Julian Rignall
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Oct 16, 2026
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.
LeeHOST
Spectrum Computing’s average comes out at ninety-three percent, which is a cracking number.
LeeHOST
They were.
LeeHOST
Mean Machines, EMAP's, uh, console monthly that Julian Rignall had launched with the Mega Drive in '90, [smacks lips] got hold of the Super Nintendo version for its July issue, number 22, and slapped 98% on it.
LeeHOST
That is, uh, an absurd score, and they basically told readers it was one of the greatest games you could own.
Mark WebbHOST
98 is the sort of number that makes you check the ink hasn't smudged.
LeeHOST
Exactly.
LeeHOST
Mean Machines was EMAP's big console magazine, the one Julian Rignall launched in October '90 with the Mega Drive, and it was the bible for pad-in-hand kids.
LeeHOST
Their July issue, number 10, gave Sonic 92% and basically shouted, "Buy, buy, buy." Computer and Video Games, EMAP's older multi-format title that had been reviewing everything since the early '80s, put Paul Rand on it in issue 117, and he scored 94%.
Mark WebbHOST
92 and 94 is the sort of agreement you almost never get when two magazines share a building.
LeeHOST
worse.Much worse, sadly.
LeeHOST
Julian Rignall at Computer and Video Games, the bloke who'd later launch Mean Machines, said he loved the arcade game but found this conversion a great disappointment and gave it 60.
LeeHOST
The games machine went 43 and Popular Computing Weekly gave it 42 with a review comparing it to waking up with a hangover.
LeeHOST
But here's the twist.