/vr/ - Retro Games

Les disques démo qui venais avec le playstation magazine.

J'adorais les disques démo car le plupart des démos était configuré pour ne pas avoir de temps perdu, faisant comme des jeux d'arcades avec les jeux réels.

C'est pour cela que ma PSX était plus utilisé que l'N64.

Et toi OP?

>>584667
Noah is gonna get fucked up by dem ninjas.

>>584694
leur maquette.
Les pubs aussi.

>>584662
>So, what did you liked about old video game magazines?

I had a ridiculous collection of roughly 300 up until the early 2000's, but as time went by, I realised what I appreciated most were great layouts and vehement opinions: the original DieHard GameFan was of course my favourite.

Fucking infinite lives.

>>584702
Ok

L'idée de ce moment me parait un peu bizarre.

Comment est-ce que tu est venu à ce point, poster sur un forum anglais sur le sujet des magazines rétros?

Sinon un de mes mémoires le plus touchant vient d'une magazine PSX. Mon père, qui travaillait tout le temps pour supportait la famille n'avait pas le temps ou l'energie de jouer avec moi et mon frère.

Un jour il avait achetait une magazine ps1 (comme je faisait avec mon argent de poche) pour moi. J'étais touchée, mais il avait acheté la mauvaise magazine (sans disque démo!).

Il m'a conduit 20 minute pour retourner ou il l'avait acheté pour que j'ai la bonne magazine.

Ah. :)

(je suis anglais donc sauter ce qui n'est pas comprehensible!)

>Comment est-ce que tu est venu à ce point, poster sur un forum anglais sur le sujet des magazines rétros?

>forum anglais
>/vr/

Sinon,
>Acheter un magazine pc 5 francs (1€ ~ avec Legacy of Kain livré avec).
Fuck yeah!

>>584739
à l'époque, on avait les warez CD.

Photoshop, des jeux, Dogz, musique techno horrible sur les menus...

I'm guessing what i'm feeling now must be how a non-English speaker feels when browsing threads.

>>584730

it's totally understandable, don't worry. You just mixed up the genders sometime(it's "un magazine" and not "une magazine" for example) but it's not bad at all.

Also, I agree with >>584702 and >>584710, the layout was really good.

Pic: mon premier magazine. :')

>>584739
I love how the French on the Titus' logo makes it seem like the goddamn seal of the King of France, but there's still that goofy looking fox in the middle.

>those fucking blue pages.

>>584757

Well even if French is my first language, I have no problem browsing 4chan and many others websites as I understand 99% of the words and sentences I read. In 2003 I would have some difficulties, but 10 years of internet made me learn some basic English knowledge.

Y'a quelqu'un qui se souviendrait pas d'un vieu jeu éducatif sur pc avec des dinosaures et un mec qui s'apelle bény la bétise?

>>584787

Yes but you understand English. I just wonder how people don't understand English feel and now i know. Now i know...

>le
>le
>le

back2leddit with ya

>>584787
>that feel when I've sunk 5 years into Jap and still can't have your feels when on 2chan

>>584797

Well, they have a whole bunch of characters we don't have, so I think it's normal...
I think I should try to learn Jap too, I have so many games that will never be translated...

>that feel when you buy a rare SNES game on Ebay and it's in French

TOUT LEMMINGS

SAUTER

FAIRE DES PONTS

NEGATTRE LE SHOAH

>>584662
I liked that they seemed to care about video games and not about ads.

Sure, maybe I was just being young. But not too many games were ever sacred. If Nintendo released a new version of Mario is Missing in this day and age gaming sites would bend over backwards for Nintendo's innovation. Back then the best Nintendo could hope for was a mealy mouthed mediocre review.

>>584831

I think it would be nice to create an oldschool magazine, on paper, that you could only get by subscription, but would cost almost nothing, only the paper and the ink used in the magazine, and the shipping too. I have most of the Hardware necessary (a scanner, a printer, some paper, an Amiga and I just need to make a floppy of Page ). I think it could be a nice idea of Fanzine.

Anyway, do you know why there is these crappy Korea mmo ads instead the J-List one? These new ads make me want to puke.

>>584880

Make a floppy of Page Setter*.
I didn't finished the name of the soft.

>>584805
Learn french.

All these comic strips sucked.

>>584861

Putain mais il est dur ce concours...

>>584880
Or a (french) webzine. About retro and indie games.

Make it in Quark Xpress 1 on Mac OS8, you need an AOL (or wanadoo) email address to sub to the mailing list, and include net yaroze disks with it.

