_{Cover of the April 1999 issue of Edge}

Subtitled "Computer & Electronic Gaming", this 1980s era gaming magazine published in the U.K. covered both computer games and console games. The June 1988 issue of The Games Machine includes:

Regulars

• News - A Computer and Art traveling exhibition, interactive fiction courses, Wolfman from CRL, Barbarian - The Dungeons Of Drax from Palace, The 11th Commodore Show in London, PHM Pegasus, and more.


• Readerpage - Letters from readers about the price of games on the Amiga, Archimedes, and Atari ST; MSX coverage, and more.


• Infodesk - Questions answered about MSX-I game compatibility, Atari's 720, buying a Sony MSX-II machine, Dungeon Master for the Atari ST, Dragon's Lair, Bubble Bobble, and more.


• Previews - Previews of upcoming games including Zynaps, Marauder, Netherworld, Azimodius - Angel of Death, The Last Ninja II, Operation Wolf, Road Blasters, Ring Wars, Typhoon, Boot Camp, Better Dead Than Alien, The Great Giana Sisters, and more.


• Reviews - Tons of reviews including Spectrum: Buggy Boy, Crosswize, Gothik, Karnov, Sophistry, Target Renegade, and Venom Strikes Back; Commodore 64/128: Bionic Commando, Corporation, Echelon, Gothik, North Star, Pandora, Stealth Mission, Target Renegade, The Three Stooges, and Venom Strikes Back; Amstrad CPC: Beyond the Ice Palace, Eddie Edwards Super Ski, and Venom Strikes Back; Atari ST: Bad Cat, Beyon The Ice Palace, Carrier Command, Captain Blood, Deflektor, Eddie Edwards Super Ski, Foundation's Waste, Ikari Warriors, Impossible Mission II, North Star, Obliterator, Out Run, Road Wars, Spidertronic 52, Spitfire 40, Staff, StarQuake, Strip Poker II, Time and Magik, Warlock's Quest, and Wizball; Amiga: Galactic Invasion, Fire Power, Obliterator, Power Bridge, Thexder, The Three Stooges, Time and Magik, and Wizball; IBM PC: Eddie Edwards Super Ski, StarQuake, and Strike Force Harrier; MSX-II: Salamander; Sega: Blade Eagle and Fantasy Zone III
  
• Endpiece - A trivia quiz plus a look at what's coming next month including a look at a Space Shuttle simulator, a look at bulletin boards, and much more.








_{Table of Contents from the April 1999 issue of Edge}



Features

• The Buggers - A look at whether we are getting closer to George Orwell's 1984 or Arthur C. Clark's 2001...or both.


• 2001 - A Memory Space Odyssey - A look at possible future technologies including Artificial Intelligence, CD-RAM, CD-ROM, Expert Systems, parallel processing, optical switches, and more.


• The Autumn Art Show - An entry form for a computer art exhibition.


• Graffx Matters - A look at the Parsec Graphics Interface, a hardware expansion for the Atari ST that adds the ability to display 16-million colors at 1024x1024 resolution and run at 6.25 MIPS. This device plugged into the ST’s cartridge port and featured a 50 MHz Texas Instruments TI 34010 32-bit graphics processor, 768 KB of onboard video RAM, and support for up to 4 MB of additional VRAM.


• Bleep House - A look at what the house of the future might look like.








_{Back cover of the April 1999 issue of Edge}



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