What does /vr/ think of Retro Gamer magazine?

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Anonymous Sat Sep 11 18:18:50 2021 No.8127753 [Reply] [Original]

What does /vr/ think of Retro Gamer magazine?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 11 18:23:42 2021 No.8127776 Didn't even know this existed. I know the retro "scene" is pretty gay, but curious to know if this is any good/has had any decent features.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 11 18:26:22 2021 No.8127792 >>8127753 >>8127776 probably the only game magazine i buy, the annuals at the end of the year are great.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 11 18:36:32 2021 No.8127832 I've written for Retro Gamer around 22 times. I've written "Making of" features. AMA

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 11 18:38:26 2021 No.8127838 >>8127832 Do you like Sonic Adventure

>>	Kotonohas' Husbando Sat Sep 11 18:41:56 2021 No.8127856 My friend in prison used to get this magazine. Shit was cool as hell to read. It was the first time I've ever heard of the PC engine.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 11 18:42:48 2021 No.8127861 >>8127838 I love it. Soundtrack is great too

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 11 18:43:59 2021 No.8127864 File: 340 KB, 264x519, 2ae0bc33a7e374f.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8127832 Are you Jewish? Do you play games that aren't from the big names? Who is your waifu?

Anonymous Sat Sep 11 18:48:44 2021 No.8127882
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You in the UK? Download the 'Libby' app. Sign in with a library card and you can download retro gamer FOR FREE. As well as PS5 and Xbox and PC gaming magazines.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 11 18:53:14 2021 No.8127901 >>8127864 No I play all kinds of games 2B

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 11 19:03:40 2021 No.8127942 >>8127882 >library card What kind of faggot do you think I am?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 11 19:07:45 2021 No.8127957 >>8127942 Not a big brained like library Chad like me apparently

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 07:32:16 2021 No.8129468 >>8127832 How's your wife's son doing

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 07:55:56 2021 No.8129510 >>8127753 I've seen this a few times on the magazine stand in Morrisons down the road. Always been tempted, the asking price is a bit steep though. You know what would sway me? A cover disk with actual abandonware for 95/98/DOS system. That'd be neat

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 07:59:46 2021 No.8129519 >>8129510 See >>8127882 Get it free bro.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 08:40:44 2021 No.8129632 >>8129510 Imagine the legal issues

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 08:43:30 2021 No.8129640 File: 23 KB, 185x290, 512098.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Retro Gamer magazine?!? >NOT RETRO!!

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 08:44:45 2021 No.8129646 >>8129632 Or demos, with system-compatible code samples and freeware. It'd be fun.

Anonymous Sun Sep 12 08:49:50 2021 No.8129657

>>8127753
I used to read the gameinformer issue that had Silent Hill 4 in it over and over when I was middle school because I longed to play the SH games but was firmly a nintendo kid at the time.
The ironic part is that I ended up disliking 4 in the end.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 10:42:09 2021 No.8129904 >>8127792 Well, I took the plunge. I've got money to burn anyway I guess.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 11:05:04 2021 No.8129969 >>8127832 Are you a free lance journalist? How much do you make a year for this and other gigs?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 11:07:11 2021 No.8129973 >>8129510 They did that like 10-15 years ago. IIRC they had an edition with a free copy of Beneath a Steel Sky

Anonymous Sun Sep 12 12:26:01 2021 No.8130146

>>8127856
Funnily enough, I wanted to subscribe to this during my own stint, but the subscription price was insane and apparently there were reports of issues straight up not making it overseas, so I went with Maximum PC instead. And wouldn't you know, I missed like three issues for no reason. Such was life.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 12:33:54 2021 No.8130167 >>8127753 It’s okay but since they’re bongs they always include a way too long article about some garbage spectrum game

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 13:16:28 2021 No.8130287 >>8127832 What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 21:23:30 2021 No.8131868 >>8127792 Based, same

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 21:46:24 2021 No.8131924 >>8127753 I skim through it whenever I come across an issue in public but I'm usually not interested in most of the articles. Still a good magazine though

