/vr/ - Retro Games

In chronological order from oldest to newest:

August 1994 Gamefan

December 1994 Game Players

May 1995 Game Players

March 1996 Game Informer

April 1996 Game Informer

October 1997 GamePro

December 1998 GamePro

January 1999 Expert Gamer

September 1999 US Playstation Magazine

Last but not least, US Playstation Magazine June 2000

>>993587
darkstalkers, MK2? I'm interested.

So please post ITT with which magazine you would most like to see and then keep this thread open, get comfy, and please join me for a trip down memory lane

>>993591
This one

>>993621
A little bit of a teaser for this anon. I love the layout of this magazine, it's so busy

>>993587
>Gamefan
sans nostalgia goggles, reading some of the ones i still have, it's sad to see just how poorly written some of the reviews are, at least before ECM took the lead. but goddamn them purdy page layouts!

>>993613
>that stain
i see i wasn't the only one who bought it for the cover

>>993650
A fine choice. Have another tease.

Whose MKII coverage will reign supreme?

>>993658
I wish I could pretend this was pre-internet ;_;

Anyways, I'm off to bed, Keep this thread open because I'll start scanning once I wake up

>>993598
voting for the SMRPG GI

>>993587
Voting for this. Interested in seeing how Darkstalkers was received back then.

Well it looks like a clear winner has emerged. I'm going to grab some food and drink, and we will commence shortly with August 1994 Gamefan. It's probably one of my personal favorites, some neat ads and the magazine itself is just a hot mess.

So suit up, strap in, and enjoy the ride

And here we go. I hope the Headdyfan from my last thread is here, because we're in for some quality Headdy

>>994461

>>994467
A letter from your editor

>>994469
Taz trying to flee from Sega

>>994470
Stop playing games. With my heart

>>994471

>>994472
Table of contents

>Art by Terry Wolfinger
Headdyfan I have failed you

>>994473
You rage you lose edition

>>994474
Love this ad

>>994475

>>994480

>>994484
Earthworm Jim

We think he's mighty fine

>>994485
SMH

>>994487

>>994491
Finally the sweet cheats we all came for

>>994497
Admit it, that wizard staff is pretty cool

Is there some kind of search tool that lets me find all the magazines a specific game was featured in?

>>994504

>>994507
Not that I am aware of but I'm no expert

>>994521
gotcha. thanks m8

>>994518
Is your body ready?

>>994536
not sure what's going on here

>>994540
Well, was your body ready?

>>994545

Do you have anything with Dark Savior?

cropping guy here again, how many pages is this one?

>>994548
Any Hosenose and Booger fans here?

>>994570
Glad you could make it. About 168 total

>>994569
Don't think so but let me check

PS poop break incoming

>>994574
>>994569
Sorry, not seeing any Dark Savior material.

>>994571
I wish more ads featured angry old german men

>>994589

>>994574
Alrighty, well same as last time I'm gonna wait for you to finish posting then crop/zip them up.

try not to get dem crooked pages, it makes it harder down the track.

>>994591
Trying to keep things straight here but the binding is falling apart and making things tricky. Hopefully will get better as we go

>>994590

>>994587
thanks anyway man

>>994596

>>994598
And thank you for all the hard work!

>>994602
>Based on a true story

>>994592
hey it's all good, I've worked with worse material. Thanks for putting the work in.

>>994607
Entering Headdy comix zone

>>994607
>Barko

>>994607
WOW. Platinum; i am so sorry for calling Revengeance a retarded name. OH WOW!

>>994615

>>994627

>>994629

>>994635
These gameplay pics are terrible. Should have spent less space on math

>>994642
wait until we get to the 'look like lurch' contest

>>994646

>>994651
>up to $2.50 back!

OH SHIT, SALE OF THE CENTURY!

>>994651
>strategy adventure

I have serious doubts about both of those claims

>>994642
Especially considering that the math is wrong. 16 people have a combined total of 64 (arms and legs).

>>994660
These are not necessarily in the right part of the magazine because they fell out but uhh.. 'enjoy' them anyway

>>994661
I spent way too long thinking about that. I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and hope they meant 32 fists and 32 feet

>>994662

>>994670

>>994674

>>994683
Getting into the meat now. Everybody grab your drug of choice and get the fuck in here. It's about to get weird

>>994696
>first page of the first review/preview
>already overwhelmed

>>994696
using orientation that makes for best reading

>>994717
>mybrainisfulloffuck.jpg

>>994724
hnnng

>>994729

>>994739

>>994751

>>994753

>>994759

>>994761

>>994769
I still think that level layout is cool beans

>>994773

>>994781

>>993613
Shit, such a nostalgia rush. I used to buy every single issue of this magazine back in the day, and aftewards EGM during the Dreamcast era.

