CRASH

ISSUE 86 MARCH 1991

CRASH 86 cover

CONTENTS

GAME THRILLS

Side Arms (US Gold)! Draughts Genius (Hewson)! Super Brat (Atlantis)! Chiron (Powertape)! Plus a spiffy demo of Chip’s Challenge and a helping hand from Pokemania!

POWER PREVIEW

CRASH’s fish-faced hero stomps onto the Speccy in his third game, Solar Jetman!

POWER PREVIEW II

Everyone likes a good FRPG, don’t they? And none more so than the CRASH team. So it’s just as well Gremlin have gone FRP in HeroQuest?! (Eh? — Ed)

PREVIEWS

‘Hello, I’m from the Ministry of Contents Tables, and this here specimen is far too silly. I demand it be withdrawn! What? This isn’t the complaints department? It’s the Preview bit? Yikes, I’m off!’

LIVE CIRCUIT

Snowed under with winners! The results of all the Christmas compos! Plus Jetman, Lloyd’s Forum, Bug Box japes and a dollop of news!

S’AMAZING

More hot poop than a sewage works! Indeed, all that’s happening on the Coupé front (and back)!

COMPO

Win a Nintendo console! WIn plenty of games! As long as you can come up with a new chum for Jetman!

DJ NICKO’S TIPS

If you’ve got problems, (yo!) he’ll solve ’em;
Check out the tips as D J Nicko revolves ’em!

YOU?! A PROGRAMMER?!!

Do you fancy flexing your hex? Moulding a bit of code? Grappling with graphics? Here’s Paul Ranson of The Big Red Software Co to let you know what being a programmer is really like!

REVIEWS

‘Oooo! That game is particularly becoming of you, madam! Was it recommended?’ Thank you Miss Brahms, I read about it in the CRASH review section! Smashes this month with Total Recall, Battle Command and Back To The Future Part III.

BACKPAGE

Spookiness abounds! The supernatural powers of the almost legendary backpage brings you the power to win a Lynx hand-held console and copies of Chip’s Challenge! Good old US Gold, eh?

This month’s cover by John Richardson (Good, isn’t it?)

Editor: Oliver Frey Features Editor: Richard Eddy Sub Editor: Warren Lapworth Staff Writers: Mark Caswell, Nick Roberts, Lloyd Mangram Art Editor: Mark Kendrick Photography: Michael Parkinson Production and Circulation Director: Jonathan Rignall Systems Operator: Paul (Charlie) Chubb Reprographics: Matthew Uffindell (Supervisor), Robb Hamilton, Robert Millichamp, Tim Morris, Jeni Reddard, Lisa McCourt Group Advertisement Manager: Judith Bamford Advertisement Sales Executive: George Keenan Advertisement Production: Jackie Morris (Supervisor), Jo Lewis Group Promotions Executive: Richard Eddy Mail Order: Carol Kinsey Subscriptions: Caroline Edwards Systems Manager: Ian Chubb

Cover illustration by John Richardson