Crash

[WarmFluffyUK]

Well so what are my boyfriend and I doing at the moment?

Well I just had to tell, He has just moved into the house and He's got this huge box full of old Crash magazines for the ZX Spectrum. Wow what a blast from the past. Just looking at all the hardware add-ons you could get for the speccy was kewl, it really was a booming industry. And the viewers letter pages was a scream

I just been looking through Issue 6 which was published in July 1984, I wonder how many of our forum members were on the planet then?

Ahhh the nostalgia....

 

[PokeParadox]

I was on the planet but barely 10th December 1983...

 

[PoisonedV]

I wasn't alive.

 

[dosteridge]

Think I still own some of them - I loved the crash smash's

 

[sam fisher]

I wasn't alive.

It's a damn shame you're here now aswell!

 

[PoisonedV]

I wasn't alive.

It's a damn shame you're here now aswell!

Bitch.

 

[sam fisher]

This is my terf bitch, go back to the power ranger forums! You know the ones I mean!

 

[Goity]

I wasn't alive.

It's a damn shame you're here now aswell!

Bitch.

Out of interest, were you alive in 1996?

 

[PoisonedV]

 

[WhizzBang]

Crash was great at the time. I think all games magazines ripped it off and all todays ones are like Crash (other than the aloof Edge). Before Crash, games magazines were dull.

 

[andyB911]

Crash was great at the time. I think all games magazines ripped it off and all todays ones are like Crash (other than the aloof Edge). Before Crash, games magazines were dull.

I've got a fair stash of old Speccie mags in a box in the loft - including the first issue of Crash ;-) And too true that it changed the market - Sinclair User was a bit staid and no mistake. I can't actually remember if Your Sinclair pre-dated Crash... but that was quite funny.

Wonder what a full set of Crash magazines is worth - I certainly don't have them all, but someone probably does...

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Crash was great at the time. I think all games magazines ripped it off and all todays ones are like Crash (other than the aloof Edge). Before Crash, games magazines were dull.

I've got a fair stash of old Speccie mags in a box in the loft - including the first issue of Crash ;-) And too true that it changed the market - Sinclair User was a bit staid and no mistake. I can't actually remember if Your Sinclair pre-dated Crash... but that was quite funny.

Wonder what a full set of Crash magazines is worth - I certainly don't have them all, but someone probably does...

Phil has a hell of a lot of them, varying in condition from covers falling off to pretty darned good. To us they would be priceless as no way would I ever want him to sell them. You simply cannot put a price on something that invokes so many childhood memories. This is the basic premise on why this forum now exists, the GP32 with it's retro emulators made this place!

 

[darkman]

In 1984, I think I was messing around with a Timex Sinclair 1000 also called a TS1000. It was so basic. I remember typing in games. I remember one game that was like asteroids and the graphics was "Xs" and "Os." I had one of those before I bought a Commodore 64.

 

[Han]

Ah Crash, the nostalgia indeed. I didn't start buying the magazine until towards the end of its life. So I don't have that many issues, but I would never sell them. Good fun to flick through them once in a while and be amazed how different things were back then… or maybe not so different