Video Game Magazines

[Anonymous No.1477709]

Nostalgia about game magazines here.

My first issue of EGM...ah...

[Anonymous No.1477729]

Club Nintendo master race reporting. Looking back, they were total shills, but what official magazine isn't? They were still cool regardless.

[Anonymous No.1477754]

Does Duo mean the Turbo Duo? Why don't they cover the Jaguar?

[Anonymous No.1477785]

1/?

[Anonymous No.1477791]

2/?

[Anonymous No.1477795]

>>1477709
This was my first EGM, which I'm happy to say I still have... although, it's in awful shape. Oh how that Mortal Kombat move/strategy section saved me.

[Anonymous No.1477794]

>>1477729
Club Nintendo used to be so cool, it went to hell once Gus left, and that Panteón faggot got prominence outside of his retro-game section.

[Anonymous No.1477803]

3/?

[Anonymous No.1477809]

I have an ENTIRE storage bins full of Nintendo Power/EGM/Tips N Tricks mags from the late 90s/early 00s that I've beem meaning to go through again.

[Anonymous No.1477865]

>my face when I sold all my old video game magazines to Half Price books for like a dollar

Fucking Jew store.

[Anonymous No.1477947]

>>1477791
If peeing your pants is cool, consider me WipeOut XL.

[Anonymous No.1477959]

>>1477947
Sigh, can't we go one day without a Billy Madison reference?

[Anonymous No.1478001]

>>1477959
No.

[Anonymous No.1478338]

>>1477803
I have that issue somewhere.

[Anonymous No.1478395]

>>1477803
Moar liek Lamepro, amirite?

[Anonymous No.1478408]

>>1478395
If it's April, yes.

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[Anonymous No.1478459]

>>1478454
>Pilotwings - but with dog fights!
Not even close, Super Play.

[Anonymous No.1478469]

unfortunately, this guy was too optimistic

[Anonymous No.1478470]

the 2nd best SimCity game

[Anonymous No.1479108]

Does anyone else remember this shit? I swear it was usually terrible but I loved it as a kid and was so bummed when they stopped making them, I'd always pick up the latest issue at our local Food Lion. It was always so dubious with the horrifying over-shaded fanart covers, inflated card price guides, and (before Gen 2 came out) drawing 'new Pokemon' based on leaked sprites that came out looking like eldritch abominations. I still love to flip through them though, it was such a different time...

[Anonymous No.1479117]

>>1479108
Haha, I want to see the inside of that.

I do have an old guide that was in English and meant for people who imported Pokemon Gold or Silver.

[Anonymous No.1479120]

>>1479108
I had one of those mags. It was kinda crap, too. Mine had a crappy Ash and Pikachu on the front.

[Anonymous No.1479145]

>>1479108
I believe I bought one of these but never again after that.

[Anonymous No.1479147]

Just a bit of what I have.

[Anonymous No.1479154]

Still waiting for video game collectors desire more old mags....I have a couple hundred vg mags, so these old next generation mags I'm looking at, (#24,25,26), send me right back to being a hyped 14yo...saw my first pics for ff7 in issue 24...was so hyped up...

[Anonymous No.1479163]

>>1479154
This was around November 96...had to wait 10 more months...

[Anonymous No.1479180]

i collected gaming magazines from about 1997-2001. EGM, gamepro, PC Gamer, Nintendo Power. I have about two or three crates of them at my mom's house. i think they really shaped my tastes in a positive way and made me think critically about the games i was playing, it sounds silly, but i'd probably be a different person if i hadn't read so many at a young age

[Anonymous No.1479182]

>>1479145
Every month I would forget how fucking horrible they were and get another one expecting some real news I hadn't already found on GeoCities fansites.

Every month, that never happened.

[Anonymous No.1479186]

I believe I still have the Game Informers previewing the PS2. Its not /vr/ material, but I believe the printing is, and most of the content obviously was still n64/psx stuff.

Dynasty Warriors 2, Summoner, and Timesplitters previews. All looked so cool. And, of course, they were awesome.

[Anonymous No.1479193]

For those in the UK, here's an archive containing almost all of the issues of C&VG ever printed -

https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Acomputer-video-games-magazine&sort=-publicdate&page=1

C&VG ran from the early eighties till 2004 (though it still exists as an online site), I started reading it from the early nineties or so. I remember it had a pretty colourful layout but the thing that really made it stand out for me was the writers, they just seemed like a bunch of cool guys who just wanted to mess around and have fun with games, the tone was very informal, peppered with long running in-jokes and with several pages often given to features like reporting on the office Micro Machines or Mario Kart tournament.

