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Gex: Deep Cover Gecko
Issue 21 - April 1, 1999
 
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Public Library

Dear Future Gamer,

I've been receiving your magazine for about the last five issues now and it certainly brightens my Thursdays up! In fact, the other day I decided to complete my collections of Future Gamer(s) and download the previous 15 issues although I haven't read them all yet...

However, the point I'm coming to is that I've put the issues onto floppy disks for storage and just today, I wanted to go back to read your reviews of Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid again. The trouble was, I couldn't remember what issue(s) they were in. So, after seven or eight frustrating minutes or so of inserting floppy disks and searching it, then inserting the next one, I found them.

This was partly due to my poor organisation of the issues (which I have cleaned up now) but I still think it would be helpful to have a bog-standard, mini-review section in each issue with every game you've ever reviewed in it AND IN WHICH ISSUE IT WAS IN. Most videogame magazines have them and I know most people will yawn because a lot of them don't look twice at these sort of sections, especially as they can take up six or seven pages... but, seeing as you are an Internet mag, you don't suffer from paper restrictions and so you could put it all into one html file.

It wouldn't need updating with much either, because you only review three games per week (and that's NOT a dig at you) so come on, what do the rest of you think? It's just a suggestion after all and I'm not gonna cry or anything if everyone else thinks it sucks!

Thanks for reading my (needless) ramble,

Mark Powley


FG: That's hardly a needless ramble Mark, more a valuable and thought-provoking suggestion. That's the point of having this Feedback section. An index? It's an idea, and something we'll look into. Especially if other people request it...

Got an opinion or a question? Write to me at andy.smith@futurenet.co.uk...

Musical Youth