Did you ever bought Video Game Magazines?

>>376953063
Yes. I bought Club Play from 2007 to 2010.

I have literally every single issue of Nintendo Power ever realeased in the US and almost every issue of EGM.

>>376953063
>Did you ever bought
I'll allow it for the sake of a possibly good thread

I won a year long Nintendo power subscription from a write-in contest in the mid 90's. Now I only ever buy individual game informer issues if I like the cover or they cover a game I'm hyped about

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>>376953063
HE

>>376953063
gamepro from 1998 to 2004ish
also tips and tricks

Gameinformer back then.

Hell, I still have the whole stack of them.

I have a few Official Nintendo Magazines (OMN) lying around.

They had some really funny captions for screenshots sometimes.

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>>376953609

>>376954071
Holy fuck that makes Anthony Burch seem funny. Was that page written by a 12 year old?

Tips and Tricks and CGW were the goats 2000-2005

What happened with Club Nintendo are they still around?

>>376954935
It was made to appeal to 12 years old.

>>376953063
Shitloads of them in late 90s-early 2000s

>>376953063
I have a bit of Nintendo Power Magazines from the mid 2000s and a GamePro one lying around.

>>376953214
If you're serious can you do me a favor and take pictures/scan a page of a Super Paper Mario interview in Volume 214 of Nintendo Power?

Nintendo Power, GameFan, GameNOW/ExpertGamer/EGM2, EGM, Play, Tips and Tricks.

RIP every fucking one of them.

Fucking EGM lives on as those free magazines you find at the Electronic Section of Walmart.

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>>376953063
>Club Nintendo
>mfw I fell for the Superman 64 meme because these fuckers were hyping it for months

>>376955301
Just dug my copy out. My Sims cover, correct?

It's not an interview, just a rather small article.

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I occasionally buy issues of the two local game magazines, and I'm almost a little ashamed that I haven't been supporting them more with a subscription since those guys are a lot better than any foreign journos, especially ones working for online publications.
Just a couple months ago the older one of the magazines had a special issue celebrating 25 years, that was pretty cool.

>>376955441
Fuck those guys recently i was reading an old as fuck issue and it was downright embarassed how biased they were.

Not a single negative reaction to anything ever. In that specifyic issue there were reacting to Nintendo cutting ties with Rare and they were trying to spin it as something positive

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>>376953063
Used to get get Nintendo Power up until the 3ds came out. It was a really comfy magazine and it got me into Dragon Quest. I still remember reading the Pokemon HGSS edition and being so hyped for that game.

I wish it was still around desu.

>>376955174
Yes, surprisingly.
Quality has gone to shit tho, even more than the Wii/GC era, atleast they redeemed themselves a bit in the wii u days (they weren't extreme fanboys like before and accepted
that the Wii U was flawed).
I still buy it sometimes for the posters.

>>376955741

IIRC they were financed by the company that distributed Nintendo products in the country, so of course they were huge shills for even shitty games. The Spanish translation of the Britbong N64/NGC magazine was far superior.

>>376955928
I remember that i finally dropped it by the third time Skyward Sword was on the cover, it was all so fucking repetitive and padded out becuase of the actual lack of games that i coudln't handle it anymore.

>>376953063
man I had those, the earliest issue I had was a special edition of somewhat of an antholgy of sistems like the gameboy, virtual boy etc. Stopped getting them around 04' when the ds came out and eventually just trow them all away.

>>376955605
Is it just an article? Well, can you take a picture of it regardless?

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>>376956165
pic related

>>376953609
>>376954071
That's Nintendo Official Magazine (NOM) published by EMAP. ONM was published by Future plc starting in 2006, after NOM was discontinued.

>>376956183
If the other anon can't, sure. You'd be getting shit tier phone photos from me.

>>376955741
They used to fucking roast kids in their letters to the editor section. That was the only real glimpse at personality that was following Nintendo guidelines

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>Club Nintendo

>>376956710
That's fine, as long as it's readable, you have no idea how long I've been looking around for that. Even if it's just an article my curiosity has gotten to me now anyways. Thanks in advance.

