[{"TitleName":"Hit - Pack 2","Publisher":"Zeppelin Games Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1992","ZxDbId":"0011780","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 80, Aug 1992","Price":"£2.5","ReleaseDate":"1992-07-16","Editor":"Linda Barker","TotalPages":68,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"YOUR SINCLAIR\r\nABC 59,059\r\n\r\nEditor: Linda Barker\r\nArt Editor: Andy Ounsted\r\nStaff Writer: Jon Pillar\r\nArt Assistant: Maryanne Booth\r\nEditorial Contributors: Craig Broadbent, Stuart Campbell, Dave Golder, Tim Kemp, Adam Waring\r\nArt Contributors: Phil McCardle, Anthony Colbert\r\nExecutive Bat Consultant: Ollie Alderton\r\nAdvertising Manager: Alison Morton\r\nSenior Sales Executive: Jackie Garford\r\nProduction Co-ordinator: Lisa Read\r\nProduction Technicians: Chris Stocker, Jerome Clough\r\nScanning: Simon Windsor, Simon Chittenden\r\nPublisher: Jane Richardson\r\nPromotions Manager: Michelle Harris\r\nPromotions Assistant: Tamara Ward\r\nGroup Publisher: Greg Ingham\r\nCirculation Director: Sue Hartley\r\nAssistant Publisher: Julie Stuckes\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair. Future Publishing [redacted]\r\n\r\nManaging Director Chris Anderson\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: Future Publishing Ltd. [redacted] (Go on, you know you want to!)\r\n\r\n©Future Publishing 1992. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without the written permission of Slash out of Guns And Roses. He can usually be found in the cuddly toy department of Hamley's.\r\n\r\nISSN 0269 6983\r\n\r\nYour Sinclair smiles happily across the Shed at Commodore Format, Amstrad Action, Amiga Format, PCW Plus, PC Answers, PC Plus, Sega Power, Amiga Power, Amiga Shopper, Classic CD, Needlecraft, Cycling Plus, Photo Plus, Mountain Biking UK, PC Format, Public Domain, ST Format, Total! and Today's Vegetarian\r\n\r\nThought for the issue... What's a smile but a frown turned upside down?"},"MainText":"HIT PACK 2\r\nZeppelin\r\n£3.99\r\n[redacted]\r\nReviewer: Jon Pillar\r\n\r\nAnother compilation with more games than you could count on three fingers, cos there are four of em. Nobody here can quite figure out the connection between them, but that's nothing new. Let's get on with the review, shall we?\r\n\r\nLAS VEGAS CASINO\r\n\r\nCasino games rank second only to fruit machine sims in terms of blithering uselessness. What is the point of a gambling game without money? Tsk. Anyway, Las Vegas Casino has four games a-sitting in its lobby - Blackjack, Craps, Baccarat and Roulette. All four are very nicely presented with smooth graphics and all four are terrible. Blackjack is good for about two minutes, craps seems to play quite happily on its own, roulette soaks up another couple of minutes and baccarat is totally incomprehensible. Bleugh.\r\n40°\r\n\r\nPRO GO-KART SIM\r\n\r\nSort of WEC Le Mans in a car put together with string. Go-Kart is a rather natty little racer with one infuriating fault. But first, the good bits. It's blazingly fast, with sharp graphics and four track layouts. And now, the infuriating fault bit. The screen is small and the graphics large, thus preventing you from seeing clearly what's going on. The limited track space also makes it pretty difficult to dodge the billions of obstacles. It's fairly good fun. and the high frustration factor bolsters your determination to beat the dratted thing. Not bad.\r\n60°\r\n\r\nSABOTAGE\r\n\r\nCompletely undistinguished vertical scroller with power-ups, masses of aliens and end-of-level baddies which bobbles along pleasantly until you get killed, whereupon it sends you right back to the start of the level. A real pity, as there seems to be a lot to it. Not only is there an attainable goal - beat eight levels and you've won the game - but also secret rooms, and a serviceable plot! You're a secret agent, y'see, and you have to sabotage an enemy army by filching all their blueprints. Tsk. It's addictive stuff in a lazy afternoon sort of way.