Mr Potato

It's relishably ironic that, after a month of hard slog, the fate of AMIGA POWER lay in the hands of a firm of printers who can't even make the same shade of black appear identical twice on one page.*

The art staff certainly guffawed over it when the mag came back, anyway.

(About the time international subscriptions really took off, a publisher had the clever idea of affirming AP's Britishness by making us put "AMIGA POWER is printed in the UK" in the flannel panel. Within one issue this had become "AMIGA POWER is printed, quite badly, in the UK," to be followed by "AMIGA POWER is printed, colour-correctedly, in the UK", "AMIGA POWER is printed by a man with a potato in the UK", "AMIGA POWER is printed, carelessly, in the UK" and "AMIGA POWER is printed, thinly, in the UK." This was one of our less unfathomable jokes.)

AP's printers also did this thing: they had a subsidiary company that stuck the coverdisks on (or "finished" the issue, as they put it. "AMIGA POWER is finished in the UK." You always think of the best ones too late.) This meant that they could not only print all the wrong colours, but make us go on sale late by sticking the disks in the wrong place.

Thankfully, they didn't, preferring the traditional methods of losing the master disks in the post and taunting us with news of coloured disks we could synchronise with out-of-the-ordinary covers (say, AP44's all-black Mortal Kombat 2 one) if we ordered them six months in advance.

They probably then laughed evilly and rubbed their hands.