[{"TitleName":"3D Combat Zone","Publisher":"Artic Computing Ltd","Author":"Jon Ritman","YearOfRelease":"1983","ZxDbId":"0001033","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 1, Feb 1984","Price":"£0.75","ReleaseDate":"1984-01-19","Editor":"Roger Kean","TotalPages":112,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Roger Kean\r\nDesigner: Oliver Frey\r\nConsultant Editor: Franco Frey\r\nStaff Writers: Lloyd Mangram, Rod Bellamy\r\nAdvertisement Manager: John Edwards\r\nProduction Designer: Michael Arienti\r\n\r\n©1984 Newsfield Ltd.\r\n\r\nCrash Micro is published monthly by Newsfield Ltd. [redacted]\r\n\r\nNo material may be reproduced in whole or in part without written consent from the copyright holders.\r\n\r\nMono printing, typesetting & finishing by Feb Edge Litho Ltd. [redacted]\r\nColour printing by Allan-Denver Web Offset Ltd. [redacted].\r\nColour origination by Scan Studios, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. [redacted]\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: 12 issues £9.00 UK Mainland (post included)\r\nEurope: 12 issues £15 (post included).\r\nSingle copy: 75p\r\n\r\nIf you would like to contribute to CRASH please send articles or ideas for projects to the above address. Articles should be typed. We cannot undertake to return them unless accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope\r\n\r\nCover Illustration:Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"Producer:Artic, 48K\r\n£5.95\r\n\r\nAccording to Artic, this is their bestselling program to date, and no wonder. The first real 3D effect in the Spectrum. Travel across the flat plain and battle with enemy tanks, flying saucers and super tanks - a kill or be killed battle of wits among the pyramids in real time. The game gives a tremendous sense of moving about in a space and can be quite hpynotic. Battle radar to spot the enemy and calculate distance. Joystick: Kempston. A first rate game and highly recommended.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"57","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 2, Mar 1984","Price":"£0.75","ReleaseDate":"1984-02-23","Editor":"Roger Kean","TotalPages":112,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Roger Kean\r\nDesigner: Oliver Frey\r\nConsultant Editor: Franco Frey\r\nStaff Writers: Lloyd Mangram, Rod Bellamy\r\nAdvertisement Manager: John Edwards\r\nProduction Designer: Michael Arienti\r\n\r\n©1984 Newsfield Ltd.\r\n\r\nCrash Micro is published monthly by Newsfield Ltd. [redacted]\r\n\r\nNo material may be reproduced in whole or in part without written consent from the copyright holders.\r\n\r\nMono printing, typesetting & finishing by Feb Edge Litho Ltd. [redacted]\r\nColour printing by Allan-Denver Web Offset Ltd. [redacted].\r\nColour origination by Scan Studios, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. [redacted]\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: 12 issues £9.00 UK Mainland (post included)\r\nEurope: 12 issues £15 (post included).\r\nSingle copy: 75p\r\n\r\nIf you would like to contribute to CRASH please send articles or ideas for projects to the above address. Articles should be typed. We cannot undertake to return them unless accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope\r\n\r\nCover Illustration:Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"Producer:Artic, 48K\r\n£5.95\r\n\r\nAccording to Artic, this is their bestselling program to date, and no wonder. The first real 3D effect in the Spectrum. Travel across the flat plain and battle with enemy tanks, flying saucers and super tanks - a kill or be killed battle of wits among the pyramids in real time. The game gives a tremendous sense of moving about in a space and can be quite hpynotic. Battle radar to spot the enemy and calculate distance. Joystick: Kempston. A first rate game and highly recommended.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"60","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 3, Apr 1984","Price":"£0.75","ReleaseDate":"1984-03-16","Editor":"Roger Kean","TotalPages":128,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Roger Kean\r\nConsultant Editor: Franco Frey\r\nProduction Designer: David Western\r\nArt Editor: Oliver Frey\r\nClient Liaison: John Edwards\r\nStaff Writer: Lloyd Mangram\r\nContributing Writers: Matthew Uffindel, Chris Passey\r\nSubscription Manager: Denise Roberts\r\n\r\n©1984 Newsfield Ltd.\r\nCrash Micro is published monthly by Newsfield Ltd. 