[{"TitleName":"Grandstand","Publisher":"Domark Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1991","ZxDbId":"0011759","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 93, Oct 1991","Price":"£2.2","ReleaseDate":"1991-09-15","Editor":"Richard Eddy","TotalPages":68,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"THIS IS CRASH, THEY ARE:\r\n\r\nEditor: Richard Eddy\r\nAssistant Editor: Luck Hickman\r\nSoftware Co-ordinator: Nick Roberts\r\nStaff Writers: Mark Caswell, Lloyd Mangram\r\nPublisher: Oliver Frey\r\nArt Editor: Mark Kendrick\r\nAssistant Designer: Paul 'Charlie-Farlie' Chubb\r\nPhotography: Michael Parkinson\r\nGroup Advertisement Manager (Computer Leisure): Cathy Cosic\r\nSales Executive: George Keenan\r\nAdvertisement Production: Jackie Morris (Supervisor), Joanne Lewis\r\nReprographics: Matthew Uffindell (Supervisor), Robert Millichamp, Robb Hamilton, Tim Morris\r\nManaging Director: Jonathan Rignall\r\nCirculation Director: Nigel Ireland\r\nMail Order: Carol Kinsey\r\nSubscriptions: Caroline Edwards (Yearly subscription rates: UK mainland £26, Eire and Europe £32. 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The views expressed in CRASH are not necessarily those of the publishers.\r\n\r\nNewsfield Ltd, CRASH [redacted]\r\nISSN 0954-8661\r\n©CRASH Ltd 1991. This month's cover: G-Loc. Cover design by Oliver Frey. Powertape inlay design by Richard Eddy."},"MainText":"Ok, sport lovers, this one's for you. A whole string of sporty stuff for you to master without having to waste loadsa energy getting all yukky and sweaty running round muddy fields. Nick Roberts slips into his sexy shorts (?!) to check out the action...\r\n\r\nDomark\r\n£14.99\r\n\r\nThis was billed as the big Domark compilation for the summer. It's a bit late, but never mind. Stick sand between your toes, a spotlight on your face and get someone to bring you long cool drinks with umbrellas in them and pretend it's summer while you play!\r\n\r\nThe pack includes four sporty games covering all the favourites. There's Gazza's Super Soccer, complete with hanky for when the tears begin to flow , World Class Leaderboard for the golfing enthusiasts, Pro Tennis Tour with lots of strawberries and cream and Continental Circus for the motoring fans.\r\n\r\nRAINY RACE\r\n\r\nMy favourite is definitely Continental Circus, This is still one of the best car racing games I've seen on the Speccy. You race through some of the toughest tracks around, with skilful gear changes and acceleration needed to survive. You have to watch the opposition and keep an eye on the weather, as it actually rains in this! Check it out for one of the best tyre scorchers on your computer.\r\n\r\nIf oil and burning rubber isn't your cup of tea (it wouldn't taste very nice would it?), perhaps you'd prefer the courts of Wimbledon with Pro Tennis Tour. You're going to need all your skills to beat top seeded players and get though to the big final. Unlike many tennis gamest the graphics in this are large and detailed.\r\n\r\nWorld Class Leaderboard is for the checked trouser brigade and is on hell of a golfing simulation. You can play some of the courses that have challenged golf's greatest players, complete with the correct distances, traps and hazards. The only thing missing is the drink at the golf club bar afterwards!\r\n\r\nGAZZAMANIA!\r\n\r\nLast, but by no means least, here comes Gazza! He gets everywhere, doesn't he? His Super Soccer game allows the player to customise the leagues and details. You can either play against the computer or a friend.\r\n\r\nA mixed bag of sport games, with only one of them particularly outstanding, but for avid sports fans Grandstand provides value for money, if you haven't got the games already.\r\n\r\nNICK 60%","ReviewerComments":["Here's a sports pack from Domark which, erm, doesn't actually feature any originally Domark-related product! Not that it matters, because get two of the sporting greats of the Speccy: Continental Circus and World Class Leaderboard. The first is a smashing racer taken from the coin-op with all the best features (including the playability) retained: just really fun to play! Any game from the Leaderboard series is great, and World Class tops the lot (but it does seem to feature on a lot of compilation packs). The other two are OK, though Gazaa does let the side down a bit. Relatively bargain-like.