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Amstrad Action, issue 4 (January 1986)

Amstrad Action editors. 1986. “Amstrad Action, issue 4 (January 1986).” Amstrad Action, issue 4 (Christmas 1985 / January 1986). Future Publishing.

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Amstrad Action 4
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https://archive.org/details/Amstrad_Action_Issue_004
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Notes
Pinned in stubs batch 33 for the Amstrad CPC Hypersports review (p. 48, images 48-49). The cover calls the issue Christmas 1985 and the page footers January 1986. The review's heading (publisher, price) is garbled in this OCR and in that of the item "amstrad-action-004".

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Amstrad Action reviewed the Amstrad CPC game (Imagine, 8.95 pounds on cassette, joystick only) in its January 1986 issue as an AA Rave, with an AA rating of 88%; its contents page called it the long-awaited waggler from Ocean. The reviewer, BW, judged the gameplay excellent on all six events and named as drawbacks that the events are played in two lots of three and that the game may be too demanding for some bodies. An unsigned box, "The best waggle yet?", found it more varied than Daley Thompson's Decathlon, whose events it found very similar to one another, and the best yet of the sports games it compared. The second opinion, PC, found it too demanding: he was physically and emotionally drained at the end. The issue's page on its reviewing system says it just lost out to Yie Ar Kung Fu.image 3, contentsp. 49 (image 49)p. 49 (image 49), verdictp. 48 (image 48), headingp. 48 (image 48), box "The best waggle yet?"p. 48 (image 48), box "The best waggle yet?"p. 49 (image 49), signaturep. 48 (image 48), box "The best waggle yet?"p. 48 (image 48), second opinionp. 37 (image 37), reviewing systemp. 37 (image 37), reviewing systemMagazine
Amstrad Action said in January 1986 that the Amstrad Hypersports had been much delayed, first due in September 1985; the magazine had reviewed a pre-production copy and was still waiting for finished copies to send to readers who had ordered it.p. 6 (image 6)Magazine