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Post by primenova on Mar 19, 2009 9:47:11 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2009 10:59:15 GMT
The best video games mag will always be the mighty Your Sinclair, for it contained the best description of the past I have read: "When the world was black and white and everything was made of wood."
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Mar 21, 2009 22:20:57 GMT
The Doctor speaks true. I always preferred the Future-era YS, rather than the earlier Dennis magazine that many people enjoy.
Primenova, do you accept postal orders or cheque?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 23, 2009 18:05:04 GMT
The Future era was indeed tops. I miss the days of video game mags having character rather than being thinly veiled advertising pamphelts. I remember a review of the game NARC in Your Sinclair (the game involved you dealing with the drugs problem by shooting drugs dealers) which became an intelligent critique over whether such a subject matter was suitable for a game aimed at children where the only solution was to kill. This was a few years before such articles became commonplace.
-Ralph
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Post by Cullen on Mar 24, 2009 17:08:19 GMT
Crash was a million times betterer than YS!
VG mags are pretty much dead these days. Aside from the likes of Games TM and Edge, I can't see why anyone would buy them when there's so much coverage on the internet.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2009 19:53:45 GMT
Games TM is quite a good mag. I've got almost every single issue of that and maintain that its the best multiformat games mag on the shelves today.
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Post by KnightBeat on Mar 25, 2009 11:31:58 GMT
In most cases the quality has fallen with the increase in price. The official magazines of the previous generation (PS2, Xbox, Nintendo) were utterly, utterly terrible, but the current generation mags are much better. Admittedly I wouldn't pay £6 for the Official PS or 360 mag, but at least they recognise that the majority of their audience are patronised by the sweary kid writing style.
I've mentioned it on a few occasions, but I recommend NGamer, the unofficial Nintendo magazine for anyone who wants to see a modern Your Sinclair. It's a bit pricey (£5), comes with usesless 'gifts (the previous issue had a Mario flag) and the plastic bag makes it look like a kids magazine, but the writing is amusing and creates a sense of character. It's the perfect antithesis to the anonymous style of GamesTM and EDGE.
Has anyone bought the latest issue of EDGE? For the 200th issue they've printed 200 different covers and distributed them around the country. It took some searching to find a decent one, but I'm happy to have bought the Super Mario World pixel art cover.
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Post by Dave on Mar 25, 2009 11:43:04 GMT
Ooo I'll have to have a look out see what I can find. 200th issue! Doesn't seem that long ago that it was the 100th (though obviously it was).
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Post by primenova on Mar 27, 2009 19:13:01 GMT
The Doctor speaks true. I always preferred the Future-era YS, rather than the earlier Dennis magazine that many people enjoy. Primenova, do you accept postal orders or cheque? Just sent a pm - if let me know which issue you after. CVG was good until they swapped companies & it was all that nurse on the cheats page. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2009 19:45:49 GMT
I used to like NGamer magazine when it was NGC but have since lost interest in it. For my staple of the latest Nintendo games I get the official Nintendo magazine. Like NGamer I don't think its as good as its predecessor but it still tells me what I want to read. The free gifts are also marginally less tacky than the ones on NGamer.
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Post by primenova on May 19, 2009 13:10:58 GMT
Found some more magazine in another box - already sold 2 issues of SEGA XS.
Games
Computer & Video Games #197-199,201,205-217,221,222,226,229,230,232-240,243,
245-248,250-266,268-270,272-275,277
CUBE #20,25-27,31,39,43-45
Edge #131
ECM #100,104
ECM2 #17
Games Master # 73,74,90,115,152,154-164,169,171,173-180
Games Master Tips #1.
Nintendo Game Cube #101
Sega Magazine #16
Sega XS #6,14,15.
TOTAL ADVANCE #36
Video Gamer #1,2
Windows XP #5,6
XBOX WORLD 360 #33
50p each.
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Post by KnightBeat on May 20, 2009 22:14:46 GMT
You are an evil, evil man! :-) I wasn't going to buy any more magazines, but I feel compelled to take a few of these off your hands in the ebay auctions.
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Post by primenova on May 21, 2009 7:02:43 GMT
Hope you got the last 3 issues [Arcade #4 MM SEGA #38,45] ok in the post. Hopefully empty the 2 hampers that i have got them in. Then have room to move TV round.
Thanks for your interest.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2010 16:54:19 GMT
Soon enough I'll be putting a load of old Nintendo Official Magazines on Ebay. I have issues 109 - 162 (issue 162 was the final issue they made before another official Nintendo magazine got the UK license to make the only official Nintendo magazine). Some of the later issues still have the free gifts came with them and I'm planning on putting the issues up on Ebay in lots of about 10 or 11 issues.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2010 15:24:22 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 26, 2010 8:08:00 GMT
I'm not a regular reader, but I do buy the occasional issue of Retro Gamer when they feature old games I remember. Decent mag.
-Ralph
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Post by Stomski on Jan 26, 2010 9:33:17 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 26, 2010 18:30:40 GMT
Bah! No Your Sinclair!
-Ralph
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Post by chrisl on Jan 26, 2010 21:27:40 GMT
I only ever enjoyed reading TOTAL and Super Play circa 1991-94
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Post by KnightBeat on Jan 26, 2010 22:47:28 GMT
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Post by Dave on Jan 27, 2010 15:23:21 GMT
There was also a special Your Sinclair #94 given away with an issue of Retro Gamer. Been flicking through old Super Play scans recently and, yeah that was a great mag. Also enjoyed Total! back in the day - scans of which seem not to exist. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2010 17:31:21 GMT
I never actually read Super Play magazine. I know that it metamorphasised into N64 mag and then NGC but thats all. Back when that mag was around I wasn't privy to computers, computer games or games magazines.
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Post by KnightBeat on Jan 27, 2010 22:50:02 GMT
I found it surprisingly easy to buy Super Play, N64 and NGC on ebay. I bought 25 issues of Super Play for £1 and 90 issues of N64/NGC for £17 a few years ago. However, the prices have gone up dramatically in the last year for some crazy reason.
On a related note, NGamer 46 (out today) contains a feature on the last 10 years of Nintendo. It also comes with a dented Game and Watch tin.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2010 23:09:53 GMT
Talking about NGC magazine I've got quite a few NGC magazines that I'm planning of putting up on Ebay some time soon.
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