[{"TitleName":"Heartbroken","Publisher":"Atlantis Software Ltd","Author":"Adrian R. Shaw, David A. Shaw, Graham D. Shaw","YearOfRelease":"1989","ZxDbId":"0002266","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 64, May 1989","Price":"£1.25","ReleaseDate":"1989-04-27","Editor":"Stuart Wynne","TotalPages":92,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"EDITORIAL\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nEditor: Stuart Wynne\r\nAssistant Editor: Phil King\r\nStaff Writers: Mark Caswell, Lloyd Mangram, Nick Roberts\r\nContributors: Ian Cull, Mike 'Skippy' Dunn, Paul Evans, Robin Hogg, Ian Lacey\r\nEditorial Assistants: Caroline Blake, Vivienne Vickress\r\nEditorial Consultant: Dominic Handy\r\n\r\nPRODUCTION\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nSenior Designer/Illustrator: Wayne Allen\r\nDesigners: Melvin Fisher, Yvonne Priest\r\nPhotography: Cameron Pound, Michael Parkinson\r\nProduction Manager: Jonathan Rignall\r\nReprographics Supervisor: Matthew Uffindell\r\nProduction: Robert Hamilton, Robert Millichamp, Tim Morris, Jenny Reddard\r\n\r\nEditorial Director: Oliver Frey\r\nPublisher: Geoff Grimes\r\nAdvertisement Director: Roger Bennett\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Neil Dyson\r\nSales Executives: Sarah Chapman, Lee Watkins\r\nAssistant: Jackie Morris [redacted]\r\nGroup Productions Executive: Richard Eddy\r\n\r\nMail Order: Carol Kinsey\r\nSubscriptions: Denise Roberts\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nTypeset by The Tortoise Shell Press, Ludlow. Colour origination by Scan Studios [redacted]. Printed in England by Carlisle Web Offset, [redacted] - member of the BPCC Group. Distribution by COMAG, [redacted]\r\n\r\nCOMPETITION RULES\r\nThe Editor's decision is final in all matters relating to adjudication and while we offer prizes in good faith, believing them to be available, if something untoward happens (like a game that has been offered as a prize being scrapped) we reserve the right to substitute prizes of comparable value. We'll do our very best to despatch prizes as soon as possible after the published closing date. Winners names will appear in a later issue of CRASH. No correspondence can be entered into regarding the competitions (unless we've written to you stating that you have won a prize and it doesn't turn up, in which case drop the Sticky Solutions Department a line at the [redacted] address). No person who has any relationship, no matter how remote, to anyone who works for either Newsfield or any of the companies offering prizes, may enter one of our competitions. No material may be reproduced whole or in part without the written consent of the copyright holders. We cannot undertake to return anything sent into CRASH including written and photographic material, software and hardware - unless it is accompanied by a suitably stamped addressed envelope. Unsolicited written or photo material is welcome, and if used in the magazine is paid for at our current rates.\r\n\r\n©CRASH Ltd, 1989\r\n\r\nISSN 0954-8661\r\n\r\nCover Design & Illustration by Oliver Frey"},"MainText":"£1.99\r\nAtlantis\r\n\r\nWill you be heartbroken if you shell out for this game? Well it depends on whether you like arcade/adventure games or not. Graphically Heartbroken is a bit of a mixed bag, the colourful backgrounds are quite nice, but the character sprites hobble around like miniature Quasimodos and ruin the whole scene. If you like this type of game take a look at Heartbroken, it's cute and colourful but far from the best of its type.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"29","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"55%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 44, Aug 1989","Price":"£1.6","ReleaseDate":"1989-07-17","Editor":"Matt Bielby","TotalPages":92,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Matt Bielby\r\nArt Editor: Catherine Higgs\r\nDeputy Editor: Jackie Ryan\r\nProduction Editor: Andy Ide\r\nSenior Staff Writer: Duncan MacDonald\r\nDesigner: Catherine Peters\r\nEditorial Assistant: David Wilson\r\nTechnical Consultant: David McCandless\r\nContributors: Marcus Berkmann, Jonathan Davies, Mike Gerrard, Sean Kelly, Peter Shaw,Phil South\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Alison Morton\r\nAdvertisement Executive: Stephen Bloy\r\nAdvertisement Director: Alistair Ramsay\r\nProduction Manager: Judith Middleton\r\nAdvertisement Production: Claire Baker\r\nMarketing Manager: Bryan Denyer\r\nCirculation Manager: June Smith\r\nAssociate Publisher: Teresa Maughan\r\nFinance Director: Colin Crawford\r\nManaging Director: Stephen England\r\nChairman: Felix Dennis\r\n\r\nPublished by Dennis Publishing Ltd, [redacted] Company registered in England.