I had a pretty good collection of PS2 mags, misplaced all of them, not sure even how that happened.
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Do you regret tossing your gaming mags?
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I still have all of my Nintendo Powers and a few GamePro's/EGM's(that I would get at the grocery store). As a kid, I was anal about the condition of my stuff, so I read the magazines to where I wouldn't be stressing the spine. I was a weird kid, but hey, my Nintendo Power's still look great lol.
Absolutely. Pre internet it was all I had. I remember reading stuff over and over again even for consoles I would never own. The Next Gen that had a big blowout on Mario 64 I probably read that feature over a 100 times and worked my ass off mowing lawns to buy a 64 and that game. I had a subscription to EGM off and on throughout my 10's-20's. Probably read EGM 100 cover to cover 50 times. Just read that shit before bed game magazines were my bed time routine.
Still have all my Nintendo Powers and GamePro mags from when I was a kid. My parents have been slowly sending them to me over the years, they're so fun to look back through. Especially those beefy December GamePro's that were like 400 pages (the Donkey Kong Country one comes to mind).
I had a huge stack in my parents' attic. Everyone summer when I came home I'd browse through them and it was surprisingly nostalgic. Last summer, though, I should them all go gaming shop. Probably made about $100 or something.
I don't regret it, but I will definitely miss it when I visit my parents again. I found lot of scans online so when I want to reminisce I can always browse through some digital versions.
I don't regret it, but I will definitely miss it when I visit my parents again. I found lot of scans online so when I want to reminisce I can always browse through some digital versions.
Oh yeah totally miss them. After moving a few times and all, I've only got a couple left that I had packed with me like the first Dreamcast magazine issue. It was cool getting nearly all of them every month for nearly a decade. Except for like Tips and Tricks.
I thankfully have most of my Nintendo Power magazines that I first started getting monthly since 2004/5. I read them time to time and it's like a lovely time capsule. I did have an on and off subscription to Gamepro as well but those magazines were lost many many years ago, do wish I still had a couple of them.
I had a near complete collection of Weekly Famitsu from 1996 to 2000 when I lived in Japan, but ended up throwing them all away.
Looking back, they would make a solid collection piece...oh well.
Looking back, they would make a solid collection piece...oh well.
I regret being too lazy to find and get rid of the few old videogame magazines I still have somewhere in my house.
Somewhat. I kept a handful like my first issue of GameInformer and if I really wanted to look through some old ones I'm sure there are scans of them online. Fun fact about the Gun cover issue from June or July 2005: Nioh is in there, being showed off at E3 2005 (for the first time maybe?).
Thanks to archiving, we can now read all 4 issues of Electronic Game Player, the direct forerunner to EGM.
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A full set is extremely rare but at least you can read them digitally.
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A full set is extremely rare but at least you can read them digitally.
No. Way too much clutter for something that would sit in a box and provide me with a 20 min nostalgia rush once every other year
Sold all my old Nintendo Powers and never looked back
Sold all my old Nintendo Powers and never looked back
I would love to have them around to pop them open once in a while but you end up with so much stuff once you have a family that there's not a great way to do it.
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I regret tossing a few Nintendo Powers, mostly because of those sweet sweet beta screenshots of N64 games, as well as import games that never came to the west.
For a few years I had a yearly subscription to PC Gamer UK. That excitement when the months' new edition dropped in the postbox was palpable. Also often bought GamesMaster which was a great mag and Amiga Format long before that. You'll never be able to replicate the feeling of getting a new edition and diving in to find the newest gaming news.
Recycled my Nintendo power years ago.
Still have a good portion of my game players/ultra game players mags. I think some of the early ones got recycled but i can't remember for sure. I wouldn't mind a high quality digital copy of the whole run of issues. That magazine is something special and way ahead of its time. The personalities, in jokes and secrets hidden within the magazine itself are still unmatched.
Still have a good portion of my game players/ultra game players mags. I think some of the early ones got recycled but i can't remember for sure. I wouldn't mind a high quality digital copy of the whole run of issues. That magazine is something special and way ahead of its time. The personalities, in jokes and secrets hidden within the magazine itself are still unmatched.
I'm not a nostalgic person, but it'd be nice to look at some old Sushi-X reviews for old time's sake
I never tossed them, but I suspect my parents did. They swear up and down that they are somewhere in our basement, but I haven't turned up anything.
Within those collections, there's EGM issues 3-120
GamePro issues 2-100
A ton of GameFan issues.
A bunch of Game Players and VG&CE mags. I remember when Game Players first showed off Mega Man 2. I was so hyped for it.
Within those collections, there's EGM issues 3-120
GamePro issues 2-100
A ton of GameFan issues.
A bunch of Game Players and VG&CE mags. I remember when Game Players first showed off Mega Man 2. I was so hyped for it.
I had to a few years ago when my folks made me dump out a bunch of stuff that was still in storage at their home. It was sad to lose so many beautiful Next Generations.. also had some pretty cool PC Gamers including the first Duke Nukem Forever preview, lol.
The amount of space they would take up isn't worth it for the once or twice a year I'd look at them. Can't keep everything forever, some things deserve their place as fond memories
Nah, mine were all cut up as I used to make a collage of characters etc to put on my walls as poster. Covers were often first to be snipped, but plenty of adverts and articles on the other side of images got cut too.
Majorly, majorly so.
Im in Australia and grabbed a few overseas magazines from time to time like EGM, GamePro, PC Zone, Mean Machines Sega, etc but what i mostly focused on were the Australian magazines such as Hyper and MegaZone.
I had so many issues of MegaZone, and looked forward to it each month. So exciting to hear the latest news on games. I still collected it the end when they switched to just Sega stuff but then the main crew started up Hyper magazine and I got the first issue and collected it for years until the internet just started becoming more widespread.
Then for whatever foolish reason I thought i didn't need all my magazines anymore which I had collected up over the years and put posters from them on my walls and so forth. Like they were about all old games right? Dont care about that stuff anymore, supposedly.
Now I really wish I held onto them. Would be great to re read various news, interviews, previews and reviews from the time and see how people were wowed by certain graphics and so forth.
Im in Australia and grabbed a few overseas magazines from time to time like EGM, GamePro, PC Zone, Mean Machines Sega, etc but what i mostly focused on were the Australian magazines such as Hyper and MegaZone.
I had so many issues of MegaZone, and looked forward to it each month. So exciting to hear the latest news on games. I still collected it the end when they switched to just Sega stuff but then the main crew started up Hyper magazine and I got the first issue and collected it for years until the internet just started becoming more widespread.
Then for whatever foolish reason I thought i didn't need all my magazines anymore which I had collected up over the years and put posters from them on my walls and so forth. Like they were about all old games right? Dont care about that stuff anymore, supposedly.
Now I really wish I held onto them. Would be great to re read various news, interviews, previews and reviews from the time and see how people were wowed by certain graphics and so forth.