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I quite often find myself wasting an hour or so online reading old magazines for formats I used to own. Unfortunately there are some mags I've never been able to find online (I used to buy every issue of Dennis Publishing's Game Zone, until Future bought it and split it into separate Sega and Nintendo editions). I've found quite a few though, and I know I'm not the only EG-er with rose-tinted specs, so I thought I'd share them. I've posted a few relevant links here, but I've only really looked at formats I used to have. If you've found any similar sites or resources, add them too. Spectrum CRASH Magazine Online. The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years. Sinclair User Magazine Online Your Spectrum unofficial archive I'm pretty sure [link=http://www.worldofspectrum.org">World of Spectrum has an FTP archive of scanned Speccy mags too. Edit: Here's the Chipretro seem to have a more-or-less |
Magazine nostalgia
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Super Play was awesome, I used to read my mate's copy every month and I didn't even have a SNES. Unfortunately I don't really have the space for old magazines, there are lots I wish I hadn't thrown out/ given away/ recycled but I've rarely had much of a choice. That's why I find sites with old scans or transcripts so diverting. -
armyourfists 917 posts
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Registered 17 years agoN64 Mag and Mean Machines Sega were about the only games mags I was heavily into. -
armyourfists wrote:
N64 Mag and Mean Machines Sega were about the only games mags I was heavily into.
Mean Machines Sega, you say? Oh, alright then. Has scans from the various Mean Machines mags (including MMS, obviously) and by the looks of it, Nintendo Magazine System and CVG. -
armyourfists 917 posts
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Registered 17 years agolucky_jim wrote:
armyourfists wrote:
N64 Mag and Mean Machines Sega were about the only games mags I was heavily into.
Mean Machines Sega, you say? Oh, alright then. Has scans from the various Mean Machines mags (including MMS, obviously) and by the looks of it, Nintendo Magazine System and CVG.
Smashing! Cheers for that. -
caligari 17,956 posts
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Registered 20 years agoOh, nice thread.
I loved Mean Machines (and then Mean Machines Sega) when I was a kid. CVG used to be good too.
Amiga Power, Your Sinclair, Arcade, DC-UK, Sega Power, Megatech, Play, Official Dreamcast Magazine.
Sooo many magazines - I could have bought another 300 hundred games over various systems if I'd stopped buying so many mags. -
Yeah Sega Power was another great mag, and I carried on buying it after it mutated into Saturn Power, alongside the Official Saturn Magazine. And even though ODM was probably the best official magazine ever, I still bought Future's DC-UK too.
I dread to think how much of my money has gone to Future Publishing over the years. I've largely kicked the magazine habit nowadays. -
caligari 17,956 posts
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Registered 20 years agolucky_jim wrote:
Yeah Sega Power was another great mag, and I carried on buying it after it mutated into Saturn Power, alongside the Official Saturn Magazine. And even though ODM was probably the best official magazine ever, I still bought Future's DC-UK too.
I dread to think how much of my money has gone to Future Publishing over the years. I've largely kicked the magazine habit nowadays.
Me too. I get all my gaming info from EG (mainly from this lovely forum place).
'Little White Lies' is the only mag I subscribe to now. I need SOMETHING to leave in the bathroom for my toilet breaks. -
phAge 25,487 posts
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Registered 18 years agoGood one. Friggin' LOVED The One for Amiga - can still remember the day I bought the last copy, only to realize that it was, in fact, the last copy. :'( -
Angel_Treats 11,070 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI used to love N Force. It eventually split into N Force (NES) and SNES Force (um, SNES), and I think I stopped buying it around then and moved onto something else, possibly Gamesmaster.
My ex, despite not having a Megadrive, bought Mean Machines for years. Which is kind of weird. -
fudgeflaps 146 posts
Seen 14 years ago
Registered 14 years agoA lot of mags i loved!!
In the early days, Your Sinclair was AMAZING! C +VG had it's moments with it's better writers, Julian Rignall et al, but generally overrated games by about 20%.
Older multiformat:
ZERO: Hilarious- and very surreal. Loved it- like C +VG, tended to rate games on the high side.
The One: A polished mag for it's time.
Ace: pretty good too.
ST/ Amiga:
For me, ST Action and Amiga Action. Objective, good screenshots and hard to please.
Console Generation:
Mean Machines- the original, before it mutated into Mean Machines Sega and Nintendo Magazine System.
SNES: had to be Super Play; probably best games mag of all time for me.
Newer multiformat:
EDGE: a bit up it's arse with it's pomposity, but a good buy.
GamesTM: Good in many respects; especially the retro stuff and it's old 'Crash' template.
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER, OR HAVE LINKS TO:
The first weekly games mag which ran for just over a year in '91- '92 called 'Games-X'???
