/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10445624]

What's the best gaming magazine and why is it PSM?

[Anonymous No.10445625]

[Anonymous No.10445628]

[Anonymous No.10445630]

>>10445624
Official Xbox Magazine of course. Literally the best demo discs ever made, every single month. Having a subscription to OXM was a gaming experience all in itself. You could basically sample the entire library with a subscription.

[Anonymous No.10445642]

>>10445630
But it doesn't have swimsuit issues with original art

[Anonymous No.10445645]

I only bought pc vidya magazines because they came with a free full game.

[Anonymous No.10445652]

>>10445642
This is true and the art is cool, I like the 90’s underground comic style.

Xchads got like, hundreds of game demos though, and cool behind the scenes videos. I’d take that trade off.

[Anonymous No.10445654]

>>10445645
Independence Day action figures also came with a free game on floppy

[Anonymous No.10445660]

Pure kino artwork

[Anonymous No.10445673]

>>10445652
Yeah the only thing psm gave out were lid and memory card stickers which were hit or miss

[Anonymous No.10445682]

>>10445673
there was also some cool poster sometimes. sure, demos are better but check the prize of oxm and compare it to psm.

[Anonymous No.10445684]

psm was good when they started then became full on shill for sony

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[Anonymous No.10446376]

>>10445624
I preferred mags that showed games for all consoles, because then I could see all of them and read about them and it would reaffirm my choice of getting a playstation.

[Anonymous No.10446487]

>>10445624
>>10445625
>>10445642
Even with access to internet pornography, there was something so much more exhilarating about getting these in the mail and flipping through the pages to find those pages filled with barely clad butts and boobs. That one spread of Lara Croft in the tiny diamond bikini was something else.

[Radiochan !!8R5IcuH3PgQ No.10446505]

>>10445624
>>10445625
this was literally in an issue lol

[Anonymous No.10446512]

>>10445630
This is actually true. I'd leave those demo discs on in the background for the music.
And it was a time before YouTube, people had to submit videos that they'd put in the next issue. That's how I found out about flying a tank in Vice City.
OXM, GameMasters, and PowerStation (UK PS1 magazine) were the ones I regularly got. And sometimes PLAY.

[Anonymous No.10446551]

i miss when gaming mags were soft porno mags in the 90s. Easily better than playboy. I mostly stopped buying them after 2000 though I bought a couple in the 00s and what shocked me the most was although they were more sanitised, the back of the mags had literal adult ads in them.

[Anonymous No.10446771]

>>10445624
HOBBYCONSOLAS

[Anonymous No.10446775]

>>10446551

[Anonymous No.10447191]

>>10445624
PSM from launch until late-98 / early-99 was pure late-90's chill vibes, but it very quickly started shilling PS2 early and lost all of it's charm, it was at it's best focusing exclusively on PS1.

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[Anonymous No.10447230]

>>10447204
lmao kiddie shit

[Anonymous No.10447235]

>>10445654
One of the most disappointing things about the id4 sequel was how they retconned the whole alien civilization into lol queen

[Anonymous No.10447339]

>>10445624
Campeones del Mundo

[Anonymous No.10447362]

>>10447230
based matur gamer

[Anonymous No.10447370]

>>10445624
PSM was kind of crap because it focused on only one system, had very shallow content, and was a very thin magazine. You didn't get much for your $5. I always subscribed to EGM and Tips N' Tricks.

[Anonymous No.10447373]

I subscribed to Gamepro once using a "free two month trial subscription" that came with one of my game purchases.
They sent me magazines for two years.

[Anonymous No.10448130]

>>10447373
It must have been a pain to pay them for the 22 copies you received that were basically stolen.

[Anonymous No.10448254]

I had an OPM subscription. Also had some issues of PSM, which was a better read, but every OPM came with a nice demo disc.

[Anonymous No.10448262]

>>10447191
This art rules. Does there exist a clean version without the magazine stuff?

[Anonymous No.10448289]

I love this one as a kid/teenager, whole europe also get it, it share 80% content with other countries

[Anonymous No.10448650]

>>10446505
>Softsquare
>Not Squarehard

[Anonymous No.10449694]

>>10445624
EGM... duh

[Anonymous No.10449707]

[Anonymous No.10449776]

I used to love PSM when I was a kid. Going back and reading them as an adult, they're pretty shitty when it comes to reviews and the like.

