Good memories. I know for a fact Wil Overton was going through his old Super Play covers recently (the actual paintings) and I'm pretty sure that Pop 'n' Twinbee one was one of the ones in the pile he posted on the other site 😁
Is the PSM2 magazine supposed to be Sora from Kingdom Hearts?? It looks nothing like him unless you think of the much more recent KH4 trailer, so what’s going on here?
I will never get tired of grabbing a random retro video game mag off the shelf and giving it a flip through.
Something about reading excitement about 'upcoming' games and systems that came out decades ago is so fascinating, really takes you back.
That magazine cover listing both the Game Boy and the DS... I often forget that there was a brief moment in Nintendo history where both handheld families kind of co-existed.
Yeah, I'm not sure why they're listing GameCube and Game Boy by that point, late 2007, as the magazine has no news or reviews for either. I'll have to check my other issues of ONM and see how long it carried on for as I feel it must have been just a holdover by that point.
Memories. I still have the copy of PlayStation magazine where they covered the Final Fantasy series. I remember they used to get a ton of letters in because they gave FF8 an 8 out of 10.
Aha, there certainly is, I've been publishing one for a year now inspired by zines of the 80s and 90s and there are a handful of other zine projects on the go.
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Something about reading excitement about 'upcoming' games and systems that came out decades ago is so fascinating, really takes you back.
Zzap!64s too, a few of which made a cameo in a review I wrote some time ago: https://www.stuff.tv/review/the-c64-mini-review/