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Issue 18
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Page count 220
Editor Steve Carey


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The ST Format Shrine
ST Format 18
  January 1991
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Biggest Ever Issue!

Reasons to be CHEERFUL
How Atari's frantic activity is set to transform your ST
50 best games of the year, 35 reviews, 43 essential tips

Interphase: complete game on disk - full guide inside. We gave it 93% and now we give it to you!
With this issue, the £29.99 Mirrorsoft ST FORMAT classic - complete!


Contents

•  News
•  Game reviews
•  Features
•  Software and Hardware reviews
•  Adverts



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Disk 1

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•  Golden Axe Exclusive! Fully playable demo of Virgin's forthcoming arcade licence. It's absorbing! It's Addictive! It's a beat-em-up - so get in there and get bashing
•  Puzznic Exclusive! Ocean's mind-bending good puzzle game makes it to the Cover Disk as a fully playable four level demo. Don;t just take our word for it - try it yourself!
•  Degas Histogram A handy accessory for everyone who already owns the DEGAS art package. Check the colour usage on any picture at the touch of a button
•  Personal Finance Manager Plus Christmas? Bah, hunbug! Count the cash with Ebenezer using this demo version of Microdeal's accounts package
•  Dot2Dot The full edsoft program teaches you numbers with dot-to-dot drawings
•  Selector Choose you accessories, your resolution (not your New Years one) and set up tour system with this handy utility
•  Art Gallery An on-line gallery at a moment's notice - just add pictures!
•  Reader Reads documents out loud!

 

 

News Items

  Unveiled: Super-fast Mega STE   Atari USA have unveiled the latest addition to the ST range of computers
  The STE on the move   Atari are releasing an STE version of the luggable ST, Stacy, which is said to overcome the earlier edition's battery problems.
  A falling Star   The Star LC24-10 printer has just received a mahor price cut, dropping from £343.85 to £297.85
  ST finds a new PAL   At last there's some video hardware for the ST! Syntronix - who've been producing genlocks and signal splitters for other, lesser computers for several years now - have just moved onto the ST.
  Sample the delights of ST sounds    
  Buy your ST a PC - for under £100   The ever-popular PC emulator PC Speed has just taken a massive price cut of nearly 50% to just £99
  Sound Investment   C-Labs Creator and Notator packages are the best MIDI sequencer programs you can buy
  Atari plan more shows    
  Zak McKracken teams up with Indy (and Dad)   Two of the best graphic adventures of the past year, the Lucasfilm games Zak McKrachen and the Alien Mindbenders and Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade, have been bundled together by US Gold
  Golden Images ball-deficient mouse    

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Games Reviewed

  9 Lives   Arc £24.99 74%  
  Alpha Waves   Infogrames £24.99 83%  
  ATF 2   Digital Integration £24.99 74%  
  Badlands   Domark £24.99 72%  
  Brain Blasters   Ubisoft £19.99 88%  
  Car-vup   Core Design £19.99 79%  
  Chase HQ 2   Ocean £24.99 78%  
  Chess Simulator   Infogrames £24.99 62%  
  Chip's Challenge   US Gold £19.99 82%  
  Conflict   Mastertronic £4.99 60%  
  Corporation   Core Design £24.99 87%  
  Defender 2   Arc £19.99 88%  
  Golden Axe   Virgin £24.99 82%  
  Gremlins 2   Elite £19.99 70%  
  Helter Skelter   Audiogenic £19.99 75%  
  Lost Patrol   Ocean £24.99 88%  
  Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge ** Review ** Gremlin £19.99 86%  
  Mig 29 Soviet Fighter   Codemasters £6.99 30%  
  Murders in Space   Infogrames £24.99 83%  
  Narco Police   Dinamic £24.99 46%  
  Nitro   Psygnosis £19.99 41%  
  Omnicron Conspiracy   Mirrorsoft £24.99 42%  
  Pang   Ocean £24.99 88%  
  Puzznic   Ocean £24.99 86%  
  Shadow Warriors   Ocean £24.95 58%  
  Speedball 2 ** Review ** Mirrorsoft £24.99 88%  
  Street Hockey   gonzo Games £24.99 64%  
  Supremacy   Melbourne House £29.99 90%
  The Curse of RA   Rainbow Arts £19.99 83%  
  The Final Battle   PSS £24.99 52%  
  Toyota Celica GT Rally   Gremlin £24.99 79%  
  Ultimate Ride   Mindscape £24.99 67%  
  USS John Young   Magic Bytes £24.99 34%  
  Vector Championship Run   Impulze £24.99 40%  

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