Zzap003-Jul85.pdf

A NEWSFIELD PUBLICATION

; No.3 JULY 1985

95p

MONTHLY

REVIEW

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irst full review of Rock fords Riot

adventure to Miner 2049erY This time amurtd it's everb_

to guide him through-the mine. The mutant organisms have

tougher than before and Bob needs your help more than ever CASSETTE C9r95

multiplied and over-run the mine entirely, making it extremely

difﬁcult to survive the hazards of theci

Bounty Bob '4 returns in this new and exciting follow-up

Using the high-powered

DISK £1495

passageways.

speci

the twenty-ﬁve new caverns is Bob's only hope of achieving

his objective of securing the mine and defeating the plans of

the evil Yukon Yohant"

ISSUE No.3

JULY SPECIALS

Birth of Paradroid

Diary of the programmer who's

developing the big new game

from Hewson Consultants,

HOT NEW GAMES

Airvvolf map

At last you'll know where to ﬁnd

all ﬁve scientists — and our play-

mg guide reveals how you get

them

Entombed

The Ultimate arcade-adventure;

rave over the review, pore over

the map, drool over the

Compet it ion.

—

Dropzone

Could this Defender -based game

, be the greatest shoot-em-up of all

I time?

The compleat

Psi Warrior

Entire game mapped out, plus

Gary Penn's detailed tips and a a

voucher °tithe price of the game.

The 64

arcade bonanza

Our assessment of the best con-

versions from the all singing, all

dancing coin-op machini3s.

102

The great

chess battle

We play off Colossus chess

against Mychess II in the battle of

the 64 chequer board giants

Gribbly's Day Out

One of the wackiest, cutest, most

entertaining games around. Huge

playing area, hilarious scenario

Fsi

Castle Blackstar

• riﬁc text-only adventure:

Rockford's Riot

Kik Start

Sizzling follow up to the amazing

An addictive motorcycle stunt

&Juicier Dash. complete with

game oozing with testability and

Zz ap's favourite hero.

selling for. wait for it. E1.99.

Strangeloop

Large, hugely absorbing explor-

ation game packed with puzzles

and stunning graphics,

ZZAP-BECTION8

5 ED

The boss's boring letter, plus

the angry column and silly

facts about BW.

ny locations, superb etrnos-

, re, great puzzles

6 RAP

Your letters including moth-

er trubble. and more mini

raves

PRIZE COMPETITIONS

ZZAP-TEBTS

Am a zo n Wa n io r

Asyiu m

Roland's Rat Race

Draw a cartoon of your favourite

TV character and you could win

one of 100 copies of the hot new

Ocean game.

Castle Bla ckste r I S)

14 RASH

Idiotic Ed Banger tries to tell

you about the latest 64 news

and gossip.

Chicken C h e ss

Ciphold 9 I T )

108

Chopper

Circus Om its rn

Conan

Dropzone I Gl

54 TIPS

Gary Penn's playing tactics

on Psi Warrior. Airwolf,

Sorcery, Mama Llama and

others.

Entombe d 'GI

Gates o f D a wn

Ghottoblaster

Gribbly's D a y Ou t I S)

Helm

SX-64

from Ariolasoft

You can win this great prize worth

some £800 simply by sending us

a hot tip on an Ariolasoll game,

Five Virgin games

The Impressive range of 64 soft-

ware from Virgin will go to 20

people who can match the

pictures.

The Elite trophy

If you can use your skills at Elite to

answer six tough questions, you

could win a specially-commiss-

ioned Zzapiﬁrebird trophy I

100

Gribblies

Yes, we're giving away a ton of

Gribbly's Day Out, the sizzling

new game from Hessoson Consult-

ants.

