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http://www.gamepro.com/gamepro/international/games/features/117449.shtml


Oh, Gamepro. Who even knew you still existed?

If you say so, they are blocked in the corporate proxy.  Perils of using the word "game" in your URL.

Sounds like they are saying they want to bullshit all day instead of play games.  I need a picture of Mel Brooks as Comicus at the unemployment counter talking to Bea Arthur, but it's late so I will just let you think on that yourself.

BONK BONK BONK....

That was the other one I wanted to quote ;)

You just know that article itself was a top ten list until the editor proofread it and found out it bashed... top ten lists.  The response - "Cut it down to eight so we don't look quite so stupid".

A top eight list bashing top ten lists, fan-fucking-tastic.  Also, the comments section, icing on the cake.

If game 'journalists' don't play games then why would anyone give a fuck what they have to write.

It's Gamepro. No one's given a fuck what they have to write for a decade, if not more. Hell, I remember GameproTV - completely worthless, even in the pre-internet heydey of gaming magazines.

Oh, GamePro. I remember when I used to still look forward to their magazines each month... In 1992... When The Wizard and neon in dark foggy arcades was cool.

Seems so foreign, the gaming scene back then as a whole, in hindsight to where we're at now.

Even in 1992, The Wizard wasn't cool.

But but..... Caaaaaaaaaaaalifornia...

Sad what they have become. They were my first magazine subscription back in the day.

When I was working at EB in 1991, Gamepro was shit. It had the worst screenshots, graphic design and writing of all the magazines. EGM beat it like a drum.

I see no reason to think it's improved, and based just on the quotes pasted in this thread, I'd be right.

My first mag sub was Ranger Rick.

(http://www.magazines.com/magcom/covers/0/06/284/0062842.jpg)

That's like Schild getting mad at people for starting introduction threads.

No, that's hilarious. I'm not frontpaging an article about introduction threads.

Mine was either Popular Mechanics or Popular Science.  Computers, keke.

I encourage you all to post introductions.  It's never too late!

(http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4302/highlightsmarch2005va6.jpg)

It must be why I grew up to be such a good boy.   :roll:

^^^ that was my second one.

Nintendo Power was my third. Starting with issue #1. God I loved Nintendo Power back in the day.

Is that "Blast Processing doesn't really mean anything!" article Nintendo Power ran back in the day available online anywhere?

(http://www.magmaweb.com/shop/images/ZOOBOOKS.jpg)

Heh yeah I had Ranger Rick and Zoobooks.  Also Nintendo Power for way too long.




How great is it that this quote is right under the "Digg This" button.  I swear that point just about sums up every web 2.0 social bookmarking site out there.

I especially love their "refutations" of all these claims which are "not based in reality".

Point 8: Gaming journalism has no credibility.
Verdict: Yes it does!  It totally does!

Point 7: Game companies are in bed with game reviewers.
Verdict: Yeah, some better transparency would help fix this, or something...

Point 6: Game reporting is too sensationalist.
Verdict: True, but so is everyone else.

Point 5: Game journalism is primarily there to hype the games.
Verdict: True, but only when companies don't tell us the bad things about their games.

Point 4: Game reviewers can't write very well.
Verdict: True!  But we're trying to get better!

Point 3: Game reviewers don't always finish the games before they review them.
Verdict:  Also true...

Point 2: Reporters only ask softball questions in interviews.
Verdict: It depends!

Point 1: You guys just play games all day long.
Verdict: This one is definitely false!  Some of the time we spend writing top ten lists.

Here I thought everyone's first magazine was:

(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61TE7SDVJ6L._AA280_.jpg)


But maybe other people were smarter and just had their kids read it when they were at the dentist or dr's office.

I read them but I don't know about having a subscription or not.

I preferred Dynomite.

My first subscription was to Dragon.  I don't consider those kids magazines anything I subscribed to, it's not like I ordered or spent my allowance on them.

There seems to be no online picture of my first subscription magazine (XeST) in existence, therefore my second one will have to do.

(http://www.kultpower.de/images/happycomputer.jpg)

Not that anybody but the Germans here would have a chance to recognize it anyway.

