/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6808465
Unfortunately it seems like a lot of the Xbox mags from back in the day never got scanned, and they never show up on eBay for some reason.

That said, does anyone have a scan of Issue 09 of the UK Xbox Magazine? I've been looking for this specific issue for a long time and I've never been able to find anything. Seems like it hasn't been archived anywhere from what I can tell.

Look at this one featuring the beta design of the main character from Jet Force Gemini, pretty cool, right?

>>6808526
Found http://magzdb.org/num/2777170

I think sixth gen had the best gaming magazines. The first gen with consistent high quality writing, spotless design and there being no kiddy feel to the whole thing. It was at a point in time where technology allowed them produce a gaming magazine cheaply (including screenshots, high quality paper, just overall efficiency) but before people had shifted to online and the market fell apart. It was also when people weren't really sure where the industry was headed, what the future would be like and the writers were genuinely really excited and it showed. An exciting time to be alive.

>>6808465
Good to hear I am not alone in my autism of reading old game magazines

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>>6808556
Nice, very happy for you, enjoy reading it

>>6808575
Thank you anon.

>>6808572
they are great pieces of history, little time capsules

>>6808465
Whats your favorite magazine anon. I'm partial to EGM

>>6808526
OXM was my fucking jam back in the day. best part for me was the discs that came with. Demos,music from OST's, and behind the scenes stuff. it was great for a poorfag like me who couldn't afford internet back in the day

>>6808563
You could say that about every gen's vidya magazines though. Until the paper market crashed nearly entirely, every year and every gen was better than the last one, that's just because for the longest time, we were in the sharp incline of the S-curve that was videogames. NES to SNES to N64 to GC is like the evolution of man. Every one of those generations were giant leaps in technology and also popularity of the whole gaming environment It's not something you can ever replicate in the post-information age...

Basically, 6th gen was the apex of Magazines because every generation was the apex of their time's in terms of magazines, graphics, stories, and most importantly, FUN games.

>>6808601
psm because they knew how to be fun
i love how they used lot of custom arts for their covers

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>>6808669
I wanna buy these, any place I can get them?

>>6808601
I like all of them for what they are but if I had to choose, it would be the N64 UK magazine

>>6808678
i have found a few in flea markets, probably you can fins a few on ebay too

>>6808601
>>6808698
Forgot the pic

>>6808465
Club Nintendo in Latin America kept me sane as a poor kid.

>>6808639
>Everyone is the winner!
What I am saying is that sixth gen had the best magazines of any other, including modern ones. I'm not a new person from /v/ trolling, I just think it was the best time for gaming mags.

Game journos were a lot cooler back then

Kek

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>>6808821
we are only missing the ad of Gex's hands on the tits of the lady

>>6808601
early hobbyconsolas, early superjuegos, early megaega, todosega and nintendo acción also early official PSM and n64 magazine.

>>6808556
Thank you so much anon, I honestly didn't expect anyone to find this. Feels great to finally read the Phantom Crash interviews I've been looking for.

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>>6808465
Jesus Xbox was cool. What happened?

>>6809029
It realized it could make loads more money by appealing to normie frat bro's who grew up playing nintendo but didn't want to look like a kid at colledge.

>>6809029
bad management, Peter Moore was probably the last good head of xbox

>>6808839
I sometimes wonder what ever happened to those old mascot suits from the past. Did they keep them in a display case? Did they just throw them out? Are they long forgotten in a warehouse somewhere? Did a furry steal it?

>>6809203
I wonder if nintendo still have some of those animal crossing costumes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaOeX76DzK0

http://kclproductions.com/

>>6808465
if you dont live in the middle of nowhere and go to your local library, chances are they will have tonnes of these that you can look at.

this really activates my almondsx

>>6808795
its because jounos didnt have stupid agendas like now.
and people in general especially gamers were pretty chill then.

>>6808678

Here's a treasure trove

https://archive.org/details/gamemagazines

>>6809710
Thank you.

can't stop thinking about the retarded drama of kiwis world (now oldgamemags.com ), a site that has a few game magazines not found elsewhere and used to upload them for free but is now paid access only because of autism about people reuploading their scans to archive.org and not contributing to the site's forum.

>>6808465
DOA 3 is the fucking GOAT

Remember when this fag was funny and used to contribute to EGM?

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>>6810084
god eidos was the shit back then. so many good games.
>>6810826
its so sad how far the series has fallen from all the greed and the retarded decisions they made in 5 and especially 6.

>>6808601
For me it's gotta be the Power. Nintendo Power!
Which for some reason got super soulless starting with da nintendo shitcube.

>>6811324
Tecmo really lost it's way when this beautiful autist that loves aerosmith way to much left the company

>>6810826
DoA2U is better

>>6811551

This. What was the last good game he did?

>>6811551
I miss oatmeal cookie san.

>>6811572
DoA4 & DoAX2, that Wii game he made sucked

>>6810826
>>6811563
you both are so god damn wrong

In general, I fucking love early-3d games that still try to be sexy. DoA is king of this. When can we get this aesthetic back?

>>6811047
Feels like i had his website memorized ten years ago, even read his stuff on that shit paper cracked. He probably writes ad tag lines now.

