Amiga Power
British video game magazine
Amiga Power (AP) was a monthly magazine about Amiga video games. It was published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing and ran for 65 issues, from May 1991 to September 1996.
History
The first issue of Amiga Power was published in May 1991 after Future Publishing decided, in response to feedback from readers of its magazine Amiga Format, to launch two further magazines with narrowed interests, the other being Amiga Shopper. Whereas the latter would focus on the "serious" side of Amiga computers involving programming and productivity, Amiga Power would be wholly tailored to the gaming audience. Joining the magazine were Matt Bielby and Gary Penn, previously editors of Your Sinclair and The One, respectively, with Bielby being its first editor and Penn as a consultant.
Early in the magazine's history, from its inception, Amiga Power supplied copies of each issue with a coverdisk containing a full game, distributed to the reader free of charge. Future Publishing pioneered the concept of attaching disks to covers of Amiga Format. However, software publishers complained that people were disincentivised from purchasing their games, and Amiga Power, along with other British computer magazines, soon abandoned the practice in favour of "public domain" (i.e. free-of-charge) software, shareware, and demos.
Philosophy
Amiga Power had several principles which comprised its philosophy regarding games.
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