Ever get your Letter in a Magazine? [Archive]

GENESISNES

02-19-2003, 01:41 PM

Well....

Ever get your letter/email in a vg magazine?
Ever try to get one in there? how many times?
What was it about?
What magazine?

I tried sending a letter to expert gamer to inform them they were missing a badge in Paper Mario, but they didn't publish it. :(

Keir

02-19-2003, 01:45 PM

No, but I did have a letter published in Hit Parader once.

IntvGene

02-19-2003, 01:54 PM

I got one of my letters printed in Next Generation many years back. It was in response to the rating of the consoles. I was mad at them because they were predicting the demise of the poor 3DO and saturn (stupid fools turned out to be right!).

I remember because I was so mad because they never responded to my email. And, I said to myself, "This magazine sucks! They didn't even respond to my letter". Because they usually sent me a response to my letters (emails). And then I walked into the local video game store, and he says "Hey, I read your letter". I was so shocked. So, I picked up a copy of the magazine and I still have it to this day. Ony of my friends bought one and asked me to sign it... as a joke. :D

maxlords

02-19-2003, 02:04 PM

Yeah...I emailed in to one of those "Classic games that we've forgotten" columns in Official USPSM and they printed it once.

Captain Wrong

02-19-2003, 02:07 PM

Does Penthouse count?

Kid Fenris

02-19-2003, 02:52 PM

I had a few "What Ifs" in EGM and EGM2 back when the magazines still ran that column. My submissions were really stupid, too. I think one of them was "What if Reptile [from Mortal Kombat II] turned invisible and tied his opponents' shoelaces together?"

That should give you a good idea of why both magazines eventually scrapped the "What if . . ." feature.

Sniderman

02-19-2003, 03:18 PM

I got a True Fact printed in National Lampoon once. That's one of my minor victories. (Got a t-shirt too!)

Six Switch

02-19-2003, 03:49 PM

Never,but one of these days......maybe I'll get my room in T&T,if I'm lucky... :hmm: :/ :)

carnage6

02-19-2003, 09:49 PM

I did a long time ago in EGM. It is the issue with Star Trek 6 on the cover. I asked the question about the Super Gun system.

PG

Mr. NEStalgia

02-19-2003, 09:54 PM

I've never even tried. Guess I'm just too darn lazy x_x

-=Mr. NEStalgia=-

nesman85

02-19-2003, 10:11 PM

i used to write them to nintendo power every once in a while but none ever got printed.

davidbrit2

02-19-2003, 11:32 PM

Skip letters; how about having your picture in the Nintendo Fun Club magazine? :-) If you've got some old issues, I'm in the one with the halloween costumes. I think it was one of the first two or three. Look for me among the photos of about a half dozen Links. Heh. I need to go dig that up again some time. It's pretty amusing.

Raedon

02-19-2003, 11:54 PM

Just want to say that a letter to Penthouse does count if it had something to do with hitchhiking and a convertable full of college girls.

X_x

GENESISNES

02-20-2003, 12:07 AM

my friend got a SWEET picture of the skull kid that took majora's mask jumping. he drew it all by hand. it wasnt a winner, but it says John Alsop, Hugo Minnesota.

Arqueologia_Digital

02-20-2003, 12:23 AM

Yes, i appeared in "Club Nintendo" (M�xico), "Action games" (Argentina) and soon..."Tips and tricks"...je

kingpong

02-20-2003, 12:25 AM

I had a few somewhat infamous letters in the 90's rendition of Electronic Games. Started with correcting the Game Doctor on the existence of SQ:WW, culminated with me telling them to slap Steven Kent around for giving Tempest 2K a D+ (or something like that rating). Maybe they did, as I believe he now says it is one of his favorites. Refer to page 489 of his "The Ultimate History of Video Games"* - "Yes, for those of you who remember, I did give Tempest 2000 a D+ score in Electronic Games. What can I say, I repent."

* (book should have been subtitled "No really, I did some original writing this time, not straight copying from Zap, Phoenix, and Game Over, like I did in those excerpts printed in Next Generation before I was able to get a publishing deal for this book when it was called 'The First Quarter'")

CrazyImpmon

02-20-2003, 04:54 AM

I've written only once and by fluke it was printed, in Nintendo Power magazine, May 2001. They were asking what games should be made/ported to GBA and I must have had a great idea. ;) (still waiting for that game to get made...)

rolenta

02-20-2003, 10:10 AM

I have the distinction of having the first fan letter ever published in a videogame magazine.

The first edition of the original Electronic Games had a letters page, but it contained letters from people in the industry who were sent advance copies of the magazine. The second issue contained actual letters and mine was the first!

