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 AMIGA POWER        Issue #46 coverdisk (.ADF/PAL)        February 1995
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 In addition to this copy of AMIGA POWER, you now own a pair of disks,
 each containing a demonstrative sample of a fine Amiga game.  Cherish
 them, for we expended much effort in their creation.  Never allow harm
 to befall them.

 Introducing disk 46...


 SKIDMARKS 2

   Only AMIGA POWER enables you to drive cows towing caravans.  With a
   special 'Power' mode dedicated to you, our readers.  That is how
   much we care.  We have no fear of death, it brings us no sorrow.  In
   fact, if Skidmarks 2 doesn't turn out to be the best overhead-view
   racing game on the Amiga, we'll be enormously surprised.


 SHADOW FIGHTER

   Only AMIGA POWER gives you the opportunity to engineer a fight
   between two girls in a river in Brazil.  Unless you actually buy
   Shadow Fighter, of course -- something we'd strongly recommend you
   do, because it really is the best beat-'em-up on the Amiga.  And
   sadly it's the only genuinely good full-priced game we've seen this
   month.


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 SUPER SKIDMARKS
 Author: Acid

 When it comes to cows, we're with famous American cartoonist Gary
 Larson.  History has highlighted time and again the resourcefulness of
 the cow, from its giving the world the smallpox vaccine to the
 magnificent cow charge at Bosworth Field that described the future of
 England.  Cinema, too, has applauded the cow, with films such as Top
 Secret, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Apocalypse Now affixing
 the cow and its family firmly in the popular mind.  Truly the bovine
 is a mighty beast.
    And now comes Super Skidmarks, the first game that we know of to
 celebrate the majesty of the cow.  In it, you play a wheeled cow
 pulling an optional caravan and must succeed in driving faster than
 rival cows.  Mindful of the universal appeal of the cow, Acid have
 constructed the game so it runs on all models of Amiga, adjusting
 special parts of itself to extract the maximum performance from the
 machine.  So, for example, to sustain the literally breathtaking
 running speed of the game, A500 owners enjoy a cow-pulling-cow motif
 rather than the full cow/caravan action.  So a pox on all those people
 whose habit it is to complain about non-A500 demos.
    Up to four players can take part in a race, a pair apiece on
 joystick with a further two clamouring at the keyboard, with extra
 options to adjust the number of computer opponents and the speed of
 the match.  The final choice governs the presentation of the
 racetrack, toggling between a split-screen effect and a full-screen
 picture, the latter behaving in a somewhat Micro Machines way as the
 trailing cow disappears off the borders to be reconstituted back among
 the pack.  Herd.
    There is little more to add to this description of the Super
 Skidmarks demo beyond that it is a fearsomely exciting game, plump
 with cow carnage and gravitational wrenching, showing we mighty beings
 the proper respect by labelling its most deadly skill level 'POWER',
 and creating in The Black Cow a terrible and ruthless enemy.  The game
 even stops you from going the wrong way around the intersection by
 mistake.  Given all this, we can perhaps overlook the fact its
 scrolling message spells the word 'lose' as 'loose'.  But no.  We
 condemn its slack proof-reading as we would that of any computer game.
 WE FAVOUR NO ONE.

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 SHADOW FIGHTER
 Authors: NAPS Team

 Although Pupazz, sinister puppet henchman of Satan, garnered a
 respectable number of votes, the most popular choice for the official
 AMIGA POWER demo of this almost unbelievably 91%-scoring game emerged
 as a scrap between Stout Blonde Lass and Cute Tiger Girl.  At the
 waterfall.  So here it is.
    Shadow Fighter, the beat-'em-up of champions, knocks Mortal Kombat
 2 into a cocked hat, and then sets fire to the hat.  We mighty beings,
 not overly known for our attraction to boko-biff games in general,
 found ourselves playing this until our thumbs literally stung
 unpleasantly.  The combination of diverse characterisation, dissimilar
 moves and pleasingly friendly controls won our carefully-rationed
 admiration, and so we deemed it necessary to secure a demo for you,
 our readers.
    Although you normally have to hunt around the joypad to discover
 your secret and special moves in this kind of pugilistic endeavour, we
 have decided that a demonstration should be as full and unmitigated an
 experience as is possible.  We have therefore printed a selection of
 the trickier-to-execute ones below.  The trick with these is to roll
 the joypad (or stick, but we recommend a pad) around and stab fire at
 the last moment, thus unleashing white-hot fury on your opponent.
    There are plenty of other moves available.  Punching the fire
 button repeatedly may work, as might combinations of direction and
 fire buttons.  Try for yourself -- AND MARVEL.

 TIGER GIRL

   Tiger pounce attack ... roll pad down-to-left and press fire
   Claw attack ........... roll pad down-to-right and press fire
   Fallen angel .......... jumping + roll pad down-to-left and fire

 STOUT LASS

   Electric boomerang .... roll pad down-to-right and press fire
   Power launch .......... roll pad down-to-left and press fire
   Flying kick ........... down then up and press fire

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 THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS:  Listen to us, because we're always right.

 Amiga Power is printed in the UK.  Copyright Future Publishing 1995

 Note:  All games were verified to load under one emulator or another.

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