorway onto the lattice bridge. 
Cross the bridge enter the room 
beyond and get the Nav Card. Mis¬ 
sion complete! 


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Dark Forces • continued 


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SMUGGLERS DEN 


New Monsters: Huge dragon-lizard 
thingys 

Level Guide. 

When gate opens, punch monster(s) 
to death. After you have killed one a 
door will open. Go through this and 
enter the corridor. Flick the switch, 
after everything outside is dead jump 
onto the mini-ledge outside. Follow 
this around and jump down to get the 
blue key. Open the door and veer left. 


Jump gap and follow ledge around. 
When inside the new room, flick the 
switch. Back at the guard post; enter 
the now open door. Jump up to get 
your gear back, flick the switch, and 
backtrack to the now raised platform 
across the gap. Cross floor to new 
door. Avoid the mines, and enter the 
dark doorway. Flick the switch and 
backtrack to mine room. Climb the 
new stairs and enter first doorway. 

Get the red key. watching out for 
mines behind each closed door. Back¬ 
track to the large room and enter the 
second door. Enter the tall doorway, 
flick the switch and cross the raised 
bridge. Proceed down the corridor, 
across the room, into the corridor and 
up the lift. Jump the gap and enter 
the grey room beyond. Veer left, drop 


Level Guide 

From LZ veer right into corridor. Go 
forward, left, forward, right, forward 
until you come to an alcove elevator. 
Go down, turn right and find the 
street lamp. Turn left and enter the 
vast courtyard. Hard level players will 
find a Phase One DT here as well as 
oodles of bad guys. Cross the square 
and climb onto the small elevator. 
Proceed around the ledge, up another 
elevator till you come to a valve-style 
door. Dodge the search lights, get the 
blue key, jump the gap, enter the door 
and ride the large elevator to the 
floor. Enter corridor and open large 
steel door. On the other side of this 
door is an army of Imperial Comman¬ 
dos and Guard Droids (as well as a 
Phase Two DT on Hard level). Kill 
them all and enter the main complex. 
Avoid the turrets, enter the courtyard 
and find the red door. Ride the eleva¬ 
tor up and enter the right hand door. 
Flick the switch twice, exit the room 


down the shaft and get the yellow 
key. Flick switch and ride the elevator 
back up. Go to the small door and 
proceed up into a red carpeted area. 
Go up into a grey area and follow the 
orange corridor. Enter the double 
doors, down double stairs and into a 
bar area. Enter the small door, get 
the Nav Card and backtrack till you 
see an ornate door. Jump down a 
level and leap up onto the red plat¬ 
form. Enter the massive doors, flick 
the switch and cross the raised floor. 
Enter the right door and flick the 
switch. Go left into the grey area and 
go down stairs, following the corridor 
to a room. Traverse the ledge and 
jump into the far compartment. Tra- 
verse hangar and jump the gap. Open 
this door and complete rescue. Next! 


and enter the left door. Flick the red 
switch, climb onto the platform and 
leap into the dark doorway. Turn you 
light on and follow the corridor. Flick 
the switch at its end. Jump down into 
the room and proceed to its far cor¬ 
ner. Get the Dark Trooper weapon 
and the key there. Open the large 
door, enter the elevator and proceed 
trough several corridors and elevators 
till you come to an open air plaza. 
Enter the large door (on Hard there is 
a Phase Two DT in here) and flick 
the switch. Backtrack and enter the 
now revealed door. Ride the elevator 
down. You'll find a map on the wall 
and a series of doors will multiple lock 
switches. Use the map on the wall and 
your own map to work out your posi¬ 
tion. Walk around the outer ring and 
set each switch so that the first door 
is open (the topmost red light is off). 
Now. beginning at the NW door pro¬ 
ceed anti-clockwise setting the doors 
as follows; NW - bottom light off, W - 


bottom light off, SW - bottom light 
off, SE - middle light off, E - middle 
light off and NE - first light off. Enter 
the doorway in the inner wall and pro¬ 
ceed to the hub. Flick all three switch¬ 
es and ride the floor down. Flick both 
switches, insert the Nav Card into the 
slot and remove the disk when it 
arrives. Enter new doorway, traverse 
the corridor and emerge into the cor¬ 
ridor. Backtrack to the entry door and 
head back to the LZ. You kill Boba 
Fett by running away from him and 
leaping down into the courtyard 
below the LZ. Run into one of the cor¬ 
ridors which ring the courtyard and 
wait. Boba will fly in and attack you. 

If he faces you, flee and find another 
similar spot. Sometimes, however, he 
flies in and gets stuck under the roof 
for a moment; side on. When this 
happens, hammer the crap out of him 
with the DT plasma rifle and missiles. 
It’s a hard fight but persevere... 
Results: one dead Boba. 


Level guide 

From the LZ to the palm controlled 
air lock, proceed to the lift, ride up 
and go to descend the stairs. Exit the 
curved door and turn left. Proceed 
for a long while down the corridor, 
past a set of curved doors till you 
come to a steel door. Enter this and 
veer right up the stairs. Turn left and 
enter the small corridor until you find 
the opening to the courtyard. Push 
the button and jump down left into 
the courtyard. Dodge the moving 
platform and find the floor level 
switch. Press it spin round, run back 
to the ground floor opening below 
the doorway you jumped down from, 
get onto the elevator, ride it up and 
jump across onto the platform which 
is slowly swinging back to its original 
position. Ride the platform and flick 
the switch at its end. Get back onto 


the platform and ride it around 180 
degrees. Flick the switch here and 
ride the platform a further 90 degrees 
to another opening. Enter this and 
find the new corridor. Open the door, 
flick the switch in the elevator and 
exit into the corridor. Go up the 
stairs and into the next room. Go 
through the right door, into the room 
and flick the panel on the wall. Back¬ 
track to plaza. Backtrack to steel 
doors. Turn right and proceed to the 
First curved doors (the ones that you 
passed early on in the level). Enter 
these, go up the stairs, into the door¬ 
way and follow the corridor into a 
white paneled room. Veer right past 
an open doorway. Open the door and 
kill the Imperial officer to get the yel¬ 
low key. Backtrack to white room, 
open the shuttle door and flick 
switch. End of level. 

















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Level guide. 

Exit shuttle, be wary of a mine on the 
other side of the door and the Imperial 
troops waiting in ambush. Proceed into 
the white room, down the stairs, jump 
down to the level below and enter the 
doorway there. Flick the switch and 
enter the white corridor. Turn right, 
flick the switch enter the doorway, flick 
the next switch, flick the now revealed 
switch and ride the elevator panel up to 
an area with a white floor. Proceed out 
into the corridor and U-turn left. Enter 
the hangar, flick the switch and ride 
the elevator panel up to large door. 

The room beyond is steel paneled. 

Open the large door and drop down to 
the TIE-fighter hangar. Get onto the 
elevator and head straight up the corri¬ 
dor. Up the elevator to steel corridor. 

Traverse this corridor and one on the 
far side that looks similar to this door¬ 
way. Hop onto the lintel (which is actu¬ 
ally an elevator) and ride it up. Jump 
onto the series of red platforms and 
through the blue lit doorway. Proceed 


through the steel door. No matter what 
difficulty level you play on, you have to 
kill three Phase Two Dark Troopers in 
the next section. The first one is the 
hard one, just go Doom-style on the 
bastard and hose him down with plas¬ 
ma and missile - keep moving and 
never get into a fire-power contest. The 
next two you can sneak up through the 
side corridors and lay some mines at 
the entrance to their alcoves. Then lure 
them out one at a time and conduct a 
running battle throughout the plaza 
area. Try to always be moving away 
from them and keep to the small corri¬ 
dors which run up either side. Once all 
three are cactus proceed into the small 
middle door. Turn right and flick the 
switch. Proceed through each door and 
flick the switches on the far side (you 
are moving the shuttle back to the side 
of the ship). Enter the final door, flick 
both switches, turn right, hop up the 
stair to the door, go down through the 
double doors and enter the shuttle. On 
to the final battle! 


New Monsters: Welding robot arm, 
Phase Three Dark Trooper (Armour) 

Level Guide 

From the LZ jump up onto the 
doorway, go through and turn right. 
Note lattice ceiling section off to the 
right. Veer left and go down the red 
elevator. Turn right down corridor 
then turn left onto the light grey 
ledge. Dodge the welding arm and 
circle the ledge. Enter the room 
beyond and flick the switch. Back¬ 
track to the ledge and destroy the 
welding arm by shooting at its tip. 
Backtrack up elevator and go back 
to the lattice section. Cross the now 
raised lattice walkway and proceed 
through the red door. Go up the 
stairs into the darkened room, pro¬ 
ceed through the double doorway to 
a drop off on the left. All levels have 
a Phase One DT here. (Hard has two 
Phase Ones plus a phase Two). Kill 
this by lobbing timed grenades off 
the drop-off. Jump down to sunken 
area, turn left through red-lit door, 
turn right and proceed forward to 
the end of corridor (note red circle 
door across gap on left), jump onto 
platform and flick switch. Backtrack 
till opposite red circle door. Jump 
gap and proceed forward. (There is 
always a Phase Two DT here.) Turn 
left, follow corridor, go up the eleva¬ 
tor to the darkened room and turn 
right. Follow the corridor across the 
lattice bridge, go straight and turn 
right. Go up the stairs, press the 
palm lock and go up the new stairs 
now revealed. Follow corridor and 
jump onto darkened platform. Turn 
left and jump across the gap onto 
the narrow ledge. Turn right. Run 
along the narrow ledge of the column 


visible on the right, in the middle of 
the gap. Turn left and follow the cor¬ 
ridor till you come to a red door that 
cannot be opened. Turn 180 degrees 
and crawl through the low opening. 
Follow corridor to drop-off. Jump 
down and go to the second drive 
shaft on the right. Shoot the remote 
trigger. Place the first charge in the 
now visible slot. Find the elevator at 
the far end of the room and back¬ 
track to the red door (which is now 
open). Go through the door and 
press the palm lock. Follow the corri¬ 
dor to the drive column room. Nego¬ 
tiate these by getting on to the one 
on the right, riding it up and running 
onto the still alcove half way up its 
right wall. Jump from this across the 
gap to another still alcove. Run 
along the tops of the drive shafts till 
you get to a drop off. (This whole 
procedure looks much riskier then it 
is, the columns cannot crush you.) 
Jump down to the lower level and 
turn right. Find the elevator and ride 
it up. Go straight until you find a 
tiny corner gap which must be 
jumped to the new corridor. Plant 
second charge, veer left and ride the 
moving walkway. Jump the gap and 
find the red-lit doorway. Activate the 
palm lock and ride the elevator 
down. Go forward then right through 
the red door. Turn right and proceed 
to the end of the corridor. Jump 
onto the moving walkway and ride it, 
ducking at the red wedge to a large 
room. Jump onto walkway. Shoot 
remote switch on right and run along 
the walkway through to another 
large room. Enter the red door and 
proceed through the darkened corri¬ 
dors until you pass through another 


red door. Get onto the walkway. 

