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I've been cleaning some things out to make way for some furniture changes. While doing so I found these gems and thought is share them here.

I looked around for a Magazine thread either general or gaming related. As I couldn't find one I created this one for people to share magazines and memories of when these things were a must to find information about new games etc.

We currently have around 500 magazines ranging from Spectrum, Amiga, Nintendo, PlayStation and mixed format magazines.

These were a few that jumped out and I thought some may like to see them before they find their way into skip or bin.

First is Issue No.1 of the Official Playstation Magazine. It has one of the best games created for PlayStation too "Jumping Flash" I played that like no other game.
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Then this issue with a review of Gran Turismo. By the time this issue came out I was already half way or more through the game as I had a Japanese version.
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Then this, issue No.1 of PSW but also the first review of Gran Turismo 2. Also came with a Memory Card which was great. Plus it had another review of a game which got hammer on our weekly games night, "Track and Field 2"
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I used to really look forward to OPM because of the demo disc, which sadly became kinda redundant with the advent of the PS3 and downloadable demos, also online trailers for games kinda replaced the previews in the mag. I still have very fond memories of it though, and some of the other mags like the above had other nice gifts. I still have a James Bond-themed CD wallet somewhere which came with one. The only mag I occasionally buy now is Retro Gamer, which is excellent.
 
My friend Ashley used to write for Retro Magazine until he got a job with Nintendo.

Edge magazine was one I personally looked forward to. It became especially useful when I was looking for a job in the industry because of the adverts for Dev teams and companies in the back.

I especially like looking over the older magazines now especially when you see the crazy prices for a 128mb HDD ha!
 
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I've been cleaning some things out to make way for some furniture changes. While doing so I found these gems and thought is share them here.

I looked around for a Magazine thread either general or gaming related. As I couldn't find one I created this one for people to share magazines and memories of when these things were a must to find information about new games etc.

We currently have around 500 magazines ranging from Spectrum, Amiga, Nintendo, PlayStation and mixed format magazines.

These were a few that jumped out and I thought some may like to see them before they find their way into skip or bin.

Then this, issue No.1 of PSW but also the first review of Gran Turismo 2. Also came with a Memory Card which was great. Plus it had another review of a game which got hammer on our weekly games night, "Track and Field 2"
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Wow I actually remember having that issue of PSW. Brings back a few memories seeing these again.
 
@MildAshers that was me today. Seeing reviews stating PS1 game reviews and the enthusiam they had for the games. Not like now when reviews tend to be more about the negatives of a game with a little effort on the good and great.

@daan ha, adverts like that were great. I remember going with my dad when I was younger to buy a monitor for his Amiga 500 and the guy talked him into spending a crazy amount on the upgrade to the 500+
 
I too had PlayStation Magazine and it was just neat. I literally have a big box with all of them, from the first one I got that covered Gran Turismo 5 to their very last magazine (which included a note that told me the team was shutting down and my subscription switched over to PC gamer).
 
I got EGM from November 1993 to July of 2002; then again from June of 2003 to I think May of 2006; and then again from when they relaunched it until now. I still have almost all of them in boxes in the basement.
I also drifted in and out of GamePro during the same period, and I have most of those.
Official US Playstation Magazine I got for a couple years, from June of 2000 to May of 2002, then again a couple years later for another couple of years. Not sure if I have all of the issues of that, but I do have all of the demo discs still.
I got PSM for a couple of years in the 2000-2003 range. I know I had it when the PS2 first launched.
Sega Visions was kinda junk, but I had I'm pretty sure the entire run of those looking on the internet, but most of them disintegrated.
And Gamestop practically gives away subscriptions to Game Informer, so I keep ending up signed up for those every time I go into Gamestop to buy something. I don't have most of those.
 
I have a stack of Nintendo Power covering most of the golden era of the 1990s and the Gamecube years, from Volume 53 (October 1993) through Volume 190 (April 2005). It's too bad that I missed out on subscribing earlier, and in hindsight it might have been nifty to continue my subscription through the Wii years for that future retro factor, but by the '00s I felt the magazine was lagging in quality or worth (and I was also all about racing games/sims and spending most of my gaming time playing those).

Before Star Fox Zero launched a couple months ago, I pulled out the issue for Star Fox 64 and paged through several others around that time. The enthusiasm for the 3D revolution and other new and exciting things at that time is a treasure for any collection of gaming magazines from that era. One issue also included an article inviting readers to visit http://www.nintendo.com/ (with the URL spelled out in its entirety, naturally), including gems like a list of definitions for dirt-basic internet/chatroom acronyms. I remember visiting Nintendo's website in those days.
 
The best one, which Gamepro did a lot of in the 90s, was when they wrote out the link to the website and also included a screenshot of whatever it looked like at the time.
 

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