/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6109806]

>ywn stand in the magazine section of the grocery store like an autistic retard looking at video game magazines while your mom does the grocery shopping ever again

[Anonymous No.6109809]

>autistic retard

You care too much what people think, looking at a magazine rack is something that makes you feel scorn?

[Anonymous No.6109814]

>>6109809
Shut up you fucking retard this is a nostalgia thread. Stop nitpicking trivial bullshit.

[Anonymous No.6109816]

EGM became pretty good around the GBA era. Meanwhile Dave Halverson drove GameFan into the ground, then Gamer's Republic shortly after.

[Anonymous No.6109821]

>almost all old magazine either got thrown away or lost during moves
It's painful. Are there any archives of old gaming magazines around?

[Anonymous No.6109834]

>>6109821
I only know of abandonware-magazines.org for French ones. They have an impressive collection.

[Anonymous No.6109839]

>>6109821
Not everything, but decent amount of stuff.
https://www.emuparadise.me/magazine-comic-guide-scans/magazines

[Anonymous No.6109842]

>>6109839
Shit, actually looks like that's gone actually.

[Anonymous No.6109848]

EGM became shit after ziff davis took over.

[Anonymous No.6109856]

>>6109848
>tfw literal 30 year old zoomer
>tfw doesn't remember non-Ziff-Davis EGM.

[Anonymous No.6109859]

https://www.retromags.com/magazines/usa/electronic-gaming-monthly/?d=5

[Anonymous No.6109864]

>>6109806
I used to read EGM a ton since public libraries had a ton of the issues when I was in middle and high school. Those were the days

[Anonymous No.6109931]

>>6109806 EGM got stale when ZIFF DAVIS took over and gamefans best days was when Dave Halverson,Casey Loe,Eric Paterson and Nick Des Barres were still there.Gamefan had the best screenshots and layouts in the industry.There coverage of import gaming and anime stood out from the other magazines and you could feel the passion behind there work since they would avoid covering bad games.

[Anonymous No.6109959]

>>6109839
There are more places than that. Keep searching. Pic related was never on emuparadise (despite most later and earlier issues that were) and yet I found it eventually, which is awesome as it is dear to me, being the first issue I ever owned (though I knew of the mag well, in the 90s), despite being lost.

[Anonymous No.6109978]

>>6109856
>WELL I'M A BOOMER
>AND I'M A ZOOMER
>MAYBE I'M A COOMER
>BUT ALL THE TIME I'M A GOOMER
>Segger Megger Drive

Read it in John Linneman's voice

[Anonymous No.6109982]

Time to grow up

[Anonymous No.6109987]

>>6109814
You're the retard.
>dude I'm autistic because Im reading a magazine

[Anonymous No.6109989]

>>6109821
I just donated over 200 of mine from 1998-2002 to the local dump.
Fuck hoarding magazines, that shit is bulky and heavy and most are digitized anyway

[Anonymous No.6109992]

>>6109806
>be an EU fag
>all those sweet Square games never coming in your country

[Anonymous No.6110056]

>>6109821
Archive.org has a lot of them

[Anonymous No.6110180]

>>6109806
It wasn't just grocers, but I tried getting in my video game fix wherever I could, Like the EGM with Megaman 2 on the cover I got at Kohl's. I remember when I ran out of tokens for the arcade, I could still goto a mall anchor store, and sit down by the sample computers, reboot them into DOS to circumvent their Windows 3.11 screensaver passwords to find all sorts of installed games. Super Tetris Plus Bombliss ate up the hours.

[Anonymous No.6110205]

>>6110180
>cant afford free roms

[Anonymous No.6110218]

>>6109989
lame, mine are safe and sound in rubbermaid containers in the basement to pass on to my grandchildren

[Anonymous No.6110226]

>>6110205
Back then, I did not know where to get ROMs. Besides, I don't think my 286-12 which I got a bit later, would have been able to handle NES emulation. While it was able to handle Wing Commander 2, a near full screen Wolfenstien 3D, and a lot of point & click adventure games, I think NES emulation was still in its infancy and very inaccurate.

[Father Electronics Couture No.6110243]

I keep mine in magazine racks screwed up on the end of bookcases. Switch around which one is at the front. Looks nice. Toddler likes to try to take them out which causes a very specific kind of year to the covers. I try not to get too irritated because it'll always remind me of when he was this age.

