[{"TitleName":"The Dream Team","Publisher":"Ocean Software Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1993","ZxDbId":"0011664","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 86, Feb 1993","Price":"£2.5","ReleaseDate":"1993-01-14","Editor":"Linda Barker","TotalPages":52,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"YOUR SINCLAIR\r\nABC 40,648\r\n\r\nEditor: Linda Barker\r\nArt Editor: Andy Ounsted\r\nStaff Writer: Jonathan Nash\r\nEditorial Contributors: Steve Anderson, Craig Broadbent, Dave Golder, Tim Kemp, Simon Cooke\r\nArt Contributors: Phil McCardle\r\nCover Artwork: Colin Jones\r\nLemon: Arthur Lemon\r\nSenior Sales Executive: Jackie Garford\r\nProduction Co-ordinator: Lisa Read\r\nProduction Technicians: Chris Stocker\r\nScanning: Simon Windsor, Jon Moore, Simon Chittenden\r\nPublisher: Colin Campbell\r\nPromotions Manager: Tamara Ward\r\nGroup Publisher: Greg Ingham\r\nCirculation Director: Sue Hartley\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair, Future Publishing [redacted]\r\n\r\nManaging Director Chris Anderson\r\n\r\nPrinters: Riverside Press [redacted]\r\nBack Issues: Future Publishing Ltd. [redacted]\r\n\r\n©Future Publishing 1992. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without the permission of Alan Rickman. (If you manage to find him, send him along to the Shed!).\r\n\r\nISSN 0269 6983\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair exchanges arrows and twangs lute strings with the forest folk of Commodore Format, Amstrad Action, Amiga Format, PCW Plus, PC Answers, Mega, Super Play, PC Plus, Sega Power, Amiga Power, Amiga Shopper, Classic CD, Needlecraft, Cycling Plus, Photo Plus, Mountain Biking UK, Games Master, PC Format, ST Format, Total! and Today's Vegetarian. Hey nonny nonny!"},"MainText":"THE DREAM TEAM\r\nOcean\r\n£14.99 cass 128K only\r\n[redacted]\r\nReviewer: Steve Anderson\r\n\r\nGood grief, don't tell me that Ocean have had a change of heart and have released a game based on the Michael Keaton film, The Dream Team? (Er, not that we know of, Steve. Ed) Oh... Well, it must be an official USA Olympic basketball game, because they were called The Dream Team. (Ye... er, nope Sorry. Ed) I guess that means its a compilation then. Bah. that's no fun!\r\n\r\nTHE SIMPSONS - BART VS THE SPACE MUTANTS\r\n\r\nHurrah! It's the return of the spikey-headed jaundiced youth to the Speccy. It seems like only yesterday when everybody in Britain went Simpsons crazy, whether they had a satellite TV or not...\r\n\r\nIf I remember correctly, seeing as I haven't got my back issues to hand, James reviewed the game last year and thought it was pretty darn good. But how does it shape up now? Well, it's still good fun. It took a curious route, as games go, because its based on the NES game of the same name (funnily enough), and it plays just as well. As with any NES game, there's a nice simple plot - Space Mutants are planning to take over the world by making lots of things purple, and you as Bart have to disguise the purpleness and thus overpower the Mutants. Lovely. Quite why purple was chosen is beyond me, though! (I thought it was something to do with the legendary purple people eater. Ed) The graphics are nice, Bart looks dead mischievous and it's all very colourful. There are also puzzles a-plenty, but I didn't notice much in the way of sound, so it must have been pretty crap. I liked the noise his can of paint made though, if that's any consolation.\r\n\r\nIn all - dead funky, but not really Megagame material. There's not enough variation to satisfy my cravings, as with almost any NES game. Mind you, it's still good clean fun though!\r\n83%\r\n\r\nTERMINATOR 2\r\n\r\nThis is going to be hard, but I want to try and get through this review without falling into the obvious Arnie phrases that would otherwise write half the review for me. It's going to be tricky!\r\n\r\nJames reviewed this as well, if my grey matter is in order, and gave it a good rating, but I'm afraid it's time to question his sanity!\r\n\r\nSure, the graphics are fabulous, the animation spot-on and the sound satisfying. I did indeed proclaim to Jonathan, \"This music's quite a good rendition, isn't it?