========================================== *********************************** * PART 8 - DESERT ISLAND DISKS * *********************************** By Eldad Petreanu A regular feature of Your Sinclair, Eldad Petreanu suggested a revival of this section in which readers tell us all about their 8 favourite games, which they would use to keep them company on a deserted island! To start off, lets hear Eldad`s favourite list: Which eight games would YOU take to a desert island? * HEAD OVER HEELS Need I say more? Oh well. The best isometric game ever, with brilliant puzzles, hypercute characters that move over, around, and through each other, and polished gameplay. Monochrome never looked better. * HIGHWAY ENCOUNTER Shoot and block aliens and remove obstacles, clearing the path for a weapon you must push along the highway. With the exception of its sequel, this is quite possibly the only game in which your extra lives follow you around, doing their best to get lost before you have a chance to play them! * SKOOL DAZE A whole school in 48K! So real you could actually learn something from it! The little characters with their individual,demented personalities do their worst to make you think school could be fun. But we know better, don't we? * SOLOMON'S KEY An arcade conversion that was infinitely better than its PC incarnation. This platform game lets you create and destroy the platforms. Though it may seem very difficult at first, there's actually a foolproof method around every screen. *SPLIT PERSONALITIES[AKA SPLITTING IMAGES] Takes the sliding block puzzle where no sliding block puzzle has gone before. A unique and rewarding experience, and the feeling of completing a complex maneuver to get a piece of the picture to its right place is beyond words. What a shame I'm good enough to complete it every single time. * STARION The unlikely combination of shooting vector spaceships, collecting their cargo to complete anagrams and flying to the time the anagram is needed actually works very well. The brainy bits make a welcome change from the otherwise-monotonous smooth vector graphics. The snap in the ftp sites is corrupted, so can anybody who still has the original make a .TAP of it? PLEASE? * TRAPDOOR Dash frantically through the castle, trying to prepare whatever your master feels like munching on, be it boiled slimies or eyeball crush. HUGE graphics and a convincing game world set this one apart, and Berk is so cute you'll want one (of whatever he is) as a pet. * TRAVEL WITH TRASHMAN Fly all over the world, clean whatever country you're in until you can see your face in it, and make enough money for your next air fare. The countries all have their distinct 'look and feel' - the way to lose the KGB agents in Moscow has little to do with the technique to avoid falling coconuts in Samoa. And with the ability to choose your route this means there's a lot of gameplay in there. The classic 'traveling salesman' problem may well have its roots in this game! If you would like your own top list of games included in another issue`s desert island disks, just send us your list of games and why you like them so much, and you too could be sailing off to a tropical island with just eight speccy games for company! ==========================================