I wish there was a proper retro video game magazine being published, this Bonger publication is fluffy bullshit. They can publish abject falsehoods like this and everyone just smiles and nods.
Retro Gamer
I wish there was a proper retro video game magazine being published, this Bonger publication is fluffy bullshit. They can publish abject falsehoods like this and everyone just smiles and nods.
>be a games journo for a shitty magazine read by neclbeard 12 year old kids who think they know about video games.
>fill them with false information.
Good lad. Doing Gods work.
There are a couple in my country, they're like 200 pages magazine that cost 15€ but 95% of the content is wikipedia information and generic screenshots/official art. Basically "REMEMBER THIS? OH YEAH SO DO WE!"
But the remaining 5% are interviews which, sometimes, can be interesting.
That sounds more like a mook.
Starting one would be a horrible idea.
It's the past, so your subject matter is inherently limited. You will never have anything new to write about, ever. Youtubers are running into this problem, and it would happen much faster with a 'magazine' publication.
You've never actually read any of those magazines. There are plenty of new things they talk about, re-releases, ports, remakes, emulator news and other retro events etc
Starting one would be horrible because it's the age of the internet. Only a niche of a niche of a nich will bother with it.
>These people need to play video games
>They also are deep into older games
>They are willing to fork out money for a magazine rather than just picking any random bloke on YouTube or a dedicated website for it that they can get for free
What can you offer that putting something onto the internet is unable to do outside of physical pages in your hands?
Especially when you consider just how many younger retrogamers are in it as much for the "community" and parasocial relationships with YouTubers and streamers as they are for the games themselves.
I feel it could even still work now, most companies were just retards about it. Firstly make it a subscription, all the HQ scans are viewable on the website and for a higher price you can get a physical magazine shipped to you. Now here's where you do something other gaming mags didn't think to do, cut down on costs by only shipping to people who subscribed, no printing tons of magazines and have them clogging up stands, maybe do that once a year to get new subscribers though. Use the internet site to publish shit that shouldn't be in the magazine like stories that should be updated over time. Take user submitted articles, all you need is a few people to review them and fact check them and since it's a retro game magazine you can store some of them for later when things dry up a bit. With a dedicated team of autists it'd be easily doable and maybe even slightly profitable.
>Now here's where you do something other gaming mags didn't think to do, cut down on costs by only shipping to people who subscribed, no printing tons of magazines and have them clogging up stands, maybe do that once a year to get new subscribers though.
It's significantly more expensive to print 50 copies than 300 copies, if you don't own the printing press yourself. Not to mention shipping to individual addresses, as opposed to shipped to a few places and have the places bother with distribution.
>Take user submitted articles, all you need is a few people to review them and fact check them and since it's a retro game magazine you can store some of them for later when things dry up a bit.
Potential for copyright infringement.
>With a dedicated team of autists it'd be easily doable and maybe even slightly profitable.
Easily doable, but you would not make profit to offset the cost of time and opportunity costs.
The easiest thing to do is setup a WordPress, start writing, put few sentences out of each article on Twitter, and say fuck it.
There's just so much about the past that hasn't been uncovered. So many games that could have been big that didn't have their stories told, so many developers with interesting histories that we only get brief glimpses of. There is no practical limit to the stories that could be told.
the retro cut-off keeps moving though, so once he will have covered most of the ancient consoles, talking about PS360 will become acceptable
only 2-3 more years until it's allowed on /vr/ btw
There's thousands upon thousands of video games that have never been discussed in any English print medium. You ever read an article about Little Master Nijiiro no Maseki? What about Lipple Island? Noon? Kisekko Gurumi? Metal Orange?
You could publish the magazine monthly, cover 200 cool games every issue, and keep up that pace for like fifty years. A mix of mega-obscure stuff, the more well known hidden gems, and classics that deserve more attention.
The problem is that magazines don't spend that much coverage on obscure stuff. The covers will always be
>Zelda
>Mario
>Mega Man
>Castlevania
>Metal Gear
>Resident Evil
>etc
i've seen retro magazines also cover Wii shit
Noon is a fucking great mulitplayer game
I mostly play it because I really want the elf girl to sit on my face, but I do respect its merits as a puzzle game as well.
Why? The people writing it would be horrible humans who hate video games and are simply out to grift you.
There used to be a decent retro mag I was subscribed to but they dropped my country a few years ago
Just be happy they're around because magazines aren't gonna be here much longer.
I think Super Castlevania IV got a crazy late rerelease for the SNES around that time. I distinctly remember getting it brand new in a store at an absurdly late time. It came with a black and white manual.
Majesco published some budget rereleases of earlier SNES titles, and it looks like SCIV was one of them. Maybe the writer of the article was confused?
Just start a zine. Ask people to send video game reviews, whatever. /vr/zine.
That's a typo, you imbecile. I read the magazine. All the staff are old journos and industry figures. They were all working in the industry when the Super Famicom was released. Some long before, even. They know when the game came out. This is just another thinly veiled attack on the old U.K. industry. Get a fucking life, you sad, pathetic, petty attention whore cunt. Stick to reading your 100 word reviews/glorified ads in your own dog shit vidya mags.
was the "one of the last games" part a typo too? wasn't even true for europe it came out in 92 there
Yeah, journos can make mistakes. So can entire industries. CRRAAAAASSSSHHHH! Now post a Yuro fuck up of equal magnitude. You know you can't. Stones, glass houses. I know we could hold that over your heads until the end of time because no one else could ever be that incompetent. And you're done. Stop bringing up flags. You're just going to get squashed.
Meds, schizo
>when facts are inconvenient; when the truth hurts, just accuse everyone else of being a nutcase
You're in no position to question anyone else's mental health. Have at least some self awareness, loony capital of the western world.
Nope.
The WORLD.
That is a lot of typo. So much typo the whole paragraph is wrong.
There's so much incorrect that it isn't just a typo.
>Super Castlevania IV was another great release from Konami and one of the first releases for the SNES in Europe in 1992
Would be accurate
Found the britshart
Go suck your nonce president's cock.
I recommend Reload Magazine.
>magazine
>in 2023
for what porpoise?
Exactly sister, books are obsolete. I can easily switch effortlessly between my retro game content and my sissy hypno on my iPhone. Try doing that with your crusty paper magazines for old people.
>Try doing that with your crusty paper magazines for old people.
You could try not being a sissy.
>I wish there was a proper retro video game magazine being published
Magazines are dead bro, you're not getting any better than a a thin glossy book with pretty pictures to look at and even the staff knows that no one is going to read this shit, just look at the pictures and then probably just kill bugs with it afterwards.