[{"TitleName":"Assemblage","Publisher":"Artic Computing Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1986","ZxDbId":"0011208","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 46, Jan 1986","Price":"£0.95","ReleaseDate":"1985-12-18","Editor":"Bill Scolding","TotalPages":148,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"EDITORIAL\r\nEditor: Bill Scolding\r\nDeputy Editor: John Gilbert\r\nStaff Writers: Chris Bourne, Clare Edgeley\r\nDesigner: Gareth Jones\r\nEditorial Secretary: Norisah Fenn\r\nPublisher: Neil Wood\r\n\r\nADVERTISING\r\nAdvertising Manager: Louise Fanthorpe\r\nDeputy Advertisement Manager: Shahid Nizam\r\nAdvertisement Sales Executive: Kathy McLennan\r\nProduction Assistant: Jim McClure\r\nAdvertisement Secretary: Linda Everest\r\n\r\nMAGAZINE SERVICES\r\nSubscriptions Manager: Carl Dunne\r\n\r\nTELEPHONE\r\nAll departments [redacted]\r\n\r\nSinclair User is published monthly by EMAP Business & Computer Publications\r\n\r\nCover Illustration: Asterix ©1985 Les Editions Albert Rene Goscinny - Uderzo\r\n\r\nIf you would like to contribute to Sinclair User please send programs or articles to:\r\nSinclair User\r\nEMAP Business & Computer Publications\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nOriginal programs should be on cassette and articles should be typed. We cannot undertake to return them unless a stamped-addressed envelope is included. Please write 'Program Printout' on the envelopes of all cassettes submitted.\r\n\r\nWe pay £20 for each program printed and £50 for star programs.\r\n\r\nTypeset by Saffron Graphics Ltd, [redacted]\r\nPrinted by Peterboro' Web, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by EMAP Publications Ltd.\r\n\r\n©Copyright 1985 Sinclair User ISSN No 0262-5458\r\n\r\n102,023 Jan-Jun 1985"},"MainText":"Publisher: Artic Computing\r\nPrice: £8.95\r\nMemory: 48K\r\nJoystick: Kempston, Sinclair, Cursor\r\n\r\nWho thinks of software names at Artic? Assemblage is a suite of four games and not a machine code utility.\r\n\r\nSide one contains two arcade games, Harry Hare's Lair and Mutant Monty and the Temple of Doom.\r\n\r\nHarry Hare's Lair has you playing the part of a rabbit after carrots. You make a wild dash through the tunnels of your lair, which are inhabited by deadly giant spiders and worms, to get to the carrots which have been planted at the top of the screen.\r\n\r\nMutant Monty and the Temple of Doom is another feeble, flickering, attempt by Artic to make a go of their cartoon hero. Monty runs rampant in true Manic Miner style, collecting as many valuables as possible without being relieved of his entrails on the local altar.\r\n\r\nThe Curse of the Seven Faces is a text-only adventure in which you must assemble the accoutrements of a wizard to become a magic user. The ever-present curse will be with you on your travels through the misty caverns, as will an evil wizard, who is bent on your destruction.\r\n\r\nRobin Hood is a Quilled adventure with full screen graphics supplied by the Illustrator, also from Gilsoft. The graphics are drawn slowly, but they disappear when the description of a location appears. You play nature-loving Robin roaming around a forest full of interesting and unlikely locations.\r\n\r\nThe arcade games are not much cop and it would have been a crime to release them individually but, together with the adventures on the other side of the tape, they make a varied diet.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"120","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"John Gilbert","Score":"4","ScoreSuffix":"/5"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"4/5","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"C&VG (Computer & Video Games) Issue 54, Apr 1986","Price":"£0.98","ReleaseDate":"1986-03-16","Editor":"Tim Metcalfe","TotalPages":108,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Tim Metcalfe\r\nDeputy Editor: Paul Boughton\r\nEditorial Assistant: Lesley Walker\r\nSub-Editor: Seamus St. John\r\nDesign: Craig Kennedy\r\nAdventure Writers: Keith Campbell, Paul Coppins, Steve Donoghue, Jim Douglas\r\nAmerican Correspondent: Marshall M. Rosenthal\r\nArcades: Clare Edgeley\r\nSoftware Consultant: Tony Takoushi\r\nPublicity: Marcus Rich\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Louise Matthews\r\nAdvertisement Executive: Mike Corr\r\nPublisher: Rita Lewis\r\nCover: Lee Sullivan\r\n\r\n...and the Bug Hunters!\r\n© Jerry Paris\r\n\r\nEditorial and Advertisement Offices: [redacted]\r\n\r\nJuly-December 98,258\r\n\r\nCOMPUTER + VIDEO GAMES POSTAL SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE\r\nBy using the special Postal Subscription Service, copies of COMPUTER + VIDEO GAMES can be mailed direct from our offices each month to any address throughout the world. All subscription applications should be sent for processing to COMPUTER + VIDEO GAMES (Subscription Department), [redacted]. All orders should include the appropriate remittance made payable to COMPUTER + VIDEO GAMES. Annual subscription rates (12 issues): UK and Eire: £15. Additional service information, including individual overseas airmail rates available upon request. Circulation Department: EMAP National Publications. Published and distributed by EMAP National Publications Ltd. Printed by Peterboro' Web. Typeset by Contemporary Graphics."},"MainText":"Supplier: Artic Computing\r\nMachine: Spectrum 48K\r\nPrice: £8.95\r\n\r\nThis Assemblage cassette from Artic contains two arcade games on one side of the tape, and two adventures on the other.\r\n\r\nOne adventure, Curse of the Seven Faces, was originally reviewed in the August 85 issue (Personal Rating 7) when it was released by Imperial Software, priced £8.95. At the time I suggested it was a little overpriced.\r\n\r\nThe second adventure on the Assemblage tape, is Robin Hood, and described as \"Adventure H\" from Artic, it is a graphic adventure, with quite good full-screen pictures that are fast to display, and do not reappear once viewed, unless requested.\r\n\r\nFor some reason, Robin seems to be a favourite character to base an adventure on. This isn't exactly a prime example, though will provide some entertainment for fans of Mr Hood, even if it doesn't stretch their minds too much!\r\n\r\nAs Robin, wearing Lincoln green, and armed with bow and arrow, you explore the forest, and eventually get into the castle. Points are awarded for discovering valuable objects, and for solving certain puzzles.\r\n\r\nNot that the problems are particularly hard. Lighting a lamp found in location one, with a flint found in (probably) location two, is hardly mind-bending. But then this isn't a mind-bending adventure, and can be recommended for younger players or beginners.\r\n\r\nA value-for-money package - especially if there are arcade players in the family!\r\n\r\nThis style of game would not be worth considering, were it not for the graphics. Although some large games make the use of graphics pointless, because they take up too much space, they enhance a game of this type. The number of games on the tape make it certainly worth thinking about. As you can expect to pay over £9 for many games, it's good to see some companies producing worthwhile compilations.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"74","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Keith Campbell","Score":"6","ScoreSuffix":"/10"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Vocabulary","Score":"8/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Atmosphere","Score":"7/10","Text":""},{"Header":"Personal","Score":"6/10","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]