My english wasn't very sharp back then, and they were all from an import section.

>>994793

>>994793
Still have any of them lying around?

>>994805
Flink fans rejoice

>>994814

>>994832

>>994806
Yeah, haven't taken them out of this cardboard box after I moved. I still gotta search out for 'em.

>>994840
I'm hyped

>>994840
I'm hyped

>>994814
This game is just so beautiful, man. The level of detail is amazing.

Shame about the lack of a Genesis version. How's the Sega CD one?

>>994849
Well if the urge ever takes you feel free to post them here

>>994857
Never played it myself but it looks like a lot of love went into this game. A shame it's so little-known

>>994853

>>994869

>>994874
I thought this was the coolest game ever as a kid

>>994867
I will, just for you /vr/ dudes.

Also, it really does suck how so many great games like these become obscure. Oh well.

>>994884
Another game I thought was really cool

until I played it

>>994894

>>994894
>furry fighting game
That just sounds terrible from the premise alone.

>>994902
Well these were the good old days of '94, when the word furry described animals, not people. But still, it was a terrible game

>>994896

>>994913

>>994920

>>994932
This game looks like an absolute mess

>>994910
I mean, they used to be cool though, until the internet ruined them.

That game is still terrible, though.

>>994946
I can't even tell what the hell is going on in it.

>>994946
any ballz lovers around?

>>994968

>>994979

>>994986
>Vag

>>994995
It's Vay, dude.

Kind of looks like Vag, now that I see it closely...

>>994995

>>995006
And did Working designs end fuck over with the localization on this one, too? They sure were one imcompetent bunch.

>>995017

>>995025

>>995035

>>995051

>>995061
guard your nuts

>>995070
This looks like a fun game

>>995081

>>995089

>>995098

>>995109
that fucking cheetah

>>995125
Jaguar previews incoming

>>995135
The future of gaming

>>995157

>>995187

>>995216

>>995231
Second page of this article I already posted here
>>993651

>>995239
Needs more Felicia

>>995246
mfw /v/

>>995246
Ah, the screenshot in the upper-right has the misspelled "Demitori" lifebar label. That's how the raw graphics actually are in the ROM, but apparently by the time they caught the error it was too late to redraw the graphic, so they just overlapped the tiles so as to hide the "o".

>>995256
Wow I never noticed that

>>995254
Everything about this hurts my brain

>>995268
Approaching planet SNES

>>995273
this goes on for another 3 pages but I'm going to skip it so we can get to some good stuff

>>995282
Think this game will be any good, /vr/?

>>995290
Well it's been almost 7 hours and we're just over halfway done. I'm going to take a break but keep this thread open because we've got more classics coming up!

>>995290
>Well it's been almost 7 hours and we're just over halfway done. I'm going to take a break but keep this thread open because we've got more classics coming up!

I love reading old video game magazines. It makes me feel like a little kid again. And those Ads are so funny.
Its sad that some people refuse to play older games because of the graphics. They don't know what they are missing.
I just played System Shock 2 for the first time. It was great.

I couldn't download from there. Kept getting overtly virus malware. Like download.exe =(

>>995297
>System Shock 2

i always wanted to play it but i scream like a little bitch when i'm playing scary games. how bad are the jump scares?

>>995305
where?

Thanks OP! Looking forward to the rest later.

>>995316
Scare jumps aren't too bad. But the game overall feels very scary. I actally had nightmares playing this game and I dont' get scared very much.
Its a very game though and you should go to steam and buy it right now.

>>995319
>http://www.sendspace.com/file/g5w8na

this

>>995371
hmm I didn't have any problems downloading the zip (no exe), and virus scan said it was clean. Are you sure that you clicked the right link?

>>995305
/co/ here. Laughing at you.

>>995305
I have no idea how you're fucking that up. Are you clicking the right link?

>>995025
Dem hidden messages in the bottom text of Working Designs ads

>>995290
"naw, dude. shit looks SO plastic-y. prawbly has some stiff animation running at, like, 1fps or something"

>said this clueless anon in '94

>>996207
>True Role-Playing

>>995025
One of those screenshots is the final boss, one of them is a scene from after the final boss, and another is a scene from before the final dungeon.

hopeful bump for OP's return

Oh man, back in the days when we used to fight over tiny increases in hardware like it meant something, right guys?

