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It's mostly remembered for its totally quirky yet endlessly readable style. People didn't read it for the [[Amiga]] games. They read it for the writers, the biting yet totally honest opinions, the [[Running Gag
The magazine ended in 1996 as the [[Amiga]] itself was dying, but people fondly remember it to this day. Former staffer [http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/ Stuart Campbell] maintains a [http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ap2/ historical fansite] that gives a peek into the inner workings. An archive of its reviews is also available.[http://amr.abime.net/issues_5\]
* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]] - a term for a level in a [[Platform Game]] where most of the [[Fake Difficulty|difficulty]] comes from reduced friction on the platforms, thus forcing the player to wrestle with the controls instead of providing a proper challenge. They hated it.
* [[Brutal Honesty]]
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* [[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-Files]]''. It gradually [[Seasonal Rot|devolved]] into a 'normal' mag, eventually even eliminating the [[Credits Gag|different titles for the head editor]]. Thankfully, the honest reviews are mostly still there.
** Similarly, J. Nash and S. Campbell teamed up with P. Rose and K. Gillen to create [[Digitiser|Digi]]-o-spinoff
** 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.
* [[Take That]]: seriously. There was nobody safe from Amiga Power's criticism: game publishers, the magazine's own ex-staff, and the readers especially. But most of Amiga Power's Take Thats were directed at other game magazines, and game publishers. Because they ''cared''.
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