The PC Gamer mags were bought off a dude on Craigslist who kept them in perfect condition. The other mags were in a box in a closet from an old Sierra co-worker who just wanted to get rid of them. They now have a good home in my Man Cave...and shared with all of you! :D
Old video magazines are great to see again, it brings you back in the good old time were you wanted to buy games just because some art photo's instead of all the info you get now from the internet and great channels like this one.
yes please do more! its like news for gaming except old haha...i LOVE hearing these interesting stories from back in the day. ive been collecting fighting game strategy guides lately and i remember seeing an ad in one about this weird controller you can stick a cart into for moves, and it reminded me how they had some weird peripherals back then...i still love collecting unique controllers to this day too
Definitely do more. I always loved these retro mags. I used to get Electronic Gaming Monthly and some of my best memories came from those magazines. Getting excited for the Sega Saturn and whatnot.
Hey MetalJesus, Great video! I always love to see these old gaming magazines talk about games that were to be released. Some have been, some have not, and other may have been released differently than originally intended. I was born in 1988, so I sadly didn't have the chance to live to early days of gaming, but sometimes I wish I did. I especially love the early to mid-90s, when 2D was slowly turning into 3D. Maybe that's why I love the original PlayStation so much. It has a bit of both...
I used to have soooo many of these magazines. I remember reading about Gameline (later called AOL) for the 2600. Older Commodore magazines used to have games you could enter manually into your computer and save them to tape. I remember my connection to my Vic 20 being loose and having to start over a few times.
Great video man, for sure! I love goin back and lookin at those old magazines. They totally just capture the time and how gaming was. You got some good ones!
Good stuff dude. Back in the day I was subscribed to Game Pro Magazine (which is no longer around). It's fun to look back at the ads, kinda like watching commercials from something you recorded off of TV years ago. It says something about the times. :)
NOX was amazing! One of my all time favorite games on PC.. I played it as a kid all the time.. So forgotten, I never hear anyone talk about that ever... It's sad I would love to find it someday and pop it in again
The was an advert for a game called Alundra, the page before the Lunar advert. Alunda was a great game on the PS1, one of my favs at the time. I still play it from time to time :D
Cool vid. For stuff of this nature all I have are about 15-20 PC Gamer/CGW zines from the early 00s, and one issue of Nintendo Power (with Majora's Mask on the cover). Still fun to look through them as I still remember all the ads and reviews from looking over them so much as a youngster. I was cleaning out my basement the other day and managed to find all the demo disks, including ones from PCG/CGW magazines from before 2000; man do I wish I still had those issues.
also the reasons why I had to donate the gamer magazines from 4 to present day to the Red Cross just recently is because of my book shelves starting to get old and starting to bend because of the ammount of magazines I have collected over the years. once again, there are old retro mags I will always keep as I do get attached to them one of my favs is a magazine featuring Skies of Arcadia as well as the RARE games just before RARE was brought by Microsoft from Nintendo in 2002
I recently had to donate much of my old gaming magazines to the red cross in Australia, as they help poor people and families for christmas. I hope that my old Games TM magazines as well as my old NGamer mags and Nintendo mags and old Edge mags from back 3 or 4 years ago till the present will help families decide what cheap used games they could buy after christmas before they get replaced by the next gen consoles. But I will always keep my Retro Gamer mags as well as special issues I attach to
You should check out this UK magazine called Retro Gamer, it's amazing. I have all the huge handbooks, and they analyse every retro console in great detail. It's worth checking out.
Some good issues there. I really like collecting the printed material around most of the retro systems I have in my collection, especially the computers. Be good to see some more of these if you come across some more interesting ads as you go through them.
man....I love old magazines, I collect some however I live in Argentina and most of them are in spanish, however there are some that are really amazing like one called Micromania, which I think is the first videogame magazine in spanish. Love this stuff, love to see bigs ads and pictures. Keep it up buddy!
For reader Bigbentosmit. Sorry I'm late, just read your comment after watching MJR's video about game mags from back in the day. The only two SEGA magazines I know of are: Sega Visions and Mega Play. After reading your comment I went in the storage room and pulled them out. The first one I found, SEGA Visions ($3.50 - Issue May / June of 1992 - Has Kid Chameleon on the cover.) The 2nd magazine, MEGA PLAY - The Ultimate All Sega Magazine ($3.50 USA-$4.50 Canada - Issue November / December 1991 - Has art work from Golden Axe II on the cover.)
