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Issue No. 35 December 1986

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REGULARS

EDITORIAL

NEWS

FEAR AND LOATHING

Hunter S goes bald!

LLOYD MANGRAM’S FORUM

The pre-Christmas rush to write to Lloyd is on. Gareth Jones sent us the first Xmas card of ’86, though...

CRASH COURSE

Rosetta gets to grips with a bit more screen learnin’

DEREK BREWSTER’S ADVENTURE TRAIL

Derek takes a peek at adventure fanzines and SMASHes a game...

SIGNSTUMPS

The adventurer’s forum goes from strength to strength

HANNAH SMITH’S PLAYING TIPS

Hannah wades in with a GLIDER RIDER map and a veritable heap of handy hints to make gameplaying that bit easier

THE CRASH HOTLINE AND ADVENTURE CHARTS

LLOYD MANGRAM’S HALL OF SLIME

It gets cold on the Ludlow gibbet this time of year...

RESULTS

Prizes galore. We’ll have to book extra pages for the Christmas Special competition results, just you see!

TECH NICHE

Dominic Handy gets to grips with a ROM-based wordprocessor from RAM ELECTRONICS while Jon Bates investigates another MIDI interface

TECH TIPS

The irrepressible Simon Goodwin presents another collection of TechnoTips

JETMAN

PBM MAILBOX

Brendon goes football crazy and gets tipping!

SEAN MASTERSON’S FRONTLINE

And it’s Goodbye From Him. Sean moves on to pastures new, but reviews a couple of games by way of a goodbye

MERELY MANGRAM

Once again, the workload on his new magazine keeps Lloyd away from the preview pages. Lotsa news though...

FEATURES

GENESIS BIRTH OF A GAME

The gestation period takes a little longer than expected...

DESIGNING GAMES THE MALONE WAY

Lee Paddon discusses game designing with PALACE’s artist, DAN MALONE

ANALYSING THE ADVERTISING

Bill Scolding casts a critical eye over the Software Advertising Industry and its output

DIY

SHAO LIN TWO

The Competition Minion has been castigated and we re-run THE EDGE’s comp that appeared last month without any differences. Sorry!

WIN A COMPACT DISC PLAYER

CRL offer a high-tech toy at top prize in their ACADEMY competition. Fifty games go to runners up

WIN A SIGNED FOOTBALL

A ball signed by the England Squad is waiting to be won, as well as fifty copies of BUG BYTE’s latest footie game, PETER SHILTON’S HANDBALL MARADONNA

GO ON A TRIP TO LONDON

Hewson’s offer a sightseeing trip to the Smoke, all expenses paid in honour of CITY SLICKER. Fifty games go to runners up, too

BECOME A SUPERHERO!

Binoculars and a 35mm compact camera form the top prize in the COSMIC SHOCK ABSORBER Competition. The usual fifty games up for grabs, naturally

The annual CRASH Christmas Extravaganza is on its way — look in the newsagent’s on 10th December