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>>376956756
>Not getting CN
>Instead getting Estupido Gay Maricon

>>376956863
kek

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>>376956863

We had Cosotas, you had Axy and Spot. Checkmate, Nintenbro.

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>>376956715
I remember they had a Wario section where they make fun of those kids and their stupid questions and Joanna Dark was his waifu.

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>>376953609
The UK magazine? Me too, from 2003 till its revamping where they binned all the cool old staff. I wonder where Tim and the gang all went...

I was a pony, but bought a gamecube for REmake and MGS remake but stayed for the nintendo. The magazine was entertaining as hell

>>376956697
Why did they bin off the old staff of NOM? It happened really suddenly and the change was not for the best.

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>>376956861
ENJOY SHIT TIER PHOTOS FROM A PHONE POSTED ON A TWITTER

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>>376958181
Oh fuck me, they're sideways.

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Definitely legible.

>>376958272
Go esit the image in your camera roll, rotate it, save it, and rotate it back to what it should be. Save it again. You should then be able to post normally

Electronic Gaming Monthly
PC Games Magazine
PC Gamer

Had a shit ton of them hoarded away in a box that got lost in a move 15 years ago

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>>376958454
Too late, last one!

Also, is post cooldown fucked or what?

>>376953214
It's up to you to scan every single page and upload it somewhere

Club Nintendo was seriously great. I bought em for years, from their earlier snes days. Wish I didn't let them rot away packed in a humid dark room.

Of course i bought them, them shits were the best. I cant believe i didnt remember Club Nintendo, i had a lot of them

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I have fond memories of Game Informer. Somebody would bring one on the schoolbus and we'd all pass it around. This was back when GI tried to be entertaining and had a lot of jokes and funny captions. It was childish humor but that was what we were at the time.

I picked through a modern issue somewhat recently. The last page had always been a trivia quiz and I wanted to see if they were still doing it. It was there, but rather than trivia questions it was just a snarky passive-aggresive hit piece on Jap games and the people who play them. It came off as really bitter and shallow.

Thanks to CN i got to play Mischief Makers, Snowboard Kids, Tetrisphere and Top Gear Rally.
Good shit.

>>376957840
Different companies producing the magazine. The original lost the "official nintendo" license and another magazine publisher gained it, starting a whole new magazine

>>376962407
Huh. I just looked up what the editor of NOM is up to now. It would appear the mag disbanded in 2005... I cant beleive that was that long ago...

>>376953063
>Club Nintendo
Who were Axy and Spot again?

I had NP for a couple years between 1999~2001, then I think I got some free mags from them again around when Twilight Princess came out. They're at my mother's house.

Also got the Perfect Dark" player's guide with awful comic.

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>>376953063
i used to buy them all the time before the internet became huge.
after that there was a period where magazines were still useful because they had early game screens and new game scoops.

now game magazines no longer have anything new and are nothing but advertisements and paid reviews.
game informer calling overwatch the "game of the year" was the final nail in the coffin for magazines to me.

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Somehow my brother and I convinced mom to get us a subscription to Nintendo Power back when they were giving out free Dragon Warrior carts.

I partly blame Hoard Phillips for turning me into the neckbearded weeb I am today

>>376965002
That FFT cover is awesome.

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>>376953063

Does having lots of old strategy guides count? I collect these along with art books for old vidya. I have hundreds probably.

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Still have my stacks of EGM and Nintendo Powers. I'll flip through every couple of years for the nostalgia trip.

>>376965093
>I partly blame Hoard Phillips for turning me into the neckbearded weeb I am today
Reading Seanbaby's review of Secret of Evermore is the only reason I got into Squaresoft games. I wonder what it is like now to only have shitty ecelebs to turn to for game advice when you're a young kid.

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>>376965162

This is like 1/3 of em...

>>376965002
>that Azure Dreams section in EGM2

I miss semi guides in game mags.

>>376953063
nintendo power, then my grandma asked me if i wanted to go with a different magazine so i went with PC gamer for a year.

i eventually went back to NP until it was discontinued. I fucking miss NP.

>>376965293
Just recently did this with all mine, but only one big box and not as many, sadly. My father was discussing giving me his years worth of Amiga Power magazines.

