{"id":25516,"date":"2020-08-31T17:59:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T21:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=25516"},"modified":"2020-09-18T13:55:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T17:55:24","slug":"the-games-machine-may-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/31\/the-games-machine-may-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games Machine (May 1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FTheGamesMachine%2FIssue06&amp;twg_show=TheGamesMachine0600001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/TheGamesMachine0600001-739x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FTheGamesMachine%2FIssue06&amp;twg_show=TheGamesMachine0600001.jpg\">The Games Machine &#8211; Issue Number 6 &#8211; May 1988&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Games Machine was a multiformat computer gaming magazine published in the U.K. in the 1980s. It covered both 8-bit and 16-bit computers. Contents of the May 1988 issue include:<\/p>\n<p>Features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Prove You&#8217;re The Best!<\/b> &#8211; Final chance to enter for the first National Computer Games Championships.<\/li>\n<li><b>Battle Between Progs<\/b> &#8211; TGM&#8217;s American correspondent, Marshal M Rosenthal, reveals Nolan Bushnell&#8217;s latest exciting hi-tech robot-toys from Axion.<\/li>\n<li><b>Double-O&#8217;s Back In Town<\/b> &#8211; John Gilbert reports on how computers have puffed fresh life into the steam train-set.<\/li>\n<li><b>Nailing Bulls To The Doors<\/b> &#8211; Robin Hogg goes behind the scenes at Bulletin 1000, the people who help sell computer games via tellies.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Games Machine Questionnaire<\/b> &#8211; Your opportunity to tell us about TGM &#8211; use it, PLEASE!<\/li>\n<li><b>Grow Your Own Radio<\/b> &#8211; A broadcasting revolution is imminent thanks to a new generation of computer-clever radios and a relaxation of broadcasting strictures. Mel Croucher explains&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><b>It&#8217;s A Crime!<\/b> &#8211; The TGM crew take on KJC&#8217;s Play By Mail game in a bid to explain how the system works.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regulars<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Readerpage<\/b> &#8211; How you feel about what, and why.<\/li>\n<li><b>News<\/b> &#8211; TGM Bulletins (not quite 1000)<\/li>\n<li><b>Infodesk<\/b> &#8211; More answers on technical queries.<\/li>\n<li><b>Previews<\/b> &#8211; Richard Eddy reveals Software Studio&#8217;s latest plans for Karnov and Afterburner, and many more early glimpses.<\/li>\n<li><b>Reviews<\/b> &#8211; 27 pages of the latest 8- and 16-bit releases, plus MSX II.<\/li>\n<li><b>Getting Adventurous<\/b> &#8211; Rob Steel investigates crime, space piracy and comedy.<\/li>\n<li><b>Going Overboard<\/b> &#8211; Where No Vultures Fly &#8211; grisly board fun, plus boardgame news.<\/li>\n<li><b>Fantasy Games<\/b> &#8211; John Woods plays a Nordic RPG bid and indulges in gruesome reading from Harn.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mercy Dash<\/b> &#8211; Robin Evan&#8217;s anti-heroine gets two pages to crucify Newsfield&#8217;s recent Computer Arena software conference.<\/li>\n<li><b>Music Matters<\/b> &#8211; Two astonishing utilities for the Atari ST may herald the music performer&#8217;s equipment of the future, says Jon Bates.<\/li>\n<li><b>Endpiece<\/b> &#8211; Mel&#8217;s Trivia Quiz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Win!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>An Amiga &amp; Monitor<\/b> &#8211; Third of our computer giveaways. Don&#8217;t miss out!<\/li>\n<li><b>Omnibots Are Go!<\/b> &#8211; Tomy robots and copies of GO!&#8217;s Bionic Commando are the prizes!<\/li>\n<li><b>It&#8217;s The Flintstones!<\/b> &#8211; Unique boxer shorts, videos and games mark the launch of GrandSlam&#8217;s great Flintstones game.<\/li>\n<li><b>Sierra Adventures<\/b> &#8211; Win the entire 16-bit Sierra On-Line adventure range!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Games Machine &#8211; Issue Number 6 &#8211; May 1988&nbsp; The Games Machine was a multiformat computer gaming magazine published in the U.K. in the 1980s. It covered both 8-bit and 16-bit computers. Contents of the May 1988 issue include: Features Prove You&#8217;re The Best! &#8211; Final chance to enter for the first National Computer Games Championships. Battle Between Progs &#8211; TGM&#8217;s American correspondent, Marshal M Rosenthal, reveals Nolan Bushnell&#8217;s latest exciting hi-tech robot-toys from Axion. Double-O&#8217;s Back In Town &#8211; John Gilbert reports on how computers have puffed fresh life into the steam train-set. Nailing Bulls To The Doors &#8211; Robin Hogg goes behind the scenes at Bulletin 1000, the people who help sell computer games via tellies. The Games Machine Questionnaire &#8211; Your opportunity to tell us about TGM &#8211; use it, PLEASE! Grow Your Own Radio &#8211; A broadcasting revolution is imminent thanks to a new generation of computer-clever radios and a relaxation of broadcasting strictures. Mel Croucher explains&#8230; It&#8217;s A Crime! &#8211; The TGM crew take on KJC&#8217;s Play By Mail game in a bid to explain how the system works. Regulars Readerpage &#8211; How you feel about what, and why. News &#8211; TGM Bulletins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[2362,2524],"class_list":["post-25516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-retro-games","tag-retrocomputing","tag-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}