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The continuing saga pits allied forces against the cruel dictator who escaped the destruction of the fortress with remnants of his

army and prisoners captured during the land battle,

Produced for the COMMODORE 64 and coming to a computer store near you!

Written by Roger & Bruce Carver • Directed by Bruce Carver • Produced by Chns J. Jones • Distnbuted by David L. Ashby

Illustration by Oliver Frey ewsheici Publications) • Manufactured in the U.K.UK.by US. Gold

ISSUE No 5

SEPTEMBER 1985

HOT NEW

GAMES

SEPTEMBER

SPECIALS

SUMMER GAMES

SPY vs SPY &

MERCENARY

Graphically and musically, the

most exciting sports game

package yet Big review and

loads of colour pics.

It's almost here! We bring you

screen shots from the fabulous

follow up to Beyond's spy

hunting game, and latest screen

shots on Novagen's 3D ﬂying,

ﬁghting high speed vector

graphics action game.

FRANKIE THE

GAME

SEPTEMBER

SPECIALS

DOES YOUR 64

NEED SAVING?

BIRTH OF A

PARADROID

Ocean and Denton Designs

unleash a compelling, weird and

wonderful entertainment to turn

you into a Real Person.

BETTER LETTER

FROM AMERICA

The ZZAPI Commodore Doctor

offers some advice on getting

sick siccies repaired and tells

you where to ﬁnd your local

surgery.

Part Three of a month out of the

life of Andrew Braybrook. Life is

being breathed into the screens

— see the pics!

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Julian Rignall gets his sticky

paws on some USA software

including Super Zaxxon, Track &

Field and a drum synth program.

FLYING HIGH!

HELP A WALLY

The ZZAP I team start the ﬁrst of

several occasional articles

comparing games of a similar

ilk. This month — Flight

Simulators.

Mikro-Gen and ZZAP! want to

know your opinions on Wally

Week's future escapades_

PRIZE COMPETITIONS

Ariolasoft are also in the

'unleashing' business with this

exciting new ﬂying 'ﬁght

simulation', and the subject of

this month's cover picture.

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BECOME A REAL

PERSON!

CONFUZA PERSON

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TERMINAL MAN

Incentive have come up with

what is possibly the cruellest

competition ever devised! Can

you stand the strain? If you can

it'll put a shirt on your back.

Ocean are giving away 50 copies

of Frankie the Game to ZZAPI

readers who prove they're up to

it!

We start the ﬁrst epsiode of our

12-part colour comic strip by

Oliver Frey.

5 EDITORIAL — pirates an

crooks.

6 RRAP Lloyd opens up a

ornets nest.

GRAHAM

GOOCH'S TEST

CRICKET

P counter Oldie

ders Keepers S 36

e a Side Football 23

nkie Goes To Hollywood

0 FLASH — reports from Our

tiews hounds & blood hou

1 ADVENTURE —

Chronicles of the White

at American Cross Country

ad Race 108

ham Gooch's Test

ket 1 0 5

persports S 14

Botham's Test Match 104

nedy Air Approach 106

'lin 1 0 8

Iley Ace 3 8

er Trivia 84

eldo Plays the Open 24

a Limb 82

ue on Fractelus 100

pert The Bear

A chance for 50 people to get

their hands on Audiogenic's

latest noble sports simulation,

78 TIPS — Archer Maclean g

i exclusive tips on Dropzone an

Gary Penn drops some tips on

102

BOINNNG,

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MATCH FISHING

166 CHALLENGE The evil J

(refused permission to see

• exclusive tips) battles a

'contender on Dropzone

Alligata are offering an

adventure holiday, full ﬁshing

tackle and board games to the

winners of the Jack Charlton's

Match Fishing comp!

Get springing and thinging with

Thing on a Spring and Gremlin

Graphics may give you an

exclusive, limited edition

T-shirt! -

THE 64 TOP 30 — The

eaders' Chart to popular

ames_

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Velnor's Lair

09 RESULTS — The 'Yip

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ZZAPI 64 September 1985 3

Zaxxon is back!

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THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE of Super Zaxxon is here. Based on the arcade classic, you knew this challenge was

coming, but now we'll see if you're ready for it.

Selected U.S. Gold titles are available from all leading computer stores.

U.S. Gold Ltd., Unit 10, The Parkway Industrial Centre, Heneage Street, Birmingham B7 411

GASSEITE sir DISK 94"

Here's a good wheeze for making lots and lots of

money. Set yourself up as a 'Media Agency' in the

computer software area, get a few clients fed up of

answering phone calls from magazine

managers book lots of ads for your

clients in different magazines, make the clients pay

you an up-front retainer and the balance of their bills

very quickly (On the threat that if they don'4 you

can't pay the mags and they'll suspend the ads), and

then — this is the really clever bit --'simply

disappear (with the money of course).

