Another one down, and this has to be the lowest effort localization ever. Whereas before you'd have terms like prowl car and various Americanisms and spellings and such Anglicized for the UK market, now its just the same story but with a typo on still as sill as the only change I can see. Maybe subs were asleep on this one.
But enough whining, what you want is a full review before the inevitable download afterward.
Tale of two halves, this, as it concerns a space satellite going missing and the theft of valuable sea creatures from not Sea World and private citizens.
Joe Hardy overhears two guys plotting to bring down a satellite, whilst waiting for Chet Morton to finish summer school. It quickly moves to Florida where they apprehend a dude with a surface to air missile attempting to carry out this threat, only for the satellite to disappear in orbit, and Joe to be singled out for elimination, as he's the star witness, by a corrupt corporation.
You can tell its set in Florida as there is a guy keeping stolen electric eels in his shack to shock people, a stunning and brave tribute to the ranks of Florida Man.
Apparently the satellite stuff had help from a Douglas D Lloyd ,who I can find no leads on. There's quite a bit on old computing stuff in this, so if you're fans of mainframes and loading stuff from tape, its not a bad read. A special mention must be made of the hardware Emulator used to load the dummy program in, as whilst stuff like MAME is commonplace now, I believe this is one of the earliest mentions of it in print I've seen so far.
Anyway Sky Sabotage #77 can be read here.
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