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I would spend hours reading them at the bookstore while my mom was shopping for clothes. She absolutely refused to buy me magazines of any sort but I read everything there was to read there. I definitely missed out on some awesome demo discs tho.

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>>12511150
Yes

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>>12511150
I agree 1990-2003 were peak videogames magazine era.

>>12511150
>open magazine
>immediately see bold headings with release dates and key information about game
>large full-color images of in-play graphics and gameply

>click yt
>wait for massive interface to load
>15 seconds to skip ad
>annoying intro
>phaggot wont' shut up
>six minutes in shows game footage
>already don't care

Yeah I used to be subscribed to several of them for most of the 90s.

OPSM for me

My little brain at the time didn't register that PS exclusives got high ratings even though they were shit

One of my core memories was being sick at home from school and looking at little screenshots of things like DRIVER 3 and imagining playing them

>>12512047
>OPSM
I agree, storytime anon, saved this board with his threads.

>>12512047
Nintendo Power was way more blatant about that

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>>12511150
>>12512152

I got into mags right at the end of the golden era with PSM. A few years later they rebranded and lost all soul