Review - review of toys: Space Gun, World Championchip Soccer, Night Breed, Satan 2, Obliterator, Stun Runner, Side Arms, Salamnder, Dark Fusion, Moontorc, Blood Valley, Magicians Land, Magic Fields, Mountain Bike Simulator, Starfox, Heavy Metall Mover.

              
M.M.A/SPEED CO.'97                        
                                          
       SPACE GUN      
                      
       128K ONLY      
                      
 TAITO/IMAGES/OCEAN'92
                      
  DISK VERSION:       
                      
         MAGIC SOFT'96
                      
  РАЗМЕР: 499 СЕКТОРОВ
                                          
I want to start today's review with a selection
purely 128 kilobyte toys. AND SPACE
It’s not for nothing that GUN takes up these notorious kilo-
bytes!  It's been a long time since I've seen such a...
honest shooter. In fact, it appears
You can create this game by crossing ALIENS with
OPERATION WOLF/THUNDERBOLT/HANOI.In addition
may influence an unprepared player
DOOM-like appearance, which further enhances
impression of the game, although in reality
It is not DOOM-like.             
                                          
So, your task is to cope with the crowd of foreigners
planetary creatures that captured several areas
projects with people in deep space. EU-
Naturally, your goal is to liberate
capture of both the objects themselves and people
held hostage.                       
                                          
Since such contact with aliens
happens for the first time, no one knows anymore
or less effective methods of destruction
aliens.  You shoot these bastards from
some kind of terrible weapon, but for special
the main monsters have special vi-
Weapons: missiles, cryogenerator, etc. But in the midst of battle, do not forget about the hostage
kah, who from time to time run out to
you, seeking help and protection. And at the same time
you should be extremely careful, because
At higher levels, monsters can disguise themselves
under people, and then suddenly attack.     
                                          
In general, the game is very interesting.  Prafika
simply amazing!  Moreover, the graphics are not black-
but white, but the large one is colored! A similar game
I've only ever seen fic in a game
ASTRO MARINE CORP. But in SPACE GUN, thanks
When using dual-screen buffering
managed to achieve a complete absence of adhesive
shing of attributes and at the same time the action is pro-
comes from a window more than two-thirds of the screen
on.                                       
                                          
But the most interesting feature of SPACE GUN
This is the ability to play with two people at the same time. 
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
WORLD  CHAMPIONSHIP 
       SOCCER       
                    
     128K ONLY!     
                    
SEGA / ELITE '90    
                    
DISK VERSION:       
       MAGIC SOFT'96
                    
РАЗМЕР: 309 СЕКТОРОВ
                    
                                          
                                          
Nice looking toy, football imitation
torus  Only owners will be able to play it
black and white  monitors  and  TVs.
Only they can see on their own
crazy combination of white and green
colors.                                    
                                          
                                          
In general, the toy is not bad.  Constantly playing
There is no coprocessor music.                 
                                          
Before starting you will be asked to choose
map of the city/country whose team you are on
to be played. Next there will be a draw -
yovka and your team will get into one of
groups.  Well, then the football player himself will go
process.                                  
                                          
The game screen is small in size, that is
I mean, using 128K you could-
It would be nice to draw a “more” field. I don't care
still remains closer to my likingADIDAS
FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP, well, you decide for yourself
mi!                                           
    NIGHT  BREED    
       48/128       
                    
      OCEAN'90      
                    
DISK VERSION:       
    CODE BUSTERS'97 
РАЗМЕР:449 СЕКТОРА  
                    
DISK VERSION:       
 ZERO'96 
SIZE:773 SECTOR  
                                          
                                          
Very large and very interesting game. By
style remindsASSASIN, but not graphically
inferior to the already mentioned ASTRO MARINE
CORP., although in NIGHT BREED screens are static
not scrolled, but simply redrawn
are falling out.                                 
                                          
                                          
The game is not just a shoot-
ku,  a rather fruitful combination
ACTION/ADVENTURE. This is
find and free your girl from the evil ones
zombies fromNECROPOLIS- cities of the dead.   
                                          
Today I have seen two disk
version of this game.  The very first version
came to Samara in mid-December and was
made by the Baltic group ZERO. This
the version was quite working, but it took
more than 700 sectors of disk space.
True, TURBO somewhat softened the situation
LOADER, but....                            
                                          
