Nearly 30 years ago, I bought this my first video game magazine, Video Games & Computer Entertainment, April 1989 -
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Post the cover of the very first video game magazine that you bought
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I know it was EGM, but being so long ago, I think one of these issues may have been the first we owned...I remember both these issues fondly, but still not 100%. We were pretty limited with funds growing up, but somehow my brother and I always found enough cash to buy the new issue of EGM, once we found out about it. We ended up buying "Death Valley Rally" because of the Super Star Wars issue, we didn't always make the best game buying decisions, lol.
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This.
Though my brother had others from before this was my first one.
Did anyone actually BUY this issue? I thought the first issue was given to everyone for free.
Electronic Games, December 1983
SharpX68K , Electronic Games was the predecessor to Video Games & Computer Entertainment, as a lot of the key people were involved with founding both magazines. Later, they left VG&CE and revived Electronic Games for a short time in the mid 1990s (under the same publisher as Electronic Gaming Monthly).
Actually, that might not have been the first video game magazine that I bought. I had a few issues of Atari Age, which was the official magazine of the Atari Club (run by Atari in the early 1980s). This was my first issue:
SharpX68K , Electronic Games was the predecessor to Video Games & Computer Entertainment, as a lot of the key people were involved with founding both magazines. Later, they left VG&CE and revived Electronic Games for a short time in the mid 1990s (under the same publisher as Electronic Gaming Monthly).
Actually, that might not have been the first video game magazine that I bought. I had a few issues of Atari Age, which was the official magazine of the Atari Club (run by Atari in the early 1980s). This was my first issue:
December '97. I had only gotten into console gaming a scant few months earlier with Star Fox 64.
The idea of a magazine all about Nintendo amazed me, and reading about the first 100 of anything turned my crank too.
My own copy is way more worn than this one, but somehow the cover is still attached, unlike many of my other Nintendo 64-era NP issues.
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Don't know how to post pics. but my first video game magazine was the EGM issue that had a screen shot of Ken in Blanka's stage from Street Fighter II. Great issue! It's where I also first found out about Yu Yu Hakusho!
It was a Tips n Tricks magazine but I don't remember what the cover was, and browsing random ones isn't sparking any memories. The first one I remember buying is this:
Which lead to it being my first magazine subscription as well. Loved EGM.
Which lead to it being my first magazine subscription as well. Loved EGM.
Kinda wish I hadn't cut pieces out of this for an art project in elementary school.
I just bought that issue last year on eBay. It came out right before the PS2 launch.
It was either this one or an old game fan I think, it was a small magazine, about the size of a DVD's case. Believe it said game fan on then cover but not seeing it on google.
So I'll go with this issue of tips and tricks. I was 14 and was waiting for the n64.
So I'll go with this issue of tips and tricks. I was 14 and was waiting for the n64.
I'm not quite sure if it was this particular issue, but this magazine definitely and I have a vague memory of a Zelda themed cover.
It was a Tips n Tricks magazine but I don't remember what the cover was, and browsing random ones isn't sparking any memories. The first one I remember buying is this:
Which lead to it being my first magazine subscription as well. Loved EGM.
Same. EGM was amazing. I went on a buying spree a few years ago on eBay and started buying a lot of the issues I had from like 98 to 2001.
I actually bought April 1998 first, but that cover is boring, so here is May 1998, with reviews for the expansion for Jedi Knight (beat it with cheats and loved it, I was way to young to play it properly), and something called Fallout.
This magazine was revolutionary because it came with CDs with every issue filled with demos - it was a treat back then, without any internet access whatsoever.
They also included full versions of games, crap ones at first (the april issue came with Battlecruiser 3000AD, yikes), but slowly they were getting better. In fact, it's funny that both Fighting Force and Incoming from this very cover were featured on the CDs a few years later.
This magazine was revolutionary because it came with CDs with every issue filled with demos - it was a treat back then, without any internet access whatsoever.
They also included full versions of games, crap ones at first (the april issue came with Battlecruiser 3000AD, yikes), but slowly they were getting better. In fact, it's funny that both Fighting Force and Incoming from this very cover were featured on the CDs a few years later.
Okay, I don't think it was actually Edge, but rather the sister mag Games, but it had the same cover art. I remember the issue quite well since I picked up on the way to a school trip to Paris, and the issue was all about LittleBigPlanet and PS Home, and the whole potential of user generated content and living worlds. I can't understate just how interesting these ideas were, it was basically the VR of it's day and those two games were at the forefront of that conversation (yes, even PS Home).
The PS Home part of the issue was pretty interesting since it was all about the idea of user created spaces and inhabiting a virtual space - you could meet up with friends! Go to the movies together! Play games together! See other users milling about! Customise your home and your avatar! Show people your trophy room! Of course, it never really met that potential and simply became a super-basic Second Life-clone, but man, there's still something weirdly appealing about the whole idea and I have no idea why. I remember everyone (including myself) being super impressed at the original GDC presention where people were convinced this was basically the future of gaming and social media in general.
Who knows this? I suppose mine may have been a GamePro or Ninendo Power from the early 90's.
I still remember the ad for then-upcoming Mega Man X - I was sitting at my parents' table near the holidays and I thought "Wow I missed Mega Man 7-9, they completely changed his look."
I still remember the ad for then-upcoming Mega Man X - I was sitting at my parents' table near the holidays and I thought "Wow I missed Mega Man 7-9, they completely changed his look."
Never really bought gaming magazines. I used to buy games at gamestop though and they swindled me into getting a powerup pro card thing that included a year of gameinformer magazines. The gamestop membership thing was dumb but I actually liked reading these.
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I remember buying these also. That was my first issue of EGM and the second issue of GamePro I had.
I remember very specifically, still have the magazine as well. I was 7 at the time, saved up for it and devoured every letter.
It's a Dutch magazine comparable to something like EGM, it's still in print with a more online presence I believe. Later on I gravitated to US- and Japan-based outlets but I believe they are still one of, if not THE, biggest magazine in the Benelux.
