Some captions. Yesterday.

Reviewing computer games was great, except for this: you had to take screenshots to illustrate the page. Self-evidently, these screenshots had to be exciting and varied, and inspire the artists to weave their knitty magic, and not, for example, all come from Level One and feature the player character standing still so the reviewer could use two hands to work the Grabbing Mac.

Out of the 5,000 or so games reviewed in AMIGA POWER, perhaps twenty-five had pause modes that didn't obliterate half the screen with the word "PAUSED," like you'd otherwise think you'd broken the machine or something.

Just after playing the game until you were sick of it (a keystone of the AMIGA POWER reviewing policy) you therefore had to play it again, outstandingly, balancing sacrificing your character to get that special picture of the carpet-bomb attack against reaching the dizzyingly high levels where the pleasingly-drawn rarer monsters lived, and at the most reflex-testing point lunging across a table with one hand and batting at the grabber-operating space bar.

Truly we are mighty.*

The reward for all this spitty-dancing tomfoolery, thrilling and unusual pictures for you, our readers, aside, was to get to do the captions.

Caption styles had long evolved from pointless descriptions of the picture, of course,

Buildings explode injuriously when shot.

but still tended towards the obvious

Hut! Hut! Hut! Yesterday.

and it took a Defining Moment to open the wardrobe fully and let Mr Joke gambol among the Vocabulary Clothes.

Their novel approach swiftly bankrupted the elaborate cup-and-ball game.

Thus AP's captions enjoyed a rare mixture of jokes, helpful description, helpful jokes, ironic description, ironic helpfulness and jokes about describing helpful irony, and the word "Yesterday."

And every picture had a caption, and every caption had a mouse in a box in an old dark house, or something.