EGM is superior in every way.

[Anonymous No.10449842]

>>10449707
Lol imagine silent hill 2 with juiced up action hero James.

[Anonymous No.10449849]

>>10448262
Best I could do

[Anonymous No.10451681]

For me it's nintendo power

[Anonymous No.10451763]

>>10449849
Sick thanks

[Anonymous No.10453003]

>>10449776
Yeah I honestly can't really remember how good or bad the actual articles and reviews were in PSM, I just loved the original artwork and the part of the magazine dedicated to gaming in Japan. There were a lot of exclusive stuff the Japs got back then before everyone else.

[Anonymous No.10453242]

Ultra Game Players had a disc every month with PC demos and little "vlog" snippets of the writing staff bullshitting and talking about office shenanigans. It was also where I acquired my copy of Christmas Nights. I had every issue at one point, lost to time. What I wouldn't give to have that stack of soulful game mags again.

[Anonymous No.10455369]

>>10445624
AI generate a modern cover for this magazine and gaze into the horrifying future

[Anonymous No.10457660]

>>10446505
What's inside the CDs? Where can I find the ISOs?

[Anonymous No.10457737]

CGM was really nice until the late 90s when it went full "pictures-over-text mode".

[Anonymous No.10458145]

>>10447339
holy based anon, this was the best magazine in Spanish, they really went out of their way like making a weeb play jap games and explain them for the community. They rarely missed. A while back I was checking out their take on WE vs FIFA and it was so spot on

I'd also add Gamepro (in Spanish)

>>10447204
CN is maybe the most important mag for what it achieved and how it started things going, but it was rather poor in content and tone

[Anonymous No.10458960]

nintendo power up to around snes era. psm up to ps2 era. and pc accelerator up to duke nukem forever release.

[Anonymous No.10458978]

>>10445624
(Ultra) Game Players when they had all the in-jokes and weird shit. THE BOX.

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[Anonymous No.10459484]

>>10459476
love the 90's artwork style. the nipple is the cherry on top.

[Anonymous No.10459490]

Wasn't this featured in a magazine?

[Anonymous No.10459497]

[Anonymous No.10459536]

>Gamefan
>EGM 2
>Tips and Tricks

all mogged this zoomoid trash

[Anonymous No.10459542]

>>10459490
Yes

[Anonymous No.10459546]

>>10458978
a lot of the good people from ultra game players ended up at psm

[Anonymous No.10460035]

>>10457737
>CGM
It's CGW. I used to subscribe until late 90s. I own that edition. It was the month when Master of Magic was released. MoM is the best 4x game!

[Anonymous No.10460738]

>>10453242
>>10458978
>>10459546
Ultra Game Players' chief editor went on to head Nintendo Power until it was discontinued, then did the Nintendo Power podcast until earlier this year. The old guy with the grumpy gimmick still does reviews somewhere, too. I still miss the original magazine.

[Anonymous No.10460789]

Here's some artwork from a Russian gaming magazine.

[Anonymous No.10461014]

>>10446505
Nomura is based???

[Anonymous No.10461127]

>>10446505
>Final Fantasy XXX
Still waiting for it...

[Anonymous No.10461258]

>>10445624
As a speccy owning kid my favourite mag was Your Sinclair, I loved the in-jokes and self-deprecation, the way the writers kept the pretense that they were working out of a shed, each writer having their own unique personalities, their general chummy way of writing and the way they frequently directly addressed the reader. It was a very comfy read.

[Anonymous No.10461293]

>>10461258
Also, Nintendo Magazine System which was the UK's equivilent of Nintendo Power as Nintendo's official mag over here

[Anonymous No.10461351]

I think Next Generation was a great magazine with interesting takes on the videogame industry.

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[Anonymous No.10462281]

>>10449707
More like Resident Hill/Silent Evil 2.

[Anonymous No.10462352]

>>10449707
>>10462281
This is funny because this cover showing Resident Evil 2 is way more modest, it's like they switched roles.

[Anonymous No.10462521]

>>10445624
Mum found this mag and threw it out

[Anonymous No.10462550]

>>10461258
Karnov is not a communist you fucking shitbags

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[Anonymous No.10462590]

>>10461258
>Slash 'n' Slice 'Em Up
So that's the official term