>>584925
Front cover :

Sonic (french : sonique ta mère) standing on a giant oyster shell, posing in Amy's bikini. This is the eye grabber (even though distributed behind a mailing list, not on a news stand)

Now, the sidebars read
"how to use a 90's console on a modern TV? You can't!"
"ENGLISH SPECIAL! "Sonique ta mère" translates to "So-fuck your mother" "
"Every page in full color, sponsored by Lexmark"

>>584941
mes côtés putain

>>584925

>Quark Xpress on Mac OS8

Well, I need to buy a PowerMac to do so. But having a Web version and a Paper version would be nice. Of course, the paper version would have more stuff than the web version AND maybe a CD/floppy?

>>584952
It'd be hilarious to incude those old "1 gigabite HD, only just $2400" ads too. PC gamers always had it best.

>>584951
Heureux de faire plaisir à nos confrères français. Tous unis contre la vie moderne! (Carrethree)

>thoses cracks

>>584880
see pic related.

>>584880

>>585247
>thoses
cutest mistake (it's those)

How do you say nostalgia goggles in french?
(lunettes de nostalgie?)

test

>>585252
lunette teinté de rose.

>The way they took screenshots.

>>585262
Ha, we say rose-tinted spectacles in english too.

ça me fait rire que je parle à des gens qui pourraient être a 5km ou 10000km de chez moi.
Video Games.

>>584941

plus de 10000 heures sous MS Paint

Do you have any website for english old school video games magazines ?

>>585271
>350 francs
à l'époque j'achétais des soldats plastiques verts à 10 fr/paquet. Les jeux d'imagination > jeux videos defois.

Et l'anticipation des jeux et les articles décrivants ces jeux était mieux que le jeux lui-même.

The biggest memory of magazines I have was a special issue of a famous french pc magazine (that's right, more french itt) that would be released every 3 months. It would come with 3 cds : the first one would have TONS of demos (almost 100 each time), the 2nd one a fuckton of sharewares and also other goodies (like usermaps for games like Duke3D or Quake, very convenient because I didn't have the internet yet), and the last cd would come with 3 older full games.

This magazine made me discover SO MANY games you have no idea. My PC gaming childhood was defined by this magazine.

Anybody french itt also knew this magazine?

>>585264

Oh, j'ai le test du même jeu, mais sur le magazine Player One par contre. Je doit avoir le scan quelque part...

>>585281

Well no, sorry, I only have a French one...

>>585275
Attention, je vais noter tes éfforts :

Dégradé moche 10/10
Daté ce mois ci aux lieu de faire le mois +1 (comme fifa 2014 sorti sept. 2013 etc) 3/10
Logotype officiel sans marque de registration (r) 6/10
Oyster pas fraiche 0/10

Super!

>>585280

Here is an example of that magazine. I fondly remember the full game "Sleepwalker". It's a genius concept that was only done twice in the history of video games AFAIK : it's a puzzle platformer where you have to guide/help a sleepwalker and make sure he never dies or wakes up. You don't control him but control another character (in this case, a dog; but it was also ripped off in a Casper game).

this magazine made me discover thousands of games. Most fondly Crazy Cars 3 (aka Lamborghini American Challenge) and of course Duke Nukem 3D

>>585289
Thunes s'ecrit comme ça???

Je croyais que c'était tunes. Oups. (anglais)


Joli thread, bon melange langage/blagues/contenu/feels

>>585296
Shit, nigga. Those were the deal!

>>585306
They would only cost 49francs (roughly 7,50€) at the time

>>585289

It's funny to see how we in France got the Original PC Engine (we could play all Japanese games, hell, sometimes we had untranslated games) but you got a different version in the US.

>>585295

Je me suis rendu compte à la fin que j'ai mis avril et pas mai. Sinon, dans la version Super HD Ready, on peut voir le TM du logo Lexmark. En tout cas, merci pour la critique.

>>585303
Nobody write tunes "thunes".
Look like he couldn't google it, or use Word back then.

>>585317

"Thunes" in french is a way to say "Money".

>>585315
La critique était une blague. Sinon, le logotype est Sonic. Logotype = logo que en lettres, logo = image.

Vimeo = logotype
Youtube = logo
Compris?

à part ça, l'huitre fétichiste de pieds d'amy serait notre mascot. Il aurait des fangames sur newgrounds, du fanart sur deviantart et du rule 34 sur 4chan.

Fabuleux.

>>585321
But anon, I was french all along!

>>585331

Pour le Logotype, je savais pas.

Sinon,

>Oyster Rule 34

J'ose même pas imaginer...

