[{"TitleName":"Hit - Pack 1","Publisher":"Zeppelin Games Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1992","ZxDbId":"0011285","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 78, Jun 1992","Price":"£2.5","ReleaseDate":"1992-05-17","Editor":"Andy Hutchinson","TotalPages":84,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"HERE COMES THE SUMMER!\r\n\r\nFor him in vain the envious season rolls, who bears eternal summer in his soul. What are you most looking forward to the summer?\r\n\r\nEditor: Andy (Dreamy days dangling a leg in the water while drifting down the Avon in a punt & snogging French exchange students. Or both at the same time) Hutchinson\r\nArt Editor: Andy (Going to America, hopefully) Ounsted\r\nDeputy Editor: Linda (Glastonbury festival) Barker\r\nStaff Writer: Jon (Leaving his duck shaped brolly at home) Pillar\r\nArt Assistant: Maryanne (Picnics in Vicky Park) Booth\r\nAdvertising Manager: Alison (Looking sexy & brown) Booth\r\nSenior Sales Exec: Jackie (Drinking ice cool beers at the Crystal Palace) Garford\r\nProduction Coordinator: Lisa (Ice cream sundaes with Martini) Read\r\nPublisher: Jane (Barbies & Pimms) Richardson\r\nPromotions Manager: Michelle (Cycling to Mrs Miggins' bun & tea shop) Harris\r\nPromotions Assistant: Tamara (Riding a horse through a field of long green grass) Ward\r\nGroup Publisher: Greg (Peace, love & understanding) Bingham\r\nCirculation Director: Sue (Windsurfing) Hartley\r\nAssistant Publisher: Julie (Cream teas) Stuckes\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair (Champion the Wonder Horse repeats), Future (The Company Weekend) Publishing, [redacted]\r\n\r\nManaging Director: Chris (Strawberries and cream on the front lawn) Anderson\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: Future Publishing Ltd [redacted]\r\n\r\n©Future Publishing 1992. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission from Charlie Footstool from Dingley Dell.\r\n\r\nISSN: 0269 69683\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair leaps onto passing cars with it bottom a-waving with notables periodicals like: Commodore Format (The scuba-diving season), Amstrad Acton (Sitting in the beer garden of The Brewers Arms in the evening), Amiga Format (Beetle Bash and the beach), PCW Plus (Wimbledon), PC Answers (Winter), PC Plus (Reptile dayy), Sega Power (Softball in Vicky Park on a Thursday), Amiga Power (Sailing, snogging and softbaallll!), Amiga Shopper (Cold beers by blue seas), Classic CD (Watching us stuff Pakistan in the test matches), Needlecraft (Myxomatosis), Cycling Plus (Going saddle-less), Photo Plus (Hampstead Heath of an evening), Mountain Biking UK (Outdoor rumpy-pumpy), PC Format (See Mountain Biking UK), Public Domain (Sun), ST Format (Fire Walk With Me: The Film), Total! (Driving an MR2 with the top up) and Today's Vegetarian (Two weeks of sun,sea, sand and sex in Greece) and coming soon... Calculator Operator's Chronicle.\r\n\r\nBut what we really want to know why is... who the hell elected Mary Whitehouse as defender of public morals anyway?"},"MainText":"HIT PACK 1\r\nZeppelin\r\n£3.99\r\n[redacted]\r\nReviewer: Rich Pelley\r\n\r\nI haven't really had a good day, so the last thing I wanted to review was a compilation featuring a dubious collection of management games, a Combat School rip off, a Supersprint clone and a little Wheelie jobby. Guess it's just Sod's Law (or is that Flemming's Left Hand Rule?) that I got to review this then.\r\n\r\nKenny Dalglish Soccer Manager provides you with a chance to try your hand at that ever popular form of entertainment, the management game. It also allows you to think \"Hmmm nice graphics\", and \"Hoo - there's Kenny\" but you'll soon realise that, gameplay speaking, it's all too uninvolved, boring as hell and not a patch on Footy Manager 2 and, marks out of 100 speaking, only worth about 40.\r\n\r\nRally Simulator is nothing more than a scrolling Supersprint clone with suspiciously Trans-Am style graphics. The scrolling may be smooth, but the car handles annoyingly and takes some getting used to, and without Supersprints looming possibility of loads of track to play, there seems little point in continuing playing. A 36 out of 100 if ever I saw one.\r\n\r\nAnd thirdly? A crappy side view bike race thingy. Usually these things are great fun, burning along, jumping over ramps, wheeleeing here, falling off there. But in this case, you have to spend all your time judging what speed to take everything or your bike tips over - you don't even heroically fly off the thing. Add some completely crap graphics and we'll give it about 27.\r\n\r\nAnd finally Para Assault Course, the excellent joystick waggling antics of Combat School, minus the animation, minus all the events bar the first, minus all the fun (although it's still two player) minus about 50 of the points Combat School would have got. 37\r\n\r\nAnd to conclude? Please see the intro of the Airborne Ranger review.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"77,78","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Rich Pelley","Score":"46","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Alicia: I will be at the corner of Mumford Street at 7pm on the 14th. I shall wear a hat. Bill."},{"Text":"Racing through the endless void, Shirley reared up to avoid the bank of blobby things."},{"Text":"Sandstone, oh sandstone, how I love you sandstone. I wish I lived on the Isle of Wight, oh Sandy oh."