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[MMaRsu]

I actually used to have that copy, I owned a ton of official dreamcast UK magazines, they were great because there were demo's that came with them. Although they were like 25€ at the time because of the exchange rate around when the euro came out, they thought the pound signal was the euro signal so lolol I got it for like 6 euro's or something.

 

[gerudoman]

That looks a lot like the french X64 Magazine :

I haven't read it, but considering it has the same pet (the globe) I'm pretty sure is the same magazine with a different name and directly translated articles and reviews, Spain also had a translated version called Magazine 64.

And yes, it's a great magazine and the best one I've ever read, full of interesting articles and with a great sense of humour. It's so good that I still have a look at some of them these days, and I'm looking for some missing numbers to complete my collection, but they're quite rare

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

grew up with gamepro and electronic gaming monthly stopped getting them around 1998 when i started getting all my news from the interwebs

 

[Neon_Icarus]

This easily. Great writing and original art. Probably made me into the gamer that I am today. Loved the focus on Japanese stuff and RPGs.

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lol. I guess this is what an American Final Fantasy would look like...Tidus the Barbarian. (Though I'm sure it would be an improvement to some.)

 

[soqquatto]

no mention of the good ol' times?

I grew up with these (well, with the Italian version). the games in these magazines looked like magic to me at that time and the magazines were more an expression of the "fan" nature of the people working there than the professional (?...) and researched products we had later. no market strategies.

 

[bj00rn_]

Oh man.. Looking at that picture (Amiga magazines in general) I get sucked into a fantastic feeling of nostalgia.. Some of the best moments in my entertainment life came in this era. sniff indeed.

 

[Yami]

Playstation Plus. Pretty much a 90's lad's mag with Playstation games thrown in for a laugh too. My first foray into the world of printed tits. Good times.

 

[Blunt]

Came to post this. I used to read NMS Australia religiously growing up. Where else could you find an official Nintendo product that regularly told the kids who wrote in with stupid questions that they had a couple of extra chromosomes? The mail sections would reduce me to a giggling quivering pile on my bedroom floor.

I subscribed after the first issue in 1993 and they sent me a free copy of Snake, Rattle and Roll on NES. That was a pretty awesome deal back then. It was a great read and they weren't afraid to say if a game was total shite - even if it was a first party title. Sadly, the magazine changed publishers in early '96 and become neutered, propaganda trash like most official magazines (they would infamously go on to give Superman 64 an 80% review years later) and I stopped reading after a couple of issues. It was back to costly US and UK magazines after that.

But those three years between '93 and '96 at the height of the 16-bit wars? Fucking masterpiece.

 

[Typographenia]

Nintendo Power was really the only one I cared about. I still have my giant shelf of them at my parents' house, and my mom keeps telling me I need to do something with them.

One of the coolest things ever for me as a kid was when they used one of my envelope drawings for their write-in section, and they used it again on their highlighted letter that month. I was just so thrilled, haha.



I would buy other magazines here and there if they had something interesting in them, but Nintendo Power was the only one that mattered to me.

 

[Zwei]

Next Generation, by far. There will NEVER be another gaming publication that matches its editorial quality and presentation. Hell, even the feel of the magazine was top-notch; I think they used wax on the cover or something..

 

[entremet]

Tie b/w Next Generation and GameFan.

 

[DimmuBurgerKing]

I think we always had a Gamepro subscription throughout the 90's. I loved Nintendo Power and Game Players, though. EGM much later. Never got into Gamefan or any of the others.

 

[IGotBillySoSpooked]

I liked Next Generation, primarily because I signed up for the free trial that came with my PSX and they just kept sending it to me.

The cover was also printed on very nice stock.

 

[DOA]

and sometimes boot.

For console gaming, word of mouth or the bookstores magazine rack.

i've got their last several years issues stacked somewhere in my house. 2 boxes full of it

 

[Sylver]

I loved its format, It was like a newspaper.

Hobby Consolas used to be an awesome magazine then it became shit , it's still being the most sold spanish console magazine.

My two most beloved magazines ever:
Hitech it had a poor run so sad because it was awesome and it appeared in a great moment at the begining of the 32bit era.

Oficial PlayStation Magazine by MC Ediciones then they changed the publisher (GrupoZeta) and turned shit:

Great times, honorable mention to Magazine 64.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Gamefan was pretty ballin'

 

[mocoworm]

MEAN MACHINES !!!

Every time.

 

[Anteater]

I used to read EGM2, but I really don't remember why I liked it, it's been so long...

 

[blizzardjesus]

Nintendo Power, I'm only missing 2 issues (2 and 10) and still subscribing. Started with issue 28.

 

[Cymbal Head]

NextGen for sure. It might just have been because I was a kid, but it felt like NextGen was written for a more serious and thoughtful audience than many of the other gaming magazines. That and PC Accelerator, which was just the opposite.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Man I really loved Tips and Tricks. It was my first magazine.

Sad to see it go.

 

[BDGAME]

In Brazil, that is the best for me:

 

[Roto13]

Didn't buy many game magazines in the 90s 'cause we wuz po', but I did like Game Players.

