Zero Magazine Issue 15

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continuing where CHASE HO left off. • I
The Arcade thriller takes you from tit bright lights of
Paris4o the rugged terrain of th Sahara.
Your mission is to Irak down,
chase and apprehend
the dangerous
criminals.
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dreams of another life on Mars. hold the line or plough the fields
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service specializing in imdlanting fantasies into the The criminals wield some
minds of those who desire to turn their dreams into heavy hardware - but so do you!
reality. You can shoot but you must dodge their flak. .•
THE EgO TIHIS heavy gunfire, trucks unloading their cargo onto your
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packs of vicious canine yapples, the psychotic
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programming team Bullfrog - and Hard - er sorry, that's Skid
AN OCEAN has announced the future release of Marks Last month we ZERO heroed
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Mindscape's 4-0 Boxing. What do these
to The original Populous really put
OF CHARITY programs have in common? (Except for their
eBumllfrpogh on the map and made it EA's
publisher?) That's right, they're both on the
ahotsteistz preop erty. Last month, strong same special new Mindscape 4-D Sports
Benevolent trumohurs suggested that the team was label 4-D Sports Driving lie. Skid
ready to join those other micro stars, the
publisher e Marks) and 4-D Sports Boxing will be
Bitmap Brothers, on a new label called
Ocean is to p o followed by 4-D Sports Tennis which will
Renegade. Now EA has insisted that
link up with i n t appear in the new year. Just what is the
Bullfrog is still very much part of its team
ChildLine . fourth dimension - the Fourth IX (A
and include and has announced it will be publishing dimension of sound, a dimension of vision,
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information deee doo deee doo deee doo deee doo )
on the eagerly awaited • Roger Dean, eh? What a boring, old,
charity in sequel next hippy git he is and no mistake_ Bock come
spring.
many of its all those nightmares of student dorm posters
top games. and Yes albums. Puke Anyway, maybe
Inside big Grapevine's feelings on this hove started to
titles such as Robocop 2, Total Recall, filter through to the Scousers at Psygnosis,
Narc and Pang will be the ChildLine logo 'cos it has announced in a (brief) reprieve
and information on how to use the From dark and broody fantasy games, the
service. Ocean's development manager unveiling of a much lighter, jolly side to its
Gary Bracey offered: "I think it's just a nature First we've got the brilliant
nice gesture and helps to get the Lemmings (see the full ZERO review on
message across to a wider audience. page 58) and then, after Christmas, we'll be
seeing Cutey Poo This one similarly has
you guiding herds of bouncy, cute fluff bolls
ATARI CONSOLE THEMSELVES
across a landscape whilst avoiding the
nefarious Dr Mallet. All together now
Aaoaciaah (bleurghl)
Atari is currently hunting out big • There should be a lot of '2's figuring in
based super console at the Las name, coin-op title rights to support its titles coming Out of Gremlin Graphics in the
A Vegas CES in January. Code- Lynx handheld, and these would also immediate Future. Sheffield's finest has
tnamed The Panther, the machine will be come in handy for the new console. To sequels in the pipeline for Super Cars,
acartridge based with graphics good make sure that there is a software base Switchblade and Way Of The Tiger
renough to get pushers of the Mega Drive for the new system immediately, an • Krisalis. the company who brought you
ian d Neo Geo trembling in their boots. adaptor that allows connection of a 3.5 Manchester United, is hoping to exploit
i Some UK publishers already have inch drive is currently being developed. the success of this title - and also of the
sdev elopment systems stashed away in With switchable video modes, the lifting of bans on English Clubs playing in
ltheir offices, but console could then run existing ST Europe - with the release of Manchester
not one of them software. Sources believe United European Version which
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games will million. UK distribution (scheduled for a May release) and its John
ppro bably cost in the could well start as early Barnes licensed game in September.
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De-ecember 1990. If you wish to save oMighty Tank, Bomb Blaster, Witty Axxx, Money Maze and
yourself a 'half a cock' then get your uEnchanted Bricks. Cheetah hopes to have another dozen or
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your own design/animation studio with Deluxe
Paint III.The Amiga 1500 comes complete with 1
full Megabyte of RAM, keyboard, colour monitor
Christmas, and two built-in disk drives for only E1149.99.
Of course, the Amiga 500, recently
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the most coveted computer for kids of all ages.
there's a
The Amiga 500 takes you into a fantastic world
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in all of us.
of graphics, animation and sound. It has the
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This year, look out for our 'Class of the
90's — First Steps' pack with 512Kb of RAM
Expansion and a whole range of educational
software; Deluxe Paint II, Pro Write 2.5, Infofile,
Music Mouse, Let's Spell at Home, Amiga Logo
Excitement, adventure, daring, call it what you
with Talking Turtle and BBC Emulator. 'Class of
will. The fact remains there's a little bit of it in all
of us. That's why you should give a Commodore
computer some serious thought this Christmas. CIOSS
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entertainment. Screen images that will literally 90:5/,
The Commodore
blow your mind and an impressive collection of
Amiga 500.
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£599.99.
realistic Battle of Britain simulation.
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serious business machine with Platinum Works,
everything you need to work from home. Or to
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