This littl&money-making wheeze isn't so fanciful

as it may sound Sadly the software business has

attracted sharks from all over the place including

the acivertiSing agency end If you added up all the

money both CRASH and ZZAPI magazines have lost

be staggered

THE ZZAP!

RATINGS

PRESENTATION: Packaging,

printed instructions, on-screen

instructions, loading, play

options, program facilities

(including things like ease of

joystick or keyboard control),

on-screen impression — every-

thing except the game itself.

in precisely this manner Over 18 months you would

GRAPHICS: Variety, detail and

effectiveness of screen pictures,

quality of animation,

smoothness of movement,

What makes the situation worse is that the client

software house loses out and so does the magazine

because it inevitably causes friction, a/though in a

sense it is neither side's fault

There are, of colirse some excellent agencies

around but this market seems to attract more than

its fair share of bad ones. The latter type are

parasites operating an often unnecessary service

inadequately and with nothing more on their minds

than personal greed at the expense of everyone

They are giving media agencies generally a bad

would get lost.

SOUND: Variety and

effectiveness of sound effects,

quality both technically and

aesthetically of music. Also:

does sound annoy?

HOOKABILITY: How strongly

does the game make you want

to play it and keep playing it?

name and Making magazines wish that the whole lot

LASTABILITY: How long will it

keep as hold on you?

Editor

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ware editors

Ilan Rignall, Gary Penn

ff writer

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editor

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oduction designer

yid Western

roduction

rdon Druce, Matthew

ndell

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duction manager

Hy Newman

bscriptions

nise Roberts

ail order

rol Kinsey

VALUE FOR MONEY: Takes into

account the price plus all the

above ratings.

OVERALL: With all the above

ratings in, this is IP— what the

reviewers think in general.

THE ZZAP! LABELS

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! Just occasionally there

may be two

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.

SOFTWARE THEFT

OUTLAWED

sensible enough, because a law

like this cannot be effectively

used against the mass public

hell bent on swapping and

copying friends' games for their

collections, The activity is,

however, covered in the

ammendments by stating that

the act of loading a computer

program into a computer

without the copyright owner's

consent constitutes an

infringement of copyright. This

may sound a bit confusing, but if

you have bought a genuine

commercial game program,

then obviously the copyright

owner is happy for you to load it

into a computer, but the

consent to your loading the

program if it was for the

purposes of making a copy of it.

Well, it's a ﬁne point and, as

you cart see, not an easy area to

enforce!

So all in all, the new laws are

hardly likely to affect the home

copier very much, unless Bob

Hay decides to make a few

examples where proof can be

obtained, but it should have a

much bigger effect on the

commercial pirates who have

tended to operate more

successfully in the C64 market

where the program prices are

traditionally higher and tape to

tape copying somewhat harder

than, say, on the Spectrum. But

what does need some clarifying

is what portion of the claimed

E150 million a year lost revenue

from theft is made up by

commercial pirates, and what

portion is lost through home

copying.

Illegal copying of games has

long been a sore point in the

industry, but from the 16th of

July it has been ofﬁcially

outlawed and the copyright laws

ammended to make it easier for

the courts to determine whether

an infringement has taken place

and for them to send convicted

offenders to jail for up to two

years and be ﬁned an unlimited

amount. FAST (Federation

Against Software Theft) has

lived up to its name, having

been set up only last July

primarily to seek changes in the

law to protect the copyright of

computer programs. FAST

claim that pirates (preferred

name — software thieves) are

costing the industry E150 million

a year.

FAST has also appointed Bob

Hay, a former Chief

Superintendent of Police, to act

as an Enforcement Co-

ordinator. Co-ordination has

always been one of the main

problems of preventing

software theft, with several

agencies working in isolation

and often in ignorance of each

other's efforts.

What is instantly noticable

from reading through the

provisions this amendment to

the act makes, is that the words

'in the course of trade' run right

through them all, implying that

the law will regard 'possession'

(in the domestic sense) as far

less serious than 'pushing', in

other words, copying for

ﬁnancial gain. This seems

itorial and production:

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0584 5851

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Box 10, Ludlow.

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05134 5620

ADVERTISERS INDEX

Activision

Alligata

Argus Press Software

Computer Market Place

Elite

English Software

Firebird

Gremlin Graphics

Imagine

Incentive

Microcentre

Mikro-Gen

Monolith

MTS (Repairs)

New Generation

Ocean

Odin

SJB Disks

Software City

System 3

The Edge

Ultimate

US Gold 2, 7, 32, 33, 59, 115

ZZAPI Caps & T-shirts 107

ZZAP! Mail Order 76, 77

ZZAP! Subscriptions 20, 21

27, 73, 95

13, 51

42, 43

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1985 Newslield Limited

ver by Oliver Fre

ZZAPI 64 September 1985 5

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