[{"TitleName":"Big Box","Publisher":"Beau-Jolly Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1991","ZxDbId":"0011519","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 116, Oct 1991","Price":"£1.85","ReleaseDate":"1991-09-15","Editor":"Garth Sumpter","TotalPages":52,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Garth Sumpter (yuck!)\r\nDesign: Andrea Walker (fnak!)\r\nDesign: Yvette Nicholls (wha hey!)\r\nSoftware Editor: Steve Keen (plop!)\r\nSU Crew: John Cook, Pete Gerrard, Phillip Fisch, Ian Watson, Alan Dykes\r\nAd Manager: Jerry Hall (fwoar!)\r\nAd Production: Jo Gleissner (slurp!)\r\nMarketing Man.: Mark Swan (kwak!)\r\nMarketing Women: Sarah Ewing, Sarah Hilliard (ooohhhhhHHH!)\r\nPublisher: Graham Taylor (.......)\r\nManaging Director: Terry Pratt (zzz)\r\n\r\n(c)1991 EMAP IMAGES\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nDISTRIBUTION: BBC FRONTLINE\r\nSU SUBSCRIPTIONS: [redacted]\r\n\r\nTypesetting by Garthtype.\r\nColour work by Proprint.\r\nPrinting by Chase Web.\r\n\r\nNo part of this magazine may be reproduced or even stored in any means of electronic retrieval system. You can however, store this magazine on a coffee table, gentleman's hairdressers, any ladies toilet or underwear shop and all branches of Ann Sommers. I hope that all of you who've been on holiday had a brill time. The SU Crew are all off for a spot of summer fun next month so we'll be printing pictures of us down in the dunes. If anyone out there wants to send in a snapshot of them on holiday then we'll print it in the mag. See you all next month!"},"MainText":"Label: Beau-Jolly\r\nMemory: 48K/128K\r\nPrice: £T.B.A.\r\nReviewer: Garth Sumpter\r\n\r\nWell this just has to one of the biggest compilations this reviewer has ever seen. It also has to be one of the most varied. Not only in the types of games involved but also in the insipid crapiness of some of them.\r\n\r\nFirst off let's say that it should take at least three days to just shuffle through all of the thirty titles in this compilation which actually does include some belters including, Enduro Racer, Aliens, Spindizzy, and Rampage. The rest are pretty mediocre but then you expect the rough with the smooth in a compilation. What you don't expect is complete and utter drivel. I mean there re titles like Activision's Sailing, Space Shuttle and Ghostbusters - all real turkeys along with all three of the Gamestar flops - Championship Football, Baseball and Basketball.\r\n\r\nSo there's the Good, the Bad and the Average. Here's the list of the also rans.\r\n\r\nGhostbusters, Hacker, Big Trouble in Little China, Barry McGuigan, Explorer, ACE 2088, Super Sprint, Knightmare, Galactic Games, Guardalcanal, Space Shuttle, The Real Ghostbusters, Xarq, Dandy, Mermaid Madness, Star Raiders, Prodigy, Park Patrol, High Frontier, Firetrap, Toy Bizarre and Karnov.\r\n\r\nIt's probably not a bad way to start off your Spectrum collection but as the good games in the compilation number only four, then you'd be far wiser in carefully investing in either the products on budget or even better, spend your money on smaller compilations with a higher percentage of good games.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"No, no, no. Don't do it. Don't ruin your life, use your brains and shop around. Thirty games might seem like a lot for the money but if you only actually play half a dozen it's a serious waste. Just avoid it. Okay?","Page":"39","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Garth Sumpter","Score":"30","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Quelle horreur! It's a festering pack of Millwall supporters!!!"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"30%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]