Back to dump the rest. Did most of the scanning already so this won't take too long.

>>995296

>>997985

>>997987

>>997985
Thank you based NES!

>>997989

>>997992
I aim to please. We have some real classics coming up real soon too so stick around!

>>997993
Go go Power Rangers!

>>997997

>>998000
>16 meg, mega-animated Action/Adventure

>>998003

>>998008
Step up, Shaq-Fu

>>998013
Do you really fight refs in this game?

>>998014
Another fun game that often gets forgotten

>>998017

>>998020

>>998025
I think this was technically the first game by Blizzard Entertainment (under that name)

>>998026

>>998029

>>998031

>>998034
One of those rare ads that might convince your parents that this was an educational game

>>998036
Why would you put this guy on the cover?

>>998039
Dig those sweet Ultra-64 sprites

>>998041
The play mechanics of MK and SF2? This must be the best fighting game ever

>>998043

>>998050

>>998048
I love how busy these borders are

>>998051

>>998053
Are you a blithering idiot, /vr/?
Do you want to smack this kid right in his smarmy face?

>>998058

>>998061

>>998067
Missed this page

>>998076

>>998080
Is that detective Croc?

>>998083

>>998086

>>998087
mfw

>>998089

>>998091

>>998093
Surely this will be the dominant football series of our time

>>998097

>>998101

>>998102

>>998104
Bill Walsh fans rejoice

>>998089
Minasato Twons

>>998109

>>998112

>>998115

>>998117
everybody getting sports franchises

>>998120

>>998123

>>998121
A classic that has stood the test of time

>>998125

>>998124
The best of CES '94

>>998128
SEGA!

>>998130

>>998135
Oh jesus

>>998161

>>998162
wow games used to be pretty expensive

>>998170

>>998171
hope you like boogers

>>998171
Hope you like boogers

>>998175

>>998178
...Cuz I'm CrAzY!!!

>>998180

>>998182
I love the old fanart pages

>>998183

>>998186

>>998191
entering the home stretch now (I was a bit off on earlier page estimates)

>>998196
More prices

>>998201
and more sweet EWJ art

>>998204
Anyone ever visit this place?

>>998209

>>998215
And we've reached the end. Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did! Keep an eye out for more scans in the future

>>998204
Wow. Baby's first render.

>>998251
those hands are freaking me out

I miss when game magazines were good.

>>997997
I'll admit it, I really liked this game as a kid

>>998161
>From what we hear, Capcom's newest coin-op fighting games (Dark Stalkers, X-Men, and Street Fighter 3) will be translated first on to high end consoles (Play Station, Saturn, Ultra 64) before they are released on the Genesis or SNES.
Ha ha ha. It ended up taking 2 years to chop Darkstalkers down enough that it would actually run on the Playstation. The idea of it or COTA running on an SNES or Genesis is pretty absurd. And of course SF3 didn't end up coming out for another 3 years, and wasn't able to get a home port until the Dreamcast.

Well that took a while but here it is.

All 164 pages cropped and resized to 1200x in a neato little .zip

http://www.sendspace.com/file/gxraql

Enjoy!

Thanks a bunch to both OP and cropping guy. Always nice to see a little slice of gaming history like this.

enjoyed it op

>>998204
I'm laughing my ass off over that EWJ.

Glad everyone enjoyed it and thanks again cropanon

I couldn't resist

>>994590
did anybody notice this is a pisstake of the MK2 ARE YOU READY advertisments?

>>994590
I love how T2 was so popular that people were still making references to it almost ten years later.

>>1001050
Was wondering wtf that was referencing. Didn't seem like just some hamfisted T2 reference.

>>1001050
Of course, but even when those ads were new and in print, I felt that they were trying to play the loser's game of attacking the competition (that only truly competed with Street Fighter).

anyone got scans of PC Accelerator?

>>994902
>le furry boogeyman face

>>994932
>That dude's face on the side of every screen

>>995061
Whats story of tao? Google brings nothing, cant find it under Koshiro's credits either.

>>1002441
I think it was released as Beyond Oasis is US. Looks like the original Japanese name was the story of Thor... not sure if Tao is an early name or mistake on the magazine's part

>>1002454
You're correct, thanks.

Also thanks for posting these I look forward to your next thread.

>>994596
>>994602
How did stunt race FX get higher scores than Blackthorne?

>>1000136

dat face