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Travel across the flat plain and battle with enemy tanks, flying saucers and super tanks - a kill or be killed battle of wits among the pyramids in real time. The game gives a tremendous sense of moving about in a space and can be quite hpynotic. Battle radar to spot the enemy and calculate distance. Joystick: Kempston. A first rate game and highly recommended.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"66","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 18, Sep 1983","Price":"£0.75","ReleaseDate":"1983-08-18","Editor":"Nigel Clark","TotalPages":140,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Nigel Clark\r\nConsultant Editor: Mike Johnston\r\nProduction Editor: Harold Mayes MBE\r\nStaff Writer: John Gilbert\r\nProgram Reviewer: Rebecca Ferguson\r\nIllustrator/Designer: Brian King\r\nEditorial Director: John Sterlicchi\r\nAdvertisement Manager: John Ross\r\nSales Executive: Annette Burrows\r\nEditorial Assistant: Margaret Hawkins\r\nProduction Assistant: Dezi Epaminondou\r\nManaging Director: Terry Cartwright\r\nChairman: Richard Hease\r\n\r\nSinclair User is published monthly by ECC Publications Ltd.\r\n\r\nTelephone\r\nAll departments\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nIf you would like to contribute to any of the Sinclair User group of publications please send programs, articles or ideas for hardware projects to:\r\nSinclair User and Programs\r\nECC Publications\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nPrograms should be on cassette and articles should be typed. We cannot undertake to return them unless a stamped-addressed envelope is included.\r\n\r\nWe will pay £10 for each program published and £50 per 1,000 words for each article used.\r\n\r\n©Copyright 1983\r\nSinclair User\r\nISSN NO. 0262-5458\r\n\r\nPrinted and typeset by Cradley Print PLC, [redacted]\r\n\r\nDistributed by Spotlight Magazine Distribution Ltd, [redacted]\r\n\r\nCover Photograph: Press Agency York"},"MainText":"EXCELLENCE IN COMBAT\r\n\r\nThe latest release from Artic Computing is for the 48K Spectrum and can only be described as excellent in almost every detail. Combat Zone is a version of Tank Battle, a game which can be seen in most amusement arcades. It is a three-dimensional game which has become popular the last few months.\r\n\r\nYou are the only survivor of a battle fleet of tanks. Your tank roams around a landscape made up of three-dimensional pyramids. You must confront and destroy the enemy tanks and spaceships which attack you.\r\n\r\nThe display is completely in 3D and although the game is difficult to play at first, strategies can soon be learned and you can become a crack shot.\r\n\r\nThe author has produced a display format which adheres strictly to that of the type of game you find in arcades. Everything has been finely-tuned to add to the player's enjoyment. You can even specify whether you want to concentrate in total silence.\r\n\r\n3D Combat Zone can be obtained from Artic Computing Ltd, [redacted], HU8 0JA.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"34","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"ZX Computing Issue 9, Oct 1983","Price":"£1.85","ReleaseDate":"1983-09-23","Editor":"Roger Munford","TotalPages":156,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"ZX Computing\r\nVol. One\r\nNumber Nine\r\nOct/Nov 1983\r\n\r\nEditor: Roger Munford\r\nAdvertising Manager: Barry Bingham\r\nManaging Editor: Ron Harris\r\nManaging Director: T J Connell\r\n\r\nOrigination and design by MM Design & Print, [redacted]\r\nPublished by Argus Specialist Publications Ltd, [redacted]\r\n\r\nZX Computing is published bi-monthly on the fourth Friday of the month. Distributed by: Argus Press Sales & Distribution Ltd. [redacted]. Printed by: Henry Garnett Ltd., Rotherham.\r\n\r\nThe contents of this publication including all articles, designs, plans, drawings and programs and all copyright and other intellectual property rights therein belong to Argus Specialist Publications Limited. All rights conferred by the Law of Copyright and other intellectual property rights and by virtue of international copyright conventions are specifically reserved to Argus Specialist Publications Limited and any reproduction requires the prior written consent of the Argus Specialist Publications Ltd.\r\n\r\n©Argus Specialist Publications Limited 1983"},"MainText":"PRICE: £5.95\r\nMEMORY REQUIRED: 48K\r\n\r\n3D Combat Zone is similar in nature to the arcade game, Combat Zone. Unfortunately, it suffers from some conditions not encountered on the original.\r\n\r\nBut before I go into these I feel bound to tell you a little about the game itself. You are in control of a tank on a landscape. There are 3D tanks seeking you out through the 3D objects on the landscape. In the tradition of the original, all objects are in outline. As time goes on other weird and wonderful enemies appear, their object being, of course, to obliterate you.