(They were originally created to cover up the lack of editors by an editor-in-chief who was pretty much making an entire issue by himself after the previous team left abruptly.) Mascot: There are a number of recurring fictional characters starring in the comics, and sometimes replying to reader letters and writing articles. ![]() Four-Point Scale: The magazine rarely gave any game a rating below 7/10, even when the review contained mainly complaints about the game's quality.They promptly set out to Set Right What Once Went Wrong and cause new copyright laws to pass. Digital Piracy Is Evil: In one of the comics, the characters go to the future and find out that the entire gaming industry has collapsed due to software piracy.Cut-and-Paste Note: There were at least two humorous letters of this kind sent to Top Secret (and subsequently published), containing demands of ransom for the safe return of supposedly kidnapped editors.Continuity Reboot: In 2002, the title was restarted by Axel Springer publishing house, with the best-known "original" editor-in-chief at the helm.But You Were There, and You, and You: Piwem i Mieczem ("With Beer And Sword"), an episodic story, involves a character hallucinating about going to a fantasy world and meeting characters who are all based on the magazine's editors.Occasionally, the magazine contained comics featuring its three Mascot characters the comics were basically Sprite Comics, with the characters digitally added to the screenshots. Starting 1992, the magazine began actually rating the games (much to some readers' ire who claimed that reviews are for "snobbish magazines"). Thus, an average gamer needed a manual and a gameplay description more than a review (especially since knowledge of English was very scarce). ![]() ![]() In the beginning, Top Secret wasn't really a review mag - until 1994, due to the obsolete copyright law, software piracy was basically legal, so pirates were pretty much the sole source of games - and since they sold games at cheap prices, buying a bad game wasn't much of a loss. It was characterized by huge amounts of inside jokes (sometimes the articles would descend into ranting about the editors' everyday life). Top Secret was the first magazine of its kind in Poland, and quickly became a cult classic still fondly remembered today, mainly because of its editors' wacky sense of humor. A Polish video game magazine which evolved from the earlier computer magazine "Bajtek" and existed from 1990 to 1996.
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