REGULARS
FEAR AND LOATHING
HUNTER S MINSON eats, drinks and merrily refuses to look back on the year...THE CRASH SCRAPBOOK
A little festive fun, courtesy of the Doc Martened one and Cameron’s photo album...FORUM
Catch Lloyd’s Hermes — in action, answering your latest batch of moans, groans and praiseART GALLERY
Another quality collection of your binary artHALL OF SLIME
Even more High Score goreHANNAH SMITH’S PLAYING TIPS
LUNAR JETMAN
Seeing as it’s Christmas... a double dose of our loony hero’s crazy exploitsCRASH HOTLINE AND ADVENTURE CHARTS
TECH TIPS
Simon Goodwin peeks inside DATEL’s SNAPSHOT and ROMANTIC ROBOT’s GENIE PACKAGE for the Multiface IADVENTURE
JEWELS OF DARKNESS gets Smashed, and so does Derek as he gets into festive editorial modePLAY BY MAIL
Brendon Kavanagh looks at SATURNALIAPREVIEWS
FEATURES
CRASH READERS’ AWARDS
LLOYD MANGRAM’S LOOKBACK
Lloyd casts his mind back over the last year and delivers his usual salvo of brickbats and bouquetsMUSIC FEATURE
Jon Bates makes sweet music with SpectrumTAMARA KNIGHT
Part One of the bizarre odyssey of a teleporter salesbeing of the future...FULL OF SPECULATION!
It seems the Spectrum isn’t the only computer capable of running Spectrum games, as SIMON GOODWIN discovers...INTER-MAGAZINE CHALLENGE
The reviewers battle it outA LIVERPUDLIAN INTERLUDE
The story behind the DENTON DESIGNS split1986 INDEX
A handy guide to what went in CRASH last yearTAMARA KNIGHT
Part Two of Mel Croucher’s story of tomorrow’s yuppieINSIDE LM
An overview of the people and the process which brought you the freebie...GENESIS BIRTH OF A GAME
From conception through ‘pregnancy’ and now birth — KAT TRAP gets a full review...DIY
WIN A FOOTBALL FORTUNE
£1,500 is waiting to be spent on a holiday. You could spend it...THE STARGLIDER COMP
A monster glider to be won, plus lots of little onesDEEP STRIKE
DURELL offers a radio controlled airplane, plus copies of the gameWIN A WALKMAN
HEWSONS offer a walkman and copies of FIRELORDHOT OR COLD?
An INCENTIVE to go on holiday. £600 could be yours to spendBIKES, COMPILATIONS and WALKMANS
Not one, but two chances to win, courtesy of ELITESOUND OUT
GREMLIN GRAPHICS are offering a MIDI HiFi and a GhettoBlaster; and games, of courseCOLLECT A DISC DRIVE AND PRINTER
KONIX offer an OPUS Disc Drive and a Citizen 120D printer, as well as joysticksANOTHER CHANCE TO GO TO WAR
You could spend a day at Combat Zone along with PIRANHASHIRTS, RECORDS, BOOKS
Lots of goodies on offer from ARIOLASOFTWIN A SOFTWARE WARDROBE
The Comps Minion has collected a host of goodies for you to winSPEND SPRING IN PARIS
Well, a weekend at least; funded by INFOGRAMESGENESIS — Birth of a Competition
Win an Oli original...COLLECT A COMPACT CAMERA
Play Spot the puck in this XENO competitionLook out for the first CRASH of 1987. It’ll be in the shops on January 22nd

PUBLISHERS Roger Kean, Oliver Frey, Franco Frey
Publishing Executive/Editor Graeme Kidd
Assistant Editor Lee Paddon
Sub Editor Ciarán Brennan
Staff Writers Lloyd Mangram, Hannah Smith
Adventure Editor Derek Brewster
Tech Tipster Simon Goodwin
Contributing Writers Jon Bates, Brendon Kavanagh, John Minson
Production Controller David Western
Art Director Dick Shiner
Assistant Art Director Gordon Druce
Illustrators Ian Craig, Oliver Frey
Production Seb Clare, Tim Croton,
Mark Kendrick, Tony Lorton, Nick Orchard,
Michael Parkinson, Cameron Pound,
Jonathan Rignall, Matthew Uffindell
Advertisement Manager Roger Bennett
Advertisement Assistant Nick Wild
Subscriptions Denise Roberts
Mail Order Carol Kinsey
CRASH ABC FIGURE: 101,483 TOTAL
97,992 UK and EIRE
REVIEWS
- Academy CRL
- Adventure Adventure Software
- Avenger Gremlin
- Artist 2 Softek
- Breakthru US Gold
- Colossus Bridge CDS
- Contact Sam Cruise Microsphere
- Deep Strike Durell
- Eidolon, The Activision
- Fairlight II The Edge
- Future Knight Gremlin
- Jewels of Darkness Rainbird
- Kat Trap Domark
- King’s Keep Firebird
- KWAH Melbourne House
- Marble Madness Construction Kit Melbourne House
- Nosferatu Piranha
- Orbix The Terrorball Domark
- Rogue Trooper Piranha
- Shrewsbury Key Players
- Space Harrier Elite
- Speed King II Mastertronic
- Starglider Rainbird
- Tarzan Martech
- Terminus Mastertronic
- They Call Me Trooper CRL
- They Stole A Million Ariolasoft
- Zub Mastertronic