C+VG in still alive but soon to be dead shock...

Mark Wright

I thought that EMAP's C+VG had died long ago, but apparently not.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27486867

EMAP is now Bauer, and the C+VG brand belongs to Future.

And I feel old.

thx1138

heh, I bunked off work and took a train to London to play one of the first Chase H.Q coin-ops in the country after reading a review in that magazine!

Didn't start reading it till about '85 though, and yeah I thought it had long since gone.

ewgf

Mark Wright wrote: »

I thought that EMAP's C+VG had died long ago, but apparently not.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27486867

EMAP is now Bauer, and the C+VG brand belongs to Future.

And I feel old.

I thought they'd died years back - I NEVER see them on sale with the other computer/gaming magazines in Smiths or supermarkets.

I was never a fan of them anyway, but in the early years 1983/4 to 1989(ish) a mate of mine bought it every month, and so I got to see games (via their rubbish, undetailed* reviews) that I'd never otherwise see, especially for machines I never got to see.

And I do remember that, like Sinclair User, around 1985/6 they went embarrassingly childish in an attempt to reinvent themselves as cool.




* I seem to remember, for example, they'd always give Sound (Music and sound effects) one point less for the Spectrum than the C64 version of a game, even if (as was often the case) the C64 had much better sound, or the much rare occasions when the Spectrum had better sound.






Edit: Just read the BBC article, and it turns out that C+VG has been on-line only for the last decade. That's why we never saw it on the news-stands.

leespoons

Didn't realise it'd been going for that long, I think I bought it a couple of times but it seemed a bit Commodore-centric so I soon went back to YS and Crash.

Another thing I didn't realise was it's in the WoS archive up to mid-1992 so will have a flick through for nostalgia's sake...

Vampyre

I regularly go on the website, well, at least I did until about a year ago when it became an advert-laden, image-heavy, unresponsive mess. The forums are interesting for an argument though - fanboys like you wouldn't believe.

Surprised it's going. They must rake in a fair bit of cash from the adverts alone.

merman

C&VG had stopped as a magazine some time ago.

It's bad news at Future, looks like lots of jobs going.

MatGubbins

Ah, well another mag to the sky.

Not seen PC Format for a quite a few years either, even though it seems that it is still being published but with an extreamly low circulation.