[Anonymous No.6110280]

>>6109806
True, since the mags pretty much died off here ages ago, then there was a new infusion of political shit by doctrinaire twitter SJWs (because reading whining rants about how the anti-immigration centrists are echoing the 1930s and how the japanese have to be forced to stop "being sexist" is totally what I look for in my gaming mags) that only sold because of a couple of exclusive interviews with nip developers and now after there being none around for ages there's PC Gamer again with little to no content in it.
Really the only mag that's even remotely interesting nowadays is Retro Gamer and only because of the rare Making Of interviews. (when it's not 99% speccy anyway)

[Father Electronics Couture No.6110465]

>>6109806
>ywn get yelled for reading the magazines by the Paki cashier saying "This isn't a library"
>ywn get driven home by your mom afterwards and then get molested by your stepdad again and secretly like it

[Anonymous No.6110475]

>>6110226
Alright, but that note was written recently, obviously. That is what my reply was meme arrowing

[Funcoland Clown No.6110569]

>>6110465
>Paki
LOL of course you're European why wouldn't you be

[Anonymous No.6110585]

>>6109814
He's right though, what kind of 90s kid felt embarrassed about browsing vidya mags? It's not like you were reading tiger beat you fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.6110595]

>>6109814
Imagine mouthfoaming this hard at a simple question.

[Anonymous No.6111282]

>>6109806
Holy fuck, get out of my head Charles

[Anonymous No.6111286]

>>6109978

[Anonymous No.6111290]

>>6109806
I got my vg magazines at a local smoke shop. They were directly across from the adult magazines which made quick glances at the covers real easy as a kid.

[Anonymous No.6111301]

I do not understand what this means. I am confused. I have no answer to what this means. I have gratitude for a mild confusion material increase. lol Can you say what it means? I don't want to be around people who won't function in a faintly reasonable manner. I would like to be near those who are not like that. So simple. So what is it that that means? Cure this confusion. lol

[Anonymous No.6111327]

>ywn be allowed to rent one game from Blockbuster but then feel the unstoppable urge to take a huge piss while browsing and you only have a minute left to grab whatever since your mom is getting impatient and the restroom is employees' only

[Anonymous No.6111396]

>>6109806
I have this issue, got it because it has something from Capcom. Also cover is pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.6111619]

Anyone know where to get all the gamefan issues?

[Anonymous No.6111831]

I looked forward to the unofficial PSM every month for two, maybe three years. Seeing these magazines again makes me feel bittersweet. To return to 1997-2000 and have sleep overs with my middle school friends again would be wonderful.

https://archive.org/details/PSM_Issue_001_September_1997

[Anonymous No.6111839]

>>6111831
Ah, to be young again!

[Anonymous No.6111850]

>>6111839
Thankfully, I have a 4 year old little boy, so I'm looking forward to being the cool dad that gets him and his friends pizza and whatnot for his future sleepovers. I wonder what they'll be doing when the time comes.

[Anonymous No.6111883]

>>6109806
yep, I get nostalgic every time I walk past the magazine aisle


>>6109816

>the gba era

EGM was the best gaming mag during the 16 bit era

[Anonymous No.6112136]

>>6111619
help

[Anonymous No.6112450]

>>6111619
>>6112136
https://archive.org/search.php?query=GameFan

[Anonymous No.6112627]

>>6109806
Every single time. It was the only reason I enjoyed going grocery shopping with her. She'd usually buy me one each time too.

[Anonymous No.6112675]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPrG9tEgJao

[Anonymous No.6112707]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2he5jxOvQZk

[Anonymous No.6112713]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMNoArf1lfo

[Anonymous No.6112740]

HOLY SHIT THANKS FOR SPOILING THE ENTIRE GAME

[Anonymous No.6112752]

don't worry saturnbros, it's only going to get better from here!

[Anonymous No.6112769]

>>6109806
ever have that dream where ur like a kid agian uncovering comics on the self and find missing issues that don't exist irl

[Anonymous No.6112784]

>>6109821
I have a collection I could upload and share. I used to post a retro gaming magazine general in /vr/ every now and then.

[Anonymous No.6112835]

>>6112784
Yes please do anon

[Anonymous No.6112865]

>>6112784
do you have issues 2 and 13 of boot magazine?

[Anonymous No.6113062]

>>6112784
do you have any PSM?

[Anonymous No.6113078]

>>6112865
Sorry anon, I hadn’t heard of boot before, but I did just find a reddit post with issue 13 as a pdf if you google it.

>>6112835
I’ll upload them to a mega later tonight and post a link tomorrow.

