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Commodore User (April 1988)

Commodore User editors. 1988. “Commodore User (April 1988).” Commodore User (April 1988). EMAP.

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Commodore User Apr 1988
Original
https://archive.org/details/commodore-user-magazine-55
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86cf58edb9428b0f9b2c7e9ed7da6275f522b1659df2008f6d2aea2b45ea8b8d
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https://archive.org/download/commodore-user-magazine-55/Commodore_User_Issue_55_1988_Apr_djvu.xml
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2026-11-06
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© EMAP (at the time of publication); scan hosted by the Internet Archive
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Scan in the Internet Archive item "commodore-user-magazine-55"; the pin is the item's OCR, as DjVu XML.
Notes
The cover prints no issue number; the Internet Archive item numbers it 55. Pinned in archive batch 29 as a lead for Target Renegade, Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh, Bubble Bobble (Amiga), Ikari Warriors and The Bard's Tale II, found through the Amiga Magazine Rack's index.

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Commodore User reviewed the Commodore 64/128 version (Imagine, £8.95 on cassette, £12.95 on disk) in its April 1988 issue. Gary Penn gave it a CU Rating of 7, counted 66 screens, of which a game plays 33, and closed that there was "plenty of good, clean fun to be had here – if you haven't yet tired of the genre". Ocean's Gary Bracey told him it was not Arkanoid II, which was still to come.p. 33 (image 33), review headingMagazine
Ferdy Hamilton, reviewing Quicksilva's Commodore 64 version (£9.95) in Commodore User's April 1988 issue, gave it a CU Rating of 7. He found it "really very good", a faithful reproduction of "an old but gold arcade game" with its large colourful graphics and its jolly, if a little frustrating, tune, and advised readers to give it serious consideration.p. 15 (image n15), facts box and bylinep. 15 (image n15), verdictp. 15 (image n15), verdictp. 15 (image n15), verdictp. 15 (image n15), verdictp. 15 (image n15), CU RATINGMagazine
Commodore User's review of April 1988 says Ocean went to Taito with the idea for a sequel to Renegade and sold it to them, and that Ocean put Dave Collier, "the man responsible for" its Arkanoid and Green Beret, on the Commodore 64 version.p. 22 (image 22), Target Renegadep. 22 (image 22), Target Renegadep. 22 (image 22), Target Renegadep. 22 (image 22), Target RenegadeMagazine
Mike Pattenden reviewed the Commodore 64 version for Commodore User in April 1988, at £8.95 on cassette and £12.95 on disk, made it a CU Screen Star, and rated it 8 out of 10. He called it "hugely entertaining and ample justification for a sequel", found it developed the theme and improved the gameplay of the original, and said Dave Collier had "done the business once again".p. 22 (image 22), Target RenegadeMagazine