Organizing Issues of PC Gamer from '99 - 2002
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2021
- Got a pile PC Gamer magazines from the late 90s and early 2000s, and they need to be placed into protective sleeves with backing. So that's what this is! Just a relaxed hour of solace with demo discs galore.
I think I'll be grabbing the resealable bags for the next batch, and then swapping these over into those, heh. Didn't realize these were non-adhesive flappy topped bags when I ordered them, and I really don't care for the idea of taping them shut since I'm going to be opening them repeatedly anyway. Live and learn!
Just put them into their new bags as-is.
Double protection, you know? :D
SO MUCH PROTECTION
Any thoughts on going to mylar instead of plastic?
No? I just got whatever was highest recommended, these are polypropylene
They are fine though if you just put them on the shelf, they squeeze together and basically close up on their own, just not sealed. Thats how my mags are and no need for tape. You just fold them on the outside, not the inside.
What has my life become that I pause other activities to watch someone sort 20 year old magazines for an hour.
Nice.
This is the way
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even worse is I have a box of PC gamer magazines from 2000-2003 that I need to organize but instead i'm watching this
for me its that I'm high as fuck
Wow huge nostalgia rush. The discs were insane for a kid pre internet days. Would read it for a over and over until the next month.
Yes! And even months afterward, I absolutely wore each issue out back in the day
For a gaming teenager from the Web 1.0 era, the PC Gamer CDs were legitimately hot ticket items. You'd keep every single CD and play every single demo, and if you got a good one, you'd play it 900 times, because the selection of games wasn't all that great and a $40 game was much more expensive then than a $60 is today... plus you had to get a ride to the store and buy a physical copy (which might or might not install or work properly on your system). I remember being crushed when I saved up for the first Rainbow Six without considering my puny onboard 2D/3D chip... that game sat in the jewel case for almost a year before I could spring for a Voodoo(2? 3?). Demos were like instant gratification and free as a bird on your doorstep every month.
I always thought it was strange that demos died just as pay-per-minute dial up was dying and DSL and cable internet were becoming prevalent. I assumed at the time that it would result in MORE demand for demos when people could download them for free in minutes instead of hours. Instead, the companies seemed to realize demos were more expensive than simply making a bunch of hype videos with pre-rendered gameplay and pushing THOSE using high-bandwidth web, and so they all went poof and nobody complained.
@@LGRBlerbs Funny that was my exact first thought when you talked about viewers sending in "Well mine are way too worn for that." Thanks again appreciate the content!
@@Rutherford_Inchworm_III Sometimes the demos were even better than the full game if only because the limited taste sent the imagination spinning, and then you get the full game and it doesn't live up to the heights you built up in your head from just playing the demo over and over!
@@QuintusAntonious yessss! I played the half-life opposing force demo and Jedi knight demo so freaking much; getting the full game was exciting but my fondest memories of those games are from the demo!!!
For the next couple of months I could watch a weekly video of you going through an issue plus looking at the CD's content. A regular show, maybe here on Blerbs, unscripted, minimal cut to boost the pace but thing special.
Oh hell yeah! Leafing through the issue and playing the demos. It would be a huge ongoing project, but it'd be amazing!
@Artie Shelling I'm not interested in the magazines and the demos, I'm interested in Clint going through them and listen to his memories and reactions.
@Artie Shelling In this case, no. I have plenty of single player games I can enjoy on my own but once in a while watching a youtuber playing a game and talks about it feels like I'm there in the same room and we are experiencing it together. When I was a kid we used to play single player games in turns, but this time I'm just there, listening to the person. By the way, I don't know why are you so baffled by this, today's kids ONLY watch others play games on YT, like Minecraft and such, streaming is booming. Are you new to the internetz?
@Myrmadon you are not a smart person, kid
Great idea
Back in 1997, I could have never imagined that I'd one day be using the internet to watch someone organize magazines from 1997 -- for almost a full hour. 😂
Never got into pcgamer but I do have every issue of the official Dreamcast magazine and they are so much fun to go through occasionally and be washed with nostalgia. Definitely a fun hobby
How about a new series, PC Gamer blerbs and each video you review a magazine and content of the demo disc, that would be awesome to see, Kingpin brings back a lot of memories :)
I worked at Imagine in the late 90s and early 2000s. It was an amazing place to work, non stop fun.
Powerfully nostalgic video. I had all these magazines/demo discs. I remember not being able to run most of the games because my computer was woefully outdated at the time.
Heh, same. Demos were excellent for figuring out what games I should wait to purchase, at least before upgrading my PC!