>>6113062
No, sorry, that’s a gap. I have:
Some 70s board gaming magazines
>Moves
>Strategy & Tactics
>Ares
>The Space Gamer
Dave Halverson stuff
>GameFan
>HardcoreGamer
>GamersRepublic
>play
Other vidya
>Edge
>PC Gamer
>Computer Gaming World
>Nintendo Power
>Computer and Video Games
>Retro Gamer
Assorted
>Inferno Magazine (Warhammer stuff)
>AtariAge
>Galaxy (50s-80s sci-fi magazine)

[Anonymous No.6113285]

>>6109806
It's funny, because I have a vivid memory of standing in the grocery store aisle reading this very issue while my mom got our stuff. I remember it for two reasons, first, I didn't have a PS and Aya is hot as fuck. Second, I learned how to turn the blood to red in The House of the Dead from reading the cheats section.

[Anonymous No.6113293]

>>6109806
>Tiny little non-supercenter Walmart in a small town
>Mom would always go off to do her shopping and always knew she could find me in: the magazine section or the electronics center which was right behind it
>You will never have to wait your turn against an older kid to read the latest gaming magazine
>You will never get to experience how the PC section was literally an arm's length with just one beefy beige CRT computer showing a floating Win98 logo
I miss our old Walmart so bad. When it finally got turned into a hobby lobby, it felt like my body took me to the same location it used to always go, but it's been so long, I couldn't be sure.

[Anonymous No.6113331]

>>6109816
To me, EGM was all about the Hsu & Chan comics.

[Anonymous No.6113694]

>>6109806
> Hey, little boy, this is a store, not a library, if you're not going to buy it don't open it!

I hated that clerk

[Anonymous No.6113808]

>>6109806
Old anime style is far better than modern trash.

[Anonymous No.6113851]

oh my sweet summer child

[Anonymous No.6113948]

>>6113808
Old anime style had soul, each artist style was different. Modern anime style is soulless copy-paste moe coomer shit.

[Anonymous No.6113968]

how come I've never heard of the .9 version of the PC98?

[Anonymous No.6114030]

People nowadays can't even properly format their coverage to convey excitement like those magazines did back then.

[Anonymous No.6114039]

[Anonymous No.6114207]

>>6113694
>not going to barnes and nobles
I literally slept in there on their big comfy chairs for hours and they didn't give a shit.

Magazine rack always had several video game magazines to peruse.

Nice bathrooms and water fountain.

Shit was comfy

[Anonymous No.6114210]

>>6109806
sToP
>buys sonic the hedgehog comic book

[Anonymous No.6114270]

>>6110475
... but I do emulate.

[Anonymous No.6114321]

>>6109806
I remember when E3 editions were always longer and full of awesome stuff. Press used to have a very little foot print at the convention, and it used to be meant as an industry convention for devs to show off their stuff to other devs. It's a shame the farce it has become.

[Anonymous No.6114324]

>>6114030
>ywn be this excited for anything ever again

[Anonymous No.6114328]

>>6114324
also why do these gamefan scans have lines through them? Someone scanned them with a fucked up scanner?

[Anonymous No.6114345]

>>6114030
>>6114324
I only have a few gamefans from around 1997 but I always appreciated their enthusiasm. They loved capslock and used phases like 'this the SKILL" like what does that even mean. They truly were diehard game fans. I'll always remember the 3 paragraph rundown of postmeisters appreciation for something as simple as the boxart for suikoden, as response to a mere fan letter. Nothing comes close to that mag for sure. No one crammed more color or pictures onto their pages, or covered more imports than them

[Anonymous No.6115162]

>>6114207
It killed me when Borders folded, they had those nice chairs and comfy atmosphere. Fond memories of browsing mags there like the Play issue with that terrific Muramasa cover, hitting the manga section (no fucking manga to browse in my hick town now), books in general. No B&N is this small town.

[Anonymous No.6115224]

>>6114345
I used to collect EGM from '89 to sometime in 2007 and loved the enthusiasm at the time. I recently found some old issues in digital form and re-read some of them. That enthusiasm? Yeah, that was clearly just marketing. These magazines were nothing but propaganda and advertisements.

It broke my heart to realize so a big part of my youth was just me being manipulated.

[Anonymous No.6115241]

>>6115224
Hence the absurd thickness of EGM - which they actually boasted about...all ads. Gamefan was the real deal, and the backstory about it's workings is insane: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gamefan/GameFAN.htm (and yes, I know that site triggers people but all this is is simply a compilation of forum posts by Gamefan staff).

