Source: The Games Machine – Issue Number 2 – December 1987
The Games Machine was a video game magazine that was published from 1987 until 1990 and covered both consoles and home computers. The second issue from December 1987/January 1988 includes:
Features
- Violence In Software – Mel Croucher accuses the industry
- Graphics Matter – Robin Candy paints with Degas Elite (ST)
- Not A Penny More – An adventure story to get you in the mood, specially written for The Games Machine by Robin Waterfield
- Heavens Above – Getting into Satellite TV with Mel Croucher
- Licensed to Kill – John Gilbert looks at licences, how they get them, do them and how they turn out
- The Advertising Game – There’s more to games than playing, as Ocean’s Steve Blower explains
Regulars
- News – What’s been happening lately
- Readerpage – The first of The Game Machine’s readers’ letters
- Previews – Ocean’s Christmas bundle, plus all the important games for tomorrow
- Reviews – An incredible 38 pages of latest games across the formats rated – sorry, we couldn’t fit all of them in!
- Getting Adventurous – With Rob Steel and two from Infocom among others
- Fantasy Games – John Woods rounds up some of the best role-playing games, and explains how the system works
- Music Matters – Jon Bates starts a series on the ‘tapeless music studio’ by going to the top – the Fairlight CMI
- Endpiece – Mel’s infinitely trivial quiz, and details of next issue’s contents
Win!
- Win A Sports Outfit – Gremlin Graphics have a massive collection of clothes and equipment suitable for Alternative World Games (which you can win as well)
- Win Yogi Bear Shirt ‘N’ Shorts – No need to be bear – look smarter than the average in Piranha’s natty boxer shorts and T-shirts; and there are copies of the game too
- Re-Shades – Re-run of the Micronet Shades competition from last issue due to the error made in the copy. Two modems and free subs plus free time on Shades
- Win A Joystick – Courtesy of Britannia, we have 20 super new hand-held joysticks to give away
…and more!