\r\n\r\nThis particular implementation, which is the first for the Spectrum I may add, suffers from jerky movement, slow reactions and an over intelligent enemy which I found almost impossible to destroy.\r\n\r\nShortly, other software companies should have their own versions of the game on the market (what these will be like we can but guess) but full marks to Artic for being the first.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"19","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"James Walsh","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Documentation","Score":"4/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Addictive Quality","Score":"3/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"4.5/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Programming Achievement","Score":"3.5/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Lasting Appeal","Score":"3.5/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Value","Score":"3.5/5","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Computer Issue 7, Jul 1983","Price":"£0.7","ReleaseDate":"1983-06-16","Editor":"Toby Wolpe","TotalPages":220,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Toby Wolpe\r\nAssistant Editor: Meirion Jones\r\nStaff Writer: Simon Beesley\r\nSub-Editor: Paul Bond\r\nEditorial Secretary: Lynn Cowling\r\nEditorial: [redacted]\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Philip Kirby\r\nAssistant Advertisement Manager: Peter Rice\r\nAdvertisement Executives: Bill Ardley, Nigel Borrell\r\nMidlands Office: Vic Sheret\r\nNorthern Office: Ron Southall\r\nAdvertisement Secretary: Jeanette Mackrell\r\nClassified: Claire Notley\r\nPublishing Director: Chris Hipwell\r\n\r\n©Business Press International Ltd 1983\r\n\r\nYour Computer, [redacted]\r\nSubscriptions: U.K. £9 for 12 issues.\r\n\r\nPrinted in Great Britain for the proprietors of Business Press International Ltd, [redacted].\r\nISSN 0263-0885\r\nPrinted by Riverside Press Ltd, [redacted], and typeset by Instep Ltd, [redacted]"},"MainText":"FROM DEEP-SPACE ADVENTURES TO WORLDLY BOARD-GAMES IN MEIRION JONES' SURVEY\r\n\r\nLess than a year ago the appearance of Scrabble on disc for the Apple caused consternation among micro owners. The program defeated three-quarters of the humans who challenged it to a dual of words. At least Scrabblers could comfort themselves with the knowledge that they had been beaten by a £750 disc-based system. Now Psion has taken even that consolation away by launching an improved version of the game with a bigger dictionary and better graphics which will run on a £150 system - the 48K Spectrum and a cassette recorder.\r\n\r\nThis illustrates the rate at which Spectrum software is improving. The latest releases include clever implementations of board- games like monopoly and arcade favourites such as Scramble, long and complicated Adventures with names like Knight's Quest and combinations of arcade and Adventure like Pixel's Trader. While serious and educational material software is still thin on the ground, programs like Hewson's Countries of the World show how much useful information can be packed into the Spectrum.\r\n\r\nMORE ORIGINALITY\r\n\r\nUnfortunately the standard is not uniformly high. Sometimes imagination is lacking. Bridge software still insists on marketing what it calls \"an exciting game for two to six players\". Yes, you guessed, it is boring old Hangman.\r\n\r\nAt other times graphics are weak. Micromega sells a version of Roulette which features a roulette wheel which looks more like a flying saucer on an off day. There is still too high a percentage of unloadable tapes and of tapes which you wished had been unloadable. Davic Games Tape 1, for instance, features a game which has Tooth Monsters instead of ghosts, which is probably the dullest-ever version of Pac-Man. The Tooth Monsters themselves are about as threatening as a pair of jelly babies.\r\n\r\nIf you want real tooth monsters try Imagine's excellent Molar Maul. This is a real nerve-tingler from the moment that an enormous set of gleaming teeth appears on the screen like something out of jaws. Armed only with a toothbrush and toothpaste you have to defend these dentures from swarms of evil bacteria.\r\n\r\nThese germs go by the name of Dentorium Kamikazium which allows Imagine to talk about \"the DK Menace\" - a triple pun partly at the expense of Imagine's Ipswich-based rivals DK'tronics.