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Oct 16, 2026
LeeHOST
Magazine marks next, and this one the Spectrum press treated as a landmark.
LeeHOST
Crash, Newsfield Spectrum magazine, uh, out of Ludlow, handed Fairlight ninety-five percent and a Crash Smash in issue twenty-two.
LeeHOST
Graphics sat at ninety-seven.
LeeHOST
The same readers’ awards for nineteen eighty-five then put it first for best arcade adventure and first for state of the art.
Mark WebbHOST
I can hear the Commodore desk warming up already.
Mark WebbHOST
Who cheered the sixty-four tape when that conversion finally landed in eighty-six?
LeeHOST
Zzap sixty-four, Newsfield’s Commodore sixty-four sister to Crash, scored ninety percent in issue fourteen with Gary Lidden, Julian Rignall, and Gary Penn on the panel.
LeeHOST
On the Amstrad, Amstrad Action, Future Publishing’s first magazine, hit eighty-one percent in, uh, issue eight for the CPC port and across five reviews.
Mark WebbHOST
Did the Commodore magazines go just as high?
LeeHOST
Zap 64, Newsfield's Commodore title, used a three-person panel for issue 41.
LeeHOST
Paul Glancy, Maff Evans and Gordon Houghton gave it 94%.
LeeHOST
Commodore User, EMAP's Commodore magazine, gave it 9 out of 10 and a superstar.
LeeHOST
Review desk time, and this one splits hard.
LeeHOST
Crash, Newsfield’s Spectrum magazine from Ludlow, handed the Spectrum version eighty-nine percent and a Crash Smash in issue forty-four.
LeeHOST
Your Sinclair, Dennis Publishing’s, uh, Spectrum title, stamped MegaGame with nine out of ten in issue twenty-two.
Mark WebbHOST
A Smash badge and a MegaGame stamp in the same month is the Spectrum desk cheering at full volume.
LeeHOST
Pretty much.
LeeHOST
Uh, Sinclair User, uh, EMAP’s, uh, Spectrum magazine went eight out of ten.
LeeHOST
The Games Machine, uh, Newsfield’s brand-new multi-format title launching that autumn, scored eighty-two in its first issue.
LeeHOST
ACE Future’s new multi-format magazine, um, loved the Spectrum build at, uh, eight hundred and forty-five out of a thousand.
LeeHOST
Reviews next, and most of the mags went daft for it.
LeeHOST
Uh, Crash, Newsfield's, uh, Spectrum magazine out of Ludlow, gave it 93 and a Crash Smash.
LeeHOST
Their readers then voted it best overall game in the Crash Readers' Awards for '89, which tells you how big it felt that Christmas.
Mark WebbHOST
Winning the readers' vote, as well as the Smash badge, is a proper double, Lee, because kids don't vote for games.
LeeHOST
Uh, Your, uh, Sinclair, the Dennis Publishing Spectrum mag, uh, famous for its Mega Game Award, uh, uh, gave it 91 and that badge.
LeeHOST
Uh, Computer and Video Games, Britain's longest-running games magazine and the home of the Golden Joystick Awards, uh, gave it a 92 and a hit.
LeeHOST
Uh, The Games Machine, Newsfield's all formats title, went 95.
LeeHOST
But Sinclair User, the EMAP Spectrum mag, only gave it 76, so somebody on that desk was keeping a cool head.
LeeHOST
We'll start with the Commodore.
LeeHOST
Zzap!64 was Newsfield's, uh, Commodore 64 magazine, the sister to Crash, and it was famous for printing the reviewers' little faces next to their opinions.
LeeHOST
Zzap! issue, uh, 33 in January '88 gave Tetris 94%.
LeeHOST
Over on the Spectrum, Sinclair User, the long-running Spectrum monthly from EMAP, gave it 10 out of 10 and its Classic Award.
Mark WebbHOST
Am I right?
LeeHOST
You are.
LeeHOST
Uh, Crash, Newsfield's Spectrum magazine, uh, from, uh, Ludlow, um, the one with, uh, the really long, uh, opinionated reviews, uh, gave it, uh, 77% in issue 50.
LeeHOST
Uh, they liked it, but they weren't blown away, uh, by, uh, a game, uh, with no shooting in it.
LeeHOST
Let's go through who they were and what they said about, uh, Starquake.
LeeHOST
Crash was the, uh, big Spectrum magazine, uh, published by Newsfield out of Ludlow in Shropshire and known for long opinionated reviews and its Crash Smash award.
LeeHOST
And Crash issue twenty-two in November, uh, gave the Spectrum version ninety-six percent and a smash.
LeeHOST
Sinclair User, one of the longest-running Spectrum magazines and published by EMAP, went the whole way with five out of five in November.
Mark WebbHOST
I'm curious about the later Commodore and Amstrad pages because a flip screen maze can feel very different once the colors and the sound chip change.
Mark WebbHOST
What did those machines get when the ports arrived?
LeeHOST
Still loud, uh, Zzap sixty-four was, uh, Newsfield's, uh, Commodore magazine, the sister title to, uh, Crash, famous for printing the reviewers', uh, faces next to their comments and for its Sizzler and Gold Medal awards.
LeeHOST
Zzap issue fourteen gave the sixty-four version ninety-three percent in, uh, June '86.