Halverson is a madman. The way the magazine was run behind the scenes was pure insanity - from his high on acid Cybermorph review to that time he spent the payroll on a giant statue of Sonic the Hedgehog. Games were truly these guys lives.

[Anonymous No.6115283]

>>6115241
I truly believe that. The fact they devoted so much space to import games (yes they had a import game retail store) and anime reviews they didn't need to have. Just their reviews alone you could tell it was truly a passion and not marketing, like Gamepro. Early EGM felt this way too, and they had a lot of fun with that mag (psycho letters, what ifs and ask egm were all hilarious) EGM might be rose colored glasses but GF was legit for sure. Ill have to give that link a read

[Anonymous No.6115458]

>>6115162
>No B&N is this small town.
missed out. borders was nice, but B&N was even better.

[Anonymous No.6115487]

Something about the way they overlayed the text over a giant blown up promotional image really sucked me into the magazine. I'd never call any magazine "immersive" but this one actually is. Also the way they include as many promotional images as possible into every article made them stand out like nothing else.

[Anonymous No.6115492]

>>6115487
Somehow they made me think the game was supposed to be scary as a kid lol

[Anonymous No.6115496]

>>6115492
Ohbaby look at that promotional art

[Anonymous No.6116410]

>>6115496
Agreed, this column 24 years ago got me excited for the game, that only just now got translated. It was a long wait, but well worth it.

[Anonymous No.6116578]

>>6109806
I didn't appreciate what I had at the time and now there will be nothing like it ever again. Is this what getting old feels like?

[Anonymous No.6116653]

>>6116578
Fortysomethingfag here. Yes. Life is nothing but memories and regrets.

[Anonymous No.6116665]

>>6114270
>that Xperia Play
I so wish it wasn't so underpowered, only then it would've worth the price people are selling it at these days

[Anonymous No.6116670]

>>6116653
This. But in the past there were new memories to create and new regrets to be had. But in this fucking clown world dystopia there's nothing.

[Anonymous No.6116693]

>>6109821
I have a pile of old magazines I'd like to archive and throw out but it's a pretty time consuming process to do right.
retromags.com seems like a pretty big community for it

[Anonymous No.6116698]

>>6116665
it's funny how "gaming phones" are starting to catch on more these days, but none of them have gone back to using the sliding design. Most of them use janky switch style controllers that make the thing a foot wide

[Anonymous No.6116719]

>>6116693
see if someones willing to pay you to ship it to them. Someone out there would I'm sure. Or just ebay it. Someone would definitely buy them

[Anonymous No.6116730]

>>6116719
I'd rather scan them and put them up for everyone. Judging by the sold listings on ebay, selling them wouldn't really be worth my time. And unfortunately properly scanning them involves debinding them and doing one page at a time.

[Anonymous No.6116824]

>>6116698
That's honestly my main issue with phone / android gaming, where nobody thought of making a device that's actually dedicated for gaming and is small enough to fit in your pocket (like the Xperia Play is) while still having the horse power of modern devices, only then i would take emulation on phones as a serious alternative.
As is my PSP Go is always my go-to handeld for my retro needs (while it doesn't emulate SNES perfectly, the consoles i'm into [Megadrive and PS1] emulate flawlessly, not to mention the PSP itself having some good retro-related ports like the Capcom Puzzle World collection and the Power Stone duology)

[Anonymous No.6117480]

>>6109814
re-evaluate your life.

[Anonymous No.6118679]

Someone put LSD in the coffee pot

[Anonymous No.6118742]

>>6116730
Which magazines are they?

[Anonymous No.6119101]

Dave's in his office at Play, his last successful magazine. Dude really kept the old Gamefan spirit going well into the modern age, for good and bad (i.e. cool mags, erratic business operation) but the writing was on the wall with his Gamefan reboot that lasted a few erratic issues before disappearing. He loved Deathsmiles in a new GF review, prob triggered a flashback to the old shmup glory days. Dave vanished off social media shortly thereafter, but the guy never really did the whole Internet thing anyways.

[Anonymous No.6119143]

>>6118742
Not a ton of /vr/ relevant things unfortunately, a few early 90s issues of EGM, some random ps2 era gamepros, most nintendo powers during the DS era, almost every gameinformer from the early 2000s up until a few months ago, and some random magazines like OXM, GMR, Cube, and PC gamer. The gameinformers especially are fucking huge and take up a ton of space.

