Editing Amstrad Action (section)

===Cover Tapes===
Chris Anderson using his previous success of covermounted cassette tapes with ''[[Personal Computer Games]]'' included one with the Christmas special issue of 1985. This included two unreleased games from [[Ocean Software]]; ''Kung Fu'' and ''Number 1''. The covermount cassette tape was only an occurrence on the Christmas and ''AA'' birthday issues, not becoming a regular feature until AA67 in 1991, mainly due to requests from many readers. Cover-cassettes featured [[game demo]]s, applications, software utilities and, in some instances, complete games. Due to the low quality of the cassettes used many Amstrad owners found them to be unreliable, something which was commonly reflected in the letters pages. One solution to fixing the unreliable tapes as posted to the letters section was to unwind the tape and put a warm iron on it. Later, a utility was released on the covertape to convert the contents to the proprietary 3" disk.

; ''Dizzy'', ''AA'' Special Edition
''[[Codemasters]]'' produced a ''[[Dizzy series|Dizzy]]'' game specially for the ''AA'' birthday covertape in October 1988. This 'Special Edition' included different rooms and objects to explore.
; Action Pack #1
AA67, dated April 1990, came with the first of the permanent cover tapes called Action Pack #1, along with a new cover price of £2.20. A playable demo of [[Ocean Software]]'s ''[[Total Recall (video game)|Total Recall]]'' and complete games ''[[Hydrofool]]'' and [[Codemasters]]' ''[[Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure|Dizzy]]'' were included on the tape.
; Action Pack #2
This tape caused some controversy among the readers<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://retroactionmagazine.com/retroactionextra/controversy-how-to-be-a-complete-bastard/|title = Controversy: How to be a Complete Bastard}}</ref> as one of the featured games ''[[How To Be A Complete Bastard]]'' featured mild swearing, plus the game's quest was to be violent and obnoxious throughout a house party.
; ''Stormlord'' Censored
December 1993 AA99's Serious Action cover tape included the complete ''Stormlord'' game, albeit a censored version. With the self-censoring of the [[Hewson Consultants|Hewson]] game it seemed that ''AA'' was trying to avoid similar controversy that followed AA68's Action Pack #2.{{Original research inline|date=December 2010}}
; Best Game Ever On Covertape
Voted the best game on the CPC, [[Telecomsoft#Firebird|Firebird]]'s ''[[Elite (video game)|Elite]]'' was the complete game given away with the 100th issue's Serious Action cover tape.