Current Events > Magazines are basically dead now

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I used to subscribe to so many magazines

This commercial convinced me to subscribe back then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oel0zjpKCwE

I love when I had an EGM subscription. Then I had Game Informer.

Yeah GamePRO was my jam

I miss Nintendo Power.

kids these days don't know the troubles of finding a safe place for their nudie mags

Had too many game mag subs back in the day. Gamepro, Nintendo Power, Tips N' Tricks, Official Dreamcast, and EGM.

I like a Canadian magazine of fantasy and science fiction that is still profitable

Humanity is in for quite the roller coaster if a class X Solar Flare ever springs up and destroys the power grid.

Physical media is more precious then you know in that scenerio.

They still sell them in Japan. We have a whole section of it.

Loved magazines growing up. I wish they were still a thing. I used to go back and read years old magazines in my room

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It doesn't really hit the dopamine as getting a new issue in the mail did. It was like getting a package once a month. Although it's definitely more convenient than magazines and I don't want to go back to that, it just doesn't hit the same.

Do they still spam commercials for Zoobooks on every goddam channel? >_>

was gamepro the gamestop magazine? i had a year or that when i signed up for a card and think they gave a year subscription for free. don't have any of them anymore.

i used to have some random nintendo power magazines i got from friends. only one i remember is the one that had the OoT trading sequence in it. then had a pokemon yellow guide book. don't think i have any of those anymore. pretty sure i gave away the guide book cause i thought i was too old for pokemon.

I used to love video game magazines. EGM was my favorite but I liked PlayStation magazines too. How about Tips and Tricks?

Theyre all ads now

I voted no cause theyre still available

currently subscribed to scientific America for 1 year

No. I did buy annual NFL/NHL/MLB yearbook magazines on the regular - since 1991... until The Sporting News quit about 6yrs ago now. I tried others, as bathroom readers, yet even they've all but given up.

I subscribed to the Official Xbox magazine years ago. I hardly ever actually read the magazine. I mostly just got it for the demo discs.

Lego Magazine was kinda the first time I had mail to regularly look forward to.

Had a few VG magazines.

And the end was car magazines. SuperStreet/SCC/Import Tuner

Absorbing information by killing time in bookstore's magazine section is a lost thing. Used to read things to fill time, and therefore learn things I didn't look for in the first place. Now it's like, I only will read things when I actually am in a situation where I have to look it up. It's weird seeing guys claiming to be from "back in the day" on youtube (I respect the grind tho) and having the financial means and access.....and then some of the stuff they look at, they don't know what they're looking at, but I knew for decades just from....reading.

There's still Fangoria, and G-Fan, and Heavy Metal. TOYCOLLECTR is fairly new and is pretty good. Pro Wrestling Illustrated is still going. My local comic shop always has a full display of the latest nerd culture mags, though to be fair a few of them are from the U.K. Empire Magazine is pretty dope.

But yeah there's basically no physical gaming mags left in the U.S. RIP Game Informer.

creativeme posted...

was gamepro the gamestop magazine? i had a year or that when i signed up for a card and think they gave a year subscription for free. don't have any of them anymore.

i used to have some random nintendo power magazines i got from friends. only one i remember is the one that had the OoT trading sequence in it. then had a pokemon yellow guide book. don't think i have any of those anymore. pretty sure i gave away the guide book cause i thought i was too old for pokemon.

No, Game Informer was the GameStop magazine.

No, Game Informer was the GameStop magazine.

Game informer is not dead, still going lol.

Electronic Gaming Monthly
Nintendo Power
Disney Adventure
Becketts Dragon Ball Z Magazine

Yeah, honestly kind of miss magazines. Used to get EGM, Nintendo Power, Popular Science, National Geographic, and Highlights when I was a kid.

@Necronmon posted...

Game informer is not dead, still going lol.

I hadn't been receiving my mags for a few months. I had other stuff going on in my life so I hadn't really noticed, outta sight outta mind and all. But I finally did notice when I got an email telling me how to access the latest issue digitally, even though I always specifically ask for the physical edition whenever I re-up my membership and subscription. So I inquired and they told me it's only digital now.

I don't count killing the physical to fully transition to the digital as "the magazine is still going". Clicking and scrolling on a screen is just not the same as physically flipping through pages in your hands.

I had Game Informer for a while after the GameStop guy pushed it on me when I was like 14 lol.

Reading Game Informer while taking a shit was peak civilization.

I owe the majority of my social development to late 90's / early 00's era Maxim, Stuff, and FHM.

Stuff leaves a bitter taste in my mouth to think back on nowadays, since its prime era had Greg Gutfeld as Editor-in-Chief, and the mag had a noticeably right-wing slant even back then. But their sense of humor was downright cutting-edge.

I still get a few, mostly promos though. They just haven't found a way to keep it profitable.

I remember as a kid when Nintendo Power, or a comic, or much later, Sports Illustrated came, it was a mini-holiday.

Only Highlights and DieHard Gamefan.
Man, I loved and miss both those mags.

NME is relaunching its print magazine.

Albeit with artificial scarcity.

https://variety.com/2023/music/global/nme-print-magazine-relaunch-1235674465/

lilORANG posted...

I had Game Informer for a while after the GameStop guy pushed it on me when I was like 14 lol.

Game Informer is still a decent magazine, despite its best efforts otherwise.

rodu_jr posted...

kids these days don't know the troubles of finding a safe place for their nudie mags

I had an old Mead 5 star zip up trapper keeper I kept them in. It was black so when I stored it up in the back corner of the top shelf in my closet it was invisible.

There was also a Wheaties Michael Jordan Olympic dream team box I kept for decoration that was a convenient fit for magazines.

Alternatively there was a small cubby above the covered walkway from the house to the garage. If I stood on the roof of the car and grabbed the rafters I could pull and jump my way in there. Nobody would look there. Was not ideal in winter though.

rodu_jr posted...

kids these days don't know the troubles of finding a safe place for their nudie mags

Is that even a necessity now, seeing as the internet exists?