Great history article. Are you old enough to remember some?
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Was never big into PC Gamer at the time, Ultra Gamer Magazine was awesome, though. Almost everyone was talking about GamePro Magazine and their tips and cheats section; they even used to have a half-hour TV show that came on in the morning. Game Informer was always considered the lesser GamePro, and Nintendo Power was what you opted for when you wanted the scoop on all things Nintendo.
Mortal Kombat had the same cheats for damn near 30+ yrs. And, my little bro remembered them all. He is unbeatable.
I got into wargaming because of their regular writer who promoted grognards.
I was an Electronic Gaming Monthly subscriber, as I was always more of a console gamer (still am), and they focused more of their content on that.
They'd actually give games bad reviews if they were, ya know, bad. Don't see that anymore.
Gaming wants to blame everyone but themselves for gaming dying. I stopped having fun when I was the only one with all the DLC. I can't imagine not having it was any fun either.
I always had PC World or PC Magazine as I was more of a hardware and programmer than a gamer.
But yeah, I'm old enough to remember all of that and before. The FTP comment stood out to me, because early internet I got a lot of stuff browsing FTP server folder trees. Microsoft even had one full of game demos and things. Especially later when I got DSL I think around 1998ish and the internet was always on I could download anything.
No these were too expensive to get them regulary.
They were in my house, I didn't read them back then. My dad and my lil bro did though.
https://www.pcgamer.com/pc-gamer-website-history/
I still prefer physical. All of my hobby magazines that went digital only ended up done. But, the others still followed.