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 AMIGA POWER        Issue #47 coverdisk (.ADF/PAL)           March 1995
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 Forming a symbiotic relationship with this issue of AMIGA POWER are
 two disks.  They take advantage of their host magazine to impart
 information regarding their contents, while the magazine benefits from
 the increased sales they generate.

 Introducing disk 47...


 GUARDIAN (A1200 only)

   Let the trumpets sound!  Let the eternal flame be lit!  Let the
   dancing troupes perform!  The Game of Champions has arrived on AMIGA
   POWER's coverdisks!  Hear the crowd roar appreciatively as you take
   to the podium to attempt our special level, which brings together
   many of the baddies from later levels into one frenzied burst of
   gaming ecstasy.


 BUBBLE AND SQUEAK

   One of the sweetest, most inventive, and simply best platform games
   on the Amiga 1200 is now obtainable on the 500, and it's even better
   than before, for some reason. Play our demo and see that it is good.


 DERRING-DO

   Mr Do returns again, this time looking his best yet in this
   fantastic Blitz Basic-programmed version from Yorkshire.  Eat fruit
   and be merry.


 PUCMAN

   It's Pacman -- but on the Amiga -- but on our coverdisk, in compact
   demo form.  Devour dots in claustrophobic mazes, all the while
   pursued by crazed ghosts.


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 GUARDIAN
 Authors: Acid
 A1200

 Guardian (the Game of Champions) used to be available only on the
 CD32.  Guardian (the Game of Champions) was awarded a richly-deserved
 90% in AP43.  Guardian (the Game of Champions) was played incessantly
 by all members of AMIGA POWER for three whole weeks, resulting in the
 magazine missing its allocated print slot and being fined in excess of
 almost 15 thousand pounds.  In New Zealand, where Guardian (the Game
 of Champions) emanates from, it has become the centre of a growing
 religious cult that has shocked the law enforcement community as well
 as civic leaders.  It's that good.
    Being the technophobes we are, we thought that the tilting skyline
 in Guardian (the Game of Champions) probably used some "special" chips
 in the CD32 and that it was therefore unlikely that we'd ever see an
 A1200 version.  But no, it turns out that in the field of micro-
 electronics, we know nothing, as this demo clearly proves.  The game's
 a 3D version of Defender, with landers, pods, swarmers and all those
 old favourites, only in 3D.  The specially-made level in our demo
 contains many of the baddies from later levels, and rather than
 protecting humanoids, you've got to try and keep all the ground
 installations standing.  If you can finish the level with 100% of the
 buildings intact, then you're pretty dashed good.
    The controls are a bit odd, with the options being either a CD32
 controller or the mouse.  The mouse buttons accelerate or decelerate
 you, but use them sparingly, or it all gets horribly fast.  To change
 the view, press ESC to get to the options menu.  The keyboard commands
 go a little like this:

 RETURN - Fire
 SPACE BAR - Nuke (handy for the start of the level)
 Left ALT Key - Reverse direction (Great for taking out suckers on your
                tail)
 Tab - Guided missiles (if you've got them, natch)

 The funny spiked balls that appear when you shoot certain things are
 power-ups, and the trick to picking them up is to swoop low and grab
 them before they crash onto the ground and disappear.  Play the demo,
 read the review on page 47 and then just go and buy the game any way.
 You owe it to yourself.

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 DERRING-DO
 Author: Nick Slaven

 It's a superior version of Mr Do, a video game older than the most
 elderly giant tortoise that lives in the far off Galapagos Islands.
 As old as the mountain streams that carve through the Caledonian
 mountains, as old as the kilometre thick iceflows that press down on
 the bedrock of Iceland with unimaginable pressure.  Older in fact,
 than many of the seven or so jokes we use, month after month, in AMIGA
 POWER.
    You know the score:  Run around, pick up fruit, drop apples on
 baddies, fire your bouncy ball and flit through the levels.  Just play
 it.

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 PUCMAN
 Author: Augenblick

 Almost (but not quite) succeeding as a clone, Pucman nevertheless
 remains a spectacularly close conversion of the most popular coin-op
 of all time and the first to attract women in numbers to video games.
 Yes, not only are you bound to recognise the maze and the simple
 graphics, but the faithfully-reproduced sound is guaranteed to bring
 to mind treacly visions of unpleasantly cavernous halls and sickle-
 cell anaemia.  Where Pucman diverges from the one true path is in the
 movement of its monsters.  The mighty beings of AMIGA POWER, having
 invested severally in How to Win at Pacman books, can state with
 authority that the ghosts of Pucman do not follow the correct
 patterns.  Damn their omnipursuant eyes.
    Tediously uncovered solutions aside, this version offers even more
 options than the original, including a fiendishly fun simultaneous
 two-player mode, where you (the player) must decide whether to help or
 hinder him/her (the other player) in his/her quest for maximum
 pointage.  Pucman offers hours of frivolity of a flee/chase nature
 and, as a financially taunting bonus, the full version (available from
 the address displayed proudly in the demo itself) won't start going
 dark in the increasingly more obvious and distracting way that this
 one does.  Enjoy.

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 BUBBLE & SQUEAK
 Authors: Audiogenic

 Boy were you lot annoyed when we orignally had a Bubble and Squeak
 disk demo back in AP42.  It was an A1200 demo, you see (one of our
 first), and everyone (well, everyone who didn't have an A1200) seemed
 to think this was most unfair.  However, with this demo, the only
 people who can complain are those who fail to appreciate the tricky
 yet pleasing nature of this finer than fine puzzly game.  And they're
 stupid, so they don't count.
    The bald kid and Blue Thing are back in four levels completely
 different from the A1200 demo, which is surely a Good Thing.  The plan
 is to control the bald kid and coax Blue Thing to the exit, which is
 accomplished using the following "special" skills:

 *  To fire stars, press FIRE.  Obviously.

 *  To pick up or drop pots, springs, etc, press DOWN and FIRE.

 These are all very well and good, but if you get to Blue Thing (which,
 on the first level, is accomplished by putting one of the springs on
 top of the other) then you can try out a fascinating array of new
 moves, many of which involve obvious cruelty to the azure mammal.

 *  To make it follow the bald kid, press DOWN and FIRE.  Do the same
    when you're fed up of it trailing around.

 *  To kick it, stand right next to it and press FIRE.  Sometimes
    you've got to.

 *  To get it to throw the bald kid into the air, stand in front of it
    and press UP and FIRE.  Doing this while standing under an overhang
    means the bald kid cracks his head most amusingly.

 *  To get Blue Thing to flap its flippers, get coins by shooting
    nasties and then feed them into the bubble gum machine.

 *  And do all of these quickly, or both Blue Thing and the small bald
    child will drown.  Horribly.

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 THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS:  Always keep your weapon at your side.

 Amiga Power is printed in the UK.  Copyright Future Publishing 1995

 Note:  All games were verified to load under one emulator or another.

 Docs re-keyed courtesy of Knuckles Dragon.  Original author uncertain.
 Please send clarification to:  [e-mail]