\" I admit to enjoying the sound effects in the fighting parts, and laughing out loud when Arnie died. But isn't it about time that Ocean did a film conversion in a different way? (Erm, but they've stopped making games for the Speccy, Steve. Ed)\r\n\r\nYes, its multiple sub-game time! And to be quite honest, I've had enough of them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but ever since Robocop Ocean have made their film licences in exactly the same manner! Not only that, but after the horridly easy first part you get catapulted into the much harder second part, and I'm not sure that's really a good idea. So much could have been made of this licence, I reckon it was wasted.\r\n65%\r\n\r\nWWF WRESTLEMANIA\r\n\r\nSteroid-enhanced muscles ahoy! You too can be a greasy, sweaty bloke pretending to fight another greasy, sweaty bloke in the middle of a large square of canvas in WWF Wrestlemania. Bring along a sleeping bag and a large food supply though, I waited almost 47 days for it to load.\r\n\r\nNow, I know Jonathan has reviewed this elsewhere in this issue, so I hope our reviews don't clash too much, but I actually quite enjoyed playing this. The sprites are really fast and well animated and the characters respond well to your movements. Having said that, when the two wrestlers get in a lock you have to waggle your joystick until your forehead bursts (or something), and I hate waggling. Worse still, if the other wrestler decks you, you have to keep hitting the fire button to get up! Ouch...\r\n\r\nAnyway, you've got a fair few moves at your fingertips, from wimpy punches to bouncing yourself off the ropes at high speed into your opponent or standing on a corner post and launching yourself onto the other guy's head. Hours of family fun, eh? The moves you can make depends on the wrestler who you choose to play at the start. There's Hulk Hogan™, the Ultimate Warrior™, the British Bulldog™ and Captain Lard™, and they all wrestle in their own way. Captain Lard deep fat fries a cooked breakfast to try and block the opponent's arteries, for example.\r\n\r\nNot a bad game at all, if you can forgive the multiload system. I haven't played any other wrestling games, so I can't compare them, but this was funky enough for me!\r\n78%\r\n\r\nAs compilations go, this is the second best out at the moment (after the Codies' Super All Stars). And in case you were wondering, don't. You might get lost.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"44","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Steve Anderson","Score":"70","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Agh! I woke up this morning and I though Bertie Bassett had been at work. Everybody looked like one of those liquorice allsorts with bobbly bits on. It was horrible, I hate liquorice."},{"Text":"Bart had always wanted to be a canary. One day he even tried to climb in Tweety Pie's cage. Tweety bit him hard with a beak that was remarkable for both its colour and its strength."},{"Text":"The Dalai Lama looked far and wide for a heir. At last he found him, in Buxton, Derbyshire. Prince Charles was said to be very upset that he'd been passed over for a fishmonger's son with adenoids."},{"Text":"The thing about Cecil was that he was always showing off. Even Margaret got fed up with it after a while. Luckily, John was impressed with Cecil's back bouncers and gave him a job."},{"Text":"Why do mothers always insist that you wrap up warm, eh? And why are warm things so blimmin' unattracive. I think we should be told.."}],"BlurbText":[{"Text":"FIVE GREAT MYSTERIES FOR DR ZUM\r\n\r\n? Why this is called The Dream Team (see intro).\r\n? Why you're always about five pence short of something you really need.\r\n? Why it rains heavily 'til you get home, and then stops after you've been inside for two minutes.\r\n? Why on earth I'm taking a degree in Software Engineering.\r\n? How they put the yolk in Cadbury's Creme Eggs without it all mixing up."