Help on that one would be grand- i had every copy but ditched them, so links or info would tickle my nostalgia glands!!
Ta. -
What was the Edge precursor? Was it The One or something else? Tended to concentrate on more groundbreaking games.
My bro got a letter printed in an old C64 mag that was plainer than Zzap and always had shitty full free games on tape... what was it...
edit - may have been one of these two. -
DaM 17,729 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPCG was a very early multiformat mag, the Bible pre-Crash (it started round about the time PCG died.) Set Chris Anderson on the way to launch Future Publishing. I'd love to see these again. I remember an article in an early edition, it was printed dark red on a black page - you couldn't read it! -
squarejawhero- quite a good site that, I'll add it to original post in a mo. Thanks!
fudgeflaps- A lot of the mags you've mentioned can be found at the Amiga Magazine Rack. They've got a small number of scans from Games-X too, another mag I used to buy pretty often. They've not got much from it though: it was quite flimsy and I don't think many copies have survived the last fifteen years! Most of my copies fell apart within a month or two. -
ThreeOutsideDown 1,011 posts
Seen 2 years ago
Registered 15 years agomaximum was the best multi-format mag.
it was published in the ps1/saturn/n64 generation and only lasted for 6 or 7 issues.
but every issue was packed with info and had articles running to 8 or 10 pages when they covered a game in depth. -
I vaguely remember Maximum, now that you say it! Wasn't it a rival (of sorts) to Ultimate Future Games? I also have fond memories of Arcade and Total Control, both attempts to make "serious" games mags which were less po-faced than Edge (kinda like GamesTM, then). -
FairgroundTown 2,522 posts
Seen 8 years ago
Registered 16 years agoDaM wrote:
Wow - that brought back some memories! And it ran for less than a year??? I could have sworn it was more like three or four!
PCG was a very early multiformat mag, the Bible pre-Crash (it started round about the time PCG died.) Set Chris Anderson on the way to launch Future Publishing. I'd love to see these again. I remember an article in an early edition, it was printed dark red on a black page - you couldn't read it! -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoUsed to like Total Control, and Arcade wasn't bad. I subscribed to N64 for around three years. I really liked that mag. Some of the captions used to have me chuckling for ages. -
phAge wrote:
A reply months later... But ME TOO. I was so sad when they went out of business. Their cover disks used to be all sorts of different colours. Red, green, yellow, see-through, glittery... I still have many of them up in the spare room. Shame I don't have the mags to go along with them.
Good one. Friggin' LOVED The One for Amiga - can still remember the day I bought the last copy, only to realize that it was, in fact, the last copy. :'(
Having said that I still have a lot of Amiga Format magazines with the cover disks still attached. I think my dad actually sellotaped them back on for some odd reason. -
tenofspades 1,805 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI used to get a gameboy magazine when I had a gameboy forgotten name of it but it was pretty good. And was a fan of the official playstation magazine. -
FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoWhat about PC mags? Or are they still going on? -
I used to spend so much money on Amiga magazines. I'd get The One, Amiga Power and Amiga Format virtually every month, CU Amiga most months, and I'd pick up others depending on what was on the coverdisks. I should have spent all that cash on games, really! -
funkstar 3,280 posts
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Registered 16 years agoofficial saturn magazine had some of the best coverdiscs...
like the first disc of panzer dragoon saga! -
FairgroundTown 2,522 posts
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Registered 16 years agolucky_jim wrote:
I guess I COULD have spent the money on games, but I'd have wasted a lot of it, 'cos in the early days of the C64/ Spectrum era, the magazines were the ONLY way to find out if something was any good - I didn't know anyone else with a computer, there was no mainstream media coverage, and the interwebs were still a LOOOONG way off.
I used to spend so much money on Amiga magazines. I'd get The One, Amiga Power and Amiga Format virtually every month, CU Amiga most months, and I'd pick up others depending on what was on the coverdisks. I should have spent all that cash on games, really! -
HoraceGoesSquiffy 1,563 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAmstrad Action. Rubbish I know, but there you have it. My Dad nearly bought a QL, so I think I got off lightly in the circumstances.
Of note : It was Future Publishing's first magazine! -
caligari 17,956 posts
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Registered 20 years agocozenezoc wrote:
Anyone know of any online archives of Arcade magazine content? Google doesn't seem to have much info on it at all, unfortunately. This was my favourite games mag as a kid; just wondering if it holds up these days.
I still have issues 1 to 10 under my bed! \o/ -
I also remember Maximum; a good read it was too!
I think I may still have a load of Zero issues in my attic (it not ALL of them!). I may even have a few copies of Arcade too.
(At least I hope I do, it's been a few years...)
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