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Total!, issue 8 (August 1992)

staff, Total! 1992. “Total!, issue 8 (August 1992).” Total!, issue 8. Future Publishing.

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Total! 8
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https://archive.org/details/total-8-august-1992
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555eabc57ced2a70faff5bd28cc5c5caaf74a6aaca7bf7e84847e0c15db6ba38
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https://archive.org/download/total-8-august-1992/Total%208%20August%201992_djvu.xml
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2026-11-06
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© Future Publishing; scan hosted by the Internet Archive; quoted briefly
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Scan in the Internet Archive item "total-8-august-1992"; the pin is the item's OCR, as DjVu XML.
Notes
Pinned in stubs batch 32 for the NES review of Castelian (images 26-27) and the Game Boy review (images 52-53). The marks are not in the OCR.

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Total! reviewed the European NES version, from The Sales Curve (£36), in August 1992, and gave it 71 percent; the review is signed Andy. It describes Julius climbing eight alien towers within a time limit, with lifts, stairs that slide the player back if he stops, and vanishing platforms; touching a monster drops him to a lower platform, and only a fall into the sea kills him.image 26, NES reviewimage 26, NES reviewimage 26, NES reviewimage 26, NES reviewimage 27, NES reviewimage 26, NES reviewimage 26, NES reviewimage 26, page footerMagazine
Total!'s Game Boy review says the Game Boy version lacks the NES version's choice of Novice or Hero mode and its two-player game, and has less elaborate bonus levels.image 53, Game Boy reviewimage 53, Game Boy reviewMagazine
A Game Boy Castelian was announced alongside the NES one: EGM listed it from Triffix in May 1991, and in Europe The Sales Curve sold it, Total! giving £25 and Mean Machines £19.99 in August 1992. Total! gave it 75 percent, and Mean Machines gave it 70% and found the same faults as in the NES version.image 52, Game Boy review boxMagazine