Crash 42

Cite as: Crash 42
Original: https://archive.org/details/Crash_No._42_1987-07_Newsfield_GB
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Accessed: 2026-11-06
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Notes: Pinned for its review of U.S. Gold's ZX Spectrum Metrocross (p. 24).

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U.S. Gold published the home-computer versions under license from Namco: Crash's July 1987 review credits the ZX Spectrum game to "US Gold/Namco", Sinclair User's of the same month calls it licensed from Namco's arcade game and gives its label as US Gold, and Zzap!64 reviewed U.S. Gold's Commodore 64 version in August 1987.	`p. 24`	Magazine
Crash reviewed the ZX Spectrum version (U.S. Gold, 8.99 pounds) in July 1987 and gave it 77% overall, calling it "a good coin-op conversion which maintains the original's simple addictivity".	`p. 24p. 25, comments boxp. 25`	Magazine
Crash's reviewers split. One called it "a real winner" among coin-op conversions, the only difference being the sound, though a little overpriced; Mark found it easy to learn and harder as it went on; Mike found the first six levels no challenge and the next one impossible, and the game far too dear. Mark noted that the inlay speaks of green and blue cans that can't be told apart on the monochrome screen, and Mike that the cans the title screen calls green and blue were the same colour.	`p. 25p. 25p. 25p. 24, Markp. 24, Markp. 25, Mikep. 25, Mikep. 25, Mike`	Magazine