Hi-Bouncer

Midi H ike r's Gu id e to th e Ga la xy

Hunchback a t th e Olym p ics (T I

82 ADVENTURE

The White YVizarcrs com-

plete guide to text input

games

Jona h Ba rrin g to n * s Sq u

ash

Kik Start (S)

Knockout (T)

Operation Swo rd ﬁsh ft)

Operation Wh iriwin d

Poke r

104

Realm o f I m p o ssib ilty

90 CHALLENGE

The Scorelord watches over

another attempt to unseat

the lido highscore

champion

Rockford's R io t I S)

Roland's R a t R a ce

Spifﬁly) 40

Spooks

100

Stranaeloop (S)

String*,

Subsunk

Taskmaster

94 MINTER

The hairy one speaks his

mind on life, the universe

and a nen arcade game

The Bu lg e

Whirlynurd

G t o r Go ld M e d a l

S or Sizzler

tier Tacky

NEXT 15$us. DN5qt UL 1t — GET IT,

ZZAP

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Rockin' Rodney stalks the streets of Funky Town with his Ghettoblaster,

He is a messenger for interdisc Records and his job is to coiled demo tapes

from all the local talent! As he delivers them back to Funky Street he has to

make all the locals strut their stuff as his Ghettoblacter blares out the

livliest sounds around in his search for the perfect beat!

is proud to present • from

who crecrted

Gangsters of the Groove will keep you on the move

Tone Deaf Walkers, streetwise stalkers

Bandits of the Beat move fast on their feet

Notes come out so sweet, they're dentin' in the street

12 completely original tracks of the funkiest

music yet on the CBM M!

Lively, colourful and animated street scenes!

Keep on your dancinl toes avoiding all the

Mean Dudes out to get you!

Available for the Commodore M from all good software retailers or mail order

from the address below. R.R.P. E8.95 Joystick required

2-4 Vernon Yard, 119 Portobello Road, London Wi 1 2DX. 01-721 8070.

Available from Virgin Games Centres

at the following addresses

172 Union Street 94-96 Briggate

•

Here we are again with Zzap number 3, which hopefully you'll

agree is the best yet. Just to be perverse we've gone and

chosen TWO gold medal games this time, both of which are

quite unsurpassed in their respective genres. Between them

they've accounted for a considerable number of very, VERY

late nights, so if you notice the odd slurred comment or

wonky piece of writing, you'll know why. . . .

Some things which you may think are slurred comments,

but are in fact quite deliberate are a few strange new words

scattered round the mag, like 'shmup', 'aardvark' and 'wimp

of the mag, so don't panic.

out'. You'll ﬁnd a full explanation for all these on the last page

We're trying not to panic at the amount of mail now being

Jammed through our letter box. You people really do say the

nicest things, much° gracias. Pretty soon we//be running a

questionnaire to get some detailed feedback on the mag —

but in the meantilne, why not write to us with a page-by-page

criticism, telling us the things you like and the things you

Cheerful o r 8.0b wo d e th a s

been d e lu g e d with le tte rs

Of co n d o le n ce fo llo win g

le st rn o n d i 's h o rro r d

"WS w

hi ch

.don't You'd be doing us a favour. . . .

See you next time,

Empire-ruling triumvirate

Oliver Frey, Franco Frey, Roger

Kean

Zzap Ed

Chris Anderson

Ed's sidekick

Bob Wade

Sidekick's sidekicks

Gary Penn, Julian R ignal I

A very nice person

Lucy Anderson

Big production thief

David Western

Production minions

Gordon Druce, Matthew Ufﬁndel I

Adman's contact

John Edwards

Male order

Carol Kinsey

Girl with 3000 subscribers

Denise Roberts

his left hand grows out of

his ch e st Be a rin g in m in d

this h a n d ica p , h e 's a re m -

arkably g o o d g a m e s

PlaYer.

One man's meat...

I was a bit disappointed to dis-

cover this month that our outside

columnist Jeff Minter doesn't

actually like Zzap very much! This

little comment was printed in a

pr omoti onal newsletter which he

sends out to people on Llama-

sofrs mailing list. Can't be sure.

but I think his annoyance stems

from our criticism in issue one of

hi s latest game Mama Llama.

