THE HISTORY OF GAMING MAGAZINES: A GALLERY

9/10/2019

39 Comments

MrPSB

9/10/2019 10:42:08 am

I DO NOT COME TO THIS SITE FOR GAMING CONTENT, PATREON CANCELLED.

MrTechsipp0rt

9/10/2019 10:44:33 am

Quit moaning, be happy for what you get etc.

Adam

9/10/2019 05:13:35 pm

Lolz!

MrTechsupp0rt

9/10/2019 10:43:10 am

VAG, now thats a mag I'd like to spread open and get stuck into.

Professor Paul Daniels

9/10/2019 02:05:08 pm

Spreading open vag... clearly never experienced an actual woman...

MrTechsupp0rt

10/10/2019 02:52:28 pm

My wife would probably agree with you there.

Barry Scott

9/10/2019 10:51:44 am

Edge is still like this after so long

Jabberwoc

9/10/2019 10:54:53 am

My Robocod™ nasal decongestant is missing from the cover of my magazine.
To whom should I make my formal complaint, please?

Philip Bain

9/10/2019 11:21:21 am

Remember Gamer - absolutely brilliant, I have a few issues of Retro Gamer (obviously unrelated, perish the thought!) and all it really serves to do is highlight how hideously limited games were in the past and how incredible they have become! Though membering is nice, just stick with the memories, under no circumstances try and actually play these old games, they simply don't hold up to modern standards!

Craig Grannell

9/10/2019 12:48:17 pm

I dunno. I’ve written for probably 60 or 70 issues of that mag. It’s at its best when delving into the history of gaming. When it’s about documentation and research, it provides insight into a medium that is, frankly, really poorly catered for when it comes to getting its stories down. We have loads of books and magazines about how pop music, movies, telly, etc, game to be. Games? Way less.

I don’t really care for the bits that are more about championing Old Game X because it’s an old game. But finding out how and why things were done the way they were, and how that impacted on games today, is something I always find really interesting. (It’s also fun to discover stories, such as why Defender has particle effects – that’s basically down to a bloke wanting to impress his boss, and so he ignored him when asked for a three-frame sprite-based explosion.)

Chris

9/10/2019 03:09:37 pm

Wireframe is quite good for this too, quite often has features about developers, or written by developers, explaining why or how they made the games they did.

Steve Perrin link

9/10/2019 04:47:04 pm

You should get on Amazon and buy a copy of Microbrits. A look at the history of the British game industry and it's connecting stories...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MICROBRITS-Tapestry-British-Gaming-Industry/dp/1072234041

Lewis Packwood

9/10/2019 05:24:08 pm

On the subject of computing history, make sure to check out Electronic Dreams by Tom Lean - really fascinating history of microcomputers in the 1980s, including things like how the Post Office invented the Internet (sort of).

Adam

9/10/2019 05:10:05 pm

Biffo actually has a column in it each month!

James Doggett

9/10/2019 11:33:13 am

I understood that reference.

John Whyte

9/10/2019 11:42:33 am

This is really funny and genuinely made me laugh. They're all good, but some really are brilliant, especially DONG. Really good work.

Wayne D

9/10/2019 12:31:52 pm

I really want a copy of Wincey Willis Strip Poker for the Amstrad CPC!

Lol F

9/10/2019 01:26:38 pm

Poo poo Bum bum adventure. 7/10 The sequel was better.

Lol F

9/10/2019 03:37:45 pm

Saying that, the whole Poo Poo Bum Bum adventure series hasn't been as great since the sequel: The wipe of Destiny.

The latest game is a travesty, besmirching the whole brand, smearing it with darker brown graphic hue that makes it hard to see. And don't get me started on the killing off the side character McaFecal Turdington. Brown rage, right guys?

Hang on, they're are coming back...

Lol F

9/10/2019 05:44:05 pm

In the third game, Diarrhoea Deception, I thought they scraped the bottom of the bowl with the S.C.A.T. ( stink creation and tactics) game mechanic. It was rubbish. It use to slip right out of my grasp.