Turn right at the wedge, jump wall, 
left at wedge, jump wall, jump wall, 
left at wedge, duck under gap. From 
still room jump up onto walkway and 
ride it. Up elevator and then crawl 
under low gap into tunnel. Flick the 
switch and backtrack up the crawl¬ 
way till you come to a drop off on 
the right. Jump down through this. 
Follow corridor to black opening. 
Turn right and follow to room. In 
this large room you will see five 
remote switches on the wall. Trigger 
them several times; from right to left 
- 5 times, 3 times. 4 times, Once. 4 
times. This should connect the cuts 
in the opposite wall (adjust if neces¬ 
sary). Backtrack past entry door to 
elevator. Up elevator and proceed 
along corridor. Shoot remote switch 
in second drive shaft on the right. 
Place third charge. Enter now open 
red door. Jump down onto sunken 
area. There are six large doors down 
here. Four have switches and can be 
opened. Open these to open the 
massive doors at the corridors end. 
Enter this door and flick the switch 
down on the next level. This will 
reveal the General in a suit of Phase 
Three DT armour. He is deadlier 
then Boba Fett. Lure him into the 
corridors and missile him. Don’t get 
caught in the open or his multi-mis¬ 
sile will cut you to pieces. Once he's 
dead, backtrack to the remaining 
closed door (now open). Proceed 
through the next red door and com¬ 
mandeer the shuttle. End of Game! 
Pat yourself on the back and (if 
you’re over 18) go get smashed on 
several stiff drinks. 

Chris Wheeler 











74 »HYPER 






Farts & Nose Pulls 

Christian Grant had fun trying 
these moves out and then sent 
them in for all of you to try. 

To do a Stimpy fart attack, 
hold down Y until Stimpy's 
nose is solid red, then make 
Ren stand close behind him. 
Release and watch the effects 
of Stimpy's fart on Ren. 

To perform Ren's nose-pull 
attack, hold Y until Ren’s 
eyes are red and stand right 
next to Stimpy. Release and 
Ren pulls Stimpy's nose out 
like a balloon then snaps it 
back to send Stimpy bouncing 
off everything. 


miCUflCL 
JORDAI): 
CHAOS rn THE 
Wrnov ciTV 

SNES 


Heaps of Lives 
and Level Select 

Max out the fun with this 
wholesome cheat. 

Go to the Title Screen and 
select the Password Option At 
the Password Screen enter 
12345678999 You now have 73 
lives and can access any level! 


True Lies 

SNES/MD 


Level Codes 



Super whig 
commonoER 

3DO 


Debug Menu 

To access this boomer of a 
cheat, go to the Lounge and 
with controller one press X, B, 
B, C, C, A, A. If you got it 
right a sound will play. Now 
hold both left and right shift 
buttons and press start, this 
takes you to the Debug Menu. 
For complete invincibilty, select 
false for Killable and Bangable 
in the System Flags Menu. For 
an easy run select true for 
Finger of Death, when you’re 
flying and have a target locked, 
hold right shift and press B for 
instant death! Choose true for 
Picker to select your campaigns 
and missions. 


Road Rash IK 

MEGA DRIVE 


Cheat Codes 

No mucking around. Hot bikes are 
there to be had. without having to 
go the hard slog. All together now 
- Thanks Peter Brodie! 

For the third most powerful bike 
(Banzai 750) and $42,470 enter 
this password: EJ03SO0P. 

For the ultimate $40,000 
superbike with all upgrades, 
enter: V500ST0U. 


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Arnie’s new game 
isn't too foul at all 
so we thought we'd 
give you the level 
codes to help you 
out if you're stuck 
Simply access the 
password screen and 
enter these codes 

2. BRMKNRD 

3. CXGJMQC 

4. FVJBKXF 

5. HCHDXVH 

6. FBJNDBN 

7. HJBGBJC 

8. JFFFZHB 


KlrCRO KlACHinES II 

MEGA DRIVE 


Returi) Tire 

3DO 


invulnerability 

This beauty will guarantee success for your war machine! 

At the vehicle selection screen, highlight the unit you wish to make 
invincible and press C. Next, press and hold the top L and top R buttons, 
then hold B and C. Now; while still holding these; press X for the “Leave 
Game” option. While the "Don't Leave" message is highlighted, keep 
holding the L. R. B and C buttons and also hold DOWN on the control 
pad and press A. The vehicle selection sound will play twice if it worked. 
It's a bit of a chore, but you need to do this with each of the units you 
want to make invincible. 


Lotsa Stuff 

Andrew Clift has nothing 
better to do than play this very 
cool game all day. great 
attitude Andrew! 

Race 12, Rollercoaster: Drive 
around the track and through 
the tunnel. When you turn left 
at the bottom of the table, turn 
just before the corner and drive 
between the two rolls of wall 
paper. Run over the picture of 
Walter for a free 1 up. 

Race 13, Bury My Body: Go up 
on the second corner instead of 
down, run over the flag with a 
one on it, they knock off one lap. 
Race 16, Banked Oval: At the 
third corner there is a green 


spade, at the bottom of the 
spade is a can of Zip. under 
the can is a flag with a one on 
it, run it down. 

Race 17. Treehouse Tiles 
Turn left just before the 
branch that joins the tree 
house to the roof, you will Find 
a flag with a one on it. 

Race 20, Toaster Trouble: Go 
over the hot plates and the 
toaster, you should now be 
heading down the screen. Turn 
right and go over the two 
chopping boards, as you come 
off the second, go up the screen 
and you should see a gray 
square with a star on it. run 
over it to warp to the next level. 







































ToHSHrnotn 

PLAYSTATION 


Cheat Codes and Special Moves 

We gave you the codes to play as Gaia and Sho in HYPER #19 
(we're so good to you). 

To access the Instant Super Moves cheat, do the Gaia and Sho 
cheats, play as Sho and loose deliberately, then when the scrolling 
letters appear at the top of the screen hold DIAGONAL DOWN¬ 
RIGHT and hit the X button. You should hear “FANTASTIC!” if it 
worked. During combat you can now peform the SUPER MOVES 
just by pushing all the TOP BUTTONS and the SELECT button 
simultaneously (this will only work if you are playing with a 
controller set for only two buttons as special move activators). 

Desperation Moves 

These can only be done when your energy is so low the bar is flashing 
red. Most Fighters desperation moves involve ultra-complicated 
control pad stuff, but hey! there's an easy way! Just make sure your 
controller is set for just two buttons as special move activators, then 
hit both the TOP RIGHT buttons while holding DOWN. Eaaasy. 

instant Super Moves 

After inputting the Gaia and Sho codes, choose Sho and lose 
deliberately. Make sure you have a controller in port one, when the 
words begin to scroll across the screen, hold diagonal down-rightand 
hit the X button. You will hear "fantastic!” if it worked. Also, in the 
vs. human etc. letters should be white. Now, anytime during the 
fight, simultaneously hit all top buttons and the select button. This 
will automatically perform your characters Super Move. 



TouGuman Boxrnc conusT 

MEGADRIVE 


and the announcer will say "It's 
in the game". When you’re 
through entering codes, press B 
and start the game. 
MRBUCKEYE - All 14 special 
punches are now available. 
RUBE - Lets you fight a 
headless opponent! 

2LT - Stops the timer 
countdown, bouts now need a 
T.K.O. to win. 


Cheat Menu 

A feast of the highest quality 
cheats are to be had for this 
ace head basher. 

At the title screen, press 
START to enter the Setup 
Screen. Select "Restore from 
Password” and press START. 
You can now enter the following 
cheats, if you got it right the 
words "Cha Ching!" will appear 



FQSTER - Lets you fight a 
shadow of your opponent. 
WEASEL - Makes your 
opponent shorter. 

SUPERG - Play the computer 
at it’s hardest difficulty. 

MAXX - Invincibility! 
NUCLEAR - Allows you to 
fight a glowing opponent. 
HYPER - Lets you fight at 
twice the normal speed! 


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76 »HYPER 


mOPTAL KOmBflT 3 

ARCADE 



Well gamers, here are the first 
installment of moves for the 
hottest aracde game of ‘95! 

The moves that follow will set 
you up to become the hottest 
MK3 freak on your block. This 
is the freshest list of moves 
available at the time of going 
to press, but there are lots of 
moves and secrets that haven't 
been discovered yet. Don't 
dismay, as soon as we get 
them, we’ll update you in a 
future issue of HYPER - but for 
now get out there and fight! 
The following is the key for 
the moves: 

HP - High Punch 
LP - Low Punch 
b- Block 
HK - High Kick 
LK - Low Kick 
R - Run 
U - Up 
D - Down 
B - Back 
F - Forward 


Before we begin, let's get 
down to basics: 

Face Punch: High Punch 
Body Punch: Low Punch 
Face Kick: High Kick 
Body Kick: Low Kick 
Jump Punch: 

Jump (Up, Up & Forward. Up 
& Back) & High or Low Punch 

Jump Kick: 

Jump (Up, Up & Forward, Up 
& Back) & High or Low Kick 

Uppercut: 

Down & High Punch 
Crouch Punch: 

Down & Low Punch 
Roundhouse Kick: 

Back & High Kick 


Leg Sweep: 

Back & Low Kick 
Crouch Kick (High): 

Down & High Kick 
Crouch K\ck(Low): 

Down & Low Kick 
Specialty Punch: High Punch 
(when against opponent) 

Knee: High or Low Kick (when 
against opponent) 

Throw: 

Forward & Low Punch (must 
be next to opponent) 

There are many new finishing 
moves for MK3. the following 
is just some of them 

Background Fatalities: 

The following fatalities make your 
opponent interact with the back¬ 
ground as part of the fatality. 

