>>4412 I feel like I read EGM at one point but am not sure. It was a magazine I know I would've wanted a subscription to it but never actually had one. I don't know how I would have gotten my hands on a copy. PC Gamer is another one I would've liked. >>4549 Expecting them to cater to red-blooded males is apparently too much to ask.

>>4864 >I don't know how I would have gotten my hands on a copy. did you live in a cave anon?

I'm self-aware enough to realize nostalgia is a huge part of why I like SNES, PS1, and PS2 more than PS3, PS4, and PS5. And this includes the gaming culture as well, which is the magazines. I know they're antiquated now. But there was something so magical about buying an unofficial Playstation Magazine (PSM) and then reading it, and getting pulled into the hype for new releases, seeing the screenshots and wondering how the game felt. It was also a unique snapshot of time where one could look into the future releases and have hindsight of knowing which games turned out to be classics. Like PSM would do their top 10 upcoming games and it would show a time period where FF7 was released but FF8 was getting hyped. Or just some incredible years like 1998 where Resident Evil 2 came out and then Metal Gear solid that same year. And you might get both of those at Christmas. Also PSM had lots of pervy drawings and original art and even did swimsuit editions with game girls. And I always loved the top 10 Game of the Year editions. It's hard to imagine zoomers will be nostalgic about playing Fornite and Minecraft and yet, they will bc that is what they grew up on and will become bonded to. Also hard to imagine anyone forming nostalgic bonds about PS5. "It was so great when we played that game on PS5." There aren't enough original games to even get nostalgic about. >>4521 >Ad 4 with naked woman. Sega Saturn has three 32-bit processors (that's two more than Playstation), which means better gameplay and better graphics. This was probably just marketing hype but I wonder if there is some truth to this and the Saturn's extra power was tapped into. Or was it a case of a bottleneck somewhere else limiting its power so the power was never truly realized. >>4865 You know how it is when you were growing up. You never had enough money. You wanted more games. The idea of paying a monthly subscription was a bit much if you're broke. Or you'd get it and then it'd expire.

Now most video game magazines are scanned and archived. So you can peruse old issues you missed and go back in time to feel how good it felt when the video game industry was thriving and healthy, full of creativity and excitement. https://archive.org/search?query=psm+

>>4876 I never understood the point of subscriptions, I would just go buy magazines at the whatever kiosk they were selling them.

>>4521 Isn't Seanbaby a faggot now? >>4865 >did you live in a cave anon? I was a kid who relied on my parents for everything and don't even know if I've ever even seen EGM on a store shelf. My mom would just get me and my brother a magazine subscription every once in a while.

>>4878 Yeah, I remember buying individual magazines from Food Lion. And my Mom and sister would flip through them and get riled up at the racy drawings inside.

>>4879 >Isn't Seanbaby a faggot now? Who isn't

>>4876 >I'm self-aware enough to realize nostalgia is a huge part of why I like SNES, PS1, and PS2 Not at all. All the best game came out on SNES, PS1, and PS2. It's a fact.

>>4876 Yeah PSM and PSM2 were pretty good and also had a lot of demos on their discs, and even save states for games, trailers, art, etc. Obviously it's all superseded by just having the internet now, but the internet cannot facsimile the comfies you get from opening a new magazine with a fresh demo disc in it containing months worst of new developments.

>>4939 Did they draw that major?

>>4945 A couple of those are drawn by PSM, yeah. Some is game concept art. >>4876 >Sega Saturn has three 32-bit processors (that's two more than Playstation), which means better gameplay and better graphics. I'll answer my own question since I happened to come across the answer, if anyone is curious. Apparently, the 3 processors didn't help very much as the architecture was confusing and needed developers to tailor their exclusives to squeeze all the juice out of the system. A lot of multiplatform games suffered on Saturn whereas the PS1 architecture was simpler and more less confusing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_f8h2ZyHI @6:15-12:00

>>4939 Ghost in the shell ps1's cutscenes were so awesome, basically straight out of the manga.

>Do you miss them? Or are they antiquated? Both? The reviews and previews/ads all had a lot more effort put into them than any online shit you see nowadays, but it is very convenient to have today's easy and instant access to information regarding upcoming releases while back in the magazine days you wouldn't know shit about anything until you got that magazine or happened to catch a glimpse of something on TV which you could easily miss. All the convenience kinda ruined most of the excitement and anticipation for things though.

