retro gamer magazine

[Craig234]

Found out about this today - with the cancellation of most gaming magazines in the US (I only get PC gamer now), this is a mag dedicated to old games from England.

It got only 5 star reviews from customers on Amazon.

All the comments I found about it love it.

Very expensive - $125/year - but code "CLASSIC" gets it down to $6.09 an issue for US.

http://www.retrogamer.net/

 

[Tweak155]

Not sure if spam...

 

[Dankk]

$125/year for a magazine about old games? Am I missing something here?

 

[Craig234]

Not sure if spam...

You must be new to this sub-forum.

 

[Craig234]

$125/year for a magazine about old games? Am I missing something here?

No; when you think about it makes sense. Even check the price of specialty magazines? They're often the same price. (And it's not $125/year after the discount but ~half that).

This is a niche interest with a nice glossy. Even a very nice, quality magazine like the World of Warcraft magazing made by the PC Gamer people folded despite 10 million active subscribers to the game. And this comes from England and by all reports and my glancing at it is a nice high quality coverage for the topic.

 

[Karstein]

I used to sub to this when I lived in the UK from around issue 4. It's a good magazine with well-researched articles, but I found that the writing eventually became too much like reading a textbook for me, so found my motivation to finish issues dwindled.

Bear in mind there are a lot of UK-centric articles in there as a result of it being a UK magazine. For example, one of the main things that usually gets passed over in US gaming publications is that the 1983 US games industry crash did not, in fact, have that much of an affect outside of the US. In the UK, for instance, the home computer gaming market was still booming at the time, so you will learn a lot about machines and games of that period, particularly those created in Britain.

You can actually buy it in bricks & mortar stores over here if you're interesting in trying out a single issue. I've seen it in Micro Center and Barnes & Noble thus far.

 

[Tweak155]

You must be new to this sub-forum.

No, not really. Just find it strange you talk about how expensive it normally is then provide a coupon code. Really sounds like advertising.

 

[Dankk]

No, not really. Just find it strange you talk about how expensive it normally is then provide a coupon code. Really sounds like advertising.

People do this all the time.