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Bizarre 80s computer magazine covers

XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
edited June 2011 in Chit chat
I've just come across this on a local retro website - the title of this magazine translates to "Computers, Programmed for Entertainment". I have never seen such weird covers for a computer magazine before. psj is gonna love them, German stereotypes ahoy! I just can't stop laughing at 11/83 ...

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Edit: hold it, here is another one with some even more fecked up covers. Check out 3/83 or 4/83 for a start - :lol:
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  • fogfog
    edited September 2010
    there is a slight problem with your fav pic. the cable plugged in.. is the disk drive cable..but nowhere is the output to a tv or monitor..

    and no I don't wanna know anything regarding the joystick :lol:
  • Tom-CatTom-Cat
    edited September 2010
    This is my favorite cover of ANY magazine ever. It is from the magazine "Moj Mikro" which was being published in ex-Yugoslavia. In the beginning all the covers for this magazine were made by Zlatko Drčar and it just wasn't the same when he stopped doing them. The cover is for the story inside which is roughly translated as "Visiting the Flintstones"... :)

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    Big picture: http://pc.sux.org/MMSH/Covers/MMS8603-00.jpg

    The rest of the Moj Mikro covers (and first few full issues) :

    http://pc.sux.org/indexMMSlo.html

    OK, these are not bizzare at all :) sorry ... :)
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited September 2010
    Tom-Cat wrote: »
    The rest of the Moj Mikro covers (and first few full issues) :

    http://pc.sux.org/indexMMSlo.html

    OK, these are not bizzare at all :) sorry ... :)

    Yeah, not ANY bizarre covers there for sure ;)

    1984 - 06 : "All those micros suck donkey balls. My abacus pisses all over them from a great height!"

    1984 - 07/08 : "Man ... this BASIC sucks. POKE galore ..."

    1985 - 08 ... pr0n! Also notice the joystick ...
  • RalfRalf
    edited September 2010
    Angry kid with Spectrum on Polish magazine :)

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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited September 2010
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    psj is gonna love them, German stereotypes ahoy! I just can't stop laughing at 11/83 ...

    Wo ist die Wurst? :p

    :lol:
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  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited September 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Wo ist die Wurst? :p

    :lol:

    It's involved in some "hide-and-seek"? :p
  • milemile
    edited September 2010
    i like the 8/83 one, she looks well pissed off that she got a C64. :grin:
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited September 2010
    Yeah, and she also has a great hair-do, innit :lol:

    Now, the very first issue of that mag is quite something, I really don't get it. A kid with a computer in its backpack, and nearby we got that old bloke in front of a gas pump, probably pulling up his zipper ... what was the cover designer smoking?
  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited September 2010
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    I've just come across this on a local retro website - the title of this magazine translates to "Computers, Programmed for Entertainment". I have never seen such weird covers for a computer magazine before. psj is gonna love them, German stereotypes ahoy! I just can't stop laughing at 11/83 ...

    Click!

    Edit: hold it, here is another one with some even more fecked up covers. Check out 3/83 or 4/83 for a start - :lol:

    http://www.kultboy.com/magazin/325/

    King Charles II doesn't look so good in those glasses.
  • ASH-IIASH-II
    edited September 2010
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    :lol:
  • milemile
    edited September 2010
    where's his other hand? :D
  • freddyhardfreddyhard
    edited September 2010
    she doesn't even have her finger on the trigger! everyone knows you have to grab it at the top.

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  • jdanddietjdanddiet
    edited September 2010
    is that pauline quirk? :lol:
  • fogfog
    edited September 2010
    mile wrote: »
    where's his other hand? :D

    probably on the sell button to ebay.. sx-64's go for ?200+ :)
    jdanddiet wrote: »
    is that pauline quirk? :lol:

    nope, they all had perms like that in the 80's..hehe

    in germany games like commando weren't sold.. any game where there was war / violence back then. "Space Invasion" it was called there, but it got banned still.
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited September 2010
    fog wrote: »
    in germany games like commando weren't sold.. any game where there was war / violence back then. "Space Invasion" it was called there, but it got banned still.

    Well, while some games indeed got put "on the index" as it was called, it was not quite "any game with war/violence" as you put it, but I never really checked the list. And even then, we still had no trouble obtaining anything banned anyway. Every C64-owning classmate I knew had stuff like Commando Libya, Rambo, Green Beret or Commando (Space Invasion) etc.

    But let's get back on topic because I don't see what this has to do with the stupidly funny covers ;)
  • STeaMSTeaM
    edited September 2010
    ASH-II wrote: »
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    :lol:

    "...now I've finished masturbating over that lady in red, I think I'll write a song about her..."
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited September 2010
    STeaM wrote: »
    "...now I've finished masturbating over that lady in red, I think I'll write a song about her..."

    Genius! :lol:
    Every night is curry night!
  • zx1zx1
    edited September 2010
    He looks like he's about to come!
    The way that girl is holding that joystick on the cover of 06/84, is that meant to represent something else?:lol:
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited September 2010
    zx1 wrote: »
    He looks like he's about to come!
    The way that girl is holding that joystick on the cover of 06/84, is that meant to represent something else?:lol:

    She is playing Advanced Jerkoff S(t)imulator, an early forgotten title by the Codies that came with its own special joystick.
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited November 2010
    Bump ... how do you insular folk like this weird cover?

    http://www.kultboy.com/magazin/410/
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited November 2010
    Hehe...these are the best mag covers ever!
    The Black Cauldron (PC)
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited November 2010
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    Bump ... how do you insular folk like this weird cover?

    http://www.kultboy.com/magazin/410/

    What the hell has that got to do with the Oric? :lol:
    Every night is curry night!
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited November 2010
    ASH-II wrote: »
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    That has to be the most inadvertently funny mag cover I've ever seen :-)
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  • MorkinMorkin
    edited November 2010
    This is definitely in my list of "make me laugh/cheer me up" threads... :lol:

    Some of the 'models' on the covers could be absolute legends if anyone could find out who they were..
  • PyjamaramaPyjamarama
    edited November 2010
    Pixel was the biggest home-micros magazine in Greece. In our site (www.retromaniax.gr), we have scanned almost every issue. We also try to electronically archive every Greek home micros mag of the 80s/early 90s.

    This is the second issue (May 1984)
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    and another one (issue 5 - November 1984)
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  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited November 2010
    What computer is that in the red jumper picture?
    General Malthadius Zoff
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  • ArjunArjun
    edited November 2010
    Ralf wrote: »
    Angry kid with Spectrum on Polish magazine :)

    Bajtek_1985_03.jpg

    Is that you Ralf? :)
    Zero - A modern Spectrum emulator for Windows.
    Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited November 2010
    ASH-II wrote: »
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    :lol:

    "With the centre column of the swivel chair wedged firmly in his prostate, Jeff realised that the plastic Aldi office chair he'd brought last week was not quite the bargain he envisaged."

    This cover too made me belly laugh. Sorry I could not think of a better funny quote.
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  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited November 2010
    Girls prefer Specchums to blokes with muscles...

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  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited June 2011
    Bump. I just found complete scans of some of issues of "CPU", the magazine with the dodgy covers, including the one with the very first cover (issue 11/83) mentioned in my opening post.

    And you know what's the best thing about it? Those scans are hosted right here, on the WOS FTP! Had no idea these lost treasures were right here :D ...

    Of course the magazine itself is in German so it won't be too interesting. And I am really disappointed they did not mention the names of the two "cover models", it would be funny if they could be located nowadays. I'd take an autograph!
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