Commodore Format

Before we move on to our next couple of games, we're going to take a little detour and sort of highlight the work of one of our amazing patrons who's been doing some interesting stuff.

Stuff goes on on our Discord and so they've been basically going through Commodore Force and Commodore Format and looking at the cover tapes.

I've been doing this for a few months now.

And so we thought, we asked them, it's Lee Dove, and we asked them and said, would you mind if we included this in the podcast? And they were like, yes, that's a great idea.

Use it.

um and so that's what we're going to do so basically we're going to read out some of his comments some of their comments sorry um and obviously offer our comments as well and on the games and maybe sort of see what we think was the best cover tape each month um so we've got the first couple of months to go through um we've got sort of uh so basically started at january 1993 the That's when Commodore Force came out.

Commodore format was well established by this point.

And it's interesting to see just what was actually available on the back.

YC, uh, which used to be called Your Commodore, gave it eighty-nine percent in what turned out to be its very last issue.

Then Zzap 64, the Commodore sister mag to Crash, came in that winter with twenty-two, and Commodore Format, Future's, uh, C64 mag, which was only a year old, went nineteen percent.

Eighty-nine down to nineteen isn't a split, Lee.

That's a canyon.

It makes the C64 version look even worse because on paper, that machine should have walked it.

Scores then.

Uh, the magazines ran from Amiga Action's, uh, 92 and, uh, Crash's 90, uh, all the way down to Commodore Format's 19.

Uh, from me, the Amiga version gets a five.