Issue No. 35 December 1986

REGULARS

• EDITORIAL
  
• NEWS
  
• FEAR AND LOATHING
  Hunter S goes bald!
• LLOYD MANGRAM'S FORUM
  The pre-Christmas rush to write to Lloyd is on. Gareth Jones sent us the first Xmas card of '86, though...
• CRASH COURSE
  Rosetta gets to grips with a bit more screen learnin'
• DEREK BREWSTER'S ADVENTURE TRAIL
  Derek takes a peek at adventure fanzines and SMASHes a game...
• SIGNSTUMPS
  The adventurer's forum goes from strength to strength
• HANNAH SMITH'S PLAYING TIPS
  Hannah wades in with a GLIDER RIDER map and a veritable heap of handy hints to make gameplaying that bit easier
• THE CRASH HOTLINE AND ADVENTURE CHARTS
  
• LLOYD MANGRAM'S HALL OF SLIME
  It gets cold on the Ludlow gibbet this time of year...
• RESULTS
  Prizes galore. We'll have to book extra pages for the Christmas Special competition results, just you see!
• TECH NICHE
  Dominic Handy gets to grips with a ROM-based wordprocessor from RAM ELECTRONICS while Jon Bates investigates another MIDI interface
• TECH TIPS
  The irrepressible Simon Goodwon presents another collection of TechnoTips
• JETMAN
• PBM MAILBOX
  Brendon goes football crazy and gets tipping!
• SEAN MASTERSON'S FRONTLINE
  And it's Goodbye From Him. Sean moves on to pastures new, but reviews a couple of games by way of a goodbye
• MERELY MANGRAM
  Once again, the workload on his new magazine keeps Lloyd away from the preview pages. Lotsa news though...

FEATURES

• GENESIS BIRTH OF A GAME
  The gestation period takes a little longer than expected...
• DESIGNING GAMES THE MALONE WAY
  Lee Paddon discusses game designing with PALACE's artist, DAN MALONE
• ANALYSING THE ADVERTISING
  Bill Scolding casts a critical eye over the Software Advertising Industry and its output

DIY

• SHAO LIN TWO
  The Competition Minion has been castigated and we re-run THE EDGE's comp that appeared last month without any differences. Sorry!
• WIN A COMPACT DISC PLAYER
  CRL offer a high-tech toy at top prize in their ACADEMY competition. Fifty games go to runners up
• WIN A SIGNED FOOTBALL
  A ball signed by the England Squad is waiting to be won, as well as fifty copies of BUG BYTE's latest footie game, PETER SHILTON'S HANDBALL MARADONNA
• GO ON A TRIP TO LONDON
  Hewson's offer a sightseeing trip to the Smoke, all expenses paid in honour of CITY SLICKER. Fifty games go to runners up, too
• BECOME A SUPERHERO!
  Binoculars and a 35mm compact camera form the top prize in the COSMIC SHOCK ABSORBER Competition. The usual fifty games up for grabs, naturally

The annual CRASH Christmas Extravaganza is on its way - look in the newsagent's on 10th December

REVIEWS

PUBLISHERS Roger Kean, Oliver Frey, Franco Frey
Publishing Executive / Editor Graeme Kidd
Assistant Editor Lee Paddon
Staff Writers Lloyd Mangram, Hannah Smith
Adventure Editor Derek Brewster
Strategy Editor Sean Masterson
Tech Tipster Simon Goodwin
Contributing Writers Jon Bates, Brendon Kavanagh, Rosetta McLeod, John Minson, Bill Scolding
Production Controller David Western
Art Director Dick Shiner
Illustrators Ian Craig, Oliver Frey
Production Seb Clare, Tim Croton, Gordon Druce, Mark Kendrick, Tony Lorton, Michael Parkinson, Cameron Pound, Jonathan Rignall, Matthew Uffindell
Advertisement Manager Roger Bennett
Advertisement Assistant Nick Wild
Subscriptions Denise Roberts
Mail Order Carol Kinsey

CRASH ABC FIGURE:
101,843 Total
97,992 UK and EIRE

Cover by Oliver Frey

• 180 Mastertronic
• Antiriad Palace
• Bimbles Intech
• Camelot Warriors Ariolasoft
• City Slicker Hewson
• Cobra Ocean
• Dandy Electric Dreams
• Demon From The Darkside Compass
• Druid Firebird
• Dr What CRL
• Firelord Hewson
• Frostbyte Mikro-Gen
• Gallipoli CCS
• Galivan Ocean
• Goonies US Gold
• The Great Escape Ocean

• Ice Temple Bubble Bus
• Infiltrator US Gold
• Mailstrom Ocean
• Miami Vice Ocean
• Phantomas Code Masters
• Prehistoric Adventure Crusader
• Room 10 CRL
• Swords of Bane CCS
• Terra Cognita Code Masters
• Thanatos Durell
• Twice Shy Mosaic
• Uridium Hewson
• Vampire Code Masters
• WAR Martech
• Xeno A'n'F