There was a magazine that plotted a graph and calculated the gameplay value from it....

Was that Crash? Maybe EGM?

I really liked C&VG way back in the early 80s. There was that real pioneer feel. It had arcade game reviews - I remember reading about Defender,  and 2600/Coleco/Intellivision game reviews too. It also has type-in listings for various 8bits.

Having a monstrous family move 3 times between the ages of 14-18 meant all of my stuff got rekt. Still heartbroken.

Readers Wives.  Man, i loved the way there’d be photos of short haired ladies, leaning against their poorly finished garden fences, showing off their fannies whilst their kids attended the primary round the corner.  Great mag that.

I read Edge because I was a snob.

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

Remembering stuff is fucking brilliant.  It was always better then.

I preferred your first post.

I'm not trying to give anyone their worst day at work here, but, a lot of this thread misses the fundamental point that the views of what games are from the 80s or whenever through super Play or whatever didn't seem to understand that the bigger picture here is that games are a business.

And that seems to be the fundamental shift between the nostalgic posts about what weird games from Japan might get reported about and something like Edge.


Games are a business. I'm currently reading Jason Schrier's Press Reset (thanks gav) and that's his overriding view, and what he's trying to get the layman to think about.

I guess the "games are fun lol" view is still one but Edge has not ascribed to, and that's fine if people don't want that. It is just that the viewpoint of the industry had now expanded to cover the business and the culture around it.

davyK wrote:

Trying to get laymen to think about........


Yeah. That will work out well.

Magazines are an industry too. Something people want to read. Not a text book.

Yep, and magazines have had to also pivot this viewpoint. There's a reason that there's no official Nintendo magazine around, for example. Just thar audience doesn't exist anymore.

Finding a niche is one of the few routes left for traditional publishing, with mainstream audiences it’s hard to compete for attention, let alone money. Focusing more on the industry side of things is a canny move by Edge.

Magazines need to move away from reviews and concentrate on editorial.

Of course some of that could be industry based....maybe insight to careers and skills needed etc. Or insights to the creation process perhaps. So i take the point @regmcfly makes earlier.

Needs to be deeper, more leisurely yet remain compelling and somehow exclusive to the print version.

Kow wrote:

I think I have the complete run of Arcade somewhere. Think it only lasted about ten issues.

Yep, still got all mine too - was definitely an attempt at making a gaming magazine that was more 'lads lads lads'.

Missing issues 1, 3, 10, 11 and 12 of N64 Magazine somehow (can only assume I took 10-12 somewhere) and my Issue 6 of GB Action has a ripped cover which doesn't matter in the slightest but I'd replace if I found one to give me a nice set from it's start in 1992 through to Christmas 1994 when they started phoning it in and reproducing old content on terrible paper stock.

Used to spend hours reading and re-reading magazines...digital content just isn't the same, eh?

Not heard it called that before but whatever keeps her happy.

This is a great nostalgia thread, back in times when you asked "what if you could just walk up and talk to them?" about videogames instead of real life

Silke wrote:

I'm still hoping for a conversational Doom game, influenced by The Divine Comedy.

Take the Martian Express
When your life's in a mess
It'll make you smile
All demon life is here
From the feeble Seeker
To the Shotgun Guy
From the Hell Razer who knows 
That to have one of those
Would be suicide
To the Cacodemon
Watching you try to run 
With it's single eye
And everybody sings, "Ba-ba-ba-da, Ba-ba-ba-da""

Yes, yes he is

cracking work fella