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This list mostly games. Regular reviews range from an occasional blurb to usually a column to a page to rarely a couple pages. Feature reviews are several pages. Genre-specific reviews are same as regular, but in that genre without any special extras. Per-platform reviews are the same deal, but grouped by platform. Game/program type-ins are not included. Games can appear more than once (typically on a different platform), even within the same issue. There are also game books not listed here in "Between Covers" section.

#1 1985-04 - Software Reviews: Flyer Fox, Pole Position, 3D Time Trek, Pitstop 2, Frontline, ACE, Intrigue Pentathlon, Congo Bongo, Seaside Special, Subterranean Stryker, Penetrator, Zodiac, MS. PAC-MAN, Battle Through Time, Stellar Wars / Blitz, Crazy Golf, Pole Position, Castle Quest, Gandalf The Sorcerer, Slapshot, Stout of Sprout, Pacmania, Jet Book Jack, Hunchback 2, Archon, Choes, Gyron, Everyone's a Wally, Emerald Isle, Talisman, Ice Palace, Alien 8, Shadowfire; Adventure Reviews: Technical Ted, Heroes of Karn, Hellfire

#2 1985-05 - Features: Exodus: Ultima III, Shadowfire; Reviews: Mama Llama, Gribbly's Day Out, Cauldron, Jammin, Dropzone, Mindshadow, Wizards Lair, The Rind of Darkness, Blagger, Alcatraz II, 4 Minute Warning, The Bulge, Android One (short), A Day in the Life (short), Sir Lancelot (short), Tir Na Nog, Wriggler, Stay Cool, Osprey, Kissin' Kousins, Death Star Interceptor, Formula One, Splat!, Flight Path 737, Interdictor Pilot, Glider Pilot, Defend Or Die!, Tales of the Arabian Knights, Give My Regards to Broad, Murder by the Dozen, Grand Larceny, Moon Buggy (short), International Basketball, Aqua Racer, Mushrooms From Mars, Gremlins, Rock 'n' Bolt, Manic Miner, Starion, Shades, Icicle Works, Atari Smash Hits, World Series Baseball

#4 1985-07 - Features: A View to Kill, Archon, Revs; Reviews: Charlie and the Chocolate, Chicken Chase, Frankenstein 2000, Entombed, The Rocky Horror Show, Quasimodo, Knight Lore, Super Pipeline II, Chopper, Arabian Nights, Komplex, Hyper Sports, Dangermouse in Double, Tapper, Taskmaster, Star League Baseball, Warlord, Mad Doctor, Elidon, Ghetto Blaster, Dambusters, Herbert's Dummy Run, Le Mans, The Covenant, Don't Buy This (Race Ace, o, Weasel Willy, Firebird, Fruit Machine)

#5 1985-08 - Features: Quake Minus One, The Spectrum Collection (Football Manager, The Hobbit, Jetpac, Manic Miner, Atic Atac, Dungeon Adventure, Computer Scrabble, Ant Attack, Scuba Dive, Bugaboo, Match Point, Codename Mat, The Lords of Midnight, Beach-Head, Knight Lore); Reviews: Beach Head II, Sky Fox, Blue Max 2001, Thing on a Spring, Juggernaut, Jump Jet, Knockout, Boulderdash, Sword of Destiny, Xcel, Jet Set Willy II, The Way of the Exploding, Repton, Monster Trivia, Lazy Jones, Cylu, Wizard, Cauldron, Hijack, Dorks Dilemma, Lands of Havoc, Go to Hell, Chicane, Five A Side Soccer, Ian Botham's Test Match, Jack Charlton's Match, The Chess Game, Magic Mushrooms, Graham Gooch's Test Cricket, International Tennis, Paws, Nick Faldo Plays The Open, Nodes of Yessod, Spy vs Spy, Fiona Rides Out, Rupert and the Toymakers, Dun Durach

#6 1985-09 - Features: Racing Destruction Set, Commodore 64 Collection (International Soccer, Zork I, Boulderdash, Impossible Mission, Pitstop II, Decathlon, Spy vs Spy, Elite, Archon, M.U.L.E., Dropzone, Squash, David's Midnight Magic, Interdictor Pilot, Blue Max), Exodus Ultima III, Summer Games II, Elite; Reviews: Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Codename Mat II, Tournament Snooker, April Showers, Magician's Ball, Red Moon, Dynamite Dan, Kennedy Approach, Pole Position, Mig Alley Ace, Popeye, Superbrat, That's the Spirit, Aabatron, Action Biker, Desert Burner, Gridtrap, Rescue on Fractalus, Merlin, St. Crippens, Tour de France, Great American Cross-Country Road Race, Wishbringer, Highway Encounter, Frank Bruno's Boxing, Abu Simbel Profanation, Talos, Disk Hobbit

