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1 ;'"Zafar Ahmad Khan"
1 ;'"Mat, Dave, Chris, Liz, Boge"
1 ;'"FISH 2";
1 ;'"Editorial contributors:";
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1 ;'"Chris Thomson"'';
1 ;'"Charecter set by:";
1 ;'"Alchemist PD"
1 ;'"3 Station Rd, Birch Vale,"'"Stockport, Cheshire SK12 5BP"
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1 ;"MARCH 1994"
1 ;"Issue 2"; #0
1 ;"FISH 2 Issue 2";
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1 ;" FISH 2 : The Supplement ";
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1 9-60%:May not be of appeal to everyone. "+
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1 +" ZUCCHINI: i3 p3 "
1 +" ZOG THE CAVEMAN: i3 p7 "+
1 +" Yours Chris
1 +" YOUR ST CLAIR: i2 p8 "
1 +" WURSCHTEN, WILLI: i3 pp2, 13 "
1 +" WITCHING HOUR: i3 p10 "+
1 +" WHITE, CHRIS: i3 p10 "+
1 +" WHISTLIN' RICK: i3 p7 "+
1 +" WEST COAST COMPUTERS: i3 pp9, 10 "+
1 +" WELEPHANT: i3 p14 "+
1 +" USER MEETING (STUTTGART SEP 93): i3 p13 "
1 +" USELESS THINGS: i1 p4 "+
1 +" ULLMAN, TRACY: i1 p5 "+
1 +" The universe:68%"
1 +" TV THINGS: i2 p4 "
1 +" TURBO: i1 p5 "+
1 +" TRADING POST: i3 p13 "+
1 +" TIPS: i1 pp10, 11, i2 p12, i3 p8 "+
1 +" THIS ISH:Issues 1-3 "+
1 +" TELETEXT: i1 p9 "+
1 +" SUPERVISION: i1 p11 "
1 +" SUPERFROG (AMIGA): i2 p13 "+
1 +" SU: i1 p9, i2 p9 "+
1 +" STUTTGART: i3 p13 "+
1 +" STS SOFTWARE: i3 p9 "+
1 +" STREET FIGHTER 2: i3 p9, i1 p9 "+
1 +" STEG: i1 p5 "+
1 +" SPECCY'S GREATEST HITS: i1 p8 "+
1 +" SOFTWARE CITY: i2 p8, i3 p8 "
1 +" SMALL GODS: i3 p3 "+
1 +" SINCLAIR: i3 pp1, 7 "+
1 +" SINCLAIR, NOT SIR CLIVE: i2 p2 "+
1 +" SINCLAIR, CRISPIN: i3 p9 "+
1 +" SIMPSONS, THE: i2 pp3, 5 "+
1 +" SEYMOUR: i1 pp1, 4 "+
1 +" SEGA: i1 p9, i2 p9, i3 p2, i3 p13 "+
1 +" SEGA POWER, TAKING THE PISS OUT OF: i2 p4 "+
1 +" ROAD RUNNER: i1 p4 "
1 +" ROAD RASH: i2 p13 "+
1 +" RERELEASES: i1 p7, i2 p7 "+
1 +" RED DWARF: i2 pp3, 4, i3 p3 "+
1 +" PUZZLING SONGS: i3 p7 "
1 +" PUZZLEY GAMES: i3 pp6, 7 "+
1 +" PROGRAMS: i1 p3, i3 p11 "+
1 +" PRISM PD: i3 p9 "+
1 +" PRINCE OF PERSIA: i1 p9 "+
1 +" PRATCHETT, TERRY: i3 p3 "+
1 +" PRAT, PRAT THE: i1 p3 "+
1 +" PORN: i2 p9 "+
1 +" PINGU: i2 p4 "+
1 +" PHILLIPS: i3 p10 "+
1 +" NUTTING, AN AMUSING MISUNDERSTANDING CONCERNING STEVE: i3 p10 "
1 +" NINTENDO: i1 p9 "+
1 +" NEXT ISH:Issues 4-6"
1 +" My tapes:79% "+
1 +" My stereo:90% "+
1 +" My plugs:22% "+
