FEATURES
NEWS FROM THE PCW SHOW
The full story on the year’s biggest week — the hardware, the history, an Electronic Arts interview, a roundup of the season’s promised games and moreTHE 3-D STORY
Kicking off a 16-page 3-D section: games and graphics in the third dimension, plus Freescape detailsTHE CRASH HISTORY
Lloyd Mangram takes the CRASH story into 1985 with 12 Oli Frey coversGRAPHICS AND SOUND SPECIALISTS
Interviews with the men behind the sprites and soundTHE CRASH CHALLENGE
Mike Dunn loses ZynapsFANZINE FILE
The best of the Spectrum rags — and a few of the others, tooREGULARS
EDITORIAL
What’s happening with the +3?LLOYD MANGRAM’S FORUM
CRASH hates fanzines, says a reader. Oh no it doesn’t, says LloydNICK ROBERTS’S PLAYING TIPS
Exolon, Panzadrome and Mutants mapped — plus lots of POKEs POKEdCRASH READERS’ CHARTS — IN 3D
BRENDON KAVANAGH’S PBM MAILBOX — IN 3D
New games and a special Chronicles Of The Knights of Avalon comp — win a castle with Jade Games!PHILIPPA IRVING’S FRONTLINE
Philippa enters the Arena — plus Briefing tipsTECH NICHE
Simon N Goodwin with Tech Tips, tape tweaks and all the electrickery, plus Jon Bates on Music Machine softwareCRASH COMMS
Paul Evans continues his column with the secrets of the VTX5000 modemBREWSTER’S ADVENTURE TRAIL — IN 3D
Nothing stumps Derek in a full month of reviews, tips and lettersCOMPETITION WINNERS
THE CLASSIFIEDS
ON THE SCREEN
Those screen dumps in fullPREVIEWS
Rampage, Star Wars and Knightmare — licences to thrillET AL
Those vids in part and the Sentinel chess setDO IT YOURSELF
GAME SET AND MATCH
Win a video recorder and Ocean’s sports simsTHE KING GRUB COMP
A rather distasteful little chance to win your own greasy, stinking original King Grub artworkWIN AN APE ON THE RAMPAGE
Activision’s game and horrifying monster suits are up for... uh... GRABS!THE 3-D STORY

THE CRASH HISTORY

FANZINE FILE

’Allo, ’allo, what’s all this, then? Another issue of this ’ere CRASH magazine coming out next month? Entering innocent newsagents all over the country on November 26... adding full-colour pages without due care and attention... I’d better ’ave a look at that. Well, move along there please, haven’t you got newsagents to go to?

MANAGING EDITOR Barnaby Page
STAFF WRITERS Richard Eddy, Dominic Handy, Lloyd Mangram, Ian Phillipson, Ben Stone
PHOTOGRAPHERS Cameron Pound, Michael Parkinson
OFFICE Frances Mable
TECHNICAL WRITERS Simon N Goodwin, Jon Bates
ADVENTURE WRITER Derek Brewster
PBM WRITER Brendon Kavanagh
STRATEGY WRITER Philippa Irving
EDUCATIONAL WRITER Rosetta McLeod
CONTRIBUTORS Robin Candy, Mike Dunn, Paul Evans, Dominic Handy, Nick Roberts, Ben Stone, Paul Sumner
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Roger Kean
PRODUCTION CONTROLLER David Western
ART DIRECTOR Gordon Druce
ILLUSTRATOR Oliver Frey
LAYOUT Markie Kendrick, Wayne Allen
PROCESS AND PLANNING Jonathan Rignall (SUPERVISOR), Matthew Uffindell, Nick Orchard
ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER Roger Bennett
ADVERTISEMENT EXECUTIVE Andrew Smales
SUBSCRIPTIONS Denise Roberts
MAIL ORDER Carol Kinsey
COVER BY Oliver Frey
3-D ARTWORK BY Markie Kendrick
REVIEWS
- Action Force Virgin Games
- Angleball MAD
- Arena Bug Byte
- ATV Simulator Code Masters
- Ballbreaker CRL
- Call Me Psycho Pirate Software
- Centurions Ariolasoft
- The Crown of Ramhotep Tartan
- Dizzy Code Masters
- The Fast And The Furious GO!
- Future Tense Mystic Software
- Holiday In Sumaria Pirate Software
- Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom US Gold
- Jack The Nipper II In Coconut Capers Gremlin Graphics
- Karyssia Incentive
- Mystery Of The Nile Firebird Silver
- Outcast CRL
- Park Patrol Firebird Silver
- Professional Ski Simulator Code Masters
- The Prospector Tartan
- Red LED Reaktor
- Smash Out! Pirate Software
- Supernova Players
- Super Sprint Activision
- Thundercats Elite
- Thunderceptor GO!
- Trantor US Gold
- War Cars Firebird Silver
- White Heat Code Masters
- XOR Logotron
- Yes Prime Minister Mosaic Publishing