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@f02@t6 CRACKER JOURNAL
@f00@t4Issue reviewed - #27
Produced by - Alpha Flight
@t6PRESENTATION AND DESIGN@t5
Cracker Journal, the original
and...Well, it's far from the best!
The problem lies with the design, and
articles. When Cracker Journal was
born there was no competition.
It was just regarded as the best.
Other magazines began to appear,
but Cracker Journal still reigned,
it was the original and
almost everyone still regarded it as
THE mag for the scene. Then magazines
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got serious, fabulous design and great
amounts of articles became the key
factor in a magazines success. In the
present day, the leading magazines
boast (more or less) pure English
articles. Clever and polished layout
and design, great graphics, in depth
investigations, and a strong sense of
the thoughts of the editorial staff
intermingling the writers articles.
Argument provoking in depth coverage
of scene events and characters are
what magazines of today offer, but C.J
offers basicly the same now as it
always did. They promised and hinted
a new code and design for some time,
but the changes made hardly the look
of the magazine at all. The music
is awfull, the fonts look almost like
Spectrum game fonts, the intro is
almost a fossil, and the titletune is
@#@^@t5
incredibly infantile. @t7 32/100
@t6CONTENT@t5
Well, the content of ths issue is
believe it or not slightly better than
the previous issue, but not that much
better. The most interesting article
was written by Martin Brown of Team 17
complaining about software piracy
killing the software industry. I
can't understand why Cracker Journal
includes game documents as articles, a
blatent attempt to fill the magazine
at any cost maybe? @t7 55/100
@t6OVERALL@t5
Well, Cracker Journal seems to receive
a lot of ill-coments these days. I
almost feel guilty of 'following the
crowd' when I critisise it. It can't
be helped though. Cracker Journal
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does need help. Writing an article
for it almost seems like a waste. It
may still have a hardcore readership,
but C.J is not the future of diskmags
I'm afraid, its firmly planted in the
past and like most antiques, will soon
be dust. @t7 46/100
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