Showing posts with label Amiga Power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amiga Power. Show all posts

Friday, 2 October 2020

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The all-time greatest Amiga Power reader's letters ever!

My friends agree with me

Dear AP

I have been reading your magazines since they first came out. But I would like to share a few ideas. I have noticed in some other magazines they have had a page with drawings of say Soinc (sic) punching Mairo (sic) in the face. I find this quite funny and good fun to read and my friends agree with me so could you please think about it.

Yours sincerely, Tim Wood, Uckfield

Consider it thought about

I remember such fan art pictures doing the rounds in the early '90s, though reading Amiga magazines you'd be more likely to see Zool abusing Sonic or Gomez taking a swipe at Mario. That said, I'd much rather witness Mario and Sonic synchronise magic bullet volleys, assassinating one another simultaneously so we never have to endure either of the overhyped pixel-pestering stooges ever again. If there's a compassionate god up there, surely it would have happened by now? Even today the interwebs are full of illustrated sparring matches between the irksome mascots, so apparently, the sentiment has never faded.

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Elsewhere in the 'And another thing' column...

I own one of every issue of AP and two copies of issue eight. As a reward for my loyalty, can you print the letter 'D' on the spine of the next issue so I can spell 'MIAOW I AM A GRAPE GOD' on my bookshelf?

Yours sincerely, Ben Twitchen, Southend-On-Sea

We'll think about it.

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable request to me. It not being granted must have been an oversight.

Thursday, 1 October 2020

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Remember when reading magazines made time-travellers of us all?

Why were Amiga magazine publishers (and magazine publishers in general) incapable of printing the current/correct publication date on their issues? I explore the contentious controversy with a bit of help from a bemused former Amiga Action reader.

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Wednesday, 30 September 2020

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Kid Gloves killed the video game star?

Had gaming magazines throughout the nineties continued to publish full commercial software releases via their covermounted floppy disks, would the phenomenon have had a detrimental impact on the industry? I join Amiga Power and ELSPA spokesman, Roger Bennett, in deliberating over the pros and cons of the notoriously polemic argument.

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Thursday, 6 August 2020

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Don't copy that floppy! ...steal it instead

The not-so-well hidden secret of Top Secret is that it's a shameless Rod-land rip-off, minus some of the core elements that make it so satisfying to play; spontaneous ladder generation and the fairies' comically unconventional means of attack. Is whatever remains worthy of your attention? Is Top Secret "probably the best PD game ever" as Amiga Power magazine optimistically suggested? Albeit on the cover of one of their issues which included said game on the cover disk.

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Wednesday, 5 August 2020

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Spodland lives!

In 1992 Amiga Power in collaboration with The Hidden, developers of everyone's favourite samurai duck, Donk, ran a design a game competition, the illustrious prize being for the winning entry to be transformed into a fully playable, cover-mounted public domain game. Who won, and where can you download their magnum opus today?

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Thursday, 30 July 2020

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If Pinocchio reviewed Amiga games

I explore the capricious relationship between games magazines, their staff critics and the games publishers who supply them with review copies of their creations. Does relying on games publishers for advertising revenue account for some of the unfeasibly positive reviews printed in supposedly impartial magazines? Which, if any of them, could you trust to tell you the truth during the Amiga's heyday?

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Tuesday, 21 July 2020

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Amigo Scour - the ultimate Amiga magazine!

Obviously far superior to any of the individual Amiga magazines of the '80s and '90s, my handy scrapbook compendiums swipe the most intriguing news snippets from each, while investigating if anything ever came of the promises and often over-optimistic projections.

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