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Android...?

SwevicusSwevicus
edited February 2014 in Games
Can somebody please help me identify the game represented in the screenshot in the upper-left hand corner of the following image? (Features a load of coloured blocks). I KNOW it's not Android (AKA Android 1), and it's been bugging me for about 20 years. This covertape is something I've always obsessed over, because it's the first one I got. The link to the image is below.

http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1294602129-00.jpg
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  • RorthronRorthron
    edited February 2014
    Arkanoid
    spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums
  • na_th_anna_th_an
    edited February 2014
    In fact, Arkanoid II.
  • SwevicusSwevicus
    edited February 2014
    Thank you. Stupid and misleading screenshot on the printer's part, if I may say so.
  • carlssoncarlsson
    edited February 2014
    So the Sinclair User covertape indeed contains Android One, but it has a cropped screenshot of Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh? Ironically it seems to be one of the few SU cover tapes that had several screenshots, most of them only list the games by name.
  • SwevicusSwevicus
    edited February 2014
    Did nobody at Sinclair User recognise the error? I shouldn't complain - the mystery (for me) is solved.
  • carlssoncarlsson
    edited February 2014
    The magazine that month (issue 111, May 1991) correctly described Android 1. I checked issues 112 and 113 for any corrections, but didn't find any. However it was mentioned that due to restrictions from the E.L.S.P.A. they were limited to two full games of a newer date, or I assume multiple games of an older date, titles no longer sold in the stores. I read on another site that eventually they didn't get to distribute commercial games at all, so I suppose it took a turn for the worse.
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