Anonymous Sun Sep 12 21:48:58 2021 No.8131934

>>8130167
>It’s okay but since they’re bongs they always include a way too long article about some garbage spectrum game
probably because the programmer went on to work on some major PS1 or PC title and it was the first game he made when he was 17. kek.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 22:55:05 2021 No.8132105 >>8127832 how much do you love manic miner?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 23:36:41 2021 No.8132190 >>8130146 Why were you in jail? Also, wouldn't you be sad reading about retro games that you couldn't even play because of the jail thing?

Anonymous Sun Sep 12 23:46:08 2021 No.8132201

>>8127753
Really enjoy it, it's very broad in what it covers and almost every article includes a lot of quality research and/or interviews with developers.
I find a lot of games I didn't know much about that I end up wanting to play, or learning new stuff about old favourites.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 00:09:27 2021 No.8132238 >>8127856 you can get magazines in prison? Is that a Scandinavian thing?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 00:30:07 2021 No.8132285 >>8127753 i remember reading it in 2005 when it still came with demo discs. i'm surprised it's still going.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 00:32:48 2021 No.8132287 >>8127753 Dont know, dont care, i m sure its a neckbeard scam

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 00:38:45 2021 No.8132304 >>8132285 >when a retro magazine is now retro

Anonymous Mon Sep 13 09:10:49 2021 No.8133090

>>8127753
I have a couple of issues that I bought sporadically about 10 years ago
The layout/images look beautiful. One of the issues I have is an entire feature of rare N64 items with great photography.
I wish I had subscribed regularly but they were like $15 a pop.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 09:31:27 2021 No.8133131 File: 176 KB, 1200x1200, 1613660292529.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8127753 https://archive.org/details/retro_gamer Here's a whole bunch of them. If they still publish it I'm willing to bet you could find pdf's more modern editions.

Anonymous Mon Sep 13 09:42:27 2021 No.8133164
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>>8129973
This one. issue 6, June 2004.

https://archive.org/details/retro_gamer/RetroGamer_006/mode/2up

They have a very cute website still running too :3
https://www.retrogamer.net/

Anyway, here is the direct link to the pdfs on archive.org https://archive.org/compress/retro_gamer/formats=TEXT%20PDF,IMAGE%20CONTAINER%20PDF&file=/retro_gamer.zip

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 10:00:49 2021 No.8133206 File: 223 KB, 362x467, 224.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here's the most recent issue. https://turbobit.net/z0oiwipy4ni3.html

Anonymous Mon Sep 13 10:23:01 2021 No.8133269
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>March 2010 (issue 75) saw John Romero collaborating with Retro Gamer, taking on the role of 'Guest Editor', taking charge of the magazine's editorial and splashing his own unique style to a number of his favorite articles and subjects throughout the magazine.

https://archive.org/details/retro_gamer/RetroGamer_075/mode/2up

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 11:35:47 2021 No.8133438 Interesting

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 13:51:18 2021 No.8133718 File: 374 KB, 838x521, 50437550_p0.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8127882 shit i lost mine a while back

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 13:53:44 2021 No.8133723 >>8133206 what the fuck is that download site can you upload somewhere normal, looks like a glowie honeypot

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 19:22:04 2021 No.8134856 >>8133723 I doubt the glowers give af about some magazine. It's a legit link

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 20:58:34 2021 No.8135246 Nice interviews

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 14 04:50:37 2021 No.8136398 >>8127753 Who even buys it anymore?

Anonymous Tue Sep 14 08:41:29 2021 No.8136853

>>8132238
Most Anglo prisons have huge libraries including magazines. Even the prison in HBO Oz had magazines. Some of the high collar prisons let you play a shitty hand held system. Some of the corrupt ones let you have a game console just bribing your way out. I don't know about American or Canadian, but most British prisons can give you a shit TV set to look at local channels.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 14 08:46:35 2021 No.8136864 >>8136853 They all have PS4's in the rec rooms of Scandi prisons

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 14 08:48:41 2021 No.8136868 Way too expensive for a magazine, yet worthy of sifting through in the store. Decent magazine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 14 08:50:20 2021 No.8136871 >>8132304 2005 is not retro.