Whoaaaa. I regret destroying all my old retro gaming magazines. Was some awesome nostalgia. I think I still have a few Nintendo Power intact somewhere though.
cool vid, i'm always in search for dreamcast magazine and EGM that came out during the dreamcast years. Also, I enjoy collecting EGM during console launches. Keep up the good work!
Great as the Retrogamer Magazine is, it does tend to focus on the European computer/games scene. So you'll read loads of articles about great 80s british developers and computers that mostly sold in Northern Europe like the ZX spectrum, Amstrad, C64. Love the mag myself, but depends how much interest it would be to american readers who grew up with the NES and Segas of the time.
That's why the Handbooks are much better than the actual magazine itself. While there might be a lot of C64, and Spectrum, it does feature a lot of coverage on the Mega Drive/Genesis too as well as the Nes. Plus C64 and spectrum were important in shaping gaming, not just in Europe, but in other countries too, even America to some degree. You have volumes 1-4 I think, then you have the Hardware volumes 1 and 2, which are well worth picking up.
I used to own the original Electronic Games & Computer Entertainment magazines. My parents decided to move, while I was attending a tech school and my collection was lost forever. :(
I've been reading PC Gamer (UK) since 1997. Almost every month. Been a subscriber for half a decade. Wonder where I'll put all that paper..Have a small rainforest worth of paper in my place.
It's interesting some of the things in these old magazines... Who'd of thought back then that something as generic sounding as "Power Play" would mature into a service with millions of users... Hell, I almost won't buy a game now if it isn't through steam. It's just too convenient having all of my games in one location, screen shots, and I love little things like keeping track of my time played (this is what really sold me in the end =). It wasn't always like this, and my first experience with steam was after "Hurricane Katrina". After the power came back on, we still went another month without net. I bought a few games, including "Half-life 2" (complete with counter strike source)... I got home, went to install it, and then was told that I needed to install steam, and connect to the net to play it... Boy was I ever pissed, and refused to use steam for a long time because of it. Now, I couldn't imagine buying my games any other way, and don't even want physical copies of games.
Great vid, I love these old magazines! Have you read Retro Gamer? Its an awesome UK based magazine that is all about old school/retro games. Its very well put together and a fun read!
Oh wow, does this bring back memories...I find some of these old v.g. magazines more nostalgic than playing the games..those and the old Dragon mags...I'd get them to read thier reviews on old pc games, ect. You really should do a review on the old TSR games..you've talked about Pool of Radiance before. Oh yeah what was the name of that robot on the front of the 1983 Electronic Games magazine? My friend had it... Thanx again!!!
Metal, sad to see no PC Accelerator (PCXL). I bought and still own every issue along with the demo cds. My fav mag of all time. I used to love there drunk driving game reviews. I was really into the Quake 2 scene at the time and they used to include 1 on 1 Q2 matches you could watch via the Q2 demo player. As always, love your vids as we have alot in common. Currently bidding on the 1st issue of Joystik to frame and put on my wall.
Wow Journey had their own game? Hard to believe it. Only other band game I knew of was that Aerosmith game Revolution X. I like that RC Pro Am cover, one of my favorite games. I had FF7 on PC also but also didn't complete it. I think i lost disc 2. Wish I held onto it all, had the box and such for years but now the PC version is worth soo much. I like that you found an article with Valve in there too. Who knew Steam would become such a thing!
Jesus told me to subscribe so I did :P Love your magazine collection dude.. I am a magazine collector myself and also have hundreds and hundreds of them, and adding more each week.... Your gaming library is sweet too, I am also a gaming collector of all games and consoles... Been watching your vids and never understood why I never subscribed earlier but I have now, never too late :) Zro Dfects
just had a few questions for yah.what mth and yr was that quake 2 pc gamer, I collect them and its easier if u have that info, tried googling but that didn't seem to work. Also if u know the same thing for both the 1 that had the original quake on it and if u know which 1 had the "how doom ruined my life article"
uau man... here in brazil i have a collection of game magazines too...by now i have about 1500 magazines from here and all around the world ...lots of memories of the past good times... sorry for the englih...
It's one of the best PC games ever, but good luck finding a copy. And good luck getting it to work on a modern PC. It's a windows game, so DOSbox is out the window here.
Just dual boot Windows 7. Heck, I used to run a Hackintosh and dual-booted both OSes, but now my video card model isn't supported in Hackintosh so I gave up on Mac OS X. I was mainly using it for FCP and WoW, and then when I quit WoW, I found pretty much ALL of my computer gaming was on PC, so rather than constantly dual-boot I made Windows my primary. ... I hate Windows :(
I'm going to do another video this week! Should be fun
The PC Gamer mags were bought off a dude on Craigslist who kept them in perfect condition. The other mags were in a box in a closet from an old Sierra co-worker who just wanted to get rid of them. They now have a good home in my Man Cave...and shared with all of you! :D
Good to know. Right now my Macbook is pretty old (5 years)...but I plan on getting a new iMac for video editing soon.
