This month's #RetroReading is a C+VG magazine from March 1988.
It's a mostly uneventful month, at a time when C+VG was mostly focused on the 8/16 home micros (and a far cry from the bombastic style of its 90s incarnation).
But this double-paged #MasterSystem ad really ticked the nostalgia bone...
In fact, console games were so niche in Europe back then that they were relegated to a few pages at the back of the mag. The "Mean Machines" section would later get its own four part special magazine, then a monthly of its own.
Consoles seemed so exotic and futuristic back then. With expensive games, at 30 quid a pop. But it was the first part I turned to every month.
I'd almost completely forgotten about the existence of "Play By Mail" games, but apparently they were big enough to warrant as much coverage as consoles. The "It's a Crime" ad feels like it was everywhere in the late 80s. And Wayne might be the most 80s dude imaginable.
I seem to remember being deeply intrigued by them. But then I got in with a DnD/Warhammer group and probably saved myself a tonne of money in postage.
I'm astounded to discover that "It's a Crime" is still running!
Dave