Anonymous Tue Sep 14 10:27:52 2021 No.8137121

Read a few issues a long time ago and thought it was decent. Good way to refresh the memory about those old Spectrum games you didn't play. Opened up a more recent one and it began with an editorial about "cringing" over "problematic" themes and art in old games. STFU and show us old games, if you want me to give you money understand I care as much for your opinion on the culture war as I do about the shipping forecast.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 14 10:48:02 2021 No.8137169 File: 83 KB, 449x383, 1610281200092.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8137121 >an editorial about "cringing" over "problematic" themes and art in old games Fucking seriously?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 14 14:21:33 2021 No.8137709 Looks swish

Anonymous Tue Sep 14 17:48:25 2021 No.8138275
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>>8137121
>>8137169
Surprising, I get most recent issues and was pleased that there is never anything of the sort, it's usually all games and very positive vibes.
The closest was an interview with Betty Ryan who made Quantum in 1982 and the interviewer kept trying to steer the question to 'How much sexism did you experience' when she seemed to just want to talk about programming and her game.
Even then it wasn't nearly as egregious as some other outlets.
Betty Ryan and Quantum sound really awesome though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 15 06:01:23 2021 No.8139740 Entertaining reads

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 15 11:51:27 2021 No.8140508 >>8127753 cringe & for normies

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 15 12:08:48 2021 No.8140537 post good issues, and I might read some.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 15 12:20:18 2021 No.8140565 Forums and other kinds of communities made game magazines useless.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 15 12:32:11 2021 No.8140593 >>8140565 Kind of. Unless they can really go above and beyond to get good interviews, and talk about shit that's way beyond surface level knowledge.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 15 13:15:44 2021 No.8140702 >>8140537 113

Anonymous Wed Sep 15 17:28:22 2021 No.8141459
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>>8140537
Just find a series or game you're interested in and look for that.
Alternatively if you want a cool story that you probably wouldn't have come across otherwise, #213 has a crazy article about a series of games that were programmed by women staying at a bizarre lesbian boarding school fetish holiday retreat when one of the patrons brought a computer with her.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 15 22:33:17 2021 No.8142319 Generally readable

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 15 23:06:47 2021 No.8142448 magazines still exist?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 16 17:47:14 2021 No.8144832 >>8127753 Its fucking garbage. Just another retro cashgrab, makes me sick. Ill wait for the "mini" rerelease.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 16 18:49:14 2021 No.8145056 >>8144832 What did she mean by this

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 17 02:41:24 2021 No.8146296 >>8127753 SA1 SOVL SA2 SUCKS

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 17 03:07:20 2021 No.8146326 >>8144832 Hate to break it to you but by that definition all for profit media is a cashgrab

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 17 04:04:18 2021 No.8146389 >>8127753 >sonic adventure >retro lmfao

Anonymous Fri Sep 17 08:34:16 2021 No.8146712
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>>8127753
Never picked up retro gamer but I like to look through old video game mags from the actual era. I spent a lot of time reading mags in the PS1 days and it's cool to look back at what I missed out on. The writing/journalism was better back then that's for sure.

you can find pdfs for some on archive.com. Here's the first issue of official PlayStation magazine: https://archive.org/details/Official_UK_Playstation_Magazine_Issue_001_1995-11_Future_Publishing_GB

Makes you realise how souless the industry has become.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 17 08:55:59 2021 No.8146739 >>8146389 >1998 >Not retro There are PS1 and N64 games newer than that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 17 13:47:46 2021 No.8147529 >>8146712 Based

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 17 20:56:18 2021 No.8148731 >>8146739 i know, i'm just amused at the idea that anything modern sonic is considered "retro"

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