CRASH magazine
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Celebrating the classic ZX Spectrum magazine CRASH, published by Newsfield. (No relation to the relaunched mag from Retro Fusion Books)
Terrible photo of a slide of a CRASH Readers' Award
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Terrible photo of a slide of a CRASH Readers' Award
From a demo which is running at the event
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
From a demo which is running at the event
Tfw when someone says nice things on the internet
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Tfw when someone says nice things on the internet
Warning: boring technical post.
Been reworking some of the contents pages on the site to reflect the original design a little bit more. Looking to drop the Yahoo YUI dependency (for those who remember that) and learning about CSS grids, transforms and skews.
Been reworking some of the contents pages on the site to reflect the original design a little bit more. Looking to drop the Yahoo YUI dependency (for those who remember that) and learning about CSS grids, transforms and skews.
August 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Warning: boring technical post.
Been reworking some of the contents pages on the site to reflect the original design a little bit more. Looking to drop the Yahoo YUI dependency (for those who remember that) and learning about CSS grids, transforms and skews.
Been reworking some of the contents pages on the site to reflect the original design a little bit more. Looking to drop the Yahoo YUI dependency (for those who remember that) and learning about CSS grids, transforms and skews.
Picked up a few more issues of Newsfield's FEAR magazine dedicated to horror and fantasy.
Issues 11 and 18 have a fiction section printed in b&w on lower quality paper. By issue 34 the fiction is still b/w but appears to be on the regular paper type.
Issues 11 and 18 have a fiction section printed in b&w on lower quality paper. By issue 34 the fiction is still b/w but appears to be on the regular paper type.
July 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Picked up a few more issues of Newsfield's FEAR magazine dedicated to horror and fantasy.
Issues 11 and 18 have a fiction section printed in b&w on lower quality paper. By issue 34 the fiction is still b/w but appears to be on the regular paper type.
Issues 11 and 18 have a fiction section printed in b&w on lower quality paper. By issue 34 the fiction is still b/w but appears to be on the regular paper type.
Unclear User for comparison
July 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Unclear User for comparison
The most common thing I have heard from people on the internet is that they got a copy of the issue before the injunction.
Here's the injuncted version of the cover.
Here's the injuncted version of the cover.
July 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The most common thing I have heard from people on the internet is that they got a copy of the issue before the injunction.
Here's the injuncted version of the cover.
Here's the injuncted version of the cover.
After that my collection becomes a bit more sporadic - maybe I should head over to Ebay to try and fill in some gaps. I believe the last issue is probably #34, October 1991.
July 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
After that my collection becomes a bit more sporadic - maybe I should head over to Ebay to try and fill in some gaps. I believe the last issue is probably #34, October 1991.
From issue 7, FEAR goes monthly and the price drops to £1.50 (the page count going from 84 to 52)
July 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
From issue 7, FEAR goes monthly and the price drops to £1.50 (the page count going from 84 to 52)
It launched as a bi-monthly magazine costing £2.50. It's printed perfect bound and on glossy paper - it's a more "prestige" look than something like CRASH had. There's interviews, features and reviews.
(The mention of Star Wars IV here refers to what we now call Episode I, btw.)
(The mention of Star Wars IV here refers to what we now call Episode I, btw.)
July 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It launched as a bi-monthly magazine costing £2.50. It's printed perfect bound and on glossy paper - it's a more "prestige" look than something like CRASH had. There's interviews, features and reviews.
(The mention of Star Wars IV here refers to what we now call Episode I, btw.)
(The mention of Star Wars IV here refers to what we now call Episode I, btw.)
“Frey has finally convinced me that he spends all his time looking through Penthouse, Razzle or Rustler to find new ideas for his artwork.”
The artwork in question is attached...
The artwork in question is attached...
June 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Frey has finally convinced me that he spends all his time looking through Penthouse, Razzle or Rustler to find new ideas for his artwork.”
The artwork in question is attached...
The artwork in question is attached...
I do like the Clive colour scheme here
June 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I do like the Clive colour scheme here
Flight Path says hello
May 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Flight Path says hello
This makes me feel incredibly old
May 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This makes me feel incredibly old
Initially the credits box has separate sections for The Brits and The States. The Brits dominate numerically and the publishing side seems very UK centric
May 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Initially the credits box has separate sections for The Brits and The States. The Brits dominate numerically and the publishing side seems very UK centric
This was before my time, in Speccy terms. CRASH started out as a mail order catalogue with reviews before launching as a magazine. Adding one other ad from the archive...
April 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This was before my time, in Speccy terms. CRASH started out as a mail order catalogue with reviews before launching as a magazine. Adding one other ad from the archive...
Completed the run with a review tape for '90, '91, '92. (A bit of shenanigans to cope with the missing November '91 issue.)
March 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Completed the run with a review tape for '90, '91, '92. (A bit of shenanigans to cope with the missing November '91 issue.)
A bit more of this is up now, with reviews for '87, '88, '89 (after a brief bit of work to make sure that the non-ASCII character in "720°" didn't break anything...)
www.crashonline.org.uk/misc/reviewt...
www.crashonline.org.uk/misc/reviewt...
March 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A bit more of this is up now, with reviews for '87, '88, '89 (after a brief bit of work to make sure that the non-ASCII character in "720°" didn't break anything...)
www.crashonline.org.uk/misc/reviewt...
www.crashonline.org.uk/misc/reviewt...
We all remember our Monty Mole boxer shorts right?
March 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We all remember our Monty Mole boxer shorts right?
Oh hey we get mentioned in a thesis
March 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Oh hey we get mentioned in a thesis
OK, very silly thing I've been working on... In 1985, CRASH published a tape with an index to all the reviews in its first year. It wasn't repeated so I've knocked up a script to create the equivalent tapes for the reviews in '85 and '86. More here: www.crashonline.org.uk/misc/reviewt...
March 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
OK, very silly thing I've been working on... In 1985, CRASH published a tape with an index to all the reviews in its first year. It wasn't repeated so I've knocked up a script to create the equivalent tapes for the reviews in '85 and '86. More here: www.crashonline.org.uk/misc/reviewt...
Seems to be referring to this image
March 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Seems to be referring to this image
First issue of CRASH I picked up...
March 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
First issue of CRASH I picked up...
Although MOVIE largely covered video releases, there was some general film content too, and the early issues features these guide to individual film-makers.
March 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Although MOVIE largely covered video releases, there was some general film content too, and the early issues features these guide to individual film-makers.