• Re: Gaming Magazine Goodness

    From PW@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 4 20:43:36 2025
    On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:23:32 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:


    If you've a nostalgia for old-timey video-gaming magazines, there's a
    great archive of the things at Retromags https://www.retromags.com/

    While there are partial collections elsewhere (archive.org has a
    bunch) they tend to be scattered about and not well organized. The >collections at Retromags aren't complete (yet) but their offerings are
    fuller than I've seen anywhere else. I find it an incredibly useful
    resource for researching old games and video-gaming hardware. Plus,
    it's just fun to read some of the reviews of the beloved (and
    forgotten) games of yesteryear. Sometimes the games we cherish today
    weren't well received at all back when they were released.

    Maybe some of you will find this as interesting as I do. Or not. But
    either way, now you know the place exists. ;-)


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    Love it! I never heard of any of those in the pictures. I am
    surprised.

    But "Interaction" is the one for me!! Being combat flight sim addict
    back in the day with my dual Vodoo graphics cards in SLI mode!!

    -pw

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 4 22:18:50 2025
    On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:23:32 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

    If you've a nostalgia for old-timey video-gaming magazines, there's a
    great archive of the things at Retromags https://www.retromags.com/

    While there are partial collections elsewhere (archive.org has a
    bunch) they tend to be scattered about and not well organized. The >collections at Retromags aren't complete (yet) but their offerings are
    fuller than I've seen anywhere else. I find it an incredibly useful
    resource for researching old games and video-gaming hardware. Plus,
    it's just fun to read some of the reviews of the beloved (and
    forgotten) games of yesteryear. Sometimes the games we cherish today
    weren't well received at all back when they were released.

    Maybe some of you will find this as interesting as I do. Or not. But
    either way, now you know the place exists. ;-)

    Yes, I now do. Thank you for another good site for old magazines.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu Jun 5 08:17:34 2025
    On 04/06/2025 18:23, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    If you've a nostalgia for old-timey video-gaming magazines, there's a
    great archive of the things at Retromags https://www.retromags.com/

    While there are partial collections elsewhere (archive.org has a
    bunch) they tend to be scattered about and not well organized. The collections at Retromags aren't complete (yet) but their offerings are
    fuller than I've seen anywhere else. I find it an incredibly useful
    resource for researching old games and video-gaming hardware. Plus,
    it's just fun to read some of the reviews of the beloved (and
    forgotten) games of yesteryear. Sometimes the games we cherish today
    weren't well received at all back when they were released.

    Maybe some of you will find this as interesting as I do. Or not. But
    either way, now you know the place exists. ;-)

    I did have a quick look around but the problem for me is that my
    interest is for the nostalgia part and to me that means the Specky 48k.
    The two magazines (Sinclair User and Crash) I did look at were both just placeholders with no actual content. Looks like it's still https://worldofspectrum.org for me.

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  • From PW@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jun 5 13:01:42 2025
    On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:35:14 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:43:36 -0600, PW
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:23:32 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson >><[email protected]> wrote:


    If you've a nostalgia for old-timey video-gaming magazines, there's a >>>great archive of the things at Retromags https://www.retromags.com/

    While there are partial collections elsewhere (archive.org has a
    bunch) they tend to be scattered about and not well organized. The >>>collections at Retromags aren't complete (yet) but their offerings are >>>fuller than I've seen anywhere else. I find it an incredibly useful >>>resource for researching old games and video-gaming hardware. Plus,
    it's just fun to read some of the reviews of the beloved (and
    forgotten) games of yesteryear. Sometimes the games we cherish today >>>weren't well received at all back when they were released.

    Maybe some of you will find this as interesting as I do. Or not. But >>>either way, now you know the place exists. ;-)


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    Love it! I never heard of any of those in the pictures. I am
    surprised.

    But "Interaction" is the one for me!! Being combat flight sim addict
    back in the day with my dual Vodoo graphics cards in SLI mode!!


    I don't have as fond memories of InterAction, largely because it's
    Sierra On-line's newsletter and focused almost entirely on their
    products alone. And obviously they never had anything bad to say about >Sierra's games. This meant the magazine only had limited utility for
    me; good for previews but not much more.


    *--

    I didn't know it was a Sierra thing. I thought it was a magazine for
    flight simes. But I have good memories of Sierra-online!

    -pw

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jun 5 19:50:52 2025
    On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:01:42 -0600, PW
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I didn't know it was a Sierra thing. I thought it was a magazine for
    flight simes. But I have good memories of Sierra-online!

    -pw

    I have very fond memories of Sierra and their games as well. As for InterAction, it is definitely a Sierra magazine.

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