/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4367012]

Do you collect old gaming magazines?

[Anonymous No.4367016]

>>4367012
I used too but threw them all out when it was getting to the point that moving 20 50lb boxes of magazines wasn't worth it to just find one article.

[Anonymous No.4367019]

>>4367012
I collected PSM but after retro. I have every issue from 2004-2008 when they sold out to Sony

[Anonymous No.4367052]

>>4367012
If by "collect" you mean "still have stacks and stacks of old magazines from subscriptions back in the day", then yes.

I think if somebody were actually going out of their way to make a new collection of retro game magazines today they would be mentally handicapped.

[Anonymous No.4367054]

>>4367012
No, but I almost wish I did. They're cool. I remember buying a bunch of Nintendo magazines as a kid but I think I've lost all but one to the winds of time. It's funny to read letters and articles refer to LttP as "Zelda 3" and wondering when the rumoured Zelda 4 will grace our super nintendos

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4367081]

I had subscriptions and kept those magazines but I threw away all the coverless "field destroyed" ones when I moved. Mostly Game Informers

[Jibwib Simmerstim, Esq. No.4367095]

No. In my whole life I've maybe bought one or two individual magazines. Never had a subscription.

In practice they are glorified sales catalogs, but reading archived copies is an interesting way to understand the era.

[Anonymous No.4367098]

>>4367012
Not anymore, too much space and archive.org is doing a nice job of saving many of them

[Anonymous No.4367143]

>>4367012

Always threw them away after reading. Should have kept some :(

[Anonymous No.4367158]

>>4367012
No. I use to buy them as a kid, but I don't collect them. I would buy game magazines such as The Official Dreamcast Magazine, The Official Playstation Magazine, Game Pro, Game Informer, Electronic Gaming Monthly, DCM, PSM and some other magazines. I stopped buying magazines once I owned a computer and had internet access.

[Anonymous No.4368765]

>>4367012
I'd rather collect old porno magazines but that's mainly because people these days don't appreciate a nice bush.

[Anonymous No.4369219]

>>4367012
I just kept most what I got, but I don't collect. I did get rid of the first two years of Nintendo Power. Even destroyed the few random issues of GamePro and Video Games & Computer Entertainment I had. Fortunately I kept a lot of the other odd magazines I liked/subscribed to.

Sure it is easy to just get the magazine scans now, but I was willing to bring them with me as it is nice to flip through the pages and read the actual magazine.

This magazine is pretty colorful but took pictures from composite sources, was not afraid of having images of the adult parts of adult games, and focused on fighting games and anime games. Introduced me to Darkstalkers and the arcade Aliens Vs. Predator, had foldout combo examples for Ranma Tyougi Ranbuhen, informed me of the locations of Nintendo Powerfest '94, etc. and I wished the magazine survived because it was pretty cool. I can post more game magazines, or will that be too annoying?

[Anonymous No.4369231]

I only have what I actually bought in the 90's.
which is like 100 magazines.

They weight too much to collect and get destroyed too easily.

Also nobody sells them dirt cheap. its usually like 5 for 20.00 or some shit. fuck that

[Anonymous No.4369245]

>>4369219
>I just read about them and imagine

This would have been cute if it was written by a kid in the early 90's, but emulators exist my man, and if you don't use them and just day dream instead about overpriced plastic, you're a fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.4369323]

>>4369245
I guess it was my fault for wording that wrong, as that is how I used to do with the magazines. I do rely on emulation and flashcarts (if I can afford them) now. I also have some actual cartridges/CDs as well, and most come from what I happen to have kept so I have memories tied to them. I know all too well that I still cannot afford a lot of the games now, but I do like playing/having the real things. I would still daydream that I'd be rich enough to comfortably have a huge room full of arcade cabinets even though I can already emulate them.

I also cannot afford another sharpie and more paper at the moment, so I will reuse the same sheet.

[Anonymous No.4369339]

>>4369323
Nice magazine collection friend.
I used to day dream about all the japanese import gear they would catalog in gaming zines.

I remember ther being like video add-ons you could plug into your PS1 to watch some sort of ancient video format and other stuff for sale.

[Anonymous No.4369382]

>>4369339
Thanks, I think you're just encouraging my hoarding.

Yeah, the Japanese games they'd show off in their international sections of EGM got me to subscribe to their quarterly spinoff magazine all about Japanese games. Unfortunately, it ran for its 4 issues with the last one just a copy of what was already in their main magazine's international section plus a couple extra pages in new content. I was not happy at the time, as I did like the first 3 issues here.

I do remember Playstation Underground discs which had demos and videos.

