Soft Aid

This month I start a new short column aimed at summing up the month's games and including some of those that do not get a full review in the issue for one reason or another. . .

First off there are three recently released cassettes that will not rate a full review in CRASH because they have been reviewed before under another guise. Of the three the worthiest is the new SOFTAID games compilation which is being sold in aid of the Ethiopian Appeal Fund. It costs £4.99 and on side one you get the Band Aid hit single Do they know it's Christmas followed by Spellbound from Beyond, the 'Q-Bert type game (reviewed CRASH July 84). From The Edge there is Starbike (CRASH November 84). The other most recent game is Kokotoni Wilf from Elite (CRASH October 84). To complete side one are two older games, The Pyramid from Fantasy (CRASH March 84) and Horace Goes Skiing from Melbourne House/Psion (pre-dates CRASH). On side two the most recent games are Gilligan's Gold from Ocean (CRASH December 84) and 3D Tank Duel from Realtime (CRASH August 84). Backing up the second side are Ant Attack from Quicksilva (CRASH February 84 - issue 1), Jack and the Beanstalk by Thor (CRASH August 84) and Sorcery from Virgin Games. The excellent inlay gives a quick objectives run down on each game and a tape counter setting so you can fast forward to the title you want. Sounds like excellent value and all in a good cause as well!