3D Game Maker/CRL (YS25, 6)    A basic 3D game designer, with no stand-alone capability. A nice idea, but really just for fun. 3D Starstrike/2.99 Classics (YS10, 8) 720 Degrees/US Gold (YS25, 9)    A brilliant skateboarding conversion that'll keep you rolling in the aisles, up the walls, through the pipes and down for a perfect landing! Academy/CRL (YS12, 9) Ace Of Aces/US Gold (YS17, 7) Aliens US Edition/Electric Dreams (YS25, 9)    A brilliantly executed computer movie, where you play the leading role to terrifying effect. First Class. Altered Beast/Activision (YS47, 80)    Little niggles here and there but very adventurous (and gory). Archon Collection, The/Electronic Arts (YS40, 8)    Spooky mythological corker. Great stuff! BMX Simulator/Codemasters (YS15, 7) Bobby Bearing/The Edge (YS8, 9) Breakthru/US Gold (YS13, 4) Camelot Warriors/Ariolasoft (YS13, 7) Cauldron II/Palace (YS9, 9) Challenge Of The Gobots/Reaktor (YS21, 8)     Very fast. Definitely one for the seasoned shoot 'em up fan. Shame about the colours, though. Con-Quest/Mastertronic (YS10, 8) Dan Dare/Virgin (YS11, 9) Dandy/Electric Dreams (YS13, 9) Danger Mouse In Making Whoopee/Sparklers (YS10, 8) Dark Fusion/Gremlin (YS36, 7)    Good looking, and a good sounding game, fast and hard, but oddly unsatisfying to play. File under 'Good' but not 'Great'. Dark Side, The/Incentive (YS32, 9) Dragon's Lair/Software Projects (YS12, 5) Driller/Incentive (YS25, 9)    One of the most original 3D games of the year. Beautifully programmed and absorbing problems. Skillo! Eidolon, The/Activision (YS15, 7) Fat Worm Blows A Sparky/Durell (YS13, 9) Fist II/Melbourne House (YS15, 9) Formula One Simulator/Mastertronic (YS11, 7) Full Throttle/2.99 Classics (YS9, 8) Game Over II/Dinamic (YS36, 8)    A good ol' scrolly blasterama, done to a turn. Garfield/The Edge (YS27, 7)    A good licence deal, mounds of dosh for The Edge, and a playable adventure for us lot. Everybody wins, really. Gauntlet II/US Gold (YS26, 8)    A super sequel to the much loved dungeon based shoot'em up. As much of a blast as the first, and about twice as addictive. Metaskillo. Heroes Of The Lance/US Gold (YS39, 9)    Blockbusting conversion of popular RPG with heaps of dragon-slaying action. Lots to get your teeth into. Grooooooowwwlll! How To Be A Complete Bastard/Virgin (YS23, 7)     A routine arcade-adventure based on the bestselling book. Not for the weak of stomach. Ice Temple/Bubble Bus (YS12, 6) It's A Knockout/Ocean (YS13, 4) Jack The Nipper/Gremlin (YS9, 9) Johnny Reb II/Lothlorien (YS11, 7) Judge Dredd/Melbourne House (YS16, 8) Knight Rider/Ocean (YS11, 4) Last Ninja II/System 3 (YS33, 9) Magnetron/Firebird (YS28, 8)    An absorbing and clever shoot 'em up, with all the hardness of Quazatron and more problems than the cast of Dallas. Marble Madness/Melbourne House (YS17, 8) Marble Madness Construction Kit/Melbourne House (YS12, 9) Nightmare Rally/Ocean (YS11, 9) Ninja/Mastertronic (YS15, 5) Ninja Hamster/CRL (YS22, 8)    A superb cartoon-style martial arts game with a unique combination of fast, gritty action and an oddball sense of humour. Nuclear Countdown/Atlantis (YS15, 8) Operation Hormuz/Again Again (YS39, 7)    Durell-built flying combat sim, with excellent graphics and sound sound. Shame about the plot. Pentagram/Ultimate (YS8, 7) Quartet/Activision (YS19, 8) Quazatron/Hewson (YS6, 9) Ramparts/Go! (YS30, 5)    Obvious counterfeit of Rampage, with knights instead of movie monsters. Disappointing. Renegade/Imagine (YS22, 9) Road Runner/US Gold (YS22, 7)    A true enough conversion of the popular arcade game, with lots to recommend. Good clean cartoon fun. Rolling Thunder/US Gold (YS27, 9) Room 10/CRL (YS12, 9) Saboteur II/Durell (YS17, 9) Sam Fox Strip Poker/Martech (YS6, 8) Scalextric/Leisure Genius (YS15, 8) Scooby Doo/Elite (YS11, 9) Sentinel, The/Firebird (YS18, 9) Shao-Lin's Road/The Edge (YS14, 8) Shockway Rider/FTL (YS16, 9) Sigma 7/Durell (YS16, 9) Skyfox/Ariolasoft (YS4, 9) Slaine/Martech (YS25, 9)    With more windows than a small chain of double glazing