Mamba 17 ch01 The Month in Brief
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yessss, a lot of mail filled the box this month, and that is still the trigger of our actions ! keep on sending and notice that the address will change very soon ! this month we got mail from all over the world again... england, denmark, italy, sweden, finland, norway, france, netherlands, belgium, hungary, switzerland, usa, canada, germany, argentine!, israel, turkey and czecheslovakia !! ...thanks a lot... headline news ------------- honestly, my personal headliner reached me in venlo, when arrogance of x-ray, the editor of 'bildzeitung' told me how he got the antichrist interview, which you could read in the third issue of his magazine. i was told by him, that antichrist sent the interview without being asked for, that means, the questions and answers were both made by anti- christ himself ! nice job, oliver! further headliners this month are... - transcom & x-ray coop split up - random will presumably die when stormbringer quits in april. - german "plk's" will be closed in summer '91 by the german post. * read the news-section for more detailed informations ! in this issue you won't find any demo reviews, because only a very few demo arrived this month, half of them are not worth being tested and some didn't even work properly... worth mentioning is the newest powers of pain demo called 'tendance' consisting of eight parts... a canadian demo was sent to us by the wanderer/evil, try to have a look at it if possible... (thanks mike) (+) for the charts... to be first or not to be first ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the us-game 'dark knights of krynn' was released by atc and nec almost at the same time... an atc-member scratched the nec version off of warez castle to get their own version on. * deleting an other groups' release will be punished with loosing the contest for that game. important : that applies to every board ! ...point for nec a foreword... welcome to this months first release charts. hopefully this month the charts will look more objective due to the fact that there has been more releases this month. the rules are simple, over the month we watch 3 top boards and note the 1st releases. in the case of two groups releasing the same game, the group that has there version on a majority of the 3 boards first gets the point. american importer charts ------------------------ last group releases month -------------------------------------- 1.north east importers.. 12 01 2.random................ 05 01 3.the shaolin monastery. 03 -- 4.a touch of class...... 02 02 5.empire................ 01 -- -------------------------------------- nei have taken the lead this month. with random in 2nd place. there is also a couple of new entries. there isn't to much movement here because of the shortage of games released! european charts --------------- last group releases month -------------------------------------- 1.paramount............. 05 01 action................ 05 02 3.genesis project....... 04 -- 4.legend................ 03 02 5.ikari & talent........ 02 -- 6.alpha flight.......... 01 -- censor................ 01 02 dominators............ 01 01 fairlight............. 01 -- -------------------------------------- quite a lot has changed this month. it seems that games are finally arriving! for all those who are interested, here are some additional informations... explanations ------------ lupo alberto action/nei * by idea soft. hugo dominators/random * by silverrock. oilmania alpha flight/random * by bluestone budget. elephant antics genesis/nei * by codemasters. quick draw mcdraw genesis/nei * by hi-tech software. chips challenge genesis/atc * by us gold. warlock the avenger action/nei * by millenium. hazar action/nei * by magic disk. mad springs action/nei * by double density. turn it 2:future edition genesis/tsm * by kingsoft. nightshift atc * by lucasfilm. protronix paramount/random * by virgin?? enforce paramount/random * by codemasters. metal gear atc * by ultra games/konami. viz fairlight/empire * by virgin games. turn and burn legend/nei * by flair software. gremlins ii legend/nei * by elite. super monaco gp censor/nei * by sega. atomino paramount/random * by blue byte. mighty bombjack legend/nei * by elite. vincent ikari & talemt/nei * by double density silkworm iv ikari & talent/tsm * by the sales curve. take'em paramount/tsm * by double density. firepit paramount/atc * by double density. pure seed action/nei * by haip software. death knights of krynn nec * by ssi. american cracker charts ------------------------- pos group releases ------------------------------------ 01. a touch of class 02 02. north east crackers 01 03. ... ------------------------------------ mirage, last month no 1, had no first release in the last weeks, except for a print kit...?! three releases doesn't seem to be striking, but compared to former months, it is a real progress. further turrican ii from rainbow arts has been released, however it has not been fixed to ntsc-norm, that's why no point was given for this game. presumably it was action who had the first release... some previews has been released such as back to the future iii by censor. -burn the return