[Coco] CoCo in Retro Gamer Magazine

[Sean]

Dang Nick, you beat me to it, just got my issue this past weekend!
Guess the CoCo doesn't deserve one of the full retrospectives the other
systems usually get, since it's a UK magazine and it wasn't popular there.



On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> The CoCo is feature in Retro Gamer Magazine this month!
>
> Retro Gamer Issue 132 has 4 pages devoted to the Tandy TRS-80 in the
> column "Minority Report".
>
> It features several CoCo games with a large part devoted to Greg Zumwalt's
> "A Mazing World of Malcolm Mortar". There is also a bit on Jeremy Spiller's
> "Crystal City".
>
> Not a bad article, not too much technical detail although I cringed where
> they said...
>
> "16-bit opposition and lackluster marketing resulted in the Color Computer
> 3 being the last in the TRS-80 line."
>
> Wasn't that the case with all 8-bit computers by 1992? They make it sound
> like the Color Computer was a failure!
>
> This is a British magazine where the CoCo wasn't so prominant as in the US.
>
> How many other 8 bit systems lasted until 1992 and could boast so many
> retail outlets?
>
> This issue was also good for their feature of the Atari 7800 and an
> article covering the top 25 games for the Atari 400/800.
>
> Nick
>
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