\r\n55°\r\n\r\nJOCKY WILSON'S DARTS CHALLENGE\r\n\r\nDarts has always struck me as rather a sad old game, but there you go. On the Speccy it's been well served by 180°, Wacky Dads and indeed Jocky Wilson 1. This 'un can hold its head up high among that respected and some what obese company, featuring as it does head-to-head or Speccy vs human play. There are the usual Round the Clock or Straight Darts options with the even more usual wobbly cursor control method, and the whole thing is very smartly presented. Fun to play, if you've got nothing better to do. such as have a bath or something.\r\n65°\r\n\r\nBasically, the sort of compilation your aunt would buy at that nice Mr Butler's corner shoppe. You can't really find anything about it that's blatantly crummy, but at the same time there's nowt to make you hop from one foot to another. Solidly average.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"59","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Jon Pillar","Score":"60","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Ah, Bob was about to lose his wife. He knew he should have gone for the three card potato trick. Never mind."},{"Text":"Everybody held their breath. Who would the dreaded index finger point at next?"},{"Text":"Fred wanted to be a scientist when he grew up. He practiced every day and was quite good."},{"Text":"The crowd roared with delight as everybody's least favourite mechanic marched onto the busy circuit. He was a gonna."}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"60%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[{"Header":"Las Vegas Casino","Score":"40%","Text":"Las Vegas Casino"},{"Header":"Pro Go-Kart Sim","Score":"60%","Text":"Professional Go-Kart Simulator"},{"Header":"Sabotage","Score":"55%","Text":"Sabotage"},{"Header":"Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge","Score":"65%","Text":"Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge"}]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 125, Jul 1992","Price":"£2.2","ReleaseDate":"1992-06-18","Editor":"Alan Dykes","TotalPages":52,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Alan 'Excellent!' Dykes\r\nDesign: Yvette 'Babe!' Nicholls\r\nSU Crew: Garth 'Bogus' Sumpter, Steve 'Party On' Keen, Ed 'Head' Laurence, Pete 'Source of all knowledege' Gerrard, Graham 'Hate Mail' Mason, Phillip 'Missing in action' Fisch, Jason 'Good game' Baptiste\r\nAd Manager: Tina 'Foxy lady' Zanelli\r\nAd Production: Matthew 'Yin-Yang' Walker\r\nMarketing Man.: Mark '?' Swallow\r\nMarketing Persons: Sarah 'Hello dearie' Ewing, Sarah 'TNT' Hilliard\r\nPublisher: Mike 'Malibu' Frey\r\nManaging Director: Terry 'The professionals' Pratt\r\n\r\n(c)1992 EMAP IMAGES\r\nPhone: [redacted] (is there anyone out there?)\r\nFax: [redacted] (Information at the end of your eyelids)\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nColour by those wonderful Colourtech people\r\nPrinted by Kingfisher\r\nTypeset by Altyp Inc\r\n\r\nAbsolutely no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in an electronic retrieval system or copied, resold etc with the prior permission of the publisher. However, if anyone feels like putting a copy of SU in a deep space probe, sent out to seek other worlds and communicate examples of earth's wonderful things, of which SU is probably the best example (along with a well known brand of lager) to alien races in space, I don't think Mike will mind too much! Y'all have a nice day now."},"MainText":"Label: Zeppelin 4X4\r\nMemory: 48K/128K\r\nPrice: £3.99 Tape\r\nReviewer: Jason Baptiste\r\n\r\nZeppelin's second Hit Pack (No.2) allows you to drive without a licence (yippee!), gamble without losing any dosh (yum, yum), play darts without getting kicked out of the pub (hurrah!) and sabotage everything in sight with a big gun space ship (way out dude!) and all without getting into trouble with your mum!\r\n\r\nStep into that legalised driving seat with Pro-GO Kart Simulator... guaranteed to drive you around the bend. This game is so ozone friendly that its graphics are almost totally green. Although this is an admirable idea it makes them sore on the eyes and doesn't really help gameplay. A total of five competitors (four computer and one human) battle it out in this fast, tough game. With three tracks to choose from and four bikini clad beauties leading you into the action Go Kart Sim will have you furiously wiggling your gear stick for all ninety nine seconds of each race. Face obstacles such as straw bales and lap boards (eh?) and keep your eyes on the road. It's a good job I eat lots of biscuits 'cos you need to be a bit of a jammy dodger to get around this course!