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Re: Speccy mags having a pop at each other
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:28 pm
by 5MinuteRetro
PeteProdge wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:10 pm
Well, here's the kicker. She joined EMAP, it seems.
December 1991 (issue 118) Sinclair User...
I'll take a look at later issues to see any more evidence. Unfortunately this means having to read late-era Sinclair User. My retinas will never forgive me.
Well, I didn't know that, but then I sure wasn't reading SU by that stage. I've just gone through those late-era SUs and she appears up to and including 127...
...and then she just seems to disappear, with nary a goodbye. I'm still not convinced she was a real person!
Re: Speccy mags having a pop at each other
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:33 pm
by Morkin
Holy carp, I'd almost forgotten how much they milked the "girlie tipster" thing...
Re: Speccy mags having a pop at each other
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:38 pm
by PeteProdge
Well, there's some kind of mention of her departure in issue 128, when Garth takes over the playing tips...
And wow, as you can see, SU's attempt at humour always was painful.
Re: Speccy mags having a pop at each other
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:41 pm
by PeteProdge
That car in August, btw...
Well, it's been educational.
Re: Speccy mags having a pop at each other
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:50 pm
by 5MinuteRetro
PeteProdge wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:41 pm
That car in August, btw...
That number plate is pretty much the noise I'm making right now.
Re: Speccy mags having a pop at each other
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 3:40 am
by Wall_Axe
whats wrong with hudson hawk and final fight? lol
(comment based on previous page)
Re: Speccy mags having a pop at each other
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:41 am
by mjwilson
There was some back-and-forth around 3D Game Maker, summed up at
https://twitter.com/CrashOnlineUK/statu ... 9839370241 and including CRASH saying "Who's the April Fool now, eh YS?"
Re: Speccy mags having a pop at each other
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 9:43 pm
by MatGubbins
I've been reading my stack of The Games Machine mags and found this...
The Games Machine - Jan 1989, issue 14 (ninja cover) page 103
Mercy Dash cartoon,
Third line down, box 2 - Where's our Future?
Fourth down, box 1, 4 dwarfs singing about magazines moving to Bath.
https://archive.org/details/the-games-m ... /page/n101
Your Sinclair don't mention the move to Bath until April 1990, issue 52 (Stormlord 2 cover) pages 4 and 5
Also, the publisher changes Dennis to Future in this issue
http://live.worldofspectrum.org/infosee ... clair/52#4
I've also noticed that a lot of articles in The Games Machine stop halfway through a sentence, leaving the reader searching for the ending that is not there.