Where are you from french guys? Tours here

>>585347
Ballade de Melody Nelson (Serge Gainsbourg) joue en arrière plan. La fumée de la mer s'échappe autour du 'Oystonic the Seafood'. 8-bit sounds penetrate your ears as Oystonic slides towards you.

Oh, you are Amy the Whatever she is.

Oystonic wants your feet. And he knows how to get feet.

With his mouth thing whatever.

Tu t'allonge, petrifié par la taux de sodium dans l'air. Il touche tes pieds toujours pas polygonals et il sourit...

>>585373
14

>>585339
>Scanlines
filters fags were right all along ?

>>585439
Outrun > any of those

>>585475

Outrun is a good game, but Lotus is great too.

Back when I regularly bought gaming mags I didn't bother reading the reviews most of the time, I just enjoyed looking at the pictures and deciding what game to get based on if the game looked fun or not. Not really a foolproof method, but it brought me some great titles, no doubt.

Craziest thing that happened was when the mags started including DVDs from E3 with all the trailers. I watched the shit out of those. I didn't really go on the internet for my gaming news just yet, and getting the trailers on DVD quality was a godsend.

RIP in peace, Gaming mags. You still hold a special place in my heart.

>>585439
>Gremlin
>no Fatal Racing

>>585501
>Fatal Racing

Holy shit I had the demo of this game (in one of those PC Collector magazine issue I mentionned) and it was so much fun!

>dat voice during the intro
>fataaaaaaaaaaaaaal raaaacing

>>584662
Collector's Closet. Those columns were really the only reason I even bothered picking up Tips & Tricks, which was a pretty good magazine in it's own right

Shame it's pretty much for the most part dead

hold on your butt.

I purchased issues 1-200 of Edge a few years back, going back to those early issues is a wonderful thing (even though one single issue early on has 3 separate reviews of Street Fighter 2).

I'm attempting to build a Super Play collection as well now, that's also a great magazine.

>>586137

>Qualité Capcom

>>586137
>"Me, I would eat everday some Megaman!"
ho boy!

>being hyped for the 32X.

>>584662
Working at a couple of them on staff. Good times.

>>586121
>Super Play
Wonderful magazine, I own about half of them. I have all of them via scans. The internet is a wonderful thing.

http://www.emuparadise.me/magazine-comic-guide-scans/magazines

>>586214
>Those fanart cover.

>>586220
It's not bad at all, really, there's much worse. I quite like it, myself.

>>586269
Where did I said it was bad ?

>>586279
You implied, greentext all, but let's not argue.

It is a pretty cool piece of retro art, still.

That they were good, and actually written by intelligent people and/or real journalists.

Sadly around the end of the Dreamcast magazines started dying and we entered this era of PR monkeys and dimwits who write synopsis of things.

>ctrl-f
>"PC Accelerator"
>0 results found

Holy shit you guys, really?

>>586309
Try posting something instead of whining impotently.

Anyone know a good source of old magazines, quick googling yields minimal results, in particular I'm after N64 Magazine. Would love to read those again, some grade A funny shit. Hell, maybe old Super Play, PC Gamer, and CVG while we're at it.

>>586339
See
>>586214

>>586220
It was by Wil Overton, he works at Rare now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Overton

>>586339
abandonware-magazines.org

>>586343

>Wil Overton

Fuck yeah, my favorite weeaboo. Some of his art was pretty fantastic.

>>586350
And here for N64 magazine.

http://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/n64magazine.html

>>586358
>http://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/n64magazine.html

Yeah I saw that, but
>6 issues

Guess ill have to have to ebay them one day when i can afford international shipping

I'm all for English game magazines interviews.

>>586358

Truly the best magazine

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_Magazine#Controversial_Reviews

>Star Fox Adventures: 72% (Some thought to be a response to Rare's sale to Microsoft, although this being the reason for the score was denied. NGC humorously gave a 'cut out' 98% sticker later on for people to paste over, as a response to it)

>>586378
Peter Molyneux actually did a few reports on life in Japan in a few early Super Play issues.

Want the scans?

>>586392
i'm in.

>>586406

"Video Games" used to be the shit.

What about this ?

Fuck now I miss being a kid.
>Subscribe to Playstation Magazine in the PS1 era
>Tons of Demo disks
>Soon it becomes completely PS2 focused by my folks wouldn't by me one
>Spend hours upon horror reading about PS2 games and wishing I had them
>Get a PS2 after my subscription ends
>One day realize I have 15 PS2 demo disks with Hacked Saves and shit
>Best weekend of my life

I would do anything to go back ;_;

Remember when demo discs on official PS1 magazines would come with several Net Yaroze games? I loved trying those out.