 The second version arrived a month later and was
made by  MAX IWAMOTO from CODE BUSTERS.
This is the version I recommend to you! Few
the fact that it occupies only 449 sectors,
just as usual by pressing the "S" key
during download, you will be able to receive
disk file in ZX-WORD format, in which
 all stages of passing are described in detail
games.                                     
                                          
                        Keep it up, MAXI!
                                          
And if we consider thisthe problem at its root
this is not the first game to come to quite
wild version, first from the Baltic states, and then
then, months later, more ka-
honest and complete version from other hacks
kers who also have access to INTERNET. So
was with at least two famous
"fights" - FINAL FIGHT 128  and STREET
FIGHTER 2.  Is it good or bad - say
difficult. And yet I hope that from now on...
shea hackers will produce quality
disk versions immediately, or at least
warn users that their
version may be incomplete.                 
                                          
                                          
                                          
I don’t know how people played this game at the Kas-
sets, but even with the drive in 128K mode
There are periodic loadings of levels. Everything
this  very  reminds me of sweet times
THE HERITAGE STAR. Moreover, loading, like
bummer, they come unnoticed. I was lucky
fall into a hole, so I first ten ek-
wounds flew by, thenthe level loaded and
I flew down another ten screens. The most
interesting - he is still alive! Therefore, we insist
I strongly advise you not to remove the disc from the disco
water.                                     
                                          
Perhaps the game is not as primitive as
may seem at first glance, that is
I want to say that it wasn't just shooting-
ka.  If any of our readers were able
complete the game to the end, or ready to share
advice, we will be happy to provide them with
place in the magazine.                          
                                          

                                          
 SATAN 2      
                    
  48/128       
                    
 DYNAMIC'90     
                    
DISK VERSION:       
 MAGIC SOFT'96 
                    
SIZE: 148 SECTORS 
                    
                    
                                          
An unexpected continuation of the game KILL
THE SATAN,made a splash a year and a half ago.
The second part is not only no worse, but in my opinion
the look is even better than the first one. Appeared in the game
besides the usual fights, some close to
adventurous elements. Number of enemies
decreased per unit area, appeared
a store for purchasing weapons, as well as
many other interesting changes have occurred
niya in the game.  Only the graphics have not changed.
It still remained black and white, saying
nirovanny and very cool! Of course, in some
in some places the background and sprite of your
heroes are so mixed up that nothing can be separated
army, but onopen spaces steepness
the graphics cannot be ignored.               
                                          
Well, of course, like any product from the company
DYNAMIC, this game is one of the best
in your own genre!                            
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          

                                          
Extensive penetration "of the eighth wonder of the world
ta" - INTERNET to our homes, cities
and the villages led to a new way of getting
development of SPECTRUM's programs.  Now not
you need to go to Poland, or even more so to
England, where to buy for crazy money
branded cassettes and discs. With the advent of INTERNET everything has become easier!
It is enough to get a job in some
any organization where there is at least one
IBM,then convince management of the need
the ability to connect your machine to the network, well
and then it’s just a matter of little things.               
                                          
                                          
C INTERNETremoved not only, and not
so many new and unknown toys to us,
but also long-known, in full versions.   
                                          
                                          
An example of this would be the extensive collection
tion of games I recently received from HOBOCU-
BIRSKA.  Describe these meaning programs
no, so I will only give the “technical” ones
characteristics and several branded car-
teenager                                    
 If you consider yourself a true fan
SPECTRUM, then try to purchase these
games for your collection. First time on the market
appearedfull branded, disk ver-
these listed below and many, many others
Some well-known games:                 
                                          
               OBLITERATOR                
       ICON DESIGN / MELBOURN HOUSE       
                                          
           SIZE: 162 SECTORS            
                                          
             S.T.U.N. RUNNER              
       ATARI GAMES / DOMARK LTD '90       
                                          
           SIZE: 176 SECTORS           
                                          
                                          
                SIDE ARMS                 
          PROBE / CAPCOME USA '87         
                                          
            SIZE: 138 SECTORSSALAMANDER                 
               KONAMI '87                 
                                          
            РАЗМЕР: 153 СЕКТОРА           
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
       DARK FUSION + 4 LEVELS 48/128      
               GREMLIN '88                
                                          
            РАЗМЕР: 229 СЕКТОРОВ          
                                          




                                          
                    
