Classic Games Crusader - The Newsfield Years focuses on the complete story of Newsfield Publications, the publishers behind some of the most influential group of magazines in the 8 bit 80s.
Featuring in-depth interviews with Roger Kean, Matthew Uffindell, Oliver Frey and Franco Frey the film focuses on the remarkable impact it had through its publications such as Crash, Zzap!64 and Amtix, featuring very open accounts of how they were created right through to Newsfields demise in the early 1990s. The film explores how they dealt with the early days of getting their magazines into the Newsagents, the Unclear User legal battle, developing a comic strip, their journalists becoming celebrities, resisting incredible pressure from Games Publishers for positive reviews as they knew they could literally make or break a games success and the stunning artwork of Oliver Frey.
Crash was one of the few magazines I trusted when it came to buying games. They did get it wrong sometimes, but the magazine was so good I forgave them the odd lapse.
A very well put together production from Classic Gaming Cursaders there, although I was Atari 8-bit driven in the 80's I was always Jealous of the Speccy / C64 Owners, for what they got in a mag, all I had was C&VG, and even that was sparse on Atari Stuff.....great vid guys thanx.
Interesting stuff. I loved Crash back in the day and used to spend hours pouring over its pages. The Christmas editions were always huge and were something I looked forward too. I trusted their reviews too and when I got a game they loved and I couldn't get into I assumed it was me, not them.
Jul 11, 2010 18:37:30 (
Jul 11, 2010 17:37
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...great vid guys thanx.
