Great list.
I would have personally included N64/NGC because those mags meant a lot to me at the time. Without them, I don’t know if I’d have got back into console gaming the way I did after a brief sojourn into PC gaming on the family PC.
Late-era ONM deserves a mention too, if only for the great content they were able to squeeze out of barely any games.
@BillyCupid An interesting list, although I've honestly never heard of some of them. Seen a lot of people talk about Arcade, and I've never seen a copy of that in my life.
I was a big fan of Mean Machines as a kid, then Total!, PSM, Play, CVG, NGC and official Nintendo magazine (had a cupboard full of those in the gamecube era).
@CherryLambrini I grew up on Crash and Your Sinclair (probably too young to read them properly, but I enjoyed the cover tapes).
Didn’t have any loyalty during my Mega Drive and PC days, would get whichever cover looked the most interesting (or which cover disc looked better, in the case of the PC).
N64 was the first mag I subscribed to. I remember buying a copy before Christmas - before I’d even gotten my N64 - and I’d pour over every word in anticipation.
@BillyCupid I never subscribed to any until i started gettingRetro Gamer, but I remember getting Official PlayStation Magazine before I'd even got the console. It helped my mate had one, so we could at least play the demo discs round his house.
As the feature states, the excitement of seeing just a few screenshots and words about these upcoming games was something else. Another thing the Internet had ruined the magic of. 😄
Billy Cupid
CherryLambrini