 MOONTORC  48/128   
                    
                    
ATLANTIS  SOFTWARE  
 SHAW BROTHERS'91   
                    
DISK VERSION:       
         SOFTSTAR'93
                    
РАЗМЕР: 180 СЕКТОРОВ
                    
                                          
"Новая"  игрушка  от  ATLANTIS SOFT ориги-
нальностью  не блещет. По-прежнему крутей-
шая  (на мой взгляд) цветная графика, неп-
лохой  звук  и впервые, насколько я помню,
сказочный  сюжет.  Раньше  продуктами SHAW
BROTHERS являлись стрелялки (IRON SOLDIER)
and games in the style ACTION/ADVENTURE (SUPER
KID, SUPER KID IN SPACE). Now we see
let's have a full-fledged fairy-tale plot:princess
LALENA has been kidnapped by the evil Lord of Darkness!And es-
Naturally, only you can save her.    
                                          
Doesn't resemble HEART BROKEN?Yes, yes! The same
programmers, same company and same plot,
but a few years later. I mean that
MOONTORC was made in '91, and HEART BROKEN
in 1987, and naturally, in the first everything is much more
steeper than the second one.                     
                                          
So, you go in search of the princess.
From the very first steps they try to attack you
all sorts of nasty creatures, but you are nothing to them
you cannot oppose, because
May fire, you find yourself in the item menu,
which you don't have yet. But it's not worth it
despair, come closer to the monster and
he himself will “throw back his hooves” when he touches your
battle-hardened body. True, this leads
leads to some loss of energy, but we
immortal! Or not ? More likely no than yes
before starting the game, CHEAT MODE MENU would not
lo.  So how to shoot all these
monsters, you ask me? Yes, very simple-
then! After playing a little, you will understand that the key
The "DOWN" symbol in control is unnecessary - that's what it is
switches in the lower window those functions that
which you call by pressing “OPONb”. And
remember that different monsters have different
weapons act with different strengths. But in general
-  move forward, collect the keys,
open doors and take chests, and
you look there, and there is a princess!        
                                          
The following thing is of interest. On
collection disk  from MAGIC SOFT, where
actually I found this game, there was also
about 5 similar, unsigned disks
versions.  An autopsy showed that this was a typical
ny SOFTSTAR'93.  But why did SOFTSTAR wait?
all this time and did not release toys into production
will I sell?                                     
          THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
                                          
 BLOOD VALLEY 48/128
                    
GREMLIN GRAPHICS    
  IMAGITAC DESIGN'87
                    
                    
DISK VERSION :      
 CODE REINGERS GROUP
                    
РАЗМЕР: 232 СЕКТОРА 
                    
                    
                                          
Продолжая тему всегоmysterious and fabulous
Nogo, I present to your attention the full
disk version of the game BLOOD VALLEY.Prog-
frame was created based on the combat adventure
series "DUEL MASTER" and represents the
combat is a full-fledged role-playing game for two or
one player.                          
                                          
                                          
The overall goal of the game is to
confrontation between the forces of good and evil.  Here we go
again your goal is liberation
some fairy-tale country from an evil wave-
shebnik.  So this bastard, I mean vol-
shebnik, he also plays games with you: you
are the "PREY" and he is the "HUNT"
NOBODY."                                   
                                          
You can better understand the meaning of the game by playing
it can be played by two people, although in principle it can also be played
one person.   Before the game, the first player
chooses a character from three suggested
nykh, and the second (or computer) places
their  "STOCKERS" according to the magic card
countries. Then it’s a matter of technique!It’s nice to be able to select a language,
in which the program will communicate with you
- English, German and French :-(. 
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
       There is no Russian as always.....       
                                          
                                          
                                          
Small game graphics may initially cause
disgust - what kind of cockroach am I controlling?
But try to play a little, and you'll get sucked in
no virtual world role-playing adventure. 
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                    
MAGICIANS LAND      
          128K ONLY!
                    
