Amstrad Action

Amstrad Action was a British magazine about the Amstrad CPC, published from October 1985 (issue #1) to June 1995 (issue #117).

Adventure Columns

It had a column about Amstrad CPC adventure (mainly IF) games, with several distinct eras:

• Pilgrim (by Steve Cooke a.k.a. "The Pilgrim") ran from issue #1 (October 1985) to issue #46 (July 1989).
• The Balrog (by Stuart Whyte a.k.a. "The Balrog") ran from issue #49 (October 1989) to issue #93 (June 1993).
• The Examiner (by Debby Howard) ran from issue #95 (August 1993) to issue #110 (November 1994); and issue 112 (January 1995).

Notable Articles

• Venture Forth (by Simon Forrester with Tim Norris); an adventure programming tutorial; issue #93 (June 1993) to issue #100 (January 1994).

Issues of The Pilgrim

These links are from the CPCWiki Mags archive.

1985

• 1 (October): Pages 39-42 [1].
  • Reviews of Red Moon, Subsunk, The Shadow of the Bear, North Sea Bullion Adventure, and Smugglers Cove.
  • The Pilgrim's Pick (with short comments about Colossal Adventure, The Hobbit, Fantasia Diamond, Lords of Time, Castle Blackstar, Heroes of Karn, The Ring of Darkness, and Gremlins).
  • Hints for Lords of Time, Heroes of Karn, Snowball, Colossal Adventure, and Gremlins.
• 2 (November): Pages 78-83 [2].
  • Reviews of Robin of Sherwood, Warlord, Ashkeron, and Mordon's Quest.
  • Hints for Return to Eden, Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Lords of Time, Erik the Viking, Snowball, Emerald Isle, and Gremlins.
  • Article about transfering adventure games from tape to disc.
• 3 (December): Pages 78-79, 81-84 [3].

1986

• 4 (January): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
• 5 (February): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
• 6 (March): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
• 7 (April): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
• 8 (May): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
• 9 (June): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• 10 (July): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• 11 (August): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• 12 (September): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• 13 (October): 1, 2, 3.
• 14 (November): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
• 15 (December): 1, 2, 3, 4.

1987

• 16 (January): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 17 (February): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
• 18 (March): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 19 (April): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• 20 (May): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• 21 (June): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 22 (July): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• 23 (August): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• 24 (September): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 25 (October): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 26 (November): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• 27 (December): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

1988

• 28 (January): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
• 29 (February): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 30 (March): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 31 (April): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 32 (May): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 33 (June): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 34 (July): 1, 2, 3.
• 35 (August): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 36 (September): 1, 2, 3, 4.
• 37 (October): 1, 2, 3.
• 38 (November): 1, 2, 3.
• 39 (December): 1, 2, 3.

1989

• 40 (January): 1, 2, 3.
• 41 (February): 1, 2, 3.
• 42 (March): 1, 2, 3.
• 43 (April): 1, 2, 3.
• 44 (May): 1, 2.
• 45 (June): 1, 2.
• 46 (July): 1, 2.

Issues of The Balrog

• See The Balrog (archive) website.

Links

• The Balrog (archive) website. With all the issues of The Balrog.
• The Balrog at CPCWiki.
• Amstrad Action at CPCWiki.
• Amstrad Action at Wikipedia.