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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 12:19:30 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 12:20:48 GMT -5
Let's be real; there was a lot of homering in video game magazines.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Mar 13, 2019 14:10:22 GMT -5
ahh the good old days of waiting for the monthly periodical of videogaming ..... FUNNIEST REVIEW EVERi legit laughed reading this typically american mags ..... and NO PSYCHO PIG UXB or GAME OVER magazine advert??? SO AMERICAN  i still have all my YOUR SINCLAIR's .....  there's that pig again  and i did like the BARBARIAN poster i got with the game ..... had a ton of mags, from MY FIRST EVER GAME MAG!to THE GREATEREST MAG EVERand PRETTY DAMN GOOD TOObought mags for the gameboy (gb action) amiga (amiga power, amiga format), mean machine sega and nintendo magazine system, sinclair user and crash for the spectrum, sega power ..... then the 16-bit machines like OPM, sega saturn magazine then there was ACE magazine HOLD MY HAND VERY TIGHTLY VERY TIGHTLY VERY TIGHTLY readers will know what that is about i now "get" RETRO GAMER and actually have several real copies  some are even in that place he mentions too  |
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Post by Paul on Mar 13, 2019 14:16:00 GMT -5
Oh man, any magazine that wasn't Nintendo Power, Game Pro, or Electronic Gaming Monthly was so, so awful...
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Mar 13, 2019 14:53:11 GMT -5
Oh man, that Link really did resemble Tim "The Toolman" Taylor, haha! EDIT: I also recommend watching Game Grumps' impromptu look at Sonic comic covers. They were just going through the old Sonic Mega Collection and came across the magazine scans of those comics. It's hysterical: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGkGhJKXBSs (language) |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 14:56:49 GMT -5
Oh man, any magazine that wasn't Nintendo Power, Game Pro, or Electronic Gaming Monthly was so, so awful... Tips and Tricks was another good one but they mostly focused on walkthrough and cheat codes. |
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Post by Cyno on Mar 13, 2019 15:07:46 GMT -5
Let's be real; there was a lot of homering in video game magazines. The first party-dedicated ones were especially bad about it, yeah. Even Nintendo Power's coverage was so blatantly biased towards Nintendo-published games. Though Nintendo Power's reviews were the least interesting thing about the magazine and were more or less an afterthought compared to all the other good content in the magazines.
I think the unofficial first party-dedicated magazines like PSM (when they were still independent from Sony) were even worse in their fanboyish-ness than the official ones like OPM or NP.
EGM in its prime was so good. In general the ZD-published mags were pretty good. I thought Gamepro was kinda trash and hard to take seriously with their pseudonyms for all their writers, the O-faces for review scores, and the hilariously useless PROTIPS, but it did have neat art.
Also, any magazine with Dave Halverson on staff was kind of hilarious because that dude was insane.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 16:20:56 GMT -5
Man, GamePro in its prime was amazing.
I remember issues being packed to the grills with content. Issues were I swear, 200-215 pages long and it felt like 400-500 pages to a kid’s eye like mine.
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Post by Cyno on Mar 13, 2019 16:47:48 GMT -5
Anyone remember the MORAL OUTRAGE from the Helen Lovejoys of the world when one of the earliest issues of Nintendo Power had art of Simon Belmont holding Dracula's severed head for the cover?
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 13, 2019 18:27:51 GMT -5
Only video game mags I read and enjoyed were EGM and Diehard Gamefan.
Nintendo Power was crap. Very biased and bad reviews.
Gamepro felt like it was written for 6 year olds.
Anyone remember the early 80s video game mag Joystick? Loved it when I was a kid.
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Post by Paul on Mar 13, 2019 18:32:31 GMT -5
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Post by Paul on Mar 13, 2019 18:33:02 GMT -5
They still make Game Informer... Wow... FuncoLand flashbacks.  |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 13, 2019 18:37:03 GMT -5
Thank you. I would never see issues at the newstand. But the local library carried it. |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Mar 13, 2019 18:57:05 GMT -5
I owned several of the exact issues he showed off here.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Mar 13, 2019 20:26:05 GMT -5
I liked EGM but that one was TOO serious, I thought.
GOTTA GET A GAMEPRO!
Game Players was my jam, though. An issue of Game Players along with my PWI, and I was in heaven!
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Post by dav on Mar 13, 2019 20:50:56 GMT -5
Shame that GameMaster wasn't shown, but I suppose that was only a UK thing.
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Post by GreyScaleLJH on Mar 13, 2019 22:34:02 GMT -5
Loved GamePro magazine, so fun to subscribe to during the 90's 16-Bit War heyday. Game Informer was alright, as was EGM.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Mar 13, 2019 23:31:19 GMT -5
The best part of any old game magazine for me are the articles talking about things that never really panned out (i.e. cancelled games, failed consoles, etc.).
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Post by trollrogue on Mar 14, 2019 1:21:36 GMT -5
Man, GamePro in its prime was amazing. I remember issues being packed to the grills with content. Issues were I swear, 200-215 pages long and it felt like 400-500 pages to a kid’s eye like mine. GamePro in it's prime, definitely. Before it's prime, I remember almost every issue of GamePro had glaring typos and clearly wrong game information (especially in the tips' section most notoriously the GoldenEye 007 Easter Eggs that required a GameShark, but GamePro reported that it was possible to access without). As far as the funniest print gaming mag goes, everybody that read back in the day knows the only answer here is GamePlayers. And later Ultra GamePlayers. Those guys were frickin' crazy  |
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Post by trollrogue on Mar 14, 2019 1:31:53 GMT -5
I liked EGM but that one was TOO serious, I thought. GOTTA GET A GAMEPRO! Game Players was my jam, though. An issue of Game Players along with my PWI, and I was in heaven! To this day I still remember the funniest editor from Game Players' name Bill Donohue because he was just that damn good at his job to write about games and make me eager to read what new he'll have to say about the gaming industry next month. Quite a feat for me since I'm horrible with names but he stood out as an icon and definitely got me to fork over 5-7 bucks for a magazine everytime I cruised Waldenbooks. Helluva magazine |
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some are even in that place he mentions too 