[Anonymous No.6119151]

>>6112740

I remember that happened often.
Also what game was that?

[Anonymous No.6119154]

>>6119151
clockwork knight

[Anonymous No.6119439]

betrayal

[Anonymous No.6119448]

>>6109992
Still got the Speccy m8, bloody good computer wot

[Anonymous No.6119467]

>>6109821
https://retrocdn.net/Category:Shared_magazine_scans has a bunch of scans has a bunch of stuff, especially for more obscure magazines.
>>6112784
>>6113078
Are you still with us anon?

[Anonymous No.6119536]

>>6109806
>ywn come to buy game magazines but gets distracted at adult magazines and still are not old enough to buy it

[Anonymous No.6119564]

I wish these held up better ...

[Anonymous No.6119745]

>>6119564
Haha I still have that issue. I wanted the pokemon toast maker and slowking doll bad

[Anonymous No.6119754]

>>6119564
>>6119745
>>>/vp/ pokeweebs

[Anonymous No.6119767]

>>6119536
>ywn try to sneakily look at the Swimsuit Issue of SI as a sort of proto-porn

[Anonymous No.6119778]

>>6119564
can't believe that was 20 years ago

[Anonymous No.6120107]

>>6119564
Wow, I remember this sort of humor. Where the sarcasm was sincere, if that makes sense. Only one layer deep.

[Anonymous No.6120235]

>>6120107
I think I get what you mean. Their humor is poking fun at pokemon in a "I'm annoyed at new kids thing" sort of way, but at the same time they aren't being huge assholes about it. If you look at all those anti pokemon-go comics they act like its completely destroying human civilization. What the hell happened over all these years.

[Anonymous No.6120476]

>>6119439
>BLUE SHADOWS?!!?!!
Good old Nick Rox. He's had it somewhat hard these days, between breaking his back after fall off a hotel balcony stories up (brutal xray of the screws and plates on his twitter) and the pain therein and becoming a furry. Not sure which is worse.

His game related career has been brutal as well, things really didn't work out after living the dream in Japan for awhile and dude has been practically suicidal in some tweets (seems better now), but his parents are rich so I'm sure that helps.

[Anonymous No.6120910]

>>6120476
>after fall off a hotel balcony
the fuck? Was he in a Blacked porno or something?

[Anonymous No.6120928]

>>6120910
Either that or he was a CIA assassination target

[Anonymous No.6120931]

>>6109806
I had all the computer gaming world magazines, my father used to buy them, when i moved with my girlfriend she threw them thinking it was trash.

[Anonymous No.6120954]

>>6119564
I'm glad this guy still makes comics. Sorta. He never hit it big but just enough to where he can make a living, so that's great.

[Anonymous No.6120982]

>>6119564
>wordswordswordswordswords

[Anonymous No.6121014]

I do kind of miss that point in my life. Going to the grocery store with my parents and grabbing a gaming mag (gamepro was my mag of choice back then) or a cheat book and write things from it in a notebook I'd bring with me while I sat in the magazine aisle while my parents shopped. I'd write games names down that I thought looked cool or describe things I saw in them. I remember writing a page about the RE2 N64 walkthrough I saw. Not useful things like "this crest goes here" but like "big alligator in sewer level. COOOL!!!" and things like that. Parents would come get me when they were done shopping and we'd go home. Got left in a store once or twice when they forgot they brought me, used to just sit reading mags until they came and never went up looking for them.

[Anonymous No.6121016]

>>6120928
karmas a bitch. Don't fuck with saturn's 2d capabilities.

[Anonymous No.6121042]

>>6114030
Designwise that's one of the shittiest things I've seen. But I was there too so I too like it. Doesn't make it technically good just because we like it, though

[Anonymous No.6122819]

>>6121042
Keep in mind these were the days before the Internet was really a thing, so packing as many HQ screenshots (thanks to GF's pioneering use of an RGB capture card instead of just photographing a CRT face) in as possible was a real goal of these layouts. Colored text superimposed over blownup screencaps did make your eyes bleed, but it was part of the fun with this insane publication.

The sparse, industry standard graphic design grad, layouts that came later and in other mags just didn't have the passion. "Technically good" in this context was just another forgettable overly serious take like some other mags and their pivot toward industry shit and minimal layouts a gamefan fan could care less about.

[Anonymous No.6123985]

I still go to the magazine racks looking for videogame mags, out of habit.

