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- | | oooooooooh! (Strange man! - DAN) Hello games junkies to another
- | | better than sleep games guide! This disk it is bigger and better
- | | than ever before so get your tusks into this mazzie gamer guide.
- | | Oh and look out for our new Games Q&A section called Guessing Game
- ------- and next disks massive Cheats special! Go on then, read on!!....
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- Ratings are out of a possible 10
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- 10 = One of a kind! 9 = A very very good game indeed! 8 = Buy it now!
- 7 = A good game worth buying! 6 = Good and worth checking out
- 5 = About average, you will get some fun out of this but try before you buy!
- 4 = Not very good, maybe borrow it 3 = Poor game 2 = Not worth the disks
- it comes on! 1 = The lowest of the low, and embarrasement to the computer
- industry, don't even look at it, not good enough for a ZX80, a right
- bag of ( OK, OK, we get the idea - DAN)
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- Monkey Island II : Lechucks Revenge
- Lucas Arts
- £29:99
- Reviewer: Simon Hall , Stockton-on-Tees
-
- | echuck! What a strange name. If you remember that was the name
- | of the ghost pirate from the game `The Secret of Monkey Island'
- | which was released in 1990. Well in the first adventure Guybrush
- |____ Threepwood (Who thinks of theese names?! - DAN) was trying to
- become a pirate, so where better to go than the most pirate-ridden
- island on the planet `Melee Island TM'. He was asking pirates all
- over the land if he could join their crew, but Lechuck, who
- is a deadly ghost pirate who sails the seventh seas in search of
- blood, is capturing all the pirates and none of them dare set sail,
- so you decide to become a pirate and then see what happens. To
- become a pirate though you need to complete the three tests of
- thievery, Sword Fighting, and Treasure Hunting. You go through
- these and then the governor of the island called Elane Marley
- gets kidnapped by Lechuck, you rescue her and all is well. MI 2
- starts of with you hanging from the roof of a cave with a treasure
- chest in your arms, Elane comes and asks you how you got into this
- mess, you then tell her the story. The game is like a flashback.
- You begin on Scabb Island, which is an Island some where near
- Melee. You are chatting up (No that doesn't sound right!!) some
- pirates and telling them about the time you burst in to the
- chruch and Lechuck begged for mercy (Very dreamy person this
- Mr. Threepwood - DAN). Anyway, the story goes that they are bored
- with the old Lechuck story and want a new one. So off you go
- to find the legendary lost treasure of Big Whoop to get a load
- of cash and to have a whole new story. The game uses a new system
- called IMUSE, which changes the music so it corresponds with the
- game location, like a spooky song for the grave yard part.
- This adventure game is the best ever seen, it comes on a whack-tastic
- 11 disks! Yes ELEVEN! If you are using a Hard disk then there
- is an installer program with it, if you use floppy make sure you
- have at least 2 drives if you don't want to swap disks every scene.
- Loading is very quick from floppy and it is one hell of a game!
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- Rating: 9
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- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Kixx
- £9.99
- Reviewer: Dan
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- |\ /| mmmmmnn! Well.. Not very good really. If you remeber the Arcade
- | \/ | version of the Ninja turtles out a few years ago, it wasn't too
- | | bad, well this is the Amiga version of this game, it how ever
- | | may be based on the same idea, the graphics look like something
- that came out of a camels behind. They are all chunky and blocky
- and the game moves ooooh so slooow! The music is dull and repetative
- and the enemies all look the same. There is not much to say about
- this game. Oh and if you have seen the Turtles movie then you will
- know that they have different coloured eye masks, in this they don't!
- you can't tell who is who. You can have two players and the game
- is a beat 'em up type game, like Double Dragon, only much worse.
- Try Before you buy!
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- Rating: 3
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- Leasure Suit Larry In The Land of The Lounge Lizards
- £6.99
- KIXX
- Reviewer: Rick
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- | easure Suit Larry is a bit of a sad bloke. I mean he wanders the
- | streets at night and goes in bars and hopelessly attempts to chat
- | up womer by feeling their behinds. He is dressed in those kinds
- |_____ of clothes that only Steevie Wonder would wear and is desperate
- for the big S (Aren't we all?!). Well this game is not very
- good since it is a completely crap bit of programming. You start
- off in the street out side a bar and then you have to click on the
- path to the door, the mouse control is really crappy as Larry bumps
- into everything, and the whole game is so slow. It is easier to
- use the cursor keys to move him but it is even slower then!
- The graphics are also very slow and blocky, and the sound is a very
- cheap repetative song. The game is also very sexist and it gets
- very boring after a while. You also can't open a door unless you
- are very close to it, if you are about a 1mm away from the handle and
- you type OPEN DOOR then it says MOVE CLOSER, and then you move in
- and have to type it again. Not worth having. And on 1 disk you
- can't really expect a good adventure.
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- Rating: 5
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- Road Rash
- £25.99
- Reviewer: Dan
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- | his is what you call a game. Imagine this... You are on the
- | suburbs of America, riding around in the hot summers day,
- | on a motor bike racing 19 other opponents, dodging the police
- and having a race to the finishing line. This game has really
- good sound and graphics. It is a cross between a beat em up and
- a racing sim. You rush around on your motor bike and can punch or
- kick the opponents off their bikes. There are also special
- weapons lying around that you can use, like baseball bats and chains
- yes I know it all sounds very violent, and it is, but it is such
- fun. If you have evr played Road Rash on the Mega Drive then this
- will bring it all back to you as it is almost identical to the Sega
- version. The graphics are quite good on the loading screen as you
- see one person who the computer slects at random from the race you
- are about to take and they give you advice or take the mick out of
- you. The sound is also very good, with a heavy metal beat on the title
- screen. This is about as good as beat 'em up driving games get. Go
- out and buy it now¹
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- Rating: 8
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-
- And that is it for this disks Gamer-Guide. It is slightly shorter than usual
- due to the loading in screen at the start of this issue and the christmas
- list. But to make up for it look out for next issues massive cheats
- special. Bye Bye for now. And have a great christmas and I'll see you
- in '95!
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- Rick
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