[Anonymous No.4369386]

>>4369382
Neat!
One day when we have 100TB home harddrives will start hoarding digital copies of all gaming magazines

[Anonymous No.4369394]

Who /pojospokemon/ here?

[Anonymous No.4369397]

I wish I had the complete run of GameNOW!

Such a cool mag.

[Anonymous No.4369404]

>>4369386
I've downloaded quite a few of the PDFs of a lot of old magazines. While the colors may not be accurate or the scan quality may not be high, I don't think all of just the ones in the US will even fill a CD-ROM. However, there are so many from Japan with lots of pages, that maybe all of them can span maybe a couple DVD-ROMs.

[Anonymous No.4369408]

>>4367012
I don't collect them, but I have piles of old UK games magazines from the mid eighties to early nineties that I bought at the time. Crash, C&VG, ACE, The Games Machine, Mean Machines, etc. They're pretty cool to flick through once in a while

[Anonymous No.4369409]

>>4369323
>>4369382

Oh, you're Sharpie Anon?

Hello. I hope you become better off financially some day, because everyone should have some spare scratch to buy a Sharpie and some copy paper. ;-;

[Anonymous No.4369429]

>>4369409
Sharpie-anon, note-anon, etc. yeah ... been posting without images lately. Been pretty peaceful that way as it does seem to be my images that trigger others. Figured to take some pictures with some of the old video game magazines I kept from back in the day for fun today. Don't worry, I payday is tomorrow for me so I should have enough to get groceries, if anything, maybe even pick up a free issue of Walmart's GameCenter magazine and continue to imagine playing the cool new games.

[Anonymous No.4369457]

>>4369429

I used to do that all the time, Anon; look on in wonder...And dream.

Don't worry about the triggered faggots, though. You're alright in my book!

[Anonymous No.4369503]

I had a semi-complete collection of Tips n Tricks. Like 60-200. Parents threw it out when I moved out and they had to move. Its almost impossible to find scans.

[YerMumLel No.4370593]

I used to have some old game informers from when the PS2 was really popular I remember seeing some articles of Jak and Daxter vs. Ratchet and Clank and whatnot I've been wanting to go back and view those online but I only get the one's from the 90's and new ones. Anyone know a good website where I can find what I'm looking for?

[Anonymous No.4370686]

>>4368765
i know that feel my gf is nice and furry though :)

[Anonymous No.4371560]

>>4367012
I want to start collecting Nintendo Power, I have maybe 50 issues? I had more when I was a kid but threw them out not thinking I'd care about them.
I wish Nintendo Power was still a thing

[Anonymous No.4371563]

>>4371560
Collecting nintendo power would be the equivilant of collecting nes games.
It's the peasant's choice drawn up from the public well. Try collecting something with some value that has a smaller community behind it.

[Anonymous No.4371568]

>>4367012
I did.
And then my parents threw them all away when I went to college and was not there to stop them.

[Anonymous No.4371573]

>>4369386
1 mag is about 50-60 megs.
1 year of said mags is ~ 700Mb-1Gb

2TB hard drive would be enough to store almost every game-related magazine publication.

[Anonymous No.4371576]

>>4371563
t. neogeo fag

[Anonymous No.4371597]

>>4371563
I don't care about the value, I care about nostalgia. I wanna pretend I'm a kid again

[Anonymous No.4371604]

>>4371597
Fuck you. People like you are the ones who get rare carts, play them casually, never clean them, and just leave them on the shelf. That makes it harder for people who actually CARE about games to preserve important rare titles. I bet you don't even have a grand's worth of value to your collection. Still, I look forward to going through your stuff at the auction of your deceased estate.

>>4371576
I don't even like the neo-geo that much but I bet my neo collection is worth more than your parents spent on your upbringing.

[Anonymous No.4371629]

>>4371604
I was talking about magazines, I don't care if magazine A has more value over Magazine B, I never tree magazine A and have no childhood connection to it.

[Anonymous No.4371636]

>>4371629
You don't even get it do you? Magazine A isn't valuable because of nostalgia. It's valuable because its important in some way, rare, or both.
Why would you even collect something that has limited or no value? I'll be laughing when I read your obituary about you being crushed under a pile of valueless magazines.

[Anonymous No.4371658]

>>4371636
I don't care about its value because I'm not gonna sell it, it's about personal value to me. I like reading Nintendo Power I never read any other game magazines except some PlayStation ones but I never cared about those.

