My '92 Sundance wont start

OK, I got me a '92 Sundance that I havent turned on for over a year, it worked fine before... I just lately replaced the battery and checked the spark plugs and they look fine... Autoparts stores tell me that it could be a clogged fuel filter from the stale gas but my friend who's an automotive technician tells me it cant be that... Can anybody help me out please?

i wold take the automotive store advice gas when it sitt become like a lacure and get hard and gummy cheak the filter if that dont fix it you may have a bigger problem.make sure you hear the fule pump start up.if still nothing after that cheak your injectors and fule lines they maybe clogged. do o have tbi or fri (tbi=throttlebody injection) (fri=fuel rail injection?