It's an easy enough question I suppose, but it's probably not for the reasons you were expecting.

   We are a small group of isolated adventure game enthusiasts, we weren’t part of the big online Spectrum scene...well, one of us is... apparently, and we never subscribed to any fanzines or clubs and before setting out on this adventure of our own, we were blissfully unaware of the Interactive Fiction scene in its entirety, and unsurprisingly, now realize exactly how much we have missed out on. ( Example, We just discovered 'Adventure Probe' only to learn they are about to call it a day! Denied!

   One night over an exceptionally long game of Dungeons and Dragons we got to talking about Adventure games, only to discover that we all shared a passion for text adventures, and not just any old text adventures, but games that had been written on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer. Needless to say the nostalgia juices got flowing, one thing led to another and out of the cauldron of creation came the idea to do our own, fun fanzine reminiscing about the good old days of Spectrum adventuring. And thus SAGE was born.

   Truth be known, it almost died there, had it not been for a nagging nascence called Melissa who just wouldn't let it lie and kept pushing and pushing and pushing until we all agreed that we would give it a go...

To be continued...