If you mean the ones I put my own money on, I'm back to Popular Mechanics and/or Popular Science.

I think Highlights was the first subscription for kids' stuff my house had (subscription was started for my older sister) though the first one I had for myself was probably Boy's Life.

I guarantee the first magazine I ever looked at was  probably Playboy. My dad had a subscription from 67-79 and had all of them in the yearly albums on a shelf in the living room. (Back then the "free gift" for subscribing apparently was a schnazzy brown magazine album with a bunny and the year in gold letters on the spine)

Yes, I grew up in a classy household.

But did you have any issues of Nintendo Fun Club News?

Ha my first subscription was too awesome for words :P

here's a very small picture (couldn't find a bigger one :( )
(http://comix.cult.bg/buttons/dyga.jpg)

I see spherical chairs, brown shag, and your dad in a smoking jacket and pipe.  I approve.

We did have brown shag carpet.

No smoking jacket, pipe, or funky chairs though.

I bet you were one of the little bastards that used to call me 50x a day at Nintendo, aren't you? Stupid toll free line...

I called Nintendo once.

It was to tell them that the difficulty curve on Blaster Master made no sense.

I think I was 10 years old. I'm sure they were shocked.

Thank you for helping me through that tough part in Shadowrun. I just.. didn't know where to go.

First mag subscription for me was Nintendo Power.  It used to kick all kinds of ass. The best was when they used to have high score competition stuff.  My bother won a gold controller for his work in Mario Cart.   :-D

Hehe, that stuff will never work now in the days of photoshop. Kind of sad in a way.

Online leaderboards, love them.

Gamepro is still in business?  Wow...  Just WOW.   :-o

Anyhoo, I always thought they were crappy.  Diehard Gamefan/EGM/EGM-squared were far superior.  (Especially Gamefan.  Damn, I miss that rag.)

GameFan has been replaced by Hardcore Gamer Magazine which is Just Awesome.

Hardcore Gamer Magazine? Seriously? lol


Anyway, I also had a sub to Nintendo Power for....who knows how long. I had to finally throw out the stacks I had when I moved last year. I even had them organized in such a way so that the comic chapters in each issue were in order (for stuff like Zelda, etc). But I never really cared about the postcard contests, or high score crap.

Hell, I'm probably closer to the anti-Schild than WUA, though I'm not sure that's a desirable title to have...

Dude. Hardcore Gamer magazine is the last magazine written TRULY for the love of the game. It's written by the people at Double Jump (who makes, BY FAR, the best strat guides on the market), and helps keep them afloat.

I believe my first magazine subscription was Nintendo Power. If I remember right ,the main reason I subscribed was because I got a free copy of Dragon Warrior for NES. I loved Dragon Warrior. Fighting red hershey kisses outside the first town with my bamboo stick.

I had a subscription to Game Players->Ultra Game Players for years until they canned the mag. It was pretty good for a game rag. GamePro has NEVER been good.

GameFAN was a pretty magazine (better quality paper) and had a lot of screenshots/content, but the reviewers were the biggest fanboys ever. Not the regular "lol halo rox" kind of fanboys, but the kind of people who wept openly at the demise of the Dreamcast and considered Mario 64 the pinnacle of the "art". Game snobs basically.

Is "Play" magazine still around? IIRC it was laid out real artsy with huge screenshots and awful anime/game reviews.

Wasn't GameFan the one done by that store in LA? No bias there.

Play is still around.

Giant anime tits on every cover apparently makes you unkillable.

I think a journalist would have said "...a rewarding profession..."

The best game mag was Videogames & Computer Entertainment. 

Sadly, everyone read EGM with its microscopic review blurbs, number scores, and HAY LOOK AT ALL THE JAPANESE GAMES YOU WON'T EVER GET TO PLAY LEGALLY.  EVER bullshit and it tried playing catchup and turned into an EGM clone.  Which like EGM itself, sucked.

Luckily Next Generation took over a for a while.

These days I only read Retro Gamer out of the UK.  A little too much Spectrum coverage, and not enough C64 action, but it beats the NES/SNES fellatio of US retrogame stuff...

Super Play and Mega were where it was at. Later came EDGE, and a bit later, Next Generation.

EGM was always trash.