Dick Tracy

All the thrills and action of the Warren Beatty movie (and the Chester Gould comic strip) come through in Dick Tracy! You'll think you're in the thick of the flick as you guide Tracy's battles against crime lord Big Boy Caprice to the video game universe! Itchy, The Brow, Lips Manlis, Pruneface, Flattop and Big Boy himself all show their distinctive kissers in this non-stop arcade thriller starring the player as the world's most famous cop.

This pulse- pounding recreation of Tracy's war with the underworld offers six stages comprising three rounds each with Tracy facing down one of the boss gangsters in the final round of each level. Rounds consist of either running gun battles in the city streets or car chases with all guns blazing.

• TIP: Watch out for hoods carrying explosives! When you see one coming, move Tracy toward him. The bad guy will throw his weapon in an arc and it will probably fly right over Tracy's head.

In the street scenes, Tracy can either punch out or shoot out any thugs on his side of the street, but while he takes out these guys with his revolver, the town's top cop also carries a machine gun for perforating any long-distance perpetrators. When Caprice's stooges show up on the far side of the street, Tracy can open up with his chopper, using an on-screen cursor as a gunsight. The car chases employ a similar perspective with Tracy, crouched on the running board of his classic squad car, using his revolver to shoot crooks directly in front of or behind him and his chatter-gun to ventilate vehicles travelling in a parallel lane. There are even rounds which Tracy must negotiate without a weapon, using only his bare fists! A bonus game follows the successful completion of each round, as Tracy returns to the target range to finetune his shooting skills. Three targets, side by side, pop up simultaneously, but not all the targets ' contain pictures of bad guys. Tracy must hit the right targets while avoiding those targets containing pictures of innocent citizens.

• TIP: When a hood on the same side of the street as Tracy drops to the sidewalk, get ready to make Tracy jump over the bullet, since it will travel too low to duck under.

Dick Tracy is one of the wildest shoot-outs in video game history, and this game has one of the wildest action features you'll find on the streets. When Tracy opens up with his tommygun, not only bad guys, but parked cars, shop windows, fire hydrants and any other breakables get shot up! In other words, game fans will want to put out an all-points bulletin for Dick Tracy, one of the hottest new titles for Sega Genesis!

• TIP: Bump into The Kid whenever he comes by — he can impart extra energy to renew Tracy's strength!

• TIP: Keep moving; don't let the bad guys draw a bead on you! And don’t be afraid to duck!