[{"TitleName":"Coin-Op Hits","Publisher":"U.S. Gold Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1989","ZxDbId":"0011598","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 49, Jan 1990","Price":"£1.7","ReleaseDate":"1989-12-18","Editor":"Matt Bielby","TotalPages":108,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Matt Bielby\r\nArt Editor: Catherine Peters\r\nDeputy Editor: David Wilson\r\nProduction Editor: Andy Ide\r\nDesigner: Martin Sharrocks\r\nTechnical Consultant: Jonathan Davies\r\nContributors: Robin Alway, Marcus Berkmann, Phoebe Cresswell-Evans, Jonathan Davies, Mike Gerrard, Sean Kelly, Paul Lakin, Duncan MacDonald, Rich Pelley, Dave Robinson, Jackie Ryan, Phil South, Wag, Louise Willers\r\nGroup Advertisement Manager: Lynda Elliott\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Caroline Day\r\nClassified Advertisement Executive: Chris Skinner\r\nAdvertisement Director: Alistair Ramsay\r\nProduction Manager: Judith Middleton\r\nAdvertisement Production: Claire Baker\r\nMarketing Manager: Bryan Denyer\r\nNewstrade Circulation Manager: Stephen Ward\r\nSubscription Manager: June Smith\r\nPublisher: Teresa Maughan\r\nGroup Publishing Director: Richard Howell\r\nGroup Creative Director: Tony Spalding\r\nFinance Director: Colin Crawford\r\nManaging Director: Stephen England\r\nChairman: Felix Dennis\r\n\r\nPublished by Dennis Publishing Ltd, [redacted] Company registered in England.\r\nTypesetters: Point Five [redacted]\r\nReproduction: Graphic Ideas, London\r\nPrinted By: Riverside Press [redacted]\r\nDistribution: Seymour Press [redacted]\r\n\r\nAll material in Your Sinclair ©1989 Felden Productions, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of the publishers. Your Sinclair is a monthly publication."},"MainText":"US Gold\r\n£12.99 cass\r\nReviewer: Jackie Ryan\r\n\r\nSponsored by another well known games magazine, this is an 'all big name titles' compilation, and would seem like fairly good value for money (five games for £12.99) except, oh dear, half of them are crap. Let's take a gander...\r\n\r\nTHUNDERBLADE\r\n\r\nWell, we gave it a Megagame last Christmas, but whatever can we have been thinking of? You're flying your helicopter gunship through a city centre on alternating vertically scrolling and into-the-screen 3D levels. Graphics and scrolling are as smooth, fast and clear as you could reasonably expect, but there's loads of multiloading, it's almost impossible to tell when you've been hit (making progress a pretty slapdash affair) and it all seems a bit too easy to complete.\r\n1990 Rating: 75°\r\n\r\nOUTRUN\r\n\r\nI love driving games normally (even bad ones) but this really isn't much fun. The graphics are perfectly well drawn, it's true, but where's the impression of speed, eh? Pretty snail-like at the best of times, it slows down to the speed of a three-toed sloth (when he's sleeping) for the tunnel sequences. Now it just looks a bit rubbish.\r\n1990 Rating: 62°\r\n\r\nROAD BLASTERS\r\n\r\nAmazingly enough we never reviewed this when it first came in (or, at least, I can't find the issue it was in). I wonder why. Anyway, it's a Mad Max style road race game, rather like Outrun, only there are guns attached to the front of your car. There are add-on weapons to collect and lots of enemy cars to shoot, but generally it's uninspiring stuff.\r\n1990 Rating: 60°\r\n\r\nBIONIC COMMANDO\r\n\r\nAha! At last, a brilliant game! Megagamed a couple of year's back, Bionic Command might look a bit less polished now but it's as playable as ever. You control a little chap running around a large woodland platform and ladders landscape, shooting other little chaps. So far, so playable, but what really brings the game alive is the bionic robot arm thing he shoots out to swing on. A must!\r\n1990 Rating: 87°\r\n\r\nSPY HUNTER\r\n\r\nWell, this is a classic alright. There are loads of add-on weapons and it's reasonably fast (so you can't write it off entirely), but as so many of you must own it already I'm not quite sure what it's doing here. A bit of space filler, perhaps?\r\n1990 Rating: 56°\r\n\r\nSo, all in all, fair value (as these things usually are) but there are more worthwhile compilations about.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"Reasonable value as a compilation, but there are a couple of real dogs in here. Still, as always, you can't really complain at five games for 13 quid.","Page":"97","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Jackie Ryan","Score":"71","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Life Expectancy","Score":"78%","Text":""},{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"70%","Text":""},{"Header":"Addictiveness","Score":"69%","Text":""},{"Header":"Instant Appeal","Score":"70%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"71%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[{"Header":"Thunderblade","Score":"75%","Text":"Thunder Blade"},{"Header":"Out Run","Score":"62%","Text":"Out Run"},{"Header":"Road Blasters","Score":"60%","Text":"Road Blasters"},{"Header":"Bionic Commandos","Score":"87%","Text":"Bionic Commando"},{"Header":"Spy Hunter","Score":"56%","Text":"Spy Hunter"}]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 95, Feb 1990","Price":"£1.6","ReleaseDate":"1990-01-18","Editor":"Jim Douglas","TotalPages":100,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"AaaChhhoo!