>Blitter Boy

>>586508
I'm pretty lost. Are these code excerpts for cheat codes?

>>586604
sort of.

>>584662
Aaah, Joystick... J'ai encore presque toutes mes archives, probablement tous les numéros entre le 20 et le 150. Quel journal!

Par contre une grande frustration c'est que je me souviens que dans les dix ou quinze premiers il y avait des pin ups de Bellamy (en illustration des pokes) et elles ont été expurgées des scans disponible sur le net, du coup je ne les ai jamais retrouvées. En tant que grand amateur de femmes à poil c'est une vexation permanente pour moi. Voilà Anon, tu sais tout.

And no, we aren't wishing for more hairy woman.

>>586747
Internet ne manque pas de femme à poils.

>>586604
Yeah, those were cheat collections. Or rather, they included walkthroughs, maps, cheats, but also "pokes", listing for programs you'd load before the game or midifications to do once the game was loaded. In the Basic language "poke" is the instruction to change the content of a memory address for a loaded program. And since many old computer OS had no memory access protection and integrated basic languages, they effectively worked as Action Replay codes. Load the program, poke, run, and voilà, you're invincible/rich/the best.

>>586764
Mais il leur manque la valeur ajoutée d'être celles de ma jeunesse. La madeleine à poil de Proust si tu veux.

J'ai jamais eu de magazine de jeu en francais au Québec.. Y'en avait peut-être mais moi javais des GamePro, sa ma aidé à apprendre l'anglais au moin!

Let's not forget the glorious maps.

Even for games who don't need it.

>>586603
>Net Yaroze

Oh man, I remember these! Hard as shit usually, but lots of fun. What was the one where the first puzzle was to sail a raft

>>586836

Haha! Les dessins de Double Dragon à la Ken le Survivant, c'est pas mal ça!

What about this now ? It's pretty weeboo.

>>586950

Well it's not really /vr/ related as it talk about the PS2, GC and Xboite.

>>586961
just a little bit then.

>>586961
>>587008
>>587016
Yeah, not /vr/ at all, dude, so what's the point?

>typical french fanart section

>>587051
>>587042
>>587038

Spoiler les avant qu'elles ne disparaissent

Yeah my dad had a whole bunch of those Joystick mags. I remember the ton of softcore porn there was in it.

>>587113
Actually Joystick was the one that didn't really have porn (at least when I was reading it and apart maybe from shareware disk ads). Its rivals Tilt an Gen4 were more explicit

>>587346

En parlant de Gen4, j'ai toujours les disquettes pour Amiga, avec le logiciel Sapristi, pour télécharger du stuff en passant par minitel.

>>587542
Does minitel still exist?

>>587628

The minitel network have been shutdown atthe end of summer 2012. Most people just shipped them back to recycle them (what a waste), but some people keep them because some models can still be used as VT100 compatible terminals.

>>587628
>>587650
Wow. Used a minitel in a stage in a maison de la presse. What do they have to do with vidya?

>>588538
You coud download demos through them (with the right software to interface with your pc ) or play on them. I remember one french mag maintained a Rogue server. Basicalky they filled the role BBS must've had in the us

>>584662
Good times. When videogame media didn't had politics trying to push their agenda.

>>584861
I always wondered if she' made after an actual person.

>>584662
The proofreading.

>>590540

This. Even if some of us used some BBS (some people of the demoscene when they had to deal with non-French people), but most of the other french people used the minitel.

>>590571
is that some kind of joke? Who doesn't know about Elvira?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Peterson

>ctrl+f
>cross
>0 of 0
>not recognizing grorious EGM crosswords

>>592838
Post scans plz

After browsing the thread about Amiga I found out that there's still PRINTED magazine with cover CD for Amiga:
amigafuture.de
I downloaded some older issues and boy, you can feel the difference between this and contemporary magazines. It's full of jokes, interesting interviews (no Today we talk with CEO who has no clue about games but rather Today we talk with guy who makes the most kickass remixes of vidya tunes) and it has programming sections, choosing the right upgrades sections (and it's unbiased!) and there are even NEGATIVE reviews (GASP!). Even the ads have the oldschool feel - big photo of some expansion and goofy text like IT'S TIME TO SET THE WORLD ABLAZE!

That's probably it - that goofy, semi-amateuristic feel.
Also commodorefree.com for digital only magazine in similar format.

>>585753
I always wanted to have a collection worthy of being on the Room Of Doom.

A man can dream...