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  1. https://www.retromags.com/magazines/category/usa/game-players-1993/#.WDy5O_krJEb So i was checking that collection periodically because I really wanted to see these again and I was pretty happy when I saw maybe a few months ago they went into the scanning phase. But since the status hasn't changed since then I just decided to make a post about it. Not sure if the scanning is coming soon or got abandoned or what. I'm not making this post to complain or anything but just trying to do my part to show interest in these magazines if it can help them get scanned.
  2. This might be what my faded memory was thinking about. If the state attorney replies in a follow up issue that his nephew showed him the image then I'll know it was what I was thinking about.
  3. I think you are right Kitsunebi that many gamers would not buy a PC to play games on if consoles stopped existing. I had not thought of that before but it seems like a good guess.There's a lot of people out there that aren't that much into games and maybe buy a game system to just buy some sports titles and maybe they'll pick up a Grand Theft Auto game or something on occasion and asking them to buy and game on PC is probably too much effort on their part.
  4. okay forget the part about swapping the thumbstick and d-pad. Now since you took the time to show me a pic of what i described, I think you should 3d print me one too haha
  5. I would like to take the handles of a Virtual Boy controller, with the six buttons on the right like a Sega Saturn controller, the 4 shoulder buttons of a Playstation controller but positioned on the back of the controller like a Virtual Boy (so they aren't actually shoulder buttons which I find awkward and never understood why people like them!), and the D-Pad of the Turbo Touch 360 controller. I think I would place the d-pad and left analog stick onto a rotatable section so you could easily switch between the d-pad being on the left side or the joystick being on the left side. It would cost more but this would have to be the ideal controller!
  6. Most of the gaming magazines showed the controller from an angle that didn't even show its two top shoulder buttons. Also when you see the front of it on the right side there is only 3 buttons which makes it look like it's 3 buttons less than the SNES or at least 1 button less than SNES if you are away it has shoulder buttons. Some or many of us like myself know some SNES games made good use of all its buttons so this could really make the 3DO seem like a big step back in interactivity with games. PS1 had one more button on the right side of the controller as well as two extra shoulder buttons. I know Jaguar had lots of buttons but I don't the controller did much to hurt or benefit system sales but just in the case of 3DO I speculate it could have played a large role.
  7. Man, you even remember that Mario Paint Player's Guide that you probably read in the mid 90's? Her hurricane kick is really something special I guess.
  8. I remember pausing Street Fighter 2 repeatedly on my SNES as a kid to see which animation frame would give me the best panty shot of Chun Li during her hurricane kick.
  9. Nintendo probably still wants to continue their "blue ocean" strategy where they try to attract new types of gamers that were not much of gamers before. I can't think of what awesome new way to play games there is except for VR and I thought they were going to do VR/AR as their next trick but lately I've been doubting it so I'm growing skeptical again of their potential for success. They sohuld have known Wii U wouldn't be a hit I mean people don't want piss poor graphics unless there's something really new going on and Wii U just didn't have it also their gamecube/GBA connectivity didn't amount to much as far as I know so I just don't get how they expected the Wii U to do well as I knew a year before it's release it was going to fail. I think the only way Nintendo could have had a chance this time is if they marketed the NX as a hardcore gamer platform where you could play Nintendo's awesome exclusives and have bad-ass hardware to go along with it. It should be a black system to show the old company if purple game systems with handles on them and baby-like sound system sound effects are over and they are ready to cater to their original fans who are adults now. Since that wont happen I think they are about to end up like Sega. Can't wait to buy Super Mario Galaxy 3 on a Steam summer sale for $5.
