> Thanks for reminding me about all this stuff Dave - it's been sitting > in my inbox for the last month waiting to be compiled. > > So here it is. More glamourous than the Brits, more pretentious than > the Labour party, more predicatable than this year's > Premiership...here are the results for the SAM Coupe Millenium Poll. > > The first category - Best Game. Up to 18 months after the SAM > was released, there was one undisputed contender for the > crown. Defenders of the Earth. Since then, however, things have > improved ever so slightly. So ...rustles with envelope... the winner > is... > > Prince of Persia > > Lemmings and Stratosphere were slugging it out for second place, > with Lemmings just shading it. > > The second category, best Appplication / Utility. > > There were loads of suggestions for this, but right from the outset > there was only really ever one winner. > > SAM Paint. > > The memory of Flash has finally been erased. > > The battle for the best piece of hardware was hotly contested > with loads of suggestions ranging from teh original machine (which > I don't think really counts does it?!) through to the DiskProtector > (surely something that should have been implemented from the > outset anyway...!) > > The winner, just outpipping the Quazar Surround Sound, is... > > the Atom. > > The world of Paper Mags was the strangest category. The > winning magazine only ever had two issues published, and the > runner up was a Spectrum magazine. A bit of a kick in the teeth for > 'industry standard' FORMAT, which only got mentioned in passing. > > The winner...BOAI (runner up, Your SInclair). > > Best Disk Mag...Dead Predicatable...FRED (was it ever going to be > anything else) > > > The Best Demo Ever Ever Ever produced 12...count 'em...12 > nominations. A sign of a great demo scene, or just a confused set > of voters... > > You decided...MnemoDemo II. > > And Statues of Ice polled two votes. Explain that. > > We've had a tie withthe favourite SAM personality. > > Alan & Bruce, who were always bundled together, polled as many > votes as Simon Cooke. Colin McDonald came runner up. > > But there was not doubt over the favourite SAM > company...plaudits et all once again to FRED Publishing. Quazar > was the onloy company that polled, that still survives today.
*cough* *ahem* ... thanks... 's kind of scary when you figure that you've been involved in the creation of > 50% of the things mentioned in the poll. Cripes. Now... if only I could get around to writing something for Colin's book... :) Si
