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 Your Sinclair Issue 1, January 1986 Your Sinclair or YS as it was affectionately known, was a British computer magazine for the Sinclair range of computers, specifically the ZX Spectrum. It was formed in 1984 as Your Spectrum, the title being changed to Your Sinclair in 1986 to include coverage of the QL computer. It was published by Dennis Publishing until 1990, when Future Publishing took over. It finally folded in 1993, after the Spectrum games scene diminished to almost nothingness, after 93 issues, having dwindled to less than 40 pages per issue. Image File history File links Yoursinclair. ...
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Sinclair Research Ltd was a home computer company founded by Sir Clive Sinclair in Cambridge, England. ...
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a small home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. ...
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A Sinclair QL The Sinclair QL, QL for Quantum Leap, was a personal computer launched by Sinclair Research in January 1984, as the successor to the ZX Spectrum. ...
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Future Publishing Ltd - part of Future plc - is a magazine publishing company based primarily in Bath, England, but with offices in London, Italy (Milan), the US (California and New York) and France (Levallois-Perret). ...
Like a lot of similar computer magazines, such as Zero and Amiga Power, it created an endearing sense of community with its readers, especially through the letters page (indeed, several regular letter writers, such as Rich Pelley, went on to become full time staff members), and it could be argued that YS had a language all of its own, culled partly from references such as Viz and Monty Python. Cover of Zero from 1991 Zero was a video game magazine in the UK covering home gaming during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...
Amiga Power (or AP for short) was a monthly magazine about Amiga computer games. ...
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YS often included irrelevance, not even mentioning the Spectrum on some pages. The main culprit was supposedly the news section, named 'Pssst', originally called 'Frontlines'. The news section regularly contained mock celebrity interviews (such as the 'At The Bus Stop With' series), trivial charts, and was basically an outlet for whatever the YS writers felt like talking about. Indeed, sometimes the only place within Pssst that you could guarantee to find any news about Spectrum games was the T'zers column, initially written and named after YS's longest reigning editor, Teresa Maughan. YS's quirky, in-joke laden, pop culture referencing writing style eventually culminated in the covertape-mounted YS2; a collection of some fifty or so 'extra' pages loaded into the Spectrum and viewed like teletext. This was largely written by then editor Jonathan Nash and regular contributor Steve Anderson, and served as a template for Nash's website, The Weekly. PSSST is a ZX Spectrum video game made by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983. ...
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Matt Bielby was carted off to the funny farm after declaring himself to be God, Andy Ide became a Green Party ambassador, and Andy Hutchinson left to design a skate park at Alton Towers. The majority of former-YS reviewers went on to work for Amiga Power. YS reviewers were often 'interviewed' in a column at first called 'Joystick Jugglers' and later called 'The Shed Crew' (although referred to internally as the 'Flannel Panel'). A webcomic by R. Smith This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...
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Amiga Power (or AP for short) was a monthly magazine about Amiga computer games. ...
In particular issues of YS, games were reviewed by Jon Pillar, who embraced both extremes of the review scale, giving Count Duckula 2 a mere 9%, and Mercenary 99%. Games which were scored at more than 90% were awarded YS's coveted "Megagame" status, but this was undermined slightly when Duncan MacDonald gave his own Sinclair BASIC creation the status, Advanced Lawnmower Simulator, in a moment of surreality. Reader games were also reviewed for a while in the "Crap Games Corner". A mercenary is a soldier who fights, or engages in warfare primarily for private gain, usually with little regard for ideological, national or political considerations. ...
Sinclair BASIC (taking its name from innovator Sir Clive Sinclair) is a dialect of the BASIC programming language used in the home computers from Sinclair Research and Timex Sinclair. ...
Surreal humour is a form of humour based on bizarre juxtapositions, absurd situations, and nonsense logic. ...
The Tipshop contained all the tips and cheats, and spawned its own book, the YS Tipshop Tiptionary. Dr. Berkmann's Clinic (renamed The YS Clinic With Dr. Hugo Z Hackenbush after Marcus Berkmann left for the Daily Mail) was a solution to reader's gaming problems, more often than not solved by Richard Swann. "Program Pitstop" contained type-in programs, and was the last column of its kind, the one remaining remnant of an era when magazines didn't contain reviews of games, but program listings. Spec Tec and its descendant, Spec Tec Jr, were where all the technical queries went, but even these were typically written as they were in the style of a Philip Marlowe monologue. The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, first published in 1896. ...
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Today it is hard to find the YS writers in the mainstream press. Dave Golder was the editor of SFX magazine until 2005 and Stuart Campbell created World of Stuart. There are currently few magazines that share YS (and Amiga Power's) self-referential style, although the aforementioned SFX magazine and PC Zone share some stylistic traits. Some "YS Speak" has also filtered through to Heat magazine, and nonsense captions are almost ubiquitous, also used by FHM magazine. SFX is a British science fiction magazine, published every four weeks. ...
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Amiga Power (or AP for short) was a monthly magazine about Amiga computer games. ...
PC Zone (founded in 1993) was the first magazine dedicated to IBM compatible computer games to be published in the United Kingdom. ...
Heat is a British entertainment magazine published by EMAP Consumer Media, and edited by Mark Frith. ...
FHM, an abbreviation for For Him Magazine, is a monthly lads mag. ...
See also
Amiga Power (or AP for short) was a monthly magazine about Amiga computer games. ...
CRASH was a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer. ...
Sinclair User was a magazine dedicated to the Sinclair Research range of home computers, most specifically the ZX Spectrum. ...
External links - The YS Rock 'N'Roll Years
- Your Sinclair: A Celebration
- YS2/100
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