[reptilescorpio]

[Sir_Crocodile]

absurdly sized hotlinked image

Might want to not hotlink...and sort out the image size.

Anyway, for my money, the best gaming magazine was the period when Paul Davies was editor of CVG. Started the out of five system, freeplay(awesome arcadish news), and generally better standards everywhere :



Super Play & Official Sega Saturn Magazine were great through their runs, taking great interest in import games:




And spare a thought for the awesome but short lived Maximum.



None of these magazines assumed their readers were morons either, which was quite refreshing compared to online publications these days.

[dwu8991]

GamePro
CVG
Nintendo Australia
Edge
Hyper (still going strong !!!)

[Jethro]

I loved it

[IrishNinja]

look at that shit, i wanted every one of those games

really, no one else loved Game Players? i was all about Nintendo Power, PSM, some Next Gen and the others, but Chris Slate & co got me to play gems no one else really talked about like Suikoden. it got weird later with Bill Donahue in the letter section, but I still dug it.

weird to not see more VG&CE as well as Next Gen, unless i missed em.

edited for images!

[Kadey]

GameFAN became my favorite after seeing one. Except for Nick Rox, he was mean.

[Axiom]

I liked a lot of magazines, mostly British ones and loved the value for money a giant PC Gamer was...but the Australian NMS and PCXl were easily the ones I cared about most.

NMS ended up being rebooted and made a shadow of its former self, PCXL - of course, got cancelled.

Shame.

[RazorEdge]

Video Games, PC Player and Amiga Joker!

Oh boy, nostalgia! Thank god there is an online archive for most of the magazines.
Time to dig into them. :-)

[NZNova]

:sniff:

I salute you, sir.

[bomma_man]

N64 Gamer, from 1999 till 2000. Like the console itself it's about quality not quantity.

[Error Macro]

Next Generation
Diehard GameFan
PC Gamer
Computer Gaming World

I miss them all :*(

[spekkeh]

*salutes* Back when they still had the awesome crew. :( I still have the first issue somewhere.

They printed a letter of mine in the second issue, where I was moaning about how unprofessional their mag was. Also, Mario Kart a 6.5, that shit don't fly.

This, by far my favorite (later turned into Official Nintendo Magazine). Quite critical (well back then) for a nintendo mag and also pretty well written. I guess being European it also felt closer to me culturally than the American mags.

(I also liked SuperPlay, but NMS felt more...mature?)

[corporate cheerleader]

They printed a letter of mine in the second issue, where I was moaning about how unprofessional their mag was. Also, Mario Kart a 6.5, that shit don't fly.

You weren't Mortal Marcel by any chance, hm? ;)

[Parallax]

i grew up on gamepro and egm, but my favorite was next generation.

[MMaRsu]

A 6.5. Bjorn got a lot of shit over it during the following years, haha. Graphics: 7 Sound: 6.5 Pro: Battle mode is fun Con: Can't be compared to other racing games Controlling the karts is very difficult

Yeah a 6.5 is still crazy.I had my first copy signed by JJ I think.

[Phat Michael]

EGM. In Australia in 1995 or so, it was $15 per magazine and had 50% ads in it. loved it.

Also, Hyper was an aussie mag which was $4.95 per magazine and had its own tv show too!

[Tokubetsu]

I remember when EGM was a million pages, nine hundred thousand of which were ads but it was still great.

[Monado Blade]

EGM without a doubt. A distant second would be GamePro. Still have some of them.

[carfo]

I only read gamepro and gameinformer

[abrack08]

Only game magazine I've ever had a subscription to is Game Informer, but I've had it a pretty long time. Without looking it up, I'm not sure if they technically existed in the 90s, since I didn't see them listed on the first page, or if they're early 2000s.

[Varjet]

The german TOTAL!

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

[NinjaJesus]

EGM, Game Informer & PSM. Loved the PSM covers.



Also, my favorite EGM cover (I really like FFX...)

[Ashodin]

GAMEFAN was that magazine I'd never see except for in airplane terminals, and when it was there, I asked my mom to get it. I loved the huge thick book, pages upon pages of material, itty bitty text so they crammed in a LOT, and the sleek feel of the pages.

Easily the best mag when I could find it.

The first mag that tipped me off about Seiken Densetsu 3.

[MaddenNFL64]

Can't front, it was Gamepro, ya the one with the fake cartoon names for their editors, and the exploding head for a perfect score.

[willooi]

CVG was the best by far, with really great, funny writers doing honest reviews. Ed Lomas - legend. Then it went all mainstream and started treating its readers like they were little kids after the company got bought out in the late 90's, from what I can recall, and had an almost complete change in staff.

Also, Diehard Gamefan was great. I remember their article backgrounds would consist of just a splatter of screenshots.

Edit: Great to see the love for CVG on here, and also for the official Saturn mag. Those guys went nuts over Fighting Vipers and smashing off Candy's armour...ah the good old days.

