ScuzzBlog: Diaries October 2020 Entry 4th October 2020: Post 1: Amiga Action - Seven years in gameland. Amiga Action - Seven years in gameland. I was never a fan of the Amiga games magazines. They were always covered in cover disks and simply provided games reviews. For me I kinda spent my money on the more serious mags cus I got software. Pretty much like film and music there are but a handful of truly classic titles each year and I didn't need a magazine to work out just what was successful or not. Sad really cus had I been more interested I would have more of the magazines. Take Amiga Action which although only running from 89 to 96 was by and far the most successful. It closed its doors in December 96 and then merged with its sister publication Amiga Computing. Sadly that magazine folded in September of the following year. When you look at the slender pamphlets that magazines became in 1996 it is hardly any wonder any survived. The last copy of Amiga Action was a pretty sorry affair with very few games reviewed and only one disk on the cover. The game Egor in Toyland is seriously poor. I know it was thrown together pretty quick but , sorry, it shows. I do have a copy and I tried it out on the old emulator. During the busy years you could always find Amiga Action fighting along side Amiga One and Amiga Power. There really wasn't much between them. Always very colourful with covers crammed with disks. Kids would nick the disks from newsagents. What this resulted in was covers heavily sellotaped which destroyed many of the covers. I do have a good quantity of cover disks but to be honest I doubt I ever play any of them. They just sit there unloved. In the end a good game stands head and shoulders above the rest and so I would always buy the full works. I could then spend my magazine money of Amiga Computing. Anyhoo .. here is the last edition plus some sprinklings of other mags just to show the colourful covers. Amiga Action started with numbering their disks and then gave up. So when you see Disk 3 on an Amiga Action Cover disk do check cus they will all be different. Very often you also needed disks one and two with the Amiga and you can't copy the disks easily. Amiga Action - Seven years in gameland.

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