I won't ask twice.
Late 80s/early 90s Nintendo Power was a vibe, family had a subscription for several years and I wish they had kept them, after that I usually only got to read gaming magazines at the grocery store while my parents shopped.
Pretty sure I had this issue or that cover is just etched into my brain somehow. https://archive.org/details/nintendopowerissue001julyaugust1988_201908/mode/2up
This must have been something they stopped doing after a while but this issue has a phone interview with
"He's as loyal to his crew as Mario is to Luigi"
https://archive.org/details/nintendopowerissue007julyaugust1989/page/n77/mode/2up
It's like a zine but before the MAGA movement defunded all journalism so it wasn't indie.
Basic answer, but Nintendo Power, the goat.
Game Informer and Electronic Gaming Monthly were also cool, the former especially because they would get creative in April with their April Fools "Game Infarcer" special feature.
Nothing cause who in the world reads gaming magazines anymore?
I want to say I had an issue of this once, not sure.
It's a Br*tish one, but they did a magazine called Next Generation through the 90s and early 2000s for the US market that was mostly reprinted material from Edge.
Favorite issue? EGM issue #113, December 1998. 300 dang pages with OoT on the cover.
Favorite magazine? Ultra GamePlayers. No, Next Generation. No, uhhhh
EGM was kind of a big deal magazine, I remember it being a high standard.
yeah my family was poor af so the $3 magazine was really the only way i could play any games
Those old Playstation magazines that used to send out the demo discs with the late-90s jungle breaks serving as menu music
PC Gamer, I still find the demo disks in boxes of my old stuff.
one of the first if not the first iranian video game magazine called Donya ye Bazi (world of gaming). sadly they stopped publication 10 years ago now it's just a website with very low effort articles that's not worth following.
most of the issues came with a poster of upcoming releases, usually the cover art. i had a family member that covered the entirety of their walls with them. the magazine itself wasn't anything out of this world, but it was something new.
most of the issues came with a poster of upcoming releases, usually the cover art. i had a family member that covered the entirety of their walls with them. the magazine itself wasn't anything out of this world, but it was something new.
Posters are sick! I also used to collect the unofficial playstation magazine and it came with posters too, sadly I threw most of them away :/
i agree posters are sick as hell but unfortunately this magazine was before my time. the aforementioned posters are still up. it just that they have been aging for the past decade so they don't look too good.
the 24 news cycle website style journalism really lacks the excitement of biweekly magazines with sick ass posters. you can just forget about it for 2 weeks then get excited for new releases and have a cool ass poster on your wall. i wish we could go back on this front.
the 24 news cycle website style journalism really lacks the excitement of biweekly magazines with sick ass posters. you can just forget about it for 2 weeks then get excited for new releases and have a cool ass poster on your wall. i wish we could go back on this front.
I miss it too. I used to love getting my magazine in the mail and browsing all the upcoming games. The magic just isn't there anymore. I think the last good news site for gaming I used was this blog like thing called The Magic Box that covered a lot of import gaming, it was pretty cool and had a kind of indie vibe to it but it's gone too!
they've released their entire archive a few years back if you're wondering what they looked like: https://www.dbazi.com/magazine-archives
and if you can't view them because you don't understand persian or site design, skill issues.