\r\nTypesetters: Carlinpoint [redacted]\r\nReproduction: Graphic Ideas, London\r\nPrinted By: Riverside Press [redacted]\r\nDistribution: Seymour Press [redacted]\r\n\r\nAll material in Your Sinclair ©1989 Felden Productions, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of the publishers. Your Sinclair is a monthly publication."},"MainText":"HEARTBROKEN\r\nAtlantis\r\n£1.99\r\nReviewer: Marcus Berkmann\r\n\r\nAre you ready to be heartbroken? Well, here's a jolly little number then, another hopelessly unoriginal arcade adventure that's nevertheless eminently playable. Written and designed by about 20 people called Shaw, it's a troll-packed elf-heavy questy thing, full of spells, wizards, damsels in distress and suits of armour that ride up with wear. Warlocks, I hear you cry, but in fact it's not bad at all To recsue the kidnapped princess you have to find Merlin's spellbook (easy), and then, in order to cast the spells, his cauldron (not so easy), while killing any ogres that come your way and climbing an awful lot of ladders. And it's all relatively straightforward. I'd guess that this has been designed for the younger gamester - anyone reared on Bionic Commandos or similar will not find it much of a challenge. But the graphics are good, and the puzzle element (it's a real 'What Happens Next?' game) still keeps the brain ticking over. As the inlay notes say, \"Will you overcome the warlock's evil creations? Will you survive long enough to create the golden key that is needed to free Princess Mertha? Probably not.\" Seems fair enough to me.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"50","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Marcus Berkmann","Score":"75","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"75%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 86, May 1989","Price":"£1.6","ReleaseDate":"1989-04-18","Editor":"Jim Douglas","TotalPages":100,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Meet the SUings\r\n\r\nGRAHAM \"nasty weazley type\" SUing (Editor)\r\nThe story so far: After being dropped by Alison SUing for a younger lurver Graham decides to wreak his revenge by being generally dastardly to his whole family. He sets traps for them but unfortunately they ALL backfire and he is drowned in the indoor pool, sizzled in the back yard barbeque, shot on his way to the office and strangled by chicken wire in the hay loft. 'Amazingly' he survives the lot and boy is he angry? Who will he direct his beastly horribleness at next?????\r\n\r\nALISON \"pouting foxtress\" SUing (Production Editor)\r\nThe story so far: Alison has at least escaped the evil clutches of Graham. The divorce is settled and she has half his fortune and so with wild abandon she gets stuck into every male in the house, cousins, uncles, great grandfathers, no man is safe from this wanton hussy. But Alison has a sordid secret past of illegitimate children, bike sheds and baths full of spaghetti bolognaise. Will she be found out?????\r\n\r\nJIM \"hopeless boozer\" SUing (Deputy Editor)\r\nThe story so far: Jim wakes up in a puddle of gin on the carpet of a motel room somewhere in Detroit. He cannot remember how he got there and decides that 13 bottles of vodka should bring back his memory. He wanders back to the SUing ranch to find the place deserted. Has his 'loving' family moved away without telling him, or are they just down the local liquor store stocking up ready for Jim's return?????\r\n\r\nTIM \"flashback\" SUing (Art Editor)\r\nThe story so far: Tim is pictured here in black and white as he appeared when the series started many moons ago. He is Graham's step brother from his mother's fourth marriage and disappeared in a dream-sequence in the indoor hot tub last Christmas. Has he really gone for good or is he maybe - hiding in the septic tank waiting to make his comeback?????\r\n\r\nAdventure: The Sorceress\r\nZapchat: Jon Riglar\r\nTechnical: Andrew Hewson, Rupert Goodwins\r\nContributors: Tony 'chubbs' Dillon, Chris 'alien gonk' Jenkins\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Katherine Lee\r\nAdvertisement Executive: Martha Moloughney\r\nAd Production: Emma Ward\r\nPublisher's Assistant: Debbie Pearson\r\nPublisher: Terry 'Mr Laid-back' Pratt\r\nMarketing: Clive 'shy and reserved' Pembridge\r\n\r\nPhone: [redacted]\r\nFax: [redacted]\r\nEditorial and Advertisement Offices: [redacted]\r\n\r\nThis Month's Cover: Brian Talbot\r\n\r\nPrinted by Nene River Press, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by EMAP Publications Ltd.