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>>376965162
Got those too

>>376965516
Feel free to make fun of my shit taste

>>376953063
From 2003 to 2007, yes

>>376965516
>>376965606
Think the last PG I got was Pokemon Emerald and it came bundled with the game and a GBA SP case sold at Walmart.

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>>376965516

The best guides were japanese. Mostly up until the end of the playstation era.

>>376965264
I think the youths actually better.

ecelebs are basically a peer group proxy. I mean, all I had to discuss and review video games with is whatever assholes my age happened to be in my podunk town growing up. At least these days they have a choice.

But, to your point, video game journalism is fucking sad and lacking these days.

I like them for the articles. Plus I didn't have any internet access growing up so it was a great way to learn about upcoming games. I don't like how a lot of the articles around like 2004-2010 had this like 'way too cool for you' almost edgy vibe that was present in like EGM and others.

>>376953063

Wii era Nu-Club Nintendo sucked, barely any relevant info and a third of the magazine was covered in ads for children's shit, and they wasted a lot of paged on official art instead of text or in-game screen shoots. Also they never criticized any game, the shovelware was always rated 7.5/10. It was a zombie magazine the last 10 years of it's existence.

More or less at the same time the internet where I live was easily available on hundreds of Cafes with unlimited vydia information so I stopped buying it .

>>376953063
as far back as 1997, any time I walked into a store I'd always buy one. I haven't bought one since around the time the seventh generation rolled in and internet news/reviews started taking over.

Es hora o aun no?

>>376957370
>Axy and Spot
Now this is some oldfag stuff.

>>376957596
Man everytime a big franchise like Street Fighter would abandon Nintendo they would get all passive agressive and shit, i remember vividly once Ryu had a cameo on some random capcom game and the articule had a whole paragraph talkign about how he was finally on his real home and a bunch of embarassing stuff like that.

i got letter of the month once on EGM but they never sent me my gameshark :/

>>376967561
Have you seen their top 5 fighting games? They put SSFIV3D at the top lol

I was subscribed to Nintendo Power from the very first issue up until around gamecube release. I still have those first issues in storage somewhere inmy shed....

>>376965002
What the fuck is that Metal Gear cover.

>>376966860
No hombre, deja que este sea un tema comfy para revisteros alrededor del mundo.

>dad gets a super mario kart time trial record
>sends picture into nintendo power
>get a year subscription for free
>he hangs the posters in my room
>there was a scary one i couldn't look at before i slept or it would get me
Love vidya game magazines, never had many, I'd re-read the same ones over and over. also strategy guides, bought some for games I didn't even have because they were priced really low, like pokemon crystal or majoras mask.

>be 10
>read about this dragon warrior monsters game
>looks like a cooler version of Pokemon
>our family moves across the country
>my first friend actually has it
>doesn't like it and lets me have it
thanks Billy, best game ever

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I had a Nintendo Power subscription all the way up until it ended.

I'm donating to Norman Van Scott on Patreon

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>>376968389
These comics were never funny.

>>376968863
No, they really weren't. They still make me nostalgic though.

https://archive.org/details/your-sinclair-magazine
https://archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine
tried to post an entire Nintendo Power a little while ago with zero replies. my posts stopped bumping the thread

I had these british magazines with the little globe mascot. I think it was literally called N64 magazine (which would be awkward as fuck when Gamecube happened).

>>376968863

Jesus, did Dobson cowrite this?

>>376969790
He did all of it

>>376957370

iirc Club Nintendo had a section with a hot girl but for one issue, I wonder if a Nintendo representative thought she was unfit for family's magazine and the section was cancelled

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>>376970283
Oh fuck i think i actually remember that one, it was about some Mario Tennis game and it was all about some short description of the chacaters or something like that
>Koopa Troopa is the winged turtle character, he's light and makes silly noices it makes me laugh.
Shit like that.

>>376970024

Oh, I thought they brought the strip back at some point. Didn't realize it was just his usual bullshit.

I have like 4 years of CN from the Wii/DS era from 2006 to 2009. Stoped buying them because it was starting to become a pain in the ass to find them

>>376965202
God I wish I had these and could do this. Sounds like a nice way to spend an afternoon

>>376970283
I think I have that issue.
I also have one with a page dedicated to video game girls and it had Taki and her precious tits & nipples.