\r\n\r\nSabotage is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up. Warm up by destroying dangerous asteroid formations and then partake in some real action as you engage in combat with some very feeble and many more extremely tough enemy spacecraft before finally reaching frightening bubble of doom spitting end of level guardians.\r\n\r\nAfter this long trip your spacecraft will automatically land and you'll emerge as a space infantryman who has to frolic around a maze and collect all the bubbles in the corridors of confusion while trying to avoid the flocks of dangerous birds which fall throughout the maze, out to destroy your spaceman. Bash me on the head with a can of baked beans if I know why space is filled with mazes, bubbles and birds but you need to complete this section to get onto the next level.\r\n\r\nIf you have the stomach for it Jocky Wilson's Darts will amuse you for hours on end with three different dart games games for your delectation. First off there's a tournament game, where you engage in match play against a series of Darts Champions from around the world as well as good old Jocky himself. The next, a head to head involves two players who come face to face in a grudge match and, last of all, there's a 'round the clock' game where each number on the board from one to twenty has to be hit as quickly as possible within a set time limit to achieve a high score. There is also a handy help option to assist newcomers which tells you were to throw your dart next.\r\n\r\nGraphics are reasonable and sometimes look realistic but more colour could have been splashed out on the dart board. The odd floating dart control procedure takes some time to get used to and is best done with a joystick.\r\n\r\nTake a gamble and play Las Vegas Casino, a game were the stakes can be high or low, but who cares, you won't lose anything unless you get hooked and take up the real thing! Las Vegas Casino gives you the option to play 4 brill gambling games.\r\n\r\nIn Blackjack two cards are dealt to both you and your opponent then it's up to you to gamble by 'hitting' for another card or 'standing' with what you have. Craps involves throwing two dice and making one of seven types of bet. In Baccarat you bet on the player or dealer (and sit back and let things happen) then, finally, there's Roulette (Big Al's favourite) where you have to select the odds and spin the wheel, betting on which number it will land on when it stops.\r\n\r\nEach game gives £250 as stake money and the main aim is to gamble this money and raise it to £50,000. Graphics are not so good and the overall game is certainly not user friendly to any newcomer.\r\n\r\nOverall this pack can be a bit of a gamble too. The darts sim is good and the others are all mediocre Nevertheless it has good variety for a £3.99 compilation so if you like the look of it then don't let me hold you back.","ReviewerComments":["I agree with Jason. Unfortunately Sabotage, a potentially good formula blast 'em up, doesn't quite make it and Casino wears off very, very quickly. However, because the pack doesn't have any particular theme it has plenty of variety which does contribute to a moderately high level of lastability.\r\nEd Lawrence"],"OverallSummary":"What can I say except that Pro GO-Kart and Jocky Wilson were the most enjoyable games on the pack. The only negative thing about these games is that the graphics were not up to standard and lacked definition and colour variation.","Page":"20,21","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Jason Baptiste","Score":"75","ScoreSuffix":"%"},{"Name":"Ed Lawrence","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Get that Go Kart going dude!"},{"Text":"Ship to shore... I'm leaving!"},{"Text":"Things are getting a bit bendy!"},{"Text":"Would you trust this man with your money?"}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"75%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]