n the summer of 1985, I made the long pilgrimage from my home in Cheadle Hulme to Londons glamorous Hammersmith Novotel for the Commodore computer show. As a 14 year old gamer, this was a chance to play the latest titles and see some cool new joysticks, but I was also desperate to visit one particular exhibitor: the publisher Newsfield, home of the wildly popular games mags Crash and Zzap!64. By the time I arrived there was already a long queue of kids at the small stand and most of them were
