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found this account on Mastodon and seems like a cool project trying to preserve some nice video game history

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what magazines did you read as a kid? EGM was my favorite

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me and my brother would sit in the magazine aisle at the grocery store and pore over Nintendo Power like it was a religious text lol

Also, you just made me remember getting all those demo discs with PlayStation magazine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ha, I used to go the grocery store specifically to read entire magazines

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The dude who runs this on Mastodon is a pretty cool dude. I follow him and sometimes we talk about a print he posted. He's always down to discuss some games haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Growing up, I was quite brand loyal with occasional dips to other magazines if the freebies were any good.

ZX Spectrum - Crash magazine Atari ST - ST Format with semi regular copies of ST Action depending on the demo disks. PC - PC Format. Dreamcast - The official Dreamcast magazine, it was the only one with demo CDs. GameCube - I honestly can't remember which magazine but I definitely bought one regulary.

By the time I had the first Xbox, all reviews and news I was getting from the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't see it on there but Nintendo Power was my jam

[–] bigb 1 points 1 year ago

I grew up in the U.S., so Nintendo Power, GamePro, and Tips & Tricks were my favorites in elementary school. Then I discovered EGM and was hooked through college. I'm still sad about 1up.com.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Computer Gaming World was my favorite.

Thankfully there is a handy archive of it!

https://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=0&pub=0&id=500

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Your Sinclair - I even set up a magazine/community for it! [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

IA has a TON of old gaming magazines. Will always have a soft spot for Nintendo Power, but also the hype gen 5 magazines of the 90s like Saturn and Official PS magazine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure if it classifies as video game magazines, but games were at least a growing part of my favorite (German) computer magazines in the 80s and 90s:

(Wikipedia articles only available in German)

[–] FinalBoy1975 1 points 1 year ago

You mean when I was a kid and had a dinosaur as a pet instead of a dog? Compute!'s Gazette, Compute!, Ahoy!, Your 64. Amiga Format, Electronic Games, Nintendo Power, and some other magazines I can't remember. I was a junky for magazines and still am.