Having been an avid Zzap! reader for years, I couldn’t help but notice the magazine’s quality starting to decline in the early ’90s. In December 1990, while visiting relatives in Harrow, London, my dad carried on a little tradition of his—buying me a magazine to keep me entertained. That time, instead of Zzap!, he bought me my very first issue of Commodore Format. I’d already missed the first two issues, but what instantly drew me in was its cover tape.
One of the standout gems on that tape was a demo of The Amazing Spider-Man. It was short—just a couple of screens—but I spent hours swinging around, not so much doing anything else as performing endless acrobatics on the giant letters spelling out “D E M O.” Somehow, that playful freedom left a bigger impression on me than the actual gameplay itself.
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