@@LGRBlerbs I still remember grinding some PSM demo discs, way before I could get my hands on a real thing.
If a German Collector of "PC Action" watches this Video: be reminded, archive your collection meticulously, this naughty style of gaming journalism is gone forever.
i bought one single issue and never bought a single one again. Maybe it was just that one issue, but quite a few "reviews" in that just made fun of "East German" people instead of actually reviewing stuff. i never been salty about those kind of jokes but it was just not what that magazine was bought for. And in the end I bought that stuff to be informed. sticked with pc games and game star after that.
I have some old comics and they are blatantly racist. Makes me fell unwell just looking at them. I forgot what they are now. Blanked it from my memory.
i bought some, the very first was so exciting as it featrured some Command and conquer 2 preview :O :O but that collectiong counts for any magazine collector ;)
I enjoyed PC Action a lot. They were pretty active when it came to MODs too. I always went straight for the Half-Life section in the back. Also got good memories of the cover CDs.. they had a series where they would imitate the TV show Big Brother: Big Action.
@@ms-dosman7722 Lustige Bildunterschriften and PC Action Kocht, I got ze Heft but plz. archive PC Action kocht. Die geheime Zutat: BIER!
Dr.... hoffentlich sind die DVDs archiviert, danke!
"I will be here when you return. For I, have no legs."
-Coconut Monkey
My legs don't work, but I wish they did (I'm in a wheelchair). Nice try, but this video goes at the bottom of my interest list.
I feel like this is approaching “study with” vibes and I am here for it
it works well for it
I used to spend a lot of my kid money on these magazines. They were expensive but so worth it! Now it is all on websites for free but the quality went down the crapper.
True, I would sneak em out of the store cause 9yr old me was too poor and remember playing the star wars demo and unreal on the school pc impressing everyone else
I need a cup of tea for this.
Great vid. I'm sat playing Borderlands just listening to your audio and that was a real nostalgia trip for me with so many of those titles. So many games I could revisit
Seriously though, thank you Clint. Thank you for doing all the awesome stuff you do and for giving us so much joy getting to watch it and share in your nostalgia and passion.
Climt? Klimt? Why can't I remember LGRs name 😫
I didn't get into gaming magazines until I was older and got my mom to use her Gamestop membership she had for us to get me _Game Informer_ magazines, but as a kid I had a free subscription to _Lego Magazine_ for years. Seeing all these mags remind me of how I would pour over my issues again and again months after they arrived, day dreaming of sets and all their possibilities. And then with _Game Informer_ , it kept me updated on upcoming games until we finally got internet.
On a related note, while I didn't have any gaming magazines for most of my childhood, I did have several _Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine_ Demo Discs for the PSX. My dad would occasionally buy them in bulk alongside full PSX games from yard sales and flea markets. I remember the excitement of him coming home and showing us what he got, and us trying each disc one by one to see if they worked and what they held.
This was relaxing, entertaining, and informative. The trifecta of any LGR video. Thanks, Clint!
Great video! I'd totally be up for more focused videos on particular issues
Really enjoyed this video Clint! Strangely relaxing and nostalgic at the same time!
You should do more of these. That was so relaxing and satisfying.
LGR Blerbs ASMR, so relaxing to watch you sort through magazines Clint, this is your most relaxing ASMR video, make some more like this it helps me sleep thank you Clint!
I loved this chill video -- Retro gaming/hobby magazines are my JAM
I had a collection just like this. Subscribed during this period as a teen. Lost it all during a move. I miss my old PC Gamer mags. Thank you for uploading this, Clint.
Would love to see you go through all the discs, maybe a new mini series? ^^
I loved all the menu graphics and music that came with discs like these but I always had PC Zone so curious how these look like :)
Would love to see a pack of these magazines on PDFs just to read, as well as the ISO pack for those discs.
Me too, there aren't enough of them scanned and available online. I'd be happy to send these off to be scanned once I'm done with them!
Retromags has a few issues available. They need help editing and compiling scanned pages into releases.
@@LGRBlerbs I would like that too. Are you interested in German magazines too? I have a couple of old Computer Bild Spiele Magazines with their respective CD that I'd gladly give to you.
I would really love for someone to do this with a lot of old computer magazines. Personally would like to see a couple old Computer Shopper catalogs, from back when they were phone books. haha
It's funny how one of your least favorite things about a contemporary magazine would be the ads, and then 20 to 40 years later, those ads would be an invaluable resource and hugely nostalgic.
@@twaddington do you know where I can find pdf of these magazines? Thanks!
