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| Editor | Roger Kean (Feb '84 – Aug '85) Graeme Kidd (Aug '85 – Mar 87) Roger Kean (Apr '87 – Sep '87) Barnaby Page (Oct '87 – Mar '88) Steve Jarratt (Apr '88 – Jul '88) Dominic Handy (Aug '88 – Mar '89) Stuart Wynne (Apr '89 – May '89) Oliver Frey (Jun '89 – Mar '91) Richard Eddy (Apr '91 – Oct '91) Lucy Hickman (Dec '91 – Apr '92) Chris Wilkins (Dec 2020 – present) |
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| Categories | Computer games magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly/Quarterly |
| Circulation | 101,483 (peak) |
| First issue | February 1984 |
| Final issue Number | April 1992 (originally) 98 (originally) |
| Company | Newsfield Publications Ltd Europress Fusion Retro |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://www.crashonline.org.uk/ |
| ISSN | 0954-8661 |
Crash, stylized as CRASH, is a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer, primarily focused on games. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress. It was relaunched as a quarterly A5 magazine in December 2020 with the backing of the original founders.
The magazine was launched to cater for the booming Spectrum games market. It was immediately popular owing to its quality of writing and distinctive, though occasionally controversial, artwork created by Oliver Frey. By 1986 it had become the biggest-selling British computer magazine with over 100,000 copies sold monthly, but struggled towards the end of the decade after other magazines put cassettes of games on the front cover. In the 2010s, a number of retrospective issues were created via a kickstarter campaign leading to the new publication by Fusion Retro.