does anyone collect old gaming magazines?

[mr obscure]

Title says enough i have a lot of old gaming magazines.
And collect them.

I like to read them again and think back of the good old days.
See previews of games that didn't get released etc.

Most of the magazines are gone because of the internet

[Archangel]

I would sometimes look through some old ones if they are for sale. If I find an obscure one (such as talking about the VB, the 64DD, Earthbound 64, SNES CD, etc....) then I would buy it.

Its fun having those kind, since they promise that they would come out with this stuff also give info on it as well where as now on the net you have a uneasy time finding...

All for what could have been.

[Damaramu]

I threw out my old EGM issues about 10+ years ago. I kick myself for doing that. About 6 years ago, I tossed my copies of Next Generation. Not such a big loss for me.

I DID keep ALL of my Gamefan mags. I have about 20+, all in the same condition I bought 'em in (that is, minty!) Got them in acid free magazine bags purchased at my local comic shop. Fun thumbing through them from time to time.

[bombman]

How could you keep Gamefan and throw out Next Gen?

[ccovell]

I have plenty of old GamePros, EGMs, Nintendo Powers, etc (80s/early 90s) but they're boxed away in Canada. Over in Japan, I've been collecting lots of old Famitsus and Famimagas. In any country, old magazines are really nostalgic and fun.

Check them out here if you're interested: http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secret.html

[Dangerboy]

How could you keep Gamefan and throw out Next Gen

Because GameFan has / had amazing page layouts with hundreds of screenshots and fanboy enthusiasm, and NextGen was a biased, 2D hating, ego-filled dishrag that thought it was god almighty.

[gameofyou]

I have all the EGMs from 1995 through 1998. I also have the UK Sega Saturn Magazine (all 37 issues). It is pretty entertaining to go back & read them, knowing how history played out.

[Damaramu]

How could you keep Gamefan and throw out Next Gen

Because GameFan has / had amazing page layouts with hundreds of screenshots and fanboy enthusiasm, and NextGen was a biased, 2D hating, ego-filled dishrag that thought it was god almighty.

^THIS.

[Flashback2012]

I never meant to collect but I have a sizable amount of various video game magazines in the basement. I need to go down there and properly sort/bag them all and find boxes that can adequately store the ones that don't fit into the magazine boxes I get from my local comic shop.

[Gamereviewgod]

I have well over 4,000 gaming mags. Recently won a lot at an auction with about 15 or so first issues, from GamePro to Electronic Fun and games. Just a fantastic lot.

You can see some outdated pics from about five years ago here:

http://www.videogamecollectors.com/g...g2_itemId=8315

[PentiumMMX]

I mostly collect Game Informer (Issues as far back as 1999, though I have just about every issue from 2004 onward) and Nintendo Power (A span of 1990 to 2008. Haven't bought a new issue in a while...), though I have quite a few issues of the Official Dreamcast Magazine (There's still a few I'm trying to track down...and then there's the problem of finding the demo discs that go with them)

[Gurn13]

I tossed out all my CGW (from Dec 87 thru Dec 2005) and my PC Gamers (ALL of them till 2006)
in 2008. But I kept my console mags, and I will buy to fill holes in my collection, or to improve condition, but I want 'em cheap!

[TheRedEye]

I do. In fact, it's about the only thing I collect. The link in my sig goes to my want & doubles list if anyone wants to trade.

[Aussie2B]

I don't really actively collect, but I have around a couple hundred at least. Mostly old Nintendo Power, as a few years back I bought a huge lot of about 100. Since it was coming from just a couple towns over, the shipping was only about 10 bucks, despite that the box weighed 55 pounds (probably the heaviest box of video game stuff I've ever had shipped to me). So now I'm slowly working my way through those, reading them cover-to-cover, and I don't intend to actively seek out more until I'm done and want more to read, which won't happen in a LONG time. I also have another 30 or 40 from my own past subscription, so I have NES to late N64. I also have about 30 PSMs starting from around issue #2, and a year's worth of stuff like EGM, Game Informer, Hardcore Gamer, etc. And I have a mountain of Video Game Collector for obvious reasons.

[Baloo]

I've got maybe 20 or so old Nintendo power from SNES-era and back, including the premier issue (although that copy isn't in that great-shape). Had a lot of the newer ones from 2003-4 and up too but got rid of them after seeing that they weren't all that special.

I hope to get some Nintendo Fun Club sometime. Anyone have any of them?

[Nebagram]

I have a few old CVGs and would love to hunt down more from its golden days (late 95-99), and I have a clutch of old Sega Forces- for my money easily the best single-system mag of all time, if only for the artwork alone.

[LiquidPolicenaut]

Oh, I definitely do. I still have almost all the Gamefans and a large amount of the early EGMs and I still love picking them up every now and then and reading through them.

[grolt]

I've got a couple hundred, and over the last year I've tried to flip through all of them just to see what the culture was like back then. I'm not so much interested in reading about games that didn't come out as much as I'm interested in reading about what people thought about the games that did.

I recently completed my SEGA Visions collection and am close to half-way there for the SEGA Team Challenge Newsletters (if you have any, please do let me know!). Those are the most fun for me, since it's full out SEGA propaganda. I like how they actually assert that "blast processing" actually exists and isn't a marketing thing in one of the mailbag responses. Seeing the fan scores and questions in the early mags before SEGA really took off is pretty nice, too. I'm one magazine short of the complete Official SEGA Dreamcast Magazine as well, which would round off all the first-party magazines SEGA ever put out here in North America.

In addition to those I have a ton of EGM and (Ultra) Game Players/Game Buyer magazines. I always liked the humor of Game Players back in the day, although looking back today they were really off base in a lot of reviews. The EGM bias against Saturn was really distracting back in the day, too. I just recently got a lot of the early EGMs (like #2, 4, 5, 6 etc.) and it sure started out as a great little magazine. I've probably got about 80-90 of each magazine.

Rounding off the stuff I have are Next Generation, Gamefan, Nintendo Power and SEGA Force mags. It's a really rewarding hobby and fairly cheap, too. Having those magazines around is like reliving history again as it happens, which I've been doing as I play new games I haven't yet played. I'll thumb through the magazines from the time just to see what the reviewers or the readers were saying about 'em. It's nice.

[slapdash]

I collect them, old or new, and love the obscure ones. Anyone got any Q64 or Heiroglyphix Journal issues for sale? :-)

[Steven]

Oh yeah, I love my old gaming mags. Got all the SNES-era Nintendo Powers (a very underrated magazine IMHO), got all Sega Saturn Magazine issues minus the first three (best mag ever IMO), got most of the GameFans from infancy to 16-bit era, and my prized treasure is all 47 issues of Super Play Magazine plus the 1993 Gold Edition issue. Check out my top 5 magazine article here:

http://www.rvgfanatic.com/7464/96301.html