I also remember it usually had a pullout section in the middle printed on news sheet with high scores, fanart they'd been sent and a regular retro-cabin feature on old games and systems.

Unfortunately it got bought out, the old staff were booted out, the tone became more formal and the features disappeared. Some of the reviews were even simply ported over from other gaming magazines the new publisher owned (in one case, I recall, even leaving the prices in dollars).

It actually kinda reminded me of TOTAL!, a Nintendo oriented magazine I used to read when I was even younger, it had the same kind of staff personality based humour, mostly centered around Andy Dyer and Steve Jarrat.

Oh, and I remember there was a terrible PlayStation magazine I sometimes got, it was trying to cater to the older players of the 32-bit era by being the gaming equivalent of a lad's mag with forced mature content - i.e jokes about boobs and sex and a few half naked ladies every issue. I can't remember exactly what it's name was, PlayStation Plus or something, I mostly bought it for the half naked ladies, because it was the mid-ninties - a time when internet porn was a few grainy pictures that one rich friend had printed out for you on his dad's bubblejet.

[Anonymous No.1479203]

>>1479182
These came out at that interesting time where the internet was widespread enough that it was easy to find news about games online, but not yet widespread enough that a company couldn't make a quick buck by compiling random, easy-to-find info from a couple of websites and selling it in some shitty magazine to people without internet (or to people without the ability to find relevant info online themselves).

I wonder, if the magazine ever referred to mysterious "sources," because that would be funny.

[Anonymous No.1479206]

>>1479108
I have one of those, and a poster of charizard on roller skates I pulled out of it. It's sitting in my closet, falling apart from how much I flipped through it as a kid.
I remember that people would send in cards that had been drawn on or otherwise modified to be puns or jokes of some kind.
Like one was a Graveler holding some suitcases, that had been renamed Traveler.

I dunno, I thought they were funny.

[Anonymous No.1480405]

>>1479193
I got switched to a C&VG subscription after Official Sega Saturn Magazine UK ended.

I preferred OSSM, they had great reveals thanks to working with SEGA, free Panzer Dragoon Saga disc one and plenty of information on the Dreamcast before the magazine was ended.

[Anonymous No.1480439]

>>1479206
Hah! I remember that shit, I thought it was hilarious at the time. I always considered sending in some of my own but I couldn't stomach to mess up a good card, even a duplicate. I so fucking wish I had just for the hell of it. Good times.

[Anonymous No.1481283]

>>1480405

SSM was pretty good. The boy Lomas was always a highlight and they simply did not give a shit. Man did people hate Richard Leadbetter though (Still do. lol Digital Foundry).

Official Nintendo was amazing during the Paul Davies era when they simply did not give a fuck and made a ridiculously surreal. Once they had to renew the licence for the N64, Nintendo made dictatorial terms and the entire staff was replaced (Allegedly because the magazine started petitions for FF3, Mario RPG and Earthbound to get releases in PAL regions and Nintendo FREAKED because the money to do that was not there. They wanted more complacent staff).

[Anonymous No.1481294]

>>1481283
>the money to do that was not there
>business is selling video games
>can't afford to sell video games

Nintendon't

[Anonymous No.1481327]

bow down to the most based mag during the 4th gen. i loved this mag like crazy, the staff was insane and the reviews were just as crazy.
i have almost all of them, but these were the only ones out.
also a vol of sega ages, it has the secret merger of sega and capcom during the 90's and shows mega man shaking hands with sonic.

truly dark times indeed...

[Anonymous No.1481620]

>>1481294

Well, you have to remember these were text heavy games in the days that was quite rare, translating to Europe was a nightmare at the best of times, with several different languages and hardware requirements. And it wasn't just a case of changing the master and pressing the discs, they'd have to commit to an expensive cartridge run, chips, circuits etc - and all different for each region.

Most likely the profits weren't there, or too small to be really worth the bother, especially as those games were coming out near or during the end of their generation.

No excuses for SMRPG though, if any game could have made it, that was the one, I think Nintendo were just too concerned with the upcoming N64 to give a damn.

[Anonymous No.1482884]

>>1477729
Mi morocho.

Club Nintendo was my childhood. I had started my collection around the '30s and at one point I had most of the issues from #39 to #100. They got shitty for me after the N64 but they were on their way to being shitty when they had started pandering to Mexican people instead of general Latin American readers. They even got a letter once calling them out on it

[Anonymous No.1483134]

My gaming magazine of choice was GamePro. These fuckers got thick - I have an issue with Donkey Kong 64 on the cover that's just loaded with pages. It was an awesome magazine for me at the time, where I wasn't able to play all of these cool consoles everyone else could, though at least I could keep up through handhelds. Plus, it had all of these great codes and strategy sections. I used a Chrono Trigger walkthrough they had when I borrows FF Chronicles from a friend.

