I won't ask twice.
Late 80s/early 90s Nintendo Power was a vibe, family had a subscription for several years and I wish they had kept them, after that I usually only got to read gaming magazines at the grocery store while my parents shopped.
Pretty sure I had this issue or that cover is just etched into my brain somehow. https://archive.org/details/nintendopowerissue001julyaugust1988_201908/mode/2up
This must have been something they stopped doing after a while but this issue has a phone interview with
"He's as loyal to his crew as Mario is to Luigi"
https://archive.org/details/nintendopowerissue007julyaugust1989/page/n77/mode/2up
It's like a zine but before the MAGA movement defunded all journalism so it wasn't indie.
Basic answer, but Nintendo Power, the goat.
Game Informer and Electronic Gaming Monthly were also cool, the former especially because they would get creative in April with their April Fools "Game Infarcer" special feature.
Nothing cause who in the world reads gaming magazines anymore?
I want to say I had an issue of this once, not sure.
It's a Br*tish one, but they did a magazine called Next Generation through the 90s and early 2000s for the US market that was mostly reprinted material from Edge.
Favorite issue? EGM issue #113, December 1998. 300 dang pages with OoT on the cover.
Favorite magazine? Ultra GamePlayers. No, Next Generation. No, uhhhh
EGM was kind of a big deal magazine, I remember it being a high standard.
yeah my family was poor af so the $3 magazine was really the only way i could play any games
Those old Playstation magazines that used to send out the demo discs with the late-90s jungle breaks serving as menu music
PC Gamer, I still find the demo disks in boxes of my old stuff.
The one I used to read was actually rather influential on my political journey. Unfortunately, it was also very lib by my current standards and its former authors are at least mostly very pro-NATO.
Not going to be naming the thing itself, though.
