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BisMarckie · « **Reply #60 on:** November 27, 2019, 08:23:46 PM »

They are all archived online, reading late 80’s/early 90‘s vidya mags is amazing.

benjipwns · « **Reply #61 on:** November 27, 2019, 08:29:53 PM »

There's a bunch of foreign language ones up on here for our foreign friends, also UK/AUS, US is hit or miss as they get taken down sometimes, GameFan is watched pretty close by Dave:
https://archive.org/details/gamemagazines

A few weeks ago I was looking at some German PC magazine that had fucking pie charts for their review scores lol, so German.

edit: looks like GameFan's still up, https://archive.org/search.php?query=gamefan

if it gets put into a collection and listed with the rest Dave Halverson copyright strikes it

BisMarckie · « **Reply #62 on:** November 27, 2019, 08:33:12 PM »

I need an adult

benjipwns · « **Reply #63 on:** November 27, 2019, 08:38:14 PM »

do I want to find out how bad "seamless 15 frames per second video" looks?

yes, yes, i do

oh god at the tearing, MY EYES

BisMarckie · « **Reply #64 on:** November 27, 2019, 08:39:01 PM »

https://www.kultmags.com/mags.php

If you want to read old German vidya magazines.

benjipwns · « **Reply #65 on:** November 27, 2019, 08:41:11 PM »

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Playstation - Das Fun-Magazin

benjipwns · « **Reply #66 on:** November 27, 2019, 08:43:21 PM »

https://archive.org/details/ace-magazine

This UK magazine (featuring Gary Whitta) is amusing, they scored games out of 1000.

A young Frank O'Connor's lurking around some of these too.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #67 on:** November 27, 2019, 08:47:45 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on November 27, 2019, 08:41:11 PM

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Playstation - Das Fun-Magazin

Never heard of it, the big ones for PC stuff were PC Games and Gamestar. They are still around, and IIRC still doing print.

Maniac and Video Games were the most popular console focused magazines.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #68 on:** November 27, 2019, 10:37:14 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on May 27, 2019, 08:21:48 PM

wait, wtf even is this thing

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Junior's First Confusing Boner

benjipwns · « **Reply #69 on:** March 07, 2020, 09:11:45 AM »

STRAIGHT FROM 1984 COMES:

TOO MUCH GAMING POWER FOR MOST EYES

They only spent $2500 on this. That's ~$6700 today. Even the two "power user" suggestions they make for replacement parts, especially the monitor, only add like $500. I was hoping for like a Maximum PC, WE BROKE THE BANK, type build. They actually went for the cheaper Atari 400 here over the newer 800 because it could be customized more but like wtf no wonder your magazine went under a year later. PEOPLE WANT TO DREAM!

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BisMarckie · « **Reply #70 on:** March 07, 2020, 09:13:24 AM »

Volksmodem, eh?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #71 on:** March 07, 2020, 09:35:53 AM »

Look at that massive color TV!

benjipwns · « **Reply #72 on:** March 28, 2020, 12:36:02 AM »

FACT CHECK:

tiesto · « **Reply #73 on:** March 28, 2020, 12:18:28 PM »

I liked the Deathtrap Dungeon ad back in the day. Don't know what the game was like and never hear anyone talk about it... but damn that dom chick turned me on.

benjipwns · « **Reply #74 on:** March 29, 2020, 01:30:47 AM »

I believe it's like a bad dungeon crawler sans loot with bad original Tomb Raider type controls and camera. It's on Steam/GOG and often on sale for a buck or so. It originally was supposed to be more complex but it kept getting cut down. Like the woman in the game wears barely anything but originally it was supposed to be because you'd pick up armor and stuff which would show on your character. But they had to drop that whole mechanic.