But we know what's happened to them now - the print edition was killed off and the fun nicknames for the writers like Four-Eyed Dragon and Dan Elektro got removed because the gaming industry wants to be recognized as something legit SO BADLY. Fuck that, give me cheesy 90s game magazines. At least it had a heart.

[Anonymous No.1483265]

>>1481327

Mad respect for having Game Players. I had that RPG issue too. The only one still in my possession is the one showing off the specs of the Playstation in 95. Loved their humor. I followed Chris Slate when he moved on to PSX which was also a great mag especially around 98-99. Truly best and worst of times.

[Anonymous No.1485551]

>>1481327
Hehehe, I have the Saving Private Monkey maps for Quake 2.

[Anonymous No.1486030]

>>1483265
I believe I have three issues of Game Players (one with a Doom 32X cover story and one with an X-Men cover story and one after they changed their name to "Ultra Game Players" that focused on Tomb Raider II).

[Anonymous No.1486612]

I still have most of my gaming mags. Most are 1997-2001 or so. I've been scanning portions of some of them lately, which is why I have them all out being a nuisance .

[Anonymous No.1486626]

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[Anonymous No.1486632]

technical the snes was my first official console and this brilliant British magazine masterpiece not only made me love my snes even more but it got me in to anime and jrpgs

[Anonymous No.1486639]

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[Anonymous No.1486643]

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[Anonymous No.1486649]

>>1486639
I forgot how really lame those actually were

[Anonymous No.1486647]

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[Anonymous No.1486658]

>>1486647
My favorite April Fool's prank.

[Anonymous No.1486659]

n-no nintendo power?

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[Anonymous No.1486660]

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[Anonymous No.1486668]

>>1486660
Before Toykyopop...

[Anonymous No.1486674]

>>1486668
My favorite ad of all time.

[Anonymous No.1486675]

>>1486659
d-did you ever call the number for halp?

i did

[Anonymous No.1486678]

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[Anonymous No.1486680]

>>1486674
seems legit

[Anonymous No.1486684]

This was a good idea.

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[Anonymous No.1486692]

>>1486684
what the fuck

[Anonymous No.1486706]

>>1486692
The Link-Up section that ran along the bottom of PSM's Mail section lasted for years. Pedophile scare was virtually non-existent then.

[Anonymous No.1486715]

>>1486706
It's not just pedophiles. It's

>potential murderers
>muggers
>setting those boys and their families up for harassment

[Anonymous No.1486717]

>>1486684
That's sexy.

[Anonymous No.1486734]

I would buy reprinted volumes/collections of these in a heartbeat.

[Anonymous No.1486809]

Game magazines in the 90s were so positive and fun. I always loved how they tried to make you EXCITED about video games.

>tfw reading this issue and amazed that they told you all the special moves for SF2

[Anonymous No.1486818]

You will never get to taste Nintendo ice cream sandwiches.

[Anonymous No.1486882]

>>1486809
That's because they were run by people who were actually passionate about video games. It wasn't a chore, it wasn't hyper-analytical (usually). It was about the games, which, first and foremost, were supposed to be FUN.

Now we have game journalism looking at games as art and social commentary. Which is fine, honestly. There's a place for that. But we overlook games that aren't actually fun because of other redeeming values (graphics, story, atmosphere, style).

Of course, I mostly blame the mobile market for siphoning off the fun-oriented developers while console titles are practically forced to lean more mature and cinematic.

[Anonymous No.1486897]

>>1477709
My first. July 92, Issue 36. Picture for ants, I know.

[Anonymous No.1486903]

>>1481327
>>1483265
>>1486030

Game Players was the shit.

[Anonymous No.1486915]

>>1486612
>Gamers Republic in pic

Nice. I only read one issue and it was a pretty nice mag. Do you have any Next Generation in that pile?

I kinda wish NG was still around, but I doubt there's much of an audience for it these days.

[Anonymous No.1486919]

>>1486715
It was a different time back then, my friend.

[Anonymous No.1486926]

>>1486658
I wonder if the uncensored artwork was ever posted anywhere? F-for research purposes, of course!

[Anonymous No.1486931]

>>1486915
Yeah, I have some from 1998-2000. Definitely a good magazine, even if they were a tad Sega-biased (I wasn't complaining).

