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i remember buying lots of magazines before the web overlorded. started appreciating them again, especially recently when i saw in a kiosk the other day. it was 20 euros in germany so i passed (and downloaded the PDF, and printed it out in the library for free) really well done collection of interviews and reviews, pictures and stuff i have never seen before. different quality than online articles for sure |
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i subscribe to viz cos it's less than £3 per issue and well worth it, and i'm planning to re-subscribe to the wire when i have a little more spare cash. i miss getting wire tapper cds |
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Nice one, I buy retrogamer magazine every month, nothing like having a physical mag in your hand. Viz is great, i usually get the annual as a christmas present |
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A fantastic waste of trees. |
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fantastic in a good sense? should be the title of the james corden autobiography a terrible waste of trees |
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blunts are kind of a waste of trees do you really, really need to go that far? probably not. |
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ah! i had one of those in my hands the other day and there was a whole article about 'the eidolon' by lucasflms in there. a c64 game that i totally forgot about, playing when i was 7 or 8. weird game, ancient memories, good times |
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bit of a random query, but did you ever play when you were at primary school man? there was one bbc micro for the whole school and you got a go on it if it was your birthday, heh |
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wire tapper looks good. i always digged the spex samplers. its funny. in this cravtvverk magazine they describe the sound of every album. i haven't read music journalism like this in years. why would you try to explain the sound of an album, when you can hear it immediately somewhere online… sounds like talking about an idm soccer match, lol. lovee ita |
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i am doing lols out of my face hole 😂 |
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oh wow no, i would have loved to, i loved using the bbc micro in school, had an acorn electron at home as well, will read that article now |
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yes the eidolon? is that the one where you going through caves in some sort of steampunk thing, first person perspective, its a puzzle adventure? |
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I always wanted to have a go on this |
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you know what perhaps i did see it but ive totally forgotten about it/ I remember having this sort of boardgame that you used in conjunction with the bbc when i was about 4 and I remember really struggling to comprehend when you rolled the die and got a number, if you included the space you were already on as part of the number of moves |
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lollo, RIP Florian |
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heh, the equivalent of 10,000 floppy disks |
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hehe yeah, i have a bit of a thing for obsolescent gear, I wish I had a time machine, id take you back to the 80s belb and we could go to a jumble sale and dixons |
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yeh sounds good, hit up tandy and dixons then go for a bite at wimpy |
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oh yeah tandys! i have a memory of being pushed around tandys in a pram, my dad bought one of those 100 in 1 electronic circuit kits for my brother |
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the town dump had a "book exchange" where people would take books they didn't want, put them on a shelf, and other people could come 'round and take whatever they wanted for free. there was always, always the book lady, whose compact hatchback would be stuffed with books. years of idle debating as to whether she was selling them or simply catlady crazy anyways, i'm twelve or thirteen and we score an entire box full of wired magazine. i got so much mileage out of that. visually, wired was beautiful, but the articles were equally quality. i remember reading an article about josh wink, his track "don't laugh" and it was actually many years after that when i finally, actually heard the track. i remember thinking, "oh yeah, that track from the wired article!" my vague recollection was that the whole issue was full of articles about that. a few years later, dad insisted on taking them all back to the book exchange. i argued, but, sorry son, no. i do wish i'd saved at least that one. i still have deep respect for wired; their brilliant long-form articles fill in gaps of history that would otherwise be lost. one that had a particularly deep impact on me |
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yes, that one. not really puzzly. but it had great graphics, lol |
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definitely puzzling, that game |
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the smell of fresh videogame magazines back in the 90s |
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i still read them occasionally, mo. they smell a bit like cellar now, but when i am spriting and making 2d games they are a fantastic source of inspiration. especially the blatant mags that didnt even try to hide they were targeted to 7-12 year olds, or straight up advertisements, for their excessive use of screenshots. |
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id love to get more mags, retrogamer mag was way too expensive for me though. its like 13€! c´mon... i can get a decent game cartridge for that. |
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i still have some fangoria magazines from the 80s and 90s somewhere at my parents. i should get them |
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ah yeah nice one, ive never played it but seen screenshots of it several times |
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i know exactly what you mean? |
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i know exactly what you mean? |
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yeah, we've posted about this before :) |
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the age you would read them and dream about the games 'you' would buy.. and literally dream with them |
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yes, exactly remember that... most of the time games even lived up to those high expectations, well at least i remember those that did. |
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on that notion, reading catalogues was a lot of fun too. there was an unaffordable cb radio and walkie talkies which promised to be incredible fun back when there were no cellphones and landlines for kids, but i guess the real adventure would have been the police frequency. |
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yeah i loved flicking through catalogues, seeing unusual stuff you couldnt afford |
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my brother had most of the mini table top arcade games growing up |
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