UCP: The GamesMaster Retrospective

Ho Ho Ho and Meeeery Christmas 1993! GamesMaster gets festive with an Xmas special of panto stars playing terribly on Adventures of Yogi Bear, Alfred Chicken and Holiday Lemmings, while Frank Bruno battles his daughter on Greatest Heavyweights.

The review team name their favourite games of 1993 - including Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition, Syndicate, FIFA International Soccer and ClayFighter - while GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Joe & Mac (GameBoy) and Superman (Master System).

Plus, we present a short snippet of our interview with Paul Rose, aka Mr. Biffo. The full interview will be posted next week!

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It's the biggest episode of GamesMaster in history with FIVE challenges! Not only are there Team Championship bouts on Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition, Magic Boy, Super Mario Kart and Davis Cup World Tour, but also there's the finals of the FIFA International Soccer tournament between Vinnie Jones and John Barnes.

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Mega Drive) and World Soccer (SNES) get reviewed, we have a big preview of Rise of the Robots (oh dear), and GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Cool Spot (SNES), Arabian Nights (Amiga) and Jungle Strike (Mega Drive).

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It's week two of the Team Championships Heats, as The Layton Wizards take on Culture Crew and The GITS on Skyblazer, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters for a spot in the semi-finals. Plus, Dennis Wise and John Barnes battle on FIFA International Soccer for a place to take on Vinnie Jones next week!

Aladdin (SNES) and Cybermorph (Atari Jaguar) get reviewed, we get a big preview of Mortal Kombat II, and GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Micro Machines, Ren & Stimpy: Time Warp, and Donk!.

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The Team Championships kick off as the Hertfordshire Armchairs take on Turbo Destructors and Redbridge Raiders on Aladdin, Val d'Isere Championship and World Heroes 2 for a place in the semi-finals. Meanwhile, another tournament kicks off as Vinnie Jones takes on Les Ferdinand on FIFA International Soccer!

Sensible Soccer (MegaDrive), Dennis (SNES) and Goal! (Game Boy) get reviewed, and GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Aladdin, Super Star Wars and Syndicate on Amiga!

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We interupt our regular programming with this special piece of news: it looks like a GamesMaster reboot is coming out this year! Luke and Ash dive into this brand announcement and speculate as to what it could all mean.

You can read it yourself here. Thanks to @_Eurisko for the heads up!

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It's the final episode of the first half of series 3, and we've got two competitors battling it out on Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind on the MegaDrive before saving the President in Jungle Strike. Meanwhile Liam Botham drops by to play Graham Gooch World Class Cricket on the Amiga.

It's a big week in the Review Zone as Plok (SNES), Lawnmower Man (SNES) and FIFA International Soccer (MegaDrive) get looked at, GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Battletoads/Double Dragon, and ClayFighter, and we meet some of the teams that will be competing in the Team Championships that kick off next week!

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Tim from Bedford and Kelly from Cowley light candles on a specially designed level of Puggsy, with the winner racing to victory on the Mega CD version of Batman Returns. And Dani Behr drops by to smash moles on Monkey Mole Panic.

Jaz Rignal hates platformers as Aero The Acro-Bat (SNES) and Skyblazer (SNES) get reviewed alongside Lethal Enforcers (Mega CD), GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Morph, Rock N Roll Racing, and Wolf Child, and we've got a bizarre feature which feels like the precursor to ROM hacking.

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We're LIVE from The Future Entertainment Show 1993 for GamesMaster Live '93! Dexter Fletcher struggles to keep things in order as we've got a diamond run on Aladdin, a heavyweight clash on GM favourite Sonic Blast Man, and a chaotic finale on Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition!

Plus, let's take a look around the event and find out about what burgers you can eat, and GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on F1 ROC: Race of Champions (SNES), The Addams Family (MegaDrive), and Blackhole Assault (Mega CD). It's a mad episode!

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Things get a bit complicated with a bizarre challenge on Super Mario All-Stars, they get even weirder in the celebrity challenge with Monie Love playing Cool Spot (with a dream date on the line), and things are pretty normal in the final challenge on F1.

Young Merlin (SNES), Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (SNES) and The Fidgetts (GameBoy) get reviewed, and GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Out To Lunch, Super Strike Eagle, and Fantastic Dizzy. Which means it's time to sound the Dizzy Klaxon and get Dave Bulmer on the line!

You can follow Dave on Twitter, STCTP here, and Serious Disness here.

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We've got ball busting action on Super Pang, with the winner getting to play the exclusive first-look at RoboCop Versus The Terminator! Plus, Eastenders star Sean McGuire drops by to score on Striker!

A few big releases in the Review Zone this week as Cannon Fodder (Amiga), Top Gear 2 (SNES) and Dune 2: Battle For Arrakis (MegaDrive) get put under the microscope, GameMaster helps struggling gamers on Super Pang (SNES), Dr. Franken (GameBoy) and Day of the Tentacle (PC), and we get our first word on GamesMaster Live '93! Let's get mad!

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