/vr/ - Retro Games

Latin American Club Nintendo for me, especially the earlier issues from the early to mid 90s.
Sure, it was all Nintendo bias and shilling, but the overall design was pretty good quality with lots of official art, maps for guides, etc.
It also included non-nintendo articles for arcade games, thanks to this magazine I first discovered Darkstalkers, which was never on any Nintendo system.
The early issues also included some actually interesting articles about game development that I never bothered to read when I was a kid but when I went back and re-read those magazines as a teen/adult I found them to be quite interesting.

I also have a soft spot for Hobby Consolas (a spanish vidya magazine). That one was huge and had a lot of content, and also introduced me to a lot of animu back in the early 90s when animu was still just Robotech, Mazinger and Astro Boy where I live.

Do modern magazines come with free games?
Here in Hungary you get a free game with the magazine.(at least if you buy the major ones)

>>3404523

The few that still exist don't come with anything from what I've seen.

Just a few that come to mind.

>>3404682
>Just a few that come to mind.
Did you, like, make that whole image just for your reply in this thread?

I'm looking at an article from a Playstation magazine complaining about things that need to change in gaming. More music games, dlc for sports games instead of new games every year, better mascot characters, no mullets on Snake, better sports games than EA sports, Tomb Raider needs revamping, etc.

..The gaming industry has not changed that much in twenty years.

Another article mentions liking Spyro means you're not a hardcore gamer.

Any BritBongs remember "Nintendo Magazine System"? Those guys were fucking hilarious.

I remember their review for Batman Forever and every screenshot was a varient of Batman without man: BatChap, BatGeezer etc.

Shit cracked me up as a kid


ANd there was a Sega one that had the staff represented in anime format and got killed in nasty ways by the game charaters... I remember Alien 3 being particularly violent

>>3404417
>The Ogre Battle's On!

The Shrekening has begun!

>>3404527
That's sad.
Here you get an indie game or an old Tripple A game.

>>3404702
Free image collage site. Just drop the images into a template and choose background.

>>3406235
I remember. Still have one or two of them, but early to mid-90s was the golden age.

I have a small collection of gaming magazines which make great chill reading material.

Issue 1-200 of Edge - early issues are great and it is entertaining to watch as their heads move progressively further up their own anus. Fun trivia - there are three separate reviews for Street Fighter 2 Turbo in issue 1, for 6 pages total. Fucking weird to think about it now.

GamesTM - really good modern magazine all the way up to like 2011, although I haven't read them in a while now. Solid reviews and features.

RetroGamer - very relevant to this board, although the UK focus on home computers in some issues will probably confuse Clapistan readers. Great features and interviews though, really recommended.

Super Play - Legendary UK independent SNES magazine with a heavy focus on Japanese culture/arcades in the background. Really nicely put together mag, especially for its time.

>>3406297

you, sir, have excellent taste.

GamesTM was originally A5 sort of size and it was amazing.

>mfw I sold all my mid-90's Tips 'N Tricks magazines to Half Price Books for like a dollar a few years ago and realize I made a huge mistake

>>3407231

I find it weird how HM has no televised ads

>>3404408
Ah man that cover takes me back... I have every PlayStation Magazine from that issue to some point in the PS2's early life. The magazine was nice but the demo discs were the most exciting part. I still have them all. About once a year I still try them all out in order.

Also, I remember the Crash Bandicoot PlayStation magazines being the most popular since it had a demo on the disc a few months before release.

>>3407841

Do you really think a game like that would benefit at all from televised ads?

>farm'n stuff
>talk to girls in town
>oh shit harvest them crops boy
>make sure your cows don't starve kid
>make sure your plants don't die my lad
>expand this land into a fully functional farm and run around from dawn to past dark fixing shit up just right so you can do it all again

Nah man, nobody would want that cozy comfy farmlife simulator then, it would die if it had TV ads. Just let it be a niche game with a loyal niche audience.

>>3407885

The games sell well. I never considered them that niche. Cute boys, animals, gardening... Seems like an ad could work fine.

best magazine

>>3410269
it was crap compared to super play. man oh man did that magazine shrink, there was a real lack of games to cover l0l

>>3410150
>>3410157
>>3410161
>>3410179
Now I'm interested in finding out what this "Game X" actually was/

Gameplayers

I miss magazines.