I should collect all those Nintendo FACT CHECK Ads in one post. There's four or five of them total, all about how the Genesis is basically a toxic sludge dump of 64 colors while the SNES is gonna rotate your face off with tons of colors and hot game programming. Plus I love ads that try to look like articles in the magazine. (I should also see if I can collect the letters written in attacking the magazines for the ads who then have to explain how they're Nintendo ads.) Ubisoft did this later, around the 360 era, and they were more informative about the games than some of the magazines they were in.

benjipwns · « **Reply #75 on:** March 29, 2020, 02:00:29 AM »

This isn't what I wanted, but... FACT CHECK:

There's a version where they're like next generation hardware? FUCK YOU, WE'VE GOT THE SUPER FX 2 CHIP, WE'VE GOT DONKEY KONG COUNTRY, 3DO MORE LIKE 3DNO. And it shows a bunch of games that never came out like FX Fighter. I am now determined to find it.

benjipwns · « **Reply #76 on:** March 29, 2020, 02:15:31 AM »

I think this might be it:

They put this ad out in the same month that the Saturn released early.

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DEBABELIZING

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benjipwns · « **Reply #77 on:** April 09, 2020, 10:23:18 PM »

Computer Gaming World asks the big questions:

benjipwns · « **Reply #78 on:** May 10, 2020, 01:39:56 AM »

finally found this again

benjipwns · « **Reply #79 on:** September 12, 2020, 02:32:48 AM »

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VomKriege · « **Reply #80 on:** September 12, 2020, 02:46:37 AM »

A lethal cocktail of magnified sound and cornea-burning speed.

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Why is the text so small ?

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"Ride bareback"

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VomKriege · « **Reply #81 on:** September 12, 2020, 02:54:31 AM »

Oh man, Fork in the Tale has the FMV version of "Shit's locked"

benjipwns · « **Reply #82 on:** November 25, 2020, 11:49:34 PM »

EchoRin · « **Reply #83 on:** November 26, 2020, 12:33:13 AM »

I remember the codebreaker one from a Gamepro or EGM circa 2002 or 03.

and

at the same time.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #84 on:** August 04, 2021, 07:43:18 AM »

Reading through some old German vidya magazines.

People were mad about YET ANOTHER cute platformer being released in Yoshi‘s Island. The people don’t want anyone to play or buy these games because it‘s exactly what (((they)9) want. The people want more mature games like Voyeur for CD-I or PO‘d for 3DO.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #85 on:** August 04, 2021, 09:32:55 AM »

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team filler · « **Reply #86 on:** August 04, 2021, 01:09:40 PM »

that iraqi reporter should have stepped in shit before he threw the shoe at bush jr

benjipwns · « **Reply #87 on:** August 04, 2021, 10:02:18 PM »

POed was pretty good. Not Yoshi's Island good, but still.

An infamous Yoshi's Island review:

BisMarckie · « **Reply #88 on:** August 05, 2021, 05:06:42 AM »

weil? What would you do?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #89 on:** August 05, 2021, 08:33:44 AM »

Yoshi's Island looks like a 1st gen SNES title

tiesto · « **Reply #90 on:** August 05, 2021, 02:16:01 PM »

From what I remember, a lot of people were down on Yoshi's Island back in the day. The graphic style compared to DKC or the digitized games popular at the time. The more linear nature of the worlds instead of the more exploratory SMW. The whining baby Mario. The whole "Nintendo is teh kiddie!" meme that was starting to kick into high gear around this time. All of those were working against the game's favor.

benjipwns · « **Reply #91 on:** August 05, 2021, 09:34:10 PM »

There's always been that story that the game looked more like the first Super Mario World until Nintendo told Miyamoto to use Rendered Graphics™ and he instead came back with its more distinctive look.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #92 on:** August 05, 2021, 10:21:15 PM »

It’s like these reviewers didn’t even know that Yoshi’s Island was powered by the FX2 chip; capable of manipulating more polygons, more texture mapped surfaces, and more sprites. The RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) chip can even calculate pixel-by-pixel terrain maps on-the-fly (as seen in Nintendo’s upcoming title Commanche) to create more dramatic 3D effects than were possible on the original version of the Super FX.

team filler · « **Reply #93 on:** August 06, 2021, 12:09:46 AM »

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Author Topic: Out Of This World Munchies: Who says food can't be fun?!?!? (Read 8115 times)