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Nov
16
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: Whoops, I Was Logged Out
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[’Game Mag Weaseling’ is a weekly column by Kevin Gifford which documents the history of video game magazines, from their birth in the early ’80s to the current day.]
How much does the Japanese PC game industry not matter outside of girl-themed, usually pornographic adventures and sound novels? It matters so little that the one completely […]
Nov
9
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: Mag Roundup 11/8/08
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[’Game Mag Weaseling’ is a weekly column by Kevin Gifford which documents the history of video game magazines, from their birth in the early ’80s to the current day.]
Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas from all your friends at Game Mag Weaseling! Unfortunately, what’s good for your holiday wish lists isn’t necessarily so good for game […]
Nov
2
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: GamesTM Immortalized
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Following up their previous Retro Gamer collection, Imagine Publishing recently put out a DVD that contains PDF files of the first 50 issues of gamesTM, their multiformat magazine in the UK. The package (which includes a bunch of bonus wallpapers, mostly retro-themed) costs £23.99 shipped to America, which I’d consider a pretty honest deal; it’s […]
Oct
25
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: Mag Roundup 10/25/08
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Thank you all for your kind feedback in my last column. I guess I’ll keep this sucker on rolling, then, and cancel my previous plan to start covering the illustrious history of ferret magazines instead. Sorry, Simon.
As I’ve discussed earlier, this isn’t such a merry holiday for US print mags, most of which are peaking […]
Oct
20
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: The Adventures of Load Runner in the 198th Decade
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I picked up Mort’s latest DVD in the mail a day or two ago — this one a full collection of FORMAT, a British fanzine devoted to the ZX Spectrum that ran from 1987 to 1998. It’s great stuff. I’ve gotten heavily into collecting local computer user-group newsletters and the like lately — all that […]
Oct
13
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: Mag Roundup 10/11/08
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Not strictly related to video games, but is this not the best magazine cover you’ve ever seen? The Cooper Black font, the eerie CGI bits, the way everything fits together like a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces broken and crushed in a vain attempt to make them snap together? This is what we need more […]
Oct
7
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: The Perils of Too Much Interaction
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I noticed the other day that a project to scan every InterAction and other Sierra in-house newsletter ever published was completed as of July, so I finally downloaded the ones I didn’t have physical copies of and gave them a gander. The one you see above is from the summer of 1998 and features a […]
Sep
28
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: Mag Roundup 9/27/08
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Well, after many years of on-and-off trying, I am finally to the point where I consider my Japanese Mega CD collection complete. I am counting a total of 117 releases. (I’m missing one or two demos, but oh well.)
Mega CD is fun because it’s not that large a library to collect, it’s mostly cheap, and […]
Sep
22
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: I Survived A Hurricane And All You Get Is This Stupid Book
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Well, readers, you’re in luck — I got power back post-hurricane just a few hours ago, so I can submit a column safely and soundly after all! Sadly, I don’t have much to write about at the moment, chiefly because I’m busy cleaning up my pad and trying to get the week-old mildew smell out […]
Sep
13
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: Mag Roundup 9/13/08
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Bad news, game mag fans! If CNN and Fox News are to be believed, by the time you read this, I am going to be dead, my bloated, bleached body floating listlessly in brackish mire, surrounded by waterlogged issues of Game Players’ Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games. I’m writing this on Thursday, and I’ve already […]