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43b350 No.16349130
When the last time you had a subscription to a gaming magazine? When the last time you read a gaming magazine? How long will gaming magazine be around?
Also friendly reminder Netflix getting a magazine yet Nintendo power died years ago
33fa25 No.16349144
>would read magazines when visiting stores
>usually had nintendo things so would often look at the nintendo section of reviews
>nintendo Power was the only one who didn't give Skyward sword a 10.0 review, citing that it actually had issues
>ended up getting a subscription to it
>the magazine ends it's USA run while I have the subscription
fuck
b8e687 No.16349203
>>16349144
Nintendo Power was surprisingly fair, seemingly late into its (first) life. Also the older ones with community autism shit and bonuses inside were comfy as fuck, as were some of the other non-Nintendo mags. After the reboot it was essentially the same as all the others at the time in terms of content I think. I can't remember if it was straight up shilling, but it had no charm whatsoever so it may as well have been. It wasn't the same people behind it, it was some generic mag company I think. Probably the usual suspects.
There's a fan published followup too (if it's still around, it's probably been a few years or so now since I learned about it), but
>paying for a fanzine when it could be published online for essentially free
>most new games are shit, even Nintendo games
>there wouldn't be that charm from kids sending in their shitty fanart, letters, etc. because kids don't do magazines anymore
>instead it would be tumblrinas and manchildren writing in
>probably written by soyboy cucks too
>might even be explicitly kiked, shilling for social justice bullshit
Better to just remember what we had. I encourage anyone, nostalgic for it or not, to just torrent some magazine scans from various different magazines, not just Nintendo Power because there were other comfy ones too that I don't remember a lot about. Retromags has high quality scans. I also encourage scanning and submitting your own if it's not already scanned, for preservation purposes.
925d03 No.16349253
I used to read maximum pc and pcgamer, but maximum pc got eaten up by pcgamer and later pcgamer turned into Political Correct Gamer
bd3b3a No.16349263
>>16349130
>When the last time you had a subscription to a magazine of any kind?
never have
>When the last time you read a gaming magazine?
uhh, 10 years?
>How long will gaming magazine be around?
they still are?
33fa25 No.16350092
>>16349203
>because there were other comfy ones too that I don't remember a lot about.
Gamepro was one of them
>had the one detailing combos and special moves in Primal Rage
>said next issue would contain fatalities and how to become "Ruler of Urth"
>would tell you the input to eat worshippers too
<never got it because no subscription
I'm still mad.
3d71a8 No.16350178
Eons ago. Gaming magazines have been dead for so long they're like a hazy dream.
c6ec39 No.16350183
Decades ago i used to read what basically was the italian version of Nintendo Power. It ended it's run together with the american version. Good fucking times.
a0bc57 No.16350192
>>16349203
If what you say is true it must be something to do with having power in the title: Amiga Power was also fair.
ecf2af No.16350612
I subscribed to Retro, but the faggots never sent me the second and third issues, and ignored me when I told them about it.
656247 No.16350799
>still in elementary
>parents were still together
>dad would buy vidya magazines and we would play vidya like metal gear solid and spyro together
>despite the covers with half naked drawings of vidya girls nobody thought it was inappropriate or sexist or anything
>life was slow, happy and careless
>it will never come back
oh fuck, thank you OP, way to ruin my day, again.
1386db No.16351088
Sega Vision and Sierra InterAction magazines. Everything else I just picked up at retail for the demo disks when something interested me.
ce1fc2 No.16351112
I used to pick up Computer Gaming World whenever I saw it in a store, might still have a demo disk or two lying around somewhere. I still remember playing BF1942: Secret Weapons of WWII and Everquest 2 from those disks.
There was also a weird-ass section at the back for "after-dark" style articles by this one guy. I remember one article about people making bank as Twi'lek strippers in Star Wars Galaxies.
