I'd give anything to bring back the feeling I felt thumbing through a 400 page holiday season EGM.
I'd give anything to bring back the feeling I felt thumbing through a 400 page holiday season EGM.
I'd give anything to bring back the feeling I felt thumbing through a 400 page holiday season EGM.
real
>400 pages
Half of them were ads I bet.
Ads back then had SOVL
Hobbyconsolas was like that in late 90s early 2000s
EGM was pretty ad-choked. There's multiple instances in this issue alone of companies that bought 10 sequential pages of ads. I wouldn't have it any other way though.
this mag got me in trouble as a kid
lots of booba adverts
>fear effect
>some random alien game with a lady getting abducted in a silk skimpy nightgown
>jokes about people taking prozac
>parasite eve
i miss print media but realistically i would feel like im hoarding trash if i repurchased
I have a huge collection of old magazines and whenever I have some cash burning a hole in my pocket I'll usually purchase an old issue or two. They're usually my bathroom reading or if I feel like maximizing cozy I'll read them while taking a bath. I love reading old reviews of games, old rumors that never game to fruition and seeing pictures of early versions of games that differ from the final versions. Recommended.
I'm a huge mark for 1994 in general and this era is notable for the future of gaming feeling so bright. 16-bit hit it's apex here with games like DKC and Final Fantasy III feeling like a significant step above what had come a year prior. The next gen was just around the corner and it seemed like there were so many places gaming could go. The Playstation and Saturn were a huge leap in technology and Nintendo's mysterious Project Reality was promising full 3D worlds. On top of that, you had a half dozen other systems fighting for a piece of the pie. PCs were proving they could do action games just as well as consoles and arcades were still relevant. It was a really exciting time to be a gamer.
>tfw i threw all my game magazines away decades ago
Game Informer was the best, that's why ~~*they*~~ won't let us have any archives of it.
GI had less pages but they did a good job of making use of their space. I also like the dedicated retro game section they had.
Pre-social media internet could be pretty damn soulful
Yeah where are all the GI archives at? Do they get taken down?
Is that because they are the only magazine still being published?
>video games magazines
those were the good old days the internet is a mistake and is soulless
>not exclusively using pdfs of old video game magazines to discover retro games
Would you rather listen to a cool guy who worked for a 90s video game magazine or some opinionated homosexual from here who says "waah shitty" like a useless modern reviewer.
EGM had the best special edition or Christmas time magazines. Still remember their Dreamcast and PS2 launch mags, and the 350 page Christmas issue with Donkey Kong 64 on the cover where they reviewed about 80 games and multiple ones got full or even multipage reviews
Here you go losers
https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_65
Whew - dodged a bullet there.
One thing amusing about reading these issues of this era is reading letters from guys who are like "Yeah I'm done with that kiddy SNES and Genesis shit, I'm upgrading to a 3D0!"
Guarantee at least one of those letters are from Joe Redifer
Oh man, I'm surprised someone hasn't scoured old magazines looking for letters sent in from modern e-celebs...kinda like how you can find old Wrestling Observer letters from Joe Silva questioning the authenticity of Pancrase matches.
I'm too lazy to do it and it would probably get jannied anyway but a storytime for this issue would be awesome.
i was a Game Players kid
They had the best sense of humor. At least when you're 13 and it's the 90s.
Yeah, the "lore" they came up with was unlike anything they had seen before. They also encouraged their reader base (15 year olds on Surge) to send in the craziest letters that they could come up with. The reviews are better written and have more personality than most other magazines of that era. They had a real disaffected Gen Xer vibe. Out of all the magazines, it feels the most like a 90s time capsule.
that was me basically
just a little younger
still have like 3 years from 92-95 in a box at my moms with all my cracked and mad magazines
Good magazine.
Thanks for sharing
Agree
It's still there. Just keep learning.
I only had Nintendo power for a season
Absolute blessing. Say what you want
All those platforms listed at the top, plus PC, Amiga, Lynx and random ass LCD games. This cross-nexus of hardware gens at the cusp of the full 3D era was the greatest, most saturated era for the senses.
The game industry is far bigger nowadays but back then, the sheer amount of consoles and dueling technologies plus the rate everything was growing made everything seem so much more alive and interesting.
me too. it was a better time. even liked the advertisements better
I think that particular EGM is the largest game magazine ever published in North America.
I had this issue. I was used to get imported magazines here in Brazil and EGM was one of them. I had to pay 10 bucks for each issue at the time.