How much did you trust game magazines in the 90s?Everyone is so jaded when it comes to reviews these days.
I trusted the criteria of one single mag that usually happened to be very aligned with my impressions, the others I read I took them with a pinch of salt and bought them just to have something to read or because they shipped with demos/VHS
>>12003392How do they fit a huge VHS tape in the magazine?
>>12003361even then I could smell the bullshit>uh this game is supposedly good but I still don't care>damn this game sucks but I still want to play it
>>12003396With plastic. Although sometimes it came separate and you had to ask the shop's manager for the VHS
>>12003361Vf4 sucked ass but 60 bucks for project justice wuznt fair either
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>>12003361I midly trust them some of them were bought by sone, others by ninentendo, etc...
I actively avoided most magazines since they are obviously just long-form ads. I quit reading Reader's Digest over that too.
>>12003807Mi moro.
>>12003361for the most part i trusted them. though there was a few games that were highly rated that I didn't like and low rated games I enjoyed.
from mid 90s to early 2001 they often came with a VHS like this anon said: >>12003392 but here it cost twice the prize when it came with that VHS. After 2002-2003 they often came with DVD too, but not price increase then.Official playstation magazine came with a demo disc, that it was the same for whole Europa except France and Deutschland.About reviews they were too high for most of the games, except those tha were plain bad.
>>12003396Packaging.>hugeVideo tapes aren't that big zoomie.
>>12003361magazines were decent enough until the mid 00, then they realised the market was too big to let some nerd compromise your sales with a bad review.
>>12003392What mag?
>>12004084Superjuegos, Spain. They weren't just AAA shills, and often praised and gave great scores to games that would be looked over by more shill magazines like Hobby ConTrolas (the one the other anon is posting scans of), they were also weebs but so was I. It was good at least until mid-6th gen, I remember the quality declined at that point because they weren't getting many sales and became 70% ads 30% content.
>>12004095>they were also weebs but so was I.Loading were even more hardcore about doing weebshit. Though they didn't have that extra magazine with fake Japanese models like Superwueos did.
>>12004328They were ahead of the curve.
>>12003954>then they realised the market was too big to let some nerd compromise your sales with a bad review.I remember when reviews were honest enough to tell you not to buy the sequel of a game and told you to stick with the older game.
I didn't read them I would just go to the grocery store and steal the discs out of them
>>12003361Briton here: I did not trust game magazines published by Future Publishing, as they were very anti-Sega. Even Future's Sega Magazine was negative about Sega! Cunts. That said, although I dislike Future's "Edge" magazine for being anti-Sega and sucking Sony and Nintendo cock, I was pleased when they gave high scores and good reviews to Sega games. For example when they grudgingly gave Saturn Virtua Fighter 2 a 9/10, I knew the game had to be something really special.
>>12004513I liked Future publishing editions, but I couldn't bear any era of EDGE, they strike me as really snobs.
>>12004513>Even Future's Sega Magazine was negative about Sega!Guess they got proven right, huh?
>>12004328That FF7 cover is forever kino.
>>12008214Innit?
>>12003361I 100% trusted game magazines to tell me what I wanted to know, which was that cool games were coming out and they had particular names that I could use to identify them at the store. I believe I was justified in this in a very high percentage of cases (though not quite 100%). I have never been interested in making use of their recommendations concerning the quality of particular games, and since their writers were not paid to be expert critics and did not have time to thoroughly examine most games, I see no reason to pay attention to that aspect of their work at all when choosing or evaluating games for myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99p7kIhOBxA
>>12003915They're pretty big
