Very much so.
My first Future mag was Amstrad Action, so things kinda trickled from there for me (with the odd deviation to Mean Machines/CVG, which satisfied my occasional need for a more bombastic tone, although some Emap writers like Jaz Rignall and Paul Davies remained strong influences despite my Future bias). It became the template for how we approached things in Games Domain and part of my time at Eurogamer (as much as the house style allowed), as many of the staff members at the time had mostly grown up with the same mags. You can still see some of that influence in modern day UK sites, like VGC, although naturally a few of the staff there came from that same era and are just carrying on from where they left off.
Is there a comprehensive repository for some of these old UK mags? My old family home still has all my old mags, but at some point I'll need to sell them, so it would be good to have digital versions to replace them with at some point...
