[{"TitleName":"Cartoon Collection","Publisher":"Code Masters Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1991","ZxDbId":"0011555","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 74, Feb 1992","Price":"£2.2","ReleaseDate":"1992-01-02","Editor":"Andy Hutchinson","TotalPages":68,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"BACK TO OUR ROOTS\r\n\r\nWe're not talking about the roots in the land, we're talking 'bout the roots in the man!\r\n\r\nEditor: Andy (Manchester) Hutchinson\r\nNew Art Editor: Andy (Bristol) Ounsted\r\nGames Editor: James (Hamelin) Leach\r\nStaff Writer: Linda (Hackney) Barker\r\nArt Assistant: Maryanne (Portsmouth) Booth\r\nAdvertising Manager: Cheryl (Tunbridge Wells) Beesley\r\nProduction Coordinator: Lisa (Bath) Read\r\nPublisher: Jane (Chelmsford) Richardson\r\nPublishing Assistant: Michele (Amersham) Harris\r\nGroup Publisher: Greg (New Forest) Ingham\r\nCirculation Director: Sue (Guildford) Hartley\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair (London), Future (Somerton) Publishing [redacted]\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: The Old Barn [redacted]\r\nDistribution: MMC [redacted]\r\n\r\nCover Illustration: Max (Wokingham) Ellis\r\nISSN 0269 6983\r\nABC Jan-June 1991 65,444\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair canters briskly into the paddock with a whinny and a neigh from the same stable as these fillies: Commodore Format (Bath), Amstrad Action (Somerton), Amiga Format (Bath), PCW Plus (Somerton), Sega Power (Bath), Amiga Power (Bath), Amiga Shopper (Bath), Classic CD (Bath), Needlecraft (Bath), Mountain Biking UK (Faversham), PC Format (Bath), Public Domain (Bath) and ST Format (Bath).\r\n\r\nBut what we really want to know is... who invented liquid soap, and why?"},"MainText":"CARTOON COLLECTION\r\nCodemasters\r\n£14.99 cass\r\nReviewer: Rich Pelley\r\n\r\nMichael Aspel (leaping out from under nearby table): Yes, you thought that you'd walked into this branch of McDonald's for a Big Mac, Large Fries and a Coke but no, Richard and David Darling, the founders of Codemasters, this is (broad grin) your life...\r\n\r\nDIZZY\r\n\r\n(Back in the studio): First to see you tonight is that game which spurned a thousand (divided by 200) follow-ups. It was the first arcade adventure to create that unique CodeMasters' feel and was well worthy of its rave reviews. But I'm afraid to say that since then it has been greatly surpassed in graphic, sound and playability departments. It's a shame we couldn't have had one of its follow-ups with us this evening instead.\r\n59°\r\n\r\nSLIGHTLY MAGIC\r\n\r\nDo you recognise these quotes? \"Better than the Dizzy games\", \"Probably due to the addition of spells as well as objects; you have to think quite a lot more about what to do, rather than simply using the correct object in the correct place\", \"And the graphics and presentation are excellent too\",\"In fact, all in all, Slightly Magic is, well, absolutely 'magic' really.\"\" Yes, that was Your Sinclair talking about our old friend Slightly Magic. And here he is... (clap clap).\r\n94°\r\n\r\nSPIKE IN TRANSILVANIA\r\n\r\nAnd please welcome Spike in Transilvania (applause): You'll have to sit on this special 3D sofa if you will Spike, which we've moved into the studio specially to accommodate the fact that you are the only 3D game here tonight. You are still a good old cartoon puzzle game of course, so don't feel too left out.\r\n84°\r\n\r\nCJ'S ELEPHANT ANTICS\r\n\r\n(Michael looks anxious): All the games tonight have been classic flip-screen arcade adventures, maybe all a bit too similar for my liking. So a bounce around platform game which is easy on our brains could be what were looking for here. Sort of like a scrolling Rick Dangerous. And maybe with a few elephant references. In fact, I don't think that I'd even mind it it had atrocious scrolling, blurry graphics and a crap two player mode. Hmmm.\r\n84°\r\n\r\nSEYMOUR GOES TO HOLLYWOOD\r\n\r\nUnfortunately Bernard Manning wasn't able to be with us tonight, so he made this video earlier.