Pic related, pretty sure I had this exact issue.
ea3a21 No.16351124
It's absolute and complete dogshit, but every issue they give away steam codes for vidya, so if there's something that interests me, then I might consider buying it from time to time.
There were a lot more of magazines with discs that had full games on them, which allowed me to aquire some discs with a few lesser known older titles but they have been chewed out. I still have a shit ton of discs at home.
a6fbf2 No.16351127
http://read.ukprintarchive.com/EMAP/Nintendo%20Offical%20Magazine/
Posted in another thread. An archive old UK Nintendo magezines. The letter sections are my favourite. Terrible child opinions and console war baiting galore.
f23c82 No.16351270
No one reads magazines anymore
3d7651 No.16351315
>>16351270
Yeah, internet news sites have seen to that unfortunately, and not just with vidya but with everything. It's a shame because magazines always had a nice feel to them that reading an article online just can't replicate. Probably has something to do with them spending a month making each issune instead of just typing up an article in a couple of hours and posting it.
9e958f No.16351321
I used to subscribe to GamePro back when I had an NES and Genesis, but then I changed PSM when I got a PS1. I loved all the artwork in PSM even if it didn't accurately represent the games, but I cancelled when they started putting less and less artwork in the magazine.
a64a7a No.16351322
I used to buy one on a 2hr ferry ride when traveling. That was how I decided which upcoming games to get. Enjoyed the PC magazines as well. Shame they all went sjw and corrupt and embarrassed their profession and families.
f65214 No.16351333
>>16349130
>When the last time you had a subscription to a gaming magazine?
Game Informer
>When the last time you read a gaming magazine?
I've actually gone back and read many pdfs of mags I liked back in the day like CGW and EGM. Game journos were always retarded, but I must admit, I found EGM to mostly fun to read back again, while Computer Gaming World was a lot worse than I recall it was always full of smug liberal cunts from Silicon Valley. Next Generation had some of the best features and interviews, but their reviews were always written as an afterthought. Most console specific mags were always suspect. OXM was tripe and Nintendo Power was always lame. Never read the Playstation mags. Sega mags were not too bad, especially for the Saturn and Dreamcast.
>How long will gaming magazine be around?
They're dead OP.
ac6eaa No.16351341
>>16349130
I used to collect some of them. Because I never really had any magazines growing up (Besides the occasional Gamepro magazine) they're an interesting way of looking back into the past.
d2fb8e No.16351350
>>16349130
My middle school used to have yearly magazine sales as a fundraiser. I don't remember them selling gaming magazines, but every year in middle school I did the sales my parents let me have a subscription to Nick magazine which used to have some gaming stuff. I wish I kept some of the magazines looking back.
The fundraiser prize tiers weren't bad surprisingly. I just wish I had more friends who did the sales so we could have done the group prize events together.
5f54b1 No.16351424
>>16351321
That Silent Hill 2 cover always makes me smile.
b98e3e No.16351469
>>16351127
oh god, some of this shit is hilarious
3f980a No.16351485
I only got a subscription to Nintendo Power. It was pretty good for checking out the few good games there were early on in the 3DS' lifespan, because as >>16349144 and >>16349203 said, they were fair. They're a podcast now, but it's not appealing when they're doing the same thing every person with a mic does on the internet. I would much rather enjoy it if they ran a webizine or something similar to Kanzenshuu.
c68c2e No.16351503
>>16351469
The third one is true, though. Competition is good for the market and especially for the consumer.
47a578 No.16351576
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>>16351503
Yeah. There's a reason why the 4th gen era was that good.
