[Coco] CoCo in Retro Gamer Magazine

[Mark McDougall]

On 27/08/2014 4:42 AM, Nick Marentes wrote:

> Retro Gamer Issue 132 has 4 pages devoted to the Tandy TRS-80 in the column
> "Minority Report".

> This is a British magazine where the CoCo wasn't so prominant as in the US.

I'm surprised that they did an article on the Coco in the first place!

I've given up on them featuring the TRS-80 Model I/III/4 at all, let alone 
featuring software written for them or the Coco or the Apple II. To be 
honest, 80% of the coverage is Spectrum, Commodore and BBC Micro.

I have 117 of the first 120 issues and when the newsagent accidentally 
cancelled my order after #120 I didn't bother to renew since I was some 50 
issues behind in reading and they were starting to recycle articles and 
ideas even around issue #75... I'm *so* sick of reading about Dizzy, Manic 
Miner, Jet Set Willy & the Oliver Twins - they're mentioned in almost every 
issue. I also feel they're stretching the definition of 'retro' in some 
areas and more heavily featuring PC and mobile-based remakes and even modern 
games under the pretext that they are 'in the style of retro' which quite 
frankly isn't what I paid to read about.

Having said that I'd still be interested in completing my collection up to 
#120 so if anyone (Nick?) is willing to sell issues they've already read, I 
*think* I'm missing #2, #96 & #97 (I'll check that). Beyond #120 I think 
I'll wait for the inevitable e-version on DVD.

Regards,

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