{"id":25894,"date":"2020-12-11T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=25894"},"modified":"2021-01-04T11:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T16:44:04","slug":"the-games-machine-december-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/12\/11\/the-games-machine-december-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games Machine (December 1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FTheGamesMachine%2FIssue02&amp;twg_show=TheGamesMachine0200001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/TheGamesMachine0200001-743x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FTheGamesMachine%2FIssue02&amp;twg_show=TheGamesMachine0200001.jpg\">The Games Machine &#8211; Issue Number 2 &#8211; December 1987&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<p>Features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Violence In Software<\/b> &#8211; Mel Croucher accuses the industry<\/li>\n<li><b>Graphics Matter<\/b> &#8211; Robin Candy paints with Degas Elite (ST)<\/li>\n<li><b>Not A Penny More<\/b> &#8211; An adventure story to get you in the mood, specially written for The Games Machine by Robin Waterfield<\/li>\n<li><b>Heavens Above<\/b> &#8211; Getting into Satellite TV with Mel Croucher<\/li>\n<li><b>Licensed to Kill<\/b> &#8211; John Gilbert looks at licences, how they get them, do them and how they turn out<\/li>\n<li><b>The Advertising Game<\/b> &#8211; There&#8217;s more to games than playing, as Ocean&#8217;s Steve Blower explains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regulars<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>News<\/b> &#8211; What&#8217;s been happening lately<\/li>\n<li><b>Readerpage<\/b> &#8211; The first of The Game Machine&#8217;s readers&#8217; letters<\/li>\n<li><b>Previews<\/b> &#8211; Ocean&#8217;s Christmas bundle, plus all the important games for tomorrow<\/li>\n<li><b>Reviews<\/b> &#8211; An incredible 38 pages of latest games across the formats rated &#8211; sorry, we couldn&#8217;t fit all of them in!<\/li>\n<li><b>Getting Adventurous<\/b> &#8211; With Rob Steel and two from Infocom among others<\/li>\n<li><b>Fantasy Games<\/b> &#8211; John Woods rounds up some of the best role-playing games, and explains how the system works<\/li>\n<li><b>Music Matters<\/b> &#8211; Jon Bates starts a series on the &#8216;tapeless music studio&#8217; by going to the top &#8211; the Fairlight CMI<\/li>\n<li><b>Endpiece<\/b> &#8211; Mel&#8217;s infinitely trivial quiz, and details of next issue&#8217;s contents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Win!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Win A Sports Outfit<\/b> &#8211; Gremlin Graphics have a massive collection of clothes and equipment suitable for Alternative World Games (which you can win as well)<\/li>\n<li><b>Win Yogi Bear Shirt &#8216;N&#8217; Shorts<\/b> &#8211; No need to be bear &#8211; look smarter than the average in Piranha&#8217;s natty boxer shorts and T-shirts; and there are copies of the game too<\/li>\n<li><b>Re-Shades<\/b> &#8211; 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<\/li>\n<li><b>Win A Joystick<\/b> &#8211; Courtesy of Britannia, we have 20 super new hand-held joysticks to give away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Games Machine &#8211; Issue Number 2 &#8211; December 1987&nbsp; 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 &#8211; Mel Croucher accuses the industry Graphics Matter &#8211; Robin Candy paints with Degas Elite (ST) Not A Penny More &#8211; An adventure story to get you in the mood, specially written for The Games Machine by Robin Waterfield Heavens Above &#8211; Getting into Satellite TV with Mel Croucher Licensed to Kill &#8211; John Gilbert looks at licences, how they get them, do them and how they turn out The Advertising Game &#8211; There&#8217;s more to games than playing, as Ocean&#8217;s Steve Blower explains Regulars News &#8211; What&#8217;s been happening lately Readerpage &#8211; The first of The Game Machine&#8217;s readers&#8217; letters Previews &#8211; Ocean&#8217;s Christmas bundle, plus all the important games for tomorrow Reviews &#8211; An incredible 38 pages of latest games across the formats rated &#8211; sorry, we couldn&#8217;t fit all of them in! Getting Adventurous &#8211; With Rob Steel and two from Infocom among others Fantasy Games &#8211; John Woods rounds up some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[2362,2524],"class_list":["post-25894","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\/25894","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=25894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}