#7 1985-10 - Features: The Young Ones, Beoden's Journey, Sorderon's Shadow, Barry McGuigan's Boxing, The BBC Collection (Revs, Elite, Combat Lynx, Castle Quest, Space Pilot, Philosopher's Quest, Hobbit, Alien 8, Magic Mushrooms, Death Star); Reviews: William Wobbler, Who Dares Wins - The SAS, Journey, Speed King, Video's Revenge, Super Sam, Red Arrows, Bounty Bob Strikes Back, Pinball Construction Set, Ghost Chaser, Nightshade, Wizards Lair, Mail Order Monsters, Macadam Bumper, The Goonies, Seven Cities of Gold, Beachhead, The Epic, Monty on the Run, Spy vs Spy - The Island, Ballblazer, Deathstar, Way of the Exploding Fist, Raskel and Vortron, Dam Busters; Adventure Reviews: Robin of Sherwood, The Secret of St. Brides, Rats, Adventure Construction Set,

#8 1985-11 - Features: Winter Games, [Atari Collection (Deadline, Eastern Front, Rally Speedway, Dropzone, Star Raiders, M.U.L.E., Archon, Blue Max, Ultima III, Boulderdash, Universe, Miner 2049er, Pinball, Ballblazer, Loderunner), Night of the Living Dead, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, Geoff Capes, Strongman; Reviews: Super Zaxxon, Cyrus Chess II, Doppleganger, The Castle of Doctor Creep, Astroclone, Axis Assassin, Schizophrenia, Karateka, Stealth, Starion, Daley Thompson's Supertest, Match Day, Paradroid, Fairlight, Spy Hunter, Topper the Copper, Blackwyche, Wizardry, Fighting Warrior, Trivia UK, World Cup Football, Decision in the Desert, Crusade in Europe, Spot the Ball, Sorcery+, Devil's Crown, Orm and Cheep: The Birthday, Donald Duck's Playground, ACE; Adventure Reviews: Dunzhin, Kaiv, Terrormolinos, The Wizard and the Princess, Bored of the Rings

#9 1985-12 - Features: The Trolls Tavern part 1 (adventure game history; misc. games), Swords and Sorcery, Tau Ceti, Enigmaforce, Starforce Trooper; Reviews: Grumpy Gumphrey, Impossible Mission, Gyroscope, Battle of Britain, Raid, Scarabaeus, International Rugby, Rupert and the Ice Palace, Ratalyx, Beach-Head, Repton 2, 3D Boxing,World Series Basketball, Soul of a Robot, Tomahawk, Big Ben Strikes Again, Crazy Comets, Discs of Death, Imhotep, Critical Mass, Hacker, Starquake, Endurance, Harvey Smith's Showjumping, Saboteur; Adventure Reviews: Lucifer's Realm, The Quest for the Holy Grail, GAC, Genisii, Mission: Asteroid, The Snow Queen

#10 1986-01 - Features: The Trolls Tavern part 2, Elektraglide, Assault on Aargon, Superman, The Abbey of Satanic Evil, Spellbound; Reviews: Zorro, Revs, Citadel, The Last V8, Skooldaze 64, Z, Desert Fox, Sabre Wolf, Commando, Bounder, Panzdrome, Falklands 82, Caves of Doom, Soul of a Robot, Vectron, Wild West, Star Firebirds, Rockman, Robot Messiah, Obsidian, Thunderbirds, Airwolf, I, Of The Mask, Think, Gyroscope, Friday the 13th, Wizard's Lair, Glen Hoddle's Soccer, Willow Pattern, Human Race, Back to Skool, Dynamite Den, Fighting Warrior, Chimera; Adventure Reviews: The Never Ending Story, Seas of Blood, Temple of Apshai Trilogy, Robin of Sherlock

#11 1986-02 - Features: Assault on Aargon Expansion Kit, Gyroscope, Lord of the Rings, 1988 Game of the Year Awards, The Trolls Tavern (game round-up); Adventure Reviews: Causes of Chaos, The Worm in the Paradise, Philosophers Quest, Masquerade; Reviews: Rambo, West Bank, The Eidolon, Koronis Rift, Sweevo's World, Evil Crown, Death Wake, Brainstorm, Olympic Decathlon, Space Doubt, Yabba Dabba Doo, Transformers, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Their Finest Hour, Fair Night, Tornado Low Level, Scalextric, Mercenary, Battle of the Planets, Barry McGuigan World, Mikie, Raiders of the Lost Ring, Gunfight, N.O.M.A.D., Myla Di'Kaich, Cosmic Wartoad, Wild Ride, Winter Sports, Robin of the Wood