>>6808598
Bingo. Websites go down or change their layouts. Magazines take you back to the time they were printed. It was great in the 90s too because it was before everything went fully corporate so a lot of the content was made by a bunch of recent college grads, probably getting paid peanuts, who'd just throw a bunch of screenshots on the page with accompanying text like "SO COOL!!!"

>>6811894
Retro Tina is better than the abomination that Nu-Tina became once the games went next-gen.

>>6811894
Big change

>>6811939
Still just as beautiful to me, honestly. I'd accept anything that put in the effort of looking as good as this while operating within similar limits.

>>6809710
HOLY SHIT THANK YOU!

Flipping through these really makes me miss the days when video games were still nominally "for kids," even the M rated games.

>>6811939
Agreed

>>6811572
He consulted on the recent Samurai Jack game which is made by people who left Team Ninja with him. Also, Devil's Third isn't really that bad, it definitely deserves a second chance.

I use to steal the XBOX demo discs.

>>6812248
kek
i used to steal the official playstation magazine discs

>>6812161

>Devil's Thurd

I think the main problem was that it was a fucking WiiU exclusive

>>6812285
https://youtu.be/BiAMhHDaVNA

>>6811905
>college grads
Many of them were high school grads or in the case of Gamefan outright dropouts.

>>6812297
Well, the main problem was the development hell that the game went through before it became a Wii U exclusive. First it was an Xbox 360 exclusive, but then Kinect happened. Then it was published by THQ and was developed using Darksiders 2 engine, but, you know, THQ went bankrupt. Then it was published by some Chinese company and only then Nintendo picked it up. By this time it was powered by UE3. But yeah, there were many technical issues.

>>6812313
SOUL

>>6812318
One uk magazine had this kid that was about 12 years old as a reviewer. Anyone know what that was? Someone in my class used to get it.

>>6813634
do you thhink that kid got paid for doing it?

>>6813869
Probably not as it would be highly illegal. He was probably a relative of someone who worked there who could have paid him off the books, he also might have gotten free games and shit.

>>6812318
Gamefan really did read like it was written by a bunch of burnouts who did nothing but play imported games all day.

>>6808465
>crapcom ported the shit version of Onimusha instead of Genma Onimusha
Bummer

>>6814059
You want some "written by a bunch of high school kids playing imports" feel? UK magazine Super Play. It focused on SNES games and anime.
...in 1992.

>>6814091
what a based magazine

>>6811551
I miss him...

Ahhh. NOM UK. Home.

>>6813634
Is that the kid Glenn Plant was friends with?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neK4Vx0pOxA

>>6814059
>Gamefan really did read like it was written by a bunch of burnouts
Probably because they actually had one
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gamefan/GameFAN.htm
>I'm not sure if this was before or after the authorities came looking for Andrew for obtaining a fake ID under the name "Guile" from Street Fighter 2, and had used it to get a passport and went to Japan on it, but I'm pretty sure it was before spiking the company coffee pot with lsd.
>Oh, there's a doosy of a story behind that one. I shit you not, but Halverson was high on acid when he wrote the Cybermorph article, along with half the staff. We had just pulled a couple of all-nighters in a row, which was the norm at deadline times. Apparently, when The Enquirer came back to work the next morning, he dropped some acid in the coffee pot, which most of the crew, including Halverson, drank from. I wasn't a coffee drinker at the time so I didn't really notice anything unusual and didn't learn what was going on until George started threatening to murder Cockburn.

>So, re-read that Cybermorph article now that you know he was on acid, and it'll shed new light on just why he thought it was such a great game.

>it's a PSM swimsuit issue

>>6814615
never forget what they took away from us anon

>>6811905
Back in the 90s the whole gaming industry was less corporate. The economy was on fire, there was a tech bubble and games were still relatively cheap to produce.

Nowadays if your videogame bombs you're potentially losing a hundred million dollars so everything is made more safe.

>>6814540
The days of miracles. I'm downloading all the issues from archive.org right now.

>>6814540
Whelp, time to play Cybermorph on acid...

>>6813589
Agreed

I miss letter pages

Old game magazines are a real cozy time capsule for sure.
I have a couple old ones somewhere round my house that I've looked through every so often just for a journey back in time.

One day I shall scan them all. Yes, one day...

> magazines got replaced by websites
This is okay in theory, but...
> every website got designed in the same placid boring way
This murders the soul.

>>6815161
did you put dust on them or is that shit natural?

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>>6808757
The original Joanna design is a million times better than the new one. They should have stuck with this.

>>6815161
clean your shits dude

>>6816085
Agreed

GamePro was hands down my favorite game magazine back then
Game Informer was the cheap knockoff version in my mind as a child

>>6816775
Game Informer was great when it was published by Funcoland. Now it survives solely by being Gamestop's shopping catalog.

>Gamefan
>GXTV ad

I played so many PS1/N64/Saturn/Dreamcast/PS2 classics on this mofo

>>6816848
even the Funcoland version felt so cheap to me compared to EGM or the other big dogs

>>6816848
>Funcoland

>>6816867
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9yI11NkVIs
neat

>>6808727
Cool

>>6808465

FUCK

YES

CHRISTIE

Why haven't you subscribed to the print version of Old School Gamer Magazine, yet?

