>>725611827
>How much did video game reviews actually matter in the 90s and 2000s?
Back then if you didn't buy game mags from corner kiosks, you didn't know what was happening in the industry. You actually had a CDROM and played the demos which came with the CDs if you were a poorfag. You read the articles in the mags two or three times, it was like a victoria's secret catalogue but for men. The dudes who wrote for those mags were actual gamers, not trustfundies or chosen because they colored their armpit hair the right LGASDF+ color.

tl;dr video game reviews were the only thing that mattered back then and video game journalist was the dreamjob for many young dudes