The 1040ST had already been out for a few years and there was some good package deals out there. I used my savings from working a part time job and a paper route. I bought a 1040STf, SC1224 monitor, Atari SMM804 dot matrix printer, First Word+, Pirates and Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception (RPG), at a local computer store called The Comm Shack in 1988. Going back a couple of pages to where people first bought their ST. ), Resolution 101, Dragon's Breath, F19 Stealth Fighter, Their Finest Hour and Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back. One of the handful of times I've actually used the cart slot on the ST. I love BAT (The ST version has that amazing music cart. That Zero magazine previews and reviews some excellent games. Not sure how much demand there is for this extra bit - it takes a fair bit of time to do so I might just limit it to checking the magazines to see if there's a game ST Format misses that I need to cover. Operation Thunderbolt (Amiga) gets 85% though gets described as a bit morally dodgy due to its depiction of a fictional not-quite-Libya and blowing up cats and dogs, Chaos Strikes Back gets 92% on the ST (I'd review it but it's hard and I'm too crap to do it justice), Chase HQ gets 79% which is perhaps a tad generous, while P47 looks a bit tedious but scores 75%.
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Reviews cover Their Finest Hour (sequel to Battlehawks 1942 - i'm keen to play it) on PC which gets 94%, Space Ace (Amiga) which gets a generous 80%, X-Out gets 91% on the Amiga, Supercars gets 89% (also Amiga), Star Trek V gets 76% (PC), Xenomorph (Dungeon Master in space apparently - Amiga) gets 89% and looks genuinely interesting but looks like it was never covered by ST Format so I might review that when we get to May (which appears to be when ST User reviewed it). Previews include Ramrod (never heard of it), BAT, Thunderstrike, Wings Of Fury, Tusker, Resolution 101, Escape from the planet of the robot monsters, Unreal (not that one), Conqueror (Virus/Zarch with tanks), Dragon's Breath, F19 Stealth Fighter, etc. Zero's cover focuses on a preview of a game called Awesome, which I can honestly say I've never heard of. Other reviews include P-47 Thunderbolt (70%), Cabal (81%), Chaos Strikes Back (94% - astonishingly ST Format never reviewed it), Lost Patrol got 73% (I remember seeing all those ads with photorealistic graphics and being blown away by them - never got my hands on the game though, I think I missed the review and didn't realise when it was already out), Dragon's Breath got 89% (coming soon in STF). Interestingly no ST magazines touched it - the only review I can find is half a page in Ace where it gets 790/1000. There's also an Amiga release for Super Cars, the brilliant top-down racer (well the sequel was amazing on the Amiga at least - I never played the first). In terms of reviews, they have Midwinter 1 which gets a glowing 4-page review with a 95% rating, thanks to its innovative gameplay and incredibly impressive graphics, both in filled-vector and bitmap form. Other previews include Cloud Kingdoms which looked pretty interesting back in the day, while Psygnosis were previewing The Killing Game Show which I swear had a long way to go til release. Meanwhile CRL planned to release Trump Castle - not a game where you explore a castle populated by an evil Donald Trump, instead a gambling game set in one of his casinos - you can find it on Automation 202 if it interests you.
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Codemasters were planning their Fruit Machine Simulator - an ill-advised purchase by my parents which thankfully didn't turn me into an addict.
We have previews for Treasure Trap which was still some way from completion if I recall - a game that intrigued me, but that itch was scratched by the Cadaver demo. World Champion Boxing Manager was also slated for release, and Coktel Vision (makers of the Gobliiins games) had a game around the Paris Dakar rally scheduled - incongruously it seemed to have a section between levels where you watch a belly dancer.
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The TV show was fantastic so I'm sure the game was shit. Some news on coming releases - Count Duckula was getting his own game, No Sax Please: We're Egyptian. We have the news that Peter Johnson, who programmed Wizball, Robocop, arkanoid and others had decised to quit game development, choosing to make soundtracks for videos for pregnant women. The One's cover focuses on Midwinter, though they've chosen to represent it with a peculiar hand-drawn bit of artwork on their cover.
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