[Anonymous No.4371664]

>>4371658
I think you might be a lost cause.
There's no point to it. I mean, why collect it in that case? You'll just have something that's worth less than what you paid for it and will remain so. Just fucking read a pdf of it or something. Don't take it off the market just to feed your own selfish need. Nothing hurts collecting more than collectible stuff just vanishing into the hands of hoarders who can't part with their treasures at a good price. I hope whoever you get them from sees you coming a mile away and has the good sense to apply a heavy markup.

[Anonymous No.4371679]

>>4369219
If you read Newtype Gaming long enough will you gain space autism?

[Anonymous No.4371687]

>>4371664
Get a job and maybe you can afford to buy stuff

[Anonymous No.4371696]

it was maxim even before maxim was a thing

had a subscription to PC Gamer my mom got me for seven years from 4th grade till junior year high school.

>5th grade,
>arcades still a thing,
>wanted to git gud on all the fighters.
>Peeled through game mags on grocery store shelf.For moves list to Street Fighter,Virtual FIgher, Tekken, etc...
>See a game mag that has an entire move list for killer instinct on an insert.
>OH man.I need this for research purposes.
>In my shoplifting phase
>check both ends of isle to see if anyone is coming
>coast clear
>rip the insert out
>suddently dude in white shirt tells me not to move
>come with me sonny boy
>go to his office
>"how could you do this?"
>"this is going to set us back $5,000"
>start balling my eyes out
>tell them to call my mom
>mom picks me up
>lay down in the back of the car seat
>she drives to the beach to just chill out
>never talk about it
>never shoplifted again

[Anonymous No.4371704]

>>4371687
meant for >>4371658

[Anonymous No.4371708]

>>4371704
?

[Anonymous No.4371714]

>>4371708
It was obviously meant for someone else. I have money enough to buy what I want. You don't even have sealed stadium events.

[Anonymous No.4371721]

>>4371696
>"this is going to set us back $5,000"
What a dick.

[Anonymous No.4371725]

>>4371714
Good for you but I'm not interested in that game. I'm not a serious collector, I just like games and I like playing on original hardware I'm not interested in buying sealed games I'll never play I'll leave that for you guys.

[Anonymous No.4371728]

>>4371725
There is no such thing as non-serious collecting. You're either a collector, or you harm collecting. People outside the hobby do irreparable damage every day to collectors. They make business hard, they weaken communities. You are a piece of shit for making life harder for me and many others.

[Anonymous No.4371762]

>>4371728
Good I'm glad I make your life harder, next time you're in Canada trying to find a game I hope you remember me when you can't find it.

[Anonymous No.4371775]

>>4371762
Next time you're trying to find a game know that I have it, and have had it, for years.

[Anonymous No.4371776]

>>4371775
Yeah, lots of people have it and had it for years. I'm not lucky enough to have been able to buy every single game I want when it was released

[Anonymous No.4371797]

>>4369219
>>4369382
>>4369404
>>4369429

Holy fuck you are a huge faggot.

[Anonymous No.4371824]

>>4371776
And that's why you're filth.

[Anonymous No.4371943]

>>4367052
it's excusable if you plan to scan them and upload them on some publicly accessible archive.

[Anonymous No.4372851]

>>4371573
Yes but you're assuming I want to buy a harddrive that is solely dedicated to storing video game magazines

[Anonymous No.4372858]

>>4371696
I used to go to barnes and nobles and take every Official Playstation Magazine Demo every month for years.

Had almost the whole series but I didnt take care of them and thye were all scratched so I threw them out

[Anonymous No.4373465]

>>4371824
Fag

[Anonymous No.4373520]

>>4367012
Yes, I do. I haven't bought any in awhile, however.

1/3
My EGM collection. I'm missing one that I picked up last year (the gold covered issue with the Sheng Long April Fool's trick). I also need to fill some holes in this collection.

[Anonymous No.4373526]

>>4373520

2/3
My Gamefan collection. They're a guilty pleasure!

[Anonymous No.4373531]

>>4373526

3/3
And finally, a random assortment of '90s Japanese gaming mags I purchased as a lot off of Ebay.

[Anonymous No.4373550]

>>4373526
You're a guilty pleasure.

[Anonymous No.4373553]

>>4373550
I try, anon...

[Anonymous No.4375436]

>>4367012
>tfw i threw out 5 years worth of nintendo power magazines
JUST

[Anonymous No.4377530]

i gave the magazines i did have to my friend. i will see if he still has them and i'll scan and upload them.

[Anonymous No.4378516]

>>4377530
>i will see if he still has them and i'll scan and upload them.

Unless you own and run a archival website for such things dont bother retard

[Anonymous No.4378521]

Yes a local one in eastern eu called Enter.
I have every single issue until it went to shit and then under.
Started around 2000.