#12 1986-03 - Features: Arena, SR2, Zoids, The Necromancers Tower, Master of Magic, Rock 'N Wrestle, Alternate Reality; Adventure Reviews: ZZZZ, Runestone; Reviews: Hardball, Uridium, Dragonskulle, Movie, Skyfox, Kung Fu Master, Back to the Future, Think!, Barry McGuidan's Boxing, Sweevo's World, Theatre Europe, ZoneX, Who Dares Wins II, Law of the West, QL-Fictionary, Winter Games, Garry the Germ goes Body Poppin, Realms of Impossibility, Benny Hill's Madcap Games, Desert Rates, The Adventures of Bond... Basildon Bond, Surf Chomp, Costa Capers, Critical Mass, Macrocosmica, Mediatar, Rasputin

#13 1986-04 - Features: Ultima IV, Spindizzy, Starforce Captain, Knight Tyme; Adventure Reviews: Borrowed Time, The Star of the Void, ID; Reviews: Tau Ceti, Comic Bakery, FA Cup, Deathsville, Bomb Jack, The Force, Kaiser, Rasputin, Iwo Jima, ACE, Battle for the Planets, Yabb Dabba Doo, Strike Force Harrier, Spitfire 40, Friday the Thirteenth, Devil's Crown, Cluedo, Ollo, Falklands 82, Sodov the Sorceror, Ark Pandora, Elektraglide, Skyfox, Zoids, Time Tunnel, Elite, Steve Dave's Snooker, Show Jumping

#14 1986-05 - Features: The Way of the Tiger, Super Bowl, The Island of Terror, Heavy on the Magick, Empire, The Psi-5 Trading Company, The Amstrad Collection (Elite, Tau Ceti, Formula One Simulator, Sorcery, Sorcery+, Theatre Europe, Spitfire 40, Defend or Die, Spindizzy, Doppleganger, Macrocosmica); Sports Reviews: Ping Pong, Karate Combat, Railblazer, [[Bump, Set, Spike-Doubles Volleyball]], Sai Combat; Arcade Reviews: Who Dares Wins II, Panzadrome; Strategy Reviews: Archon II: Adept, Mugsy's Revenge!Colossus Chess 4.0; Adventure Reviews: Get Dexter, Asylum, Lord of the Rings, Doomsday Blues, Batman, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Fourmost Adventures, Labyrinthion, Fairlight; Reviews: Green Beret, Shoot 'Em Up, Commando, Tank Commander, Xcel, The Last V8, Bounty Bob Strikes Back, Phantoms of the Asteroid, Bandits at Zero, 3D Slime

#15 1986-06 - World Cup Special, Mantronix, Quazatron, Golf Construction Set, Gauntlet, Timetrax, The C16 Collection (Classics I (Xargon Wars, Tycoon Tax, Durk's Dilemma, Petals of Doom), Classics II (Xargon Revenge, Blagger, Time Slip, Monkey Magic), Formula One Simulator, Bandits at Zero, The Berks Trilogy (Berks, Major Blink, Berks 3: They're Angry), Mr Puniverse, Tutti Frutti, Death Race, Hustler, Football Manager) Sports Reviews: Touchdown Football, Sport of Kings, Rock 'N Wrestle, Bounces; Adventure Reviews: Swords and Sorcery, Redhawk; Arcade Reviews: V, Thing on a Spring, Cauldron II - The Pumpkin, Off the Hook, Cyberun, Bounder; Strategy Reviews: Knights in the Desert, Doomdark's Revenge; Reviews: Castle Thade, Valkyrie 17, Nightshade, The Very Big Cave Adventure, Caverns D'Or, Pilgrim, Spindizzy, Zoids, Core, WOW Games, Sabbateur, Moon Cresta, Back to the Future, Turbo Esprit, Tau Ceti - The Special Edition, Max Headroom, Kirel, Slam Ball, Hocus Focus

