
From the Forum Issue 90
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I really didn't realise the difference untill quite late. Actually when I went through C64 to Amiga 500 in 1988, for me it was just another transition to a 'better system', just as the previous ones from Atari VCS to Coleco to C64 had been like. Then the italian edition of Zzap! (which at the time had become a completely italian magazine) was joined in the newsstand by it's 16-bit counterpart The Games Machine (yep, italian edition too - btw, the magazine still endures to this very day, even as a shadow of it's former self, despite all the efforts). Also Sega started its barrage of 16-bit themed ads for the Mega Drive (or Mega Djaive, as for the italian ad pronounciation!). So I started to think: "ehy! Cool! I've a 16-bit machine! So.. why do I want that conversion of R-Type on the PC-Engine soooooo badly???". 

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When Amstrad Action offered "Blue Brothers" on the covertape. I thought "something's not right, this game isn't all that old". That was the point I realised it was winding down.
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When Zzap! started looking like a children's comic and there was nothing but reviews of re-releases and lots of in-fighting between the writers.. you knew that when Paul Glancey had had enough and jumped ship, the days of 8-bit were all but over.
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As soon as the ST/Amiga era started, that was it from a commercial point of view IMO. The same happened in the console field...With a Master system or NES at home, once you saw the Mega Drive, SNES or PC engine games you just had the immediate urge to upgrade I found.
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When there were more games being given away free on the covers of mags than there were new titles being reeased.
The pamphletisation of Crash was the first nail , but the rest followed quickly after that.
The pamphletisation of Crash was the first nail , but the rest followed quickly after that.
Mr Flibble says...
"Game over , boys!"
"Game over , boys!"
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When there were more games being given away free on the covers of mags than there were new titles being released.
The pamphletisation of Crash was the first nail , but the rest followed quickly after that.
The pamphletisation of Crash was the first nail , but the rest followed quickly after that.
Mr Flibble says...
"Game over , boys!"
"Game over , boys!"
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I guess I started reading Zzap around this time, given that - even as a ten year old - I thought it was an utter bag of censored, and written really badly. But, like being drunk and desperate, I happily took whatever was on offer.ncf1 wrote:When Zzap! started looking like a children's comic and there was nothing but reviews of re-releases and lots of in-fighting between the writers.. you knew that when Paul Glancey had had enough and jumped ship, the days of 8-bit were all but over.
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That's right. An absolute bag of censored.
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It never even crossed my mind that 8-bits had died. It just wasn't something I ever consciously thought about. I saw some games on my friend's Atari ST and the move from 8-bit to 16-bit came as naturally as breathing. There was no sadness, no sense of an era ending, no drawing a line under the previous generation of machines. I've never been one to hold on to a games machine long enough to realise I've been left behind as a new generation unfolds.
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The first time i saw Menace.
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The Amiga Batman pack.
The point that hit the shops signalled the death knell for 8 bit micro's IMO. The new generation was officially here and all the continuance of 8 bit coverage in mags achieved at that point was to illustrate just how bad they were compared to the state of the art. The writing was indelibly on the wall.
The point that hit the shops signalled the death knell for 8 bit micro's IMO. The new generation was officially here and all the continuance of 8 bit coverage in mags achieved at that point was to illustrate just how bad they were compared to the state of the art. The writing was indelibly on the wall.
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While in the local "Computer Genius" which was situated upstairs in a jeans clothing store. While buying Crazy Cars II and 4x4 Off-Road Racing for Amstrad everyone else was huddled around an imported Japanese Megadrive running Revenge of Shinobi. A no contest really.Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:When did you realise the 8-bit computers had finally died? (from a commercial point of view, we know we're all still playing them).
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"F-Zero" - that is all.
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I knew their days were numbered when the ST and Amiga first appeared in the micro press, it never really hit me until about 1988 when I got my Amiga, and as much as I loved the Amiga - I couldn't help but feel that computers were now being developed with idiots in mind, I loved the fact that you had to actually type something in to make an 8bit do anything.
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