[Anonymous No.4378658]

>>4369429
>Sharpie-anon, note-anon,etc.

Holy shit. You're a faggot and you are on an ANONYMOUS website and you shit up every thread you're in with your reddit-tier posting and attention seeking, thats why it triggers people. You are cancer.

Case in point, this thread where you can't seem to just post a picture of some of your game magazines and talk about them without putting a faggy little note in the picture because you have to let everyone know that it's you. Basically a tripfag, so why don't you just go full tripfag like babbages gramps so everyone can tell you to fuck off.

Almost as bad as that guy who posts his shitty basement in every battlestation thread.

[Anonymous No.4378720]

>>4378658
calm down faggot

[Anonymous No.4379446]

>>4377530
>>4378516
Sorry I called you retard, but my point still stands.
Don't do it unless they havent previously been scanned by the various archive groups and unless you're going to submit it somewhere.

Scanning and uploading 100 images takes a little it of time and isnt something you just do for shits and giggles

[Anonymous No.4379463]

>>4378658

I feel you could benefit from some mood-altering medication, my obnoxious little friend. Indeed, I would not greatly mind seeing it force-fed to you one choked-down pill at a time.

[Anonymous No.4379470]

>>4378521
eastern europe here too

[Anonymous No.4380552]

>>4367012
I used to get scattered magazines from bookstores as a kid, but never had a sub. I had one with a cover story about phantasy star online that talked about the naming/ID system abound I remember figuring out what different names would be. I wish I could find it again.
I'm working on getting ever nintendo power before the n64 came out. There's just something special reading about how advertising, and the industry was back then.

[Anonymous No.4380601]

>>4368765
>gf brings over box of dads playboys earliest one in good condition is may 1969.
>centerfolds removed.

[Anonymous No.4380815]

>>4378658
>SEETHING

[Anonymous No.4381030]

>>4380601
centerfolds are for plebs

>dude this crease right over her nipples and pussy really gets me off

[Anonymous No.4382001]

>>4367012
Still have a box or two of them left. I don't collect them though and they're not in mint condition or anything.

[Anonymous No.4382535]

>>4367012
No, I just like to play my games. Cool if you do though, I guess.

[Anonymous No.4382590]

>>4378658
kek

[Anonymous No.4383145]

>>4367012
Got the first 50 Nintendo Powers as part of a garage sale haul. I love it. I'm going to start taking them into work and reading them when things are slow. I did keep most of the magazines I had as a kid too. If I see them in large lots for cheap I'll pick them up. But yeah like many have said it's a huge space filler. But then again I also collect laser discs that's pretty bad too.

[Anonymous No.4384781]

I have all the N64 magazines and free gifts from every issue up till it became NGC

feels good

[Anonymous No.4385486]

I mostly collect CDs.

[Anonymous No.4385491]

>>4385486
Newer pic after moving, with more mags and CDs.

[Anonymous No.4385494]

No but I keep my childhood collection.
It's incredible how many times I can read them. At least once a year.

[Anonymous No.4385649]

>>4385486
>>4385491
Hope you like disc rot my man!

[Anonymous No.4385681]

>>4367012
I absolutely adore them. I have a decent collection of EGM, PSM, OPM, Game Informer, and a few GamePro magazines from 1997-2009.

EGM and old GI were the best. Like >>4367095 says, they are a fantastic way to understand the era and how it was integrated into popular culture.

Really wish I had more. Reading the same magazines over and over has made taking a shit significantly less exciting over the years.

[Anonymous No.4386220]

>>4367016
>I used too but threw them all out
you didn't donate them? What a waste. That's why I collect them.

[Anonymous No.4386562]

>>4385649
Not a single disk has signs of rot, and some are 25 years old. But thanks for your concern.

[Anonymous No.4386565]

>>4386562
>I go over my 6000 discs every day checking for rot xD

At least try to be convincing when you lie my man

[Anonymous No.4386568]

>>4386565
I sorted them just a few months ago and I already had most of them for many years. So yea. I think I've got some good overview.
Oh and 5000 is indeed about the number I have.

[Anonymous No.4386571]

>>4386568
>Oh and 5000 is indeed about the number I have.

I know, I was in there yesterday.
EXIF DATA is real helpful

[Anonymous No.4386573]

>>4386571
>>4386565
>>4385649

>itt: one jealous little faggboi

[Anonymous No.4386574]

>>4386571
Hardly.
The pics were taken at my old house and they don't contain any intersting meta data, anyways. But nice try.

[Anonymous No.4386585]

>>4386574
Hehe, just meme'n

>>4386573
t. newfag bitchboi