‘Member-berries & General Purpose Nostalgia Thread

Crash was certainly my magazine in the Speccy days, the only magazine that seemed to carry on that feel for me after it was PC Zone (as a subscriber I had the Lara Croft Cruelty Zoo* issue that WH Smith and others pulled) but that only finally closed its doors in 2010 so it's not really nostalgia as memory.

As for Edge - I still remember those fucking feathers you arseholes and it being for a 3DO ad "don't be a dodo, buy a 3DO"? Glad that POS failed miserably.

Amiga Power
Amiga Format
CU Amiga (I'm sure this was the techy mag that was dry as fuck and had utilities on the free disk rather than games)

The first magazine I went all in on was Total!, had every issue for the first couple of years

Can you still get porn mags? Or did the internet kill those too?

I get my internet out of hedges.

Yep, I think that was the one.

On the retro relaunch of Consolevania they’re currently claiming is coming up soon they want to review an issue of an old games magazine for each year they’re covering. Starting with 1984.

Yeah, Retro Gamer are getting into the less interesting era for me with, 360/PS3/Wii. Still, it's nice seeing what was popular.

There's a shop in Derby, where I've bought a few older mags, that I had back in the day (CVG/Gamesmaster). Some of the humour is of the time, and probably the age group 8-15! If I remember.. I enjoyed CVG more than the others, as they took the piss out of games/culture.

Commodore Format. Always remember one of the writers being called Clur and they had The Mighty Brain for the letters and cheats pages.

It (and Commodore Force) had a lot of character. I scarcely ever bought actual new games, it was just the tapes off these.

Also remember for C64 you had ‘budget’ (ordinary tape cases) and what I called ‘full price’ (which came in a little presentation box). I guess the latter used to release like a hardback would before going to paperback (‘budget’).

Only ever, I think, got SWIV in the ‘full price’ category.

Not sure if anybody will remember the c64 Night Moves/Mindbenders bundle.

In Night Moves you got Sly Spy, Ninja Warriors, Midnight Resistance and Nightbreed (terrifying).

Mindbenders had Trivial Pursuit and Split Personalities.

I remember writing to somebody like Ocean because a tape didn’t work and they sent me a Winter Olympics game for free. I was gutted because not in my wheelhouse at all. But it became one of my very favourite games.

By the time I was on PlayStation it was the Official PlayStation Magazine. Worlds apart, much more corporate and professional, probably with loads of bias I’d have missed at the time. Remember the paper and print quality being top notch and the demo discs were the real draw.

Did anyone have this VHS that came with Mean Machines?

I think I watched it way over 40 times! I'm glad I never asked for Greendog in the end. 

I remember going round to a so called friends house just when home console pong was coming out. He said he had it, there was me convincing myself I could see it on a TV that was just showing a untuned fuzzy channel screen.

He did not have a pong console, the twat

I really want to post some of the brilliant, if deranged, covers that Oz Brown did for C+VG and Mean Machines… but might have to wait til I get home. Don’t especially want to be asked why I’ve got Poison from Final Fight showing off her jabberclackers on my screen.

@drakesmoke Gods! I forgot that existed.

Are you sure it was an Amstrad? We had the 464 (greenscreen, tape loader, absolutely terrible), the one up from that, which a neighbour owned (pretty sure he got it from a burglar...) was the 6128 (colour, 6.25 discs, absolutely terrible) and then we got the GX4000 console from a market truck (had like 7 games in its entire library but all you could find was Burnin' Rubber which came bundled with the machine. Absolutely terrible)