Amiga Format

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.

Please tell me somebody went even lower than that because I can feel it coming.

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.

For me, the Amiga version gets 3 out of 10.

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%.

They killed this game dead.

You guys also have some specialty items, uh, on the website here.

We do.

In fact, I've, I've flipped through that Amiga format, uh, that you've got there.

In fact, I think I've got the Amstrad Addict somewhere in here too.

The magazines of the day, uh, were not happy.

Amiga Format in June of 90 gave this a 44% and buried it.

Amiga Joker double buried this thing, 39% in May of 90.

Computer and Video Games 103 from June of 90 gave us a 50%.

The Amiga version in the same issue got 97.

Amiga Format, still only on issue five for Future, gave it 90.

Uh, CU Amiga, EMAP's Commodore title, went 86.

And Amstrad Action, Future's first magazine, uh, scored the Amstrad version 94, even though they only gave the sound 67.

The sixty-four looked solid, and Zzap rated it highly, but the Amiga was the show-off.

Zzap called the Batmobile, uh, and Batwing sections out of this world, and you can see why, because the roads and the balloons have a depth the eight bits couldn't manage.

Amiga Format still only gave the whole game ninety, so they weren't completely hypnotized, but for pure spectacle, the Amiga wins.

Spectacle matters on a film license, Lee, because you want it to feel like the poster you had on your wall.

Yeah.

And I kind of started with looking at that, and then going through the reviews of that, and then suddenly, like, this whole thing then kind of then ex- it, it expanded from there to then cover the kind of war, so to speak, between Amiga Format ...

No, between Team17 and Amiga Power, which actually also incorporated Amiga Format versus Amiga Power, and a whole load of magazine-related w- you know, duking it out on newsgroups.

And then it's like, oh, my word.

And it just started from, oh, I just wanna cover The Killing Grounds just 'cause-

Uh, but here's the big one.

Um, Amiga Format, uh, which Future had started the year before when they split ST Amiga Format in two, gave the Amiga version just 42%.

42%.42.

So the same Amiga game got 93 in one magazine and 42 in another, Lee, which is less than half.

If Amiga Format was the only mag you read that month, you'd have walked straight past it in the shop.

And the Amstrad got 68 from Amstrad Action, uh, the mag that launched in '85 at a pound, a penny for every page.

They said it was a fighting game without the fight because whoever gets the first punch in wins.

The poor old 64 is the one I'd leave on the shelf, which doesn't happen very often, uh, on this show.

Then CU Amiga, the eMap mag that started life as plain old Commodore User, gave it sixty.

And Amiga Format, uh, Future Publishing's monthly, uh, that made the cover disc a standard thing, went sixty as well.

Ninety-two and sixty for the same game is a thirty-two-point gap, Lee, and somebody somewhere wasn't playing the same disc as everybody else.

Did anyone land in the middle, or was it just two camps, uh, shouting at each other?