#16 1986-07 - Features: Commando Raid, Biggles, Nxus, War games (wargaming) The Price of Magik; Arcade Reviews: Mercenary, Bombo, The Comet Game, Splitting Images, Spy Hunter; Adventure Reviews: The Standing Stones, Pentagram, Bored of the Rings, Knight Tyme, The Boggit, Murder on the Mississippi, Heavy on the Magick, Mandragore, Gunfright, Pyracurse; Sports Reviews: Knight Games, World Cup Carnival, Leader Board, Soccer 86, Rock 'N Wrestle, Tennis 3D, Winter Games, International Matcday, Sai Combat; Reviews: Dambusters, Commando, The Fifth Axis, The Planets, Bombjack, Moon Cresta, Action Reflex, Mermaid Madness, Shogun, Starquake, The Last V8, Toadrunner, Molecule Man

#17 1986-08 - Features: Trap, Room 10, Stainless Steel, Storm, Arcade Creator, Spectrum Collection Update (15 games); Sports Reviews: Graham Gooch's test Crickert, Rugby Manager, Wimbledon, Nick Faldo Plays the Open, Speed King; Arcade Reviews: Nodes of Yessod, Equinox, Floyd the Droid, Meltdown, Tau Ceti; Strategy Reviews: Computer Scrabble, Battlefield Germany, Contamination, Austerlitz, Iwo Jima, Computer Monopoly, Theatre Europe; Adventure Reviews: Qor, The Incredible Hulk, The Beer Hunter, Quabbalah, The Terrors of Trantoss, Hunchback the Adventure, Phantasie; Reviews: Thrust, Tantalus, Raid Over Moscow, Ghosts and Goblins, Green Beret, Jack the Nipper, Mother of Charlotte, Hercules, Rupert and the Ice Palace, Subterranean Nightmare, Macadam Bumper, Phantom Combat, Double Phantom

#18 1986-09 - Features: Infiltrator, The C64 Collection Update (15 more games), Omega Mission, Dragon's Lair, Salamander, W.A.R.; Sports Reviews: Kung Fu Master, Frank Bruno's Boxing, Hole in One, Winter Events, Gladiator, Super Cycle, Full Throttle; Adventure Reviews: Lapis Philosophorum, The Graphic Adventure Creator, Jewels of Darkness, Knight Tyme, Time of the End; Strategy Reviews: Colossous Chess 4.0, Powerplay, Mind Pursuit; Arcade Reviews: Split Personalities, Bombjack, A.C.E., Arac, Matrix, Lazerzone, Hot Wheels, Xarg, Molecule Man, Project Nova, Virgin Atlantic Challenge, Cauldron II, Freak Factory, Tujad, Star Firebirds, ICUPS, Dynamite Dan II, Mermaid Mdness, Octagon Squad, Lap of the Gods, Night Walker

#19 1986-10 - Features: Heroic Warrior, The French Collection (Inheritance, L'affaire Vera Vruz), Deactivators, The Trap Door, Dan Dare, Mindstone; Arcade Reviews: Beyond the Forbidden Format, Paycastria, Impossible Mission, Danger Mouse in Making, Who Dares Wins II, Kai Temple, Submarine Commander, Rescue on Fractalus, Olli and Lissa, Ghostbusters, Miami Vice, Jeep Command, Desmond's Dungeon, Spiky Harold, Monty on the Run, Iridis Alpha, Pacific, Parallax, Joust; Adventure Reviews: Rebel Planet, Arcana, Droids, Doors of Doom, H.R.H., Golden Path, Moron; Sports Reviews: Nightmare Rally, Twin-pack, Olympiad '86, Ninja; Strategy Reviews: The Fourth Protocol, Johnny Reb II, Trivial Pursuit, Tobrik, Desert Fox, Psi Chess, Collapse

#20 1986-14 - Features: Glider Rider, Trailblazer, Asterix and the Magic Cauldron, Atlantic Challenger, Druid, Antiriad, T.T Racer, The Best of Beyond; Amstrad Reviews: Classic Invaders, Return to Oz, Now Games 3, Doomdark's Revenge; Commodore Reviews: BMX Simulator, The Legend of Sinbad, Leaper, Action Pack 1, Action Pack 2, International Karate, Pub Games, Speed King, Conan, Gods and Heroes, Jack the Nipper, Bazooka Bill; Spectrum Reviews: Jewels of Darkness, Storm, Bombscare, Strike Force Cobra, Action Pack, Sgrizam, Moonlight Madness, Pub Games, Light Force, Paperboy; Reviews: Silent Service, BC's Quest for Tyres, The Jewels of Darkness, Greatest Hits Vol 1, Raid Over Moscow, Preppie!, Sun Star, The Goonies, Nemesis