1 +" My curtains:79% "+
1 +" My Thing Monthly poster:99% "+
1 +" My TV:65% "+
1 +" My CDs:80% "+
1 +" McDONALD, TREVOR: i1 p9 "+
1 +" MORRIS, EMLYN: i1 p2 "+
1 +" MILES, ALAN: i3, p10 "+
1 +" MANSELL, NIGEL: i3 p9 "+
1 +" M25-THE MOVIE: i2 p3 "
1 +" LYRA 2: i1 p6 "
1 +" LOTUS 3 (AMIGA): i1 p11 "+
1 +" KEY: i=Issue, p=Page "+
1 +" JURASSIC PARK, NO MENTION OF: i2 p1 "
1 +" JELLY HEAD: i2 p6, i3 p12 "+
1 +" It is very good. No, not - better! H
1 +" IMPROFESSIONALISM: i2 p5 "
1 +" II, EDWARD: i3 p7 "+
1 +" IDE, ANDY: i1 p9 "+
1 +" GOD: i3 p7 "
1 +" GAMES MASTER: i1 p9 "+
1 +" FRED: i3 p10 "
1 +" FISH, FREDDY THE: i1 p1, i2 p1 "+
1 +" FISH 2: i3 p8 "+
1 +" ESI: i1 p6 "
1 +" ELECTRICITY: i1 p3 "+
1 +" DRIVING SONGS: i2 p11 "+
1 +" DRIVING GAMES: i2 pp10, 11 "+
1 +" DRIVER (SAM ""WINDOWS""): i3 p10 "+
1 +" DR.WHO: I1 P9 "
1 +" DIZZY: i1 pp1, 5, 6 "+
1 +" DINASOURS, THE LACK OF: i2 p1 "+
1 +" DEATH: i3 p9 "+
1 +" DARLING BROTHERS, THE: i2 p9 "+
1 +" COUPE, THE SAM: i3 p10 "
1 +" CORONATION STREET: i1 p12 "+
1 +" COMPUTER MANNUALS: i3 p9 "+
1 +" COMPLAINING: i3 p6 "+
1 +" COMODDORE: i1 p9, i2 p9, i3 p9, i3 p13 "+
1 +" COMMUNICATOR (SAM MODEM): i3 p10 "+
1 +" CJ: i1 p5 "+
1 +" CHRISES: i3 p2 "+
1 +" CHIPS: i3 p9 "+
1 +" CDs: i1 p9, i3 p13 "+
1 +" CAR ACCESORIES: i2 p11 "+
1 +" CAPTAIN SILLY: i3 p5 "+
1 +" Birch Vale:70% "+
1 +" BRADSHAW, BILLY: i2 p14 "
1 +" BILL AND TED: i1 p3 "+
1 +" BIG FARTY NOISE, THE: i3 p7 "+
1 +" BIG COMIC, THE: i3 p1 "+
1 +" BIG BANG, THE: i3 p7 "+
1 +" BERLIN, VIOLET: i2 p8 "+
1 +" BEANO, THE: i2 p5 "+
1 +" BEAN, MISTER: i2 p3 "+
1 +" BEAL, MAT: i1 p2 "+
1 +" ASCII: i3 p11 "
1 +" ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: i3 p5, i2 p9 "+
1 +" ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE: i3 p5 "+
1 +" AL, BIG: i2 p4 "+
1 +" ADDAMS, CHARLES: i3 pp1, 4 "+
1 +" ADDAMS FAMILY, THE: i3 pp1, 4 "+
1 +" ACNE: i2 p5 "+
1 +" A most amusing read, full of photos with hilarious (aherm) captions amongst the supposedly knowledgeable text. A basic knowledge of modern history useful, but in no way needed (pretentious mode off. Blip). Very funny indeed. Ha ha ha. Buy it. If you've got seven quid. Or an irritating book token left over from Christmas 1991, or something. But don't take my word for it - turn over for a second opinion."
1 +" 9.Trevor and Simon "+
1 +" 9) Simulataneous eqations "+
1 +" 89-80%:A very good game indeed. "+
1 +" 8.Everything else."
