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Franco Frey
Production Designer
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Art Editor
Oliver Frey
Adventure Editor
Derek Brewster
Staff Writer
Lloyd Mangram
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A two-part pull-out colour poster
Some 'Special Mentions'
REVIEWERS' commmoN
MAKINGANIMPRESSION
The R&D Digital Tracer examined
30 ORNOT?
That is the question the CRASH team ask as they plough
through a mammoth article on 3D,In computer games
EDITORIAL
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A brief round-up for the month
C A HFORUM
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Lloyd Mangram prints some of your letters
ADV NTURETRAIL
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Derek Brewster hops aboard the Snowball to look at some
games
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Adventure game tips and hints from Derek and his
correspondents
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Top 50 fave games and the Adventure chart
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Electrogobble - we compare some Ghost Gobblers
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Game hints from readers and Lloyd's Hall of Slime (?)
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The response to our draw an Atic
Atac map competition has proved
to be enormous. As I write this,
Timothy St amper of Ult imat e
tells me that the prize is being
cast. The trophy of the ACG Key
stands twelve inches high. It won't
be long now before the winner's
name emerges.
Meanwhile, from the wealth of
detail sent in already, our colour
poster is being prepared. Part
One may be found in the centre of
this months issue, with Part Two
to follow next month. All you have
to do is carefully lift up the staples
and pull the two centre pages Out
Part One contains the Attic, Firs t
Floor and Ground Floor. Part
Two has the Bas ement and the
Caverns. The two parts assemble
longways one above the other to
make up a finished poster
approximately 297mm wide by
840mm high.
There must still be people
around who will find the map
useful as a guide to playing AtiC
Alec, but for those who already
know the place inside out, we
hope the poster will make an
interesting decoration and provide
a memory of hours spent undoing
what Ultimate has wrought!
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I was interested in the reaction of
a caller who, in passing,
commented that CRASH so often
concentrated its reviews on
smaller, often unknown, software
houses There was the implication
in the tone of his voice that this
was something of a failing - rather
as though we were unable to get
games to review from the bigger,
more important companies. Or
perhaps it was a reference to the
lack of good games in summer.
Whichever, it has to be said that
CRASH set Out to be a
comprehensive review magazine
(that can be difficult at times, but
we do our best) and as such is
duly bound to review games from
any sized software company
when and as space allows.
Besides which, even the
biggest software houses today
were all little ones a year or two
back. Who is to say that some
genius operating from his or her
back bedroom today won't be a
giant come Chnstmas? It's the
ideas that count What is a
Since the Item on ihe Golden Key of
ACG was written, the superb trophy
has arrived - and it stands 14 inches
high on its base. Watch out for the
next issue, where the winner will be
problem for the young and
unknown software house is
exposure - letting people know
That they're there. Almost every
magazine in the business will
devote space instantly to Jet Set
Willy and Sabre Wulf, but who
apart from the specialist mags will
bother wrth Dennis Through the
Drinking Glass or Application's
follow-up The Tebbit? I know that
the majority of readers are only
Interested in the 'biggies', but it
can lead to missing out on a lot of
announced! In the meantime, plans
are aloot tor a follow-up competition
from Ultimate based on Sabre Wulf.
Watch out for details - next issue
very good and entertaining
games. In CRASH we try to
redress the balance a bit.
On top of that it would be a good
question to ask - do the 'biggies'
always come up with the goods'?
alike are now facing the traditional
s ummer slump. It may seem odd
to talk of a tradition in a market
barely in its third year, but
experience indicates that the
s ummer is always poor for
software sales Not unnaturally,
games players who would have to
be dragged away from their
Spectrums in the dark winter
months find that there are more
interesting things to do outdoors
during the summer.
Consequently, less software is
bought and loaded.
Last summer, less wary, the
software houses carried on
advertising in the magazines and
were then upset when they found
that the sales figures didn't equal
the advertising bills This year,
everyone is acting more
cautiously, looking over their
shoulders at the circulating
rumours that so and so is about to
go under. Naturally, the slump hits
the smaller companies with less
funding much harder, but one or
two of the real 'biggies don't seem
to find it easy to pay for their
advertising bills either.
The records do show that sales
of games drop in the summer, but
perhaps the software houses are
helping to perpetuate a vicious
circle by hibernating. This is
considered a poor time to release
new games, I write this on the eve
of seeing Ultimate's new game,
Sabre Wulf. It might be salutory to
remember that Sabre Wulf is only
Uttimate's seventh game, being
released in the summer, and that
their first two, Jetpac and Pssst,
were launched about a year ago -
right in the middle of everyone
else's slump. As a result of their
experiences across the year, they
are probably quite unconcerned
about releasing a major game
(with a new price too) in the
middle of summer. It highlights a
fallacy in the theory that a good
product should be saved up until
Christmas -- with a lack of good
games to buy and play, any really
good game released will stand out
- and be bought. But if there is a
tendency to pull in the horns
during the summer and not
release good games, then the
buyers are going to bother even
less, thus tightening the vicious
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SummerSlump
Running on from the above piece.
small and large software houses
The Hot line is hotting up! Calls
coming in now are virtually
swamping the system, especially
with the advent of the adventure
line. Each month now results in
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