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Sinclair User, issue 59 (February 1987)

Sinclair User editors. 1987. “Sinclair User, issue 59 (February 1987).” Sinclair User, issue 59. EMAP.

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Sinclair User 59
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https://archive.org/details/Sinclair_User_059
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bab2fca152a25a5a4b712ee9202a1943c8fb3fb80e88f9c173409ecd35d3f8d4
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https://archive.org/download/Sinclair_User_059/Sinclair_User_059_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 "Sinclair_User_059"; the pin is the item's OCR, as DjVu XML.
Notes
Pinned for its review of Terra Cresta (ZX Spectrum, Imagine).

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British magazines described the arcade game's sit-in cabinet in 1987. In Sinclair User, Clare Edgeley wrote that the player straps in with a seat belt and that the cabinet tilts and rolls in whatever direction the joystick is pushed. Computer and Video Games wrote that the cockpit version's hydraulics throw the player around: the whole cabinet swings up and down and from side to side.p. 92 (image 92), arcade columnp. 92 (image 92), arcade columnp. 92 (image 92), arcade columnMagazine
Imagine published the ZX Spectrum Terra Cresta at £7.95, for the 48K and 128K machines. Crash credited it to Jonathan Smith; Sinclair User's credit line read "in-house".image 28, Terra CrestaMagazine
Sinclair User's reviewer, Graham Taylor, gave the Spectrum Terra Cresta 3 stars of 5. He found playing it "more or less the same experience as playing Xevious", with few reasons to choose it over that game, and its one strength its extreme difficulty. Building the ship by blasting numbered silos to face the robot that appears after each pass, he wrote, still comes down to blasting.image 28, Terra Crestaimage 28, Terra Crestaimage 28, Terra Crestaimage 29, Terra Crestaimage 29, Terra Crestaimage 29, Terra Crestaimage 29, Terra Crestaimage 28, Terra Cresta, ratingMagazine