1 +" 8.Alf and Boge "+
1 +" 8) People who break copyright laws "+
1 +" 79-70%:Still good, but unexceptional. "+
1 +" 7.People not sending SAEs "+
1 +" 7.Barker and Nash "+
1 +" 7) Programs which say TO BE CONTINUED
1 +" 7 when a group of lawyers representing Teletext Ltd came to slap our thighs, and "+
1 +" 7 this month, his strong sense of pleasure only "+
1 +" 7 thankyou Alf, no, actually we were known to the staff of BEEBUG as ""subscribers"". Dull, I know, but that's what it's like to own a BBC. Acorn User really didn't call us anything, and The Micro User was too concerned with the Archimedes to worry about us mere BBC Master owners...who cares anyway?"
1 +" 7 are ""Thingies""...so there! Bye for now...and pleasant smells."
1 +" 7 It did not go with Chart Cat's cufflink! (Tune in next time for probably no adventures with Chart Cat)."
1 +" 6.People who say things like ""sad"" and ""well out of order"", etceterar "+
1 +" 6.Mark and Lard (""1FM"") "+
1 +" 6) Gormless twats "+
1 +" 6 Time you got a watch. Ha ha ha ha ha! "+
1 +" 6 (You're fired. Ed) "+
1 +" 6 (They're all odd then? Glad it's not just me. Mat) "+
1 +" 6 (No. A reader)"
1 +" 6 (Let me guess, Beebers...? BB-Chums? Acornies? Ripped off? Alf) "+
1 +" 59-50%:Median average. You might like it;we didn't. "+
1 +" 5.The collapse of the Speccy market "+
1 +" 5.Not Hale, nor Pace "+
1 +" 5.Er. That's it."
1 +" 5.(That's enough showbands. A reader)"
1 +" 5) Toilet humour (Toilet seats the best) "+
1 +" 5 Who knows...?"
1 +" 5 What time is it? "+
1 +" 5 THAT REVIEW COURTERSY OF ""RENT A STRANGEBLOKE PLC""."
1 +" 5 Purchase a machine gun from your local weapon and arms empourium, and blow the
1 +" 5 He's left EMAP all together. Before he did, but after he left SU, he was ed of C&VG and, in one of his editorials last year, gave his opinion that ""nobody's sad in the computer world"" - ahem - ""except people who own a Spectrum or VIC 20."" Pandering or WHAT!!!??? Sorry, came over a bit Generator there."
1 +" 5 Get a shave, silly person. YOUNGIE. More hilarious problems next time, folks!!! MAT"
1 +" 5 Don't worry, it probably just isn't time yet. Most people's first period starts at about 9.00am, the last one finishing before they leave school in the evening. My next period - period 3 - is History, and I still haven't done my homework. You think you've got problems?"
1 +" 5 Bugger off before I kill you."
1 +" 49-40%:Getting on to the crap stage now. "+
1 +" 4.Smith and Jones "+
1 +" 4.Jeremy Beadle's tenuous links "+
1 +" 4.""Grandstand"" "+
1 +" 4.""Blame It On The Love Of Rock n' Roll..."" - Bon Jovi (or anything, etc.) "+
1 +" 4) People caled Kain Gibbs or Ryan Javis (head) "+
1 +" 4 slap us with a lawsuit also. "+
1 +" 4 happy oyster "+
1 +" 4 dropping, falling or indeed ""lapsing"" "+
1 +" 4 Reasons."
1 +" 39-30%:A complete crapster. "+
1 +" 3.Take That records ALWAYS going to number one STRAIGHT AWAY "+
1 +" 3.Newman and Baddiel "+
1 +" 3.Anything by Aardman Animations "+
1 +" 3.""Saturday's Not What It Used To Be"" - Kingmaker "+
1 +" 3 Aargh smug git"
1 +" 29-0%:Basically, avoid anything under 29% like the plague."
