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I agree that we haven't seen a stand out game for awhile now. The last one I can really think of was Halo on the original X-Box. I had high hopes for Perfect Dark on the 360, but that backfired. Could be why we see so many more remakes now than we did a few generations back (like Mario All-Stars being a special remake event during the SNES era). Certain games I feel will remain in ten years time though, even with the online requirements. I feel Blizzards games have staying power, such as Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3. Others have remarkable staying power, such as Binding of Isaac or Super Meat boy from Edmund. Honestly, I feel the next revolution will be VR. A lot of the classics have involved transcending what one thinks is possible and combining that with great gameplay. The original Super Mario Brothers is a prime example, along with it's foray into 3D with Mario 64. Many of the PS1 era classics embody this as well, such as Tomb Raider, Twisted Metal, and Crash Bandicoot. Street Fighter 2 was a huge step over the previous title as well. Of course, it's possible to make a classic on older or current tech, just look at Symphony of the Night as a great example of this, or perhaps further back with Super Mario World. It seems fewer hits rely on this formula though compared to pushing graphics into new levels with great gameplay (Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, Starfox, F-Zero, MANY examples of this on the SNES). If someone can create a VR game with great gameplay combined with a new push into new tech, I think it could become the next major landmark for gaming.

Really surprised at the amount those went for. I was expecting 30 or 40, nowhere near 80.

When I was in the newspaper business in the late 90's and very early 2000s, I did layout with Adobe Pagemaker. I think Adobe dropped Pagemaker with a product called InDesign.

I think it has something to do with people being nostalgic for old hardware, and old issues coming in handy if someone wants to build a gaming PC for a particular era of gaming. I still have a 1 ghz Athlon paired with a 3DFX VooDoo 5 5500 and Windows 98 for some older games that don't like anything XP and up.

This one comes close to completing all the stuff I read as a kid (and then some). The only other one is PC Gamer, which I know some issues are around, and Maximum PC, which the entire catalog is floating around.

Sweet! Sorry I wasn't any help other than a cheerleader, but if there's any way I can help, let me know.

So, while browsing I found a site I had no clue about that has scanned the entirety of Computer Gaming World. While I was more of a PCXL guy, and than after that PC Gamer at times, I also read a few issues of CGW in the past and found myself downloading every issue of CGW just to add to my (massive) magazines, game manuals and strategy guides folder on my external drive. Gotta say I kinda like the mag, and it was nice reading about my "missing era" of PC gaming when I dropped out of PC gaming and went sole console for a while (more or less from 2000 to 2010). Just wanted to give the site a shoutout, was glad to see they have a complete collection of the huge history of that mag. I had no clue they eventually transitioned to Games for Windows magazine for a couple years before they shut it down.

ah ok. I saw an auction for one of them and almost bid, glad I decided to check here first to post about them!

This is great! Hoping someone finds the missing issues. I've been looking on ebay and yard sales and goodwills for a while.

Looking forward to some new EGMs! Love getting the holes in the collection filled and reading them.

Those two new EGMS were right in my high school era, I remember those covers and reading them. Thanks so much for uploading these.

I didn't read it as much as EGM, and it dropped off of my radar during the Next Generation years. I thought their review system that had the guy with the faces was really cool and innovative, but even back then I felt maybe publishers were affecting game scores for certain titles.

Kinda unfortunate, but I stopped reading Game Informer thanks to them being owned by Gamestop. Retro is my new read, although I also read anything from Hardcore Gaming 101 and some random kindle books.

I read a LOT of Nintendo Power in it's early years. Loved the NES and SNES era mags/

Glad to see I wasn't the only one to really like Next Generation. It always felt like a more intelligent magazine, and the interviews really hit hard, you could tell it wasn't just predetermined questions. EGM came close, but there was nothing like Next Generation, with perhaps PCXL on the PC front.

Ah, if you don't mind either reading digital versions or you don't mind them being a wee bit expensive for paper versions, the books and magazines from Hardcore Gaming 101 are all fantastic. The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures really stands out, and is a HUGE book. All the rest are in more of a magazine format, and are really good as well. http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/books.htm ​

I would recommend Retro Magazine. It's sorta like the UK's Retro Gamer, but published in the United States. It's a smaller scale publication, but really good. I get the digital version (mostly cuz I have become addicted to reading mags on tablets, I love being able to carry a huge magazine collection with me!)

