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Sgt Pepper’s Dusty Old Magazine Club flips through some old magazines published 20 years ago

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Published in Monday, December 28th, 2009, at 10:58 pm, and filed under PODCATS.

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3 Responses

  1. Frostback Says:
    December 29th, 2009 at 6:38 am

    Yay! I rock! Thanks for the shoutout!

    Man, I used to *love* computer magazines: Creative Computing, Analog, Antic, Byte… I’d have huge collections of them. Hell, even Compute! was worth a gander.

    Christ, even PC Magazine and uh… PC World were good at one point. Now the only thing I read is Wired.. and that’s only on occaision.

    I hate to say it (only because stating the obvious sucks) but the internet has ruined everything… you can get all the content you want, for free. And it caters to niche audiences so you never get a dose of search algorithms and character editing primers layered in between pages of the latest game review, as you would with Byte or any of the better old ones.

    The old magazines gave the reader a much more balanced ‘diet’. The internet needs an editor-in-chief, dammit.

  2. Ted Rex Says:
    December 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    I found my copy of C&VG number 1 from 1981 recently, my daughter couldn’t believe how bad it was.
    There are scans of it here:
    http://www.64apocalypse.com/images/cvg/mag1.htm
    Ah… the ZX81 keyboard, making a whole generation of geeks arthritic for the low low price of £70!
    It’s not just the internet that is killing gaming magazines it’s what’s in them. The review system is so screwed,(and has been for years) by publisher interference, bias and (usually) a scoring system where a magazine for example may only use from 70-100%. That it is not worth buying them for reviews.
    Amateur reviewers on the net, like this site, tend to buy the games themselves and don’t have to rely on the publishers for ad revenue and review copies and so can offend them. I might not always agree with the reviews, but at least it is your honest opinion you aren’t being bribed to give a good review.

  3. LisVender LisVender Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 6:13 am

    The only two magazines I read regularly were Nintendo Power and PC Gamer. My uncle had a subscription to EGM and he’d give me the magazines to enjoy once he was through with them. I wish I still had them now. I remember I had the issue with the Street Fighter II/Sheng Long April Fool’s joke.

    I remember the mags being colorful and fun to look at, with wild artwork splashed across each page, and lots of jokes in every article. Nintendo Power was especially silly in its first couple of years. There were plenty of unnecessary but great little gifts in each issue: posters, cards, comics, T-shirt iron-ons, you name it. PC Gamer had even better pack-ins: demo discs. Man, I still remember playing the hell out of the first five levels in Diablo.

    Great stuff.

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