contractors, Slaine slashes his way through an arcade adventure par excellence! Solomon's Key/US Gold (YS23, 9)    The most addictive game of the year, and one of the very few coin-op conversions which is every bit as good as the original. Spellbound/Mastertronic (YS10, 9) Spiky Harold/Firebird (YS7, 8) Spin Dizzy/Electric Dreams (YS7, 9) Stainless Steel/Mikro-Gen (YS10, 6) Star Firebirds/Firebird (YS10, 8) Starstrike II/Real Time Software (YS6, 9) Stormbringer/Mastertronic (YS19, 9) Street Fighter/Go! (YS31, 8)    A first-class beat'em up with loadsa action and totally faithful to the original. Brilliant! Strike Force Cobra/Piranha (YS11, 9) Subculture/Mastertronic (YS9, 8) Super Cycle/US Gold (YS15, 5) Super Hang On/Electric Dreams (YS26, 8)    An engine growling race game with all the payability of the original. First class! Swords Of Bane/CCS (YS13, 7) Tai-Pan/Ocean (YS20, 9)    A splendid original strategy game with arcade phases. Brilliant fun. So clever, so complex, so buy it! Terrorpods/Psygnosis (YS32, 7)    Skillful conversion from 16 bit smash hit. Gameplay is fast, animation and graphics good, but lacks a certain flash of brilliance. Thanatos/Durell (YS13, 9) Toadrunner/Ariolasoft (YS8, 7) Top Gun/Ocean (YS15, 8) Tracksuit Manager/Goliath (YS33, 8)    One of the best football strategy games yet. Fast action, tough decisions and huge databases of info on the world's footballers. Firmly in the first division! Trantor/Go! (YS24, 9)    An original and brilliantly programmed shoot 'em up, with more action than the average joystick can comfortably cope with! Trap Door/Piranha (YS10, 9) Trivial Pursuits - A New Beginning/Domark (YS37, 8)    A reworking of the Triv computer game from scratch, which gives you more game and less bored. Good fun. Uchi Mata/Martech (YS17, 7) Virus/Firebird (YS33, 9)    A brilliantly programmed conversion of a 16 bit smash hit. A fast and fascinating 3D blast a mundo. Buy it! WOW Games/War On Want (YS7, 9) War In Middle Earth/Melbourne House (YS40, 8)    Fabby strategy game, based on a great story. Buy it. Way Of The Tiger/Gremlin (YS6, 9) Xecutor/Ace (YS23, 9)    A tough and gritty shoot 'em up, with lots of action, but needing lots of skill to finish. A blast! Heavy On The Mockery (YS7)     There has to be something devilish about the men who could come up with a game as fiendish as Heavy On The Magick. Devilishly clever at any rate. To find out we told YS's roving reporter, Phil South, to go to hell. Fortunately, he just took the train to Dudley where he met the men to whom hex means rather more than just code -- Gargoyle's Greg Foilis and Royston Carter. New Morning (YS40)     A short story by "Phyllis Stein" Rage Hard (YS34)     More hard software for Phil South to write home about, as he encounters not only a new Basic for the Plus 3 but also a whole new language. Rage Hard (YS41)     More from the column which looks more at your Spectrum hardware than your software, (honk). Phil South takes his magic screwdriver to Music Maestro for all Spectrum computers, and avoids ALL the obvious puns. (Well nearly all...) Rage Hard (YS42)     A new disk system for the Speccy?. Yes indeedy, as this month Phil Snout takes his magic screwdriver to Video Vault's "CliveDrive". Rage Hard! (YS36)     Phil South looks at the ultimate deterrent in the RAM pack wobble stakes, as MGT launches the TwoFace, a switchable two-way user port. Rage Hard! (YS38)     More Rage Soft this month as Phil South sticks his nose into Companion Software's EX-BASIC. Rage Hard! (YS39)     Working For Uncle Sam At Last! As the release of the SAM computer from Miles Gordon Technology draws nearer, Phil South reports on the shape of things to come. Rage Hard! (YS47)     It's been a long time in the making, but soon we'll all be able to thrill to the delights of the new SAM Coupe computer from MGT. Phil South tools up to investigate the delay. The PC 200 (YS35)     The new Sinclair may not be a Spectrum, but it's an IBM PC Compatible! Hoo boy, we're going to have to get Technical Phil South to have a look at this...