[{"TitleName":"Headbangers Heaven","Publisher":"Llamasoft","Author":"Jeff Minter","YearOfRelease":"1983","ZxDbId":"0002263","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 2, Mar 1984","Price":"£0.75","ReleaseDate":"1984-02-23","Editor":"Roger Kean","TotalPages":112,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Roger Kean\r\nDesigner: Oliver Frey\r\nConsultant Editor: Franco Frey\r\nStaff Writers: Lloyd Mangram, Rod Bellamy\r\nAdvertisement Manager: John Edwards\r\nProduction Designer: Michael Arienti\r\n\r\n©1984 Newsfield Ltd.\r\n\r\nCrash Micro is published monthly by Newsfield Ltd. [redacted]\r\n\r\nNo material may be reproduced in whole or in part without written consent from the copyright holders.\r\n\r\nMono printing, typesetting & finishing by Feb Edge Litho Ltd. [redacted]\r\nColour printing by Allan-Denver Web Offset Ltd. [redacted].\r\nColour origination by Scan Studios, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. [redacted]\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: 12 issues £9.00 UK Mainland (post included)\r\nEurope: 12 issues £15 (post included).\r\nSingle copy: 75p\r\n\r\nIf you would like to contribute to CRASH please send articles or ideas for projects to the above address. Articles should be typed. We cannot undertake to return them unless accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope\r\n\r\nCover Illustration:Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"Producer: Llamasoft, 48K\r\n£4.95\r\n\r\nLlamasoft is one of those companies that got famous fast, though looking at this game one wonders why. The sky is raining hammers (makes a from ravening aliens I suppose) and Chico must carry bags of money from one side of the screen to the other under the partial shelter of four blocks which are being eroded by the falling hammers. In between the shelters Chico can nut the hammers for points, but after ten he gets a headache and must then nut a red aspirin hammer. Hammers hitting his body instead of his head lose a life. Getting a money bag across safely restores one shelter. Badly put together and rather pointless.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"46","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 3, Apr 1984","Price":"£0.75","ReleaseDate":"1984-03-16","Editor":"Roger Kean","TotalPages":128,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Roger Kean\r\nConsultant Editor: Franco Frey\r\nProduction Designer: David Western\r\nArt Editor: Oliver Frey\r\nClient Liaison: John Edwards\r\nStaff Writer: Lloyd Mangram\r\nContributing Writers: Matthew Uffindel, Chris Passey\r\nSubscription Manager: Denise Roberts\r\n\r\n©1984 Newsfield Ltd.\r\nCrash Micro is published monthly by Newsfield Ltd. [redacted]\r\n\r\nTelephone numbers\r\nEditorial [redacted]\r\nSubscriptions [redacted]\r\nAdvertising [redacted]\r\nHot Line [redacted]\r\nNo material may be reproduced in whole or in part without written consent from the copyright holders.\r\n\r\nColour origination by Scan Studio, [redacted]\r\nPrinted in England by Plymouth Web Offset Ltd, [redacted].\r\nDistribution by Comag, [redacted]\r\nAdditional setting and process work by The Tortoise Shell Press, [redacted].\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: 12 issues £9.00 UK Mainland (post free)\r\nEurope: 12 issues £15 (post free).\r\n\r\nWe cannot undertake to return any written or photographic material sent to CRASH MICRO unless accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope.\r\n\r\nCover by Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"Producer: Llamasoft, 48K\r\n£4.95\r\n\r\nLlamasoft is one of those companies that got famous fast, though looking at this game one wonders why. The sky is raining hammers (makes a from ravening aliens I suppose) and Chico must carry bags of money from one side of the screen to the other under the partial shelter of four blocks which are being eroded by the falling hammers. In between the shelters Chico can nut the hammers for points, but after ten he gets a headache and must then nut a red aspirin hammer. Hammers hitting his body instead of his head lose a life. Getting a money bag across safely restores one shelter. Badly put together and rather pointless.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"62","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 1, Feb 1984","Price":"£0.75","ReleaseDate":"1984-01-19","Editor":"Roger Kean","TotalPages":112,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Roger Kean\r\nDesigner: Oliver Frey\r\nConsultant Editor: Franco Frey\r\nStaff Writers: Lloyd Mangram, Rod Bellamy\r\nAdvertisement Manager: John Edwards\r\nProduction Designer: Michael Arienti\r\n\r\n©1984 Newsfield Ltd.\r\n\r\nCrash Micro is published monthly by Newsfield Ltd. [redacted]\r\n\r\nNo material may be reproduced in whole or in part without written consent from the copyright holders.\r\n\r\nMono printing, typesetting & finishing by Feb Edge Litho Ltd. [redacted]\r\nColour printing by Allan-Denver Web Offset Ltd. [redacted].\r\nColour origination by Scan Studios, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. [redacted]\r\n\r\nSubscriptions: 12 issues £9.00 UK Mainland (post included)\r\nEurope: 12 issues £15 (post included).