>>3410381
It was the Blues Brothers 2000 on N64.

"Del Medio" revealed his identity here: http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2012/08/who-is-richard-del-medio-kusoge.html

>>3411079
0%-Cosmic Race

>>3404425
club nintendo was amazing, glad to see someone reconizing it too

I loved gaming magazines. Being able to find all news online like instantly now-a-days is technically better but nothing matches the sheer excitement of getting a new game mag back in the day and wondering what sweet new games would be previewed.

I sadly lost hundreds of issues of gamepro/psn/nintendo power in a fire.

Reminder that Gamefan a shit.

Sonic the Comic is my favorite because I love Fleetway Sonic.

>>3407241
I love Half Price Books, I buy a lot of great old games/systems there for cheap.


>>3404408
Favorites are practically all of them, since I was unable to own most games, I'd spend a lot of time in magazine sections just reading about the games I wanted. My favorite magazines were early Electronic Gaming Monthly, Diehard Gamefan, Gamers' Republic, Gamest, and Famicom Tsuushin.

EGM was probably my favorite.

Not sure what mag this is from but have always liked this one, being a spyro fan. Any German anons here recognize the magazine?. Ive wanted to know where this is from for years.

Found here originally http://www.deviantart.com/download/304641349/german_spyro_2_magazine_article_by_spyro_1995-d51dirp.png?token=fc4502f8256b518afd3a3122985d4082fe4bbab3&ts=1470693672

Anyone have scans of japanese retro PC gaming magazines?

Being an old fag, I'll mention a few important ones I read growing up in the UK.

Mean Machines - The 1st dedicated console mag for the UK. I'll always have a soft spot for this brilliant innovative mag - especially as they printed a letter of mine,

Super Play - A SNES magazine which championed JRPGs way before they became popular in the West and they even nurtured the emerging anime scene of the early 90's.

EDGE - Probably the 1st grown-up gaming magazine. It treated video games with the kind of seriousness you'd normally find in chin scratching film magazines and had plenty of thought provoking articles and interviews. (I don't know if EDGE is still going but you pretty bet it' a fucking joke now:)

You can find high-res scans of these mags and plenty more here: http://www.outofprintarchive.com/magazine_catalogue_UK.html

EGM, Game Informer, Game Pro and Game Players

>>3407241
Man, I wish I knew where I could find a backlog of all the Pencil Puzzles in the back.

You can find a decent amount of EGM on archive.org, but they're light in issues spanning from 1998-2004ish. I would fucking kill to find PDFs of those years.

I had them all saved and threw them out one year under the assumption that I needed to grow up. I hate myself.

>>3409991
that stupid gook shoe ruined the mag

>>3413503
Pretty solid choices from a UK point of view. Edge changed for the worse around their redesign period (around the time of the Ps2/gamecube period if I remember correctly).

>>3415607
For the first year or so, EDGE was peerless amongst gaming mags - both from a design perspective and the quality of the paper.

Even if you weren't into video games, it was an undeniably beautiful publication.

Like everything though, it eventually turned to shit.

>>3411079
FUCKING THIS

I USED TO HAVE A FAT STACK OF THESE MAGAZINES GOING BACK FOR YEARS, BUT I THREW THEM AWAY. THIS WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.

COCONUT MONKEY
BILL
MIKE

BILL WAS FUCKING HILARIOUS.

>>3413358
kek, they all have waifus on the cover.

I used to read Zzap 64. It had some amazing covers.

most of these can be downloaded from https://www.retromags.com

Fapped to this t b h

>>3415850
so? you got a problem with waifus?

>>3416217
That smile... It seems borderline predatory. Like she's considering which vegetable would pair nicely with my liver after it's been fried up.

>>3416236
dont be silly she just wants your carrot.

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>>3411079
I own that one of my favorites. Oh look what I found..... PSX

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>>3416108
You're absolutely right about Zzap 64's covers, they were often amazing. The same goes for it's sister mag, Crash for the Spectrum.

Just looking at them now takes me. I don't exactly know how you would categorise that art style but I love it anyway.

Legendary croatian gaming magazine. Died in the early 2000's.

>>3416534
A magazine called 'HACKER'.

Fucking hilarious.