FEATURES
THE CRASH DUNGEONS
Unmasked! The faceless reviewers come out of the closetTHE MAN BEHIND JETMAN
The artist who gets Jetman into CRASH every month bares all — and he’s not the only oneMATCH DAY CHALLENGE
Ludlow’s Starline Club, scene of the Girlie Tipster’s wrestling lessons, plays host to wrestling of a different kind as programmers and readers wrestle with joystick and keyboard for supremacyTAMARA KNIGHT
Part Three of the story of a teleporter sales-being of the futureDIY
WIN A SPORTING HOLIDAY
A trip abroad goes to the winner of US GOLD’s competition. Copies of WORLD GAMES on offer, tooWIN A ROLLER!
Not a Rolls Royce unfortunately, but DOMARK are giving away a Philips Roller ghettoblaster... and some strange bouncing ballsBECOME JUDGE DREDD!
Appear as a Mega-City Judge in a specially commissioned portrait courtesy of MELBOURNE HOUSE and win some Judge Dredd software, T Shirts and board gamesSOME SERIOUS FEUDING
Win a scary trip to the London Dungeon (eek) with MASTERTRONIC and kill off a few wizards into the bargainThe second date for that nice new 1987 Diary: 26th February. That’s when the March CRASH goes on sale...
REGULARS
EDITORIAL
In which the Doc Martened One has his sayNEWS
Catch up on what’s been happening in the Spectrum worldFEAR AND LOATHING
Hunter S gets his fill from DOMARK and is treated to a posh Chinese nosh by TIGRESSLLOYD MANGRAM’S FORUM
The New Year brings a host of epistles under Lloyd’s scrutinising eyeCRASH COURSE
Rosetta continues her learning experience...DEREK BREWSTER’S ADVENTURE TRAIL
An adventure with a Censor’s Certificate comes Derek’s way, amongst other thingsHANNAH SMITH’S PLAYING TIPS
Pore over piles of maps, and take a peek at the POKEs this month!CRASH HOTLINE AND ADVENTURE CHART
TECH NICHE
SAGA continues with the new COMPLIMENT system — Dominic Handy catches up on the story. Meanwhile Franco Frey looks at a video digitiser and musical man Jon Bates takes a peep at CHEETAH’s MK5 keyboardTECH TIPS
Simon Goodwin finds a haven of excellence in the war of the compilers while CHEETAH and DATEL battle it out around himLUNAR JETMAN
The loony astronaut gets into another fix...LLOYD MANGRAM’S HALL OF SLIME
Some more candidates for the Ludlow GibbetPHILIPPA’S FRONTLINE
Hannah finds that her Girlie monopoly on CRASH is threatened as Philippa Irving takes over on the Strategy frontPBM MAILBOX
Brendon Kavanagh opens the Diplomatic Directory and previews a February showPREVIEWS
A look into the near future on the games front
- PUBLISHERS Roger Kean, Oliver Frey, Franco Frey
- Publishing Executive/Editor Graeme Kidd
- Sub Editor Ciarán Brennan
- Staff Writers Lloyd Mangram, Lee Paddon, Hannah Smith
- Adventure Editor Derek Brewster
- Strategy Editor Philippa Irving
- 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
101,483 TOTAL
97,992 UK and EIRE
Cover by Ian Craig
REVIEWS
- Acrojet US Gold
- Agent X Mastertronic
- Archers Mosaic
- BMX Simulator Code Masters
- Battle of Britain PSS
- Bugsy CRL
- Colour of Magic Delta 4
- Cop Out Mikro-Gen
- Defcom Quicksilva
- Donkey Kong Ocean
- Double Trouble Ocean
- Dracula CRL
- Elevator Action Quicksilva
- Footballer of the Year Gremlin Graphics
- Gauntlet US Gold
- Gunstar Firebird
- Hacker II Activision
- Handball Maradona Grand Slam
- Harvey Headbanger Firebird
- Highlander Ocean
- Hive Firebird
- Howzat Alternative Software
- Hypaball Odin
- Hyperbowl Mastertronic
- Impossaball Hewson
- It’s a Knockout Ocean
- Kayleth US Gold / Adventuresoft
- Konami’s Golf Imagine
- Legends of Kage Imagine
- Legions of Death Lothlorien
- Ninja Mastertronic
- Operation Thunderflash Sparklers
- Pro Golf Atlantis
- Shao Lin’s Road The Edge
- Super Cycle US Gold
- Super Soccer Imagine
- Survivors Atlantis
- Terra Cresta Imagine
- Top Gun Ocean
- Xevious US Gold
- Yie Ar Kung Fu II Imagine