I love Retro Gamer Magazine. I was very impressed with Mayhem's recent C64 article. Well done!!! (I say recent only because here in Australia we are about three months behind in getting magazines from the UK.
However, I do wonder why the Vic 20 has not been covered in the magazine. The Vic 20 was very popular in the UK but there has only been one in depth article on Mayhem's Mount Drash game. Nothing else of any substance has been mentioned about our mighty machine.
What are other people's thoughts on this?
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Mayhem
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By "getting to it" that's usually means picking a name from the hat of machines not yet covered 
Shaun B did write a very good Vic20 article for GamesTM I think in the past, which is as good as I'd probably do myself if I ever put my mind to it. It would have to be an interesting take on things, plus finding enough background information about the machine to fill out the 3000 words.
Though I wanted to take the C64 article away from that and make it very more familiar for those people who were there in the 80s, hence all the talk about the rivalry with the Spectrum, US vs UK for games, loading times and all that stuff. So thanks for the praise there Tonks.
I'm currently writing one hardware piece currently, with another possible in 2/3 months time (if I put it forward). Anything Vic20 might have to wait until after that, and I'm gonna be quite busy in the summer...
Shaun B did write a very good Vic20 article for GamesTM I think in the past, which is as good as I'd probably do myself if I ever put my mind to it. It would have to be an interesting take on things, plus finding enough background information about the machine to fill out the 3000 words.
Though I wanted to take the C64 article away from that and make it very more familiar for those people who were there in the 80s, hence all the talk about the rivalry with the Spectrum, US vs UK for games, loading times and all that stuff. So thanks for the praise there Tonks.
I'm currently writing one hardware piece currently, with another possible in 2/3 months time (if I put it forward). Anything Vic20 might have to wait until after that, and I'm gonna be quite busy in the summer...
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saundby
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I, too, live in Australia, Tonks, and I HATE the fact that we receive Retro Gamer three months late! The ONLY place that I know who sells it here in Melbourne is a shop in the city called "Mag Nation" (great shop, by the way) and I have to fork out AUS$13.95 for it! It is bloody worth it though! Unfortunately I haven't found anywhere that sells GamesTM, my other fave retro mag so I buy the odd copy over the net. Of course, when you think about, does it really matter that we Aussies receive Retro Gamer three months late? After all, the content in based on products that are sometimes as old thirty years! I read it from cover to cover (literally!) and the shop orders it in for me especially. As soon as they ring me, I drop everything I'm doing and race into the city to buy it - it's VERY exciting! OK, now you know just how wierd I am. Thanks for listening, mates!
I, too, live in Australia, Tonks, and I HATE the fact that we receive Retro Gamer three months late! The ONLY place that I know who sells it here in Melbourne is a shop in the city called "Mag Nation" (great shop, by the way) and I have to fork out AUS$13.95 for it! It is bloody worth it though! Unfortunately I haven't found anywhere that sells GamesTM, my other fave retro mag so I buy the odd copy over the net. Of course, when you think about, does it really matter that we Aussies receive Retro Gamer three months late? After all, the content in based on products that are sometimes as old thirty years! I read it from cover to cover (literally!) and the shop orders it in for me especially. As soon as they ring me, I drop everything I'm doing and race into the city to buy it - it's VERY exciting! OK, now you know just how wierd I am. Thanks for listening, mates!
I got sick of trying to find newsagents that stocked Retro Gamer, so I took out a subscription. Now I get them when they come out. But that doesn't help me much. Like you, C2N, I read them cover-to-cover. Problem is I've been getting behind in my reading, and am now nearly a year behind. 
Speaking of which, the latest one arrived yesterday.
Speaking of which, the latest one arrived yesterday.