Gaming magazine's

I still buy loads of mags [gaming, photography, simming, film and music]... I always have, and I love them; Crash ZX Spectrum was my first computer mag, back in the day. I find them far more satisfying to read than trawling through web pages, although you have to use the gaming sites for reviews, as mags are so slow to get copy on the latest games.

I often get GamesTM and Edge (though it can be dull as **** sometimes) and PC Pilot, which I always find a bit embarrassing to buy... oh, and Retro Gamer sometimes too, if there is lots of speccy stuff in it.

You have to have a good mag to read while on the throne, or taking a bath :D
 
I only just cleared out all my old PC Zone magazines a few months ago, had pretty much every issue and a massive stack of the cover CDs/DVDs, all recycled now.

Really miss them and I hadn't even look at them for years!
 
Which mag was the one that came in a plastic sleeve and had comic book quality print.I used to like that mag even though it had less pages than the rest.
 
Most of the mags now are just 80% advertisments which is why i'm not interested anymore. Used to love the demo disks you'd get on Amiga and the first PC mags. I still have the very first copy of the Sega magazine released.
 
Started with ACE, The Games Machine and Amstrad Action. I used to spend a lot of money of gaming/general pc mags back before 2005, then I virtually stopped. I would hazard a guess that 2009 was the last time I picked any copy up, and amusingly it was PC Gamers review of Empire: Total War that might have been the nail in the coffin! 'Were they playing the same game as me?' was my reaction to that one... ;)

They were good days though, but things were never the same once PC Zone went 'straight' and ceased to be naughty brother of PC Gamer. :(
 
I drew the line when PC Format was going for like £4.99 or something with either disks or cd roms plastered all over it. I still remember Jez "Julian Rignall" - I think he was an editor at CvG or one of the PC gaming magazines, I liked his articles.

Used to play TFC with PCZ Tankslappa who I believe was Charlie Brooker.
 
I do miss the gaming magazines, I remember the days in the 90's when that was the only way for us to find out about what was coming up, new consoles and games, it was always exciting looking out for the new issues and hanging about in WH Smith magazine section reading them all instead of buying!
 
Use to have a vast collection of gaming mags! Superplay was one of my favorites as it use to feature a lot of RPG games (which I was massively into).
 
Up until recently I subbed to PC Gamer but £5.99 for a magazine that was getting thinner by the year and with most of the content been available on-line it was a no brainer to cancel in the end.
 
I still subscribe to PC Gamer via my iPad. It's fine. What really annoys me is the review section where instead of the name of the game they have an annoying descriptive word instead and you have to look hard to see the game title. Agree with the comments about much of the content being online. I won't renew after my current annual sub ends.
 
Kainz said:
I drew the line when PC Format was going for like £4.99 or something with either disks or cd roms plastered all over it. I still remember Jez "Julian Rignall" - I think he was an editor at CvG or one of the PC gaming magazines, I liked his articles.

Used to play TFC with PCZ Tankslappa who I believe was Charlie Brooker.
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I remember Julian Rignall from zzap magazine. Oh the sense of achievement when I got a higher score at spy hunter than the one he had in the magazine :D
 
The_Baron said:
I still subscribe to PC Gamer via my iPad. It's fine. What really annoys me is the review section where instead of the name of the game they have an annoying descriptive word instead and you have to look hard to see the game title. Agree with the comments about much of the content being online. I won't renew after my current annual sub ends.
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That ALWAYS annoyed me in PC Gamer, and it's something they've been doing since day 1. It annoyed me as a teenager, and it still annoys me today. It took a hell of a long time to get used to.
 
NeoReloaded said:
Why did PC Zone stop anyways?
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Mainly a drop in subs as mentioned, but it seemed like a purge by Dennis Publishing at the time to ditch computer magazines. A shame, as I think it could have survived longer than PC Gamer has.

PC Pro is an excellent magazine currently - they still do proper and detailed hardware reviews, but it's quite focussed on mobile and business tech, rather than gaming / high-end home consumer stuff. They have lots of articles around IT in small/medium-sized business, and some articles on software development, networks & office productivity. Ignore the website and buy the magazine - it's an interesting read.
 
I subscribed to PC gamer for a while. but I just didn't enjoy it. Used to enjoy CVG back in the day.

To be honest, I haven't enjoyed gaming mags at all since the Saturn/PS1 days (around the time I started getting into PCs proper), when I would read the official Saturn magazine. Despite owning a Dreamcast, I think I only ever bought one associated magazine for it.

Occasionally bought Edge but they were so biased around the PS3 era (they were certain Home was the next coming and Sony were Jesus incarnate) that I just couldn't take them seriously any more. Of course it was funny when MS went on to dominate that generation.

I've also been subbed to Custom PC, but by the time each issue arrived I already knew everything through here (and as a bonus, from user PoV). The magazine shrank twice in my time reading it as well.
 
I miss Sinclair User, Your Sinclair and Crash. Also a few good'uns from the original PlayStation days.

Even the adverts in the old Speccy mags were magic; voice synths, modems and programmable joysticks, half of which never came into production!

Got quite a tear in my eye now!

Aside: anyone remember LERM? Not mag-related, but the memory just broke :)
 
I still get Custom PC and PC Format in my letterbox every month. I used to love the older ones too, so many memories. The only thing was I grew up in South Africa where we didn't really have things like.... electricity and food :p

You could buy magazines from a specialised shop which imported them from here or the US which were about R40 back then. For comparison, I could buy a loaf of bread and a litre of milk for about R3.
 
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