Amiga Games
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| description | Computer game magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Commodore Amiga |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Computec publishing house |
| Headquarters | Nuremberg |
| First edition | October 1992 |
| attitude | December 1996 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| ISSN (print) | 0946-6339 |
Amiga Games was a computer game magazine that dealt with the Commodore Amiga . It was published by Computec Verlag (today Computec Media ). Amiga Games appeared as an independent magazine from October 1992 to December 1996; from January 1997 to September 1997 the magazine was merely a supplement to the Amiga magazine . The long-time editor-in-chief was Hans Ippisch .
The peculiarity of the Amiga Games was that they appeared from the beginning and for most of their publication time with a floppy disk , the so-called cover disk . The first issue appeared with the public domain game Transplant. Cover disks or magazine CDs were not yet standard at that time and were an innovation that was very well received by readers.
In contrast to those of the ASM and the Amiga Joker , the Amiga Games authors were mostly freelancers who mainly worked on other magazines. The magazine occasionally announced games that ultimately did not appear. From 1995 onwards, shareware games and games by amateur programmers were increasingly mixed with the tests of commercial software without comment, usually without specifying a reference address.
content
The Amiga Games consisted mainly upfront (previews) and Reviews (Reviews) to the latest Amiga games. There were the following categories:
- News: Contains detailed preliminary reports on upcoming games and trade fair reports or interviews with software companies.
- Charts: The current media control charts as well as the sales charts of the Amiga mail order company Judgementday were published here.
- Letters to the editor : The letters to the editor with answers from editor Rainer "Rossi" Rosshirt.
- Userbox: Presentation of new public domain software, hardware tips and a hotline that helped users with software problems.
- Tests / Reviews: The tests of the current software made up the largest part of the magazine. Here it was categorically separated into Amiga-500 - & Amiga-1200 - and CD³² reviews.
- Games Guide: Tips, cheats and walkthroughs for Amiga games.
Web links
- Amiga Games Cover on Kultboy.com
- Amiga Games Cover and a complete issue on Kultpower.de
- The transplant delivered with the first issue in the Hall of Light database of the Amiga games
- Amiga Games PDF archive on Kultmags.com
