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Issue 68
November 1987

Editor
David Kelly
Deputy editor
Graham Taylor
Staff writer
Jim Douglas
Staff writer
Tamara Howard
Art editor
Gareth Jones
Adventure help
Gordo Greatbelly
ZapChat
Jon Riglar
Helpline
Andrew Hewson
Contributors
Richard Price
Tony Bridge
Chris Jenkins
Tony Dillon
Gary Rook
Hardware correspondent
Rupert Goodwins
Advertisement manager
Louise Fanthorpe
Deputy advertisement manager
Mike Corr
Sales executive
Steve Prescott
Classified sales/production
Alison Morton
Publisher's secretary
Debbie Pearson
Subscriptions manager
Carl Dunne
Publisher
Terry Pratt

Sinclair User is published monthly by EMAP Business and Computer Publications

Cover illustration Clive Goodyer

SOFTWARE
720°US Gold
ACTION FORCEVirgin
ARRGGHHGo-It-Alone
ATV SIMULATORCode Masters
BALL BREAKERCRL
BANANABLIPLe Lu-Lu's
BOSTONIANMastertronic
BOUNCESFirebird
BUBBLE BOBBLEFirebird
CALL ME PSYCHOPirate
CENTURIONSReaktor
CHAMPIONSHIP BASKETBALLGamestar
CORNILIUSBismilla
CUSTERD'S QUESTPower House
DARK SCEPTREBeyond
DEADLY MISSIONJohn Henry
DEF COMBug Byte
DRAUGHTS GENIUSRack-It
EDDIE KIDD'S JUMP CHALLENGERicochet
ENDUROFirebird
FIXGENSelec
FOOTBALL FOLLOWERSelec
FREDDY HARDESTImagine
HANDBALL MARADONNABug Byte
HIGH FRONTIERActivision
HIT PAK VOLUME 1Elite
HOLIDAY IN SUMARIAPirate
HYSTERIASoftware Projects
INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM US Gold
LABOURS OF HERCULEST Taylor
MASKGremlin
NEBULUSHewson
NICK FALDO PLAYS THE OPENBug Byte
POOLSWINNERSelec
PRIDE OF THE FEDERATIONExcalibur
RED L.E.D.Starlight
RETURN OF THE SOCKSpectrum Adventure Club
SHEERLUCK HOLMES & DR WITSENDSpeccysoft
SLAINEMartech
SOCCER BOSSAlternative
SOLAR FIREAstros
STREET HASSLEMelbourne House
SUN STARCRL
SUPERSPRINTElectric Dreams
TEN PIN CHALLENGEAtlantis
THE CALLINGVisual Dimensions
THE HANDPearl
THE PROSPECTORTartan
UCHI MATAAlternative
WAR CARSFirebird
COVER SMASH
720°

US Gold's brilliant conversion of the Atari skateboarding coin-op

PREVIEWS

Where you see them first ...
Software busting out all over ... with Platoon, Phantom Club, Trantor, Agent X II and Rampage ... plus more on Combat School and Gryzor!

Mega Preview
Is this exclusive city or what?

  • The Last Ninja - an in-depth investigation. The C64 smash combat game in a dream conversion
  • Knightmare, new from Activision, based on the hit D&D-style TV series

FEATURES

Put on your Shades!
Or why 4,500 people's phone bills are out of order. Shades is the UK's most successful interactive adventure world. SU finds out why. And how you can join the action at a cheap SU rate.

20 more free pokes
Have we got pokes for you!! Well, yes actually. Twenty of them - and the best bit is they actually work! Including Super Sprint, Bubble Bobble, Motos and Renegade

Home grown adventures
All the best of the independent adventure releases reviewed

Games That Time Forgot
All the games announced and never finished. We bring you the programmer's excuses

Care Bears - Ninja Assassins

Music programming
How to write pseudo multi-channel sound in 48K

Beyond Zero Stars
SU presents the very worst games that never happened

US Games Aces
Over played, over dressed and over here. The Guinness World Games Champions give their verdict on the latest Spectrum games

HARDWARE

Multiprint
The ultimate Spectrum/printer utility reviewed

Attention Plus 3 owners!
All your Plus 3 disc problems solved ... Romantic Robot's Multiface 3 solves the disc software shortage at a stroke

SPECIAL OFFERS

Digimouse
Combined trackerball and mouse

SU Mega-tape
So successful has it been that we've had to duplicate a second batch. Find out how to get your copy

COMPETITIONS

Win the fright of your life!!
Soft and Cuddly - from Power House - is pretty horrible. And so's this: fancy winning an evening hanging out with a few plague victims?

Win lots of skateboarding gear!
If you're a tarmacadam surfer, then - in celebration of the excellent 720° - we've gone board crazy

REGULARS

Whodunwot
ZapChat
Smash coupons
Compo winners
Charts
Letters
Background Noise
Hewson's Helpline
Poster No9
Gordo Greatbelly
Outlands
Code Talk
Surgery
Write Stuff
Next Month
Gremlin

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© Copyright 1987
Sinclair User
ISSN No. 0262-5458


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