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* [[Brutal Honesty]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "You useless, cretinous morons.", "Natch.", "Drop your science on those assembled.","[[Take That|It's more important to me than being the editor of a computer games magazine.]]" and a hundred more.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Jonathan Nash. If you ever read anything which entered into the world of the utterly bizarre, it was Jonathan Nash who wrote it. The same reviewer who, whenever a photo opportunity arose, always presented himself as a cartoon character. From ''[[
* [[Credits Gag]]: It was easier to list the times when they didn't slip a funny comment under the names of the production staff.
* [[Doing It for
* [[Four Point Scale]]: Defied - one of Amiga Power's aims from the beginning was to use the ''entire range'' of the percent scale, so 50% means a game is actually [[So Okay It's Average]]
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: In their early days, one of AP's many running jokes was to threaten people with clearly over-the-top punishments... which backfired in their review of the point-and-click game ''Universe'', where Jonathan Nash suggested readers should get hold of the game's musician's address, go round to his house, and shoot his family. The musician himself read this and was quite upset by it, and J Nash didn't use the joke again.
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* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Probably one of the reasons AP is remembered so fondly.
* [[Running Gag]]: Lots and lots of them. Whenever someone asked how they could "be" [[Mortal Kombat|Goro]], for instance.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Dave Golder left to start the SF/fantasy magazine ''[[SFX]]'', using much the same humour in the reviews and occasionally some of the old staff as reviewers. Stuart Campbell, for instance, did <s>for</s> ''[[The X
** Similarly, J. Nash and S. Campbell teamed up with P. Rose and K. Gillen to create [[Digitiser|Digi]]-o-spinoff Digiworld -- although both were regular columnists for the [[Teletext]] version anyway.
** And ''Amiga Power'' itself may be seen as a Spiritual Successor - several of the writers (including Golder, Nash and Campbell) came from the classic [[ZX Spectrum]] magazine ''[[Your Sinclair]]'', which had a similarly zany style. ''Sega Power'' also took up the torch, though they tended to not so much walk the line of absolute lunacy as leap headlong over it while screaming incoherently about mackrel.
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