1 +" 2.Slightly damp hair "+
1 +" 2.French and Saunders "+
1 +" 2.""Wildlife On One"" "+
1 +" 2.""Hair Of The Dog"" - Guns N' Roses (or anything from ""The Spaghetti Incident?"" (except the ""dodgy"" one)) "+
1 +" 2) People who don't flush the toilet "+
1 +" 2 FISHOMETER:Where? "+
1 +" 2 FISHOMETER:Lots more than Alch News%"
1 +" 2 FISHOMETER : Lots%"
1 +" 2 And now, ladies and gentlemen, an all-new exciting feature in FISH2 (or even FISH 2)...Lizzie's Crap Joke Of The Month! This month, ""The Indecisive Prawn""..."
1 +" 10.TB Falsename and ""Friend"" "
1 +" 10) ZAT's price"
1 +" 1 Super Darling Brothers "+
1 +" 1 ONE WHOLE YEAR "+
1 +" 1 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (etc.)"
1 +" 1 ""It is good"" - Becky "+
1 +" 1 ""I'm a prawn again, Christian!"" "+
1 +" 1 BORING "+
1 +" 0 the new game for your dead 'ard Nintendo or Sega! You play Davido with your brother Richardo in 2-player mode! Can YOU fend off the angry multinationals, and their lawyers? Can YOU escape the embarassing old 8-bit games? Can YOU get a lot of media attention? Can YOU kill off the Spectrum Market? Yes. Super Darling Bros - coming, albeit without a liscence, at ya' SOON. Only `40!"
1 +" 0 well I said a word. Anyway actually it's not been too bad, I've had my birthday and I have bought a load of speccy programs. >"
1 +" 0 of FISH. On the next few (extremely boring and unfunny) pages is the definitive A-Z of just about everything FISH has featured over our first twelve months. "+
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1 ****MENU**** (MENUER BY Z.A.KHAN)
1 * to hell. YOUNGIE. Talk to your parents. MAT."
1 * off with the Oxfordshire Libary service, it's now been 2 months since I ordered THE COMPLETE SPECTRUM ROM BREAKDOWN from them! Now what to say? Ah yes please turn the page! "
1 '"THIS IS A COPY OF ""FISH 2"","'"THE ""FISH"" TAPEZINE WRITTEN"'"USING CHRIS THOMSON'S ""TZINE"""'"PROGRAM. IT IS NOT AN ORIGINAL"'"(EEK).":
1 "Who said that this was easy?"," Topical start again, I out do my self. Well after that interlude I have to think of something sensible. Which is very hard at the moment as I am really p
1 "What No More Games!"," Well almost - I've got a really crap program which I wrote in basic which creats a WIMP environment on the Speccy if you want a copy just send me an SSAE and blank tape mention you heared about this in FISH2! AND I'll send you a copy. Um have I got anything else to blab about. Turn the page and see!"
1 "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?","Number 4502 - Garth Sumpter, ex-writer for CRASH, ex-Ed of SU and all-round Spec-chum. "+
1 "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?","Number 319 - Jonathan Nash, the bloke who wrote ""Where Are They Now?"" in ""YS2"", our mentor. "+
1 "WE PISS OF ALCH NEWS!","You were probably expecting our version of the SOUNDTRACKER instructions here, but they haven't been in Alch News yet and we've gone off the idea anyway. Sorry, everyone."
1 "VALUE RATING","This takes into consideration how much game you get for yer money and to a certain extent (at risk of sounding like Brett Anderson) how hard the game is;if it's a doddle it won't last you very long (thus lowering the value), wheras if it's rock 'ard some crap people (like me) not get to see all of it (thus, er, lowering the value). You see? "+
1 "Thomson's end until next ish!"," Well since I'm now bored out of my guts I'm going to put a game on so you lot will have to read somebody else's hard unpaid boring chore of writing a tapezine. In other words for those with less brains than a hegehog MAT! "+
1 "TROUBLE DOWN BELOW","Dear Youngie and Mat, recently I have been having trouble ""down below"" - my aunt came to stay in the cellar last week. She still hasn't gone, and is driving me round the twist, with her constant ""Ooohs!"" and goat prodding. What should I do, o knowledgeable ones? From P***ED OFF, HEARTS. "+
1 "TOP 10 DOUBLE ACTS PAST/PRESENT"," 1.Reeves and Mortimer "+
1 "THOUGHT OF THE WEEK","I've got a nasty stomach ache, yes I have. It's half-way through half-term at the mo, and I'm slightly bored. Ho hum. I've just thought of another top double act - Lee and Herring (I expect they'll be on BBC2 any time now). And now! Press the right cursor key for the last bit.
