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No.9 OCTOBER 1984
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ZIGGY RETURNS:
Backpacker's
Guide to the
Universe
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3D Multi-screen Rescue
Mission on the
48k Spectrum —E6.95
User-definable keys, Kempston,
Cursor and Sinclair joystick compatible.
AMIEMIEMOMP
Selected titles
available through
larger branches of
spettram
WOOLIWINIFINI
W.H_SMITH
Our ultimate 3D program— t u l t i -
screen mission to save the dyin
crawler crew trapped at Braxx Blu
Undock and land, walk in search of
the crawler, drive it through the marsh,
the ruins and the desert—one track
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* rong and you are dead! —skim the
rocky seas at top speed t h e natives
are after your energy, but caution
costs time and the crew are dying.
There never was a cockpit-view
mission like the one to BfaXX Bluff!
ALSO JUSI
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ISSUE 9 OCTOBER 19804
Editor
Roger Kean
Consultant Editor
Franco Frey
Production Designer
David Western
Art Editor
Oliver Frey
Adventure Editor
Derek Brewster
Staff Writer
Lloyd Mangram
Contributing writers
Matthew (Andel'
Chris Passey
Client Liaison
John Edwards
Subscription Manager
Denise Roberts
Circulation Manager
Torn Hamilton
All circulation enquiries should
ring 021-7425359
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B C PA K SGUIDE TOTHE UNIVERSE
A K C ER
The start of Ziggy's mammoth quest
FROM TINSOLDIERSTOCOMPUTERGAMES
We take a look at Games Workshop
DK'IRONICS
Franco Frey goes to Saffron Walden
CRASHREADERS AWARDS 1984
Your chance to vote for the best games
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EDITORIAL
Indexes and One CHAS INKEYS
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A brief roundup for the month
ADVENTURE TRIAL
Derek goes sleuthing
ADVENTURE OF KI NN
More deep space idiocy
FRONTLINE
Our new column for wargamers by Angus Ryall
CRASHHOTLINE & ADVENTURE TRIAL
PLAYINGTIPS
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Up and coming games previews
GIANT'SR
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Win Thor's new game
DOLLARSOFT
Win two new games
C STLEBLACKSTAR
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Help C.D.S. out of a problem
JOINTHE UNIQUE CLUB
and win three new games!
KOKOTONI
Get in with the Elite set!
CRASHSMASH
Wanted: Monty Mole and Sherlock
Plus loads of new games from Silversoff Virgin. Elite,
Unique and many many more
Cover by °Over Frey
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MICRO GAMES ACTION
UPSETTING
EXPLETIVES
We have received several
letters from readers
complaining about naughty
words in CRASH No 7
(August), which appeared in
my Editorial pages and in the
news item about the collapse
of Imagine Software. Quite a
few of the correspondents
linked the appearance of
these words with falling
standards in computer
journalism. It seems to me to
be an entirely irrelevant
argument. Standards in any
form of journalism are to do
with accuracy. interest and.
above all, honesty of
expression - not with the
occasional use of an
expletive. I'm well aware of the
moral that using swear words
is a failing of proper
expression and generally
applaud the sentiment, but I
think society at large is today
capable of accepting that at
selected times a simple word
can express a range and
strength of personal feeling
that a well constructed
paragraph cannot. If the
pages of CRASH were filled
with expletives in the
profusion to be found in colour
supplement magazines. then I
would accept that our
standards were slipping. The
editorial piece about Imagine
was written from an
impassioned point of view.
and as such I regarded the
use of the word bull"••
censored for fear of further
upset!) as appropriate. I'm
sorry if it offended readers. but
I do not apologise for using it
in the context.
In the case of the news
piece on Imagine, the
expletive was used by Bruce
Everiss over the telephone in
conversation with our reporter,
and its repitition in the article is
entirely justified as reportage.
CRASH does not swear lightly
or conveniently. If I'm not
mistaken. Mr. Everiss used
precisely the same sentence
when speaking later the same
day to a reporter from Popular
Computing Weekly, and they
too reported his words
verbatim.
