[{"TitleName":"Edition One","Publisher":"Virgin Games Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1990","ZxDbId":"0011671","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 59, Nov 1990","Price":"£1.85","ReleaseDate":"1990-10-11","Editor":"Matt Bielby","TotalPages":100,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Matt Bielby\r\nArt Editor: Sal Meddings\r\nProduction Editor: Andy Ide\r\nDesign Assistant: Andy Ounsted\r\nContributors: Robin Alway, Marcus Berkmann, Jonathan Davies, Cathy Fryett, Mike Gerrard, Kati Hamza, Duncan MacDonald, Jon North, Rich Pelley, David Wilson\r\nAdvertising Manager: Mark Salmon\r\nAdvertising Executive: Simon Moss\r\nPublisher: Greg Ingham\r\nAssistant Publisher: Jane Richardson\r\nManaging Director: Chris Anderson\r\nProduction Director: Ian Seager\r\nProduction Coordinator: Melissa Parkinson\r\nSubscriptions: Computer Posting [redacted]\r\nMail Order: The Old Barn [redacted]\r\nPrinters: Riverside Press [redacted]\r\nDistributors: SM Distribution [redacted]\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair is published by Future Publishing Ltd [redacted]\r\n\r\n©Future Publishing 1990. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission."},"MainText":"Virgin Games\r\n£12.99 cass\r\nReviewer: Rich Pelley\r\n\r\nEdition One is a big box with a pretty picture on the front with a folded-up piece of paper and a couple of boring tapes inside. Crap, eh? (Or is it?)\r\n\r\nGEMINI WING\r\n\r\nJackie gave this a measly 43 last year - a trifle unfair, methinks (perhaps she was having problems seeing over the desk or something). It's another vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-up, with you blowing up spooky alien insects and things. Weird. It's quite good fun, if a trifle hard (suffering heavily from the disappearing bullet syndrome, which is a bummer). But stuck onto a compilation I'd say it deserves slightly more than the pitiful rating it got last time. So it can have, dum dee dum, 55 instead.\r\n'90 Rating - 55°\r\n\r\nDOUBLE DRAGON\r\n\r\nNext up it's Dub Drag - a beat-'em-up full of huge strapping blokes, scantily-clad women and threatening geezers wielding baseball bats (hardly the sort of people you'd invite home for tea). Not that they'd come anyway - they'd much prefer to beat the crap out of you (and a chum) instead. It's a horizontally-scrolling affair, with plenty of opportunities to interact with the scenery (climb ladders etc) and pick up weapons. It's a lot of fun for a while as well, but the graphics are a bit shoddy and it gets rather tedious rather too quickly.\r\n'90 Rating: 70°\r\n\r\nXENON\r\n\r\nXenon, on the other hand, would would come home for tea and even stay the night for a jim-jam party (if you asked nicely). It's a monochrome vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-up, and an utterly brilliant one at that. Graphics 'n' sound are excellent, but the best bit's got to be the variety - all four levels are completely different from each other so you'll never get bored (well, not for ages at least). The height of the compilation (so far anyway).\r\n'90 Rating: 92°\r\n\r\nSILKWORM\r\n\r\nBlimey - not only've we got Xenon bunged in, but Silkworm too, which is brilliant. Utterly. This shoot-'em-up scrolls sideways and features lots of choppers (ahem), but the best bit is when player two plugs himself in and takes control of this little jeep underneath - jumping over mines and things. The variety of the baddies is absolutely immense, including these super little ones which join up into bigger ones in mid-air. Graphics are superb, as is the whole game really. Completely addictive. A 'must' (whatever that means).\r\n'90 Rating: 93°\r\n\r\nAnd there you have it. At a mere 324.75p per game (I did it in my head. Honest), we really are talking barg city here. I'd say the pack is worth it just for Xenon and Silkworm alone, although Gemini Wing and Double Dragon aren't too bad to have as well.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"Two utterly good games, and two not quite so good (but not that bad either). Quite a good compy then.","Page":"30,31","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Rich Pelley","Score":"88","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"All this Silkworm jeep-bouncing-around malarky's making me feel, er, a bit car sick. Oh no... Bleeeeuurrgh!!"},{"Text":"Flying through the laundromat of the future in Xenon."}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Life Expectancy","Score":"88%","Text":""},{"Header":"Instant Appeal","Score":"95%","Text":""},{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"85%","Text":""},{"Header":"Addictiveness","Score":"90%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"88%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[{"Header":"Gemini Wing","Score":"55%","Text":"Gemini Wing"},{"Header":"Double Dragon","Score":"70%","Text":"Double Dragon"},{"Header":"Xenon","Score":"92%","Text":"Xenon"},{"Header":"Silkworm","Score":"93%","Text":"Silkworm"}]}]}]