>>6818596
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6pr61hp45E

>>6819056

nice

anyone remember super play?

>>6820986
See >>6814091

One of my proudest moments was getting a fat stack of Nintendo power mags in great condition, for FREE. I'm talking the super Metroid edition, Mario 2, it was I think 20-30, maybe even more. I've been meaning to buy a frame to display them.

Speaking of which, anybody have advice on how to safely store old magazines?

>>6808465
Going through these magazines, I first noticed just how many games got cancelled and/or completely forgotten. Tons of small projects disappearing into nothingness, you can't even find some of them on Wikipedia.
These really are amazing time capsules.

>>6808526
Nobody subscribed to it.
Everybody that I know of that got a magazine, it was either gamepro or electronic gaming monthly.

>>6808601
The original gamepro was great. Reviewers were chosen to review games based on their personal taste. So you wouldn’t have somebody who plays mostly RPGs telling you what they thought of the new FPS or some shit. Like we do now.

>>6822232
reviews were more fair back then.
nowadays reviews are a joke especially in the west. tlou2 reviews are some biggest shill craps i have ever seen in gaming journalism.

>>6822246
>reviews were more fair back then
i don't know, i have seen some of those fact hunt videos from Larry Bundy jr and he sometimes brings up the reviews from UK magazines and their scores are nonsese sometimes, same with some reviewers shitting on anything 2D back on 5th gen, it's definetly different from reviewers today tho, no disagreement there

>>6822856
I feel like "fair" isn't the right word. Reviewers were always biased, but it was a different kind of bias. I guess it was a more "honest" bias where you as the reader could get to know the reviewer and what they wanted/disliked in a game. I loved it in Gamefan, even though the magic kinda faded when I found out many of the personalities were written by the same person it was still fun.

>>6822856
oh yeah. im not saying there werent bullshit reviews back then. just saying its a lot worse now than before when there were more fair reviews. reviewers didnt sugarcoat and were more critical of flaws.

I blew gallons to this issue in the bathroom of my parent's house.

>>6822884
I think thats a good way to put it. The reviews were more like having a conversation with a buddy. They weren't really trying to be academic. It was a "we play a shit ton of games and here's what we think."

>>6822905
why the Mechassault games are not bc yet? Get to work Phil!

>>6822884
Ahhhh I love Gamefan. Still have a bunch of issues in a box. Looked at buying these online a while ago and they were pricey. That staff was fairly rowdy from what I’ve read.

>>6823202
Literally their flagship xbox live launch game and its completely forgotten. Microsoft could at least release their xbox emulator for windows or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq9WgrpvVaY

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>>6823373
Time for a nostalgia fap

>>6823360
>Starcraft Ghost
oh iremember that shit, it got cancelled and there was a kid super dissapointed, lol

>>6823781
You welcome anon

>>6809370
Wonder how many people were even aware of the furry fandom back then, or if people didn't really take such things too seriously.

>>6824582
>beach spikers
xtreme beach volleyball before xtreme beach volleyball!

>>6808465
Magazines were pretty much how I cope with being poor and unable to afford the games. Going to the grocers, taking in the air conditioning, reading the magazines, then putting it back on the shelf to imagine how the games were my old days, which I wouldn't call good.

As for scans, most of the ones I got are from retromags.

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>>6809373
My favorite was how Nintendo used to have "Most Annoying thing" as a category, and the year they dropped it was after OoT came out... and everyone wrote in Navi anyway.

>>6808601
EGM was the best. I’d love to read through those old issues again. Had saved hundreds of them and for some reason tossed them all in my early twenties.

I wish I got into vidya magazines instead of wrestling magazines.

>>6827110
Yeah sounds kinda lame tbqh

>>6809370
>Best RPG
>Animal Crossing

>>6827618
>Lost to Phantasy Star Online
The absolute state of gaming mags.

>>6827626
won against*
fuck

>>6825954
I still think my old days were good, but same, anon. Same.

I am never getting rid of them... Never!

>>6808754
Country?

>>6825954
Yep, pretty much... Now I can afford them, but I just can't trow 'em away... Too many years of memories...

>>6823360
thanks for postin this buddy.

>>6809000
lel at Oscar De La Hoya training for his fight with EA's Knockout Kings.

>>6809203
I want to say Sony has the old Crash one locked away or something. Couldn't tell you for sure, though.

>>6828831
You welcome anon.

>>6827721
Imagination can go quite a long way for me then. I guess they weren't that bad, but I guess I appreciate the games more even in emulation given that I savored the thought then.

>>6828327
Still a great time capsule. A window to how things were and how it was perceived.

>>6808465
I never get tired of old previews.

I threw out a shitload of PC Guide issues a few years ago. I wish I hadn't.

>>6831007
thanks for posting scans anon.

>>6808529
I'm in one of these, sent them pics from my gameboy camera.

>>6808465
Go back and read Zzap! 64, Super Play, Commodore Format and N64/GCN Magazine. British mags are the best.