\r\n\r\nImagine's punsters are at work again on the cover of Arcadia where we are told we are fighting against the \"deadly menace of the Atarian empire\". Perhaps this explains why Sinclair owners have shown such enthusiasm for Arcadia because the game itself is just a lacklustre version of Galaxians. Much better is Imagine's Schizoids.\r\n\r\nIf, like me, you have always wanted to be a bulldozer, Schizoids is the game for you. You are a bulldozer in outer space and your job is to push tumbling cubes and pyramids into a nearby black hole without falling in yourself. Perhaps this nearby anomaly in the space-time continuum affects the wavelength of light. At any rate the game itself is only in black and white.\r\n\r\nPixel is another company which cannot resist veiled messages. Trader is part space Adventure and part arcade game. The Adventure, trading commodities between different worlds, is more convincing than the crude skill tests such as finding the right orbit when approaching a planet.\r\n\r\nTrader may well be bought as much for its attractive packaging - which includes a survival guide for the would-be Trader - as for the game itself. After buying supplies for your first trip you set out for the planet Psi where the inhabitants - yes, Psions - who look like a cross between Clive Sinclair's beard and a muppet ask you tiresome questions such as \"What is the formula for carbon monoxide?\" or \"What is your first name?\". Entering \"Clive\" as an answer elicits the response \"What a strange name\". So, for that matter, does any other reply.\r\n\r\nIf disaster should strike, a caption will appear saying \"Is this the end...?\" The answer is \"No\" because Trader is a trilogy so there are another two complete parts to load from the tape. There are many more traditional text Adventures of the \"Go south, open door, take gold\" variety but the narrowness of the replies they will accept is often irritating.\r\n\r\nDOWN THE MINES\r\n\r\nMikrogen's Mines of Saturn starts with a cheery \"Have fun\" and then proceeds to ask questions like \"Tunnels lead N, S, E and W - what will you do?\" Attempts to answer \"N\" or \"go N\" or even \"go n\" will not wash. It must be \"go North\" or nothing. At least Phipps' Knight's Quest has a 120-word vocabulary to help you on your damsel-ridden way to a castle in the air.\r\n\r\nEverest by Richard Shepherd Software is more of a strategy game than a straight Adventure. You have to take enough food and rope to climb the mountain and cope with every hazard. I enjoyed the climb but I never reached the summit - partly because the Sherpas are not what they used to be.\r\n\r\nWhen Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Everest for the first time he managed to find a Sherpa called Tensing. The time when you visit a Nepalese hill village to recruit porters you are asked to choose between Sherpas with names like Keith, Brian, Ron, Tim and Paul. Presumably they are ex-hippies, lost on the road to Katmandu.\r\n\r\nThings obviously still are what they used to be down at Mikrogen. If Andy Capp sends you into fits of laughter Mad Martha might just raise a smile. It is the same old story, boy meets girl, well, hen-pecked husband meets axe-happy wife - all very predictable. Mikrogen also sells arcade games like Cosmic Raiders - a competent impersonation of Defender with a long-range screen and grabbers.\r\n\r\nMelbourne House's variation on the same theme is called Penetrator. The display looks more like the arcade version of Scramble. A training facility to help you build up specific game skills is a good idea. C-Tech's Rocket Raider is yet another competent variant on similar lines.\r\n\r\nArtic offers a suicidally fast asteroids game called Cosmic Debris. Still in the arcades, both Elfin Software and Quicksilva produce robot battles which are of the Pac-Man-meets-Tanks variety.\r\n\r\nElfin's Tobor has the more exciting opening titles but loses on points to Quicksilva's QS Frenzy whose exotic science-fiction plot seems to offer a better justification for the game.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of Tanks, DK'tronics 3D Tanx was one of my favourite programs in the whole batch. You can track you gun barrel from side to side and adjust the elevation as you lob your shells at four lines of moving tanks which can fire back at you. Although the opposing tanks at first appear to be crawling across a structure that looks more like Brighton's West Pier than a battleground, this is one of my four games you might catch me paying to play in an arcade.