>>376973378

Pon los anios y el numero para buscar los scans mi negro

>>376953063
i have a stack of Official Playstation 2 Magazine Australia from around 2003-2006. Flip through them every now and then. Its fun seeing all the preview articles for games like MGS3 and San Andreas, and seeing all the ads and reviews of games that everyone just forgot about, despite being praised at the time. Like one issue had a cover feature on True Crime New York City, and the back cover had an ad for Total Overdose. Who the fuck remembers those?

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>>376974078
14/1 2005
The cover is RE4

>>376975352

K thanks

My family was subscribed to nintendo power back in the day. They were fun to read back then.

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does anyone got a torrent to all the Nintendo Power magazines?

>>376953165
I was subscribed to Club Penguin Video Game Magazine for long time.

>>376956756
Dem tiddies

>>376953263
Did you get Dragon Warrior for free with a Nintendo Power subscription in the '90's?

>>376953063
Yeah i would be buying them still if they had not completely disappeared from my country, such a shame.

>>376956756
Was this the magazine with the anime review section? Man I fapped to lots of shit there as a kid

>>376978636
Nvm I think that was Atomix, EGM was the funny one

Anybody knows why videogame magazines suddenly disappeared in Mexico?

>>376978827
They still sell them, get out of your basement

>>376978979
I guess not in my city anymore i've been looking for them for like a year now so i just assumed they stopped making them.

>>376978827
>>376978979
That first guy might be onto something i used to see them on groeceries,pharmacies and all around, don't even see them on Wal mart or any big store like that.

From what i remember reading Club Nintendo before dropping them for good
>In a female character quiz they had ashley as bottom-tier, requiring 9 points, 10 was the minimum, got called out for it on a later issue and dodged the question because whoever submitted the letter signed as anonymous
>Screenshots of Superman 64 were painfully taken from an emulator, capture framerate and all
>Whiteknighted capcom for cancelling MML3 saying it capcom probably thought it wasn't good enough, despite capcom blaming lack of consumer interest
>On their website, they reported MP: Federation force and spun the negative feedback as a Wind Waker situation

Also, i haven't seen a CN magazine on stores since 2015, when they apparently went tri-monthly.

Well, the European/German "Nintendo Power" was called "Club Nintendo" and was free.

In the late 90s/early 00s I read N-Zone, Bravo Screenfun and Gamestar.
Then I got Internet access and those magazines became a waste of money.

I have a shit ton of Nintendo powers in my closet

always fun to read them for a trip down memory lane

>>376965162
You get these at garage sales or all new?

rip cn

Fuck off Paco you are a nigger

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>>376975352
>>376974078
>>376973378
>>376970283
>>376970823

That was the issue with Geist as the cover Year 14 No 08 the girl disappeared without a trace even if she the article made it clear it was the first of more appearances and she invited readers to write to her. maybe she got harassed by horny nerds and called it quits

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>>376983091

>>376953063
I was a Nintendo Power subscriber from 1988 to 2000.
I used to have nearly every poster up in my room, til my Mom took em down and "lost" them.
Whenever I see old AVGN videos, I still feel mad.

>>376983091
>>376983209
Oh, I just find that mag, i didn't remember having all those CNs.
I wish i found more, the n64 era CN was pure gold.

>>376953063
Post the rarest most oldest CN mag you have.
Num. 4 here.
tiny toons cover.
good shit

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kek

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CN liked Shantae before she was mainstream

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>>376986168
>>376986305

100 hours on MS Paint

I've actually been thinking of getting a game magazine again. I kind of miss getting a surprise in the mailbox. Any current ones worth getting?

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>>376955441

solid 8/10 for sure

Used to. My mains were Nintendo Power, Gamepro, and Tips & Tricks in the late 90s/early 2000s, and EGM later on.

Gamepro was kinda shit for coverage, but every now and then it would have a really decent walkthroughs on games (Their reviews were always kinda trash though).

Tips & Tricks was also great for a lot of import stuff, and had some amazing guides, and had a amazing retro section later on. Then they slowly took out everything decent about it and it wasn't worth it anymore.