}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"46%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[{"Header":"Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager","Score":"40%","Text":"Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager"},{"Header":"Rally Simulator","Score":"36%","Text":"Rally Simulator"},{"Header":"Mountain Bike Simulator","Score":"27%","Text":"Mountain Bike Racer"},{"Header":"Para Assault Course","Score":"37%","Text":"Para Assault Course"}]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 123, May 1992","Price":"£2.2","ReleaseDate":"1992-04-18","Editor":"Alan Dykes","TotalPages":68,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Alan Dykes\r\nDesign: Yvette Nicholls\r\nSU Crew: Garth Sumpter, Steve Keen, Ed Laurence, Pete Gerrard, Graham Mason, Phillip Fisch\r\nAd Manager: Tina Zanelli\r\nAd Production: Matthew Walker\r\nMr. Marketing.: Mark Swallow\r\nMarketing Ladies: Sarah Ewing, Sarah Hilliard\r\nPublisher: Mark Frey\r\nManaging Director: Terry Pratt\r\n\r\n(c)1992 EMAP IMAGES\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nColour by Colourtech\r\nPrinted by Kingfisher\r\nTypeset by Altyp Inc\r\n\r\nAbsolutely no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in an electronic retrieval system or used to prop up televisions or other electronic equipment without the express permission of the publisher. Summer is almost here again folks so it's nearly time to start going down to the beach for some mega fun. Remember though, don't get sand in your Spectrum! It doesn't work very well if you do. Oh yes, sorry about Mother's day mum, hope you enjoy your holiday! Pictures from Addams Family the movie were supplied by Columbia Tri-Star Films (UK). (c) Columbia Tri-Star."},"MainText":"Label: Zeppelin 4x4\r\nMemory: 48K/128K\r\nPrice: £3.99 Tape\r\nReviewer: Cyril Herelle\r\n\r\nEveryone wants to be a soccer manager. Or a rally driver, or a mountain biker, or take on an assault course. But all at once, I really don't know! Well Cyril looked bored so we sent him off with a few bottles of Lucozade, a king sized Mars Bar and some new underwear to have a go at all of the above.\r\n\r\nFirst off I tried out Kenny Dalglish's Soccer Manager where as the title seems to suggest you have to manage something. Well, I managed to choose a team from the 90 or so teams which were in the football league when the game first came out. Maybe it's because I just love football but this is definitely the best game on this pack, mainly because it's so user friendly, enabling you to really get into it. It's quite a bog standard management game with lots of figures and reports but it is a lot better presented than most games of this ilk. Graphics are quite large and detailed and are always clear and playability is the best.\r\n\r\nRally Simulator's a very odd game where you and four computer opponents zoom around some very odd looking tracks which I suspect are meant to look a bit futuristic. Control is very awkward and takes some getting used to. Add this together with some very simplistic graphics, uninspiring gameplay and a lack of good sound and all you get a poor game. Definitely the worst of this lot.\r\n\r\nMountain Bike Racer is a much more attractive proposition. Pedal through wild torn landscapes with plenty of jumps and climbs. Try not to fall of the bike and you should enjoy this game. If you remember Kickstart and all it's pro's and con's then you'll probably like this game, it's not really in the same league as Kickstart but it comes close. With nice clear graphics and a shop visit at the end of each level to improve your bike's spec, Mountain Bike Racer is quite an enjoyable game.\r\n\r\nFinally we come to Para Assault Course, and it's just as well that it's the last thing I looked as I'm too tired to complain much about it. It's one of those 'waggle the joystick till your hands drop off' games where the timing and the speed of the 'waggle' is just all too important. Having a brain doesn't count for much with this game. The graphics are nice enough but I have this thing about sweating a lot from just playing a computer game and with the course feeling as though it takes for ever to go through you'll soon be left with the feeling of \"why am I doing this?\"\r\n\r\nWhat ever I say about Kenny Dalglish, at the end of the day it's not really a classic. Good, but not a classic. Nevertheless combined with Mountain Bike Racer it gives this compilation the edge over most single game budget sports sims. The less said about the other two games the better though.","ReviewerComments":["A new compilation from Zeppelin kicks off with a reasonably attractive package. However the inclusion of Para Assault Course and Rally Simulator detract from it.\r\nAlan Dykes"],"OverallSummary":"What can I say, I would only get this pack if I hadn't already got Kenny Dalglish. The other games, apart from Mountain Bike don't have much to offer.","Page":"43","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Cyril Hirelle","Score":"65","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Alan Dykes","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"GOAL!"},{"Text":"Kenny Dalglish Options Mania."},{"Text":"Oh Vic. I've fallen!"},{"Text":"Ooh come on, give us a wheelie!"},{"Text":"Phwoarr!"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"65%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]