pixelsnpolygons
09-12-2004, 03:21 PM
I was in Tower the other week, a place I never usually go to, looking at the magazines. I noticed a magazine that looked like it had a Genesis or Mega Drive cartridge box on the cover. On closer inspection, it did - although this box was a little smaller and much thinner and it had the name of the magazine in the same logo style as the Mega Drive/Genesis. I thumbed through the magazine - it seemed quite good, full of a lot of nice information and reviews - plus the demo CD featured full version games of a lot of what they covered. I was going to get it but several things stopped me:
#1. It cost something like $12, not including tax.
#2. Although the information was great, I already knew most of it - there was nothing meaty, no mysteriously uncovered interview from the depths of the heyday of some long vanished development company or other stuff I might not have known.
#3. I either had the games on the that were on the CD, or could easily hunt them down. I mean, if the games had to be played on a PC anyway - why not just save $12 and download them? Hell, for $12-13 I could probably find a box of real games to take home and play. In fact I paid that much for 20 Master System games once.
That said, the magazine was really cool. I guess what it comes down to is, I wish this came came out a few years ago when I was still drinking up information on the old days of gaming like a mad fool and I wish it didn't cost so much - even if I am sure they put the effort in.
Does anyone remember the name of this magazine? Or, do you think I'm selling it short... perhaps I glossed over the juicy information as I was trying to read it in the dank corner of a Tower store.
#1. It cost something like $12, not including tax.
#2. Although the information was great, I already knew most of it - there was nothing meaty, no mysteriously uncovered interview from the depths of the heyday of some long vanished development company or other stuff I might not have known.
#3. I either had the games on the that were on the CD, or could easily hunt them down. I mean, if the games had to be played on a PC anyway - why not just save $12 and download them? Hell, for $12-13 I could probably find a box of real games to take home and play. In fact I paid that much for 20 Master System games once.
That said, the magazine was really cool. I guess what it comes down to is, I wish this came came out a few years ago when I was still drinking up information on the old days of gaming like a mad fool and I wish it didn't cost so much - even if I am sure they put the effort in.
Does anyone remember the name of this magazine? Or, do you think I'm selling it short... perhaps I glossed over the juicy information as I was trying to read it in the dank corner of a Tower store.