Saw C+VG most months '89 to '93. If I hadn't bought it myself, someone else in my class had. Have a full collection here and if you flick start around the time just before Mean Machines launched it was full of stuff like the Neo Geo and PC Engine, which most people would never see let alone afford. Flip over to the much more mature ACE (before Emap ruined it) and you got a far better read.
Thank you for the response.
I'm gonna assume you're talking about Mean Machines, the magazine and not the feature in C+VG as the latter had been around since about 87. In which case, I'll admit there was a fair amount of focus on the Neo Geo and the PC Engine. But that was going to happen anyway, they were a huge deal at the time, and both were penned for a UK launch. But it's still really unfair to say that the 8bits were dropped for it, Dragonninja, Blasteroids and Vindicators were definitely covered on the CPC. There were several other Speccy and C64 games covered. By 89-90, the 8bit coverage was slowly diminishing as the ST and Amiga's library was really starting to build, but that's not necessarily down to Rignall. That was just the direction all formats publications were going. The 8bits were dying and with the Neo-Geo and PC Engine being primed for European release, and the Megadrive under development on the back of the SMS's success. Everything was all going in this direction... =>