\r\n\r\nJOIN THE PROFESSIONALS\r\n\r\nArtic's Combat Zone is another ambitious attempt at a Tank game. Your target and the landscape - a few pyramids on an invisible plane - look like refugees from Psion's Vu-3D program. They are very simple three-dimensional shapes but they change position smoothly and realistically as if you were walking past them in some world inside your Spectrum.\r\n\r\nYou and your opponents fire fragments of cubist paintings at each other but the abstraction is not so important as the fact that you are playing the first real Spectrum game in three dimensions - Vu-3D itself is a Psion program which allows you to build up three dimensional objects on the screen and then rotate them, or float them towards you and back again. In effect it is a crude version of the mainframe programs which create the effects for films like Tron.\r\n\r\nET makes an appearance too in an Abbex Adventure with voices called ETX. Unfortunately after loading pages of instructions about how I should phone home ending with the advice that I should treat any MI5 man who appeared as an enemy, the tape self-destructed.\r\n\r\nThis left me with an unnerving impression of \"the strength of Britain's security services.\r\n\r\nThe secret police are certainly important in DK'tronics strategy game called Dictator. The setting is a banana republic. The instructions ominously point out that \"your rule is measured in months\". You have to balance political factions, army, secret police, peasants, landowners, guerillas and superpowers if you are to survive.\r\n\r\nBreaking into embassies would doubtless be all in a day's work for a dictator. So for all prospective saviours of the nation, Sinclair's Embassy Assault will come in useful. It is very much like those maze games which present your view. standing in the maze. Instead of trying to avoid a minotaur, this time you are looking for secret codes and the like.\r\n\r\nAll this is enough to send you back into the arcades but Jet Pac's creators have moved from the arcades into home computing.\r\n\r\nUltimate Play the Game's Jet Pac puts you into the position of an astronaut who has to build a rocket from the pieces he can find sitting on clouds around the screen. The scenario is not entirely convincing but it makes for a good game. The same cannot be said of the simulations by CCS.\r\n\r\nCCS's representations of the oil business, Dallas, running a printers, Print Room, and of international aviation, Airline, may be realistic but they are not very exciting. Although these were originally designed as training for middle management, livelier presentation would not necessarily have made them less useful. Hewson's simulations of air-traffic control, Heathrow, and the Nightflite flight simulator are more convincing.\r\n\r\nBoard-games seem to transfer particularly well to the Spectrum. Psion's Scrabble has already been recommended. With its four levels of play and 11,000-word dictionary it can offer almost as tough opposition as you could want. There are also two different approaches to that old favourite Monopoly.\r\n\r\nAutomonopoli offers a continuous display of the part of the board around your current position. This display moves smoothly when the dice are thrown. Do Not Pass Go from Workforce has a less interesting display but at least shows the whole board all the time. Automonopoli allows you to personalise the program with the names of players and both programs give the option of being either a board for humans to play on or of letting the computer join in as a player. In each case the computer becomes a soft opponent once you have reached the stage of building houses and hotels.\r\n\r\nIf you have ever wandered into a rundown dockland hotel or pub and been confronted by the sort of balding drunk who says he used to sail the seven seas and boasts that he can name the capital of any country you care to choose, I can reveal his secret. At home he has a Spectrum with Hewson's Countries of the World up and running on it.\r\n\r\nAt the touch of a button it will remind you that N'djamena is the capital of Chad or that Yaounde is the capital of Cameroon. In the corner of the pub someone with probably be playing a video game not unlike Firebirds.\r\n\r\nSoftek's Firebirds is a Galaxians-type game distinguished by good croaking noises from the birds. Still on the subject of sound effects Workforce's Jaws Revenge is very noisy and fun. The graphics are great. You are a shark and you are after the divers and- boats which are after you.\r\n\r\nMined Out from Quicksilva is a very strange version of Mines. It is subtitled \"Rescue Bill the worm from certain old age\" and if you find a way through the first minefield you then have to rescue damsels in distress. Someone at Quicksilva has been playing too many Adventure games and it is beginning to show.