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'' and '' CRASH'' (its more successful sister publications from Newsfield), the original version of ''Amtix!'' was relatively short-lived. It ran for 18 issues in total between November 1985 and April 1987, plus a special preview issue (''Issue zero'') which was given away with ''Zzap!64'' and ''CRASH''. After issue 18, ''Amtix!'' was sold to Database Publications who merged the ''Amtix!'' games sections into their own ''

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'' magazine. Like ''Zzap!64'' and ''Crash'', ''Amtix!'' had very distinctive, comic-style cover art, drawn by Oliver Frey. In September 2021 the magazine was relaunched as a quarterly A5 publication by Fusion Retro Books under the title AMTIXCPC Micro Action. Twelve issues of AMTIX were subsequently published before the title closed again.

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A list of every game that has been reviewed and/or previewed in AMTIX!
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Scans of Amtix! front covers
Archived Amtix magazines
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