}],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"70%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[{"Header":"The Simpsons - Bart vs The Space Mutants","Score":"83%","Text":"The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants"},{"Header":"Terminator 2","Score":"65%","Text":"Terminator 2: Judgment Day"},{"Header":"WWF Wrestlemania","Score":"78%","Text":"WWF WrestleMania"}]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 131, Jan 1993","Price":"£2.5","ReleaseDate":"1992-12-18","Editor":"Alan Dykes","TotalPages":44,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Alan 'Grumpy' Dykes\r\nDesign: Yvette 'Snow White' Nicholls\r\nSU Crew: Garth 'Dopey' Sumpter, Steve 'Snoozy' Keen, Philip 'Happy' Lindey, Graham 'Doc' Mason, Pete 'Sneezy' Gerrard, Ed 'Bashful' Laurence\r\nAd Manager: Tina Zanelli\r\nAd Production: Tina Gynn\r\nMr Marketing: Mark Swallow\r\nMarketing Ladies: Sarah Hilliard, Sarah Ewing\r\nPublisher: Mike Frey\r\nManaging Director: Terry Pratt\r\n\r\n(c)1992 EMAP IMAGES\r\nPart of EMAP PLC\r\nTel: [redacted]\r\nFax: [redacted]\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nColour by Colourtech\r\nPrinted by Riverside Press Gillingham\r\nTypeset by Altyp Inc\r\nMistakes by Phillingers Inc\r\nSubs [redacted]\r\nBack Issues [redacted]\r\n\r\nAbsolutely no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in an electronic retrieval system or copied without the express permission of the publisher. WWF is a trademark of Titan Sports INC ©1991 All rights reserved. ALL DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER NAMES, LIKENESSES AND LOGOS ARE TRADEMARKS OF TITANSPORTS ©1991 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The Simpsons TM&© 1991 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. A happy Christmas to one and all! Especially Al's mum, (Hi Mum!!!!), Fred and family, all at Thurgarton Hall, Sue Thorley, Diana Templeman and all the companies still producing Spectrum software. Here's to 1993!"},"MainText":"Label: Ocean\r\nMemory: 48K/128K\r\nPrice: £10.99 Tape, £15.99 Disk\r\nReviewer: Garth Sumpter\r\n\r\nChristmas can be a difficult time of the year. OK, there's lots of food to eat, lots to drink and the consumer research people reckon that despite the recession parents are still spending wads of cash on their kids' prezzies (not to mention what Santa brings of course). However there are problems.\r\n\r\nFor a start, younger brothers and sisters seem to get considerably more annoying during the festive season... Whingeing, whining and annoying the dog with their allegedly 'safe' Tomy toys is generally the order of the day. Meanwhile older brothers and sisters are all restless and bad tempered, peeved off with their fifteen bottles of Hai Karate aftershave or their book tokens and generally being sad people. Then, to make matters worse parents insist on watching Harry Secombe or 'Gone With The Wind' instead of 'Return Of The Jedi', if indeed they let you near the telly at all and try to make you wear that ugly, green barbed-wire jumper knitted by your ancient aunty Beryl.\r\n\r\nYes, life can be tough! But you've always got your Speccy to keep you company, ever faithful and true. So, unless those visiting relatives have got some cash to hand over in exchange for their finger breaking hand shakes or sloppy, lipstick kisses, what better way to spend the time between meals and compulsory family monopoly periods than playing a few good video games. And they don't come much better than on this Dream Team compilation.\r\n\r\nTerminator 2, Bart Simpson Vs The Space Mutants and WWF Wrestlemania were all originally released in the latter part of 1991 and have done well as full pricers ever since. They received two SU Gold awards and an SU Silver between them so they're bound to measure up. But, for those who aren't familiar with any of these titles an explanation is in order.\r\n\r\nWorld Wrestling Federation wrestling is one of the biggest crazes to hit the UK recently. With larger than life characters and almost ballet perfect moves these American wrestling giants have had people glued to the television and rolling with laughter ever since Sky TV started beaming the programs in. Then, last Christmas, WWF came to Spectrum and proved a weighty formula.\r\n\r\nThe game involves choosing between three famous WWF wrestlers (and all round good guys). Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior and The British Bulldog and fighting it out to win Wrestlemania against The Mountie. Sgt. Slaughter, Mr. Perfect, The Million Dollar Man, Ted Debiase and The Warlord. The moves include thumping kicking, throws, pins, clotheslines etc, and the action is fast and furious.\r\n\r\nGraphics in WWF are monochrome but each wrestler is very accurately represented. The ring takes up most of the screen so there's not much in the way of background graphics and the characters tend to disappear when they climb up the ropes. However, with good controllability, reasonable accuracy and an all action two player mode WWF is well worth having.