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Amiga

32-73
December 87 – May 91

Number of Games

544

Amiga games were first reviewed in features with issue 36 having main reviews. From Issue 42 to 46 Amiga games had their own section.
Issue 47 to 73 the games were reviewed with C64 games until Zzap! was only for C64 again from Issue 74 onwards.

Types of games reviewed

Full Price Games 36-73
Budget Games 36-73
Adventures 40-50
Strategy 42-53
Thinking Games 51-73
Compilations 45-70
Features 32-57

Top 30 Games

Elite 98%
Dungeon Master 98%
Starglider 2 98%
Drakkhen 98%
Nebulus 97%
Xenon 2: Megablast 97%
Batman 97%
F29 Retaliator 97%
Operation Thunderbolt 97%
Midwinter 97%
Forgotten Worlds 97%
Kick Off 96%
FOFT: Federation of Free Traders 965
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe 96%
Sim City 96%
Railroad Tycoon 96%
Strider 96%
Damocles 95%
Kick Off 2 94%
R-Type 94%
Populous 94%
Pipe Mania 94%
Rocket Ranger 94%
Voyager 94%
Blood Money 94%
Infestation 94%
Lemmings 94%
Armour-Geddon 94%
Turrican 94%
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur 94%

Worst 28 Games

Kwasimodo 3%
Willow 7%
Extensor 9%
Street Gang 9%
Sorcery + 14%
Dick Tracy 16%
Wanderer 18%
No Excuses 19%
World Tour Golf 20%
Hell Bent 20%
Street Fighter 21%
Super Scramble Simulator 22%
Army Moves 24%
Vixen 25%
Real Ghostbusters, The 26%
Dr. Doom's Revenge 26%
Craps Academy 26%
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 27%
Tom & Jerry 27%
Snowstrike 275
Karting Grand Prix 28%
Motorbike Madness 28%
After Burner 29%
Nuclear War 30%
Dugger 31%
Off Shore Warrior 31%
World Darts 31%
Othello 31%

C16

Issue 28 had a supplement reviewing C16 games by Gary Penn

Number of Games

78

Top 20 Games

Winter Events 94%
P.O.D.: Proof of Destruction 92%
Zolyx 90%
Bounder 89%
Thrust 88%
Monty on the Run 86%
Harvey Headbanger 85%
Kikstart 84%
Dork's Dilemma 83%
Oblido 83%
Spiky Harold 81%
Spectipede 81%
Auriga 80%
ACE: Air Combat Emulator 78%
Droid One 78%
One Man and His Droid 78%
Video Meanies 78%
Prospector Pete 78%
Power Ball 76%
Guzzler 76%

21 Worst Games

Jail Break 8%
Street Olympics 14%
Thai Boxing 20%
Astro Plumber 20%
Vegas Jackpot 20%
Diamond Mine 23%
Las Vegas Video Poker 23%
Runner 23%
Rockman 26%
Varmit 26%
Starburst 29%
Rescue From Zylon 33%
Wimbledon 35%
Sword of Destiny 36%
Kung-Fu Kid 37%
Super G-Man 37%
Xargon Wars 38%
Xcellor 8 39%
Hyperforce 39%
Project Nova 40%
Monkey Magic 40%

C128

There were 3 reviews of C128 games on their own

Kikstart 2 96%
Bureaucracy 90%
Borderzone 84%

1 Game was scored in feature

Kikstart 2 92%
Back to the Feature: Part Two: 1986

Arcades

24-86
April 87 – Jul 92

92 Games reviewed
4 compilations reviewed

Atari ST

In Issue 32 there was a feature on 16-Bit machines, Amiga and Atari ST.

7 games were reviewed

Backlash 92%
Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior 89%
Chessmaster 2000, The 86%
Barbarian 81%
Ranarama 79%
Terrorpods 69%
Sentinel, The
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