On “The Pit 3“, “The 
Subway" and “Shao Kahn's 
Tower" do the following: 
Forward - Forward - Forward - 
Run when standing against 
the opponent. 

Compassionate Killing 

You are only able to complete 
the “mercy” on your opponent 
in the third round, instead of 
killing them, you give them 
extra energy, so you can make 
their death all the more 
humiliating! 

Down - Down - Down - Down 
- Run. Don’t stand too close 
to your opponent. 

Generic Animality 

Every character can perform 
the Animality, but before it 
can be executed, you must 
have performed the above 
compassion move. 

Down - Down - Down - Run 

The Kombatants 

The following shows the 
known special moves, 
animalities and fatalities. NB: 
Remember the following - 

• To perform an Animality, you 
must be in the third round and 
shown "mercy” to your opponent. 

• To perform the Friendship 
or Babality you can only use 
kicks for attacks in the final 
round of battle. 

Shang Tsung 

Volcanic Eruption: 

Forward - Forward - Back - 
Back - Low Kick 


Fireballs: 1 Ball: 

Back - Back - High Punch 

2 Balls: Back - Back - Forward 

- High Punch 

3 Balls: Back - Back - Forward 

- Forward - High Punch 

Morphs: 

Sindel: Back - Down - Back - 
Low Punch 

Jax: Forward - Forward - 
Down - Low Punch 
Kano: Forward - Back - 
Forward - Block 
Liu Kang: Circle Joystick 
Sonya: Run & Low Punch 
& Block 

Stryker: Forward - Forward - 
Forward - High Kick 
Sub-Zero: Forward - Back - 
Forward - Low Kick 
Cyrax: Block - Block - Block 
Sektor: Down - Forward - 
Back - Run 

Night Wolf: Up - Up - Up 
Sheeva: Forward - Down - 
Forward - Low Kick 

Sindel 

Fireball (in air): 

Down - Forward - Low Kick 
Fireball (ground): 

Forward - Forward - Low Punch 

Scream Pull: 

Forward - Forward - Forward - 
High Punch 

Flight: Back - Back - Forward 

- High Kick 
Descending Fireball: 

Half Circle Back - Down - 
Forward - Low Kick 
Fatality 1: 

Sindel screams at opponent, 
destroying most of the victim's 
flesh, leaving a messy pile of 
bones. (Move unknown) 
Fatality 2: Sindel's hair wraps 
itself around her victim. She 
then runs away, leaving her 
victim spinning helplessly as all 
of his limbs fly off in different 
directions. (Move unknown) 
Animality: Forward - Forward - 
High Punch (Sindel morphs into 
a purple wasp, grabs her victim, 
and flies off the screen as she 
stings her victim to death). 

Jax 

Single Missile: 

Back - Forward - High Punch 
Double Missile: 

Forward - Forward - Back - 
Back - High Punch 


Shoulder Slam: 

Forward - Forward - High Kick 
Gotcha Punch: Forward - 
Forward - Low Punch 
Gotcha Throw: 

Throw - Tap High Punch 
Back Breaker: Block (in air) 
Ground Smash: Hold Low Kick 
for 3 seconds and release 
Fatality 1: Hold Block - 
Forward - Down - Back - Up - 
Forward - Then release block. 
Fatality 2: Jax grows to immense 
proportions and then stomps on 
his victim (Move unkown) 

Kano 

Knife Throw: Quarter Circle 
Down - Back - High Punch 
Knife Uppercut: 

Quarter Circle Down - 
Forward - High Punch 
Grab & Bite: 

Half Circle Back - Down - 
Forward - Low Punch 
Air Throw: Block (in air) 

Flying Kannonball: Hold Low 
Kick (3 sec.) - Release 
Fatality 1: Forward - Forward - 
Forward - Low Punch. 
Performed next to opponent. 
(Kano pulls opponent's skeleton 
out through their mouth). 
Fatality 2: Forward - Forward 
- Forward - High Kick. 
Performed from one jump’s 
distance. (Kano shoots a laser 
from his eye to kill opponent). 
Animality: Hold High Punch - 
Forward - Forward - Forward - 
Release High Punch. 

Performed next to opponent. 
(Kano morphs into a spider 
and sucks life from his victim). 

Liu Kang 

High Dragon Fire: Forward - 
Forward - High Punch 
Low Dragon Fire: 

Forward - Forward - Low Punch 
Flying Kick: 

Forward - Forward - High Kick 
Bicycle Kick: Hold Low Kick 
for 3 seconds and release. 

Tiger Run: 

Forward - Foward - Half Circle 
Back-Down-Foward 
Fatality 1: Forward - Forward - 
Forward - Back - Forward - 
Low Kick (Liu Kang disappears, 
his victim incinerates, and then 
he re-appears). 


Sonya 

Laser Rings: 

Down - Forward - Low Punch 
Bicycle Kick: 

Back - Back - Down - Low Kick 
Square Wave Punch: 

Forward - Back - High Punch 

Leg Grab: 

Down & Low Punch & Block 
Fatality 1: Down - Down - 
Down - Forward - Low Kick. 
Peform from any distance. 
(Sonya blows a fatal kiss.) 
Animality: Hold Low Punch - 
Back - Back - Forward - 
Forward - Rel. Low Punch. 
Perform from a jump's distance. 
(Sonya morphs into a hawk). 

Stryker 

Long Grenade: Forward - 
Down - Back - High Punch 
Short Grenade: Forward - 
Down - Back - Low Punch 

Baton Throw: 

Forward - Forward - High Kick 

Baton Trip: 

Forward - Back - Low Punch 
Fatality 1: Down - Forward - 
Down - Forward - Block. Stand 
next to opponent. (Stryker 
turns his back to the players, 
and upon turning back around, 
reveals a time bomb strapped to 
his victim’s chest and holds his 
ears as the victim explodes). 
Fatality 2: Forward - Forward - 
Forward - Low Kick. Perform 
from screen’s distance. (Stryker 
shoots a cattle prod at opponent). 

Sub-Zero 

Ice Ball: 

Down - Forward - Low Punch 
Ice Shower: 

Down - Forward - High Punch 
Ice Clones: 

Down - Back - Low Punch 
Slide: Back & Low Punch & 
Block & Low Kick 
Fatality 1: Down - Forward - 
Back - High Kick. Perform from 
sweep distance. (Sub-Zero blows 
a mist at his victim, which 
freezes the opponent, who then 
falls backward and crumbles). 
Fatality 2: Down - Forward - 
Down - Forward - Block. 
Perform next to opponent. 
(Sub-Zero picks his opponent 
up high over his head. The 
victim then freezes just before 
Sub-Zero breaks him in half!) 







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Animality: Up - Up - Up . Perform 
next to opponent. (Sub-Zero 
morphs into a Polar bear and pro¬ 
ceeds to mangle his victim). 

Cyrax 

The Net: 

Back - Back - Back - Low Kick 
Exploding Teleport: Forward - 
Forward - Down - Block 
Long Grenade Throw: 

Hold Low Kick - Forward - 
Forward - High Kick 
Short Grenade Throw: 

Hold Low Kick - Back - Back - 
High Kick 

Air Throw: Down - Forward - 
Block - Low Punch. (In Air) 
Fatality 1: Up - Up - Up - 
Down - High Punch.Peform 
from weep distance. (Cyrax’s 
head spins until he takes off 
like a helicopter, then he comes 
down on the victim's head 
cutting him into tiny pieces). 
Fatality 2: Hold Block - 
Forward - Down - Back - Up - 
Forward - Rel.Block - Run. 
Perform from sweep distance. 
(Cyrax self destructs, killing 
his opponent in the process). 

Sektor 

Heat Seeker: Forward - Down 

- Back - High Punch 
Straight Missle: 

Forward - Forward - Low Punch 

Teleport: 

Forward - Forward - Low Kick 
Fatality 1: Back - Back - Back 

- High Kick. Perform from 
sweep distance. (Sektor’s 
chest opens up to reveal a 
large crushing machine, which 
then smashes the victim). 

Sheeva 

Mega Stomp: Down - Up 
Fireball: 

Down - Forward - High Punch 

Ground Stomp: 

Back - Down - Back - High Kick 
Fatality 1: Forward - Forward - 
Forward - Low Punch. Perform 
standing next to opponent. 
(Sheeva pounds her victim into 
the ground with all four arms). 
Fatality 2: Forward - Forward 

- Forward - Low Kick & Block 
& High Kick. Perform 
standing next to opponent. 
(Sheeva rips the skin off of her 
victim, leaving a bloody mess). 


Night Wolf 

Tomahawk Uppercut: Back- 
Down - Forward - High Punch 
Shoot Arrow: Forward - Down 

- Back - Low Punch 
Shield Aura: Forward - 
Forward - Forward - High Kick 
Shoulder Slam: Forward - 
Forward - Forward - Low Kick 
Fatality 1: Down - Forward - 
Forward - High Kick. Perform 
standing next to opponent. (Night 
Wolf summons the magic of his 
shaman to use the light of the 
moon to disintegrate his victim). 
Fatality 2: Back - Back - Back - 
High Punch. Perform from a 
jump’s distance. (Night Wolf rais¬ 
es his axe to the heavens, it is 
struck by lightning, and then he 
casts the lightning at his victim). 
Animality: Hold Block - Down 

- Down - Down. Perform from 
sweep distance. (Night Wolf 
morphs into a wolf and attacks 
his victim...big surprise!). 

