Oli Frey illustration CRASH

Issue No. 16 MAY 1985

CRASH 16 cover

FEATURES

  • SPORT-SCENE
    Chris Passey togs up for a sports program round-up
  • WINNERS MAPS
    The winners of the Underwurlde, Knight Lore and Avalon maps revealed
  • THE BOYS FROM BUZBY
    A profile of British Telecom’s succesful Firebird software house
  • MINED-OUT & CONFUSED
    Ian Andrew talks to CRASH about his career and his company INCENTIVE
  • SINCLAIR STORY
    Part Two — into low cost computers
  • ON THE COVER
    This month takes a look at the work of Godfrey Dowson and talks to the artist responsible for Level 9’s covers

DIY

  • STARION!
    A chance to win the new Melbourne House smash
  • PLAYING TIPS COMP!!
    Win Robin Candy’s T-shirt! Well, some CRASH ones, actually, plus £100 worth of software
  • BUBBLE BUS PART TWO!!
    We continue into the Wizard’s Lair
  • DESIGN A CUSTOM JOYSTICK
    That’s what VULCAN want you to do
  • GET CONFUZED
    Win an Incentive Confuzion shirt!
  • GET MARAUDING!
    With Erik the Viking, and a competition about Noerth Sea raiders
  • WIN A CRASH SMASH!
    from Imagine — World Series Baseball!
  • BECOME A GAMES DESIGNER
    With System 3, the people who gave you Death Star Interceptor
  • LEONARDO — REINCARNATED!
    Join us again for another go at the new Creative Sparks utility

REGULARS

  • EDITORIAL
    Software — is it getting harder to find?
  • MERELY MANGRAM
    Lloyd sums up and peers ahead at software too new to review
  • TECH NICHE
    The CRASH hard corner looks to ‘Avoider’ a new robotoy; Light Magic from New Gen; and rounds up music software
  • NEWS INPUT
    A brief round-up for the month
  • ADVENTURES OF JETMAN
    It simply gets worser and worser...
  • ROBIN CANDY’S PLAYING TIPS
    Several Pokes in the eye as well as maps of Underwurlde, Sabrewulf, Bruce Lee & Everyone’s a Wally
  • CRASH HOTLINE AND ADVENTURE CHART
    The top 30 games voted by readers
  • HALL OF SLIME
    Lloyd wades in his wellingtons through the goo
  • CRASH FORUM
    Your letters about this, that and the other
  • CRASH COURSE
    Rosetta McLeod examines some more educational software
  • ADVENTURE TRAIL
    Derek looks at Emerald Isle and some newies from Games Workshop
  • SIGNPOST
    Adventure help, hints and tips
  • FRONTLINE
    Angus Ryall flings a few more grenades about

The next issue of CRASH will be on sale from 30th May. Don’t miss it!

REVIEWS

Editor Roger Kean
Assistant Editor Graeme Kidd
Technical Editor Franco Frey
Art Editor Oliver Frey
Production Designer David Western
Software Editor Jeremy Spencer
Adventure Editor Derek Brewster
Strategy Reviewer Angus Ryall
Staff Writer Lloyd Mangram
Contributing Writers Matthew Uffindell, Chris Passey, Robin Candy, Ben Stone
Client Liaison John Edwards
Subscription Manager Denise Roberts
Cover by Oliver Frey

  • Alpha-Beth A&F Software
  • Bruce Lee US Gold
  • Bugeyes Icon
  • Car Cure Simtron
  • Castles & Clowns Macmillan
  • Chaos Games Workshop
  • Composer Contrast
  • Confuzion Interactive
  • Dragontorc Hewson
  • Emerald Isle Level 9
  • Fantastic Voyage Quicksilva
  • Flight Path Anirog
  • Grand National Elite
  • Leeper Software Projects
  • Mighty Magus Quicksilva
  • Music Maker Bellflower
  • Musicmaster Sinclair
  • Music Typewriter Romantic Robot
  • Pete ’n’ Barry Impact
  • Play, Type & Transpose Hilton
  • Serpent from Hell Scorpio Gamesworld
  • Snaffle Longman
  • Spectune Xorsoft
  • Spy Hunter US Gold
  • Superchess 3.5 CP Software
  • Star Gazer Eclipse
  • Starion Melbourne House
  • System 15000 AVS
  • Talisman Games Workshop
  • Timezone Atlantis
  • White Magic New Generation
  • World Series Baseball Imagine