/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6413376
I just gave away 200 video game magazines for free to the local dumpster.

If you know what youre after sure but randomly no

How did vintage magazines get screenshots of games from their TVs?

>>6413406
they took actual photos with a camera

Gave all my old Dreamcast mags to my nephews about 10 years back. Probably shouldn't have done that. Also the game pro that reviewed both MGS and OoT

>>6413376

The world was a different place back then and people had real passion for video games instead of the soulless shit today.

>tfw your mum binned all your old magazines while you were away at University
Still mad.

>>6413376
>GHOST IN THE SHELL
>KILLER ANAL

Why yes, Motoko does have a tight butt.

>>6413376
Man the GITS game was such a disappointment. Yeah I really wanted to play as a stupid little tank, so cool

>>6413485
I'm sorry to hear that. My grandparents saved all my GamePro, Nintendo Power, Playstation, and Game Informer magazines in plastic bins. I imagine many of these must have been scanned already somewhere, right?

As someone who does do this, I have to say it’s fun but know what you’re getting into and why you’re getting into it. Certain magazines like gamefan are stupid expensive.

I had a bunch of magazines and water and flood damage got to them.

As my mom would say, “look at all that fire starter paper you got there.”

I don't really buy, but I still have a bunch of old magazines from when I was a kid. Club nintendo (latin america) was my favorite, it was the one that had the best design/layout IMO. Always a pleasure to browse throw the pages of the different issues I have. Sometimes I'd download issues I used to have and no longer got, and it's also a great nostalgia exercise, but nothing like the real deal.
I also have a couple posters that came with these magazines.
Nice cover there OP, GITS on the PS1 is a masterpiece of a game.

>>6413485
My mom got into the "minimalist" lifestyle while I was in my last year of high school. I ignored the warning signs and went off to university thinking nothing of it. When I came back home for the summer, she had thrown out ALL the boxes and manuals for my SNES and N64. She also threw out our JVC CRT and my huge Viewsonic CRT monitor, my first PC (our Power Macintosh, though, miraculously survived) along with a ton of my papers, which included years' worth of drawings and sketches.

I was furious, not necessarily because the stuff had monetary value (though it certainly would have now), but because I felt it was a callous violation of my property. Before second year started, I collected the rest of my things and moved out of my parents' house permanently. It's been 10 years and I'm still pissed off when I think about it.

>>6413671
As the game it was actually good but agree

>>6414145
bro do u still live with your parents or did you cart this shit with you when you moved and yet still make the conscious decision to store them like this

>>6414537
>>6413671
It's a masterpiece, but yeah I can understand how it'd be disappointing for people who watched the movie back the and wanted to take control of the Major and play a sort of 3rd person action game.
The GITS game wasn't even based on the movie, it's an original story, and was based on the manga. Fuchikomas don't even appear on the movie.
However, the GITS game is super unique, and it's cool how you're actually a rookie under the command of the major.

>>6413376
The Major always makes my penis the big penis

>>6413376
I still regret throwing out all the first 2 years of Nintendo Power back then because I had to move. The thing was I still kept all the EGMs and Diehard Gamefan subscriptions. My local used book store gets in newer Nintendo Power issues, but unlike other periodicals, they price them higher. I think I did see they had one of the older ones I threw out long ago, the owne with a Megaman 2 cover, for double digits which was way too much. Funny thing, it sold at the outrageous $22USD. It is hard to justify a magazine for more than the price of the games it covers. I cannot imagine it is more fun doing so from ebay.

>>6413376
agreed! you learn all sorts of interesting information.

make sure you scan and upload that shit

>>6413376
The shipping costs arent fun though

>>6413376
i guess, but i held on to all my shit
anything else i have is from the trash and i got a huge lot of gamepro and EGM from like 90 to 00 because of it.

its fun reading the old shit, you can't get reviews like that anymore

>>6413692
its not the same reading them physically

>>6414110
but gamefan was like, niche as hell
you didn't really see it on the shelfs, you had to ask for it. i have about a years worth of it, it was def made for gamers

why do people think googling something and hitting "buy it now" on items they don't need is a hobby

>>6414162
I can't believe some people are like that. Callous violation of property is right.

>>6417354
yeah, well when you live with parents in THEIR HOUSE, they still have "the right" to do with whatever they want with "your stuff".

my parents KNOW not to touch my shit, i left it in my room for a reason so that if i come home, i want to use it. if they want to sell my stuff, they can, but they are giving me what it's worth online.

>>6417332
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>>6417354
That's what you get for being retarded

>>6414162
This is truly heartbreaking

I had an older brother that went and sold our SNES collection from under me and it also angers me to think about.

>>6415480
big if true

Have you found any reviews that are completely wrong or dated?
https://youtu.be/n6AHrtkjWuQ?t=1106 Like, in this video, they find a bullshit review for Superman 64.

>>6413376
>Ghost in the Shell
>damn American otaku

>>6415480
Dreamcast was never retro from the moment it released.

>>6417369
It may be their house, but it's my stuff. I own it. Parents don't have the right to do whatever they want with the possessions of their adult children. I'm sorry, but that is a fucked-up viewpoint. If they don't want my stuff in their house anymore, then they are certainly entitled to demand that I get it out. But I'm also entitled to reasonable notice. I don't see it as acceptable that you could just come home at the end of any day and find a bare room because "lol we decided you don't need that anymore". Which is exactly why I voted with my feet and permanently moved out after that incident.

>>6417994
That is tragic, I'm sorry for your loss.

My friend's younger brother sold his copies of Chrono Trigger and Earthbound for weed money. In the grand scheme of things it's so small, but their relationship was never the same after that. Partially because of a fundamental breach of trust, partially because my friend beat his brother until he bled.

>>6418684
Nintendo's official magazine in Australia was schizophrenic as fuck. The review section was blatant shilling for people to buy any and all N64 game with almost every game getting a good review, but the letter section was insanely un-family friendly with adult humour responses and lots of drawings sent in by kids of shit like Mario ripping the flesh off Sonic and Crash Bandicoot and turning them into lumps of squirting blood.

>>6413376
I love how they review FF7 in this magazine, say they're disappointed, point out numerous flaws and then proceed to give it a perfect score.

>>6420001
>Nintendo won

>>6415375
Recycling time!

>>6420023
dolla dolla bills y'all

>>6420001
kek, got any scans of that?
the drawings of Mario VS Sonic doing fatalities to each other were common in some magazines, but the official Nintendo magazine here (Club Nintendo) was definitely devoid of any of that shit, they just barely mentioned the competition, almost never. Curiously, I have one issue with some drawings sent by kids, just 3 drawings, and one of them had many characters from nintendo and also some others like EWJ and also Sonic. So they weren't completely anal about the competition either.

>>6413376
this is somehow even worse than collecting actual retro games

congrats OP

>>6413406
AV conversion cables for computers if I remember correctly.

>>6420748
>noooo stop owning things!

>>6413381
Old vidya magazines are my favorite material to read when I'm taking a fat shit. There is NOTHING comfier than dropping a turd and reliving old memories.

>tfw I just download them from archive.org and just read them on my tablet while taking a dump like >>6421973