EGM was my go-to for reviews and coverage back before I had a PC, and had some damn good articles. They were the one I bought for the longest.

Nintendo Power was decent early on, but it became clear later on that a lot of it felt like a giant advertisement then actual nintendo-focused stuff, and the one I dropped first. Still good for guides and the odd freebie every now and then.

GameInformer was always shit though, never liked them.

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>magazine has poster
>is attached with clips
>and it has some pages from the magazine behind
Hated that shit.
I have some CNs from n64 to Wii era, might check them out again.

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got it for 3 bucks at a newstand. i think its worth something today

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>renting rugrats scavenger hunt

I used to have a Nintendo Power subscription in the late 90s and early 00s.

I used to get the UK Nintendo Magazine System. I'd give my left nut for a complete set of scans going up to the N64 era.

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>>376953063
My family used to be subscribed to Game Informer for awhile. It was aight.

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>>376953063
Yes I had a letter of mine printed in pic related.

>>376990176
UK had the best magazines.

Used to be subscribed to gameinformer, still have some old magazines

>>376955924
>it got me into Dragon Quest
Are you literally me? I remember they hyped up IX's release so much that I got it.

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>>376953063

I remember doing the cloning method in pkmn Silver version I learned from an issue of CN (didn't bought it, just read it in the gas station that had it)

I also remember how they were speculating Lugia being the fusion of Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres, how Pichu was a female Pikachu

Also their posters were stapled you couldn't take them off without damaging the poster.

I never had the chance to send a postcard with my drawing on it

>>376990568

I remember that they some kid with 3 illegal level 60 Mewtwos win an official tournament and the events were referenced in some reader's letters calling the winner cheater, that kid did send a letter being butthurt about people calling him a cheater and that the mewtwos were legit and he was going to sent the way how to obtain them legally in the games which of course he never did.

They also promised several times to publish a guide to what happened in the Saint Seiya manga where the anime ended cause readers couldn't stop asking them about the Japan only games which of course they never did.

Good times

>>376991295
i missed that about the saint seiya, I couldn't buy all magazines. Sadly they were our only source in videogames in a time were internet was oblivious and lacked of info unlike today

>>376955741
If you see the latest games made by rare and the shit that was yooka layle, maybe they were right.

>>376990568
I remember sending them retarded questions.
I also wanted to join their forums but I never could.

>>376991839
Yooka is good tho.

>>376991923
>being a kid and watching the club nintendo tv show which was all mario themed with skateboards
>those personalities of each one in that show
>thinking that for being adults they loved videogames more than any kid and one day I would be friends with

Im glad I never met them in real life, imagine how heartbroken would be knowing these people just pretended to like videogames

>>376992110
we had this shit on our country
https://youtu.be/hUiab8UKslY
>the guy dressed as Fulgore cheated on all those kids
>he was also fucking terrible at the game
good times.

>>376957686
I miss tim and the guys.
It's nice to get a magazine once a month that's all about video games.
NOM was how I found out about Ouendan and Twewy.
But these days it's just a high cost to get your news months late

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>brought xbox 360 magazine (had no internet for months so dont blame me)
>came with demo disc full of games and trailers like spelunky, splosion man and other indie games
>disc didnt work
>try many times with different 'demo discs'
>never fucking worked

>>376992395

>Mortal Kombat with no blood
>L-let's remember -this game...is about athletes that fight to save mankind

kek

where my Raumschiff Gamestar Bros at?

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I read EGM exclusively for Seanbaby

>>376993082
Only time I ever bought the Xbox magazine was for demos or DLC. There was one time they gave out a bunch of DLC for Oblivion on the disc, which was pretty great.

Then again, I did the same for the Playstation magazine and the MGS3 demo long before the game was even out.

>tfw Panteon was a retard

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>>376965002
I feel bad for PSM, this is what they ended on

>>376989657

That game could have been not that bad actually, but why the hell didn't they add some fucking minigames?!

>>376993398
Are they even still doing that?

I read Gamestar for the last time in 2005.

>>376953063
I still have a lot of those in a bag from 1996 to 2002 or something.

>>376996419
Get a scanner and scan me the questions and answer pages
or else