\r\n\r\nThe last words on the cassette packet read \"the image fades to soft focus which is replaced by waves falling on a rocky shore, except in Bill's dream there are no waves or soft focus...\" It is certainly time that software cassettes carried a government health warning.\r\n\r\nCompany: Abbex\r\nGame: ETX\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £5.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Artic\r\nGame: 3D Combat Zone\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £5.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Artic\r\nGame: Cosmic Debris\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £4.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Automata\r\nGame: Automonopoli\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £6\r\n\r\nCompany: Bridge\r\nGame: Lynchmob\r\nMemory: 16K\r\nPrice: £6.50\r\n\r\nCompany: CCS Software\r\nGame: Dallas\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £6\r\n\r\nCompany: C-Tech\r\nGame: Rocket Raider\r\nMemory: 16K\r\nPrice: £6.50\r\n\r\nCompany: DK'Tronics\r\nGame: 3D Tanx\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £4.95\r\n\r\nCompany: DK'Tronics\r\nGame: Dictator\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £4.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Elfin\r\nGame: Tobor\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £7.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Hewson\r\nGame: Heathrow\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £7.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Hewson\r\nGame: Countries of the World\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £5.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Imagine\r\nGame: Molar Maul\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £5.50\r\n\r\nCompany: Imagine\r\nGame: Arcadia\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £5.50\r\n\r\nCompany: Imagine\r\nGame: Schizoids\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £5.50\r\n\r\nCompany: Melbourne House\r\nGame: Penetrator\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £6.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Micromega\r\nGame: Roulette\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £4.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Mikrogen\r\nGame: Cosmic Raiders\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £5.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Mikrogen\r\nGame: Mines of Saturn\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £5.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Mikrogen\r\nGame: Mad Martha\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £6.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Phipps\r\nGame: Knight's Quest\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £5.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Psion\r\nGame: Scrabble\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £15.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Psion\r\nGame: Vu-3D\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £9.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Quicksilva\r\nGame: Frenzy\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £4.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Quicksilva\r\nGame: Trader\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £9.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Quicksilva\r\nGame: Mined Out\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £4.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Richard Shepherd\r\nGame: Everest Ascent\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £6.50\r\n\r\nCompany: Sinclair Research\r\nGame: Embassy Assault\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £4.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Softek\r\nGame: Firebirds\r\nMemory: 16K\r\nPrice: £5.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Ultimate Play The Game\r\nGame: Jet Pac\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £5.50\r\n\r\nCompany: Workforce\r\nGame: Do Not Pass Go\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nPrice: £6.95\r\n\r\nCompany: Workforce\r\nGame: Jaws Revenge\r\nMemory: 16/48K\r\nPrice: £5.95","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"62,63,66","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Meirion Jones","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Personal Computer News Issue 22, Aug 1983","Price":"","ReleaseDate":"1983-08-11","Editor":"Cyndy Miles","TotalPages":90,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"CHARACTER SET\r\n\r\nEditorial\r\nEditor: Cyndy Miles\r\nAssistant