It’s been a long time since I took a look at the Your Spectrum magazines (as explained in my first post about old Spectrum mags). But the new Spectrum Next computer is nearing launch, so I thought I would catch up with the remaining mags I still haven’t looked at yet. Here’s my look at the highlights of Your Spectrum Issue 15 from June 1985.
All images are taken from the ever-awesome Internet Archive. Here is the full magazine if you want to take a closer look. https://archive.org/details/your-spectrum-magazine-15
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In the page above it’s great to see the 3-2-1 Ted Rogers reference and also to see Jools Holland presenting Ultimate with a golden joystick award!
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Cool to see a review of a hacking book which references my all time favourite movie, WarGames (which was only about two years old at this point). A nicely written piece in the style of Adrian Mole. And another jibe at the Sinclair C5 with the picture of Super Gran!
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Look at that Top Ten. Nearly every game is a classic. And four games in the Top Ten from Ultimate!
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The legend that is Bob Holness. I’ll have a Z and an X please Bob!
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50 games on one cassette. That’s just crazy. You would need a tape counter on your cassette deck for sure!
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Just including this page as it isn’t their regular artist.
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I’ve never heard of this game, Starion. It looks like a bit of a clone of my favourite game of all time, Elite. Might be worth checking out!
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Bit weird that this add leads with a line that at a glance looks like ‘Frankie Goes To Hollywood’ but actually the cover photo is of Blancmange!
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I had never really heard about Modems in 1985. Good of them to be talking about that sort of thing in this mag though.
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I’ve heard so many people rave about how cool these old microfairs used to be.
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Duncan
Sep 7, 2019 -
Interesting adverts etc. The Bank of England inflation calculator shows that you need to multiply by 3 to get 2018 prices. Did you spot the Sanyo “medium resolution” colour monitor for £273 (£819 today) or the fact that the only printer in the review capable of printing on A4 was £150 (£450 in 2018).
The Microfair advert caught my eye too. Although I never went to one of those I regularly went to “The Computer Shopper Show” at Olympia in the 1990s. The big retailers like Watford Electronics used to bring lorries literally into Olympia; literally and sell things like printers fat bargain prices (i.e at about a 20% discount) from the back of them.
A lasting memory was calling a friend from a call box there to tell him. “They’ve got 4MByte SIMMS for just £80. Do you want me to get you one?” Of course he couldn’t resist the bargain of the year.
Retromash
Sep 9, 2019 -
I heard about the Olympia shows too. Must have been cool to go to. And 4MB for £80? Wow.