This is my era and I'm so glad I share it with the best retro computing channel on TH-cam :)
I know copyright etc still applies but would be nice to have an archive of PC Gamer cover discs to look through, there's possibly some interesting stuff on them.
Thanks for the asmr nostalgic video. Very relaxing to watch. I was a computer gaming world magazine guy. Miss those days.
Action Half-Life was pretty cool, I played it for awhile. Think of it as a "John Woo" MP mode with diving, sliding on banisters, guns akimbo and more.
I love that LGR's way of doing filming markers is throwing shit down on a table. 😂
Thank you for bringing to my attention how much value is in a collection such as this.
Oh snap, i want to read through all of those magazines! Check expectations of upcoming games and reviews of the time. Such good stuff! :)
That was ASMR inducing. So cozy, relaxing. I wish it was raining outside.
Whew, this makes me nostalgic and a little sad. I collected PCG from about 95 to the early 2000's, never missing an issue. When I moved out of my parents house back around 08 or so, I threw them all in the garbage. Wish I still had a few today to look back at.
That said, I did lose my first issue sometime in 95 or 96 and in spite of searching and searching, I never found it. But go figure, long after I tossed the bunch, that first issue I had turned back up and is now the only PCG I have.
Just want to let you know that the longer I’ve been subscribed to this channel, the happier I’ve been about it- and I had already loved it!
I had all of these & more, however had gotten rid of the magazines to make room for others. Luckily I've kept all my demo discs, so I've got quite the collection. Need to go through them one day & organize then like this!
Need to add that this video is amazing to put on while rebuilding some PC's for recording.
I see Clint is a man of true taste using BCW brand bags for the magazines.
that classic games collection cd is awesome, some of the best hits straight up free
My ocd approves and im sure im not the only one but if you ever started doing video game playthroughs would 10000% watch. Loved the video and the memories. Stay Awesome man
The thing I love about old videogame magazines compared to online articles is that they offer a great snapshot back to a specific period in time. I take a trip down memory lane about once a year to peruse my old magazines, with memories of picking up the magazine from a newsagent or waiting by the post box for the next month's subscription to arrive. Reminiscing about all the games that blew up back in the day, and those that never lived up to the hype. Great stuff. Thanks for the video Clint.
The wistfulness of your voice when you mention getting out of PC demos due to less games being on the discs and downloads being more common was touching...and then mood broken by the torrent comment LOL I loved it
Only LGR can make a video about 90s magazines nearly an hour and a joy to watch.
Nice collection. I've got a lot of early 90's PC Format magazines.
Such a nostalgia bomb! I loved PC Gamer, the magazine was really special from the late '90s to the early 2000s. The editorial work from Gary Whitta, Greg Vederman's hardware section, the jokes from Bill Harms...the terrific demo discs (still got the issue with the Command & Conquer GDI disc, and the DOS classic games edition!), the coverage over big developments in PC games and hardware (First review of a P3 gigahertz processor! Optical mice!). I still have a few copies from the era boxed up at my parent's place...a year ago I had to talk my mom down from throwing them out (I think she did for a few, sadly, but some are still there)!
I remember that shogo demo, it was hard as nails!
Literally the best ASMR vid I've come across here on TH-cam.
Watching this makes me miss the 90’s and buying magazines from the B Dalton bookstore at the mall.
It was very entertaining, Clint !!
29:45. No one lives forever was great at the time. I remember there was once scene where you were fighting on a plane breaking up in the sky and had to make your way out. I'm not sure how it holds up to today's games but it had a very unique style and was well worth it.
LGR is the exact kind of person I would want doing a video like this. It's nice to turn on in the background and listen to him talk about all of these things that I was far too young to know about.
That was a comfy watch. Thanks buddy!
Thanks for taking these off my hands Clint. I have a bunch of EGM, Game Informer, and Next Gen I still have to find homes for.
Also looks like I had PCG 99 & 100 as well. They were buried in with the Next Gens. I'll send them too.
I just hit the like button, taking it from 999 to 1k! That's almost as cool as seeing the street lights come on!
Such a late 90s nostalgia rush! Thanks!
I love these long form videos.
Best outro ever, i can watch this all day long
Now thats allot of pom right there, thanx for shareing with us Clint :)
This hits a particular nostalgic sweet spot for me - wish someone would upload more scans/ISOs of UK PC Gamer to the Internet Archive though
I still have a copy of PCGamer from June 1996. I have read that thing from front to back. great memories!
I had that Myth 2 Soulblighter disc and mag! Nostalgia right now.