These old magazines really are a time-vault and great to browse through and a great resource.
I am so happy I found this channel. Please do not stop making these videos man!
Old video magazines are great to see again, it brings you back in the good old time were you wanted to buy games just because some art photo's instead of all the info you get now from the internet and great channels like this one.
I really like gaming mags as well, it's so much fun to read about the then upcomming games that either became classics or are forgotten!
yes please do more! its like news for gaming except old haha...i LOVE hearing these interesting stories from back in the day. ive been collecting fighting game strategy guides lately and i remember seeing an ad in one about this weird controller you can stick a cart into for moves, and it reminded me how they had some weird peripherals back then...i still love collecting unique controllers to this day too
I buy Retro Gamer every single month at the local Barnes & Nobel. Love that magazine!
Definitely do more. I always loved these retro mags. I used to get Electronic Gaming Monthly and some of my best memories came from those magazines. Getting excited for the Sega Saturn and whatnot.
its really cool to see those old magazines, please show us more of them, and thank you very much for all the the great videos you have done
Love it! This made me dig out my big box of old Egms, so funny to see the articles about the xbox, PS2, gamecube console wars etc.
Hey MetalJesus,
Great video! I always love to see these old gaming magazines talk about games that were to be released. Some have been, some have not, and other may have been released differently than originally intended. I was born in 1988, so I sadly didn't have the chance to live to early days of gaming, but sometimes I wish I did. I especially love the early to mid-90s, when 2D was slowly turning into 3D. Maybe that's why I love the original PlayStation so much. It has a bit of both...
I love love old magazines. I'll watch as many as you care to do Mr Jesus. Thanks.
I used to have soooo many of these magazines. I remember reading about Gameline (later called AOL) for the 2600.
Older Commodore magazines used to have games you could enter manually into your computer and save them to tape. I remember my connection to my Vic 20 being loose and having to start over a few times.
Great video man, for sure! I love goin back and lookin at those old magazines. They totally just capture the time and how gaming was. You got some good ones!
I've heard that NOX is better than expected, so I really need to play it someday. I guess the spell system is pretty cool
Very nostalgic look at some cool magazines gone by. Another great video idea from MJR, thanks man.
Very cool I love old magazines because there frozen in time, and it give so much nostalgia! Great show
Good stuff dude. Back in the day I was subscribed to Game Pro Magazine (which is no longer around). It's fun to look back at the ads, kinda like watching commercials from something you recorded off of TV years ago. It says something about the times. :)
NOX was amazing! One of my all time favorite games on PC.. I played it as a kid all the time.. So forgotten, I never hear anyone talk about that ever... It's sad I would love to find it someday and pop it in again
The was an advert for a game called Alundra, the page before the Lunar advert. Alunda was a great game on the PS1, one of my favs at the time. I still play it from time to time :D
Jason really enjoying your early episodes. Great to see the old magazines, I didn’t know Nintendo had a magazine before Nintendo Power!
Thanks for watching!
Cool vid. For stuff of this nature all I have are about 15-20 PC Gamer/CGW zines from the early 00s, and one issue of Nintendo Power (with Majora's Mask on the cover). Still fun to look through them as I still remember all the ads and reviews from looking over them so much as a youngster. I was cleaning out my basement the other day and managed to find all the demo disks, including ones from PCG/CGW magazines from before 2000; man do I wish I still had those issues.
Please do more. I remember drooling over an article on the Atari 7800 when it was supposed to be released the first time.
I don't... Nintendo Power is pretty sought after here as well... The best bet is to try and find them at a garage sale or flea market...if possible.
also the reasons why I had to donate the gamer magazines from 4 to present day to the Red Cross just recently is because of my book shelves starting to get old and starting to bend because of the ammount of magazines I have collected over the years.
once again, there are old retro mags I will always keep as I do get attached to them
one of my favs is a magazine featuring Skies of Arcadia as well as the RARE games just before RARE was brought by Microsoft from Nintendo in 2002
Please do more this was awesome, I had many memories of playing C64 games back in the day :)
I recently had to donate much of my old gaming magazines to the red cross in Australia, as they help poor people and families for christmas. I hope that my old Games TM magazines as well as my old NGamer mags and Nintendo mags and old Edge mags from back 3 or 4 years ago till the present will help families decide what cheap used games they could buy after christmas before they get replaced by the next gen consoles.
