Thread 715132379

>Mom is taking forever at Barnes & Noble
What magazine you reading?

>>715132379 (OP)
I remember getting some sort of special edition Tomb Raider magazine that talked about all the games and went into great detail on a number of actresses that could/should play Lara if they ever made a movie.

Yeah that was a good one.

>>715132379 (OP)
FINALLY! THE NEW POKEMON WILL BE REVEALED!

Back in 1997 I had subscriptions to Nintendo Power and Game Fan Magazine. I use to enjoy getting a new plastic sealed magazine in the mail every month. That was back when internet access was limited for me.

>>715132379 (OP)
This is the shit you read at the grocery store
Barnes & Noble had real children's books to read

>>715134568
I didn't have internet until like 2001, and I didn't have any magazine subscriptions. The only place I learned about upcoming games was tv commercials and the weekly flyers.

>>715134568
>>715132379 (OP)

The GameFan issue was October 1997, the game Pro issue was November 1997. Both of these magazines came out a month apart from each other. And you can see that they cover the same ground, with Tomb Raider II on the cover (new game), Diddy Kong Racing, Resident Evil 2. The Game Pro issue also covers PC games at this point in time. GameFan did not. Game fan did put more effort on trying to promote the Sega Saturn. Even though it was a sinking ship by 1997. But by 1998 most of the original GameFan staff left and formed Gamers Republic Magazine.

>>715134071
>back when new things were nicknamed Neo
Loved that shit.

>>715132593
Was it this one? It was a strategy guide for tr1 and 2 that had a lot of bonus stuff.

>>715135890
>>715135946
Yep that's it, I can't remember if it came in the mail from a subscription or I picked it up at the book store.

>>715136025
Pretty sure I got this from either a barnes & noble or a borders bookstore, both had a decent selection of gamer and pc magazines back then. Borders is now dead and like once a year or so I find myself in a barnes & noble and I find nothing interesting. I used to be big into electronic gaming monthly after getting an issue with mechwarrior 2 on the cover and had a few other subscriptions here and there but EGM was typically huge in terms of content and covered almost everything so I thought it was the best value as a poor kid.

>>715136391
I really love gaming magazines and old strat guides. I had this RE2 guide that had one side devoted to leon's A/B and then you'd flip the guide upside down to read claire's A/B and in between them where the pages met was some behind the scenes stuff and like 1 picture of the luve action re2 stuff, I think the commercial and was talking about the fabled movie long before paul and milla got the rights to the series. I wish I had kept more of those magazines and guides.

>>715135890

Elizabeth Hurley, Sandra Bullock, Demi Moore, Lucy Lawless, all speculated to play Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider movie. Tomb Raider came out in late 1996, Tomb Raider II was a mind numbing 1997 release. Lara Croft becomes mega popular over night and Paramount snagged the film rights as fast as they could. But by the time the movie started filming, there were like five Tomb Raider games released. The PS2 was brand new, and Tomb Raider was going into the direction of Legacy of Darkness 'edgier tone'.

>>715136865
Liz was this magazine's number 1

>>715132379 (OP)
>>Mom is taking forever at Barnes & Noble
>What magazine you reading?
Don't know if this will eventually evolve into a TR thread, but would like to say I fucking hate when magazines started plastic-wrapping.

>>715137391
It never bothered me, because I was never poor enough to need to read the mag in the store. The reason they started doing it was because nigs would steal the demo discs.

>>715136709

The OG GOG

>>715134692
I thought old games cost more than $60 the hell

>>715138383
Depends on what year and more often what store had them. Some stores would be more expensive IIRC. I deff remember some n64 games being over $60 at places like PC Richards which is just a general appliance store but they had a tiny game section at one point. K-Mart was more fairly priced.

>>715137727
We weren't poor either, we'd buy pirated CDs that were only worth $3. The problem is that we didn't diversify our games list and stuck to the same favorites every time without trying out new ones, so never cared to buy the magazine.
Missed out on playing many really good games during their peak this way unfortunately. The only games we had that had anything to do with the magazine would be Tekken 5, Red Dead Revolver, and Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, the latter two which had walkthrough guides in the same issue.

>>715134692

Fucking Atomic Purple set + Orcarina of Time, Diddy Kong Racing or Mario Kart 64 (I'd go with DKR), Mario Golf and Donkey Kong 64. I know Donkey Kong 64 is a divisive game, but it comes bundled with the 4MB RAM pak. Which makes DK64 a better deal than just buying a RAM pak separate.

What the fuck is Barnes and Noble?

I remember having a Gameinformer with a tag body spray ad with bikini babes in the style of the 2D San Andreas art. It was my first ever boner.

>>715134692
My family refused to get internet until 2001,until it was absolutely certain that "y2k" wouldn't destroy the computer and end the world anyway.

I stated with AOL with strict parental controls. I nearly shit myself when I found out you could launch AOL, minimize that shit, and open Internet Explorer and have the WHOLE internet.

A lot of the western multi-platform gaming (and 'official') magazines ( had 'mail-order' magazine ads in the back pages for various different mail-order or Japanese import sellers. Chips & Bits, Tommo, Game Cave, Die Hard Gamers Club, Game Dude, etc. I never really ordered games from these paid-for ads. But I always liked looking at them, just to see all the Japanese import merch and weird unlicensed third party peripherals. The only one that ever ran third party mail-order ads was Nintendo Power.

Behold.. one of the longest running scams found in various gaming magazines. I think this ran from 1991 to at least 200X.

>>715132379 (OP)
Video games used to be something.

>>715141061
>Copyright 1997
Sega Saturn already dismissed.

>>715141186
meant to reply to >>715140716

>>715139019
US Bookstore chain.

PSM was great.

>>715141061

I'm going to enter!

>>715141852
Goddamn that's like a gorillion dollars in today's money. What a scam!

>>715141852
reeeeee you DUMBFUCK

>>715141852
>SLANT instead of STAND to spell POWER
Anon how the fuck could you miss that

You don't smoke the devil's lettuce right /v/?