>>5385 >while back in the magazine days you wouldn't know shit about anything until you got that magazine Was that so bad though? There were so many games coming out that you had more than your share's worth to talk about until the next magazine came out. Compared to today when you have easy instant access to information about no games, or like one game in 6 months even worth looking into. Like you mentioned the anticipation and excitement are gone. That being said, in the mid 00s there already was the proper pre-social cancer internet and the magazines, both complementing one another.

Magazines weren't cool just due to the information they provided, they were an entire microcosm of contemporary culture, activities, artwork, sexy babes, misc. info and so on; an entire clast of entertainment that unified gaymers under this subcultural banner. This doesn't exist anymore, you have to go to 20 different places online to get all this instead of aquiring a single piece of media. I think this is one of the reasons why zoomers are so disjointed and don't really have anything of their own.

>>5388 Checked. <All according to plan, go...guys This is why White/Asian men need to remember their heritage. Just like in 1984, if you can remove history, you can make people believe anything about themselves. Its not uncommon for totally-not-feds "zoomers" to tell all the cool kids that saving archives, etc., is ridiculous.

>>5389 Archiving everything is a must.

>>5390 BUT THEY'LL CALL YOU A HOARDER! You don't want that do you anon? Just think of the optics.

>>5402 Huh? How is archiving everything hoarding?

>>5403 Lol, you tell me Anon. But that's what you'll be called now if you go into an enclave of cool kids and make just that statement. :^) Regardless, that term should be a badge of honor for every Anon during Current Year, when the globalist kikes are trying to memory hole everything they can of White men's past and heritage, just as fast a they possibly can manage it.

>>5405 >But that's what you'll be called now if you go into an enclave of cool kids and make just that statement. They do know that you don't actually hoard anything?

>>5406 No I hoard the shit out of everything, because I've got some commonsense during CY.

>>5386 >Was that so bad though? Depending on how much disposable income you (or your parents) had yeah it could be pretty shit, going into some games blind can be an awful experience. My family was poor so there were multiple times I got stuck with a true piece of shit because I decided to try my luck and rent something I'd never seen before. It wasn't mind-bendingly awful like streamer faggotry though, I rarely use sites like youtube and have literally never directly seen twitch outside of webms or screencaps people post on imageboards yet I'm still occasionally bombarded with images of gaunt e"celebs" with retarded haircuts and blatantly fake enthusiasm for everything.

>>5457 Even if you were a poorfag, you could always rent magazines or have your friend give you one. That's how it always worked, gaming magazines switched hands after hands. I remember I brought one, a brand new one I just bought, to a summer camp with me and by the time we were going back home it looked like a relic from the 18th century.

>>5465 Not necessarily if you lived in the country, the few people I knew who even had video games mostly just played Pokemon when it was too shitty outside to go play on dirt bikes and didn't really bother with magazines. I did eventually get a couple subscriptions but before that I would stumble into trainwrecks like Superman 64 thinking "oh hey neat a superhero game" completely unaware I was about to have shit thrown in my face. Maybe that's a more specific case than most though I don't know life in general was very different before widespread internet it's like we're on another planet compared to back then.

Come to think of it Superman 64 was one of my first experiences with the character, it's probably why I fucking hate him.

>>5472 I never lived in a country so it's hard for me to imagine the concept of nobody having a gaming magazine. >I would stumble into trainwrecks like Superman 64 thinking "oh hey neat a superhero game" Yeah that sucks but there was also some excitement in that wild unpredictability of what you get.

>>5478 Oh don't get me wrong I had way more fun times than shitty ones. >it's hard for me to imagine the concept of nobody having a gaming magazine Well the area I lived in was pretty remote. The rental store my parents would take me to when they felt like treating me was around a 40 minute drive away in a town that only existed because it was near an interstate. >>5483 I bet they were considering every individual star its own "level" when they wrote that. It's one hell of a lie either way lol

>>5487 Damn anon, you lived in some real boonies.

>>5388 So true. Dubs confirm.

>>6623 Damn, you'll never see anything like pic 1 in gaming ever again. Very sad.

>>7287 if only they knew

>>7467 the last time I was excited about video games and video game accessories

>>7467 i miss magazines