Zion Train - PC, 7/9/95
Zion Train - PC
"The questions are not who are we and where are we from, but what are we doing now and does it have anything to offer?"
If your answers to the above are "idiots", "toilet land", "nothing" and "no", it's`unlikely that the anarcho-crusty multimedia title from which the above quote is culled will appeal.
Unless you want to know how to use VHF scanners.
Zion Train will be familiar to the tangle-maned owners of 1972 Bedford CF vans decorated with badly-painted murals of the Battle of the Beanfield.
They are, you see, a sound system whose mellow dub has enthralled gatherings of angry subversives for four years.
This individual offering matches their music with some Gilliam-style surreal Victoriana (orchestrated by Sex Pistols' designer Jamie Reid) and near-subliminal anti-establishment slogans.
Zion Train also litters its multimedia event - disastrously subtitled Seedy Rom - with photo-montages of Criminal Justice Bill demos and "funny plants".
There are also brief but inspiring sections on how to make your own records, a list of the most interesting (legal) frequencies to scan and a tearful eulogy to John Peel.
If you like dub and are kept awake at night by the thought of Big Brother tying your dog's string to his fascist-mobile's bumper, you might buy this.
Zion Train - PC CD-ROM - by China
Req: 386DX 4RAM Win
Graphix: 81%
Sonix: 79%
Gameplay: 62%
Lifespan: 52%
Originality: 81%
Uppers: System-aborting
Downers: Awkward to set up. Small
Overall: 67% - Like a lion
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