But the final boss (Pinch it off the third? Can't remember the name) was a neat twist. The graphics for him were a strain on my system. Needed more fibre-optics for the download.

When he summoned the hemorrhoid dragon, it piled the damage on me....

Bugger, they've come back... Gotta go.

phil

9/10/2019 02:24:14 pm

Swollen War Ninja. Bloody brilliant.

Kyle

9/10/2019 02:32:40 pm

Amiga delusion cover disks were good. Programmers didn't care anymore and gave them full versions of everything, probably by shoving a cardboard box marked "unprofitable shit" in the receptionists hands and speeding off.

wasn't really much games in it though. mostly about the promises of whoever owned commodore's smoking wreck this week, followed by 50 of the best shareware menubar clocks.

Chris

9/10/2019 03:11:00 pm

**Must not mention that Amiga Delusion comes with a blank HD floppy even though most Amigas only had DD floppy drives**

kyle

9/10/2019 06:13:12 pm

Mine's got two HD floppy drives! One of them cost 70 quid! I'm a very money smart person

Kevin Tit

9/10/2019 03:23:39 pm

Yet another attack from Digitiser on the Amiga community. My Amiga has 64gb of RAM and the latest OS from whoever owns the brand this week. Did you know Amiga's were used on Babylon 5? OK so the graphics looked like crap and you could get better renders on a PC game just 2 years later but Babylon 5. BABYLON FIVE!

My Amiga can outperform any computer sold in PC World sold today and it cost me a mere £78,000 to do this.

2020 will be the year of the Amiga comeback and then, THEN, you will be laughing on the other side of your face!

MrTechsupp0rt

10/10/2019 02:55:09 pm

I'll laugh my chuffing arse off if someone does actually succeed in reviving the Amiga and it's a better machine than PCs or Switches. I'd just love to see the look on Biffo's face. It would be a joy to behold.

Mark E Pitt

9/10/2019 04:21:44 pm

No Atari ST? You Amiga fanboy! The Hamiga didn't have a MIDI port dontchayknow?!?! Couldant do early acid mouse musik on it!!!! CLEARLY AN INSIGNIFICANT MACHINE!

kyle

9/10/2019 05:19:25 pm

If Amiga Delusion wouldn't shut up about Babylon 5 then ST Delusion wouldn't shut up about fatboy slim

Richard Lyth

9/10/2019 04:35:51 pm

You should have done an early 90s Spectrum magazine - "500 free games on our cover tape! 16 pages of magazine, because nobody's releasing Spectrum games anymore!" Those were the days...

Random Reviewer

9/10/2019 07:16:52 pm

Ace! It's funny how much those mags were selling the idea of being a grown-up.

Mike

9/10/2019 08:13:43 pm

Quite possibly the best thing you’ve done.

Mr Culps

9/10/2019 08:23:49 pm

Just wanted to say that made me giggle many times. Thanks for that.

DantiVirus

9/10/2019 08:43:19 pm

Still a big fan of Wincy Willis Strip Poker, even after all these years, glad I shelled out for the Rustie Lee and Lizzie Webb add on.

Chinnyhill

9/10/2019 09:33:46 pm

Reviews were unkind, but WWSP still 'does the business'.

Kara Van Park

10/10/2019 01:06:01 am

Clearly a labour of love, these. What I most like is knowing they'll completely sail over the heads of anyone under 30.

Gordon Bennett

10/10/2019 08:31:40 am

I adore these.

Amiga Delusion is my personal favourite as I did own and love my Amiga right until 1994 when seeing games like Doom, System Shock, Under A Killing Moon and most significantly for me the preview of the completely hatstand and wonderful Total Distortion made it clear that the PC had leapt far beyond the Amiga, and that no stories of Babylon 5 special effects could deny that.

J-FLOW-800

10/10/2019 10:07:21 pm

Brilliant. Well done.

Ubertoaster

10/10/2019 10:31:57 pm

This is truly great! Well done!

Matt

12/10/2019 08:50:38 am

Love the binary price on Unpopular Computing Pedant!

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