[{"TitleName":"The Arcadian","Publisher":"J.K. Greye Enterprises Ltd","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1982","ZxDbId":"0000238","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Crash Issue 4, May 1984","Price":"£0.75","ReleaseDate":"1984-04-19","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: J.K. Greye\r\nMemory Required: 16K\r\nRetail Price: £6.95\r\nLanguage: BASIC and machine code\r\n\r\n4Star is a games compendium featuring Invasion, Kamikaze, Minefield and UFO. The four games are each loaded separately one after the other as you choose to play them.\r\n\r\nInvasion is of course what it says, complete with eroding shelters. Kamikaze is a mini- 'Scramble' with open landscape and corridors. Minefield has you driving a car around a tree-filled field laying mines. You must cover as much of the field as possible without hitting a tree. UFO is a shieldless space craft which you must fly down the screen through a host of asteroids. Obviously, as you get lower down the screen, it gets harder to anticipate where the asteroids will appear. All four games were copyrighted in 1982.\r\n\r\nCOMMENTS\r\n\r\nControl keys: variable depending on game\r\nJoystick: cursor key sticks in some games\r\nKeyboard play: not very responsive\r\nUse of colour: poor\r\nGraphics: very small, fair\r\nSound: above average","ReviewerComments":["Invasion is a very fast version of you know what. Although it has all the features the graphics are not smooth and the invaders shower bombs at an unrealistic rate. The program also crashes if you let the invaders reach the ground, and you are then unable to play a second game. Kamikaze is a poor 'Scramble' game with small character block graphics. Minefield is frustration at its best - or worst! UFO is a scrolling ZX81-style game. I think this package should have been called \"The Four Most Frustrating Games!\"\r\r\nUnknown","Four rather old games here, nothing very startling. The Invader is possibly the fastest I have ever seen. All the games have small, very simple graphics and they are all very dated. Even though there are four for the price of one, they still represent very poor value. I would just prefer a good game.\r\r\nUnknown","The Invaders game is not very addictive and it is hard to control. Kamikaze has better graphics as far as colours go, but everything is very small, so it's hard to be even vaguely accurate. Minefield is a bit pathetic and personally I think UFO is stupid. All in all, a waste of time and money.\r\nUnknown"],"OverallSummary":"General Rating: Generally a waste of money.","Page":"116","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Unknown","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""},{"Name":"Unknown","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""},{"Name":"Unknown","Score":"","ScoreSuffix":""}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"Superfast Invaders in 4 Star."}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Use of Computer","Score":"32%","Text":""},{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"38%","Text":""},{"Header":"Playability","Score":"15%","Text":""},{"Header":"Getting Started","Score":"47%","Text":""},{"Header":"Addictive Qualities","Score":"5%","Text":""},{"Header":"Value For Money","Score":"15%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"25%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]},{"Issue":{"Name":"C&VG (Computer & Video Games) Issue 18, Apr 1983","Price":"£0.75","ReleaseDate":"1983-03-16","Editor":"Terry Pratt","TotalPages":116,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Terry Pratt\r\nStaff Writer: Eugene Lacey\r\nEditorial/Publishing Assistant: Susan Cameron\r\nArt Editor: Linda Freeman\r\nProduction Editor: Tim Metcalfe\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Rita Lewis\r\nAdvertising Executive: John Phillips, Louise Matthews\r\nAdvertisement Assistant: Louise Flockhart\r\nPublisher: Tom Moloney\r\n\r\nEditorial and Advertisement Offices: [redacted]\r\n\r\nCOMPUTER AND VIDEO GAMES POSTAL SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. By using the special Postal Subscription Service, copies of COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAMES can be mailed direct from our offices each month to any address throughout the world. All subscription applications should be sent for processing to COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAMES (Subscription Department), [redacted]. All orders should include the appropriate remittance made payable to COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAMES. Annual subscription rates (12 issues): UK and Eire: £10.00, Overseas surface mail: £12.00, Airmail Europe: £20.00. Additional service information including individual overseas airmail rates available upon request. Circulation Department: EMAP National Publications. Published and distributed by EMAP National Publications Ltd. Printed by Eden Fisher (Southend) Ltd.\r\n\r\n©Computer & Video Games Limited ISSN 0261 3697.\r\n\r\nCover: J.M.W. Turner (The Tate Gallery)\r\nNext Issue: April 16th"},"MainText":"SCRAMBLING WITH THE INVADERS...\r\n\r\nTwo hit arcade games on one tape is the latest offering from the well established Sinclair software house - J. K. Grey.\r\n\r\nScramble and Invaders are the titles from the arcades with another two giveaway games thrown in for good measure.\r\n\r\nArcadia is the name of the games pack and it runs on the Sinclair Spectrum in 16 and 48K. It is available at £4.95 from the Bath-based firm.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"17","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":null,"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]