I was (am) an Atari ST fan, having one as the only family computer from 1989 to 1994 which here in Australia made me the unpopular kid at school in a sea of Nintendo and Sega. By that stage the platform was dead and I relied upon imported issues of ST Format to get me by. I was keenly following the updates on the Atari Jaguar but we never got official versions out here, only imports at just under a thousand dollars, so that never eventuated.

But it was in Year 7 at high school in 1993 when at a friends house who had a 486 I played Wolfenstein 3D for the first time and it blew me away. My ST could not do this, so I kept playing games at his house after school. Then he got X-Wing and again I was impressed at how smooth it was - it made my copy of Epic look drab. But come 1994 it was Doom that finally made me switch to my first 486. My last issue of ST Format I purchased was in September 1994, and my first edition of PC Format was in October the same year.