\r\n\r\nBart Simpson Vs The Space Mutants is a bit of a star on Speccy. It looks almost exactly like the NES version of the game and in my opinion plays better. The plot involves a terrible contingent of space mutants who have taken over Bart's home town of Springfield, inhabiting the bodies of its good citizens with a view to building a super weapon and taking over the world. Luckily though young Bart can see them through his X-ray specs and thus hopefully, with your help, avoid them and foil their plans.\r\n\r\nLittered throughout the game are objects which the aliens need to complete their task of world domination and Bart must get to them first to succeed. There are five levels of fun with a vast variety of aliens and some pretty nifty puzzles.\r\n\r\nGraphics are super and the Bart sprite, although transparent, is delightfully accurate, even down to his blinking eyes. Playability is good too, if a little difficult at times.\r\n\r\nTerminator 2 is a strange game. There are seven levels in all, three beat 'em ups, two car chases and two piece-it-together puzzles. The three fighting levels involve you controlling the T800 while engaged in hand to hand combat to save the world with the T1000. This is easier said than done and you have to master big Arnie's kicking, thumping and head-butting moves to defeat the enemy. Unfortunately these levels aren't very exciting as you don't get to run about the place with guns or the like but they do require skill.\r\n\r\nThe car chase levels are by far the best fun with plenty of speed and mayhem to keep you happy, while the puzzle levels are the quite intriguing - you have to piece together Arnie's robot face and arm. Not an easy task even for the Skynet defence computer!\r\n\r\nOverall this compilation has to score highly. It contains three of the most important and largest selling Speccy games of the last year complete with all the original instructions and. Importantly, all on separate cassettes, so there's no faffing about trying to find the right tape position etc. If you want to buy someone a present and know that they don't already have one or two of these games then the Dream Team will bring a smile to their faces and no mistake.","ReviewerComments":["My choice for the Christmas Stocking too! WWF and Simpsons both received over ninety percent when first reviewed in SU while T2 gained a creditable eighty four, although I think it was over marked at that. However none of these titles are available as budgets yet so this compilation represents tremendous value.\r\nAlan Dykes"],"OverallSummary":"Darn fine compilation. T2 looks very impressive but has somewhat scrappy gameplay while Bart Vs The Space Mutants is a fun game, better, in my opinion, on the Spectrum than on some other formats. Meanwhile WWF has consistently been at the top of the charts since its launch last Christmas - which speaks for itself. This is one compilation I wouldn't mind receiving this Christmas.","Page":"20, 21","Denied":false,"Award":"Sinclair User Gold","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Garth Sumpter","Score":"91","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Alan Dykes","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"A Million Dollar message."},{"Text":"Hey Homer, get me down!"},{"Text":"Hey, it's grandpa Simpson."},{"Text":"Hulkster pile drives Mr. Perfect."},{"Text":"Hulkster throws Mr. Perfect."},{"Text":"Kick that molten metal!"},{"Text":"Perfect has his revenge."},{"Text":"Rescue John Connor on your Harley Davidson."},{"Text":"Scare your mum with the intro screen."},{"Text":"The T1000 re-moulds itself."},{"Text":"Watch the octopus dude!"},{"Text":"Wow, check THAT out man!"}],"BlurbText":[{"Text":"SIZE ISN'T ALL THAT COUNTS! (or is it?)\r\n\r\nThe three characters on which these games are based are world famous, but how do they size up to each other?\r\n\r\nHEIGHT\r\nThe Terminator (T800): 6'2\"\r\nHulk Hogan: 6'5\"\r\nBart Simpson: 1-5 inches (depends on Matt Groening)\r\n\r\nWEIGHT\r\nThe Terminator (T800): 250lbs (310lbs with flesh)\r\nHulk Hogan: 303lbs\r\nBart Simpson: Less than an ounce!"}],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"91%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]