/vr/ - Retro Games

>PC Accelerator
>doesn't actually make your PC go faster
What the FUCK

>>9845719
i remember reading this issue at ralphs....garona wasnt in the game. why was she featured on the cover.

>>9846112
>i remember reading this issue at ralphs....garona wasnt in the game. why was she featured on the cover.
I mean yaaaaa pca was pretty fucking click baity. the covers were usually cute models or just cg girls, but I'm pretty sure it was always never more than a single page and tiny photo of the girls.

pcm was cool for that though. lots of random full art pages.

By 2000 all video game magazines turned into shit. A magazine is supposed to be a compendium of relevant texts, not a screenshot booklet.
Old CGW was my favorite, PC Zone UK was ok too (even though they always had a soft spot for low effort shitty jokes).

>>9845719
i used to have a subscription to Nintendo Magazine System. It's an Australian magazine. Pretty much just like Nintendo Power. There's pretty much every edition here
https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22nintendo%20magazine%20system%22

picrel is from the 2nd issue, May 1993. Apparently Bart's Nightmare on SNES was the 2nd best selling game the month prior, thought that was kind of interesting

>>9846453
...and from the same 1993 issue, a copy of StarFox was $140. That was particularly expensive. I remember most SNES games going for $100

>>9846460
that one game is apparently almost $300 in today's money (in AUD), which is $200 USD

>>9845719
A lot. Mainly Spaniard ones and the ones from Future Publishin in the UK.

I loved this one, it came with a demo disk, although I read Spaniard edition, which was almost a transalate 1:1.

I didn't read megasega or todosega.
At that time I mainly read hobby consolas, superjuegos and nintendo acción.
After supernes, nintendo acción turned inot a hollow, it was mediocre at its best.
Superjuegos was cool, it lends more toward japanese games, but they always at second place.
Hobby consolas, always give nintendo points even after they were turned in a pro-psx magazine.

>>9846112
She was planned to appear, but ultimately got cut. I don't think they ever explained why.

>>9848271
>I don't think they ever explained why.
They've never fully said but the best explanation I've seen is that she was "replaced" by Thrall, the orc/Thrall's campaign was mapped out pretty early and have Garona's part which presumably would have had her working with humans and eventually some sort of assassination faction (which is what she was in WoW before she got cut from that as well) would have had to of been a second orc campaign

>>9845719
Probably because Garona Halforcen honestly isn't as interesting of a character as Thrall.

>>9849660
>Garona Halforcen honestly isn't as interesting
tell that to my green boobies

>>9846460
>SHT GAME
what

>>9845719
I used to obsess over these as a kid. Most of the articles were written by overly cynical, but still really funny, jaded assholes. Pretty sure they're the reason I find this place so comfy.

Why was vidya culture in the past full of tits and ass and now it's nowhere?

>>9845719
Reminder, we were deprived of Orc Milf Garona in Warcraft 3 because Metzen felt thrall wouldn't be the main spotlight >>9849437
And because of that Med'an was born.

>>9850357
gamer gate

game players magazine
the back parts were comedy gold...for a 90s kid.

I used to read PC Gamer US. I loved it at the time, particularly when we didn't have internet for a few years.
I went through the scans of the issues I had, and wow, it's all trash: articles, reviews, even the ads. Couldn't even get nostalgia value out of it. If anything, going back to them was actually anti-nostalgia.

>>9846242
loved psm

>>9845719
Famicom Tsushin was the mag for the latest and upcoming games. It set the standard for having multiple reviewers of games that EGM and Gamefan adopted. Thanks to the magazine, to this day I still desire PC-98, FM Towns, and X68000 computers.

>>9851069
Do you know of any better archives than the one on Internet Archive? I'd really like to read these starting from issue 1 but everything I can find is missing a ton of issues and jumps all over the place.

I liked N64 Gamer, an Australian magazine. It started with professional style writing, about a year after the N64 came out. Then, it turned into basically a comedy magazine, with a lot of South Park humour, many jokes straight from the show.
A lot of the reviews, especially of bad games, were just a bunch of clever, funny payouts on the game, every game had funny captions, most of which were dick jokes.
There was even a section called "Insult my Head" where you'd send in your photo, and "Mr. Bad Ass" would call you ugly.
The cover was one of many done by artist Matt Hatton, I really liked his style and a lot of the covers were made into tear-out posters.

>>9851303
While they tend to have comics that are in a series, the majority of information within the magazines does not reed to be read in sequential order. I hit the same places like the archive, retromags, etc. Due to the age of some of the issues, they may not have been preserved up to the standards of the archivist, so there will be missing issues. I even have magazines that I have not found pdf/cbz for yet either since there are some very obscure issues that few may know about or even care. That's just the nature of things with stuff from my time back in the 1900s.

>>9846501
OPSM UK in the PS2 into PS3 era was fucking great and was susprisingly unchained for a corporate mag. Pure unabashed lads mag antics

>>9845719
I was subscribed to Nintendo Power as a kid, which I had up until the Wii era. Nowadays I'll grab a Retro Gamer issue from the book store by me every now and then. They are fun reads but they have kind of a Euro computer bias for obvious reasons, which means less Japanese games/consoles/computers and more Amiga/Commodore 64/ZX Spectrum etc.

