Old Video game magazines FTW

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Old Video game magazines FTW

Post by wallydawg » Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:31 pm

I just found two old video game magazines in my room. It's pretty cool to take a look back and see what was going on with certain systems and games, what was a huge success and what failed, and what games that never came out (for whatever reason).

One of the magazines I found was during E3 in 1995, so theres a bunch of stuff that never saw the light of day, like the Jaguar 2 and the Jaguar VR. There's some good artiles about like all 7 of the different looking 3DO systems, the early suprise Saturn launch, an Ultra 64 production log, and a Chrono Trigger preview (that I'll post pics of for CTfan).

Anyways, who else has some cool old magazines with some stories that they'd like to share?
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Post by Triton » Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:46 pm

i had (argh cant find it anywhere!) issue #001 of N Gamer magazine, it was the only issue too! pretty cool, had concept art for the gba and project dolphin

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Post by wallydawg » Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:52 pm

concept art is always awesome too.
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Post by gamer2 » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:00 pm

I have an ond Tips and Tricks with a Walkthrough of Siphon Filter, pics of the Last Sega Saturn comecial In Japan (where Segata Sansheru dies) and a select games preview, 1 page long about "Shenmue"

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Post by Poppa » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:06 pm

I probably have some Nintendo Power, and GamePro laying around somewhere...

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Post by MiGs » Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:21 am

I have an old tips and tricks magazine that I loved because it had an article about the up and coming Dinosaur Planet for the N64... oh how I wanted that game to come out so badly. Buuuut... it never came out, and got turned into some kind of star fox lameness, what a waste :evil: .
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Post by sammy » Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:47 am

I have some magazines from Nintendo Club, which was the Europian version of Nintendo Power but unfortanently no longer exists. They were from the time that the Snes was coming up and they feature games like A link to the past and Super Mario World. Ahh, those were the days...

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Post by Sword_Gun » Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:52 am

I had a Nintendo Power from 1996, Man It was pre-historic :p, Had pictures of n64, GBC and such.

But I left it at my trailer, and My mom sold the trailer.
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Post by SavageLych » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:14 am

Hmm... i have a pc gamer mag from... 98 i think showing screen shots of doom three lol.
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Post by Triton » Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:52 am

i have an old gamin mag thats from e3 96 or something, talks about how awesome the ultra 64 might be and stuff lol

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Post by Darth Fett » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:11 pm

I've got some old Pc gaming magazines.Most are from 98 or 99. 8)
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Post by NES_fanatic » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:10 pm

PSP concept art! featuring Ben's PSP!
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Post by Triton » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:33 pm

woah, the concept by back to basics looks kinda like the gp2x!

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Post by cowsgoquack101 » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:50 am

My library had some old Gamepro magazines from the early 90's but they recycled them and that's why I don't like to read books.

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Post by gamemasterAS » Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:54 pm

cowsgoquack101 wrote:My library had some old Gamepro magazines from the early 90's but they recycled them and that's why I don't like to read books.
I havent read books for a LONG time. :D
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