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By Jos Keijzers Max. players ... 1 Status ... freeware

RailPro This game is a railway signal box simulator and requires you to guide the trains into their appropriate station or depot. This game is very playable and it is easy to get hooked! I think that even non-rail enthusiasts will probably like this game because it is so easy to get the hang of. The graphics are as good as they need to be for this type of game and there are plenty of confusing and complicated track layouts for you to play with. The latest version also includes a track map editor for all you model railway builders out there! Acorn Arcade's own RailPro area is well worth a visit once you've downloaded this excellent game.

By Mike Goatly Max. players ... 1 Status ... PD

Rock Hard Fluffy Thing RHFT is an acronym for Rock Hard Fluffy Thing and this game is based around a central, rather fluffy charachter. The plot is that the fluffy things have had their diamonds stolen and so you must help them to recover them. The game is puzzle based and each level contains diamonds which must be collected before the level can be completed. There is also a time limit on each level to make it that bit trickier. The game is very addictive and has good sound effects and medium graphics. The Author has, in my opinion, got the progressive difficulty of the levels just right to provide a serious challenge to better players once they have overcome the first few levels. Worth getting hold of.

By Guido Steiner Max. players ... 6 Status ... freeware

TRON Tron is one of those line games where each player must guide his/her line around the screen without crashing. Its muliti-player option and the power-ups which can be obtained make it a lot more fun than the average Tron light cycles game clone. With its 6 player mode, Tron is an excellent game to play when you have friends around. However, if you have no friends then this game won't be much use as it has no single player mode :-). This game is well worth obtaining.

By Patrick Hinrichs Max. players ... 4 Status ... 10DM Shareware	Spots Spots is a multi-player strategy game where the idea is to get as many spots as possible, either by stealing from your opponents or by making your own. The game features reasonably good graphics and excellent sound effects. It is well worth obtaining a copy of spots if you enjoy multi-player games.

By Owain Cole (VOTI) Max. players ... 4 Status ... freeware

Super Foul Egg What can I say? A tried and tested formula, beautifully and seamlessly executed. Super Foul Egg is a tetris/columns variant with emphasis on multiplayer action. Two to four players compete against each other, any of which is a computer player. The graphics are at first sight simplistic but work very well - some nice shadowing effects and little explosive effects give a quite smooth presentation to the game. The music (which unfortunately only plays in the menu screens) is of good quality with good, beefy bass. The sound is the best feature of the game however; lovely ploppy squelchy noises, yelps and yippees, crunches, explosions... it makes it a joy to play. A MUST for your multiplayer games collection, and one of the best games of this genre that I have played, rivalled only by Paul Carpenter's !lYAToV, from *Info in Acorn User a year or so ago. -Graham

By Matthew Bloch Max. players ... 1 Status ... freeware

Swarm The basic idea of the game Swarm is to fly a little jetpacker around the screen and collect all of the crystals to complete the level. Also, to make the game a little harder there are of course some bad guys and mines dotted around the playing area. The baddies come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, some just follow you around the screen, others fire at you but luckily you do have a gun to get rid of them. This game is about the only one out of those reviewed in this mag which I have completed, well, I say completed, but then again it just crashed and returned me to the desktop after about level 46 so I presume this was because it had ran out of levels. This really annoyed me because I had spent a whole afternoon trying to complete it, hoping for a nice congratulations screen! Overall, I think this is a great game and it is far better than some commercial games that I have seen. Swarm was on an Acorn User cover disc and also is on Acorn User CD-ROM 3.