Games mags

Retr0gamer

Heres my favourite mags ever:
1. Sega Power - Brilliant magazine. Had great reviews and some truely excellent jokes. The chimp count at the end of the magazine was genius. The only mag that got in trouble because it was given out free at pizza hut to kids but had too many sexual innuendos.
2. PC Gamer (The early years) - One of the most accurate and funniest magazines ever. It reached it's peak with the dressing up antics of Jonathan Davies. Went down hill afterwards.
3. Commodore Format - The best C64 magazine ever. Great reviews and some brilliant reviewers and of course great jokes. How anyone could think Clur was better looking than Lisa is beyond me.
4. Sega Zone - Any magazine thst has Stuart Campbell in it is usually brilliant. How can i forget his joke about the Scottish christmas tradition of putting holly in their mouths and slapping each other on the cheek. Or his amazingly low and high scores (Gunstar heroes 98% Socket 0% although they both deserved these scores).
5. Gamesmaster (the early years) - Another great magazine that had close ties with Sega Power and it showed. Top notch in it's prime.

And the worst.
1. PC Gamer (in its present state) - What have Matthew Pierce and Kieron Gillen done to this magazine. So anti console it's unbelieveable and the PC Gamer game of the month has attained such high status that it seems games companies pay to get it. This would explain why such over hyped tosh like Unreal or SOF 2 get high marks. There aren't even any half decent jokes or dressing up only dodgey photoshop stuff.
2. Edge - The magazine that claimed that the 3DO and Xbox were the future of videogames. They talk like they know everything but know nothing and give the best reviews to the company who pays them the most.
3. Gamesmaster (at the moment) - Not bad just disappointing.
The corruption of PC Gamer has leaked into it. Who let that muppet Kieron Gillen from PCG be a reviewer. The jokes are still there but not as good but they still give very fair reviews.
4. Any official magazine (especially the irish PS mag) - Come on do you really trust their views. The irish oner is the worst. The most cringe worthy moment is when they show how cool it is to have a PS2 by taking pictures of 10 year pld scangers buying Smackdown in Game and actually asking for their comments.

I know i forgot some. I've never read a Nintendo magazine but that will change after the pics i saw of E3 and I know i forgot a brilliant Amiga mag that had Stuart Campbell. Amiga Power I think.

Samson

My favourites are PC Format and PC Zone respectively.
I subscribe to both.

TheAlmightyArse

Super Play (SNES magazine) was greatness, and it's successor, N64 Magazine (now NGC), started out amazing, too. Arcade was great in it's infancy as well. All of the above were published by Future - same crowd as Gamesmaster, and I think, PC Gamer. Super Play is now, obviously, dead, and the rest have either disappeared or just gotten rather crappy. Probably because they shared many of the writing staff, and most of the halfway decent writers have buggered off somewhere. Or, in the case of Wil Overton, gone to work at Rare.

By the way, if there are any decent Nintendo mags, they have thus farly evaded me. There were a few good ones at the beginning of the N64's life, but since then they've all 'evolved' for the worse. Seems to be a depressing trend, doesn't it?

byte

Hmm. I used to get PC Format (DVD) though I now find €13 a tad much for a magazine(Grr at Govt taxes). Maybe it's cheaper to subscribe? Now I get PC Live which is OK but very thin with cack software.

When I used my PlayStation, I used to always get Official UK Playstation Magazine. Then I stopped buying PS mags and what happens? They decide to launch an Irish version.:(

BTW, Is there an Official Irish PS2 Mag? I've only bought 1 OfficialUK PS2 Mag (v expensive) and 1 PSi2 mag (for free RegionX)

I used to get Speccy mags yonks b4 that but my memory isn't what it was:p and can't remember the name!:D

Mr E

Originally posted by Retr0gamer
3. Commodore Format - The best C64 magazine ever. Great reviews and some brilliant reviewers and of course great jokes. How anyone could think Clur was better looking than Lisa is beyond me.

Ah the memories.... I was more a Zzap64! type person myself.... (kinda crawled up its own ass when it became Commodore Force, though.....)

- Dave.

daveirl

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satchmo

You're all forgetting the legendary Amstrad Action. What a great mag that was.

Rabies

loved Gamesmaster years ago. dunno about now. have bought it in years.

still get Edge every now and again. have to say its one of my fav.

rarely buy a single format magazine, i feel they can be too one sided. always buy multiformat mags.

Mikill

Have You seen the latest reviewer they've got on the Pc Gamer team now ?!
Jason Bradbury , FFS.
That guy that presents the show on Bravo , "Mercenaries" ,
which in my opinion is a good idea for a show but has been done
badly.
They have him specialist in Flight Sims,Strategy,Racing Sims.
I dont know , if any of ye out there can see a good from this please inlighten me.
As to me it seems like he not the person for the job.

Quigs Snr

PCZone are tops for me, get it every month. Get the odd issue of PCGamer every now and then too depending on whats on the DVD. PCZone are a bit tougher with the scores and for some reason their valuation of games seems to be quite close to my own.


Always like ZZAP64 too, got it every month. Remember thinking though when Commodore Format came out that it was the best thing ever. Got the Turrican 2 demo on one of them and was hooked after that. Issue 12 of CF was the greatest. I believe there was a hugley addictive Speedball 2 demo which I played for months.

Jimi-Spandex

PCGamer - I've been reading since issue 25, granted its not as good as it used to be but its still good. I always thought Jim Flynn was a great editor and thought Matt was going to be just as good, i always liked his writing, but unfortunately not, he's good, he's just not great. The major problem is the fact that imo there's only a couple of really good writers there (Rossignol and Pierce, Gillen has his moments also)

Edge - I have to admit that i like the Red Eye and Tokyo Game Life columns, granted it is pretentious and oh-so-more-knowledgable-than-thou, but its nice to have that now and again seeing as we're confronted with KEVO "Bleedin rapih" style journalism much too often. to be honest i'd rather have a reviewer overly verbose than indulging in geezerisms