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Sun, 07/05/2009 - 9:48pm — Bill Loguidice
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UK only - not that I can think of

Matt Barton wrote:
Wow, that does look like a very relevant magazine for us. Of course, I'm sure it would focus more on British computers. I know there were plenty of British-specific computers, but are there any British consoles? Surely there were a few provincial efforts before the crash. I'm not talking about European versions of foreign consoles, which I am well aware of.

At any rate, the British computer fans I've talked to have fond memories of their BBC Micros and Spectrums.

I have several issues from their original run. It's a great magazine, well written, very visual, etc. It was what I striving for the print version of Armchair Arcade to be when I was shopping us around to US publishers way back when.

There were no UK-specific consoles pre-crash that I'm aware of (the US really was where it was at back then, worldwide - only Sega and Nintendo had significant pre-crash systems going in Japan). I have one of the post crash consoles, the Amstrad GX400, which is a consolized version of the Amstrad computer, similar to the NEC TurboGrafx-16 in that it's a relatively powerful system hamstrung by an 8-bit processor. There really weren't many UK-specific/only or Euro-specific/only consoles, unless you want to count things like the C64GS, which never made it out over here. The VTech CreatiVision came out in 1981 and was Euro/Australian/Japan-only, and was like a hybrid console/computer (I have the Australian Dick Smith version). Still, nothing that truly meets the definition of pre-Crash "UK only".

Books!
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director | Armchair Arcade, Inc.

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