Remember when video game magazines were fun?

[Vibranium]

But the people who do stuff on G4 don't like videogames anyway, they need people to pay them to be interested.

that too...doesn't help when people are abandoning that channel like the plague and are showing up on other networks shortly after leaving...both Sessler and Haislip are on SpikeTVs E3 coverage with Geoff Keighley

[jesse_custer]

Diehard GameFan and Game Players were the two best video game magazines. It's sad there's nothing like them on the market now (to my knowledge).

[Alex]

Diehard GameFan and Game Players were the two best video game magazines. It's sad there's nothing like them on the market now (to my knowledge).

Have you gone back and read Gamefan?
It was actually pretty horribly written, full of really bad jokes and they often didn't really review games.
Also they friggen loved mascot platformers more than was healthy, but it was a damn pretty magazine.

[Simbob4000]

But the people who do stuff on G4 don't like videogames anyway, they need people to pay them to be interested.

G4's video game stuff has sucked ever since they tried turning the channel into Spike lite.

[jesse_custer]

Have you gone back and read Gamefan?
It was actually pretty horribly written, full of really bad jokes and they often didn't really review games.
Also they friggen loved mascot platformers more than was healthy, but it was a damn pretty magazine.

I have. They covered games that no one else covered, they often praised games that got overlooked, and they reviewed plenty of games.

And I appreciate the bad jokes, given the context.

[Vibranium]

the original founder of G4 was on AOTS during Pereiras last show and publicly apologized for the network going the direction it did, basically because once they merged, they were pressured by the PTB to make it happen fast

[Alex]

I have. They covered games that no one else covered, they often praised games that got overlooked, and they reviewed plenty of games.

And I appreciate the bad jokes, given the context.

They also called games good for being japanese, often without having played them i think, because the games they described bore little resemblance to what they actually were.
I kinda hate that magazine looking back for cock teasing me on all these japanese games i would never get to play.
Though they hyped Hagane, good on them for that one.

[The Black Guardian]

oh woe for the days of overpriced glossy magazines...spare me

To be very honest, when I think of all the video game mags I bought, I suddenly get depressed at the waste. I can't think of a single bit of truly useful information I got from any of them. It was like watching a new tv series that is 100% commercials.

[Manga4life]

I used to love the previews sections back in the 90's the most, I'd love to read about upcoming games and what kinds of new releases were coming out and I loved the letters section where fans wrote in about their favorite games. I remember learning how to do moves in the arcade for the original Mortal Kombat from an issue of GamePro and I remember everyone in the arcade was in awe when I was pulling off Fatalities and other sick moves on people. Man, the memories flood me....

[StreetFighterRyu]

Yeah, the internet sort of made the whole thing pointless. I would still like something physical in my hand to read it, but I could also just go to any site like IGN to see reviews, previews, screent shots, etc.

edit: And back then, I used to read Nintendo Power. I think. It might have been years later.

[Xero Kaiser]

They also called games good for being japanese.

Yeah, Dave Halverson was notorious for that. Gamefan, Gamers Republic, PLAY, didn't matter, you could spot his writing a mile away. If it was Japanese, he couldn't jerk off fast enough.

[idlewildered]

I used to love some of our UK games mags. GamesMaster was immense. I read Gamestm now and enjoy it, mostly for the retro sections to be honest.

[dupersuper]

Remember when video game magazines were fun?

...........No?

[sHayden]

What about Dragon? That was technically a "Game magazine"

[marshal99]

Used to buy CGW (Computer gaming world) and some PC gamer mags back in the 90s.