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Troubleshootin' Pete had a flying visit to Bury St Edmonds (wise man) to see Martech's new game, Zoids. It's a strategic wargame where you have to pit your wits against the evil robot Zoids. More of that next issue. So what else is new this month? Well, Saga is about to release a word processor that it says is better than Tasword -- we shall see! It's also going to bring out another keyboard, the Saga 2+ but that's all I know at the moment. Domark is keeping busy. It plans to release eight to ten games next year and there's a good chance that you'll be seeing Eureka II amongst them. There'll be prizes too, though not on the scale of Eureka -- sorry chaps. Oh, and I nearly forgot, Domark is also hoping to secure the rights to the new James Bond film. Let's hope it'll be better than the last one -- game that is! Electric Dreams is bringing out Back To The Future. Funny that, since it didn't know anything about it last month. Well, you know where you read it first. Ocean has plans to release absolutely zillions of games next year. You should see the appearance of Cosmic Wartones, a shoot'em up, Nomad, another shoot'em up and Hunchback II, not a shoot'em up (it's an adventure) before Christmas. Things should hot up even more in 1986. January sees the release of NFL Superbowl to coincide with the final of the Superbowl. Here's an interesting little fact. If you unroll all the Rasputin tapes we gave away last issue and lay them end to end they'll run to 2106 Kilometers. Wow! Ed reckons that's the distance between here and Russia, but then he's never been very good at geography. What else? Oh yeah, Movie -- an interactive 3D adventure. The action takes place in gangland New York and you've gotta find a cassette tape that contains vital info. Sounds fab! And for sci-fi addicts there's V. It's based on the TV series. Ocean is also rewriting Street Hawk 'cos it thought it was too dreadful to market. For once it's the first to admit it. The rights to Superman outside the UK have been snapped up by software giants US Gold. Argus Press Software hasn't exactly taken the charts by storm this year even with its subsidiaries Quicksilva, Bug Byte and Lothlorien but it looks set to release simply squillions of games next year. Let's see how good it is at keeping its New Year resolution. One of the first of these games will be about telly's favourite plastic presenter, Max Headroom. It's due to stutter out s-s-sometime soon. And finally we've a detective story with a happy ending -- but don't try this yourselves kids. Odin had a break-in about a month ago and thieves got away with a lot of old deleted titles and eight copies of Nodes Of Yesod. Paul McKenna said, "Villains smashed down the door of Bug Bytes' premises where we were storing some software and helped themselves. We put the feelers out and got info that the goods were out on the streets in Manchester and Liverpool only an hour later." Odin actually recovered nearly all the software and six of the eight copies of Nodes Of Yesod but not with the help of the Police as I'd assumed. "Once we knew who had stolen the stuff and where it was located it was fairly straightforward. We just paid a little visit to these villains at 1 o'clock in the morning and got back all the stuff. They certainly won't do it again." That sounds ominous. Paul added, "Incidentally we weren't insured." Good job you got your stuff back then, eh lads? Teresa Maughan
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