                    
PRECISION GROUP'96  
                    
                    
РАЗМЕР: 212 СЕКТОРОВ
                    
                    
                    
                                          
Седьмая игрушка  в этой части ОБЗОРА, тоже
не  для слабоумных. СТРАНА МАПОВ это наше,
отечественное произведение искусства и от-
носится оно к популярным в последнее времяclones "3H" (who can guess what
"3H", can stroke his smart head
ve!). Although calling the game a clone of "Legacy"
just because it contains st-
tical graphics and selection of possible commands
done using the menu, rather too
com presumptuously. Rather, this game is closer
interface toDANGER MOUSE.                
                                          
So, for the umpteenth time during this REVIEW,
the evil Avyas and Nemes crossed the line
all sorts of impudence and began to burn and rob
yournative land.  Can defeat them
only a lone hero, that is, you.
And to win you need to kill the mythical
AVOKA - king of the Avyas, living in the castle
Mechant. Besides, it would be nice to collect 10
scrolls with spells that will help in
fight with the king.                         
                                          
As I said above, the game features
no graphics in the form of a static window 9 on
6 familiar places where moderately beautiful appears
your picture of where you are
at the moment. To the right the back is displayed
juice of possible actions from which one can
select the most possible using the course
ra.The bottom of the screen displays your
sha endurance and a descriptive text is printed
location.                              
                                          
The game is quite interesting and even I paid attention
two hours exploring the surroundings of the castle,
although I rarely play games of this type. B
In general, I recommend that you find this program
and hope you spend a lot of time with her
interesting evenings, waiting for the appearance of "3H2"
(what is “3H2”, I hope everyone understands?)
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          

                                          
   MAGIC FIELDS 48/128  
                            
              ZACK'96       
                            
                            
       DISK VERSION:        
       ODISSEY & FLASH ibc. 
                            
                            
       РАЗМЕР: 100 СЕКТОРОВ 
                                          
Как  ни  странно,  но  хотя играmade in
1996, even more so, in June
no, this is not a Russian software product and
not even a game from neighboring countries. MAGIC
FIELDS is a Western game and a game absolutely
new!  Another thing is whether she is interesting? Well
here, to each his own...                    
                                          
SPECTRUM's version is a conversion
from the platform AMIGA (RULEZ!), but also Amiga
version, in turn, was a conversion with
C64. So the origins of the game lie on the platform
meCOMMODORE. Having read in the introduction that
that the idea of the game was taken from AMIGA, I immediately
I realized _WHAT_ all this reminds me of.     
                                          
MAGIC FIELDS is a logic game, and is similar
it is on TURN or XOR'EM ALL, which is warmed up
chalk a year ago. Exactly similar
mouth  If in TURN you were to collect
pattern, then here your task is to clear the game
howl field.                                 
                                          
Hover the cursor over the desired cell and click
fire, you will receive a cross on the screen, consisting
from verticaland horizontal straight
each with five balls. If in pre-
there are no balls in the affairs of this cross, then they
will appear.  Well, if the balls are already standing, then they
will naturally disappear. The XOR principle - how it works
and there is!                                   
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
The game is logical, which means you have to
throw your brains. Most importantly, you can-
open several fields in a row, beat
author's record and do many others
things without fear of obvious appearance on the screen
a rare piece of pornography, "pulled" from a PC,
as a prize.                         
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                    
   MOUNTAIN  BIKE   
 SIMULATOR   48/128 
                    
   CODEMASTERS'90   
                    
DISK VERSION:       
                    
       MAGIC SOFT'96
                    
РАЗМЕР: 146 СЕКТОРОВ
                    
                                          
В  принципе,игрушка эта не совсем уж и но-
вая,  но  у  меня есть поводinclude it in
today's REVIEW. Firstly, this is one of the
the coolest games of this type released
ever on SPECCY. Secondly, there are some
second  the desire to throw a stone at the garden
SPECTROFON.                             
                                          
MOUNTAIN BIKE SIMULATOR - this is a sports one
mountain bike simulator. You have to
go through four levels full of all sorts of things
rises, landslides, logs, sticks (in circles)
sa!) and other mountain debris. Inter game
resna is not so much the reality of what is happening -
wow, so many things that you can just get into it
little to play. With all my essence I do not
reviewing similar games, I am interested
spent several hours completing it
all levels.                             
                                          
In the ibtro for the game you can select the option
ity of infinite time.  This function
makes the game absolutely passable and therefore
I don't recommend you play in this mode. 
                                          
"But what to do?", - you ask - "after all,
SPECTROFON himself is someone Sergey Novikov
wrote in the REVIEW thatbecause of the evil mos-
Kovsky company MAGIC SOFT in the game immortality
You can't turn it off!"                       
                                          
Indeed, MAGIC SOFT's allowed
big mistake in INTRO to MOUNTAIN BIKE. B
mode 128K no matter how hard you try, the game
will still start with infinite time -
German But if you run the program from 48K,then
everything falls into place and in ibtro you can
will disable immortality.               
                                          
