Oli Frey illustration CRASH

Issue No. 29 June 1986

CRASH 29 cover

FEATURES

  • OF MYSTICAL NUMBERS...
    Harness the power of the MYSTICAL SUBSCRIBER NUMBER and get it working for you
  • GENESIS: THE BIRTH OF A GAME
    Your chance to collect a cash prize of at least £1,000 as we start off a six month feature on the creation of a game
  • THOROUGHLY STARSTRUCK
    Hannah Smith takes a trip to Leeds and finds out about the people behind Realtime Games Software, the 3D Masters
  • GATHERING GAMES TOGETHER
    Graeme Kidd examines the current craze for compiling old (and not so old) titles onto software albums

DIY

  • A CHANCE TO GET YOUR VERY OWN RAT
    CCS have set a few brain teasers of a historical nature, and are going to reward fifty lucky winners with a copy of DESERT RATS
  • THE BATCOMPETITION
    Holy Free Games Robin! Delve into the Batsquare, find the Batwords and win a Batgame...
  • TEMPT A SAILORMAN’S PALATE
    MacMillan are re-releasing POPEYE and have some nifty wall clocks, alarm clocks, T Shirts and games to give away in this culinary competition
  • GET WITH THE BEAT
    A TECH NICHE competition which tests your musical knowledge. Three SPECDRUMS on offer, plus money-off vouchers for anyone who gets the answers all right
  • THIRD 128K COMPETITION
    Did you keep that coupon nice and safe from the last issue? Good. Now you can have one more go at winning a 128K Spectrum, courtesy of Newsfield

REGULARS

  • EDITORIAL
    Catching up on the CES show, ZX Microfair and a few other interesting developments
  • NEWS
  • FEAR AND LOATHING...
    Hunter S Minson staggers round from software launch to software launch in a Bloody Mary induced haze of near consciousness
  • LLOYD MANGRAM’S FORUM
    Another delve into the postbag brings up a host of chit chat, tittle tattle and opinion which Lloyd presents for your entertainment
  • CRASH COURSE
    Rosetta takes a look at some revision software this month
  • HANNAH SMITH’S PLAYING TIPS
    A lady takes over from Robin and introduces a Map Extravaganza as well as a host of tips, hints and POKEs
  • TECH NICHE
    Continuing the round up of matters more technical with a bit of music to help the hardware go down!
  • SIMON GOODWIN’S TECH TIPS
    Simon delves inside the CRASH 128K Spectrum and finds some very interesting things lurking there. And the listing for his SpecDrum routine appears at last. (Oops!)
  • RESULTS
    Yet more lists and lists of lucky winners’ names in the monthly prize share-out
  • PBM MAILBOX
    Brendon Kavanagh does his bit to increase the Post Office profits, starting a new column on Play By Mail games
  • DEREK BREWSTER’S ADVENTURE TRAIL
    Derek’s heavily into HEAVY ON THE MAGICK, amongst other things this month
  • SIGNSTUMPS
    More tips and hints on Adventuring, followed by the usual mix of opinions in the Adventure Forum
  • CRASH HOTLINE AND ADVENTURE CHART
  • HOME GROWN SOFTWARE
    A peek at games written at home, plus a plea for more...
  • SEAN MASTERSON’S FRONTLINE
    Another look at DESERT RATS in a new improved format, together with the FRONTLINE FORUM. Mr Masterson’s buried under letters nowadays.
  • ON THE SCREEN
    The CRASH Readers’ Gallery in which fame and fortune tempt computer artists
  • MERELY MANGRAM
    Lloyd gets his teeth into the news of up and coming games, and we take a look at GHOSTS AND GOBLINS and BIGGLES amongst other things...

Summertime fun, available in the form of the July CRASH, out on 26th June

REVIEWS

See all reviews for this issue at zxspectrumreviews.co.uk

Publishing Executive Roger Kean
Editor Graeme Kidd
Technical Editor Franco Frey
Tech Tipster Simon Goodwin
Adventure Editor Derek Brewster
Strategy Editor Sean Masterson
Staff Writers Hannah Smith, Lloyd Mangram
Contributing Writers Robin Candy, John Minson, Rosetta McLeod
Art Editor Oliver Frey
Art Director Dick Shiner
Production Controller David Western
Production Gordon Druce, Tony Lorton
Process camera Matthew Uffindell
Photographer Cameron Pound
Advertisement Manager Roger Bennett
Subscriptions Denise Roberts
Mail Order Carol Kinsey

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