Retro Gamer issue 32, CDi article from John Szczepaniak

[tom]

i just received that issue in the mail. yeah, a bit late, but it was only GBP2.00 on ebay, and i am slowly catching up with back issues of RG (Only got the complete run of the 'first' 18 issues of RG (Live Publishing))

Anyway, about the CDi article, in the online box, it states that Famicom was the first console to go online, which is, of course, totally wrong. VCS and Intellivsion were the first to go online (1982). VCS with the famous US-only Game-Line modem, which later became AOL. They (he) should have known that.

It's only a little niggle, but it annoys me when so-called professional magazines (We put our pictures in the mag, so that insures the quality...(also quote from issue 32)), don't even know well-known facts.

[fennec fox]

Oh, well, I can't comment on it if John Szczepaniak wrote it, since I'm just an idiotic American who's too slopeheaded to understand his brilliant prose...

[tom]

Oh, well, I can't comment on it if John Szczepaniak wrote it, since I'm just an idiotic American who's too slopeheaded to understand his brilliant prose...

that's the trouble with Americans, but believe me, he's a pretty well informed writer most of the time

[Melf]

RG is a great magazine, but I've noticed this happening more and more lately. The article on the Sega Technical Institute in issue 36 was replete with errors.

[tom]

RG is a great magazine, but I've noticed this happening more and more lately. The article on the Sega Technical Institute in issue 36 was replete with errors.

Gosh, they've gotten better (Maybe they're slipping again), you should try the first 18 issues from Live Publishing. Every issue was so full of errors, you'd scream.

Come on Mayhem, do your job, sort them out

[Push Upstairs]

Oh, well, I can't comment on it if John Szczepaniak wrote it, since I'm just an idiotic American who's too slopeheaded to understand his brilliant prose...

Me too.

I think we need to form our own club and name it "duh....wut?"

[anagrama]

Seems like there's small niggling errors in just about every issue - I used to post the ones I spotted on their forum, but gave up after my comments were ignored. And their hardware "price guide" that takes up about 10 pages of every issue isn't worth the paper it's printed on...

[Push Upstairs]

I'd call the omission of the Game-Line modem an error. Not a small error, an full on error.

[idrougge]

This is just part of RG. Each issue features an overview of a platform, and each one makes sure to portray that specific platform as something quite fantastic. After reading RG, you wonder if there ever was such a thing as a plain and boring games machine, let alone a sub-standard one.

[Push Upstairs]

Well, let me know when they cover the Game.com and present it as the greatest system everyone ignored.

[tom]

i like my game.com :-)
see here:
http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/album345