In earlier years, the magazine built up personality cults around some of its "hilariously" monikered staff, including Bill "Incorruptible" Scolding, John "Disgusting" Gilbert, Chris "Lunchbreaks" Bourne, Claire "Ligger" Edgely, Richard Price (writer of the "Gordo Greatbelly" adventure tips section), and columnist Andrew Hewson (founder of
Hewson Consultants software). Under David Kelly's editorial tenure, the magazine began to focus more on the gaming scene, and featured more colour graphics under designer Gareth "the Mad Celt". By the time of editor Graham Taylor, the magazine included the cartoon character Kamikaze Bear, and the tone of the publication changed from a semi-serious magazine to something aimed more at children. High-quality games were indicated in reviews via the "Sinclair User Classic" award, the logo was used as a selling point for games, big and small. In May 1992 the former rival publication
CRASH was notionally subsumed into
Sinclair User but in practice this meant little more than the addition of the
Crash! logo to the magazine's cover page. ==
Timex Sinclair User==