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7/9/2025, 11:55:39 AM
>be a kid growing up in the late 90s and 2000s
>beg my dad to buy me my favourite video game magazine everytime we went shopping for gorceries
>there was always a disc included, which contained free video games, expansion packs (complimentary to their previous issue) and demos
>sometimes you straight up got major game releases for very little money, because the magazines were able to make deals with the publishers
>they also packed the disc with tons of obscure games, which significantly broaden your experience as a gamer
>the reviews made games seem much better, more fun, mysterious and otherwordly than they were, when you played them
>the on-disc graphical reviews of cutting-edge shadow, lighting and water effects looked better than many modern games
>most of the journalists looked like heavy metal fans or nerds
>basically no women
>the humor sections of the magazine was basically 4chan printed in text
>the most common joke about their obese colleague was that he was so fat no person alive has ever seen his dick, not even himself
>tons of other jokes, which would be seen as way too problematic today
>the replies to reader's letters were full of insults too
>find out later the cooking show they added as a joke to every disc became a cult, but at the time it didn't interest me, because I was a kid
For me it was the PC ACTION, /v/.
>beg my dad to buy me my favourite video game magazine everytime we went shopping for gorceries
>there was always a disc included, which contained free video games, expansion packs (complimentary to their previous issue) and demos
>sometimes you straight up got major game releases for very little money, because the magazines were able to make deals with the publishers
>they also packed the disc with tons of obscure games, which significantly broaden your experience as a gamer
>the reviews made games seem much better, more fun, mysterious and otherwordly than they were, when you played them
>the on-disc graphical reviews of cutting-edge shadow, lighting and water effects looked better than many modern games
>most of the journalists looked like heavy metal fans or nerds
>basically no women
>the humor sections of the magazine was basically 4chan printed in text
>the most common joke about their obese colleague was that he was so fat no person alive has ever seen his dick, not even himself
>tons of other jokes, which would be seen as way too problematic today
>the replies to reader's letters were full of insults too
>find out later the cooking show they added as a joke to every disc became a cult, but at the time it didn't interest me, because I was a kid
For me it was the PC ACTION, /v/.
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