YS Goes As Mad As A Hatter! Or A March Hare In May!

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It's true! We've totally flipped our lids this time! We must be as nutty as a fruitbat, as daft as a brush, as loopy as a can of peas, as dotty as a potty! Positively dithyrambic even! Why? Well, just take a look at that huge pile of fabby prizes bursting off the Mad Hatter's tea table in the pixillated pic shown here. They're just waiting to be given away in this here huge, extensively gross, gigantic Crazycompo of ours.      WORRA WONDERLAND And crazy you'll be too if you miss this! Even Alice was astonished.     'Crumbs, just feast your eyes on all of those prizes!' she exclaimed, 'Why these YS Compos just get bigger and bigger all the time, while I get smaller and smaller and everything gets curiouser and curiouser.'     'You've been drinking!' accused the Mad Hatter manically.     'Only from the bottle marked 'Drink Me Quick,' replied Alice.     'She's mad, she's mad, she's really really mad.' squealed Michael Jackson, sorry, the Dormouse.     'Not as mad as YS,' snurfle murfled the Mad March Hare with his cake hole stuffed full. 'They must be completely demented to be giving away all these fabulous prizes from top software houses. Absolutely cuckoo!'     'Cook who?' asked the Dormouse sleepily. Suddenly the Cheshire cat disappeared leaving only a grin from 'ere to 'ere!     And you'll have a grin like the Cheshire cat when you hear what the prizes are. There's Garfield from The Edge, Platoon from Ocean, Predator from Activision, signed Vixen photos from Martech, Ikari Warriors from Elite, Cybernoid from Hewson, Blood Valley from Gremlin, plus T-shirts, posters, mugs and sweatshirts and loads, loads more. And it's a cinch to enter too!      Click picture for large version

1 We're bonkers enough to be giving away 50 Garfield games and 100 Garfield posters from The Edge, if you can answer the following question. What is Garfield's fave Italian nibble?   Spag Bol   Sophia Loren   Lasagne		2 Boing! There are 100 Mega Apocalypse, Nigel Mansell and Slaine posers, as well as 50 signed photographs of Vixen to be won from Martech, if you can tell us what Nigel Mansell is famous for?   Ski Jumping   Motor Racing   Origami		3 We managed to convince Elite of our sanity just long enough for it to give us 30 copies of Ikari Warriors. If you want your own copy, tell us which is the regimental song of the Ikari Warriors?   Hush A Bye Baby   Fly, Eddie, Fly   Ikari, Dikari Dock
4 This is Virgin on the ridiculous! 100 Dan Dare posters to be won! All you have to do is tell us what trusty boys own comic the original Dan Dare appeared in all those years ago.   Jackie   The Starling   The Eagle (Is that you Eddie?)		5 Daffy Duck? Barmy Bear? Crazy Paving? Nope, it's Potty Piranha who is giving away 10 copies each of Yogi Bear, Through The Trapdoor and Flunky, if you can name Yogi Bear's buddy. Was it:   Boo Boo   Boo Who?   Don't cry, it's only a joke!		6 There's 20 copies of Cascade's Frightmare up for grabs, if you can tell us the name of the completely hatstand baddie who featured in 'Nightmare On Elm Street'?   Freddie Kruger   Nigel Lawson   Eddie The Eagle
7 Hewson is as bananas as we are! 50 copies of Cybernoid can be won if you can answer the following tricky medical problem. Which of these can cause nasal problems?   Haemorrhoids   Adenoids   Clement Freud		8 There are 30 wacky copies of Gunship to be won if you can tell us what type of chopper features in the game.   A Kitchen Devil   Oo-er!   AH-64 Apache helicopter		9 There am 30 Blood Valley games from Gremlin on offer if you can name the most famous fruitcake from Transylvania. Was it:   Norman Tebbit   Count Dracula   Baron Munchousen
10 The men in white coats (the ones from the lab stoopid!), said we could give away 20 Firebird games and 30 Firebird posters, if you can pick out the name of a recent Firebird release from the following.   Blue Bottle   Black Lamp   Green Grass		11 We must be completely cake-stand! Here are 20 copies of Cage Match, 20 copies of Ghostbusters and 20 copies of Ball Blazer, for those of you who can work out the answer to them. What do you get if you cross a Ghostbuster with a Ball Blazer?   a mess, if you do it in a blender   a Ghostblazer   F'nar, f'nar!		12 Win one of 10 Destiny sweatshirts, T-Shirts or mugs by completing this famous song title. 'You Are My...   'Custard Cream That's Been Dunked In My Coffee'   'Cuddly Wuddly Straightjacket'   'Destiny'
13 Mad we may be, but stingy, definitely not. To win one of 10 Bard's Tale games, 20 Electronic Arts T-Shirts, 20 Electronic Arts Mugs or 100 Pegasus posters, simply tell us which of the following is a genuine quote from the true Bard himself?   "Now is the winter of our discontent, it's flippin' freezin"   "If music be the food of love, Phil prefers a sarnie"   "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"		14 Feeling fruity, nutty, meaty or even beefy? Okay then, tell us what animal bacon comes from and you could win yourself one of 30 porky little copies of Oink! from CRL. Is it:   a pig   a supermarket   an aardvark		15 Identify the traditional yell made by pilots of crashing planes, trains and computer games, and win yourself one of five copies each of Platoon and Firefly or six mugs and T-Shirts from Ocean. Is it:   July Day, July Day!   M'aidez, M'aidez!   Doris Day, Doris Day!
16 Up the pole, round the bend, in The Power House, and back to the YS office, armed with 25 copies each of Dervish and Disposable Heroes to give away. Just tell us the wattage of the lightbulb which illuminates the pages of Street Life. Is it:   Ben Watt   100 Watt   You wott?		17 20 copies of Activision's Predator are up for grabs. All you have to do is tell us who starred in the feature film of the same name?   Rambo 'Fruitcake' Stallone   Arnold 'Beefcake' Schwarzenegger   Harry Cross		18 We've got bats in the belfry and 30 copies of Star Paws in the basement. Tell us the name of the wooky who starred in the film Star Wars, and one of Software Projects natty new games could be yours. Was it:   Chewbacca   Chewingum   Chew lookin' at me?
	19 Those lunatics at Gremlin have got six Andy Capp beer glasses and 25 Andy Capp T-shirt transfers to give away, if you can tell us, who is Andy Capp's wife?   Ebb   Flo   Tide		20 And we just couldn't call ourselves completely and utterly hatstand if we didn't offer 25 copies of US Gold's Rolling Thunder as the final mad giveaway in this mega Crazycompo. Just tell us what freak weather phenomenon hit Britain late last year [1987]. Was it?   Ian McGaskill   Sunshine   Severe wind

    

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Published in the May 1988 issue of Your Sinclair

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