  10. Sometimes I'm reading posts here and there about console wars and as MS and Sony discuss their offerings I see people say stuff like "competition is good". But the competition between MS and Sony doesn't offer much to us gamers, the only competition we need is competition between software developers to develop the best game. If consoles did not exist, nearly every game would be made for the PC. We wouldn't have fractured online gameplay as all gamers could connect to their friends without worrying about who owned which console-specific version of the game. But as it is now, if you want to play them all you need to buy the PC and then pay Sony their 350+ tax and Microsoft their 350+ tax, rebuy controllers because because Sony and MS force you to despite lack of necessity, and pay to pay online. Sony at least let you use PC controllers on PS3 and PC hard drives on PS3 and included a built in network adapter for PS3 quite unlike MS that made you pay for their proprietary overpriced stuff such as wanting you to buy a $100 wireless network adapter for XBOX 360 (they also invented the concept of paying a whopping $50 yearly to play online which is extremely overpriced). Sony also let you install Linux on PS3 which doesn't concern the vast majority of console gamers but still represents an openness you can only find with Sony as compared to MS. Anyway, this is quite a lot of money for console players to waste every 5-7 years, paying thousands and thousands of dollars more than they would have to if only the PC existed. Worse, the latest consoles now are just basically x86-based PC's except they are locked down to only run licensed apps, which does nothing to benefit us gamers except reduce the chance of cheaters modifying the game. Unless you care about multiplayers cheaters, most gamers are defending the opportunity for themselves to just absolutely throw money away that in a better world they could have used for more games. With the potential money saved they could have been ready to buy the top of the line HTC Vive VR system. Consoles primarily are a luxury item for the monied or those who are careless with money whereas the PC is for those peasants who are on a budget or are wise with their money. If only the PC existed developers wouldn't have to spend resources on porting games to PowerPC, RISC or cell processors or whatever unique architecture is in the hardware or OS they were now forced to port to. The increased revenue from accessing more gamers with a single game design would have kept more companies in business and probably caused more content to be added to our games. We'll never really know what the game industry could have been like if gamers could have bought a game without having to worry about having the console it was exclusive to, but hopefully my message will spread and people wont get the MS Scorpio or Sony Neo and dig their own hole into financial waste and perpetuation of of a game industry unable to reach its full potential. But message boards are full of console "peasants" repeating old nonsense to defend their Xbox or their PS4 when they should realize that the days of the PC being $3000 requiring frequent upgrades and various memory management troubleshooting methods are long over. Stop being stuck in the old ways and buy a small PC (yes they can be small now) and connect it to your TV. You can use your PS4 or Xbox One or 360 controllers and join in on amazing game sales offered by Steam, Humble Bundle and Bundle Stars where you can save money like you'd never see happen for the console games.
  11. maybe i was wrong about it being on the cover of the magazine then. i'll figure this out once i get them downloaded.
  12. I feel like playing some 16-bit, arcade, and maybe 8-bit and 32-bit (if such emulators exist with internet play) multiplayer with some people, and who better than the folks here who love games enough to download old magazines about them? I'd like to try SNES games like contra 3, legend of the mystical ninja, and some Genesis shoot-em-ups, and lots of other games though I'm not usually into fighting games unless it's saturday night slam masters or powerstone or something like that.
  13. i just verified it was from the magazine Video Games The Ultimate Gaming Magazine, but the oldest issue on this website is 56. Hopefully some day it will be on here.
  14. i could be wrong about the image being on the cover but this depiction of sub zero is from the magazine Video Games The Ultimate Gaming Magazine
  15. SNES-------------------Super Mario World since it came with the game. After that I probably bought The Legend of Zelda or Super Castlevania 4. Game Boy------------- Zelda Game Boy Advance-Castlevania Circle of the Moon 3DS-------------------- Zelda Ocarina of Time Virtual Boy------------ Wario Land Wii U------------------- Super Smash Bros. Sega Genesis-------- Splatterhouse 2 Game Gear----------- Shinobi PS1--------------------- Twisted Metal PS2--------------------- Twisted Metal Black PSP--------------------- Twisted Metal Head On PS3--------------------- GTA 4 (damn that was a crappy xbox 360 port) PS4--------------------- Metal Gear Solid 5
  16. I skipped so many games as a kid when they still made games that didn't save your progress. It's why I didn't buy Contra 3 any many games. If it included a level select cheat then I would consider it. But I never understand how anyone could handle the frustration of playing a game nearly 30 minutes and then losing all their lives at the last stage and having to start over. I didn't want to play a game repeatedly under that stress until I mastered it. But they kept making these kinds of games so I guess you all didn't mind this? Also these games tended to be shorter which made paying $60 USD for them even less justifiable.
  17. I am a Texan a bit over 30 years old who came here to see once more the magazines I read decades ago, especially Game Players (year 1994 - 1997 mainly) for it's humor. I'd like to read issues I haven't read before maybe even from magazine companies I never read from just to see if there's more stuff I can learn about games or the game industry I never knew. I already have a good bit of knowledge about the 16-bit and 32-bit era of games and enjoy pretty much any genre of game except sports and Japanese RPG's since turn-based games usually didn't have much depth in the combat.
  18. Nintendo Power because an advertisement for it came with my first game system the SNES. The first one I bought from a store was probably Game Pro or EGM.
  19. Game Player's magazine is my favorite, at least the years of 1994 and a few years after that because it was probably the funniest game magazine ever.
  20. I'm playing Uncharted 4 a lot but when I get a VR system that's when I expect to try new stuff.
  21. i'm not a masochist. for something that challenging i would support reloading a saved state.
  22. its been about a month but the file is still not available. can someone reupload it by any chance?
  23. anyone want to go some rounds of contra, battletoads, and such on some NES/Genesis/SNES? Looking for players in USA and Canada only, for the sake of good ping/latency.
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