Source: Amiga Power – Issue Number 8 – December 1991
Amiga Power was a magazine dedicated to gaming on the Amiga that was published in the U.K. between 1991 and 1996. Issue Number 8 from December 1991 issue includes:
- True Stories – The new Amiga 500+; new multi-event sports sims including Hawk’s Championship Athletics; new movie licenses from Ocean including Terminator 2 and Hudson Hawk; Monkey Island 2 and Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis coming in early 1992; and more.
- The Charts – A list of the top 100 Amiga games. At the top of the list are Jimmy White’s Snooker, Silent Service 2, Cruise For A Corpse, Bubble Bobble, Return to Europe, Terminator 2, Thunderhawk, Full Contact, Shadow of the Beast, and TV Sports Football.
- Complete Control – Tips and tricks for F-29 Retaliator, Shadow Warriors, Armalyte, Switchblade II, MIG-29 Fulcrum, Lotus Turbo Challenge II, Utopia, Power Monger, Battle Chess II, Thunderjaws, Spindizzy Worlds, Hydra, Skull & Crossbones, RBI Baseball 2, Armourgeddon, and more.
- All I Want For Xmas… – A Christmas presents guide for Amiga gamers. Some items on the list include the Competition Pro 5000 and other joysticks, various mice, hard disks and RAM expansions, the Amiga 500 Cartoon Classics Pack, the Commodore 1084 monitor, game compilations, books, and more.
- What A Lot You Get! – A guide to recent game compilations including Super Sega (E-Swat, Golden Axe, Super Monaco GP, Shinobi, Crackdown), Max (SWIV, ST Dragon, Night Shift, Turrican II), Super Sim Pack (International 3D Tennis, Italy 1990, Crazy Cars II, Airborne Ranger), The Top League (Speedball 2, Rick Dangerous 2, Falcon, Midwinter, TV Sports Football), 10 Great Games (Ferrari F1, Rick Dangerous, Pick ‘N’ Pile, Night Hunter, Carrier Command, and more), Dizzy Collection (Kwik Snax, Fast Food, Treasure Island Dizzy, Fantasy World Dizzy, Maigcland Dizzy), Quest For Adventure (Operation Stealth, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Mean Streets), James Bond Collection (License to Kill, The Spy Who Loved Me, Live and Let Die), Rainbow Collection (Rainbow Islands, Bubble Bobble, The New Zealand Story), Chart Attack (Lotus Espirit Turbo Challenge, James Pond, Venus The Flytrap, Ghouls ‘N’ Ghosts), 2 Hot 2 Handle (Golden Axe, Total Recall, Super Off-Road Racer, Shadow Warriors), Air Sea Supremacy (Gunship, Carrier Command, P-47, Wings, Silent Service), Capcom Collection (Strider, UN Squadron, Last Duel, Forgotten Worlds, Ghouls ‘N’ Ghosts, Dynasty Wars, Led Storm, Strider 2), Virtual Reality 1 (Stunt Car Racer, Carrier Command, Starglider 2, International Soccer Challenge, Midwinter), and Superheroes (The Spy Who Loved Me, Last Ninja 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Strider 2).
- Definition of Sound – A buyers guide to puzzle games. Some of the games covered here include Stack Up, Puzznic, Welltris, Lemmings, Shanghai, Pipe Mania, Klax, and more.
- Do The Write Thing – Letters from readers about Rodland, games for beginners, the importance of customer satisfaction to software houses, and more.
- The Bottom Line – A running overview of games released over the last year. Some titles on the list include Altered Destiny, A-10 Tank Killer, Back to the Future Part III, The Blues Brothers, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Chuck Rock, Commando, Crime Wave, Dragons of Flame, Elvira, Final Fight, Eye of the Beholder, Gauntlet III, Golden Axe, Hydra, King’s Quest V, Last Ninja 2, Leisure Suit Larry III, Lemmings, NARC, Operation Thunderbolt, Pit-Fighter, Populous, Prince of Persia, Powermonger, Power Drift, Ski or Die, Robocop 2, R-Type II, The Simpsons, Skull and Crossbones, Stun Runner, Stellar 7, Ultima V, and many others.
- Second Opinion – Industry professionals (in this case Dominique Cor who is the Marketing Manager of Infogrames in the UK) offer their opinions on recent games including Lotus Turbo Challenge II, Sim City, Lemmings, Tetris, Sim Earth, Teenage Mutant Hero (Ninja) Turtles, Dino Wars, and Supercars 2.
…and more!
