Do you guys read old Video Game magazines?

[Anthony1]

I was wondering if any of you guys read old video game magazines.

Man, I had a huge collection of old magazines, but when I moved to my new house, my wife finally convinced me to throw a ton of them away. What a bad move on my part.

At the time, I had no real interest in older games and systems, but now I do big time. I have converted into a retro-gamer and I miss all those old magazines.

I do have a pretty good collection of the magazine "Next Generation".

But what really sucks is that I had this huge collection of Die Hard Game Fan's and I think I threw those away too.


Damn. Die Hard Game Fan was my all time favorite video game rag. Well, early in their life cycle it was. They later got bought out by another company and changed all their writers and their editors and stuff.

At least with my Next Generation issues, I can go back and see what they were talking about in the magazines back in May of 1997 or whatever.

[thekeepr]

I collect magazines like I collect everything else in this hobby....ALL OF THEM THAT I CAN GET MY HANDS ON!!! I still have my original Electronic Games mags, along with everything I subscribes to, find laying about in thrifts or garage sales, etc,etc,etc. I feel that printed matter....any printed material about video games is collectible, and extremely desirable for referencing,enlightment,enjoyment, and just plain cool to have!!!! The Keeper

[Videogamerdaryll]

I collect magazines like I collect everything else in this hobby....ALL OF THEM THAT I CAN GET MY HANDS ON!!! I still have my original Electronic Games mags, along with everything I subscribes to, find laying about in thrifts or garage sales, etc,etc,etc. I feel that printed matter....any printed material about video games is collectible, and extremely desirable for referencing,enlightment,enjoyment, and just plain cool to have!!!! The Keeper

I collect magazines like I collect everything else in this hobby....ALL OF THEM THAT I CAN GET MY HANDS ON!!!

Me too..

I have boxes of Video game magazines..
I enjoy reading the old mags.

[NE146]

Ditto. I love old mags. Luckily I kept pretty much 99% of every mag I bought since the early 80's. So I got pretty much a sample of everything. Ironically, the only "complete" collection I think I have is EGM however and that's huge! x_x .. But my all time favorite's are older magazine's such as Joystik, and Video Games

[hydr0x]

I collect magazines like I collect everything else in this hobby....ALL OF THEM THAT I CAN GET MY HANDS ON!!!

exactly, i do also collect every shit about video games i find

i have complete collections of German Club Nintendo Mag(<=>Nintendo Power), 100% Total Nintendo, Mega Fun, Maniac, and GamePro (well, first issue was last year ) and a lot of the issues of N-Zone, Cube, Playstation. Mausklick, Bravo Screenfun, Dreamcast Kult and Games&More, i do also own more than half of the issues of the PC-Game-Mags PC Action, PC Games, PC Joker, GameStar and PC Player

wow thats a lot of stuff x_x

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

I used to have the complete run of the original Electronic Games...until my mom decided it was time for me to "grow up." Heh. What I wouldn't give...

If you want to read some classics, though, I know that both Digital Press and AtariAge have the complete run of the original Atari Age magazine scanned, and I've got the complete run of Odyssey2 Adventure scanned and posted on my site. Ahhh, "Otto C." the robot. Those were the days.

[digitalpress]

Here's all of the Atari Age magazines scanned JUST FOR YOU

http://www.digitpress.com/archives/atariage/

[AB Positive]

someone came to my store today and just dumped off around 40 old nintendo power mags, from the SNES era. The announcements of Starfox, "Super Mario World 2", Donkey Kong Country... and one issue that has a 20 page spread on...

wait for it...

the Virtual Boy!!! YAY!

man, it's really funny just looking back on all this.

-AG

[maxlords]

Yeah...I stil have all my old NPs and EGMs, as well as a few old Sega Force and most all of the end run of Next Gen. I keep all my gaming mags...never know when you might want to go back and read em again...I do it If my wife told me to throw em away, she'd get told to piss off (course I'd get beat up and be sleeping on the couch......)

[den68]

of course I do. my avatar was scanned out of an old video game mag I purchased back in 1982. I remember riding my bike to 7-11 to buy it. heh heh.

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I LOVE finding old mags, I alway check the magazine racks when i'm out hitting thrifts. I've only got a few hundred right now and most of them are the subscriptions I've had the last few years.

I'd like to find more Die HArd Game Fan's, I've only got one but it looks like it was a very cool mag.

[Starcade]

I have a little over 200 different magazines, so yes, i collect them.

[Rogmeister]

I recently decided to see if I could build a complete or near-complete collection of EGM...another batch just arrived today, in fact. I got some duplicates of issues I already have but that's what happens when you get them in lots. I also have most of the first 130 or so issues of Nintendo Power...

[Starcade]

Hey rog, I may be inerested in taking some of your doubles off your hands if they are priced decently, please send me a PM, and we can talk!

[Rogmeister]

Okay, Starcade, I'm on my way to work now and it'll take me a bit to go through what I just got but I'll send you an IM or e-mail tomorrow once I have time to make a list...

[Six Switch]

Yes I collect mags too.I don't have any really old ones,the oldest I have are the first few EGM2 issues or older EGMs.I never throw any out now and I never will.

[calthaer]

The cool thing about some of those game mags (like old Nintendo Power magazines) is that they have maps and such that you just can't get too readily. GameFAQs is all text. I don't have an extensive collection but I do have some that feature StarTropics and the two G.I.Joe games, which are a personal thing of mine ('cause I like G.I.Joe).

As a minor side note, it's also funny to have old comic books that have ads for classic games in them. Along with ads for Bonkers candy and back-issue comic places (and sometimes ads for Karate classes and whoopie cushion junk) are ads for old 2600 games and NES games.

I remember that one that had a bunch of grey Konami boxes at the bootom that said "WHIP, DRIBBLE, <verb>, <verb>, <verb>" and told you to...what was it...I have that issue around here somewhere...

Yeah, INSERT KONAMI VIDEO GAMES INTO THE NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM AND PLAY YOUR HEART OUT.

The reprinted trade paperbacks of those issues just doesn't include the ads, which in some ways is a shame.

[Retsudo]

Yep I read the old ones. I Just finished reading an old copy of Game Pro from 1996. It has Tekken 2 on the cover. ALSO I might add, Im too cheap to buy new mags

[Gamereviewgod]

I usually read one every night before I fall asleep. Scary thing is I read them so many damn times before, I can almost read it out loud without even looking at the mag. I have about 700, I think, but I've never counted. Got 2 magazine racks from a closing store and that's worked perfectly.

[Sulaco22]

Hells yeah. I have a ton of Electronic Gaming Monthlys that I go over everynow and again. I only wish that someone would scan old EGMs for a website so they can be preserved for all to read and looked at. Great Great stuff. Maybe I will take it upon myself someday. But then I think about all sorts of copyright troubles and what not and I then I don't wanna do it..lol

[NE146]

Hells yeah. I have a ton of Electronic Gaming Monthlys that I go over everynow and again. I only wish that someone would scan old EGMs for a website so they can be preserved for all to read and looked at. Great Great stuff. Maybe I will take it upon myself someday. But then I think about all sorts of copyright troubles and what not and I then I don't wanna do it..lol

.I scan them all the time and post them here! Like here's a an ancient EGM review of Blaster Master :P