Kung Lao 

Hat Throw: 

Back - Forward - Low Punch 
Teleport: Down - Up (flick 
joystick down) 

Dive Kick: Down & High Kick 
(while in air) 

Whirl Spin: Forward - Down - 
Forward - Run 

Kabal 

Purple Fireball: 

Back - Back - High Punch 
(You can do this in air, too!) 
Tornado Spin: 

Back - Forward - Low Kick 
Ground Razor: 

Back - Back - Back - Run 
Fatality 1: Back - Back - Forward 

- Down - Block. Perform from 
sweep distance. (Kabal removes 
his respirator and inflates his vic¬ 
tim’s head, sending him/her float¬ 
ing off the screen before it bursts). 
Animality: Hold High Punch - 
Down - Down - Down - 
Release High Punch (Kabal 
morphs into a rhinoceros 
skeleton and gores his victim). 

Hidden Chdracters: 

Noob Saibot - The way so far 
to fight Noob is to enter six 
Raidenson the 'Vs." Screen. 
The winner of the first round 
will get to fight Noob! 


Combos: 

The following are some combo 
moves to master to get 
maximum damage out of your 
attacks. Although these are 
quite effective once you 
master them, it is always best 
to develop your own. 

Shang Tsung 

Low Kick - High Punch - High 
Punch - Low Punch - 
Roundhouse Kick 

Sindel 

High Kick - High Punch - High 
Punch - Low Punch - High Kick 

Jax 

High Punch - High Punch - 
Block - Low Punch - 
Roundhouse Kick 

Kano 

High Punch - High Punch - 
High Kick - Low Kick - 
Roundhouse Kick 

High Punch - High Punch - 
Crouch Punch - Jump Kick - 
Air Throw 

Jump Kick - Flying Kannonball 
- Jump Kick - Knife Uppercut 

Liu Kang 

High Punch - Low Kick - Low 
Kick - High Punch - Low Kick 

High Punch - High Punch - 
Block - Low Kick - Low Kick - 
High Kick - Low Kick 

Sonya 

High Punch - High Punch - Low 
Punch - Back & High Punch 

Stryker 

High Punch - High Punch - 
Low Punch 

Low Kick - High Punch - High 
Punch - Low Punch 

Sub-Zero 

High Punch - High Punch - 
Low Punch - Leg Sweep - 
Roundhouse Kick- 
Roundhouse Kick 

High Kick - High Kick 

Run - High Punch - High 
Punch - Low Punch - Low 
Kick - High Kick- 
Roundhouse Kick 

Cyrax 

High Punch - High Punch - 
Low Kick - Low Punch 

High Punch - High Punch - 
High Kick 


Sektor 

High Punch - High Punch - 
Low Kick - Low Punch 

High Punch - High Punch - 
High Kick 

Night Wolf 

High Punch - High Punch - 
Low Punch - Axe Uppercut 

High Punch - High Punch - 
Axe Uppercut - High Punch - 
Shoulder Smash 

Sheeva 

High Punch - High Punch - Low 
Punch - Forward & High Punch 

Low Kick - High Kick - High 
Kick - Leg Sweep 

Kung Lao 

High Punch - Low Punch - 
High Punch - Low Punch - 
Low Kick - Low Kick - 
Roundhouse Kick 

Kabal 

High Punch - High Punch - 
Uppercut - Jump Kick - 
Purple Fireball 

Tornado Spin - Low Kick- 
Low Kick - High Punch - High 
Punch - Low Punch - Jump 
Kick - Purple Fireball 

Run - Low Kick - High Punch - 
High Punch - Uppercut - 
Jump Kick (w/ Low Kick) - 
Purple Fireball 

You may have noticed on the 
’Vs." screen, before each battle 
six boxes on the bottom of the 
screen. The three boxes on the 
left are controlled by player one 
and the three on the right are 
player 2’s. When you change 
the symbols in the boxes by 
pressing the corresponding but¬ 
ton, it has a different effect on 
the battle, ie no throwing, etc.. 
The boxes are controlled like 
this: the Low Punch button 
controls the leftmost box for 
each player, Block changes the 
centre box, and Low Kick 
changes the right hand box. 
Here are just a few of the 
changes that take place: 

" 7 -7-7.?-?-?" -This 
causes the Kombatants to 
morph into all different 
Kombatants every few 
seconds, with no control over 
the morphing! 


The following make the winner 
of the first round fight specific 
opponents. The loser must 
continue though if he wants to 
fight after the winner has 
played the selected opponent. 
At the time of writing, these 
were confirmed, but may 
change in later ROM editions 
of MK3. 

The icons are as follows: 

“Six Raidens" - 
Fight Noob Saibot 
“Six Goros” - 
Fight Shao Kahn 
"Six Lightning Bolts” - 
Fight Motaro 



More Cool Features! 

Random Select 

Simply hold up on the joystick 
and pressing start at the 
character select screen. 

Galaga 

After reaching Battle 100 in a 
two player match, both players 
begin to play Galaga with 
three ships each. You go back 
to the game when one person 
loses all his ships. 

We endeavour to bring you the 
most up to date info we can on 
games like this, but don’t 
despair with all the blank 
spaces, because by next issue 
we’ll have all the Fatalities, 
Animalities etc. That is, unless 
you find them first! 


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78 »HYPER 


RELEASE DECISIONS SUCK CHOICE GAMES 



Start getting 
excited, because 
Killer Instinct is 
on its way to the 
SNES. As you can 
see above, 
it’s looking 
pretty special... 


It’s official! The Internet site that makes it all 
worthwhile is up and running, HYPERACTIVE is 
online! Webbers can find us at 
http://hyperactive.com.au/games/ 

Our beautifully designed site (we’re allowed to 
say that, 'cause nobody’s gonna stop us - and 
besides it’s true) features the most up to date 
gaming news on the planet, with full game 
reviews and a cheat section you won’t believe! 
Interactivity is what it’s all about, you can post 
your own cheats and communicate with the 
crew. It’ll grow over time and feature more hot 
game goss than you can poke a virtual stick at. 
Naturally you’ll need a computer with an 
internet account. Need an internet account? 
Give Next Online a call on OZ 310 1433, we use 
them because the service is cheap, the support 
fantastic and they all read HYPER. 

Don’t despair if you’re not yet equipped to go 
netting, because while our web site is pretty 
damn hot, the paper HYPER will always reign 
supreme for high quality gaming quantity, and 
besides, when you’re finished checking out the 
web you can’t roll your monitor up and hit 
people with it, can you! 


Don’t think it, say it! 

HYPER Letters 
PO Box 634 
Strawberry Hills 
NSWZ01Z 
Fax: (OZ) 310 1315 

E-mail: freaksceneanext.com.au 


Dear HYPER, 

I've got a small problem. 
Although I look forward to the 
monthly installments of your bib¬ 
lical magazine hugely, it can’t 
stop me from becoming increas¬ 
ingly disillusioned with the video 
games industry as it stands 
today. I sometimes wonder what 
kind of people control the indus¬ 
try. I mean, some of the decisions 
that are made are, to put it 
bluntly, totally crappy. That’s 
not to say that some decisions 
are also very excellent. For exam¬ 
ple, I read about the Deep Water 
thing that Sega are starting for 
adult gamers. This is good cause 
there are alot of us out there who 
like their games with a little more 
backbone. It'll be cool to see 
what they do with it. 

However, this brings me back to 
my problem. You see, I really enjoy 
action/adventure/RPG’s. You 
also probably know that games of 
this kind are pretty few and far 
between. That's why I was remote¬ 
ly excited when I read about the 
Story of Thor; it looked at least 
the equal, maybe even better, than 
Landstalker. Then I hear that, 
although you previewed it and it 
has been reviewed in other Aussie 
mags, it is not being released here. 
Please tell me it ain't true!! Any¬ 
way, the point is, why oh why do 
these people release tonnes of 
poxy, substandard games and then 
take a great looking game like Sto¬ 
ry of Thor off the release schedule? 
I gotta say, it really sux! Why do 
they do it? 

I was also hoping you could 
answer a question for me? Do you 
know when Eternal Champions on 
CD is being released? Thanks and 
keep on bringing light to our lives 
with your great magazine. 

Josh Hobbs 


It seems absolutely ridiculous that 
Australian distributors still haven't 
worked out that RPG/Adventures 
sell very strongly to a small, but loy¬ 
al fan base. Of course, when you 
don't release any of the games you 
don’t know how well they would sell 
do you ? Hopefully someone will take 
their head out of their ass soon and 
release a few good RPG/Adventures 
on the consoles - people are crying 
out for them. As for Story of Thor - 
you re in luck! It will be released 
(finally) in July. We'll review it next 
issue. Eternal Champions on Mega 
CD is due out soon too. 


To the Legends at HYPER. 

First of all I'd like to say that I 
think your mag is the most joy¬ 
ous games mag available. No. 
I’m not bullsh*@$ing, it really is! 

I wrote to you because I was 
wondering if all (32X and Mega 
Drive) carts aren’t compatible 
with the Saturn?... If not, will 
the great new titles like Doom. 
VR Deluxe + Star Wars be 
released on the Saturn? 

Also I’m a fan of the strategy/war 
game genre, and was wondering if 
PC classics like Settlers (Serf 
City) and Warcraft are likely to 
appear on Saturn either? Theme 
Park is another PC classic I love, 
do you reckon it’ll make it to Sat¬ 
urn by chance? (If the Mega Dri¬ 
ve version isn't compatible). I’ve 
heard this somewhere else, but do 
you guys know for sure if Sim 
City 2000 is definately coming 
out on the Saturn? 

All the above mentioned games 
are f@*$’n choice and Sega 
would be wise if they snapped 
them up pretty quickly! I'd 
appreciate it heaps if you could 
find this out for me.... 

Thanks! 

Ryan Granly 


Thanks Ryan, but the Saturn is 
not compatible with 32X and 
Mega Drive carts (although I reck¬ 
on a converter will come out) and 
there’s no word on Saturn Doom 
or Star Wars. A whole new Virtua 
Racing for the Saturn is in produc¬ 
tion though. There's no word on 
the other titles you listed, but 
Theme Park should be a definite 
and SimCity 2000 is very likely. 


