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The loss of the magazine ritual still hits me deep.

Really lovely piece with Sean.

Some days I just can't believe it's been 35 years.
At times I can even still clearly remember the smell of the magazine and the excitement of reading a new issue...

..and then getting up from my desk chair, I suddenly groan.
So yeah, it probably has been 35 years 😆

❤️ It’s now 35 years since issue 1 of CF went on sale 😱

👌🏻 In one of our personal favourite pieces from the Archive, deputy editor Sean Masterson tells us about the road to launch:

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❤️ It’s now 35 years since issue 1 of CF went on sale 😱

👌🏻 In one of our personal favourite pieces from the Archive, deputy editor Sean Masterson tells us about the road to launch:

🔗 commodoreformatarchive.com/the-sean-mas...

Transfer deadline day.

We were saying, how much must that pub have missed Future’s staff’s business when it moved on?

📍 Monmouth Street, Bath, England.

A stack of CF mags.

A stack of CF mags.

A stack of CF mags.

My original (obviously!) collection of #CommodoreFormat mags from the early 90s. Issues 1 through 20, I am curiously missing issues 21, 22 and 23, then I have 24 through 33. Where the prittle jar of doom dada dun day are those three? 👀 Bizarre Inc. indeed. #C64 magazine treasure!

From over on X

It’s all very authentic, at least 😄

18 months later Hulk was back - the first character to appear on a CF cover more than once (the only other one’s Mayhem!).

Definitely one of his more unusual fights.

Yeah, I think the whole thing was kinda muddled - the reporting was at time too. I think the PCs (some of them anyway) had Amiga on them. Never mattered in the end, ‘course.

Commodore Format 58 (July, 1995) A look at the July 1995 issue of British C64 magazine, Commodore Format.

It’s coincidentally 30 years since Escom purchased the rights to make C64s and Amigas, although not the Commodore brand itself. Escom itself went under a year later:

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Yeah, this is the first thing I remember playing that felt like a true adventure.

This looks very nice indeed.

Exile had a physics engine years before Half-Life 2. Fire, water, wind, gravity - you weren’t just fighting the enemies

Commodore Format 10 (July, 1991) This issue had a subscriber’s newsletter. Read it here Read the accompanying Power Pack feature It’s when you start to look back at what happened in the months Commodore Format was publ…

July ‘91: Exile on the cover, awarded CF’s second highest ever score in a surprise Gary Penn review. Park Patrol on the tape:

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Ah great, I’ll have a look at that! Yeah. Funny old mag. More fanzine by that point really!

Thank you for this and the repost too. It legit helps! I’ll add you to the supporter list 🙏🏻 Happy to hear the site has been a help too!

This is a great resource for all things Commodore Format, and I have just done my donation for this year to help with the site fees in order to keep the site active. The editor is one of the good guys too, and have been fortunate enough to have some articles published there.

Thanks for your help both now and back in the day, Waz. You’re one of the good guys too.

Help keep the site online with a one-off or recurring payment. Supporter hall of fame – thank-you! The Commodore Format Archive is the result of a decade’s work dedicated to bringing you conversations with the writers you love and the stories …

Our archive of hundreds of interviews, features and scans is the result of over a decade’s work. It costs about £100 in total a year to keep what I hope you think is a wonderful and unique resource online. If you can spare a few quid it genuinely helps:

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Help keep the site online with a one-off or recurring payment. Supporter hall of fame – thank-you! The Commodore Format Archive is the result of a decade’s work dedicated to bringing you conversations with the writers you love and the stories …

Our archive of hundreds of interviews, features and scans is the result of over a decade’s work. It costs about £100 in total a year to keep what I hope you think is a wonderful and unique resource online. If you can spare a few quid it genuinely helps:

commodoreformatarchive.com/donate-and-k...

Looks really nice, this.

Great isn’t it? It’s actually a conversion of the Master System one.

“There’ll never be Sonic for C64”, the mags told disappointed letter writers in 1991. Pah! A mere 30 year wait sure put egg on their faces, eh?

It’s C64 with Ram expansion, but indeed a C64!

“There’ll never be Sonic for C64”, the mags told disappointed letter writers in 1991. Pah! A mere 30 year wait sure put egg on their faces, eh?