Unclear user (in which issue of Crash?)
Crash magazine published a spoof issue of Sinclair User called "Unclear User". I got to read the issue and I thought it was great fun at the time. Not many pages, thought.
I believe Sinclair User where not happy about the spoof, as Crash magazine pulped most of the copies. So their might not be many magazines around.
Anyway, if someone knows which issue of Crash magazine that this was published I would be grateful to know.
I believe Sinclair User where not happy about the spoof, as Crash magazine pulped most of the copies. So their might not be many magazines around.
Anyway, if someone knows which issue of Crash magazine that this was published I would be grateful to know.
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http://www.mjwilson.demon.co.uk/crash/19/unclear.htm
(Hate to tell you this, but googling "Crash Unclear User" gave this as the first link ;) )
Andrew
I have issue 19, but it is in orginal plastic wrapping, so I can not see inside. I did google "Crash Unclear User", but on the Internet you can never trust anyone.... Someone on this site will no the truth...
Anyway as I was thinking of selling the magazine, I thought it might have an unique selling point if it included the copy of Unclear User. But I would not like to claim this if it is not true. (I would only get problems...)
It was issue 19.
If your magazine does not have a sticker on the front (or evidence of a removed sticker) then it is one of the 'unchopped' Crash Magazines.
There are quite a few of them kicking about, so I'm not sure how 'rare' it is, but good luck finding out :)
EDIT: If you've got an unopened subscriber copy, then it definitely has the Unclear User pages included.
Still in the wrapper, huh? Impressive :)
Andrew
Well ... it might well be ... I don't know ... I just went to Infoseek and typed in "Unclear User" and selected ANYthing and got No Matches.
I checked out the Archive again, iss. 19 ... no extra, aside from the alternate cover (sticker) :-(
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Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Or use the Crash Viewer and goto Issue19 pages 123-126.
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Knew i'd seen it online!!
Mine is still sealed :)
I hate you! Nice find though....
Better than my find :(
It doesn't seem to be that rare, from what I can tell.
Not that impressive really, as I got sent two copies of each issue... So I kept one copy in its wrapping. As I lived in Norway at the time I thought only some subscribers got the Unclear User pages. But it seems that all subscribers got them, so it is only rare because it is unopened... Not sure if that would help me much!
There really needs to be a word for "a collector's item which is only a collector's item because of some property which you can't appreciate without ruining it's collectible value". Heisenbargain? Schroedingerllectable? Help me out here.
"Heisenbargain" is a good word, but I would use the English version. In Norwegian "heis" means lift, and "heisen" means "a lift". So "heisenbargain" means "aliftbargain". This is a word which might not be much used, but the meaning is "a bargain which will increase in value". Of course once the value reaches the top, the "lift" will start to go down and the item will decrease in value. (Their is another word for this.)
Hope this clears things up.
By the way, does anyone have an idea how much a Crash magazine in its orginal wrapping is worth?