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1. Metal Gear Solid 2. Final Fantasy VII 3. Breath of Fire III 4. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 4. Grandia 5. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 6. Grand Theft Auto 7. Omega Boost 8. Tomb Raider 9. Medal of Honor 10. Driver RPGs totally dominated most of what I played on the PSX back in the day, so I'll rate those as well. 1. Final Fantasy VII 2. Breath of Fire III 3. Grandia 4. Chrono Cross 5. Dragon Warrior VII 6. Xenogears 7. Wild Arms 8. Alundra 9. Jade Cocoon 10. Star Ocean: The Second Story

This is the key to defending Trump to people who think his supporters are all just KKK neo-nazis. Globalization and open borders destroys the working class. It keeps wages stagnant and labor demand low. Does anyone seriously think to themselves that the elites (regardless if they call themselves liberal or left or not) actually give a shit about the plight of poor mexicans and muslims from the big bad racists? They're exploiting them for cheap labor and to bypass hard-won basic worker's rights like the minimum wage and the 40h work week. Rather than get mad at Trump for him not wanting refugees to depress labor demand and inadvertently destroy the American working class, people ought to be upset at the neoliberal warmongering that lead to the refugee crisis in the first place (and yes, this does include Obama - a man who started more middle east wars than George W. Bush). The big irony in all this is that the people who suffer the most proportionally from globalization and open borders are black people and brown people in America. Trump's economic policy will help non-white people more than whites. The only reason you see elites on the news and on talk shows posturing and virtue signaling about supposed racism is because they have to lie in order to keep what they want. They can't exactly come right out and say that they want to keep exploiting third-world slave labor inside America and bypass worker's rights laws. Would make for a bit of a hard sell even to the most indoctrinated person. But anyway, back to space exploration.

I'm new to the forums, but have been visiting the site sporadically for the past few years. I prefer classic gaming over what the modern games industry has turned into, and for me the magazines were a huge part of the experience. I started out with a Nintendo Power subscription back in the early 90s and spent the rest of the decade collecting various others. Game Players and later EGM were my favorite.

Trump is going to kickstart it? Cue thousands of news articles that explain why space exploration is suddenly evil and furthers white supremacy.

The changes water the game down. I don't care if it's optional, it's still stupid in principle. If a person doesn't like battles in RPGs then guess what: maybe RPGs just aren't for you then. I don't like, for instance, golf games, and I tend to avoid them as a result. I don't wait for the day when developers make a golf game that abandons golf in an attempt to appeal to non-golf fans.

I hope all the old 90s and early 00s issues of EGM can be completed like Nintendo Power and GamePro were. It's good to see another missing gap in its catalog filled.

I remember this issue. This was a sort of turning point when the magazine began to slide back into its trademark wacky humor of its GP days after the attempt at seriousness and boringness of the initial UGP facelit had alienated a lot of their original readers.

I have no idea why this game was hated when it came out. It is at the very least as good as Secret of Mana was. The graphics are certainly better than Mana's and most people back then were graphics-whores anyway (the ad itself in the OP even makes it a note to mention that the game has 'rendered graphics' as a feature).

I was about 4 years old when my parents got my older brother an NES with Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. I remember being terrible at Mario and dying in the first level because I had no idea to hold down the B button in order to run before jumping.

I think if Nintendo stops splitting their resources between having to support both a portable and a console, and instead the Switch becomes their sole platform, then the Switch will be a hit. People will have a main system be it either PC or PS4/Xbone, and then the Switch can be their side system.

Same here. I refuse to upgrade to Windows 10 and I'm perfectly happy to stick with 7 for as long as possible. Worse comes to worst then I will switch to Linux and run a windows 7 emulator if needed for certain games/software.

The Switch ought to do well since the main reason why Nintendo has been struggling lately is that they've had to split their resources in half and essentially compete with themselves by putting in near equal efforts in their portable and console games. It made more sense to have a portable system when portables were enormously far behind in tech relative to the main consoles of the day, and thus making a portable game was like nothing compared to the resources and finances required for a console game. Nowadays though the gap between portable games and console games has largely been closed, and it just doesn't make sense anymore to split your resources in half and spread your content out between two platforms.

Game Players was my favorite magazine as a kid. I'm just posting to let it be known that there is interest out there to see these preserved. I wish I could help out with editing myself, but I lack photoshop unfortunately.

Out of the list that's there I picked EGM, but I would love to see Game Player's finished. Game Players/UGP ended in '99 so it should be a lot easier than either of those other ones.

I miss the overall vibe of the late 80s, 90s, and early 00s era of gaming. You go to a gaming community now and it's all extremely cynical, postmodern, self-aware, ironic detachment mixed with ideology and politics. But back then there was this sort of wonder and sincerity that is kind of gone now.