THIS IS

AMIGA
POWER

OVER 300
GAMES RATED IN EVERY ISSUE!

EDITOR
Matt Bielby

DEPUTY EDITOR
Mark Ramshaw

STAFF WRITERS
Stuart Campbell
Matthew Squires

CONSULTANT EDITOR
Gary Penn

CONTRIBUTORS
Jonathan Davies, Karl Foster, Dave Golder, Rich Pelley, Neil West

SPECIAL THANKS THIS ISSUE TO: Tim Harris of Bath Gladiators American Football Club for the loan of the kit seen on page 11. Cheers Tim, and thanks to Marcus too for manfully managing to squeeze into it. Also a big thank you to hero-of-the-hour Pat McDonald for helping out with the cover disk. Cheers matey.

GOOD LUCK TO: Kate Hodges, the ed's ex-flattie, friend of AMIGA POWER, and mum to be (indeed, probably full-blown mum by the time you read this). Keep those pelvic floor exercises up, girlie! And welcome to the world little Jake or Chloe Hodges (depending on what sex you are) - have a good one!

THE CHARTS
The ones that are going up, the ones that are coming down and (erm) lots of other ones. Plus top chart comment - it' all here!

COMPLETE CONTROL
Over 10 pages of the best tips around, in the Amiga's premier hints section, Knights Of The Sky and Another World get the mega treatment, plus The Last Resort (with Jonathan Davies) kicks off - we may have blatantly nicked the title from a well known TV chat show, but the rest of this long-awaited Q&A section is all new!

OCEAN'S NEW WAVE
Britain's biggest software house has one of the most exciting range of games it's ever had lined up for this year. Read all about them here, and then, on page 60, learn the philosophy behind Ocean Software director Gary Bracey.

IF I'D KNOWN THEN...
Fergus McGovern of Probe Software, perhaps the UK's top converter of arcade games, talks about the past and - yes! - the future!

MEGA LO MANIA II: DIARY OF A GAME
Starts this month - Sensible Software's month-by-month account of the trials and tribulations of putting together a top quality original game. This month: the basic idea starts to gel...

DEFINITION OF SOUND
This month - the fabulous world of platform games. And to cope with such a HUGE subject matter our unique buyer's guide actually goes up a page in size. Hurrah!

DO THE WRITE THING
This is the bit that YOU write - so don't come running to us if you think it's a load of old crap. This month: an attempt to think up some funny Lemmings names, the Emperor Of The United states Of America (yes, really), our 'brilliant' year, should we introduce the 'red pages' to the back of the mag (!) and the LAST EVER Stuart N Hardy!

THE BOTTOM LINE
The world's biggest monthly (well, we can't think of a bigger one) guide to the vast back catalogue of Amiga games once again gets squished into eight pages. Keep your heads down - it's going to explode one of these days!

SUBS!
Always promised yourself a subscription? Then get it here. Plus! Back issues, binders and lots of other good stuff!

AMIGA UNIVERSE
New this month! Your complete handbook to every major computer character to appear on the Amiga!

GAMES OF THE MONTH

JOHN MADDEN
Best American Football game ever!

SHADOW LANDS
New 'Photoscape' FRP system

LEISURE SUIT LARRY 5
Oh dear. Oh deary deary dear...

HARLEQUIN
Sonic the Hedgehog? Robocod? Pah! This is how it should be done...

STORM MASTER
French arcade strategy just gets better

BLACK CRYPT
As every month, there has to be a Dungeon Master-clone...

ABANDONED PLACES
Possibly the biggest FRP ever

ALSO REVIEWED
Big Run
Borobodur
Crime City
4D Sports Driving
Harpoon
Indy Heat
PGA Tour Golf Tournament Courses Disk
Steel Empire
Top Banana
Videokid

BUDGET
Black Hornet
Future Basketball
Jet Set Willy 2
Jupiter's Masterdrive
Manix
Mindbender
Mystical
Resolution 101
Sir Fred
Thunderstrike
Ultimate Golf

COMPILATIONS
Quatro Fighters
Soccer Stars

PD
Bip
Dilemma
Doody
Jetman