>>9852894
PS2 era was good too.

Any good links to GameInformer issues besides what's on archive.org? Fucking kikes REALLY don't want people finding their back issues for some Goddamn reason, they're not on retromags either.

>>9850357
We let women and faggots into our hobby. This is why gatekeeping is important.

>>9846501
i knew i fucked up getting an n64 when i saw the piles of demo discs my friends were getting from magazines etc. even the most barebones demos were great as a kid who only got a couple new games a year and didn't have a lot of cash to rent stuff

>>9855079
u mad lol

>>9855079
im sorry girls won't fuck you anon

>>9855169
I’ve got plenty of great games to enjoy because I’m not a limp dick simp that gets offended by computer generated tits. If anything I’m glad I don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars per year on new games anymore.

>>9855079
Had fuck all to do with women and more to do with communists invading the space. They move in, push for a code of conduct, get into admin positions and then clear out the old guard. The only reason you saw more women appear is because they navigate to whatever is popular at the time. The only women who still play videogames now are e-celebs, vtubers, and the handful that were actually interested in the hobby.

The lesson to learn is if you ever here someone push for inclusivity, codes of conduct, or similar rules, you bully the fuck out them until they leave.

>>9845719
i read the shit out of gamepro, my brothers had subscriptions or something for a time. so i would just find them laying around the house and pool over all the walkthroughs for games on consoles i didn't own. good times.

>>9845719
Does anyone recall a magazine that was sort of half games (video games, i remember reviews of D2/perfect Dark and card games like MTG? Starwars card game/half anime (i recall it showing Gundam)- the magazine was sort of split in half as well, like you'dflipit around and once it got to the middle you'd flip it around the other way. I think it was around 2000. I think it was british I've tried searching for it but I cant remember what it was called

>>9855079
incel slop

>>9850598
I loved Game Players as a kid too. I wish I could find a scan of the Bill/Bison mask from one of the inserts.
>Remember to cut out the eyeholes BEFORE you put it on!

>>9855079
unironically true. look at /b/
>>9855189
based and boob physics pilled

PC Mags in Brazil in the late 90's usually came with games. Sometimes translated full games, sometimes a disk full of demos. It's a shame that PC's were too expensive for me at that time. That made me hate being a consolefag

>>9855169
>>9855183
>>9855479
you know hes right.

>>9857347
it's not that simple, they dont give a flying fuck about games and never will, but yea women ruined the scene. anyone who watched twitch before they allowed IRL and e-thots knows how much damage they have done
but again, it's not as simple as "gurl lonely, gurl poor, where go" but I digress

>>9857360

The "scene" has always been awful for everyone. Gamers are morons who behave badly in almost every situation. The solution has always been simple: If you want a "scene" then take up some other hobby; if you want games then play alone and avoid whatever type of game you dislike. (For the histrionic whiners here, I guess that's anything that smells like social justice or whatever.)

>>9857208
on the long run, you did the right choice. You can find those magazines on archive.

These britbongs had a huge influence on my sense of humor. They were just the cheekiest buggers, always sneaking in dirty jokes and bizarre segments into the magazine. Just chavs who fell backwards into writing about the CUBE. We got it here in Australia for some reason. The tone was very similiar to lad mags like Nuts and Zoo but with Nintendo instead, you really had to be there. Then all of them got the axe shortly before the Wii, and NOM (Nintendo Official Magazine) was replaced by ONM (Official Nintendo Magazine) which was an incredibly dull and dry corporate read. No doubt Nintendo wanted to clean up their image for the upcoming ultra family focused gen that was the Wii.

>>9857693
Forgot pic

>>9857660
>You can find those magazines on archive.
To be honest I didn't care about the magazine but only about the games and the demos that came with it. That was basically a Steam version from the 90's

>>9850357
gamers don't have to be your audience

>>9857565
No, what your spouting is contrarianism. To even come to that conclusion you have to completely ignore what happened between 2016-2018 in both online and offline gaming journalism. The hobby was invaded and ruined for the most part, just not by women, it was the usual special interest groups.

If you want to argue that it doesn't matter anymore, fine, it doesn't. Just stop pretending it didn't happen and that anyone who doesn't have the memory of a goldfish is an incel or whatever the latest buzzword is this week.

>Retards don't know that nowadays you can apply nude mods to make games look more sexy than retro ones.

>>9855079
they hated him because he told the truth

PSM was my favorite. Their tastes and mine really clicked. Plus they had a lot of original art

>>9859662
>the demos that came with it.
they are also on archive and some other forums but you have to do some dig.

>>9845719
Anyone got any favorite retro magazines or issues about Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World or Yoshi Island?

Super Mario Bros 1, Zelda and Metroid are welcome too, thank you very much.

I was always partial to Tips & Tricks, mostly because of the back of the book stuff like Collector's Closet

Really didn't read magazines much, aside from Shonen Jump, Beckett Yugioh Collector, or Nickelodeon Magazine

Older photo of mine. but I have a lot of old issues of Gamers Republic and Game Fan.

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