Behind the scenes of your favourite soundtracks

GAMES ARE OFTEN CANCELLED, AND THIS WAS ESPECIALLY TRUE IN THOSE TURBULENT EARLY YEARS OF THE UK VIDEOGAMES INDUSTRY. MOST DEVELOPERS WOULD EXPERIENCE A FEW, BUT ENIGMA VARIATIONS AND THE OWNERS’ SUBSEQUENT COMPANIES HAD MORE THAN THEIR FAIR SHARE. IT’S TIME TO DISCOVER WHY

THE SPECTRUM HAD BUILT UP A MASSIVE LIBRARY OF SOFTWARE BY 1991 AND THERE WAS PLENTY OF CHOICE FOR MAGAZINE EDITORS LOOKING TO FILL THEIR COVERTAPES. FOR LUCKY CRASH READERS, THIS MEANT TWO PACKED OFFERINGS, WITH EIGHT WHOLE GAMES TO CHOOSE FROM, IN THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CORNER

CHARLES CECIL

Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else

THE ARCADE FOOTBALL GAME KICK OFF SPAWNED A MINI-INDUSTRY OF ITS OWN, WITH SEQUELS, DATA DISKS, CONVERSIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE FORMATS AND A FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT SPIN-OFF. HOWEVER, THE DESIGNER AND PROGRAMMER DINO DINI HAD MUCH BIGGER GOALS FOR HIS NEXT PROJECT