Amiga Game Zone
AKA: Game Zone; Gamezone

Imagine a plate. Now imagine a pea so small it isn't on the plate because you couldn't find it to put it there. That was about the size of the Amiga games market in America. Nevertheless, Game Zone (unrelated to, well, Game Zone), a US Amiga games mag, lasted three bi-months, or the age of an old shrew in shrew years.

Erratic publication may have helped, of course - it was put together by a group of chums at university in their spare time* - but the vigour, commitment and passion of the thing found favour with AP and a hurrah-it's-all-worthwhile readership.

Foxed by the (rapidly ejecting) US Amiga games publishers, Game Zone did the sensible thing and asked AP for help; specifically, could we recommend some coverdisk demos for their forthcoming issue?

Tragically, even as we finished loading a giant box with all the demo disks we could think of, looking forward to, for instance, pointing out to Steve The Publisher that we couldn't use the word "Exclusive!!!" sixty-eight times on the Empire Soccer demo because it was also featured on the most popular games mag in the USA, we learned that Game Zone had closed. Out of all the fatalities in the Amiga market, it's only Game Zone we miss. And us, obviously.