New show! In the wake of #GameInformer's shutdown, @danamrich.bsky.social and Dave Rudden join us to talk about five of our favorite game magazines, plus #Volgarr the Viking 2, World of Goo 2, and much more! vidjagameapocalypse.libsyn.com/magazine-mem... - ThreadSky

vgapocalypse.bsky.social • 244 days ago

New show! In the wake of #GameInformer's shutdown, @danamrich.bsky.social and Dave Rudden join us to talk about five of our favorite game magazines, plus #Volgarr the Viking 2, World of Goo 2, and much more!
https://vidjagameapocalypse.libsyn.com/magazine-memoriam-vidjagame-apocalypse-587

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darthenderx.bsky.social•243 days ago

Was so happy to see EGM in the #1 slot. That and it's sister publication, Computer Gaming World were always my favorites.

I miss gaming mags so much. Whenever I dream about being in a mall or grocery store, I still go right for the magazine racks, forgetting that they aren't there anymore...

amrawramb.bsky.social•240 days ago

SAME. When I had enough money to get a subscription I picked EGM since all my friends had GamePro, just to diversify. At first I was disappointed that it didn't have walkthroughs. I really came to appreciate my choice in the long run though, and I think it helped mature my approach to art and media.

vgapocalypse.bsky.social•244 days ago

Question of the Week: What’s the first game magazine you remember reading? Specific issues if possible.

handsomeralph.bsky.social•242 days ago

The first game magazine I vividly remember reading was EGM's December 1993 issue. I must have read through that issue dozens of times. Considering how massive game magazines were around the holidays (thanks in no part to ads), those massive Nov and Dec issues could entertain a kid like me for ages.

handsomeralph.bsky.social•242 days ago

Per last weeks answer, my degree in history led to an archivist job, that led to a personal project where I have 75% of EGM's 1989-2009 run shelved and preserved.

One of my favorite things to do on a rainy day is to grab a random issue and read through it all over again.

handsomeralph.bsky.social•242 days ago

Anyways, looking back at that issue of EGM in particular, it is funny seeing Eternal Champions being touted as a Mortal Kombat competitor when it was anything but.

boynez55.bsky.social•243 days ago

QotW: the Christmas '83 edition of Sinclair User is the first I can remember. In '84 Your Spectrum and Crash also started publication and I used to get all three most months. Now I just get Retro Gamer and read about the same ZX (zed, not zee 😉) Spectrum classics 40 years later.

chrisantistajr.bsky.social•242 days ago

While I don't remember which specific magazine was my first, I grew up overseas as an American expat in Southeast Asia in the 80s and 90s and every summer we would visit my grandparents in the U.S. and I would buy gaming mags and eventually had a big stack of them that I had brought home with me...

chrisantistajr.bsky.social•242 days ago

For years, whenever the power would go out (in the Philippines in the early 90s that could be 8-10 hours per day), I would read the same magazines over and over again, memorizing them and assuming games like Eternal Champions must have been enormous hits given the outlandish early 90s marketing.

gttjessie.bsky.social•241 days ago

My parents got me GamePro issue 64 because it had Beavis and Butthead on the cover. The big thing in that issue was showing off the Sony Playstation. Along with that they had a few pages of weird Japanese based disc systems that I would never hear about again.

jonathaneilbeck.bsky.social•244 days ago

My school had a bunch of old Ninteno magazines to read during breaks. I remember flicking through an old issue about Metroid and the Batman Brave and the Bold game.

darthenderx.bsky.social•244 days ago

QotW: The first "game magazine" I ever read was a binder of articles a friend had of photocopied articles from Nintendo Fun Club(Nintendo Power's predecessor). It was just a collection of the strategy sections, and I remember reading the walkthroughs for games like Metroid and Punch-Out.

trickthetm.bsky.social•244 days ago

QotW: I vaguely remember having EGM and Gamepro issues before this point but the first game magazine I clearly recall reading was a random issue of Nintendo Power I got at Toys R Us or Kiddie City. Looking it uolp, it was issue 44 with a pretty cool cover of Mickey Mouse for Magical Quest.

youoldsoandso.bsky.social•242 days ago

I remember the older neighbor kid who I would sometimes play NES with came over with the first issue of Nintendo Power. I remember that clay cover and the two-page spread for Super Mario Bros. 2 that detailed the four playable characters' abilities as if they were track and field athletes.

youoldsoandso.bsky.social•242 days ago

The first one I owned was the issue that was the strategy guide for Super Mario Bros. 3 and it may have been the mos glorious thing I had ever beheld up to that point in my short life. Learning the tricks to the white mushroom houses and that the card game had 8 set patterns was mindblowing.

youoldsoandso.bsky.social•242 days ago

Shouts out to the GamePro issue with NFL Blitz on the cover, the only issue I ever picked up from the newsstand, which has articles on Pocket Fighter and several other very of-the-time games, and the first annual Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook, which gave me evwn more fun out of old games I had.

amrawramb.bsky.social•243 days ago

I heard a friend in elementary school had a Nintendo Power subscription, and I convinced him to bring in his back issues and let me borrow them. I don't know what issue was first, but this would be mid-90s content. I practically memorized the WarioLand II guide for when I got it later that year.

lizardguy64.bsky.social•243 days ago

Electronic Gaming Monthly, it was a Halo issue because there were variant covers of variously colored Master Chief helmets. I only ever saw a red one and a green one in the wild.

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