4 C R A S H October 1984
CHRISTMASSPECIAL
Plans are well under way for a
CRASH CHRISTMAS
SPECIAL edition this year,
This will be a bumper bundle
(as they say) of competitions
and articles. There will also be
a giant free double-sided
poster, which also acts as a
calendar for 1985, included in
every copy. Because of the
amount of work and material
going into it, it will cost a bit
more than the usual CRASH
(although subscribers will
receive it as part of their
normal subscription). It should
prove good value, however,
due to the large number of
interesting competitions we
are arranging together with
many software and hardware
houses, which will mean
prizes for hundreds and
hundreds of lucky winners.
Out on sale on the 13th of
December, price E1.25, the
Christmas Special is in
practice the January issue of
CRASH - but we promise you.
it will be a very different and
special edition.
A A ACMAP
TIC T
WINNER
ACG Key winner, Malcolm
Berry (14) from Rayleigh in
Essex, travelled up to Ludlow
together with his mother,
father and sister, to
receive his trophy for winning
the Ultimate Atic Atac Map
Competition. The Berry family
were invited to lunch with
CRASH Editor Roger Kean
and Art Editor Oliver Frey
before the presentation was
made. Malcolm's mother told
us that he's always drawing
and designing things. The
striking version of Atic Atac's
cover had apparently been
done long before the
competition was
even thought of
and Malcolm
thought it
would come in
handy for the
Map.
After lunch
Roger Kean
presented
Malcolm
with the
Proud owner 01
the Golden key
of ACG,
Malcolm Berry
holds up the
trophy and his
winning entry,
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I've gone on quite a bit about
the price of software in past
issues, and in the last one I
mentioned that CRASH would
be behind any software house
that could produce really good
programs at a cheap price.
Now I have seen three games
from Atlantis Software that I
really do think are worth the
asking price and that haven't
been written down to match
the price, All three are
reviewed in this issue_
In the main, however, I still
remain to be convinced that
really innovative games can
be properly developed and
marketed at such low prices.
The argument that illegal tape
copying would lessen if all the
games were sold at £1.99
seems sadly unfounded,
judging by the response to
date of our piracy
questionnaire. The problem
remains.
ACG Key
trophy in
the very
room
where
the
competition
judging had taken
place some weeks earlier.
The
same room
Is now piled
high with maps
for the Sabre
Wulf Map
Competition,
which looks like
being an even
harder
CRASH Editor Roger Kean congralulales Malcolm on his win.
judging job than that for Atic Atac! The
Sabre Wulf winners will be announced in the
next issue and will receive a trophy of the
ACG Amulet, which Ultimate is having
made up now. Like the ACG key, the
Amulet will be completely unique
ADVERTISERSINDEX
Activision
6
6
Addictive Games
4
5
AGF
1
1
8
Arcade Software
2
4
Beyond Software
8
3
Cheetah Soft
1
2
7
Crash Mall Order 1 0 7
Crash T-shirts/Binders 8 0
Creative Sparks 3 9 1 5 1
Cross
8
7
Curran Compute r C o m p o -
nents
1
5
Digital integration
4 9
K'Tronics 5 6 / 5 7
mark
2
1
Elite
Back pe
Fantasy
r
;
Frei
3
9
Gargoyle Games
9
7
011soft
8
2
Howson Consultants 1 8
Hodder & Stoughton 1 0
incentive
4
5
Kompston
7
Lsgand 8 4 / 8 5
Lem
1
0
5
Level 9 Computing
7 4
Melbourne House 7 2 / 7 3
Micromega
2 / 7 1
Mikro-Gen
New Generation 9 8 1
Peaksoft
1
1
P.S.S.
5
0
R & R Software
1 1 4
Rem Electronics 1 0 4
Ram Jam Corporation 5 8
Salamander Software 1 1 2
Slogger
1
0
6
Stalacom
1
Thor
Ultimate
Th
1
Virgin Games 1 0 1 / 1 0 3 1 1 0 6
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