\r\nRichard Eddy\r\n61%"],"OverallSummary":"Not much quality-wise but could prove entertaining for sport fans.","Page":"63","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Nick Roberts","Score":"60","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Richard Eddy","Score":"61","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Anyone for tennis? It's the game that has us all eating strawberries and cream and our heads going side to side in this fun sport sim!"},{"Text":"Continental Circus is nothing about clowns but looking around the CRASH office at Nick playing it, one begins to wonder."},{"Text":"He's full of publicity and all that but Gazza knows how to take our cash doesn't he?"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"61%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[{"Header":"Gazza's Super Soccer","Score":"40%","Text":"Gazza's Super Soccer"},{"Header":"Pro Tennis Tour","Score":"50%","Text":"Pro Tennis Tour"},{"Header":"World Class Leaderboard","Score":"78%","Text":"World Class Leader Board"},{"Header":"Continental Circus","Score":"80%","Text":"Continental Circus"}]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 70, Oct 1991","Price":"£2.2","ReleaseDate":"1991-09-05","Editor":"Andy Ide","TotalPages":69,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Andy Ide\r\nNew Art Editor: Andy Ounsted\r\nGames Editor: James Leach\r\nStaff Writer: Linda Barker\r\nArt Assistant: Maryanne Booth\r\nAdvertising Manager: Cheryl Beasley\r\nProduction Coordinator: Melissa Parkinson\r\nPublisher: Jane Richardson\r\nPromotions Manager: Michele Harris\r\nGroup Publisher: Greg Ingham\r\nCirculation Director: Sue Hartley\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair, Future Publishing [redacted]\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: Computer Posting [redacted]\r\nDistribution: MMC [redacted]\r\n\r\nCover Illustration: Matt Groening\r\nISSN 0269 6983\r\nABC Jan-June 1991 65,444\r\n\r\nYS comes to you from the same incredibly talented people who knock out Commodore Format, ST Format, Amiga Format, NCE, Amstrad Action, 8000 Plus, PC Answers, PC Plus, Sega Power, Amiga Power, Amiga Shopper, Classic CD, Needlecraft, Mountain Biking UK and (introducing this month's newies) PC Format and Public Domain."},"MainText":"GRANDSTAND\r\nDomark\r\n£14.99\r\nReviewer: Jon Pillar\r\n\r\nDon't panic - Domark haven't written a Desmond Lynam Simulator (well, not yet anyway). Grandstand is actually a compilation of four sporty games in which you can take on the professionals. Lucrative sponsorship deals ahoy!\r\n\r\nGAZZA SUPER SOCCER\r\n\r\nIt's that man again! A straightforward (ie non-management) soccer game that has you kicking around with the usual mix of Speccy and Spec-chum teams, in league and cup competitions. The horizontal pitch doesn't scroll - when you reach the end of the screen it flips perspective to a 3D view of the goalmouth. This is a gimmick we could have done without - it plays hell with the flow of the action and causes the players to obscure the ball. Overall, a bit of a mess, which is a pity, but there you are.\r\n\r\nCONTINENTAL CIRCUS\r\n\r\nPanic pedestrians by swerving all over the main roads of famous cities int this unexceptional arcade driver. With smooth but ugly graphics thimbleful of new features and too-tricky gameplay, it's a race game with no difference.\r\n\r\nWORLD CLASS LEADERBOARD\r\n\r\nLeaderboard was the golf sim that changed the world (or at least the bits of it that wanted to play gold on a computer). WCL is of course the, um, world-class version of the original. Challenge up to four pals (of go it alone) over four courses of 18 holes, all presented in cheerful (though slowly-drawn) 3D. While your hands aren't likely to leap off your wrists with excitement, it's very playable, quite a bit addictive and certainly more fun than the real thing. (There's no Jimmy Tarbuck for a start.)\r\n\r\nPRO TENNIS TOUR\r\n\r\nLarge 3D sprites (and some hilariously bad animation) enliven this racquet-smashingly tough game. Similar to Passing Shot in that the emphasis is on fast, whack-the-ball fun. I'd say this one has the edge with its oodles of options - practice games, skill levels etc. You won't get very far against the Speccy, but rope in a pal for a stonkingly entertaining time.\r\n\r\nWell, it's not crap, but with two pretty dire games Grandstand is wobbling perilously close to the 50° mark. Fling your pennies elsewhere. (Preferably in my direction!)","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"61","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Jon Pillar","Score":"53","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Where's that Geordie boy then? In bed with a sore knee, we'll bet!"