The deceptions of Amstrad Computer User

[chinnyhill10]

ACU was a once proud magazine that after issue 50 was sold off by Amstrad to external publishers and was passed around like an unloved child between owners. An "official publication" that didn't even bother to cover the launch of the CPC Plus. Just get your head around that for a second. It was terrible. I don't know why I even bought it on an occasional basis.

One thing bothered me above all else. The review of Flimbos Quest. Not only did the review read like it had been written by System 3's PR department, but no way did the screenshots come from the CPC version.


Judge for yourself with the AA review and the ACU review side by side. Which of these magazine is deceiving its readers and has no ethics at all?


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[Bryce]

I was an Amstrad Action subscriber back in the day. I've only read ACU lately for the first time (the pdf scans) and I'm glad I chose AA back then!

Bryce.

[chinnyhill10]

I was an Amstrad Action subscriber back in the day. I've only read ACU lately for the first time (the pdf scans) and I'm glad I chose AA back then!

Bryce.

Early ACU is great. Pre issue 50 when Simon Rockman was editor and Amstrad actually owned the magazine itself. However after it was sold off it became rubbish. Robert Maxwell owned it for a time before he fell off his boat.


What kind of rubbish "official" magazine do you have to put the Monty Python game on the cover when you should have put the Plus launch on it? They didn't go to the launch in Paris and the news page only mentions the new sales people Amstrad had taken on for the Plus machines without mentioning the launch of the Plus itself. AA were all over the Plus. From the rumours, to the launch they were all over it. The official magazine, nope. Just a few pages and no cover story. AA even cracked open a GX4000 and previewed all the games. ACU were so lazy!