Did any of you out there subscribe to any of the old gaming magazines back in the day? If so which ones?

I subscribe to all of them , gamefan and next generations were my tops.. i still would subscribe today to those 2

Nintendo Power was my Jam back in the day.

Kind of agree.

We live in an age where everything is so "up to date" in regards to information that getting a magazine now for news in the gaming world almost seems backwards.

Still, there is something tangible about holding something between your fingers. Also, anyone can just write whatever they want on the internet (like me, lol.) without having any facts or their claims having any kind of authenticity. The magazines, while not perfect, almost filtered out the unnecessary "news" we get now a days.

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@videogameninja: yeah man true, but unfortunately when things are up to date then we are plagued with articles such as 'how to find the master sword' the day after Zelda launches on sites like this.. And it really pisses me off. Not that I read them, but the fact that they are there so early grinds my gears.

Really wish I had my old mags to browse now. I had a few official nintendo ones back during the Snes era too.

I had subscriptions to EGM, GamePro and Sega Visions at one point, not all at the same time.

Nintendo Power & Official Xbox Magazine. good tiiiimes.

EDIT: Pretty sure I remember reading a huge section about Starcraft Ghosts in the Xbox magazine way back. So much for that game.

Still have these two. Issue #2 and #3. Damn its been a while

I've dumped most of mine. I used to get Nintendo Power, Gamepro, Gamers Republic, GameFan, OXM, PSM, ODM, NextGen (my favorite until they went under), Game Informer, EGM and a few others. I have the very first GameFan which I got from their Game Store in California before GameFan started. It was a 3X5 mini mag. They said the mini-issue was #1 and was a sample of what would be in GameFan. It's in storage somewhere. I do have the first 10 issues of GameFan & GamePro though. Met and spoke with the GF editors at E3 many years ago. Also met EGM's editors. Was in a Tekken Tournament with them at the E3 one year. Still have a lot of gaming mags, but will dump the rest soon. Have tons of Strategy Guides as well.

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I have all of these. Good times.

Shadow man, lol. That's a name you NEVER hear anymore. I remember playing that on the Dreamcast. Hilarious!

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Official Dreamcast magazine and GameFan were my jam.

Nintendo Power. Since the magazine began all the way up to its final issue.

Shame I wasn't able to keep them all.

Electronic Gaming Monthly and sometimes Nintendo Power.

Never had a subscription, but i used to buy the PC Games 4 Fun magazines quite often. I have a huge stack of them, oldest one tracking back to 2003. Here's a picture of it.

Got a stack of Gameinformer lying around somewhere....

Nintendo Power, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and Game Informer.

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Never had a subscription, but i used to buy the PC Games 4 Fun magazines quite often. I have a huge stack of them, oldest one tracking back to 2003. Here's a picture of it.

With such a phallic/suggestible image on that cover that magazine could have possibly served as another type of magazine ;)

Love it!

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My friend has a stack of Game Informer by the shitter. Every time I took a dump at his house, I always took a while. It's the only place his wife would let him store the old copies. There's also a stack of women's mags for those who want it.

Amiga World, Nintendo Power, Diehard Gamefan, and Electronic Gaming Monthly. Somehow I was getting free copies of Game Informer. This was back before they had a graphic designer and the mag looked like 80's vomit.

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I was subscribed to Nintendo Power around the gamecube-DS era. Good times...

I was a subscriber to EGM, GameFan, Nintendo Power and Atari Age (which was my very first magazine subscription).

EGM, PC Gamer, Computer Gaming World, Nintendo Power are the ones i think i had. Also had a few other ones but these were the most common ones i had. This is before the internet had many gaming sites so magazines were the only way to get info on gaming.

These were important magazines but are just so outdated now considering how much faster information can be released through videos and websites nowadays on the internet. Computer Gaming World has all their old issues scanned and archived which is really interesting to look at the old ones.

GamePro. That was like 20 years ago for me, before we got the internet.

Nintendo Power and the Official Xbox Magazine

Never subscribed to any. Used to buy Mean Machine, Gamesmaster, PC Format, there were loads. No point now though.

I recently subscribed to Retro Gamer, and the feeling of nostalgia I got when each month's magazine arrived through the door was amazing. Like being a kid again.

