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Reviews: 0123 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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'Allo, 'Allo, 'Allo (YS38) Is Amstrad's new Sinclair PC 200 the best thing since Block-busters, or is it as useful as a one-legged cyclist? Ciaran Brennan talked to a few of the industry big-wigs to see what they had to say... 1992: That Was The Year That Was (YS86) A Really Rather Big Competition (as competitions go!) (YS8) BACKLASH (YS8) This month Max Phillips finds something nasty under his bed. BACKLASH (YS10) MAX PHILLIPS on the growing menace deep in our society... BACKLASH (YS11) Watch out for the Revenge Of The Mutant Transpotters. Max Phillips hands out a warning. BACKLASH (YS12) What the world needs is more Willies and Wallies... so here's Max Phillips! BACKLASH (YS14) Max Phillips has no scruples? Yes, no or depends.... BACKSTABBIN' (YS25) John Minson, ace gossip driveller and scandal-monger mouths off once more on all things Spectrum. Sit back and digest your Christmas pud over this. BACKSTABBIN' (YS26) Gypsy Rose Minson asks you to cross his palm with silver (50 pound minimum) while he gives you the shape of things to come (Rectangular? Long, thin, with wibbly shapes on the end?) in 1988. Or possibly not... BACKSTABBIN' (YS27) Stalking the corridors of controversy, walking those mean streets of computer gaming - no it's not Arnold Schwarzenegger, but "Slim" John Minson. This month he turns his mind to women. Oo-er! BACKSTABBIN' (YS29) Lights... camera... action. John Minson invites you to 'Come up and see him some time' to find out whether movie tie-ins move you. And why not? Ghost In The Machine (YS1) What does the name David Crane mean to you? How about Pitfall? Or Space Shuttle? And, of course, there's always Ghostbusters. Alison Hjul was ushered in to his (ghostly) presence to meet the man behind the machine code... GoodByeee (YS93) THAT WAS YS, THEY WERE: 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. Hold My Hand Very Tightly (Very Tightly) (YS44) by Whistlin' Rick Wilson Jugglers Ahoy! (YS93) The Jugglers, eh? A fine body of bods. Here we get a few words of wisdom from, er, the ones we could track down. Let The People Decide - The Results! (YS93) YS Readers' Greatest and Worst Games Ever Letters (YS1, YS2, YS3, YS4, YS5, YS6, YS7, YS8, YS9, YS10, YS11, YS12, YS13, YS14, YS15, YS16, YS17, YS18, YS19, YS20, YS21, YS22, YS23, YS24, YS25, YS26, YS27, YS28, YS29, YS30, YS31, YS32, YS33, YS34, YS35, YS36, YS37, YS38, YS39, YS40, YS41, YS42, YS43, YS44, YS45, YS46, YS47, YS48) New Morning (YS40) A short story by "Phyllis Stein" Only Kidding (YS31) There's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone has to pay, and from now on it's going to be YS. Every month Graeme Kidd will be selecting a personality to take to lunch, nipping off for a long meal and charging it up as "expenses". (However did Snouty miss an opportunity like this? T'zer) Only Kidding (YS32) From Radio Rentals to dishwashers, Graeme Kidd, our resident gastronomic columnist digs the dirt on Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond, only to find the dishes sparkling clean. Only Kidding (YS33) Steinar Lund is the man behind both our Psycho Pigs cover and this month's ninja masterpiece, but can he stomach a meal with Graeme Kidd? Read on and find out... Only Kidding (YS34) From The Karl Marx library to the stars. Lunch with the Domarks - Dominic Wheatley and Mark Strachan - is something to look forward to. Good food, good wine and animated company. They're fun, with a capital 'F', as our man 'Out to Lunch', Graeme Kidd found out. Only Kidding (YS35) Mama Mia! Graeme Kidd Goes Italian with Ocean's software supremo, Gary Bracey. 