YoshiM
02-18-2007, 11:13 AM
I was going through a stack of Video Games and Computer Entertainment magazines when I saw a familiar title. For a while, VG&CE ran a section called "Fandango" which contained a handful of fan-zines being published at the time. In the upper right hand corner of the page was an entry for the January 1992 issue of Digital Press. Arnie Katz, the writer of the section, had this to say:
"This is one of my favorite new fanzines, and I think most video gamers would enjoy it, too. Joe Santulli is certainly a candidate for fanzine rookie of the year. He writes well and comes up with ideas you won't find duplicated in a dozen other magazines, like his essay on how to entice newcomers into gaming.
Reviews of video games, each title covered by a board of critics, fill the largest section of the fanzine, but there are many other good pieces, including a comparison of football cartridges for the Genesis, holiday buying suggestions, a checklist of ColecoVision cartridges and a long article about the worst games for the Atari 2600.
Digital Press needs a better-organized colophon. A table of contents and detailed crediting of text and artwork would also help. These are easily corrected imperfections in what is basically one of the hottest fanzines around. Try a copy."
Just wanted to share that bit o' history.
"This is one of my favorite new fanzines, and I think most video gamers would enjoy it, too. Joe Santulli is certainly a candidate for fanzine rookie of the year. He writes well and comes up with ideas you won't find duplicated in a dozen other magazines, like his essay on how to entice newcomers into gaming.
Reviews of video games, each title covered by a board of critics, fill the largest section of the fanzine, but there are many other good pieces, including a comparison of football cartridges for the Genesis, holiday buying suggestions, a checklist of ColecoVision cartridges and a long article about the worst games for the Atari 2600.
Digital Press needs a better-organized colophon. A table of contents and detailed crediting of text and artwork would also help. These are easily corrected imperfections in what is basically one of the hottest fanzines around. Try a copy."
Just wanted to share that bit o' history.