IGNORING THE 


PLAYSTATION 

Dear HYPER, 

It seems that a lot of people are 
ignoring the Playstation and look¬ 
ing at the 3DO instead. Okay, so 
the 3DO is a good machine but I 
think that the Saturn and 
Playstation are way better. Even 
if it is true that a 3DO with the 
M2 accelerator is 10 times more 
“powerful" than the Playstation, 
it’s like you guys at HYPER say, 
it’s not the graphics but the 
gameplay that counts. The 
Playstation is very powerful, and 
is technologically more powerful 
than a 3DO which is suffering 
from a major lack of third party 
















tion has 200 software companies 
producing games for the system. 
As you can tell I’ll be getting a 
Playstation. Here are some ques¬ 
tions for you anyway. 

1. I've heard that there is going 
to be a keyboard for the Saturn 
and possibly the Playstation as 
well. Is this true? How much will 
they cost? 

2. How much will RAM cards for 
the Playstation cost? 

Yours Sincerely 

Ryan Kinsman 

To tell you the truth Ryan I can't 
really answer your questions as the 
full range of Saturn/Playstation 
peripherals has yet to be announced 
and there s certainly no Australian 
prices to be had. But I don't think 
anyone 's ignoring the Playstation 
any more - it’s an extremely hot 
piece of gaming equipment with a 
very bright future. 

PC PIRATES RUINING 

GAMING 

Dear HYPER, 

I’m writing in to say that PC 
gaming is in a shocking state of 
affairs. PC pirates are ruining 
gaming for every PC user. Pic¬ 
ture this, a kid goes out and 
buys the latest game. He backs 
it up and gives it to five of his 
friends. The result is the soft¬ 
ware company who made the 
game could have got five times 
as much money as it did, which 
means the software company 
would have much more money 
to invest in making games better 
and cheaper. 

CD ROM will offer some respite 
but the technology to copy on to 
CD's is becoming more readily 
available every day. This tech¬ 
nology will also have other disad¬ 
vantages; consoles will no longer 
be safe with all the Super Con¬ 
soles using CDs and the already 
fragile music industry will suffer 
another blow. So to all the PC 
Pirates who read HYPER - stop 
cheating on the software compa¬ 
nies and help make better cheap¬ 
er games for everyone. 

Also with the video game was 
just beginning to heat up I see 
another war happening. The 
"Doom vs Anything else that 
rears it’s ugly head” war. You 
may have said that Dark Forces 
is better than Doom (‘the game’) 
but I don’t think anything will 


phenomenon’). The absolute joy 
of blasting a hundred plasma pel¬ 
lets into a helpless Arachnotron. 
The rush you get when you have 
destroyed the Cyberdemon with 
only the chaingun. Not too many 
games can offer this. I would be 
extremely surprised if LucasArts 
released the info on how to make 
new levels and sounds etc. like iD 
have. You’re not going to change 
your category from Doom-like to 
Dark Forces-like overnight are 
you? Of course not. Doom is the 
first, the biggest and the best, 
that will never change. 

I have two questions only. 

1. I know that there is a 3DO 
card for the PC and I’ve heard of 
a Jag card. But will there ever 
be a Playstation or Saturn card? 

2. What do you do with all the 
games you review after you have 
finished with them? 

Yours Sincerely 
Rod Campbell 
Fishing Point NSW 

Some extremely excellent points in 
there, Rod, and I would agree 
totally - especially about Doom. 1. 
No word at this stage and I can't 
see why not. 2. We have to return 
some (because they're on pre¬ 
release ROM chips or Beta discs), 
otherwise we get to keep them. 

ALL OVER THE PLACE 

To HYPER, 

I'm planning to buy a Playsta¬ 
tion. but first I need some ques¬ 
tions answered. 

1. Will the Playstation be able 
to play music and movie com¬ 
pact discs? 

2. How much will games cost for 
the Playstation? 

3. On the Playstation’s release 
in Australia do you know if it 
will come with a game? 

4. Is a Playstation ugradable? 

5. Will there be a CD add-on for 
the Ultra 64? 

6. Is there a soundtrack CD for 
Donkey Kong Country? 

7. Is the Vivid 3D compatible 
with the Playstation? 

Keep up the good work 
Peter Borecki 
Adelaide SA 

1. It will play music CDs but not 
movie CDs. 2. Not confirmed at this 
stage, but hopefully not more than 
$100 (AUS). 3. Again, this is not 
quite confirmed. We should know 
very soon. 4. Yes, but exactly what 
t been anoujjfeMby i 



yet. 5. It 's not announced at this 
stage but everyone 's betting on it. 6. 
Yes, apparantly so. but I’ve never 
seen (or heard) it myself. 7. The 
Vivid 3D works with the speakers on 
your TV/monitor/stereo etc and so 
yes, it will work if you Ve got a 
Playstation. 

TOP OF MY HEAD 

To the best game mag in 
the universe, 

I have a few questions that you 
no doubt can answer off the top 
of your head. 

1. Can the 3DO, Saturn and 
Playstation play Audio CD’s and 
do they do it well? Since I don't 
have a CD player, I'll probably 
buy one of these systems, and 
use it as a CD player for my 
stereo, and games of course! 

2. In two months I'll be in 
America. Do you think it would 
be cheaper to pick a new con¬ 
sole there? 

3. If money wasn’t a factor, 
and meg is just the amount of 
memory, would it be possible 
for a 16-bit machine to have 
100-1- meg games? 

Thanks for your time, 
E.T. (really!) 

1. Yes and yes. The 3DO also has 
a very impressive psychedelic 
graphics show which plays in time 
to the music. The Saturn can play 
with the pitch, vocals etc. 2. Yes, 
but remember that the machine 
will be NTSC so you 'll need a con¬ 
verter when you want to use the 
machine in Australia (which will 
cost almost $100). 3. Yes 

BITS & PIECES 

Dear HYPER Crew 
I own a Super Nintendo and am 
thinking of buying a 3DO. My 
cousin is getting me Earthworm 
Jim and Super Streetfighter. I 
also own Mario All Stars. Okay, 
onto the questions. 

1. Do you think if I sold the 
machine with one controller and 
three games plus a bass guitar 
and an amplifier that I would get 
close to $755? 

2. How come you do the poster 
of the cover of the previous 
months edition? 

3. How about bringing back 
movie and music reviews ? 

4. When's the Mortal Movie 
coming? 

5. What's your favourite 3DO 
game? 



DOOM ROCKS THANKS TO SOMEONE CALLED TAG 


most dominant super console? 

7. Any news on Streetfighter 3? 

8. Could you start giving out 
prizes for "best cheat of 
the month". 

9 How long do you think the 
SNES and Mega Drive have left 
until they are obsolete. 

Your faithful reader 
Jason "Pantera” Rickersey 

1. Yeah, if your bass and amp are 
any good. 2. That's not always the 
case - look at this issue. 3. I'd love 
to, but there’s just no room. We've 
got too many games to cover 4. It s 
due in September 5. Road Rash. 6. 

It 's far, far too early to tell but right 
this second my money s on the 
Playstation. 7. There's the Legends 
game and the Movie version of SF2 
on their way. I don't know if SF3 
will ever make it out. 8. Not a bad 
idea - stay tuned. 9. I think 1995 is 
definitely the last big year for the 
SNES and Mega Drive. 

WHICH 3DO? 

Dear HYPER, 

I am thinking about buying a 
3DO and I am trying to gather 
as much information as I can to 
figure out which one I will buy. I 
have thought about buying the 
Panasonic system 2 (FZ-10) as 
it has the most extras and it is 
the cheapest one around as I 
only get $120 a month. Buy you 
answering the following ques¬ 
tions, I will hopefully determine 
which one to buy. 

1. Is the FZ-10 the best one to 
buy? 

2. Is there any differences 
between the Panasonic FZ-10 
and the Goldstar except for the 
brand names. 

/iII the keyboard and the 


mouse for the 3DO be coming 
out soon and do you know their 
around about price? 

Mark MacDonald 

J &. 2. The different 3DO machines 
are really no different execpt for the 
outside casing. The FZ-10 is a bit 
smaller and it's top-loading - the 
original Panasonic machine was 
front-loading. Goldstar have their 
own control pad too. 3. I'm not 
sure of the release date or price yet 
- neither have been confirmed. 

3DO- A DUD? 

Dear HYPER. 

Please tell I'm wrong but I have 
just recently purchased a 3DO 
system and I think it is going to 
be dud - in this country anyway. I 
bought the 3DO in the belief that 
as soon as it was released locally 
there would be a healthy supply 
of software but after ringing up 
all major gaming stores in Syd¬ 
ney they informed me that they 
will not be supporting or even 
selling the 3DO in preference to 
the Playstation and also that the 
major software companies will be 
pulling out of the 3DO such as 
Electronic Arts. Please tell me 
this is false as I believe it is the 
superior system as you have 
talked about in recent issues. 

Regards 

Danny Bretherton 

Well Danny, the 3DO hasn't exact¬ 
ly been breaking sales records and 
lots of people are getting concerned 
about the lack of software so some 
of what you’ve been informed is 
true. Electronic Arts has not pulled 
out of 3DO though and the beast 
certainly ‘aint dead yet. 


HYPER» 79 









80 »HYPER 


THREATS & PUNISHMENT 

Dear HYPER, 

I’m not going to bombard you 
with the usual plethora of butt 
kissing remarks (although it's 
extremely tempting). Instead I'm 
going to threaten you (gasp!). If 
you do not print this letter you 
will be severely punished! We’re 
not just talking thumb screws 
here! We're talking Home Alone 1 
and 2, episodes of Home and 
Away and an exclusive meeting 
with every single one of the Power 
Rangers! You have been warned! 

1. Do all you really excellent 
people at HYPER have anything 
to do with the Zone; you've 
done some promo's with them 
but I was wondering if you knew 
them personally? 

2. This is a public announcement 
to anyone out there who was for¬ 
tunate enough to buy Zephyr: by 


all means buy Zephyr BUT do 
not go home expecting a multi 
player blast fest. Despite the fact 
that it says "Multi player com¬ 
patibility” on the cover, to obtain 
this you must send a registration 
form to those overweight men in 
suits who drive BMW's down at 
New World Computing Inc. in 
the US of A, and hope like hell 
those rich bastards can be both¬ 
ered getting out of their easy 
chairs to send it to you. Oh, and 
Chris Wheeler was right, it is a 
real bitch to fly and aim the tur¬ 
ret at the same time. 