Sad to see this happen. I remember when EGM was a massive mag, full of content and ads for games coming out. I also loved the black and white ads that had huge lists of games for sale, I loved going through those. The internet is a wonderful thing, but seeing it do this to gaming mags is sad.

This may be an odd idea, or a great idea. What are your memories of reading those old mags when they were new, on the newstands? Even in my early years at school, my grandma got me a subscription to Nintendo Power, mostly for the free copy of Dragon Warrior that came with it. The game was decent, but the magazine was even better. It was great to see titles coming out that I could rent every other week at the game store, or even get real lucky and get a copy of on my birthday or Christmas! Through this mag I got my love of games like the Mega Man series, and the preview of Mario 3 was great! IAs I got a little older, things changed. Things were kinda hard for me as a kid, and often times I would use my lunch money to buy these mags and skip lunch at school. My mag of choice was usually Electronic Gaming Monthly, with the occasional Nintendo Power, rarely a Gamepro. Later that changed to Next Generation, I really enjoyed reading about the latest and greatest. I wanted a 3DO so bad during that period, I thought it would be the next big system. Instead though, it died a slow death, and I used money from mowing yards the whole summer to get a PlayStation. I couldn't even get any games for it for months, instead playing the demo discs from the Official PlayStation Magazine. These became a must buy for me, as it was a cheap way to play some next gen games. I fell in love with demos for certain games like Ace Combat 2, Armored Core, and Parappa the Rapper. Sometimes I even skipped school, even though I walked to school at the time and had no place to go other than the small wooded area a few blocks from school. I would sit on a stump out there reading the latest mags I could get. I got discovered and got into some big trouble for doing this though! Still, it was nice escaping the school grind just for a day to indulge myself in the latest gaming news and reviews. And at the time, EGM was HUGE. There might have been a ton of ads, but there was also a ton of content. Eventually the need for me to get mags died off. I had a computer with internet access after another summer of mowing yards, and a year later I had a decent job and had gotten an X-Box. I got OXM for the demo discs only, but they didn't have the same magic as those OPM discs did, just because I now had a job where I could almost get games at will. Years later I re-discovered retro magazines, not through here but through a now dead "underground" gaming torrent site that had tons of Nintendo Power magazines. I began engorging myself in any old mag I could find, memories flooding back. Now I love catching up on what issues I missed and reliving the ones I had as a child. So, what memories do you have of your childhood reading these mags? Also, thanks to everyone at Retromags that keeps the site going and new mags coming in. It's a great nostalgic run for people like me, I appreciate it greatly.

Wow, that's a big chunk of them! I'll try to get them pulled down this weekend. Thank you again!

Sounds really good guys! I'm pretty sure the mag had a short run, would be cool to get them all up. Not sure about others but that was my favorite PC mag. PC Gamer just wasn't the same. I'll keep checking E-Bay for issues!

Wow that's awesome man! Thanks! Like I said I keep checking ebay for issues but haven't had any luck.

hehe, thanks. Been with Retromags for many years, but usually don't get on the forums as I can't contribute a lot other than moral support.

I think everyone nailed it in this thread. Preservation and nostalgia. Everyone remembers reading these in school or after school. Hell, sometimes I think my local supermarket only got gaming mags because of me and maybe a few other people. But I also like reading issues I missed out on, and I have a large hard drive collection of mags I have gotten over the past ten years or so

Otherwise known as PC Accelerator, this was my go-to PC Gaming mag in the late 90's. Loved this mags sense of humor and attitude, it had a personality that PC Gamer never had. It died in June 2000, and my subscription was switched to PC Gamer, which was pretty lame after enjoying the attitude that PC Accelerator had. Editor Mike Salmon went on to the Official X-Box Magazine, and a lot of the others went to the old Daily Radar gaming site before it too died. PC Gamer had a PCXL Special hit newstands in 2007, but since then not a peep about PCXL. I am fairly sure a full scan would be easy to do for the series, as the mag was only around for two or three years if I remember correctly, however I can't find copies ANYWHERE. I usually hit e-bay about once a month or so checking, and this one never comes up.