2a1e3b No.16351755
Subscribed to EGM up until they died. Heard they came back but never picked it up figuring it'd be shit like almost everything else that comes back.
a6fbf2 No.16352261
>>16351469
At one point there was some kind of war between Pokemon fans and wrestling fans, who both hated the other getting space in the magezine.
a6fbf2 No.16352268
OI! Gordon! You got a loicense for that princess?
ab609d No.16355404
>>16351127
There's also an almost complete archive of NGC on Archive.org and I've seen some early issues of NGamer floating around
>You will never read another article about an imported doki doki marjo shinpan game
e1a953 No.16355656
>used to be subscribed to some PC magazine which sprinkles its game reviews with fun puns and humor
>called Fallout 3 for what it was back in the day, a mediocre RPG with a 5/10 score, pretty cool
>then they started to pull covers and articles like "are video games SEXIST?", put Fallout 4 a 6/10 while it was even worse than 3 and even put an article praising the fucking Sarah Butts pedo because ">she was harassed so >she fought back"
I stopped caring for them ever since.
0accfd No.16355684
>>16351124
this but from 2009
anyway, magazines had a fucking soul, today's clickbait corpo-sites don't
and the above magazine's claim to fame (full games for cheap) stopped being relevant (IMO) when it became steam codes instead of actual data on the disks, but of course they couldn't do anything about that
to this day, though, I'm amazed that the above mag (at least the issues from my childhood - say 2000-2005) managed to include so many good fucking games - and you will pay more for these games today on GOG than back then, plus you got the magazine…
conclusion: internet killed magazines and everything else it seems
f66c2c No.16355710
>fucking love Gamepro, Tips & Tricks, and PSM in the 90s
>get a subscription to PSM in the early days of the PS3
>quality's lower than I remember, but still alright
>PSM becomes Official PlayStation Magazine
>quality drops like a fucking rock
Not touching new mags.
a6fbf2 No.16357755
>>16355404
I still have quite a few of these old NOMs that I don't think are archived anywhere. Guess I should scan them, but I'm lazy, and don't have a scanner on hand. Maybe I'll pour through them and pick out some highlights for you boys some day. I'm itching to read those "racist" Bobby Tokyo columns again, and the rest of the Seal of No Quality pages.
a6fbf2 No.16357882
Okay, I'm going in. Will have to acquire a scanner to do this properly, but here's a quick parting gift from me to you.
b3ae3b No.16357887
2006-ish? I don't fucking remember.
1c1ce8 No.16357898
Used to have a subscription to PC Gamer. Not sure if Dragon magazine (for D&D) counts, but used to have that as well. No idea when I stopped getting PC Gamer (far back enough that it's probably around the year when the Library of Alexandria burned down), but I ended up getting Dragon until it stopped coming out in print.
7ec6da No.16357924
I used to read PSM all the time in class back in middle school with my friends.
Good times
4a39b5 No.16357951
>>16351112
Computer Gaming World was awesome, I had a subscription up until they went under. They once sent out a demo disk with nothing but full games, that's how I got Deus Ex.
>>16355710
Sorry to hear you feel that way, I always liked OPM.
784881 No.16357983
I used to have a complete PC Accelerator collection of every issue they ever printed, and I loved it more than anything. The editors and writers truly did not give a shit and often got in trouble for talking shit about developers, completely torpedoing certain games/publishers and talking nonstop about how great tits are. I loved that magazine so much
a6fbf2 No.16358042
>>16357983
That sounds wonderful. It was a better time.
784881 No.16358047
24e779 No.16358059
>>16357975
>Bad Day?
>Take it out of canada
Canada would probably enjoy it.
eb39d8 No.16358073
I think I let go of Nintendo Power somewhere around issue #180.
ac0188 No.16358128
>>16357882
I know a guy who can give you tips on how to properly scan those and get the highest quality scans.
Try asking on >>>/scan/ for help, I'm sure he'll pop up and reply if you leave a post there.
a6fbf2 No.16358134
>>16358128
I don't actually have a scanner. Those are photos.
4a39b5 No.16358148
>>16358047
>>16357983
I never heard of this magazine before, so I went and downloaded one at random. It was great, I'll have to get some more. Thanks for the heads up.