Editor: Geof Wheelwright\r\nProduction Editor: Keith Parish\r\nManaging Editor: Peter Worlock\r\nSub-Editor: John Lettice\r\nNews Editor: David Guest\r\nNews Writers: Ralph Bancroft, Sandra Grandison\r\nFeatures Editor: Richard King\r\nSoftware Editor: Shirley Fawcett\r\nHardware Editor: Max Phillips\r\nPeripherals Editor: Ian Scales\r\nListings Editor: Wendie Pearson\r\nEditor's Assistant: Harriet Arnold\r\nArt Director: Jim Dansie\r\nArt Editor: David Robinson\r\nAssistant Art Editor: Floyd Sayers\r\nArt Assistant: Dolores Fairman\r\nPublisher: Fiona Collier\r\nPublishing Manager: Mark Eisen\r\nPublishing Assistant: Jane Green\r\n\r\nAdvertising\r\nAdvertisement Director: John Cade\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Nic Jones\r\nAssistant Advertisement Manager: Sue Hunter\r\nSales Executives: Robert Stallibrass, Matthew Parrot, Bettina Williams, Ian Whorley, Sarah Barron, Christian McCarthy\r\nProduction Manager: Eva Wroblewska\r\nAdvertisement Assistant: Jenny Dunne\r\nSubscription Enquiries: Gill Stevens\r\nSubscription Address: [redacted]\r\nEditorial Address: [redacted]\r\nAdvertising Address: [redacted]\r\n\r\nPublished by VNU Business Publications, [redacted]\r\n© VNU 1983. No material maybe reproduced in whole or in part without written consent from the copyright holders.\r\nPhotoset by Quickset, [redacted]\r\nPrinted by Chase Web Offset, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by Seymour Press, [redacted]\r\nRegistered at the PO as a newspaper\r\n\r\nCover photo by Theo Bergstrom"},"MainText":"NAME: 3D Combat Zone\r\nSYSTEM: 48K SPectrum\r\nPRICE: £5.95\r\nPUBLISHER: Artic Computing, [redacted]\r\nFORMAT: Cassette\r\nOUTLETS: Mail order and dealers.\r\n\r\nSHELLS A-POPPIN\r\n\r\nStand by for yet another impossible arcade game running on a 48K Spectrum. Aim... Fire! Artic's Combat Zone is a blow-for-blow reproduction of the arcade original.\r\n\r\nOBJECTIVES\r\n\r\nYou command a tank on an eerie plain inhabited by wireframe landscapes. Every now and again a shadow dashes from cover to cover. Enemy tanks lurk behind every obstacle. And it's kill or be killed.\r\n\r\nOnce you get good at it, the enemy gets a little tougher with Flying saucers and Supertanks arriving to back up the initial wave of deformed looking gunships.\r\n\r\nIN PLAY\r\n\r\nCombat Zone is neatly presented, and LOADed first time. It runs with a reasonable set of five keys or Kempston joysticks. Don't worry if you haven't got sticks - the keyboard arrangement is very like the levers used in the genuine old original. The only gas about the presentation came in the LOADing instructions. 'Assemble the cassette tape at the silent part before the program'. PCN's cassette, at least, arrived in one piece.\r\n\r\nThe radioactive wasteland is a little unnerving. Although you've got an inexhaustible heap of ammo. It takes a while to reload between shots. If you're taking enemy tanks, you either get them in two shots or start running for one of your three lives. They dodge your fire with incredible precision... and then they turn on you. They never miss.\r\n\r\nYour vision's a bit limited too. Apart from the temptation to do a quick Blue Danube just to watch the superb graphics, your outlook is frighteningly narrow. Fortunately, you've got a radar screen which neatly locates and positions the baddies. At least you get a vague warning that they are coming up behind you. Just before you (and your windshield) crumble into oblivion.\r\n\r\nCombat Zone is a remarkable piece of programming. I didn't think anything I could see on the Spectrum could surprise me any more. But the graphics are great... despite colour limitations. Only the Spectrum's feeble sound spoils it.\r\n\r\nThe game itself will hook those who enjoyed the original. It takes a while to bag your first villain, but becomes progressively easier afterwards. Apart from slinking round looking for flying saucers, the magic fades.\r\n\r\nVERDICT\r\n\r\nI hate to say it, but this has to be a must for anyone with a serious Spectrum collection. And of course, if you played the original, this will provide a good fix in your own home. Can't be good for the nerves though.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"53","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Max Phillips","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Lasting Appeal","Score":"3/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"4/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Use Of Machine","Score":"4/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Value For Money","Score":"4/5","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]