CRASH

ISSUE 72 JANUARY 1990

CRASH 72 cover

CONTENTS

GAME THRILLS

Five power packed thrill games to get the New Year off to a good start! We’ve got Split Personalities, Action Biker, Dizzy II — Special CRASH Edition, Winter Wonderland, Stars & Stripes and another dose of Pokemania!

SAM ART

A World News Scoop interview with Bo Jangeborg! The man who’s creating a brilliant art package for the SAM Coupé.

HARD DRIVIN’ COMPO

Rarin’ to pull out of the pitstop — your chance to win a telly and a CD player!!

1989 READER’S AWARDS

Your vote counts! Choose who you would select to win one of the fabbo CRASH awards for being triff ’n brill in 1989!

LIVE CIRCUIT

Lloyd’s bit in the middle (except it’s not quite the middle) with letters, Jetman, comics, compo winners and all the happening stuff on the Speccy this month!

DIZZY!

How does an egg with arms and legs become a software superstar? CRASH had a natter with Dizzy’s makers — The Oliver Twins! Except one was ill.

NICKO’S TIPS

Seven pages of tips, tatics, pokes and maps to help you cheat your way through the top games in the holidays!

REVIEWS

More games go flooding into the shops, and we’ve checked em out! Hard Drivin’! Ghostbusters II! Galaxy Force! Stunt Car Racer! Saint and Greavsie! Footballer Of The Year II! The Ninja Warriors! Moonwalker! Bobo! Sporting Triangles!

BUDGET BONANZA

Heaps of software going cheap! Nick Roberts gets down and grooves with the £2.99 spinners!

PREVIEWS

Black Tiger — it’s finally happening! Plus news of thrills coming your way on the Speccy!

BYEEEE!

Toodle pip! Oh, before you go, do you fancy winning heaps of games? Good! US Gold is offering £4,000 worth of Speccy playmates!

Editor: Oliver Frey Features Editor: Richard Eddy Staff Writer: Mark Caswell Editorial Assistant: Viv Vickress Photography: Michael Parkinson Contributors: Nick Roberts Production Manager: Jonathan Rignall Production Supervisor: Matthew Uffindell Reprographics: Robert Millichamp, Tim Morris, Robb (the Rev) Hamilton, Jenny Reddard Design: David Western, Mark Kendrick, Melvyn Fisher Systems Operator: Ian Chubb Group Advertisement Manager: Neil Dyson Advertisement Sales Executives: Caroline Blake, Christian Testa Assistant: Jackie Morris Group Promotions Executive: Richard Eddy Mail Order: Carol Kinsey

Cover design Oliver Frey