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 AMIGA POWER        Issue #33 coverdisk (.ADF/PAL)         January 1994
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 It's Christmas! (Nearly.)  So in a spirit of generosity, we've brought
 you THREE coverdisks instead of two, at no extra cost whatsoever!  Do
 you deserve it?  Frankly we doubt it, but we've done it anyway.  Feast
 your eyes on the contents, then tell us that you love us.  Thank you.

 Introducing disk 33...


 T2 - THE ARCADE GAME

   A big and sexy level from Virgin's brand-new Operation Wolf-style
   arcade conversion.  Hence the name.  (It's got Arnold Schwarzenegger
   in it as well, you see.  He played the Terminator.  Yes.)


 DOGFIGHT

   The entire (well, almost) 'What if...' section from MicroProse's
   combative flight sim.  Get in your Spitfire and take out those jets
   right now!  (Or vice versa).


 SEEK AND DESTROY

   A veritable truckload of levels from Vision and Mindscape's wild
   rotational-scrolling helicopter shoot-'em-up.


 GLOBDULE

   Lots and lots of 'sticky gooey stuff hanging from the ceiling
   antics', brought to you by motorcycle courier from Psygnosis.


 CHRISTMAS DIZZY

   It's got nothing to do with Christmas, but it DOES have Dizzy in it.
   What do you want, custard on top?


 CLUE

   Tired of tedious old made-of-board board games?  Why not get the
   whole family crowded around your Amiga after the Queen's Speech for
   some new-fangled old-fashioned fun?


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 T2 - THE ARCADE GAME
 Publisher: Virgin

 There's very little we can tell you about this abnormally cool demo,
 since you get masses of introduction in the game itself.  You play
 John Connor and his right hand man in a battle across the scarred and
 battle-torn terrain of Los Angeles in the near future.  The ideal
 controller's a mouse, which allows you to sweep streams of
 concentrated fire across the screen in any direction, but you can use
 a joystick if you really have to.  To play, simply load up the game,
 shoot everything that looks mechanical (but avoid the humes, as
 they're generally on your side and will cost you a points penalty if
 you zap 'em) and try and get to the big bad nasty at the end.  The
 left mouse button fires the machine gun, the right one fires your
 rockets and the boxes contain various power-ups.  Oh and there's a
 review of the complete game on page 40, so get firing!
    Oh dear, it appears that I've dug a hole for myself now, since I've
 managed to give such clear and concise instructions that there's still
 half a page left to fill with something.  Gulp...
    That James Cameron, eh?  What a boy, he started off doing naff
 horror movies (who could forget the unutterably terrible Piranha 2 -
 Flying Terror?) and then swiftly moved onto write and direct The
 Terminator, which was THE seminal action movie of the 80's.  From that
 he turned the creepy atmosphere, slick commercial visuals and tense
 mood of Alien into a delicious rollercoaster of non-stop 'Nam-grunts-
 in-space action with the truly excellent Aliens.  It seemed that he
 could do no wrong, so to prove he could, he made the hugely
 disappointing The Abyss.  What could so very easily have been a
 gripping superpower thriller became a wet (in the wrong sense of the
 word) ET movie, with a storming powerhouse of a start gradually gave
 way to a wishy washy, 'wouldn't it be great if everyone lived in peace
 and harmony' ending.  Yeah great, James, if I wanted to feel good, I'd
 have gone to see When Harry Met Sally.  Following that came T2, a
 dazzling visual spectacle with a rather lacklustre plot, and then some
 executive producer stuff, most successfully on the excellent Kathryn
 Bigelow cops, robbers and surf dudes flick Point Break.  What next for
 the lad James?  Well, his forthcoming Spiderman film looks promising,
 and it's bound to lead to a game spin off.  Who knows, maybe we'll get
 it on the coverdisk?  Am I near the end of the column yet? (No. -- Ed)

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 DOGFIGHT
 Publisher: MicroProse

 MicroProse have long been famous for coming up with top flight sim
 action, time after time, but in one of their recent releases, they've
 taken a flight sim game engine and turned it into an arcadey sort of
 shoot-'em-up, almost.  Who cares about waiting for take-off clearance
 from the control tower or constantly checking maps to see if you're on
 course?  Not us, that's for sure, we want to fire rockets at things
 and watch the smoke trail as they plunge.  Yes.

 CHOCKS AWAY!
 What you've got here is a cut down version of the actual game, which
 makes sound financial sense for MicroProse, who'd rapidly go bust if
 they handed out entire games on magazine cover disks.  You get all the
 option screens that are in the game, and if you want to know what they
 all do, read the review in AP 30.  In this demo you can only play the
 'What If...?' section, which allows you to pit fighters from different
 eras against each other.  Again, you get a limited choice, but there's
 still enough to fly an old prop-driven stringbag against a hi-tech jet
 fighter.  But how?

 HERE'S HOW
 As well as the joystick and fire button, which have fairly obvious and
 clearly defined uses, here's a rundown of the main controls.  (Bear in
 mind that WW2 planes aren't going to have missiles  Obvious I know,
 but if we don't say it, someone's bound to write in and complain, or
 sue us.  You know what people are like these days):

 PLUS KEY - Increase Power              F6, F7, F8 - Left, Right
 MINUS KEY - Decrease Power                and Rear Cockpit Views
 SHIFT AND PLUS - Maximum Power         C - Chaff Release
 SHIFT AND MINUS - Minimum Power        F - Flare Release
 F1 - Forward Cockpit View              TAB - Target select for
 F2 - Instrument View                      missile lock-on
 F3 - Tactical View                     T - Select next target
 F4 - Inverse Tactical View             ALT B - Auto Guns Mode
 F5 - 'Heads Up' View

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 CHRISTMAS DIZZY
 Publiser: Codemasters