1 "THOSE SURVEY RESULTS","The average FISH reader is between 16 and 20 (with most over 16 and nobody younger than 11), also male ('cos we've only ever had three or four female readers) and own a 128k Speccy. After any Speccy, the most popular machines are PC and Game Boy. The Other Formats' Bit is very unpopular (so we cut it). Full anaylisis when I get all the thing back."
1 "THIS ISSUE'S TOP 5 SONGS"," 1.""Hot Love Now!"" - The Wonderstuff (or anything from ""Construction For The Modern Idiot"") "+
1 "THE REVIEW","This is normally explained in the order of plot or background wibble, gameplay description, followed by the good and bad points and lastly a final verdict type thing. Unless there's anything else the reviewer fancies putting in. This is followed by a screenshot (see last ish), the FISHometer and the Fax Box."
1 "THE PROBLEM PAGE","Got a problem? Then write to Auntie Youngie and Auntie Mat, the agony aunts who couldn't care less, cos we could do with a laff (we really are that sad an' all). Send those embarrasing probs to FISH 2, 3 Station Road, blah blah bloop."
1 "THE MOST ANNOYING THINGS EVER"," 1.Going shopping with my mum and/or my sister "+
1 "THE FISHOMETER","Essentially a list of benal percentages that all ""proper"" magazines dispensed with a yonk ago, ours comprising of GRAPHICS, VALUE, PLAYABILITY, LASTABILITY and OVERALL. On the next five pages is a breif description of each..."
1 "THE FISH INDEX:Z"," ZENOBI:i2 p8 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:Y"," YOUR SINCLAIR: i1 pp7, 9, i2 pp 1, 3, 9 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:X"," [no entries, spookily enough] "
1 "THE FISH INDEX:W"," WALKER, ANNIE: i3 p11 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:V"," [no entries] "
1 "THE FISH INDEX:U"," UG THE CAVEMAN: i3 p7 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:T"," TEAPOT, MISTER: i3 p10 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:S"," SC DTP: i3 p10 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:S CONT"," SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: i3 p7 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:R"," READER'S CONTRIBUTIONS: i2 p2 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:Q"," [no entries] "
1 "THE FISH INDEX:P"," PD: i1 p6, i3 p9 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:O"," [no entries] "
1 "THE FISH INDEX:N"," NASH, JONATHAN: i2 p9 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:M"," MAJOR, JOHN: i2 p4 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:L"," LEMMINGS (SAM): i3 p10 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:K"," KIWIS: i1 p7 "
1 "THE FISH INDEX:J"," JAMES, GARETH (SPIT): i1 p2 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:I"," ICE CREAM HEAD: i3 p12 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:H"," HISTORY: i3 p7 "
1 "THE FISH INDEX:G"," GAME GENIE: i1 p4, i2 p9 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:F"," FISH: i1 p8 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:E"," EDOS: i3 p8 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:D"," DANDY, THE: i2 p11 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:C"," CAPTAIN DYNAMO: i1 p5 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:B"," BAD INFLUENCE: i1 p9 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX:A"," AA MAGAZINE: i2 p1 "+
1 "THE FISH INDEX PART ONE","As you know, this month's magazine marks "+
1 "THE FINAL WORD","And so we come to our final page. I'd like to say it's been fun, but it hasn't, so instead I'll say ""where did you get that hat...oh?"". In the next issue of FISH 2 (tape/3.5"" disk and SAE, or just 75p) will have The FISH Index Part 2 (oh no), and all the stuff we were going to have in this one but couldn't be bothered with. Next ish of FISH proper (25p and SAE) out May. See you then, Spec-kids!"
1 "THE FAX BOX","This gives the hard facts on the game, including Publisher, Programmer, Price, Formats, and any other details we consider to be important."
1 "THE CHARTS MARCH 1994","Charts compiled for FISH 2 by BALLSUP. Sponsored by SILLY SOFTWARE."
