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I went to retromags and downloaded the 200GB torrent of every game magazine they have and I've been going through a lot of them; my favorite era is 1993-1996 because it's when SNES games were getting stupidly good and companies were putting out a lot of experimental stuff. Reading this stuff as an adult, Game Player's is the most readable and EGM is pretty bad (just from a grammar and interest standpoint). I also noticed Game Player's "predictions/rumors" were 99% on the mark and the "Quarterman" rumor section of EGM was 80% full of poo poo. I am dying to read Game Player's review of Illusion of Gaia but there's some issues missing in the RetroMags torrent and of course that's one of them. If anyone knows which issue it's in, please let me know. I'll buy it on eBay and scan it. Mercury Crusader posted:I had a bunch of posts in the Retro Goon Gaming Club thread where I dove into old Nintendo Power magazines (and a few times Sega Visions) to give an idea of what magazines were talking about during games being discussed in the thread at the time. Some folks seemed to enjoy it, so here's a batch of them in that thread. And here's me quote-posting the first of that batch, wherein I talk about the Top 30/20 charts and how weird they were calculated. How the hell did Nintendo Power still have SNES charts in December 1998? There were zero games released that year!
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Did anyone enter the Nintendo Power contests? I never did until the Killer Instinct arcade cabinet one, in 1995 or so. I never wanted something so bad in my life. I think I sent away 30 postcards or something. I got 3rd prize which was just some Mario t-shirt. I ended up buying my own Killer Instinct machine as a high school freshman in 1997 making $4.50 an hour as a stockboy. I found some guy on the other side of the country selling it for $400 on a newsgroup and I had to pick the thing up from the local airport with my dad's friend who had a pickup.
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May 1, 2020 00:57
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I miss the Super Power Club pamphlets so much. I want an Illusion of Gaia baseball hat so bad
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Detective No. 27 posted:There's a current game magazine called Retro Game Magazine from the UK that I've been wanting to subscribe to for over a decade. It's pricey. I could do it anytime. But I feel like as soon as I pull the trigger, they will announce it's ending. You mean Retro Gamer? I subscribe and it's fantastic. I like getting the print version in the mail. It makes me feel like a kid again. A couple months ago they had an entire cover dedicated to the SNES Shadowrun and in that issue they got the developer to release a code that went undiscovered for 27 years.
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Jul 2, 2020 20:27
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Coffee Jones posted:
oh man I remember reading about that "Cafe Eblana" website and wanting a computer SO BAD so I could visit it because I was a huge FF6 nerd in junior high. I would do anything to find an archive of it!
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Sep 30, 2020 01:51
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Is there a way to download a torrent of all the GameFan issues from Archive.org? Oddly enough, RetroMags does not keep scans of them because apparently someone who still holds the copyright to GameFan issues (WTF?) asked them not to or something?
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Has anyone found a place that has scanned issues of Game Players/Ultra Game Players that isn't archive.org? Looking for the most complete collection possible and manually searching through archive.org is a slog and I can't help but feel like I'm missing a ton of stuff because of how odd their search behaves.
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