32d224 No.16358512
>>16349130
Saw this at the store earlier today. Does Fortnite's demographic even read magazines?
cbfd4e No.16358518
>>16358512
I saw a fucking Apex Legends magazine on the rack in a supermarket in Australia.
I just don't get it. Did EA fucking pay a dying industry to make a magazine to compete with the Fortnite magazines to make it look like it was as popular or something?
I bet the print industry pounced on that cheque like a slut impaling herself on a cock for that sweet drug money.
d2fb8e No.16358526
>>16358512
>>16358518
I've seen magazines about the Emoji movie and fidget spinners. Either there's enough idiots reading that garbage to justify it, or there's money laundering involved.
2843a2 No.16358527
>>16358512
>Does Fortnite's demographic even read magazines?
>read
Pretty sure they just get their mommy to buy the "weird looking tablet" and look at the pretty pictures.That sentence hurt to type, and I desperately want to be wrong
d897e2 No.16358530
non burger here, never had a subscription, but occasionally got local gamin magazines from the magazine stands years ago
not really bothering with them ever since smartphones got popular though, i have better ways to waste my time
2d06a4 No.16358581
>>16349130
>When the last time you had a subscription to a gaming magazine?
Never. I'd just go to the newsagent once a month.
>When the last time you read a gaming magazine?
No fucking clue. At least a decade ago.
>How long will gaming magazine be around?
lol I thought they were already all gone. Hell, the ones that mattered died a long time ago. It still surprises me to see people going to the trouble of publishing print magazines. Not even doctor's waiting rooms need them anymore - most people have phones which double as e-readers.
9c97b4 No.16358601
>>16349130
>Netflix getting a magazine
Reminder netflix WILL put marxist bullshit along with their special pronouns in their mags as elaborate monthly propaganda pamphlets
be4644 No.16358605
magazines really died when they decided to kill Shareware and Previews of upcoming games
reason why Game Informer is still going strong (even thou they are really dick riding to get their access)
5758c7 No.16358614
>>16358605
The only reason Game Informer is still being published is because it's forced onto everyone via (((Gamestop's))) paid loyalty program.
be4644 No.16358619
>>16358614
no they sometimes have gameplay footage like months before other publications or anyone can even get access
2d06a4 No.16358625
>>16358605
>magazines really died when they decided to kill Shareware and Previews of upcoming games
God I miss shareware. It was fucking fantastic.
I couldn't tell you how many hours I spent on sites like HappyPuppy just trying out whatever new shit was up.
a62389 No.16358672
I think the last one I was subscribed to was EMG, and that was, oh my fuck, the last issue I got was like 2002 probably.
71b199 No.16358694
We had a magazine in Australia called 'Hyper'. It was generally humorous, full of inside jokes, running gags with the writers and pretty fair reviews and in-depth breakdowns of games. Then they got picked up by a new publisher, changed their review system from 0-100 to 0-10 and gave the Witcher Definitive Edition a 10. Something they'd never done before. No game ever earned a perfect 100 because their philosophy was that there was no perfect game. I was a teen at the time and dropped the mag instantly as soon as I saw they'd gone against their values. It's a fucking shame because they really were good times had reading them. That was the same year my parents separated.
2d06a4 No.16358708
>>16358694
I remember NMS (Nintendo Magazine System) giving Super Mario 64 a score of 99 saying something to the effect of "Well, we couldn't possibly give it 100% now could we?"
71b199 No.16358712
>>16358708
It's a good standard to adhere to. There's no such thing as a 100/100 game because that game can't possibly appeal to everyone or get absolutely everything right.
The issue they made the jump and instantly handed out a 10 was the issue they died.
2d06a4 No.16358720
>>16358712
I'm sad that Hyper's old website from the 90s is gone. I used to troll there like crazy when I was a kid.