#21 1986-12 - Features: The Very Big Cave Adventure, Galaforce, Sanxion, Marble Madness, Stryker's Run, Fist II, Sentinel, Hopeless, Academy, The Leather Goddesses of Phobos, The Pawn, Uridium, Dante's Inferno; Commodore Reviews: Kwah?, Championship Basketball: Two on Two, Hacker II, Warhawk, The Trapdoor, Captain Kelly, Olympic Skier, Legend of the Knucker-Hole, Superstar Ping Pong, Uchi Mata, Finders Keepers, Video Meanies, Tazz; Spectrum Reviews: Twice Say, The Sacred Armour of Antiriad, Trailblazer, Prehistoric Adventure, Zythum, Frostbyte, Stagecoach, Time Trax, Heartland; Amstrad Reviews: Tempest, Trailblazer, Glider Rider, Beach Head II, Trap Door; Reviews: Cluedo, Savage Pond, Future Shock, Repton 3, Thunderstuck II: Mindmaster

#22 1987-01 - Features: Starglider, Destroyer, Werner, Mach Hin!, High Flyer, The Bard's Tale, Hand in Glove, Bridge, Dracula, Dracula Too, Marble Madness Construction Set, World Games, Burning Rubber, Judge Dredd, Avenger Map, Avenger; Spectrum Reviews: Kayleth, Phantomas, The Great Escape, Cobra, Swords of Bane, The Colour of Magic, Crystal Castles, Breakthru; Commodore Reviews: Kane, Five Star, Crystal Castles, Heart of Africa, The Movie Monster Game, Gogo the Ghost, Yie Ar Kung Fu II, Alien; Amstrad Reviews: Zub, Gauntlet, Bugsy, Terra Cognite, Cylu, Five Star Games, Cityslicker; Reviews: Chicken Chase, Smash Hits Vol 6, Ravenskull, Killapede, Goal!, Dunjunz, Colossus Bridge 4

#25 1987-04 - Features: Kakout, Roadwar 2000, Portal, Armchair Sports, Gunship, Ranarama, Hollywood Hi Jinx, Magic Madness, Indoor Sports, Thugs and Villains, Leviathan, StarTrek, PAWS, Gobots, Aliens; Reviews: Feud, Hyper Bowl, Kobayashi Naru, Molecule Man, Olli & Lissa, the Equalizer, Storm, RIding the Rapids, The Vikings, 10th Frame, 10th Frame, Short Circuit, Jailbreak, Grange Hill, Murder Off Miami, Master of the Universe, Into the Eagle's Nest, The Fifth Axis, Academy

#26 1987-05 - Features: Thrust, Short Circuit, Uchi Mata, Raid 2000, Wargame Construction Set, Arkanoid, Cholo, Thing Bounces Back with Monty Mole, Psi-5 Trading Company, Tobruk, Carmen Sandiego; Reviews: FA Cup '87, Bowled Over, On Cue, Zap! Zap!, Transmuter, Ice Hockey, SOS, Plan B, Bar Billiards, How to be a Hero, Hollywood or Bust, Brainache, The Curse of Sherwood, Condition Red, Zulu War, World Games, The Amazing Shrinking Man, Express Raider, Sailing, The Superior Collection Volume 1, The Superior Collection Volume 2, Grand Prix Construction Set, Nether Earth, Firetrack, Legions of Death, Greyfell; Duffers Sigma 7, Elevator Action, Bubble Trouble, Skyhawk

#27 1987-06 - Features: Sentinel, Doc the Destroyer, Shadows of Mordor, Colonial Conquest, Nemesis, The Way Ahead, Delta, Endure Racer, Bismarck, Stifflip & Co, C16 Top Five, Cyborg, Ballbreaker; Reviews: Scott Dams Scoops, Battlefield Germany, Ace of Aces, Mercenary, Indoor Sports, Gunrunner, Koronis Rift, Shockway Rider, Krakout, The Ket Trilogy, Big Trouble in Little China, Ranarama, Mutants, Vulcan, Scalextric, Throne of Fire, Who Dares Wins II, Mad Nurse, Pneumatic Hammers, Colony, Rasterscan, Rasterscan, Think, Vampire, Lazerwheel, Chronos, Tubaruba, Armourdillo, Super Robin Hood, P.O.D., Chost Hunters; Sequel Reviews: World Games, Beach Head II, Pitstop II, Enigma Force, Trivial Pursuit - Baby Boomer Edition, Star Raiders, Bomberjack II, The Sydney Affair, Gauntlet - The Deeper Dungeons, Voidrunner, Hellgate; Duffers: Kinetik, Who Dares Wins II, Strike, League Challenge, Thunderzone

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