/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.546283]

You know, with E3 coming up (and my realization that for the first year ever, I just do not care), I'm reminded how much I miss gaming magazines.

Having all that gaming news in one place felt more..."cozy" than the way I get gaming news now. Plus it ran a lot of stuff by me that I would have otherwise ignored.

[Anonymous No.546295]

Yeah I miss it, there's a retro gaming mag out here in the UK but it's almost 10 pound an issue. So yeah, fuck that.

[Anonymous No.546306]

i liked seeing really early game pics, and obscure japanese games you'd have to import.

magazines now are just paid game ads with reviews like "9/10, its ok"

[Anonymous No.546307]

Nintendo Power's last issue was December. Honestly I hardly read it anymore, but I had to get the final issue. The comic at the end was really sad.

[Anonymous No.546314]

I remember that issue, I wasn't alpha enough to buy a magazine with a giant in a banana hammock on the cover so I was glad when my bro picked it up. I subscribed to Nintendo Power for years, it was the highlight of each new month

around 1996 I switched to the other mags and just got whatever looked best each month. all those mail order anime and import game ads ;_;

[Anonymous No.546315]

>>546307
Post it maybe?

[Anonymous No.546319]

>>546307

I never did find a copy of it. It was sold out at every grocery store and book store in the county

[Anonymous No.546332]

>>546315

[Anonymous No.546349]

>>546332
>100% Completion
>Dat father and son bond
>"I wont let you fall dad."

All those feels, all those hamboigahs.

[Anonymous No.546348]

>>546332
better quality 1/2

[Anonymous No.546354]

>>546348
2/2

[Anonymous No.546359]

Well you look at that, Kano appeared in the Wreck-it Ralph movie.
Yeah OP, I liked the magazines a lot too, but they occupied a lot of space and were a waste of money. When I finally had Internet I stopped buying them.
The major part of the articles written on those magazines and what you can find now on game portals like Gamespot or IGN are the same shit, really: reviews based on interests. But we were teens and we didn´t know. We didn´t know.
I will not argue with you about having those on paper for nostalgia purposes. The 90´s ads were fucking good.

[Anonymous No.546368]

>>546349
It gets even more deep when you learn his son has been dead for years. Leukemia. the last panel is him finally saying goodbye

[Anonymous No.546379]

I miss stuff like Next Generation that used to provide looks inside the industry and long interviews with important people

We just straight outright don't get that stuff now. It didn't go anywhere, it just disappeared.

[Anonymous No.546385]

>>546332
>>546348

>The final issue's cover emulates the first issue's cover

I had the first issue of NP, surprise delivered direct to grandma's house to me, a young member of the nintendo fun club. That last comic was really stylish for those of us who remember. It honestly made me tear up, and I'm not one of these "oh god my feels" guys.

[Anonymous No.546386]

>>546332
>>546348
>>546354

this shit touched my soul and made me ponder my life

I'm not even kidding

brb, walking off into the sunrise to find myself

[Anonymous No.546387]

>>546385

Heh, and I actually recognize most of the posters on the walls.

It seems like such a different world and time. Like when FF2 came out for SNES, they had their own artists draw the characters and stuff for the preview...Who does that anymore?

[Anonymous No.546395]

>>546354

>come on dad let's play new super mario U!
>fuck off son, that game is shit, we're playing SMB3 or you're grounded

[Anonymous No.546402]

>>546387
I miss when game art wasn't just a screenshot of the game.

[Anonymous No.546406]

>>546387

NP was really well put together for back then. I loved their artists and the comics too... my favorite was whoever did the art for Final Fantasy

[Anonymous No.546409]

>>546402

Please stop reminding me that this doesn't exist in a 36x14 600dpi version

[Anonymous No.546874]

>>546409
Should I remind you that everyone with a copy included with their game has nasty crease marks instead?

[Anonymous No.546881]

>>546395

New Super Mario Bros U actually isn't bad

I was pleasantly surprised with how good the level design was. Believe me, I was skeptical too.

[Anonymous No.546925]

>>546402
I can't agree100%,anon.
Those lying-ass gameboxcovers,man...those lying-ass covers.

[Anonymous No.546985]

I liked GamePro growing up. Not always perfect, but having those walkthroughs really helped, and the staff writers had personality. Now it's all "I am a serious game journalist" and then they get paid off and I need a beer.

[Anonymous No.548134]

>>546387
Almost all the artists who did the interior NP artwork were Japanese, NOA would contract the interior layout, design and art to a publisher in Japan. One of the artists who did most of the fantasy game art in previews and stuff was a guy named Katsuya Terada, who did art for the Zelda, Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy II / IV articles. Check out his stuff sometime, he's a well-known manga artist and anime character designer now.

[Anonymous No.548158]

Only game magazine I regularly picked up was Tips & Tricks. We moved a lot when I was a kid so I never saw the point of subscribing.

[Anonymous No.548189]

>>548158
Random fun fact: Tips & Tricks was published by Larry Flynt, the Hustler guy.

[Anonymous No.548198]

The decline of game mags is a real shame. I remember when i got my first Gamepro, in may 2003 and starcraft ghost was on the cover. For years i subscribed to the 3 major ones; Until they became boring and factual, in hopes of competing with the internet (which they didnt).

[Anonymous No.548245]

>EGM's Holiday issues
I remembered how thick those bastards used to be.

[Anonymous No.548339]

Finland's #1 gaming magazine Pelit was computer only until the turn of the century, and had all kinds of unrelated nerd stuff (one writer wrote about manga and French comics). It got lame around the early 00s, and I stopped reading it. I think gaming just went too mainstream and watered everything down.

[Anonymous No.548503]

>>546283

I still recall some of the magazines having some interesting Dino Crisis related covers.

[Anonymous No.548517]

>>548198
>first Gamepro
>May 2003

I wish I was so young. I beat you by about 13 years there.