I had a second letter printed several months letter. A list of all my printed letters can be found here:

http://www.rolentapress.com/rolenta/letters/letters.html

jaydubnb

02-20-2003, 12:40 PM

I've had a letter printed in EGM twice: once during the good era (aka the Semrad Years) and once during the P.O.S era (aka Now). I recently sent them another letter in response to their saying that Cap v. SNK EO for the Xbox is the first ever online fighting game for console...ah, how quickly we forget.[/i]

Six Switch

02-20-2003, 03:58 PM

my friend got a SWEET picture of the skull kid that took majora's mask jumping. he drew it all by hand. it wasnt a winner, but it says John Alsop, Hugo Minnesota.

What mag was it and what issue,I might have it. :hmm: :/

Daniel Thomas

02-20-2003, 04:28 PM

Hey, where's Russ Perry, Jr? Hasn't he had his letters published in every prozine by now? I'd be surprised if there were one or two that haven't.

geelw

02-21-2003, 03:52 AM

lessee now:

egm (envelope art, game doctor letter art 2x)
sega visions (art twice)
game fan (letter, and i won the polterguy panel art contest)
gamer's republic (bitching about sega and the dreamcast)
next generation (a comment about frequency, which was answered by avoiding the question- no wonder tha mag ws cancelled, lol)
a couple of print 'zines, like DP, the gameroom blitz (i think), and control freaks (among others)

i think there's more, but i remember a few form letters from sega, electronic arts, and nintendo directly (i still have most, if not all of that stuff around here somewhere). one of the funniest items i got was a contract to sign and return from sega- i had submitted a page of game-related merchandise ideas, but none of them were acted on (*sigh*) like we DON'T need a coffee-table or paperback sega history book, lol...(japan got at least 5 or 6, lol) :-D

deadtech

02-21-2003, 03:47 PM

I have only ever written to a vid mag once, and they printed my letter. It was about 2 years ago IIRC, and I wrote to Next Gen. I didn't normally read that mag, but a friend gave me a copy, and I found some factual errors in an article about both the NeoGeo home and arcade hardware, and the Strikers 1945 series of games. I gave them the correct info, and they sorta said "Uh, yeah whatever. I guess you are right" in their reply. :)

-deadtech

hamburgler

02-21-2003, 05:19 PM

Yeah,but it was only to renew the magazine that i had subscribed to.

slapdash

02-24-2003, 01:20 PM

Hey, where's Russ Perry, Jr? Hasn't he had his letters published in every prozine by now? I'd be surprised if there were one or two that haven't.

Ha ha, somebody remembers!

I never actually kept track, but... I was never in Nintendo Power I think, probably because I never wrote. I was never in EGM but Steve Harris once said "and don't listen to Russ Perry Jr!" in an interview (I think with Nathan Hauke for his zine). I haven't been in most of the newer ones either.

But I was called "ubiquitous" by Chris Bieniek because of how many places my name seemed to pop up. :-)

Kid Fenris

02-24-2003, 01:31 PM

slapdash

02-25-2003, 06:49 PM

Ha ha, somebody remembers!

I never actually kept track, but... I was never in Nintendo Power I think, probably because I never wrote. I was never in EGM but Steve Harris once said "and don't listen to Russ Perry Jr!" in an interview (I think with Nathan Hauke for his zine). I haven't been in most of the newer ones either.

Are you sure you were never in EGM? I remember reading some letter in which you objected to an article's dismissal of classic gaming (something about how "no one plays the original Pitfall"), and I'd swear that it was Electronic Gaming Monthly. Or possibly EGM2.

Um, wow... Do I know you off the board? I don't recognize your nick if so...

That would be a pretty good memory either way, but I'd almost bet it was in EGM2, not EGM. I'm pretty sure that I've been pretty consistent with my outage there... But maybe I finally broke through and that's one of the issues that is on my "haven't read yet" pile (which is large and spotty right now).

Kid Fenris

02-25-2003, 06:56 PM

Ruudos

02-26-2003, 11:42 AM

I've once wrote a letter to Club Nintendo. Well it was not published, but I did receive a letter back, which I still have.

I actually know a NES collector who has been in the Players Profiles section with his picture :)

slapdash

02-27-2003, 05:15 PM

Actually, this was an issue from 1994 or 1995, when Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure was in the news. I was reading a friend's old EGMs not so long ago, and one of them printed a long letter (one of the few seemingly written by an adult) from a "Russ Perry, Jr." I thought that I'd seen the name somewhere before, but it wasn't sure until I saw it in your sig.

Ah, well, I'm still impressed, but it makes more sense if you've read it recently. Dang, I should research that to know for sure that it was EGM. I'll have to change my story about them never printing me!

Although, I did connect Dan Hsu to Warren Robinett for some piece they were doing, so the staff there still knew me at various times I guess...