[spekkeh]

Nostalgia thread. Big ass Bart Simpson on one cover, "Manga mania!" on another..

[B1gg_Randall]

Tips & Tricks,Gamepro,and PSM

[Gen X]

Used to own every issue of this mag.



Pretty sure it was the first magazine with demo discs for consoles (I'm talking CDs, not any C64/Amiga demos).

[Help Me!]

This. I was crushed when they died.

[Boerseun]

Oh shit...

My favourite games mag of all time and someone posted it.

You're the mutt's nuts, my friend.

Also the bee's knees.

[lastplayed]

Yes.

Yes.

:sniff:

YES.

[Natetan]

I was lucky enough to stumble upon NextGen magazine and was the only one I got a subscription for. I never liked most gaming magazines, even as a kid I was put off by all the hype and sometimes goofy writing. NextGen wrote well and had good articles. Only other magazine I respected was EGM.

I'm really surprised there aren't more people mentioning this. It was the first intelligent gaming magazine I read. Loved it.

And of course Nintendo Power. I was a subscriber when it was still Nintendo Gaming Monthly or whatever!

[Aguirre]

only one i ever bought was: GameMaster

[theusedversion]

This. NextGen was my favorite. Such a high-quality magazine. Still have the premier issue in mint condition.

[jonno394]

I collected Nintendo Magazine System from issue 19, it was my only monthly regular, sometimes padded out with odd issues of CVG, N64 magazine, EGDE and EGM if teh covers/bonuses attracted me.

This however was perhaps the greatest issue ever imo, after all the buildup to Ocarina of Time, everything that came out of Spaceworld 1997 was in this one issue (Child Link ffs!!)I nearly creamed my 11 year old self.



EGDE is the only magazine I oft buy now though.

[Zaki2407]

For me, it was EGM. Between 1994 - 1998. Good times ^_^

[Himajin]

It only just limped into the 90s, but this is still my favorite gaming mag ever



Scores out of 1000 were a bit insane, but the write-ups were generally excellent. The forerunner of Edge magazine in terms of style IMHO.

[eXistor]

EGM





C&VG



/edit: somepics didn't show up, they were EGM and C&VG.

[revolverjgw]

Ultra Game Players. Largely because of their weird sense of humor and the utterly crazy letters section. I still remember a lot of the memes.

[Type_Raver]

Dont buy mags anymore, but as a young teen, i couldnt always buy all the mags i liked in the 90s. Heres some of my favs from that era:

(used to own to the top 4 mags)

[Facism]

Lovely to see Mean Machines, CVG and Saturn mag mentions.

Saturn mag was fun times, even if you had to read Rich Leadbetter's anti-sony drivel in every issue. Also, "MORE COMPUTING POWER THAN CAROL VORDERMAN."

[BassForever]

I had the power, Nintendo Power!

[IrishNinja]

Ultra Game Players. Largely because of their weird sense of humor and the utterly crazy letters section. I still remember a lot of the memes.

finally, another one! yeah again i recall Donahue going on about cheese and undead lizard warriors.

[Nihilistic Monk]

Came for Zero. Was not disappointed. I still have all my issues bar a couple. Best gaming mag of all time IMHO.

[Fermbiz]

EGM 100th issue was my very first EMG purchase. Ever since then I bought every single EGM mag for years. Those were the good old days, the magazines would be about 300+ pages. Now magazines are more expensive with barely 100 pages.

I remember back before Next Generation magazine went out, they had an issue talking about Microsoft creating a console before it was any announced. I would love to read that article again.

Also, I cant remember the name of this magazine, it was supposed to sell for cheap, probably like 3 bucks, and it came with a demo disc inside. They probably came out with for about 4 magazines. I remember the first issue that came out, the demo disc had a video previews of Black & White and Halo. The video of Halo I have yet to see on the net. Anyone know the name of the magazine?

[twingloxx2]

It only just limped into the 90s, but this is still my favorite gaming mag ever Scores out of 1000 were a bit insane, but the write-ups were generally excellent. The forerunner of Edge magazine in terms of style IMHO.

A.C.E. was great.

And EDGE is obviously the best video game magazine ever.

[Shig]

Easily Gamefan. The problem was finding it.

Followed by PSM. As a comic fan, it was awesome to see some of the hottest artists in that field illustrating covers, and the occasional interior pin-up feature. Even the envelope art section inspired some of the best fanartists to fight for a space in the mag.

[Air Zombie Meat]

PC Zone (UK). Charlie Brooker ftw.

[ReBurn]

The only correct answers are old-school EGM and Next Generation.

Next Generation's console roundup with PlayStation, N64, etc. was the best issue of a generation.

[Gagaman]

Good to see Sega Saturn Magazine has alreday been mentioned a few times, definatlky my no.1 mag of that era too. Will also add the mag that came before it..



and Mean Machines Sega. Yeah, they're all Sega mags because those were the systems I mainly had, but I have a complete collection of Sega mag and a almost complete Saturn mag collection and they still hold up in the presentation and writing really well.