I found a scan of a 30 year old German PC games magazine doing #VideoGameHistory research today, and it was really fun to flip through it.
I used to read GameStar, which still has all their issues online, and it turns out I started reading it every month at only the fourth issue 12/97.
Before that, I read PC Action, which started at 02/96 and is on Archive.org.
I think it would be really fun to read and write a personal perspective every month for #1996InVideoGames next year. ⭐
Casually browsing old pc games magazines from 1996 is really fascinating. They are from just before I really started getting into videogames at all.
There are of course many of the great classics that are still the titans of their genres, but then there's also games rated in the high 80s that I have never heard of before in my entire life.
What is Thunderhawk 2? Cybermage? Silent Hunter?
There was a Top Gun game? And it was really good?
Apparently, good is not enough to become a classic.
Turns out that 12/97 was not my first issue of GameStar, but instead it was 11/98 that was my first issue of PC Action.
You can probably see how this was an easy mistake to make.
@pythno I think 96 to 99 was the peak.
There's a regular stream of very good games continuing for another 10 years or so, but not the tide of amazing milestones from the late 90s.
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