Found Some Old GamePro Magazines - WITH SCANS!

[Imported]

I remember I had a box of old GamePro and NintendoPower magazines.. I think I tossed it a couple years ago.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Back in the days when SF2 came out for the SNES it was $99.99CDN. Remember paying $109CDN for SF2 Turbo. Most I've ever paid for a game, as a kid that was a lot of coins.

Paid $100CDN for the NES system with Mario and Duckhunt. Got my uncle to drive one up from the USA.

Paid somewhere around $180 for SNES with Mario World.

Used to go to the local 7-11 every week to read their gaming mags and play at the arcades. Remember downtown used to be a weekend special, $15 to play at the arcades all day long.

Arcades at the mall have pretty much all disappeared. The mega arcade centres in Vegas casinos are pretty empty nowadays. The only place I really see them still are at my local airport, pinball machines mostly. With improved technology, graphics, and consoles taking up living room space front and centre, and internet getting faster and cheaper, and everybody being so much more well connected, arcades are a thing of the past.

Back in the days, it was so shocking being able to see arcade-like graphics at home. The SNES/Genesis I believe really began to change the landscape of what's possible at home.

When I created my very first world wide web home page as a science fair project decades ago I never imagined what would become of the internet today. Funny thing back then was someone had created a virtual reality gear (head unit with the NES power glove controls and buttons remapped) to emulate a 3D environment playing a FPS game. Thinking now, that idea has matured into what we know as PS Move and Kinect technology. Even if someone could have thought of 1/10 of the internet as we know today, the technology and infrastructure simply wasn't there to support such advances in growth.

 

[mmntech]

Here are the choice scans. Actually, the Dragon's Lair was from October 1990 and the Bart was from April 1991. I love looking back at old stuff like this and just guffawing. I lived and breathed this stuff as a kid.

The AVGN covered both those games a couple of years ago. Dragon's Lair was totally unforgiving and the controls were pretty poor IIRC.

I never really bought gaming magazines in the 90s. I was cheeky and used to go into the bookstore and write down all the cheat codes when they weren't looking. I still have 19/65/9/17 burned into my brain. I do have a copy of EGM from 1998 profiling Rogue Squadron's development. Also has a couple of speculation pieces on the Dreamcast and PS2.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I used to write down codes when we were at the store too. I'd ask my mom for a pad and a pen to write down secrets from the magazine lol.

I did have a long time subscription to EGM though.

 

[Doppel]

Back in the days, it was so shocking being able to see arcade-like graphics at home. The SNES/Genesis I believe really began to change the landscape of what's possible at home.

Yeah back in the day home graphics played second fiddle. Then when they caught up it became obvious arcades days were numbered. I find them more or less depressing as hell now. Actually paying money for something that looks to be running on a PS2. And even the new ones that somehow are still being created only look "okay" and in a few years will just be faded a bit and the same old crappy game.

 

[cmdrdredd]

The thing I miss about arcades is waiting in line at the hot fighting game of the time to challenge other players face to face. There's something aboiut being face to face and seeing the expressions and reactions of the onlookers that is lost when you jump online.