Magazine

The Amiga Joker was special the first magazine for Amiga computer games. Publisher and editor-in-chief was Michael Labiner as well as his wife at that time Brigitta Labiner. The booklet appeared in the own Joker publishing house. There also the PC Joker appeared later. Annually there were ten booklets, in the summer always two double expenditures.

The Amiga Joker had one own style, some meant it would be too childlike, other it.

The first edition appeared in November 1989 and sold themselves at that time very badly. The level of the booklet increased from expenditure to expenditure. At first there were even still black-and-white sides.

At the end of of 1992 came for the Amiga Joker a genuine competitor on the market, the Amiga Games.

When the Amiga disappeared starting from 1994 slowly however reliably from the scene, it became ever more difficult to fill the booklet with good contents. Thus there were then already partly very strange test reports and advertisements. The last expenditure was from November 1996, afterwards the Amiga Joker was adjusted. In a later expenditure PC of the Joker (11/2000) gave it the last Amiga Joker, a hexagonal report, which should be a tribute to all fans, that wished themselves always one "„last "“Amiga Joker.

Contents

The Amiga Joker busy itself in the expenditure for print particularly with the Reviews and Previews to the newest Amiga plays. The moreover one gave it in addition, the still following columns:

• Newsflash: Here there was always the newest message approximately around the world of the Amigas
• PD box: Conception of current public domain software
• Crack: In the Crack range brought to "“light Dr. Freak"” in the dark unfortunately large robbery copier scene on the Amiga. Pretty often there was interviews with sizes of the "“Warez scene"” or other information from the underground
• UP and down: The mandatory play Charts, which may be missing in no play magazine
• Interview: Interview with sizes of the Amiga Business like among other things Chris or Factor 5
• Know-how: Always in the center of the booklet for ripping out there were the most current Cheats and solutions to current Amiga plays
• Demo Gallery: The demo scene section of the booklet. Here beads from the Amiga demo scene with Screenshots and small text were introduced
• Power failure: Uncommonly for an Amiga plays magazine board plays were presented here
• Coin UP: Person employed itself with the newest Arcade automats
• Joker Shop: In the internal Joker Shop gave it many fan articles approximately around the Amiga Joker to buy. The Jotch, a wrist-watch with Amiga Joker motive became legendary
• Kicker Cup:
• Budget stage: On the budgets stage place was for a renewed test so-called budget of plays, former full price plays now in the price was lowered
• Computer ABC: In the computer ABC terms were described to each month about computer. Thus one learned the meaning of Begiffen such as telecommunications or mailbox
• Brork Comic:
• Joker Comic:
• Kicker Cup:

Editorship

The most well-known editors were Carsten borrowing Meier and Richard lion stone. Manfred Kleimann (formerly editor-in-chief of the ASM) was at the beginning of of 1992 a few months of free coworkers.

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It circulated the rumor, Amiga Joker could some test reports of Spielepublishern be paid. The suspicion arose, as Amiga Joker began to various plays good and very good evaluations to give, while other play magazines gave often evaluations and also the readers/player had extremely opposite opinions in relation to the evaluations the Amiga Joker.

As example the evaluation is to be called to the Amiga play Rise OF The Robots. The Amiga Joker assigned at that time for the diskette version whole 91 per cent - to MEGA HIT (AJ 12/94), which is to be equated a 1 in the school note system. Other magazines assigned in response also platform-spreading lower evaluations, in the school note system often more badly than 4, which equaled also the opinion of many players, who knew this play.

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• Scans to the PC & Amiga Joker
• Covers, test reports to the magazine Amiga Joker
• Complete Cover archives of the Amiga Jokers as well as many test report Scans and the first edition to on-line read
• Amiga Joker forum
• Large Amiga Joker fan PAGE

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