KM Feature From 1987 Games Mag

[P*ssCloud]

Knightmare was featured in a magazine called The Games Machine in their first issue (October 1987).

Here's the scans. Enjoy.

[Kieran]

It's very interesting to read an article from when Knightmare was still in its infancy 20 years ago.

The Pilot would be a good thing to be able to watch, someday.

[sozboz]

Really enjoyed reading this article, a great insight into a very creative process.

[Illusion]

That's a really great find.

Well done! How did you come across it?.

I would like to include it on the site in the next update.

[P*ssCloud]

Thanks

I collect scans of old games magazines (don't really read them much though) and just by chance found this and thought you'd like it.

[Fidjit]

Nice one fella, thats more for the site...

Cheaper to find it here than finding one on E-Bay

[Snowcat]

Interesting article.

Noticed a few random bits in there, much of which was used and at least 2 that weren't which intrigue me the most.

The room painting showing 2 semi circular stairways coming down together. (Presumably abandoned because of the difficulty of staging such a room back then)

... and the strange scimtar wielding character all in Chromakey Blue.

Anyone know something about these that I don't?

[Drassil]

Thanks very much for this article.

... the strange scimtar wielding character all in Chromakey Blue.

Anyone know something about these that I don't?

Yes. For more on the swordsman, see http://knightmare.com/behind/pilot.htm

[Ciaran]

I went ahead and typed up the entire article from those images, as I think it's an awesome article to read. It doesn't have the pictures, but you can see the rest of the article in text form at http://neo.theblob.org/km-gamesmag-article.html .

Hope somebody finds this useful.

[P*ssCloud]

Thanks for putting up the artice and that

I just wanna say that I didn't scan the pages if you wanna change the news item. I just picked them out of a scan that I downloaded. I don't know who originally scanned the magazine.

[Naitch]

Great article! I enjoyed reading that.

I don't really recall The Games Machine.

At the time I was into Your Sinclair, Sinclair User, C+VG, then a bit later I was in Sega Power and Mean Machines.

Now I'm regular reader of Retro Gamer.

This was a great read though.

I always loved the knightmare games that came out on the Speccy and the Amiga.

I still play the Speccy version on my emulator a lot...