1 "THE CHARTS MARCH 1994","Chart Cat has been as happy as a "+
1 "THAT'S IT","That concludes our explanation of the FISH reviews. If you now feel inspired to write one, send 'em to t'address on the Info screen. If you want to write a mini-review for an OFISHal Guide, the only gubbins from the FISHometer and Fax Box you need include is publisher and Overall mark. Oh, and title. And review. Issue 6's will be on Movies (thanks to Stephen Hepplestone) and Sport Sims, and
1 "THAT'S ALL, FOLKS","Well, that's just about everything. Sorry FISH 2 was a bit empty this time, but we had various technical probs and a lack of contributions. Send your stuff to FISH 2 at the address on the Info page. (If you send 'em on tape, write them as DATA lines thus - 100 DATA ""Page title"",""Text..."". It doesn't matter what line numbers you use as I'll have to change 'em anyway. I'll return your stuff)."
1 "SUBTLER PLUG","""FISH"" offers wide-ranged and unbiased opinions and articles from the Speccy world. It's a pity nobody buys it. (Hello! We're a bunch of lawyers representing Sean Hughes productions, and you're in big trouble! Several suited people with shark-y grins) (Hello! We're a bunch of lawyers representing Jonathan Nash productions, and you're in big trouble! A second group of suited people with shark-y grins) (Oh, bugger. The original suits)"
1 "SUBTLE PLUG","FISH Issue 5 is out now. If you haven't yet sampled a copy, send 25p and a SAE to the FISH 2 address (press I). Hello to customers of Prism PD (and any other public domain library)."
1 "SOME MORE REVIEWS","Yes! So you get more value for money, I have FISHOMETER'd everything I can find! "+
1 "RHYMING SLANG","Thirty Two Bit "+
1 "REPLYING TO IDIOTS PART 1", "The first installment of our step - by - step guide to constructing a witty and inspired answer when conversing with utter pillocks. This time, dealing with chronically unfunny people. "+
1 "PLAYABILITY RATING","This takes into a shop how fun the game is to play, how easy it is to get into and things like that. That's it, really. (Blimey - this reviewing policy lark is easier than I expected)."
1 "OVERALL RATING","The most important factor, this isn't an average of the other marks (such behavoir would be considered silly) but instead how good the game is as a whole, in our humble opinions. Playability is perhaps the most important aspect to consider. On the next page, in case you weren't sure, is what a mark means (more er less)."
1 "OVERALL RATING"," 99-90%:A corker. Get it or regret it, or something. "+
1 "My NEW Speccy Programs"," The Speccy programs that I bought were second hand mainly, -TAKE THE CHALLENGE- GYRON, STARGLIDER, DRILLER all of which are brill. A good tip for getting Speccy games it to go to the charity shops, I know it sounds naff but people say the Spectrum's naff don't they! At my PDSA shop in Banbury they sell for `2 to 50p so it is well worth checking. One word of warning keep your receipt in case the game won't load. Most shops refund your money."
1 "Mat's Show","The FISH Index","Charts","Reviews","Problem Page","Lettuce","Liz's Joke","Serious things","Chris' Column","Last bits","Credits et al"
1 "MY PERIODS HAVEN'T STARTED","Dear Youngie and Mat, I am 13 years old and my periods haven't started yet. Haylp! From A TAKE THAT FAN, HEARTS. "+
1 "MODERN IDIOT REVIEW","...By The Wonder Stuff. "+
1 "LIZZIE'S CRAP JOKE","So, Fred went back home and found his friend, and said (wait for it...) "+
1 "LIZZIE'S CRAP JOKE","Once upon a time there was a prawn named Fred, who lived on the bottom of the sea-bed with his friend called Christian. One day, Fred decided he'd had enough of being a prawn, so Christian advised him to go to The Magic Blue Whale who could turn him into something else. So off he went to The Magic Blue Whale, and asked to be turned into a snail. The Magic Blue Whale did so, but a few days later Fred came back, bored with being a snail."
