Retro Gamer Amstrad CPC special!

[Gryzor]

Just arrived, issue 130. Six pages on the CPC, and as it says on the cover "Lord Alan Sugar on Buying Sinclair and Celebrating 30 Years of the CPC Range"


Haven't read it yet...

[Gryzor]

..and a nice video from @Xyphoe :

[Carnivius]

Just arrived, issue 130. Six pages on the CPC, and as it says on the cover "Lord Alan Sugar on Buying Sinclair and Celebrating 30 Years of the CPC Range"


Haven't read it yet...

Yeah that's the one I mentioned in the shoutbox last Friday when I flicked through it in the WH Smiths in Ely, having the mixed up pics of the 6128 and Plus.

[Gryzor]

Did they really?

[AMSDOS]

So what's this Retro Gamer (Kindle Tablet) Edition I see for Free to Android users?
Retro Gamer (Kindle Tablet Edition): Amazon.co.uk: Appstore for Android


I don't have an Android, but how come they get it for Free, when I have to loose a 20 Dollar Note, I can understand the need to replace some tree plantations element, though the Tablet Edition would need some IT editors and staff to put the thing together.

[pelrun]

It's only the reader app that's free, to actually get magazine issues on it you have to buy them from inside the app.

[AMSDOS]

Makes sense.

[Gryzor]

Even if it was free it would be a promo or something...

[CraigsBar]

Bought this today, looking forward to a read tonight.

[Neil79]

It's ok, but a bit short


Could've done with more Amstrad game info as well

[chinnyhill10]

What a rubbish article. Total utter tripe. A reminder of exactly why I no longer buy Retro Gamer.


All that rubbish about Sugar sneering at Outrun at a March 1985 meeting even though it was already top of the sales charts on other formats.


Outrun didn't come out in the arcades until 1986. All the 8 bit versions came out at the same time. By 1986 none of the big software houses were publishing through Amsoft.


Utter tripe. Don't waste your money for 6 pages of regurgitated material that is better covered elsewhere such as here:


You're NOT fired: The story of Amstrad's amazing CPC 464 • The Register


THAT'S how you do an article!

[cpc4eva]

so its a load of bollocks then ?

130 issues of RG crikey i thought it was dead ?

nice pic of cpc in the mag give it a point for getting that right.....

hahaha

[Neil79]

What a rubbish article. Total utter tripe. A reminder of exactly why I no longer buy Retro Gamer.

I rarely buy it because it's the same stuff again and again, the only great retro gamer was the history edition

[chinnyhill10]

nice pic of cpc in the mag give it a point for getting that right.....

hahaha

Although they claim it's a Spanish version in the photo whereas we all know that the final production runs of the 464 had dual UK/Spanish writing on them. My 464 has been nowhere near Spain yet has Spanish on it.

[Neil79]

Did nobody else notice the error?


Look at the picture of the CPC 6128  then look at the picture of the CPC Plus

[Orri]

Who didn't notice that error?

Instant ban I should think if failure to notice

Orri

[Gryzor]

Yeah, saw it too as I was reading it last night... tsk, tsk!

[Carnivius]

I already said at beginning of this thread and in the shoutbox a couple weeks ago.  you guys are slow.  Slooooooowwwww... like...a snaaaail....  of which there seem to be loads of this time of year (the front door of my block of flats is covered in them)

[Gryzor]

As I only read the article last night I vaguely remember reading something about it.

Sincerely yours,
Snail.

[remax]

Xyphoe talks about it in his video too...

[Nich]

I was also a bit disappointed with the "key exclusives" sub-section of the article. I admit that the CPC had very few games that weren't released on any other format, but the choice of Megablasters and Zap't'Balls doesn't make much sense to me, as they were released very late in the CPC's commercial life, and in my opinion, they had very little influence in "defining the CPC range" over its competitors at the time (i.e. the Spectrum and C64) - and was Megablasters really released in 1988? That's another schoolboy error!

[Trebmint]

I feel a bit sorry for the guys at Retro Gamer. They have to tread a very fine line of what they cover and how many pages they spend doing it. Yeah they don't always get it 100% right, and I feel they should do more for the retro community especially in the UK. However given the job it sets out to do it's a pretty good publication.

[Gryzor]

With the fear of turning this into another "RG is going down the rafters" thread, it just doesn't hold me as it used to anymore. System coverage is one thing, and 'each to his own' applies here. However, inaccuracies, errors (at least they hired an editor and we don't see articles fulled of spelinng errs any more), lots of wasted space (did you notice the HUGE and numerous photos of Kenji Kanno in the Crazy Taxi article? Tsk...), stuff like 12 out of 19 Retro Diary entries coming from the 2000s...

And, kind of irrelevant, but it bothers me to no end that half of their tweets are about mags of iP Publishing.

[Trebmint]

Maybe they need 80's Gamer and 90's Gamer. Maybe its me but is it too much to ask for a "Making of Sam Fox strip poker" article?

[Gryzor]

Ha, actually this would be neat

I think in a while it'll go from "Retro Gamer" to "Old Gamer" or "Stale Gamer"...