Nice video. I had to run downstairs to check my shelves. My collection starts July 1994. Started with PC Gamer after PC Games became Electronic Entertainment with their plan to cover every platform. As a PC gamer I wasn't interested in buying a magazine I was only going to read a third of, if that (it didn't last long after the switch). PC Gamer saved the next couple decades until they switched whatever company they were using to mail out the subscriptions in Canada around 2008 and it became hit or miss whether it would show up in your mailbox. Kinda fell off after that, but still fun to read the old issues.
Oh 54 min of lgr awesome!!)) I had a few demo disc as kid, and brother... but not from magazines, like ceral stuff, got some lego demo disc, not sure where they came from, but I remember I specifically collected as kid, as I got a few that belongs together. Still got all my demo disc, think like 5.. mayby 6, the one I remember the best, and have revisited the most is the demo for desperados, I loved that game, got the full game, after playing demo over and over, Im pretty sure it says kellogs on the disc, the demo was also unique, same city as one in the full game, but unique story and task for demo)))
this is awesome, I wish i had my old mags. and my old computer shopper catalogs, the ones that were an inch thick..
I wish I kept my old mags and floppy/cd cover disks. there was a time when one could pick up stacks of these old mags (mid 2000's) for next to nothing, alas that time has passed, anywhere between $5-20 a pop these days without the cover disks. "Maximum PC" and it's short lived predecessor "Boot" were my go to in pdf format for years (boot is a little hard to find on PDF, scan and upload people!) but the desire to run the demo disk whilst thumbing through 90's scented print is INTOXICATING. Nice video, looking forward tot the full fat version when you're done.
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Excellent, I'm glad to hear!
So many of theses issues bring up so many memories. Wish I still had those demo disks though, ripped all of them around 2004, got rid of the disks then inadvertantly nuked the array they were on around 2010.
The Jan 2000 issue disc has sent me down a nostalgia trip that is hard to explain. Literally yesterday I was trying to find the name of "a hoverboard game" from a PcGamer demo disc, which I eventually found as trickstyle.
Today I'm watching this and finding the exact issue that contains all of my nostalgia, and am in mid-install of a VM to run this disc image from archive.org. The moment I saw the disc sleeve with the AOE2 cover, I immediately knew it was the demo disc that I haven't seen for almost 20 years.
Thanks for helping fulfill my nostalgia!
(also that Homeworld demo is amazing)
yooooo that's relaxxxing dude
I'd grab a couple rolls of double sided tape. Put a little square in each corner on the back side so you don't have to worry about the magazine catching on the adhesive.. Great content as always!
This was super ASMR-y and I love it.
When my older brother brought the Amiga 500 into the family he got a couple of the magazines that were popular at the time. They were covering mostly Commodore 64 and Amiga games, at least in those old issues he got. These magazines didn't have any attachments, I just liked to browse them through, drooling over the games I couldn't have. You see, we didn't have much connection to a community or something, my brother only knew 2 guys who had Amigas and they were not living close but it was a treat to visit them, it was like Christmas times two getting new games for the Amiga. Later when we switched to PC around 1999 I got into PC gaming and my interest shifted a bit. There was this cool monthly magazine that came with a CD attachment, filled with utility software, shareware games, windows themes but most importantly, awesome demos of the newest upcoming games! When my birthday came and I got that month's issue it was the best gift ever! I still have a couple of those magazines, I have the original Commodore/Amiga themed magazines, the very same ones, but sadly I didn't keep all those PC magazines. A couple of years ago a colleague who knew I was into video games came up to me and offered me the whole series or the Commodore/Amiga magazines he collected and kept them in pristine condition, it was amazing! He said I could do whatever I want to do with them, buy I'm keeping all of them, they are in the best condition! So yeah, I have my fare share of magazine obsession too... Lately I got back some of those PC magazines I had before too. And now I'm feeling the urge to buy more, but they are not cheap and some of the issues are rare.
Oh man, this was a nostalgia trip. I remember the issue with the Worms Armageddon disc was the first one I ever had of this magazine. I played the crap out of that demo back in the day. Never ended up getting the full PC version, just the GBC port.
Before I got rid of them when moving several times I think I had nearly complete collections of Next Generation Magazine and PC Accelerator. Next Generation was my favorite of all time. The thick cover stock and oddball page dimensions gave it such a premium feel. And they covered PC AND console gaming. Just the best.
