Title: Warlocks
Reasonable scrolling platformer with some nice graphics, and parallax scrolling.
Links: Demo: Cover disc
Supplier: Davyn
Players: 1
Type: Platform
Needs: OS 2: Yes   OS 3: Yes   RPC: No   SA: No

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Title: Waterloo (£25)
Links: None
Supplier: Turcan Research Systems
Players: 1
Type: Strategy
Needs: OS 2: Yes   OS 3: No   RPC: Game On   SA: ?

Title: Wavelength
Average multi-way scrolling shoot-em-up, which sadly doesn't leave you feeling in control. Some nice graphics and weapons, but ultimately fails to leave you feeling fulfilled.
Links: None
Supplier: Eclipse
Players: 1
Type: Shoot'em'up
Needs: OS 2: ?   OS 3: Yes   RPC: ?   SA: ?

Title: White Magic (£20)
Game based on Gauntlet, only with one player able to change characters, rather than a four-player game
Links: None
Supplier: 4th Dimension
Players: 1
Type: Gauntlet
Needs: OS 2: Yes   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Game On   SA: No

Title: White Magic 2 (£20)
Game based on Gauntlet, only with one player able to change characters, rather than a four-player game
Links: None
Supplier: 4th Dimension
Players: 1
Type: Gauntlet
Needs: OS 2: Yes   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Game On   SA: Yes, but runs fast

Title: WIMP Game, The (£20)
A desktop-based "adventure" game, but with pictures not text. A nice idea, although the game design is not particularly good. Some annoying bugs.
Links: None
Supplier: 4th Dimension
Players: 1
Type: Adventure - point'n'click
Needs: OS 2: Yes   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Yes   SA: Runs a bit fast

Title: Wizard Apprentice (£15)
Beautifully drawn and nicely animated platform-based puzzle game
Links: Review: On these pages
Supplier: The Datafile
Players: 1
Type: Puzzle
Needs: 5MB  CD   OS 2: No   OS 3: No   RPC: Yes   SA: Yes

Title: Wolf Pack
Written using Simis's Flight Simulator Toolkit, consisted of lots of vaguely linked missions.
Links: None
Supplier: Software 42
Players: 1
Type: Flight simulator
Needs: OS 2: Yes   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Yes   SA: Yes

Title: Wolfenstein 3D (£30)
Good game, only I dislike this Acorn port because the 'run' key doesn't work properly - running is not much faster than walking, but more importantly you can't turn quickly. Still, if you've never played the PC version you may well not even notice the problem.
Links: None
Supplier: Powerslave Software
Players: 1
Type: 3D explore-and-shoot
Needs: 1MB   OS 2: Yes   OS 3: Yes   RPC: Yes   SA: StrongCache, but loads very slowly

Title: Wonderland
Links: None
Supplier: Magnetic Scrolls
Players: 1
Type: Adventure - text
Needs: OS 2: No   OS 3: Yes   RPC: No   SA: No

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