1 "LIZZIE'S CRAP JOKE","""What now?"" asked The Magic Blue Whale. ""I don't want to be a snail any more,"" said Fred. ""I want to be...a human."" So, The Magic Blue Whale turned him into a human, and Fred went off (don't ask how snails and humans and things can survive underwater). A few days later, he came back. ""You again?"" said The Magic Blue Whale. ""I don't like being a human,"" whined Fred, ""they eat snails. Sometimes. I want to be...an orang utan."""
1 "LIZZIE'S CRAP JOKE OF THE MONTH",
1 "LIZZIE'S CARP JOKE","""Anything for a quiet life,"" said The Magic Blue Whale, turning him into an orang utan. ""Now sod off."" So Fred did, but again came back a few days later. ""What now?"" asked The Magic Blue Whale, by now pretty narked off with our Fred. ""I want to go back to being a prawn,"" said Fred. ""Very well,"" said The Magic Blue Whale, and turned Fred into a prawn. (Can YOU spot the punchline, folks???)"
1 "LETTERS","Recently Alf from The Thing Monthly wrote to me. His letter included ""Boge's Crap Paragraph"", written by Boge, and I have decided to make up this issue's (very small) letters column out of it."
1 "LEGAL THINGS","FISH 2 Issue 2 is PD. This means you can copy it at will, but can't use the program for anything else without the permission of CHRIS THOMSON who wrote it. His address is St Paul's House, Bretch Hill, Banbury, Oxon OX16 0LR. The driver is
1 "LASTABILITY RATING","Thiiiis takes into the bath how long the game'll last you, how addictive it is, and whether or not it'll fade into oblivion in a few weeks. Again, difficulty is a consideration, but for different raisins. "+
1 "I AM GROWING A BEARD","Dear Youngie and Mat, I am a 16 year old Take That fan and I am growing a beard! My friends have commented on my facial hair, and I am worried it will keep coming back if I try to wax it, like I do my legs. What should I do? A 16 YEAR OLD BOY, HEARTS "+
1 "How to really show off!","Point (1)- Get a sheet of glass like ice and kick it really hard so it breaks. Everyone will think that you are super strong because you have in their eyes broken a pain off glass. Poit (2)- Find a ant colony pour chocolate over the ants and eat them! point (3)- Say that you beat up the Queens 11th cousin yesterday. point (4)- Tell the bigest bully in your school to piss off and then run in the direction of a hospital."
1 "GUIDE TO THE 20TH CENTURY","...By Paul Merton. `6.99 Boxtree "+
1 "GRAPHICS RATING","This takes into consideration how nice the game looks, how clear everything is, scrolling, use of colour (or the lack of it), presentation and so on."
1 "FREE GIFT! (SORT OF)","After this program on the tape comes Great Hedgehog Massacres by Alf and Boge, a great (ish) animation which sees hedgehogs killing themselves in a variety of mildly amusing fashions. Hours of fun! Copyright
1 "FISH REVIEWING POLICY","A break from this constant wit, humour and non-stop japery now. As everyone seems to be doing it nowadays (oo-er, at risk of being predictable) we thought we'd take advantage of this supplement to outline our ""reviewing policy"", and breifly explain the reviews you read in FISH."
1 "FISH 2 REVIEWS SECTION","Welcome back. (We haven't been anywhere. A reader) Oh, hush. Reviewed this month in FISH 2, the tapezine that couldn't care less - tapezine Alch News, book Paul Merton's Guide To The Twentieth Century, album Construction For The Modern Idiot and anything that takes my fancy."
1 "Even More GAMES?"," I also bought some new budget games for `1.99 because the shop could not sell them anymore! I managed to get Hudson Hawk which I would recomend to anybody. Other advice about buying cheap games they are often they're CRAP ones so take that YS guide to Spectrum games around with you! I've also been playing another game recently on the PC (I've got an 8-bit XT) called RAILROAD TYCONE or something like that. If you've got a PC, get it."
1 "EPILOUGE TO OUR TALE OF SADNESS","""All very well, but wasn't that a bit tastless?"" ""Nah."""
1 "END OF PART ONE","Well, so much for the first three issues. In the next FISH 2, the index for January to May '94 (spook) - Issues 4, 5 and 6 - to finish it off. Sorry to all the FISH bods I couldn't fit in. Might do a ""Who's Who?"" in the future. Might not."
