100 All-Time Computer Greats by Mel Croucher
100 All-Time Computer Greats by Mel Croucher
I have started to add the 100 All-Time Computer Greats by Mel Croucher feature to the site. The other 3 parts will be added shortly.
Mel's stuff completely went over my head when I originally read Zzap as a lad (and Under the Baudwalk still does!) but this feature does have some laughs in it, if not much factual infomation. This is corrected in the next 3 parts as he starts to document actual contributations of real people.
Mel's stuff completely went over my head when I originally read Zzap as a lad (and Under the Baudwalk still does!) but this feature does have some laughs in it, if not much factual infomation. This is corrected in the next 3 parts as he starts to document actual contributations of real people.
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Re: 100 All-Time Computer Greats by Mel Croucher
Me, too -- which is the reason we dropped him.Iain wrote:Mel's stuff completely went over my head when I originally read Zzap as a lad (and Under the Baudwalk still does!)
Re: 100 All-Time Computer Greats by Mel Croucher
That and the fact that the column was always voted least liked in readers surveysgordon wrote: Me, too -- which is the reason we dropped him.
I can appreciate the column more now in my mature years (except the Baudwalk one!) but they probably didn't really belong in a games mag all the same!
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Fun, as everybody agrees that they appreciate Mel's articles now more than they were first published. The same holds for me too. Reasons? For me: they contain lots of quotes and references to people and facts, and you cannot fully appreciate if you don't know them; they were not game-specific, although they were on a games mag; they were aimed to a more mature public than the average Zzap! reader; they need a very good knowledge of English, and mine was good enough at that time (well, it is not at this time, either, but it improved a little)
But anyway I remember enjoying Classic Computer Cock-Ups even in the 80s.
But anyway I remember enjoying Classic Computer Cock-Ups even in the 80s.
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