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Did anyone read these computer magazines? Especially Amiga Power. That magazine was brilliant and I think it had a good role in developing my sense of humour.

Right now I only remember vague things about both magazines. The hatred of cheats and tips, Farty the Warthog, Advance Lawnmower Simulator, Cannon Fodder controversy, the many words they originated. Digitiser on Channel 4 can be nearly the same but not quite there. In fact what I'd really like to see is the team that Amiga Power had when the Amiga was going down the pan and they didn't give a shit doing a weekly music mag. It really would be the greatest mag ever.

― fractal (fractal), Friday, 21 February 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 21 February 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks a lot. :)

― fractal (fractal), Friday, 21 February 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

legendary scottish hard-ass games critic Stuart Campbell was the main voice of Amiga Power - he actually ended up contributing to Digitisier as well, check out his final column for the doomed C4 teletext games section as featured in EDGE magazine recently - it really is classic, Stuart has it on his site but cant remember the URL :(

after Amiga Power folded (er, '96 i presume?) Stuart Campbell became a member of Sensible Software itself - likewise games mag luminaries like Gary Penn also joined games teams...Zero's Dave McCandless went on to co-produce the seethru website for BBC to tie in with the Attachments TV series...interesting!

Amiga Power was cool except they had a bizarre failure to recognise the greatness of Turrican unlike most Amiga mags...otherwise classic

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 22 February 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

check out his final column for the doomed C4 teletext games section as featured in EDGE magazine recently - it really is classic, Stuart has it on his site but cant remember the URL :(

It is here: Panel 4, Column 72

According to Stuart himself: "...the gutless poltroons didn't even run the column in the end, replacing it for no given reason with a particularly dire reader effort, giving P4 a truly ignominious farewell. The worthless cunts."

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 22 February 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and...

AP2!

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 22 February 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

that AP2 site is quite funny, but the frameset and design is terrible and off-putting

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 22 February 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought this was to be about iain :(

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 23 February 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I was more of a CU Amiga guy myself, although I did have a brief dalliance with Amiga Shopper. 1MB of memory should be more than enough for anyone..

― Minky Starshine (Minky Starshine), Monday, 24 February 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Zzzap owns all your sorry asses. Lloyd Managram is king.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 February 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i bought and read all these mags between 1990 and 1994

Zero (funniest mag overall i think, didnt read Ace so not sure how that compares)

C&VG (also very funny but maybe more aimed at younger readers)

The One (had interviews with Arthur C Clarke and Douglas Adams amongst the reviews dedicated to Amiga or ST - weird)

Amiga Format (great for more non-games Amiga stuff)

Amiga Power (pretty fun read, lots of great ideas but a bit too smug and arrogant at times)

CU Amiga (only bought it for the coverdisks - didnt rate this one much at all)

Amiga Action (had a cool Super-League ranking the best games month by month, not bad coverdisks, one of the first mags i noticed that printed screen captures taken every few seconds side by side so you could see how game levels scrolled perfectly)

Games X (short lived weekly mag, nice novelty - nothing to write home about really tho)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

AP2 is great and worth the patience to read but only makes any sense if you've read the mag which is classic all the way and by the end was barely a computer mag at all and more an excuse for the writers to go mad. It was about the only mag where you could trust their opinions to the point where the software companies wouldn't give them review copies cause they were too honest as to how bad things were. Plus I won a competition in AP once and got a copy of Fire & Ice.

All the mags Steve mentions I bought at one time or another and I also bought Ace which I remember as pretty good though not with the personal feel and humour that The One or AP had. Didn't The One get into legal trouble at one point (with Giles Brandreth??).

Before all these I used to buy Amtix for my Amstrad which was mighty fine and came from the same stable as Crash.

― mms (mms), Monday, 24 February 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimg/yr20/yr20_pik.htm

Taking sides: Your Spectrum vs Your Sinclair.

Your Spectrum every time

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i think Zero probably got into trouble with Gyles Brandreth rather than The One because they once featured a photo of his head on a cariactured body with the slogan 'I Am A Wanker' on his jumper hahahaha

so mms do you mean AP2 the magazine or Amiga Power itself? was there an AP2 magazine?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah that was the Brandreth incident I was thinking of, my recollection was that it was in the One, don't think I remember Zero too well.

I meant the AP2 website natch and not a mag. Such a thing could probably not have lived up to the mad genius of AP anyway and there's no way anyone would have paid them to write it.

― mms (mms), Monday, 24 February 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

'Zero' was fecking hilarious.
'Ace' was crap.
'C+VG' was stupidly large and I could never fit it in the cupboard

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Monday, 24 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

omg amiga power was fukcing awful - shoot! to the one's when saturday comes.
it was like smnash hits or something, cheap and shitty. i stuck by the one an onyl threw out all my old copies the other day. it lost it a bit bit by the end.
zero was ok, amiga format smug and boring and U amiga just boring. the best computer mag ever was bbc acorn user - 30 PAGES OF LISTINGS!!!!!! yes, my plans for the next month taken away
10: print "wanker"
20 goto 10

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

big up Julian Rignall!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

my boss used to edit acorn user.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

Oh my word, I've been re-reading AP's unrelated JFK assassination special this weekend and it made me spew, it was so funny. Specifically the part about successful assassins always having three names (James Earl Ray, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, for example; John Hickley who failed, etc).

Even better is the fact that it had a letter (entitled 'CLOCK CELINE DION') from the 15 year old me on the letters page.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 24 November 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

So many Amiga Power things on twitter today.

This day 19 years ago the final Amiga Power was published:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CM1PwCcXAAA1YfK.jpg:small

I feel old.

― treefell, Thursday, 20 August 2015 13:41 (ten years ago)

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