3. Is Dark Forces really better 
than Doom? In your preveiw you 
said it wasn't and then in your 
review Chris and Ben both said it 
was. It certainly apperars to bet¬ 


ter, but you have to play these 
games to be sure, so all of you 
take a vote and tell us for sure. 

4 Should I start saving for a 
3D0 or should I buy Dark 
Forces (that’s if I don't win one. 
I sent in to both comps)? Will 
Dark Forces come out on 3D0? 
(Nice Control pad Gold Star!) 
Well, I’ve got to go new, I'm 
starting to run out of pen to 
chew on. 

Daniel 'Frog' Ladiges 

Vic 

J. Yes, we know most of the peo¬ 
ple from the Zone but we really 
don't have a lot to do with them, 
(and it's not because we don’t like 
them or anything). 2. Thanks for 
that announcement. 3. We didn't 
take a vote or anything, but opin¬ 
ion certainly is split. I (Stuart) still 
have a very big soft spot for 


Doom, and my advice to everyone 
is to get them both. 4. I hate being 
put in this position and I'm not 
going to tell you what you should 
buy - goto a game store and do 
some play-testing yourself. And 
Dark Forces appears on the 3DO 
release schedule but I haven't 
heard anything about a 3D0 con¬ 
version so if it does come, it's 
probably a while away. 

FAULTY 32X 
Dear HYPER, 

I'm sure by now alot of gamers 
have had to learn the hard way 
that Doom simply isn’t a console 
game. Why is this? Well just 
look at the 32X version. It looks 
great, feels great, plays great - 
but is it great? No. In fact it's a 


complete disaster. Why? Proba¬ 
bly has something to do with the 
fact that you can be merrily 
playing along; putting in your 
best ever performance on 
"Nightmare" mode; you’ve just 
entered level 17; your weapons 
are stocked and your health is 
149% (recalling personal experi¬ 
ence here); your first rocket is 
right on target, hitting a fuel 
drum and wiping out the entire 
central courtyard Imp population 
- just a couple more shotgun 
guys to go and you'll be able to 
descend into the surrounding 
rooms. Then all of a sudden 
BANG - you're hit by the biggest 
shock of the game so far. Your 
screen simply freezes an d the 
words: "CPU Bus Error" (fol¬ 
lowed by 4 lines of underlying 
text appear in the top left cor¬ 
ner); or perhaps the picture just 


freezes with no accompanying 
text, or perhaps the picture dis¬ 
appears completely and the 
screen goes black. Either way 
you can be 100% sure of one 
thing - with no save feature, your 
game is well and truly OVER. 
Over and out. Your game is gone 
for good. And don’t bother try¬ 
ing to reset the machine - that 
won't do a thing. The only way 
out is to simply turn the power 
switch off and start all over 
again - if you can be bothered. 

I am assuming the 32X console 
itself is at fault and not the 
Doom cartridge because of: (A) 
the abouve mentioned error mes¬ 
sage which came up on the 
screen on one of these many 
unfortunate occasions; (B) edi¬ 


tors of a Pommy magazine 
recently detailed similar experi¬ 
ences when trying to review Vir- 
tua Racing Deluxe. (C) a similar 
thing happened to me on rental 
copy of this game; and (D) histo¬ 
ry tell us that these console add¬ 
ons have never worked 100% 
properly in the past (eg. the Mas¬ 
ter System converter for the 
Mega Drive which experienced 
high problem/error/general 
stuff-up/return and repair rates. 
My only 2 hard hitting and con¬ 
troversial questions are: (1) Have 
you at HYPER experienced any 
of these sorts of problems? (and I 
truly hope you can tell me that 
it’s just something to do with 
incompatible imported software 
or just something to do with 
incompatible imported software 
or something); and (2) Don’t you 
think given the seemingly high 
incidence of these problems (as in 
possibly every friggin’ machine), a 
general 32X recall/replacement 
might be in order? 

Yours Sincerely 
Phil 

Phil, I wish I could tell you differ¬ 
ent but our 32X packed up after 
less than a week of playing and 
apparantly up to 60% of them are 
proving faulty. Not good at all and 
if you're having problems give Sega 
Ozisoft a call on (02) 317 0000. 

GAME ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 
Dear HYPER. 

As I’m a complete and utter 
games addict. I'm trying to cut 
down and now attend GAA’s 
(game addicts anonymous!). 
With my hunger for the best 
games I have logically chosen the 
3DO My main reason for this 
letter is to voice my opinion on 
the battle between the 3DO and 
the Playstation. I have played 
Ridge Racer on the PS-X and at 
first was blown away, but soon I 
realised how shallow the game- 
play and the game was. With 
only one track and a choice of 
cars that all look the same it 
comes third to ‘The Need For 
Speed’ and ’Road Rash', which 
have greater depth than Ridge 
Racer. And anyway Ridge Racer 
will be coming to the 3DO! With 
the addition of the M2-accelera- 
tor (Bulldog) the processing 
(expecially polygon rendering 
capability) will be 5 times as 
powerful as the Playstation. 

1. Do you have any deta fc ab out 


the release date of the M2-accel- 
erator or games being launched 
with the M2? Thanks and con¬ 
gratulations on being the best 
mag around at a fantastic price! 

The Games JUNKIE! 

I would agree totally - for long¬ 
term value, both Need for Speed 
and Road Rash are much better 
games than Ridge Racer. Unfortu¬ 
nately we don't have any info 
about the 3DO M2 release date or 
games because 3DO haven t 
released any info yet. 

ODE TO HYPER 

Dear HYPER. 

I know you don't normally print 
poems but, well, I was hoping 
you might change that. 

This is the mag, 

For any game addict. 

It is a hit, 

No need to predict. 

So HYPER up! 

HYPER's got the lot! 

Heaps of previews. 

And for all PC users. 

Heaps of reviews. 

So HYPER up! 

The top subjects, 

That we want to know. 

Look at the shelves! 

Watch HYPER glow, 

Like gold plates 
So HYPER up! 

But one question remains, 

How do you do it? 

Others have tried, 

But only blew it. 

So HYPER up! 

I would also appreciate it if 
you sent it back as this the 
original copy. 

Thanks, 
Season Bowyer. 

SA 

Why thank you Season - you re a 
poet and we didn't even know it. 
But why do you want the original 
copy - look, it 's been printed in 
the mag!! 

MEGA KILLER? 

Dear HYPER 

I have a short question, but I 
need to know. Will Killer 
Instinct be coming out on Mega 
Drive and if so. when. 

Please tell true! 
M. Richardson 

Sorry M. but I'm telling true - 
Killer Instinct will NOT be coming 
out on the Mega Drive. It 'll be on 
, the SNESin Sep tember _ 




I’M JUST LOOKING FOR ONE DIVINE HAMMER... AND YES. WE’RE ALL TOOLS HERE AT HYPER. 







For Sale 


Mega Drive. Brand new never 
played, Phantasy Star 4 US ver¬ 
sion $120 MS Operation Wolf 
missing instructions $15 GG Fan¬ 
tasy Zone v.g.c. $35.40 Call Greg 
(089) 531 608. Urgent Sale. 

Mega Drive Super Street Fighter 
II (Jap), Virtua Racing (Jap), and 
Game adaptor. All 3 for $160. 
Phone David on (02) 899 7266. 
32X and Mega Drive with Virtua 
Racing Deluxe and 1X3 pad and 
1X6 control pad (with optional 
joystick included) all in very 
good condition for a bargain 
price of $400 you don’t get 
much better than that, call 
(097) 955 317 and ask for 
Michael. Everything still in origi¬ 
nal boxes and packaging. 

Wing Commander 3 CDROM 
fully boxed with instructions and 
play-guide $80, Iron Helix 
CDROM with instructions $55. 
10 games on 1 CD from Interplay 
with all instructions $55, Hound 
of the Baskervilles CDROM with 
box $25. Call Marcus or Chris on 
(02) 743 3013 between 4pm and 
9pm any day. 

SNES Games, Mortal Kombat II 
(boxed) $75, NBA jam $55. 
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs 
$40. Street Fighter II Turbo 
$45. Ninja Turtles Tournament 
Fighters $35, Super Mario Bros 
Allstars $20, or all for $250. All 
have instructions. Ph: (02) 498 
8285. Ask for Daniel. 

3DO games: SSFII Turbo $50. 
Myst $50, Guardian War $50, 
Novastorm $40, Seal of the 
Pharaoh $40, Mega Race $40, 
Alone in the dark $40, Out of this 
world $40. Excellent condition 
Ph Wayne (02) 662-7459. 

Sega Master System II with Sonic 
the Hedgehog built in and 
Choplifter with instructions for $60. 
Ph: (06) 285 2192, ask for Eser. 
Game Boy with Booster Boy, 4. 
Player Adaptor, Link cable, 
NBA Jam, f.l Race and 5 other 
games all for just $75. Call Keith 
quickly on (051) 992 654. 
Nintendo Entertainment System: 
c/w 2 controllers, zappergun, 
games inc. SuperMario I. II and 
III. Snake rattle’n'roll, Duckhunt, 
Metroid and LC. Pro am $200 Ph 
Gerard on (03) 826 4621. 

Sega Mega Drive II with one con¬ 
trol pad and seven games includ¬ 
ing Sonic II and Quackshot, all 
boxed and in perfect condition. All 
for $230 o.n.o, call Nick Lazarou 



On SNES NBA, Jam ($707. Mr 
Nutz ($50), Populous ($55) Pro¬ 
grammable Joystick ($75), F- 
Zero ($40), Zelda 3 ($50) 
Aladdin ($50) All boxed with 
instructions, all good to excellent 
condition. Ph. David on (02) 416 
3936 Mon-Fri after 5pm. 

