Crash

Crash

Biography

From Wikipedia:

Crash is a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer, primarily focused on games. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress. It was relaunched as a quarterly A5 magazine in December 2020 with the backing of the original founders.

The magazine was launched to cater for the booming Spectrum games market. It was immediately popular owing to its quality of writing and distinctive, though occasionally controversial, artwork created by Oliver Frey.

By 1986 it had become the biggest-selling British computer magazine with over 100,000 copies sold monthly, but struggled towards the end of the decade after other magazines put cassettes of games on the front cover. In the 2010s, a number of retrospective issues were created via a kickstarter campaign leading to the new publication by Fusion Retro.

Crash carried a lot of news and articles on the Coupé.

Crash Edition Page Title
Crash 50 p7 State of the Industry
  p58-p60 Beyond the Spectrum - a super clone takes shape
Crash 52 p72 Tech Tips
Crash 57 p9 Play it again SAM
Crash 61 p55-p57

News

Tech Tips

Crash 62 p9 Serious Upology
Crash 63 p9 SAM Update
Crash 68 p16 Uncle SAM's Coupé Column
Crash 69 p18 Music on the SAM Coupe!!
Crash 71 p13-16 Full Page Adverts
  p54-p55 SAM First Ever Playtest
Crash 72 p11-p14 Full Page Adverts
  p14 this page is sam compatible
Crash 73 p9-p12 Full Page Advert
  p13 SAM Competition
  p19 Sam compatible games. Hitting the road
  p21 ZX Microfair
Crash 74 p11 The SAM arrives
  p15 Full Page Advert
Crash 75 p22 Turbo Fanzine
  p25 Best Newcomer
  p31 Full Page Advert
  p41 this page is sam compatible
Crash 76 p20 All formats Fair
  p29 this page is sam compatible
Crash 77 p12 this page is sam compatible
Crash 78 p25 this page is sam compatible
Crash 79 p16 The Page with all Things Coupé!
  p23 A Story of Survival pt2
  p48 Defenders of the Earth
Crash 80 p10 The Page with all Things Coupé!
  p22 All formats Fair
Crash 81 p23 The Page with all Things Coupé!
Crash 82 p17 The Page with all Things Coupé!
  p44 Mind Games I
  p45 SAM Multipack 1
Crash 83 p20 The Page with all Things Coupé!
  p72 Pipe Mania
Crash 84 p16 Mind Games II
  p48 The Page with all Things Coupé!
  p72 Pipe Mania
Crash 85 p21 All Things SAM
  p51 Full Page Advert
Crash 86 p30 The SAM Page
  p49 Sphera
  p59 Full Page Advert
Crash 87 p34 The Sam Page
  p51 Full Page Advert
Crash 88 p10 Full Page Advert
  p12 The SAM Page
Crash 89 p23 The SAM Page
  p44 Escape from the Planet of the Monster Robots
  p51 Full Page Advert
Crash 90 p23 The SAM Page
  p52 Full Page Advert
Crash 91 p32 The SAM Page
  p57 Prince of Persia
Crash 92 p31 Win a SAM
  p32 The SAM Page
Crash 93 p4 Full Page Advert
  p32 The SAM Page
Crash 94 p20 The SAM Page
  p42 SAM Adventure Club
  p64 Hexagonia
Crash 95 p20 The SAM Page
  p53 SAM Winners
Crash 96 p20 The SAM Page
  p40 SAM Competition
Crash 97 p21-p22 The SAM Page
Crash 98 p28-p29 The SAM Page
  p75 Splat!
  p76 Bats 'n' Balls
  p77 Manic Miner