FEATURES
Profile on soft houses Rabbit and Blaby.
After a long silence, CARNELL come rampaging back with a mammoth follow
up to Black Crystal and Volcanic Dungeon.
ARTICLES
PLAY IT AGAIN SAM
FRANCO FREY takes a look at joystick controllers — which suits you?
1983 was an amazingly rich year for Spectrum software. LLOYD MANGRAM
takes a look back.
REGULARS
A brief round-up for the month
The first of our regular games comparisons — this month,
INVADERS/GALAXIANS. Which is the best?
Comic strip excitement in the first rampacked instalment. Forget all
others — life begins here!
DIY
CRASH HOTLINE CHART
For our first issue here’s an easy little quiz to test your knowledge of
cassette inlay stories. £75 of prizes to win!
COMPETITION
Become a reviewer for CRASH and win prizes!
GUIDE
Pick of the month from among the established games that are available.
SPECTRUM SOFTWARE GUIDE
Pages and pages reviewing both old and new games.
REVIEWS
REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE
Include games fresh from the programmers of Ultimate, Silversoft,
Quicksilva, Virgin, Thorn EMI, Britannia, Automata, Lotus Soft and many,
many others...
- ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE, Temptation
- 3D ANT ATTACK, Quicksilva
- ARMAGEDDON, Silversoft
- ATIC ATAC, Ultimate
- BARRELDROP, Games Machine
- BEDLAM, Lothlorien
- BLOCKADE RUNNER, Thorn EMI
- BONKERS, Procom
- BRAIN DAMAGE, Silversoft
- BUGABOO, Quicksilva
- BYTE, CCS
- CORRIDORS OF GENON, New Generation
- CYBERTANKS, Star Dreams
- DOOM BUGS, Workforce
- EXTERMINATOR, Silversoft
- FIRE FLASH, Abacus
- FIREHAWKS, Postern
- THE FOREST, Phipps Associates
- GALACTIC WARRIORS, Abacus
- GANGSTERS, CCS
- GOLD RUSH, Thorn EMI
- GOTCHA!, Blaby
- GRAND PRIX DRIVER, Britannia
- GRIDRUNNER, Quicksilva
- GROUCHO, Automata
- HAWKS, Lotus Soft
- HUNTER-KILLER, Protek
- INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHAS!, Crystal
- LORD HARRY, Lotus Soft
- LUNA CRABS, Micromega
- LUNAR JETMAN, Ultimate
- MAZIACS, DK’tronics
- MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, Silversoft
- MORRIS MEETS THE BIKERS, Automata
- MRS MOPP, Computasolve
- ODYSSEY 1, Perfection
- OH MUMMY, Gem
- THE ORACLE’S CAVE, Doric
- PLUGGIT, Blaby
- PUSH OFF, Software Projects
- QUETZALCOATL, Virgin
- RIDER, Virgin
- RIVER RESCUE, Thorn EMI
- ROAD RACER, Thorn EMI
- SPECTRON, Virgin
- SPECTRUM BOWLS, Lotus Soft
- SPLAT, Incentive
- SUBCHASE, Gem
- 3 DEEP SPACE, Postern
- TRAIN GAME, Microsphere
- TRANSVERSION, Ocean
- TRAXX, Quicksilva
- TUTANKHAMUN, Micromania
- VALHALLA, Legend
- VAMPIRE VILLAGE, Terminal
- VOLCANIC PLANET, EMI
- WARLOCK OF FIRETOP MOUNTAIN, Penguin
- WILD WEST HERO, Timescape
- ZAXXAN, Starzone