2004 Special Issue 94

After more than ten years since the Your Sinclair Big Final Issue, Retro Gamer magazine surprises everyone by licencing the YS trademark from Future Publishing.      With Dan Whitehead as YS94 editor, they played an absolute blinder in producing a one-off 32-page special given away with their November 2004 issue of Retro Gamer.      The YS94 team of Dan Whitehead, Colin Woodcock, Martyn Carroll and Shaun Bebbington together with Art Editor Craig Chubb had nailed the look, feel and humour of the original YS. Taking the 1989 and 1990 issues of YS as inspiration, everything down to the writing and page design felt like a perfect tribute to the legendary magazine. Old regulars such as Pssst!, Program Pitstop, Joystick Jugglers, Future Shocks and the YS Tipshop reappeared for one more time - there was even a YS MegaPreview and virtual cover tape!      Also a large part of the magazine was given over to nostalgic lookbacks over the YS years by YS luminaries such as Phil South, Teresa Maughan, Matt Bielby and others. Phil even wrote a large article about his own experiences at YS, including a brush with death when a car driver decided to park her vehicle inside the YS office. Through the entrance, naturally.      "Cover tape" contents: Batty/Elite, Moley Christmas/Gremlin, plus demos of More Tea, Vicar?/Cronosoft and Sensitive/Peter Gordon.      The issue of Retro Gamer soon sold out, so lots of people missed out on this YS Special. Until now...      Thanks to the whole of the YS94 team dipping into their archives, including Imagine Publishing MD Damian Butt, The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years presents to you YS94, plus the following extras: The unpublished article The 50 Best Speccy Games Ever!, written by Dan Whitehead. This was held back for a tentative second YS Special, which sadly never appeared. The original Retro Gamer Press Release announcing the Special's release. The Original Cover Artwork, showing the evolution of the Special's cover from Dave Windett's original line drawings through to the final version. And finally, my own review of the Special, written back in October 2004 soon after I received my own copy of the Special. It also contains a bit of analysis about YS in general, past and present. Lots of analysis, in fact. Get a drink in before reading it, you'll probably need it.      PLUS! Andrew Rollings has converted the original DTP files used to print the original articles to PDFs, and they look very fab indeed! There's something quite impressive with seeing the clean, high-definition anti-aliased pages onscreen. Snouty's About (4.2M) MegaPreview (640K) Future Shocks (448K) Program Pitstop (1.3M) Pssst! (1.2M) Reviews (768K) Rogues Gallery (4.1M) YS Tipshop (7.0M) Great Moments (2.8M)

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Re-Release Review	Compilation Review	YS Guide Entry

More Tea, Vicar?/Cronosoft

	Fire And Ice/n-Discovery Group	93
	Fun Park/Cronosoft	93
	Abe's Mission - Escape/Total Computer Gang	91
	TV Game/Weird Science Software	82
	Party Willy/Broadsoft	80

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Contents    Pssst!    Joystick Jugglers    Tipshop    Program Pitstop  - Advanced Lawnmower Simulator!    Future Shocks

Snouty's About    Great Moments In YS History    The Rogue's Gallery 1 - Matt and T'zer    The Rogue's Gallery 2 - Macca, Mike and Phil    The Rogue's Gallery 3 - Marcus and Jonathan