Thanks for your efforts! Amstrad Action was a major part of my youth, and kickstarted several interests of mine e.g. hearing the track by "Urban Dance Terroris

Thanks for your efforts! Amstrad Action was a major part of my youth, and kickstarted several interests of mine e.g. hearing the track by "Urban Dance Terrorists" which made it onto several of my personal mixtapes, then BooTracker getting me into writing my own music on the computer. I also attempted to write an adventure game in GAC and anything at all in assembly language thanks to the free covertape apps, and failed utterly on both accounts. I did love all the type-ins, though, and perhaps writing small programs in Locomotive BASIC is what ultimately led me to becoming a software developer. AA prompted my first email too, when I asked my mom - who worked at a university - to email The Pilgrim or The Balrog or one of those guys for a hint on a game I was stuck on. And he replied! It was like magic. The games weren't all that bad! I remember getting Stormlord and Dizzy from the tape, which was super cool because I had been reading about both for years and unable to play them because nobody I knew was able to acquire a copy. The more disappointing ones where when they came with a game I already had, like Exolon/Uridium/Zynaps/Ranarama, all of which were already on the Hewson smash hits compilation I'd played to bits, but I'm sure some other kids out there loved them. Good times.