My first gaming mag ever was the October or November 1994 issue with Donkey Kong Country on the cover. Covered games like Super Street Fighter II, Shaq Fu (including a couple of guest reviews by Shaq himself ), Sonic and Knuckles, Dynamite Headdy, Final Fantasy III/VI. Man, what a great time.

 

[kswiston]

At one point in the 90s, I was buying seven gaming mags a month.

My first gaming magazine was Gamepro. My first issue had TMNT Tournament Fighters on the cover.

My favourite 3 mags were Next Generation, GameFan and EGM.

The only major magazine I didn't read was Nintendo Power.

 

[IpsoFacto]

I have a few favorite ones myself.

Gamefan definately.

There was another major UK Magazine that unfortunately didn't last long: Total Control. Only eleven issues I'm afraid.

Had it lasted longer it would've been one of the greats.

 

[The Incarnation]

 

[joeygreco1985]

I really liked incite magazine, but they weren't around very long. That initial issue with The Rock on the cover was my favorite!

I was also really into pre and post-PS2 launch PSM. I didn't have internet access at the time so it was where I got all of my PS2 info from. I still have one of their PS1 lid-stickers on my system. I also remember them hyping the shit out of The Bouncer and it ended up sucking.

 

[ToLateToLove]

Super PLAY (Unrelated to the UK magazine)

Cool trivia: Super PLAY are featured in Metal Gear Solid 3. Magazines can be found on desks etc.

 

[Brother Sport]

Super PLAY (Unrelated to the UK magazine)

Cool trivia: Super PLAY are featured in Metal Gear Solid 3. Magazines can be found on desks etc.

Good times.

 

[5amshift]

It was either Playstation Magazine or Game Pro

 

[Crantius_Colto]

 

[diffusionx]

Around 1992-1993: Nintendo Power
1993-1995: GamePro

After 1995: Next Generation. I still subbed to that mag even after I got a job at EB and could read all the mags for free.

 

[britt0n]

OMG I loved PSM, their Nihon Game Otaku section was my favorite! oh and LID STICKERS.

 

[Draft]

 

[Ramblin]

The good old days of my youth. I miss the sense of wonder new consoles and games made me feel. I'm still excited for the next generation, but my expectations are more realistic.

 

[DrFunk]

^^^

PCXL was everything. Funny, clever, comprehensive, women...

 

[Sportbilly]

PC Zone (UK). Charlie Brooker ftw.

Yup. Cruelty Zoo, Sick Notes, and his help desk calls were ace.

 

[Kokonoe]

Tips N Tricks, I use to get them every month for the longest time until I stopped seeing them in stores.

 

[SkylineRKR]

Sega Saturn Magazine is my favourite mag ever and I still have half of them. Those editors were gamers, and not afraid to completely trash some disappointing releases.

PSM 100% independent was very neat as well, they had their own styled cover art and I first heard of Ape Escape and RE3 through them for example.

 

[Ad Infinitum]

Loved this until I became all boring and started reading Edge.

<3 Wil Overton.

 

[revolverjgw]

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

EGM was odd. The writing was just terrible. The four reviews were usually interchangeable fluff and the articles and previews seemed to be written with 6 year olds in mind. Yet the sheer amount of content made it worthwhile, they were stuffed. I really loved the overseas section. They showed tons of obscure Japanese games that I never saw in any other mag and never got to play until many years later, and the previews had shitloads of screenshots, mosaic maps of levels, zoomed in sprites, etc.

 

[Hasemo]

Well, since there weren't any English gaming magazines available in Poland when I was a kid, we had to buy the Polish ones:

 

[Golbez]

GameFan for me. I never had very many, but I liked the magazine enough to gather the funds and subscribe to it... except I could never figure out how to subscribe. Usually magazines had subscription cards falling everywhere, but I could never find any in a GameFan.

Plus the cover could deflect water. That was awesome.

 

[Ledsen]

First

They had translated versions of the Zelda comics, the Mario manga, among others. Then they turned into


the one, the ONLY

 

[LamerDeluxe]

Apart from Amiga Format, Edge and a lot of other Amiga magazines:

 

[MikeE21286]

I was always a GamePro guy.

Fond memories of thumbing through their holiday issues picking out what games I wanted.

 

[Criminal Upper]

Wow, I had no idea the Sega Saturn was popular enough to have it's own magazine. First time I've ever seen that.

Holy crap, this single Joe Mad imade actually makes Final Fantasy look cool again.

 

[DeFiBkIlLeR]

Next Generation, by far. There will NEVER be another gaming publication that matches its editorial quality and presentation. Hell, even the feel of the magazine was top-notch; I think they used wax on the cover or something..

Next Generation was just a US reprint/rebranding of EDGE wasn't it?

 

[TheLucifer]

From Italy I'd say Giochi per il Mio Computer, The Games Machine and PSM, I used to buy every single issue of those. The first one in particular introduced me to PC gaming, I still consider it kinda important for my gaming-growth.

 

[Anth0ny]

Nintendo Power and EGM.