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"53%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 117, Nov 1991","Price":"£1.85","ReleaseDate":"1991-10-15","Editor":"Garth Sumpter","TotalPages":68,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Garth Sumpter\r\nDesign: Andrea Walker\r\nDesign: Yvette Nicholls\r\nSoftware Editor: Steve Keen\r\nSU Crew: John Cook, Pete Gerrard, Phillip Fisch, Ian Watson, Alan Dykes\r\nAd Manager: Jerry Hall\r\nAd Production: Jo Gleissner\r\nMarketing Man.: Mark Swan\r\nMarketing Women: Sarah Ewing, Sarah Hilliard\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"},"MainText":"Label: Domark\r\nMemory: 48K/128K\r\nPrice: £14.99 Tape, N/A Disk\r\nReviewer: Steve Keen\r\n\r\nGrandstand is billed as being the ultimate sports compilation - a bit like Daley Thompson in fact. So, the games should be amongst the best that money can buy.\r\n\r\nSadly, as we all know Spec chums, the smooth always comes with at least a little rough and I'm sorry to say Grandstand has more than it's fair share of the stubble.\r\n\r\nThe compilation consists of four games; Continental Circus, World Class Leader Board, Gazza's Super Soccer and the very nice looking Pro Tennis Tour. The less said about Gazza'a Super Soccer the better. The tiny slow sprites, completely unsealed pitch and diabolical control make this a complete dog of the first order.\r\n\r\nMoving on quickly to the formula one racing game Continental Circus. Converted from the coin op and set over eight different race tracks around the world, this fast scrolling race game suffers slightly due to the difficulty in controlling your machine. However, the racing is realistic enough and some nice touches, like your engine billowing with smoke and turning into fire after a crash if you keep racing with it unattended and the little men that run onto the track to overhaul the car when in the pits.\r\n\r\nThird on my list working towards the top is Pro Tennis Tour which is by far the best tennis game I've seen on the Spectrum. Consisting of large, well animated sprites and a host of different court and tournaments it was great fun, however, yet again, severely let down by it's difficulty in use as you have to be almost pixel perfect to return a ball. I didn't win a single game let alone set, but I took a few off Garth in two player mode. If you want to see the games potential take a look at the built-in demo.\r\n\r\nLastly, (but not least-ly), World Class Leaderboard proved to be the pick of the crop. A first rate golfing sim that combines colourful (green!) screens with accurate golfing realism. A little annoying that you have to load each hole in at a time, but it only takes a couple of seconds.\r\n\r\nOverall, a varied and entertaining compilation but there's something rather wrong with the price isn't there? Budget games on their own cost 3.99 and so by buying these four you actually save only 93p and are stuck with them all. And for the sake of 93p I think I'd rather just buy the ones I want singularly instead of tying up 15 quid with Domark.","ReviewerComments":["Continental Circus is a great game as is Leaderboard and Pro Tennis but I wouldn't pay out the money for the dire Gazza Super Soccer.\r\nGarth Sumpter"],"OverallSummary":"Hey kids save your squids! Nothing hurts more than buying a compilation that's almost the same cost and buying separately on budget! Stick your dosh away for another day.","Page":"33","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Steve Keen","Score":"62","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Garth Sumpter","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Ah the glories of a long open road."},{"Text":"Don't look now it's the invisible man."},{"Text":"Don't talk to me about driving. I can reverse park a formula one at Le Man."},{"Text":"It's a close call, but which ball do you hit."},{"Text":"Put your left leg in, your right arm."},{"Text":"Why-eye mun! You don't have to be Paul Gascoigne to score from here pal!"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Fun Factor","Score":"80%","Text":""},{"Header":"Value For Money","Score":"56%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"62%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]