I'd be very interested to hear

what anyone thinks of that

review, and of Jeffs newsletter

comment. No doubt he would

too. Why not write either to me at

the address in Zzap Rap or to Jeff

at 49 Mount Pleasant. Tadley,

Hants.

•••••••

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scriptions. mail order, bilis, etc)

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Hey, you could win something!

Angry Spot

A lot of people never bother ent-

ering competitions, thinking that

they stand only a miniscule

chance of winning. I reckon they

should try the following calc-

ul ati on_

Thi s picture shows the res-

ponse to four of the competitions

in our ﬁrst issue — they produced

a total of just under 7,000 entries.

That's a lot compared to many

other mags, and yet you should

bear in mind that there were over

200 prizes to be %OM

That means that in a single, typ-

ical Zzap competition the odds

against you winning might be

very roughly 30 to 1 !although

obvi ousl y this varies enormously

from competition to competition

— some have fewer, but juicier,

pr i z es, some are much more diff-

icult to enter, so the number of

entries is considerably smaller.)

Those odds are actually not that

bad- For example if you entered

every Zzap competition for a year

la total of maybe 50 compet-

itions) the chances work out at

you being an 80 percent favourite

to win at least one prize!

Come now, that can't be bad.

Wanna know what drives me

completely and utterly

INSANE? It's people (and mag•

azines) who shout their heads

off saying that the Commodore

64 is a dying machine.

DYING???)?! I?! I ask you!

OK, so Commodore have

been behaving these last few

months like a bunch of mentally

deﬁcient ARMADILLOES, intro-

ducing JUNKY machines, and

BUNGLING their pricing

policies, with the result that

even sales of the 64 have been

affected, But let's keep things in

perspective, shall we??

Judged by its software, the 64

is still BY FAR AND AWAY the

vilorld's greatest entertainment

machine. VAST numbers of

ever-more-amazing programs

are being written for it and will

go on being written for it.

With so much going for it„ it

can ONLY be A MATTER OF

TIME before Commodore patch

up their relationship with the

shops and get the machine sell-

ing again in huge quantities.

And when that happens the

SCARE

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number of copies achieved by

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Way, Trowbridge, Wiltshire,

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just-round-the-corner-from-you

organised by: COMAG, Tavis-

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Detective plays detective

Gary Penn and Julian Rignall

haven't exactly raved about the

new Rockford's Riot in their corn•

ments this month. however) note

that it did succeed in keeping

them playing in the ofﬁce until

5am one night. This led to

another of those entertaining

confrontations with police off-

icers for which this meg is becom-

ing famous:

OFFICER: What's in that bag?'

PENN: 'My computer.'

OFFICER: What were you doing

in that ofﬁce at this time of night?'

Now fo r a re a lly ju icy b it o f g o ssip I b e t

you ca n g u e ss wh e re Je ff M in te r a n d h e s

cuddly to y co rn e t go e ve ry T h u rsd a y

evening/In Yo u ca n 't? OK !ca n 't e ith e r,

but having got your atientkm reading this

otherwise to ta lly te d io u s p a rt o f th e m a g -

azine, ca n I ju st p p M t o u t th a t e ve ry bet o f

this m o n th ly p u b lica tio n (e ve n th il b it rig h t

here) is th e co p yrig h t o f o u r g ro a t a n d Ow-

;o u s p u b le sh e rs N e ws ﬁe kl L td . So yo u re

not a llo we d to Xe ro x it. crib sn ip p e ts fro m rt

OrcOpy it in a n y o th e r Pre vio u s wa y yo u ca re

to ﬂunk of wdnout our permission. Got it?

OK. OK, so it's n o t fu n n y — lu st yo u try

writing th e se Wye h d d ly b its

e 1985 Newsﬁeld Limited

PENN: 'Testing computer games.

We work for a magazine.'

OFFICER: 'Got any tips on Sher-

lock? I'm completely stuck:

Cover by 01,1tAity/, ••••

ZZAP

to look like a bunch of half-

brained, Amstrad-owning

WIMPS who deserve to have

their heads shoved in a con

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