My New Thing Is Downloading And Reading Retro Gaming Magazines

[humminbird]

Why?

lol it's because they're in this box with old comics and stuff
I never got to cleaning it out

 

[Womb Raider]

Game Informer was MY shyt

 

[RennisDeynolds]

lol it's because they're in this box with old comics and stuff
I never got to cleaning it out

Them comics worth anything

 

[Dre Space Age]

Gamefan had the best layouts, best color, hottest quality paper besides NextGen and extra anime. Lots of fan service

 

[JoelB]

I was always EGM gang, but GameFan was like the Cadillac of game mags.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I was doing that with EGM, GameFan, and GamePro

 

[BobbyWojak]

Was thinking about some old GamePro and Nintendo Power issues I had back in the early 2000s. Eventually stumbled onto this site and had my mind blown.

Video Game Magazines

GamePro Magazines

www.retromags.com

I’ve been trying to find these particular issues that I owned. All I remember from the GamePro one was that there was a Telken 4 preview and a Spider-Man The Movie Game preview in the Nintendo Power. Been about 20 years since I had those two magazines but as soon as I saw the pictures the memories started hitting me. I started checking out other issues and almost fell down a rabbit hole. This shyt is like a time machine and the best part is they seem to have damn near every copy on here.

This was slightly before my time but it’s crazy to think there was a time where all your video game infos and previews would come from a damn magazine that came out once a month.

I have a cardboard box full of OXM and game informer magazines from my childhood (07'-12) but I'd love to get some of those older copies of gamepro and tips and tricks

so many memories

If anyone is interested, giant bomb had a series showing the demo discs that would come with these magazines, they came with interviews, b roll and other strange early 2000's content lost to time. I can't vouch for the new content since giant bomb changed a couple years ago but their older stuff, 2014-17 is still really good. A time capsule with some commentary.

Demo Derby: Official Xbox Magazine 039

We choose to believe that wherever Johnny is today, he's still rockin'.

www.giantbomb.com

for free on archive.org

 

[Grand Conde]

Reading gaming magazines back in the day was always cool, shame print media - mags in particular - are going/have gone the way of the dodo because the era of internet video game journalism is assssssssssss.

 

[MikelArteta]

Used to go to the grocery store and copy codes from tips and tricks