The 15 (ish) greatest UK video game magazines of all time

[blombluss]

https://www.theguardian.com/games/artic ... f-all-time

I've never managed to read more than a few pages of their #1 choice before boredom set in.

[endar]

knew it would be edge. yawn

Super Play was nice, with its Famitsu style. I always wondered if it was a uk mag because it was so different.

ACE was probably the best. Shame it didn't last long as i was a bit too young to appreciate it at the time

[blombluss]

I thought A.C.E was damn good, as was The Games Machine, which ploughed a similar furrow, albeit a tad more humorous, if memory serves.

[blombluss]

And no mention of Digitiser!

*dramatic music sting*

[dng]

You couldn’t buy digitiser in a shop

[blombluss]

Dixons or Comet, perhaps? Onna brand new telly?

[blombluss]

My Top #10 favouritist video game mags:

#10 PC Format
#9 Your Computer
#8 Personal Computer Games
#7 C&VG
#6 Big K
#5 Digitiser
#4 A.C.E
#3 CU Amiga
#2 The Games Machine
#1 Zzap!64

[blombluss]

I found a 1994 edition of Computer Shopper at the bottom of a wardrobe - beat that CS Lewis!

[The Robotic Anomaly]

While I obviously do think Zzap64 is the best C64 magazine, I think poor old dull Commodore Format should occasionally get a mention. It helped shape me into the tedious dreary man I am today.

[vom]

I was all about YC when I first started buying / reading games magazines. They had "attitude"!

[blombluss]

'tood! Yeah!

Bets magazine - Essex Terror 64 (incorporating C&VGoaste)

[dng]

raz showed me this the other day, which is completely wonderful

https://mocagh.org/hintbook/cvgbookofmaps.pdf

[dng]

due to maps, games, etc

[blombluss]

That is fab, and my bro actually had that book o' maps (I'm 90% sure).

[dng]

i am now 90% jealous of your brother (and you, by extension)

[dng]

i think if i'd had that as a child it would have been my favourite book (alongside out of the pit, obviously)

[dng]

want

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgeeykqx959o

[endar]

Lovely

[blombluss]

I wonder if one of the olde machines enables you to see a flash of an Edwardian woman's ankle, in a What The Butler Saw! stylee!