4 reasons I really miss video game magazines

When I was young, I liked the deportation through my work collection of video game magazines in the mid -1990s, and when I was older enough to buy my country, I was getting three or four of my favorite personal computers magazines every month. Then, almost overnight, the Internet practically killed the games magazine, and we lost a lot …

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Longform reviews of the functional book and the exclusive content

There is a lot of diversity in a magazine, and this is the strong main point, but for me, meat and potatoes in game magazines have always been the great distinctive articles instead of gaming reviews. These will be the interviews, or a scenes coverage for the upcoming games, or something like that. What made these articles very great is that the writer spent a great time getting materials to write. They were hanging with developers for a week or two, or traveling to Japan for exclusive information about the Japanese game industry.

They can do this because magazines paid them a salary, or large independent fees enough to make this type of writing possible. These days, it comes to quality on quality, which is just the nature of online publishing. The book on gaming blogs sites is a good job, but the days of spending time and money for these deep pieces that depend on the experience of the first person have ended.

It is strange that YouTube articles are like Noclip That closest comes, but I still love to wander with a magazine and drink from three to five pages of the deep drivers.

Yes, paradoxes, a person will probably indicate in our comments below, well, we have comments below! However, as much as I like to read your comments and people’s comments all over the Internet, there is something that can be said to read a post and allow it a little before hearing another person’s opinion on this topic.

In fact, on the day I should wait for the next school day to talk to my friends, or by the time when I was in high school, jumped in some forums to speak to the same general groups of people I have always done.

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Coordinator messages section

As an addition to my previous points, your honor, I would like to point out that we have come to read comments from ordinary people in the Letters section in the magazine. The difference here is that some of the poor trainees had to read the Slush Pile before choosing the most interesting and coherent destroyers that came in the mail every month. Then this is published along with a response by a person who is supposed to want to keep his job and will remain civilian.

The reader’s speeches are always enjoyable, and return to old magazines now, it is a great time capsule for what people were thinking after that. In fact, there is no reason we could not carry out a suitable messages sector in a modern blog, but again, making this comments sections less necessary.

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A strong editorial vision and visual design

The magazine is a separate post that must be planned, executed and completed on a specific deadline. This is completely different from the endless modern blog. Therefore, while the blog editors (including I) have a clear idea of ​​the direction and elegance we want, it is more like browsing a wave, or perhaps a Bronco ride.

It is like the difference between a music album and an endless playlist. A magazine is designed to take you on a journey from the first to last page. Individual issues may be under the title, or gathering around a big, specific event at the time. And do not make me start in the wonders of the appropriate desktop pages. One of the largest grades that move from magazines to web sites is that web sites do not contain good fixed layouts, and should adapt to any screen. While the magazine can communicate visually in a way that the websites cannot.

You can read old games cups now

Although modern games magazines are no longer anything anymore, there is a great thing in the modern web network is that it allows the preservation of old media. For example, there is excellent Digital Archive History of Video GamesWhere you can read many magazines for free now on your web browser. Likewise, the Internet archive contains a huge collection of Video game magazines As well as wonderful reactionary computing magazines.

I don’t just enjoy reading these old magazines today, but this is a great source of information for my research about computers, games and all other things that we like to write about here. So you have no excuse not to take a digital version of an old game magazine that you may love, but it has since been disintegrated.