But I will always keep my Retro Gamer mags as well as special issues I attach to
that Nox ad looks sick! same goes for that Final Fantasy mini-poster.i'd sure love to see more!
It does come on OSX, all Blizzard Games are release on both platforms.
this was very interesting, especially since you covered so many different magazines. Def do another one
The old gaming magazines take me back! Would love to see more videos of this MetalJesus. ^>^
You should check out this UK magazine called Retro Gamer, it's amazing. I have all the huge handbooks, and they analyse every retro console in great detail.
It's worth checking out.
I would love to see some more of those magazines.
Great video keep doing more it is great to be able to see magazines that isn't filled with rumors.
You should do more of these
Agreed! I've been thinking about doing a new one for a while now... Glad you enjoyed it!
Man... I love Shadow Warrior.. probably one of the most fun games ive ever played.
Some good issues there. I really like collecting the printed material around most of the retro systems I have in my collection, especially the computers. Be good to see some more of these if you come across some more interesting ads as you go through them.
man....I love old magazines, I collect some however I live in Argentina and most of them are in spanish, however there are some that are really amazing like one called Micromania, which I think is the first videogame magazine in spanish. Love this stuff, love to see bigs ads and pictures. Keep it up buddy!
For reader Bigbentosmit. Sorry I'm late, just read your comment after watching MJR's video about game mags from back in the day. The only two SEGA magazines I know of are: Sega Visions and Mega Play.
After reading your comment I went in the storage room and pulled them out. The first one I found, SEGA Visions ($3.50 - Issue May / June of 1992 - Has Kid Chameleon on the cover.)
The 2nd magazine, MEGA PLAY - The Ultimate All Sega Magazine ($3.50 USA-$4.50 Canada - Issue November / December 1991 - Has art work from Golden Axe II on the cover.)
I LOVE retro/old gaming magazines! Seriously, I have like 40+ magazines.
Whoaaaa.
I regret destroying all my old retro gaming magazines. Was some awesome nostalgia.
I think I still have a few Nintendo Power intact somewhere though.
cool vid, i'm always in search for dreamcast magazine and EGM that came out during the dreamcast years. Also, I enjoy collecting EGM during console launches. Keep up the good work!
Great as the Retrogamer Magazine is, it does tend to focus on the European computer/games scene. So you'll read loads of articles about great 80s british developers and computers that mostly sold in Northern Europe like the ZX spectrum, Amstrad, C64.
Love the mag myself, but depends how much interest it would be to american readers who grew up with the NES and Segas of the time.
Excellent video my friend! More of these would be awesome!
Really enjoyed this video. I'd be down for more.
That's why the Handbooks are much better than the actual magazine itself.
While there might be a lot of C64, and Spectrum, it does feature a lot of coverage on the Mega Drive/Genesis too as well as the Nes. Plus C64 and spectrum were important in shaping gaming, not just in Europe, but in other countries too, even America to some degree.
You have volumes 1-4 I think, then you have the Hardware volumes 1 and 2, which are well worth picking up.
I used to own the original Electronic Games & Computer Entertainment magazines. My parents decided to move, while I was attending a tech school and my collection was lost forever. :(
I've been reading PC Gamer (UK) since 1997. Almost every month. Been a subscriber for half a decade. Wonder where I'll put all that paper..Have a small rainforest worth of paper in my place.
My favorite video game magzine of all time MRJ was gamefan.
It's interesting some of the things in these old magazines... Who'd of thought back then that something as generic sounding as "Power Play" would mature into a service with millions of users... Hell, I almost won't buy a game now if it isn't through steam. It's just too convenient having all of my games in one location, screen shots, and I love little things like keeping track of my time played (this is what really sold me in the end =).
It wasn't always like this, and my first experience with steam was after "Hurricane Katrina". After the power came back on, we still went another month without net. I bought a few games, including "Half-life 2" (complete with counter strike source)... I got home, went to install it, and then was told that I needed to install steam, and connect to the net to play it... Boy was I ever pissed, and refused to use steam for a long time because of it.
Now, I couldn't imagine buying my games any other way, and don't even want physical copies of games.
Great vid, I love these old magazines! Have you read Retro Gamer? Its an awesome UK based magazine that is all about old school/retro games. Its very well put together and a fun read!
Yes do more. and where did you find these in such mint condition ?
I myself plan on making a magazie collection video when I get my camera.
