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

EXAMINING OUR HOBBY’S BIGGEST HITTERS

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

REMEMBER THE BACK OF THE ARCADE, WHERE THE NOT-SO-FLASHY COIN-OPS LURKED IN THE DARKNESS, WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED? BACK IN 1987, THIS IS WHERE YOU’D LIKELY HEAR A BLOOD-CURDLING FEMALE SCREAM THAT COULD BELONG TO ONLY ONE GAME… SEGA’S COIN-OP CREATURE FEATURE ALIEN SYNDROME

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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