CraigGrannell wrote:
There was more 8-bit stuff when Imagine took over, but fewer in-depth articles. There were quite a lot of 'classic game' spreads.
There were also pieces on companies like Graftgold, Gremlin, Level 9, and I think New World Computing. I suppose in a way, the magazine 'shot its load' for me, quite early on, to be crude about it. I think the current magazine is very readable. My gripes come from a fan wanting to see 'his team' do well, not dissent
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I think the magazine had to shift a little, because 16-bit (etc.) fans were getting pissed off.
There's a game called Warhea-oof!
Me, I'm just biased towards coverage of stuff released in the UK. But anyway, I do think there's a massive amount of ground to cover not just in terms of the Atari ST and Amiga, but in how the progression was made from the supposed '8-bit era' and the 16-bit one. I loved the article, early on, about the Konix Multisystem. That was heavily hyped in Sinclair User and The Games Machine (first games mags I ever bought) as being the Next Big Thing. I was very confused to never hear of it again. I really wanted a Sam Coupe.
But I freely admit that I have no idea how international the mag's readership is, and what 'generations' are mostly keenly called for now. The forums are a bit much.
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One way around that has been to start looking at more arcade games (Crystal Castles in the current issue, for example, or my Berzerk piece a few issues back)
I enjoyed both of those - and Crystal Castles on the Speccy was a superb conversion, DS emulator fans. Good screenshots, I also thought.
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Or Imagine's back-issue shop.
Indeed! I had quite forgot that it would have one.
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it ran a GTA piece that had the potential to draw in new readers and perhaps keep them. That's just good business sense, and I suspect Retro Gamer will be doing more of that thing when relevant. Annoyingly, some people then complained this issue that the Zelda piece didn't correspond with a current release. ARGH!
Particularly amusing, that. I was in college then, and I can vividly recall Mark nasally droning about GTA being wicked, whilst Tim stopped telling racist jokes long enough to talk about gerrin yer orse in OOT. In fact, there are all sorts of parallels that can be made between the games beyond that, interestingly.