CRASH

CRASH was a British magazine about the Spectrum, initially published from February 1984 (issue #1) until to April 1992 (issue #98) when it was "incorporated" into Sinclair User.

The magazine was resurrected in 2017 by Retro Fusion in the form of the Crash Annual 2018. Further annuals followed in 2018/19 and 2020/21, and lead to the copyright for the brand being purchased and a new monthly/bi-monthly magazine launched in December 2020.

All of its issues except #1–#3 and #65–#90 had a column about Spectrum adventure (mainly IF) games: Adventure Trail by:

• #4 (May 1984)–#48 (January 1988): Derek Brewster.
• #49 (February 1988)–#50 (March 1988): various people.
• #51 (April 1988)–#60 (January 1989): Samara.
• #61 (February 1989)–#64 (May 1989): Phil King.
• #91 (August 1991)–#93 (October 1991): Paul Rigby.
• #94 (December 1991)–#98 (April 1992): Ian Osborne.

The revived magazine features a similar column:

• Annuals (2018, 2019): Stuart Williams, (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024): Colin Bell.
• New #1 (December 2020) - New #13 (January 2023): Colin Bell.
• New #20 (February/March 2024) - current: Gordon King.

Issues of Adventure Trail

These links are from the World of Spectrum site. Reviews or other articles about purely graphic adventures aren't mentioned in this list.

1984

• 4 (May): p 95 (online).
  • Presentation of The Adventure Trail column.
• 5 (June): pp 73-76.
  • Reviews of Fantasia Diamond, Temple of Vran, Here comes the Sun, and The Lost Gnomes.
• 6 (July): pp 73-79 (online).
  • Reviews of Snowball, The Ring of Darkness, Atlas Assignment, and Waxworks.
  • Hints for Velnor's Lair, McKensie, Smugglers Cove, Colossal Adventure, Urban Upstart, The Hobbit, and Valhalla.

Other IF content

1984

• 4 (May):
  • pp 49-53 (online): Dripping Gold: Quilled Adventures - a review of The Quill and of several games made with it: Africa Gardens, Barsak the Dwarf, Magic Castle, Spy Plane, and Mindbender.
• 5 (June):
  • p 78: The Hobbit competition.

Links

• Crash (magazine) at Wikipedia.
• CRASH magazine: The Online Edition.
• Scanned CRASH issues - at World of Spectrum.
• The Internet Archive has scans of CRASH magazine, but they are not segregated into a category. See Crash Magazine 001 and nearby.