From the Forum Issue 90

[kelp7]

When I first saw an Amiga running Starglider 2. The exact moment was when the person playing switched to the 'outside view' of your ship and you could hear the amazing sound of the engine. Goodbye C64!

[fredghostmaster]

When Crash stuck a cassette on the front of the mag and became a glorified leaflet

[Jonathan]

Probably sometime late in 1992, as software houses were reluctant to look at new Spectrum software. I knew the game was finally up the following year when Your Sinclair telephoned to say they wouldn't be publishing any more cover tape games as the magazine was closing. Once the magazine stopped it looked like there was no way of distributing new games to Spectrum owners. If this fate could befall the once all-conquering Spectrum, the writing ultimately had to be on the wall for the other 8 bits as well. 16 bit machines and consoles were the future, it seemed.

[sdaonline]

When Mayhem in Monsterland came out - nothing much else came out after it!

[pforson]

When I upgraded to an Amiga and gave my Spectrum away, considering it to be surplus to requirements. I now own 14 ZX Spectrums.

[William S]

When I sold my C64 to buy SNES games.

[stvd]

Although to me they never died really, there were 2 moments when I realised they were being superseded. The first was when Crash became no more than a pamphlet & the second was when I played Castle of Illusion on my mate's imported Megadrive.

Similar to this minus the Crash moment as I'd stopped buying it well before.

I'd ignored the NES/Master System to continue plugging away on my Spectrum.
However, once I saw Sonic & Castle of Illusion I knew it was time to move on.

Although to be fair I'm going to flog the Megadrive but never the Spectrum.

[necronom]

I didn't really see the 8-bits die as I moved to the Amiga in September 1987 and lost touch with the 8-bits. I'm surprised at how long they kept going after I got my Amiga.

[markopoloman]

The C64 was my life! But I always kept a close eye on these 16bit monsters that were coming to join the party. I think it was late in 1988 that my Aunt asked if I still had my C64, and that she wanted to buy it for my cousin........ and so my calculations started. I had HUNDREDS of original games, thousands of ummm back-ups and other bits n bobs - this was a chance to take a leap of faith with Commodore!
I sold my C64 and had enough to buy an Amiga 500 and a copy of Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix............ I was Happy and I was also very very sad

I now have the C64 and Amiga so all's well that ends well

[NES4Life]

It's got to be Cannon Fodder on the Amiga that made me stray from the NES. The mouse was a revolution in control for me and it had one killer theme tune that I can still recall today: altogether now... 'War, never been so much fun...."

[Smurph]

When my brother's mate brought round his ST and showed off New Zealand Story and Blood Money - I could see the writing was on the wall for my beloved Speccy.

[Joey]

When the girl over the road got a Megadrive and Sonic 1 for her birthday and all I had was Teddy Boy on the Mastersystem.

[NorthWay]

Rather late in the game. 93-94? Zzap was very thin on new games and lots of old and budget stuff were pushed as content to fill the pages.

When every new games becomes "so fantastic" you know they are hyping up the content to justify their own existence. The Amiga had the same symptom later.

[webding]

First, Commodore User disappeared. Well, it probably subtly changed its name and went all Amiga, but I was too young to cotton onto that, so switched to Zzap, and the corpse carried on twitching for a while. But when that went too, I realised the C64 was dead, and nobody could even be bothered to go to the funeral.

I was too poor for an Amiga (400 quid? It still seems ridiculous now), so I asked for a GameBoy that first Christmas it came out, and entered the world of console gaming. The 8-bit was dead. Long live the smaller 8-bit.

[thl]

The arrival of the SNES and Amiga 1200 had myself drawn into Street Fighter II, Super Mario World and Zool. Did played the Master System on few occasions until technical problem ocurred as the machine wouldn't turn on. Noticed that it stop working, I have to turn my attention to the 16-bit era.