SNES with 2 controllers and 
Super Marioland $130, Mortal 
Kombat $25, SFII $25. PC CD- 
ROM games for sale: Wing Com¬ 
mander 3 $60. Under A Killing 
Moon $50. Doom 2 $35, Ultima 8 
$40, Syndicate $35, Elite 2 $30, 
Dracula $25, Iron Helix $25, 
Jurassic Park $25. Everything 
Boxed with Instructions. Phone 
David on (047) 335-414. 

Mega Drive II with a 3 button 
and 6 button control pad and 2 
games including Mortal Kom¬ 
bat, and Sonic 2. All for $220 
everything in perfect condition. 
Ring Erkan on (02) 546 3974 
after 4pm everyday. 

Mega Drive Games - Fatal Fury 
$40. Sonic 1 $25. Fl $35, Ph 
(054) 415 657 (Paul). 

Atari 64 bit Jaguar and 4 games. 
Doom, alien vs predator or 
Chequered flag II and 
Cybermorph. $500 or will swap 
for 32X and MDII with at least 2 
games Ph. 089 452 415 
Mega CD games: NBA Jam $100, 
Night Trap $60, Prizefighter $85, 
Thunderhawk $60, Silpheed $70 
and Road Avenger $30. All games 
1 month old. Phone Trewern 
on(080)882297. 

Mega Drive + 18 Sega Mags + 
1x3 Button Turbo and 2x6 
Button Controllers $199, SF2 
$49. Aladdin $39. Cool Spot $29. 
Space Harrier 2 $14, Altered 
Beast $9, Columns $17, Sonic 3 
$49, Sonic & Knuckles $69, 
Micro Machines 2 $69, Bubsy 
$39, Virtua Racing $89, 
Quackshot $24. Worth $1150, 
sell all for $599 o.n.o 
EXCELLENT CONDITION. Ring 
Adam NOW!-(02) 389 2517 
SNES - NTSC. 1 control pad with 
spare parts, Action Replay II. Act 
Raiser 2, Pal B Converter, AV 
cable, AUST power adaptor + 
other stuff. $350. Ph. (060) 
244954 and ask for George. 

Sega Master System II in perfect 
condition 3 control pads, 34 
games Olympic Gold, Me Hero, 
Fantasy Zone, and an in-built 
game Alex Kidd in Miracle world. 
All Boxed with instructions on 
real steel for $100 Ph Bradley 


SNES with 2 original control pads 
+ joy-stick and programmable 
pad. 8 games including DK 
Country, Super Streetfighter II, 
Bomberman, Mortal Kombat, 
Super Marioland, Smash TV, 
Streetfighter II & Tiny Toons. 
Plus Action Replay and Multitap. 
Most boxes and instructions. 
Good condition $750 ono (066) 
869 328 after hours 
Mega Drive in perfect condition, 2 
games 1 control pad Games are - 
Sonic 2 and Bubsie yours for $200 
Ph Bradley on (049)333 415 
Mega Drive games: Mortal 
Kombat $40 Sonic the 
Hedgehog $20. Also wanted 
NIGHT TRAP for CD and Final 
Fight CD Ask for Kieran on 
(044) 473 850 please? 

Mega drive Mortal Kombat 2 
sell for $75 32X Virtua Racing 
Deluxe for $75 sell both for 
$130 ask for Johan (047) 801 
408 or (047) 801 600 
32X and Mega Drive with 2x3 
button controls and 1x6 button 
control. 26 games in total 
including Virtua racing deluxe 
(32X), the Sonic Series (1+2+3+ 
Knuckles) and Street Fighter II 
SCE will separate 32X and Virtu 
Racing $950 ea (03) 726 7216. 
Mega Drive games; Columns 
$15. Spiderman $20, 007 James 
Bond $35. Altered Beast $20. 
Flashback $40. Mortal Kombat 
$45. Risky Woods $30. Golden 
Axe $30. Will swap any for 
Corporation, Terminator or 
Greatest Heavyweights. Plus - 
Viper 6 button arcade joystick, 
compatible with MD and SNES 
(with rapid fire) $55. Call (02) 
605 2963 Andrew 
Sega Mega Drive 2 with 3 
control pads, EA “4 way play" 
adaptor and 4 games - NBA Jam 
Tournament Edition (comes with 
all secret codes/cheats), FIFA 
SOCCER 95, NBA Live '95 and 
Chaos Engine. The lot for only 
$400 Ph Mark (08) 353 2481 
Atari Lynx\ for sale with two 
games and AC adaptor all 
boxed and in perfect condition, 
all just $100 ea Call Nick 
Lazarou on 07 245 0812 
SNES Games: Parodius, Shadow 
Run, Mario World, John 
Madden ‘93 $40 each or $120 
the lot Neil: (02) 542 1030 
SNES games MK2 (plus all 
cheats) - $75 DK Country - $70. 
Street Fighter 2 - $30 and John 
Madden 93 - $30 Call Glen on 
1 494 


Super Nintendo with two top 
games Secret of Mana and 
Stunt Race FX. 2 controllers 
and stereo AV cable. All Boxed 
with instructions, top condition. 
$275 Ph. (066) 283755 
SNES + 2 controllers. Also 
included 3 great games Mortal 
Kombat II Donkey Kong Country 
and NBA Jam Packaging + 
manuals for everything including 
control deck worth near $400. 
Sell the lot $300 Call Frank 
Ph (02) 521 2278 
32X, Mega Drivel, Mega CD II 
with 15 of the top games and 
one 6 button control pad, and 2 
mega five control pads swap for 
a Saturn with two control pads 
and preferably Daytona and 
Virtua Fighters. Ph Alex on 
(02) 888 3203. 

Sega Mega Drive II, 2 controllers, 
2 games Sonic 2 and Bubsy Good 
condition $195 ea Call (03) 737 
0447 and ask for Ben. 

NeoGeo System. Art of Fighting 
2, Fatal FurySpecial. Samurai 
Showdown, World Heroes II, 
Ghost Pilots, Cyber Up, Two 
controllers and a memory card 
for $1000 (02) 835 1995 ask for 
Chubbs or James. 

Gameboy for sale no case 6 
months old. four games, carry 
case and bonus Gamesmaster 
magazines. Games include: Zelda. 
Links Awakening, Marioland, 
Super Mario Land 3, Alien 3, and 
Kirby’s Dream Land. Worth $500 
dollars, sell for $350. Call Kristina, 
Mon-Fri 4pm to 9pm (02) 604 
6008. All games with instructions. 
Selling the Doom’s Day collection 
includes editors for Doom 1 and 
Doom 2, sound editors for Doom 

1 and Doom 2. and hundreds of 
wad files for Doom 1 and Doom 2. 
Selling for $50.00 or swapping for 
unwanted NES or SNES. Call 
Nathan on (052)821197 
Mega Drive games Virtua 
Racing, Street Fighter II SCE, 
Mortal Kombat, Truxton the 
immortal wonder Boy III Buster 
Douglas Boxing and cordless 
infrared control pads will only sell 
together for $200.00 Ph (02) 835 
1995 ask for Chubbs or James 
Super Nintendo two joypads 
converter 14 games street fighter 

2 Mario world Castlevania Zelda 

3 Starwing Alien 3 Mario All 
Stars (4 games) super Tennis 
World League basketball, Pilot 
wings Mario kart Sell $500 ea 

618 2553 Ask for Ron after 
ekdav 


SNES game for sale: will sell 
Tecmo Super NBA Basketball 
for $35 in excellent condition ph 
(08) 381 3871 

Mortal Kombat II (MD) Good 
cond. sell for $50. Boxed with 
Instruction Book. Some foreign 
pages missing. Contact 
Matthew, (079) 362185 
SNES with Sprint 60Hz switch 
upgrade and two controllers 
boxed, as new $145; Stereo AV 
cable $10 S-VHS stereo AV cable, 
$20; RGB stereo cable (connect 
to Amiga, Phillips or any CGA 
monitor for an ultra sharp 
picture) $25. Games all boxed 
with manuals Donkey Kong 
Country $70 Earthworm Jim $70 
NBA Jam $65 Stunt Race FX $60 
MK $35 Jurassic Park $35 Phone 
Bob Fenton (02) 699 1244 (W) or 
(02)558 1425(H). 

SNES games: Castlevania 4 
$59.00 maximum carnage 
$59.00 Bubsy $39.00 Another 
World $79.00 all with 
instructions. Kurt 02 743 2253 
Super Nintendo games Super 
Mario world $30. Starwing $35- 
40. I also am selling Nintendo 
magazine system magazines for 
$2.00 ea. Ph (08) 381 8318 and 
ask for Michael. 

Mega Drive games Sonic 3 $65, 
Altered Beast $25, both in perfect 
cond. Ring Chris on (075) 467 
309 Swaps I want to swap Sonic 
3 and $10 for Sonic Knuckles 
Ring Chris on (075)467 309. 

Star Trial Realms of Arkania for 
PC CD ROM. Unwanted prize 
(thanks HYPER) Retail price of 
$89 will sell for $70 Ph David on 
(03) 789 1028 after 5pm and 
before 8pm 

SNES games Donkey Kong 
Country $80, Kombat II $80, 
Stunt Race FX $65 SFII Turbo 
(US) $40. All games new 
except SFII Ph 066 860 655 Ask 
for Jordan. 

AURA Interactor - feel punches, 
explosions kicks uppercuts, slam 
dunks, crashers & more. Will 
plug into Nintendo, Sega, TV Hi- 
Fi & Home Computer Normal 
Price $250 My price $150 Phone 
Gary on (07)272 2059 
SNES games John Madden NFL 
Football '94 Young Merlin 
Micro Machines NHL Hockey 
‘94 $35 each Mortal Kombat II 
and the Legend of the Mystical 
Ninja $50 each, and secret of 
Mana $40 all in excellent 
condition Ph (08) 276 1435 





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Gameboy with boosterboy -f 6 

games which are Bases loaded Bill 
-I- Ted’s Excellent Adventure 
Super Mario Land 2 Batman 
Fortress of fear, Tetris Some are 
boxed with Instructions Some not. 
(worth S350) sell for Just $230. 
Contact Shaun on (079) 578 486. 
Some posters are included. 