1 "Chris T's maniac Pages!"," Very nice title that don't you think. Well here in my pages you will find an alsortment of gable and alot of spelling mistakes! (2 already, tch.) Who spoted that whopper last ish programing with one M!(again). Well first a word about thet last few weeks for me "+
1 "COMING SOON...","To a computer shop near you... "+
1 "CHRIS' COLUMN","Mesdees et Monseiurs! Je vous presente some wibble by Chris Thomson, which took bloody ages to renumber, pah."
1 "BOGE'S CRAP PARAGRAPH","readers was "+
1 "BOGE'S CRAP PARAGRAPH","Me and Alf have decided that you, as well as the other 70 odd readers of the TM "+
1 "BOGE'S CRAP PARAGRAPH","Hello there Mr.Beal. I've been asked by Alf to write a ""crap paragraph"" here, so here I am...er...I read FISH the other day, and as I'm not a, how do you say, Spec-chum, I really don't understand half of it. I used to have a BBC you know, we didn't have magazines like YS to make up stupid names and things for us...we had BEEBUG, and the only thing they used to call their"
1 "BIX THE CAT'S TOP 5 TV PROGS"," 1.""Pingu"" "+
1 "AT HOME WITH MAT","Greetings, readers. Once again you find me on the verge of dropping my Speccy out of my bedroom window in frustration and jumping up and down on the bits. Why? Once again I'd typed out loads of this (the dead boring repetitive bit - see p3) and saved it, only to find THE BLOODY DATA-SO CALLED-CORDER HADN'T SAVED IT PROPERLY! OK, so it's probably my fault, but I don't care."
1 "ALCH NEWS UPS","Well, the system is very user friendly and looks nice, the loading screen is lovely, it's reasonably big and the topics are wide ranged, if slightly diverse (from assembler to DIY mats to trashy horror books). There's also a lot of interesting info and a free ham sandwhich with every issue. Actually, there isn't."
1 "ALCH NEWS SUMMARY","Well, considering it's free, you can't really go wrong, can you? And it is a good, useful and informative read. So, get a copy, I should. (Spook fact:They now have the rights to all the Rasputin demos, which Mr Taylor described as crap in ""Train Spottin'"". He also said Malcolm Gent was an alien. Actually, he didn't). "+
1 "ALCH NEWS REVIEW","By the time you read this, AN will be on their eleventh issue. As Chris said in the mag last month, they are produced by Alchemist Research, the group of the library of the mag of the film (or something), out quaterly and are free if you send a medium and SAE. The address is 62 Tithe Barn Lane, Woodhouse, Sheffield, S13 7LN. Actually, it isn't. Actually, it is."
1 "ALCH NEWS DOWNS","There's a lack of non-games-y stuff nowadays (although that may not be a bad thing?) and they do tend to be a bit opinionated. Not surprising, then, to hear they employ Chris ""Gawain"" Taylor (see last ish) who, in his latest ""demo"" insults our Martyn! The cad! (""Hilarious"" - Alch News)"
1 "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS","In addition to everyone who is credited on the Info screen, I'd like to thank ANDY DAVIS of Alchemist Research for (possibly) compiling the program, converting it to +D and suppling the font, MARTYN SHERWOOD for distributing it through his library Prism PD and ALISTAIR FAIRWEATHER for allowing us to use Great Hedgehog Massacres. Much appreciated."
1 "A SECOND OPINION",
1 "10 things I can't stand","1) Friends with loads of computers/consols and blab about it all day "+
1 The FISH Index Charts
1 Serious things Chris' Column
1 SINCLAIR CLASSIC: i1 p8 "+
1 Problem Page
1 Melon Balls Communications 1994. (NB. If it ISN'T on the tape, it means Alf hasn't let us use it. Or I've forgotten to put it on. One or t'other)."
1 Liz's Joke
1 Last bits
1 Credits et al
1 CDT/R.U.P. 1993"
1 CDT Productions 1993. The menu system was written by ZAFAR AHMAD KHAN and was published in Future Publishing's Your Sinclair in 1990."
1 CDT 1993"
1 ","This is a very boring joke by leaving a blank page. So just turn it