I remember seeing these.....
....and thinking.."well it's lovely looking and I love the spec but...it's a bit late isn't it?"
By then if you didn't have a Spectrum or a C64 it was game over. Didn't matter if the spec was twice as good.
It was all down to the budget your parents were prepared to spend/paper round savings and how many other mates you could borrow/swap games with.
However, the effort was appreciated.
"If ahhh cud turn back timmeeeeeeeeeeee!"
And one thing in that article made me smile. I remember around the turn of the century one of the phrases much shouted round the office was -
"Has anyone got a Madge card cable? I've lost mine!"
There must be that secret place somewhere full of lost socks and Madge card cables....