what website is like what classic gaming magazine?

[Iron Draggon]

this idea came to me while replying to a post in another thread, and it got me to wondering... what website would you say is like what classic gaming mag?

I think DP is like the online version of Next Gen, and GameFAQs is like the online version of GamePro... I'm not sure who's EGM yet, but AtariAge is pretty obvious... although I'm surprised they've never been sued over their name yet... I guess merging two words together is different with no spacing? anyhow, Destroy All Monsters (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~bevhome/DAM.htm) gets my vote for being the online Diehard Gamefan equivalent, at least as far as all the groovy screenshots go...

so what do you think?

help me decide who's EGM...

[Xian042]

that digipress is more like Video Games & Computer Entertainment.

EGM not only is like 1up.com....it IS 1up.com

gamespot is more like GamePro

[Steven]

Well, not just coz I'm the webmaster but I do pattern portions of my website after a combo of GameFan, EGM, Super Play and Sega Saturn Magazine. I take what I like most from those 4 and mix it in with my own style. I've received comments from old magazine lovers that they really dig the magazine "spirit" I have on RVG. Well, I only try to, and leave the rest in your hands to interpret.

And yes, I do agree DAM is like GameFan. HG101 is perhaps even more like GameFan. IMHO, while GameFAQS is closest to GamePro, there are some MAJOR pluses to GF, while GP was mostly (kiddy) crap through and through. I stick to Saturn and SNES GameFAQ boards, and they're pretty good. The FAQS are invaluable as well as the codes, and user reviews can be fun to browse on late nights. Sorry to go on this tangent but just wanted to defend a site that gets so much consistent flack and hate for really being NOT THAT bad.

But I digress.


EDIT: Can't forget this, Sega-16 definitely has a magazine touch to it, but I'm not sure which one suits it best.

[Steven]

PS- Iron and everyone else, MikeB has changed the URL to DAM (different now then the one you linked us in your 1st post, Iron)

Please change your bookmarks:

http://www.stickycarpet.com/dam/

[MikeB]

Wow.. I'm extremely flattered to be even mentioned in the same sentence as Gamefan, many thanks for the kind compliment ;)

As Steven rightly says though please make sure you are using the stickycarpet.com URL or you'll be missing out on all content post-2001!

Btw Steven I've been spending increasing amounts of time perusing your own site recently and feel I must return the compliment.. it's obviously had an amazing amount of work laboured on it and I've learnt tons of facts about a whole load of games I'd never even heard of previously :)

MikeB

DAM
http://www.stickycarpet.com/dam

[Rev. Link]

Sorry, but GameFAQs is the online equivalent of Giant Pile of Dung Magazine. That fact that that place is always moving is proof of my theory that 90% of the people in the world are idiots.

Well, either that or they're just bored and can't find any other moving forums, like me sometimes.

[Push Upstairs]

Protip: GameFAQs has a terrible forum

I've never really thought any website was like any magazine I've read in the past. The mags always had their own "vibe" and I get a different one from the websites i frequent.

[sabre2922]

Protip: GameFAQs has a terrible forum


so true

the Gamespot forums have gotten pretty bad also.

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a few links:

http://segakatana.com/main.php

http://www.lostlevels.org/

http://www.segasaturndatabase.co.nr/

http://z64.emedian.net/logo.php?id=main
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