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  • Amiga Power (December 1991)

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    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!


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  • Amiga Power (January 1992)

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    Source: Amiga Power – Issue Number 10 – January 1992 



    Amiga Power is an Amiga specific gaming magazine that was published in the U.K. in the early 1990s. The January 1992 issue includes:

    • True Stories – New games – Eye of the Beholder 2 and John Madden American Football amongst others – and loads more, including five Bug joysticks to win and all your ‘favorite’ regulars. Plus! We ask the burning question – what’ll be the Christmas Number One?
    • The Charts – Going up, coming down and all that jazz – will Lotus 2 cruise straight into the top slot, or what?
    • Complete Control – Britain’s favorite Amiga tips section really kicks into gear, with giant Blues Brothers maps, Cruise For a Corpse – the solution, and the complete Amiga Power guide to Rodland…
    • Games of the Year – Coups in Russia, civil war in Yugoslavia, Maggie ‘graciously’ bows out, and Amiga Power is born – that was 1991 for you. it was also a year when plenty of ground breaking new games were released – not to mention a whole host of stinkers. We pick through the rubble for our personal favorites…
    • Definition of Sound – Continuing our new series of Buyer’s Guides. This month: football games, a field dominated by two small words…
    • Win! Five Remote Control Planes! – AP teams up with EA to bring you a Birds Of Prey compo – if we can keep our hands off the prizes, that is…
    • Do The Write Thing – Your letters, now a giant three pages long (special bonus size), and featuring Stuart N. Hardy’s brother, Paul!
    • The Bottom Line – Bigger, better, brighter, more!
    • Second Opinion – Domark’s John Kavanagh, the man behind MiG-29 and… STUN Runner!
    • Magic And Mystery Tour – A new age of FRP games is upon us. Eye of the Beholder showed the way, but the best – Beholder 2, Ultima VI – is just around the corner. Mark Ramshaw investigates.
    • Darlings! – The lovable computer whiz kids are still with us – and selling more games (and making more money!) than ever. What? You want games with puzzles and character – and at a cheap price? You don’t care too much for fancy parallax scrolling – or scrolling at all, even – if decent gameplay is there? Then who you gonna call? (Code Masters!)
    • Games of the Month
      • Smash TV – Total Carnage – we love it! Well, we did in the arcades…
      • Birds of Prey – Blimey! 40 – r0! – birds in one game!
      • Battle Isle – Wargames get friendly (stranger things happen at sea…)
      • Celtic Legends – Hex-based strategy meets Chaos
      • Bonanza Bros – What, a Sega game with character?
      • Moonstone – It’s a first! The innovative gore on/gore off option(!)
      • Oh No! More Lemmings! – The name says it all really…
      • Realms – And suddenly, out of the blue, Powermonger gets a rival…
      • Fuzzball – Furry, fun and – wow! – look at the speed blurs on that…!
      • Barbarian 2 – Or, gameplay-by-numbers if you’re feeling cynical!
      • Knightmare – Captive Pt2 – but aimed at 8-year olds? We have our doubts…

    …and more!


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