Wading through some old Amiga mags at the moment and last night I ended up down one of my rabbit hole things, stumbled into this old piece (again) on why and how the Amiga version of SDI ended up with curiously defaced credits.
Picture, in your mind’s eye, 1987. A buoyant and flourishing games market on home computers such as the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga, with Activision extremely interested in exploiting it…
What begins as a bit of a “well, this is odd” ends on a bunch of lovely recollections on how things ended up as they did.
I recall reading all this a while back but it’s worth another kick round all the same.
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