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880 Gamer Magazine

Published 03 November 2018

880 Gamer was a quality online magazine publishing up to the end of 2015. Since then it has gone quiet. The editorial quality was excellent and the reviews looked at both the good and the bad. It is also a good section on demo music for the Commodore Amiga. Unusually for modern magazines, there is a digital disk to download as well that is packed full of games and demos.

Magazine Edition 7 - September 2015

880 Gamer Commodore Amiga Magazine Issue 7 September 2015

Articles

880 cover disk - Elite Frontier, Qwak, Magic Boy
880 beast update - Shadow of the Beast
880 Cheats
Space Traders
Bleeding Eyes - Amiga music special

Game Reviews

Elite (Amiga 1998) game review
Elite Frontier (Amiga 1993) game review
Narco Police (1991) game review
Final Fight (1991) game review
Moonshine Racers (1991) game review
Savage (1989) game review

Demo Reviews

Turmoil (1991)
Music Dream 2 (1991)
Legalise it... (1992)
Legalise it 2 (1992)
Musicland (1993)
Musicland 2 (1993)
Rebels (1996)
Melomaniac (1996)
Brus (2001)
Hacks for tracks (2005)
Seduction (2006)

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Editorial Review

It is a big jump to go from Issue 7 in September 2014 to Issue 8 in December 2015. Readers can tell that the editor had lost his writing pace. This was a shame as there was plenty of material to work through. It is kind of unusual to have so many low rating games to review. The game selection looks like a grab bag from different genres and release years. The editor has gone to great effort to pick interesting screenshots and it shows. There are also an interesting selection of advertisements.

This particular 880 Gamer issue is focused on space trading games, particularly the Elite game franchise. We share a similar passion on our Elite game franchise section. The magazine editor has also added a useful selection of Elite game cheat codes.

One quibble we have with the magazine is with the demo review section. The editor needs to provide a link to the demo file. Do you know how hard it is to search for the correct Rebels ADF demoscene file?