Oh yeah. That was a great magazine. Shame nothing, with the possible exception of N64 Magazine's early days, has come close to matching it.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrt Jrrrrrrrrrrn, yrrrrrrrrr rrr zrrrrrrrrlrrrrrrrrrt yrrr frrrrrgrrrrn prrrrrrftrrrrr!!
Sponguss...Sponguss...Sponguss...
...Duke Nukem...Carmageddon...great games!!!!!!!!!!
I'd have to put in several good words for Crash! magazine - Ludlow's greatest export.
Frrrrrrrrrrrk Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfff Mrrrrrrryrrrrrrr Krrrrrrrrrrt sprrrrrrrd. "Rrrrrrrr nrrrrrrntrrrrrdrrrrr rrrrrr grrrrrrrrt. Rrr wrrrrrnt trrrrrr srrrrrrrk Shrrrrrrrgrrrrrrr-rrr Mrrrrrrrr-rrrrmrrrrrrtrrrrzz crrrrrrrrk."
I agree Al. Crash was rather good. I was pleased to hear its circulation shot through the roof after doing some sort of piss take of EMAP's Sinclair User.
I have that issue! It's quite rare coz after the initial print run, SU took out an injunction and many copies were withdrawn from sale. It's actually very funny - It's called 'Unclear User' and takes the form of a pullout in the centre of the mag. Lots of game review 'exclusives' - 'Monty on the Bun' and such. Ah, happy days...
Yeah! I imagine I still have my copies of YS and Crash! somewhere. Hmm...must dig them out.
Another computer magazine that deserves to be mentioned here is Amiga Power. Brilliant stuff, a bit more intense than Your Sinclair, I think. It was by far the best Amiga magazine around - a lot better than the fatous Amiga Format, or the utterly useless Amiga Action. AP was also written by some of the people who worked on YS in its latter days.
Rather sadly, I have no issues of AP and just one issue of YS left. There's some great sites though that help you relive those memories - one called the "YS Rock 'n' Roll Years", featuring reprints of old reviews and comic strips by Duncan McDonald (a truly brilliant man - where is he now? He seems to have vanished.) I can't recall the address of that, I'm afraid, go to Yahoo! and search for that name. It'll turn up. Another one is AP2, an Amiga Power tribute site written by Stuart Cambell and Jonathan Nash, two actual writers for that magazine. It's mostly incomplete and apparently it'll never be finished off as Nash is tired of writing about old things, but what's there is gold.
http://www.ds.dial.pipex.com/ap2/
And yes, Zombie Davina, Digitiser is great too.
Anyone know where I can find a Spectrum Emulator Snapshot file of Your Sinclair's legendary free game "Advanced Lawnmower Simulator"?
Sorry to sound like a geek.
>Anyone know where I can find a Spectrum Emulator Snapshot file of Your Sinclair's legendary free game "Advanced Lawnmower Simulator"?
Take a look at the excellent World of Spectrum:
http://www.void.jump.org/index.html
>Sorry to sound like a geek.
No YS fan can be classed as a geek :-)
There was a game called "Hovver Bovver" on the C64 which actually did simulate lawn-mowing.
http://come.to/worldofstuart
is the brilliant Stuart Campbell's lovely site. He's just about the only reason for reading Digitiser at the weekend now.
And Jonathan Nash, yes, excellent writer!
Jonathan Davies, too, who I believe now writes occasionally on PC Gamer, and launched the (then) brilliant N64.
Oooh yes, AP. The only magazine i really wish I'd kept issues of, rather than borrowing them from other people and, stupidly, giving them back after I'd finished.
I want to have Nash's babies.
Sadly, I can't find him, so I have to make do with Stuart Hobbs.
Who seems to have escaped the basement.
Damn.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn. Enough, you go now.
Duncan McDonald is, surprisingly, still alive. He's contributing stuff to some website tied in with a BBC2 thing, and playing the guitar.
Oh, and he lives by the seaside and no longer owns a computer.
I vividly remember the issue of YS after the change from Dennis to Future.
That's when computer mags still had a sense of fun and quality to them.
>Oh yeah. That was a great magazine. Shame nothing, with the possible exception of N64 Magazine's early days, has come close to matching it.
You cruelly forget Amiga Power. (http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ap2)
Any other Crash! readers? What happened to Lloyd Mangram, Robin Candy, Derek Brewster, Hannah (surname? - she did game tips and cheats), Hunter S minson (possibly not his real name)? Any reports?
I never actually read Amiga Power, because I never had an Amiga. Knowing, however, that Stuart Campbell wrote for it, I wish I had.
But I was only little and spent all my money on stickers and sweets!
And YS.
I shamefacedly admit to being unable to remember more than the catchphrases from AP. Now, Sega Power I can remember a lot of. Despite the fact that it was nowhere near as good.
Those Clangers, eh?
I recall two great reviews from the Nash in N64 Magazine.
Broth.
Stew.
>Any other Crash! readers? What happened to Lloyd Mangram, Robin Candy, Derek Brewster, Hannah (surname? - she did game tips and cheats), Hunter S minson (possibly not his real name)? Any reports?
I didn't read Crash! much, but this was discussed on some other mailing list ages ago and apparently Lloyd Managram was a made up person. I'm not sure of this piece of info, but there you go.
There aren't many great writers actually working on computer magazines anymore. They've all disappeared.
Look at Future. The company that once produced (a few) mags of high quality, which has slowly but surely started to slide down to a distinctly mediocre level.
...and now Hobbs works for them.
In his own words:
"Zoinks!"
...of course, he does much better than I would.
*snort of laughter*
>I want to have Nash's babies.
>
>Sadly, I can't find him, so I have to make do with Stuart Hobbs.
I believe the trick is to look for the chap saying "Gosh jeepers crikey". In an entirely non-ironic manner.
I did.
*waves at Hobbs*
Damn impostors.
>Anyone know where I can find a Spectrum Emulator Snapshot file of Your Sinclair's legendary free game "Advanced Lawnmower Simulator"?
Sorry, accidentally found this forum due to my site being linked to it. Lots of conversions of ALS are at:
http://www.unsatisfactory.freeserve.co.uk/als/download
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