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Issue 62
May 1987

Editor
David Kelly
Deputy editor
Graham Taylor
Staff writer
Jim Douglas
Art editor
Gareth Jones
Adventure help
Gordo Greatbelly
ZapChat
Jon Riglar
Helpline
Andrew Hewson
Contributors
Richard Price
Andy Moss
Gary Rook
Hardware correspondent
Rupert Goodwins
Advertisement manager
Louise Fanthorpe
Deputy advertisement manager
Mike Corr
Production assistant
Alison Morton
Advertisement secretary
Linda Everest
Subscriptions manager
Carl Dunne
Publisher
Terry Pratt

Sinclair User is published monthly by EMAP Business and Computer Publications

Cover illustration John Higgins

SOFTWARE
AMAUROTEMastertronic
BRAINACHECode Masters
CYROXPower House
DOC THE DESTROYERMelbourne House
DRAGON'S LAIR IISoftware Projects
HEAD OVER HEELSOcean
I, BALLFirebird
IMAGINATIONFirebird
INDOOR SPORTSAdvance
KINETICFirebird
KINGDOM OF KRELLAnco
KNUCKLE BUSTERSMelbourne House
KOBYASHI NARUMastertronic
KORONIS RIFTActivision
LEGIONS OF DEATHLothlorien
NETHER EARTHArgus
NEMESIS THE WARLOCKMartech
PAWGilsoft
PSI-5 TRADING COMPANYUS Gold
SCEPTRE OF BAGHDADAtlantis
SCOTT ADAMS' SCOOPSUS Gold
SENTINELFirebird
SHORT CIRCUITOcean
STAR RAIDERS IIElectric Dreams
THRONE OF FIREMelbourne House
THRUST IIFirebird
VULCANCCS
WORLD GAMESUS Gold
XENSuper Sparklers
ZULU WARSCCS
COVER SMASH
Star Raiders II
PREVIEWS

Keeping you ahead of the pack, naturally
The only way to find out what's going to be important, before anyone else. With Gun Runner, Catch 23, Renegade, The Big Sleaze, Army Moves ...

FEATURES

Platforms perfection
Everything you need to know about the development of platform games

Coin-op special report
Live from Tokyo - an exclusive report on all that's new that eats money

Fantastic fanzines
All over the country heads are bent over vintage typewriters producing electrifying software fanzines. We expose the shocking truth

ATTACK OF THE OGROIDS

SU's own solo role-playing game

Ogroid

It's a unique game-in-a-mag board-game with micro bits 'n' bobs. And no one's seen anything quite like it before!

5 STAR POKES

Infinity at your fingertips
All you'll ever need to beat Arkanoid, Nemesis, Feud, Judge Dredd and more ...

128K MEGA PREVIEW

Look at Ocean's first all-new 128K megagame

Screenshot

Tai-Pan is its name and frankly, it's going to blow the rest of the world to pieces. Phew!

COMPETITIONS

Star Raiders II
SU cares! On offer we've got groovy games, a load of perfect posters, and a chance to meet Electric Dreams' programmers hard at work

Win a bike
Mastertronic's doing the game of The Milk Race and we've got a magnificent hand-built Dawes 12-speed racer to ride away on

Indoor Sports
Someone's going to walk away (stagger, probably) with a full-size table-tennis table (who knows how they're going to get down the stairs)

REGULARS

Write Stuff
ZapChat
MapChat
5-Star Pokes
Whodunwot
Compo Winners
Top Twenty
Letters
Poster No3
Code Talk
Outlands
Hewson's Helpline
Gordo Greatbelly
Sinclair Surgery
Next Month
Gremlin

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Printed by
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Distributed by
EMAP Publications Ltd.

© Copyright 1987
Sinclair User
ISSN No. 0262-5458


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