 Christmas Dizzy, eh?  That'll be our favourite animated calcium coated
 ovoid complete with delightful santa hat and pretty snow filled
 landscape, right?  Well, not really, but if you've just bought this,
 then you'll be playing this at Christmas, which is the next best
 thing, sort of.  This is actually a small section of Fantastic Dizzy
 (reviewed in full on page 89, cross-reference fans), complete with a
 few puzzles to work out and a rather fiendish sliding tile-subgame
 where you have to rearrange the picture of Dizzy and the Magician
 against the clock.  It's got silky smooth scrolling and parallax
 backgrounds and so much colour that your eyes could well melt, but
 there's no getting away from it, it's definitely a Dizzy game.  This
 may, or may not be a good thing, depending on whether you like Dizzy
 games or not, or indeed whether you can stand the little oval white
 geezer himself.  Me?  I'd go for Fantastic Omelette and be done with
 the little blighter, but there again I was the only kid at primary
 school who saw the funny side of the Humpty Dumpty.  Is it so wrong to
 dislike fictional egg-based characters?  Yes, I dislike their inherent
 egginess and their 'extracted from some sort of flying creature'
 origins, but I'm not ashamed of this.  And furthermore... (That's
 enough about eggs. -- Ed)

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 GLOBDULE
 Publisher: Psygnosis

 Ever since we first saw this little cute pink fella a few months ago,
 we've all been directing a non-stop stream of Trap Door comments
 towards him.  All of us, that is, apart from Lisa, who keeps going on
 about wine gums for some reason best known to herself.
    Globdule's a cheeky little glutinous purple thing who sticks to
 every surface he comes into contact with.  Because it's just a game,
 and because game's don't need to justify their existance, he's in some
 sort of terrible non-specific danger that can only be averted if he
 collects certain items.  You can see how many of each he needs to get
 by looking at the right of the screen, where lists of diamonds and the
 like are displayed.  If you're on a level where there are baddies,
 then you've got to get them by jumping on them, and then capture their
 souls by picking up the sets of worried eyes that scamper around even
 after their demise.
    All you've got to do is slip, stick and slurp your way across the
 levels until all the meters read zero, and the exit starts fizzing
 with a pretty pyrotechnical display.
    It's simple, yet I think you'll agree, entirely effective in a fun
 sort of way.  For more info, the full review's on page 48, by the way.
 Check it out on a 'need to know' basis.

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 SEEK AND DESTROY
 Publisher: Mindscape/Vision

 It's peace through superior firepower time in this Desert-Strike-
 Viewed-From-Above game, as you bring peace and harmony to the world by
 killing pretty much everyone in it who's shooting at anyone else.  The
 full game came into the office last month, after we'd been reading
 Defense News quite a lot.  It's one of those weekly trade papers,
 devoted to selling expensive pieces of military hardware, and we love
 it!  Thanks to adverts in Defence News, we know now that Multiple
 Round Simultaneous Impact capabilities combine to make AFAS twice as
 effective as Paladin (whatever they may actually be), and that with
 it, friendly survivors will increase by 25 percent.  We also know that
 ITT is committed to making the SINCGARS system all it can be, and I
 think that's a valuable lesson for us all here.

 BUT WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
 What this all means is that we're fairly clued into the cult of the
 gun, which is a good gang to be in when you play Seek and Destroy.
 See?  Even the name of the game drips with jingoistic fervour and
 implores you to kill, Kill, KILL!  It's not called Find and Chastise,
 or even Hunt and Scold Sternly, because you're not there to pussy-foot
 around, you're there to blast your foe into bloody tatters.
    Obviously, having a fully armed Apache gunship helps in your
 mission of killing everyone, blowing everything up and then landing
 back at base for a few beers with your buddies and a hearty pat on the
 back from your superior officers.  To take off and land you use the
 arrow keys on the keyboard, and all the flying around and shooting's
 simply on the joystick.  To toggle through the weapons use the
 following keys:

 F1 - Chain Gun
 F2 - Fire and Forget Rockets
 F3 - Air To Air Interceptor Missiles
 F4 - Air to Ground Missiles
 F5 - Airstrike
 F6 - Napalm

 You've got limitless ammunition for the chain gun, but most of the
 other weapons are in extremely short supply, and you only get a couple
 of goes with really devastating things like napalm or calling in
 airstrikes.
    Extra weapons are hidden in ground targets, which is sufficient
 shallow justification for firing volleys of expensive ordnance at
 every single thing you see.  Fuel and shields are also hiding, but
 whereas you just fly over weapons to reload, you have to land to get
 these vital items.
    Good luck, and shoot straight and true, killing your enemy before
 he kills you.  And remember, a gun is just a tool.  It's a hard heart
 that kills.

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 CLUE
 Publisher: Public domain

 Oh come on, EVERYONE knows how to place THAT board game, the one we
 can't name for fear of bringing the wrath of of popular games
 manufacturer down on our heads.  Don't they?
    You wander round and call other characters to various locations,
 where you ask them if they've got certain card combinations, in an
 attempt to discover the perpetrator, scene and tool used in a horrible
 and grisly murder.
    The one thing you've got to remember is that you can only accuse
 once, and if you're wrong then the computer players will just kick you
 out and carry on without you.  Due to the, erm, functional nature of
 the graphics, watching the computer players having a good time without
 you isn't exactly a party scenario, so make sure that you're sure.

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 AMIGA POWER -- Someone up there likes us.

 Amiga Power is printed in the UK.  Copyright Future Publishing 1993

 Note:  All games were verified to load under one emulator or another,
        except perhaps 'Terminator 2' and 'Seek and Destroy'.

 Docs re-keyed courtesy of Knuckles Dragon.  Original author uncertain.
 Please send clarification to:  [e-mail]