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“town.” Actually, I’m assuming they ing them skyward. Cleaning Your Cartridges
are towns. The “towns” are silos Watching the film and playing (Continued from page 50)
with bulbous tops. While Barry the game left me with a sense of You should see the "door" on the
Bostwick may not be giving us an intense nausea and the conviction long slot in the middle slide up.
eyeful, this game certainly makes that I don’t get paid enough to do Now simply push back on the en-
up for it. Six various sized this. Florida recently decommis- tire black cover and the contacts
“buildings” (ranging from “average” sioned its electric chair and re- should be exposed.
to “well-endowed”) make up the placed it with a VCR and a bootleg At this point, most cartridges will
“town.” It looks like they might copy of MegaForce. Unfortunately, work if they didn't already. Occa-
have been inspired by a Masters & the Human Rights Commission sionally you’ll have a stubborn one
Johnson study. deemed that as “cruel and unusual with harsher corrosion that won't
The game’s colors are stagger- punishment.” It was then sug- clean off with this technique. Now
ing! The bold use of tan and blue gested that they substitute that with you have to bring in the big gun: a
(desert and sky) is stunning, with the videogame version of the film. pencil eraser. Simply rub the
just a dash of red for the far off This was eventually thrown out, not eraser up and down on the con-
mountains. In a bit of whimsy, they because of the agonizing screams tacts. This goes with the "grain" of
even put in four (count’ em) FOUR coming from the condemned, but the contacts from their many inser-
tiny palm trees! Who could have a because it took so damn long to kill tions into and removals from con-
war in such a paradise? My town them; they were bored to death. soles. Don't over rub, as the
was white and yellow, while the en- I implore you to avoid this film eraser can actually remove the
emy’s town was black and red (is it and game. It will cause you noth- conductive coating of the contact.
just me, or did their town seem. . . ing but heartburn and heartache. Once you do that, your cartridge
‘bigger’?) Then again, MegaForce is difficult will no longer work, no matter how
On the plus side, transportation to find; it is banned in most western much you clean it.
in the game is one of those cool countries. For a totally You might have problems get-
‘flying motorcycles’ that Ace Hunter awesome reason. ting the eraser to the contacts. Wil-
flew so stunningly in the film. How- liam Cassidy once suggested cut-
ever, it did not come with plastic CGM ting a slice of eraser and gluing it to
shields nor did it spew multi- a Popsicle stick. If that doesn't
colored smoke. But it did fly and work, you can try taking the casing
that at least made it awesome off the cartridge to better get at the
(although not totally). Classifieds contacts. Many systems' car-
The enemy in the film was sup- tridges are held together with a
posed to be a Qadhafi-like figure WANTED: Gamate and Mega screw under the label. This can
(today, we would say a Saddam- Duck cartridges, Timex/ lead to a dilemma if the label is in
like figure), but in the game the en- Sinclair cartridges, excellent shape. Do you want a
emy appeared to be the alien ships Voltmace Mark III car- beautiful looking cartridge or one
from Space Invaders (except they that works?
flew horizontally). If any of the tridges, MPT-02/MPT-03 There are a few options. You
cartridges, Romtec Color-
enemies made it past me, they vision cartridges, and can use a utility knife to cut a small
would instantly be upon my town other obscure/odd stuff! “x” over the screw, carefully peel
and it would be half destroyed be- Russ Perry Jr, 2175 S the label back, and then fold it back
fore I could manage to turn around. Tonne Dr. #105, Arlington down when done. You might also
As anyone can tell you, I’m an Hts IL 60005, try removing the label (or peeling it
idiot with most video games. I still slapdash@enteract.com back enough to get to the screw)
struggle with Super Breakout (it’s and then re-applying it. If you do
my secret shame). However, I this, try heating the label with a hair
mastered this game in less than Wanted: Free Classified Ads. dryer. This usually loosens the
half an hour (for me to master Keep Russ Perry company! Got some- glue so that you can keep the label
ANYTHING in a half hour is un- thing to trade, buy or sell? Too many in good condition if you're careful.
heard of). It got so easy, so games or systems clogging your clos- As time goes on, more and
quickly, that I actually started to ets? Place a free ad with us which will more cartridges will go "bad," when
long for the movie. It was then I appear in our next issue. actually they're just dirty. Keeping
ripped the cartridge from the 2600, your cartridges, and thus your sys-
ran to the kitchen and crammed it Ads are limited to 30 words and must be tem, clean will increase their life-
classic gaming related. Business ads
down the garbage disposal. not accepted. Please contact us for time. And hopefully you'll get a life-
Where were the skintight pants business rates. time's worth of play out of them as
and the blow-dried hair? Where well.
was Persis Khambatta and her E-mail your ad to: cav@classicgamer.
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