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Anonymous Tue Jun 20 08:02:33 2017 No.4069671 [Reply] [Original]

> He reads EGM over GamePro

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 08:06:23 2017 No.4069674 File: 2.59 MB, 200x150, image.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4069671 >he reads gamepro over next generation

Anonymous Tue Jun 20 08:06:41 2017 No.4069676

>>4069671
Uk reader here. Never read EGM, but I bought a few copies of Game Pro in John Menzies in the 90s.

Awful magazine. The small size seemed like a cost cutting exercise, the layout was ugly (full graphic zoom in backgrounds etc) but the reviews were the worst thing about it. They were so brief, around 200 words or less and really offered nothing.

Compare that to a magazine from Future publishing in the UK, such as Super Play, and it seems like the US audience was being insulted

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 08:12:15 2017 No.4069682 I don't read

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 08:15:42 2017 No.4069684 File: 21 KB, 350x273, cormano.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4069671 > Lee Hobby Consolas en vez de Superjuegos

Anonymous Tue Jun 20 19:00:45 2017 No.4070643
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Kept most of my old magazines, they are a fun read whenever I break them out of the box I stored them in. If I ever get a coffee table, I should feature a couple every now and then.

I subscribed to EGM. I even remembered picking up what was apparently the first issue when it came out, in a Kohl's. While they mostly stole from Famitsu's layouts and made up some stuff, I thought it was a good magazine.

GameFan really matched my tastes with the focus on Japanese imports. (I even subscribed to the short lived Super Gaming from the publishers of EGM, because they promised to focus on imports on that one). GameFan's layouts were great and colorful.

Gamer's Republic had the nicest layouts and I was glad to have subscribed. Just picked up where Gamefan left off.

Newtype Gaming was a wonderful indie magazine, I wish I could have gotten more than the two issues I have.

Japanese stores around here would have Famitsu and the Nekky the fox covers were very nice looking. Lots of pages of great videogame info. I think it had the largest breadth of game coverage in its days (but later devolved into Japan first praise as Playstation came around).

PC Gamer featured its demo discs, but was a very classy magazine. Great since I also liked the computer side as well as consoles.

Video Games & Computer Entertainment, needed better screen captures, but was well written.

People I knew wrote and worked on a magazine called GameGo, which only published 1 issue, and the 2nd on pdf. It was really great, but best described by a Electronics Boutique/GameStop employee as "too hardcore for its own good."

Game On tried a Japanese style of game magazine with translated game-related manga by Viz. I actually thought it kept in line with their Animerica magazines.

All of those I preferred to the garbage tier that was GamePro in US. Which had ugly layouts, awful artists, had no pulse of what video game fans liked (aside from Street Fighter 2, which was their best contribution).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 19:04:25 2017 No.4070654 >>4069671 EGM was the superior mag to Gamepro, without question.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 19:11:00 2017 No.4070669 File: 415 KB, 1383x1459, 539901b2afd64_328872b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4069671 >not reading this

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 19:22:21 2017 No.4070685 >>4069671 >GamePro More like DudeBro

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 19:54:57 2017 No.4070760 File: 2.52 MB, 480x360, sanic1464188997240.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4069671 Well at least we know what kinds of people read Gamepro now...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 19:57:52 2017 No.4070770 >>4069671 GamePro was for young kids. EGM blew it out of the water.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 20:01:02 2017 No.4070779 >reading any of these rags over EDGE.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 20:07:39 2017 No.4070787 Next Gen was the only US mag that didn't condescend to its readers and flat out make up stuff. The writing was actually halfway decent.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 20:13:02 2017 No.4070802 >>4070760 >it's the sanic.gif autist again Let me guess, you were a Nintendo Power fanboy?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 20 23:13:02 2017 No.4071117 Gamepro sucked so hard. The mags to read were egm + diehard gamefan.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 21 00:43:29 2017 No.4071306 Has there been an attempt at cataloguing and scanning these old mags for prosterity's sake? They could be very useful in Wikipedia references as well.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 21 00:46:43 2017 No.4071309 >>4069671 >he doesn't read PC Gamer (US) or PC Gamer (UK)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 21 00:52:56 2017 No.4071316 >>4071306 archive.org has the most widest collection of old mags, but it's spotty and generally without a lot of housekeeping. The CV+G collection is surprisingly together tho.

Anonymous Wed Jun 21 01:51:16 2017 No.4071375

>>4069674
>he didn't quit reading it when Gameplayers turned into NextGeneration and lost all of their humor and doesn't remember that doing that cost them all of their readers to the point the magazine up and died a few years later

RIP Gameplayers. You were the best next to old school Nintendopower.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 21 01:55:52 2017 No.4071381 >not reading Hardcore Game Fan for the pages of screenshots and weeaboo coverage

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 21 02:20:32 2017 No.4071413 >>4071316 Retromags and Retrocdn >>4071375 Game Players and Next Generation were different mags. You're thinking of Ultra Game Players, which was the relaunched version of Game Players from 1997.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 21 04:04:10 2017 No.4071560 >>4069676 Mortal Kombat SNES preview: "You can bang with Kang, or you can just hang. Either way you're a dead man."

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 21 04:07:20 2017 No.4071565 >>4070802 That magazine delivered on what it promised. I want to read PDFs of them right now where are they

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 21 07:03:22 2017 No.4071731 >>4070802 No that's the one magazine that was even worse than gamepro.

Anonymous Wed Jun 21 11:03:27 2017 No.4071973

GamePro was dudebro crap before dudebros were a thing. It was for dudebros and for dumb kids.
EGM was pretty good in the later 90's, until in 2000's they had a new layout all in red like if a homage to Virtual Boy, everyone started to sound like a dick and the magazine went to shit.

Latino magazines were all atrocious. The Brazilian ones made me vomit all my monkey soup. Just mechanically translated stolen content from (mostly) american magazines and GameFaqs. They released fucking BOOKS with Gamefaqs content.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 21 15:34:01 2017 No.4072326 it's fucking embarrassing how many people got baited by this

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