SNES with 2 controllers $99, 
Super Mario All Stars $65 
Donkey Kong country with The 
Making of DKC video $70. All 
are 2 months old and are in 
excellent condition with boxes 
and manuals. Ph (03) 726 8502 
FIFA soccer SNES version brand 
new unopened still in plastic 
wrapper (accidentally bought for 
MD) $65 (includes postage) Ph 
(03) 367 1638 

MD Games for sale. Bubsy $35 
Mega lo mania $20 (no inst) 
Haunting $25, Sonic $25 Boxed 
with inst. (price includes postage) 
Buy the lot and I'll give you two 
games free (Altered Beast & 
Columns) PH (03) 367 1638 
SAM n MAX Hit the road for 
the PC CD ROM. Adventure 
game of the year (1994) Boxed 
with instructions and hint book. 
$40 (price includes postage). 
Ph (03) 367 1638 
Mega Drive: NBA Live 95 (still 
in plastic) $75 IBM CD ROM: 
magic carpet $40 Alone in the 
dark 2 $50, Kings Quest 7 $40 
FIFA Soccer $30, Mortal 
Kombat II $70, Ultima 8 with 
speech pack $40 Sam and Max 
$30.00 Day of the Tentacle $30 
Ring Mike (02)444 689 
Bargain! SNES 1 control pad, 2 
games (Donkey Kong country 
and NBA Jam) great condition 
only $185 all enquires welcome 
please call (07) 368 2548 ask 
for Jonathan. 

Super Nintendo with two pads 
$90.00 Actraiser Axelay F-Zero 
SF II Turbo, TMNT IV, 
Probotector Cybernator, T2 
Arcade and MK II $45.00 each. 
The lot for $400 Ph (079) 421 
493 ask for Quintin. 

SNES games for sale: NBA Jam 
$60 Alien vs Predator $30 
Lethal Weapon $20 Pilotwings 
$20. All boxed and instructions 
excellent cond. Ph David on 
(02)436 0338. 

Amiga 500, keyboard, TV 
adaptor, joystick, mouse/pad, 
over 160 game disks and over 
100 utility and demo disks. 
Excellent condition - $450 o.n.o. 
Ph (063) 31 5783 after 4pm 


Cheap SNES games. Starwing 
$46, Zelda 3 $46, Super Mario 
All Stars (no box) $40 All 
excellent cond. Also Gameboy 
gamers Zelda $30, Kirbys 
Dreamland $24. If interested call 
David. (02) 771 3971, after 4pm. 
Atari Lynx for sale with 3 games 
(Blue Lightning, Viking Child, 
Power Factor) and battery pack 
for $140. Separately, Lynx and 
battery pack $95 and games 
$20 each. Ph lllyusha Brock on 
(02) 484 6408 between 4.30pm 
and 9pm. 

Magic The Gathering, revised 
edition, perfect condition plus 
accessories $200 o.n.o Ph (063) 
31 5783 after 4pm 
SNES game World League 
Basketball. Nearly brand new - 
$50. Call me on (065)526 785 
Mega Drive: Road Rash, Super 
Monaco GP, Corporation, 
Columns and Populous. All 
with full instructions and in 
brand new condition (except 
Populous). Sell the lot for $95. 
Phone Todd (067) 712208. 

Sega MSII with control stick, 
Alex Kidd built-in, Sonic, Ghouls 
n Ghosts, Shinobi, Running 
Bottle, Wonder Boy 1 & III and 
California Games II - all 
practically brand new for $150 - 
$200. Call (065 526 785. 

SNES games: Claymates, Mario 
All Stars & B.O.B. $30 each or 
will swap for other games. Phone 
(02)684 4531 and ask for Paul. 
Mega Drive 2 for sale, 2 control 
pads and 7 games which include 
TMNT Tournament Fighters, 
Bubsy, Sonic 1 & 2, Earthworm 
Jim, Ecco 1, Gunstar Heroes. In 
excellent condition. Will sell for 
$400. Call Adam (02) 477 3576. 
Monkey Island 2, good 
condition, on IBM CD-ROM or 
3.5”, preferably CD-ROM, Ph 
Michael on (02) 440 0065. 

MD2 and MCD1 with 12 games, 
2x6 button control pads. 
Games include NBA Live 95, 
MKII, Sonic CD. FIFA CD and 
more. All for $600. Call Damien 
(042) 833598. 

Wanted 

I'm DESPERATE... I've looked 
everywhere but I can’t find it If 
you have the Mega Drive game 
PIGSKIN and dont mind parting 
with it for some money $85 call 
(077) 799 611 & ask for Daniel 
Call now...Please. 

Wanted: Commodore 64/128 
games disk or tape Also 


Commodore magazines eg zzap, 
commodore format, etc Call 
(046) 287 163. 

I am really desperate (and I 
mean really desperate) for 
Streets of Rage 2 and Chaotix 
for the Mega Drive and 32X will 
pay $55 for Streets of Rage 2 
and $95 for Chaotix must have 
instructions or/and box. Call 
(07) 357 8602 ask for Knuckles. 

I will do anything for a copy of 
Captain America & the 
Avengers for SNES. Australian 
or American copy will do. Will 
pay good money Contact Daniel 
on (03) 401 4105 (After 4pm). 
Wanted: PC gamer US VI No. 1- 
6, PC gamer UK VI No. 2-10, 
HYPER No. 1-14 Phone 079 
421159 or write to Steven 57 
Charles Hodge Ave North Mackay 
Qld 4740 Also WIZKIDon PC. 
3DO owner wanting to join a new 
and exciting club with a monthly 
newsletter including hints, tips 
and reviews Please ph, (057) 62 
4312 ask for Matt after 4pm. 

Swaps 

I’ll swap Super Mario World (Pal 
with instructions and box) for 
either Aladdin, Super Bomberman 
or Theme Park with instructions. 
Call Geoff on 909) 332 3464. 
Swap madden NFL ‘94 
for Super Ghouls’n’Ghosts 
Ph (02) 808 3416 
I’ll swap a SNES and MD2 with 
10 games total; Donkey Kong 
Country, SF2 SCE, MK, Road 
Rash 2, PGA 2, FIFA Soccer 
etc. SNES has 2 controls, MD2 
has 4 controls (3 six button 
controllers) and 4 way play. All 
worth well over $1000 swap for 
a 3DO with Games. Ph, Matt 
on (08) 266 1773. 

Wanted To Swap: Mega Drive 
with two control pads and 8 
good games (including Mortal 
Kombat) for Super Nintendo 
with games and two control 
pads Please ph. (03) 380 2926 
Ask for Tony. 

I will swap my SNES Secret of 
Mana (boxed with instructions) 
for Street Racer or other good 
games that are rated around 
90% or I will sell it for $70 Ph: 
(079) 357 373 Ask for Bobby. 
Back issue game-mags HYPER 
(15 back issues very few pages 
missing 4- AMIGA CD 32 gamer 
(Issues 2-6) complete and as new. 
Will separate Swap for Music 
CD's of techno compilations Ph: 
Stan, (03) 457 4160 


I will swap Mortal Kombat II on 

SNES for Empire Strikes Back 
must have instructions. Other 
games considered Ph (08) 271 
5013 Ask for Anton. 

Will swap MK2 for DK Country 
on SNES. Ring David between 
5pm and 10pm on (03) 480 
0209. Must live in Melbourne. 

Penpals 

I have always wanted to have a 
pen pal in your country. I’m a 
junior high school student in 
Japan. My name: Saori 
Yamamoto, Address: 192 
Higashiiwaki-cho Kurayoshi-shi 
Tottori-ken 682 JAPAN. Age: 14 
Sex: Female, Hobbies: Reading 
books and making cakes. PS. I 
like Australia very much!!! 

Hi, my name is James. I am 11 
and am looking for a penpal 
(male or female) around my 
age. I only will write to you if 
you write to me. I have an IBM 
compatible and interested in 
basketball and basketball cards. 

I also like bike riding and roller 
blading. If you are interested, 
write to me at PO Box 411, 
Renmark SA 5341. Or phone 
me on (085) 857 314 after 
4.30pm weekdays. 

Hi my name is Stephen I’m 
looking for a pen pal male or 
female aged 11 to 14 I’m 12 and I 
enjoy playing SNES games 
(especially fighting games like 
SF2 and Killer Instinct. I am 
eagerly awaiting the Ultra 64 I 
also thoroughly enjoy the 
Simpsons. I will return all sensible 
letters. My address is 56 
Cheltenham st Highgate Sa 5063. 

I want a male/female who’s got 
a SNES and a PC-CD ROM 
aged between 9-13. Get Stephen 
McGeorge on 20 Thomas st 
Nedlands 6009 

My name is Blake. I’m 12 years 
old. My 4 main hobbies are 
basketball card collecting. X- 
men card collecting, stamp 
collecting and video game 
playing. I would prefer a 
female penpal any age. All 
letters that are written to me 
have a 100% guarantee to be 
replied. Write to 18 Munja way 
Nollamara Perth 6061 
17 year old male Kiwi looking 
for a female penpal of the same 
age. Main interests are Star 
Wars and Star Trek. I have a 
fast 486 and Mega Drive. Please 
write to Blair Anderson Unit 
1/22 Malfory Rd Rotorua NZ. 


Hi My name is Alex and I’m 18 
looking for penpals females and 
males aged between 16 and 20. 
My interests are video games, 
cross training and basketball. 
My music picks are Metallica 
and Silverchair. Except English 
can speak Russian and Hebrew 
Write to Alex 2/17-19 
Edgeworth David Ave Hornsby 
2077 NSW. 

Hi! My name is Michael Methan 
and I’m looking for a penpal 
aged 9 and over, male or female. 
I have a Gameboy and like 
reading HYPER. I like some 
kinds of rap songs. So write to 
me at Forum Secretariat Private 
Mail Bag Suva, Fiji. 

Hi My name is Stephen;, I’m 
looking for a sexy female penpal 
(normal guys can write to.) aged 
between 15-20. I own a Mega 
Drive &. mega CD II into good 
music having fun and going to 
parties. Write to S. Alexander, 
22 Swinburn st Damnevirke 
Hawkes Bay NZ 5491 


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