\r\nSingle copy: 75p\r\n\r\nIf you would like to contribute to CRASH please send articles or ideas for projects to the above address. Articles should be typed. We cannot undertake to return them unless accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope\r\n\r\nCover Illustration:Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"Producer: Llamasoft, 48K\r\n£4.95\r\n\r\nLlamasoft is one of those companies that got famous fast, though looking at this game one wonders why. The sky is raining hammers (makes a from ravening aliens I suppose) and Chico must carry bags of money from one side of the screen to the other under the partial shelter of four blocks which are being eroded by the falling hammers. In between the shelters Chico can nut the hammers for points, but after ten he gets a headache and must then nut a red aspirin hammer. Hammers hitting his body instead of his head lose a life. Getting a money bag across safely restores one shelter. Badly put together and rather pointless.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"46","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Personal Computer News Issue 12, Jun 1983","Price":"","ReleaseDate":"1983-06-02","Editor":"Cyndy Miles","TotalPages":90,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"CHARACTER SET\r\n\r\nEditorial\r\nEditor: Cyndy Miles\r\nAssistant Editor: Geof Wheelwright\r\nProduction Editor: Keith Parish\r\nSub-Editors: Peter Worlock, John Lettice\r\nNews Editor: David Guest\r\nNews Writers: Ralph Bancroft, Wendie Pearson\r\nSoftware Editor: Shirley Fawcett\r\nSystems Editor: Max Phillips\r\nHardware Editor: Richard King\r\nPeripherals Editor: Ian Scales\r\nListings Editor: Sandra Grandison\r\nEditor's Assistant: Harriet Arnold\r\nArt Director: Jim Dansie\r\nArt Editor: Jimmy Egerton\r\nAssistant Art Editor: Floyd Sayers\r\nArt Assistant: Dolores Fairman\r\nPublishing Manager: Fiona Collier\r\nPublishing Assistant: Jane Green\r\n\r\nAdvertising\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Nic Jones\r\nAssistant Advertisement Manager: Sue Hunter\r\nSales Executives: Robert Stallibrass, Matthew Parrot, Bettina Williams, Ian Whorley, Sarah Barron, Roxanna Johnston, Christian McCarthy\r\nProduction Manager: Eva Wroblewska\r\nAdvertisement Assistant: Jenny Dunne\r\nSubscription Enquiries: Simon Maggs\r\nSubscription Address: [redacted]\r\nEditorial Address: [redacted]\r\nAdvertising Address: [redacted]\r\n\r\nPublished by VNU Business Publications\r\n[redacted]\r\n© VNU 1983. No material maybe reproduced in whole or in part without written consent from the copyright holders.\r\nPhotoset by Quickset, [redacted]\r\nPrinted by Chase Web Offset, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by Seymour Press, [redacted]\r\nRegistered at the PO as a newspaper\r\n\r\nCover photography by Ian McKinnell"},"MainText":"NAME: Headbanger\r\nSYSTEM: 48K Spectrum\r\nPRICE: £4.95 (+50p if by mail order)\r\nPUBLISHER: Llamasoft, [redacted]\r\nFORMAT: Cassette\r\nLANGUAGE: Basic with m/code subroutines\r\nOTHER VERSIONS: None\r\nOUTLETS: Mail order, WH Smith, Menzies and other dealers\r\n\r\nCASH ON THE NAIL\r\n\r\nWith a game called Headbanger you maybe don't expect anything too subtle, which is just as well as you certainly don't get it. The storyline is different from Space Invaders, but the idea is the same, and the main difference is that here you're actually encouraged to get under the missiles raining down on you and let them smack you on the head.\r\n\r\nPresumably it's aimed at masochists and those with a mental age of six or under.\r\n\r\nOBJECTIVES\r\n\r\nThe man with the iron head is Chico - no relation to Donkey Kong's Mario, of course - and you must run him along the bottom of the screen to transport bags of money from right to left.\r\n\r\nThere are four blocks providing shelter from the hammers coming down from heaven, and each bag of cash successfully moved restores one of the blocks. Chico is moved by the 'n' and 'm' keys.\r\n\r\nFIRST IMPRESSIONS\r\n\r\nThe review copy didn't come with the four-colour insert that is apparently now ready, but in any case the game itself includes the long and allegedly humorous instructions, about which the best that can be said is that you needn't sit through them if you don't want.\r\n\r\nIN PLAY\r\n\r\nAs Chico runs back and forth he can earn points by nutting the hammers, though he has to be directly under them as a body blow will lose him one of his three lives. He starts to get a headache after ten blows, as who wouldn't, and he must then attempt to nut one of the occasional red hammers, which carry aspirin.\r\n\r\nHe can in fact hit a red hammer at any time, though the longer he leaves it the more points he scores.\r\n\r\nThe hammers come down ever faster, of course, and with the red ones increasingly difficult to pick out you must eventually succumb and ascend to headbangers' heaven for a score.\r\n\r\nHowever, long runs are rare because the character is too big and clumsy to manoeuvre through the torrent of tools no matter how nimble-fingered you might be.\r\n\r\nVERDICT\r\n\r\nWith such a wealth of material available for the Spectrum, it's hard to see why anyone would go out and buy this. You are offered a high-score facility, and your score is graded from Barry Manilow, to Headbangers. Try as I might, and I didn't feel that much incentive, I couldn't get beyond a score of 9,600, which made me a Donny Osmond Class I.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"51","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Mike Gerrard","Score":"2","ScoreSuffix":"/5"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Lasting Appeal","Score":"2/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"2/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Use Of Machine","Score":"2/5","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall Value","Score":"2/5","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]