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Oct 16, 2026
LeeHOST
Chris Jenkins opened with the words Panda Poo aimed at anyone saying the Spectrum was finished.
LeeHOST
Your Sinclair from Dennis Publishing made it a mega game with 9 out of 10.
Mark WebbHOST
Pandapoo is a fantastic way to start a review, and it tells you exactly how worked up he was.
Mark WebbHOST
Did anybody put the brakes on?
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.
Mark WebbHOST
Did the other Spectrum titles climb that high as well?
LeeHOST
Crash, uh, the Spectrum mag out of Ludlow, first on sale back in February '84, gave it ninety percent and a Crash Smash.
LeeHOST
Uh, Sinclair User, uh, eMap's Spectrum title, um, and, um, uh, the oldest of the bunch said eighty-one, and Your Sinclair from Dennis Publishing went seventy-seven.
LeeHOST
So depending on your machine and your mag, uh, Final Fight was either a classic or a stinker.
Mark WebbHOST
stinker.I love that, Lee, because it means two kids in the same playground could read totally different verdicts and both be right about their own machine.
LeeHOST
They gave Sonic Adventure nine out of 10.
LeeHOST
The official Dreamcast magazine, the Sega licensed title from Dennis Publishing, also went nine out of 10 in, uh, in its launch special.
Mark WebbHOST
Two nines from the two Dreamcast mags is lovely, Lee, but they'd hardly want to slag off the big launch game.
Mark WebbHOST
Uh, did anybody with a bit more distance chip in, or was it nines all the way down?
LeeHOST
And they did.
LeeHOST
PC Zone, Dennis Publishing's loud and cheeky PC monthly, uh, had, uh, told a reader, uh, only a couple of months earlier that the highest mark in its whole history was ninety-seven percent for Alone in the Dark Two.
LeeHOST
In the Christmas issue, it gave, uh, Half-Life ninety-five and told everyone to buy it and have a happy Christmas.
Mark WebbHOST
Ninety-five from a magazine that hardly ever went that high is a massive deal, Lee, because PC Zone loved being rude about big games.
Chad SmithHOST
But looking back, he suspected it was his finest moment.
Chad SmithHOST
Thomas Edison is credit-credited with saying, "When you've exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't." That broke young man built Dennis Publishing, which eventually had fifty magazines.
Chad SmithHOST
He was one of the richest self-made men in Britain.
Chad SmithHOST
Near the end of his life, he started planting trees, not a few, a forest, over a million saplings in the English countryside.
LeeHOST
To play Doom properly, you needed a decent PC, and they were dear, so I'll turn every price into today's money too.
LeeHOST
These come from adverts in PC Zone, Dennis Publishing's PC games mag, in its January '94 issue.
LeeHOST
Acer's cheapest 486 came in at 869 quid, roughly 1,950 in today's money.
LeeHOST
If you wanted the full multimedia set up, a 486 with a CD-ROM drive and a Sound Blaster 16 cost 1,260, and that was before VAT, so call it 2,800 now plus the tax.
LeeHOST
Over on the Spectrum, Sinclair User, the long-running Spectrum monthly from EMAP, gave it 10 out of 10 and its Classic Award.
LeeHOST
Your Sinclair, the cheeky, uh, Spectrum magazine from Dennis Publishing, made it a mega game with nine out of 10.
Mark WebbHOST
10 out of 10 from Sinclair User and a mega game from Your Sinclair.
Mark WebbHOST
That's about as good as it gets on the Spectrum, but I've got a feeling one of the big names wasn't quite so sure.