\r\n\r\n©Copyright 1989 Sinclair User ISSN No 0262-5458\r\n\r\nSubscription Enquiries: [redacted]\r\n24 Hour Order Line: [redacted]\r\nBack Issues: Back Issues Department (SU), [redacted]"},"MainText":"Label: Atlantis\r\nAuthor: Shaw, Shaw and Shaw\r\nPrice: £1.99\r\nMemory: 48K/128K\r\nJoystick: various\r\nReviewer: Chris Jenkins\r\n\r\nI know people are always saying that there should be more software aimed at girlies, but giving a game a title which sounds like a Mills and Boon novel isn't guaranteed to make it attractive to anyone. The fact that the cover shows a man with a slingshot climbing out of a grave and being attacked by a werewolf in a graveyard with a corpse hanging about from a gibbet (honest) soon lets you into the secret that this is actually a scary supernatural arcade adventure, and not some role-playing fantasy about young Annabel's doomed quest for big snogs with hunky Brett in 19th century Cornwall.\r\n\r\nThe plot, such as it is, is that an evil warlock has kidnapped the King's daughter, and created an army of ghosties, ghoulies and trolls to guard her.\r\n\r\nYou are armed with the wizard Merlin's magic thunderbolt, which sees off most of the baddies with no problems. But to succeed in your quest you have to find his spell book, a challenge which took me all of thirty seconds to achieve. To use the spells, though, you also have to find a magic cauldron and accumulate plenty of points, whereupon you can use joystick down to select a spell (shown at the bottom of the screen), and fire to activate it.\r\n\r\nIt must be said that Heartbroken doesn't seem remarkably challenging; you can move quite freely around dozens of screens, polishing off baddies and collecting items, before you run into any sort of real challenge. However, some of the backgrounds are very nicely drawn, the animation's fine (apart from the fact that the hero's legs don't seem to move as he runs along) and the sound effects are reasonable.\r\n\r\nFor £1.99, the arcade addict could probably squeeze a good deal of entertainment out of this one: but if it's frantic action you want, look elsewhere.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"Reasonable arcade adventure with a supernatural theme.","Page":"36","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Chris Jenkins","Score":"60","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"65%","Text":""},{"Header":"Sound","Score":"56%","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"59%","Text":""},{"Header":"Lastability","Score":"59%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"60%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"C&VG (Computer & Video Games) Issue 93, Jul 1989","Price":"£1.2","ReleaseDate":"1989-06-16","Editor":"Graham Taylor","TotalPages":116,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Graham Taylor\r\nDeputy Editor: Julian Rignall\r\nArt Editor: Andrea Walker\r\nStaff Writer: Paul Glancey\r\nAdvertising Manager: Nigel Taylor\r\nSales Executive: Joanna Cooke\r\nProduction Assistant: Glenys Powell\r\nPublisher: Terry Pratt\r\nThis Month's Cover: Jerry Paris\r\n\r\nSubscription Enquiries to: EMAP Frontline, [redacted]\r\n\r\nEditorial and Advertisement Offices: [redacted]"},"MainText":"Atlantis\r\nSpectrum £1.99\r\n\r\nThe reason this game is called Heartbroken, when the cover depicts a werewolf salivating over a gravedigger and his soap-on-a-rope is that the grave digger's fiance, who happens to be a princess called Mertha, has been kidnapped by the local warlock. Naturally our love-lorn hero is a bit upset, perhaps even \"heartbroken\", and so he's off to the rescue.\r\n\r\nBasically, this is a flip-screen clone of Capcom's shoot 'em' up Ghosts 'n' Goblins, with similar monsters and spooky scenery, but the layout of the landscape is mazey rather than simply platformy. The blasting is similar, but there's no leaping around platforms so you have to find ladders to get over obstacles. Get a spell book and cauldron and you can shoot all sorts of fireballs. All fairly standard stuff, really. Not many frills but certainly good for a few plays. Check it out.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"A playable, but not overly adorned platform shoot 'em up.","Page":"72","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"71%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]