[Anonymous No.6124413]

>>6109959
oh man this issue sold my parents on preordering the game from me and I was only 6

[Anonymous No.6124418]

>>6120931
She knew what she was doing.
Nobody sees a collection of magazines and goes "huh they must have misplaced their trash"

[Anonymous No.6124636]

>>6110585
>what kind of 90s kid felt embarrassed about browsing vidya mags?
I felt embarrassed doing anything in public because my mom was a narcissist who made me feel like everything I liked was stupid and that I was always in the way. I still have trouble taking my time looking at stuff in stores because I feel like I'm in everyone's way, or they're going to judge me for what I'm looking at. I probably need a therapist.

>>6114030
Gamefan's layouts were next fucking level. Most stuff from the time period wasn't even close to being as good, either.

>>6122819
This. When I bought magazines, it was mostly to look at the screenshots, and GameFan made sure you got your money's worth.

[Anonymous No.6124638]

>>6120982
I would unironically play the fuck out of Bad Mileage 2000.

[Anonymous No.6124647]

>>6120235
>What the hell happened over all these years.
Extremism, fueled by the internet. People are now exposed to the worst opinions of the dumbest people, and it riles them up because it makes it seem like a highly vocal subset of retardation is more prevalent than they think it is, so they snap back in the other direction to the extreme, and the death of web anonymity that occured with all the boomers getting on faceboom means that too many people have been groomed to think that everything that they see on the internet is actually something that happened to them in real life and that they should be appropriately mad about it. Nobody gets likes and retweets for sharing amusing, yet authentically mild, well-thought-out opinions; it's all about extremes. Everything is either the best thing ever or the worst thing ever, and if you like the thing that's the best, you're one of US, and if you like the thing that's the worst, you're one of THEM. The internet basically stirred up the extremely tribal instincts that thousands of years of human civilization had slowly been eroding. People are losing their ability to be tolerant and compromise because the internet has taught them they don't have to.

[Anonymous No.6124694]

>>6109931
Gamefan was good because it was essentially a magazine staffed by a bunch of legit video game nerds who were barely adults.

>>6115496
I got in trouble for having a Gamefan magazine in elementary school because of some of the ads. The reviews for Earthworm Jim 2 had just come out, so I was reading it during quiet time, and this retard kid next to me kept leaning across the aisle and trying to take the magazine from me, and the teacher thought we were being disruptive, so we got sent to "the trouble room" and the magazine was confiscated. There were all kinds of really sexual/gross/violent ads because this was 1995, and I got chewed out until I cried because I was a good kid and didn't usually get in trouble. I just wanted to read about Earthworm Jim.

>>6119101
Dave Halverson was a bag of shit.

>>6120476
>Good old Nick Rox. He's had it somewhat hard these days
I feel like most of the GameFan staff isn't doing well. A few of them made it big, but most drifted off into obscurity, or various stages of depression and failure. I feel bad, these dudes were on the frontier of the gaming craze. They were being hyper-nerds about the dorkiest, Japaneseyest shit, way before it was cool to do so. They spent the best years of their lives being exploited by a crackhead editor just so they could write video game magazines and be passionate about it. Checking any one of their social media feeds will practically drown you in tons of obscure knowledge and interesting factoids from gaming history, and yet they all feel like they're somehow out of their element now. It's shallow wannabes like PewDiePie that have amassed fame and fortune for nothing other than "liking video games", while geniune dorks like Nick and Casey are sidelined.

[Anonymous No.6124850]

>>6120235
We're less emotionally healthy both personally and in our ability to interact with others, and it manifests in more direct antipathy and anger at other humans.

[Anonymous No.6125508]

>>6124694
>>>6119101
>Dave Halverson was a bag of shit.
But he was our bag of shit. He was the sleazy interface between all those great writers and the sketchy money guys who funded the whole operation (mafia or something, I forget, the ownership of the Die Hard Game Club operation is interesting shit). Really sounds like an awful person with stories like how everyone had to race to the bank on payday so their paycheck wouldn't bounce, but he did write good shit as his E. Storm persona.

[Anonymous No.6126070]

>>6109806
found the website last year, unfortunately most magazines are in portuguese.
https://datassette.org/revistas

[Anonymous No.6126581]

>>6124418
Yeah i know mate, when i told her that those were my late father's magazines she felt really bad, i got kinda of "sad", but not really sad, it wasn't for the magazines, i got sad because of the memories they brought to me of times forever gone.