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Siliconemelons
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I remember being young and going into Eckert's or any other grocery store that had a magazine section, and you would always look for whatever gaming magazine, especially once I had CDs with demos.
Think about it, we used to get all of our new game info from magazines back in the day. I'm sure the vast majority of people that play games now have never picked up a copy of Nintendo power or PC gamer.
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TheBeagle
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I had about 5 or 6 years worth of PCGamer saved along with all the demo CDs. Lost all those in a move at some point. Still pisses me off.
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Siliconemelons
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I always was excited when a sealed one was opened - i was a good goy and never opened one! But if it already was… consume!
It’s what I did at the grocery store while my mom shopped. Read game and tech mags
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Caliane
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There absolutely are some women putting out quality games these days.
I was just thinking about this with slay the spire 2 exploding out, and the previous linked ultima restrospective.
Despite gaming becoming this HUGE thing. I think individual devs are LESS well known than back in the day.
Slay the spire changed video games. launched thousands of clones, and new genres.
Can you name a single dev in the studio?
Terraria?
factorio?
rimworld?
(these ARE some of the more famous, so a few of you might know)
can you name the guy that made vampire survivors?
half the famous devs these days are the lolcows. phil fish, jonathan blow, grummz.
or just studio heads for AAA games.
I was just thinking about this with slay the spire 2 exploding out, and the previous linked ultima restrospective.
Despite gaming becoming this HUGE thing. I think individual devs are LESS well known than back in the day.
Slay the spire changed video games. launched thousands of clones, and new genres.
Can you name a single dev in the studio?
Terraria?
factorio?
rimworld?
(these ARE some of the more famous, so a few of you might know)
can you name the guy that made vampire survivors?
half the famous devs these days are the lolcows. phil fish, jonathan blow, grummz.
or just studio heads for AAA games.
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Yeah, when you were a kid you did two things if you were at the drugstore or the grocery store, you'd either go to the magazine section and read video game magazines, Mad magazine, comics, or even things like guns and ammo. Mom always allowed us to typically get a magazine or something a week. That or you'd bring along some quarters and go play whatever arcade game they had.
Life was so goddamn different back then.
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Utnayan
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Yeah, you really didn't mind having to go after school to do grocery shopping or whatever because you could see what was new on the rack or go play Double Dragon or something.
I remember back in middle school into high school, our Walmart had Mortal Kombat 2, and then we had an apple tree they had marvel superheroes. When all of us got our licenses, we used to go to the damn grocery store and play marvel for an hour or so after getting out of school some days if we weren't going to the comic book store to play MTG.
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The only Dev that I know is Kim Hyung Tae, first as an artist and then as a dev/CEO of Shift Up Studio (Stellar Blade). If I've heard of some western dev, it probably because they are an ass.
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I had to look it up - they stopped publishing Nintendo Power back in 2012.
Before Nintendo Power, they had the "Nintendo Fun Club" which was free to join. You got a membership card and like once every couple months they would send out some free mini-magazine that had tips and glitches (I remember they had one glitch for Kid Icarus that was almost totally useless but as a kid you thought it was awesome because you were making the game glitch out).
Then they sent the 1st issue of Nintendo Power free to all the Fun Club members when they launched that magazine. Good times. That was also back when the Nintendo tip line was an 800 number - I remember they wouldn't give you the answer right off the bat either, they would give some clues to try to make you realize the answer yourself. In retrospect, that was actually a good way of handling it: you try to develop better thinking and problem solving skills in the kids calling in so they can better figure out stuff in the future.
Now everyone is spoiled with instant answers for everything or super dumbed down games that literally spoon feed you the answer because they assume you're brain damaged.
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I had Nemesis back in 2020-2022? for a few years. The boardgame was awesome, but hard to teach new people and pretty expensive. The boardgame at that time was $150. I ended up selling it for $125 on Ebay a few years ago because it was hard to find people to play with consistently. I think I've mentioned my buddy Sean before, but we used to regularly get together to play really hard boardgames like Spirit Island, Terraforming Mars, etc, but he passed away in early 2021.
Nemesis has a digital version, and its in FPS mode, albeit it is not a shoot 'em up. it's survival horror. It's on sale today for $7. Awaken Realms is a pretty good company for boardgames. I'm excited to see how the steam game holds up. Thematically its right up my alley: Dead Space, Alien, the Thing, the Abyss, etc.
They also have a stand-alone expansion (sequel?) called Lockdown thats in traditional boardgame format. I picked up both today for $13 USD at the time of posting this.
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Utnayan
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I remember my first Nintendo power Mag I read and it was Metal Gear - and listed all the weapons you could use - and I was in awe.
Found it.
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Those who have the IQ of a goldfish are doomed to repeat their failures forever.
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If Jesus didn't want to have to kill kittens, he shouldn't have made humans so fucking horny.