Quattro Power

Crash

Overall 80%

Nick Roberts 80%

BIGBOX THRILLS! What's the best way to catch up on all the great games that appeared on the Spectrum a while back. One: go out and buy every single one and spend a fortune? Tow: pop around to your mate's house and nick his copies? Or three: take a trip down to your local software shop and snap up one of the great new compilations? Well, one's only for the stupid, two's only for complete basts, so it must be three! NICK ROBERTS gives you the low-down on the current hits in compilation land! Code Masters £2.99 At that sort of price you can't go wrong, really. All the packs are themed but that doesn't mean there's a lack of variety because there's plenty of different game styles to contend with (you would not believe it, etc etc...). Quattro Power features Moto X, a horizontally-viewed motorbike scrambling game, Twin Turbo 8 - yer average racing car game - Pro Powerboat is basically speed on water, and the brilliant ATV Sim, a two-player scrambling game in, erm, ATVs.

Your Sinclair

Overall 91%

Jonathan Davies 91%

BARGAIN BASEMENT This month, Bargain Basement is brought to you by YS's two (almost) resident heart-throbs (or so they keep telling us) JONATHAN DAVIES and RICH PELLEY. Hoorah! QUATTRO POWER Codemasters £2.99 Reviewer: Jonathan Davies Fear not. The Codies haven't finally got around to doing an Audi Simulator or even an Extinct Fizzy Drink Simulator. The Quattro in the title refers to the fact that there are four old Codies titles crammed onto this tape, making it a bit of a bargain barg. And the games are... Moto Cross Simulator (a fairly dire 'little motorbike going over lots of logs and things' game), Twin Turbo V8 (an appalling OutRun clone - hardly the Codies' at their best), ATV Simulator (a genuinely 'amazingly crucially addictive - it's wicked!!!' buggy simulator which I'll have to admit to playing for hours when it first came out) and Pro Powerboat Simulator (a generally competent, erm, powerboat simulator). So that's two normal Codies games, one good game and an absolute corker (near enough), all crammed onto one tape for three quid. Not bad, really. I reckon it would be worth it just for ATV Sim to tell the truth. It really is a neat little game, and with two players the feeling of competition becomes almost homicidal. So that's a cautious pat on the back for the Codies then, and a firm recommendation for everyone else.

Hey, hey, hey! Who'd have believed a few months ago that a bunch of Codies Sims would get barg of the month, eh?

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