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Imagine Software (1984) Limited-6 Central Street- Manchester- Mi 5NS.Tel 061 834 3939

ISSUE No 4

AUGUST 1985

FREDERICK

AUGUST

SPECIALS

MUTH

THE FOURTH

PROTOCOL

HOT NEW GAMES

MEET THE

DEN TONS

91ANNIOr

THE FOURTH

PROTOCOL —

The Gold Medal

THING ON A

SPRING

CONFUZION

Incentive's latest release is

intended to con fuze and

generally distress— don't

miss itl

Proﬁle on Denton Designs,

the software developers who

brought you Shadowﬁre and

soon Frankie the Game.

Birth of a new cute HERO, in

this addictive game from

Gremlin Graphics.

Our Gold Medal award goes

to this fabulous new icon-

driven espionage adventure.

Birth of a

Paradroid

AUGUST SPECIALS

Shadowﬁre

The

Zzaptionnaire!

Part Two of our continuing

Hewson programmer

Andrew Braybrook's diary.

Learn the ins and outs

of the Zoff S.

We want to hear what you

think now's your chance!

Fill out the form and send it

in I

BETTER LETTER

FROM AMERICA

WAY OF THE

EXPLODING FIST

Get to grips with your

opponent in this all

grabbing, all-kicking, all-

punching, all-jumping

explosion of a game.

PRIZE COMPETITIONS

Julian Rignall casts his eye

over some hot imports from

the USA which are

threatening our shores soon_

MATCH FISHING

Clumsy Colin in

Action Biker

BEACH HEAD

Alligata have a super

adventure holiday in store

for the winner of this onel

See the details at the end of

the review.

ZZAP-TESTS

Acti on Biker Mastertronic

Beach Head II US Gold

Br i an Bloodaxe The Edge

Capti ve Mastertronic

Confuz i on Incentive

Di g Dug US Gold

Elidon 'Orpheus

Four th Protocol Hutchinson

Her ber t's Dummy Run Mikro-

Gen

International Tennis

Commodore

Jet Set Willy II Software

Projects

Jump Jet Anirog

Lands of Havoc Microdea I

Lost City Step One

Match Fishing Alligata

Mordon's Quest Melbourne

House

Nutcr aka Software Projects

Pac Man US Gold

Rocky Horror Show CRL

Scrolls of Akbar Kahn Step

One

Stop the Express

Commodore

Supergran Tynesoft

Thi ng on a Spring Gremlin

Graphics

View to a Kill Domark

Way of the Exploding Fist

Mel bour ne House

Zor k I Commodore

Zor k II Commodore

Zor k Ill Commodore

Win a 1541 Disk Drive in this

exciting competition from

Mastertronic and KP Skips,

plus a vast supply of Skips!

The battle rages on as the

Allies and the Dictator ﬁght it

out over an armed island.

WAY OF THE

EXPLODING FIST

HYPERSPORTS

SPECIAL!

ZZAP SECTIONS

5 Editorial— changes,

changes.

100 copies of the fabulous

new martial arts game from

Melbourne House to be won,

along with a complete karate

suit.

More armchair exercise from

Imagine, and 50 copies of the

sweaty game converted from

the Konami arcade favourite

are yours— if you win!

8 MAP — the readers ﬁght

back.

36 FLASH — reports from Our

correspondents.

102

ONCE UPON A

TIME

WIN A WALLY

PORTFOLIO

42 TIPS — Gary Penn on

Bounty Bob, Shadowﬁre and

tons more.

A competition for the gentle

player who needs a new

Kempston joystick_ Orpheus

want you to win a special

edition, boxed game of

ELINDOR — 10 to be won and

joystick for the ﬁrst_

58CHALLENGE— Rignall

tested on PITSTOP II

Mikro-Gen are offering 25

complete sets of Wally

games to ZZAP! readers who

prove themselves daft

enough_ Can you miss it?!

62IHE 64 TOP 30 New

Look Chart.

M ADVENTURE —

Chronicles of the White

Wizard.

NEXT Z2MPI ON 5ALE nuGuSr

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THE NRYOF THE

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Challenge the computer, facing opponents of progressively

greater skill, or compete with a friend. THE WAY OF THE EXPLODING

FIST has it all - addictive competitive action, dazzling graphic

animation and sound. The wait is aver - you are about to face the

challenge of a lifetime! "Spectacular, startlingly original epic.

most televisual game I have encountered"- Daily Mail.