\r\n\r\nJIM \"Black Death\" DOUGLAS (Editor)\r\nGood grief, he's looking pretty manky this month, eh readers? Poor Jimbly has been struck by the dreaded Flu epidemic. He's almost overdosed on Chloraseptic and is feeling very sorry for himself, and would like someone to give him a cuddle, please. Eurgh yuk, go away drippy bogey snout.\r\n\r\nALISON \"Super Fit\" SKEAT (Production Editor)\r\nBig Al's looking well smug with herself as she's the only one who's managed to avoid the lurgie. That's because she's been holed up in her Michael Jackson-style oxygen tent munching on garlic pills and Halibo-range tablets. But naughty Oz has set about her bubble with his designer scalpel and all the germies are getting in, tee hee. Somebody pass All the Junior Disprin please.\r\n\r\nGARTH \"Firestone\" Sumpter (Staff Writer)\r\nAfter a major bout of Christmas jollies, poor Garthy is certainly a wee bit worse for wear. Jim made him attend every software house chrimbo doo because the rest of us were too \"ill\" to go, but it looks like he had a few too many beakers of Um Bongo. Quick lads abandon the loo, here he comes.\r\n\r\nOSMOND \"wibbly limbs\" BROWNE (Designer)\r\nPoor little Ossie. Wicked Uncle Jim has been working him so hard, that he's developed a rather severe case of Designer's elbow. He's been scribbling away so hard that both of his elbows have turned to gungey runny stuff and his arms have gone all loppy. What a shame, looks like he's headed for the Municipal home for crumblie old clapped out Designers.\r\n\r\nAdventure: The Sorceress\r\nI've Got This Problem: Rupert Goodwins\r\nAdvertisement Manager: James Owens\r\nSenior Sales: Martha Moloughney\r\nAd Production: Emma Ward\r\nMarketing Manager: Dean Barrett\r\nMarketing Assistant: Sarah Ewing\r\nPublisher: Terry Pratt\r\n\r\nOur Address: [redacted]\r\nOur Phone Number: [redacted]\r\nOur Fax No: [redacted]\r\n\r\nCover Illustration: Jerry Paris\r\n\r\nPrinted by Nene River Press, [redacted]\r\n\r\n©Copyright Sinclair User 1990\r\n\r\nNo part of this magazine may be reproduced/transcribed, stored in a data retrieval system etc, without permission of the publishers, EMAP B+CP. Special thanks this issue: Kevin at Nene, John Cook, Jaz Rignall and of course, old Santa himself for forcing us to produce this issue in two weeks flat. Hope you get terminal frostbite, fatso."},"MainText":"C+VG COIN-OP HITS\r\nUS Gold\r\n£12.99\r\n\r\nTHUNDERBLADE: Great conversion of Sega's 3D helicopter shoot 'em up coin-op.\r\n\r\nBIONIC COMMANDO: Addictive six-level platform game/shoot 'em up starring a hero with extendible limbs'.\r\n\r\nROADBLASTERS: Fairly tedious race n' blast game.\r\n\r\nOUTRUN: A decent race game flawed by a terrible multiload system.\r\n\r\nSPY HUNTER: Exciting horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up in which you drive a multi-weaponed sports car.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"A good all-round compilation featuring a mixture of shooting, racing, platform action and helicopter flying. Check it out.","Page":"74","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"85%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"C&VG (Computer & Video Games) Issue 97, Dec 1989","Price":"£1.2","ReleaseDate":"1989-11-16","Editor":"Julian Rignall","TotalPages":164,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"CONTACTS AND CREDITS\r\n\r\nEditor: Julian Rignall\r\nArt Editor: Andrea Walker\r\nStaff Writers: Paul Glancey, Paul Rand\r\nArt Assistant: Osmond Browne\r\nAdvertising Manager: Nigel Taylor\r\nDep Ad Manager: Joanna Cooke\r\nSales Executive: Tina Zanelli\r\nProduction Assistant: Glenys Powell\r\nPublisher: Graham Taylor\r\nThis Month's Cover: Ghostsbusters II from Activision\r\nCover Artist: Jerry Paris\r\n\r\nSubscription Enquiries to: EMAP Frontline, [redacted]\r\nEditorial and Advertisement Offices: [redacted]\r\n\r\nPrinted By: Nene River Press, [redacted]\r\nColour By: Proprint, [redacted]\r\nTypeset By: Jaz and Mr T at EMAP\r\nDistributed By: EMAP Frontline\r\n\r\n©C+VG 1989\r\nISSN No: 0261-3697"},"MainText":"C+VG COIN-OP HITS\r\nCONTENTS: Thunderblade, Bionic Commando, Roadblasters, Outrun, Spy Hunter\r\nSpectrum/Amstrad/C64 £12.99\r\n\r\nAn excellent all-round coin-op compilation with a neat mix of titles ranging from the classic Spy Hunter to last year's Christmas biggie, Thunderblade. Outrun is getting on a bit and has a stupid multi-load system, but Thunderblade and Bionic Commando are both superb.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"88","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Julian Rignall","Score":"87","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[{"Text":"AMSTRAD SCORES\r\n\r\nOverall: 83%\r\n\r\nHours and hours of fun are on offer with this package. Outrun is dire, but the other games in this package range from very good to excellent. Definitely one for arcade junkies."},{"Text":"C64 SCORES\r\n\r\nOverall: 87%\r\n\r\nThunderblade and Outrun are good, Spy Hunter is superb, but the star of the pack is Bionic Commando, which sports some brilliant platform action and some amazing soundtracks. If you're a C64 owner who enjoys coin-op conversions, don't miss this bundle of goodies."}],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"87%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]