221 ZX Spectrum Magazines

Crash, Your Spectrum/Sinclair & Sinclair User were 3 of the best selling and much loved ZX Spectrum magazines in the 80's. Rising from the emerging industry of home computer games, these giants wrote the rule book in video game journalism. 

Retro Gamer writer Graeme Mason joins Kingy and discusses the rise and fall of these publications and chat about their fond memories of them.

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Crash Magazine Scans

https://archive.org/details/crash-magazine

Your Spectrum Scans

https://archive.org/details/your-spectrum-magazine

Your Sinclair Scans

https://archive.org/details/your-sinclair-magazine

Sinclair User Scans

https://archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine

 

Grame's article on cover tape wars

http://www.wizwords.net/the-spectrum-covertape-wars/#.Ww6LL9KPKM8

 

Unclear User Parody

http://www.crashonline.org.uk/19/unclear.htm

 

Knight Lore Map

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/games-maps/k/KnightLore.jpg

 

Alien 8 Map

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/49/5e/66/495e66278bd4496be967dc94c3c3d0b9.jpg