\r\n\r\n\"Hi there. Bernard Manning here. I'd just like to say what a great game Seymour Goes To Hollywood is. It's brand spanking new, it still plays like Dizzy but what the heck, eh? Seeya.\"\r\n90°\r\n\r\nAnd that's the end of the show, and the end of my crap review which wasn't even funny. A great compilation all in all; the only snag lying in the fact that all the games are a teensy weensy bit the same. It's still great val for mon if you haven't got any of the games though. (Bit unlikely, Ed)","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"58","Denied":false,"Award":"Your Sinclair Megagame","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Rich Pelley","Score":"91","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Both Sir Hilary and her husband Tim are allergic to cauliflower, as this 1877 woodcut shows."},{"Text":"Captain Johnson hands his pipe to Susan, proving both his arms still work."},{"Text":"Noel Edmonds, in a chiffon diving suit, enters the jacuzzi in a direction he invented himself during the Falklands Conflict."}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"91%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[{"Header":"Dizzy","Score":"59%","Text":"Dizzy"},{"Header":"CJ's Elephant Antics","Score":"84%","Text":"CJ's Elephant Antics"},{"Header":"Seymour Goes To Hollywood","Score":"90%","Text":"Seymour Goes to Hollywood"},{"Header":"Slightly Magic","Score":"94%","Text":"Slightly Magic"},{"Header":"Spike In Transylvania","Score":"84%","Text":"Spike in Transylvania"}]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 119, Jan 1992","Price":"£1.85","ReleaseDate":"1991-12-18","Editor":"Garth Sumpter","TotalPages":60,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Commander Coloninabadway\r\nDesign: Captain Ooneneeky Cheeky\r\nSoftware Editor: Star Commander Angus Headrush\r\nAdditional Design: Earthling Jane Davies\r\nSU Crew: Garth 'Lost in Space' Sumpter, John 'Bad Boy' Cook, Alan 'Space Cruiser' Dykes, Pete 'Astro' Gerrard, Yvette 'Brightstar' Nichols, Phillip 'Black Hole' Fisch\r\nAd Manager: Jerry 'Astonomical' Hall\r\nAd Production: Jo 'Venus' Gleissner\r\nMarketing Man.: Mark 'Starman' Swallow\r\nMarketing Women: Sarah Ewing, Sarah Hillard\r\nPublisher: Graham Taylor\r\nManaging Director: Terry Pratt\r\n\r\n(c)1991 EMAP IMAGES\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nColour by Proprint\r\nPrinted by Kingfisher\r\n\r\nIncidentally, just before Garth disappeared into a spaceship, he said that he would always believe in Santa and wished all the readers (including his mum and dad) merry Christmas and the rest of the Crew wished a merry Christmas to mum and dads everywhere, without whom, nothing would be possible! Would it?"},"MainText":"Label: Codemasters\r\nMemory: 48K/128K\r\nPrice: £9.99\r\nReviewer: Big Al Dykes\r\n\r\nWhat's up Doc? The Cartoon Collection from Codemasters with five excellent games all packed on it.\r\n\r\nApart from Seymour and Spike the collection includes the first of Dizzy's adventures, a genuine classic, Slightly Magic the story of a young sorcerer and C.J.'s Elephant Antics, the second part of which (C.J. In the USA) was also reviewed last month.\r\n\r\nThe graphics are colourful and the games are all extremely playable as you enter into a variety of search and solve worlds that are archetypically Codemasters. Boom, whizz, whoosh and watch out for those natty trolls.","ReviewerComments":["Ha! Codemasters really are putting together some very good stuff lately and the Cartoon Collection is Eggactly what Codie fans need for Christmas!\r\nGarth Sumpter"],"OverallSummary":"Another really fine budget compilation from Codemasters for the festive season. Get this one along with Dizzy's Excellent Adventure and you'll be happy throughout Christmas and for a good while afterwards too.","Page":"38","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Alan Dykes","Score":"87","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Garth Sumpter","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"87%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]