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. Rage Hard! (YS51) Just as the SAM Coupe launches itself upon an anticipatory public, heralding a new dawn in Speccy development, so another innovation looks set to make its mark on our playing habits. Jonathan Davies reports on the CodeMasters' new CD Game Pack, a simple little system with encouraging potential. Rage Hard! (YS52) Following fast on the heels of last month's SAM Coupe review, here comes the SAM disk drive and DOS; Sean Kelly gets out his trusty screwdriver and has a good poke. Rage Hard! (YS55) It's been a good year and a half since we last took a peek into the wonderful world of Micronet, and it's come an awful long way since then. MATT BIELBY tries to get his mind around it all. Rage Hard! (YS57) The Hobbit is a Soviet Spectrum clone that does everything Uncle Clive built into the original Speccy, plus a lot of the things he forgot - and it'd only cost you 13 years' salary to buy one! Join big KEITH POMFRET for... THE STORY OF THE SOVIET SPECTRUM Rage Hard! (YS61) Remember the Hobbit, the Soviet Spectrum clone we wrote about a few months ago? Well, they're so proud of it over in Leningrad they asked us to pop over and have a loom "Okay," said big KEITH POMFRET (who doesn't need asking twice), "I'm on my way!" SAM Centre - SAMCo's Demise (YS81) It's official - SAMCo has gone down. But! The Coupe lives on. Jon Pillar takes up the story... SAM Special 1 - SAM: Is It The Speccy Of The Nineties!? (YS51) OR If You Think The Spectrum Is 'Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow', Why Not Try A SAM Toupe? SAM Special 2 - The SAM Coupe Fax Box (YS51) SAM Special 3 - Bruce Gordon Interview (YS51) SAM Special 4 - Soft on SAM? (YS51) SAM Special 5 - FLASH !! (Oo-er!) (YS51) Well, you've seen the pictures all over the shop, so you'll already know that the SAM Coupe comes with its own art package. But what's it like? Well read on, cloth-head, and you might find out... SAM Surgeon - MGT's Demise (YS56) So what really has happened to the SAM Coupe? Show Us Your Willy! (YS2) Tommy Nash interviews Matthew Smith. Show Us Your Wimpy! (YS5) E'lite anything... including the last Wimpy in Walsall. Even as we eat, Rachael Smith is totally out to lunch with Karen and Nigel, the team that signed the Walsall pact to program Ghosts And Goblins... T'zers (YS1, YS2, YS3, YS4, YS5, YS8, YS9, YS10, YS12, YS13, YS14, YS16, YS18, YS19) The Big YS Sell-Off (YS52) Your Sinclair gets sold to Future Publishing - here's how... The Do-It-Yourself Adventure Special (YS34) The Enormous, Huge, Wonderful, Ace, Triffic, Supersonic, Fab, Over-The-Top, Incredible, Far-Out, Mind-Blowing, Absolutely Ginormous, Mega-Brill YS Compo! (YS3) The Games That Time Forgot (YS93) The Grand Chaos Play-Off (YS93) The Official YS Beginners Guide To Adventures (YS66) Inspired by a letter from me published in YS64 (blush), Mike Gerrard produced this masterpiece... 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... The YS Guide To 'YS-Speak' (YS93) Good evening. If you'd care to take your seats, Professor of Linguistics Rich Pelley will begin his lecture on the peculiar subset of English known as 'YS-speak'. Or something. The YS Panto Compo! (YS25) The YS Personality Test (YS44) Got a dodgy persona? Here's your chance to find out! The YS Story (YS93) YS. It's been here for ten (ten! Ten!) years (give or take a couple of years) and has inspired countless perfectly ordinary people to call themselves 'Spec-chums' and use phrases like 'wagga wagga' and 'or something' in everyday conversation. Ace investigative journalist Jonathan Davies leaves no jokes untold in this in-depth report revealing where YS came from, what happened in it, and whose fault it all was. What Will You Be Playing This Christmas? (YS21) Sega? Nintendo? Or a Nissan Cherry? It could be an expensive Christmas this year. Marcus Berkmann compares the games consoles with Amstrad's glistening new Spectrum +3. Word Up! (YS79) In which Hutch explains all those peculiarly YS-ish words that have perplexed you, and the rest of the team, since the third moon in Septuagesima. Eh? YS Adventures (YS5, YS6, YS7, YS8, YS9, YS10, YS11, YS12, YS13, YS14, YS15, YS17, YS18, YS19, YS20, YS22, YS23, YS24, YS25, YS26, YS27, YS28, YS29, YS30, YS31, YS34, YS35, YS36, YS37, YS38, YS39, YS41, YS42, YS43, YS44, YS46, YS47, YS49, YS50, YS51, YS52, YS53, YS54, YS58, YS60) YS Goes As Mad As A Hatter! Or A March Hare In May! (YS29) YS Goes To Alton Towers (YS23) Sick bags in hands, the YS Team take a death defying leap in the fantasy world of Alton Towers. Bleeurghhhh! And all because it's a lorra, lorra fun! YS To Close Down (YS92) Jonathan Nash reveals the approaching end of an era ZX Spectrum +2 (YS11) At last... a decent computer from Amstrad! Whatever happened to Uncle Clive...? Max Phillips is suitably impressed by Amstrad's tarted-up Speccy 128... |