71b199 No.16358724
>>16358720
I don't think they exist at all anymore. The site is long dead and I threw out all my old magazines. The fanart, letters and editorials were great reads. Plenty of trolling had there too.
f79c4c No.16358748
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>>16351112
>There was also a weird-ass section at the back for "after-dark" style articles by this one guy. I remember one article about people making bank as Twi'lek strippers in Star Wars Galaxies.
That was Robert Coffey, and he had an unhealthy obsession with his SWG alt-life
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cc17a6 No.16358767
>>16349130
I only bought those magazines for the demo disks.
7212e1 No.16358780
Never had subscriptions, and the closest I used to get once in a while was the Pojo Pokémon magazines. They primarily were aimed at the TCG and the anime but occasionally focused on the games. One of the issues I need to dig out of, somewhere or other in the house, is the one that had a walkthrough of Pokémon Gold and Silver but based on the Japanese version. So all of the names of places were romanized, "Mirutank" for example. It was only a few pages long but of course was nicely laid out and actually, from memory, pretty solid in terms of advice. Nothing like telling you to use a Master Ball on a Fearow.
a6fbf2 No.16359331
Went in for some full page shots. Didn't come out as bad as expected. You can just about make out all of the text.
>Eric Wong btfo
0bc1a1 No.16359358
>>16358526
>magazines about fidget spinners
32d224 No.16359525
>>16358526
I posted this late summer almost 2 years ago. Is this what you're referring to?
(There was also one about Cisbusters the year before, but I didn't save that one. Same store put all the Cisbusters stuff on clearance within a week or 2 of starting to sell anything because they wanted to get rid of it. I imagine most stores did something similar.)
a2226d No.16359561
>>16358512
>>16358518
>>16359525
How does that shit make it into magazines nowadays? Aren't the respective demographics children with no attention span to read anything?
0bc1a1 No.16359571
>>16359561
probably "no attention span to read anything BUT this shit"
e92201 No.16359572
>>16359525
Just think of all the trees that had to die to produce this garbage. All the homes to so many animals wiped out so some slack jawed dipshit could shell out a couple bucks to learn fidget spinner tricks they could've just looked up online instead and read the book version of one of the dumbest, most soulless and worst movies ever made. Humanity is a goddamn cancer on the Earth.
f54b16 No.16360492
Being a spic and remembering old gaming magazines it's pure pain, specially when you were poor and couldn't afford any of the games there, and now as an adult not remembering them.
I remember there was this magazine advertising survival horror games, specially Code Veronica X since it just came out, there was an article about that Mickey Mouse Magical Mirror game for game cube, I think they also had a section about animal crossing. I clearly remember 2 articles as well talking about Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance and what I think was a game that looked a lot like Demon Crest, but for the life of me can't remember the name of the game. Don't even know if it was the same magazine. There were a lot of gaming magazines in south america at that time, and I got a couple. They really shaped me, because I longed for those games even when I couldn't afford them.
I did find a magazine I read back then about anime that changed me, though, there I learned about hentai. It was called Minami. This always gets me really nostalgic, I had the multimedia CD and everything.
fa09c1 No.16360642
>>16360492
Que curioso, yo también compraba las revistas como Club Nintendo porque no podía comprar los juegos, y tambien terminamos aquí los dos.
f54b16 No.16360929
>>16360642
La verdad, solo quiero saber cual era la puta revista. La documentación de esta clase de revistas es casi inexistentesY las mías la boto mi mama cuando vio lo del hentaiexcepto las de club nintendo que todavía las tengo.
f65214 No.16360989
Ad for Rent-a-Hero that never got released in the US.
>>16358748
>Robert Coffey
That faggot rated Postal 2 zero stars because the humor didn't appeal to his soy filled lifestyle. Also, remember the nog who wrote editorial in the magazine's hardware section?
f65214 No.16361037
>>16357951
>Cuckold Gaming World was awesome
d8e2f3 No.16361072
>>16349203
>>there wouldn't be that charm from kids sending in their shitty fanart, letters, etc. because kids don't do magazines anymore
>>instead it would be tumblrinas and manchildren writing in
That's what it always was, anon
5353a2 No.16361091
>>16361037
>30 dollars to have some piece of shit insult you all year long
I'm starting to believe people were more ignorant in the past than they are right now.
