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Zzap!64, issue 54 (October 1989)

Zzap!64 editors. 1989. “Zzap!64, issue 54 (October 1989).” Zzap!64, issue 54 (October 1989). Newsfield.

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Zzap!64 54
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https://archive.org/details/zzap64-magazine-054
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2026-11-06
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© Newsfield (at the time of publication); scan hosted by the Internet Archive
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Scan in the Internet Archive item "zzap64-magazine-054"; the pin is the item's OCR, as DjVu XML.
Notes
Pinned in stubs batch 34 for Shinobi (the Commodore 64 review).

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Zzap!64 reviewed the Commodore 64 version in October 1989, from Virgin at £9.99 on cassette and £14.99 on disk, which the review called the first arcade conversion on the relaunched Virgin Games label, and gave it 86% overall (Presentation 90%, Graphics 89%, Sound 84%, Hookability 86%, Lastability 84%): "A very accurate coin-op conversion with plenty of playability." Randy called it "an extremely faithful representation of the original", so authentic at times that he believed he was playing the arcade machine. Robin, who hadn't thought much of the coin-op, found the Commodore 64 game superbly presented and highly playable, "an excellent conversion". A note said the Amiga version was due soon, at £19.99.p. 17 (image 17), Shinobip. 17 (image 17)p. 17 (image 17), Randyp. 17 (image 17), Randyp. 17 (image 17), Robinp. 17 (image 17), Robinp. 17 (image 17), Robinp. 17 (image 17), ratingsp. 17 (image 17), ratingsp. 17 (image 17), Amiga stripp. 5 (image 5), contentsMagazine