Lol as soon as you bring in the second stack of CDs into the frame I started chuckling, and then YOU started chuckling
Awesome
This takes me back to me buying PC Zone around 1996, and looking at all the screenshot of games my 486 Sx2 66mhz couldn't run. Kids nowadays will never understand how exited we would get over a couple of screenshots.
with every video clint unknowingly saved for future generations
Honestly found this relaxing. Also made me think of my comics, and how I need to get around to putting them in their bags. Don’t have any back boards. Damn good idea though 👍🏻
I would not be opposed to a periodic 'Blerb' where you go through a magazine and the disc. Part of collecting at times, is sharing the experience (which of course is what you do!). So many memories, managed to get a few of these in NZ back in the day. Mosty the UK mags, but PC Gamer was a rare treat. That and the occasional Amiga related mag. :)
PC Format was my bag in the 90's, but still a great nostalgia trip!
Maaaaaaaaaaan, you are a maniac! And I love it!
Man I miss gaming magazines so much. I understand why they have all but gotten phased out in favour of digital distribution and e-book format, but still it was so cool going home from school and picking up a new weekly or monthly issue with stuff to read, watch, and play
I remember a lot of the game magazines I use to get had a cardboard sheet inserted in the middle that way it didn’t cover up any of the art on the back or barcodes, the piece of cardboard sometimes had a demo disk glued to it.
Wow, I remember several of these magazines, and have, or have had, them, myself at one point or another. Honestly, if LGR were to make a video for each of these magazines, flipping through the magazines and reminisce over the various games, and tidbits, I would watch every one of those videoes, from start to finish.
About a year ago I threw all my old Computer Gaming Worlds, PC Gamers, etc into the recycling. So much space and weight they took up. Had hauled them from one home to another over the years, moved across country.
No regrets.
PC Gamer, Boot / Maximum PC, and Crutchfield from the early 90's until 2002 is what i collected and read. And yes those PC Gamer discs were amazing and had your patches and maps / levels for Doom, Quake, and Descent.
97 to 2000ish PC Zone was my jam. It was consistently informatively but more importantly really funny.
Damn i remember saving up my limited allowance to buy PC gamer and then read everything in it. Back when it was a respectable magazine that is
Thats a Really Really nice collection :D Nostalgia Hitting hard hehe :D
i dont have much of PC-Gamer i have some Tip`s & Trick`s Norwegian magazine they was in Scandinavia wish i got more tho :(
Man, I wish I held onto my early issues of PC Gamer, they originally packed in a floppy instead of a CD. I remember playing that Theme Park demo over and over. Also I was a big fan of PC Accelerator, they were funny as hell.
Comic store employee here; what we did when we were boarding and bagging comics is bag the boards first then slide the comics in after. They do make Ashcan bags which could fit cdroms like you have there if you wanted to bag the cdroms then slip them in the other bag. You'd do that for longtime storage in case they would stick together, sometimes the print would bleed and get sticky over long time of storage.
Tribes was so good!
OMG Coconut Monkey. Just seeing these covers and demo discs bring back so many memories.
This video was perfect to watch while sleeving my DC Deckbuilder game
Watching this takes me back to the days when I used to have a whole bunch of these magazines and discs, including the one with the infamous Hopkins FBI demo!
What was with the demo? First I'm hearing of it.
@@x_voxelle_x The demo (and the full game) is very gory and since the demo came with the magazine a lot of kids was exposed to it which caused a stir, at least in Europe.
@@Dannykm How violent are we talking? Because I've seen the likes of Serious Sam (low poly gore and blood decals), Necrovision, and FEAR in with demo discs in the US, and I don't remember hearing any controversy over those.
In fact one magazine had FEAR's Alma on the cover, nude, but covered by the game's logo. Didn't hear a peep about it.
@@x_voxelle_x If we're just talking the demo it features a man slicing woman's throat and another man shooting someone in the face with a shotgun. You'll also see some bodies at the crime scene(s). This is done in cartoon graphics of course but it still so violent that it stuck with me ever since.
The demo covers the first 10 minutes or so, so you can find footage on TH-cam if you want to see it.
I only had a couple of these issues back then. I definitely remembered the Megarace 2 disc when it appeared. I believe it also had H2O which was an interesting Lemmings clone except with water droplets.
Amiga Demo floppy discs and PC gamer demo discs were essentially my childhood lol
Same!
As a comic collector who frequently uses that brand, I share your pain.
This is very therapeutic to me
Man, this reminds me of how into Maximum PC I was for a good while from 08-12 (ish). I'd love to pick up those issues, or maybe a whole back catalog. Same for PC World. Digital magazines aren't the same, there's something comfy about print.
This is making me want to get a PC Gamer subscription again.