6aa49c No.16361296
>>16358605
Shareware was an amazing form of advertisement.
Just fucking put up a tiny part of the game out for free, if it's good people will buy it.
Nowadays of course it won't fly, (((games))) became garbage finds for the scum of society.
eeaec2 No.16361320
>>16361091
It's mostly that almost everyone didn't read these big whining editorials that weren't about video games because they were fucking boring and the only reason you would pay for a video game rag was to read about new video games.
0f1043 No.16361332
>>16361320
Yeah I remember way back when I had a Game Informer subscription as a kid I'd skip all of that boring shit and read the reviews and teasers.
Then I dropped my subscription because I noticed as the years went by there was less interesting video game stuff and more and more of these shitty opinion pieces.
5dee68 No.16361379
>>16349144
>Nintendo Power was the only one who didn't give Skyward sword a 10.0 review, citing that it actually had issues
Just looked this up to make sure, because I remembered everoyne riding SS's dick. Don't think NP gave out too many perfect scores. But yeah, what's the deal with that, almost every major reviewer gave SS a perfect score. I liked it but it isn't 10/10 material
5dee68 No.16361407
>>16358512
>>16358518
Literally people trying to make a quick buck. I read about this in some shitty self help book. Profit margin on magazines is large enough to warrant publishing something for a few months for the latest meme royale game. This is also why you saw tons of cringey Minecraft publications in your local Barnes and Noble. They don't need to sell too many to get a profit.
72f6c1 No.16361410
>>16357755
>animal cruelty
>drugs
>chinks eat dogs
Man they would never print that today.
70e729 No.16361418
>>16351321
>that ff cover of a manly tidus instead of the twink faggot that he really is
What alternate universe is this and why didn't we get that fucking game instead?
a6fbf2 No.16361439
>>16361410
This was an official Nintendo product too. I have no idea how that happened, other than no one was looking. Nintendo didn't have huge success in the UK during the GC era, so I guess they just handed it over to whoever and let them get on with it.
They actually re-branded and laid off all of the old staff when the Wii came out. I stopped reading there.
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f79c4c No.16364058
>>16361037
huh, never knew Coffey was such a homo, he's even bigger faggot than Sean Molloy
5abea9 No.16364246
>>16358512
>>16358518
>>16359525
>come into thread for feels
>feel nothing but rage
Why do I do this to myself?
9ad395 No.16364270
Still subbed to nintendo force, basically the spiritual successor to nintendo power. Even though you can get all news online it's nice to read something physical and get a poster. Plus the staff isn't pozzed, head chief is a southern guy with a white family
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5f54b1 No.16364276
>>16361418
Joe Mad lives in a manlier world than the rest of us.
9df4f5 No.16364282
>>16357975
>As you play Metal Gear Solid, you should feel the same intensity as in a movie"
He has literally never wanted to make a video game.
9df4f5 No.16364309
>>16358047
>article on "Quake killers"
>lists Half Life as not being released yet
>September 1998
Oh, I am laughing.
a6fbf2 No.16364311
>>16364282
It's a good way to design a game. Making you feel like you're acting out a movie is very different to just showing the player a movie.
412a5f No.16365854
>>16361037
>one more C&C inflicted on humanity is merely a bad idea
Wow what a colossal fucking faggot
459e73 No.16365907
>>16351124
When did it become so fucking trash?
When they retired kusoge review section with hits like Limbo of the Lost, Big Rigs, Bad rats?
or was it always bad other than the cheap games.
d2fb8e No.16373174
>>16364263
I'm starting to think people are shooting up the wrong schools.
dde46a No.16383674
>>16364263
Does the intended demographic of retards actually read that?