CRASH LIVE


November 23, Holiday Inn, Kennilworth https://fusionretrobooks.com


Considering that Crash Live is an event to celebrate a home computer from the 1980s (the ZX Spectrum, of course), you would expect it to be mostly a bunch of middle and retirement-aged men bickering over the price of similarly-haggard copies of Sinclair User. There was a little of that, of course, but far more than that it was about imminent and future glories for the Sinclair machine. Retro Games Ltd (see p36) were in the house with the just-released The Spectrum, Tony Warriner and Stoo Cambridge’s game UrbX Warriors was playable for the first time, a sequel to 48k killer app Ant Attack was being teased, and there was an arcade version of the the late Archer Maclean’s Dropzone, which we hear is Spectrum Next-bound at some point. Organiser Chris Wilkins (who we interviewed last issue) continues to do Sir. Clive proud.


Photos by Faith Johnson, Mark Harrison, Paul McLarnon, Jamie Murray, Jurij Ricotti and Tony Warriner


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