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Any Retro Gamer magazine fans here?

RJS (undefined) posted this on Tuesday, 31st July 2012, 22:11

I`ve just started reading some of the early Retro Gamer mags, and I`m just wondering if the quality improves over time?

So many of the early articles I read had glaring mistakes and factual errors, or a complete misunderstanding of the context like it was written by somebody who wasn`t even born when what they were talking about came out, and hastily bashed together the article from scanning websites and forum posts, not actually checking what they`d written.

I quite like the idea of reading that kind of stuff, but if it`s not going to get any better I`m wondering if I should not bother checking out the newer ones if they have an article that interests me.


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RE: Any Retro Gamer magazine fans here?

skirpy (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 2nd August 2012, 00:31

I have been meaning to have a look at my old collection....

Around the time the Japanese Megadrive  and Snes came out up until the Dreamcast i probably bought every magazine on the shelf every month for years and most of them are scattered around my loft, i think i am only missing a few early Edge editions.

I never owned a PC until about 1998 so believed everything i saw in magazines.

Edit: I think you are talking about the new Retro mags that are out just now?

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RJS (undefined) posted this on Thursday, 2nd August 2012, 09:37

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Edit: I think you are talking about the new Retro mags that are out just now?
I think they`ve been out for a few years, maybe around Issue 120 or something now? The first few have covered things like Sinclair, Commodore and Acorn.


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Pete-MK (Elite Donator) posted this on Thursday, 2nd August 2012, 16:40

I still have the first edition of Gamesmaster magazine somewhere...

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Hallsey (Competent) posted this on Thursday, 2nd August 2012, 19:39

It`s my guilty pleasure,
I subscribe to it, and have done for a couple of years now. It is up to issue 105.

I like the majority of the last 20 odd issues with some real corkers, however some are a little hit and miss. I feel that the best has already been looked at but I still think it is worth it. I do look forward to it coming through the post and some can have you reading for a fair bit of time but some you can flick through.

They do cd`s with old full issues on it which are quite good at about a tenner for 25 odd back issues on it.

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RE: Any Retro Gamer magazine fans here?

RJS (undefined) posted this on Thursday, 2nd August 2012, 21:26

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They do cd`s with old full issues on it which are quite good at about a tenner for 25 odd back issues on it.
I was considering that, just not sure how many I`ll read whilst shaking my fist at the errors. :/


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