I actually had a bunch of Gamers' Republic and I was going to sell them to someone on craigslist a few years ago, but but I happened to be visiting NYC at the time and had my bag with all my stuff stolen shortly before meeting the guy. I never should have considered selling them in the first place.

[Anonymous No.1486938]

>>1486931
Damn, that sucks. I have a heavyass box full of old magazines I've been meaning to sell if I wasn't such a poorfag and had a camera. I fear if I ever have to move again, I'll probably end up leaving the damn things behind because they're such a pain in the ass to lug around.

Do old magazines even sell for much? I see a lot of ebay listings for decent prices but it's hard to gauge how well they sell.

[Anonymous No.1486957]

>>1486938
I don't think they normally sell for much. Rarely over their original value. From what I understand Gamers' Republic is one of the more sought-out ones. But there's really next to no demand for old gaming magazines, unless things have drastically changed in recent years.

[Anonymous No.1486964]

>>1486882
And that's why DieHardGameFan was best of all.

>made gaming fun.
>made game magazine layouts fun.
>made gaming journalism and improbable staff bitch-fights and backstabbing and racial slurs fun.

A beautiful, wondrous, preposterous train-wreck.

Of any facet of vidya culture that isn't actual software, I'm glad that this, most of all, exists.

[Anonymous No.1486985]

>>1486964
Most gaming magazines were like this. Especially the "unofficial" ones. But even Nintendo Power and OPM got away with more than you'd expect for a kinda-sorta mouthpiece for their video game masters. It was pretty casual all-around, I think.

[Anonymous No.1486997]

>>1486938
there is some fag on ebay cutting out ads from mags and selling them for $5-15 a page. He? doesn't sell alot but someone buys that shit.

I sold 4 gamefan mags for about $14...

[Anonymous No.1487021]

>>1477709
Tell me about the NBA Jam preview. Did it make you want to buy the game?

[Anonymous No.1487113]

>>1486985
>It was pretty casual all-around, I think.

True enough.

GameFan holds a special place for me, but, as I grew up in Australia with the layouts of HYPER.

Wonderful mag for the most part, but definitely not attractive.

[Anonymous No.1487185]

>>1486938
Hate to be that girl, but at least give them away if you can't sell them. Old video game magazines are a finite source (not counting scans) and you can always get someone online who wants them

[Anonymous No.1487189]

>>1477709
Thread is making me wish there was a market for foreign video game magazines. I would love to get all my old Spanish Club Nintendo issues back and to get the German version. Think of how much my German would improve reading about old vidya shit

[Anonymous No.1487906]

>>1486658

I wanted this to be real so bad I almost let myself believe it. Oh, those wonderful pre-internet faps...

>>1486926
I doubt there was any And oddly enough, Rule 34 gives no results for any "fan art" either. Someone get on that stat!

>>1486660
I got this because Nintendo themselves called and asked if we wanted to buy it via mail. It was my first Zelda, it was awesome.

>>1486668
I have some single-issue Sailor Moon comics with that imprint, and some with the spinoff "for-girls" imprint Chix Comix. It's still kind of weird to see manga in single-issue form like a regular comic, but on the other hand it's weird to feel weird about that in and of itself.
I miss mags so fucking much.

[Anonymous No.1488119]

OP here. This, was the first issue of GamePro I ever had and I believe is also the first video game magazine I ever owned at that.

This one had a LamePro section (since it was April) and I distinctly remember the "cover story" being Bubonic the Blowfrog 2. Their effort in making LamePros seemed to diminish over the years.

Unfortunately this one is so old I believe my copy is totally destroyed.

[Anonymous No.1491089]

bump

[Anonymous No.1491169]

>>1487906
I remember when manga chapters were published as single issue comics. That was a common idea by Viz and small publishers like Iron Cat

[Anonymous No.1492004]

>>1483134
Gamepro was my least favorite. They seemed to know shit about games and had a bias against everything Nintendo. They also had way too many ads, like pages of just continuous ads.

[Anonymous No.1492408]

I don't have very many "fun" gaming mags, but I do have many, many, many issues of EDGE going back to 1996.

Trying to find a picture I took last year, may have to wait until I get home if any are interested.

Like I say, I know Edge is more of a serious- some say pretentious- mag, but there are some really neat features in them.

[Anonymous No.1492637]

>>1488119
>Hot games and hardware from the Consumer Electronics Show!

Was that where they showcased new video games before E3 existed?

[Anonymous No.1492856]

>>1492637
Yeah pretty much. Sometime in the mid 90's E3 was born.

[Anonymous No.1493031]

>>1492637
>CES is in January
>that's the April issue

Holy hell we waited a long time for news...