"Quite simply the best program." - Popular Computing Weekly

_Age

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Now available fOr Commodore

64 at/9.95. Available soon for

the Amstradt9 95 and Spectrum/8.95.

Since the last issue there have been a few

changes in ZZAPI, primarily a change in

editorship anti a change in the location of the

editorial ofﬁces. These have been moved from

Yeovil, close to the home of Chris Anderson,

up to Ludlow in Shropshire, the heao' ofﬁces of

News ﬁeld limited, the publishers of ZZAPI 64

and CRASH Magazine. Unfortunately, due to

persona/ reasons, Chris Anderson felt unable

to a

the 'Originality' rating has

gone and Value for Money'

has become a sub-rating,

with the creation of a new

one called 'Overall' to

complete the review.

Originality is a difﬁcult

element within a game to

rate sensibly, and in many

cases is fairly irrelevant.

Where a lack of originality is

a serious drawback in a

game, this should be

adequately reﬂected in the

reviewers' comments. The

change around with Value

for Money has been made

because Messrs Rignall and

Penn felt strongly that rating

a game under the heading of

Value For Money doesn't

necessarily reﬂect their

general feelings on the

game.

One of the prime reasons for the move is

economy, as the Ludlow Ofﬁces have plenty of

space to house the ZZAPf editorial without the

extra cost of a second ofﬁce elsewhere.

For reasons similar to those of Chris, Bob

Wade also preferred not to make the n7Ove.

This means that ZZAPI is now being written

and edited at the same place it is designed and

published, which gives us a great deal more

ﬂexibility than in the past.

You will also notice some slight changes

within the magazine itself, and these are

detailed below in the various panels, I hope

that you will generally approve of those

alterations we have made, or at the worst at

least accept that they have been made for very

good reasons.

PRESENTATION: Packaging,

printed instructions, on-

screen instructions, loading,

play options, program

facilities (including things

like ease of joystick or

keyboard control), on-screen

impression — everything

except the game itself.

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GRAPHICS: Variety, detail

and effectiveness of screen

pictures, quality of

animation, smoothness of

movement.

SOUND: Variety and

effectiveness of sound

effects, quality both

technically and aesthetically

of music. Also: does sound

annoy?

HOOKABIUTY: How strongly

does the game make you

want to play it and keep

playing it?

LASTABILITY: How long will

it keep its hold on you?

VALUE FOR MONEY: Takes

into account the price plus all

the above ratings.

With Bob Wade leaving, we

were left with a gap in the ZZAPI

reviewing team, but fortunately

this was almost immediately

ﬁlled by this month's contestant

in the ZZAP! Challenge, 19 year

old Paul Sumner. For how he

fared against the egregious

Julian Rignall, you'll just have to

turn to the Challenge pages!

Paul is almost a local, hailing

from the town of Much Wen lock

in Shropshire, haying moved

there a year ago from Dunstable

(not all that far from Berkhamp-

stead, ex-hang out of Gary Penn,

now spinster of Ludlow parish

(there's no 'p' in Berko, so stop

taking it

GP)).

Paul hates pot noodles (bad

news for the Rignall breakfasts),

likes Abba and the Osmonds

(he's something of an historian),

but fortunately he has two right

hands when it comes to the joy-

stick (not unlike his predecessor,

Bob Wade, who must have been

glad to get it off his chest) which

makes him a right handy guy to

have on the team. His taste in

games is fairly catholic (despite

being C of El but he hates

Boulderdash and feels that

ZZAPI's Sizzler On

OVERALL: With all the above

ratings in, this is IT! — what

the reviewers think in

general.

The ZZAPI Labels

The three labels so far used

in ZZAPI remain unchanged.

GOLD MEDAL AWARD:

Deﬁnitely a game above all

others in the month of

review. There may not be a

Gold Medal game every

issue, but if there is, get it!

SIZZLER: Hot games of the

month — must normally

score around 90%. We

reckon any ZZAPI Sizzler is a

great buy, unless you really

hate that particular type of

game.

TACKY: In our view, a

second-rate piece of

software. Steer well clear.

Tennis

was way out out of court.

THE ZZAP! RATINGS

Two things have changed

with the review ratings. One

is purely graphical; as you'll

see the ratings bars have

gone. After canvassing

opinion and from the views

expressed in some letters, it

appears that many people do

not relate the length of the

black bar to the rating

percentage. The bars have

also created havoc in laying

out the reviews in the art

department because of the

time they take to do.

The second change is that

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