Oh wow, does this bring back memories...I find some of these old v.g. magazines more nostalgic than playing the games..those and the old Dragon mags...I'd get them to read thier reviews on old pc games, ect. You really should do a review on the old TSR games..you've talked about Pool of Radiance before. Oh yeah what was the name of that robot on the front of the 1983 Electronic Games magazine? My friend had it... Thanx again!!!
Metal, sad to see no PC Accelerator (PCXL). I bought and still own every issue along with the demo cds. My fav mag of all time. I used to love there drunk driving game reviews. I was really into the Quake 2 scene at the time and they used to include 1 on 1 Q2 matches you could watch via the Q2 demo player. As always, love your vids as we have alot in common. Currently bidding on the 1st issue of Joystik to frame and put on my wall.
great vid metal jesus please do more!!!!!!
Nox is a great Diablo-like title... I loved it... GOG has it for sale...
Wow Journey had their own game? Hard to believe it. Only other band game I knew of was that Aerosmith game Revolution X. I like that RC Pro Am cover, one of my favorite games. I had FF7 on PC also but also didn't complete it. I think i lost disc 2. Wish I held onto it all, had the box and such for years but now the PC version is worth soo much. I like that you found an article with Valve in there too. Who knew Steam would become such a thing!
another awesome video MJ! Keep it up
Awesome job.
thanks for explaining what these magazines do , I often wondered what they were for, :-)
Retro video games mags are so nostalgic. Specially Nintendo power.
Jesus told me to subscribe so I did :P
Love your magazine collection dude.. I am a magazine collector myself and also have hundreds and hundreds of them, and adding more each week....
Your gaming library is sweet too, I am also a gaming collector of all games and consoles... Been watching your vids and never understood why I never subscribed earlier but I have now, never too late :)
Zro Dfects
Great vid! More of the mid 90s titles plz.
LIKE! do more :D great to see those reviews and adds from back in the day.
btw i own NOX, was a fun game:D
Great video more please.
I have a more retro Magazines like PSX,Playstation,Hacker and Gameplay and i really satisfied about that
I never got a Commodore 64 but my best friend had one that we played whenever we got it away from his mom God rest her soul
SHOW US MORE OF THE PC ONES
I loved getting the Xbox magazine when the original Xbox first came out because of all the demo disks that came with it
hey metal jesus my cousin had that nintendo fun club news you have lol. awesome videos awesome stuff good memories cheers!! \m/
It's already on OSX, The nice thing about Blizzard games they work on both.
Where's the love for "Tips & Tricks"? My favorite magazine growing up. No youtubers ever mention it in videos like these. Still good video though.
just had a few questions for yah.what mth and yr was that quake 2 pc gamer, I collect them and its easier if u have that info, tried googling but that didn't seem to work. Also if u know the same thing for both the 1 that had the original quake on it and if u know which 1 had the "how doom ruined my life article"
I'm drinking rum and coke and watching MJR vids!
uau man... here in brazil i have a collection of game magazines too...by now i have about 1500 magazines from here and all around the world ...lots of memories of the past good times...
sorry for the englih...
I used to have sooo many videogame mags but they were the first things to go when I ran out of room. *pours out some of 40oz.*
I just got some old nintendo powers from my cousin. theyre great
It's one of the best PC games ever, but good luck finding a copy. And good luck getting it to work on a modern PC. It's a windows game, so DOSbox is out the window here.
I THREW ALL MY OLD GAMING MAGAZINES OUT YEARS AGO
you should do more of this =D
Westwood games rocks (used to) !
Any SEGA Visions issues?
Just dual boot Windows 7. Heck, I used to run a Hackintosh and dual-booted both OSes, but now my video card model isn't supported in Hackintosh so I gave up on Mac OS X. I was mainly using it for FCP and WoW, and then when I quit WoW, I found pretty much ALL of my computer gaming was on PC, so rather than constantly dual-boot I made Windows my primary.
...
I hate Windows :(
great video
Very Good Video :)
MOAR!!!!!
I love this video please do more :)
great stuff cheers
Thank you Jesus great vid. Have you got gamemaster mag from late 80s early 90s. It might be a brit thing, it went with the tv show.
an excellent idea for a video but way too short.more please
I did an entire video dedicated to just PC Gamer magazine. Check it out on my channel!
comic books had advertizements 4 video games back then.
MOAR
Was considering a retro gamer subscription but not 100% if its right one for me, I love old school and the art but also like new too,
I like this video, please do more :D
Was there ever such a thing a thing as nintendo power for sega?
Like the video metal jesus never heard of system shock 2 will check it out thanks