Amiga Computing

The one Emaps 16-bit title from October 88 gave it 59%.

Amiga Computing, Amiga Action's sister magazine, went for 50%.

Then Amiga Format, Future's big seller, which shifted over 160,000 copies an issue at its peak, gave it 19%.

from 92 down to 19 is a proper cliff edge and it's the same game on the same machine.

Scores.

Amiga CD, 32, Gamer gave 90, and Amiga Action, 92.

CU Amiga gave 80, the 159, and Amiga Computing, 50.

Amiga Format gave 19, Amiga Power, 5, Sega Power, 3, and Edge 2 out of 10.

So they're really sort of reviewing a pre-release copy that we'll never see, and so they react accordingly.

Uh, Amiga Computing from '95 gave this a 40%.

Amiga Format from May of '95 gave it a 50.

Uh, and, uh, Amiga Power, number 50 of June, or, uh, June of '95, dropped the hammer, the golden hammer, on this game with a whopping 10%.

The hardware made that look small.

Amiga Computing's October issue had dealer ads with an Amiga 500 and TV modulator for $399.

That's about $1,150 now.

Commodore users' October issue had an Atari Summer Pack for $369.99, around $1050 in today's money.

height?Pretty much.

Uh, Amiga Computing, the Europress Amiga monthly, went 97.

Amiga Action gave it 96.

Amiga Power, uh, Future's more hard-nosed, uh, Amiga title, still handed it 90 and, uh, called it the yardstick other platformers would be measured against.

[upbeat music]

That is pure early '90s rave leaking into a platform game, Lee.

You can hear why Amiga computing went weak at the knees over the music options because it sounds like a club, not a beat box.

Next, the Atari ST version.

On the Amiga, The Games Machine, Newsfield's, uh, newer magazine that, uh, covered every format, gave it 90%.

And Amiga Computing, in its very first issue that June, gave it 70%.

So it was a bit cooler on the Amiga.

I love that Crash went, uh, 77 on, on Tetris because looking back, that's like a food critic giving a cup of tea three stars.

Time for our scores then.

Quick reminder of the magazines.

Zzap on ninety-four, Sinclair User on ten, Your Sinclair on nine, Crash on seventy-seven, The Games Machine on ninety for the Amiga, and, uh, Amiga Computing on seventy.

From me, looking at the whole story, it's a ten.