           
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                                          
 P.S. Злобные - это просто метафора.......
                                          
                    
   STARFOX 48/128   
                    
     ARIOLASOFT     
 REALTIME GAMES '87 
                    
                    
  DISK VERSION:     
                    
      ROM/S.B.U.H.G.
 SIZE: 131 SECTOR 
                                          
                                          
The game is well known to those interested in this
subject,   but the full version has appeared
just now. Moreover, with the decline in popularity
ELITE features, similar three-dimensional space
some games, even well forgotten ones, being chosen
thrown onto the market, they become popular.
                                          
                                          
The program itself is written based on the same name
work writer PAUL  ANDERSON.
Once again the ships of the earth are plying deep space.
liang This time, your task will be to
maintaining order in one particular
planetary system. First you need to find
a suitable planet, or maybe several
they will come in handy right away.  On planets you can
meet MOTHER SHIP, from which you should
refuel (hint: fly up to
go to the hatch and turn 90 degrees!). 
In addition, during a flight on interplanetary
new space, you are constantly attacked
give entire armadas of enemy convoys.Yes and
some kind of ELECTRON is constantly spinning under
sideways....                                 
                                          
The toy has vector filled graphics and
looks quite up to par in this regard
BATTLE COMMAND and STAR STRIKE II. Especially
The tanker ship looks cool.        
       
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
Of course, in terms of the globality of events before ELITE
This game is far from it, but in terms of graphics quality
STAR FOX is clearly superior to the old space lady
ical battles.  In addition to the described version
There is also a disk version made
FLASH ibc. There is practically no difference -
quality (that is, the same quality!).   
                                          
  HEAVY METAL MOVER 
                    
  48/128      
                    
  UCM GROUP'96   
                    
   SIZE:          
                    
   444SECTOR  
                    
                    
                    
                                          
                                          
The idea of this game is not new. Back in the late 80's
Similar messages were put forward in Polish demos.
injuries. But in a real game all this is implemented
for the first time ever.                            
                                          
                                          
                                          

                                          
As in the good old "Tag" (us
this is a complete game, not what you think
Mali!),your task is to restore the original
picture by moving its individual elements
cops.  But if in "Fifteen" you had
one free square, then everything here is square
raths (9 pieces) are filled.  Therefore, the movement
you have to walk the entire vertical or horizontal
tal immediately.                               
                                          
                                          
BScreensavers are offered as pictures
from albums of HEAVY METAL bands. Specifically
these are METALLICA, ASYLUM and OBITUARY. So
Thus, the game has three levels, according to
during which you will receive a prize digital
roving  For lovers of immortality I can only
advise reading SCROLL in INTRO before
end!                                    
                                          
                 * * * * *                
                                          
3and over the past three months Samara received
also  an immense number of electronic
newspapers and magazines.                         
                                          
                                          
                                          
SPECCY   #6   ON-LINE #73     
                                          
ODYSSEY   #0   EMULATE #3ZX-POWER     #1          (U.K.)           
                                          
ZX-FORMAT    #5          ALCHNEWS #11-14  
                                          
FAULTLESS    #4          (U.K.)           
                                          
SPECTROFON   #21                          
                                          
SPECTROPHOBY #6                           
                                          
                                          
                                          
Особенно хочется отметить два новых журна-
ла - ODYSSEY и ZX-POWER.The first one is published in
Armavir by a large group ACCEPT CORP. B
The trial zero issue of the magazine was released,
but this does not mean that it is short and insignificant
interesting.  On the contrary, this trial number
It will give any other serial magazine a head start!        
                                          
                                          
The second of the magazines - ZX-POWER - this is new
a work of Kharkov spektrumists. B
differences from the mafia FAULTLESS published
Perhaps there, in ZXP, more sober
high-quality materials without pretense of coolness.
There is only one thing that darkens me - there is too much sadness -
current! But the APPLICATION is simply awesome. What
only stands CITADEL demo and toy DOOM
MANIA!  In general, the magazine successfully combines
something pleasant with something useful. The magazine is published 
two groups at once - ENIGMA and UCS.      
                                          
                                          
That's it for today's lengthy REVIEW
completed  I hope it was interesting and 
useful.... at least for the most
Mar users.                    
                                          
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