Everything to do with our favourite pastime! Reviews, recommendations, sells/swaps, problems etc. Whether they are on the latest consoles, arcade or retro classics. It's not the winning or losing, we came to play!
Someone I know has scanned all issues of Crash and is making them available to buy on CD very shortly (costs just going towards materials and labour). Guess we can start searching then
Now I would be interested in one of those CDs.
Infact, thats a great idea, and I'm surprised it hasn't been done already.
I was going to collect listings from mags, and do a similar thing.
But I could never prove that the listings worked, so I gave up.
D.K. Tronics wrote:Anyone remember the good old days of
Crash!
ST Format
Along with
Your Sinclair
Sinclair User
ST User
and early PC Format.
God, I had a 10-odd year subscription to Future Publishing back then YS, STF, then PCF.
But PC Format went downhill. More so when the team told it's readers who wrote in complaining about all the sexism in the mag, and the woman on the covers, that
"would they prefer games and hardware ?", in a sarcastic tone.
Well YES, it's a PC mag.
hahah this was a continuing theme in their mags. PC Format was never that techie, so you kind of expected it to have non-geeky covers. I stopped buying it after their 5th DVD or something and now don't read computer mags at all (except Linux Journal).
I liked ST Format's style. They weren't "boring" and formal like the PC mags then were. I liked it when they reviewed things like RAM upgrades and blitter chips since they'd always give a "how to fit one" guide with photos. They also used to print daft phrases down the spines of the mags, and inside the cover, just underneath the ABC circulation stats.
And who could forget
Jaz Rignall
Gordon Houghton
Eugene Lacey
I remember some bloke called Jim McCauley too, wonder what became of him?
But PC Format went downhill. More so when the team told it's readers who wrote in complaining about all the sexism in the mag, and the woman on the covers, that "would they prefer games and hardware ?", in a sarcastic tone.
Well YES, it's a PC mag.
hahah this was a continuing theme in their mags. PC Format was never that techie, so you kind of expected it to have non-geeky covers. I stopped buying it after their 5th DVD or something and now don't read computer mags at all (except Linux Journal).
Gah. Now. Where do I start? The girls on the cover of PCF were there for one reason: sales. Ladies on the front meant more sales, and that, sadly, is scientific fact. Never much cared for them myself; I figured there were plenty of ways of doing an interesting, appealing cover without using a covergirl, but them was the rules. And they were, quite literally, the rules.
Oddly, you'll note that PCF has of late reverted to covergirls. You'll also note that PCF failed to post circulation figures for the first half of 2002. I'm going to be very interested in seeing the next set of ABCs which'll be for the whole year.
I remember some bloke called Jim McCauley too, wonder what became of him?
Last seen in the outer reaches of colourspace with a grin a mile wide.
I believe he works mostly for Gamesmaster these days, with forays into PC Gamer and a flicker of interest from Edge that could prove fruitful. And he's finally tired of PC Format; the next issue will be the first one since issue 45 that he hasn't contributed a single word to.
Jedburgh
It's all about trying to work out what the fuck is going on.
Your Computer was the mag for computer nerds... it used to do type in listings in machine code for the various popular computers... I use to go through the hex listings, finding out how the code worked. That's one of the ways I learnt to programme.
Crash and Zzap64 where the mags for the gamers, oh, and Amstrad Action...
I really miss that time period when the whole game thing was new and fresh and I was learning, imagining what could be possible if I really wanted to make games. And now I'm bitter and twisted about the whole scene, like some grumpy old man.
I stopped buying magazines several years ago after getting 'netted', but I recently bought a PC Format because there was something on the CD that my modem would baulk at downloading. Either I'm getting old and grouchy or the levels of journalisms have slipped a looong way. Schoolboy humour and snide comments at other platforms get my goat (no offence to goats ).
I never really got to read the old game mags, I used to have access to a Vic 20 when I was a couple of years old, and my dad bought me a second hand Spectrum 48K for my birthday when I was about 8 or 9. I didn't have the money for mags, and my parents wouldn't let me get them
I was quite the Nintendo fan while I was growing up. But have always been into retro games because I'd played a lot of the older games.
My bro and I had a subscription to Arcade while it was around, I used to enjoy reading that. When the mag went under they started sending Games Master to us instead for the rest of our subscription. I hated that because I think Games Master is the biggest pile of pap ever!
Anyone read the new mag, 'games tm'? I've been thoroughly enjoying reading it on the train on the way to uni, it seems more aimed at hard core gamers, and retro fans. What is other peoples opinion of this new mag?
I have a whole collection of ST Users here. Not every one, but lots of erm.
I still read lots of games mags. I think the first mag I bought was when my dear old mum gave me a vic in '83. It was a commadore mag, and I was really gutted that out of all the listings only a couple were for the Vic.
YS, STF, then PCF.
Ok, so it took me a while ... Issue 21, it was