I still obviously cancelled my subscription once the trial offer ended :D

PC Gamer, GamePro and Nintendo Power.

Subcribed to Nintendo official magazine known as NoM in the UK. Stoped around the Wii era when they was bought out and turned shit

Also loved N64/NGC magazine. Bought alot of them.

My mate subed to Cubed which was cool as they had mini dvd disks to watch trailers on. but... Was funny because the GC couldnt actually play them.

PC Gamer was great. Loved demo discs and seeing what was coming down the line on PC. I remember looking forward to Planescape so hard from it

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GamePro and Gameinformer.

PC Gamer when I was kid, from like mid 90's to when I got out of high school in 2002.

Ahhhhh, the demo discs....the demo discs! Such a treasure they were in a pre-internet household!

It was a great publication. It still is, to some extent, but not like it was back in the day. I still remember their Half-Life review, reading it, being like "I must have this!"

Pretty sure the only one I ever subscribed to was EGM. In the early to mid 90s those issues were as thick as books lol. Loved those magazines back then, they were really the best of the bunch.

I had a lot of GamePro mags too, not sure if I ever subscribed though. Also used to pick up/borrow the occasional Nintendo Power.

I always kept an annual subscription to EGM and Nintendo Power. I believe my first subscription to Nintendo Power was in 1996. Started getting EGM aswell in 1998, I believe. I kept both of them renewed every year until 2005-ish. My uncle kept a subscription to Official Playstation magazine from like 96-2000. He would always give us the previous months demo disc whenever he got the new one. My older brother had a subscription to Official Dreamcast Magazine during dreamcast's run. I would buy Gamepro from stores quite often, but never subscribed. I recall buying a few Official Xbox magazines. I believe it was 2005 when I realized that for $15 you got a gamestop rewards card plus a year subscription to Game Informer. I was using gamestop so much at that time the rewards card was well worth the $15 and the magazine seemed like a bonus. Thats when I ended up not renewing EGM or Nintendo Power. I kept getting Game Informer until 2015. In 2015, I seemed to not ever really go to gamestop anymore. The last 3 years that I got Game Informer, I never really looked at the issues like I had used to. Some months, I would flip through the issue once, then alot of the times, they were never even opened. In recent years, I already knew about everything that was in the magazine thanks to IGN and Gamespot. I do have fond memories of gaming magazines from the past, but there is a reason that 99% of them are out of business.

I read GameInformer. I have only vague recollections of reading it because I was so young. I just remember they gave MGS2 a 10/10, and didn't give out too many of those (if any) before that.

It really is.

Younger gamers might not ever experience that feeling but for us "old as dirt" gamers something like that recaptures a moment in time that just can't be replicated today.

It often makes me wonder what this new generation of gamers will have in it's place, if anything at all.

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I was into Nintendo Power for a while, I have issues 160-220 or something like that. Leading up to #200 they did a countdown of 200 best games on Nintendo platforms, that was pretty cool. They also did a 20 year anniversary issue where they listed the top 20 games on each Nintendo platform. Good stuff

In the 90s, primarily GamePro and Electronic Gaming Monthly.

@videogameninja:

Do you also sniff the insides of the plastic wrapper and stroke the glossy magazine cover with the hairy bits of your fingers, or is that just me?

Game Informer is the only mag I still get. I cancelled everything else. Don't have time to read all that stuff anymore. You can find all the news and reviews online now anyways.

Wait a sec...

You mean not everyone does that?

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@videogameninja print media fetish approved.

This was the daddy:

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I think it was Nintendo Power? I was too little to care to read about games, I just played them. My oldest brother liked them.

Yes, I was subscribed to a german PlayStation magazin way back in the day. I had every issue including the very first one about this new game called Tomb Raider ^^ They renamed it several times and it has been many years since I unsubscribed, so I don't remember what all its names were and how it's called now ... or if it even still exists.

Before that I wasn't a subscriber to other magazines, but I did read other magazines. I just don't remember all their names.

Yah, which is why I don't subscribe anymore. Got other things to read.

I got a couple of free subscriptions to Nintendo power back in the N64 days. Loved that mag. Wish I would have kept up with it all these years.